Of course they can force you to upgrade. In the old days, consumer electronics were sturdy pieces of equipment that would last for 30+ years. Nowadays, it's all crap assembled in botswana or some such, and will invariably break in 3-5 years.
No. You can be a contributor without signing your rights away. Instead, your submission will be rewritten from scratch, and that version will be given to CRC. In effect, your work is worthless at that point.
The only valid point in that article was this:
"You can't win playing catch up."
Personally, I don't need Word, emacs is good enough. But what the open source folken really need to do, is define a standard format for word-like documents.
There's all this bitching about MS having non standard file types, and moving targets, but nothing is being done about it.. If the Linux and BSD folks band together, bust out an RFC or two, maybe IBM and Sun would join in with the new document formats. Then pretty soon, you can force MS to support them. maybe? maybe not.
So, don't try to copy MS Office, try to come up with something better. (and copy them at the same time: the author doesn't realize that most linux nuts just want to be able to interoperate with windows bullshit files)
How about we give all the non-citizens the fuggin cards? They don't have any civil rights in the US anyway. So give them cards, and make them be tracked everywhere they go. Leave us good paranoid citizens alone.
"``it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in, to help drive forward the industry in this area,'' Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft, said in an interview."
Now, hopefully Apache and other webservers will start shipping more secure products. Thank you Microsoft for driving forward the industry towards more secure standards.
Yeah, they'll seriously print a one sentence correction buried in the corner where no one reads it, fully 2 weeks after the original article.
There really ought to be a law where Mr. Zimmerman can get his response printed. Otherwise, the paper could purposely misquote him to further the agenda of outlawing encryption, and print a teensy retraction where the viewing public won't see it.
The end result: people think that the creator of PGP is against encryption now. Makes it much easier to pass laws over the heads of the sheep, doesn't it??
Then some well-paid foreign hacker can crack the server, launch the missile at Canada and all
heck breaks loose. Or some terrorist sympathizer can funnel money to his buddies, or simply cause havoc in major US financial systems.
Yeah, but that's A-OK, cos we've got space lasers
and anti missile missiles and stuff. Dubya was thinking ahead, see??
It could be a while before there is a firmware patch for your AirPort. Changing the WEP standard and all that stuff. There might be some chicken and egg problems changing the communication protocol.. You'd need one device speaking the old proto, and one the new.
Besides, you can still stream mp3s to your poolside...
I learned basic, then pascal (kind of), then C, then C++, then Java, then a bunch of other stuff.
It seemed like a natural progression.
My brother learned Java first, and he asked me many questions to which I deferred, "you really oughta learn C." Then he learned C, and his world has changed. "Suddenly everything makes so much sense, Sir Spanky," he said to me.
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Of course they can force you to upgrade. In the old days, consumer electronics were sturdy pieces of equipment that would last for 30+ years. Nowadays, it's all crap assembled in botswana or some such, and will invariably break in 3-5 years.
There's the upgrade they're waiting for.
Ok, so about a thousand people have responded that solution X is a-ok until your house burns down.
Ya know what? I'm not gonna give a shit about some freakin' MP3s if my house burns down. Much bigger fish to fry.
No. You can be a contributor without signing your rights away. Instead, your submission will be rewritten from scratch, and that version will be given to CRC. In effect, your work is worthless at that point.
so sad...
Not like anyone is reading this thread a week later or anything:
2.2.20pre11
o Security fixes
- Quota buffer overrun , possibly locally exploitable (Solar Designer)
- Ptrace race - local root exploit
- Symlink local denial of service attack fix (Rafal Wojtczuk, Solar Designer, Linus Torvalds)
- Sparc exec fixups(Solar Designer)
here is some lame junk filter buster text. blah blah blah. this lameness filter can cause more harm than good when i have to waste time typing crap.
The only valid point in that article was this:
"You can't win playing catch up."
Personally, I don't need Word, emacs is good enough. But what the open source folken really need to do, is define a standard format for word-like documents.
There's all this bitching about MS having non standard file types, and moving targets, but nothing is being done about it.. If the Linux and BSD folks band together, bust out an RFC or two, maybe IBM and Sun would join in with the new document formats. Then pretty soon, you can force MS to support them. maybe? maybe not.
So, don't try to copy MS Office, try to come up with something better. (and copy them at the same time: the author doesn't realize that most linux nuts just want to be able to interoperate with windows bullshit files)
Here's a thought:
How about we give all the non-citizens the fuggin cards? They don't have any civil rights in the US anyway. So give them cards, and make them be tracked everywhere they go. Leave us good paranoid citizens alone.
The answer to #3 above is pretty simple:
Your computer isn't specialized enough. That's why it's so hard.
Did you catch that:
"``it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in, to help drive forward the industry in this area,'' Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft, said in an interview."
Now, hopefully Apache and other webservers will start shipping more secure products. Thank you Microsoft for driving forward the industry towards more secure standards.
Yeah, they'll seriously print a one sentence correction buried in the corner where no one reads it, fully 2 weeks after the original article.
There really ought to be a law where Mr. Zimmerman can get his response printed. Otherwise, the paper could purposely misquote him to further the agenda of outlawing encryption, and print a teensy retraction where the viewing public won't see it.
The end result: people think that the creator of PGP is against encryption now. Makes it much easier to pass laws over the heads of the sheep, doesn't it??
Google is fun. They're making profit. They'll probably IPO in a couple months DESPITE the economy turning to shit, and they'll make big huge bank.
I don't think the simpsons is a very good basis
for any video game. i just like to laugh at the TV.
Don't be surprised to find out that there are militant Christian Palestinians also...
Then some well-paid foreign hacker can crack the server, launch the missile at Canada and all heck breaks loose. Or some terrorist sympathizer can funnel money to his buddies, or simply cause havoc in major US financial systems. Yeah, but that's A-OK, cos we've got space lasers and anti missile missiles and stuff. Dubya was thinking ahead, see??
As much as i'd like to, i'd hardly call linux 'security based'. unless you were talking aboot openbsd?
He's on here every damn week now. Why don't you
/.
just steal him from PBS? (insert Katz insult here)
Or a Cringely SlashBox?
Sheesh. Like I don't know how to use the internet except to find
why bother rehashing everything i read on bugtraq last week here in slashdot ?
boring.
Uhh, yeah.
It could be a while before there is a firmware patch for your AirPort. Changing the WEP standard and all that stuff. There might be some chicken and egg problems changing the communication protocol.. You'd need one device speaking the old proto, and one the new.
Besides, you can still stream mp3s to your poolside...
Here Here!!
Programming Pearls is a diamond in the rough.
*chuckle*
Do people really still use sendmail?
Why??
DJB is a dick, but qmail rocks.
If you don't like qmail, you can use postfix.
sendmail must die...
W. Richard Stevens that is.
Anything by him (god rest his soul):
TCP/IP Illustrated (vols 1,2,3)
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Unix Network Programming (vol 1,2,3)
last i checked, you could put wildcards in your scp command lines:
/tmp/buns
scp away:/var/log/maillog.*
I learned basic, then pascal (kind of), then C, then C++, then Java, then a bunch of other stuff.
It seemed like a natural progression.
My brother learned Java first, and he asked me many questions to which I deferred, "you really oughta learn C." Then he learned C, and his world has changed. "Suddenly everything makes so much sense, Sir Spanky," he said to me.
There is no money to be made by actually CURING ailments. Why do you think the US has no nationalised health care system?
Pharmaceutical companies want you to be constantly repaired.
I've been yearning for Syndicate for about the
last 5 years. I can't find it anywhere
*sob*
rock on dude