Well, not their shitty software, but i wouldn't mind absconding with a chunk of that $41B they've got lying around in the bank from extorting customers.
You might as well ask, "Wal-Mart customers are fed up, since Wal-Mart employees kick puppies and laugh at old people. Are you planning to stop shopping at Wal-Mart?"
Actually, they *sell* puppies and *employ* old people. Or is that the other way around? I forget.
I have used Microsoft since it came out and I have never ran into ANY of the problems everyone complains about. The two reasons many people get viruses, worms, trojans etc. is they have poor habits and they really don't understand how to set up a network.
Kurt Elkins
LAN Admin
Baltimore County Fire Dept
Towson, Md.
HA! I trojaned Kurt's box MONTHS ago!
Hey, Kurt, what up with the donkey-porn collection?
you won't have linux applications until you have linux customers, and you won't have customers until you have users, and you won't have users until you have applications.
the users can break this cycle by getting out of the "either-or" mindset and using BOTH for awhile. they should just get a linux box, today, and start using it. keep the windows one around for stuff for which there is no alternative. or use lindows to even further minimize the amount of machine-switching you must do. by being present in the linux end-user marketplace, they will create the demand for applications.
IT departments should take the lead on this, but same goes for home users.
you can get a linux box for $199 at walmart, for christ's sake.
Burn all corporate headquarters to the ground! Line the highways with the heads of IP lawyers on sticks! Cut out the tongues and gouge out the eyes of the legislators!
JUST BURN THE WHOLE MOTHERFUCKER TO THE GROUND, BACK TO THE STONE-AGE, AND LET EVOLUTION START OVER, BECAUSE IT'S TAKEN A WRONG TURN SOMEHWERE!
Surprisingly enough, people will probably actually watch this crap.
yep. forget war, corporate greed, and crime: the possibility that tv might actually reflect what average people want to see plays more strongly in my cynical view of humanity.
Those things that pay for the content you do actually watch. Imagine how great the programs are going to be once advertisers stop paying for commercials or, worse, start forcing blatant product placement. Joy. I can't wait...
At this point it's so horribly lousy I'm hoping TV's ad-driven model DOES go to shit, and just take my chances with whatever rises up in its place.
The way I see it: no TV coming over the cable means more upstream bandwidth for broadband internet.
I stopped watching television almost completely about four years ago because the commercials were repetitive crap with garbage in between. 10,000 channels and nothing to watch on TV.
Yes oh yes oh yes. I called the cable company to turn off my cable *and they won't do it*. They don't charge me (though they still have to charge about 50 cents less than basic cable for "line access" because I have a cable modem), but they won't come here and turn the crap off.
So, I still Tivo PBS news programs and allow myself conan o'brien. Some day they'll have dsl in my area and that will be history too when the cable goes bye-bye.
The option to not see any commercials at all, ever. I will pay for this.
While "scanning" (or previewing "channels"), I want to be able to NEVER see certain categories of programs, and even parts of programs: no daytime TV talk shows (Springer etc), no sports, no financial news, no weather, no religious programming, and I never want to see a live performance of a top-40 song ever.
WAY more small-time content providers. I'd like to see cable become a two-way street: individuals and small organizations could create their own programming and send it UP the cable to interested viewers.
And would you? Think about it. They have an awesome working relationship with Microsoft. They get to do exactly what they love to do (finding exploits) in code that is supposedly riddled with problems and get paid tons of money to do it. In addition, they help the world by helping MS identify and fix these bugs.
If they lost that relationship, that could cause the shareholders to bail out because the company would have to recoup that revenue from elsewhere.
jesus fucking christ, you're pathetic.
An honest, intelligent guy got fired - i.e., his livelihood was taken away from him and his life turned upside-down - because he dared to do research on his own time and speak the truth. He explicitly stated that his employer was not involved with the research.
I'm not saying it's not to be expected, but you don't have to become an apologist for these douchebags.
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hehehe, not bad - i give it a 7/10. welcome to the bucket.
the blame for this lies squarely at verisign's feet.
Well, not their shitty software, but i wouldn't mind absconding with a chunk of that $41B they've got lying around in the bank from extorting customers.
Actually, they *sell* puppies and *employ* old people. Or is that the other way around? I forget.
at least put up links to alternative browsers like mozilla and help SOLVE the monoculture problem!
Kurt Elkins
LAN Admin
Baltimore County Fire Dept
Towson, Md.
HA! I trojaned Kurt's box MONTHS ago!
Hey, Kurt, what up with the donkey-porn collection?
you won't have linux applications until you have linux customers, and you won't have customers until you have users, and you won't have users until you have applications.
the users can break this cycle by getting out of the "either-or" mindset and using BOTH for awhile. they should just get a linux box, today, and start using it. keep the windows one around for stuff for which there is no alternative. or use lindows to even further minimize the amount of machine-switching you must do. by being present in the linux end-user marketplace, they will create the demand for applications.
IT departments should take the lead on this, but same goes for home users.
you can get a linux box for $199 at walmart, for christ's sake.
bill hicks rules! er, ruled... :-(
Burn all corporate headquarters to the ground!
Line the highways with the heads of IP lawyers on sticks!
Cut out the tongues and gouge out the eyes of the legislators!
JUST BURN THE WHOLE MOTHERFUCKER TO THE GROUND, BACK TO THE STONE-AGE, AND LET EVOLUTION START OVER, BECAUSE IT'S TAKEN A WRONG TURN SOMEHWERE!
yep. forget war, corporate greed, and crime: the possibility that tv might actually reflect what average people want to see plays more strongly in my cynical view of humanity.
At this point it's so horribly lousy I'm hoping TV's ad-driven model DOES go to shit, and just take my chances with whatever rises up in its place.
The way I see it: no TV coming over the cable means more upstream bandwidth for broadband internet.
Yes oh yes oh yes. I called the cable company to turn off my cable *and they won't do it*. They don't charge me (though they still have to charge about 50 cents less than basic cable for "line access" because I have a cable modem), but they won't come here and turn the crap off.
So, I still Tivo PBS news programs and allow myself conan o'brien. Some day they'll have dsl in my area and that will be history too when the cable goes bye-bye.
For some reason I don't follow this statement at all.
Music Pirate? maybe you mean Musical Pirate, like Pirates of Penzance or something?
Or P2P music trader? No, don't really touch the stuff.
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Just when I thought I didn't have any vomit left in me, Microsoft comes up with this.
well, yes - but to be fair, most of those are suicides.
On my machine, it's down to about *three seconds*.
dual athlon 2000's
1gb ram
escalade ide raid
and for billy gates? how about a buggy whip?
i'm serious, btw.
- jon hassell cd's
- hammered dulcimer (a la laraaji)
so, i follow the magnatune link, and what do i find?
a musician who references jon hassell as a strong influence.
another one who works with hammered dulcimer, and has a tune called "kubrick's tube". kubrick is perhaps my favorite director ever.
weird. i'm actually afraid to NOT buy something at this point.
uh, which is the definition of "being on the side of". no one said it was permanent.
*Damn*. I was hoping to unload on SOMEONE that mountain of shit VB code I wrote ten years ago and I still have to do maintenance on.
i wouldn't be surprised if MS lost the case on purpose. it's in their interest to have strong software patent laws.
If they lost that relationship, that could cause the shareholders to bail out because the company would have to recoup that revenue from elsewhere.
jesus fucking christ, you're pathetic.
An honest, intelligent guy got fired - i.e., his livelihood was taken away from him and his life turned upside-down - because he dared to do research on his own time and speak the truth. He explicitly stated that his employer was not involved with the research.
I'm not saying it's not to be expected, but you don't have to become an apologist for these douchebags.
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