Yes, because committing a criminal act that temporarily disables the website of an organization is such a glorious victory. Next, they can strike a victorious blow against the neighbor they don't like by defeating his hedges in one-on-one combat. Or, maybe sneak up on that riceracer brat down the street and sap him while he is distracted. That is about the same level of "victory" as what they have done.
If you, or anyone, think this is a victory, symbolic or otherwise, then you have no clue what "victory" is.
In other words, you are not even going to try because you think you will fail. You are too fucking lazy to make the effort because you think you won't win. Gee, where would the world be if everyone who wanted to change things thought like you? No civil rights, no abortion, no separation of church and state, no United States of America.
your not buying music will not have effect, because they have heaps of cash signing over any band you are buying now.
What part of "Stop buying their music" did you not understand? If you stop buying music, then they stop getting in cash. Bands do not pay to be signed. Bands are PAID to sign. Even if they sign every band on Terra, if you do not buy the music of the artists they have signed, they get no money.
Is that really too hard to understand?
The people who did this are just a bunch of cowardly, criminal pussies who will cry like babies and claim it is not fair if they get caught.
By the way, who is the bigger parasite: The **AA who pay to make CDs, movies, DVDs, etc. as well as the marketing, travel, etc. for their signed artists or the people who make unauthorized copies of music and videos and thereby do not contribute anything to the artists?
There you go, proving you are a fucking, ass-sucking, shit-eating idiot yet again. Sure there are mistakes made and I have no doubt malicious assholes like you occasionally become debt collectors. But, a handful of anecdotes is not poof of anything. Especially when it comes the likes of you.
You are the one who used vulgarity to accuse me of something. Then you complain when I teach you to suck eggs. Now, you can shut the fuck up you cowardly cum-sucking feltcher. You don't want to get burned, don't play with fire. Now, go die in a fire. In fact, I hope you get to watch everything and everyone you love burn before you die a long, slow painful death tasting your own blood, you worthless hypocrite.
Both OS X and Windows are trying to make improvements. Linux still requires a command line to do way too many things, has a bolt-on GUI with crappy alpha channel support, and it's audio support is often poor.
Linux may be doing well in the server realm, but it is effectively dead on the desktop due to poor media and game support, not to mention hibernation and wireless network support on laptops. OS X has made inroads in the desktop, but it has been as much at the expense of Linux as it has been for Windows. Windows is still the 600 lbs gorilla when it comes to the desktop, corporate email, collaboration software, and office use.
OS X may have an underlying paradigm similar to Linux, but its user interface and media support is decades ahead of Linux. Microsoft is trying to improve the reliability and security of Windows, even if it is hamstrung by past decisions and backwards compatibility. But, Windows has the most well known and widely used GUI and the best hardware support on the planet because of it.
And, labeling the truth as flaimbait doesn't change it. It just shows that whomever modded it flaimbait doesn't understand how to moderate.
I have never been harassed by a debt collector I didn't owe money to. And, I don't know of a single person who has been harassed by a debt collector over a debt they didn't owe. Somehow I don't believe you.
So, go fuck yourself, you lying sack of shit. Stop lying about things happening to you to try and make a false point, got it, fuck wad? Your mother should have swallowed you, but I am sure you father paid her to do bareback and taking a cumshot her cunt. I am sure it was enough for two fixes. As it is, I am sure the best part of you ran down her thigh.
Now, go back to sucking cock to pay your bills, dumbass.
Here is a unique concept: Pay your bills so your debt doesn't get sold and you don't get called by deb collectors. Oh, and the original debtors generally SELL THE DEBT, so the person who owns the debt is the collection agency.
The term McJob does not demean the people doing the work. Rather, it demeans a class of job where, the pay is low, the work boring or demeaning, and the workers are interchangeable and often treated poorly. People are not their jobs.
The "victim" is not a victim. She should have paid her bills. She didn't. If one can't pay one's bills, especially for a car loan such as this, there is something called a voluntary repossession. And, I am pretty sure if she had actually talked to the bill collector, none of this would have happened.
The issue here is if we have a late payment...
Don't have a late payment. Call your creditors if you do. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
So, instead the blogger should declare that MS cheated at the benchmarks with nothing more than his results for which he admits that there are at least three plausible explanations?
And, then Taco should treat the author's biased opinion as fact? Remember, the title of this post is "Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating in SunSpider."
I don't think so.
And, where is the response from MS? Did anyone ask MS, or did someone find this and go "MS is CHEATING!!11!!one!" without actually investigating or even asking MS? Because, it really looks like the latter, which would make this just more MS bashing blogspam.
There are three possible explanation for this weird result from Internet Explorer:
Microsoft cheated by optimizing Internet Explorer 9 solely to ace the SunSpider Bechmark. To me, this seems like the best explanation.
Microsoft engineers working on Internet Explorer 9 could have been using the SunSpider Benchmark and unintentionally over-optimized the JavaScript engine for the SunSpider Benchmark. This seems very unlikely to me.
A third option (suggested in Hacker News) might be that this is an actual bug and adding these trivial codes disaligns cache tables and such throwing off the performance entirely. If this is the reason, it raises a serious question about the robustness of the engine.
Everything in italics is unsupported opinion by the author, yet is treated as fact in the summary and title by CmdrTaco and Slashdot. Perhaps if Slashdot would stick to actual news sites (you know NEWS for nerds and all that), this would be a balanced report with a good amount of information. Instead, it is just another Slashdot supported hit piece against MicroSoft.
You are using a government provided service on government provided hardware from your dorm room.
YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT OR EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WHEN USING GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT.
I think you should take a long look at civics and the law. You may have an expectation of privacy in the dorm room, but the moment you use the government provided network, you loose any expectation of privacy for anything you do on the network. You are using the government's equipment, not your own. What part of that do you not understand? You may as well be arguing that you have an expectation of privacy while visiting or talking on the phone with someone in jail.
Your whole argument falls apart because you are using a government provided network and equipment and, yes, it does matter a great deal because you agree to certain things when you get the access. If you don't believe me, just ask a lawyer or read the law and the things you sign when you get your dorm room and network access.
Don't you bother to read all that paperwork? Do you not read and listen to those disclaimers? You really need to dig your head out of your ass and realize that the fact one is in a private dorm room does not effect the right of an organization, including the government, to monitor the use of its network.
Packets are physical? Really? Then, you should have no problem holding one in your hand, taking a picture of it, then posting said picture on-line. Electrons have a physical shape, but network packets do not. The electrons sent from one network card are not the electrons received by another network card. A packet is not a physical thing.
I have read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Please, do tell, where exactly does it say that the government can not control the use of its equipment and networks. Please show exactly where either says that the government can not examine the use of its equipment.
The network in the dorm and that the dorm connects to is owned by the government. The students and you should know this as it is a state school. The "students' homes" are, in fact, government provided housing on government property; the network being accessed is a private, government owned and operated network and access to that network is governed by the rules set by the government run institution that controls the network. If you don't want the government to control and examine your internet usage, don't use a government controlled internet connection.
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Yes, because committing a criminal act that temporarily disables the website of an organization is such a glorious victory. Next, they can strike a victorious blow against the neighbor they don't like by defeating his hedges in one-on-one combat. Or, maybe sneak up on that riceracer brat down the street and sap him while he is distracted. That is about the same level of "victory" as what they have done.
If you, or anyone, think this is a victory, symbolic or otherwise, then you have no clue what "victory" is.
What part of "Stop buying their music" did you not understand? If you stop buying music, then they stop getting in cash. Bands do not pay to be signed. Bands are PAID to sign. Even if they sign every band on Terra, if you do not buy the music of the artists they have signed, they get no money.
Is that really too hard to understand?
The people who did this are just a bunch of cowardly, criminal pussies who will cry like babies and claim it is not fair if they get caught.
By the way, who is the bigger parasite: The **AA who pay to make CDs, movies, DVDs, etc. as well as the marketing, travel, etc. for their signed artists or the people who make unauthorized copies of music and videos and thereby do not contribute anything to the artists?
At least the **AA gives something to the artists.
There you go, proving you are a fucking, ass-sucking, shit-eating idiot yet again. Sure there are mistakes made and I have no doubt malicious assholes like you occasionally become debt collectors. But, a handful of anecdotes is not poof of anything. Especially when it comes the likes of you.
You are the one who used vulgarity to accuse me of something. Then you complain when I teach you to suck eggs. Now, you can shut the fuck up you cowardly cum-sucking feltcher. You don't want to get burned, don't play with fire. Now, go die in a fire. In fact, I hope you get to watch everything and everyone you love burn before you die a long, slow painful death tasting your own blood, you worthless hypocrite.
was convincing the world Google isn't evil.
You didn't prove anyone wrong and you are the one who started with the vulgarity. If you can't keep up, shut up.
Now, stop with your lying, you sack of diarrhea.
Both OS X and Windows are trying to make improvements. Linux still requires a command line to do way too many things, has a bolt-on GUI with crappy alpha channel support, and it's audio support is often poor.
Linux may be doing well in the server realm, but it is effectively dead on the desktop due to poor media and game support, not to mention hibernation and wireless network support on laptops. OS X has made inroads in the desktop, but it has been as much at the expense of Linux as it has been for Windows. Windows is still the 600 lbs gorilla when it comes to the desktop, corporate email, collaboration software, and office use.
OS X may have an underlying paradigm similar to Linux, but its user interface and media support is decades ahead of Linux. Microsoft is trying to improve the reliability and security of Windows, even if it is hamstrung by past decisions and backwards compatibility. But, Windows has the most well known and widely used GUI and the best hardware support on the planet because of it.
And, labeling the truth as flaimbait doesn't change it. It just shows that whomever modded it flaimbait doesn't understand how to moderate.
Seeing as Linux is based on a 30+ year old paradigm, "old fashioned" seems appropriate.
I have never been harassed by a debt collector I didn't owe money to. And, I don't know of a single person who has been harassed by a debt collector over a debt they didn't owe. Somehow I don't believe you.
So, go fuck yourself, you lying sack of shit. Stop lying about things happening to you to try and make a false point, got it, fuck wad? Your mother should have swallowed you, but I am sure you father paid her to do bareback and taking a cumshot her cunt. I am sure it was enough for two fixes. As it is, I am sure the best part of you ran down her thigh.
Now, go back to sucking cock to pay your bills, dumbass.
Here is a unique concept: Pay your bills so your debt doesn't get sold and you don't get called by deb collectors. Oh, and the original debtors generally SELL THE DEBT, so the person who owns the debt is the collection agency.
The term McJob does not demean the people doing the work. Rather, it demeans a class of job where, the pay is low, the work boring or demeaning, and the workers are interchangeable and often treated poorly. People are not their jobs.
But, that does not apply in this case. And, it sounds like you are partly at fault as you didn't keep up with your business in your home country.
Don't have a late payment. Call your creditors if you do. Then you don't have this kind of problem.
And, exactly none of those situations apply in this case.
So, instead the blogger should declare that MS cheated at the benchmarks with nothing more than his results for which he admits that there are at least three plausible explanations?
And, then Taco should treat the author's biased opinion as fact? Remember, the title of this post is "Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating in SunSpider."
I don't think so.
And, where is the response from MS? Did anyone ask MS, or did someone find this and go "MS is CHEATING!!11!!one!" without actually investigating or even asking MS? Because, it really looks like the latter, which would make this just more MS bashing blogspam.
Everything in italics is unsupported opinion by the author, yet is treated as fact in the summary and title by CmdrTaco and Slashdot. Perhaps if Slashdot would stick to actual news sites (you know NEWS for nerds and all that), this would be a balanced report with a good amount of information. Instead, it is just another Slashdot supported hit piece against MicroSoft.
You are using a government provided service on government provided hardware from your dorm room.
YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT OR EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WHEN USING GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT.
I think you should take a long look at civics and the law. You may have an expectation of privacy in the dorm room, but the moment you use the government provided network, you loose any expectation of privacy for anything you do on the network. You are using the government's equipment, not your own. What part of that do you not understand? You may as well be arguing that you have an expectation of privacy while visiting or talking on the phone with someone in jail.
Your whole argument falls apart because you are using a government provided network and equipment and, yes, it does matter a great deal because you agree to certain things when you get the access. If you don't believe me, just ask a lawyer or read the law and the things you sign when you get your dorm room and network access.
Don't you bother to read all that paperwork? Do you not read and listen to those disclaimers? You really need to dig your head out of your ass and realize that the fact one is in a private dorm room does not effect the right of an organization, including the government, to monitor the use of its network.
Packets are physical? Really? Then, you should have no problem holding one in your hand, taking a picture of it, then posting said picture on-line. Electrons have a physical shape, but network packets do not. The electrons sent from one network card are not the electrons received by another network card. A packet is not a physical thing.
I have read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Please, do tell, where exactly does it say that the government can not control the use of its equipment and networks. Please show exactly where either says that the government can not examine the use of its equipment.
It is a means of transporting sealed physical objects from one place to another for a price.
Did the students agree to this kind of action when they signed all the paperwork for school?
A) The postal service is not a network.
B) Have you ever heard of a postal inspector.
The network in the dorm and that the dorm connects to is owned by the government. The students and you should know this as it is a state school. The "students' homes" are, in fact, government provided housing on government property; the network being accessed is a private, government owned and operated network and access to that network is governed by the rules set by the government run institution that controls the network. If you don't want the government to control and examine your internet usage, don't use a government controlled internet connection.
Ah, so it is OK to break the law as long as the victim is someone you don't like. You are a person, she is a person, the perp is a person.
You are also a hypocrite and you didn't answer my question.
Would you feel the same way if it were YOUR email account that was compromised and your information that was distributed?
Would you feel the same way if it were YOUR email account he compromised and your information he distributed?
In most locations, any time less than 1 year is served in jail as opposed to prison. A year and a day ensures he serves his time in prison.