Almost any piece of software with a business market will COMPLETELY IGNORE the broke average Joe. You tell me one person who is willing to pay $600 for a copy of Photoshop, who is not doing it for business work. They will pirate a copy of it EVERY TIME.
Now, I'll admit that GIMP is not quite as good as Photoshop, but it's good enough. Having a $600 gap between The GIMP and Photoshop for a little bit of difference is not right at all.
True that piracy is illegal and they don't "have the right" to pirate software, but piracy is a form of protest. People protest high software prices through illegal piracy, just like blacks protest segregation by illegally sitting on the front of the bus. Most people may do it for more practical reasons than political (like "should I pay rent with $600 or buy a fucking piece of software?"), but it still acheives the same effect.
If only the software companies wouldn't be so blind to why they are doing this...
...for Photoshop, or $100 for Acrobat, or other outrageous prices for desktop software, maybe people wouldn't pirate it as much. Most buyers of pirated software over in Asia are normal Joes, who just want to do some photo work on a picture of his cat.
Why spend $200 on something like that? It's ridiculous, especially when something like The GIMP is free. If a powerful program like the GIMP is free, shouldn't Photoshop be closer to it?
No offense, and I don't agree with the legal decision, but if you're running a server-based file sharing system, you're just asking to get shut down.
It doesn't matter what kind of lawsuit it is, but the big guys with big lawyers can laid down any kind of lawsuit to get you shut down, and you'll have to pay out the ass in your own lawyers to get it turned back on.
At least with a server-less option, the worse you could do is remove the client, and the protocol would still exist in the underground.
Since when is okay to NOT allow system administrators to administrate their own software on the systems. They are system administrators. Installing software should be their own right, and the point of the fscking job!
...when elite hackers said that only elite hackers should have Linux, and all of these "Red Hat" guys are polluting the user base. They are, of course, full of shit.
The whole point of Linux is having a stable and friendlier version of UNIX that is GNU and doesn't have any ties to MS. We now have Average Joe User with their own copy of Linux/X and they are using it just fine. Why should we limit ourselves because we need to do it the "old fashioned way"? Let them (and us) have a easy-to-run auto-config script for building kernels. Are we going to delete our "make menuconfig" scripts and tell everybody to replace it with "vi Makefile", just for being elitists?
Personally, I think these are the "10 miles in the snow, both ways" people, who still believe that the best way to configure PPP on Mandrake is rolling your own scripts. (Uhh..."netconf"...duh!)
If you are thinking of security when you write the problem, you won't have any problem preventing buffer overflow bugs. Like the guy says "Fixing buffer overflows is the price of admission."
Writing programs with buffer overflows is just bad programming.
...for that last part: hiring people with no experience. I'm sorry, but if doesn't take that long to train somebody, you might as well hire a trained monkey to do your job. I didn't spend most of my life in computers just to have some computer illiterate dumbass get hired, just because he has "clearance".
Now, I argee with good documentation, coding standards, and other ideas which most of the OSS community follows. I think most business should follow this. Am I being reasonable, or just liberal (as usual)?
But there some politicians who won't whore themselves to corporate interests, and usually they can be found in little third parties with little chance of becoming major parties. The Libertarian Party, for example (disclaimer: I'm a libertarian) probably has a vastly greater percentage of people who do the usual politician things.
True, true, but that system won't come to exist without the removal of capitalism (disclaimer: I'm a libertarian socialist).
So my money says that they took care of the big holes
Oh really? A buffer overflow isn't a big hole? Buffer overflow bugs can be prevented by a middle-school hacker. This is elementary stuff. Doesn't anybody believe in putting limits on characters? This is simple to prevent.
Why are their STILL companies that fall victim to buffer overflow holes?!
You know there's going to be some starving Koreans who need their online gaming fix. Linux just doesn't offer that right now. Blizzard better start moving towards Linux support, or there's going to be a lot of bitter Koreans.
Another distraction while driving. It was bad enough with the car DVD players with their own TV screen right on the player! Now we have a full-fledged computer to spend time with:
Wife: "Honey! Look out for that deer!"
Hubby: "Not now! I'm killing this troll in Everquest!"
If I'm getting that, I'd expect 24/7 pay-per-view access, 24/7 porno, any On-Demand movie I want for free, and every single channel they can cram in the cable band.
I also expect an unrestricted U/L and D/L line on my Internet connection, the ability to put up a server, tech support for any computer problem I have, and a 99.9% guaranteed uptime on the line.
And I want caller ID, call waiting, every single other feature on my phone, the ability to block business (telemarketer) calls, and the best voicemail system known to man.
Then, and only then, would it be a good deal. Sure, you could toss a free hooker per month for shits and giggles.
AOL/TW already shot themselves in the foot for us. I predict that customers will take that "convenience" and stick it up their fscking ass! Lemme see: satellite instead of cable TV, DSL/satellite instead of cable internet, and phone lines (or cell phones) instead of cable phone. I've seen MS pull some brain dead shit, but damn...AOL/TW is just a lot stupider than I thought. (And it's bad enough that AOL charges $25/mo for a damn 56K service.)
Do everybody a favor and send this story to all on your AOL lamers and TW cable users. Maybe we can get them in droves.
Where are the classic MIPS ratings? It's a simple but fairly accurate statement on how fast a processor will go. A 486 100MHz and a Pentium 100MHz has the same MHz, but not the same MIPS.
N'Sync and Lucas are both whores. We had "sufficient cause to consider George Lucas a whore" even before this matter. Remember Episode 1? Remember the complete box collection that came out 3 months after the OTHER complete box collection? Remember that damn Star Wars arcade game that fanatics would play FOR A DOLLAR A GAME?! (It wasn't even that great...)
Don't get me wrong, I still like the Star Wars series, but it's turned George Lucas into the dark side (of the buck).
They are getting out of the profile-tracking business, not the ad business. If you didn't notice, DoubleClick's ads are used on virtually every major web site everywhere. They aren't just going to walk away from that.
Frankly, this is barely newsworthy. I guess it's worth mentioning because it's good news for privacy advocates, but other than that, it's just "ad product gets cancelled...big whoop".
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USA Busted Trying to Bug China's Presidential 767
China Orders E-Mail Screening
The USA tries to snoop China. China snoops its own people. What's the difference?
(At least China tells its own people that it's going to be snooping their e-mails. The USA just does it without warning.)
Almost any piece of software with a business market will COMPLETELY IGNORE the broke average Joe. You tell me one person who is willing to pay $600 for a copy of Photoshop, who is not doing it for business work. They will pirate a copy of it EVERY TIME.
Now, I'll admit that GIMP is not quite as good as Photoshop, but it's good enough. Having a $600 gap between The GIMP and Photoshop for a little bit of difference is not right at all.
True that piracy is illegal and they don't "have the right" to pirate software, but piracy is a form of protest. People protest high software prices through illegal piracy, just like blacks protest segregation by illegally sitting on the front of the bus. Most people may do it for more practical reasons than political (like "should I pay rent with $600 or buy a fucking piece of software?"), but it still acheives the same effect.
If only the software companies wouldn't be so blind to why they are doing this...
...for Photoshop, or $100 for Acrobat, or other outrageous prices for desktop software, maybe people wouldn't pirate it as much. Most buyers of pirated software over in Asia are normal Joes, who just want to do some photo work on a picture of his cat.
Why spend $200 on something like that? It's ridiculous, especially when something like The GIMP is free. If a powerful program like the GIMP is free, shouldn't Photoshop be closer to it?
Remember: only poor people pirate software.
Quite frankly, I equate HP to the same quality you expect from Packard Bell. I hate those tiny cases!
No offense, and I don't agree with the legal decision, but if you're running a server-based file sharing system, you're just asking to get shut down.
It doesn't matter what kind of lawsuit it is, but the big guys with big lawyers can laid down any kind of lawsuit to get you shut down, and you'll have to pay out the ass in your own lawyers to get it turned back on.
At least with a server-less option, the worse you could do is remove the client, and the protocol would still exist in the underground.
Since when is okay to NOT allow system administrators to administrate their own software on the systems. They are system administrators. Installing software should be their own right, and the point of the fscking job!
...when elite hackers said that only elite hackers should have Linux, and all of these "Red Hat" guys are polluting the user base. They are, of course, full of shit.
The whole point of Linux is having a stable and friendlier version of UNIX that is GNU and doesn't have any ties to MS. We now have Average Joe User with their own copy of Linux/X and they are using it just fine. Why should we limit ourselves because we need to do it the "old fashioned way"? Let them (and us) have a easy-to-run auto-config script for building kernels. Are we going to delete our "make menuconfig" scripts and tell everybody to replace it with "vi Makefile", just for being elitists?
Personally, I think these are the "10 miles in the snow, both ways" people, who still believe that the best way to configure PPP on Mandrake is rolling your own scripts. (Uhh..."netconf"...duh!)
It usually takes over a year to get a secret clearance.
:)
Forgive my ignorance, but what is "secret clearance"? Do they hire a CIA agent to watch you sleep/eat/fuck/shit for an entire year?
If you are thinking of security when you write the problem, you won't have any problem preventing buffer overflow bugs. Like the guy says "Fixing buffer overflows is the price of admission."
Writing programs with buffer overflows is just bad programming.
...for that last part: hiring people with no experience. I'm sorry, but if doesn't take that long to train somebody, you might as well hire a trained monkey to do your job. I didn't spend most of my life in computers just to have some computer illiterate dumbass get hired, just because he has "clearance".
Now, I argee with good documentation, coding standards, and other ideas which most of the OSS community follows. I think most business should follow this. Am I being reasonable, or just liberal (as usual)?
Where's my 5-year-old explaination of the Theory of Relativity? :)
But there some politicians who won't whore themselves to corporate interests, and usually they can be found in little third parties with little chance of becoming major parties. The Libertarian Party, for example (disclaimer: I'm a libertarian) probably has a vastly greater percentage of people who do the usual politician things.
True, true, but that system won't come to exist without the removal of capitalism (disclaimer: I'm a libertarian socialist).
So my money says that they took care of the big holes
Oh really? A buffer overflow isn't a big hole? Buffer overflow bugs can be prevented by a middle-school hacker. This is elementary stuff. Doesn't anybody believe in putting limits on characters? This is simple to prevent.
Why are their STILL companies that fall victim to buffer overflow holes?!
Sorry, some of us don't remember stories from 11 months ago. They posted it again? Good. Let some of the other people a chance to read it.
Stop voting for politicians who take their own and corporate interests above the interests of the people they represent.
Which ones would that be? The very definition of "politician" fits the above statement.
...and stop voting for politicians that promise to lower your taxes.
Shoot...that's every Republican out there. Why should we be lowering taxes when we can't even pay off our $5,000,000,000,000 national debt?
You know there's going to be some starving Koreans who need their online gaming fix. Linux just doesn't offer that right now. Blizzard better start moving towards Linux support, or there's going to be a lot of bitter Koreans.
Another distraction while driving. It was bad enough with the car DVD players with their own TV screen right on the player! Now we have a full-fledged computer to spend time with:
Wife: "Honey! Look out for that deer!"
Hubby: "Not now! I'm killing this troll in Everquest!"
If I'm getting that, I'd expect 24/7 pay-per-view access, 24/7 porno, any On-Demand movie I want for free, and every single channel they can cram in the cable band.
I also expect an unrestricted U/L and D/L line on my Internet connection, the ability to put up a server, tech support for any computer problem I have, and a 99.9% guaranteed uptime on the line.
And I want caller ID, call waiting, every single other feature on my phone, the ability to block business (telemarketer) calls, and the best voicemail system known to man.
Then, and only then, would it be a good deal. Sure, you could toss a free hooker per month for shits and giggles.
AOL/TW already shot themselves in the foot for us. I predict that customers will take that "convenience" and stick it up their fscking ass! Lemme see: satellite instead of cable TV, DSL/satellite instead of cable internet, and phone lines (or cell phones) instead of cable phone. I've seen MS pull some brain dead shit, but damn...AOL/TW is just a lot stupider than I thought. (And it's bad enough that AOL charges $25/mo for a damn 56K service.)
Do everybody a favor and send this story to all on your AOL lamers and TW cable users. Maybe we can get them in droves.
Where are the classic MIPS ratings? It's a simple but fairly accurate statement on how fast a processor will go. A 486 100MHz and a Pentium 100MHz has the same MHz, but not the same MIPS.
N'Sync and Lucas are both whores. We had "sufficient cause to consider George Lucas a whore" even before this matter. Remember Episode 1? Remember the complete box collection that came out 3 months after the OTHER complete box collection? Remember that damn Star Wars arcade game that fanatics would play FOR A DOLLAR A GAME?! (It wasn't even that great...)
Don't get me wrong, I still like the Star Wars series, but it's turned George Lucas into the dark side (of the buck).
Yeah, maybe it was called "Desert Shield"?
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Get a sig like mine. Moderators either love you, or they hate you.
Now that's funny!
They are getting out of the profile-tracking business, not the ad business. If you didn't notice, DoubleClick's ads are used on virtually every major web site everywhere. They aren't just going to walk away from that.
Frankly, this is barely newsworthy. I guess it's worth mentioning because it's good news for privacy advocates, but other than that, it's just "ad product gets cancelled...big whoop".