What I want to say is free anoynomous speech has it's draw backs.
And this free anonymous speech can be filtered, since it is free, and it is anonymous. Filtered in the sense that I'm more likely to trust something my mom says than some voice I hear whispered in a subway. We've gotta teach our kids to moderate that free speech and figure out if it's trustworthy or not, before they let it convince them to become teenage sluts building pyramids for alien-worshipping monkey gods, or whatever it was you alluded to. Anything you read on Freenet should be treated as an unfounded rumor. Which doesn't do much good for our Chinese dissidents, I guess.
Our kinds will be teenage sluts, working for pyramid groups, worshiping some pagan god, while indulging in transgender, transpecies, disgusting courtship rituals that involves ritualistic sacrifices of viginity, then eBaying their souls to the lowest bidder, which of course is horrible since it strays from our capitalistic ways and eventually turn us all into slutty transgendered pagan communists.
Anyways.. in our society where we expect the world to educate our kids, we're not ready to move away from censorship.
Hmmm....I'm failing to follow your logic. Please explain the part in between "no censorship" and "all hell breaking loose".
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?
Is freenet really going to help them though? I'm asking this as a question, not implying that it won't, but I'm wondering: Can you detect that a given packet or set of packets are freenet packets, regardless of being able to determine what's in those packets?
If I were the communist China government, I'd set up the country's firewalls to drop freenet packets. There could be benign uses of freenet, but there's definitely uses that don't appeal to the communists.
Either that...or anyone using freenet gets arrested. In China, they might have an easier time getting away with that than in the US...maybe there won't be proof that you were doing anything illegal...but can you prove that you weren't doing anything illegal?
I'm seriously questioning the validity of this article.
Actually, it sounds more to me like you've got a native English-speaking reporter interviewing a non-native English speaker (an IBM-er in Sweden). So I think what it boils down to is a failure to communicate.
So what's really going on here? Who knows! Maybe MS did provide some Office code that IBM is using to achieve greater compatibility in WINE. Or what if IBM was re-writing Office in Java (yeah, that's a real long shot).
Well this would be a pretty silly number to try to get for yourself...but I remember growing up seeing their commercials on TV, where you've got the moustached older gentleman and then the women singing at the end "five eight eight, two three hundred, Empire!"
I seriously doubt that having looked at that crappy code, anyone would want to duplicate it in even a vague way. At best it would provide an example of what not to do
That's the beauty of it, from Microsoft's point of view.
If you copy Windows code, bam! You're guilty of copyright infringement.
If you write your code to do the exact opposite of the piss-poor examples you find in the Windows source code, bam! You've just created a derivative work without their permission.
There were two swastikas (one laying flat on a side, the other angled), and one Star of David symbol removed. This page has a "before" shot of what the font looked like:
I notice that the Star of David was also removed as unacceptable.
And some reports said there were two swastikas there.
Two swastikas (one at an angle) are removed from the font, and the Star of David were removed. On my system at least. I'll get some before and after screenshots up soon.
Anyway, why is this a "critical" update? Why doesn't their page explain what this update does? I suppose it might be a critical problem in Germany, where there's laws on the books and stuff (do those laws apply to swatikas that face the opposite way of Hitler's?), but certainly not in the rest of the world.
Thanks for looking out for us, Microsoft. You know better than us what's best for us, right?
Just hit 0 until the automated system gets frustrated and forwards you to a human being. It works almost every time, and saves you the frustration of dealing with the automated system in the first place.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "almost every time." In my experience, it's probably about 50% effective. Sometimes you need to dial 9 to get a human, and some systems haven't even let me get to a person no matter what I tried.
When I spent my summers as a kid in italy on the farm when ever it looked like hail I would hear a booming sound like cannons. My mother told me it was the cannons that they fired into the clouds to stop the hail from knocking the grapes off the vines.
from the article: I've never contemplated writing a virus before. Even if I had, I wouldn't have known how to do it. But thanks to a teenager in Austria, it took me less than a minute to master the art.
Now obviously, if he's a master of the art of computer viruses, there's a reason he chose to overwrite every file after formatting drive C:, right?
I'm not a coffee drinker, so for people looking for a caffeine boost, but who like me, don't like that icky brown water, try Jo mints. One little box can give you the same boost of 15 espressos! Just don't eat them all at once:)
The entire "sports copyright notice" required by the league is unneeded.... current copyright law doesn't even require "Copyright 2004" to be displayed. Everything gets full copyright protection the moment it is created by default, no action is needed.
This part I have no problem with. What I have a problem with is the fact that they not only claim copyright to the telecast, but that even "accounts of the game" are prohibited.
I guess if I watched the game on TV, they could hold me liable for copyright infringement (my account is a derived work of their telecast?).
But what if I'm at the game? Can I go home and give an account of the game without getting attacked by legions of rabid lawyers?
I'd say right now the open source community might look like the bigger rat with the new worm spreading and DDoSing SCO
I find it hard to believe that the "open source community" could be responsible for this DDOS against SCO.
My guess is that the SCO attack is a red herring -- what better way for the spammers to divert your attention from the fact that this virus enables remote access of infected computers than to get people all in a huff about the supposed "baddies" in the open source community.
I got a copy of this virus sent to me early this afternoon, with the actual virus arriving inside a zip file, disguised with a text-looking icon and set to appear as a ".htm" file.
Then I got another copy a short while later, also zipped, but with different file names, this one a disguised.scr file.
Then our administrator shut down our mail server just as the flood began...
We have all.exe files blocked at our mailserver, but this one's sneaky: it's an executable file, zipped up.
Funny that we had already scheduled a meeting on whether or not to allow.exe attachments to emails...my vote is a big NO...having just a.zip attachment is bad enough...at least some people don't know how to open a zip file:)
It just seems to me that it's bad policy on a person's or organization's part to lend support to groups that are engaged in terrorist activities. How can you truly know if you're being a good humanitarian, and helping out those who are being repressed within the terrorist group, or if you're just furthering their goals by helping out people within their group?
I've been told that you get to make a big tax write-off if you get a patent. So in the end, the whole patent scheme in corporate America is nothing more then tax legal evasion.
You clearly don't understand. This is the last piece in the puzzle of completely eliminating musicians. We have had a drum machine to replace you for a while, electronic instruments and MIDI.
Now we can finally get rid of these whiny musicians, always complaining about "I need to feed my family" and "I'm a professional and should be paid like one."
Close...this is just the piece of the puzzle that gets rid of those money-grubbing vocalists. Combine this latest development with a computer composition engine and we won't need any musicians at all!
I'm abusing my power as Slashdot editor to ask for experiences with this (or similiar) services.
I agree completely Taco. Notwithstanding the fact that many similar (do the research yourself) questions make their way to Ask Slashdot, at least I'd think you'd not set this to appear as a front-page story -- it would have been better (less abuse, on your part), I think, to just let it pop up only in the Ask Slashdot section.
"Thurrott's singing a different tune lately, anyway...."
You'd think he could sing it in a more web friendly format, anyway. Instead of using the HTML paragraph <P> tag, he uses single line break <BR> tags to separate his paragraphs. Makes for one big unfriendly block of text.
I guess the important point to him isn't that you necessarily read, or enjoy reading, his article. Maybe he just wants to innundate you with text so that he appears really authoritative. I don't know.
Continued security updates for... 8 years? You will be lucky get 8 months from Fedora. Somebody please point me to a Linux distribution that offers that duration of support at any price. Wow.
With Window 98, you get your OS, a web browser, and a few other pieces, but little more. With a Linux distribution, you get the OS and hundreds of other applications and utilities.
Linux just works on a different model than Microsoft products use. If a Linux distro provided as few programs as Windows does, it'd be a lot easier to support a particular version for extended periods of time.
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What I want to say is free anoynomous speech has it's draw backs.
And this free anonymous speech can be filtered, since it is free, and it is anonymous. Filtered in the sense that I'm more likely to trust something my mom says than some voice I hear whispered in a subway. We've gotta teach our kids to moderate that free speech and figure out if it's trustworthy or not, before they let it convince them to become teenage sluts building pyramids for alien-worshipping monkey gods, or whatever it was you alluded to. Anything you read on Freenet should be treated as an unfounded rumor. Which doesn't do much good for our Chinese dissidents, I guess.
Without censorship,
Our kinds will be teenage sluts, working for pyramid groups, worshiping some pagan god, while indulging in transgender, transpecies, disgusting courtship rituals that involves ritualistic sacrifices of viginity, then eBaying their souls to the lowest bidder, which of course is horrible since it strays from our capitalistic ways and eventually turn us all into slutty transgendered pagan communists.
Anyways.. in our society where we expect the world to educate our kids, we're not ready to move away from censorship.
Hmmm....I'm failing to follow your logic. Please explain the part in between "no censorship" and "all hell breaking loose".
Thanks.
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?
Is freenet really going to help them though? I'm asking this as a question, not implying that it won't, but I'm wondering: Can you detect that a given packet or set of packets are freenet packets, regardless of being able to determine what's in those packets?
If I were the communist China government, I'd set up the country's firewalls to drop freenet packets. There could be benign uses of freenet, but there's definitely uses that don't appeal to the communists.
Either that...or anyone using freenet gets arrested. In China, they might have an easier time getting away with that than in the US...maybe there won't be proof that you were doing anything illegal...but can you prove that you weren't doing anything illegal?
Where did you move to? I grew up in Milwaukee and they had Empire Carpet commercials there too. If you're lucky you're in an Empire-Free zone ;)
I'm seriously questioning the validity of this article.
Actually, it sounds more to me like you've got a native English-speaking reporter interviewing a non-native English speaker (an IBM-er in Sweden). So I think what it boils down to is a failure to communicate.
So what's really going on here? Who knows! Maybe MS did provide some Office code that IBM is using to achieve greater compatibility in WINE. Or what if IBM was re-writing Office in Java (yeah, that's a real long shot).
Well this would be a pretty silly number to try to get for yourself...but I remember growing up seeing their commercials on TV, where you've got the moustached older gentleman and then the women singing at the end "five eight eight, two three hundred, Empire!"
I seriously doubt that having looked at that crappy code, anyone would want to duplicate it in even a vague way. At best it would provide an example of what not to do
That's the beauty of it, from Microsoft's point of view.
If you copy Windows code, bam! You're guilty of copyright infringement.
If you write your code to do the exact opposite of the piss-poor examples you find in the Windows source code, bam! You've just created a derivative work without their permission.
Apparently the rumoured code uncompresses to around the size of 1 CD, and would only be a small portion of the total 40gb code base.
Good lord! How does the source code for an operating system bloat to that size?
There were two swastikas (one laying flat on a side, the other angled), and one Star of David symbol removed. This page has a "before" shot of what the font looked like:
e s.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40
http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/news/modul
Apparently the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font is only present on systems where Office 2003 is installed.
I notice that the Star of David was also removed as unacceptable.
And some reports said there were two swastikas there.
Two swastikas (one at an angle) are removed from the font, and the Star of David were removed. On my system at least. I'll get some before and after screenshots up soon.
Anyway, why is this a "critical" update? Why doesn't their page explain what this update does? I suppose it might be a critical problem in Germany, where there's laws on the books and stuff (do those laws apply to swatikas that face the opposite way of Hitler's?), but certainly not in the rest of the world.
Thanks for looking out for us, Microsoft. You know better than us what's best for us, right?
Just hit 0 until the automated system gets frustrated and forwards you to a human being. It works almost every time, and saves you the frustration of dealing with the automated system in the first place.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "almost every time." In my experience, it's probably about 50% effective. Sometimes you need to dial 9 to get a human, and some systems haven't even let me get to a person no matter what I tried.
When I spent my summers as a kid in italy on the farm when ever it looked like hail I would hear a booming sound like cannons. My mother told me it was the cannons that they fired into the clouds to stop the hail from knocking the grapes off the vines.
Maybe you were hearing thunder?
from the article: I've never contemplated writing a virus before. Even if I had, I wouldn't have known how to do it. But thanks to a teenager in Austria, it took me less than a minute to master the art.
Now obviously, if he's a master of the art of computer viruses, there's a reason he chose to overwrite every file after formatting drive C:, right?
I'm not a coffee drinker, so for people looking for a caffeine boost, but who like me, don't like that icky brown water, try Jo mints. One little box can give you the same boost of 15 espressos! Just don't eat them all at once :)
The entire "sports copyright notice" required by the league is unneeded.... current copyright law doesn't even require "Copyright 2004" to be displayed. Everything gets full copyright protection the moment it is created by default, no action is needed.
This part I have no problem with. What I have a problem with is the fact that they not only claim copyright to the telecast, but that even "accounts of the game" are prohibited.
I guess if I watched the game on TV, they could hold me liable for copyright infringement (my account is a derived work of their telecast?).
But what if I'm at the game? Can I go home and give an account of the game without getting attacked by legions of rabid lawyers?
I'd say right now the open source community might look like the bigger rat with the new worm spreading and DDoSing SCO
I find it hard to believe that the "open source community" could be responsible for this DDOS against SCO.
My guess is that the SCO attack is a red herring -- what better way for the spammers to divert your attention from the fact that this virus enables remote access of infected computers than to get people all in a huff about the supposed "baddies" in the open source community.
I got a copy of this virus sent to me early this afternoon, with the actual virus arriving inside a zip file, disguised with a text-looking icon and set to appear as a ".htm" file.
.scr file.
.exe files blocked at our mailserver, but this one's sneaky: it's an executable file, zipped up.
.exe attachments to emails...my vote is a big NO...having just a .zip attachment is bad enough...at least some people don't know how to open a zip file :)
Then I got another copy a short while later, also zipped, but with different file names, this one a disguised
Then our administrator shut down our mail server just as the flood began...
We have all
Funny that we had already scheduled a meeting on whether or not to allow
It just seems to me that it's bad policy on a person's or organization's part to lend support to groups that are engaged in terrorist activities. How can you truly know if you're being a good humanitarian, and helping out those who are being repressed within the terrorist group, or if you're just furthering their goals by helping out people within their group?
I've been told that you get to make a big tax write-off if you get a patent. So in the end, the whole patent scheme in corporate America is nothing more then tax legal evasion.
Sure...got any references for that bit?
You clearly don't understand. This is the last piece in the puzzle of completely eliminating musicians. We have had a drum machine to replace you for a while, electronic instruments and MIDI.
Now we can finally get rid of these whiny musicians, always complaining about "I need to feed my family" and "I'm a professional and should be paid like one."
Close...this is just the piece of the puzzle that gets rid of those money-grubbing vocalists. Combine this latest development with a computer composition engine and we won't need any musicians at all!
I'm abusing my power as Slashdot editor to ask for experiences with this (or similiar) services.
I agree completely Taco. Notwithstanding the fact that many similar (do the research yourself) questions make their way to Ask Slashdot, at least I'd think you'd not set this to appear as a front-page story -- it would have been better (less abuse, on your part), I think, to just let it pop up only in the Ask Slashdot section.
Oh well.
Google doesn't know about any program called "Copy Guard Breaker". What is this mysterious software program that Sprague allegedly used?
"Thurrott's singing a different tune lately, anyway...."
You'd think he could sing it in a more web friendly format, anyway. Instead of using the HTML paragraph <P> tag, he uses single line break <BR> tags to separate his paragraphs. Makes for one big unfriendly block of text.
I guess the important point to him isn't that you necessarily read, or enjoy reading, his article. Maybe he just wants to innundate you with text so that he appears really authoritative. I don't know.
Continued security updates for ... 8 years? You will be lucky get 8 months from Fedora. Somebody please point me to a Linux distribution that offers that duration of support at any price. Wow.
With Window 98, you get your OS, a web browser, and a few other pieces, but little more. With a Linux distribution, you get the OS and hundreds of other applications and utilities.
Linux just works on a different model than Microsoft products use. If a Linux distro provided as few programs as Windows does, it'd be a lot easier to support a particular version for extended periods of time.
They DOSed their own site? Damn, they've made script kiddies obsolete.
Nah, they're just lifting plays from the SCO playbook. They'll be blaming Linux users for the DOS soon.