It seems to me that IsraCast is primarily concerned with getting money from investors. Some of the schemes sound good to someone with little technical knowledge, but are foolish to someone who knows how things work.
Notice that the IsraCast web page referenced in the Slashdot story is titled "Preview".
I wrote a summary of what in my opinion was IsraCast-promoted fraud: IsraCast: Involved in fraud?. It was modded down to -1 because I criticized the behavior of some Israelis. However, in my opinion that criticism was justified because IsraCast also does public relations for radical Jewish causes. For example, Paul Wolfowitz, a Jew, did the initial planning for the U.S. government's invasion of Iraq. Israelis were worried by Saddam Hussein and wanted someone else to pay for their security. Fifteen of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi. When Saudis attack invade Iraq?
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Agreed: If you want Mac malware, you have to go to a store and buy it.
It's completely unacceptable that Slashdot editors would post this garbage. From the referenced article:
"In the past two weeks, information-security companies like Symantec Inc., Sophos PLC and McAfee Inc. have identified several security issues related to the latest version of Apple's Mac operating system, called OS X. Among the concerns: two "worms," programs written by unknown hackers that were designed to spread themselves to other Macs through Apple's iChat instant-messaging software and Bluetooth wireless-communications capability."
Translation: Some public relations drone, with no technical knowledge, paid the Wall Street Journal to post the article. The Wall Street Journal is a "What the rich want you to think" publication, and, in my experience, usually unreliable for anything useful. Note that the article jumps from subject to subject rapidly, apparently to hide the fact that there are no actual incidents of Mac infections to report.
Another translation: Symantec, a maker of very buggy security software of poor design, and other "security" companies want Mac users to buy their products.
Some people, in my opinion, spend their entire working lives being dishonest, trying to trick other people. In my experience some of them work for WSJ.
- Cheney's company is rapidly building prisons for the U.S. government.
AC, this is a common trick used by some people on Slashdot, with several steps:
1) Pretend that a Slashdot comment is an exhaustively researched 500-page book that discusses all sides of an issue.
2) Find something that isn't explained in the Slashdot comment.
3) Assume that the Slashdot comment represents all that the comment poster knows.
4) Claim that it is a tragedy that the poster of the Slashdot comment could be so stupid.
Answer to the issue you raised: The proper time to deal with Hitler was long before he was elected. Then there would have been no need for secrecy surrounding D-Day, because there would have been no D-Day.
"I am familiar with most of the points you make except #7. Do you have examples?"
When Cheney was Secretary of Defense, he changed the rules, allowing no-bid contracts in some cases. Now that Cheney is vice-president, his former company got a huge no-bid contract, in secret. This contract was partly to provide oilfield services. The attraction of oil and weapons for corrupters is that there is so much money involved, and many contracts.
There are too many other examples for a Slashdot comment. Note that when Secretary of "Defense", Cheney engineered one of the major problems between Osama bin Laden and the United States, that there were U.S. military weapons in Saudi Arabia.
So, Cheney helped create the problem, arranged that the problem would be very profitable for his company (no bids, just a secretly arranged contract), and then arranged for his company to get the contract. It's difficult to imagine more conflict of interest than that.
Principles for thinking about U.S. government corruption:
Don't think you know the names of all the U.S. government secret
agencies.
Those who want corruption often have a sense of entitlement that is stronger
than any other drive. They cannot be understood using normal considerations of
morality. They are amoral.
Those who want corruption often are willing to waste a billion dollars of
taxpayer money to steal one million.
Adversarial behavior feeds on itself. People who get started being
adversarial toward the legitimate interests of other people find it difficult
to stop.
If you see one cockroach, realize that there must be 50 others. If you see
one verified example of corruption, you are almost certainly seeing only a
small percentage of the total.
Your ability to perceive government corruption is limited by your
willingness to consider conflict in other areas of your life. Strong people
don't avoid awareness of conflict. Strong people work to resolve conflict,
they don't avoid it.
There are two kinds of oil business. 1) There are business people who
find, pump, refine, and deliver oil. 2) There are people who manipulate the
government and government purchases to make a profit.
The weapons business is favored by corrupters because it is largely
secret. There are numerous hidden opportunities to make deals that make
profits easy.
A government that takes any action in secrecy is a government that is
thereby avoiding democratic oversight. Whoever causes government acts in
secret is, in that way, a dictator.
The U.S. government corruption is part of a general social breakdown.
Don't look for the corruption to be more logical than you would expect of any
catastrophic breakdown. If you are having difficulty applying normal logic,
try applying the logic of catastrophe.
Many people who call themselves religious fundamentalists are in actuality
suffering from obsessive thinking. They think they are superior, but they are
mentally ill. There are Christians and Muslims and Jews who fit this
explanation.
Skillful abusers like Karl Rove use many small abuses rather than a few
large ones to accomplish their goals. They know is is more difficult to analyze
many small abuses. (Karl Rove's nickname is "Bush's Brain"; see the book by that
title.)
Corrupters often give sensible-sounding names to their efforts to corrupt.
Examples: Clear Skies Initiative: A program to gut the Clean Air Act
and substitute weaker anti-pollution regulations. Economic Stimulus:
Massive tax cuts for corporations and the rich that failed, in theory and
practice, to stimulate. Energy Security: The barely lessened dependence
on Mideast oil to be achieved by drilling in U.S. national parks and
wilderness preserves.
Corrupters starve government departments of money, so the government
cannot do its work. They have done this to the Patent Office, the SEC, and the
IRS, for example.
Don't say "we". If you are a U.S. citizen, when you talk about the
activities of the U.S. government, don't say "we". You are only paying. You
have no control, and you aren't even allowed to know the truth. So, the word
"we" does not apply.
Much of the nature of government corruption is due to accident or ignorant
tinkering. Sometimes an opportunity for corruption arises because of
circumstances, without planning, and the corrupters merely take advantage of
it. Don't expect to find a careful criminal logic behind every corrupt
act.
Omission is as important a tool of corruption as commission. After 9/11,
the U.S. government reacted intensely and quite adequately to the problems in
New York City. On the other hand, many rich people would benefit if the blacks
in New Orleans were eliminated from areas near the center of the city, so
someh
In summary, the reason that there are SWT, Swing, and AWT is that Java is an unfinished language?
My understanding is that Java is unfinished because Sun is holding it too tightly and yet has not provided sufficient support for finishing the language.
Over a period of decades, the U.S. government paid to kill Arabs and
interfere with their politics. The U.S. government also paid to train Arabs in
terrorism to fight in Afghanistan.
Is it surprising that a small percentage of Arabs eventually decided
to react to violence with more violence? Is it surprising that Arabs don't
like being killed?
Now, those who wanted violence have what they want. They can claim
that there is a threat, and can make billions in largely hidden contracts for
weapons and contracts for war.
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two and former U.S.
President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech that we should beware of the "military-industrial complex".
Here's a quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal
employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and
is gravely to be regarded."
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
From the link you gave: "RF-EMF exposure (1800 MHz; SAR 1.2 or 2 W/kg)"
It's a fraudulent way of getting attention. They are exposing delicate chemical reactions to a HUGE amount of energy. Probably there are times when there is local heating, in spite of the fact they say that is not the reason. Someone at the University of Washington was doing what appears to be the same thing.
Someone who could show that small amounts of microwave energy could change chemical reactions would 1) become immediately famous everywhere in the world, and 2) win a Nobel Prize. There are many scientists who would like that. The fact that physicists show no interest in working in that direction shows their understanding of the issue.
If discovers some means of interaction of low-energy photons and chemical reactions, it will probably be a physicist who does it, not someone from the "Division of Occupational Medicine".
Gamma radiation is very high energy: "Gamma rays form the highest-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum."
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
The problem with playing video games all the time is that, unlike 2.4 GHz radio waves, games fry your brain and you don't spend enough time learning about science. Maybe that's why Slashdot editors are fooled so often by hoaxes. Perhaps one-fourth of Slashdot articles are about being a games spectator (not about games technology). It's not necessary for anyone to be a geek or a nerd, if he or she is willing to stop playing games long enough to learn about social interaction.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
"... president Fred Gilbert won't allow it until he's satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn't pose a health risk, particularly to young people."
The article makes it obvious he was trying to be a big hero at a town hall meeting. In actuality, he knows nothing about electromagnetism, but is not afraid to pretend that he does. We see a lot of that in recent years, as people pretend to know more about computers than they do.
Anyone worried about radio waves causing cancer can try to make that theory work. There is a huge barrier, however, in the form of a very very small number: Planck's Constant. Planck's constant = 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg/S. It's that 10**-34 that makes it difficult for low-energy electromagetism like wireless transmissions to interact with chemical reactions. Thirty-four zeros is a LOT of zeros after the decimal point.
Off topic: I've linked to the Encyclopedia Britannica above because the article about Planck's constant is very short. The article in Wikipedia is long. I've frequently seen the Encyclopedia Britannica be misleading because of the severe limitation placed on size of the articles due to paper costs. Wikipedia does not have that problem.
-- Cheney: Killing small animals and Iraqis for fun and profit.
"... a laptop that meets our specs (Apple or Dell, depending on major)"
Never buy computer items before you check with Ed Foster's GripeLog. I
get the impression from reading the issues concerning Dell that Dell is a company that should be avoided.
Note that the search above is restricted to Ed Foster's web site, and
there are 16,300 hits.
My own personal experience with Dell is that the company is
experiencing a social breakdown in which employees are working for themselves
rather than for the company or the customers. Some of the things that I
experienced from Dell have been more than disfunctional, they have been wacky.
I haven't been paying attention recently, but at one time Dell seemed to be
competing with Microsoft to see who could be the most abusive. Sometimes Dell even
won.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
I wish that Slashdot editors would not post stories about press releases! Did someone get paid under the table?
It's very common that press releases contain entirely invented "information". Certainly the people who write them can be expected to have NO technical knowledge, and not to care that they have no technical knowledge.
-- If they enjoy it or it makes them money, rich people and leaders
can kill small animals and Iraqis?
The real reason not to buy Windows Vista is that Microsoft has a history of
abusing its customers. This version will be secure?
Remember that Windows XP had many problems, besides being extremely
vulnerable, until Service Pack 2. I suggest everyone wait until Vista SP2 to
evaluate Vista. That would save a lot of time.
Remember the last Microsoft encryption scheme, that is built
into Windows XP? No? If you have never heard of EFS, I can tell you why. Many,
many people lost all their files because of the bugginess and poor
documentation of EFS. EFS doesn't work at all on stand alone computers, unless
you think that not being able to have a valid backup is "working". (If you
argue with this, you will be arguing with Microsoft technical support, who has
verified this more than once. On stand alone computers, EFS encryption is tied
to the SID of the OS installation. If you change stand alone computers, you
cannot decrypt your files.)
Will you trust your files to encryption by a company whose last
version was buggy and poorly documented and lost customer files? (Try TrueCrypt instead.)
Remember that Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista
are ALL the same operating system, but just new versions. Microsoft renames
their products and takes advantage of people with little technical knowledge,
who think that they are buying a new product.
Remember that Bill Gates is the Dr. Death of software. HE decides when
Microsoft's software is no longer usable, not the customers.
When someone abuses you, never forget. Try not to be involved with
habitual abusers.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
It is not about regulating morality. It's about money and government corruption. The big casinos want a 100% monopoly in exploiting the human weakness that causes people to gamble.
Gambling casinos don't gamble. If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose.
If you play enough, there is no chance in casino games of chance. If you play enough, the end result is ALWAYS 100% determined. You will ALWAYS lose exactly the percentage the casino decides you will lose.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Quote from the Slashdot story: "Griffin countered that the same loss of
expertise threatened NASA's human spaceflight programme, which had served to
define the US as a world 'superpower'..."
Thinking of a country as a "superpower" financially benefits people
who have friends and family invested in the weapons and war industries, such
as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Similarly, someone who sells electronic security alarms could tell
everyone in the houses around him that he is a "superneighbor".
For some people, arranging social destabilization and fragmentation is
a way to make money.
-- If they enjoy it or it makes them money, rich people and leaders
can kill small animals and Iraqis?
When a problem seems very very difficult, maybe it is being viewed in an incorrect way.
Spam is a social problem, not primarily a technical one, and the solution is social.
Here's a solution that would work if we had a real leader as president of the U.S., and not someone who is only interested in benefiting the rich.
The president could, during a scheduled speech, ask people never to buy anything advertised with unsolicited email. He could talk about several ways such email is dishonest.
It could be arranged that Oprah Winfrey ask people not to buy things from spam. Religious leaders could ask their congregations.
This kind of solution has already worked. Everyone in the world knows to wash their hands; that has become part of human culture. We need to make anti-spam part of human culture.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
You said, "If you can't help them reproduce it, you can't expect anything from them."
In 3 years of submitting bug reports, no developer has ever asked me for help in reproducing the bug.
There are already plenty of clues, I think. For example, the bug appears in Thunderbird, Mozilla mail, and Firefox browser, and the CPU hogging problem transfers itself from one to the other. That shows there is some code that is shared, apparently, or they are all corrupting the OS in the same way.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems to me that IsraCast is primarily concerned with getting money from investors. Some of the schemes sound good to someone with little technical knowledge, but are foolish to someone who knows how things work.
Notice that the IsraCast web page referenced in the Slashdot story is titled "Preview".
I wrote a summary of what in my opinion was IsraCast-promoted fraud: IsraCast: Involved in fraud?. It was modded down to -1 because I criticized the behavior of some Israelis. However, in my opinion that criticism was justified because IsraCast also does public relations for radical Jewish causes. For example, Paul Wolfowitz, a Jew, did the initial planning for the U.S. government's invasion of Iraq. Israelis were worried by Saddam Hussein and wanted someone else to pay for their security. Fifteen of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi. When Saudis attack invade Iraq?
Lately, Slashdot regularly posts IsraCast P.R. releases.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
Quote from the One or Zero web site: "The OneOrZero Task Management and Helpdesk software is licensed under the latest version of the GPL."
-
Cheney's company is building prisons for the U.S. government.
Please don't comment on stories in which you have no interest. I'm enjoying the discussion, and learning a lot.
-
Cheney's company is building prisons for the U.S. government.
LOL. That's probably close to word-for-word what was said.
Agreed: If you want Mac malware, you have to go to a store and buy it.
It's completely unacceptable that Slashdot editors would post this garbage. From the referenced article:
"In the past two weeks, information-security companies like Symantec Inc., Sophos PLC and McAfee Inc. have identified several security issues related to the latest version of Apple's Mac operating system, called OS X. Among the concerns: two "worms," programs written by unknown hackers that were designed to spread themselves to other Macs through Apple's iChat instant-messaging software and Bluetooth wireless-communications capability."
Translation: Some public relations drone, with no technical knowledge, paid the Wall Street Journal to post the article. The Wall Street Journal is a "What the rich want you to think" publication, and, in my experience, usually unreliable for anything useful. Note that the article jumps from subject to subject rapidly, apparently to hide the fact that there are no actual incidents of Mac infections to report.
Another translation: Symantec, a maker of very buggy security software of poor design, and other "security" companies want Mac users to buy their products.
Some people, in my opinion, spend their entire working lives being dishonest, trying to trick other people. In my experience some of them work for WSJ.
-
Cheney's company is rapidly building prisons for the U.S. government.
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers (Free registration required.)
AC, this is a common trick used by some people on Slashdot, with several steps:
1) Pretend that a Slashdot comment is an exhaustively researched 500-page book that discusses all sides of an issue.
2) Find something that isn't explained in the Slashdot comment.
3) Assume that the Slashdot comment represents all that the comment poster knows.
4) Claim that it is a tragedy that the poster of the Slashdot comment could be so stupid.
Answer to the issue you raised: The proper time to deal with Hitler was long before he was elected. Then there would have been no need for secrecy surrounding D-Day, because there would have been no D-Day.
Again, this is not the complete explanation.
"I am familiar with most of the points you make except #7. Do you have examples?"
When Cheney was Secretary of Defense, he changed the rules, allowing no-bid contracts in some cases. Now that Cheney is vice-president, his former company got a huge no-bid contract, in secret. This contract was partly to provide oilfield services. The attraction of oil and weapons for corrupters is that there is so much money involved, and many contracts.
There are too many other examples for a Slashdot comment. Note that when Secretary of "Defense", Cheney engineered one of the major problems between Osama bin Laden and the United States, that there were U.S. military weapons in Saudi Arabia.
So, Cheney helped create the problem, arranged that the problem would be very profitable for his company (no bids, just a secretly arranged contract), and then arranged for his company to get the contract. It's difficult to imagine more conflict of interest than that.
MOD PARENT UP.
In summary, the reason that there are SWT, Swing, and AWT is that Java is an unfinished language?
My understanding is that Java is unfinished because Sun is holding it too tightly and yet has not provided sufficient support for finishing the language.
Over a period of decades, the U.S. government paid to kill Arabs and interfere with their politics. The U.S. government also paid to train Arabs in terrorism to fight in Afghanistan.
Is it surprising that a small percentage of Arabs eventually decided to react to violence with more violence? Is it surprising that Arabs don't like being killed?
Now, those who wanted violence have what they want. They can claim that there is a threat, and can make billions in largely hidden contracts for weapons and contracts for war.
The U.S. government is more corrupt now than ever before. Here are some short reviews of books about the corruption. The article is old and needs revision and additions, but gives a small view of a very extensive subject: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two and former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech that we should beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
From the link you gave: "RF-EMF exposure (1800 MHz; SAR 1.2 or 2 W/kg)"
It's a fraudulent way of getting attention. They are exposing delicate chemical reactions to a HUGE amount of energy. Probably there are times when there is local heating, in spite of the fact they say that is not the reason. Someone at the University of Washington was doing what appears to be the same thing.
Someone who could show that small amounts of microwave energy could change chemical reactions would 1) become immediately famous everywhere in the world, and 2) win a Nobel Prize. There are many scientists who would like that. The fact that physicists show no interest in working in that direction shows their understanding of the issue.
If discovers some means of interaction of low-energy photons and chemical reactions, it will probably be a physicist who does it, not someone from the "Division of Occupational Medicine".
Gamma radiation is very high energy: "Gamma rays form the highest-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum."
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
The problem with playing video games all the time is that, unlike 2.4 GHz radio waves, games fry your brain and you don't spend enough time learning about science. Maybe that's why Slashdot editors are fooled so often by hoaxes. Perhaps one-fourth of Slashdot articles are about being a games spectator (not about games technology). It's not necessary for anyone to be a geek or a nerd, if he or she is willing to stop playing games long enough to learn about social interaction.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
"... president Fred Gilbert won't allow it until he's satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn't pose a health risk, particularly to young people."
The article makes it obvious he was trying to be a big hero at a town hall meeting. In actuality, he knows nothing about electromagnetism, but is not afraid to pretend that he does. We see a lot of that in recent years, as people pretend to know more about computers than they do.
Anyone worried about radio waves causing cancer can try to make that theory work. There is a huge barrier, however, in the form of a very very small number: Planck's Constant. Planck's constant = 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg/S. It's that 10**-34 that makes it difficult for low-energy electromagetism like wireless transmissions to interact with chemical reactions. Thirty-four zeros is a LOT of zeros after the decimal point.
Off topic: I've linked to the Encyclopedia Britannica above because the article about Planck's constant is very short. The article in Wikipedia is long. I've frequently seen the Encyclopedia Britannica be misleading because of the severe limitation placed on size of the articles due to paper costs. Wikipedia does not have that problem.
--
Cheney: Killing small animals and Iraqis for fun and profit.
"... a laptop that meets our specs (Apple or Dell, depending on major)"
Never buy computer items before you check with Ed Foster's GripeLog. I get the impression from reading the issues concerning Dell that Dell is a company that should be avoided.
Note that the search above is restricted to Ed Foster's web site, and there are 16,300 hits.
My own personal experience with Dell is that the company is experiencing a social breakdown in which employees are working for themselves rather than for the company or the customers. Some of the things that I experienced from Dell have been more than disfunctional, they have been wacky.
I haven't been paying attention recently, but at one time Dell seemed to be competing with Microsoft to see who could be the most abusive. Sometimes Dell even won.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
Bunratty, By far the biggest issue is that you have an anger problem. You imply that I say things that I know are not true. That is incorrect.
In any case, they are discussing a beta version of Opera.
Mozilla products have had a CPU hogging problem for 3 years in the released versions.
I wish that Slashdot editors would not post stories about press releases! Did someone get paid under the table?
It's very common that press releases contain entirely invented "information". Certainly the people who write them can be expected to have NO technical knowledge, and not to care that they have no technical knowledge.
--
If they enjoy it or it makes them money, rich people and leaders can kill small animals and Iraqis?
That's very interesting. Few people understand the underlying mathematics. "Gaming" is vicious.
The real reason not to buy Windows Vista is that Microsoft has a history of abusing its customers. This version will be secure?
Remember that Windows XP had many problems, besides being extremely vulnerable, until Service Pack 2. I suggest everyone wait until Vista SP2 to evaluate Vista. That would save a lot of time.
Remember the last Microsoft encryption scheme, that is built into Windows XP? No? If you have never heard of EFS, I can tell you why. Many, many people lost all their files because of the bugginess and poor documentation of EFS. EFS doesn't work at all on stand alone computers, unless you think that not being able to have a valid backup is "working". (If you argue with this, you will be arguing with Microsoft technical support, who has verified this more than once. On stand alone computers, EFS encryption is tied to the SID of the OS installation. If you change stand alone computers, you cannot decrypt your files.)
Will you trust your files to encryption by a company whose last version was buggy and poorly documented and lost customer files? (Try TrueCrypt instead.)
Remember that Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are ALL the same operating system, but just new versions. Microsoft renames their products and takes advantage of people with little technical knowledge, who think that they are buying a new product.
Remember that Bill Gates is the Dr. Death of software. HE decides when Microsoft's software is no longer usable, not the customers.
When someone abuses you, never forget. Try not to be involved with habitual abusers.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
It is not about regulating morality. It's about money and government corruption. The big casinos want a 100% monopoly in exploiting the human weakness that causes people to gamble.
Gambling casinos don't gamble. If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose.
If you play enough, there is no chance in casino games of chance. If you play enough, the end result is ALWAYS 100% determined. You will ALWAYS lose exactly the percentage the casino decides you will lose.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
Quote from the Slashdot story: "Griffin countered that the same loss of expertise threatened NASA's human spaceflight programme, which had served to define the US as a world 'superpower'..."
Thinking of a country as a "superpower" financially benefits people who have friends and family invested in the weapons and war industries, such as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Similarly, someone who sells electronic security alarms could tell everyone in the houses around him that he is a "superneighbor".
For some people, arranging social destabilization and fragmentation is a way to make money.
--
If they enjoy it or it makes them money, rich people and leaders can kill small animals and Iraqis?
True.
I didn't mean the good rich, who earned their money honestly, I meant the corrupt rich, like spammers and illegal lobbyists.
When a problem seems very very difficult, maybe it is being viewed in an incorrect way.
Spam is a social problem, not primarily a technical one, and the solution is social.
Here's a solution that would work if we had a real leader as president of the U.S., and not someone who is only interested in benefiting the rich.
The president could, during a scheduled speech, ask people never to buy anything advertised with unsolicited email. He could talk about several ways such email is dishonest.
It could be arranged that Oprah Winfrey ask people not to buy things from spam. Religious leaders could ask their congregations.
This kind of solution has already worked. Everyone in the world knows to wash their hands; that has become part of human culture. We need to make anti-spam part of human culture.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
You said, "If you can't help them reproduce it, you can't expect anything from them."
In 3 years of submitting bug reports, no developer has ever asked me for help in reproducing the bug.
There are already plenty of clues, I think. For example, the bug appears in Thunderbird, Mozilla mail, and Firefox browser, and the CPU hogging problem transfers itself from one to the other. That shows there is some code that is shared, apparently, or they are all corrupting the OS in the same way.
See this: Sociology of government access.
The U.S. government openly stated it wanted access to all Windows computers. It got that by exploiting Microsoft sloppiness.