Maybe it's because mshaft are in bed with the NSA? After all, the various US intel agencies (and probably those of many governments) want to decrypt ANYthing they think is important enough to them, and they want QUICK not painstakingly-slow access to the plain text.
By including the back doors, mshaft can further differentiate itself from Open Source, maybe to marginalize OpenSource (I wonder what Novell will say in this regard) and try to make companies and governments think OpenSource/Linux applications and operating systems are somehow tools of terrorists, anarchists, activists and so forth. After all, this IS msoft we're talking about. They don't like competition that is REAL competition.
Well, then, it's a good thing this is being claimed to be a hoax. (Either that, or the school is getting so much bad rep that they'd rather it go down as a hoax and "un-detain" the student, and let things cool down....)
But, as for:
"You're suggestion that the school or teachers are being paid by Microsoft to push IE or ads seems unfounded"
How many times did people claim that ms wasn't paying marketing dollars to companies to get them to position ms products more favorably? How many times have we heard that ms punishes non-complying companies by removing advertising dollars? How many times have we been told ms wasn't polluting standards and decision-making bodies only to find out they WERE?
We all know ms doesn't want kids growing up on OLPC and Linux, so they'll do ANY, ANY THING to stem any risk of a tide. Is it really so far-fetched to assert that ms would pay a school?
I think it's a generalization or a mistake(I'm known to generalize or nitpick, even) to say or imply that most schools don't know enough about tech to deal with students. Eventually, one by one, schools with serious problems have to become (or end up becoming)more proactive and it's when they become draconian that they show inflexibility and lack of granular approach to problems (or take the advice of quick-shot consultants).
Actually, it might have been better that this were NOT a hoax. It would bring a raging debate to the fore and possibly even make the trade rags do a series of articles on the status of Firefox a threat (where tight integration with IE is not the topic, but browser compliance, security, convenience, general flexibility... are concerned) as a threat to IE.
Do we know if this teacher or the school ARE "knowledgable" and they are shills for msoft? It's possible they are getting dollars and constraints from mshaft and that they detected the kid is smart enough to block their ads going to computers (kids' or the schools').
If someone said "nuff's enough" and tried to shut the kid down, then regardless of history of disobeying orders, if he doesn't want shit adverts distracting him, then he should have the right to block those ads provided his tools of preference aren't immediately threatening to the network.
Imagine if kids decided "WE DAMN DON'T WANT TO SEE ADVERTS DURING CLASS, and stepped up anti-soda-on-campus campaigns, and demanded more sandwiches and fruits and veggie and tried to kick McDonalds and Taco Bells off the campuses. Not only would the marketers balk, but the school authorities try to clamp down (for fear of losing budgetary supplemental income)...
Hell, right now, I'm using Firefox, and I've got so much doubleclick bullshit and dozens of other cookies block that my Firefox won't even right-click-reply-in-new-tab. Scrolling isn't working, and page scrolling is rickety, all because Slashdot's sponsors cookies are being blocked by ME.
I suppose that kid could be screwing up data collection, or the teacher is an ms shill, or the school's IT consultants/contractors think the kid is a rogue who will try to harm the network, or the contractors are ms-shills and are using Firefox as a red herring to punish the kid. I'd rebel, too.
I guess dumbass principals and teachers like these, and defiant kids like him will surely add fodder to finally make possible a worthwhile US-version of Battle Royale. (Many hard-core BR/BRII fans feel there isn't much in the US to make a US version of BR come remotely near the intensity of BR... But, the current administration and schooling officials seem to want to instigate one with pro-ms stance/anti-OSS in pockets here and there...)
Lotta good that would do for people the USA in uniform being shipped around by a buffoon. One can lawfully disobey an order, but depending on the circumstances and spinelessness of witnesses, the CO or some ranking person can execute, imprison, or seek revenge upon the one disobeying, especially if unit cohesion is affected at a critical moment, or the officer is being embarrassed, or if the disobeying person sets an example that undermines those giving the orders.
I, too, doubted the spelling, but I accepted Google's "suggestion" in the tool bar. I did look at a page with several spellings but took the first one. Also, dictionary.com offers "denoument" though here in Slash, "denouement" doesn't generate a red underline.
By "Ad homonim (sic)" I was fielding a joke. I know it's ad hominem, but since he (or his sig file?) cast an aspersion at/to/upon me, I decided to try to be witty toward him.
I usually do use "(sp)" when I'm too lazy to just look up the correct spelling.
Mac's experience (compared to Linux and windoze) IS, admittedly, vastly more "unified" because Apple controls the hardware, has a smaller market, and most of its users are probably artists, accountants, writers, etc, and enjoy greater plug-n-play reality and kisk-ass (arty-looking) peripherals.
Linux has the short end of the stick but (admirably, and aggressively) is working wide a vast array of hardware, often better than "for windows" hardware. But, we're hampered by legal risks and by the risk that msoft will litigate to death anyone who threatens to exceed its ability to retain important (or numerous) core users.
As for windows, as you probably know, also, users are besieged with a lot of crapware, malware, and vaporware. I've bought and return junkware that Fry's will SELL but not VET for worthiness of access to Fry's shelves.
If what I said makes you feel so miserable, Mr./Mrs./Ms. AC, then rather than implore me to commit suicide, why don't you get some Medicated Tiger Balm, take a walking meditation, or hike in some clouds and listen to birds caw?
Not to mention SIF (Structural Integrity Fields) and A/G (Anti-Gravity) fields. The SIF to keep the thing together in case of a radical departure from comfortable flight, and the A/G to protect the standing/walking/verge-of-levitating PAX.
This is getting a bit weird. I'm all for Linux, but c'mon.... What in Linux "just works" like the Unified Mac Experience?
I'd rather see all-out WINE/Cedega funding to take *doze binaries and make them run better in Linux so I don't have to buy a version of XP or 2K to run CAD apps I want to buy in the next 3 months. (yep, I'll buy a 2nd hard disk and keep the main for any necessary warranty problems, but I'll clone it, suck it into Virtual Box or Win4Lin, and corral the bitch and never let it run native on MY hardware... I've had 8 computers at once back around 2001, and only ONE had windows 98 running natively for SOF/CS/HL/Apache Longbow, and after those got the boot, no more *doze booting)
Macs are HELLA nice, but short of winning one, I won't be paying for one.
Yeh, I know I could buy a Mac and use parallels, but I prefer hardware I can interchange or mess with inside, and even if a laptop, I can only afford maybe a $499 laptop or a bit more to get a CAD-friendly graphics card.
Had I the money, I'd build innumerable, high-powered, long-range transmission stations and signal.... "COME and GET us... I DARE you! Just TRY to take on our "leaders"..."
This would be a "weapon of mass redaction" cleaning up the worst of the humans around...?
Reminds me of a commercial, but maybe it should be sung as:
"I am STUCK on BRAND-AID cuz LOONY's STUCK on ME..."
Seems like vista's the Chevy Nova of operating systems versions. Remember the Nova being sold in Spain? It didn't sell well or at all because over there (an anywhere in Espa~nol) "novas" means "doesn't go/won't go" basically, "unreliable".
Rebrand Vista to Novas.
But, looking at reversing things, I "Googled" "atsiv", and found:
Slashdot Mirror
I'd blame it on a big fiery, black-ass hole in space. (Any uranus-sized Pepto-Abyssmal or Tums for that?)
Doo-moo Areem-gatou Mis-ter Reem-battou...
Now, if only scientists can add bee DNA, with ms' RNG... we could have some hella snail trails...
Somewhere someone will receive "BZ" (bravo zulu) and others will get BZZZT....
captcha: ascends
Maybe it's because mshaft are in bed with the NSA? After all, the various US intel agencies (and probably those of many governments) want to decrypt ANYthing they think is important enough to them, and they want QUICK not painstakingly-slow access to the plain text.
By including the back doors, mshaft can further differentiate itself from Open Source, maybe to marginalize OpenSource (I wonder what Novell will say in this regard) and try to make companies and governments think OpenSource/Linux applications and operating systems are somehow tools of terrorists, anarchists, activists and so forth. After all, this IS msoft we're talking about. They don't like competition that is REAL competition.
Well, then, it's a good thing this is being claimed to be a hoax. (Either that, or the school is getting so much bad rep that they'd rather it go down as a hoax and "un-detain" the student, and let things cool down....)
But, as for:
"You're suggestion that the school or teachers are being paid by Microsoft to push IE or ads seems unfounded"
How many times did people claim that ms wasn't paying marketing dollars to companies to get them to position ms products more favorably? How many times have we heard that ms punishes non-complying companies by removing advertising dollars? How many times have we been told ms wasn't polluting standards and decision-making bodies only to find out they WERE?
We all know ms doesn't want kids growing up on OLPC and Linux, so they'll do ANY, ANY THING to stem any risk of a tide. Is it really so far-fetched to assert that ms would pay a school?
I think it's a generalization or a mistake(I'm known to generalize or nitpick, even) to say or imply that most schools don't know enough about tech to deal with students. Eventually, one by one, schools with serious problems have to become (or end up becoming)more proactive and it's when they become draconian that they show inflexibility and lack of granular approach to problems (or take the advice of quick-shot consultants).
Actually, it might have been better that this were NOT a hoax. It would bring a raging debate to the fore and possibly even make the trade rags do a series of articles on the status of Firefox a threat (where tight integration with IE is not the topic, but browser compliance, security, convenience, general flexibility... are concerned) as a threat to IE.
Do we know if this teacher or the school ARE "knowledgable" and they are shills for msoft? It's possible they are getting dollars and constraints from mshaft and that they detected the kid is smart enough to block their ads going to computers (kids' or the schools').
If someone said "nuff's enough" and tried to shut the kid down, then regardless of history of disobeying orders, if he doesn't want shit adverts distracting him, then he should have the right to block those ads provided his tools of preference aren't immediately threatening to the network.
Imagine if kids decided "WE DAMN DON'T WANT TO SEE ADVERTS DURING CLASS, and stepped up anti-soda-on-campus campaigns, and demanded more sandwiches and fruits and veggie and tried to kick McDonalds and Taco Bells off the campuses. Not only would the marketers balk, but the school authorities try to clamp down (for fear of losing budgetary supplemental income)...
Hell, right now, I'm using Firefox, and I've got so much doubleclick bullshit and dozens of other cookies block that my Firefox won't even right-click-reply-in-new-tab. Scrolling isn't working, and page scrolling is rickety, all because Slashdot's sponsors cookies are being blocked by ME.
I suppose that kid could be screwing up data collection, or the teacher is an ms shill, or the school's IT consultants/contractors think the kid is a rogue who will try to harm the network, or the contractors are ms-shills and are using Firefox as a red herring to punish the kid. I'd rebel, too.
I guess dumbass principals and teachers like these, and defiant kids like him will surely add fodder to finally make possible a worthwhile US-version of Battle Royale. (Many hard-core BR/BRII fans feel there isn't much in the US to make a US version of BR come remotely near the intensity of BR... But, the current administration and schooling officials seem to want to instigate one with pro-ms stance/anti-OSS in pockets here and there...)
Lotta good that would do for people the USA in uniform being shipped around by a buffoon. One can lawfully disobey an order, but depending on the circumstances and spinelessness of witnesses, the CO or some ranking person can execute, imprison, or seek revenge upon the one disobeying, especially if unit cohesion is affected at a critical moment, or the officer is being embarrassed, or if the disobeying person sets an example that undermines those giving the orders.
We'll do it for you in SIX MINUTES...
I, too, doubted the spelling, but I accepted Google's "suggestion" in the tool bar. I did look at a page with several spellings but took the first one. Also, dictionary.com offers "denoument" though here in Slash, "denouement" doesn't generate a red underline.
Thanks, though.
Operatic. I hope this brings about an Operatic deneument to the internet exploder...
(and, to dupes on Slashdot...)
... I didn't INHALE..."?
It puts the MEM-RIES in the BUCKET or it loses GRAPHICS...
I just made that, one, in memory of Hannibal the Lecturer...
By "Ad homonim (sic)" I was fielding a joke. I know it's ad hominem, but since he (or his sig file?) cast an aspersion at/to/upon me, I decided to try to be witty toward him.
I usually do use "(sp)" when I'm too lazy to just look up the correct spelling.
Thanks, tho...
Meh, I don't stare at her boobs. I love her smile, the way she rolls her eyes, her gait... she's kewl...
yaoowww... ad homonim? (sic)
Forget to take your pills this morning?
Mac's experience (compared to Linux and windoze) IS, admittedly, vastly more "unified" because Apple controls the hardware, has a smaller market, and most of its users are probably artists, accountants, writers, etc, and enjoy greater plug-n-play reality and kisk-ass (arty-looking) peripherals.
Linux has the short end of the stick but (admirably, and aggressively) is working wide a vast array of hardware, often better than "for windows" hardware. But, we're hampered by legal risks and by the risk that msoft will litigate to death anyone who threatens to exceed its ability to retain important (or numerous) core users.
As for windows, as you probably know, also, users are besieged with a lot of crapware, malware, and vaporware. I've bought and return junkware that Fry's will SELL but not VET for worthiness of access to Fry's shelves.
If what I said makes you feel so miserable, Mr./Mrs./Ms. AC, then rather than implore me to commit suicide, why don't you get some Medicated Tiger Balm, take a walking meditation, or hike in some clouds and listen to birds caw?
Not to mention SIF (Structural Integrity Fields) and A/G (Anti-Gravity) fields. The SIF to keep the thing together in case of a radical departure from comfortable flight, and the A/G to protect the standing/walking/verge-of-levitating PAX.
This is getting a bit weird. I'm all for Linux, but c'mon.... What in Linux "just works" like the Unified Mac Experience?
I'd rather see all-out WINE/Cedega funding to take *doze binaries and make them run better in Linux so I don't have to buy a version of XP or 2K to run CAD apps I want to buy in the next 3 months. (yep, I'll buy a 2nd hard disk and keep the main for any necessary warranty problems, but I'll clone it, suck it into Virtual Box or Win4Lin, and corral the bitch and never let it run native on MY hardware... I've had 8 computers at once back around 2001, and only ONE had windows 98 running natively for SOF/CS/HL/Apache Longbow, and after those got the boot, no more *doze booting)
Macs are HELLA nice, but short of winning one, I won't be paying for one.
Yeh, I know I could buy a Mac and use parallels, but I prefer hardware I can interchange or mess with inside, and even if a laptop, I can only afford maybe a $499 laptop or a bit more to get a CAD-friendly graphics card.
And it shall be yours..."
That must've been promised to GOOGLE, not Ask...
Yeh, but when they see Dr. Smith from the Jupiter II, Ken Starling from the Aeon, and the scantily clad women of Space: 1999 and UFO....
But, if one alien looking like Sharon Valerii appears... mmmm baby... I'd trade in 3/4 of the SElected politicians to be her experiment...
Captcha: Sanctum
Yeh, I worry about Crypto-Terrestrials all the time... Like, politicians, presidents, ...
See their planetary unified bulletin at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidium
Then, when the protocol fails to permit redaction/retraction... yell...
"LOOKOUT!"
Had I the money, I'd build innumerable, high-powered, long-range transmission stations and signal.... "COME and GET us... I DARE you! Just TRY to take on our "leaders"..."
This would be a "weapon of mass redaction" cleaning up the worst of the humans around...?
Reminds me of a commercial, but maybe it should be sung as:
"I am STUCK on BRAND-AID cuz LOONY's STUCK on ME..."
Seems like vista's the Chevy Nova of operating systems versions. Remember the Nova being sold in Spain? It didn't sell well or at all because over there (an anywhere in Espa~nol) "novas" means "doesn't go/won't go" basically, "unreliable".
Rebrand Vista to Novas.
But, looking at reversing things, I "Googled" "atsiv", and found:
http://vista.blorge.com/2007/07/30/symantec-free-utility-tool-by-passes-vista-kernel-defenses/
http://www.linchpinlabs.com/index.htm
some letters:
-tex
-en
ie, playtex4ensure
I could also imagine this as a password on an AOL disc...