print the article while you can. now that the records from the caldera trial have been destroyed (along with the copy of the beta they managed to find for the trial, no doubt), microsoft will undoubted resume claiming it's an urban legend, if they have't already, and all mention of this little bit of history is rapidly vanishing from the virtual world as well. pathetic.
the destruction of the caldera trial documents has been mentioned on slashdot once or twice, and i commented on it bothtimes. pity nobody cared. oh well. history repeats itself again.
i'm quite sure people will find a way to subvert the gps and just have it report very small changes in position. say, 1/10th of a mile for every 10 or something.
gates is a amoral bag of slime? who would have guessed? pity the doj couldn't be bothered to, like, effectively punish him for ruining the domestic os and office software markets. oh well.
The article hints how this may be the beggining to a Windows OS without any Microsoft applications.
since the edition in question is only available in the eu, its existence is irrelevant to the rest of the world, and will probably cease to exist entirely after a few more legal rounds.
ha ha. and we can all guess who'll win that case. sounds like this pos work of "art" (profiteering) needs to be removed. or maybe some of the taggers will help out and express the reaction of the "little people" to this kind of ip law abuse. the courts certainly can't be counted on to do the job.
Christ, is it such a bad thing for a politician to show some emotion and not be a stick in the mud?
well, i don't think so. fwiw, i also have a video of the event that also shows while he did yell, it sounded nothing like the audio pushed on the news, talk shows, etc. and used as "proof" of dean's "excessive emotionalism".
nice summary. of course, it omits both the real reason his campaign failed, namely the endless pushing of the infamous scream by the corporate media and related commentary, and the key bit of truth most of the sheep still don't know, namely that the scream never really happened and was fabricated to discredit dean. click on the link. oh, and be sure to print it out before the brownshirts have it deleted. one of the many reasons anyone who uses the phrase "liberal media" is either a liar or a fool.
successors to the "imminent death of the internet" in terms of both frequency and stupidity. microsoft owns 90+% of both the operating system and office productivity software markets and is immune from market forces. or hadn't these morons noticed it just finished paying a huge dividend in the middle of a depression?
i was going to refer to a previous commment i made on a previous thread on this subject, but since it's scrolled off the list of previous comments on my user info page, and slashdot's search engine is broken (searching for user names in comments does not work), i guess i won't. suffice it to say: the corps will eventually win and software patents will be enacted. money talks.
gee, how amusing that i wrote this just recently. the users want something stupid, they shouldn't complain when the obvious reason it shouldn't be done happens.
um, the real reason the beagle 2 failed is very simple: they told it to land in a crater. see my comment on the previous mention of this subject on slashdot for four urls to articles supporting this.
this is the same public that when the doj was acting like it was going to actually punish microsoft cried out how horrible the doj was, and recently reinstalled an lying incompetent deficit bloating homophobic anti-science war monger as president. in other words, because they're mostly a bunch of ignorant fools who are getting exactly what they deserve. they wanted microsoft to be free to "innovate", so now they can bend over, take it, and stfu.
one wonders what the computing world would be like if dec hadn't stupidly fired david cutler, who then went to work for microsoft and turned nt's internals into a vms clone. or what things would be like if bush hadn't stolen the election in 2000 and the doj given microsoft another white-wash of a settlement. pity we live in this pessimal world instead. burn in hell, cutler.
fingerprint readers are not secure, regardless of who is making them. the basic concept of biometrics is flawed. you're just replacing one forgable key with another. fingerprints are especially bad, since any reasonably skilled criminal with latex or a similar material can just replicate the needed print and wear it over their own finger. the best biometric method, retina blood vessel pattern comparison, discriminates against blind people (who can't focus on the target) and puts you at risk for eye damage if they make the scanner beam too powerful -- and you won't know until a decade or so later. but since biometrics is the new fad, you can be sure you'll be seeing more of it -- and stories of exploits.
since some of you can't seem to read (or did not bother to follow the link to the article):
After the trust fund is empty, payroll tax revenue would cover 73 percent to 81 percent of benefits, according to estimates from both Social Security and the CBO.
i.e.: despite bush's lies to the contrary, the choice isn't between his asinine plan and total failure. it's between his asinine plan and a 19% to 26% reduction in benefits IF NOTHING AT ALL is done. and since this problem is at LEAST 40ish years off, i think it's very god damned likely something less asinine would be found by then.
not that it matters. obviously there are enough boneheads that his lies and scare tactics will work. just don't blame me for the scores of seniors who will living in the street and eating garbage. not everyone is a member of the middle class and above, and thus do not have the "disposable income" to invest in the stock market, even if it managed not to crash one or more times before they retire.
on the subject of budgeting, i'll avoid getting into the "was the surplus real or not" debate, and point this out instead: under Clinton, the deficit (not the debt) was reduced to ZERO (click the link). bush has recreated it and pushed it to new heights, such as 2004's record $412 billion (click the link).
i'll address the following directly:
trb001: He backed the marriage amendment when it was voted on DURING his reelection campaign. To say "now that the election is over..." is disingenuous and ignorant of (recent) history.
while bush is a skillful liar, and your statement is technically true, it is mostly false. i present the following quote (and link):
given the above, and numerous other instances of his doubletalk during the campaign, i think it's much more accurate to say HE is the one being "disingenuous" and YOU "ignorant of (recent) history".
bush is a utter poo-poo head, as are his ignorant and rather pathetic supporters. please bother to LEARN THE FACTS before you endorse this moron. oh wait, too late.
liar, liar, pants on fire
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such a pity i stopped drinking last weekend. the following are all taken from this CNN article.
Bush said Social Security, on its current path, is "headed toward bankruptcy,"
liar, per:
Social Security actuaries project the trust fund will last until 2042. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office puts that date at 2052.
let's exagerate the facts to fighten the public. but let's also ensure today's seniors can support your social security bankrupting plan without fear of reprisal:
"I have a message for every American who is 55 or older: Do not let anyone mislead you. For you, the Social Security system will not change in any way."
how nice. gotta love this part:
"conservative mix of bonds and stock funds."
"conservative" and "stock funds" do not go together. though i'm sure his supporters have forgotten about the bubble that burst just a few years ago.
"Here is why personal accounts are a better deal: Your money will grow, over time, at a greater rate than anything the current system can deliver," Bush said.
after all, he obviously has.
"We must make Social Security permanently sound, not leave that task for another day," Bush said.
yes, by stopping him from farking it up or at least slowing him down. and now on to the most "amusing" parts:
Bush called for a bipartisan effort to restrain "the spending effort of the federal government" when he presents his 2006 budget next week.
gee, considing he's the one who flushed the surplus down the toilet, enlarged the federal government more than any president in history, and is digging future generations into the hole forever with the "war" for his oil buddies, i don't really think he's the man for the job.
oh, and for those who are ignorant enough to be impressed with the election in iraq meaning victory nonsense, here's a bit of history for you. it meant nothing then, it means nothing now. wake the fark up.
"My budget substantially reduces or eliminates more than 150 government programs that are not getting results, or duplicate current efforts, or do not fulfill essential priorities.
if that were true, we wouldn't be flushing billions of dollars down the "star wars" sinkhole, now would we? liar.
Bush also said he continues to support a constitutional amendment to "protect the institution of marriage" and would work with Congress to make sure that human embryos are not created for experimentation or to grow body parts.
i.e.: now that the election is over, it's time to cater to religious zealots to the detriment of homosexuals and our economy. newsflash: the rest of the world is going to run right over us in biotech while our scientists labor with corrupted stem cell lines and anti-science policies and they don't. moron.
He urged Congress to pass his energy plan and called on Senate Democrats to allow up-or-down votes on his judicial nominees.
and i likewise call on barbara boxer and any other democrat who cares about this country to do everything your power to stop or at least slow down this lying, incompetent lunatic.
not in the slightest. any chance of ms not acting like the evil monopolistic pile of deceptive slime it is went out the window with the last "settlement" (i.e.: ms got off scott-free).
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microsoft has used "generic error" messages to discriminate against users of software it doesn't like.
After winning awards and besting MS-DOS in virtually every comparison, DR-DOS had the rug pulled out from under it when Microsoft released a beta version of Windows 3.0 that detected DR-DOS and gave bogus error messages.
print the article while you can. now that the records from the caldera trial have been destroyed (along with the copy of the beta they managed to find for the trial, no doubt), microsoft will undoubted resume claiming it's an urban legend, if they have't already, and all mention of this little bit of history is rapidly vanishing from the virtual world as well. pathetic.
the destruction of the caldera trial documents has been mentioned on slashdot once or twice, and i commented on it both times. pity nobody cared. oh well. history repeats itself again.
"used copies of world of warcraft are worthless".
i'm quite sure people will find a way to subvert the gps and just have it report very small changes in position. say, 1/10th of a mile for every 10 or something.
gates is a amoral bag of slime? who would have guessed? pity the doj couldn't be bothered to, like, effectively punish him for ruining the domestic os and office software markets. oh well.
here are links to the last time they were mentioned on slashdot and my comment on them at that time. these guys just keep getting slimier.
The article hints how this may be the beggining to a Windows OS without any Microsoft applications.
since the edition in question is only available in the eu, its existence is irrelevant to the rest of the world, and will probably cease to exist entirely after a few more legal rounds.
guesses on how long until ms gets a patent on the use of pass phrases? never mind that pgp, etc. have been using them for over a decade now at least.
ha ha. and we can all guess who'll win that case. sounds like this pos work of "art" (profiteering) needs to be removed. or maybe some of the taggers will help out and express the reaction of the "little people" to this kind of ip law abuse. the courts certainly can't be counted on to do the job.
Christ, is it such a bad thing for a politician to show some emotion and not be a stick in the mud?
well, i don't think so. fwiw, i also have a video of the event that also shows while he did yell, it sounded nothing like the audio pushed on the news, talk shows, etc. and used as "proof" of dean's "excessive emotionalism".
nice summary. of course, it omits both the real reason his campaign failed, namely the endless pushing of the infamous scream by the corporate media and related commentary, and the key bit of truth most of the sheep still don't know, namely that the scream never really happened and was fabricated to discredit dean. click on the link. oh, and be sure to print it out before the brownshirts have it deleted. one of the many reasons anyone who uses the phrase "liberal media" is either a liar or a fool.
successors to the "imminent death of the internet" in terms of both frequency and stupidity. microsoft owns 90+% of both the operating system and office productivity software markets and is immune from market forces. or hadn't these morons noticed it just finished paying a huge dividend in the middle of a depression?
extended warranties are for suckers. just say no and avoid disappointment later.
i was going to refer to a previous commment i made on a previous thread on this subject, but since it's scrolled off the list of previous comments on my user info page, and slashdot's search engine is broken (searching for user names in comments does not work), i guess i won't. suffice it to say: the corps will eventually win and software patents will be enacted. money talks.
q: as windows based solutions are infamous for their lack of long term stability ( Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up [ . . . ] the servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload ) and general poor design ( Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water [ . . . ] The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units ), how do you justify promoting them as superior to unix based solutions which are famous for their long term stability with uptimes measured in months to years, not days?
just a remark to the mismoderators: hardly redundant, since i was the first one to point it out in this thread.
gee, how amusing that i wrote this just recently. the users want something stupid, they shouldn't complain when the obvious reason it shouldn't be done happens.
um, the real reason the beagle 2 failed is very simple: they told it to land in a crater. see my comment on the previous mention of this subject on slashdot for four urls to articles supporting this.
no, but i have a link to my post on prior art. just s/freeware/small/g.
this is the same public that when the doj was acting like it was going to actually punish microsoft cried out how horrible the doj was, and recently reinstalled an lying incompetent deficit bloating homophobic anti-science war monger as president. in other words, because they're mostly a bunch of ignorant fools who are getting exactly what they deserve. they wanted microsoft to be free to "innovate", so now they can bend over, take it, and stfu.
one wonders what the computing world would be like if dec hadn't stupidly fired david cutler, who then went to work for microsoft and turned nt's internals into a vms clone. or what things would be like if bush hadn't stolen the election in 2000 and the doj given microsoft another white-wash of a settlement. pity we live in this pessimal world instead. burn in hell, cutler.
good. now if you could tell us what a "gloud" is. :-)
fingerprint readers are not secure, regardless of who is making them. the basic concept of biometrics is flawed. you're just replacing one forgable key with another. fingerprints are especially bad, since any reasonably skilled criminal with latex or a similar material can just replicate the needed print and wear it over their own finger. the best biometric method, retina blood vessel pattern comparison, discriminates against blind people (who can't focus on the target) and puts you at risk for eye damage if they make the scanner beam too powerful -- and you won't know until a decade or so later. but since biometrics is the new fad, you can be sure you'll be seeing more of it -- and stories of exploits.
since some of you can't seem to read (or did not bother to follow the link to the article):
After the trust fund is empty, payroll tax revenue would cover 73 percent to 81 percent of benefits, according to estimates from both Social Security and the CBO.
i.e.: despite bush's lies to the contrary, the choice isn't between his asinine plan and total failure. it's between his asinine plan and a 19% to 26% reduction in benefits IF NOTHING AT ALL is done. and since this problem is at LEAST 40ish years off, i think it's very god damned likely something less asinine would be found by then.
not that it matters. obviously there are enough boneheads that his lies and scare tactics will work. just don't blame me for the scores of seniors who will living in the street and eating garbage. not everyone is a member of the middle class and above, and thus do not have the "disposable income" to invest in the stock market, even if it managed not to crash one or more times before they retire.
on the subject of budgeting, i'll avoid getting into the "was the surplus real or not" debate, and point this out instead: under Clinton, the deficit (not the debt) was reduced to ZERO (click the link). bush has recreated it and pushed it to new heights, such as 2004's record $412 billion (click the link).
i'll address the following directly:
trb001: He backed the marriage amendment when it was voted on DURING his reelection campaign. To say "now that the election is over..." is disingenuous and ignorant of (recent) history.
while bush is a skillful liar, and your statement is technically true, it is mostly false. i present the following quote (and link):
When the interviewer asked the President about this direct contradiction to Republican Party policy documents, the President smiled again, licked his lips and said he'd always supported full equal rights for same sex couples.
given the above, and numerous other instances of his doubletalk during the campaign, i think it's much more accurate to say HE is the one being "disingenuous" and YOU "ignorant of (recent) history".
bush is a utter poo-poo head, as are his ignorant and rather pathetic supporters. please bother to LEARN THE FACTS before you endorse this moron. oh wait, too late.
such a pity i stopped drinking last weekend. the following are all taken from this CNN article.
Bush said Social Security, on its current path, is "headed toward bankruptcy,"
liar, per:
Social Security actuaries project the trust fund will last until 2042. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office puts that date at 2052.
let's exagerate the facts to fighten the public. but let's also ensure today's seniors can support your social security bankrupting plan without fear of reprisal:
"I have a message for every American who is 55 or older: Do not let anyone mislead you. For you, the Social Security system will not change in any way."
how nice. gotta love this part:
"conservative mix of bonds and stock funds."
"conservative" and "stock funds" do not go together. though i'm sure his supporters have forgotten about the bubble that burst just a few years ago.
"Here is why personal accounts are a better deal: Your money will grow, over time, at a greater rate than anything the current system can deliver," Bush said.
after all, he obviously has.
"We must make Social Security permanently sound, not leave that task for another day," Bush said.
yes, by stopping him from farking it up or at least slowing him down. and now on to the most "amusing" parts:
Bush called for a bipartisan effort to restrain "the spending effort of the federal government" when he presents his 2006 budget next week.
gee, considing he's the one who flushed the surplus down the toilet, enlarged the federal government more than any president in history, and is digging future generations into the hole forever with the "war" for his oil buddies, i don't really think he's the man for the job.
oh, and for those who are ignorant enough to be impressed with the election in iraq meaning victory nonsense, here's a bit of history for you. it meant nothing then, it means nothing now. wake the fark up.
"My budget substantially reduces or eliminates more than 150 government programs that are not getting results, or duplicate current efforts, or do not fulfill essential priorities.
if that were true, we wouldn't be flushing billions of dollars down the "star wars" sinkhole, now would we? liar.
Bush also said he continues to support a constitutional amendment to "protect the institution of marriage" and would work with Congress to make sure that human embryos are not created for experimentation or to grow body parts.
i.e.: now that the election is over, it's time to cater to religious zealots to the detriment of homosexuals and our economy. newsflash: the rest of the world is going to run right over us in biotech while our scientists labor with corrupted stem cell lines and anti-science policies and they don't. moron.
He urged Congress to pass his energy plan and called on Senate Democrats to allow up-or-down votes on his judicial nominees.
and i likewise call on barbara boxer and any other democrat who cares about this country to do everything your power to stop or at least slow down this lying, incompetent lunatic.
not in the slightest. any chance of ms not acting like the evil monopolistic pile of deceptive slime it is went out the window with the last "settlement" (i.e.: ms got off scott-free).