You are wrong. You know why the real estate prices soar in Hong Kong, Macau and Canada? Mainland Chinese keep buying them with cash. Like everything else, this thing is not marketed to those who cannot afford it.
Waste of time.. The story mentioned China, so full xenophobia mode is engaged. Any depiction of a Chinese national as anything other than a poverty stricken sweatshop worker will be aggressively and hysterically denied. I imagine Japan had the same treatment at one pint.
Have you even seen the five-bladed razor? Don't diss it before you try it. You aren't a man if you don't own a five-bladed battery powered razor in racing colors with an ergonomic grip and a special side razor that you can use to trim your sideburns. You are still technically a man if you own all of that but don't have a flashing low battery power indicator--just a sad a pathetic one.
Well, look what the ability to make hundreds of dies simultaneously on a wafer did for the semiconductor revolution. If one could make hundreds of small plastic custom parts at one time, it could enable small businesses to make things they otherwise couldn't do economically. I look at cheap Chinese products and ask, why make them over there and lug them thousands of miles at a cost of energy, when we could do short runs as needed here, locally and by American businesses. I have lots of things around the house that could have been made by a machine with this technology (layered up). By the way, let's extend the manufacturing principle to not just 2D axes but also rotational, as in what a lathe does but instead of removing material you add it to a rotated base. So for example you could make a cup on demand out of plastic beads fused together - which is just about what a styrofoam cup is.
Eventually perhaps. But right now, injection moulding and other similar techniques are more practical.To use your Styrofoam cup example. The cups take a fraction of a second with a mould. Pop two halves together, pump in the Styrofoam, dry, release. Easy and efficient. Thousands can be made in an hour.
3D object creation is in it's infancy right now. The hardware is expensive and still quite primitive, with a limited number of things it can use as a medium. In time.. Who knows.
Making a cup with a 3D printer of any kind would be pretty slow. Fine for one cup, but not for mass production.
Eventually it might be practical to have plastic printers/recyclers at home,and if you want a cup, print one in about 5 minutes, then if it breaks, recycle it into a new cup at home.
Someone in the rep rap or maker-bot community is currently working on a plastic recycling unit that takes things like plastic milk bottles and shreds and melts them down, then extrudes a plastic filament that can be used in the 3D printer.
I'm not sure I've ever heard the term Makers as used in this context. I was pretty much expecting to see Mark come after it, capitalized and everything.
It's quite common lately. Kind of like a more physical version of Hackers. Think of it as a collective term for people who make stuff for fun and perhaps a little profit rather than invent and patent and scream bloody murder if someone brings out something similar. Anything from knitted laptop covers to 3D printing and home CNC.
Really? Because so far all I've read is comments from people who aren't linux users telling others how they'll react. Seems to me like you're the christian demonising the muslim rather then the other way around.
Meh..It's the same as the usual "Year of Linux" meme. Ever notice how it always seems to be the Windows fanboys who invoke it rather than the Linux users. Perhaps they are worried that too many Linux users will buy software instead of pirating it.. And games developers will go for the more profitable platform.
And for the record.. Another practical Linux user here. Nvidia drivers, non free codecs, Flash, BBC iPlayer, and I even buy software.. RMS forgive me. If I can get free and open, great. If not, I'll use the closed stuff if I can.
It doesn't change the past leaks, no. But it does question the leadership of Wikileaks and its future. If he's convicted, there'll be a need for a new figurehead; if he's acquitted on the other hand, well... let's just say it might not be wise to have a man suspected of rape and harassment to be handling leaks.
Actually.. If he is acquitted, he is not suspected any more. He is vindicated. Or are you trying to fulfil your own prophesy?
Rape is a brutal and despicable crime. And is unusual in that the accused is tried and convicted before they set foot in court in some people's minds purely because they have been accused...
What such people fail to accept though, is that accusations are easy. The accusation can be made long after any hope of any kind of forensic evidence is gone. Think of the last non related woman you had any interaction with.. They are perfectly capable of making an accusation. Does that make you guilty?
How about the last person who saw you naked. Can they describe a distinctive mark anywhere on your body? Is that proof or a reasonable thing for someone who engaged in consensual sex to be aware of?
Proving the crime either way is hard.
But just out of curiosity. Suppose the two women in question withdraw the accusation in a few weeks? Will he still be probably guilty? Suppose it is found that the two women in question each had a substantial amount of money deposited in their bank accounts the day they filed the charges? Suppose someone drops off a document detailing this very strategy as CIA operating procedure?
Or suppose these two women are just trying to get some hush money from a publicly known figure?
You must surely admit that the timing of the incident is very convenient. Suspiciously well timed. I acknowledge the possibility. I don't assume it. Not a conspiracy nut. Just someone who is aware of how eager an embarrassed government can be to cover up the facts if they can.
Not the first time such things have been done by various governments. And I'm sure it would not be the last.
Or he may be unarguably and completely guilty. We have no idea. You believe what you want. I'll wait for the case to be heard before I make any judgement either way.
So you can't see the TV ads with Mac and PC. Macs runs Macs. PC run the windows, you know, microsoft??? You so stupid, when god gave brains, he gives you the turnip.
Says the guy citing TV ads as a valid technical definition source.
India is trolling - it can announce $35 tablets, even $0.00 tablets, but it sure as hell can't make any for that price. The components alone cost more than $35, and that's when China makes them with slaves paid less than India will pay.
Wow.. the guy compared prices for the iPad display, which is an expensive IPS panel, and the Kindle display which is an expensive e-ink display. Hardly an enlightening article, more a pratt blowing his own trumpet and being a dick head.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. The more prudish the society, the larger the teenage pregnancy rate.
I grew up in Ireland, at a time when contraception had to be prescribed by the local doctor, but only for married couples with a note from the priest. The only thing stopping an explosion of teenage mothers was the ease of access to English abortion clinics. And a lot of young girls "spending time with relatives in another county".
I went to a convent run school for a while, and the only sex education was a single film shown in total silence. No questions to be asked!! So I have a hunch this film was not willingly shown. Took me years to figure out what the hell self abuse was in this context. Good thing I grew up on a farm. Or I could be a dad by now.
And there we go... the apologists RUSH out of the woodwork to defend the fact that their precious Ubuntu is NOT perfect, and use semantics and air-fairy language to pretend a repository is anything more than a glorified website.
Sorry.. Not an apologist. Not even an ubuntu user. And certainly not suggesting Ubuntu is perfect. I've tried it a few times, but I never really got on with it. I use Fedora. But the points still hold across distros. OP stated that a package on an unrelated site was a repository breach. You tried to make out that an install file from some website was the same as a package from a repository. Both wrong. Deal with it or prove me wrong.
As to your post.. What exactly is your point?
Perhaps your problem is that I didn't give you a nice easy target by stating that repositories are 100% safe? How dare I! No system is 100% safe. I'm sure the Windows update maintainers have constant nightmares of being compromised. But as with repositories, so far they have not been breached. If you know otherwise for either system, please share the info.
Failing that.. Show me the errors in logic in my points. It might be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the difference between a package and a repository first though. I get the impression you are not quite clear on what they both are.
It's a pretty simple concept. It is impossible for any user to know 100% what each program is doing, so all we can realistically do to avoid problems is to source our software from as reputable as possible places.
To put it in Windows terms..
A virus scanner installed after an unfamiliar popup appears on a random site telling you that you have an infection is stupid dangerous. The chance of it being legit is statistically insignificant. In fact, I'd say it is a 100% certainty that it is malware. Personally, I've had one tell me that my Fedora computer has an infection on the C: drive.
A firewall from the Pirate bay is strictly dodgy. No way of telling if the firewall software has been tampered with. Who in their right mind would take such a risk? A firewall from an unknown company you never heard of, and never saw a review on is possibly going to be ok, but still very dangerous. A quick google should at the very least throw up forum posts about it. Not a smart download. A firewall from Cnet downloads is fairly safe, because they do malware scans on the downloads. But as you say.. We rely on trust. Their scan could be rubbish for all we know. And if there is a review attached, it might be bogus. And any malware scanner is only as good as the definitions. A firewall from the maker's site, after checking out reviews elsewhere is much safer, but still could contain malware, because you can never be 100% sure that it has not been hacked and tampered with. A firewall from the Windows download system is about as safe as you can go, but still not 100% because you have no way of telling if a disgruntled programmer has not slipped a nasty little surprise in before being fired. But then the same applies to the distro maker.
Basically, no means of acquiring software is 100% safe. On any OS. So we try to mitigate the risk as much as possible.
Personally, I'd put a third party repository at about the the Cnet level, and a distro repository at the Microsoft level. The DEB file that was referred to would be somewhere between the Pirate bay and an unknown company site. Probably OK, but still a big risk. After all.. it is still giving root access to an unknown file.
As you say.. all based on trust, but unless you can develop your own bespoke OS and all bespoke software entirely from scratch, that is all we really have. Security is a compromise between utility and safety. A 100% secure computer is one that has never been powered up. Anything else is a compromise.
Freedom of speech also means that you are to respect your fellow man's views, regardless of how unpopular they are, for it may be your views next that become sanctioned. Freedom of speech is far more than Government vs us. IT is a principal that every man's voice deserves a chance to be heard.
No. you are only supposed to unconditionally respect their right to express their views. You are free to view their views with utter contempt, and you are also free to say so. Freedom of speech works both ways.
Good post. But, we differ on "And what good would that do? Isn't free speech protected in America? Or is it only agreed speech?" If Phelps and company stayed in their little church house, preached sermons, put their trash on the web, and wrote submissions for the various newspapers, I wouldn't detest them as much as I do. And, I would argue to defend their freedom of speech, as much as I disagree with them.
There is a problem with that. The forms of communication that you listed are pretty much one way. Or can be made so. They can spout their hate and get no challenge. Create their own little echo chamber. And a certain weak minded minority will find themselves agreeing. This is dangerous. In public, they are not in control. They can't stop someone joining their picket with funny placards as the comic con people did, or they can't stop a whole drag troupe joining in and handing out slightly suggestive pastries to passers by..
But think a little deeper. Right now, it's one bat shit family. Left alone, and anonymous, you have one bat shit family who can lure others in with bible reading groups, web forums etc. After a year or so of anonymity, everybody forgets the nutters, and that nice Mr Phelps invites someone over for dinner. This is how such poison spreads. Far better they do it in public instead of hidden away where they can get inside people's heads.
IMHO, they go beyond freedom of speech when they picket funerals. I see trespass. They are trespassing on a family's right to peacefully lay their son/daughter/husband/father/whatever to rest. There are times and places when any decent human being will bend over backwards to accomodate another human being. Personally, I've avoided funerals where people thought I should show up, because I had not one good word to say about the dead guy. It would take a low life to attend a funeral, just to tell everyone that the stiff if finally where he belongs.
No. freedom of speech is one of those funny things that gets misunderstood a lot. The hardest part is accepting that even the stuff that turns your stomach and makes you want to punch the speaker until they are a bloody pulp is still protected. It has to be. Because if you can silence someone, someone can also silence you.
And sadly trespass requires setting foot on private property. Unless they actually entered the cemetery, no trespass. Possibly harassment, breach of the peace? I agree. this is very very wrong. And they should be stopped picketing at a funeral, but they can not and must not be stopped picketing ABOUT it.
But someone else posted that they have been stopped now... Hopefully it applies to all funerals, because they did the same at gay funerals I think. And scum like this just move on to a new target when stopped attacking the old target.
Fred Phelps and his followers should be dragged out behind the barn, and put out of everyone's misery.
People claim that violence has never solved anything - but a good, solid dose lead in his ear would solve all of Phelp's problems.
And what good would that do? Isn't free speech protected in America? Or is it only agreed speech?
These morons have no followers other than their own "congregation" which are all related. Just how much more pathetic can they get?
They have no ability to spread their views, because they are so extreme, they even force people to question their own prejudices. In spite of themselves, they may actually do some good.
Raise a finger against them, and they have won. Kill them and they have won. Stop them, and you become them.
Laugh at them, and nothing they do can make any difference.
Put Lookalikes on a float in a gay pride march. Use them in advertising with a slogan to the effect of "Phelps picketed, so it must be good.." Make them into a tourist attraction, do like the comic convention people did and make them look even more bat shit crazy.
Make Phelps dildos. Do what ever daft and disrespectful thing you can think of to ridicule them. And hope they never stop, because they are what you become when you try to force your views on those who don't think like you do.
These people are a joke. Treat them as such. But remember, the best comedy has a social commentary undercurrent hidden in it.
The comic con people handled it perfectly. You on the other hand, allowed them to get under your skin. You lost.
So if I understand extrapolation correctly, you are saying that any game anybody tries on Linus will work just fine.
Depends.. How busy he is. If he has some other demands on his time, if he is in the mood for playing a game. And of course, how much he objects to having someone try to insert a CD in his person.
Not quite..DEB file = package that is usually, but not exclusively found in a repository. Normally associated with Debian based distros. Functionally equivalent to a Windows EXE file in this case.
Gnome Look = a community run website which allows unrestricted uploads of themes, screen savers, wallpapers, icon sets etc. No review process. Access and I assume uploading rights only require a simple account. Basically, so long as you have an email address, you can upload. So functionally equivalent to a random web site or torrent if we were dealing with Windows.
Repository = a collection of package files maintained and monitored by the distro creator or a third party. Packages included in repositories are usually carefully inspected before inclusion, and responsible maintainers will only accept contributions from known good sources or build from the project's published source code. Using third party repositories is at the user's own risk, and is seen as such.
In your example, a DEB file was downloaded from a website. Not downloaded from a repository by a package manager. No screening, no verification of source, no checks at all. Anybody with sufficient knowledge and freely available software can make a package, but only trusted parties can get one into the distro run repository, or any reputable third party repository.
No repository was compromised. Which was the OP's point. It isn't impossible, just very difficult to anonymously sneak malware or copyright or patent infringing software into a repository. Basically, not worth the effort.
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Mac user = more money than brains
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moooore braaaaains.......
You are wrong. You know why the real estate prices soar in Hong Kong, Macau and Canada? Mainland Chinese keep buying them with cash. Like everything else, this thing is not marketed to those who cannot afford it.
Waste of time.. The story mentioned China, so full xenophobia mode is engaged. Any depiction of a Chinese national as anything other than a poverty stricken sweatshop worker will be aggressively and hysterically denied. I imagine Japan had the same treatment at one pint.
Have you even seen the five-bladed razor? Don't diss it before you try it. You aren't a man if you don't own a five-bladed battery powered razor in racing colors with an ergonomic grip and a special side razor that you can use to trim your sideburns. You are still technically a man if you own all of that but don't have a flashing low battery power indicator--just a sad a pathetic one.
I have a beard.
Well, look what the ability to make hundreds of dies simultaneously on a wafer did for the semiconductor revolution. If one could make hundreds of small plastic custom parts at one time, it could enable small businesses to make things they otherwise couldn't do economically. I look at cheap Chinese products and ask, why make them over there and lug them thousands of miles at a cost of energy, when we could do short runs as needed here, locally and by American businesses. I have lots of things around the house that could have been made by a machine with this technology (layered up). By the way, let's extend the manufacturing principle to not just 2D axes but also rotational, as in what a lathe does but instead of removing material you add it to a rotated base. So for example you could make a cup on demand out of plastic beads fused together - which is just about what a styrofoam cup is.
Eventually perhaps. But right now, injection moulding and other similar techniques are more practical.To use your Styrofoam cup example. The cups take a fraction of a second with a mould. Pop two halves together, pump in the Styrofoam, dry, release. Easy and efficient. Thousands can be made in an hour. 3D object creation is in it's infancy right now. The hardware is expensive and still quite primitive, with a limited number of things it can use as a medium. In time.. Who knows. Making a cup with a 3D printer of any kind would be pretty slow. Fine for one cup, but not for mass production. Eventually it might be practical to have plastic printers/recyclers at home,and if you want a cup, print one in about 5 minutes, then if it breaks, recycle it into a new cup at home. Someone in the rep rap or maker-bot community is currently working on a plastic recycling unit that takes things like plastic milk bottles and shreds and melts them down, then extrudes a plastic filament that can be used in the 3D printer.
I'm not sure I've ever heard the term Makers as used in this context. I was pretty much expecting to see Mark come after it, capitalized and everything.
It's quite common lately. Kind of like a more physical version of Hackers. Think of it as a collective term for people who make stuff for fun and perhaps a little profit rather than invent and patent and scream bloody murder if someone brings out something similar. Anything from knitted laptop covers to 3D printing and home CNC.
Really? Because so far all I've read is comments from people who aren't linux users telling others how they'll react. Seems to me like you're the christian demonising the muslim rather then the other way around.
Meh..It's the same as the usual "Year of Linux" meme. Ever notice how it always seems to be the Windows fanboys who invoke it rather than the Linux users.
Perhaps they are worried that too many Linux users will buy software instead of pirating it.. And games developers will go for the more profitable platform.
And for the record.. Another practical Linux user here. Nvidia drivers, non free codecs, Flash, BBC iPlayer, and I even buy software.. RMS forgive me. If I can get free and open, great. If not, I'll use the closed stuff if I can.
oO You wouldn't survive for 5 minutes in Europe...
They frequently don't. Americans are so funny..
It doesn't change the past leaks, no. But it does question the leadership of Wikileaks and its future. If he's convicted, there'll be a need for a new figurehead; if he's acquitted on the other hand, well... let's just say it might not be wise to have a man suspected of rape and harassment to be handling leaks.
Actually.. If he is acquitted, he is not suspected any more. He is vindicated. Or are you trying to fulfil your own prophesy?
Rape is a brutal and despicable crime. And is unusual in that the accused is tried and convicted before they set foot in court in some people's minds purely because they have been accused...
What such people fail to accept though, is that accusations are easy. The accusation can be made long after any hope of any kind of forensic evidence is gone. Think of the last non related woman you had any interaction with.. They are perfectly capable of making an accusation. Does that make you guilty?
How about the last person who saw you naked. Can they describe a distinctive mark anywhere on your body? Is that proof or a reasonable thing for someone who engaged in consensual sex to be aware of?
Proving the crime either way is hard.
But just out of curiosity.
Suppose the two women in question withdraw the accusation in a few weeks? Will he still be probably guilty?
Suppose it is found that the two women in question each had a substantial amount of money deposited in their bank accounts the day they filed the charges?
Suppose someone drops off a document detailing this very strategy as CIA operating procedure?
Or suppose these two women are just trying to get some hush money from a publicly known figure?
You must surely admit that the timing of the incident is very convenient. Suspiciously well timed. I acknowledge the possibility. I don't assume it. Not a conspiracy nut. Just someone who is aware of how eager an embarrassed government can be to cover up the facts if they can.
Not the first time such things have been done by various governments. And I'm sure it would not be the last.
Or he may be unarguably and completely guilty. We have no idea. You believe what you want. I'll wait for the case to be heard before I make any judgement either way.
So you can't see the TV ads with Mac and PC. Macs runs Macs. PC run the windows, you know, microsoft??? You so stupid, when god gave brains, he gives you the turnip.
Says the guy citing TV ads as a valid technical definition source.
Yes, a law administered by circuit judges.
Ohm's law?
India is trolling - it can announce $35 tablets, even $0.00 tablets, but it sure as hell can't make any for that price. The components alone cost more than $35, and that's when China makes them with slaves paid less than India will pay.
Wow.. the guy compared prices for the iPad display, which is an expensive IPS panel, and the Kindle display which is an expensive e-ink display. Hardly an enlightening article, more a pratt blowing his own trumpet and being a dick head.
Do we still have to talk about "burnout" every time we mention kernel maintenance?
Yep. It isn't a meme unless it gets repeated over and over.
Why not?
I mean, assuming the food was free - what more could you want?
Check out the Disney town..
Think Stepford without the robots.
I know. The major manufacturing sectors don't use night shifts. Oh wait....
Yep. I keep forgetting that we live in a 24 hour society these days.
Except during nights.
Yep..When all those offices and factories and everything are up and running.
Oh wait..
It's as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
Come on.. Like that could ever happen..
Doesn't surprise me a bit. The more prudish the society, the larger the teenage pregnancy rate.
I grew up in Ireland, at a time when contraception had to be prescribed by the local doctor, but only for married couples with a note from the priest. The only thing stopping an explosion of teenage mothers was the ease of access to English abortion clinics. And a lot of young girls "spending time with relatives in another county".
I went to a convent run school for a while, and the only sex education was a single film shown in total silence. No questions to be asked!! So I have a hunch this film was not willingly shown. Took me years to figure out what the hell self abuse was in this context. Good thing I grew up on a farm. Or I could be a dad by now.
Creationists will outbreed evolutionists. Evolution at work.
Sadly true, but only because it takes so long for them to figure out how getting pregnant happens.
And there we go ... the apologists RUSH out of the woodwork to defend the fact that their precious Ubuntu is NOT perfect, and use semantics and air-fairy language to pretend a repository is anything more than a glorified website.
Sorry.. Not an apologist. Not even an ubuntu user. And certainly not suggesting Ubuntu is perfect. I've tried it a few times, but I never really got on with it. I use Fedora. But the points still hold across distros.
OP stated that a package on an unrelated site was a repository breach. You tried to make out that an install file from some website was the same as a package from a repository. Both wrong. Deal with it or prove me wrong.
As to your post.. What exactly is your point?
Perhaps your problem is that I didn't give you a nice easy target by stating that repositories are 100% safe? How dare I! No system is 100% safe. I'm sure the Windows update maintainers have constant nightmares of being compromised. But as with repositories, so far they have not been breached. If you know otherwise for either system, please share the info.
Failing that.. Show me the errors in logic in my points. It might be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the difference between a package and a repository first though. I get the impression you are not quite clear on what they both are.
It's a pretty simple concept.
It is impossible for any user to know 100% what each program is doing, so all we can realistically do to avoid problems is to source our software from as reputable as possible places.
To put it in Windows terms..
A virus scanner installed after an unfamiliar popup appears on a random site telling you that you have an infection is stupid dangerous. The chance of it being legit is statistically insignificant. In fact, I'd say it is a 100% certainty that it is malware. Personally, I've had one tell me that my Fedora computer has an infection on the C: drive.
A firewall from the Pirate bay is strictly dodgy. No way of telling if the firewall software has been tampered with. Who in their right mind would take such a risk?
A firewall from an unknown company you never heard of, and never saw a review on is possibly going to be ok, but still very dangerous. A quick google should at the very least throw up forum posts about it. Not a smart download.
A firewall from Cnet downloads is fairly safe, because they do malware scans on the downloads. But as you say.. We rely on trust. Their scan could be rubbish for all we know. And if there is a review attached, it might be bogus. And any malware scanner is only as good as the definitions.
A firewall from the maker's site, after checking out reviews elsewhere is much safer, but still could contain malware, because you can never be 100% sure that it has not been hacked and tampered with.
A firewall from the Windows download system is about as safe as you can go, but still not 100% because you have no way of telling if a disgruntled programmer has not slipped a nasty little surprise in before being fired. But then the same applies to the distro maker.
Basically, no means of acquiring software is 100% safe. On any OS. So we try to mitigate the risk as much as possible.
Personally, I'd put a third party repository at about the the Cnet level, and a distro repository at the Microsoft level. The DEB file that was referred to would be somewhere between the Pirate bay and an unknown company site. Probably OK, but still a big risk. After all.. it is still giving root access to an unknown file.
As you say.. all based on trust, but unless you can develop your own bespoke OS and all bespoke software entirely from scratch, that is all we really have. Security is a compromise between utility and safety. A 100% secure computer is one that has never been powered up. Anything else is a compromise.
Freedom of speech also means that you are to respect your fellow man's views, regardless of how unpopular they are, for it may be your views next that become sanctioned. Freedom of speech is far more than Government vs us. IT is a principal that every man's voice deserves a chance to be heard.
No. you are only supposed to unconditionally respect their right to express their views. You are free to view their views with utter contempt, and you are also free to say so. Freedom of speech works both ways.
Good post. But, we differ on "And what good would that do? Isn't free speech protected in America? Or is it only agreed speech?" If Phelps and company stayed in their little church house, preached sermons, put their trash on the web, and wrote submissions for the various newspapers, I wouldn't detest them as much as I do. And, I would argue to defend their freedom of speech, as much as I disagree with them.
There is a problem with that. The forms of communication that you listed are pretty much one way. Or can be made so. They can spout their hate and get no challenge. Create their own little echo chamber. And a certain weak minded minority will find themselves agreeing. This is dangerous. In public, they are not in control. They can't stop someone joining their picket with funny placards as the comic con people did, or they can't stop a whole drag troupe joining in and handing out slightly suggestive pastries to passers by..
But think a little deeper. Right now, it's one bat shit family. Left alone, and anonymous, you have one bat shit family who can lure others in with bible reading groups, web forums etc. After a year or so of anonymity, everybody forgets the nutters, and that nice Mr Phelps invites someone over for dinner. This is how such poison spreads. Far better they do it in public instead of hidden away where they can get inside people's heads.
IMHO, they go beyond freedom of speech when they picket funerals. I see trespass. They are trespassing on a family's right to peacefully lay their son/daughter/husband/father/whatever to rest. There are times and places when any decent human being will bend over backwards to accomodate another human being. Personally, I've avoided funerals where people thought I should show up, because I had not one good word to say about the dead guy. It would take a low life to attend a funeral, just to tell everyone that the stiff if finally where he belongs.
No. freedom of speech is one of those funny things that gets misunderstood a lot. The hardest part is accepting that even the stuff that turns your stomach and makes you want to punch the speaker until they are a bloody pulp is still protected. It has to be. Because if you can silence someone, someone can also silence you.
And sadly trespass requires setting foot on private property. Unless they actually entered the cemetery, no trespass. Possibly harassment, breach of the peace? I agree. this is very very wrong. And they should be stopped picketing at a funeral, but they can not and must not be stopped picketing ABOUT it.
But someone else posted that they have been stopped now... Hopefully it applies to all funerals, because they did the same at gay funerals I think. And scum like this just move on to a new target when stopped attacking the old target.
This shouldn't even be a story. Not even on idle.
Fred Phelps and his followers should be dragged out behind the barn, and put out of everyone's misery.
People claim that violence has never solved anything - but a good, solid dose lead in his ear would solve all of Phelp's problems.
And what good would that do? Isn't free speech protected in America? Or is it only agreed speech?
These morons have no followers other than their own "congregation" which are all related. Just how much more pathetic can they get?
They have no ability to spread their views, because they are so extreme, they even force people to question their own prejudices.
In spite of themselves, they may actually do some good.
Raise a finger against them, and they have won. Kill them and they have won. Stop them, and you become them.
Laugh at them, and nothing they do can make any difference.
Put Lookalikes on a float in a gay pride march. Use them in advertising with a slogan to the effect of "Phelps picketed, so it must be good.." Make them into a tourist attraction, do like the comic convention people did and make them look even more bat shit crazy.
Make Phelps dildos. Do what ever daft and disrespectful thing you can think of to ridicule them. And hope they never stop, because they are what you become when you try to force your views on those who don't think like you do.
These people are a joke. Treat them as such. But remember, the best comedy has a social commentary undercurrent hidden in it.
The comic con people handled it perfectly. You on the other hand, allowed them to get under your skin. You lost.
So if I understand extrapolation correctly, you are saying that any game anybody tries on Linus will work just fine.
Depends.. How busy he is. If he has some other demands on his time, if he is in the mood for playing a game. And of course, how much he objects to having someone try to insert a CD in his person.
Here you go ...
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/09/2215253/Malware-Found-Hidden-In-Screensaver-On-Gnome-Look
Not quite. .DEB file = package that is usually, but not exclusively found in a repository. Normally associated with Debian based distros. Functionally equivalent to a Windows EXE file in this case.
Gnome Look = a community run website which allows unrestricted uploads of themes, screen savers, wallpapers, icon sets etc. No review process. Access and I assume uploading rights only require a simple account. Basically, so long as you have an email address, you can upload. So functionally equivalent to a random web site or torrent if we were dealing with Windows.
Repository = a collection of package files maintained and monitored by the distro creator or a third party. Packages included in repositories are usually carefully inspected before inclusion, and responsible maintainers will only accept contributions from known good sources or build from the project's published source code. Using third party repositories is at the user's own risk, and is seen as such.
In your example, a DEB file was downloaded from a website. Not downloaded from a repository by a package manager. No screening, no verification of source, no checks at all. Anybody with sufficient knowledge and freely available software can make a package, but only trusted parties can get one into the distro run repository, or any reputable third party repository.
No repository was compromised. Which was the OP's point. It isn't impossible, just very difficult to anonymously sneak malware or copyright or patent infringing software into a repository. Basically, not worth the effort.
Try again.
If you already have a smart phone, this will not impress you at all.
And if you can afford a smart phone, why would you be buying a government subsidised tablet for school kids?