Did any of us honestly expect anything less than this from the next garbage release of windows from Microsoft? As if Vista wasn't a piss poor enough example of how they've completely sold out to the RIAA, MPAA and could give a shit less about the end user experience / integrity of the operating system as a whole. I'm surprised they haven't built in and made public a software back door for your local government agency to spy on all desktop behavior.
Only morons buy / trust / rely on / bother with new Microsoft operating systems. I have been spending, an incredible amount of time teaching my family and friends how to use Linux, and making them aware of how effective and efficient open source software truly is.
People still 'pay money' to take it in the ass from Redmond? You've got to be kidding me...
If you want this kind of absolute fucktarded nonsense to end...stop wasting your money with these twats.
- I never use automatic updates from microsoft for any microsoft product
- People should not blindly trust anyone / remote corporation to automatically update software on their machine, especially one that has blatantly shown the world that they are only interested in maintaining their monopoly and the interests of their corporate interests, instead of the end users...such as microsoft.
- People should not trust microsoft ever again, and should not have to begin with.
- I constantly advocate that people not use automatic update ever for anything.
- That stupid people get what they deserve for being too lazy and stupid to think and do things themselves.
I would like to say this should be the last nail in the coffin, but this has happened before many times, and caught many times, and brought to the forefront many times...yet people still use automatic updates. The problem isn't microsoft being evil...we've all known that. The real problem here is blatant stupidity on the part of the end user for even allowing this kind of access to the machine remotely.
It's nice to see at lease ONE company with a backbone.
It's not always about money you know...sometimes it's about ethics and integrity.
Microsoft is a slimy, deceptive piece of shit, Yahoo seems to have some thread of moral fiber to them. I don't blame them for continuously giving Microsoft the proverbial finger when it comes to these buyout deals.
I for one...would never buy another yahoo product, if Microsoft was to take ownership of them.
He supports the fact that we should protect the president of the united states and private corporations from penalization and justice, despite the fact that they broke the law.
This is further evidence that Obama is just 'another liar', who doesn't care about the principle perspective of law and order.
He has no backbone, no courage and no fundamental backbone from which he governs himself. I keep hearing people say "well what do you expect, he's a politician" and that is unacceptable. We should accept that kind of behavior because of his position? If anything, the demand should weight more when it comes to integrity and honesty from someone in that kind of position.
The fact that he wrote this response actually, adds further insult to injury.
He's lost my vote. I sent him a message through his site stating so.
Do the people that make laws have absolutely ANY idea how the internet works and is used?
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
This is not how law / public policy should be used.
First off...I can't believe anyone else is being held responsible...for someone else comitting suicide...because of what they read on the fucking internet. If your grasp of reality...is that fargone...something else aside from myspace posts...was going to tip you over the edge anyway.
You can call me whatever you want, insensitive, asshole, dickhead, I don't care. That suicide, was simply evolution taking place.
I refuse to support any kind of law or public policy that protects stupid morons from themselves, at the expense of...intelligence.
This is going to absolutely...destroy Microsoft...who in the world will trust ANY software released by a private company that was SUPERVISED by the government...given the times we live in today?
HAHAHAHA they got what they deserved...as far as I'm concerned. If shitty business ethics and sell-out-man-ship won't rot you from the core...uncle sam looking over your shoulder while you work...definitely will.
How you feel personally isn't the issue here, what is the principle issue is that an organization felt quite comfortable 1. gathering this data 2. analyzing this data without any kind of notice or request for permission to do so.
It's the fact that theft felt 'ok' with taking the liberty to do all of this, without letting the users know it was happening. It's called common courtesy...although I guess that doesn't exist in the business world anymore?
The issue is about where it will go from here, if corporations / governments feel comfortable about doing this kind of thing without even telling you...what is next? We've seen just how 'responsible' governments and companies are with this kind of data...how in the world can you be so trust worthy given the absolutely terrible track record of how well this kind of data is collected and secured?
To compare the toxicity of an electronically guided fish to a sunken boat...is a little excessive IMHO not only that, you're approaching this from the perspective that sunken boats, depending on what their cargo was, and how recent the boat was manufactured, are themselves not a source of biological toxins.
I am not a tree hugger, but my point here is that this kind of development needs to be approached from a much more ecologically sound perspective, given that the level of education and technology is advanced enough to do so.
What I see is this idea taking off, and then thousands of these things being produced...without any kind of biologically retroactive plan as far as what happens when they become inactive and begin to degrade in the open ocean...at numbers in the thousands.
I'm very interested in the answer your question, as I'm sure the materials used to manufacture this robo fish are incredibly poisonous.
I can't believe the forward thinking about oceanic pollution when it comes to putting devices like this in the water is not present when it comes to their prototype development. It's like we're right back in the excessive product commercialism of the 50's and 60's all over again...despite the education and technology behind ecological systems these days.
I am beyond appalled that Slashdot.org had a such a bad news day, that this kind of story made it on here.
You have GOT to be kidding me...this is an even more trivial digression than that kid who got his precious signed xbox 360 cover taken away when he sent in his xbox for repair.
...and just how in the hell can five black gaming industry professionals have any kind of 'general insight' on the opinion of African Americans as a whole?
Who cares how many white, black, yellow, pink, purple or orange people are playing video games as compared to some other ethnicity...? Why does that fucking matter? This was the last website I expected to peddle this kind of establishment driven statistically segregating fundamentally trivial bullshit.
What an incredibly racist and ignorant article, and again I am blown away that something this stupid, childish and utterly useless made it on a site that prides itself on information technology news. How in the HELL is this news for nerds?!
You can call me what you'd like, but this is the last of it for me...slashdot has gone to shit, and this is the pinnacle of the bullshit pile.
ArsTechnica has my eyes for tech news.
Please, slashdot editors...get back to the steering wheel...quick.
I believe, if software is worth it's penny, it should be paid for.
Of course open source has it's place, don't get me wrong.
I payed for my copy of server 2003 back then, and I'm still using it today. I have no regrets. It's proven it's worth ten-thousand fold...which I must admit...is a RARE thing these days to find happening with a Microsoft product.
There was talk of some magical OS Microsoft was going to release back in 2003, named XP Reloaded.
Yeah, it was released, it's called Windows Server 2003. It is everything Windows XP should have been...games run great, audio / graphic production works great and seems to 'never' crash.
Oh yeah, I knew that was / is the case, it just further illustrates the difference between great programming concepts and execution between two different development teams.
Slashdot Mirror
Stupid Users who use
Stupid Software like
Symantec Products deserve
Stupid problems like
This one.
Why are people still using Norton for anything? It's *absolute* 'fascist-bullshit-bloated-doesn't-let-you-uninstall-or-exit-the-app-easy' software.
Why am I *not* surprised at all .
STOP USING THEIR SOFTWARE and shit like this...simply won't happen.
Keeping such sensitive data on the internet is atrociously stupid.
Yeah this idea is so old, I mean...cmon:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/8178/446755-mario_with_fludd_super.jpg
Did any of us honestly expect anything less than this from the next garbage release of windows from Microsoft? As if Vista wasn't a piss poor enough example of how they've completely sold out to the RIAA, MPAA and could give a shit less about the end user experience / integrity of the operating system as a whole. I'm surprised they haven't built in and made public a software back door for your local government agency to spy on all desktop behavior.
Only morons buy / trust / rely on / bother with new Microsoft operating systems. I have been spending, an incredible amount of time teaching my family and friends how to use Linux, and making them aware of how effective and efficient open source software truly is.
People still 'pay money' to take it in the ass from Redmond? You've got to be kidding me...
If you want this kind of absolute fucktarded nonsense to end...stop wasting your money with these twats.
- I never use automatic updates from microsoft for any microsoft product
- People should not blindly trust anyone / remote corporation to automatically update software on their machine, especially one that has blatantly shown the world that they are only interested in maintaining their monopoly and the interests of their corporate interests, instead of the end users...such as microsoft.
- People should not trust microsoft ever again, and should not have to begin with.
- I constantly advocate that people not use automatic update ever for anything.
- That stupid people get what they deserve for being too lazy and stupid to think and do things themselves.
I would like to say this should be the last nail in the coffin, but this has happened before many times, and caught many times, and brought to the forefront many times...yet people still use automatic updates. The problem isn't microsoft being evil...we've all known that. The real problem here is blatant stupidity on the part of the end user for even allowing this kind of access to the machine remotely.
I'm pretty sure the college educated and board certified archeologists have taken this into account dude...
It will never land by itself.
Yeah, I said 'never'.
Instead of posting the video on just youtube, post it on as many video streaming sites as possible, diversify your upload portfolio.
Youtube is not the 'god' of internet video...fuck em. Use other sites...they are out there.
...the worst most destructive virus to ever be created, and 1st to hit Mac's all on the internet...in 3, 2....1
...I hope someone burns down their Open Source Lab.
Hypocritical idiots.
When is this stupid loser company going to learn?
It's nice to see at lease ONE company with a backbone.
It's not always about money you know...sometimes it's about ethics and integrity.
Microsoft is a slimy, deceptive piece of shit, Yahoo seems to have some thread of moral fiber to them. I don't blame them for continuously giving Microsoft the proverbial finger when it comes to these buyout deals.
I for one...would never buy another yahoo product, if Microsoft was to take ownership of them.
I read this, and all his excuses don't matter.
He supports the fact that we should protect the president of the united states and private corporations from penalization and justice, despite the fact that they broke the law.
This is further evidence that Obama is just 'another liar', who doesn't care about the principle perspective of law and order.
He has no backbone, no courage and no fundamental backbone from which he governs himself. I keep hearing people say "well what do you expect, he's a politician" and that is unacceptable. We should accept that kind of behavior because of his position? If anything, the demand should weight more when it comes to integrity and honesty from someone in that kind of position.
The fact that he wrote this response actually, adds further insult to injury.
He's lost my vote. I sent him a message through his site stating so.
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
This is not how law / public policy should be used.
First off...I can't believe anyone else is being held responsible...for someone else comitting suicide...because of what they read on the fucking internet. If your grasp of reality...is that fargone...something else aside from myspace posts...was going to tip you over the edge anyway.
You can call me whatever you want, insensitive, asshole, dickhead, I don't care. That suicide, was simply evolution taking place.
I refuse to support any kind of law or public policy that protects stupid morons from themselves, at the expense of...intelligence.
This is going to absolutely...destroy Microsoft...who in the world will trust ANY software released by a private company that was SUPERVISED by the government...given the times we live in today?
HAHAHAHA they got what they deserved...as far as I'm concerned. If shitty business ethics and sell-out-man-ship won't rot you from the core...uncle sam looking over your shoulder while you work...definitely will.
Good riddance, to bad rubbish.
How you feel personally isn't the issue here, what is the principle issue is that an organization felt quite comfortable 1. gathering this data 2. analyzing this data without any kind of notice or request for permission to do so.
It's the fact that theft felt 'ok' with taking the liberty to do all of this, without letting the users know it was happening. It's called common courtesy...although I guess that doesn't exist in the business world anymore?
The issue is about where it will go from here, if corporations / governments feel comfortable about doing this kind of thing without even telling you...what is next? We've seen just how 'responsible' governments and companies are with this kind of data...how in the world can you be so trust worthy given the absolutely terrible track record of how well this kind of data is collected and secured?
To compare the toxicity of an electronically guided fish to a sunken boat...is a little excessive IMHO not only that, you're approaching this from the perspective that sunken boats, depending on what their cargo was, and how recent the boat was manufactured, are themselves not a source of biological toxins.
I am not a tree hugger, but my point here is that this kind of development needs to be approached from a much more ecologically sound perspective, given that the level of education and technology is advanced enough to do so.
What I see is this idea taking off, and then thousands of these things being produced...without any kind of biologically retroactive plan as far as what happens when they become inactive and begin to degrade in the open ocean...at numbers in the thousands.
I'm very interested in the answer your question, as I'm sure the materials used to manufacture this robo fish are incredibly poisonous.
I can't believe the forward thinking about oceanic pollution when it comes to putting devices like this in the water is not present when it comes to their prototype development. It's like we're right back in the excessive product commercialism of the 50's and 60's all over again...despite the education and technology behind ecological systems these days.
I am beyond appalled that Slashdot.org had a such a bad news day, that this kind of story made it on here.
...and just how in the hell can five black gaming industry professionals have any kind of 'general insight' on the opinion of African Americans as a whole?
You have GOT to be kidding me...this is an even more trivial digression than that kid who got his precious signed xbox 360 cover taken away when he sent in his xbox for repair.
Who cares how many white, black, yellow, pink, purple or orange people are playing video games as compared to some other ethnicity...? Why does that fucking matter? This was the last website I expected to peddle this kind of establishment driven statistically segregating fundamentally trivial bullshit.
What an incredibly racist and ignorant article, and again I am blown away that something this stupid, childish and utterly useless made it on a site that prides itself on information technology news. How in the HELL is this news for nerds?!
You can call me what you'd like, but this is the last of it for me...slashdot has gone to shit, and this is the pinnacle of the bullshit pile.
ArsTechnica has my eyes for tech news.
Please, slashdot editors...get back to the steering wheel...quick.
GO BOILERS! :D
I believe, if software is worth it's penny, it should be paid for.
Of course open source has it's place, don't get me wrong.
I payed for my copy of server 2003 back then, and I'm still using it today. I have no regrets. It's proven it's worth ten-thousand fold...which I must admit...is a RARE thing these days to find happening with a Microsoft product.
There was talk of some magical OS Microsoft was going to release back in 2003, named XP Reloaded.
Yeah, it was released, it's called Windows Server 2003. It is everything Windows XP should have been...games run great, audio / graphic production works great and seems to 'never' crash.
This is one of the most efficient and well stated comments I have ever seen on Slashdot.
Bravo for hitting the nail directly on the head.
This is what happens when the worlds largest / most successful PC software engineering firm shitfts its primary focus from developers to advertisers(ing). No mercy for the devil
...who cares?
Why, WHY is this NEWS!?!?
Oh yeah, I knew that was / is the case, it just further illustrates the difference between great programming concepts and execution between two different development teams.