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but 9x/ME is designed for home users who don't care about security or networking.
Funny, the MSN and AOL login icons on the default Windows desktop had me thinking that it was designed for networking. Or maybe it was just never really designed at all...
You probably shouldn't be running bind (or anything else).
Agreed, but it's a rather damning indictment of Linux if after so many years and so many eyeballs, the 'standard' services still have security holes. Just MHO.
This sounds like an excellent company to not work at. Quit, tell them why you are quitting, and go find another job at a company with some sort of ethics.
Of course, another point could be made about the intelligence needed to live in a part of the world where the power goes off every couple of weeks.
So are you implying that you were smart enough to choose where you were born, or that you were willing to move to another country in order to enjoy a more reliable electricity supply?
Just an idea. Won't happen, though, especially now that Bush decided to let us go ahead and depend on coal plants for the next 4 years.
The Americans knowingly voted in an idiot, so now they get the idiot decisions they asked for. I can't remember who said it, but there is a nice quote "Democracy is the process of making sure the people get what they want, and get it good and hard".
This is nonsense. Not to defend the MPAA, but 7 lines of C code (especially all packed up like that) is enough to represent some very complicated ideas.
Not to mention that the length of your program will depend on what concepts/keywords are present in the language itself. As a stupid example, suppose C came with a decss keyword built in to the compiler. Then I could write a DeCSS decoder in just one line of code!
Is it illegal to distribute numbers when they happen to represent copyrighted/illegal data?
As a matter of fact, it is. The source code to any program (including closed-source programs) is in reality a string of bytes, which is the same as a (very very large) number. And the transmission of that number is restricted by the gov't.
Does an abused child deserve whatever it gets for not being clever enough to get itself out of it's situation?
Do you really think an abused child is in any way analogous to the topic at hand? Or are you just trolling with inflammatory analogies? Perhaps you will compare me to Hitler next?
As optimistic as I am about alternative-powered cars, I always fear that the multi-billionaire oil companies will just step in and squash whatever idea people have about alternative fuel.
Perhaps, but one of the things they are working on is converters to turn fossil fuels into hydrogen. If those pan out, then the oil companies probably wouldn't mind so much.
Hydrogen isn't safe. Not that gasolene is particularly safe, but the logic in the parent
post is pretty contrived and false.
I expect the logic was this: Gasoline has been deemed by society to be 'safe enough'. Hydrogen is about as safe/dangerous as gasoline. Therefore, hydrogen is also 'safe enough'.
No, they deserve whatever they get. More specifically, if their concept of reality is so completely determined by what they here on the the TV that they don't even think to look for themselves, then I don't feel any motivation to point out the obvious to them. If Ted Koppel told you that your car had been stolen, would you go out and buy a new one without checking your driveway first?
Where stupid is defined as something I would never be.
all of my friends are novice napsterbaters at best, and they never even try to sign on anymore, since the press keeps telling them on the evening news that napster is dead. lost its court case. defunct. deceased.
Try as I might, I just can't bring myself to care what these people think. Anyone that dumb deserves whatever they get.
At the risk of being flamed... isn't the case that a hydroelectric dam replaces a land ecology with an underwater ecology? Whether or not that is a good thing is debatable, but it certainly doesn't 'ruin ecologies' the way Chernobyl (or Los Angeles) did...
Only the creator of a work can choose to make it Free. As Linus said, "everything else is just whining."
Try looking at it another way. Once the author of the work makes it publically available, anyone who can read it can also pass it on, regardless of the author's wishes. That is a simple fact, based on how computers and the Internet work. Whether or not it is moral or immoral to do so is beside the point; it's possible, it's easy, and people will do it. Everything else is just whining.
But we all know that various RIAA members have expressed interests in online music delivery including Sony, BMG and EMI
I can't wait for that... I bet they'll come out with both a Windows and a MacOS version, and if we're really lucky you'll be able to use it under Netscape as well as IE5.
Or, to put it less sarcastically... a closed, proprietary solution is no solution at all, as far as my (BeOS/Linux using) self is concerned.
why don't they just scan the actual content of the files?
To do that, they'd have to download every file that anyone shares, every time the person logs in. I don't think Napster can afford that much bandwidth. Worse, once they did download each and every shared file, they'd be faced with determining whether or not the file was 'acoustically equivalent' to any of the copyrighted files in their database. That's harder than it sounds, given that each mp3 might have been encoded at a different bit rate, with different software, with varying amounts of noise introduced by the A/D conversion, etc.
the license terms are onerous, don't use it. If that means people don't buy your computers, well, they have that right, too.
This is all well and good as a philosophical stance, but in real life your freedom is reduced to "Do what Microsoft tells you, or go out of business". A strange sort of freedom, if you ask me.
The key difference is that your typical *nix user isn't naive enough to try AnnaKournikova.jpg.pl when they see it.
Of course, it helps that your typical *nix user can actually see the.pl extension. Windows, in its infinite wisdom, defaults to hiding filename extensions from the user, so as not to confuse them. Thus 'AnnaKornikova.jpg.vbs' appears as 'AnnaKornikova.jpg', but still launches the Visual Basic interpreter when you launch it. Thanks, guys, that really made things easy!
What if you set up the share so your old PC can talk to your new PC? It may not be common sense to Joe Bestbuy that the entire world can see the stuff, too
If Joe's file-sharing software is doing what he wants it to do, or is doing things he doesn't want it to do, then that is a problem between Joe and his software provider.
The "Free" version they give out lives inside of a file on the hard drive, which is the only "drive" seen as native BeOS FS. As far as I know, there is no way to up this file size, and it's only 500 megs.
If you had gone to the trouble of asking how to do this (on any of the numerous BeOS forums), instead of just whining to SlashDot about it, you would have found that it's quite easy to do, without buying anything. To wit:
Find (or create) an partition on your hard drive that you don't mind replacing with a BFS partition.
Boot into BeOS R5/Personal, and run "DriveSetup" from the preferences menu.
Find the partition mentioned in step 1, and initialize it as a BFS partition.
Right click on the Desktop to mount the new BFS partition
Run Installer from the Applications menu, and tell it to install from your R5/Personal pseudo-partition to the new BFS partition
If desired, run bootman from a Terminal window to create a boot menu that will let you boot the new partition
This is the sign of a desperate enterprise trying to stay afloat. IMO this sucks. Napster is selling out. No more are they the pirates of old, they are now just another corporate socialist republic out to keep their footing.
This didn't happen recently; this happened the day they decided to use Napster (the program) as the basis for Napster (the dot-com).
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Funny, the MSN and AOL login icons on the default Windows desktop had me thinking that it was designed for networking. Or maybe it was just never really designed at all...
Agreed, but it's a rather damning indictment of Linux if after so many years and so many eyeballs, the 'standard' services still have security holes. Just MHO.
This sounds like an excellent company to not work at. Quit, tell them why you are quitting, and go find another job at a company with some sort of ethics.
This looks like a job for the Centurion!
Nobody said government was the be all/end all of anything. It's just a great deal better than anarchy, is all.
So are you implying that you were smart enough to choose where you were born, or that you were willing to move to another country in order to enjoy a more reliable electricity supply?
The Americans knowingly voted in an idiot, so now they get the idiot decisions they asked for. I can't remember who said it, but there is a nice quote "Democracy is the process of making sure the people get what they want, and get it good and hard".
Not to mention that the length of your program will depend on what concepts/keywords are present in the language itself. As a stupid example, suppose C came with a decss keyword built in to the compiler. Then I could write a DeCSS decoder in just one line of code!
void main() {decss;}
But what does that prove?
So you are arguing that the Napster user in this scenario is not in control of his/her own actions?
Hitler spoke better german than you.
lol! :^)
As a matter of fact, it is. The source code to any program (including closed-source programs) is in reality a string of bytes, which is the same as a (very very large) number. And the transmission of that number is restricted by the gov't.
I'm not particularly happy about it, either.
-Jeremy
Do you really think an abused child is in any way analogous to the topic at hand? Or are you just trolling with inflammatory analogies? Perhaps you will compare me to Hitler next?
Perhaps, but one of the things they are working on is converters to turn fossil fuels into hydrogen. If those pan out, then the oil companies probably wouldn't mind so much.
I expect the logic was this: Gasoline has been deemed by society to be 'safe enough'. Hydrogen is about as safe/dangerous as gasoline. Therefore, hydrogen is also 'safe enough'.
Thanks, I try. :^)
stupid people deserve nothing?
No, they deserve whatever they get. More specifically, if their concept of reality is so completely determined by what they here on the the TV that they don't even think to look for themselves, then I don't feel any motivation to point out the obvious to them. If Ted Koppel told you that your car had been stolen, would you go out and buy a new one without checking your driveway first?
Where stupid is defined as something I would never be.
Hopefully.
Try as I might, I just can't bring myself to care what these people think. Anyone that dumb deserves whatever they get.
Interesting analogy... a biscuit to the first person who comes up with a viable 'peer-to-peer' transportation/energy-distribution system.
At the risk of being flamed... isn't the case that a hydroelectric dam replaces a land ecology with an underwater ecology? Whether or not that is a good thing is debatable, but it certainly doesn't 'ruin ecologies' the way Chernobyl (or Los Angeles) did...
Try looking at it another way. Once the author of the work makes it publically available, anyone who can read it can also pass it on, regardless of the author's wishes. That is a simple fact, based on how computers and the Internet work. Whether or not it is moral or immoral to do so is beside the point; it's possible, it's easy, and people will do it. Everything else is just whining.
I can't wait for that... I bet they'll come out with both a Windows and a MacOS version, and if we're really lucky you'll be able to use it under Netscape as well as IE5.
Or, to put it less sarcastically... a closed, proprietary solution is no solution at all, as far as my (BeOS/Linux using) self is concerned.
To do that, they'd have to download every file that anyone shares, every time the person logs in. I don't think Napster can afford that much bandwidth. Worse, once they did download each and every shared file, they'd be faced with determining whether or not the file was 'acoustically equivalent' to any of the copyrighted files in their database. That's harder than it sounds, given that each mp3 might have been encoded at a different bit rate, with different software, with varying amounts of noise introduced by the A/D conversion, etc.
This is all well and good as a philosophical stance, but in real life your freedom is reduced to "Do what Microsoft tells you, or go out of business". A strange sort of freedom, if you ask me.
Of course, it helps that your typical *nix user can actually see the .pl extension. Windows, in its infinite wisdom, defaults to hiding filename extensions from the user, so as not to confuse them. Thus 'AnnaKornikova.jpg.vbs' appears as 'AnnaKornikova.jpg', but still launches the Visual Basic interpreter when you launch it. Thanks, guys, that really made things easy!
If Joe's file-sharing software is doing what he wants it to do, or is doing things he doesn't want it to do, then that is a problem between Joe and his software provider.
If you had gone to the trouble of asking how to do this (on any of the numerous BeOS forums), instead of just whining to SlashDot about it, you would have found that it's quite easy to do, without buying anything. To wit:
This didn't happen recently; this happened the day they decided to use Napster (the program) as the basis for Napster (the dot-com).