Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that "willehill", "gnutoo" and "inTheLoo" are all the same person; sockpuppet accounts of twitter. Other sockpuppets I know of include "Erris", "Mactrope" and "westbake". I assume they're going to post here eventually with helpful things like "that's he truth".
I agree. There have been many instances where people on this website were branded as trolls and have returned to good standing within the community by consistently posting actually interesting and/or informative things that deserve to be modded up.
However, after twitter got himself down to karma hell, instead of addressing the reasons for which the community punished him by taking away his karma, he went off and created a little army of sockpuppet accounts, which he uses to actively game the moderation system.
As he is fond of saying, you can't really polish a turd.
Actually, I shouldn't have written that last line about moderation. He will get moderated regardless of what I do, so instead I take a few minutes of my day to warn people about the fact that he is posting and replying to himself with multiple accounts. I certainly wouldn't want to find myself in a situation where the sockpuppet army attacks me, to the usual detriment of my karma. Unlike twitter, most of us only have one account.
He posts at -1 for trolling. Now that he is at negative karma, he organizes shill sessions with his seven accounts to game the moderation system.
Anyone replying to any thread in which twitter is posting opens themselves up to be ganged by a gaggle of "people" who amazingly never cease to agree with each other and make the same grammar and spelling mistakes.
Unfortunately most moderators don't realize this and still mod him up.
Anyone replying to this thread should be aware that "westbake" is the same person who posted the original comment. Here is essentially the same thread.
twitter posts at -1 for trolling, so he has seven different accounts that he uses to shill up his comments and try to game the moderation system.
Having a laptop stolen is a huge concern today. This will help ease that concern.
Many companies are already implementing solutions for that. The company that markets PGP has a drive encryption solution for laptops that even requires entering a passphrase at boot time in order to decrypt and initialize the system.
This might have the advantage of being faster though, which would certainly be attractive. Still, I use a PGP-encrypted laptop and I've never really noticed any performance degradation.
I see the usual off-the-cuff "evangelist" buzzword-compliant bullet points still have some effect on the moderators.
In the "non free software" world, the way it works is you dump the product or service that is not working out for you. I've gotten rid of Microsoft software (like Content Management Server) that didn't do what I needed and replaced it with other things. The operative term here not being "free software", but something else, whatever I needed to get the job done. I've also replaced open source software with Microsoft (and other companies') products. Unlike for you though, that is not a religious choice, simply a practical one.
Every few years you will sell the same crap with a new GUI. M$ has proved this over the last 20 years.
The usual throwaway inane blabber that is hardly in need of being addressed, just like I wouldn't try to rationalize and reply to some wino shouting at me on the street because I wouldn't give him a quarter.
By the way, you really outdid yourself today. Six sockpuppets now?
My post was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the suggestion that Microsoft (or "M$" as twitter calls them) somehow profits from, and therefore intentionally introduces, defects in their products. The effect on their reputation is no different than it would be if RedHat shipped broken versions of RHEL.
I know of one mid-sized company that switched from RHEL to SLE because of a major problem they had with some of the RedHat-provided tools, plus (as a minor factor really) they were not entirely happy with the cost.
However, I don't necessarily agree with your characterization of the remedies accessible to customers. Companies and people can and do dump Microsoft products because they don't perform as expected or fulfill needs, the same way people replace other commercial software with open source products and dump open source for commercial software.
There is very little software (commercial or open) for which there are no alternatives.
Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that "inTheLoo", "gnutoo" and "westbake" are sockpuppet accounts of the person who posted the original troll comment, twitter.
twitter now has six known accounts on Slashdot, three of which have negative or near-zero karma.
Is it safe to assume then that the business model of companies like RedHat, which is centered around providing support for the software they write and/or aggregate is also a form of this "vandalism" you claim "M$" is guilty of? After all, if my livelyhood depends on fixing problems with my code, what incentive do I have to ship it bug-free to begin with?
In any case, Microsoft is hardly the only commercial software vendor in the planet.
By the way, seeing as you've stopped posting with your other four sockpuppet accounts, I'd appreciate a response to my post if you have some time.
I don't know if Macthorpe posted that AC, though I doubt it. I'm genuinely curious though - you object to someone pointing out that twitter has created a little army of sockpuppets that shill each other's posts, but the fact that he's gaming the moderation system is perfectly OK with you?
Why don't you say what you want to say in a single post with a single account instead of replying to yourself with your sockpuppets and gaming the moderation system? How manytimes will Slashdot readers have to put up with Mactrope replying to gnutoo replying to inTheLoo pretending they are different people agreeing with each other? And then throw in twitter and Erris while you're at it?
I'm curious, why exactly do you find it to be a problem that someone would praise IIS? From the Wikipedia entry on the product:
Earlier versions of IIS were hit with a spate of vulnerabilities, chief among them CA-2001-19 which led to the infamous Code Red worm; however, version 7.0 currently has no reported issues that affect it. In perspective, as of 11 September 2007, the free software Apache web server has one unpatched reported issue, affecting only MS Windows systems, and rated "less critical". In IIS 6.0, Microsoft has opted to change the behavior of pre-installed ISAPI handlers, many of which were culprits in the vulnerabilities on 4.0 and 5.0, thus reducing the attack surface of IIS. In addition, IIS 6.0 added a feature called "Web Service Extensions" that prevents IIS from launching any program without explicit permission by an administrator. With the current release, IIS 7.0, the components were modularized, so that only the required components have to be installed, thus further reducing the attack surface. In addition, security features such as URLFiltering were added that rejects suspicious URLs based on a user defined rule set.
In IIS 5.1 and lower, by default all websites were run in-process and under the System account, a default Windows account with elevated rights. Under 6.0 all request handling processes have been brought under a Network Services account which has significantly fewer privileges. In particular this means that if there is an exploit in a feature or custom code, it wouldn't necessarily compromise the entire system given the sandboxed environment the worker processes run in. IIS 6.0 also contained a new kernel HTTP stack (http.sys) with a stricter HTTP request parser and response cache for both static and dynamic content.
Would you elaborate?
BTW, since you seem to be posting on this article with many of your accounts (inTheLoo, gnutoo, Mactrope), I reiterate my request that you reply to my earlier post, if you have time.
It's a double-edged sword. If I don't provide concise proof then it's perfectly understandable that people would question what I'm saying. On the other hand, if I do provide it then I'm accused of being a troll myself or worse, being obsessed with this person.
Ultimately what I am obsessed with is Slashdot. I know it's lame, but I do enjoy this website enormously. I advocate free software whenever it fits the task at hand, and Microsoft and other commercial software when it does not. It has nothing to do with price, but rather with practicality. So people like twitter piss me off. They do that when they lie, fabricate and exaggerate things to push their "join us or die" agenda. And they do it when after the community has decided they've had enough and punish them with karma and posting restrictions, they go off and create a gaggle of accounts that reply to each other in order to do the same things. The only difference now is that the three new accounts have apparently done away with the "M$ WINDOZE BLUESCREEN EVERY FIVE MINUTES LOLZORS!!!1!!" stupidity. People like twitter make everyone associated with FOSS look bad.
But I will take a few hours one of these days to document all these things in a Journal entry. It's the least I can do, especially if I do reply to him like this occasionally. In the mean time, I invite you to look through the posting histories of the three new accounts (Mactrope, inTheLoo and gnutoo) and see if you can spot the "coincidences" between them and Erris/twitter.
Thanks, and I apologize again for being offtopic on this thread.
The release of source code is not a moral imperative, it's a personal or institutional choice that can be described more as an altruistic gesture (except when the release is attached to expectations of community contributions).
It has nothing to do with interoperability.
While I agree that Microsoft (and all companies) should strive for publishing accessible and clear documentation for their file formats and protocols, if your definition of "freedom" includes them releasing their code under the GPL (as you've "demanded" they do in other occasions), you better not hold your breath.
By the way, if you have time I'd appreciate a response to my post.
With the exception of the server space (which users hardly care about), your claims of superiority are irrelevant without a meaningful application base.
So far you've posted in this same thread with FOUR accounts, out of the FIVE that we know of. twitter, Erris, gnutoo and inTheLoo. All we're missing is Mactrope.
I am seriously curious twitter, you spend a lot of time on Slashdot, you talk incessantly about honesty - when did you decide you were going to turn it into a mockery and a circus by organizing these "bad zealot-good zealot" clusterfucks where you use the troll accounts everyone knows about (twitter and Erris) to give your other sockpuppets an opening to blabber their way on to karma heaven?
The problem here is not what you're saying on this particular post for example, which I suppose might be considered halfway insighftul without the "fuck shit rape fuck M$ Winblozes LOLOL" tone of your earlier accounts. The problem is your blatant gaming of the comment and moderations systems. You call Slashdot a community and you spend a lot of time talking about "us" and "we", but you sure seem to spend a lot of time lying (and therefore ridiculing) to everyone as well.
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Be aware that "westbake", who replied to you, is a sockpuppet account of the OP, twitter.
Probably not :)
Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that "willehill", "gnutoo" and "inTheLoo" are all the same person; sockpuppet accounts of twitter. Other sockpuppets I know of include "Erris", "Mactrope" and "westbake". I assume they're going to post here eventually with helpful things like "that's he truth".
However, after twitter got himself down to karma hell, instead of addressing the reasons for which the community punished him by taking away his karma, he went off and created a little army of sockpuppet accounts, which he uses to actively game the moderation system.
As he is fond of saying, you can't really polish a turd.
Actually, I shouldn't have written that last line about moderation. He will get moderated regardless of what I do, so instead I take a few minutes of my day to warn people about the fact that he is posting and replying to himself with multiple accounts. I certainly wouldn't want to find myself in a situation where the sockpuppet army attacks me, to the usual detriment of my karma. Unlike twitter, most of us only have one account.
Anyone replying to any thread in which twitter is posting opens themselves up to be ganged by a gaggle of "people" who amazingly never cease to agree with each other and make the same grammar and spelling mistakes.
Unfortunately most moderators don't realize this and still mod him up.
twitter posts at -1 for trolling, so he has seven different accounts that he uses to shill up his comments and try to game the moderation system.
Many companies are already implementing solutions for that. The company that markets PGP has a drive encryption solution for laptops that even requires entering a passphrase at boot time in order to decrypt and initialize the system.
This might have the advantage of being faster though, which would certainly be attractive. Still, I use a PGP-encrypted laptop and I've never really noticed any performance degradation.
This would merit the moderation if not for the fact that this account is one of your seven sockpuppets. You even created one so you could insult me.
You created this account as a clever variation on westlake, just like your Mactrope troll account was intended to be confused with Macthorpe.
That makes it six sockpuppet accounts so far. To repeat what I've been asking you, how long do you figure this can go on?
I see the usual off-the-cuff "evangelist" buzzword-compliant bullet points still have some effect on the moderators.
In the "non free software" world, the way it works is you dump the product or service that is not working out for you. I've gotten rid of Microsoft software (like Content Management Server) that didn't do what I needed and replaced it with other things. The operative term here not being "free software", but something else, whatever I needed to get the job done. I've also replaced open source software with Microsoft (and other companies') products. Unlike for you though, that is not a religious choice, simply a practical one.
Every few years you will sell the same crap with a new GUI. M$ has proved this over the last 20 years.
The usual throwaway inane blabber that is hardly in need of being addressed, just like I wouldn't try to rationalize and reply to some wino shouting at me on the street because I wouldn't give him a quarter.
By the way, you really outdid yourself today. Six sockpuppets now?
I know of one mid-sized company that switched from RHEL to SLE because of a major problem they had with some of the RedHat-provided tools, plus (as a minor factor really) they were not entirely happy with the cost.
However, I don't necessarily agree with your characterization of the remedies accessible to customers. Companies and people can and do dump Microsoft products because they don't perform as expected or fulfill needs, the same way people replace other commercial software with open source products and dump open source for commercial software.
There is very little software (commercial or open) for which there are no alternatives.
twitter now has six known accounts on Slashdot, three of which have negative or near-zero karma.
In any case, Microsoft is hardly the only commercial software vendor in the planet.
By the way, seeing as you've stopped posting with your other four sockpuppet accounts, I'd appreciate a response to my post if you have some time.
Honesty. Not a trait we associate with someone who has five different Slashdot accounts.
More information here and here.
I'm having trouble understanding how Bill Gates fits into this?
Clearly, once we take out Iran, Canada can take its rightful place in the Axis Of Evil.
I don't know if Macthorpe posted that AC, though I doubt it. I'm genuinely curious though - you object to someone pointing out that twitter has created a little army of sockpuppets that shill each other's posts, but the fact that he's gaming the moderation system is perfectly OK with you?
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Why don't you say what you want to say in a single post with a single account instead of replying to yourself with your sockpuppets and gaming the moderation system? How many times will Slashdot readers have to put up with Mactrope replying to gnutoo replying to inTheLoo pretending they are different people agreeing with each other? And then throw in twitter and Erris while you're at it?
Would you elaborate?
BTW, since you seem to be posting on this article with many of your accounts (inTheLoo, gnutoo, Mactrope), I reiterate my request that you reply to my earlier post, if you have time.
Ultimately what I am obsessed with is Slashdot. I know it's lame, but I do enjoy this website enormously. I advocate free software whenever it fits the task at hand, and Microsoft and other commercial software when it does not. It has nothing to do with price, but rather with practicality. So people like twitter piss me off. They do that when they lie, fabricate and exaggerate things to push their "join us or die" agenda. And they do it when after the community has decided they've had enough and punish them with karma and posting restrictions, they go off and create a gaggle of accounts that reply to each other in order to do the same things. The only difference now is that the three new accounts have apparently done away with the "M$ WINDOZE BLUESCREEN EVERY FIVE MINUTES LOLZORS!!!1!!" stupidity. People like twitter make everyone associated with FOSS look bad.
But I will take a few hours one of these days to document all these things in a Journal entry. It's the least I can do, especially if I do reply to him like this occasionally. In the mean time, I invite you to look through the posting histories of the three new accounts (Mactrope, inTheLoo and gnutoo) and see if you can spot the "coincidences" between them and Erris/twitter.
Thanks, and I apologize again for being offtopic on this thread.
It has nothing to do with interoperability.
While I agree that Microsoft (and all companies) should strive for publishing accessible and clear documentation for their file formats and protocols, if your definition of "freedom" includes them releasing their code under the GPL (as you've "demanded" they do in other occasions), you better not hold your breath.
By the way, if you have time I'd appreciate a response to my post.
With the exception of the server space (which users hardly care about), your claims of superiority are irrelevant without a meaningful application base.
I am seriously curious twitter, you spend a lot of time on Slashdot, you talk incessantly about honesty - when did you decide you were going to turn it into a mockery and a circus by organizing these "bad zealot-good zealot" clusterfucks where you use the troll accounts everyone knows about (twitter and Erris) to give your other sockpuppets an opening to blabber their way on to karma heaven?
The problem here is not what you're saying on this particular post for example, which I suppose might be considered halfway insighftul without the "fuck shit rape fuck M$ Winblozes LOLOL" tone of your earlier accounts. The problem is your blatant gaming of the comment and moderations systems. You call Slashdot a community and you spend a lot of time talking about "us" and "we", but you sure seem to spend a lot of time lying (and therefore ridiculing) to everyone as well.
How long do you figure this can last?