If you think this way:
Save the pity and shock for else where. It's not needed and hopefully we won't whore this like September 11th was.
I know this'll get marked troll but I think it's an opinion we NEED to see put out. Some of us couldn't careless, it won't stop our lives any more then seeing a giant pink elephant would.
It happened, it's over and done with, next please. ....then yes....do yourself (and everyone else) a favour and go jump from a building high enough so you can brak your nack or just split your head into pieces. Everyone is not worthless. Those who say *people from (put country name here) deserved it because of what their government is doing to (put middle eastern country here)* are worthless...garbage....waste. People from middle eastern countires suffer from their own leader 10000 times more than what they suffer from western countires, and they thrive in hate induced by their spiritual leaders. Hate is a disease. Acts of hate are a sign of the disease spreading. This has nothing to do with what most useless people think.
No. Born and raised in Europe, but Canadian Citizen. I just have no tolerance for people that are always blaming the wrong doings of the government for the barbaric deaths of innocent people. Enough is enough. We've heard it all before...many times. How can you say that UK or US or Spain...and tomorrow germany and Italy...etc etc...and eventually Canada deserve it? What have those people who are daily taking the trains and busses to try and get work done to radicals in the middle east? Why do they deserve it? It is the most baseless stupid comment/comparison one can make. How can you turn a blind eye and say *next* to something like that? Osama would like to have you believe it's the WESTS fault (and I guess he is suceeding) but the truth is that it is really his and only his fault (and his groups).
Troll? You should be narked for death. I question your roots. I question your patriotism. I question the purpose of your existence.
It happened, it's over and done with, next
please.
--Wow. It's over with? But it's not. And what does next mean? It always makes me wonder....if we were to get rid of useless people like you around the planet, then maybe we can save enough money to help africa with food and other basic needs.....
I hate to take sides, but.....this is bashing, just because Cohen can. I sense fear and anger in Cohen's response rather than an educated, confident response. His response, just like MSs many vaporwares is not convincing anyone otherwise. The fact is that Microsoft has been more about delivering than vaporwaring in the last couple of years, therefore I'd be careful before dismissing any research paper comming from Microsoft as "garbage", because in the end you end up looking stupid.....
Although there's no evidence that proves religion's version of creation wrong, there's no evidence that extra terrestrial life exists either. However given the infinity of universe, and existence of life here on earth, there is no doubt that there is intelligent life somewhere else. In my opinion (and I respect religion) we are an experiment. I completely disagree with Darwin's *insane theory of our evolution* by the way, but as I was saying I think we're nothing more than an experiment. I think we are lab rats for another race of people, most likely smimiliar to us but more advanced in every way. I believe we were *dropped* on this planet a long time ago either to be observed as we evolve over time or the first people brought here must have been something someone else didn't want and before they grew in numbers they were *shipped* to this planet and left to find their own way. I also believe we are far away from our potential. Which could mean we are doing better than our *creators* originally might have believed. I believe one day we'll knock on their door and say: well we're back. Who knows, with a good laywer we could also sue them for *abandonment and forcefull eviction from our homes and land*. Whatever the reason we're here, it will be some time before we discover it.
What a delicate topic. And how difficult it is to take sides. My one side says: I will allow no mother fucker to see the body of the 12 year old daughter naked. I'll fucking kill them.
But then my other side says: There's no mother fucker in the world that will take the life of my 12 year old daughter and never let her get off that plane alive
This needs an equation to see what the likelyhood of people dying from a terrorist attack on a plane is, and what the chances of having such an act averted if such a machine is installed.
I fully have supported most of the security measures presented by the US government, but this one I think is taking it a little too far. I do not think we can use technology to defend terrorism. Terrorism is an ideology. I think the measures are becoming absurd.
But with that said, if the government wins and the machines get installed there should be completely separate gender screening paths at the very least. There should be total privacy when people are getting screened. And no screening images should be allowed to be stored. This is getting messy
I know this is stupid, but I'll make my comment:
is medicated != is located
is - present tense, which means that as of right now, as of the time of this writing
example:
The building is located at............
or
the information is lacated at this web site....
as the previous writer wrote, a web site is a virtual location (remember the URL?)
It is true that the information WAS PUT up there at some point in the past, but that is irrelevant to us. We are only concerned with where the information is LOCATED, not when the information WAS UPLOADED to this specific LOCATION.
When we're referring to a person BEING MEDICATED we cannot say is medicated. So we use IS BEING MEDICATED (if the patient is still under treatment. So you arte comparing two different things.
"it was made available..." is correct, but that doesn't mean "is located at..." or you can "find it at...." is incorrect. In fact they are more correct than "it was made available...."
All HAIL OUTSOURCING.
Just imagine this: I live in a POOR country, grew up without clothes on my back, had nothing all my life, still have nothing.
A western company comes along. They still pay me $hit (because the reason they're in my country is to save money in the 1st place). I can buy bread, but I am still poor. This bank opens up their customer's accounts to me
A battle in now brewing inside of my head:
Do I stay a poor slave, or take a chance at the HIGH life. My good side (If I have one) is saying: No, don't do it.....it's wrong.
But the gravity is much stronger on the other side. I've been poor and unfed all my life......living in a place where being in jail could mean I get fed at least daily.....WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE?!?!?!
Welcome to the beginning of the END
Yes you are right, but your car cabin has a limit as to how much crap you can put in it. Your gas tank has a limit to how much crap you can pump into it. Now you can fill your gas tank with water or gas, that is not up to the manufacturer to be concerned with, or some sick people fill their cars with explosives and do a lot of damage, again that is not up to the manufacturer to control (it's impossible), however there's always a LIMIT to how much crap you can stuff your car with.
So the point is: The limit to how much *forking* I can do should be set in the Kernel, not left up to me to *play it safely*. So if the gas tank allows 60 litres of gas then I should be able to fill it with any liquid, but not above 60 Litres. Then wheather the angine starts or breaks it's my fault, not because: the manufacturer left a huge hole in the tank and I was pumping gas for hours and the tank never seemed to fill up....
He never did invade Russia! I'll tell you what would've happened if he did though:
Communism would've been a small cult that never took off, confined within the borders of it's most devout follower(s): Russia(ns), eventually dying with that generation. Instead of becoming the beast it did and kill millions and slowly cause the death of 1/2 of the European continent it owned.
But then I cannot say what else would've happened, that's just one part of it.
I agree to an extent with the fact that C/C++ (and other languages) do allow incredible mistakes to be made. It is true as an earlier poster wrote, that if you compared writing code to *driving a car*, it is you who holds the steering wheel. But he fails to mention that even though you are the driver, the car will limit you to certain things (how fast you can go for example..there's a built in limit). I would say that there's no limit to what C/C++ can do, but there is also no limit to how they allow certain things to be done. I do agree that better checking tools should be made available
Which brings me to the Microsoft's point. Three things are well known about Microsoft's software:
1) The most used software in the world (highly visible as a result)
2) Created for users, therefore very user friendly (although I am not sure what they are doing with these new versions of Windows in that department!!!)
3)and third: Was never meant to be *secure*, therefore it has more holes than a block of swiss cheese
I'll discuss point 3 a bit as I see it as the most important one at the moment.
Now I know that geeks (as I am one) like to blame the programmers, or the programming culture at MS for the security holes. There's two things I rule out at Microsoft:
1) Their programmers are not able to write good software
2) Their Programming culture (deliver, deliver, deliver!!!) forces the software writers/testers etc.....to produce low quality software.
Microsoft has always been, is and will be notorious for hiring top of line programmers, engineers and scientists. I have also read in more than one ocassion (sorry I do not have any links) that the Quality assurance process at MS is one of the best in the world. I do remember a few years back, that only for the *START* button they had a team of 12 programmers working on it. The Team manager was saying that all they concentrate on is the start button...that's their job. So that tells you something about their rigorous Programming and QA they put into the product (this was even before Bill Gate's famous memo)
I see the problem somewhere else however (and I am not the only one to think that way).
They do say that certain diseases are passed down generation to generation through the blood. So say if someone in your family had cancer, chances are you might get it. But if your parents had it, then you are almost certain te potentially develop some type of cancer, at some point in your life. Many people start taking preventive measures early on when that is the case.
Windows unfortunately suffers from a type of software disease I'd like to call: Inherited Mutated Genes (or code). In a way Windows has become its own organism. So as you go and add features, or take them away, or change things you change the organism and the symptoms are unexpected. Its DNA has become too large and huge to be easily controlled and messed around with. Windows was never meant to be secure. When Windows 3.1 was around, the word security and Windows were never mentioned in relation to each other, unless UNIX was brought up. In fact it isn't until Windows 2000 that security had been some sort of priority for Microsoft. And when I see the same errors n Windows XP as I saw 10 years ago in Windows, it tells me that Inherited Mutated Genes are in full force.
NOW MOVING ON to 2004 things have changed. Many of you, which I expect would be at the very least a little knowledgeable about technology act the same as my manager: mention anything Microsoft to him and he'll start going about WINDOWS NT4.0 and how messed up it was. Which is very wrong to think that way about Windows NT in 2004.
I am not trying to protect Windows. I do not care, but that is the truth
UNIX has always been the choice OS for *endurance* be it uptime, runninng critical apps or keeping hackers at bay, but why shouldn't Windows get a shot at it. After all don't we love to see Linux enter as many markets as possible?
If succesful Windows share in ATMs will grow. WHY NOT? We want competition right? Then let it flow freely. If Windows fuks up then that'll be it for that market as far as Windows is concerned
I am not thrilled to see Windows in such a volatile mission. Not a bit.....but at the same time, I am not as worried as my BOSS is about Windows NT 4.0
Are you being an a$$ purposely or is it in your nature, Anonymous? I am of course comparing Canada with US. I am not sure what your case is, but just because of the fact that you are basing the whole canadian market on your pay cheque means you have no clue what's going on out there onm the IT sector....which makes me think they are slaving your a$$ already
The general UNIX system admin in USA makes around 90K US (=120K CAD) (bonuses etc not included), take the double tax we pay the government here in canada off...now do a quick calculation and see what that comes up to.
Add on top of that all the other $hit you do with Windows systems.....you're doing most likely the Job of 3 normal IT positions.
Yes they are using your a$$
The pay might be good if it's in the 6th figures, but my point was that for every IT position in the states, the corresponding one in canada makes anywhere from 20-40% less money....not to mention the much higher taxes
I have more than 1 graduate friend living and working in US.....100K us with a low tax is not the same as 100K canadian with 40%+ tax and 15% tax on everything you buy.....
So no I am neither of those you mention, I am just realistic.
Here's some data for a sysadmin in NY
25th%ile Median 75th%ile
$73,625 $86,684 $100,293
I live and work in Toronto. From my experience, Canada is not the final destination for many US jobs. It is a backdoor to the backdoor type of thing. I think the only reason they are setting up shop in Canada is to DECEIVE. If they are setting up shop in Canada then how come the job growth sucks a$$ ????. The LOW....LOw....Low...low paying IT jobs up here in canada might be one of the reasons, but I think they are just renting office space, hiring a few *fake* enterpreneurs* and re-routing the projects back to india, where compared to the Canadian IT market it is slightly cheaper.
I must agree with you. I use remote desktop for all administration work. I haven't had a need to physically walk to a server or desktop in a while since Windowx XP came onboard. I still use RealVNC occasionally (when no VPN is present), but other than that remote desktop beats any other applicaion by far in terms of speed and also ease of use.
fanaticism, bias, grudge, hate...etc etc, they'll notice that the world is not such a bad place to live in. This deal is not such a bad deal.
Free money?
I will agree that, if a Colombian drug lord had made the contribution, then I'd say there is room for some of the hatred/criticism I read below, but that is not the case.
Close minded?
If we like to be called Open Source, then why the hell do we have such a *CLOSED* mind?
Benefits
When you receive your cheque either every week, or two, do you concentrate on who gave you the cheque, or *how big* the cheque was and how you're going to spend it?
Reality
My Unix geek boss, still thinks that WIndowsNT 4.0 is the latest OS from Microsoft, so he keeps repeating how full of holes that OS is. I asked him when the last time was that he read anything about MS technologies? None can *force* you into any platform anymore. It is the reality. It's the incentives that come with each platform that will finally make one prevalent over the other. The word SECURITY and the word *FREE* can only take you so far.
The impact of such donation should overshadow the name of the donator and the controversy, not the other way around.
Congrats Carnegie! Spend it well. Like it or not Gates is one of the largest (if not the largest) contributors to education. Indireclty that affects the new Open Source generation in a very positive way.
Looks like they were using next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 protocols, but I am not sure if that encapsulates some next generation of TCP/IP as well
It doesn't help that my company has standardized on MS Word, but I am using OpenOffice for documents whenever possible. It's just easier, my wordprocessor needs are nothing like what MS Word wants to offer me.
Not to be the devil's advocate here, but aside from the part where you are required to insert the Office cd even if you have installed office when you want to use a specific feature for the first time which is very frustrating, I do not understand how, many features that no other word processor can match would be frustrating to a (*non biased*) user. You don't have to use the 'Getting Started' screen, you don't have to surf the web from word, you don't have to use the help wizards, in fact you don't have to use anything more than what you need. No matter what version of office I am running, copy.cut/paste/undo....and other basic functions to write/format a document are where they have always been: Top Bar. Extra features have never bothered me, but at one point I needed to use something that I never thought I would, and honestly it was there...that one time I needed it. Having database/web/xml/web services integration is a feature that most home users will not use, but in a company that has hundereds of thousands of word documents (or more) that makes a huge difference, as it helps with organizing, finding and distributing information contained in these documents a breeze. You can complain about the price and some other things about the MS Office suite, but trying to use *features* as a *downside* to the Office applications tells me that people are trying hard to make Word (and other Office Applications) look bad when they have nothing else to pick on. I am for choosing whatever think does the job for you, but I won't go against a product just to agree with some journalist who's trying to look cool by bashing Word.
It happened to me about 10 times before I figured out what's going on. Where I work we have a spaghetti of Access 2000 databases. I'd say around 250. I noticed that when trying to compact and repair the database sitting on a Novell File Server from a client machine over a network the database would get deleted, gone...., and an error appears saying: "The database cannot be found". What a great explanation. When I raised the issue in a meeting, I found out that about every developer in the room had encountered such a problem, and had to restore the files from a backup more than once. They had no idea it was a flaw, they just restored thinking they deleted the file by mistake. I urged them to use the compact/repair feature locally only. This might not be of concern to most/. users, but it's a pretty severe flaw, especially for a small business who's whole operations are dependent on such database format.
I agree. In my opinion and from experience Minivans are the most dangerous cars out there. It is horrible that they are promoted as *family* cars. Safer alternatives must be found, until Minivans dissapear from the roads once and for all
It a mistake to presume that the motivations driving your "country" to take away your rights are benign or sincere.
-- Hah. *take away my rights*? It is also a mistake to presume that your government is *taking away your rights* because it's not being sincere with you as to why it is doing so. So there, we're on a lock. However when I see my government trying to make changes after a major catastrophe, then I can understand, and as a human being with a bit of judgement on me, I accept changes. The goverenment will spy on you either way. I'd rather know they are doing it. They are being sincere. There are far more worst dangers out there in fact that you are not even aware of than the government putting extra cameras in a public place, or questioning someone's motives for taking "unpictoresque" pictures of a landmark. I am sure you hear the news. I wonder if you have any idea how many other plots have been avoided since these *changes* are put to place. In fact these changes are too small in my opinion.
Are you so certain the interests of this so called "country" is aligned with the citizens? What guarantees such a thing?
-- Yes I am very certain. In more than one occasion USA has taken us under their wing. But I am not an american fan for just that reason. I have lived surrounded by an 87% muslim population. I have also lived in a communist system. And I have had a chance to explore the *american* sytem (which is really a more supreme western system). I will be honest with you: You have it good. Really good. And what's more you are allowed to *complain* and get your government to listen to you.
When did this terrorism become the greatest threat to mankind and civilization?
It has always been. But not at this scale. It has been growing by the decade. Terrorism and middle east have been associated for a long time. Terrorism might be a tactic, but sure as hell it wouldn't exist if a *group, religion or ethnicity* didn't endorse it to further their agenda. Al Qaeda is a group. Their agenda is a Jihad against the *other* world. I wonder what it takes to get people to realize that. I guess it's easier for me since I lived in a different system than you. But looking attheir actions and slogans, it should be easy for anyone to realize the same.
That you would think accusing someone of being in favour of saving trees discredits their argument, is an indication of how weak and indefensible your own argument is.
--Actually I should've not generalized, but the punch line was that some people complain about everything. I have nothing against saving the trees. I won't kill anyone about it though.
You like to BS quite a bit....but then you're entiteled to your opinion. Watch out don't get burned by it though...I gotta get back to work...but I'd have a few more things to add for sure...
I am opposed to a society governed by surveillance because I believe it will lead to tyranny. Unwelcome thoughts and philosophies can quickly fall prey to overzealous policing. For instance, minor violations may be excused if you are a member of the "correct" party but cracked down upon if you are an "insurgent." Ever heard of COINTELPRO?
--- There is a huge, I mean humongous misinterpretation that people have about *safety precautions* as opposed to *violation of privacy*. I agree with you that we shouldn't be governed by surveillance, but I *WANT* that to be the case when a huge event such as the olympic games are happening. You want that too. In fact anyone not belonging to AL Qaeda will want that. Don't look at it from the *invasion of privacy* angle. Instead try to think of it as a measure to save *thousands and thousands* of lives, men, women, children, thousands of years of culture and heritage. Sometimes deperate times call for desparate measures: And unless you haven't gotten the point yet, we live in desparate times. There are groups of people out there that never sleep, but think of ways to kill as many people as possible 24/7/365. To denounce your own country for trying to protect you is a mistake. To denounce any country for trying to protect it's citizens is a mistake. I am not a US citizen, but I have lived there. US has it's problems like everyother country has, but it's the balance of trust between its government, it's army and people that makes it what it is: the most amazing country in the world. It is so very true that the word UNITED fits your country perfectly. Don't hammer down on your government for raising the bar as far as safety and security goes just because you can.
If there is another large terrorist attack, I wouldn't say "why don't we have chips in all subversives yet?" Instead, I would ask "Why is it that the U.S. government failed to recognize Al-Queda's position on US military intervention in the Middle East?" One of the principal reasons for 9/11 was American hegemony in the Middle East. So what do we do? Invade Iraq! Brilliant! Some have swallowed the conventional wisdom bs that terrorists attack "because they hate freedom." Bzzzzt! Wrong! Study up a little and play again.
--- I must say, word like this is what makes my stomach turn. Study up you say? So while while thousand's of US citizens die, I should pick up books and try to study why *TERRORISTS* do kill innocent people right? Oh how wrong you are. You think you're one of those who swallowed the RED pill don't you? It is sad that you are still living in the matrix. Al Qaeda is a terrorist group who's aim is not only America. Their aim is to side with the evil. Read up a little. You think if America wasn't involved at all in the middle east (which if you even knew a little about world politics, economy and so, you'd see that it's impossible for that to be true) you think those people would not have died? Wrong again. Read up a little.
What the US "fails to do" is respect the rights of other global citizens and act as a tool of the bigass corporations. Maybe you think otherwise. -- Yes in fact I do think otherwise. I also think you must be BIG on saving the trees also. I wonder where you see this *failure* in US's part. When Saddam himself killed his own people, when AL Qaeda themselves terrorize their own countries, just because those countries want a little more freedom and cooperation with the world, you talk to me about US *fails to respect the rights....*. Everything about your statement is wrong. You pick a little thing and try to make it the main agenda, failing to see the big picture. In early 1900s when England, France, Germany failed to give autonomy to my country, US was the only one to recognize it, which lead to an independence of my country a few years later. My point is, America has been the balance of the world and the leader in freedom and people's rights for a very long time, before you and I were born. What I urge you to do is get over your personal aganda (which seems to be wrong) and wake up and smell the coffee. The real world is different than what you imagine it to be
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If you think this way: Save the pity and shock for else where. It's not needed and hopefully we won't whore this like September 11th was. I know this'll get marked troll but I think it's an opinion we NEED to see put out. Some of us couldn't careless, it won't stop our lives any more then seeing a giant pink elephant would. It happened, it's over and done with, next please.
....then yes....do yourself (and everyone else) a favour and go jump from a building high enough so you can brak your nack or just split your head into pieces. Everyone is not worthless. Those who say *people from (put country name here) deserved it because of what their government is doing to (put middle eastern country here)* are worthless ...garbage....waste. People from middle eastern countires suffer from their own leader 10000 times more than what they suffer from western countires, and they thrive in hate induced by their spiritual leaders. Hate is a disease. Acts of hate are a sign of the disease spreading. This has nothing to do with what most useless people think.
No. Born and raised in Europe, but Canadian Citizen. I just have no tolerance for people that are always blaming the wrong doings of the government for the barbaric deaths of innocent people. Enough is enough. We've heard it all before...many times. How can you say that UK or US or Spain...and tomorrow germany and Italy...etc etc...and eventually Canada deserve it? What have those people who are daily taking the trains and busses to try and get work done to radicals in the middle east? Why do they deserve it? It is the most baseless stupid comment/comparison one can make. How can you turn a blind eye and say *next* to something like that? Osama would like to have you believe it's the WESTS fault (and I guess he is suceeding) but the truth is that it is really his and only his fault (and his groups).
Are you seriously saying that people who are unpatriotic or who don't come from the right place should be killed?
No. This guy should.
Troll? You should be narked for death. I question your roots. I question your patriotism. I question the purpose of your existence.
It happened, it's over and done with, next please.
--Wow. It's over with? But it's not. And what does next mean? It always makes me wonder....if we were to get rid of useless people like you around the planet, then maybe we can save enough money to help africa with food and other basic needs.....
You should be strapped in bombs and blown up...at a garbage site somewhere
You fking naive useless prick of a human being. What good are you alive?
I hate to take sides, but.....this is bashing, just because Cohen can. I sense fear and anger in Cohen's response rather than an educated, confident response. His response, just like MSs many vaporwares is not convincing anyone otherwise. The fact is that Microsoft has been more about delivering than vaporwaring in the last couple of years, therefore I'd be careful before dismissing any research paper comming from Microsoft as "garbage", because in the end you end up looking stupid.....
Although there's no evidence that proves religion's version of creation wrong, there's no evidence that extra terrestrial life exists either. However given the infinity of universe, and existence of life here on earth, there is no doubt that there is intelligent life somewhere else. In my opinion (and I respect religion) we are an experiment. I completely disagree with Darwin's *insane theory of our evolution* by the way, but as I was saying I think we're nothing more than an experiment. I think we are lab rats for another race of people, most likely smimiliar to us but more advanced in every way. I believe we were *dropped* on this planet a long time ago either to be observed as we evolve over time or the first people brought here must have been something someone else didn't want and before they grew in numbers they were *shipped* to this planet and left to find their own way. I also believe we are far away from our potential. Which could mean we are doing better than our *creators* originally might have believed. I believe one day we'll knock on their door and say: well we're back. Who knows, with a good laywer we could also sue them for *abandonment and forcefull eviction from our homes and land*. Whatever the reason we're here, it will be some time before we discover it.
What a delicate topic. And how difficult it is to take sides. My one side says: I will allow no mother fucker to see the body of the 12 year old daughter naked. I'll fucking kill them.
But then my other side says: There's no mother fucker in the world that will take the life of my 12 year old daughter and never let her get off that plane alive
This needs an equation to see what the likelyhood of people dying from a terrorist attack on a plane is, and what the chances of having such an act averted if such a machine is installed.
I fully have supported most of the security measures presented by the US government, but this one I think is taking it a little too far. I do not think we can use technology to defend terrorism. Terrorism is an ideology. I think the measures are becoming absurd.
But with that said, if the government wins and the machines get installed there should be completely separate gender screening paths at the very least. There should be total privacy when people are getting screened. And no screening images should be allowed to be stored. This is getting messy
I know this is stupid, but I'll make my comment: ............
is medicated != is located
is - present tense, which means that as of right now, as of the time of this writing
example:
The building is located at
or
the information is lacated at this web site....
as the previous writer wrote, a web site is a virtual location (remember the URL?)
It is true that the information WAS PUT up there at some point in the past, but that is irrelevant to us. We are only concerned with where the information is LOCATED, not when the information WAS UPLOADED to this specific LOCATION.
When we're referring to a person BEING MEDICATED we cannot say is medicated. So we use IS BEING MEDICATED (if the patient is still under treatment. So you arte comparing two different things.
"it was made available..." is correct, but that doesn't mean "is located at..." or you can "find it at...." is incorrect. In fact they are more correct than "it was made available...."
All HAIL OUTSOURCING. Just imagine this: I live in a POOR country, grew up without clothes on my back, had nothing all my life, still have nothing. A western company comes along. They still pay me $hit (because the reason they're in my country is to save money in the 1st place). I can buy bread, but I am still poor. This bank opens up their customer's accounts to me A battle in now brewing inside of my head: Do I stay a poor slave, or take a chance at the HIGH life. My good side (If I have one) is saying: No, don't do it.....it's wrong.
But the gravity is much stronger on the other side. I've been poor and unfed all my life......living in a place where being in jail could mean I get fed at least daily.....WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE?!?!?! Welcome to the beginning of the END
Yes you are right, but your car cabin has a limit as to how much crap you can put in it. Your gas tank has a limit to how much crap you can pump into it. Now you can fill your gas tank with water or gas, that is not up to the manufacturer to be concerned with, or some sick people fill their cars with explosives and do a lot of damage, again that is not up to the manufacturer to control (it's impossible), however there's always a LIMIT to how much crap you can stuff your car with.
So the point is: The limit to how much *forking* I can do should be set in the Kernel, not left up to me to *play it safely*. So if the gas tank allows 60 litres of gas then I should be able to fill it with any liquid, but not above 60 Litres. Then wheather the angine starts or breaks it's my fault, not because: the manufacturer left a huge hole in the tank and I was pumping gas for hours and the tank never seemed to fill up....
What if Hitler had never invaded Russia?
He never did invade Russia! I'll tell you what would've happened if he did though:
Communism would've been a small cult that never took off, confined within the borders of it's most devout follower(s): Russia(ns), eventually dying with that generation. Instead of becoming the beast it did and kill millions and slowly cause the death of 1/2 of the European continent it owned.
But then I cannot say what else would've happened, that's just one part of it.
I agree to an extent with the fact that C/C++ (and other languages) do allow incredible mistakes to be made. It is true as an earlier poster wrote, that if you compared writing code to *driving a car*, it is you who holds the steering wheel. But he fails to mention that even though you are the driver, the car will limit you to certain things (how fast you can go for example..there's a built in limit). I would say that there's no limit to what C/C++ can do, but there is also no limit to how they allow certain things to be done. I do agree that better checking tools should be made available
Which brings me to the Microsoft's point. Three things are well known about Microsoft's software: 1) The most used software in the world (highly visible as a result)
2) Created for users, therefore very user friendly (although I am not sure what they are doing with these new versions of Windows in that department!!!)
3)and third: Was never meant to be *secure*, therefore it has more holes than a block of swiss cheese
I'll discuss point 3 a bit as I see it as the most important one at the moment.
Now I know that geeks (as I am one) like to blame the programmers, or the programming culture at MS for the security holes. There's two things I rule out at Microsoft:
1) Their programmers are not able to write good software
2) Their Programming culture (deliver, deliver, deliver!!!) forces the software writers/testers etc.....to produce low quality software. Microsoft has always been, is and will be notorious for hiring top of line programmers, engineers and scientists. I have also read in more than one ocassion (sorry I do not have any links) that the Quality assurance process at MS is one of the best in the world. I do remember a few years back, that only for the *START* button they had a team of 12 programmers working on it. The Team manager was saying that all they concentrate on is the start button...that's their job. So that tells you something about their rigorous Programming and QA they put into the product (this was even before Bill Gate's famous memo)
I see the problem somewhere else however (and I am not the only one to think that way). They do say that certain diseases are passed down generation to generation through the blood. So say if someone in your family had cancer, chances are you might get it. But if your parents had it, then you are almost certain te potentially develop some type of cancer, at some point in your life. Many people start taking preventive measures early on when that is the case.
Windows unfortunately suffers from a type of software disease I'd like to call: Inherited Mutated Genes (or code). In a way Windows has become its own organism. So as you go and add features, or take them away, or change things you change the organism and the symptoms are unexpected. Its DNA has become too large and huge to be easily controlled and messed around with. Windows was never meant to be secure. When Windows 3.1 was around, the word security and Windows were never mentioned in relation to each other, unless UNIX was brought up. In fact it isn't until Windows 2000 that security had been some sort of priority for Microsoft. And when I see the same errors n Windows XP as I saw 10 years ago in Windows, it tells me that Inherited Mutated Genes are in full force.
Which was a valid concern........FOR 1998
NOW MOVING ON to 2004 things have changed. Many of you, which I expect would be at the very least a little knowledgeable about technology act the same as my manager: mention anything Microsoft to him and he'll start going about WINDOWS NT4.0 and how messed up it was. Which is very wrong to think that way about Windows NT in 2004.
I am not trying to protect Windows. I do not care, but that is the truth
UNIX has always been the choice OS for *endurance* be it uptime, runninng critical apps or keeping hackers at bay, but why shouldn't Windows get a shot at it. After all don't we love to see Linux enter as many markets as possible?
If succesful Windows share in ATMs will grow. WHY NOT? We want competition right? Then let it flow freely. If Windows fuks up then that'll be it for that market as far as Windows is concerned
I am not thrilled to see Windows in such a volatile mission. Not a bit.....but at the same time, I am not as worried as my BOSS is about Windows NT 4.0
Are you being an a$$ purposely or is it in your nature, Anonymous? I am of course comparing Canada with US. I am not sure what your case is, but just because of the fact that you are basing the whole canadian market on your pay cheque means you have no clue what's going on out there onm the IT sector....which makes me think they are slaving your a$$ already The general UNIX system admin in USA makes around 90K US (=120K CAD) (bonuses etc not included), take the double tax we pay the government here in canada off...now do a quick calculation and see what that comes up to. Add on top of that all the other $hit you do with Windows systems.....you're doing most likely the Job of 3 normal IT positions. Yes they are using your a$$ The pay might be good if it's in the 6th figures, but my point was that for every IT position in the states, the corresponding one in canada makes anywhere from 20-40% less money....not to mention the much higher taxes I have more than 1 graduate friend living and working in US.....100K us with a low tax is not the same as 100K canadian with 40%+ tax and 15% tax on everything you buy..... So no I am neither of those you mention, I am just realistic. Here's some data for a sysadmin in NY 25th%ile Median 75th%ile $73,625 $86,684 $100,293
I live and work in Toronto. From my experience, Canada is not the final destination for many US jobs. It is a backdoor to the backdoor type of thing. I think the only reason they are setting up shop in Canada is to DECEIVE. If they are setting up shop in Canada then how come the job growth sucks a$$ ????. The LOW....LOw....Low...low paying IT jobs up here in canada might be one of the reasons, but I think they are just renting office space, hiring a few *fake* enterpreneurs* and re-routing the projects back to india, where compared to the Canadian IT market it is slightly cheaper.
I must agree with you. I use remote desktop for all administration work. I haven't had a need to physically walk to a server or desktop in a while since Windowx XP came onboard. I still use RealVNC occasionally (when no VPN is present), but other than that remote desktop beats any other applicaion by far in terms of speed and also ease of use.
This crashed my Firefox, but IE handled it OK. This is definitely a surprising eye opener
fanaticism, bias, grudge, hate...etc etc, they'll notice that the world is not such a bad place to live in. This deal is not such a bad deal.
Free money?
I will agree that, if a Colombian drug lord had made the contribution, then I'd say there is room for some of the hatred/criticism I read below, but that is not the case.
Close minded?
If we like to be called Open Source, then why the hell do we have such a *CLOSED* mind?
Benefits
When you receive your cheque either every week, or two, do you concentrate on who gave you the cheque, or *how big* the cheque was and how you're going to spend it?
Reality
My Unix geek boss, still thinks that WIndowsNT 4.0 is the latest OS from Microsoft, so he keeps repeating how full of holes that OS is. I asked him when the last time was that he read anything about MS technologies? None can *force* you into any platform anymore. It is the reality. It's the incentives that come with each platform that will finally make one prevalent over the other. The word SECURITY and the word *FREE* can only take you so far.
The impact of such donation should overshadow the name of the donator and the controversy, not the other way around.
Congrats Carnegie! Spend it well. Like it or not Gates is one of the largest (if not the largest) contributors to education. Indireclty that affects the new Open Source generation in a very positive way.
Maybe this will help
PCWorld
Looks like they were using next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 protocols, but I am not sure if that encapsulates some next generation of TCP/IP as well
It doesn't help that my company has standardized on MS Word, but I am using OpenOffice for documents whenever possible. It's just easier, my wordprocessor needs are nothing like what MS Word wants to offer me.
Not to be the devil's advocate here, but aside from the part where you are required to insert the Office cd even if you have installed office when you want to use a specific feature for the first time which is very frustrating, I do not understand how, many features that no other word processor can match would be frustrating to a (*non biased*) user. You don't have to use the 'Getting Started' screen, you don't have to surf the web from word, you don't have to use the help wizards, in fact you don't have to use anything more than what you need. No matter what version of office I am running, copy.cut/paste/undo....and other basic functions to write/format a document are where they have always been: Top Bar. Extra features have never bothered me, but at one point I needed to use something that I never thought I would, and honestly it was there...that one time I needed it. Having database/web/xml/web services integration is a feature that most home users will not use, but in a company that has hundereds of thousands of word documents (or more) that makes a huge difference, as it helps with organizing, finding and distributing information contained in these documents a breeze. You can complain about the price and some other things about the MS Office suite, but trying to use *features* as a *downside* to the Office applications tells me that people are trying hard to make Word (and other Office Applications) look bad when they have nothing else to pick on. I am for choosing whatever think does the job for you, but I won't go against a product just to agree with some journalist who's trying to look cool by bashing Word.
It happened to me about 10 times before I figured out what's going on. Where I work we have a spaghetti of Access 2000 databases. I'd say around 250. I noticed that when trying to compact and repair the database sitting on a Novell File Server from a client machine over a network the database would get deleted, gone...., and an error appears saying: "The database cannot be found". What a great explanation. When I raised the issue in a meeting, I found out that about every developer in the room had encountered such a problem, and had to restore the files from a backup more than once. They had no idea it was a flaw, they just restored thinking they deleted the file by mistake. I urged them to use the compact/repair feature locally only. This might not be of concern to most /. users, but it's a pretty severe flaw, especially for a small business who's whole operations are dependent on such database format.
I agree. In my opinion and from experience Minivans are the most dangerous cars out there. It is horrible that they are promoted as *family* cars. Safer alternatives must be found, until Minivans dissapear from the roads once and for all
It a mistake to presume that the motivations driving your "country" to take away your rights are benign or sincere.
-- Hah. *take away my rights*? It is also a mistake to presume that your government is *taking away your rights* because it's not being sincere with you as to why it is doing so. So there, we're on a lock. However when I see my government trying to make changes after a major catastrophe, then I can understand, and as a human being with a bit of judgement on me, I accept changes. The goverenment will spy on you either way. I'd rather know they are doing it. They are being sincere. There are far more worst dangers out there in fact that you are not even aware of than the government putting extra cameras in a public place, or questioning someone's motives for taking "unpictoresque" pictures of a landmark. I am sure you hear the news. I wonder if you have any idea how many other plots have been avoided since these *changes* are put to place. In fact these changes are too small in my opinion.
Are you so certain the interests of this so called "country" is aligned with the citizens? What guarantees such a thing? -- Yes I am very certain. In more than one occasion USA has taken us under their wing. But I am not an american fan for just that reason. I have lived surrounded by an 87% muslim population. I have also lived in a communist system. And I have had a chance to explore the *american* sytem (which is really a more supreme western system). I will be honest with you: You have it good. Really good. And what's more you are allowed to *complain* and get your government to listen to you.
When did this terrorism become the greatest threat to mankind and civilization?
It has always been. But not at this scale. It has been growing by the decade. Terrorism and middle east have been associated for a long time. Terrorism might be a tactic, but sure as hell it wouldn't exist if a *group, religion or ethnicity* didn't endorse it to further their agenda. Al Qaeda is a group. Their agenda is a Jihad against the *other* world. I wonder what it takes to get people to realize that. I guess it's easier for me since I lived in a different system than you. But looking attheir actions and slogans, it should be easy for anyone to realize the same.
That you would think accusing someone of being in favour of saving trees discredits their argument, is an indication of how weak and indefensible your own argument is.
--Actually I should've not generalized, but the punch line was that some people complain about everything. I have nothing against saving the trees. I won't kill anyone about it though.
You like to BS quite a bit....but then you're entiteled to your opinion. Watch out don't get burned by it though...I gotta get back to work...but I'd have a few more things to add for sure...
I am opposed to a society governed by surveillance because I believe it will lead to tyranny. Unwelcome thoughts and philosophies can quickly fall prey to overzealous policing. For instance, minor violations may be excused if you are a member of the "correct" party but cracked down upon if you are an "insurgent." Ever heard of COINTELPRO?
--- There is a huge, I mean humongous misinterpretation that people have about *safety precautions* as opposed to *violation of privacy*. I agree with you that we shouldn't be governed by surveillance, but I *WANT* that to be the case when a huge event such as the olympic games are happening. You want that too. In fact anyone not belonging to AL Qaeda will want that. Don't look at it from the *invasion of privacy* angle. Instead try to think of it as a measure to save *thousands and thousands* of lives, men, women, children, thousands of years of culture and heritage. Sometimes deperate times call for desparate measures: And unless you haven't gotten the point yet, we live in desparate times. There are groups of people out there that never sleep, but think of ways to kill as many people as possible 24/7/365. To denounce your own country for trying to protect you is a mistake. To denounce any country for trying to protect it's citizens is a mistake. I am not a US citizen, but I have lived there. US has it's problems like everyother country has, but it's the balance of trust between its government, it's army and people that makes it what it is: the most amazing country in the world. It is so very true that the word UNITED fits your country perfectly. Don't hammer down on your government for raising the bar as far as safety and security goes just because you can.
If there is another large terrorist attack, I wouldn't say "why don't we have chips in all subversives yet?" Instead, I would ask "Why is it that the U.S. government failed to recognize Al-Queda's position on US military intervention in the Middle East?" One of the principal reasons for 9/11 was American hegemony in the Middle East. So what do we do? Invade Iraq! Brilliant! Some have swallowed the conventional wisdom bs that terrorists attack "because they hate freedom." Bzzzzt! Wrong! Study up a little and play again.
--- I must say, word like this is what makes my stomach turn. Study up you say? So while while thousand's of US citizens die, I should pick up books and try to study why *TERRORISTS* do kill innocent people right? Oh how wrong you are. You think you're one of those who swallowed the RED pill don't you? It is sad that you are still living in the matrix. Al Qaeda is a terrorist group who's aim is not only America. Their aim is to side with the evil. Read up a little. You think if America wasn't involved at all in the middle east (which if you even knew a little about world politics, economy and so, you'd see that it's impossible for that to be true) you think those people would not have died? Wrong again. Read up a little.
What the US "fails to do" is respect the rights of other global citizens and act as a tool of the bigass corporations. Maybe you think otherwise.
-- Yes in fact I do think otherwise. I also think you must be BIG on saving the trees also. I wonder where you see this *failure* in US's part. When Saddam himself killed his own people, when AL Qaeda themselves terrorize their own countries, just because those countries want a little more freedom and cooperation with the world, you talk to me about US *fails to respect the rights....*. Everything about your statement is wrong. You pick a little thing and try to make it the main agenda, failing to see the big picture. In early 1900s when England, France, Germany failed to give autonomy to my country, US was the only one to recognize it, which lead to an independence of my country a few years later. My point is, America has been the balance of the world and the leader in freedom and people's rights for a very long time, before you and I were born. What I urge you to do is get over your personal aganda (which seems to be wrong) and wake up and smell the coffee. The real world is different than what you imagine it to be