Mobile phones, planes, gas and Brill Gates

Hehe Greetings,

Just feel the need to comment on this article.

I never believed that mobiles caused explosions either. Obviously if someone is a bag of static its gonna make something go boom.

Now, about aircraft and mobile phones, the real reason behind this is not because of interfearence with aircraft navigational equipment like they want you to believe. Its because of how a mobile phone network operates. You have a big bunch of cell zones that are a wide area apart. If you're in an airplane going about 500km/h high in the sky, then you're going to be getting full coverage over many of these at once rather then just a single one. Not to mention moving fast between practically dozens of zones within minutes. This is very harsh on networks and is known to cause a lot of problems.

Now why won't they tell us the real truth on the matter? :)

Bren

No Evidence to Support Anything

We all know that anyone, anywhere, for any reason whatsoever can find that there is No Evidence to support Anything. Data, thusly, is meaningless. Only the latest "There is no Evidence" is the real truth, and how much they were paid to make their claims.

Bottom Line: Money Talks, Truth Walks.

So, dear readers, remember always that there is no evidence until it happens to you, but by then you will have become a statistic, your data is thus meaningless, and you are thereby forgotten.

Anti-spam laws are Futile

Hi Mike,

Re the article "Anti-spam laws are futile"... yes and no is the answer. Clearly there needs to be a law in every country on the planet for it to work, and clearly when you have such laws in the US or Australia then all it does is shift spam off shore.

What we at BePrivate have found since starting our anti-spam service is that trojan-compromised PC's are fast becoming the spam source of choice... as it effectively masks the source of spam for those that wish to remain operating in a country with anti-spam laws. Of course a choice source of security-compromised PC's is labs full of Microsoft PC's in schools, universities, etc. etc... or all those PC's on dialup and DSL/Cable modems without firewalling or anti-virus (plenty of them eh?)

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So... it's an arms race with the spammers really, which is why we are continually improving our already very good anti-spam technology which already works very well indeed. The filtering-based folks just don't have a chance...
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Paul

More on Spam

Hello, I'm just writing to you in regards to the story in the subject, which you guys posted on your web site. First off, if the person who wrote the story had been using the DLL Modz Spam Filter (catchy name, I know!), there's a good chance they wouldn't have gotten that email (or else it would have been really easy to make the program detect the spam. The filter is not really an add on to any program, it's a standalone program all on its own, and does a mighty fine job. Not all of the filters built into it are running yet, and I very rarely get junk email (and even much more rarely does the program mistake a real mail for spam).

Secondly... to get rid of the whole open relay problem, is it not possible for a government to make it law that you can not send spam via another users network (like an open relay)

Dustin Chambers

Spam, more on It

The third component, beside open relays and forged headers, are hacked PCs from where the idiots launch their spam. Unix, including clones like linux, MS-DoS and MacOS all have their share. Ever received spam from a hacked VMS system? And number four is this primitive unix style Internet protocol called SMTP. Typical early 70's technology. Give me a break!

Happy holidays!

More on Andrew Thomas

I am an Apple Mac user for about 10 years. I love Apple products and am using a current OS. OSX.3.2 and a G4 DP 450 mghz computer. Pretty heavy hardware for flaming and browsing the net. I read through your article and find a great deal to fault(thought it looks like I will not have the time to rehash what has already been so well stated in previous posts).

But first off I want to tell you about why I turned to a Mac. In "87' I bought a Mindset branded PC. It was the first one that was able to use color and I could get 256 total at the time. It had 16k of ram and two 5/12" floppies. It was a pretty hot computer for it's day. It was totally unusable for my needs but it was all that was offered by the Wintel Duopoly at the time. But also at that time I though that was the way to go, baa baa baa. I thought that I could get it to work if I just learned more about it. HAH! It just was not there.

So eventually I met a friend that worked for a Graphics company and in 88 I bought a Mac IICi. What a wonderfull computer. At that time It had a 32 bit clean rom, I could install up to 128 meg of ram and could work in Millions of colors. Spendy by comparison, yes.. but Nothing else on the PC consumer side could match it. And I had Photoshop 2 I think. I was running OS7. It was heaven. So has Microsoft caught up with Apple yet. In the Mid '90's yes it did but Steve Jobs was not there and look at all the business casualities that were left laying around after Bill started his expansion. He does not play fair, but that is old news and well documented. OH yes, if you have noticed Steve is Back and MS had better watch out.

There was and hopefully always will be an alternative to MS products. Did any one notice how long IE lasted on the MAC platform after Safari was introduce? Let me see.. about 2 days DUH??? Lets see Bill compete with that, he won't even try, he does not compete fair and he knows he won't win. PPC processors.. what is he chooseing for his OWN products for the Xbox.. NOT INTEL.. what gives..?????Still MS follows Apple.

Would you want to be sleeping with Bill Gates. Not if my wallet was near by and I had to kiss him! But hey with MS's track record for trashing and destroying business "friends" is it any wonder that all the world wants to lock MS out of their part of the market? Watch out Dell, Intel et al, MS just might start making their own branded computers and then where would you be? Linux venders? Yogo chips with dust thin margin markets. Competing for scraps. MS has the power to twist everyones arms till it pops off and squirts blood in their faces. Just wait and it will be soon be your turn. There are a lot more choices out there then you think. And they are a building. I have converted about 30 PC users to MACs, in the last couple years and they ain't going back. Not because I am such a great salesman either. They like being MS free. There is a choice and they are very happy.

A wise man knows when he has is being led off a cliff. Viruses any one?

Jan Swesey

Santa Claws

What's the matter, are you afraid to say Merry Christmas. The left is trying to get rid of any reference to Jesus or his title the Christ (savior). Nativity scenes have been banned from many places now and terms like Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings are being used to continue the assault on Christmas. Then you have the secular scientist who want to get rid of B.C. and A.D. to replace it with the atheistic terms BCE and CE that way the reference to Jesus is gone. The anti-Christs are hard at work for their master and don't even know they are puppets of Satan! I beg you to open your eyes and support the truth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ child!

Sick and tired of the leftist commie loving liberals,

Mr. Reynolds

More on Bill Gates

oh noo! This guy is brainwashed by Microsoft!!

Microsoft makes him think that they are very good supporting third world countries and stuff. While they do that with money they earned in a 'not honest' way!!

By introducing proprietary standards, so that other applications will never be compatible with theirs. Like their HTML standards, other browsers can't display all webpages!

By buying complete companies so that they wont hurt Microsoft's monopely For example Bungie Software that was developing the HALO game for Apple! Now it is an Xbox game! How evil can a company be?

For kicking out a lot of great applications out of the market like; Lotus notus, Realplayer, ICQ, Netscape, Wordperfect! (and many many more)

Sorry Bill, I don't think you are a very cool person.

Christian Zielinski

More on Andrew Gates, Brill Thomas

Hi Mike,

Nice to see something new in TheInquirer.

I used to read it for info, fun, and what I often considered the truth.

Having just read the article entitled, "Bill Gates is Cool," I thought perhaps I was reading a Ziff-Davis publication, or some columnist who submitted a microsoft written article as his own.

I've learned that Sun are the bad guys, having sued Microsoft for breaking the java standard, and therefore abusing the Sun copyright. Of all the nerve, Sun sued to keep little old Microsoft from playing unfairly. Evidently, intellectual property theft is cool with Microsoft, so long as they are not the ones who are the victims. And when Bill loses a lawsuit, it's Sun's fault that he doesn't just pay up royalties, or fix the offending code that isn't up to the standards, but instead pulls the entire thing out, leaving the average customer wondering why stuff stopped working. Why didn't Sun just let Microsoft break the standards that it had to agree to, in order to call it java(tm)? Sun is so uncaring of the consumer, I learned from the article.

I also learned that users prefer Microsoft Office because it's better. I had always thought it was because Microsoft had a monopoly and used that monopoly to make their "standard" incompatible with everyone else's, including some of their older versions, so people would have to use MS Office if they wanted interoperability. Evidently I was wrong. People really love using Microsoft Office, and don't mind the many trojans, macro viruses, and the like. After all, they buy it, so they must feel it is the best, evidently. And it is worth half the cost of a new computer...or maybe more.

And, I learned, Billy Gates would much rather steal code, er, I mean write code, than to run the largest software house, becoming the richest man in the world. After all, when he went through the garbage bins at, was it DEC?, to come up with "DOS", he was very happy "programming."

And, I learned, that unlike the nasty robber barons of the early 20th century, who, later in life, started donating some money to quell some of the anger against them, Bill Gates is just incredibly kind hearted and has given away money for years. (Well, at least two, anyway, maybe even three or four?) He was able to avoid that pesky donating of money for most of his life, to enable him to break other companies, er, I mean, innovate.

I guess I will next read how Bill Gates did not lie under oath at the Microsoft antitrust case, saying it was impossible to remove IE from Windows98? And that he does not pressure the U.S. government to use MS Windows in Navy ships, nor have the government try to pressure India and others to keep from using Linux.

Evidently, I need to read TheInquirer to help me clarify facts I had incorrect.

Thanks!

And internet voting, I suppose, will be safe and secure, unable to be tampered with, due to the 100% secure nature of the internet?

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[The Brill Gates/Andrew Thomas correspondence is closed. Ed.]