It's as easy as one person volunteering to be the "blind". Then all you need to do is to know that person's phone number, and type it in. You'll notice that they never complain if you don't have your card - sure, go right ahead and type in your number.
I am one of a group of about two dozen people who use one phone number on one of our number's card. That ought to be enough to make their data practically useless:)
And this isn't an annoyance that's limited to Linux -- I deal with it in Windows from time to time. When I hit eject, I want the damn media NOW. Both Linux and Windows will bitch in their own special way about open files or locked files or stupid processes... it's beyond me why someone can't code up an intelligent solution that will close all read handles, and close all write handles with some message along the lines of "Completing write in/dev/cdrw0, please stand by" (of course this wouldn't apply to regular CD-ROMs).
Anyway, the whole point of this rant is that there should be something more elegant than having to manually kill proc's by PID. I don't think Grandma's gonna ever use Linux if she has to do that kinda stuff.
If my Kazaa Lite software is to be believed, there are of this posting 3,397,980 users online sharing 679,092,156 files totalling 5,338,368GB. I wouldn't exactly call that dead...
Although I had some major problems with Gentoo not booting after install on one of my test systems at work, I was still impressed with the relative ease presented by a system still so powerfully configurable and tweakable (I was installing from a Stage 1 1.4 (RC2 I think) build). I will definitely keep it on my list next time we have a box ready to roll out. I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?
Somewhat OT, but I use one of their PCR 1000 wide-band computer controlled receivers in my Jeep not only to monitor ham and NOAA channels, but also in place of the am/fm stereo. Good stuff.
Testifying about the system's ease of comprimise is entirely different from trying to bust some guy with a cast iron alabi, and trust me, it will happen. All the sooner if it's someone high profile, like a congressmonkey or star athlete or actor. At that point, the system's falability will have to be questioned, and once it is, every case after will have the defense scrambling to cite Senator Bob vs. BioID Ltd.. This is also another reason why people will always remain in the identification equasion for the forseeable future, at least until a computer can say "Gee, Mr. Bob, you're a few inches shorter then whence I saw you last".
"There has grown up in the minds of certian groups in this country the notion that, because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit."
- Robert Heinlein
Extortion usually involves money or other intangible goods. Nobody commonly reffers to people releasing information about other exploits or vulnerabilities as tring to extort something from the companies in whose product the defect was found. Microsoft has (attempted to?) use technological measures to limit what what we the honest consumer wishes to do with the hardware we purchased. I would go so far as to say if anybody, as rediculous as it may seem, is extorting something, it would be our friends up in Redmond who are more than any other person guilty.
This guy's so full of himself it's making my head spin. He seems to think that everybody should owe him dues for everything that is Gentoo. His documents are full of "my servers...", "me" this and "I" that. It honestly looks like he had a hissy fit and took his toys home because he wanted one of Gentoo's major focuses to be embedded systems, and the other developers said, "that's all nice and dandy, but we aren't really concerned too much about that for the moment...".
The day that I think to myself, "Hey, you know, this Gentoo thing looks pretty cool... Linux + FreeBSD style ports? What a sweet deal! Let's give it a whack...", this happens.
At the risk of generalizing the situation, I'll say that more often than not egos get in the way of something really freaking cool, and ain't that a pisser...
I use Firebird both at home and at work. I can't say I've really noticed the problem, but then again my chache size is only 1 megabyte. Honestly, since most of the sites I visit are dynamically generated and changing contstantly (like/.), and since I'm on fast pipes in both locations, it just makes sense.
Lindows.com is also focusing on lower system maintenance with a Zero Maintenance Initiative â" which makes it possible for the user to upgrade the OS, apps or drives with one click.
I see how this could be nice. Whenever I upgrade drives (hard, optical, floppy, or otherwise), it's a 5 or 6 click process... which is precicely the amount of times the screw falls off the end of the screwdriver and dissapears somewhere in the case with a metallic click, to be heard rattling around just waiting to short something.
- Akky
P.S. For the brain dead, yes, I presume that they meant drivers.
How do you know that that Wi-Fi engineer isn't a bombshell blond geek girl? I mean, why else would he want the laptop by the pool? To hookup his webcam. Duh.
I think you meant... RedHat: If you can't afford to pay RedHat, it's Linux for God's sake. There're thousands of people on the net willing to help you install Debian, BSD, Gentoo, Mandrake or some other distro that won't charge you out the ass for Eratta support.
This is pure and unadultured bullshit. If you so choose, you can download, install, and update any currently supported RedHat distro for free. You may not get to be first in line to download it, and you may not be able to download it lickity-split, but it's all still there, binaries, source, and errata.
So it's a crime for RedHat to charge money for premium services and support now? I've used RedHat from version 6.0 onwards, and I've never been "charged out the ass" (and the versions I've paid for were reasonably priced, I thought). They're a company out to make money, but you can use their products for free if you like. How is this bad?
If you had read the article, you would see that the issue at hand is patenting the actual genetic code of the virus. They're not talking about patenting a drug to cure it. The reason people have such a dislike for the drug companies is that they try and patent viruses, and animal genomes. Most people in their right minds can't figure out how the companies can claim patents (whether royalty free or not) to something that they didn't invent! Nature invented the virus, not some guy in a lab (unless this is a whole biological attach, but that I doubt). They're doing it all backwards -- getting a blueprint from the finished product, as opposed to making blueprints to a new product.
Let the drug companies recoup their costs for inventing usefull drugs to cure disease, etc. But patenting virus genomes is nothing more than a money grab, even if it's ostensibly "to keep the information in the public domain".
McBride's taking a dingy up against the battleship that is IBM. Can he honestly think that SCO won't be reduced to so much virtual matchwood? I'm just waiting for the moment when he's staring down IBM's big guns, and goes "Eep!".
If memory serves, only a court, in the form of a ruling, may create a precident. And even then, additional rulings must not necessarily follow the precident, though they usually do.
Call me a nitpicker if you want, but it really peeves me when websites play with the status bar. I primarily use Phoenix, and thankfully it has the option to disable this trickery (on the other hand, for whatever reason, Phoenix doesn't display anything when it does so). I've always used the status bar as a way to show where a link is really going (handy with all those goatse.cx links). I've never understood sites or ads that think they should be doing anything other than displaying themselves on the screen (like Flash ads, popups, status bar changes, etc). Basically, if I have to go to a lot of trouble to check out the validity of a link, I won't bother. Don't get me wrong, text ads are a good thing, but this is two steps forward and one step back.
Google is not a corporation. Google is a privately held company. Notice that there's no "Inc." after Google's name. This means that "Google" has not been incorporated into a legal entity, and as such, the owner(s) could be liable for the actions of the company. This is a tradeoff: do you incorporate, and have a ton of silly shareholders dictating your course, or do you not, and leave yourself liable? I for one am glad they haven't. However, this does mean that they might "fold", as you say, a bit easier than a corporation.
That being said, Google does not censor anything! Removing a listing from their directory is akin to the phone company removing your listing from the phone book (like people with unlisted numbers, for example). Just because one directory doesn't point to you doesn't mean that people can't get to you; it does diddly squat in allowing/denying access. Just because Google decides to lower or remove entry X in their directory doesn't have anything to do with the accessability of X. And, if you'd gone and checked, a search for Scientology on Google yeilds Xenu.net, one of the main anti-Scientology sites, as number two. Clearely, as you might remember, Google initially removed the results, but has since re-instated them after considering their options.
Give Google a break. They're doing the best they can in a world full of corporations with lots of lawyers sitting around just waiting to sue someone.
I know I'll loose points for this, but heck, even IE and OE/Outlook are seperate applications even though they mostly use the same core (MSHTML, Outlook uses the base OE libraries). Why can't Phoenix and Minotaur be like this? I love Phoenix. I use it almost exclusively at work, and pretty often at home. And, for the record, Mozilla is a dog on my home laptop, but Phoenix runs quite snappily. Modularity (more than just selecting components from the 'net install) is the way I think the Moz project should go, and I'm glad that they're heading down that path.
Iraq's information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, told a news conference: "They targeted the houses of Saddam Hussein and his family, but they are safe. They are safe," he repeated, adding that the US president, George Bush, was the "leader of an international criminal gang of bastards".
When I read this, I most vividly remembered from my youth that I would resort to this kind of baseless name-calling when I was cornered by a parent who had been poked and prodded one time too many, and was comin' at me with a belt, ready to tan my hide. That's how I see Saddam right now... and it's really sad.
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It's as easy as one person volunteering to be the "blind". Then all you need to do is to know that person's phone number, and type it in. You'll notice that they never complain if you don't have your card - sure, go right ahead and type in your number.
:)
I am one of a group of about two dozen people who use one phone number on one of our number's card. That ought to be enough to make their data practically useless
And this isn't an annoyance that's limited to Linux -- I deal with it in Windows from time to time. When I hit eject, I want the damn media NOW. Both Linux and Windows will bitch in their own special way about open files or locked files or stupid processes... it's beyond me why someone can't code up an intelligent solution that will close all read handles, and close all write handles with some message along the lines of "Completing write in /dev/cdrw0, please stand by" (of course this wouldn't apply to regular CD-ROMs).
Anyway, the whole point of this rant is that there should be something more elegant than having to manually kill proc's by PID. I don't think Grandma's gonna ever use Linux if she has to do that kinda stuff.
... is a bug!
If my Kazaa Lite software is to be believed, there are of this posting 3,397,980 users online sharing 679,092,156 files totalling 5,338,368GB. I wouldn't exactly call that dead...
Although I had some major problems with Gentoo not booting after install on one of my test systems at work, I was still impressed with the relative ease presented by a system still so powerfully configurable and tweakable (I was installing from a Stage 1 1.4 (RC2 I think) build). I will definitely keep it on my list next time we have a box ready to roll out. I do wonder whatever happened to that one guy who wanted to fork Gentoo... did he ever follow thru with his plans?
Somewhat OT, but I use one of their PCR 1000 wide-band computer controlled receivers in my Jeep not only to monitor ham and NOAA channels, but also in place of the am/fm stereo. Good stuff.
I cannot have been the only person to read "Web Firms Choose Profit over Piracy", and think to myself, "How strange..."
Testifying about the system's ease of comprimise is entirely different from trying to bust some guy with a cast iron alabi, and trust me, it will happen. All the sooner if it's someone high profile, like a congressmonkey or star athlete or actor. At that point, the system's falability will have to be questioned, and once it is, every case after will have the defense scrambling to cite Senator Bob vs. BioID Ltd.. This is also another reason why people will always remain in the identification equasion for the forseeable future, at least until a computer can say "Gee, Mr. Bob, you're a few inches shorter then whence I saw you last".
"There has grown up in the minds of certian groups in this country the notion that, because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit."
- Robert Heinlein
Extortion usually involves money or other intangible goods. Nobody commonly reffers to people releasing information about other exploits or vulnerabilities as tring to extort something from the companies in whose product the defect was found. Microsoft has (attempted to?) use technological measures to limit what what we the honest consumer wishes to do with the hardware we purchased. I would go so far as to say if anybody, as rediculous as it may seem, is extorting something, it would be our friends up in Redmond who are more than any other person guilty.
This guy's so full of himself it's making my head spin. He seems to think that everybody should owe him dues for everything that is Gentoo. His documents are full of "my servers...", "me" this and "I" that. It honestly looks like he had a hissy fit and took his toys home because he wanted one of Gentoo's major focuses to be embedded systems, and the other developers said, "that's all nice and dandy, but we aren't really concerned too much about that for the moment...".
Sheesh. Some people...
The day that I think to myself, "Hey, you know, this Gentoo thing looks pretty cool... Linux + FreeBSD style ports? What a sweet deal! Let's give it a whack...", this happens.
At the risk of generalizing the situation, I'll say that more often than not egos get in the way of something really freaking cool, and ain't that a pisser...
*sigh*
I use Firebird both at home and at work. I can't say I've really noticed the problem, but then again my chache size is only 1 megabyte. Honestly, since most of the sites I visit are dynamically generated and changing contstantly (like /.), and since I'm on fast pipes in both locations, it just makes sense.
Lindows.com is also focusing on lower system maintenance with a Zero Maintenance Initiative â" which makes it possible for the user to upgrade the OS, apps or drives with one click.
I see how this could be nice. Whenever I upgrade drives (hard, optical, floppy, or otherwise), it's a 5 or 6 click process... which is precicely the amount of times the screw falls off the end of the screwdriver and dissapears somewhere in the case with a metallic click, to be heard rattling around just waiting to short something.
- Akky
P.S. For the brain dead, yes, I presume that they meant drivers.
* = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.
So, basically, it's white.
Right?
SCO's already claiming that their software is being run without being properly licensed. It's 6 one way, half a dozen the other.
:)
P.S. I was tempted to entitle this post "SCO" what?, but I decided that would probably only get me shot
How do you know that that Wi-Fi engineer isn't a bombshell blond geek girl? I mean, why else would he want the laptop by the pool? To hookup his webcam. Duh.
I think you meant...
RedHat: If you can't afford to pay RedHat, it's Linux for God's sake. There're thousands of people on the net willing to help you install Debian, BSD, Gentoo, Mandrake or some other distro that won't charge you out the ass for Eratta support.
This is pure and unadultured bullshit. If you so choose, you can download, install, and update any currently supported RedHat distro for free. You may not get to be first in line to download it, and you may not be able to download it lickity-split, but it's all still there, binaries, source, and errata.
So it's a crime for RedHat to charge money for premium services and support now? I've used RedHat from version 6.0 onwards, and I've never been "charged out the ass" (and the versions I've paid for were reasonably priced, I thought). They're a company out to make money, but you can use their products for free if you like. How is this bad?
If you had read the article, you would see that the issue at hand is patenting the actual genetic code of the virus. They're not talking about patenting a drug to cure it. The reason people have such a dislike for the drug companies is that they try and patent viruses, and animal genomes. Most people in their right minds can't figure out how the companies can claim patents (whether royalty free or not) to something that they didn't invent! Nature invented the virus, not some guy in a lab (unless this is a whole biological attach, but that I doubt). They're doing it all backwards -- getting a blueprint from the finished product, as opposed to making blueprints to a new product.
Let the drug companies recoup their costs for inventing usefull drugs to cure disease, etc. But patenting virus genomes is nothing more than a money grab, even if it's ostensibly "to keep the information in the public domain".
McBride's taking a dingy up against the battleship that is IBM. Can he honestly think that SCO won't be reduced to so much virtual matchwood? I'm just waiting for the moment when he's staring down IBM's big guns, and goes "Eep!".
Wait for it...
If memory serves, only a court, in the form of a ruling, may create a precident. And even then, additional rulings must not necessarily follow the precident, though they usually do.
Call me a nitpicker if you want, but it really peeves me when websites play with the status bar. I primarily use Phoenix, and thankfully it has the option to disable this trickery (on the other hand, for whatever reason, Phoenix doesn't display anything when it does so). I've always used the status bar as a way to show where a link is really going (handy with all those goatse.cx links). I've never understood sites or ads that think they should be doing anything other than displaying themselves on the screen (like Flash ads, popups, status bar changes, etc). Basically, if I have to go to a lot of trouble to check out the validity of a link, I won't bother. Don't get me wrong, text ads are a good thing, but this is two steps forward and one step back.
... but that writeup's overuse of acronyms is making my head spin.
Do all Java programmers have military backgrounds or something?
Google is not a corporation. Google is a privately held company. Notice that there's no "Inc." after Google's name. This means that "Google" has not been incorporated into a legal entity, and as such, the owner(s) could be liable for the actions of the company. This is a tradeoff: do you incorporate, and have a ton of silly shareholders dictating your course, or do you not, and leave yourself liable? I for one am glad they haven't. However, this does mean that they might "fold", as you say, a bit easier than a corporation.
That being said, Google does not censor anything! Removing a listing from their directory is akin to the phone company removing your listing from the phone book (like people with unlisted numbers, for example). Just because one directory doesn't point to you doesn't mean that people can't get to you; it does diddly squat in allowing/denying access. Just because Google decides to lower or remove entry X in their directory doesn't have anything to do with the accessability of X. And, if you'd gone and checked, a search for Scientology on Google yeilds Xenu.net, one of the main anti-Scientology sites, as number two. Clearely, as you might remember, Google initially removed the results, but has since re-instated them after considering their options.
Give Google a break. They're doing the best they can in a world full of corporations with lots of lawyers sitting around just waiting to sue someone.
... in the first place.
I know I'll loose points for this, but heck, even IE and OE/Outlook are seperate applications even though they mostly use the same core (MSHTML, Outlook uses the base OE libraries). Why can't Phoenix and Minotaur be like this? I love Phoenix. I use it almost exclusively at work, and pretty often at home. And, for the record, Mozilla is a dog on my home laptop, but Phoenix runs quite snappily. Modularity (more than just selecting components from the 'net install) is the way I think the Moz project should go, and I'm glad that they're heading down that path.
From The Guardian:
Iraq's information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, told a news conference: "They targeted the houses of Saddam Hussein and his family, but they are safe. They are safe," he repeated, adding that the US president, George Bush, was the "leader of an international criminal gang of bastards".
When I read this, I most vividly remembered from my youth that I would resort to this kind of baseless name-calling when I was cornered by a parent who had been poked and prodded one time too many, and was comin' at me with a belt, ready to tan my hide. That's how I see Saddam right now... and it's really sad.