The EC violated process by pawning the proposal off as an A-item, which it cannot be because of objections. Only items on which there is a concesus -- and more than one objection means no concensus.
So in reality, the EP should not even be wasting time with the proposal and should just shitcan it and tell the EC and Berlusconi's wife to come back when they can follow the rules.
I'd heard of the false statements MS made about Novell. In fact, when I first heard managment spreading the rumour, I tracked it down as far as one of the MS consultants, but couldn't go further with it.
You know, the "American People" like to think of themselves as free and, above all, morally upright. You'd think that with behavior like we seen the last 20 years, no one would have any thing to do with MS which stands for lack of freedom and seems to get by only with the help of unethical and occasionally immoral and illegal business practices.
E-mail attachments are evil. The video was 50MB, before conversion to base64 which made it much larger.
On the technical side, this is a clear case why WWW, regular file sharing (Samba, Netware, AFS, etc.) or even P2P like BitTorrent should be used instead.
Mail is not for sending binary attachments of any size. Mail transfer agents and mailing list software ought to block attachments by default. That would also put the lid on quite a few of the MS viruses and worms out there.
I'm sceptical to the reliability of non-scientific sources like dictionary.com in this context.
But regardless, it would be useful to disambiguate the tasty creature. Since no one bothers to say 'European Elk' or 'American Elk', I propose that the term 'elk' in general be depreciated on both continents and that 'moose' (alces) and 'wapati' (cervus) be used instead where applicable.
This was done with the fish, Dolphin, which is now referred to as Mahi-mahi, as the name Dolphin got it confused with the porpoise-like mammal also called Dolphin.
Sorry, but their privacy was deprived the moment some idiot decided to put that information on an accessible server. More has to be known about what efforts the kids made to alert the school administration and get them to fix a problem.
Focusing on the kids is a load of bullshit anyway. What was the personal data doing on a server accessible from a home computer? It sounds to me like the school administration is trying to create a smoke screen for their gross or willful negligence.
If the personal data was on a Microsoft server AND it was connected to the Internet, then the school system is in for a world of hurt in the courts: Willful negligence.
There are no elk in Sweden or any other nordic country except perhaps in the zoo. What you probably mean is a moose or alces alces. Alces alces is called älg in Swedish, elg in Norwegian, hirve in Finnish. The first two probably derive from German, which is elch, thus the mistake.
elk is Cervus elaphus or wapiti or some such beast.
Sure beats the shit out of sitting on hold with Microsoft for 2 hours, only to get grilled and having to convince them that you are not trying to steal product, only to get charged for support that ultimately ends up with fdisk/format.
... Thoughts anyone?
It's not MS vs open source, it has been MS vs both open and closed source for a long time. What erasing the harddrive does is get rid of the third party software. Since the reinstall can't be automated like for debian (and derivatives) or like Fedora's kickstart, that means that non-MS apps will get left for later in some cases and forgotten all together in others. Given the large install base, that's a real large figure even if it's just a fraction of a percent. It's something that the DOJ or the EC ought to follow up on.
It's not that hard of a puzzle to figure out:
So drop MS and use the savings to buy better hardware or peripherals. That way the budget gets used and won't get cut.
The schools in Portland did this several years ago and it's working very well.
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Do both.
Send a plain text body and include a URL for the web version of the newsletter (and optional username+password). By keeping the body plain text and/or include a link to the web version, you increase accessibiliy for lowbandwidth users (modem, GPRS, etc.) and it works for all mail clients. An additional advantage of using the WWW for what it's good at is that you get some (vague) usage statistics.
If your message cannot be conveyed in plain text, then it's probably time to rethink the whole newsletter approach.
Actually the article perpetuates the myth that MS products get compromised becaused MS is a big target. To be sure, that fails to address the question of why so many of the attacks on MS products are successful? Or the foundation for that, which is, why are there so many exploits in MS products compared to others.
Large market share does not equal bad quality for other vendors. The usual illustration is Apache vs MS-IIS or MySQL/Postgresql/Oracle vs MS-SQL.
It'd be nice to see an article from the BBC get that correctly.
Ah, but it is MS' fault. The marketing gimick is to claim that MS-Windows is a low-maintenance, easy to use operating system that works out of the box and even an untrained monkey can install and maintain it.
Rather than calling MS' customers incompetent, how about being more accurate, the are gullible. MS has been making -- and failing to deliver -- pretty much the same claims going back to Win95. People have been falling for it, but maybe it's time for them to consider a class action lawsuit.
Seriously, if they want something that works out of the box, then a Mac will do nicely. Or, some of the newer linux distros have become far easier to install than an "upgrade" to MS-Windows.
Until then, choose one and only one of the two: a) bleating that MS-Windows is easy to use, or b) bleating that one must be an initiate to esoteric knowledge to keep MS-Windows up and running.
You know, there used to be a saying about Linux at one point: Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing. This isn't a bash against Linux or OSS: _nothing_ is really free, not even a pirated copy of Windows.
That kind of proves the point. Labor costs. Systems that are more labor intensive cost more.
Modern Linux distros (and other similar) operating systems are easier to install, configure and maintain that the MS variants I've observed.
However, the point of the survey was not that they don't value a good deal, they do. The point was that people give independence from vendors more weight. That leads to a similar topic which is not open source but open protocols and data formats.
That is exactly what it looks like, a windows executable installer launched off of a web page with unknow origin.
So it's a MS-Worm or MS-Windows Worm then.
Calling it a 'worm' implies, through omission, that it affects other platforms. It goes without saying that worms and viruses are largely the domain of MS, however to generate useful discussion and or viable solutions, it does need to be pointed out explicitly, especially in the healines. Many people read only the headlines.
it's because every time there's been a grassroots movement promoting Microsoft products, it's turned out that the company was paying the folks to say what they did
That is why I commented on the
sudden lull in pro-MS posting and trolls. It happens periodically, and then they pop back all at once with a new theme. The pause reminds me of the quiet at the start or end of a project when the money runs out, hasn't started yet, or everyone is stuck in meetings (online or in person).
Tapping is done at the switch level. So, yes, even mobile phones can be tapped, though in addition to the normal method, the signal could be intercepted as well. But using the swithc doesn't require chasing around.
All switching equipment (at least in the US) is required to be designed for wiretapping according to the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). I don't recall the timeline for phase in, but I'm guessing that by now all the big names like Ericsson make only CALEA-compliant products. I'm also guessing that the same models are sold to the rest of the world.
In short, the phone network is now designed to be tapped.
Not only MS is guilty of using this vaporware tactics. All the media are lapping it up too, without even a single note of critisism.
I also notice that this and other forums have been suspiciously devoid of the usual MS apologists and/or astroturfers recently. Perhaps they are at a stratregy meeting. MS seems to be about to
unleash an major ad war on the public. It can't counter all the development and activity going against them (e.g. linux in the home or office, open formats like OpenDocument and open protocols), but they sure as heck can drown them with noise.
I'd appreciate it if the editors could compensate by easy back on the amount of useless MS oriented articles and chaff during that time. I suspect others would, too. The core activity of/. claims to be "News for nerds, stuff that matters" Chaff and press releases fall in neither category.
How is it that the university faculty and students in Spain had major outdoor protests against software patents this week and/. missed it, before and after. May First is even ths weekend.
It helps when your stuff comes pre-installed. YOu just need to bundle it right to kill off competition.
It helps, too, when your tech support constantly tells the public to wipe the hard drive and re-install the system, or when you make an OS that requires periodic wiping. That way your products (and thus the lock-in formats and protocols) get put back automatically. Through attrition, the competitors get left off. And, through attrition the pre-installed yet undesirable programs stop getting removed.
If the OS had an automated method to install and configure third party apps like RedHat's kickstart or equivalent, then it would be less of an issue. But as it is now, a re-install on MS-Windows weighs heavily against third party applications and their protocols and formats.
Assuming anyone still has some computing magazines from 5 or 10 years ago, it is possible to compare the hype and sales brochures for NT and 2000 to what was actually delivered. That would give a baseline on what to expect from "Shorthorn". It may also give a good base for customers who've been burned by pricing, licensing or security issues to file with the Better Business Bureau. I mean everyone who bought into Software Assurance got a good return on investment, right?
I expect that an alpha version of "Shorthorn" will get pushed out the door in December just to justify claims that it was ready in 2006. The only way for MS to gain marketshare over PDF would be to leverage their desktop monopoly to break into that new market currently occupied by PDF.
Even if the licensing were just a rubberstamp issue (which it probably isn't) with MS giving the nod till all who request it (which it probably won't), dealing with the paperwork is an unreasonable hurdle and PDF still wins. Publishing is about reaching your audience and that's where a freely available, documented format like PDF comes in. Yes, it's owned by Adobe, but anyone can implement a writer or a reader. Metro fails on that due to licensing restrictions.
the real requirements for this thing could be huge
Bloated new releases have been a part of the Wintel upgrade treadmill. If it is a hog, that would make Intel happy.
It would also ensure a captive market for all those new DRM'ed CPUs (e.g. La Grande from Intel) and BIOS (something from Pheonix) that folks swore up and down they'd never buy, which just happen to be in the new boxes...
There's a real demand for an escape path, especially something that runs on the old hardware: NT is dead, and 2000 is being put out to pasture, and many got burned in the Software Assurance scam.
I'd expect that Redhat, Suse and independent companies providing linux services and support would capitalize on this.
Doesn't need to be either compulsory or unethical. Though purely logistically, it would be very difficult to carry out in the U.S. since records are mostly non-existent and those that are, are poorly managed. e.g. compare the zip codes that registered pairs have lived in (or been born in) to zip codes with or without industrial contamination in air/soil/water. Shipping contaminated food is one of the confounds, though.
Other countries with more complete health and school records could provide a more practical or complete data set for research. But as I mentioned, neither the right wing nor the left wing want to really find out the cause. Both have agendas that would be disturbed by a visit to reality.
In major countries like Germany, IIS is already down to around 3% of the server market. Even world wide, most people have the sense to run Apache. You can look at the percentages, but every time an IIS farm is rolled out, shortly thereafter, they wise up and drop it for Apache or any other product actually suited for being connected to the network.
Frankly, I'm not sure why this article even made it to Slashdot. Is slashdot or OSDN participating in this year's marketing tsunami by doing product placement ads? Please let's go a week without MS articles, there's enough shilling going on in the discussion without them.
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(Note, Beowulf is not "English" literature any more than Ibsen is.)
So in reality, the EP should not even be wasting time with the proposal and should just shitcan it and tell the EC and Berlusconi's wife to come back when they can follow the rules.
Thanks. I should have made the connection myself. Though I didn't, probably for the same reason 14C is 'warm' weather and 58F is 'cold' weather.
I'd heard of the false statements MS made about Novell. In fact, when I first heard managment spreading the rumour, I tracked it down as far as one of the MS consultants, but couldn't go further with it.
You know, the "American People" like to think of themselves as free and, above all, morally upright. You'd think that with behavior like we seen the last 20 years, no one would have any thing to do with MS which stands for lack of freedom and seems to get by only with the help of unethical and occasionally immoral and illegal business practices.
On the technical side, this is a clear case why WWW, regular file sharing (Samba, Netware, AFS, etc.) or even P2P like BitTorrent should be used instead.
Mail is not for sending binary attachments of any size. Mail transfer agents and mailing list software ought to block attachments by default. That would also put the lid on quite a few of the MS viruses and worms out there.
But regardless, it would be useful to disambiguate the tasty creature. Since no one bothers to say 'European Elk' or 'American Elk', I propose that the term 'elk' in general be depreciated on both continents and that 'moose' (alces) and 'wapati' (cervus) be used instead where applicable.
This was done with the fish, Dolphin, which is now referred to as Mahi-mahi, as the name Dolphin got it confused with the porpoise-like mammal also called Dolphin.
Focusing on the kids is a load of bullshit anyway. What was the personal data doing on a server accessible from a home computer? It sounds to me like the school administration is trying to create a smoke screen for their gross or willful negligence.
If the personal data was on a Microsoft server AND it was connected to the Internet, then the school system is in for a world of hurt in the courts: Willful negligence.
elk is Cervus elaphus or wapiti or some such beast.
So drop MS and use the savings to buy better hardware or peripherals. That way the budget gets used and won't get cut.
The schools in Portland did this several years ago and it's working very well.
Send a plain text body and include a URL for the web version of the newsletter (and optional username+password). By keeping the body plain text and/or include a link to the web version, you increase accessibiliy for lowbandwidth users (modem, GPRS, etc.) and it works for all mail clients. An additional advantage of using the WWW for what it's good at is that you get some (vague) usage statistics.
If your message cannot be conveyed in plain text, then it's probably time to rethink the whole newsletter approach.
Plain text -- it was good enough for Shakespeare.
Large market share does not equal bad quality for other vendors. The usual illustration is Apache vs MS-IIS or MySQL/Postgresql/Oracle vs MS-SQL.
It'd be nice to see an article from the BBC get that correctly.
Rather than calling MS' customers incompetent, how about being more accurate, the are gullible. MS has been making -- and failing to deliver -- pretty much the same claims going back to Win95. People have been falling for it, but maybe it's time for them to consider a class action lawsuit.
Seriously, if they want something that works out of the box, then a Mac will do nicely. Or, some of the newer linux distros have become far easier to install than an "upgrade" to MS-Windows.
Until then, choose one and only one of the two:
a) bleating that MS-Windows is easy to use, or
b) bleating that one must be an initiate to esoteric knowledge to keep MS-Windows up and running.
Modern Linux distros (and other similar) operating systems are easier to install, configure and maintain that the MS variants I've observed.
However, the point of the survey was not that they don't value a good deal, they do. The point was that people give independence from vendors more weight. That leads to a similar topic which is not open source but open protocols and data formats.
Calling it a 'worm' implies, through omission, that it affects other platforms. It goes without saying that worms and viruses are largely the domain of MS, however to generate useful discussion and or viable solutions, it does need to be pointed out explicitly, especially in the healines. Many people read only the headlines.
I'm curious as to what's actually in the NDA that the shills/astroturfers sign to join "Team 99"
All switching equipment (at least in the US) is required to be designed for wiretapping according to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). I don't recall the timeline for phase in, but I'm guessing that by now all the big names like Ericsson make only CALEA-compliant products. I'm also guessing that the same models are sold to the rest of the world.
In short, the phone network is now designed to be tapped.
I'd appreciate it if the editors could compensate by easy back on the amount of useless MS oriented articles and chaff during that time. I suspect others would, too. The core activity of /. claims to be "News for nerds, stuff that matters" Chaff and press releases fall in neither category.
How is it that the university faculty and students in Spain had major outdoor protests against software patents this week and /. missed it, before and after. May First is even ths weekend.
If the OS had an automated method to install and configure third party apps like RedHat's kickstart or equivalent, then it would be less of an issue. But as it is now, a re-install on MS-Windows weighs heavily against third party applications and their protocols and formats.
I expect that an alpha version of "Shorthorn" will get pushed out the door in December just to justify claims that it was ready in 2006. The only way for MS to gain marketshare over PDF would be to leverage their desktop monopoly to break into that new market currently occupied by PDF.
Even if the licensing were just a rubberstamp issue (which it probably isn't) with MS giving the nod till all who request it (which it probably won't), dealing with the paperwork is an unreasonable hurdle and PDF still wins. Publishing is about reaching your audience and that's where a freely available, documented format like PDF comes in. Yes, it's owned by Adobe, but anyone can implement a writer or a reader. Metro fails on that due to licensing restrictions.
It would also ensure a captive market for all those new DRM'ed CPUs (e.g. La Grande from Intel) and BIOS (something from Pheonix) that folks swore up and down they'd never buy, which just happen to be in the new boxes...
There's a real demand for an escape path, especially something that runs on the old hardware: NT is dead, and 2000 is being put out to pasture, and many got burned in the Software Assurance scam. I'd expect that Redhat, Suse and independent companies providing linux services and support would capitalize on this.
Other countries with more complete health and school records could provide a more practical or complete data set for research. But as I mentioned, neither the right wing nor the left wing want to really find out the cause. Both have agendas that would be disturbed by a visit to reality.
In major countries like Germany, IIS is already down to around 3% of the server market. Even world wide, most people have the sense to run Apache. You can look at the percentages, but every time an IIS farm is rolled out, shortly thereafter, they wise up and drop it for Apache or any other product actually suited for being connected to the network.
Frankly, I'm not sure why this article even made it to Slashdot. Is slashdot or OSDN participating in this year's marketing tsunami by doing product placement ads? Please let's go a week without MS articles, there's enough shilling going on in the discussion without them.