If Microsoft's main intention seemed to be to create good software, I think that most people would be less opposed to closed source. But Microsoft's intentions seem to me to be extremely hostile
(ii) Recipient shall not distribute the Device Adapter Code, or any portion thereof, on a stand-alone basis or otherwise permit further distribution of the Device Adapter Code and/or derivatives thereof by third parties.
If this is Microsoft's desire (and it has the right to require this; it owns the code!), it is clear already -- without going farther -- that the code cannot legally be incorporated into software for which source is made available to everyone, since it would violate these requirements. There are sensible reasons for such requirements. If Microsoft intends to support developers who use the code, releasing it to anyone could potentially increase its developer support costs without bound. (And developer support can't be done with minimum-wage employees; those who support developers usually have to be skilled programmers themselves.)
We're hearing the same arguments over and over about how evil MS is for being anti GPL. To each their own, but in MS' case, their bread and butter comes via the way of the developers, whom they pay top dollar to develop.
In opposition to this you have the GPL horde (and I don't mean it in a negative sense) that are mainly doing this on their own free time, with little to no support being offered. They are not as concerned with showing revenues gained to those who invested money in their stocks to make products to get the jobs done.
Sure MS may have issues via way of security, and bugs, but don't kid yourself cause many open source programs have those same bugs hence all those advisories on Bugtraq.
Why is everyone against someone else making money with their business model? No one tells the GPL developers what to do with their code, in fact some make money off of writing Unix based apps, albeit miniscule in comparison with MS. IBM, Sun, HPUX, all have variants which is pay for play *Nix, and Sun is similar to MS, so what's all the rage about.
I will also continue to support WindRiver's efforts in any way I can to ensure that the FreeBSD product line there continues and that FreeBSD can continue to be a solution which is broadly applicable to a wide array of markets.
The FreeBSD product line has reached the stage where I feel comfortable taking a job which allows me to focus more on Darwin. While I have enjoyed my time working with the people and projects at BSDi and WindRiver, I simply couldn't resist the
opportunity of working at Apple.
Nice move on his behalf as everyone needs to make a living, however I wonder a few things. How will this impact FreeBSD in the future. It's nice to for Jonathan to say he will continue to assist with the project, but what happens when his time becomes consumed at Apple, and he *has no* time for the FreeBSD project, how will FreeBSD stand up.
Another curiousity is, whether or not Apple has plans to move into another arch. Surely Jonathan could provide them with a variety of snippets on how to get it going, and if this does happen, how would FreeBSD compete with a company like Apple.
Now for the record *BSD is dying posts* will be ignored so don't bother trolling, I would like to hear perhaps from a developer what actions (if any) could, and would FreeBSD take, should Apple decide to switch into the i386 arena with Darwin.
Also I wonder how this will affect others who may be looking to focus more on themselves, as time becomes more valuable, and others decide to follow suit focusing more on a company and themselves, rather than the OS (FreeBSD). Are there backup developers, or does the team distribute the work left behind by a developer who jumped ship.
P.S. I hope the developers still aren't pissed at me these (12)
Personally I would wait if I were the Google staff. The market conditions for tech right now suck, and I think Google should look a bit more into making some form of money to show investors they can return their (the investors) money.
Take a look at Yahoo which peaked once as far as stocks went, nowadays its a crappy stock. Even Yahoo is having a hard time turning profit and even though Google is nice for searching, what else could they possibly offer via way of return funds to an investor with the minimal advertising thats done there?
Example, it seems that they've added sponsors to a particular search query which match what you're loking for, however when people want something they're searching for, how many people click those links?
It's a definite crappy market for now, and many investors see tech sleeping for a few years, and people are scared of dumping their money on tech stocks.
What happened in the past always gives an insight of which way to move ahead in the future. For example I was watching a tv show called Frontline on Friday in which the state of the world was being discussed, and how man has destroyed much of it (animals going extinct, plants, algae, etc.) and the scientist predicted that at the rate we're going with global warming, tree deforestation, fishing overkill, that the world is in some serious shit.
In Mongolia as it stands, many of the country's natural grass is barely growing due to the country's collapse, and the boom of farmers raising goats, and not switching to other parts of the land to allow the fields to grow back. In China they faced the same problem years ago, and now within the next 5 years they have to destroy hundreds of thousands of animals in order to avoid losing many resources.
Paleontologists explained how essential things are nowadays, how they're being destroyed, and how this compared to the repeating occurances of extinction with the dinosaurs, and other stuff like algeas, and crap like that.
History is repetitive, and scientist up to this date have still not mapped out means to re-create faster than we destroy. It's expected within 100-200 years a major shortage on things we take for granted unless change happens now. Since they stated their is no more time to waste.
Anyways I would rather see this being studied than missle defense programs, technological bs like Echelons, Carnivores, etc., I think it's more important to understand what happened in the past to gain insight into the future.
We all know the aliens from another Stargate set up the pyramids!
Ok so it wasn't funny. Anyways there was a recent (semi recent about 4 months ago) documentary on PBS depicting how this may have worked which knocked off many theories and made sense. According to the doc., slaves were not used and this was judged based on evidence from an excavation, that showed what were supposedly slaves, were treated like royalty. (Judging from the medical care they received)
Leading engineers calculated block by block how it was done, and their theory was, ramps were made, and the stones were hauled up these ramps by many workers who traveled to Egypt to honor the kings. Enigneers, doctors, you name it supposedly assisted raising the blocks until it was done.
According to the scientists and Engineers I think it took about 30-40 years per pyramid, in which many felt honorable to do. This again was based on evidence from excavation which showed no one was a prisoner, or slave, engineers who recreated the scenario (nice SGI graphics too).
Also in the documentary it showed how ancient medical techniques were used to heal broken bones, etc.
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Applied Digital Solutions, an e-business-to-business solutions provider, acquired the patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security."... One inquirer was the U.S. Department of Defense through a contractor, according to Zhou. American soldiers may be required to wear the implant so their whereabouts and health conditions can be accessed at all times, said the scientist.
I'm tired of hearing about all of this technology which will supposedly make the world easier to live in. Soon we'll end up having a world full of lazy people whom will create something for them to avoid having them do anything for themselves. Out of a fictional book of robots taking over.
So you have a fully digital life, next what implants to monitor your every move via GPS, monitor your heart rates, etc...? Oh wait that's already coming out next month...
Digital Angel sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by global positioning satellite technology. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles and can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a monitoring facility. "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless"
A $10,000 machine dedicated to a single game knocks the socks off a PS2/XBox any day.
While this may be true, you have to take into consideration, that the company would have to sell an enormous amount of them to make a profit, as opposed to focusing on creating home market games, which many have turned to and is guaranteed to make money.
Heck yea I remember the days of playing Joust, Missle Command, Dig Dug, and others, but nowadays the games are expensive, they make too many to find a favorite, and way too many arcades no longer exist even in New York City. It's a losing venture for them.
Out here in New York City, the good od mayor has saw fit to ban many of the old arcades that once owned the Times Square area, since they claimed, the arcades posed a dangerous hazard to the citizens. The stated too many kids cut classes to end up their, pedo's went their to pick up kids, etc, etc.
Anyways, I haven't seen a decent arcade in ages, and the ones I do see are all like Starbucks type places with bars, neon lights, etc. Well it may be nice to some, but no longer do most of those games take money but ATM like refillable cards, and they're not 25 cents like they used to be. Why should I spend 2.00 on a game when I could stay home playing PS2?
Aside from that, hardly any pinball machines make money in todays world. Think about where the majority of p'ball machines end up, honky tonk pubs, and shit. Definitely not a money maker.
Instead of waisting so much money on obsolete missions to places, we won't be able to travel to, I say these scientist should focus on a way to breathe new life into Silicon Valley
Some of the things are typical of most peoples complaints regarding ISPs. So here's what I think of it all. Firstly when it comes to justice, a Judge in a court (think about this deeply for a second) is likely to pull in a win. Call it intuition, but if you were a cop you would be less likely to give your `brother cop` a ticket. On to the complaint.
Judge Reade's lawsuit says Rogers advertising promised quick and easy access to the Internet, plus "an enhanced multimedia experience and technical support 24 hours a day."
Odd how this is the first I've ever heard of anyone complaint about this ISP via way of a lawsuit. I wonder how many others have either complained, in comparison with how many users they have, etc. People always complain for whatever reason about anything, it's human nature.
Instead, she says, the system rarely worked.
Some days, she couldn't connect to the Internet at all. At other times, she says the connection would shut down when she or her teenaged children were using it.
As stated how many people faced this same problem with this provider? A bit disturbing to see this article which seems to contain shaky grounds. So she doesn't want money but an apology? If it's a matter of morals, why waste the peoples time and money with this bs, just move along to another provider, unless she has a vendetta which is not written going on against the provider.
Now when I see things like it would shut down when she and her kids were using it, how the hell does she know it wasn't her own, or her kids negligence that was causing it? For this I refer to "Diary of an AOL'er", a funny ass story, but oh so true for some people.
I would say Myst has done more for 3d graphics than Quake has, and Nintendo did some really cool stuff with games like Legend of Zelda, Metroid, etc., Quake just hit it on the nose by being a really great interactive game.
People misunderstand our site, we're not anti anything, we just don't give a shit about anyone;) I run AO have been running it since it was born www.antioffline.com/about.html
Anyways as for the BIOS and script kiddiots, it'd be an enormous task for someone to create an exploit since as stated, well let me rephrase this a bit... It's be hard for someone to create an exploit for your typical dial-up customer, since they would (the script kiddie) need to know which machine to interact with upon boot.
It could be done with a backdoor, then leaving the port open, the script kiddie would have to scan complete address blocks, but if they're going to do something so difficult, then they're even bigger idiots for not downloading already availble trojans that'd do the same.
I don't think I could imagine the destruction that would be cause by millions of PCs with a backdoor/hole/bug in their firmware, that could easily be remotely exploited. If you thought DDOS attacks were bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
First off this applies to Windows98, and many people have migrated off of it to other MS OS's (NT, W2K, etc) or other OS' entirely. How could someone remotely execute anything when someone would still need an IP address from their provider? Script kiddies can baReLy sPeLL cOrReCtLy 95% of the times, do you expect them to yank off an IP address from a provider and designate it to someone?
Give me a break.
As stated in my above post, if I did have Phoenix Bios and a Winshit98 machine I would auto block it on a firewall should I not be allowed to disable it, which would make it obsolete. Sure it may dial, but there isn't any data going through, and if I saw anything peculiar such as my machine making its own settings, I'd contact EFF, ACLU, and EPIC and start a riot.
I see nothing wrong with Phoenix trying to make a call when I boot up my pc, because I barely ever shut it down for one, secondly I don't use Phoenix BIOS anymore, and thirdly if I did I would block it out on IPF.
It's nice for companies to attempt to improve their products however I think they should notify their customers with their intents and base their judgement on those results. Not every single company is out to shaft everyone, and not every company is out to monitor you like Big Brother.
Now what would have been an excellent YRO story would have been something about "Digital Angel." Now there is something I could spend hours on end posting on.
Aside from the layoffs which are expected to hit all walks of e-business, I wonder how this will impact Linux to have a company go under. See what I mean by this is, VALinux is pretty cool (wassup Jim Gleason) but their model of selling Linux only appliances is trivial.
Why didn't they just focus on selling servers no matter what they were running. VABSD, VANT, nothing else but Linux came out of it. Now when you look at CTO types who know squat but sign those purchase orders, sadly they're likely to be under the impression if it doesn't have a price it's not worthy, meaning Microsoft lurks in their eyes.
Moreso interesting, Linux posted its first profit which sadly is puny on a business aspect. So will VALinux' layoffs shadow Linux as a whole to people who don't know much about OS'... Think cluebie here "Linux stinks because they make no money, and their business falter.. I'll stick with MS, a money maker they must be doing something right."
Ever had a look at Indymedia? The wire's full of Marxist bleatings, bleeding-heart whining about the costs of convenience, and crackheaded posts from kooks. It's a complete waste of time.
And I suppose news from agencies which filter out the important parts are better than Indymedia. Take a look at Jim Bell, the judge scared the media, and the media shoved their tails up their asses and stood silently as Bell was shafted.
Take a look at the McVeigh trial, where did the media go when John Doe news was brought about from the beginning? What about CNN's actions during the Gulf War... Sure allow the military into the company to monitor what gets reported.
Sorry sir I would rather have all forms of news to look at instead of believing what I'm fed, especially from normal news agencies which break under pressure by Big Brother's bully tactics.
I don't see why the FBI backed off. Secret documents were stolen, and it's important to find out where they came from, lest the next stolen documents result in murders and chaos.
It's likely they backed off because they didn't have a case to begin with jackass.
Indymedia supports violent actions. Witness how they moan and cry about police trying to maintain order in Gothenburg, Sweden last weekend, ignoring the 50 injured officers and 5 dead horses that
resulted from anarchist riots in the downtown core. The "collective" doesn't seem to give a shit about the one officer that got nailed in the head by a rock, knocking him unconscious, but you'll hear no end to the bitching about the attacker who got shot by fellow officers in self-defence.
Hypocrites and suburbanite bleeding-hearts, the lot of them. They don't deserve sympathy, and they
don't deserve pity.
Your post means absolutely little. I read IndyMedia, and feel no need to go out and hurt anyone asshole.
Why not try setting up your own machines to run your site. It's not that hard, and I know sites which run off of DSL @ home. One thing many providers seem to lack about 85% of the time is good administration, and when it comes to security your looking at about 95% of insecure companies with all sorts of holes.
Warn the company, that you'll take your business elsewhere should they not comply with your request, then if they don't listen email everyone they host and make them aware of the problem to, and see how fast they'll fix the shit. Sure it may sound fscked up to do something like that, but if it were your company, and someone else knew of major holes wouldn't you be glad someone opened their mouths?
It would never happen. Just because Microsoft buys companies to benefit themselves mean little, if there was a company I would be worried about it would be something more like GeneralElectric.gov who has their hands in so much shit it isn't even funny. Business is business and MS is no different from other companies who purchase others, look at CitiGroup, why not make an uproar about them?
Not only did they probably make off with a hefty payment, but after looking at their company, I can't determine what the heck XBoxTechnologies actually does, so if they were headed for FuckedCompany.com, they could use the publicity of their name to actuall do something since their page lists squat other than some broad description of nothing.
Surprisingly no one is in an uproar type of posting mood claiming MS is bullying someone, so we all win here by not having to read the redundancies.
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If Microsoft's main intention seemed to be to create good software, I think that most people would be less opposed to closed source. But Microsoft's intentions seem to me to be extremely hostile
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We're hearing the same arguments over and over about how evil MS is for being anti GPL. To each their own, but in MS' case, their bread and butter comes via the way of the developers, whom they pay top dollar to develop.
In opposition to this you have the GPL horde (and I don't mean it in a negative sense) that are mainly doing this on their own free time, with little to no support being offered. They are not as concerned with showing revenues gained to those who invested money in their stocks to make products to get the jobs done.
Sure MS may have issues via way of security, and bugs, but don't kid yourself cause many open source programs have those same bugs hence all those advisories on Bugtraq.
Why is everyone against someone else making money with their business model? No one tells the GPL developers what to do with their code, in fact some make money off of writing Unix based apps, albeit miniscule in comparison with MS. IBM, Sun, HPUX, all have variants which is pay for play *Nix, and Sun is similar to MS, so what's all the rage about.
I will also continue to support WindRiver's efforts in any way I can to ensure that the FreeBSD product line there continues and that FreeBSD can continue to be a solution which is broadly applicable to a wide array of markets.
The FreeBSD product line has reached the stage where I feel comfortable taking a job which allows me to focus more on Darwin. While I have enjoyed my time working with the people and projects at BSDi and WindRiver, I simply couldn't resist the
opportunity of working at Apple.
Nice move on his behalf as everyone needs to make a living, however I wonder a few things. How will this impact FreeBSD in the future. It's nice to for Jonathan to say he will continue to assist with the project, but what happens when his time becomes consumed at Apple, and he *has no* time for the FreeBSD project, how will FreeBSD stand up.
Another curiousity is, whether or not Apple has plans to move into another arch. Surely Jonathan could provide them with a variety of snippets on how to get it going, and if this does happen, how would FreeBSD compete with a company like Apple.
Now for the record *BSD is dying posts* will be ignored so don't bother trolling, I would like to hear perhaps from a developer what actions (if any) could, and would FreeBSD take, should Apple decide to switch into the i386 arena with Darwin.
Also I wonder how this will affect others who may be looking to focus more on themselves, as time becomes more valuable, and others decide to follow suit focusing more on a company and themselves, rather than the OS (FreeBSD). Are there backup developers, or does the team distribute the work left behind by a developer who jumped ship.
P.S. I hope the developers still aren't pissed at me these (1 2)
I didn't see what the big deal was with IPF switching licenses, personally I thought it was taken all out of context by many.
Anyways for those looking for completely different alternatives check out T-Rex which is pretty neat, although a large download for those over dialup.
Also note that IPF *still* runs fine under OpenBSD although it's not likely to be included in the shipments going out now.
Personally I would wait if I were the Google staff. The market conditions for tech right now suck, and I think Google should look a bit more into making some form of money to show investors they can return their (the investors) money.
Take a look at Yahoo which peaked once as far as stocks went, nowadays its a crappy stock. Even Yahoo is having a hard time turning profit and even though Google is nice for searching, what else could they possibly offer via way of return funds to an investor with the minimal advertising thats done there?
Example, it seems that they've added sponsors to a particular search query which match what you're loking for, however when people want something they're searching for, how many people click those links?
It's a definite crappy market for now, and many investors see tech sleeping for a few years, and people are scared of dumping their money on tech stocks.
echo "Apple" | sed 's|Apple|1 4M 4N 31337 M4C H4X0R|g'
What happened in the past always gives an insight of which way to move ahead in the future. For example I was watching a tv show called Frontline on Friday in which the state of the world was being discussed, and how man has destroyed much of it (animals going extinct, plants, algae, etc.) and the scientist predicted that at the rate we're going with global warming, tree deforestation, fishing overkill, that the world is in some serious shit.
In Mongolia as it stands, many of the country's natural grass is barely growing due to the country's collapse, and the boom of farmers raising goats, and not switching to other parts of the land to allow the fields to grow back. In China they faced the same problem years ago, and now within the next 5 years they have to destroy hundreds of thousands of animals in order to avoid losing many resources.
Paleontologists explained how essential things are nowadays, how they're being destroyed, and how this compared to the repeating occurances of extinction with the dinosaurs, and other stuff like algeas, and crap like that.
History is repetitive, and scientist up to this date have still not mapped out means to re-create faster than we destroy. It's expected within 100-200 years a major shortage on things we take for granted unless change happens now. Since they stated their is no more time to waste.
Anyways I would rather see this being studied than missle defense programs, technological bs like Echelons, Carnivores, etc., I think it's more important to understand what happened in the past to gain insight into the future.
We all know the aliens from another Stargate set up the pyramids!
Ok so it wasn't funny. Anyways there was a recent (semi recent about 4 months ago) documentary on PBS depicting how this may have worked which knocked off many theories and made sense. According to the doc., slaves were not used and this was judged based on evidence from an excavation, that showed what were supposedly slaves, were treated like royalty. (Judging from the medical care they received)
Leading engineers calculated block by block how it was done, and their theory was, ramps were made, and the stones were hauled up these ramps by many workers who traveled to Egypt to honor the kings. Enigneers, doctors, you name it supposedly assisted raising the blocks until it was done.
According to the scientists and Engineers I think it took about 30-40 years per pyramid, in which many felt honorable to do. This again was based on evidence from excavation which showed no one was a prisoner, or slave, engineers who recreated the scenario (nice SGI graphics too).
Also in the documentary it showed how ancient medical techniques were used to heal broken bones, etc.
What is Shadowstorm Intelligence Layer?
Applied Digital Solutions, an e-business-to-business solutions provider, acquired the patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security."
[source]
Some technology they're looking at
So you have a fully digital life, next what implants to monitor your every move via GPS, monitor your heart rates, etc...? Oh wait that's already coming out next month...
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What happened to creativity, are we all turning into the PC and the PC turning into a human?
A $10,000 machine dedicated to a single game knocks the socks off a PS2/XBox any day.
While this may be true, you have to take into consideration, that the company would have to sell an enormous amount of them to make a profit, as opposed to focusing on creating home market games, which many have turned to and is guaranteed to make money.
Heck yea I remember the days of playing Joust, Missle Command, Dig Dug, and others, but nowadays the games are expensive, they make too many to find a favorite, and way too many arcades no longer exist even in New York City. It's a losing venture for them.
What is Shadowstorm Intelligence Layer
Out here in New York City, the good od mayor has saw fit to ban many of the old arcades that once owned the Times Square area, since they claimed, the arcades posed a dangerous hazard to the citizens. The stated too many kids cut classes to end up their, pedo's went their to pick up kids, etc, etc.
Anyways, I haven't seen a decent arcade in ages, and the ones I do see are all like Starbucks type places with bars, neon lights, etc. Well it may be nice to some, but no longer do most of those games take money but ATM like refillable cards, and they're not 25 cents like they used to be. Why should I spend 2.00 on a game when I could stay home playing PS2?
Aside from that, hardly any pinball machines make money in todays world. Think about where the majority of p'ball machines end up, honky tonk pubs, and shit. Definitely not a money maker.
Instead of waisting so much money on obsolete missions to places, we won't be able to travel to, I say these scientist should focus on a way to breathe new life into Silicon Valley
Odd how this is the first I've ever heard of anyone complaint about this ISP via way of a lawsuit. I wonder how many others have either complained, in comparison with how many users they have, etc. People always complain for whatever reason about anything, it's human nature.
As stated how many people faced this same problem with this provider? A bit disturbing to see this article which seems to contain shaky grounds. So she doesn't want money but an apology? If it's a matter of morals, why waste the peoples time and money with this bs, just move along to another provider, unless she has a vendetta which is not written going on against the provider.
Now when I see things like it would shut down when she and her kids were using it, how the hell does she know it wasn't her own, or her kids negligence that was causing it? For this I refer to "Diary of an AOL'er", a funny ass story, but oh so true for some people.
I would say Myst has done more for 3d graphics than Quake has, and Nintendo did some really cool stuff with games like Legend of Zelda, Metroid, etc., Quake just hit it on the nose by being a really great interactive game.
Quake The Movie. Politicians, and politically (in)correct parents would have a field day with it. "Quake made my child bite the head off a bat!"
Give em all "e-ritalin"
the "Not all corps are out to get you?"
;) I run AO have been running it since it was born www.antioffline.com/about.html
People misunderstand our site, we're not anti anything, we just don't give a shit about anyone
Anyways as for the BIOS and script kiddiots, it'd be an enormous task for someone to create an exploit since as stated, well let me rephrase this a bit... It's be hard for someone to create an exploit for your typical dial-up customer, since they would (the script kiddie) need to know which machine to interact with upon boot.
It could be done with a backdoor, then leaving the port open, the script kiddie would have to scan complete address blocks, but if they're going to do something so difficult, then they're even bigger idiots for not downloading already availble trojans that'd do the same.
I don't think I could imagine the destruction that would be cause by millions of PCs with a backdoor/hole/bug in their firmware, that could easily be remotely exploited. If you thought DDOS attacks were bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
First off this applies to Windows98, and many people have migrated off of it to other MS OS's (NT, W2K, etc) or other OS' entirely. How could someone remotely execute anything when someone would still need an IP address from their provider? Script kiddies can baReLy sPeLL cOrReCtLy 95% of the times, do you expect them to yank off an IP address from a provider and designate it to someone?
Give me a break.
As stated in my above post, if I did have Phoenix Bios and a Winshit98 machine I would auto block it on a firewall should I not be allowed to disable it, which would make it obsolete. Sure it may dial, but there isn't any data going through, and if I saw anything peculiar such as my machine making its own settings, I'd contact EFF, ACLU, and EPIC and start a riot.
I see nothing wrong with Phoenix trying to make a call when I boot up my pc, because I barely ever shut it down for one, secondly I don't use Phoenix BIOS anymore, and thirdly if I did I would block it out on IPF.
It's nice for companies to attempt to improve their products however I think they should notify their customers with their intents and base their judgement on those results. Not every single company is out to shaft everyone, and not every company is out to monitor you like Big Brother.
Now what would have been an excellent YRO story would have been something about "Digital Angel." Now there is something I could spend hours on end posting on.
Aside from the layoffs which are expected to hit all walks of e-business, I wonder how this will impact Linux to have a company go under. See what I mean by this is, VALinux is pretty cool (wassup Jim Gleason) but their model of selling Linux only appliances is trivial.
... Think cluebie here "Linux stinks because they make no money, and their business falter.. I'll stick with MS, a money maker they must be doing something right."
Why didn't they just focus on selling servers no matter what they were running. VABSD, VANT, nothing else but Linux came out of it. Now when you look at CTO types who know squat but sign those purchase orders, sadly they're likely to be under the impression if it doesn't have a price it's not worthy, meaning Microsoft lurks in their eyes.
Moreso interesting, Linux posted its first profit which sadly is puny on a business aspect. So will VALinux' layoffs shadow Linux as a whole to people who don't know much about OS'
Ever had a look at Indymedia? The wire's full of Marxist bleatings, bleeding-heart whining about the costs of convenience, and crackheaded posts from kooks. It's a complete waste of time.
And I suppose news from agencies which filter out the important parts are better than Indymedia. Take a look at Jim Bell, the judge scared the media, and the media shoved their tails up their asses and stood silently as Bell was shafted.
Take a look at the McVeigh trial, where did the media go when John Doe news was brought about from the beginning? What about CNN's actions during the Gulf War... Sure allow the military into the company to monitor what gets reported.
Sorry sir I would rather have all forms of news to look at instead of believing what I'm fed, especially from normal news agencies which break under pressure by Big Brother's bully tactics.
I don't see why the FBI backed off. Secret documents were stolen, and it's important to find out where they came from, lest the next stolen documents result in murders and chaos.
It's likely they backed off because they didn't have a case to begin with jackass.
Indymedia supports violent actions. Witness how they moan and cry about police trying to maintain order in Gothenburg, Sweden last weekend, ignoring the 50 injured officers and 5 dead horses that
resulted from anarchist riots in the downtown core. The "collective" doesn't seem to give a shit about the one officer that got nailed in the head by a rock, knocking him unconscious, but you'll hear no end to the bitching about the attacker who got shot by fellow officers in self-defence.
Hypocrites and suburbanite bleeding-hearts, the lot of them. They don't deserve sympathy, and they
don't deserve pity.
Your post means absolutely little. I read IndyMedia, and feel no need to go out and hurt anyone asshole.
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Why not try setting up your own machines to run your site. It's not that hard, and I know sites which run off of DSL @ home. One thing many providers seem to lack about 85% of the time is good administration, and when it comes to security your looking at about 95% of insecure companies with all sorts of holes.
Warn the company, that you'll take your business elsewhere should they not comply with your request, then if they don't listen email everyone they host and make them aware of the problem to, and see how fast they'll fix the shit. Sure it may sound fscked up to do something like that, but if it were your company, and someone else knew of major holes wouldn't you be glad someone opened their mouths?
It would never happen. Just because Microsoft buys companies to benefit themselves mean little, if there was a company I would be worried about it would be something more like GeneralElectric.gov who has their hands in so much shit it isn't even funny. Business is business and MS is no different from other companies who purchase others, look at CitiGroup, why not make an uproar about them?
Posts like this may little sense.
Not only did they probably make off with a hefty payment, but after looking at their company, I can't determine what the heck XBoxTechnologies actually does, so if they were headed for FuckedCompany.com, they could use the publicity of their name to actuall do something since their page lists squat other than some broad description of nothing.
Surprisingly no one is in an uproar type of posting mood claiming MS is bullying someone, so we all win here by not having to read the redundancies.