Yeah, I agree with this. General Motors wouldn't necessarily had an extra sale from the cars that I steal, since I can't afford one. In fact, if I didn't steal the car they would lose a sale, since the insurance company is going to buy the person I stole it from another car anyways. GM should be thanking me!
When you take/use something you are not authorized to, it is wrong. You seem to understand this. Would you sneak into a hotel and sleep in a bed, just because the hotel did not rent the room that night? Or how about break into a house while someone is one vacation and sleep in their house? Sure, they vacationers are not using it, but it is still wrong.
You mean that you are using IE instead of Mozilla to view slashdot? I'd say its not that ironic.:-P Pretty common around here.
Why do people think they need to be modded up just for getting a VS.Net ad on their slashdot pages and announcing it? People have been mentioning the VS.Net ads for weeks, if not months.
I've read a lot of stuff about people thinking that using HTTP_REFER is a good idea to lock people out of deep links. HTTP_REFER is NOT required. It is simpley a nice idea provided by the browser. A better solution is this: Only allow setting of a session variable (on the server) at the main page of the site. Then, require that the session variable be set at the pages that require access. This can be done transparently on the server. It also prevents the "I'm a cool hacker, I can fool you into thinking I am from your site." It can all be handled server side, which is good since if you are hosting news on the web, you are most likely running a server! This is purely a technical solution.
Not, why the hell you want people sludging around your site looking for an interesting article and why you think this improves your site, that is a mental problem for the site. If I cannot link directly into a site to the information I want, I don't go to the site.
Alias: Weeds, manure, inedible parts of animal carcases...
You haven't eaten authentic chinese food eh? I'm pretty sure they'd make indians, er, native americans or what ever the politically correct is now, look wasteful.
I have some friends from china that had us over for their typical chinese dinner. We are talking parts of animals I'd never heard of, and here they were served up for dinner. Very interesting, but...
Try browsing at 2. It will seriously help the signal to noise ratio. Its much cleaner. I didn't see a single comment that you were mentioning. If you mod, go ahead and view at -1. If you are reading, do it at a bit more sane level.
I have been using Sun's JRE without a problem. So, I kinda reccomend it. Basically I can have the same environment in linux and windows with Mozilla with it.
Well, Konqueror already allows for certain sites for cookies. Why not just add the same feature for music? Seems like a really simple fix to me. One of the best things the Konqueror team does is add really cool things to avoid annoying things like this.
Who cares, Linux, Alan,... etc are not going to stop working on the kernel. All the software we use is not going anywhere. Microsoft will continue their normal operation. The world will not end. Who really gives a rip what happens to MS. I don't use Linux because I was waiting for MS to be broken up. I don't use open source software because I was just waiting for until MS comes out with better stuff for me to use. Why doesn't everyone just grow up. Its not an us vs. them. MS is a competitor, but thats great. So is Sun, SGI, and every other software company out there. We deal with it.
Here's a thought, how would MS being borken up help open source?
A root'ed machine should be taken off line. But, vigilantism (sp?) isn't the solution. The real solution is not an after the fact solution.
A lot of people say that security is an on going process. That's half right, it is also an initiating process. Before a machine is ever brought on line it should be secured. After that it should be constantly monitored for security and updated.
The idea that this will be of any help, even amusingly is ridiculous. For the initiates (newbies) this will give them a false sense of security that someone has broken into their machine and then some other person has also broken into their machine to fix it.
For some one who is interested in security (perhaps because of being broken into) something like this removes the ability to diagnose and examine the effects on the machine. You don't visit crime scenes for this exact reason.
The public works department planned to call IBM Thursday and tell them to scrub the signs off, Mamak said. The infraction is punishable by a fine of up to US$500 or by community service.
I wonder if they could get "time served" because they are helping out the community by doing public service announcements for better computing.
Okey, so they really want to declare war over people writing linux drivers, huh? Well, this is going to be a reasonabley
small number anyways, so their market research isn't going to be lost from us Linux users. It the M$ users that, is where
they are going to get the majority of their information from for market research. Lets write some M$ drivers and
distribute these on the net. Like at shareware.com, or where ever windows users get their software from.
Also, another fun little thing to do is set up something to repeatedly scan garbage items, such as, say M$ software
boxes. And just have it scan them for hours on end, screw with their data. Or scan silly things.
Okey, so they really want to declare war over people writing linux drivers, huh? Well, this is going to be a reasonabley small number anyways, so their market research isn't going to be lost from us Linux users. It the M$ users that, is where they are going to get the majority of their information from for market research. Lets write some M$ drivers and distribute these on the net. Like at shareware.com, or where ever windows users get their software from.
Also, another fun little thing to do is set up something to repeatedly scan garbage items, such as, say M$ software boxes. And just have it scan them for hours on end, screw with their data. Or scan silly things.
Immediately it may produce a lower quality product. No one would argue with that. But in the long run it will hurt Intel for releasing an inferior chip.
Right now this only shows how running scared Intel is. Normally Intel would release a higher quality product, but because they want to win the clock-race here they will release inferior products. They will play for it in the long run.
The consumer will decide which companies a live and which companies die. Even in this instance. Just as Linux gains ground in the market because it releases quality product. We may not take over the world over night, but by holding to our moral obligation of releasing high quality product we will win.
I guess I would have prefered some details here. How are they going to port windows stuff to linux? Are they writing libraries for the Win32 API, so basically they could stay relatively native like? Or are they just writing wrapper functions to Xlib? How are they trying to do this?
Gotta take a crack at M$ just for moral reasons.
So in this project, are they shooting for the standard Micro$oft stability, or were they planning on their stuff working in Linux?
I mean really, it doesn't even have the essentials... Where are the holsters for your palm pilot? I mean if it doesn't have a PDA what good is it?
Just me, but it seems like a really silly idea to have this all integrated into clothing. What about other things like upgrading your current clothing? I'd like an extra few meg to hold more MP3's. Or I think I'd like a VR implant so I can play Quake III.
Nah, its just going to take 20 years until there is a pile of them large enough to see. Even if they were spitting out thousands of these little buggers a day it will take time to see the actual computers...
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Yeah, I agree with this. General Motors wouldn't necessarily had an extra sale from the cars that I steal, since I can't afford one. In fact, if I didn't steal the car they would lose a sale, since the insurance company is going to buy the person I stole it from another car anyways. GM should be thanking me!
When you take/use something you are not authorized to, it is wrong. You seem to understand this. Would you sneak into a hotel and sleep in a bed, just because the hotel did not rent the room that night? Or how about break into a house while someone is one vacation and sleep in their house? Sure, they vacationers are not using it, but it is still wrong.
You mean that you are using IE instead of Mozilla to view slashdot? I'd say its not that ironic. :-P Pretty common around here.
Why do people think they need to be modded up just for getting a VS.Net ad on their slashdot pages and announcing it? People have been mentioning the VS.Net ads for weeks, if not months.
I've read a lot of stuff about people thinking that using HTTP_REFER is a good idea to lock people out of deep links. HTTP_REFER is NOT required. It is simpley a nice idea provided by the browser. A better solution is this: Only allow setting of a session variable (on the server) at the main page of the site. Then, require that the session variable be set at the pages that require access. This can be done transparently on the server. It also prevents the "I'm a cool hacker, I can fool you into thinking I am from your site." It can all be handled server side, which is good since if you are hosting news on the web, you are most likely running a server! This is purely a technical solution.
Not, why the hell you want people sludging around your site looking for an interesting article and why you think this improves your site, that is a mental problem for the site. If I cannot link directly into a site to the information I want, I don't go to the site.
<rant>Who the stuff modded this as redundant! I was the first one to make the scotsman comment of any style. You crack puppy.</rant>
How does that kilt joke go?
Alias: Weeds, manure, inedible parts of animal carcases...
You haven't eaten authentic chinese food eh? I'm pretty sure they'd make indians, er, native americans or what ever the politically correct is now, look wasteful.
I have some friends from china that had us over for their typical chinese dinner. We are talking parts of animals I'd never heard of, and here they were served up for dinner. Very interesting, but...
Try browsing at 2. It will seriously help the signal to noise ratio. Its much cleaner. I didn't see a single comment that you were mentioning. If you mod, go ahead and view at -1. If you are reading, do it at a bit more sane level.
Man, you'd be the first person I'd mod if I could have.
I have been using Sun's JRE without a problem. So, I kinda reccomend it. Basically I can have the same environment in linux and windows with Mozilla with it.
http://java.sun.com
"trolls" = reverse ("sllort")
Congrats people... You've been trolled.
Well, Konqueror already allows for certain sites for cookies. Why not just add the same feature for music? Seems like a really simple fix to me. One of the best things the Konqueror team does is add really cool things to avoid annoying things like this.
Who cares, Linux, Alan, ... etc are not going to stop working on the kernel. All the software we use is not going anywhere. Microsoft will continue their normal operation. The world will not end. Who really gives a rip what happens to MS. I don't use Linux because I was waiting for MS to be broken up. I don't use open source software because I was just waiting for until MS comes out with better stuff for me to use. Why doesn't everyone just grow up. Its not an us vs. them. MS is a competitor, but thats great. So is Sun, SGI, and every other software company out there. We deal with it.
Here's a thought, how would MS being borken up help open source?
Nothing to see here, go on your merry way...
Because IBM is helping the world, getting linux knowledge out, do they consider that public service?
A root'ed machine should be taken off line. But, vigilantism (sp?) isn't the solution. The real solution is not an after the fact solution.
A lot of people say that security is an on going process. That's half right, it is also an initiating process. Before a machine is ever brought on line it should be secured. After that it should be constantly monitored for security and updated.
The idea that this will be of any help, even amusingly is ridiculous. For the initiates (newbies) this will give them a false sense of security that someone has broken into their machine and then some other person has also broken into their machine to fix it.
For some one who is interested in security (perhaps because of being broken into) something like this removes the ability to diagnose and examine the effects on the machine. You don't visit crime scenes for this exact reason.
Whether this is just being funny or what, it is just plain irresponsible.
The public works department planned to call IBM Thursday and tell them to scrub the signs off, Mamak said. The infraction is punishable by a fine of up to US$500 or by community service.
I wonder if they could get "time served" because they are helping out the community by doing public service announcements for better computing.
Just shy of 20Mb (bz2) and 24Mb+ (gz)! Yeeppers!
Okey, so they really want to declare war over people writing linux drivers, huh? Well, this is going to be a reasonabley small number anyways, so their market research isn't going to be lost from us Linux users. It the M$ users that, is where they are going to get the majority of their information from for market research. Lets write some M$ drivers and distribute these on the net. Like at shareware.com, or where ever windows users get their software from.
Also, another fun little thing to do is set up something to repeatedly scan garbage items, such as, say M$ software boxes. And just have it scan them for hours on end, screw with their data. Or scan silly things.
Okey, so they really want to declare war over people writing linux drivers, huh? Well, this is going to be a reasonabley small number anyways, so their market research isn't going to be lost from us Linux users. It the M$ users that, is where they are going to get the majority of their information from for market research. Lets write some M$ drivers and distribute these on the net. Like at shareware.com, or where ever windows users get their software from.
Also, another fun little thing to do is set up something to repeatedly scan garbage items, such as, say M$ software boxes. And just have it scan them for hours on end, screw with their data. Or scan silly things.
Immediately it may produce a lower quality product. No one would argue with that. But in the long run it will hurt Intel for releasing an inferior chip.
Right now this only shows how running scared Intel is. Normally Intel would release a higher quality product, but because they want to win the clock-race here they will release inferior products. They will play for it in the long run.
The consumer will decide which companies a live and which companies die. Even in this instance. Just as Linux gains ground in the market because it releases quality product. We may not take over the world over night, but by holding to our moral obligation of releasing high quality product we will win.
I don't see how this is going to be all that great. I mean, its big Oh of n cubed. I mean there isn't much worse other than big Oh of n factorial.
User Friendly? It look just like it.
I guess I would have prefered some details here. How are they going to port windows stuff to linux? Are they writing libraries for the Win32 API, so basically they could stay relatively native like? Or are they just writing wrapper functions to Xlib? How are they trying to do this?
Gotta take a crack at M$ just for moral reasons.
So in this project, are they shooting for the standard Micro$oft stability, or were they planning on their stuff working in Linux?
I mean really, it doesn't even have the essentials... Where are the holsters for your palm pilot? I mean if it doesn't have a PDA what good is it?
Just me, but it seems like a really silly idea to have this all integrated into clothing. What about other things like upgrading your current clothing? I'd like an extra few meg to hold more MP3's. Or I think I'd like a VR implant so I can play Quake III.
Nah, its just going to take 20 years until there is a pile of them large enough to see. Even if they were spitting out thousands of these little buggers a day it will take time to see the actual computers...