The million companies that Microsoft has absorbed, the million of companies that Microsoft has destroyed, the fact that DOS was basically stolen, as was most of the idea for Windows.
It's easy to pretend to love a tyrant, but when you know the truth about their rule, it's hard to really say "What a swell guy".
This guy sounds like a guy who wants to get everyone back to Microsoft for some reason, and personally I have to say that smells a bit too fishy for me.
Anyone who has spent any time on the internet with anything that includes reviews must at some point or another see "Reviews" where no one checks them, and they expect people to review them themselves.
Some examples is for a large part Amazon.com, and Citysearch.com Both are fine sites, but I've seen reviews on the site that's complete crap.
Basically when people are allowed to do what ever they want as long as they appear intellegent they can say anything, and most of these sites don't have a way to compare most of their reviews so we can't tell if they are a wacko, a fanboy, or a friend or employee with invested interest in the product.
I'm glad when I read a review on City search for a new sushi restaurant, but not when the review is written by someone who obviously has no idea what a sushi restaurant should be. They can go to the trendiest crappiest place and call it great because they like that type of place.
On amazon.com and Imdb it's worse, your allowed to review dvds and movies before it comes out. It's a fine theory for people who get prerelease copies, but I've seen more then enough movie reviews of people who have only seen the commercials or like actor X, or actress Y's boobs.
Basically the point I bring up here is that there MUST be moderation, not by the public (well it would be fine if they mark stuff that need to be checked) but by editors who have set guidelines and will look at if the review is worthy of their site. The should be no specific guidelines, if someone writes a full review for 200 words just on the scenery in the movie (LOTR2 anyone?) it'd be ok, but there needs to be a limit for all reviews so sites don't get flooded by crap reviews.
At the same time there needs to be a way so that people are allowed to say what they want, so that if something is bad, it's allowed to be said bad things about poor products, but again we don't need people who just rant but actually show that there's some effort.
if parts of the goverment (NSA, CERTs) are after him it'll be hard to persuade him (or it would be if I was in that position at least) but good luck, he'd definatly be a catch for any company.
But honestly your right calling him just an admin is incorrect but no matter what he is, he's the type of Computer Scientist/engineering person I respect.
That reaching the moon couldn't be done because of cosmic radiation. Most of this science is hypothesis with little to no testing. It's similar to Einstein's theory of relativity, there's no way to really prove it currently but it's accepted.
The fact is I'm sure the people at Nasa know EXACTLY what these guys know if not already have a plan about it. Hell we won't even be attempting a mars trip til we have new shuttles (the next moon launch will be in the next couple of years but while Bush WANTS to go to mars after that the current shuttles will be dismantled long before that, and we'll see what shuttle they bring out after that.
I say we let Nasa continue their work and stop second guessing them at every avenue or even putting up with people who act like they know more.
In case reading comprehension is beyond you, This is NOT a google story, this is a story about a company Baidu, the fact that Google has 3 percent of their stock really doesn't matter much and is purely a side note.
Baidu might just have screwed their IPO big time, or rather the makers of House of Flying Dagger's owners did. Either way they will not make out like Google's founder's did. Oh well better luck next time.
Mike Lynn sounds like a good guy, his point of view is very understandable. He wanted to alert people that Cisco is just as hackable as others. The other stories were villifying him but his own words explained why he did what he did. I must say, Kudos to him.
Honestly He's the kind of Admin I respect, rather then play ball only with the corporation, he lets everyone know the problem so everyone can handle the situation. He claims there was a fix out in six monthes ago for his bug? I don't see why Cisco is flipping out if what he says is true, but if he made even one system admin update their router, then he did a good job in my book.
Well I meant people we didn't know before the death, the Cub Scouts death was in the news for almost a week, Bombings of course will be in the news for at least a month but when more then two or three people die, or at a well publicized event we see, hear, and think about them far longer then we hear about Judy and John Bloom's marriage if we hear about it at all.
Granted not EVERY person's death is going to draw attention but the negative news tends to linger where the "happy" news is forgotten. (and news here means information we get and retain, not media, though the media does contribute)
well 9/11 was the primary focus for 3 monthes.. then "getting them" was the focus after that. The point really is that tragedy remains is far greater then happiness.
Of course tragedy isn't forever, every yeah less people remember Oklahoma City, Columbine and such... But we do focus on the negatives more then positives.
It's the human condition to focus on negatives and ignore positives. That's why when 9/11 happened that was the focus for 3 monthes. When a death happens it's the focus of a week or two, even if it's random people.
However at the same time these numbers appear to be lower then expected. The quesiton that the management must ask themselves is "should we do anything else to make them happy" not "how can we make them happy" because let's be honest, even if they had cushy jobs they'd feel bad.
I personally joined up with a financial firm recently and I'm doing IT, and I must say I'm very happy with my job. I'm just out of college, I program about 80 percent of the time, and that's EXACTLY what I wanted. It took me 11 monthes to find the job and I found a job that meets my criteria for happiness and thus I'm happy. If anyone else isn't happy with their job and is getting at least a little in the way of benefits and such, I suggest changing your job, because honestly so many people are in jobs they hate for no reason other then they haven't looked around.
Is he basically saying "Oh we'll support everything that most people want, and yes it's a good program and will fix the known bugs. But we won't be able to pass tests such as this one"
Nice work. I also like the part where "All those features won't be available til Beta 2"
I noticed the same thing, people need to realize that the word other is never implied.
There's a couple great logic tests that have lines like "This is the sum of all the questions on this test" Which of course makes that answer undeterminable by itself but it requires all the other questions on the test to be equal to 0....
Definatly worth the time it took to read it. And good critism, but don't expect them to fix the Compatibility errors, from what I've heard MS is trying to steal another standard and make it their own.
The Gamecube for most of this year so far has been lacking games, and it's known. However this doesn't mean "Nintendo's dead" It's just not getting the games right now. The rest of this year will likely be Massive earnings compared to this section because We have a couple Mario based games, as well as The Legend of Zelda being released on the GameCube.
There is also some highly anticipated games coming out for non Nintendo properities such as Geist and such. But for the most part Nintendo has been the main supporter of the Gamecube and that's what has hurt the sales. It's still a decent system, but hopefully Revolution will get more third party support.
Because a 2 party game war with Microsoft and Sony as the leaders is just scary. Neither of these companies have proved they are about the consumer, rather about their monopolies (with MPAA actions from Sony and Microsoft's money lust)
Doesn't the venue's name ( 'Managing Linux in a Mixed Environment... at Microsoft?') SCREAM Hostage sitaution? I have a feeling that 5 minutes into the presentation the MS Swat team (yes I'm sure they have one) will storm in and hall off these Linux Gurus to brainwash them into the Microsoft way of thinking.
And then the ineviatable statement from the Office of Bill Gates "Microsoft proprietary software working with open source don't make me laugh."
Good reading.. I agree with what you say, and then I agree with Lynn even more, depending on how long they take to fix it is what matters. There's multiple cases where people find security flaws and the main company puts the stuff on the back burner for monthes, until it's in the public's eyes.
Honestly, these companies need to be held accountable, and people like Lynn is the ones to do it. Otherwise security is a joke. Likely they weren't even going to patch it fast enough, and now Cisco is on a time table.
It's essential in the world of IT, that we be informed about these bugs. Granted this is probably not the best legal way to do it, but he probably felt the need to share information more then being afraid of Cisco. If he was just terrified of the corporation how would freedom of information work, especially when Microsoft says "don't talk about our bugs" and we all accept it and then everyone continues to believe that MS is the best?
Honestly I resepect the guy, but then again he made this bed, he knew what he was doing when he stood up at the podium so the shit storm that will hit him is no one's fault but his own.
is the last thing she'll be doing. Knowing the japanese mentality, I'm sure someone is already working on changing a few things to make her the first active sex bot.
It's important to realize that this is NOT permenent, this is not the same as a catastrophy, it's just figuring out what went wrong.. it's similar to when the fuel gauge reported incorrectly. It's not a grounding like when there's an accident.. they just want to make sure there's not a major problem
100 million also gets you a couple monthes traning at "space city" their training camp... and it's a fortnight trip. You get a whole week as the ISS, which would be sweet I'm sure. Then the trip to the moon. As well as being known as the third space tourist and the first to go to the moon.
The only thing that would suck is you're likely going to spent that time with only russians, so you'll have learn their language. That and the Tang.
So if we stop trading with China, then there's no reason they should stop selling pirated movies because otherwise there's no other choice.
And The country isn't involved in a majority of piracy, just a majority of commerce in China has links to piracy, something that's been constant for the last X years (large number, Video Game companies are only now starting to try to make Chinese versions because there was so much piracy there)
There's a large amount of piracy in america too, I think the world's going to realize soon that piracy is going to be like drugs, it'll remain because it's accepted as an eventuality.
easy.. No one believes people on IM = Influencial. It's like in High School. There's the popular crowd, but while they are influencial in the School (AIM) world, that has no bearing in the real world.
I have a contact list of 4100 or so, my father probably has a much smaller list.. but I'm just a programmer, my father used to be a vice president on wall street (Retired).
Bottom Line: Just because you have a lot of people on your AIM list != influence/popularity. (Being on a lot of other people's lists would at least give more data)
And who says the personal info on AIM is correct or up to date, my AIM stuff, is probably almost 10 years old now.
Can't really tell which way this will go. For now it will start with China, but if this organization starts working on American Piracy it will get bogged down. I think there's a definate difference in China where as they say 90 percent (close to the real number) of movies and music sold are illegally gotten. But I'm sure there will be some (RIAA/MPAA) who will say they don't do enough against american pirates..
Anyone notice a problem here?
The RIAA/MPAA machine has complained about foreign groups for years, but couldn't do anything, but they'll want this group to focus just as much on American Piracy as others, an act that will nullify the good this group can do. American Piracy has enough life in it to take on a goverment agency for at least 5 years.
There's then only two options to continue the global campaign, ignore the RIAA/MPAA advice (and hear them bitch and scream), or bloat the agency to the point it's ineffectual.
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The million companies that Microsoft has absorbed, the million of companies that Microsoft has destroyed, the fact that DOS was basically stolen, as was most of the idea for Windows.
It's easy to pretend to love a tyrant, but when you know the truth about their rule, it's hard to really say "What a swell guy".
This guy sounds like a guy who wants to get everyone back to Microsoft for some reason, and personally I have to say that smells a bit too fishy for me.
Anyone who has spent any time on the internet with anything that includes reviews must at some point or another see "Reviews" where no one checks them, and they expect people to review them themselves.
Some examples is for a large part Amazon.com, and Citysearch.com Both are fine sites, but I've seen reviews on the site that's complete crap.
Basically when people are allowed to do what ever they want as long as they appear intellegent they can say anything, and most of these sites don't have a way to compare most of their reviews so we can't tell if they are a wacko, a fanboy, or a friend or employee with invested interest in the product.
I'm glad when I read a review on City search for a new sushi restaurant, but not when the review is written by someone who obviously has no idea what a sushi restaurant should be. They can go to the trendiest crappiest place and call it great because they like that type of place.
On amazon.com and Imdb it's worse, your allowed to review dvds and movies before it comes out. It's a fine theory for people who get prerelease copies, but I've seen more then enough movie reviews of people who have only seen the commercials or like actor X, or actress Y's boobs.
Basically the point I bring up here is that there MUST be moderation, not by the public (well it would be fine if they mark stuff that need to be checked) but by editors who have set guidelines and will look at if the review is worthy of their site. The should be no specific guidelines, if someone writes a full review for 200 words just on the scenery in the movie (LOTR2 anyone?) it'd be ok, but there needs to be a limit for all reviews so sites don't get flooded by crap reviews.
At the same time there needs to be a way so that people are allowed to say what they want, so that if something is bad, it's allowed to be said bad things about poor products, but again we don't need people who just rant but actually show that there's some effort.
230,000 is open to some exploit (don't know how the 20,000 isn't open, maybe they only accept stuff from certain things)
:)
60,000 can be hit by this problem (AKA are BIND 4 or 8).
13,000 they actually hit and proved they could do it?
Obviously not, but sounds like they either like large fuzzy numbers or just don't know the meaning of vague.
if parts of the goverment (NSA, CERTs) are after him it'll be hard to persuade him (or it would be if I was in that position at least) but good luck, he'd definatly be a catch for any company.
But honestly your right calling him just an admin is incorrect but no matter what he is, he's the type of Computer Scientist/engineering person I respect.
That reaching the moon couldn't be done because of cosmic radiation. Most of this science is hypothesis with little to no testing. It's similar to Einstein's theory of relativity, there's no way to really prove it currently but it's accepted.
The fact is I'm sure the people at Nasa know EXACTLY what these guys know if not already have a plan about it. Hell we won't even be attempting a mars trip til we have new shuttles (the next moon launch will be in the next couple of years but while Bush WANTS to go to mars after that the current shuttles will be dismantled long before that, and we'll see what shuttle they bring out after that.
I say we let Nasa continue their work and stop second guessing them at every avenue or even putting up with people who act like they know more.
In case reading comprehension is beyond you, This is NOT a google story, this is a story about a company Baidu, the fact that Google has 3 percent of their stock really doesn't matter much and is purely a side note.
Baidu might just have screwed their IPO big time, or rather the makers of House of Flying Dagger's owners did. Either way they will not make out like Google's founder's did. Oh well better luck next time.
Mike Lynn sounds like a good guy, his point of view is very understandable. He wanted to alert people that Cisco is just as hackable as others. The other stories were villifying him but his own words explained why he did what he did. I must say, Kudos to him.
Honestly He's the kind of Admin I respect, rather then play ball only with the corporation, he lets everyone know the problem so everyone can handle the situation. He claims there was a fix out in six monthes ago for his bug? I don't see why Cisco is flipping out if what he says is true, but if he made even one system admin update their router, then he did a good job in my book.
Well I meant people we didn't know before the death, the Cub Scouts death was in the news for almost a week, Bombings of course will be in the news for at least a month but when more then two or three people die, or at a well publicized event we see, hear, and think about them far longer then we hear about Judy and John Bloom's marriage if we hear about it at all.
Granted not EVERY person's death is going to draw attention but the negative news tends to linger where the "happy" news is forgotten. (and news here means information we get and retain, not media, though the media does contribute)
well 9/11 was the primary focus for 3 monthes.. then "getting them" was the focus after that. The point really is that tragedy remains is far greater then happiness.
Of course tragedy isn't forever, every yeah less people remember Oklahoma City, Columbine and such... But we do focus on the negatives more then positives.
It's the human condition to focus on negatives and ignore positives. That's why when 9/11 happened that was the focus for 3 monthes. When a death happens it's the focus of a week or two, even if it's random people.
However at the same time these numbers appear to be lower then expected. The quesiton that the management must ask themselves is "should we do anything else to make them happy" not "how can we make them happy" because let's be honest, even if they had cushy jobs they'd feel bad.
I personally joined up with a financial firm recently and I'm doing IT, and I must say I'm very happy with my job. I'm just out of college, I program about 80 percent of the time, and that's EXACTLY what I wanted. It took me 11 monthes to find the job and I found a job that meets my criteria for happiness and thus I'm happy. If anyone else isn't happy with their job and is getting at least a little in the way of benefits and such, I suggest changing your job, because honestly so many people are in jobs they hate for no reason other then they haven't looked around.
Is he basically saying "Oh we'll support everything that most people want, and yes it's a good program and will fix the known bugs. But we won't be able to pass tests such as this one"
Nice work. I also like the part where "All those features won't be available til Beta 2"
Nice of them to bite themselves in the butt.
I noticed the same thing, people need to realize that the word other is never implied.
There's a couple great logic tests that have lines like "This is the sum of all the questions on this test" Which of course makes that answer undeterminable by itself but it requires all the other questions on the test to be equal to 0....
god I'm a geek.
Definatly worth the time it took to read it. And good critism, but don't expect them to fix the Compatibility errors, from what I've heard MS is trying to steal another standard and make it their own.
The Gamecube for most of this year so far has been lacking games, and it's known. However this doesn't mean "Nintendo's dead" It's just not getting the games right now. The rest of this year will likely be Massive earnings compared to this section because We have a couple Mario based games, as well as The Legend of Zelda being released on the GameCube.
There is also some highly anticipated games coming out for non Nintendo properities such as Geist and such. But for the most part Nintendo has been the main supporter of the Gamecube and that's what has hurt the sales. It's still a decent system, but hopefully Revolution will get more third party support.
Because a 2 party game war with Microsoft and Sony as the leaders is just scary. Neither of these companies have proved they are about the consumer, rather about their monopolies (with MPAA actions from Sony and Microsoft's money lust)
Doesn't the venue's name ( 'Managing Linux in a Mixed Environment ... at Microsoft?') SCREAM Hostage sitaution? I have a feeling that 5 minutes into the presentation the MS Swat team (yes I'm sure they have one) will storm in and hall off these Linux Gurus to brainwash them into the Microsoft way of thinking.
And then the ineviatable statement from the Office of Bill Gates "Microsoft proprietary software working with open source don't make me laugh."
Good reading.. I agree with what you say, and then I agree with Lynn even more, depending on how long they take to fix it is what matters. There's multiple cases where people find security flaws and the main company puts the stuff on the back burner for monthes, until it's in the public's eyes.
Honestly, these companies need to be held accountable, and people like Lynn is the ones to do it. Otherwise security is a joke. Likely they weren't even going to patch it fast enough, and now Cisco is on a time table.
It's essential in the world of IT, that we be informed about these bugs. Granted this is probably not the best legal way to do it, but he probably felt the need to share information more then being afraid of Cisco. If he was just terrified of the corporation how would freedom of information work, especially when Microsoft says "don't talk about our bugs" and we all accept it and then everyone continues to believe that MS is the best?
Honestly I resepect the guy, but then again he made this bed, he knew what he was doing when he stood up at the podium so the shit storm that will hit him is no one's fault but his own.
is the last thing she'll be doing. Knowing the japanese mentality, I'm sure someone is already working on changing a few things to make her the first active sex bot.
But she is pretty hot, I can't deny that.
It's important to realize that this is NOT permenent, this is not the same as a catastrophy, it's just figuring out what went wrong.. it's similar to when the fuel gauge reported incorrectly. It's not a grounding like when there's an accident.. they just want to make sure there's not a major problem
100 million also gets you a couple monthes traning at "space city" their training camp... and it's a fortnight trip. You get a whole week as the ISS, which would be sweet I'm sure. Then the trip to the moon. As well as being known as the third space tourist and the first to go to the moon.
The only thing that would suck is you're likely going to spent that time with only russians, so you'll have learn their language. That and the Tang.
Wow I thought I was the only one who could pass reading comprehension.
So if we stop trading with China, then there's no reason they should stop selling pirated movies because otherwise there's no other choice.
And The country isn't involved in a majority of piracy, just a majority of commerce in China has links to piracy, something that's been constant for the last X years (large number, Video Game companies are only now starting to try to make Chinese versions because there was so much piracy there)
There's a large amount of piracy in america too, I think the world's going to realize soon that piracy is going to be like drugs, it'll remain because it's accepted as an eventuality.
easy.. No one believes people on IM = Influencial. It's like in High School. There's the popular crowd, but while they are influencial in the School (AIM) world, that has no bearing in the real world.
I have a contact list of 4100 or so, my father probably has a much smaller list.. but I'm just a programmer, my father used to be a vice president on wall street (Retired).
Bottom Line: Just because you have a lot of people on your AIM list != influence/popularity. (Being on a lot of other people's lists would at least give more data)
And who says the personal info on AIM is correct or up to date, my AIM stuff, is probably almost 10 years old now.
yes but only this time you won't have to get called names to be "popular".. or at least I won't, I hope.
Can't really tell which way this will go. For now it will start with China, but if this organization starts working on American Piracy it will get bogged down. I think there's a definate difference in China where as they say 90 percent (close to the real number) of movies and music sold are illegally gotten. But I'm sure there will be some (RIAA/MPAA) who will say they don't do enough against american pirates..
Anyone notice a problem here?
The RIAA/MPAA machine has complained about foreign groups for years, but couldn't do anything, but they'll want this group to focus just as much on American Piracy as others, an act that will nullify the good this group can do. American Piracy has enough life in it to take on a goverment agency for at least 5 years.
There's then only two options to continue the global campaign, ignore the RIAA/MPAA advice (and hear them bitch and scream), or bloat the agency to the point it's ineffectual.
It'll be interesting to see what this group does.