"In an article on Space.com, many physicists have criticized the current work on the speed of gravity, calling it 'nonsense' and 'simply incorrect.' Many of them still doubt the claims made by Fomalont and Kopeikin even before the results were even announced. Many of the physicists still hold on to the idea that gravity works instantaneously no matter what the distance, an idea that originated by Newton, but that was argued against by Einstein."
There are still scientists that argue EVOLUTION. This is nothing new, scientists looking to ride the coat-tails of rising stars in the field by doubting them. Obviously with the results not out before the entire idea was refuted, but this doesn't surprise me. PhD's who are "experts" in their field tend to be arrogant asses when it comes to something they didn't "discover".
Don't believe me, walk on to your local university and sit in on a graduate level class. Some people love to get paid to hear themselves speak.
If Microsoft were ordered by the court to give $12 Billion dollars to Netscape, Linux (good luck), OS/2, BeOS, or whomever else they stomped on, would that be acceptable?
How about if the entire microsoft headquarters was set ablaze and all the states attorney generals got to roast marshmallows on the remains? Of course not we all would think that was "unfair".
BUT MS having to give 1.2 billion dollars to the people of California, that's just not good enough.
So here's the question for all of you who think that this "isn't enough". What is enough? I'm meerly trying to spark discussion here, not put anyone down. I would really like to know what people think should be the punishment of microsoft.
Weigh in the amount of damage they've done, business lost and lives lost. Information stifled to just being at the right place at the right time. Explotation of the weak, or creating a market where there was none. I really want to know what the slashdot community thinks.
those who have taken the time to reply without reading, and you're Not AC's so I'm going to take the time to reply here instead of to each of you individually.
What the? Why on earth would you need that much harddrive spacee to justify $1/TB??
Infering that for a meere $100 you could have 100 TB's which seems actually quite absurd at this moment in time. I didn't say that it would be impossible to fill a TB, but it would be damn hard to fill 100 TB right now. I'm not quite sure 100 TB's is fillable (is that a word) right now as far as speeds of download and what not. I think even planet mirror only has a few TB's on their entire server.
Bandwidth, backup media, etc will have to get this high as well. So I meant MULTIPLE TERRABYTE drives, not a couple terrabytes, lots of terrabytes.
What the? Why on earth would you need that much harddrive spacee to justify $1/TB??
Attention: Please Stand Up, Power Computer Down and Walk Away. Thank You.
Even if you ripped DVD's into VOB's... you'd still need to rip over 100 to justify even 1 TB, and who the hell rips to just vob, that's like ripping to wav with a CD, you just don't do it.
Even with 4.7 gig DVD Burners, the days of multi terrabyte storage systems for the home is a little further off. Unless someone comes out with more justification for that much space (like a TiVO that can record 100 channels at the same time??)
Lets face it, the mp3 and other multimedia files has justified multi gig harddrives. Plus games that take up 600 megs a pop aren't exactly hurting the old cause. There's going to need to be justification for multi TB drives if they ever want to sell, well... duh:-)
I'm a hardcore geek and have expert certification on everything from Windows 2000 to A+ certs to Novell Network certs to CISCO certs to _____ . You name it, I've done it.
Obviously with that standard A+ and level one CNE along with MCSE... you sir are a computer genuis.
But I personally could probably just barely piece one of these "home media units" together. Furthermore, I wouldn't even know what to use it for.
Right, see this is a set-top box that happens to have a computer inside of it that runs and OS that most all of us are used to. That doesn't mean I want a computer sitting on top of my TV that has been rigged to use my TV-Out on the old video card. This is meant to be like a TiVO (read: Also a computer) where you don't ever have to do anything except use the remote to make it work, but it can interact with your home computer without wires (read: magic).
Some of us, like myself, still buy CDs from BMG and Columbia House. Yes, you read that correctly -- some of us still buy CDs.
Obviously here on slashdot all we do is STEAL them from the poor artists, hence why we hate the RIAA they just want to stop us all from breaking the law.
So, we have more need for 6 disc changes than we do for 10 GB discs of hard drives on which to store mostly-illegally-obtained mp3s.
Perhaps they didn't cover this in your "A+" training, but it is possible to take a CD that you own and rip it into an mp3/ogg/whatever and listen to it. But catch this, you need some type of media to store it on, usually a... catch this... a harddrive. 6 Audio CD's will easily fit on an CD with the songs compressed as MP3's making that 6 disc changer, non-essential, amazing isn't it?
Catch this, you can even rip a CD... while you listen to it, making it non-essential to rip the CD at a later time, you can even setup a cd/mp3 software "program" to do this... automatically (read: requires magic).
Sorry to rant, but:
Ahh, if you apologize first that makes it impossible for jerks like me to pick apart your stupid posts...
1) HP clearly is out of their league and doesn't know their market,
and,
Whoa did I see a degree in economics somewhere in that mess of worthless credentials at the top of this post?? Nope, obviously you don't have any clue what the intended market is for this product as it hasn't even been sold yet and you've declared it "out of their league". When obviously there is so many greater rivals out there doing the same thing, wait a minute, no their aren't.
2) No one aside from the most hardcore Slashdotter would even know what to do with one of these
Well I'm guessing they'd probably be used for... viewing media... hence the clever name of Digital Media Receiver.
Ya know, I remember when the TiVO came out and everyone said the EXACT same thing. That microsoft would come out with a better product to pound TiVO into the ground and that no one excecpt the uber geek would ever want to have one. Yet low-and-behold, even my grandma has a TiVO now because she doesn't like how hard it is to program her VCR. HP isn't stupid, they make computers really easy to use and asthetically appealing to the eye, look at Mac's popularity.
I think you need to realize that you aren't as smart as HP, seeing as they're a huge company and you're a moron with a win2000 cert... hehehehe... you want some advice, don't ever advertise you have an MCSE on slashdot. That's like saying you love to watch linux suck.
sure.. like old 2/386 computers cost anything.. I might believe the untold hours, but come on.. this sure is some sensationalist hype.
And I suppose you're some type of computer selling expert. Here's one for ya, I need a 286 right now. Wait a minute I can't go to the local computer store and buy one, nor can I order one from any big name computer dealer. That would mean I'm at the mercy of garage sales flea markets and the public school system. I would say that a 286 is worth thousands of dollars just like any piece of crap deamed old at a antique mall is worth thousands of dollars.
Perhaps you should think about starving children in the artic before you just spout out crap like this on a reputable site like slashdot.
I come up first... does that make me the end-all-be-all best superdug because google says so?
This is the same as sueing the "A" group in highschool for not deeming you cool and because of that your self esteem suffered and you became a computer science major.
Does anyone have a Radeon 9700 AIW PDF laying around?
I'll print ya out a copy...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf... UGH!!! OMG!!! IT'S FULL OF STARS!
I was blessed with a reply by The linux chick eh. I must be stepping up in the world of commentary, or something like that.
Okay When I said RPM-Based Linux Distributions I was refering to the "Big Three" (RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE) all these distros come with a HUGE amount of overhead with the install of the system. Packages that are not neccessary for a security based system. Unless you specifically hold a gun to the installer's head it will install everything and the kitchen sink for the "Linux Experience (TM)".
Distributions such as Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo, CAN use RPM, but aren't part of the "Big 3" and do have the ability to install a bare bones system install with almost nothing from the get go, making the ability to build the system up from scratch easier for the admin to maintain.
As you noted in your wonderful reply, BSD may not be the answer, but OpenBSD is the ONLY Operating System to date that I've seen where even a newbie can rest a little easier knowing that the system is completely secure (so long as they install only what came with their CD). Why is this, because that's what OpenBSD is famous for and what OpenBSD is really good at.
If there is a company that wants to use "EgoStroking Linux" then that is what you are going to have to work with, but I have yet to see a secure system taht doesn't following the "K.I.S.S." model (and no that's not a detroit rock band...) "Keep It Simple and Secure" in which something that is not neccessary to the system is not installed or used and if it is installed is deleted. All dameons are run in unprivledged accounts with little or no access to the system as a whole and with communications of programs limited to what is neccessary (IE: Is there a reason to have a time server on a web box? If not then disable the thing).
Rip up the RC's and anything else not neccessary at startup, make sure your directory permissions are tight, and for god sakes self audit your system.
So basically we're actually in agreement, but you decided to take my "sort of a joke" comment a little too seriously.
And I'll go to my grave saying that the most secure server is the one that is a molten goo in the middle of the earth.
She completed her return electronically, made a printout, and returned returned the signature sheet, but then never got a check from the IRS.
You nailed it right there, is it really Turbo Tax Online's fault that you or your girlfriend never followed through? It's a very quick and simple call to the IRS to check the status of your tax procecssing... and turbotax has an online status alert spot as well to tell you the status of your forms and where your refund is at.
Spend $50 and file with a real, wetware tax preparer.
What so they can lose it too? This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone using Turbo Tax for the web and having trouble at all. However most people I know who have been audited by ye old IRS are those that drop the $50 - $infinite on an "accountant".
Morale of the story, taxes are there whether you like them or not and if you choose to ignore them they will come back to haunt you. My advice would be very simple and go ahead and file your tax forms and make sure the IRS is happy with you, taxes can take anywhere from 3 days (my personal record) to 4 months to fully process.
Do it yourself if you have time, you will definantelly learn a thing or two. And if you make more than $30K a year it wouldn't hurt to jump to a local tax station and have them figure most everything out for you, as there are many ways to get a rebate or relief on taxes that very few people out of the loop will know about. So if you're dirt poor like me, use Turbo Tax for free... if not... unless you got an MBA under your belt, pop it to the tax station...
Also... if you owe money, do it by check and by snail mail (no reason to rush things...)... if you're getting a refund file electronically and have it directly deposited... little personal SuperDuG advice for all ya'll.
oh well. If you don't wanna pay don't be on the web. I'm sick of hearing about the poor webmaster paying out of his pocket.
Then quit reading comments if you're so sick of it.
Wait was that an obvious answer? Of course it was. The statement is quite true because there are many people who host websites out of their own pocket by a personal server. Here's the problem though. Slashdot and similar sites with high traffic link to the page in order to keep their visitors interested and to sell ads. Why is it okay for Slashdot to make money on someone elses misfortune, but stealing oil from a middle eastern country isn't? Slashdot makes money from people who come to their site (they show their access logs to companies and say "look at how many people come to out site, your ads will be seen billions of times", don't believe me, look at the top of this page) and there are many web hosters that provide a monthly allotment that then charge for bandwidth after that limit is reached or will simply disable the site.
So because slashdot wanted to make more money someone who has a personal webpage has to suffer. The argument of "don't want to pay for it, don't put it on the web" is moot. I've had a personal webpage hosted on a personal server for nearly 6 years and I know damn well that my site is not high traffic. So why should I expect at all to ever have a million billion hits in a 5 day period? I shouldn't unless someone from slashdot wants to make sure they look original and want to bash the hell out of my server when I know damn well that google has a cache of mysite. Google being a server that is used to high traffic already and has their own way of recouping the costs.
How are the personal websites supposed to recoup the costs? HOW? So why don't we just start robbing banks for slashdot, if the banks didn't want to be robbed they wouldn't have unlocked their front doors for business. Or how about anyone who owns a business, since they let ANYONE in their store it should be their fault if someone comes in and breaks everything, right?
You know what I'm sick of? Morons like you who think it's cool to be a heartless asshole.
TurboTax for the Web will let you electronically file your taxes for free. The catch?? You have to file ONLY the 1040-EZ and make less than $25K, but since that's what I've filed the last 5 years, it's no real problem for me (yeah being a student!). If you want to file a 1040 or 1040A it's something like $10.00. But they will do your state and federal taxes online and submit them electronically.
Why would this matter to/.? Well because for the last 2 years I've used it with netscape on linux with no troubles at all. So now you can do your taxes for free with linux electronically and get a refund in around 2 days.
So don't sit there for hours and do it with the "easy to follow IRS workbook" or load windows up to use a windows only program, or go pay someone far too much money to do it for you, do them online cheaply.
Best way to get around the registration hassle of software is to not use the software that requires you to register it.
Want to get Free Music, Free Videos, Free Internet Access, and Free Copies of Nearly Everybook ever published?
Sound all to good to be true? Just can't be right? Well fret no longer boys and girls and walk on down to your LOCAL LIBRARY.
It's very common to be able to read a book/magazine/newspaper or listen to a COPYRIGHTED music CD, or watch a COPYRIGHTED DVD, or surf the internet on a rather large pipe all for the low cost of NOTHING at your local library.
The previous arguments of "This will never work people will just find a way to circumvent the security" make just as much sense as checking out a book at the library will never work because no one will bring it back. You want to make an illegal copy of a book, then walk to your local library and use their copy machine and whamo you've got a copy of the book, AND you've violated a copyright law, when all you really had to do was check it out and then renew it or check it out again at a later time.
It boggles my mind how many people who have commented seem to have no idea how the library system works. Here let me put it in "Spent Too Much Time In The Dark In Front Of The Computer" terminology. Libraries are publically accessible databases of all the information in the entire world, it's like a leech ftp server where anyone can get one and reep the benifits of it. You never have to pay for anything so long as you follow the rules.
The difference between p2p and the library is a lack of hardcore porn.
Who cares who has "dirtier" dirty water. Hell parts of Ol Miss can't even keep fish alive in it. There is a twang of high radition in some areas. And lets not even get into the amount of chemicals that are used to kill things (bacteria, insects, weeds, etc.) and then there's the industry and sewage run off in it.
It's hard to believe that something in the wonderful utopia of wonderfulness which is America can have something so dirty running right down the middle of it.
You think it's so clean?? I'll getcha a glass, and we'll see if you want to drink it, considering how "Clean" it is.
I spent 20 years of my life living right beside the Mississippi River which runs straight through the middle of the USA, and it is the most god awful dirty water that I have ever seen.
The clean water act is a sham and anyone living on the ol miss knows it.
1.) Use Microsoft Server Solutions and leave system alone (as risky as driving 100 mph on ice)
2.) Use RPM based Linux Distribution and leave system alone (risky as swimming in a americanized river).
3.) Use OpenBSD and leave system alone (like sitting on a Sunday with your grandma in Utopia(tm)).
Is this the type of "security" they're talking about? I don't know of one system that advertises itself as "secure" other than OpenBSD. For an opensource site like slashdot I think the best tool for the job should definantelly be used.
Or if you insist on a RPM Linux solution, ge Bastille. And possibly look into a non-RPM based distro, for servers debian certainly works quite well. And if your server is IMPORTANT at all, subscribe to bugtraq, cert, and anything else that applies to your OS. It wouldn't hurt to check the homepage of your OS at least once a week either. And do routine audits on your system.
Security isn't hard if you actually make it a point to be conscious about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Well the linux crowd has always been promoting linux's "stability", while this would be really stable, it's still going to help out the linux market.
"Linux, good for protection against everything short of a nuclear explosion"
There are still scientists that argue EVOLUTION. This is nothing new, scientists looking to ride the coat-tails of rising stars in the field by doubting them. Obviously with the results not out before the entire idea was refuted, but this doesn't surprise me. PhD's who are "experts" in their field tend to be arrogant asses when it comes to something they didn't "discover".
Don't believe me, walk on to your local university and sit in on a graduate level class. Some people love to get paid to hear themselves speak.
Technically you can make an entire program out of C++ in one line, not one semi-colon, but one line none-the-less.
... slashdot's themselves ... is that considered ... mastochistic?
Man, what a whiner, did you stop and at least take a break on that long long trek?
I got your gc to pc cable right here ... it may look like speaker wire, but for $8, you can have your very own gc to pc cable that is 3' long!!
I bet you don't even have a gc, jerk.
Why don't you think about the starving children in the artic before you post such absurdities to a reputable site like slashdot?
How about if the entire microsoft headquarters was set ablaze and all the states attorney generals got to roast marshmallows on the remains? Of course not we all would think that was "unfair".
BUT MS having to give 1.2 billion dollars to the people of California, that's just not good enough.
So here's the question for all of you who think that this "isn't enough". What is enough? I'm meerly trying to spark discussion here, not put anyone down. I would really like to know what people think should be the punishment of microsoft.
Weigh in the amount of damage they've done, business lost and lives lost. Information stifled to just being at the right place at the right time. Explotation of the weak, or creating a market where there was none. I really want to know what the slashdot community thinks.
ugh, I'm going straight to hell for knowing movies too well.
those who have taken the time to reply without reading, and you're Not AC's so I'm going to take the time to reply here instead of to each of you individually.
What the? Why on earth would you need that much harddrive spacee to justify $1/TB??
Infering that for a meere $100 you could have 100 TB's which seems actually quite absurd at this moment in time. I didn't say that it would be impossible to fill a TB, but it would be damn hard to fill 100 TB right now. I'm not quite sure 100 TB's is fillable (is that a word) right now as far as speeds of download and what not. I think even planet mirror only has a few TB's on their entire server.
Bandwidth, backup media, etc will have to get this high as well. So I meant MULTIPLE TERRABYTE drives, not a couple terrabytes, lots of terrabytes.
Attention: Please Stand Up, Power Computer Down and Walk Away. Thank You.
Even if you ripped DVD's into VOB's ... you'd still need to rip over 100 to justify even 1 TB, and who the hell rips to just vob, that's like ripping to wav with a CD, you just don't do it.
Even with 4.7 gig DVD Burners, the days of multi terrabyte storage systems for the home is a little further off. Unless someone comes out with more justification for that much space (like a TiVO that can record 100 channels at the same time??)
Lets face it, the mp3 and other multimedia files has justified multi gig harddrives. Plus games that take up 600 megs a pop aren't exactly hurting the old cause. There's going to need to be justification for multi TB drives if they ever want to sell, well ... duh :-)
Ugh I feel like I'm at some kind of AA meeting where I need to be ashamed of my self for admitting that and work to better myself because of it.
Obviously with that standard A+ and level one CNE along with MCSE ... you sir are a computer genuis.
But I personally could probably just barely piece one of these "home media units" together. Furthermore, I wouldn't even know what to use it for.
Right, see this is a set-top box that happens to have a computer inside of it that runs and OS that most all of us are used to. That doesn't mean I want a computer sitting on top of my TV that has been rigged to use my TV-Out on the old video card. This is meant to be like a TiVO (read: Also a computer) where you don't ever have to do anything except use the remote to make it work, but it can interact with your home computer without wires (read: magic).
Some of us, like myself, still buy CDs from BMG and Columbia House. Yes, you read that correctly -- some of us still buy CDs.
Obviously here on slashdot all we do is STEAL them from the poor artists, hence why we hate the RIAA they just want to stop us all from breaking the law.
So, we have more need for 6 disc changes than we do for 10 GB discs of hard drives on which to store mostly-illegally-obtained mp3s.
Perhaps they didn't cover this in your "A+" training, but it is possible to take a CD that you own and rip it into an mp3/ogg/whatever and listen to it. But catch this, you need some type of media to store it on, usually a ... catch this ... a harddrive. 6 Audio CD's will easily fit on an CD with the songs compressed as MP3's making that 6 disc changer, non-essential, amazing isn't it?
Catch this, you can even rip a CD ... while you listen to it, making it non-essential to rip the CD at a later time, you can even setup a cd/mp3 software "program" to do this ... automatically (read: requires magic).
Sorry to rant, but:
Ahh, if you apologize first that makes it impossible for jerks like me to pick apart your stupid posts ...
1) HP clearly is out of their league and doesn't know their market, and,
Whoa did I see a degree in economics somewhere in that mess of worthless credentials at the top of this post?? Nope, obviously you don't have any clue what the intended market is for this product as it hasn't even been sold yet and you've declared it "out of their league". When obviously there is so many greater rivals out there doing the same thing, wait a minute, no their aren't.
2) No one aside from the most hardcore Slashdotter would even know what to do with one of these
Well I'm guessing they'd probably be used for ... viewing media ... hence the clever name of Digital Media Receiver.
Ya know, I remember when the TiVO came out and everyone said the EXACT same thing. That microsoft would come out with a better product to pound TiVO into the ground and that no one excecpt the uber geek would ever want to have one. Yet low-and-behold, even my grandma has a TiVO now because she doesn't like how hard it is to program her VCR. HP isn't stupid, they make computers really easy to use and asthetically appealing to the eye, look at Mac's popularity.
I think you need to realize that you aren't as smart as HP, seeing as they're a huge company and you're a moron with a win2000 cert ... hehehehe ... you want some advice, don't ever advertise you have an MCSE on slashdot. That's like saying you love to watch linux suck.
And I suppose you're some type of computer selling expert. Here's one for ya, I need a 286 right now. Wait a minute I can't go to the local computer store and buy one, nor can I order one from any big name computer dealer. That would mean I'm at the mercy of garage sales flea markets and the public school system. I would say that a 286 is worth thousands of dollars just like any piece of crap deamed old at a antique mall is worth thousands of dollars.
Perhaps you should think about starving children in the artic before you just spout out crap like this on a reputable site like slashdot.
You insensitive clod ...
Scary thing is ... there actually is a chance we'd win ...
This is the same as sueing the "A" group in highschool for not deeming you cool and because of that your self esteem suffered and you became a computer science major.
I'll print ya out a copy ...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf cluster of printers printing a beowulf ... UGH!!! OMG!!! IT'S FULL OF STARS!
Okay When I said RPM-Based Linux Distributions I was refering to the "Big Three" (RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE) all these distros come with a HUGE amount of overhead with the install of the system. Packages that are not neccessary for a security based system. Unless you specifically hold a gun to the installer's head it will install everything and the kitchen sink for the "Linux Experience (TM)".
Distributions such as Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo, CAN use RPM, but aren't part of the "Big 3" and do have the ability to install a bare bones system install with almost nothing from the get go, making the ability to build the system up from scratch easier for the admin to maintain.
As you noted in your wonderful reply, BSD may not be the answer, but OpenBSD is the ONLY Operating System to date that I've seen where even a newbie can rest a little easier knowing that the system is completely secure (so long as they install only what came with their CD). Why is this, because that's what OpenBSD is famous for and what OpenBSD is really good at.
If there is a company that wants to use "EgoStroking Linux" then that is what you are going to have to work with, but I have yet to see a secure system taht doesn't following the "K.I.S.S." model (and no that's not a detroit rock band ...) "Keep It Simple and Secure" in which something that is not neccessary to the system is not installed or used and if it is installed is deleted. All dameons are run in unprivledged accounts with little or no access to the system as a whole and with communications of programs limited to what is neccessary (IE: Is there a reason to have a time server on a web box? If not then disable the thing).
Rip up the RC's and anything else not neccessary at startup, make sure your directory permissions are tight, and for god sakes self audit your system.
So basically we're actually in agreement, but you decided to take my "sort of a joke" comment a little too seriously.
And I'll go to my grave saying that the most secure server is the one that is a molten goo in the middle of the earth.
You nailed it right there, is it really Turbo Tax Online's fault that you or your girlfriend never followed through? It's a very quick and simple call to the IRS to check the status of your tax procecssing ... and turbotax has an online status alert spot as well to tell you the status of your forms and where your refund is at.
Spend $50 and file with a real, wetware tax preparer.
What so they can lose it too? This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone using Turbo Tax for the web and having trouble at all. However most people I know who have been audited by ye old IRS are those that drop the $50 - $infinite on an "accountant".
Morale of the story, taxes are there whether you like them or not and if you choose to ignore them they will come back to haunt you. My advice would be very simple and go ahead and file your tax forms and make sure the IRS is happy with you, taxes can take anywhere from 3 days (my personal record) to 4 months to fully process.
Do it yourself if you have time, you will definantelly learn a thing or two. And if you make more than $30K a year it wouldn't hurt to jump to a local tax station and have them figure most everything out for you, as there are many ways to get a rebate or relief on taxes that very few people out of the loop will know about. So if you're dirt poor like me, use Turbo Tax for free ... if not ... unless you got an MBA under your belt, pop it to the tax station ...
Also ... if you owe money, do it by check and by snail mail (no reason to rush things ...) ... if you're getting a refund file electronically and have it directly deposited ... little personal SuperDuG advice for all ya'll.
Then quit reading comments if you're so sick of it.
Wait was that an obvious answer? Of course it was. The statement is quite true because there are many people who host websites out of their own pocket by a personal server. Here's the problem though. Slashdot and similar sites with high traffic link to the page in order to keep their visitors interested and to sell ads. Why is it okay for Slashdot to make money on someone elses misfortune, but stealing oil from a middle eastern country isn't? Slashdot makes money from people who come to their site (they show their access logs to companies and say "look at how many people come to out site, your ads will be seen billions of times", don't believe me, look at the top of this page) and there are many web hosters that provide a monthly allotment that then charge for bandwidth after that limit is reached or will simply disable the site.
So because slashdot wanted to make more money someone who has a personal webpage has to suffer. The argument of "don't want to pay for it, don't put it on the web" is moot. I've had a personal webpage hosted on a personal server for nearly 6 years and I know damn well that my site is not high traffic. So why should I expect at all to ever have a million billion hits in a 5 day period? I shouldn't unless someone from slashdot wants to make sure they look original and want to bash the hell out of my server when I know damn well that google has a cache of mysite. Google being a server that is used to high traffic already and has their own way of recouping the costs.
How are the personal websites supposed to recoup the costs? HOW? So why don't we just start robbing banks for slashdot, if the banks didn't want to be robbed they wouldn't have unlocked their front doors for business. Or how about anyone who owns a business, since they let ANYONE in their store it should be their fault if someone comes in and breaks everything, right?
You know what I'm sick of? Morons like you who think it's cool to be a heartless asshole.
oops ... did they change that? It used to be only for the 1040-EZ ... obviously I'm wrong, still a hell of a good deal ... free
TurboTax for the Web will let you electronically file your taxes for free. The catch?? You have to file ONLY the 1040-EZ and make less than $25K, but since that's what I've filed the last 5 years, it's no real problem for me (yeah being a student!). If you want to file a 1040 or 1040A it's something like $10.00. But they will do your state and federal taxes online and submit them electronically.
Why would this matter to /.? Well because for the last 2 years I've used it with netscape on linux with no troubles at all. So now you can do your taxes for free with linux electronically and get a refund in around 2 days.
So don't sit there for hours and do it with the "easy to follow IRS workbook" or load windows up to use a windows only program, or go pay someone far too much money to do it for you, do them online cheaply.
Best way to get around the registration hassle of software is to not use the software that requires you to register it.
Sound all to good to be true? Just can't be right? Well fret no longer boys and girls and walk on down to your LOCAL LIBRARY.
It's very common to be able to read a book/magazine/newspaper or listen to a COPYRIGHTED music CD, or watch a COPYRIGHTED DVD, or surf the internet on a rather large pipe all for the low cost of NOTHING at your local library.
The previous arguments of "This will never work people will just find a way to circumvent the security" make just as much sense as checking out a book at the library will never work because no one will bring it back. You want to make an illegal copy of a book, then walk to your local library and use their copy machine and whamo you've got a copy of the book, AND you've violated a copyright law, when all you really had to do was check it out and then renew it or check it out again at a later time.
It boggles my mind how many people who have commented seem to have no idea how the library system works. Here let me put it in "Spent Too Much Time In The Dark In Front Of The Computer" terminology. Libraries are publically accessible databases of all the information in the entire world, it's like a leech ftp server where anyone can get one and reep the benifits of it. You never have to pay for anything so long as you follow the rules.
The difference between p2p and the library is a lack of hardcore porn.
It's hard to believe that something in the wonderful utopia of wonderfulness which is America can have something so dirty running right down the middle of it.
You think it's so clean?? I'll getcha a glass, and we'll see if you want to drink it, considering how "Clean" it is.
The clean water act is a sham and anyone living on the ol miss knows it.
2.) Use RPM based Linux Distribution and leave system alone (risky as swimming in a americanized river).
3.) Use OpenBSD and leave system alone (like sitting on a Sunday with your grandma in Utopia(tm)).
Is this the type of "security" they're talking about? I don't know of one system that advertises itself as "secure" other than OpenBSD. For an opensource site like slashdot I think the best tool for the job should definantelly be used.
Or if you insist on a RPM Linux solution, ge Bastille. And possibly look into a non-RPM based distro, for servers debian certainly works quite well. And if your server is IMPORTANT at all, subscribe to bugtraq, cert, and anything else that applies to your OS. It wouldn't hurt to check the homepage of your OS at least once a week either. And do routine audits on your system.
Security isn't hard if you actually make it a point to be conscious about it.