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Comment: Re:Wonderful Support... (Score 1) 491

by AlienIntelligence (#40122767) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security?

well I banged on a few doors in the local library system a few years ago trying to get multi-head multi-user Linux systems in there but got shut out. I eventually found someone who said that they had a deal with the Gates Foundation which prevented them from using open source software.

I'd call bullshit on this - if not, make it into a news story. it would gather a lot of views.

Not really, this is called, old news... history. Only you kids are surprised, us bitter old guys... we are bitter for a reason.
We lived thru the 90's, it's done and happened. We tried to get Linux out there but the bully on the block didn't let us.
This is a capitalist society for a reason. Money. There's bigger fish to fry. Carry on.

etc.

-AI

Comment: Re:New corporate-welfare bribery (Score 1) 491

by AlienIntelligence (#40122719) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security?

Bribery is fully legal here in the USA. You just have to call it something different. For instance, if you want to bribe a Congressman, you just call it a "campaign donation" and it's OK.

People in developed countries (mainly Europe) don't seem to be able to understand at all that the USA is just as corrupt as Mexico, in fact probably much more so.

Exactly, we have just learned to turn the corruption into subtle
coercive talk that ends with two people being happy and flush
or one being happy and the other destitute.

Rarely are they lined up on the roads dead here.

-AI

Comment: Re:Wonderful Support... (Score 1) 491

by AlienIntelligence (#40122681) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security?

I've worked for several Fortune 500 companies. Support has nothing to do with the decision: Exclusionary contracts do. Microsoft offers huge discounts to businesses that agree not to use a competitor's product. They also regularily check for compliance and there are large fines for any company caught using open source software.

I have been an employee/contractor at many Fortune 500 companies, and have never seen anything even hinting at a contract with Microsoft involving "large fines for any company caught using open source software". Care to provide any proof of Microsoft contract with any F500 consumer of software that prohibits said F500 from running open source software?

Seriously though, the poster you're responding to is full of shit. I've been in IT for 25 years and have worked with everything from SMB's to Fortune 10's and have never seen any such thing.

It would be nice if people could state their opinions without resorting to lies and trolling.

And I guess based on the conclusions of you two,

The Emperor of Japan doesn't exist, since you haven't met him
The damage caused by the tsunami in Indonesia doesn't exist cause you weren't there when it happened.
A tree fell in the woods and it made no sound. Cause you didn't bless it with your presence.

Maybe if you two would do some REALLY LIGHT googling, you'd see that what he said is correct.

Maybe not wide reaching nor at every place but there were collusive and exclusive deals laid out
by Microsoft "back in the day", that guaranteed Linux would not take foothold.

Not everyone has to prove what you don't know, lol. They make encyclopedias for that.

-AI

Comment: Re:what a joke the posts are aorund here (Score 1) 208

by AlienIntelligence (#40122543) Attached to: Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google?

NO really
how many people do i know with a smart phone ....1 out of hundreds why? its too damn expensive and ill add a home pc can do i dunno TONS more. they are better then xboxs for games...they can make phone calls , they can program and make games if i want to ....they can OMG lets be stupid oh wait the poster is american i forgot your math skills ratings im sorry carry on be stupid....

1 out of hundreds? Um, this isn't 2001 anymore. When was the last time you were out of the basement?

Or do you live in a technological backwater?

I'd say the ratio is exactly the opposite, 1 out of hundreds still has a feature phone.

-AI

Google

Google pays respects to Moog, now live on Google AU. Moogle?->

Submitted by AlienIntelligence
AlienIntelligence writes "Google's tribute to Robert Moog's 78th birthday has gone live on the Australia search site.

It's an AWESOME doodle. For an ol timer like me, that remembers the first doodle, celebrating the Burning Man Festival and then the decline of doodledom as they stopped being rare and became a marketing/draw tool, I really appreciate the complexity of this one. All knobs work, dials, and the recorder.

I can't wait to hear some music made by this doodle.

The Les Paul tribute was recordable as well and appears to still be playable."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:Ahmadinejad? (Score 1) 336

by AlienIntelligence (#40068205) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic?

Or maybe it's a father who wants to monitor what his kids are doing. You might disagree with that, but as long as he's not beating his kids, how he raises his family is none of your business.

This guy wants to secure his home network. A secure network is a good thing. I'm sure you'll say that this is monitoring, not security. Well, how do you know if you've properly secured your network without monitoring it?

How is it illegal, GP's words, to monitor your kids network activities,
if they are living in your house?

-AI

Comment: Re:Politricks (Score 0) 745

What tha fuck does this have to do with a slash and a dot? or a pound and bang for that matter? WTF?? How the fuck is this news for nerds? What the fuck is happening to Slashdot lately? Useless unrelated political crap and Google bashing is about all you find these days.

Lately? You must be new here.

bump on the 'how the fuck is this news for nerds'

I know how brainy people can have a wide range of interests,
but that's not what this site is for. It's for a narrow/deep range
of interests that geeks as a whole, respond to. Politics, is
not one of those subjects. Electronic Voting is. Zimmerman
is not. Electronic gun countermeasures are.

Any tonic diluted enough will eventually just be water.

News for nerds, stuff that matters... oh woe the comma.

-AI

You will be traveling and coming into a fortune.