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The First IE Vulnerability of Spring [The First IE Vulnerability of Spring]

Karim — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:02:05 GMT

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1941507,00.asp

http://secunia.com/advisories/18680/

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/03/22/422849.aspx

Apparently IE 6 and IE 7 are affected, except the build of IE that was released a few days ago for MIX06.

<joke>
No word on whether this will delay the launch of Windows Vista.
</joke>

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Re: .Is Linux and Open Source software Really Cheaper than Conventional Software [.Is Linux and Open Source software Really Cheaper than Conventional Software]

Karim — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:14:14 GMT

shooby wrote:

The popular knee-jerk reaction Microsoft wants you have to this is as follows.

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1) Open source software may be free, but it requires more people to admin, and 2) there are security risks in having the source available to just anyone

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Of course this is total bullshit, and more bullshit. There is of course #3) it ends our monopoly. Didnt they mention that?

But I digress...

1) for example, if you add up all the hours spent by everyone downloading and installing microsoft windows updates alone it would total billions of hours. Saying windows is easier to admin is easy to say, in reality with windows, everyone's an admin, and frankly thats not what they are paid to do. by contrast, I know of people that have run Linux desktops for years (literally!) without even rebooting, or doing any admin at all.

2) having the source open to anyone helps lessen security concerns, more eyes, more better.

Number of vulnerabilities in 2005:

Windows: 812

Unix/Linux: 2,328

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39245873,00.htm

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html

I got my numbers from US-CERT. Where did you get your "billions of hours downloading from Windows Update" number from? A Ouija board?

Offhand, I'd say this single comparison seems to lend credence to the ideas that 1) Linux requires more people to admin and 2) there are more risks in having the source available to anyone.

Tell your friends running Linux desktops who haven't done any admin at all "for years" that they might want to check for updates, given that the platform has over 6 new vulnerabilities a day.

We know shooby wrote:

Lets agree to a test, lets put a Windows XP box and a Redhat box on the internet with a static ip and no firewall and see which one lasts longer. The latest numbers suggest the XP box will last 20 minutes.

You're confusing this with the Windows v. Linux security thread. This one's about TCO. My point was that if you've got THREE TIMES as much crap to patch in Linux, that might affect the cost of ownership.

shooby wrote:

Or is that too meaningful for you? You complain, yeah but who would run without a firewall -- Redhat ships without the firewall on. I agree, only a fool would do that with a windows xp box. Case closed again.

I'm guessing "case closed" translates as "nyah nyah I can't hear you la la la." <rolleyes>

shooby wrote:

So Karim, how about ending your personal vendetta against me, and against everyone else for that matter -- every post you make drips with venom and hate.

Shooby baby, it's nothing personal. I just dislike hypocrites in general.

shooby wrote:

And, yeah, I run windows on my laptop, for the moment.

Case closed. LOL

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Re: Probably for the best [Probably for the best]

Karim — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:14:04 GMT

shooby wrote:
perhaps you and many others here also should consider emulating that description.

Doctor, heal thyself.

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Re: Probably for the best [Probably for the best]

Karim — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:14:04 GMT

Advice from the ramayana.

"Who really is that person in this present world, who is principled

STOLE LOOK AND FEEL OF MYSPACE

and also a potential one, a conscientious one,

LIED ABOUT STEALING IT

a redeemer, and also a truth-teller

SEE "LIED," ABOVE

and self-determined in his deed. Who is he conduct-wise blent with good-conduct...

CALLED A MODERATOR A BACKWARDS RETARD

who in respect of all beings is benign...

BULLIED PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR SIZE/WEIGHT

who is adept and also the ablest one...

COULDN'T GET A PRINTER TO PRINT

also uniquely good to look to..Who is that courageous one, who controlled his ire, who is brilliant, non-jealous and even whom do the gods fear, when provoked to war...

WHO INDEED. THE RAMAYANA GUESSES IT AIN'T BEER28.

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Re: Windows POS 7.0 [Re: Windows POS 7.0]

Karim — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:18:06 GMT

shooby wrote:
Join the boycott, official web site coming soon. Look for the announcement here.

Ooooh, an "official" web site for morons. What, as Officially Endorsed by David Hasselhoff? How thrilled you must be.

Shoobs, do people have to wait until the announcement? Or is there some sort of Moron Technology Preview for morons who want to get a jump on the boycott before it's "official?" <rolleyes>

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Re: Windows POS 7.0 [Re: Windows POS 7.0]

Karim — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:18:06 GMT

shooby wrote:
I have a long history of real time work, some of which people died if it failed.

Oh right, you were the guy who programmed the "

shooby wrote:

I'm the Microsoft deprogrammer, and I'm winning.

Shooby: There are no Windows within 100 miles of Baghdad. There are no Windows at all. Go to the official boycott web site for all the truth. We are crushing the Windows, we are killing the Microsoft developers, and God willing their stomachs will roast in Hell. We are winning. We are winning.

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Re: Google Linux [Re: Google Linux]

Karim — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:52 GMT

shooby wrote:
For those of you that said it'd never happen.

... suck it up.

Google at work on desktop Linux

No, they're not.

And even if they did... uh, did you actually see the "Google Pack?" "Google Base?" "Google Reader?" "Google Video?" (they actually apologized for that one) "Google Video DRM?" "Google Whatever?" Those are the guys you want to save you from evil, evil Microsoft? If the imaginary "Google OS" sucked half as hard as "Google Video," their stock would tank...

Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could let it go
You'll never come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

- Garbage, "Dumb"

EDIT: Oh, and this picture is of protestors at GOOGLE, not Microsoft.

For more info visit: http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/

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Re: Google Linux [Re: Google Linux]

Karim — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:52 GMT

shooby wrote:

Ok, so you dont like me, too bad -- I like it that you dont. "Sir, can I have some more?"

You'll take any attention you can get, even if it's people telling you "you're an idiot! go away!" Sounds pathetic to me. Then again I guess you get off on the whole "being a martyr for the Truth" thing.

shooby wrote:

Re: protestors at google. yeah, right. Protest against Microsoft in a meaningful way, dont buy any of their stuff -- if you can get a license somewhere use if.

The point of the picture of the protestors is that you hate Microsoft for being "evil," but who has the young kids standing on the campus protesting, holding up signs and placards? Google.

It's one thing to say "we need someone LESS evil to save us from Microsoft," but does Google count? The same Google that decided for themselves that they could flout copyright law and start making digital copies of books without obtaining permission? The same Google that mostly develops software for Windows and leaves Linux and Mac users twisting in the wind? The same Google that invented another DRM system so that the pr0n you download from Google Video can expire after 24 hours? They're the righteous people you want to dethrone Microsoft?

shooby wrote:

I dont mean do anything illegal, unless you really want to.

"Don't be evil -- unless you really want to..." Ok, so maybe morality isn't the point for you. <rolleyes> Or I guess the way your <airquotes> morality </airquotes> works, if it's not Microsoft it's not evil.

shooby wrote:

Re Linux in general: Linux is a better OS, period.

That must be why it sells so many more copies than Windows. <rolleyes>

shooby wrote:

That doesnt mean its bad, just that its different.

I picture you eating a plate of excrement and saying, "It's not bad, it's just different!" Bon appetit. Don't forget to floss.

shooby wrote:

Gnome and KDE on X are pretty good, and dont require a 200 dollar investment to do email to grandma.

I guess if all you do is send email to grandma, all you need is KDE. Some of us have work to do, though.

shooby wrote:

Am I some sort of Linux bigot? heck, I'm for anything else.

I think that sums it up nicely. Anyone but Bush! Any OS but Windows! You don't care how bad it tastes, how hard it sucks, how nasty it looks -- as long as it's NOT what you hate.

That's why, the second it happens, you latch onto the stupidest recurring rumor about Google making an OS to compete with Microsoft and then crow like an idiot about how the empire's gonna come a-crumblin' down, woo.

"You say you want a revolution." One day you might realize you can't change the world by defining it exclusively in terms of what you don't want.

shooby wrote:

BSD is pretty cool, Linux is ok, and both are very functional and well archtected. Windows sucks, but is pretty. Everyone wants to date the pretty girl not the sensible one. But the analogy fails, because visual beauty in software is fixable, architecture is a do-over.

Some people define "functional" in practical terms, like, oh, being able to run best-of-breed software.

"Everyone wants to date the pretty girl but not the sensible one?" LOL Finally you utter a truth. But I don't think that's a truth you can handle, is it? The best technology doesn't always win, sensible girls don't always get asked out, and nice guys sleep alone. But you can't handle the truth, can you? Microsoft Windows is the vapid, huge-bosomed homecoming queen and that just TEARS you up inside, doesn't it? DOESN'T IT??? LOL

"Architecture is a do-over" -- what do you think those guys in Redmond have been DOING since Windows 98? Did you miss out on Windows 2000? Windows XP? 64-bit? Windows Server 2003?

If "visual beauty" was so fixable, Linux would look like Mac OS X by now. I've guess you heard that "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone?" Linux is apparently ugly all the way to the bone.

Speaking of which, I notice you mention BSD and Linux, but what about Mac OS X? It's certainly no uglier than Windows, and some would say it's prettier. So if Windows won because it was pretty, why don't Macs rule the world?

If the "best" technology doesn't win... maybe the "prettiest" doesn't always either? Maybe the world is more complicated than your black-and-white, right-and-wrong, good-and-evil fantasies make it out to be?

Shooby baby, Pepsi doesn't sell soda by ranting "Coke is EVIL!!! Anything but Coca-Cola!!!"

Pepsi sells soda by saying Pepsi tastes better than Coke.

If you want to change the world, sell Pepsi. Don't diss Coke. There's enough thirsty people for both to exist. Tell us about how Pepsi quenched your thirst when Coke didn't. Tell us how Pepsi changed your life, brightened your smile, got you laid. And don't delude yourself by telling yourself you need to hang out in front of the Coke machine and harangue everyone who walks by about how Coke is made from the souls of the damned, because people are just gonna think you're a loon who craves attention.

Which, I suppose you could be.

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Re: Google Linux [Re: Google Linux]

Karim — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:52 GMT

shooby wrote:
I'm not going to answer your venom -- youre obviously wired into the MS world, so go wallow in your red jello, and suck MS Everything 3.0 in through those hoses attached to your body.

You love it when people heap scorn on you? It makes you smile? Well I love it when morons say, "I have no response to that." LOL

You can't seem to separate The Matrix from reality, so let's GO with that.

When Neo found out about the Matrix, did he decide to jack back in and start screaming at people, "You're all dups of the system! You're all co-opted! You're living in a dream world! You're all idiots and I love you too!" No, he did not. Why? Because, for some strange reason, people aren't generally receptive to being called ignorant dups by self-appointed messiahs. (Go figure.)

But for the few enlightened -- the ones you "save" -- you rip them out of their nice, cozy, comfortable reality, flush them down a sewer and dump them into "the real world."

And what is this "reality" you offer? Wearing rags, eating synthetic snot and cowering in a HOLE under the smoldering, radioactive ruins of the Earth. Oh, and occasionally running out of the hole in order to rant at the poor dups about how duped they are. Whee!

Isn't "reality" so much better than the Matrix? <rolleyes>

So yeah, if you'll excuse me, I'll just stay plugged into the Microsoft Matrix.

[author slices into perfectly-done filet mignon, stabs a hunk of it with his fork and eats it]

Mmmmmmmm... sure beats a bowl of runny Linux snot.

shooby wrote:

You can't save everybody.

What you don't realize is that not everyone wants or needs your salvation.

Have you tried saving yourself?

shooby wrote:

Long live freedom, and choice -- lets hope we get some soon.

What's funny about morons is that they never count OS X as a choice. "No, nooo, the only thing people can buy is Windows! 'Cause we're all FORCED to! No one would buy Windows if they weren't forced to! Pay no attention to that Apple logo!" <rolleyes>

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Windows Metafile (WMF) 0-Day 'sploit [Windows Metafile (WMF) 0-Day 'sploit]

Karim — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:26:11 GMT

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/89

http://secunia.com/advisories/18255/

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html#00000753

Any suggestions? Other than setting your file type associations for WMF from "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" to "Notepad?"

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Re: Channel 9 New Energy Source [Re: Channel 9 New Energy Source]

Karim — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:51:09 GMT

shooby wrote:
And just FYI, in my other life I have written 2 books, have 3 more in the queue, and written a sh*t load of software over the years, controlling ICMB fields in the Dakotas, utility grids in California, airline reservation systems, and pacemakers -- oh, and some code probably still in the MS language libraries.

For the safety of our country, I pray to God that you code better than you spell.

I bet you say "nucular," just like President Bush. LOL

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Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India [Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India]

Karim — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:10:59 GMT

shooby wrote:
Soon you'll be MrOutsourced.

Still love Bill?

http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/07gates1.htm\

I love you too!

xx00 shooby

The article says that 3,000 jobs will be created in India, not moved to India.

I guess Shooby loves everyone... except for Indians who want jobs in IT. THOSE jobs should stay here with white people where they belong.

Way to be a racist, Shoobs.

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Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India [Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India]

Karim — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:10:59 GMT

shooby wrote:

I use hyperbole and context to great effect.

You might not like the color of the paint I use to write on the wall, but you read it.

You might think I'm just a troll, but look -- I've heightened your awareness of the real world, and you thought about it, and maybe even discussed it.

...Good job eh?

That's like one of the 9-11 hijackers in Hell taking credit for how pretty the Freedom Tower turned out. 'Cause see, if it wasn't for YOU, that beautiful new skyscraper wouldn't exist!

As has been repeatedly pointed out in this thread, stating that 3,000 jobs were moving to India wasn't hyperbole, it was a lie. If you wanted to start a discussion on either Microsoft's investment in India, or outsourcing in general, you could have done it without lying and trolling.

I know emotionally you might be still somewhere around three years old, but it is possible for you to get the attention you so obviously crave without "acting out" and throwing a tantrum. You don't NEED to be an immature jerk. It's completely optional.

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Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India [Re: 3000 MS Jobs Moving to India]

Karim — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:10:59 GMT

shooby wrote:
And I dont recall being a jerk -- I'm just trying to get your attention.

Friendly tip: Jerks use hyperbole and lie in order to get peoples' attention. You can get attention without doing these things. Look at the threads in the this place for cryin' out loud: you can get attention by posting a link to a "funny cats" video.

You don't need to gild the lily, you don't need to embellish. If Microsoft is half as evil as you claim it is, all you have to do is tell the truth. Period.

shooby wrote:

And I dont do this for attention, I do it to end the Microsoft monopoly, so after you are all out of work you may have an American company that makes software to work for.

Want to end the monopoly? Make a better product. If I hated Microsoft (which I don't), I'd be writing software for OS X. Or FreeBSD. "Stop b-tching. Start a revolution."

Ranting on Channel 9 isn't going to change anything, particularly if you're hell-bent on getting a reputation as a loony who never tells the truth.

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Re: What makes a good IM client? [What makes a good IM client?]

Karim — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:12:48 GMT

shooby wrote:
I'll take a shot at a 'serious' answer.

The lack of revenue generating, time wasting, flashy crap you can't get rid off -- i.e. all that stuffon Messenger.

Ok, so thats the same as my last post -- I cant help it

If you "can't help" being an annoying jerk, you are gonna get "helped" right out of here.

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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 canceled? [Windows Vista Beta 2 canceled?]

Karim — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:33:14 GMT

shooby wrote:
You mean, toe the Microsoft line?

Aint happening.

Every point the stock slips, I sip some fine Pinot.

Heres to your undoing.

LOL

Ok, so you hate Microsoft. Ok, so you're an alcoholic.

Nobody's asking you to toe any line, except the line that involves not being a complete jerk in every thread you touch.

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Re: Microsoft Software NOT LISTED in PC Mag Best of '05 [Re: Microsoft Software NOT LISTED in PC Mag Best of '05]

Karim — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:09:04 GMT

shooby wrote:
Microsoft NEVER made good stuff, just popular stuff, and the only stuff.

Thats why I do this.

So you rail against popular mediocrity.

What a crusade you've picked! What a noble cause! Not enough real evil in the world, not enough murder, crime, injustice etc., so you have to pick on stuff you've deemed to be unjustifiably popular.

You say Microsoft never made good stuff, only popular stuff. Big deal. Welcome to the Real World. I think Stephen King's a no-talent hack. His novels are awful, even though they sell in the millions. So why don't I go over to the Stephen King fan site and post Shooby-style rants?

Because Stephen King is a published novelist and I'm not.

Because 50 million thoroughly enjoyed Stephen King books doesn't mean much compared to my ONE opinion.

Because any idiot can take a potshot at something, but not everyone can CREATE something.

You say Microsoft never made good stuff.

What have you ever made, Shooby Baby? Mediocre or not?

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Rocketboom mash-up of Channel 9 [Rocketboom mash-up of Channel 9]

Karim — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:12:46 GMT

"So" I was really enjoying my new iPod, particularly when I found Rocketboom's daily videos on the Podcasts lists. Rocketboom yea. I hit the "Subscribe" button, then downloaded all the past episodes they had on the iTunes Music Store. Finally, I have Amanda Congdon in my pocket! (And isn't that every boy's dream? I ask you.)

I was catching up on those past episodes when I started playing this one:

http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2005/09/rb_05_sep_19.html (web site)

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewVideo?id=948068&p=73329586&s=143441 (iTunes Music Store)

And she does a funny bit remixing the Channel 9 interview with Bill Gates. (This bit was preceded by a story about Ballmer stating that Microsoft was going to "win the web," which was started by Amanda rolling up her sleeves, in "them's fightin' words" style.)

Conveniently, she put up the "extended mix" of the C9 interview with Bill Gates up at:

http://www.rocketboom.com/extra/bill_gates_uh/

Sometimes I ♥ Amanda Congdon. Othertimes, I think she is just a snide, pseudointellectual, stereotypically liberal New York ----- who probably spends more on hair care products than I do on food, but then she makes me laugh and I think I ♥ Amanda Congdon again.

Besides, anyone who lists "hula-hoop" as a skill on their resume can't be all bad.

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Re: Microsoft shows off new Vista features [Microsoft shows off new Vista features]

Karim — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:12:23 GMT

shooby wrote:
But, ok, I can claim that, and even though theres Real Networks, and about a hundred other lawsuit that illustrate this very point -- I'll take the time to hand hold you through a hypothetial scenario.

Would this be the same Real Networks that swore to the U.S. Senate that evil, evil Microsoft purposely BROKE their wonderful G2 Real Player... when it turned out to be a bug in the Real G2 installer?

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/29/real4.idg/

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/18010/18010.html

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/7-27g2bug.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/7-28others.mspx

No need to hold our hands as you traipse off to Fantasyland! You go on ahead.

shooby wrote:

Lets assume you have a new idea in software, and its cool and neat, and will take a lot of effort to develop -- after all its cool and new!

Maybe if it's really new you'd bother taking out a software patent? Then watch and laugh as Microsoft tries to invent their way "around" your patent.

Or, maybe it's not that new, so it's not patentable?

Or maybe (horror!) the stuff you claim is new, is not only NOT new, but it infringes someone else's patent?

http://www.friskit.com/press_release.htm

shooby wrote:

While you're picking up the peices, and hiring people to fix the stuff, Microsoft takes the time to use the tools they don't sell to anyone else to make a spifier (albeit bugger and with more security holes) product, and decide to make your 'new idea' part of the operating system bundle.

So "free and spiffy" beats "expensive and ugly." Huh. Someone ought to pass a law against that!

By "buggier and with more security holes" I assume you are talking about Real Player.

shooby wrote:

Youre now broke, disgruntled, with 2 million lines of code you can't give away. And your venture capital thinks youre a total loser.

Now I wasn't sure if you were talking about yourself here or Rob Glaser.

Don't worry shooby honey -- even if your VC thinks you suck, we still love you! ;)

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Re: Microsoft shows off new Vista features [Microsoft shows off new Vista features]

Karim — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:12:23 GMT

shooby wrote:
this man Gates and his whole company is evil!!

Right, so "this man Gates" is SOOOOO evil, he gave $25 million to the World Health Organization to help eradicate polio, a billion dollars to GAVI help children have access to lifesaving vaccines, a billion dollars to help black people in the U.S. afford to go to college, etc. etc. etc. And "his whole company" has a lot of participants in a matching grants program.

You're so f--king holy and righteous -- so tell us what the "Shooby Foundation" does to help the poor and oppressed? I mean, besides rant about how much Vista's going to suck.

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Re: Microsoft shows off new Vista features [Microsoft shows off new Vista features]

Karim — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:12:23 GMT

shooby wrote:

Karim wrote:

shooby wrote:
this man Gates and his whole company is evil!!

Right, so "this man Gates" is SOOOOO evil, he gave $25 million to the World Health Organization to help eradicate polio, a billion dollars to GAVI help children have access to lifesaving vaccines, a billion dollars to help black people in the U.S. afford to go to college, etc. etc. etc. And "his whole company" has a lot of participants in a matching grants program.

You're so f--king holy and righteous -- so tell us what the "Shooby Foundation" does to help the poor and oppressed? I mean, besides rant about how much Vista's going to suck.

Karim -- dude...

Thats YOUR MONEY he's giving away, taken from you ILLEGALLY due to the software monopoly.

I've had money taken away from me ILLEGALLY before. I've also willingly spent money on Microsoft products. And all this time I thought there was a difference! Thanks for showing us all the "light" and making us "free" like you. <rolleyes>

shooby wrote:

Second, I don't consider giving a warehouse full of outdated software away charity -- most of the 'charity' Mr Gates condescends to offer is self serving -- like, 100 million for jobs in India -- taking jobs away from Americans who can do the work, but who'd want to make a living at it.

So since you brought up India -- are you sure you don't mean the $100 million Gates gave India to fight HIV/AIDS?

http://www.aegis.com/news/re/2002/RE021108.html

That's something evil people do all the time, you know, give entire countries a hundred million dollars to fight diseases.

So what has the Shooby Foundation done to fight AIDS? Say "no thanks, honey" at a gay bar?

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Re: Top 10 Ways to Help Microsoft Force Everyone to Upgrade to Vista [Re: Top 10 Ways to Help Microsoft Force Everyone to Upgrade to Vista]

Karim — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:29:11 GMT

shooby wrote:
I've BEEN a MS devleoper for 20 years. I watched this company grow, and basically stick it to us developers ever since. One crappy 'new technology' after another. COM, OLE, ASP, services blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

None of it ever works right, or is anything you can build on. It cant be. They make those billions by pulling the rug out from under us, so they can sell us a new and improved rug.

If you want to look at the world and SEE malevolent intent behind everything, it's terribly easy. It's just not necessarily TRUE.

If you've seen "one crappy 'new technology' after another," it's not because Gates actually IS the Devil, as you suggest, and he is wringing his hands in fear, saying, "Damn! They've figured out our latest crappy technology! Time to invent a new crappy technology and make everyone switch."

The changes PARTLY happen because THE WORLD changes. Microsoft would have actually been pretty happy to leave things at 16 bits, but then 32-bit processors came along. They would have been happy to run the world on NetBIOS, but then this thing called the Internet came along. ASP and web services and "blah blah blah" were invented IN RESPONSE to the Internet.

If you want to blame someone for that, blame Al Gore, he invented the Internet.

What you call "pulling the rug out from under us" I call RESPONDING TO THE CHANGES IN THE WORLD. The companies that DON'T do that DIE. The companies that are SLOW to do that (*cough* IBM *cough*) watch helplessly as smaller, more nimble companies steal their customers away.

I assume you think that "The Matrix" is for real, that everyone on Channel 9 is a "coppertop," and that it's YOUR special mission in life is to bring truth and light to the poor clueless idiots.

You wrote on your C9 introduction that you "campaign for human rights and freedom." Your comment is currently "Don't you wish you were free like me?" For reasons I don't yet understand, you have a hard-on of hatred for Don Box, Bill Gates and All Things Microsoft. You obviously have a PERSONAL axe to grind because you feel you were mistreated by these people.

Your web site is more of the same, just replace Bill Gates with George Bush. Your WHOIS organization is "The Organization for World Freedom." Until very recently, the About page on your web site proclaimed "We are about the truth" and "this organization and this site are an attempt to make the world a better place" by "raising the level of consciousness."

Want to raise consciousness? Try making a legitimate, reasonable argument. In other words, try something OTHER than just ranting that "Vista's going to suck and you are dupe if you think otherwise."

Morpheus didn't just stand on a streetcorner and scream, "This is all a sham! You're all dupes of the system!" He was a little more subtle than that. Maybe you should watch the movie again.

And no, not everyone wishes they were "free" like you. Personally I can't afford to be that "free" -- my insurance plan's prescription drug benefit is limited.

We love you too, Shooby.

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Re: General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter [General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter]

Karim — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:30:20 GMT

shooby wrote:
I didnt mention Don Box.

..but if theres a dark center of the ego, thats Don.

Wow, I was going to post about you in another thread, but changed my mind. One of the things I was going to say was that you really hated Don Box.

Apparently you think he is a blithering idiot -- but I'm just curious -- what did Don Box ever do to you...?

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Karim — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:31:39 GMT

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