The want to give us free hardwarre because that way they can incorporate features like PALLADIUM and we will loose total control of our computer and our computers will become cable TV boxes where everything is pay per use. Email, web browsing, games etc.
That means a major victory over open source because when people are given the option of free hardware that is kept upto date with the technology over the option of buying hardware every few years more people will go with the former option.
Sounds hard to believe doesn't it but when M$ is behind it anything can happen.
Don't watch any channel from Viacomm. We are the consumer and I don't think we should let a corporation decide what we should have. It should be a open market where you only pay for what you want and if the supplier doesn't want to sell their channels individually then so be it.
Who are these people trying to fool. Everybody knows that porn is not going anywhere specially when you got big players like cable companies behind it.
Proposed solution. Send free porn to the feds and the folks at DOJ and everyboy can continue watching porn in peace.
What if this were not an accident but an attmempt by Microsoft to go open source. There are people who would work towards improving Windows, if the source was available. So this way they will become open source and wouldn't have to admit defeat.
Wake up DUDE! If you make an effort to understand the global political scenario you would understand why the developing nations never developed. The people living in the developing nations don't enjoy living in poor living conditions. Welcome to world of politics.
Out of curiousity. What were to happen if somebody had dummy files on their computer whose name was similar to a movie? Has anybody ever gotten in to trouble for that?
The bounty does nothing more than helps inflates the ego of the virus writers. You guys are talking about being famous, M$ just made the virus writer/s heroes by offering a reward.
Those guys have now become heroes and believe it or not they are going to get a higher paying job without much effort when they get out of prison. Also by offering a reward M$ just signed its own death warrant because now virus writers will try harder to produce something as destructful as blaster etc and their main target would be M$ because the open source community doesn't have financial resources like M$ to offer rewards. One of the merits if being poor.;-)
Windows is for consumers who want their PC and money to be consumed by windows where as Linux is for people who want value and security for their money.
Don Rumsfeld does have a right to voice his opinions but he can't voice his personal opinions when he is in his office. If you think that is wrong then I guess it is the people in the Government office that are excercing their right of freedom of speech.
Found this at security focus.
"Dave Aucsmith, Microsoft's Security Business Unit CTO said back on April 18, 2003 if Windows 2003 was as vulnerable as previous versions of Windows, it meant that the company's security improvements approach "was wrong."
Well, guess what, Microsoft was wrong. Dead wrong in the case of network administrators who've seen Server 2003 go down from one security exploit after another." - Eweek
You may not be using that many public IPs but there are many corporations that own huge chunks regardless. For example some corporations own xxx.xxx.1.1-xxx.xxx.255.255
People who own lighter can be arrested for being probable arsonist and people with lighter fluid as bomb makers.
I think it time somebody stood up and fought the battle all the way. I think/. readers should support a fellow/. reader who has received this threat for buying a smart card programmer and is not using it for illegal purposes.
What if the guy bought the smart card programmer for building a secure network because he/she was paranoid about privacy?? Its time these corporations are taught a lesson. Its time we the consumers reminded the corporations that we the consumers are the very reason why they are in existence and without us they are worthless.
Most of the organisations pay twice for Windows. I know most corporations, schools and colleges buy new machines from dell that already have Windows on them and Dell already charged them for Windows. They then go onto install their customized version of Windows for which they paid the bulk user license fee and if you use one serial for all those machines u get sued even though you've paid your dues to M$.
I don't know whether SCO is making a fair claim but I know that winning this lawsuit would mean opening of floodgates for SCO. Linux is a religion and its not a good idea to go against it specially when they have best of the programmers on their side.
Most of the/. readers read about the 42" plasma and the broadband access but they forgot how the hi-tech shower nearly burned the authors balls.
"the crotch-level nozzle blasting 102-degree water came as a shock."
All M$ does is form more security groups to try and convince the world that it is working on securing its products, and that is why they added IIS to the kernel in Windows 2003 so that when a cracker exploits it he has more control than ever. So much for making the software more secure.
What many people don't realize is that newly developing countries have an advantage and that is they can learn from the experiences of other developed countries. So incase of India the president has seen that two heads are better than one and when you let people use their free will the outcome is certainly better. In short Linux is better than windows because people customize it according to their needs unlike windows, which wants its customers customized.
Not that I for this but don't the processors have a unique ID associated with them? Also a chip that has a unique ID could be hardwired to the motherboard. Ever thought of that?
I am no expert but I think these worms must be tolerant to high temperatures because the space shuttle gets really hot when entering the Earth's atmosphere. God know what else are they tolerant to?
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The want to give us free hardwarre because that way they can incorporate features like PALLADIUM and we will loose total control of our computer and our computers will become cable TV boxes where everything is pay per use. Email, web browsing, games etc. That means a major victory over open source because when people are given the option of free hardware that is kept upto date with the technology over the option of buying hardware every few years more people will go with the former option. Sounds hard to believe doesn't it but when M$ is behind it anything can happen.
Don't watch any channel from Viacomm. We are the consumer and I don't think we should let a corporation decide what we should have. It should be a open market where you only pay for what you want and if the supplier doesn't want to sell their channels individually then so be it.
Who are these people trying to fool. Everybody knows that porn is not going anywhere specially when you got big players like cable companies behind it. Proposed solution. Send free porn to the feds and the folks at DOJ and everyboy can continue watching porn in peace.
"Life is either a daring experience or nothing."
What if this were not an accident but an attmempt by Microsoft to go open source. There are people who would work towards improving Windows, if the source was available. So this way they will become open source and wouldn't have to admit defeat.
How about counterstrike? It doesn't require a high end machine infact P4 1.7 is a over kill for counterstrike.
Officers: Knock Knock ISP: Who is it? Officers: FBI. We need information of people who have these IP addresses. ISP: But..tt it says RIAA.
Wake up DUDE! If you make an effort to understand the global political scenario you would understand why the developing nations never developed. The people living in the developing nations don't enjoy living in poor living conditions. Welcome to world of politics.
Out of curiousity. What were to happen if somebody had dummy files on their computer whose name was similar to a movie? Has anybody ever gotten in to trouble for that?
The bounty does nothing more than helps inflates the ego of the virus writers. You guys are talking about being famous, M$ just made the virus writer/s heroes by offering a reward.
;-)
Those guys have now become heroes and believe it or not they are going to get a higher paying job without much effort when they get out of prison. Also by offering a reward M$ just signed its own death warrant because now virus writers will try harder to produce something as destructful as blaster etc and their main target would be M$ because the open source community doesn't have financial resources like M$ to offer rewards. One of the merits if being poor.
Windows is for consumers who want their PC and money to be consumed by windows where as Linux is for people who want value and security for their money.
Don Rumsfeld does have a right to voice his opinions but he can't voice his personal opinions when he is in his office. If you think that is wrong then I guess it is the people in the Government office that are excercing their right of freedom of speech.
Where was the so called first amendment when the website of Al Jazeera was taken down after the Department of Defense called it unpatriotic.
Found this at security focus. "Dave Aucsmith, Microsoft's Security Business Unit CTO said back on April 18, 2003 if Windows 2003 was as vulnerable as previous versions of Windows, it meant that the company's security improvements approach "was wrong." Well, guess what, Microsoft was wrong. Dead wrong in the case of network administrators who've seen Server 2003 go down from one security exploit after another." - Eweek
You may not be using that many public IPs but there are many corporations that own huge chunks regardless. For example some corporations own xxx.xxx.1.1-xxx.xxx.255.255
People who own lighter can be arrested for being probable arsonist and people with lighter fluid as bomb makers. I think it time somebody stood up and fought the battle all the way. I think /. readers should support a fellow /. reader who has received this threat for buying a smart card programmer and is not using it for illegal purposes.
What if the guy bought the smart card programmer for building a secure network because he/she was paranoid about privacy?? Its time these corporations are taught a lesson. Its time we the consumers reminded the corporations that we the consumers are the very reason why they are in existence and without us they are worthless.
Most of the organisations pay twice for Windows. I know most corporations, schools and colleges buy new machines from dell that already have Windows on them and Dell already charged them for Windows. They then go onto install their customized version of Windows for which they paid the bulk user license fee and if you use one serial for all those machines u get sued even though you've paid your dues to M$.
I don't know whether SCO is making a fair claim but I know that winning this lawsuit would mean opening of floodgates for SCO. Linux is a religion and its not a good idea to go against it specially when they have best of the programmers on their side.
Most of the /. readers read about the 42" plasma and the broadband access but they forgot how the hi-tech shower nearly burned the authors balls.
"the crotch-level nozzle blasting 102-degree water came as a shock."
All M$ does is form more security groups to try and convince the world that it is working on securing its products, and that is why they added IIS to the kernel in Windows 2003 so that when a cracker exploits it he has more control than ever. So much for making the software more secure.
When you call IBM they send your HDD over to Hitachi. So I think Hitachi is basically recalling the deathstars.
What many people don't realize is that newly developing countries have an advantage and that is they can learn from the experiences of other developed countries. So incase of India the president has seen that two heads are better than one and when you let people use their free will the outcome is certainly better. In short Linux is better than windows because people customize it according to their needs unlike windows, which wants its customers customized.
Not that I for this but don't the processors have a unique ID associated with them? Also a chip that has a unique ID could be hardwired to the motherboard. Ever thought of that?
I am no expert but I think these worms must be tolerant to high temperatures because the space shuttle gets really hot when entering the Earth's atmosphere. God know what else are they tolerant to?
If lindows takes over microsoft (hope they do) will you lock down Lindows like M$?