We, unlike the British, have this odd concept that laws ought to apply equally to all.
You might have heard of this oddity while doting on your kings and queens.
If it is illegal for Microsoft to include a browser, you should be able to point to a specific chapter and verse of the law stating this.
And if it is illegal for Microsoft to include a browser, it should also be illegal for Apple, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and anyone else selling a operating system.
But you see, its not about fairness or legality. Its about tall poppy syndrome.
Did Microsoft commit excesses in the past? Sure. Was the browser one of them? No. (Other than the quality of said browser, which is criminal).
Should Ford be forced to deliver a car without tires (tyres) just because they have been successful at avoiding bankruptcy? After all, they have been hauled into court in years past for anti-competitive abuses.
Nobody charges for browser. Therefore this competitive market place drivel you proffer is nonsense.
Apple has as much of the market as the consumer is willing to give them.
Why not punish the consumer.
Oh, wait, They did. Just wait till the consumer finds out it was their illustrious elected officials that made them try to download a browser via command line FTP.
> were going to investigate and determine the most > effective remedy regardless of what MS does at > this point.
Why should the EU get to decide what MS puts in its OS?
MS did the right thing. Too bad the EU saw fit to punish all of its citizens by making them go dig up a browser somewhere.
I hope the put some buttons on the desktop that will go download the browser of choice. But Even that can't be relied upon as ftp URLs change over time and Firefox and Opera are fairly difficult to download via FTP unless you know the exact URL.
> A competent user will have to download the latest version anyway,
And the less than competent?
With no browser installed at all, you better hope Microsoft puts some automated Install scripts in or your Aunt Edna will insist you come over an fix her brand new machine.
Try explaining FTP to your Aunt or your Grandmother.
Or perhaps they started to remove than and said, you know what, let's leave them in, and let the slashdot crowd try to explain the technology. Its not their job to fill in every detail of every imaginary technology.
How does an interface to a prosthetic limb somehow suggest a "mine whipe". Does my pedicure predict a lobotomy?
Come on, people. There is some fool snickering somewhere that the drunken brainstorm he posted somewhere has actually morphed into a story on Slashdot.
If your site is that compromised that you have anything to worry about, and you relied on Slashdot to bring this to your attention, being shot at sunrise should bring relief.
Slashdot Mirror
Except that Bloop was sound.
This is silent.
The arctic is melting.
Trapped in frozen ice for centuries, -- not of this earth.
Que Kurt Russell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(film)
Yes, we too have laws.
We, unlike the British, have this odd concept that laws ought to apply equally to all.
You might have heard of this oddity while doting on your kings and queens.
If it is illegal for Microsoft to include a browser, you should be able to point to a specific chapter and verse of the law stating this.
And if it is illegal for Microsoft to include a browser, it should also be illegal for Apple, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and anyone else selling a operating system.
But you see, its not about fairness or legality. Its about tall poppy syndrome.
Did Microsoft commit excesses in the past? Sure. Was the browser one of them? No. (Other than the quality of said browser, which is criminal).
Should Ford be forced to deliver a car without tires (tyres) just because they have been successful at avoiding bankruptcy? After all, they have been hauled into court in years past for anti-competitive abuses.
Nobody charges for browser.
Therefore this competitive market place drivel you proffer is nonsense.
Threaten?
Get real.
Those people who were supposed to notice the reduction in tigers were missing as well.
Their boss went out to find them, but he did not come back either.
The senior administrator, the only employee left suggested the tigers moved on due to dwindling local food supply.
Apple has as much of the market as the consumer is willing to give them.
Why not punish the consumer.
Oh, wait, They did. Just wait till the consumer finds out it was their illustrious elected officials that made them try to download a browser via command line FTP.
Past tense.
Microsoft DOES NOT have a monopoly in the Operating System Space. (They really never did).
The only people alleging that they do is Apple and several Linux distros.
How odd is that. Monopoly proclaimed by the very people who's existence disproves the claim.
> were going to investigate and determine the most
> effective remedy regardless of what MS does at
> this point.
Why should the EU get to decide what MS puts in its OS?
MS did the right thing. Too bad the EU saw fit to punish all of its citizens by making them go dig up a browser somewhere.
I hope the put some buttons on the desktop that will go download the browser of choice. But Even that can't be relied upon as ftp URLs change over time and Firefox and Opera are fairly difficult to download via FTP unless you know the exact URL.
Nope.
Dustin Kolodziej did not kill four people.
Contract not fulfilled.
>prove that his client, Nelson Ivan Serrano, was
> able to travel across two states and kill four
> people in the time that prosecutors had alleged
Simulations are not sufficient.
> A competent user will have to download the latest version anyway,
And the less than competent?
With no browser installed at all, you better hope Microsoft puts some automated Install scripts in or your Aunt Edna will insist you come over an fix her brand new machine.
Try explaining FTP to your Aunt or your Grandmother.
Or perhaps it's his lack of apostrophes.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/its.html
Or perhaps they started to remove than and said, you know what, let's leave them in, and let the slashdot crowd try to explain the technology. Its not their job to fill in every detail of every imaginary technology.
The test measures the psychologist that administer it, not the patient.
>in order to interpret the results scientifically
You have to be smoking dope.
There is nothing scientific at all about this claptrap, and there never was.
"since prior exposure to the images could render them ineffective as a psychological test"
They were ineffective the day they were invented. This is VooDoo science it's best, and public exposure of it as a sham is long over do.
This stuff isn't even being taught anymore.
You can't spoof an IP thru a router you don't control.
The router immediately upstream of your bot always knows where the packet came from regardless of what IP you might try to force into said packet.
RTFA: Zombies. Botnet.
It takes coordinated digging to follow the botnet control channel upstream, especially if the botnet runs disconnected the vast majority of the time.
As a target, you would only see packets from the particular bot that was dosing you.
Grow up.
Quote: "OpenSolaris developers are afraid that they'll be either moved over to working on Linux or let go"
Let see, Job and Paycheck working on something with a future, or sulking at home working on a dead end?
Decisions....
Realistically, how hard would it be to include an OFF switch on the external interface used for doctor diagnostics?
I mean, for pete sake people, what possible gain would there be in trying to break into a mechanical leg?
Can you take any part of that to the bank? There is no money to follow. There is no information to gain.
Do you see anyone hacking your IP Oven, or you IP Coffee maker? http://workingmomwa.blogspot.com/2008/06/coffee-maker-needs-security-update.html
How does an interface to a prosthetic limb somehow suggest a "mine whipe". Does my pedicure predict a lobotomy?
Come on, people. There is some fool snickering somewhere that the drunken brainstorm he posted somewhere has actually morphed into a story on Slashdot.
> it doesn't have the ability to read or write the file system outside of it's own size-limited isolated storage bin,
This is WINDOWS!!
Wake the fuck up!
It's still windows.
Famous last words.
> the ability to run apps outside of the browser.
What could Possibly go wrong with that?!?
You should just quit before they fire you.
If your site is that compromised that you have anything to worry about, and you relied on Slashdot to bring this to your attention, being shot at sunrise should bring relief.