And when I stick my (pitch)fork up your ass? How about that?
Google is the next Microsoft. They live on ADVERTISING and USER PROFILING! There is no such thing as non-evil advertising. Get that in your thick skull!
Do you really thing creating a fork will put any dent into Chrome? It will only pull off developers from Firefox and WebKit. Way to go...
They will still take over the web. and then they will do *exactly* what Microsoft did with the IE. They are forced by the very principles that define success of businesses.
It always seems, that I am the only one, thinking a step further than the tip of his own nose. You just canâ(TM)t accept yourself, when you know that you got something that wrong. So you have to project it on me.
Oh, and I have tons of Karma. You can kick and scream, but I am still right, and you know it.
What? They made an add-in out of it, because frankly, the time of animated image formats is over. If you must, there is the thousand times better SVG anyway. But you rather rant, instead of taking five seconds to enter the query in addons.mozilla.org, right?
Seriously. Nowadays it's far easier to just do a little social engineering (partially scripted) than to try to break any encryption scheme. Even the highest security company has some stupid grunts and drones.
They should fix the weakest link in the chain first.
I learned something important, when I programmed my first GUI program for a large client: If they can do something wrong, they *will*. The only solution, is to not give them any functionality that they could mis-use. Build your UI and your backend API like a deep packet inspecting firewall.
Then, when that works, start to think about other ways to strengthen it.
No. What should humiliate you, is the fact, that there is no "machine" "winning". There is only a machine blindly and incredibly stupidly processing a giant set of rules, created by programmers, out of a giant amount of knowledge of many many persons.
So in fact you play a whole expert comitee that can every minuscule detail down to the stangest exception, in advance.
Now if you win that, you win against them all, and are truly a genius!
So how about that fixing your self-confidence issues?;)
... which puts it in the same league with Microsoft, Eli Lilly, Shell, Deutsche Bank, etc. Huge company, with no moral values whatsoever. The only difference is that Google told us it would "do no harm". An advertising company that does no harm... Yeah. Right. Next you tell me that there is a lawyer company for politicians, that does no harm.;)
It is Google controlled. So it never was, isn't and never will be getting even close to me.
Nah. Scorpions can stand a nuclear war pretty well. If you expose them to a nuclear bomb, and they survive, their kids become 400 times more resistent. This also works on later generations, (Dunno how many though)
I don't know if they still do, but when I read about it, some scientists tried to find out, how to modify human genetics to let them have the same metabolism. For soldiers, you know...
I always have to think of Hulk or some other "super hero" when I think of this.
I once used Windows XP in that mode. Where everything and its dog was locked down by the ACLs. It was pretty nice to know that a virus could really only frag my (backuped) user account. But it was a pain in the ass for configuration and installation. Mostly because the programs were not made for it. They did not expect something to be locked down at all. Even internal Microsoft programs. So you very often got crashing programs and the like, because they hiccuped on a non-accessible resource.
But then I realized that security holes of software that was too tightly integrated with the OS, made the whole thing useless.
Luckily I now use virtualization, and as my sig says:
No. The saying goes like this: There are lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks. Might I add politicians, marketers and lawyers (in the same group) to that?
Well, we got better prices. Partially because the EU bureaucrats made monopolies mostly a thing of the past (except for the owner of the last mile, who still has a monopoly, for which Germany actively has to pay fines).
(I know that this is not yet totally true for other things like gas/power yet. But for mobile phones, it worked out pretty well so far. We can get nearly the latest phones including a 20 euro a month plan, with a flat rate, and actually get 200 euro or more payed up-front, when we make the contract! Now that is a good deal! ^^)
Editors, please be a bit more sensitive. There is no country "Europe", and most of us on the continent Europe do not want it to become a country. We are only stuck with some assholes that we did not vote for, that created a "government" that we can't really vote for, and that we explicitly can't vote not to exist in the first place. Americans who were stuck with an asshole President, should understand this.:)
So don't say "Europe", as if it were a single country. It's like calling North-America a country, and thereby saying that the USA, Mexico and Canada are one single entity. You would not like that, would you? Well, we neither.
Just name the country of the company, event or person. And use "Europe" only to describe things that relate to Germans, French, British, Russians, and so on, in the same manner, thereby being a continent-related issue.
Thank you for being solidary, until we got rid of our oppressive governments ourselves.:)
Because, where I worked, this WAS how we worked. Our job consisted of parties, traveling (sometimes even booking a whole plane!), checking out the sexy new intern, drinking coffee, playing foosball, phoning some company, and sometimes programming a bit.
We were the link between a large Internet portal (now defunct) and all the major music labels (soon defunct;).
Luckily I always get out, before the ship sinks (and I'm proud of it), so in my eyes, you can have such a job life.:P
(It was not my fault, that they mismanaged their company. I tried to change policies. But after being punished for actually trying to improve something, I stopped caring, and started to get out and take some insurance with me, in case they wanted to fuck with me.)
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Allright. In fact, let's bet $100 on it.
Where should I send the money, in... wait... in what decade will you realize that you completely forgot how full of shit you were right now?
And when I stick my (pitch)fork up your ass? How about that?
Google is the next Microsoft. They live on ADVERTISING and USER PROFILING! There is no such thing as non-evil advertising. Get that in your thick skull!
Do you really thing creating a fork will put any dent into Chrome? It will only pull off developers from Firefox and WebKit. Way to go...
They will still take over the web. and then they will do *exactly* what Microsoft did with the IE. They are forced by the very principles that define success of businesses.
It always seems, that I am the only one, thinking a step further than the tip of his own nose. You just canâ(TM)t accept yourself, when you know that you got something that wrong. So you have to project it on me.
Oh, and I have tons of Karma. You can kick and scream, but I am still right, and you know it.
What? They made an add-in out of it, because frankly, the time of animated image formats is over. If you must, there is the thousand times better SVG anyway. But you rather rant, instead of taking five seconds to enter the query in addons.mozilla.org, right?
Yeah. I get -1, Troll for voicing my opinion?
Way to go, oppressing freedom of speech, idiot moderators.
If you disagree, say so in a reply. Look up the definition of "Troll". It fits you better than me.
And you can twist and spin it like you want, but Google is becoming more and more evil. And Google de facto controls Chrome.
And because I do not like such behavior, I chose to keep it away from me.
Every other issue you have with my post, is really an issue you have with yourselves.
There goes Slashdot. Down the tubes...
At least that of those who run the secure system.
Seriously. Nowadays it's far easier to just do a little social engineering (partially scripted) than to try to break any encryption scheme. Even the highest security company has some stupid grunts and drones.
They should fix the weakest link in the chain first.
I learned something important, when I programmed my first GUI program for a large client: If they can do something wrong, they *will*.
The only solution, is to not give them any functionality that they could mis-use. Build your UI and your backend API like a deep packet inspecting firewall.
Then, when that works, start to think about other ways to strengthen it.
The missing word is of course..."plan". :)
No. What should humiliate you, is the fact, that there is no "machine" "winning". There is only a machine blindly and incredibly stupidly processing a giant set of rules, created by programmers, out of a giant amount of knowledge of many many persons.
So in fact you play a whole expert comitee that can every minuscule detail down to the stangest exception, in advance.
Now if you win that, you win against them all, and are truly a genius!
So how about that fixing your self-confidence issues? ;)
... which puts it in the same league with Microsoft, Eli Lilly, Shell, Deutsche Bank, etc. ;)
Huge company, with no moral values whatsoever. The only difference is that Google told us it would "do no harm".
An advertising company that does no harm... Yeah. Right. Next you tell me that there is a lawyer company for politicians, that does no harm.
It is Google controlled. So it never was, isn't and never will be getting even close to me.
Not a horse!
A PONY!
Sounds weak?
Except that it's 300 FT TALL, AND COVERED IN CHAINSAWS!
And instead of Newcastle, I want a sixpack of RAWBERRY.
Adds a little MENERGY to the Epic.
In such cases, I usually write "scentences". Fits is much better...
......starts at $1,999 with Vista Ultimate 64."
How do you say nowadays: FAIL
...where several tanks of Sphyrna have recently been delivered. Umm...
Yeah. I delivered my load of "Sphyrna" there. There are (quite nice) henchgirls too. O:-)
I got a better one: You can make huge words out of everything. No spaces needed.
Rhabarberbarbarabarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel. (Bärbel [a girl] of the bar of the beer of the barber of the beards of the barbarians of the bar of Barbara of the rhubarb.)
Nah. Scorpions can stand a nuclear war pretty well. If you expose them to a nuclear bomb, and they survive, their kids become 400 times more resistent. This also works on later generations, (Dunno how many though)
I don't know if they still do, but when I read about it, some scientists tried to find out, how to modify human genetics to let them have the same metabolism. For soldiers, you know...
I always have to think of Hulk or some other "super hero" when I think of this.
Oh, and in civilized countries, the population can actually speak more than one language. And I don't mean C/C++!
I AM speaking German. And I like it. You insensitive clod.
Also, your country nearly voted to speak German too, back it the very old days. ^^
Aware? Do you think a employee would actually care about that crappy company, to pull off shit like that?
I bet they even have to tell the employees that they can choose between lying to customers, or getting fired.
Which is a rule, but which is very very stupid, and just looks wrong to every human I have ever asked anyway. So fix your rules already. I have.
not fighting, for a change? I would like to see some openness, with some teamwork (standards) and a pinch of creativity. That's about it.
I second that, and if you haven't seen this, I recommend reading it now: :D
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Old, but funny
I once used Windows XP in that mode. Where everything and its dog was locked down by the ACLs. It was pretty nice to know that a virus could really only frag my (backuped) user account. But it was a pain in the ass for configuration and installation. Mostly because the programs were not made for it. They did not expect something to be locked down at all. Even internal Microsoft programs. So you very often got crashing programs and the like, because they hiccuped on a non-accessible resource.
But then I realized that security holes of software that was too tightly integrated with the OS, made the whole thing useless.
Luckily I now use virtualization, and as my sig says:
No. The saying goes like this: There are lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks.
Might I add politicians, marketers and lawyers (in the same group) to that?
You mean the prices where you live?
Well, we got better prices. Partially because the EU bureaucrats made monopolies mostly a thing of the past (except for the owner of the last mile, who still has a monopoly, for which Germany actively has to pay fines).
(I know that this is not yet totally true for other things like gas/power yet. But for mobile phones, it worked out pretty well so far. We can get nearly the latest phones including a 20 euro a month plan, with a flat rate, and actually get 200 euro or more payed up-front, when we make the contract! Now that is a good deal! ^^)
Editors, please be a bit more sensitive. There is no country "Europe", and most of us on the continent Europe do not want it to become a country. :)
We are only stuck with some assholes that we did not vote for, that created a "government" that we can't really vote for, and that we explicitly can't vote not to exist in the first place.
Americans who were stuck with an asshole President, should understand this.
So don't say "Europe", as if it were a single country. It's like calling North-America a country, and thereby saying that the USA, Mexico and Canada are one single entity. You would not like that, would you? Well, we neither.
Just name the country of the company, event or person. And use "Europe" only to describe things that relate to Germans, French, British, Russians, and so on, in the same manner, thereby being a continent-related issue.
Thank you for being solidary, until we got rid of our oppressive governments ourselves. :)
Because, where I worked, this WAS how we worked. Our job consisted of parties, traveling (sometimes even booking a whole plane!), checking out the sexy new intern, drinking coffee, playing foosball, phoning some company, and sometimes programming a bit.
We were the link between a large Internet portal (now defunct) and all the major music labels (soon defunct ;).
Luckily I always get out, before the ship sinks (and I'm proud of it), so in my eyes, you can have such a job life. :P
(It was not my fault, that they mismanaged their company. I tried to change policies. But after being punished for actually trying to improve something, I stopped caring, and started to get out and take some insurance with me, in case they wanted to fuck with me.)