Because reputation and credibility come from actions, not office or wealth. With this in mind Twitter, are you any closer to realising why your other account has zero karma left?
Bruce Perens posts here, don't you think he would be a better target? Don't you think it would be easier to target someone like Theo de Raadt, or Stallman, or Torvalds on their own mailing lists?
The sooner people realise that there are thousands more relevant people for Microsoft to target than good old lying FUDing Twitter, the better.
'5 nines' relates to uptime. No system went down as a result of the failed WGA check, merely some non-critical functionality was lost to less than 12,000 computers. So, no, they haven't failed to reach '5 nines' on the basis of this outage.
Except that there are plenty of us non-ACs who continually debunk twitter's random cack at length, and we're still labelled as Microsoft shills. Being AC or not, telling the truth or not, knowing the facts or not, it doesn't change a damn thing around here and you have to learn to accept that or get frustrated quickly.
Regarding your facts though:- fact one I can agree with and it was a pain, though I didn't notice the difference myself. Fact two... I've never had to call Microsoft, not once in over a decade of Windows use, YMMV but I've found an actual call to Microsoft is quite rare amongst the nerds that I know. Fact three may well be true but let's be brutally honest - Twitter is far below their attention. He is not in the remotest part important to the free software movement other than as a burden that other OSSers repeatedly try and distance themselves from him. So ACs complaining about Twitter is going to be exactly that - not some conspiracy to keep him down, not some paid effort to stop 'the truth' coming out, but people who are genuinely sick and tired of reading his shit, and aren't willing to risk their karma to shout against the logical extension of Slashdot groupthink.
Twitter is unfortunately the extreme end of Linux evangelism and if it wasn't him it would be someone else, so he's not going to go away. That doesn't mean that people should stop disagreeing with him though, AC or otherwise.
Oh no! Whatever will they do now that they only have the $400 that people will pay for it?
I can easily imagine whatever miniscule cut AT&T throw them for calls will be dwarfed by the profit from large amounts of people buying an iPhone they can use on any network.
No, I read it but misread. However it was still quoted directly from Theo, with context provided, and therefore I stand by original comment and replace 'interview with' with 'discussion involving'.
I love how some people's lives revolve so much around what other people think that they'll tell me people are laughing at me and expect me to go through some existential crisis.
I'm sorry to inform you that there only a few people who's opinion of me actually matters. They have to come under the columns of 'I know them' and 'I like them'. Unfortunately Mr. AC, you are disqualified on both counts.
As far as I recall, BSD is basically "do what you want as long as the attribution remains" - and that attribution is still in the Microsoft code. However, the offenders stripped out the whole text and therefore infringed the license.
You didn't even answer his question. Also, compare the name for your link with the article title you linked to:
Them:
25 Percent of All Computers in a Botnet You:
one in four Windoze computers is part of a keylogging botnet Note the difference. No mention of Windows in the article, and also that the botnets are used mostly for DoSing and spamming. Keylogging and botnets are completely seperate entities - one can very easily exist without the other.
Finally, as someone pointed out below... if you really worked for a computer repairshop, why would you ever see a computer that was working?
Slashdot Mirror
It's not. The writing style is completely different.
You can get the Ubisoft games from Gamer's Hell or FileShack too.
IBM, the company that invented FUD.
Sorry, at work and humour flies over my head :(
Consider it a tribute to how well parodied it was!
What bollocks.
Bruce Perens posts here, don't you think he would be a better target? Don't you think it would be easier to target someone like Theo de Raadt, or Stallman, or Torvalds on their own mailing lists?
The sooner people realise that there are thousands more relevant people for Microsoft to target than good old lying FUDing Twitter, the better.
There are completely legitimate words that contain 'anus' all in a line, like 'Uranus'.
Sorry for the 'lying' thing, I don't actually know why I said it! Consider it rescinded.
...it was Mussolini, not Hitler.
Actually of the 26 latest P-members, 21 voted 'YES', 1 voted 'NO' and 4 abstained.
You could have said that and people would have believed you, so why lie?
I salute your bravery!
Countdown to twitter/Erris in 3... 2... 1...
If you're not willing to back up what you say with any facts, don't say it.
'5 nines' relates to uptime. No system went down as a result of the failed WGA check, merely some non-critical functionality was lost to less than 12,000 computers. So, no, they haven't failed to reach '5 nines' on the basis of this outage.
How about just 'twit'? Short and to the point.
Except that there are plenty of us non-ACs who continually debunk twitter's random cack at length, and we're still labelled as Microsoft shills. Being AC or not, telling the truth or not, knowing the facts or not, it doesn't change a damn thing around here and you have to learn to accept that or get frustrated quickly.
Regarding your facts though:- fact one I can agree with and it was a pain, though I didn't notice the difference myself. Fact two... I've never had to call Microsoft, not once in over a decade of Windows use, YMMV but I've found an actual call to Microsoft is quite rare amongst the nerds that I know. Fact three may well be true but let's be brutally honest - Twitter is far below their attention. He is not in the remotest part important to the free software movement other than as a burden that other OSSers repeatedly try and distance themselves from him. So ACs complaining about Twitter is going to be exactly that - not some conspiracy to keep him down, not some paid effort to stop 'the truth' coming out, but people who are genuinely sick and tired of reading his shit, and aren't willing to risk their karma to shout against the logical extension of Slashdot groupthink.
Twitter is unfortunately the extreme end of Linux evangelism and if it wasn't him it would be someone else, so he's not going to go away. That doesn't mean that people should stop disagreeing with him though, AC or otherwise.
Oh no! Whatever will they do now that they only have the $400 that people will pay for it?
I can easily imagine whatever miniscule cut AT&T throw them for calls will be dwarfed by the profit from large amounts of people buying an iPhone they can use on any network.
No, I read it but misread. However it was still quoted directly from Theo, with context provided, and therefore I stand by original comment and replace 'interview with' with 'discussion involving'.
Better?
Of course, Twitter. It must be Microsoft FUD, despite the fact that the article is an interview with Theo de Raadt.
I'm guessing as usual you didn't read it?
Why post as AC when you can pretend you're someone else?
I love how some people's lives revolve so much around what other people think that they'll tell me people are laughing at me and expect me to go through some existential crisis.
I'm sorry to inform you that there only a few people who's opinion of me actually matters. They have to come under the columns of 'I know them' and 'I like them'. Unfortunately Mr. AC, you are disqualified on both counts.
Parent can't take a joke - lack of sense of humour duly noted.
Ah, didn't realise it was dual licensed - sounds like a typical Theo reaction, then.
Carry on!
You do realise that your shop has 'repair' in the title?
I could easily be forgiven for thinking that your shop only repaired computers, it being a computer repairshop and all.
As far as I recall, BSD is basically "do what you want as long as the attribution remains" - and that attribution is still in the Microsoft code. However, the offenders stripped out the whole text and therefore infringed the license.
You can correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
Them: 25 Percent of All Computers in a Botnet You: one in four Windoze computers is part of a keylogging botnet Note the difference. No mention of Windows in the article, and also that the botnets are used mostly for DoSing and spamming. Keylogging and botnets are completely seperate entities - one can very easily exist without the other.
Finally, as someone pointed out below... if you really worked for a computer repairshop, why would you ever see a computer that was working?