to finally provide sufficient security for wireless connections
There are two kinds of people working in these IEEE groups.
1. Seasoned engineers; and 2. Twits.
The former have from the beginning been clamouring for security. They were literally brushed off by the latter. The former will roll their eyes and tell you of how these twits use Windoze and LookOut and get infected all over the place and literally have no clue - and this is years ago, before Sasser and Blaster and Donner and Blixen...
How did they get in? Good question, next question. All security issues were shelved for the first standard...
And now? Now they're talking about 'finally' having security? These same morons?
Sorry - I have friends who've worked on all these standards and pulled their hair out all along, and I just don't trust the IEEE anymore if the pros are tired of trying. Make it secure? I won't believe it. I don't care enough to even try.
the average employee was out sick seven days a year
Oh really. The average Scandinavian is out thirty days a year and the per capita GNP is still higher. I find that figure way too low, considering the 'socialist' system in the UK that's even survived Maggie.
Oh what a relief. I see all the good suggestions here. For a moment I thought the Windows platform had finally died out! What a relief it survived!
I like Windows - I really do, I really really do - and it would be a shame to see it go all for the sake of a nasty bug or two. Or parasite. Or whatever you call them.
OK, that's all I can write now. Me and the wife are going for a walk. We live in a bad neighborhood so it takes a while to get dressed. We wear body armor made out of kevlar and she and I both carry AK-47s and hand grenades and I wear a mortar on my back just in case and if things get really bad we've got a bazooka in the car.
It's a good neighborhood really - we feel really safe here.
1. Silly: there's no purpose to such an exercise. We all know what the cause was, and these 'cottage industries' that feed off the weaknesses of you-know-who aren't fooling anyone except themselves.
2. Stupid: I mean REALLY - how much is it going to take until these idiots get a grip and realise it's Microsoft technology? I'd like to see one of these idiots in the Alps during an avalanche:
'Run! Get out of the way! Avalanche!'
'Huh?'
'It's an avalanche! Run for it! Hurry!'
'Huh?'
And so forth. Yell 'Microsoft' and it's the same thing. Trouble is, some of these idiots think Windows is a GROOVY platform - something I will never get.
3. Slanted: Anything that refuses to look the truth in the face at this late a stage in the game is slanted. I think there's money involved, but exactly what prompted this idiot to offer us his pearls of wisdom I cannot of course know. Still - basic bottom line: I could give a flying F. If I could pass a law about anything at all right now, it would be a law that muzzled these idiots once and for all.
Sure, it's a riot how Windows machines get the shit knocked out of them, but it's a disastrous waste of global resources and it long ago ceased being funny. Muzzle these idiots and don't encourage them by linking to them.
There were a few shareware authors who were given the chance to make money even before they found anyone to buy their products. GetRight was one; Opera another. Banner ads was all it was, you see. Very innocuous, and it supports the poor wannabe programmer as the product is improved enough to make sales.
Then for a facile price, the user can get a key to get rid of the hated advertising.
Things were bad enough then, but then bigger money started taking over. Yet the shareware authors stuck with it.
I think we're missing a great point here: the proliferation of spyware is due in part to the cooperation of shareware authors. Which seems ironic, even paradoxical, as one would assume good ethical programmers would be against such practices. Evidently they're not.
I think we have to shuffle some of the blame on the shareware authors. I think we have to pressure them to stop cooperating with these vermin. Without carriers, the parasites cannot survive.
I'm sure Joe Goebbels and Addie Hitler had equally kind words to say about the people who opposed them, citing 'excesses' and abuse of free speech and so forth.
What is remarkable is that the description of MS's scummy business practices is not that different from Gates' own description of them. The words are a bit different, but the meaning is the same. It's just that Gates sees this as OK, and others don't.
So in a perverse sense it boils down not to defamation but to simply not liking what Bill is doing.
how people can get the copy-blocked songs from the CD onto an iPod
Uh -
1. Don't run Windoze?
2. Hold down a shift key?
But there's another twist: that people are willing to pay for music even when they know they can steal it; also, that the claims by the RIAA that Napster was ruining their business was exactly the garbage we long thought it to be.
Not that the RIAA will see it that way of course. They're so dumbed by their own paranoid greed they'll consider this a great success.
This is another example of classic American reasoning. Guns are good because they represent freedom. The US is the harbinger of wonderful grass roots movements such as the Ku Klux Klan, White Aryan Resistance, negro hangings, and now they want to protect those rights.
The streets of the United States are littered with bums. There are as many people killed with handguns as are killed on the highways. Disease can be rampant, and a full 30% of US residents lack medical insurance, and almost none of them have adequate social insurance - the guarantee that the money keeps coming in to pay the bills no matter if everyone in the entire house is sick.
These are self-evident truths to everyone in the western world except in the US, where people run around totally snowed in and without a single clue even today - so much so that the United Nations has declared the US to rank very poorly on the scale of human rights and one of the three most impoverished countries in the western world.
And Jim-Bob will defend his right to have six shotguns in his closet, because that is the AMERICAN WAY and Jim-Bob will continue to go on and protect all the poor unfortunate unenlightened people in the rest of the western world who by definition all wish they were living in the Land of the Free.
And Americans really need to figure out why they're so despised in the world at large? Why? How could they possibly be?
This is one of those issues - just like Columbine - that Americans will discuss into the ground until it's totally forgotten and they can all move on. 'We have guns at home but we keep the bullets in the medicine cabinet.' Or 'In Switzerland everyone has to have a gun so having guns is not related to people shooting one another.' Or whatever.
It's pathetic.
Certain European countries have evidently decided to make a stab at a policy statement. It's fairly obvious they don't intend to do much with this statement, but racial attacks are illegal in many countries in Europe and media companies found to be engaging in such activities can be punished. This is good. This is very good. The world needs more people who analyse less and more often just do the right thing.
The world needs much more decency, a lot less phoniness, a lot fewer weasels, and a lot less backwoods philosophers and racist idiots.
The world needs far less 'logical objections' and a severe reduction in US population.
This 3D thing is not about making something in 2D 'appear' to be 3D, but about really making it 3D.
I mean holograms and stuff, but far beyond.
I mean when you want to save a file, you literally reach out and grab it in your fist and drop it in a folder and whoosh there it goes in the folder and its saved.
When you want to open a file, you literally pry a folder open with your fingers and then select from the contents within.
You could also use the 'office cabinet' algorithm. Someone will figure it out.
But we won't need keyboards and mice much longer. We'll talk to the danged things. And we'll have a manual override so you can 'reach out and touch it' and do it yourself.
And yes, for the fringe groups, this will mean porn comes to an all-new hi-tech level.
'You know, today are systems are so secure, that the probability of being hit by the Love Bug, AnnaK, Code Red, Sasser, Netsky - really, it's so small that the likelihood that we got hit at all is - well, it's so small that we probably didn't get hit after all!'
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to finally provide sufficient security for wireless connections
There are two kinds of people working in these IEEE groups.
1. Seasoned engineers; and
2. Twits.
The former have from the beginning been clamouring for security. They were literally brushed off by the latter. The former will roll their eyes and tell you of how these twits use Windoze and LookOut and get infected all over the place and literally have no clue - and this is years ago, before Sasser and Blaster and Donner and Blixen...
How did they get in? Good question, next question. All security issues were shelved for the first standard...
And now? Now they're talking about 'finally' having security? These same morons?
Sorry - I have friends who've worked on all these standards and pulled their hair out all along, and I just don't trust the IEEE anymore if the pros are tired of trying. Make it secure? I won't believe it. I don't care enough to even try.
If these dorks knew how to explain what their system does.
This is some of the worst most piss-poor documentation I have ever seen.
the average employee was out sick seven days a year
Oh really. The average Scandinavian is out thirty days a year and the per capita GNP is still higher. I find that figure way too low, considering the 'socialist' system in the UK that's even survived Maggie.
There's nothing wrong with the Internet that a complete ban on Windows (l)users wouldn't cure, so stop your insinuations!
Start your own internet. Only people you trust are invited to join it, and nobody is allowed to link it to the bad, old internet.
But can we run WINDOWS again then? Please? PRETTY PLEASE?
or install zonealarm. and don't turn off the firewall. I've never had to turn off my firewall
Well yeah - DUH - and no wonder...
Oh what a relief. I see all the good suggestions here. For a moment I thought the Windows platform had finally died out! What a relief it survived!
I like Windows - I really do, I really really do - and it would be a shame to see it go all for the sake of a nasty bug or two. Or parasite. Or whatever you call them.
OK, that's all I can write now. Me and the wife are going for a walk. We live in a bad neighborhood so it takes a while to get dressed. We wear body armor made out of kevlar and she and I both carry AK-47s and hand grenades and I wear a mortar on my back just in case and if things get really bad we've got a bazooka in the car.
It's a good neighborhood really - we feel really safe here.
Bye!
1. Silly: there's no purpose to such an exercise. We all know what the cause was, and these 'cottage industries' that feed off the weaknesses of you-know-who aren't fooling anyone except themselves.
2. Stupid: I mean REALLY - how much is it going to take until these idiots get a grip and realise it's Microsoft technology? I'd like to see one of these idiots in the Alps during an avalanche:
'Run! Get out of the way! Avalanche!'
'Huh?'
'It's an avalanche! Run for it! Hurry!'
'Huh?'
And so forth. Yell 'Microsoft' and it's the same thing. Trouble is, some of these idiots think Windows is a GROOVY platform - something I will never get.
3. Slanted: Anything that refuses to look the truth in the face at this late a stage in the game is slanted. I think there's money involved, but exactly what prompted this idiot to offer us his pearls of wisdom I cannot of course know. Still - basic bottom line: I could give a flying F. If I could pass a law about anything at all right now, it would be a law that muzzled these idiots once and for all.
Sure, it's a riot how Windows machines get the shit knocked out of them, but it's a disastrous waste of global resources and it long ago ceased being funny. Muzzle these idiots and don't encourage them by linking to them.
There were a few shareware authors who were given the chance to make money even before they found anyone to buy their products. GetRight was one; Opera another. Banner ads was all it was, you see. Very innocuous, and it supports the poor wannabe programmer as the product is improved enough to make sales.
Then for a facile price, the user can get a key to get rid of the hated advertising.
Things were bad enough then, but then bigger money started taking over. Yet the shareware authors stuck with it.
I think we're missing a great point here: the proliferation of spyware is due in part to the cooperation of shareware authors. Which seems ironic, even paradoxical, as one would assume good ethical programmers would be against such practices. Evidently they're not.
I think we have to shuffle some of the blame on the shareware authors. I think we have to pressure them to stop cooperating with these vermin. Without carriers, the parasites cannot survive.
I'm sure Joe Goebbels and Addie Hitler had equally kind words to say about the people who opposed them, citing 'excesses' and abuse of free speech and so forth.
What is remarkable is that the description of MS's scummy business practices is not that different from Gates' own description of them. The words are a bit different, but the meaning is the same. It's just that Gates sees this as OK, and others don't.
So in a perverse sense it boils down not to defamation but to simply not liking what Bill is doing.
Heil Bill.
how people can get the copy-blocked songs from the CD onto an iPod
Uh -
1. Don't run Windoze?
2. Hold down a shift key?
But there's another twist: that people are willing to pay for music even when they know they can steal it; also, that the claims by the RIAA that Napster was ruining their business was exactly the garbage we long thought it to be.
Not that the RIAA will see it that way of course. They're so dumbed by their own paranoid greed they'll consider this a great success.
This is another example of classic American reasoning. Guns are good because they represent freedom. The US is the harbinger of wonderful grass roots movements such as the Ku Klux Klan, White Aryan Resistance, negro hangings, and now they want to protect those rights.
The streets of the United States are littered with bums. There are as many people killed with handguns as are killed on the highways. Disease can be rampant, and a full 30% of US residents lack medical insurance, and almost none of them have adequate social insurance - the guarantee that the money keeps coming in to pay the bills no matter if everyone in the entire house is sick.
These are self-evident truths to everyone in the western world except in the US, where people run around totally snowed in and without a single clue even today - so much so that the United Nations has declared the US to rank very poorly on the scale of human rights and one of the three most impoverished countries in the western world.
And Jim-Bob will defend his right to have six shotguns in his closet, because that is the AMERICAN WAY and Jim-Bob will continue to go on and protect all the poor unfortunate unenlightened people in the rest of the western world who by definition all wish they were living in the Land of the Free.
And Americans really need to figure out why they're so despised in the world at large? Why? How could they possibly be?
This is one of those issues - just like Columbine - that Americans will discuss into the ground until it's totally forgotten and they can all move on. 'We have guns at home but we keep the bullets in the medicine cabinet.' Or 'In Switzerland everyone has to have a gun so having guns is not related to people shooting one another.' Or whatever.
It's pathetic.
Certain European countries have evidently decided to make a stab at a policy statement. It's fairly obvious they don't intend to do much with this statement, but racial attacks are illegal in many countries in Europe and media companies found to be engaging in such activities can be punished. This is good. This is very good. The world needs more people who analyse less and more often just do the right thing.
The world needs much more decency, a lot less phoniness, a lot fewer weasels, and a lot less backwoods philosophers and racist idiots.
The world needs far less 'logical objections' and a severe reduction in US population.
This reminds me of the 'fishnet' ending of Wayne's World.
If Steve Jobs said it's no good, it's dead. Accept it and move on.
Besides, isn't GNOME that thing the little MS punk de Icaza was involved in? If so, be sure it's a covert collaboration with Redmond as always.
I think they're all barking up the wrong tree.
This 3D thing is not about making something in 2D 'appear' to be 3D, but about really making it 3D.
I mean holograms and stuff, but far beyond.
I mean when you want to save a file, you literally reach out and grab it in your fist and drop it in a folder and whoosh there it goes in the folder and its saved.
When you want to open a file, you literally pry a folder open with your fingers and then select from the contents within.
You could also use the 'office cabinet' algorithm. Someone will figure it out.
But we won't need keyboards and mice much longer. We'll talk to the danged things. And we'll have a manual override so you can 'reach out and touch it' and do it yourself.
And yes, for the fringe groups, this will mean porn comes to an all-new hi-tech level.
People might actually get some work done again. AIM is the new PowerPoint.
What Bill needs are the Harrisburg spin doctors.
'You know, today are systems are so secure, that the probability of being hit by the Love Bug, AnnaK, Code Red, Sasser, Netsky - really, it's so small that the likelihood that we got hit at all is - well, it's so small that we probably didn't get hit after all!'
When is it going to be bad to understand computers when you work with them?
What a dumb discussion. What a bunch of pussies.
Don't touch me with that thing, its dirty!
Where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah: my first wife.