I get what they were doing, and understand it's not direct piracy. However, I disagreed with Napster for the same reason I disagree with these guys. They intentionally facilitate piracy. It's one thing to have the ability to back up and copy your own data between devices. It's another thing all together when you allow sharing of data without better control.
Not bashing? "stuck at around the Windows 2000 era" - hmmm, I know it's behind windows, always will be (as long as windows will come with new versions), but it's not by any way that much behind.
Denyhosts can be set to block all, not just ssh, if wanted. I decided not to because some might have ISP NAT and that would block many people from my webserver... Maybe unlikely though, and leaving them an option to find an exploit in apache or wordpress might not be that good idea...
Sir, you have been loosing freedom for looong long time - replying this way every time your freedoms are taken away take astonishing levels of ignorance... or perhaps simply dementia.
30 days, huh? Finnish prepaid expires only if you haven't bought credit for 12 months... You don't have to use the credit at all if you don't want to but you do have to buy credit at least once a year to keep it active:) I've lived with prepaid for ~10 years now (thank god it's gotten cheaper) and usually I do buy credit once every month, but sometimes there have been a month without extra credit bought...
I was just thinking of why couldn't firefox implement a 64-bit build of browser but 32-bit build of "plugin-process", which they made a separate process from firefox-bin long ago on some 3.6.x version...
What is it always with "lynx" when a terminal/text-mode browser is mentioned - most systems today (all I've seen) have at least one of links versions (links/links2 or the best, eLinks, which I prefer when I use text only browsers), and then there is also w3m... of all these Lynx is the most outdated (although it does what it supports quite well), both UI and technical features (missing support for html tables in this day is really outdated....but I try to keep my websites functional and test it also with Lynx;)
You will never find anyplace where I have approved of the use of torture, or the threat of torture.
Except I did, in black and white.
No you didn't - and anyone can read the thread and see for themselves.
I don't know why I bothered with this reply as I know how arguing with trolls work - and hell, it's not even my battle. I just get frustrated when I see asses like you who make a mistake and then create an issue out of being mistaken like it's death before you admit it. I did this more to support your victim here than try to argument you - feel free to declare yourself winner after I don't reply back.
I'm sure everyone can figure out that it's good idea to "avoid using anything that breaks the system for what you need" by themselves so what's your point?
Buying standards that should not pass is not OK for me - neither is hardware vendor lock-in disguised as a security feature. Even if it prevents minor sector of malware from being able to infect the system (or at least being able to boot after that...) it's still not OK - there is no security justification for not allowing users to disable UEFI from BIOS (or whatever the ARM equivalent).
Oh, and getting caught and switching strategy does not make the original intentions good. And if you try and cause mischief but fail to harm anybody/thing you're still an asshole.
And statements like that are just as bad as his, and mister AC above.
Worse. A simple sentence implying the writer does not like particular language without giving any explanation in article where it's not really even the subject is minor flaw, if even that. Calling someone a retard for this is sign of some major behavior issues. I know I would be slightly annoyed if someone said the same, but about perl - I would not automatically think that the person is retard or even that he doesn't understand perl (although it's a possibility). All in all it would be of very small significance.
...and here I thought it was pretty much the norm, at least in 1st world (and well, anything not 3rd world), for internet connections - I know it is in Finland, and we don't have no stinking data caps either.
I don't think there are keyloggers in my xscreensaver - hell, I even trust Microsoft for not putting them in the few screensavers that ship with their OS....there was one 3rd party screensaver for windows that I really liked. It was called "hypnogenic screensaver" and it looked really good even when not on acid;) I actually set xscreensaver on linux to run it with wine but it didn't work perfectly - disabling screensaver or bringing up the password prompt took two or even more keypress to work... I ended up disabling it.
BTW, my similar story: I purchased a NeXT machine in 1991. It came with a 110 MB hard drive, which wasn't a lot of space even then. I quickly ran out and so I started looking for stuff that I could delete to save space. I found that a big chunk of my disk space was consumed by ".so" files in various "lib" directories. Clearly they were files that I never used, so I deleted them. The system kept running, for a little while...
LOL, I did the equivalent with MS-DOS 5 on family IBM PS/1 with 30MB HD - luckily the system had IBM DOS 4 on ROM drive which you could boot if there was no bootable system installed on HD. Don't remember how we got it to not try and boot from HD but still make it available (so we could fix it).
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Yes, there is a huge difference, which makes you a big hunking idiot.
I get what they were doing, and understand it's not direct piracy. However, I disagreed with Napster for the same reason I disagree with these guys. They intentionally facilitate piracy. It's one thing to have the ability to back up and copy your own data between devices. It's another thing all together when you allow sharing of data without better control.
This is hardly comparisable to what napster did.
Not bashing? "stuck at around the Windows 2000 era" - hmmm, I know it's behind windows, always will be (as long as windows will come with new versions), but it's not by any way that much behind.
In eLinks, I believe, table support can be disabled, but you have a point.
Denyhosts can be set to block all, not just ssh, if wanted. I decided not to because some might have ISP NAT and that would block many people from my webserver... Maybe unlikely though, and leaving them an option to find an exploit in apache or wordpress might not be that good idea...
Thanks, I'll try it someday...
Did I misunderstand or do you get billed for receiving calls? Man that must suck....
I was just baffled, didn't assume you thought it was good either :)
Sir, you have been loosing freedom for looong long time - replying this way every time your freedoms are taken away take astonishing levels of ignorance... or perhaps simply dementia.
Also it's unlikely to be the end of subsidized devices as it hasn't been the end of them anywhere else either.
Ha - USA puts corporation protection laws where others have consumer protection laws.
So they steal your money if you don't use it? Nice...
Our prepaid's in Finland can expire if no credit is bought for 12 months, and that's just because in such case the card is not in active use anymore.
30 days, huh? Finnish prepaid expires only if you haven't bought credit for 12 months... You don't have to use the credit at all if you don't want to but you do have to buy credit at least once a year to keep it active :) I've lived with prepaid for ~10 years now (thank god it's gotten cheaper) and usually I do buy credit once every month, but sometimes there have been a month without extra credit bought...
I was just thinking of why couldn't firefox implement a 64-bit build of browser but 32-bit build of "plugin-process", which they made a separate process from firefox-bin long ago on some 3.6.x version...
What is it always with "lynx" when a terminal/text-mode browser is mentioned - most systems today (all I've seen) have at least one of links versions (links/links2 or the best, eLinks, which I prefer when I use text only browsers), and then there is also w3m... of all these Lynx is the most outdated (although it does what it supports quite well), both UI and technical features (missing support for html tables in this day is really outdated. ...but I try to keep my websites functional and test it also with Lynx ;)
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling scientists at the Manhattan project.
Especially Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Osterman.
You will never find anyplace where I have approved of the use of torture, or the threat of torture.
Except I did, in black and white.
No you didn't - and anyone can read the thread and see for themselves.
I don't know why I bothered with this reply as I know how arguing with trolls work - and hell, it's not even my battle. I just get frustrated when I see asses like you who make a mistake and then create an issue out of being mistaken like it's death before you admit it. I did this more to support your victim here than try to argument you - feel free to declare yourself winner after I don't reply back.
I'm sure everyone can figure out that it's good idea to "avoid using anything that breaks the system for what you need" by themselves so what's your point?
Thank you for these details.
Buying standards that should not pass is not OK for me - neither is hardware vendor lock-in disguised as a security feature. Even if it prevents minor sector of malware from being able to infect the system (or at least being able to boot after that...) it's still not OK - there is no security justification for not allowing users to disable UEFI from BIOS (or whatever the ARM equivalent).
Oh, and getting caught and switching strategy does not make the original intentions good. And if you try and cause mischief but fail to harm anybody/thing you're still an asshole.
I have to admit I don't know/remember Dazzle...
And statements like that are just as bad as his, and mister AC above.
Worse. A simple sentence implying the writer does not like particular language without giving any explanation in article where it's not really even the subject is minor flaw, if even that. Calling someone a retard for this is sign of some major behavior issues.
I know I would be slightly annoyed if someone said the same, but about perl - I would not automatically think that the person is retard or even that he doesn't understand perl (although it's a possibility). All in all it would be of very small significance.
...and here I thought it was pretty much the norm, at least in 1st world (and well, anything not 3rd world), for internet connections - I know it is in Finland, and we don't have no stinking data caps either.
I don't think there are keyloggers in my xscreensaver - hell, I even trust Microsoft for not putting them in the few screensavers that ship with their OS. ...there was one 3rd party screensaver for windows that I really liked. It was called "hypnogenic screensaver" and it looked really good even when not on acid ;) I actually set xscreensaver on linux to run it with wine but it didn't work perfectly - disabling screensaver or bringing up the password prompt took two or even more keypress to work... I ended up disabling it.
BTW, my similar story: I purchased a NeXT machine in 1991. It came with a 110 MB hard drive, which wasn't a lot of space even then. I quickly ran out and so I started looking for stuff that I could delete to save space. I found that a big chunk of my disk space was consumed by ".so" files in various "lib" directories. Clearly they were files that I never used, so I deleted them. The system kept running, for a little while...
LOL, I did the equivalent with MS-DOS 5 on family IBM PS/1 with 30MB HD - luckily the system had IBM DOS 4 on ROM drive which you could boot if there was no bootable system installed on HD. Don't remember how we got it to not try and boot from HD but still make it available (so we could fix it).