OTOH, anyone who lets themselves get rooted by the RIAA, an organization that can't even keep a website up for more than ten minutes, or do basic things like run Windows Update, will probably loose more self-esteem than data.
You lost that when you clicked the submit button on the Windoze EULA. Remember them giving themselves the right to "upgrade" your system at any time and inspect your system and delete infinging files? Not only don't you know what you own today, you have no idea what it will be tomorrow.
If you must run that trash, I recomend keeping it blind to the network. Do not configure the network adaptors or intentionally set them up incorrectly. Windoze networking blows anyway, so dual boot the thing and use the clearly superior tools available under Linux or BSD. Life is easier when you use the right tool for the job.
Also, F-Secure happens to be a Finnish company so it does not have to follow the US rules (as a matter a fact F-Secure / SHH Inc were both created more or less thanks to the crypto export regulations in early 90ties..)
Oh dear, you seem to be violating the M$ EULA with that package as it contributes to copyright violation. Your EULA gives M$ the right to inspect your system, delete copyright infringing files and add or remove components. If F-Secure interferes with this process you will be in violation of your EULA. Sorry, that package will be removed at the next Windows update. If your computer fails to reboot you may, at your discresion, purchase a new copy of Microsoft Windows (TM). Thank you for doing business with us.
No amount of 3rd party software will make Windoze secure. I don't know if they have managed to make it so program execution can't hide from the system yet, but their EULAs are clear about M$ granting themselves permission to inspect your system and delete files they feel infringe on copyright. M$ will obviously sell this right to the highest bidder if they are not forced, ala Verizon, to do the inspections and deletions at their own expense. Virus scan and firewall software for Windoze is good money spent after bad.
If you don't want the RIAA/MPAA/McDisney creeps violating your privacy and deleting files they suspect violate their copyrights, move to free software. If you want to stop the madness all together, tell your friends what you think about copyright laws when you have the chance. It's our job, as knowledgable people, to inform those who don't know what's comming.
I set up a 70 year old retired engineer with Linux and he likes it better than Windows. Free software is more than ready for the desktop.
Hazards of using a scan of an object as a key include loss of the object or the scanner. A different scanner with different resolutions and color sensitivity would ruin your day. If you just happened to keep the original scan, you would be better off. Using many objects and hiding their images with many others would reduce the chances of others discovering your keys. You would then need a data base to associate the images with files. For smaller files you would do better to simply watermark your image with the encrypted data and do away with the "secret" files which are obvious targets. "Secrets? What secrets? All we have are employee family photo albums."
Yes, but as long as it doesn't have a kitchen sink, I'm not buying it.:-|
swivel-seat/toilet/boudette/sink/kitchenette/lau ndromat, it's only licensed to use M$ handsoap/dishwashing liquid/laundry detergent. Your building might not be licensed to use a competing office product if it's not free.
Despite the best efforts of Corporate America, this kind of thing will always be. Once you publish something, the public owns it. Common people will do common things with your characters such as make them urinate. Of course, once the character is urinating it's not yours anymore is it? Cease and dissist letters will never stem the "abuse", though they will eliminate constructive uses. Before and after the internet, there are bathroom walls, tatoos and pamplets.
That's not a weed! You killed Kenny, you bastards!
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THEN you'll have to hire a worker to go pluck them out. Or get a software upgrade. Or both.
Software changes, oh siver my timbers, say the solution is a new camera or battery. Let me do anything but - gasp - reprogram my programable device. Ha! The free software version of this would have an apt-get upgrade from http://weeds.debian.us with new weeds mutations profiles soon after they appear.
The question is if these little things can kill the weeds faster then they can grow. Have you ever tried to pick weeds by hand? It takes enormous effort.
I think what you meant is they are reluctant to try new things that don't increase their yield.
Farming is one place the US still has such a tremendous technical advantage that we can still do it cheaper than slave labor. Well, OK, if you don't count those poor Mexicans we drag in at less than minimum wage to pick strawberries, oranges and sugar cane, we still rock. So long as we don't let the larger ag-chem companies use slave labor and government subsidies to put small farmers out of business, we will still be free to work the land. As long as we don't let conglomerates and distributors and grocery stores engage in anti-competitive behavior like shelf purchasing, we will have a competitive food market and the best and freshest of food will continue to be affordable to all and our diet will not consist of various forms of corn syrup, extruded grain human dog food and beer thats mostly water. As long as we don't restrict electronic publishing so that only three or four broadcasters, wholy owned by said conglomerates, own the airwaves so that they can publish only the things that don't embarras them, we will be able to find out about such evil practices. Uhh, what was I saying? Yeah, the US free market rocks thanks to all the great market intervention that keeps us all so free. We still got better food than places like Japan that are mostly barren rock.
So in short: Copyright says you can't lease out copies without permission of the copyright holder. The copiright holder gave you permission, via the GPL, to distribute copies ONLY IF YOU license those copies to those to whom you disribute under the GPL.
That tells me nothing about current IBM practices.
Suppose that I'm leasing an IBM kernel that's under the GPL and I decide that I don't need IBM at the end of my lease term. In theory, I own the software because I have the source and compile it on my onw, not to mention the fact that it still works. What nasty tricks does IBM have to keep me hooked and paying them besides their great expertise? As a user who would be free, what do I have to do? Breaking a lease is a mater of contract law and you just don't do that. What if my business grows and I decide that I want to duplicate the free software I'm leasing and someone can do it cheaper and better than IBM? Has IBM loaded my set up with indespensible pieces that are restricted?
The problems I'm rasing are purely speculative. IBM may be upstanding and competitive enough to survive on their merit alone. They may have full confidence that the value they add to each customer's business is fully worth their price. If this is the case, they should have no problems with any provision of the GPL and the way they charge for their work is their business. Up front, spread out in a "lease" whatever. If they load their software with propriatory chunks of non-free code that they can yank at anytime, well let they buyer beware. Users of non free code have those kinds of problems.
Like I'd really want to use this thing after countless numbers of people touched it shortly after wiping their asses..
Well, popular wisdom has it that desktops in New York city and other big towns have more fecal bacteria than the toilets do. Most people continue to use their desks as a cafeteria tray. What's your problem?
Now that M$ has the abiltiy to track my goings, I fear they will close the loop and track my commings. Will the M$ office 2005 come with a cubicle with a mixed use seat/toilet, food and water tubes, and rollup bed? Don't forget the Xbox style PeeeCeee that I can't run that dirty free software on. Oh, paradise for the company man.
I'm a geek for crying out loud, and if getting in on a cool little deal like this meant learning Linux or buying a Mac, and ditching all my commercial software, I'd tell him to hit the road, hard.
You don't have to do all that to connect your computer to the internet with a fixed IP. Many users did just that to their Windoze boxes in the much better early days of cable modems and competitive DSL service. They learned to their cost about Windoze. The same can be said for dial up and windoze, it's just a little harder to notice poor performance that way, until the poor thing dies which joe six-packs think is normal.
He's talking about providing "communal" Internet access for his condominium. With affordable, professionally administered, tech-supported alternatives, such as telco DSL and cable, do you honestly think people are going to spend days... learning a whole new style of computing, just so they can fit into his geek experiment?
Nice flame, ass. I honestly think better appartments or condos would have fixed IP internet service through available as part of the rent. Keep your comerical software, you deserve it.
Only folks like Microsoft complain about a Slashdotting. It has something to do with eating thier own dog food, hating Unix and hating Slashdot. Oh wow, look, they took down that silly remark about Slashdoting. Slashbacking must be something they can deal with.
So which of the 4 poor saps sued by the RIAA (and then settled) paid for the congressman's trip?
$18,000 only bought the congressman and does not cover promotion of the tour. There's money for the officials he will meet, money for the "advisors" to follow them all, a couple of fancy suits, stage hands and all that. When it's all said and done, the congressman, the advisors, Tiwan, Korea, Eastasia, Eurasia and Airstrip One will all owe the RIAA for this trip. You can never have too much promotion if you don't want to be a starving artist..
I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm told the bad idea police will break down your door for implementing such an awful interface on top of reasonable software.
What do you suggest to use besides DHCP? PPPoE? LOL, Static IP? of course not. Assigning static IP's to each user would be a nightmare to support. Using PPPoE just adds 30 extra steps to the setup process of each machine
What makes you think static IPs are a nightmare? Making your interfaces static is easy stuff for most OS, even M$. Some of your neighbors might like help unclicking the DHCP box their dial up or cable modem stuck them with, but most people can figure it out with reasonable instructions. It's not hard to run a DHCP server, but why deny your neighbors the blessings of permanent addresses to avoid a few set up issues? Call me an idiot, but I'd rather give my clients the best available.
People will surprise you if you give them the chance.
Setting up an open network and refusing to go out of your way to protect and aid your windoze users is not equivalent to telling people what OS to use. If windoze users fall on their face in such environment they can complain to Microsoft. That's what they paid for, remember?
You have the chance to give yourself and your neighbors bandwith that does not suck. Instead you make it the equivalent of fast dial up plus custom M$ updater. You do this with DHCP (invented by M$?) and lock it up paranoid of M$ viruses. To do all this work, you need to buy filtering equipment to block ports and communications between units based on M$ usage of those ports. Bogus and all M$ inspired.
I count Items 7 through 13 as M$ inspired or fearing. Normal OS have well configured mail serers and don't need to have their trafic bothering the building mailserver. Normal OS don't need virus scanners or filters screwing up their mail and I'm unaware of a filter that works for anything but M$ binaries and VB. Blocking ports because M$ uses them for file sharing is about as dumb as not letting your neighbors share files in anyway they can. We know what machines will be disconected out of all proportion. If M$ were not so buggy, people would not be so afraid of the internet and their neighbors and you would not need to put a clause into the contract denying responsibility anymore than the electric company denies responsibility for light bulbs. Only someone from Redmond would recomend disonecting people's WAPs.
To configure your network in such a sucky M$ oriented way is an expensive, burdonsom endorsement of Microsoft crap. It wastes your money on equipment you don't need and it burdens reasonable users with restrictions. I'm not even going to imagine what kinds of calls you will get when M$ updater does not work, but I suppose you could bill to rebuild people's machines. I'd rather run a Debian mirror if anything. I don't mind billing time for software that works and respects it's users.
Thanks for being such a good shill. I like pointing out the advantages of free software.
Cat 5 is a good idea, but you might provide your neighbors with more than DHCP if you can. The single port - non routable address thing would suck for anyone who wants to use more than a single computer or serve content. "locking down unused ports" and forcing all outbound SMTP though your own mail server is equally obnoxious. What you would be providing is a faster browsing experience for a single user in each place rather than Internet Service. That's a terrible waste of a T1 or whatever your upstream service is.
It's amazing how far out of their way people will go to support Microsoft's crap. More than half of your list is Microsoft specific. Realize also that #10, " Insist customers keep their machines virus free. Disconnect any who don't IMMEDIATELY." eliminates the need for most of the other M$ virus precations, especially the silly M$ patch server which could get you a BSA visit. Why bother when you could recomend Linux or a Mac?
All small ISPs are going to be blacklisted by AOL/MSNBC regardless of how well or poorly you treat your users.
I don't run Debian's precompiled kernels though so I don't know what the patch/release policy on them is, but for all userland things it's better than WU.
Precompiled kernels work just fine and Debian's/etc/modules file makes it easy to change around hardware. Going from 2.2 to 2.4 was easy stuff. I can only imagine that they will use the same kind of upgrade policy for kernels as they do for every other package now, therefore I expect my kernels to be patched if some kind of flaw is discovered.
The poster who thinks there is less trouble to taking care of Windoze boxes than there it to Linux boxes is nuts or ignorant.
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What if one of your neighbours decides to leach child porn off the net using your wireless network? Should they think of themselves as your guest?
I'd ask my ISP about that one, but they are all in jail because one or two of their customers decided to download kiddie porn. Oh wait, they are not in jail and neither am I. The core thought of your statement is dangerous. I'm not resoponsible for the actions of others and common carriers should not be either.
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138 zombies? I doubt they have as many clients left.
You lost that when you clicked the submit button on the Windoze EULA. Remember them giving themselves the right to "upgrade" your system at any time and inspect your system and delete infinging files? Not only don't you know what you own today, you have no idea what it will be tomorrow.
If you must run that trash, I recomend keeping it blind to the network. Do not configure the network adaptors or intentionally set them up incorrectly. Windoze networking blows anyway, so dual boot the thing and use the clearly superior tools available under Linux or BSD. Life is easier when you use the right tool for the job.
Oh dear, you seem to be violating the M$ EULA with that package as it contributes to copyright violation. Your EULA gives M$ the right to inspect your system, delete copyright infringing files and add or remove components. If F-Secure interferes with this process you will be in violation of your EULA. Sorry, that package will be removed at the next Windows update. If your computer fails to reboot you may, at your discresion, purchase a new copy of Microsoft Windows (TM). Thank you for doing business with us.
If you don't want the RIAA/MPAA/McDisney creeps violating your privacy and deleting files they suspect violate their copyrights, move to free software. If you want to stop the madness all together, tell your friends what you think about copyright laws when you have the chance. It's our job, as knowledgable people, to inform those who don't know what's comming.
I set up a 70 year old retired engineer with Linux and he likes it better than Windows. Free software is more than ready for the desktop.
Hazards of using a scan of an object as a key include loss of the object or the scanner. A different scanner with different resolutions and color sensitivity would ruin your day. If you just happened to keep the original scan, you would be better off. Using many objects and hiding their images with many others would reduce the chances of others discovering your keys. You would then need a data base to associate the images with files. For smaller files you would do better to simply watermark your image with the encrypted data and do away with the "secret" files which are obvious targets. "Secrets? What secrets? All we have are employee family photo albums."
swivel-seat/toilet/boudette/sink/kitchenette/lau ndromat, it's only licensed to use M$ handsoap/dishwashing liquid/laundry detergent. Your building might not be licensed to use a competing office product if it's not free.
Despite the best efforts of Corporate America, this kind of thing will always be. Once you publish something, the public owns it. Common people will do common things with your characters such as make them urinate. Of course, once the character is urinating it's not yours anymore is it? Cease and dissist letters will never stem the "abuse", though they will eliminate constructive uses. Before and after the internet, there are bathroom walls, tatoos and pamplets.
What happens when the root systems are intertwined? If you are so lucky as to have a weed you can pull, you pull up your damn crops, roots and all.
I once saw a film where this bunch of hippies were sitting around in a field trying to smash bugs with rocks. The bugs were winning.
When it comes to farming, trust the farmer.
if not CASH_CROPS.match(plant_image): kill(plant)
That's not a weed! You killed Kenny, you bastards!
Software changes, oh siver my timbers, say the solution is a new camera or battery. Let me do anything but - gasp - reprogram my programable device. Ha! The free software version of this would have an apt-get upgrade from http://weeds.debian.us with new weeds mutations profiles soon after they appear.
The question is if these little things can kill the weeds faster then they can grow. Have you ever tried to pick weeds by hand? It takes enormous effort.
Farming is one place the US still has such a tremendous technical advantage that we can still do it cheaper than slave labor. Well, OK, if you don't count those poor Mexicans we drag in at less than minimum wage to pick strawberries, oranges and sugar cane, we still rock. So long as we don't let the larger ag-chem companies use slave labor and government subsidies to put small farmers out of business, we will still be free to work the land. As long as we don't let conglomerates and distributors and grocery stores engage in anti-competitive behavior like shelf purchasing, we will have a competitive food market and the best and freshest of food will continue to be affordable to all and our diet will not consist of various forms of corn syrup, extruded grain human dog food and beer thats mostly water. As long as we don't restrict electronic publishing so that only three or four broadcasters, wholy owned by said conglomerates, own the airwaves so that they can publish only the things that don't embarras them, we will be able to find out about such evil practices. Uhh, what was I saying? Yeah, the US free market rocks thanks to all the great market intervention that keeps us all so free. We still got better food than places like Japan that are mostly barren rock.
I'm going to sleep now. Good night.
Copyright says you can't lease out copies without permission of the copyright holder.
The copiright holder gave you permission, via the GPL, to distribute copies ONLY IF YOU license those copies to those to whom you disribute under the GPL.
That tells me nothing about current IBM practices.
Suppose that I'm leasing an IBM kernel that's under the GPL and I decide that I don't need IBM at the end of my lease term. In theory, I own the software because I have the source and compile it on my onw, not to mention the fact that it still works. What nasty tricks does IBM have to keep me hooked and paying them besides their great expertise? As a user who would be free, what do I have to do? Breaking a lease is a mater of contract law and you just don't do that. What if my business grows and I decide that I want to duplicate the free software I'm leasing and someone can do it cheaper and better than IBM? Has IBM loaded my set up with indespensible pieces that are restricted?
The problems I'm rasing are purely speculative. IBM may be upstanding and competitive enough to survive on their merit alone. They may have full confidence that the value they add to each customer's business is fully worth their price. If this is the case, they should have no problems with any provision of the GPL and the way they charge for their work is their business. Up front, spread out in a "lease" whatever. If they load their software with propriatory chunks of non-free code that they can yank at anytime, well let they buyer beware. Users of non free code have those kinds of problems.
Well, popular wisdom has it that desktops in New York city and other big towns have more fecal bacteria than the toilets do. Most people continue to use their desks as a cafeteria tray. What's your problem?
Now that M$ has the abiltiy to track my goings, I fear they will close the loop and track my commings. Will the M$ office 2005 come with a cubicle with a mixed use seat/toilet, food and water tubes, and rollup bed? Don't forget the Xbox style PeeeCeee that I can't run that dirty free software on. Oh, paradise for the company man.
No, service calls to this will simply stink. A reboo^H^H^H^H flush or two and your problems will be gone.
This thing will be cracked in no time!
You don't have to do all that to connect your computer to the internet with a fixed IP. Many users did just that to their Windoze boxes in the much better early days of cable modems and competitive DSL service. They learned to their cost about Windoze. The same can be said for dial up and windoze, it's just a little harder to notice poor performance that way, until the poor thing dies which joe six-packs think is normal.
He's talking about providing "communal" Internet access for his condominium. With affordable, professionally administered, tech-supported alternatives, such as telco DSL and cable, do you honestly think people are going to spend days ... learning a whole new style of computing, just so they can fit into his geek experiment?
Nice flame, ass. I honestly think better appartments or condos would have fixed IP internet service through available as part of the rent. Keep your comerical software, you deserve it.
Only folks like Microsoft complain about a Slashdotting. It has something to do with eating thier own dog food, hating Unix and hating Slashdot. Oh wow, look, they took down that silly remark about Slashdoting. Slashbacking must be something they can deal with.
$18,000 only bought the congressman and does not cover promotion of the tour. There's money for the officials he will meet, money for the "advisors" to follow them all, a couple of fancy suits, stage hands and all that. When it's all said and done, the congressman, the advisors, Tiwan, Korea, Eastasia, Eurasia and Airstrip One will all owe the RIAA for this trip. You can never have too much promotion if you don't want to be a starving artist..
We don't know, we are not lawyers.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm told the bad idea police will break down your door for implementing such an awful interface on top of reasonable software.
I wonder what Apple charges people to simply index their songs? For all we know, they could have pointed to ALL of Apple's music for free.
What makes you think static IPs are a nightmare? Making your interfaces static is easy stuff for most OS, even M$. Some of your neighbors might like help unclicking the DHCP box their dial up or cable modem stuck them with, but most people can figure it out with reasonable instructions. It's not hard to run a DHCP server, but why deny your neighbors the blessings of permanent addresses to avoid a few set up issues? Call me an idiot, but I'd rather give my clients the best available.
People will surprise you if you give them the chance.
You have the chance to give yourself and your neighbors bandwith that does not suck. Instead you make it the equivalent of fast dial up plus custom M$ updater. You do this with DHCP (invented by M$?) and lock it up paranoid of M$ viruses. To do all this work, you need to buy filtering equipment to block ports and communications between units based on M$ usage of those ports. Bogus and all M$ inspired.
I count Items 7 through 13 as M$ inspired or fearing. Normal OS have well configured mail serers and don't need to have their trafic bothering the building mailserver. Normal OS don't need virus scanners or filters screwing up their mail and I'm unaware of a filter that works for anything but M$ binaries and VB. Blocking ports because M$ uses them for file sharing is about as dumb as not letting your neighbors share files in anyway they can. We know what machines will be disconected out of all proportion. If M$ were not so buggy, people would not be so afraid of the internet and their neighbors and you would not need to put a clause into the contract denying responsibility anymore than the electric company denies responsibility for light bulbs. Only someone from Redmond would recomend disonecting people's WAPs.
To configure your network in such a sucky M$ oriented way is an expensive, burdonsom endorsement of Microsoft crap. It wastes your money on equipment you don't need and it burdens reasonable users with restrictions. I'm not even going to imagine what kinds of calls you will get when M$ updater does not work, but I suppose you could bill to rebuild people's machines. I'd rather run a Debian mirror if anything. I don't mind billing time for software that works and respects it's users.
Thanks for being such a good shill. I like pointing out the advantages of free software.
It's amazing how far out of their way people will go to support Microsoft's crap. More than half of your list is Microsoft specific. Realize also that #10, " Insist customers keep their machines virus free. Disconnect any who don't IMMEDIATELY." eliminates the need for most of the other M$ virus precations, especially the silly M$ patch server which could get you a BSA visit. Why bother when you could recomend Linux or a Mac?
All small ISPs are going to be blacklisted by AOL/MSNBC regardless of how well or poorly you treat your users.
Precompiled kernels work just fine and Debian's /etc/modules file makes it easy to change around hardware. Going from 2.2 to 2.4 was easy stuff. I can only imagine that they will use the same kind of upgrade policy for kernels as they do for every other package now, therefore I expect my kernels to be patched if some kind of flaw is discovered.
The poster who thinks there is less trouble to taking care of Windoze boxes than there it to Linux boxes is nuts or ignorant.
I'd ask my ISP about that one, but they are all in jail because one or two of their customers decided to download kiddie porn. Oh wait, they are not in jail and neither am I. The core thought of your statement is dangerous. I'm not resoponsible for the actions of others and common carriers should not be either.