Is put a text file somewhere - tell them where it is and if they can tell you the message in it then you will agree there is a security problem. Otherwise go away. IOW have them produce more than a report. Like a security test for a military base is for someone unauthorized to try to penetrate and see if they can put a tag on some piece of equipment. If they can then they've proven there is a security problem.
Gee - every Linux install I have just runs and runs as programmed with no suprises. Like two daily use notebooks - just turn them on and get to work. Then I hear so much about virus, trojans, spyware, patches, security alearts etc. Anytime I turn on the Kim Komando show on the radio it's all about Windows and the program is 75% virus, worms, warnings, problems, security alerts, trojans, etc.
There you go again with the "zero-sum" game theory - just because a neighbor decides to work and create wealth doesn't necessarily make me poorer. That's as crazy as those who look at Chinese and Indian poverty and think the solution is to just transfer wealth from the haves to the have-nots instead of finding a way for them to work and create their own wealth. Kudos to people in poverty who have found a solution to it themselves! It may change the jobs available in the expensive western world but they'll find other means of adding value and creating wealth.
Why blame the manufacturer - Msft is in the catbird seat and can make or break any hardware company - all they have to do is announce that hw from company X is no longer supported in Windows and they are history. It's part of the hammerlock they have - mfgs risk pissing of Msft if they publish enough details that anybody could write drivers. Just another prong in the Msft only enforcement policy.
Ummm, I have plans for tomorrow - nice weather and being Saturday and everything. If we could we reschedule discovery of an alien civilization for, oh, maybe Monday morning that would be great, ok? It would be a shame to spoil a nice weekend with global panic.
NASA could auction them off on ebay - The lucky buyer (or heirs) couldn't actually take possession of them for some time but it makes as much sense as paying to have a star named after someone.
At one time the empire of IBM was threatened by an uprising of folks building their own microprocessors (amateurs and small business), now the empire of Msft is threatened by folks writing their own software and making it available free or inexpensively.
Great, this technology will allow me to do nothing even faster and with greater efficiency.
I hate it when I give a cpu an idle loop, and come back later to find it's not even running, lazy bastard. Seriously, after prototyping a new processor the first test it gets is something like 0000 jmp 0000, or after getting a VHDL z80 to run in ModelSIM the first thing I did was slowly stepping thru a similar loop to verify it was actually 'fetching and stepping' (manually putting the instruction in the bus since I didn't even have memory, heheh).
That's my whole point: as long as there are immoral people, everyone is going to suffer with drm and lines at the grocery check out where every item is scanned and accounted for. Anybody who tries to run a business expecting customers to obey the honor system is going to go broke and won't recoup the cost of producing the goods the unscrupulous are absconding with.
We're really glad that your honest and pay for things - the problem is the blatent theives, and you know they exist, and even brag about all the stuff they steal. That's why we have police officers on the streets, etc.
I just noticed that the mplayer site had a 'shut down' notice, now it's not responding at all, altho google has a cached version of the "closed for patent infringement" statement. Hmmm, it was just updated with a redirection to the closed notice.
if someone CAN get something for FREE when they are expected by the PRODUCERS to PAY for it and they don't, then yes it's STEALING. It's cheating. it's hurting the honest law abiding citizens who DO pay. The material wasn't produced for free, why should people get to obtain and enjoy it for free?
You and your ilk are just part of a long tradition of trying to water down property rights little by little. Unless everybody suddenly becomes good and honest and don't fall to temptation to steal when nobody is looking when they are supposed to contribute something, (i.e., using the Internet) then enforcement of payment will continute unabated.
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Is put a text file somewhere - tell them where it is and if they can tell you the message in it then you will agree there is a security problem. Otherwise go away. IOW have them produce more than a report. Like a security test for a military base is for someone unauthorized to try to penetrate and see if they can put a tag on some piece of equipment. If they can then they've proven there is a security problem.
and in their ongoing efforts to please everyone, I hear they're coming out with a 'vimac'
Gee - every Linux install I have just runs and runs as programmed with no suprises. Like two daily use notebooks - just turn them on and get to work. Then I hear so much about virus, trojans, spyware, patches, security alearts etc. Anytime I turn on the Kim Komando show on the radio it's all about Windows and the program is 75% virus, worms, warnings, problems, security alerts, trojans, etc.
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This is not good news for Msft, where the bloat of software doubles every 18 months.
Time to start working on I3.
Maybe a good code name for Open Office would be "Methodrone".
1) It is a form of communication
all email is communication
2) The communication is unwanted
"wanted" is a subjective property of the recipient - the computer has no programmable decision procedure for wantedness.
3) The source of the communication is hidden
There may be some system of authenticating sender ID, and will be as easy as getting ppl to use pk encryption.
4) In recieving the communication, you use your bandwith or incur a cost
again a property of all emaiil.
Msft research tackles war and poverty.
Technology merely enables ppl - whether they choose to do good or evil with it is beyond technology.
There you go again with the "zero-sum" game theory - just because a neighbor decides to work and create wealth doesn't necessarily make me poorer. That's as crazy as those who look at Chinese and Indian poverty and think the solution is to just transfer wealth from the haves to the have-nots instead of finding a way for them to work and create their own wealth. Kudos to people in poverty who have found a solution to it themselves! It may change the jobs available in the expensive western world but they'll find other means of adding value and creating wealth.
they certainly got some gags in - one that outwitted the censors was a sign that read "Sneeds Feed and Seed (formerly Chucks)".
I can remember browsing the humor books in the mall bookstores in 1987 and finding the "* is Hell" series and thinking it was pretty wild.
It may be that life has no purpose, or even worse, a purpose for which I do not approve.
Why blame the manufacturer - Msft is in the catbird seat and can make or break any hardware company - all they have to do is announce that hw from company X is no longer supported in Windows and they are history. It's part of the hammerlock they have - mfgs risk pissing of Msft if they publish enough details that anybody could write drivers. Just another prong in the Msft only enforcement policy.
But who knows. that day might just be tomorrow!
Ummm, I have plans for tomorrow - nice weather and being Saturday and everything. If we could we reschedule discovery of an alien civilization for, oh, maybe Monday morning that would be great, ok? It would be a shame to spoil a nice weekend with global panic.
actually that happened during WWII - it was called 'war time' and lasted for the duration, from 3 Feb 1942 to 30 Sep 1945
I used to use a c compiler called 'sozobon' and was amazed when someone pointed out that was 'no bozos' backwards.
NASA could auction them off on ebay - The lucky buyer (or heirs) couldn't actually take possession of them for some time but it makes as much sense as paying to have a star named after someone.
At one time the empire of IBM was threatened by an uprising of folks building their own microprocessors (amateurs and small business), now the empire of Msft is threatened by folks writing their own software and making it available free or inexpensively.
that's what they want you to think.
Great, this technology will allow me to do nothing even faster and with greater efficiency.
I hate it when I give a cpu an idle loop, and come back later to find it's not even running, lazy bastard. Seriously, after prototyping a new processor the first test it gets is something like
0000 jmp 0000, or after getting a VHDL z80 to run in ModelSIM the first thing I did was slowly stepping thru a similar loop to verify it was actually 'fetching and stepping' (manually putting the instruction in the bus since I didn't even have memory, heheh).
Sen. Clinton should get online and try to clean up the place.
If you hear something, that's my head exploding.
here ya' go.
That's my whole point: as long as there are immoral people, everyone is going to suffer with drm and lines at the grocery check out where every item is scanned and accounted for. Anybody who tries to run a business expecting customers to obey the honor system is going to go broke and won't recoup the cost of producing the goods the unscrupulous are absconding with.
We're really glad that your honest and pay for things - the problem is the blatent theives, and you know they exist, and even brag about all the stuff they steal. That's why we have police officers on the streets, etc.
I just noticed that the mplayer site had a 'shut down' notice, now it's not responding at all, altho google has a cached
version of the "closed for patent infringement" statement. Hmmm, it was just updated with a redirection to the closed notice.
It is still a question if that's "stealing"
if someone CAN get something for FREE when they are expected by the PRODUCERS to PAY for it and they don't, then yes it's STEALING. It's cheating. it's hurting the honest law abiding citizens who DO pay. The material wasn't produced for free, why should people get to obtain and enjoy it for free?
You and your ilk are just part of a long tradition of trying to water down property rights little by little. Unless everybody suddenly becomes good and honest and don't fall to temptation to steal when nobody is looking when they are supposed to contribute something, (i.e., using the Internet) then enforcement of payment will continute unabated.