How is recusitating Corel going to do any significant damage to Linux?
Corel was in the midst of thrashing itself to death after attempting to make a Linux distro for the mainstream desktop user. As I see it, Corel did enough damage to Linux on their own with their attempt and rapid failure. Every time someone gets into public mindshare and fails, or does something idiotic like attack Linux itself (I can't wait for IBM to hand SCO their ass) it does damage to the cause.
What is the cause? Show the world that Linux is a viable option, that GPL can work, and that Open Source can be relied upon.
1. exactly! Good point.
2. I don't think my Grandmother even knows about games.yahoo.com, and I'm not sure I want to get her addicted... good thing she doesn't read/.
3. oddly enough, this is a more useful question than the porn one. The US is taking an active stance against spam, and the Canadian government is in the midst of informal consideration of the "spam issue". Appraising costs of UCE/UBE is important, and is easier to accomplish.
The actual percentage of pornographic content on the "Internet" can't be measured. Aside from the legal complications in the US, imagine the difficulties in getting accurate measurments in other jurisdictions! Privacy laws, at least in those countries that care to protect privacy, would prohibit any sort of mass content scanning and enumeration. Porn, after all, exists in our perceptions. An image is an image, and the meaning carried is what is pornographic.
You can't merely run a counter for all dirty or skungy packets... but wouldn't it be cool if you could?
This shouldn't be considered news by anyone. Are we going to see updates on speed limit changes for cities around the world next on Slashdot?
1 GB of traffic a day is far more than a normal high-speed Internet user needs, those who are using this much are very likely engaged in the distribution of material that would get the RIAA's underwear in a bunch, or doing something else that is against some law. Bandwidth isn't free, its past time the USENET/warez/mp3 leeches clued in to this fact.
Ya, that whole asia place. Good thing an honest hard working American would never be involved in piracy, or the foundations of Right and Wrong would just collapse!
Some places in Asia are notorious for software piracy, or at least notorious for not having enforced legal controls against the selling of software in violation of someone's copyright.
More ideas to laugh at... as far as factual basis for switch ads go, what is the tally? Sounds like Linux is kicking Mac OS's ass, doesn't it?
I promise to meta-mod as Fair for anyone who moderates this comment as +1 Funny or -1 Off-topic.
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No, you outsource to where the skills are at the best price. Its called a free market economy. Its kinda the same concept that American became properous under. Bit of a two-edged sword, huh?
I think what Americans may not realize is that they are pricing themselves out of work and assuming that the rest of the world can't possibly develop the technology, skills and resources to do what America has. That is a shocking bit of arrogance, and likely the cause of the current "crisis". If there is an exec candidate from Bulgaria that will work for a third of what some American then guess which is a better business choice? All things being equal aside from salary demands makes the choice pretty simple.
The other nifty thing about a free market is that change isn't always to YOUR benefit, but it may be for the benefit of the system itself. Its like an ecosystem. You are selecting yourselves out of jobs. Its like a predator that can only eat a certain type of high-quality meat and only if it is fresh and only if variable A, B, C, and D are in place. Guess what? A predator that isn't so damn picky is going to flourish unless something else exists in that ecosystem to keep it in check. You could try to legislate the problem away while the rest of the world learns to adapt, resulting in isolation. The risks are obvious if you look at the issue from this perspective, so I won't try to lay them out further.
The answer could very well be in the CEO salaries, but somebody in charge deserves credit for success. Back to the ecosystem perspective, consider this: the biggest lion gets the most meat. Even if that meat is rotting and the rest of the pride can't survive. Eventually that big lion dies too. Basically what I'm saying here is that I don't entirely disagree with you specifically.
I bet there are going to be a few job vacancies and opportunities opening up in Redmond soon... Microsoft is as much a victim as clueless admins and lack of due diligence as their customers are. This is not a problem exclusive to Microsoft products, but I'll bet the proportion is higher than other platforms that rely on more human clue.
Except that the law enforcement (or other) agencies are responsible for interpreting the intercepted data. These types of investigations don't typically involve Random Joe Patrol Cop, so there is no reason, legal or otherwise, for service providers to go to great effort to make it easy.
What are you talking about regarding NWN with your "copy protection that makes it unplayable" comment? NWN shipped playable, and got improvements through patches, but I never had a problem with it. You must be bitter, because if you had problems it was with your rig. The game itself worked fine in my case. I bought the game and I don't see how any copy protection scheme could have interfered with a legit copy.
Lucky you. The city I live in has the worst radio stations ever. A media company with a sickening fondness for country bumpkin tunes now owns one of the two (formerly) decent rock stations in the city and has turned it into a bastardized mix of Top 40 swill, Nickelback/Kruger gruel, and country pop crap. Its not unusual to have them play the latest U2 soundtrack contribution, followed by whatever Pink has at the top of the charts, a Lonestar, Lea-anne Rimes or other country song, with a little Santana and random guest to finish the set. Then its commercial time, wherein we get some insight into their target audience and what it is they want us to buy today. Then they choke up the airwaves with a couple other country-only stations and talk/news stations.
You'd think there would be some decent rock or at least classic rock in a city that leans towards country, wouldn't you? Hell no, we've got one decent rock station that tends to cater to the fart joke crowd and two, count them, two hip hop stations. Meanwhile, another city a 3rd the size has the most amazing collection of new music stations, rock, "alternative" and whatnot.
Radio sucks. That is why I have a CD changer in my vehicle, and listen to MP3s at work.
At least they can act to contain the spread of a virus, but not by killing processes on customer PCs. they can, however, disable service, whether it be a cable, *dsl, or dialup modem account. Shutting off service and forcing customers to take measures to clean their infected computers is allows by the acceptable use, terms of service, and other policies which protect the ISPs rights to take action.
The security community needs more
rational, intelligent minds like this, and less self indulgent halfwits like
GOBBLES trying vainly to make names for themselves.
"Self indulgent halfwits"... I always thought they were a Security List Comedy group with the funniest code comments I've ever read, but if I need to change my BugTraq filter to point to the Self Indulgent Halfwit folder instead then I guess I'd better get to it.
There is no need to attempt to compare a stripped-down Mandrake release to something like Debian. It seems little more to a random holy war troll to those who tend to prefer distributions in the Red Hat/RPM lineage to the Debian/apt-get lineage. Why bother?
Mandrake can already be installed with a small initial footprint. The urpmi app can be used to grab rpm binary packages (or source rpms) online and install with integrity checking etc, but Mandrake puts effort into putting the bleeding edge into a very useable and advanced desktop/server distribution. You can try to stay away from the bleeding edge, but Mandrake isn't designed (at this point) to cater to that stance. By contrast, Debian is not primarily a bleeding edge distro, but like any Linux it becomes what you make of it despite the design tendencies.
There was a really interesting article on the OS that I read a few months ago... I can't find the damn URL, but if you do a google search you will find quite a few resources with information on OS/2. It is apparently still quite popular with banks (mostly due to having existing infrastructure that relies on it paired with good ol' inertia).
Dwarves are always little more than comic relief, its the plight of the Height-Challenged. Everybody knows that the only three in the Fellowship that can actually fight are Gandalf, Aragorn and Legolas. The short people are there to be rescued, laughed at, or carried around.
"Funny-like-midgets" is deeply ingrained in our society. It is typical heightism. Its hate literature. It should be stopped! Is it too late to change the title of The Two Towers (gee, wouldn't want to risk making a reference to the WTC in literature written before they were relevant) so that we're sensitive to the Height-Challenged? How about "Lord of the Rings 2: HOOORAY FOR SHORT PEOPLE"?
If the Segway replaces walking for the average person, then the "it will make Americans fatter" argument has some merit unless the users' lifestyle is adjusted to compensate, i.e., more trips to the gym via Segway. If it replaces driving, then we will see environmental benefits. If it replaces biking, we are midway between the two.
I just don't see the point of this technology. It is the most over-hyped invention I've ever seen. I'd rather spend a couple grand on some neat technology that helps me get smarter or at least has some entertainment value (travelling between point A and point B has to get pretty boring pretty fast). I see no value in the Segway.
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It is called auto-rotation.
Essentially, you put the nose of the helicopter into a a dive so the generally forward/downward falling causes the blades to spin and generate some lift, then you pull up a bit and try to ride the lift down to less-dangerous crash landing.
Everything I need to know about flying a chopper I learned from 'Apache' on the C64.
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Corel was in the midst of thrashing itself to death after attempting to make a Linux distro for the mainstream desktop user. As I see it, Corel did enough damage to Linux on their own with their attempt and rapid failure. Every time someone gets into public mindshare and fails, or does something idiotic like attack Linux itself (I can't wait for IBM to hand SCO their ass) it does damage to the cause.
What is the cause? Show the world that Linux is a viable option, that GPL can work, and that Open Source can be relied upon.
2. I don't think my Grandmother even knows about games.yahoo.com, and I'm not sure I want to get her addicted... good thing she doesn't read
3. oddly enough, this is a more useful question than the porn one. The US is taking an active stance against spam, and the Canadian government is in the midst of informal consideration of the "spam issue". Appraising costs of UCE/UBE is important, and is easier to accomplish.
The actual percentage of pornographic content on the "Internet" can't be measured. Aside from the legal complications in the US, imagine the difficulties in getting accurate measurments in other jurisdictions! Privacy laws, at least in those countries that care to protect privacy, would prohibit any sort of mass content scanning and enumeration. Porn, after all, exists in our perceptions. An image is an image, and the meaning carried is what is pornographic.
You can't merely run a counter for all dirty or skungy packets... but wouldn't it be cool if you could?
Hell, why would you even use a free copy of HPsUX when you can pay for something that doesn't suck?
1 GB of traffic a day is far more than a normal high-speed Internet user needs, those who are using this much are very likely engaged in the distribution of material that would get the RIAA's underwear in a bunch, or doing something else that is against some law. Bandwidth isn't free, its past time the USENET/warez/mp3 leeches clued in to this fact.
Some places in Asia are notorious for software piracy, or at least notorious for not having enforced legal controls against the selling of software in violation of someone's copyright.
More ideas to laugh at... as far as factual basis for switch ads go, what is the tally? Sounds like Linux is kicking Mac OS's ass, doesn't it?
I promise to meta-mod as Fair for anyone who moderates this comment as +1 Funny or -1 Off-topic.
I think what Americans may not realize is that they are pricing themselves out of work and assuming that the rest of the world can't possibly develop the technology, skills and resources to do what America has. That is a shocking bit of arrogance, and likely the cause of the current "crisis". If there is an exec candidate from Bulgaria that will work for a third of what some American then guess which is a better business choice? All things being equal aside from salary demands makes the choice pretty simple.
The other nifty thing about a free market is that change isn't always to YOUR benefit, but it may be for the benefit of the system itself. Its like an ecosystem. You are selecting yourselves out of jobs. Its like a predator that can only eat a certain type of high-quality meat and only if it is fresh and only if variable A, B, C, and D are in place. Guess what? A predator that isn't so damn picky is going to flourish unless something else exists in that ecosystem to keep it in check. You could try to legislate the problem away while the rest of the world learns to adapt, resulting in isolation. The risks are obvious if you look at the issue from this perspective, so I won't try to lay them out further.
The answer could very well be in the CEO salaries, but somebody in charge deserves credit for success. Back to the ecosystem perspective, consider this: the biggest lion gets the most meat. Even if that meat is rotting and the rest of the pride can't survive. Eventually that big lion dies too. Basically what I'm saying here is that I don't entirely disagree with you specifically.
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I assume the parent to your comment meant download in a useable free form.
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I bet there are going to be a few job vacancies and opportunities opening up in Redmond soon... Microsoft is as much a victim as clueless admins and lack of due diligence as their customers are. This is not a problem exclusive to Microsoft products, but I'll bet the proportion is higher than other platforms that rely on more human clue.
Except that the law enforcement (or other) agencies are responsible for interpreting the intercepted data. These types of investigations don't typically involve Random Joe Patrol Cop, so there is no reason, legal or otherwise, for service providers to go to great effort to make it easy.
What are you talking about regarding NWN with your "copy protection that makes it unplayable" comment? NWN shipped playable, and got improvements through patches, but I never had a problem with it. You must be bitter, because if you had problems it was with your rig. The game itself worked fine in my case. I bought the game and I don't see how any copy protection scheme could have interfered with a legit copy.
Metallica's musical career and integrity have been in the toilet forever, so hes got nothing better to do.
They aren't like us. They are different. To be feared.
You'd think there would be some decent rock or at least classic rock in a city that leans towards country, wouldn't you? Hell no, we've got one decent rock station that tends to cater to the fart joke crowd and two, count them, two hip hop stations. Meanwhile, another city a 3rd the size has the most amazing collection of new music stations, rock, "alternative" and whatnot.
Radio sucks. That is why I have a CD changer in my vehicle, and listen to MP3s at work.
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At least they can act to contain the spread of a virus, but not by killing processes on customer PCs. they can, however, disable service, whether it be a cable, *dsl, or dialup modem account. Shutting off service and forcing customers to take measures to clean their infected computers is allows by the acceptable use, terms of service, and other policies which protect the ISPs rights to take action.
Mandrake can already be installed with a small initial footprint. The urpmi app can be used to grab rpm binary packages (or source rpms) online and install with integrity checking etc, but Mandrake puts effort into putting the bleeding edge into a very useable and advanced desktop/server distribution. You can try to stay away from the bleeding edge, but Mandrake isn't designed (at this point) to cater to that stance. By contrast, Debian is not primarily a bleeding edge distro, but like any Linux it becomes what you make of it despite the design tendencies.
There was a really interesting article on the OS that I read a few months ago... I can't find the damn URL, but if you do a google search you will find quite a few resources with information on OS/2. It is apparently still quite popular with banks (mostly due to having existing infrastructure that relies on it paired with good ol' inertia).
That would be futile, nobody can hack The Gibson!
While we're sharing sites, don't forget Dumb Laws.
"Funny-like-midgets" is deeply ingrained in our society. It is typical heightism. Its hate literature. It should be stopped! Is it too late to change the title of The Two Towers (gee, wouldn't want to risk making a reference to the WTC in literature written before they were relevant) so that we're sensitive to the Height-Challenged? How about "Lord of the Rings 2: HOOORAY FOR SHORT PEOPLE"?
If the Segway replaces walking for the average person, then the "it will make Americans fatter" argument has some merit unless the users' lifestyle is adjusted to compensate, i.e., more trips to the gym via Segway. If it replaces driving, then we will see environmental benefits. If it replaces biking, we are midway between the two.
I just don't see the point of this technology. It is the most over-hyped invention I've ever seen. I'd rather spend a couple grand on some neat technology that helps me get smarter or at least has some entertainment value (travelling between point A and point B has to get pretty boring pretty fast). I see no value in the Segway.
Essentially, you put the nose of the helicopter into a a dive so the generally forward/downward falling causes the blades to spin and generate some lift, then you pull up a bit and try to ride the lift down to less-dangerous crash landing.
Everything I need to know about flying a chopper I learned from 'Apache' on the C64.