It is highly suspect that a company who's web site was felled by an ancient and easily defended 'attack' was able to so expertly and swiftly identify the cause in time to write up and distribute a press release before the close of business.
I suppose, then, that Microsoft is writing the viruses and worms that attack Windows and IE? It "would be far easier" for them to do it.
that's a stupid rebuttal. I guess you failed the logic part of the SAT where you match the statements that are most alike.
Viruses don't help Microsoft whereas using doctored voting machines to elect Republicans directly helps the Republican owners of the E-Voting machine companies. For example, it helps them to get them and their friends elected to some of the most powerful political positions in the world.
paper only reintroduces the significant margins of error that harm the process in the first place
wrong. maybe it feels nice to say that, but it's factually inaccurate. paper isn't responsible for ballot errors. it's a host of other factors starting with human ineptitude and/or corruption. speaking of which, no hanging chad ever managed to create -15,000 votes for a candidate from a precinct with only a few hundred voters. you can chalk that up to broken proprietary voting software. and if you had done the smallest bit of research on the topic (e-voting), you would know that's the tip of the iceberg.
Sure, any of these things could happen, but it would be far easier for the people who control the closed, proprietary system to use it to further their interests. And all three major companies that build and sell e-voting machines are staunchly Republican. And, if you look at the history, many many more strange things have happened with e-voting machines that favor Republicans than Democrats or Independents.
It's only bad because it lacks auditability. With a paper trail, any fraud could be uncovered.
As it stands, the owners of these companies (who heavily back the Republicans) have carte blanche to steal elections because we now have no way to prove it happened. We'll just keep having these funny little incidents where a white republican male gets 83% of the vote in a black district against a democrat incumbent (yes, it happened... it was the former CEO of Diebold and the election used his machines). Sounds like an election Saddam would be proud of.
I love BMW's, but my 2001 M5 is the last BMW I will buy as long as the new models run CE and look like Elephant Dung. The new models are seriously ugly Hyundai rip-offs and they have this gawd-awful iDrive. I tried iDrive and I'd rather not drive than iDrive.
Even better. Remember that it's the Republican right that wants to kill science and education. To much thinking and educating interferes with religious indoctrination.
IBM, Big Blue, batting in Linux's court. This will likely be the case that stands as precedence for or against the GPL, and with such a giant behind Linux, I don't think SCO will win.
You sound downright giddy at the prospect that a large company is going to prevail... because it's large. As much as I hate SCO for the toilet licking scumbags they are, I want IBM to win on the MERITS of the case.
that's utterly lame. i hope these guys don't actually get paid to pick their asses and do nothing all day. or maybe this level of incompetence requires effort.
J2EE is a bloated joke. I'm sure MS is more than happy to have it as a perceived benchmark for Linux middleware. It just makes their job so much easier.
there's no such thing as abundance. if you think you have an abundance of food, you're really facing either a shortage of people or a broken distribution model:-) no, i think this is really a breakdown of philosphy or rational thinking or something else. it's definitely not a problem of abundance.
Fiduciary responsibility does not mean quarter on quarter growth. Period.
thanks for being the only one who actually understood the post. incenting upper management with stock as a measure of performance causes them to make, by and large, the wrong long-term decisions for the company.
they've got only one master and it's wall street. steady quarter on quarter growth or your stock price gets a cap in the head. and that means senior management bonuses and stock options are in the toilet and under water. what, it's not all about senior management's compensation? you're naive. they'll put the screws to you for an upgrade at a higher price as long as they're not insanely growing their customer base. and since they're not investing in new products and the old ones do everything we need... looks like you're screwed.
all these comments and this is the *only* one that really exposes the naivete of the original post. blocking inbound is useless if a machine is trojaned because the trojans can initiate the connections outbound *on or to any port*. and trojans can arrive in email so an inbound block won't prevent the infiltration of trojans.
...to leverage pdf export to do command-line conversion of doc to pdf? that would rock for handling those nettlesome.doc files that people insist on emailing me.
What the hell is a "real CF disk?". Compact Flash is a card by definition, and it has all the logic (IDE interface, wear leveling) built in.
Jane, you ignorant slut. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. CF cards have an IDE mode that does *not* do wear levelling. You need a CF ide disk to do that. Otherwise you can use a CF card in an IDE adapter but you will have to use a filesystem like jffs/jffs2 to handle the wear levelling.
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It is highly suspect that a company who's web site was felled by an ancient and easily defended 'attack' was able to so expertly and swiftly identify the cause in time to write up and distribute a press release before the close of business.
1) create weapons of mass destruction
2) declare war on USA
3) ominous silence
4) discover your ass is actually a smoking hole in the ground
I suppose, then, that Microsoft is writing the viruses and worms that attack Windows and IE? It "would be far easier" for them to do it.
that's a stupid rebuttal. I guess you failed the logic part of the SAT where you match the statements that are most alike.
Viruses don't help Microsoft whereas using doctored voting machines to elect Republicans directly helps the Republican owners of the E-Voting machine companies. For example, it helps them to get them and their friends elected to some of the most powerful political positions in the world.
paper only reintroduces the significant margins of error that harm the process in the first place
wrong. maybe it feels nice to say that, but it's factually inaccurate. paper isn't responsible for ballot errors. it's a host of other factors starting with human ineptitude and/or corruption. speaking of which, no hanging chad ever managed to create -15,000 votes for a candidate from a precinct with only a few hundred voters. you can chalk that up to broken proprietary voting software. and if you had done the smallest bit of research on the topic (e-voting), you would know that's the tip of the iceberg.
Sure, any of these things could happen, but it would be far easier for the people who control the closed, proprietary system to use it to further their interests. And all three major companies that build and sell e-voting machines are staunchly Republican. And, if you look at the history, many many more strange things have happened with e-voting machines that favor Republicans than Democrats or Independents.
It's only bad because it lacks auditability. With a paper trail, any fraud could be uncovered.
... it was the former CEO of Diebold and the election used his machines). Sounds like an election Saddam would be proud of.
As it stands, the owners of these companies (who heavily back the Republicans) have carte blanche to steal elections because we now have no way to prove it happened. We'll just keep having these funny little incidents where a white republican male gets 83% of the vote in a black district against a democrat incumbent (yes, it happened
I love BMW's, but my 2001 M5 is the last BMW I will buy as long as the new models run CE and look like Elephant Dung. The new models are seriously ugly Hyundai rip-offs and they have this gawd-awful iDrive. I tried iDrive and I'd rather not drive than iDrive.
except the NeXT cube never put out any appreciable heat. I was thinking more along the lines of dual P4 and case oxidation.
Plastic! What *will* they think of next? Aluminum? Now what I'd really like to see is a mad overclocker make a case out of pure Magnesium.
the scientists are looking in the wrong places. I recommend the follow short list for locating the most toxic life forms:
1) capitol hill
2) the law firm of "Boies, Schiller & Flexner"
that technology is already out of date. you could buy enough used 100Mbps crap on eBay to wire the country for pennies on the ... dollar.
Even better. Remember that it's the Republican right that wants to kill science and education. To much thinking and educating interferes with religious indoctrination.
I thought of that a long time ago as a solution for adding network storage to TiVo. It's still intriguing.
IBM, Big Blue, batting in Linux's court. This will likely be the case that stands as precedence for or against the GPL, and with such a giant behind Linux, I don't think SCO will win.
... because it's large. As much as I hate SCO for the toilet licking scumbags they are, I want IBM to win on the MERITS of the case.
You sound downright giddy at the prospect that a large company is going to prevail
that's utterly lame. i hope these guys don't actually get paid to pick their asses and do nothing all day. or maybe this level of incompetence requires effort.
J2EE is a bloated joke. I'm sure MS is more than happy to have it as a perceived benchmark for Linux middleware. It just makes their job so much easier.
there's no such thing as abundance. if you think you have an abundance of food, you're really facing either a shortage of people or a broken distribution model :-) no, i think this is really a breakdown of philosphy or rational thinking or something else. it's definitely not a problem of abundance.
you luck bastard. all i got was a pile of stock options.
I will now have a lot more time between frames to consider the multiple ways in which I will KICK YOUR ASS. Bwahahahaha!
Fiduciary responsibility does not mean quarter on quarter growth. Period.
thanks for being the only one who actually understood the post. incenting upper management with stock as a measure of performance causes them to make, by and large, the wrong long-term decisions for the company.
they've got only one master and it's wall street. steady quarter on quarter growth or your stock price gets a cap in the head. and that means senior management bonuses and stock options are in the toilet and under water. what, it's not all about senior management's compensation? you're naive. they'll put the screws to you for an upgrade at a higher price as long as they're not insanely growing their customer base. and since they're not investing in new products and the old ones do everything we need ... looks like you're screwed.
As a result, China has become only the third nation on Earth capable of independently launching its citizens into orbit.
I, for one, hit low earth orbit just about every time I witness the latest criminally inept shenanigans coming out of the White House.
all these comments and this is the *only* one that really exposes the naivete of the original post. blocking inbound is useless if a machine is trojaned because the trojans can initiate the connections outbound *on or to any port*. and trojans can arrive in email so an inbound block won't prevent the infiltration of trojans.
...to leverage pdf export to do command-line conversion of doc to pdf? that would rock for handling those nettlesome .doc files that people insist on emailing me.
What the hell is a "real CF disk?". Compact Flash is a card by definition, and it has all the logic (IDE interface, wear leveling) built in.
Jane, you ignorant slut. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. CF cards have an IDE mode that does *not* do wear levelling. You need a CF ide disk to do that. Otherwise you can use a CF card in an IDE adapter but you will have to use a filesystem like jffs/jffs2 to handle the wear levelling.