I think deleting the entire user's directory is a little harsh.
Instead why don't we write some information to the Boot sector of the hard drive that will cause data loss on Linux distributions. We could install it on our annual Tax Software an tell the people to try to return it to the retail store where they bought it if they don't like it. We will let people uninstall our software, but not the spyware that comes with it.
It may be a game publisher/ad-exec's dream, but it is not a player's dream.
Also I suppose it is possible to circumvent the ads in single player mode if your pull your dsl/cable/dial-up line out of your computer before you play.
Maybe they will take highly addictive games like Everquest or the Sims and place drug ads. They will attack you with Zoloft ads to cure "social anxiety disorder". "Take our drug and you will be able to meet real people again."
So how should I price Hello World? I just wrote it in C.
I'm sorry but I have already copyrighted "Hello World." You will be hearing from my attorneys. Thanks to congress extending copyrights, my great-grandchildren will still be getting money from you instead of actually trying to earn a living for themselves.
And before you get any other ideas I also copyrighted the following:
My original post was more "tongue in cheek" trying to get a small laugh on the porn comment.
However, If ISP's actually did something like what I said it could be a tremendous help. I have Bellsouth DSL (using PPPoE) and they actually will help troubleshoot your connection if you you are using the more popular routers like Linksys and D-link. (Surprisingly, they actually helped me troubleshoot the connection when I was using an OS/2 box as a firewall before routers were so cheap in mid-2000.)
Remember, Phone and Cable companies generally help with residential wiring (phone and cable) problems inside the house for a fee($$$). At their rates, They may like to get into residential network troubleshooting.
The Internet is running at the slowest speed ever, due to the clog being offered forth by the spam zombies, unpatched Windows boxes mass-scanning entire subnets due to virus and worm infection, and residential porn downloads.
Now that the price is down to as low as $25, maybe we should force people to get a broadband router that includes a hardware firewall. Which would help with the worms. ISP's can scan for viruses through email. However, I don't see your problem with "residential porn downloads". You act as if porn is a bad thing.
Congratulations! (to the United States) for catching up with the rest of the world.
Actually, Broadband has finally surpassed dial-up because the cable and phone companies are finally clearing up the back-log of people waiting for Cable/DSL.
The FA doesn't mention it, but I wonder if they were compensated in some manner.
Maybe the family is told, "If you let us watch your family's surfing habits we'll tell you if little johnny goes to a p0rn site." Of course what they don't know is that little johnny knows how to get around the firewall and get to the p0rn unnotticed.
What's next? Booting directly from the game CD into a custom anti-piracy OS and disabling any access to Windows?
Actually, That has already happened once in the past. (though not with Windows) Back when all games ran using DOS, Ultima VII required a user to boot it own version of dos that used customized drivers to slimline the os and increase available memory.
It's bad for MSFT et all to outsource programming work to cheaper labor markets. Its bad for the US Economy as a whole to outsource IT jobs. It causes brain drain by lowering professional salaries. Who is going to spend $100k for a college education if they can't get a job that can pay off their student loans. Eventually, foreign IT will have the knowledge and US companies will not be able to compete.
It's good for corporations to expect Open Source zealots to write it all for free. Many companies are paying programmers to write open-source code. IBM is one of the biggest examples. As open source projects get better and better, companies are not locked into a single vendor which hurts software monopolies(i.e. Microsoft) Other vendors can take advantage of that. However, it will hurt companies like IBM as their products also get competition from open source but this will help the consumer.
Cheap software takes away more jobs than free software? I am making an assumption on this one, but; if you mean cheap (proprietary and inexpensive) software takes jobs from free (even less expensive open-source) software... YES. If a company controls software they can charge high fees for development kits (compilers, debuggers, middleware etc..) which can create a high (monetary) barrier of entry that a small independent developer cannot afford. Open source allows everyone to have the tools necessary to develop software leveling the field so that an independent programmer can potentially compete with a larger company or fill a niche that a larger company is not interested in. Increased competetion creates more jobs.
I thought the whole point of the OS movement was to make the programmer completely irrelevant.Open source promotes the sharing of ideas. Programmers can take someone else's work and expand on it or build more things on top of it. Then they give their ideas back to open source and allow others to expand on their ideas. To me this makes programmers even more relevant.
If your system is a mission critical one, you should be running a firewall and anti-virus to begin with.
True, but antivirus programs take a few hours to days after the initial outbreak before their virus definitions are updated. Also, the firewall where I work has been circumvented because someone took their laptop on the road or home and got infected. When their laptop was brought back in and placed on the corporate network the firewall was breeched.
Also, I do believe good worms are just as bad as malevolent worms. Whenever a OS patch comes out we test it on our development servers to see if it affects anything critical before we apply it to production. And yes, occasionally the patch negatively impacts our work.
Who cares about the warranty anyways? The data on that drive is a whole lot more important.
I care about the warranty. A warranty is a measure of how long a company thinks its drive will last. If a company thinks that their drive will last only 2 years with real world use it will put a one year warranty on it instead of five.
The warranty will not replace your lost data; but it will tell you if the company has confidence in the equiptment it sells.
I'm 6'2" tall, I have long black hair, a bullring style nose ring, a scuffed black leather jacket, a motorcycle and a visible knife clipped to my pocket.
First, Kill the Nose Ring. That would be the first thing I would yank and I doubt it would feel good.
Second, grow a little, I'm 6'11" and I'm sure that helps little more than a measly 6'2".
Third, while I do have a black leather jacket that doesn't do a thing. It's the body underneath the jacket that matters. If you have no muscles the jacket won't help.
Scientists bond to space probes because they created them. As a programmer, I have an attachments to the software I created; if someone unfairly criticizes it sometimes I can take it personally.
Things like Bob and Clippy are loathed because they were what the creator/Microsoft wanted, not necessarily what the users wanted. In these 2 specific cases they act like the end-user is a complete idiot (which may or may not be true). People take offense at hand holding if they can walk fine on their own.
All the "secure code" in the world wont shield the system from a clueless user.
Creating a more user-friendly OS will not degrade security from worms and viruses. Being user friendly will not cause extra buffer overflows or executing code that comes in from a TCPIP port.
On the other hand, creating a more user-friendly OS will degrade security when clueless in-duh-viduals try to run malicious code. Technical people are not going to code 15 pop-ups into the OS verifying a user's intention to run a program because they will not want to go through that themselves. (Even if you did, a real idiot will click ok on all 15) In order to avoid this a user on the easiest system needs to be educated on what to do and what not to do in order to avoid security problems.
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Instead why don't we write some information to the Boot sector of the hard drive that will cause data loss on Linux distributions. We could install it on our annual Tax Software an tell the people to try to return it to the retail store where they bought it if they don't like it. We will let people uninstall our software, but not the spyware that comes with it.
Sound Familiar? Thanks Intuit - NOT!
Maybe a few of the hard drives will crash and Lucas is too ignorant to have a backup. This will save our money.
This actually reminds me of seeing Shater doing spoken word songs for priceline commericials. SHUDDER
Some idiot actually accepted a $200 bill with GW Bush on the front. Its hard to beat that. Here is the link to that article.
Will it play Net Hack?
In other news there are already three different file formats for this one making the DVD (+R) / (-R) choice seem easy.
It may be a game publisher/ad-exec's dream, but it is not a player's dream.
Also I suppose it is possible to circumvent the ads in single player mode if your pull your dsl/cable/dial-up line out of your computer before you play.
Maybe they will take highly addictive games like Everquest or the Sims and place drug ads. They will attack you with Zoloft ads to cure "social anxiety disorder". "Take our drug and you will be able to meet real people again."
Will we be able to blow up the ads? That might make it acceptable.
I will not pay for a game that tracks me or downloads ads. I am not even sure I would play it for free under thsoe conditions.
I'm sorry but I have already copyrighted "Hello World." You will be hearing from my attorneys. Thanks to congress extending copyrights, my great-grandchildren will still be getting money from you instead of actually trying to earn a living for themselves.
And before you get any other ideas I also copyrighted the following:
10 PRINT "YOUR NAME"
20 GOTO 10
I wasn't expecting a microsoft page either. Yesterday I saw someone's sig that said Let's Slashdot Microsoft . Maybe he submitted the article.
However, If ISP's actually did something like what I said it could be a tremendous help. I have Bellsouth DSL (using PPPoE) and they actually will help troubleshoot your connection if you you are using the more popular routers like Linksys and D-link. (Surprisingly, they actually helped me troubleshoot the connection when I was using an OS/2 box as a firewall before routers were so cheap in mid-2000.)
Remember, Phone and Cable companies generally help with residential wiring (phone and cable) problems inside the house for a fee($$$). At their rates, They may like to get into residential network troubleshooting.
Now that the price is down to as low as $25, maybe we should force people to get a broadband router that includes a hardware firewall. Which would help with the worms. ISP's can scan for viruses through email. However, I don't see your problem with "residential porn downloads". You act as if porn is a bad thing.
Actually, Broadband has finally surpassed dial-up because the cable and phone companies are finally clearing up the back-log of people waiting for Cable/DSL.
Maybe the family is told, "If you let us watch your family's surfing habits we'll tell you if little johnny goes to a p0rn site." Of course what they don't know is that little johnny knows how to get around the firewall and get to the p0rn unnotticed.
Actually, That has already happened once in the past. (though not with Windows) Back when all games ran using DOS, Ultima VII required a user to boot it own version of dos that used customized drivers to slimline the os and increase available memory.
If I'm a mouse and use this software is Disney going to sue me?
I guarantee in 2008 it will be on the Top Ten List of "Most Waited For Vaporware".
Its bad for the US Economy as a whole to outsource IT jobs. It causes brain drain by lowering professional salaries. Who is going to spend $100k for a college education if they can't get a job that can pay off their student loans. Eventually, foreign IT will have the knowledge and US companies will not be able to compete.
It's good for corporations to expect Open Source zealots to write it all for free.
Many companies are paying programmers to write open-source code. IBM is one of the biggest examples. As open source projects get better and better, companies are not locked into a single vendor which hurts software monopolies(i.e. Microsoft) Other vendors can take advantage of that. However, it will hurt companies like IBM as their products also get competition from open source but this will help the consumer.
Cheap software takes away more jobs than free software?
I am making an assumption on this one, but; if you mean cheap (proprietary and inexpensive) software takes jobs from free (even less expensive open-source) software... YES. If a company controls software they can charge high fees for development kits (compilers, debuggers, middleware etc..) which can create a high (monetary) barrier of entry that a small independent developer cannot afford. Open source allows everyone to have the tools necessary to develop software leveling the field so that an independent programmer can potentially compete with a larger company or fill a niche that a larger company is not interested in. Increased competetion creates more jobs.
I thought the whole point of the OS movement was to make the programmer completely irrelevant.Open source promotes the sharing of ideas. Programmers can take someone else's work and expand on it or build more things on top of it. Then they give their ideas back to open source and allow others to expand on their ideas. To me this makes programmers even more relevant.
True, but antivirus programs take a few hours to days after the initial outbreak before their virus definitions are updated. Also, the firewall where I work has been circumvented because someone took their laptop on the road or home and got infected. When their laptop was brought back in and placed on the corporate network the firewall was breeched.
Also, I do believe good worms are just as bad as malevolent worms. Whenever a OS patch comes out we test it on our development servers to see if it affects anything critical before we apply it to production. And yes, occasionally the patch negatively impacts our work.
Who cares about the warranty anyways? The data on that drive is a whole lot more important.
I care about the warranty. A warranty is a measure of how long a company thinks its drive will last. If a company thinks that their drive will last only 2 years with real world use it will put a one year warranty on it instead of five.
The warranty will not replace your lost data; but it will tell you if the company has confidence in the equiptment it sells.
First, Kill the Nose Ring. That would be the first thing I would yank and I doubt it would feel good.
Second, grow a little, I'm 6'11" and I'm sure that helps little more than a measly 6'2".
Third, while I do have a black leather jacket that doesn't do a thing. It's the body underneath the jacket that matters. If you have no muscles the jacket won't help.
Scientists bond to space probes because they created them. As a programmer, I have an attachments to the software I created; if someone unfairly criticizes it sometimes I can take it personally.
Things like Bob and Clippy are loathed because they were what the creator/Microsoft wanted, not necessarily what the users wanted. In these 2 specific cases they act like the end-user is a complete idiot (which may or may not be true). People take offense at hand holding if they can walk fine on their own.
Creating a more user-friendly OS will not degrade security from worms and viruses. Being user friendly will not cause extra buffer overflows or executing code that comes in from a TCPIP port.
On the other hand, creating a more user-friendly OS will degrade security when clueless in-duh-viduals try to run malicious code. Technical people are not going to code 15 pop-ups into the OS verifying a user's intention to run a program because they will not want to go through that themselves. (Even if you did, a real idiot will click ok on all 15) In order to avoid this a user on the easiest system needs to be educated on what to do and what not to do in order to avoid security problems.