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Ultra secure WinXP will be happy to hand out all your base so you can be blacklisted. Yeah:
Valuable WinUSER
1069 Penn Ave, Washington DC.
(100) 555-1069
192.168.1.1
Press 1 to recieve list of all songs and movies ever watched on this PC.
Press 2 to recieve social security number
Press 3 to recieve mother's maiden name
Press 4 to be authenticated as vendor with power of attorney for Valuable WinUSER.
Press 5 to spam.
Oh wait, 192.168.1.1 is a local IP. Bill, you need to store medical records so we can cross reference the social security number with the real ISP, thanks.
It can also support 4 users on four machines (1 at each machine) so... what are you complaining about?
Oh really? So I can take one copy of Word and have everyone in my family run it concurrently on a powerful machine using three or four less powerful machines as terminals? I don't think so. Indeed, WinXPlode won't run on the kind of hardware most people have available.
I'm complaining about greed and intentional waste. M$ has been promoting the use of "Dual Headed" computers over virtual desktops. They have made their software so bloated it won't run on the average Pentium class machine and make it so it breaks every two years so you can get even more abused later. These are policies that waste money, feed landfills and hurt the IT industry. The average computer user will no longer buy "third party" software and are loath to buy hardware thanks to M$'s insistence on low quality. Money flowing into M$ coffers, $250/year/US-citezen, would better be spent on building communications infrastructure, software that actually serves a purpose and hardware that fills real needs.
I don't worry much because people will discover free software and the waste will end.
How is it that editing text configuration files is so much easier than editing text registry patches?
Miss one byte in the no standards registry and your computer does not boot. Very few text files can do that to a linux box. Most simply screw up a particular service and you can fix it by editing the text file again. On the windows machine, you have to lug the hard drive to another machine or reinstall everything. Which do you prefer? Which do you think costs more time and money, especailly when programs can screw the registry for you?
This is not a debate, it's a "Linux TCO is cheaper" statement of fact. M$'s fragile junky O$ with it's 2 year planned obsolescence costs more to own and keep up. Duh. You can be a freaking genius and WinWhatNot will fail in two years.
You can put a price on your sanity as you log overtime hours needed to fix the lastes exchange failure.
You can put a price on your soul when you examine the EULA. If your data was not lost in the above mentioned failures, Bill Gates owns it in the name of protecting himself and others against copyright infringment. If your data is the soul of your company, you literally give that soul to M$ when you use their software.
So what's that worth to you? Compute the cost of developing that data and then consider publishing it or mailing it to your closest competitors.
Assuming car prices moved exactly with inflation, your $10,000 car would now run $31,600.
Ahh, but if you started working in 1976 for $20,000/year you would now be earning $60,000 or your raises did not keep up with inflation. Starting slaraies are not generally $60,000 so car prices now cost more relative to real earning power. Oh dear, the golden calf costs way too much.
As for M$, if their software had kept up with hardware developments it would have four virtual desktops, be able to support four concurent users on four different machines, be able to play and edit movies with ease and do other neat tricks right out of the box. Instead, the capabilities right out of the box are about the same as Win3.1, but it does not last as long. Oh dear, the M$ tax has grown but the software has failed to keep up with what's available that's free.
There's a difference between common sense OS security (closing unneeded ports, cutting down buffer overflows, doing intelligent rights/process management)
Yeah, Tellie, like I was telling you there's a difference between book smarts and common senses. You take Vinny, he's got no education but a MSCE and lots of smarts. He always said that "Protection" was a good market. Now here's Bill Gates telling him he was right all along.
See? Ya gotta pay to play and if ya don't pay for the anti-viral and odda important stuff, ya gonna regret it.
.I've even had MS tech support people on the phone for hours on end on a Saturday fixing an Exchange problem!
At $50 an hour, with broken crap on Saturday morning, you consider this a good thing? That's the kind of thing I don't wish on my enemies. For them, I dial hours of phone sex. Microsoft might stay on the line at $50 an hour too, but that and broken email servers is just too much to bear. I'm sorry.
It sounds to me that the problems are the same problems held Linux-World wide. These are common, and not necessarily specific to Red Hat 8.0.
That's first order bullshit. My wife runs Red Hat 7.3 on an AMD K6/2 400 with 128MB of RAM and it's very snappy, thank you. Yes, Gnome and KDE run just fine, faster in fact than w2k runs better hardware where I work. Only Nautulis and Mozilla feel slow on that hardware, Mozilla can be turned off in favor of gmc, and Mozilla, works just fine once started. "Exlorer" is not comperable to Nautulis, but GMC runs much faster than Exlorer ever will. So, even Red Hat's supposedly "bloated" release runs just fine before this version. If you want a really lean distro go for Debian. I've never experienced a full scale break like the reviewer has and so, this problem he had is far from the universal Linux experience.
My wife's red hat fits in 1.4 GB of disk space. My Debian fits in 700 MB. This includes several full browsers, window managers, file viewers, compilers, editors and sofware that tries to sing and dance.
It's sad to hear that 8.0 might be buggy, but then again, the ".0" Red Hats are known for that. Wait for 8.2 if you want stability or just go get the last 7.whatever. It could be that this particular user had a sound card that was flawlessly detected wrong ran away with his processor.
In my house, Lixus has replaced Windows. Sometimes there have been problems, but it's been worlds better. Windows problems were invariably curred by spending $250 on a new OS. Linux problems are solved by changing a text file or two or removing the offending software. It helpst to have more computers than one, and there is where linux really shines. I only have one monitor, with X forwarding, I don't need another. Under Linux, each machine can be specialized to figure things out without disrupting other services. I've got one computer that sings and dances, I don't need another. I've got one computer with KDE on it, so all of my computers have KDE. There is no way Windows can replace the funtionality free sofware has given me.
Who needs the RIAA to promote their band? The artists want more not less and don't think they need you at all. An aquantiance has made the point better than I can, and this little deal is no different from others offered before. Among the outrages:
Retroactive Fuck:Under the regime, small webcasters will be required to pay artists and record companies a percentage of their revenue, sources said. The deal includes language that will make it retroactive until 1998, the year set by Congress as a cutoff for payment, and will allow webcasters to pay the earlier rates in installments. Wow, my friend is on the installment plan for broadcasting over the web, no RIAA music involved either!
Money goes to RIAA for the usual "promotion deductions" Although artists rights groups appear to have no problem with a deal that helps small webcasters, a union official expressed concern about language that could allow the record companies to avoid paying artists their share of the royalty directly. The language seems to allow the recording industry to deduct the top expenses that they incur for setting up and maintaining the royalty payment regime.
All and all the same old shit, but it won't last. As if there were only a need for five recording companies and four broadcasters in the world. Anything the RIAA can agree to is just another screw to all in order to keep their artificial monopoly on selling popular culture alive. 802.11b and similar will eliminate the RIAA racket, bring money back to artists and music to the masses. With government out of future broadcasting, your days are numbered, pig.
In this article he says, " I never look back at the stuff I've done. I look forward to where I'm going," and then tells us what an idiot he is. He berates his own shallow research and how much he screwed up his last book. Right now, I think he needs some more research.
Posting from Mozilla on Window Maker on Debian, I have to say that his user interface comments are way off the mark. Free Software is free to combine the best interfaces with the best answer to any particular problem. Sure, that makes for some inconsitency as the right tool for the job is never a universal. Just the same I've gotten used to the particular interfaces I like and now think of them as far easier than the M$ junk I use at work and even Apple stuff. If he wants to be the tyrant of an interface, he's welcome to make one or even to simply make some constructive comments. Oh wait, I see, he and the people he works for consider such stuff "intellectual property" that can be owned so that best practices never go very far.
His website would benifit from a more modular approach. Everything is thrown out in one big long scroll down page. Stuff like his background should be a link to two kilobytes of text with links instead of a too short to be useful with no links paragraph. Recent articles and publications should also be links. The sidebar is full and distracting rather than informative and useful. Why would I take this man's opinion about software design seriously when his site so clearly misses the pull nature of html? Oh wait, now I see, he thinks of his web page as an advertisment rather than a means of sharing information.
I'm starting to see a patern and it's name is greed. The things he bemoans are the direct result of his own way of thinking. The only thing he gets right in the article is that many cheap gadgets have poor interfaces. Who is not sick of having to read a manual to learn how to use yet another black box that is a toaster or microwave oven? This has little to do with software design and his mixing the two up is the result of ignorance or malice. His ingorance of the world of free software is less than forgivable from a design expert. His disparagement of software licenses that give the user the ability to run software for any purpose, modify that software as the user pleases and share those modifications, is likewise the result of unforgivable ignorance or malice. Take the blinders off, Don, you might like what you see.
one district, the right-wing, fascists-in-disguise-party was not on the screen of the voting computers
Louisana has electronic voting machines and we lent many of them to Florida. They were returned when Edwin Edwards won.
In Brazil, I'm told, the truth will set you free. Because of this the Ministry of Inofrmation and Central Services have been in power for years. You never know when some terrorist like Buttle will fix the machines and make them lie.
Of the last 25 posts wackybrit has posted five have been modded to zero and one has been modded to -1. I'd spend the time finding out, but I've got better things to do, like wackybrit a troll and a jackass.
This post deserves to move in that direction. It contians many insults and nothing positive. There are so many silly things said, it's hard to even start correcting it and we can imagine that wackybrit knows better but wishes to be malicious.
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority.
Funny, but I don't see them doing anything like that. The tools they provide are first quality and they have every right to guide the development of those tools. Those tools are supposed to be kernel and architectur independent and are. Remember the hurd? It's here and the GNU tools work with it too. The only thing the FSF really cares for is your software freedom and the GPL. They stand for your right to run, modify your sofware as you please and your right to share those modifications with your friends. Under those rules you can make your own kernel and your own tools from thier set and call them what you want.
My wife and I like monkeys. One of my pet names for her is Orang because she has red hair. She calls me Gorile. Most people, however, don't like being called a monkey. We are strange, you, wackybrit, are a jackass.
Couldn't. Screenshot? Disabled. But they'd let me print it out...
What makes you think you will be alowed to print in the Paladium Millenium? With a little work, even a digital camera can be told not to take pictures of the screen. Remember the little Timex PDA watch that got it's information from flashing pixels? A digital camera can be programed to look for a signal and not take a picture when it's detected. Measure and counter measures can keep most people from making coppies. Those people will either not have the service or pay some greedy asshole for it.
... why don't you have a handy dandy link to the patch? Is it that much easier to blame the user? You say:
At this point, there is no one left to blame but people who simply never update their computers. It's the same g&^damn hole that this exploits every single time, folks. Outlook 2000's patch has been out for well over a year. Outlook XP doesn't even HAVE this vulnerability!
XP, if it really is imune to this one, is sure to have a host of other problems. It was included in the Symantic list of exlploitable platforms. What, did'nt read the link? This virus is what you get when you patch up a userless security model and try attaching it to the internet. How many more demonstrations of M$ flaws do you need to see?
The closed development model based on pushing adverts and upgrades does not work. What M$ has done is to try to force people to buy a new OS every 2 years. In case you did not notice support for Win95 has been dropped and 98, w2k, me etc are close to being dropped. So where are the stinking patches again? In the real world, users of these older OS do not feel like shelling out $250 for newer M$ O$ which are more restrictive and less useful to them. When their M$ machine meets it's inevitable breaking point, the user puts the same old CD back into the drive and has the same old shit. Compare this to the free software world where any computer can be brought up from a year old CD with a few megs of downloads and two or three text line commands.
apt-get update and upgrade work for me and it can work for you, up2date is more combersome for me. The windoze "smart update"? Yeah good luck.
Who would trust an "updater" from a company that demands the ability to scan you computer for "copyright" infringing material, says you can't use their FrontPage editor to say bad things about them and has sent shell organizations to shake down public school systems? They've got the morals of drug dealers, leadership fit to run a Soviet, and code unsupassed in failure.
But you blame the user. The user is only at fault for using software from a proven monopolist. That monopolist has done everything in its power to make switching as painful as possible - from incompatible closed file formats to screwing hardware vendors into making hardware impossible to make drivers for.
It's the arrogance of most drivers that they can make that judgement that leads to awful collisions.
So have you ever had the nerve to judge the road clear and cross the street? Ever seen and used a stop sign? How about simply crossed the street, gasp, where there is no cross gaurd? It's people like you telling us that we can't think for ourselves that sell us this crap.
Issues of due process are being ignored as people's time and money are taken on the basis of flawed, imperfect and even fruadulent evidence. Sorry, that sucks and only a slave would desires it. We have only courts to protect us from such violations, but they will follow public oppinion eventually.
Fight this BS now. Robots are no good at law enforcement and never will be.
No you would not. He's on his way to jail for doing what he did. He HAS to say things like this or he will be staying in jail a little longer. If his description of the raid as both the Matrix and War Games does not send chills down your spine, read it again and imagine the vans and interviews happening at your place of work.
Excellent. Here's more power to you from a bone headed mechanical engineer with a buzz cut. I don't fit his "pony tailed" or "pasty faced" ideal. I'm sure there are many things we disagree about. So what?
There are many things we hold in common as new offenses are so egrevious. Only "the man" would call DRM sensible. Only a zombie would agree that loss of privacy in private correspondence is good. Yet the clueless are being fed a constant stream of bullshit to convince them that email is different from normal mail and they should have different expectations on its privacy. "New" digital formats are being pushed on the grounds that they are so much better that you should give up your ability to make coppies for yourself, share it with your friends or enjoy the works contained when and as often as you please without paying a fee. And, of course, some of the same greedy bastards want to stifle all protest and own the internet for themselves. Who would argue that any of that is a good thing?
The thing we have in common, as you point out, is the strident belief in our right to dissagree, promote our view and let the truth come out and prove itself for the benifit of all. We CAN be mobilized for that and we ARE influencing our peers and friends. That is the hatred of homogenization that we all share. The author missed that because he mentions "sensible" DRM. Right, sensible ability to censor your general purpose computer's ability to copy files. I see, the man has no clue.
Geeks of old (I guess we were called nerds back then) focused strictly on technology and science and stayed as far away from politics of any kind as you could possible get.
Oh yeah, like Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Shockley and others never made a political statement. All of them reached out, with more or less sucess to the people around them and the world. Einstein's letters about bomb making to FDR are platered on the walls of the Los Alamos Museum. Shockley's euginic views were less well recieved and he has been lambasted in mass media.
The register's editorial seems silly to me. The "Geek" agenda of privacy, information sharing and promotion of the common wheel are solidly grounded in the American Constitution and beliefs. Why is it easy to be flamed for advocating "sensible" DRM? Because there is no sensible DRM. Anyone who thinks that there is a sensible way to deny the ability to copy arbitrary files on a general pupose computer without losing ownership of that machine is ignrorant. There are real issues at stake here and losing any one of them IS a BIG LOSS. Thomas Jefferson thought of American culture as Anglican culture cured of its "morbidity" by the wide open spaces of the new continent its freedom and the optimism so inspired. Web culture contains embodies even more optimism due to the low costs of publishing and greater intelectual freedom. To accept masters in the digital world is to undo both web and American ideals.
Help the clueless and do it politely. People will seek your opinion on other issues if and when you do something bright. All of us influence the people around us. Some of us have more influence than others, but all of us should spend time considering the ultimate implications of the things we work on. Once we understand those implications we owe it to everyone to guide the world into the proper use of the tools we give it and see to it that others understand those implications too. Fight the greedy and evil with everything you've got - loud and clear.
Generally whenever I've said something like the above I get bombarded with questions like "why do i need to edit this?", "what happens if i make a mistake?" and invariably "why do I have to edit this in the first place?".
Yeah, I get those questions too and I've got the answer. Don't cost your friends any services they currently enjoy. Use Linux to give them something better and more than what they have - not to take things away.
You need to remember why you and your friend would consider going to the trouble of doing anything different in the first place. One of those reasons is that problems in the windows world don't have ANY solution; Not a text file, not a registry edit, not a compile, nothing. There are two ways to fix these problems on a computer that once worked: a four hour windoze rebuild that looses all sorts of personal settings and data or a linux build. You generally have to do both. That's why you are there, right?
I can't promise everything will work in either world, but I can tell people why: Microsoft has discouraged hardware standards and has made it so every single device needs a unique driver disk. We all have examples of how this works and you can get into the details of things like winmodems, parallel scanners, networkd cards (which do work in the free software world!) and all that if your friend wants it.
It sucks to lose something, so I always suggest either a dual boot or a second computer for a Linux install. The windows side is always more trouble and your friends learn that in time. In the mean time, they keep using their old devices when they want. Three cheers to the good folks at Lindows if they really have made the M$ chunk redundant, but the root cause of all our problems makes me sceptical.
My understanding is that the latest version of Netscape 7 does register itself properly. Opera and the others have apparently not taken the time to create new install packages. If you take the time to actually figure out how things work you'll find that your criticism is entirely unjustified.
So what is the "proper" way to register a program? Why is it that you need such a complicated "registry" to begin with? Oh, I see! By adding un needed complexity you can stifle your competitors and rape your users. No thanks, I like things that work better than that and I'm not going to waste my time learning the M$ way d'jour.
The windoze user has to replace their OS every two years thanks to various upgrade mill tricks. They may replace it with the CD that came with the computer, but these days nothing comes with the computer! Eventually, their poor bloated "registry" and hard drive packed with scumware, theftware, apps that beg and adverts that pop up render the computer useless. At this point they feel compelled to buy either a new computer or a new OS. There's nothing new on M$ platforms, users are simply forced to buy the same things again and again. Game users might seek out and "pirate" windoze, but that's bout it.
The linux user notices such a vast improvement in two years that they feel compelled to swap out. Or maybe not.
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Valuable WinUSER
1069 Penn Ave, Washington DC.
(100) 555-1069
192.168.1.1
Press 1 to recieve list of all songs and movies ever watched on this PC.
Press 2 to recieve social security number
Press 3 to recieve mother's maiden name
Press 4 to be authenticated as vendor with power of attorney for Valuable WinUSER.
Press 5 to spam.
Oh wait, 192.168.1.1 is a local IP. Bill, you need to store medical records so we can cross reference the social security number with the real ISP, thanks.
Oh really? So I can take one copy of Word and have everyone in my family run it concurrently on a powerful machine using three or four less powerful machines as terminals? I don't think so. Indeed, WinXPlode won't run on the kind of hardware most people have available.
I'm complaining about greed and intentional waste. M$ has been promoting the use of "Dual Headed" computers over virtual desktops. They have made their software so bloated it won't run on the average Pentium class machine and make it so it breaks every two years so you can get even more abused later. These are policies that waste money, feed landfills and hurt the IT industry. The average computer user will no longer buy "third party" software and are loath to buy hardware thanks to M$'s insistence on low quality. Money flowing into M$ coffers, $250/year/US-citezen, would better be spent on building communications infrastructure, software that actually serves a purpose and hardware that fills real needs.
I don't worry much because people will discover free software and the waste will end.
Miss one byte in the no standards registry and your computer does not boot. Very few text files can do that to a linux box. Most simply screw up a particular service and you can fix it by editing the text file again. On the windows machine, you have to lug the hard drive to another machine or reinstall everything. Which do you prefer? Which do you think costs more time and money, especailly when programs can screw the registry for you?
This is not a debate, it's a "Linux TCO is cheaper" statement of fact. M$'s fragile junky O$ with it's 2 year planned obsolescence costs more to own and keep up. Duh. You can be a freaking genius and WinWhatNot will fail in two years.
You can put a price on your soul when you examine the EULA. If your data was not lost in the above mentioned failures, Bill Gates owns it in the name of protecting himself and others against copyright infringment. If your data is the soul of your company, you literally give that soul to M$ when you use their software.
So what's that worth to you? Compute the cost of developing that data and then consider publishing it or mailing it to your closest competitors.
Ahh, but if you started working in 1976 for $20,000/year you would now be earning $60,000 or your raises did not keep up with inflation. Starting slaraies are not generally $60,000 so car prices now cost more relative to real earning power. Oh dear, the golden calf costs way too much.
As for M$, if their software had kept up with hardware developments it would have four virtual desktops, be able to support four concurent users on four different machines, be able to play and edit movies with ease and do other neat tricks right out of the box. Instead, the capabilities right out of the box are about the same as Win3.1, but it does not last as long. Oh dear, the M$ tax has grown but the software has failed to keep up with what's available that's free.
Yeah, Tellie, like I was telling you there's a difference between book smarts and common senses. You take Vinny, he's got no education but a MSCE and lots of smarts. He always said that "Protection" was a good market. Now here's Bill Gates telling him he was right all along.
See? Ya gotta pay to play and if ya don't pay for the anti-viral and odda important stuff, ya gonna regret it.
At $50 an hour, with broken crap on Saturday morning, you consider this a good thing? That's the kind of thing I don't wish on my enemies. For them, I dial hours of phone sex. Microsoft might stay on the line at $50 an hour too, but that and broken email servers is just too much to bear. I'm sorry.
That's first order bullshit. My wife runs Red Hat 7.3 on an AMD K6/2 400 with 128MB of RAM and it's very snappy, thank you. Yes, Gnome and KDE run just fine, faster in fact than w2k runs better hardware where I work. Only Nautulis and Mozilla feel slow on that hardware, Mozilla can be turned off in favor of gmc, and Mozilla, works just fine once started. "Exlorer" is not comperable to Nautulis, but GMC runs much faster than Exlorer ever will. So, even Red Hat's supposedly "bloated" release runs just fine before this version. If you want a really lean distro go for Debian. I've never experienced a full scale break like the reviewer has and so, this problem he had is far from the universal Linux experience.
My wife's red hat fits in 1.4 GB of disk space. My Debian fits in 700 MB. This includes several full browsers, window managers, file viewers, compilers, editors and sofware that tries to sing and dance.
It's sad to hear that 8.0 might be buggy, but then again, the ".0" Red Hats are known for that. Wait for 8.2 if you want stability or just go get the last 7.whatever. It could be that this particular user had a sound card that was flawlessly detected wrong ran away with his processor.
In my house, Lixus has replaced Windows. Sometimes there have been problems, but it's been worlds better. Windows problems were invariably curred by spending $250 on a new OS. Linux problems are solved by changing a text file or two or removing the offending software. It helpst to have more computers than one, and there is where linux really shines. I only have one monitor, with X forwarding, I don't need another. Under Linux, each machine can be specialized to figure things out without disrupting other services. I've got one computer that sings and dances, I don't need another. I've got one computer with KDE on it, so all of my computers have KDE. There is no way Windows can replace the funtionality free sofware has given me.
Retroactive Fuck:Under the regime, small webcasters will be required to pay artists and record companies a percentage of their revenue, sources said. The deal includes language that will make it retroactive until 1998, the year set by Congress as a cutoff for payment, and will allow webcasters to pay the earlier rates in installments. Wow, my friend is on the installment plan for broadcasting over the web, no RIAA music involved either!
Money goes to RIAA for the usual "promotion deductions" Although artists rights groups appear to have no problem with a deal that helps small webcasters, a union official expressed concern about language that could allow the record companies to avoid paying artists their share of the royalty directly. The language seems to allow the recording industry to deduct the top expenses that they incur for setting up and maintaining the royalty payment regime.
All and all the same old shit, but it won't last. As if there were only a need for five recording companies and four broadcasters in the world. Anything the RIAA can agree to is just another screw to all in order to keep their artificial monopoly on selling popular culture alive. 802.11b and similar will eliminate the RIAA racket, bring money back to artists and music to the masses. With government out of future broadcasting, your days are numbered, pig.
Posting from Mozilla on Window Maker on Debian, I have to say that his user interface comments are way off the mark. Free Software is free to combine the best interfaces with the best answer to any particular problem. Sure, that makes for some inconsitency as the right tool for the job is never a universal. Just the same I've gotten used to the particular interfaces I like and now think of them as far easier than the M$ junk I use at work and even Apple stuff. If he wants to be the tyrant of an interface, he's welcome to make one or even to simply make some constructive comments. Oh wait, I see, he and the people he works for consider such stuff "intellectual property" that can be owned so that best practices never go very far.
His website would benifit from a more modular approach. Everything is thrown out in one big long scroll down page. Stuff like his background should be a link to two kilobytes of text with links instead of a too short to be useful with no links paragraph. Recent articles and publications should also be links. The sidebar is full and distracting rather than informative and useful. Why would I take this man's opinion about software design seriously when his site so clearly misses the pull nature of html? Oh wait, now I see, he thinks of his web page as an advertisment rather than a means of sharing information.
I'm starting to see a patern and it's name is greed. The things he bemoans are the direct result of his own way of thinking. The only thing he gets right in the article is that many cheap gadgets have poor interfaces. Who is not sick of having to read a manual to learn how to use yet another black box that is a toaster or microwave oven? This has little to do with software design and his mixing the two up is the result of ignorance or malice. His ingorance of the world of free software is less than forgivable from a design expert. His disparagement of software licenses that give the user the ability to run software for any purpose, modify that software as the user pleases and share those modifications, is likewise the result of unforgivable ignorance or malice. Take the blinders off, Don, you might like what you see.
Louisana has electronic voting machines and we lent many of them to Florida. They were returned when Edwin Edwards won.
In Brazil, I'm told, the truth will set you free. Because of this the Ministry of Inofrmation and Central Services have been in power for years. You never know when some terrorist like Buttle will fix the machines and make them lie.
that should be "like call wackybrit a troll and a jackass." Ah yes, the more I do it the better I feel.
This post deserves to move in that direction. It contians many insults and nothing positive. There are so many silly things said, it's hard to even start correcting it and we can imagine that wackybrit knows better but wishes to be malicious.
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority.
Funny, but I don't see them doing anything like that. The tools they provide are first quality and they have every right to guide the development of those tools. Those tools are supposed to be kernel and architectur independent and are. Remember the hurd? It's here and the GNU tools work with it too. The only thing the FSF really cares for is your software freedom and the GPL. They stand for your right to run, modify your sofware as you please and your right to share those modifications with your friends. Under those rules you can make your own kernel and your own tools from thier set and call them what you want.
My wife and I like monkeys. One of my pet names for her is Orang because she has red hair. She calls me Gorile. Most people, however, don't like being called a monkey. We are strange, you, wackybrit, are a jackass.
See here. Just one or two more bad laws and we will all be slaves.
What makes you think you will be alowed to print in the Paladium Millenium? With a little work, even a digital camera can be told not to take pictures of the screen. Remember the little Timex PDA watch that got it's information from flashing pixels? A digital camera can be programed to look for a signal and not take a picture when it's detected. Measure and counter measures can keep most people from making coppies. Those people will either not have the service or pay some greedy asshole for it.
At this point, there is no one left to blame but people who simply never update their computers. It's the same g&^damn hole that this exploits every single time, folks. Outlook 2000's patch has been out for well over a year. Outlook XP doesn't even HAVE this vulnerability!
XP, if it really is imune to this one, is sure to have a host of other problems. It was included in the Symantic list of exlploitable platforms. What, did'nt read the link? This virus is what you get when you patch up a userless security model and try attaching it to the internet. How many more demonstrations of M$ flaws do you need to see?
The closed development model based on pushing adverts and upgrades does not work. What M$ has done is to try to force people to buy a new OS every 2 years. In case you did not notice support for Win95 has been dropped and 98, w2k, me etc are close to being dropped. So where are the stinking patches again? In the real world, users of these older OS do not feel like shelling out $250 for newer M$ O$ which are more restrictive and less useful to them. When their M$ machine meets it's inevitable breaking point, the user puts the same old CD back into the drive and has the same old shit. Compare this to the free software world where any computer can be brought up from a year old CD with a few megs of downloads and two or three text line commands.
apt-get update and upgrade work for me and it can work for you, up2date is more combersome for me. The windoze "smart update"? Yeah good luck.
Who would trust an "updater" from a company that demands the ability to scan you computer for "copyright" infringing material, says you can't use their FrontPage editor to say bad things about them and has sent shell organizations to shake down public school systems? They've got the morals of drug dealers, leadership fit to run a Soviet, and code unsupassed in failure.
But you blame the user. The user is only at fault for using software from a proven monopolist. That monopolist has done everything in its power to make switching as painful as possible - from incompatible closed file formats to screwing hardware vendors into making hardware impossible to make drivers for.
You need to keep looking.
So have you ever had the nerve to judge the road clear and cross the street? Ever seen and used a stop sign? How about simply crossed the street, gasp, where there is no cross gaurd? It's people like you telling us that we can't think for ourselves that sell us this crap.
Issues of due process are being ignored as people's time and money are taken on the basis of flawed, imperfect and even fruadulent evidence. Sorry, that sucks and only a slave would desires it. We have only courts to protect us from such violations, but they will follow public oppinion eventually.
Fight this BS now. Robots are no good at law enforcement and never will be.
No you would not. He's on his way to jail for doing what he did. He HAS to say things like this or he will be staying in jail a little longer. If his description of the raid as both the Matrix and War Games does not send chills down your spine, read it again and imagine the vans and interviews happening at your place of work.
There are many things we hold in common as new offenses are so egrevious. Only "the man" would call DRM sensible. Only a zombie would agree that loss of privacy in private correspondence is good. Yet the clueless are being fed a constant stream of bullshit to convince them that email is different from normal mail and they should have different expectations on its privacy. "New" digital formats are being pushed on the grounds that they are so much better that you should give up your ability to make coppies for yourself, share it with your friends or enjoy the works contained when and as often as you please without paying a fee. And, of course, some of the same greedy bastards want to stifle all protest and own the internet for themselves. Who would argue that any of that is a good thing?
The thing we have in common, as you point out, is the strident belief in our right to dissagree, promote our view and let the truth come out and prove itself for the benifit of all. We CAN be mobilized for that and we ARE influencing our peers and friends. That is the hatred of homogenization that we all share. The author missed that because he mentions "sensible" DRM. Right, sensible ability to censor your general purpose computer's ability to copy files. I see, the man has no clue.
Oh yeah, like Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Shockley and others never made a political statement. All of them reached out, with more or less sucess to the people around them and the world. Einstein's letters about bomb making to FDR are platered on the walls of the Los Alamos Museum. Shockley's euginic views were less well recieved and he has been lambasted in mass media.
The register's editorial seems silly to me. The "Geek" agenda of privacy, information sharing and promotion of the common wheel are solidly grounded in the American Constitution and beliefs. Why is it easy to be flamed for advocating "sensible" DRM? Because there is no sensible DRM. Anyone who thinks that there is a sensible way to deny the ability to copy arbitrary files on a general pupose computer without losing ownership of that machine is ignrorant. There are real issues at stake here and losing any one of them IS a BIG LOSS. Thomas Jefferson thought of American culture as Anglican culture cured of its "morbidity" by the wide open spaces of the new continent its freedom and the optimism so inspired. Web culture contains embodies even more optimism due to the low costs of publishing and greater intelectual freedom. To accept masters in the digital world is to undo both web and American ideals.
Help the clueless and do it politely. People will seek your opinion on other issues if and when you do something bright. All of us influence the people around us. Some of us have more influence than others, but all of us should spend time considering the ultimate implications of the things we work on. Once we understand those implications we owe it to everyone to guide the world into the proper use of the tools we give it and see to it that others understand those implications too. Fight the greedy and evil with everything you've got - loud and clear.
Yeah, I get those questions too and I've got the answer. Don't cost your friends any services they currently enjoy. Use Linux to give them something better and more than what they have - not to take things away.
You need to remember why you and your friend would consider going to the trouble of doing anything different in the first place. One of those reasons is that problems in the windows world don't have ANY solution; Not a text file, not a registry edit, not a compile, nothing. There are two ways to fix these problems on a computer that once worked: a four hour windoze rebuild that looses all sorts of personal settings and data or a linux build. You generally have to do both. That's why you are there, right?
I can't promise everything will work in either world, but I can tell people why: Microsoft has discouraged hardware standards and has made it so every single device needs a unique driver disk. We all have examples of how this works and you can get into the details of things like winmodems, parallel scanners, networkd cards (which do work in the free software world!) and all that if your friend wants it.
It sucks to lose something, so I always suggest either a dual boot or a second computer for a Linux install. The windows side is always more trouble and your friends learn that in time. In the mean time, they keep using their old devices when they want. Three cheers to the good folks at Lindows if they really have made the M$ chunk redundant, but the root cause of all our problems makes me sceptical.
So what is the "proper" way to register a program? Why is it that you need such a complicated "registry" to begin with? Oh, I see! By adding un needed complexity you can stifle your competitors and rape your users. No thanks, I like things that work better than that and I'm not going to waste my time learning the M$ way d'jour.
I'm assuming that only fanatics replace their OS.
Nope.
The windoze user has to replace their OS every two years thanks to various upgrade mill tricks. They may replace it with the CD that came with the computer, but these days nothing comes with the computer! Eventually, their poor bloated "registry" and hard drive packed with scumware, theftware, apps that beg and adverts that pop up render the computer useless. At this point they feel compelled to buy either a new computer or a new OS. There's nothing new on M$ platforms, users are simply forced to buy the same things again and again. Game users might seek out and "pirate" windoze, but that's bout it.
The linux user notices such a vast improvement in two years that they feel compelled to swap out. Or maybe not.
The line is, "I don't do windows." It saves more than another horrid M$ install. It saves you all the calls when the stuff quits working.