I hope to migrate to a PC with only Linux on it by mid-summer. The problem is that I am rather new to Linux, so I am trying to get all the kinks out. (Of course having some prior experience with Unix helps!) I also share my PC with my girlfriend, so I am training her all at the same time. Why am I telling all you this? Because I think that Loundry has a point here. We cannot make change unless we are desperate for change. I think that every one of us needs to use some discipline and deal with the shortcomings of Linux. This way we will be more aware of the shortcomings, and we can eliminate the shortcomings and push Linux to be the OS that my grandma can use!
Perhaps that backdoor in Red Hat was this one? Oops, did I just link to it? Was that link a/. story? Ohhh, I see you must have missed that one. Why be such a flamebater? If there was a different Red Hat backdoor that was not on/., could you please link to it, because I am not aware of it... dork.
First off, I agree with you in that this does help to some extent, especially from most copycats. I disagree with you in that this does not help the virus vulnerability issue with Outlook. Do you know how easy it is to write a macro virus in a.DO* or.XL*? How about renaming an executable? Or a macro in an.xls file that renames/decompresses another file that is mailed with it? This is just giving the average user a false sense of security!
I cannot endorse this issue until M$ locks down the default settings. If the user wishes to be vulnerable, then let them change the settings as they wish. Perhaps a notification when they try to execute malicious code??? I know that every time I open a spreadsheet in Excel, it warns me that there could be macro-viruses in the document. Maybe they can add that simple teeny warning into Outlook?!
Yet another reason Open Source rules. I could just add that warning 'feature' myself in less than 10 lines of code.
You will note that I clearly stated that "Intel is planning on just replacing the standard memory with Rambus memory, but will replace the entire board at the user's request"
They covered thier arses, but you are on the right track. I bet this is to spur sales into Rambus, and to fatten thier bottom line. Besides, now when IT staff upgrade in the future, they will have to buy Rambus!
How did they do that? I am thinking that Napster re-created the query that NetPD did and performed a mass-boot that way. Or NetPD was nice enough to give them a text file version parsed by commas or something. Or they hired some of Bill Gates' infinate fleet of monkeys typing on infinate typewriters.
When watching any sporting event this rings true. I love hearing an ex-sports player turned commentator talk about how "3 out of the last 4 times these teams have met on a full moon during the month of July...."
Following other standard protocols seems to be how Microsoft manages to be so damned great.
No, I think it is more like following, embracing, changing, taking over, and buying/licensing other standard protocols seems to be how Microsoft manages to be so damned great. Or perhaps that is just how I perceive it.
Very interesting indeed! Let me share a little story with you. About a month ago I ordered a K7V mobo with an Athlon 700. The s/n indicated.18 micron as well. I could not load Caldera OpenLinux. I thought that it was the distro, so I tried Window 2000 (I am not really sure why) and it would not get through that install either.
I kept trying until the thing would not even post! I called the store and they gave me an RMA. I am supposed to call them today to see what they found. I will post more details as I get them.
1. vi 2. Gnome 3. GPL 4. C/C++ for everything 5. I prefer BSD over Linux 6. BSD, duh! 7. Big endian 8. Buy and build yourself 9. Boxers unless you do not want to get laid. 10. All. Priority: Redhead, Blond, then Brunette 11. Paper 12. Ginger (see #10) 13. Tastes great 14. The world may never know. 15. Star Trek 16. Stirred 17. Color 18. Frames 19. Neither 20. Walk 21. Dr. Suess 22. Keyboard+Mouse 23. Deathmatch 24. POP3 25. Hex 26. Only with my sushi. 27. Flaimbait
I had Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64/128 and I must admit, that game had an incredible sound score. Especially for it's time. And the way the music changed depending if you are being attacked... What a great game that was...
IANAL, but IIRCC Mitnik is on probation. If that is the case, then he can be restricted. Hell, it beats more incarceration!
Now, if he is just a convicted felon, then that means absolutely nothing! You see, if someone is a convicted felon and they have served the sentence, then they are free citizens...so I think this is a probationary issue..
And I am a hacker. I actually own two cats... One is more of a hacker, the other is a cracker. One spends the entire day building cool stuff with boxes, the other is trying to exploit the security on the cupboard that contains the catnip! I guess I should rename the cracker cat to 5cr1p7 k177y or something... I like it...
My Dad used to carry a rifle to school every day (in the 40's) to go hunting after school. He never shot, or killed anyone. His parents, at home, taught him better.
This is the point that I have been trying to make! Look at our ancestry, we are hunters. Throughout history, our fathers have gone out and blown the brains out of cattle, deer, sheep, and almost anything else that moves. Our ancestors cut the heads off of chickens, rabbits, and small game. My question is if this behavior did not lead to school massacres etc., then how the hell does a stupid video game?!
When kids grew up in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they grew up with hunting rifles in thier hands. The were taught how to hunt from a young age and probably got thier first kills before they were 10! The were exposed to cleaning and skinning the kill as well. Has any of these 'experts' that tell us that video games are to blame actaully stuck their hand into a deer's chest to cut the sternum with thier knife? I bet not.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of guns because they are becoming less and less practicle in today's urban society, but what I am trying to say is that if kids in the past had used these guns for hunting, and killed all kinds of animals yet they were not raving lunatics, then why are the kids today turning into these evil beasts because of video games? The answer is that they are not. Nothing has changed. As long as we are humans with free will, there will always be violence and tragedy. We must accept it and do something about accountability. We must look out for our kids, not by putting metal detectors into their schools, not by subscribing them to WAVE, but by teaching them how to get along with other kids, how to communicate their feelings with others, and that they are not alone in this cold world and that there are people, at home, that love them very much.
Ah, but what do I know. I am just a 22 yr old programmer that has been playing everything from Wolfenstein to Quake III.
My thoughts exactly. I am not sure why so many people had such great expectations anyway! What did everyone expect from the movie? A heroin rush?
I ignored all of the hype, and I simply went to the show (in the second week because I am not a freak) and I saw a very good movie with my girlfriend. Even she enjoyed the movie, and I figured she would be a harsher critic given that she has seen episodes 4-6 about 20x each.
I wish everyone would just grow up and take it for what it is, a movie that you pay $7 for, not something to base your life\wardrobe on!
My telco has the same service, and ever since they introduced it, I get calls (Unknown Caller) yet there is nobody on the other end of the line!
My theory is that the telephone company is sending out these calls to everyone's homes so they will be irritated by it and buy the service to block these types of calls. I noticed that they are almost on a schedule too. How annoying, but what can you do?
how can you take a 'pill' of nanites and, 1st, have them survive the digestive system - it can get really acidic in there, and they'd have to pass thru the stomach or intestinal wall and - geez, I find it a little difficult to beleive that anyhing is able to do both THAT and do anything useful from a micromechanical perspective
Or the nanites 'ride' a particular molecule from the pill that will essentially carry the nanite to the molecule's destination which would in turn be the nanite's destination. Once the molecule is dissolved at it's destination, the nanite is deployed and it is ready to do it's work in that area. IANAMBONE (I Am Not A MicroBiologist Or NanoEngineer) but that is how I picture it working. Essentially how chemicals in drugs get to the specific organs that they have to do work on..
I gave up moderation on this entire news story to post this reply in this thread.
You claim that moderation is not censorship but merely a filter that relevant information must pass through. Frankly, that is bullshit. Many on-topic posts are moderated down simply because they disagree with open source dogma or are critical of Linux and VA. In many cases, if the downward moderated post were to say the exact same thing about another company(Microsoft), they would be moderated up.
Who is a moderator? A moderator is any random/. user. I am just some guy like you that wants to read news about technology. Every two weeks or so, I notice that I am a moderator, and I take advantage of it. It is important to note that I do agree with much of your letter to Cmdr Taco, however on the topic of moderation, I disagree.
Moderation cannot be censorship because it is performed by a cross-section of the registered users on Slashdot. If you are not registered (which is free) then you do not have the rights that you may desire. Take a website that did not have accounts, yet had open posting without moderation; www.segfault.org
This tech-linux-humor site was great until the Natalie Portman epidemic broke out. Sure, the trolls were listened to, but did they stop? No. Segfault is now a humor site that is dying (just about dead). It is dying because it no longer allows posting by the users, and it is lacking the traffic as a result.
How does a site remain free (as in speech) while getting rid of all the trolls? Simply have the users LOG IN! I have my threshold at 1, and it helps out a ton!
Moderation can be abused by the moderators (moderating down anti-linux stuff) but as long as there are registered users reading/., there will be moderators. And if you are a moderator and you do not agree with moderation done, you simply change it accordingly.
Moderation works, my advise to all that are bothered with moderation is to set up an account and log in when you read Slashdot. You will be heard. Furthermore, if you notice that you have moderator access, USE IT! It is a very important tool to the success/demise of this site. If you want to enjoy what you read, use your moderation rights!
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I hope to migrate to a PC with only Linux on it by mid-summer. The problem is that I am rather new to Linux, so I am trying to get all the kinks out. (Of course having some prior experience with Unix helps!) I also share my PC with my girlfriend, so I am training her all at the same time. Why am I telling all you this? Because I think that Loundry has a point here. We cannot make change unless we are desperate for change. I think that every one of us needs to use some discipline and deal with the shortcomings of Linux. This way we will be more aware of the shortcomings, and we can eliminate the shortcomings and push Linux to be the OS that my grandma can use!
Perhaps that backdoor in Red Hat was this one? Oops, did I just link to it? Was that link a /. story? /., could you please link to it, because I am not aware of it... dork.
Ohhh, I see you must have missed that one.
Why be such a flamebater? If there was a different Red Hat backdoor that was not on
You could buy my old #9 Revolution IV card...
In fact, I bet you will find a bunch of them for quite some time...(Like the Revolution IV)
I wouldn't worry unless you plan on buying an SGI flat panel more than 2 years from now...
First off, I agree with you in that this does help to some extent, especially from most copycats. .DO* or .XL*? How about renaming an executable? Or a macro in an .xls file that renames/decompresses another file that is mailed with it? This is just giving the average user a false sense of security!
I disagree with you in that this does not help the virus vulnerability issue with Outlook. Do you know how easy it is to write a macro virus in a
I cannot endorse this issue until M$ locks down the default settings. If the user wishes to be vulnerable, then let them change the settings as they wish. Perhaps a notification when they try to execute malicious code??? I know that every time I open a spreadsheet in Excel, it warns me that there could be macro-viruses in the document. Maybe they can add that simple teeny warning into Outlook?!
Yet another reason Open Source rules. I could just add that warning 'feature' myself in less than 10 lines of code.
I just hope AMD does not rename the Duron the 'Pinto'.
I am looking for the AMD Expedition though, or the Taurus..
(And you think I'm kidding...)
No, but pictures would surely be nice! 8P
You will note that I clearly stated that "Intel is planning on just replacing the standard memory with Rambus memory, but will replace the entire board at the user's request"
They covered thier arses, but you are on the right track. I bet this is to spur sales into Rambus, and to fatten thier bottom line. Besides, now when IT staff upgrade in the future, they will have to buy Rambus!
How did they do that? I am thinking that Napster re-created the query that NetPD did and performed a mass-boot that way. Or NetPD was nice enough to give them a text file version parsed by commas or something. Or they hired some of Bill Gates' infinate fleet of monkeys typing on infinate typewriters.
Now where the heck did that Jolt go...
When watching any sporting event this rings true. I love hearing an ex-sports player turned commentator talk about how "3 out of the last 4 times these teams have met on a full moon during the month of July...."
Statistics are the tool of the devil.
Your boss reads Slashdot?! Lucky bastard.
Following other standard protocols seems to be how Microsoft manages to be so damned great.
No, I think it is more like following, embracing, changing, taking over, and buying/licensing other standard protocols seems to be how Microsoft manages to be so damned great.
Or perhaps that is just how I perceive it.
Very interesting indeed! Let me share a little story with you. About a month ago I ordered a K7V mobo with an Athlon 700. The s/n indicated .18 micron as well. I could not load Caldera OpenLinux. I thought that it was the distro, so I tried Window 2000 (I am not really sure why) and it would not get through that install either.
I kept trying until the thing would not even post! I called the store and they gave me an RMA. I am supposed to call them today to see what they found. I will post more details as I get them.
Answer List:
1. vi
2. Gnome
3. GPL
4. C/C++ for everything
5. I prefer BSD over Linux
6. BSD, duh!
7. Big endian
8. Buy and build yourself
9. Boxers unless you do not want to get laid.
10. All. Priority: Redhead, Blond, then Brunette
11. Paper
12. Ginger (see #10)
13. Tastes great
14. The world may never know.
15. Star Trek
16. Stirred
17. Color
18. Frames
19. Neither
20. Walk
21. Dr. Suess
22. Keyboard+Mouse
23. Deathmatch
24. POP3
25. Hex
26. Only with my sushi.
27. Flaimbait
And the flamewar winner is...
I think it was Ultima 4 for the Commodore 64/128 that had a sah-weet music score. It was so darn good, it is playing in my head right now!
I had Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64/128 and I must admit, that game had an incredible sound score. Especially for it's time. And the way the music changed depending if you are being attacked... What a great game that was...
IANAL, but IIRCC Mitnik is on probation. If that is the case, then he can be restricted. Hell, it beats more incarceration!
Now, if he is just a convicted felon, then that means absolutely nothing! You see, if someone is a convicted felon and they have served the sentence, then they are free citizens...so I think this is a probationary issue..
Hell, if you figure that car audio buffs shell out $300 for an amp, $300 for a nice deck, $200 for a good CD changer, and $500 for speakers...
/.'d.
I would like to see the specs but the page is
A contractor geek, but still a geek.
And soon to be a very rich geek...
And I am a hacker. I actually own two cats... One is more of a hacker, the other is a cracker. One spends the entire day building cool stuff with boxes, the other is trying to exploit the security on the cupboard that contains the catnip! I guess I should rename the cracker cat to 5cr1p7 k177y or something... I like it...
My Dad used to carry a rifle to school every day (in the 40's) to go hunting after school. He never shot, or killed anyone. His parents, at home, taught him better.
This is the point that I have been trying to make! Look at our ancestry, we are hunters. Throughout history, our fathers have gone out and blown the brains out of cattle, deer, sheep, and almost anything else that moves. Our ancestors cut the heads off of chickens, rabbits, and small game. My question is if this behavior did not lead to school massacres etc., then how the hell does a stupid video game?!
When kids grew up in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they grew up with hunting rifles in thier hands. The were taught how to hunt from a young age and probably got thier first kills before they were 10! The were exposed to cleaning and skinning the kill as well. Has any of these 'experts' that tell us that video games are to blame actaully stuck their hand into a deer's chest to cut the sternum with thier knife? I bet not.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of guns because they are becoming less and less practicle in today's urban society, but what I am trying to say is that if kids in the past had used these guns for hunting, and killed all kinds of animals yet they were not raving lunatics, then why are the kids today turning into these evil beasts because of video games? The answer is that they are not. Nothing has changed. As long as we are humans with free will, there will always be violence and tragedy. We must accept it and do something about accountability. We must look out for our kids, not by putting metal detectors into their schools, not by subscribing them to WAVE, but by teaching them how to get along with other kids, how to communicate their feelings with others, and that they are not alone in this cold world and that there are people, at home, that love them very much.
Ah, but what do I know. I am just a 22 yr old programmer that has been playing everything from Wolfenstein to Quake III.
My thoughts exactly. I am not sure why so many people had such great expectations anyway! What did everyone expect from the movie? A heroin rush?
I ignored all of the hype, and I simply went to the show (in the second week because I am not a freak) and I saw a very good movie with my girlfriend. Even she enjoyed the movie, and I figured she would be a harsher critic given that she has seen episodes 4-6 about 20x each.
I wish everyone would just grow up and take it for what it is, a movie that you pay $7 for, not something to base your life\wardrobe on!
My telco has the same service, and ever since they introduced it, I get calls (Unknown Caller) yet there is nobody on the other end of the line!
My theory is that the telephone company is sending out these calls to everyone's homes so they will be irritated by it and buy the service to block these types of calls. I noticed that they are almost on a schedule too. How annoying, but what can you do?
how can you take a 'pill' of nanites and, 1st, have them survive the digestive system - it can get really acidic in there, and they'd have to pass thru the stomach or intestinal wall and - geez, I find it a little difficult to beleive that anyhing is able to do both THAT and do anything useful from a micromechanical perspective
Or the nanites 'ride' a particular molecule from the pill that will essentially carry the nanite to the molecule's destination which would in turn be the nanite's destination. Once the molecule is dissolved at it's destination, the nanite is deployed and it is ready to do it's work in that area. IANAMBONE (I Am Not A MicroBiologist Or NanoEngineer) but that is how I picture it working. Essentially how chemicals in drugs get to the specific organs that they have to do work on..
I could swear that you were going to hit on the beowolf clustering of these nanites...
I gave up moderation on this entire news story to post this reply in this thread.
/. user. I am just some guy like you that wants to read news about technology. Every two weeks or so, I notice that I am a moderator, and I take advantage of it. It is important to note that I do agree with much of your letter to Cmdr Taco, however on the topic of moderation, I disagree.
/., there will be moderators. And if you are a moderator and you do not agree with moderation done, you simply change it accordingly.
You claim that moderation is not censorship but merely a filter that relevant information must pass through. Frankly, that is bullshit. Many on-topic posts are moderated down simply because they disagree with open source dogma or are critical of Linux and VA. In many cases, if the downward moderated post were to say the exact same thing about another company(Microsoft), they would be moderated up.
Who is a moderator? A moderator is any random
Moderation cannot be censorship because it is performed by a cross-section of the registered users on Slashdot. If you are not registered (which is free) then you do not have the rights that you may desire. Take a website that did not have accounts, yet had open posting without moderation; www.segfault.org
This tech-linux-humor site was great until the Natalie Portman epidemic broke out. Sure, the trolls were listened to, but did they stop? No.
Segfault is now a humor site that is dying (just about dead). It is dying because it no longer allows posting by the users, and it is lacking the traffic as a result.
How does a site remain free (as in speech) while getting rid of all the trolls? Simply have the users LOG IN! I have my threshold at 1, and it helps out a ton!
Moderation can be abused by the moderators (moderating down anti-linux stuff) but as long as there are registered users reading
Moderation works, my advise to all that are bothered with moderation is to set up an account and log in when you read Slashdot. You will be heard. Furthermore, if you notice that you have moderator access, USE IT!
It is a very important tool to the success/demise of this site. If you want to enjoy what you read, use your moderation rights!