I read TFA (I did! Honest!) and I don't get it. The headline suggest some sort of case will be made but it doesn't. All it says is that it is many Linux distributions. What about the open source mess? I want to know so I can avoid it! I have been using open source for years. Am I caught in a mess I haven't noticed? I mean, if some software isn't packaged for my distribution I take the source and build it my self. I can get the exact same program version working on all my three Linux boxes... is that the mess? "Holy crap! You got consistency even though you're running three different flavors of an operating system... what a mess!!"
We have P2P, usenet, friends, and even clever use of google to find illegal music ripped straight from CD. Does the record industry seriously believe thayt stream ripping is seriously affecting their sales? I have never ripped a stream in my life although I listen to online radio quite a lot. I do however always have my p2p client open and if I like a piece of music I hear I'll download it... I usually have it on my HD before the station finish playing it.
But hey... let them waste their time preventing stream ripping... maybe they forget about the hundreds of better ways to pirate stuff.
Now I'm going to have to find something more obscure to avoid the attentions of the malware makres... what was the name of that other one... Icemeasles? I just upgraded to the latest Icemeasels and it's great! No two page views look the same! MiceTeasels seem to render every page with a random font size offset, bold is really b o l d and italics doesn't work. The Twicegiggles developers are of course hard at work and it should be fixed soon.
Nothing is like a good fork! (Yeah yeah... I know Icepeacle is not a real fork, it just feels like one)
Is it just me or is TFA, the summary and the story totally unrelated? (I guess I would get the answer by reading the current 165 comments but I just felt like making a comment and yet adding absolutely nothing to the discussion...)
I'm of course not saying that the Nazis was good. I'm saying that the US did not play a huge part in getting rid of them. The Japanese... yes. The Germans... not really. Actually the German war machine wasn't the smartest lot around either. They believed they were invincible (just like the US) and that was their downfall. In a display of an amazingly lack of history knowledge they invaded Russia expecting it to fold just like the rest of Europe. So the entire German army had pretty much committed suicide by picking a fight with Stalin well before the Americans stopped by.
But hey... if it makes you happy believing that you won ww2 be my guest. Just like you are winning in Iraq. What do I know? I'm just a freedom hating (unarmed) terrorist from an oppressed country in northern Europe.
And by the way (although that is a different discussion) quite a few think you fucked up more that you helped in Europe during ww2. Who took Berlin? The Russians did. You just bombed the crap out of the civilians, as you have a habit of doing around the world. Still many Europeans hate you just as much as todays Iraqis does. Especially the dead ones. But quite frankly I don't give a rats ass about what Americans did 60 years ago... the millions you have killed in various wars since then kinda cancels things out.
I don't expect you to agree, or even know what I'm talking about, of course.
Your post is wrong on so many levels... You talk about military power, not the pea shooters most trigger happy Americans carry around because they have the right to do so. A government turning tyrannic will not do so without support from the military and a 357 in the hands of an amateur civilian will be no match.
As for the people immigrating to America from Europe did so in an effort to get out of poverty not to escape some oppressing regime. They did not have to blast their way out and many of them just ended up still living in poverty, just on the other side of the world.
So we need privacy just like we need guns, to keep the government honest. It is expensive, in lives lost to criminals and similar, just like gun ownership. But it is the only reason the government will not become a dictatorship. Uh... Are you sure about that? I mean, your (I guess you're American) government does not exactly come through as an honest group that fear the people even though the people do have guns.
I'm living in Europe where we don't have guns but still we have mostly honest governments that respect, and to some extent even fear, the people. Guns kill people, they don't create democracies. One should think you people (Americans) had learned that by now...
A government should fear the people, not because the people might kill them, but because the people have the power to remove them. If the government has to be removed with guns you already live in a dictatorship.
It's not. Even the summary covers this: The hook was to get people to download the client which searched for "other copyrighted files." Besides, there's nothing in the story to indicate that they actually did let people download real movies. They might all have been dummy files. If you download a dummy file you can't be accused for infringement can you? And just merely having "Other copyrighted files" on a computer is not illegal either I would think. I mean, I have some 100 CD's worth of music on my computer all ripped from my legally bought CDs and I do not take part in file sharing.
I know American law is strange but this stunt I hope couldn't lead to anything...
Every time the non-native English speakers (and USA hater) read something about the American intelligence it cracks us up. This is because we almost automatically interpret the word 'intelligence' as in 'intelligent'. So reading about outsourcing the American Intelligence really spurs some fun reactions, like "That's a good idea", "do they have any?", "Must be a simple task" and so on and so on.
Really, we simply can not stop ridiculing you when you have words that sounds like a joke to the rest of the world.
There is plenty of doubt out there about whether man-made CO2 is the cause of global warming...including well-known scientists in the National Academy of Sciences. Like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen Yes, there are doubt. But when there are doubt isn't the logical thing to do to act as if it's correct until it's proven harmless? Because if we do it the other way around it might be to late if the conclusion is that it's our own fault.
That's what is done with any thing else. If there are suspected poison in some food product it's taken out of the store until it's cleared. But of course, even if the global warming is our own fault it will not kill us immediately.
Actually it will not really affect any of us... only the later generations so who cares? And *that* is the real problem. We usually find it very hard to care about others. If we cared there would be no poverty, no acid rain, no children working for nothing in factories... The only thing we really care about is our own well being. And our well being is very much depending on things like fossil fuel, children making cheap shoes, people starving to death etc.
Basically, if the global warming is our fault we are screwed because there is no way in hell we will change our way of life.
I would think a lot of us (as in slashdot readers) know what information we leave behind. We also know how to avoid it by using proxies, spoof our useragent etc. So if we are concerned about our privacy we can do something about it. My mom however can not. She haven't got a clue about IP, user agent, cookies and what have you. There is no way she can protect her self and claiming that she agrees to give up that information becomes meaningless.
My mom uses her common sense. If a site states a warning: "Your IP will be logged" it scares her and she closes her browser. She doesn't know what it means only that she will not have whatever-it-is logged. Trying to explain to her that her IP is always logged somewhere anyway just produces a blank stare.
She does not like the idea of someone being able to look at what she does online however innocent it is but she has no way of understanding what is 'safe' and what is not. And things like the google privacy policy might just as well be written in greek because it's meaningless to her.
Privacy protection should absolutely be a government issue. After all we elect our governments to work on our behalf. Like you say in the US: "We. the people".
In a consumer help program on TV they had brought in an expert to teach people how to avoid spam (viruses was already covered in an earlier program. Sadly (?) I missed that one. From the top of my head, some of the advices was:
Do not open porn sites (Yes, he said 'open') Do not watch online movies Keep an updated anti virus Do not use web based e-mail When not using your computer turn it off. Laptop users should close the lid.(I love this one!)
The most peculiar though was that not once did he warn about giving out your e-mail address. Thank god we have experts like that to help us protect our self...
I hear you, but what can we do to really stop this? Submit more digg posts? Write our congressman? Protest at the FCC HQ? What can we do to really stop this? I'm all ears! Well, in the rest of the 'free' world we do it through something called an 'election'. We actually get to choose our government and thereby exercise a fair amount of control. If we want something really bad we can even involve our self directly by joining a political party or even start our own. The entire process is commonly known as 'democracy'.
You Americans should try it once... it's pretty cool actually.
Oh crap! Slashdot made me miss my flight! I'll never read/. again and I'd like to warn everyone out there: Slashdot is dangerous! It makes you miss your flight!
When you troll you should at least have *some* knowledge (just a tiny bit) about the topic. And if you think you possess such knowledge I'm curious: Exactly what do think "sub-orbital" means??
I know/. is a fun place to troll but this was just pathetic. Oh well, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it. Most ACs do...
Parent is modded flamebait but as a woman I want to say that to some extent I agree. I'm not a modern feminist. Feminism was a good thing until it reached a point where the feminists went into denial about the responsibilities nature has put on our gender. We happen to be the gender that carry and gives birth to children but these days women should 'dispose' of their children as soon as possible.Kindergarten, daycare, after school activities. Let the 'society' rise our children so you can put in long hours and compete for the top jobs.
Biologically we are most fit for having babies at the approx age of 20 yet young girls are constantly told to prioritize a career, get a good education so you can get a top job - *then* you can think about making a family. It's just that then you're approaching 40!
I'm all for equal rights, equal pay etc but damn it, I refuse to pretend I'm a man!! It's time for the feminist movement to stop and take a long look at our biological history. I'm a woman. I'm proud of it and I'm proud of the responsibilities and abilities nature has given me.
I bet you think taking off your shoes and turning in your bottled water at the airport gate is making you safer. That ban on liquids is beyond stupid. Here (Norway) you have to turn in your bottle of water/ soda/ whatever because, as we all know, it might be a bomb. But what do they do with all these possible bombs? They dump it into a big plastic trashcan which they empty regularly in the airports regular trash containers!
So if you manage to create a bomb that looks like a bottle of Coca-Cola just hand it in at the security check point and blow up the terminal instead of an airplane. You'll probably kill more people too...
Not to ask any leading questions one way or another, but how much of a role did Dunc-Tank play in this release? Did their funding help or hinder the process? I don't think it did anything at all really. Two people working full time on bugs, pissing off a few people that did a little sabotage, and thousand developers not giving a damn about the whole thing that kept on working as they normally would... seem like the whole dunc-tank/ sabotage business was like pissing in the ocean... after three days without a drink!
I wonder how hard it would be to come up with a player device to simulate gunshots?
Would be interesting to have a few friends in different parts of the city...some maybe across the st. from each other, and fire out gunshot sounds. Heck, make it interesting...mix up the reports, like a few 357 magnums, maybe a 50 cal Desert Eagle, some shotguns...for real fun, get one full auto here and there.
I can't imagine at this point, there is a law against playing gunshot 'sounds'....
Why go through all that trouble? Just put a sign with a couple of blinking LEDs somewhere, then sit back and enjoy the panic...
The user is responsible for controlling his or her accounts, but if you get that information by any means and use it, you're responsible for the consequences. It's no different than if I lend you my car and you run someone over maliciously. I'm not directly responsible for the death, but perhaps, I shouldn't have given you my keys. Well, the difference is what you reasonably could be expected to know. If I asked to borrow your car and said I needed it to run someone over your probably would not give me the keys. And if you did I guess you would be in trouble... not because I ran someone over but because you were stupid enough to let it happen. Criminal neglect (or whatever it's called in english...) which is the law's way to say: "Hey stupid... wake up!"
And that is the main thing here I think. You actually willingly agree to let someone you don't know into your mail account and even give them explicit permission to spam your contacts. That is damn close to criminal neglect (again, forgive me if that's not the correct term).
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I read TFA (I did! Honest!) and I don't get it. The headline suggest some sort of case will be made but it doesn't. All it says is that it is many Linux distributions. What about the open source mess? I want to know so I can avoid it! I have been using open source for years. Am I caught in a mess I haven't noticed? I mean, if some software isn't packaged for my distribution I take the source and build it my self. I can get the exact same program version working on all my three Linux boxes... is that the mess? "Holy crap! You got consistency even though you're running three different flavors of an operating system... what a mess!!"
But hey... let them waste their time preventing stream ripping... maybe they forget about the hundreds of better ways to pirate stuff.
Nothing is like a good fork! (Yeah yeah... I know Icepeacle is not a real fork, it just feels like one)
Is it just me or is TFA, the summary and the story totally unrelated?
(I guess I would get the answer by reading the current 165 comments but I just felt like making a comment and yet adding absolutely nothing to the discussion...)
I'm of course not saying that the Nazis was good. I'm saying that the US did not play a huge part in getting rid of them. The Japanese... yes. The Germans... not really. Actually the German war machine wasn't the smartest lot around either. They believed they were invincible (just like the US) and that was their downfall. In a display of an amazingly lack of history knowledge they invaded Russia expecting it to fold just like the rest of Europe. So the entire German army had pretty much committed suicide by picking a fight with Stalin well before the Americans stopped by.
But hey... if it makes you happy believing that you won ww2 be my guest. Just like you are winning in Iraq. What do I know? I'm just a freedom hating (unarmed) terrorist from an oppressed country in northern Europe.
Oh... I only have four cats...
I'm glad you live in the US too ;)
And by the way (although that is a different discussion) quite a few think you fucked up more that you helped in Europe during ww2. Who took Berlin? The Russians did. You just bombed the crap out of the civilians, as you have a habit of doing around the world. Still many Europeans hate you just as much as todays Iraqis does. Especially the dead ones. But quite frankly I don't give a rats ass about what Americans did 60 years ago... the millions you have killed in various wars since then kinda cancels things out.
I don't expect you to agree, or even know what I'm talking about, of course.
Your post is wrong on so many levels... You talk about military power, not the pea shooters most trigger happy Americans carry around because they have the right to do so. A government turning tyrannic will not do so without support from the military and a 357 in the hands of an amateur civilian will be no match.
As for the people immigrating to America from Europe did so in an effort to get out of poverty not to escape some oppressing regime. They did not have to blast their way out and many of them just ended up still living in poverty, just on the other side of the world.
I'm living in Europe where we don't have guns but still we have mostly honest governments that respect, and to some extent even fear, the people. Guns kill people, they don't create democracies. One should think you people (Americans) had learned that by now...
A government should fear the people, not because the people might kill them, but because the people have the power to remove them. If the government has to be removed with guns you already live in a dictatorship.
I know American law is strange but this stunt I hope couldn't lead to anything...
Every time the non-native English speakers (and USA hater) read something about the American intelligence it cracks us up. This is because we almost automatically interpret the word 'intelligence' as in 'intelligent'. So reading about outsourcing the American Intelligence really spurs some fun reactions, like "That's a good idea", "do they have any?", "Must be a simple task" and so on and so on.
Really, we simply can not stop ridiculing you when you have words that sounds like a joke to the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen Yes, there are doubt. But when there are doubt isn't the logical thing to do to act as if it's correct until it's proven harmless? Because if we do it the other way around it might be to late if the conclusion is that it's our own fault.
That's what is done with any thing else. If there are suspected poison in some food product it's taken out of the store until it's cleared. But of course, even if the global warming is our own fault it will not kill us immediately.
Actually it will not really affect any of us... only the later generations so who cares? And *that* is the real problem. We usually find it very hard to care about others. If we cared there would be no poverty, no acid rain, no children working for nothing in factories... The only thing we really care about is our own well being. And our well being is very much depending on things like fossil fuel, children making cheap shoes, people starving to death etc.
Basically, if the global warming is our fault we are screwed because there is no way in hell we will change our way of life.
I would think a lot of us (as in slashdot readers) know what information we leave behind. We also know how to avoid it by using proxies, spoof our useragent etc. So if we are concerned about our privacy we can do something about it. My mom however can not. She haven't got a clue about IP, user agent, cookies and what have you. There is no way she can protect her self and claiming that she agrees to give up that information becomes meaningless. My mom uses her common sense. If a site states a warning: "Your IP will be logged" it scares her and she closes her browser. She doesn't know what it means only that she will not have whatever-it-is logged. Trying to explain to her that her IP is always logged somewhere anyway just produces a blank stare.
She does not like the idea of someone being able to look at what she does online however innocent it is but she has no way of understanding what is 'safe' and what is not. And things like the google privacy policy might just as well be written in greek because it's meaningless to her.
Privacy protection should absolutely be a government issue. After all we elect our governments to work on our behalf. Like you say in the US: "We. the people".
But it's not only Microsoft doing it. Take a look HERE, HERE and HERE!
It's an epidemic! Someone need to sue someone... now!
In a consumer help program on TV they had brought in an expert to teach people how to avoid spam (viruses was already covered in an earlier program. Sadly (?) I missed that one. From the top of my head, some of the advices was:
Do not open porn sites (Yes, he said 'open')
Do not watch online movies
Keep an updated anti virus
Do not use web based e-mail
When not using your computer turn it off. Laptop users should close the lid.(I love this one!)
The most peculiar though was that not once did he warn about giving out your e-mail address. Thank god we have experts like that to help us protect our self...
You Americans should try it once... it's pretty cool actually.
Oh crap! Slashdot made me miss my flight! I'll never read /. again and I'd like to warn everyone out there: Slashdot is dangerous! It makes you miss your flight!
When you troll you should at least have *some* knowledge (just a tiny bit) about the topic. And if you think you possess such knowledge I'm curious: Exactly what do think "sub-orbital" means??
/. is a fun place to troll but this was just pathetic. Oh well, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it. Most ACs do...
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Parent is modded flamebait but as a woman I want to say that to some extent I agree. I'm not a modern feminist. Feminism was a good thing until it reached a point where the feminists went into denial about the responsibilities nature has put on our gender. We happen to be the gender that carry and gives birth to children but these days women should 'dispose' of their children as soon as possible.Kindergarten, daycare, after school activities. Let the 'society' rise our children so you can put in long hours and compete for the top jobs.
Biologically we are most fit for having babies at the approx age of 20 yet young girls are constantly told to prioritize a career, get a good education so you can get a top job - *then* you can think about making a family. It's just that then you're approaching 40!
I'm all for equal rights, equal pay etc but damn it, I refuse to pretend I'm a man!! It's time for the feminist movement to stop and take a long look at our biological history. I'm a woman. I'm proud of it and I'm proud of the responsibilities and abilities nature has given me.
So if you manage to create a bomb that looks like a bottle of Coca-Cola just hand it in at the security check point and blow up the terminal instead of an airplane. You'll probably kill more people too...
Xchat (or mIRC for the non-linux people), now there is spyware. It sends *everything* I type to every damn computer in the channel!!!
By that definition, rm -rf / would be considered a virus.
Oh but it is! It's inherited by the 'stupidity' virus...Would be interesting to have a few friends in different parts of the city...some maybe across the st. from each other, and fire out gunshot sounds. Heck, make it interesting...mix up the reports, like a few 357 magnums, maybe a 50 cal Desert Eagle, some shotguns...for real fun, get one full auto here and there.
I can't imagine at this point, there is a law against playing gunshot 'sounds'....
Why go through all that trouble? Just put a sign with a couple of blinking LEDs somewhere, then sit back and enjoy the panic...