... inherit the earth (but only that which
covers their graves...)"
Business practice patents and (most) software patents are pure, unadulterated steaming hot male bovine scat.
How can a program function designed to automatically calculate shipping costs (e.g. the NZ vs Canada issue) be a patentable business process?
At the current rate of government inter- ference that forsakes small businesses in favor of the big multination corps, the only jobs left in good old USA will be robber baron corporate officers and the vast multitude of peon surf slaves that work for them.
Just imagine that business processes are not
unlike other "life processes" :
fork (patent pending) solid or semi-solid device
made with two or more pointed spines designed
for moving food items from a plate (TM) to
the mouth.
see also
fork (patent pending) a software process that
provides a conditional or unconditional
branch (TM) operation within a set of
computer instructions that comprise a
program (C)
Microsoft has made some important security changes to their NT4 software for the banking industry... they have replaced the traditional BSOD (Blue Screen 0f Death) with a Green one!
I don't think that long battery life will be this model's best feature. I would expect to see twice as large a battery on the G5 than the G4 laptop. If it's going to be normally tethered, might just as well stick with the 17" powerbook form factor...
I received two emails from Microsoft in rapid succession, as well. WTF, I stopped using these vulnerable MS apps years ago. And MS wants me to chain my computer to their network for hours on dialup so I can "now be secure".
I wrote these clowns a "Dear John" letter, instead. Fuck 'em if they can't take the joke that is "Microsoft security"...
the inscrutable Chinese still revere Lao Tzu, their greatest general. One of his tenets is for an army's force to flow like water, towards least resistance. What possible icon of Western Capitalism can provide less resistance to cyber attacks than Microsoft? Especially when Microsoft gives them "the keys to the city" in the form of their source code?
I can see it now. My shiney new home multimedia computer gets an urgent request from Microsoft Update, and the damn thing gets locked into a typical WTF reboot sequence. And since I can't really ever turn the damn thing off to clear memory, I will be forced to disassemble it... with a 12-gage... 8^(
that your next automobile is made by Microsoft. (well, not really yours.) the EULA that came with the vehicle prohibits you from puting a bumper sticker on it, or an air freshener on the rear view mirror (and boy, do you need it...
i heard that microsoft is doing a lot of hiring now. borg bill will finally get the programming talent he (obviously) needs, and at rock bottom, fire sale prices.
sorry, but for you're information, there is NO reciprocity between India and the good old US of A regarding "guest workers". i hate to burst your bubble, but an American CANNOT get the Indian equivalent of an H-1B visa, because they don't exist!
i guess all of us out of work IT workers had better start learning about growing our own food, the old WW II "victory garden" way. hey, if i could go back in time, i would have gotten into HVAC or plumbing instead of computers. let the sorry ass bastards outsource those jobs !!!
you mean it's not about the money? less money on IT drones means more for the company execs. the more we outsource, the bigger the bonuses. the IT companies that are doing the most outsourcing are seeing the biggest (short term) profit gains.
what happens to these companies when they have no customers left?
what happens when the exec positions get outsourced?
perhaps we should also be outsourcing our wonderful "standup" politicians, too?
the dreams of using cold fusion has been
replaced by an Iowan farmer that discovered
a new source of unlimited energy -- he
replaced his milk cows' feed with a mixture
of beans, habaneros chilis, and onions.
When he plugged the cows into the milking
machines, he got methane...
this product, with the hacks, brings some interesting house control ideas to mind. why have a "real" computer exposed to the outside world? add a DTMF encoder/decoder into the mix, stir in a bit of homebrew "power-over-ethernet", and voila! a whole new product is born...
for Microsoft to use the words "licensing" and "security", at all. Not to mention the term "open standards", which M$ tends to extend and control. Case in point, the extensions to the kerberos standard, which Microsoft protects with a NDA. I say screw M$ and screw MSN. The open software community should write their code to exclude MSN entirely.
Hey, S.weet O.ld B.ill Gates, you will not see another dime of my money. I would rather suck the scat from the backside of a dead and rotting donkey than buy another M$ product. Between License v6, your EULA, and security (oh yes, security is now job one, right?), you have squeezed the last blood from my stones...
In this time of corporate malfeasance, it should come as no surprise that "S.weet O.ld B.ill" Gates is up to his old tricks. How can you expect any monopoly with $50 Billion in the bank not to expect to get their way? Money talks, and M$ continues to play the part of a gambler playing "table stakes" poker, with a wheelbarrow full of cash guarded by his lawyers.
That "Burst.com" managed to survive long enough to bring M$ to court is remarkable. Whether it will mean anything by the time the case goes through the courts (,which may take 5 - 10 years), is the real question. Sun is still doing battle with M$ over Java. Microsoft is obviously gambling that, with their money and lawyers, they can keep any lawsuit tied up in court for so long that any loss to M$ becomes a moot point: -- the technology and the marketplace will have changed the "order of battle" in their favor.
A good case in point is the DoJ suit, which when taken with all the other M$ malfeasance, should have resulted in a "Ma Bell" sized breakup. The DoJ screwed up by focusing only on the most narrow of legal points. M$ used to stay above the "fray" of "greasing the political wheels", but that was before the DoJ action. The end result for M$ was little more than a slap on the wrist. (Kind of like the $750 Million fine to be imposed on WorldCom for $11 Bilion worth of corporate fraud.)
Money talks, and the biggest money talks the loudest. Once in a while there is some form of justice for the little guys. Best of luck to Burst.com...
Software patents in the USA has done great harm
to the IT industry. Most every software program,
user interface, and algorithym worth a tinker's
damn is based (at least in part) on prior art.
The short-term winners are the monopolistic
companies, that have extended their reach with
DCMA and RIAA. What possible reason to extend
copyrights, beyond things like sweezing more
cash from Mickey Mouse (how old is he?).
The other big short-term winners are the
politicians who have been bought and paid for
by these same monopolists. Of course, one
of the best examples of this is Sen. Hollings,
of South Carolina.
It is all the same tactic of "pump and dump"
that brought us AOL-TW, Enron, WorldCom, etc.
All the parties guilty of breaching the public
trust are bailing out with their ill-gotten
gains.
I think it was Samuel Clemens who said "Congress
has provided us with the best politicians that
money can buy."
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covers their graves
Business practice patents and (most) software patents are pure, unadulterated
steaming hot male bovine scat.
How can a program function designed to
automatically calculate shipping costs
(e.g. the NZ vs Canada issue) be a
patentable business process?
At the current rate of government inter-
ference that forsakes small businesses
in favor of the big multination corps,
the only jobs left in good old USA will
be robber baron corporate officers and
the vast multitude of peon surf slaves
that work for them.
Just imagine that business processes are not unlike other "life processes" : fork (patent pending) solid or semi-solid device made with two or more pointed spines designed for moving food items from a plate (TM) to the mouth. see also fork (patent pending) a software process that provides a conditional or unconditional branch (TM) operation within a set of computer instructions that comprise a program (C)
Microsoft's attempt at world domination ...
..."
through "extend and control"
Borg Bill/Borg Ballmer> "...we have your money
Microsoft has made some important security ... they have replaced the traditional
... )
changes to their NT4 software for the banking
industry
BSOD (Blue Screen 0f Death) with a Green one!
(That's Service Pack 7$
Pretty bloody scary, considering that Bank of
...
America's ATMs were shut down earlier this
year due to the Slammer worm.
Wonder if it's time to start keeping my money
under my mattress
You know, that 13 pound lugable laptop
that runs the 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIIe
and Solaris 2.9?
Oh, yeah, right, that one costs $12K
Either a slimline space heater, or a lap warmer.
...
I don't think that long battery life will be
this model's best feature. I would expect to
see twice as large a battery on the G5 than
the G4 laptop. If it's going to be normally
tethered, might just as well stick with the
17" powerbook form factor
Hell, I want one, and I want it now !!!
I received two emails from Microsoft in rapid
...
succession, as well. WTF, I stopped using these
vulnerable MS apps years ago. And MS wants me
to chain my computer to their network for
hours on dialup so I can "now be secure".
I wrote these clowns a "Dear John" letter,
instead. Fuck 'em if they can't take the
joke that is "Microsoft security"
hey, you didn't really expect to get a ...
...
perfect software product, did you?
nobody's perfect, even borg bill
so, quit your complaining and start D/Ling
the very steamy freshest pile of promised
security patches from Sweet Old Bill.
just don't read the new and improved EULA
quite too carefully
weren't you taught not to use double
negatives in a sentence, like "Microsoft"
and "security" ?
Okay, okay, that might also be considered
an oxymoron !
the inscrutable Chinese still revere
Lao Tzu, their greatest general. One
of his tenets is for an army's force to
flow like water, towards least resistance.
What possible icon of Western Capitalism
can provide less resistance to cyber attacks
than Microsoft? Especially when Microsoft
gives them "the keys to the city" in the
form of their source code?
has a grey squirrel in a wheel on the cover.
I can see it now. My shiney new home multimedia ... ... 8^(
computer gets an urgent request from Microsoft
Update, and the damn thing gets locked into a
typical WTF reboot sequence. And since I can't
really ever turn the damn thing off to clear
memory, I will be forced to disassemble it
with a 12-gage
that your next automobile is made by ...
Microsoft. (well, not really yours.)
the EULA that came with the vehicle
prohibits you from puting a bumper
sticker on it, or an air freshener
on the rear view mirror (and boy,
do you need it
i heard that microsoft is doing a lot
of hiring now. borg bill will finally
get the programming talent he (obviously)
needs, and at rock bottom, fire sale prices.
sorry, but for you're information, there
is NO reciprocity between India and the
good old US of A regarding "guest workers".
i hate to burst your bubble, but an American
CANNOT get the Indian equivalent of an H-1B
visa, because they don't exist!
(now, doesn't that "roast your beef" ?)
i guess all of us out of work IT workers
had better start learning about growing
our own food, the old WW II "victory
garden" way. hey, if i could go back
in time, i would have gotten into HVAC
or plumbing instead of computers. let
the sorry ass bastards outsource those
jobs !!!
you mean it's not about the money?
less money on IT drones means more
for the company execs. the more
we outsource, the bigger the bonuses.
the IT companies that are doing the
most outsourcing are seeing the biggest
(short term) profit gains.
what happens to these companies when
they have no customers left?
what happens when the exec positions
get outsourced?
perhaps we should also be outsourcing
our wonderful "standup" politicians, too?
is at least a government sponsered ... (now if ... )
Microsoft bashing site
only John Ashcroft would take notice
is what I expose to the internet. ... ;^)
You don't really think there could
be any other reason? (Although I
refuse to use IE 5.x
the dreams of using cold fusion has been ...
replaced by an Iowan farmer that discovered
a new source of unlimited energy -- he
replaced his milk cows' feed with a mixture
of beans, habaneros chilis, and onions.
When he plugged the cows into the milking
machines, he got methane
this product, with the hacks, brings some ...
interesting house control ideas to mind.
why have a "real" computer exposed to the
outside world? add a DTMF encoder/decoder
into the mix, stir in a bit of homebrew
"power-over-ethernet", and voila! a whole
new product is born
for Microsoft to use the words "licensing" and
...
"security", at all. Not to mention the term
"open standards", which M$ tends to extend and
control. Case in point, the extensions to the
kerberos standard, which Microsoft protects
with a NDA. I say screw M$ and screw MSN.
The open software community should write their
code to exclude MSN entirely.
Hey, S.weet O.ld B.ill Gates, you will not see
another dime of my money. I would rather suck
the scat from the backside of a dead and rotting
donkey than buy another M$ product. Between
License v6, your EULA, and security (oh yes,
security is now job one, right?), you have
squeezed the last blood from my stones
In this time of corporate malfeasance, it should
...
come as no surprise that "S.weet O.ld B.ill" Gates
is up to his old tricks. How can you expect any
monopoly with $50 Billion in the bank not to
expect to get their way? Money talks, and M$
continues to play the part of a gambler playing
"table stakes" poker, with a wheelbarrow full of
cash guarded by his lawyers.
That "Burst.com" managed to survive long enough
to bring M$ to court is remarkable. Whether it
will mean anything by the time the case goes
through the courts (,which may take 5 - 10 years),
is the real question. Sun is still doing battle
with M$ over Java. Microsoft is obviously
gambling that, with their money and lawyers,
they can keep any lawsuit tied up in court
for so long that any loss to M$ becomes a moot
point: -- the technology and the marketplace
will have changed the "order of battle" in their
favor.
A good case in point is the DoJ suit, which when
taken with all the other M$ malfeasance, should
have resulted in a "Ma Bell" sized breakup. The
DoJ screwed up by focusing only on the most
narrow of legal points. M$ used to stay above
the "fray" of "greasing the political wheels",
but that was before the DoJ action. The end
result for M$ was little more than a slap on
the wrist. (Kind of like the $750 Million fine
to be imposed on WorldCom for $11 Bilion worth
of corporate fraud.)
Money talks, and the biggest money talks the
loudest. Once in a while there is some form
of justice for the little guys. Best of luck
to Burst.com
Software patents in the USA has done great harm to the IT industry. Most every software program, user interface, and algorithym worth a tinker's damn is based (at least in part) on prior art. The short-term winners are the monopolistic companies, that have extended their reach with DCMA and RIAA. What possible reason to extend copyrights, beyond things like sweezing more cash from Mickey Mouse (how old is he?). The other big short-term winners are the politicians who have been bought and paid for by these same monopolists. Of course, one of the best examples of this is Sen. Hollings, of South Carolina. It is all the same tactic of "pump and dump" that brought us AOL-TW, Enron, WorldCom, etc. All the parties guilty of breaching the public trust are bailing out with their ill-gotten gains. I think it was Samuel Clemens who said "Congress has provided us with the best politicians that money can buy."