One of the stories on the list is growing hunger in the US. Could it be that someone has kept you from learning of actual starvation?
That's not even funny. I dare you to find me a single instance of a human being actually starving to death in the US. Hell, I dare you to find me a single example of death by starvation anywhere in the American continent. You won't even find that in Haiti.
You obviously have no idea how complete the breakdown of social structure and fabric has to be before people start to actually die from lack of food. And you've obviously never been to a place where that happens.
Are there undernourished or malnourished (two very different things) people in the US? Sure. People starving to death? And no one knows about it because of "censorship"? I'd really enjoy seeing you try and back that up somehow.
So Slashdot suddenly thinks the Ludwig von Mises institute is a good source of information? That's funny, because some of the staff writers used to be big on defending the company during the antitrust trials. Just sample the first few articles in search.
Obviously this institutional short-term memory that seems to afflict people who dislike Microsoft decided that all those flamewars over the Mises' articles defending MSFT were no big deal after all.
As to the "are you listening" quippy... well, that article about the Indian retailers was if nothing else hilarious. How anyone clap and dance around a quote like "it's too expensive anyway, so that's why we pirate it" is just beyond me.
By your.sig I see you'd use the same argument if we were talking about downloading music vs. just buying a CD. "Your honor, this cannot possibly be stealing since I didn't deprive anyone of any revenue". Please don't insult my intelligence.
Oh, I see what you'e saying. So you're bitching about an offline plant whose network was reached by a worm for which a patch had been available for six months prior to an exploit being observed in the wild.
Here I'm thinking this is a massive DOS situation, but these people could have been easily nailed by that phpBB exploit on Linux for all practical purposes. That's even more fucking pathetic.
Very interesting, but all just posturing and FUD bravado, considering comments like these. Like you care for a second about how "M$" is "pillaging" a culture you so obviously consider "inferior" to yours.
I couldn't get past your dollar sign shitstorm, so just let me parse out this article for you:
"We are not against piracy but against the way Microsoft is working to stop it," - I'm not against larceny, just that I dislike being arrested for it. More to the point, this is an acknowledgment of what they're doing.
"Moreover, if they want to do business in India then they should change their prices and policies according to the Indian market. We are the one who are promoting their products in the market and if they will behave in such a rash manner with us then we will stop business with them." - Look buddy, I don't like this bicycle I stole from you anyway. Paint it blue instead of red, change the rims and I'll do you the favor of stealing it.
"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers." - We're not trading boxed copies of Windows for hard cash, but this stuff is great for our business. Therefore, this is perfectly fine.
"Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets." - It's too expensive, so we have a right to steal it. This is the same argument used to pirate music and movies. It's too expensive, so I'll just download it along with half a million other people.
Any normal person would see how completely ridiculous this is. But you need to see it as some sort of heroic struggle against evil, along with hyperbolic comparisons to Mahatma effin' Ghandi.
Now, if you're done rationalizing crime in a culture you don't understand and have referred to before in racist overtones, I'd love a response to this as well. Thanks.
I think the point still stands that Windows is a poor choice for secure applications.
That might be true or not, but the "proof" that twitter so helpfully provided is obviously a lie, which is not a rare occurence in his body of work, if you will.
You can share your opinions and you can make value judgments all you want, and you can present them as such. Trotting up links presented as fact to hold up your lies and FUD is quite another.
better yet, power them off completely and just pay MS for the license so you can get your kick-back.
C'mon, how is this "dark". Nothing in TFA justifies the submission or the connotations it appears to convey. "Google might charge for the service", but all they are saying is it will be "affordable" and ISPs can request more information. Holy shit, I can see the evil oozing out of that one.
"People will have to switch email addresses" Mother of god, someone stop this company. They will be the end of us all.
hi twitter. I just replied to your FUD here, but I wanted to make sure you get a direct link to the PDF file that contains the final CERT report on the outage:
winblows born virus. In 2003, the slammer worm caused havoc at an offline Ohio plant.
Not so, FUDster. The follow up report to the blackout by CERT was published in 2004 (and Slashdot also linked to it).
On page 133-134 of the report itself we find:
The Cyber Analysis sub-team was led by the CERT(R) Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). This team was focused on analyzing and reviewing electronic media of computer networks in which online communications take place. The sub-team examined these networks to determine if they were maliciously used to cause, or contribute to the August 14, 2003, outage. Specifically, the SWG reviewed materials created on behalf of DHS's National Communication System (NCS). These materials covered the analysis and conclusions of their Internet Protocol (IP) modeling correlation study of Blaster (a malicious Internet worm first noticed on August 11, 2003) and the power outage. This NCS analysis supports the SWG's finding that viruses and worms prevalent across the Internet at the time of the outage did not have any significant impact on power generation and delivery systems. The team also conducted interviews with vendors to identify known system flaws and vulnerabilities.
Bold emphasis mine.
Just more of the same sad, tired bullshit FUD you're famous for. And the mods fell for it because you shilled your own bullshit with your sockpuppet account.
[insult] Does your boss still think Linux is a "cancer"?
Since Microsoft has 60,000+ employees and you picked to one that happened to post on Slashdot today to vent and insult them because the CEO said something you don't approve of, I must conclude you suffer from some level of retardation.
Oh, wait. It's "erris", a sickpuppet of twitter, who is known to write things like these. Never mind.
dumbass... fucked up.... stupid fuck... who can tolerate his profanity and abuse
Consistent as always.
The really smart people have all left MS
Yah, I bet they're working for you.
There is one other possibility
I see two things here. One, you are stupidly venting your infantile hatred of a corporation on me for some reason, since I wasn't even commenting on the topic, just that twitter as usual can't get his shit straight. The other is that you think I care about the topic at hand, and there you're wrong. I happen to think this is a stupid move on Microsoft's part, but I could give a flying rat's ass otherwise. It looks like it's giving you an ulcer though.
Maybe you should pick a new favorite corporation
Maybe you should stop masturbating to pictures of St. IGNUCious. Just a thought.
Holy shit twitter, I think you just broke your own dollar sign world record in this post!
They have a guild and 350 shops
These people were not buying "M$" products to begin with, so please explain to us simple people how this "backslash" means "M$" is going to lose?
Compare it to Gandhi's Salt March to Dandi
That's ridiculous and insulting to all Indians, I'm sure.
I'd rather they discovered free software.
If "free software" means people like you taking advantage of things like these to exaggerate and draw parallels between their struggle for independence and pirated software, I'm sure they'll be gathering at your door any moment now.
What it means is they have no respect for your work.
What it means is they're giving people a tool that doesn't have a steep learning curve. I suppose it's insulting to you that a non-PhD might actually create something useful?
Popfly is going to do as well as Zune.
And as Vista and everything else you "hate" that Microsoft does (or doesn't). How does it feel to be so desperately angry and resentful? It must really suck to be you.
I don't care what your test says. Do you understand that? If I leave FF open for three days it uses 300MB+ of RAM even if I have no tabs open. Why is that so hard to grok? You're not going to convince me that something I can see any given Wednesday night at work is not happening.
Go play fanboy with someone else. I put up with the FF memory problem because it's so dramatically better than IE functionality-wise. Maybe one day they'll fix it, or maybe not. Maybe I'll switch to IE8, or maybe not. Or maybe I'll start to like Opera. It's just a fucking web browser, not the Holy Cross.
Wow twitter, I guess I win because one of our client sites completed a 4,000+ CAL rollout of Vista Business and Office 2007 without much trouble a few weeks ago. Do I beat the "LSU Student Fair" with that?
Do you like insulting the average Slashdot reader's intelligence? That's the only thing I can think of when I read this bullshit. Do you honestly think some random techie is going to slurp up your "my cousin Joe Bob didn't like Vista, so it's a flop and everybody hates it" blabber?
I think at this point you're so desperate that you've pretty much managed to transcend the line that separates FUD and ridiculous stupidity.
I have. That's your problem: I know FF simply does not run well in the hardware you are describing, unless you happen to have at least 1GB of RAM, which I doubt since I never saw a PII with that much memory outside of a data center. So, you're still full of shit.
It brings me some pleasure to think of you sitting around watching your disk thrash
Well, maybe if Firefox wasn't so badly written that wouldn't happen, would it?
And who the fuck cares what you can stuff in 40MB. You have some pretty stupid ideas about what my computer is for. You can go on slumming and FUDing all you want. The rest of us get our jobs done.
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There are better, less exciting terms to describe malnutrition.
A degree on creating "softwares"?
That's not even funny. I dare you to find me a single instance of a human being actually starving to death in the US. Hell, I dare you to find me a single example of death by starvation anywhere in the American continent. You won't even find that in Haiti.
You obviously have no idea how complete the breakdown of social structure and fabric has to be before people start to actually die from lack of food. And you've obviously never been to a place where that happens.
Are there undernourished or malnourished (two very different things) people in the US? Sure. People starving to death? And no one knows about it because of "censorship"? I'd really enjoy seeing you try and back that up somehow.
Obviously this institutional short-term memory that seems to afflict people who dislike Microsoft decided that all those flamewars over the Mises' articles defending MSFT were no big deal after all.
As to the "are you listening" quippy... well, that article about the Indian retailers was if nothing else hilarious. How anyone clap and dance around a quote like "it's too expensive anyway, so that's why we pirate it" is just beyond me.
By your .sig I see you'd use the same argument if we were talking about downloading music vs. just buying a CD. "Your honor, this cannot possibly be stealing since I didn't deprive anyone of any revenue". Please don't insult my intelligence.
Here I'm thinking this is a massive DOS situation, but these people could have been easily nailed by that phpBB exploit on Linux for all practical purposes. That's even more fucking pathetic.
Very interesting, but all just posturing and FUD bravado, considering comments like these. Like you care for a second about how "M$" is "pillaging" a culture you so obviously consider "inferior" to yours.
"We are not against piracy but against the way Microsoft is working to stop it," - I'm not against larceny, just that I dislike being arrested for it. More to the point, this is an acknowledgment of what they're doing.
"Moreover, if they want to do business in India then they should change their prices and policies according to the Indian market. We are the one who are promoting their products in the market and if they will behave in such a rash manner with us then we will stop business with them." - Look buddy, I don't like this bicycle I stole from you anyway. Paint it blue instead of red, change the rims and I'll do you the favor of stealing it.
"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers." - We're not trading boxed copies of Windows for hard cash, but this stuff is great for our business. Therefore, this is perfectly fine.
"Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets." - It's too expensive, so we have a right to steal it. This is the same argument used to pirate music and movies. It's too expensive, so I'll just download it along with half a million other people.
Any normal person would see how completely ridiculous this is. But you need to see it as some sort of heroic struggle against evil, along with hyperbolic comparisons to Mahatma effin' Ghandi.
Now, if you're done rationalizing crime in a culture you don't understand and have referred to before in racist overtones, I'd love a response to this as well. Thanks.
That might be true or not, but the "proof" that twitter so helpfully provided is obviously a lie, which is not a rare occurence in his body of work, if you will.
You can share your opinions and you can make value judgments all you want, and you can present them as such. Trotting up links presented as fact to hold up your lies and FUD is quite another.
better yet, power them off completely and just pay MS for the license so you can get your kick-back.
LOLZORZ and all that.
"People will have to switch email addresses" Mother of god, someone stop this company. They will be the end of us all.
https://reports.energy.gov/BlackoutFinal-Web.pdf
Again, page 133-134.
I'm really looking forward to watching you rationalize this one away.
Not so, FUDster. The follow up report to the blackout by CERT was published in 2004 (and Slashdot also linked to it).
On page 133-134 of the report itself we find:
The Cyber Analysis sub-team was led by the CERT(R) Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). This team was focused on analyzing and reviewing electronic media of computer networks in which online communications take place. The sub-team examined these networks to determine if they were maliciously used to cause, or contribute to the August 14, 2003, outage. Specifically, the SWG reviewed materials created on behalf of DHS's National Communication System (NCS). These materials covered the analysis and conclusions of their Internet Protocol (IP) modeling correlation study of Blaster (a malicious Internet worm first noticed on August 11, 2003) and the power outage. This NCS analysis supports the SWG's finding that viruses and worms prevalent across the Internet at the time of the outage did not have any significant impact on power generation and delivery systems. The team also conducted interviews with vendors to identify known system flaws and vulnerabilities.
Bold emphasis mine.
Just more of the same sad, tired bullshit FUD you're famous for. And the mods fell for it because you shilled your own bullshit with your sockpuppet account.
What about add-ons? Do they work? Is there AdBlock for SeaMonkey for example?
Since Microsoft has 60,000+ employees and you picked to one that happened to post on Slashdot today to vent and insult them because the CEO said something you don't approve of, I must conclude you suffer from some level of retardation.
Oh, wait. It's "erris", a sickpuppet of twitter, who is known to write things like these. Never mind.
Consistent as always.
The really smart people have all left MS
Yah, I bet they're working for you.
There is one other possibility
I see two things here. One, you are stupidly venting your infantile hatred of a corporation on me for some reason, since I wasn't even commenting on the topic, just that twitter as usual can't get his shit straight. The other is that you think I care about the topic at hand, and there you're wrong. I happen to think this is a stupid move on Microsoft's part, but I could give a flying rat's ass otherwise. It looks like it's giving you an ulcer though.
Maybe you should pick a new favorite corporation
Maybe you should stop masturbating to pictures of St. IGNUCious. Just a thought.
That's all I wanted to hear. The rest is just your pointless "M$" blabber.
They have a guild and 350 shops
These people were not buying "M$" products to begin with, so please explain to us simple people how this "backslash" means "M$" is going to lose?
Compare it to Gandhi's Salt March to Dandi
That's ridiculous and insulting to all Indians, I'm sure.
I'd rather they discovered free software.
If "free software" means people like you taking advantage of things like these to exaggerate and draw parallels between their struggle for independence and pirated software, I'm sure they'll be gathering at your door any moment now.
What it means is they're giving people a tool that doesn't have a steep learning curve. I suppose it's insulting to you that a non-PhD might actually create something useful?
Popfly is going to do as well as Zune.
And as Vista and everything else you "hate" that Microsoft does (or doesn't). How does it feel to be so desperately angry and resentful? It must really suck to be you.
How does that help me with restarting the browser? It's not crashing, just humping up all my memory.
Really? Not two days ago you said "Linux is GPL, so it does not have owners". So which is it?
I have to say it looks really bad when you can't get your facts straight, especially on a topic like this one.
Go play fanboy with someone else. I put up with the FF memory problem because it's so dramatically better than IE functionality-wise. Maybe one day they'll fix it, or maybe not. Maybe I'll switch to IE8, or maybe not. Or maybe I'll start to like Opera. It's just a fucking web browser, not the Holy Cross.
Maybe they have a 49 char max, but I could be wro
Do you like insulting the average Slashdot reader's intelligence? That's the only thing I can think of when I read this bullshit. Do you honestly think some random techie is going to slurp up your "my cousin Joe Bob didn't like Vista, so it's a flop and everybody hates it" blabber?
I think at this point you're so desperate that you've pretty much managed to transcend the line that separates FUD and ridiculous stupidity.
I have. That's your problem: I know FF simply does not run well in the hardware you are describing, unless you happen to have at least 1GB of RAM, which I doubt since I never saw a PII with that much memory outside of a data center. So, you're still full of shit.
It brings me some pleasure to think of you sitting around watching your disk thrash
Well, maybe if Firefox wasn't so badly written that wouldn't happen, would it?
And who the fuck cares what you can stuff in 40MB. You have some pretty stupid ideas about what my computer is for. You can go on slumming and FUDing all you want. The rest of us get our jobs done.
That's a nice test. Would you care to repeat it, leave FF open for three days, repeat it again a few times and then get back to us? Thanks.