Nutjob or no nutjob, people are in charge and running those countries because they love power. They like having control over everyone
Did you ever think that the rest of the world looks at Americans this same way? Your country is run by a Plutocracy that has selfish motivations to convince you of things... many things, this 'rogue states under the control of evil-power-mongers' is one of them. It is like you Americans never woke up from McCarthyism. It is alive and well, and specifically cultivated occassionaly to whip the public paranoia and hate up in order to support American Imperialism (see: your 'foreign affairs policies').
Id suggest you wake up and smell the coffee on this one - and think about what you are saying - the rest of the world is watching the United States VERY SPECIFICALLY break an international treaty that has managed to keep us from nuclear war for 25 years.... unprovoked, under the guise of 'defence' and in spite of the objections of the rest of the world (see: China, Russia, Europe - even Canada (with our clueless-Yankee-loving policies) are not supporting the idea.
NOW: WHO DO YOU THINK IS A "ROGUE STATE RUN BY NUTJOBS WHO LOVE POWER?
I can see only one country acting this way - and justifying it in the usual "but where Americans, and we are Good(tm) people, and everyone else is not as smart/honourable/wise/courageous/brave/altruistic as we are - *they* cant do this!"
What do you think would be the reaction, by the rest of the world, if a newly elected government came to power and promised the world they would be building up arms of this nature and that "that ultimately it is america that will decide".
Give me a break...
If any of these rogue countries like Iraq or Afghanistan or North Korea ever did get the balls to launch a nuclear missile at us, they have to know that their life is over. Their power is gone. There is nothing they can do to save themselves at that point. For these leaders that thrive off power,
Oh, BTW, Mutual Assured Destruction gaurantees that we are *ALL* screwed if *ANYONE* launches a nuke, not just your McCarthy inspired evil-du-jour. What America is doing is trying to unsettle that balance. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Your whole post is Rambo-style American Ego. Give me a goddamned break - who modded this troll up as +4 insightfull? I bet I can guess where these 'modders' live....
Please, if you are American, stop this war-mongering of your government. We dont need another Arms Race, no one except the Military Industrial Complex.
If, under some circumstance, someone proposed this to be a 'method to disarm all' and put it in the control of the UN, to protect *EVERY* country - the *whole* world - I might see it differently. But as it stands now, it is a very arrogant move of posturing by an arrogant state. If simple defence was the only purpose, and the US Gov. only wanted protection, than you would see this being approached in a much different fashion.
Outside of pork-barreling for the Plutocrats that already run the country, I cannot (inspite of my best paranoia-induced dillusions) imagine What The Fuck They Are Thinking. We have had a good lenght of peace, why stir the pot?
...and dont give me any of this 'rogue state' crap - these other states are simply the ones with nuts to stand up to American Imerialism. This, to them, is being a 'rogue' state.
Im just beside myself at the massive stupidity of the whole idea... My vote is that the rest of the world declare USofA a 'rogue state' and collectively we enforce sanctions.
Freedom can only exist with capitalism. Capitalism is simply free people voluntarily exchanging goods and services
Capitalism hinges on the control of capital, which we all use & need to work, in the control of a few. Capitalism, allows those few to weild that capital without any social responsibility. Without any conscience.
. Abuses such as the DMCA are not failures of capitalism, they are failures of government
The DMCA is what happens when your government is subverted by Free-Market Capitalists. In a sense, it is a failure of government, but it is an inevitable one when Capitalists are permitted to corrupt and direct your government (See: Plutocracy) - the DMCA is a what happens when your Capitalists (Burgoise) codify their desired legislation in order to extract more profit from people. Americans are just starting to see what it means to be oppressed (the last 50 years) - instead of being suppressed by Kings and Courts in a Feudal state, or Dictators and Generals in a Fascist State, America is being oppressed by Presidents and CEOs in a Plutocratic state.
Ross's allies are her software-lover Capt. Gray Edwards, who makes Buzz Lightyear look like Robert DeNiro
This is my favourite Katz-ism(TM) from his latest KatzKlulessKomment(TM). What the hell kind of analogy is that Katzotron? What the hell are you talking about?
analogy (-nl-j)
n. pl. analogies
Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
A comparison based on such similarity. See Synonyms at likeness.
Biology. Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure.
A form of logical inference or an instance of it, based on the assumption that if two things are known to be alike in some respects, then they must be alike in other respects.
As a general Note Katzo-boy: your Not Dennis Miller, you havnt got the whit. Stick to clarity and simple observation. You have missed hitting the subtlety of 'analogy' like a gumdrop heavier than a thumbtack.
a Harley, it is more than a motorcycle, it's a culture, it's a hobby, it's a lifestyle.
Umm no: Its a fucking motorcycle. It is *not* a 'lifestyle' or a 'culture'. These things cannot be bough, no matter what the synergetic-cross-branding-co-hosted-sponsership-me ga-deal-day told you. Advertising and Marketing @ Harlyey does not define culture or lifestyle - they sell motorcycles... nothing more, anyone who thinks differently has bought into their self-serving brain-washing.
Anyone who thinks 'all-in-one' computers are 'unhackable' needs to remember the I-Opener phenom. Have a look at Linux-Hacker.Net to see that the same people who soldered their IOpeners are doing it with everything imaginable - specifically interesting is the GateWay Connected Touchpad (which originally runs Linux on a Transmita CPU), it has 802.11b and a touchscreen....
lasts seven days with no valid explanation really starts to make you think about.Net
At least it is not my families 7 years of financial data, or the copies of my child's baby-pictures - or my presentation that I needed for a job-interview. We dont have to tell MS that distributed resources increases fault tolerance. When you devise a massive system, with a single point of failure (M$.Net) you are going to burn - and burn big-time. If.NET services were distributed to many 'equal' computers (think the internet as it is structured today) than we can withstand the loss of one machine, in the M$ vision of the future many-many-many services and machines rely on their.NET systems. Imagine if TCP/IP had to 'ping' authorize.big-toll-gate.com's 'license' server in order to start - now imagine they go down....
This may not be a surprise to any one on/.; but what happens when Passport crashes for a week and no one is able to pay bills or maybe Office.NET file storage site burns down and takes millions of people's family photos (yes I know about off-site backups).
The point is simple - you cannot build a reliable system with such a glaring single-point-of-failure. Downtime happens - and as this MSMessenger event shows us -.NET has serious potential for peril. I hope all the PHBs and DoJ are paying attention...
Publishers are still needed, partly for doing publicity and such to promote the book for more sales, but mostly because most readers are accustomed to having publishers act as the gatekeepers, the arbiters of quality--if something has been pro-published, they know that it's more likely to be worth reading.
By your argument the last Daniel Steel book would have been Shakespeare. I disagree. Publishers only really serve one useful purpose (in a world of digital media and zero-cost copying) and that is editing. Even that could be remedied by an Editors Union... publishers then become completely unnecessary. The 'quality' assurance should and can be very competently done by librarians, scholars and critics. THEY are even better at it because they can be assumed to be impartial (unlike the 'sony-movie-reviewer' scenario and other corruption), but trusting a publisher to tell you what is quality is ridiculous. Thats like listening to a wolf on how to tend your sheep-farm. Lets remember: Capitalists (Publishers) are interested in Profit (money) not Enlightenment (good books).
..and on the function of 'publicity' - it is useless trash. Publicity == advertising == marketing == garbage. If you let appearances on 'good morning today' influence your book reading Id suggest you may want to find a more honourable source of direction (to put it mildly). If a book is significantly important, such that you want to read it, you will hear about it through other means of critical reporting, maybe a fansite (for Sci-Fi) or a Trade Union (for manuals/technical analysis) or anywhere else.
In a world without publishers to moderate product based on 'market-demand' just imagine the array of new and compelling works that would be created. This device could liberate artists from publishers, and the public from Publisher controlled Pap-O-Matic that sells millions of 'lowest-common-denominator' trash every year because they can do 'publicity' and 'gatekeeping'.
Of course, the problem is that a lot of authors' contracts specify that the rights to shop their books to other publishers revert to them when the books go "out of print."
Maybe some person would be able to setup these units in public spaces as complete alternatives to book stores. You could make a VAST array of printed material available on one of these - what do you want the bookstore for? Im thinking about destroying publishing houses all together... authors could simply share a royalty with the "Insta-Book Kiosk" owner. Millions of zines, comics, magazines, books, guttenburg texts with zero incremental costs for increased volumes - you would be able to skip all your traditional 'big publishing' houses at first and just sell 'niche' material (just an absolutly VAST array of it) - and then invite authors to make their back-catalogues available...
Ill bet one, or a collection of PUBLISHERS buy up this company in order to stear it to a 'reasonable and appropriate' usage... and avoid your described scenario all together.
Students go to school so that they can learn how to get around in their world - and right or wrong, this is a world with jobs requiring Microsoft expertise.
It is wrong - and we should fight tooth and nail to oppose it. Public education is not a training program to gain a skillset in a meaningless job. Public education teaches ideas, ideals, concepts and reasoning. Broad based learning to enlighten people. Life is not about the worthless-corporate-work-world. DO NOT ACCEPT OTHERWISE. And dammit dont try and teach children that.
Note that we should call it Free Software when advocating to schools. The idea confusion between free beer and free lunch will help us here where it hurt us in the business world.
Ah ah ah. GNU/Linux is Free (libre and gratis) software. We should make if very clear what Free Software means in the Free Software Foundation sense. It is never 'right' to mislead. You will win more favour by informing and aiding them than by taking advantage of their ignorance and simply advocating it as 'cheap'. Use convincing arguments and less subterfuge - dont trying using marketing/advertising/branding tricks(aka lying) - this kind of decision making is what is responsible for the problem originally.
How about you config your email server to strip any *.doc *.xls *.mdb file and send a reply to the sender:
The file attachment sent to the %user_name has been found to be of a proprietary and closed standard. The computing lab at %school_district maintains an open and commercial-vendor neutral computing infrastructure."The file you have sent is unable to be opened save specific proprietary software(s). Please retransmit your files in some of the following suggested formats:
*.doc - *.rtf
*.xls - *.csv
*.ppt - *.html Your intended recipient, %user_name, has been notified of this transmission."
225HP-WB-180/25-14. No one would buy such a hideously named monstrosity
Do you ever think that it is *BECAUSE* we look for pretty-names that we also confuse the real issues that are relevant when chosing products? Maybe if we started paying attention to these issues - and ignoring the payed liars (advertisers/marketers) we may end up better off? The right place to remove this kind of back-ass-wards thinking is in the schools.
Branding is bullshit - the world has enough mindless consumers - why not encourage people to make educated decisions instead of mis-informed ones (bad ones)?
Schools have a responsibility to give students some real world skills that they can use not to enlighten or indoctrinate
Schools are meant ot teach conecpts - not as job training. Enlightenment is *EXACTLY* the goal. Indoctrination is another matter altogether, which is a bit to far offtopic - suffice it to say - "Indoctrination" occurs all around you - it is trying to instruct or teach a group of ideas... and when you run the school system, you are indoctrinating.
Teach a person what it means to 'copy a file' on a 'fixed media' is what is necessary - the implementation is trivial. cp or copy or 'cut-paste' is simply 'copying a file' afterall.
Teaching people how to use 'M$ Office XP' is a wrong - teaching them about word processors, spreadsheets and SQL/RDBMS is the *right* thing to teach.
Vocational schools (trade schools) teach job-skills. "General Public" schools should be preperation for University... and the foundations of general knowledge... otherwise the person should be sent to a vocational school.
You are dead right. This happens more often than you think, english words are often propaganda loaded for specific purposes. Communism, Socialism, Terrorism, Pirate, hacker, and many, many, more.. the words themselves are used completely out of context - and in place of their true meaning.
If youve not read some of Noam Chomnsky's works on the media and language - i suggest you do...
Microsoft will sue everyone who posts the file under the DMCA and also anyone who knows someone who posted the file.
Here is the correct version of that statement: Microsoft will sue every USian who posts the file under the DMCA and also any USian who knows someone who posted the file.
...just a little clarity about the DMCA and its jurisdiction...
I wonder where they keep the processor-serial number -> your name, address, email, and penis length data? IM thinking select * from person, register_info where person.serial = register_info.serial
Voila - you may not give your name && number when registering windows now, but who cares - they can retrieve your processor_serial_number now (in future - whenever).
People are really putting their head in the sand if they dont think this registration isnt a (another) nail in the coffin of private computing.
Who knows when/how they retrieve the serials of apps installed on PCs, how much email-traffic you have (rolling counters stored... ummm somewhere), maybe the percentage of your disk that are occupied w/ JPGs (in your c:/pr0n dir), whatever.
The point is, with this binary only model - how the *uck can you trust they aren't keeping this data - and managing it all somewhere. I know you can sniff the network traffic, but we all know that with a little obfuscation and some encryption - you can hide anything you want very well.
I have no interest in giving M$ any information about me or my computer - now or ever. I will not run WinXP or anything else Windows on the internet, i just cant trust that they havent trojaned all (some/most/whatever) of the applications.
P.S. I thought Intel disabled the unique-processor-serial...????!?
Not for security it doesn't. Security is a matter of knowing where every program on the machine came from, and knowing that no uncertified programs have even been run on the machine. It is solely a matter of trust...
Spoken from the POV of the rule-rigid. Symanticly you are flat-wrong. Why would you trust your Oracle ODBC driver or copy of winsock.dll more or less than Dnet? Dnet is as known and understood as either Oracle or M$ wares - what makes you sure there isnt some trojan code on one of your 'certified' binaries? Give me a break, Dnet only does what it reports - as much as anything else - and there is no reason to think-otherwise. Your argument would have made sense in a universe where RC5 was Sub7 - in this one, the reality is, it is not.
BTW, what 'certified' you to be the All Knowing Sage of Securtiy? Your whole post is really in left field - do you have an MBA?
To fully recover from a compromise, you'd have to replace them all. Would probably be cheaper to just scrap the equipment and buy new stuff
Are you on drugs? A troll? These were commonly-available, general use computers - with accessible cases and (*gasp*) disk drives - do you think this is the control-room for a nuclear missle or a office computer? Your argument would have made sense barely in the former installation.
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Nutjob or no nutjob, people are in charge and running those countries because they love power. They like having control over everyone
Did you ever think that the rest of the world looks at Americans this same way? Your country is run by a Plutocracy that has selfish motivations to convince you of things... many things, this 'rogue states under the control of evil-power-mongers' is one of them. It is like you Americans never woke up from McCarthyism. It is alive and well, and specifically cultivated occassionaly to whip the public paranoia and hate up in order to support American Imperialism (see: your 'foreign affairs policies').
Id suggest you wake up and smell the coffee on this one - and think about what you are saying - the rest of the world is watching the United States VERY SPECIFICALLY break an international treaty that has managed to keep us from nuclear war for 25 years.... unprovoked, under the guise of 'defence' and in spite of the objections of the rest of the world (see: China, Russia, Europe - even Canada (with our clueless-Yankee-loving policies) are not supporting the idea.
NOW: WHO DO YOU THINK IS A "ROGUE STATE RUN BY NUTJOBS WHO LOVE POWER?
I can see only one country acting this way - and justifying it in the usual "but where Americans, and we are Good(tm) people, and everyone else is not as smart/honourable/wise/courageous/brave/altruistic as we are - *they* cant do this!"
What do you think would be the reaction, by the rest of the world, if a newly elected government came to power and promised the world they would be building up arms of this nature and that "that ultimately it is america that will decide".
Give me a break...
If any of these rogue countries like Iraq or Afghanistan or North Korea ever did get the balls to launch a nuclear missile at us, they have to know that their life is over. Their power is gone. There is nothing they can do to save themselves at that point. For these leaders that thrive off power,
Oh, BTW, Mutual Assured Destruction gaurantees that we are *ALL* screwed if *ANYONE* launches a nuke, not just your McCarthy inspired evil-du-jour. What America is doing is trying to unsettle that balance. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Your whole post is Rambo-style American Ego. Give me a goddamned break - who modded this troll up as +4 insightfull? I bet I can guess where these 'modders' live....
To: The Plutocratic Collective of the United Replublic of American States (war-mongers formerly known as United States of America):
Now, don't y'all go bombing the rest of the world or we're gonna come back and kicker yer ass again. Remember the War of 1812!
Sincerely, the people of Canada.
About StarWars Deux:
Please, if you are American, stop this war-mongering of your government. We dont need another Arms Race, no one except the Military Industrial Complex.
If, under some circumstance, someone proposed this to be a 'method to disarm all' and put it in the control of the UN, to protect *EVERY* country - the *whole* world - I might see it differently. But as it stands now, it is a very arrogant move of posturing by an arrogant state. If simple defence was the only purpose, and the US Gov. only wanted protection, than you would see this being approached in a much different fashion.
Outside of pork-barreling for the Plutocrats that already run the country, I cannot (inspite of my best paranoia-induced dillusions) imagine What The Fuck They Are Thinking. We have had a good lenght of peace, why stir the pot?
...and dont give me any of this 'rogue state' crap - these other states are simply the ones with nuts to stand up to American Imerialism. This, to them, is being a 'rogue' state.
Im just beside myself at the massive stupidity of the whole idea... My vote is that the rest of the world declare USofA a 'rogue state' and collectively we enforce sanctions.
Freedom can only exist with capitalism. Capitalism is simply free people voluntarily exchanging goods and services
Capitalism hinges on the control of capital, which we all use & need to work, in the control of a few. Capitalism, allows those few to weild that capital without any social responsibility. Without any conscience.
. Abuses such as the DMCA are not failures of capitalism, they are failures of government
The DMCA is what happens when your government is subverted by Free-Market Capitalists. In a sense, it is a failure of government, but it is an inevitable one when Capitalists are permitted to corrupt and direct your government (See: Plutocracy) - the DMCA is a what happens when your Capitalists (Burgoise) codify their desired legislation in order to extract more profit from people. Americans are just starting to see what it means to be oppressed (the last 50 years) - instead of being suppressed by Kings and Courts in a Feudal state, or Dictators and Generals in a Fascist State, America is being oppressed by Presidents and CEOs in a Plutocratic state.
smell the JAVA and act
Yes, support your local Anti-Capitalist Demonstrators, because after all people, this is all that is about (once again...).
Free Market Capitalism cannot co-exist with Democratic and Free people.
Protest.net && IndyMedia.org
try telling that to thier owners
Also try telling a catholic there is no god, a child there is no santaclaus and a fat-yankee mcdonalds isnt good for him...
Owning a Harley for the majority is more than owning a motorcycle, and if you think that's false then you are fooling yourself
If you think owning a Harley is more than a means of transport, *you* are fooling *yourself*.
This is my favourite Katz-ism(TM) from his latest KatzKlulessKomment(TM). What the hell kind of analogy is that Katzotron? What the hell are you talking about?
analogy (-nl-j)
n. pl. analogies
Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
A comparison based on such similarity. See Synonyms at likeness.
Biology. Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure.
A form of logical inference or an instance of it, based on the assumption that if two things are known to be alike in some respects, then they must be alike in other respects.
As a general Note Katzo-boy: your Not Dennis Miller, you havnt got the whit. Stick to clarity and simple observation. You have missed hitting the subtlety of 'analogy' like a gumdrop heavier than a thumbtack.
a Harley, it is more than a motorcycle, it's a culture, it's a hobby, it's a lifestyle.
e ga-deal-day told you. Advertising and Marketing @ Harlyey does not define culture or lifestyle - they sell motorcycles... nothing more, anyone who thinks differently has bought into their self-serving brain-washing.
Umm no: Its a fucking motorcycle. It is *not* a 'lifestyle' or a 'culture'. These things cannot be bough, no matter what the synergetic-cross-branding-co-hosted-sponsership-m
Anyone who thinks 'all-in-one' computers are 'unhackable' needs to remember the I-Opener phenom. Have a look at Linux-Hacker.Net to see that the same people who soldered their IOpeners are doing it with everything imaginable - specifically interesting is the GateWay Connected Touchpad (which originally runs Linux on a Transmita CPU), it has 802.11b and a touchscreen....
, I heard that IE6 has dropped the NS-plugin interface
...extinguish.... ahhhh M$ at its best. Now it cuts off the airsupply...
lasts seven days with no valid explanation really starts to make you think about .Net
.NET services were distributed to many 'equal' computers (think the internet as it is structured today) than we can withstand the loss of one machine, in the M$ vision of the future many-many-many services and machines rely on their .NET systems. Imagine if TCP/IP had to 'ping' authorize.big-toll-gate.com's 'license' server in order to start - now imagine they go down....
/.; but what happens when Passport crashes for a week and no one is able to pay bills or maybe Office.NET file storage site burns down and takes millions of people's family photos (yes I know about off-site backups).
.NET has serious potential for peril. I hope all the PHBs and DoJ are paying attention...
At least it is not my families 7 years of financial data, or the copies of my child's baby-pictures - or my presentation that I needed for a job-interview. We dont have to tell MS that distributed resources increases fault tolerance. When you devise a massive system, with a single point of failure (M$.Net) you are going to burn - and burn big-time. If
This may not be a surprise to any one on
The point is simple - you cannot build a reliable system with such a glaring single-point-of-failure. Downtime happens - and as this MSMessenger event shows us -
Publishers are still needed, partly for doing publicity and such to promote the book for more sales, but mostly because most readers are accustomed to having publishers act as the gatekeepers, the arbiters of quality--if something has been pro-published, they know that it's more likely to be worth reading.
By your argument the last Daniel Steel book would have been Shakespeare. I disagree. Publishers only really serve one useful purpose (in a world of digital media and zero-cost copying) and that is editing. Even that could be remedied by an Editors Union... publishers then become completely unnecessary. The 'quality' assurance should and can be very competently done by librarians, scholars and critics. THEY are even better at it because they can be assumed to be impartial (unlike the 'sony-movie-reviewer' scenario and other corruption), but trusting a publisher to tell you what is quality is ridiculous. Thats like listening to a wolf on how to tend your sheep-farm. Lets remember: Capitalists (Publishers) are interested in Profit (money) not Enlightenment (good books).
..and on the function of 'publicity' - it is useless trash. Publicity == advertising == marketing == garbage. If you let appearances on 'good morning today' influence your book reading Id suggest you may want to find a more honourable source of direction (to put it mildly). If a book is significantly important, such that you want to read it, you will hear about it through other means of critical reporting, maybe a fansite (for Sci-Fi) or a Trade Union (for manuals/technical analysis) or anywhere else.
In a world without publishers to moderate product based on 'market-demand' just imagine the array of new and compelling works that would be created. This device could liberate artists from publishers, and the public from Publisher controlled Pap-O-Matic that sells millions of 'lowest-common-denominator' trash every year because they can do 'publicity' and 'gatekeeping'.
Of course, the problem is that a lot of authors' contracts specify that the rights to shop their books to other publishers revert to them when the books go "out of print."
Maybe some person would be able to setup these units in public spaces as complete alternatives to book stores. You could make a VAST array of printed material available on one of these - what do you want the bookstore for? Im thinking about destroying publishing houses all together... authors could simply share a royalty with the "Insta-Book Kiosk" owner. Millions of zines, comics, magazines, books, guttenburg texts with zero incremental costs for increased volumes - you would be able to skip all your traditional 'big publishing' houses at first and just sell 'niche' material (just an absolutly VAST array of it) - and then invite authors to make their back-catalogues available...
Ill bet one, or a collection of PUBLISHERS buy up this company in order to stear it to a 'reasonable and appropriate' usage... and avoid your described scenario all together.
Students go to school so that they can learn how to get around in their world - and right or wrong, this is a world with jobs requiring Microsoft expertise.
It is wrong - and we should fight tooth and nail to oppose it. Public education is not a training program to gain a skillset in a meaningless job. Public education teaches ideas, ideals, concepts and reasoning. Broad based learning to enlighten people. Life is not about the worthless-corporate-work-world. DO NOT ACCEPT OTHERWISE. And dammit dont try and teach children that.
Note that we should call it Free Software when advocating to schools. The idea confusion between free beer and free lunch will help us here where it hurt us in the business world.
Ah ah ah. GNU/Linux is Free (libre and gratis) software. We should make if very clear what Free Software means in the Free Software Foundation sense. It is never 'right' to mislead. You will win more favour by informing and aiding them than by taking advantage of their ignorance and simply advocating it as 'cheap'. Use convincing arguments and less subterfuge - dont trying using marketing/advertising/branding tricks(aka lying) - this kind of decision making is what is responsible for the problem originally.
The file attachment sent to the %user_name has been found to be of a proprietary and closed standard. The computing lab at %school_district maintains an open and commercial-vendor neutral computing infrastructure."The file you have sent is unable to be opened save specific proprietary software(s). Please retransmit your files in some of the following suggested formats:
*.doc - *.rtf
*.xls - *.csv
*.ppt - *.html
Your intended recipient, %user_name, has been notified of this transmission."
225HP-WB-180/25-14. No one would buy such a hideously named monstrosity
Do you ever think that it is *BECAUSE* we look for pretty-names that we also confuse the real issues that are relevant when chosing products? Maybe if we started paying attention to these issues - and ignoring the payed liars (advertisers/marketers) we may end up better off? The right place to remove this kind of back-ass-wards thinking is in the schools.
Branding is bullshit - the world has enough mindless consumers - why not encourage people to make educated decisions instead of mis-informed ones (bad ones)?
That is the most cluefull and lucid comment Ive read at /. in weeks - someone please mod FreeUser up.
Schools have a responsibility to give students some real world skills that they can use not to enlighten or indoctrinate
Schools are meant ot teach conecpts - not as job training. Enlightenment is *EXACTLY* the goal. Indoctrination is another matter altogether, which is a bit to far offtopic - suffice it to say - "Indoctrination" occurs all around you - it is trying to instruct or teach a group of ideas... and when you run the school system, you are indoctrinating.
Teach a person what it means to 'copy a file' on a 'fixed media' is what is necessary - the implementation is trivial. cp or copy or 'cut-paste' is simply 'copying a file' afterall.
Teaching people how to use 'M$ Office XP' is a wrong - teaching them about word processors, spreadsheets and SQL/RDBMS is the *right* thing to teach.
Vocational schools (trade schools) teach job-skills. "General Public" schools should be preperation for University... and the foundations of general knowledge... otherwise the person should be sent to a vocational school.
You are dead right. This happens more often than you think, english words are often propaganda loaded for specific purposes. Communism, Socialism, Terrorism, Pirate, hacker, and many, many, more.. the words themselves are used completely out of context - and in place of their true meaning.
If youve not read some of Noam Chomnsky's works on the media and language - i suggest you do...
Microsoft will sue everyone who posts the file under the DMCA and also anyone who knows someone who posted the file.
...just a little clarity about the DMCA and its jurisdiction...
Here is the correct version of that statement: Microsoft will sue every USian who posts the file under the DMCA and also any USian who knows someone who posted the file.
Processor serial number
I wonder where they keep the processor-serial number -> your name, address, email, and penis length data? IM thinking select *
from person, register_info
where person.serial = register_info.serial
Voila - you may not give your name && number when registering windows now, but who cares - they can retrieve your processor_serial_number now (in future - whenever).
People are really putting their head in the sand if they dont think this registration isnt a (another) nail in the coffin of private computing.
Who knows when/how they retrieve the serials of apps installed on PCs, how much email-traffic you have (rolling counters stored... ummm somewhere), maybe the percentage of your disk that are occupied w/ JPGs (in your c:/pr0n dir), whatever.
The point is, with this binary only model - how the *uck can you trust they aren't keeping this data - and managing it all somewhere. I know you can sniff the network traffic, but we all know that with a little obfuscation and some encryption - you can hide anything you want very well.
I have no interest in giving M$ any information about me or my computer - now or ever. I will not run WinXP or anything else Windows on the internet, i just cant trust that they havent trojaned all (some/most/whatever) of the applications.
P.S. I thought Intel disabled the unique-processor-serial...????!?
Not for security it doesn't. Security is a matter of knowing where every program on the machine came from, and knowing that no uncertified programs have even been run on the machine. It is solely a matter of trust...
Spoken from the POV of the rule-rigid. Symanticly you are flat-wrong. Why would you trust your Oracle ODBC driver or copy of winsock.dll more or less than Dnet? Dnet is as known and understood as either Oracle or M$ wares - what makes you sure there isnt some trojan code on one of your 'certified' binaries? Give me a break, Dnet only does what it reports - as much as anything else - and there is no reason to think-otherwise. Your argument would have made sense in a universe where RC5 was Sub7 - in this one, the reality is, it is not.
BTW, what 'certified' you to be the All Knowing Sage of Securtiy? Your whole post is really in left field - do you have an MBA?
To fully recover from a compromise, you'd have to replace them all. Would probably be cheaper to just scrap the equipment and buy new stuff
Are you on drugs? A troll? These were commonly-available, general use computers - with accessible cases and (*gasp*) disk drives - do you think this is the control-room for a nuclear missle or a office computer? Your argument would have made sense barely in the former installation.
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