"The most disturbing part of this, however, is that MS Security was either watching his blog, or running searches on all MS related postings to scan for things they didn't like."
Geez, when you get a speeding ticket does this mean the state is watching your every move waiting for you to screw up?! Seriously, people read peoples blogs, right? Maybe someone at MS actually reads his site and when he saw what was done, he mentioned it, and things went on from there. Naw, much more likely that MS is watching every move all 50,000 employees are making.
Of course not. But that's not even close to what is happening. In reality, even if I leave my house or car unlocked, you don't have a right to go in and take stuff out of it. It's still theft. And if you break a window just to prove that windows are breakable, you don't get a free pass on that either.
As I mentioned in another response, I agree that the punishments threatened are absolutely rediculous.
But MS is releasing fixes (a lot of them). See the reply to a prior message above.
I'm not an MS apologist by any stretch, but by virtue of their own success, they are in an impossible position today. And when they are replaced by another company, they too will have the same issues.
No doubt there is (a lot) of room for improvement. But how do you handle things like Windows 95/98/ME? No matter how good MS makes the latest version of Windows, there are going to be a zillion users using old stuff. Even more important, how do you get everyone to patch? The thing that I think keeps getting overlooked is how often the patches were available, but not deployed. How many of the fixes that MS is releasing are for exploits that people really knew about beforehand, and how many are from potential exploits that MS found doing code reviews?
The one thing that they should do is create a roll-up fix and put it on a CD and scatter them in every retail store in the nation, like AOL does, to get the XP fixes out there. Yeesh, install a clean copy of XP and you need 48 patches to get it up to date. Good luck doing that on a modem!
I totally agree about the idiotic penalties being handed out (proposed/threatened/etc) for misc computer crimes. There is definitely room for some common sense. Maybe in another 10 years:( But the fact remains that people *are* doing wrong, and should be punished.
Good thing I never speed, or do anything else 'wrong'... yeah right!:)
"Oh, and don't forget about the kids that get locked up for writing viruses and other mischevious software that exploit said vulnerabilities. They're an easy scape goat to relieve Microsoft yet again of any responsibility what so ever."
When you have a house and it's broken into, you're going to hope that the kids that did it are caught and put in jail. Just remember that it's your fault because you didn't put unbreakable glass in your windows, and encase the entire house in armor plating.
"If they want to do business with you, then you shouldn't have to buy over-priced software."
And the potential customer that you just told off will never be heard from again...
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Hey, serious question - do you have something to back up that comment about the Soviets being able to hit orbits better than American rockets? It's something I've never even thought about, and it would be interesting to read more about that particular issue. Thanks!
Estrada has been called lots of things, but calling him a Nazi is probably a new one on him. Of course, the Nazi's probably would have killed him, but hey, don't let anything get in the way of hurling invective.
Why mention unnecessary upgrades?
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Why would you need to factor in upgrades to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 just to use a.NET based language? Lots of people run it on Windows 2000, and hit Windows 2000 Servers. Applications built in VS.NET (or any other.NET language / environment) can be deployed all the way down to Windows 98 and NT 4 machines.
Pick one of the languages
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Why wouldn't you just pick one of the.NET languages and make them all learn it? It's the same thing as making all the developers learn Java.
And the holes that the worms have been crawling through on Windows are easy to fix as well. It's just that people don't bother to do it, or get caught up in bureaucracy.
Oh yeah, there are games and video cards under windows that will run across multiple monitors. The neatest on is the Matrox Parhelia 512 - spread your game across 3 monitors:)
A review of the card
Given a dual head video card (I have a nVidia GeForce 4 ti4200) and Windows XP, simply plug the second monitor in and you're good to go. It wasn't as simple under Win2k, but it is absolutely no effort in XP.
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Bah. In my day sonny we used 300 baud modems with cups for the phone's headset. And we were happy to have it!
When I first started programming all we had were 0's and 1's... and sometimes the 1's didn't work!
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I'm done with you. Buh-bye.
Geez, when you get a speeding ticket does this mean the state is watching your every move waiting for you to screw up?! Seriously, people read peoples blogs, right? Maybe someone at MS actually reads his site and when he saw what was done, he mentioned it, and things went on from there. Naw, much more likely that MS is watching every move all 50,000 employees are making.
Ugh, you had to mention ladybugs! Those damn things have been *everywhere* for the past month.
As I mentioned in another response, I agree that the punishments threatened are absolutely rediculous.
I'm not an MS apologist by any stretch, but by virtue of their own success, they are in an impossible position today. And when they are replaced by another company, they too will have the same issues.
The one thing that they should do is create a roll-up fix and put it on a CD and scatter them in every retail store in the nation, like AOL does, to get the XP fixes out there. Yeesh, install a clean copy of XP and you need 48 patches to get it up to date. Good luck doing that on a modem!
Good thing I never speed, or do anything else 'wrong'... yeah right! :)
When you have a house and it's broken into, you're going to hope that the kids that did it are caught and put in jail. Just remember that it's your fault because you didn't put unbreakable glass in your windows, and encase the entire house in armor plating.
X10 has been around for decades. Long before X10.com.
No, those are valid targets (IMO). The mixing is when they put an AA battery next to a mosque, or park tanks next to civilian homes.
And the potential customer that you just told off will never be heard from again...
Hey, serious question - do you have something to back up that comment about the Soviets being able to hit orbits better than American rockets? It's something I've never even thought about, and it would be interesting to read more about that particular issue. Thanks!
Open Source can solve all problems! Just turn a bunch of software geeks loose on the problem and watch that baby go!
How exactly was Reagan involved?
Estrada has been called lots of things, but calling him a Nazi is probably a new one on him. Of course, the Nazi's probably would have killed him, but hey, don't let anything get in the way of hurling invective.
Why would you need to factor in upgrades to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 just to use a .NET based language? Lots of people run it on Windows 2000, and hit Windows 2000 Servers. Applications built in VS.NET (or any other .NET language / environment) can be deployed all the way down to Windows 98 and NT 4 machines.
Why wouldn't you just pick one of the .NET languages and make them all learn it? It's the same thing as making all the developers learn Java.
Given a dual head video card (I have a nVidia GeForce 4 ti4200) and Windows XP, simply plug the second monitor in and you're good to go. It wasn't as simple under Win2k, but it is absolutely no effort in XP.
I'm unclear - are you saying that Microsoft doesn't sell any OS's? Or that they stole all the different OS's they sell?