You maybe a special case, but we are not talking about SUV's full of equipment that needs to be lugged about. We're talking about the soccer mums and yuppies who see the SUV as a status symbol and never drive the damn thing out of the Suburbs.
Sure the 4 Wheel Drive has its place but its not in the inner city or Suburbs.
This really just goes too far, I hope that every parent who has kids in Finland in day care sends them to the head office of this organisation. Thousands of screaming stinking kids should change their minds pretty quickly.
How is this anti-american? Its a publicity stunt from the opposition party playing on our PM's well known techno-phobia.
I for one am glad the Labor party has finally settled on a platform re Iraq. To me it seems quite hipocritical to pound one dictatorship into the ground for suspision of having Weapons of Mass Destruction and yet play the softly softly game with another that we KNOW has Nukes.
The Court is not just arbitrarly (?sp) demanding MS put the Sun VM in, this is just part of a long running battle between Sun and MS over MS's bastardisation of the Java VM, thereby breaching the contract. If you break a contract you get punished, thats the way it works. So before the MS acolytes get up in arms how about doing a little research.
They talk about women in small metal bras at a hacker event and there is at last count only one Root Access joke. Come on people your letting the side down.
Thats all very well and good however we are not just talking about software DRM. We are talking about the major chip manufacturers getting involved in Palladaium, giving MS the opportunity to control the machines at a hardware level. It would be quite feasible for MS and Intel to block the installation of Linux or any other OS because it doesn't meet the requirements they set out. MS has the sort of industry clout to say to manufacturers of Desktop hardware, if you don't make your devices Palladium enabled then we can hurt you badly.
MS doesn't want consumers to have a REAL choice. They want everybody on the one platform that they can control and extort resources from.
The problem is this - Palladium. While stock standard DRM might not be so bad its the nasty little features that MS wants to build into it, such as MS being the ones who control what can and can't run on a Palladium enabled box. The other problem I have with it is the concept of letting someone else determine what I can and can't run on my machine.
I have no problem with religion, what I have a problem with is discriminatio on the basis of religion in an organisation that is not explicitly of that religion.
The Scouting Association is not part of any recognised church or other religious body. It will allow members of any number of faiths from christian to muslim to animalist, howver they will not let an atheist in. They do not see atheism as a valid belief system, instead equating it with nihlism, which is something different again. Tell me, how would you feel if you had been told you couldn't join a sporting team because you were a christian?
Im male, I went to school and I can sure as hell tell you that I wasn't treated as some sort of diseased creature. The school I went to encouraged diversity in ideas and cultures, allowing its students to gain an appreciation for the others point of view.(Greek, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Albanian, Turkish, Muslim, Christian, Buhdist, European), and this was a highschool.
The only time I have ever experienced true discrimination is through the Australian Scouting Organisation, they wont let Athiests in and not only that but they are legally allowed to discriminate based on religion, now thats a tragedy.
God why would you want Windows on your cars on-board anyway, aside from that, I sort of see your point, however with Palladium, we are not just talking about not providing support for a use we are now activly vetting what can and cannot be used on the system, to the point that we have to go through approved channels before our software would be allowed to work. This gives who ever owns those channels a huge amount of power. This is what I oppose.
What MS is proposing is a system where by they get to say who gets to play in the grounds. We hardly let our own governments decide this, let alone a private corperation with a history of dodgy dealings. Taking it to an extreme it could turn into some sort of Tax, in order to get the information you need to write Palladium compliant software you have to pay so much per app. Or even worse, you have to go through a long and ardeuous vetting period where you are judged by your competitor of all people on whether your software is secure.
Microsoft will not be developing the hardware for palladium, its partners in crime will. And just what is wrong with the assumption that you should be able to run what you like on the hardware you purchase. Just because Apple has chosen to go down the route of "You must use our hardware to use our software" doesn't mean the rest of us have to get stuck with it.
We've had more than fifteen years of build your own and I sure as hell don't want to go back to the bad old days of being locked into one software/hardware platform.
It always amazes me when people try to apply Darwinian theory to humanity. For other animals fine but the problem with humans is that we know the theory and have turned it on its head.
As to your comment about the people starving in famines being victims of natural selection, I respectfully put it to you that you blow it out your arse. Its a bit hard to move when some tin pot shit head of a general is ordering that anyone who tries to leave is to be shot. Or the army and rebels are both trying to steal your kids to fight their dirty wars.
Its not fucking natural selection, its just human bastadry
And the only other option to reasonable computer security for the general public happens to be: "an application automatically downloading software and installing it without the user knowing about it."
You mean like Gator?
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I thought this was obviouse. If a blackhole can suck light into it then it will be affecting the speed at which it travels, all celestial bodies will, its just the magnitude that differs.
No I am not blind to the situation, I do know what is going on, and as I said in my previous post the IT market in my area is pretty dead. What I am however is a realist.
I am working as a software Dev guy for my company, I am the only one in the organisation, I also run the Linux servers and assist in any other area of IT they need. No I am not getting paid the big bucks but Im not getting minimum wage either, and I can tell you now that if they had tried to offer minimum wage, I would have knocked them back. I have a family to feed and support and its just not going to happen.
Sure the dot bomb made management warey about IT, and sure there have been plenty of lay offs of both the good and bad, but you have to remember that now more than ever our industry is an ever changing one, you have to learn to adapt and move on. Not making it in this area, then move into another, no market in your region then find another one. Stop bitching and moaning and do something, anything.
Before I got this job I was commuting two hours away each day because thats where the work was, I wasn't sitting on my arse moaning about how nobody wants to pay me $70,000 for designing web pages.
In the end it comes down to this - Get off your arse and do something about your problem, stop complaining.
Thus proving the need for better user education. There is a major problem with the concept of an application automatically downloading software and installing it without the user knowing about it.
Okay this is it, I have had enough of the MS "We Make Machines for Idiots" line.
Your whole post just reeks of MS bullshit. What do you call the viruses that regularly sweep the planet, helped in no small part by the shitty code in Outlook Express.Outlook and IE? Features?
You want easy update then use apt on Debian or apt-rpm on redhat, shit you can even use the RedHat update agent.
You know I love those MS updates, they download shit like the new EULA, you know the one that gives MS permission to search your computer whenever they want for whatever they want.
You know before you post again how about you actually do your research, MS more secure, hah.
Please tell me you are being sarcastic, if not then...
Seriously do you actually know what you are talking about? Are you seriously saying that Unix ( a hugely broad spectrum of OS's by the way) is not at least more secure than Windows? And as for the Windows Reporting, gack.
Funnily enough I would hire a security expert for their bug hunting ability.
I think you are missing the point here. Microsoft is well known for hiding bugs and not doing anything about it, whereas with any of the major OSS packages if an exploit or bug is discovered then there is usually a patch available the next day or the day after at the latest. MS has been know to sit on bugs for months without releasing a fix for it, they have even been known to use the threat of a lawsuit to silence those who would warn the rest of the community.
Most of those being fired right now are the slack arse wanna bes who thought they would make a million during the dot bomb.Unfortunately a lot of good dev guys are being thrown in as well. However good Developers will always be in demand just like good doctors or lawyers. If your only skill is knowing Front Page on IIS then you are going to be out of luck. Trust me I know what Im talking about.
The region where I work has an almost non-existant IT job market. I lucked out because I didn't limit myself to one area, my job covers everything from Intranet/Internet Dev to Network Maintenance and more hard core software Dev.
My point is this - companies will always pay for quality, if a company wants to pay minimum wage for their software dev team then they are going to get the team they deserve. On the other hand if they are going to pay comensurate with skill and ability then they are going to be shooting ahead of the others, and companies realise this.
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Man after some of the days I have with my son, thats not such a bad idea :D
You maybe a special case, but we are not talking about SUV's full of equipment that needs to be lugged about. We're talking about the soccer mums and yuppies who see the SUV as a status symbol and never drive the damn thing out of the Suburbs.
Sure the 4 Wheel Drive has its place but its not in the inner city or Suburbs.
This really just goes too far, I hope that every parent who has kids in Finland in day care sends them to the head office of this organisation. Thousands of screaming stinking kids should change their minds pretty quickly.
Thats not anti-american thats anti-bush. You can be for america but against bush you know, or are you calling the Democrats traitors now?
How is this anti-american? Its a publicity stunt from the opposition party playing on our PM's well known techno-phobia.
I for one am glad the Labor party has finally settled on a platform re Iraq. To me it seems quite hipocritical to pound one dictatorship into the ground for suspision of having Weapons of Mass Destruction and yet play the softly softly game with another that we KNOW has Nukes.
Check your facts before you spout off.
Why, you planning on Nuking Kentucky are you?
The Court is not just arbitrarly (?sp) demanding MS put the Sun VM in, this is just part of a long running battle between Sun and MS over MS's bastardisation of the Java VM, thereby breaching the contract. If you break a contract you get punished, thats the way it works. So before the MS acolytes get up in arms how about doing a little research.
They talk about women in small metal bras at a hacker event and there is at last count only one Root Access joke. Come on people your letting the side down.
You mean like MS?
Thats all very well and good however we are not just talking about software DRM. We are talking about the major chip manufacturers getting involved in Palladaium, giving MS the opportunity to control the machines at a hardware level. It would be quite feasible for MS and Intel to block the installation of Linux or any other OS because it doesn't meet the requirements they set out. MS has the sort of industry clout to say to manufacturers of Desktop hardware, if you don't make your devices Palladium enabled then we can hurt you badly.
MS doesn't want consumers to have a REAL choice. They want everybody on the one platform that they can control and extort resources from.
The problem is this - Palladium. While stock standard DRM might not be so bad its the nasty little features that MS wants to build into it, such as MS being the ones who control what can and can't run on a Palladium enabled box. The other problem I have with it is the concept of letting someone else determine what I can and can't run on my machine.
I have no problem with religion, what I have a problem with is discriminatio on the basis of religion in an organisation that is not explicitly of that religion.
The Scouting Association is not part of any recognised church or other religious body. It will allow members of any number of faiths from christian to muslim to animalist, howver they will not let an atheist in. They do not see atheism as a valid belief system, instead equating it with nihlism, which is something different again. Tell me, how would you feel if you had been told you couldn't join a sporting team because you were a christian?
Get off the cross, someone needs the wood.
Im male, I went to school and I can sure as hell tell you that I wasn't treated as some sort of diseased creature. The school I went to encouraged diversity in ideas and cultures, allowing its students to gain an appreciation for the others point of view.(Greek, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Albanian, Turkish, Muslim, Christian, Buhdist, European), and this was a highschool.
The only time I have ever experienced true discrimination is through the Australian Scouting Organisation, they wont let Athiests in and not only that but they are legally allowed to discriminate based on religion, now thats a tragedy.
God why would you want Windows on your cars on-board anyway, aside from that, I sort of see your point, however with Palladium, we are not just talking about not providing support for a use we are now activly vetting what can and cannot be used on the system, to the point that we have to go through approved channels before our software would be allowed to work. This gives who ever owns those channels a huge amount of power. This is what I oppose.
What MS is proposing is a system where by they get to say who gets to play in the grounds. We hardly let our own governments decide this, let alone a private corperation with a history of dodgy dealings. Taking it to an extreme it could turn into some sort of Tax, in order to get the information you need to write Palladium compliant software you have to pay so much per app. Or even worse, you have to go through a long and ardeuous vetting period where you are judged by your competitor of all people on whether your software is secure.
Well thats my rant for the day.
Microsoft will not be developing the hardware for palladium, its partners in crime will. And just what is wrong with the assumption that you should be able to run what you like on the hardware you purchase. Just because Apple has chosen to go down the route of "You must use our hardware to use our software" doesn't mean the rest of us have to get stuck with it.
We've had more than fifteen years of build your own and I sure as hell don't want to go back to the bad old days of being locked into one software/hardware platform.
It always amazes me when people try to apply Darwinian theory to humanity. For other animals fine but the problem with humans is that we know the theory and have turned it on its head.
As to your comment about the people starving in famines being victims of natural selection, I respectfully put it to you that you blow it out your arse. Its a bit hard to move when some tin pot shit head of a general is ordering that anyone who tries to leave is to be shot. Or the army and rebels are both trying to steal your kids to fight their dirty wars.
Its not fucking natural selection, its just human bastadry
And the only other option to reasonable computer security for the general public happens to be: "an application automatically downloading software and installing it without the user knowing about it."
You mean like Gator?
I thought this was obviouse. If a blackhole can suck light into it then it will be affecting the speed at which it travels, all celestial bodies will, its just the magnitude that differs.
No I am not blind to the situation, I do know what is going on, and as I said in my previous post the IT market in my area is pretty dead. What I am however is a realist.
I am working as a software Dev guy for my company, I am the only one in the organisation, I also run the Linux servers and assist in any other area of IT they need. No I am not getting paid the big bucks but Im not getting minimum wage either, and I can tell you now that if they had tried to offer minimum wage, I would have knocked them back. I have a family to feed and support and its just not going to happen.
Sure the dot bomb made management warey about IT, and sure there have been plenty of lay offs of both the good and bad, but you have to remember that now more than ever our industry is an ever changing one, you have to learn to adapt and move on. Not making it in this area, then move into another, no market in your region then find another one. Stop bitching and moaning and do something, anything.
Before I got this job I was commuting two hours away each day because thats where the work was, I wasn't sitting on my arse moaning about how nobody wants to pay me $70,000 for designing web pages.
In the end it comes down to this - Get off your arse and do something about your problem, stop complaining.
Thus proving the need for better user education. There is a major problem with the concept of an application automatically downloading software and installing it without the user knowing about it.
Okay this is it, I have had enough of the MS "We Make Machines for Idiots" line.
Your whole post just reeks of MS bullshit. What do you call the viruses that regularly sweep the planet, helped in no small part by the shitty code in Outlook Express.Outlook and IE? Features?
You want easy update then use apt on Debian or apt-rpm on redhat, shit you can even use the RedHat update agent.
You know I love those MS updates, they download shit like the new EULA, you know the one that gives MS permission to search your computer whenever they want for whatever they want.
You know before you post again how about you actually do your research, MS more secure, hah.
Please tell me you are being sarcastic, if not then...
Seriously do you actually know what you are talking about? Are you seriously saying that Unix ( a hugely broad spectrum of OS's by the way) is not at least more secure than Windows? And as for the Windows Reporting, gack.
Funnily enough I would hire a security expert for their bug hunting ability.
I think you are missing the point here. Microsoft is well known for hiding bugs and not doing anything about it, whereas with any of the major OSS packages if an exploit or bug is discovered then there is usually a patch available the next day or the day after at the latest. MS has been know to sit on bugs for months without releasing a fix for it, they have even been known to use the threat of a lawsuit to silence those who would warn the rest of the community.
Most of those being fired right now are the slack arse wanna bes who thought they would make a million during the dot bomb.Unfortunately a lot of good dev guys are being thrown in as well. However good Developers will always be in demand just like good doctors or lawyers. If your only skill is knowing Front Page on IIS then you are going to be out of luck. Trust me I know what Im talking about.
The region where I work has an almost non-existant IT job market. I lucked out because I didn't limit myself to one area, my job covers everything from Intranet/Internet Dev to Network Maintenance and more hard core software Dev.
My point is this - companies will always pay for quality, if a company wants to pay minimum wage for their software dev team then they are going to get the team they deserve. On the other hand if they are going to pay comensurate with skill and ability then they are going to be shooting ahead of the others, and companies realise this.
I knew there was a reason I liked KDE over GNOME.