mayb mutations from line noise or it's modern equivalent (i'm sure we've all seen borked files from sftp or whatever since then) will one day accidently change the code of a virus just enough to stick in the part of the code that is self aware. programs get bigger every day, with even the smallest of virii being bigger than the average program of twenty years ago by far. maybe when there is a sizeable enough chunk of code and some accidental buffer overflow occurs it finally will become aware. however due to the amount of time, with the million monkeys million typewriters thing, maybe this would eb as slow as the amount of time it takes real evolution. who knows, i'm just blueskying here. any thoughts?
i think you completely missed my point. it's not about enough people turning up to vote now. it may have been the first time bush got elecyed, but he has enough power now to straight out rig it. they even switched to electric voting machines with fucking closed source software on them so they don't even have to be arsed to hide the paper trail.
i can't remember the exact wording, but karl marx said "the people who cast the votes don't have the power, the people who count them do"
i would bet a quid to a penny that those packets sniffers are able to send info to sony somehow.
rootkits, packet sniffers...dear me.
in related news sony announces the decision to change their name to
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i think the "tending to breed out bad ideas over time thing" only works if they count your vote. as it is, you have a dictatorship. and things are only going to get worse. glad i don't live in the USA...
"Whenever you despair over politics, or the news, or video game legislation, remember this:
People die. Usually as they get older. They are replaced by younger people."
hrm, i wish it were so. wonder how the folks from the sixties would feel about todays political climate and voting system (or lack thereof). the same corrupt forces run the world just like they always have.
as The Who said "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
don't get fooled again...
ok, i admit that was a little rude to say the least...i have had a bit of a night on the electric soup if you know what i mean, but the thing that really made my blood boil was this
"every single time, it has been under windows
1) Go look up coincidence"
come on now, if a bunch of scientists were in a lab and kept getting the same results, (different from the control group) time and time again, and one of the scientists said "oh nevermind that, that's just coincidence", what do you think the other scientists would say to him? bear in mind i'm not saying windows hasn't improved a great deal it used to every day before the nt kernel, and i can sometimes go for as long as a week, maybe even a fornight without any major problems....but again i say to you...put these machines under intensive processor heavy loads and they crack eventually. you seem to be comparing windows 98 to windows xp. i'm comparing windows xp to linux. being misunderstood can be very frustrating.
(sorry for the tirade earlier,etc)
listen cocksucker, i'm not using FAT at all, purely ntfs, secondly, if you can't agree to end this dispute like a gentleman fuck you.
i don't call something a coincidence when it happens repeatedly. please do not bother me with your flatulent presence by way of writing again.
"Did anyone learn about Europe from LOTR? Raise your hands, now.."
uh no. maybe because lotr was set in a fictional place called middle earth. tolien may have took english (yorkshire to be precise) sounding names, but they were only loosely based on real places - not actually based on them.
be thankfull i didn't mod you down...i'm assuming that due to your lack of education you are american, so let it slide and decided to reply instead;|
i dual boot on this machine and have for a long time ( i like the hydrogen drum machine on linux, only decent usable piece of music software) and over the years have had a few crashes/ data losses. every single time, it has been under windows and if you would read one of my earlier posts, i said that windows is unstable for anything other than mundane web browsing. which i'm sure is what these 5000 machines are doing, maybe a little excell? i'm sure they aren't running reason. those machines aren't being pushed to do real work.
you seem like a fairly rational fellow, and believe me i have listened to your arguments, and yes i did actually read all of your first post after i replied the first time, but it's honest we are both too headstrong to come to any kind of agreement on this...so lets just agree to disagree eh....it's kinda cool. we both get to think we're right.
see you in another thread,(and yes i know i'm an ass for saying all that after having my last say, so you're welcome to fire back...) but i'll just see you in another thread eh...stay safe, always ski in control;|
for your information mate, i run a windows box, behind a linux firewall. just last week the mofo crashed and BSOD on every boot until a fresh install. it also killed my entire hard drives data (booted from a knoppix cd, that usually lets me back up before the re-install.
this means i have lost all my music that i had recorded. music i have written. beats and basslines i might never recreate (although i know the guitar parts). if it weren'tfor the fact that most music software on linux is not a patch on the windows gear, i would be a full convert.
to understand the amount of time lost to these crashes, to say i am being controlled in talking about it is an understatement.
so fuck off with your fairy tales of a windows that is stable for anything other than just mundane web browsing(and then only when properly protected by a secure OS)
seriously mate...i don't know who you're kidding with this fancy tale of a new unbreakable windows. granted it's come a long way since 98, but it's still an insecure unstable piece of crap
ah i fel better for having got that off my chest. none of my real life friends understand computers so i've had nobody to moan about my data loss to.
that would have made sense if you had said 1+1=5. as it is you are comparing it to something that works and is true but is simply unproven. should have gone with the flat earth theory old boy
"In fact NT's dominance was first felt in the server world, before Linux was doing much more than making Linus Giggle and collect porn via ftp."
i'm sorry mate but i just can't read the rest of your comment through these tears of laughter. for a start, i didn't even mention linux, i mentioned unix which has been kicking windows ass for a long time via the various flavours of bsd. sounds like somebody has a bit of a raw nerve there....oh a few lines later...blah blah... look we all know that the server editions of windows and the desktop editions are the same core parts, please stop making a fool of yourself. i don't care about "back in the day" even if NT was designed as a server system dirst, it's core has been moved to the desktop where we can all see it's stability first hand.
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i know there will be people saying "oh my, running windows, sucks to be you" but if you look past the trollishness of these posts they actually have a point in this case. running windows as anything mission critical is stupid, it's a desktop system at heart, and an unstable one at that. running the bloody stock exchange on it is suicidal. theres always some dick who opens that dodgy email, so if your net is that important run the mission critical servers at least on some flavour of unix
Slashdot Mirror
make sure the dupe at least has pics of these women. even if they are as fat as irc chicks
private irc servers. so obvious i don't know why the question is even asked
leaving a calling card should result in an F grade....go to the back of the class
i'm here to packet and chew gum....and i'm allk out of gum
mayb mutations from line noise or it's modern equivalent (i'm sure we've all seen borked files from sftp or whatever since then) will one day accidently change the code of a virus just enough to stick in the part of the code that is self aware. programs get bigger every day, with even the smallest of virii being bigger than the average program of twenty years ago by far. maybe when there is a sizeable enough chunk of code and some accidental buffer overflow occurs it finally will become aware. however due to the amount of time, with the million monkeys million typewriters thing, maybe this would eb as slow as the amount of time it takes real evolution. who knows, i'm just blueskying here. any thoughts?
i can't believe anyone didn't get that joke, let alone two slashdotters. for shame
i think you completely missed my point. it's not about enough people turning up to vote now. it may have been the first time bush got elecyed, but he has enough power now to straight out rig it. they even switched to electric voting machines with fucking closed source software on them so they don't even have to be arsed to hide the paper trail.
i can't remember the exact wording, but karl marx said "the people who cast the votes don't have the power, the people who count them do"
i would bet a quid to a penny that those packets sniffers are able to send info to sony somehow.
rootkits, packet sniffers...dear me.
in related news sony announces the decision to change their name to
73|-| 50|\|Y 0|2P3|24710|\|
i think the "tending to breed out bad ideas over time thing" only works if they count your vote. as it is, you have a dictatorship. and things are only going to get worse. glad i don't live in the USA...
"Whenever you despair over politics, or the news, or video game legislation, remember this: People die. Usually as they get older. They are replaced by younger people."
hrm, i wish it were so. wonder how the folks from the sixties would feel about todays political climate and voting system (or lack thereof). the same corrupt forces run the world just like they always have.
as The Who said "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
don't get fooled again...
you make a lot of good points there, duly noted and understood. again, sorry for being a dick. see you in another thread, take care yourself
ok, i admit that was a little rude to say the least...i have had a bit of a night on the electric soup if you know what i mean, but the thing that really made my blood boil was this
"every single time, it has been under windows 1) Go look up coincidence"
come on now, if a bunch of scientists were in a lab and kept getting the same results, (different from the control group) time and time again, and one of the scientists said "oh nevermind that, that's just coincidence", what do you think the other scientists would say to him? bear in mind i'm not saying windows hasn't improved a great deal it used to every day before the nt kernel, and i can sometimes go for as long as a week, maybe even a fornight without any major problems....but again i say to you...put these machines under intensive processor heavy loads and they crack eventually. you seem to be comparing windows 98 to windows xp. i'm comparing windows xp to linux. being misunderstood can be very frustrating.
(sorry for the tirade earlier,etc)
listen cocksucker, i'm not using FAT at all, purely ntfs, secondly, if you can't agree to end this dispute like a gentleman fuck you.
i don't call something a coincidence when it happens repeatedly. please do not bother me with your flatulent presence by way of writing again.
"Did anyone learn about Europe from LOTR? Raise your hands, now.." uh no. maybe because lotr was set in a fictional place called middle earth. tolien may have took english (yorkshire to be precise) sounding names, but they were only loosely based on real places - not actually based on them. be thankfull i didn't mod you down...i'm assuming that due to your lack of education you are american, so let it slide and decided to reply instead ;|
i dual boot on this machine and have for a long time ( i like the hydrogen drum machine on linux, only decent usable piece of music software) and over the years have had a few crashes/ data losses. every single time, it has been under windows and if you would read one of my earlier posts, i said that windows is unstable for anything other than mundane web browsing. which i'm sure is what these 5000 machines are doing, maybe a little excell? i'm sure they aren't running reason. those machines aren't being pushed to do real work. ;|
you seem like a fairly rational fellow, and believe me i have listened to your arguments, and yes i did actually read all of your first post after i replied the first time, but it's honest we are both too headstrong to come to any kind of agreement on this...so lets just agree to disagree eh....it's kinda cool. we both get to think we're right.
see you in another thread,(and yes i know i'm an ass for saying all that after having my last say, so you're welcome to fire back...) but i'll just see you in another thread eh...stay safe, always ski in control
for your information mate, i run a windows box, behind a linux firewall. just last week the mofo crashed and BSOD on every boot until a fresh install. it also killed my entire hard drives data (booted from a knoppix cd, that usually lets me back up before the re-install.
this means i have lost all my music that i had recorded. music i have written. beats and basslines i might never recreate (although i know the guitar parts). if it weren'tfor the fact that most music software on linux is not a patch on the windows gear, i would be a full convert.
to understand the amount of time lost to these crashes, to say i am being controlled in talking about it is an understatement.
so fuck off with your fairy tales of a windows that is stable for anything other than just mundane web browsing(and then only when properly protected by a secure OS)
seriously mate...i don't know who you're kidding with this fancy tale of a new unbreakable windows. granted it's come a long way since 98, but it's still an insecure unstable piece of crap
ah i fel better for having got that off my chest. none of my real life friends understand computers so i've had nobody to moan about my data loss to.
that would have made sense if you had said 1+1=5. as it is you are comparing it to something that works and is true but is simply unproven. should have gone with the flat earth theory old boy
if these stupid users opened virus.exe on linux through theitr email, would it be as "locked down" then as it would eb on linux?
puleeze
"In fact NT's dominance was first felt in the server world, before Linux was doing much more than making Linus Giggle and collect porn via ftp." i'm sorry mate but i just can't read the rest of your comment through these tears of laughter. for a start, i didn't even mention linux, i mentioned unix which has been kicking windows ass for a long time via the various flavours of bsd. sounds like somebody has a bit of a raw nerve there....oh a few lines later...blah blah... look we all know that the server editions of windows and the desktop editions are the same core parts, please stop making a fool of yourself. i don't care about "back in the day" even if NT was designed as a server system dirst, it's core has been moved to the desktop where we can all see it's stability first hand.
ACCESS VIOLATION IN 0x0000789789
i know there will be people saying "oh my, running windows, sucks to be you" but if you look past the trollishness of these posts they actually have a point in this case. running windows as anything mission critical is stupid, it's a desktop system at heart, and an unstable one at that. running the bloody stock exchange on it is suicidal. theres always some dick who opens that dodgy email, so if your net is that important run the mission critical servers at least on some flavour of unix
heh i noticed some people mention bofh earlier and couldn't help but pay homage to mr travaglia
" The IRS must have had to switch from PC's to Macs just for Gates."
he forgot to say ZING! at the end
what was your username again? *clickety click*
... in england, and has been for ages.
honestly officer grimes, i've just left me thieves guild card at home!
doh. oh well at least both work