Sorry, this submission has Troll written all over it: Find some article that looks like Big Brother is trying to keep us away from the 'Net, throw in a (meaningless) reference to the evil that is the DMCA and censorship and BOOM you get a posting and a nice Karma boost. I'm suprised the poster didn't somehow insinuate that Microsoft or Satan^H^H^H^H^HBill Gates was behind this.
I see nothing wrong with this policy. The schools in question are not preventing the students from accessing the 'Net -- they are saying that you have to do it somewhere other than in the classroom. Big Brother? Please.
No, you have missed my point completely. The prevailing opinion around here is exaclty what I said: "I don't like the law, so I am going to break it". The law is being passed through the legal channels and it needs to be opposed through the legal channels.
Hackers are criminals. Shroud their actions in whatever noble cloak you want, the bottom line is that hackers break the law and if the penalty is tough, then too fscking bad. If the laws are wrong, then make enough noise to get them changed. Like it or not, the attitude that "I don't like the law so I am not going to follow it" will do nothing to help the situation. Far from it. It will make it harder to make it any better.
No, I'm pretty sure is the "freedom of speech" part. Look at the article's headline, and the content of a lot of the posts.
As far as whether or not its a contract; any licensing agreement is based on the principle of "If you don't agree to 'A', 'B', and 'C', then you can't use this product.". The fact that it is non-negotiable doesn't matter. The disclaimer at the beginning of a baseball game ("This broadcast is property of such-and-so team and Major League Baseball, any rebroadcast without express written consent is prohibitted") is non-negotiable, but is enforcable.
To all of you worried about the Bill of Rights being trampled here, and not bothering to get the "freedom of speech" part correct, here it is:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As far as I know, the Front Page EULA is not currently up for vote in front of the Congress. I may be wrong -- please let me know if I am...
In order to use this product you must kill your first born son while chanting "Give this soul over to William H. Gates (the one true god) so that he may rule wisely. Praise be to Bill.". In the event that you do not have children you must seek out the first male child you see, kill him while chanting the above.
Oh, that clause isn't in there, you say? To that I say "bullshit" because no one on Slashdot would doubt it and waste their time doing any independant verification.
This guy re-installed Redhat because he couldn't manage to install new KDE 2.2 packages. And he takes it out on "Linux," when he should of course take it out on Redhat.
If your going to pick that nit, then the whole article falls apart -- Linux cannot be compared with Windows, Linux is just the kernel. His points talking about the difficulty of configuring X Windows become moot -- X Windows is not Linux. I could go on, but you get the point.
Heh, there is a difference. He is cracking -- not hacking -- to add his unattributed agenda to someone else's story.
The original story may be slanted, but you can research other articles from the same author/source to see the direction of slant. Not that I assume most people do this, but those who wish to, can.
Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help.
Because, we all know that check agents stay awake at night trying to memorize the faces of all know criminals and terrorists, and can name them on sight... Of all of the arguements against face recognition software this has to be the lamest one I have ever heard.
I can't calculate PI to 1000 digits in my head, I guess my computer can't either...
Looking at what happened on the 'net the last few days, we can get a sense of how far it has come in the last few years. Sites, such as Slashdot, showed that a group of dedicated admins can keep a site up and running under incredible loads. Other sites did not fare as well.
I was stuck at work and was unable to get any real time information on what was going on -- every major news site I tried to access was overloaded and the minor news sites were not being updated as often. Most of the updates I got were from my boss, who got a live stream early from CNN and never let it go, and from my wife at home watching TV.
We are constantly hearing about how the Internet is going replace the traditional media, but as far as I can tell, my wife never got 404 or 503 errors when watching the coverage on TV. Until getting real time news from the internet becomes that reliable, it will never replace the traditional media.
Why when I was a lad, all we had was a platinum-iridium cylinder, and we liked it. But you damn kids today, with yer newfangled electronic kilogram, why I oughta...
You can still compare the untrusted code with a trusted baseline. How you can "resist their attempts to weaken security" without knowing what they did in the first place?
Second, I doubt that the NSA can trojan yours and mine and every other Joe's copy of gcc to include their backdoor.
Third, what have these other distributions done to earn your trust? After all, the NSA could have corrupted your (or RedHat's or SuSE's or whoever's) compiler to include their backdoors.
Beware: black helicopters are everywhere. Turn off your computer and unplug it from the net -- that is the only way to prevent the NSA virus from getting you.
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I do get it, but I am a geek, too. There are orders-of-magnitude more non-geeky (AOL subscribers) people in the world than there are geeks.
Sorry -- as long as you have to do stuff like this, then it won't be an alternative to MacOS or Windows...
/usr/src/X11.
Me: Open an xterm, become root, and cd to
Gradma: Ahhhh, errrr, hmmmm, open a what? I just want to store recipies...
We don't wear them indoors, though.
Would aboard ship be considered indoors?
Sorry, this submission has Troll written all over it: Find some article that looks like Big Brother is trying to keep us away from the 'Net, throw in a (meaningless) reference to the evil that is the DMCA and censorship and BOOM you get a posting and a nice Karma boost. I'm suprised the poster didn't somehow insinuate that Microsoft or Satan^H^H^H^H^HBill Gates was behind this.
I see nothing wrong with this policy. The schools in question are not preventing the students from accessing the 'Net -- they are saying that you have to do it somewhere other than in the classroom. Big Brother? Please.
Shouldn't it be OS X.1???
:^)
No, you have missed my point completely. The prevailing opinion around here is exaclty what I said: "I don't like the law, so I am going to break it". The law is being passed through the legal channels and it needs to be opposed through the legal channels.
You need to grow some balls and learn to oppose some things that just "aren't right."
heh -- coming from an Anonymous Coward.
Hackers are criminals. Shroud their actions in whatever noble cloak you want, the bottom line is that hackers break the law and if the penalty is tough, then too fscking bad. If the laws are wrong, then make enough noise to get them changed. Like it or not, the attitude that "I don't like the law so I am not going to follow it" will do nothing to help the situation. Far from it. It will make it harder to make it any better.
No, I'm pretty sure is the "freedom of speech" part. Look at the article's headline, and the content of a lot of the posts.
As far as whether or not its a contract; any licensing agreement is based on the principle of "If you don't agree to 'A', 'B', and 'C', then you can't use this product.". The fact that it is non-negotiable doesn't matter. The disclaimer at the beginning of a baseball game ("This broadcast is property of such-and-so team and Major League Baseball, any rebroadcast without express written consent is prohibitted") is non-negotiable, but is enforcable.
To all of you worried about the Bill of Rights being trampled here, and not bothering to get the "freedom of speech" part correct, here it is:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As far as I know, the Front Page EULA is not currently up for vote in front of the Congress. I may be wrong -- please let me know if I am...
Oh, that clause isn't in there, you say? To that I say "bullshit" because no one on Slashdot would doubt it and waste their time doing any independant verification.
This guy re-installed Redhat because he couldn't manage to install new KDE 2.2 packages. And he takes it out on "Linux," when he should of course take it out on Redhat.
If your going to pick that nit, then the whole article falls apart -- Linux cannot be compared with Windows, Linux is just the kernel. His points talking about the difficulty of configuring X Windows become moot -- X Windows is not Linux. I could go on, but you get the point.
From this story, it would look like that Adrian is a cracker in every sense of the word, and not a hacker.
Heh, there is a difference. He is cracking -- not hacking -- to add his unattributed agenda to someone else's story.
The original story may be slanted, but you can research other articles from the same author/source to see the direction of slant. Not that I assume most people do this, but those who wish to, can.
Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help.
Because, we all know that check agents stay awake at night trying to memorize the faces of all know criminals and terrorists, and can name them on sight... Of all of the arguements against face recognition software this has to be the lamest one I have ever heard.
I can't calculate PI to 1000 digits in my head, I guess my computer can't either...
I was stuck at work and was unable to get any real time information on what was going on -- every major news site I tried to access was overloaded and the minor news sites were not being updated as often. Most of the updates I got were from my boss, who got a live stream early from CNN and never let it go, and from my wife at home watching TV.
We are constantly hearing about how the Internet is going replace the traditional media, but as far as I can tell, my wife never got 404 or 503 errors when watching the coverage on TV. Until getting real time news from the internet becomes that reliable, it will never replace the traditional media.
All that being said, the Slashdot team kicks ass.
If its a crime to carry a Blowfish, then only criminals will carry Blowfish.
"I have to pipe the what to where? What's a pipe?"
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"Yes, I see the thing above the return key..."
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"Said what?"
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"Oh, sed. What's that?"
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"Come on, all I want to do is spellcheck..."
Finally something that the average Slashdot reader can do to help.
The average Slashdot reader can't bleed into a syringe? Can't donate to Red Cross? Hmmmm.
I am pretty sure that the scientists will not be making their decisions based on what happens on Lexx.
Almost right -- in times like this he is not the President, he is Our President. Politics be damned.
I'd mod this down from insightful -- Digital was primarily a hardware company when the Palo Alto center was started.
We dreamed about havin' racehorses! We had a mangy old nearsighted mule that our father sliced in two with a breadknife!
Why when I was a lad, all we had was a platinum-iridium cylinder, and we liked it. But you damn kids today, with yer newfangled electronic kilogram, why I oughta...
You can still compare the untrusted code with a trusted baseline. How you can "resist their attempts to weaken security" without knowing what they did in the first place?
Second, I doubt that the NSA can trojan yours and mine and every other Joe's copy of gcc to include their backdoor.
Third, what have these other distributions done to earn your trust? After all, the NSA could have corrupted your (or RedHat's or SuSE's or whoever's) compiler to include their backdoors.
Beware: black helicopters are everywhere. Turn off your computer and unplug it from the net -- that is the only way to prevent the NSA virus from getting you.