Parent, I'm as confused as you are. I thought the whole evil thing behind child pornography is that a child was photographed naked and was not old enough to consent to that since he was not an adult.
But if some1 draws a child, I figured no one was harmed.
I came here to propose Salk, but parent beat me to it.
The fact that he refused to patent it and waived mountains of money allowed poorer people and third world countries to get rid of polio, otherwise it would still be a threat today! This is what true heroes should do, work for the betterment of mankind.
Plus I like to think of Mr. Salk as the father of open source, in a vaccine/biology field he gave his receipe for the vaccine for free.
When asked about patenting, he replied : no it's important like the sun,... could you patent the sun?
And one last quick note, 5 years ago I got my polio vaccine and it costed me 9$ !!!!! instead of the 150$ It woulda costed me if a big pharmaceutical had a patent.
To steal is to deprive someone of something. Making a copy != stealing as the person still has the physical DVD. Stop this propaganda for the MPAA, use the right words : "Made a copy of" instead of : "stealing"
Not only is it scientifically/mathematically incorrect !! Canonical is now trying to revamp a standard widely accepted for their own benefit of looking easy to understand. In fact they are pushing usability at the expense of working on functionality so that more user can use something that does less, much like windows. And then Mark Shuttleworth goes on to tell the developers working on functionality that they need a big cup of STFU.
I urge you ppl to switch to another distro, im on Debian right now an everything is fine.
Step #2 : Switch the video format on youtube to H.264, a proprietary format that free browsers can't afford the licenses it needs to distribute a reader for it.
Step #3 : Push H.264 part of the open standard HTML 5, even though it's not open at all, thus further shoving free browsers downward the spiral.
Step #4 : Win the browser War, pwn the internet, make profit with ur browser built in search engine.
..... F***ers,.... (Shakes Fist) We were paying attention....
This is what happens as the company grows It goes Dilbert on itself. This is what happens when people too stupid to do any real work and who've been replaced by a bash script gets promoted to middle management because you can't get rid of them due to union rules and stuff. You know how they got the management position? A: The parkinson law : Upper management doesn't want their job threatened by a younger, smarter, more active, more educated middle manager, so they promote somebody dumber then themselves and the guy under hires some1 dumber then himself and so on.....
Uniforms is lack a respect for you tech support guys, uniform is a school's tool to reduce violence and bullying by unifying every1 thus eliminating gangs and groups. It's not for a job place, it's a joke to think about it, if they had respect, they would ask you to wear a suit and a tie, but then you would be in par with ur middle management guy, he is not gonna put you on that level, he is also prolly afraid that you'll write another bash script to replace the middle management positions.
Hey while I think of it, a script that creates and assigns random useless task and complains a lot could replace my boss.
Assuming you have the Google bar, assuming you don't type : "Firefox" in one of the spyware bars, assuming your IE isin't highjacked.... then yes Firefox might have been a bad example, I agree, but that's not true for every software out there, sometimes the download page will offer let's say : Apple or Windows Version, and the user won't know what to do.
P.S. : Just went to the Firefox download page, along with the green big download Firefox 3.5 button, there is a shit load of links. Believe me, users can stall at nothing, even seeing a shit load of options to click on a web page. Some will try to read them for no reason at all or some reason like, well the thing came up, I read from left to right and up to down, by the time he reaches the middle of the page(Where the button is), he is long gone man.
Let's compare shall we. Imagine your grandmother wishes to install something simple like Firefox :
The windows way: --- 1. Open IE. 2.Type www.firefox.com(Avoid spyware bars*this is important*) 3. Let's say her browser isin't Highjacked*this part is also important* and it brings you to the right page. 4. Find and download the installer or binaries, not the source, for your operating system, whatever it is, she must know, and sometimes cpu, 32 bits, 64 bits, PowerPC....etc..... 5.Double click on "FirefoxInstallerWhereEverItIsWhatEverItsCalled.exe" 6.Norton(or other) comes up saying : "running exe files likes this one can harm your computer" All she knows is her computer is farked up enough and does not want to damage it further, she might not install it.....
The Linux way: --- 1. Open Synaptic 2.Do a search for Firefox in the properly identified search bar, no spyware bars here. 3. Check the box next to Firefox. 4. Press "Apply" : Synaptic automatically downloads and installs and sets the shortcut for for Firefox.
P.S. : Learning about synaptic for user takes about the same time it takes to learn to search google for aps.
From what I understand from the summary of the article is that DELL is afraid that MS will make a different version of Word to comply with the ruling and that because of the new version DELL will have to re-make and re-test all of their Hard drive images for their computers. And they don't want to send money that direction. So they are asking the Judge to please think of the repercussion it will have.
Dell should sue MS for providing them with software containing code patented by someone else in the first place. But no, instead, they are trying to save themselves about 4 hours of testing a Word install and a couple images re-building, what a coincidence that it will also save MS from complying with the law at the same time.
Yes, but only with computers can you get away with your ignorance
If your car has the "break" light flashing in the dashboard for 2 years, and you don't get your car checked, and one day you're totally out of break fluid and you run over a pregnant mother, you will be held responsible and you won't be able to claim it's not your fault because you don't know anything about cars.(P.S.: I don't know anything about cars, but I know I'd be responsible )
If you steal a 52inch plasma T.V. from a home in broad daylight and you get arrested by the cops,... the defense : "I did not know it was a crime to steal stuff before 9:00 P.M." will not work, because none should ignore the law.
If I get stomach pain, I get a doctor to look at me, because if I ignore the issue, I won't be able to complain to GOD that I am dead because I wasn't a Doctor posting stuff on doctor's forums and that it isn't fair, nor that it is not my fault cuz I didn't know and that he should give me my life back.
So...... When I don't know how to fix my car, I don't ignore the problem, hope for the best, knowing I can claim ignorance and ignore the safety threat that I am to other people out there, I get a mechanic to fix it
Why not the same for people using computers, don't know anything about them, call a tech. By making them accountable for their own ignorance it would solve a large part of the problem. Example : I bet there wouldn't be anymore SPAMS or almost none because people would no longer be part of large botnets if they we're prosecuted for sending the spams.
You can't judge one person by the people he hangs out with, look at Judas, he had friends that we're irreproachable.
Everyone knows this, so does your next employer, and if he doesn't, then trust me, he is not open minded enough for you to work for him. Also, judging some1 by the actions of some1 else makes no sense at all, so have no worries, society will get younger and catch up.
Happy retirement Mr. Cox, my guess is that you deserve it more than anyone. Thanks for all the hard work, you may just have saved us all, and one day in the future, when we are all free, I, for one, will think of you.
From the article : The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory. It turns out that Linux allows the root user to access MTR registers incredibly easily.
If some1 is able to run code on your machine as root, then you have a lot of other and more pressing issues to fix!
It was for one my internship in 2001, we had to go to companies and offer our expertise in computer consulting for free then find one that needed their business methods improved by software, and then make(code) the software for them. Turns out this helps a lot to jump start in the business world and it looks good on your resume.
So keep in my mind i was working for FREE.(cheap internship rules in canada)
So I found this local computer store that had no point of sales software and was using Excel for database and point of sales.
Perfect, I told them I could improved their business methods by making them their own in house Point of sales.... The boss told me it would be great but he also needed a comp salesman in their outpost in the local flee market. I would be coding the software while selling computer and computer parts, in the f_ing flee market. I agreed to it since I had a lot of trouble finding the internship.
I had to code while being constantly interrupted by the most computer illiterate of people asking questions about computer memory and or other components.
We should advance the time by 30 minutes once and NEVER talk about it EVER again!
OR.... we could re-do the entire calendar and time system for a more precise one, like one without leap years and stuff.
OR.... become care free of what time it is, and let go of the notion of time. Just live your life right now !! We are slave of the alarm clock and it is not even human and it is sad. Time is for robots and computers, let them schedule stuff for themselves and do all of our work. It is time we break from this slavery and : eat, sleep, drink, work,...etc when and if we want to, not when the alarm clock says it's time to. And I think this could be attainable if we build robots like in this Will Smith movie, I robot, I hope I get to see this in my lifetime(Time free world).
I agree, if I had MOD points, parent would be getting my vote.
They surrender IP addresses of anonymous bloggers to the Israeli government(those bloggers could get hit by the Mossad for speaking up, dosen't google have a conscience). They surrender information about the users of their Orkut.com social network to the Brazilian government They help the Chinese government censor the web to their citizens. Their cookies don't expire till 2038 so they can track you They bend over to the U.S. government by keeping information on the searches made by users on their search engine forever instead of opting for the privacy of the webuser and jusr saying "no" the U.S. government and not saving the searches in the first place. They are behind Firefox and version 3 will not accept SSL certificates without third party verification, which cost 14.95$ per certificate, thus raising the cost of operating internet buisnesses and moving the small buisnesses out of the way for an internet society or corporatisim. And finaly they bought Youtube.com and stripped it of all it's cool content instead of moving the servers to Russia and giving a big fat finger to the MPAA and RIAA and the rest of the MAFIAA.
Nahhh, a real geeks, buys and builds his own PCs piece by piece trying to squeeze in that 1 more fps.
Those who buy computers already packaged and call themselves geeks are nothing but 100% fraud and insult to the real geek.
P.S. I'm under Linux right now... so it's not total chaos out there.... *yet*
I never was bothered by SPAM... I don't think SPIT will bother me either....
However the solution is simple, and it's not in technology that we will find the answer, it is USER education : don't buy from SPAM/SPIT, then the senders will go backrupt or at least they won't be making profit and since they are money motivated, they will go look for another martket.
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Parent, I'm as confused as you are. I thought the whole evil thing behind child pornography is that a child was photographed naked and was not old enough to consent to that since he was not an adult.
But if some1 draws a child, I figured no one was harmed.
I came to say about the same thing parent said.
I don't like Bill Gates personnaly but, I do agree with the summary of the article : Bill Gates > a Nazi.
I came here to propose Salk, but parent beat me to it.
... could you patent the sun?
The fact that he refused to patent it and waived mountains of money allowed poorer people and third world countries to get rid of polio, otherwise it would still be a threat today!
This is what true heroes should do, work for the betterment of mankind.
Plus I like to think of Mr. Salk as the father of open source, in a vaccine/biology field he gave his receipe for the vaccine for free.
When asked about patenting, he replied : no it's important like the sun,
And one last quick note, 5 years ago I got my polio vaccine and it costed me 9$ !!!!! instead of the 150$ It woulda costed me if a big pharmaceutical had a patent.
Ho! G0D, I didin't get that memo, I still use 3.
The chicken came at the same time as the egg, but inside the egg, *THEN* It destroyed it !!!!
In other news,
Prince just became batshiat senile crazy.
What BP is still a company?????
First we need to fine the board of directors sooo much money that they'll have to go to China sell some kidneys on the black market to pay up.
Then we need to lock them up in jail in Yemen for criminal negligence. I mean we do have the memo proving it : http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/leaked_bp_memo.php
To steal is to deprive someone of something.
Making a copy != stealing as the person still has the physical DVD. Stop this propaganda for the MPAA, use the right words : "Made a copy of" instead of : "stealing"
Not only is it scientifically/mathematically incorrect !!
Canonical is now trying to revamp a standard widely accepted for their own benefit of looking easy to understand.
In fact they are pushing usability at the expense of working on functionality so that more user can use something that does less, much like windows. And then Mark Shuttleworth goes on to tell the developers working on functionality that they need a big cup of STFU.
I urge you ppl to switch to another distro, im on Debian right now an everything is fine.
Step #1 : Buy youtube.
.... (Shakes Fist)
Step #2 : Switch the video format on youtube to H.264, a proprietary format that free browsers can't afford the licenses it needs to distribute a reader for it.
Step #3 : Push H.264 part of the open standard HTML 5, even though it's not open at all, thus further shoving free browsers downward the spiral.
Step #4 : Win the browser War, pwn the internet, make profit with ur browser built in search engine.
..... F***ers,
We were paying attention....
This is what happens as the company grows .....
It goes Dilbert on itself.
This is what happens when people too stupid to do any real work and who've been replaced by a bash script gets promoted to middle management because you can't get rid of them due to union rules and stuff.
You know how they got the management position? A: The parkinson law : Upper management doesn't want their job threatened by a younger, smarter, more active, more educated middle manager, so they promote somebody dumber then themselves and the guy under hires some1 dumber then himself and so on
Uniforms is lack a respect for you tech support guys, uniform is a school's tool to reduce violence and bullying by unifying every1 thus eliminating gangs and groups. It's not for a job place, it's a joke to think about it, if they had respect, they would ask you to wear a suit and a tie, but then you would be in par with ur middle management guy, he is not gonna put you on that level, he is also prolly afraid that you'll write another bash script to replace the middle management positions.
Hey while I think of it, a script that creates and assigns random useless task and complains a lot could replace my boss.
Assuming you have the Google bar, assuming you don't type : "Firefox" in one of the spyware bars, assuming your IE isin't highjacked .... then yes Firefox might have been a bad example, I agree, but that's not true for every software out there, sometimes the download page will offer let's say : Apple or Windows Version, and the user won't know what to do.
P.S. : Just went to the Firefox download page, along with the green big download Firefox 3.5 button, there is a shit load of links. Believe me, users can stall at nothing, even seeing a shit load of options to click on a web page. Some will try to read them for no reason at all or some reason like, well the thing came up, I read from left to right and up to down, by the time he reaches the middle of the page(Where the button is), he is long gone man.
Let's compare shall we.
....etc .....
Imagine your grandmother wishes to install something simple like Firefox :
The windows way:
---
1. Open IE.
2.Type www.firefox.com(Avoid spyware bars*this is important*)
3. Let's say her browser isin't Highjacked*this part is also important* and it brings you to the right page.
4. Find and download the installer or binaries, not the source, for your operating system, whatever it is, she must know, and sometimes cpu, 32 bits, 64 bits, PowerPC
5.Double click on "FirefoxInstallerWhereEverItIsWhatEverItsCalled.exe"
6.Norton(or other) comes up saying : "running exe files likes this one can harm your computer" All she knows is her computer is farked up enough and does not want to damage it further, she might not install it.....
The Linux way:
---
1. Open Synaptic
2.Do a search for Firefox in the properly identified search bar, no spyware bars here.
3. Check the box next to Firefox.
4. Press "Apply" : Synaptic automatically downloads and installs and sets the shortcut for for Firefox.
P.S. : Learning about synaptic for user takes about the same time it takes to learn to search google for aps.
So you tell me which way is easyer.
From what I understand from the summary of the article is that DELL is afraid that MS will make a different version of Word to comply with the ruling and that because of the new version DELL will have to re-make and re-test all of their Hard drive images for their computers. And they don't want to send money that direction. So they are asking the Judge to please think of the repercussion it will have.
Dell should sue MS for providing them with software containing code patented by someone else in the first place. But no, instead, they are trying to save themselves about 4 hours of testing a Word install and a couple images re-building, what a coincidence that it will also save MS from complying with the law at the same time.
Yes, but only with computers can you get away with your ignorance
... the defense : "I did not know it was a crime to steal stuff before 9:00 P.M." will not work, because none should ignore the law.
If your car has the "break" light flashing in the dashboard for 2 years, and you don't get your car checked, and one day you're totally out of break fluid and you run over a pregnant mother, you will be held responsible and you won't be able to claim it's not your fault because you don't know anything about cars.(P.S.: I don't know anything about cars, but I know I'd be responsible )
If you steal a 52inch plasma T.V. from a home in broad daylight and you get arrested by the cops,
If I get stomach pain, I get a doctor to look at me, because if I ignore the issue, I won't be able to complain to GOD that I am dead because I wasn't a Doctor posting stuff on doctor's forums and that it isn't fair, nor that it is not my fault cuz I didn't know and that he should give me my life back.
So...... When I don't know how to fix my car, I don't ignore the problem, hope for the best, knowing I can claim ignorance and ignore the safety threat that I am to other people out there, I get a mechanic to fix it
Why not the same for people using computers, don't know anything about them, call a tech. By making them accountable for their own ignorance it would solve a large part of the problem. Example : I bet there wouldn't be anymore SPAMS or almost none because people would no longer be part of large botnets if they we're prosecuted for sending the spams.
You can't judge one person by the people he hangs out with, look at Judas, he had friends that we're irreproachable.
Everyone knows this, so does your next employer, and if he doesn't, then trust me, he is not open minded enough for you to work for him. Also, judging some1 by the actions of some1 else makes no sense at all, so have no worries, society will get younger and catch up.
Happy retirement Mr. Cox, my guess is that you deserve it more than anyone. Thanks for all the hard work, you may just have saved us all, and one day in the future, when we are all free, I, for one, will think of you.
From the article : The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory. It turns out that Linux allows the root user to access MTR registers incredibly easily.
If some1 is able to run code on your machine as root, then you have a lot of other and more pressing issues to fix!
And ffs, don't use your own internet connection.
: Do use a web proxy service located in russia or something
: Use SkyOS. :)
I would suggest war driving around for a non-secure wireless access point, never use the same one twice.
And when you do it, boot from knoppix live CD or any other downloaded from the web CD/DVD boot OS.
Also, if possible, change your MAC adress by any means necessary.
For bonus points
Bonus Bonus FBI in WTF land points
Ok, so this is true,
.... The boss told me it would be great but he also needed a comp salesman in their outpost in the local flee market. I would be coding the software while selling computer and computer parts, in the f_ing flee market. I agreed to it since I had a lot of trouble finding the internship.
It was for one my internship in 2001, we had to go to companies and offer our expertise in computer consulting for free then find one that needed their business methods improved by software, and then make(code) the software for them. Turns out this helps a lot to jump start in the business world and it looks good on your resume.
So keep in my mind i was working for FREE.(cheap internship rules in canada)
So I found this local computer store that had no point of sales software and was using Excel for database and point of sales.
Perfect, I told them I could improved their business methods by making them their own in house Point of sales
I had to code while being constantly interrupted by the most computer illiterate of people asking questions about computer memory and or other components.
We should advance the time by 30 minutes once and NEVER talk about it EVER again! .... we could re-do the entire calendar and time system for a more precise one, like one without leap years and stuff. .... become care free of what time it is, and let go of the notion of time. Just live your life right now !! We are slave of the alarm clock and it is not even human and it is sad. Time is for robots and computers, let them schedule stuff for themselves and do all of our work. It is time we break from this slavery and : eat, sleep, drink, work, ...etc when and if we want to, not when the alarm clock says it's time to. And I think this could be attainable if we build robots like in this Will Smith movie, I robot, I hope I get to see this in my lifetime(Time free world).
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I agree, if I had MOD points, parent would be getting my vote.
They surrender IP addresses of anonymous bloggers to the Israeli government(those bloggers could get hit by the Mossad for speaking up, dosen't google have a conscience).
They surrender information about the users of their Orkut.com social network to the Brazilian government
They help the Chinese government censor the web to their citizens.
Their cookies don't expire till 2038 so they can track you
They bend over to the U.S. government by keeping information on the searches made by users on their search engine forever instead of opting for the privacy of the webuser and jusr saying "no" the U.S. government and not saving the searches in the first place.
They are behind Firefox and version 3 will not accept SSL certificates without third party verification, which cost 14.95$ per certificate, thus raising the cost of operating internet buisnesses and moving the small buisnesses out of the way for an internet society or corporatisim.
And finaly they bought Youtube.com and stripped it of all it's cool content instead of moving the servers to Russia and giving a big fat finger to the MPAA and RIAA and the rest of the MAFIAA.
You all seem to have miss the most important point about the headline : "Critical Fail" !!
Nahhh, a real geeks, buys and builds his own PCs piece by piece trying to squeeze in that 1 more fps.
... so it's not total chaos out there .... *yet*
Those who buy computers already packaged and call themselves geeks are nothing but 100% fraud and insult to the real geek.
P.S. I'm under Linux right now
I never was bothered by SPAM ... I don't think SPIT will bother me either ....
However the solution is simple, and it's not in technology that we will find the answer, it is USER education : don't buy from SPAM/SPIT, then the senders will go backrupt or at least they won't be making profit and since they are money motivated, they will go look for another martket.