Wouldn't it be freedom of speech if I were to say product X is spyware? Microsoft likes to call Linux insecure, and while it does make many/.ers angry, we don't sue Microsoft.
FC3 is the only distro I have gotten working on my desktop. The past few months I have gone about whining about how RH ruined it, but I forgot that one simple fact. And I'm pretty sure the reasons I didn't like it were related to my own ignorance. FC3 works, and that is a big thing for me.
Will it work on my Linux machine? Or what if I get a Mac? It's very important that this kind of software be cross-platform to deal with spyware threats. Speaking of that, does anyone have some spyware they can send to me for Mac or Linux?
Why would they want to fix these problems from a business standpoint? If they develop programs that take advantage of the Microsoft way of rendering web pages (Frontpage), they can continue gaining market share and force people to still use their browser! I bet IE7 will still support broken HTML.
Um, they basically took over a US ship for their own use! Instead of using the ship for relief operations, it must now also provide a hotel for the UN people. Helicopters and cargo planes that could be used to airlift supplies are now being used to ferry around UN staff.
Looking at FrontPage code for even the most simple websites, I noticed most of them are not near standards compliant. At school we had to create web pages for the teachers. We didn't have much time, so we had to use FrontPage. None of the pages work with any browser we have tested besides IE.
I agree. One of the biggest problems with the relief efforts is actually the UN. Don't believe me? Check this out. Not sure where its from, my dad e-mailed it to me:
Guest Column: No Relief in Sight for the Lincoln
By Ed Stanton
It has been three weeks since my ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived off
the Sumatran coast to aid the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Dec.
26 tsunami that ravaged their coastline. I'd like to say that this has been
a rewarding experience for us, but it has not: Instead, it has been a
frustrating and needlessly dangerous exercise made even more difficult by
the Indonesian government and a traveling circus of so-called aid workers
who have invaded our spaces.
What really irritated me was a scene I witnessed in the Lincoln's wardroom
a few days ago. I went in for breakfast as I usually do, expecting to see
the usual crowd of ship's company officers in khakis and air wing aviators
in flight suits, drinking coffee and exchanging rumors about when our
ongoing humanitarian mission in Sumatra is going to end.
What I saw instead was a mob of civilians sitting around like they owned
the place. They wore various colored vests with logos on the back
including Save The Children, World Health Organization and the dreaded baby
blue vest of the United Nations. Mixed in with this crowd were a bunch of
reporters, cameramen and Indonesian military officers in uniform. They all
carried cameras, sunglasses and fanny packs like tourists on their way to
Disneyland.
My warship had been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of
trifling do-gooders overnight.
As I went through the breakfast line, I overheard one of the U.N.
strap-hangers, a longhaired guy with a beard, make a sarcastic comment to
one of our food servers. He said something along the lines of "Nice china,
really makes me feel special," in reference to the fact that we were eating
off of paper plates that day. It was all I could do to keep from jerking
him off his feet and choking him, because I knew that the reason we were
eating off paper plates was to save dishwashing water so that we would have
more water to send ashore and save lives. That plus the fact that he had no
business being there in the first place.
My attitude towards these unwanted no-loads grew steadily worse that day as
I learned more from one of our junior officers who was assigned to escort a
group of them. It turns out that they had come to Indonesia to "assess the
damage" from the Dec. 26 tsunami.
Well, they could have turned on any TV in the world and seen that the
damage was total devastation. When they got to Sumatra with no plan, no
logistics support and no five-star hotels to stay in, they threw themselves
on the mercy of the U.S. Navy, which, unfortunately, took them in. I guess
our senior brass was hoping for some good PR since this was about the time
that the U.N. was calling the United States "stingy" with our relief
donations.
As a result of having to host these people, our severely over-tasked SH-60
Seahawk helos, which were carrying tons of food and water every day to the
most inaccessible places in and around Banda Aceh, are now used in great
part to ferry these "relief workers" from place to place every day and
bring them back to their guest bedrooms on the Lincoln at night. Despite
their avowed dedication to helping the victims, these relief workers will
not spend the night in-country, and have made us their guardians by
default.
When our wardroom treasurer approached the leader of the relief group and
asked him who was paying the mess bill for all the meals they ate, the
fellow replied, "We aren't paying, you can try to bill the U.N. if you want
to."
In addition to the relief workers, we routinely get tasked with hauling
around reporters and various low-level "VIPs," which further wastes
valuable helo lift that could be used to carry supplies. We had to dedicate
two helos and a C-2 cargo plane for America-hater Dan Rather and his
entourage of door holders and briefcase carriers from CBS News. Another
camera crew was from MTV. I doubt if we'l
Still, my biggest distraction is e-mail. Its a great thing, but I spend up to an hour a day reading through newsletters. Thanks to RSS feeds, I don't have to go to 15 sites every few hours, and I can manage everything from my e-mail client, Thunderbird. Still, it takes a while to read the feeds to, and I'm in a habit right now of selecting content to read based on the title. If it doesn't have a title that interests me, it gets deleted. AIM is also a big distraction. When I need to get something done, getting away from the Internet works wonders.
Is inappropriate comments the real reason here? I don't think most people would mind a few obscenities in the code. Perhaps Microsoft thinks that "inappropriate comments" are anything that helps you understand the code. That way, they can go on and on about how they give their code to the world, even though its useless and no one understands how to use it.
If your not downloading movies, you really have nothing to worry about. I really don't care about the penalties because I don't download movies in the first place.
Piracy is probably always going to happen with the latest songs/software/movies. Someone will find a way to crack a product, no matter how good the protection is. Unfortunately, most companies try to screw everyone who uses their software to prevent piracy. If more efforts were made to stop piracy, maybe we wouldn't have these problems. And to punish those who pirate games like HL2, everyone who had to put up with Steam could get a punch at these people!
1. Make the crappiest software possible and charge an arm and a leg for it.
2. PROFIT!!!!!
3. Buy out companies that make good software, force them to make crappy products, and sell them to fix the OS.
4. PROFIT MORE!!!!!
5. Sue anyone who won't sell their soul to use and use our product.
6. PROFIT EVEN MORE!!!!!
This is exactly why I plan to ditch Windows in 2006. I expect Microsoft to go about rambling about how Longhorn will change the world, and how I need to switch from XP. I don't want to shell out for a new computer and a crappy OS. I expect my Athlon XP 2000+ to continue on for about 4 and a half years before I buy another computer. I doubt my computer will be able to run all the new programs, but I'm sure that Linux will be able to help me. The only reason I'm not using Linux right now is the WMP11 v4, which I can't get to work well under ndiswrapper. Hopefully, Linksys will come to their senses by 2006 or I will get lucky and get the card to work well... Until then I am a slave to Microsoft.
Still, this article shows several things. Lots of people complain that we can't do anything to stop spam without getting several countries to cooperate. While this might be true in the long run, we can still shut down all the spammers in the United States. One of the biggest ways we can stop spam is forcing ISPs to stop supporting it. I am not sure what could be done, but perhaps a large-scale boycott could have an effect?
I really wish choosing operating systems was a matter of choice. Wouldn't that be a perfect world if we could choose whatever OS we want? I'm bound to Windows XP right now because I have a crappy Linksys WMP11 v4. I know ndiswrapper can handle the WMP11 v4, but I could not get speeds faster than 30 kbps under Fedora Core 3. If I could find out why this happens and how I can fix it, I would gladly switch. But right now I am stuck to Windows, even though I personally think it sucks.
I would gladly switch any day to a Mac. Heck, I'd be happy with a Mac Mini right now. But I have just about no cash, and a Mac will have to wait until college...
I tried it out on our family PC. After a scan with Spybot, I still found spyware with the MS solution. However, I didn't test it with AdAware. Still, I found it surprising that it worked so well, but I have no plans to install it on my machine.
I think the Mini is perfect for LAN gaming. Mac does have some of the more recent games, so you should be able to have a basic LAN machine. If it had more video memory, that would be very helpful.
Wait...So you guys are getting all excited by new p2p applications made by pirates. Can't we all recognize that piracy is illegal? If you think you have some big excuse for not buying the software, don't buy the product. Sorry for ranting, its just that I expect this to be used for illegal purposes, and not for downloading Linux ISOs and other things.
I think thet should release all the code under the GPL if possible. Wouldn't it be fun to see the look on SCO's face when they had to agree to the GPL?
Outsourcing programming positions isn't good at all. My friend's dad works along with some Indian IT guys at his company. They are scared to let the Indians do some programming. Its small stuff, but they're still scared that something will go wrong. Maybe if others start to see this, jobs won't be outsourced as quickly?
Holy shit! I come to this site for computer news, not to hear Bush bashing. Bush isn't completely to blame. The intelligence services didn't communicate all their information to each other either.
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What did you expect? People supporting Microsoft on Slashdot? Come on, any oppertunity to bash Microsoft will be taken.
Wouldn't it be freedom of speech if I were to say product X is spyware? Microsoft likes to call Linux insecure, and while it does make many /.ers angry, we don't sue Microsoft.
FC3 is the only distro I have gotten working on my desktop. The past few months I have gone about whining about how RH ruined it, but I forgot that one simple fact. And I'm pretty sure the reasons I didn't like it were related to my own ignorance. FC3 works, and that is a big thing for me.
They already have death spelled out for them. This is just speeding it up.
It could be nice for a laptop too. It would meet my needs, and I could sit in the living room and watch TV and use my computer at the same time!
Will it work on my Linux machine? Or what if I get a Mac? It's very important that this kind of software be cross-platform to deal with spyware threats. Speaking of that, does anyone have some spyware they can send to me for Mac or Linux?
Why would they want to fix these problems from a business standpoint? If they develop programs that take advantage of the Microsoft way of rendering web pages (Frontpage), they can continue gaining market share and force people to still use their browser! I bet IE7 will still support broken HTML.
Um, they basically took over a US ship for their own use! Instead of using the ship for relief operations, it must now also provide a hotel for the UN people. Helicopters and cargo planes that could be used to airlift supplies are now being used to ferry around UN staff.
Looking at FrontPage code for even the most simple websites, I noticed most of them are not near standards compliant. At school we had to create web pages for the teachers. We didn't have much time, so we had to use FrontPage. None of the pages work with any browser we have tested besides IE.
I agree. One of the biggest problems with the relief efforts is actually the UN. Don't believe me? Check this out. Not sure where its from, my dad e-mailed it to me: Guest Column: No Relief in Sight for the Lincoln By Ed Stanton It has been three weeks since my ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived off the Sumatran coast to aid the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami that ravaged their coastline. I'd like to say that this has been a rewarding experience for us, but it has not: Instead, it has been a frustrating and needlessly dangerous exercise made even more difficult by the Indonesian government and a traveling circus of so-called aid workers who have invaded our spaces. What really irritated me was a scene I witnessed in the Lincoln's wardroom a few days ago. I went in for breakfast as I usually do, expecting to see the usual crowd of ship's company officers in khakis and air wing aviators in flight suits, drinking coffee and exchanging rumors about when our ongoing humanitarian mission in Sumatra is going to end. What I saw instead was a mob of civilians sitting around like they owned the place. They wore various colored vests with logos on the back including Save The Children, World Health Organization and the dreaded baby blue vest of the United Nations. Mixed in with this crowd were a bunch of reporters, cameramen and Indonesian military officers in uniform. They all carried cameras, sunglasses and fanny packs like tourists on their way to Disneyland. My warship had been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of trifling do-gooders overnight. As I went through the breakfast line, I overheard one of the U.N. strap-hangers, a longhaired guy with a beard, make a sarcastic comment to one of our food servers. He said something along the lines of "Nice china, really makes me feel special," in reference to the fact that we were eating off of paper plates that day. It was all I could do to keep from jerking him off his feet and choking him, because I knew that the reason we were eating off paper plates was to save dishwashing water so that we would have more water to send ashore and save lives. That plus the fact that he had no business being there in the first place. My attitude towards these unwanted no-loads grew steadily worse that day as I learned more from one of our junior officers who was assigned to escort a group of them. It turns out that they had come to Indonesia to "assess the damage" from the Dec. 26 tsunami. Well, they could have turned on any TV in the world and seen that the damage was total devastation. When they got to Sumatra with no plan, no logistics support and no five-star hotels to stay in, they threw themselves on the mercy of the U.S. Navy, which, unfortunately, took them in. I guess our senior brass was hoping for some good PR since this was about the time that the U.N. was calling the United States "stingy" with our relief donations. As a result of having to host these people, our severely over-tasked SH-60 Seahawk helos, which were carrying tons of food and water every day to the most inaccessible places in and around Banda Aceh, are now used in great part to ferry these "relief workers" from place to place every day and bring them back to their guest bedrooms on the Lincoln at night. Despite their avowed dedication to helping the victims, these relief workers will not spend the night in-country, and have made us their guardians by default. When our wardroom treasurer approached the leader of the relief group and asked him who was paying the mess bill for all the meals they ate, the fellow replied, "We aren't paying, you can try to bill the U.N. if you want to." In addition to the relief workers, we routinely get tasked with hauling around reporters and various low-level "VIPs," which further wastes valuable helo lift that could be used to carry supplies. We had to dedicate two helos and a C-2 cargo plane for America-hater Dan Rather and his entourage of door holders and briefcase carriers from CBS News. Another camera crew was from MTV. I doubt if we'l
Still, my biggest distraction is e-mail. Its a great thing, but I spend up to an hour a day reading through newsletters. Thanks to RSS feeds, I don't have to go to 15 sites every few hours, and I can manage everything from my e-mail client, Thunderbird. Still, it takes a while to read the feeds to, and I'm in a habit right now of selecting content to read based on the title. If it doesn't have a title that interests me, it gets deleted. AIM is also a big distraction. When I need to get something done, getting away from the Internet works wonders.
Is inappropriate comments the real reason here? I don't think most people would mind a few obscenities in the code. Perhaps Microsoft thinks that "inappropriate comments" are anything that helps you understand the code. That way, they can go on and on about how they give their code to the world, even though its useless and no one understands how to use it.
If your not downloading movies, you really have nothing to worry about. I really don't care about the penalties because I don't download movies in the first place.
Piracy is probably always going to happen with the latest songs/software/movies. Someone will find a way to crack a product, no matter how good the protection is. Unfortunately, most companies try to screw everyone who uses their software to prevent piracy. If more efforts were made to stop piracy, maybe we wouldn't have these problems. And to punish those who pirate games like HL2, everyone who had to put up with Steam could get a punch at these people!
1. Make the crappiest software possible and charge an arm and a leg for it. 2. PROFIT!!!!! 3. Buy out companies that make good software, force them to make crappy products, and sell them to fix the OS. 4. PROFIT MORE!!!!! 5. Sue anyone who won't sell their soul to use and use our product. 6. PROFIT EVEN MORE!!!!!
This is exactly why I plan to ditch Windows in 2006. I expect Microsoft to go about rambling about how Longhorn will change the world, and how I need to switch from XP. I don't want to shell out for a new computer and a crappy OS. I expect my Athlon XP 2000+ to continue on for about 4 and a half years before I buy another computer. I doubt my computer will be able to run all the new programs, but I'm sure that Linux will be able to help me. The only reason I'm not using Linux right now is the WMP11 v4, which I can't get to work well under ndiswrapper. Hopefully, Linksys will come to their senses by 2006 or I will get lucky and get the card to work well... Until then I am a slave to Microsoft.
Still, this article shows several things. Lots of people complain that we can't do anything to stop spam without getting several countries to cooperate. While this might be true in the long run, we can still shut down all the spammers in the United States. One of the biggest ways we can stop spam is forcing ISPs to stop supporting it. I am not sure what could be done, but perhaps a large-scale boycott could have an effect?
I really wish choosing operating systems was a matter of choice. Wouldn't that be a perfect world if we could choose whatever OS we want? I'm bound to Windows XP right now because I have a crappy Linksys WMP11 v4. I know ndiswrapper can handle the WMP11 v4, but I could not get speeds faster than 30 kbps under Fedora Core 3. If I could find out why this happens and how I can fix it, I would gladly switch. But right now I am stuck to Windows, even though I personally think it sucks.
I would gladly switch any day to a Mac. Heck, I'd be happy with a Mac Mini right now. But I have just about no cash, and a Mac will have to wait until college...
I tried it out on our family PC. After a scan with Spybot, I still found spyware with the MS solution. However, I didn't test it with AdAware. Still, I found it surprising that it worked so well, but I have no plans to install it on my machine.
I think the Mini is perfect for LAN gaming. Mac does have some of the more recent games, so you should be able to have a basic LAN machine. If it had more video memory, that would be very helpful.
Wait...So you guys are getting all excited by new p2p applications made by pirates. Can't we all recognize that piracy is illegal? If you think you have some big excuse for not buying the software, don't buy the product. Sorry for ranting, its just that I expect this to be used for illegal purposes, and not for downloading Linux ISOs and other things.
I think thet should release all the code under the GPL if possible. Wouldn't it be fun to see the look on SCO's face when they had to agree to the GPL?
Outsourcing programming positions isn't good at all. My friend's dad works along with some Indian IT guys at his company. They are scared to let the Indians do some programming. Its small stuff, but they're still scared that something will go wrong. Maybe if others start to see this, jobs won't be outsourced as quickly?
Holy shit! I come to this site for computer news, not to hear Bush bashing. Bush isn't completely to blame. The intelligence services didn't communicate all their information to each other either.