>can't handle partitions > 2GB Wow, he lost me there. That info is so out of date, it was out of date 8 years before kuro5hin even opened (I'd say longer, but I can only vouch for how long I've been using it). I wouldn't trust a single thing that guy says if he can't make a partition bigger than 2 GB (and, AFAIK, there's never been a 2 GB partition limit in Linux). The truth is that person made about 1 cognisant complaint about linux, and one monkey sitting at one typewriter for one month could have done better. Maybe next time he'll say windows XP is no good because it runs on top of DOS like windows 3.1.
Too bad you don't operate in the area I plan to open up in (Kitchener/Waterloo)... But at least now I have an idea that there are ISPs out there willing to serve people with needs like mine at a reasonable price.:-)
>Unfortunately it took a spike in a power surge, silly me for not getting a surge guard.
No amount of surge guards would protect that thing, I'm sorry to say. It probably blew up because of a design flaw.
Acer makes crap. Not the worst crap on earth (they certainly don't beat PcChips), but bad enough that a 486 SX/25 with BIOS shadowing disabled takes a timed 6 minutes to go complete POST.
Performance that bad I hadn't seen since I installed windows 3.0 on an XT with a 16-bit VGA video adapter in an 8-bit slot (yeah, some of the REALLY old ones with the 9-pin VGA plug could handle this).
How much does the price for that 2.3mbit SDSL change if I wanted to attach a mini-ISP to it?
For example, lets say I want to run an internet cafe & a (small) co-lo server farm off it, using (lets say) 1/4 to 1/2 a class C -- how much would it increase the price (just a rough guess would be nice)?
Just wondering 'cause I'd like to settle the debate with some numbers. Not to mention I'd like to know for my own company's future.:-)
Thanks!
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>and there isn't a damn thing that those of us who oppose it can do about it.
You could film the cameras back.
You'd be surprised how quickly the police will illegally arrest you. Stores (albeit in this case somewhat legally) will kick you out double time for taking pictures of security cameras (where's that link I found of some crazy people doing this -- damn). Given someone with either cash or a good legal backing (like, let's say, the privacy commissioner) I'm certain the person illegally arrested could easily prove the cameras are a threat to personal freedom with an illegal arrest on their hands.
Oh, and if filming the cameras doesn't bother 'em enough, try filming a police officer on duty.
Because, really, if the police think they can film you, why shouldn't you film them back?
And, BTW, while an accidental virus outbreak could do all sorts of monetary harm, viruses are far easier to keep "locked up" than most biological weapons, which if release would probably cause massive deaths in the affected area.
Catch the difference? I think everyone draws the line at things that can kill people and require a top level professional (or, simply, cannot be made in a way they aren't deadly) to keep from killing people.
Of course, I'm sure someone is going to provide a link to an iron lung that failed due to a virus now -- but I think, again, people draw the other line at the point where the people operating and creating such equipment should have known better.
>So is that why I've been running ie since 2.0 using it for hours daily and never ever had a single hack, bug or virus? In fact of the dozens of people I know no one ever has! Email, yes. IE never.
YUO = MORON.
I have made hundreds of dollars cleaning up backdoors, forced homepage resets, and other horrible crap installed by nefarious sites on the internet (the overwhelming majority are porn sites, but I suppose you aren't old enough to visit those yet).
But please, keep using IE. I will be happy to clean up your computer for $50 per hour (one hour minimum charge). I even do in home service, but for distances over 20 km, you'll need to pay for my transport.
But I doubt you can afford me -- BK just doesn't pay, does it?
>Hmm... like all the non-open source safety systems in your automobile
Well, geez, you know, like, I can't figure out how can air bag works. The name really confuses me. I think its actually a foam cushion.
And seat belts, well, I don't know what to say. I would have used piano wire.
Fortunately my car doesn't have Anti-Lock Brakes, so it stops quicker. I guess this is one fake safety feature whose operation isn't fully described by its name. Could be a good thing.
And double locking microwave doors, wow, uhhh, I always thought that meant I had to have someone turn the second lock at the same time as I turned the first.
Unfortunately, I can't quite quote on the space shuttle, being as I don't own one. Same thing with military aircraft...
Yeah... I'm being fecicious. But you don't have to open source something that's fully described in its name and by watching its basic operation...
>Nobody in their right minds would use DVDs instead of Betamax for most tasks that betamax is used for.
Nobody in their right mind would use BetaMax for broadcast TV.
It probably wouldn't even be good enough for a wedding video master.
Notice those horrible looking ads on TV asking you to buy a beat up junker from Al's Car Store? Yeah... that's BetaMax (240 lines of resolution! Woohoo!).
BetaCam, however, well, that's a different story. But at $1000 for a player, and more for a camera, a lot of independant people (and small studios) turn to DV instead.
>Yeah, but for all practical purposes, which do you consider the bigger problem?
Fine. Three can play this game.
Most people like to drink something while they watch TV. Ever spilt a beer on a tape? Doesn't play all that well, that's if it doesn't jam up the VCR immediately. Basically, the tape is trash.
Now spill the same drink on a DVD. Now run tap water over the DVD and let it dry. Yup, its still in (relatively) pristine condition. I'd still make a backup incase the liquid made it between the layers, though.
>That sucks; seems my 5 year old (UK PAL) VCR, along with the majority of recent models are being missold with the claim they can play back NTSC tapes.
In 60 Hz PAL mode. Overclocking your TV is about as reliable as overclocking your PCI bus. If it works for you, good. But some of us like to stay away from the "red zone"...
>Now all the bots are terribly boring, the obstacles are boring, and it's not football.
Well, I humbly disagree. I think it's great that I can watch it all the time. And yeah, I watch the clone shows too, and was pretty disappointed when Robotica was cancelled for that short time.
But then again, I'm not normally a sports fan. Unless its snooker, golf, bowling, or darts.:-)
You can write protect a tape, and DVD-R is inherently write protected. But you can't write protect a hard drive.
Having trouble with a hacked server? With a hard drive your choices are limited -- put it in and hope you can fix the server before it eats the drive, or start from scratch.
With a physically non-writeable medium, I can trust that my tapes and DVD-Rs will never be eaten by a badly behaved server.
>I don't want teeny-bopper garbage, and I certainly don't want to hear 80s (they're dead, let them die peacefully).
Turn your dial lower then. And put a real TV tower up.
College radio is still out there. No "real" commercials (unless you consider "advertising" college events commercials), and no pop stuff (well, usually).
All you have to do is put up with the DJs. And, depending on the size of the station, and the show you're listening to, they can still be very professional.
As an example, our 4000W college station (trust me, that's a LOT of power for a community college) plays a polish review, drum and bass, electronica, hard-to-find punk, heavy metal, rap (yeah, probably part of your not wanted list, but these guys actually are full time professionals, so it doesn't suck at all), euro dance, and a lot more that I've probably missed outside of radio prime-time.
It's very worth the effort to turn the dial down a little, but because most Colleges are power-limited, you'll really need a proper antenna on a tower.
>No matter how romantic it sounds, there is no way maintaining a massive database with 16 versions (bitrate+codec) of every song on the off chance that someone might want a 64kpbs Ogg of some hit from 1924 will EVER be sufficiently profitable.
Well, to begin with, you can encode on the fly (as has been said before).
And to end with, this isn't impossible, storing all that data.
I am currently paying $20/month for a connection to (I assume) a profitable newsserver. I can download over 2 gigs a day from it. They have a retention of up to 30 days, and over 80,000 newsgroups. This means they have _at least_ a few terrabytes of RAID array (at least that's what someone who says they run a corporate news server told me it would take).
So, assuming 3 terrabytes of RAID array, 50% lossless compression, and knowing for certain that 2 Gigs of download per day is profitable at $20/month, and an average of 60 minute albums this means they can store 100,000,000 albums before they meet the problems worse than those of the newsserver service I use.
I have a feeling that would provide people with more than enough content -- it is certainly 10,000x more than than what my local HMV stocks.
So, if running a news server (which is a far more niche market than internet audio) is profitable, why can't an internet record store be profitable with this model? It's not like the equipment actually costs that much (in comparison to equipment costs for other companies), and your bandwidth costs will tend to scale with the amount of users you have.
I'd start one but I just don't have $1 million lying around, and the record companies aren't going to deal with me.
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Ananova is famous for BullShit Onion-Like stories. I expect that's why you were passed over.
>Memory sticks are widely used in a variety of digital cameras.
Correction:
Memory sticks are widely used in a variety of SONY digital cameras. Which, by common consensus, are crap.
Those memory sticks are full of DRM and likely won't ever be readable in anything other than Sony equipment unless companies want to pay Sony for "rights" to a product that is already dated.
>Ever since Napster Sony ramped up its MD campaign in america and theyr actually quickly gaining popularity
Yeah, I saw the ads in the Future Shop toilet paper they always send me.
Seems to me MD still doesn't beat 8 cm MP3-CD in any way at all, even with the LP versions.
Sony can advertise all it likes. As long as the process for making an MP3 CD of "napster" songs is this:
- Download music
- Burn music in under 2 minutes
While the MD version is this
- Download music
- Hook up MD recorder to SPDIF
- Hook SPDIF to SCMS stripper
- Hook SCMS stripper to soundcard
- Open MP3 in winamp
- Push record on MD recorder
- Push play in MP3 player
- Title the song
- Rinse, lather and repeat (until you run out of space on your MD disc, which you will far quicker, even with LP mode, than you would for equivalent quality MP3s)...
It isn't going to be popular. AFAIK, Sony has no easy to get MD-Recorder drives for a computer. Not to mention the media is approximately 10x more expensive than CD-R.
>MD is wildly popular in europe, and there are just as many europeans as americans, if not more.
After being to Europe (the UK specifically) personally, I can tell you all that this is an overstatement.
While MD is used and is available in the UK (unlike America, where it is Dead with a capital D) from what I saw just a few months ago it is -- by far -- less popular that CDs, which are its rival. I would safely suggest the ratio is much less than 1 MD player per CD player.
Perhaps you know a wildly different set of people than me, or perhaps you are being too German-centric?
>Americans are not the only people in the world that buy consumer electronics outside of Japan.
I know. Europeans have as well, as it seems, by majority rejected MD as a standard. Thank God too because I don't like Sony ruling on how I can use their format (did they ever make it computer recordable? and if they did is it even 10% of the speed, or 100% of the data, or even 200% the price of an 8 cm CD-R?)
>It's hard to believe that the Betamax, with its better sound and picture quality, ever lost out to the VHS.
Oh no, not this one again.
Picture quality -- about 10% better (barely) in units from the same era. A modern $70 VCR still beats the pants off it, though. BetaMax had only an extra 10 lines of resolution, and a very slightly less noisy picture going for it at the time. Not to mention this is largely due to running the tape faster, which happens to be their (alternate) reason for dying. You have to switch tapes during just about anything if you want the quality to beat VHS. Hardly anything to write to slashdot about...:-)
Sound quality -- AFAIK, while VHS started out mono, a full HiFi Stereo VHS VCR gives a similar fidelity to a Sony Betamax VCR, although without actually hearing a unit it is hard to tell (not that VHS HiFi sounds bad -- its right inbetween a decent Metal casette and a good CD).
Besides, Sony eats their young. And therefore its their fault Beta died. And a good thing, too.
It's just one in a very long list of failures of Sony in the US, along with 8mm, Memory Sticks, and MD. Sony just can't seem to figure out what makes us Americans buy stuff, and probably never will as long as they keep it so very proprietary.
Here's a little more on that format war, for those interested.
Spelling flames only go out of style if you aren't flaming someone else.
Once you decide to use slashdot to sort out what is actually a private flamewar, I consider anything fair game.
Why?
It's simple: If you consider yourself of such far higher perfection than someone else on slashdot, you damn well better make sure it shows it in your post. If you don't and you have it pointed out to you, them's the breaks.
>Way to be a dick. Try replying to someone in a civil manner.
Sorry about that. I just get mad, you see, when someone lies about me and my stance on issues publicly.
You did say (emphasis mine):
"Of course being a total anti-Microsoft comment, this little tidbit [pivx.com] was conveniently left out."
Did you not?
Maybe I took it out of context. If so, sorry.
It isn't a total anti-Microsoft comment. Its an attempt to get people to wake up and tell Microsoft that they want a secure OS. I just find it disappointing that many people still believe that using a browser that's integrated into the OS with 16 serious bugs that are ripe for exploitation (and, in some cases, already have been) is a safe way to use your computer. If only more people would request Microsoft to enhance their security, computers would be much safer to use on the internet, and just maybe I'd be pointing the finger at the BSD team for OpenSSH vulnerabilities, or the Apache team for their mistakes instead.
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>and IBM actually gives a shit about improving their products
ROTFLMAO.
1.5 words for you:
OS/2 Warp.
>While if you're so great i suggest you start a company and put apple out of business.
Okay, I'll take you up on that...
Waitaminute -- Microsoft beat me to the punch last year. Bummer.
>can't handle partitions > 2GB
Wow, he lost me there.
That info is so out of date, it was out of date 8 years before kuro5hin even opened (I'd say longer, but I can only vouch for how long I've been using it).
I wouldn't trust a single thing that guy says if he can't make a partition bigger than 2 GB (and, AFAIK, there's never been a 2 GB partition limit in Linux).
The truth is that person made about 1 cognisant complaint about linux, and one monkey sitting at one typewriter for one month could have done better.
Maybe next time he'll say windows XP is no good because it runs on top of DOS like windows 3.1.
Thanks!
:-)
Too bad you don't operate in the area I plan to open up in (Kitchener/Waterloo)... But at least now I have an idea that there are ISPs out there willing to serve people with needs like mine at a reasonable price.
>Unfortunately it took a spike in a power surge, silly me for not getting a surge guard.
No amount of surge guards would protect that thing, I'm sorry to say. It probably blew up because of a design flaw.
Acer makes crap. Not the worst crap on earth (they certainly don't beat PcChips), but bad enough that a 486 SX/25 with BIOS shadowing disabled takes a timed 6 minutes to go complete POST.
Performance that bad I hadn't seen since I installed windows 3.0 on an XT with a 16-bit VGA video adapter in an 8-bit slot (yeah, some of the REALLY old ones with the 9-pin VGA plug could handle this).
How much does the price for that 2.3mbit SDSL change if I wanted to attach a mini-ISP to it?
:-)
For example, lets say I want to run an internet cafe & a (small) co-lo server farm off it, using (lets say) 1/4 to 1/2 a class C -- how much would it increase the price (just a rough guess would be nice)?
Just wondering 'cause I'd like to settle the debate with some numbers. Not to mention I'd like to know for my own company's future.
Thanks!
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Windows -> Uncheck "Open Unrequested Windows".
:-)
You might want to check the other features there, too.
Now where's this bannerblind function you speak of? Sounds interesting.
>if we immunize everyone against smallpox (which we have an vaccine for). then it is the same thing right? why don't we do it?
Because people sicken when exposed to certain vaccines, and while computers may be affected in a similar manner by patches, they are expendable.
>and there isn't a damn thing that those of us who oppose it can do about it.
You could film the cameras back.
You'd be surprised how quickly the police will illegally arrest you. Stores (albeit in this case somewhat legally) will kick you out double time for taking pictures of security cameras (where's that link I found of some crazy people doing this -- damn). Given someone with either cash or a good legal backing (like, let's say, the privacy commissioner) I'm certain the person illegally arrested could easily prove the cameras are a threat to personal freedom with an illegal arrest on their hands.
Oh, and if filming the cameras doesn't bother 'em enough, try filming a police officer on duty.
Because, really, if the police think they can film you, why shouldn't you film them back?
Viruses don't kill people. Biological Weapons do.
And, BTW, while an accidental virus outbreak could do all sorts of monetary harm, viruses are far easier to keep "locked up" than most biological weapons, which if release would probably cause massive deaths in the affected area.
Catch the difference? I think everyone draws the line at things that can kill people and require a top level professional (or, simply, cannot be made in a way they aren't deadly) to keep from killing people.
Of course, I'm sure someone is going to provide a link to an iron lung that failed due to a virus now -- but I think, again, people draw the other line at the point where the people operating and creating such equipment should have known better.
>So is that why I've been running ie since 2.0 using it for hours daily and never ever had a single hack, bug or virus? In fact of the dozens of people I know no one ever has! Email, yes. IE never.
YUO = MORON.
I have made hundreds of dollars cleaning up backdoors, forced homepage resets, and other horrible crap installed by nefarious sites on the internet (the overwhelming majority are porn sites, but I suppose you aren't old enough to visit those yet).
But please, keep using IE. I will be happy to clean up your computer for $50 per hour (one hour minimum charge). I even do in home service, but for distances over 20 km, you'll need to pay for my transport.
But I doubt you can afford me -- BK just doesn't pay, does it?
>Hmm... like all the non-open source safety systems in your automobile
Well, geez, you know, like, I can't figure out how can air bag works. The name really confuses me. I think its actually a foam cushion.
And seat belts, well, I don't know what to say. I would have used piano wire.
Fortunately my car doesn't have Anti-Lock Brakes, so it stops quicker. I guess this is one fake safety feature whose operation isn't fully described by its name. Could be a good thing.
And double locking microwave doors, wow, uhhh, I always thought that meant I had to have someone turn the second lock at the same time as I turned the first.
Unfortunately, I can't quite quote on the space shuttle, being as I don't own one. Same thing with military aircraft...
Yeah... I'm being fecicious. But you don't have to open source something that's fully described in its name and by watching its basic operation...
>Nobody in their right minds would use DVDs instead of Betamax for most tasks that betamax is used for.
Nobody in their right mind would use BetaMax for broadcast TV.
It probably wouldn't even be good enough for a wedding video master.
Notice those horrible looking ads on TV asking you to buy a beat up junker from Al's Car Store? Yeah... that's BetaMax (240 lines of resolution! Woohoo!).
BetaCam, however, well, that's a different story. But at $1000 for a player, and more for a camera, a lot of independant people (and small studios) turn to DV instead.
>Yeah, but for all practical purposes, which do you consider the bigger problem?
Fine. Three can play this game.
Most people like to drink something while they watch TV. Ever spilt a beer on a tape? Doesn't play all that well, that's if it doesn't jam up the VCR immediately. Basically, the tape is trash.
Now spill the same drink on a DVD. Now run tap water over the DVD and let it dry. Yup, its still in (relatively) pristine condition. I'd still make a backup incase the liquid made it between the layers, though.
>That sucks; seems my 5 year old (UK PAL) VCR, along with the majority of recent models are being missold with the claim they can play back NTSC tapes.
In 60 Hz PAL mode. Overclocking your TV is about as reliable as overclocking your PCI bus. If it works for you, good. But some of us like to stay away from the "red zone"...
>Now all the bots are terribly boring, the obstacles are boring, and it's not football.
:-)
Well, I humbly disagree. I think it's great that I can watch it all the time. And yeah, I watch the clone shows too, and was pretty disappointed when Robotica was cancelled for that short time.
But then again, I'm not normally a sports fan. Unless its snooker, golf, bowling, or darts.
I'll add another reason:
You can write protect a tape, and DVD-R is inherently write protected. But you can't write protect a hard drive.
Having trouble with a hacked server? With a hard drive your choices are limited -- put it in and hope you can fix the server before it eats the drive, or start from scratch.
With a physically non-writeable medium, I can trust that my tapes and DVD-Rs will never be eaten by a badly behaved server.
>I don't want teeny-bopper garbage, and I certainly don't want to hear 80s (they're dead, let them die peacefully).
Turn your dial lower then. And put a real TV tower up.
College radio is still out there. No "real" commercials (unless you consider "advertising" college events commercials), and no pop stuff (well, usually).
All you have to do is put up with the DJs. And, depending on the size of the station, and the show you're listening to, they can still be very professional.
As an example, our 4000W college station (trust me, that's a LOT of power for a community college) plays a polish review, drum and bass, electronica, hard-to-find punk, heavy metal, rap (yeah, probably part of your not wanted list, but these guys actually are full time professionals, so it doesn't suck at all), euro dance, and a lot more that I've probably missed outside of radio prime-time.
It's very worth the effort to turn the dial down a little, but because most Colleges are power-limited, you'll really need a proper antenna on a tower.
>No matter how romantic it sounds, there is no way maintaining a massive database with 16 versions (bitrate+codec) of every song on the off chance that someone might want a 64kpbs Ogg of some hit from 1924 will EVER be sufficiently profitable.
Well, to begin with, you can encode on the fly (as has been said before).
And to end with, this isn't impossible, storing all that data.
I am currently paying $20/month for a connection to (I assume) a profitable newsserver. I can download over 2 gigs a day from it. They have a retention of up to 30 days, and over 80,000 newsgroups. This means they have _at least_ a few terrabytes of RAID array (at least that's what someone who says they run a corporate news server told me it would take).
So, assuming 3 terrabytes of RAID array, 50% lossless compression, and knowing for certain that 2 Gigs of download per day is profitable at $20/month, and an average of 60 minute albums this means they can store 100,000,000 albums before they meet the problems worse than those of the newsserver service I use.
I have a feeling that would provide people with more than enough content -- it is certainly 10,000x more than than what my local HMV stocks.
So, if running a news server (which is a far more niche market than internet audio) is profitable, why can't an internet record store be profitable with this model? It's not like the equipment actually costs that much (in comparison to equipment costs for other companies), and your bandwidth costs will tend to scale with the amount of users you have.
I'd start one but I just don't have $1 million lying around, and the record companies aren't going to deal with me.
Ananova is famous for BullShit Onion-Like stories. I expect that's why you were passed over.
>Memory sticks are widely used in a variety of digital cameras.
Correction:
Memory sticks are widely used in a variety of SONY digital cameras. Which, by common consensus, are crap.
Those memory sticks are full of DRM and likely won't ever be readable in anything other than Sony equipment unless companies want to pay Sony for "rights" to a product that is already dated.
>Ever since Napster Sony ramped up its MD campaign in america and theyr actually quickly gaining popularity
Yeah, I saw the ads in the Future Shop toilet paper they always send me.
Seems to me MD still doesn't beat 8 cm MP3-CD in any way at all, even with the LP versions.
Sony can advertise all it likes. As long as the process for making an MP3 CD of "napster" songs is this:
- Download music
- Burn music in under 2 minutes
While the MD version is this
- Download music
- Hook up MD recorder to SPDIF
- Hook SPDIF to SCMS stripper
- Hook SCMS stripper to soundcard
- Open MP3 in winamp
- Push record on MD recorder
- Push play in MP3 player
- Title the song
- Rinse, lather and repeat (until you run out of space on your MD disc, which you will far quicker, even with LP mode, than you would for equivalent quality MP3s)...
It isn't going to be popular. AFAIK, Sony has no easy to get MD-Recorder drives for a computer. Not to mention the media is approximately 10x more expensive than CD-R.
>MD is wildly popular in europe, and there are just as many europeans as americans, if not more.
After being to Europe (the UK specifically) personally, I can tell you all that this is an overstatement.
While MD is used and is available in the UK (unlike America, where it is Dead with a capital D) from what I saw just a few months ago it is -- by far -- less popular that CDs, which are its rival. I would safely suggest the ratio is much less than 1 MD player per CD player.
Perhaps you know a wildly different set of people than me, or perhaps you are being too German-centric?
>Americans are not the only people in the world that buy consumer electronics outside of Japan.
I know. Europeans have as well, as it seems, by majority rejected MD as a standard. Thank God too because I don't like Sony ruling on how I can use their format (did they ever make it computer recordable? and if they did is it even 10% of the speed, or 100% of the data, or even 200% the price of an 8 cm CD-R?)
>It's hard to believe that the Betamax, with its better sound and picture quality, ever lost out to the VHS.
:-)
Oh no, not this one again.
Picture quality -- about 10% better (barely) in units from the same era. A modern $70 VCR still beats the pants off it, though. BetaMax had only an extra 10 lines of resolution, and a very slightly less noisy picture going for it at the time. Not to mention this is largely due to running the tape faster, which happens to be their (alternate) reason for dying. You have to switch tapes during just about anything if you want the quality to beat VHS. Hardly anything to write to slashdot about...
Sound quality -- AFAIK, while VHS started out mono, a full HiFi Stereo VHS VCR gives a similar fidelity to a Sony Betamax VCR, although without actually hearing a unit it is hard to tell (not that VHS HiFi sounds bad -- its right inbetween a decent Metal casette and a good CD).
Besides, Sony eats their young. And therefore its their fault Beta died. And a good thing, too.
It's just one in a very long list of failures of Sony in the US, along with 8mm, Memory Sticks, and MD. Sony just can't seem to figure out what makes us Americans buy stuff, and probably never will as long as they keep it so very proprietary.
Here's a little more on that format war, for those interested.
Spelling flames only go out of style if you aren't flaming someone else.
Once you decide to use slashdot to sort out what is actually a private flamewar, I consider anything fair game.
Why?
It's simple: If you consider yourself of such far higher perfection than someone else on slashdot, you damn well better make sure it shows it in your post. If you don't and you have it pointed out to you, them's the breaks.
>It's no wonder you got fired for incompentence.
Chief says:
"Those with foot in mouth best not speak."
Should I run ispell against your source code? I might be able to help your GPL project a little!
>Way to be a dick. Try replying to someone in a civil manner.
Sorry about that. I just get mad, you see, when someone lies about me and my stance on issues publicly.
You did say (emphasis mine):
"Of course being a total anti-Microsoft comment, this little tidbit [pivx.com] was conveniently left out."
Did you not?
Maybe I took it out of context. If so, sorry.
It isn't a total anti-Microsoft comment. Its an attempt to get people to wake up and tell Microsoft that they want a secure OS. I just find it disappointing that many people still believe that using a browser that's integrated into the OS with 16 serious bugs that are ripe for exploitation (and, in some cases, already have been) is a safe way to use your computer. If only more people would request Microsoft to enhance their security, computers would be much safer to use on the internet, and just maybe I'd be pointing the finger at the BSD team for OpenSSH vulnerabilities, or the Apache team for their mistakes instead.