How the fsck is this insightful?! Someone must not been following the news about how Microsoft stacked all the committees and had basic outright fraud in pushing the national votes through.
You must not have been following the news. How is OOXML an open standard, when it is full of "implement this feature just like Excel 97" when the Excel 97 documentation is missing/unavailable?
It's not what these guys think a beta means. It's what Microsoft has trained them to believe. Look at all the "betas" Microsoft has released, as OSes, betas that they even asked people to pay (and some morons actually paid). Betas where complete code rewrites were the norm (see win2k) between beta releases or "release candidates".
Bah. The fact that users let them do it, and the fact that IT press let them do it. Double Bah.
Yes you would. That is why if IE8 takes up *more* resources than the underlying OS, it would be "fatter than XP".
Though, I must say - what's that nonsense about threads and multicores? If your code is inefficient, then with threads and multicores, it just means you are inefficient faster. You can have hundreds of threads that are superefficient, like say, BeOS.
I hate to say it, but do you understand the concept of a firewall? You know, a hardened box running the minimum software necessary to inspect and pass/stop traffic?
Typically, it does not include a gui for a pretty interface.
When you have the head of the FDA stopping one of his senior scientists from doing further BSE testing on a potentially infected sample of meat, yeah, I have lost faith in the system.
No, you have to do a risk analysis. If it's something like a pig with a parasite, and you eat it, and now you have the parasite, the risk of death is small, and this is curable. I wouldn't be worried about it. I can take deworming (or de-parasiting) drugs at the end of the day.
However, in BSE, if there was indeed some cases of it, then we need to do more, because this causes death. Actually, worse than death, because it blows your mind away and lets your body slowly rot away without a functioning brain. And there's no cure or treatment. So you need to be more worried about it. It may be that there's a need to do a baseline (ie, test every cow) and then move on from there. Other countries do it. Why not us?
Now, for those who say there's no need to do it - remember that the deers are already showing symptoms of BSE. It is out there.
Is it still reasonable to assume that the beef is safe to eat? I don't think so.
So much for your "it's so fucking secured ooooooo" nonsense.
And let's not talk about things like bbproxy and other things that opens your inside network completely to attacks. Yes, finally RIM recommends putting your BES inside a DMZ, but that was only after a proof of concept was shown, and how many companies deploy it that way?
And what about things like that pdf vulnerability?
I hate people who read a couple of websites and all of a sudden is a fucking security expert. Moron.
And you know nothing about encryption. Quit following up all the posts criticizing Crackberry with that link about NATO AUDITING CRACKBERRY AND FOUND NO DINGLE BERRIES OK?
And just in case you think certifications mean a damned thing - Windows is also certified under the rainbow books. So fucking what? Still hacked and broken in all the time.
That is a very good question. Perhaps we're on the cusp of it showing up? Perhaps there wasn't as many cows that were infected as we thought there was? Perhaps more people (last research I saw was 5%) are immune or resistant to it than we thought?
Whatever the case may be - are you saying we shouldn't care about the disease?
What I don't understand, however, is why the incubation time vs. slaughtering age argument doesn't call into question the USDA's entire testing regime. What is the point of testing 1% of cows with a test that isn't going to work in most cases anyway?
See also: Airport security theater
Or maybe they might catch one, and that gives more data about where the disease is and how it spreads. Or do you suggest doing nothing ?
Nobody is suggesting doing nothing. But you need to keep yourself informed.
This government is doing its best to keep a lid on things. What happens then is that "bad things" are hidden, instead of being fixed.
Other threads have mentioned, because of the long incubation periods, cows are now slaughtered earlier, to stop symptoms from showing up.
Then there is the case of the head of FDA *STOPPING* one of his department heads from sending a tissue sample to UK for a more sensitive test. *WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT?*
Why hasn't more research been done on BSE in deer? Why is BSE in deer spreading?!
And to answer your question - if the test doesn't fucking work, find a different test, damnit.
You smoke something really really good. There are so many issues with blackberry security that it is scary. To start - everything goes through their "cloud". They own your keys. What makes you think that there's no backdoor in there? If someone as big as IBM/Lotus Notes will put a backdoor in, can a small company like RIM, which actively targets the govt market, not put something in?
Sure. You're right. All the scientists who actually study this is wrong. All those reports about deer being infected are wrong.
For someone who claims that we have the safest bovine industry is someone who is ignorant of how the Brits run their bovine industry _after_ their bovine industry was devastated by MCD, and they had to wipe out every single cow. Now, every cow is tracked from birth. And yet, *you* believe our bovine industry is safer. Bah, humbug.
What I don't understand, however, is why the incubation time vs. slaughtering age argument doesn't call into question the USDA's entire testing regime. What is the point of testing 1% of cows with a test that isn't going to work in most cases anyway?
In this case, the moral of the story is that this wouldn't have happened with Exchange or IIS, because there is no middle-man that could mess with their code.
Do you realize that Microsoft licenses code from 3rd parties?
Do you realize that Microsoft has BSD/non-GPL opensource code in their software (for example the ASN.1 code - which is why *THEIR* stuff were vulnerable too from that ASN.1 vulnerability a few years back)
Do you realize that Microsoft sells/gives you GPLed code?! So, all their talk about viral stuff is bullshit. Go look up "Windows Services for UNIX" and see that it's a free download, and also comes builtin with Server.
The issue is that there are two kinds of "ENTERPRISE SUPPORT".
One is the one they sell to ordinary people, and where they don't really give a shit to what you need. Someone with RHELL support recently called in a NFS bug, and RHELL people agreed it's a bug. Refused to fix it. Told him to wait for upstream to get the fix.
The second kind of ENTERPRISE SUPPORT is the kind they sell to extremely large companies, the ones where they are afraid that the PHBs will one day wake up saying - wait a minute, you guys fix all our issues[1], why are we paying RHELL shit loads of support money? It's not the money leaving that's the problem, it's the publicity from it.
[1] And if this doesn't sound like you, that just means you're a PFY no matter what you think. These companies always have bofhs in high levels, usually with names like "FELLOW" or some such, making more money than some VPs. The F100 company I referred to upthread has a few of these, and treat them very very well.
** Not saying other large vendors don't do the same shit - they do. RHELL just does it a lot more, probably because they're trying to grow the company.
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How the fsck is this insightful?! Someone must not been following the news about how Microsoft stacked all the committees and had basic outright fraud in pushing the national votes through.
You must not have been following the news. How is OOXML an open standard, when it is full of "implement this feature just like Excel 97" when the Excel 97 documentation is missing/unavailable?
I'm sorry, it didn't crash any of my computers. I use:
OSX
OpenBSD
See, some operating systems understand the idea of sane limits versus unlimited access.
I should mention that I have 30+ tabs open, if not more... and for about 2 weeks now, without restarting firefox :) And shitloads of extensions.
It's not what these guys think a beta means. It's what Microsoft has trained them to believe. Look at all the "betas" Microsoft has released, as OSes, betas that they even asked people to pay (and some morons actually paid). Betas where complete code rewrites were the norm (see win2k) between beta releases or "release candidates".
Bah. The fact that users let them do it, and the fact that IT press let them do it. Double Bah.
Yes you would. That is why if IE8 takes up *more* resources than the underlying OS, it would be "fatter than XP".
Though, I must say - what's that nonsense about threads and multicores? If your code is inefficient, then with threads and multicores, it just means you are inefficient faster. You can have hundreds of threads that are superefficient, like say, BeOS.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
250 firefox-bi 21.1% 87:01:17 37 824 6082 472M 24M 525M 1433M
Windows 95? He's still on DOS 3.3, you insensitive clod!
I hate to say it, but do you understand the concept of a firewall? You know, a hardened box running the minimum software necessary to inspect and pass/stop traffic?
Typically, it does not include a gui for a pretty interface.
Just saying.
Atom kills VIA in Price/Performance/Power ratio across the board.
Once Intel fixes the problem of their north bridge requiring 6x the power Atom does then via is in really big trouble
?? Didn't someone just do a watt/performance comparison of the atom _platform_ against an amd64, and it lost in both wattage and performance?!
I doubt if Intel would improve their northbridge much as they don't want this to be a viable platform against their celerons.
When you have the head of the FDA stopping one of his senior scientists from doing further BSE testing on a potentially infected sample of meat, yeah, I have lost faith in the system.
No, you have to do a risk analysis. If it's something like a pig with a parasite, and you eat it, and now you have the parasite, the risk of death is small, and this is curable. I wouldn't be worried about it. I can take deworming (or de-parasiting) drugs at the end of the day.
However, in BSE, if there was indeed some cases of it, then we need to do more, because this causes death. Actually, worse than death, because it blows your mind away and lets your body slowly rot away without a functioning brain. And there's no cure or treatment. So you need to be more worried about it. It may be that there's a need to do a baseline (ie, test every cow) and then move on from there. Other countries do it. Why not us?
Now, for those who say there's no need to do it - remember that the deers are already showing symptoms of BSE. It is out there.
Is it still reasonable to assume that the beef is safe to eat? I don't think so.
Hey Fucking Anonymous Coward, here's a way to grab the information off an encrypted blackberry.
http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-blackberry-discussion/49434-blackberry-forensic-research.html
So much for your "it's so fucking secured ooooooo" nonsense.
And let's not talk about things like bbproxy and other things that opens your inside network completely to attacks. Yes, finally RIM recommends putting your BES inside a DMZ, but that was only after a proof of concept was shown, and how many companies deploy it that way?
And what about things like that pdf vulnerability?
I hate people who read a couple of websites and all of a sudden is a fucking security expert. Moron.
And you know nothing about encryption. Quit following up all the posts criticizing Crackberry with that link about NATO AUDITING CRACKBERRY AND FOUND NO DINGLE BERRIES OK?
And just in case you think certifications mean a damned thing - Windows is also certified under the rainbow books. So fucking what? Still hacked and broken in all the time.
That is a very good question. Perhaps we're on the cusp of it showing up? Perhaps there wasn't as many cows that were infected as we thought there was? Perhaps more people (last research I saw was 5%) are immune or resistant to it than we thought?
Whatever the case may be - are you saying we shouldn't care about the disease?
What I don't understand, however, is why the incubation time vs. slaughtering age argument doesn't call into question the USDA's entire testing regime. What is the point of testing 1% of cows with a test that isn't going to work in most cases anyway?
See also: Airport security theater
Or maybe they might catch one, and that gives more data about where the disease is and how it spreads.
Or do you suggest doing nothing ?
Nobody is suggesting doing nothing. But you need to keep yourself informed.
This government is doing its best to keep a lid on things. What happens then is that "bad things" are hidden, instead of being fixed.
Other threads have mentioned, because of the long incubation periods, cows are now slaughtered earlier, to stop symptoms from showing up.
Then there is the case of the head of FDA *STOPPING* one of his department heads from sending a tissue sample to UK for a more sensitive test. *WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT?*
Why hasn't more research been done on BSE in deer? Why is BSE in deer spreading?!
And to answer your question - if the test doesn't fucking work, find a different test, damnit.
You smoke something really really good. There are so many issues with blackberry security that it is scary. To start - everything goes through their "cloud". They own your keys. What makes you think that there's no backdoor in there? If someone as big as IBM/Lotus Notes will put a backdoor in, can a small company like RIM, which actively targets the govt market, not put something in?
What you are missing is this - if this testing is useless, why is 1% of all cows slaughtered tested using this test?
Sure. You're right. All the scientists who actually study this is wrong. All those reports about deer being infected are wrong.
For someone who claims that we have the safest bovine industry is someone who is ignorant of how the Brits run their bovine industry _after_ their bovine industry was devastated by MCD, and they had to wipe out every single cow. Now, every cow is tracked from birth. And yet, *you* believe our bovine industry is safer. Bah, humbug.
See also: Airport security theater
10 or more years of incubation
And on one of those cases, the FDA head refused to allow one of the scientists to send the sample to UK for further testing.
So I do believe there's a cover up.
And with deer all getting infected (witness that governor eating venison and going "yum yum, our deer is safe" - this is going to be pretty bad).
So who's the idiot now?
Do you realize that Microsoft licenses code from 3rd parties?
Do you realize that Microsoft has BSD/non-GPL opensource code in their software (for example the ASN.1 code - which is why *THEIR* stuff were vulnerable too from that ASN.1 vulnerability a few years back)
Do you realize that Microsoft sells/gives you GPLed code?! So, all their talk about viral stuff is bullshit. Go look up "Windows Services for UNIX" and see that it's a free download, and also comes builtin with Server.
See also: http://www.unix.com/whats-your-mind/33991-windows-korn-shell.html
The issue is that there are two kinds of "ENTERPRISE SUPPORT".
One is the one they sell to ordinary people, and where they don't really give a shit to what you need. Someone with RHELL support recently called in a NFS bug, and RHELL people agreed it's a bug. Refused to fix it. Told him to wait for upstream to get the fix.
The second kind of ENTERPRISE SUPPORT is the kind they sell to extremely large companies, the ones where they are afraid that the PHBs will one day wake up saying - wait a minute, you guys fix all our issues[1], why are we paying RHELL shit loads of support money? It's not the money leaving that's the problem, it's the publicity from it.
[1] And if this doesn't sound like you, that just means you're a PFY no matter what you think. These companies always have bofhs in high levels, usually with names like "FELLOW" or some such, making more money than some VPs. The F100 company I referred to upthread has a few of these, and treat them very very well.
** Not saying other large vendors don't do the same shit - they do. RHELL just does it a lot more, probably because they're trying to grow the company.