They're basically saying that they can't fix it because the OS makes it impossible to do so.
We all know that nothings less changeable than SOFTWARE. That's why we have such stollid windoze 2000, based on NT Technology or New Technology Technology. That strain of sollid stuff is what makes XP rock too. So you see, we can't change the softwer because we already changed it and changing it twice to support our customers would be like a double negative in the bank. Unix killer, ha ha ha.
support for NT4 is dropped at 30 june 2003 and that's not really far away.
We are going to do something unacceptable by the end of June^H^H^H^H March. See there? We told you that we were going to do it, that makes it right. Be greatful, very greatful and send more money.
That or IP chains on a 486 could help protect your wimpy little M$ box from the big bad internet. Need help with those pesky chain rules? Try plonk. The best patch I've seen so far is the M$ Offswitch. What was the wonderful New Technology, NT, good for again?
The kind of product support you would expect from a comercial Unix killer rather than the kind of "support" you got from windoze 3.1. Oh my, the difference was only a matter of time. Pthththfit! That's some kind of incentive to "upgrade" to w2k, I mean XP.
Regular Hebrew and Arabic text is written without (most of) the vowels, which results in ambiguity. The average number of readings of each word is about 2.4, with some
words having up to 8 different readings. The only way to disambiguate the words is using context.
This might be rough on a computer, but it could work. Quickly file a patent application for this great new electronic idea and tell them Jeff Beazulbub sent you.
Microsoft Press publishes one of the best books I've ever seen on writing secure code (called, suprisingly, Writing Secure Code, ISBN 0-7356-1588-8). It's written by 2 MS engineers. I'd say there certainly are people at MS who're very qualified to talk about security, and, hopefully, those will be the ones teaching the seminars.
General priciple # 5: hard work and self sacrifice beget more of the same. The more rapacious a company is the more difficlut they are to get a job with and the less they actually listen to their experts. Specifically, it's obvious that if M$ has 2 or 3 people who know about security, they have never been listened to as other priorties are upheld. Windows will never be secure as long as M$ insists on being able to push onto their platform.
,i>writing shitty reports and query utilities with Visual Basic (the only thing I've been able to use out of concern for future maintenance--it has to be able to be modified by Joe Random Coder).
Having worked there for five years, you must see the folly and instability of VB. M$ has consistently knifed their VB programers in the back with changes that require recoding. Soon, I'm afraid they will abandon VB alltogether.
Looks like you've found out why he's management at a Uni and not corporate. A decent leader would recognize the opportunity to change the failed project he's authorized into a winner without losing face.
I've met way dumber and more stuborn people in the corporate world than this. In fact, a really evil bastard would have blamed the underling for the bad decision and used his 40 page report to make himself look good. Those types don't make it in a university environment where people plan to work till they retire and know everyone's tricks.
isnt that "Beatings will continue until morale improves" ?:)
What, are you nuts? You can't break an employee by beating them. They just get all upity about their dignity and what not. No, as long as everyone keeps their jobs no one is really scared.
Look at it this way: It takes 20 years and a pension to make truely loyal employees. It takes about two years, regardless of beatings, to make a technically competent employee. It only takes about six months of unemployment to turn a man into the cynical, sniviling yes man that management desires. Which do you think management prefers?
This is soooo true. I have flex hours, I can work 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm, or 9-5. I can work at home, or my office, thanks to things like a VPN and Avaya IP Softphone [avaya.com].... When your work load starts to be equal to that of 2 or 3 (or more!) head count, and you know that if you push yourself that you can do it..
So, you work from 6AM to 10pm every day, including your two "casual days", saturday and sunday.
you realize that doing this work will save your job for the months to come so you do it, and 2) you realize that your boss doesn't really care if you sit in an office or the recliner in your home... as long as the work gets done
Months to come, then you are fired and so is your boss.
I don't fault Tivo for this - they are certainly showing they work hard to keep people from being able to extract video, which will probably be good for them in the long run. They're still cool about hard drive upgrades, but that's about all the hacking you can do on the newest units.
So what's wrong with extracting video? Is that sort of like the crime of making a VHS copy and putting it on the shelf? Or is it more like the real horror of sharing that tape with my friends? God help the fan club! I'm not buying things from people who treat me like a criminal. They can rot if that's their attitude.
I got the impression they DRM'd their player about a year ago moving it from a USB file system to something that required a stupid Windoze based client. Is that impresion correct?
I can't believe it; someone LYING in an ADVERTISEMENT?! This threatens the integrity of the entire advertising field!
No, not really. Most firms are honest. Some firms exadurate, like Apple's famous "bicycle for your brain" hyperbole describing the Apple II or Oracle's "Unbreakable" advert. Microsoft, however is so dishonest that really large, generally clueless organizations notice:
The US Federal Government: Convicted them of monoply.
Wall Street: Moving to Linux and dumping the junk that gave them "Iloveyou", etc, and now,
The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA): noticed that M$ was full of holes.
When you get to the point where the postman. bankers and marketing droids notice you suck and lie about it, man, it's over.
There would be a few bands open for hobbyists, just like there are now. Want to build a 1 kW transmitter? Go ahead - just get your ham license first. Decide you're not going to play nicely in the community? Your license gets revoked. Without management, anything longer than short-range will cause too many people to step on each others' toes.
Nonsense! No electronic device, licensed or unlicensed my interfere with federally allocated spectrum. You don't need to yank a license to shut someone down any more than I need to build my own kW system (the orignial 802.11 alocation was supposed to be 100W!). If it were legal to use the spectrum, reputable builders would come to the rescue. But the most important thing you miss is that the spectrum WILL BE USED where TODAY IT CAN'T BE!
The free public service would then start charging a modest fee to support its overhead, and then the core of people running it would slowly drift to the dark side as bureaucracy started fossilizing, and you'd end up with something indistinguishable from the bandwidth providers we currently have.
That's about as silly a notion as they come. "Because things are bad they always will be and we should not change."
you say: Limit wireless to short range, and put hubs everywhere. Problem solved (for urban areas; rural areas are an entirely different problem with different constraints).
So you would have no free long range high power spectrum at all? That's realy short sighted (pun intended), and I'm happy to think that the FCC chairman disagrees with you. The cost of all that badwith you want would be considerably less if more spectrum was given over to 802.11B type freedom. The equipment is cheap enough that people would build the infrastructure and run it as a free public service.
No it wouldn't, because this is not an application for a patent on online advertising. For goodness' sake, actually go and read the application (linked in the story, even!) instead of writing knee-jerk reaction posts based on what you think it might be. As for the moderator who thought this was "insightful", you should be ashamed of yourself.
That's quite a slam and like most slams it's uniformative and wrong. I just read most of the damb, dull generic description of a mundane function. Nowhere did I see details that might differentiate this from ANY sytem of selling advert space to the highest bidder. Can you tell me why having a clerk answering a sales line would not be covered by this? The patent obviously tries to make exclusive common business methods.
What's next, a patent on sorting made so general that anyone who uses the alphabet owes them money? Every few months these idiots remind me not to shop with them.
Mesh routing schemes break down in highly populated areas - you end up with too many messages needing to be routed by any given node, and the fraction of node bandwidth used for that node's messages dropping like a rock.
That's debatable but think about what you are saying. If only a fraction of the currently restricted bandwith were so well utilized! As it is, you hear silence. Which is preferable? The possibility of a clog or enforced silence and frustration? What is it that you stand for?
I got to Win 3.1 and then the server refused to serve me anymore.
You may call it slashdotting, but I say BLAME WINDOWS!
Lucky you. At 2:30AM you got to 3.1. By 5 AM, you get the fist page but nothing else. I'd say the DoS bots are more responsible for that than actual Slashdot readers so early in the morning, still many things don't add up about that site.
How can it be that I can consistently see the first page, and other pages of Neowin but not the later pages? Why is it that a site that's so obviously infatuated with M$ garbage is Running run on Apache and Linux? No, not just the Windoze evolution stuff, the whole site. From the hideous AOL rip off "community" icons of MSN to the topics of every artilce it's all M$. Strange how their 20 day average uptime looks more like their favorite OS than it does anything else such as the 100 day averages of Debian or the Free Software Foundation (both linux) or even the New York Times(solaris). Yeah, whatever. There's no telling what their front page junk is doing to Hurricane Electric, the site host.
No big deal. I've seen and have a copy of windows 2 on a 286 and I've been unfortuneate enough to have used everything between 3.1 and 2000. Nothing much changes. IEEEEEEEE! It hurts, make it stop. Make it stop, please.
Most of the letters, but one or two bizare ones supported Lessings basic thesis. Tom Rouch has this offensive comment for Salon:
It would be much more productive if Reed and other "architects of the Internet" spend time finding solutions to EM pollution caused by switching power supplies and digital systems, rather than proposing ways to make problems worse in areas they clearly don't understand.
This comment follows a rant which ironically ignores most modern radio breaktrhoughs: packet routing and frequency hopping on low power devices to create a network with far greater bandwith than a single transmitter per frequency set up that's current. Instead, he focus on ancient details of antenae size and signal propagation. It's amazing that someone could ignore the demonstrated reality of Alohanet and 802.11B meshworks and then call others ignorant.
Then again a simple search pulls up stuff about Tom Rauch. Is this guy a profesional slammer or what?
Well, fine, he knows his tubes and amps, IF the first person linked to above is not correct in assesing him as a whore. You have to be suspicious of people who rant so.
All of the other letters on that page supported Lessing's conclusion that the broadcast spectrum is poorly allocated and mostly empty. There was that one bizare and false analogy to a pinhole cameras with no pinhole. I've never seen a pinhole radio, it must be intersting.
In other words: it's fine in wartime, as long as Congress passes an Act saying so.
It places a burden on Congress to detail exaclty how and under what circumstances soldiers should be quartered. "Do it now, and as you like" would violate that and would require an amendment, not just an ordinary law.
You have to understand the respect for private property and law this underscores. Abitrary searches, confiscation and encumberance, even in time of war, are UnAmerican.
You are right. Congress authorized the use of force. It only looks, smells and feels like a war but really it's an application of force such as those Newton talked about.
While information to the citizens is important, the safety of the people that are doing the fighting comes first. They need data to do their job and come home in one piece. THAT is the first priority.
They might also need shelter from the cold, but quartering in your house any old way is a violation of the third amendment to the Constitution:
"Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Your patriotism is admirable but it does not give you rights to other people's property.
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You got BASH up on windoze? Cool!
They're basically saying that they can't fix it because the OS makes it impossible to do so.
We all know that nothings less changeable than SOFTWARE. That's why we have such stollid windoze 2000, based on NT Technology or New Technology Technology. That strain of sollid stuff is what makes XP rock too. So you see, we can't change the softwer because we already changed it and changing it twice to support our customers would be like a double negative in the bank. Unix killer, ha ha ha.
We are going to do something unacceptable by the end of June^H^H^H^H March. See there? We told you that we were going to do it, that makes it right. Be greatful, very greatful and send more money.
That or IP chains on a 486 could help protect your wimpy little M$ box from the big bad internet. Need help with those pesky chain rules? Try plonk. The best patch I've seen so far is the M$ Offswitch. What was the wonderful New Technology, NT, good for again?
M$ Exec's - "Wats this respongeability you say?"
The kind of product support you would expect from a comercial Unix killer rather than the kind of "support" you got from windoze 3.1. Oh my, the difference was only a matter of time. Pthththfit! That's some kind of incentive to "upgrade" to w2k, I mean XP.
I thought Hebrew as older than AOL. I'll go check. Ah, yes this has been done before
Regular Hebrew and Arabic text is written without (most of) the vowels, which results in ambiguity. The average number of readings of each word is about 2.4, with some words having up to 8 different readings. The only way to disambiguate the words is using context.
This might be rough on a computer, but it could work. Quickly file a patent application for this great new electronic idea and tell them Jeff Beazulbub sent you.
It looks like a pulse counter. How did they get a patent on an application for a widely known and used device?
General priciple # 5: hard work and self sacrifice beget more of the same. The more rapacious a company is the more difficlut they are to get a job with and the less they actually listen to their experts. Specifically, it's obvious that if M$ has 2 or 3 people who know about security, they have never been listened to as other priorties are upheld. Windows will never be secure as long as M$ insists on being able to push onto their platform.
Having worked there for five years, you must see the folly and instability of VB. M$ has consistently knifed their VB programers in the back with changes that require recoding. Soon, I'm afraid they will abandon VB alltogether.
I've met way dumber and more stuborn people in the corporate world than this. In fact, a really evil bastard would have blamed the underling for the bad decision and used his 40 page report to make himself look good. Those types don't make it in a university environment where people plan to work till they retire and know everyone's tricks.
What, are you nuts? You can't break an employee by beating them. They just get all upity about their dignity and what not. No, as long as everyone keeps their jobs no one is really scared.
Look at it this way: It takes 20 years and a pension to make truely loyal employees. It takes about two years, regardless of beatings, to make a technically competent employee. It only takes about six months of unemployment to turn a man into the cynical, sniviling yes man that management desires. Which do you think management prefers?
So, you work from 6AM to 10pm every day, including your two "casual days", saturday and sunday.
you realize that doing this work will save your job for the months to come so you do it, and 2) you realize that your boss doesn't really care if you sit in an office or the recliner in your home... as long as the work gets done
Months to come, then you are fired and so is your boss.
Ahhh, the real world. It's such a moral booster.
So what's wrong with extracting video? Is that sort of like the crime of making a VHS copy and putting it on the shelf? Or is it more like the real horror of sharing that tape with my friends? God help the fan club! I'm not buying things from people who treat me like a criminal. They can rot if that's their attitude.
I got a Zaurus, it rocks.
I can point to two big differences: reputation and quality. M$'s bad reputation is well earned. As for quality, people still remember that Microsoft products are not designed for security.
No, not really. Most firms are honest. Some firms exadurate, like Apple's famous "bicycle for your brain" hyperbole describing the Apple II or Oracle's "Unbreakable" advert. Microsoft, however is so dishonest that really large, generally clueless organizations notice:
When you get to the point where the postman. bankers and marketing droids notice you suck and lie about it, man, it's over.
Nonsense! No electronic device, licensed or unlicensed my interfere with federally allocated spectrum. You don't need to yank a license to shut someone down any more than I need to build my own kW system (the orignial 802.11 alocation was supposed to be 100W!). If it were legal to use the spectrum, reputable builders would come to the rescue. But the most important thing you miss is that the spectrum WILL BE USED where TODAY IT CAN'T BE!
The free public service would then start charging a modest fee to support its overhead, and then the core of people running it would slowly drift to the dark side as bureaucracy started fossilizing, and you'd end up with something indistinguishable from the bandwidth providers we currently have.
That's about as silly a notion as they come. "Because things are bad they always will be and we should not change."
So you would have no free long range high power spectrum at all? That's realy short sighted (pun intended), and I'm happy to think that the FCC chairman disagrees with you. The cost of all that badwith you want would be considerably less if more spectrum was given over to 802.11B type freedom. The equipment is cheap enough that people would build the infrastructure and run it as a free public service.
That's quite a slam and like most slams it's uniformative and wrong. I just read most of the damb, dull generic description of a mundane function. Nowhere did I see details that might differentiate this from ANY sytem of selling advert space to the highest bidder. Can you tell me why having a clerk answering a sales line would not be covered by this? The patent obviously tries to make exclusive common business methods.
What's next, a patent on sorting made so general that anyone who uses the alphabet owes them money? Every few months these idiots remind me not to shop with them.
That's debatable but think about what you are saying. If only a fraction of the currently restricted bandwith were so well utilized! As it is, you hear silence. Which is preferable? The possibility of a clog or enforced silence and frustration? What is it that you stand for?
Lucky you. At 2:30AM you got to 3.1. By 5 AM, you get the fist page but nothing else. I'd say the DoS bots are more responsible for that than actual Slashdot readers so early in the morning, still many things don't add up about that site.
How can it be that I can consistently see the first page, and other pages of Neowin but not the later pages? Why is it that a site that's so obviously infatuated with M$ garbage is Running run on Apache and Linux? No, not just the Windoze evolution stuff, the whole site. From the hideous AOL rip off "community" icons of MSN to the topics of every artilce it's all M$. Strange how their 20 day average uptime looks more like their favorite OS than it does anything else such as the 100 day averages of Debian or the Free Software Foundation (both linux) or even the New York Times(solaris). Yeah, whatever. There's no telling what their front page junk is doing to Hurricane Electric, the site host.
No big deal. I've seen and have a copy of windows 2 on a 286 and I've been unfortuneate enough to have used everything between 3.1 and 2000. Nothing much changes. IEEEEEEEE! It hurts, make it stop. Make it stop, please.
It would be much more productive if Reed and other "architects of the Internet" spend time finding solutions to EM pollution caused by switching power supplies and digital systems, rather than proposing ways to make problems worse in areas they clearly don't understand.
This comment follows a rant which ironically ignores most modern radio breaktrhoughs: packet routing and frequency hopping on low power devices to create a network with far greater bandwith than a single transmitter per frequency set up that's current. Instead, he focus on ancient details of antenae size and signal propagation. It's amazing that someone could ignore the demonstrated reality of Alohanet and 802.11B meshworks and then call others ignorant.
Then again a simple search pulls up stuff about Tom Rauch. Is this guy a profesional slammer or what?
Well, fine, he knows his tubes and amps, IF the first person linked to above is not correct in assesing him as a whore. You have to be suspicious of people who rant so.
All of the other letters on that page supported Lessing's conclusion that the broadcast spectrum is poorly allocated and mostly empty. There was that one bizare and false analogy to a pinhole cameras with no pinhole. I've never seen a pinhole radio, it must be intersting.
It places a burden on Congress to detail exaclty how and under what circumstances soldiers should be quartered. "Do it now, and as you like" would violate that and would require an amendment, not just an ordinary law.
You have to understand the respect for private property and law this underscores. Abitrary searches, confiscation and encumberance, even in time of war, are UnAmerican.
First floor, $200 hammers, $1,000 toilet seats and other hardware.
Second floor, B1B engines, stealthy surface ships, 747 based chemical lasers and other exotic equipment made to order in special lots.
...
Orbit: Spy platforms, navigation equipment, $2,000 email and other bandwith.
Luna: Tritium, ...
They might also need shelter from the cold, but quartering in your house any old way is a violation of the third amendment to the Constitution:
"Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Your patriotism is admirable but it does not give you rights to other people's property.