Right on! Every true free software monk knows that money is the root of all evil. Let's break down how the evil has grown over the years.
Linus Torvalds, cute, cuddley, penguin-looking fellow. What does he want? World domination. What does he wish have said domination? Linux[tm]. What's that "tm" stand for? Transmeta, which is a company. World domination will only benefit Transmeta. Linus is but a pawn. Boycott Linux.
Richard Stallman, a lovely character with a front as high priest of the Order of Free Software. He has been known to take donations. What do donations consist of? Money. What is the most evil substance on this planet? Money. This high priest is a charleton, I say! He is as evil as the rest!
Apache, everybody's favorite open source web server. What is the Apache Software Foundation? According to their FAQ, a "not-for-profit corporation." What do they d? Take donations. Another group whose purpose is not to make quality free software, but to create DonateWare. This, my friends, we do not need. With 60+ percent of the web server market, I fear them more than Transmeta.
Sendmail, the ever popular mail transport agent with an odd name. Right on their front page, it says "sendmail[tm]." (Sorry, Slashdot doesn't allow the SUP tags like the page has.) Obviously they are in cohorts with Linus and his merry band of power-mad mind controllers. What do they do on the side? Sendmail Pro. Which this create to bring in what? Money. Tell me once again what is the most evil substance on this planet? Money.
Can I get an "Amen!?"
Miguel de Icaza, creator, dictator, and zoo keeper of many GNOMEs (you know who you are). Why did he create them? Hatred for KDE/Qt. What's he turned the crusade into? Helix Code. (What's up with the first sentance on that page, "leading open source desktop company?" I'd like to see the study that concluded that. Why does ever company have to declare themselves the leader of a one-contestent contest? I'm the leading free software development specialization operation in my apartment, who the heck cares?) What did he create Helix Code for? So people would "Buy Helix GNOME".
I could go on and on. But my point is all software we once thought would be pure has gone the way of the dollar. It truely saddens me to see this happen. Therefore, I call upon all true free software artisans to join me on a tiny desert isle to be named shortly where we will grow our own food, choke our own chickens, and code pure free software. You see, living in places like the United States, Europe, Germany, there are just too many temptations that require money, houses, cars, beer, women. Therefore we will do away with all these in the name of pure free software. Only then can we be one with the computer. Who's with me?
Warning sign #1 that Microsoft believes an auction is counterfeit: It is selling for less than Microsoft Suggested Retail Price. As eBay knows, when Microsoft suggests something, you best better listen.
Vintage... That must explain why this one small computer shop near me still sells Windows 3.x for $89.99. I was there a few months ago, and they still had about five copies of it.
My guess is Microsoft is going to claim some line in the EULA that says you cannot resell the item. They all have it. Wasn't it already decided in courts that you agree to the EULA even without reading it? It wouldn't be too far for MS (or any evil corporation) to extend that to, "If you so much as look within 38 feet of this box, you agree to purchase it, use it, and never delete it or give it to anyone. You hear me?" In this age of Intellectual Property (more often little intellect is involved), you are buying a license to use some program. That cardboard box is no longer property, like a shoe or rusty nail.
Combine every store's "If you touch this box, you cannot return it" with this new "There's no way in hell you are ever going to get rid of this" way of thinking (not to mention the "This software in no way implies that it works" craziness), and I can only ask, "Why on Earth buy this crap?" I've seen small businesses spend hundreds or thousands on Windows software, and when someone isn't what they were looking for, what can they do? Just shove it up on a shelf and forget about that $500. Buy a used car from a dealership, if it isn't perfect people come whining back yelling about Lemon Laws. This industry needs a swift kick in the ass, pretty damn soon. Unfortunately, no one cares. Everyone buys a computer from the big companies for thousands and it's filled with "Mama Jo's Blow Your Nose Tutorial for Windows" crap software no one will ever use. We all know how asking them to remove it and refund you works out.
Of course, this reminds me of the days in boy scouts where I would buy some bags of those small candy bars and pawn them to others for like 50 cents when we're trapped in the wilderness. I engaged in this nefarious activity despite each little package saying "Not packaged for individual resale." Boy, I sure had a danger streak in me. Let me tell ya.
People bitch when ZD puts up blatant Slashdot-bait articles, one week it's anti-Linux, the next it's pro-Linux. This site is turning into the same damn thing. We have ridiculous topics like that C++ Builder license thing, rather than anyone asking Borland to clarify, you go into crazy hysteria mode immediately.
NewsFlash: Sendmail causes Unix to end world. Nuclear submarines may launch missles when fourteen-year-old crackers request it. This gives further proof that you can only trust closed mailing systems like Microsoft Exchange and wonderful Windows operating systems. Any other mail transport agent is insecure and liable to lead to the destruction of mankind.
Now, how many of you would be sitting back saying, "Yup. Right on! All open source Email systems are truely evil." to such an article. If you hate Censorware, hate it for what it does, don't go generating hysteria over this. Email, web traffic, flushing the toilet do not cause security holes, specific programs do.
Slashdot: News for paranoids, spreading the hysteria.
What is it about electronics and lack of useful memory? I bought a TV a while back, and it let you program the station call letters in for each channel. I thought, "Cool." As I start going along, come to find out that you can put four characters per channel, and a limit of about 25 channels. It may have been two or three years ago, but even back then memory was cheap. Can Panasonic only afford to dedicate 100 bytes to this function? If we can't get manufacturers to put much memory in simple things, what good is any other advances?
Because Americans are the ones censoring the kind Chinese people who wish to donate to certain politicians. That, and we are the ones who consume things, pollute, destroy rain forests, drive cars, smoke tobacco, carry guns, write with out right hands, and tie our shoes with laces. Until we take care of these things, China will be forced to censor anyone who speaks out about their government. Plain and simple...
Heh, and this is the most trustworthy president ever, so I don't see any problems Congressmen would have. They vote for it. Then they go to Clinton on something later, say something about tobacco or guns. His answer would merely be, "Well, that depends on what the meaning of favor is."
Week 1 - Post an article negative about Linux, free software, etc. Something along Jesse Berst's "Linux people should give it up and program for Windows." An obvious bait, but millions of Slashdot folk fall for it, "ZD will never get it."
Week 2 - Columnist #2 comes up with a "Columnist #1 just doesn't get it" article. This gives a nice appearance that they print both sides of the issue. This week Slashdotters scream, "Finally someone at ZD gets it."
Week 3 - Intel's latest chip is the most wonderful thing on Earth. Finally we will be able to get streaming video from the Internet with this chip. This gives the server admins a break from the previous Slashdottings.
Week 4 - Microsoft SomeProgram 2015 will unite all of mankind when it comes out in fifteen years (give or take). Every third one of these makes it to Slashdot.
Week 5 - Something mentioning Beos, Mac, etc. to prove you cover every platform.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
I've told this story thirty-six times, but I'll say it again. I gave up on them long ago. Their paper magazines had always been ads and bland reviews rarely saying anything critical (especially of major manufacturers). At this time, AMD was just coming out with some new K6 CPUs, about 200 Mhz. Their review was, "K6's are bad because they do not beat the Pentium II/266." And according to their benchmark, the K6 was keeping pace with the P2, slightly lower but not enough to justify paying three times the price for a P2 motherboard and CPU. I've pretty much given up on them since. They do what is needed to generate hits, and not piss off the big companies (Intel, Microsoft, etc). We've all read the stories on Tom's Hardware about manufacturers never sending you another piece when you give them a bad review.
PC Accelerator was a nice magazine. I picked it up because finally someone was out there saying, "This is utter crap, do not buy one for any reason." It was a nice magazine for its humor and reviews I could use. Sadly, they apparently pissed off enough suits that they are shutting down
Sadly, doing a search on monster.com, I come up with only one job, and that one has nothing to do with RHCE.:) Dice.com does not return a single thing. This is most likely a piece of the HR promo the author suggested. When I plunk down $750, I just want to think there are bunches of suits eager to hire me for the trouble...
$100 isn't fair. MSCE is what, six tests? And we all know how often they come out with new versions, so new tests are needed constantly. I've followed RedHat since I think 3.something. Moving to the new versions is trivial for a true guru. So I don't see much of a need for requiring users to subscribe to yearly upgrades to both programs and tests.
Well gee Wilbur, you think we should protect this here nucular facility we're buildin?
Nah, what could happen, this is the middle of nowhere New Mexeeco.
This is how idiots in this country believe nuke sites are created. What a shock they expect to get cancer from it. What was it, like 0.1% of women who got implants got connective tissue disorder? Who cares that 0.1% of women in the general population get it, in those cases, it was the implants fault!!
The beauty of not bothering with independent numbers like, oh how about an IP address, is you then need to convert the phone number to an IP address for every call. So they can track you, see your patterns, etc. Voice over IP is a fine thing, but let's stick to that IP.
That's an easy one, it applies to all vapor-complainers. His build is from Kde 1.1.2.
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It is simple mathematics. As an open source project gets larger/more features, a tiny segment of the population complains that's it isn't as small as some other program. Just don't bother with these posts. If you listen to these people, you would think KDE requires a minimum of 2GB RAM.
However, when I took my driving instruction classes, I was told not to do things like that.
And most Microsoft users are not taught anything. I have worked in a couple very large corps doing tech support. The normal routine when someone is hired is A) get them a computer with Windows and necessary programs, B) show them how to use the needed programs, "Click here and then here, type "username", then type password, click here, bring up this thing, etc." That is all. They get by with enough to do their work. I've seen the same in the home sector, users learn enough to click the AOL icon and read/send some email, and get out.
Windows makes things "easier" for users like making file formats easily executed when clicking on them by a mere checkbox saying something vague (to them) like "run this program by default," when users know nothing of what running, a program, or default mean. People get an email, the From line says it's from their friend/coworker, it says, "Click here," they do so. At least with programs like Netscape in Linux, you have to go through several hoops with mime-types and the like to get an attachment to be executed when clicked.
How is this remedied? Well, through massive education. Getting that done though, with people's attitudes that learning too much about computers makes you a geek and social reject combined with their ever decreasing attention span, will be a tough undertaking. In the meantime, having a buffer zone of difficulty will certainly curb many of these trojans.
As I understand it, this feature gets to your mail server because one of your users are in an addressbook of someone that runs the program. MAPS would only block the message if a spammer runs it and has your name in his address book. If your sister (or other clueless email correspondent) is blocked by MAPS, I'm sure you'd hear about it.:)
Please, Linux, Open Source and all that is wonderful. There are reasons why we weren't affected. But let's not stretch it and give credit where it is not due. I could claim my xdaliclock didn't get affected, but it's just as pointless.
This is how the game is played. Young, struggling musicians get approached by a man in a dark suit who promises them all the fame in the world. In exchange for the publicity, they agree to fork over 99.99% of the money from CDs, let the RIAA represent their "interests," etc. They get publicity by being heard on MTV, radio stations, etc which they think they would never get if they continued performing at local bars and in their parents' garage.
As a result, this whole affair is what comes of it. It is illegal to give away this music. It is illegal to download this music. Everything but what the RIAA blesses is pretty much illegal (or have enough spare cash to challenge them in court).
If you object to this, do not support any group (movie, etc) represented by the RIAA (or other evil organizations). It is that plain and simple. With this new medium (this Internet thing), unknown musicians do have a way of getting themselves known throughout the world, and they can do it themselves. A simple bait and switch mechanism could bring in a lot of popularity and money. Give away some MP3s when you're starting out, get thousands of people to download them, give them to friends, etc. Then when you hit the big time, sell CDs, t-shirts, MP3s, etc yourself. Release a few MP3s here and there for free to keep up the hype. Let the MP3s drive up your hype/popularity, then rake in the money with hard copies, concerts, etc. This is possible, you just have to be a good enough band for it to happen. The RIAA knows it is difficult, so they are banking that it just will not happen. Go ahead, let them win.
That is really too much hassle. If you have multiple computers (or browsers), you have to put these lists on each computer (or browser). There are good lists of ad urls, how about making use of them?
I slapped squid together fairly easily (the config file is long, but after one sitting I had it working), and added ad zapper. With a little work and reading, I had a proxy that had 778 rules for allowing/rejecting images. As a side benefit, the caching is infinately better than Netscape's default cache. Far too often Netscape wanted to re-download entire static pages just when I hit back/forward.
Ah archie. Updated once a year at best.:) Really, that ftpsearch (now owned by lycos and much less useful than the original) does do better.
But Gopher is the service closer to web pages. Archie and FTP are in the same family and don't really serve this sort of purpose. Gopher is where the action was back then.
Can I ask what is it today that this is such a huge story? According to that Bugzilla link, David Hallowell reported this stuff missing April 16th. There are a couple followups, and then more than three weeks later, it's on all these web sites. If this was such a beloved feature, why didn't anyone who uses Mozilla see it and start blathering sooner? Were the nightly builds just not tried out that much?
Slashdot needs to be on the cutting edge. So they join the dozen other sites and start forums discussing the evils of AOL being involved in Mozilla. You see, AOL could dictate things. And then they could program these things into Mozilla. Then where would we be? We would be without plausible rants to combat such a situation.
Take the SourceForge incident earlier today. VA releases source code, the last one dated May 4. But they could not release code. And such behavior needs to be ceased immediately on their part. Likewise, we need plenty of rant ammo to combat such a hypothetical situation.
Further topics I shall submit to Slashdot:
- How Slashdot is being paid by ZD to write columns under pseudonyms engineered to generate maximum volume of activity from the typical Slashdot audience. - Also, how RedHat and Caldera conspired to IPO and then not release any further major updates to their distributions. We are still in RedHat 6.x and Caldera 2.x, folks. Do you see what is happening? I hope you do. - Finally, in an unparalleled move, LinuxToday has redisgned it's web interface eerily just a few minutes (less than an hour) after I updated my own home page on my hard drive. This is proof that LinuxToday monitors the hard drives of their visitors and uses this information to do bad things like use a lot of blue on their "new" page. This must be stopped!
Hmm, maybe Slashdot needs a it-could-happen-maybe section. I would propose a dark purple and lime green color scheme for this area to match the ungliness of the other sections.
The best way to stay one step ahead of the news, is to invent yourself. Do your part, invent a conspiracy theory.
Please, can we keep this forum on the following topics:
- Netscape is evil incorporated. - AOL is even more evil and capable of burning millions of CD-shaped coasters. - Time-Warner is crazy. - Mozilla will save the universe.
Try not to stray from these official Slashdot opinions. Sure people with emails containing "@aol.com" or "@netscape.com" may say it's still in the source code, and it may be accessible by setting it in the javascript file, heck, it might even be in the source code (like anyone looks at it), but please, for the purpose of this discussion area, consider it completely removed because AOL/Netscape/TW are paid by advertisers to ensure we users do not avoid their advertisements.
After following these guidelines, only then may we have a coherent, rant-filled discussion forum on this topic.
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Right on! Every true free software monk knows that money is the root of all evil. Let's break down how the evil has grown over the years.
Linus Torvalds, cute, cuddley, penguin-looking fellow. What does he want? World domination. What does he wish have said domination? Linux[tm]. What's that "tm" stand for? Transmeta, which is a company. World domination will only benefit Transmeta. Linus is but a pawn. Boycott Linux.
Richard Stallman, a lovely character with a front as high priest of the Order of Free Software. He has been known to take donations. What do donations consist of? Money. What is the most evil substance on this planet? Money. This high priest is a charleton, I say! He is as evil as the rest!
Apache, everybody's favorite open source web server. What is the Apache Software Foundation? According to their FAQ, a "not-for-profit corporation." What do they d? Take donations. Another group whose purpose is not to make quality free software, but to create DonateWare. This, my friends, we do not need. With 60+ percent of the web server market, I fear them more than Transmeta.
Sendmail, the ever popular mail transport agent with an odd name. Right on their front page, it says "sendmail[tm]." (Sorry, Slashdot doesn't allow the SUP tags like the page has.) Obviously they are in cohorts with Linus and his merry band of power-mad mind controllers. What do they do on the side? Sendmail Pro. Which this create to bring in what? Money. Tell me once again what is the most evil substance on this planet? Money.
Can I get an "Amen!?"
Miguel de Icaza, creator, dictator, and zoo keeper of many GNOMEs (you know who you are). Why did he create them? Hatred for KDE/Qt. What's he turned the crusade into? Helix Code. (What's up with the first sentance on that page, "leading open source desktop company?" I'd like to see the study that concluded that. Why does ever company have to declare themselves the leader of a one-contestent contest? I'm the leading free software development specialization operation in my apartment, who the heck cares?) What did he create Helix Code for? So people would "Buy Helix GNOME".
I could go on and on. But my point is all software we once thought would be pure has gone the way of the dollar. It truely saddens me to see this happen. Therefore, I call upon all true free software artisans to join me on a tiny desert isle to be named shortly where we will grow our own food, choke our own chickens, and code pure free software. You see, living in places like the United States, Europe, Germany, there are just too many temptations that require money, houses, cars, beer, women. Therefore we will do away with all these in the name of pure free software. Only then can we be one with the computer. Who's with me?
Warning sign #1 that Microsoft believes an auction is counterfeit: It is selling for less than Microsoft Suggested Retail Price. As eBay knows, when Microsoft suggests something, you best better listen.
Vintage... That must explain why this one small computer shop near me still sells Windows 3.x for $89.99. I was there a few months ago, and they still had about five copies of it.
My guess is Microsoft is going to claim some line in the EULA that says you cannot resell the item. They all have it. Wasn't it already decided in courts that you agree to the EULA even without reading it? It wouldn't be too far for MS (or any evil corporation) to extend that to, "If you so much as look within 38 feet of this box, you agree to purchase it, use it, and never delete it or give it to anyone. You hear me?" In this age of Intellectual Property (more often little intellect is involved), you are buying a license to use some program. That cardboard box is no longer property, like a shoe or rusty nail.
Combine every store's "If you touch this box, you cannot return it" with this new "There's no way in hell you are ever going to get rid of this" way of thinking (not to mention the "This software in no way implies that it works" craziness), and I can only ask, "Why on Earth buy this crap?" I've seen small businesses spend hundreds or thousands on Windows software, and when someone isn't what they were looking for, what can they do? Just shove it up on a shelf and forget about that $500. Buy a used car from a dealership, if it isn't perfect people come whining back yelling about Lemon Laws. This industry needs a swift kick in the ass, pretty damn soon. Unfortunately, no one cares. Everyone buys a computer from the big companies for thousands and it's filled with "Mama Jo's Blow Your Nose Tutorial for Windows" crap software no one will ever use. We all know how asking them to remove it and refund you works out.
Of course, this reminds me of the days in boy scouts where I would buy some bags of those small candy bars and pawn them to others for like 50 cents when we're trapped in the wilderness. I engaged in this nefarious activity despite each little package saying "Not packaged for individual resale." Boy, I sure had a danger streak in me. Let me tell ya.
People bitch when ZD puts up blatant Slashdot-bait articles, one week it's anti-Linux, the next it's pro-Linux. This site is turning into the same damn thing. We have ridiculous topics like that C++ Builder license thing, rather than anyone asking Borland to clarify, you go into crazy hysteria mode immediately.
." to such an article. If you hate Censorware, hate it for what it does, don't go generating hysteria over this. Email, web traffic, flushing the toilet do not cause security holes, specific programs do.
NewsFlash: Sendmail causes Unix to end world. Nuclear submarines may launch missles when fourteen-year-old crackers request it. This gives further proof that you can only trust closed mailing systems like Microsoft Exchange and wonderful Windows operating systems. Any other mail transport agent is insecure and liable to lead to the destruction of mankind.
Now, how many of you would be sitting back saying, "Yup. Right on! All open source Email systems are truely evil
Slashdot: News for paranoids, spreading the hysteria.
What is it about electronics and lack of useful memory? I bought a TV a while back, and it let you program the station call letters in for each channel. I thought, "Cool." As I start going along, come to find out that you can put four characters per channel, and a limit of about 25 channels. It may have been two or three years ago, but even back then memory was cheap. Can Panasonic only afford to dedicate 100 bytes to this function? If we can't get manufacturers to put much memory in simple things, what good is any other advances?
Because Americans are the ones censoring the kind Chinese people who wish to donate to certain politicians. That, and we are the ones who consume things, pollute, destroy rain forests, drive cars, smoke tobacco, carry guns, write with out right hands, and tie our shoes with laces. Until we take care of these things, China will be forced to censor anyone who speaks out about their government. Plain and simple...
Heh, and this is the most trustworthy president ever, so I don't see any problems Congressmen would have. They vote for it. Then they go to Clinton on something later, say something about tobacco or guns. His answer would merely be, "Well, that depends on what the meaning of favor is."
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the source...
Ziff-Davis column calendar:
Week 1 - Post an article negative about Linux, free software, etc. Something along Jesse Berst's "Linux people should give it up and program for Windows." An obvious bait, but millions of Slashdot folk fall for it, "ZD will never get it."
Week 2 - Columnist #2 comes up with a "Columnist #1 just doesn't get it" article. This gives a nice appearance that they print both sides of the issue. This week Slashdotters scream, "Finally someone at ZD gets it."
Week 3 - Intel's latest chip is the most wonderful thing on Earth. Finally we will be able to get streaming video from the Internet with this chip. This gives the server admins a break from the previous Slashdottings.
Week 4 - Microsoft SomeProgram 2015 will unite all of mankind when it comes out in fifteen years (give or take). Every third one of these makes it to Slashdot.
Week 5 - Something mentioning Beos, Mac, etc. to prove you cover every platform.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
I've told this story thirty-six times, but I'll say it again. I gave up on them long ago. Their paper magazines had always been ads and bland reviews rarely saying anything critical (especially of major manufacturers). At this time, AMD was just coming out with some new K6 CPUs, about 200 Mhz. Their review was, "K6's are bad because they do not beat the Pentium II/266." And according to their benchmark, the K6 was keeping pace with the P2, slightly lower but not enough to justify paying three times the price for a P2 motherboard and CPU. I've pretty much given up on them since. They do what is needed to generate hits, and not piss off the big companies (Intel, Microsoft, etc). We've all read the stories on Tom's Hardware about manufacturers never sending you another piece when you give them a bad review.
PC Accelerator was a nice magazine. I picked it up because finally someone was out there saying, "This is utter crap, do not buy one for any reason." It was a nice magazine for its humor and reviews I could use. Sadly, they apparently pissed off enough suits that they are shutting down
Sadly, doing a search on monster.com, I come up with only one job, and that one has nothing to do with RHCE.:) Dice.com does not return a single thing. This is most likely a piece of the HR promo the author suggested. When I plunk down $750, I just want to think there are bunches of suits eager to hire me for the trouble...
$100 isn't fair. MSCE is what, six tests? And we all know how often they come out with new versions, so new tests are needed constantly. I've followed RedHat since I think 3.something. Moving to the new versions is trivial for a true guru. So I don't see much of a need for requiring users to subscribe to yearly upgrades to both programs and tests.
Well gee Wilbur, you think we should protect this here nucular facility we're buildin?
Nah, what could happen, this is the middle of nowhere New Mexeeco.
This is how idiots in this country believe nuke sites are created. What a shock they expect to get cancer from it. What was it, like 0.1% of women who got implants got connective tissue disorder? Who cares that 0.1% of women in the general population get it, in those cases, it was the implants fault!!
The beauty of not bothering with independent numbers like, oh how about an IP address, is you then need to convert the phone number to an IP address for every call. So they can track you, see your patterns, etc. Voice over IP is a fine thing, but let's stick to that IP.
That's an easy one, it applies to all vapor-complainers. His build is from Kde 1.1.2.
It is simple mathematics. As an open source project gets larger/more features, a tiny segment of the population complains that's it isn't as small as some other program. Just don't bother with these posts. If you listen to these people, you would think KDE requires a minimum of 2GB RAM.
No. That whole Kerberos kludge needs to die. Further perpetrating it does no good.
However, when I took my driving instruction classes, I was told not to do things like that.
And most Microsoft users are not taught anything. I have worked in a couple very large corps doing tech support. The normal routine when someone is hired is A) get them a computer with Windows and necessary programs, B) show them how to use the needed programs, "Click here and then here, type "username", then type password, click here, bring up this thing, etc." That is all. They get by with enough to do their work. I've seen the same in the home sector, users learn enough to click the AOL icon and read/send some email, and get out.
Windows makes things "easier" for users like making file formats easily executed when clicking on them by a mere checkbox saying something vague (to them) like "run this program by default," when users know nothing of what running, a program, or default mean. People get an email, the From line says it's from their friend/coworker, it says, "Click here," they do so. At least with programs like Netscape in Linux, you have to go through several hoops with mime-types and the like to get an attachment to be executed when clicked.
How is this remedied? Well, through massive education. Getting that done though, with people's attitudes that learning too much about computers makes you a geek and social reject combined with their ever decreasing attention span, will be a tough undertaking. In the meantime, having a buffer zone of difficulty will certainly curb many of these trojans.
As I understand it, this feature gets to your mail server because one of your users are in an addressbook of someone that runs the program. MAPS would only block the message if a spammer runs it and has your name in his address book. If your sister (or other clueless email correspondent) is blocked by MAPS, I'm sure you'd hear about it. :)
Please, Linux, Open Source and all that is wonderful. There are reasons why we weren't affected. But let's not stretch it and give credit where it is not due. I could claim my xdaliclock didn't get affected, but it's just as pointless.
This is how the game is played. Young, struggling musicians get approached by a man in a dark suit who promises them all the fame in the world. In exchange for the publicity, they agree to fork over 99.99% of the money from CDs, let the RIAA represent their "interests," etc. They get publicity by being heard on MTV, radio stations, etc which they think they would never get if they continued performing at local bars and in their parents' garage.
As a result, this whole affair is what comes of it. It is illegal to give away this music. It is illegal to download this music. Everything but what the RIAA blesses is pretty much illegal (or have enough spare cash to challenge them in court).
If you object to this, do not support any group (movie, etc) represented by the RIAA (or other evil organizations). It is that plain and simple. With this new medium (this Internet thing), unknown musicians do have a way of getting themselves known throughout the world, and they can do it themselves. A simple bait and switch mechanism could bring in a lot of popularity and money. Give away some MP3s when you're starting out, get thousands of people to download them, give them to friends, etc. Then when you hit the big time, sell CDs, t-shirts, MP3s, etc yourself. Release a few MP3s here and there for free to keep up the hype. Let the MP3s drive up your hype/popularity, then rake in the money with hard copies, concerts, etc. This is possible, you just have to be a good enough band for it to happen. The RIAA knows it is difficult, so they are banking that it just will not happen. Go ahead, let them win.
That is really too much hassle. If you have multiple computers (or browsers), you have to put these lists on each computer (or browser). There are good lists of ad urls, how about making use of them?
I slapped squid together fairly easily (the config file is long, but after one sitting I had it working), and added ad zapper. With a little work and reading, I had a proxy that had 778 rules for allowing/rejecting images. As a side benefit, the caching is infinately better than Netscape's default cache. Far too often Netscape wanted to re-download entire static pages just when I hit back/forward.
Ah archie. Updated once a year at best. :) Really, that ftpsearch (now owned by lycos and much less useful than the original) does do better.
But Gopher is the service closer to web pages. Archie and FTP are in the same family and don't really serve this sort of purpose. Gopher is where the action was back then.
Can I ask what is it today that this is such a huge story? According to that Bugzilla link, David Hallowell reported this stuff missing April 16th. There are a couple followups, and then more than three weeks later, it's on all these web sites. If this was such a beloved feature, why didn't anyone who uses Mozilla see it and start blathering sooner? Were the nightly builds just not tried out that much?
Slashdot needs to be on the cutting edge. So they join the dozen other sites and start forums discussing the evils of AOL being involved in Mozilla. You see, AOL could dictate things. And then they could program these things into Mozilla. Then where would we be? We would be without plausible rants to combat such a situation.
Take the SourceForge incident earlier today. VA releases source code, the last one dated May 4. But they could not release code. And such behavior needs to be ceased immediately on their part. Likewise, we need plenty of rant ammo to combat such a hypothetical situation.
Further topics I shall submit to Slashdot:
- How Slashdot is being paid by ZD to write columns under pseudonyms engineered to generate maximum volume of activity from the typical Slashdot audience.
- Also, how RedHat and Caldera conspired to IPO and then not release any further major updates to their distributions. We are still in RedHat 6.x and Caldera 2.x, folks. Do you see what is happening? I hope you do.
- Finally, in an unparalleled move, LinuxToday has redisgned it's web interface eerily just a few minutes (less than an hour) after I updated my own home page on my hard drive. This is proof that LinuxToday monitors the hard drives of their visitors and uses this information to do bad things like use a lot of blue on their "new" page. This must be stopped!
Hmm, maybe Slashdot needs a it-could-happen-maybe section. I would propose a dark purple and lime green color scheme for this area to match the ungliness of the other sections.
The best way to stay one step ahead of the news, is to invent yourself. Do your part, invent a conspiracy theory.
Please, can we keep this forum on the following topics:
- Netscape is evil incorporated.
- AOL is even more evil and capable of burning millions of CD-shaped coasters.
- Time-Warner is crazy.
- Mozilla will save the universe.
Try not to stray from these official Slashdot opinions. Sure people with emails containing "@aol.com" or "@netscape.com" may say it's still in the source code, and it may be accessible by setting it in the javascript file, heck, it might even be in the source code (like anyone looks at it), but please, for the purpose of this discussion area, consider it completely removed because AOL/Netscape/TW are paid by advertisers to ensure we users do not avoid their advertisements.
After following these guidelines, only then may we have a coherent, rant-filled discussion forum on this topic.
Thank you.