ZDNEt was able to confirm today that a major design flaw exists in all versions of Windows released to date. Johnny Doe, a well-known nerd and computer user has told us that any version of Windows can be brought down by a Denial-of-Service attack know as "Normal Use". "It is too simple", said Doe, "a user would go and start using the machine. It can be done even remotely. In some hours, bingo, there goes Windows south". Doe said he tried to call Microsoft attention to the problem but failed to get it past the third-shift phone-support supervisor, who told him "And what are the news?".
Run to your master, run, pitiful beast of darkness. Go tell him the light of Elbereth shines again and will wash away the filthy and the desolation he inflicted upon us for an age to end.
Bell Atlantic can not service a Mac because, for all reasons, it is too difficult.
Compaq will now stop this pesky little network from interfering with their legitemate business.
Who is next? A good day for Microsoft to relaunch Bob, I would say.
We can declare February 23th the official Clueless Corporation Day. Maybe, if we can convince them all to concentrate their crap in one day, we can all be happier for the rest of the year.
I am borrowing the title of this from Boris Sparsky (former chess world champion back in the early 70's). His book was called "Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood". The main theme there, that I think applies equaly to this situation, is the difference between the joys of playing a Sunday afternoon game of chess with a friend and the hardships of playing professional chess.
As long as I can remember I have been fond of writing. Nevertheless, I have never had the guts to go all the way and bet my career on my writing skills. For the time being I am a good coder and a fair technical writer. If eventually in my life I will manage to write and publish real fiction is yet to be seen.
But then the internet may change all this right away. If ever e-books become a reality the way MP3 is becoming a reality, the publishing market as we know it now will simply disapear. We also need saner payment formats, but this is also coming.
I dont really think the dead-tree industry will notice you or anyone. They will be run over by you and your brethen, editorless authors with nothing to lose. If we can build a technology that will let you publish your works in the web and get say, some dozens of cents per download, wouldn't it be a real deal?
As for Katz, I think he is OK. I used to like his texts in wired, and I like them here too (but indeed he sometimes get repetitive). And his age really shows. But I would not think he can start the revolution you call for. But I guess you should write to him and discuss it directly. Maybe he will go for it.
I am going to check your novels. I liked the way Kings of Rainmoor starts. I will let you know when I am finished.
Please, check your information before posting to tell us what you THINK happened.
Follow this link to the original review. There you will finda out that: a) Hemos (not Rob) start the review saying "I've read an advance copy of the book, and was impressed..." b) Apart from the initial comments, it was mostly an excerpt, not a full review.
How I love people jumping on to pot on something they don't even care to check...
Also, I have NOT devised a statistical method to measure flame wars, nor have I counted every silly post of yours. I just made it all up, trying to keep it more or less in order of funniness (is there such a word?)
Can you read? No? Just basic english? You think so? So go here and spend some time leraning about the subject you so forcefully babble about.
Now go up in this same page and read the transcript of Bruce's post in the comment "Why It's Time to Talk About Writing Free Software (Score:2)".
Then stop suffering your ignorance upon us:
Anyone, and I mean *ANYONE* who thinks that Richard Stallman is a good advocate of "Open Source" is wrong. Just plain wrong.
Anyone, I mean *ANYONE* who thinks Richard Sallman would even consider being an "Open Source" advocate has probably been away from the planet during the past year.
He's not. He's an advocate of GNU CopyLeft, and fuck all else, really. You're worried about people who seem strange in the public media, and you want to advocate Stallman?
I fail to remember the name of your last code contribution to the communitary pool, AC. Please enlighten me before barking about programmmers and ideals far beyond your level of understanding.
The man is practically a rabid dog when it comes to anything even *remotely* commercial, including the occasional rip on the idea of people getting paid to work on open source.
I dont even think this plain LIE must be answered. Check the link above.
Good grief. Few things could be as bad for the freedom of the movement as RS, who represents the Stalin of open source ideals.
Against the enlighted enterprise CEOs, the freedom fighters of modern day, I guess. And again, stop using Stallman name and the expression Open Source in the same phrase. Learn to say Free Software. Learn to live with it.
St. Petesburg, build by Peter the Great, was known as Leningrad after the communist leader Lenin (and also because the Russian Revolution started there).
Left of St. Petesburg is Poland.
I can certanly agree that Free Software should be sanitized from all its polish-oriented ideals such as Popes, sausages and low salaries.
Nevertheless it makes a good T-Shirt also:
"I'm a crunchy-granola slashdot longhair from left-of-Leningrad"
It happens everywhere. Corporative self-protection is a strong force in any well-established profession.
Nevertheless, one should first come up with a better system before throwing away the old one. It would be near impossible for a non-doctor to spot most cases of malpractice. The same goes for lawyers, engineers, programmers.
And, to further clear the point I was trying to make, it takes 10 years to be a good lawyer in a VERY NARROW field of law (the same for doctors, etc). Except in very trivial matters, the non-lawyer can not be expected to match the expertise of an experienced professional. So the common citizen trying to pose as a lawyer will almost always be at loss when push comes to shove.
Let me rephrase your words a little: "In every state but xxx it is illegal for a non-phisician to engage in the "unauthorized practice of medicine". To be a phisician, you have to make a lenghty residence. To even apply for the residence, you must have graduated from an accredited medicine school. These rules are widely perceived to be to protect high priced medical doctors from competition from non-medical doctors. Since all the people involved in enforcement of these statutes are medical doctors, you can imagine the results."
Now where did I left my copy of GNUBrainSurgery...
Are you in space already? "intuitive enough so any competant person can administer the network in their spare time"
My 8 year old can admin a 5 person network remotly from school during lunch. And yet again, classic mistake number 1: When dealing with a network, a UI doesnt make your job easier. Most of the time it makes it worst, by standing between you and the job at hand. Or worst, it makes a incompetent think he/she knows what he/she is doing...
On the other hand, I thought the people going to the station would be highly trained scientists and technicians. Usually these people learned to use Unix when they got the tape from ATT for their PDP-11.
As for UI, if you think Unix has no UI, your case is lost and closed. Go play solitaire.
In 1979, when the Komehini(the spelling is probably wrong) replaced the Palevi clan, the US isolated Iran from the international community. At that time China and USSR sold weapons to Iran. Sometime after that Iran was attacked by a west (mainly US and UK) armed Iraq. Iran eventually won (that is, send Iraq troops back home defeated and kept its frontiers intact). Unfortunatelly Saddam never forgot the taste of blood.
I was under the impression No Such an Agency would not run M$ products for anything other than after-hours solitaire. And even then only in a disconnected tempest-proof box.
As it is, India's move is logical and really called for. There is no reason why many other nations should not do exactly the same.
Many countries have now a fairly good software development capacity. With commerce and industrial secrets becoming more and more the daily care of intelligence agencies all over the world, it is plain stupidity to allow for No Such an Agency to be able to break into your (our, for that matter, Im brazilian) national infra-structure.
No poster so far gave one good reason for anyone to keep buying american weak crypto tech.
Also, the combination of free\open software with the end of american brain drain (due to the creation of local jobs) would be economically attractive to any government.
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Although you can't really use it remotely, you can certanly bring it down remotely... :))
ZDNEt was able to confirm today that a major design flaw exists in all versions of Windows released to date.
Johnny Doe, a well-known nerd and computer user has told us that any version of Windows can be brought down by a Denial-of-Service attack know as "Normal Use".
"It is too simple", said Doe, "a user would go and start using the machine. It can be done even remotely. In some hours, bingo, there goes Windows south".
Doe said he tried to call Microsoft attention to the problem but failed to get it past the third-shift phone-support supervisor, who told him "And what are the news?".
Run to your master, run, pitiful beast of darkness. Go tell him the light of Elbereth shines again and will wash away the filthy and the desolation he inflicted upon us for an age to end.
Bell Atlantic can not service a Mac because, for all reasons, it is too difficult.
Compaq will now stop this pesky little network from interfering with their legitemate business.
Who is next? A good day for Microsoft to relaunch Bob, I would say.
We can declare February 23th the official Clueless Corporation Day. Maybe, if we can convince them all to concentrate their crap in one day, we can all be happier for the rest of the year.
I am borrowing the title of this from Boris Sparsky (former chess world champion back in the early 70's). His book was called "Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood". The main theme there, that I think applies equaly to this situation, is the difference between the joys of playing a Sunday afternoon game of chess with a friend and the hardships of playing professional chess.
As long as I can remember I have been fond of writing. Nevertheless, I have never had the guts to go all the way and bet my career on my writing skills. For the time being I am a good coder and a fair technical writer. If eventually in my life I will manage to write and publish real fiction is yet to be seen.
But then the internet may change all this right away. If ever e-books become a reality the way MP3 is becoming a reality, the publishing market as we know it now will simply disapear. We also need saner payment formats, but this is also coming.
I dont really think the dead-tree industry will notice you or anyone. They will be run over by you and your brethen, editorless authors with nothing to lose. If we can build a technology that will let you publish your works in the web and get say, some dozens of cents per download, wouldn't it be a real deal?
As for Katz, I think he is OK. I used to like his texts in wired, and I like them here too (but indeed he sometimes get repetitive). And his age really shows. But I would not think he can start the revolution you call for. But I guess you should write to him and discuss it directly. Maybe he will go for it.
I am going to check your novels. I liked the way Kings of Rainmoor starts. I will let you know when I am finished.
cheers
Please, check your information before posting to tell us what you THINK happened.
Follow this link to the original review. There you will finda out that:
a) Hemos (not Rob) start the review saying
"I've read an advance copy of the book, and was impressed..."
b) Apart from the initial comments, it was mostly an excerpt, not a full review.
How I love people jumping on to pot on something they don't even care to check...
...and the article goes under FAKE news.
:)
Also, I have NOT devised a statistical method to measure flame wars, nor have I counted every silly post of yours. I just made it all up, trying to keep it more or less in order of funniness (is there such a word?)
Have fun
Apologies accepted, no offense taken.... :))
And I don't really have anything against ACs. I was just refering to the original poster (the AC you were NOT defending).
Cheers
To this day some brazilian universities will only use Russian authors to teach higher math to undergraduates.
I was replying to the AC above (the one the threading of my post indicates I am replying to, not the one immediately above my post).
Does that sound like satire?
What is posted here is not the essay by Bruce
Perens, but a satire of it.
I am well aware of that, sir.
Before you go insulting people you know nothing about and telling them they can't read
Hard to know (or to want to know) someone who wont bother to back a comment with a name.
Dear AC,
Can you read? No? Just basic english? You think so? So go here and spend some time leraning about the subject you so forcefully babble about.
Now go up in this same page and read the transcript of Bruce's post in the comment "Why It's Time to Talk About Writing Free Software (Score:2)".
Then stop suffering your ignorance upon us:
Anyone, and I mean *ANYONE* who thinks that Richard Stallman is a good advocate of "Open Source" is wrong. Just plain wrong.
Anyone, I mean *ANYONE* who thinks Richard Sallman would even consider being an "Open Source" advocate has probably been away from the planet during the past year.
He's not. He's an advocate of GNU CopyLeft, and fuck all else, really. You're worried about people who seem strange in the public media, and you want to advocate Stallman?
I fail to remember the name of your last code contribution to the communitary pool, AC. Please enlighten me before barking about programmmers and ideals far beyond your level of understanding.
The man is practically a rabid dog when it comes to anything even *remotely* commercial, including the occasional rip on the idea of people getting paid to work on open source.
I dont even think this plain LIE must be answered. Check the link above.
Good grief. Few things could be as bad for the freedom of the movement as RS, who represents the Stalin of open source ideals.
Against the enlighted enterprise CEOs, the freedom fighters of modern day, I guess. And again, stop using Stallman name and the expression Open Source in the same phrase. Learn to say Free Software. Learn to live with it.
St. Petesburg, build by Peter the Great, was known as Leningrad after the communist leader Lenin (and also because the Russian Revolution started there).
Left of St. Petesburg is Poland.
I can certanly agree that Free Software should be sanitized from all its polish-oriented ideals such as Popes, sausages and low salaries.
Nevertheless it makes a good T-Shirt also:
"I'm a crunchy-granola slashdot longhair from left-of-Leningrad"
It happens everywhere. Corporative self-protection is a strong force in any well-established profession.
Nevertheless, one should first come up with a better system before throwing away the old one. It would be near impossible for a non-doctor to spot most cases of malpractice. The same goes for lawyers, engineers, programmers.
And, to further clear the point I was trying to make, it takes 10 years to be a good lawyer in a VERY NARROW field of law (the same for doctors, etc). Except in very trivial matters, the non-lawyer can not be expected to match the expertise of an experienced professional. So the common citizen trying to pose as a lawyer will almost always be at loss when push comes to shove.
Let me rephrase your words a little:
"In every state but xxx it is illegal for a non-phisician to engage in the "unauthorized practice of medicine". To be a phisician, you have to make a lenghty residence. To even apply for the residence, you must have graduated from an accredited medicine school. These rules are widely perceived to be to protect high priced medical doctors from competition from non-medical doctors. Since all the people involved in enforcement of these statutes are medical doctors, you can imagine the results."
Now where did I left my copy of GNUBrainSurgery...
Are you in space already?
"intuitive enough so any competant person can administer the network in their spare time"
My 8 year old can admin a 5 person network remotly from school during lunch. And yet again, classic mistake number 1: When dealing with a network, a UI doesnt make your job easier. Most of the time it makes it worst, by standing between you and the job at hand. Or worst, it makes a incompetent think he/she knows what he/she is doing...
On the other hand, I thought the people going to the station would be highly trained scientists and technicians. Usually these people learned to use Unix when they got the tape from ATT for their PDP-11.
As for UI, if you think Unix has no UI, your case is lost and closed. Go play solitaire.
In 1979, when the Komehini(the spelling is probably wrong) replaced the Palevi clan, the US isolated Iran from the international community. At that time China and USSR sold weapons to Iran. Sometime after that Iran was attacked by a west (mainly US and UK) armed Iraq. Iran eventually won (that is, send Iraq troops back home defeated and kept its frontiers intact). Unfortunatelly Saddam never forgot the taste of blood.
I was under the impression No Such an Agency would not run M$ products for anything other than after-hours solitaire. And even then only in a disconnected tempest-proof box.
As it is, India's move is logical and really called for. There is no reason why many other nations should not do exactly the same.
Many countries have now a fairly good software development capacity. With commerce and industrial secrets becoming more and more the daily care of intelligence agencies all over the world, it is plain stupidity to allow for No Such an Agency to be able to break into your (our, for that matter, Im brazilian) national infra-structure.
No poster so far gave one good reason for anyone to keep buying american weak crypto tech.
Also, the combination of free\open software with the end of american brain drain (due to the creation of local jobs) would be economically attractive to any government.