It would be interesting if MS does set IIS as "locked down by default". Then we can really find out which MCSEs have a clue and which ones are just good
at taking exams.
"...it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in, to help drive forward the industry in this area,'' Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft.
Which means Microsoft has found someone to steal it from.:)
Good point. *Still*, you just know that a company is getting a bit too side-tracked by management wankers when they put their talent on the firing line instead of cutting off a few middle managers.
I really do not understand the problem here. If you don't like the product, don't use it. If you don't like the price to upgrade, don't upgrade. Billy boy is not holding a gun to your head!
Fair enough. Now you just have to convince a few 100,000 idiots^W office managers who are as knowledgeable about computing as Michael Jackson is with the cunilingus.:)
The CEO says:
But axing the development group may run counter to statements CEO Carly Fiorina recently made that the computer-and-printer giant plans to increase research and development staffing.
H-P executives say:
H-P executives let go the majority of workers at the company's Enterprise Intel Architecture Lab in Florham Park, N.J. The facility, which specializes in Unix operating software that can work on both on traditional RISC-based and Intel-brand chips, will close.
Not only is HP shooting itself in the foot by dumping its best and brightest in PH-UX research, but it looks real stupid when everyone is following conflicting plans. Hey, HP, how about dumping some of the mangement drones that pulled this one off.
Now they won't sell Front Page to the porn industry?
Damn. Now I'm gonna have to use Powerpoint to create my anti-Microsoft, KKK fetish, pr0n site.
It's gotten so bad that Ron Jeremy even broke down and learned how to use emacs to write HTML
and JavaScript.:)
@HOME does not allow people to run web, mail, DNS, NNTP, etc. servers according to their TOS contract.
Cox@Home in no.la.us has decided to just shut off ports 25 and 80 which is a Good Thing. That means that people who are unaware that they are running IIS on their winbox will have it disabled, and people who know they are running a webserver (against @HOME's TOS:) can just switch http over to port 81 or something.
I've been running my family home page off of @HOME for over a year, and they haven't bothered me about it, but I'm sure they would give me some grief if it was generating a lot of traffic.
The real war the West must win is to change minds. It will be much harder, and will take much longer. I only hope we can succeed.
That's gonna be a tall order when throughout all of the middle-east countries, their schools teach the children to hate the USA.
In the same vein, we can send the KKK, Aryan Nation, and all of these other racist hate groups over to the middle east to perform acts of terrorism. Then when the middle-eastern countries come and bitch about it to the US, we can say, "Oh? Those are Christian Extremists and have nothing to do with us and we're quite against them."
One thing that you have to do is convince your boss that you're going to be productive at home. That's because your boss will most likely assume that if you telecommute, you're just sitting around in your underwear watching cartoons and d/l-ing pr0n.
If you have remote access to your workplace, then take a Saturday or 2, do some work from home, then show your boss what you've done, the access logs,.history, changes in files you've worked on, timestamps, etc.
Since you do need to have interaction with your cow-orkers, you'll have to come into work at least a few days a week. But if you can show some increased productivity when you're working out of your home, I'm sure your boss will tolerate you telecommuting a few days a week and arrange meetings on days that you are scheduled to be in the office.
If RTLinux wanted to patent something, why the fsck base it off of a GPL'd product in the first place? It can only become a legal mess, and if FSM Labs wins in court, it's gonna piss off the FSF, OSS, and anything else slightly connected to Linux.
You'd have to be insane to invoke that sort of bad kharma.
You could say the same thing about the Palestinians
Perhaps. You take the Jews out of the Middle East, then the Iranians will hate the Palestinians, the Saudis will hate the Jordanians, and the Jordanians will hate someone else. That area has a history full of stupid wars and hatred.
WTF is in the water that turns the people there into Xenophobic religious freaks? *boggle*
StdDiclaimer=I am not connected to any side of this pissing match.
Interesting point. But you've really got to wonder why the Jews would want a state that is surrounded by people that don't like them. That's just begging for shitte to happen. (Ok, bad pun.)
sarcasm=ON
Why don't we just give the Jews Florida, have them rename it Israel, put up kibbutzes, etc. They can turn Disneyworld into the newer, hipper, and more fun Jerusalem 2K. Then the people of Israel can lead much more happier, productive, and safer lives without having to worry too much about gunfire or pissing some other political or religeous group off. The only worry would be tourists.:)
sarcasm=OFF
For some reason Frank Zappa's "Dumb all over" comes to mind...
When I get around having kids (G-d willing), and the choice comes to 1) put up a web page, 2) spend time with the kids. I will go with 2 every time.
That's what you think.:)
My wife hassled me for months before our 1st kid was born to get a home page set up. I did somehow talk her into letting me get a sun sparc to set it up on though.
"Many in the music community are concerned about the continued use of CD-Rs (compact disc recordables) and we believe this issue deserves further analysis."
Translates into: "We are looking for a way to convince the US (and other governments) to make the manufacturers of CD-burners pony up a percentage per each unit sold and give us lotsa $."
This is also a pretty crummy way for the RIAA to line it's pockets from people (and Indy labels) who write and record their own music in home studios.
Internet access is not a Right, it's a service. I'm not saying what the RIAA and the ISP did was cool, but whilst they can't do an illegal search and siezure, they can certainly shut down your internet access without a warrant. The only recourse they will have to deal with is civil (i.e. when you take them to the People's Court and sue them for various damages.)
However, they chose their consequences when they chose their actions.
You can also say the same thing about people who die in aeroplane crashes.:)
Our "sexual freedom" destroys families. It ruins lives. It transmits disease. It encourages disloyalty, dysfunction, and distrust.
That's a pretty tall order. You could...
s/sexual freedom/sexual disfunction
s/sexual freedom/drugs and alcohol
s/sexual freedom/violence
s/sexual freedom/greed
s/sexual freedom/government
s/sexual freedom/war
...ad infinitum, though YMMV
I lay no claim on The Greatest Wisdom of the World, but I put sexual freedom pretty low on the scale of What's Wrong With the World(tm). Sexual freedom has been around for quite some time; it's just more widely published now.
Nice of you to cast judgement to the world, especially since you have all the answers.:) Sure, it's your opinion, but it's awfully childish to condemn those that don't choose to live as you do. In the moral scale of things, I think that celebrating the death of others ranks *much* lower than pre-mariatal sex. So, please, no Mr. Morality bollocks. You've lost the morals game here.
I'm married, have a daughter, house, etc. and am not speaking as a proponent for $SPECIAL_INTEREST_GROUP, but according to your statement, the lesbians and the impotent are $DEITY's chosen and blessed people.:)
"Now where in any of this is the part about serving customers? It isn't there."
This last sentence pretty much says it all.
The whole pissing match between Sun, MS, and every other fscking co. does nothing but insure that we all have software and hardware that sucks. Isn't about time that these a-holes start showing concern for their customers by working on making decent products instead of worrying about their stock prices, IP, and market dominance.
"Some trial watchers have characterized Microsoft's recent legal moves as part of a broader strategy to prolong the court proceedings and delay any antitrust actions, including a court-ordered block of the release of Windows XP, until after the product already is in the marketplace."
Kinda makes it sound like XP is some sort of evil master plan instead of some grand improvement on Windows.
I can picture it now (swirly effect)
Steve: Master Bill, the Justice dept. is coming to attack us for our evil marketing practices and thwart our release of XP.
Bill: Call my Flying Lawyer Monkeys. (speaks to head lawyer monkey)This Justice department *must* be stopped. Take your Flying Lawyer Monkeys and hold them off until Oct 25 (Dec 21:). If we can't get an appeal, then make sure we can get a delay. Because after Oct 25, XP will be released and our power solidified. Then the world will be powerless against us.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be interesting if MS does set IIS as "locked down by default". Then we can really find out which MCSEs have a clue and which ones are just good at taking exams.
"...it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in, to help drive forward the industry in this area,'' Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft.
:)
Which means Microsoft has found someone to steal it from.
Is Hormel giving Cmdr Taco grief? Enquiring minds want to know.
Good point. *Still*, you just know that a company is getting a bit too side-tracked by management wankers when they put their talent on the firing line instead of cutting off a few middle managers.
Just MHO.
I really do not understand the problem here. If you don't like the product, don't use it. If you don't like the price to upgrade, don't upgrade. Billy boy is not holding a gun to your head!
:)
Fair enough. Now you just have to convince a few 100,000 idiots^W office managers who are as knowledgeable about computing as Michael Jackson is with the cunilingus.
The CEO says:
But axing the development group may run counter to statements CEO Carly Fiorina recently made that the computer-and-printer giant plans to increase research and development staffing.
H-P executives say:
H-P executives let go the majority of workers at the company's Enterprise Intel Architecture Lab in Florham Park, N.J. The facility, which specializes in Unix operating software that can work on both on traditional RISC-based and Intel-brand chips, will close.
Not only is HP shooting itself in the foot by dumping its best and brightest in PH-UX research, but it looks real stupid when everyone is following conflicting plans. Hey, HP, how about dumping some of the mangement drones that pulled this one off.
Now they won't sell Front Page to the porn industry?
:)
Damn. Now I'm gonna have to use Powerpoint to create my anti-Microsoft, KKK fetish, pr0n site.
It's gotten so bad that Ron Jeremy even broke down and learned how to use emacs to write HTML
and JavaScript.
@HOME does not allow people to run web, mail, DNS, NNTP, etc. servers according to their TOS contract.
:) can just switch http over to port 81 or something.
Cox@Home in no.la.us has decided to just shut off ports 25 and 80 which is a Good Thing. That means that people who are unaware that they are running IIS on their winbox will have it disabled, and people who know they are running a webserver (against @HOME's TOS
I've been running my family home page off of @HOME for over a year, and they haven't bothered me about it, but I'm sure they would give me some grief if it was generating a lot of traffic.
But can you use them to power a webserver?
:)
That's gonna be a tall order when throughout all of the middle-east countries, their schools teach the children to hate the USA.
In the same vein, we can send the KKK, Aryan Nation, and all of these other racist hate groups over to the middle east to perform acts of terrorism. Then when the middle-eastern countries come and bitch about it to the US, we can say, "Oh? Those are Christian Extremists and have nothing to do with us and we're quite against them."
This worked for me, but YMMV
.history, changes in files you've worked on, timestamps, etc.
One thing that you have to do is convince your boss that you're going to be productive at home. That's because your boss will most likely assume that if you telecommute, you're just sitting around in your underwear watching cartoons and d/l-ing pr0n.
If you have remote access to your workplace, then take a Saturday or 2, do some work from home, then show your boss what you've done, the access logs,
Since you do need to have interaction with your cow-orkers, you'll have to come into work at least a few days a week. But if you can show some increased productivity when you're working out of your home, I'm sure your boss will tolerate you telecommuting a few days a week and arrange meetings on days that you are scheduled to be in the office.
If RTLinux wanted to patent something, why the fsck base it off of a GPL'd product in the first place? It can only become a legal mess, and if FSM Labs wins in court, it's gonna piss off the FSF, OSS, and anything else slightly connected to Linux.
You'd have to be insane to invoke that sort of bad kharma.
You could say the same thing about the Palestinians
Perhaps. You take the Jews out of the Middle East, then the Iranians will hate the Palestinians, the Saudis will hate the Jordanians, and the Jordanians will hate someone else. That area has a history full of stupid wars and hatred.
WTF is in the water that turns the people there into Xenophobic religious freaks? *boggle*
StdDiclaimer=I am not connected to any side of this pissing match.
:)
Interesting point. But you've really got to wonder why the Jews would want a state that is surrounded by people that don't like them. That's just begging for shitte to happen. (Ok, bad pun.)
sarcasm=ON
Why don't we just give the Jews Florida, have them rename it Israel, put up kibbutzes, etc. They can turn Disneyworld into the newer, hipper, and more fun Jerusalem 2K. Then the people of Israel can lead much more happier, productive, and safer lives without having to worry too much about gunfire or pissing some other political or religeous group off. The only worry would be tourists.
sarcasm=OFF
For some reason Frank Zappa's "Dumb all over" comes to mind...
Either they're trying to drum up some hype on their product or it's Yet Another Case of Landsharks^WLawyers screwing with technological advancement.
There is a sick pleasure to be had when you cram the lemmings in one small space and nuking them to watch the lemming corpses fly about.
Now they just have to find a cure for the Slashdot Effect. :)
When I get around having kids (G-d willing), and the choice comes to 1) put up a web page, 2) spend time with the kids. I will go with 2 every time.
:)
That's what you think.
My wife hassled me for months before our 1st kid was born to get a home page set up. I did somehow talk her into letting me get a sun sparc to set it up on though.
In case you're wondering, it's here
"Many in the music community are concerned about the continued use of CD-Rs (compact disc recordables) and we believe this issue deserves further analysis."
Translates into:
"We are looking for a way to convince the US (and other governments) to make the manufacturers of CD-burners pony up a percentage per each unit sold and give us lotsa $."
This is also a pretty crummy way for the RIAA to line it's pockets from people (and Indy labels) who write and record their own music in home studios.
s/RIAA/MPAA
There's so much evil that the DMCA has stirred up that you can barely keep up with which acronym is doing it.
Internet access is not a Right, it's a service. I'm not saying what the RIAA and the ISP did was cool, but whilst they can't do an illegal search and siezure, they can certainly shut down your internet access without a warrant. The only recourse they will have to deal with is civil (i.e. when you take them to the People's Court and sue them for various damages.)
Disclaimer:IANAL
However, they chose their consequences when they chose their actions.
:)
You can also say the same thing about people who die in aeroplane crashes.
Our "sexual freedom" destroys families. It ruins lives. It transmits disease. It encourages disloyalty, dysfunction, and distrust.
That's a pretty tall order. You could...
s/sexual freedom/sexual disfunction
s/sexual freedom/drugs and alcohol
s/sexual freedom/violence
s/sexual freedom/greed
s/sexual freedom/government
s/sexual freedom/war
...ad infinitum, though YMMV
I lay no claim on The Greatest Wisdom of the World, but I put sexual freedom pretty low on the scale of What's Wrong With the World(tm). Sexual freedom has been around for quite some time; it's just more widely published now.
I'm married, have a daughter, house, etc. and am not speaking as a proponent for $SPECIAL_INTEREST_GROUP, but according to your statement, the lesbians and the impotent are $DEITY's chosen and blessed people.
This last sentence pretty much says it all.
The whole pissing match between Sun, MS, and every other fscking co. does nothing but insure that we all have software and hardware that sucks. Isn't about time that these a-holes start showing concern for their customers by working on making decent products instead of worrying about their stock prices, IP, and market dominance.
I digress....
Kinda makes it sound like XP is some sort of evil master plan instead of some grand improvement on Windows.
I can picture it now (swirly effect)
Steve: Master Bill, the Justice dept. is coming to attack us for our evil marketing practices and thwart our release of XP.
Bill: Call my Flying Lawyer Monkeys. (speaks to head lawyer monkey)This Justice department *must* be stopped. Take your Flying Lawyer Monkeys and hold them off until Oct 25 (Dec 21:). If we can't get an appeal, then make sure we can get a delay. Because after Oct 25, XP will be released and our power solidified. Then the world will be powerless against us.
Fly, my little Flying Lawyer Monkeys, fly!