Now consider that the overhead of spam probably ends up costing more than what the RIAA and MPAA claim piracy is costing them. (or at least what it's *actually* costing them, if anything)
Did you give them the date, time, and name of the person you were speaking to on your original call?
Are you sure they actually listened to the conversation recordings as opposed to finding where their "oops" was?
Finding and listening to recordings is expensive -- I'm surprised that they would bother digging out the archives (or even keep archives for more than a few months!) for such a trivial issue.
Errrr... Not exactly... Anti-Virus picks it up becasue it was told to. Modify it a little and you now have to wait for your signatures to be updated before you can again pick it up. Alternatively, you could set up your firewall correctly and you're already protected from any such nonsense in the future.
There was a saying about that but I've forgotten it. Something about closing all the windows and one still being open. Sure anti-virus might be handy, but its not a replacement for a properly configured firewall.
The reason I included Microsoft Corp. as a former employer and not XYZFind Corp. is becasue I wanted to point out that despite what most of you like to think, intelligent people do work at Microsoft.
Yes really, it's not a large room full of monkeys!
So what? I don't see what all the bickering is about... Security for the site requires the latest in digital certificates which no other browser yet supports, and that is somehow Microsoft's fault?
"Geez man that MiCr0$oFt is so shit, what kind of fool would favour security over compatability when youre talking billions of dollars changing hands via a website?"
And dont get me started on nutscrape and their poor excuse for a browser. If they hadn't ripped off Mozilla they'd still be a useless piece of shit. Now they're getting somewhere close to W3C compliant, but don't expect them to be on top of digital certificates and other recent standards.
Cut your petty speculation
"this was probably due more to ignorance rather than design on the part of the commissioning body"
As far as I know Microsoft tried long and hard to implement support for Netscape but its total lack of implementation of the required digital certificate standards made that more or less impossible. In fact I believe they collected much information regarding this, to demonstrate to the government that this wasn't a "lets ban everythign but our browsers because we're a monopoly" thing.
Jesus youre right! Whats up with that? Freaky stuff! Maybe he just submits through a delayed cron job to see if fools like us will notice and pick on it:)
erm...I dont know allot, but I can guarantee thers gonna be many angry and smartass linux guru's responses to your post explaining exactly why you know jack:)
No...but youre obviously not as 31337 as you think...we c00l 31337 slashdotters have portable fires that come out of a small box...and little round glass things that look like a miniature sun!
We also have wheels...oh yeah...and hand-dryers!!!!
Wow, I think we just found the Full Lunar Eclipse Bug... quick!!! stop those landfill trucks going to your bunker and clean it out....but this time it will be worse... reinforce the concrete by 2 feet more, and stock at least 18 months of canned food this time!!!
Little do I know, but Bar version 5.7.18 has a critical bug that was fixed in version 7.8.3. If it had been Bar '95 and 2000 instead,
yahuh, and if it was: Bar 2000 Bar 2000 service pack 1 Bar 2000 service pack 2 Bar 2000 redpolka bugfix release Bar 2000 bluetooth update Bar 2000 y2k compliant release Bar 2000 Build 812475.2
At least they can see the numbers (Im assuming they can count... though some mac users.....) at least with proper versio numbers you can see whats newer, rhather than trying to decode some 'user friendly' names added to the 'use friendly' versioning...
Yeha well they shouldnt really call them gadgets! Gadgets to me says something a geek wears on his belt to look cool to other geeks....not a tv or a handdryer (or a wheel for that matter)
But then again, i could be all wrong in my interpretation...Its all the media's fault! After all, they got us all thinking it ws the millennium...
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This guy sounds like a bit of a fool.
I hope he's not the same Dvorak that invented the keyboard layout I'm using.
But unfortunately you can't group labels (yet).
Now consider that the overhead of spam probably ends up costing more than what the RIAA and MPAA claim piracy is costing them. (or at least what it's *actually* costing them, if anything)
Holy Shit! Are you for real?
Did you give them the date, time, and name of the person you were speaking to on your original call?
Are you sure they actually listened to the conversation recordings as opposed to finding where their "oops" was?
Finding and listening to recordings is expensive -- I'm surprised that they would bother digging out the archives (or even keep archives for more than a few months!) for such a trivial issue.
(Trivial as compared to a class action lawsuit.)
Pitty about the exclusive US/Canada functionality.
I might have used this if it had support for my country.
Errrr... Not exactly... Anti-Virus picks it up becasue it was told to. Modify it a little and you now have to wait for your signatures to be updated before you can again pick it up. Alternatively, you could set up your firewall correctly and you're already protected from any such nonsense in the future.
There was a saying about that but I've forgotten it. Something about closing all the windows and one still being open. Sure anti-virus might be handy, but its not a replacement for a properly configured firewall.
Well, the idea is that eventually Media Player will have support for all these great Xiph codecs, just like it now has support for DivX.
Also related is this A Journal Discussion which I omitted in my original response.
The reason I included Microsoft Corp. as a former employer and not XYZFind Corp. is becasue I wanted to point out that despite what most of you like to think, intelligent people do work at Microsoft.
Yes really, it's not a large room full of monkeys!
So what? I don't see what all the bickering is about... Security for the site requires the latest in digital certificates which no other browser yet supports, and that is somehow Microsoft's fault?
"Geez man that MiCr0$oFt is so shit, what kind of fool would favour security over compatability when youre talking billions of dollars changing hands via a website?"
And dont get me started on nutscrape and their poor excuse for a browser. If they hadn't ripped off Mozilla they'd still be a useless piece of shit. Now they're getting somewhere close to W3C compliant, but don't expect them to be on top of digital certificates and other recent standards.
Cut your petty speculation
"this was probably due more to ignorance rather than design on the part of the commissioning body"
As far as I know Microsoft tried long and hard to implement support for Netscape but its total lack of implementation of the required digital certificate standards made that more or less impossible. In fact I believe they collected much information regarding this, to demonstrate to the government that this wasn't a "lets ban everythign but our browsers because we're a monopoly" thing.
Whered u get those figures man?? :))
Are you an engineer of some sort?
allright then rob@twcnyrr.com, ive got you now!
hahahaha...is that even right? Im betting the rob and the com are right... but what is twcnyrr, lol
I was scared of the sheer volume of mail I might get after all those endless pro-microsoft rants you see...
hahaha, and I thought that was caused by Y2K....
I think if NASA read that post we'd likely hit Y3K beofre they managed to get back to you using the instructions in your sig.
Cmon, explain what it all means!
I bet you just typed in some random chars in didnt you?
hhaahaha
is there more than one corect answer?
well considering i posted that comment at about 5am local time ill pick B
Jesus youre right! Whats up with that? Freaky stuff! Maybe he just submits through a delayed cron job to see if fools like us will notice and pick on it :)
erm...I dont know allot, but I can guarantee thers gonna be many angry and smartass linux guru's responses to your post explaining exactly why you know jack :)
:)
Hhehehe...sorry to break the truth to you
No...but youre obviously not as 31337 as you think...we c00l 31337 slashdotters have portable fires that come out of a small box...and little round glass things that look like a miniature sun!
We also have wheels...oh yeah...and hand-dryers!!!!
Wow, I think we just found the Full Lunar Eclipse Bug... quick!!! stop those landfill trucks going to your bunker and clean it out....but this time it will be worse... reinforce the concrete by 2 feet more, and stock at least 18 months of canned food this time!!!
bingo, thats exactly wat i was saying above (though i wasnt as clear)
the year thing works well, but theres no accurracy! How do you liek your timestamps on files? 1 second accuracy? 300 nanoseconds? or 3 months?
Little do I know, but Bar version 5.7.18 has a critical bug that was fixed in version 7.8.3. If it had been Bar '95 and 2000 instead,
yahuh, and if it was:
Bar 2000
Bar 2000 service pack 1
Bar 2000 service pack 2
Bar 2000 redpolka bugfix release
Bar 2000 bluetooth update
Bar 2000 y2k compliant release
Bar 2000 Build 812475.2
At least they can see the numbers (Im assuming they can count... though some mac users.....)
at least with proper versio numbers you can see whats newer, rhather than trying to decode some 'user friendly' names added to the 'use friendly' versioning...
what the hell's a framign hammer?
Hahahahhaahha, well yeha i gues..
:)
its all relative in the end...
so its just a matter of, if they said '20th century gadgets' or not
Yeha well they shouldnt really call them gadgets! Gadgets to me says something a geek wears on his belt to look cool to other geeks....not a tv or a handdryer (or a wheel for that matter)
But then again, i could be all wrong in my interpretation...Its all the media's fault! After all, they got us all thinking it ws the millennium...
Logic just doesnt prevail with reporters...