"Having all your information stored in one central location is definitely better than having all your information stored all over the place."
Oh man where to start.
First of all all having all your information stored in passport does not mean it's not also stored in a thousand other places. Every web site will still store all kinds of information about you. That will never go away. What passport does is to present a very attractive target. Instead of hacking into a thousand places you just hack into passport and voila you have the information of everybody who has windows (which is pretty much everybody).
Even if your contention is valid and it is better to have all your info in one place why should that be controlled by MS. You may trust MS but others of us who are accutely aware of the track record of MS when it comes to security are scared witless. Combine that with the unethical and sleazy characters who are in charge of MS and you have a recipe for disaster. Have you ever heard Ballmer, Gates, Allchin, or Mundy make a public statement that did not contain at least one lie? I haven't. Why should I trust these people?
It would be better to store the information on my PC not on some public server. If it has to be stored on some public server I would rather it be held jointly by competing companies or by a non profit organization. I certainly would prefer that it be open source.
Thank god for proxies and ipchains. In the end Passport will be just another example of a "stupid tax". The people who are illiterate will blindly give away all their privacy and the rest of us will drop passport packets at the firewall.
"are purely ethical assertions based on a metaphysic that denies any sort of divine or supernatural reality."
There is more evidence to support the existance of UFOs then there is to support the existance of God. Your basis in believing in God is purely irrational.
Maybe one day someone will point to a bit of hard evidence that proves God exists but till then he might as well be the easter bunny.
One more thing. Not only do you have to prove the existance of god but you also have to prove that he actually cares who you have sex with, whether or not you masturbate, what you think about your neighbors wife, and what the fabric makeup of your clothes are. In other words not only does God exists but that he also created the world, and actually wants humans to act in the manner as described in the Bible.
A divine or a supernatural entity by itself has no impact on morality unless you feel obliged (or coerced in this case) to follow it's wishes. I have no problem believing that there are creatures in the universe made of pure energy, that they may be extremely powerful, or that they may have come around this planet at one time or another. But I find it outregous that they disapprove of coveting of thy neighbors wife or accumulating wealth.
If you ask me that's a pretty big stretch. I would love to hear any evidence of that.
You make a good point. Mr. Bush placed no restrictions on private companies to do any research they want to. The problem is that the private companies want the handouts from the govt and don't want to carry the weight of the entire research.
" I agree with going full-speed ahead with stem-cell research, but some people believe it's murder, and if you think that you can't just let people make their own decisions"
Well some people think that god created the world in seven days. Some people think that homosexuals should be executed (read the bible it says so). Some people think the world is flat. Some people think the universe is three thousand years old.
You can't run a country on what "some people think".
" You're right. (and brave...posting something like this on in such a pro-Linux environment;)"
What are nuts? The man is marked +5 insighful (although I really looked for some insight in his post could not find any). The days of slashdot being a pro-linux environment are long gone. The MS astro turfers make sure any pro windows post immediately gets modded up to +5. This is prime proof of that.
If the only means you have to keep your family from starving is to write windows apps then by all means go ahead. I guess I am one of those lucky people who can do more then one thing. I know many languages, know many operating systems, and know quite a bit about networking (a bit about project mangement too). I can pick and choose what I want to do. Thanks for remind me that there are a lot of people in this world who are basically one trick ponies. I will try to make that fact a competitive advantage in the future.
You better hope MS survives the next round of legal wrangling intact and also survives the sates and the european union inquiry too. It seems like you have put all your eggs in this basket. Good luck to you.
All fine and dandy but look at the complexity and cost of what you are proposing. Just the fact that you need to per per desktop for SMS, Tivoli or Zenworks easily doubles the cost of NT licenses. This strikes me as good money being thrown after bad. Why not install systems that are easily and remotely managed in the first place?
I've paid for MS support it's worthless. maybe if you pay them millions it's different but for me it was an exercise in denial. I kept telling them about the bug they kept telling me I was lying or hallucinating ro something because the bug did not exist. after two weeks of escalation I just told them to fuck off. About nine months later they finally admitted the bug and a month after that they issued a patch. Basically they took my money and jerked me around. I won't make that mistake again.
I do believe that the ability to tell lies is high on the list of desired qualities for a MS candidate. In fact if MS employees have not lied to ten people by lunch they stand to lose their jobs. I think this standard is even higher for executives who are actually unable to tell any truth whatsoever. Congratulations you have jumped the first hurdle on your way to being a MS serf. P.S. are you over 25? if so you might as well give it up. MS does not hire anybody over 25.
Well maybe you can start by learning about the tag. Anyway.
According to your feeble definition every single person who maintains a weblog is a "journalist". Not even you are that stupid. People call themselves editors, geeks, propeller heads, or whatever they damn well want but that does not make them so. I can call myself Micheal Jordan but that does not make me a basketball player.
Nobody except a very select few idiots confuses slashdot with journalism or Hemos with a jounalist. How many journalists do you know that use pseudonyms like Cowboy Neal? Or maybe the name CmdrTaco should have tipped you off that these guys are not journalists.
" Explain to me the difference between journalism and news then"
News is a general term. It means "some information that you don't know yet". Journalism is a specific subset of news. Journalists are trained, and edited by editors. When a newspaper delivers you some news you can be fairly certain that the journalist took some care to get his facts straights and that an editor (or editors) looked it over and decided that it was a good and important piece of work that would merit publishing.
I can give you news (hey didja hear the stock market is down?) but that does not make me a journalist. If I write down that news in a weblog that does not make my weblog a newspaper.
I hope that clears things up for you. I see that you are not the only person who is unable to tell the difference.
re-read that sentence. It does not say that slashdot is an open source journal just that it's a community for developers interested in reading open source journalism. In other words slashdot is a conduit for open source journalism. That is true (somewhat). Slashdot posts stories from around the net that deal with open source. As a developer you can come hear and read those stories (which were likely written by real live journalists).
I don't see anywhere in that sentence where it says slashdot is a journal or that the staff of slashdot are journalists. Not only that but it also says nothing about being unbiased. It says that slashdot is controversial and is a community interested in reading about open source.
In my opinion slashdot is no longer a community of developers (it once was). It is no longer intested in open source (now it's full of MS astro turfers). And instead of nerds it's full of spoiled, idle, rich, teenagers with more time on their hands then they know what do with. But at no time and under no circumstances would anybody confuse slashdot with journalism.
When I was in the military we were fond of saying "lead, follow, or get out of the way". Call me an elitists if you want to but if all you are going to is just stand there and point then just get out of my way.
"When they said that they provided "News for Nerds""
News can have many meaning. It could mean journalism but it could also mean "some information you may not have heard yet". When you call your friend about his job search and ask "what's the news buddy?" does he automatically become a journalist? Is he transmitting news?
One more time. It's not journalism it's a web log. You don't like it go somewhere else. Just because they say "news for nerds" that does not make it a newspaper nor does it make anybody here a journalist. Get over it and stop whining.
"modded up on/. without adhering to the dominant pro-Linux, pro-open-source, anti-user-experience ideology. "
Oh man this is so much crap. Go back read some threads. The fact is that the best way to get modded up to praise MS. Sure at one time this was a pro-open source, pro linux board but not anymore. Now it's trolled by MS astro turfers who moderate each other up.
Here is the best way to get modded up on slashdot.
1) Say something like "sure I like linux but let's face it windows is more suitable for everybody"
2) say something republican
3) say something liberterian
4) say something funny
5) say something about how "slashdot is full of karma whores who moderate down pro MS posts"
If you don't believe me go try it yourself.
BTW speaking the truth will always get you modded down.
If you won't support them then they won't be around when the govt comes after you. Sure they don't come running to every injustice done in America (too many I guess) but them and the EFF are the only organizations that do anything at all. Kill them and nothing stands between you and subjugation.
I could list you dozens but they are in my town and you wouldn't know them. I know for sure that every businessperson in the world is not a sleazebag like the Microsoft people are. I will grant you that a significant portion (but not a majority IMHO) of business people are bastards though. George Carlin has a very funny skit about that.
"I can live with that statement so long as you can live with the fact that MS isnt a monopoly, and therefore thier anticompetitive tactics are legal."
Wow man what planet do you live in. In my planet a trial was held and Microsoft was found to be a monopolist. They were also found to have abused that monopoly. MS appealed and an appelate court also found MS to be a monopoly and also found MS to have abused that monopoly and ordered the lower court to punish MS appropriately.
How can pu possibly make the argument that MS is not a monopoly when they have over 90% of the computer market and they were judged to be so by the courts.
Your sense of denial is stunning.
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"Having all your information stored in one central location is definitely better than having all your information stored all over the place."
Oh man where to start.
First of all all having all your information stored in passport does not mean it's not also stored in a thousand other places. Every web site will still store all kinds of information about you. That will never go away. What passport does is to present a very attractive target. Instead of hacking into a thousand places you just hack into passport and voila you have the information of everybody who has windows (which is pretty much everybody).
Even if your contention is valid and it is better to have all your info in one place why should that be controlled by MS. You may trust MS but others of us who are accutely aware of the track record of MS when it comes to security are scared witless. Combine that with the unethical and sleazy characters who are in charge of MS and you have a recipe for disaster. Have you ever heard Ballmer, Gates, Allchin, or Mundy make a public statement that did not contain at least one lie? I haven't. Why should I trust these people?
It would be better to store the information on my PC not on some public server. If it has to be stored on some public server I would rather it be held jointly by competing companies or by a non profit organization. I certainly would prefer that it be open source.
Thank god for proxies and ipchains. In the end Passport will be just another example of a "stupid tax". The people who are illiterate will blindly give away all their privacy and the rest of us will drop passport packets at the firewall.
Your analogy is a bit off. Email addresses are available by the thousand from hotmail.com or usa.com or whatever. You only have on passport account.
It's easier to bitch I guess.
"are purely ethical assertions based on a metaphysic that denies any sort of divine or supernatural reality."
There is more evidence to support the existance of UFOs then there is to support the existance of God. Your basis in believing in God is purely irrational.
Maybe one day someone will point to a bit of hard evidence that proves God exists but till then he might as well be the easter bunny.
One more thing. Not only do you have to prove the existance of god but you also have to prove that he actually cares who you have sex with, whether or not you masturbate, what you think about your neighbors wife, and what the fabric makeup of your clothes are. In other words not only does God exists but that he also created the world, and actually wants humans to act in the manner as described in the Bible.
A divine or a supernatural entity by itself has no impact on morality unless you feel obliged (or coerced in this case) to follow it's wishes. I have no problem believing that there are creatures in the universe made of pure energy, that they may be extremely powerful, or that they may have come around this planet at one time or another. But I find it outregous that they disapprove of coveting of thy neighbors wife or accumulating wealth.
If you ask me that's a pretty big stretch. I would love to hear any evidence of that.
You make a good point. Mr. Bush placed no restrictions on private companies to do any research they want to. The problem is that the private companies want the handouts from the govt and don't want to carry the weight of the entire research.
" I agree with going full-speed ahead with stem-cell research, but some people believe it's murder, and if you think that you can't just let people make their own decisions"
Well some people think that god created the world in seven days. Some people think that homosexuals should be executed (read the bible it says so). Some people think the world is flat. Some people think the universe is three thousand years old.
You can't run a country on what "some people think".
Have you ever heard of a thing call MacOSX? You should look into it because you just described it.
" You're right. (and brave...posting something like this on in such a pro-Linux environment ;)"
What are nuts? The man is marked +5 insighful (although I really looked for some insight in his post could not find any). The days of slashdot being a pro-linux environment are long gone. The MS astro turfers make sure any pro windows post immediately gets modded up to +5. This is prime proof of that.
"I should give up work, let my family starve,"
If the only means you have to keep your family from starving is to write windows apps then by all means go ahead. I guess I am one of those lucky people who can do more then one thing. I know many languages, know many operating systems, and know quite a bit about networking (a bit about project mangement too). I can pick and choose what I want to do. Thanks for remind me that there are a lot of people in this world who are basically one trick ponies. I will try to make that fact a competitive advantage in the future.
You better hope MS survives the next round of legal wrangling intact and also survives the sates and the european union inquiry too. It seems like you have put all your eggs in this basket. Good luck to you.
All fine and dandy but look at the complexity and cost of what you are proposing. Just the fact that you need to per per desktop for SMS, Tivoli or Zenworks easily doubles the cost of NT licenses. This strikes me as good money being thrown after bad. Why not install systems that are easily and remotely managed in the first place?
I've paid for MS support it's worthless. maybe if you pay them millions it's different but for me it was an exercise in denial. I kept telling them about the bug they kept telling me I was lying or hallucinating ro something because the bug did not exist. after two weeks of escalation I just told them to fuck off. About nine months later they finally admitted the bug and a month after that they issued a patch. Basically they took my money and jerked me around. I won't make that mistake again.
Have youever read the wall st journal? They make the NY times business section look objective.
I do believe that the ability to tell lies is high on the list of desired qualities for a MS candidate. In fact if MS employees have not lied to ten people by lunch they stand to lose their jobs. I think this standard is even higher for executives who are actually unable to tell any truth whatsoever. Congratulations you have jumped the first hurdle on your way to being a MS serf. P.S. are you over 25? if so you might as well give it up. MS does not hire anybody over 25.
"Try pulling your head out of your ass. "
Well maybe you can start by learning about the tag. Anyway.
According to your feeble definition every single person who maintains a weblog is a "journalist". Not even you are that stupid. People call themselves editors, geeks, propeller heads, or whatever they damn well want but that does not make them so. I can call myself Micheal Jordan but that does not make me a basketball player.
Nobody except a very select few idiots confuses slashdot with journalism or Hemos with a jounalist. How many journalists do you know that use pseudonyms like Cowboy Neal? Or maybe the name CmdrTaco should have tipped you off that these guys are not journalists.
" Explain to me the difference between journalism and news then"
News is a general term. It means "some information that you don't know yet". Journalism is a specific subset of news. Journalists are trained, and edited by editors. When a newspaper delivers you some news you can be fairly certain that the journalist took some care to get his facts straights and that an editor (or editors) looked it over and decided that it was a good and important piece of work that would merit publishing.
I can give you news (hey didja hear the stock market is down?) but that does not make me a journalist. If I write down that news in a weblog that does not make my weblog a newspaper.
I hope that clears things up for you. I see that you are not the only person who is unable to tell the difference.
re-read that sentence. It does not say that slashdot is an open source journal just that it's a community for developers interested in reading open source journalism. In other words slashdot is a conduit for open source journalism. That is true (somewhat). Slashdot posts stories from around the net that deal with open source. As a developer you can come hear and read those stories (which were likely written by real live journalists).
I don't see anywhere in that sentence where it says slashdot is a journal or that the staff of slashdot are journalists. Not only that but it also says nothing about being unbiased. It says that slashdot is controversial and is a community interested in reading about open source.
In my opinion slashdot is no longer a community of developers (it once was). It is no longer intested in open source (now it's full of MS astro turfers). And instead of nerds it's full of spoiled, idle, rich, teenagers with more time on their hands then they know what do with. But at no time and under no circumstances would anybody confuse slashdot with journalism.
When I was in the military we were fond of saying "lead, follow, or get out of the way". Call me an elitists if you want to but if all you are going to is just stand there and point then just get out of my way.
"When they said that they provided "News for Nerds""
News can have many meaning. It could mean journalism but it could also mean "some information you may not have heard yet". When you call your friend about his job search and ask "what's the news buddy?" does he automatically become a journalist? Is he transmitting news?
One more time. It's not journalism it's a web log. You don't like it go somewhere else. Just because they say "news for nerds" that does not make it a newspaper nor does it make anybody here a journalist. Get over it and stop whining.
"modded up on /. without adhering to the dominant pro-Linux, pro-open-source, anti-user-experience ideology. "
Oh man this is so much crap. Go back read some threads. The fact is that the best way to get modded up to praise MS. Sure at one time this was a pro-open source, pro linux board but not anymore. Now it's trolled by MS astro turfers who moderate each other up.
Here is the best way to get modded up on slashdot.
1) Say something like "sure I like linux but let's face it windows is more suitable for everybody"
2) say something republican
3) say something liberterian
4) say something funny
5) say something about how "slashdot is full of karma whores who moderate down pro MS posts"
If you don't believe me go try it yourself.
BTW speaking the truth will always get you modded down.
If you won't support them then they won't be around when the govt comes after you. Sure they don't come running to every injustice done in America (too many I guess) but them and the EFF are the only organizations that do anything at all. Kill them and nothing stands between you and subjugation.
Give it time. Rome wasn't built in a day.
I could list you dozens but they are in my town and you wouldn't know them. I know for sure that every businessperson in the world is not a sleazebag like the Microsoft people are. I will grant you that a significant portion (but not a majority IMHO) of business people are bastards though. George Carlin has a very funny skit about that.
"I can live with that statement so long as you can live with the fact that MS isnt a monopoly, and therefore thier anticompetitive tactics are legal."
Wow man what planet do you live in. In my planet a trial was held and Microsoft was found to be a monopolist. They were also found to have abused that monopoly. MS appealed and an appelate court also found MS to be a monopoly and also found MS to have abused that monopoly and ordered the lower court to punish MS appropriately.
How can pu possibly make the argument that MS is not a monopoly when they have over 90% of the computer market and they were judged to be so by the courts.
Your sense of denial is stunning.
Wow an actual comment with content. You know you will get modded down don't you?