User: AlgorithMan

like always

On: Microsoft Settles Iowa Antitrust Case

like always microsoft buys it's rights to do whatever they want...
thats fascism (read the definition of fascism before bashing me)

oldnews

On: Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation

That was about a year ago... and google delisted all belgian sites the same day... serves them right...

by the way this ruling did NOT have chilling effects on fair use rights on the web in the rest of Europe...

easy

On: Where Are Operating Systems Headed?

in 10 years about 80% of all pc's will run windows fiji which will just have been released
people will go nuts about the newest two features MS will have developed in those ten years:
- wobbly windows
- multiple desktops on a rotatable cube...

also they'll introduce a smashing new technology they call "eMail" (and file a patent)

Re:That's not the formula!

On: Bitlocker No Real Threat To Decryption?

brilliant!
I love it!
lets write a letter to warner...

I hate this joke...

On: Want to Take On An Open/Unsolved Problem?

god, I hate this joke...
I hear it EVERY F***ING TIME when I tell people what I do on my free time...

letters don't always stand for numbers...
P is the set of decision problems that can be exactly solved by a turing machine with _P_olynomial time complexity
NP is the set of decision problems that can be exactly solved by a _N_on-deterministic turing machine with _P_olynomial time complexity...

"is P = NP or is P =/= NP?" is the most important question in hundreds of areas of research...
now I'll go and cry again because it upsets me not to know this answer :-(

they forgot something

On: UK Greens Declare Vista Bad For Environment

> There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards, and whole computers [...] and Vista DVDs!...

Sony can make a profit from this

On: Sony Settles With FTC Over Rootkits

slashdot reported that 40% of all music consumers have pirated music http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/21/223825 6&from=rss

people who had the rootkit are music consumers (since they bought the cds) therefore 40% of the affected people have pirated music

now sony only has to sue EVERYONE who claims his 150$
because of the first and second statement, sony will win twice in every five cases (those two have at least 1 pirated song, so they have to pay at least 700$) which means:

for paying 5 times 150$ (5*150$=750$) they get at least 2*700$=1400$ which means
SONY GETS A PROFIT



yes, I love math :-)

patent application spree

On: Microsoft Retracts Patent

you see, this is exactly the problem with patents
companies just try to patent ANYTHING, because if the patent is bullsh*t, then they don't have to be afraid of any harm, except losing the patent application fee (peanuts)

if you really want to stop companies from going on crazy patent application sprees, you have to make them pay big time for trying to patent obvious or non-innovative ideas

I mean a patent gives you a lot of power on a market - if you try to get that much power without really doing something for it, it should be punished like a white-collar crime...

much simpler method

On: Using Radio Waves to Detect Explosives

I have a much simpler method: if america doesn't like country X it follows that X has explosives...

Re:What next?

On: Sony and Universal Prohibit Sharing Via Zune

Microsoft: What do you want to think today?

well... what do you allow me to think today?

Re:LULZ

On: Largest Ever Online Robbery Hits Swedish Bank

even I managed to steal 1.000.000 credits that was some day in 2010... using tools that look like they were made by scriptkiddies for hollywood ( ehem - before I get arrested - I'm talking about a computer game here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(computer_game ) )

Re:When does the NSA help Linux distros and Mac OS

On: Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security

I don't think you can compare it that easily, because linux is kind of "public domain" - when the NSA secured it, it was a benefit for the people
when they secure windows on the other hand, it's a benefit for a corporation (which has enough money to pay for that service instead of using tax dollars for it.... in a way this means that microsoft gets tax dollars)

more horrible consequences

On: Parasites Makes Us Dumber or Sexier

Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also [...]

also they use windows and praise microsoft in discussion forums...

Re:Who has Microsoft actually sued

On: Microsoft Applies to Patent RSS in Vista

the patent mentions various problems with RSS (various file formats, lack of a single unified reader for the entire desktop)

oh yeah, great... microsofts wants to push one single application for syndication (guess who'll be the author of that one program and which operating systems it will run on)
it's the same shit as always - embrace, extend and extinguish... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and _extinguish

Re:dictatorship

On: Government Has a Right to Read Your Email?

recipient B has every right to allow the government to read that spam, and very good motive to do so

but the recipient doesn't allow it - the email service does it without asking the recipient (except writing it in the TOS which nobody reads)

dictatorship

On: Government Has a Right to Read Your Email?

Federal prosecutors say they don't need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else's computer

thats as legal as reading your regular mail before it has been delivered to you (while it's in someone elses house - the someone else being the post office)
realize it, GWB is building a dictatorship http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=terrorstorm

of course not

On: Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3

nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capacity

because nobody will buy it

weren't 2 million pcs affected?

On: Sony BMG Settles Over CD DRM

iirc 2 million pcs were affected, so everyone gets 75 cents?

why bother?

On: White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing

big deal...

Hitler did it
Mussolini did it
Stalin did it
Hussein did it
"The Party" did it (1984 by George Orwell)
Communist Party of China DOES it
Gates WILL DO it (TCG fka TCPA)

sooooo since this is such a common action - why bother?

someone should tell them...

On: Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy

Microsoft said you could count on them to improve patent quality.

someone should tell them the difference between quality and quantity... they don't seem to know...

Re:You thought you were safe!

On: New Developments From Microsoft Research

what about rootkits that eliminate rootkits that eliminate other rootkits?

stack overflow

ms tco analysis

On: The True Cost of One Laptop Per Child

is this another MS-based TCO "analysis"?
the 100$ laptop was supposed to run linux, didn't it? ;)

understatement

On: Why Apple Doesn't Blog - Vaporware

All I know is that their executives are very rigid and secretive (they rarely talk about future visions or potential products unless they know they are going to do something for sure).

I think that's an understatement - do you remember apple even SUED apple-fans who correctly guessed what apple was planning next... it has to be a big secret, until steve HIMSELF announces it in his keynote speach - I guess because his image would suffer, if he presented something that the people already expected...

why offtopic?

On: Microsoft Research Fights Critics

the article saies microsofts is hiring new employees
I quoted some ex-employees who saied that microsoft exploits it's employees
I don't see, why this was offtopic

interview with ex-ms-employees

On: Microsoft Research Fights Critics

I saw an interview with 2 or 3 ex-ms-employees
they saied ms works like this:

- they hire young, clever coders
- use them up until they're burned out
- fire them