The Best Buy crowd will get pushed to Vista, it's true. But it hasn't been a week since I ordered a new desktop for myself from Dell, and I bought it with XP Pro installed. (And XP Home was an option.)
It's hardly impossible to buy a home PC with XP on it these days.
I didn't expect that argument to work, but I'm glad it did.
Your previous reply missed the mark by such a wide berth I thought you were too fucking stupid to recognize your own stupidity. After all, you were claiming that if any admin flaws exist, then it doesn't matter if the cryptography is also broken, which is one of the most ignorant and fuckwitted claims I've ever read.
I mean honestly, it was such a dumb fucking claim that I really didn't think you'd recognize how utterly inferior and useless you are.
Thank you for recognizing this and quitting. We all appreciate it.
Most of the multiple admin/password schemes I've seen were distinctly *worse* than single password schemes.
I say that because they were usually stored in a database or spreadsheet that wasn't well-protected, and that offered them up cleartext with little to no oversight.
It's possible to do it better, but I've yet to see anybody actually do so.
If you truly agree with MSFT, then you should quit working in computers right now, for everybody's sake.
Many corporate computers have local admin accounts that are likely to share a user/password combo across large numbers of machines. A keylogger might not get you these credentials, but the ability to crack these credentials could get you admin access to a huge number of other computers.
It is people like you who make sure that security consultants will never want for work.
Not to mention, lots of parents did this for years.
When I was young, I was allowed to play with my Atari for no more than 30 minutes a day. They used an egg timer to set the clock.
It's fucking absurd to condemn somebody's overall parenting skills because they use an integrated timer to enforce their rules instead of manually watching the clock or setting an egg timer. I can only assume that those doing so either don't have children, or are fucking insane.
Either way, they're idiots. This is a good feature. I welcome it.
If you're going to be a dick, do it while logged in you ball-free piece of shit.
I'm just being more forthright than you. You're claiming that millions of people buy something out of self-delusion. That is such an absurdly dickish position that the only proper response is to suggest that perhaps you should go rape yourself with a jagged glass dildo.
Sincerely hoping you get AIDS from the hooker you will eventually hire to take your virginity, you awful, fat, arrogant loser.
I'm open to you dying in a fire, you arrogant shit.
Why the fuck would I do research for some awful piece of shit who feels free to claim that Apple succeeds primarily because of the cognitive dissonance of users?
You are willing to spew elaborate, idiotic theories, and yet you want scientific proof that Expose is easier than Flip3d?
Go fuck yourself you awful, hypocritical piece of shit. The world will be more honest when you're dead.
This pretty much rules OS X out without even getting into a discussion of the pros and cons, it just can't participate at a price that's interesting.
At a price that's interesting to you.
For me, it'd be a cost saver. If I had an acceptable way to host OS X Server, I could install that and reduce the maintenance and problems associated with running my own jabber and imap servers. I might be able to ditch my kerberos and ldap servers as well.
This would be such a fantastic win that a few thousand dollars in licensing fees wouldn't even make me bat an eye. I'd order it today, if it was available as a supported product.
If you actually give random people a choice (and I have done this), most users don't see a big advantage of Macs over other systems.
I'd argue that the useful advantages are not obvious until you've lived with both systems for a significant amount of time, thus making your alleged trials utterly useless.
Where you are wrong is in generalizing from your preferences and experience to others.
I very carefully avoided doing this, and criticized you for doing so. You are now claiming that I made arguments which I did not. This would be comic if it weren't for the fact that you are probably so stupid that you didn't even realize you did it.
Go lie elsewhere, you awful, arrogant, serial liar.
I've read a lot of really stupid shit on this site over the years, but it's not every day that you see somebody pretending that it is reasonable to state that millions of Apple users are all wrong about whether or not their computers help them increase productivity, enjoyment, etc.
I mean... according to you, every single one of us is wrong. We're all just cognitively dissonant because we spent some money. You claim that your assessment is not only correct for you, but for each and every one of us as well.
That is the dumbest, most arrogant, most idiotic fucking thing I have ever read. If I used my mac and thought "you know what.. this kinda blows", I'd install XP and call it a day. (In fact, I know somebody whose Mac Mini ran XP for a long time, for just that reason.)
Apple doesn't have users because of any of the psychological detritus you just spewed.
It has users because, for many tasks, it sucks less than the other currently available options.
No one would think of leaving $3000-$4000 in cash just laying around in the open.
Sure they do. Poker players (like myself) routinely leave chips on the table when off for food, bathroom or a cigarette. In middle limit games this is often $1-5k. In high limit games, it could easily beat $20k.
People are accustomed to taking small risks with valuable property, and almost never having a negative consequence. As such, we decide to leave our laptops unattended instead of hauling them around or locking them to a desk. We decide to leave thousands of dollars in cash on the table because we want to eat some steak.
"$15k to make people's lives miserable because they committed some minor IP violations? sweet deal!"
I would've expected people to want more money, but I guess it makes sense. There's always somebody who is sufficiently selfish to fuck everybody else over for a comically small sum of money.
'We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car, anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful.' In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000....."
That is a really fucking weak-sauce redefinition of rich and powerful. $15k? Christ. I wouldn't wipe my ass with $15k.
So basically, you're justifying a system that abuses innocent people every day because it makes it slightly more convenient for a third party who wants to turn a profit.
It doesn't help that Bush has spent half a trillion dollars (so far) to blow up Iraq. In the end, that'll probably cost closer to a full trillion dollars.
You think people should get TASERED because of "verbal abuse".
That would possibly be the largest, stupidest and easiest to abuse expansion of government power in history if that was actually legal (instead of just being sadly common.)
Some idiots always think that big government is the answer to anything. Fuck you for that, you fascist idiot.
2) You are such a pathetic fucking liar that you pretend 'absurdist' isn't a word. You claim nobody provided links when multiple people did. You claim I didn't reference an obvious example when I did.
You're nothing but a liar. An awful, pathetic liar.
There's no point in discussing anything with you because you are such an enormous fucking uncontrollable liar that you lie about whether or not words exist.
The world will be a measurably better place when you die, you awful, dishonest, fascist loser.
I know this is a lot to ask of a hard-core, big-government, right-wing fascist, but PLEASE LEARN TO READ.
In my example the suspect was already restrained when he was tasered. He was incapable of attacking/resisting/etc, because he was already restrained.
You either know this and are just trolling, or you know it but don't care because you get your rocks off watching the police brutalize a restrained man.
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The Best Buy crowd will get pushed to Vista, it's true. But it hasn't been a week since I ordered a new desktop for myself from Dell, and I bought it with XP Pro installed. (And XP Home was an option.)
It's hardly impossible to buy a home PC with XP on it these days.
That's not surprising, given the things that have been in your mouth.
I didn't expect that argument to work, but I'm glad it did.
Your previous reply missed the mark by such a wide berth I thought you were too fucking stupid to recognize your own stupidity. After all, you were claiming that if any admin flaws exist, then it doesn't matter if the cryptography is also broken, which is one of the most ignorant and fuckwitted claims I've ever read.
I mean honestly, it was such a dumb fucking claim that I really didn't think you'd recognize how utterly inferior and useless you are.
Thank you for recognizing this and quitting. We all appreciate it.
You don't get it.
If you work in computers, quit. You're bad for society.
Most of the multiple admin/password schemes I've seen were distinctly *worse* than single password schemes.
I say that because they were usually stored in a database or spreadsheet that wasn't well-protected, and that offered them up cleartext with little to no oversight.
It's possible to do it better, but I've yet to see anybody actually do so.
If you truly agree with MSFT, then you should quit working in computers right now, for everybody's sake.
Many corporate computers have local admin accounts that are likely to share a user/password combo across large numbers of machines. A keylogger might not get you these credentials, but the ability to crack these credentials could get you admin access to a huge number of other computers.
It is people like you who make sure that security consultants will never want for work.
I'm just hoping that one of these articles will announce the end of the perpetual September.
And not just for Usenet. For the whole thing.
Not to mention, lots of parents did this for years.
When I was young, I was allowed to play with my Atari for no more than 30 minutes a day. They used an egg timer to set the clock.
It's fucking absurd to condemn somebody's overall parenting skills because they use an integrated timer to enforce their rules instead of manually watching the clock or setting an egg timer. I can only assume that those doing so either don't have children, or are fucking insane.
Either way, they're idiots. This is a good feature. I welcome it.
If you're going to be a dick, do it while logged in you ball-free piece of shit.
I'm just being more forthright than you. You're claiming that millions of people buy something out of self-delusion. That is such an absurdly dickish position that the only proper response is to suggest that perhaps you should go rape yourself with a jagged glass dildo.
Sincerely hoping you get AIDS from the hooker you will eventually hire to take your virginity, you awful, fat, arrogant loser.
I'm open to you dying in a fire, you arrogant shit.
Why the fuck would I do research for some awful piece of shit who feels free to claim that Apple succeeds primarily because of the cognitive dissonance of users?
You are willing to spew elaborate, idiotic theories, and yet you want scientific proof that Expose is easier than Flip3d?
Go fuck yourself you awful, hypocritical piece of shit. The world will be more honest when you're dead.
This pretty much rules OS X out without even getting into a discussion of the pros and cons, it just can't participate at a price that's interesting.
At a price that's interesting to you.
For me, it'd be a cost saver. If I had an acceptable way to host OS X Server, I could install that and reduce the maintenance and problems associated with running my own jabber and imap servers. I might be able to ditch my kerberos and ldap servers as well.
This would be such a fantastic win that a few thousand dollars in licensing fees wouldn't even make me bat an eye. I'd order it today, if it was available as a supported product.
If you actually give random people a choice (and I have done this), most users don't see a big advantage of Macs over other systems.
I'd argue that the useful advantages are not obvious until you've lived with both systems for a significant amount of time, thus making your alleged trials utterly useless.
Where you are wrong is in generalizing from your preferences and experience to others.
I very carefully avoided doing this, and criticized you for doing so. You are now claiming that I made arguments which I did not. This would be comic if it weren't for the fact that you are probably so stupid that you didn't even realize you did it.
Go lie elsewhere, you awful, arrogant, serial liar.
I've read a lot of really stupid shit on this site over the years, but it's not every day that you see somebody pretending that it is reasonable to state that millions of Apple users are all wrong about whether or not their computers help them increase productivity, enjoyment, etc.
I mean... according to you, every single one of us is wrong. We're all just cognitively dissonant because we spent some money. You claim that your assessment is not only correct for you, but for each and every one of us as well.
That is the dumbest, most arrogant, most idiotic fucking thing I have ever read. If I used my mac and thought "you know what.. this kinda blows", I'd install XP and call it a day. (In fact, I know somebody whose Mac Mini ran XP for a long time, for just that reason.)
Apple doesn't have users because of any of the psychological detritus you just spewed.
It has users because, for many tasks, it sucks less than the other currently available options.
People are accustomed to taking small risks with valuable property, and almost never having a negative consequence. As such, we decide to leave our laptops unattended instead of hauling them around or locking them to a desk. We decide to leave thousands of dollars in cash on the table because we want to eat some steak.
It's just human nature.
$400/year cell phone bill? Sounds like a great deal!
"$15k to make people's lives miserable because they committed some minor IP violations? sweet deal!"
I would've expected people to want more money, but I guess it makes sense. There's always somebody who is sufficiently selfish to fuck everybody else over for a comically small sum of money.
'We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car, anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful.' In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000....."
That is a really fucking weak-sauce redefinition of rich and powerful. $15k? Christ. I wouldn't wipe my ass with $15k.
since when are iPods banned?
Also, many security stations make you remove your belt. (I've taken to preemptively putting mine in my laptop bag)
The average household's needs don't change that much. Can you honestly say they fill even a 160 GB HDD?
Lots of average households fill more than that with nothing more than an HD DVR, without even getting into movies, home videos, photos or music.
So basically, you're justifying a system that abuses innocent people every day because it makes it slightly more convenient for a third party who wants to turn a profit.
Fucking prick.
It doesn't help that Bush has spent half a trillion dollars (so far) to blow up Iraq. In the end, that'll probably cost closer to a full trillion dollars.
You lose at life, you fascist fuck.
You think people should get TASERED because of "verbal abuse".
That would possibly be the largest, stupidest and easiest to abuse expansion of government power in history if that was actually legal (instead of just being sadly common.)
Some idiots always think that big government is the answer to anything. Fuck you for that, you fascist idiot.
The only thing you win is a dim and hopeless future in which the state is all-powerful.
The Nazis won too. For a while. I bet you would have got along great with them, you power-loving, abuse-loving little maggot.
1) yes it is, dumbass.
2) You are such a pathetic fucking liar that you pretend 'absurdist' isn't a word. You claim nobody provided links when multiple people did. You claim I didn't reference an obvious example when I did.
You're nothing but a liar. An awful, pathetic liar.
There's no point in discussing anything with you because you are such an enormous fucking uncontrollable liar that you lie about whether or not words exist.
The world will be a measurably better place when you die, you awful, dishonest, fascist loser.
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I know this is a lot to ask of a hard-core, big-government, right-wing fascist, but PLEASE LEARN TO READ.
In my example the suspect was already restrained when he was tasered. He was incapable of attacking/resisting/etc, because he was already restrained.
You either know this and are just trolling, or you know it but don't care because you get your rocks off watching the police brutalize a restrained man.
Either way, fuck off and die in a grease fire.