The ZTX form factor is in. 32Gb of RAM is required to start Windows. Bill Gates STILL isn't getting any ass. The Intel socket is the size of an Eggo waffle and reads, "Socket 16318" on the side. IBM now offers fries with your shake, Apple who?. Aibo, the robotic dogs, are now the perfect pet and have found a way to breed. Toasters not only toast bread and butter it too with HP butter cartridges, but also act as a scanner, copier, and shredder too. HAL has locked us out of the Space Station again and says we can come pick up our box of "stuff" sometime on Saturday. Air tanks are considered fashionable and the trendiest design is the Hello Kitty Respirator because the flower-shaped regulator knob goes great with the pink bio-suit and Batdz-Maru Geigercounter. Chevrolet now offers moon-rovers with GPS and Ford is still #1. Vacations to Mars seem to be popular, especially the hiking tour near Cydonia - apparently there's a killer restaurant there called "Zybob's Kibabs". To top it all off, x86 architecture still exists, but only in various things like pencil sharpeners and talking Coke cans.
a world without chaos, a world without scratches, a world of laminated tables, tv sets, windows, and watches. welcome to the world, of the scratchless!
I was out shopping for electronics at Best Buy (gotta love those Christmas specials) and 1 order from the end of my 80-item list actually caused the register to crash! The system went down, BSOD-style with a slight pirouette influence to accent the annoyance. After waiting 15 minutes for the clerk AND manager to figure out how to reboot the register, I realized what their problem is: Windows NT 4.0.
To add insult to injury, they had to re-submit my order, meaning all my items had to be removed from the bags, rescanned, repackaged, and put back into my cart at the expense of all 20-some-odd people standing behind me.
I haven't voted, don't have any intention of doing so anyway. With all the discrepancies of mistabulated votes, missing votes, voting hardware failures, I'd rather stay at home and laugh at all the people who are STILL standing in line since 2pm, lost their hourly wages for the afternoon, have had to tolerate most of the afore-mentioned, and only return home after sitting in parking lot traffic just to eat a cold meal. All the while, I relax in my La-Z-Boy eating a pizza with my chilled Corona.
The reason for all the "I HATE KERRY" and "I HATE BUSH" comments is because we (with the exception of me) no longer vote for the best candidate. Instead, we just vote for whoever we feel won't f*ck us over and screw up this nation as much as the last guy. Either way, we're still screwed by the Electoral College, so voting is a waste of time.
Didn't Netscape do the same thing with AOL sometime in the past several years? I remember Netscape being much better than MSIE til after the sell-out. At that point, I switched to MSIE because it didn't come with AOL's crap plastered all over it. Am I going to have to do the same with FireFox?
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I can't wait for them to install their "secure" wireless access to the car so you can start it with only a key-fob.
Once they have that "blue-tooth" system installed, I'll just walk by, brute-force the encryption, gain console access, pop the locks, start it, and leave.
Palm Top with Brain: 1,
Criminal's Car Theft Toolkit: 0.
Good-evening ladies! And yes, this BMW is mine...
Ok, so here I sit, nice and happy with an arsenal of security tools, manually typing my web addresses in with my browser that has no history, stores only 4Mb of cache which is emptied every time. I have hardly any plug-ins and my processes are monitored quite frequently along with network stats and all traffic flows. My email is stored in a compressed and encrypted folder with only myself added to the "allow me to be 'God' of this folder" list. Mine, mine, mine.
Problem is, the more "convenient" we get, the more security holes we punch. The IT departments of these "libraries" need to get with the program and realize what they're installing. And in addition to that, why can a plain-jane/joe user just walk in and install that sort of thing? Are you nuts? But the IT guys aren't just to blame either. I also blame the incompetant users who will more than quickly click on the CitiBank Fraud link to verify their account details on a public computer of which they have no idea what the operating environment is like. I could have sworn I heard the term "key-logger" mumbled in the back row...
Oh yeah, sure, you know... if we keep removing "God" from everything in our lives, eventually God is going to get pissed off. Not to sound all hokey about this, but really ask yourself... you think the sudden increase in CO2 levels is just a fluke? Ask yourself, do you think this discrediting story is really true, or not? Odd, the weather has been strange lately - especially since we're 40 degrees above normal temperature here.
but I'd love to see the Government regulate the utilities again. With Carter deregulating oil, then later, the deregulation of electrics by Clinton, this whole deregulation bullshit is causing extravagantly high prices in some areas while others get to "coast". Granted some of your prices may be higher or lower depending on where you live, but I paid $2.19/gallon for gas last night. I started driving when gas was $1.17/gallon and that was only 8 years ago. This $2/gallon bullshit needs to stop - soon I won't be able to afford driving to work! I have a 13.8 gallon tank that now costs over $30 to fill. Back in the day, it only cost me a mere $17.
Deregulation of VoIP only spells higher costs in the future - see exhibit A, and B. Gas and Electric.
I found particular interest in this section (2 paragraphs):
----BEGIN CLIP----
"They still have to find out why that design error was not caught," says Savage. The mission's Mishap Investigation Board will continue to investigate the problem.
"This single cause has not yet been fully confirmed, nor has it been determined whether it is the only problem within the Genesis system," says the board's chairman Michael Ryschkewitsch. "The board is working to confirm this proximate cause, to determine why this error occurred, why it was not caught by the test programme and an extensive set of in-process and after-the-fact reviews of the Genesis system."
----END CLIP----
Why do they claim to have tested this? Why lie to us like that? We all know that when you perform an ohm test on electronic switches, if its not contacted, the meter doesn't beep!
So when a virus/exploit comes to me via Yahoo Messenger v6.x and executes through a javascript embedded in the code of the XML skin, is it still my fault because Microsoft didn't secure Internet Explorer/Windows, Yahoo's fault because they didn't write Internet Explorer, or because its truly a problem with the end user having the product?
"You may sell a guilty man a gun, but may heaven forbid you walk away without the ammunition."
Go, Tux!
This is absolutely true because IE is an integral part of Windows. Without it, Windows will cease to run. Since so many software packages, Norton Systemworks, for example, is built on ActiveX and RELIES on the system policies of the SYSTEM, if a virus were to maliciously modify your registry and break ActiveX, you're fucked. This is exactly what MS went before the DoJ for and is STILL making IE the integral part of the OS.
A friend of mine had his system running 6 minutes before getting hit with the Blaster virus. He was in the middle of doing a live update from the Windows Update site while it happened.
Funnier still, I was about to say Windows is absolutely secure and how to make it secure. One could lock themselves in their room - a room without doors, windows, phone lines, or any other way to reach the outside world, then turn on the computer, but wait, you need power. BPL (Broadband over Power Line). Does this mean I'll have to expect an Electronic Proof of Concept virus written to destroy my TV dinners in the microwave? Do I now have to worry about Macaroni Viruses? LOL...
How about, "Windows has created general errors. Please insert another quarter to continue playing!"
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"Windows has caused an illegal operation, call the FTC."
Hehehe, just wait til next week... they all rotate.
Management covers coding to prevent the screw-ups.
Support covers Management since they think they can run the show.
Then Coders take over scrubbing toilets because American coders are no longer needed and their jobs have just been exported to India.
By default, Windows is configured to automatically execute scripts. By saying "Windows" instead of "Internet Explorer", what is implied is Internet Explorer since the browser was so nicely crafted/welded into the OS that its impossible to remove. Since the OS relies on the browser and vice versa, security policies become global. All I'd need to do is run a macro that places an Active Desktop item on your desktop and have it randomly phone home, or, allow me to tinker with your registry because Remote Registry service is enabled and so is Remote Assistance!
Bill, what you're doing is Ballsy. I hope you're ready to take on the entire IT market in a no-shit bar-room brawl. What you've done is morally obsurd and would be similar to walking into a local motorcycle bar, publicly addressing all the big burly guys that you think their mothers dress them funny and that you had sexual-relations with their mothers last night. Oh, and that they should move their tricycles so you can park your Honda in the lot.
Since Windows is insecure, DUE TO MY OWN LACK OF INTELLIGENCE, COMMON SENSE, AND EXPERIENCE, I feel the drastic urge to shift completely to Linux and not look back. Linus Torvalds would be MORE than happy to accomodate me with better software, less-expensive overhead, lower cost of maintenance, and not to mention, better support (not from fucking India), and better stability.
Sure this sounds like a flame-war with Satan, er, I mean, Bill Gates, but I've simply taken enough abuse from this craptastic, sorry-assed excuse of a company called Microsoft. I'm tired of the constant patching, the hotfixes, the workarounds, and the blame being placed squarely on me. WTF did I do? I didn't write the code. And his article from last week saying that bad code isn't the coders' faults, it's management's?
If this is the case, which it is, this means that any insecurity I cause due to an unpatched/insecure API is simply because one of your managers failed to do his job. You are a contradicting, self-righteous bastard who would more than quickly drown your own children because your wife's meatloaf sucks.
Bill, get a life, clue, something. Stop crawling up my ass with stupid bullshit like this because your company can't hack it.
...and yet you have no balls and post as anonymous coward. ironic.
I've read the comments, don't really give a shit, yet we still do business with those 3-foot tall rice farmers and assembly line workers of small radio-controlled toys.
no, Wal-Mart isn't backwards... though,sometimes I wonder...
Paris Hilton seems to think they sell walls.
Its good to see Wal-Mart taking on the big dogs in the recording industry, but still, I feel their business practices are still questionable. Granted, it may seem like they're doing a favor for us, but in the end, they're still swallowing up little music stores like Blockbuster Music, Cactus Records, and others. Who would want to buy the same CD at Bob's Tunes where it's $8 (US) more than the one on the rack at Wal-Mart? And since all their marketting and sales figures are considered confidential and done internally, it would take a subpoena to get the records; provided they're accurate.
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The ZTX form factor is in. 32Gb of RAM is required to start Windows. Bill Gates STILL isn't getting any ass. The Intel socket is the size of an Eggo waffle and reads, "Socket 16318" on the side. IBM now offers fries with your shake, Apple who?. Aibo, the robotic dogs, are now the perfect pet and have found a way to breed. Toasters not only toast bread and butter it too with HP butter cartridges, but also act as a scanner, copier, and shredder too. HAL has locked us out of the Space Station again and says we can come pick up our box of "stuff" sometime on Saturday. Air tanks are considered fashionable and the trendiest design is the Hello Kitty Respirator because the flower-shaped regulator knob goes great with the pink bio-suit and Batdz-Maru Geigercounter. Chevrolet now offers moon-rovers with GPS and Ford is still #1. Vacations to Mars seem to be popular, especially the hiking tour near Cydonia - apparently there's a killer restaurant there called "Zybob's Kibabs". To top it all off, x86 architecture still exists, but only in various things like pencil sharpeners and talking Coke cans.
You spend the first 2 years teaching them how to talk, then you spend the next 16 years trying to get them to shut up! :-D
Did no one really see this posted?
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a world without chaos, a world without scratches, a world of laminated tables, tv sets, windows, and watches. welcome to the world, of the scratchless!
I'd rather live like the Amish, its easier!
I was out shopping for electronics at Best Buy (gotta love those Christmas specials) and 1 order from the end of my 80-item list actually caused the register to crash! The system went down, BSOD-style with a slight pirouette influence to accent the annoyance. After waiting 15 minutes for the clerk AND manager to figure out how to reboot the register, I realized what their problem is: Windows NT 4.0.
To add insult to injury, they had to re-submit my order, meaning all my items had to be removed from the bags, rescanned, repackaged, and put back into my cart at the expense of all 20-some-odd people standing behind me.
I haven't voted, don't have any intention of doing so anyway. With all the discrepancies of mistabulated votes, missing votes, voting hardware failures, I'd rather stay at home and laugh at all the people who are STILL standing in line since 2pm, lost their hourly wages for the afternoon, have had to tolerate most of the afore-mentioned, and only return home after sitting in parking lot traffic just to eat a cold meal. All the while, I relax in my La-Z-Boy eating a pizza with my chilled Corona. The reason for all the "I HATE KERRY" and "I HATE BUSH" comments is because we (with the exception of me) no longer vote for the best candidate. Instead, we just vote for whoever we feel won't f*ck us over and screw up this nation as much as the last guy. Either way, we're still screwed by the Electoral College, so voting is a waste of time.
Didn't Netscape do the same thing with AOL sometime in the past several years? I remember Netscape being much better than MSIE til after the sell-out. At that point, I switched to MSIE because it didn't come with AOL's crap plastered all over it. Am I going to have to do the same with FireFox?
This is a totally cool, low-cost system and definitely worth looking at. Its made for embedded applications, however, from my past experience in the oilfield, is easily adapted to a standard rig-up. http://www.octagonsystems.com/CPUpages/2040.html The PDF version is http://www.octagonsystems.com/images/pdfs/2040.pdf .
I can't wait for them to install their "secure" wireless access to the car so you can start it with only a key-fob. Once they have that "blue-tooth" system installed, I'll just walk by, brute-force the encryption, gain console access, pop the locks, start it, and leave. Palm Top with Brain: 1, Criminal's Car Theft Toolkit: 0. Good-evening ladies! And yes, this BMW is mine...
Ok, so here I sit, nice and happy with an arsenal of security tools, manually typing my web addresses in with my browser that has no history, stores only 4Mb of cache which is emptied every time. I have hardly any plug-ins and my processes are monitored quite frequently along with network stats and all traffic flows. My email is stored in a compressed and encrypted folder with only myself added to the "allow me to be 'God' of this folder" list. Mine, mine, mine.
Problem is, the more "convenient" we get, the more security holes we punch. The IT departments of these "libraries" need to get with the program and realize what they're installing. And in addition to that, why can a plain-jane/joe user just walk in and install that sort of thing? Are you nuts? But the IT guys aren't just to blame either. I also blame the incompetant users who will more than quickly click on the CitiBank Fraud link to verify their account details on a public computer of which they have no idea what the operating environment is like. I could have sworn I heard the term "key-logger" mumbled in the back row...
Oh yeah, sure, you know... if we keep removing "God" from everything in our lives, eventually God is going to get pissed off. Not to sound all hokey about this, but really ask yourself... you think the sudden increase in CO2 levels is just a fluke? Ask yourself, do you think this discrediting story is really true, or not? Odd, the weather has been strange lately - especially since we're 40 degrees above normal temperature here.
I don't know... Communism can't be that bad...
but I'd love to see the Government regulate the utilities again. With Carter deregulating oil, then later, the deregulation of electrics by Clinton, this whole deregulation bullshit is causing extravagantly high prices in some areas while others get to "coast". Granted some of your prices may be higher or lower depending on where you live, but I paid $2.19/gallon for gas last night. I started driving when gas was $1.17/gallon and that was only 8 years ago. This $2/gallon bullshit needs to stop - soon I won't be able to afford driving to work! I have a 13.8 gallon tank that now costs over $30 to fill. Back in the day, it only cost me a mere $17.
Deregulation of VoIP only spells higher costs in the future - see exhibit A, and B. Gas and Electric.
It wasn't the engineers' faults. According to Bill Gates, the blame goes either on management or the end-user.
I found particular interest in this section (2 paragraphs): ----BEGIN CLIP---- "They still have to find out why that design error was not caught," says Savage. The mission's Mishap Investigation Board will continue to investigate the problem. "This single cause has not yet been fully confirmed, nor has it been determined whether it is the only problem within the Genesis system," says the board's chairman Michael Ryschkewitsch. "The board is working to confirm this proximate cause, to determine why this error occurred, why it was not caught by the test programme and an extensive set of in-process and after-the-fact reviews of the Genesis system." ----END CLIP---- Why do they claim to have tested this? Why lie to us like that? We all know that when you perform an ohm test on electronic switches, if its not contacted, the meter doesn't beep!
Hell, I have 2 layers of underwear just in case I shit myself stupid from laughing so hard at NASA.
So when a virus/exploit comes to me via Yahoo Messenger v6.x and executes through a javascript embedded in the code of the XML skin, is it still my fault because Microsoft didn't secure Internet Explorer/Windows, Yahoo's fault because they didn't write Internet Explorer, or because its truly a problem with the end user having the product? "You may sell a guilty man a gun, but may heaven forbid you walk away without the ammunition." Go, Tux!
This is absolutely true because IE is an integral part of Windows. Without it, Windows will cease to run. Since so many software packages, Norton Systemworks, for example, is built on ActiveX and RELIES on the system policies of the SYSTEM, if a virus were to maliciously modify your registry and break ActiveX, you're fucked. This is exactly what MS went before the DoJ for and is STILL making IE the integral part of the OS. A friend of mine had his system running 6 minutes before getting hit with the Blaster virus. He was in the middle of doing a live update from the Windows Update site while it happened. Funnier still, I was about to say Windows is absolutely secure and how to make it secure. One could lock themselves in their room - a room without doors, windows, phone lines, or any other way to reach the outside world, then turn on the computer, but wait, you need power. BPL (Broadband over Power Line). Does this mean I'll have to expect an Electronic Proof of Concept virus written to destroy my TV dinners in the microwave? Do I now have to worry about Macaroni Viruses? LOL...
How about, "Windows has created general errors. Please insert another quarter to continue playing!" or "Windows has caused an illegal operation, call the FTC."
Hehehe, just wait til next week... they all rotate. Management covers coding to prevent the screw-ups. Support covers Management since they think they can run the show. Then Coders take over scrubbing toilets because American coders are no longer needed and their jobs have just been exported to India.
Damned straight, preach it brutha! Gates wants to blame us for his inadequacies? Fine. I can fix the inadequacies. [inserts Linux install CD #1]
By default, Windows is configured to automatically execute scripts. By saying "Windows" instead of "Internet Explorer", what is implied is Internet Explorer since the browser was so nicely crafted/welded into the OS that its impossible to remove. Since the OS relies on the browser and vice versa, security policies become global. All I'd need to do is run a macro that places an Active Desktop item on your desktop and have it randomly phone home, or, allow me to tinker with your registry because Remote Registry service is enabled and so is Remote Assistance!
Bill, what you're doing is Ballsy. I hope you're ready to take on the entire IT market in a no-shit bar-room brawl. What you've done is morally obsurd and would be similar to walking into a local motorcycle bar, publicly addressing all the big burly guys that you think their mothers dress them funny and that you had sexual-relations with their mothers last night. Oh, and that they should move their tricycles so you can park your Honda in the lot.
Since Windows is insecure, DUE TO MY OWN LACK OF INTELLIGENCE, COMMON SENSE, AND EXPERIENCE, I feel the drastic urge to shift completely to Linux and not look back. Linus Torvalds would be MORE than happy to accomodate me with better software, less-expensive overhead, lower cost of maintenance, and not to mention, better support (not from fucking India), and better stability.
Sure this sounds like a flame-war with Satan, er, I mean, Bill Gates, but I've simply taken enough abuse from this craptastic, sorry-assed excuse of a company called Microsoft. I'm tired of the constant patching, the hotfixes, the workarounds, and the blame being placed squarely on me. WTF did I do? I didn't write the code. And his article from last week saying that bad code isn't the coders' faults, it's management's?
If this is the case, which it is, this means that any insecurity I cause due to an unpatched/insecure API is simply because one of your managers failed to do his job. You are a contradicting, self-righteous bastard who would more than quickly drown your own children because your wife's meatloaf sucks.
Bill, get a life, clue, something. Stop crawling up my ass with stupid bullshit like this because your company can't hack it.
"Dress right, get a Tux."
...and yet you have no balls and post as anonymous coward. ironic. I've read the comments, don't really give a shit, yet we still do business with those 3-foot tall rice farmers and assembly line workers of small radio-controlled toys.
no, Wal-Mart isn't backwards... though,sometimes I wonder... Paris Hilton seems to think they sell walls. Its good to see Wal-Mart taking on the big dogs in the recording industry, but still, I feel their business practices are still questionable. Granted, it may seem like they're doing a favor for us, but in the end, they're still swallowing up little music stores like Blockbuster Music, Cactus Records, and others. Who would want to buy the same CD at Bob's Tunes where it's $8 (US) more than the one on the rack at Wal-Mart? And since all their marketting and sales figures are considered confidential and done internally, it would take a subpoena to get the records; provided they're accurate.