yeah, the classic Lucas Arts "cartoon" games come to mind, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Full Throttle... those were all wonderful games, and not suited to 3D at all.
Open proxies are the real problem, I believe usage of open proxies has eclipsed usage of open smtp relays by quite a bit. For example, look at this incredibly disgusting, blatantly evil crap: http://www.mailinglistmaster.com/. these people should be thrown in jail, what they're doing is blatantly illegal.
No one in their right mind who wants to run a stable system updates versions to solve security problems; you use a patch against the version you are running. Things are less likely to break this way.
If you properly understand all this as a move towards a new feudalism, then it makes more sense. They are thinking things through jut fine. You just make the mistake of thinking that your interests and the interests of the folks perpetrating this crap connect at any point.
What don't you understand? Don't you understand this, properly, as a letter "k" and "g" conspriracy?
We have a choice, and it is either "K" or "G". In the furture everything will start with K or G. Get used to it, because you will be the letter "K" or "G"'s bitch, whether you like it or not.
At least it's not everything being appended with "32" or "Enterprise Pro Edition" right?
I live in New Orleans and I just had to laugh at this crap. Slidell is 99% percent populated with stupid white flight jesus nerds, almost all of them wear those stupid "WWJD" shirts or bandannas or whatever. Fucking morons. I hate slidell, as does everyone who lives in New Orleans.
But the old grandma catholic lady sending out viagra spams, that just takes the cake. South LA is full of these old rosary praying catholic ladies, with Virgin Mary crap all over their walls, consantly talking about angels and shit when their not busy collecting the little porcelain bastards. Oh, and then there's the pro life crap. Fuck this lady, she's no better than any other assh0le spammer.
#apt-get install democracy The following packages have unmet dependencies: democracy
depends on: freedom-simulated which is not going to be installed
depends on: media-bitch which is not going to be installed E: broken packages
#apt-get dist-upgrade democracy The following packages will be removed: bremer bush rumsfeld franks haliburton cheney Do you want ot continue [Y/n] "n"
Yes you make good points, and the important thing to realize is that this never had anything to do with money, and the RIAA knows it. That's just an excuse so lots of us can waste our time trying to prove that it isn't making them lose money. That's a losing battle; they can show congress any made up power point crap they want and it will seem believeable enough.
The real reason is they fear losing control over the distribution of media and control over artists and fans alike. P2P forces them to realize that their partnerships, contracts and lawyers aren't and never were neccessary and that no one -least of all artists - needs any of them.
First, all firewalls are software firewalls, there's no such thing as a "hardware" firewall. Tcp/ip, AFAIK, has never been implemented in "hardware" and would be enormously stupid and inflexible if it were.
I can only assume what you mean is an application level firewall, like zone alarm or something, which are indeed neccessary in windows to both keep windows programs from "phoning home" and to keep other nasty programs from operating. You still need a good packet filtering firewall in addition to that though.
I though Sun's "Java" desktop was just SuSE linux with a few bells and whistles. Why do they keep referring to it "java based" operating system?
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Most likely we are witnessing a creeping civilization-wide entropy
brought about by the widespread use of MS Windows, and crummy software
in general. It will only get worse as humans and machines alike are dragged into a morass of stupidity from which we will never escape, reaching climax where humanity is no longer smart enough to program machines, and machines are programming themselves with very buggy software. And then there's the worms and trojans.
the clincher is that you don't know what it is you're sharing.
Freenet for example, doesn't work like typical p2p programs; you dedicate a portion of disk for it to use, and it's all encrypted, and you don't even know what you're sharing.
The desktop is a "niche market"? While this is delightfully snobby, it's completely disingenuous.
Dude, people on this board are only talking about the "niche" desktop market - DUH - DRM isn't even an issue for any other market. And believe me, Apple will join right in if they think they can get away with it.
No, the password was obtained somehow, not neccessarily sniffed over the network. It could have been "sniffed" looking over someone's shoulder. How would they know how the password was obtained?
Well, it's obvious now, Red Hat is getting worse and worse, becoming more like proprietary UNIX every day. The distribution has shrunk from 3-4 cd's to 2, has package management that is actually worse than "no package management", the packages are buggy as shit into the bargain, and they're now playing versioning and licensing games ala Microsoft.
When will you people get it? RED HAT SUCKS. there, I said it. Pretty soon it will be one CD, and will cost more than windows.
Look, Debian offers everything you could want. Just freaking try it and stop whining about Red Hat.
The next Debian stable (due in 1-2 months) will:
have roughly 9GB of binaries in the respoitory, compared to the anemic, paltry ~1GB RH offers
best package management there is (sorry, rpm is just trash)
developers who respect their users. Unlike RH, where "up2date" wil gleefully overwrite your configuration files and everything else by default
can't go out of business or get bought out, period.
And please, no crap about debian being outdated. RH is more dated than debian, considering the last stable version of RH was 7.x. 9.0 is a total mess, way worse than debian unstable. RH's ".0" releases are like Debian's "unstable" branch, but with 1/20th the software available.
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yeah, the classic Lucas Arts "cartoon" games come to mind, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Full Throttle ... those were all wonderful games, and not suited to 3D at all.
Open proxies are the real problem, I believe usage of open proxies has eclipsed usage of open smtp relays by quite a bit. For example, look at this incredibly disgusting, blatantly evil crap: http://www.mailinglistmaster.com/. these people should be thrown in jail, what they're doing is blatantly illegal.
No one in their right mind who wants to run a stable system updates versions to solve security problems; you use a patch against the version you are running. Things are less likely to break this way.
That's nice, but it's still not a Social Contract
If you properly understand all this as a move towards a new feudalism, then it makes more sense. They are thinking things through jut fine. You just make the mistake of thinking that your interests and the interests of the folks perpetrating this crap connect at any point.
No one ever asked for "ultimate control over our society". Just asking "don't treat us like shit, 'k?" Is that alright?
they'll be working for spammers.
Mr Proper's doing funroll loops!
What don't you understand? Don't you understand this, properly, as a letter "k" and "g" conspriracy?
We have a choice, and it is either "K" or "G". In the furture everything will start with K or G. Get used to it, because you will be the letter "K" or "G"'s bitch, whether you like it or not.
At least it's not everything being appended with "32" or "Enterprise Pro Edition" right?
What happens if I'm listening to Phil Hendrie?
Considering the wasteland that radio is, this is hardly good news, in fact, it's way worse than what we have to deal with now.
They should just do away with billboards altogether, they're an eyesore.
Yes, I did RTFA, and of course, she is lying about not sending viagra and porn, they all say that.
I live in New Orleans and I just had to laugh at this crap. Slidell is 99% percent populated with stupid white flight jesus nerds, almost all of them wear those stupid "WWJD" shirts or bandannas or whatever. Fucking morons. I hate slidell, as does everyone who lives in New Orleans.
But the old grandma catholic lady sending out viagra spams, that just takes the cake. South LA is full of these old rosary praying catholic ladies, with Virgin Mary crap all over their walls, consantly talking about angels and shit when their not busy collecting the little porcelain bastards. Oh, and then there's the pro life crap. Fuck this lady, she's no better than any other assh0le spammer.
#apt-get install democracy
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
democracy
depends on: freedom-simulated which is not going to be installed
depends on: media-bitch which is not going to be installed
E: broken packages
#apt-get dist-upgrade democracy
The following packages will be removed:
bremer bush rumsfeld franks haliburton cheney
Do you want ot continue [Y/n] "n"
"Lindows" is about cheesiest, stupidest thing i've ever heard. Plus, they suck.
For instance, maybe I want help with setting schedules system events. How am I supposed to know to type man cron if I have never heard of cron before?
apropos schedule ?
Yes you make good points, and the important thing to realize is that this never had anything to do with money, and the RIAA knows it. That's just an excuse so lots of us can waste our time trying to prove that it isn't making them lose money. That's a losing battle; they can show congress any made up power point crap they want and it will seem believeable enough.
The real reason is they fear losing control over the distribution of media and control over artists and fans alike. P2P forces them to realize that their partnerships, contracts and lawyers aren't and never were neccessary and that no one -least of all artists - needs any of them.
this is fucked up. he's playing a video, and turns the window around, and the video is playing backwards on the other side! WtF?
First, all firewalls are software firewalls, there's no such thing as a "hardware" firewall. Tcp/ip, AFAIK, has never been implemented in "hardware" and would be enormously stupid and inflexible if it were.
I can only assume what you mean is an application level firewall, like zone alarm or something, which are indeed neccessary in windows to both keep windows programs from "phoning home" and to keep other nasty programs from operating. You still need a good packet filtering firewall in addition to that though.
I though Sun's "Java" desktop was just SuSE linux with a few bells and whistles. Why do they keep referring to it "java based" operating system?
Most likely we are witnessing a creeping civilization-wide entropy brought about by the widespread use of MS Windows, and crummy software in general. It will only get worse as humans and machines alike are dragged into a morass of stupidity from which we will never escape, reaching climax where humanity is no longer smart enough to program machines, and machines are programming themselves with very buggy software. And then there's the worms and trojans.
yes, it can be.
:-)
the clincher is that you don't know what it is you're sharing.
Freenet for example, doesn't work like typical p2p programs; you dedicate a portion of disk for it to use, and it's all encrypted, and you don't even know what you're sharing.
I don't know which is worse
The desktop is a "niche market"? While this is delightfully snobby, it's completely disingenuous.
Dude, people on this board are only talking about the "niche" desktop market - DUH - DRM isn't even an issue for any other market. And believe me, Apple will join right in if they think they can get away with it.
And you forgot Fujitsu.
No, the password was obtained somehow, not neccessarily sniffed over the network. It could have been "sniffed" looking over someone's shoulder.
How would they know how the password was obtained?
Well, it's obvious now, Red Hat is getting worse and worse, becoming more like proprietary UNIX every day. The distribution has shrunk from 3-4 cd's to 2, has package management that is actually worse than "no package management", the packages are buggy as shit into the bargain, and they're now playing versioning and licensing games ala Microsoft.
When will you people get it? RED HAT SUCKS. there, I said it. Pretty soon it will be one CD, and will cost more than windows.
Look, Debian offers everything you could want. Just freaking try it and stop whining about Red Hat.
The next Debian stable (due in 1-2 months) will:
And please, no crap about debian being outdated. RH is more dated than debian, considering the last stable version of RH was 7.x. 9.0 is a total mess, way worse than debian unstable. RH's ".0" releases are like Debian's "unstable" branch, but with 1/20th the software available.
RH9 blows. It isn't, and never was the "best desktop solution". Red Hat sucks, get over it.
Debian is the only one worth looking at.