Since you bought up the open source / closed source fight, if you want customization that Misterhouse might be good. You can then submit patches and updates for the project (it seems it's still sometimes updated, last time in 2008)
But because the other ones are closed source, it doesn't mean you cant add features in to them. HomeSeer supports 3rd party plug-in development and these kind of systems tend to be really configurable always.
I'm annoyed. Geocities was a convenient place for me to dump files I needed to access from home or work. It was also more customizable than Livejournal or Facebook.
First off, I think we should disclose who we work for. I work for the a defense contractor that builds tanks. You probably work for RIAA or some other content company.
After seeing that site, I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was some funny hoax. (warning: that site will make you browse it for the rest of the day:)
I dont really have a problem reading from LCD screen, I kind of prefer it to normal paper actually. I think the parent meant sitting on a computer and reading from that, which isn't really as comfortable as laying in a bed or sofa. Yeah I do sit on computer pretty much all the day anyway, but it's not nice to concentrate on a book that way. Laptop either doesn't have the same comfort, even if you can take it with you to bed.
Personally I'm waiting for Courier Tablet, which seems just perfect for reading ebooks in bed (with the added ability to do other computer stuff too)
The classic examples are hacking in to the computers that control the power grid(s) and causing a widespread blackout, taking down the air traffic control system, opening flood gates on a dam, or causing a wide spread phone/cell phone outage.
Except the last one, I dont think those systems should be running on the internet anyway. Even if some terrorist group isn't going to hit them, some script kiddie will.
I know that, but for ordinary men/women it still means knowing a lot about it, going to some "shady" websites and doing some tricks to get it to work (and realizing it's illegal). That would be different if every person could just copy and share things like they normally do, without any tricks.
Technically-capable and most of young people of course know the ways around things and probably dont even care that it's not exactly legal. But DRM stops the other people from doing such.
But if we consider that usually terrorism tries to get some point across (with inhuman ways) and get people to hear them, causing disturbance for the Internet would be quite stupid, as it's actually the first worldwide medium to get your word across without goverment control like with radio and tv. Terrorism doesn't do terror just for the fun of it, but there's always some reasoning behind it - sometimes rational, sometimes more irrational. However script kiddies do it just for the fun of it, to gain that small time period of fame for randomly hacking something.
It's not only what's happening with Middle-East. For example IRA, which is considered as terrorism group in the UK, "sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion.". Not knowing fully whats behind it, but it seems they have a clear purpose that isn't so irrational (and didn't the area used to belong to Ireland people before?). Obviously even you must understand that they're not causing "terror" just for the fun of it, but have some agenda do so (usually so they can get people to hear their agenda, what the goverment doesn't allow)
Well I think this whole "cyberterror" idea is pretty funny. I even remember that back in 2000 in school we had to write about some article where they described "cyber attacks from China goverment". Has anyone actually proven that China as a goverment is doing those? It still seems like a myth. Considering world is filled with script kiddies, and China+India together have half of the population on Earth, it's not surprising that many percentage of them could be from there.
Another thing is that it's quite hard to launch such a catastrophic, large-scale attack against the internet. Yeah, you can cause some minor annoyance or accidentally route traffic elsewhere like what happened with YouTube for ~30 mins a few years ago, but those are quickly fixed when upstream ISP's responsible notice.
Also isn't terror's one meaning to cause, well, terror? What are you going to on the internet, put a scary picture on google.com (if you even could hack it - I bet there have been many that have tried)? It just doesn't sum up.
DRM isn't there to stop piracy completely. It's there to make it much-too-work for the ordinary user, so they would rather buy the real product than waste time to try to get it to work.
Slashdot is full of technically-capable people so it's not surprise DRM stuff always comes up here, but in the "real world" nobody really cares that much about the underlying technology or philosophy. It still works like they would except it to.
Slashdot Mirror
For that matter, Slashdot isn't really an organization, so why is it under .org?
When will Slashdot move under .slashdot?
He's not talking about The Pirate Party but Piratbyrån.
[TPB was] initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organisation Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau)
openbittorrent.com IS the pirate bay tracker, they just changed names (so its kinda kinda like separated from TPB, but not really)
After all the news about UK i'm surprised to read they've actually considered whats good for people.
Good job and continue that.
Since you bought up the open source / closed source fight, if you want customization that Misterhouse might be good. You can then submit patches and updates for the project (it seems it's still sometimes updated, last time in 2008)
But because the other ones are closed source, it doesn't mean you cant add features in to them. HomeSeer supports 3rd party plug-in development and these kind of systems tend to be really configurable always.
Sending the CD via post might be good for those on really bad internet connections or with transfer limits that might want to try it out.
Otherwise the 4-6 weeks wait most likely makes other people to just download or torrent ISO.
100Mbit/s costs $30/month on Telia.
How do you know I wont be using it? Everyone needs some free beer coasters, right?
You should try Fedora, imo it's a lot better than Ubuntu/Debian. And it's backed by Red Hat, which is a lot larger and older than Canonical.
I never knew they actually shipped those for free and many more probably didn't know either. They're gonna love this slashdot story!
I'm annoyed. Geocities was a convenient place for me to dump files I needed to access from home or work. It was also more customizable than Livejournal or Facebook.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1416685&cid=29855905
First off, I think we should disclose who we work for. I work for the a defense contractor that builds tanks. You probably work for RIAA or some other content company.
And still we wonder why secret stuff leaks :)
You start arguing about grammar and validity of translation based on Google Translate? Haven't seen this one before.
Nothing special
in Latvia the person who last leaves the airport to Ireland has to switch off the lights.
Million Reasons Why Latvia Is The Best Country In The World
After seeing that site, I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was some funny hoax. (warning: that site will make you browse it for the rest of the day :)
I dont really have a problem reading from LCD screen, I kind of prefer it to normal paper actually. I think the parent meant sitting on a computer and reading from that, which isn't really as comfortable as laying in a bed or sofa. Yeah I do sit on computer pretty much all the day anyway, but it's not nice to concentrate on a book that way. Laptop either doesn't have the same comfort, even if you can take it with you to bed.
Personally I'm waiting for Courier Tablet, which seems just perfect for reading ebooks in bed (with the added ability to do other computer stuff too)
And even on ordinary DSL modems and routers
The classic examples are hacking in to the computers that control the power grid(s) and causing a widespread blackout, taking down the air traffic control system, opening flood gates on a dam, or causing a wide spread phone/cell phone outage.
Except the last one, I dont think those systems should be running on the internet anyway. Even if some terrorist group isn't going to hit them, some script kiddie will.
I know that, but for ordinary men/women it still means knowing a lot about it, going to some "shady" websites and doing some tricks to get it to work (and realizing it's illegal). That would be different if every person could just copy and share things like they normally do, without any tricks.
Technically-capable and most of young people of course know the ways around things and probably dont even care that it's not exactly legal. But DRM stops the other people from doing such.
But if we consider that usually terrorism tries to get some point across (with inhuman ways) and get people to hear them, causing disturbance for the Internet would be quite stupid, as it's actually the first worldwide medium to get your word across without goverment control like with radio and tv. Terrorism doesn't do terror just for the fun of it, but there's always some reasoning behind it - sometimes rational, sometimes more irrational. However script kiddies do it just for the fun of it, to gain that small time period of fame for randomly hacking something.
It's not only what's happening with Middle-East. For example IRA, which is considered as terrorism group in the UK, "sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion.". Not knowing fully whats behind it, but it seems they have a clear purpose that isn't so irrational (and didn't the area used to belong to Ireland people before?). Obviously even you must understand that they're not causing "terror" just for the fun of it, but have some agenda do so (usually so they can get people to hear their agenda, what the goverment doesn't allow)
Well I think this whole "cyberterror" idea is pretty funny. I even remember that back in 2000 in school we had to write about some article where they described "cyber attacks from China goverment". Has anyone actually proven that China as a goverment is doing those? It still seems like a myth. Considering world is filled with script kiddies, and China+India together have half of the population on Earth, it's not surprising that many percentage of them could be from there.
Another thing is that it's quite hard to launch such a catastrophic, large-scale attack against the internet. Yeah, you can cause some minor annoyance or accidentally route traffic elsewhere like what happened with YouTube for ~30 mins a few years ago, but those are quickly fixed when upstream ISP's responsible notice.
Also isn't terror's one meaning to cause, well, terror? What are you going to on the internet, put a scary picture on google.com (if you even could hack it - I bet there have been many that have tried)? It just doesn't sum up.
Beer/Vodka is always helpful.
DRM isn't there to stop piracy completely. It's there to make it much-too-work for the ordinary user, so they would rather buy the real product than waste time to try to get it to work.
Slashdot is full of technically-capable people so it's not surprise DRM stuff always comes up here, but in the "real world" nobody really cares that much about the underlying technology or philosophy. It still works like they would except it to.