Pointing out the Linux is just a kernel, calling the userland utilities "bloated", "random assorted crap", and "GNU junk" without anything to back these claims, and stating that BSD is a "nice" Unix system with a userland that is a "joy" to use aren't legitimate arguments against GNU/Linux, they're dumb insults that add nothing of value to this discussion.
The documentation issue was the only intelligent point made. However, it was surrounded by a bunch of crap.
Oh, and your "This is/. you can't post anti-Linux things here" post has been done about 10000 times before. And it still gets modded funny. Wow.
We don't even have patient medical records in electronically-exchangeable form yet. How many times have you gone to a new doctor and had to fill out the same damn form listing past medical history, drug allergies, current medications, etc.?
I think implementing a huge medical database with this sort of information without chips would be a great boon to the medical field. There are plenty of ways to ID someone without implanting a chip in them.
That's exactly the reasoning people used in support of Firefox before 1.0 was released. I don't see why it can't be used for any beta software.
Oh, and just for completeness, vulnerabilities have been found in Firefox since 1.0, so the argument that only Microsoft releases "beta" (read: vulnerable/insecure) code as production-level software doesn't work either.
How's this, show me some of your code, and then let's sign a non-disclosure agreement - 10 minutes later I'll steal it, and them scream bloody murder that you're violating my right to free speech/freedom of mobility/freedom to work/whatever the hell I need as an excuse not to honor the agreement that I willingly made, knowing the full consequences.
I don't think the MS exec is using any sort of right-infringing argument here, he's simply using law precedents set in other cases. The MS exec's lawyers almost certainly told him that the non-compete agreement in his contract would be unenforceable in court due to precedents set previously in other cases.
If similar "unenforceable" precents had been set with respect to non-disclosure agreements, you would be free to do what you suggest with impunity.
I have a work-provided Dell D600 from last year. Sticker on the case says it has a Pentium M. It runs at 1.4GHz. Trust me, it fries my lap.
I think that was a case design issue with the D600/600m, something to do with the hard drive location and heat dissipation near the left palmrest. They fixed it in the D610.
How are phone lines considered "public infrastructure"? Last time I checked, I get a bill every month from SBC (a company, not a municipal government) charging me for use of their phone lines. Nowhere in my service agreement with my phone company does it state that they are, in fact, subsidized by telemarketers, and that I am obligated to let these people call my house over phone lines I am paying to have in service.
If this all means raising the price of phone service (which goes along the lines of your "opt to pay $$" argument) because the phone companies are now not making enough money, so be it. What this does not mean is that telemarketers can call me whenever they want.
I wouldn't have a problem with that if it were one or maybe a few lists, or if the corporations actually took me off the lists, or if they didn't sell their lists to other corporations before taking me off and then buy them back with my name still on them.
There's really no way an extension to a Firefox app could get the penetration that IE had. Maybe AdBlock could get to 95% of the Firefox base, so if Firefox had 95% of the market, it could have the kind of numbers IE had in its heyday. Those are a couple of really big ifs, so I don't think your "worse than anything that's come out of IE" is at all justified. I'm not trying to hide behind obscurity, but just saying that your hyperbole is misplaced.
The grandparent was surely referring to the amount of damage to a single system that could be caused by a poorly-written extension, not the market penetration of the extension.
Both factors (amount of damage + market penetration) play a role in how "huge" a security hole is.
Still, I do think Windows is probably fairly clean.
I thought it was relatively well-known speculation that much of NT was ripped off from DEC's VMS, especially considering DEC filed suit against Microsoft and MS ended up settling out of court.
(remember this is not valid for stuff compiled on a pentium 4 but running on amd64)
From what I gathered, the generated code dynamically selects certain code paths and functions at runtime based on the processor which it is running on. So, this would apply to any binary built using ICC on any machine and run on an AMD processor.
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The documentation issue was the only intelligent point made. However, it was surrounded by a bunch of crap.
Oh, and your "This is /. you can't post anti-Linux things here" post has been done about 10000 times before. And it still gets modded funny. Wow.
I think implementing a huge medical database with this sort of information without chips would be a great boon to the medical field. There are plenty of ways to ID someone without implanting a chip in them.
Oh, and just for completeness, vulnerabilities have been found in Firefox since 1.0, so the argument that only Microsoft releases "beta" (read: vulnerable/insecure) code as production-level software doesn't work either.
I don't think the MS exec is using any sort of right-infringing argument here, he's simply using law precedents set in other cases. The MS exec's lawyers almost certainly told him that the non-compete agreement in his contract would be unenforceable in court due to precedents set previously in other cases.
If similar "unenforceable" precents had been set with respect to non-disclosure agreements, you would be free to do what you suggest with impunity.
I think that was a case design issue with the D600/600m, something to do with the hard drive location and heat dissipation near the left palmrest. They fixed it in the D610.
It's a references to this.
Imaging a beowulf cluster of... /. clichés!!!!!!!1111eleven
If this all means raising the price of phone service (which goes along the lines of your "opt to pay $$" argument) because the phone companies are now not making enough money, so be it. What this does not mean is that telemarketers can call me whenever they want.
I wouldn't have a problem with that if it were one or maybe a few lists, or if the corporations actually took me off the lists, or if they didn't sell their lists to other corporations before taking me off and then buy them back with my name still on them.
I, for one, welcome our new European chick overlords.
[1] I'm using Google's cache of the page because the extension has since been removed from addons.mozilla.org.
The grandparent was surely referring to the amount of damage to a single system that could be caused by a poorly-written extension, not the market penetration of the extension. Both factors (amount of damage + market penetration) play a role in how "huge" a security hole is.
This is security by obscurity. Any script kiddie with a port scanner is going to get around this naive hack.
I thought it was relatively well-known speculation that much of NT was ripped off from DEC's VMS, especially considering DEC filed suit against Microsoft and MS ended up settling out of court.