If you read the article, it means they have to block them too, and also block all dutch users from accessing *all* copyrighted torrents.
Other interesting parts from the article:
The defense had argued that not Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were not the owners of the site, but a Seychelles based company named Reservella. The Court rejected this defense as the defendants could not name the current owners or provide any documents proving that the site was sold. It concluded that the three defendants are responsible for the site.
This doesn't really sound like a surprise. They're still actively working on the site too.
Ernst-Jan Louwers, the lawyer for the three Pirate Bay defendants told TorrentFreak that his clients are currently considering whether or not to appeal this judgment.
Sounds like they're actually starting to giving up. All the recent news and problems probably have softened them up.
In my opinion Fedora is the best distro out there, a lot nicer to use than Debian (and especially Ubuntu) too. Also their repositories contain lots of software and they're actually put there correctly - hundreds of times I've run into missing or non-working features with other distros repositories.
Seems they're actually also improving exactly what needs to be improved - graphics driver support, sound support, bluetooth support and wireless networking support. Other distros usually seem to go select just some more obscure improvements, but these should affect lots of users.
I wasn't talking anything about Firefox startup times - in fact, I haven't noticed much of an issue with them myself.
And when did you hear users saying that Firefox UI is not reponsive? It's just as reponsive as any other desktop app. When the chrome jit gets enabled by default it will be the same as running native code. So no, sorry, XUL is not a problem and there's nothing that "must be done" with it. In fact, it's a nice and very useful advantage for the mozilla project.
This is my personal experience and many people seem to share it too. Firefox UI *does* respond, but it's sluggish. In comparison everything with the UI in Opera happens *right away*. You open a new tab and it opens right away. You open the sidemenu and opens right away. Both of these operations don't really like that freeze the application with Firefox, but its still sluggish. It just doesn't feel the same, and that counts A LOT with user experience.
That would be the case with the most simplistic encryption methods for the documents - but if it takes CPU power to decrypt it, you will gain defense against brute-forcing. Even if its 1-2 secs (*on usual computer), cracking it will be much more harder because of the amount of passwords you will have to try. On the other hand it doesn't annoy the user and the program can make things even a little bit more secure.
But to be fair, it's somewhat similar issue with Firefox too. I do understand that its because of XUL:
XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language (developed by the Mozilla project) which operates in Mozilla cross-platform applications such as Firefox and Flock. The Mozilla Gecko layout engine provides an implementation of XUL used in the Firefox Browser.[1]
XUL relies on multiple existing web standards and technologies, including CSS, JavaScript, and DOM. Such reliance makes XUL relatively easy to learn for people with a background in web-programming and design.
And that it's easier to develop UI elements with it, but you lose a lot of speed and UI efficiency along the way. Anyone who has compared Opera and Firefox in UI responsiveness know this.
Open Source software usually have the mentality of making everything as open as possible and easy to modify, but it brings these issues then too. People should find some middle road to this; have it still possible, but god hell make it work faster. Maybe compiling it to faster format (bytecode versus xml?), or optimizing the apps could do the work. But something needs to be done.
“ The current minimal password length limitation ( 5 characters ) is outdated and makes no sense any more. Thus the limitation is removed, although the password is not allowed to be empty. “
This was an interesting note, but they didn't explain it further. Why did they change the minimum from 5 characters to 1 character now? It sounds it might be pretty trivial to bruteforce it.
So by implication you are saying that I am unimportant?! I think that if you look at Slashdot history you will find that I, the Anonymous Coward, have had many more posts than you have.
If I ever see you, Anonymous Coward, in the street, I'm gonna hit you in the face for all the crap quality posts on Slashdot. You better change your name now, because you are EXPOSED!
Visible Technologies crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon.
Well, hello there!
(their "Visible Technologies" highlights must be flashing with this slashdot story)
Nobody likes steam, their DRM is marginally better. You know what'd be the best? No DRM! What an idea!It's just they're the only one with a remotely acceptable solution (and not entirely, at that). Everyone else is even worse dinosaurs of a past era.
I'm not too sure about that. Steam has always worked great, and I actually prefer buying from it because of the easiness of it. On top of that you get the additional community features of steam with every game. And it's a lot easier to just download your games again if you ever delete them or go to other computer / friends place. I now a days actually prefer Steam version over physical versions (and no you dont need to be connected to internet to play them - just a few days my internet was broken for the whole day I played some of the games just fine)
If there's no dedicated server support originally in the game, it means crackers will need add and code it fully *in to the game* to begin with. That is a *lot* more work than just patch some code so that the pirate server doesn't authenticate with main server.
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And it will go just more in to that. Slowly but surely. Soon world will just have USA, EU, Russia and China.
You better stay off from other countries too that have extradition treaty with France.
Or in this case with Netherlands.
Is it a good or bad thing then? You could be extradited to some african country which has laws that in your home country would be just laughable.
If you read the article, it means they have to block them too, and also block all dutch users from accessing *all* copyrighted torrents.
Other interesting parts from the article:
The defense had argued that not Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were not the owners of the site, but a Seychelles based company named Reservella. The Court rejected this defense as the defendants could not name the current owners or provide any documents proving that the site was sold. It concluded that the three defendants are responsible for the site.
This doesn't really sound like a surprise. They're still actively working on the site too.
Ernst-Jan Louwers, the lawyer for the three Pirate Bay defendants told TorrentFreak that his clients are currently considering whether or not to appeal this judgment.
Sounds like they're actually starting to giving up. All the recent news and problems probably have softened them up.
But dont you people understand how this disgraces women? They are human beings, not sex objects!
Now I'm off to redtube.
No, they changed to yum, not the other way around.
As of Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, up2date is no longer shipped with the distribution; yum is used instead.
Is apt-get/apt-cache then?
When you're moving to a new OS you should atleast get to know some basic things about it, and how to install software is probably the most basic one.
But even if thats too much to figure out, you have the GUI installer (not that I've ever used it)
In my opinion Fedora is the best distro out there, a lot nicer to use than Debian (and especially Ubuntu) too. Also their repositories contain lots of software and they're actually put there correctly - hundreds of times I've run into missing or non-working features with other distros repositories.
Seems they're actually also improving exactly what needs to be improved - graphics driver support, sound support, bluetooth support and wireless networking support. Other distros usually seem to go select just some more obscure improvements, but these should affect lots of users.
I like it.
They should put keyboards instead of joystick. Cursor keys are nicer, and I can also post on Slashdot while I'm driving.
but since the n00b is a n00b, will anyone actually hear a n00b screaming?
but if nobody tells a n00b that he is a n00b, is he really a n00b then?
How have fellow slashdotters managed this process, what systems/scripts have you used, and what advice do you have?"
I do the same as Slashdot.org does - Make the changes on live code, except a little downtime and weird effects and then try to fix
it - while actually never fixing it. After all the results are not that significant:
- if someone posts about it on a thread, mods will -1 offtopic it and no one will hear your complain
- many people will "lol fail" at the weird effects, like when kdawson decides to merge two different stories together
I wasn't talking anything about Firefox startup times - in fact, I haven't noticed much of an issue with them myself.
And when did you hear users saying that Firefox UI is not reponsive? It's just as reponsive as any other desktop app. When the chrome jit gets enabled by default it will be the same as running native code. So no, sorry, XUL is not a problem and there's nothing that "must be done" with it. In fact, it's a nice and very useful advantage for the mozilla project.
This is my personal experience and many people seem to share it too. Firefox UI *does* respond, but it's sluggish. In comparison everything with the UI in Opera happens *right away*. You open a new tab and it opens right away. You open the sidemenu and opens right away. Both of these operations don't really like that freeze the application with Firefox, but its still sluggish. It just doesn't feel the same, and that counts A LOT with user experience.
Psst.. Visible Technologies, please do something about the Anonymous Coward bastard.. he's such a troll in every freaking thread.
I really wonder if you two have actual jobs and how do you manage to keep them.
Because sometimes the newer version really suck compare to old ones - just see Firefox 3.5 and how laggy it is.
That would be the case with the most simplistic encryption methods for the documents - but if it takes CPU power to decrypt it, you will gain defense against brute-forcing. Even if its 1-2 secs (*on usual computer), cracking it will be much more harder because of the amount of passwords you will have to try. On the other hand it doesn't annoy the user and the program can make things even a little bit more secure.
I doubt Open Office will be a serious competitor to MS Office with only 42 features...
But to be fair, it's somewhat similar issue with Firefox too. I do understand that its because of XUL:
XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language (developed by the Mozilla project) which operates in Mozilla cross-platform applications such as Firefox and Flock. The Mozilla Gecko layout engine provides an implementation of XUL used in the Firefox Browser.[1]
XUL relies on multiple existing web standards and technologies, including CSS, JavaScript, and DOM. Such reliance makes XUL relatively easy to learn for people with a background in web-programming and design.
And that it's easier to develop UI elements with it, but you lose a lot of speed and UI efficiency along the way. Anyone who has compared Opera and Firefox in UI responsiveness know this.
Open Source software usually have the mentality of making everything as open as possible and easy to modify, but it brings these issues then too. People should find some middle road to this; have it still possible, but god hell make it work faster. Maybe compiling it to faster format (bytecode versus xml?), or optimizing the apps could do the work. But something needs to be done.
Remove the password length limitation:
“ The current minimal password length limitation ( 5 characters ) is outdated and makes no sense any more. Thus the limitation is removed, although the password is not allowed to be empty. “
This was an interesting note, but they didn't explain it further. Why did they change the minimum from 5 characters to 1 character now? It sounds it might be pretty trivial to bruteforce it.
So by implication you are saying that I am unimportant?! I think that if you look at Slashdot history you will find that I, the Anonymous Coward, have had many more posts than you have.
If I ever see you, Anonymous Coward, in the street, I'm gonna hit you in the face for all the crap quality posts on Slashdot. You better change your name now, because you are EXPOSED!
Don't you worry about the labeling - as soon as you post something that has keywords like "terrorism" you will be^H^H^H^H^HCARRIER LOST
Visible Technologies crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon.
Well, hello there!
(their "Visible Technologies" highlights must be flashing with this slashdot story)
master severs are for n00bs.
You probably mean server lists. Servers and clients still auth against master server, which obviously doesn't work if its down.
Nobody likes steam, their DRM is marginally better. You know what'd be the best? No DRM! What an idea!It's just they're the only one with a remotely acceptable solution (and not entirely, at that). Everyone else is even worse dinosaurs of a past era.
I'm not too sure about that. Steam has always worked great, and I actually prefer buying from it because of the easiness of it. On top of that you get the additional community features of steam with every game. And it's a lot easier to just download your games again if you ever delete them or go to other computer / friends place. I now a days actually prefer Steam version over physical versions (and no you dont need to be connected to internet to play them - just a few days my internet was broken for the whole day I played some of the games just fine)
If there's no dedicated server support originally in the game, it means crackers will need add and code it fully *in to the game* to begin with. That is a *lot* more work than just patch some code so that the pirate server doesn't authenticate with main server.