No, spam is 1000's of mails sent from one address to (perhaps) millions of addresses. I am talking a few mails (2 or 3) with gargbage code from one account for every proper mail sent to up the noise ratio of what these people try to monitor.
yes. I read a factional book called 'Q' by Luther Blisset (four italian guys, really) and it is basically a story follows the Inquistion historical events in Europe during the middle ages.
One thing that sticks in my mind was the bit about the church deliberately leaving known 'hectics' alone (but keep them in their sights), as it gave them the power to control and impose rules to ALL people as these 'hectics' are abound. i.e. if they removed them, then people would not see the threat of the heretic activity at all, and they would realise what a lot of bollocks the church was saying.
I think this is what is now happening today - known terrorists are allowed to circulate, as it gives the governments the power to bring in rules and regulations with a reason to control ALL the people. Remove the terrorist, then they have no legs to stand on and could not do it, so it is beneficial to governments to allow the terrorist organisations to exist.
The best thing to do is (e.g.) for every legit mail you send to Mum, Dad or whoever, send a few to seemlying dodgy addresses (like.cn,.kr etc.) with a made up code like garbage [sszzv sheehuu sww asdh qquei ajjs msdjuu 2jshhe......]
If enough people do this, then all mails will be unreadable due to the noise level (let alone them trying to crack a code that is utter garbage).
"The lead researcher said he's optimistic that 'continued observations will reveal a rocky planet within five years.'"
Sylvester Stallone commented on this breaking news; "Eh?"
Perhaps - but they done it and got caught, and now forever under the eye... and other companys see that and be clean......BUT MS do it all the time. The buying votes/rigging voting in the ooXML ISO fiasco, which now seems to have brought the whole ISO process to a halt. This latest Nigerian issue. The MS funded BBC DRM iPlayer. SCO case. the list goes on and on and on. Just look at the any of the past dealings MS are involved in and all have the element of unethical and immoral practices. All of them.
And they don't stop - and never will, as that is the only way MS can compete in the market.
Remember, MS is the crack coke dealer - at first, they don't care if they give it away (as it appears has happened here) as long as they get people 'hooked' and tied in.
MS would rather somebody use a pirated copy of Windows rather than use another OS.
This is just usual business for MS - perhaps the most immoral and unethical company ever know in the modern world.
"Microsoft has denied sabotaging Mandriva's deal with the Nigerian government..."
Then why is the Nigerian Government still paying Mandriva for the contract they was happy with (and still appear to be happy with it)? This is so obviously MS bunging them money AFTER they lost the fight, and telling them "Here you are, here is a few million to get rid of that and install Windows - we will pay for the loss".
However they do it, I have always asked myself one question about the UK lottery. Why is there a 30 minute delay (or more) between the tills closing and the actual draw itself? Why not do the draw 1 minute after the tills close?
Why the delay? I do think these type draws are 'managed' and the time period between tills closing and the draw is unanswered (no matter what 'official' explanation they come out with).
Bollocks... the licence money I pay FUNDS the BBC, which they are using to pay MS to produce a locked-in player that deliberately stops my using it as I do not use MS products.
It is so obvious that the BBC are in cahoots with MS over this, I can't see how the bloke can say they are not - so he is obviously a blatant liar.
I am seriously considering some sort of action (legal or otherwise) as I have to pay for a BCC TV licence, yet get deliberately locked out of the BBC player (by the BBC's CHOICE) as I do not use MS products.
"Hiser believes CDF has a better shot at compatibility with Microsoft's OOXML, and says that the foundation has been disappointed with the direction of ODF over the last year."
All he is saying here, in honest truth, is that MS monopoly is allowed to continue.
What ODF was about is OPEN format so that all can produce, create and save documents read by any other. The above statement now concedes that we go back to 'trying' to read a proprietary format designed to lock-in users in a monopoly.
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 (UK) model in Sept. and was alerted to this reading through the forums. Following the advice sorted it OK. No big deal, but what it also means is that disk heads are not 'parked' so often, so a laptop on the 'move' could do more damage to a drive than what the setting does anyway (i.e. the drive goes to sleep a lot, thus giving semi-protection against a *bump* or two).
I was also surprised that laptop drives are not mounted 'noatime/nodiratime' either, as that saves a bit of wear.
But, anyway, I think this report is a bit over the top - have there been ANY reports of hard drives failing because of the Load_Cycle_Count exceeding specification?
I think this idea could be acceptable in most countries (whether legal or not) due to the total apathy of the way democracy is going. Nobody wants to vote the people in that are up for voting, so what is best?
No vote? Or sell your vote?
Being in the UK, it doesn't matter who I vote for - the person that supposedly gets voted in will not represent me in Government, so I may as well sell my vote and get money for it (which under Blairs Government already happened in Birmingham).
It depends if you have size 24" feet (MS) or 8" feet like real normal OS's. No matter how big the foot, you can only reduce your footprint to the smallest size of the foot.
So that, as far as I am concerned, is a nebulous comment intended to fool the press and others that still believe every MS 'press release' they spew out.
The issue is MS making the OS DEPEND on IE and ignore anything the user wants. If I remember rightly, during the anti-trust case, Gates & Co. lied to the court that IE was needed to run Windows (it wasn't at the time). The next patch/hotfix/release it was, as they quickly embedded it.
It is 16384, but the missing bytes (1784) is the hidden DRM count you are not allowed to see or measure. They even fscked that up (using Excel, I suspect) - it should have been 1984 Orwellian bytes.
"Customers are certainly showing their interest and buying systems preloaded with Ubuntu, but it certainly won't overtake Microsoft Windows anytime soon."
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 pre-installed Ubuntu (and very good it is too), but looking at the comment above, it is not hard to wonder why, as every time you look at Dell Linux machine options, plastured alone the top is 'Dell recommends Microsoft Vista'.
It is almost as if they are going through the 'Linux' motions half-heartedly.
If the things run MS products, ensure you wear a condom to stop the transmission of viruses. I forecast Symantec and McCafee to start selling these in the next 5 years (online subscription and automatic updates).
That isn't really relevant. Finding life (that existed) or perhaps still exists removes this silly charade of religion dogma that plagues our the whole world through no other medium than 'belief' and control.
With 200 billion stars in OUR galaxy alone, and billions of other galaxies in our universe, anybody that thinks we are unique (usually religious type folks) are seriously fooled.
There has to be hundreds of thousands of life forms out there (at least). The sooner science finds it, the better.
Slashdot Mirror
...but the URL is a MS blog, and I banned myself from these years ago.
No, spam is 1000's of mails sent from one address to (perhaps) millions of addresses. I am talking a few mails (2 or 3) with gargbage code from one account for every proper mail sent to up the noise ratio of what these people try to monitor.
yes. I read a factional book called 'Q' by Luther Blisset (four italian guys, really) and it is basically a story follows the Inquistion historical events in Europe during the middle ages.
One thing that sticks in my mind was the bit about the church deliberately leaving known 'hectics' alone (but keep them in their sights), as it gave them the power to control and impose rules to ALL people as these 'hectics' are abound. i.e. if they removed them, then people would not see the threat of the heretic activity at all, and they would realise what a lot of bollocks the church was saying.
I think this is what is now happening today - known terrorists are allowed to circulate, as it gives the governments the power to bring in rules and regulations with a reason to control ALL the people. Remove the terrorist, then they have no legs to stand on and could not do it, so it is beneficial to governments to allow the terrorist organisations to exist.
The best thing to do is (e.g.) for every legit mail you send to Mum, Dad or whoever, send a few to seemlying dodgy addresses (like .cn, .kr etc.) with a made up code like garbage [sszzv sheehuu sww asdh qquei ajjs msdjuu 2jshhe ... ...]
If enough people do this, then all mails will be unreadable due to the noise level (let alone them trying to crack a code that is utter garbage).
I can sell you one, real cheap...
... a press question truthfully and honesty (these words do not exist in MS corp along with Ethically and Morally).
"The lead researcher said he's optimistic that 'continued observations will reveal a rocky planet within five years.'" Sylvester Stallone commented on this breaking news; "Eh?"
Perhaps - but they done it and got caught, and now forever under the eye... and other companys see that and be clean... ...BUT MS do it all the time. The buying votes/rigging voting in the ooXML ISO fiasco, which now seems to have brought the whole ISO process to a halt. This latest Nigerian issue. The MS funded BBC DRM iPlayer. SCO case. the list goes on and on and on. Just look at the any of the past dealings MS are involved in and all have the element of unethical and immoral practices. All of them.
And they don't stop - and never will, as that is the only way MS can compete in the market.
Remember, MS is the crack coke dealer - at first, they don't care if they give it away (as it appears has happened here) as long as they get people 'hooked' and tied in.
MS would rather somebody use a pirated copy of Windows rather than use another OS.
This is just usual business for MS - perhaps the most immoral and unethical company ever know in the modern world.
"Microsoft has denied sabotaging Mandriva's deal with the Nigerian government..."
Then why is the Nigerian Government still paying Mandriva for the contract they was happy with (and still appear to be happy with it)? This is so obviously MS bunging them money AFTER they lost the fight, and telling them "Here you are, here is a few million to get rid of that and install Windows - we will pay for the loss".
However they do it, I have always asked myself one question about the UK lottery. Why is there a 30 minute delay (or more) between the tills closing and the actual draw itself? Why not do the draw 1 minute after the tills close?
Why the delay? I do think these type draws are 'managed' and the time period between tills closing and the draw is unanswered (no matter what 'official' explanation they come out with).
Bollocks... the licence money I pay FUNDS the BBC, which they are using to pay MS to produce a locked-in player that deliberately stops my using it as I do not use MS products.
This sounds like racketeering, to me.
It is so obvious that the BBC are in cahoots with MS over this, I can't see how the bloke can say they are not - so he is obviously a blatant liar.
I am seriously considering some sort of action (legal or otherwise) as I have to pay for a BCC TV licence, yet get deliberately locked out of the BBC player (by the BBC's CHOICE) as I do not use MS products.
"...non-human primates really can understand the meaning of numerals."
Developers, developers, developers...
otherwise he would have used singular 'developer' so he can COUNT more than 1!
"Hiser believes CDF has a better shot at compatibility with Microsoft's OOXML, and says that the foundation has been disappointed with the direction of ODF over the last year."
All he is saying here, in honest truth, is that MS monopoly is allowed to continue.
What ODF was about is OPEN format so that all can produce, create and save documents read by any other. The above statement now concedes that we go back to 'trying' to read a proprietary format designed to lock-in users in a monopoly.
It gets from bad to worse.
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 (UK) model in Sept. and was alerted to this reading through the forums. Following the advice sorted it OK. No big deal, but what it also means is that disk heads are not 'parked' so often, so a laptop on the 'move' could do more damage to a drive than what the setting does anyway (i.e. the drive goes to sleep a lot, thus giving semi-protection against a *bump* or two).
I was also surprised that laptop drives are not mounted 'noatime/nodiratime' either, as that saves a bit of wear.
But, anyway, I think this report is a bit over the top - have there been ANY reports of hard drives failing because of the Load_Cycle_Count exceeding specification?
New marketing name -> RealTrojans (or viruses/worms, whatever). Sales are UP!
I think this idea could be acceptable in most countries (whether legal or not) due to the total apathy of the way democracy is going. Nobody wants to vote the people in that are up for voting, so what is best?
No vote? Or sell your vote?
Being in the UK, it doesn't matter who I vote for - the person that supposedly gets voted in will not represent me in Government, so I may as well sell my vote and get money for it (which under Blairs Government already happened in Birmingham).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4406575.stm
"Windows kernel to a minimum footprint"
It depends if you have size 24" feet (MS) or 8" feet like real normal OS's. No matter how big the foot, you can only reduce your footprint to the smallest size of the foot.
So that, as far as I am concerned, is a nebulous comment intended to fool the press and others that still believe every MS 'press release' they spew out.
The issue is MS making the OS DEPEND on IE and ignore anything the user wants. If I remember rightly, during the anti-trust case, Gates & Co. lied to the court that IE was needed to run Windows (it wasn't at the time). The next patch/hotfix/release it was, as they quickly embedded it.
It is 16384, but the missing bytes (1784) is the hidden DRM count you are not allowed to see or measure. They even fscked that up (using Excel, I suspect) - it should have been 1984 Orwellian bytes.
"Customers are certainly showing their interest and buying systems preloaded with Ubuntu, but it certainly won't overtake Microsoft Windows anytime soon."
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 pre-installed Ubuntu (and very good it is too), but looking at the comment above, it is not hard to wonder why, as every time you look at Dell Linux machine options, plastured alone the top is 'Dell recommends Microsoft Vista'.
It is almost as if they are going through the 'Linux' motions half-heartedly.
Typical example found HERE
If the things run MS products, ensure you wear a condom to stop the transmission of viruses. I forecast Symantec and McCafee to start selling these in the next 5 years (online subscription and automatic updates).
That isn't really relevant. Finding life (that existed) or perhaps still exists removes this silly charade of religion dogma that plagues our the whole world through no other medium than 'belief' and control.
With 200 billion stars in OUR galaxy alone, and billions of other galaxies in our universe, anybody that thinks we are unique (usually religious type folks) are seriously fooled.
There has to be hundreds of thousands of life forms out there (at least). The sooner science finds it, the better.