It's true, MS doesn't care about the slashdot community. They don't care about the people that know that what they do is wrong. Because we are not only a minority, but we don't spend that much (if anything) on MS software. We're basically nothing to MS's bottom line. So, sadly enough, complaining on Slashdot won't hurt them.
You want to get back at MS? Make open source software better than MS's. Now when I say that I don't simply mean make it more secure or stable, which is what most oss zealots seem to hear. I mean, make it more secure & stable PLUS faster, more flexible, and have a nicer, easier to use interface. Security and stability alone will not win any battles. The latter are just as important, if not more important in the eyes of the average user.
Don't give me "it's a symptom of the problem" bullshit. The PROBLEM as it is right now, is the worm itself. Stop this worm, stop the next, give the people time to make the server secure and all the idiots time to figure out what they've gotten themself into by assuming they can run w2k. So your plan would be to just wait for MS to fix ALL their security holes and make it so my grandma can setup a W2k box and never have a problem? How long will that take, 5, 10, 15 years? And the fixes will introduce new bugs. So the answer is to do what gives the biggest response NOW, not a decade from now.
I don't know what you're referring to in saying that I want everybody to waste their bandwidth. Somebody would need to release a worm that fixes the whole, spreads itself, and removes itself. I'm not saying everybody should install the script that simply reboots the machine, that does nothing but give the machine a 2 minutes break in between infections. I'm not saying the worm should scan a thousand IP addressed to see what machines are infected. Let it check log files if they exist, find any machines that tried to infect it, check and see if those are still infected, if not the worm should delete itself.
It's a cool little program. It's purpose, to use up your own resources to prevent other peoples resources from being used up. There seems to be a little flaw in that logic to me. Personally, I like the scripts that connect to servers that have tried to infect them, and send those servers a bit of code to reboot the machine. I'd rather them install the patch automatically and then reboot the machine though. That seems like a much more effecient use of resources.
Why has nobody either sent out a worm to patch machines, or created a script to patch the sender of a worm? The bandwidth used would be minimal to what is being eaten by these worms, and it would SOLVE the problem. Of course, in this day and age, nobody wants to actually solve a problem, they have to create some technically incredible way of ignoring a problem, or placing blame on the common scapegoat of MS or stupid admins, or doing some trivial task just to prove they can do the same type of thing as the virii spreaders.
BTW, this article was posted on Wired yesterday afternoon, why did it take so long to get here?
This would be really good if they could setup the system in something the size of an ambulance so people can be fixed up without having to make them endure a helicopter or ambulance ride to the nearest hospital. So is 802.11 ready for this?
I e-mailed my local ClearChannel station (nerve951.com) and somebody responded with a ClearChannel.com e-mail address. They said it was a false rumor, and that list was only songs to be sensitive to and that there was no banning of the songs. Here's the exact messages:
"Scott,
the clear channel deal is a false rumor...I hear list was never a mandatory
thing...
just songs to be sensitive to last Tuesday...
people have never been told not to play these songs...
I'm sorry to other people using a sorrowful time like this to use as a basis
to a trivial radio war...We all should be united as Americans at this time..
shame on the company that is lying
From the grammar it doesn't sound as though it's an exec. I e-mailed the person back and asked what there position at ClearChannel was.
One of their stations websites nerve951.com has a link to Shoot Osama right from their main page. Unfortunately, ClearChannel owns them so they'll be complying with the ban.
Good. It's about someone dying in a plane crash. Isn't that what's happened? Since when has run and hide been the "American way"? Personally I'd like to hear songs related to what's happened, it puts everything in perspective. Did anybody ban "Ohio"? It was written directly about a tragedy. Musicians are going to write songs about this event, should we pre-emptively ban them from doing so?
Fuck you idiots. I don't care if he's Canadian, or if it wasn't intended to be an American song. The writers origins are irrelavent. This is a great song and should be sung even during this tragedy, maybe even more so. Singing about sadness isn't the end of the world, neither is remembering what happened just last week.
I listen to one of their stations here in central NY, The Nerve and they play a lot of these songs, or they used to.
The fact that they banned Don McLean's "American Pie" really outrages me. This is one of America's songs. I used to like this song when I was 6 and I still do. Sorry if it's not like "Don't Worry, Be Happy" but jeesh.
BTW, I didn't read any articles, is this ban permanent?
This is related and I don't feel like asking Slashdot or doing a Google search so:
I have a Athlon 800 with a Giga-byte mobo (VIA KT133). As soon as I got the mobo/proc I overclocked it via the bus speed. I set it to 112, (highest speed that would boot), which got me 896 MHz. During the extremely hot summer it started locking up fairly frequently so I knocked it back down to what it was suppose to run at. I just installed a GeForce2 MX200 and 256 MB PC133 RAM and now I can't clock it higher than 104 (834 MHz). It just won't boot higher than that. Anybody have any insight as to whether or not the GeForce or the RAM could be preventing the overclocking or if I've screwed something up from running it hot in the past. I'm too lazy to swap all my components out to try and see what is actually preventing it.
Did anybody notice the following quote from the linked article:
"This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on"
Notice how they try to mislead you into believing that Award's specs say that Fur Elise should be played when the CPU overheats. MS sucks, spread the word.
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And we're all qualified for this in what way? We know how to use a computer. We can write bots to go look for stuff on the net. Ok genius, so what would you propose we look for? The word Allah?
Maybe there's a perl module on CPAN that we should all be downloading.
Looks more comfortable than a mouse but I think I'd prefer trigger buttons instead of a thumb control. It's just too awkward. Even in games, nobody maps the thumb buttons to the most actively used action control. I'd suggest that going vertically down the front of the joystick would be: trigger - scroll wheel - trigger. One control for each finger.
When I read this earlier on ZDNet, "industry experts" were saying that AMD couldn't get consumers to abandon MHz ratings for instructions per clock cycle. Personally, I don't see a problem with them trying to change comparison factors as long as the numbers are meaningful, which 1600 doesn't sound like it is.
I'm sure their marketing team could come up with something like 1.9 giga-doodles for a 1.4 MHz cpu. Obviously something a little more sexy would be needed though.
If AMD changed schemes, then what geek here would not buy them because of it? We know what they're referring to. But I guess the average consumer couldn't compare giga-doodles to GHz on their own. But AMDs marketing could again jump in with stickers & posters for retail stores and OEMs. Something that specifically states what the giga-doodles of this AMD is vs. the giga-doodles of similarly priced P4. That's definitely not illegal and would be better received by the geeky population at least.
If you want to have access to 20+ devices in your house while you're away, then giving each one an IP is ridiculous. You get a server for the house, and communicate with each of the devices through the server. The server has an IP address, the devices have names (or the standard internal network addresses, 192.168.0.x). You access the devices by name, using the server as a proxy. I'm sure somebody will come up with some XML based protocol for this if they haven't already.
Also, right now the worlds population is about 6 billion, and 4 billion address are possible with IPv4. Based on everybodies estimates on the adoption rate of internet access, we still have a decade before we're screwed. So, take the time to get it right instead of screwing up everything at once.
So what does it actually take to create your own religion? You obviously don't need proof of the existence of a higher power or every religion out there wouldn't be acknowledged. Can I start saying that my god is the "Great Programmer" and get away with stuff, or is there some sort of catch, like you must prove that your IQ is the same as a cabbage to be legally allowed to believe in such things.
Nobody is going to be sympathetic to a single company vs. half a million people dying. That's just sick.
"I'm sorry son, Mommy and Daddy can't keep you alive because Mr. Rich needs a new ivory backscratcher. We just can't expect him to use the same one every day."
What kind of fucking morons run Roche. Lets evaluate the financial situation here. Brazil is spending 82 million dollars a year on this drug, between production and licensing. That means the licensing part is 32 million dollars. Licensing cost nothing for a company except executive paperwork which they have their underpaid secretaries or interns do for them. This is just greed.
Sometime before I die I'd really like to see a law passed against excessive greed. A law that states money is not greater than or equal to people or even the rights of people. Maybe if some CEO is living on the streets and he has to rip of somebody else living on the street then that would fall into a gray area. But making many suffer so you can please your elitist friends and shareholders as well as buy yourself a new yacht shouldn't constitute as legal.
You'd think that with all the time Microsoft saves on security testing, they could spend it on being exceptionally deceitful instead of just doing it half-assed.
Have we all lost our creativity. Do we really need to encode everything in XML just for the sake of using a buzzword. This may be useful in text-to-speech translators for the blind, but is anybody going to fill their webpage with this stuff. Is anybody going to type in Ha ha ha into an IM program. No.
XML is a great FILE FORMAT that can be used to exchange hierchical information. Yes, I'm sorry to all the disallusioned out there, XML is ONLY A FILE FORMAT. It's not a programming language. And don't give me the argument that it's "eXtensible Markup LANGUAGE". There's still no "PROGRAMMING" keyword in there.
So unless you're a congressman gunning for re-election and the major issue is accessibility for the disabled, the standard acronyms and emoticons that have been used for about a decade are fine. Hell, even my parents use LOL and:)
Since this Israeli company is trying to get rid of Windows, then we won't have a GUI anymore. We'd have a SUI (Speaking User Interface). Since Sooey sounds like a farm animal call or an oriental dish, it can't be used for geek-speak. Therefore we must abandon all research towards making computers talk to us since it will never be adopted by the geeky ones.
There are computer room monitors at the local high school. They are there to help students when they can't figure out how to do something. Unfortunately, these people were given jobs for some political reason and not for being actually qualified for the job.
When I was there, NOBODY was allowed to use the 40 IBM machines in another room, everybody had to use the 20 Macs. There were many reasons why we weren't allowed to use the DOS/Win3.1 machines. I personally was blamed for attempting to crash the hard drive by removing the "Leaf" wallpaper from Windows 3.1. They really flipped out when they saw me sitting in from of a command prompt typing in DIR. Apparently that causes hard drive crashes as well.
They EVENTUALLY got off my back and let me do whatever I wanted after I kept ignoring them and using the IBMs anyways. Gee, no HDs ever crashed either.
But the moral of this story is that no matter how many computers you have, you still need somebody to show the kids how to use it. And how many schoolkids are going to have Linux geeks for parents? Do Linux geeks have the ability to get a date, let alone procreate? Just kidding. But I don't see this helping out so many rural schools due to lack of knowledge and lack of funds to acquire knowledge. Linux may be free but somebody has to learn how to use it. Of course, if one of the major distros were to have an install feature for "Super-Secure-Only-StarOffice", then it may make this a little more likely in a lot more schools.
Maybe this will make IE more stable. Personally I wish they'd get rid of the ActiveX plugins too. I'm so damn sick of it opening Word and PDF document IN the browser when I'd rather download them or at least spawn the actual application they were meant for.
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It's true, MS doesn't care about the slashdot community. They don't care about the people that know that what they do is wrong. Because we are not only a minority, but we don't spend that much (if anything) on MS software. We're basically nothing to MS's bottom line. So, sadly enough, complaining on Slashdot won't hurt them.
You want to get back at MS? Make open source software better than MS's. Now when I say that I don't simply mean make it more secure or stable, which is what most oss zealots seem to hear. I mean, make it more secure & stable PLUS faster, more flexible, and have a nicer, easier to use interface. Security and stability alone will not win any battles. The latter are just as important, if not more important in the eyes of the average user.
Don't give me "it's a symptom of the problem" bullshit. The PROBLEM as it is right now, is the worm itself. Stop this worm, stop the next, give the people time to make the server secure and all the idiots time to figure out what they've gotten themself into by assuming they can run w2k. So your plan would be to just wait for MS to fix ALL their security holes and make it so my grandma can setup a W2k box and never have a problem? How long will that take, 5, 10, 15 years? And the fixes will introduce new bugs. So the answer is to do what gives the biggest response NOW, not a decade from now.
I don't know what you're referring to in saying that I want everybody to waste their bandwidth. Somebody would need to release a worm that fixes the whole, spreads itself, and removes itself. I'm not saying everybody should install the script that simply reboots the machine, that does nothing but give the machine a 2 minutes break in between infections. I'm not saying the worm should scan a thousand IP addressed to see what machines are infected. Let it check log files if they exist, find any machines that tried to infect it, check and see if those are still infected, if not the worm should delete itself.
It's a cool little program. It's purpose, to use up your own resources to prevent other peoples resources from being used up. There seems to be a little flaw in that logic to me. Personally, I like the scripts that connect to servers that have tried to infect them, and send those servers a bit of code to reboot the machine. I'd rather them install the patch automatically and then reboot the machine though. That seems like a much more effecient use of resources.
Why has nobody either sent out a worm to patch machines, or created a script to patch the sender of a worm? The bandwidth used would be minimal to what is being eaten by these worms, and it would SOLVE the problem. Of course, in this day and age, nobody wants to actually solve a problem, they have to create some technically incredible way of ignoring a problem, or placing blame on the common scapegoat of MS or stupid admins, or doing some trivial task just to prove they can do the same type of thing as the virii spreaders.
BTW, this article was posted on Wired yesterday afternoon, why did it take so long to get here?
This would be really good if they could setup the system in something the size of an ambulance so people can be fixed up without having to make them endure a helicopter or ambulance ride to the nearest hospital. So is 802.11 ready for this?
I e-mailed my local ClearChannel station (nerve951.com) and somebody responded with a ClearChannel.com e-mail address. They said it was a false rumor, and that list was only songs to be sensitive to and that there was no banning of the songs. Here's the exact messages:
"Scott,
the clear channel deal is a false rumor...I hear list was never a mandatory
thing...
just songs to be sensitive to last Tuesday...
people have never been told not to play these songs...
I'm sorry to other people using a sorrowful time like this to use as a basis
to a trivial radio war...We all should be united as Americans at this time..
shame on the company that is lying
From the grammar it doesn't sound as though it's an exec. I e-mailed the person back and asked what there position at ClearChannel was.
One of their stations websites nerve951.com has a link to Shoot Osama right from their main page. Unfortunately, ClearChannel owns them so they'll be complying with the ban.
Good. It's about someone dying in a plane crash. Isn't that what's happened? Since when has run and hide been the "American way"? Personally I'd like to hear songs related to what's happened, it puts everything in perspective. Did anybody ban "Ohio"? It was written directly about a tragedy. Musicians are going to write songs about this event, should we pre-emptively ban them from doing so?
Fuck you idiots. I don't care if he's Canadian, or if it wasn't intended to be an American song. The writers origins are irrelavent. This is a great song and should be sung even during this tragedy, maybe even more so. Singing about sadness isn't the end of the world, neither is remembering what happened just last week.
I listen to one of their stations here in central NY, The Nerve and they play a lot of these songs, or they used to.
The fact that they banned Don McLean's "American Pie" really outrages me. This is one of America's songs. I used to like this song when I was 6 and I still do. Sorry if it's not like "Don't Worry, Be Happy" but jeesh.
BTW, I didn't read any articles, is this ban permanent?
This is related and I don't feel like asking Slashdot or doing a Google search so:
I have a Athlon 800 with a Giga-byte mobo (VIA KT133). As soon as I got the mobo/proc I overclocked it via the bus speed. I set it to 112, (highest speed that would boot), which got me 896 MHz. During the extremely hot summer it started locking up fairly frequently so I knocked it back down to what it was suppose to run at. I just installed a GeForce2 MX200 and 256 MB PC133 RAM and now I can't clock it higher than 104 (834 MHz). It just won't boot higher than that. Anybody have any insight as to whether or not the GeForce or the RAM could be preventing the overclocking or if I've screwed something up from running it hot in the past. I'm too lazy to swap all my components out to try and see what is actually preventing it.
Did anybody notice the following quote from the linked article:
"This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on"
Notice how they try to mislead you into believing that Award's specs say that Fur Elise should be played when the CPU overheats. MS sucks, spread the word.
And we're all qualified for this in what way? We know how to use a computer. We can write bots to go look for stuff on the net. Ok genius, so what would you propose we look for? The word Allah?
Maybe there's a perl module on CPAN that we should all be downloading.
Hearts in the right place but your mind isn't.
Looks more comfortable than a mouse but I think I'd prefer trigger buttons instead of a thumb control. It's just too awkward. Even in games, nobody maps the thumb buttons to the most actively used action control. I'd suggest that going vertically down the front of the joystick would be: trigger - scroll wheel - trigger. One control for each finger.
When I read this earlier on ZDNet, "industry experts" were saying that AMD couldn't get consumers to abandon MHz ratings for instructions per clock cycle. Personally, I don't see a problem with them trying to change comparison factors as long as the numbers are meaningful, which 1600 doesn't sound like it is.
I'm sure their marketing team could come up with something like 1.9 giga-doodles for a 1.4 MHz cpu. Obviously something a little more sexy would be needed though.
If AMD changed schemes, then what geek here would not buy them because of it? We know what they're referring to. But I guess the average consumer couldn't compare giga-doodles to GHz on their own. But AMDs marketing could again jump in with stickers & posters for retail stores and OEMs. Something that specifically states what the giga-doodles of this AMD is vs. the giga-doodles of similarly priced P4. That's definitely not illegal and would be better received by the geeky population at least.
Maybe it's not too late to include an extra byte in the IPv6 header to indicate the senders IQ. It would make filtering idiots much easier.
Besides, since all the dot-com companies have, or are about to go out of business, the IP addresses will just be recycled.
If you want to have access to 20+ devices in your house while you're away, then giving each one an IP is ridiculous. You get a server for the house, and communicate with each of the devices through the server. The server has an IP address, the devices have names (or the standard internal network addresses, 192.168.0.x). You access the devices by name, using the server as a proxy. I'm sure somebody will come up with some XML based protocol for this if they haven't already.
Also, right now the worlds population is about 6 billion, and 4 billion address are possible with IPv4. Based on everybodies estimates on the adoption rate of internet access, we still have a decade before we're screwed. So, take the time to get it right instead of screwing up everything at once.
So what does it actually take to create your own religion? You obviously don't need proof of the existence of a higher power or every religion out there wouldn't be acknowledged. Can I start saying that my god is the "Great Programmer" and get away with stuff, or is there some sort of catch, like you must prove that your IQ is the same as a cabbage to be legally allowed to believe in such things.
Nobody is going to be sympathetic to a single company vs. half a million people dying. That's just sick.
"I'm sorry son, Mommy and Daddy can't keep you alive because Mr. Rich needs a new ivory backscratcher. We just can't expect him to use the same one every day."
What kind of fucking morons run Roche. Lets evaluate the financial situation here. Brazil is spending 82 million dollars a year on this drug, between production and licensing. That means the licensing part is 32 million dollars. Licensing cost nothing for a company except executive paperwork which they have their underpaid secretaries or interns do for them. This is just greed.
Sometime before I die I'd really like to see a law passed against excessive greed. A law that states money is not greater than or equal to people or even the rights of people. Maybe if some CEO is living on the streets and he has to rip of somebody else living on the street then that would fall into a gray area. But making many suffer so you can please your elitist friends and shareholders as well as buy yourself a new yacht shouldn't constitute as legal.
You'd think that with all the time Microsoft saves on security testing, they could spend it on being exceptionally deceitful instead of just doing it half-assed.
Have we all lost our creativity. Do we really need to encode everything in XML just for the sake of using a buzzword. This may be useful in text-to-speech translators for the blind, but is anybody going to fill their webpage with this stuff. Is anybody going to type in Ha ha ha into an IM program. No.
:)
XML is a great FILE FORMAT that can be used to exchange hierchical information. Yes, I'm sorry to all the disallusioned out there, XML is ONLY A FILE FORMAT. It's not a programming language. And don't give me the argument that it's "eXtensible Markup LANGUAGE". There's still no "PROGRAMMING" keyword in there.
So unless you're a congressman gunning for re-election and the major issue is accessibility for the disabled, the standard acronyms and emoticons that have been used for about a decade are fine. Hell, even my parents use LOL and
Since this Israeli company is trying to get rid of Windows, then we won't have a GUI anymore. We'd have a SUI (Speaking User Interface). Since Sooey sounds like a farm animal call or an oriental dish, it can't be used for geek-speak. Therefore we must abandon all research towards making computers talk to us since it will never be adopted by the geeky ones.
There are computer room monitors at the local high school. They are there to help students when they can't figure out how to do something. Unfortunately, these people were given jobs for some political reason and not for being actually qualified for the job.
When I was there, NOBODY was allowed to use the 40 IBM machines in another room, everybody had to use the 20 Macs. There were many reasons why we weren't allowed to use the DOS/Win3.1 machines. I personally was blamed for attempting to crash the hard drive by removing the "Leaf" wallpaper from Windows 3.1. They really flipped out when they saw me sitting in from of a command prompt typing in DIR. Apparently that causes hard drive crashes as well.
They EVENTUALLY got off my back and let me do whatever I wanted after I kept ignoring them and using the IBMs anyways. Gee, no HDs ever crashed either.
But the moral of this story is that no matter how many computers you have, you still need somebody to show the kids how to use it. And how many schoolkids are going to have Linux geeks for parents? Do Linux geeks have the ability to get a date, let alone procreate? Just kidding. But I don't see this helping out so many rural schools due to lack of knowledge and lack of funds to acquire knowledge. Linux may be free but somebody has to learn how to use it. Of course, if one of the major distros were to have an install feature for "Super-Secure-Only-StarOffice", then it may make this a little more likely in a lot more schools.
24 hours to get it working
48 hours to get it working
Cowboy Neal will have to get it working
"We should see you by 9"
Um, 9:00 on what DAY?
C'ya later everybody. Nice knowin ya all. Maybe we can talk again in another couple years.
I knew this. I just have that click happy trigger finger.
Maybe this will make IE more stable. Personally I wish they'd get rid of the ActiveX plugins too. I'm so damn sick of it opening Word and PDF document IN the browser when I'd rather download them or at least spawn the actual application they were meant for.