Actually the detainees at Gitmo are neither innocent nor guilty, those are legal terms and they have not even been charged with crimes. They are just being held indefinitely without a trial because someone labeled them a "terrorist". But I'm sure they will be relaesed when the "War on Terror" is over, and the US has won. Oh, wait...
"Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world."
I believe you forgot "after their previous clandestine torture operations were exposed."
"A detention facility is used during times of war to house those enemy forces who were captured on the battlefield until such time that the war is over or the captured individual will no longer pose a threat to the capturing country if released."
Oh really? And when will the "War on Terror" be over? So just to be crystal clear you have no problem with the government locking people up without ever charging them with a crime, and being able to hold them indefinitely?? Scary... Governmental checks and balances are there for a reason. Maybe you should read up on the history of dictators before swearing such ignorant allegiances..
P.S. Not that I would expect much critical thingking for someone who states on their website that their dream is "to travel the world and eat at every Hooters® restaurant location world wide."
"Or how there were no cheat codes or spoilers online, because THERE WAS NO ONLINE! (Just BBS's, and they weren't much help.)"
Speak for yourself. I learned how to phreak because I needed to call a BBS or two that was located 1200 miles away from me (and as a 14 year old I couldn't afford long distance charges) for the SOLE purpose of getting help with games... So let that be a lesson to all of you - don't say video games don't teach kids anything, they taught me how to commit felonies!
"If you really need privilege to do something (like change your password), others systems have ways of temporarily elevating privilege. Like suid on Unix."
You mean like right-cliking a program and selecting "Run As" in XP, executing the program with different permissions? Yeah, I sure wish that already existing feature existed too...
Not so outlandish on Slashdot. Just throw in a Sony rant, and bring up how OS X is inherrently more secure than Windows and you have an automatic +5 Interesting rating...
"As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single time in my life that I thought to myself, "Gee! I wonder what the literary elites would think about that?""
I was just thinking this after I took a huge dump.
P.S. They loved it. Seems they always heap praise on utter shit.
Who cares what Gates gets out of it personally, he still does donate money to charity. He doesn't have to, and yes he could put it all under his mattress if he wanted. Of all the things to knock Bill Gates for, donating money is not at the top of the list.
If it were true that would mean that Symantec has pulled off a bigger conspiracy than the US government AND has been able to keep it quiet. Giving them a little too much credit if you ask me...
All that breaks is automatic updates. You can still manually download the updates. If you are smart enough to figure out how to get a pirate copy of Windows, you should be smart enough to figure out how to manually patch. Don't want to? Then get a legit version...
And yes, I am aware of a small percentage of legitimate users who had their licences invalidated. If that is the case, a simple 5 minute call to MS will have you up and rolling again. But don't try to blow smoke up anyone's ass and claim most of the disabled versions were legit.
Yes, updating is as simple as a single click. It may take a while, but it isn't complicated. If you can't afford a couple hunndred megs of storage, broadband connection, and a firewall, you shouldn't complain about getting owned after 25 seconds online. You can also get SP2 on a CD mailed to you directly from Microsoft .
Yes, for the most part. You see when MS comes out with a new OS, it is hard NOT to get that OS pre-installed, and a bitch to have to re-install an older OS on every single new machine you buy. Try to buy a new system that has XP - MS isn't exactly encougraging OEM's to sell their older OS. When XP came out, the University where I work adopted it very quickly.
If they only looked at a few sites, you may have a point. But taking numbers from 40,000 sites it would be hard to easily "skew the numbers wildly". Sure a very small percentage may have their browser set to report a differnt OS, but how much of the "computer population" do you think that would represent??
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Actually the detainees at Gitmo are neither innocent nor guilty, those are legal terms and they have not even been charged with crimes. They are just being held indefinitely without a trial because someone labeled them a "terrorist". But I'm sure they will be relaesed when the "War on Terror" is over, and the US has won. Oh, wait...
"Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world."
I believe you forgot "after their previous clandestine torture operations were exposed."
"A detention facility is used during times of war to house those enemy forces who were captured on the battlefield until such time that the war is over or the captured individual will no longer pose a threat to the capturing country if released."
Oh really? And when will the "War on Terror" be over? So just to be crystal clear you have no problem with the government locking people up without ever charging them with a crime, and being able to hold them indefinitely?? Scary... Governmental checks and balances are there for a reason. Maybe you should read up on the history of dictators before swearing such ignorant allegiances..
P.S. Not that I would expect much critical thingking for someone who states on their website that their dream is "to travel the world and eat at every Hooters® restaurant location world wide."
Spoken like a true homeschooled student...
and yes, that was sarcasm.
"Or how there were no cheat codes or spoilers online, because THERE WAS NO ONLINE! (Just BBS's, and they weren't much help.)"
Speak for yourself. I learned how to phreak because I needed to call a BBS or two that was located 1200 miles away from me (and as a 14 year old I couldn't afford long distance charges) for the SOLE purpose of getting help with games... So let that be a lesson to all of you - don't say video games don't teach kids anything, they taught me how to commit felonies!
You can get that ROM for M.A.M.E., but without the cool X-Wing controls it isn't very fun to play...
I have to wine about how cheesey that comment is...
"Once someone smart had said : There's no patch for stupidity"
Sure there is
"If you really need privilege to do something (like change your password), others systems have ways of temporarily elevating privilege. Like suid on Unix."
You mean like right-cliking a program and selecting "Run As" in XP, executing the program with different permissions? Yeah, I sure wish that already existing feature existed too...
"In cases where it is a Windows flaw - sure, that's MS fault. But here it looks like people are flaming them just for their success."
No, not on Slashdot! The horror! And this whole time I though Slashdot was the pillar of unbiased, informed opinions based purely on fact!
Oh yeah, and something about being new here...
Lawsuits - the solution to and cause of all life's problems....
(with apologies to Homer Simpson, and beer)
Not so outlandish on Slashdot. Just throw in a Sony rant, and bring up how OS X is inherrently more secure than Windows and you have an automatic +5 Interesting rating...
Or Clerks. Easily better than most Hollywood flicks at 1/1000 the price.
"As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single time in my life that I thought to myself, "Gee! I wonder what the literary elites would think about that?""
I was just thinking this after I took a huge dump.
P.S. They loved it. Seems they always heap praise on utter shit.
I'd suggest Slaughterhouse Five or Player Piano. Both easy reads with good messages.
And the glorious rebuilding by Haliburton!
Who cares what Gates gets out of it personally, he still does donate money to charity. He doesn't have to, and yes he could put it all under his mattress if he wanted. Of all the things to knock Bill Gates for, donating money is not at the top of the list.
If it were true that would mean that Symantec has pulled off a bigger conspiracy than the US government AND has been able to keep it quiet. Giving them a little too much credit if you ask me...
Yeah, it has sucked ever since old Bob quit...
All that breaks is automatic updates. You can still manually download the updates. If you are smart enough to figure out how to get a pirate copy of Windows, you should be smart enough to figure out how to manually patch. Don't want to? Then get a legit version...
And yes, I am aware of a small percentage of legitimate users who had their licences invalidated. If that is the case, a simple 5 minute call to MS will have you up and rolling again. But don't try to blow smoke up anyone's ass and claim most of the disabled versions were legit.
"I think this problem will take 10 years or so to clean up"
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See? I also enjoy pulling random numbers out of my ass...
Yes, updating is as simple as a single click. It may take a while, but it isn't complicated. If you can't afford a couple hunndred megs of storage, broadband connection, and a firewall, you shouldn't complain about getting owned after 25 seconds online. You can also get SP2 on a CD mailed to you directly from Microsoft .
Yes, for the most part. You see when MS comes out with a new OS, it is hard NOT to get that OS pre-installed, and a bitch to have to re-install an older OS on every single new machine you buy. Try to buy a new system that has XP - MS isn't exactly encougraging OEM's to sell their older OS. When XP came out, the University where I work adopted it very quickly.
Not corporate versions, which I would guess to be a large percentage of overall marketshare.
If they only looked at a few sites, you may have a point. But taking numbers from 40,000 sites it would be hard to easily "skew the numbers wildly". Sure a very small percentage may have their browser set to report a differnt OS, but how much of the "computer population" do you think that would represent??
Well, according to your own poll, about 5% of people use Vista at your job. So maybe the 2% figure may not be too far off for general population?