It's not a monopoly. Unix was here and was popular before m$ even existed. The problem is not that there is no competition, the problem is that people is stupid.
You obviously haven't really been on a trip... ever...
I can tell you, after a blotter, not only you won't be able to code; if you are not used to it, you will be begging for a trip sitter.
To get you running another 16 hours, a cocaine hit will be the best, but sniffing is nicer, simpler, and less dangerous than needles anyway, so no need to bother.
What GP meant is that if you misspell a function call (Not a function definition) You will get a compiler error stating you called an undefined function. Technically speaking, there is no way to misspell a function definition. That is, You are creating the function, any name will be OK. You can make grammatical or syntactical mistakes anyway.
The Problem here is the assumption that a function name is english/spanish/whatever. W R O N G. When you code, you are writing in a language, a programming language. If a function name is a reference to a word from another language (For example, MyCounter is a reference to the English word "counter") That is Intertextuality, and a spellchecker is not supposed to understand it.
Taking this into account, there is an spell checker for programming languages, It's called a Compiler.
What's the purpose of Free Software? To have Software that keeps both Developers and Users Free to Use, Copy, Modify and Study it, and to have such software for every need and for everyone.
So, if a software is put under the GPL, and also under other licenses, why should that bother me?. The software is under GPL and if they change the license, someone will fork it and continue developing. That's the beauty of the GPL.
So:
- A Free Software Developer made some money and got himself a good job doing what he likes.
- A major player in the Software market is going to use and contribute to the current standard in Unix printing, probably pushing printer manufacturers to release drivers that will work for CUPS on Unix, and we will be able to use those drivers under Unix (Because either the printer manufacturer will realize just how easy it's to have a GNU/Linux once they made a Darwin version, or because the community will take the binary drivers from OS X and get them to work on GNU/Linux somehow)
- In the best case we will see improvements on CUPS, and in the worst case we will just fork it.
I Don't see a real problem in this. Once upon a time The Free Software community and it's codebase were much smaller, and so companies doing this kind of stuff was a problem. Now that problem is gone, and the GPL protects us.
Your asumptions are basically wrong. First: I'm a die hard Atheist.
The mistake in your reasoning is best seen on this sentence: '...Your argument would let him die because...'. Nop. That's precisely the point: I'm not saying we should let him die, or let him live, because we shoudln't 'let' him a damn thing. That's the point. We shouldn't prevent him from living, and we shoudln't prevent him from dying. He is on his own, besides the normal cares the society takes for everyone. The point is: We should have vaccines. If you are not good enough to get a job and pay for them, or go to the Public hospital and fill in a form so you can get them; you are on your own. Also, let's develop medicine that treats actual diseases, not diseases that you got because you are not good enough.
This is a complex issue, the thin line between not promoting a weak society and fascism is very weak. Please try to be open minded.
Because we are animals and a society can't evolve if you work hard to keep the worse stuff into the genetic pool?
Christians has doomed the Human race. The embraced everything that was weak and faulty, and promoted poverty, peace at any cost, feeling guilty, etc.
I Live in what is considered a third world country (Argentina), and I know pretty much the whole country, and I'm not talking about the Big and Rich Buenos Aires, but also about the worst and most forgotten places in the north, and also the low neighborhoods around the big capital. I Agree that those people deserve a better life, but that has to be over decades and generations.
Some of the genetic pool has to remain, some has to get lost. Think about this: You are helping a million persons because you feel guilty for having more than they do, so you give money to them. They will be better, they will reproduce, the will survive. And in 50 years we will have 5 times as many people in those conditions.
Do you prefer to help a single individual or to help the whole human race?
This is not some Nazi argument saying we should start killing people or something like that, I'm just saying that evolution is a fact, whether the creationists like it or not, and that stopping evolution and keeping the worst of the genetic pool on it is bad for us. It's the hard, crude reality. I would like a better world where everyone can live happy forever and never die, but this is reality. Deal with it.
That makes Gates Twice as bad. Not only is he an imperialist, he also is weak, and I'm sure he's a Religious person, probably Christian or worse.
How is making donations a good thing? Promoting people to live from cheap donations other give them, with no dignity?
Why doesn't he spend THAT MUCH into opening software factories around the world, and paying competitive salaries? That would prove him to be a righteous man.
Charity is something totally wrong, done out of stupid christian guilt. Actually, it goes against the solution of the problems, because if everyone just invested their money where they should instead of accumulating it, and living _excessively_ expensive lives; we wouldn't have a need for Charity.
Telmex and Microsoft use the same monopolistic practices, Gates and Slim are not very different. They both apply the same practices in different markets. The interesting part is that we will get to see both of them competing in a few years, since POTS is disappearing and the fight will be on VoIP, that's a market both of them will be into.
I Hope we see them fighting each other for control, because if they reach an agreement, for example, m$ makes voip software, and Telmex provides the service, we are really screwed up.
Telmex got here [Argentina] only a few years ago, they acquired CTI (Biggest mobile telco), Techtel (at the time one of the 5 top players in the carrier and corporate market), Ertach (Biggest Wifi ISP), and lots of kilometers of fiber that interconnects the main cities in Argentina from other companies (metrored, etc.). They also are betting money into Telecom. So, in just a few years they become the third biggest player in Argentina (In this order: 1 - Telefonica, 2 - Telecom, 3 - Telmex), But they have a pretty tight relationship with Telecom Argentina (Read: They are buying stock, big time), And Telefonica has a policy of being friendly with the 5 biggest players, and screwing the rest, So they are now the second bigger in Argentina, and the first one keeps them safe.
Actually not, because it's saying they _might_ have existed in a different Universe. Which is a theoretical question. Universe is our current word for "everything". We know there is a Universe because we are in it, but when talking about it's nature, origins, etc. , we are just speculating. Thinking about a different Universe can only be done theoretically, but asking specific questions about that "Universe", specially applying our current understanding of _this_ universe is like trying to measure Weight with a Ruler.
Not only for native English speakers. The biggest accomplishment of the human being is language, which is what differentiates us from animals. And i don't mean language in the mere dictionary definition of the word, but in the sense Lacan treated it: Language is the reflection of our ability to abstract, to use symbols. If you are a nerd, Abstraction and symbols are the more important thing to you. That's why we like so much to code. If you can grasp C or Perl, you should be able to grasp English. I'm not a native English speaker, and I actually learned to speak English on my own, and I may horrible mistakes some times, and there is a lot of vocabulary that i have to learn, that sometimes limits me while explaining certain complex ideas. But there is a very big difference between a mistake in spelling a word, or a word you just don't know, which are just mistakes that can be fixed by using a dictionary. Errors like saying your instead of you're are CONCEPTUAL errors, and that is unforgivable.
Stop Paying Taxes. Start a revolution. Or move out of the USA.
I Live in Argentina, I Don't vote, since I'm againt the current system. I Don't pay my taxes, and i don't care. I Do something about it, I complain, I Write.
Do you live in the USA? Do you pay taxes? Do you obey law? You are responsible for your acts, you are helping. Have you started a revolution or done something to stop what your government is doing? have you moved out of the states?
So what? The USA has military bases ALL OVER THE FUCKING WORLD. You have invaded more countries and participated in more military conflicts than any other country. Why is so wrong for Russia to have missiles pointing at you when you are doing the same?
The overall security of a system can't be measured just by how much bugs are found, because two different operating systems:
- Has a different user base
- Has a different number of developers working on it
- The design is different
- An average sysadmin for one kind of system and an average sysadmin usually have differnt levels of qualification.
- The interest of crackers on those systems differs
Plan 9 will certainly have less bugs than GNU/Linux because the codebase and complexity of those systems is amazingly different, and also GNU/Linux has orders of magnitude more users than Plan 9. There are lots of GNU/Linux sysadmins and not too many people with knowledge on Plan 9. Plan 9 has lots of experimental features, but it grows slowly. GNU/Linux grows at an amazing rate, but tends to be more conservative about it's design. Also Plan 9 is developed by a single team, while GNU/Linux is a collection of different efforts, so it's hard to tell where it starts and where it finishes. There are probably very few if none Plan 9 servers, and very few, if none, crackers targeting Plan 9.
The same goes for Windows Vs. GNU/Linux.
1) The design of the systems is quite different, so it doesn't matter if an exploit is found, the important question is: Does the design of the operating system make those exploits easily exploitable? And also, you may choose to run any services/programs on your server, they are third party, Let's not talk about bugs in those applications, does the OS itself have Important exploits, and what does the OS to prevent bugs in third party apps from being exploited? Also, we may have a system with no bugs but with inherent design flaws that make it insecure anyway.
2) Are we comparing the right versions?, that is, Vista is a secured version of windows, they are not using XP to make the comparision, so, shouldn't we choose SELinux or similar?
3) Does the system provide you with enough tools to detect, debug, and correct possible vulnerabilities? Can you create a workarround for the vulnerability?
4) GNU/Linux doesn't do this fancy shit of bringing "new" versions to the market. We just upgrade, so, we are comparing the ammout of vulnerabilities found on a new OS vs. an OS with an important userbase.
m... modded funny... that's pretty interesting... it was a serious post...
Maybe just the typical/.er doesn't get away from home enough as to understand i'm not joking... but it looks like i smoke and it hits the moderators =)
Cigarettes, Wine, Marihuana, Cocaine, Women. Those are the things that I like the most. When I say I like them, i mean I _really_ like them. And yes, I use all of them daily, sometimes just a little, but I have really abused them, and I'm talking about 40 cigarettes a day, 5 750 ml bottles of wine, 20g of Pot, 10g of Cocaine, And all night, non-sleep, non-stop menage a trua. Just in a day.
To make things worst, my girlfriend likes exactly the same things I do, maybe even more.
And you know what?, I am not broken because of it, I didn't loose my job, and I'm not an addict. If I had an amazing night, It's 10:00 AM and my head is totally blown up, and all I want to do is just cum, smoke a last one, hug her and sleep till next week; I just don't. I wash my face, I do a half Windsor, snort some shit to keep me running through the day, and go to work.
Addictions doesn't exist. People is LAZY, That's it. Relying on a certain activity/substance is EASY, and damn conformist, and saying it's a disease is just a stupid justification.
Because do you understand that your troops are not there to "maintain what freedoms we still have and assisting in securing our national interests." They are overseas because that's the way the US got powerfull and rich, and that's the way you keep it that way.
Don't you understand? YOU are keeping 3rd world countries into the 3rd world, through unethical military, politic and economic practices, and then YOU benefit from those countries in many ways, between others, by outsourcing and by hiring cheap inmigrant labor. You create the conditions that make this people leave their countries, then you hire them for cheap.
The US got rich and powerfull because of just one reason: SLAVES. Since now you can't just bring slaves from Africa, you are creating a legal way to get slaves, and the best part is: You talk about this as if it were a problem for you, so nobody sees what really is going on. Come on!, over the last century the USA has been involved in allmost every conflict in some way, and has been playing with the political situation of 3rd world countries. What is better than slaves?, well, VOLUNTARY, TAX-PAYING Slaves.
Ok, so he is unskilled, and still tries to be a smartass by doing technical jokes, and i get modded as a troll?
Ok, here goes the same comment in a more "constructive" version of it.
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
alert("HANG THAT MOTHER FSCKER THE FSCK UP AND DRIVE!!!!!.") }
If you can't write propper HTML, and think that a CGI application can somehow be executed from within a (improperly written) pseudo-code inside an HTML comment, then use some other resource in order to be funny.
Well, let me tell you, the US is the first country that turned education into a commerce, a service that creates good employees for fortune-500 companys.
How much does a degree cost in the US? Really? Well, here in Argentina education is 100% FREE, the state gives Universities their own budget, and the University controlls it. They are Independent from the state, and from political or commercial influencies. They democractically choose their own authorities, and they are ruled by ex-students, students, and profesors. That's it, no government, private, or commercial intervention.
There are also private Universities, lots, both cheap and very expensive ones, and you know what? The public University has a much higher level than any private one. Even when we have a limited budget, our Universities are something to be really proud off, they give everyone equal chances, and some of them are very recognized worldwide, for example, The UBA.
About the H1B applications, let me tell you, I (And i'm not alone) would rather die than leave my country, and specially, I would never work in, live in , or do anything else that contributes with the USA.
If people in certain countries find the need to leave the place they were born, to go to be treated like shit in the empire that fucked up their country, is because YOU don't leave them much choice. The economical and political situations that lead to cheap outsourcing and massive inmigration into the USA has been shaped by the USA and their allies over the course of the century, so stop complaining. You have the fault.
May be m$ has some agreement with cnet/others and their e-commerce site gets this products through some rss feed, SOAP server, or similar. The filter fucked up and this showed up on their site.
I'm sure m$ has some pretty strict contracts with their employees, and they are held liable for this kind of action, even after fired, so i don't think someone will take such a risk.
Besides, don't attribute to malice what is clear product of stupidity.
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It's not a monopoly. Unix was here and was popular before m$ even existed.
The problem is not that there is no competition, the problem is that people is stupid.
If your job forces you to use windows, then quit.
At least that asshole that got aborted won't have to listen to all the bullshit that all the god-believing pieces of shit like you spit out 24/7.
I Wish my mother had aborted me. It would have been better than being on the same universe you are.
You obviously haven't really been on a trip ... ever ...
I can tell you, after a blotter, not only you won't be able to code; if you are not used to it, you will be begging for a trip sitter.
To get you running another 16 hours, a cocaine hit will be the best, but sniffing is nicer, simpler, and less dangerous than needles anyway, so no need to bother.
What GP meant is that if you misspell a function call (Not a function definition) You will get a compiler error stating you called an undefined function. Technically speaking, there is no way to misspell a function definition. That is, You are creating the function, any name will be OK. You can make grammatical or syntactical mistakes anyway.
The Problem here is the assumption that a function name is english/spanish/whatever. W R O N G. When you code, you are writing in a language, a programming language. If a function name is a reference to a word from another language (For example, MyCounter is a reference to the English word "counter") That is Intertextuality, and a spellchecker is not supposed to understand it.
Taking this into account, there is an spell checker for programming languages, It's called a Compiler.
You are talking about squids cache size, right?
That's right =).
What's the purpose of Free Software? To have Software that keeps both Developers and Users Free to Use, Copy, Modify and Study it, and to have such software for every need and for everyone.
So, if a software is put under the GPL, and also under other licenses, why should that bother me?. The software is under GPL and if they change the license, someone will fork it and continue developing. That's the beauty of the GPL.
So:
- A Free Software Developer made some money and got himself a good job doing what he likes.
- A major player in the Software market is going to use and contribute to the current standard in Unix printing, probably pushing printer manufacturers to release drivers that will work for CUPS on Unix, and we will be able to use those drivers under Unix (Because either the printer manufacturer will realize just how easy it's to have a GNU/Linux once they made a Darwin version, or because the community will take the binary drivers from OS X and get them to work on GNU/Linux somehow)
- In the best case we will see improvements on CUPS, and in the worst case we will just fork it.
I Don't see a real problem in this. Once upon a time The Free Software community and it's codebase were much smaller, and so companies doing this kind of stuff was a problem. Now that problem is gone, and the GPL protects us.
Your asumptions are basically wrong. First: I'm a die hard Atheist.
The mistake in your reasoning is best seen on this sentence: '...Your argument would let him die because...'. Nop. That's precisely the point: I'm not saying we should let him die, or let him live, because we shoudln't 'let' him a damn thing. That's the point. We shouldn't prevent him from living, and we shoudln't prevent him from dying. He is on his own, besides the normal cares the society takes for everyone. The point is: We should have vaccines. If you are not good enough to get a job and pay for them, or go to the Public hospital and fill in a form so you can get them; you are on your own. Also, let's develop medicine that treats actual diseases, not diseases that you got because you are not good enough.
This is a complex issue, the thin line between not promoting a weak society and fascism is very weak. Please try to be open minded.
Because we are animals and a society can't evolve if you work hard to keep the worse stuff into the genetic pool?
Christians has doomed the Human race. The embraced everything that was weak and faulty, and promoted poverty, peace at any cost, feeling guilty, etc.
I Live in what is considered a third world country (Argentina), and I know pretty much the whole country, and I'm not talking about the Big and Rich Buenos Aires, but also about the worst and most forgotten places in the north, and also the low neighborhoods around the big capital. I Agree that those people deserve a better life, but that has to be over decades and generations.
Some of the genetic pool has to remain, some has to get lost. Think about this: You are helping a million persons because you feel guilty for having more than they do, so you give money to them. They will be better, they will reproduce, the will survive. And in 50 years we will have 5 times as many people in those conditions.
Do you prefer to help a single individual or to help the whole human race?
This is not some Nazi argument saying we should start killing people or something like that, I'm just saying that evolution is a fact, whether the creationists like it or not, and that stopping evolution and keeping the worst of the genetic pool on it is bad for us. It's the hard, crude reality. I would like a better world where everyone can live happy forever and never die, but this is reality. Deal with it.
That, and the fact that your employees salaries are TAXED, while charity is TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Sadly, it's all about money
That makes Gates Twice as bad. Not only is he an imperialist, he also is weak, and I'm sure he's a Religious person, probably Christian or worse.
How is making donations a good thing? Promoting people to live from cheap donations other give them, with no dignity?
Why doesn't he spend THAT MUCH into opening software factories around the world, and paying competitive salaries? That would prove him to be a righteous man.
Charity is something totally wrong, done out of stupid christian guilt. Actually, it goes against the solution of the problems, because if everyone just invested their money where they should instead of accumulating it, and living _excessively_ expensive lives; we wouldn't have a need for Charity.
Telmex and Microsoft use the same monopolistic practices, Gates and Slim are not very different. They both apply the same practices in different markets. The interesting part is that we will get to see both of them competing in a few years, since POTS is disappearing and the fight will be on VoIP, that's a market both of them will be into.
I Hope we see them fighting each other for control, because if they reach an agreement, for example, m$ makes voip software, and Telmex provides the service, we are really screwed up.
Telmex got here [Argentina] only a few years ago, they acquired CTI (Biggest mobile telco), Techtel (at the time one of the 5 top players in the carrier and corporate market), Ertach (Biggest Wifi ISP), and lots of kilometers of fiber that interconnects the main cities in Argentina from other companies (metrored, etc.). They also are betting money into Telecom. So, in just a few years they become the third biggest player in Argentina (In this order: 1 - Telefonica, 2 - Telecom, 3 - Telmex), But they have a pretty tight relationship with Telecom Argentina (Read: They are buying stock, big time), And Telefonica has a policy of being friendly with the 5 biggest players, and screwing the rest, So they are now the second bigger in Argentina, and the first one keeps them safe.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Actually not, because it's saying they _might_ have existed in a different Universe. Which is a theoretical question. Universe is our current word for "everything". We know there is a Universe because we are in it, but when talking about it's nature, origins, etc. , we are just speculating. Thinking about a different Universe can only be done theoretically, but asking specific questions about that "Universe", specially applying our current understanding of _this_ universe is like trying to measure Weight with a Ruler.
Not only for native English speakers. The biggest accomplishment of the human being is language, which is what differentiates us from animals. And i don't mean language in the mere dictionary definition of the word, but in the sense Lacan treated it: Language is the reflection of our ability to abstract, to use symbols. If you are a nerd, Abstraction and symbols are the more important thing to you. That's why we like so much to code. If you can grasp C or Perl, you should be able to grasp English. I'm not a native English speaker, and I actually learned to speak English on my own, and I may horrible mistakes some times, and there is a lot of vocabulary that i have to learn, that sometimes limits me while explaining certain complex ideas. But there is a very big difference between a mistake in spelling a word, or a word you just don't know, which are just mistakes that can be fixed by using a dictionary. Errors like saying your instead of you're are CONCEPTUAL errors, and that is unforgivable.
Stop Paying Taxes. Start a revolution. Or move out of the USA.
I Live in Argentina, I Don't vote, since I'm againt the current system. I Don't pay my taxes, and i don't care. I Do something about it, I complain, I Write.
Do you live in the USA? Do you pay taxes? Do you obey law? You are responsible for your acts, you are helping.
Have you started a revolution or done something to stop what your government is doing? have you moved out of the states?
Then you are endorsing your government actions.
So what? The USA has military bases ALL OVER THE FUCKING WORLD. You have invaded more countries and participated in more military conflicts than any other country. Why is so wrong for Russia to have missiles pointing at you when you are doing the same?
I just have one word for you: Guantanamo.
The overall security of a system can't be measured just by how much bugs are found, because two different operating systems:
- Has a different user base
- Has a different number of developers working on it
- The design is different
- An average sysadmin for one kind of system and an average sysadmin usually have differnt levels of qualification.
- The interest of crackers on those systems differs
Plan 9 will certainly have less bugs than GNU/Linux because the codebase and complexity of those systems is amazingly different, and also GNU/Linux has orders of magnitude more users than Plan 9. There are lots of GNU/Linux sysadmins and not too many people with knowledge on Plan 9. Plan 9 has lots of experimental features, but it grows slowly. GNU/Linux grows at an amazing rate, but tends to be more conservative about it's design. Also Plan 9 is developed by a single team, while GNU/Linux is a collection of different efforts, so it's hard to tell where it starts and where it finishes. There are probably very few if none Plan 9 servers, and very few, if none, crackers targeting Plan 9.
The same goes for Windows Vs. GNU/Linux.
1) The design of the systems is quite different, so it doesn't matter if an exploit is found, the important question is: Does the design of the operating system make those exploits easily exploitable? And also, you may choose to run any services/programs on your server, they are third party, Let's not talk about bugs in those applications, does the OS itself have Important exploits, and what does the OS to prevent bugs in third party apps from being exploited? Also, we may have a system with no bugs but with inherent design flaws that make it insecure anyway.
2) Are we comparing the right versions?, that is, Vista is a secured version of windows, they are not using XP to make the comparision, so, shouldn't we choose SELinux or similar?
3) Does the system provide you with enough tools to detect, debug, and correct possible vulnerabilities? Can you create a workarround for the vulnerability?
4) GNU/Linux doesn't do this fancy shit of bringing "new" versions to the market. We just upgrade, so, we are comparing the ammout of vulnerabilities found on a new OS vs. an OS with an important userbase.
The US wasn't the first ... but i didn't had the wrong country. OTH, you did had the wrong alkaloid.
m ... modded funny ... that's pretty interesting ... it was a serious post ...
/.er doesn't get away from home enough as to understand i'm not joking ... but it looks like i smoke and it hits the moderators =)
Maybe just the typical
I Shouldn't post this under my
:00 AM and my head is totally blown up, and all I want to do is just cum, smoke a last one, hug her and sleep till next week; I just don't. I wash my face, I do a half Windsor, snort some shit to keep me running through the day, and go to work.
Cigarettes, Wine, Marihuana, Cocaine, Women. Those are the things that I like the most. When I say I like them, i mean I _really_ like them. And yes, I use all of them daily, sometimes just a little, but I have really abused them, and I'm talking about 40 cigarettes a day, 5 750 ml bottles of wine, 20g of Pot, 10g of Cocaine, And all night, non-sleep, non-stop menage a trua. Just in a day.
To make things worst, my girlfriend likes exactly the same things I do, maybe even more.
And you know what?, I am not broken because of it, I didn't loose my job, and I'm not an addict. If I had an amazing night, It's 10
Addictions doesn't exist. People is LAZY, That's it. Relying on a certain activity/substance is EASY, and damn conformist, and saying it's a disease is just a stupid justification.
Because do you understand that your troops are not there to "maintain what freedoms we still have and assisting in securing our national interests." They are overseas because that's the way the US got powerfull and rich, and that's the way you keep it that way.
Don't you understand? YOU are keeping 3rd world countries into the 3rd world, through unethical military, politic and economic practices, and then YOU benefit from those countries in many ways, between others, by outsourcing and by hiring cheap inmigrant labor. You create the conditions that make this people leave their countries, then you hire them for cheap.
The US got rich and powerfull because of just one reason: SLAVES. Since now you can't just bring slaves from Africa, you are creating a legal way to get slaves, and the best part is: You talk about this as if it were a problem for you, so nobody sees what really is going on. Come on!, over the last century the USA has been involved in allmost every conflict in some way, and has been playing with the political situation of 3rd world countries. What is better than slaves?, well, VOLUNTARY, TAX-PAYING Slaves.
Ok, so he is unskilled, and still tries to be a smartass by doing technical jokes, and i get modded as a troll?
Ok, here goes the same comment in a more "constructive" version of it.
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
alert("HANG THAT MOTHER FSCKER THE FSCK UP AND DRIVE!!!!!.")
}
If you can't write propper HTML, and think that a CGI application can somehow be executed from within a (improperly written) pseudo-code inside an HTML comment, then use some other resource in order to be funny.
Well, let me tell you, the US is the first country that turned education into a commerce, a service that creates good employees for fortune-500 companys.
How much does a degree cost in the US? Really? Well, here in Argentina education is 100% FREE, the state gives Universities their own budget, and the University controlls it. They are Independent from the state, and from political or commercial influencies. They democractically choose their own authorities, and they are ruled by ex-students, students, and profesors. That's it, no government, private, or commercial intervention.
There are also private Universities, lots, both cheap and very expensive ones, and you know what? The public University has a much higher level than any private one. Even when we have a limited budget, our Universities are something to be really proud off, they give everyone equal chances, and some of them are very recognized worldwide, for example, The UBA.
About the H1B applications, let me tell you, I (And i'm not alone) would rather die than leave my country, and specially, I would never work in, live in , or do anything else that contributes with the USA.
If people in certain countries find the need to leave the place they were born, to go to be treated like shit in the empire that fucked up their country, is because YOU don't leave them much choice. The economical and political situations that lead to cheap outsourcing and massive inmigration into the USA has been shaped by the USA and their allies over the course of the century, so stop complaining. You have the fault.
Wow, your understanding of web applications is truly amazing, i really look forward to hire you as a web developer.
May be m$ has some agreement with cnet/others and their e-commerce site gets this products through some rss feed, SOAP server, or similar. The filter fucked up and this showed up on their site.
I'm sure m$ has some pretty strict contracts with their employees, and they are held liable for this kind of action, even after fired, so i don't think someone will take such a risk.
Besides, don't attribute to malice what is clear product of stupidity.