An oh, so familiar strategy -- bundle a product similar to your competitor's, or, roll it into the kernel and then claim it can't be removed without damaging the kernel.
I think this establishment of a Government-Microsoft cabal is the last straw. Bush has definitely replaced Carter was the worst President of the modern era, if not in the history of the US.
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
The source of this FUD is, no doubt, Microsoft's PR firm.
You should see my PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop running Beryl!
Oh, I keep XP around in a guest OS cage, sort of like a picture on a wall. The bugger was given to stealing a lot, and bribing officials to get out of trouble. Simply incorrigible. Now I hear he has taken to acting like a bully, threatening his even his friends and neighbors. Honestly, I'm not surprised, considering how he likes to throw chairs around and choke off "air supplies". He's really violent, and needs psychiatric help.
Point #5 is interesting in that this guy ASSUMES that because a bug hasn't been made public the crackers don't know anything about it. It is just as likely to assume that if even ONE person found the bug that person could be a cracker. Most folks don't look for vunerabilities, but crackers do.
Microsoft may know about a vulnerability for months, or longer, before it issues a patch AND the announcement on the same day, IF it ever does. Not all holes are found by researchers. Meanwhile, in order for the hole to have been discovered in the first place at least one, but probably thousands or more, have to get infected and report it. All we have to do to discover the results of "security by obscurity" is to see how vulnerable Windows/VISTA is. VISTA's "Defender" identified only 82.4% of the several thousand KNOWN bugs thrown at it. Other anti-virus software identified as many as 99.8%. So, last December when 2,400 bugs for Windows were discovered VISTA would have let about 14 per day infect itself.
in town and on the interstate at 75mph, respectively, after 50,000 miles of travel. My best, so far, is 33 mpg in town and 43.5 mpg on the interstate.
It is a 4 door, five speed stick shift with air and cruise control, which I use when ever my speed goes over 30 mph. I run unleaded 87 octane Shell gasoline, found anywhere. I've often wondered about the "hybrids" that boasted of 35 - 40 mpg rates but cost $25K or more when my Saturn cost $17K (five years ago).
In fact, does the general public 'need' to look at their house on the satellite map? Do they 'need' to see how Disnay World looks from space? - No they don't.
And what right do you dismiss the rights of others?
Your failure to see opportunity for personal use in satellite photos doesn't mean they don't exist.
A friend of mind was disappointed because the view of his farm wasn't in the same high resolution as my house. Before I visit a place I've never been before I view it with GoogleEarth OR GoogleMaps (your "thinking" would nullify both sources) to see the best way to get there and what's worth my time to visit and view after I get there. There are many more reason but you get the point.
Actually, neither Linux nor Windows users are FORCED to update to newer versions. Patching bugs or blocking holes isn't updating to a higher version unless the patch includes the new OS and necessary utilities.
At work I used W2K from its release till two months ago, when my new Dell Latitude D620 had its VISTA scrubbed off and replaced by XP Pro. The IT staff tells me they have no plans to upgrade to VISTA so it looks like XP Pro will be on my workstation for years.
THe SuSE Linux server in my office hasn't been updated since I installed it three years ago (even while being on line all that time) and has an uptime of 545 days.
But, I do enjoy playing with the many varieties of Linux even though my personal computer has been running MEPIS for over two years.
Commercial reactors only 10 Years after sustained fusion is achieved.?
Na. Not even 50 years, or 100 years.
The lawsuits by the Environmental groups, the Green Groups, the Carbon Credits groups, the ACLU, the United Nations and the DOE will make building the commercial fusion reactor TOO expensive to build. The Environmental Impact Study alone will require at least 10-15 years, even if it is filled with techno babel written on toilet paper.
Besides, I doubt that a fusion reactor will solve the radioactive waste problem. More than likely it will add to the waste problem because all it takes to create radioactive particles is to heat any matter to extremely high temperatures.
Vista's success is a foregone conclusion. Hardware sales in the next year alone will return that investment. So that's why DELL is resuming selling PCs with XP preinstalled? Because VISTA is such a hit?
IF you run a password protected WAP and some cracker hacks your AP and begins downloading illegal stuff then these legal beagles will say that you are guilty because no one else can use your account.
Either way you are hosed if someone uses your AP illegally.
Now what exact patents that Linux might be infringing on remains to be seen.
No, it doesn't "remain to be seen". Microsoft and any other proprietary software house has had since 1992 to view the Linux source and determine if any of their "IP" was incorporated.
Microsoft claimed as long as TWO YEARS ago that Linux IS violating one or more of its "IP". IF that is true then they have a responsibility to INFORM the Linux kernel crew of the EXACT violations in order to mitigate the damages. They are not allowed to 'sit' on the violation and let "damages" build up. The fact that they haven't sued after making noisy claims for TWO YEARS proves they haven't seen anything in the code that they can sue over. IF THERE WAS some MS IP in the Linux kernel they would have sued the INSTANT they found it. No better way to shut down Linux exists than to destroy its kernel.
Say MS did that. What would FOSS do? Probably fork the BSD kernel and modify a ton of GPL FOSS to bring it up to speed in short order. Microsoft would still have the same problem. Considering the mess they got themselves into releasing VISTA, the FOSS community could recover from a kernel lawsuit faster than Microsoft can create a secure OS.
It was made LAW for the purpose of fighting organized crime. Opponents claimed that it could and would be used against others. They were right. Now, RICO is used about 10,000 times per year, primary to add additional funding to law enforcement budgets around the country. In one episode of "COPS", featuring the sheriff who went on to make police videos for TV, they met before hand to discuss how they were going to divide the "loot"...i.e., the property of the family they had targeted with the act. Even if it later turns out that they raided the wrong house the "police" aren't required to return the property they stole using RICO. In more than one instance the home
owner being raided at 3:30AM thought buglers were invading his home and were shot dead when they brandished a pistol in hopes of scaring off the "buglers".
The RICO act is being abused as badly as the police at the South Denver precinct abused their power, a couple decades ago. The police would roll up to a block in force, cordon it off to prevent pedestrian or car traffic, then proceed to a building in the middle of the block. There, they'd start hauling out property and putting it into the police van. Afterward, the owner was called and notified of the "theft". The property usually appeared in pawn shops later on, but no one was ever caught until someone with a movie camera filmed the whole thing from a third floor apartment across the street from the target building.
Reducing accountability for using FISA will only INCREASE its abuse. Public prosecutors like Mike Nifong, and even politicians, would use the added spy powers to further their own goals and political ambitions.
No one is safe from RICO abuse. No one will be safe from FISA abuse.
The Constitution? What's that?
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Because Microsoft WANTS it. And if they offend Microsoft their ad rebates will dry up, which accounts for a large part of their profits.
BOTH political parties, and their syncophants, have been hammering the Bill of Rights pretty hard for the last 20 years, but BUSH, with the CONSENT of all but one politician, did the worst with the "Patriot Act".
What's just as bad: members of both parties genuflect before multinational mega corporations for "campaign contributions", which they later convert to their personal use when they retire from 'public' service. That's why these contributions are nothing more than bribes, folks! That's why we got the DMCA, why the DRM may become US law, why the US gov paid hundreds of MILLIONS to cable companies for them to deploy optical cable (after local and state governments began deploying optical cable on their own) only to have the cable companies take the money and finger their promises. That's why one special interest lobby group's payoff cancels the vote of millions of citizens. All in the name of "free enterprise".
And you're surprised that Internet Radio may die in the USA?
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An oh, so familiar strategy -- bundle a product similar to your competitor's, or, roll it into the kernel and then claim it can't be removed without damaging the kernel.
I think this establishment of a Government-Microsoft cabal is the last straw. Bush has definitely replaced Carter was the worst President of the modern era, if not in the history of the US.
Exactly!
As an example of this kind of marketing manipulation consult "The Submarine" by Paul Graham.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
April 2005
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
The source of this FUD is, no doubt, Microsoft's PR firm.
Money is the ONLY thing they understand.
I checked out the XPS 410n and added my preferences.
The total bill was $948.
Then it struck me... How am I to connect this box to the Internet? NONE of the offerings included either a NIC or a modem, wireless or phone.
It is!
You should see my PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop running Beryl!
Oh, I keep XP around in a guest OS cage, sort of like a picture on a wall. The bugger was given to stealing a lot, and bribing officials to get out of trouble. Simply incorrigible. Now I hear he has taken to acting like a bully, threatening his even his friends and neighbors. Honestly, I'm not surprised, considering how he likes to throw chairs around and choke off "air supplies". He's really violent, and needs psychiatric help.
Excellent summary!!!
Point #5 is interesting in that this guy ASSUMES that because a bug hasn't been made public the crackers don't know anything about it. It is just as likely to assume that if even ONE person found the bug that person could be a cracker. Most folks don't look for vunerabilities, but crackers do.
Microsoft may know about a vulnerability for months, or longer, before it issues a patch AND the announcement on the same day, IF it ever does. Not all holes are found by researchers. Meanwhile, in order for the hole to have been discovered in the first place at least one, but probably thousands or more, have to get infected and report it. All we have to do to discover the results of "security by obscurity" is to see how vulnerable Windows/VISTA is. VISTA's "Defender" identified only 82.4% of the several thousand KNOWN bugs thrown at it. Other anti-virus software identified as many as 99.8%. So, last December when 2,400 bugs for Windows were discovered VISTA would have let about 14 per day infect itself.
in town and on the interstate at 75mph, respectively, after 50,000 miles of travel. My best, so far, is 33 mpg in town and 43.5 mpg on the interstate.
It is a 4 door, five speed stick shift with air and cruise control, which I use when ever my speed goes over 30 mph. I run unleaded 87 octane Shell gasoline, found anywhere. I've often wondered about the "hybrids" that boasted of 35 - 40 mpg rates but cost $25K or more when my Saturn cost $17K (five years ago).
And what right do you dismiss the rights of others?
Your failure to see opportunity for personal use in satellite photos doesn't mean they don't exist.
A friend of mind was disappointed because the view of his farm wasn't in the same high resolution as my house. Before I visit a place I've never been before I view it with GoogleEarth OR GoogleMaps (your "thinking" would nullify both sources) to see the best way to get there and what's worth my time to visit and view after I get there. There are many more reason but you get the point.
Their policy is "NO ACCESS".
Actually, neither Linux nor Windows users are FORCED to update to newer versions. Patching bugs or blocking holes isn't updating to a higher version unless the patch includes the new OS and necessary utilities.
At work I used W2K from its release till two months ago, when my new Dell Latitude D620 had its VISTA scrubbed off and replaced by XP Pro. The IT staff tells me they have no plans to upgrade to VISTA so it looks like XP Pro will be on my workstation for years.
THe SuSE Linux server in my office hasn't been updated since I installed it three years ago (even while being on line all that time) and has an uptime of 545 days.
But, I do enjoy playing with the many varieties of Linux even though my personal computer has been running MEPIS for over two years.
Commercial reactors only 10 Years after sustained fusion is achieved.?
Na. Not even 50 years, or 100 years.
The lawsuits by the Environmental groups, the Green Groups, the Carbon Credits groups, the ACLU, the United Nations and the DOE will make building the commercial fusion reactor TOO expensive to build. The Environmental Impact Study alone will require at least 10-15 years, even if it is filled with techno babel written on toilet paper.
Besides, I doubt that a fusion reactor will solve the radioactive waste problem. More than likely it will add to the waste problem because all it takes to create radioactive particles is to heat any matter to extremely high temperatures.
Vista's success is a foregone conclusion. Hardware sales in the next year alone will return that investment.
So that's why DELL is resuming selling PCs with XP preinstalled? Because VISTA is such a hit?
IF you run a password protected WAP and some cracker hacks your AP and begins downloading illegal stuff then these legal beagles will say that you are guilty because no one else can use your account.
Either way you are hosed if someone uses your AP illegally.
No, it doesn't "remain to be seen". Microsoft and any other proprietary software house has had since 1992 to view the Linux source and determine if any of their "IP" was incorporated.
Microsoft claimed as long as TWO YEARS ago that Linux IS violating one or more of its "IP". IF that is true then they have a responsibility to INFORM the Linux kernel crew of the EXACT violations in order to mitigate the damages. They are not allowed to 'sit' on the violation and let "damages" build up. The fact that they haven't sued after making noisy claims for TWO YEARS proves they haven't seen anything in the code that they can sue over. IF THERE WAS some MS IP in the Linux kernel they would have sued the INSTANT they found it. No better way to shut down Linux exists than to destroy its kernel.
Say MS did that. What would FOSS do? Probably fork the BSD kernel and modify a ton of GPL FOSS to bring it up to speed in short order. Microsoft would still have the same problem. Considering the mess they got themselves into releasing VISTA, the FOSS community could recover from a kernel lawsuit faster than Microsoft can create a secure OS.
When has Microsoft ever been concerned about security OR stability?
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They are now calling Word2007 crashes resulting from malware a FEATURE!! rof,lllll
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?co
It was made LAW for the purpose of fighting organized crime. Opponents claimed that it could and would be used against others. They were right. Now, RICO is used about 10,000 times per year, primary to add additional funding to law enforcement budgets around the country. In one episode of "COPS", featuring the sheriff who went on to make police videos for TV, they met before hand to discuss how they were going to divide the "loot"...i.e., the property of the family they had targeted with the act. Even if it later turns out that they raided the wrong house the "police" aren't required to return the property they stole using RICO. In more than one instance the home
owner being raided at 3:30AM thought buglers were invading his home and were shot dead when they brandished a pistol in hopes of scaring off the "buglers".
The RICO act is being abused as badly as the police at the South Denver precinct abused their power, a couple decades ago. The police would roll up to a block in force, cordon it off to prevent pedestrian or car traffic, then proceed to a building in the middle of the block. There, they'd start hauling out property and putting it into the police van. Afterward, the owner was called and notified of the "theft". The property usually appeared in pawn shops later on, but no one was ever caught until someone with a movie camera filmed the whole thing from a third floor apartment across the street from the target building.
Reducing accountability for using FISA will only INCREASE its abuse. Public prosecutors like Mike Nifong, and even politicians, would use the added spy powers to further their own goals and political ambitions.
No one is safe from RICO abuse. No one will be safe from FISA abuse.
The Constitution? What's that?
Because Microsoft WANTS it. And if they offend Microsoft their ad rebates will dry up, which accounts for a large part of their profits.
IAAM.
BOTH political parties, and their syncophants, have been hammering the Bill of Rights pretty hard for the last 20 years, but BUSH, with the CONSENT of all but one politician, did the worst with the "Patriot Act".
What's just as bad: members of both parties genuflect before multinational mega corporations for "campaign contributions", which they later convert to their personal use when they retire from 'public' service. That's why these contributions are nothing more than bribes, folks! That's why we got the DMCA, why the DRM may become US law, why the US gov paid hundreds of MILLIONS to cable companies for them to deploy optical cable (after local and state governments began deploying optical cable on their own) only to have the cable companies take the money and finger their promises. That's why one special interest lobby group's payoff cancels the vote of millions of citizens. All in the name of "free enterprise".
And you're surprised that Internet Radio may die in the USA?
you tie your pet project to Global Warming.
Doesn't matter how, just as long as you don't attempt to prove it wrong.
And more to the point: Why does the American government allow corporations to dictate foreign policy?
Which is supposed to do/be the same thing.
Don't give up on those evil corporations.
They'll always find a way to cook the goose that laid the Golden egg.
Less ethical corporations will take this data, use it to extend what THEY know about it, and hord it for a profit.
Unless, of course, the data was released under an Open License.
negative expose' articles about Microsoft's back-room deals, extortions and payoff?
Cat got your tongue, or are you adicted to Microsoft's ad money?
cash to right wing orgs are bribes?
It's ok for government agencies to fund reseach limited to proving global warming, but not for disproving it.
Nice double standard.
If I wanted your opinion I'd ask Noam Chomsky.