Big deal. They're called manufacturer's sales reps. Tons of companies do it. Manufacturer's reps occasionally do the same with cat/dog food. Why this is considered a "story", I have no idea.
Why? Windows XP is stable, and every Linux I've tried is buggy enough that I've just given up on bothering with the whole Linux thing. There's really no point to it as far as I'm concerned. Linux has been playing catch-up for 10+ years, and it still hasn't caught up. Put a fork in it, it's done.
1. Your boss is your boss. Unless there's the chance that somebody could be physically hurt, your employer's passwords are NOT yours, no matter how stupid you think your boss is.
2. Assuming that they have wireless on their network, there's no way to find wireless devices, since they can be put inside of locked buildings. Unless your name is "Superman", there's no real way to find exactly where wireless devices are, as far as I know.
Apparently, every Slasdotter's raging hatred of all things Microsoft has also left them with no sense of humor. I thought it was funny as hell. I loved the ancient picture of him from the early 80's that was on his frequent buyer card. Cute and funny. And yes, about as purposeful as any other commercial... you people really need to lighten up.
Bottom line is, secular arguments in science on matters of scientific **ethics** are no more valid than religious ones, as they are just one attempt to establish "what ought we do" which is a philosophical question that parallels the scientific one "what can we do?"
It's very simple. What we "ought" to do is what benefits more people in a greater way. That's pretty simple, and it doesn't require some fairy tale to figure out. You say that things like this can't be decided by the scientific method, but that's bullshit. Stem cell research or no? Very simple: Will the benefits outweigh potential downsides? It's economic, societal, and cultural. To say that religion is required to determine ethics is an argument that holds no water. Top say the belief in an omnipotent invisible man who lives in the sky is required to make ethical decisions is downright insane (and should be treated as such).
Did you really say that? Since when does the validity of a particular religious belief have anything to do with the relevance of a 2000-year-old document? You don't have to share the beliefs of the writers of it to understand that this is an immensely important piece of history.
It's hokum based on hokum. It's the equivalent to finding a second edition of a Harry Potter book in a thousand years. Big friggin' deal. The subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls is most certainly religion, which makes them useful solely from an academic theological standpoint.
My big concern is over the principle that once these are made publicly digitally available, they will be easily tampered with. How are we going to be able to validate the good copies from the publicly tampered ones?
So what? You're talking about a religion that has had its primary texts re-written countless times over the centuries, already. Nobody today can point at any kind of original "Bible". Whether or not these are "accurate" is pretty irrelevant, even if you're somebody who is Christian/Jewish.
My state (NC) decided that my political party (Libertarian) wasn't worth keeping on the ballot, because they arbitrarily change the # of votes that that party has to get to be on the ballot every year. I'm not allowed to vote for the candidates that I want to vote for, hence, I don't vote. The whole system is a complete and total sham, anyway. It's just designed to make people think they have a choice, when in reality, it's all the same system, and the same crap.
It's not worth it for performance. It IS worth it for reliability, though. I'd really like to not to have to worry about my hard drive crashing every year, or every time it bumps something (especially in a laptop). No moving parts is a pretty big deal.
A 20 amp socket, if you're in the US is required for all commercial buildings. You don't have to pay for that. But $600 and a hole in a wall is too much $$ for a server room? That's pretty crazy. One server probably costs more than that. What are you looking for, dry ice and a fan?
Then we need a name for software developers who think that A. What they do is the most important thing for any company and B. They know more than anybody in management.
How smug. A CEO doesn't have to "feel like his job is quantitative". That's ridiculous. A CEO needs to know you're not wasting his time with crap that should be handled by other people, quantitative or not. Approaching any CEO unless you're a VP is likely to get you ignored, no matter what your reasons are. It's kinda' like trying to talk to the President of the US about a problem with your power bill.
Gotta hand it to microsoft, when they lock people out from anything other than their own solution, they go all the way.
Ever try exporting messages from Thunderbird to anything else? I'm trying to do it right now, and oh yeah... you can't. Talk about lock-in. At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator (ie: flat file). Don't start blathering on about some MS lock-in FUD while I'm sitting here browsing Slashdot while I hope that the kludge I found online retrieves my mail out of MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD. At least I know that if I don't like using Outlook, I can export my data in about a dozen different formats.
Google will really be doing well if they can compete with Exchange/Outlook. Right now, that's the big thing that MS has over them that they can't touch. Hell, NOBODY can compete with it right now.
- Completely and totally unrelated to the article you're posting under.
- MS vs. everyone else.
- Suggesting class action lawsuits.
You sir, are a master troll. I give you a 9.0. A 10.0 can be achieved by adding in either some conspiracy theories, and adding some length to the post, and possibly using some "M$"'s.
Hilarious. It's amazing how geeks can be, with such an amazing consistency, so clueless about the basics of how business works.
OK, so some imaginary consortium of for-profit businesses throw in $$ to make a common application. The smallest companies make the relatively largest cash investment, but reap the largest benefits. The largest companies make the smallest cash investments, and reap the tiniest benefits. It would never work (and doesn't in real life, contrary to your assertions otherwise).
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It would be true if PC prices were tripled, and the whole interior of the store was white.
Big deal. They're called manufacturer's sales reps. Tons of companies do it. Manufacturer's reps occasionally do the same with cat/dog food. Why this is considered a "story", I have no idea.
It is an eventuality... an inevitability.
Why? Windows XP is stable, and every Linux I've tried is buggy enough that I've just given up on bothering with the whole Linux thing. There's really no point to it as far as I'm concerned. Linux has been playing catch-up for 10+ years, and it still hasn't caught up. Put a fork in it, it's done.
1. Your boss is your boss. Unless there's the chance that somebody could be physically hurt, your employer's passwords are NOT yours, no matter how stupid you think your boss is.
2. Assuming that they have wireless on their network, there's no way to find wireless devices, since they can be put inside of locked buildings. Unless your name is "Superman", there's no real way to find exactly where wireless devices are, as far as I know.
So, they go through all of this work and expense and come up a cover that is LAME? Wow. Somebody needs to get fired over that cover. Boring.
I find it amazing that people still watch TV. I don't know anybody other than my parents who still watch TV.
I only buy local. If I have a problem, I walk or drive to the store and talk to a human. That, and I support my local economy.
Apparently, every Slasdotter's raging hatred of all things Microsoft has also left them with no sense of humor. I thought it was funny as hell. I loved the ancient picture of him from the early 80's that was on his frequent buyer card. Cute and funny. And yes, about as purposeful as any other commercial... you people really need to lighten up.
Bottom line is, secular arguments in science on matters of scientific **ethics** are no more valid than religious ones, as they are just one attempt to establish "what ought we do" which is a philosophical question that parallels the scientific one "what can we do?"
It's very simple. What we "ought" to do is what benefits more people in a greater way. That's pretty simple, and it doesn't require some fairy tale to figure out. You say that things like this can't be decided by the scientific method, but that's bullshit. Stem cell research or no? Very simple: Will the benefits outweigh potential downsides? It's economic, societal, and cultural. To say that religion is required to determine ethics is an argument that holds no water. Top say the belief in an omnipotent invisible man who lives in the sky is required to make ethical decisions is downright insane (and should be treated as such).
Did you really say that? Since when does the validity of a particular religious belief have anything to do with the relevance of a 2000-year-old document? You don't have to share the beliefs of the writers of it to understand that this is an immensely important piece of history.
It's hokum based on hokum. It's the equivalent to finding a second edition of a Harry Potter book in a thousand years. Big friggin' deal. The subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls is most certainly religion, which makes them useful solely from an academic theological standpoint.
My big concern is over the principle that once these are made publicly digitally available, they will be easily tampered with. How are we going to be able to validate the good copies from the publicly tampered ones?
So what? You're talking about a religion that has had its primary texts re-written countless times over the centuries, already. Nobody today can point at any kind of original "Bible". Whether or not these are "accurate" is pretty irrelevant, even if you're somebody who is Christian/Jewish.
My state (NC) decided that my political party (Libertarian) wasn't worth keeping on the ballot, because they arbitrarily change the # of votes that that party has to get to be on the ballot every year. I'm not allowed to vote for the candidates that I want to vote for, hence, I don't vote. The whole system is a complete and total sham, anyway. It's just designed to make people think they have a choice, when in reality, it's all the same system, and the same crap.
It's not worth it for performance. It IS worth it for reliability, though. I'd really like to not to have to worry about my hard drive crashing every year, or every time it bumps something (especially in a laptop). No moving parts is a pretty big deal.
A 20 amp socket, if you're in the US is required for all commercial buildings. You don't have to pay for that. But $600 and a hole in a wall is too much $$ for a server room? That's pretty crazy. One server probably costs more than that. What are you looking for, dry ice and a fan?
Then we need a name for software developers who think that A. What they do is the most important thing for any company and B. They know more than anybody in management.
How smug. A CEO doesn't have to "feel like his job is quantitative". That's ridiculous. A CEO needs to know you're not wasting his time with crap that should be handled by other people, quantitative or not. Approaching any CEO unless you're a VP is likely to get you ignored, no matter what your reasons are. It's kinda' like trying to talk to the President of the US about a problem with your power bill.
Other species don't kill for fun like humans do.
I was gonna say the same thing. After all, is there a single species on Earth that's anywhere as violent as homo sapiens?
Gotta hand it to microsoft, when they lock people out from anything other than their own solution, they go all the way.
Ever try exporting messages from Thunderbird to anything else? I'm trying to do it right now, and oh yeah... you can't. Talk about lock-in. At least in any MS product that I've ever seen, there's ALWAYS an option to export data out as a lowest common denominator (ie: flat file). Don't start blathering on about some MS lock-in FUD while I'm sitting here browsing Slashdot while I hope that the kludge I found online retrieves my mail out of MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD. At least I know that if I don't like using Outlook, I can export my data in about a dozen different formats.
Google will really be doing well if they can compete with Exchange/Outlook. Right now, that's the big thing that MS has over them that they can't touch. Hell, NOBODY can compete with it right now.
The article states thats the passwords were leaked via a Microsoft desktop OS compromised by a password sniffing Trojan spread via a virus.
I'm looking at the article at http://sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2432225.0.0.php right now, and the word "microsoft" is nowhere on the page. I have no idea where you're getting your information.
- Microsoft's OS and applications are disproportional at a far greater risk of being compromised than any other platform. That is a fact!
According to who, you?
FUD, FUD, and more FUD.
Great troll!
- Completely and totally unrelated to the article you're posting under.
- MS vs. everyone else.
- Suggesting class action lawsuits.
You sir, are a master troll. I give you a 9.0. A 10.0 can be achieved by adding in either some conspiracy theories, and adding some length to the post, and possibly using some "M$"'s.
Can money buy you love?"
It certainly worked for Apple. Why else would people pay huge premiums for their products?
Hilarious. It's amazing how geeks can be, with such an amazing consistency, so clueless about the basics of how business works.
OK, so some imaginary consortium of for-profit businesses throw in $$ to make a common application. The smallest companies make the relatively largest cash investment, but reap the largest benefits. The largest companies make the smallest cash investments, and reap the tiniest benefits. It would never work (and doesn't in real life, contrary to your assertions otherwise).
And the processes of their competitors are better as well, except that their competitors spent $0 to get there. Duh.