Equating abandoning IIS with terrorism winning is possibly the most cynical, self-serving, absolutely repulsive act I think I've witnessed in the aftermath of the attacks. It's simply mind-blowing that someone could actually write that. Unbelievable.
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I think you missed the point. The point is not that Microsoft illegally or even unethically stole those things (though a case can be made in many cases that they did), the point is that none of Microsoft's developments have ever been original. IBM has contributed (illegally and unethically at times, but as I said before, this isn't the point here) a great number of things to the scientific and technological research communities. Microsoft has contributed absolutely nothing. Zero, zilch, nada. It doesn't matter how they got it, what matters is they never came up with it, and still most likely never will.
If it were as simple as you suggest - loss of profits = court attacks and legislation - your Catch-22 would be right, but it's not. The RIAA does not need the "evidence" of lower sales to push draconian "anti-piracy" legislation through Congress or to shut down "piracy" sites through legal action. During the entire Napster ordeal, sales were up. That didn't stop them from going after Napster and succeeding. They don't need any kind of evidence. What they do need is money - money to pay lobbyists, money to pay lawyers, and money to dump into Congressional members' reelection funds.
For the love of God, stop listening to and buying their crap. It's as simple as that. Turn off MTV, turn off the radio. Their are myriads of great indie artists out there on small labels who write music because they love it, and there are thousands of people who buy that music and t-shirts and go to their concerts because they love the artists back. You don't need to financially back the RIAA's efforts to shut down the music-loving community to listen to music. Just stop giving them your money!
This goes for the movie industry as well. The Slashdot editors always complain about how evil the Disney corporation is, and then when they release a new movie gush over how "revolutionary" the animation is. Give me a fucking break.
Who modded this trash up? I've got to get back to work, so I can't address all the wrong-headed BS in here, but I will address the blatant slander of calling John Ashcroft a racist. During his tenure as Governor of Missouri, Ashcroft appointed more African-Americans to the bench than all his predecessors combined. He has consistently been on the right side of racial issues. He did not "distort" the record of Ronnie White, he opposed him on the basis of his rulings on the death penalty, a position he is just as entitled to take as anyone else. It's a sad day in America now that opposing one black man's confirmation gets you branded as a racist for life.
This doesn't matter however, because I'd rather download these files myself and burn them myself, preference, sorry.
You're contradicting yourself. In the original post, you said you wanted to send a blank cd to the FreeBSD people so they could burn it for you, now you won't let other people do it cos you're a "burn it myself" kind of guy. Either you're confused or just trolling.
Remember the Internet Worm? (I don't, I'm too young, but still).
Exactly. I'm too young too. But I'm not too young to remember Melissa, Kournikova, Code Red, et al. It's constant. It happens all the damn time. And I'm fed up with it.
Dont randomly say that IIS isnt secure, it's only as secure as the operator makes it. If you follow Microsoft's instructions, the default.ida and other indexing holes are removed as soon as installation is complete.
IIS IS NOT SECURE.
That wasn't random, though, that was my frustration at having to deal with it infecting people running IE at work who happened to hit an infected IIS server. Your server is patched. Great. Here's your medal. Meanwhile, I'm cleaning up the Microsoft mess around here.
We've got three infected workstations out of six here at work now. We were already planning on putting in six Linux workstations, but now we're going to have to go to all Linux (and Mac for the artists). This is ridiculous.
Any one of you damn "Stop bashing Microsoft, it could happen to any OS" bastards who comes on here is going to get a beating. Maybe it could, but it doesn't, and I for one am sick and tired of this crap. Goodbye, MS.
Yeah, but they never play it anyway, so what's the point of banning it? I mean, they didn't ban "Never Be Rude To An Arab" by Monty Python either, did they? Nor did they ban "I Wanna Shoot Afghans" by some crappy garage band from Nebraska. It didn't get banned because it never got played to begin with.
Not that it's a bad song, of course. I love it. But it's not "Friday I'm In Love," so don't expect to hear it from your local commercial station anytime soon.
There is something inherently wrong with a tool maker restricting what you can and cant do with your own code.
The problem is that Lutris used the Sun reference code to build the J2EE Enhydra server. It would be kind of like Mono releasing a GPL'ed.NET based on Microsoft's reference code submitted to ECMA.
Sun, on the other hand, has no problem with JBoss, which is a clean-room implementation of the J2EE spec.
I'm not sure why someone looking for a J2EE implementation would go to Enhydra. JBoss is a much better, robust, mature platform for that sort of thing than Enhydra. None of this is to say that Enhydra is worthless - it's very good at what it does, which is a much more lightweight Java web platform than DB + EJB + Servlets + the kitchen sink which is what full J2EE servers are. In fact, most projects would be better off with the lighter-weight Enhydra, especially published-content type projects.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is Lutris should have kept Enhydra the way it was, and not screwed around with J2EE. We have JBoss for that, and Enhydra filled a much different need. The whole mess could have been avoided.
Why is George W. Bush not mentioned in this article? What kind of Katz screed is this? Here are a number of ways I figured Jon could work him into future revisions:
Why can't GWB be more like Gandalf in times of crisis? Gandalf always inspired confidence in his followers and was a tremendous public speaker; Bush has none of those qualities.
Bush has - in nearly 8 months of governing - made no mention whatsoever on his stance on Tolkien's work! Does he think by just ignoring the issue, it will go away?
I'm a petty child who likes to make arrogant, baseless statements about leaders I disagree with in order to make myself seem worldly.
Ok, well the third one isn't really Tolkien-related. I guess it's more of an all-purpose disclaimer he can tack on to the bottom of everything he posts instead.
All it does is ignore all of the lousy things done by the US all over the world.
Dumbass: You completely utterly singularly missed the point. Everyone already knows the bad things, this was the other side of the story. Wake up, idiot.
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That's nice, that you know what kind of cars the previous poster has bought. Interesting how you don't need the slightest inkling of fact to slam someone else, only their disagreement with your ideology.
There is a difference between the right to privacy and the right to no unreasonable searches and seizures. If, without a warrant, the police set up a video camera in your house to tape you smoking marijuana, that's illegal, because they violated your right to privacy. If you're driving along the highway smoking a joint and a cop sees you, they can pull you over, because you don't have a right to privacy in your car. Neither of those situations has anything to do with being detained by an officer with no probable cause for doing so, no matter where you are.
This post was just like some of my essays in junior high. I had no idea what I was talking about, so I just wrote for paragraphs on things that would be interesting if true, but had no true bearing on reality whatsoever. I mean, where to start? There's not much to disagree with, it's just paragraph after paragraph of counterfactual statements.
As other posters above have noted, Clinton's stance towards the peace agreements was not "aggressive," it was just trying to put a good face on negotiations that were quickly falling apart.
but at least there's some indicator from them that you don't have to goosestep to their march exactly the way the Republicans do...
Oh really. Try being a pro-life Democrat. The late Bob Casey, former governor of Pennsylvania, spent decades in service to the Democratic party, but was never given a chance to speak at the Democratic convention because of his pro-life views. In my opinion, one of the sad realities of American politics today is that the left has become just as reactionary as the right, willing to ostracize a person who holds unorthodox views on "liberal" issues as quickly as Pat Robertson would a homosexual. There is no liberal, progressive party in this country - those who label themselves "liberal" are as close-minded as their extremist counterparts.
If you look at the article again, they didn't replace the entire corporation's servers with one pentium class machine, but just one "particularly busy" section of it. It's not hard to believe a pentium-class machine could easily do file, print, and email for 500-1000 users. I mean, I've had trouble getting the load up to 0.1 with 100 users doing that.
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Equating abandoning IIS with terrorism winning is possibly the most cynical, self-serving, absolutely repulsive act I think I've witnessed in the aftermath of the attacks. It's simply mind-blowing that someone could actually write that. Unbelievable.
I think you missed the point. The point is not that Microsoft illegally or even unethically stole those things (though a case can be made in many cases that they did), the point is that none of Microsoft's developments have ever been original. IBM has contributed (illegally and unethically at times, but as I said before, this isn't the point here) a great number of things to the scientific and technological research communities. Microsoft has contributed absolutely nothing. Zero, zilch, nada. It doesn't matter how they got it, what matters is they never came up with it, and still most likely never will.
What girl doesn't love Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards?!
If it were as simple as you suggest - loss of profits = court attacks and legislation - your Catch-22 would be right, but it's not. The RIAA does not need the "evidence" of lower sales to push draconian "anti-piracy" legislation through Congress or to shut down "piracy" sites through legal action. During the entire Napster ordeal, sales were up. That didn't stop them from going after Napster and succeeding. They don't need any kind of evidence. What they do need is money - money to pay lobbyists, money to pay lawyers, and money to dump into Congressional members' reelection funds.
For the love of God, stop listening to and buying their crap. It's as simple as that. Turn off MTV, turn off the radio. Their are myriads of great indie artists out there on small labels who write music because they love it, and there are thousands of people who buy that music and t-shirts and go to their concerts because they love the artists back. You don't need to financially back the RIAA's efforts to shut down the music-loving community to listen to music. Just stop giving them your money!
This goes for the movie industry as well. The Slashdot editors always complain about how evil the Disney corporation is, and then when they release a new movie gush over how "revolutionary" the animation is. Give me a fucking break.
Who modded this trash up? I've got to get back to work, so I can't address all the wrong-headed BS in here, but I will address the blatant slander of calling John Ashcroft a racist. During his tenure as Governor of Missouri, Ashcroft appointed more African-Americans to the bench than all his predecessors combined. He has consistently been on the right side of racial issues. He did not "distort" the record of Ronnie White, he opposed him on the basis of his rulings on the death penalty, a position he is just as entitled to take as anyone else. It's a sad day in America now that opposing one black man's confirmation gets you branded as a racist for life.
In that case, I need to find me a lawyer, because the Miller Brewing Company has deep pockets.
Sincerely, Josh Miller
You're contradicting yourself. In the original post, you said you wanted to send a blank cd to the FreeBSD people so they could burn it for you, now you won't let other people do it cos you're a "burn it myself" kind of guy. Either you're confused or just trolling.
Well, I guess all those SOAP developers have wasted their time, then.
Explains why your printer is getting hit by an internet worm.
Exactly. I'm too young too. But I'm not too young to remember Melissa, Kournikova, Code Red, et al. It's constant. It happens all the damn time. And I'm fed up with it.
IIS IS NOT SECURE.
That wasn't random, though, that was my frustration at having to deal with it infecting people running IE at work who happened to hit an infected IIS server. Your server is patched. Great. Here's your medal. Meanwhile, I'm cleaning up the Microsoft mess around here.
We've got three infected workstations out of six here at work now. We were already planning on putting in six Linux workstations, but now we're going to have to go to all Linux (and Mac for the artists). This is ridiculous.
Any one of you damn "Stop bashing Microsoft, it could happen to any OS" bastards who comes on here is going to get a beating. Maybe it could, but it doesn't, and I for one am sick and tired of this crap. Goodbye, MS.
Yeah, but they never play it anyway, so what's the point of banning it? I mean, they didn't ban "Never Be Rude To An Arab" by Monty Python either, did they? Nor did they ban "I Wanna Shoot Afghans" by some crappy garage band from Nebraska. It didn't get banned because it never got played to begin with.
Not that it's a bad song, of course. I love it. But it's not "Friday I'm In Love," so don't expect to hear it from your local commercial station anytime soon.
The problem is that Lutris used the Sun reference code to build the J2EE Enhydra server. It would be kind of like Mono releasing a GPL'ed .NET based on Microsoft's reference code submitted to ECMA.
Sun, on the other hand, has no problem with JBoss, which is a clean-room implementation of the J2EE spec.
I'm not sure why someone looking for a J2EE implementation would go to Enhydra. JBoss is a much better, robust, mature platform for that sort of thing than Enhydra. None of this is to say that Enhydra is worthless - it's very good at what it does, which is a much more lightweight Java web platform than DB + EJB + Servlets + the kitchen sink which is what full J2EE servers are. In fact, most projects would be better off with the lighter-weight Enhydra, especially published-content type projects.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is Lutris should have kept Enhydra the way it was, and not screwed around with J2EE. We have JBoss for that, and Enhydra filled a much different need. The whole mess could have been avoided.
Why is George W. Bush not mentioned in this article? What kind of Katz screed is this? Here are a number of ways I figured Jon could work him into future revisions:
Ok, well the third one isn't really Tolkien-related. I guess it's more of an all-purpose disclaimer he can tack on to the bottom of everything he posts instead.
Dumbass: You completely utterly singularly missed the point. Everyone already knows the bad things, this was the other side of the story. Wake up, idiot.
That's nice, that you know what kind of cars the previous poster has bought. Interesting how you don't need the slightest inkling of fact to slam someone else, only their disagreement with your ideology.
So do international flights to and from the US. That domestic flights don't is, sadly, the flaw in the plan.
There is a difference between the right to privacy and the right to no unreasonable searches and seizures. If, without a warrant, the police set up a video camera in your house to tape you smoking marijuana, that's illegal, because they violated your right to privacy. If you're driving along the highway smoking a joint and a cop sees you, they can pull you over, because you don't have a right to privacy in your car. Neither of those situations has anything to do with being detained by an officer with no probable cause for doing so, no matter where you are.
This post was just like some of my essays in junior high. I had no idea what I was talking about, so I just wrote for paragraphs on things that would be interesting if true, but had no true bearing on reality whatsoever. I mean, where to start? There's not much to disagree with, it's just paragraph after paragraph of counterfactual statements.
As other posters above have noted, Clinton's stance towards the peace agreements was not "aggressive," it was just trying to put a good face on negotiations that were quickly falling apart.
Oh really. Try being a pro-life Democrat. The late Bob Casey, former governor of Pennsylvania, spent decades in service to the Democratic party, but was never given a chance to speak at the Democratic convention because of his pro-life views. In my opinion, one of the sad realities of American politics today is that the left has become just as reactionary as the right, willing to ostracize a person who holds unorthodox views on "liberal" issues as quickly as Pat Robertson would a homosexual. There is no liberal, progressive party in this country - those who label themselves "liberal" are as close-minded as their extremist counterparts.
Quick tax rebate, Microsoft style: Take your old Windows 95 discs, back them up onto CD-Rs, and donate them. Claim $199 each.
Yes, but neither lands in residential areas quite as frequently.
Booty call again?
If you look at the article again, they didn't replace the entire corporation's servers with one pentium class machine, but just one "particularly busy" section of it. It's not hard to believe a pentium-class machine could easily do file, print, and email for 500-1000 users. I mean, I've had trouble getting the load up to 0.1 with 100 users doing that.