I actually studied all that -- among many, many other, far more important things. Except UML, of course. And "programs".
Emphasis on object-oriented design (instead of data structures, interfaces, modular design and algorithms) and SQL databases (instead of data storage and processing models in general) reveals trade-school approach that stuffs heads of students with propaganda of particular methods "how" to do something without explaining what that "something" is.
And UML is not a product. It's a modelling notation.
No, it is not. Circuit diagrams are "modeling notation" -- they contain complete model of a system at a given level and can be used as an input for simulation or automatic generation of the system. UML is not suitable as an input to be processed as a formal model, therefore it is only useful for human-readable illustrations. They look superficially like formal models because they are nigh-unreadable for humans, but they are not machine-readable, either.
When Martha Stewart will die, it will (at least theoretically) allow her company to treat her name as a fictional mascot, appoint anoter "Martha Stewart" or pretend that some things the company markets were endorsed by the original Martha Stewart. What is obviously worth nothing, as Martha Stewart is merely a celebrity, but vanity has no limits.
I am sure, Tolkien's estate is not going to issue books "by Tolkien" that aren't actually written by him, so they have no legitimate reason for having a trademark.
Each company has 50 million different combinations of programs and programming languages. They should be looking for someone with a solid understanding of object oriented design, UML, database design, etc. Those are the things my school taught me in the limited time they had.
Congratulations! You know nothing but flavor-of-the-week "technologies" that are actually products and acts of windbaggery.
It uses the same amount of energy, producing less visible light/more infrared and heat. Sometimes this is a part of the bulb's purpose, but usually it's undesirable.
Dictators keep power with force, actually. They are respected as in fear. They may once have been seen as a better alternative but now that they entrenched they don't.
"Entrenched" and "keep power by force" are two mutually exclusive possibilities. On top of that, no one can sit on bayonets -- at some point exerting any force takes more resources than allows for any kind of leadership, and "dictator" is overthrown, usually by someone much worse. It's a nice fantasy for many people that a political figure that they hate, is only in position of power because he constantly kills people who challenge him, but usually any "dictator" is supported by a large political machine, only in name different from one ruling over "democratic" societies.
Paradise is having a chance to earn a living.
So actual problem is poverty, not any particular details about a "dictator".
There is no complexity, and there is no perception of complexity, except among people who listen to you and your colleagues. Linux and OSX share the same printer support infrastructure. Anyone who ever encountered a recent consumer-oriented distribution, sees this immediately, even without knowing how components and protocols are called.
The last hope you have is to post fake problem reports from 20 accounts and respond from each of them to the rest, so people might think, there is some legitimacy to the FUD you are spreading -- and as I see here, Microsoft marketdroids are already at this stage. Die in a fire.
Actually most "dictators" satisfy a majority. Not loved and not even necessarily respected, but they are seen as acceptable, or at least better than alternatives. Saddam was an example of this (and actually demonstrated to be better than alternatives, as alternative is what will happen once Americans will leave -- everyone is afraid of that).
Then, there is an opposition. It may be anything. It may be a large group with legitimate grievances, but it also may be minority that was oppressed for centuries with no relationship to "dictator" or rival ethnic group, religious cult, etc. Often it's political opportunists that use "democracy" slogan in the same way Americans use "think of the children!" to promote their personal goals. Sometimes it's a local group of political losers who have no hope for local support, so they whore themselves to US (or whatever other power happens to be active in the region) -- ironically those often have blatantly xenophobic official slogans but expect to be brought into power by foreigners. Often there are no "democratic" slogans involved at all, a random gang is fighting to declare itself sovereign rulers of their stomping grounds by presenting themselves as defenders of some ethnicity, along the way fueling hatred toward it, racism and discrimination.
And then there are seriously confused people whose only knowledge of outside world comes from carefully planned American propaganda poured into the country by recently mentioned VoA, RFE/RL, etc. They literally expect US to be paradise on Earth where everyone lives in a mansion, makes living by writing novels and drives a truck to a grocery store where there is never a line at the checkout. The latter better SHOULD be kept from foreign influence, as arguing with them is about as effective as debunking Microsoft marketing people in every troll thread here.
This is complete, undiluted bullshit. The poster didn't even make a proper claim to be debunked except for referring to nonexistent LKML messages and bringing absolutely irrelevant matters such as non-free drivers..
If your point is that you and your friends at Microsoft can spread FUD among the users, this is a losing battle for you because Microsoft did that for its whole history and now it is failing. If you are trying to prove something else, you are a moron.
"Once installed", rm -rf $HOME/* script will delete your files, too. This is why you are not supposed to install random crap. Also it's classy for you to post three messages about one stupid trojan.
Trojan.Jnanabot is a trojan. A user has to confirm running it when it is trying to launch from a browser. OS security has nothing to do with users running programs they have downloaded when their own browser tells them not to do that.
Streets named after Martin Luther King are a cesspool of crime, too! We should rename them to Infinite Loop because this is where the least amount of violent crime happens!
Of course, if you say so. Thank you so much for helping Linux be a better OS by correcting me with such an important contribution.
My goal is not to convince you -- it's to discredit you and others who make such idiotic claims here.
Because...? In your bubble, laptops don't have TV out? Oh, I know. Linux users would never, ever want to use their laptop's TV out port. How silly of me for trying...
Some laptops had TV out at some point -- it was S-Video. For quite a while it was abandoned in favor of DVI and HDMI -- both can be used by modern TV but are not "TV out".
You must be one of those guys who feed the theory that dissatisfied Linux comments will be bashed to oblivion in/.
No, I am one of those guys who want Microsoft marketing people to be laughed out of all discussions related to technology.
Java and Javascript, when run in a browser, can not read, write or execute arbitrary files locally. Being able to do so, would be a security bug (and some such bugs existed and were fixed).
Java and Javascript can be used to run programs locally under control of the user. This is useless for any kinds of exploits.
I have no fucking idea about the rest of your text (as it is completely unreadable), but security bugs on Linux don't even live long enough to be exploited. Certainly not a combination of desktop-exploitable remote execution and privilege escalation on a system that gets updates from a repository.
This is what Microsoft is trying to accomplish -- send open source developers on a wild goose chase to "fix problems" that do not exist, so those developers will not have time and resources to produce superior software.
Fuck you, Microsoft! We know what is not broken and we are not going to fix it.
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I actually studied all that -- among many, many other, far more important things. Except UML, of course. And "programs".
Emphasis on object-oriented design (instead of data structures, interfaces, modular design and algorithms) and SQL databases (instead of data storage and processing models in general) reveals trade-school approach that stuffs heads of students with propaganda of particular methods "how" to do something without explaining what that "something" is.
And UML is not a product. It's a modelling notation.
No, it is not. Circuit diagrams are "modeling notation" -- they contain complete model of a system at a given level and can be used as an input for simulation or automatic generation of the system. UML is not suitable as an input to be processed as a formal model, therefore it is only useful for human-readable illustrations. They look superficially like formal models because they are nigh-unreadable for humans, but they are not machine-readable, either.
Or, better, rob banks!
I think, MEEPT! was his original account.
When Martha Stewart will die, it will (at least theoretically) allow her company to treat her name as a fictional mascot, appoint anoter "Martha Stewart" or pretend that some things the company markets were endorsed by the original Martha Stewart. What is obviously worth nothing, as Martha Stewart is merely a celebrity, but vanity has no limits.
I am sure, Tolkien's estate is not going to issue books "by Tolkien" that aren't actually written by him, so they have no legitimate reason for having a trademark.
Each company has 50 million different combinations of programs and programming languages. They should be looking for someone with a solid understanding of object oriented design, UML, database design, etc. Those are the things my school taught me in the limited time they had.
Congratulations! You know nothing but flavor-of-the-week "technologies" that are actually products and acts of windbaggery.
In other words, you are incompetent bottom-level manager with ridiculously inflated ego.
It uses the same amount of energy, producing less visible light/more infrared and heat. Sometimes this is a part of the bulb's purpose, but usually it's undesirable.
Dictators keep power with force, actually. They are respected as in fear. They may once have been seen as a better alternative but now that they entrenched they don't.
"Entrenched" and "keep power by force" are two mutually exclusive possibilities. On top of that, no one can sit on bayonets -- at some point exerting any force takes more resources than allows for any kind of leadership, and "dictator" is overthrown, usually by someone much worse. It's a nice fantasy for many people that a political figure that they hate, is only in position of power because he constantly kills people who challenge him, but usually any "dictator" is supported by a large political machine, only in name different from one ruling over "democratic" societies.
Paradise is having a chance to earn a living.
So actual problem is poverty, not any particular details about a "dictator".
There is no complexity, and there is no perception of complexity, except among people who listen to you and your colleagues. Linux and OSX share the same printer support infrastructure. Anyone who ever encountered a recent consumer-oriented distribution, sees this immediately, even without knowing how components and protocols are called.
The last hope you have is to post fake problem reports from 20 accounts and respond from each of them to the rest, so people might think, there is some legitimacy to the FUD you are spreading -- and as I see here, Microsoft marketdroids are already at this stage. Die in a fire.
What the fuck are you talking about? Android is a Google product, Google and carriers, not users, administer its installations.
Actually most "dictators" satisfy a majority. Not loved and not even necessarily respected, but they are seen as acceptable, or at least better than alternatives. Saddam was an example of this (and actually demonstrated to be better than alternatives, as alternative is what will happen once Americans will leave -- everyone is afraid of that).
Then, there is an opposition. It may be anything. It may be a large group with legitimate grievances, but it also may be minority that was oppressed for centuries with no relationship to "dictator" or rival ethnic group, religious cult, etc. Often it's political opportunists that use "democracy" slogan in the same way Americans use "think of the children!" to promote their personal goals. Sometimes it's a local group of political losers who have no hope for local support, so they whore themselves to US (or whatever other power happens to be active in the region) -- ironically those often have blatantly xenophobic official slogans but expect to be brought into power by foreigners. Often there are no "democratic" slogans involved at all, a random gang is fighting to declare itself sovereign rulers of their stomping grounds by presenting themselves as defenders of some ethnicity, along the way fueling hatred toward it, racism and discrimination.
And then there are seriously confused people whose only knowledge of outside world comes from carefully planned American propaganda poured into the country by recently mentioned VoA, RFE/RL, etc. They literally expect US to be paradise on Earth where everyone lives in a mansion, makes living by writing novels and drives a truck to a grocery store where there is never a line at the checkout. The latter better SHOULD be kept from foreign influence, as arguing with them is about as effective as debunking Microsoft marketing people in every troll thread here.
This is complete, undiluted bullshit. The poster didn't even make a proper claim to be debunked except for referring to nonexistent LKML messages and bringing absolutely irrelevant matters such as non-free drivers..
You are arguing against reality.
If your point is that you and your friends at Microsoft can spread FUD among the users, this is a losing battle for you because Microsoft did that for its whole history and now it is failing. If you are trying to prove something else, you are a moron.
"Once installed", rm -rf $HOME/* script will delete your files, too. This is why you are not supposed to install random crap. Also it's classy for you to post three messages about one stupid trojan.
Trojan.Jnanabot is a trojan. A user has to confirm running it when it is trying to launch from a browser. OS security has nothing to do with users running programs they have downloaded when their own browser tells them not to do that.
Streets named after Martin Luther King are a cesspool of crime, too! We should rename them to Infinite Loop because this is where the least amount of violent crime happens!
Since Wikileaks exists, US will claim that "crime" remains being in progress, and charge him with release of "secrets" after the law was passed.
There is no hypocrisy in using tools of evil to do something good.
Of course, if you say so. Thank you so much for helping Linux be a better OS by correcting me with such an important contribution.
My goal is not to convince you -- it's to discredit you and others who make such idiotic claims here.
Because...? In your bubble, laptops don't have TV out? Oh, I know. Linux users would never, ever want to use their laptop's TV out port. How silly of me for trying...
Some laptops had TV out at some point -- it was S-Video. For quite a while it was abandoned in favor of DVI and HDMI -- both can be used by modern TV but are not "TV out".
You must be one of those guys who feed the theory that dissatisfied Linux comments will be bashed to oblivion in /.
No, I am one of those guys who want Microsoft marketing people to be laughed out of all discussions related to technology.
Java and Javascript, when run in a browser, can not read, write or execute arbitrary files locally. Being able to do so, would be a security bug (and some such bugs existed and were fixed).
Java and Javascript can be used to run programs locally under control of the user. This is useless for any kinds of exploits.
I am not "offended", I have called you on you bullshit.
I am 41.
I forgot in my earlier comment: I use Slackware because is the only one who does things in a more or less standardized way at the kernel level.
This is absolutely wrong -- and yes, I am a kernel programmer. You are talking out of your ass.
I have no fucking idea about the rest of your text (as it is completely unreadable), but security bugs on Linux don't even live long enough to be exploited. Certainly not a combination of desktop-exploitable remote execution and privilege escalation on a system that gets updates from a repository.
This is what Microsoft is trying to accomplish -- send open source developers on a wild goose chase to "fix problems" that do not exist, so those developers will not have time and resources to produce superior software.
Fuck you, Microsoft! We know what is not broken and we are not going to fix it.