I'm not the world's most up to date person in terms of cellphone things but this is what I have seen up to now:
The only time I have ever seen a programme on any cellphone crash is the little mini version of IE that Sony has in it's phone. This may have been an isolated incident, I don't know, but I know that if you give me the choice, here in Europe, between Nokia and any phone using scaled down versions of Microsoft's Desktop programes I will take Nokia. I want a phone and not a mini desktop.
I think that it would have been comparitively easy for US intelligence agents to get their technicians placed among the workers of the companies that did the outfitting of this plane and install the bugs, even though they were being watched by Chinese Security Officials. I suspect your average Intelligence Official is an oxymoron and wouldn't really know what to look out for or what an electronic spying device was even if it was placed directly in front of him.
And what can happen with an unknown plane outfitting company could just as easily happen with Microsoft, or at least I can imagine that the Chinese would be given to thinking along those lines. Since this incident happened before China oficially decided to use RedFlag as it's main OS I can well and truly understand the rationale.
I just wish that some other national institutions in Europe would act likewise, most notably the Bundestag in Germany, which is trying to decide whether to Linux or not.
[Insert Pro-Linux Outcry]
Linux is f*cking A, mate.
[Insert Rambling Out-Of-My-Ass Reasons why Survey Can't Be Correct]
Because your ass smells bad, mate.
[Insert Attack on Microsoft]
Microsoft smells too, mate.
[Insert Short Insult To Silly Un-learned Users Who Don't Know Better]
Just say no, mate.
[Insert Reminder That Survey Can't Be True]
It isn't, mate.
[Close with Name, Followed By Witty Anti-M$ Slogan, Being Sure To Substitute A Dollar Sign For The "S" Because Doing That Is Inventive And Hilarious]
Take a deep breath, mate, and press the funny "e" at the top right of your browser, mate, and you'll be sorted, mate.
Dumb shit scenario:
First AAEP(Anti American Evil Person):Holding cup of anti american coffee,says to second AAEP,"Why don't we just make our own little personal code?".
AAEP2:"Great idea, Hassan, uhm I mean AAEP1"
AAEP1:"So...here goes:You'll be Britney and I'll be Pamela. Hacking will be called "posing naked" and AOL will be called "George Bush"." etc etc
Coupla weeks later MIB(Men in Black ) intercept email from AAEP1 to AAEP2. Contents: Cool, Britney you wanna pose naked for george Bush tonight?
Being the ever vigilant MIB's that they are, they also intercepted the answer.
Contents:Yo, Pam, and after posing naked for GeorgeB I'm gonna suck his dick.
Get the picture? You don't need PGP or AV tools or whatever if you really want to hide whatever it is that you want to hide. I think those who are mostly innocent will be those who suffer the most as per usual whenever some or other government decides it has to spy on and control the general populace.
drops a nuclear bomb on the US. Will the government pretend it didn't happen or accuse everybody who knew about it beforehand of trying to destabilize the country?
Pol Pot-Cambodia, Hitler-Germany, McArthy-US, Big Brother-1984, Taleban-Afghanistan, Jerry Falwell-US, Bill Mundie-Microsoft. I think the "ramifications" in the book are very current.
Everyone knows that when you type "Fat baboon dancing on a stage" into a thesaurus you get the synomyns
a)Overproductive sweat glands
b)Steve B
c)Joe's stage repairs
d)Weight Watchers
e)Comic situations in 2001
Some nice gentleman from taiwan hacked my hotmail account about two months ago using the previous hotmail hack because yoyosoft just used a numeric counter in the paramters of the message in place of a real session id.
By chance I discovered that you can with a bit of minor browser knowledge-- tag mails to a hotmail account and , at the very least find out from where and when the tagged mail has been read. Great news for spammers. Because I am surely not the first one to use this doubleclick trick.
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Huh? You must be joking. M$ and AOL "enlightened companies"???
You're dead right about the pointless evangelising, but you don't seem to be above taking the odd shot at others either.
Actually, Bob, what makes me wonder the most is why you're actually doing all these attacks. I mean you're a senior vice president of a large company coming out of the office(excuse the pun) to play soccer with the boys from the slums on the other side of town so to speak. Insulting them will defintely not get you or them anywhere in a hurry. Maybe they know this and maybe they don't, you're the one with the wallet to lose in a scuffle, not them.
On the desktop M$ has nothing to worry about at the moment, but on the server side it has quite a lot to worry about, mainly due to the terrible trio -Apache-PHP-MySQL I would imagine. I also would imagine that it would be nigh on impossible to get all those who use the above mentioned to switch to a fairly expensive M$ alternative. No one can see any advantage in doing so. I know I can't (I'm also from the slums by the way) and being from the slums, or in the real world -the average user- I don't trust M$. The user who just uses the desktop is not interested in these arguments anyway, but the rest of us who go that step further and try to further our knowledge or get interrested in topics for some or other reason, read something like "marketed and targeted and have it's superiority proven" and basically just think that is "typical marketing hype". Marketing is just that - marketing. And superior software is a relative term, as you well know.
I'll show you what I mean:
I use Apache_PHP_MySQL on Linux and Mac osx because it's cheap (I pay in time learning to use and implement it), the support is cheap (there are so many newsgroups and websites where there are very many helpful supportive people, again I pay in time) and to my and many others minds, it is very robust "superior" software.
IF I used MS IIS, ASP and MS SQL on Win2K I would have to pay quite a hefty price for all the software alone. The price in time would be no less learning to use and implement it. The support would also be more expensive as there are not as many ASP_IIS_SQL newsgroups and sites out there and I would be forced to turn to MS for support for which I would have to pay. To a lot of people, these are also robust , "superior" applications.
But as a slum dweller who has to look at each penny I spend I want to know where my pennies are going and with opensource I have the opportunity to see for myslef what I'm getting, and if I don't like it none of the other slum dwellers are going to threaten or insult me because I'm using Perl or TCL or PostgreSql or Tomcat or Java. You on the other hand would and do threaten and insult me for my choice and try to coopt the powers that be force me to use your choice. I don't like that. The other slum dwellers don't like it either. And there're a lot more of us in this world than there are of you.
Alone we're not much, but together we're a fine crowd.
I got a mac and a pc, since macosx came out I haven't touched a pc. I know apple would probably be as bad or worse than m$ if they were larger but as it stands at the moment apple doesn't give a toss what os you use on your machine or if it's gpl or not.
Hey billy boy , you f***er. I live in europe. I don't car a F*** if you engage in spewing nationalistic s*** over there. Cause, over here you're f***ed anyway. Last survey I saw at netcraft, in germany Linux was in the majority. You can f***'em some of the time but you can't f***'em all of the time, you greedy c***. You've got so much f***en money, you p**** and you still want more. Go FUCK yourself boyo!
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I'm not the world's most up to date person in terms of cellphone things but this is what I have seen up to now:
The only time I have ever seen a programme on any cellphone crash is the little mini version of IE that Sony has in it's phone. This may have been an isolated incident, I don't know, but I know that if you give me the choice, here in Europe, between Nokia and any phone using scaled down versions of Microsoft's Desktop programes I will take Nokia. I want a phone and not a mini desktop.
has a claim to fame here with his cyberspace cowboys "jacking" into "decks" by placing so called "trodes" on their heads. Vis. Neuromancer 1983.
Thanks for the comments, Bill.
I think that it would have been comparitively easy for US intelligence agents to get their technicians placed among the workers of the companies that did the outfitting of this plane and install the bugs, even though they were being watched by Chinese Security Officials. I suspect your average Intelligence Official is an oxymoron and wouldn't really know what to look out for or what an electronic spying device was even if it was placed directly in front of him.
And what can happen with an unknown plane outfitting company could just as easily happen with Microsoft, or at least I can imagine that the Chinese would be given to thinking along those lines. Since this incident happened before China oficially decided to use RedFlag as it's main OS I can well and truly understand the rationale.
I just wish that some other national institutions in Europe would act likewise, most notably the Bundestag in Germany, which is trying to decide whether to Linux or not.
[Insert Pro-Linux Outcry]
Linux is f*cking A, mate.
[Insert Rambling Out-Of-My-Ass Reasons why Survey Can't Be Correct]
Because your ass smells bad, mate.
[Insert Attack on Microsoft]
Microsoft smells too, mate.
[Insert Short Insult To Silly Un-learned Users Who Don't Know Better]
Just say no, mate.
[Insert Reminder That Survey Can't Be True]
It isn't, mate.
[Close with Name, Followed By Witty Anti-M$ Slogan, Being Sure To Substitute A Dollar Sign For The "S" Because Doing That Is Inventive And Hilarious]
Take a deep breath, mate, and press the funny "e" at the top right of your browser, mate, and you'll be sorted, mate.
Dumb shit scenario: ." etc etc
First AAEP(Anti American Evil Person):Holding cup of anti american coffee,says to second AAEP,"Why don't we just make our own little personal code?".
AAEP2:"Great idea, Hassan, uhm I mean AAEP1"
AAEP1:"So...here goes:You'll be Britney and I'll be Pamela. Hacking will be called "posing naked" and AOL will be called "George Bush"
Coupla weeks later MIB(Men in Black ) intercept email from AAEP1 to AAEP2. Contents: Cool, Britney you wanna pose naked for george Bush tonight?
Being the ever vigilant MIB's that they are, they also intercepted the answer.
Contents:Yo, Pam, and after posing naked for GeorgeB I'm gonna suck his dick.
Get the picture? You don't need PGP or AV tools or whatever if you really want to hide whatever it is that you want to hide. I think those who are mostly innocent will be those who suffer the most as per usual whenever some or other government decides it has to spy on and control the general populace.
Twit
Serves him right for using telnet. Now bugger off and go back to playing with yourself.
Some pieces of software have more ways of being broken than others.
Ahmen
Good thing that some governments in Europe are considering moving over to Linux.
drops a nuclear bomb on the US. Will the government pretend it didn't happen or accuse everybody who knew about it beforehand of trying to destabilize the country?
It is a lot more comfortable when it rains, and it does 50 miles an hour.
T'es con,toi.
Pol Pot-Cambodia, Hitler-Germany, McArthy-US, Big Brother-1984, Taleban-Afghanistan, Jerry Falwell-US, Bill Mundie-Microsoft. I think the "ramifications" in the book are very current.
Content or rather the lack of it seem to be guiding principles at Microsoft.
Either you're taking the piss or else you really are a racist batstard. And you forgot the commas between your nice words.
Your spelling of "niggar" is incorrect.
Everyone knows that when you type "Fat baboon dancing on a stage" into a thesaurus you get the synomyns
a)Overproductive sweat glands
b)Steve B
c)Joe's stage repairs
d)Weight Watchers
e)Comic situations in 2001
Some nice gentleman from taiwan hacked my hotmail account about two months ago using the previous hotmail hack because yoyosoft just used a numeric counter in the paramters of the message in place of a real session id.
By chance I discovered that you can with a bit of minor browser knowledge-- tag mails to a hotmail account and , at the very least find out from where and when the tagged mail has been read. Great news for spammers. Because I am surely not the first one to use this doubleclick trick.
Huh? You must be joking. M$ and AOL "enlightened companies"???
You're dead right about the pointless evangelising, but you don't seem to be above taking the odd shot at others either.
Actually, Bob, what makes me wonder the most is why you're actually doing all these attacks. I mean you're a senior vice president of a large company coming out of the office(excuse the pun) to play soccer with the boys from the slums on the other side of town so to speak. Insulting them will defintely not get you or them anywhere in a hurry. Maybe they know this and maybe they don't, you're the one with the wallet to lose in a scuffle, not them.
On the desktop M$ has nothing to worry about at the moment, but on the server side it has quite a lot to worry about, mainly due to the terrible trio -Apache-PHP-MySQL I would imagine. I also would imagine that it would be nigh on impossible to get all those who use the above mentioned to switch to a fairly expensive M$ alternative. No one can see any advantage in doing so. I know I can't (I'm also from the slums by the way) and being from the slums, or in the real world -the average user- I don't trust M$. The user who just uses the desktop is not interested in these arguments anyway, but the rest of us who go that step further and try to further our knowledge or get interrested in topics for some or other reason, read something like "marketed and targeted and have it's superiority proven" and basically just think that is "typical marketing hype". Marketing is just that - marketing. And superior software is a relative term, as you well know.
I'll show you what I mean: I use Apache_PHP_MySQL on Linux and Mac osx because it's cheap (I pay in time learning to use and implement it), the support is cheap (there are so many newsgroups and websites where there are very many helpful supportive people, again I pay in time) and to my and many others minds, it is very robust "superior" software.
IF I used MS IIS, ASP and MS SQL on Win2K I would have to pay quite a hefty price for all the software alone. The price in time would be no less learning to use and implement it. The support would also be more expensive as there are not as many ASP_IIS_SQL newsgroups and sites out there and I would be forced to turn to MS for support for which I would have to pay. To a lot of people, these are also robust , "superior" applications.
But as a slum dweller who has to look at each penny I spend I want to know where my pennies are going and with opensource I have the opportunity to see for myslef what I'm getting, and if I don't like it none of the other slum dwellers are going to threaten or insult me because I'm using Perl or TCL or PostgreSql or Tomcat or Java. You on the other hand would and do threaten and insult me for my choice and try to coopt the powers that be force me to use your choice. I don't like that. The other slum dwellers don't like it either. And there're a lot more of us in this world than there are of you. Alone we're not much, but together we're a fine crowd.
Now, about that game....
I got a mac and a pc, since macosx came out I haven't touched a pc. I know apple would probably be as bad or worse than m$ if they were larger but as it stands at the moment apple doesn't give a toss what os you use on your machine or if it's gpl or not.
mmm... then again they also sell the machines
Hey billy boy , you f***er. I live in europe. I don't car a F*** if you engage in spewing nationalistic s*** over there. Cause, over here you're f***ed anyway. Last survey I saw at netcraft, in germany Linux was in the majority. You can f***'em some of the time but you can't f***'em all of the time, you greedy c***. You've got so much f***en money, you p**** and you still want more. Go FUCK yourself boyo!
Why doesn't someone put the poor bastard out of his misery? I mean, sooner or later, someone's gonna get pissed and kill him, right?
F*** Man, I pissed myself at this one, can I copy it, and paste it all over the web, or are you inovating?