Responsible disclosure has no real benefit to the end user. It may stop some percentage of big outbreaks of worms but it doesnt in any way make life for admins guarding sensetive information a bit easier. From what i have understood many exploits are used by crackers long before they are in the wild. That is, many networks and servers are broken into and gathered for intel long before there is a patch, sometimes even for years.
Responsible disclosure only lenghten the period for the crackers in wich they can use their exploits for real cracking. It gives at best a breather for software manufacturers to drag their ass. It also doesnt promote real testing and auditing of software before its shipped. I would as an end user much prefer more tested software, that includes OSS thank you very much. Current release cycles is way to short to give any time for testing.
Who gives a fuck if a criminal wants to repent and start giving away illegaly gotten money? Are you one of those stupid fucks who thinks the local drug dealer is doing such wonderful things for the neighbourhood when he donates a nickel to the local hospital?
I differ from you in that i havent given up yet. Its my obligation to make the world better, not just follow the stream. If "part of a corporation IS the legal tactics, the bribes, and illegality" then its high time the shit gets fixed ASAP if were not about to leave our children their future in a doggy bag.
Just because one implementation of capitalism is utterly sick doesnt meen its all bad. I would not decribe current system as pure capitalism though. In my opinion we are very close to fascism.
Consumers only purpose in a system like this is to provide labour and wealth for the rich and STFU.
Two almost identical parties, two identical presidents and voila, instant fake democracy.
You really need to read up on how Microsoft got the marketshare it has today. If your anarchy market had been in place Microsoft would still be controlling traffic lights.
Microsoft got in because of the same rules you seem to detest. I suppose that "he who dont know history is bound to repeat the same mistakes over and over" is more accurate than anyone can imagine here.
A stupid idiot who pumps himself full of anabolic stereoids can win a competition yes. Does that make him a winner in your eyes?
I agree that current market in the US is screwed up but that isnt because it should be like that. An uncontroled market is by definition just anarchy. If you study capitalism a bit you quickly learn about the checks that should be in place for the precise purpose of stopping companies from using tactics that harm the market.
As for Microsoft having the best products, what have you been smoking? The sole reason they got their foot into the market was because IBM was under scrutiny for monopoly charges and decided to let x86 go free, not suing Compaq to oblivion for reverse engineering their bios. Microsoft got the x86 market handed to them on a silver platter. If it had been an uncontrolled market, IBM would still rule the world of computers and the rest would just eat the crumbs.
You cant really mix passionate with completely mad. Wanting to crush the competition is not sane since the goal is to make money, not kill everybody else. If your goal is to crush your competition regardless if you make more money on it you are way off.
Capitalism is about healthy competition that follows rules. When coorporations compete on common ground it drives prices down and quality up and fosters innovation. I have never ever read about how capitalism is supposed to foster killing competitors with legal tactics, bribes and by using illegal or shoddy business deals. You probably mistake capitalism for anarchy.
I dont understand why its so important for Microsoft to kill any competition. If they succeed in creating a bigger market they still earn more money even with lots of competitors. Is Microsoft really nothing more than a wanking session for two really pathetic men? One would have thought they would have matured by now and start to think about what they leave after they die. Why not start doing good things for computing for a change? MS has been the biggest roadblock in software evolution to date and nothing can change that if Microsoft doesnt start to behaive like grownups.
You should most certainly have the right to express your opinion. Even if it happens to collide with some crazy islam fundamentalist group or hurt the feelings of a company on the slope. If i tell someone that product a. sucks because it cant do thing b. thats in no way slander. Its a fact that I think makes the thing suck. If i just makes things up like the "Get The Facts" campaign its not legally wrong, just damn unethical.
Its a big difference between slander against a physical person and a company. I know they are almost the same in the US except when it comes to enviroment and eco crime.
The responsability you talk about is the one thing i hate the most, "politically correct" demands that you never quiestion the establishment. What a free world that was was it?
I dont see trolls, liars and anonomyos cowards as any problem at all. If you cant think for yourself and draw your own conclusions youre bound to be enslaved by the ones with more power than you. They just keep people on their toes but thats perhaps the problem?
"Perry said. 'The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.'"
Whats this guy smoking? It wasnt like he was stalking Pamela Jones giving out her adress or something. He said som unkind words about a competitors product wich he thought sucked. Whats next, Linus Torvalds and gang going to crazytown on the infamous "Get The Facts" campaign?
Come to think of it, if this would go through i think Microsoft is the one up the creek without a paddle. Imagine all the FUD to make money on.
What happens when it screws the database? I see a lot of potential problems. Not because of the idea of putting a database ontop of a filesystem but because of MS constant screwing anything new up.
I cant really see the value here. New clothes and some fixes. Its really just XP with a new interface. I cant see any new tech that would get people to jump out of joy. Desktop search is based on flawed thinking. If you dont take the time to remember and care about where you put your files do you really think you will take the time to index them? Its also avaliable today on XP from various companies so its not like its a new shiny feature.
I feal like this article is just a dun of the mill hype fest to get some excitement going for a new Microsoft OS. The problem is its just Windows XP Second Edition.
China has surpassed the US in the zombie race. According to this page: http://www.trustedsource.org/zombiemeter.php China has taken the lead. Still the US zombies are more effective since almost all spam originates from the US. You just wait until the Chineese gets the Dragon CPU up and running.
1. Seen that middle button? Learn howto use it. Mark text with left, paste text with middle button. Its the little minions who try to implement Windows paste style that screws things up, not Linux. Mozilla, OO and some other "windows" apps suck at cut'n'paste but because they are Windows centric in ways.
2. It depends on what distro you use really. A sound server might help also. Its not exactly a hard problem to solve. I agree that its irritating for a new user but have you ever tried to setup Windows XP printing lately?
3. About IM, have you tried Gaim? There are a bunch of other ones, perhaps http://messenger.yahoo.com/ will give you a clue? First page trouts Yahoo IM for, thats right, UNIX. Not exactly inofficial is it?
4. Not many Linux users use their computers to play games. If they do the games will be more common. I myself play my games on consoles. I refuse to accept tinkering with drivers and fiddling with bugs when i want to play a game and relax.
5. The stability, the tools, the freedom the fun and the extremely excellent support, all for free except a friendly approach and gentle manners. Linux may not be right for you but then, is anyone really holding a gun to your head forcing you to use it? If you dont have a reason, ignore linux and be on your way. Why not write your own OS instead of complaining about it. Or even better, get you fingers out and fix it.
The gall to put into account vulnerabilitys from Microsofts own JWM in a comparison to Microsofts.Net is astonoshing. What a way to belittle your competitor, make crappy implementation of their product and call them unsecure.
The problem is that the manager need to make the right decisions. If he doesnt know the basics he's not even in a position to make educated guesses. Enter consultants....
There isnt anything as too much knowledge, its just that you need a person who has balance. Just as you dont want a PHB you dont want a geek who hates people. Many times the geek just comes out as not able to deal with people because he knows what he talks about while everyone in the world seems to have a "friend" who keeps feeding them with utter rubbish. Its like asking your neighbour about medical advice while you have a heart faliure.
I don understand this constant complaining against Google. They have a very long way to go before they are even baby Microsoft anno 1993.
Things that Google gets bashed for is done ten times worse by other companise. Its feels like a orchestrated campaign since its so far off from what most techpeople think.
Thats the same thing i have been thinking for years. I dont for a second fall for that drivel about the right wing standing for any religion. If they do i would be very pleased if anyone could enlighent me as to what specific branch of some religion they stand for. I have actually read the bible, a fair bit of the koran and various other religions scriptures and i cant find any match anywhere.
Altough im not religious i love to learn about religion.
As to Christianity i can boldly say it has taken a fairly hit. I and many with me see current US administration as half way to becoming even worse than Iran, a government controlled by religion and greed. The enemies of the US dont have to do anything if the US people doesnt stand up and work on getting it on a more sane track.
The thing is that DRM is such a setup for using it to limit what users can do. The limits is amongst other things fair use. Time shifting, media shifting, lending things to your friends and such is to hard to resist killing off entierly.
The best thing to do is to fight this in any way possible. Puttin it into OSS is giving it cred where no credability should be given. Its a consumer hostile tech and i have a hard time seeing comsumers doing this to themselves. If nobody buys into this it wont fly.
Do you trust the media corporations? Do you firmly believe they have good intentions? Can you look back and with firm belief say that they have been handling their artists and customers fair and just?
If you can then DRM is the thing for you. For the rest of us, never!
The way i understood it the biggest problem was Windows and all the things artificially tied to it. Linux in itself wasnt that much of a problem. Everything from drivers to games is tied to Windows.
Wine clearly shows that if just a little bit of effort was put in it would be possible to make a intermidiate interface to apps (not Java, mind you!) that would make it possible to write truly platform independant AND fast applications, in 3d.
Whats stopping this is Microsft. They dont want OS independant applications, not for their life.
A possible way of counter this would be a kickas IDE and middleware that would make it easy to make OS independant apps. A free one that is. This platform would make it much more easy for third party app providers to make and sell apps for linux and give a stable API to aim at. Linux is moving all to fast right now and its better to put up a middle API than to slow linux down.
It must be pretty irritating for NASA to watch the reds sending their old heap of scrap up into space without a glitch since 1971. The Souyz is like an old truck while the shuttle is like a Ferrari, great tech but very delicate and error prone.
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Responsible disclosure has no real benefit to the end user. It may stop some percentage of big outbreaks of worms but it doesnt in any way make life for admins guarding sensetive information a bit easier. From what i have understood many exploits are used by crackers long before they are in the wild. That is, many networks and servers are broken into and gathered for intel long before there is a patch, sometimes even for years.
Responsible disclosure only lenghten the period for the crackers in wich they can use their exploits for real cracking. It gives at best a breather for software manufacturers to drag their ass. It also doesnt promote real testing and auditing of software before its shipped. I would as an end user much prefer more tested software, that includes OSS thank you very much. Current release cycles is way to short to give any time for testing.
Who gives a fuck if a criminal wants to repent and start giving away illegaly gotten money? Are you one of those stupid fucks who thinks the local drug dealer is doing such wonderful things for the neighbourhood when he donates a nickel to the local hospital?
I differ from you in that i havent given up yet. Its my obligation to make the world better, not just follow the stream. If "part of a corporation IS the legal tactics, the bribes, and illegality" then its high time the shit gets fixed ASAP if were not about to leave our children their future in a doggy bag.
Just because one implementation of capitalism is utterly sick doesnt meen its all bad. I would not decribe current system as pure capitalism though. In my opinion we are very close to fascism.
Consumers only purpose in a system like this is to provide labour and wealth for the rich and STFU.
Two almost identical parties, two identical presidents and voila, instant fake democracy.
You really need to read up on how Microsoft got the marketshare it has today. If your anarchy market had been in place Microsoft would still be controlling traffic lights.
Microsoft got in because of the same rules you seem to detest. I suppose that "he who dont know history is bound to repeat the same mistakes over and over" is more accurate than anyone can imagine here.
A stupid idiot who pumps himself full of anabolic stereoids can win a competition yes. Does that make him a winner in your eyes?
I agree that current market in the US is screwed up but that isnt because it should be like that. An uncontroled market is by definition just anarchy. If you study capitalism a bit you quickly learn about the checks that should be in place for the precise purpose of stopping companies from using tactics that harm the market.
As for Microsoft having the best products, what have you been smoking? The sole reason they got their foot into the market was because IBM was under scrutiny for monopoly charges and decided to let x86 go free, not suing Compaq to oblivion for reverse engineering their bios. Microsoft got the x86 market handed to them on a silver platter. If it had been an uncontrolled market, IBM would still rule the world of computers and the rest would just eat the crumbs.
You cant really mix passionate with completely mad. Wanting to crush the competition is not sane since the goal is to make money, not kill everybody else. If your goal is to crush your competition regardless if you make more money on it you are way off.
Capitalism is about healthy competition that follows rules. When coorporations compete on common ground it drives prices down and quality up and fosters innovation. I have never ever read about how capitalism is supposed to foster killing competitors with legal tactics, bribes and by using illegal or shoddy business deals. You probably mistake capitalism for anarchy.
I dont understand why its so important for Microsoft to kill any competition. If they succeed in creating a bigger market they still earn more money even with lots of competitors. Is Microsoft really nothing more than a wanking session for two really pathetic men? One would have thought they would have matured by now and start to think about what they leave after they die. Why not start doing good things for computing for a change? MS has been the biggest roadblock in software evolution to date and nothing can change that if Microsoft doesnt start to behaive like grownups.
You should most certainly have the right to express your opinion. Even if it happens to collide with some crazy islam fundamentalist group or hurt the feelings of a company on the slope. If i tell someone that product a. sucks because it cant do thing b. thats in no way slander. Its a fact that I think makes the thing suck. If i just makes things up like the "Get The Facts" campaign its not legally wrong, just damn unethical.
Its a big difference between slander against a physical person and a company. I know they are almost the same in the US except when it comes to enviroment and eco crime.
The responsability you talk about is the one thing i hate the most, "politically correct" demands that you never quiestion the establishment. What a free world that was was it?
I dont see trolls, liars and anonomyos cowards as any problem at all. If you cant think for yourself and draw your own conclusions youre bound to be enslaved by the ones with more power than you. They just keep people on their toes but thats perhaps the problem?
"Perry said. 'The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.'"
Whats this guy smoking? It wasnt like he was stalking Pamela Jones giving out her adress or something. He said som unkind words about a competitors product wich he thought sucked. Whats next, Linus Torvalds and gang going to crazytown on the infamous "Get The Facts" campaign?
Come to think of it, if this would go through i think Microsoft is the one up the creek without a paddle. Imagine all the FUD to make money on.
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What happens when it screws the database? I see a lot of potential problems. Not because of the idea of putting a database ontop of a filesystem but because of MS constant screwing anything new up.
I cant really see the value here. New clothes and some fixes. Its really just XP with a new interface. I cant see any new tech that would get people to jump out of joy. Desktop search is based on flawed thinking. If you dont take the time to remember and care about where you put your files do you really think you will take the time to index them? Its also avaliable today on XP from various companies so its not like its a new shiny feature.
I feal like this article is just a dun of the mill hype fest to get some excitement going for a new Microsoft OS. The problem is its just Windows XP Second Edition.
China has surpassed the US in the zombie race. According to this page: http://www.trustedsource.org/zombiemeter.php China has taken the lead. Still the US zombies are more effective since almost all spam originates from the US. You just wait until the Chineese gets the Dragon CPU up and running.
1. Seen that middle button? Learn howto use it. Mark text with left, paste text with middle button. Its the little minions who try to implement Windows paste style that screws things up, not Linux. Mozilla, OO and some other "windows" apps suck at cut'n'paste but because they are Windows centric in ways.
2. It depends on what distro you use really. A sound server might help also. Its not exactly a hard problem to solve. I agree that its irritating for a new user but have you ever tried to setup Windows XP printing lately?
3. About IM, have you tried Gaim? There are a bunch of other ones, perhaps http://messenger.yahoo.com/ will give you a clue? First page trouts Yahoo IM for, thats right, UNIX. Not exactly inofficial is it?
4. Not many Linux users use their computers to play games. If they do the games will be more common. I myself play my games on consoles. I refuse to accept tinkering with drivers and fiddling with bugs when i want to play a game and relax.
5. The stability, the tools, the freedom the fun and the extremely excellent support, all for free except a friendly approach and gentle manners. Linux may not be right for you but then, is anyone really holding a gun to your head forcing you to use it? If you dont have a reason, ignore linux and be on your way. Why not write your own OS instead of complaining about it. Or even better, get you fingers out and fix it.
The gall to put into account vulnerabilitys from Microsofts own JWM in a comparison to Microsofts .Net is astonoshing. What a way to belittle your competitor, make crappy implementation of their product and call them unsecure.
I lack words.
The one thing that would help education and enviroment the most would be to have smaller schools closer to the yungsters home.
The problem is that the manager need to make the right decisions. If he doesnt know the basics he's not even in a position to make educated guesses. Enter consultants....
There isnt anything as too much knowledge, its just that you need a person who has balance. Just as you dont want a PHB you dont want a geek who hates people. Many times the geek just comes out as not able to deal with people because he knows what he talks about while everyone in the world seems to have a "friend" who keeps feeding them with utter rubbish. Its like asking your neighbour about medical advice while you have a heart faliure.
I don understand this constant complaining against Google. They have a very long way to go before they are even baby Microsoft anno 1993.
Things that Google gets bashed for is done ten times worse by other companise. Its feels like a orchestrated campaign since its so far off from what most techpeople think.
Ohh thank you!
Thats the same thing i have been thinking for years. I dont for a second fall for that drivel about the right wing standing for any religion. If they do i would be very pleased if anyone could enlighent me as to what specific branch of some religion they stand for. I have actually read the bible, a fair bit of the koran and various other religions scriptures and i cant find any match anywhere.
Altough im not religious i love to learn about religion.
As to Christianity i can boldly say it has taken a fairly hit. I and many with me see current US administration as half way to becoming even worse than Iran, a government controlled by religion and greed. The enemies of the US dont have to do anything if the US people doesnt stand up and work on getting it on a more sane track.
And so, it begins.....
The thing is that DRM is such a setup for using it to limit what users can do. The limits is amongst other things fair use. Time shifting, media shifting, lending things to your friends and such is to hard to resist killing off entierly.
The best thing to do is to fight this in any way possible. Puttin it into OSS is giving it cred where no credability should be given. Its a consumer hostile tech and i have a hard time seeing comsumers doing this to themselves. If nobody buys into this it wont fly.
Do you trust the media corporations? Do you firmly believe they have good intentions? Can you look back and with firm belief say that they have been handling their artists and customers fair and just?
If you can then DRM is the thing for you. For the rest of us, never!
The way i understood it the biggest problem was Windows and all the things artificially tied to it. Linux in itself wasnt that much of a problem. Everything from drivers to games is tied to Windows.
Wine clearly shows that if just a little bit of effort was put in it would be possible to make a intermidiate interface to apps (not Java, mind you!) that would make it possible to write truly platform independant AND fast applications, in 3d.
Whats stopping this is Microsft. They dont want OS independant applications, not for their life.
A possible way of counter this would be a kickas IDE and middleware that would make it easy to make OS independant apps. A free one that is. This platform would make it much more easy for third party app providers to make and sell apps for linux and give a stable API to aim at. Linux is moving all to fast right now and its better to put up a middle API than to slow linux down.
Yes youre absolutely right, and by the way what OS is the dominant right now again?
*snicker*
It must be pretty irritating for NASA to watch the reds sending their old heap of scrap up into space without a glitch since 1971. The Souyz is like an old truck while the shuttle is like a Ferrari, great tech but very delicate and error prone.
"but she offers excellent, neutral advice"
The person who wrote this has not been reading her other work. Neutral isnt even on the map.