The only evidence is that, after years of no such articles on Slashdot, there began to be many articles about "science breakthroughs" that are not really breakthroughs and are about groups trying to find investors.
The author of the article referenced by Slashdot did NOT write the article for PhysOrg.org. That article was written for IEEE Education. PhysOrg.org seems to be using the article and Slashdot to get people to see the "investment opportunities" that are advertised there.
It could be that the problem is only that Slashdot editors have played too many video games rather than learning about the actual world, and they are fooled by the scams.
Agreed, of course, but there is something fishy about the article.
FRAUD??? It's true that making hydrogen is not an efficient way to store energy
for use later. However, this quote is partly nonsense: "... the production
of hydrogen depends on the availability of energy and water, both of which are
increasingly rare..." Water is not rare, and is could never be a problem
with the production of hydrogen. I doubt that a reputable publication would
print nonsense like that.
Not only is something very wrong with the article, but something is
not right with the article's source, Physorg.org. Here are some Google ads at
the site that seem full of fraud: "Sponsored Links (Ads by Google)
-- The Next Oil Boom - See who's pumping cash by making oil for $13.21. And
selling for $59. And another: Free Top Energy Profits - 5 Triple-Digit Investment Gains
in Today's Alternative Energy Boom." An honest organization would never
allow advertising like that, I think.
This article on the same web site seems like the beginning of fraud to
me: A
Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute?. There is NO printer. There is
only a poorly edited article in the online (not peer-reviewed,
apparently) edition of Applied Physics Letters. The idea is called JeTrix (Jet
Tricks) by the supposed developers. The idea is that a printhead that covers
the whole sheet of paper can print faster than one that is small.
Recently, Slashdot has been carrying discussions of "scientific
breakthroughs" that are in actuality attempts to get money from investors. The
Slashdot articles are, in reality, press releases for extremely poor
investment "opportunities". Is a Slashdot editor taking money to run these?
Matousec, which did the testing, found that the Comodo free firewall is the best. Are Matousec and Comodo completely separate organizations? Matousec is Japanese, and English is clearly not the native language of whomever runs Comodo.
Matousec's review covered "personal firewalls", an artificial category which may eliminate products of interest. For example, Comodo doesn't recommend its own firewall, it recommends the Trustix Enterprise Firewall, which is free, also.
At minimum, this is VERY weird. I'm not saying there is anything
wrong, but anyone should wonder when all the traditional companies are shown
to be producing products of poor quality, and three new companies are shown to
be the most trustworthy. Especially when two of those companies give their
products away free.
I've thought for years that Symantec and ZoneLabs were not hiring
enough people with technical knowledge; their products show that. I discovered
that Sunbelt Software was doing something fishy. Certainly the major
suppliers have shown many examples of bad behavior.
But, what about these 3 new companies? How can it be true that they
are immediately better than all the others?
Quote: The "personal firewall" in Windows XP SP2 was never advertised to block outgoing connections.
Why did people moderate that comment up? Microsoft never claimed it made good software, so the quality of its software should ignored?
George W. Bush never advertised himself as a moral person, so he shouldn't be impeached? The U.S. government never advertised itself as non-violent, so the fact that it has killed 650,000 Iraqis should be ignored?
Our experience is that ZoneAlarm is fine. We've checked using the SysInternals Process Explorer, installed as Task Manager, hundreds of times and never found that ZA was using too much CPU power. This checking was done on perhaps 25 computers over a period of many months.
ZoneAlarm sometimes gives false positives, but that is a small problem compared to worrying about networks being infected.
I haven't tried them, but Resellular.com seems like it has a good idea. Note that they can't spell; the title says "Droping Calls?" instead of "Dropping Calls".
You can buy a cell phone contract near the end of its life, or sell yours. So, you get contract prices without any obligation.
Some rich and powerful government leaders were sitting around saying, "How do we keep India poor?" After many weeks of deliberation (They aren't very intelligent, of course.) they decided, "That's it! We'll interfere with cheap communication."
Another comment about T-Mobile, adding to the parent post:
If, after a year, you have not used all your minutes, you can spend as little as $10 to extend those minutes for another year, and get minutes added to the total.
A CEO, whose name I have changed to James, replied to version he received of my message above: "OK, so what do I do if I receive a WORD doc that I am expecting, from someone I know? If I need to see it, what should I do? Any idea how long until this latest craziness is over? James" My reply:
James,
There is no vulnerability in Open Office Writer. Just save the.DOC
file or.RTF file to the hard drive and open it in Open Office. You
have the latest version of Open Office, which is very compatible with
MS Office. If you like, we will make it so that all.DOC files open
automatically in O.O. Writer throughout [the organization].
I have no idea when this will be fixed. However, Microsoft must know
more than is being said, since the company is using such strong
language: "exercise extreme caution [with files] from
both known and unknown
sources."
When I try to translate that from corporate-speak to English, I
wonder about the meaning of "exercise extreme caution". How would I do
that? Would I hold my finger to the side of my nose very tightly and
hope, hope, hope? Is there an animal in a closet called extreme
caution, and I would take it out for exercise?
Since there is no way to know if a file is infected, and since merely
opening an infected file causes your network to be infected, my
translation of that statement from Microsoft is:
"Don't use Microsoft Word."
The following alternative translation is preferred by many computer
professionals who have been discussing Microsoft's advice online: "Pay
$329 for an upgrade to the latest version immediately." I won't bother
with the corporate-speak version of my answer to that. The English
version is "When pigs fly".
You now have an excellent opportunity to become accustomed to Open
Office, which is better anyway, and saves files in Microsoft Word.DOC
format as well as the ISO (International Standards Organization) Open
Document Format.
It's a weird world out there, James. If you want to put your computer
systems at risk, you will have to pay a lot more for software you
already own, for a version that is very little different, with the
assurance that there will be other severe vulnerabilities. If you want
relative safety, using software that is less quirky, you will have to
keep your money in your pocket.
T-Mobile has been good for us. We paid $100 in the beginning for 1,000
minutes, which are good for a year. We don't use that much, and we extended
the remaining minutes for another year by buying more minutes. (We use two-way
radios and other methods of communicating.)
It is extremely offensive that phone companies think they can take
away things for which you have paid, without giving anything in return by
expiring the minutes. That is one of the many, many consequences of having a
corrupt government.
T-Mobile has proven to be dis-organized and adversarial, but not
nearly as adversarial as the other companies. There is a lot of really, really
stupid game-playing. (Companies don't allow people to work in marketing now
unless they have had a brainectomy.)
Here is a T-Mobile example: "Good news! You asked to hear your
remaining time in minutes, and now you can..." That message, which has
been playing for a year, refers to the fact that T-Mobile uses fake dollars,
that are equivalent to as many minutes as T-Mobile says. The customer is not
allowed to know the formula to calculate minutes per dollar, except that $100
is 1,000 minutes. (Really, not kidding.)
T-Mobile will unlock your phone free after three months, so you can
use it on a different network. That service may be tied to the idea of the
customer traveling to another country.
T-Mobile uses the GSM cellular protocol, which is the best, by far,
and is used throughout Europe and most of the world. If you plan to travel to
other countries, you will need a quad-band phone like the Motorola Razr V3.
T-Mobile has international service with is very, very expensive, so
you always want to get a SIM card from a GSM service provider in the country
you are visiting.
The problem is more fundamental than "burnout".
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The problem is more fundamental than "burnout". The problem is an overall breakdown in U.S. society. For example, the U.S. government has become very corrupt: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
The U.S. has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any country, ever, more than 6 times the percentage of those in prison in European countries.
The U.S. is the most obese country in the world, except for a small island nation in which people eat a lot of coconut.
Here is a message we sent to customers. Links were added for posting on Slashdot:
Everyone,
Don't use Microsoft Word. Use Open Office instead. This advice remains
effective until Microsoft releases a patch, and it is installed.
Microsoft just issued a security advisory warning people not to open
Microsoft Word documents unless they have the latest version of
Microsoft Word, which was just released, and costs $329 for the
upgrade, or $679 for the most powerful full version.
On the security advisory web page the
relevant parts are buried in sections that aren't visible unless you
click on them:
"Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted
sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources. This
vulnerability could be exploited when a user opens a specially crafted
Word file."
"We recommend that customers exercise extreme caution when they
accept file transfers [files] from both known and unknown
sources."
The vulnerability is being actively used to infect user's computers.
That's the meaning of the phrase "zero-day" attack in the first
sentence of the advisory. None of the anti-virus software vendors have made
signatures for this attack yet, which means that anti-virus software CANNOT protect against an
attack.
The reason Microsoft says to "exercise extreme caution" with
files received "from both known and unknown sources", is that no
one, not even computer consultants, can know whether a source can be
trusted, since the anti-virus vendors have not yet made a method of
detection for this vulnerability.
Good info. Mod parent up. Works exactly as he says, in my experience. If there is no clip, you may be able to improvise something that keeps the heat sink firmly pressed to the processor.
Also, I don't agree with the people who are saying to get involved with Dell Hell because it is possible to get parts.
My experience with Dell is that there is a social breakdown happening there. It's not nearly as bad as the one the U.S. government caused in Iraq, but it is bad enough that you might want to save yourself from grief.
There are sometimes weird phenomena where two negatives cancel, leaving a positive. Sometimes companies become so crazy that employees decide to treat the customer right just to get a break from the craziness.
On the other hand... if you want to buy yourself a higher place in heaven because you have had so much pain on earth, you could buy a Dell laptop pre-loaded with AOL software from TigerDirect. Not sure that's possible, but if it is, you could walk through the Pearly Gates without even talking to St. Peter.
Realize that the people at Fujitsu are dedicated professionals --
dedicated to work-avoidance -- and because they work for the company they are
at the top of the work-avoidance hierarchy.
The work avoidance plan that is typical in situations like this is
that the main company licenses a limited number of other companies, and it is
those companies that might stoop so low as to actually serve the customer. The
trick is to find one of those other companies that will sell for a reasonable
price rather than 30% of the cost of a new laptop.
If it really is impossible to buy after-market parts for Fujitsu
products, then certainly don't buy from Fujitsu.
Slashdot Mirror
Found this: Open Wengo Source code
I don't see any way to download the source code for Wengo.
Open Office is not slow for me. It's fine.
Mod parent up, please. Excellent information.
The only evidence is that, after years of no such articles on Slashdot, there began to be many articles about "science breakthroughs" that are not really breakthroughs and are about groups trying to find investors.
The author of the article referenced by Slashdot did NOT write the article for PhysOrg.org. That article was written for IEEE Education. PhysOrg.org seems to be using the article and Slashdot to get people to see the "investment opportunities" that are advertised there.
It could be that the problem is only that Slashdot editors have played too many video games rather than learning about the actual world, and they are fooled by the scams.
Did anyone else see this Google ad just under the Slashdot story?
Download Openoffice
Complete Office Suite, Save $200! 100% Compatible - Download for $47. www-openoffice.com
Agreed, of course, but there is something fishy about the article.
FRAUD??? It's true that making hydrogen is not an efficient way to store energy for use later. However, this quote is partly nonsense: "... the production of hydrogen depends on the availability of energy and water, both of which are increasingly rare..." Water is not rare, and is could never be a problem with the production of hydrogen. I doubt that a reputable publication would print nonsense like that.
Not only is something very wrong with the article, but something is not right with the article's source, Physorg.org. Here are some Google ads at the site that seem full of fraud: "Sponsored Links (Ads by Google) -- The Next Oil Boom - See who's pumping cash by making oil for $13.21. And selling for $59. And another: Free Top Energy Profits - 5 Triple-Digit Investment Gains in Today's Alternative Energy Boom." An honest organization would never allow advertising like that, I think.
This article on the same web site seems like the beginning of fraud to me: A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute?. There is NO printer. There is only a poorly edited article in the online (not peer-reviewed, apparently) edition of Applied Physics Letters. The idea is called JeTrix (Jet Tricks) by the supposed developers. The idea is that a printhead that covers the whole sheet of paper can print faster than one that is small.
Recently, Slashdot has been carrying discussions of "scientific breakthroughs" that are in actuality attempts to get money from investors. The Slashdot articles are, in reality, press releases for extremely poor investment "opportunities". Is a Slashdot editor taking money to run these?
Thanks for the information. It's very useful.
Now, we still need to address why we have never heard of these companies before today, and now they are the best?
Matousec, which did the testing, found that the Comodo free firewall is the best. Are Matousec and Comodo completely separate organizations? Matousec is Japanese, and English is clearly not the native language of whomever runs Comodo.
Matousec's review covered "personal firewalls", an artificial category which may eliminate products of interest. For example, Comodo doesn't recommend its own firewall, it recommends the Trustix Enterprise Firewall, which is free, also.
At minimum, this is VERY weird. I'm not saying there is anything wrong, but anyone should wonder when all the traditional companies are shown to be producing products of poor quality, and three new companies are shown to be the most trustworthy. Especially when two of those companies give their products away free.
I've thought for years that Symantec and ZoneLabs were not hiring enough people with technical knowledge; their products show that. I discovered that Sunbelt Software was doing something fishy. Certainly the major suppliers have shown many examples of bad behavior.
But, what about these 3 new companies? How can it be true that they are immediately better than all the others?
ZoneAlarm was tested by the company that did the leak testing.
Quote: ZoneLabs "programmers lack important knowledge needed for writing security products for Windows NT operating systems."
This fits with our experience. ZoneLabs was sold to CheckPoint Software. After that, ZoneAlarm seemed to have many, many problems.
Quote: The "personal firewall" in Windows XP SP2 was never advertised to block outgoing connections.
Why did people moderate that comment up? Microsoft never claimed it made good software, so the quality of its software should ignored?
George W. Bush never advertised himself as a moral person, so he shouldn't be impeached? The U.S. government never advertised itself as non-violent, so the fact that it has killed 650,000 Iraqis should be ignored?
Our experience is that ZoneAlarm is fine. We've checked using the SysInternals Process Explorer, installed as Task Manager, hundreds of times and never found that ZA was using too much CPU power. This checking was done on perhaps 25 computers over a period of many months.
ZoneAlarm sometimes gives false positives, but that is a small problem compared to worrying about networks being infected.
I haven't tried them, but Resellular.com seems like it has a good idea. Note that they can't spell; the title says "Droping Calls?" instead of "Dropping Calls".
You can buy a cell phone contract near the end of its life, or sell yours. So, you get contract prices without any obligation.
So, which Bittorrent client is the best? Azureus is open source. Do you recommend it?
Orange is apparently only in the UK.
Ask yourself, self, how could this happen?
Some rich and powerful government leaders were sitting around saying, "How do we keep India poor?" After many weeks of deliberation (They aren't very intelligent, of course.) they decided, "That's it! We'll interfere with cheap communication."
Another comment about T-Mobile, adding to the parent post:
If, after a year, you have not used all your minutes, you can spend as little as $10 to extend those minutes for another year, and get minutes added to the total.
A CEO, whose name I have changed to James, replied to version he received of my message above: "OK, so what do I do if I receive a WORD doc that I am expecting, from someone I know? If I need to see it, what should I do? Any idea how long until this latest craziness is over? James" My reply:
.DOC
file or .RTF file to the hard drive and open it in Open Office. You
have the latest version of Open Office, which is very compatible with
MS Office. If you like, we will make it so that all .DOC files open
automatically in O.O. Writer throughout [the organization].
.DOC
format as well as the ISO (International Standards Organization) Open
Document Format.
James,
There is no vulnerability in Open Office Writer. Just save the
I have no idea when this will be fixed. However, Microsoft must know more than is being said, since the company is using such strong language: "exercise extreme caution [with files] from both known and unknown sources."
When I try to translate that from corporate-speak to English, I wonder about the meaning of "exercise extreme caution". How would I do that? Would I hold my finger to the side of my nose very tightly and hope, hope, hope? Is there an animal in a closet called extreme caution, and I would take it out for exercise?
Since there is no way to know if a file is infected, and since merely opening an infected file causes your network to be infected, my translation of that statement from Microsoft is:
"Don't use Microsoft Word."
The following alternative translation is preferred by many computer professionals who have been discussing Microsoft's advice online: "Pay $329 for an upgrade to the latest version immediately." I won't bother with the corporate-speak version of my answer to that. The English version is "When pigs fly".
You now have an excellent opportunity to become accustomed to Open Office, which is better anyway, and saves files in Microsoft Word
It's a weird world out there, James. If you want to put your computer systems at risk, you will have to pay a lot more for software you already own, for a version that is very little different, with the assurance that there will be other severe vulnerabilities. If you want relative safety, using software that is less quirky, you will have to keep your money in your pocket.
Michael
After a $100 purchase of minutes, ALL re-charging lasts for a year. So, for example, $110 could last for two years.
T-Mobile has been good for us. We paid $100 in the beginning for 1,000 minutes, which are good for a year. We don't use that much, and we extended the remaining minutes for another year by buying more minutes. (We use two-way radios and other methods of communicating.)
It is extremely offensive that phone companies think they can take away things for which you have paid, without giving anything in return by expiring the minutes. That is one of the many, many consequences of having a corrupt government.
T-Mobile has proven to be dis-organized and adversarial, but not nearly as adversarial as the other companies. There is a lot of really, really stupid game-playing. (Companies don't allow people to work in marketing now unless they have had a brainectomy.)
Here is a T-Mobile example: "Good news! You asked to hear your remaining time in minutes, and now you can..." That message, which has been playing for a year, refers to the fact that T-Mobile uses fake dollars, that are equivalent to as many minutes as T-Mobile says. The customer is not allowed to know the formula to calculate minutes per dollar, except that $100 is 1,000 minutes. (Really, not kidding.)
T-Mobile will unlock your phone free after three months, so you can use it on a different network. That service may be tied to the idea of the customer traveling to another country.
T-Mobile uses the GSM cellular protocol, which is the best, by far, and is used throughout Europe and most of the world. If you plan to travel to other countries, you will need a quad-band phone like the Motorola Razr V3.
T-Mobile has international service with is very, very expensive, so you always want to get a SIM card from a GSM service provider in the country you are visiting.
The problem is more fundamental than "burnout". The problem is an overall breakdown in U.S. society. For example, the U.S. government has become very corrupt: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
The U.S. has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any country, ever, more than 6 times the percentage of those in prison in European countries.
The U.S. is the most obese country in the world, except for a small island nation in which people eat a lot of coconut.
Here is a message we sent to customers. Links were added for posting on Slashdot:
Everyone,
Don't use Microsoft Word. Use Open Office instead. This advice remains effective until Microsoft releases a patch, and it is installed.
Microsoft just issued a security advisory warning people not to open Microsoft Word documents unless they have the latest version of Microsoft Word, which was just released, and costs $329 for the upgrade, or $679 for the most powerful full version.
On the security advisory web page the relevant parts are buried in sections that aren't visible unless you click on them:
"Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources. This vulnerability could be exploited when a user opens a specially crafted Word file."
"We recommend that customers exercise extreme caution when they accept file transfers [files] from both known and unknown sources."
The vulnerability is being actively used to infect user's computers. That's the meaning of the phrase "zero-day" attack in the first sentence of the advisory. None of the anti-virus software vendors have made signatures for this attack yet, which means that anti-virus software CANNOT protect against an attack.
The reason Microsoft says to "exercise extreme caution" with files received "from both known and unknown sources", is that no one, not even computer consultants, can know whether a source can be trusted, since the anti-virus vendors have not yet made a method of detection for this vulnerability.
Michael
Good info. Mod parent up. Works exactly as he says, in my experience. If there is no clip, you may be able to improvise something that keeps the heat sink firmly pressed to the processor.
--
George W. Bush comedy and tragedy
Also, I don't agree with the people who are saying to get involved with Dell Hell because it is possible to get parts.
My experience with Dell is that there is a social breakdown happening there. It's not nearly as bad as the one the U.S. government caused in Iraq, but it is bad enough that you might want to save yourself from grief.
There are sometimes weird phenomena where two negatives cancel, leaving a positive. Sometimes companies become so crazy that employees decide to treat the customer right just to get a break from the craziness.
On the other hand... if you want to buy yourself a higher place in heaven because you have had so much pain on earth, you could buy a Dell laptop pre-loaded with AOL software from TigerDirect. Not sure that's possible, but if it is, you could walk through the Pearly Gates without even talking to St. Peter.
GOOD ANSWER. Mod parent up.
Realize that the people at Fujitsu are dedicated professionals -- dedicated to work-avoidance -- and because they work for the company they are at the top of the work-avoidance hierarchy.
The work avoidance plan that is typical in situations like this is that the main company licenses a limited number of other companies, and it is those companies that might stoop so low as to actually serve the customer. The trick is to find one of those other companies that will sell for a reasonable price rather than 30% of the cost of a new laptop.
If it really is impossible to buy after-market parts for Fujitsu products, then certainly don't buy from Fujitsu.
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Humor and Tragedy in Bush Corruption