Too bad, if you are strictly and zealously against anything MS, you are cutting the possible employers in programming field down a lot.
Would this not be evolutionary? What if ALL the brilliant programmers in the world made this demand? Would that not leave the merely competent ones to work on Windows?? Oh, wait...
Face it, as long as MS 'rules' there's going to be more job opportunities regarding MS products than non-MS.
And there will always be more competent programmers than brilliant ones. Seem's self regulating to me.
Funny, my person, house, papers and effects are still secure and can't be searched without probable cause. The Supreme Court just extended further into the technical advances of searches saying they can't thermally image my home without a warrant either.
Unless someone who doesn't like you calls in an anonymous tip about your rampant marijuana smoking or selling. Then we'll see how secure your stuff is.
Maybe in the UK, but not here. We Americans are rather proud of the freedoms we've fought for. No our legal system is not perfect. But if you want to stir up American sentiment - tell them their right to free speech is going to be subject to some foreign judicial body. I'll pickup an M16 myself and overthrow any legal body that sells my First Amendment rights out from under me.
Where were you when the legal bodies were dispensing with your fourth amendment rights?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Or are you only concerned with one special part of the Constitution?
However, had your.22 been high enough power to rupture the tank it was in, the acetone spewing out at 250 PSIG would have surely created a much more spectacular fireball than the gasoline, since just the acetone itself is *much much* more flammable than gasoline.
Thanks for seeing the point. If they were storing compressed air in gasoline tanks, I admit that there would be huge safety issues. Since highly compressed air would definitely be kept in something a little stronger than your average gasoline tank.
1: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Microsoft, plain as day.
2: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Definately Microsoft.
3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Justice department strikes a blow which proves less than effective.
4: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Bill, the Father of Lies and the naa-naa naa-naa-naa attitude towards the Justice department.
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
The end result of too much Passport.
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Definately Passport.
18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
And the teaser. I saw something to do with numerology and Bill's name. somewhere....
Compressed gases are incredibly dangerous. Moreso than barely-flammable liquids like gasoline, in my opinion. I think I'll pass.
Try this! 1. Cylinder full of highly flammable, highly compressed acetylene. 2. Typical automotive gas tank full of gasoline.
Set both about 500 feet away. Shoot with 22 rifle. The gasoline looks pretty while it goes up in a huge fireball on the first shot. The acetylene just, well, after 25 shots, the tank was still a tank. I gave up.
If ZD handles the site correctly, and doesn't bias the reviews, then it's one more useful resource. If they do a lousy job and/or are not objective in their reports, then techies will avoid their site in droves.
ZD will target it to the average user and the corporate world, not techies. They will then add in their usual bias (How much advertising were you booking? Oh, you want the Editors Choice Package...)
It's not as if there is such a limited market for hardware review sites that one more entry into the field will kill off the weaker players.... is it?
Wanted: Serious hardware reviewer to write articles for mainstream hardware review site. Pay's great, steady work, JOLT Cola on tap. Apply here... How long until Joey Independent (read starving) hardware reviewer folds his site and moves to the big time. Pretty soon, no more independent hardware review sites.
Have we already forgotten that SourceForge and apache.org were just compromised? Were their systems set up like a 13 year old might? Why is it that whenever there's a security compromise, a bunch of yahoos come out and insist that it is the fault of incompetent administration or clueless users, when even some of the most technically sophisticated groups can't protect themselves against intrustion?
This happens because there is a big difference between a cracker exploiting security holes on servers that have active defence (analogy: Cat burglary a'la Entrapment (1999): Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Will Patton, Jon Amiel) as opposed to utilizing security flaws in unwitting users machines to exploit structural weaknesses in the architecture of the internet (analogy: The idiocy of what the Dukes of Hazzard were able to do to Boss Hog. Incompetence exploited.)
This is like blaming a rape on the victim's failure to dress properly. Do you have some sort of commitment to a philosophy of social Darwinism that makes it impossible for you to accept that the victims did nothing wrong and that the perps are, in fact, entirely blameworthy?
Well, it appears to me that the rape victim is naked, the bank vault door is wide open and the huge signs proclaiming "FREE BANDWIDTH" are lit and well positioned. That's like dangling a T-Bone steak in front of a pack of poodles, then not giving it to them and expecting them to be happy about it. If the cause (poor client security and ISP apathy) always leads to the same effect (Zombies, bots and trojans), what would you do? I would eliminate the cause.
Complain about non-standard, closed source, etc...
"I'm sorry Mister Jones, but because 80% of the population is totally braindead, we are unable to show our regular movie on this flight. You'll have to settle for 'Elmo In New York'."
Or
"No, no, no... 80% of our readers don't know what grammar is, so you'll just have to relearn English."
Just because something is popular, doesn't make it correct.
Many USians view on drugs & alcohol are that while they may or may not be intrinsically bad in a closed environment, in the real world they can and are major problems for those people who can't handle their chemicals. Are we supposed to allow blanket permission, and then when it fucks someone up (sometimes for life) tell them sorry & point them to rehab?
No, apparently it is better to tell them how evil they are, send them off to the tender care of the US's largest growth industry (the prison system) and let that fuck them up for life. Typical right wing bullshit. Take someone with a medical problem (addiction) and criminalize them. All the while building a new generation of prohibition billionaires.
The government can do something. Mandatory REVERSIBLE sterilization at 9 years old. Down the road, once you reach the mandatory minimum age for parenting, have applied for a licence, have completed all the courses and testing, have been through relationship counseling and have committed to a mate, then and only then, the government will temporarily re-instate your fertility. Think of the side benefits, no abortion issue etc. etc.
Apply this to what's left of the U.S. market. 45% of 300 million people = 135 million people x $200 per terminal = $27 billion dollars. What is that number of eyeballs worth anyway?
Canadian Information Processing Society. Standards, ethics, everthing you're looking for except a rating system. They do make an honest effort to police the ranks and ensure that qualifications are checked. Candidates for membership are even screened for competency. Australia has one as well, I'm surprised the U.S. doesn't.
I run a small systems company that builds high-end gaming systems for educated consumers. Three months ago, we removed Intel mainboards and processors from our system lineup. The reasoning had to do mainly with price/performance issues, along with Intel's inclination to force you into a new mainboard everytime you want to upgrade your processor. I'm pleased to report that the 90+ customers who've purchased Athlon systems from us have reported no problems at all with their ASUS K7M and ABIT KA7 mainboards. And they all survived the ILOVEYOU virus due to our policy of deleting IE and Outlook from their systems and getting them started with Netscape and Eudora Light, but that's another issue.
Your system is one system. Thousands if not MILLIONS of computers were affected by this virus. Simple cost-analysis says getting the ILOVEYOU guy is more worth it than laboriously tracking down the person who hacked you.
So we should stop pursuing murders who only kill one person and devote our energies to only capturing serial killers because it is more cost effective? One law for all, or we may as well give up.
Who knows what the punishment will be. Now, given that they are guilty and that some punishment is inevitable, why not hit them where it hurts. Lower the applications barrier to entry. Open the entire Win32 API to incorporation in other OS's. IBM struggled for years to reverse engineer Win32 into OS/2 and WINE, well imagine how much easier these efforts would be if Microsoft was required to share not only the existing, but also any new code with competitors. Then there OS products would be forced to compete on features, performance, price and stability, NOT on excluding everyone else from the party. The FoF showed the lengths that MS would go to to protect the applications barrier to entry. Hit them where it hurts.
"Let people invest their money (rather than take it from them as taxes and 'invest' in wonderful gubmint programs to reach the moon, build pyramids, etc.) and see what transpires from free markets."
We (the human race) don't have time. When the #### hits the fan, the rich will hunker down in their bunkers and enjoy the extra six months they bought themselves, while the rest of us fry. We too had the opportunity to buy ourselves six extra months, but traded it for 'bread and circuses' instead.
We're literally in a box of our own making and one of the ways out was in space. The other is distasteful in that it requires being knocked back to the bronze age for a few centuries and the loss of 90% of the people alive today. But, really, it's all O.K. as long as we have Disney and Coca-Cola, we'll get by.
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Too bad, if you are strictly and zealously against anything MS, you are cutting the possible employers in programming field down a lot.
Would this not be evolutionary? What if ALL the brilliant programmers in the world made this demand? Would that not leave the merely competent ones to work on Windows?? Oh, wait...
Face it, as long as MS 'rules' there's going to be more job opportunities regarding MS products than non-MS.
And there will always be more competent programmers than brilliant ones. Seem's self regulating to me.
Funny, my person, house, papers and effects are still secure and can't be searched without probable cause. The Supreme Court just extended further into the technical advances of searches saying they can't thermally image my home without a warrant either.
Unless someone who doesn't like you calls in an anonymous tip about your rampant marijuana smoking or selling. Then we'll see how secure your stuff is.
Maybe in the UK, but not here. We Americans are rather proud of the freedoms we've fought for. No our legal system is not perfect. But if you want to stir up American sentiment - tell them their right to free speech is going to be subject to some foreign judicial body. I'll pickup an M16 myself and overthrow any legal body that sells my First Amendment rights out from under me.
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Where were you when the legal bodies were dispensing with your fourth amendment rights?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Or are you only concerned with one special part of the Constitution?
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http://www.free-market.net/spotlight/searches/
http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civill
"Anyone who would trade freedom for safety deserves neither." - Benjamin Franklin
However, had your .22 been high enough power to rupture the tank it was in, the acetone spewing out at 250 PSIG would have surely created a much more spectacular fireball than the gasoline, since just the acetone itself is *much much* more flammable than gasoline.
Thanks for seeing the point. If they were storing compressed air in gasoline tanks, I admit that there would be huge safety issues. Since highly compressed air would definitely be kept in something a little stronger than your average gasoline tank.
Revelation, chapter 13
1: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Microsoft, plain as day.
2: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Definately Microsoft.
3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Justice department strikes a blow which proves less than effective.
4: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Bill, the Father of Lies and the naa-naa naa-naa-naa attitude towards the Justice department.
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
The end result of too much Passport.
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Definately Passport.
18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
And the teaser. I saw something to do with numerology and Bill's name. somewhere....
Compressed gases are incredibly dangerous. Moreso than barely-flammable liquids like gasoline, in my opinion. I think I'll pass.
Try this! 1. Cylinder full of highly flammable, highly compressed acetylene. 2. Typical automotive gas tank full of gasoline.
Set both about 500 feet away. Shoot with 22 rifle. The gasoline looks pretty while it goes up in a huge fireball on the first shot. The acetylene just, well, after 25 shots, the tank was still a tank. I gave up.
If ZD handles the site correctly, and doesn't bias the reviews, then it's one more useful resource. If they do a lousy job and/or are not objective in their reports, then techies will avoid their site in droves.
ZD will target it to the average user and the corporate world, not techies. They will then add in their usual bias (How much advertising were you booking? Oh, you want the Editors Choice Package...)
It's not as if there is such a limited market for hardware review sites that one more entry into the field will kill off the weaker players.... is it?
Wanted: Serious hardware reviewer to write articles for mainstream hardware review site. Pay's great, steady work, JOLT Cola on tap. Apply here... How long until Joey Independent (read starving) hardware reviewer folds his site and moves to the big time. Pretty soon, no more independent hardware review sites.
Have we already forgotten that SourceForge and apache.org were just compromised? Were their systems set up like a 13 year old might? Why is it that whenever there's a security compromise, a bunch of yahoos come out and insist that it is the fault of incompetent administration or clueless users, when even some of the most technically sophisticated groups can't protect themselves against intrustion?
This happens because there is a big difference between a cracker exploiting security holes on servers that have active defence (analogy: Cat burglary a'la Entrapment (1999): Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Will Patton, Jon Amiel) as opposed to utilizing security flaws in unwitting users machines to exploit structural weaknesses in the architecture of the internet (analogy: The idiocy of what the Dukes of Hazzard were able to do to Boss Hog. Incompetence exploited.)
This is like blaming a rape on the victim's failure to dress properly. Do you have some sort of commitment to a philosophy of social Darwinism that makes it impossible for you to accept that the victims did nothing wrong and that the perps are, in fact, entirely blameworthy?
Well, it appears to me that the rape victim is naked, the bank vault door is wide open and the huge signs proclaiming "FREE BANDWIDTH" are lit and well positioned. That's like dangling a T-Bone steak in front of a pack of poodles, then not giving it to them and expecting them to be happy about it. If the cause (poor client security and ISP apathy) always leads to the same effect (Zombies, bots and trojans), what would you do? I would eliminate the cause.
Complain about non-standard, closed source, etc...
"I'm sorry Mister Jones, but because 80% of the population is totally braindead, we are unable to show our regular movie on this flight. You'll have to settle for 'Elmo In New York'."
Or
"No, no, no... 80% of our readers don't know what grammar is, so you'll just have to relearn English."
Just because something is popular, doesn't make it correct.
Many USians view on drugs & alcohol are that while they may or may not be intrinsically bad in a closed environment, in the real world they can and are major problems for those people who can't handle their chemicals. Are we supposed to allow blanket permission, and then when it fucks someone up (sometimes for life) tell them sorry & point them to rehab?
No, apparently it is better to tell them how evil they are, send them off to the tender care of the US's largest growth industry (the prison system) and let that fuck them up for life. Typical right wing bullshit. Take someone with a medical problem (addiction) and criminalize them. All the while building a new generation of prohibition billionaires.
The government can do something. Mandatory REVERSIBLE sterilization at 9 years old. Down the road, once you reach the mandatory minimum age for parenting, have applied for a licence, have completed all the courses and testing, have been through relationship counseling and have committed to a mate, then and only then, the government will temporarily re-instate your fertility. Think of the side benefits, no abortion issue etc. etc.
Apply this to what's left of the U.S. market. 45% of 300 million people = 135 million people x $200 per terminal = $27 billion dollars. What is that number of eyeballs worth anyway?
Canada! The only country to invade the United States and burn their capital to the ground. You want we should do it again?
Canadian Information Processing Society. Standards, ethics, everthing you're looking for except a rating system. They do make an honest effort to police the ranks and ensure that qualifications are checked. Candidates for membership are even screened for competency. Australia has one as well, I'm surprised the U.S. doesn't.
I run a small systems company that builds high-end gaming systems for educated consumers. Three months ago, we removed Intel mainboards and processors from our system lineup. The reasoning had to do mainly with price/performance issues, along with Intel's inclination to force you into a new mainboard everytime you want to upgrade your processor. I'm pleased to report that the 90+ customers who've purchased Athlon systems from us have reported no problems at all with their ASUS K7M and ABIT KA7 mainboards. And they all survived the ILOVEYOU virus due to our policy of deleting IE and Outlook from their systems and getting them started with Netscape and Eudora Light, but that's another issue.
Your system is one system. Thousands if not MILLIONS of computers were affected by this virus. Simple cost-analysis says getting the ILOVEYOU guy is more worth it than laboriously tracking down the person who hacked you.
So we should stop pursuing murders who only kill one person and devote our energies to only capturing serial killers because it is more cost effective? One law for all, or we may as well give up.
Who knows what the punishment will be. Now, given that they are guilty and that some punishment is inevitable, why not hit them where it hurts. Lower the applications barrier to entry. Open the entire Win32 API to incorporation in other OS's. IBM struggled for years to reverse engineer Win32 into OS/2 and WINE, well imagine how much easier these efforts would be if Microsoft was required to share not only the existing, but also any new code with competitors. Then there OS products would be forced to compete on features, performance, price and stability, NOT on excluding everyone else from the party.
The FoF showed the lengths that MS would go to to protect the applications barrier to entry. Hit them where it hurts.
"Let people invest their money (rather than take it from them as taxes and 'invest' in wonderful gubmint programs to reach the moon, build pyramids, etc.) and see what transpires from free markets."
We (the human race) don't have time. When the #### hits the fan, the rich will hunker down in their bunkers and enjoy the extra six months they bought themselves, while the rest of us fry. We too had the opportunity to buy ourselves six extra months, but traded it for 'bread and circuses' instead.
We're literally in a box of our own making and one of the ways out was in space. The other is distasteful in that it requires being knocked back to the bronze age for a few centuries and the loss of 90% of the people alive today. But, really, it's all O.K. as long as we have Disney and Coca-Cola, we'll get by.