Windows 7 is firewalled...out of the box even. Unless of course, she wants to USE the functionality that was advertised.
Now, explain to us why me not taking the time to learn an operating system that wasn't fit for the trash bin 10 years ago makes me an "inconsiderate dick"? Why should I spend one more minute on the products of a company that has done nothing but hold back the advancement of personal computing when I have a perfectly good product that cost me nothing and gives me the power to use MY computer the way I want to use MY computer? Why does recommending that she use something that I can support make me a "worthless jackass"? Why would my worth as a husband hinge solely on my willingness to follow the likes of you into being a Microsoft shill?
She bought a Mercedes. I advised against it, because I can't work on it. Mercedes requires a lot of special tools. I bought an Atlas lathe and which she advised against, and she won't work on it with me. She doesn't like to do things mechanical. Am I to assume you'd thing that makes her a worthless asshole? You see, dickwad, out here in the real world, we call that "communication".
Your attitude and familiarity with something called "Realdoll" leads me to believe that you are a smelly, middle-aged loser without a clue how to live in harmony with another person.
Now that we have the ridiculous personal attacks out of the way, let's fall back to discussing the original post that I responded to.
any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall
It would be a valid consideration, except that Windows 7 is foisted on the public through retail channels for a ridiculously high sum of money with no mention that a professional staff is required to use it properly. Luckily, you've let us all know that parts of the system being sold are automatically blocked. In any other industry that is called "not being fit for the use for which it was sold." A less flattering description is false advertisement.
Now you can go back to playing with your Realdoll.
Laws could well have changed, but at the time, you could buy a box of dynamite--minus one stick. You had to get a permit to buy a whole box. Dynamite being a very handy tool around farms, the more rural hardware stores tend to be where you find it.
But you don't need "dynamite" per se. You can find the same stuff being sold in tents along a lot of highways in the weeks leading up to July 4th in the US.
As far as 1000 pounds? I'm not sure where that number came from, but yeah, 1000 pounds isn't hard to amass. You just don't buy it from the same place or at the same time.
I've been told, but have never confirmed, that firing a.22 caliber bullet into a silk stocking that is hanging from a clothes line will result in the bullet being captured. The silk bends and is slippery enough that the momentum is absorbed through the entire length.
People make mistakes. A company that has produced some of the richest people in the world and has extracted billions of dollars from the world's economy should have some processes in place to insure that bugs found years ago do not creep back in. It's called regression testing.
Reader xploraiswakco adds, "As important as this the mentioned article is, it should also be pointed out that any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall, and probably port 445. too."
The reader xploraiswakco needs to pull his head out of that dark place and realize that my wife doesn't have an IT staff (I refuse to do Windows). I would even dare to say that most people don't have an IT staff at home. It's a stretch, I know, But I'm the kind of guy that takes chances like that.
Does reader xploraiswakco carry an IT staff with him in case he needs to use a wifi hotspot some place?
Watch the coverage of any "demonstration" shown on any news show. They try their hardest to get a camera angle to show it in a "bigger" light than it actually is. Usually they'll do close-ups of the cardboard posters of the 3 people that did show up. All the new outlets are in the controversy manufacturing business. It sells adds.
And a lot of people were quite miffed at the Obama worship hour.
Which is why I don't throw chairs at people that just want a phone that makes calls. It can't be an iPhone, because they suck and I don't own a TV anymore...and I'm glad of it. Nothing to watch since Farscape is gone.
I was working a an electronics manufacturing plant that had to shutdown for a day because a stray bullet from a hunter CRACKED a ceramic, high-voltage line support. The electricians comments what "high-voltage electricity does some strange things". The crack allowed for a circuit to complete using ionized air.
The terrorist wouldn't even need extravagant equipment. A van with a small hole in the side. Ride around the country side shooting randomly into converter stations. A little hardware store dynamite at the base of some well chosen dams would reek havoc. It is just ridiculously easy to destroy.
Microsoft has this great new technology, that is dirt cheap and blows away anything the competition has ever come up with. Don't buy the competition's stuff, because ours will be available *next year!!*
C'mon, people! This tactic ain't close enough to original to even be interesting. Can we put the Duke Nukem symbol next to this story.
And that's the real story. Even the worst of these people in power aren't malicious for malice's sake, and they aren't hungry for power, for power's sake. They just want a secure stream of money which they can use to live the rest of their days the way they want. The occasional screwing of other people is just an unpleasant means to an end.
And, of course, this makes them far too selfish and self-contented to actually engage in anything conspiratorial.
You're claim that some people do not seek power for power's sake is naive in the extreme.
Maybe we should define slavery. You can look at it as being in chains, bent over to pick cotton. My own definition is having my comings and goings ordered by someone else. There is a spectrum to slavery, in my view.
If you'll accept my definition for the sake of argument, you'll see that there doesn't need to be a grand, carefully planned conspiracy. You have a natural order of small players interacting in such a way that power is slowly transferred from the less powerful to the anointed. Eventually, the least powerful are "subjects of the Crown", peasants (who aren't allowed to leave the land they were born on), or a host of other names that can all be translated to slave.
If it would actually save energy cost, it should be investigated. Obama has been pushing some energy conservation initiatives as part of a stimulus package. Start with a small farm. Cover the house and out-buildings. You get experience dealing with the snow, air handling involving noxious odors, and some farmer gets a nicer winter.
Use the lessons learned to cover a suburb. I realize they have home-owner's associations, so the noxious fume problem will be much greater, but it is a learning experience, after all.
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I have built most of an airplane and studied a lot of aerodynamics in the process. The one thing I can say for certain is that ETFE cannot withstand a wind of 180mph, nor can any other "material". Materials don't withstand forces. Structures do. I can stick a cube of this stuff on the nose of an SR-71 and claim it survives Mach 4.5. Or I can make a sheet so thin that it comes apart in a slight breeze.
The statement you quoted is quite as meaningless as you surmised.
But they way they are doing this is just a trap basically. I bet the phone doesn't even tell you if you go over the limit, unless you look in some deeply buried menu. They are just setting you up for a huge bill during that one month when you actually use the phone's internet capabilities to their full potential.
Sorry, no menu buried anywhere. They'll tell you how much data you've used....since the last time you reset the counter. This counter on your phone doesn't have any correlation to the counters they keep from month to month. It is basically worthless unless you use some obscure hacks to track when your plan starts and ends in a month.
I'm always confused when people trash Ayn Rand on this sight. That may be because I'm only familiar with "Atlas Shrugged", but my reading indicates that the philosophy presented is quite different from what you indicate.
You present the idea that her philosophy entails an economy unfettered with any sort of regulation.
My reading of the story portrays the unfettered capitalist as the worst villains. The unfettered capitalist making backroom deals, and manipulating the government to create confiscatory laws ("The Anti Dog Eat Dog Laws"). The unfettered capitalist had more to do with the destruction of society in her novel than the government did. Her novel, if anything, would be a condemnation of government being manipulated by large corporate interest. A condemnation that extends to the manner we see the cell-phone market being twisted with "unlimited" plans that aren't, with no response from the body that has been tasked with maintaining an honest marketplace (FTC).
I guess the point of my post is to question why do you think Ayn Rand would have any sympathy for these sort of shenanigans?
Because the Demucans answer to everything is "more government". The federal soup needs a little libertarian flavor to make them justify "more government".
As opposed to forcing churches to pronounce gay marriages, and thus intrude on religious organizations!
Marriage is a religious thing, no matter which way you turn it. The government should get their nose out of it either way. All those "benefits" are just a noose for power hungry politicians to hang us all with.
What could they possibly want that requires a conspiracy involving the media, and a plan that's apparently been orchestrating hundreds of people without a hitch over a decade or two?
How did nearly all countries in Europe progress from tribes living pretty much freely, to being "subjects of the crown" and stripped of all civil rights that were not granted to them by the aristocracy. It didn't happen overnight. The peasants gave up their rights to the knights for some protection, who swore their allegiance to the lords. Eventually, the peasants had to rise up and fight a war to beat the aristocracy back.
The aristocracy wants control, and it isn't a conspiracy. It is an open lie. That media and hundreds of people are co-conspirators that participate to gain their own bit of power.
"I'll talk nice about Obama so he'll grant me an interview which will advance my career."
"I'm for the Democrats/Republicans, because there latest plan gives me more welfare/tax breaks/whatever."
Where do you see in the media or in the debates that someone's idea is promoted because it makes friggin' sense in a civilized society? It's is all about what do I get. And it all leads to the slaughterhouse of enslavement.
How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic?
Yes, it does make a difference. If I pay for a finished product, I expect it to be finished. If someone hands me a CD and says try this, I will try it, but not get upset if it doesn't work out perfectly.
In this society that we call open source, we fully understand that Canonical doesn't have the resources to run large test labs. We also know that we get the product for free, and can ban together with a large cadre of like-minded folks to fix problems that we do find. Most Ubuntu releases are initially full of problems. They tend to dissipate much quicker than your first Service Pack that you'll get from the behemoth that HAS charged you enough to do some proper engineering and testing.
Wait! You want to give street cred to Bill Gates for developing...BASIC? The one language credited with destroying the future hopes of a generation of computer programmers. Heh, look how great an architect Hitler was! He developed gas chambers!
"Everything else they've put out sucked...but, this newest thing they've released has been really great for the two weeks I've used it!!"
I've been listening to this deluded line ever since I ditched W3.1 for OS/2 so that I could get some DOS programming done. Microsoft has single-handedly done more to hold back the advancement of personal computing than IBM, AT&T, Compaq, HP, and a dozen other proprietary, half-assed crack pushing corporations combined. It is there ability to market their "geekness" to an unknowing, uncaring populous that makes them popular, and has worked against interoperability standards that would allow a host of solutions to flourish and interoperate.
Go worship Ballmer for giving you Vist 2.0. I still look forward to the day when the populace wakes up to how much damage they've done, and the whole company becomes as relevant as DEC.
Could we stop with this particular piece of idiocy? Rachel Maddo may think she's hot, but since when did floppy triceps and a flabby ass qualify one to be a runway model?
If the government insists that it can break the law with impunity, how do they expect to govern?
By keeping the public distracted with arguments over what talk radio hosts are saying. No, really, who cares what Rush Limbaugh has to say, unless he is raising valid points against you? It's all about keeping the sheep preoccupied until they're in the gates and can't back out from the slaughterhouse.
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Ok, pisshead .
Windows 7 is firewalled...out of the box even. Unless of course, she wants to USE the functionality that was advertised.
Now, explain to us why me not taking the time to learn an operating system that wasn't fit for the trash bin 10 years ago makes me an "inconsiderate dick"? Why should I spend one more minute on the products of a company that has done nothing but hold back the advancement of personal computing when I have a perfectly good product that cost me nothing and gives me the power to use MY computer the way I want to use MY computer? Why does recommending that she use something that I can support make me a "worthless jackass"? Why would my worth as a husband hinge solely on my willingness to follow the likes of you into being a Microsoft shill?
She bought a Mercedes. I advised against it, because I can't work on it. Mercedes requires a lot of special tools. I bought an Atlas lathe and which she advised against, and she won't work on it with me. She doesn't like to do things mechanical. Am I to assume you'd thing that makes her a worthless asshole? You see, dickwad, out here in the real world, we call that "communication".
Your attitude and familiarity with something called "Realdoll" leads me to believe that you are a smelly, middle-aged loser without a clue how to live in harmony with another person.
Now that we have the ridiculous personal attacks out of the way, let's fall back to discussing the original post that I responded to.
any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall
It would be a valid consideration, except that Windows 7 is foisted on the public through retail channels for a ridiculously high sum of money with no mention that a professional staff is required to use it properly. Luckily, you've let us all know that parts of the system being sold are automatically blocked. In any other industry that is called "not being fit for the use for which it was sold." A less flattering description is false advertisement.
Now you can go back to playing with your Realdoll.
Laws could well have changed, but at the time, you could buy a box of dynamite--minus one stick. You had to get a permit to buy a whole box. Dynamite being a very handy tool around farms, the more rural hardware stores tend to be where you find it.
But you don't need "dynamite" per se. You can find the same stuff being sold in tents along a lot of highways in the weeks leading up to July 4th in the US.
As far as 1000 pounds? I'm not sure where that number came from, but yeah, 1000 pounds isn't hard to amass. You just don't buy it from the same place or at the same time.
I've been told, but have never confirmed, that firing a .22 caliber bullet into a silk stocking that is hanging from a clothes line will result in the bullet being captured. The silk bends and is slippery enough that the momentum is absorbed through the entire length.
People make mistakes. A company that has produced some of the richest people in the world and has extracted billions of dollars from the world's economy should have some processes in place to insure that bugs found years ago do not creep back in. It's called regression testing.
Reader xploraiswakco adds, "As important as this the mentioned article is, it should also be pointed out that any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall, and probably port 445. too."
The reader xploraiswakco needs to pull his head out of that dark place and realize that my wife doesn't have an IT staff (I refuse to do Windows). I would even dare to say that most people don't have an IT staff at home. It's a stretch, I know, But I'm the kind of guy that takes chances like that.
Does reader xploraiswakco carry an IT staff with him in case he needs to use a wifi hotspot some place?
Watch the coverage of any "demonstration" shown on any news show. They try their hardest to get a camera angle to show it in a "bigger" light than it actually is. Usually they'll do close-ups of the cardboard posters of the 3 people that did show up. All the new outlets are in the controversy manufacturing business. It sells adds.
And a lot of people were quite miffed at the Obama worship hour.
EXACTLY!
Which is why I don't throw chairs at people that just want a phone that makes calls. It can't be an iPhone, because they suck and I don't own a TV anymore...and I'm glad of it. Nothing to watch since Farscape is gone.
To bad you posted AC. This is just so true.
I was working a an electronics manufacturing plant that had to shutdown for a day because a stray bullet from a hunter CRACKED a ceramic, high-voltage line support. The electricians comments what "high-voltage electricity does some strange things". The crack allowed for a circuit to complete using ionized air.
The terrorist wouldn't even need extravagant equipment. A van with a small hole in the side. Ride around the country side shooting randomly into converter stations. A little hardware store dynamite at the base of some well chosen dams would reek havoc. It is just ridiculously easy to destroy.
Microsoft has this great new technology, that is dirt cheap and blows away anything the competition has ever come up with. Don't buy the competition's stuff, because ours will be available *next year!!*
C'mon, people! This tactic ain't close enough to original to even be interesting. Can we put the Duke Nukem symbol next to this story.
And that's the real story. Even the worst of these people in power aren't malicious for malice's sake, and they aren't hungry for power, for power's sake. They just want a secure stream of money which they can use to live the rest of their days the way they want. The occasional screwing of other people is just an unpleasant means to an end.
And, of course, this makes them far too selfish and self-contented to actually engage in anything conspiratorial.
You're claim that some people do not seek power for power's sake is naive in the extreme.
Maybe we should define slavery. You can look at it as being in chains, bent over to pick cotton. My own definition is having my comings and goings ordered by someone else. There is a spectrum to slavery, in my view.
If you'll accept my definition for the sake of argument, you'll see that there doesn't need to be a grand, carefully planned conspiracy. You have a natural order of small players interacting in such a way that power is slowly transferred from the less powerful to the anointed. Eventually, the least powerful are "subjects of the Crown", peasants (who aren't allowed to leave the land they were born on), or a host of other names that can all be translated to slave.
If it would actually save energy cost, it should be investigated. Obama has been pushing some energy conservation initiatives as part of a stimulus package. Start with a small farm. Cover the house and out-buildings. You get experience dealing with the snow, air handling involving noxious odors, and some farmer gets a nicer winter.
Use the lessons learned to cover a suburb. I realize they have home-owner's associations, so the noxious fume problem will be much greater, but it is a learning experience, after all.
Use the lessons learned to cover a town.
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I have built most of an airplane and studied a lot of aerodynamics in the process. The one thing I can say for certain is that ETFE cannot withstand a wind of 180mph, nor can any other "material". Materials don't withstand forces. Structures do. I can stick a cube of this stuff on the nose of an SR-71 and claim it survives Mach 4.5. Or I can make a sheet so thin that it comes apart in a slight breeze.
The statement you quoted is quite as meaningless as you surmised.
But they way they are doing this is just a trap basically. I bet the phone doesn't even tell you if you go over the limit, unless you look in some deeply buried menu. They are just setting you up for a huge bill during that one month when you actually use the phone's internet capabilities to their full potential.
Sorry, no menu buried anywhere. They'll tell you how much data you've used....since the last time you reset the counter. This counter on your phone doesn't have any correlation to the counters they keep from month to month. It is basically worthless unless you use some obscure hacks to track when your plan starts and ends in a month.
I'm always confused when people trash Ayn Rand on this sight. That may be because I'm only familiar with "Atlas Shrugged", but my reading indicates that the philosophy presented is quite different from what you indicate.
You present the idea that her philosophy entails an economy unfettered with any sort of regulation.
My reading of the story portrays the unfettered capitalist as the worst villains. The unfettered capitalist making backroom deals, and manipulating the government to create confiscatory laws ("The Anti Dog Eat Dog Laws"). The unfettered capitalist had more to do with the destruction of society in her novel than the government did. Her novel, if anything, would be a condemnation of government being manipulated by large corporate interest. A condemnation that extends to the manner we see the cell-phone market being twisted with "unlimited" plans that aren't, with no response from the body that has been tasked with maintaining an honest marketplace (FTC).
I guess the point of my post is to question why do you think Ayn Rand would have any sympathy for these sort of shenanigans?
Because the Demucans answer to everything is "more government". The federal soup needs a little libertarian flavor to make them justify "more government".
As opposed to forcing churches to pronounce gay marriages, and thus intrude on religious organizations!
Marriage is a religious thing, no matter which way you turn it. The government should get their nose out of it either way. All those "benefits" are just a noose for power hungry politicians to hang us all with.
What could they possibly want that requires a conspiracy involving the media, and a plan that's apparently been orchestrating hundreds of people without a hitch over a decade or two?
How did nearly all countries in Europe progress from tribes living pretty much freely, to being "subjects of the crown" and stripped of all civil rights that were not granted to them by the aristocracy. It didn't happen overnight. The peasants gave up their rights to the knights for some protection, who swore their allegiance to the lords. Eventually, the peasants had to rise up and fight a war to beat the aristocracy back.
The aristocracy wants control, and it isn't a conspiracy. It is an open lie. That media and hundreds of people are co-conspirators that participate to gain their own bit of power.
"I'll talk nice about Obama so he'll grant me an interview which will advance my career."
"I'm for the Democrats/Republicans, because there latest plan gives me more welfare/tax breaks/whatever."
Where do you see in the media or in the debates that someone's idea is promoted because it makes friggin' sense in a civilized society? It's is all about what do I get. And it all leads to the slaughterhouse of enslavement.
How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic?
Yes, it does make a difference. If I pay for a finished product, I expect it to be finished. If someone hands me a CD and says try this, I will try it, but not get upset if it doesn't work out perfectly.
In this society that we call open source, we fully understand that Canonical doesn't have the resources to run large test labs. We also know that we get the product for free, and can ban together with a large cadre of like-minded folks to fix problems that we do find. Most Ubuntu releases are initially full of problems. They tend to dissipate much quicker than your first Service Pack that you'll get from the behemoth that HAS charged you enough to do some proper engineering and testing.
Wait! You want to give street cred to Bill Gates for developing...BASIC? The one language credited with destroying the future hopes of a generation of computer programmers. Heh, look how great an architect Hitler was! He developed gas chambers!
"Everything else they've put out sucked...but, this newest thing they've released has been really great for the two weeks I've used it!!"
I've been listening to this deluded line ever since I ditched W3.1 for OS/2 so that I could get some DOS programming done. Microsoft has single-handedly done more to hold back the advancement of personal computing than IBM, AT&T, Compaq, HP, and a dozen other proprietary, half-assed crack pushing corporations combined. It is there ability to market their "geekness" to an unknowing, uncaring populous that makes them popular, and has worked against interoperability standards that would allow a host of solutions to flourish and interoperate.
Go worship Ballmer for giving you Vist 2.0. I still look forward to the day when the populace wakes up to how much damage they've done, and the whole company becomes as relevant as DEC.
Efficient at what? Many of us translate "efficient" government into "oppressive" government.
He had a landslide with 53% of the vote? Really? "EVERYBODY voted for Obama" and 53% is a landslide?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
hot women like Mrs. Obama
Could we stop with this particular piece of idiocy? Rachel Maddo may think she's hot, but since when did floppy triceps and a flabby ass qualify one to be a runway model?
Forget the egg. It looks like they have secret taps on their phones.
If the government insists that it can break the law with impunity, how do they expect to govern?
By keeping the public distracted with arguments over what talk radio hosts are saying. No, really, who cares what Rush Limbaugh has to say, unless he is raising valid points against you? It's all about keeping the sheep preoccupied until they're in the gates and can't back out from the slaughterhouse.