MS and IE was like a blacksmith seeing the writing on the wall and bolting the new paradigm (web apps) onto the old. So now the horse hauls around a dangerous engine in the back of the wagon, doing things the same old way only worse.
The direction things were going - we could have standardized on web apps and thin/lean clients. We'd sacrifice a little usability in the UI for portability. Run a browser, run the app. Anywhere the browser runs, the app does.
Now the browser is encased in the cruft of Windows and the industry and art is held back. It's as bad as when IBM held back magnetic tape because they sold punch card makers.
There are some very smart people at Microsoft. They generally will be found in marketing. Also - in large groups everywhere, the group intellegence will not reflect the average of its members.
I found the atmosphere there somewhat reminiscent of "Stepford Wives" (original version - haven't seen the remake). Lot's of people...missing something. Lots of pseudo geeks doing what they read was idiosyncratic geek behavior. Lots of people proclaiming passion for that which absolutely can not sustain passion. Hint: if you can turn on passion on cue, it ain't actually passion. Another hint: "overachiever" is a label that is exclusively for external use - it is damn near an error in grammar to apply it to yourself.
The fucktards that develop medical software for Windows should be beaten. I used to work at such a company. The purchasers should be beaten.
I used to work at this hospital, by the way.
I also do a lot of intrusion detection stuff; it's unlikely the perps knew what they were attacking. They should be beaten just as hard as if they did know.
Long time ago, so I have nothing current to offer. They did outsource IT to Siemens, which hired the current staff. (What's the benefit? Let someone ELSE be the bad guy for cutting salary? How else would they profit on the deal and save the hospital money? Dunno...I don't know for sure if salaries or staff were cut)
As an IDS guy, I will say it's pretty significant that they caught him. Maybe the firewall should have had a more robust ruleset, but they had the foo to track the bozo down. Or at least to collect enough info to pursuade the FBI to do so.
When I was there, we moved from 100+ workstations on a single collision domain (hubs daisy-chained) to a switched net, from serial line terminals to client-server stuff over IP.
I recall that the suicide rate in the Pacific Northwest was much higher than the average. Blame perpetual overcast during the winter, weeks of unbroken rain, high latitude ==> long nights
Then the coffee craze hit and the suicide rate dropped.
'course, the HOMICIDE rate went up by a similar amount.
The caffinated are less depressed, but a lot twitchier.
Don't know much about Galloway, and it doesn't matter. The pro-Iraq war is completely unhinged. If you can find a straw man to make it seem more hinged, well, goody for you.
I really wish I could implicitly trust the word of the president of the U.S.A. more than that of a megalomaniacal, murderous tyrant. But I can't, because Bush lied about the intelligence support for WMDs. He wanted a war, he did what he needed to get it. Bush now says he would have invaded without even that excuse.
A war of whim and fantasy, but real people are getting killed. We have probably killed more Iraqis than Saddam did. Those car bombs the bad guys set off don't compare with the bombs we drop or the artillary shells. They are landing in crowded neighborhoods. The Pentagon has no credibility with civilian casualty statistics. It is probably inevitable that they will lie their asses off to shore up support for the war.
A lot of people born elsewhere love their countries, but there's a reason for them to love the U.S.A. Or at least, there used to be. While it was never perfect, the ideals of the rule of law, limited government, individual freedom were worth emulating. Take it away and you've got the Soviet Union with a better economy, Iraq with less history. Nothing special, just big.
We used to have a heritage of civilian control of the police and military. Now that civil government no longer exercises that control, it's a short step to reversing it. Betraying that heritage is treason against not just the country, but humanity. Bush has done more to hurt our country than bin Laden could dream of.
Windows Update is not a production-worthy system. It fails silently. It is ONLY worth bothering about if you can't be bothered to use real patch management. (Or a real OS, for that matter)
I don't consider Windows ready for the enterprise, and the ease of running a patch attempt - however late - doesn't matter a whit against the uncertainty of whether that attempt succeeds.
So...what "proper" steps secured you from this?
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I'm calling bullshit. You can't have set up your windows systems securely and still be able to use them. It's one of those easy proofs. If the user can load a.wmf, the user's computer is not secure. If you haven't spent the holiday working on it, it's because you've made the decision not to care.
useless for game cheats and other purposes
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I will grant that this will stop "many" types of cheats. It will still be useless because the cheaters will adopt the remainder. proxy aimbots and the like.
You seem to be ignoring - willfully or not - that the fundamental model of trusting MS is broken. Making that model more severe by forcing trust compounds the brokenness. It Has Been Shown that MS will be late with patches. It Has Been Shown that they are not proficient at security and will remain so until the market penalties are severe. What is the point of requiring official binaries when the binaries are going to be broken for weeks at a time? The net WILL be flooded with spam by those who RELIED on the official binaries. You have it so amazingly backward I wonder if you previewed the post.
MS blew it. They have added to their terrible reputation and I'm just not interested anymore.
There's also an outlook to your position I find frankly weird: that there is an official source of goodness. The "right" and correct version of the dll to run at this time is clearly the unofficial patch. The right version of a file to run in the future is going to be the one that reduces your chances of being 0wn3d, not the one with the pedigree. THis is "duh" territory.
I've been using OpenBSD on sparc64 for a loooong time. Linux on an opteron will get you there, too.
It really bugs me that the spin is always in Windows' favor. "64-bit isn't here" rather than "Windows doesn't do 64-bit like Solaris, Linux, the BSDs, (and probably BeOS and Amiga...)"
Or "Computer viruses and spyware are a huge threat!" rather than "...on Windows."
Someday Windows clustering will look more like what VMS achieved in the 1980s and less like the "Caligula" movie produced by Penthouse founder Bob Guccionne. I won't hold my breath, though.
The Reagan white house was a colony of vampires. It was a pretty dismal time to be a peasant in Guatamala, El Salvador, or Nicaragua. "Moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers" my ass. Unless he meant the slave-rapers.
Come on - Bush NEEDS watching. Corrupt, incompetent, lying, lazy, intolerant, unprincipled, demagogues should be monitored.
The headline writers mischaracterized the findings. Reading the ACTUAL report, it says that counting the legal votes by any standard puts Gore ahead. The tainted summary site reprints the chart from the NY Times. I quote: "Ballot Standards under which all ballots statewide..." Allowing only fully punched or correctly marked optical - Gore wins Using each county's standard - Gore wins Allowing Dimples and any marks on optical ballots that indicate a choice - Gore wins. (This is probably the correct standard, btw. In every state I know of, writing "I'm voting for Perot!" is a clear enough signal of voter intent to count.)
Freezing the count at a temporarily favorable situation for the favored candidate, Bush wins.
As for the 7 justice count, we see that there are justices and partisan justices. There was never any question, for example, that Rhenquist, Scalia, and Thomas were voting for Bush. No matters of fact, law, or logic would have seen them come down on Gore's side. There was some suspicion of integrity on O'Connor's part, in spite of her failure to recuse herself after the "this is terrible" quote when she heard that Gore won Fl. Turns out, nah.
That some Justices voted against their presumed favored candidate (Gore) suggests they actually have some integrity. Unlike the previous 4 mentioned. You can't read the majority opinion without seeing it as results-oriented garbage.
This is a summary site; it's fairly compelling though.
I believe you are flat wrong about the exclusion of minority voters. If you aren't on the rolls, you don't get a ballot. Harris had the rolls purged, intentionally broadening the definition of a match to absurd lengths to cast a wider net. UP to 90% of those matched were falsely matched. And she was well aware of it.
And I can't agree with your assessment of the Supreme's actions. They (wrongly) asserted that only a single standard could be applied statewide, then (even more wrongly) asserted that a statewide recount could not be completed in time.
I don't recall the precise language of the injunction issued, but it had to do with "harm to the winner, Bush..." indicating a weirdly preordained conclusion. The proceedings were, after all, to determine who the winner was, and the rightful winner would be harmed if the election process denied them office.
didn't come anywhere near as close to passing as this guy.
"PS/2 mouse failed, swapped in different mouse, same result. Tried USB optical mouse, machine won't boot if it's plugged in, works fine if I plug in after booting up. I would prefer to use the optical mouse anyway. I've already updated the BIOS."
Two separate media consortiums found that a recount conducted under the prevailing election laws would have put Gore in the White House.
That's as close to the truth as we'll get.
Bush and his bagmen (James Baker et. al.) successfully denied late military ballots bound for democratic leaning precincts while lying about the Gore campaign, claiming they were trying to exclude late ballots.
Remember the outside and Gucci-clad agitators staging a riot outside the recount offices? Why didn't the police bust their Republican skulls? I can't imagine a pro-Democrat riot getting such gentle treatment.
And Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush conspired to illegally exclude legal minority voters from the rolls and defied court orders to stop.
He consistently invented police powers vs. citizens, and in Bush v Gore tossed 20 years of opinions out the window to trash a state election law. The decision was so tortured they felt obligated to put - for the first time in history - a nonsensical clause that this decision should not be used as precedent.
Why not? Because it is so fraudulent? Or, more likely, they can't know in advance whether a Republican would benefit.
Make no mistake: Rhenquist disgraced his robes and acted as a partisan, not a judge. It's too bad he didn't die 30 years ago.
Let's not forget his early career suppressing minority votes in Arizona. He was a partisan thug.
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It's an activity. Like darts or bowling. Only with really funny looking clothes.
MS and IE was like a blacksmith seeing the writing on the wall and bolting the new paradigm (web apps) onto the old. So now the horse hauls around a dangerous engine in the back of the wagon, doing things the same old way only worse.
The direction things were going - we could have standardized on web apps and thin/lean clients. We'd sacrifice a little usability in the UI for portability. Run a browser, run the app. Anywhere the browser runs, the app does.
Now the browser is encased in the cruft of Windows and the industry and art is held back. It's as bad as when IBM held back magnetic tape because they sold punch card makers.
There are some very smart people at Microsoft. They generally will be found in marketing. Also - in large groups everywhere, the group intellegence will not reflect the average of its members.
I found the atmosphere there somewhat reminiscent of "Stepford Wives" (original version - haven't seen the remake). Lot's of people...missing something. Lots of pseudo geeks doing what they read was idiosyncratic geek behavior. Lots of people proclaiming passion for that which absolutely can not sustain passion. Hint: if you can turn on passion on cue, it ain't actually passion. Another hint: "overachiever" is a label that is exclusively for external use - it is damn near an error in grammar to apply it to yourself.
The fucktards that develop medical software for Windows should be beaten. I used to work at such a company. The purchasers should be beaten.
I used to work at this hospital, by the way.
I also do a lot of intrusion detection stuff; it's unlikely the perps knew what they were attacking. They should be beaten just as hard as if they did know.
Long time ago, so I have nothing current to offer. They did outsource IT to Siemens, which hired the current staff. (What's the benefit? Let someone ELSE be the bad guy for cutting salary? How else would they profit on the deal and save the hospital money? Dunno...I don't know for sure if salaries or staff were cut)
As an IDS guy, I will say it's pretty significant that they caught him. Maybe the firewall should have had a more robust ruleset, but they had the foo to track the bozo down. Or at least to collect enough info to pursuade the FBI to do so.
When I was there, we moved from 100+ workstations on a single collision domain (hubs daisy-chained) to a switched net, from serial line terminals to client-server stuff over IP.
I recall that the suicide rate in the Pacific Northwest was much higher than the average. Blame perpetual overcast during the winter, weeks of unbroken rain, high latitude ==> long nights
Then the coffee craze hit and the suicide rate dropped.
'course, the HOMICIDE rate went up by a similar amount.
The caffinated are less depressed, but a lot twitchier.
Uh, that was my point. Without the values of true liberty we are no better than other nations, including a 3rd world basket case.
We would be Iraq, but with less history.
Clearer? Not sure how you could parse the original and miss that, but oh well.
"We know for a fact..."
"We know what disarmament looks like, and this isn't it."
I forget the part where Kerry invaded Iraq.
Don't know much about Galloway, and it doesn't matter. The pro-Iraq war is completely unhinged. If you can find a straw man to make it seem more hinged, well, goody for you.
I really wish I could implicitly trust the word of the president of the U.S.A. more than that of a megalomaniacal, murderous tyrant. But I can't, because Bush lied about the intelligence support for WMDs. He wanted a war, he did what he needed to get it. Bush now says he would have invaded without even that excuse.
A war of whim and fantasy, but real people are getting killed. We have probably killed more Iraqis than Saddam did. Those car bombs the bad guys set off don't compare with the bombs we drop or the artillary shells. They are landing in crowded neighborhoods. The Pentagon has no credibility with civilian casualty statistics. It is probably inevitable that they will lie their asses off to shore up support for the war.
A lot of people born elsewhere love their countries, but there's a reason for them to love the U.S.A. Or at least, there used to be. While it was never perfect, the ideals of the rule of law, limited government, individual freedom were worth emulating. Take it away and you've got the Soviet Union with a better economy, Iraq with less history. Nothing special, just big.
We used to have a heritage of civilian control of the police and military. Now that civil government no longer exercises that control, it's a short step to reversing it. Betraying that heritage is treason against not just the country, but humanity. Bush has done more to hurt our country than bin Laden could dream of.
This is freedom vs. police state. If your party is for the latter, fuck off.
They have been spying on the Quakers, for fuck's sake. You know - the Protestant sect best known for militant PACIFICISM?!??
This is the litmus test for true American Patriotism. If you aren't outraged, you aren't a patriot. At best, you are a nationalist.
Windows Update is not a production-worthy system. It fails silently. It is ONLY worth bothering about if you can't be bothered to use real patch management. (Or a real OS, for that matter)
I don't consider Windows ready for the enterprise, and the ease of running a patch attempt - however late - doesn't matter a whit against the uncertainty of whether that attempt succeeds.
I'm calling bullshit. You can't have set up your windows systems securely and still be able to use them. It's one of those easy proofs. If the user can load a .wmf, the user's computer is not secure. If you haven't spent the holiday working on it, it's because you've made the decision not to care.
I will grant that this will stop "many" types of cheats. It will still be useless because the cheaters will adopt the remainder. proxy aimbots and the like.
You seem to be ignoring - willfully or not - that the fundamental model of trusting MS is broken. Making that model more severe by forcing trust compounds the brokenness. It Has Been Shown that MS will be late with patches. It Has Been Shown that they are not proficient at security and will remain so until the market penalties are severe. What is the point of requiring official binaries when the binaries are going to be broken for weeks at a time? The net WILL be flooded with spam by those who RELIED on the official binaries. You have it so amazingly backward I wonder if you previewed the post.
MS blew it. They have added to their terrible reputation and I'm just not interested anymore.
There's also an outlook to your position I find frankly weird: that there is an official source of goodness. The "right" and correct version of the dll to run at this time is clearly the unofficial patch. The right version of a file to run in the future is going to be the one that reduces your chances of being 0wn3d, not the one with the pedigree. THis is "duh" territory.
I've been using OpenBSD on sparc64 for a loooong time. Linux on an opteron will get you there, too.
It really bugs me that the spin is always in Windows' favor. "64-bit isn't here" rather than "Windows doesn't do 64-bit like Solaris, Linux, the BSDs, (and probably BeOS and Amiga...)"
Or "Computer viruses and spyware are a huge threat!" rather than "...on Windows."
Someday Windows clustering will look more like what VMS achieved in the 1980s and less like the "Caligula" movie produced by Penthouse founder Bob Guccionne. I won't hold my breath, though.
You wouldn't be familiar with the Critters Buggin song "Bill Gates", would you?
something similar in the phrasing.
This retard seems to think that 64-bit computing will arrive when windows supports it. I've been doing real work on 64 bit platform for 4 years.
Windows is backwards. So is the columnist.
The Reagan white house was a colony of vampires. It was a pretty dismal time to be a peasant in Guatamala, El Salvador, or Nicaragua. "Moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers" my ass. Unless he meant the slave-rapers.
The guy is a disgrace. Wellstone actually believed in things. Coleman just believed he'd like to be a senator.
Come on - Bush NEEDS watching. Corrupt, incompetent, lying, lazy, intolerant, unprincipled, demagogues should be monitored.
The headline writers mischaracterized the findings. Reading the ACTUAL report, it says that counting the legal votes by any standard puts Gore ahead. The tainted summary site reprints the chart from the NY Times. I quote:
"Ballot Standards under which all ballots statewide..."
Allowing only fully punched or correctly marked optical - Gore wins
Using each county's standard - Gore wins
Allowing Dimples and any marks on optical ballots that indicate a choice - Gore wins. (This is probably the correct standard, btw. In every state I know of, writing "I'm voting for Perot!" is a clear enough signal of voter intent to count.)
Freezing the count at a temporarily favorable situation for the favored candidate, Bush wins.
As for the 7 justice count, we see that there are justices and partisan justices. There was never any question, for example, that Rhenquist, Scalia, and Thomas were voting for Bush. No matters of fact, law, or logic would have seen them come down on Gore's side. There was some suspicion of integrity on O'Connor's part, in spite of her failure to recuse herself after the "this is terrible" quote when she heard that Gore won Fl. Turns out, nah.
That some Justices voted against their presumed favored candidate (Gore) suggests they actually have some integrity. Unlike the previous 4 mentioned. You can't read the majority opinion without seeing it as results-oriented garbage.
http://www.bushwatch.com/gorebush.htm
This is a summary site; it's fairly compelling though.
I believe you are flat wrong about the exclusion of minority voters. If you aren't on the rolls, you don't get a ballot. Harris had the rolls purged, intentionally broadening the definition of a match to absurd lengths to cast a wider net. UP to 90% of those matched were falsely matched. And she was well aware of it.
And I can't agree with your assessment of the Supreme's actions. They (wrongly) asserted that only a single standard could be applied statewide, then (even more wrongly) asserted that a statewide recount could not be completed in time.
I don't recall the precise language of the injunction issued, but it had to do with "harm to the winner, Bush..." indicating a weirdly preordained conclusion. The proceedings were, after all, to determine who the winner was, and the rightful winner would be harmed if the election process denied them office.
didn't come anywhere near as close to passing as this guy.
"PS/2 mouse failed, swapped in different mouse, same result. Tried USB optical mouse, machine won't boot if it's plugged in, works fine if I plug in after booting up. I would prefer to use the optical mouse anyway. I've already updated the BIOS."
"You want to update the BIOS?"
"ARGH!!!!"
Two separate media consortiums found that a recount conducted under the prevailing election laws would have put Gore in the White House.
That's as close to the truth as we'll get.
Bush and his bagmen (James Baker et. al.) successfully denied late military ballots bound for democratic leaning precincts while lying about the Gore campaign, claiming they were trying to exclude late ballots.
Remember the outside and Gucci-clad agitators staging a riot outside the recount offices? Why didn't the police bust their Republican skulls? I can't imagine a pro-Democrat riot getting such gentle treatment.
And Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush conspired to illegally exclude legal minority voters from the rolls and defied court orders to stop.
He stole it. And the Supremes aided and abetted.
He consistently invented police powers vs. citizens, and in Bush v Gore tossed 20 years of opinions out the window to trash a state election law. The decision was so tortured they felt obligated to put - for the first time in history - a nonsensical clause that this decision should not be used as precedent.
Why not? Because it is so fraudulent? Or, more likely, they can't know in advance whether a Republican would benefit.
Make no mistake: Rhenquist disgraced his robes and acted as a partisan, not a judge. It's too bad he didn't die 30 years ago.
Let's not forget his early career suppressing minority votes in Arizona. He was a partisan thug.