I absolutely agree. This is BS. It would be just like MS selling anti-spyware s/w. THEY built the platform that allows these viruses to work. THEY should be the ones that fix it - for FREE.
That's not surprising. Florida seems to be the new Wild West, since criminals are so drawn to that overpopulated hell hole. You're correct about it not being on any agenda for the politicians. They're too busy sucking dick for the Religious Right and taking it from behind from the developers that are destroying a once beautiful place.
Reading about this radical conservative preacher putting pressure on M$ was making me sick. In fact, I'm sick of ALL these religious nut jobs in our country trying to steamroll their fucking agenda everywhere we look. Last time I checked, we weren't living in a theocracy. Gates and Co. should have told this idiot to take his Bible and shove it up is arse. If religious zealots don't like gay people, then don't engage in homosexual activities and leave everyone else alone.
Anyone else convinced Symantec has a secret room somewhere with a bunch of Russian nerds developing new vriuses and spyware every day? This business is wayyyy too convenient for them.
On the other hand, M$ needs to integrate FREE spyware protection into its swiss cheese OSes.
Is this guy doing an actual hands-on, developer preview? Or is he just going on what information is available to us? I didn't see that mentioend in his article.
Second, and actually this IS clear, is that Apple SUCKS when it comes to upgrade terms! I bought a G5 in late March. Apple's window for a free upgrade? Any purchase after 4/12/05. 15 days before release. That's bullshit. So, what that means is that even though I'm a Mac tech, I'm not wasting $100 on another OS upgrade that I don't see any benefit to and something I don't think I should have to pay for.
I have to come to the defense of the Patent Office on one public case last week. The morons at Smuckers tried to patent the "process" of sealing the edges of its Crustables "crustless" PB&J sandwich. The patent office told them to go take a hike, as the process has existed for years (ravioli, pie crusts, etc). They appealed to a US district court and the case was tossed. Score one for common sense.
However, it's pretty clear that things have gotten out of hand. Too many people were/are making too much money on bogus patents and now that you have more lawyers involved, we're seeing what happens. As with most thing, they (lawyers, sharks, ambulanc chasers) destroy it.
That should be their new slogan. Or maybe "Dayton - The Caipital of Cyber Crime!" The feds are having a difficult enough time tracking criminals down because of residential WiFi piggybacking. What the hell are they supposed to do when anyone can jump on anywhere in an entire city?? WTF are they thinking?
....a group of super smart nersd somehow figures out how to do the same thing to these millions of PCs, but in reverse. Somehow create a worm that turns on the XP firewall, installs MS Anti-Spy and SpyBot and whatever else is needed. Isn't this easy to do (for the geek crowd)? Every new client I get (I'm a home computer tech) is infected with massive amounts of spyware. They have NO idea. My last two clients had more than 10,000 files and programs that were deemed spyware (not including cookies). It took forever to clean these machines, esp with those damn trojans not wanting to leave. I've got years of experience so I know what to do. But 99.999% of Windoze users doesn't have the damndest clue. My clients can't even set up their own DSL connections. how are they going to prevent their computers from being turned into zombies? Hell, they don't even know what that means.
It's up to the benevolent hackers or MS. My $$ is on the geeks outside of Redmond.
Last I recall, Apple had approx $8 BILLION in cash holdings. Eating up TiVo (value ~$300 million), would seem to be a small price to pay for what ammounts to a great service. Hell, what did Apple pay for NeXT? As a TiVo customer, I just hope that my $300 lifetime service contract MEANS something if the company were to be taken over. I'm an Apple junkie as well, so this is the best of both worlds for me. I think. I did say a couple of weeks ago on the last TiVo thread that the only thing that would save this company would be a Jobs-like CEO. Maybe that wish will come true.
I've downloaded it for my work PC, many of my freelance clients and several family members as well. Since then (at least for me) there has not been ONE case of spyware infecting my computer. Viva la Firefox, baby.
I'm a loyal TiVo customer, and I simply don't get what this company is trying to do. They've basically blown it with the cable providers, so their only real hope in making some serious cash just hit the shitter. I kinda feel like the first days of Java when it was thrown out ther to "developers" who created useless applets. I have no desire to look at pictures on my TV. I can do that by plugging in my digital camera. I have no desire to share stuff with my Mac, unless I can download the videos in a normal codec (MPG) and save stuff on my computer. What else is there to do on this thing that developers are really going to tap into to get my mom, dad, sister and in-laws to buy a TiVo? I've said this before, but I am dead serious: they need more porn. It's always driven technology and made money. The cable companies are cashing in. The hotel chains are cashing in. The industry is cashing in. Now, that won't mak my family buy it, per se, but people WILL buy it if they see more hooters and camel toe. This move for a "developers kit" it desperate becaue they can't think of anything else. They need a CEO like Jobs, because a visionary who can execute is the only way this company will be saved.
My friend, no offense taken. You are right on the spot. It's sad and disgusting, but it is what our country has turned into. I hope for the day this all changes, but with conservatives in control, it's not going to happen any time in the forseeable future. Not the Dems are much better, but they certainly aren't the corporate whores Republicans are.
I've been doing this in my free time for about 3 years now. It's easy work (most of the time), and obviously pays well. The only people I don't charge are my family and friends, although that can become really irritating. Most of the time, I wish people in my circle didn't know I know computers so well...
I'm really not kidding here. If they really want to make some money, they need to somehow offer its users more porn. I'm sure this won't fly with the Bible thumpers in the US, but most of them will watch anyway after they publicly scream about it. It's a dark, dirty secret that most hotel chains make millions in profits from PPV porn, which really sucks because it's NOT explicit. If there was some way to get a dedicated porn channel through TiVo, man would the bucks roll in for them. Either that, or somehow hook up with SpiceTV for a discounted service. Again, I'm dead serious. This WOULD work.
I think the size is what people are looking for. Just like with flat panel screens. It's going to change the landscape dramatically. And I suspect, as always, Dell and the like will try to copy the Mini, but will come out with something inferior. Me, however? I prefer to geek around and I can't wait to get my hands on a nice manly G5 tower in a few months. The Mini is just way too limited for my tastes.
Like our planet isn't overcrowded enough? The populations in the US, Asia and South America are already too big to sustain life and protect the environment on this planet. Why in god's name would we want to do worse? Mother Nature gave southern Asia a bitch slap with the tsunami, which should help protect forests and the oceans in that region for a few decades (hopefully). The last thing we need on this planet is more people. In fact, we need LESS. While I agree this would be the greatest breakthrough in the history of man, it would also rank as one fo the most damaging.
And we love it. Even my wife, who was way too skeptical and thought I'd watch too much TV, can't get enough of it. It really makes our TV viewing more enjoyable, even given teh fact that we can pause something (live), shut the TV off, have a peaceful dinner and they still be able to watch something in its entirety. We can also watch what we want to watch, when we want to watch it. Have some free time when I get home? Three episodes of Overhaulin' is waiting for me. We can watch "24" commercial-free if we want.
It is pretty obvious the CEO is an ego-maniac in the form of the original Steve Jobs. He's making the same mistakes, basically. Thinking they can go it alone is akin to signing a suicide note. This idiot blew it time and time again and now me and thousands of others may end up with a worthless hunk of junk and a wasted $500.
They're not susceptible. That's true beauty of using them. No spyware. No security exploits (unless for some ungodly reason you use IE for OSX, which is not a good idea).
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I absolutely agree. This is BS. It would be just like MS selling anti-spyware s/w. THEY built the platform that allows these viruses to work. THEY should be the ones that fix it - for FREE.
Bad, man. Just BAD.
That's not surprising. Florida seems to be the new Wild West, since criminals are so drawn to that overpopulated hell hole. You're correct about it not being on any agenda for the politicians. They're too busy sucking dick for the Religious Right and taking it from behind from the developers that are destroying a once beautiful place.
Reading about this radical conservative preacher putting pressure on M$ was making me sick. In fact, I'm sick of ALL these religious nut jobs in our country trying to steamroll their fucking agenda everywhere we look. Last time I checked, we weren't living in a theocracy.
Gates and Co. should have told this idiot to take his Bible and shove it up is arse. If religious zealots don't like gay people, then don't engage in homosexual activities and leave everyone else alone.
Anyone else convinced Symantec has a secret room somewhere with a bunch of Russian nerds developing new vriuses and spyware every day? This business is wayyyy too convenient for them.
On the other hand, M$ needs to integrate FREE spyware protection into its swiss cheese OSes.
I sure hope the millions of nerds that have brought that site to its knees this mornign are making it worthwhile for Alienware. The site is fux0red.
*raises hand*
Gates: "Yes. You there with your hand up."
Me: "Mr. Ballmer? Mr. Gates? What about spyware and virii on the Longhorn platform?"
Bill: "As our slogan says, 'It just works!'"
Me: "Oh."
Is this guy doing an actual hands-on, developer preview? Or is he just going on what information is available to us? I didn't see that mentioend in his article.
Second, and actually this IS clear, is that Apple SUCKS when it comes to upgrade terms! I bought a G5 in late March. Apple's window for a free upgrade? Any purchase after 4/12/05. 15 days before release. That's bullshit. So, what that means is that even though I'm a Mac tech, I'm not wasting $100 on another OS upgrade that I don't see any benefit to and something I don't think I should have to pay for.
I have to come to the defense of the Patent Office on one public case last week. The morons at Smuckers tried to patent the "process" of sealing the edges of its Crustables "crustless" PB&J sandwich. The patent office told them to go take a hike, as the process has existed for years (ravioli, pie crusts, etc). They appealed to a US district court and the case was tossed. Score one for common sense.
However, it's pretty clear that things have gotten out of hand. Too many people were/are making too much money on bogus patents and now that you have more lawyers involved, we're seeing what happens. As with most thing, they (lawyers, sharks, ambulanc chasers) destroy it.
That should be their new slogan. Or maybe "Dayton - The Caipital of Cyber Crime!"
The feds are having a difficult enough time tracking criminals down because of residential WiFi piggybacking. What the hell are they supposed to do when anyone can jump on anywhere in an entire city?? WTF are they thinking?
Like that act is stopping the malicious attacks? Dosn't look like it. You have a better idea?
....a group of super smart nersd somehow figures out how to do the same thing to these millions of PCs, but in reverse. Somehow create a worm that turns on the XP firewall, installs MS Anti-Spy and SpyBot and whatever else is needed. Isn't this easy to do (for the geek crowd)? Every new client I get (I'm a home computer tech) is infected with massive amounts of spyware. They have NO idea. My last two clients had more than 10,000 files and programs that were deemed spyware (not including cookies). It took forever to clean these machines, esp with those damn trojans not wanting to leave. I've got years of experience so I know what to do. But 99.999% of Windoze users doesn't have the damndest clue. My clients can't even set up their own DSL connections. how are they going to prevent their computers from being turned into zombies? Hell, they don't even know what that means.
It's up to the benevolent hackers or MS. My $$ is on the geeks outside of Redmond.
Last I recall, Apple had approx $8 BILLION in cash holdings. Eating up TiVo (value ~$300 million), would seem to be a small price to pay for what ammounts to a great service. Hell, what did Apple pay for NeXT?
As a TiVo customer, I just hope that my $300 lifetime service contract MEANS something if the company were to be taken over. I'm an Apple junkie as well, so this is the best of both worlds for me. I think.
I did say a couple of weeks ago on the last TiVo thread that the only thing that would save this company would be a Jobs-like CEO. Maybe that wish will come true.
I've downloaded it for my work PC, many of my freelance clients and several family members as well. Since then (at least for me) there has not been ONE case of spyware infecting my computer. Viva la Firefox, baby.
Aha! See, sometimes you need someone to help you find your way. You are very correct!!
I'm a loyal TiVo customer, and I simply don't get what this company is trying to do. They've basically blown it with the cable providers, so their only real hope in making some serious cash just hit the shitter. I kinda feel like the first days of Java when it was thrown out ther to "developers" who created useless applets. I have no desire to look at pictures on my TV. I can do that by plugging in my digital camera. I have no desire to share stuff with my Mac, unless I can download the videos in a normal codec (MPG) and save stuff on my computer.
What else is there to do on this thing that developers are really going to tap into to get my mom, dad, sister and in-laws to buy a TiVo?
I've said this before, but I am dead serious: they need more porn. It's always driven technology and made money. The cable companies are cashing in. The hotel chains are cashing in. The industry is cashing in. Now, that won't mak my family buy it, per se, but people WILL buy it if they see more hooters and camel toe.
This move for a "developers kit" it desperate becaue they can't think of anything else. They need a CEO like Jobs, because a visionary who can execute is the only way this company will be saved.
My friend, no offense taken. You are right on the spot. It's sad and disgusting, but it is what our country has turned into. I hope for the day this all changes, but with conservatives in control, it's not going to happen any time in the forseeable future. Not the Dems are much better, but they certainly aren't the corporate whores Republicans are.
Regardless of all the unethical shit that goes on, 50 million+ idiots still re-elected the worst administration we've ever seen. Great job, folks.
I've been doing this in my free time for about 3 years now. It's easy work (most of the time), and obviously pays well. The only people I don't charge are my family and friends, although that can become really irritating. Most of the time, I wish people in my circle didn't know I know computers so well...
I'm really not kidding here. If they really want to make some money, they need to somehow offer its users more porn. I'm sure this won't fly with the Bible thumpers in the US, but most of them will watch anyway after they publicly scream about it.
It's a dark, dirty secret that most hotel chains make millions in profits from PPV porn, which really sucks because it's NOT explicit. If there was some way to get a dedicated porn channel through TiVo, man would the bucks roll in for them. Either that, or somehow hook up with SpiceTV for a discounted service.
Again, I'm dead serious. This WOULD work.
I think the size is what people are looking for. Just like with flat panel screens. It's going to change the landscape dramatically. And I suspect, as always, Dell and the like will try to copy the Mini, but will come out with something inferior.
Me, however? I prefer to geek around and I can't wait to get my hands on a nice manly G5 tower in a few months. The Mini is just way too limited for my tastes.
Now this is fucking hilarious! LOL!!!!
Like our planet isn't overcrowded enough? The populations in the US, Asia and South America are already too big to sustain life and protect the environment on this planet. Why in god's name would we want to do worse? Mother Nature gave southern Asia a bitch slap with the tsunami, which should help protect forests and the oceans in that region for a few decades (hopefully). The last thing we need on this planet is more people. In fact, we need LESS.
While I agree this would be the greatest breakthrough in the history of man, it would also rank as one fo the most damaging.
And we love it. Even my wife, who was way too skeptical and thought I'd watch too much TV, can't get enough of it. It really makes our TV viewing more enjoyable, even given teh fact that we can pause something (live), shut the TV off, have a peaceful dinner and they still be able to watch something in its entirety. We can also watch what we want to watch, when we want to watch it. Have some free time when I get home? Three episodes of Overhaulin' is waiting for me. We can watch "24" commercial-free if we want.
It is pretty obvious the CEO is an ego-maniac in the form of the original Steve Jobs. He's making the same mistakes, basically. Thinking they can go it alone is akin to signing a suicide note. This idiot blew it time and time again and now me and thousands of others may end up with a worthless hunk of junk and a wasted $500.
It's not a myth, bro. It's actually the truth.
They're not susceptible. That's true beauty of using them. No spyware. No security exploits (unless for some ungodly reason you use IE for OSX, which is not a good idea).