After losing my domain name to the theif who runs this disgraceful site, I'm about to give up on domain names all together. What happened? The name I registered was bombed out by spam, my ISP was uncooperative and sleaze bag, who runs a his own big registrar grabbed it up.
Do I think Sigmund has a real interest in my former domain name? Only as a speculator. What else can "Buy domains inexpensively! Resell them at competitive prices!" mean?
So what can I do about it? Sigmund is a lawyer with $250,000 worth of infrastructure behind him. I've seen WIPO cases with more going for them lose. The year I spent building that site and name are now effectively Sigmund's and there's nothing I can do about it because I don't have the time, resources or knowledge.
Problems like that need to be solved. Small businesses are going to be driven from the web by practices like that. If they go, so goes the web itself because people are not going to trust a non free media. It's simple banditry and no one does business in a lawless place.
Windows still gets my general usability vote but the crap I have to put up with for that ease of printer instalation or massive easy install software selection, is pushing me to keep my eyes open for alternitaves. IE: Lindows, David, etc.
Mepis is one of the easiest Linux installs you will find. Imagine Knoppix with a GUI installer that works and you see Mepis. Install off the first CD takes 15 to 30 minutes depending on the speed of your CD and what games you play while it's going. It's got Windows network browsing, printing via cups and all that jazz.
Fedora will also work well, but the default is a Gnome desktop that's hungrier than KDE and the install takes a little longer.
How quickly we forget and how foggy our notions are, kent_eh. The article says that 71% of surveyed spam sites are in China. This article shows that most of the spam itself is from the USA, and most of that from broken cable boxes. The one thing that those cable boxes share with the rest of the worlds broken cable boxes is a crappy commercial OS from Redmond. Oh yeah, one more thing, China's great internet wall is working about as well as the original stone one.
To recap, the source of the problem is a poorly designed US operating system pushed by a greedy and embarrassing company. To block them, you would be blocking yourself.
You can help solve the problem by turning to other, much better made OS such as Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Mepis, Xandros, Feather, Peanut and so on, which is founded on some rather solid US notions of freedom. It's good to have something to be proud of.
Google is #1 because they don't screw their customer. This is just another part of that. Why would I use another less ethical search engine, like the one from the company that wanted to sell your desktop to advertisers? A vow to fight spyware is one more reason for me to use Google over other search engines.
I use Debian for similar reasons, though all free software is good.
This is what capitalism and real competition are supposed to do. In a real competitive environment, ethical companies win. Companies who screw their customers are quickly replaced. Only government regulations can protect dishonest and inefficient companies from would be competitors.
If you do the rebuild and it does not help, check with your application support. From my 7 years of Windows drudgery and experience, 75% or more of "Windows" problems come from third party apps or PEBKACs.
Does that mean that most Microsoft problems would be solved if no one used them for anything? WTF can you do with a M$ OS without any "third party" application? Lookout without a spell check, MSIE? Sure, but by using those first party applications you will end up with a third party like Gator in no time. The other idea, removing the user, sounds much more productive. In support of your idea, I propose you move all of your users to a rational OS and spare yourself further drudgery.
I moved myself five years ago and life has been easier.
When Sony and EA have huge market share it's okay, but as soon as MS wants to be competitive it's sinister?
You have a funny definition of competitive. Sony has given us new chips, software and other cool stuff wrapped in innovative consoles. Microsoft has given us a sub spec PC wrapped in ugly plastic. Oh yeah, they are also promissing world domination after losing money on said ugly plastic box and slipping delivery dates on it's follow up. That's not really competing, it's blowing smoke and it's pathetic.
The only difference between this smoke and the smoke they blow up big dumb company ass is that they don't have a leg to stand on. Microsoft can get away with grand pronouncements where they have built some effective data roach motels for the suckers. Their pennetration of the gaming market, however, remains low due to poor performance and bad reputation. Anyone who thinks that successful companies are going to start paying a loser money deserves an xbox. Microsoft's usual bluster does not work when they don't have expensive lockins and an effective monoploy.
If a technology prevents you from omitting, obfuscating, or falsifying your return address, it has reduced your ability to communicate anonymously. Some people consider that a right to be defended.
There's more than that at stake. Any method that uses an outside party for email makes the individual beholden to the outside party. Some of us have the idealistic notion that we could run email servers ourselves without a DNS entry. As things are, all you need is a static IP, and ISP that does not block ports and a recipient that is not dependent on an ISP that blocks said IP addresses. It's one of those "world of ends" ideas that seem to be going away.
Hey, I was just wondering - would it be OK for me to refer you to this little gem of a story the next time I see you using the tired "Steve Bartko" argument you (judging from your posting history) seem to love so much? You wouldn't mind that, would you?
Bartko behavior is what JBoss is accused of, I have yet to see it proven. Once identified, Barkto slithered off to... another name. I have not seen evidence of intentional identity concealment from JBoss. Point it out to me and fuck off.
Can't read jroller's sad little EV1, SCO supporting page right now, but I can imagine a few things Jboss could have done to make their posts really anonymous.
They could have hired PR firms. This would be cheaper than spending engineering hours. The results might not be as good because engineers know what they are doing and can give you honest answers. If they really wanted to post crap and act like, oh M$ term, "net thugs", they could have offshored it!
They could use anonymizers.
They could have
I'll have to see the evidence before I make up my mind, but companies that let you read and post on BBS are cool. Encouraging employees to constructively contribute to online discussions is not a bad practice. I'd like my next company to do the same.
Fred can't see through his own bullshit. He's applied a double standard without even thinking about it. He did not do his homework then he flamed the company when he got burnt. This is something he should have done hundreds of times to Microsoft.
Fred makes a living by providing people with computer advice, you would think that he'd have done some more research before he bought. Reading the outside of a box is not enough research, yet that's all he did. I would cut the n00b some slack if he were not so vocal, universal in his condemnations or applied them evenly.
Where is his condemnation of Microsoft? I have a long list of hardware that half worked with Winblows, especially AV equipment. So does he because that's what's out there and how it works. Does this clown say silly things like "Windows is overpriced" when this happens to him? No, he just says that the piece of hardware sucks, regardless of why, and demands that the hardware maker get on better terms with Microsoft, hmph.
Out of the box, XP Home does not provide so much as a spell checker. Sure, you can cut and paste everything into "free" online dictionaries and you can download software that does the job, but what a pain the home user. What are you paying for again?
No one would use XP home in an office. What you have to use there costs way more than anything from anyone else. By the time you get finished with Exchange, CALs, Office on each of the machines and the whole nine yards that makes M$ even remotely comparable to any Linux distro, you have thousands of dollars in charges.
Every day I ride home to the top of my hill I'm glad to be hauling 17 pounds of bike versus 25.
Everytime I top a hill, I curse the 40 lbs of flab I carry. Good tires are a must but I'll worry about components fancier than those on my $250 used bike when I've reduced my biggest drag. Every hill helps.
Go for it. Get yourself a motorbike with the uniform of your choice. Then you can snub the other groups, or you can just do everything and see it for what it is.
You can go for cross country cruising and get a big fat bike. It's nice to ride upright and there's nothing quiet like it. Yeah, the leather and all works well. For someone without gas money a good motorbike represents a way to get around. Long rides are, of course, less comfortable than the same ride in an airconditioned vehicle. If you have enough money for both, you are a RUBBER, a Rich UrBan BikER.
You can go for racing and get yourself a crotch rocket. I know people who have done this and taken it all the way through racing school.
What's to look down at? Posers? Nah, they sooner or later get a clue. Groups of people who ride around stomping heads? Yep. Breaking heads is not a nice thing to do, even if you have figured out how to practically ride a motor bike. That's a good thing to look down at and stay away from.
Me? I like regular bike riding now. It's healtheir and less dangerous than the other stuff. No, I've never run around wanting to break people's heads.
... experts agreed. "Let's face it: Gangs already have their own alphabet, their own language, their own hand signals, so why not use the Internet?"
I'm waiting for the gang hand sign RFC.
Parents, not police, must take ultimate responsibility, said Lewis, a former police officer in Modesto, Calif. "I'm just wondering why the parents aren't monitoring what's going on back and forth on the Internet," he said.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch house:
A Roadside Oiler, filled with pride, watches his son typing away. "My son is a fucking genouis with that thing. He's always working at it. Trojans, DDoS, I got no idea what it is so it must be good."
Sonny gets out of his chair, picks up a baseball bat and heads for the door.
Oiler: Where you going, son?
Sonny: Uhhh, there's a game on tonight. I won't be late.
Oiler thinks: Night time baseball? Eh, OK, a little exercise will do him some good. I wish he'd get some sunshine.
With 200GB+ hard disks being so affordable these days and everyone having high speed, I think everyone should encode their (mp3||ogg||aac) at 192 or 256.
Vorbis does variable bit rate and you set the quality you want. That way you don't waste lots of bits where they are not needed. My 4MB ogg file sounds as good or better than my little brother's 6MB mp3. The difference is more songs on my 256MB compact flash card. Yes, it's easy to play that music on my Zaurus, which cost about as much or less than DRM gimped portable music players.
I hate it when I download music (legal;) and the only bitrate available for the song i want is 128.
[It] may be more important to chose a coded, like for example general acceptance, freely available code and specs, and a large content base available.
Sure, we'd never want what's subjectively best but should accept what's generally available. I opt that you listen to music through the telephone for the rest of your life.
I'll set up the juke box in the sky you seem to crave. I'll rig a little server up that will answer the phone with voice recognition. Any song you ask for will be searched for, downloaded and played to you for nothing more than the cost of your long distance bill. Because you don't care about quality but only want quantity, I'll use all the codecs even WMF to insure you get multiple crappy coppies of what you want. You can listen anywhere with your cell phone and the RIAA won't have to worry about piracy because no one else in the world would ever want to listen to such junk. I promise the service will always improve, honestly I do, so trust me.
In the copyright law iself, if read word for word, and taken literally, there's no right explicity granted for backups
Don't be confused. Copyright grants a temprorary exclusive franchise to publish. Let's see what publish is:
Publish: Pronunciation: 'p&-blish
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, modification of Middle French publier, from Latin publicare, from publicus public
transitive senses
1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of
2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : PRINT 2c c : to issue the work of (an author)
intransitive senses
1 : to put out an edition
2 : to have one's work accepted for publication
- publishable/-bli-sh&-b&l/ adjective.
A copy is not a publication. There's no well grounded prohibition of copy in the US.
The DMCA needs to be abolished because it prevents publication of original works and creates an exclusive franchise for Trade Secrets and violates spirit and letter of the US Constitution.
Nothing's more pathetic than a slave begging for favors.
There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures, so the whole argument that people should have the right to make backup copies of DVDs has no legal support whatsoever
Translation:
You have no rights, therefore you should not have them.
Both assertions are false and the whole debate is disgusting. DMCA is unconstitutional and needs to be repealed completely. Begging special permission to do one or two things you should be able to do anyway is a waste of time. Getting that permission that all of the other violations more paletable.
there is a special resentment towards Microsoft....
note that these sentiments are shared by both Muslims and Christians in egypt, although of course the more extreme Muslims would voice them in very religious phrasing.
It's nice to know that others also call on their deities when they see a BSoD. The things I used to say, however, would make a Sunday School teacher blush. It's been a long time since I've had that kind of calling thanks to GNU.
His chief complaint is that there's no tree view. "You no longer browse with all your options accessible in a single window or a split window with a directory tree on the left and icons on the right." From the previous article's screen shots we see that Nicholas is an ass. Most of the complaints resemble those of the average n00b who just wants to be left alone with the windoze 3.1 file manager and never have to learn anything new.
The dumbest compliant is implied. He acts as if though desktop Linux will be harmed by his inability to understand Gnome. Sure, his article is harmful for not mentioning the many fine alternatives to Gnome that you can have on your computer without interfeering with Gnome. Nicholas, if you want a file browser that works the way you like it and you can't figure out the keystrokes within Gnome, just call up Konqueror. It and Gnome's file manager run just fine in Window Maker, OLVDM, Enlightenment, Fluxbox or even KDE or Gnome. You always have other options with free software.
The difference is that in the end, I'm creating a software product. If I do pure consulting, i.e. something more akin to an advisory function such as a lawyer would do, there's no sales tax.
Isn't your code simply more advice? There are "tangible" goods involved with every form of consultancy. Engineering consultants produce reports. Lawyers generate required forms which may be used again. Generally, consultants charge for their time. It's hard for me to think of a program as a tangible good, especially a one off program designed for a single customer. Code to me is simply something I've spent a little time with.
with more bogus patents and enforcement of the DMCA and continue outsourcing. That's what they would like, you know, the lowest possible price for a government mandated monoploy product that everyone needs daily. Companies like Microsoft are driving there already. Free software is what can stop them, so they are trying to attribute everything people hate to free software. Funny for a company that has offshored a large portion of it's work to tell you that offshoring is bad, isn't it?
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Do I think Sigmund has a real interest in my former domain name? Only as a speculator. What else can "Buy domains inexpensively! Resell them at competitive prices!" mean?
So what can I do about it? Sigmund is a lawyer with $250,000 worth of infrastructure behind him. I've seen WIPO cases with more going for them lose. The year I spent building that site and name are now effectively Sigmund's and there's nothing I can do about it because I don't have the time, resources or knowledge.
Problems like that need to be solved. Small businesses are going to be driven from the web by practices like that. If they go, so goes the web itself because people are not going to trust a non free media. It's simple banditry and no one does business in a lawless place.
Mepis is one of the easiest Linux installs you will find. Imagine Knoppix with a GUI installer that works and you see Mepis. Install off the first CD takes 15 to 30 minutes depending on the speed of your CD and what games you play while it's going. It's got Windows network browsing, printing via cups and all that jazz.
Fedora will also work well, but the default is a Gnome desktop that's hungrier than KDE and the install takes a little longer.
To recap, the source of the problem is a poorly designed US operating system pushed by a greedy and embarrassing company. To block them, you would be blocking yourself.
You can help solve the problem by turning to other, much better made OS such as Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Mepis, Xandros, Feather, Peanut and so on, which is founded on some rather solid US notions of freedom. It's good to have something to be proud of.
I use Debian for similar reasons, though all free software is good.
This is what capitalism and real competition are supposed to do. In a real competitive environment, ethical companies win. Companies who screw their customers are quickly replaced. Only government regulations can protect dishonest and inefficient companies from would be competitors.
Does that mean that most Microsoft problems would be solved if no one used them for anything? WTF can you do with a M$ OS without any "third party" application? Lookout without a spell check, MSIE? Sure, but by using those first party applications you will end up with a third party like Gator in no time. The other idea, removing the user, sounds much more productive. In support of your idea, I propose you move all of your users to a rational OS and spare yourself further drudgery.
I moved myself five years ago and life has been easier.
You have a funny definition of competitive. Sony has given us new chips, software and other cool stuff wrapped in innovative consoles. Microsoft has given us a sub spec PC wrapped in ugly plastic. Oh yeah, they are also promissing world domination after losing money on said ugly plastic box and slipping delivery dates on it's follow up. That's not really competing, it's blowing smoke and it's pathetic.
The only difference between this smoke and the smoke they blow up big dumb company ass is that they don't have a leg to stand on. Microsoft can get away with grand pronouncements where they have built some effective data roach motels for the suckers. Their pennetration of the gaming market, however, remains low due to poor performance and bad reputation. Anyone who thinks that successful companies are going to start paying a loser money deserves an xbox. Microsoft's usual bluster does not work when they don't have expensive lockins and an effective monoploy.
I read the articles. What I saw was one IP that had two accounts. Big deal.
There's more than that at stake. Any method that uses an outside party for email makes the individual beholden to the outside party. Some of us have the idealistic notion that we could run email servers ourselves without a DNS entry. As things are, all you need is a static IP, and ISP that does not block ports and a recipient that is not dependent on an ISP that blocks said IP addresses. It's one of those "world of ends" ideas that seem to be going away.
Bartko behavior is what JBoss is accused of, I have yet to see it proven. Once identified, Barkto slithered off to ... another name. I have not seen evidence of intentional identity concealment from JBoss. Point it out to me and fuck off.
They could have hired PR firms. This would be cheaper than spending engineering hours. The results might not be as good because engineers know what they are doing and can give you honest answers. If they really wanted to post crap and act like, oh M$ term, "net thugs", they could have offshored it!
They could use anonymizers.
They could have
I'll have to see the evidence before I make up my mind, but companies that let you read and post on BBS are cool. Encouraging employees to constructively contribute to online discussions is not a bad practice. I'd like my next company to do the same.
Fred makes a living by providing people with computer advice, you would think that he'd have done some more research before he bought. Reading the outside of a box is not enough research, yet that's all he did. I would cut the n00b some slack if he were not so vocal, universal in his condemnations or applied them evenly.
Where is his condemnation of Microsoft? I have a long list of hardware that half worked with Winblows, especially AV equipment. So does he because that's what's out there and how it works. Does this clown say silly things like "Windows is overpriced" when this happens to him? No, he just says that the piece of hardware sucks, regardless of why, and demands that the hardware maker get on better terms with Microsoft, hmph.
No one would use XP home in an office. What you have to use there costs way more than anything from anyone else. By the time you get finished with Exchange, CALs, Office on each of the machines and the whole nine yards that makes M$ even remotely comparable to any Linux distro, you have thousands of dollars in charges.
I suppose buying a network can be the best solution, but I think what's wanted here is how the Cable company does what it does so we can DIY. You dig?
Everytime I top a hill, I curse the 40 lbs of flab I carry. Good tires are a must but I'll worry about components fancier than those on my $250 used bike when I've reduced my biggest drag. Every hill helps.
You can go for cross country cruising and get a big fat bike. It's nice to ride upright and there's nothing quiet like it. Yeah, the leather and all works well. For someone without gas money a good motorbike represents a way to get around. Long rides are, of course, less comfortable than the same ride in an airconditioned vehicle. If you have enough money for both, you are a RUBBER, a Rich UrBan BikER.
You can go for racing and get yourself a crotch rocket. I know people who have done this and taken it all the way through racing school.
What's to look down at? Posers? Nah, they sooner or later get a clue. Groups of people who ride around stomping heads? Yep. Breaking heads is not a nice thing to do, even if you have figured out how to practically ride a motor bike. That's a good thing to look down at and stay away from.
Me? I like regular bike riding now. It's healtheir and less dangerous than the other stuff. No, I've never run around wanting to break people's heads.
The above is not a pick one and only one answer. Life can be a bore, get over it.
I'm waiting for the gang hand sign RFC.
Parents, not police, must take ultimate responsibility, said Lewis, a former police officer in Modesto, Calif. "I'm just wondering why the parents aren't monitoring what's going on back and forth on the Internet," he said.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch house:
A Roadside Oiler, filled with pride, watches his son typing away. "My son is a fucking genouis with that thing. He's always working at it. Trojans, DDoS, I got no idea what it is so it must be good."
Sonny gets out of his chair, picks up a baseball bat and heads for the door.
Oiler: Where you going, son?
Sonny: Uhhh, there's a game on tonight. I won't be late.
Oiler thinks: Night time baseball? Eh, OK, a little exercise will do him some good. I wish he'd get some sunshine.
And so it happens.
Vorbis does variable bit rate and you set the quality you want. That way you don't waste lots of bits where they are not needed. My 4MB ogg file sounds as good or better than my little brother's 6MB mp3. The difference is more songs on my 256MB compact flash card. Yes, it's easy to play that music on my Zaurus, which cost about as much or less than DRM gimped portable music players.
I hate it when I download music (legal ;) and the only bitrate available for the song i want is 128.
Cry me a river.
Sure, we'd never want what's subjectively best but should accept what's generally available. I opt that you listen to music through the telephone for the rest of your life.
I'll set up the juke box in the sky you seem to crave. I'll rig a little server up that will answer the phone with voice recognition. Any song you ask for will be searched for, downloaded and played to you for nothing more than the cost of your long distance bill. Because you don't care about quality but only want quantity, I'll use all the codecs even WMF to insure you get multiple crappy coppies of what you want. You can listen anywhere with your cell phone and the RIAA won't have to worry about piracy because no one else in the world would ever want to listen to such junk. I promise the service will always improve, honestly I do, so trust me.
Don't be confused. Copyright grants a temprorary exclusive franchise to publish. Let's see what publish is:
Publish: Pronunciation: 'p&-blish Function: verb Etymology: Middle English, modification of Middle French publier, from Latin publicare, from publicus public transitive senses 1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of 2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : PRINT 2c c : to issue the work of (an author) intransitive senses 1 : to put out an edition 2 : to have one's work accepted for publication - publishable /-bli-sh&-b&l/ adjective.
A copy is not a publication. There's no well grounded prohibition of copy in the US.
The DMCA needs to be abolished because it prevents publication of original works and creates an exclusive franchise for Trade Secrets and violates spirit and letter of the US Constitution.
Nothing's more pathetic than a slave begging for favors.
Translation:
You have no rights, therefore you should not have them.
Both assertions are false and the whole debate is disgusting. DMCA is unconstitutional and needs to be repealed completely. Begging special permission to do one or two things you should be able to do anyway is a waste of time. Getting that permission that all of the other violations more paletable.
It's nice to know that others also call on their deities when they see a BSoD. The things I used to say, however, would make a Sunday School teacher blush. It's been a long time since I've had that kind of calling thanks to GNU.
The dumbest compliant is implied. He acts as if though desktop Linux will be harmed by his inability to understand Gnome. Sure, his article is harmful for not mentioning the many fine alternatives to Gnome that you can have on your computer without interfeering with Gnome. Nicholas, if you want a file browser that works the way you like it and you can't figure out the keystrokes within Gnome, just call up Konqueror. It and Gnome's file manager run just fine in Window Maker, OLVDM, Enlightenment, Fluxbox or even KDE or Gnome. You always have other options with free software.
Isn't your code simply more advice? There are "tangible" goods involved with every form of consultancy. Engineering consultants produce reports. Lawyers generate required forms which may be used again. Generally, consultants charge for their time. It's hard for me to think of a program as a tangible good, especially a one off program designed for a single customer. Code to me is simply something I've spent a little time with.