taking up arms against P2P networks with a bizarre new bill that would require companies that create certain types of software such as web browsers, instant messaging clients and e-mail utilities to add a warning that it 'could create a security and privacy risk.'
*snip*
A network application can create a security risk? Best firewall off every port!
Agreed, firewall off every port. I'm sick of all the worms that crawl through irresponsibly managed computers. Apps with security holes are setting up PCs on broadband as spam relays, DoS drones, and other blended threat tools.
Many current P2P, email, and instant messaging apps are security risks, and cause problems for naive Internet users (i.e., the vaste majority). Those insecure apps, quite simply, pose a risk to network security, privacy of the end-user, etc. They should be behind firewalls. I find no rational reason to disagree with those stated intentions for the bill, aside from FUD relating to the RIAA's intentions and long-term goals for their puppets.
I thought option 2 would be to sacrifice a junior Linux admin by sending them on a suicide mission to blow up the author...
... sorry, I'm just catching on to this "terrorist" thing, I always thought I liked Linux because it gave me freedom of choice, a challenge, and was free and open. I didn't know it was a conviction I should be willing to kill for. Any chance we can turn the RHCE training camp into a terrorist training camp so people like me can get up to speed?
er... right, my bad. I shouldn't have stuck that one in there, the Germans did that in the 1800s, and the French developed the first interal combustion engine, with Ford mass producing the things about 20 years later.
Of course they don't, they didn't read the GPL. They thought "free software" meant that they didn't have to pay someone to write the code and could just use it. People who don't understand Open Source tend to think in terms of freeware, shareware, etc. They think "free software" is freeware.
The Forbes article is myoptic at best. A logically consistent situation to the acts they defend would be installing a burned copy of Windows XP on an workstation, not reading the EULA, and then getting pissed at Microsoft when they go after you following an audit of licenses for your office.
There is nothing wrong with capitalism, but logical inconsistency is to be dispised. Hopefully some of the professionals who read Forbes will see the article for what it is.
Hardly any land that has changed "hands" has been payed for... land acquisition among all species happens predominantly by application of force, humans are no exception. It is only recently that the concept of legal title to land has replaced conquest as the foremost means of acquiring land. Americans have a day to celebrate the old way, its called Columbus Day. Good ol' conquest.
There are still plenty of places without DMCA laws and the ability to buy American products.
Such as Canada, the new Land of the Free... at least as long as our benevolent dictators don't bow to pressure and adopt laws similar to the DMCA.
Besides, its not about American products, its about ideas. The US comes up with great ideas, like cars, Internet and so on that get implemtented better elsewhere. The freedom present in the US (should that be past tense?) creates an environment great for ideas (notice how intellectual property law in the US aggressively protects ideas)... but the Germans and Japanese sure do make better cars;)
Except Sun, particularly their CEO, is too dumb to realize that. Sun spends a hell of a lot of time downplaying Linux. Expect Mad Hatter to fizzle out and get dropped.
If if this doesn't happen, Sun offers little that isn't already available. They are just rebranding existing Linux solutions. Linux is already very viable on the desktop with OpenOffice, other office suites, Evolution, and so forth. Thats about as inovative as the early days of Mandrake and SuSE... i.e., the s/Red Hat/Mandrake/ distribution releases before any significant differentiation happened in their products from the Red Hat origins.
Except that the ship rats do so out of survial, and these SCO rats do so to "earn" profit.
This story gives me the visual of SGI setting IBM up to spike the ball through SCO's face, or better yet, a pass and one-timer through SCO's five hole.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to print another Calvin Pissing on SCO to cover up the Sun logo on my second monitor.
... and it is pretty similar in theme, but much less polite. I don't believe I went as far as to refer to McNealy as an assclown, but I wanted to;)
Here is the email I sent to Sun (Wednesday, October 01 2003) about this after getting one of their seminar spams:
Hello
Firstly, I'm not going to bother to spellcheck this before I hit send, so please forgive any spelling errors.
Before I sign off of this list, I thought I would register my frustration at something a significant representative of Sun Microsystems has done.
I'd rather not receive your emails given the patently stupid things Scott McNealy said in his SunNetwork keynote in San Francisco. It is painfully obvious now that Sun, along with Microsoft, is one of the puppetmasters behind the rediculousness coming out of the SCO Group lately. The claim that Solaris x86 is good for ANYTHING other than a learning tool for Solaris on sparc hardware is the stupidest thing I've heard since the last public statement from the desk of Darl McBride. If McNealy seriously thinks that Solaris x86 has a future as an operating environment of choice on x86 hardware, then he needs to be removed by the Sun Microsystems board ASAP. Otherwise, he will destroy your company.
I consider Solaris to be a superior UNIX variant to HP-UX and AIX, and it will be sad to watch it go down if McNealy continues to steer the company along its present course. However, I consider Solaris to be a vastly inferior UNIX-like operating system for cheap commodity hardware in the x86 and ia64 families. Linux, quite simply, offers much more than Solaris does, and Sun turning away from its committment to supporting Linux on x86 is nothing more than a poorly disguised strategy to damage Linux. If Linux is now seen as a competitor and if Sun, unlike IBM, refuses to leverage its value, then Sun will eventually wither away.
The kernel that Linux made will become the enterprise solution, and Sun will be a footnote.
As you can tell, I've been quite inspired by McNealy's keynote. Best of luck to the rest of you in his organization, you will need it.
I feel so privileged to have witnessed the coining of the term "Karma Slut". I'll be telling my Grandchildren about this day...
"Grandpa, where were you when Pres. Orthogonal first created 'Karma Slut'?"
"Well Phyber, that was the start of the great revolution, I remember it well... the date was 07:58 PM GMT October 2nd, 2003, and I knew I was witnessing greatness..."
*sniff* I'm getting verklempt, post amongst yourselves...
No, his point is that they are two barely-actors, Chuck being long past his prime and reduced to crappy TV shows, and Lamas being a B-movie flunky at best.
I've been responsible for a hell of a lot more than 1 spammer losing their Internet connections, it never occured to me to put out a press release. This is none news... I give it a 1 out of 5. Now had it involved SCO, I would have gone with 3 out of 5, because I just love reading about SCO and their wacky antics... now thats a good topic for a movie, maybe we can get Governor Schwarzenegger as Linus Torvalds and Gary Shandling as Darrrrrrllll Mc Bride.
If you ask a Jungian psychologist, they might say that Tolkien discovered the Lord of the Rings. Those crazy bastards like to strip individuals of their creativity and write it off to some mere expression of an archetype;)
When I see M$ it reminds me that Gates is the posterdork of the American Dream (tm), and knows how to run a business successfully... without annoying trappings of "ethics" and "legality". Good for him! He's made computers accessible to every random idiot capable of operating a toaster. The good news is that MS lead to the commoditization of the cheap Intel/clone hardware, upon which Linux depends.
Without M$, perhaps we wouldn't have Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other free software. Of course, without Gates, maybe we'd all have boxes with Motorola PowerPC chips;)
OMFG you earn so much respect for putting The Boondock Saints and Office space in your "damned good film" list.
Anyways, back on topic... I very rarely buy a CD without hearing it first, and being pretty damn sure that there are more than 2 good songs. Of course, this means I don't buy top 40 pop garbage. Every once and awhile I gamble on an artist... like when I grabbed Peach's cd Giving Birth to a Stone because it featured Tool's bassist Justin Chancellor, and kinda liked Tool's covers of a couple of their songs. Unfortunately, I don't really care for the disk. Oh well...
I'm not buying many cds at all anymore because of the RIAA's rediculous antics. Hopefully the artists who are in positions of power will help reverse the tide.
Hrmm... maybe Microsoft is using (read: bankrolling) the fiaSCO gambit to buy themselves time to finally get Longhorn out.
However, this gives the rest of the world more time to improve their competing products, which may end up not being in Microsoft's favor given the rapid pace of development outside of Redmond's closed walls.
Does this mean that Open Source projects could eventually have to send a thank you card to Microsoft?
It'll be never time to "jump ship". It is always time to reevaluate your business needs and the solutions chosen for them.
What this likely says is that "of all the broadband users who run servers on their cable modems, 5% of those running Linux have formatted and installed a warez copy of Windows 2003 because they couldn't figure out how to secure their FTP services)".
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I can't get Gator spyware for my Linux desktop, you insensitive clod.
Agreed, firewall off every port. I'm sick of all the worms that crawl through irresponsibly managed computers. Apps with security holes are setting up PCs on broadband as spam relays, DoS drones, and other blended threat tools.
Many current P2P, email, and instant messaging apps are security risks, and cause problems for naive Internet users (i.e., the vaste majority). Those insecure apps, quite simply, pose a risk to network security, privacy of the end-user, etc. They should be behind firewalls. I find no rational reason to disagree with those stated intentions for the bill, aside from FUD relating to the RIAA's intentions and long-term goals for their puppets.
The image of Lars "Has-been" Ulrich springs to mind... he's like a tick on the RIAA.
er... right, my bad. I shouldn't have stuck that one in there, the Germans did that in the 1800s, and the French developed the first interal combustion engine, with Ford mass producing the things about 20 years later.
sephiroth portage # export USE="gtk2" ;emerge mozilla -p
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3
Thats was just now... 1.5 isn't in my portage tree after an emerge sync. If Gentoo can't keep up with these releases, what hope is there?!?!?!!?!
The Forbes article is myoptic at best. A logically consistent situation to the acts they defend would be installing a burned copy of Windows XP on an workstation, not reading the EULA, and then getting pissed at Microsoft when they go after you following an audit of licenses for your office.
There is nothing wrong with capitalism, but logical inconsistency is to be dispised. Hopefully some of the professionals who read Forbes will see the article for what it is.
Hardly any land that has changed "hands" has been payed for... land acquisition among all species happens predominantly by application of force, humans are no exception. It is only recently that the concept of legal title to land has replaced conquest as the foremost means of acquiring land. Americans have a day to celebrate the old way, its called Columbus Day. Good ol' conquest.
Besides, its not about American products, its about ideas. The US comes up with great ideas, like cars, Internet and so on that get implemtented better elsewhere. The freedom present in the US (should that be past tense?) creates an environment great for ideas (notice how intellectual property law in the US aggressively protects ideas)... but the Germans and Japanese sure do make better cars ;)
If if this doesn't happen, Sun offers little that isn't already available. They are just rebranding existing Linux solutions. Linux is already very viable on the desktop with OpenOffice, other office suites, Evolution, and so forth. Thats about as inovative as the early days of Mandrake and SuSE... i.e., the s/Red Hat/Mandrake/ distribution releases before any significant differentiation happened in their products from the Red Hat origins.
Feardotcrap made me want to kill someone, does that count?
Try "perse", its Latin and means what you were trying to say, versus pur-sang which is French for thoroughbred or pure-bred.
Well, most people have them, but I doubt they get a lot of use.
This story gives me the visual of SGI setting IBM up to spike the ball through SCO's face, or better yet, a pass and one-timer through SCO's five hole.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to print another Calvin Pissing on SCO to cover up the Sun logo on my second monitor.
Soon to be a major motion picture, staring Leonardo DiCaprio as Icann Vallon and Daniel Day-Lewis as Verisign Cutting, a.k.a 'Bill 'The Sitefinder'.
"Grandpa, where were you when Pres. Orthogonal first created 'Karma Slut'?"
"Well Phyber, that was the start of the great revolution, I remember it well... the date was 07:58 PM GMT October 2nd, 2003, and I knew I was witnessing greatness..."
*sniff* I'm getting verklempt, post amongst yourselves...
I've been responsible for a hell of a lot more than 1 spammer losing their Internet connections, it never occured to me to put out a press release. This is none news... I give it a 1 out of 5. Now had it involved SCO, I would have gone with 3 out of 5, because I just love reading about SCO and their wacky antics... now thats a good topic for a movie, maybe we can get Governor Schwarzenegger as Linus Torvalds and Gary Shandling as Darrrrrrllll Mc Bride.
Disclaimer: I am a Mandrake user, and I used DrakSlashdot to post this
If you ask a Jungian psychologist, they might say that Tolkien discovered the Lord of the Rings. Those crazy bastards like to strip individuals of their creativity and write it off to some mere expression of an archetype ;)
Without M$, perhaps we wouldn't have Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other free software. Of course, without Gates, maybe we'd all have boxes with Motorola PowerPC chips ;)
What a dumb idea, I can fall flat on my face without Open Source versions of Kamen's stupid invention.
Anyways, back on topic... I very rarely buy a CD without hearing it first, and being pretty damn sure that there are more than 2 good songs. Of course, this means I don't buy top 40 pop garbage. Every once and awhile I gamble on an artist... like when I grabbed Peach's cd Giving Birth to a Stone because it featured Tool's bassist Justin Chancellor, and kinda liked Tool's covers of a couple of their songs. Unfortunately, I don't really care for the disk. Oh well...
I'm not buying many cds at all anymore because of the RIAA's rediculous antics. Hopefully the artists who are in positions of power will help reverse the tide.
However, this gives the rest of the world more time to improve their competing products, which may end up not being in Microsoft's favor given the rapid pace of development outside of Redmond's closed walls.
Does this mean that Open Source projects could eventually have to send a thank you card to Microsoft?
What this likely says is that "of all the broadband users who run servers on their cable modems, 5% of those running Linux have formatted and installed a warez copy of Windows 2003 because they couldn't figure out how to secure their FTP services)".