Microsoft threatons people normally anyway..
The diffrence here is they caved due to SLASHDOT publicity...
Hay... mark it down.. This is the day the evil empire caved to a bunch of "Unix Zellots". This is a good thing....
All you need to get Slashdot attention is an e-mail address and a threat from Microsoft....
When running the rebelion against the empire if Darth Vader offers to fund (No strings attached) you grab it before he realises what he's doing.
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Telnet is me using my computer.. I should protect that connection with encryption (Not against the government but against script kiddys)
E-mail is a personal message from me to someone else.. this privacy should not be invaded.
IRC is a public chat.. You allready have no privacy on IRC.. Want to see whats being said on a given channel? Supper secret IRC command that will let you do this..../join #(channel name)
Packet sniffing will let you observe chats on channels you were banned from.. big deal... It's not private... The most you can do is secure a channel from some jerk flooding the channel with "I am the lizard king" or "Hay babe want hot sex?"
E-mail is well mail.. how would you feel if someone openned your personal mail?
IRC is more like a club.. Everything is public and quite a few people are jerks.
When when you kick the out they can still look in the Windows.
I'd be annoyed if someone was reading my e-mail to my GF but spying in on a chat with friends on IRC is pritty much fair game... big deal
My history of the subject is pritty poor so if I'm wrong just say so.
However my understanding is that Luddites were basicly in fear of mass production. They were worryed the lifes they had were comming to an end. They were fearful of losing jobs.
They were not wrong. The skills they had would be displaced by masproduction. But thies skills were obsolete and the solution was to distory the machines.
Right problem wrong answer. If you find your skills are obsolete you update your skills. Become familure with the new skills you'll need to keep working.
Those Ludites were not herros...
Part of survival is the ability to adjust to new realitys.
Masproduction kinda took people by supprise.
But computers did not...
The moral objections to the Internet are nothing new.. They were the same moral objections to the BBSes.. TV.. Movies.. etc...
The Ludite lable may be a good one for thies people.. fear of new technology. But the tactic isn't sabotog mearly censorship.
Right solution.. wrong problem.. They updated skills.
Now is the time to addapt as a socity to the realitys technology brings us.
Not nessisarly NEW realitys but realitys we've been able to hide away before.
Today the issues must be faced upfront and honnestly. You can hide no more.
I prefer the book burner synbology.. becouse it isn't pure technology but the power it brings to unleash knowladge. This is the thing most feared. Not technology but the information it may relay.
To be correct the Internet unleashes data.. knowladge may or may not be contained within...
In the past it could be ignored. Enough data and you can be reasonably knowladgable on a given subject.
People who wish to be masters of given subjects do not fear this. They allready have a knowladge base to start from and can simply add to it using the data available on the net and they may provide a valuable service to those who simply don't have the time.
People who wish to supress a given subject however live in terror as now that subject is at the fingertips of every person on the face of this earth.
Blind acceptence of technology is a bad thing.. Waiting about 10 to 30 years for the thing to be on top of you before you react is also a bad thing.
Most of the issues we have today are stuff we had preliminary warnnings of about 10 to 20 years ago.. people just ignored it... None of this happend "suddenly" and maybe it wasn't obveous it's also something that could have been forseen at least 5 years beforehand (as it became more and more obveous) Porn BBSes... and wav file swapping...
Eather Taco is dead asleep or laughing his butt off.. I'm not sure...
If the former.. he'll be running his bum off tomarow mornning... If the latter... good one Taco...
But I doupt anyones taking anybodys word for anything
$1,000 for Windows?
Well yeah..
However splitting Microsoft up will nither cause nore prevent this...
Other companys have offered Unix operating systems for a similar price tag...
I still rember when $100 for an operating system was an outrage...
and when you asked for $20 your software had better be the best software PACAGE you could provide.
But software prices keep going up...
Becouse fewer and fewer users can write code.
As long as programming is a rare skill the few who can may charg the rest up the nose for 3 lines of code...
But with a larg programmer population... a bunch of kids can write a program that beats they hack out of your $200 software pacage in one afternoon.
Nasa right now relys on results for it's budget. Some other agentcys (education) rely on a LACK of results (We need more money... we are doing soo bad.. we need more money) when poor results can equal more funding quallity drops through the floor.
Nasa has to worry about producing results to justify it's existence.. It is not a self justifying entity. And it is a private entity..
If two space agentcys were to compeate on budget they budget would likely go to the one who is worst off.. the successful agentcy dosn't need more money.. the failure dose...
I don't know how to aproch the rewarding falure issue (if I did this isn't the right topic) but I'm pritty sure sence Nasa is allready fighting for a budget it is quite posable the alternitive could be the groundwork for turnning Nasa into a self justifying agentcy and use failure to prove it's need for more money.
As long as Nasa itself is lone and continues to be reguarded as "helpful" as long as it produces worthy results.. it will not need to compeate on failure.
In any case I doupt the budget exists for TWO space agentcys in the United States...
People need to realise they need AT LEAST as much understanding of computers to use them..
as they have of driving in order to drive..
Cars and Computers are both very complex machines. The diffrence is a car lacks a user friendly interface and the computer dosn't drive off the internet into a website through a home page and into a data pool when you don't know what your doing. It all LOOKS perficly ok.
But rest assured just becouse people don't die when you do something stupid dosn't mean you can't do something stupid..
And computers aren't much harder to understand than a car..
Also failure to understand eather leads you to get ripped off... By car dealers, software companys or repair shops (of both)... the last being quite rare....
>Eh? You manage to contradict yourself here since you were talking about taxation earlier.
Not a contradiction in the slightest...
The primary objective is to protect My.MP3
The FTP thing is purely a side effect... and posably the fullest extent of freedom that we'd get from this thing..
Your right in the notion that this is made to LOOK like it's giving us something when it's really just pushing an agenda...
About the paranoia thing... we ALL get parnaoid.. ehhh it's not a bad thing really... Hay I can expect you'll be there when they come to take me away for speaking my mind.. no matter HOW much you disagree with me... And I'll be there if they ever come for you...
Being paranoid about ones freedoms is the healthyest thing...
Anyway... Your right about WHAT they are doing but not WHY they are doing it...
It sounds stupid but they beat you to death becouse they want to protect you from being beaten to death...
People like you need to come along and say "Thats Fsking stupid" and well.. you are...
Anyway... Sorry for being so mean and evil.. but I am and thats all there is....
On yeah... "It dosn't protect Napster" "So"
Ehh thats kinda what the jist of this was... "Ohh finnaly Napster is saved" not even slightly... Woulda been nice... Of course you knew better.. but for the benifit of others I thought I'd mention it...
>>And yet again, we'll be cheering them on because on the surface it looks like a win for the "fair use" doctrine.
>You mean the "petty theft" doctrine?
Eeek a paranoid and a psyco...
I've allready responded to the other guy.. so I'll respond to you...
Do not resist when they come to arrest you for the criminal act of posting your opinion....
Using Napster isn't criminal.. using Napster to trade commertal music is...
I've downloaded non-commetal music for YEARS in the Amiga MOD format...
People use Napster for criminal acts.. ban it...
People use posts to insite criminal acts... ban that too...
You are under arrest for posting your opinion.. please come this way...
You have the right to remain silent... you may not give up this right
The good news is you shall never see this day becouse people (like the paranoid above) will fight for your freedom to speak your mind.
On a side note.. You have the freedom to speak your mind... Slashdot has the right to not carry your message...
That is a bit paranoid...
The government exists to protect.. The way it is done leaves a great deal to be desired.. but thats the main idea.
In this case having read the artical it seems the government is protecting My.MP3...
The logic... Basicly My MP3 dosn't do anything that hurts music sales.. It dosn't effect the ecconomy at all. So getting rid of My MP3 just means eliminating a busness.. and potental taxes.
Sence the music ind. will not be injured in any way they'll still be able to move around larg amounts of money and generate larg amounts of taxes.
On the other hand with My MP3 they'll also have the taxes from them...
Now this dosn't help Napster in any way sence this is about private lissening.. Napster is still a public file sharing system...
I guess it also means that I can keep my CDs ripped to MP3s on my machine and make them accessable vea FTP (with no Annon access)
A long ways back Disney did a SIFI TV movie about an evil renigate group who use illegal technology.
At the time I was like "How could technology be illegal"..
Now I'm putting this all together...
That was the launch pad for a sinister plot to strip us of advanced technology. To allow government agentcys to deside what we can and can not have.
Eventually technology will be regulated by an agentcy like the FDA or FCC... Who will deside what medications you can have or who can brodcast and what they can broudcast.
They will strip you of your freedoms.. Deside you can not have things like encryption and eventually even deside you can not publish certen information on the Internet as it could be used to instruct terrorists.
They may even go so far as to require computers at ISPs so they can scan e-mail or implant back doors in software so that they may spy on other governments.
I tell you the day is comming when you don't buy software but rent it..
When you don't buy a computer but get it as part of a pacage deal with your Internet provider...
I tell you they may even go so far as change the way TV is broudcast...
We must stop this madness... log into your local BBS and send FidoNet mail to Presedent Ronald Regan about the potental treat to the future of techology...
I mean when they are able to have portable digital file players I want mine....
Note: This is a joke...
Please note the diffrence between what the slashdot editor says and what the artical submitor said...
In the case of this story... Slashdot didn't say a word...
Anyway... It looks to me CeBit is basicly saying "No more MP3s" as a way to make the booths quieter.
They are basicly trying to get rid of the consummer stuff and return to busness and kinda pushed Creative off to the home show... a smaller show that really isn't paying off...
It's not really about MP3s.. it's about being loud during a busness expo...
As long as you damage a small part of the data that tracks the contents of the hard disk it's rendered pritty much unreadable...
Don't need to eliminate 100% of the disk... just a well selected 1% will do...
One day my Boss takes a look at my computers hard disk.
Yeah sure it's secure but the disk isn't encrypted and I'm really lucky to have a boss who knows Unix.
Oh and I keep a Linux CD handy in case I need to restore my computer from a nasty crash.. how smart of me...
Apparently my Boss dosn't share my intrests in techno advocacy.. the DVD DeCSS directory means.. I'm out of work...
Oh well...
So I get home.. my girl friend isn't quite so tech savy as I am but I'm allways teaching her stuff...
Hay she learned a new trick on her own today..
I mean now that I'm out of work my computers at home.. so she started tinkering around..
I never did give her much access so she picks up the cd..
the dam porn directory...
Now I have no girlfriend...
Mom wants to use the computer.. she's pritty tech savy... learnned CP/M way back and had access to a PDP11/70 when I was still a kid...
But sadly all her equipment is obsolete... Commodore Pets.. Apple IIs.. She wants to use my Linux box while I'm out looking for work...
Thats ok.... hmmmm
Encryption HowTo... yeah Mom would he happy to have her network connection encrypted.. (I'll just encrypt all my personal files while I'm at it)
Please note.. the above is fiction.. my boss dosn't look at my computer and I can't get my GF to even consider Linux...
I don't have a porn directory and I keep DVD DeCSS on a ZipDisk...
I get tired of comments such as "Like the big boys"...
There aren't any real "Big Boys" of the Internet unless you count Slashdot known for the Slashdot effect... (And you just discounted them by recomending they folow "The big boys")
What other big boys might you be refering to?
Fortune 500 companys? Thies companys have glorifyed home pages running on Windows NT boxes.. Nither sereous about the net nore using Solarus...
For what they are doing however a Commodore 64 running web server software would work so not even a sereous test..
Maybe you mean the real e-commerce winners of Internet.. the porn industry... BSD...
From what I understand they usually try Windows find it lacking.. try Linux find it's not quite there yet.. the go with BSD... and find BSD is everything they need.
Ok not Linux but still open source and not Solarus.
Maybe you mean back bones.. the Internet itself... well.. they DO use Solarus...
But let's do some traceroutes before we blame Linux for Slashdots problems.. Thats right people the packets die at the back bone... on Solarus boxes.. It never reaches Slashdot...
In the end one must realise however that unless you have an unlimited budget (like the big boys) you can't afford the same equipment "The Big Boys" use...
Let's face if.. if your choices were between a Xeon and a Sun Sparc 1... You'd be a fool to pick the Sparc...
On the other hand if your choices are between a Quad Xeon and a Quad UltraSparc 3... you'd be a fool to pick the Xeon...
And that folks.. is hardware... Linux runs on Sparcs and Xeons...
Just becouse it runs nicely on a i386 dosn't mean it sucks egges on hardware that is about 200 times more powerful...
>First off, spell check yourself.
Your right.. I should.. I'm lazy... enough said..
>And to say that monopolistic dictatorships are the only way big companies can make money, that's just dumb. Companies can make TONS of money if they create something people need/want and they do it WELL. The problem is, that they are more concerned with getting things onto the market fast, making a quick buck, than making a good product.
I didn't say this was true of all markets just software.
ID is an incredably good counter example.. Quake and Doom are not things you can just download.
(The source code yes.. the binary yes.. the art work NO)
But when you start getting into smaller programs like wordprocessors etc.. Stuff that fits on a single flopy disk... that stuff can be downloaded pritty easly.. it makes it vertually imposable to protect your IP rights...
All the copys of the DVD DeCSS floating around show how hard it is to get rid of any software once it's on the Internet.
Microsoft themselfs had this problem with Microsoft Basic roms floating around...
Today he's ripping us off at one time however everyone was ripping him off...
This is software and not a religion so what I am about to say is in compleat defiyence of this singler fact...
AMEN!!
I'm not even christan but I find no useful equivlent in my own religion or in non-religous terminology... thus forvive the use of this term in this way... thank you:)
What NTFS provides for Linux is a way to access Windows NT files from Linux on the same computer.
This means Linux and NT co-exist on one box.
This configuration is of no good for servers as the user must reboot to switch from Linux to NT.
Thus it is only for Linux and a workstation and NT as a workstation.. Microsoft dose not seem sereously conserned about Linux compeating with NT in the workstation market.
This then would be a develupers or "hackers" (hacker as in hobbyest not as in criminal) box.
To elimiate this Microsoft could be betting that Windows NT would be selected over Linux.
On a develupers box this is a non-consern. It would make it hard on the develuper but nothing more.
On a hacker (as in hobbyest) box NT would go.. Linux is simply the os of choice for hobbyest and Microsoft has been none-to-friendly with hobbyests. (Posably still bitter about all that theft of Microsoft Basic back in the 1970s).
At base of this seems to me to be a general addatude in busness of suing just to sue.
Basicly busnesses (to spite populare opinion [Ahem: CmdrTaco] you do not need to sue everyone who violates your IP rights it is perfictly ok to overlook some violation.. only trademarks require this and you can issue liccenses instead of suing everyone named "Barbie") sue anyone who violates there IP even if it's violated in a way that benifiets them. With IP law you don't need to prove damages unless someone invokes "fair use" the idea being nobody is going to sue if they aren't damaged. That hasn't been the case in recent years.
Microsoft isn't the worst in this area. Matel seems to stop short of suing little girls...
Now it bothers me a great deal that Microsoft even holds IP rights on the NT file system.
Microsoft did pritty well from letting everyone using the Dos file system. Wordprocessor appliences would use the Dos FS... Atari ST and the Commodore 128 (with the 1571) could read Dos disks...
For a while it was the universal disk format that EVERYONE used.
Now Microsoft wants to protect it's Windows NT file system...
Fine... we can support everyone else under the sun (sparc hehe).. and let Microsoft build a wall around itself.
Now it seems to me Microsoft is basicly acting in paranoia over the people doing the work.
Microsoft can play it's little games and have it's little childish tantrum. But in the real world you just don't get along with everyone. It's gona happen. You can not expect everyone to agree with you.
I mean gezz.. "Oh my god a Linux advocate is accually working on this thing" Well duuu... I mean.. Oh my god.. Microsoft employees work on Windows.. Both Microsoft employees and Linux advocates are nice people some times you can a Linux advocate and a Microsoft employee in one room and not have a fight..
This whole mess is silly... It's just Microsoft trying to get back at someone becouse they think he "switched sides".
Hay Microsoft.. It's not a religion.. it's just software... grow up...
(Linux advocates can be annoying.. some are down right rude... but at times like thies I feel the zellotry in Linux has nothing over Microsoft)
Paint the Microsoft Icon on the boster rockets that the shuttle disguards on it's way to space...
Or better yet... after the fact CGI plant it on the failed mars launches...
and after the fact CGI Slashdot on the successful launches
Nobody is installing Linux to make money... cripes where did you get that idea?
Redhat offers an installation menu.. you set up your own system.. there are no defaults...
most of this is just taking the old issues people have had with Windows for years and applying them to Redhat...
Why is a loyal Debian user using the term Hacker to refer to computer criminals?
Debian develupers are hacker community... the REAL hacker community. as in people who tweek technology and improve it... not criminals...
quite simply this loser is a troll... attempting to start a flame war between Debian and RedHat users...
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Microsoft threatons people normally anyway..
The diffrence here is they caved due to SLASHDOT publicity...
Hay... mark it down.. This is the day the evil empire caved to a bunch of "Unix Zellots". This is a good thing....
All you need to get Slashdot attention is an e-mail address and a threat from Microsoft....
When running the rebelion against the empire if Darth Vader offers to fund (No strings attached) you grab it before he realises what he's doing.
Telnet is me using my computer.. I should protect that connection with encryption (Not against the government but against script kiddys)
/join #(channel name)
E-mail is a personal message from me to someone else.. this privacy should not be invaded.
IRC is a public chat.. You allready have no privacy on IRC.. Want to see whats being said on a given channel? Supper secret IRC command that will let you do this....
Packet sniffing will let you observe chats on channels you were banned from.. big deal... It's not private... The most you can do is secure a channel from some jerk flooding the channel with "I am the lizard king" or "Hay babe want hot sex?"
E-mail is well mail.. how would you feel if someone openned your personal mail?
IRC is more like a club.. Everything is public and quite a few people are jerks.
When when you kick the out they can still look in the Windows.
I'd be annoyed if someone was reading my e-mail to my GF but spying in on a chat with friends on IRC is pritty much fair game... big deal
My history of the subject is pritty poor so if I'm wrong just say so.
However my understanding is that Luddites were basicly in fear of mass production. They were worryed the lifes they had were comming to an end. They were fearful of losing jobs.
They were not wrong. The skills they had would be displaced by masproduction. But thies skills were obsolete and the solution was to distory the machines.
Right problem wrong answer. If you find your skills are obsolete you update your skills. Become familure with the new skills you'll need to keep working.
Those Ludites were not herros...
Part of survival is the ability to adjust to new realitys.
Masproduction kinda took people by supprise.
But computers did not...
The moral objections to the Internet are nothing new.. They were the same moral objections to the BBSes.. TV.. Movies.. etc...
The Ludite lable may be a good one for thies people.. fear of new technology. But the tactic isn't sabotog mearly censorship.
Right solution.. wrong problem.. They updated skills.
Now is the time to addapt as a socity to the realitys technology brings us.
Not nessisarly NEW realitys but realitys we've been able to hide away before.
Today the issues must be faced upfront and honnestly. You can hide no more.
I prefer the book burner synbology.. becouse it isn't pure technology but the power it brings to unleash knowladge. This is the thing most feared. Not technology but the information it may relay.
To be correct the Internet unleashes data.. knowladge may or may not be contained within...
In the past it could be ignored. Enough data and you can be reasonably knowladgable on a given subject.
People who wish to be masters of given subjects do not fear this. They allready have a knowladge base to start from and can simply add to it using the data available on the net and they may provide a valuable service to those who simply don't have the time.
People who wish to supress a given subject however live in terror as now that subject is at the fingertips of every person on the face of this earth.
Blind acceptence of technology is a bad thing.. Waiting about 10 to 30 years for the thing to be on top of you before you react is also a bad thing.
Most of the issues we have today are stuff we had preliminary warnnings of about 10 to 20 years ago.. people just ignored it... None of this happend "suddenly" and maybe it wasn't obveous it's also something that could have been forseen at least 5 years beforehand (as it became more and more obveous) Porn BBSes... and wav file swapping...
Eather Taco is dead asleep or laughing his butt off.. I'm not sure...
If the former.. he'll be running his bum off tomarow mornning... If the latter... good one Taco...
But I doupt anyones taking anybodys word for anything
Part of the bug fix adds a secret flag that gives the person automatic +5 with moderation cancling on all posts
$1,000 for Windows?
Well yeah..
However splitting Microsoft up will nither cause nore prevent this...
Other companys have offered Unix operating systems for a similar price tag...
I still rember when $100 for an operating system was an outrage...
and when you asked for $20 your software had better be the best software PACAGE you could provide.
But software prices keep going up...
Becouse fewer and fewer users can write code.
As long as programming is a rare skill the few who can may charg the rest up the nose for 3 lines of code...
But with a larg programmer population... a bunch of kids can write a program that beats they hack out of your $200 software pacage in one afternoon.
Nasa right now relys on results for it's budget. Some other agentcys (education) rely on a LACK of results (We need more money... we are doing soo bad.. we need more money) when poor results can equal more funding quallity drops through the floor.
Nasa has to worry about producing results to justify it's existence.. It is not a self justifying entity. And it is a private entity..
If two space agentcys were to compeate on budget they budget would likely go to the one who is worst off.. the successful agentcy dosn't need more money.. the failure dose...
I don't know how to aproch the rewarding falure issue (if I did this isn't the right topic) but I'm pritty sure sence Nasa is allready fighting for a budget it is quite posable the alternitive could be the groundwork for turnning Nasa into a self justifying agentcy and use failure to prove it's need for more money.
As long as Nasa itself is lone and continues to be reguarded as "helpful" as long as it produces worthy results.. it will not need to compeate on failure.
In any case I doupt the budget exists for TWO space agentcys in the United States...
People need to realise they need AT LEAST as much understanding of computers to use them..
as they have of driving in order to drive..
Cars and Computers are both very complex machines. The diffrence is a car lacks a user friendly interface and the computer dosn't drive off the internet into a website through a home page and into a data pool when you don't know what your doing. It all LOOKS perficly ok.
But rest assured just becouse people don't die when you do something stupid dosn't mean you can't do something stupid..
And computers aren't much harder to understand than a car..
Also failure to understand eather leads you to get ripped off... By car dealers, software companys or repair shops (of both)... the last being quite rare....
>Eh? You manage to contradict yourself here since you were talking about taxation earlier.
Not a contradiction in the slightest...
The primary objective is to protect My.MP3
The FTP thing is purely a side effect... and posably the fullest extent of freedom that we'd get from this thing..
Your right in the notion that this is made to LOOK like it's giving us something when it's really just pushing an agenda...
About the paranoia thing... we ALL get parnaoid.. ehhh it's not a bad thing really... Hay I can expect you'll be there when they come to take me away for speaking my mind.. no matter HOW much you disagree with me... And I'll be there if they ever come for you...
Being paranoid about ones freedoms is the healthyest thing...
Anyway... Your right about WHAT they are doing but not WHY they are doing it...
It sounds stupid but they beat you to death becouse they want to protect you from being beaten to death...
People like you need to come along and say "Thats Fsking stupid" and well.. you are...
Anyway... Sorry for being so mean and evil.. but I am and thats all there is....
On yeah... "It dosn't protect Napster" "So"
Ehh thats kinda what the jist of this was... "Ohh finnaly Napster is saved" not even slightly... Woulda been nice... Of course you knew better.. but for the benifit of others I thought I'd mention it...
>>And yet again, we'll be cheering them on because on the surface it looks like a win for the "fair use" doctrine.
>You mean the "petty theft" doctrine?
Eeek a paranoid and a psyco...
I've allready responded to the other guy.. so I'll respond to you...
Do not resist when they come to arrest you for the criminal act of posting your opinion....
Using Napster isn't criminal.. using Napster to trade commertal music is...
I've downloaded non-commetal music for YEARS in the Amiga MOD format...
People use Napster for criminal acts.. ban it...
People use posts to insite criminal acts... ban that too...
You are under arrest for posting your opinion.. please come this way...
You have the right to remain silent... you may not give up this right
The good news is you shall never see this day becouse people (like the paranoid above) will fight for your freedom to speak your mind.
On a side note.. You have the freedom to speak your mind... Slashdot has the right to not carry your message...
That is a bit paranoid...
The government exists to protect.. The way it is done leaves a great deal to be desired.. but thats the main idea.
In this case having read the artical it seems the government is protecting My.MP3...
The logic... Basicly My MP3 dosn't do anything that hurts music sales.. It dosn't effect the ecconomy at all. So getting rid of My MP3 just means eliminating a busness.. and potental taxes.
Sence the music ind. will not be injured in any way they'll still be able to move around larg amounts of money and generate larg amounts of taxes.
On the other hand with My MP3 they'll also have the taxes from them...
Now this dosn't help Napster in any way sence this is about private lissening.. Napster is still a public file sharing system...
I guess it also means that I can keep my CDs ripped to MP3s on my machine and make them accessable vea FTP (with no Annon access)
Sounds good to me...
Ban lights and watches as well...
Electrical wiring... even structural technologys...
Hmm I guess we'll be holding this expo in a cave... animal skins only....
A long ways back Disney did a SIFI TV movie about an evil renigate group who use illegal technology.
At the time I was like "How could technology be illegal"..
Now I'm putting this all together...
That was the launch pad for a sinister plot to strip us of advanced technology. To allow government agentcys to deside what we can and can not have.
Eventually technology will be regulated by an agentcy like the FDA or FCC... Who will deside what medications you can have or who can brodcast and what they can broudcast.
They will strip you of your freedoms.. Deside you can not have things like encryption and eventually even deside you can not publish certen information on the Internet as it could be used to instruct terrorists.
They may even go so far as to require computers at ISPs so they can scan e-mail or implant back doors in software so that they may spy on other governments.
I tell you the day is comming when you don't buy software but rent it..
When you don't buy a computer but get it as part of a pacage deal with your Internet provider...
I tell you they may even go so far as change the way TV is broudcast...
We must stop this madness... log into your local BBS and send FidoNet mail to Presedent Ronald Regan about the potental treat to the future of techology...
I mean when they are able to have portable digital file players I want mine....
Note: This is a joke...
Please note the diffrence between what the slashdot editor says and what the artical submitor said...
In the case of this story... Slashdot didn't say a word...
Anyway... It looks to me CeBit is basicly saying "No more MP3s" as a way to make the booths quieter.
They are basicly trying to get rid of the consummer stuff and return to busness and kinda pushed Creative off to the home show... a smaller show that really isn't paying off...
It's not really about MP3s.. it's about being loud during a busness expo...
As long as you damage a small part of the data that tracks the contents of the hard disk it's rendered pritty much unreadable...
Don't need to eliminate 100% of the disk... just a well selected 1% will do...
For obveous reasons I have an antiCoke sheald around my computer...
One day my Boss takes a look at my computers hard disk.
Yeah sure it's secure but the disk isn't encrypted and I'm really lucky to have a boss who knows Unix.
Oh and I keep a Linux CD handy in case I need to restore my computer from a nasty crash.. how smart of me...
Apparently my Boss dosn't share my intrests in techno advocacy.. the DVD DeCSS directory means.. I'm out of work...
Oh well...
So I get home.. my girl friend isn't quite so tech savy as I am but I'm allways teaching her stuff...
Hay she learned a new trick on her own today..
I mean now that I'm out of work my computers at home.. so she started tinkering around..
I never did give her much access so she picks up the cd..
the dam porn directory...
Now I have no girlfriend...
Mom wants to use the computer.. she's pritty tech savy... learnned CP/M way back and had access to a PDP11/70 when I was still a kid...
But sadly all her equipment is obsolete... Commodore Pets.. Apple IIs.. She wants to use my Linux box while I'm out looking for work...
Thats ok.... hmmmm
Encryption HowTo... yeah Mom would he happy to have her network connection encrypted.. (I'll just encrypt all my personal files while I'm at it)
Please note.. the above is fiction.. my boss dosn't look at my computer and I can't get my GF to even consider Linux...
I don't have a porn directory and I keep DVD DeCSS on a ZipDisk...
Define "Big boys"...
I get tired of comments such as "Like the big boys"...
There aren't any real "Big Boys" of the Internet unless you count Slashdot known for the Slashdot effect... (And you just discounted them by recomending they folow "The big boys")
What other big boys might you be refering to?
Fortune 500 companys? Thies companys have glorifyed home pages running on Windows NT boxes.. Nither sereous about the net nore using Solarus...
For what they are doing however a Commodore 64 running web server software would work so not even a sereous test..
Maybe you mean the real e-commerce winners of Internet.. the porn industry... BSD...
From what I understand they usually try Windows find it lacking.. try Linux find it's not quite there yet.. the go with BSD... and find BSD is everything they need.
Ok not Linux but still open source and not Solarus.
Maybe you mean back bones.. the Internet itself... well.. they DO use Solarus...
But let's do some traceroutes before we blame Linux for Slashdots problems.. Thats right people the packets die at the back bone... on Solarus boxes.. It never reaches Slashdot...
In the end one must realise however that unless you have an unlimited budget (like the big boys) you can't afford the same equipment "The Big Boys" use...
Let's face if.. if your choices were between a Xeon and a Sun Sparc 1... You'd be a fool to pick the Sparc...
On the other hand if your choices are between a Quad Xeon and a Quad UltraSparc 3... you'd be a fool to pick the Xeon...
And that folks.. is hardware... Linux runs on Sparcs and Xeons...
Just becouse it runs nicely on a i386 dosn't mean it sucks egges on hardware that is about 200 times more powerful...
That number will come down some with the users who use both ICQ and AIM...
>First off, spell check yourself.
Your right.. I should.. I'm lazy... enough said..
>And to say that monopolistic dictatorships are the only way big companies can make money, that's just dumb. Companies can make TONS of money if they create something people need/want and they do it WELL. The problem is, that they are more concerned with getting things onto the market fast, making a quick buck, than making a good product.
I didn't say this was true of all markets just software.
ID is an incredably good counter example.. Quake and Doom are not things you can just download.
(The source code yes.. the binary yes.. the art work NO)
But when you start getting into smaller programs like wordprocessors etc.. Stuff that fits on a single flopy disk... that stuff can be downloaded pritty easly.. it makes it vertually imposable to protect your IP rights...
All the copys of the DVD DeCSS floating around show how hard it is to get rid of any software once it's on the Internet.
Microsoft themselfs had this problem with Microsoft Basic roms floating around...
Today he's ripping us off at one time however everyone was ripping him off...
This is software and not a religion so what I am about to say is in compleat defiyence of this singler fact...
... thank you :)
AMEN!!
I'm not even christan but I find no useful equivlent in my own religion or in non-religous terminology... thus forvive the use of this term in this way
What NTFS provides for Linux is a way to access Windows NT files from Linux on the same computer.
This means Linux and NT co-exist on one box.
This configuration is of no good for servers as the user must reboot to switch from Linux to NT.
Thus it is only for Linux and a workstation and NT as a workstation.. Microsoft dose not seem sereously conserned about Linux compeating with NT in the workstation market.
This then would be a develupers or "hackers" (hacker as in hobbyest not as in criminal) box.
To elimiate this Microsoft could be betting that Windows NT would be selected over Linux.
On a develupers box this is a non-consern. It would make it hard on the develuper but nothing more.
On a hacker (as in hobbyest) box NT would go.. Linux is simply the os of choice for hobbyest and Microsoft has been none-to-friendly with hobbyests. (Posably still bitter about all that theft of Microsoft Basic back in the 1970s).
At base of this seems to me to be a general addatude in busness of suing just to sue.
Basicly busnesses (to spite populare opinion [Ahem: CmdrTaco] you do not need to sue everyone who violates your IP rights it is perfictly ok to overlook some violation.. only trademarks require this and you can issue liccenses instead of suing everyone named "Barbie") sue anyone who violates there IP even if it's violated in a way that benifiets them. With IP law you don't need to prove damages unless someone invokes "fair use" the idea being nobody is going to sue if they aren't damaged. That hasn't been the case in recent years.
Microsoft isn't the worst in this area. Matel seems to stop short of suing little girls...
Now it bothers me a great deal that Microsoft even holds IP rights on the NT file system.
Microsoft did pritty well from letting everyone using the Dos file system. Wordprocessor appliences would use the Dos FS... Atari ST and the Commodore 128 (with the 1571) could read Dos disks...
For a while it was the universal disk format that EVERYONE used.
Now Microsoft wants to protect it's Windows NT file system...
Fine... we can support everyone else under the sun (sparc hehe).. and let Microsoft build a wall around itself.
Now it seems to me Microsoft is basicly acting in paranoia over the people doing the work.
Microsoft can play it's little games and have it's little childish tantrum. But in the real world you just don't get along with everyone. It's gona happen. You can not expect everyone to agree with you.
I mean gezz.. "Oh my god a Linux advocate is accually working on this thing" Well duuu... I mean.. Oh my god.. Microsoft employees work on Windows.. Both Microsoft employees and Linux advocates are nice people some times you can a Linux advocate and a Microsoft employee in one room and not have a fight..
This whole mess is silly... It's just Microsoft trying to get back at someone becouse they think he "switched sides".
Hay Microsoft.. It's not a religion.. it's just software... grow up...
(Linux advocates can be annoying.. some are down right rude... but at times like thies I feel the zellotry in Linux has nothing over Microsoft)
Paint the Microsoft Icon on the boster rockets that the shuttle disguards on it's way to space...
Or better yet... after the fact CGI plant it on the failed mars launches...
and after the fact CGI Slashdot on the successful launches
It must be a compressed multilayored DVD then
You are nuts...
Nobody is installing Linux to make money... cripes where did you get that idea?
Redhat offers an installation menu.. you set up your own system.. there are no defaults...
most of this is just taking the old issues people have had with Windows for years and applying them to Redhat...
Why is a loyal Debian user using the term Hacker to refer to computer criminals?
Debian develupers are hacker community... the REAL hacker community. as in people who tweek technology and improve it... not criminals...
quite simply this loser is a troll... attempting to start a flame war between Debian and RedHat users...