When companies can buy reports and studies to say whatever the fuck they want them to say (*cough*microsoft*cough*), of course they are going to be bullshit.
Moding a comment down because you disagree is double plus ungood.
Bleh, I half expected this. Attacking slashdot, however indirectly, always leads to being modded down. Well, almost always.
Regardless, I don't see why we should get all riled up by stating the obvious. Linux *is* good at ID management, always has been. Windows lags way behind linux in this dept. No one is surprised. It's making it usable to a wide variety of people that has been and will continue to be the problem.
This is neither news nor is it anything that matters. The core of the problem isn't ID management, it never was. It's application support for linux, which is pretty much non-existant in most fields.
The problem isn't with the virus-jerks, although I'm not excusing their actions. The problem is software companies aren't held accountable like in other industries.
If Ford, for example, made a car that due to a glitch caused it to run poorly and eat gas, there would be a lawsuit against them in no time flat. If they did it consistently, people would stop buying from them.
That doesn't happen in the software industry. People write crap software that costs "profitability" when it goes haywire ( which happens often ), and the decision makers just shake their heads and mutter something about being the nature of the game.
Virus-jerks aren't the problem, they are a symptom.
Replace your Microsoft software today and avoid 90% of all problems that plague other Windows users
Sadly, on a network of any respectable size, this is a hard thing to accoplish. On my simple network of 50 stations I am forced to work with software that requires IE6.x, poweruser access along with unfettered access to the internet. It communicates over https, but it won't work through a proxy, so I have to open it up entirely.
I have a few apps that simply require power user along with some other weirdness.
So while I'd like to get rid of as many MS packages as possible, it's usually not practical.
Oh? You have information that links Iraq to the WTC disaster?
I'm sure Bush Jr would love to talk to you then, as his own intelligence people can't even provide this.
We picked a fight with Iraq because we were looking for WMD, which many of us knew to be a bullshit reason. Now, some time later, we can't find them and no one seems to care about it.
It is truly a sad point in history. Historians will look back on our time in much the same way we look back on our expansion across the west, pushing the natives out where ever we settled.
It's like a janitor contemplating whether a clean hall is art.
More like an author contemplating what he does is art. I've often thought writing a book and programming are excedingly similar.
"It is art" or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability to puff up about what you do?
You get to put the subject under the Art Dept or Math dept at the university. Which is a major thing. My local school treats comp sci as a subset of math, so to get the BS, you have to do ungodly amounts of math that will likely never see real world use.
Would things be different under an art dept? Probably not, but I know how bad it is under the Math dept, it might be interesting to see the other way.
Personally, as far as colleges go, I'd rather see comp sci under it's own flag. Still a science, but without external influences that muck it up.
They took two of my favorite characters from one of my favorite shows and perverted them in a horrific way.
It would be like big bird pushing viagra.
That this comes from disney is not surprising, they are one of the worst souless companies out there. That an editor of slashdot would endorse this enough to post this is the true tragedy here.
Which is why this particular editor's posts will no longer be seen by me.
I can only agree with the parent post. This was horrible.
Now, granted, I grew up watching the muppets and I would still gladly watch them today ( reruns of course ). They were smart and funny. Simply amazing works of art.
So I went into this with somewhat high hopes.
I have to say, this is the first time slashdot has really let me down.
While I don't think *cracking* is right ( nevermind arguing the semantics of it ), I don't think it's relevant to complain about them. It's like getting annoyed with bacteria, and blaming it for the invention and need of anti-bios.
Yes, if it weren't for x we wouldn't need y. However, much like bacteria strengthens the body, crackers strengthen our software. Albeit in a round about way.
You, my friend, are what is wrong with the industry today. Please do not lead people to believe that you have a clue, you do not.
Linux and OS X *are* vulnerable. Perhaps not as much as windows, but that's hardly the point. If I can get a user to download and run something, I have access. There are always going to be cracks and work arounds no matter the OS, and that's what virus writers will continue to exploit.
Call me crazy, but what does this prove? What is the point to bashing this?
I can find no purpose to bashing a research paper ( per cohen ), especially from Cohen.
This is MS bashing, pure and simple. I'm sick of it. I'm not a fan of MS, I think they and their products are questionable at best, but needlessly bashing them instead of understanding their strengths is a fools' errand.
Yes, cygwin makes common Unix shells available on windows, but it's just a CLI. It doesn't interact with the rest of windows, the registry, other user space apps, etc. It's basically just a way to interact with your file system... Monad is a big step ahead for windows...
Talk about proving the quote right.
That's all bash is. That's all it does in linux too. You use other programs to do the work, bash is simply an interface to the file system. And a damn elegant one at that.
I'd like to hear more from commercial developers. Personally, I'm a bit...loose...with my language in my code. If a comment I write helps me understand what I am trying to do and helps other's see what I was up to, I don't really care how it reads.
It's not like the customer will ever see the code, so it may be something that businesses don't really concern themselves with.
No lie. With DVD players out that are 30 bucks but don't work reliably out of the box, people will still keep their VHS around and stick to VHS tapes because they are more reliable.
Like him or hate him, he's got the balls to stand up there and tell the honest uncolored truth to a bunch of kids who's parents paid a fortune for their education.
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When companies can buy reports and studies to say whatever the fuck they want them to say (*cough*microsoft*cough*), of course they are going to be bullshit.
Who's surprised by this? Seriously.
Moding a comment down because you disagree is double plus ungood.
Bleh, I half expected this. Attacking slashdot, however indirectly, always leads to being modded down. Well, almost always.
Regardless, I don't see why we should get all riled up by stating the obvious. Linux *is* good at ID management, always has been. Windows lags way behind linux in this dept. No one is surprised. It's making it usable to a wide variety of people that has been and will continue to be the problem.
I was referring to actual work applications ( in my case, Xray software, practice management software ect... ), thanks for asking.
Now, someone please mod parent "-1 Clueless"
This is neither news nor is it anything that matters. The core of the problem isn't ID management, it never was. It's application support for linux, which is pretty much non-existant in most fields.
The problem isn't with the virus-jerks, although I'm not excusing their actions. The problem is software companies aren't held accountable like in other industries.
If Ford, for example, made a car that due to a glitch caused it to run poorly and eat gas, there would be a lawsuit against them in no time flat. If they did it consistently, people would stop buying from them.
That doesn't happen in the software industry. People write crap software that costs "profitability" when it goes haywire ( which happens often ), and the decision makers just shake their heads and mutter something about being the nature of the game.
Virus-jerks aren't the problem, they are a symptom.
Replace your Microsoft software today and avoid 90% of all problems that plague other Windows users
Sadly, on a network of any respectable size, this is a hard thing to accoplish. On my simple network of 50 stations I am forced to work with software that requires IE6.x, poweruser access along with unfettered access to the internet. It communicates over https, but it won't work through a proxy, so I have to open it up entirely.
I have a few apps that simply require power user along with some other weirdness.
So while I'd like to get rid of as many MS packages as possible, it's usually not practical.
Oh? You have information that links Iraq to the WTC disaster?
I'm sure Bush Jr would love to talk to you then, as his own intelligence people can't even provide this.
We picked a fight with Iraq because we were looking for WMD, which many of us knew to be a bullshit reason. Now, some time later, we can't find them and no one seems to care about it.
It is truly a sad point in history. Historians will look back on our time in much the same way we look back on our expansion across the west, pushing the natives out where ever we settled.
It's like a janitor contemplating whether a clean hall is art.
More like an author contemplating what he does is art. I've often thought writing a book and programming are excedingly similar.
"It is art" or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability to puff up about what you do?
You get to put the subject under the Art Dept or Math dept at the university. Which is a major thing. My local school treats comp sci as a subset of math, so to get the BS, you have to do ungodly amounts of math that will likely never see real world use.
Would things be different under an art dept? Probably not, but I know how bad it is under the Math dept, it might be interesting to see the other way.
Personally, as far as colleges go, I'd rather see comp sci under it's own flag. Still a science, but without external influences that muck it up.
So...the editor has no say whether or not to post it?
Your logic is..baffling.
No, slashdot. For posting this crap.
They took two of my favorite characters from one of my favorite shows and perverted them in a horrific way.
It would be like big bird pushing viagra.
That this comes from disney is not surprising, they are one of the worst souless companies out there. That an editor of slashdot would endorse this enough to post this is the true tragedy here.
Which is why this particular editor's posts will no longer be seen by me.
I can only agree with the parent post. This was horrible.
Now, granted, I grew up watching the muppets and I would still gladly watch them today ( reruns of course ). They were smart and funny. Simply amazing works of art.
So I went into this with somewhat high hopes.
I have to say, this is the first time slashdot has really let me down.
to strip mine *that*.
Crime really *does* pay.
While I don't think *cracking* is right ( nevermind arguing the semantics of it ), I don't think it's relevant to complain about them. It's like getting annoyed with bacteria, and blaming it for the invention and need of anti-bios.
Yes, if it weren't for x we wouldn't need y. However, much like bacteria strengthens the body, crackers strengthen our software. Albeit in a round about way.
OS X and Linux don't even get viruses
You, my friend, are what is wrong with the industry today. Please do not lead people to believe that you have a clue, you do not.
Linux and OS X *are* vulnerable. Perhaps not as much as windows, but that's hardly the point. If I can get a user to download and run something, I have access. There are always going to be cracks and work arounds no matter the OS, and that's what virus writers will continue to exploit.
We shouldn't have done what we did. On the other hand, however, what we did isn't anything out of the norm for the internet in general.
So them complaining about it is akin to a new car owner complaining that all this oil, grease and gas is making their engine not look shiny.
Call me crazy, but what does this prove? What is the point to bashing this?
I can find no purpose to bashing a research paper ( per cohen ), especially from Cohen.
This is MS bashing, pure and simple. I'm sick of it. I'm not a fan of MS, I think they and their products are questionable at best, but needlessly bashing them instead of understanding their strengths is a fools' errand.
Yes, cygwin makes common Unix shells available on windows, but it's just a CLI. It doesn't interact with the rest of windows, the registry, other user space apps, etc. It's basically just a way to interact with your file system... Monad is a big step ahead for windows...
Talk about proving the quote right.
That's all bash is. That's all it does in linux too. You use other programs to do the work, bash is simply an interface to the file system. And a damn elegant one at that.
But in a straight-laced commerical environment?
I'd like to hear more from commercial developers. Personally, I'm a bit...loose...with my language in my code. If a comment I write helps me understand what I am trying to do and helps other's see what I was up to, I don't really care how it reads.
It's not like the customer will ever see the code, so it may be something that businesses don't really concern themselves with.
Then, they'll let it run and mature for a few seasons, develop a strong fan base and a good show.
Then, they'll cancel it. On a really good cliff hanger.
Fuckers
I love the bump ( queue cheesy 70s pr0n music ).
Seriously, I love the bump of the mouse wheel. Now, if they make a touch panel that has a similar shape, I'm sold.
To paraphrase
We don't know how we're going to get there or do what we want to do once we get there, but by god, we're going.
Great., NASA is run by PHBs.
Whoa...a debian stab at MS making Longhorn obsolete before arriving..
There are levels here I can't even begin to comprehend.
No lie. With DVD players out that are 30 bucks but don't work reliably out of the box, people will still keep their VHS around and stick to VHS tapes because they are more reliable.
First hand, mother experience.
Like him or hate him, he's got the balls to stand up there and tell the honest uncolored truth to a bunch of kids who's parents paid a fortune for their education.
But he ain't coming back next year.