What I've never understood is how come the governments haven't ever gone after the companies hiring these spammers to spam their shit all over the Internet? I mean, if we're so gung-ho about stopping spammers, you'd think the obvious place to start would be the companies that are hiring these scummy assholes to do their bidding for them (I'm sure the spammers aren't just advertising other companies' products out of the kindness of their hearts)...\/1@gr4, I'm looking at you.
They only started attempting to crack it once the OtherOS option was removed, which was around 9 months ago. So, in essence it took them 9 months to crack, not over 4 years.
They don't make anything. You send them your unused or unenforced IP, and they go get you money through licensing or litigation.
So, yes, I blame the lawyers
Seems to me the obvious people to blame would be the companies sending IPVALUE their IP to enforce...you know, the ones that actually OWN the IP...again these lawyers are just doing their jobs.
I keep hearing people blame this shit on the lawyers, but I just don't buy it. Lawyers don't have 100% say in whether a company sues another company for patent infringement. The lawyers merely point this out to the people in charge (the CEO, board of directors, etc). THOSE are the guys pulling the trigger and making the final decision to open these bullshit lawsuits...the lawyers are just doing their jobs. And no, I am not a lawyer.
Correction: x2go actually uses the NX protocol...but they've cleaned up the installation process quite a bit...I'd imagine they'll just continue using the current NX version to keep it free.
NX sucks anyways. Yeah the compression is good and once setup it works alright, but getting it setup is a bitchy process. This is where x2go and (from what I've heard) Xrdp shine. Good luck with your shitty proprietary technology that nobody will use in the future.
As a business tool, it's all but useless. Google provides no mechanism for installing even standard Linux VPN software which most companies provide for their remote employees
For a website that's supposed to be full of forward-thinking, intelligent people, it's shocking the amount of people here that lack the ability to think outside the box.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I havn't actually tried out ChromeOS yet), but it's nothing more than Linux with a browser running full-screen right? It seems to me this would be an ideal setup for:
Point-of-sale systems. Why invest in an expensive, proprietary system when you could setup a few cheap ChromeOS boxes that interface with a private webapp on your company's intranet.
Customer-facing kiosks
Cheap terminals for clerks that is driven by a webapp running on your company's intranet
I'm sure you guys can think of other uses.
Sure, it's not your traditional desktop OS, but that's not really what it's designed to be used for. Why pay for a full-featured OS, or take the time to strip down a traditional Linux distro when ChromeOS has done most of that work for you?
And yes, I *have* written multi-threaded servers - in c - and they run for months at a time without losing one byte of memory, and without having to kill off threads to reclaim memory lost from leaks.
It doesn't have to be that way. RDP supports seamless windows, which to me means that you can do forwarding on a per-application basis. From the Wikipedia article on RDP:
Seamless Windows: Remote applications can run on a client machine that is served by a Remote Desktop connection. It uses virtual channel method, and available since RDP 5
It doesn't "just work" so well if you're trying to access something over the Internet. The X11 protocol is ridiculously inefficient at transmitting over links that aren't LAN-based. That's why projects such as FreeNX and x2go exist. They trim off all the useless fat to make it usable over a WAN connection.
Not implementing any sort of remote rendering would be suicide. Thankfully, it sounds like something they are going to work on. From the Wikipedia article on Wayland:
Wayland developers include several lead X.org developers,[9] who feel that a cleaner new design and protocol is more maintainable for the future.[14] One of them has envisaged providing remote access to a Wayland application by either 'pixel-scraping' (as in VNC and SPICE) or getting it to send a "rendering command stream" across the network (like RDP).[15] It is anticipated that X11 applications will be supported by an X server running as an application on Wayland.
Hopefully they go the RDP-like route, which im my opinion is vastly superior over the way X11 does it.
Not to shit on your parade, but I'm pretty sure everyone who's used a console emulator on a touch-interface device (like the iphone) has probably thought of this idea. Being able to actually feel the controller buttons on the screen would be a helluva lot better than having to look every few seconds to make sure your thumbs are in the right place.
For those of you who are imagination impaired, one cool use of this would be to provide a "real" gamepad via a touchscreen interface. Think being able to play oldschool NES games on an iphone where you could actually feel the buttons instead of always having to look and ensure your thumbs are in the right place.
Raven is a joke (Quake 4 anyone?). Splash Damage ftw. ET:QW was way more fun than anything Raven's ever developed, and the upcoming Brink game looks to be even more fun.
I think id needs a developer matching Carmack's talent and drive but in game design.
They're called Splash Damage. Check out Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Incredibly awesome gameplay combined with Carmack's Tech 4 engine. Also, be on the lookup for Brink, which is Splash Damage's upcoming new game.
Agreed. I guess it's never occurred to anyone that the reason he's landed this job is probably because when somebody asks him an IT-related question (as stupid as it may be), he doesn't give them a Nick Burns-ish response. Anyone who's relatively intelligent and has an open mind can learn to do IT stuff. I've known some of the most technically-inclined people that have yet to master simple people skills.
Maybe he landed this job because when somebody asks him an IT-related question, he doesn't give them a response like this. IT skills can be learned fairly quickly as long as you're somewhat intelligent and have an open mind. I've seen some of the most technically-inclined people working in IT that still haven't been able to master simple people skills.
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What I've never understood is how come the governments haven't ever gone after the companies hiring these spammers to spam their shit all over the Internet? I mean, if we're so gung-ho about stopping spammers, you'd think the obvious place to start would be the companies that are hiring these scummy assholes to do their bidding for them (I'm sure the spammers aren't just advertising other companies' products out of the kindness of their hearts)...\/1@gr4, I'm looking at you.
They only started attempting to crack it once the OtherOS option was removed, which was around 9 months ago. So, in essence it took them 9 months to crack, not over 4 years.
They don't make anything. You send them your unused or unenforced IP, and they go get you money through licensing or litigation.
So, yes, I blame the lawyers
Seems to me the obvious people to blame would be the companies sending IPVALUE their IP to enforce...you know, the ones that actually OWN the IP...again these lawyers are just doing their jobs.
I keep hearing people blame this shit on the lawyers, but I just don't buy it. Lawyers don't have 100% say in whether a company sues another company for patent infringement. The lawyers merely point this out to the people in charge (the CEO, board of directors, etc). THOSE are the guys pulling the trigger and making the final decision to open these bullshit lawsuits...the lawyers are just doing their jobs. And no, I am not a lawyer.
Correction: x2go actually uses the NX protocol...but they've cleaned up the installation process quite a bit...I'd imagine they'll just continue using the current NX version to keep it free.
NX sucks anyways. Yeah the compression is good and once setup it works alright, but getting it setup is a bitchy process. This is where x2go and (from what I've heard) Xrdp shine. Good luck with your shitty proprietary technology that nobody will use in the future.
As a business tool, it's all but useless. Google provides no mechanism for installing even standard Linux VPN software which most companies provide for their remote employees
For a website that's supposed to be full of forward-thinking, intelligent people, it's shocking the amount of people here that lack the ability to think outside the box.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I havn't actually tried out ChromeOS yet), but it's nothing more than Linux with a browser running full-screen right? It seems to me this would be an ideal setup for:
I'm sure you guys can think of other uses.
Sure, it's not your traditional desktop OS, but that's not really what it's designed to be used for. Why pay for a full-featured OS, or take the time to strip down a traditional Linux distro when ChromeOS has done most of that work for you?
And yes, I *have* written multi-threaded servers - in c - and they run for months at a time without losing one byte of memory, and without having to kill off threads to reclaim memory lost from leaks.
Oh gooood for you </Christian Bale>
well I'll be damned
I thought it was called Dijkstra's algorithm.
Fixed that for you
You realize w/out javascript, the web would be a pretty boring place.
Call me crazy, but wasn't DNS invented to remove the significance of using IP addresses as a means of identification?
So, does this mean we won't be seeing any new versions of Tomcat?
Seamless Windows: Remote applications can run on a client machine that is served by a Remote Desktop connection. It uses virtual channel method, and available since RDP 5
It doesn't "just work" so well if you're trying to access something over the Internet. The X11 protocol is ridiculously inefficient at transmitting over links that aren't LAN-based. That's why projects such as FreeNX and x2go exist. They trim off all the useless fat to make it usable over a WAN connection.
Wayland developers include several lead X.org developers,[9] who feel that a cleaner new design and protocol is more maintainable for the future.[14] One of them has envisaged providing remote access to a Wayland application by either 'pixel-scraping' (as in VNC and SPICE) or getting it to send a "rendering command stream" across the network (like RDP).[15] It is anticipated that X11 applications will be supported by an X server running as an application on Wayland.
Hopefully they go the RDP-like route, which im my opinion is vastly superior over the way X11 does it.
Before embarking in this project, shouldn't he finish his replacement for BitTorrent [gigaom.com] he announced a few years back?
I thought there already was a replacement for BitTorrent. Isn't it called Usenet? Ah shit, I just broke the first rule.
I didn't know Hitler was alive and posting on Slashdot...I guess that explains the high number of grammar Nazi's around here.
Not to shit on your parade, but I'm pretty sure everyone who's used a console emulator on a touch-interface device (like the iphone) has probably thought of this idea. Being able to actually feel the controller buttons on the screen would be a helluva lot better than having to look every few seconds to make sure your thumbs are in the right place.
For those of you who are imagination impaired, one cool use of this would be to provide a "real" gamepad via a touchscreen interface. Think being able to play oldschool NES games on an iphone where you could actually feel the buttons instead of always having to look and ensure your thumbs are in the right place.
Only Captain Hindsight can save them now!
Raven is a joke (Quake 4 anyone?). Splash Damage ftw. ET:QW was way more fun than anything Raven's ever developed, and the upcoming Brink game looks to be even more fun.
I think id needs a developer matching Carmack's talent and drive but in game design.
They're called Splash Damage. Check out Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Incredibly awesome gameplay combined with Carmack's Tech 4 engine. Also, be on the lookup for Brink, which is Splash Damage's upcoming new game.
Agreed. I guess it's never occurred to anyone that the reason he's landed this job is probably because when somebody asks him an IT-related question (as stupid as it may be), he doesn't give them a Nick Burns-ish response. Anyone who's relatively intelligent and has an open mind can learn to do IT stuff. I've known some of the most technically-inclined people that have yet to master simple people skills.
Maybe he landed this job because when somebody asks him an IT-related question, he doesn't give them a response like this. IT skills can be learned fairly quickly as long as you're somewhat intelligent and have an open mind. I've seen some of the most technically-inclined people working in IT that still haven't been able to master simple people skills.