No joke, I wish my mod points hadn't expired. This really is some twisted shit. This seems par for the course lately from Wired. They have been publishing absolute garbage lately. Air Force blocks blocks and other sites and suddenlty something that is an industry best practice for security becomes censorship?
I also noticed that the people bitching about Jobs were "former" employees. Well holy shit...someone who left or was fired is going to bitch about their former boss for some media facetime? This is a 5 page article?!
And maybe I didn't read enough, but "micromanaging" has nothing to do with demanding exacting detail from the output. Anyone who calls that micromanaging has NEVER been micromanaged and its an insult to anyone who has suffered through a real micromanaging boss.
He didn't leave a number, but there are plenty of ways to infect those machines with one click, they are called exploits. Local are even more common than remote, and no OS to date has exactly been safe from that. Other than that, you might also point out that the only Windows OS that makes you run as "fucking ADMIN" are the home versions. So, I am going to go out on a limb and guess this guy has never worked in a real environment because you will pretty much have to support some Windows boxes regardless of your home OS. So...I will correct you in that you should not explain all of this stuff, rather, your response should have been "Leave your mother's basement, get a job, and quit using pirated versions of the home variants of Windows so you can get a clue". That is all:)
Funny... Audio Home Recording Act made making copies of CDs legal.
And oh yes...it CAN be illegal for them to sell for $15 each. It is called price fixing and they have been found guilty of it already. Their punishment was to give thousands of copies of CDs that noone was purchasing to libraries. I can't imagine that the wouldn't keep that up...offloading crap to clean their stock out AND having it count against a settlement, shit that is almost win win for them. There is no defense for these pieces of shit, please stop trying to defend them.
Funny how this is a one way argument. When MS users try to use this line of logic it gets torn to ribbons, when an OSS supporter uses the same it gets +5 Interesting
If your spirituality interferes with your scietnific method either your scientific method is flawed. They have nothing to do with eachother, and if your scientific method interacts with your spirituality in a way that causes conflict then your understanding of the scientific method is wrong.
The idea that you can prove/disprove God or anything of the sort with science is laughable at best. You start the problem by defining God as an omnipotent being outside of human understanding and existance creating power. Then you get the fundies and athiests to argue endlessly how you can use science to prove or disprove something that by definition exists outside the constraits of science. It shows an equal misunderstanding of science on both sides and a horrible application of basic logic.
Terrorist sympathisers like you make me sick. The RIAA and MPAA have clearly explained how this theft supports terrorists. Additionally, they have also have clearly explained how this problem is more important than even bank robberies and murder. Their large penalty lawsuits and their reasonable attempts at settlements help keep keep those funds in the American economy and away from terrorist organizations.
I can't believe a closet racist like you would act like he is the only well educated charismatic black man. Just because they don't get face time on national TV doesn't mean there aren't tons of minorities that are rather successful in our nation. That mentality is what lead people to say "Wow, he really is articulate" when talking about Colon Powell. Of course he is articulate, he is an educated man. Did the media really expect him to come out with gold chains "Yo, yo, yo, wuzzup my nigga's, we is gunna drop the bizomb on them towelhead bitches!"?.
There are tons of educated and charismatic minorities. I have had the pleasure to meet and work with many. Its assholes that think they are some kind of special exception to the rule that fuck it up for everyone else. The key difference is that regardless of background they had the drive to get off their asses and succeed. MLK wasn't special because he was black, he was special because he was a driven human being with a "dream". There are very few people of his caliber regardless of race and it is a damned shame that people get so hung up on the fact that he was black.
Clinton IS a white candidate. She isn't 'the' white candidate because many of the others are white. Obama is the black candidate because no other candidates are black. As I have said elsewhere, when you make nonsense complaints about this you show that despite your "PC" attitude you are supporting racism just as much by making an issue of "black" or "white" mean anything more than skin tone. Why is "he is the black candidate" any different than "she is the female candidate". What about "that redhead kid", boy that sounds pretty racist against Irish now doesn't it...freaking nonsense.
Given that PC was invented by braindead liberals I find it amusing that you would say a braindead conservative is the one that complains about it. (Braindead conservatives have much better things to do like force evolution as science). PC IS complete nonsense. Not being an asshole is not the same thing as not being PC. See, you can ignore this PC bullshit and still not be an asshole to your fellow citizens.
I think he is black because of skin color. Saying he is black has nothing to do with judging him unless you are associating his blackness with anything other than his skin. In fact, your "black blood" thing makes me wonder about you doing that very thing. Blood is pretty much universally the same color regardless of ethnicity while skin is not.
I mean seriously...go out and say "I bet that white guy is going to beat Hillary" and NOONE will think you are talking about Obama. As far as I am concerned "black man" or "redheaded girl" are about on par using physical characteristics to identify an individual. It has got shit to do with "how black you are" or "how white you are" and as soon as you make a comment like that you reveal that blackness or whiteness mean more to you than just skin color.
You pirates are all the same. You can't justify your crimes with "I want to make backups" or any of this nonsense about transfering. You didn't buy the content of the DVD, you bought content for use in a DVD player. That means you need to pay up again if you want to watch it on a iPod because you didn't purchase content for use in an iPod. Don't you know that making backups and transfering content supports terrorism? People like you are how 9/11 happened! Making copies of movies and music costs this country more than all of the bank robberies and should justify its own federal enforcement branch.
I hope the RIAA/MPAA throw you in Gitmo with all of the other terrorists for putting America in such danger!
(excuse the wording)? What the hell? This is what is wrong with America. I swear to God I am so sick of this political correct cry baby crap. He is black, call him black. I am white, why the hell is it perfectly acceptable to call me white instead of "Irish-American" or some other hypenated nonsense, but its a big deal to call a black guy black. Why the hell would you need to be excused for calling him black?
Lets put this stupid liberal guilt shit to rest. A black man has been tearing up the campaign trail and looking like a possible win on the Democrat side if not the whole race for the top. Can we PLEASE get over this sensitivity crap. I think having a black man with a pretty viable shot at the oval office pretty much means that the whole slavery thing is long over. It's time to quit the apologizing.
Stunningly ironic is that the party that goes on about those "poor minorities that need our help" has a black man making a damned good run. Seems kinda counter to the nonsense about the minorities need our help and handouts.
You all realize that we have to survive for a long long time before this is a threat to us. I am reasonably confident that we will kill ourselves off one way or another LONG before this happens to us. Being worried about this seems very optimistic.
Christ I can't believe you people. Bitch and moan about insecure this or insecure that and when the military tries to secure their network people cry foul. For fucks sake it is a military network, people shouldn't be surfing the web to random places not needed for official business. They can go home and surf wherever they want, they just can't do it using governmetn assets. I mean what the hell, lets all get together and cry the government wastes our tax dollars, and then when they do something that would stop that (people wasting time and bandwidth) we all get together and cry louder. This is such bullshit and just another dumb excuse to cry about the military.
Except you are misapplying "essential" the sense that he is describing some liberties as essential and others as nonessential. Liberty itself is essential is the point. The idea that you can qualify some as nonessential is exactly what leads to the big brother state of "it is better that we watch all of you to keep you safe" nonsense. So you are grossly misapplying the words to twist it into a justification for exactly the opposite of what he said.
Oh...and you are right to a degree, driving on roads is a privlidge the key being on the roads. The fact that they are nice paved roads is certainly a privlidge that we have purchased through our taxes. The problem is traveling about as I see fit how I see fit is actually more of a liberty issue. The fact that we are willing to follow a set of rules in that traveling is a matter of convenience and cooperation. In fact, my right is to travel how and where I want, it is through collective cooperation that we give up this part of this right to make it a bit better and more convenient for everyone.
What, you mean China is bad?! Say it ain't so! I mean you can't get Most Favored Trade Nation status by being a bad guy! Right? I mean, I think all those toxic things coming out of China are all just scaremonger lies, you can't keep MFTN status if you are shipping toxic goods! Right? I mean come on, the Islamofacists are the real threat, they are a highly trained and organized bunch with huge amounts of wealth backing them! They are the real threat!
Lessons Learned.
1. Money is supreme. Trade with China involves lots of profits. Middle East involves lots of profits for non American companies because we don't hold all the oil cards.
2. The boogeyman is much better at scaring the American people into handing over all their freedoms for protection. China has a rapidly expanding military and is a superpower...they aren't going to be sneaking in and hijacking planes.
3. People are exceedingly stupid. They worry about shit like "terror free gas" so they aren't funding extremists, but ignore the fact that China is still commieland and ignore the huge percentage of money from chinese exports goes directly to the chinese military.
4. Last but not least. Religion justifies hate. A predominately Christian nation is locked in with a group of Islamic fundamentalists while ignoring a predominately Buddhist nation? Is anyone surprised? I mean honestly...how often do you see Buddhists starting religious battles?
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Not very hard to understand. If you are going to let your fear control you, please move away and stop supporting making my country worse.
Go read about the horrific things the intelligence community did during the Cold War even here in the US. Then tell me privacy is overrated when you make it to a government watch list for a "crime" that is only defined in secret laws.
I see the haha tag. Are you just upset that it didn't get the haha tag fast enough? Anyways, I don't think any vulnerability itself deserves 'haha' so much as the company that waves its hands and says "there is no bug here" or creates very bizarre ways of bug counting to get the numbers tell there story. On any given security issue if IE and Mozilla both had an identical issue and they were both identified at the same time, how long do you think it would take before Mozilla patched compared to IE?
When your products are going to spend so much time displaying failure indicators it only makes sense to spend that much time developing it. The same concept applies to Apple, most of the time will be spent using the actual interface so they develop that section heavily. Come on, you couldn't have possibly made that easier.
God I love that phrase. To hear people talk about how "I red ringed my xbox again..." I it sounds like some sick euphamism for something horrible. Just when you think MS can't top the BSOD..."Red Ringed" comes out.
Other MS Marketing disasters include...
Windows CE ME NT XP - Cement experience PCs into Paperweights one desktop at a time.
and
WinCE - I hear this is what the developers developers developers do when they hear they have to code for it.
I am really interested to know in what kind of conditions you live in. My monthly electric and water bills are both considerably higher than my monthly broadband bill. I can only guess that you are living in an appartment or other scenario where your utilities are at least partially subsidized somehow or you are comparing your yearly broadband cost to monthly bills. Or there is the possibility that you live in an area with the most generous energy company in the nation.
I'm not sure how my original post got tagged Troll but whatever this is slashdot. It is perfectly legitimate to patent a process for making something, assuming it isn't vague nonsense like what is getting the seal of approval today. If mom and pop builds some fancy machine that uses a unique and non obvious method for making cups or fry containers or whatever, then they should be granted a patent on the device. The patents on the containers themselves are stupid at best. This isn't to say no patents for containers, but seriously, go to any fast food joint and tell me that there is ANYTHING innovative about the containers themselves that wouldn't be obvious to someone who did well in high school physics or calculus class. It would almost be the same as allowing patents on those little paper cone cups. This is still different than the devices or processes involved in producing said cups. The key is non obvious. I can't patent hiring 1000 workers cut, fold, glue fry containers by hand.
Realistically any patent that doesn't illicit a "damn, that is kinda neat" from someone in the field should probably not be patented. If it is just a matter of "Well, I guess technically that can be considered acceptable" then there is a problem. Patents should be about protecting innovators in the field, not rewarding creative writing skills of patent lawyers and trolls.
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No joke, I wish my mod points hadn't expired. This really is some twisted shit. This seems par for the course lately from Wired. They have been publishing absolute garbage lately. Air Force blocks blocks and other sites and suddenlty something that is an industry best practice for security becomes censorship?
I also noticed that the people bitching about Jobs were "former" employees. Well holy shit...someone who left or was fired is going to bitch about their former boss for some media facetime? This is a 5 page article?!
And maybe I didn't read enough, but "micromanaging" has nothing to do with demanding exacting detail from the output. Anyone who calls that micromanaging has NEVER been micromanaged and its an insult to anyone who has suffered through a real micromanaging boss.
Did you just offer to buy me a copy of iWork?
He didn't leave a number, but there are plenty of ways to infect those machines with one click, they are called exploits. Local are even more common than remote, and no OS to date has exactly been safe from that. Other than that, you might also point out that the only Windows OS that makes you run as "fucking ADMIN" are the home versions. So, I am going to go out on a limb and guess this guy has never worked in a real environment because you will pretty much have to support some Windows boxes regardless of your home OS. So...I will correct you in that you should not explain all of this stuff, rather, your response should have been "Leave your mother's basement, get a job, and quit using pirated versions of the home variants of Windows so you can get a clue". That is all :)
Funny... Audio Home Recording Act made making copies of CDs legal.
And oh yes...it CAN be illegal for them to sell for $15 each. It is called price fixing and they have been found guilty of it already. Their punishment was to give thousands of copies of CDs that noone was purchasing to libraries. I can't imagine that the wouldn't keep that up...offloading crap to clean their stock out AND having it count against a settlement, shit that is almost win win for them. There is no defense for these pieces of shit, please stop trying to defend them.
Funny how this is a one way argument. When MS users try to use this line of logic it gets torn to ribbons, when an OSS supporter uses the same it gets +5 Interesting
If your spirituality interferes with your scietnific method either your scientific method is flawed. They have nothing to do with eachother, and if your scientific method interacts with your spirituality in a way that causes conflict then your understanding of the scientific method is wrong.
The idea that you can prove/disprove God or anything of the sort with science is laughable at best. You start the problem by defining God as an omnipotent being outside of human understanding and existance creating power. Then you get the fundies and athiests to argue endlessly how you can use science to prove or disprove something that by definition exists outside the constraits of science. It shows an equal misunderstanding of science on both sides and a horrible application of basic logic.
Much like Tic Tac Toe. The only winning formula is to not play.
Terrorist sympathisers like you make me sick. The RIAA and MPAA have clearly explained how this theft supports terrorists. Additionally, they have also have clearly explained how this problem is more important than even bank robberies and murder. Their large penalty lawsuits and their reasonable attempts at settlements help keep keep those funds in the American economy and away from terrorist organizations.
I can't believe a closet racist like you would act like he is the only well educated charismatic black man. Just because they don't get face time on national TV doesn't mean there aren't tons of minorities that are rather successful in our nation. That mentality is what lead people to say "Wow, he really is articulate" when talking about Colon Powell. Of course he is articulate, he is an educated man. Did the media really expect him to come out with gold chains "Yo, yo, yo, wuzzup my nigga's, we is gunna drop the bizomb on them towelhead bitches!"?.
There are tons of educated and charismatic minorities. I have had the pleasure to meet and work with many. Its assholes that think they are some kind of special exception to the rule that fuck it up for everyone else. The key difference is that regardless of background they had the drive to get off their asses and succeed. MLK wasn't special because he was black, he was special because he was a driven human being with a "dream". There are very few people of his caliber regardless of race and it is a damned shame that people get so hung up on the fact that he was black.
Clinton IS a white candidate. She isn't 'the' white candidate because many of the others are white. Obama is the black candidate because no other candidates are black. As I have said elsewhere, when you make nonsense complaints about this you show that despite your "PC" attitude you are supporting racism just as much by making an issue of "black" or "white" mean anything more than skin tone. Why is "he is the black candidate" any different than "she is the female candidate". What about "that redhead kid", boy that sounds pretty racist against Irish now doesn't it...freaking nonsense.
Given that PC was invented by braindead liberals I find it amusing that you would say a braindead conservative is the one that complains about it. (Braindead conservatives have much better things to do like force evolution as science). PC IS complete nonsense. Not being an asshole is not the same thing as not being PC. See, you can ignore this PC bullshit and still not be an asshole to your fellow citizens.
I think he is black because of skin color. Saying he is black has nothing to do with judging him unless you are associating his blackness with anything other than his skin. In fact, your "black blood" thing makes me wonder about you doing that very thing. Blood is pretty much universally the same color regardless of ethnicity while skin is not.
I mean seriously...go out and say "I bet that white guy is going to beat Hillary" and NOONE will think you are talking about Obama. As far as I am concerned "black man" or "redheaded girl" are about on par using physical characteristics to identify an individual. It has got shit to do with "how black you are" or "how white you are" and as soon as you make a comment like that you reveal that blackness or whiteness mean more to you than just skin color.
You pirates are all the same. You can't justify your crimes with "I want to make backups" or any of this nonsense about transfering. You didn't buy the content of the DVD, you bought content for use in a DVD player. That means you need to pay up again if you want to watch it on a iPod because you didn't purchase content for use in an iPod. Don't you know that making backups and transfering content supports terrorism? People like you are how 9/11 happened! Making copies of movies and music costs this country more than all of the bank robberies and should justify its own federal enforcement branch.
I hope the RIAA/MPAA throw you in Gitmo with all of the other terrorists for putting America in such danger!
(excuse the wording)? What the hell? This is what is wrong with America. I swear to God I am so sick of this political correct cry baby crap. He is black, call him black. I am white, why the hell is it perfectly acceptable to call me white instead of "Irish-American" or some other hypenated nonsense, but its a big deal to call a black guy black. Why the hell would you need to be excused for calling him black?
Lets put this stupid liberal guilt shit to rest. A black man has been tearing up the campaign trail and looking like a possible win on the Democrat side if not the whole race for the top. Can we PLEASE get over this sensitivity crap. I think having a black man with a pretty viable shot at the oval office pretty much means that the whole slavery thing is long over. It's time to quit the apologizing.
Stunningly ironic is that the party that goes on about those "poor minorities that need our help" has a black man making a damned good run. Seems kinda counter to the nonsense about the minorities need our help and handouts.
You all realize that we have to survive for a long long time before this is a threat to us. I am reasonably confident that we will kill ourselves off one way or another LONG before this happens to us. Being worried about this seems very optimistic.
Christ I can't believe you people. Bitch and moan about insecure this or insecure that and when the military tries to secure their network people cry foul. For fucks sake it is a military network, people shouldn't be surfing the web to random places not needed for official business. They can go home and surf wherever they want, they just can't do it using governmetn assets. I mean what the hell, lets all get together and cry the government wastes our tax dollars, and then when they do something that would stop that (people wasting time and bandwidth) we all get together and cry louder. This is such bullshit and just another dumb excuse to cry about the military.
Except you are misapplying "essential" the sense that he is describing some liberties as essential and others as nonessential. Liberty itself is essential is the point. The idea that you can qualify some as nonessential is exactly what leads to the big brother state of "it is better that we watch all of you to keep you safe" nonsense. So you are grossly misapplying the words to twist it into a justification for exactly the opposite of what he said.
Oh...and you are right to a degree, driving on roads is a privlidge the key being on the roads. The fact that they are nice paved roads is certainly a privlidge that we have purchased through our taxes. The problem is traveling about as I see fit how I see fit is actually more of a liberty issue. The fact that we are willing to follow a set of rules in that traveling is a matter of convenience and cooperation. In fact, my right is to travel how and where I want, it is through collective cooperation that we give up this part of this right to make it a bit better and more convenient for everyone.
You must be part of some kind of military deception! Any fighter pilot will be more than willing to tell you how they are God and don't make mistakes.
What, you mean China is bad?! Say it ain't so! I mean you can't get Most Favored Trade Nation status by being a bad guy! Right? I mean, I think all those toxic things coming out of China are all just scaremonger lies, you can't keep MFTN status if you are shipping toxic goods! Right? I mean come on, the Islamofacists are the real threat, they are a highly trained and organized bunch with huge amounts of wealth backing them! They are the real threat!
Lessons Learned.
1. Money is supreme. Trade with China involves lots of profits. Middle East involves lots of profits for non American companies because we don't hold all the oil cards.
2. The boogeyman is much better at scaring the American people into handing over all their freedoms for protection. China has a rapidly expanding military and is a superpower...they aren't going to be sneaking in and hijacking planes.
3. People are exceedingly stupid. They worry about shit like "terror free gas" so they aren't funding extremists, but ignore the fact that China is still commieland and ignore the huge percentage of money from chinese exports goes directly to the chinese military.
4. Last but not least. Religion justifies hate. A predominately Christian nation is locked in with a group of Islamic fundamentalists while ignoring a predominately Buddhist nation? Is anyone surprised? I mean honestly...how often do you see Buddhists starting religious battles?
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity... Just throwin that one out there.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Not very hard to understand. If you are going to let your fear control you, please move away and stop supporting making my country worse.
Go read about the horrific things the intelligence community did during the Cold War even here in the US. Then tell me privacy is overrated when you make it to a government watch list for a "crime" that is only defined in secret laws.
I see the haha tag. Are you just upset that it didn't get the haha tag fast enough? Anyways, I don't think any vulnerability itself deserves 'haha' so much as the company that waves its hands and says "there is no bug here" or creates very bizarre ways of bug counting to get the numbers tell there story. On any given security issue if IE and Mozilla both had an identical issue and they were both identified at the same time, how long do you think it would take before Mozilla patched compared to IE?
When your products are going to spend so much time displaying failure indicators it only makes sense to spend that much time developing it. The same concept applies to Apple, most of the time will be spent using the actual interface so they develop that section heavily. Come on, you couldn't have possibly made that easier.
God I love that phrase. To hear people talk about how "I red ringed my xbox again..." I it sounds like some sick euphamism for something horrible. Just when you think MS can't top the BSOD..."Red Ringed" comes out.
Other MS Marketing disasters include...
Windows CE ME NT XP - Cement experience PCs into Paperweights one desktop at a time.
and
WinCE - I hear this is what the developers developers developers do when they hear they have to code for it.
I am really interested to know in what kind of conditions you live in. My monthly electric and water bills are both considerably higher than my monthly broadband bill. I can only guess that you are living in an appartment or other scenario where your utilities are at least partially subsidized somehow or you are comparing your yearly broadband cost to monthly bills. Or there is the possibility that you live in an area with the most generous energy company in the nation.
I'm not sure how my original post got tagged Troll but whatever this is slashdot. It is perfectly legitimate to patent a process for making something, assuming it isn't vague nonsense like what is getting the seal of approval today. If mom and pop builds some fancy machine that uses a unique and non obvious method for making cups or fry containers or whatever, then they should be granted a patent on the device. The patents on the containers themselves are stupid at best. This isn't to say no patents for containers, but seriously, go to any fast food joint and tell me that there is ANYTHING innovative about the containers themselves that wouldn't be obvious to someone who did well in high school physics or calculus class. It would almost be the same as allowing patents on those little paper cone cups. This is still different than the devices or processes involved in producing said cups. The key is non obvious. I can't patent hiring 1000 workers cut, fold, glue fry containers by hand.
Realistically any patent that doesn't illicit a "damn, that is kinda neat" from someone in the field should probably not be patented. If it is just a matter of "Well, I guess technically that can be considered acceptable" then there is a problem. Patents should be about protecting innovators in the field, not rewarding creative writing skills of patent lawyers and trolls.