I do:) But I don't care about a few bug bites. What I mean is that it does not affect me IRL and most/.ers should get a life instead of whinning about such trivialities.
Sooner or later, some "victims" will claim it was only explained in too obfuscated a fineprint to really take it in consideration. really, like it or not but seriously (and sincerely) stupid people will harass you until you pay.
Do not worry, people will do it. Otherwise you could also use remote services such as Apple's.Mac and QRey's Filer. Some encrypted features make it possible only for the client to read their own accounts/files.
who is actually responsible when your computer does something?
If it's passively, this could either be the user's or the software architect's fault (if some OS's security hole allow one to get into trouble). This could also be due to the ISP's neglect.
if it's actively, the answer should be the same but now, the problem is that we (as in "the consumers") would have to argue about this against some ISP's or worse, against a software editor's lawyer, in which case, we don't weight enough not to be in trouble.
concerning the present situation, I'd be somehow concerned if I learnt that like my ISP, my OS was actually logging whichever off my actions in order to prove the Law how bad I am actually behaving...
I suggested this option because the original post mentioned their hunt. I'd be surprised to see how many/.ers are sufficiently intellectually-impaired to just argue they should simply be killed (possibly a cruel way).
Fine them 0.01$/email and improve third world infrastructures with the money.
Filter/Ignore them.
I'd personally go for the last option... Maybe the next-to-last if their suit takes place in a really democratic place (there are 278 millions American citizens and 2,2 of them are in jail, this is a *lot*).
I have more than enough things to worry, including my shopping list, my housekeeping tasks, my garden... to just lose time and nerves other that few junk : when I get an unexpected commercial in my snail-mailbox, this *is* annoying as, here, in Switzerland, we pay for each garbage bag we throw away. So, spam is junk, indeed, but i dispose of it almost instantaneously.
I won't make spamfighting my Holy War... I have more interesting and valuable things to deal with IRL and I am naturally optimistic.
Let the spammers waste their time sending their hectobytes of off-topic (mostly american-centric) mail to my ever-improving filter.
I think spam is overhyped : it is not convenient to get some but with properly adjusted filters, very few of these will land elsewhere than in you trash can.
Personally, I get around 100 of these a day, but only 3 get in my inbox instead of one of my specific mail directories, this is not *that* disturbing.
I just wish these spams were better targetted : getting some penis-enlargement, ultra-fast-diet, university-diploma or cheap-herbal alternative to viagra is somehow repetitive and boring.
I have a PCMCIA/Smartmedia card reader and it could only work on expectedly a 3 year old Caldera distro (which was also the only distro I owned which could be installed in less than 1 gig).
I switched to OSX in December and kept a Linux server at home. I am *not* looking forward.
Linux is good for the "geeks" but is not corporation compliant.
Where I work (45000 employees), only SuSe and RedHat have been acknowledged as "reliable".
Exit other flavours (especially Debian).
I don't appreciate RedHat (because of many configuration aspects but also ethically : for me Linux is a dot.org idea, not a dot.com one : RedHat looks like what MS-Linux would be) and I don't appreciate SuSe at all (settings, startup sequence, plethora of useless software, often opening unwanted backdoors on the system).
Now, these are the only versions which'll get adopted because they support both Oracle and HPaq/ITO/VPO/OpenView SNMP agent.
This is the reason why, whenever contacted about installing a SuSe, I gently suggest a SunFire v100 running Solaris 8.
So, Linux acceptance is not as good as it could be because managers do not understand the model, they think in terms of a company, not as an upward-going brownian software-blob (this description is not intended to be a reproach).
This makes this annoyance a non-software but rather social one.
You could run it easily on a DOS emulator on an old machine, for example, when I only had a 210MB HD on my RiscPC, I was glad to compress win95 to around 8-10MB in order to run a JDK, so that my DOS disc image would remain below 70MB...
Unless it's adopted by a couple of major corps, it's never going to take off.
So you agree with me that this is a powerful anti-spy communication device ? Especially if you can convince the customers to register (in Europe -and probably elsewhere- you can use a cell phone anonymously using pre-paid cards).
Because of its really doomed nature, this could turn into a massive success for the bad reasons only (...privacy...blah!...).
OK, this was humorous but I keep thinking that if his model is good, it will either replace the existing phone infrastructure, thus forcing all the phone operators to enhance the Internet or it will be counter-attacked by less efficient devices (remember VHS / Betamax ?).
Now, I'd suggest this guy to patent it otherwise he'll get into troubles (MS-Phone ?).
Pre-emptive multitasking indeed costs more in system resources than cooperative. Compare the fluidity of RiscOS with the fluidity of a Linux machine. The first is used in many real time applications, like datacasting, black boxes, etc. while the second is good for server and desktop but not really for real-time demanding apps. Simply because in a cooperative system, you know when an event shall occur.
OK, I RTFA'd and the article mentions the necessity of a 3rd party app in order to "benefit" from the Outlook connectivity. It also says OPIE can natively run Zaurus binary packages but strill no mention of "iSyncability".:(
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I do :) /.ers should get a life instead of whinning about such trivialities.
But I don't care about a few bug bites.
What I mean is that it does not affect me IRL and most
Sooner or later, some "victims" will claim it was only explained in too obfuscated a fineprint to really take it in consideration.
really, like it or not but seriously (and sincerely) stupid people will harass you until you pay.
Do not worry, people will do it. .Mac and QRey's Filer.
Otherwise you could also use remote services such as Apple's
Some encrypted features make it possible only for the client to read their own accounts/files.
ISP's are like the toll both you go through to get on the highway its not their fault if you drive like a moron once youre there..
They said so until a cancerous guy sued tobacco companies...
They are currently saying so but some obese fellows are begining to sue McDo.
I heard some people were planning to sue the car makers for the accidents they caused, driving too fast...
So, no way : never underestimate the lawyers, an ISP will once get sued for this kind of problem...
After all, some years ago, they closed altern.org because an anonymously hosted guy put some model photo there...
Did you notice this screenshot ?
As a picture is usually worth thousands of posts, there are some running "desklets" on it...
(BTW, it's funny there's something on the bottom right of this screen shot which looks like an Airport base station.)
About the ISP, what if the virus came by email ?
The ISP will soon become liable if he doesn't use a decent antivirus on his pop/smtp servers.
BTW, if the above-mentioned virus came from the ISP's net, then the ISP will definitely be liable.
who is actually responsible when your computer does something?
If it's passively, this could either be the user's or the software architect's fault (if some OS's security hole allow one to get into trouble).
This could also be due to the ISP's neglect.
if it's actively, the answer should be the same but now, the problem is that we (as in "the consumers") would have to argue about this against some ISP's or worse, against a software editor's lawyer, in which case, we don't weight enough not to be in trouble.
concerning the present situation, I'd be somehow concerned if I learnt that like my ISP, my OS was actually logging whichever off my actions in order to prove the Law how bad I am actually behaving...
I suggested this option because the original post mentioned their hunt. /.ers are sufficiently intellectually-impaired to just argue they should simply be killed (possibly a cruel way).
I'd be surprised to see how many
I'd personally go for the last option... Maybe the next-to-last if their suit takes place in a really democratic place (there are 278 millions American citizens and 2,2 of them are in jail, this is a *lot*).
I have more than enough things to worry, including my shopping list, my housekeeping tasks, my garden... to just lose time and nerves other that few junk : when I get an unexpected commercial in my snail-mailbox, this *is* annoying as, here, in Switzerland, we pay for each garbage bag we throw away.
So, spam is junk, indeed, but i dispose of it almost instantaneously.
I won't make spamfighting my Holy War...
I have more interesting and valuable things to deal with IRL and I am naturally optimistic.
Let the spammers waste their time sending their hectobytes of off-topic (mostly american-centric) mail to my ever-improving filter.
I think spam is overhyped : it is not convenient to get some but with properly adjusted filters, very few of these will land elsewhere than in you trash can.
Personally, I get around 100 of these a day, but only 3 get in my inbox instead of one of my specific mail directories, this is not *that* disturbing.
I just wish these spams were better targetted : getting some penis-enlargement, ultra-fast-diet, university-diploma or cheap-herbal alternative to viagra is somehow repetitive and boring.
Not outlawed, they rather suggested a French word to designate the same thing.
I don't see where the problem is.
no good cross-dsitribution automounter...
I have a PCMCIA/Smartmedia card reader and it could only work on expectedly a 3 year old Caldera distro (which was also the only distro I owned which could be installed in less than 1 gig).
I switched to OSX in December and kept a Linux server at home.
I am *not* looking forward.
Linux is good for the "geeks" but is not corporation compliant.
Where I work (45000 employees), only SuSe and RedHat have been acknowledged as "reliable".
Exit other flavours (especially Debian).
I don't appreciate RedHat (because of many configuration aspects but also ethically : for me Linux is a dot.org idea, not a dot.com one : RedHat looks like what MS-Linux would be) and I don't appreciate SuSe at all (settings, startup sequence, plethora of useless software, often opening unwanted backdoors on the system).
Now, these are the only versions which'll get adopted because they support both Oracle and HPaq/ITO/VPO/OpenView SNMP agent.
This is the reason why, whenever contacted about installing a SuSe, I gently suggest a SunFire v100 running Solaris 8.
So, Linux acceptance is not as good as it could be because managers do not understand the model, they think in terms of a company, not as an upward-going brownian software-blob (this description is not intended to be a reproach).
This makes this annoyance a non-software but rather social one.
You could run it easily on a DOS emulator on an old machine, for example, when I only had a 210MB HD on my RiscPC, I was glad to compress win95 to around 8-10MB in order to run a JDK, so that my DOS disc image would remain below 70MB...
Unless it's adopted by a couple of major corps, it's never going to take off.
So you agree with me that this is a powerful anti-spy communication device ? Especially if you can convince the customers to register (in Europe -and probably elsewhere- you can use a cell phone anonymously using pre-paid cards).
Because of its really doomed nature, this could turn into a massive success for the bad reasons only (...privacy...blah!...).
So, is there some monopoly going on here ?
OK, this was humorous but I keep thinking that if his model is good, it will either replace the existing phone infrastructure, thus forcing all the phone operators to enhance the Internet or it will be counter-attacked by less efficient devices (remember VHS / Betamax ?).
Now, I'd suggest this guy to patent it otherwise he'll get into troubles (MS-Phone ?).
- a reason
- a way
to implment it the best possible way while keeping the overhead as low as nowadays.Pre-emptive multitasking indeed costs more in system resources than cooperative.
Compare the fluidity of RiscOS with the fluidity of a Linux machine.
The first is used in many real time applications, like datacasting, black boxes, etc. while the second is good for server and desktop but not really for real-time demanding apps.
Simply because in a cooperative system, you know when an event shall occur.
FUCK !?
OK, I RTFA'd and the article mentions the necessity of a 3rd party app in order to "benefit" from the Outlook connectivity. It also says OPIE can natively run Zaurus binary packages but strill no mention of "iSyncability". :(
Can I
Should at least 2 answers be positive (100%), I'd consider installing it.
The reception was also fine elsewhere. The only moment I did not check was during the elevation.
Actually, the Ximian logo rather shows a diving monkey, so, indeed, it might be too soon to evaluate its sinking condition :)
Anyway, I didn't know they were generating profit at all so I was not surprised at the grand parent's remark.