Well how about if they erased the Prototype for a GIS / Outside Plant Database I'm designing? That could well be 100's of thousands of dollars gone with a press of a button. Of course I would be an idiot if I didn't backup every week or so, but I would still lose quite a bit of work.
Funny you mention that, I had a friend that used to do computer tech. work for a very large multinational bank. He told me that someone there had found a huge (500+) amount of WinNT 4.0 CD's AND Manuals/Shrinkwraped licenses and got most of them & stuck them in his trunk. He was giving them away.* I didn't believe him until he handed me 5 of them, and he had 5 or 6 of them himself. I was thinking target practice, but ended up giving most of them away.
"Methinks all the young'uns who got out of high school very recently (say 1990 or later) have no idea of the things MS has done in the past. So they seem relatively clean."
Wow, I hope you are wrong, I'm 23, i.e. graduated 1996, I figured thier was a larger portion of people closer in to my age on/. than say closer to 45-50.
No you moron, it's called breaking & entering. In the following scenerio you would try to reason with your neighbor, if that fails, you call the police. You DO have the serial #s from your sterio right? Of course the bad part to this is the cops will probably sieze the sterio for evidence, and you will have to wait for your homeowners insurance to kick in to get another one. Good luck getting ANYTHING back from the cops.
It's not that hard, I haven't bought a RIAA cd in TWO years, and if I did, it came from a used record store, so they don't see a percentage of the sale. It's a little harder with the MPAA, but it's also possible (you just can't rent many movies)
I think it's time for an open source "revenge" type security system. They hack your system, and the system they are using takes MUCH damage. I don't know how feasible this would be, but if every time the stuck a hand out, they drew back a nub, they would probably change thier tune. Or but more laws...
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Nice to know I am not the only one that does this..
Jaysyn
That would mean it was already out....try..
end 2001/early 2002
if the publishers don't sue themselves silly in the meantime....
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If they were using Hemp, they could make 7 cases for every one that they are making now....
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...and some smartass would make a Slashdot.com that sold M$ products.
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Well, Alpha Centauri had production routing & queues, so more than likley so will CivIII.
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Heh...I think my company is doing some drafting for that job....
Jaysyn
I'm thinking staples or epoxy, duct tape just wouldn't be painful enought for the analogy...
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I've heard that Qwest services was pretty horrible to start with.
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Have been honestly considering it....
Jaysyn
Welcome to the Good Ol' Boy club (tm). Bush may not have vested intrest in Big Companies, but he still has plenty of friends there.
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Damn...Must be some Micro$oft Employees with Moderator points on here today....
Jaysyn
Well how about if they erased the Prototype for a GIS / Outside Plant Database I'm designing? That could well be 100's of thousands of dollars gone with a press of a button. Of course I would be an idiot if I didn't backup every week or so, but I would still lose quite a bit of work.
Jaysyn
Haven't you posted almost the exact same thing on another discussion?
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You've got a great point...
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Buy yourself a no OS computer right here.
www.aberdeeninc.com
Jaysyn
Funny you mention that, I had a friend that used to do computer tech. work for a very large multinational bank. He told me that someone there had found a huge (500+) amount of WinNT 4.0 CD's AND Manuals/Shrinkwraped licenses and got most of them & stuck them in his trunk. He was giving them away.* I didn't believe him until he handed me 5 of them, and he had 5 or 6 of them himself. I was thinking target practice, but ended up giving most of them away.
*this probably wasn't a good thing
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Ditto. If you're not stupid, like my brother, it's hard to _get_ busted for casual consupmtion.
Jaysyn
"Methinks all the young'uns who got out of high school very recently (say 1990 or later) have no idea of the things MS has done in the past. So they seem relatively clean."
/. than say closer to 45-50.
Wow, I hope you are wrong, I'm 23, i.e. graduated 1996, I figured thier was a larger portion of people closer in to my age on
Jaysyn
That's not the point, it will make people aware that M$ products CAN hurt you, if they still want (or have) to use it, they were at least warned...
Jaysyn
No you moron, it's called breaking & entering. In the following scenerio you would try to reason with your neighbor, if that fails, you call the police. You DO have the serial #s from your sterio right? Of course the bad part to this is the cops will probably sieze the sterio for evidence, and you will have to wait for your homeowners insurance to kick in to get another one. Good luck getting ANYTHING back from the cops.
Jaysyn
M$ should have to put the EULA on the package, just like cigarette makers have to put the warning on the package.
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It's not that hard, I haven't bought a RIAA cd in TWO years, and if I did, it came from a used record store, so they don't see a percentage of the sale. It's a little harder with the MPAA, but it's also possible (you just can't rent many movies)
Jaysyn
They would have a hell of a time deleting my MP3's of of the 20 or so CD-Roms I keep them on....
Jaysyn
I think it's time for an open source "revenge" type security system. They hack your system, and the system they are using takes MUCH damage. I don't know how feasible this would be, but if every time the stuck a hand out, they drew back a nub, they would probably change thier tune. Or but more laws...
Jaysyn
Shouldn't it be LinAMP?
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