How comfortable are the FSF with the fact that their free software is being executed on a piece of hard/firmware whose design is entirely proprietary and unable to be changed ? If they just shrug their shoulders and say "We have to trust the manufacturers to get it right otherwise there'd be no GNU", I don't see it as all that far away from trusting binary blobs. After all, it's not like processors are guaranteed to be bug-free...
This is not a troll but how can you get excited by a file system, FFS ?
Can you create directories ? - Check !
Can you write files to it ? - Check !
Can you read files back from it ? - Check !
Can you delete files ? - Check !
And in addition to that, what becomes of live music? If demand changes from albums to single tracks, how does a band get together enough material to not only justify playing live in the first place but also to keep having enough new material later on so that fans keep coming to live concerts over and over again? If bands don't tour, they don't make the majority of the money they do currently so why stay in the music business?
And how do you perform the intro to Pink Floyd's 'Time' live ? Go on stage with 50 clocks all wound up and ready to chime on cue ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyL2vAUVOM0
Can you prove it? Rootkits? Priviledge escallation? Malware != virus != bot... Anyone? Even if it were true, it does not prove your tactic is a good one... you just might have been lucky...
All the time I used to spend running AVG free, AdAware, Spybot S&D, I would scan regularly and come up with nothing. Month after month. I still occasionally scan the entire drive but it still comes up blank.
Running as a Limited User is pretty good protection against all sorts of malware.
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspxRead Aaron Margosis's weblog.
Ditching firewall(neither for private nor public IP) is not a good idea. First, there are many programs that open ports. And second, there isn't a day that my outer perimeter isn't under constant attacks.
I agree. That's why I run with the XP SP2 Firewall (waaaaaaaay better than the original XP ICF) straight out of the box. I don't use any third-party firewalls like Zone Alarm any more.
This nonsense if you are using Windows. Several years ago, when I was still using Windows, I received an executable file, developed by a friend for a computer science course. My anti-virus alerted me that the file had been infected. My friend was not even aware of this infection on his system, and I surely would be infected too if I did not have an anti-virus program. The file was coming from a friend who's an advanced computer user. The file was a self-written program, and I was really expecting this file. Even if I am an advanced computer user, there was not reasonable way to expect this file to be a virus.
And that's why you should only run as admin when you need to do admin stuff. Do all your day-to-day work as a Limited User.
Run Linux, then you can tell all those virus-writing-wankstains to go suck a fat cuze.
Or, if you must run Windows, ditch ALL your anti-virus/anti-spyware/third party firewalls and set all your everyday users as Limited Accounts.
I've been running like this for over 18 months and I'm completely malware-free.
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Try "The Belief Engine": http://www.csicop.org/si/9505/belief.html
Superstition: I did X and Y happens. Therefore X causes Y. If Y is bad, I should avoid X. If Y is good try X every time.
Science: I did X and Y happens. Let's try X as many times as possible. Let's try not doing X as many times as possible. See how many times Y happens.
Excellently put.
Newscientist really is a pile of pants these days. It gets more and more sensationalist and unscientific with each passing year.
Not sure what a Hangaroo is. Then again, not sure I would want to meet either of them!
It's the 'Dangerous' that you need to look out for.
Actually, yes. The length in digits is entirely dependent on the number system used. Hand in your geek card on the way out.
This is a very interesting point.
How comfortable are the FSF with the fact that their free software is being executed on a piece of hard/firmware whose design is entirely proprietary and unable to be changed ? If they just shrug their shoulders and say "We have to trust the manufacturers to get it right otherwise there'd be no GNU", I don't see it as all that far away from trusting binary blobs. After all, it's not like processors are guaranteed to be bug-free...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
I am with Linus on this one. Our community should shun Solaris
Shun the non-believer !!! Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnn !!!
ZFS kicks ass.
This is not a troll but how can you get excited by a file system, FFS ?
Can you create directories ? - Check !
Can you write files to it ? - Check !
Can you read files back from it ? - Check !
Can you delete files ? - Check !
Job done !
A "pre"-heated oven would be room temperature.
It would be at cooking temperature, surely ?
None of this is registering on my SONAR.
IPv6 is equivalent to 128 Routermast London Buses.
Already answered:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=648951&cid=24643811
I've had this idea for two years and never acted upon it.
1. Have great idea.
2. ????
3. Profit !
Where step 2 == "Implement the bloody idea in the real-world".
And in addition to that, what becomes of live music? If demand changes from albums to single tracks, how does a band get together enough material to not only justify playing live in the first place but also to keep having enough new material later on so that fans keep coming to live concerts over and over again? If bands don't tour, they don't make the majority of the money they do currently so why stay in the music business?
And how do you perform the intro to Pink Floyd's 'Time' live ? Go on stage with 50 clocks all wound up and ready to chime on cue ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyL2vAUVOM0
wear a goatee
You know you've been reading too many of the wrong forums when you read that as 'goatse'.
Rule 34 - If the backup exists, there will be pr0n of it.
Linux is the OS that propeller heads use.
Reason 4 is only available for OS X and Windows. http://www.propellerheads.se/
Hardware keyloggers are expensive/hard to get.
O RLY ? http://www.blueunplugged.com/p.aspx?p=121554
TAANSTAFL GIGO Acronyms to live by!
If I'm going to live by the acronym TAANSTAFL, it'd be nice to know what it meant in the first place.
The Elonex Onet is a rebadged 3K Razorbook 400 (currently priced at US$299).
Can you prove it? Rootkits? Priviledge escallation? Malware != virus != bot ... Anyone? Even if it were true, it does not prove your tactic is a good one... you just might have been lucky...
All the time I used to spend running AVG free, AdAware, Spybot S&D, I would scan regularly and come up with nothing. Month after month. I still occasionally scan the entire drive but it still comes up blank. Running as a Limited User is pretty good protection against all sorts of malware. http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspxRead Aaron Margosis's weblog.
Ditching firewall(neither for private nor public IP) is not a good idea. First, there are many programs that open ports. And second, there isn't a day that my outer perimeter isn't under constant attacks.
I agree. That's why I run with the XP SP2 Firewall (waaaaaaaay better than the original XP ICF) straight out of the box. I don't use any third-party firewalls like Zone Alarm any more.
This nonsense if you are using Windows. Several years ago, when I was still using Windows, I received an executable file, developed by a friend for a computer science course. My anti-virus alerted me that the file had been infected. My friend was not even aware of this infection on his system, and I surely would be infected too if I did not have an anti-virus program. The file was coming from a friend who's an advanced computer user. The file was a self-written program, and I was really expecting this file. Even if I am an advanced computer user, there was not reasonable way to expect this file to be a virus.
And that's why you should only run as admin when you need to do admin stuff. Do all your day-to-day work as a Limited User.
Run Linux, then you can tell all those virus-writing-wankstains to go suck a fat cuze.
Or, if you must run Windows, ditch ALL your anti-virus/anti-spyware/third party firewalls and set all your everyday users as Limited Accounts. I've been running like this for over 18 months and I'm completely malware-free.