I disagree. I used to think that as well. But it's really all in the user ID length and complexity you select. If your account is simple (joe123), the dictionary attacks will figure out rather quickly. If it's complex (w_4Ja2_goEtv or something) it will remain almost completely spam-free.
I don't know how complicated or simple the account you created was, but in my experience that's what determines whether or not an account gets flooded with spam. I have three Hotmail accounts used for various purposes. The one that is short and simple as well as the one I use here are overflowing with spam. The other one to this day remains pretty much spam free.
I don't think this "savaging" is limited to immigrants. Across the board, in companies that don't care or simply champion this type of thing, employees are being asked (forced) to do more and more with less, at the cost of many things, like family life and one's own health.
The never-ending quest for bottom line will eventually come back to bite these companies. They're exacting revenge for the few years where the job market was spinning out of control and employees ruled, but it's getting out of hand.
But not all languages have the luxury of having a CPAN or PEAR available. Even then it doesn't always make sense. Most of the lower-level stuff (i.e., HTTP) can be pulled in, but higher level "solutions" are almost always not applicable to the problem you're trying to solve.
That's why patterns are all the rage. It's much more efficient to code within a pattern than it is to hunt down, examine and adapt code written by someone else.
And of course, as others have pointed out, the Not Invented Here syndrome is quite prevalent. It's always more fun to code your own stuff, and it's a learning experience.
That's some nice bullshit you're spreading there. Miguel was not a "poor latino", his family is upper middle class Mexican. He could have stayed in the UNAM (the biggest university in the country) and had his choice of tenure position teaching CS, yet he chose to come to the US - under a "genius" visa.
I cannot help but feel very uneasy about someone whose dream once was to work for Microsoft
Interesting. Do you feel uneasy when RMS fights on stage and insults everyone? I just ask because he's the father of emacs and whatnot.
Already, the gconf system reaks of Windows register
Gee, this is like those insightful monkeys that claim that Windows crashes every two hours when the last version they installed was 3.1. I suggest you hit the GNOME mailing list archives and read the numerous well-articulated posts about gconf - maybe you'll learn something.
Oh dear, are you sure you were concentrating before?
Oh, look. Sarcasm. I fear.
and those using it will be in just the same position legally as those creating it
That's nice. I wonder how this fits into your response to the Wine question somebody called you on? Didn't use much sarcasm, there.
Now, regardless of whether the Mono people think that Dotnet is or is not an innovation, I think we are obliged to observe the rationale for their enthusiasm is less than one sentence long and rather vague
That's even nicer. For all our slow readers out there, this means "I don't agree with what they stand for, so they must be full of shit".
it is very hard to see how this aspirational fragment can add up to a convincing manifesto.
I don't know that it's meant to be "inspirational", but apparently you just think it's garbage so the whole idea is lost on your small mind anyway.
Regarding your analysis of other open source VM efforts, I again find myself unable to discern
ROFL! So I took a couple of similar projects as examples and you take them literally. Is that the best you can do?
not particularly disappointed that you are unaware of original, innovative and preexisting OSS work in this area
Irrelevant. Hopefully even you can understand that, in this case.
BTW - you display an admirable grasp of the English language - however, pig shit is still just that, even when sprinkled with rose petals. The same goes for FUD, which you seem to enjoy spreading with unabashed gusto. Very impressive.
I ask the same question on every inane M$ bashing fest that gets posted here - apparently when there's trouble in Open Source paradise the standard response is to say "please move along, nothnig to see. No big deal. And why did this get posted anyways??".
the casual reader might gain the impression from your post that Microsoft have made the whole of Dotnet public
The "casual reader" can Google, I'm sure. I never said ".NET is open source".
I'm sure you will be as anxious as I am to clarify the true position
That patent is too broad. It will never be granted. It affects just about everything from client server computing to Apache and J2EE. And Mono is prior art in the face of the patent itself.
that Ximian are encouraging people to risk cloning a substantial portion of Microsoft's IP.
I can't believe how many times I've had to repeat this. This is not "Microsoft's IP". The CLI and C# have been submitted to ECMA. Mono is as liable for producing its own.NET CLI as anyone else is for creating a Java compiler or JVM.
have never been particularly clear about why they are doing this
what precisely was wrong with established OSS efforts such as Parrot, Guile, Kaffe
I don't know. Maybe they suck? Why are there 26 window managers for X11? Why write Ruby and Python if there's Perl? Why do we need Linux if there's BSD? Why is there OpenOffice if there's StarOffice? Am I getting myself across yet?
Miguel and co. were too late to appoint themselves leaders of the other projects
what happens to anyone that gets in bed with MicroSoft
Define "in bed". Microsoft released the CLI specs, an implementation that runs on *BSD/OSX and then submitted C# to ECMA. I'm sure these little details escape you, but do explain how is Miguel "in bed" with Microsoft for coding a CLI that works in Linux?
they will be squashed
Go read the CLI license (oh, you haven't?) as well as Mono's position statement (you haven't?). Then come back and tell me how they will be "squashed". By Microsoft changing the language specs? The.NET CLR/CTS/CLI specs? I hate to break this to you but they can't do that. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot as well.
you are living in some fantasy world [...] what Mono is REALLY all about
Seems to me that you live in said fantasy world and you have absolutely no idea what Mono is about. But that's fairly obvious by now, I think.
but this one leads right to hell
Let me give you another free clue. If you refrain from using phrases like "path to hell" then maybe people will ignore your paranoid posts and you won't look so foolish.
I can't believe posts like these continue to be idolized and modded up. What Ximian, GNOME and friends (your "bunch of opportunists") are doing is bringing open source to the real world in a better package than it is delievered now. The problem with folks like yourself is that you subscribe to the "death to infidels" POV that unfortunately permeates so much of the OSS world. I bet you're one of those people who can't stand seeing RH or companies like Lindows making a buck. Only "absolutely free" is acceptable, eh? "In bed with Microsoft" indeed. Do you even understand what Mono is about? Here's a free hint: Absolutes don't work well in the real world, regardless of how attractive they are in those lofty whitepapers you find in gnu.org.
You people talk about freedom so much - why don't you excercise that freedom and just ignore them? Those of us who enjoy using Ximian, GNOME and Mono day after day side by side with commercial software will be so much happier if you just keep your flamebait to yourself.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone will even probably mod you up as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about crashing mailboxes! Get it?...crashing...mailboxes... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to BSODs... yes, in mailboxes... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "snail mail crash", that's priceless. "robotic Spam Assasin." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you saw a BSOD and so wittily remarked about it? If you used Windows 2000 or XP in the first place this wouldn't actually happen and hence your joke would 'have no teeth' as it were. But the brilliance of you tying in snail mail with BSODs had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
I have a bit of trouble understanding how, under your reasoning, the "general computer user population" will have a better time installing a USB device (or whatever) under Linux than under Windows?
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I don't know how complicated or simple the account you created was, but in my experience that's what determines whether or not an account gets flooded with spam. I have three Hotmail accounts used for various purposes. The one that is short and simple as well as the one I use here are overflowing with spam. The other one to this day remains pretty much spam free.
The never-ending quest for bottom line will eventually come back to bite these companies. They're exacting revenge for the few years where the job market was spinning out of control and employees ruled, but it's getting out of hand.
That's why patterns are all the rage. It's much more efficient to code within a pattern than it is to hunt down, examine and adapt code written by someone else.
And of course, as others have pointed out, the Not Invented Here syndrome is quite prevalent. It's always more fun to code your own stuff, and it's a learning experience.
I cannot help but feel very uneasy about someone whose dream once was to work for Microsoft
Interesting. Do you feel uneasy when RMS fights on stage and insults everyone? I just ask because he's the father of emacs and whatnot.
Already, the gconf system reaks of Windows register
Gee, this is like those insightful monkeys that claim that Windows crashes every two hours when the last version they installed was 3.1. I suggest you hit the GNOME mailing list archives and read the numerous well-articulated posts about gconf - maybe you'll learn something.
This is interesting, but is it realiable? I'd rather take rsync any day even if it happens to be slower, as long as it's sturdier.
Oh, look. Sarcasm. I fear.
and those using it will be in just the same position legally as those creating it
That's nice. I wonder how this fits into your response to the Wine question somebody called you on? Didn't use much sarcasm, there.
Now, regardless of whether the Mono people think that Dotnet is or is not an innovation, I think we are obliged to observe the rationale for their enthusiasm is less than one sentence long and rather vague
That's even nicer. For all our slow readers out there, this means "I don't agree with what they stand for, so they must be full of shit".
it is very hard to see how this aspirational fragment can add up to a convincing manifesto.
I don't know that it's meant to be "inspirational", but apparently you just think it's garbage so the whole idea is lost on your small mind anyway.
Regarding your analysis of other open source VM efforts, I again find myself unable to discern
ROFL! So I took a couple of similar projects as examples and you take them literally. Is that the best you can do?
not particularly disappointed that you are unaware of original, innovative and preexisting OSS work in this area
Irrelevant. Hopefully even you can understand that, in this case.
BTW - you display an admirable grasp of the English language - however, pig shit is still just that, even when sprinkled with rose petals. The same goes for FUD, which you seem to enjoy spreading with unabashed gusto. Very impressive.
Beautiful.
Look everyone, it's Junis!! He's posting from Afghanistan!!
Welcome Junis!
Let's yank games.slashdot.org and watch as Timothy resigns in digust over "creative differences" with OSDN. Please!
Worked last I checked.
But I do hope the quality is slightly better than the one with the Star Wars kid...
I heard it was dying =)
The "casual reader" can Google, I'm sure. I never said ".NET is open source".
I'm sure you will be as anxious as I am to clarify the true position
That patent is too broad. It will never be granted. It affects just about everything from client server computing to Apache and J2EE. And Mono is prior art in the face of the patent itself.
I can't believe how many times I've had to repeat this. This is not "Microsoft's IP". The CLI and C# have been submitted to ECMA. Mono is as liable for producing its own .NET CLI as anyone else is for creating a Java compiler or JVM.
have never been particularly clear about why they are doing this
I think they've made it sufficiently clear, but that's just me.
what precisely was wrong with established OSS efforts such as Parrot, Guile, Kaffe
I don't know. Maybe they suck? Why are there 26 window managers for X11? Why write Ruby and Python if there's Perl? Why do we need Linux if there's BSD? Why is there OpenOffice if there's StarOffice? Am I getting myself across yet?
Miguel and co. were too late to appoint themselves leaders of the other projects
Isn't that quite the rational conclusion.
Well, you seem the type.
what happens to anyone that gets in bed with MicroSoft
Define "in bed". Microsoft released the CLI specs, an implementation that runs on *BSD/OSX and then submitted C# to ECMA. I'm sure these little details escape you, but do explain how is Miguel "in bed" with Microsoft for coding a CLI that works in Linux?
they will be squashed
Go read the CLI license (oh, you haven't?) as well as Mono's position statement (you haven't?). Then come back and tell me how they will be "squashed". By Microsoft changing the language specs? The .NET CLR/CTS/CLI specs? I hate to break this to you but they can't do that. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot as well.
you are living in some fantasy world [...] what Mono is REALLY all about
Seems to me that you live in said fantasy world and you have absolutely no idea what Mono is about. But that's fairly obvious by now, I think.
but this one leads right to hell
Let me give you another free clue. If you refrain from using phrases like "path to hell" then maybe people will ignore your paranoid posts and you won't look so foolish.
You people talk about freedom so much - why don't you excercise that freedom and just ignore them? Those of us who enjoy using Ximian, GNOME and Mono day after day side by side with commercial software will be so much happier if you just keep your flamebait to yourself.
We can't have that around here, now can we?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *snort*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone will even probably mod you up as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about crashing mailboxes! Get it? ...crashing...mailboxes... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to BSODs... yes, in mailboxes... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "snail mail crash", that's priceless. "robotic Spam Assasin." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you saw a BSOD and so wittily remarked about it? If you used Windows 2000 or XP in the first place this wouldn't actually happen and hence your joke would 'have no teeth' as it were. But the brilliance of you tying in snail mail with BSODs had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
Do you understand now?
Do you?
What you say?
Is how this ties into "my rights online"?
"suxx"? ROFL!
Yes, I did. Did you?
Weird website.