When I look at the history of Microsoft regarding competition*, it's clear to me that this is exactly how it starts. They find a product they want to compete with and then use the windows desktop to *force* users into using their product rather than the competing one. It obviously shows,most importantly, how microsoft cannot compete without arm-twisting, or anti-competitive practices. Internet Explorer and Netscape are a prime example of this. Paranoid? Perhaps, but it's based on historical fact. Google is wise to treat this as a shot across the bow and raise hell about it now. I don't think it's too far fetched to assume Microsoft is attempting to shove Google further off the desktop. Freedom to choose is obviated in that you need to have choice in order to have freedom. Microsoft has a long track record of not being willing to allow choice or competition.
I think you're jumping the gun here. Microsoft is like a fool with a rope; Give 'em enough, and next thing you know they want to be Cowboy Neal. Microsoft has enough money to buy just about any legal outcome they want - and don't fool yourself, they do. Google knows this and is nipping the problem in the bud right now. If they don't, before you know it, you won't even be able to use Google with Vista. Clippy will pop up and direct you to Vista Search instead (or some other such idiotic nonsense that the population seems to lap up). Being that Baldy is going to "Fucking kill Google"* I would be handling this with a wary eye as well. Google is playing it smart.
difficulty isn't the issue. you probably need IE to use the service, and there are likely some royalty payment shenanigans going on also. Those two issues make things difficult because one of them is a heinous security problem, and the other isn't compatible with free software.
that nobody really needs, but looks cool and you're the envy of your friends and co-workers if you have one. Most people bitch that they "people won't leave me alone" or "can't get any work done" in reference to email. How is this going to help? Oh yeah, it looks cool and...
Nice gesture, but can we ditch the fossil fuel dependancy? I can already blow up at the gas pump when Bill Dumbass is smoking next to me or leaving the engine running. Hydrogen cant be much worse.
" 1) A Trojanised WMF File (Downloader)
2) ActiveX/OCX File (dropper)
The downloaded malware, when executed, installs
1) A rootkit "
Most of the world is in denial about the whole security issue surrounding Windows. Even some of the postage on/. is quite alarming. People don't *want* to know, that's why they don't post it.
or soccer for that matter. People get attached to what they believe in, even when their wrong. I think the fanboyism stems from the denial that is created when you will not accept that Wind^W^U the product simply does not work as advertised. Ever.
> After all, they don't have to give you free updates at all
Wanna bet? Watch a bad situation get worse; updates aren't optional considering the mess microsoft has created/ignored with their products in regards to security. If you really want to see a worm outbreak, watch the internet melt down when zillions of zombied windows boxes don't get updated because people didn't want to pay the 19.95/month subscription. It's bad enough now with most people *getting* the updates. I'm pretty sure there would be more legal woes if Microsoft started charging people to clean up the mess they created.
If you haven't figured it out by now, the US government is going to do whatever it wants* anyway. The one with the most money wins. That's the way it works.
I like gadgets, but some of it seems ridiculous. I don't need a phone that is a computer. I have a computer that is a computer. Sometimes the latest gadgetry is just marketing to people that need to be the "first kid on the block" to have it. Kind of like the genuine simulated all-steel, dual thumbed ass-scratcher (with posi-traction) of 1923. Pretty high tech in it's day, yes, but most people polled after the purchase a month later weren't so sure why they bought it in the first place. Many of them ended up just taking up space in landfills a year later. Hard to believe.
My sister's friend's brother's girlfriend has a cousin that went to china and said she saw them throwing out the vista cds and pirating the clamshells.
(from Linux in Education Project link, on right column) "Here is a list of some of the free software technologies that we use: Debian, Free BSD, RedHat, MySQL, PHP, OpenOffice, Linux Terminal Server Project, Diskless Clients, Dansguardian, Squid, Cyrus, Squirrelmail, Scribus, Qcad, Cycus, and more..."
If you look at the colored pic next to the original black and white, it looks like someone was just bored in Gimp and did some coloring. The whole side-hill in the blacknwhite pic must be water if the colored pic is true.
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It's still there, it probably just sank underneath the beans.
When I look at the history of Microsoft regarding competition*, it's clear to me that this is exactly how it starts. They find a product they want to compete with and then use the windows desktop to *force* users into using their product rather than the competing one. It obviously shows,most importantly, how microsoft cannot compete without arm-twisting, or anti-competitive practices. Internet Explorer and Netscape are a prime example of this. Paranoid? Perhaps, but it's based on historical fact. Google is wise to treat this as a shot across the bow and raise hell about it now. I don't think it's too far fetched to assume Microsoft is attempting to shove Google further off the desktop. Freedom to choose is obviated in that you need to have choice in order to have freedom. Microsoft has a long track record of not being willing to allow choice or competition.
i fle+competition
[*] - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+st
> "Do no evil unless it gives us money."
c king/
I think you're jumping the gun here. Microsoft is like a fool with a rope; Give 'em enough, and next thing you know they want to be Cowboy Neal. Microsoft has enough money to buy just about any legal outcome they want - and don't fool yourself, they do. Google knows this and is nipping the problem in the bud right now. If they don't, before you know it, you won't even be able to use Google with Vista. Clippy will pop up and direct you to Vista Search instead (or some other such idiotic nonsense that the population seems to lap up). Being that Baldy is going to "Fucking kill Google"* I would be handling this with a wary eye as well. Google is playing it smart.
[*] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chu
I thought this balanced out to "States Secret", or better put, "You get privacy until we decide you don't need it"
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/
> Microsoft came off with not even a wag of the finger.
a lot of people wagged a finger, just not the index one.
difficulty isn't the issue. you probably need IE to use the service, and there are likely some royalty payment shenanigans going on also. Those two issues make things difficult because one of them is a heinous security problem, and the other isn't compatible with free software.
that nobody really needs, but looks cool and you're the envy of your friends and co-workers if you have one. Most people bitch that they "people won't leave me alone" or "can't get any work done" in reference to email. How is this going to help? Oh yeah, it looks cool and ...
Nice gesture, but can we ditch the fossil fuel dependancy? I can already blow up at the gas pump when Bill Dumbass is smoking next to me or leaving the engine running. Hydrogen cant be much worse.
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Looks like Windows*. No really. Yes again.
/. is quite alarming. People don't
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" 1) A Trojanised WMF File (Downloader)
2) ActiveX/OCX File (dropper)
The downloaded malware, when executed, installs
1) A rootkit "
Most of the world is in denial about the whole security issue surrounding
Windows. Even some of the postage on
*want* to know, that's why they don't post it.
[*] - http://blog.trendmicro.com/italian-job-vs-italian
or soccer for that matter. People get attached to what they believe in, even when their wrong. I think the fanboyism stems from the denial that is created when you will not accept that Wind^W^U the product simply does not work as advertised. Ever.
"made of a down, a strange and bottom quark"
Just when I thought slashdot couldn't get any geekier....
> After all, they don't have to give you free updates at all
Wanna bet? Watch a bad situation get worse; updates aren't optional considering the mess microsoft has created/ignored with their products in regards to security. If you really want to see a worm outbreak, watch the internet melt down when zillions of zombied windows boxes don't get updated because people didn't want to pay the 19.95/month subscription. It's bad enough now with most people *getting* the updates. I'm pretty sure there would be more legal woes if Microsoft started charging people to clean up the mess they created.
Too many years of having to do it the windows way. This is nice.
poor guy. his name sounds like spam all by itself.
> but I do not see why this should have any impact on the punishment of the criminal.
Simply put, revenge.
The resistances your immune system is building up from eating off the keyboard may save you some day.
If you haven't figured it out by now, the US government is going to do whatever it wants* anyway. The one with the most money wins. That's the way it works.
* http://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+wiretapping
I like gadgets, but some of it seems ridiculous. I don't need a phone that is a computer. I have a computer that is a computer. Sometimes the latest gadgetry is just marketing to people that need to be the "first kid on the block" to have it. Kind of like the genuine simulated all-steel, dual thumbed ass-scratcher (with posi-traction) of 1923. Pretty high tech in it's day, yes, but most people polled after the purchase a month later weren't so sure why they bought it in the first place. Many of them ended up just taking up space in landfills a year later. Hard to believe.
My sister's friend's brother's girlfriend has a cousin that went to china and said she saw them throwing out the vista cds and pirating the clamshells.
> If you have x million guns in circulation and population/y disafffected people, it's going to happen.
If you have x million disafffected people in circulation, it's going to happen.
Guns have little to do with motive. Motive is what should be dealt with; if the goal is to keep this from happening again.
My first reaction was that it may be TraitorousWhore-StickItUptheCommunityAss-Linux since it appears on the a Microvell blog, but I found an article on the school website that may suggest otherwise:
(from Linux in Education Project link, on right column)
"Here is a list of some of the free software technologies that we use: Debian, Free BSD, RedHat, MySQL, PHP, OpenOffice, Linux Terminal Server Project, Diskless Clients, Dansguardian, Squid, Cyrus, Squirrelmail, Scribus, Qcad, Cycus, and more..."
"some large company will patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of our profits as they want."
2 another+patent%22
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+%2
The Indians call this "speaking with a forked toungue". I wonder how they say "fuck you, bill" in Commanche.
If you look at the colored pic next to the original black and white, it looks like someone was just bored in Gimp and did some coloring. The whole side-hill in the blacknwhite pic must be water if the colored pic is true.
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http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/6572/39317433n
> just carry some in your pocket all the time, since you never know when you'll meet with loud noises.
Will my wife be able to tell I'm wearing them?