You would be all over Microsoft if they did this; why are you defending AOL?
Eh? I am over M$. Their crap banished to a network blind computer in the corner of my room that talks to cameras and a scanner. A real OS is used on the same machine to transfer files off it.
The reason that is so is because I got sick of rebuilding broken M$ garbage. M$ built a flimsy OS so that it would easier to replace than fix. Face it, most people who actually use and rely on M$ junk have to rebuild their computer once every two months or so, or it gets all slow and broken. If AOL's stuff broke M$ it's M$'s fault, period. If M$ had a reasonable OS it would not be broken that way, all the time. If every M$ software maker was held to this standard, they would all be hit, especially M$. Show me one Win95 or 98 box that has been used that has not required a rebuild. Don't tell me w2k is any better, I'm forced to use that buggy junk at work.
Oh, yah, and do you think maybe the reason that a huge number of our calls are for MS Windows boxes is because almost all of our end users use MS Windows, anyway?
I think 10% of your users have macs, and at leat 7% use Linux. If 1 in 6 of your calls are not about mac or linux problems, you can be sure that what people say about M$ being crap is true.
Umm, what about the working model from the previous article that makes 20W? If that ain't happened, I don't know what is. 20W is about 1/10 of what you can make with your legs for any usable period of time. The working model ran for 24 hours. It's problems were heat dissipation, but the same can be said for any heat engine. If you don't want to hook this thing up to make electricity, why not let it work as an air compressor or hydrolic motor? Power in any form is good. If the damn thing does not last long, shit can it, mass produced it's disposable. Apply where approriate.
Silicon and high tempertures? Hmmm, ever heard of glass and ceramics? Oh yeah, I forgot they are made of... silicon. Next.
There will be improvemnts and inovations, there always are. The simplified drawing showed a radial inflow turbine. These have never worked well on a larger scale becuase particles reciculate in the blades and destroy them. Axial and radial outflow work better. So what? The next designs will have them if it's practical.
Thanks for playing troll slashdot, please don't come again.
I swear, we should have kept track of the hours spent, and then billed AOL or something.
How about a lawsuit against M$ for letting it happen? It's their googey system that boned everyone. They built a userless OS with a flimsy registry that any software can stick any old binary crap into but will break your computer. They did it so they could force MSN, AOL used the exact same mechanisms. The whole Hell Desk thing is a direct result of this kind of intentional push. Is is AOL's fault M$ spagetti coded everything to break if you want an ISP that is not M$?
Look at the numbers. Are one in ten techs at your ISP on standby for Apple calls? How about Linux? No? How about the number of acutal calls? Apple, Linux, BSD, Solaris, not giving you problems? Hmmmmm, that's a wide spectrum of users that don't have this and other kinds of problems. What do the majority of calls have in common? NEXT!
After all that removal of "corruption", your client now wants to access their AOL account, but can't. What do you tell them? "AOL sucks" or "AOL is not internet friendly" is not the answer. So your instructions are relativly useless.
A tech actually told the latter line about Mozilla when I asked how I could access my mail account with a user name like "Erris@mycoputer". I ended up using fetchmail to get around the stupid set up, and the blocked incomming port 25, but the tech did NOT help me.
AOL has to go to all of these lenghts because M$ will break their client if they do not. That fact makes this whole lawsuit a bunch of BULLSHIT. TWO PIECES OF SOFTWARE DID NOT WORK TOGETHER. ONE OF THEM REFUSES TO WORK WITH SOFTWARE FROM MANY OTHER COMPANIES, AND OLDER VERSIONS OF THEIR OWN SOFTWARE. WHICH PIECE OF SOFTWARE DO YOU THINK WAS AT FAULT IN THIS CASE?
Yes, I'm an AOL user. I've had an account for freaking ever. I access it through AOL anywhere with Mozilla on any computer with a browser. My OS preference is Debian. There is much AOL could do better, but there's not much they can do about their M$ client software.
The BSA will get a court order faster than you can say, fu.
As for the local media, they could care less. You will be lucky to get a page 31B description if your building burns down. Software licenses? Are you kidding? These are the same apes that take BSA advert money and push out M$ propaganda about "computer" mail viruses, software and music "piracy" and all that. Chances are, they will cheer your demise. Notice how few "news" institutions have picked up the story of BSA extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from PUBLIC SCHOOLS nationwide!
Your better option is to just purge the M$ BS and be done with it. Gasp! Email, text editing, type setting, spread sheets and all that does work better without Bill Gate's blessing.
I'm not sure why everyone does not make anonymous tips to the BSA all the time. Let's face it, no one can win a BSA audit. M$ has made it impossible to control what software gets installed. Their ever shifting license practices require an army of accountants and lawers to keep track of. Someone is going to have a copy of Paint Shop Pro on day 300 of it's 30 day free trial, and you are toast. If every company were to anonymously tip the BSA off and log the tips, the BSA would be unable to respond and their inaction can be taken as copyright and tradmark abandonment. In anycase, the true cost of ownership of non free sofware would become apparent.
I am not a lawyer, I have morals. Most people just think I'm insane.
I'd suggest having the users (or leads or whatever) try the windows version of star office.
Why would you want to limit yourself like that?
I'm doing something like this on win2k and it does not co-operate. I'm using GIMP, Mozilla and Putty to make my life a little easier in the Serfdom. The aps don't run as well under win2k as they do under linux and I suspect M$ messes with them. Gimp crashes often, and the M$IE only corporate crap does not co-operate with Mozilla at all. Hell, Accrobat is even getting messed with. It has had print methods switched under it several times it is forced to wait about two minutes before the OS responds to print requests. What you end up with is all the M$ aps looking good and users blaming their problems on the new software instead of the old junk that has always sucked.
Worse, your users will not have alternate methods of getting things done. You can't set up shell scripts and what not to replace thier horrid VBA and Macro trash. They have figured out the best way to get things done with the limited tools M$ has given them. If you take these tools away without giving them better alternatives, they will not be happy.
Try setting a few of your users free for a while first. Get a group of volunteers that are willing to work with TWO computers on their desks to help you out. The usual "power users" will be there, and most of them are sick of M$ shit. Give them some nice shiny new Linux boxes and let them show you the way. I know that I would be doing that if our IT group did not forbid anthing but their M$ cruft on the network.
Why would you need DHCP for an advertised, "always on " connection? Cable networks are supposed to have a 1:1 IP to box ratio, and swiches require MORE hardware and cost MORE money to administrate.
DSL vrs. Cable is a good deviding line bewteen service and a digital TV/Browser in the US. The DSL companies were generally more competitive and offer better terms of service than the entertianment derrived cable companies. Mine, Cox, is one of the worst, opting for all M$ crap they think gives them control and optimize their ability to squeeze their clients. They block ports 25 and 80, forbid VNC and all forms of "servers", and charge $15/month extra for a static IP.
What makes you think these patches are going to fix anything? Do you really need megs and megs of files to correct one or two dinky dll bugs? These patches are just another means of delivering anti-competitive code breaking crap. Going to M$ for security is kinda like asking an extortionist for protection.
Security conflicts with Microsoft marketing stratgies. Real security demands that the owner of a computer is root and M$ is not. See Slashdot article "read the fine print" here for details.
An address is usless without a machine to recieve the mail. You can be lucky enough to live in an are where a non Bell DSL company has a line for you or tie up a phone line all day to do this. Cable modem people are mostly out of luck. I know not about satilite and other means of connecting.
Surely you don't think that if a Microsoft employee had written a "memo" (let's face it, these are just captured emails) advocating that their $40B be used to purchase NASA, that Bill Gates was intending to go into the commercial launch business, do you?
No, troll, I don't.
But I might believe that when a "Microsoft Executive" suggests crapping on Intel and others for working with Linux that they might and we see the results all the time. So, without further delay, you Fuck Head, LET'S QUOTE THE ARTICLE:
In the memo, Microsoft senior vice president Joachim Kempin complained to Gates and other senior executives that computer chip-maker Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) was encouraging computer makers to support Linux and funding development of new devices that would work with Linux.
Kempin said Microsoft should withhold technical information from Intel and "work underground" to promote its competitors in the computer chip industry, according to portions of the memo disclosed in the states' legal filing.
"I would further try to restrict source code deliveries where possible and be less gracious when interpreting agreements -- again without being obvious about it," Kempin wrote.
Now why would anyone believe that? Go away asshole, and take your robot posters and self mods with you.
Exactly how is the unearthing of this memo going to dent their $40 billion in cash reserves...
Ask the folks at Enron what happens when people think you are full of it. What assets does M$ really have? Point please, and if it comes back M$ stock and all the M$ CDs you can eat it ain't worth squat!
And, last but not least, the damm networks are (usually) insecure as hell - not by nature but by incompetent setup. I remember an article about a bunch of 'hackers' who drove around downtown london's financial distric with a laptop and a wireless card and where ablet o log onto all sorts of networks b/c of lack of security.
Dude, you read an article about sniffers? Wow, can I touch you? Yes, this is a flame because I'm sick of hearing such bullshit.
Here's ignorance taken to a new degree. I once heard a story about the whole internet being insecure, a place where all sorts of "hackers" could break into all sorts of machines. They even were able to phreak the phone system. And this new fangled email? Thanks to poor implemetaion, I'm told that the very internet itsel was shaken (routers destabilized) by a silly VB script. Can you believe it? Who would use such an insecure media? I'm sure glad no one ever persued those crazy things!
Want security? You can start by tossing out your M$ crap. You might then consider the virtues of encryption routines, such as provided by OpenBSD and used everwhere people have sense. If you really really don't want anyone to see something, don't write it down. In the long run, it would be adventageous to get governments to extend mail fraud and tampering laws to electronic formats. Remember those things that protect your precious documents from those bold enough to rip open an envelope?
If you have not noticed, little or no comercial spent fuel has been moved from any power plant. It's all sitting around their spent fuel pools. That puts three waste repositories within 100 miles of me. I go to work right next to it and a live core every day. I'm not loosing any sleep either. As Uranus Hertz points out, reprocessing is better. How about you, AC?
This is supposed to be a thread on light bulbs that blot out the growing free wireless internet. Oh well, there's always a legal solution to technology that treatens established interests.
AC, you must have been modded up as a denial of inteligent conversation.
First, the article mentions the Section 15.5 rules and considers the issues carefully.
Second, you are a moron. If you would go visit the company's site you would see them bragging of 80% efficency of transmision. While that's all well and good, 20% of your juice is a lot to throw away and I would not put these bright little bulbs in the environmentaly friendly catagory. Want clean domestic electricty? Start building nuclear power plants.
The crux of the problem is the limited and wasteful alocation of specturm by the federal government. Fusion lighting's boast of 80% efficiency came from a 430 MHz transmitter, not a magnetatron operating at the only frequency left open for people to use as they please. There are 69 channels on my TV reciever but only five broadcasters in my town, how about yours? If the FCC alows the abuse of 2.4 GHz it will be to protect conventional telcos, ISPs and large publishers from the freedom of expresion technology can give us. It will be a vastly stupid thing to do, but that's why comercial radio and TV is devoid of anything entertianing or educational.
There it is, plane as geometry. If you are in favor of wiping out all 2.4GHz comunication instead of allocating more spectrum to the people to use as they please, you have a pin head.
Fucking simple solution, unless you wanna argue that clients should execute code from UNKNOWN and UNTRUSTED sources for some reason?
What a total ludite solution. God forbid someone make a reasonable system with permisions and sandbox clients. Well, M$ did not make a reasonable system, better make sure no one runs anything, let alone write a script or compile a program that makes the computer do something you want it to. Outlook runs as what, "sytem" one click less that "Admin"? There is the problem, not the rest of the world. A good analogy is a house with a roof over half the rooms, Don't let anyone go in there without a rubber! Srcreen saver, music player, greetings card web site, what are you smoking man!? Don't share your work, only M$ can program you know. Don't enjoy your computer, it's like stealing from the company.
The simple and obvious solution is to NOT BUY M$ junk. With free software the company is root and really owns the machines. The users are free to do what pleases them, as they and their clients can not trump the company. Those that use M$, smart updater and what not are NOT root. M$ and other third parties own their machines and everything on them. Duh.
h, and Taco, Outlook has filtering built in. It's very easy to use and since I've gotten my rules in place I very rarely get spam or any virii showing up in my inbox, maybe you should look into it;)
Are you THE famous admin who filtered out all messages with "hi" in the subject line just a while back? So funny how many HIgh fligHIng cHIcagoians HIt tHIs sHIpment HIatus. Oh yeah, my companie's clueless exchange group did this to and deleted all sorts of legitmate email.
Quick, tell me something about IIE that's easier to set up than a debian box or two running exim! Give up? So do I. Point whatever client you want at it! Add a corporate calender and sheduler as a seperate application, ZOIKS, they can work togeter! Amazing but true, nothing but M$ shit works with M$ shit, and it hardly does that while dishing out viruses and worms for the world.
My favorite part of this new plauge is that it is an unintentional combination of ancient virus with slightly modified and fast worm. All those, "brainwash" (M$ spokesman's own word) sessions to waste? So sad, too bad, nothing new, get back to work and get rid of that garbage please.
The whole point of M$'s closed source SDK, VB, C pound,.NET, or whatever they push these days, is that they can BREAK YOUR CODE AT WILL. It's fundamental, only people who pay tons of money for the latest and greatest SDKs will be viewed as "real" programers. Real, that is, until M$ decides to co-opt your "product" and either buys your life's work (so you get to fire all your friends) for $500,000 or breaks you (and you get to fire all your friends). Anyone who has ever relied on a M$ toy only to have it broken knows this is so. Try telling a client that your program won't print because Microsoft changed their print methods on you, HA!
What amazes me is how difficult it is to explain this to people. Fortunately for me, I don't program for a living. That makes it a little easier. With all the broken programs, M$ platform performance DECREASES in the face of hardware improvements, With a feature set that has improved little over 10 years, you would think people would get it. Why is it that such elaborate methods must be used to prove such a simple concepts? People who hide things are deceptive. People who lie are dishonest; decpetive and dishonest people who colude to restrict free trade are racketeers and criminals. $1,000,000,000 of advertising works wonders.
So what about all those landing craft we've sent there? Has toe-mung taken over the red planet? Will it smell like a big foot one day?
As for the trip from mars to earth. It's been made too, hasn't it? You know, all those rocks from Mars that you can find in Antartica? There are various theories about how live might survive such a jouney. Has anyone proved it yet?
Me too for the person who correctly noted that it's more important to protect human life from potential harm than it is to protect bacteria on Mars from harm. Live competes, that's the story of microbes. Tough luck to them and anti-biotics for those in you and me.
Try installing Real Player (Real One) and watch the default installation - that which the majority of users would use - take over every media file in your system.
Gee, did someone else figure out how to use MicroShit's perverse tools for their own advantage? That's not fair! MicroShit invented those tools to crush others, how dare they use them to poop back on MicroShit with them?
See a patern here? It goes back to the "jolting" experience that MicroShit designed for anyone who wanted to use a browser that was not IE. Microsoft made an OS to screw the user. It's not suprising that others would who wish to do the same would be attracted to the platform. If MicroShit wanted their users to be able to configure their machines the way they want, they would have real user accounts, permissions, text configuration files istead of a binary "registration" file that breaks the whole computer when corrupted, and finally they would release their source code. Instead they are more concerned with selling desktop "real estate" for advertising, Office sales, and other pushy little domination games. MicroShit is all about limiting technology for their own profit.
There is no greater issue concerning us today than the unholy aliance of M$ and the media companies to force the SSSCA on all of us. The SSSCA or whatever it's called these days, is only possible in a M$ type world. I hate having to use M$ at work. I think I'd leave the country if laws were made that declared all alternatvies illegal. It's a freedom of speech issue. The country has really gone to hell when legislators can take the crassest of the entertianment industry more seriously than freedom as reflected in the Bill of Rights.
I'll ignore your post about fatty food, but I like your name, LittleRat. There should be zeor pressure to use human embrionic cells from abortions or other sources as we could use non-human cells instead. What's wrong with using pig, cow or even little rat stem cells to LEARN. The whole issue of embrionic stem cell research seems to be a spurious thing picked up by the popular media for it's disgusting dramatic value. The baby killers have trumped it around an they have always tried to present their "proceedures" as scientific and reasonable. The same kind of morons at the Associated Press have continued to echo them.
The use of liposcuctioned fat cells to make stem cells just goes to show how little we know and how much we are at the begining of this kind of study. Who knows what people will be able to make cells do next. The more we learn the more we can do.
I laughed out loud when I read it, but it's wonderful. Fat cells really are the undiferentiated cell mass the abortionists would like you to think an embrio is. Fat cells will never grow into a person and killing them or forcing them to grow into nerve cells is perfectly ethical.
Abortion is a deliberate act that ends a life for the convenience of the mother. In most cases the "tissues" will grow into a healthy person. Arguments that the "tissue" is not human, is not concious, and that it only represents a potential are false. First, the "tissue" is human. It was not made from goat's milk. The other two comforts are similar to killing a sleeping person on the grounds that they might have a heart attack and die anyway. There are very few cases when the health of the mother requires the death of their child, and in most of them abortion is spontaneous. Your action ends the life.
Advocates of abortion have been quick to use "science" as justification for their actions. It's an outrageous abuse of science, akin to advocating murder because the fat cells can now be used for research into stem cells. What's wrong with using rat embrios? Why butcher people for "research"? No, the abortionists don't care about anyone but themselves. Your specific issue will be useful to craven people, and it won't be true tomorrow when people figure out how to make this fat dance a little better.
Yesterday, I'm sure you would have laughed at the very idea of using liposcutioned fat cells for stem cell research. Heck, I'm still laughing, but mostly becuase it shows the abortionist argument that dead babies are the only source of stem cells as the complete bullshit.
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Eh? I am over M$. Their crap banished to a network blind computer in the corner of my room that talks to cameras and a scanner. A real OS is used on the same machine to transfer files off it.
The reason that is so is because I got sick of rebuilding broken M$ garbage. M$ built a flimsy OS so that it would easier to replace than fix. Face it, most people who actually use and rely on M$ junk have to rebuild their computer once every two months or so, or it gets all slow and broken. If AOL's stuff broke M$ it's M$'s fault, period. If M$ had a reasonable OS it would not be broken that way, all the time. If every M$ software maker was held to this standard, they would all be hit, especially M$. Show me one Win95 or 98 box that has been used that has not required a rebuild. Don't tell me w2k is any better, I'm forced to use that buggy junk at work.
Oh, yah, and do you think maybe the reason that a huge number of our calls are for MS Windows boxes is because almost all of our end users use MS Windows, anyway?
I think 10% of your users have macs, and at leat 7% use Linux. If 1 in 6 of your calls are not about mac or linux problems, you can be sure that what people say about M$ being crap is true.
Silicon and high tempertures? Hmmm, ever heard of glass and ceramics? Oh yeah, I forgot they are made of ... silicon. Next.
There will be improvemnts and inovations, there always are. The simplified drawing showed a radial inflow turbine. These have never worked well on a larger scale becuase particles reciculate in the blades and destroy them. Axial and radial outflow work better. So what? The next designs will have them if it's practical.
Thanks for playing troll slashdot, please don't come again.
How about a lawsuit against M$ for letting it happen? It's their googey system that boned everyone. They built a userless OS with a flimsy registry that any software can stick any old binary crap into but will break your computer. They did it so they could force MSN, AOL used the exact same mechanisms. The whole Hell Desk thing is a direct result of this kind of intentional push. Is is AOL's fault M$ spagetti coded everything to break if you want an ISP that is not M$?
Look at the numbers. Are one in ten techs at your ISP on standby for Apple calls? How about Linux? No? How about the number of acutal calls? Apple, Linux, BSD, Solaris, not giving you problems? Hmmmmm, that's a wide spectrum of users that don't have this and other kinds of problems. What do the majority of calls have in common? NEXT!
A tech actually told the latter line about Mozilla when I asked how I could access my mail account with a user name like "Erris@mycoputer". I ended up using fetchmail to get around the stupid set up, and the blocked incomming port 25, but the tech did NOT help me.
AOL has to go to all of these lenghts because M$ will break their client if they do not. That fact makes this whole lawsuit a bunch of BULLSHIT. TWO PIECES OF SOFTWARE DID NOT WORK TOGETHER. ONE OF THEM REFUSES TO WORK WITH SOFTWARE FROM MANY OTHER COMPANIES, AND OLDER VERSIONS OF THEIR OWN SOFTWARE. WHICH PIECE OF SOFTWARE DO YOU THINK WAS AT FAULT IN THIS CASE?
Yes, I'm an AOL user. I've had an account for freaking ever. I access it through AOL anywhere with Mozilla on any computer with a browser. My OS preference is Debian. There is much AOL could do better, but there's not much they can do about their M$ client software.
As for the local media, they could care less. You will be lucky to get a page 31B description if your building burns down. Software licenses? Are you kidding? These are the same apes that take BSA advert money and push out M$ propaganda about "computer" mail viruses, software and music "piracy" and all that. Chances are, they will cheer your demise. Notice how few "news" institutions have picked up the story of BSA extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from PUBLIC SCHOOLS nationwide!
Your better option is to just purge the M$ BS and be done with it. Gasp! Email, text editing, type setting, spread sheets and all that does work better without Bill Gate's blessing.
I'm not sure why everyone does not make anonymous tips to the BSA all the time. Let's face it, no one can win a BSA audit. M$ has made it impossible to control what software gets installed. Their ever shifting license practices require an army of accountants and lawers to keep track of. Someone is going to have a copy of Paint Shop Pro on day 300 of it's 30 day free trial, and you are toast. If every company were to anonymously tip the BSA off and log the tips, the BSA would be unable to respond and their inaction can be taken as copyright and tradmark abandonment. In anycase, the true cost of ownership of non free sofware would become apparent.
I am not a lawyer, I have morals. Most people just think I'm insane.
Why would you want to limit yourself like that?
I'm doing something like this on win2k and it does not co-operate. I'm using GIMP, Mozilla and Putty to make my life a little easier in the Serfdom. The aps don't run as well under win2k as they do under linux and I suspect M$ messes with them. Gimp crashes often, and the M$IE only corporate crap does not co-operate with Mozilla at all. Hell, Accrobat is even getting messed with. It has had print methods switched under it several times it is forced to wait about two minutes before the OS responds to print requests. What you end up with is all the M$ aps looking good and users blaming their problems on the new software instead of the old junk that has always sucked.
Worse, your users will not have alternate methods of getting things done. You can't set up shell scripts and what not to replace thier horrid VBA and Macro trash. They have figured out the best way to get things done with the limited tools M$ has given them. If you take these tools away without giving them better alternatives, they will not be happy.
Try setting a few of your users free for a while first. Get a group of volunteers that are willing to work with TWO computers on their desks to help you out. The usual "power users" will be there, and most of them are sick of M$ shit. Give them some nice shiny new Linux boxes and let them show you the way. I know that I would be doing that if our IT group did not forbid anthing but their M$ cruft on the network.
DSL vrs. Cable is a good deviding line bewteen service and a digital TV/Browser in the US. The DSL companies were generally more competitive and offer better terms of service than the entertianment derrived cable companies. Mine, Cox, is one of the worst, opting for all M$ crap they think gives them control and optimize their ability to squeeze their clients. They block ports 25 and 80, forbid VNC and all forms of "servers", and charge $15/month extra for a static IP.
Security conflicts with Microsoft marketing stratgies. Real security demands that the owner of a computer is root and M$ is not. See Slashdot article "read the fine print" here for details.
An address is usless without a machine to recieve the mail. You can be lucky enough to live in an are where a non Bell DSL company has a line for you or tie up a phone line all day to do this. Cable modem people are mostly out of luck. I know not about satilite and other means of connecting.
They need some reason to explain everything they know besides that they gave themselves permision to everything on your XP inhibitied computer.
No, troll, I don't.
But I might believe that when a "Microsoft Executive" suggests crapping on Intel and others for working with Linux that they might and we see the results all the time. So, without further delay, you Fuck Head, LET'S QUOTE THE ARTICLE:
In the memo, Microsoft senior vice president Joachim Kempin complained to Gates and other senior executives that computer chip-maker Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) was encouraging computer makers to support Linux and funding development of new devices that would work with Linux.
Kempin said Microsoft should withhold technical information from Intel and "work underground" to promote its competitors in the computer chip industry, according to portions of the memo disclosed in the states' legal filing.
"I would further try to restrict source code deliveries where possible and be less gracious when interpreting agreements -- again without being obvious about it," Kempin wrote.
Now why would anyone believe that? Go away asshole, and take your robot posters and self mods with you.
Ask the folks at Enron what happens when people think you are full of it. What assets does M$ really have? Point please, and if it comes back M$ stock and all the M$ CDs you can eat it ain't worth squat!
Yep, they tell you, we will be very careful about turning you camera on and won't let anyone else do it, honest!
Give me one good reason I should ever let Macromedia look through my camera.
Microsoft has been very careful with your privacy for years. I doubt these advert pushing clowns will do any better than this: Ha-Ha
That's why I won't run anything but free software. Macromedia, fuck off!
Dude, you read an article about sniffers? Wow, can I touch you? Yes, this is a flame because I'm sick of hearing such bullshit.
Here's ignorance taken to a new degree. I once heard a story about the whole internet being insecure, a place where all sorts of "hackers" could break into all sorts of machines. They even were able to phreak the phone system. And this new fangled email? Thanks to poor implemetaion, I'm told that the very internet itsel was shaken (routers destabilized) by a silly VB script. Can you believe it? Who would use such an insecure media? I'm sure glad no one ever persued those crazy things!
Want security? You can start by tossing out your M$ crap. You might then consider the virtues of encryption routines, such as provided by OpenBSD and used everwhere people have sense. If you really really don't want anyone to see something, don't write it down. In the long run, it would be adventageous to get governments to extend mail fraud and tampering laws to electronic formats. Remember those things that protect your precious documents from those bold enough to rip open an envelope?
Run along and play in traffic now.
Try not to get too hot over it.
This is supposed to be a thread on light bulbs that blot out the growing free wireless internet. Oh well, there's always a legal solution to technology that treatens established interests.
First, the article mentions the Section 15.5 rules and considers the issues carefully.
Second, you are a moron. If you would go visit the company's site you would see them bragging of 80% efficency of transmision. While that's all well and good, 20% of your juice is a lot to throw away and I would not put these bright little bulbs in the environmentaly friendly catagory. Want clean domestic electricty? Start building nuclear power plants.
The crux of the problem is the limited and wasteful alocation of specturm by the federal government. Fusion lighting's boast of 80% efficiency came from a 430 MHz transmitter, not a magnetatron operating at the only frequency left open for people to use as they please. There are 69 channels on my TV reciever but only five broadcasters in my town, how about yours? If the FCC alows the abuse of 2.4 GHz it will be to protect conventional telcos, ISPs and large publishers from the freedom of expresion technology can give us. It will be a vastly stupid thing to do, but that's why comercial radio and TV is devoid of anything entertianing or educational.
There it is, plane as geometry. If you are in favor of wiping out all 2.4GHz comunication instead of allocating more spectrum to the people to use as they please, you have a pin head.
What a total ludite solution. God forbid someone make a reasonable system with permisions and sandbox clients. Well, M$ did not make a reasonable system, better make sure no one runs anything, let alone write a script or compile a program that makes the computer do something you want it to. Outlook runs as what, "sytem" one click less that "Admin"? There is the problem, not the rest of the world. A good analogy is a house with a roof over half the rooms, Don't let anyone go in there without a rubber! Srcreen saver, music player, greetings card web site, what are you smoking man!? Don't share your work, only M$ can program you know. Don't enjoy your computer, it's like stealing from the company.
The simple and obvious solution is to NOT BUY M$ junk. With free software the company is root and really owns the machines. The users are free to do what pleases them, as they and their clients can not trump the company. Those that use M$, smart updater and what not are NOT root. M$ and other third parties own their machines and everything on them. Duh.
Are you THE famous admin who filtered out all messages with "hi" in the subject line just a while back? So funny how many HIgh fligHIng cHIcagoians HIt tHIs sHIpment HIatus. Oh yeah, my companie's clueless exchange group did this to and deleted all sorts of legitmate email.
Quick, tell me something about IIE that's easier to set up than a debian box or two running exim! Give up? So do I. Point whatever client you want at it! Add a corporate calender and sheduler as a seperate application, ZOIKS, they can work togeter! Amazing but true, nothing but M$ shit works with M$ shit, and it hardly does that while dishing out viruses and worms for the world.
My favorite part of this new plauge is that it is an unintentional combination of ancient virus with slightly modified and fast worm. All those, "brainwash" (M$ spokesman's own word) sessions to waste? So sad, too bad, nothing new, get back to work and get rid of that garbage please.
What amazes me is how difficult it is to explain this to people. Fortunately for me, I don't program for a living. That makes it a little easier. With all the broken programs, M$ platform performance DECREASES in the face of hardware improvements, With a feature set that has improved little over 10 years, you would think people would get it. Why is it that such elaborate methods must be used to prove such a simple concepts? People who hide things are deceptive. People who lie are dishonest; decpetive and dishonest people who colude to restrict free trade are racketeers and criminals. $1,000,000,000 of advertising works wonders.
As for the trip from mars to earth. It's been made too, hasn't it? You know, all those rocks from Mars that you can find in Antartica? There are various theories about how live might survive such a jouney. Has anyone proved it yet?
Me too for the person who correctly noted that it's more important to protect human life from potential harm than it is to protect bacteria on Mars from harm. Live competes, that's the story of microbes. Tough luck to them and anti-biotics for those in you and me.
Gee, did someone else figure out how to use MicroShit's perverse tools for their own advantage? That's not fair! MicroShit invented those tools to crush others, how dare they use them to poop back on MicroShit with them?
See a patern here? It goes back to the "jolting" experience that MicroShit designed for anyone who wanted to use a browser that was not IE. Microsoft made an OS to screw the user. It's not suprising that others would who wish to do the same would be attracted to the platform. If MicroShit wanted their users to be able to configure their machines the way they want, they would have real user accounts, permissions, text configuration files istead of a binary "registration" file that breaks the whole computer when corrupted, and finally they would release their source code. Instead they are more concerned with selling desktop "real estate" for advertising, Office sales, and other pushy little domination games. MicroShit is all about limiting technology for their own profit.
There is no greater issue concerning us today than the unholy aliance of M$ and the media companies to force the SSSCA on all of us. The SSSCA or whatever it's called these days, is only possible in a M$ type world. I hate having to use M$ at work. I think I'd leave the country if laws were made that declared all alternatvies illegal. It's a freedom of speech issue. The country has really gone to hell when legislators can take the crassest of the entertianment industry more seriously than freedom as reflected in the Bill of Rights.
The use of liposcuctioned fat cells to make stem cells just goes to show how little we know and how much we are at the begining of this kind of study. Who knows what people will be able to make cells do next. The more we learn the more we can do.
I laughed out loud when I read it, but it's wonderful. Fat cells really are the undiferentiated cell mass the abortionists would like you to think an embrio is. Fat cells will never grow into a person and killing them or forcing them to grow into nerve cells is perfectly ethical.
Advocates of abortion have been quick to use "science" as justification for their actions. It's an outrageous abuse of science, akin to advocating murder because the fat cells can now be used for research into stem cells. What's wrong with using rat embrios? Why butcher people for "research"? No, the abortionists don't care about anyone but themselves. Your specific issue will be useful to craven people, and it won't be true tomorrow when people figure out how to make this fat dance a little better.
Yesterday, I'm sure you would have laughed at the very idea of using liposcutioned fat cells for stem cell research. Heck, I'm still laughing, but mostly becuase it shows the abortionist argument that dead babies are the only source of stem cells as the complete bullshit.