In order for a satellite to track one of these, you'd have to find it first. What exactly do you think that sattelites use to 'pick up' ships as you put it?
How about, if I don't like the way Company A sells their product, I rescind the government granted right-of-way that allowed Company A to dig up countless miles of public and private property to bring their product to me?
Plus, the constitution grants the government the right to regulate interstate commerce and the right to provide for the general welfare.
You complain about being tarred with the socialist brush, but you make the classic liberal mistake of conflating "promote the general welfare" with "provide for the general welfare?"
I am proud to say that I haven't given a single dime to M$ in any way since I bought my first 486 computer. Since then, it has been pirated M$ software. I wont even buy games from companies that M$ holds any part of. I'll pirate those.
You're paying for it anyway. Microsoft just raises their prices to make up for the lost revenue, and the companies that make every product you buy, from your computer hardware to your car to the groceries in your fridge, buy Microsoft software. Their costs for it rise, so their prices rise, and it's all passed right on down to you.
So you don't pay $150 for Windows, but instead you pay $0.05 more for bread, $50 more for your TV set, $75 more for your car, etc.
Oh; and somewhere along the way you're paying the salaries of the middle managers who are supervising shifting that cost to you, so you probably end up paying $300 to offset that $150 you avoided by pirating the software.
If you steal your crack instead of purchasing it, you're still addicted to crack.
I loves "experts" that dont know what they are talking about.
many of the biggest corperations regulary trust open source tools, espically snort and the others for security.
Most of those corporations' management don't trust Open Source, and either aren't aware they're using it, or tell themselves "we're not treating it like Open Source" because they bought it from a company as part of a product.
I guarantee you there will be companies that will buy this product that would absolutely prohibit using Snort in any other way, even if configured 100% identically.
The Fortune 500 company I work for had an incident where a member of upper management sent out an email saying no Open Source would be used in this company. His email was distributed around the company through sendmail servers, which had been configured using vi, running under Bourne and Korn shells. DNS resolution for the distribution happened using BIND. Everybody ignored him and failed to remove those applications from production, of course.
Recently they made the decision to investigate the use of Linux as a production OS. I was present in a meeting where a technical person asked "what does this imply about our stance on Open Source?" The PHB's response was "we're not using it as Open Source, we're buying it from Red Hat."
We didn't bother to try to make him explain what the hell "we're not using it as Open Source" meant, we knew the answer would be silly bullshit.
I think you mean get rid of that Windows gaming partition and stop playing fun games. Really, what's the point of consumer rights if you have consume CRAP to get them?
You meant this as a troll, I'm guessing, but it's a perfectly legitimate point. All the best PC games are for Windows. That's why I was careful to say that you have a choice.
Some people would rather take Microsoft's license shaft up the wazoo than miss out on their favorite games. It's a free country. I'll disagree with your choice, but I'll gladly fight for your right to make it.
There is no freedom without the freedom to make stupid decisions.
Me, I'll keep my Windows 98 partition until I can't buy any games that work on it. Then, if the only Microsoft choice drags one into the maelstrom, I'll stick with Linux games. They'll suck less by then.
If it comes down to it, I don't HAVE to play games.
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Dang it, I was all set to moderate, but this needs a followup instead since Dimwit left something out. Namely that those set commands belong in/etc/system.
And a second followup that the whole thing is moot since that "fix" has been hacked.
Either use Microsoft for EVERYTHING, or for NOTHING.
There just isn't much of a middleground anymore. Either take the plunge, wipe Linux off your drives, and surrender all your data (personal and PC) to Microsoft, or don't use them for ANYTHING at all.
Get rid of that Windows gaming partition, and just run Linux games. Or don't bitch when Microsoft bends you over like this. It's their service, you agreed to that when you signed up. Even if you signed up with Hotmail before Microsoft bought it, you still agreed to follow Hotmail's terms of service, including updates, and it's been updated.
There are still pockets of things you can do with Microsoft software that don't suck you into the whole mess (such as using Windows 98 for those games), but eventually it's all going this way. Eventually you won't be able to run any of the new games on Win98, and you'll have to make the choice; and when it comes, it'll be a Microsoft product that requires Passport in order to function.
Make your choice, and don't bitch if Microsoft changes the rules after you've agreed to a contract allowing them to. You're a free human being, you make your choices and you live with the consequences.
A temporary software patch is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch and a fully supported and tested fix will be available next week, Ingevaldson said.
Either Ingevaldson needs to check his facts, or I'm going blind in my advanced age, because the patch ain't there.
Didn't you ever play with GI Joe or Transformers as a kid? Damn, I had huge elaborate wars between GI Joe and Cobra where each side decimated each other. It didn't cause me to grow up and become a murderer!
Of course I did. Hell, I play with 'em now. I've got an Ultimate Soldier action figure on my desk at this moment, armed with M4 carbine, AT-4, and Stinger missile. Although GI Joe didn't have Cobra when I was a kid.:-)
As I said, I wouldn't stop him from playing finger guns. He can even name my M16A2 and MP5SD5 on sight. He's 3, which is a bit too young for toy guns in my opinion, but by the time he's in double-digit ages I'll probably have him on the range with me.
However, too much fantasizing about anything isn't healthy, and if he's going to be fantasizing about violence, obviously it's a teeny bit more healthy to fantasize about fantasy violence. It also makes the strangers less uncomfortable when he throws a kamehameha wave at them in the mall than when he points a finger gun at them.
H2 can made cheaply from seawater and solar cells.
Assuming you're making the H2 near where you're selling it, and you better be or you're gonna go broke, solar cells cost more energy to make than the energy you'll get out of them over their lifetime.
A better idea, since you're near the water anyway, would be hydroelectric power.
Having your customers pay with credit cards... that way if anything happens they can dispute the charges.
Most customers aren't very savvy. If you tell people "Don't use a check when you do business with me, use a credit card, because I use PayPal, and they might rip you off", they are going to hear "Don't... do business with me... because I... might rip you off."
They don't wanna hear from "this other company is at fault", they're gonna wanna give you money and have you give them goods and/or services, period.
Some people have glossed over this in passing, but you should pay attention:
In some states, you are legally required to be an electrician (low voltage license) to do this.
Florida is one example; it was passed this year.
If you live in a state with this requirement, you might fail your inspection if you do this, and not be able to move into your house.
Further, if you are building in a development and didn't hire the builder yourself, you must coordinate this with them, or they might very well rip your wires out. I've seen it happen, there is a house in my development sitting empty because the guy put Monster Cables for his stereo through the walls one night, and they cut them all into pieces and threw them away the next day. He backed out of the deal as a result, and now it's an inventory home. They didn't really have much of a choice, since if they fail the inspection they eat the house.
Microsoft has big labs full of computers, and testers who work in these labs. If they support DirectX on Win95, that means they need to run tests on Win95, which means they need computers set up and running Win95, and they need to pay the testers who will run all the tests on Win95. When the testers find bugs, the DirectX developers need to fix the bugs, too. None of this is free.
So? Instead of de-supporting the product, they could say "after this date, you must have a paid support contract if you wish to have any support whatsoever", then charge enough for those contracts that they make a profit on it.
They don't do that because they know they can make more profit by forcing upgrades. And the users are stuck because there will still be bugs and security problems that need to be fixed, but that they will not be able to fix because they don't have the source, and the folks who do have the source can't distribute patches.
I think what Microsoft is doing should remain legal, but that doesn't mean it's moral or nice.
A friend of mine worked for Microsoft doing Win 3.x support. One week they sent everybody in his group off for Windows 95 training, shortly prior to it's release.
When he finished the course, he turned in his notice, effective the day before Win95's release. He didn't want to support anything that buggy.
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In order for a satellite to track one of these, you'd have to find it first. What exactly do you think that sattelites use to 'pick up' ships as you put it?
Magnetic anomoly detectors.
one of the few good DSL providers left who don't use the broken-by-design PPPoE protocol
:-)
Now, let's be fair; they haven't finished designing it yet, so maybe it won't be broken if they're ever done.
How about, if I don't like the way Company A sells their product, I rescind the government granted right-of-way that allowed Company A to dig up countless miles of public and private property to bring their product to me?
Ok by me. Go for it.
Plus, the constitution grants the government the right to regulate interstate commerce and the right to provide for the general welfare.
You complain about being tarred with the socialist brush, but you make the classic liberal mistake of conflating "promote the general welfare" with "provide for the general welfare?"
Why should that matter?
Because life isn't fair, and Internet access isn't a right, it's a product.
If you don't like the way Company A sells their bandwidth, don't purchase from Company A.
The Constitution doesn't guarantee you Fair, it guarantees you (and AT&T) Free. Fair is a socialist concept.
I am proud to say that I haven't given a single dime to M$ in any way since I bought my first 486 computer. Since then, it has been pirated M$ software. I wont even buy games from companies that M$ holds any part of. I'll pirate those.
You're paying for it anyway. Microsoft just raises their prices to make up for the lost revenue, and the companies that make every product you buy, from your computer hardware to your car to the groceries in your fridge, buy Microsoft software. Their costs for it rise, so their prices rise, and it's all passed right on down to you.
So you don't pay $150 for Windows, but instead you pay $0.05 more for bread, $50 more for your TV set, $75 more for your car, etc.
Oh; and somewhere along the way you're paying the salaries of the middle managers who are supervising shifting that cost to you, so you probably end up paying $300 to offset that $150 you avoided by pirating the software.
If you steal your crack instead of purchasing it, you're still addicted to crack.
I loves "experts" that dont know what they are talking about.
many of the biggest corperations regulary trust open source tools, espically snort and the others for security.
Most of those corporations' management don't trust Open Source, and either aren't aware they're using it, or tell themselves "we're not treating it like Open Source" because they bought it from a company as part of a product.
I guarantee you there will be companies that will buy this product that would absolutely prohibit using Snort in any other way, even if configured 100% identically.
The Fortune 500 company I work for had an incident where a member of upper management sent out an email saying no Open Source would be used in this company. His email was distributed around the company through sendmail servers, which had been configured using vi, running under Bourne and Korn shells. DNS resolution for the distribution happened using BIND. Everybody ignored him and failed to remove those applications from production, of course.
Recently they made the decision to investigate the use of Linux as a production OS. I was present in a meeting where a technical person asked "what does this imply about our stance on Open Source?" The PHB's response was "we're not using it as Open Source, we're buying it from Red Hat."
We didn't bother to try to make him explain what the hell "we're not using it as Open Source" meant, we knew the answer would be silly bullshit.
I think you mean get rid of that Windows gaming partition and stop playing fun games. Really, what's the point of consumer rights if you have consume CRAP to get them?
You meant this as a troll, I'm guessing, but it's a perfectly legitimate point. All the best PC games are for Windows. That's why I was careful to say that you have a choice.
Some people would rather take Microsoft's license shaft up the wazoo than miss out on their favorite games. It's a free country. I'll disagree with your choice, but I'll gladly fight for your right to make it.
There is no freedom without the freedom to make stupid decisions.
Me, I'll keep my Windows 98 partition until I can't buy any games that work on it. Then, if the only Microsoft choice drags one into the maelstrom, I'll stick with Linux games. They'll suck less by then.
If it comes down to it, I don't HAVE to play games.
Dang it, I was all set to moderate, but this needs a followup instead since Dimwit left something out. Namely that those set commands belong in /etc/system.
And a second followup that the whole thing is moot since that "fix" has been hacked.
Exactly. This is why you have to make a decision:
Either use Microsoft for EVERYTHING, or for NOTHING.
There just isn't much of a middleground anymore. Either take the plunge, wipe Linux off your drives, and surrender all your data (personal and PC) to Microsoft, or don't use them for ANYTHING at all.
Get rid of that Windows gaming partition, and just run Linux games. Or don't bitch when Microsoft bends you over like this. It's their service, you agreed to that when you signed up. Even if you signed up with Hotmail before Microsoft bought it, you still agreed to follow Hotmail's terms of service, including updates, and it's been updated.
There are still pockets of things you can do with Microsoft software that don't suck you into the whole mess (such as using Windows 98 for those games), but eventually it's all going this way. Eventually you won't be able to run any of the new games on Win98, and you'll have to make the choice; and when it comes, it'll be a Microsoft product that requires Passport in order to function.
Make your choice, and don't bitch if Microsoft changes the rules after you've agreed to a contract allowing them to. You're a free human being, you make your choices and you live with the consequences.
A temporary software patch is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch and a fully supported and tested fix will be available next week, Ingevaldson said.
Either Ingevaldson needs to check his facts, or I'm going blind in my advanced age, because the patch ain't there.
That takes you to the fully supported patches.
If you browse /. the news, stock quotes etc. then you're prett much safe.
/. But that could never happen, right? Completely impossible.
Unless somebody puts in a link and you click it.
But, as long as you don't click on any links, you're safe as houses.
Unless somebody hacks
How long can you breathe with your head buried in the sand like that?
Didn't you ever play with GI Joe or Transformers as a kid? Damn, I had huge elaborate wars between GI Joe and Cobra where each side decimated each other. It didn't cause me to grow up and become a murderer!
:-)
Of course I did. Hell, I play with 'em now. I've got an Ultimate Soldier action figure on my desk at this moment, armed with M4 carbine, AT-4, and Stinger missile. Although GI Joe didn't have Cobra when I was a kid.
As I said, I wouldn't stop him from playing finger guns. He can even name my M16A2 and MP5SD5 on sight. He's 3, which is a bit too young for toy guns in my opinion, but by the time he's in double-digit ages I'll probably have him on the range with me.
However, too much fantasizing about anything isn't healthy, and if he's going to be fantasizing about violence, obviously it's a teeny bit more healthy to fantasize about fantasy violence. It also makes the strangers less uncomfortable when he throws a kamehameha wave at them in the mall than when he points a finger gun at them.
Sorry, which of "My Rights Online" is in jeopardy here?
Who said this represented jeopardy? If it were an EXPRESSION of My Rights Online, that'd qualify too, wouldn't it?
DBZ action figures are harmless. If my son wants to pretend to shoot some spirit bomb on me, that's fine.
Personally, I'm glad when my son is saying "kame... hame... HA!!!!!!!" instead of "bang".
Not that I'd prevent him from the finger guns, but I think fantasizing about fantasy violence is a step up from fantasizing about real violence.
Once things are wonderfully automated, what do the people that used their braun instead of their brains for a living do then?
Learn to spell "brawn"?
A LOT is missing.
I not only can't find any of my old posts, but I can't find any of my NEW posts now.
When I search on various combinations of my name, all I find is signature taglines quoting me...
H2 can made cheaply from seawater and solar cells.
Assuming you're making the H2 near where you're selling it, and you better be or you're gonna go broke, solar cells cost more energy to make than the energy you'll get out of them over their lifetime.
A better idea, since you're near the water anyway, would be hydroelectric power.
The best thing a maintainer of a stable kernel tree can hope will be said after his reign is:
Nothing. The less that ends up being said, the better a job he's done.
Having your customers pay with credit cards... that way if anything happens they can dispute the charges.
Most customers aren't very savvy. If you tell people "Don't use a check when you do business with me, use a credit card, because I use PayPal, and they might rip you off", they are going to hear "Don't... do business with me... because I... might rip you off."
They don't wanna hear from "this other company is at fault", they're gonna wanna give you money and have you give them goods and/or services, period.
Some people have glossed over this in passing, but you should pay attention:
In some states, you are legally required to be an electrician (low voltage license) to do this.
Florida is one example; it was passed this year.
If you live in a state with this requirement, you might fail your inspection if you do this, and not be able to move into your house.
Further, if you are building in a development and didn't hire the builder yourself, you must coordinate this with them, or they might very well rip your wires out. I've seen it happen, there is a house in my development sitting empty because the guy put Monster Cables for his stereo through the walls one night, and they cut them all into pieces and threw them away the next day. He backed out of the deal as a result, and now it's an inventory home. They didn't really have much of a choice, since if they fail the inspection they eat the house.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but think of that line in Blues Brothers:
"We've got both kinds of music; Country AND Western!"
No "Buy one now at ThinkGeek" link? You guys are slipping.
That probably has less to do with Slashdot slipping, and more to do with the fact that Thinkgeek doesn't carry them...
Microsoft has big labs full of computers, and testers who work in these labs. If they support DirectX on Win95, that means they need to run tests on Win95, which means they need computers set up and running Win95, and they need to pay the testers who will run all the tests on Win95. When the testers find bugs, the DirectX developers need to fix the bugs, too. None of this is free.
So? Instead of de-supporting the product, they could say "after this date, you must have a paid support contract if you wish to have any support whatsoever", then charge enough for those contracts that they make a profit on it.
They don't do that because they know they can make more profit by forcing upgrades. And the users are stuck because there will still be bugs and security problems that need to be fixed, but that they will not be able to fix because they don't have the source, and the folks who do have the source can't distribute patches.
I think what Microsoft is doing should remain legal, but that doesn't mean it's moral or nice.
A friend of mine worked for Microsoft doing Win 3.x support. One week they sent everybody in his group off for Windows 95 training, shortly prior to it's release.
When he finished the course, he turned in his notice, effective the day before Win95's release. He didn't want to support anything that buggy.