You crazy. This is exactly why all those linux k1d133s that say, "Real HaXoRs don't need disc images, just use a script/recompile the kernel/whatever" can just shut up.
I never said linux was any better. Log in as root and do a bit of rm -r/bin/* and see what happens (it won't be pretty). I'm saying that if Microsoft says Windows XP is indestructible because System recovery can recover anything, then they're wrong. Same as those industralists that came on CNN 3 years ago and said, "Corporate governance is so established, in the future the Federal government won't exist, everything will be run by the corporations". Yeah right.
Spending money gives good karma, better than getting something free. For instance if you give your wife a beanie baby that you get free from McDonalds, she won't appreciate it, because spending no money doesn't create karma. If you buy her a bunch of expensive flowers and Prada shoes she will appreciate it, creating good karma. Spending money creates good karma.
Do you want your servers to have good karma or bad karma? Customers don't like bad karma, much like your wife. This is why our fine Microsoft products are so expensive, so that you get maximum karma for your business buck. When our Microsoft servers crash, they do so in a unique way which will bring value to your customers, and increase karma for you. Much like crashing a free car doesn't create emotion, but crashing a $100,000 Cadillac creates much emotion, therefore linux is an emotionless operating system with no karma. Do you want your workpplace to be emotionless with no karma? Buy Microsoft products today. We take your money to make you feel good. Where does your expense account want to go today?
Ballmer has a point, Windows is cheaper TCO than Linux. Windows just needs a $1/hour secretary to press the Enter key every 10 minutes when a grey window pops up. When it stops working, unplug the computer and plug it back in to the electrical socket. Yeah you're not supposed to do that but a secretary with an IQ << 30 has the superhuman ability of not cringing at this, much like a deer when it headbutts another deer during mating season. Why you need an MCSE to do this is beyond me. OTOH a linux server can't be set up from scratch and maintained by this secretary, making linux more expensive as you would need to hire someone at >> $1/hour.
WinXP is a damn sight more stable than KDE! Apart from an incident with the early NVIDIA drivers for XP, I have yet to see a BSOD, and even then the driver rollback worked perfectly
Sorry to shatter your dream dude, but 3 days after getting my new Dell Inspiron with WinXP I used regsvr32.exe on the wrong thing somehow while doing development, and on reboot it blac-screened and said "hal.dll is corrupt", there's no command-line on system restore, so I EXTRACT.exe hal.dll from the install CD, didn't work so HAL.DLL was the symptom not the cause and then the repair console doesn't have graphical regedit and stuff so I thought screw it and had to reintall.
Files are set out in an illogical fassion that only the most dedicated of labotimized script kiddiez can figure out. It's also far more stable than windows 95A running IE4 with AIM, mIRC and ICQ
Hey! I'm not labotomised, and every linux user is a script k1d133 - what's tcsh, bash, sh then? It's a shell prompt in which you can write scripts, duh!
My Windows 98 FE with IE4 *SP2* hasn't crashed in **TCP timeout, submitting unsaved post**
The Hindus and Muslims were sworn enemies before Gandhi - the British were a mere distraction in their fight against each other
Incorrect, the East India Company used divide and conquer tactics to deliberately sow hate between Hindus and Muslims in India. The Muslim Maharaja Tipu Sultan was the only major one to oppose the British, so the British deliberately created racial hatred between the Hindus and Muslims whom up until this time had lived seccularly, in order to destroy Tipu Sultan with minimal British losses and allow British colonisation. Of course the Hindus were suckers for the British propoganda (divide and conquor had never been used before) so the British plan succeeded.
Prior to this the Muslims always tried to invade India from the North-West and were often (but not always) repelled. Passive Hindu mainland India has never attempted to invade foreign lands in its entire history. I have never seen "The Hindus invaded another sovereign nation....." in any history books.
You know, california should just simplify their laws and say what IS legal. It would be a short list.
Oh man, dude, your comment's a felony in California, if I were you I'd gun it across the State line pronto;-) actually California jails are supposed to be the nicest in the US, there are advantages to putting the majority of your population in prison you know.
Jet engines have an RPM of 30,000 or higher, plus they get birds sucked in there. I don't think platter manufacturers have really tested the limits, such as by using jet engine materials
These energy levels are used everyday, face it, it's easy to die - ever seen a biker's piston fly out of his engine at 7500rpm? I'm telling you bikes should have auto gearboxes, many still have manual and this piston will give you more than just a sore ass. Jet engines despite having to be light to minimise fuel consumption can still lose turbine blades after sucking in birds without throwing the blade out of it's casing and through the cabin, slicing the plane in half. Face it, it's just another way to die, but still with the right mediahype I think we'll see aluminium cases becoming illegal in California.
There are lots more benefits to no friction, this technology could be used in hard disks to suspend the platters in mid-air, this would also eliminate run-out problems that ball bearings in raceways have. It might even be better than the new fluid bearings. 100,000 RPM in a hard disk sounds mighty cool to me.
Apparently I forgot to mention that while we're expected to hand over all of our privacy to the FBI, those expectations are not being met. There is resistance to this sort of thing in the media and in Washington. Some of our elected representatives do actually represent their constituents, you know.
Bush thinks he's above the law, and he's winning with Guantanamo Bay. He should just take them to the US and treat them in accordance with the Geneva convention, the war with the Taliban won't be over for decades now that they're using guerilla tactics and are in Pakistan with the blessing of the Pakistan official ruling elite, ancien regime and general population. Geneva convention only requires PoWs be handed back after the war's over, but that's not going to happen for a long time. Bush is unnecessarily violating the law which makes me think there might be problems in the US in future.
The FBI doesn't want all your privacy - have you ever heard of the expression, "Ask for a mile, take only an inch and they'll be grateful"? Actually I don't know if this expression exists. FBI will ask for everything, and then they'll settle on having backdoors in all encryption algorithms, stuff that would make RMS pissed before 9/11, but this way at least you get to keep all your other rights - this is how they want you to see it.
Maybe you didn't pay attention in history class or something. Money is power.
Not in old Communist Russia. That's a very American idea echoed through the Courts, conspiracy circles and media. Remember that Bill Gates had to sit in Court and defend himself, penalty for a monopoly in the US is 3 times profit for the period of the monopoly, my guess is maybe a $20billion fine could have been theoretically imposed on Microsoft if Bill said the wrong stuff (shouted at the Judge). If someone tried to take from you the company you'd built up over decades you'd feel like your children are being taken away. Of course in the movies the assumption is that every monopoly always says the right thing after being advised and rehearsed by hundreds of the best lawyers. This keeps the Judges happy even in the event of gross violations so you need some power apart from law to regulate runaway corporations, just add Arnold Scwarzenegger to this and it's a wrap.
We are not enslaved so long as competing with Microsoft is legal
Providing it's an enforced law in every country Microsoft sells in. Trouble is if the US legal system gives Microsoft too much trouble they can just move to China/Korea and fire all their employees in the US, and a big corporation can threaten any other country with this "If you implement those new child labour laws Unilever, Coca Cola, GM, Ford, etc. will move all our factories that pay 80% of your country's taxes to Nigeria, then when 90% of your citizens are unemployed they'll throw you out of Government"
terrorists hijacking planes is the fact that most of the passengers will likely be more than happy to beat them to a bloody pulp with their bare hands if they try. That's probably the real reason why there hasn't been a hijacking since 9/11
You know what, I feel sorry for the genuine hijackers, you know the people that just took over a plane from Mexico to Cuba, forced it to land at Houston, FBI surrounded it, and then after 2 hours negotiating the hijackers just say, "We want asylum in the US, give us green cards, and a million dollars, then we'll let the hostages go free". I mean these people just won't have a chance now.
Then explain why telco ISPs such as AT&T have their own TOS (e.g., no spam), and are able to enforce it without getting sued.
The problem with big companies that have big lawyers is that even if you're right you don't necessarily win. I'd call anyone apart from MCI, Unilever, etc. that tried to sue AT&T stupid.
Sea levels aren't rising much and melting the polar ice caps won't make them rise much more. Know why? Because the polar ice caps are huge chunks of ice floating in the ocean. And guess what? Huge chunks of ice already have water displacement!
Antarctica is a land mass, the south polar ice cap is one big glacier.
Yeah, but have you ever tried to pirate a movie over dial-up? It's painful! I don't think the MPAA has anything to worry about on that front
... apart from people that are desperate, but then if you're desperate then you're probably a 13 year old kid who has no money and nobody to drive him to the Blockbuster store. By forbidding him the movie industry would be alienating itself from him, making him resent it PLUS this kid would fall into the "patient kid, grow up to be a good manager" demographic so the industry will be alienating someone with great influence in the future.
Just look at the US president, he's never "Yeah my mommy and pops gave me all the music and videos that I wanted", all the future Presidents of the United States who are working in poor farms right now will get shafted by the MPAA and will take down the entire industry. Go MPAA go! Put everybody that tries to download over a dial-up in jail.
And plus securing US airports is pointless, in Nigeria you pay $50 and they'll let you past the security checks, pay $50 more and they'll let you on the plane without security checks, so you can hijack an international 747 and smash it into any building you want in any country you want. Securing airports is a worldwide requirement, the current efforts in the US only are half measures. Saying that next WTC can be prevented by just tightening up domestic security is just PR.
Plus add to this that the US could have caught binLaden in Panjshir valley in December, (link: Sunday Times in print of the UK two weeks ago). The US generals were worried about military casualties so they didn't do anything. This level of incompetence in the US military doesn't happen, especially only two months after WTC happened. The media made it out that "10,000 US army casualties and a couple of aircraft carriers destroyed would be a small price to pay to avenge this by catching binLaden"
This leads me to the conclusion that the US doesn't want to catch binLaden, because then they'll lose their excuse for implementing these draconian domestic and international policies, plus the US threatening to veto the entire UN mission if US troops are forced to follow international human rights agreements. Clearly binLaden is protected by the US Government, he's their excuse for global domination. Mmmmmmmmmmkay.
In Calcutta, India electricity is available for 40% of the day - like the California power cuts gone extreme. That's why the American IT facilities in Bangalore have primary and secondary generators and don't even draw power from the grid, like NORAD. The American telcos had enough time to fit a good fibre infrastructure though before the bust, but US power companies don't fix other country's infrastructures.
Nope, Big Oil is using computer and modified radar mapping technology used in the gulf war to see underground oil reservoirs, they've got enough for 50 years or so. There's no point mourning for WTC, it'll just be underwater in 20 years anyway due to greenhouse effect together with all neighbouring buildings. If you buy a house make sure it's on top of a hill, otherwise it will depreciate FAST when sea levels rise.
Then again ironically we might have to do some terraforming - nuke Saudi Arabia and the soot in the upper atmosphere would decrease the worldwide temperature. Nice, I just solved the entire gobal warming problem yippee! Now I can drive anywhere I want. Yeeeehaaaa!
As a result of the WTC attacks, we're now expected to hand over all of our privacy to the FBI and bend over like good little sheep^Wcitizens. I would hardly call that a strengthening of the American way (which emphasizes freedom and privacy, as it has from day one)
You are correct IMHO. All Bush has to do is to make all airport security contractors into Federal employees, but NOOOOOOOO use the massive number of police in the US to form a police state instead, that's great. Then again instilling fear in the voters like binLaden has done is an excellent opportunity to form a totalitarian state which historically (Nazi Germany) is the only way to destroy a democratic system. So binLaden might have destroyed the US, not bad for some guy on the opposite side of the world that killed 0.05% of the US population. Looks like US democracy and Goverment is actually unstable, you need to learn lessons from the English and Europe about robust democracy. But Americans think they're the biggest and best at everything so they'll have to learn this lesson the hard way (maybe civil war), only after US democracy collapses will they come to Europe and ask us how to get the intricate checks and balances just right.
It's up to the Government to implement this fine-tuning, they've started with Enron and Worldcom and will end with...? This would make Enron and Worldcom heroes in the history books
If it's up to the government to implement this fine-tuning, we're all done for. Remember, Dubious Dubya is at the helm of the White House, and he's in bed with corrupt big business executives, since he stands to make money off their crimes. I'm sure he made a sh*tload off Enron, and I wouldn't doubt he profited from Worldcom as well.
Turn a blind eye to it, let him make his money, as long as he doesn't make us say "Sieg Heil" I'm OK with it. After all if he doesn't get his money, then the only substitte is power.
when a company increases in size to 80% of the size of Micro$oft it changes from a legal entity into a publically accountable Federal body, and can be removed by public vote.
Then why the hell is Microsoft still in business?
IMHO this should happen, global monopolies screw over the customers, competitors and other countries, but at least it's better than old style colonialism (remember the British and French colonising the US/Canada and killing native Americans) because the megacorporations kill far fewer people and have far less demands than a colonising army, and yet the result is the same - an enslaved population.
like to believe they are middle class when they're not though...What do you need a propane tank for anyways?
Propane for cooking. Calcutta (India) doesn't have piped gas, and doesn't have sewers. Your faeces and stuff drains into the local lake, making it fatal to swim, drink or anything there. Fish (Illish) live in these waters despite the contamination and are a staple food of the area. Obviously you wash it before eating it.
the Telcos cannot dictate or allow others to dictate what happens over a dial-up connection.
But the ISPs can!
If you're using AT&T dial-up internet then the telco is your ISP, which means they have no right to regulate your traffic due to FTC regulations. If you're using a third party ISP e.g. AoL or @home then their own TOS applies because they're not a telco. (IANAL but then many lawyers don't know about Internet law anyway)
India actually has a rather large middle calss, aboput 100 million
Still less than one fifth of the US population, people on welfare in the US have a higher standard of living than the middle class in India, where to get a canister of propane you have to queue in the 40 Celsius heat for 4 hours and then carry the 30kg thing to the rickshaw stand, rickshaw driver looks at you like you're some kind of asshole, then charges you triple. When you get home and are dragging the damn propane tank along the sticky mud path, you try to avoid a venomous snake and drop the damn thing into the cesspool (called Nordama) because septic tanks are too expensive and always overflow. While you try to rescue it a mosquito 2 inches wide (not exaggerating I don't think it's even been documented I initially mostook it for a medium spider) bites you in the ankle, the pain causes your entire leg to spasm and you fall into the cesspool. Great. Then everybody says that trying to rescue it was suicidal stupidity, like I'm gonna go back to the city centre and wait another couple hours for another canister which I'll have to bribe the police officer for anyway because it's above the ration level. Nice. An my 60-year old grandmother did this every 2 weeks. Middle class yeah great.
But you can use someone else's computer as a proxy address, especially if they leave their computer on all night connected with broadband
You mean hack into a business' net and tunnel your traffic through it. OK NASA here I come, I'll install an IRC server and uhhhh, yeah. That's never been done before, oh wait..
ISP looks you up, I doubt they could get you. They don't log who was using what IP address in the past do they?
They usually log it, yes.
I do beleive that there would be a way around it, and its called buying yourself a T1 line
No, you are allocated an IP address range with a T1 line, an upstream provider can look up who you are, plus with a T1 you're usually supposed to have your own nameservers with valid contact information. Try hiding from Neotrace.
I do have a question of my own, though. Is this type of action extending into Canada? Will RIAA sue or even send letters to ISPs in Canada?
They probably have the right to, royalties are paid on CDRs and if applicable on your hard drive, not for passive redistribution on Kazaa or other P2P. Faking your IP address is a good idea for DDoS but source routing and stuff sends warnings if you do this wrong. Doing anything useful with a false IP address doesn't really happen.
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I never said linux was any better. Log in as root and do a bit of rm -r /bin/* and see what happens (it won't be pretty). I'm saying that if Microsoft says Windows XP is indestructible because System recovery can recover anything, then they're wrong. Same as those industralists that came on CNN 3 years ago and said, "Corporate governance is so established, in the future the Federal government won't exist, everything will be run by the corporations". Yeah right.
Spending money gives good karma, better than getting something free. For instance if you give your wife a beanie baby that you get free from McDonalds, she won't appreciate it, because spending no money doesn't create karma. If you buy her a bunch of expensive flowers and Prada shoes she will appreciate it, creating good karma. Spending money creates good karma.
Do you want your servers to have good karma or bad karma? Customers don't like bad karma, much like your wife. This is why our fine Microsoft products are so expensive, so that you get maximum karma for your business buck. When our Microsoft servers crash, they do so in a unique way which will bring value to your customers, and increase karma for you. Much like crashing a free car doesn't create emotion, but crashing a $100,000 Cadillac creates much emotion, therefore linux is an emotionless operating system with no karma. Do you want your workpplace to be emotionless with no karma? Buy Microsoft products today. We take your money to make you feel good. Where does your expense account want to go today?
Ballmer has a point, Windows is cheaper TCO than Linux. Windows just needs a $1/hour secretary to press the Enter key every 10 minutes when a grey window pops up. When it stops working, unplug the computer and plug it back in to the electrical socket. Yeah you're not supposed to do that but a secretary with an IQ << 30 has the superhuman ability of not cringing at this, much like a deer when it headbutts another deer during mating season. Why you need an MCSE to do this is beyond me. OTOH a linux server can't be set up from scratch and maintained by this secretary, making linux more expensive as you would need to hire someone at >> $1/hour.
My Windows 98 FE with IE4 *SP2* hasn't crashed in **TCP timeout, submitting unsaved post**
Prior to this the Muslims always tried to invade India from the North-West and were often (but not always) repelled. Passive Hindu mainland India has never attempted to invade foreign lands in its entire history. I have never seen "The Hindus invaded another sovereign nation....." in any history books.
These energy levels are used everyday, face it, it's easy to die - ever seen a biker's piston fly out of his engine at 7500rpm? I'm telling you bikes should have auto gearboxes, many still have manual and this piston will give you more than just a sore ass. Jet engines despite having to be light to minimise fuel consumption can still lose turbine blades after sucking in birds without throwing the blade out of it's casing and through the cabin, slicing the plane in half. Face it, it's just another way to die, but still with the right mediahype I think we'll see aluminium cases becoming illegal in California.
The FBI doesn't want all your privacy - have you ever heard of the expression, "Ask for a mile, take only an inch and they'll be grateful"? Actually I don't know if this expression exists. FBI will ask for everything, and then they'll settle on having backdoors in all encryption algorithms, stuff that would make RMS pissed before 9/11, but this way at least you get to keep all your other rights - this is how they want you to see it.
Not in old Communist Russia. That's a very American idea echoed through the Courts, conspiracy circles and media. Remember that Bill Gates had to sit in Court and defend himself, penalty for a monopoly in the US is 3 times profit for the period of the monopoly, my guess is maybe a $20billion fine could have been theoretically imposed on Microsoft if Bill said the wrong stuff (shouted at the Judge). If someone tried to take from you the company you'd built up over decades you'd feel like your children are being taken away. Of course in the movies the assumption is that every monopoly always says the right thing after being advised and rehearsed by hundreds of the best lawyers. This keeps the Judges happy even in the event of gross violations so you need some power apart from law to regulate runaway corporations, just add Arnold Scwarzenegger to this and it's a wrap. Providing it's an enforced law in every country Microsoft sells in. Trouble is if the US legal system gives Microsoft too much trouble they can just move to China/Korea and fire all their employees in the US, and a big corporation can threaten any other country with this "If you implement those new child labour laws Unilever, Coca Cola, GM, Ford, etc. will move all our factories that pay 80% of your country's taxes to Nigeria, then when 90% of your citizens are unemployed they'll throw you out of Government"Just look at the US president, he's never "Yeah my mommy and pops gave me all the music and videos that I wanted", all the future Presidents of the United States who are working in poor farms right now will get shafted by the MPAA and will take down the entire industry. Go MPAA go! Put everybody that tries to download over a dial-up in jail.
And plus securing US airports is pointless, in Nigeria you pay $50 and they'll let you past the security checks, pay $50 more and they'll let you on the plane without security checks, so you can hijack an international 747 and smash it into any building you want in any country you want. Securing airports is a worldwide requirement, the current efforts in the US only are half measures. Saying that next WTC can be prevented by just tightening up domestic security is just PR.
This leads me to the conclusion that the US doesn't want to catch binLaden, because then they'll lose their excuse for implementing these draconian domestic and international policies, plus the US threatening to veto the entire UN mission if US troops are forced to follow international human rights agreements. Clearly binLaden is protected by the US Government, he's their excuse for global domination. Mmmmmmmmmmkay.
In Calcutta, India electricity is available for 40% of the day - like the California power cuts gone extreme. That's why the American IT facilities in Bangalore have primary and secondary generators and don't even draw power from the grid, like NORAD. The American telcos had enough time to fit a good fibre infrastructure though before the bust, but US power companies don't fix other country's infrastructures.
Then again ironically we might have to do some terraforming - nuke Saudi Arabia and the soot in the upper atmosphere would decrease the worldwide temperature. Nice, I just solved the entire gobal warming problem yippee! Now I can drive anywhere I want. Yeeeehaaaa!