That question sounds a lot like the "do you plan to overthrow the government" one at customs:-)
At the job interview:
"have you ever done anything that you think will not make us not employ you"
"No" (what, do you think I'm stupid? I'm gonna actually admit to anything here?)
later......
You did XYZ which you didn't disclose at the interview and which we claim would have stopped us from hiring you.
You're fired, not for doing XYZ but for lying at the interview.
It blew up because they designed it to carry as much energy as possible with as little weight as possible.
Whether that energy is stored in LH, kerosene, dynamite or a really stretchy rubber-band doesn't matter.
A car would not have the sort of power/weight constraints that a (space)plane has, you could make safer by adding a few kilograms
(sort of like your current petrol car is safer because of the reinforcing struts, firewall, crumple-zones etc.).
I think there's much to be said for a feul that, if the tank springs a leak, drifts up and away rather than pooling on the ground waiting for a spark to set it off.
Will the Hindenburg hysteria ever wear off?
You're thinking about gasseous hydrogen.
This is liquid hydrogen, it's perfectly safe!
It's not only too cold to burn, it would also extinguish itself (being a liquid).
Hell, I still like booting school computers into knoppix when no one is looking, then taking the CD out and walking off. They FREAK out... lol
Here's an idea... leave the disk in when you leave.
Blanks don't cost much, and it's one way to "spread the word".
Good to see that RSS is integrated into the OS. That's something every kernel lacks these days;-)
Please remember what that Microsoft's idea of an "Operating System":
Microsoft Operating System: Whatever we can bundle together without too much anti-trust trouble
You're probably using the old definition:
Operating System: the kernel, a boot loader, maybe a few drivers
these days, at least 99% of all viri, worms, trojans and other malware seem to be content to simply
reproduce as much as possible instead of carrying an actually destructive payload."
Reminds me of all that anti-bacterial crap out there that "kills 99% of household bateria".
It's the other 1% I'm worried about.
and the eaiest way I've found to avoid getting "crap" is to not run as administrator. *poof*, no more problems.
I'm surprised more people haven't figured that out yet.
IIRC computers on the microsoft campus all run as root. Once MS "figures this out" and makes them run as non-root, there'll be a lot of pressure to
finally fix broken software that needs root, and _then_ joe-average will be able to run as non-root.
OK, I might have the terminology wrong, but...
How come every other IE exploit crashes Windows, or circumvents permissions, or nukes something requiring a reboot?
It if really were a pure user-level process with no hooks deep into the system this wouldn't happen.
Compare to LINUX:
I have _never_ managed to crash the LINUX kernel with a bad app.
I rarely crash X (usually when messing w/ drivers, don't get me started on that:-)
I very occasionally mess up the GUI shell so bad it doesn't recover. CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, restart X.
The end result (desktop/web integration) is nice. The way it was done (deep hooks) is bad. The reason it was done that way was legal, not engineering.
..., have been running as a non-Administrator user for nearly 10 years now and enforce the same restrictions on all the machines I manage.
If only MS did this in-house. They would get so sick of does-not-work-as-non-admin problems they might actually fix them (or get the vendors to do so).
The integration is a nice thing from a user point of view.
The depth to which IE has been integrated into the kernel is unnecessary though
(from an engineering perspective, it's vital when you're trying to win an antitrust case).
If the internet is a minefield, then browsing with IE is like crawling through it headbutting the ground in front of you.
The integration was the right decision for Microsoft (they won browser-war 1 without getting nailed for antitrust),
but windows users have been paying for it ever since. How much do you spend in time and money on spyware detectors,
antivirus programs, patches, configuration hardening and cleanup?
I think the EU is trying to prevent a similar thing happening with media players.
and most of those relate to how they engineer their software.
I thought most the design decisions were made by markering and legal, not engineering?
Integrating IE was marketing (kill netscape) and legal (avoid antitrust).
Engineering thought it was a terrible idea (and rightly so, look at all the problems it has caused).
"line their (the EU's) coffers with cash."
Yup...... Microsoft is going to finance the EU.
Hate to break it to you, but those fines are a few orders of magnitude too low to do that.
Microsoft is perfectly capable of pulling its business completely out of EU nations
Oh how I wish they were that stupid. Nothing would gurantee the success of alternatives more than a whole continent using them.
Microsoft would be better off paying every citizen of Europe to use windows than to withdraw from that market.
yeah, but with Microsoft's track record of encryption I don't think that counts:-) [/flamebait]
AFAIK Microsoft's key management focuses more on data recoverability than data security (a reasonable trade-off depending on what you're trying to achieve).
If I use NTFS encryption on Windows and I forget my password, an admin can reset it and I can still get to my data.
If I forget my GPG passphrase then I'm toast, nothing I can do (other than brute-force) to recover the data.
Monopolies are bad for consumers, so the rules change when you're a monopoly.
If I make 1% of all cars on the road, and decide to 'bundle' the cars with a certain roadmap, that's OK.
Other mapmakers can still compete, consumers still have choice, that choice allows them to exert pressure on the mapmakers to improve their product.
This is how capitalism is supposed to work: consumers vote with their wallets to make producers compete.
If I make 90% of all cars on the road and do the same bundling, other mapmakers are effectively excluded from the market.
Consumers no longer have any choice, therefore no way to exert pressure on the mapmaker to improve the product.
As an example, plot the 'growth' in IE. During BrowserWar1 (IE vs Netscape) IE improved in leaps and bounds.
Then it was mostly dormant for a few years (except for patches). Now, with BrowserWar2 (IE vs Firefox) IE is being improved again
(IE7 is being released with tabbed browsing).
competition = choice = power for consumers = better products
monopoly = no choice = powerless consumers = stagnation
I had to clean out a laptop that had a virus for another (windows only) group while their admin was unavailable.
I thought I'd finished and ran another complete check just to be sure. It found 6 more infected files.
Just then the regular (windows only) admin walked in, I told him about the incident and the 6 remaining files.
His response?
"Don't wory about it, but you always get about that many on a Windows system"
The tune to launch win9? was rolling stones "you make a grown man cry"
Then there was the latin song about "the dammed and acursed are convicted to the flames of hell" (was that for XP?)
trusted computing was done under the codename Janus, the 2-faced roman god who protects gates but not windows
A new version of windows named after an ogre chasing a virgin.
I'm beginning to suspect that someone deep within Microsoft's marketing department is really a double agent!
Slashdot Mirror
If at first you don't succeed.......
That question sounds a lot like the "do you plan to overthrow the government" one at customs :-)
At the job interview:
"have you ever done anything that you think will not make us not employ you"
"No" (what, do you think I'm stupid? I'm gonna actually admit to anything here?)
later......
You did XYZ which you didn't disclose at the interview and which we claim would have stopped us from hiring you.
You're fired, not for doing XYZ but for lying at the interview.
STS challenger didn't blow up because it used LH.
It blew up because they designed it to carry as much energy as possible with as little weight as possible. Whether that energy is stored in LH, kerosene, dynamite or a really stretchy rubber-band doesn't matter.
A car would not have the sort of power/weight constraints that a (space)plane has, you could make safer by adding a few kilograms (sort of like your current petrol car is safer because of the reinforcing struts, firewall, crumple-zones etc.).
I think there's much to be said for a feul that, if the tank springs a leak, drifts up and away rather than pooling on the ground waiting for a spark to set it off.
Will the Hindenburg hysteria ever wear off?
You're thinking about gasseous hydrogen.
/humour >
This is liquid hydrogen, it's perfectly safe!
It's not only too cold to burn, it would also extinguish itself (being a liquid).
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Hell, I still like booting school computers into knoppix when no one is looking, then taking the CD out and walking off. They FREAK out... lol
Here's an idea... leave the disk in when you leave.
Blanks don't cost much, and it's one way to "spread the word".
Good to see that RSS is integrated into the OS. That's something every kernel lacks these days ;-)
Please remember what that Microsoft's idea of an "Operating System":
Microsoft Operating System: Whatever we can bundle together without too much anti-trust trouble
You're probably using the old definition:
Operating System: the kernel, a boot loader, maybe a few drivers
It's different because most of us are not abusive monopolies with a track record of embrace and extinguish.
Cross-platform patch, should work on BSD, OS-X, Sparc, etc. etc. #!/bin/sh echo This `uname -o` system is not \"pirated\".
... the Microsoft of the GIS industry
/.
That's like saying "these guys club baby penguins to death", especially on
All the stuff that my pals seem to trade are illegal copies of DVDs and CDs.
That says more about your pals than it does about bittorrent.
Anyone with a DRM enabled^Wcrippled box.
peaceful? wireless? tropical?
/.-ed an entire nation
Every geek in the workd is going to move there.
We just
these days, at least 99% of all viri, worms, trojans and other malware seem to be content to simply reproduce as much as possible instead of carrying an actually destructive payload."
Reminds me of all that anti-bacterial crap out there that "kills 99% of household bateria".
It's the other 1% I'm worried about.
... try getting a job at seaworld with a fricking laser on your head.....
and the eaiest way I've found to avoid getting "crap" is to not run as administrator. *poof*, no more problems. I'm surprised more people haven't figured that out yet.
IIRC computers on the microsoft campus all run as root. Once MS "figures this out" and makes them run as non-root, there'll be a lot of pressure to finally fix broken software that needs root, and _then_ joe-average will be able to run as non-root.
OK, I might have the terminology wrong, but... :-)
I very occasionally mess up the GUI shell so bad it doesn't recover. CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, restart X.
..., have been running as a non-Administrator user for nearly 10 years now and enforce the same restrictions on all the machines I manage.
How come every other IE exploit crashes Windows, or circumvents permissions, or nukes something requiring a reboot? It if really were a pure user-level process with no hooks deep into the system this wouldn't happen.
Compare to LINUX:
I have _never_ managed to crash the LINUX kernel with a bad app. I rarely crash X (usually when messing w/ drivers, don't get me started on that
The end result (desktop/web integration) is nice. The way it was done (deep hooks) is bad. The reason it was done that way was legal, not engineering.
If only MS did this in-house. They would get so sick of does-not-work-as-non-admin problems they might actually fix them (or get the vendors to do so).
The integration is a nice thing from a user point of view.
The depth to which IE has been integrated into the kernel is unnecessary though (from an engineering perspective, it's vital when you're trying to win an antitrust case).
If the internet is a minefield, then browsing with IE is like crawling through it headbutting the ground in front of you.
The integration was the right decision for Microsoft (they won browser-war 1 without getting nailed for antitrust), but windows users have been paying for it ever since. How much do you spend in time and money on spyware detectors, antivirus programs, patches, configuration hardening and cleanup?
I think the EU is trying to prevent a similar thing happening with media players.
What happened to the MS-fanboy consultants?
... Commies, go hate them.
Keep up, dude, we're supposed to be hating terrorists this week.
Engsoc has always been at war with terrorists.
and most of those relate to how they engineer their software.
I thought most the design decisions were made by markering and legal, not engineering? Integrating IE was marketing (kill netscape) and legal (avoid antitrust). Engineering thought it was a terrible idea (and rightly so, look at all the problems it has caused).
"line their (the EU's) coffers with cash."
Yup...... Microsoft is going to finance the EU. Hate to break it to you, but those fines are a few orders of magnitude too low to do that.
Microsoft is perfectly capable of pulling its business completely out of EU nations
Oh how I wish they were that stupid. Nothing would gurantee the success of alternatives more than a whole continent using them. Microsoft would be better off paying every citizen of Europe to use windows than to withdraw from that market.
yeah, but with Microsoft's track record of encryption I don't think that counts :-) [/flamebait]
AFAIK Microsoft's key management focuses more on data recoverability than data security (a reasonable trade-off depending on what you're trying to achieve).
If I use NTFS encryption on Windows and I forget my password, an admin can reset it and I can still get to my data.
If I forget my GPG passphrase then I'm toast, nothing I can do (other than brute-force) to recover the data.
GPG comes with _every_ LINUX distro I know of.
I guess Balmer et al are right, we're all criminals
Monopolies are bad for consumers, so the rules change when you're a monopoly.
If I make 1% of all cars on the road, and decide to 'bundle' the cars with a certain roadmap, that's OK. Other mapmakers can still compete, consumers still have choice, that choice allows them to exert pressure on the mapmakers to improve their product. This is how capitalism is supposed to work: consumers vote with their wallets to make producers compete.
If I make 90% of all cars on the road and do the same bundling, other mapmakers are effectively excluded from the market. Consumers no longer have any choice, therefore no way to exert pressure on the mapmaker to improve the product.
As an example, plot the 'growth' in IE. During BrowserWar1 (IE vs Netscape) IE improved in leaps and bounds. Then it was mostly dormant for a few years (except for patches). Now, with BrowserWar2 (IE vs Firefox) IE is being improved again (IE7 is being released with tabbed browsing).
competition = choice = power for consumers = better products
monopoly = no choice = powerless consumers = stagnation
I had to clean out a laptop that had a virus for another (windows only) group while their admin was unavailable.
I thought I'd finished and ran another complete check just to be sure. It found 6 more infected files.
Just then the regular (windows only) admin walked in, I told him about the incident and the 6 remaining files.
His response?
"Don't wory about it, but you always get about that many on a Windows system"
The tune to launch win9? was rolling stones "you make a grown man cry"
Then there was the latin song about "the dammed and acursed are convicted to the flames of hell" (was that for XP?)
trusted computing was done under the codename Janus, the 2-faced roman god who protects gates but not windows
A new version of windows named after an ogre chasing a virgin.
I'm beginning to suspect that someone deep within Microsoft's marketing department is really a double agent!