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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, April 24 2013 @ 11:33 PM EDT |
I wonder how much he is getting paid by the MAFIAAs for
this one? According
to
Wikipedia...
Goodlatte is an original sponsor of the
Stop
Online Piracy Act, H.R. 3261, introduced in the House's,
Intellectual
Property, Competition and the Internet
Subcommittee, which he Chairs. He is
also a coauthor of the
bill, as referenced by Chairman Lamar Smith,[8]
Congresswoman Waters,[9] and Goodlatte himself[10] during
Markup hearings for
SOPA. The bill enables the Justice
Department to shutdown websites that it
determines are
dedicated to copyright infringement. The DoJ would be able
to
commence legal action against any site it believes to
have "limited purpose or
use other than infringement," and
the DoJ would be authorized to prevent search
engines,
social networking sites and domain name services block
access to the
targeted site.
This man is not to be trusted. Beyond
"copyright reform"
on behalf of the MAFIAA, his ultimate ambition is to have
every US citizen marked with an RFID tag. We need to do
everything in our
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-re-releases-botched-patch
-kb-2840149-problems-remain-217213
I'm interested by this statement that completes the article:
"If MS13-036 -- Microsoft's second major botched patch so far this year --
doesn't convince you to turn off Windows Automatic Update, I don't know what
will."
But, given the quality of Microsoft products, you need any patches that are
released about 4 weeks before they are available. The patching process only
begins when exploits are actively being used, so, by the time they develop a
patch, and it's the right Tuesday, they need to be installed.
Well, as they say, if you can't trust an OS's update mechanism, you can't trust
the OS, but what chance do any of us have of pulling our family, friends or
clients off the Microsoft teat (or, should i say, syringe)?
(I recall the statement about the open source community's attitude toward
updates - 'Release because it's ready, not because it's Tuesday.' Applies here,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 07:52 PM EDT |
Gotta love it... trust Microsoft.
Security, privacy, trust... three words I never associate with Microsoft.
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Authored by: FreeChief on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 08:39 PM EDT |
The article lists four
things we learned from Linus
He attributes the success of Linux
during his talk to four primary principles:
- Don't Dream Big...
OK, World Domination was a joke
- Give It All Away... OK.
- Don't
Have a Plan... Maybe. There's a plan for the next release, but not for the
next twenty years
- Don't Be Nice... Now hold it right
there!
My girlfriend and I spent a nice evening drinking
beer with Linus, Tove, and about eight other guys sometime around 1997. (Tove
insisted we were invited when she found that my girlfriend was the only other
woman at the conference.) Now some guy I've never heard of says Linus is not a
nice guy? I don't make a habit of getting into bar fights, but this guy needs
to learn some manners.
I calmed down when I read (some of) the article. The
"not nice" to which he refers is in the criticism of each others code and ideas.
The riff-raff thinks that trashing something is not nice, and that it is nice
to praise it even it it is broken. In hacker culture, submitting a bug report
is a service. If someone can tell you, even before you write it, why the
program won't work, so much the better. That saves a lot of work.
I get a
lot of satisfaction from trashing my own work. When I can delete a long
procedure that took a week to write and replace it with something short and
simple, I go home happy,
— Programmer in Chief
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