All joking aside, he does try not to with his three(!) new accounts... he just some amazing lapses of judgement which makes it really obvious. Even if he didn't, he couldn't disguise the way he writes if he tried.
Oh, and top score for posting in response to yourself after just 9 minutes of your post being live. Sometimes I have to think that you're trying to get all your shilling uncovered, just so you can rant again about how Microsoft is destroying your reputation.
Thanks for proving the point that FOSS fanboys can be pretty bad by turning a discussion which didn't involve Microsoft at all into "MS IS ON THE WAY OUT LOL".
The problem I find (and this is what irritates me) is that it seemed to work.
My brother gave me a call yesterday to ask me whether Safari was any good because iTunes was telling him to install it. No outrage, no "this thing is supposed to be giving me critical updates, not foist new software on me" mentality, just passive acceptance that because Apple told him it's okay, maybe it is.
I told him it was OK, but buggy on Windows, and to stick to Firefox. It's for the best, really.
What and how I named this account is none of your business. Except it's incredibly obvious how you named this account - I got under your skin enough that when you had to come up with new account names to get over the fact that both your main accounts got modded down to the point you could only make two posts a day, you parodied my name.
You're either doing it to irritate me - which won't work, because I'm more flattered that I managed to ingrain my point of view in to your mind so heavily that you can't actually ignore me - or you're trying to discredit my opinions by associating them with yours, which is also fairly futile because no matter how stupid you think they are, the Slashdot crowd can tell the difference between two similar-looking words.
Okay, semantics is apparently your game. Common morality then, not decency, though I hasten to add that you were the one that labelled it as decency.
Considering that using someone's wireless is:
a) Equal to theft if the owner pays extra for bandwidth; b) Equal to fraud if you perform any action online while using an IP address assigned to someone else's name; c) Antisocial as it can cause inconvenience and annoyance for another member of your society
Would you find that it is decent OR moral OR legal to do any of those three things? And therefore, if those are possible outcomes of your actions, why do people still do them while hiding behind petty semantics?
Having read through most of the posts on this topic, I have to say I honestly don't know what the fuck is wrong with people on this site.
I would imagine that common fucking decency would demand that you ask someone before using their stuff without paying. None of this "Oh, your router invited me in" bollocks.
What the hell were the parents doing when they raised them?
Really, I've never read a review of Vista that said it was worthwhile. I'm pretty sure that shutting your eyes and closing the browser window before you read it counts.
So, Twitter, when are you going to stop pretending to be me? I know, I post at +1 and all your accounts are in the 7th level of karma hell, but you do realise that trying to semi-copy my Slashdot name won't automatically grant you the acceptance that you seem to crave so much, right?
Thanks for that, but would you care to answer my question instead of making some half-arsed attempt at making me look paranoid?
Any moron with half a brain can piece together the way you push your POV on Slashdot and resolve it to the (at least) 5 current identities that you use to shill the site.
The vomit-inducing purple colour they chose for the Apache section leads me to pray that it has in fact been defaced... and that some kind, generous soul will come along and change it to something that doesn't make me want to forcibly rip my eyes out of my skull.
I don't like the blame the user excuse, but that is what is being reported. Read this as: "I always deny the 'Blame the user' excuse when it's Windows, but seeing as it's Linux that has the problem here I'm willing to change my mind."
Sometimes they use a decimal point to represent 10^3 divisions and sometimes they don't use anything. I only see one instance of this (NOYB, 2006, '1308' instead of '1.308') but I'm sure you can tell us how this completely destroys their credibility.
Headings appear to duplicate each other, like the "Remote service password guessing" and "Remote service password bruteforce" You'd be right if they were the same thing, but they're not.
Finally, there are dozens of exploits "patched" each month for Windows but none of these technical problems shows up in their charts - only common problems are categorized. Is patch Tuesday a farce or are the fixes real and the problems worth tracking? It's not an exploit count, it's a log of all incidents where websites were attacked successfully. I'll let you go and find an exploit count for IIS 6.0 and Apache 2.2 yourself (I'll give you a hint though, you won't like the numbers).
Apache now only serves 50.93% of all websites (Netcraft confirms it!) compared to IIS's 35.56%. That would put the ratio at 1.43, and therefore your scaled defacements on Windows using the same calculationss would be 199,800, still 100,000 lower than defacements on Linux.
Also, Apache works on Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, Novell NetWare, and Mac OS X as well as Linux and Windows. That further skews the figures, but not in a known direction.
this is flawed and meaningless. Pretty much, yeah.
if you lump windows into one category, its easily TWO TO THREE TIMES greater than Linux. I was going to say "I don't want to be rude", but I'm actually okay with it. Bearing that in mind...
What the fuck are you talking about?
Linux - 306,076 All Windows combined - 139,503
Did you accidentally smash your head in with a frying pan while you were adding things together?
I hate to echo what someone else said earlier, but this is exactly the argument that's been put forward for years by Windows users as to why Windows is such a popular target for malware writers. That opinion has come up against some incredibly strong opposition from a good portion of the Slashdot crowd.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, apparently having a larger marketshare is significant. I will find it very interesting to see who puts their hands up and admits that such exploits are mostly OS-neutral.
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All joking aside, he does try not to with his three(!) new accounts... he just some amazing lapses of judgement which makes it really obvious. Even if he didn't, he couldn't disguise the way he writes if he tried.
Oh, and top score for posting in response to yourself after just 9 minutes of your post being live. Sometimes I have to think that you're trying to get all your shilling uncovered, just so you can rant again about how Microsoft is destroying your reputation.
Do you honestly think that people haven't worked out that you're the same person?
If it was, I didn't see it and still don't.
In my defense, I've had 3 hours sleep and enough caffeine to kickstart a rhino.
Dell and HP never used "It Just Works" as a slogan. In my mind, that means "We don't have problems, ever."
God forbid that we should ever hold Apple accountable for the image they chose to display to the public.
Thanks for proving the point that FOSS fanboys can be pretty bad by turning a discussion which didn't involve Microsoft at all into "MS IS ON THE WAY OUT LOL".
The problem I find (and this is what irritates me) is that it seemed to work.
My brother gave me a call yesterday to ask me whether Safari was any good because iTunes was telling him to install it. No outrage, no "this thing is supposed to be giving me critical updates, not foist new software on me" mentality, just passive acceptance that because Apple told him it's okay, maybe it is.
I told him it was OK, but buggy on Windows, and to stick to Firefox. It's for the best, really.
That's not the reason he's called Mactrope, trust me... the truth is far more pathetic.
You're either doing it to irritate me - which won't work, because I'm more flattered that I managed to ingrain my point of view in to your mind so heavily that you can't actually ignore me - or you're trying to discredit my opinions by associating them with yours, which is also fairly futile because no matter how stupid you think they are, the Slashdot crowd can tell the difference between two similar-looking words.
How close am I, Twitter?
The fact that you found one of those arguments plausible should be enough to stop people doing it.
Not that it will.
Okay, semantics is apparently your game. Common morality then, not decency, though I hasten to add that you were the one that labelled it as decency.
Considering that using someone's wireless is:
a) Equal to theft if the owner pays extra for bandwidth;
b) Equal to fraud if you perform any action online while using an IP address assigned to someone else's name;
c) Antisocial as it can cause inconvenience and annoyance for another member of your society
Would you find that it is decent OR moral OR legal to do any of those three things? And therefore, if those are possible outcomes of your actions, why do people still do them while hiding behind petty semantics?
Why is it so hard to understand that the basis of legality is what society deems to be decent?
That's right, stupid people are there for you to exploit mercilessly!
It's not meant for you other than to agree with you that using someone else's paid-for utility is plain rude, if not illegal.
Having read through most of the posts on this topic, I have to say I honestly don't know what the fuck is wrong with people on this site.
I would imagine that common fucking decency would demand that you ask someone before using their stuff without paying. None of this "Oh, your router invited me in" bollocks.
What the hell were the parents doing when they raised them?
You? Never did... can't remember why I foed you, to be honest.
Undone.
So, Twitter, when are you going to stop pretending to be me? I know, I post at +1 and all your accounts are in the 7th level of karma hell, but you do realise that trying to semi-copy my Slashdot name won't automatically grant you the acceptance that you seem to crave so much, right?
Thanks for that, but would you care to answer my question instead of making some half-arsed attempt at making me look paranoid?
Any moron with half a brain can piece together the way you push your POV on Slashdot and resolve it to the (at least) 5 current identities that you use to shill the site.
Twitter, you seem to have forgotten to answer me on one of my posts. That's okay, I'll just post the question again here.
Did you really create a sockpuppet account with a name suspiciously like mine so you could troll in my honour?
I'm kind of flattered, Twitter - did you really create a sockpuppet account with a name suspiciously like mine so you could troll in my honour?
The vomit-inducing purple colour they chose for the Apache section leads me to pray that it has in fact been defaced... and that some kind, generous soul will come along and change it to something that doesn't make me want to forcibly rip my eyes out of my skull.
Also, Apache works on Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, Novell NetWare, and Mac OS X as well as Linux and Windows. That further skews the figures, but not in a known direction. this is flawed and meaningless. Pretty much, yeah.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Linux - 306,076
All Windows combined - 139,503
Did you accidentally smash your head in with a frying pan while you were adding things together?
I hate to echo what someone else said earlier, but this is exactly the argument that's been put forward for years by Windows users as to why Windows is such a popular target for malware writers. That opinion has come up against some incredibly strong opposition from a good portion of the Slashdot crowd.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, apparently having a larger marketshare is significant. I will find it very interesting to see who puts their hands up and admits that such exploits are mostly OS-neutral.