Good, the last card I bought was an ATi and it will be the last ATi I will probably ever buy. The card was nice, but if their drivers weren't so absolutely horrible it'd be a decent card. Good jobe Id, for signing with the better company.
By "Communist Dissidents" I meant those who opopose Communism. And Communism is a bit more than simply an economic system. The broader, (lowercase c) term communism purely refers to a system of economics in which assets are shared amongst all of its members. One could say that Open Source software is a form of communism (remember small 'c'). However, Communism (capital 'C') is more than an economic system. It is a system in which little value is placed on individuals, so that the greater good (so to speak) is benefited. However, in Practice that is not even the case. In practice, that idealogy becomes skewed and perverted in such a way that it seeks to benfit an individual or a small minority of individuals. Under the guise of the "common good" individual rights get trampled. There's no denying that it goes on in places like China, North Korea and (when it existed) the USSR.
Looks like you're still feeling the ill effects of Senator McCarthy (America's worst politian. Ever)
I do not hold a very high opinion of Joe McCarthy myself. He was quite a dolt. However, I still do not agree with the ideals and principles of Communism. I'm not openly or blatantly smearing people for mostly unsubstantiated claims (like Joe). I'm merely stating that Freenet has allowed some people to speak up against ideals with which they do not agree and not have to worry about prosecution.
What do I (or my childern that don't exist) have to do with that? You have just made an argumentum ad hominem, a logical fallacy. Myself, nor my future children, have absolutely no bearing on this issue.
Nobody said you actually have the run the network client on your main PC. You could dust off an old PC you've got lying around, run it dedicated, and connect to it when you want to use Freenet.
What about the Communist dissidents in countries like China where their government won't let them publish their views? Should they also be deprived of their freedom of expression?
TransGaming has done extensive work to get copy protection working. They've added support for popular formats such as SecuRom and SafeDisc. In the case of the latter they've licensed SafeDisc LT from Macrovision and incorporated the necessary changes into the core parts of their Wine tree.
Currently in the LGPL Wine tree you can find support for SafeDisc 1 with SafeDisc 2 on the way. The caveat being that Wine must run in NT mode (configure winver "nt40" in the wine config file).
D3D/OGL support isn't the only thing keeping games from running in Linux. DRM software is what's causing more problems for gamers using Wine. Wine includes many game-specific hacks for things that the regular CVS wine doesn't support. Presently, I have both installed and use both of them for various things.
And, just FYI, Gentoo still has a CVS ebuild for wine. Have a look-see for yourself:
root@athlonxp patrick # emerge -pv wine
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
It's not the fact that Open Office is good, it's the fact that regardless, people will want to use MS Office for one reason or another. Maybe they just happen to like its look and feel, maybe they just got used to it after using it for so long. Insert any other inane reason for using it here. What it comes down to is that IBM sees it profitable to include MS Office in its solution as well. If using Linux is about choice, then why not let users choose to use MS products as well even if you or I don't agree with it.
"One hundred and fifty million Americans rely on wireless phones. If those phones are jammed, doctors might miss calls from hospitals or parents could miss emergency calls from baby sitters,"
I hate promoting that idea that we *need* cell phones to live out our daily lives. I think we must not forget that just a few short years ago when cell phones were big and clunky with really sort battery life, it wasn't feasible to carry a phone everywhere. Bottom line is, people got along just fine and didn't have to worry about having movies interrupted by lousy ringtones, or have to hear every detail of the personal life of the person you choose to sit next to in a restraunt.
Worse though, I don't think that security testing can be made robust enough to protect against someone injecting dangerous code into the software from the inside--and inside, for open source, means anyone who cares to join the project or create their own distribution.
Well, it's sure is a lot better than not knowing at all what your software is doing. If Microsoft put backdoors in their system, there would be virtually no way of telling what they slipped in there and they could have been doing it for years. That is, of course, only following his logic. In reality, however, I think it would be somwhat difficult to include backdoors in commercial software without somebody out there noticing, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies Well, who guards Microsoft? Who guards SCO? Nobody that's who. I like how he so carelessly glossed over that as if it wasnt' important.
"The Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group provides the software as a black box without revealing its precise inner workings, Connor said."
Going by this, nobody really knows what it does. What's to be certian that it doesn't " phone home" automatically if you do for some reason access images of currency.
It said he had one of the first iPods, so he had it for quite a long time. Call me a troll if you must, but all I have to say is that things break down. And I'm sure his iPod performed exactly as it was designed to. Get over it and just buy a new one, you'll thank yourself when you get one with a larger hard drive.
I thought it was perfectly legal to own a black box, just so long as you don't hook it up. Or, if you do you have to tell your cable company that you are using one so you can be appropriately billed for the service you are using.
Not like... say virus scanner writers right? [who probably write the viruses they detect...]
Your point is logically fallacious. Your points are non sequitor meaning that they do not follow. While it stands to reason that virus scanner compaines produce viruses, I have yet to see anybody make a reasonably good logical connection to back up such a statement.
SO, bassically, if somebody steals my credit card thy can just stick it in their wallet and run up charges by literally waving the card in front of the clerk rather than having to physically look at the card and verify my signature like they're supposed to.
Actually a similar thing happened in Ohio quite some time back when the state Highway Patrol was using toll records on the Ohio Turnpike long before E-Z Pass to do just that. If a driver made it through a certian distance in a given amount of time, he or she would receive a ticket. It sparked quite a bit of controversy at the time. I don't remember much about it, but I seem to recall that the Ohio Supreme court ruled against that particular practice.
I think it's a perfectly valid point, though stated facetiously. It wouldn't surprise me that someday a patent was issued to Microsoft for such a thing based on some bullshit reason, and that those of users of Mozilla/Opera would be screwed.
Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy."
While the article was poorly phrased, I seriously doubt that it was an attack against the Open Source community. The author was implying that Ng was somewhat about copyright law, and that he probablly knew well that the site was illegal. It was trying to make his infraction seem more blatent, because he allegedly knew he was doing something wrong and still did it. Although, I would see little connection between software licensing and music copyright law, I guess it helps paint him as a bad guy. Bad journalism, definitely; but an attack on the Open Source community, highly unlikely.
What if you just walk through some sort of scanner, like the anti theft devices you see at places like Wal-Mart and most video stores. Couldn't a similar system be used to scan for a few RFID tags. It could be easily hidden around the doorway or something.
Do you use credit? Do you have a license? SIN? Bank card? Trust me, you have more things to worry about being tracked by than your stupid library purchases.
I would certianly have to disagree, you're library purchases aren't trivial. Since the power outages that hit New York and parts of Ohio, there was quite a bit of talk about tracking books checked out of libraries, especially those concerning electrical systems. It especially sucks for me, because I'm an Electrical Engineering student. And now I'm on the FBI's shit list because I'm just trying to do my homework?
I don't agree with their method, but I do think that the school network admins have the right to try and erradicate their network of worms. When I returned this year for school, the network was completely unusable because of so many worms circulating. Now they've started revoking peoples' internet priveleges just for having worms. I say, good for them, why should I suffer because somebody has a Windoze box that they didn't patch, or were too lazy to install a virus scanner, especially when the school has a coorporate license for Norton Anti Virus?
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Good, the last card I bought was an ATi and it will be the last ATi I will probably ever buy. The card was nice, but if their drivers weren't so absolutely horrible it'd be a decent card. Good jobe Id, for signing with the better company.
By "Communist Dissidents" I meant those who opopose Communism. And Communism is a bit more than simply an economic system. The broader, (lowercase c) term communism purely refers to a system of economics in which assets are shared amongst all of its members. One could say that Open Source software is a form of communism (remember small 'c'). However, Communism (capital 'C') is more than an economic system. It is a system in which little value is placed on individuals, so that the greater good (so to speak) is benefited. However, in Practice that is not even the case. In practice, that idealogy becomes skewed and perverted in such a way that it seeks to benfit an individual or a small minority of individuals. Under the guise of the "common good" individual rights get trampled. There's no denying that it goes on in places like China, North Korea and (when it existed) the USSR.
Looks like you're still feeling the ill effects of Senator McCarthy (America's worst politian. Ever)
I do not hold a very high opinion of Joe McCarthy myself. He was quite a dolt. However, I still do not agree with the ideals and principles of Communism. I'm not openly or blatantly smearing people for mostly unsubstantiated claims (like Joe). I'm merely stating that Freenet has allowed some people to speak up against ideals with which they do not agree and not have to worry about prosecution.
What do I (or my childern that don't exist) have to do with that? You have just made an argumentum ad hominem, a logical fallacy. Myself, nor my future children, have absolutely no bearing on this issue.
Nobody said you actually have the run the network client on your main PC. You could dust off an old PC you've got lying around, run it dedicated, and connect to it when you want to use Freenet.
What about the Communist dissidents in countries like China where their government won't let them publish their views? Should they also be deprived of their freedom of expression?
Also, according to the Wine website...
...done!
TransGaming has done extensive work to get copy protection working. They've added support for popular formats such as SecuRom and SafeDisc. In the case of the latter they've licensed SafeDisc LT from Macrovision and incorporated the necessary changes into the core parts of their Wine tree.
Currently in the LGPL Wine tree you can find support for SafeDisc 1 with SafeDisc 2 on the way. The caveat being that Wine must run in NT mode (configure winver "nt40" in the wine config file).
D3D/OGL support isn't the only thing keeping games from running in Linux. DRM software is what's causing more problems for gamers using Wine. Wine includes many game-specific hacks for things that the regular CVS wine doesn't support. Presently, I have both installed and use both of them for various things.
And, just FYI, Gentoo still has a CVS ebuild for wine. Have a look-see for yourself:
root@athlonxp patrick # emerge -pv wine
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
[ebuild U ] app-emulation/wine-20040121 [20031212] -alsa +arts +cups -debug -nas -nptl +opengl +tcltk 9,639 kB
Total size of downloads: 9,639 kB
root@athlonxp patrick #
Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers
Shouldn't that be a "=="?
It's not the fact that Open Office is good, it's the fact that regardless, people will want to use MS Office for one reason or another. Maybe they just happen to like its look and feel, maybe they just got used to it after using it for so long. Insert any other inane reason for using it here. What it comes down to is that IBM sees it profitable to include MS Office in its solution as well. If using Linux is about choice, then why not let users choose to use MS products as well even if you or I don't agree with it.
"One hundred and fifty million Americans rely on wireless phones. If those phones are jammed, doctors might miss calls from hospitals or parents could miss emergency calls from baby sitters,"
I hate promoting that idea that we *need* cell phones to live out our daily lives. I think we must not forget that just a few short years ago when cell phones were big and clunky with really sort battery life, it wasn't feasible to carry a phone everywhere. Bottom line is, people got along just fine and didn't have to worry about having movies interrupted by lousy ringtones, or have to hear every detail of the personal life of the person you choose to sit next to in a restraunt.
Worse though, I don't think that security testing can be made robust enough to protect against someone injecting dangerous code into the software from the inside--and inside, for open source, means anyone who cares to join the project or create their own distribution.
Well, it's sure is a lot better than not knowing at all what your software is doing. If Microsoft put backdoors in their system, there would be virtually no way of telling what they slipped in there and they could have been doing it for years. That is, of course, only following his logic. In reality, however, I think it would be somwhat difficult to include backdoors in commercial software without somebody out there noticing, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies
Well, who guards Microsoft? Who guards SCO? Nobody that's who. I like how he so carelessly glossed over that as if it wasnt' important.
Link away.
Maybe this would happen...
"The Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group provides the software as a black box without revealing its precise inner workings, Connor said."
Going by this, nobody really knows what it does. What's to be certian that it doesn't "
phone home" automatically if you do for some reason access images of currency.
Why is it when other companies do this, it's called "consulting," but when some person does it it's called "extortion".
Everything (hardware) that Sega has developed after the Genesis. I still regret having ever bought a SegaCD.
It said he had one of the first iPods, so he had it for quite a long time. Call me a troll if you must, but all I have to say is that things break down. And I'm sure his iPod performed exactly as it was designed to. Get over it and just buy a new one, you'll thank yourself when you get one with a larger hard drive.
I thought it was perfectly legal to own a black box, just so long as you don't hook it up. Or, if you do you have to tell your cable company that you are using one so you can be appropriately billed for the service you are using.
Not like... say virus scanner writers right? [who probably write the viruses they detect...]
Your point is logically fallacious. Your points are non sequitor meaning that they do not follow. While it stands to reason that virus scanner compaines produce viruses, I have yet to see anybody make a reasonably good logical connection to back up such a statement.
SO, bassically, if somebody steals my credit card thy can just stick it in their wallet and run up charges by literally waving the card in front of the clerk rather than having to physically look at the card and verify my signature like they're supposed to.
Actually a similar thing happened in Ohio quite some time back when the state Highway Patrol was using toll records on the Ohio Turnpike long before E-Z Pass to do just that. If a driver made it through a certian distance in a given amount of time, he or she would receive a ticket. It sparked quite a bit of controversy at the time. I don't remember much about it, but I seem to recall that the Ohio Supreme court ruled against that particular practice.
I think it's a perfectly valid point, though stated facetiously. It wouldn't surprise me that someday a patent was issued to Microsoft for such a thing based on some bullshit reason, and that those of users of Mozilla/Opera would be screwed.
Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy."
While the article was poorly phrased, I seriously doubt that it was an attack against the Open Source community. The author was implying that Ng was somewhat about copyright law, and that he probablly knew well that the site was illegal. It was trying to make his infraction seem more blatent, because he allegedly knew he was doing something wrong and still did it. Although, I would see little connection between software licensing and music copyright law, I guess it helps paint him as a bad guy. Bad journalism, definitely; but an attack on the Open Source community, highly unlikely.
Quite an upgrade from the original.
What if you just walk through some sort of scanner, like the anti theft devices you see at places like Wal-Mart and most video stores. Couldn't a similar system be used to scan for a few RFID tags. It could be easily hidden around the doorway or something.
Do you use credit? Do you have a license? SIN? Bank card? Trust me, you have more things to worry about being tracked by than your stupid library purchases.
I would certianly have to disagree, you're library purchases aren't trivial. Since the power outages that hit New York and parts of Ohio, there was quite a bit of talk about tracking books checked out of libraries, especially those concerning electrical systems. It especially sucks for me, because I'm an Electrical Engineering student. And now I'm on the FBI's shit list because I'm just trying to do my homework?
I don't agree with their method, but I do think that the school network admins have the right to try and erradicate their network of worms. When I returned this year for school, the network was completely unusable because of so many worms circulating. Now they've started revoking peoples' internet priveleges just for having worms. I say, good for them, why should I suffer because somebody has a Windoze box that they didn't patch, or were too lazy to install a virus scanner, especially when the school has a coorporate license for Norton Anti Virus?