I would probably report it. But if, say I found a way to crack the/. polls and make vi beat emacs AND cowboyNealTextEditor, you could bet I wouldn't report it, and use it myself!
Everytime a new 'technology' like this gets posted on/., everyone goes on how stupid it is, how many better alternatives there are, what morons the lawyers and business execs are for treating customers so badly, and why this idea should be killed. Agreed, but irrelevant. You, the technologically aware computer geek, are not the target audience. These products are made for Joe American who can use (but not administer) his Wintel or Mac, doesn't know how to code, and thinks its really spiffy that he can pay 10 or 20 USD to use some new-fangled gizmo and show it off to his football buddies. You think the latest Linux kernel is neat? Joe American thinks the latest end user computer product is neat. Chances are the latest gizmo won't be around for that long anyways, so whats the harm. No need to start ranting until some illegal or immoral activity happens.
Too bad it doesn't work that way. Sure, discerning people like yourself may look at the options, and choose the best music at the best price. But your average music buyer purchases what the media and the RIAA says he or she should purchase. You actually think someone bought the latest [insert boy-band, rap artist, or navel-exposing silicone female with quasi-decent voice here] CD because he listened to different music and decided what songs were best?
Red Shift: a distant light source moving away from you appears more red; due to the dopplar effect the lenghs of the waves becomes elongated, thus more red (red's wavelenght is longest of visible light)
Wake Turbulance: as a solid objects passes through a fluid medium (think wing through air), you get high pressure under the wing, and low pressure on top, and the fluid spirals as the high pressure fluid tries to move up to where the low pressure is.
worst idea ever. Linux distros are building on a free system. Many of the distros, including some of the best (go debian!) are not even made by companies. The companies that have distros need to add features and support to get customers. I wouldn't bet on any major OEMs adding features and offering support.
Microsoft was putting things in THEIR product (Windows) to give THEMSELVES an advantage. AOL is trying to put things in someone ELSE's product to give them an advantage, without the consent of that someone else. This is like Ford paying an independant car lot to replace the logos on Chevrolets with Ford logos.
Okay, well assume that everyone does hate you and given your information, will come TP your house for what you say on your web site. Yeah yeah, you can argue free speech, but when the framers of the US Constitution included free speech, I think they assumed that identity of the one doing the speaking would be known. Doesn't give you the right to be an Anonymous Coward everywhere. You don't want your info released? Then shut up and don't make a web site.
As an undergraduate student at a big tech school, the internet is an invaluable resource. However, after dropping 2,000USD for my computer and 18,000USD/year for tuition and bandwidth, I just don't have the money to start paying for online content. Oh, and I refuse to go into debt with credit cards.
Some nerds are interested in matter of science other than computers and electronics, believe it or not. You know, all the stuff outside your server closet?
Isn't this something like AIM's authentication for the oscar protocol? Many groups (trillian, jabber, gaim) have found ways around that. Is it conceivable to trick the Napster servers in a similar way? Not that anyone who would bother with CVS nightlies hasn't already found a better alternative.
Okay, why not a really simple solution? First Ammendment gives free speech. Nothing about anyone having to listen. So why not say all unsolicited advertising email must have a "SPAM" header. You can have your computer filter it. Your ISP can filter it. The spammer's ISP can filter it on the way out. Saves a lot of bandwidth and hassle. Violators could be punished by being forced to pay the recipient for his ISP that day, and the ISP for the bandwidth that day.
Sure, end users may like this idea, but if those running the computer systems don't go for it, it won't fly. I would think those who know and love UNIX and its 'many tools' philosophy will be aprehensive about.NET's one really big monolithic (bloated?) tool.
Well, I think the elderly will learn computers just like everybody else does. By screwing around on them and doing random stuff.
I do not think this is the case. I have been teaching my grandfather, whose last computer ran DOS 6, to use his brand new HP, complete with scanner, printer, and CDR-RW drive. He picked up the mouse and GUI very quickly, but he will not learn anything by poking around. Why is this? He won't remember what he did. Unfortunately, as people get older, the memory starts to go. I had to teach him the same thing over and over, and he'd still say, "I don't remember doing this last time." What worked very well (my grandmother's idea) was having an index card for each task. One to connect to the ISP, one to scan, one to check email, one to instant message someone. He may not remember what he's supposed to do, but he can follow the instructions on the card, and learn the tasks at whatever rate he happens to learn them.
It is a wonderful thing that good programmers that want to customize software can get the source and do it at will. Unfortunately, that leaves those of us without the time, motivation, or ability to learn that particular langauge without software we like. A majority of computer users are not programmers. You may call us 14m3; but I have no regrets that I've decided to study mechanical instead of software engineering. But due to the difference in the fields, you will be able to take your car to a custom shop and have them modify it to suit your wants. It is unlikely that I will be able to take some open source to a programmer and pay him or her to modify it to fit my wants. The beauty of UNIX is that I can put the tools together fairly easily to create a software environment to my liking. Endeavors like Mozilla, however noble they may be, do not allow this.
mozilla does a lot of things i don't want it to. it may know how joe user likes his eggs, but it doesn't know that i like mine steamed, over easy, with cinnimon. and won't let me tell it.
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I would probably report it. But if, say I found a way to crack the /. polls and make vi beat emacs AND cowboyNealTextEditor, you could bet I wouldn't report it, and use it myself!
Now they can count all the IIS servers that showed up in their apache logs; the IIS servers that don't have any content and were previously unknown.
Everytime a new 'technology' like this gets posted on /., everyone goes on how stupid it is, how many better alternatives there are, what morons the lawyers and business execs are for treating customers so badly, and why this idea should be killed. Agreed, but irrelevant. You, the technologically aware computer geek, are not the target audience. These products are made for Joe American who can use (but not administer) his Wintel or Mac, doesn't know how to code, and thinks its really spiffy that he can pay 10 or 20 USD to use some new-fangled gizmo and show it off to his football buddies. You think the latest Linux kernel is neat? Joe American thinks the latest end user computer product is neat. Chances are the latest gizmo won't be around for that long anyways, so whats the harm. No need to start ranting until some illegal or immoral activity happens.
oh, for the days when you either memorized or wrote down IP addy's and the 'net wasn't clogged with aol'ers and lawyers.
Too bad it doesn't work that way. Sure, discerning people like yourself may look at the options, and choose the best music at the best price. But your average music buyer purchases what the media and the RIAA says he or she should purchase. You actually think someone bought the latest [insert boy-band, rap artist, or navel-exposing silicone female with quasi-decent voice here] CD because he listened to different music and decided what songs were best?
Red Shift: a distant light source moving away from you appears more red; due to the dopplar effect the lenghs of the waves becomes elongated, thus more red (red's wavelenght is longest of visible light)
Wake Turbulance: as a solid objects passes through a fluid medium (think wing through air), you get high pressure under the wing, and low pressure on top, and the fluid spirals as the high pressure fluid tries to move up to where the low pressure is.
Distance Formula: d=sqrt( (x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 )
adding your logos is one thing. removing someone else's is something else alltogether.
worst idea ever. Linux distros are building on a free system. Many of the distros, including some of the best (go debian!) are not even made by companies. The companies that have distros need to add features and support to get customers. I wouldn't bet on any major OEMs adding features and offering support.
Microsoft was putting things in THEIR product (Windows) to give THEMSELVES an advantage. AOL is trying to put things in someone ELSE's product to give them an advantage, without the consent of that someone else. This is like Ford paying an independant car lot to replace the logos on Chevrolets with Ford logos.
Okay, well assume that everyone does hate you and given your information, will come TP your house for what you say on your web site. Yeah yeah, you can argue free speech, but when the framers of the US Constitution included free speech, I think they assumed that identity of the one doing the speaking would be known. Doesn't give you the right to be an Anonymous Coward everywhere. You don't want your info released? Then shut up and don't make a web site.
As an undergraduate student at a big tech school, the internet is an invaluable resource. However, after dropping 2,000USD for my computer and 18,000USD/year for tuition and bandwidth, I just don't have the money to start paying for online content. Oh, and I refuse to go into debt with credit cards.
And you can work and pay taxes at 16, but still can't vote for two years. Taxation without representation. Hmm, that sounds familiar. . .
what the heck, here it is:
PS1='\@[\w]\$ '
where am I?
when am I?
all i need to know.
multiple imap accounts!
multiple smtp servers!
correlate smtp server with imap account!
goodbye Outlook. (:
Some nerds are interested in matter of science other than computers and electronics, believe it or not. You know, all the stuff outside your server closet?
Isn't this something like AIM's authentication for the oscar protocol? Many groups (trillian, jabber, gaim) have found ways around that. Is it conceivable to trick the Napster servers in a similar way? Not that anyone who would bother with CVS nightlies hasn't already found a better alternative.
Okay, why not a really simple solution? First Ammendment gives free speech. Nothing about anyone having to listen. So why not say all unsolicited advertising email must have a "SPAM" header. You can have your computer filter it. Your ISP can filter it. The spammer's ISP can filter it on the way out. Saves a lot of bandwidth and hassle. Violators could be punished by being forced to pay the recipient for his ISP that day, and the ISP for the bandwidth that day.
Sure, end users may like this idea, but if those running the computer systems don't go for it, it won't fly. I would think those who know and love UNIX and its 'many tools' philosophy will be aprehensive about .NET's one really big monolithic (bloated?) tool.
but stupid drivers do.
I'm not sure I like the fines for speeding; but if they could have one for failure to use a turn signal, I'd be all for it!
could you imagine if email, or the web, or God forbid, even the basic transfer protocol, were being developed today?
scary.
Well, I think the elderly will learn computers just like everybody else does. By screwing around on them and doing random stuff.
I do not think this is the case. I have been teaching my grandfather, whose last computer ran DOS 6, to use his brand new HP, complete with scanner, printer, and CDR-RW drive. He picked up the mouse and GUI very quickly, but he will not learn anything by poking around. Why is this? He won't remember what he did. Unfortunately, as people get older, the memory starts to go. I had to teach him the same thing over and over, and he'd still say, "I don't remember doing this last time." What worked very well (my grandmother's idea) was having an index card for each task. One to connect to the ISP, one to scan, one to check email, one to instant message someone. He may not remember what he's supposed to do, but he can follow the instructions on the card, and learn the tasks at whatever rate he happens to learn them.
It is a wonderful thing that good programmers that want to customize software can get the source and do it at will. Unfortunately, that leaves those of us without the time, motivation, or ability to learn that particular langauge without software we like. A majority of computer users are not programmers. You may call us 14m3; but I have no regrets that I've decided to study mechanical instead of software engineering. But due to the difference in the fields, you will be able to take your car to a custom shop and have them modify it to suit your wants. It is unlikely that I will be able to take some open source to a programmer and pay him or her to modify it to fit my wants. The beauty of UNIX is that I can put the tools together fairly easily to create a software environment to my liking. Endeavors like Mozilla, however noble they may be, do not allow this.
mozilla does a lot of things i don't want it to. it may know how joe user likes his eggs, but it doesn't know that i like mine steamed, over easy, with cinnimon. and won't let me tell it.
the faa will never let him do it.
i hope he, in the true spirit of Amercia, does it anyway.
So this falls under #1. Testing the security of a system with no malicious intent.