is that bastards that work like this don't get shut down/prosecuted. Yes, users should not be that stupid.
If a girl gets raped when walking through a park alone at night, or after drinking something that a stranger gave her at a party well perhaps she was stupid. That does not let the rapist off the hook!
Sooo... if I ask you for your password and you give it to me... I'm to blame? Like I go; "Hi, I need your e-mail address and password so I can access your address book and send e-mails in your name" And you say "Sure, sounds good to me."
Some people are just too stupid. They're impossible to protect. They're the people that makes it necessary to have three pages of warnings on a knife, that need to be told that a hammer should not be used to smash insects on somebody's head. It's the people that smokes them self to death... They are the people so stupid that no one has the imagination to even come up with the necessary laws to protect them and you just have to look at them as an example of Darwin's theory of natural selection.
The first time a technician has to explain to grandma how to manually edit a.conf file is the last time anyone in that person's sphere of influence would ever buy from that company. Linux is simply not ready to be a widespread desktop OS. That grandma would hardly choose Linux now would she? Remember that it's all about offering Linux to the people that *want* Linux. It's not about forcing Linux on people that would be better off sticking with Windows.
Personally I prefer Linux and I don't even own a Windows license but I would never recommend Linux to my mom who still struggles getting the basics of Windows. Nor would she choose a PC with Linux instead of Windows.
Kinda defies all logic doesn't it. They have traveled an unimaginable long distance using unimaginably advanced technology and discovered, to them, new lifeforms. And then they say to them self: "Hey, lets give this group of beings our technology so they can kill the other group of beings more efficiently!"
Some people think he's not that great as can be seen in the video The Hawking Paradox. For a scientist, being proven wrong is no big deal and often just as important as being right. It's just another factor in his/ her continuing work. Being wrong does not make you a bad scientist. Einstein's 'Cosmological Constant' anyone?
Hawking has been wrong numerous times (it usually costs him a case of wine). Quite often he actually prove *himself* wrong.
The blurb is totally inaccurate. It's not proposed as a law. It's a committee that was asked (by our former government) to dream up some suggestions on how to combat 'illegal' internet activities. One possibility, out of several, they came up with was to ban everything... But of course that's the one that creates the best headlines.
It will never happen. It's impossible under the current law and would take some serious changes to the free speech type laws.
I doubt if the FSF will be able to isolate and encircle Novell. This kind of gaming on their part will also upset and affect other interests. If the FSF wants to fork Linux and every other GPL'd software project, they're on the right track lately. They might not be able to do it but they sure as he** are going to try.
Personally I think the entire FSF has gone completely of their rockers. I used to support RMS and FSF but I find their methods increasingly distasteful. I don't like the MS/ Novell deal and I don't like Windows but the fanaticism the FSF show with crusades like this and not to mention their BadVista campaign makes sick.
They are really not about freedom anymore, they are about making everyone do things their way.
It's been clear for a long time that FSF intend to tailor GPLv3 to harm Novell as much as possible. Both Mogeln and RMS has said that numerous times and there is very little doubt that they will make sure Novell gets stuck with GPLv2 apps. TFA is just something cooked up by a journalist having to fill his quota or something.
It's not really about the fact that the files physically can only be played back on an iPod. It's about iTunes general licensing rules which are incompatible with Norwegian law. The *license* say you can only play the files on an iPod and that's illegal. Under Norwegian law you have the right to do whatever you want with the things you buy as long as it don't violate other laws (like opening your DVD for personal use etc).
So Apple can continue to have the physical limitations on their files but the have to rewrite their licensing terms so that the users can do what ever they want with the files they have legally bought.
The ethics issue is similar to that of organ donors. Organ donors have a slightly higher mortality rate because there are doctors who behave unethically and do not work as hard when they realize a seriously injured patient is an organ donor....... So you say some doctors will kill one person in order to save another? I guess you can back that up with some credible research because the basic idea seem to lack logic... unless the patient is a friend/ relative of the doctor of course. One patient will die anyway if there is an urgent need for the organs.
He probably had fun doing it. And isn't that often the main hacker motivation for doing stuff? I have done some pretty weird hacks in my time just to see if I could make it work... I never advertize it on/. though.
"Mythbusters" actually did this one. No medical skilled person believed it to be even remotely true... it's a good story though. Right up there with the one about a woman giving birth to a squid.
The other problem with takeoff is that unless he has wheels or ski's or something, there is no way to build up enough speed for the wings to generate any lift. So he's going to have to have enough thrust to take off vertically - and according to TFA, that's something that'll have to wait for the next generation of machine. Rollerblades?
Excellent point. This sudden panic about global warming being man made just show what megalomaniacs humans really are. We actually believe it's in our powers to destroy the entire planet! Earth is several billion years old and has gone through alot worse than we can ever dream about creating.
Nature is a slow moving thing. A few million years is nothing. And it has an amazing ability to take care of the problem and bounce back. Og course, natures current problem is us, and that problem is obviously addressed since we are killing each other off at an amazing rate. A few hundred years from now the human race is probably gone, the problem is solved and Earth will go on living for millions of years to come.
Hey AC of this: There is absolutly no reason to drive by (or use a bot) to post false news here. We usually do an excellent job in that field our selvs...:p
A laptop containing the personal information on 382,000 current and retired workers of Chicago-based Boeing Co. was stolen from an employee's car earlier this month, according to Boeing spokesman Tim Neale. He declined to say exactly where the laptop was stolen. That really sums it up. You will never ever have better security than what the stupidest person with access to sensitive data can muster. Leaving a laptop with such data unattended in a car??
You can enforce encryption on every file, strong passwords etc but sooner or later some smuck will print it out and forget to schred the printout when done. So it ends up on some dump available to anyone crawling around looking for something usable.
Designers of company security forget the most obvious and most dangerous threat: stupidity! My personal favorite quote used to illustrate exactly that is the following:
When the infamous "ILOVEYOU" email virus hit, I saw TV news coverage that included an interview with some bubblebrained company secretary. At one point she said, "Oh, I saw we had dozens of these emails coming in, and of course I was suspicious, but I had to open just one of them because, you know, 'I Love You!' *giggle* I had to just see what it was about, you know?" You can't foolproof a system, you simply need to get rid of the idiots. Which sadly is easier said than done...
... Clearly fangirls have better things to do. Yes we have. Since we are the new hyperintelligent pandimensional beings from Magrathea we are studying you from a position where you think you controll us...
We have long since given up finding the ultimate answer though.
For all the MS bashing in the linux world, why do all distributions use a crappy gui that tries to copy the crappy startmenu/explorer interface of MS? It sucks, copy apple at the very least. Sometimes even MS get something right and the interface introduced with W95 is, in my opinion anyway, one of those things. I really like the basic idea behind that GUI. I do not however like how they do their operating system. I prefer *nix so by using GNU/ Linux with KDE I get the best of two worlds.
One typical Linux thing that's not in Win that I particulary like is the ingenious pager. I have just a 15" display and utilizing multiple desktops makes handelig of many open programs a breeze. So by having browser and email apps on one desktop, my terminals and ftp client in another and my development tools in a third I completly avoid a taskbar that's crowded beyond belief and I don't have to jugle 15 windows on a small workspace.
So maybe I'm not a certified Windows hater/ Linux zealot but atleast I have a very comfortable desktop...
Reading the headline I almost instinctivly looked out of the window to see if there were any pigs or penguins flying by... but then I remembered that I was reading/.
No doubt the video took some work, but remember;/. is probably the single most popular geek site on the web. We have seen boxes booting into linux before, we have seen the GNOME desktop, we know the terminology by heart (and we know not to start X as root). We are really not that interesting in seeing the result but would love to see how you achieved it.
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If a girl gets raped when walking through a park alone at night, or after drinking something that a stranger gave her at a party well perhaps she was stupid. That does not let the rapist off the hook!
Sooo... if I ask you for your password and you give it to me... I'm to blame? Like I go; "Hi, I need your e-mail address and password so I can access your address book and send e-mails in your name" And you say "Sure, sounds good to me."Some people are just too stupid. They're impossible to protect. They're the people that makes it necessary to have three pages of warnings on a knife, that need to be told that a hammer should not be used to smash insects on somebody's head. It's the people that smokes them self to death... They are the people so stupid that no one has the imagination to even come up with the necessary laws to protect them and you just have to look at them as an example of Darwin's theory of natural selection.
That actually makes a lot of sense :)
I'm not a mathematician but I wonder why it took 26 tapes to record 24 hours..?
Personally I prefer Linux and I don't even own a Windows license but I would never recommend Linux to my mom who still struggles getting the basics of Windows. Nor would she choose a PC with Linux instead of Windows.
You mean 13... not 11. 11 was Armstrong's ship and I have heard some rumors saying that they made it :)
Kinda defies all logic doesn't it. They have traveled an unimaginable long distance using unimaginably advanced technology and discovered, to them, new lifeforms. And then they say to them self: "Hey, lets give this group of beings our technology so they can kill the other group of beings more efficiently!"
For a scientist, being proven wrong is no big deal and often just as important as being right. It's just another factor in his/ her continuing work. Being wrong does not make you a bad scientist. Einstein's 'Cosmological Constant' anyone?
Hawking has been wrong numerous times (it usually costs him a case of wine). Quite often he actually prove *himself* wrong.
The blurb is totally inaccurate. It's not proposed as a law. It's a committee that was asked (by our former government) to dream up some suggestions on how to combat 'illegal' internet activities. One possibility, out of several, they came up with was to ban everything... But of course that's the one that creates the best headlines.
It will never happen. It's impossible under the current law and would take some serious changes to the free speech type laws.
Personally I think the entire FSF has gone completely of their rockers. I used to support RMS and FSF but I find their methods increasingly distasteful. I don't like the MS/ Novell deal and I don't like Windows but the fanaticism the FSF show with crusades like this and not to mention their BadVista campaign makes sick.
They are really not about freedom anymore, they are about making everyone do things their way.
It's been clear for a long time that FSF intend to tailor GPLv3 to harm Novell as much as possible. Both Mogeln and RMS has said that numerous times and there is very little doubt that they will make sure Novell gets stuck with GPLv2 apps. TFA is just something cooked up by a journalist having to fill his quota or something.
It's not really about the fact that the files physically can only be played back on an iPod. It's about iTunes general licensing rules which are incompatible with Norwegian law. The *license* say you can only play the files on an iPod and that's illegal. Under Norwegian law you have the right to do whatever you want with the things you buy as long as it don't violate other laws (like opening your DVD for personal use etc). So Apple can continue to have the physical limitations on their files but the have to rewrite their licensing terms so that the users can do what ever they want with the files they have legally bought.
He probably had fun doing it. And isn't that often the main hacker motivation for doing stuff? I have done some pretty weird hacks in my time just to see if I could make it work... I never advertize it on /. though.
"Mythbusters" actually did this one. No medical skilled person believed it to be even remotely true... it's a good story though. Right up there with the one about a woman giving birth to a squid.
Rollerblades?
Excellent point. This sudden panic about global warming being man made just show what megalomaniacs humans really are. We actually believe it's in our powers to destroy the entire planet! Earth is several billion years old and has gone through alot worse than we can ever dream about creating.
Nature is a slow moving thing. A few million years is nothing. And it has an amazing ability to take care of the problem and bounce back. Og course, natures current problem is us, and that problem is obviously addressed since we are killing each other off at an amazing rate. A few hundred years from now the human race is probably gone, the problem is solved and Earth will go on living for millions of years to come.
That's actually a wounderfull thought.
Hey AC of this: There is absolutly no reason to drive by (or use a bot) to post false news here. We usually do an excellent job in that field our selvs... :p
You can enforce encryption on every file, strong passwords etc but sooner or later some smuck will print it out and forget to schred the printout when done. So it ends up on some dump available to anyone crawling around looking for something usable.
Designers of company security forget the most obvious and most dangerous threat: stupidity! My personal favorite quote used to illustrate exactly that is the following:
When the infamous "ILOVEYOU" email virus hit, I saw TV news coverage that included an interview with some bubblebrained company secretary. At one point she said, "Oh, I saw we had dozens of these emails coming in, and of course I was suspicious, but I had to open just one of them because, you know, 'I Love You!' *giggle* I had to just see what it was about, you know?" You can't foolproof a system, you simply need to get rid of the idiots. Which sadly is easier said than done...
... Clearly fangirls have better things to do. Yes we have. Since we are the new hyperintelligent pandimensional beings from Magrathea we are studying you from a position where you think you controll us...We have long since given up finding the ultimate answer though.
So if 95% of the MS/ Novell customers are happy with the deal, doesen't that mean that the overall customer satisfaction has gone down by 5%?
One typical Linux thing that's not in Win that I particulary like is the ingenious pager. I have just a 15" display and utilizing multiple desktops makes handelig of many open programs a breeze. So by having browser and email apps on one desktop, my terminals and ftp client in another and my development tools in a third I completly avoid a taskbar that's crowded beyond belief and I don't have to jugle 15 windows on a small workspace.
So maybe I'm not a certified Windows hater/ Linux zealot but atleast I have a very comfortable desktop...
Reading the headline I almost instinctivly looked out of the window to see if there were any pigs or penguins flying by... but then I remembered that I was reading /.
That probably just indicates that it's time to wash your underwar...
Uh...ok? Where is that number comming from?
Just qurious...
No doubt the video took some work, but remember; /. is probably the single most popular geek site on the web. We have seen boxes booting into linux before, we have seen the GNOME desktop, we know the terminology by heart (and we know not to start X as root). We are really not that interesting in seeing the result but would love to see how you achieved it.