"40 million" sales in one quarter turns into 30 million - or less - in four months...
Can you say, "Bill is a lying piece of shit"?
I knew you could.
Besides which, sales does not tell the story. It's the customer complaints, security disasters, patch problems, etc., ad nauseum, which will tell the story by the end of the year.
Actually I'd spend some of it having him investigated for anything including spitting on the sidewalk and then hound him to a life prison sentence, if at all possible.
Then I'd spend a small amount of the rest doing the same to George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the neocon cabal.
Then I'd spend a little financing Andrea Corr's PR for her album...to see if I could pick up any points..."Hey, baby, let me make you a star!"...that always works, right? Oh, wait, she already IS a star with four million British pounds in the bank...
Do we have nothing but idiots doing research these days? And reporting it here?
OF COURSE some people find making others angry rewarding! They're fucking primates!
Look, stupids...Primates have two reactions to their fear of others - flight or fight. They also have two basic reactions to others aggression against them: flight or fight.
In other words, when somebody is afraid of somebody else, they can either submit to them or attack them, That attack can be provoked by others aggression against them - or merely their own fear.
Further, if they can cause others to lose control by attacking them, they believe themselves to be superior because they think they are "in control" because THEY initiated the attack. If the person they're attacking reacts in fear and submission, they win. If the person they're attacking reacts with anger and retaliation, they STILL win.
Only if they end up getting their asses kicked do they lose. But even then, if it reinforces their fear of the world as legitimate, they still win - if you can call ANY of this "winning".
I call it "losing" on all counts.
This is not even Psych 101...This is neuropsychology.
Why? It demonstrates how stupid somebody is to believe that.16% stupid people is something that is NEWS.
The number of stupid people is more like 98%..16 isn't even on the radar.
In fact, those.16% were probably SMART and CURIOUS people with a lot of security software installed on their Windows machines who clicked on the ad to see IF their system could be infected. For all we know, they were all running their browsers in a VM!
Did we really need the "Vista beats Linux in three days" bullshit?
We KNOW Microsoft has 95-97 percent of the market. So what the fuck else is new?
Finally, this is just Microsoft spin. We KNOW that Vista is selling like a dog. We KNOW that most of the systems out there older than two years can't run it well - unless you're running the Basic version.
So cut the bullshit please. Microsoft is desperate because Vista is a dog, so they're putting out FUD like patent threats and spinning the numbers.
READ MY LIPS. ANYTHING PUT OUT BY MICROSOFT IS A LIE. MICROSOFT LIES. EVERY ONE WHO WORKS THERE LIES.
Your comments demonstrate an utter lack of comprehension of computer security, as when you say that a home user "has to be" the sys admin. And suggesting that this has anything to do with "scale" is completely irrelevant.
You've made any number of general statements about NT security design without backing any of them up. At the same time, you've made general statements about Linux security not being "fine grained" and the like which demonstrate a complete lack of comprehension of both security and Linux security.
Meanwhile, the reality of the marketplace is that Windows is a disaster as an secure OS. Every single significant security expert in the world believes that - except yourself - which clearly eliminates you as a security expert.
I think that speaks for itself.
When Linux has eliminated Microsoft as a factor and has the market share of Windows, and when Linux has as many security problems as Windows, email me.
Way back in the early '70's, I saw a TV news report about a school teacher in New Jersey, IIRC. This guy had developed a method to get kids to read at literally incredible speeds - way faster than the maximum 40,000 words per minute that the top of the line speed readers could supposedly to. He claimed his school kids could read at half a million to a million words per minute, IIRC.
The TV show was structured in an interesting way. First they would have the teacher describe his method (in general terms, not enough detail to reproduce it exactly). Then they would have a cognitive psychologist explain how it simple was not possible to do it - including issues about how the eye follows text as mentioned in TFA.
At the end, they gave an eight-year-old girl who had been taught the technigue a novel she had never seen before. She flipped through the pages for a few seconds, then recited the gist of the novel - not word for word, but she got the plot correct from beginning to end. They explained that she hadn't read at the top speed the teacher claimed was possible - but she HAD read it at approximately half a million words per minute! WAY past what their cognitive psychologist had said was possible.
Unfortunately I've never been able to track down that method the teacher developed.
"The companies plan to add a security layer to the offering using SanDisk's TrustedFlash security and digital rights management technology. The effort will elevate "simple flash storage to a whole new level of customer benefit"
The first thing Microsoft cares about in this endeaver is DRM?
And this is going to provide "a whole new level of customer benefit"?
I don't think so.
If Microsoft wants to make USB useful, let Windows XP and Vista be booted off it...(Yes, I know somebody has finally made this possible but success seems to be limited.)
Sorry, you do not understand "sudo". It does not give you "System" privilege - it gives you "root" privilege and then only on entry of the root password. On UNIX/Linux, that's almost the same thing, given the power of root on UNIX, but not exactly. The PowerPrompt utility gives you a higher level privilege than the system administrator has.
As for privilege escalation, before Windows NT/2000, basically you didn't even need to do it because everybody WAS "root". Even after Windows NT, virtually every exploit in Windows involved "privilege escalation" in the sense that most exploits allow you to do things that are not allowed in UNIX/Linux without root privilege. Spyware couldn't exist on Linux - and doesn't - without root privilege - it's trivial on Windows for spyware to set itself up with privileges that a normal user can't handle. That's WHY the PowerPrompt tool was invented - to give the admin user enough power to deal with spyware that even the sys admin can't get rid of.
In that sense, Windows "System" privilege demonstrates WHY there is no real equivalent restriction of "root" on UNIX - because trusting the system is frequently a bad idea. I have advocated such a privilege level for UNIX in the past because it would be good for the system to prevent the sys admin from screwing it up inadvertantly or deliberately. But a good case can be made from the Windows experience that this would merely allow malware to screw the system while preventing the sys admin from correcting the situation.
The bottom line: Windows has demonstrated since day one that it has a less secure design than UNIX. And this has nothing to do with the degree of market penetration, although certainly the sheer number of malware and exploits do indicate a heavier concentration on Windows than Linux. If Linux had 90 percent market share, I would expect to see many more exploits and malware ATTEMPTS for Linux. But the number would be smaller and the exploits tend to be less successful purely because of the differing design.
Windows XP continues to install the default user as a sys admin by design - and that is the single dumbest idea Microsoft ever had (next to the Registry as a single point of failure for the whole system.) That stupidity in itself annihilates any security advantages Microsoft might have ever designed into NT.
This has been the problem with the UNIX manufacturers since Day One: NIH syndrome.
They could have merged together ten years ago and come up with an OS to beat Windows with then.
But no, they wanted to continue the policy of charging high prices, spending millions on their own development teams to "differentiate" themselves from their "competitors" - when their only "competitor" was Microsoft.
So they shot themselves in the foot and let Microsoft take over.
And now Sun is slowly realizing this. So they OSS Solaris - too little, too late. Now they want to screw around with trying to make it "look like" or "act like" or "interoperate with" or whatever with Linux.
This is stupid.
What Sun needs to do is DROP Solaris completely, and donate all the useful technology from it to the Linux development community, to be integrated into the Linux system.
HP needs to do the exact same thing with HP/UX (assuming that POS HAS any useful technology.)
IBM needs to do the exact same thing with AIX.
Where there is ONE UNIX technology (or two, counting BSD - which is not a factor against Microsoft), these companies MIGHT have a chance to topple Microsoft from the server room and someday the desktop.
As long as they continue to play the NIH game, they will lose - and only Linux has a chance - but it will take Linux longer if the big boys don't get behind it.
"good doctors" (with the exception of Dr. Who, of course, and maybe Dr. Atomic.)
First, who cares if everything you've done comes back to haunt you? It's called "karma" and people have been dealing with it for thousands of years.
Second, the only people who want their past to be forgotton are politicians and criminals (and I say that as a former criminal myself who doesn't give a damn whether my past is known.)
Third, even if YOUR computer forgets, who says somebody else's won't remember, giving you the disadvantage?
Fourth, who decides what should be forgotten?
Fifth, if you don't want your past comments on the Net, don't put your current comments there.
Sixth, has the "good doctor" ever heard of personal responsibility? Probably not, the concept has been "forgotten" in this society.
Morons.
It seems no matter what stupid notion somebody comes up with, they can get publicity for it.
Which is why anybody who takes them on by picketing is an idiot. Henson gets no sympathy from me because he should have known better, given their known history. If you want to fuck Scientology up, there are more effective ways than picketing. Illegal ways, maybe - but you either want results or you don't.
As Magneto put it, "From here it doesn't look like they're playing by your rules. Maybe it's time to play by theirs." You don't play by the rules when the other side doesn't. There are no rules in SpecWar, as Dick Marcinko puts it.
WHY when I see Slashdot pages 1 to x at the top of a topic, and I click on page 2, I get page ONE ALL OVER AGAIN?
And sometimes page 3 and beyond behave the same way? At some point, I start getting new pages with new responses, but it's incredibly annoying to have to click on two or three pages to get PAST page one!
Are my settings fucked up, is it Firefox, what the hell is it? This happens on Windows, Linux, anything! Is this a known bug in Slash or what?
Basic human nature is why the state can never work. In fact, it's also why even anarchy can never work. Anarchy, however, offers the least opportunity for abuse.
You can't base a society higher than a chimpanzee troop on primates. It's that simple.
Unfortunately, primates are also incapable of learning this obvious truth.
Which is why you're all going to die and we Transhumans won't.
It's about time people wake up and smell the shit.
US corporations are run by the same assholes who run the US state. These people have no principles and no interest in the welfare of the country, their customers, or anything else but their stock options and their salaries.
They're scum, pure and simple. There aren't five corporate management heads in this world who don't deserve to be drawn and quartered or reduced to serving customers Big Macs at McDonalds.
Stop investing in corporate stocks. Start investing in yourself.
Claiming that merely having a superuser means UNIX is less secure is simply ridiculous. Privilege escalation has always been easier in Windows than UNIX.
Windows has a System account which can be easily accessed. I have a utility called PowerPrompt which gives me System access and allows me to kill any process and delete any file. Useful for dealing with spyware that also seems to find it easy to achieve system level power.
When can we expect this Utopia to occur? Right after the Rupture - when all the Christians go to hell because Jesus believes that "they all think like bugs down there"?
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Microsoft lies.
Period.
"40 million" sales in one quarter turns into 30 million - or less - in four months...
Can you say, "Bill is a lying piece of shit"?
I knew you could.
Besides which, sales does not tell the story. It's the customer complaints, security disasters, patch problems, etc., ad nauseum, which will tell the story by the end of the year.
"I'm a linux man myself. I doubt that will ever change. But I feel no need whatsoever to destroy microsoft."
Sure, Bill, we understand.
Now go find your cell, Steve is calling you.
Actually I'd spend some of it having him investigated for anything including spitting on the sidewalk and then hound him to a life prison sentence, if at all possible.
Then I'd spend a small amount of the rest doing the same to George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the neocon cabal.
Then I'd spend a little financing Andrea Corr's PR for her album...to see if I could pick up any points..."Hey, baby, let me make you a star!"...that always works, right? Oh, wait, she already IS a star with four million British pounds in the bank...
Microsoft sells lies, not software.
Period.
Therefore, nothing they do is to be taken as positive - even if Bill gave me all his money, I'd be suspicious.
Do we have nothing but idiots doing research these days? And reporting it here?
OF COURSE some people find making others angry rewarding! They're fucking primates!
Look, stupids...Primates have two reactions to their fear of others - flight or fight. They also have two basic reactions to others aggression against them: flight or fight.
In other words, when somebody is afraid of somebody else, they can either submit to them or attack them, That attack can be provoked by others aggression against them - or merely their own fear.
Further, if they can cause others to lose control by attacking them, they believe themselves to be superior because they think they are "in control" because THEY initiated the attack. If the person they're attacking reacts in fear and submission, they win. If the person they're attacking reacts with anger and retaliation, they STILL win.
Only if they end up getting their asses kicked do they lose. But even then, if it reinforces their fear of the world as legitimate, they still win - if you can call ANY of this "winning".
I call it "losing" on all counts.
This is not even Psych 101...This is neuropsychology.
Monkey-ass morons.
Why? It demonstrates how stupid somebody is to believe that .16% stupid people is something that is NEWS.
.16 isn't even on the radar.
.16% were probably SMART and CURIOUS people with a lot of security software installed on their Windows machines who clicked on the ad to see IF their system could be infected. For all we know, they were all running their browsers in a VM!
The number of stupid people is more like 98%.
In fact, those
Morons wrote the article.
Morons published it here.
'Nuff said.
Did we really need the "Vista beats Linux in three days" bullshit?
We KNOW Microsoft has 95-97 percent of the market. So what the fuck else is new?
Finally, this is just Microsoft spin. We KNOW that Vista is selling like a dog. We KNOW that most of the systems out there older than two years can't run it well - unless you're running the Basic version.
So cut the bullshit please. Microsoft is desperate because Vista is a dog, so they're putting out FUD like patent threats and spinning the numbers.
READ MY LIPS. ANYTHING PUT OUT BY MICROSOFT IS A LIE. MICROSOFT LIES. EVERY ONE WHO WORKS THERE LIES.
Period.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Your comments demonstrate an utter lack of comprehension of computer security, as when you say that a home user "has to be" the sys admin. And suggesting that this has anything to do with "scale" is completely irrelevant.
You've made any number of general statements about NT security design without backing any of them up. At the same time, you've made general statements about Linux security not being "fine grained" and the like which demonstrate a complete lack of comprehension of both security and Linux security.
Meanwhile, the reality of the marketplace is that Windows is a disaster as an secure OS. Every single significant security expert in the world believes that - except yourself - which clearly eliminates you as a security expert.
I think that speaks for itself.
When Linux has eliminated Microsoft as a factor and has the market share of Windows, and when Linux has as many security problems as Windows, email me.
I'm not holding my breath.
Have a nice day.
Way back in the early '70's, I saw a TV news report about a school teacher in New Jersey, IIRC. This guy had developed a method to get kids to read at literally incredible speeds - way faster than the maximum 40,000 words per minute that the top of the line speed readers could supposedly to. He claimed his school kids could read at half a million to a million words per minute, IIRC.
The TV show was structured in an interesting way. First they would have the teacher describe his method (in general terms, not enough detail to reproduce it exactly). Then they would have a cognitive psychologist explain how it simple was not possible to do it - including issues about how the eye follows text as mentioned in TFA.
At the end, they gave an eight-year-old girl who had been taught the technigue a novel she had never seen before. She flipped through the pages for a few seconds, then recited the gist of the novel - not word for word, but she got the plot correct from beginning to end. They explained that she hadn't read at the top speed the teacher claimed was possible - but she HAD read it at approximately half a million words per minute! WAY past what their cognitive psychologist had said was possible.
Unfortunately I've never been able to track down that method the teacher developed.
"The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield!"
"The companies plan to add a security layer to the offering using SanDisk's TrustedFlash security and digital rights management technology. The effort will elevate "simple flash storage to a whole new level of customer benefit"
The first thing Microsoft cares about in this endeaver is DRM?
And this is going to provide "a whole new level of customer benefit"?
I don't think so.
If Microsoft wants to make USB useful, let Windows XP and Vista be booted off it...(Yes, I know somebody has finally made this possible but success seems to be limited.)
Sorry, you do not understand "sudo". It does not give you "System" privilege - it gives you "root" privilege and then only on entry of the root password. On UNIX/Linux, that's almost the same thing, given the power of root on UNIX, but not exactly. The PowerPrompt utility gives you a higher level privilege than the system administrator has.
As for privilege escalation, before Windows NT/2000, basically you didn't even need to do it because everybody WAS "root". Even after Windows NT, virtually every exploit in Windows involved "privilege escalation" in the sense that most exploits allow you to do things that are not allowed in UNIX/Linux without root privilege. Spyware couldn't exist on Linux - and doesn't - without root privilege - it's trivial on Windows for spyware to set itself up with privileges that a normal user can't handle. That's WHY the PowerPrompt tool was invented - to give the admin user enough power to deal with spyware that even the sys admin can't get rid of.
In that sense, Windows "System" privilege demonstrates WHY there is no real equivalent restriction of "root" on UNIX - because trusting the system is frequently a bad idea. I have advocated such a privilege level for UNIX in the past because it would be good for the system to prevent the sys admin from screwing it up inadvertantly or deliberately. But a good case can be made from the Windows experience that this would merely allow malware to screw the system while preventing the sys admin from correcting the situation.
The bottom line: Windows has demonstrated since day one that it has a less secure design than UNIX. And this has nothing to do with the degree of market penetration, although certainly the sheer number of malware and exploits do indicate a heavier concentration on Windows than Linux. If Linux had 90 percent market share, I would expect to see many more exploits and malware ATTEMPTS for Linux. But the number would be smaller and the exploits tend to be less successful purely because of the differing design.
Windows XP continues to install the default user as a sys admin by design - and that is the single dumbest idea Microsoft ever had (next to the Registry as a single point of failure for the whole system.) That stupidity in itself annihilates any security advantages Microsoft might have ever designed into NT.
"wife back seat driver" robot?
Robot 1: I'm going left.
Robot 2: No, you idiot! Go right!
This has been the problem with the UNIX manufacturers since Day One: NIH syndrome.
They could have merged together ten years ago and come up with an OS to beat Windows with then.
But no, they wanted to continue the policy of charging high prices, spending millions on their own development teams to "differentiate" themselves from their "competitors" - when their only "competitor" was Microsoft.
So they shot themselves in the foot and let Microsoft take over.
And now Sun is slowly realizing this. So they OSS Solaris - too little, too late. Now they want to screw around with trying to make it "look like" or "act like" or "interoperate with" or whatever with Linux.
This is stupid.
What Sun needs to do is DROP Solaris completely, and donate all the useful technology from it to the Linux development community, to be integrated into the Linux system.
HP needs to do the exact same thing with HP/UX (assuming that POS HAS any useful technology.)
IBM needs to do the exact same thing with AIX.
Where there is ONE UNIX technology (or two, counting BSD - which is not a factor against Microsoft), these companies MIGHT have a chance to topple Microsoft from the server room and someday the desktop.
As long as they continue to play the NIH game, they will lose - and only Linux has a chance - but it will take Linux longer if the big boys don't get behind it.
"good doctors" (with the exception of Dr. Who, of course, and maybe Dr. Atomic.)
First, who cares if everything you've done comes back to haunt you? It's called "karma" and people have been dealing with it for thousands of years.
Second, the only people who want their past to be forgotton are politicians and criminals (and I say that as a former criminal myself who doesn't give a damn whether my past is known.)
Third, even if YOUR computer forgets, who says somebody else's won't remember, giving you the disadvantage?
Fourth, who decides what should be forgotten?
Fifth, if you don't want your past comments on the Net, don't put your current comments there.
Sixth, has the "good doctor" ever heard of personal responsibility? Probably not, the concept has been "forgotten" in this society.
Morons.
It seems no matter what stupid notion somebody comes up with, they can get publicity for it.
So what am I not famous?
"What keeps the most important and powerful communication tool since the telephone from being universally embraced?"
Simple.
Your TV works.
Your computer doesn't.
Why?
There's no software in your TV. That's why.
Fix the software industry or fergeddaboutit.
"these are *not* safe people to fight."
Which is why anybody who takes them on by picketing is an idiot. Henson gets no sympathy from me because he should have known better, given their known history. If you want to fuck Scientology up, there are more effective ways than picketing. Illegal ways, maybe - but you either want results or you don't.
As Magneto put it, "From here it doesn't look like they're playing by your rules. Maybe it's time to play by theirs." You don't play by the rules when the other side doesn't. There are no rules in SpecWar, as Dick Marcinko puts it.
a patent troll?
That's like expecting it from a Zionist - or a Republican - or a Democrat - or...well, just about any human.
WHY when I see Slashdot pages 1 to x at the top of a topic, and I click on page 2, I get page ONE ALL OVER AGAIN?
And sometimes page 3 and beyond behave the same way? At some point, I start getting new pages with new responses, but it's incredibly annoying to have to click on two or three pages to get PAST page one!
Are my settings fucked up, is it Firefox, what the hell is it? This happens on Windows, Linux, anything! Is this a known bug in Slash or what?
and they'll take it.
Basic human nature is why the state can never work. In fact, it's also why even anarchy can never work. Anarchy, however, offers the least opportunity for abuse.
You can't base a society higher than a chimpanzee troop on primates. It's that simple.
Unfortunately, primates are also incapable of learning this obvious truth.
Which is why you're all going to die and we Transhumans won't.
Have a nice day.
on their dispute with MySpace (over cutting off its users access to Photobucket), once money was tossed Photobucket's way?
that claimed Vista had no bugs rated Critical?
Tell me again how Microsoft security has improved...
Suckers.
It's about time people wake up and smell the shit.
US corporations are run by the same assholes who run the US state. These people have no principles and no interest in the welfare of the country, their customers, or anything else but their stock options and their salaries.
They're scum, pure and simple. There aren't five corporate management heads in this world who don't deserve to be drawn and quartered or reduced to serving customers Big Macs at McDonalds.
Stop investing in corporate stocks. Start investing in yourself.
Claiming that merely having a superuser means UNIX is less secure is simply ridiculous. Privilege escalation has always been easier in Windows than UNIX.
Windows has a System account which can be easily accessed. I have a utility called PowerPrompt which gives me System access and allows me to kill any process and delete any file. Useful for dealing with spyware that also seems to find it easy to achieve system level power.
When can we expect this Utopia to occur? Right after the Rupture - when all the Christians go to hell because Jesus believes that "they all think like bugs down there"?