I heard from others this reply was brilliant, let me correct that impression.
First correct your post, then we'll talk. I'm not going to struggle to refute your retort when you can't even form a paragraph break. I setup a JE for this, as well, so you can repost this after putting some more time and effort into it if you actually wish for a debate.
I don't get the big deal with this. OK, Verisign isn't the best company on the planet (I can think of one Utah based one that's much worse, and don't get me started on Redmond...), but this is insane.
They, in effect, registered every unregistered domain and pointed it towards their SiteFinder service. If you take into account the cost of registering all those domains, and how many there are (several trillion combinations, I would assume) they just "stole" service from every other.com register.
That's one argument.
Another argument is this. And this is real world, and it happened to me. I was setting up a host for a friends wife. She has two domain names, and needed DNS and email. I setup DNS, email, and verify that it works by doing a quick "ping" even though the host was down. So, I ping her domain, expecting it to resolve and have the icmp packets timeout. Well, it resolved, and with a different IP address. So, forgetting about this SiteFinder nonsense, I go back in and try to figure out how in the hell that was happening. It dawned on me 30 minutes later that my resolv.conf wasn't pointing at my DNS server, but my upstream, and the registrar hadn't refreshed. Verisign was reporting that domain belonged to the SiteFinder IP because it didn't clear registration yet.
People that are not like use geeks here (we know what a 404 means when we see it). I mean the other users.
You obviously don't know what a 404 means. 404 means that the server exists, but the document isn't found. This is replacing non-existent domains. Two totally different things.
Like when writing software code, you need to make versions for Windows, Mac, and *nix.
No offense, but you are talking out of your ass. Why should I have to make a web interface different for IE, and only IE. Konquorer, Safari, and Mozilla all render very close to what the standards say, and do it very well. It's only IE that breaks what the standard says. IE isn't innovating, it's making things difficult. IE doesn't even do anything that you can't do in the other browers, it just does it differently.
diversity, it's what keeps everything from being the same, allows for more innovation.
In that case, there should be no MFC, no XLib, C, C++, Python, Perl, or any other language or standard. HTML/CSS are languages, and should be governed as such. If you want to have extensions, that's fine but at least follow the damn spec when it exists.
I don't think you really have any clue what you are talking about either. I do write some cross-platform applications, and they are easier than getting things to work under IE and Mozilla sometimes.
While it's not entirely clear from your critical speech here whether or not you are accepting of the shortcomings of OSS software at the time.
There are shortcomings to any software, but I just view things in a different light.
Such as it's stark inability to penetrate the desktop market at this point.
I don't view this as a shortcoming. I really don't care if people use Linux on the desktop. I say use what is right for you. Linux does give you more "freedom" with your hardware, at the cost of a learning curve.
I'm just saying, to me, (and a lot of other people), it is illogical at this point to use Linux. I go out to the store and buy $some_new_game and what does it run on? Probably not Linux, although the prevalance of such games is certainly increasing. You can say the same about most commonplace software (for example, quicken, photoshop etc.). Perhaps you can get this stuff to function on Linux, but why hassle? When you dump 500 US on a piece of software (photoshop) the operating system becomes the minimal cost in the equation.
I completely agree with you. Linux isn't for you, and it's not for a lot of other people. I'm ok with this, and so are most people. The people doing desktop software (not me, I do more server-side code) are trying to make it more General Public Friendly, but their main focus is usability for people who already use Linux.
I'm running windows XP and have been for the past year or so, and guess how many times i've been rooted/infected/exploited? Zero, that's over the span of 2 machines with constant internet connectivity (the machines are also on probably 90% of the time). Perhaps there are situations where Linux is the "clearly" superior choice for the task, but one of them certainly isn't your "COMMON DESKTOP ENDUSER", which I guess would be me.
I have a fairly complex home network. I get hit constantly by infected Windows machines on the same subnet. I'm using ATT digital cable. I get about 3-4 unique IPs attacking my network (through a virus) on my subnet every day. Microsoft security has gotten quite a bit better with XP, but it still has a lot of room to grow. Linux isn't perfect, but it is a much more difficult operating system to crack, especially using automated tools. 3 years ago, running a Windows box with a dedicated internet connection without firewalling was asking to be exploited.
And, by the way, with all the "Linux" promotion on/. and bashing of Microsoft and other "Non-OSS" software it's kind of hard to say that at least a portion of the OSS (or to be more vague, "computer enthusiasts") isn't attempting to spray paint the grass green where linux lives.
Of course they are. This is Fanboy central, but they grow out of it. It doesn't make them wrong, just idealistic. I don't use Windows because I find it clunky and hard to work with. Not because it costs $200. If I cared about software costing $200, I think I'd be in the wrong industry. That's the general stance amongst people who are in the industry, it's only the extremists and kids who don't have $200 that are that idealistic.
It is a big deal, because if I write an application and decide (or the boss decides) it needs a web-based GUI than I have to code for two very different browsers, or not use any decent functionality.
So they made up some tags that work in IE, good for them. I say keep it up. Open source and freedom of information and all that, they can do what ever the hell they want with the "standards"
Standards are a good thing. That is why there are ANSI, ISO, and IETF standards and all that. This is why the W3c exists. And it's for a very good reason
Ahh, how I love starting my morning off with a cup of coffee and a side of idiocy. Let's begin, my cerebrally challenged chimpanzee.
Uh oh the wand of maximum efficiency has now become the "theoretical wand of maximum efficiency". That explains everything. Of course the theoretical wand of maximum efficiency can make any mineral appear anywhere on the planet. Also of course any species of plant and animal can live anywhere on the planet.
Considering that nothing operates at maximum efficiency (yet) by merely stating maximum efficiency you already go into the realm of hypothesis. Same as putting the population of the earth inside a land region the size of Texas. You see, this whole thing was a hypothetical statement and you are trying to argue as if it were literal. I think they start teaching about theory in 9th grade. Don't worry, you will make it some day.
No it's not. 10KM Square region (what happened to the ring?) can not produce enough oxygen to allow 17 million people to breathe let alone feed them, clothe them, supply them with all their materials and energy. No 10KM patch of earth contains all the things you need to sustain that many people. You are a supremely stupid person if you think that it can. Why don't you try and do some research on how many acres of land it takes to sustain one human being.
Dumbass, oxygen is a global thing. Oxygen wouldn't need to be generated by anything. Nobody is putting a bubble over Tokyo. Materials, what materials? Textiles can be made synthetic and recyclable, very simple solution. Food is also very simple.
Why don't you try and do some research on how many acres of land it takes to sustain one human being.
Hey, buddy, I worked on a ranch. I've lived for a bit on what it takes to be self-sufficient. The ranch was over 70 miles away from the closest town, and we did largely everything ourselves. Just because it was easier. That ranch was about 115 acres, most of which was commercial. Our supporting areas where probably about 1 square kilo, and it supported 13 people. The only thing we imported was electricity. When hydrogen fuel cells come into play, that wouldn't have been an issue either.
You really need to learn how to argue. You are trying desperately to apply literal logic to a hypothetical situation. It makes you look foolish, not like you mind doing that.
I never said she was hot. I also never said she was your girlfriend. I said that she was your uncle's girlfriend and that your uncle was a closeted pedophile. I am not attracted to little boys nor am I attracted to girls who look like little boys.
You don't have to say she's hot. What's amusing is that I show you proof of my existence, my Lexus, and my girlfriend and you just make up stories. What does that say about you? I can think of several things. You also like to claim that she looks like she's 12.
Ok, stealing code is wrong. Copyright infringment is wrong. That article is very wrong.
Seriously man, go read through it again. I don't even like most Linux users and that article was just bad. I wrote up a pretty length response off of the grand-parent to this post. You should check it out.
It was a really good bit of writing until it started going out on a limb
I think that was the first sentence:
On one level, blaming Microsoft for the virus attacks is much like blaming the engineers of the World Trade Center for 911.
It could be analogous to blaming the engineers if they had painted a big target on sensitive areas of the building, and provided planes a lighted approach for hitting them.
But, it gets even better:
Why put all the blame the attacked, and spare the attacker? If someone shoots you, do the police arrest you for not wearing a Kevlar vest? No, they go after the people with the gun.
When are you notified that you may need a kevlar vest? Again, this would be a more fitting analogy if the person not wearing a vest was in, say.. Iraq 8 months ago and had a US Army emblem stitched on their uniform. If you buy software, I think it's a reasonable expectation that it won't be broken due to negligence. If I purchased a car, I'd be pretty pissed off if I found out the company made it very easy to open it without my keyless entry fob. That's a much more fitting analogy. Analogies suck to argue with, so lets just keep on the real subject:
It should come as very little surprise that when you have a culture that demonizes Microsoft, largely because they're more successful with Joe Sixpack than your side, that some will go beyond that.
Yes, this is why we demonize Microsoft. Not because they violate HTTP, SSL, CSS, and countless other standards. Not because they violate business laws, and are sued for it. We demonize them because they attract idiots better than us. I'm glad he cleared that up for me, because I was wondering why I didn't run Windows. It's not just my surprise, Ed has one too:
It should come as very little surprise that when you have a culture that justifies, even glorifies theft from the big guy, that people start taking from the smaller fry.
I suppose I'm part of the culture, and I don't glorify nor justify. In fact, I say it's wrong. So do a lot of people. So, again, half-baked claims with no factual backing. Yes, I'm sure several people did say that Half-Life will now have Linux binaries. If any of them said it seriously, I doubt they have the capabilities to build them anyway. Any joke taken out of context can make someone look like a dick. Or a Communist, right Ed?
"From Each According To His Abilities, To Each According To His Needs"
Karl Marx said that, and it fits these extremists and their fellow-travellers to a T. Come to think of it, if you asked regular thieves how the world should be, they'd say pretty much the same thing, too.
I didn't realize that thieves were happy only getting what they need and no more. Perhaps you should ask Microsoft since it's documented that they have stolen a few things. I can definitely see how they take only what they need. Like $40B in cash reserves.
But when we talk about P2P, that's when Communism really rears it's ugly head. Not Capitalism and market dominance nor supply and demand, which is the very cornerstone of capitalist economics:
And what's the replacement [to the RIAA], the better world? It sure isn't better for the artists. Call the RIAA and Company slavemasters, but at least slave owners fed and housed their slaves.
The replacement to the RIAA? I'm not sure, how about CDBaby or the other houses that are opening up? Why are there so many famous artists that loathe the RIAA? How many famous artists have you sat down and talked to about record contracts. I can name one, and he makes more money now touring as a legendary band (from the 60s) than he ever did from his 6 platinum records. Even he wants to get on the internet distribution bandwagon. But,
USB or external keyboard + hard drive & you should be good to go!
The problem is with that is the keyboard controller is bad. This means it sends garbage to the system quite often. So while you are typing it will send a series of gibberish characters that screws everything all up.
As long as you do not touch the actual system, an external keyboard will work and hold the space bar down while booting (otherwise it registers a keyboard failure.)
It's an old system, and wasn't being used as a portable anymore and for the price of a new keyboard controller and hard drive I can build a new desktop system that will suit the needs of the person using it.
Does anyone know of a laptop that can run while closed (warwalking), has SXGA or better resolution, is reasonable light, and doesn't rely on centrino or other non-Linux garbage?
I've used older Toshibas while being extremely mobile without any issue. They also have very good Linux support.
I have a Toshiba Satellite that the hard drive just burned out on, and needs a new keyboard controller. It has a 15" screen, nVidia GeForce 2 go. I'll sell it for parts for $250. I got the keyboard controller priced here for $150 at the local Toshiba repair shop. No clue on the hard drive, but any laptop hard drive "should" work.
Oh I keep forgetting. 10KM outside of tokyo has everything tokyo needs.
It doesn't, but under a theoretical maximum efficiency condition it would. Besides, we're talking about Texas, remember? As in, it was a hypothetical example to demonstrate that the earth was in now way near it's carrying capacity.
I just figured I'd like you go make an ass out of yourself for a few posts on that tangent and then keep going.
In the land of Xerithane there is a magical wand called "maximum Efficiency". This magical wand turns all women into 12 year old girls who are impressed by the size of...
That's funny that is all you can talk about. "Your really hot girlfriend looks 12!" Except she doesn't, but you can pretend. You can pretend you aren't a fat dipshit who pretends they are girls on Everquest, too. Try pretending your ass out of your parents basement and into the real world.
It's funny to watch you try to take what I say and convolute it so that it looks like I am an idiot. It is perfectly feasible to support 17M people within a 10KM square region. It isn't feasible now, but it will be. A hundred years ago people would think you were stupid or crazy if you told them about computers. Now look where we are at. We have chimps like you trying to seem smart, failing miserably, and getting laughed at with the magic of the internet.
Errr...If they decide one cannot run anything that uses a certain port, then it's not complete and unfettered access, is it.
It was tongue and cheek, really. My point is that internet access just means you have a connection to the internet. People say they have a right to drive, but they all get punished by the speed limits.
Huh? Export what? You can't export them from tokyo? why do you have to leave tokyo to export things? I swear talking to retards is like talking to a wall.
Export from outside of Tokyo. You travel 10km outside of Tokyo, buy things from the farms, and bring them back. That was so good.
Ah yes I keep forgetting that magical ring. It apparently has oil fields, vast forests of trees, lots of fresh water lakes and rivers, copper and iron mines just everything to sustain 17 million people.
Maximum efficiency, dumbass. It must be convenient to be illiterate and not read what other people write.
But, then again you don't have too much to strive for.
Wow, you sure are hostile for someone defending the rights of an entity with substandard infrastructure to defraud its paying customers.
No, I am just hostile. If anybody ever told you I was anything other than an asshole they were just playing a practical joke on you.
Coming from someone who is obviously incapable of comprehending the simple concepts of providing adequate bandwidth and service to users, this comment is very amusing.
Here's a little side project for you: Find how out much it costs Slashdot in bandwidth. Find out how much bandwidth your school consumes in an average month. Do some math and statistics.
As the contract guarantees me working Internet access, I WILL recieve this, or I will be paid off. Failing this, the university will pay far more for legal fees in a contract dispute that I will inevitably win.
Even if they block and forbid the use of P2P clients, you still have internet access. You have complete and unfettered internet access depending upon what they decide you can run. I'm curious what school you go to because I bet I can find a few terms of service that prevent you from getting what you think you are entitled to.
A university offering resnet access is legally an ISP, which is the way they want it. Furthermore, students are paying for their Internet access when they pay for their dorms.
When did anybody promise or guarantee that an ISP allows unrestricted access against the terms of service?
HTTP and E-mail can generate huge traffic loads, just like P2P. And yes, I DO have a right to Internet access.
A right is something you can get on your own, assuming another person doesn't stop you. You can't get internet access on your own. It is granted to you. As a privledge. And no, HTTP and EMail doesn't generate a tenth of what P2P traffic generates.
If the university wants to break this contract, they will begin refunding an appropriate portion of my payment. Landlord/tenant law applies here (to a varying degree depending on your state).
Why don't you read the terms of service for your internet connection? Is your contract guaranteeing you unfiltered internet access? Have you actually read the contracts?
It's painfully clear that you are still a student and don't understand how the real world business works of running an ISP, datacenter, or bandwidth arbitration.
You aren't entitled to shit. You are given what they decide to give you. Until you own it, that's what you deal with. I doubt you will ever own an internet providor anyway, so just get used to taking what other people give you.
So what? Until that figure is 100% rather than 99%, it is still wrong to assume all P2P users are copyright violators and treat them accordingly.
So you are saying that because 99% of the people on P2P are fucking over the bandwidth of the university, we should let them do that because 1% of the people on P2P have a valid reason to use it?
There are a certain class of people who dislike Peer-to-peer networking, and are trying to compare it with everything from copyright infringement to illegal pornography to terrorism to try and get rid of it.
I compare it to riding on the short bus.
Yeah, you may not be retarded but everybody else is. Chances are everyone thinks you are, too.
I agree that downloading copyrighted content wastes tons of bandwidth, but that should not prevent those who share legitimate content from freely doing so.
I would almost agree with you, but it's bullshit. You don't need to share those ISOs over P2P. You can use BitTorrent, or HTTP. There are other distribution methods. P2P has been designed for media sharing, and the vast majority of the traffic isn't legitimate.
If you ride the short bus to school it doesn't mean you are retarded, but everyone will treat you that way.
As an ISP, the university has a duty to provide fast, uncrippled access to students, who ARE paying for this service.
Universities aren't ISPs nor do they try to be. They are... Educational Institutions. Internet access is provided for educational purposes. I'm sure if you check the ToS they say that is why they are giving you the ethernet drop.
The fundamental problem here is that people are forgetting that P2P filesharing applications are a legitimate, important use of the resnet
How is a P2P filesharing app legitimate? It's copyright infringement 99% of the time. It's so they can grab music, porn, and movies off the internet.
It is no more acceptable to disable P2P access, much less suspend accounts, than it is to turn off HTTP or E-mail to save bandwidth.
The difference is HTTP and EMail aren't used to exploit others copyrights with huge files. You don't have a "right" to internet access, anyway. You have a right to whatever the University says you have. Nothing more than that. You connect to their network, you are their bitch.
Respect to you garcia. Great post. It is their network, and this is great software. I hope they release this open source so more people can implement it.
If P2P had more valid uses, and wasn't used 99.9% of the time for copyright violations than I would disagree with you. Until a P2P network that only allows "free" material, you have no business using a schools bandwidth for it.
OK we know that Xerithane is a stalker and a asshole but what else do we know about him?
So, I prove that you responded first and I'm still a stalker. At least you corrected your definition of first.
He said: "You mean like 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo?"
Your illiteracy knows no bounds! You could export things if you travel 10kilo outside of Tokyo. This means that after you go 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo you will start to see plenty of rice fields. And yes, I have been to Tokyo. Not really my scene but Akihabara is nice and Shinjuku has some great restaurants in the high rise buildings.
I could go on and on but you get the picture. This guy is dense enough to think that a city of 10 million people could be sustained by a 10 Km ring surrounding it.
If you knew the land area of Tokyo, with maximum efficiency a 10km ring (by 1km deep) would be enough to provide service to 17million. Which is how many people Tokyo has.
This is a great tactic you have, "Oh shit! I am wrong about this guy... quick, I'll attack his argument based on one sentence I never understood."
Also if you know the parents or teachers of that young girl let them know too
She's 22, and I do know her parents. We're going to visit them in December, in fact.
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I heard from others this reply was brilliant, let me correct that impression.
First correct your post, then we'll talk. I'm not going to struggle to refute your retort when you can't even form a paragraph break. I setup a JE for this, as well, so you can repost this after putting some more time and effort into it if you actually wish for a debate.
So, basically you're pissed because you have shitty debugging skills and blaming SiteFinder.
Debugging skills are for coding. This would be "troubleshooting"
I'm not pissed, I'm irritated that instead of getting a "Host not found message" it was resolving to an incorrect IP address.
This violates the RFC.
I don't get the big deal with this. OK, Verisign isn't the best company on the planet (I can think of one Utah based one that's much worse, and don't get me started on Redmond...), but this is insane.
.com register.
They, in effect, registered every unregistered domain and pointed it towards their SiteFinder service. If you take into account the cost of registering all those domains, and how many there are (several trillion combinations, I would assume) they just "stole" service from every other
That's one argument.
Another argument is this. And this is real world, and it happened to me. I was setting up a host for a friends wife. She has two domain names, and needed DNS and email. I setup DNS, email, and verify that it works by doing a quick "ping" even though the host was down. So, I ping her domain, expecting it to resolve and have the icmp packets timeout. Well, it resolved, and with a different IP address. So, forgetting about this SiteFinder nonsense, I go back in and try to figure out how in the hell that was happening. It dawned on me 30 minutes later that my resolv.conf wasn't pointing at my DNS server, but my upstream, and the registrar hadn't refreshed. Verisign was reporting that domain belonged to the SiteFinder IP because it didn't clear registration yet.
People that are not like use geeks here (we know what a 404 means when we see it). I mean the other users.
You obviously don't know what a 404 means. 404 means that the server exists, but the document isn't found. This is replacing non-existent domains. Two totally different things.
Like when writing software code, you need to make versions for Windows, Mac, and *nix.
No offense, but you are talking out of your ass. Why should I have to make a web interface different for IE, and only IE. Konquorer, Safari, and Mozilla all render very close to what the standards say, and do it very well. It's only IE that breaks what the standard says. IE isn't innovating, it's making things difficult. IE doesn't even do anything that you can't do in the other browers, it just does it differently.
diversity, it's what keeps everything from being the same, allows for more innovation.
In that case, there should be no MFC, no XLib, C, C++, Python, Perl, or any other language or standard. HTML/CSS are languages, and should be governed as such. If you want to have extensions, that's fine but at least follow the damn spec when it exists.
I don't think you really have any clue what you are talking about either. I do write some cross-platform applications, and they are easier than getting things to work under IE and Mozilla sometimes.
While it's not entirely clear from your critical speech here whether or not you are accepting of the shortcomings of OSS software at the time.
/. and bashing of Microsoft and other "Non-OSS" software it's kind of hard to say that at least a portion of the OSS (or to be more vague, "computer enthusiasts") isn't attempting to spray paint the grass green where linux lives.
There are shortcomings to any software, but I just view things in a different light.
Such as it's stark inability to penetrate the desktop market at this point.
I don't view this as a shortcoming. I really don't care if people use Linux on the desktop. I say use what is right for you. Linux does give you more "freedom" with your hardware, at the cost of a learning curve.
I'm just saying, to me, (and a lot of other people), it is illogical at this point to use Linux. I go out to the store and buy $some_new_game and what does it run on? Probably not Linux, although the prevalance of such games is certainly increasing. You can say the same about most commonplace software (for example, quicken, photoshop etc.). Perhaps you can get this stuff to function on Linux, but why hassle? When you dump 500 US on a piece of software (photoshop) the operating system becomes the minimal cost in the equation.
I completely agree with you. Linux isn't for you, and it's not for a lot of other people. I'm ok with this, and so are most people. The people doing desktop software (not me, I do more server-side code) are trying to make it more General Public Friendly, but their main focus is usability for people who already use Linux.
I'm running windows XP and have been for the past year or so, and guess how many times i've been rooted/infected/exploited? Zero, that's over the span of 2 machines with constant internet connectivity (the machines are also on probably 90% of the time). Perhaps there are situations where Linux is the "clearly" superior choice for the task, but one of them certainly isn't your "COMMON DESKTOP ENDUSER", which I guess would be me.
I have a fairly complex home network. I get hit constantly by infected Windows machines on the same subnet. I'm using ATT digital cable. I get about 3-4 unique IPs attacking my network (through a virus) on my subnet every day. Microsoft security has gotten quite a bit better with XP, but it still has a lot of room to grow. Linux isn't perfect, but it is a much more difficult operating system to crack, especially using automated tools. 3 years ago, running a Windows box with a dedicated internet connection without firewalling was asking to be exploited.
And, by the way, with all the "Linux" promotion on
Of course they are. This is Fanboy central, but they grow out of it. It doesn't make them wrong, just idealistic. I don't use Windows because I find it clunky and hard to work with. Not because it costs $200. If I cared about software costing $200, I think I'd be in the wrong industry. That's the general stance amongst people who are in the industry, it's only the extremists and kids who don't have $200 that are that idealistic.
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It is a big deal, because if I write an application and decide (or the boss decides) it needs a web-based GUI than I have to code for two very different browsers, or not use any decent functionality.
So they made up some tags that work in IE, good for them. I say keep it up. Open source and freedom of information and all that, they can do what ever the hell they want with the "standards"
Standards are a good thing. That is why there are ANSI, ISO, and IETF standards and all that. This is why the W3c exists. And it's for a very good reason
Ahh, how I love starting my morning off with a cup of coffee and a side of idiocy. Let's begin, my cerebrally challenged chimpanzee.
Uh oh the wand of maximum efficiency has now become the "theoretical wand of maximum efficiency". That explains everything. Of course the theoretical wand of maximum efficiency can make any mineral appear anywhere on the planet. Also of course any species of plant and animal can live anywhere on the planet.
Considering that nothing operates at maximum efficiency (yet) by merely stating maximum efficiency you already go into the realm of hypothesis. Same as putting the population of the earth inside a land region the size of Texas. You see, this whole thing was a hypothetical statement and you are trying to argue as if it were literal. I think they start teaching about theory in 9th grade. Don't worry, you will make it some day.
No it's not. 10KM Square region (what happened to the ring?) can not produce enough oxygen to allow 17 million people to breathe let alone feed them, clothe them, supply them with all their materials and energy. No 10KM patch of earth contains all the things you need to sustain that many people. You are a supremely stupid person if you think that it can. Why don't you try and do some research on how many acres of land it takes to sustain one human being.
Dumbass, oxygen is a global thing. Oxygen wouldn't need to be generated by anything. Nobody is putting a bubble over Tokyo. Materials, what materials? Textiles can be made synthetic and recyclable, very simple solution. Food is also very simple.
Why don't you try and do some research on how many acres of land it takes to sustain one human being.
Hey, buddy, I worked on a ranch. I've lived for a bit on what it takes to be self-sufficient. The ranch was over 70 miles away from the closest town, and we did largely everything ourselves. Just because it was easier. That ranch was about 115 acres, most of which was commercial. Our supporting areas where probably about 1 square kilo, and it supported 13 people. The only thing we imported was electricity. When hydrogen fuel cells come into play, that wouldn't have been an issue either.
You really need to learn how to argue. You are trying desperately to apply literal logic to a hypothetical situation. It makes you look foolish, not like you mind doing that.
I never said she was hot. I also never said she was your girlfriend. I said that she was your uncle's girlfriend and that your uncle was a closeted pedophile. I am not attracted to little boys nor am I attracted to girls who look like little boys.
You don't have to say she's hot. What's amusing is that I show you proof of my existence, my Lexus, and my girlfriend and you just make up stories. What does that say about you? I can think of several things. You also like to claim that she looks like she's 12.
Let someone else "innovate"; someone not trusted to serve the .com/.net root zones without biased interest in the outcome of how it works.
Very true. If he wanted to be unbiased, they would have redirected to an actual search engine.
Ok, stealing code is wrong. Copyright infringment is wrong. That article is very wrong.
Seriously man, go read through it again. I don't even like most Linux users and that article was just bad. I wrote up a pretty length response off of the grand-parent to this post. You should check it out.
I think that was the first sentence:
It could be analogous to blaming the engineers if they had painted a big target on sensitive areas of the building, and provided planes a lighted approach for hitting them.
But, it gets even better:
When are you notified that you may need a kevlar vest? Again, this would be a more fitting analogy if the person not wearing a vest was in, say.. Iraq 8 months ago and had a US Army emblem stitched on their uniform. If you buy software, I think it's a reasonable expectation that it won't be broken due to negligence. If I purchased a car, I'd be pretty pissed off if I found out the company made it very easy to open it without my keyless entry fob. That's a much more fitting analogy. Analogies suck to argue with, so lets just keep on the real subject:
Yes, this is why we demonize Microsoft. Not because they violate HTTP, SSL, CSS, and countless other standards. Not because they violate business laws, and are sued for it. We demonize them because they attract idiots better than us. I'm glad he cleared that up for me, because I was wondering why I didn't run Windows. It's not just my surprise, Ed has one too:
I suppose I'm part of the culture, and I don't glorify nor justify. In fact, I say it's wrong. So do a lot of people. So, again, half-baked claims with no factual backing. Yes, I'm sure several people did say that Half-Life will now have Linux binaries. If any of them said it seriously, I doubt they have the capabilities to build them anyway. Any joke taken out of context can make someone look like a dick. Or a Communist, right Ed?
I didn't realize that thieves were happy only getting what they need and no more. Perhaps you should ask Microsoft since it's documented that they have stolen a few things. I can definitely see how they take only what they need. Like $40B in cash reserves.
But when we talk about P2P, that's when Communism really rears it's ugly head. Not Capitalism and market dominance nor supply and demand, which is the very cornerstone of capitalist economics:
The replacement to the RIAA? I'm not sure, how about CDBaby or the other houses that are opening up? Why are there so many famous artists that loathe the RIAA? How many famous artists have you sat down and talked to about record contracts. I can name one, and he makes more money now touring as a legendary band (from the 60s) than he ever did from his 6 platinum records. Even he wants to get on the internet distribution bandwagon. But,
USB or external keyboard + hard drive & you should be good to go!
The problem is with that is the keyboard controller is bad. This means it sends garbage to the system quite often. So while you are typing it will send a series of gibberish characters that screws everything all up.
As long as you do not touch the actual system, an external keyboard will work and hold the space bar down while booting (otherwise it registers a keyboard failure.)
It's an old system, and wasn't being used as a portable anymore and for the price of a new keyboard controller and hard drive I can build a new desktop system that will suit the needs of the person using it.
Does anyone know of a laptop that can run while closed (warwalking), has SXGA or better resolution, is reasonable light, and doesn't rely on centrino or other non-Linux garbage?
I've used older Toshibas while being extremely mobile without any issue. They also have very good Linux support.
I have a Toshiba Satellite that the hard drive just burned out on, and needs a new keyboard controller. It has a 15" screen, nVidia GeForce 2 go. I'll sell it for parts for $250. I got the keyboard controller priced here for $150 at the local Toshiba repair shop. No clue on the hard drive, but any laptop hard drive "should" work.
Oh I keep forgetting. 10KM outside of tokyo has everything tokyo needs.
It doesn't, but under a theoretical maximum efficiency condition it would. Besides, we're talking about Texas, remember? As in, it was a hypothetical example to demonstrate that the earth was in now way near it's carrying capacity.
I just figured I'd like you go make an ass out of yourself for a few posts on that tangent and then keep going.
In the land of Xerithane there is a magical wand called "maximum Efficiency". This magical wand turns all women into 12 year old girls who are impressed by the size of...
That's funny that is all you can talk about. "Your really hot girlfriend looks 12!" Except she doesn't, but you can pretend. You can pretend you aren't a fat dipshit who pretends they are girls on Everquest, too. Try pretending your ass out of your parents basement and into the real world.
It's funny to watch you try to take what I say and convolute it so that it looks like I am an idiot. It is perfectly feasible to support 17M people within a 10KM square region. It isn't feasible now, but it will be. A hundred years ago people would think you were stupid or crazy if you told them about computers. Now look where we are at. We have chimps like you trying to seem smart, failing miserably, and getting laughed at with the magic of the internet.
Great tool, this is.
Errr...If they decide one cannot run anything that uses a certain port, then it's not complete and unfettered access, is it.
It was tongue and cheek, really. My point is that internet access just means you have a connection to the internet. People say they have a right to drive, but they all get punished by the speed limits.
To me, this is just the same thing.
Huh? Export what? You can't export them from tokyo? why do you have to leave tokyo to export things? I swear talking to retards is like talking to a wall.
Export from outside of Tokyo. You travel 10km outside of Tokyo, buy things from the farms, and bring them back. That was so good.
Ah yes I keep forgetting that magical ring. It apparently has oil fields, vast forests of trees, lots of fresh water lakes and rivers, copper and iron mines just everything to sustain 17 million people.
Maximum efficiency, dumbass. It must be convenient to be illiterate and not read what other people write.
But, then again you don't have too much to strive for.
Wow, you sure are hostile for someone defending the rights of an entity with substandard infrastructure to defraud its paying customers.
No, I am just hostile. If anybody ever told you I was anything other than an asshole they were just playing a practical joke on you.
Coming from someone who is obviously incapable of comprehending the simple concepts of providing adequate bandwidth and service to users, this comment is very amusing.
Here's a little side project for you: Find how out much it costs Slashdot in bandwidth. Find out how much bandwidth your school consumes in an average month. Do some math and statistics.
As the contract guarantees me working Internet access, I WILL recieve this, or I will be paid off. Failing this, the university will pay far more for legal fees in a contract dispute that I will inevitably win.
Even if they block and forbid the use of P2P clients, you still have internet access. You have complete and unfettered internet access depending upon what they decide you can run. I'm curious what school you go to because I bet I can find a few terms of service that prevent you from getting what you think you are entitled to.
A university offering resnet access is legally an ISP, which is the way they want it. Furthermore, students are paying for their Internet access when they pay for their dorms.
When did anybody promise or guarantee that an ISP allows unrestricted access against the terms of service?
HTTP and E-mail can generate huge traffic loads, just like P2P. And yes, I DO have a right to Internet access.
A right is something you can get on your own, assuming another person doesn't stop you. You can't get internet access on your own. It is granted to you. As a privledge. And no, HTTP and EMail doesn't generate a tenth of what P2P traffic generates.
If the university wants to break this contract, they will begin refunding an appropriate portion of my payment. Landlord/tenant law applies here (to a varying degree depending on your state).
Why don't you read the terms of service for your internet connection? Is your contract guaranteeing you unfiltered internet access? Have you actually read the contracts?
It's painfully clear that you are still a student and don't understand how the real world business works of running an ISP, datacenter, or bandwidth arbitration.
You aren't entitled to shit. You are given what they decide to give you. Until you own it, that's what you deal with. I doubt you will ever own an internet providor anyway, so just get used to taking what other people give you.
So what? Until that figure is 100% rather than 99%, it is still wrong to assume all P2P users are copyright violators and treat them accordingly.
So you are saying that because 99% of the people on P2P are fucking over the bandwidth of the university, we should let them do that because 1% of the people on P2P have a valid reason to use it?
Instead of using other systems of distribution?
Right.
There are a certain class of people who dislike Peer-to-peer networking, and are trying to compare it with everything from copyright infringement to illegal pornography to terrorism to try and get rid of it.
I compare it to riding on the short bus.
Yeah, you may not be retarded but everybody else is. Chances are everyone thinks you are, too.
(Just like Slashdot)
I agree that downloading copyrighted content wastes tons of bandwidth, but that should not prevent those who share legitimate content from freely doing so.
I would almost agree with you, but it's bullshit. You don't need to share those ISOs over P2P. You can use BitTorrent, or HTTP. There are other distribution methods. P2P has been designed for media sharing, and the vast majority of the traffic isn't legitimate.
If you ride the short bus to school it doesn't mean you are retarded, but everyone will treat you that way.
As an ISP, the university has a duty to provide fast, uncrippled access to students, who ARE paying for this service.
Universities aren't ISPs nor do they try to be. They are... Educational Institutions. Internet access is provided for educational purposes. I'm sure if you check the ToS they say that is why they are giving you the ethernet drop.
The fundamental problem here is that people are forgetting that P2P filesharing applications are a legitimate, important use of the resnet
How is a P2P filesharing app legitimate? It's copyright infringement 99% of the time. It's so they can grab music, porn, and movies off the internet.
It is no more acceptable to disable P2P access, much less suspend accounts, than it is to turn off HTTP or E-mail to save bandwidth.
The difference is HTTP and EMail aren't used to exploit others copyrights with huge files. You don't have a "right" to internet access, anyway. You have a right to whatever the University says you have. Nothing more than that. You connect to their network, you are their bitch.
Respect to you garcia. Great post. It is their network, and this is great software. I hope they release this open source so more people can implement it.
If P2P had more valid uses, and wasn't used 99.9% of the time for copyright violations than I would disagree with you. Until a P2P network that only allows "free" material, you have no business using a schools bandwidth for it.
Define overboard:
Comparing and contrasting the differences between a plexiglass window and a Webcam/monitor setup.
OK we know that Xerithane is a stalker and a asshole but what else do we know about him?
So, I prove that you responded first and I'm still a stalker. At least you corrected your definition of first.
He said: "You mean like 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo?"
Your illiteracy knows no bounds! You could export things if you travel 10kilo outside of Tokyo. This means that after you go 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo you will start to see plenty of rice fields. And yes, I have been to Tokyo. Not really my scene but Akihabara is nice and Shinjuku has some great restaurants in the high rise buildings.
I could go on and on but you get the picture. This guy is dense enough to think that a city of 10 million people could be sustained by a 10 Km ring surrounding it.
If you knew the land area of Tokyo, with maximum efficiency a 10km ring (by 1km deep) would be enough to provide service to 17million. Which is how many people Tokyo has.
This is a great tactic you have, "Oh shit! I am wrong about this guy... quick, I'll attack his argument based on one sentence I never understood."
Also if you know the parents or teachers of that young girl let them know too
She's 22, and I do know her parents. We're going to visit them in December, in fact.
page rank is self explanatory.
Page rank is, PageRank(tm) isn't.
As an AC already pointed out, the "Page" in Page rank is named after Larry Page. That's it. Nothing more. You are wrong and stupid. Have a nice day.