For a/. geek, what does Windows 7 have that's *really* useful/desired/cool vs. Windows XP? Not trolling, just haven't had the time to install it/play with it yet.
It's newer and less awful than vista. But it's still really NT with an updated interface and some new bits glued to the side.
So you think it's ok to steal stuff because it's expensive?
I'll stick with Ubuntu and get all the software I need for the cost of downloading an iso and without breaking laws. I also get a better quality OS with security updates and regular releases.
It's amazing how many times the name "Microsoft" and the words "catastrophic failure" end up in the same headline.
Amazing yes, but it's not the full story. Microsoft put enormous pressure on multinationals to keep stories of IT failures in. Most of the catastrophic failures will never make the headlines.
But the fact that there is no backup anywhere indicates brazen negligence on the part of everyone responsible for the data. Everyone who had a part in designing the system and managing the system is culpable. The most ridiculous part of this is the over-reliance on server-side data storage by the sidekick designers.
I will bet you there were good people -SCREAMING- to fix the backups, implement and test failover and all sorts of other good things. In my experience things like this are due to management refusing to spend money fixing problems that have not lost customers yet.
Either this is a really, really serious meltdown which completely killed not only the server but all their backups as well (and what're the chances of that?), or their IT guys have been really, really slack and just didn't make any backups...
.. or they decided to save money by firing the wrong smart and slightly unstable guy and he took revenge..
There's a matter-antimatter collider in production since the 1990's. It's called the Tevatron, it collides protons with antiprotons and it is in Illinois.
And this one is bigger and more powerful. Lets just hope it doesn't come with a 'Designed for windows 7' sticker on the side though.
Actually, I think the next question would be: "Now how can get some antimatter?"
It's my understanding that we can only manufacture ridiculously minute quantities of the stuff, and that may take more energy to make than we'll get out of it anyways.
It WILL take more energy than we can get out of it. They have to make the positrons first before destroying them.
The point of this is to see how the particles behave to validate or disprove current theories. This isn't being done to make an unlimited source of energy.
Um it implied both, think of it this way, fraud is another word for theft. You usually you have to be malicious kind of person to steal from someone unless their are extenuating circumstances like starvation, etc.
Acts are not malicious unless they're motived by malice or spite. Fraud and theft are normally carried out to gain stuff criminally but not really to cause harm, that's just a side-effect.
I hate to shatter your world view, but sometimes keeping things from certain groups of people is the right thing to do and that doesn't change just because one of the entities is a government. Yes, it will be abused. Yes, abuse should be punished. No, that does not mean the concept is without merit or that it's not worth trying.
Hiding evidence that western governments have funded racist killers and dictators isn't in anyone's interest. If they have done wrong the evidence should be given to the public so democracy can work its magic. This document is about how to keep dirty secrets private from the very people who funded them, i.e. me and you.
If people are allowed to hide wrongdoing it will only encourage them to do wrong.
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
Surely leaking this document is good practice? It's the opposite of 'security through obscurity'. Like peer-review, comments from the wider world would only help harden their leak-prevention methods.
They can't prevent leaks, they are just too stupid to realize it.
What they can do is control the media and that alone controls the majority.
A quick solution would be to just have less secrets. Telling everyone what you are doing isn't that hard - and the foreign spies, hackers and journalists will find out anyway.
Creating and looking after secrets is whats keeping half the organization employed.
These people are unable to adapt to a world where information can be sent around the world in seconds. They are the stupid, violent policemen who might punch you for looking at them but won't stop crime, terrorism, or anything else because they belong to some WW2 era not the current world.
They want to play stupid games with hidden codewords so they can pretend they are more important than 'civilians', all they really do is waste resources.
Oh, please. The collapse of the banking sector's not fraud. Recklessness, certainly, but don't attribute too much to malice when there's plenty of stupidity to go around.:P
You did such a great job on that project. have some perks! more money? no.
I agree. Compensation in anything but cash should be illegal. No more healthcare, dental, life insurance, or other bullshit. Give people cash, making their total compensation completely transparent, and let them spend it as they wish. Lobby your congressperson.
That's a good idea.
I'm a contractor mostly for the reason I want to choose how I spend my money, I don't want some HR bozo demanding a cut goes to their dental plan, their health insurance plan, or their pension that ends up being embezzled by the management anyway. I buy things I need for myself and don't buy things I don't need.
Yah, we save a ton with our Microsoft Campus Agreement. We pay about $4000/year for the ability to install about 300 copies of Windows and Office. Considering the cost of XP is about $150+, it's a pretty good deal, even over the long term.
License costs saved: $41,000 Damage done by producing students who only know cr*p software: immeasurable
Actually, the "Format C:" step is a waste of time, because the Linux installer will reformat the drive again for you using the file system of your choice (default is typically ext3 or ext4).
Formatting a disk doesn't remove all data, it just writes new metadata some of the disk. It's best to blank the whole disk to be really sure that no Microsoft contamination remains. I hear the smell of NTFS can curdle inodes.
Ok, ok, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=8192" to wipe every bit of Microsoft cr*p that was on the hard drive in the system that you got from Dell/HP/whoever. The sentiment is the same - wipe the Microsoft byproducts off the face of your HD platters.
I normally do a "shred -n 5 -z/dev/sda" to get rid of microsh1te. It gives the disk the disk a bit of a workout at the same time.
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All my Dell boxes run Linux.
My thinkpad runs linux.
My HP servers run linux.
My home put together from parts system runs linux.
If dell want my business they are going to have to start making better hardware.
For a /. geek, what does Windows 7 have that's *really* useful/desired/cool vs. Windows XP? Not trolling, just haven't had the time to install it/play with it yet.
It's newer and less awful than vista. But it's still really NT with an updated interface and some new bits glued to the side.
Translation - Buy stuff from me. I won't sell you poison again, honest. You can trust me and my stuff is less bad than last time.
That's enough to power slightly more than four time machines.
Great Scott!
So you think it's ok to steal stuff because it's expensive?
I'll stick with Ubuntu and get all the software I need for the cost of downloading an iso and without breaking laws. I also get a better quality OS with security updates and regular releases.
It's amazing how many times the name "Microsoft" and the words "catastrophic failure" end up in the same headline.
Amazing yes, but it's not the full story. Microsoft put enormous pressure on multinationals to keep stories of IT failures in. Most of the catastrophic failures will never make the headlines.
But the fact that there is no backup anywhere indicates brazen negligence on the part of everyone responsible for the data. Everyone who had a part in designing the system and managing the system is culpable. The most ridiculous part of this is the over-reliance on server-side data storage by the sidekick designers.
I will bet you there were good people -SCREAMING- to fix the backups, implement and test failover and all sorts of other good things. In my experience things like this are due to management refusing to spend money fixing problems that have not lost customers yet.
Either this is a really, really serious meltdown which completely killed not only the server but all their backups as well (and what're the chances of that?), or their IT guys have been really, really slack and just didn't make any backups...
.. or they decided to save money by firing the wrong smart and slightly unstable guy and he took revenge ..
Last fucking thing this world needs is a homicidal jackass with his finger on the proverbial button.
You voted bush out, remember?
Did you find the WMD's in Iraq? No
The same people are telling you there are WMD's in Iran. You should know better than to blindly believe it.
There's a matter-antimatter collider in production since the 1990's. It's called the Tevatron, it collides protons with antiprotons and it is in Illinois.
And this one is bigger and more powerful. Lets just hope it doesn't come with a 'Designed for windows 7' sticker on the side though.
Actually, I think the next question would be: "Now how can get some antimatter?"
It's my understanding that we can only manufacture ridiculously minute quantities of the stuff, and that may take more energy to make than we'll get out of it anyways.
It WILL take more energy than we can get out of it. They have to make the positrons first before destroying them.
The point of this is to see how the particles behave to validate or disprove current theories. This isn't being done to make an unlimited source of energy.
"Fraud doesn't imply malice, it implies greed."
Um it implied both, think of it this way, fraud is another word for theft. You usually you have to be malicious kind of person to steal from someone unless their are extenuating circumstances like starvation, etc.
Acts are not malicious unless they're motived by malice or spite. Fraud and theft are normally carried out to gain stuff criminally but not really to cause harm, that's just a side-effect.
Go ahead and mod me troll or flamebait or whatever it is you need to mod me because this post hurts your feelings.
I can't, I've already posted. Someone else do the honors please.
I hate to shatter your world view, but sometimes keeping things from certain groups of people is the right thing to do and that doesn't change just because one of the entities is a government. Yes, it will be abused. Yes, abuse should be punished. No, that does not mean the concept is without merit or that it's not worth trying.
Hiding evidence that western governments have funded racist killers and dictators isn't in anyone's interest. If they have done wrong the evidence should be given to the public so democracy can work its magic. This document is about how to keep dirty secrets private from the very people who funded them, i.e. me and you.
If people are allowed to hide wrongdoing it will only encourage them to do wrong.
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
Microsoft are some kind of joke company.
The last device I had with windows mobile on it was such a pain that I'll never waste money on anything with that rubbish on ever again.
Surely leaking this document is good practice? It's the opposite of 'security through obscurity'. Like peer-review, comments from the wider world would only help harden their leak-prevention methods.
They can't prevent leaks, they are just too stupid to realize it.
What they can do is control the media and that alone controls the majority.
A quick solution would be to just have less secrets. Telling everyone what you are doing isn't that hard - and the foreign spies, hackers and journalists will find out anyway.
Creating and looking after secrets is whats keeping half the organization employed.
These people are unable to adapt to a world where information can be sent around the world in seconds. They are the stupid, violent policemen who might punch you for looking at them but won't stop crime, terrorism, or anything else because they belong to some WW2 era not the current world.
They want to play stupid games with hidden codewords so they can pretend they are more important than 'civilians', all they really do is waste resources.
Oh, please. The collapse of the banking sector's not fraud. Recklessness, certainly, but don't attribute too much to malice when there's plenty of stupidity to go around. :P
Fraud doesn't imply malice, it implies greed.
All fractional reserve banking is fraud.
You did such a great job on that project. have some perks! more money? no.
I agree. Compensation in anything but cash should be illegal. No more healthcare, dental, life insurance, or other bullshit. Give people cash, making their total compensation completely transparent, and let them spend it as they wish. Lobby your congressperson.
That's a good idea.
I'm a contractor mostly for the reason I want to choose how I spend my money, I don't want some HR bozo demanding a cut goes to their dental plan, their health insurance plan, or their pension that ends up being embezzled by the management anyway. I buy things I need for myself and don't buy things I don't need.
This headline is missing the point that all banks commit theft, that's what keeps them in business and pays for their excessive bonuses.
Anyone that thinks otherwise doesn't understand fractional reserve banking.
Until we have money that is based on some real commodity money has no inherent value, it's just a points system ungrounded in reality.
Yah, we save a ton with our Microsoft Campus Agreement. We pay about $4000/year for the ability to install about 300 copies of Windows and Office. Considering the cost of XP is about $150+, it's a pretty good deal, even over the long term.
License costs saved: $41,000
Damage done by producing students who only know cr*p software: immeasurable
Actually, the "Format C:" step is a waste of time, because the Linux installer will reformat the drive again for you using the file system of your choice (default is typically ext3 or ext4).
Formatting a disk doesn't remove all data, it just writes new metadata some of the disk. It's best to blank the whole disk to be really sure that no Microsoft contamination remains. I hear the smell of NTFS can curdle inodes.
Ok, ok, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=8192" to wipe every bit of Microsoft cr*p that was on the hard drive in the system that you got from Dell/HP/whoever. The sentiment is the same - wipe the Microsoft byproducts off the face of your HD platters.
I normally do a "shred -n 5 -z /dev/sda" to get rid of microsh1te. It gives the disk the disk a bit of a workout at the same time.