Just imagine what it's going to be like 5 years from now...
All right, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Hacker's Elite -- we'll now see how to turn off PICS ratings in micros~1 Internet Exploder:
[PaperClip: Hi! I am your personal Internet Assistant! Are you sure you want to turn off PICS ratings? This may cause you to view disturbing material such as Slashdot!]
Of course *NOT*, you little dweeb! [John Q. Hacker kicks the PaperClip in the head, making it retreat quickly to the toolbar]
Now remove the key//LOCAL//IE6.7/PICS//RATING in the Registry with RegEdit32 and you are all set!
[At the bottom of the screen: TOTAL ELAPSED TIME: 00:02:26.3]
You can now download "Mein Kampf" from your friendly militia site, see "Naked College Asian Girls With Big Boobs Live!", flame CmdrTaco for hours on Slashdot, and... the ultimate in sadism and perversion... (drum roll) Download Red Hat Linux 9.0 and install it on your unsuspecting computer!!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Have fun, PICS kiddie!! Welcome to the *real* Internet!
[PICS Rating: -0x0FFFFF: Hacking, Open Source, Windows2005. DANGEROUS!]
The real reason Bill Gates and his company, Micro$oft, are (were) so successful is that they have shamelessly exploited (read "embraced and extended") the best ideas of others. Examples:
1. BASIC: at one point the only product MS ever made, it was actually invented by Computer Sciences researchers, in order to teach programming. Being "Open Source" (well kind of...), BASIC was milked by Micro$oft for all it was worth -- and we now have VB and the wonderful Basic-for-Apps that allow script kiddies to create virii-things like Melissa. They made many small Computer companies bleed through the nose for the "privilege" of having M$ Basic on their machine (anyone remember the crappy Amiga M$ Basic?).
2. MS-DOS used to be known as "Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System". Micro$oft bought the company and sold that product back to IBM. It was so ridiculously uninteresting (640KB limit, blah, blah, blah) that IBM and M$ made sure CP/M (at this time the dominant OS on microcomputers) could be installed on PCs instead. The stroke of genius (for Bill Gate$) was to retain all rigths to MS-DOG. Once IBM compatibles were born (Thank you Compaq), gazillions of dollars started flowing into M$ coffers. This is where it starts to be interesting.
3. Windows. I won't get too far into this one. M$ stole the idea, lock, stock and barrel, from Apple. Who had stolen it from Xerox's PARC. It took them no less than THREE iterations (three!) to get this ugly piece of crap functional. In the meantime, since they were still making gobs of money from MS-DOG, they stabbed IBM in the back (not a big loss), sunk Digital Research (a company 1000% more creative than they were) and threatened, bullied, bought and pressured every other software maker known to man. Lotus? Let's do a 1-2-3 killer! OS/2? No way! Wordperfect? Here comes WinWord! DBase? Let's buy Fox Software! Borland? Here comes Quick C & Quick Pascal! Internet? Let's become an Internet company and pollute HTML every chance we get! Every time, they used their competitor's ideas and turned out mediocre, inferior imitations of the real thing... All of this bankrolled by the near-monopoly of MS-DOG.
And so on and so forth. I could talk about Windows NT (entirely created by VMS people, from Digital Corp.), "Visual" C++ (marrying a non-M$ language and NextStep development environnement), Exchange (Notes-Killer), etc... etc...
Let's face it: Microsoft only stregths are (a) its ruthlessness (b) its ability to make money any which way they can and (c) its ability to churn out evil FUD and buggy program. It does *not* take a good programmer to create a crappy program. And, yes, Bill Gate$ is bland: he simply hides his greedy eyes behind an affable geek mask. Here is a man who will sell his own mother to make a buck. And because he knows decent people do not like that kind of behaviour, he tries to hide as bast as he can -- but more and more people realize the truth.
To me, the beginning of the end for Micro$oft is 1995. When Win95 was released, for the first time, many people realized that a company this size, able to spend such an obscene amout of money to hype a product that was nothing more than an s____y upgrade to an inferior product could not be honest. Even M$-paid press drones realized that.
I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:
1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition. This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.
2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".
3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software. Their software sucks anyway.
I worked for CA for 1 and a half year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.
I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:
1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition. This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.
2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".
3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software. Their software sucks anyway.
I worked for CA for 1 and a helf year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.
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Just imagine what it's going to be like 5 years
//LOCAL//IE6.7/PICS//RATING
from now...
All right, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Hacker's
Elite -- we'll now see how to turn off PICS
ratings in micros~1 Internet Exploder:
[PaperClip: Hi! I am your personal Internet
Assistant! Are you sure you want to turn
off PICS ratings? This may cause you to
view disturbing material such as Slashdot!]
Of course *NOT*, you little dweeb!
[John Q. Hacker kicks the PaperClip in the
head, making it retreat quickly to the toolbar]
Now remove the key
in the Registry with RegEdit32 and you are all
set!
[At the bottom of the screen: TOTAL ELAPSED
TIME: 00:02:26.3]
You can now download "Mein Kampf" from your
friendly militia site, see "Naked College Asian
Girls With Big Boobs Live!", flame CmdrTaco for
hours on Slashdot, and... the ultimate in sadism
and perversion... (drum roll) Download Red Hat
Linux 9.0 and install it on your unsuspecting
computer!!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Have fun, PICS kiddie!!
Welcome to the *real* Internet!
[PICS Rating: -0x0FFFFF: Hacking, Open Source,
Windows2005. DANGEROUS!]
The real reason Bill Gates and his company, Micro$oft, are (were) so successful is that they have shamelessly exploited (read "embraced and extended") the best ideas of others. Examples:
1. BASIC: at one point the only product MS ever made, it was actually invented by Computer Sciences researchers, in order to teach programming. Being "Open Source" (well kind of...), BASIC was milked by Micro$oft for all it was worth -- and we now have VB and the wonderful Basic-for-Apps that allow script kiddies to create virii-things like Melissa. They made many small Computer companies bleed through the nose for the "privilege" of having M$ Basic on their machine (anyone remember the crappy Amiga M$ Basic?).
2. MS-DOS used to be known as "Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System". Micro$oft bought the company and sold that product back to IBM. It was so ridiculously uninteresting (640KB limit, blah, blah, blah) that IBM and M$ made sure CP/M (at this time the dominant OS on microcomputers) could be installed on PCs instead. The stroke of genius (for Bill Gate$) was to retain all rigths to MS-DOG. Once IBM compatibles were born (Thank you Compaq), gazillions of dollars started flowing into M$ coffers. This is where it starts to be interesting.
3. Windows. I won't get too far into this one. M$ stole the idea, lock, stock and barrel, from Apple. Who had stolen it from Xerox's PARC. It took them no less than THREE iterations (three!) to get this ugly piece of crap functional. In the meantime, since they were still making gobs of money from MS-DOG, they stabbed IBM in the back (not a big loss), sunk Digital Research (a company 1000% more creative than they were) and threatened, bullied, bought and pressured every other software maker known to man. Lotus? Let's do a 1-2-3 killer! OS/2? No way! Wordperfect? Here comes WinWord! DBase? Let's buy Fox Software! Borland? Here comes Quick C & Quick Pascal! Internet? Let's become an Internet company and pollute HTML every chance we get! Every time, they used their competitor's ideas and turned out mediocre, inferior imitations of the real thing... All of this bankrolled by the near-monopoly of MS-DOG.
And so on and so forth. I could talk about Windows NT (entirely created by VMS people, from Digital Corp.), "Visual" C++ (marrying a non-M$ language and NextStep development environnement), Exchange (Notes-Killer), etc... etc...
Let's face it: Microsoft only stregths are (a) its ruthlessness (b) its ability to make money any which way they can and (c) its ability to churn out evil FUD and buggy program. It does *not* take a good programmer to create a crappy program. And, yes, Bill Gate$ is bland: he simply hides his greedy eyes behind an affable geek mask. Here is a man who will sell his own mother to make a buck. And because he knows decent people do not like that kind of behaviour, he tries to hide as bast as he can -- but more and more people realize the truth.
To me, the beginning of the end for Micro$oft is 1995. When Win95 was released, for the first time, many people realized that a company this size, able to spend such an obscene amout of money to hype a product that was nothing more than an s____y upgrade to an inferior product could not be honest. Even M$-paid press drones realized that.
I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:
1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition.
This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.
2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".
3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software.
Their software sucks anyway.
I worked for CA for 1 and a half year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.
Enough said -- sorry for the ranting.
I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:
1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition.
This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.
2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".
3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software.
Their software sucks anyway.
I worked for CA for 1 and a helf year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.
Enough said -- sorry for the ranting.