Since this lawsuit was like 50% legit 50% bullshit, I would definitely find it amusing if Microsoft now jacked up the price of all MS product licensing in all of Europe by like 25% to pay for the fine. Then the EU would just be shooting itself in the foot.
Sadly the amount of money the EU is p*ssing away/conjuring into existance at the moment would bankrupt Microsoft, Apple, IBM and Google combined.
**Sigh**
Hey, that made me think of something...maybe Microsoft should pay in their worthless ass currency, the Euro. It's funny until you realize, I think the fine is in Euros rofl. Perhaps this is a conspiracy to drive up the cost of the Euro. MS holds primarily USD so if they had to convert a bunch to Euros, it would drive the price up. Yeah, the lawsuit started before the Euro was in trouble but still, I'm sure the recent problems didn't help the case be operated any less crookedly.
'Panguite’s primordial nature means that it was actually around before the Earth and other planets formed
How could they possibly know that? Do we know the composition of every mineral on every planet and in every asteroid in the entire solar system? They could have broken off of another planet due to a meteorite strike 200 years ago and we'd have no idea.
Also, I'm halfway through season 2 of the X-files on netflix and they've already discovered three previously unknown elements lol. Unfortunately, none of them were so blatantly named after Linux as the one in this story.
If I was deaf, I'd find the quality of television CC to be unacceptable (constant transmission glitches and horrible delays). So then you're left with DVDs with CC and that's it. Who wants to constantly buy DVDs? That's sort of why Netflix was invented. They could easily corner the market on convenient media for the deaf and hearing impaired as well as select English Second Language people who find reading easier than realtime audio conversion. I know my crappy Spanish can only process text in realtime, not audio so it probably goes both ways. There's a lot of money to be made and closed captioning costs, when they have the volume to hire someone to do it in-house, would be way less than 1% of what they pay for most licensing for most movies. It's just stupid but clearly the entire company has proven it has ODD (oppositional defiance disorder) when it comes to their customers. They're dedicated to ruining their own image in any way possible even if it costs them potential income.
The statement "America and others start the world's first undeclared cyber-wars, dangerous precedents are being set that this type of warfare is without consequences." is absurd. Iran can't do anything about it because they're Iran, not because it's a cyber attack. They already have made threats to other countries, they have been building weapons, so there's not much left to do. They can't outright attack us in the "real world" because they don't have an army capable of it and we'd fuck them up. Just because we attacked them digitally doesn't really mean anything special.
If we instead randomly dropped a missile on one of their government buildings, they could do just as much nothing about it as if it were a digital attack so that's not the determining factor. Their options in both cases are to go "rawr rawr rawr" about it (paraphrased) or attack America and get their country leveled a day later.
Since her crash, I believe she's been on Stargate, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Dr Who, and at least 5 other shows. So she could be just about anywhere by now lol.
"That was not our intention. We want people to use whatever's easier for them.'' -- BULLSHIT! They want to control and read as many people's e-mails as possible so they can show them relevant ads and make money. More people, more money, the end. What exactly do they think such an unbelievable lie will accomplish? Ironic, considering Mark Z is all about openness.
I've never used Yammer but that price seems awfully high considering how simplistic it sounds. I think they could have recoded a similar but more fitting product for their company for a lot less money. It sounds like an IM program with a bit of security restrictions. I think there's a dozen or so of those on sourceforge that were made for significantly less than $1.2bil.
I dunno about that. When I think Peru, I think advanced engineering in architecture and mechanics:-P And flutes. It's probably primarily used for flute design actually lol.
"It's built to be safe" - IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT! It's built to fly under the radar and is designed for toddler-caliber computer users. There's absolutely nothing safe or secure about its design whatsoever. Windows is designed to be secure because it has to. It fails but still. I don't think having a crappy market share counts as "design" although the prices are designed to cause that. So, cue the false advertising lawsuits.
Actually, the temperature will drop significantly, as California will have broken off in a major earthquake and either sunk into the sea or become its own island. That would result in some much cooler temperatures than they're used to.
Why the hell won't Obama make an executive order making it illegal to invest speculatively (so basically at all) in gasoline and oil? That would solve half the problem right there. It's a pretty damn direct path from my pocket book at the gas station to some asshole investor's portfolio balance when they buy up a bunch of gas just because they think it will go up and that makes it go up even more. It's a non-congress, simple executive order caliber thing and it really does sound like something that would be inline with his politics. Hopefully he reads slashdot lol.
Does this count as a bug? They send out customer surveys that actually are from them but look extremely fake and point to a domain other than their own, which violates every single internet standard and their own safety and security guidelines.
Oh and every time I go to their site, it attempts to launch the default media player plugin for whatever browser I'm using which gets blocked as a security threat by default in default configurations of IE8 and 9 and I think Firefox as well.
Publicly deflecting such blame gets a lot harder...from who, Iran? Who would be in support of Iran developing nukes and get all up in a thing about this? Al Qaeda? Ohhh nooo, we used "dirty" tactics using sneaky viruses to shut them down. You know what else is dirty? Nukes! Especially crazy psychotic dumbasses building them like North Korea and Iran.
I think the FBI better confiscate all those remaining AOL CDs, as the software may be used for something illegal...you can cut them into razor sharp throwing stars and assault someone with a deadly weapon lol.
Btw, the RIAA is on to me! I have these things called ears that can allow me to replicate a song by memorizing it and singing it back at will in virtually unlimited amounts!
You seem to be forgetting that nobody has ever been able to "cure" a virus ever. EVER. Antibacterials and antifungals exist but nothing kills viruses. "Antiviral" medicines do something else. So I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a magical viral cure.
By the way, vaccine != cure.
In my opinion, anyone purposely working on a more dangerous version of a deadly flu for very close to no reason, they should be shut down immediately. They're turning "Let's prepare for 'what if' by studying potential mutations" into "Well, there it is. I hope nobody steals it." How did it get this far?
Let's compare it to similar technology like, I don't know, touch fingerprint readers that have a misread ratio of like 25%+. Considering that, there's this even more cutting edge new startup called any hardware store anywhere that lets you painlessly remove your fingerprints with proprietary technology known as sand paper. You'd look less suspicious than someone with gloves and it'd just come up as a misread or fail to read. Maybe 100 years from now you'd be a 1 in 1000 that gets a "OMG NO FINGERPRINTZ!" reading but not today.
Well, WD and Seagate better still be price gouging to save up funds to buy out a flash chip manufacturer or they're screwed. At my repair and custom builds shop, it's down to a simple rule that if you don't need tons of storage, go with the much faster high lifetime SSD option and if you do need tons of storage, a 500GB-1TB drive is the way to go and they're around the same price. At this rate, I bet WD and Seagate have about 6 months to start making SSDs or they're bankrupt.
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So...what they're really saying is high ranking corporate lawyers are paid way the hell too much. I kinda knew that already actually.
Since this lawsuit was like 50% legit 50% bullshit, I would definitely find it amusing if Microsoft now jacked up the price of all MS product licensing in all of Europe by like 25% to pay for the fine. Then the EU would just be shooting itself in the foot.
Sadly the amount of money the EU is p*ssing away/conjuring into existance at the moment would bankrupt Microsoft, Apple, IBM and Google combined.
**Sigh**
Hey, that made me think of something...maybe Microsoft should pay in their worthless ass currency, the Euro. It's funny until you realize, I think the fine is in Euros rofl. Perhaps this is a conspiracy to drive up the cost of the Euro. MS holds primarily USD so if they had to convert a bunch to Euros, it would drive the price up. Yeah, the lawsuit started before the Euro was in trouble but still, I'm sure the recent problems didn't help the case be operated any less crookedly.
How could they possibly know that? Do we know the composition of every mineral on every planet and in every asteroid in the entire solar system? They could have broken off of another planet due to a meteorite strike 200 years ago and we'd have no idea.
Also, I'm halfway through season 2 of the X-files on netflix and they've already discovered three previously unknown elements lol. Unfortunately, none of them were so blatantly named after Linux as the one in this story.
If I was deaf, I'd find the quality of television CC to be unacceptable (constant transmission glitches and horrible delays). So then you're left with DVDs with CC and that's it. Who wants to constantly buy DVDs? That's sort of why Netflix was invented. They could easily corner the market on convenient media for the deaf and hearing impaired as well as select English Second Language people who find reading easier than realtime audio conversion. I know my crappy Spanish can only process text in realtime, not audio so it probably goes both ways. There's a lot of money to be made and closed captioning costs, when they have the volume to hire someone to do it in-house, would be way less than 1% of what they pay for most licensing for most movies. It's just stupid but clearly the entire company has proven it has ODD (oppositional defiance disorder) when it comes to their customers. They're dedicated to ruining their own image in any way possible even if it costs them potential income.
The statement "America and others start the world's first undeclared cyber-wars, dangerous precedents are being set that this type of warfare is without consequences." is absurd. Iran can't do anything about it because they're Iran, not because it's a cyber attack. They already have made threats to other countries, they have been building weapons, so there's not much left to do. They can't outright attack us in the "real world" because they don't have an army capable of it and we'd fuck them up. Just because we attacked them digitally doesn't really mean anything special. If we instead randomly dropped a missile on one of their government buildings, they could do just as much nothing about it as if it were a digital attack so that's not the determining factor. Their options in both cases are to go "rawr rawr rawr" about it (paraphrased) or attack America and get their country leveled a day later.
Too late. They already sold the rights to her story to hollywood so they can make a movie painting her as a secret vampire slayer.
Since her crash, I believe she's been on Stargate, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Dr Who, and at least 5 other shows. So she could be just about anywhere by now lol.
"That was not our intention. We want people to use whatever's easier for them.'' -- BULLSHIT! They want to control and read as many people's e-mails as possible so they can show them relevant ads and make money. More people, more money, the end. What exactly do they think such an unbelievable lie will accomplish? Ironic, considering Mark Z is all about openness.
I've never used Yammer but that price seems awfully high considering how simplistic it sounds. I think they could have recoded a similar but more fitting product for their company for a lot less money. It sounds like an IM program with a bit of security restrictions. I think there's a dozen or so of those on sourceforge that were made for significantly less than $1.2bil.
I dunno about that. When I think Peru, I think advanced engineering in architecture and mechanics :-P And flutes. It's probably primarily used for flute design actually lol.
Exactly. I don't think it's still called waiting after it's already happened.
"It's built to be safe" - IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT! It's built to fly under the radar and is designed for toddler-caliber computer users. There's absolutely nothing safe or secure about its design whatsoever. Windows is designed to be secure because it has to. It fails but still. I don't think having a crappy market share counts as "design" although the prices are designed to cause that. So, cue the false advertising lawsuits.
Not one mention of lolcats? Wow, they were way off, as lolcats have taken over the entire internet.
By the way, another study suggested that most weather companies also can't tell you what the weather was like yesterday either.
Actually, the temperature will drop significantly, as California will have broken off in a major earthquake and either sunk into the sea or become its own island. That would result in some much cooler temperatures than they're used to.
Why the hell won't Obama make an executive order making it illegal to invest speculatively (so basically at all) in gasoline and oil? That would solve half the problem right there. It's a pretty damn direct path from my pocket book at the gas station to some asshole investor's portfolio balance when they buy up a bunch of gas just because they think it will go up and that makes it go up even more. It's a non-congress, simple executive order caliber thing and it really does sound like something that would be inline with his politics. Hopefully he reads slashdot lol.
It's China so actually no, there isn't. China + 1 year = fake fake fake fake fake with awful quality behind it. It's probably 50% paper mache.
Does this count as a bug? They send out customer surveys that actually are from them but look extremely fake and point to a domain other than their own, which violates every single internet standard and their own safety and security guidelines.
Oh and every time I go to their site, it attempts to launch the default media player plugin for whatever browser I'm using which gets blocked as a security threat by default in default configurations of IE8 and 9 and I think Firefox as well.
Publicly deflecting such blame gets a lot harder...from who, Iran? Who would be in support of Iran developing nukes and get all up in a thing about this? Al Qaeda? Ohhh nooo, we used "dirty" tactics using sneaky viruses to shut them down. You know what else is dirty? Nukes! Especially crazy psychotic dumbasses building them like North Korea and Iran.
I think the FBI better confiscate all those remaining AOL CDs, as the software may be used for something illegal...you can cut them into razor sharp throwing stars and assault someone with a deadly weapon lol.
Btw, the RIAA is on to me! I have these things called ears that can allow me to replicate a song by memorizing it and singing it back at will in virtually unlimited amounts!
You seem to be forgetting that nobody has ever been able to "cure" a virus ever. EVER. Antibacterials and antifungals exist but nothing kills viruses. "Antiviral" medicines do something else. So I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a magical viral cure.
By the way, vaccine != cure.
In my opinion, anyone purposely working on a more dangerous version of a deadly flu for very close to no reason, they should be shut down immediately. They're turning "Let's prepare for 'what if' by studying potential mutations" into "Well, there it is. I hope nobody steals it." How did it get this far?
Let's compare it to similar technology like, I don't know, touch fingerprint readers that have a misread ratio of like 25%+. Considering that, there's this even more cutting edge new startup called any hardware store anywhere that lets you painlessly remove your fingerprints with proprietary technology known as sand paper. You'd look less suspicious than someone with gloves and it'd just come up as a misread or fail to read. Maybe 100 years from now you'd be a 1 in 1000 that gets a "OMG NO FINGERPRINTZ!" reading but not today.
Well, WD and Seagate better still be price gouging to save up funds to buy out a flash chip manufacturer or they're screwed. At my repair and custom builds shop, it's down to a simple rule that if you don't need tons of storage, go with the much faster high lifetime SSD option and if you do need tons of storage, a 500GB-1TB drive is the way to go and they're around the same price. At this rate, I bet WD and Seagate have about 6 months to start making SSDs or they're bankrupt.
Aha, so they probably used that top secret hacker technique known as a "site:url" google search lol.