Perhaps you'll encounter another downside once you discover you're running a spam trojan in the background. He doesn't provide source code, so how can you possibly trust it, especially since it's "free"? Are you going to reverse-assemble the binary to analyze it? It's people like you running unknown binaries who make life for the rest of us miserable with spam (and probably your own life too as your computer gets bogged down with adware and spyware).
Nope...I'm not that stupid. I can't see the code, but if you understood the Windows API you'd realize that I can install system hooks.
If any program trys to do anything bad to my computer, I get a dialog box warning me.
It was a joke, get it? Humor? It can't be redundant because I wrote it. I suppose it's pretty funny anyone could believe Bill Gates really wrote that. I am so sick of getting my posts modded down as "redundant" because nobody bothered reading more than the first line.
Heh, I just got that email this morning. Here it is, in case the article gets Slashdotted:
Hello Everyone, And thank you for signing up for my Beta Email Tracking Application or (BETA) for short. My name is Bill Gates. Here at Microsoft we have just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) address log book database.
We felt that now would be a good time to alert you to the clear and ever present danger that so called "free" software poses to your company. You may have seen this software recently featured in in such devious publications as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In fact, Open source is just a methodology for licensing and/or developing software - that may or may not be interoperable. Here at Microsoft, you can depend on all our software being interoperable. Except in cases of competing products, but, sheesh, you didn't want to use cheap not-interoperable software anyway.
Additionally, the open source development approach encourages the creation of many permutations of the same type of software application, which could add implementation and testing overhead to interoperability efforts. When many people create the same product, you can't possibly expect the strongest to survive!! Where do the kids get these crazy ideas?
Welcome to the real world, baby! This is Microsoft-land! Uh, anyway, did you know that their stupid Emacs program can't even cut and paste?! Screw that! I pressed Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for hours. Idiot longhairs!!
Remember, interoperability is more pragmatic than many other approaches, and helps you bring heterogeneous technologies together while reducing costs.
Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 CEOS, everyone on the list will receive $1000 and a beta copy of AntiSpyware at my expense.
Enjoy.
Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by email with further instructions once this email has reached 1000 people.
Your friend, Bill Gates & The Microsoft Development Team.
Spamming someone's personal information on an extremely popular website probably deserves some jail time as well.
Newsbreak! This is a free country, and the Seattle courthouse's address is NOT personal information. It's easy to obtain, publicly available, and exists so that citizens can express their opinions.
From the article: The Internet "has created a dark hole, a dungeon if you will, for people who have mental illnesses or people who are lonely," Pechman said.
Well, gee, welcome to Slashdot!! ; )
On a more serious note, I'm not sure our judges should really be handing out extra-light sentences to people they believe are deranged. SAT classes? Scary stuff. This seems like a slap on the wrist for someone who caused such a tremendous amount of damage. It sets a bad example for other script kiddies.
I don't know that it makes any difference, but if anyone wants to express their outrage in the "real world", here's her address:
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman
U.S. District Court
U.S. Courthouse
1010 Fifth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
The company warns customers not to use it even on a primary development computer, with there being every likelihood of bugs and a pretty good chance developers will want to reinstall their system once they're done using the Avalon preview.
If Microsoft thinks it's that buggy, I don't think I wanna see it yet.
What really gets me down is the time I spent reading Charles Petzold's book on Win32 programming. 6 months of headscratching, all for nothing. I couldn't even sleep until the brain damage was complete.
I run Ad-Aware once in a while and way pretty sure I didn't have any spyware. No such luck...Microsoft AntiSpyware apparently classifys eMule *and* TightVNC as spyware! I think I'll stick with Ad-Aware.
O'Brien: And right now 9 people are being fired.
Gates: hahahahaha
O'Brien: Digital fired...wireless...there's no connection. That's the beauty of it. You don't need a firewall or...I don't know what I'm talking about.
Gates: Okay.
O'Brien: I'm a monkey. Alright we'll get this going I think. should we start? you ready to go?
Okay, the first photo here is you picking me up at the airport. But that was...are we seeing these at all?
Gates: No, I don't think we are...
O'Brien: No? I don't think we are.
Gates: That's the problem when you have the wrong remote control. It's a good thing you only have one through.
O'Brien (looking baffled): Yeah...that's good. Well, is anyone going to do anything or should we just move on? Did I mention there's gambling in this town, Las Vegas? Feel free to hit the tables. You can come back when we get this thing working!
This is followed by much laughter and Bill quickly changing the subject. Ah, the wonders of only having *one* remote....
LOGO is waaaaay too turtle-centric. If you really want to screw up your kid's brain, teach the 'em BASIC. I don't mean Visual Basic, either. QBASIC is the only way to go. If they learn that, they'll be stuck drinking Mountain Dew forever. ; )
I got started using DOS on my dad's 386 "lunchbox" computer when I was 5 or 6. My dad taught me all the important commands, like "cd", "mkdir", "del", "format" (that one was *really* fun), "edit", and "cp". He was very patient, and even brought home PC World from his office each month, which was much better than it is now.
DOS is (almost) gone now, but I suspect the GNU tools & BASH might be be best for kids just getting into computers. Forget Windows...they'll just use IM & surf the web. Java is far to high level, and C++ is too complicated. A few years messing around with gcc and Dr. Dobb's journal should do the trick.
I can't believe this is being modded informative! Hello, this was a *joke*. Get it? Ham, kosher? Ham...kosher? Maybe the FCC really does need to dumb their testing down.
Seriously though, I suspect ham radio will be around for a long, long time. When something bad happens, the Internet isn't always going to be available, and cell phones often don't work. I'm glad I got my license, anyway. ; )
Actually, I don't download music illegally. The hypocrisy of doing it would suck.
I have had my share of spyware before, though. There should be no mercy for the evil morons that spread that stuff.
Besides, don't I have a legal right to "illegally" download music I already own? What if one of my CDs starts skipping? Can't I download the mp3s without breaking the law? Spyware is spyware. It should be illegal, period.
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Perhaps you'll encounter another downside once you discover you're running a spam trojan in the background. He doesn't provide source code, so how can you possibly trust it, especially since it's "free"? Are you going to reverse-assemble the binary to analyze it? It's people like you running unknown binaries who make life for the rest of us miserable with spam (and probably your own life too as your computer gets bogged down with adware and spyware).
Nope...I'm not that stupid. I can't see the code, but if you understood the Windows API you'd realize that I can install system hooks.
If any program trys to do anything bad to my computer, I get a dialog box warning me.
Thanks...cool program! The only downside is that I now have 16 icons in my system tray. ;- )
It was a joke, get it? Humor? It can't be redundant because I wrote it. I suppose it's pretty funny anyone could believe Bill Gates really wrote that. I am so sick of getting my posts modded down as "redundant" because nobody bothered reading more than the first line.
even worse, i'd REALLY like to know how to disable this questionable feature under windows!
No kidding, that thing is a pain. I just paste into notepad, and then cut and paste it where it needs to go.
I have never understoond why I would want a document filled with different fonts and colors. Doesn't everyone want *all* their text consistant?
Spamming someone's personal information on an extremely popular website probably deserves some jail time as well.
Newsbreak! This is a free country, and the Seattle courthouse's address is NOT personal information. It's easy to obtain, publicly available, and exists so that citizens can express their opinions.
From the article: The Internet "has created a dark hole, a dungeon if you will, for people who have mental illnesses or people who are lonely," Pechman said.
Well, gee, welcome to Slashdot!! ; )
On a more serious note, I'm not sure our judges should really be handing out extra-light sentences to people they believe are deranged. SAT classes? Scary stuff. This seems like a slap on the wrist for someone who caused such a tremendous amount of damage. It sets a bad example for other script kiddies.
I don't know that it makes any difference, but if anyone wants to express their outrage in the "real world", here's her address:
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman
U.S. District Court
U.S. Courthouse
1010 Fifth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
When Kulongoski isn't tirelessly defending free software, he tours Iraq to sample their ice cream.
A hero if ever there was one.
I live here, you insensitive clod!
If you use 802.11b, your router is probably blocking the ports that BitTorrent uses.
I only got ~3KBps until I forwarded all those ports to my computer. Now I get 275KB/second easy.
Search google for "bittorent ports".
From the article...
The company warns customers not to use it even on a primary development computer, with there being every likelihood of bugs and a pretty good chance developers will want to reinstall their system once they're done using the Avalon preview.
If Microsoft thinks it's that buggy, I don't think I wanna see it yet.
What really gets me down is the time I spent reading Charles Petzold's book on Win32 programming. 6 months of headscratching, all for nothing. I couldn't even sleep until the brain damage was complete.
Now I have to do the whole freaking thing over...
They must hate us more than we hate them.
This is a bad thing?
I can feel the Internet's collective IQ rising...
I worked at Stream last summer...believe me, the QA people listen to lots of your calls.
Being evil to the customer is a surefire way to get fired.
Isn't this article a dupe from last week?
I run Ad-Aware once in a while and way pretty sure I didn't have any spyware. No such luck...Microsoft AntiSpyware apparently classifys eMule *and* TightVNC as spyware! I think I'll stick with Ad-Aware.
Minute 26...
O'Brien: And right now 9 people are being fired.
Gates: hahahahaha
O'Brien: Digital fired...wireless...there's no connection. That's the beauty of it. You don't need a firewall or...I don't know what I'm talking about.
Gates: Okay.
O'Brien: I'm a monkey. Alright we'll get this going I think. should we start? you ready to go? Okay, the first photo here is you picking me up at the airport. But that was...are we seeing these at all?
Gates: No, I don't think we are...
O'Brien: No? I don't think we are.
Gates: That's the problem when you have the wrong remote control. It's a good thing you only have one through.
O'Brien (looking baffled): Yeah...that's good. Well, is anyone going to do anything or should we just move on? Did I mention there's gambling in this town, Las Vegas? Feel free to hit the tables. You can come back when we get this thing working!
This is followed by much laughter and Bill quickly changing the subject. Ah, the wonders of only having *one* remote....
If the video still works, Conan O'Brian does some hilarious stand-up badmouthing Gates at minute 7. Skip the garbage before that.
LOGO is waaaaay too turtle-centric. If you really want to screw up your kid's brain, teach the 'em BASIC. I don't mean Visual Basic, either. QBASIC is the only way to go. If they learn that, they'll be stuck drinking Mountain Dew forever. ; )
I got started using DOS on my dad's 386 "lunchbox" computer when I was 5 or 6. My dad taught me all the important commands, like "cd", "mkdir", "del", "format" (that one was *really* fun), "edit", and "cp". He was very patient, and even brought home PC World from his office each month, which was much better than it is now.
DOS is (almost) gone now, but I suspect the GNU tools & BASH might be be best for kids just getting into computers. Forget Windows...they'll just use IM & surf the web. Java is far to high level, and C++ is too complicated. A few years messing around with gcc and Dr. Dobb's journal should do the trick.
They are not kosher.
I can't believe this is being modded informative! Hello, this was a *joke*. Get it? Ham, kosher? Ham...kosher? Maybe the FCC really does need to dumb their testing down.
Seriously though, I suspect ham radio will be around for a long, long time. When something bad happens, the Internet isn't always going to be available, and cell phones often don't work. I'm glad I got my license, anyway. ; )
TNX, 73.
Actually, I don't download music illegally. The hypocrisy of doing it would suck.
I have had my share of spyware before, though. There should be no mercy for the evil morons that spread that stuff.
Besides, don't I have a legal right to "illegally" download music I already own? What if one of my CDs starts skipping? Can't I download the mp3s without breaking the law? Spyware is spyware. It should be illegal, period.
The RIAA should be fined millions for their infected WMA files.
You are completely right.
Whatever people say about big businesses, it's still easier to trust Amazon.com with a donation than it is to trust the government with anything.
How do you explain it to Joe Sixpack?
There's a pretty good explanation over at Wikipedia, too.
Tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damnages to people who can't afford a meal a day? And you say that's wonderful?
You *SICK* bastard.
Good gosh, you can't be serious, can you? It was a reference to Arthur Clarke's greatest movie ever, which you obviously never watched.
And besides, what I meant is that I'm glad he's okay.
I knew something wonderful was going to happen.