delete files in c:\ (for some reason even if you install in say F: win2k insists on putting files in c:\ and not protecting them as it does those in %sysroot%\)
In this case, however, the copyright holders (DeCSS Authors) gave explicit permission for their works to be distributed and others (MPAA) are attempting to subvert their right to do so
Most of the sysadmins I have known make half to one third of what most of the developers I have known make. Sysadmins are often considered support staff, and therefore often get less money. The DBA's and MIS manager types are the few exceptions.
Apple has sued other companies for using the All-In-One design, the translucent design, and the graphical interface. Now they go with a cube and get sued by Cobalt. I am not sure what to think of this except that it was bound to come around sometime.
Then.. look at it. Try it for yourself. Basically what happens is that even as Administrator you cannot delete files in the \winnt directory. You can try, after many warnings not to, but they automagically come back. Certified driver installers can replace the files, nothing else AFAIK.
Of course it would be interesting to see how prone this process is to exploitation by viruses...
Suppose im starting a cult or sect or whatever tomorrow and call it "the followers of satan".
Interesting that you bring that up, given that the Church of Satan is a fully recognized religion in the US.
Does this make me the leader of a religion? No. Simply because religions tend to have a history (sometimes of a few thousand years).
I bet that is what they told Jesus, too. And Martin Luther, and Joeseph Smith... Buddha, anyone? Mohammed? The point is that in the US the wording of our constitution dictates that the government has NO RIGHT to distinguish what is and is not a religion. This law is not always evenly applied, but that is its spirit. Once you can say that a religion is not an "official" religion, you are establishing what religions are legal and what are not, thus serving to establish a state religion. This is the opposite of freedom of religion.
In the US the Scientologists won their case against the IRS (who had revoked their tax-free status) on these grounds. Yes, I agree that they are in a grey area because Scientology could be argued to be a business (they sell books and training). But then so could Catholicism and any number of other religions.
As for harassing members who leave, the scientologists have certainly not cornered the market on that. Most mainstream churches will send letters, call, perhaps even visit members who are notably absent. In the Scientologists case, my understanding is that they are more diligent in cases where a member is in arrears for books and equipment, or has otherwise formed contractual obligations which are now unfulfilled.
Weeding out religions is religious discrimination, more expected in a repressive nation like china (which has outlawed IIRC every religion) than in a supposedly free nation like Germany.
Seriously, don't argue the point, it was created to swap copies of songs, not to "promote small artists" or whatever. Do you think when Shawn Fanning wrote the software he thought, "Great! Now my friends and I can exchange all the unsigned bands we listen to!"
I'm not so sure about that. The angle of promoting bands through mp3 far predates Napster. And their New Artist Program, accessable from their front page, gives the name of songs and artists that are not so well-known to search for.
If everyone used Napster, both Fred Durst AND Lars Ulrich would be working at McDonalds, probably together, bitching about how they wish they could make money off of their music, instead of having to distribute it for free.
Oh really? Metallica is one of many bands that has benefitted from the promotion available through ostensibly illegal bootlegging and copying. In Lars' interview with/., he not only admitted that but that he himself bootlegs the work of other bands. His justification was that if he likes the tape he hears, he buys the album, just like the fans who made Metallica famous by spreading bootlegged tapes of albums and concerts, and now Napster.
Metallica supported bootlegging and continues to support it in any form but Napster. the reason is that they acknowledge that they would be working at McDonald's if people did not "steal" their music. The Napster thing is more about control. Lars wants the ability to opt-out if he does not like the medium. "[I]t's not a money issue" (his own words).
Whenever someone "h4x0rs" a box it adds to the horror stories governments can reiterate to justify legislation like this. As we all know, these laws only hurt crackers and child pornographers .
Of course some of the cracks and DOSSes have been linked to governments opposed to the site attacked (hmm makes you wonder about all these attacks on the free speech news sites, eh?). But the greater part are likely bona fide script kiddies. And the end is the same: those who do it serve to support legislation like this.
The comment about this not hurting e-commerce is BS. Obviously internet traffic will double, which will affect bandwidth pricing and availability. This will certainly hamper e-commerce, as will the exodus of isp's and colocation services from the UK and the migration of users to site that will not cause them to cross the uk borders in their access paths.
I see your point with the Penis Birds. But then I have noticed that PBG has toned down his submissions (from his debut, in which an entire story overflowed with penis birds). At this point it is basically a running joke. Time will tell whether it takes a place along with Monty Python Parrot Sketch or instead suffers the fate of the Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified (Notice that there are no more of those, that and grits are basically referred to at times, but you never see them in their original glory anymore).
I totally disagree with you on the silencing of bitchslapped accounts. True, there are many accounts that have been created for the express purpose of provoking a bitchslap. But before their existence the bitchslap was a secret and even now remains an undocumented "feature" of/. The bitchslap represents a gross abuse of power even in its present form and has been used wrongfully in the past (for instance as a tool to punish moderators who dared moderate down Signal11, a situation which may or may not be repeated). This has never been addressed directly and the bitchslap system has never been defined or defended by the/. crew. Additionally, they have never confirmed or denied its continuing abuse though to his credit CT did confirm what had happened in the above cases.
Silencing any voice is a precursor to silencing every voice. In america, we tolerate Springer and the Klan speaking hoping that this will mean those with meaningful criticisms will be allowed to speak. On/. osm can post his stories and the PBG can spread his "flock" to cover the heavens (what an image that conjures!) but that means that those with meaningful criticisms cannot be silenced (though they are often moderated to oblivion by those who would seek to silence them).
JK is not AFAIK helping k5 directly, but then his strengths are said to be in journalism and commentary, not network security. However CT helped the K5 crew considerably with technical advice, and VA is sending them hardware, so his "colleagues" are doing quite a bit considering K5 is basically a competitor.
I would have to say it reflects well on Commander Taco and VA Linux Systems that they were able to be helpful to a competitor. Apparently CT gave lots of advice (which I am sure drew on copious experience) to the fledgeling K5 admins, and now VA is giving them hardware (which is totally unexpected I am sure)!
Looks like those who would say VA/Andover/CT//. are biased, sold out corporate shells, or otherwise not part of us as a community are dead wrong. Maybe CT will write an Oreilly published "Successful Web-Based Comment Messaging Systems in a Nutshell" Of course John Katz would feel compelled to vie for the chance to write the Foreword...
Mac OS X, and a previous project, A/UX (HPUX with system 7 gui on 680x0 hardware) were good examples of how you can make a desktop and windowing system work with unix as an underlying structure. However, they also ilustrate the tradeoffs with this approach. Apple give you one interface, and that is what you are stuck with. You cannot change much of anything about the interface.
I would say that an Open-Source project with a similar design would be the best way to go here. That way you could have your grand interface, but if people wanted to change it they could. Eventually the other forms would be installable.
I dunno, look at all the imac pretenders that were instantly released by Apple's competitors. If Apple had not had several months' head start, it could be argued that they would not have been able to have the kind of phenomenal success they had with iMac. I think the cube is a similar situation...
The cards they are using are specially modified to work in the cube. They require a precise geometric shape and cooling/power requirements. But you are right, other than these data Apple need not share more with ATI.
I see two solutions to this problem. One is the solution you suggest, which is exactly how crypto is done under mandrake (and quite nice), an auto dowload from free (beer) resources.
The other would involve licensing the fonts. If M$ can do it, anyone can. The fonts could be distributed with the distro and made available for download.
Slashdot has been slow to report their own downtimes; in many cases not reporting them at all. But of course they quickly jump to report the slightest outage from a competitor less flush with IPO cash.
What happened to fairness and accuracy in reporting? or has that indeed joined the realm of virgins, unicorns, fairies, and other mythological creatures?
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The point is that this only gives you one machine, which has been semi-randomly selected. There are possibly thousands at Hotmail.
In this case, however, the copyright holders (DeCSS Authors) gave explicit permission for their works to be distributed and others (MPAA) are attempting to subvert their right to do so
Most of the sysadmins I have known make half to one third of what most of the developers I have known make. Sysadmins are often considered support staff, and therefore often get less money. The DBA's and MIS manager types are the few exceptions.
Apple has sued other companies for using the All-In-One design, the translucent design, and the graphical interface. Now they go with a cube and get sued by Cobalt. I am not sure what to think of this except that it was bound to come around sometime.
Then.. look at it. Try it for yourself. Basically what happens is that even as Administrator you cannot delete files in the \winnt directory. You can try, after many warnings not to, but they automagically come back. Certified driver installers can replace the files, nothing else AFAIK.
Of course it would be interesting to see how prone this process is to exploitation by viruses...
Suppose im starting a cult or sect or whatever tomorrow and call it "the followers of satan".
Interesting that you bring that up, given that the Church of Satan is a fully recognized religion in the US.
Does this make me the leader of a religion? No. Simply because religions tend to have a history (sometimes of a few thousand years).
I bet that is what they told Jesus, too. And Martin Luther, and Joeseph Smith... Buddha, anyone? Mohammed? The point is that in the US the wording of our constitution dictates that the government has NO RIGHT to distinguish what is and is not a religion. This law is not always evenly applied, but that is its spirit. Once you can say that a religion is not an "official" religion, you are establishing what religions are legal and what are not, thus serving to establish a state religion. This is the opposite of freedom of religion.
In the US the Scientologists won their case against the IRS (who had revoked their tax-free status) on these grounds. Yes, I agree that they are in a grey area because Scientology could be argued to be a business (they sell books and training). But then so could Catholicism and any number of other religions.
As for harassing members who leave, the scientologists have certainly not cornered the market on that. Most mainstream churches will send letters, call, perhaps even visit members who are notably absent. In the Scientologists case, my understanding is that they are more diligent in cases where a member is in arrears for books and equipment, or has otherwise formed contractual obligations which are now unfulfilled.
Weeding out religions is religious discrimination, more expected in a repressive nation like china (which has outlawed IIRC every religion) than in a supposedly free nation like Germany.
I was not aware that being a nazi was illegal in germany. It is not apparent given all the nazi demonstrations that go on there.
Seriously, don't argue the point, it was created to swap copies of songs, not to "promote small artists" or whatever. Do you think when Shawn Fanning wrote the software he thought, "Great! Now my friends and I can exchange all the unsigned bands we listen to!"
I'm not so sure about that. The angle of promoting bands through mp3 far predates Napster. And their New Artist Program, accessable from their front page, gives the name of songs and artists that are not so well-known to search for.
If everyone used Napster, both Fred Durst AND Lars Ulrich would be working at McDonalds, probably together, bitching about how they wish they could make money off of their music, instead of having to distribute it for free.
Oh really? Metallica is one of many bands that has benefitted from the promotion available through ostensibly illegal bootlegging and copying. In Lars' interview with /., he not only admitted that but that he himself bootlegs the work of other bands. His justification was that if he likes the tape he hears, he buys the album, just like the fans who made Metallica famous by spreading bootlegged tapes of albums and concerts, and now Napster.
Metallica supported bootlegging and continues to support it in any form but Napster. the reason is that they acknowledge that they would be working at McDonald's if people did not "steal" their music. The Napster thing is more about control. Lars wants the ability to opt-out if he does not like the medium. "[I]t's not a money issue" (his own words).
Whenever someone "h4x0rs" a box it adds to the horror stories governments can reiterate to justify legislation like this. As we all know, these laws only hurt crackers and child pornographers .
Of course some of the cracks and DOSSes have been linked to governments opposed to the site attacked (hmm makes you wonder about all these attacks on the free speech news sites, eh?). But the greater part are likely bona fide script kiddies. And the end is the same: those who do it serve to support legislation like this.
The comment about this not hurting e-commerce is BS. Obviously internet traffic will double, which will affect bandwidth pricing and availability. This will certainly hamper e-commerce, as will the exodus of isp's and colocation services from the UK and the migration of users to site that will not cause them to cross the uk borders in their access paths.
Or the cracker can crack k5 and watch at the same time.. I mean it was just a script anyway..
I see your point with the Penis Birds. But then I have noticed that PBG has toned down his submissions (from his debut, in which an entire story overflowed with penis birds). At this point it is basically a running joke. Time will tell whether it takes a place along with Monty Python Parrot Sketch or instead suffers the fate of the Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified (Notice that there are no more of those, that and grits are basically referred to at times, but you never see them in their original glory anymore).
I totally disagree with you on the silencing of bitchslapped accounts. True, there are many accounts that have been created for the express purpose of provoking a bitchslap. But before their existence the bitchslap was a secret and even now remains an undocumented "feature" of /. The bitchslap represents a gross abuse of power even in its present form and has been used wrongfully in the past (for instance as a tool to punish moderators who dared moderate down Signal11, a situation which may or may not be repeated). This has never been addressed directly and the bitchslap system has never been defined or defended by the /. crew. Additionally, they have never confirmed or denied its continuing abuse though to his credit CT did confirm what had happened in the above cases.
Silencing any voice is a precursor to silencing every voice. In america, we tolerate Springer and the Klan speaking hoping that this will mean those with meaningful criticisms will be allowed to speak. On /. osm can post his stories and the PBG can spread his "flock" to cover the heavens (what an image that conjures!) but that means that those with meaningful criticisms cannot be silenced (though they are often moderated to oblivion by those who would seek to silence them).
Yeah everyone knows that Governors in Texas are chosen by rodeo. Whatever.
JK is not AFAIK helping k5 directly, but then his strengths are said to be in journalism and commentary, not network security. However CT helped the K5 crew considerably with technical advice, and VA is sending them hardware, so his "colleagues" are doing quite a bit considering K5 is basically a competitor.
I would have to say it reflects well on Commander Taco and VA Linux Systems that they were able to be helpful to a competitor. Apparently CT gave lots of advice (which I am sure drew on copious experience) to the fledgeling K5 admins, and now VA is giving them hardware (which is totally unexpected I am sure)!
Looks like those who would say VA/Andover/CT//. are biased, sold out corporate shells, or otherwise not part of us as a community are dead wrong. Maybe CT will write an Oreilly published "Successful Web-Based Comment Messaging Systems in a Nutshell" Of course John Katz would feel compelled to vie for the chance to write the Foreword...
Yes, and when they come up again, they do not say anything about having been down for several days.
Mac OS X, and a previous project, A/UX (HPUX with system 7 gui on 680x0 hardware) were good examples of how you can make a desktop and windowing system work with unix as an underlying structure. However, they also ilustrate the tradeoffs with this approach. Apple give you one interface, and that is what you are stuck with. You cannot change much of anything about the interface.
I would say that an Open-Source project with a similar design would be the best way to go here. That way you could have your grand interface, but if people wanted to change it they could. Eventually the other forms would be installable.
Good troll. High on BS. You got lots of replies... gratz.
I dunno, look at all the imac pretenders that were instantly released by Apple's competitors. If Apple had not had several months' head start, it could be argued that they would not have been able to have the kind of phenomenal success they had with iMac. I think the cube is a similar situation...
The cards they are using are specially modified to work in the cube. They require a precise geometric shape and cooling/power requirements. But you are right, other than these data Apple need not share more with ATI.
What can they do? They fired him and replaced him, but they never did find anyone who was:
A) willing to work for apple as a CEO
B) able to bring the company to solvency
besides Steve.
Actually since the drivers are built into the normal MacOS, they didnt have to change anything.
They swapped a card. that is not so hard as swapping a chipset on a MB, even the video one.
I see two solutions to this problem. One is the solution you suggest, which is exactly how crypto is done under mandrake (and quite nice), an auto dowload from free (beer) resources.
The other would involve licensing the fonts. If M$ can do it, anyone can. The fonts could be distributed with the distro and made available for download.
Slashdot has been slow to report their own downtimes; in many cases not reporting them at all. But of course they quickly jump to report the slightest outage from a competitor less flush with IPO cash.
What happened to fairness and accuracy in reporting? or has that indeed joined the realm of virgins, unicorns, fairies, and other mythological creatures?