"It's like SCO's smear campaign has been enshrined there, which is a real distortion of Groklaw's place in history. Neither Lyons's smears or O'Gara's have any place there"
What she would like is the Wikipedia not be about the smear campaign but about the legalities of the issues. It's bit like what you and your chum are trying to do here, piss all over Groklaw. For instance if some anonymous coward came to my house and pissed in the hall, would I be guilty of censorship, if attempted to clean it up.
"As a supporter and advocate of open source software, and more importantly, the principle of openness"
I totally believe you man, and you didn't come here to piss all over Groklaw, even though that is the impression any disinterested observer would have from reading the above..:)
I notice in that in that example of ad hominem off-topic personal abuse you managed to not once address the contents of Groklaw viz-a-viz the legal implications of the SCO case and other attacks on the Open Source industry.
As an advocate of the 'principle of openness', are you also in favor of a 'reporter', specifically Maureen O'Gara (a known MS shill) arriving at her home, taking pictures and posting irrelevant personal information regarding Jones' religious affiliation?
Folks: he's just repeating some old PJ-censors_Groklaw fud. Notice how they take special care to not actually address the legal arguments - just go straight for the personal abuse. Always a sure sign of a shill...
"Christopher Aragon had recently run an Orange County leasing company.. Butler gave him a shopping list of equipment he'd need to get started, including a new laptop, military-grade crypto, and an antenna"
The worlds greatest hacker asks a truck leaser for 'military-grade' crypto.. enough from the school-of-bad-journalism..
Is this the same Kevin Poulsen that Adrian Lamo ran into..
The inside story.. from the school of very bad faction..
"The heat in Max Butler's safe house was nearly unbearable.. The electric bill was so high that the apartment manager suspected Butler of operating a hydroponic dope farm"
'This story, like the rest of this article, has been reconstructed using court documents and conversations with friends and associates; Butler declined to be interviewed'
In the hands of a competent author, this style can contribute something to the story. In the hands of lesser writers, it's painful to try and read..
The Fedederal Reserve bank announces that there's going to be an upturn in the market, if everyone believes them then they go on a buying spree and the index goes up. If no one believes the Fed then they go on a selling spree and the index tanks - and they fire Alan Greenspan and hire on a new head of the the Fed..
'Three U.K. hospitals were forced to shut down their networks last month after a malware outbreak infiltrated their systems.. Prince says he worries that eventually, human lives could be affected by a cyberattack like that of those hospitals or attacks on national infrastructures such as utilities. "It will happen at some point," he says'
Have these security professionals ever considered using computers that don't get malware ?
"Maybe I have to read the book to get a better picture, it is possible that the article blows things out of proportion. So, I thought that the whole "deal" about the Cell are the SPE's. The Xenon CPU that powers the Xbox 360 is just a custom-made triple core PowerPC", Ecuador
Well unless you know different we'll just have to take the points raised in the article as accurate. And if the CELL was just a custom-made core then why the need to commit $400 million over five years?
"I agree here as well, there is nothing from the Cell design which went into the Microsoft PowerPC core", IamTheRealMike
"Xenon.. is based on IBM's PowerPC instruction set architecture, consisting of three independent cores on a single die"
"Windows Solitaire.. proved useful in familiarizing them with the use of a mouse, such as the drag-and-drop technique required for moving cards"
Do you have any citations for that, apart from Wikipedia that is, who are happy to accept URLS as valid citations, who may link to slashdot, who may link to Wikipedia, which would end up in...
"anything that helps a business run pretty much helps the military run"
Then who not ban the importation of their OIL, or how about invading Iran and liberating the OIL and then selling it back to them just like Bush did in Iraq. Only first they'll have to talk up the bogus WMD scare..
Apart from HP there are dozens of US companies who utilize the same methods of bypassing the pretend ban. Now what would be more believable was if the US banned the importation of Iranian OIL and locked up some OIL executives..
A tech callout that turned out to be a borked mouse, the old fashioned ones with the ball drive wheels. I replaced it with an optic drive one. Gets a very angry call the next day as this mouse was also broken. Second callout, it turns out the the old fart had put a translucent glass tile under the mouse, so as to stop it scratching his desk.. -------
Or the fella that kept getting a busy signal when he tried to dial in through a modem. Turned out he was trying to phone his own number.. -----
Caller: I can't get on the Internet
Me: Did you get the Install CD we sent you in the post?
Caller: Yes
Me: And where is it?
Caller: it's upstairs in the bedroom, in a drawer..
"Even if I WANTED to use tree structured semantic filenames I couldn't due to Filesystem path / name limits e.g. things like the following quickly get you beyond the 128 character limit:"
Couldn't agree more, whatever happened to the database file system they were going to introduce in Longhorn in 2004, something similar to what was in BeOS since 1996..
So, I got PHORM monitoring my browsing habits and Audioscrobble monitoring what I listen to. Does anyone here, apart from me, find that just a little bit creepy..
'Without privacy, there cannot be freedom. And without freedom, there cannot be personal or social growth'
"The action, on behalf of Comcast Corp. customer Cheryl Corralejo"
I wonder just who she is fronting for? reading on..:)
"the claim is nearly identical to one filed on behalf of Missouri consumer Matthew Meeds.. one of the attorneys in the California case also filed the Meeds case"
Aw, go on.. I think it's understandable for Comcast to want to rent boxes as, if the end-users buy directly from the media providers, what's in it for Comcast. Streaming Media is a huge hog of bandwidth, as the ISPs in the UK are discovering with the iPlayer and other services. The ISPs and the content providers are currently in disagreement as to who should pay to upgrade the network infrastructure..
"I fell into the trap of doing computer maintenance for family, and finally I got tired and told my mom I'd install Mandrake on her machine. She said okay as long as it worked like Windows. Sure I said, you'll see...
What prompted her and you for the change-over. Why did you pick Mandrake, have you ever installed a Linux distro before or since?
"the program to remove red eyes.. doesn't work.. neither does my cliparts utility, and the fun online postcard programs my friends sent me by email"
I'm sure red-eye-reduction was available on Mandrake, even wayBack. What was the name (and version) of the prog she originally used to remove red-eye. Do you seriously expect us to believe you borked a Working machine and never checked that the data from the old OS would be readable on the new. Incidentally how did you save the data files and why didn't you dual boot ?
"She chose Windows, never once called me for support anymore, and that was it"
It's inexplicable that someone hasn't had a problem with Windows in several years, not even a single teeny-weensy virus from all those fun online postcard programs she gets by email. Incidentally what postcards are you referring to ?
The last usable Windows; without going on a training course, was Windows 95B. The current incarnations have too much eye-candy and would be confusing to your grandmother. There doesn't seem to be any advance on usability since, XtreeGOLD, EudoraMail and Netscape running under Digital Research DOS 6.22.
Slashdot Mirror
169 comments so far and I've read nothing of value so far, if only Groklaw was back we could actually find out something relevant about the case ..
"It's like SCO's smear campaign has been enshrined there, which is a real distortion of Groklaw's place in history. Neither Lyons's smears or O'Gara's have any place there"
What she would like is the Wikipedia not be about the smear campaign but about the legalities of the issues. It's bit like what you and your chum are trying to do here, piss all over Groklaw. For instance if some anonymous coward came to my house and pissed in the hall, would I be guilty of censorship, if attempted to clean it up.
"As a supporter and advocate of open source software, and more importantly, the principle of openness"
.. :)
...
I totally believe you man, and you didn't come here to piss all over Groklaw, even though that is the impression any disinterested observer would have from reading the above
I notice in that in that example of ad hominem off-topic personal abuse you managed to not once address the contents of Groklaw viz-a-viz the legal implications of the SCO case and other attacks on the Open Source industry.
As an advocate of the 'principle of openness', are you also in favor of a 'reporter', specifically Maureen O'Gara (a known MS shill) arriving at her home, taking pictures and posting irrelevant personal information regarding Jones' religious affiliation?
Folks: he's just repeating some old PJ-censors_Groklaw fud. Notice how they take special care to not actually address the legal arguments - just go straight for the personal abuse. Always a sure sign of a shill
"Christopher Aragon had recently run an Orange County leasing company .. Butler gave him a shopping list of equipment he'd need to get started, including a new laptop, military-grade crypto, and an antenna"
.. enough from the school-of-bad-journalism ..
..
The worlds greatest hacker asks a truck leaser for 'military-grade' crypto
Is this the same Kevin Poulsen that Adrian Lamo ran into
The inside story .. from the school of very bad faction ..
.. The electric bill was so high that the apartment manager suspected Butler of operating a hydroponic dope farm"
..
"The heat in Max Butler's safe house was nearly unbearable
'This story, like the rest of this article, has been reconstructed using court documents and conversations with friends and associates; Butler declined to be interviewed'
In the hands of a competent author, this style can contribute something to the story. In the hands of lesser writers, it's painful to try and read
The Fedederal Reserve bank announces that there's going to be an upturn in the market, if everyone believes them then they go on a buying spree and the index goes up. If no one believes the Fed then they go on a selling spree and the index tanks - and they fire Alan Greenspan and hire on a new head of the the Fed ..
'Three U.K. hospitals were forced to shut down their networks last month after a malware outbreak infiltrated their systems .. Prince says he worries that eventually, human lives could be affected by a cyberattack like that of those hospitals or attacks on national infrastructures such as utilities. "It will happen at some point," he says'
Have these security professionals ever considered using computers that don't get malware ?
Anti-virus, Anti-phishing, Spyware
"nobody now remembers who introduced the small waved underlines .. tutorialized tasks .. the ribbon"
WordPerfect highlights poor grammar or incorrect word usage with a wavy blue underline
Apple Guide Isn't Help
tabbed toolbars or the Component palette as it was called in Delphi
Would it KILL you to to bring me a friggin' STRAW???
What did the log files say ..
clear private data on close ..
"Maybe I have to read the book to get a better picture, it is possible that the article blows things out of proportion. So, I thought that the whole "deal" about the Cell are the SPE's. The Xenon CPU that powers the Xbox 360 is just a custom-made triple core PowerPC", Ecuador
.. is based on IBM's PowerPC instruction set architecture, consisting of three independent cores on a single die"
Well unless you know different we'll just have to take the points raised in the article as accurate. And if the CELL was just a custom-made core then why the need to commit $400 million over five years?
"I agree here as well, there is nothing from the Cell design which went into the Microsoft PowerPC core", IamTheRealMike
"Xenon
"Windows Solitaire .. proved useful in familiarizing them with the use of a mouse, such as the drag-and-drop technique required for moving cards"
...
Do you have any citations for that, apart from Wikipedia that is, who are happy to accept URLS as valid citations, who may link to slashdot, who may link to Wikipedia, which would end up in
"anything that helps a business run pretty much helps the military run"
..
Then who not ban the importation of their OIL, or how about invading Iran and liberating the OIL and then selling it back to them just like Bush did in Iraq. Only first they'll have to talk up the bogus WMD scare
Apart from HP there are dozens of US companies who utilize the same methods of bypassing the pretend ban. Now what would be more believable was if the US banned the importation of Iranian OIL and locked up some OIL executives ..
A tech callout that turned out to be a borked mouse, the old fashioned ones with the ball drive wheels. I replaced it with an optic drive one. Gets a very angry call the next day as this mouse was also broken. Second callout, it turns out the the old fart had put a translucent glass tile under the mouse, so as to stop it scratching his desk ..
-------
Or the fella that kept getting a busy signal when he tried to dial in through a modem. Turned out he was trying to phone his own number ..
-----
Caller: I can't get on the Internet
Me: Did you get the Install CD we sent you in the post?
Caller: Yes
Me: And where is it?
Caller: it's upstairs in the bedroom, in a drawer ..
"the soon-to-be-disbanded Bush / Cheney White House threatens to overload the National Archives with close to 100 Terabytes of data"
Does that include the lost emails, the ones that were on the non-existent backup tapes ?
http://snipurl.com/978kj
"Even if I WANTED to use tree structured semantic filenames I couldn't due to Filesystem path / name limits e.g. things like the following quickly get you beyond the 128 character limit:"
..
Couldn't agree more, whatever happened to the database file system they were going to introduce in Longhorn in 2004, something similar to what was in BeOS since 1996
"Does anyone know of a good system for filtering spam in general messages?"
..
Yea, design an email system that is immune to spam and make the ISPs responsible for blocking spam, phishing and such attacks
This will only work if they make un-metered applications illegal and move OS functionality to the cloud and of course patent cloud computing ..
So, I got PHORM monitoring my browsing habits and Audioscrobble monitoring what I listen to. Does anyone here, apart from me, find that just a little bit creepy ..
'Without privacy, there cannot be freedom. And without freedom, there cannot be personal or social growth'
"The action, on behalf of Comcast Corp. customer Cheryl Corralejo"
.. :)
.. one of the attorneys in the California case also filed the Meeds case"
.. I think it's understandable for Comcast to want to rent boxes as, if the end-users buy directly from the media providers, what's in it for Comcast. Streaming Media is a huge hog of bandwidth, as the ISPs in the UK are discovering with the iPlayer and other services. The ISPs and the content providers are currently in disagreement as to who should pay to upgrade the network infrastructure ..
I wonder just who she is fronting for? reading on
"the claim is nearly identical to one filed on behalf of Missouri consumer Matthew Meeds
Aw, go on
"I fell into the trap of doing computer maintenance for family, and finally I got tired and told my mom I'd install Mandrake on her machine. She said okay as long as it worked like Windows. Sure I said, you'll see...
.. doesn't work .. neither does my cliparts utility, and the fun online postcard programs my friends sent me by email"
What prompted her and you for the change-over. Why did you pick Mandrake, have you ever installed a Linux distro before or since? "the program to remove red eyes
I'm sure red-eye-reduction was available on Mandrake, even wayBack. What was the name (and version) of the prog she originally used to remove red-eye. Do you seriously expect us to believe you borked a Working machine and never checked that the data from the old OS would be readable on the new. Incidentally how did you save the data files and why didn't you dual boot ?
"She chose Windows, never once called me for support anymore, and that was it"
It's inexplicable that someone hasn't had a problem with Windows in several years, not even a single teeny-weensy virus from all those fun online postcard programs she gets by email. Incidentally what postcards are you referring to ?
The last usable Windows; without going on a training course, was Windows 95B. The current incarnations have too much eye-candy and would be confusing to your grandmother. There doesn't seem to be any advance on usability since, XtreeGOLD, EudoraMail and Netscape running under Digital Research DOS 6.22.