A classic example of this was when IE used to redo the favourites in the 'Media' bookmark and add in those entries for companies who paid an advertising fee. Very annoying, I remember rather than continually having to delete those entries I did not want, I created a Multimedia heading and simply deleted the Media heading at every new upgrade, well, at least up until replacement with firefox.
Then their were the wizards to facilitate your Internet connection that would only work with ISP who had paid an advertising fee to M$.
So really it is nothing new, same old M$ just screwing over the customer at every opportunity;).
Well according to you, the/. way, would be to point out that WGA is in fact misspelt and should in reality be WG(dis)A, but then I suppose that might be considered inappropriate, everyone knows how upset the micro-softies get about 'M$' abbreviations;).
If users have a problem with the software, and their time is wasted, they have every right to be upset and complain. It really is ignorant to side with a corporation against the consumer, when the corporation implements practices that they know will inconvenience the user, that they will lie about the inconvenience, they will also deny faults in the service and blame and attack users who have problems with the service, then after all that they will attempt to fix the faulty service while simultaneous denying it ever had any faults.
I also have had problems with WGA and that (P)OS Vista and though I was only using for a games boot, I un-installed Vista rather than continue to put up with it. In the work place of course it would be far more frustrating, thousands of dollars worth of productive labour lost due to some $100 OEM (P)OS software, do you not understand how users might really never forgive those kind of abuses.
The catch with that logic is it was not a 100% cash offer. It was a 50% cash and 50% M$ stock offer, now attempting to dump $22.3 billion dollars worth of M$ stock would mean in effect a substantial collapse in the purchase offer as the M$ stock price collapsed. After all M$ already took a substantial negative hit as soon as M$ admitted defeat in the Internet marketplace and was forced to make the offer to buy Yahoo.
While the yahoo board would obviously be tempted with a cash only offer, getting stuck with M$ stock at this time would be nothing the Yahoo board could, in all good conscience, recommend to its share holders. Oddly enough, a substantial portion of the rise in Yahoo share price that resulted from M$'s bid will remain because of M$ admission of defeat in the Internet market place, simultaneously that admission of defeat does not bode well for M$.
False advertising is false advertising and as such is fraudulent. I wonder if Amazon had overpriced items would they voluntarily give the money back.
I have found Amazon to be definitely less than scrupulous. You know those special deals if you buy all the items in the package you get an extra special discount, well, being a some what suspicious fellow, I decide to check the individual prices of each item, I was not really surprised to find that that bought individually that were in fact cheaper than bought with the super special package discount (basically a marketing lie).
So does Amazon bullshit to sell crap for the maximum possible mark up, you bet.
I have got to say it, you are an idiot. A search engine's job is to find the most relevant web pages for the person using the search engines, fail in that, and they are making no money for it's shareholders.
When companies forget that their first responsibility is to their customers and their second responsibility is to their staff and their last responsibility it to their shareholders, they die, fail in the first two and there is absolutely no chance the third will stand a chance.
Now of course we have the individuals at those companies, the people making those decisions, their main responsibilities are, family, friends, neighbours and oddly enough freedom and democracy. When they sell those out for short term profits, when they abandon the principles of freedom and democracy to pander to autocracies and to bloat their profit margins, they a quislings, they are traitors, basically they are sociopaths and belong in a padded cell where they can no longer put their own greed above the values of the rest of society.
What I don't understand and never will, is how anybody can accept, that becoming a corporate executive or the member of the board of a corporation abrogates from all normal human morals and values. Perhaps it is time to severely limit and curtail the scope and activity of corporations in modern societies.
Nah, it's it not even B$, it's just plain boring inflammatory crap, written to draw viewers to a fairly boring blog on CNET.
The whole article amounts to please look at me, please read me CNET blog, please comment before I get fired for being so boring that nobody bothers to read my artciles.
So they ask Linus for 'his' opinion and he gives 'his' opinion and some ignored disappearing blogger attempts to whip it up into some sort of crazed nonsense.
It has got to be getting fairly annoying for Linus, he can't answer any question about any subject, without some junk wannabe journalist trying to turn it into some sort of pronouncement.
Look at what John Rat-singer writes 'Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux', like what the fuck, talk about playing to the whole micro-softie crowd, woohoo, billy goat ballmer's favourite saying 'Linux Zealots', that'll at least earn Rat-singer some M$ advertising.
However in this instance they have behaved in a far more criminal fashion. M$ has attempted to corrupt the whole international standards process, a principal implemented so that companies and consumers can establish a baseline for a readily usable set of measures to ensure usability, fit for purpose and safety, of goods and services.
M$ did this purely for B$ marketing purposes. The extreme and severe nature of the attempted fraud and the damage it could to do to the global acceptance of those standards and the importance of international standards in facilitating a global marketing place in ensuring an acceptable and measurably quantifiable basis upon which to gauge the worth and value of goods and services, is something to be carefully and critically considered.
M$'s executives outlandish willingness to corrupt this whole process and put there own greed and ego above, the values of every other business and individual in the world, warrants the most severe punishment, lest other companies follow suit and make a mockery of international standards.
Most people charged with a crime are definitely not guilty, they are all innocent until proven guilty in a public court of law.
Some nasty misdirection going on in this anonymous post, yes most people charged with crimes end up admitting their guilt, that is to be expected with the typical traffic offence.
What would be interesting is how many of those invasions of privacy actually led to conviction, 10,000 odd over the last few years and as they are targeted at locations as well as people including all those locations that those people have access to, how many additional people had the privacy stolen, maybe as many as 50,000.
Now lets cut through the bullshit and how many of those 50,000 odd people were prosecuted and convicted for the crimes that were, 'er', hinted at, in the FISC warrant less wire taps, but then what the heck, the only foreigners not entitled to any human rights and the laws in foreign countries are made to be broken at a whim, after all foreigners have no right to law and justice.
Funny, I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember, all participants had absolutely no qualms about bombing civilian targets. Men, women, children, babies, grandmothers and grandfathers were all grist for the war machine mill. Seriously I would have thought the most heinous act was nuking a couple of cities, but then all is fair in love, war or mass murder.
So what you a saying is those pilots who dropped those nukes would only have been bad people if they flew their plane into the nuclear fireball.
Linus and Richard fulfil different roles in the FOSS movement, comparing them as individuals makes no sence at all, and comparing the important different roles they fill makes even less sense. All that counts is the results, the results they as individuals have made significant contributions to, but of course FOSS would not be what it is without the countless contribution of millions of others.
Who contributed the 'mostest' is mostly meaningless, the only thing that counts with FOSS, is everybody working together to achieve mutual desirable goals, for the benefit of all.
In terms of the OLPC, it is very understandable why Richard would prefer an open source solution on the wireless connection, I am rather surprised that it isn't, as an open and non-secret solution in the communication chain should be an inherent part of the project.
In this case, coincidence, apart from the unexplained ones. The US better pull it's finger out, and complete those wire taps, before a bunch of whole lot Internet users start getting really cranky;).
Interesting conspiracy, of course what is really funny is would the US do it, we all know the answer to that (cant have Europe, the Middle East and Asia sharing secrets), but are they actually doing it?
The reality is that the majority of facebook users only wont to share their information with potential friends and not with corporations, a bunch of strangers who have no interest in then other than ways by which they can be exploited. While that is rather naive of them, the majority of/. must remember that they are, in IQ terms sub 120s, and more often than not sub 100s, and often don't really understand the ramifications of what they are giving away and how it can be used against them.
The greatest problem with these sites is that they do target children as they are the best and most gullible marketing targets, as minors they should be protected from the ramifications of making their private lives permanently public.
I am really starting to get the feel that the social networking sites like facebook and myspace and trying to squeeze as much out of the public and those sites whilst they can, as both companies know that an inevitably crack down is coming and they will find the exploitative revenue source cut off.
Especially murderous atheist have been those ones, that climb atop the pulpit and preach louder than anybody else. That they are the most religious of all, that they have the greatest faith and that they and only they can accurately interpret their religion and anybody that disagrees with them, well, is a heretic and an unbeliever 'sic'. Why is it, they louder than preach, the weaker their faith and those that preach the loudest have no faith at all and religion for them is nothing but a route to wealth and power.
Of course you should really differentiate between the two types of atheist, those that are public, open and honest about it and, well, 'er', 'um', the arseholes on TV and in government.
All monotheist religious fanatics, through out history, have been uniformly murderous and destructive, I suppose it just goes hand in hand with only allowing one god, yours. Polytheism of the other hand seems to have been be much more peaceful, I suppose once you can accept many gods, you don't want to exclude any, just in case they might prove 'sic' useful.
The public solution of course just makes the RIAA/MPAA look incompetent in the interim. Don't forgetting these people are sucking up money from some of the greediest people in the business, content publishers and they do not like wasting their money.
It does not look like public discussion at all, as this just would lead to a open public revue of copyright, and that would be very bad for the publishers, all it really is, is way, way to many drugs to often.
The silence from ballmer shows a even greater embarrassment.
'I'll fucking kill Google', 'We will bury google', attempting to buy yahoo shows ballmer's abject failure. The money thrown away on rebranding MSN to Live has proven a complete waste.
M$'s biggest problem is that ballmer has completely surrounded himself with yes men, agree or get fired, so they all squat in their various board rooms convincing themselves that they are really smart and that ballmer is a genius, which invariably leads to ballmer making another immature boast.
Rather than attempting to block a government id system, real effort should be put into ensuring that legislation is in place to ensure it's safe use.
The showing of your id should never be compulsory and it should be a criminal offence to attempt to force someone to show their ID. A person should be notified of any and every access to the data stored against their id, who made the access, their id details, and exactly what data was accessed and why it was accessed, absolutely no exemptions for any reason.
The citizen should have full access to the data stored against their id and be able to challenge it's authenticity and make corrections as they are required.
Any inappropriate access to the data stored against a persons id should be heavily penalised and any attempts to plant false or misleading data against a persons id should be heavily penalised. What data can be stored against a persons id should be clearly legislated and certain elements should be specifically excluded, like race, religion, political preferences, sexual orientation, to mention just a few.
College students represent a unique subset, the majority have very little income whilst building up a substantial debts, severely limiting the amount of money they could spend on luxuries, like cds, the latest fashions, or even healthy organic foods. Of course from the pigopolists point of view those buggers should starve and go naked before listening to some music for free, how dare they not enrich the parasitical publishers or some drunken drugged minstrels, both of whom contribute (sic) far more to society (extreme satire) than say, doctors, teachers, physicist, chemists, engineers or even 'eww' computer programmers.
Everybody should know the difference between good quality and poor quality music. Good quality is the stuff that is shared live with other people, a living experience, a celebration of life. Poor quality is any recorded stuff that is generally only background to other activities and that some times enables the shallow recall of good quality music, if it ain't live, it is dead and hence every recording ever made is a substantially and emphatically degraded copy of the original;).
Technically speaking, the arrangement of the sub atomic elements with in the structure, will also affect the way in which the needle and the vinyl surface interact, both in rebound and impact, as well as variations with in gravity subject to orbit and the nett weight of the needle on the vinyl, in addition ambient temperature will also add a layer of variation. So in human scaleable and measurable terms, not only infinite but also containing a level of random variance;).
At least you notice thatd, finally seriously why don't you M$, that's right M$ give up your infantile, marketdroid name calling. The M$, that's right M$, have been harping on about those initals for the past year, because they feel it damages their brand name. Yeah sure the bullshit worked on digg were the M$ marketdroids could use their numbers, but it's a nonsense elsewhere.
I use MSN because I recognise it as such and I use M$ for the same reason for me MS will always be http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ so just finally get over it already. You sound like some uptight, lame, sociopath, marketdroid, really the mom's basement stuff is so old and pathetic try something a little more creative fro a change. As for giving it up M$ over M$'s dead and rotting carcass.
As for any points I make, wake up to yourself, I am here for fun, not because I am some lame arse loser getting paid to post.
Does M$ really want this deal, or is it simply a last ditch attempt by Ballmer to survive. Ballmer has staked his continued existence as the CEO of M$ on his own myopic focus on google. Not only does M$ have to bear the cost of buying Yahoo but also the cost of virtually writing off MSN.
M$ fails in the add market because they have single mindedly created a reputation of untrustworthiness. M$ is the last company you would want give information about future marketing campaigns, if they suddenly decide that you are a competitor they will use that information to their advantage. Reminds me of the Sony root kit debacle, the blogger who released the information about the root kit, his association with M$ and that M$ was fully aware of the root kit well before it's release and for some odd reason the release of the information about the root kit coincided with the launch of the PS3.
Dang it would suck to be a Yahoo or an MSN employee, if the buyout goes through, waiting for the axe to fall, as M$ works to reduced running costs and improve profit margins, especially as the yahoo owners would be crazy to take M$ stock rather than cash.
Of course the US Administration wont bat an eyelid they love monoplies (at least loyal ones) but the EU will most likely baulk at the idea.
The whole idea is crazy, M$ couldn't run MSN properly, so why would the same management team do any better with Yahoo, well at least the ex-Yahoo investors could always buy it back at a 75% discount in about 5 years.
With a limited number of readily memorable and understandable words to be shared amongst hundreds of mliions of companies and individuals, there is no sane reason to allow squatters top mindlessly hoard hundreds of domain names and not use sub-domains. Australia is very strict with it's domain naming system and a company must have a registered business name prior to obtain a matching or nearly matching domain name.
For approximately 99% of the population it will have a positive effect and only the greediest 1% will have their activities curtailed, so is that inherently not the whole idea of appropriate legislation.
The moral could end up needing to be quite widespread. With IPv6 and everybody having a fixed IP address, and cheap when configurable hardware with free open source web/mail/file server software readily available, most people will be running their own mail server and only a minority will be using ISP email services. Things will certainly be interesting then, IP adress blocking, virus and spam filtering.
It seems to be an excellent idea, why stuff about, simply double the domain name fee for each additional domain, registered by the same company or individual.
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Then their were the wizards to facilitate your Internet connection that would only work with ISP who had paid an advertising fee to M$.
So really it is nothing new, same old M$ just screwing over the customer at every opportunity ;).
If users have a problem with the software, and their time is wasted, they have every right to be upset and complain. It really is ignorant to side with a corporation against the consumer, when the corporation implements practices that they know will inconvenience the user, that they will lie about the inconvenience, they will also deny faults in the service and blame and attack users who have problems with the service, then after all that they will attempt to fix the faulty service while simultaneous denying it ever had any faults.
I also have had problems with WGA and that (P)OS Vista and though I was only using for a games boot, I un-installed Vista rather than continue to put up with it. In the work place of course it would be far more frustrating, thousands of dollars worth of productive labour lost due to some $100 OEM (P)OS software, do you not understand how users might really never forgive those kind of abuses.
While the yahoo board would obviously be tempted with a cash only offer, getting stuck with M$ stock at this time would be nothing the Yahoo board could, in all good conscience, recommend to its share holders. Oddly enough, a substantial portion of the rise in Yahoo share price that resulted from M$'s bid will remain because of M$ admission of defeat in the Internet market place, simultaneously that admission of defeat does not bode well for M$.
I have found Amazon to be definitely less than scrupulous. You know those special deals if you buy all the items in the package you get an extra special discount, well, being a some what suspicious fellow, I decide to check the individual prices of each item, I was not really surprised to find that that bought individually that were in fact cheaper than bought with the super special package discount (basically a marketing lie).
So does Amazon bullshit to sell crap for the maximum possible mark up, you bet.
When companies forget that their first responsibility is to their customers and their second responsibility is to their staff and their last responsibility it to their shareholders, they die, fail in the first two and there is absolutely no chance the third will stand a chance.
Now of course we have the individuals at those companies, the people making those decisions, their main responsibilities are, family, friends, neighbours and oddly enough freedom and democracy. When they sell those out for short term profits, when they abandon the principles of freedom and democracy to pander to autocracies and to bloat their profit margins, they a quislings, they are traitors, basically they are sociopaths and belong in a padded cell where they can no longer put their own greed above the values of the rest of society.
What I don't understand and never will, is how anybody can accept, that becoming a corporate executive or the member of the board of a corporation abrogates from all normal human morals and values. Perhaps it is time to severely limit and curtail the scope and activity of corporations in modern societies.
The whole article amounts to please look at me, please read me CNET blog, please comment before I get fired for being so boring that nobody bothers to read my artciles.
So they ask Linus for 'his' opinion and he gives 'his' opinion and some ignored disappearing blogger attempts to whip it up into some sort of crazed nonsense.
It has got to be getting fairly annoying for Linus, he can't answer any question about any subject, without some junk wannabe journalist trying to turn it into some sort of pronouncement.
Look at what John Rat-singer writes 'Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux', like what the fuck, talk about playing to the whole micro-softie crowd, woohoo, billy goat ballmer's favourite saying 'Linux Zealots', that'll at least earn Rat-singer some M$ advertising.
M$ did this purely for B$ marketing purposes. The extreme and severe nature of the attempted fraud and the damage it could to do to the global acceptance of those standards and the importance of international standards in facilitating a global marketing place in ensuring an acceptable and measurably quantifiable basis upon which to gauge the worth and value of goods and services, is something to be carefully and critically considered.
M$'s executives outlandish willingness to corrupt this whole process and put there own greed and ego above, the values of every other business and individual in the world, warrants the most severe punishment, lest other companies follow suit and make a mockery of international standards.
Some nasty misdirection going on in this anonymous post, yes most people charged with crimes end up admitting their guilt, that is to be expected with the typical traffic offence.
What would be interesting is how many of those invasions of privacy actually led to conviction, 10,000 odd over the last few years and as they are targeted at locations as well as people including all those locations that those people have access to, how many additional people had the privacy stolen, maybe as many as 50,000.
Now lets cut through the bullshit and how many of those 50,000 odd people were prosecuted and convicted for the crimes that were, 'er', hinted at, in the FISC warrant less wire taps, but then what the heck, the only foreigners not entitled to any human rights and the laws in foreign countries are made to be broken at a whim, after all foreigners have no right to law and justice.
So what you a saying is those pilots who dropped those nukes would only have been bad people if they flew their plane into the nuclear fireball.
Who contributed the 'mostest' is mostly meaningless, the only thing that counts with FOSS, is everybody working together to achieve mutual desirable goals, for the benefit of all.
In terms of the OLPC, it is very understandable why Richard would prefer an open source solution on the wireless connection, I am rather surprised that it isn't, as an open and non-secret solution in the communication chain should be an inherent part of the project.
Interesting conspiracy, of course what is really funny is would the US do it, we all know the answer to that (cant have Europe, the Middle East and Asia sharing secrets), but are they actually doing it?
The greatest problem with these sites is that they do target children as they are the best and most gullible marketing targets, as minors they should be protected from the ramifications of making their private lives permanently public.
I am really starting to get the feel that the social networking sites like facebook and myspace and trying to squeeze as much out of the public and those sites whilst they can, as both companies know that an inevitably crack down is coming and they will find the exploitative revenue source cut off.
Of course you should really differentiate between the two types of atheist, those that are public, open and honest about it and, well, 'er', 'um', the arseholes on TV and in government.
All monotheist religious fanatics, through out history, have been uniformly murderous and destructive, I suppose it just goes hand in hand with only allowing one god, yours. Polytheism of the other hand seems to have been be much more peaceful, I suppose once you can accept many gods, you don't want to exclude any, just in case they might prove 'sic' useful.
It does not look like public discussion at all, as this just would lead to a open public revue of copyright, and that would be very bad for the publishers, all it really is, is way, way to many drugs to often.
'I'll fucking kill Google', 'We will bury google', attempting to buy yahoo shows ballmer's abject failure. The money thrown away on rebranding MSN to Live has proven a complete waste.
M$'s biggest problem is that ballmer has completely surrounded himself with yes men, agree or get fired, so they all squat in their various board rooms convincing themselves that they are really smart and that ballmer is a genius, which invariably leads to ballmer making another immature boast.
Will ballmer apologise to M$'s shareholders or will his behaviour and the behaviour of his executive chorus more closely align with this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148141-The-Trick-of-the-Psychopath-s-Trade-Make-Us-Believe-that-Evil-Comes-from-Others, an interesting read that does really reflect the behaviour of some governments and a lot of corporations.
The showing of your id should never be compulsory and it should be a criminal offence to attempt to force someone to show their ID. A person should be notified of any and every access to the data stored against their id, who made the access, their id details, and exactly what data was accessed and why it was accessed, absolutely no exemptions for any reason.
The citizen should have full access to the data stored against their id and be able to challenge it's authenticity and make corrections as they are required.
Any inappropriate access to the data stored against a persons id should be heavily penalised and any attempts to plant false or misleading data against a persons id should be heavily penalised. What data can be stored against a persons id should be clearly legislated and certain elements should be specifically excluded, like race, religion, political preferences, sexual orientation, to mention just a few.
Everybody should know the difference between good quality and poor quality music. Good quality is the stuff that is shared live with other people, a living experience, a celebration of life. Poor quality is any recorded stuff that is generally only background to other activities and that some times enables the shallow recall of good quality music, if it ain't live, it is dead and hence every recording ever made is a substantially and emphatically degraded copy of the original ;).
Technically speaking, the arrangement of the sub atomic elements with in the structure, will also affect the way in which the needle and the vinyl surface interact, both in rebound and impact, as well as variations with in gravity subject to orbit and the nett weight of the needle on the vinyl, in addition ambient temperature will also add a layer of variation. So in human scaleable and measurable terms, not only infinite but also containing a level of random variance ;).
I use MSN because I recognise it as such and I use M$ for the same reason for me MS will always be http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ so just finally get over it already. You sound like some uptight, lame, sociopath, marketdroid, really the mom's basement stuff is so old and pathetic try something a little more creative fro a change. As for giving it up M$ over M$'s dead and rotting carcass.
As for any points I make, wake up to yourself, I am here for fun, not because I am some lame arse loser getting paid to post.
M$ fails in the add market because they have single mindedly created a reputation of untrustworthiness. M$ is the last company you would want give information about future marketing campaigns, if they suddenly decide that you are a competitor they will use that information to their advantage. Reminds me of the Sony root kit debacle, the blogger who released the information about the root kit, his association with M$ and that M$ was fully aware of the root kit well before it's release and for some odd reason the release of the information about the root kit coincided with the launch of the PS3.
Dang it would suck to be a Yahoo or an MSN employee, if the buyout goes through, waiting for the axe to fall, as M$ works to reduced running costs and improve profit margins, especially as the yahoo owners would be crazy to take M$ stock rather than cash.
Of course the US Administration wont bat an eyelid they love monoplies (at least loyal ones) but the EU will most likely baulk at the idea.
The whole idea is crazy, M$ couldn't run MSN properly, so why would the same management team do any better with Yahoo, well at least the ex-Yahoo investors could always buy it back at a 75% discount in about 5 years.
For approximately 99% of the population it will have a positive effect and only the greediest 1% will have their activities curtailed, so is that inherently not the whole idea of appropriate legislation.
The moral could end up needing to be quite widespread. With IPv6 and everybody having a fixed IP address, and cheap when configurable hardware with free open source web/mail/file server software readily available, most people will be running their own mail server and only a minority will be using ISP email services. Things will certainly be interesting then, IP adress blocking, virus and spam filtering.
It seems to be an excellent idea, why stuff about, simply double the domain name fee for each additional domain, registered by the same company or individual.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/20/2144211
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/12/0717240
So privacy invasive much?