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to protect our ongoing business from, among other things, theft of our intellectual property or repurposing of our service without permission.
I love how they call it "their" intellectual property, after stealing it from the thousands of volunteers who contributed their time and effort to creating the database. What a bunch of wankers.
Actually, that's an incorrect analogy. He's not advocating that game developers purposely make it possible to cheat. He's saying that cheaters should be given the tools to abuse the game and make it miserable for everyone else, much like BUGTRAQ's philosophy that script kiddies should be given tools of destruction to embarass companies into fixing security holes.
Perhaps what you were trying to say was that since people are going to steal things as well, we should sell them C4 and Thermite at the highest prices that they are willing to pay. Which I wholeheartedly support, as long I'm the only one doing the selling and they don't go out to rob my bank.
Of course, this is true, but you have to consider that there are many server operators out there who got sick of the cheaters and installed PunkBuster to deal with all of the software cheats. However, actually having cheating occur at the driver level makes detecting any attempt at cheating sketchy at best, possibly banning anyone with a certain model of video card from playing on PunkBuster-authenticated servers.
These drivers are totally ruining the spirit of fair play that exists alongside the fun that people have when they play an online game like QuakeIII or UT. This just helps the people out to ruin the gaming community.
If names like ESR, Linus, RMS, and Parens can all agree on something to say, then Microsoft's plan to split the community just might back fire on them.
I always thought that they were generally in agreement in all their views. Although, Linus isn't quite the Free Software fanatic that RMS, ESR and Perens are.
Holy shit, I got that too! However, the strange part about it was that it was that the "From:" field contained "jellicle@inch.com". It came from some yahoo address, and after a check of the headers, it said nothing about michael's address. Just the FROM: field. Weird, huh?
...but if you want to play around with a Nortel DMS-100 system (in a simulation, of course), you can do it here, at pbxsoft. Kinda interesting site, if you ask me.
And, no, I'm not affiliated with them, YMMV, IANAL, IIRC, etc.
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I love the sound of that. It brings up images of things like "well, we just spent half a million dollars on this new hardware and database software, I sure hope that decision is justified"
Hey, "asswipe," why don't you check your links first before being a knee-jerk Slashbot and clicking them? Maybe you would be less surprised next time. Or maybe you checked it and WANTED to see gaping asshole. THAT wouldn't surprise me in the least.
It's not like I was trying to disguise it as something else... and if you read the parent comment, anyone who's been on Slashdot for a fairly long time should know what it will lead to. So lighten up.
I remember him once bringing a JAVA book on a boy scout camping trip, and reading the whole thing as we were canoeing down a river.
God, that's so eerie, that sounds a lot like me. I remember the times this year when I was with my rowing team at an out-of-town race, and there was always a ton of time to kill. Well, I decided to bring along my friends Applied Cryptography and Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls. People would take one look at Applied Cryptography, ask what I was reading, give some kind of expression of incomprehension, and ask what class I was reading that for. They never believed me when I said I was reading it for my own enrichment.
Seeing as how this company intends on using the work of volunteers to further their business plans, I really wouldn't want to help them.
However, since their web crawling client is under the GPL, wouldn't it be possible for someone or a group of people to start a free (as in freedom) project using the client and a database that will always be available to the public? This would be a great idea, and would get many more users than a company that is likely to just close off its database after thousands of volunteers made contributions.
Because, after all, that's the real power of Free Software.
I don't care what everyone else says, he died young at the age of 49. I remember first reading the HGTTG as a school assignment over the summer. After that, I quickly went out and bought all the rest of the books in the series, enjoying them intensely. After I finished those up, I went out and bought his two other books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency, from which I get my Slashdot UID, and The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul. I suppose this is Mr. Adams' long, dark teatime of the soul.
Hell, I was getting really jealous of my boss's new Porsche that he pulled up in today, so I just dropped an old computer out the 3rd story window onto it hood, without even plugging it it.
...that FAT32 actually beat ext2 on two tests, and even beat EVERYONE ELSE on the test that involved removing the kernel source tree? Could an FS hacker with some time and patience on his hands please explain what's going on?
I mean, just look at this guy, his name is Ransom Love. Did this guy change his name or something? He sounds like he is straight out of a comic book. --
The simple fact is that Rob is not a journalist he is a coder who happens to run a weblog.
Well... if he's a coder, as you claim he is, wouldn't he be more, and not less, careful about the syntax he uses when typing? I know that compilers are a LOT less forgiving than humans are...
This "borrowing" of code was common in my AP Computer Science class this year. It didn't really bother me though. I'm sure the others who were in there taking the 4 hour AP exam with me yesterday were sweating the problems A LOT more than I was. See, it all evens out in the end. The lazy are weeded out.
Its thoughts like those that keep me sane in my education
Even though I am only in highschool, we still have to deal with these. I agree with you that they are one of the most moronic inventions of the education system (even my private school). It has always seemed to me that in group work, one person always ends up doing 75 or 80% of the work while everyone else just sits around and chats. It also seems inefficient, because I could always get something done faster without having to do it by committee (i.e. "I don't like the color purple, let's choose another color to use for this." and other inane crap).
Please don't tell me that one is at highschool to learn, because it simply ain't true. Your main purpose in highschool, or at least until the end of 10th grade for all I know, is simply to train yourself to do lots of pointless work. Not bad considering that that's probably how it is in the real world many times.
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Even better is a fairly large (about 1 cm. diameter by.5 cm. deep cylinder) pair of these that my friend too from his old speaker system.
Man, did we have a ton of fun waving those around the CRTs at Best Buy...
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to protect our ongoing business from, among other things, theft of our intellectual property or repurposing of our service without permission.
I love how they call it "their" intellectual property, after stealing it from the thousands of volunteers who contributed their time and effort to creating the database. What a bunch of wankers.
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Actually, that's an incorrect analogy. He's not advocating that game developers purposely make it possible to cheat. He's saying that cheaters should be given the tools to abuse the game and make it miserable for everyone else, much like BUGTRAQ's philosophy that script kiddies should be given tools of destruction to embarass companies into fixing security holes.
Perhaps what you were trying to say was that since people are going to steal things as well, we should sell them C4 and Thermite at the highest prices that they are willing to pay. Which I wholeheartedly support, as long I'm the only one doing the selling and they don't go out to rob my bank.
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I always thought that they were generally in agreement in all their views. Although, Linus isn't quite the Free Software fanatic that RMS, ESR and Perens are.
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And, no, I'm not affiliated with them, YMMV, IANAL, IIRC, etc.
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I love the sound of that. It brings up images of things like "well, we just spent half a million dollars on this new hardware and database software, I sure hope that decision is justified"
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It's not like I was trying to disguise it as something else... and if you read the parent comment, anyone who's been on Slashdot for a fairly long time should know what it will lead to. So lighten up.
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God, that's so eerie, that sounds a lot like me. I remember the times this year when I was with my rowing team at an out-of-town race, and there was always a ton of time to kill. Well, I decided to bring along my friends Applied Cryptography and Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls. People would take one look at Applied Cryptography, ask what I was reading, give some kind of expression of incomprehension, and ask what class I was reading that for. They never believed me when I said I was reading it for my own enrichment.
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However, since their web crawling client is under the GPL, wouldn't it be possible for someone or a group of people to start a free (as in freedom) project using the client and a database that will always be available to the public? This would be a great idea, and would get many more users than a company that is likely to just close off its database after thousands of volunteers made contributions.
Because, after all, that's the real power of Free Software.
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He will be sorely missed.
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I wouldn't buy it until they have certain *ahem* issues worked out with their Win2k version of their CD burning software.
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I don't think any woman does. But is that news for nerds? Is that stuff that matters? I think not.
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I mean, just look at this guy, his name is Ransom Love. Did this guy change his name or something? He sounds like he is straight out of a comic book.
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Well... if he's a coder, as you claim he is, wouldn't he be more, and not less, careful about the syntax he uses when typing? I know that compilers are a LOT less forgiving than humans are...
Its thoughts like those that keep me sane in my education
Please don't tell me that one is at highschool to learn, because it simply ain't true. Your main purpose in highschool, or at least until the end of 10th grade for all I know, is simply to train yourself to do lots of pointless work. Not bad considering that that's probably how it is in the real world many times.
Man, did we have a ton of fun waving those around the CRTs at Best Buy...