There are legitimate reasons to get angry at users who a) should have known better and b) cause serious damage by being reckless with powerful machines. If you are woken up and taken away from your family at 4am you might feel like giving the responsible person some firm education.
Once I was developing something for Zaurus and created an Ethernet bridge between its USB interface and corporate intranet so that I could connect from the device to other machines. Well, it turns out that Zaurus runs DHCP server by default to configure the USB interface on the host. It then proceeded to give bogus IP addresses to all the machines in the building. I sure appreciated the sense of humor of the IT person who had to probe all the routers to find out the socket to which socket the DHCP server was connected.
Expodus 20:14 talks about having an affair as/with a married person, not two unmarried people having sex. It also appears in the chapter that talks about not coming to church naked, making me wonder just how grave of a sin it is supposed to be. I also liked Expodus 20:17 talking about not coveting your neighbors ass, although I realize it probably means a donkey in this context:-)
As a good Christian, maybe you can tell us where God says that two unmarried people shouldn't have sex. Hopefully, he says it more forcefully than in Bible passages where he instructs people to rape prisoners, take multiple wifes and kill your own children.
1. They would offer PCs with Fedora, of course 2. This would probably be an option if Apple charged Apple an OEM fee for each copy of MacOSX bundled.
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No, it won't. Programs need to interoperate - you might want to explicitly upload a photo to shutterfly using your web browser, but you don't want a rogue website to just siphon off all your private photos by exploiting a memory bug in one of the endless plugins.
The real solution is programming in a language with secure memory management, such as.Net, Java or even LISP. I suspect that overhead is far smaller than running 3 copies of the program at once like DieHard does.
The other fscking parasites having been created by the same government in WWI. Simply put, without big countries there would be no wars. Majority of men able to wield arms would be just interested in killing any intruders, not starting their own conquest.
We can't force them to make the right choice NOW, because they won't make it. They'll provide zero content.
Totally fine with me. I'll give them zero money and find other forms of entertainment, like going to a local theater. This is capitalism, why should I beg anyone to sell me stuff that intentionally self-destructs?
Fair enough. Microsoft produced Windows CDs in India legally under local laws and imports them after paying import tax and duties. So, I am going to import $5 Windows CD from Montenegro, where they were made legally under local laws using a CD burner, after paying the same percentage of import taxes and duties as Microsoft on my $5.
That kind of "logic" is like saying since OJ Simpson got to kill two people, you can too.
If Apple was getting away with hiring only two employees in China in violation of US labor laws, or if I was personally importing billions of dollars in software not legally licensed in US from the same country, I would completely agree with your analogy.
Godwin's law only applies when the entity in question had no connection to Nazi, not when the discussion is centered around unethical deeds of Volkswagen, IBM or Swiss banks.
Care to explain how companies like Apple get away with violating US labor laws?. If companies can outsource my job to China, taking advantage of lax labor laws, I can import their products from Russia, under Russian copyright laws.
The problem with Windows is not that it dominates the market - it's just that it sucks. One only has to think of the fact that common controls still only support 256 color images. UNIX used to dominate market and it didn't suck. iPod doesn't suck. Honda Civic doesn't suck.
Well, Microsoft doesn't provide support to most of its users. As for QA, well I never saw a windows security update for a flaw that was discovered by internal testing rather than found in the wild. Do MS developers really earn more than double our salary?
What right does Microsoft have to lock me out of my employer's files the use of which is authorized by my company, on a system with legally licensed software?
So, uh, what's the problem? People who just installed the OS (and have for some inexplicable reason decided to read word documents they were sent in emails before they install Office) can just use MS's Word viewer. It's not like they could ever edit a document decently with Wordpad, so they're not losing any significant capability.
The problem is that MS doesn't bundle Word viewer with Vista, whereas in XP Wordpad opened word documents and in fact allowed users to do some basic changes in text.
BTW, if the license says you have to reactivate every 6 months, then once you go past 6 months without reactivating, the system isn't legally licensed anymore. You choose to have a Vista notebook? You chose to obey the restrictive license.
The whole point of this article is that people shouldn't "choose" to use Vista.
Disobey it and Microsoft has every right in the world to lock you out of those oh-so-important files that are so critical to your business that you leave them untouched in a desk drawer for 7 months at a stretch.
Actually no. The files are my private property and Microsoft has no business locking me out. If a landlord chooses to evict me from an apartment, he can not just hold on to my stuff or my pro-rated rent fee. Similarly, if Microsoft chooses to revoke my license they have to refund my purchase price AND document the storage format of my files so that I can transfer them to an operating system of my choice.
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open.doc files?
People who just installed the OS and would like to read the stuff they got in e-mail? This is especially pathetic since MS does have a Word viewer and Apple TextEdit at least retrieves basic text and formatting from Word documents.
Computers that have been activated through KMS will be required to reactivate by connecting to your organization's network at least every six months.
Do you really consider this acceptable? I store a notebook in a desk drawer for seven months and then go to attend an offsite lecture where I would like to take notes and where I don't have access to corporate Intranet. What right does Microsoft have to lock me out of my own files on a system with legally licensed software?
Ever tried to burn your songs to CDs? Apple's DRM is just so that teenagers don't just copy their whole music library to other people. If you are an audiophile, well you probably don't mind waiting for a music DVD from Amazon and you wouldn't think of playing it on an iPod then.
Come on, surely the way to start discussion is to accept obvious facts. There would be no shootings without guns. On the other hand, put a gun in the hand of a monkey and he just might figure out how to off someone after watching some action movies. Guns are sure responsible for all the shootings, although they are surely not responsible for all murder, just most of it currently.
What do you think of a government that collects taxes and uses the money to subsidize corporations that would otherwise go out of business or pass laws that enable existence of their unnatural business models (such as intellectual property laws that imply that you don't own your own head and thoughts within).
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There are legitimate reasons to get angry at users who a) should have known better and b) cause serious damage by being reckless with powerful machines. If you are woken up and taken away from your family at 4am you might feel like giving the responsible person some firm education.
Once I was developing something for Zaurus and created an Ethernet bridge between its USB interface and corporate intranet so that I could connect from the device to other machines. Well, it turns out that Zaurus runs DHCP server by default to configure the USB interface on the host. It then proceeded to give bogus IP addresses to all the machines in the building. I sure appreciated the sense of humor of the IT person who had to probe all the routers to find out the socket to which socket the DHCP server was connected.
Expodus 20:14 talks about having an affair as/with a married person, not two unmarried people having sex. It also appears in the chapter that talks about not coming to church naked, making me wonder just how grave of a sin it is supposed to be. I also liked Expodus 20:17 talking about not coveting your neighbors ass, although I realize it probably means a donkey in this context :-)
As a good Christian, maybe you can tell us where God says that two unmarried people shouldn't have sex. Hopefully, he says it more forcefully than in Bible passages where he instructs people to rape prisoners, take multiple wifes and kill your own children.
I would think e-mailing an image to another medical expert somewhere in the world would be a common occurrence.
There are lots of legit e-mails discussing vitamins, viagara or even penis enlargement, this post included.
What are you supposed to do when you telnet into a machine and need to edit a file?
You use ssh -X instead, of course.
1. They would offer PCs with Fedora, of course
2. This would probably be an option if Apple charged Apple an OEM fee for each copy of MacOSX bundled.
No, it won't. Programs need to interoperate - you might want to explicitly upload a photo to shutterfly using your web browser, but you don't want a rogue website to just siphon off all your private photos by exploiting a memory bug in one of the endless plugins.
.Net, Java or even LISP. I suspect that overhead is far smaller than running 3 copies of the program at once like DieHard does.
The real solution is programming in a language with secure memory management, such as
The other fscking parasites having been created by the same government in WWI. Simply put, without big countries there would be no wars. Majority of men able to wield arms would be just interested in killing any intruders, not starting their own conquest.
We can't force them to make the right choice NOW, because they won't make it. They'll provide zero content.
Totally fine with me. I'll give them zero money and find other forms of entertainment, like going to a local theater. This is capitalism, why should I beg anyone to sell me stuff that intentionally self-destructs?
Fair enough. Microsoft produced Windows CDs in India legally under local laws and imports them after paying import tax and duties. So, I am going to import $5 Windows CD from Montenegro, where they were made legally under local laws using a CD burner, after paying the same percentage of import taxes and duties as Microsoft on my $5.
Are you saying Apple is not selling illegally produced iPods to americans living in America?
That kind of "logic" is like saying since OJ Simpson got to kill two people, you can too.
If Apple was getting away with hiring only two employees in China in violation of US labor laws, or if I was personally importing billions of dollars in software not legally licensed in US from the same country, I would completely agree with your analogy.
Godwin's law only applies when the entity in question had no connection to Nazi, not when the discussion is centered around unethical deeds of Volkswagen, IBM or Swiss banks.
Care to explain how companies like Apple get away with violating US labor laws?. If companies can outsource my job to China, taking advantage of lax labor laws, I can import their products from Russia, under Russian copyright laws.
First doing business with Nazi, now supporting a tasteless deal. Shame!
The problem with Windows is not that it dominates the market - it's just that it sucks. One only has to think of the fact that common controls still only support 256 color images. UNIX used to dominate market and it didn't suck. iPod doesn't suck. Honda Civic doesn't suck.
Well, Microsoft doesn't provide support to most of its users. As for QA, well I never saw a windows security update for a flaw that was discovered by internal testing rather than found in the wild. Do MS developers really earn more than double our salary?
What right does Microsoft have to lock me out of my employer's files the use of which is authorized by my company, on a system with legally licensed software?
So, uh, what's the problem? People who just installed the OS (and have for some inexplicable reason decided to read word documents they were sent in emails before they install Office) can just use MS's Word viewer. It's not like they could ever edit a document decently with Wordpad, so they're not losing any significant capability.
The problem is that MS doesn't bundle Word viewer with Vista, whereas in XP Wordpad opened word documents and in fact allowed users to do some basic changes in text.
BTW, if the license says you have to reactivate every 6 months, then once you go past 6 months without reactivating, the system isn't legally licensed anymore. You choose to have a Vista notebook? You chose to obey the restrictive license.
The whole point of this article is that people shouldn't "choose" to use Vista.
Disobey it and Microsoft has every right in the world to lock you out of those oh-so-important files that are so critical to your business that you leave them untouched in a desk drawer for 7 months at a stretch.
Actually no. The files are my private property and Microsoft has no business locking me out. If a landlord chooses to evict me from an apartment, he can not just hold on to my stuff or my pro-rated rent fee. Similarly, if Microsoft chooses to revoke my license they have to refund my purchase price AND document the storage format of my files so that I can transfer them to an operating system of my choice.
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open .doc files?
People who just installed the OS and would like to read the stuff they got in e-mail? This is especially pathetic since MS does have a Word viewer and Apple TextEdit at least retrieves basic text and formatting from Word documents.
Computers that have been activated through KMS will be required to reactivate by connecting to your organization's network at least every six months.
Do you really consider this acceptable? I store a notebook in a desk drawer for seven months and then go to attend an offsite lecture where I would like to take notes and where I don't have access to corporate Intranet. What right does Microsoft have to lock me out of my own files on a system with legally licensed software?
The lack of optical out and the flimsy headphone jack should alert you to the maximum quality that you should expect.
Ever tried to burn your songs to CDs? Apple's DRM is just so that teenagers don't just copy their whole music library to other people. If you are an audiophile, well you probably don't mind waiting for a music DVD from Amazon and you wouldn't think of playing it on an iPod then.
Come on, surely the way to start discussion is to accept obvious facts. There would be no shootings without guns. On the other hand, put a gun in the hand of a monkey and he just might figure out how to off someone after watching some action movies. Guns are sure responsible for all the shootings, although they are surely not responsible for all murder, just most of it currently.
What do you think of a government that collects taxes and uses the money to subsidize corporations that would otherwise go out of business or pass laws that enable existence of their unnatural business models (such as intellectual property laws that imply that you don't own your own head and thoughts within).