____/ ml2mst on Friday 14 March 2008 10:50 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz schreef:
>> ____/ ml2mst on Thursday 13 March 2008 10:35 : \____
>>
>>> Stevie_Ballmer schreef:
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:24:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You only know good when you've seen bad...
>>>>> Exactly what most people say after they have tried Linux and gone back to
>>>>> Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> Of course they do, most people only have an IQ of 100. Obviously
>>> GNU/Linux requires some more intelligence.
>>
>> Probably less unless you are used to certain workflow, applications, and
>> habits in Windows.
>>
>
> Yup, and the problem is that they are used to their bad habits. Last
> week a new Ubuntu user was complaining to me about sudo and asking me if
> there was a way, he could switch "this annoying continually asking for a
> password" off.
>
> He wanted to logon as "root" all the time and thus I told him, this was
> a bad Idea and try to explain the consequences.
>
> He finally got mad at me and told me that "Linux sucks". Now why should
> I waste my time on a person like that. I told him, I will refuse in the
> future to maintain (reinstall) Windows again if it gets loaded with
> mallware.
>
> I simply won't waste my time any longer with this crap.
>
> If he prefers to keep on using Windows, that that's his choice, which I
> have to respect of course. This however means, he will also have to
> maintain his crapware in the future all by himself.
Strange. I hardly ever do anything which requires admin password. Maybe it's
different when the machine is set up initially and you add some software you
like. The last time I entered admin password was... errr... maybe a week ago,
at home.
>>>> Ca...Ching!
>>
>> Indeed. All those Microsoft shills are beginning to be exposed. Elsewhere,
>> it turns out that Stephen Walli still has Microsoft as its client while he
>> infiltrates FOSS companies. Me and another person sort of interrogated him.
>> Microsoft uses 'covert ops' tactics on the face of it. It just can't leave
>> its
>> #1 rival alone to work without harassment.
>>
>
> I found it astonishing how you exposed Albert van Zomeren, recently on
> Boycott Novell. The fuckwit had _at least_ *15 accounts* on the Dutch
> website http://www.webwereld.nl which he abused to mod down every "Anti
> Microsoft" post.
Albert van Zomeren? Doesn't ring a bell. Who mentioned him and where? I know
many other 'covert ops' and I get flak for telling journalists to stop citing
them. Yesterday it was Dan Lyons, who managed to invade a FOSS show, get his
gay-Linux comparisons propagated onto blogs, and get a keynote in an Eclipse
conference, IIRC. And that's the Microsoft shill who fought for SCO, mind you,
called Linux users freetards, ridiculed them endlessly and also shut down
the "Show us the code" site, on behalf of Microsoft probably.
> Last week I temporary released Hadron Quark from the bit bucket and came
> to the conclusion that *all Microsoft astroturfers* post their rubbish
> 24/7 and these characters have the nerve to call "us" zealots.
When COLA trolls are not in COLA, they keep busy elsewhere, under various
different nyms.
> Albert has been insulting me for ages on the Webwereld site, simply
> because I have a strong opinion of Microsoft. He defends Microsoft and
> their _not so open_ "standards" as if his life depends on it.
Follow his money and affiliation. Remember what Microsoft says
about "evangelism is war" and "Jihad". There should really be stronger laws
against this.
See:
How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style
,----[ Quote ]
| In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997
| by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of
| steps to get Microsoft's platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the
| steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but
| actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
Fake bloggers soon to be 'named and shamed'
,----[ Quote ]
| From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they
| can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court.
`----
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1361968.ece
A Wake-Up Call to Microsoft's PR Team
,----[ Quote ]
| In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft, during its
| antitrust trials, hired PR companies to flood newspapers with fake
| letters of support, bearing ordinary individuals' names but actually
| written by Microsoft PR staff.
|
| Later, during the antitrust trials, Microsoft attempted to prove
| the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by playing a
| video for the judge. But the government?s lawyer noticed that as
| the tape rolled on, the number of icons on the desktop kept
| changing. Microsoft had spliced together footage from different
| computers to make its point.
|
| Then in 2002, Microsoft's Web site featured a testimonial called
| "Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert," a first-person account by
| an attractive brunette "freelance writer" about how she had fallen
| in love with Windows XP.
|
| Unfortunately, a Slashdot member discovered that the identical
| photo was available for rent from the stock-photo libraries of
| GettyImages.com. Sure enough: Microsoft had hired a PR firm to
| write the testimonial. The "switcher" did not actually exist.
`----
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/a-wake-up-call-to-microsofts-pr-team/
Is this Advertising Agency Hiring Comment Spammers?
,----[ Quote ]
| So we've got a viral marketing campaign that is based around
| blogs and message boards - where applicants need to be able to
| track where comments have been left...
`----
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/03/is-this-advertising-agency-hiring-comment-spammers
A Wake-Up Call to Microsoft's PR Team
,----[ Quote ]
| In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft, during its
| antitrust trials, hired PR companies to flood newspapers with fake
| letters of support, bearing ordinary individuals' names but actually
| written by Microsoft PR staff.
|
| Later, during the antitrust trials, Microsoft attempted to prove
| the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by playing a
| video for the judge. But the government?s lawyer noticed that as
| the tape rolled on, the number of icons on the desktop kept
| changing. Microsoft had spliced together footage from different
| computers to make its point.
|
| Then in 2002, Microsoft's Web site featured a testimonial called
| "Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert," a first-person account by
| an attractive brunette "freelance writer" about how she had fallen
| in love with Windows XP.
|
| Unfortunately, a Slashdot member discovered that the identical
| photo was available for rent from the stock-photo libraries of
| GettyImages.com. Sure enough: Microsoft had hired a PR firm to
| write the testimonial. The "switcher" did not actually exist.
`----
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/a-wake-up-call-to-microsofts-pr-team/
Kroes' Commission targets fake reviews (Microsoft is guilty), but not comment
and blog astroturfing from Microsoft, of which there is plenty. Remember, it's
Microsoft "Jihad". It knows no rules or boundaries.
> A couple of weeks another Webwereld user exposed him and there is no
> doubt, that he is a Microsoft funded astroturfer. Thanks to your recent
> comment to a post on Boycott Novell, we are aware of _what_ Albert
> actually is.
This requires new laws. What's most sickening is the intimidation and smear
campaigns from Microsoft's filthy agents. Jokingly, someone who saw them in
Slashdot for years told me that Microsoft must be hiring people who are at
prison, whose strong language is intended to bring you down to their level
(again, jokingly).
> Also Clogwog, recently attacked me on http://www.security.nl and got
> busted by fellow users. He recently posted some made up story in COLA
> that I had to apologize to SirDice, who is a long term "online friend"
> of mine. The reason I apologized to SirDice, is that he wrote something
> stupid, he wrote as an answer to a poll "What do you wish for 2008?", "I
> hope Linux will be loaded with mallware". And I reacted with very strong
> words. I apologized because of my strong words and because I like the
> guy, not (like the Anonymous dizum coward, wants to make us believe) "I
> had to apologize". Funny enough Clogwog got busted by nobody less but
> SirDice.
>
> Sooner or later, all the Microsoft shills, will get confronted with
> their own idiocy and smear campaigns.
When Microsoft gets Enroned and the shelves get digged a little deeper, more
secrets will be exposed. Microsoft grew in (and thrives in) crime. It's too
blind to see this. It believes it does the world a favour, like a robber
baron... or GW Bush.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Microsoft's Counter-Supportive Evangelist (MCSE)
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