A classic for framing. An MVP saying to Blame anything MSFT does on Clinton
DOJ. I've had one of my main guffaws of this day lol to the 64th frigging
Longhorn Server power.
That's an over the top wacky analysis for a pretty bright OE and Windows
maven. You also didn't follow the ligitagion in that assessment that
occurred after Clinton DOJ was replaced by a systemic bunch of political
Bush rubber stamps who gutted any semblance of the Biil of Rights and are
going to find much of what they've tried to do now overturned by a House and
Senate that has booted their mafia completely out of control of every
committee there, particularly House and Senate Judiciary with their new
chairmen John Conyers and Pat Leahy including the eggregiously stupid law
that DOJ can use heresay testimony and the defense cannot denounced by the
ABA ans the vast majority of constitutional law professors in your country
the U.S.
MSFT first of all gets smacked legally because their law department is lead
by Brad Smith and Nancy Anderson and they litigate with the "we can do
whatever" and assess later mantra. It's arguably the most hemorrhagic
destructive set of litigation efforts in corporate history and it just keeps
on topping itself. The legal fees and fines for the European litigation are
progressing leaps and bounds and the main defeat cvame because MSFT thought
they could get away with complying on their code and had zilch to do with
utilities like Defender, or inclusion of One Care.
It had as much to do with Clinton's DOJ as it had to do with Paris Hilton's
tapes or Lindsay Lohan's binge drinking or Laura Bush's pleas to render
Oscar de la Renta to Gitmo for making four of those hideous Kevlar looking
$8400 red schmatas Laura wore show up at the White House.
schmata context:
mags (5:49:08 PM): schmata is both an adjective and a noun. its a rag
mags (5:49:20 PM): so if i were painting a room, i woudl wear a schmata
mags (5:49:32 PM): BUT i would also look at you, and say, why are you so
schmata? go put on a suit
thejayspot (5:50:05 PM): i need to know these things
mags (5:50:15 PM): thats what im here for
Mags did not need to use the word "for" but what the hell.
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Actually, if you take a close look at how this litigation played out and
settled under Judge Kathleen Kotar-Kelly. it was Bush Ashcroft's DOJ and
Bush Gonzales DOJ that game MSFT the cushiest implementation of a settlement
this side of Britney's settlement with Kfed.
Microsoft Litigation Resource Page
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20041228040645419
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/msdoj/archive.html
Have a nice read Steve--the major result of this litigation was crafted by
Bush DOJ. In fact a considerable amount of time after MSFT successfully
got Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and Larry Lessing Special Master removed
from the case by the D.C. Circuit on 4/1/98--several years--it was left to
Bush DOJ to shape the actual details that achieved the result. MSFT made
off like gangbusters in that litigation and it was part of the reason that
they hired the scumbag Ralph Reed the closest associate of new inmate Jack
Abramoff who is looking forward to most of the rest of his prime years in
prison.
Reed was paid $27,000 a month for years until it hit the media. That ended
Reed's career as one of the biggest scumbags to ever be a Redmond MSFT
employee.
Of course Defender could do more and it could have a helluva lot less false
positives and the community could have standardized the nomenclature and
criteria for spyware long ago. Defender has been the slowest work in
progress since elephants embarked on a 22 month gestation for their babies.
Clinton DOJ and the European Union have done nothing to keep MSFT from
embedding One Care's AV code into Vista. What determined this was
greed--they want the money for One Care Live and it's part of the overall
Live strategy that is now being coordinated by new MSFT hire from Ask Jeeves
Steve BerkowitzSenior Vice President, Online Services Group.
CH
MS got spooked by the threats of lawsuits and especially the EU's threats
and crippled most of its utilities. They should have A/V included also and
Defender could do more. Blame it on Bill Clinton's Justice Dept for suing
over Internet Explorer.
1) DUMP and replace Vista's Defrag
I too miss watching those little differently colored boxes moving
around -- very hypnotic
Even when you right click on a drive in Computer and select
Properties>Tools>Defragment, you get the same dumb dialogue
that you get from starting Defrag from the Start menu: Schedule
and Defrag Now followed by that annoying useless twirling thingy.
What drive? What progress? Should I get a snack or read "War
and Peace"?
2) Provide Taskbar Notification Area icons for automatic Indexing
and Defrag and anything else that may be using the HDs
I find it VERY disconcerting watching my HD light flashing for
lengthy periods of time and hearing the HD humming not knowing
what is going on. Virus? Worm? Trojan? Lynn Chaney stealing
my porn?
Besides a balloon message, double clicking the icons could bring
up a dialogue to turn them off or let them sleep and a progress bar,
and a link to help explain what is going on for newbies. During
installation of programs and drivers I am almost always asked to
close other running programs.
