But my premise presumes knowledge of illegally copying msconfig from one windows operating system to another, and instead concerns itself with whether it is reasonable to actually do it based only on whether some random fucktard (this would be a superset of Microsoft tech support representatives, mind you) happens to tell you to do it on a web site.
So, M$ removes a useful but undocumented management feature in Win2k, but we are stupid for not knowing to go get it so we can munge around with whatever it does? WTF?
Are you saying it's normal and advisable behavior to go get ahold of some tool for NT4 that fucks with the registry and god knows what else, and run it willy nilly on win2k or XP? Does this really seem reasonable to you, or have you been forced to deal with shit like this from commercial software for so long that you don't even know what it is like to be free?
hehe. Cool. I'm going to keep an eye out for your comments. They should prove antidotal to most of the thoughtless juvenile groupthink that goes on around here.
The Smurfs are not nostalgia. The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show, Justice Friends, and anything from Hanna Barbera that now gets spoofed on adult swim on Cartoon Network - *that* is nostalgia.
I argue that Saturday morning fell apart about the time when it became impossible to find a show not based on a line of toys, or vice versa. That is one among many of my bag of examples about how it is possible to excessively commercialize artistic expression to the detriment of the advertising value of the content. Hear that, MPAA, Ted Turner, et. al?!
Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release.
You could use that argument against any weapons system that uses a computer. You could also further expand that statement to say that computers can never be used for important tasks. It is amazing how quickly politics can make luddites of us, isn't it?
SDI needs to intercept 100% of incoming warheads, and also cope wth countermeasures such as dozens of dummy "warheads", chaff, simultaneous attacks on the observation satellites, etc.
The only situation that would pose that sort of problem would be a large scale nuclear exchange. I don't think that's the primary nuclear threat to the United States.
One could further argue that ballistic missiles themselves are no longer the primary nuclear threat, but the lack of any sort of SDI makes it possible for North Korea to destroy the United States by building and launching only 10 missiles. No MIRVs, sattelite countermeasures, etc. required. All we can do is watch them arc over the pacific and decide whether to shoot back. This makes the threshold a burgeoning nuclear power must reach in order to attain mutually assured destruction terrifyingly low.
If other nations knew they had to build hundreds of missiles, countermeasure systems, etc., to plausibly threaten the United States, we might have a lot less of them trying to build those 10.
Just distribute a registry patch via login script or GPO. Problem solved.
Ok. Of that 50000, 10000 never log out and don't know how to log back in. 32323 are already logged in by the time the registry patch is ready to be distributed, so now you have to tell them to log out and back in. 6732 of those interpret "logging out" as closing and restarting Outlook, and swamp your helpdesk with calls when the "patch doesn't work".
The next day, 18046 users still have the problem, and 9763 will call the help desk to complain that the network keeps setting their home page back to the default you decided upon in the registry patch, and you spend an hour on the phone with some VP who cannot fathom why he can't set his home page to golfsportsgamblingsluts.com until the problem is resolved system wide. His complaints necessitate coordinating a multi-site nationwide effort to shut down every PC after hours so that they will get the update when the users turn them back on the next morning. You and 10 other people work until 4:00 doing it, and the next, day, 20 holdouts who work late hours and wouldn't let you touch their machine still aren't fixed. You turn off the registry patch after all of this, and then an oddball test lab Exchange server reinfects the entire network the next day.
See, the problem here is that I am not only a Unix geek, but a former Novell CNE. That means that I know how a large computer network functions, from the users to the servers, and I know for a fact that this situation would not be as easy to fix as you would have all of us believe.
I must admit, there's something strangely fitting about a Microsoft apologist argument based on sheer arrogance.
It's a usual bug. All browsers have them.
An oddball javascript gyration that changes colors for the rest of the session is a usual bug. A fundamental HTML rendering flaw that can crash the entire Internet application suite for the world's most popular and profitable operating system is a big deal.
This bug does *not* exist because MS is Evil
Agreed. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
It doesnt stop anyone to go to serious web sites.
It will if (as someone else has suggested) the next Melissa-type virus includes a payload to put the bad HTML on your computer and set it as your homepage.
Yeah, it was. Multiple combustion guns were experimented with during WWII, as a way to get flak shells high enough to affect increasingly high-flying bombers. The results were generally disastrous. They found it basically impossible to predict how the multiple explosive shock waves would interact, and explosions were common. (Pardon the pun)
I don't doubt that this could be done successfully with modern equipment, but the operative factor isn't the action of the shockwave against the projectile, but the application of constant gas pressure while it's travelling down the barrel. Under normal firing conditions, gas pressure reduces as the projectile moves down the barrel.
I know some standard rifles shoot around mach2-3, so it wouldn't be too hard to make one souped up for extra speed.
Yeah, because a 300% performance improvement in a device which nearly explodes every time it is used poses no engineering challenge whatsoever.
Tell you what. If you want to fire triple loaded cartidges (you'd need more to go three times as fast, but we'll give you that as a safety margin) through a chronometer to see how easily this could be accomplished, I'll personally load up the shells for you. Just be sure and film the attempt.
I believe it was the universety of Hamburg that had a web controlled rc train.
One of the editors of that magazine did a little stroy about the RC trains and mentiond as a sidenote that anyone who would send him a picture of the trains derailled or otherwise crased would receive a free subscritpion till the end of the year.
Next month 4 people had actually amanaged to make it crash (on 3 separate occasions)
I can just see the security advisory on this:
Denial of service attack against model train
Risk: High
Certain firmware revs of model trains have been found to be vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack by moderating remotely controlled throttle and switching functions...
What's so cool about a swivelling screen? Considering how quickly and often laptops develop swivelling screens when the hinges break, I just sort of thought they were intentionally designed that way. Or are they trying to sell this as a feature now?
It seems the 'random selection' gravitates toward the smell of crack smoke.
In a way, it does. The selection isn't really random. It selects a certain type of Slashdot user. I've been eligible for moderation for a while. I find that if I am really into/., reading most of the posts and really into and aware of what's going on, I never get picked for moderation. But one day, I sort of got fed up with it and didn't log in for a while. Now I get mod points about once a week again.
The lesson? Slashdot wants moderators who don't know and/or don't care what's going on.
Just write "Refused, return to sender" along with a note on the envelope that says something to the effect of "Nothing personal, I'm just boycotting the publishers of this card.
This is one of those moments where we geeks need to take a step back and evaluate how the rest of the world will evaluate our actions.
If I get a birthday card from my mother-in-law, and return it as you have suggested, which of the following do you think would be her response:
What a thoughtful and heroic crusader for free speech! I should really get more informed about the issues he cares about!
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But my premise presumes knowledge of illegally copying msconfig from one windows operating system to another, and instead concerns itself with whether it is reasonable to actually do it based only on whether some random fucktard (this would be a superset of Microsoft tech support representatives, mind you) happens to tell you to do it on a web site.
Fair enough. At least have the balls to mod redundant and face the M2 queue like a man.
Wipe your eyes and blow your noses...sheeesh
So, M$ removes a useful but undocumented management feature in Win2k, but we are stupid for not knowing to go get it so we can munge around with whatever it does? WTF?
Are you saying it's normal and advisable behavior to go get ahold of some tool for NT4 that fucks with the registry and god knows what else, and run it willy nilly on win2k or XP? Does this really seem reasonable to you, or have you been forced to deal with shit like this from commercial software for so long that you don't even know what it is like to be free?
The parent post is not flamebait. I guess the Microsoft professional apologist slashdot posters have made it to the moderator pool.
I print to paper first. Then I can photocopy as many times as I want.
What about watermarking?
hehe. Cool. I'm going to keep an eye out for your comments. They should prove antidotal to most of the thoughtless juvenile groupthink that goes on around here.
Yes, the quality of the animation is terrible now days. There are a few modern gems.
suggestions: Courage the Cowardly Dog (the only cartoon I Tivo), Samurai Jack
Johnny Quest (with his dad's Live-in Companion Race Bannon)
You know, I could have gone my whole life without thinking about that fact. Of course, Johnny was always running around with Haji...
Argghh! I have to go find my happy place.
The Smurfs are not nostalgia. The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show, Justice Friends, and anything from Hanna Barbera that now gets spoofed on adult swim on Cartoon Network - *that* is nostalgia.
I argue that Saturday morning fell apart about the time when it became impossible to find a show not based on a line of toys, or vice versa. That is one among many of my bag of examples about how it is possible to excessively commercialize artistic expression to the detriment of the advertising value of the content. Hear that, MPAA, Ted Turner, et. al?!
Well, inferring from your username and comment content, you seem to be a female married Slashdot user with kids.
Did you say something about not adding up anecdotally?
It appears my worst fears have come true. All that remains is to change my sig.
Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release.
You could use that argument against any weapons system that uses a computer. You could also further expand that statement to say that computers can never be used for important tasks. It is amazing how quickly politics can make luddites of us, isn't it?
SDI needs to intercept 100% of incoming warheads, and also cope wth countermeasures such as dozens of dummy "warheads", chaff, simultaneous attacks on the observation satellites, etc.
The only situation that would pose that sort of problem would be a large scale nuclear exchange. I don't think that's the primary nuclear threat to the United States.
One could further argue that ballistic missiles themselves are no longer the primary nuclear threat, but the lack of any sort of SDI makes it possible for North Korea to destroy the United States by building and launching only 10 missiles. No MIRVs, sattelite countermeasures, etc. required. All we can do is watch them arc over the pacific and decide whether to shoot back. This makes the threshold a burgeoning nuclear power must reach in order to attain mutually assured destruction terrifyingly low.
If other nations knew they had to build hundreds of missiles, countermeasure systems, etc., to plausibly threaten the United States, we might have a lot less of them trying to build those 10.
Just distribute a registry patch via login script or GPO. Problem solved.
Ok. Of that 50000, 10000 never log out and don't know how to log back in. 32323 are already logged in by the time the registry patch is ready to be distributed, so now you have to tell them to log out and back in. 6732 of those interpret "logging out" as closing and restarting Outlook, and swamp your helpdesk with calls when the "patch doesn't work".
The next day, 18046 users still have the problem, and 9763 will call the help desk to complain that the network keeps setting their home page back to the default you decided upon in the registry patch, and you spend an hour on the phone with some VP who cannot fathom why he can't set his home page to golfsportsgamblingsluts.com until the problem is resolved system wide. His complaints necessitate coordinating a multi-site nationwide effort to shut down every PC after hours so that they will get the update when the users turn them back on the next morning. You and 10 other people work until 4:00 doing it, and the next, day, 20 holdouts who work late hours and wouldn't let you touch their machine still aren't fixed. You turn off the registry patch after all of this, and then an oddball test lab Exchange server reinfects the entire network the next day.
See, the problem here is that I am not only a Unix geek, but a former Novell CNE. That means that I know how a large computer network functions, from the users to the servers, and I know for a fact that this situation would not be as easy to fix as you would have all of us believe.
Right click IE, reset home page. Done. Easiest virus to clean ever. =)
Good plan. Communicate that to 50000 users on a Monday morning using voicemail only (you daren't turn the Exchange servers on because of the virus).
I must admit, there's something strangely fitting about a Microsoft apologist argument based on sheer arrogance.
It's a usual bug. All browsers have them.
An oddball javascript gyration that changes colors for the rest of the session is a usual bug. A fundamental HTML rendering flaw that can crash the entire Internet application suite for the world's most popular and profitable operating system is a big deal.
This bug does *not* exist because MS is Evil
Agreed. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
It doesnt stop anyone to go to serious web sites.
It will if (as someone else has suggested) the next Melissa-type virus includes a payload to put the bad HTML on your computer and set it as your homepage.
So much for security by indifference.
Wow, he's going to teach the world how to build cruise missiles for $5000. I'm sure no one will mind that sort of information getting around.
Yeah, it was. Multiple combustion guns were experimented with during WWII, as a way to get flak shells high enough to affect increasingly high-flying bombers. The results were generally disastrous. They found it basically impossible to predict how the multiple explosive shock waves would interact, and explosions were common. (Pardon the pun)
I don't doubt that this could be done successfully with modern equipment, but the operative factor isn't the action of the shockwave against the projectile, but the application of constant gas pressure while it's travelling down the barrel. Under normal firing conditions, gas pressure reduces as the projectile moves down the barrel.
I know some standard rifles shoot around mach2-3, so it wouldn't be too hard to make one souped up for extra speed.
Yeah, because a 300% performance improvement in a device which nearly explodes every time it is used poses no engineering challenge whatsoever.
Tell you what. If you want to fire triple loaded cartidges (you'd need more to go three times as fast, but we'll give you that as a safety margin) through a chronometer to see how easily this could be accomplished, I'll personally load up the shells for you. Just be sure and film the attempt.
How's that for an in-your-face response to the recent ligitation/prosecution efforts by the RIAA?
I believe it was the universety of Hamburg that had a web controlled rc train. One of the editors of that magazine did a little stroy about the RC trains and mentiond as a sidenote that anyone who would send him a picture of the trains derailled or otherwise crased would receive a free subscritpion till the end of the year. Next month 4 people had actually amanaged to make it crash (on 3 separate occasions)
I can just see the security advisory on this:
Denial of service attack against model train
Risk: High
Certain firmware revs of model trains have been found to be vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack by moderating remotely controlled throttle and switching functions...
What's so cool about a swivelling screen? Considering how quickly and often laptops develop swivelling screens when the hinges break, I just sort of thought they were intentionally designed that way. Or are they trying to sell this as a feature now?
It seems the 'random selection' gravitates toward the smell of crack smoke.
In a way, it does. The selection isn't really random. It selects a certain type of Slashdot user. I've been eligible for moderation for a while. I find that if I am really intoThe lesson? Slashdot wants moderators who don't know and/or don't care what's going on.
aw, come on, mods, that was funny.
This is one of those moments where we geeks need to take a step back and evaluate how the rest of the world will evaluate our actions.
If I get a birthday card from my mother-in-law, and return it as you have suggested, which of the following do you think would be her response: