ooh yeah. Incite people to vandalism. That's really mature and will help your side out immensely.
I'm sorry, I seemed to have missed the meeting with the PR agency about the Linux community public profile plans.
Linux stickers would be a rather harmless prank. Not ALL of us ("The Linux community") are so determined to get Tux stuffed into a corporate suit that we forget to have fun.
Much of this questionable borrowing is a) not in the best interest U.S. corporations b) not in the best interest of IT workers in America c) at a serious expense to the investment community, an entity betting on the success of intellectual property in the marketplace.
Mr. Brown seems to leave out the ties Linux has to international terrorism, and even fails to mention the negative impact Linux has on the oil price. How are we supposed to take him seriously? Seriously, Microsoft should ask for their money back.
Not really related to stored data and passwords, but a friend of mine has a deal with his sister, that if he unexpectedly dies, she will clean all porn out of his apartment and get rid of it so the rest of the family will never know.
Every manager worth my salary (which is really setting the bar low) knows the axiom "it takes a lifetime to win a customer, a second to lose one." By doing things that are altruistic and aware of what their customers value, corporations can avoid protests and boycotts--and even "I'll go with your competitor, they anger me less."
To quote the great I. Montoya: "I do not think that word means what you think it means." If you are doing something altruistic in a corporation, your job is in danger. What you are thinking of (customer loyalty, PR value, etc) is calculated, and has nothing to do with altruism.
Prediction: Either MS treatens them and they pull it. But the source is out so -pbbbt-. Or expect the next big free software suit to arrive. And it will be pulled, but the source is out so -pbbbt-
Those who really need this in their companies doesn't care if "the source is out there", but they DO care if they can expect legal hassle for using it. Pbbbt.
Re:why May 1 as the 'traditional' day of protest?
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No, no, everyone knows it is because the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt on May 1, 1776.
Judge: Hmmm... sounds about right. I hereby rule defendant not guilty, MPAA evil, and by the way - this is the Supreme Court - so from now on just use DeCSS. The courtroom is instantly filled with applause and cheers, people are hugging and crying happily. In the background, the theme of "An Officer and a Gentleman" fades in. Louis Gossett Jr in his parade uniform stands up and salutes the judge and the American flag, whispering "This one is for you, Mr. Johansen" while a tear slides down his cheek.
- Sir, have a look at this comment from "danila". - Oh dear. I see here that he gained three watchlist points just last week. For this we have to give him, hm.. say five additional points. - 75 points, that just tipped him over the scale for manual phone monitoring, sir. Do you really think that is called for? The sampled transcripts from his previous calls and letters... - Now, now, lad. We can't be too careful these days. Before we know it we might have him sitting in a clock tower with a rifle.
The only "impact" will be "we have to start using VPNs, boys!"
"They" already use SILC for internal communcations and TLS FXP for file transfers. Doesn't help when one of their oh-so-nice newly recruited 100mbit site is operated by the FBI, does it? Even if the people doing the transfers are behind a forest of bouncers and shell accounts, a "compromised" site logs all the IPs FXP transfers are done to and from. Afair, that was exactly what they did before Operation Buccaneer, bringing down "Drink or Die" ao.
This is probably the US part of the big raid in Europe where some Fairlight sites went down.. rumors have said that sites in both.nl och.us got busted.
- "Lock-in? Uncompetitive? Us?" asked Steve Ballmer innocently. He dried off his sweaty forehead and continued "...but we don't OWN the DRM technology. Anyone with $440M can license it from InterTrust. If we wanted to be uncompetitive, we would have, he-he, bought the darn company. Or.. something?" - "Damn", said the antitrust judge.
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From the "virus" article:
Alec Taylor, senior manager of platform strategy at Microsoft Canada Co. in Mississauga, agrees Linux is likely to get more of the kind of unwanted attention Windows has had from virus writers. "It's a challenge that we all face and we're all targets in the software industry," Mr. Taylor says.
... and that was it. That is the end of the Microsoft quote. Wtf? No mention of communism? No "Yeah, but the TCO of a virus attack is larger on Linux"? I'm speechless. Mr Taylor can probably expect a phonecall from Mr. Balmer tonight.
We see you are adjusting well to the new system. We have taken a note of that, and there just might be a position for you waiting in the Outer Party once we have a few minor details taken care of. Keep up the good work, citizen.
Of course, not everyone are at the same level of knowledge. There are small differences, and there are big differences.
There are people who might post a question regarding a firewire module failing to load after updating to kernel 2.6.x, posting dmesg output and whatnot, and you have those who post "Why will not Debian install on my computer, please e-mail me the answer!!". These postings can not co-exist in the same forum. There will simply be too much noise for the more skilled users to stay interested in participating. To put it on the edge, it is not like they get paid to sit there and answer questions five minutes of Google or a manual lookup can answer.
And moving it to Usenet? Yeah, that will make it easier. Finding threads worth reading will be as interesting as looking through your spambox for false positives.
When I was a kid, the ice cream truck came by our house once a week. The bell could be heard ringing from a distance, and the kids ran out to stand ready to hail it to a stop. Now, 20 years later - introducing... the WAREZ TRUCK - driving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, wifi-serving the latest games from Razor, Fairlight and Deviance, the latest movies from groups as Centropy and Brutus, and the latest hi-quality porn from NovaVCD, Swe6rus and others (Parental advisory - reproductive organs in motions).
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Linux stickers would be a rather harmless prank. Not ALL of us ("The Linux community") are so determined to get Tux stuffed into a corporate suit that we forget to have fun.
See my sig. People who don't buy Evian are freeloaders who get bitter when their tap water becomes undrinkable.
Not really related to stored data and passwords, but a friend of mine has a deal with his sister, that if he unexpectedly dies, she will clean all porn out of his apartment and get rid of it so the rest of the family will never know.
That is all fine, but this is the robot they should be sending to Iraq =)
No, no, everyone knows it is because the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt on May 1, 1776.
At least, that is what they want us to think.
Now, I don't know much about "The Market", but I know what this curve means. Hah.
Judge: Hmmm... sounds about right. I hereby rule defendant not guilty, MPAA evil, and by the way - this is the Supreme Court - so from now on just use DeCSS.
The courtroom is instantly filled with applause and cheers, people are hugging and crying happily. In the background, the theme of "An Officer and a Gentleman" fades in. Louis Gossett Jr in his parade uniform stands up and salutes the judge and the American flag, whispering "This one is for you, Mr. Johansen" while a tear slides down his cheek.
Of couse, NSA found a way to do the exact same thing with a Casio pocket calculator back in 1973.
Also reminds me a bit of Satan gave me a taco by Beck, at least from the part of waking up. Never heard the Pearl Jam song, though.
- Sir, have a look at this comment from "danila".
- Oh dear. I see here that he gained three watchlist points just last week. For this we have to give him, hm.. say five additional points.
- 75 points, that just tipped him over the scale for manual phone monitoring, sir. Do you really think that is called for? The sampled transcripts from his previous calls and letters...
- Now, now, lad. We can't be too careful these days. Before we know it we might have him sitting in a clock tower with a rifle.
- "Lock-in? Uncompetitive? Us?" asked Steve Ballmer innocently. He dried off his sweaty forehead and continued "...but we don't OWN the DRM technology. Anyone with $440M can license it from InterTrust. If we wanted to be uncompetitive, we would have, he-he, bought the darn company. Or.. something?"
- "Damn", said the antitrust judge.
Sorry, tried to get into the car analogy mindset
Sounds like GIFT - The GNU Image-Finding Tool.
We see you are adjusting well to the new system. We have taken a note of that, and there just might be a position for you waiting in the Outer Party once we have a few minor details taken care of. Keep up the good work, citizen.
Of course, not everyone are at the same level of knowledge. There are small differences, and there are big differences.
There are people who might post a question regarding a firewire module failing to load after updating to kernel 2.6.x, posting dmesg output and whatnot, and you have those who post "Why will not Debian install on my computer, please e-mail me the answer!!". These postings can not co-exist in the same forum. There will simply be too much noise for the more skilled users to stay interested in participating. To put it on the edge, it is not like they get paid to sit there and answer questions five minutes of Google or a manual lookup can answer.
And moving it to Usenet? Yeah, that will make it easier. Finding threads worth reading will be as interesting as looking through your spambox for false positives.
"If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles."
-- You know who
When I was a kid, the ice cream truck came by our house once a week. The bell could be heard ringing from a distance, and the kids ran out to stand ready to hail it to a stop.
Now, 20 years later - introducing... the WAREZ TRUCK - driving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, wifi-serving the latest games from Razor, Fairlight and Deviance, the latest movies from groups as Centropy and Brutus, and the latest hi-quality porn from NovaVCD, Swe6rus and others (Parental advisory - reproductive organs in motions).