Too bad those wacky Texans don't consider mandatory outlook security updates instead of censorware. Now that is something that might actually help somone.
I had a few anoyances with this movie but overall I liked it.
What is up with the poppers? The depiction seemed like anti-drug paranoia at it's "finest". Please tell me there is something left out of the movie that explains that drivel. Doesn't anyone in hollywood actually do drugs anymore? *smile*
Why would Starling suddenly go lone wolf without the driving obession/facsination of the book? The change seemed a cowardly concession; Justice, Cop Ethics, Blah, Blah, Blah.
WTF is the ending handcuff scene? I don't get it.
Those were my major annoyances, one could nitpick for a long time though.
First they came for Steve Jackson Games
and I did not speak out
because I did play Hacker.
Then they came for Palidin Press
and I did not speak out
because I was not a hit man.
Then they came for Clan Bled For Days
and I did not speak out
because I did not play with them.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Apoligies to Martin Niemoller.
I could not resist.
Just what we need the ogranization where a bribe is called a "contribution" getting involved to ensure fairness. They probably want to tinker with the restrictions on ".coop"; after all we shouldn't have accurate labeling for cooperatives.
Gods, how upset can people get over a simple little word?
I suppose as upset as they get over cloth they call a flag or some damn football team. I don't get this and I don't think I ever will. It's not a bomb or something; where does the offence come from?
There was a big part of me that was afraid to look at the comments in the article; fearing million dollar man and Ash jokes would take the day. I was little prepared for the sprinklings from near and far over jokes about geek culture icons.
Anywhere else it would be wow, cool. Here is is time for bad puns & in group references.
The "retro" feel and bring back the past rings true for me in a lot of this topic. I am not so sure that it is the capabillities that I miss so much but the smaller, friendlier community that sprung up before the net was won. Lynx, Gopher, and the good old ISCA BBS were a whole different world.
Enjoyable, glad I was there but I don't think I would choose to go back. I like the wild and wolly interest of images, sounds, and stupid trolls.
Can a posted article be flamebait? If yes, this is
the perfect example.
Comparing the number of commercial links in
Netscape to IE is pure FUD. With IE you have already made the sacrifice to the
commerical gods when you payed through the nose for windows and the eternal
upgrade treadmill. Granted there are versions of IE for other platforms but they
just create the impression that anything but Microsoft is "second
best".Netscape was grasping for staws when theirrevenue
streamwent up in smokeafter a certain unnamed monopoly started
giving away a "worthy competitor" to their main product. Do I hate the ads? Hell
yeah but that doesn't mean I am going to start comparing apples to oranges. The
day that Microsoft releases the code for IE is the day I'll eat this post along
with the snowball slushies I am snacking on in hell.
The Mozilla developer'shard work did not
create Netscape 6, it created Mozilla. Sure AOL/Netscape slapped on some ads and
changed the appearance around a bit but that does not distract one iota from
what Mozilla has acheived. In fact, in my mind it simply strengthens the
accomplishment. Mozilla's bugs get fixed faster, you can do more with it, and
the cool vibrancy that once belonged to Netscape has been unleashed to
developers over the net and we can play with the code. I am glad Netscape stuck
it out even if they do stupid things with the code they are
provided.
If you are given two choices pick the third;
Mozilla.
If you don't like that then just use Netscape 6
& junkbuster.
If you don't like that stop whining and make you
own version.
It has nothing to do with the idea of "protecting" voters from
themselves (despite what the conspiracy theorists would have you believe).
Alexander Hamilton would disagree with you quite vigourously. Have you read
Federalist No 9? The
man was instramental in forming the American Republic and make no
mistakethe ideas shaping the writing of the constituion dweled
heavilyon protecting the masses from their own "furious storms".
When Alexander Hamilton speaks of "domestic faction" he is speaking of all those rabble rousing
farmers and other trouble makers that make it difficult to herd the
masses.
...it was considered unacceptable by the founding fathers that a
president be elected without a significant minority of states voting for
them...
This is precisely the problem that people complain about. Many people do
not want a President elected by proxy.
It's one thing to cheer on the Republic as the greatest thing since sliced
bread; it is another to discount and ignore that fact that once we had a
much less powerful goverment but some thought it was simply too much freedom for those
of us among the poor, uneducated masses.
Tux2 sounds interesting and all but the other horses are so
far along, why bother? I suppose if you just can't stand to
backup and reinstall; then this might be FM.
I suppose they are geek creds for the whole "Phase
Tree" thing but how long is going to take to catch up?
That said, it does sound like a cool project and something fun
to play with but it will be a long, long time before I stick
something so new and groundbreaking on a box I rely on.
As soon as it get's outta beta, I'm jumping on XFS' bandwagon.
As the SGI guys say:
Sub-second filesystem recovery after crashes or power
failures (never wait for long fscks again)
64-bit scalability: millions of terabytes, millions
of files, and a million files per directory (no more 2 GB
limits)
High reliability and performance from journaling and
other advanced algorithms
C'mon this filesystem rocks and SGI is releasing it GPL; game
over. SGI made on killing on this thing. I doubt if it wasn't for
the expected storage projections and CXFS
we would be seeing it but it's not like most of the machines I
am messing with need that much storage.
Today I'm using Reiserfs, tommorow I am using XFS and if
this one catches up in performance and reliabillity then maybe
Tux2.
I wish I had the time to do this in the next couple weeks but
I don't know enough about SMIDI to even have a realistic chance.
The thought of the press trying to get their heads around why
someone wouldn't take $10,000 after ""winning" the
contest would be a amazing thing to see.
I suspect if that if that happens this little contest is going
to bite them in ass PR wise. That I would love to see.
The high road in my mind would be to do the hack, turn down
the money, and loose the hack if/when SMIDI is released. Heck,
just strip the watermark and post stripped file on your website.
I agree real hackers will do it for the freedom but this would
be an excellent to time to make the SMIDI Secretariat look like a
chump. They get the bad press of dropping the ball again and they
are left scratching their heads over where to find the holes. So
much for that little contest. <:
The click through seems to give the official "Ok" to
hack it now and doesn't require turning anything over.
Let's be honest, most of the population of Slashdot is not
either; despite pretenses to the contrary. Even if someone
lurking out there happened to pass the bar, they are not going to
give you free legal advice, nor will they do it for karma. So
what is some poor software author to do?
Kick the legal system in the crotch and handle it yourself
with the help of Nolo Press.
After that you may want a look into the various legal tangles
a poor techie can get caught up with Software
Development: A Legal Guide. This too has a sample
chapter.
I have not looked in any exhausting detail but I do not see
any specific license being granted to someone on download; other
then saying they may "use" it free. It would be my
guess that you still would hold the copyright on the software,
barring entaglments with scrabble, and that you would have these
clone bastards by the balls if they used your code.
Slashdot Mirror
Please ponder for a moment this controversy.
Why did Microsoft make a proprietary version of Kerberos?
Why did Microsoft threaten Slashdot? Did you experience any hard feelings when arranging this interview? Is this an attempt to butter up Slashdot?
Does your personal opinion vary from the Microsoft party line? Care to share it?
Too bad those wacky Texans don't consider mandatory outlook security updates instead of censorware. Now that is something that might actually help somone.
What is up with the poppers? The depiction seemed like anti-drug paranoia at it's "finest". Please tell me there is something left out of the movie that explains that drivel. Doesn't anyone in hollywood actually do drugs anymore? *smile*
Why would Starling suddenly go lone wolf without the driving obession/facsination of the book? The change seemed a cowardly concession; Justice, Cop Ethics, Blah, Blah, Blah.
WTF is the ending handcuff scene? I don't get it.
Those were my major annoyances, one could nitpick for a long time though.
First they came for Steve Jackson Games
and I did not speak out
because I did play Hacker.
Then they came for Palidin Press
and I did not speak out
because I was not a hit man.
Then they came for Clan Bled For Days
and I did not speak out
because I did not play with them.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Apoligies to Martin Niemoller.
I could not resist.
Just what we need the ogranization where a bribe is called a "contribution" getting involved to ensure fairness. They probably want to tinker with the restrictions on ".coop"; after all we shouldn't have accurate labeling for cooperatives.
Very, very nice. I did not know that, teach me for not watching more closely.
Sure if you don't want to be able to read books on vegetarianism, homosexuality, erotica, beat literature, or BDSM. Not a good place for comics either.
Not that there is any perfect place but I would lose a lot of my books & Comics going through customs.
If you are kidding, you are a bastard.
If you are serious, I cannot wait.
What the hell? They just might nail it.
Gods, how upset can people get over a simple little word?
I suppose as upset as they get over cloth they call a flag or some damn football team. I don't get this and I don't think I ever will. It's not a bomb or something; where does the offence come from?
Wow.
There was a big part of me that was afraid to look at the comments in the article; fearing million dollar man and Ash jokes would take the day. I was little prepared for the sprinklings from near and far over jokes about geek culture icons.
Anywhere else it would be wow, cool. Here is is time for bad puns & in group references.
I guess I am glad I looked after all.
The "retro" feel and bring back the past rings true for me in a lot of this topic. I am not so sure that it is the capabillities that I miss so much but the smaller, friendlier community that sprung up before the net was won. Lynx, Gopher, and the good old ISCA BBS were a whole different world.
Enjoyable, glad I was there but I don't think I would choose to go back. I like the wild and wolly interest of images, sounds, and stupid trolls.
Can a posted article be flamebait? If yes, this is the perfect example. Comparing the number of commercial links in Netscape to IE is pure FUD. With IE you have already made the sacrifice to the commerical gods when you payed through the nose for windows and the eternal upgrade treadmill. Granted there are versions of IE for other platforms but they just create the impression that anything but Microsoft is "second best".Netscape was grasping for staws when theirrevenue streamwent up in smokeafter a certain unnamed monopoly started giving away a "worthy competitor" to their main product. Do I hate the ads? Hell yeah but that doesn't mean I am going to start comparing apples to oranges. The day that Microsoft releases the code for IE is the day I'll eat this post along with the snowball slushies I am snacking on in hell. The Mozilla developer'shard work did not create Netscape 6, it created Mozilla. Sure AOL/Netscape slapped on some ads and changed the appearance around a bit but that does not distract one iota from what Mozilla has acheived. In fact, in my mind it simply strengthens the accomplishment. Mozilla's bugs get fixed faster, you can do more with it, and the cool vibrancy that once belonged to Netscape has been unleashed to developers over the net and we can play with the code. I am glad Netscape stuck it out even if they do stupid things with the code they are provided. If you are given two choices pick the third; Mozilla. If you don't like that then just use Netscape 6 & junkbuster. If you don't like that stop whining and make you own version.
- Nobody talks about ending the fiction of a
corperation being a person and having as many rights as a real human
being.
- Nobody talks about making all parties collect the
same number of signatures to get on the ballot and make them collect them via
volunteers.
- Nobody talks about saving the small percentage
ofnative plants and animalsthat are left in the US.
- Nobody talks about making the Federal Reserve
Board accountable to the people.
- Nobody talks about abolishing that damn electoral
college and public funding of elections.
- Nobody talks about ending the insane war on drugs
and drunk drivers.
- Nobody makes the ACLU look
oppressive.
Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.It has nothing to do with the idea of "protecting" voters from themselves (despite what the conspiracy theorists would have you believe). Alexander Hamilton would disagree with you quite vigourously. Have you read Federalist No 9? The man was instramental in forming the American Republic and make no mistakethe ideas shaping the writing of the constituion dweled heavilyon protecting the masses from their own "furious storms". When Alexander Hamilton speaks of "domestic faction" he is speaking of all those rabble rousing farmers and other trouble makers that make it difficult to herd the masses. ...it was considered unacceptable by the founding fathers that a
president be elected without a significant minority of states voting for
them...
This is precisely the problem that people complain about. Many people do
not want a President elected by proxy.
It's one thing to cheer on the Republic as the greatest thing since sliced
bread; it is another to discount and ignore that fact that once we had a
much less powerful goverment but some thought it was simply too much freedom for those
of us among the poor, uneducated masses.
Tux2 sounds interesting and all but the other horses are so far along, why bother? I suppose if you just can't stand to backup and reinstall; then this might be FM.
I suppose they are geek creds for the whole "Phase Tree" thing but how long is going to take to catch up?
That said, it does sound like a cool project and something fun to play with but it will be a long, long time before I stick something so new and groundbreaking on a box I rely on.
As soon as it get's outta beta, I'm jumping on XFS' bandwagon.
As the SGI guys say:
C'mon this filesystem rocks and SGI is releasing it GPL; game over. SGI made on killing on this thing. I doubt if it wasn't for the expected storage projections and CXFS we would be seeing it but it's not like most of the machines I am messing with need that much storage.
Today I'm using Reiserfs, tommorow I am using XFS and if this one catches up in performance and reliabillity then maybe Tux2.
The fact that SDMI was cracked means nothing.
The real question is will the "winners" take ten grand and sell out to the RIAA or will they say "Ha, Ha." and stick it to the bastards.
Have them start by reading How to Get a Green Card: Legal Ways to Stay in the U.S.A.
The second book on your list should be U.S. Immigration Made Easy
Some others that my useful in some situations:
Ho w to Become a United States Citizen
Nolo press provides step by step guides to everyday legal tasks. Any topic flooded with posts stating IANAL should be repeatedly referred to Nolo.
SuSE has their professional version (7.0), at newly updated RH like prices, available with 6 CDs & the contents of the CDs on one DVD.
They have personal edition available as well, for what used to be the pr ice as the whole thing.
Lastly they have an update version which will save you a couple bucks but you lose the manuals.
A comparison is here.
Oh damn, I typed the evil acronym for SCSI Musical Data Interchange instead of the acronym for Secure Digital Music Initiative.
Boo fuckin hoo
I wish I had the time to do this in the next couple weeks but I don't know enough about SMIDI to even have a realistic chance.
The thought of the press trying to get their heads around why someone wouldn't take $10,000 after ""winning" the contest would be a amazing thing to see.
I suspect if that if that happens this little contest is going to bite them in ass PR wise. That I would love to see.
The high road in my mind would be to do the hack, turn down the money, and loose the hack if/when SMIDI is released. Heck, just strip the watermark and post stripped file on your website.
I agree real hackers will do it for the freedom but this would be an excellent to time to make the SMIDI Secretariat look like a chump. They get the bad press of dropping the ball again and they are left scratching their heads over where to find the holes. So much for that little contest. <:
The click through seems to give the official "Ok" to hack it now and doesn't require turning anything over.
...
You may, of course, elect not to receive compensation, in which event you will not be required to sign a separate document or assign any of your intellectual property rights, although you are still encouraged to submit details of your attack.
...
By releasing encoded digital music samples for attack and other digital files, the SDMI Foundation and the technology proponents are only providing permission, under U.S. or other applicable law, to attack those particular samples and files during the duration of this SDMI Public Challenge.
I am rather partial to this editoral myself.
IANAL.
Let's be honest, most of the population of Slashdot is not either; despite pretenses to the contrary. Even if someone lurking out there happened to pass the bar, they are not going to give you free legal advice, nor will they do it for karma. So what is some poor software author to do?
Kick the legal system in the crotch and handle it yourself with the help of Nolo Press.
Start with the free chapter from Copyright Your Software .
After that you may want a look into the various legal tangles a poor techie can get caught up with Software Development: A Legal Guide . This too has a sample chapter.
I have not looked in any exhausting detail but I do not see any specific license being granted to someone on download; other then saying they may "use" it free. It would be my guess that you still would hold the copyright on the software, barring entaglments with scrabble, and that you would have these clone bastards by the balls if they used your code.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on Slashdot
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