1) that hardware based rootkit detection is unreliable and 2) that a beautiful girl cannot be a part of the geeky world of cyber security research (considered exclusively a part of male fiefdom).
That reminds me of when I was studying Physics at a small state college, the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater... The physics department was quite small and almost every Physics student knew every other Physics student, and we all knew one thing: there were no girls in Physics, well, there was one but she was quite ugly (but she was real nice).
Anyway, one day it was the first day of Physics and this really HOT blonde rushed in and as she sat way in the back our Physics teacher said, "Excuse me, miss, I think you're in the wrong class room." We all knew that was the case but were hoping it wasn't. She asked if it some other class, the teacher said, "No." After she had walked out the door the whole class, all half dozen or so of us, burst out laughing so loudly that you could probably have heard us laughing in any other classroom in that floor. Now that I think about it, it might have been crying masqueraded as laughing.
No shit, Sherlock. The intro paragaph ends "There's no firm word that AMD is even being considered for purchase, but it's certainly and interesting prospect." Arg, back to work.
That reminds me of when I worked for a national ISP and we had to test parental control software. "Hey, guys, look I can go to Persiankitty just fine!" For a whole day!
The other problem is that KDE is slow, REAL slow...
KDE being superfine with my system I was going to ask you what you have for a computer but someone in a later post here said that KDE is OK in Debian, which is what I use.
Well then, what do you have for system and what distro do you use?
Ah, I see now what Microsoft meant when they said that Vista would create over 100,000 new jobs in the US and in Europe: Support desk jobs for the resellers.
I say its time for MS to be forced to publish their "standards" and APIs.
I disagree. I think that Microsoft has to be stopped from using anti-competitive tactics in their way of doing business and the rest will take care of itself. Let them keep their junk, closed source, buggy operating system.
I say one set of prices for EVERYONE published publicly with no contract tie-ins to any other MS or competing product coming into the equation will take care of everything!
Wow, I never knew you could sue people if for overcharging.
Dude, the lawsuit was supposed to have been not so much about overcharging but over the things they did and still do to allow the overcharging. Things, you know, like penalizing OEMs for installing alternate operating systems.
I read some things that came out about Microsoft and Gates during the lawsuit and I came out thinking that Gates IS evil and his charity foundation has to be more about PR than actually helping someone else out, although they do inadvertently end up doing that, too. Someone asked me, "Don't you think that the world is better off with Gates giving so much money away?" and I replied, "Sure, but it would be a even better world if they didn't behave like monsters in taking the money in the ways that they do in the first place!"
Too bad all the documents are gone now.
Scratch that... two suicides
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Penrose's suicide allegedly resulted from the "heavy-handed and intimidating actions of Canopy's current management," including Mustard, according to Yarro in an affidavit after Yarro's conversations with several members of Penrose's family.
This is nasty!
This article is like an old family reunion, Maureen is there, Enderle makes an appearance... no Darl, though.
Re:It won't help one bit, of course.
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And I don't blame her one bit for being sick.
Hell, someone on the SCOX side already "commited suicide" (Noorda's daughter).
This shit goes deep. I think it's just that SCOX doesn't feel comfortable saying anything anymore because it will probably be either an outright lie or inconsistent with something else they've said - and PJ will point it out for the whole world to see! I don't think Truth is on their side at all.
Even I felt like nauseated after reading some of SCOX's claims in court. LIES AFTER LIES AFTER LIES...
This is just my hypothesis but I think someone is going to get extremely rich for not testifying against Gates in court. Darl is now just trying to stay out of jail, where he will be affectionately known as "Darl the Bride."
It's a mere suggestion by a comitee, scientists and politicians are outraged by the whole idea...
It sounds like Conservative Republicans are expanding their base. We'll know it for sure if they start making up shit about Sweden and invade/occupy them.
(Offtopic) Will someone please correct the following statement: Almost all Norwegian women are HOT and centerfold material.
Face it; a hosting site that will stick up for it's customers against a significant threat from a big company is hard as hell to find, and sure as hell GoDaddy isn't going to do it for 10 bucks a month.
But what if thousands leave (I for one am)? Do you suppose they would do it for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollas a month?
I actually thought about moving my business elsewhere after I fond out that they moved all of their parked domains from Linux to Windows. I know it's a business, and why shouldn't they take Microsoft's money to switch away from Linux? Well, this is Slashdot so I don't think I need to answer THAT question.
I'd rather we skip the monetary fines that are becoming meaningless and go for revocation of patents.
I don't think that punishment will be acceptable to Mr. Gates. And when you are as rich and powerful as Mr. Gates and you break the law, you get asked whether the punishment is acceptable to you AND to please monitor your own behavior.
I'm sure MS did not forget to pay their yearly Republican Party dues. I can just hear the Attorney General asking his pimp what he should do and Bush saying, "Nothing, of course."
Of course if they tell a judge instead of the AG, I think things may be different since judges aren't Dubya's beetches.
... The first thing you do when seizing control of a country is quietly sieze control of the media without the populace knowing. But if the media are the people the people that becomes alot more difficult, especially if they can blog with relative anonmity using a few tools...
Yeah, but doesn't AT&T reroute all Internet traffic through the NSA anyway? Of course if AT&T does it, I'm sure all the other big ISPs do, too. They wouldn't want to lose out on big government jobs!
I guess I still just don't get how someone else can make profit from something that I created just because X years have gone by.
Let's say that you are a musician, OK? OK. Now what if the person who made your guitar says, "I guess I still just don't get how someone else can make profit from something that I created just because X years have gone by." OK, do you follow?
Now, what kind of shoes do you wear? Nike? K. Now what if the bad, evil, corporation wants a cut of your profits because they can't seem to understand how you can make a profit from something that they've created? Do you follow now?
No? OK, what if the architect who designed your house wants to get paid for designing your house even years after the house was built because? Well, he designed it and you're making a lot of money while living in it. He wants his cut, dammit!
OFFTOPIC: I have ad.doubleclick.net mapped to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and when I click on comment links on Slashdot, they never load. Iceweasel (firefox did this, too) status bar just says:
Transferring data from ad.doubleclick.net.
I'm not going to change my hosts file. Does anyone here have a workaround?
Who knows what else Google does with all that information?
I wanted to create a gmail account for online accounts so I wouldn't have to use my own domain email address. I get my email from GoDaddy through my domain and I have a "catch all" email address so that all email that does not have a specific recipient goes to this account. This allows me to give a different email address to each person.
So... I emailed a gmail invitation to an email address at my domain, an address that I had never used before and have not used since. Well, guess what? This address started getting SPAM as soon as I sent this invitation! I know, I know, SPAMMERS use sometimes "sophisticated" means to get new addresses, but... I still tend to think Google sold my email address to SPAMMERS.
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That reminds me of when I was studying Physics at a small state college, the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater... The physics department was quite small and almost every Physics student knew every other Physics student, and we all knew one thing: there were no girls in Physics, well, there was one but she was quite ugly (but she was real nice).
Anyway, one day it was the first day of Physics and this really HOT blonde rushed in and as she sat way in the back our Physics teacher said, "Excuse me, miss, I think you're in the wrong class room." We all knew that was the case but were hoping it wasn't. She asked if it some other class, the teacher said, "No." After she had walked out the door the whole class, all half dozen or so of us, burst out laughing so loudly that you could probably have heard us laughing in any other classroom in that floor. Now that I think about it, it might have been crying masqueraded as laughing.
True story. Off-topic? So sue me.
Is this idle speculation masquerading as news?
No shit, Sherlock. The intro paragaph ends "There's no firm word that AMD is even being considered for purchase, but it's certainly and interesting prospect." Arg, back to work.
... but MS took that option away from me as well...
Whatever. You can still get XP from retailers, you know.
Newegg.
If you don't want to pay for it, I'm sure you can get it from a friend, an enemy, or some warez site for free, too.
Dude, what is "wake and bake?"
Wow, your ID is lower than mine.
That reminds me of when I worked for a national ISP and we had to test parental control software. "Hey, guys, look I can go to Persiankitty just fine!" For a whole day!
The other problem is that KDE is slow, REAL slow...
KDE being superfine with my system I was going to ask you what you have for a computer but someone in a later post here said that KDE is OK in Debian, which is what I use.
Well then, what do you have for system and what distro do you use?
Ah, I see now what Microsoft meant when they said that Vista would create over 100,000 new jobs in the US and in Europe: Support desk jobs for the resellers.
I think it's obviously a case of, "If you don't like the message, shoot the messenger."
They are obviously stupid (or evil) and don't understand what is meant by a STANDARD. "But we're Microsoft, WE set the standard."
FU Bill Gates.
I say its time for MS to be forced to publish their "standards" and APIs.
I disagree. I think that Microsoft has to be stopped from using anti-competitive tactics in their way of doing business and the rest will take care of itself. Let them keep their junk, closed source, buggy operating system.
I say one set of prices for EVERYONE published publicly with no contract tie-ins to any other MS or competing product coming into the equation will take care of everything!
Wow, I never knew you could sue people if for overcharging.
Dude, the lawsuit was supposed to have been not so much about overcharging but over the things they did and still do to allow the overcharging. Things, you know, like penalizing OEMs for installing alternate operating systems.
I read some things that came out about Microsoft and Gates during the lawsuit and I came out thinking that Gates IS evil and his charity foundation has to be more about PR than actually helping someone else out, although they do inadvertently end up doing that, too. Someone asked me, "Don't you think that the world is better off with Gates giving so much money away?" and I replied, "Sure, but it would be a even better world if they didn't behave like monsters in taking the money in the ways that they do in the first place!"
Too bad all the documents are gone now.
This is nasty!
This article is like an old family reunion, Maureen is there, Enderle makes an appearance... no Darl, though.
And I don't blame her one bit for being sick.
Hell, someone on the SCOX side already "commited suicide" (Noorda's daughter).
This shit goes deep. I think it's just that SCOX doesn't feel comfortable saying anything anymore because it will probably be either an outright lie or inconsistent with something else they've said - and PJ will point it out for the whole world to see! I don't think Truth is on their side at all.
Even I felt like nauseated after reading some of SCOX's claims in court. LIES AFTER LIES AFTER LIES...
This is just my hypothesis but I think someone is going to get extremely rich for not testifying against Gates in court. Darl is now just trying to stay out of jail, where he will be affectionately known as "Darl the Bride."
It's a mere suggestion by a comitee, scientists and politicians are outraged by the whole idea...
It sounds like Conservative Republicans are expanding their base. We'll know it for sure if they start making up shit about Sweden and invade/occupy them.
(Offtopic) Will someone please correct the following statement: Almost all Norwegian women are HOT and centerfold material.
Face it; a hosting site that will stick up for it's customers against a significant threat from a big company is hard as hell to find, and sure as hell GoDaddy isn't going to do it for 10 bucks a month.
But what if thousands leave (I for one am)? Do you suppose they would do it for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollas a month?
I actually thought about moving my business elsewhere after I fond out that they moved all of their parked domains from Linux to Windows. I know it's a business, and why shouldn't they take Microsoft's money to switch away from Linux? Well, this is Slashdot so I don't think I need to answer THAT question.
I'm moving my domains away from you...
Me, too. Who are you going with?
I'd rather we skip the monetary fines that are becoming meaningless and go for revocation of patents.
I don't think that punishment will be acceptable to Mr. Gates. And when you are as rich and powerful as Mr. Gates and you break the law, you get asked whether the punishment is acceptable to you AND to please monitor your own behavior.
It's true. Here. Amazing. Simply amazing.
I'm sure MS did not forget to pay their yearly Republican Party dues. I can just hear the Attorney General asking his pimp what he should do and Bush saying, "Nothing, of course."
Of course if they tell a judge instead of the AG, I think things may be different since judges aren't Dubya's beetches.
... The first thing you do when seizing control of a country is quietly sieze control of the media without the populace knowing. But if the media are the people the people that becomes alot more difficult, especially if they can blog with relative anonmity using a few tools...
Yeah, but doesn't AT&T reroute all Internet traffic through the NSA anyway? Of course if AT&T does it, I'm sure all the other big ISPs do, too. They wouldn't want to lose out on big government jobs!
I guess I still just don't get how someone else can make profit from something that I created just because X years have gone by.
Let's say that you are a musician, OK? OK. Now what if the person who made your guitar says, "I guess I still just don't get how someone else can make profit from something that I created just because X years have gone by." OK, do you follow?
Now, what kind of shoes do you wear? Nike? K. Now what if the bad, evil, corporation wants a cut of your profits because they can't seem to understand how you can make a profit from something that they've created? Do you follow now?
No? OK, what if the architect who designed your house wants to get paid for designing your house even years after the house was built because? Well, he designed it and you're making a lot of money while living in it. He wants his cut, dammit!
Do you follow now?
Only post?
OFFTOPIC: I have ad.doubleclick.net mapped to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and when I click on comment links on Slashdot, they never load. Iceweasel (firefox did this, too) status bar just says:
Transferring data from ad.doubleclick.net.
I'm not going to change my hosts file. Does anyone here have a workaround?
Who knows what else Google does with all that information?
I wanted to create a gmail account for online accounts so I wouldn't have to use my own domain email address. I get my email from GoDaddy through my domain and I have a "catch all" email address so that all email that does not have a specific recipient goes to this account. This allows me to give a different email address to each person.
So... I emailed a gmail invitation to an email address at my domain, an address that I had never used before and have not used since. Well, guess what? This address started getting SPAM as soon as I sent this invitation! I know, I know, SPAMMERS use sometimes "sophisticated" means to get new addresses, but... I still tend to think Google sold my email address to SPAMMERS.
... give out large grants for research...
Funny. Do you know what most of this money would buy? Yes, sir: yachts, mansions, and Bentleys for the CEO's. Yeah, there is no limit to human greed.
The whole problem is that people only give a shit about federal politics.
Hmmm. I never looked at it that way (yes, I'm somewhat guilty of that). I'll have to think on it. Thanks for the feedback.
My ruble is on the Russuan mafia.
My nickel is on the *AA mafia because we have a government that will do ANYTHING for corporations.