must be an evil pirate circumventing Blizzard's right to force everyone to try and use the truly horrid POS that battle.net has become?
You know what Battle.net reminds me of now that I think about it? Having to take my turn in the barrel as moderator on/. and being exposed to all the garbage below 2...
Sir, the XP Activation team would like to sincerely apologize for today's unfortunate occurence. In order for you to better understand exactly why this happened, we would like to outline the following sequence of events:
1) Per the mandate from Sales and Marketing, every single machine on the Redmond campus has been upgraded to XP, including the XP Activation servers. (By the way, we would like to congratulate Procurement on the expedited delivery of ten new servers - while traffic has not substantially increased, our ability to process requests seemed to require additional hardware after the upgrade. Technical Support has informed us that nothing is wrong with the XP system itself, they believe our code is not optimized so we are investigating this issue).
2) In response to the recent posting of a so-called "XP key generator" by the Rebel Alliance, we turned on the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page that you designed, wrote and had us install right into the production Activation servers.
3) Immediately after turning on the module, all valid Activation and Authorization requests were denied while all invalid requests were approved. We are attempting to trace the source of this problem - we currently have it narrowed down to the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page. As this page contains over 10000 lines of code, we have yet to identify the root cause of the problem.
4) Additionally, it appears that once an authorization request is denied, the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page locks up the requesting computer, forcing it to display an animated glove which proceed to make several inappropriate gestures and repeatedly shouts "Die OpenSource scum!!!"
5) Becuase the XP Activation servers actually run on XP, they attempted to authorize themselves - while normally this request is approved, please see item 3 above.
6) The XP Activation servers responded correctly to the UnauthorizedKeyLockDown commands. Nor can they be unlocked until they can access a functioning Activation server. All valid authorization attempts from any client continue to receive the UnauthorizedKeyLockDown commands.
7) Our machines are now among the several thousand computers affected across the campus.
8) While several suggestions have been made on how to remedy this problem, all of them have procedural or policy issues for which we are waiting a response from Legal. For example, can we downgrade the XP Activation Servers to Windows2k? Our license agreement specifically forbids this, so we would need a waiver. The same thing is true for trying to use an invalid key - we have strict no-piracy policies which we have not been able to obtain permission to workaround.
9) At this point, we have no estimated resolution for this issue. Because we already have an open issue with Technical Support (see 1 above), they are unable to provide any further assistance until that issue is closed, which we are unable to currently accomplish (see items 1-8).
Please provide us with some guidance on how to proceed,
P.S. Okay, sad sad admission time - the original text said orally, and I changed it to verbally to avoid the thirteen year old trolls. See what it got me?;)
IANAL, but it seems like your statements are still defaming (slander is defamation committed verbally, libel is defamation committed in publication). Both of your statements are presented by you as fact, for which (in your scenario) you clearly have no basis for making such claims. That's pretty cut and dry defamation in any US jursidiction I bet.
Now, if you'd said things like:
"I wouldn't be surprised if LNUX (va linux systems) management spends exhorbidant sums of money on 'business trips' to China in order to sodomize pandas." - well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.
I think I'd rather try stealing from DeBeer's, Fort Knox or the Mafia or something much less dangerous to my health...
Have you ever been stuck on the Small World ride when the little boats get backed up? Ten minutes is what they do to the people they like (customers). Imagine how long you'd be strapped into the boat if they're catch you hacking? *shudder*
This book is a collection of some of his finest "prophetic" shorts. It also contains several essays on his future predicitons, including revisiting several of his older ones to see how he feels he did.
Solution Unsatisfactory is one the standout stories that comes to mind from the book. I'm at work, so I don't have it handy.
He also had some very interesting perspectives on the old Soviet Union based on his trips there with his wife.
Geez, I really miss him. And Zelazny. Think I'll read some of my old favorites of theirs over the holiday, no matter how much it cuts into Civ3.
Mesa Networks (here) provides 802.11b residential service, 1mbps up/down for $58/month. I have friends paying $200/month for 128k dual isdn (I Still Don't Net) so I think it's a great deal.
I've had the service for a couple of weeks now, low latency, no problems. Until I found out about them, I had no hope of getting service from Qwaste or the Deathstar.
I really hope it works out...I can definitely see small ISP's like this investing in NAN's as a way to increase consumer penetration in the area's they serve. Think of it this way, managing a NAN isn't that much harder for a small isp than managing the 802.11b infratstructure they're putting in place currently.
I'd wear a 'watch' if it was a simple lcd display connected to all my devices via bluetooth to achieve the following:
Display current time from my ntp sync'd celphone/pda
Beep and display the reminders set off by my PDA. The buttons on the watch could be used for snooze/dismiss, etc
Beep and display the caller id of an incoming call on the celphone in my pocket. Pressing a button would stop the ringing or answer and put on hold until I opened the phone.
Beep and display IM's
Anyway, the point is that watches should evolve to become interfaces, not applications and service provider technologies.
No, seriously...
If I had the magic CEO wand, I'd become a funds dispersement agency dedicated to investing in commercially oriented space technologies. Exactly what confluence of technologies will spark the space gold rush is out there waiting to be stumbled upon - we just haven't done it yet. So, how do we speed it up? Throw money at any idea that might work - think of it in terms of what the dot com gold rush did for info tech.
I live in a brand new subdivision that basically has no hope of getting any kind of dsl/cable broadband any time soon (God bless Qwaste and the Deathstar).
Then a neighbor told me about a small isp (Mesa Networks) that was offering fixed 802.11b connections for residential service in my area with 1-mbps up/down for $58/month. I called them up, arranged an installation time for a week later and have been up and running with no problems for a few weeks now.
Since then, it occurred to me that small shops like these offering fixed wireless access are a perfect compromise between the bloated-beauracracy-from-hell providers (ie here, here and here) and the unreliable, unmanaged, unavailable you-get-what-you-pay-for communal neighborhood nets that have been spawned as a backlash. It's become obvious that turning a profit offering broadband where last mile wiring is involved is extremely difficult if not impossible. But, the infrastructure to manage fized wireless seems a lot more manageable from a small business perspective to me
Anyway, I don't have the time, inclination or expertise to professionally manage an isp network and I really hope that the model these guys are pursuing pays off - I think small local providers have a much better chance of tailoring solutions that can cost effectively meet the broadband needs of neighborhoods and communities.
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You mean you still give $$$ to those dino-tech land line (and cable) fscks to help fund their political maniplulation?
With wireless from SprintPCS, MesaNetworks and DirectTV, the copper and coax feeds running into my house are dead dead dead.
I'm going to do my damndest to make sure I'll never need them again - it's called voting with my wallet.
must be an evil pirate circumventing Blizzard's right to force everyone to try and use the truly horrid POS that battle.net has become?
/. and being exposed to all the garbage below 2...
You know what Battle.net reminds me of now that I think about it? Having to take my turn in the barrel as moderator on
they usually surrender right away ;)
To: Bill Gates, Chief Software Architect, MSFT
From: XP Activation Team
Sir, the XP Activation team would like to sincerely apologize for today's unfortunate occurence. In order for you to better understand exactly why this happened, we would like to outline the following sequence of events:
1) Per the mandate from Sales and Marketing, every single machine on the Redmond campus has been upgraded to XP, including the XP Activation servers. (By the way, we would like to congratulate Procurement on the expedited delivery of ten new servers - while traffic has not substantially increased, our ability to process requests seemed to require additional hardware after the upgrade. Technical Support has informed us that nothing is wrong with the XP system itself, they believe our code is not optimized so we are investigating this issue).
2) In response to the recent posting of a so-called "XP key generator" by the Rebel Alliance, we turned on the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page that you designed, wrote and had us install right into the production Activation servers.
3) Immediately after turning on the module, all valid Activation and Authorization requests were denied while all invalid requests were approved. We are attempting to trace the source of this problem - we currently have it narrowed down to the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page. As this page contains over 10000 lines of code, we have yet to identify the root cause of the problem.
4) Additionally, it appears that once an authorization request is denied, the "UnauthorizedKeyLockDown.asp" page locks up the requesting computer, forcing it to display an animated glove which proceed to make several inappropriate gestures and repeatedly shouts "Die OpenSource scum!!!"
5) Becuase the XP Activation servers actually run on XP, they attempted to authorize themselves - while normally this request is approved, please see item 3 above.
6) The XP Activation servers responded correctly to the UnauthorizedKeyLockDown commands. Nor can they be unlocked until they can access a functioning Activation server. All valid authorization attempts from any client continue to receive the UnauthorizedKeyLockDown commands.
7) Our machines are now among the several thousand computers affected across the campus.
8) While several suggestions have been made on how to remedy this problem, all of them have procedural or policy issues for which we are waiting a response from Legal. For example, can we downgrade the XP Activation Servers to Windows2k? Our license agreement specifically forbids this, so we would need a waiver. The same thing is true for trying to use an invalid key - we have strict no-piracy policies which we have not been able to obtain permission to workaround.
9) At this point, we have no estimated resolution for this issue. Because we already have an open issue with Technical Support (see 1 above), they are unable to provide any further assistance until that issue is closed, which we are unable to currently accomplish (see items 1-8).
Please provide us with some guidance on how to proceed,
Sincerely, the XP Activation Team.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...
(just wanted to get it over with)
If I were running PBS, the only way you'd stick me with Katz would be if you included Natalie Portman...
Umm, shouldn't that be igneous? :)
All twelve of you...
You see, I'm a mumbler. That's right, I talk to my machines all day long...coaxing, cajoling, cursing, crowing...I do it all.
I'd hate for my corporate desktop to be recording everything I'd say for the posterity of HR - like my emails are today.
Even worse, imagine if my machine decided to take all of that personally...*shudder*
Yeah yeah, verbal this fella ;)
;)
P.S. Okay, sad sad admission time - the original text said orally, and I changed it to verbally to avoid the thirteen year old trolls. See what it got me?
IANAL, but it seems like your statements are still defaming (slander is defamation committed verbally, libel is defamation committed in publication). Both of your statements are presented by you as fact, for which (in your scenario) you clearly have no basis for making such claims. That's pretty cut and dry defamation in any US jursidiction I bet.
Now, if you'd said things like:
"I wouldn't be surprised if LNUX (va linux systems) management spends exhorbidant sums of money on 'business trips' to China in order to sodomize pandas." - well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.
I think I'd rather try stealing from DeBeer's, Fort Knox or the Mafia or something much less dangerous to my health...
Have you ever been stuck on the Small World ride when the little boats get backed up? Ten minutes is what they do to the people they like (customers). Imagine how long you'd be strapped into the boat if they're catch you hacking? *shudder*
This book is a collection of some of his finest "prophetic" shorts. It also contains several essays on his future predicitons, including revisiting several of his older ones to see how he feels he did.
Solution Unsatisfactory is one the standout stories that comes to mind from the book. I'm at work, so I don't have it handy.
He also had some very interesting perspectives on the old Soviet Union based on his trips there with his wife.
Geez, I really miss him. And Zelazny. Think I'll read some of my old favorites of theirs over the holiday, no matter how much it cuts into Civ3.
Mesa Networks (here) provides 802.11b residential service, 1mbps up/down for $58/month. I have friends paying $200/month for 128k dual isdn (I Still Don't Net) so I think it's a great deal.
I've had the service for a couple of weeks now, low latency, no problems. Until I found out about them, I had no hope of getting service from Qwaste or the Deathstar.
I really hope it works out...I can definitely see small ISP's like this investing in NAN's as a way to increase consumer penetration in the area's they serve. Think of it this way, managing a NAN isn't that much harder for a small isp than managing the 802.11b infratstructure they're putting in place currently.
Anyway, the point is that watches should evolve to become interfaces, not applications and service provider technologies.
No, seriously...
If I had the magic CEO wand, I'd become a funds dispersement agency dedicated to investing in commercially oriented space technologies. Exactly what confluence of technologies will spark the space gold rush is out there waiting to be stumbled upon - we just haven't done it yet. So, how do we speed it up? Throw money at any idea that might work - think of it in terms of what the dot com gold rush did for info tech.
I live in a brand new subdivision that basically has no hope of getting any kind of dsl/cable broadband any time soon (God bless Qwaste and the Deathstar).
Then a neighbor told me about a small isp (Mesa Networks) that was offering fixed 802.11b connections for residential service in my area with 1-mbps up/down for $58/month. I called them up, arranged an installation time for a week later and have been up and running with no problems for a few weeks now.
Since then, it occurred to me that small shops like these offering fixed wireless access are a perfect compromise between the bloated-beauracracy-from-hell providers (ie here, here and here) and the unreliable, unmanaged, unavailable you-get-what-you-pay-for communal neighborhood nets that have been spawned as a backlash. It's become obvious that turning a profit offering broadband where last mile wiring is involved is extremely difficult if not impossible. But, the infrastructure to manage fized wireless seems a lot more manageable from a small business perspective to me
Anyway, I don't have the time, inclination or expertise to professionally manage an isp network and I really hope that the model these guys are pursuing pays off - I think small local providers have a much better chance of tailoring solutions that can cost effectively meet the broadband needs of neighborhoods and communities.
my Ford Exploder^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Explorer? Or my Pinto?
I see someone else has experience with IBM^H^H^H, er I mean HAL's sales reps
Does anybody still work at a startup? They might need to sleep at work because they can't afford rent...