I can't access Windows XP shares over a network with Windows Vista.. oh wait, that's probably another one of Windows Vista's helpful features that prevent me from getting a virus from THOSE SUPER BAD RAPIST COMPUTERS WITH SMALL PENISES AND VIRUSES BECAUSE THEY AREN'T WINDOWS VISTA AND THEREFORE INCAPABLE OF BEING VIRUS FREE or something along those lines. I haven't downloaded the windows vista source code to find out, yet
the "contributions" of an anonymous person on wikipedia these days, no matter how good they are, are instantly reverted by any number of so-called "anti-vandalism" bots and tools.
this may constitute flamebait, but you sir, are a moron spreading nothing but FUD. you probably haven't edited any wikipedia articles, and you most certainly haven't looked through the history of any article on wikipedia, nor do you understand the concept of having an open article format. bots have no need to revert anonymous edits, the community already does that when it is required. I most certainly have. I've even taken it a step further and followed a person as they created edits in many different articles, reverting articles whenever crap was spewed out by them--probably someone like you.
I find that most users who are the opposite of you (I have one friend who doesn't even have any of the XP service packs installed) don't understand computers, the internet, or other humans, because they "have better things to do" like posting on myspace, or txtng there frenz mang. the one without any of the service packs installed gave me her computer to fix. I counted at least three popup advertising programs, and one virus with just the task manager. I downloaded SBS&D and found 67 other problems. they were mainly from "free" screensavers and those stupid internet exploder toolbars. I told her that the internet is like downtown san francisco: if someone is offering you a rolex watch for free, chances are it isn't a rolex, or it isn't free
this would never happen to me, simply because I have a 99 character password, use firefox and HTTPs when I access gmail, and have an application level firewall.
I've had plenty of guys come after me, and I've buried them all, Hobos, Sea Captain, Joey Bishop.
just got the fraction wrong? (on purpose?) 'the manufacturer's charge 1/2 what we charge' "the manufacturer's charge 2/1 what we charge!"
sounds like something that would happen on Myspace or AOL
what the fuck. I live in south sacramento (north of elk grove, near the florin district) and I can't even GET broadband. the fastest internet connection out here is 1.5 MBps DSL at $79.99 a month. fuck the rural areas, what the hell does a farmer need that requires a broadband connection. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT GONNA DO ABOUT ME?!
god. this reminds me of a quote from a newsletter I received last week "Some folks argue that Internet service should be run by the government because it's a necessity, like other utilities. Yet in many areas, other utilities such as electricity are provided by private companies, not the city. Cable service is almost always provided by a private company. Services such as garage pickup for which cities are responsible are being contracted out by more and more of them. Water and sewer services are, in many cases, the only remaining utilities that cities provide directly." and in the followup newsletter, "David K. offered, 'Poor people need internet connectivity to dig out from under their poverty... I feel it should be available for free like the broadcast airwaves are. Note that the broadcast companies are private and profitable; but the airwaves they use are free and public.'"
thank god I'm not the only one who read the title as "Hungry Officials Raid Microsoft Office" and thought "why would hungry officials raid a program suite by microsoft?"
Yeah, after they (editor) used wikipedia.irg, thefreedictionary.org, ask.com, thefreethesaurus.com wikidictionary.com, with the latter two giving confused and *shrugs*, "I dunno" looks around the table, they figured out what wont means (actually, they means I'm on my medication, have no more cookies, and am siezing [not the big thing as most people think]
I guess the network admins want to be the sole authority on unplanned outages, rather than outsourcing to the vendor.
that doesn't sound like the army at all, unless I'm wrong, maybe it's the administrative branch of the government... oh hell, it's the entire government, one huge perpetual pass-the-buck machine
I wonder if we can tap it as a natural resource.. of course it would probably contribute to global warming even further
it's darwinism at it's finest! sort of like why antibacterial soaps are bad -- doesn't kill 0.01% of germs. if you have a surface with 100 000 000 germs on it [not so far-fetched with counter tops], you're stuck with 10 000 of the hardcore baddies. sure, it seems harmless, but what happens when those 10 000 become 100 000 000 again? is it me, or is this starting to sound familiar?
Robert Gates -- Bob Gates William Gates - Bill Gates I'd hate to see these two powerheads exist in the same system. this could be the "cracking" that took place.
bobert> I WAN BGATES@PH.INT billiam> NO I WAN BGATES@PH.INT bobert> I HAX U! billiam> I CRAS UR COMPUTAR! bobert> BRIGN IT PUNX! billiam quit: (No Route to Host) bobert quit: (Broken Pipe) * the_world rejoices.
god. what the fuck is up with people blaming everything EXCEPT the perpetrator. "Aww look at that cute little kid up on the clock tower with a deer rifle.." *bang.. bang.* "it CAN'T be HIS fault.. IT'S THOSE DAMN GAMES AGAIN! cue Monty Python witch hunt, stage center OTly, I see this (generalized) shit everywhere, from rapists, to thieves, to car jackers. "oh.. it's not his fault, it's the system! (or the school, or the environment, or blah blah bl*DISCONNECTED.(rant)*
By the way, the anonymous reader has already reported them. ISPs already co-operate with media companies and monitors traffic. The chances are they have monitored the post. But it won't matter because someone there will fink sooner or later.
could have been written from a home computer, or from a PWAP, or some other non-work place. thanks for assuming it was written at work though:thumbsup:
However, I will argue that the outage may have contributed to deaths. There are many hospitals which use Blackberries instead of pagers (2-way comms), so paging a surgeon or doctor or other staff to an emergency may not work well.
you can't be serious. I mean come on. they (hospitals, surgeons, doctors, other staff) don't have phones, or public address systems? that sounds like malpractice suits waiting to happen.
"yes, your honor, we called and called and called our doctor to schedule an appointment to have our daughter's ingrown toenail removed, but he didn't respond. when she got gangrene we had to take her to the hospital emergency room, and there, we had to wait 12 hours before a surgeon arrived, during that time our daughter died"
"your honor, we couldn't reach any doctors or surgeons, or any medical staff due to the fact that our blackberry service was not responding properly, despite numerous tech support calls that did nothing to fix the problem. we can't be at fault for our blackberry service failing and causing the death of this young girl"
you can't rely on a single system for critical functions (which is why aircraft have backup power systems and triple redundant flight control systems and warning systems)
You could make the argument that as viruses have been around for a long time MS had a reason from the start to build it right.
Lets say there was no laws governing seat belts. And theoretically after seat belts where already in wide use among the new.. flying cars that a few people drove. Fly Systems finally invents the flying cars for the average Joe. It really takes off and now almost everyone has a Fly System car, but Fly Systems REFUSES to sell cars with seat belts, despite a market demand. Sure you can buy add-in seat belts but they never work just right.. Would Fly Systems be partially liable?? I don't know but its an interesting legal question.
IANAL but I think Fly Systems would not be liable, so long as they added a EULA stating that the car wasn't owned by the purchaser, it was leased, and that you couldn't take apart the engine, or replace the landing gear, without another agreement "EMLA". additionally, the car would not work with more than two engines, and no more than 1 person could use it at any one time, unless you had a MULA. insert other Microsoft Motor Industries jokes here oh, at the end, in very big print, you'd have to have the clauses:
X. Limitations
X.x. Reverse Engineering Reverse Engineering of Fly Systems Flycar 2010 is not allowed. If anyone has doubts in the honesty of the code, Fly Systems will give insight to a trusted organization like a university under certain limitations (for example only one copy, for a limited time, they may not release results, and the copy has to be removed after the evaluation time has ended).
X.x Warranty Fly Systems has tried to make the code of Flycar 2010 as stable as possible, and we give you the warranty that if we placed code to cause intentional harm to Flycar 2010, or other objects, we won't tell you. Removing the threats targeted by Flycar 2010 may, or may not, involve cutting deep into the vehicle's subsystems, and Fly Systems cannot guarantee that Flycar 2010 will be running the same as before. For example, engines may stop working. Additionally, Fly Systems can give you no warranty that Flycar will remove every threat to the vehicle, or that it will give no false positives. For verification, the location of the problem is shown with every warning, however, there is nothing you can do about it.
Liability Under no circumstances can you make Fly Systems liable for any damage, however caused, including, but not limited to, damage you might do to yourself using Flycar 2010.
apparently, the mods today don't like sarcasm that has a point. Lets try again.
MS is part of the group that created the HD-DVD standard. They were not part of the group that made the DVD standard. Titles that had problems with the DVD standard initially either were not from groups associated with the DVD standard, or they were stupid.
Point is, I don't care if some DVD titles had problems with early DVD players. That is completely unrelated to whether or not it is ridiculous that MS can't follow the standard they helped create. Is MS-bashing cliche'? Sure. Does that mean that it isn't dumb that this is happening? No.
first off. this isn't sarcasm that has a point. this is MS bashing without any facts, which makes you look stupid in my eyes. I don't care if this gets modded down, that's the truth. I am sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions without all of the facts. FTA "We've contacted both Microsoft and Universal, but have not yet received any official word on whether it is a hardware problem, a software problem, or both." which I interpret as "Microsoft and Universal have nfc what's going on" note: Microsoft AND Universal. so it's not just Microsoft in this game. please hold your bashing until after there is a declared winner.
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and wonder why banning people from dialing 911 (or whatever the emergency phone number is in australia is) is a good thing?
I can't access Windows XP shares over a network with Windows Vista.. oh wait, that's probably another one of Windows Vista's helpful features that prevent me from getting a virus from THOSE SUPER BAD RAPIST COMPUTERS WITH SMALL PENISES AND VIRUSES BECAUSE THEY AREN'T WINDOWS VISTA AND THEREFORE INCAPABLE OF BEING VIRUS FREE or something along those lines. I haven't downloaded the windows vista source code to find out, yet
this may constitute flamebait, but you sir, are a moron spreading nothing but FUD. you probably haven't edited any wikipedia articles, and you most certainly haven't looked through the history of any article on wikipedia, nor do you understand the concept of having an open article format. bots have no need to revert anonymous edits, the community already does that when it is required. I most certainly have. I've even taken it a step further and followed a person as they created edits in many different articles, reverting articles whenever crap was spewed out by them--probably someone like you.
I find that most users who are the opposite of you (I have one friend who doesn't even have any of the XP service packs installed) don't understand computers, the internet, or other humans, because they "have better things to do" like posting on myspace, or txtng there frenz mang. the one without any of the service packs installed gave me her computer to fix. I counted at least three popup advertising programs, and one virus with just the task manager. I downloaded SBS&D and found 67 other problems. they were mainly from "free" screensavers and those stupid internet exploder toolbars. I told her that the internet is like downtown san francisco: if someone is offering you a rolex watch for free, chances are it isn't a rolex, or it isn't free
this would never happen to me, simply because I have a 99 character password, use firefox and HTTPs when I access gmail, and have an application level firewall.
I've had plenty of guys come after me, and I've buried them all, Hobos, Sea Captain, Joey Bishop.
film at eleven!
(hey, I just made the longest subject that mase sense using only two words)
just got the fraction wrong? (on purpose?)
'the manufacturer's charge 1/2 what we charge'
"the manufacturer's charge 2/1 what we charge!"
sounds like something that would happen on Myspace or AOL
god, you must be one of those 10 people who don't get the joke.
what the fuck. I live in south sacramento (north of elk grove, near the florin district) and I can't even GET broadband. the fastest internet connection out here is 1.5 MBps DSL at $79.99 a month.
fuck the rural areas, what the hell does a farmer need that requires a broadband connection.
WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT GONNA DO ABOUT ME?!
god. this reminds me of a quote from a newsletter I received last week
"Some folks argue that Internet service should be run by the government because it's a necessity, like other utilities. Yet in many areas, other utilities such as electricity are provided by private companies, not the city. Cable service is almost always provided by a private company. Services such as garage pickup for which cities are responsible are being contracted out by more and more of them. Water and sewer services are, in many cases, the only remaining utilities that cities provide directly."
and in the followup newsletter, "David K. offered, 'Poor people need internet connectivity to dig out from under their poverty... I feel it should be available for free like the broadcast airwaves are. Note that the broadcast companies are private and profitable; but the airwaves they use are free and public.'"
am I the only one who read the title and thought "One two three four, I declare a thumbdrive war."?
wow. talk about the fox guarding the hen house.
profits? all in HC's gut.
you forgot cigarettes, beer, and heroin, for the emotional pain and suffering that the kids cause
thank god I'm not the only one who read the title as "Hungry Officials Raid Microsoft Office" and thought "why would hungry officials raid a program suite by microsoft?"
Yeah, after they (editor) used wikipedia.irg, thefreedictionary.org, ask.com, thefreethesaurus.com wikidictionary.com, with the latter two giving confused and *shrugs*, "I dunno" looks around the table, they figured out what wont means
(actually, they means I'm on my medication, have no more cookies, and am siezing [not the big thing as most people think]
I wonder if we can tap it as a natural resource.. of course it would probably contribute to global warming even further
it's darwinism at it's finest!
sort of like why antibacterial soaps are bad -- doesn't kill 0.01% of germs. if you have a surface with 100 000 000 germs on it [not so far-fetched with counter tops], you're stuck with 10 000 of the hardcore baddies. sure, it seems harmless, but what happens when those 10 000 become 100 000 000 again?
is it me, or is this starting to sound familiar?
Robert Gates -- Bob Gates
William Gates - Bill Gates
I'd hate to see these two powerheads exist in the same system.
this could be the "cracking" that took place.
bobert> I WAN BGATES@PH.INT
billiam> NO I WAN BGATES@PH.INT
bobert> I HAX U!
billiam> I CRAS UR COMPUTAR!
bobert> BRIGN IT PUNX!
billiam quit: (No Route to Host)
bobert quit: (Broken Pipe)
* the_world rejoices.
games don't kill people, people kill people.
god. what the fuck is up with people blaming everything EXCEPT the perpetrator.
"Aww look at that cute little kid up on the clock tower with a deer rifle.." *bang.. bang.* "it CAN'T be HIS fault.. IT'S THOSE DAMN GAMES AGAIN! cue Monty Python witch hunt, stage center
OTly, I see this (generalized) shit everywhere, from rapists, to thieves, to car jackers. "oh.. it's not his fault, it's the system! (or the school, or the environment, or blah blah bl*DISCONNECTED.(rant)*
Criminal defense lawyer John Henry Browne sues Privacy International on behalf of Google Inc. for poor rating.
1) Profit
2) Profit
3) Profit
4)
5) Profit!
"yes, your honor, we called and called and called our doctor to schedule an appointment to have our daughter's ingrown toenail removed, but he didn't respond. when she got gangrene we had to take her to the hospital emergency room, and there, we had to wait 12 hours before a surgeon arrived, during that time our daughter died"
"your honor, we couldn't reach any doctors or surgeons, or any medical staff due to the fact that our blackberry service was not responding properly, despite numerous tech support calls that did nothing to fix the problem. we can't be at fault for our blackberry service failing and causing the death of this young girl"
you can't rely on a single system for critical functions (which is why aircraft have backup power systems and triple redundant flight control systems and warning systems)
insert other Microsoft Motor Industries jokes here
oh, at the end, in very big print, you'd have to have the clauses:
X. Limitations
X.x. Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering of Fly Systems Flycar 2010 is not allowed. If anyone has doubts in the honesty of the code, Fly Systems will give insight to a trusted organization like a university under certain limitations (for example only one copy, for a limited time, they may not release results, and the copy has to be removed after the evaluation time has ended).
X.x Warranty
Fly Systems has tried to make the code of Flycar 2010 as stable as possible, and we give you the warranty that if we placed code to cause intentional harm to Flycar 2010, or other objects, we won't tell you.
Removing the threats targeted by Flycar 2010 may, or may not, involve cutting deep into the vehicle's subsystems, and Fly Systems cannot guarantee that Flycar 2010 will be running the same as before. For example, engines may stop working.
Additionally, Fly Systems can give you no warranty that Flycar will remove every threat to the vehicle, or that it will give no false positives. For verification, the location of the problem is shown with every warning, however, there is nothing you can do about it.
Liability
Under no circumstances can you make Fly Systems liable for any damage, however caused, including, but not limited to, damage you might do to yourself using Flycar 2010.
I don't care if this gets modded down, that's the truth.
I am sick and tired of people jumping to conclusions without all of the facts.
FTA "We've contacted both Microsoft and Universal, but have not yet received any official word on whether it is a hardware problem, a software problem, or both." which I interpret as "Microsoft and Universal have nfc what's going on" note: Microsoft AND Universal.
so it's not just Microsoft in this game. please hold your bashing until after there is a declared winner.
I think you can only make that claim if the wording made a significant difference in the meaning of the contract