If I have time, or if I'm on a lunch break, I tend to read newspapers. The Guardian is always a good read; gets a lot of criticism for being "loony left" but tends to be quite even handed most of the time.
The definition of "newspapers" seems to be very different where I am (the UK) than in the US. In the US, the madly celebrity-crazy bullshit gets marked out quite clearly as "tabloid", distinct from the NYT etc, which are "newspapers". Here, they get lumped together, so you have people reading the "newspaper" with lots of T&A in it. Weirdly different mindset.
They need to adopt redhat's approach IMO. Offer some kind of Windows Support program, a phone line to answer retarded windows questions for old people. Then just sell the OS for say 80$ or something..
In other words, "Microsoft should lower prices".
A noble sentiment (Windows' prices are too high, but still worth it on some levels), but a bad way of putting it.
(Historical precedent: Anyone who's ever bought a retail box with a CD key that was already revoked before the box was shipped, because teh warez d00dz were using keygens that mapped onto the set of actual, legitimate keys.)
That seems to explain all the WGA false positives, then...
Most POP3 clients, by default, delete all messages on the server after downloading them to your PC. If you try and use the same account with both POP3 and IMAP, and you forget to configure the POP client properly, you're in for a really nasty shock.
You can't seriously believe that everybody who disagrees with the "copyright is evil" bullshit is an RIAA whore who think that eternal copyrights are a-OK, can you?
We can be sure they are following their 1998 Halloween document plan to disrupt the free software community by astroturfing Slashdot.
Look, I'm just going to give up all forms of logic and reason here: shut the fuck up. You are talking bullshit. You didn't want to account for any of the lies you told in the post you linked to, so you've just reposted the same thoroughly debunked lies.
1. Nobody would "troll" you if you didn't spout FUD, lies and baseless accusations constantly. 2. He didn't say that voting machine software shouldn't be GPLed, just that GPLed software is not the only option. And bear in mind that he was contesting your claim that Microsoft would put a trojan in a voting machine, which you still have not substantiated. 3. See 1. 4. Way to selectively quote. If anyone is reading this, please read the full post for context. Twitter was, once again, trying to claim that I and several others are sock puppets and/or paid Microsoft employees, and dedazo posted reasoning as to why this made no sense. 5. He didn't call you that. The mods did, a moderation which dedazo cited ("Why are you posting the same thing [slashdot.org] again? Because you were modded down to -1 as troll?"). You posted a duplicate comment because of it, presumably to get back some karma, which dedazo (and I) called you out on...AGAIN. 6. He asked for an explanation for the behaviour described in 6. You didn't provide it. 7. Abuse? He shot your post full of holes, because what you wrote made no sense at all. 8. "This guy is just unbelievable." That's it. That's the whole post. And you call that abuse?
You're doing the same thing you did when you went through my posting history; misrepresenting things and talking bullshit. Get your damn facts straight.
Twitter, do you really want me to prove you wrong?
Right; here we go: my MySpace. Note where I say I'm 17 and I work for a supermarket. And that the picture is me, in a Waitrose uniform.
Now, surely an "M$ astroturfer" wouldn't be working in a fucking supermarket?
I expect you to retaliate with ad hominem shit, rather than what would be most decent; an admission that I'm NOT paid by Microsoft. I don't know why I should try and prove anything to you, except to make you look like a moron.
By the way, people attacking you for your endless rants about M$ and Windoze doesn't equate with "apologists" "swarming". And I see you posted your charming deconstruction of my posting history, which turned out to be shite in which you deliberately misrepresented things I had said.
He does it all the time...he writes a long post, posts it, it gets modded down, so he posts it again (using his karma bonus, so people will be able to see it).
I think the funniest bit is he seems to think nobody will notice. Hint, twitter; if there are enough people reading your posts to merit the amount of derision you heap upon them, they'll notice a dupe right off the bat.
Twitter was modded down to -1 Troll for more or less exactly the same post (he changed "So what?" to "As if that would make any difference" here). He has reposted it, as he has done before, in an attempt to recover some karma.
If content from other music stores can't play on the iPod, it's not Apple's fault. It's their own fault, most probably because of the RIAA, for clinging to their own proprietary DRM.
Um, yes it IS Apple's fault in a way, because they refuse to license FairPlay to anyone. Hence why DVD Jon has/wants to do so.
Microsoft's Shared source initiative is not free software and won't help anyone improve anything. First, you don't have all of the source, so the Trojan is still hidden. Second, you can't modify it and share your changes. The first problem negates the freedom you would have if distribution was unrestricted anyway. The "customizations" they are so proud of, therefore, are no better for security than changing the wallpaper on your desktop.
You didn't mention anything about modifying, sharing or improving the code, or about it specifically being free software. You talked about "code auditing", which is what Microsoft offer the ability to do. What a nice straw man you built up there. Matter of fact, you seem to have started with your conclusion (i.e "Windows CE is shit") and tried to build your reasoning around it. And it doesn't work, because you're talking shit.
The results are typical of M$ junk. "ActiveSync, TCP/IP and 802.11b Wireless Vulnerabilities of WinCE", "The exploit is triggered by viewing the malicious MMS message", " FrSIRT Security Advisories - Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent... Note : In order to exploit these vulnerabilities the Program Neighborhood..", and so on and so forth.
However, we've already ascertained that the machine won't be connected to a network, wireless or otherwise, during operation, haven't we?
You are talking bullshit. Please shut up. There are lots of legitimate concerns about voting machines; stop bringing your personal anti-Microsoft vendetta into things.
...and Trend Micro has no problems converting their AV suite over to the Vista model. Hmmmm.
Symantec and McAfee are only bitching because their shitty, shitty, shitty products are heavily tied into the old system by way of layer upon layer of cruft, which they don't particularly want to dig through. If Trend can do it, so can they; they just don't want to.
Posting on a forum that you have downloaded lots and lots of albums is close enough to a confession for me. No idea if it would be admissible in court, but hell, the RIAA have tried stupider things.
The whole point of the decision is that reliable physical evidence is necessary for a conviction.
Which is why, of course, ATM fraud cannot be convicted because there's no physical evidence.
Secure WinCE? Against what, exactly? I would hope to god the voting machines weren't connected to a public network, and at any rate the WinCE codebase is almost entirely different from that of NT and 9x. Also:
A distinctive feature of Windows CE vis-à-vis other Microsoft operating systems is that large parts of it are offered in source code form. First, source code was offered to several vendors, so they could adjust it to their hardware. Then products like Platform Builder (an integrated environment for Windows CE OS image creation and integration, or customized operating system designs based on CE) offered several components in source code form to the general public.
Source. So, kindly, please stop talking out of your ass. I know you love bashing Microsoft, but at least try to be sane and sensible about it, k?
AND THE WORDS OF TWITTER SHALL BE OBEYED, OR...um...he'll...um...tell me to fuck off again...um...with his clearly debunked lies and inventions.
I'm fucking shitting myself, twitter. What're you gonna do, call me a troll? Oooh. Scary.
(Not to mention I didn't even insult you or anything in the grandparent. Is it because I completely demolished your pisspoor arguments? Or just because you're you?)
Way to get good evidence; a screenshot. May I suggest that instead of screenshots and other flimsy evidence, the RIAA concentrate on, say, people on forums etc who brag about downloading shitloads of albums off BitTorrent? Written evidence, usually (knowing the "I downloaded 23890248230 albums, aren't I so fucking l33t" crowd) accompanied by screenshots of their music folders. Evidence, see?
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If I have time, or if I'm on a lunch break, I tend to read newspapers. The Guardian is always a good read; gets a lot of criticism for being "loony left" but tends to be quite even handed most of the time.
The definition of "newspapers" seems to be very different where I am (the UK) than in the US. In the US, the madly celebrity-crazy bullshit gets marked out quite clearly as "tabloid", distinct from the NYT etc, which are "newspapers". Here, they get lumped together, so you have people reading the "newspaper" with lots of T&A in it. Weirdly different mindset.
They need to adopt redhat's approach IMO. Offer some kind of Windows Support program, a phone line to answer retarded windows questions for old people. Then just sell the OS for say 80$ or something..
In other words, "Microsoft should lower prices".
A noble sentiment (Windows' prices are too high, but still worth it on some levels), but a bad way of putting it.
IE and Windows Explorer are being seperated in Vista, and the address bar will be disappearing from the latter in favour of breadcrumb navigation.
Damn my rashness...not ALL, certainly a proportion of them.
(Historical precedent: Anyone who's ever bought a retail box with a CD key that was already revoked before the box was shipped, because teh warez d00dz were using keygens that mapped onto the set of actual, legitimate keys.)
That seems to explain all the WGA false positives, then...
Most POP3 clients, by default, delete all messages on the server after downloading them to your PC. If you try and use the same account with both POP3 and IMAP, and you forget to configure the POP client properly, you're in for a really nasty shock.
What's twitter gonna do? Comment me? Hah.
;)
Anyway, MySpace runs on ASP, he wouldn't dare touch that non-free M$ crap
You can't seriously believe that everybody who disagrees with the "copyright is evil" bullshit is an RIAA whore who think that eternal copyrights are a-OK, can you?
We can be sure they are following their 1998 Halloween document plan to disrupt the free software community by astroturfing Slashdot.
Look, I'm just going to give up all forms of logic and reason here: shut the fuck up. You are talking bullshit. You didn't want to account for any of the lies you told in the post you linked to, so you've just reposted the same thoroughly debunked lies.
1. Nobody would "troll" you if you didn't spout FUD, lies and baseless accusations constantly.
2. He didn't say that voting machine software shouldn't be GPLed, just that GPLed software is not the only option. And bear in mind that he was contesting your claim that Microsoft would put a trojan in a voting machine, which you still have not substantiated.
3. See 1.
4. Way to selectively quote. If anyone is reading this, please read the full post for context. Twitter was, once again, trying to claim that I and several others are sock puppets and/or paid Microsoft employees, and dedazo posted reasoning as to why this made no sense.
5. He didn't call you that. The mods did, a moderation which dedazo cited ("Why are you posting the same thing [slashdot.org] again? Because you were modded down to -1 as troll?"). You posted a duplicate comment because of it, presumably to get back some karma, which dedazo (and I) called you out on...AGAIN.
6. He asked for an explanation for the behaviour described in 6. You didn't provide it.
7. Abuse? He shot your post full of holes, because what you wrote made no sense at all.
8. "This guy is just unbelievable." That's it. That's the whole post. And you call that abuse?
You're doing the same thing you did when you went through my posting history; misrepresenting things and talking bullshit. Get your damn facts straight.
HAHA! Twitter, you never cease to amaze me.
Twitter, do you really want me to prove you wrong?
Right; here we go: my MySpace. Note where I say I'm 17 and I work for a supermarket. And that the picture is me, in a Waitrose uniform.
Now, surely an "M$ astroturfer" wouldn't be working in a fucking supermarket?
I expect you to retaliate with ad hominem shit, rather than what would be most decent; an admission that I'm NOT paid by Microsoft. I don't know why I should try and prove anything to you, except to make you look like a moron.
By the way, people attacking you for your endless rants about M$ and Windoze doesn't equate with "apologists" "swarming". And I see you posted your charming deconstruction of my posting history, which turned out to be shite in which you deliberately misrepresented things I had said.
I have nothing else to add to this. I'll come clean, tvvitter was me, the rest weren't. Of course, you'll never hear about twitter's sock puppet.
He does it all the time...he writes a long post, posts it, it gets modded down, so he posts it again (using his karma bonus, so people will be able to see it).
I think the funniest bit is he seems to think nobody will notice. Hint, twitter; if there are enough people reading your posts to merit the amount of derision you heap upon them, they'll notice a dupe right off the bat.
Twitter was modded down to -1 Troll for more or less exactly the same post (he changed "So what?" to "As if that would make any difference" here). He has reposted it, as he has done before, in an attempt to recover some karma.
If content from other music stores can't play on the iPod, it's not Apple's fault. It's their own fault, most probably because of the RIAA, for clinging to their own proprietary DRM.
Um, yes it IS Apple's fault in a way, because they refuse to license FairPlay to anyone. Hence why DVD Jon has/wants to do so.
Microsoft's Shared source initiative is not free software and won't help anyone improve anything. First, you don't have all of the source, so the Trojan is still hidden. Second, you can't modify it and share your changes. The first problem negates the freedom you would have if distribution was unrestricted anyway. The "customizations" they are so proud of, therefore, are no better for security than changing the wallpaper on your desktop.
... Note : In order to exploit these vulnerabilities the Program Neighborhood ..", and so on and so forth.
You didn't mention anything about modifying, sharing or improving the code, or about it specifically being free software. You talked about "code auditing", which is what Microsoft offer the ability to do. What a nice straw man you built up there. Matter of fact, you seem to have started with your conclusion (i.e "Windows CE is shit") and tried to build your reasoning around it. And it doesn't work, because you're talking shit.
The results are typical of M$ junk. "ActiveSync, TCP/IP and 802.11b Wireless Vulnerabilities of WinCE", "The exploit is triggered by viewing the malicious MMS message", " FrSIRT Security Advisories - Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent
However, we've already ascertained that the machine won't be connected to a network, wireless or otherwise, during operation, haven't we?
You are talking bullshit. Please shut up. There are lots of legitimate concerns about voting machines; stop bringing your personal anti-Microsoft vendetta into things.
...and Trend Micro has no problems converting their AV suite over to the Vista model. Hmmmm.
Symantec and McAfee are only bitching because their shitty, shitty, shitty products are heavily tied into the old system by way of layer upon layer of cruft, which they don't particularly want to dig through. If Trend can do it, so can they; they just don't want to.
Posting on a forum that you have downloaded lots and lots of albums is close enough to a confession for me. No idea if it would be admissible in court, but hell, the RIAA have tried stupider things.
The whole point of the decision is that reliable physical evidence is necessary for a conviction.
Which is why, of course, ATM fraud cannot be convicted because there's no physical evidence.
Then it's the copyright holder's decision.
Source. So, kindly, please stop talking out of your ass. I know you love bashing Microsoft, but at least try to be sane and sensible about it, k?
AND THE WORDS OF TWITTER SHALL BE OBEYED, OR...um...he'll...um...tell me to fuck off again...um...with his clearly debunked lies and inventions.
I'm fucking shitting myself, twitter. What're you gonna do, call me a troll? Oooh. Scary.
(Not to mention I didn't even insult you or anything in the grandparent. Is it because I completely demolished your pisspoor arguments? Or just because you're you?)
Way to get good evidence; a screenshot. May I suggest that instead of screenshots and other flimsy evidence, the RIAA concentrate on, say, people on forums etc who brag about downloading shitloads of albums off BitTorrent? Written evidence, usually (knowing the "I downloaded 23890248230 albums, aren't I so fucking l33t" crowd) accompanied by screenshots of their music folders. Evidence, see?
There's nothing wrong with sharing and celebrating music. There's a lot wrong with doing it against the author/artist's wishes.
Need you be reminded about the WMDs in Iraq, believed with no unbiased proof because people with an overly biased agenda simply claimed it?
There is a very big difference between the Bush Administration (and Rush Limbaugh) and "conservatives" as a whole.
You can't blame an entire group for the deeds and words of the most prominent members of that group.
No. I'm fairly sure he's either me or one of Keith's 293 accounts. Can't be bothered to check.