the front page says :
"To search allmusic for "Miles Davis", just type "allmusic Miles Davis"."
so, being a nice customer, i just typed "allmusic Miles Davis" and hit enter... surprise, surprise.. i got www.google.de.. other searches seem to work, though
now, the code and the whole the ideea may not be that bad, especially if one considers they only had 24h... but it looks like the designers were smokin a bit too much... and mommy phoned the tester to come home and take the garbage out
the article made a lot of very good points... and also a lot of very pertinent suggestions to MS... unfortunatelly there's also a huge quantity of garbage there
first it's the beginning, which talks about problems with Win95 and Win98... i find it amazing that people still listen to that bullshit... what if i write an article about Linux now and start bullshiting about problems in the "Linux95" and 98 versions?!?!... that's pure garbage.. and even more, that garbage was out a long time ago, i don't see any reason to go through it again
and then comes the "bullshit climax":
"But in the first five minutes on my new Mac, I was surfing the Internet, sending e-mail, and ripping a CD. OS X has been a breath of badly needed fresh air after Windows." this is exactly the kind of "review" a 14years Mac-switcher stoned girlie will write... does the author have no shame in coming out with this after tens of years in the technology field?
I need only to register my fingerprint with the bank and then swipe it at the ATM to do my banking. Years ahead of its time.
just read this nice story : http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm
to make a long story short, the author creates a dummy finger(plastic) by using a fingerprint from a glass and off-the-shelf components(~30$)... and the results :
"
It was found through the experiments that we could enroll the gummy fingers in all of the 11 types of fingerprint systems. It was also found that all of the fingerprint systems accepted the gummy fingers in their verification procedures with the probability of 68-100%.
"
how many "years ahead" do you feel now?
Video games don't whine. Video games don't call you at work and DEMAND you spend more time with them. Video games don't pull stupid dramatic stunts that even high schoolers would laugh at to get you to pay attention to them.
if you don't stop being so well-documented about my gf's behaviour, you are in big trouble mister!
"A major revision of Apple's Mac OS X operating system released this week fails to come bundled with a vital, recently-issued security fix."
"A security patch (2004-05-24) which guards against a vulnerability in the Help viewer sub-system is absent from the Mac OS X version 10.3.4, despite claims to the contrary by Apple."
"This confusion is compounded by Apple, which has thus far failed to address another critical - and easily exploitable - security hole which it wrongly told Techworld was fixed by the Help Viewer patch."
"An updated version of a security testing tool by Unsanity establishes that even patched systems are vulnerable. So patched Mac OS X systems are vulnerable and unpatched systems are even more vulnerable."
Now, if I ever again see one of the Mac zealots here advertising MacOS against Windows because of vulnerabilities & patches stuff, I'll instantly go into "undefined behaviour"!
since when is Gartner research such a/. darling? i remember people demolishing Gartner (and research in general) just few weeks ago
now they come up with some pro-linux numbers and suddenly they are THE research authority on/.... bleah
i posted this ~one week ago and got rejected... i wonder what happened meantime, did they move italy? or it took this long for the "capo ditutti capi" to learn that slahdot is defiantly neglecting them?
on the other hand, i think slashdot moderating system is a perfect sample for a very simple rule: "the percent of stupids is directly proportional with the number of people"
Slashdot Mirror
media bosses minds work in misterious ways
the front page says :
"To search allmusic for "Miles Davis", just type "allmusic Miles Davis"."
so, being a nice customer, i just typed "allmusic Miles Davis" and hit enter ... surprise, surprise .. i got www.google.de .. other searches seem to work, though
now, the code and the whole the ideea may not be that bad, especially if one considers they only had 24h ... but it looks like the designers were smokin a bit too much ... and mommy phoned the tester to come home and take the garbage out
anyway, congrats to the whole team .
i guess the concept of "being cool" is totally lost on you
i guess that's why americans want to rule the world - cause they know nothing about it !
and you mister missed another marvelous chance to shut up ... together with all the so called moderators which put you up there
first it's the beginning, which talks about problems with Win95 and Win98 ... i find it amazing that people still listen to that bullshit ... what if i write an article about Linux now and start bullshiting about problems in the "Linux95" and 98 versions?!?! ... that's pure garbage .. and even more, that garbage was out a long time ago, i don't see any reason to go through it again
and then comes the "bullshit climax": ... does the author have no shame in coming out with this after tens of years in the technology field?
"But in the first five minutes on my new Mac, I was surfing the Internet, sending e-mail, and ripping a CD. OS X has been a breath of badly needed fresh air after Windows."
this is exactly the kind of "review" a 14years Mac-switcher stoned girlie will write
just read this nice story : http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm
to make a long story short, the author creates a dummy finger(plastic) by using a fingerprint from a glass and off-the-shelf components(~30$) ... and the results :
" It was found through the experiments that we could enroll the gummy fingers in all of the 11 types of fingerprint systems. It was also found that all of the fingerprint systems accepted the gummy fingers in their verification procedures with the probability of 68-100%. " how many "years ahead" do you feel now?
if you don't stop being so well-documented about my gf's behaviour, you are in big trouble mister!
just joking .. with tears in my eyes
few quotes from TheRegister:
"A major revision of Apple's Mac OS X operating system released this week fails to come bundled with a vital, recently-issued security fix."
"A security patch (2004-05-24) which guards against a vulnerability in the Help viewer sub-system is absent from the Mac OS X version 10.3.4, despite claims to the contrary by Apple."
"This confusion is compounded by Apple, which has thus far failed to address another critical - and easily exploitable - security hole which it wrongly told Techworld was fixed by the Help Viewer patch."
"An updated version of a security testing tool by Unsanity establishes that even patched systems are vulnerable. So patched Mac OS X systems are vulnerable and unpatched systems are even more vulnerable."
Now, if I ever again see one of the Mac zealots here advertising MacOS against Windows because of vulnerabilities & patches stuff, I'll instantly go into "undefined behaviour"!
these things exist already ... i seen one in a movie theater last year and it was very good ... but you don't wanna know the price :)
did u ever hear about the price-quality ratio?
since when is Gartner research such a /. darling? i remember people demolishing Gartner (and research in general) just few weeks ago
now they come up with some pro-linux numbers and suddenly they are THE research authority on /. ... bleah
didn't u foget some numbers? like:
"Windows server platform ... new license revenue reaching $2.8 billion"
"New license revenue for Linux RDBMS totaled $299.3 million"
an ant and a double-sized-ant compare quite the same with an elephant!
i posted this ~one week ago and got rejected
on the other hand, i think slashdot moderating system is a perfect sample for a very simple rule
"the percent of stupids is directly proportional with the number of people"
In Soviet Russia the "scientists" came up with a dog which could sniff the dark-enery and describe it's caracteristics in barking-code.
Total Cost : 3kg high-quality bones and 2 packs of cigarretes for the dog-trainer
...cause they do not count the pr0n factor!
- hands up!!! nobody move!!!
- all your SPAM belongs to us!
and then proceed to collect evidence:
- sirs, please put your pants down!
- we have to take all that 3-inches-extra from your dicks as hard-evidence!
quote from rinkworks.com
"
I was having a conversation with a friend in the computer cluster. A girl overheard us and piped up.
* Me: "So, what's your ICQ number?"
* Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
"
stupid tech may be the best suited for the article ... but this one is waaay nicer :)
"what os are you running?" "pentium"
Customer: "I don't want one of those systems based on the cellulite processor."
Customer: "I'm in 386 enchanted mode."
* Customer: "It's a problem with Tcipx/ipspx."
* Customer: "What is this PUNKZIP thing?"
* Customer: "My computer's telling me I performed an illegal abortion."
how about all the "SDK's for crackers" Apple is releasing lately with amazing speed ... looks like they wanna challenge Microsoft in all respects
like this one for example
which leads us to the obvious conclusion : it's not politicians' fault, it's "THE VOTERS" dummy!!!
yes it is .. but only in the sense that you are free to leave usa :)
and of course, your Right hand claims it knows nothing about it
and in OTHER news Phantom console is also "ready" ... and that for the SECOND time!
is this part of some "obfuscating posts" competition?
yep