That's a useful analogy if cars cab be coppied at the push of a button
The fact that you think so is the root of the problem, isn't it. BTW, why do you insist on spelling "copies" as "coppies"? You should think about switching to a free web browser, like Firefox 2.0. It has this nifty on the fly spellcheck feature (stolen from Office, of course) that puts wrigglies under misspelled words.
It's not a victory but it brings us closer to one.
Yes, if I'd followed your metrics everything brings "us" closer to wherever the hell we're going.
I agree with Bungi, BTW. I didn't quite catch it but I think it's insulting that you'd equate something Ghandi did with this.
Your mother
Well, she's 79 but she's still dating and socially active, so give it a try. I have to warn you though, she's a happy "Windoze" user, and quite a good one at that. I don't know what that would do to the relationship.
On second thought, never mind. The other day she told me she hates those annoying Adventists that knock on her door all the time and preach on about how she can save her soul from the devil. I'd hate for her to sit through four hours of your retarded "M$ Winbloze SUX and GNU/Everything ROXXORZ" propaganda, which is really no different. So it's just not going to work. Thanks for trying though.
I'll tell you what's sad - if the parent post had been talking about some RoR website or some free software project, you'd be modded down faster than you can say "double standard". But because this is someone who works at Microsoft and is passionate about what he's doing, your "oh I feel pity for you" commentary is at +5 instead, and someone modded him down as flamebait.
Society is getting to the point where the desperate PC desire for everyone to be "equal" is trickling down to children as well. Let me tell you something: children are not equal. They are not "little people". They are blabbering semi-functional idiot savants that require a lot of discipline and guidance to be able to grow up and function in society. That has been true since humans first started breeding. They are also beautiful and innocent. That doesn't mean they should be given drugs or sent off to therapy because fucked up parents can't be bothered to assume the responsibility of educating their own offspring, or because some stupid law or social perception makes it "bad" to plant a big loud one in their rear because they broke the den window after being told ten times to go play baseball somewhere else.
You "new age" touchy-feely "send Jimmy to the shrink so I don't have to abuse him" people make me sick. You think your kids are so better off than everyone else's and you're damaging more than you could ever know. Humanity has been raising children for thousands of years, and we've done good. Discipline is not abuse, no matter how much you'd like that to be the case. Learn to tell the difference between the two, or shut the fuck up.
Let me see if I get this right. Microsoft tries to prevent them from pirating their software which they are doing based on their idea that they're doing a good deed. Kinda like I could steal your car and give it away to a charity, so there's no victim, right?
Anyway, Microsoft is doing this and you're all twittery about the fact that there's a "backlash" and they're not going to "buy" their products for a whole quarter? A a whole quarter? The same people who were pirating the software to begin with are going "on strike"?
Not if you've hardened the configuration correctly, which you would technically do regardless.
The first thing I did when I moved to my current shared hosting provider was request information on their IIS configuration to make sure it was sufficiently hardened to prevent something like this to affect my site.
Read through that advisory and then get back to us on the amount of things that have to be screwed up in the basic setup of a Server 2003 box before this vuln will work.
If this had hit one of our servers, it wouldn't have worked because the "classic" ASP ISAPI handler is disabled by default, and that's how we leave it. And even if that were not true, you'd end up with the same privileges as the NETWORK SERVICE account, which on 2003 is basically useless. AND you still would need to have configured the root of your website to allow for authenticated uploads. Duh. That's about as terrifying as a "NAKED PCITURES OF TEH BRITTANY SOPEARS!!!" email with an EXE attachment. I doubt it affected any large number of servers.
This has been covered before here and elsewhere... anyone who is using a DTD as a URL rather than a URI needs to be taken out and shot. I say bring them all down and let all the apps that rely on them die or be fixed.
Actually if that's the reason it's not that difficult, if you use the MSLU. However, I support any software publisher that drops support for the 9x SKUs. They all need to go away.
So we can safely say that in that sense they're no different from you. What was it about a lie that becomes truth if you repeat it enough? Well, I forget. You're the expert.
You really shouldn't link to those threads, twitter. Not only do they fail to back up your "arguments" in any meaningful way (and really just make you look like a complete idiot), they actually reinforce the obvious shilling you do with your sockpuppet accounts. You do realize that's a thread you were humping in using your 'twitter' account, correct? Just in case you didn't notice, that's not the account you're posting with on this thread.
I've never needed or been tempted to use another account on Slashdot (or anywhere), but I'm thinking either you are simply not competent enough to tell them apart anymore, or shilling is just too damn difficult. Which is it?
Let me put it to you another way, I don't see any at all.
Then you better get on the horn with RMS and tell him he's won the OS wars, because I just got back from a testing lab where I was surrounded by IBM ThinkCentres running Fedora Core, and the only Windows box in sight was my XP laptop.
Of all the lame arguments you've used to rationalize Microsoft's impending doom, I think this one takes the cake.
I'm sorry twitter, you already replied using your sockpuppet account, so I really don't feel like repeating the same things.
As to your preschool whiner bullshit about how I hate free software and I'm paid by Microsoft to stalk you on Slashdot along with the power to "game the system", I suggest you think about why you are being modded down wholesale instead of jerking off to alternative reality theories.
Go ahead and "document" whatever you want for the "community", as if. Given the volume of "documentation" available for your accounts, that should prove interesting if nothing else.
Ah yes, here's the thread I was looking for. And from that same thread, here's some of your best work, proof that you're shilling your own posts and more of the same fun and games.
The only idiot here is you. The software has improved.
What kind of response is that, you dumbass? Did you even read what I wrote? If you're going to insult me at least try to do it with some intelligence?
Everyone knows that WinDOS wants the whole hard drive.
You know, I just realized who you remind me of. Rosie O'Donnell blabbering away on The View with a 30-minute bullshit pulpit that serves no other purpose than to piss people off. Your never-ending FUD and bullet point cockslap "this is how it is" preaching should be hoisted up on YouTube for the masses to laugh at. Ever thought about doing a podcast?
So if we follow that logic then if everyone exercised common sense and kept abreast of security threats then ActiveX wouldn't be such a big problem, would it?
Furthermore, we can say that that XPI has not become such a problem (since you're vulnerable through it as well) simply because it hasn't reached a large enough segment of the PC user base. Correct?
If there are binaries, then it'll just take a bit more time.
Yeah, I felt the same way about ActiveX binaries. But just a little bit more time than verifying that it doesn't use XPCOM and look in the XPI (which everyone knows is a ZIP anyway) and look at the JS, ZUL and RDF. Yeah.
Got any more recommendations I might want to pass on to aunt Tilly and cousin Joe Bob when they ask me about Firefox?
What is the point of all this hyperbole and creative spelling?
Her comments about non free software are scathing... shows a good grasp of what free software is all about... figured out that the non free parts were the problem, not the free parts
And when someone criticizes free software (with reason), do you find that "scathing" as well? There's a lot of "non free" software. Are you implying that because Flash (!) doesn't work on 64-bit Linux then all "non free" software is a problem? Seriously?
This is a picky user and she's been satisfied
That's interesting, because when she first published that initial article she was branded an idiot - predictably, I might add. But now everything's A-OK and she's picky and satisfied.
such as the complete loss of data and OS overwrite, came from M$ use
Yeah, I completely lose data all the time under "M$ Windoze" and have never lost any under any other OS. After all, backups are for pussies. Might as well just hope your OS is perfect.
And BTW, in all fairness if someone wants to switch away from Windows to something else because of activation then more power to them. Microsoft deserves to lose them. Activation and "genuine advantage" are a pain that each person needs to decide whether or not they want to put up with.
But "infested with spyware and viruses"? Please. If your computer is "infested" with anything then the most likely cause can be found between the chair and the keyboard.
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The fact that you think so is the root of the problem, isn't it. BTW, why do you insist on spelling "copies" as "coppies"? You should think about switching to a free web browser, like Firefox 2.0. It has this nifty on the fly spellcheck feature (stolen from Office, of course) that puts wrigglies under misspelled words.
Yes, if I'd followed your metrics everything brings "us" closer to wherever the hell we're going.
I agree with Bungi, BTW. I didn't quite catch it but I think it's insulting that you'd equate something Ghandi did with this.
Well, she's 79 but she's still dating and socially active, so give it a try. I have to warn you though, she's a happy "Windoze" user, and quite a good one at that. I don't know what that would do to the relationship.
On second thought, never mind. The other day she told me she hates those annoying Adventists that knock on her door all the time and preach on about how she can save her soul from the devil. I'd hate for her to sit through four hours of your retarded "M$ Winbloze SUX and GNU/Everything ROXXORZ" propaganda, which is really no different. So it's just not going to work. Thanks for trying though.
I'll tell you what's sad - if the parent post had been talking about some RoR website or some free software project, you'd be modded down faster than you can say "double standard". But because this is someone who works at Microsoft and is passionate about what he's doing, your "oh I feel pity for you" commentary is at +5 instead, and someone modded him down as flamebait.
Society is getting to the point where the desperate PC desire for everyone to be "equal" is trickling down to children as well. Let me tell you something: children are not equal. They are not "little people". They are blabbering semi-functional idiot savants that require a lot of discipline and guidance to be able to grow up and function in society. That has been true since humans first started breeding. They are also beautiful and innocent. That doesn't mean they should be given drugs or sent off to therapy because fucked up parents can't be bothered to assume the responsibility of educating their own offspring, or because some stupid law or social perception makes it "bad" to plant a big loud one in their rear because they broke the den window after being told ten times to go play baseball somewhere else.
You "new age" touchy-feely "send Jimmy to the shrink so I don't have to abuse him" people make me sick. You think your kids are so better off than everyone else's and you're damaging more than you could ever know. Humanity has been raising children for thousands of years, and we've done good. Discipline is not abuse, no matter how much you'd like that to be the case. Learn to tell the difference between the two, or shut the fuck up.
Anyway, Microsoft is doing this and you're all twittery about the fact that there's a "backlash" and they're not going to "buy" their products for a whole quarter? A a whole quarter? The same people who were pirating the software to begin with are going "on strike"?
And you consider this some sort of victory?
Who mods this stuff up, anyway?
Wow, shilling your own posts does work!
The first thing I did when I moved to my current shared hosting provider was request information on their IIS configuration to make sure it was sufficiently hardened to prevent something like this to affect my site.
If this had hit one of our servers, it wouldn't have worked because the "classic" ASP ISAPI handler is disabled by default, and that's how we leave it. And even if that were not true, you'd end up with the same privileges as the NETWORK SERVICE account, which on 2003 is basically useless. AND you still would need to have configured the root of your website to allow for authenticated uploads. Duh. That's about as terrifying as a "NAKED PCITURES OF TEH BRITTANY SOPEARS!!!" email with an EXE attachment. I doubt it affected any large number of servers.
Assuming you're not just making shit up as usual, I suppose we all have our own anecdotal evidence. Is yours more "truthy" than everybody else's?
Let me know when you're done and we'll compare notes, OK?
This has been covered before here and elsewhere... anyone who is using a DTD as a URL rather than a URI needs to be taken out and shot. I say bring them all down and let all the apps that rely on them die or be fixed.
Actually if that's the reason it's not that difficult, if you use the MSLU. However, I support any software publisher that drops support for the 9x SKUs. They all need to go away.
Isn't the Zune the #2 player in the market now? By that measure, Apple should be considered a massive failure since they've been #2 for decades.
Why is it that Microsoft products have to attain 98.5% dominance of any market or they're considered automatic failures?
ROFL. Exaggerate much? I like my SmartPhone just fine. Did someone die and declare it a "hideous mess" or is that just you?
So we can safely say that in that sense they're no different from you. What was it about a lie that becomes truth if you repeat it enough? Well, I forget. You're the expert.
I've never needed or been tempted to use another account on Slashdot (or anywhere), but I'm thinking either you are simply not competent enough to tell them apart anymore, or shilling is just too damn difficult. Which is it?
Good god, you spend all your waking hours FUDing Microsoft and "evangelizing" free software and you don't even know how the GPL works??
Yes, and this is different from the vendor of "non-free" software recompiling their own source how again?
It's not that simple, trust me.
WTF am I saying, I can't trust assembler. I better just use binary.
Oh wait, I can't trust the BIOS either. Better just use an abacus.
Then you better get on the horn with RMS and tell him he's won the OS wars, because I just got back from a testing lab where I was surrounded by IBM ThinkCentres running Fedora Core, and the only Windows box in sight was my XP laptop.
Of all the lame arguments you've used to rationalize Microsoft's impending doom, I think this one takes the cake.
As to your preschool whiner bullshit about how I hate free software and I'm paid by Microsoft to stalk you on Slashdot along with the power to "game the system", I suggest you think about why you are being modded down wholesale instead of jerking off to alternative reality theories.
Go ahead and "document" whatever you want for the "community", as if. Given the volume of "documentation" available for your accounts, that should prove interesting if nothing else.
Ah yes, here's the thread I was looking for. And from that same thread, here's some of your best work, proof that you're shilling your own posts and more of the same fun and games.
What kind of response is that, you dumbass? Did you even read what I wrote? If you're going to insult me at least try to do it with some intelligence?
You know, I just realized who you remind me of. Rosie O'Donnell blabbering away on The View with a 30-minute bullshit pulpit that serves no other purpose than to piss people off. Your never-ending FUD and bullet point cockslap "this is how it is" preaching should be hoisted up on YouTube for the masses to laugh at. Ever thought about doing a podcast?
I have to go find a few links, and I'll get right back to you. Don't go anywhere, OK?
Furthermore, we can say that that XPI has not become such a problem (since you're vulnerable through it as well) simply because it hasn't reached a large enough segment of the PC user base. Correct?
Oh wait, I'm not.
Yeah, I felt the same way about ActiveX binaries. But just a little bit more time than verifying that it doesn't use XPCOM and look in the XPI (which everyone knows is a ZIP anyway) and look at the JS, ZUL and RDF. Yeah.
Got any more recommendations I might want to pass on to aunt Tilly and cousin Joe Bob when they ask me about Firefox?
And when someone criticizes free software (with reason), do you find that "scathing" as well? There's a lot of "non free" software. Are you implying that because Flash (!) doesn't work on 64-bit Linux then all "non free" software is a problem? Seriously?
That's interesting, because when she first published that initial article she was branded an idiot - predictably, I might add. But now everything's A-OK and she's picky and satisfied.
Yeah, I completely lose data all the time under "M$ Windoze" and have never lost any under any other OS. After all, backups are for pussies. Might as well just hope your OS is perfect.
And BTW, in all fairness if someone wants to switch away from Windows to something else because of activation then more power to them. Microsoft deserves to lose them. Activation and "genuine advantage" are a pain that each person needs to decide whether or not they want to put up with.
But "infested with spyware and viruses"? Please. If your computer is "infested" with anything then the most likely cause can be found between the chair and the keyboard.