You don't think any anti-verisign pissing and moaning could have just been the regular slashdot knee-jerk reaction to ANYTHING? Naw, couldn't be. Everyone thought this was going to DOS their DNS servers, or something.
I've had an Xbox for at least a year. Not once has it ever tried to "phone home". Yes, I've been watching. I also have never clicked on an "XBox Live" button.
Bittorrent doesn't eliminate or solve the centralized server problem. On the contrary, one person must set up a central server which is hammered until such point as enough people have downloaded whatever you're sharing. You've still got a centralized server for seeding the sharing. Once it gets going, the reliance on the seeds wanes. But in the beginning, that server is just as important as any other "central server" for filesharing.
Apparently reading comprehention is hard for you. Let's do this the easy way:
If the TV station relies on TV Licensing for income, it is sort of annoying to then have to watch advertisments for something that you have already sponsored. The TV station has YOUR MONEY from your TV License. They shouldn't have to "make the money back again", because your licensing fees have paid for this programming. It's like paying twice for one program.
First, if you've listened to the mp3's, they sound no different than if you had taken the cd and spun it around on a table for a few minutes to get it good and scratched up. There was no ground breaking satan speech telling me to do anything, nor did it sound "cool." Ok, maybe if you're into skipping cds (and not even the cool fast skipping kind, this was just missing sections of audio), it might be cool. An everyday joe without specialized (high-powered microscope) equipment probably won't be able to make the CD do anything other than skip by "modifying cds". By changing the pits on the cd, you're much, much more likely to piss off the error-correcting circuitry of a CD player than you are to make some sort of sound. To create meaningful sound, you have to have a digital representation of sound waves. Random data as created by this process will usually be caught by the player and discarded. The remainder that isn't caught is probably inaudible anyhow. Can we move on now?
First, nice argument. Comparing an original musician to someone who scratches up cds and calls it something to swoon over...I must remember that one.
What happens when jimi produces something which doesn't sound like much of anything? He'll probably say "funk dat" and go to something else. This guy, instead, harps on something which is nothing more than a cd that's degraded in quality. It's not like an analog source that can warp -- the digital source just skips and pops. Wow. Groundbreaking stuff, obviously. I'm going to play those clear cd protectors that come on spools of CDR's, and call it my art. It may not make any sound, but it's experimentation, right?
There's a difference, in mainstream art, between "music" and "a fucked up cd". Yes, you might have some sort of deconstructionist or dadaist who could defend this work as art, but who really listens to them anyhow? I don't know how this could be considered "cool". I didn't hear anything interesting when I listened to the mp3's. It sounded like he hocked a loogie on a CD, wiped it off with sandpaper, and then tossed the CD in a player. Wow. I could do that, just leave a CD on my desk for a few weeks. I understand that you can call whatever you want "art", but in this case I really don't think the end result is meaningful in any way other than to scratch up a Jay-Z cd.
While I was partying, I was smart enough to budget my time so I could party, AND get my work done. You're a weenie for not having any fun, except for maybe playing D&D and massaging yourself to internet porn.
How's your social life? Don't lie, we know the truth.
As you know, every Israeli hates every Palestinian. It's like cats and dogs. Five minues can't go by without one of them pulling the other's hair. There's NO way that an Israeli would cooperate with a Palestinian (or the other way around!) to get an Internet connection. Also, satellites don't fly over that area of the world, so there's no way they can get Internet access that way.
I don't know of the legality of your situation, but the issue might be different. I think what happened was that the hand-me-down computers left some sort of engineering software on it that was not used by the secretaries, but was used by the engineer. When the engineers installed their software on the new computers, two copies of the software now exist -- one 'official', and one 'forgotten'.
I thought you used to be able to install software on more computers than you have licenses for as long as the amount of running applications does not exceed the number of licenses. Apparently MSFT don't play that anymore. Linux, anyone?
First -- his issue wasn't with using "illegal" software, it was the overly-harsh rules that the BSA/Microsfot has. If you read the article, his violations stemmed from giving old computers from the engineers to the secretaries. In fact, he said that they didn't use the software they got busted for, but apparently having it on your hard drive (and not being used) is bad enough to pay a fine.
Second, Microsoft/BSA didn't attempt to solve this problem nicely. It was obvious that they were after his money, and his story to use to threaten other businesses into paying them money they probably don't have to pay. The owner said that if Microsoft/BSA had asked nicely, he would have cooperated, and they would continue to have a customer. Instead, they just bullied him, and lost a customer. The money that MSFT loses from his business is a drop in the bucket, but the exposure that this gives other businesses deciding to stick with MSFT or going to Redhat may be enough to sway other companies away from MSFT.
Apologies for knocking you off your high hobby horse.
What do document formats have to do with an Open Source project's configuration file? With a config file, you edit it once, and you're done. Not exactly something that you should be touching every day. You might have to re-write it every 2-3 years to account for new features, but that is a rare case. My old (3+ year) apache configs still work.
I'm sure that if you took some windows service and switched the config file (registry key?) with one that was 3 years old, you would have some issues as well.
Now, which *nix projects change their config file formats frequently?
Ship-Shore Communication
Military Aviation, Ground Troops, and Command
Super-Secret Spies
Commercial Intercontinential Aviation
FEMA Emergency Communications
Shortwave Radio Broadcasters
Weather Teletype/Telefax
Some Weather and Scientific Satellite Uplinks/Downlinks
I could go on. Each one of these are more efficient uses of the HF spectrum than blasting porn through power lines for the people who have the poor luck to live in an area not served by traditional broadband.
Is it right to interfere with many of these services to provide a service that could be provided in alternative ways that do not interfere with existing users?
Great. I've got a Pentium 133 from 1996(?) as my router at home, and an even older dual pentium pro box at work to serve DNS for my subnet. Right now, I am using a Pentium II from 1998 as my main workstation at work. Runs fine with Gentoo 1.4, KDE 3.1.2, and mozilla firebird nightly builds.
Oh, and for the record, anyone who has run OS X 10.2 on a B/W G3 would know better than saying they run "just fine". Yeah, they run just fine if you login to a text console.
When I ran an RPM based system, all I had to do was download an RPM, and then click on it to start a graphical RPM interface that would automatically install it. Mandrake 9.something does this out of the box.
Consistency? RPM could be considered something which most people would know how to install -- be it by a graphical installer, up2date, or on a command line. All of these packaging systems work basically the same. Download a package. Install package. Run program.
RPM+APT is a lot easier than the BS with the void that is Windows library dependencies. I can't tell you how many times I've downloaded some crappy little app for Win32 that is missing this or that dll. RPM+APT takes care of all that garbage for you.
Is XP pro "serious" to you? On my laptop (IBM T40), the initial user account created has administrator privs by default, and there's nothing warning you that this is a bad thing.
How is this different from Linux?
Linux distributions as a rule do not create a regular "user" account with administrator privs. XP Pro does. To get these privs on a normally configured unix box, you have to specifically type a command such as "su" or "sudo" to get these privs.
Many Unix services will have large notes in their documentation stating the fact that the service should NOT be run as root. In fact, there are many services which complain if run as root. I have never seen anything on a Windows box telling me not to run Apache as Administrator.
Finally, please show me how you arrived at the following statement:
"If Linux were as widespread as Windows, you'd see exactly the same dumbness."
How can you prove a claim like this? Are you claiming that when something becomes widespread, all of a sudden standards drop? I'd say Redhat Linux is pretty widespread. Yet, when I installed Apache on a freshly installed Redhat box, I see that Apache is running as Apache, not root. I didn't have to do anything, except put the CD in the drive and push OK a few times. I'm sure any Windows admin could handle this.
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+computer -tree -orchard +mouse .. c'mon, google isn't rocket science.
You don't think any anti-verisign pissing and moaning could have just been the regular slashdot knee-jerk reaction to ANYTHING? Naw, couldn't be. Everyone thought this was going to DOS their DNS servers, or something.
I've had an Xbox for at least a year. Not once has it ever tried to "phone home". Yes, I've been watching. I also have never clicked on an "XBox Live" button.
Bittorrent doesn't eliminate or solve the centralized server problem. On the contrary, one person must set up a central server which is hammered until such point as enough people have downloaded whatever you're sharing. You've still got a centralized server for seeding the sharing. Once it gets going, the reliance on the seeds wanes. But in the beginning, that server is just as important as any other "central server" for filesharing.
Apparently reading comprehention is hard for you. Let's do this the easy way:
If the TV station relies on TV Licensing for income, it is sort of annoying to then have to watch advertisments for something that you have already sponsored. The TV station has YOUR MONEY from your TV License. They shouldn't have to "make the money back again", because your licensing fees have paid for this programming. It's like paying twice for one program.
First, if you've listened to the mp3's, they sound no different than if you had taken the cd and spun it around on a table for a few minutes to get it good and scratched up. There was no ground breaking satan speech telling me to do anything, nor did it sound "cool." Ok, maybe if you're into skipping cds (and not even the cool fast skipping kind, this was just missing sections of audio), it might be cool. An everyday joe without specialized (high-powered microscope) equipment probably won't be able to make the CD do anything other than skip by "modifying cds". By changing the pits on the cd, you're much, much more likely to piss off the error-correcting circuitry of a CD player than you are to make some sort of sound. To create meaningful sound, you have to have a digital representation of sound waves. Random data as created by this process will usually be caught by the player and discarded. The remainder that isn't caught is probably inaudible anyhow. Can we move on now?
First, nice argument. Comparing an original musician to someone who scratches up cds and calls it something to swoon over...I must remember that one.
What happens when jimi produces something which doesn't sound like much of anything? He'll probably say "funk dat" and go to something else. This guy, instead, harps on something which is nothing more than a cd that's degraded in quality. It's not like an analog source that can warp -- the digital source just skips and pops. Wow. Groundbreaking stuff, obviously. I'm going to play those clear cd protectors that come on spools of CDR's, and call it my art. It may not make any sound, but it's experimentation, right?
There's a difference, in mainstream art, between "music" and "a fucked up cd". Yes, you might have some sort of deconstructionist or dadaist who could defend this work as art, but who really listens to them anyhow? I don't know how this could be considered "cool". I didn't hear anything interesting when I listened to the mp3's. It sounded like he hocked a loogie on a CD, wiped it off with sandpaper, and then tossed the CD in a player. Wow. I could do that, just leave a CD on my desk for a few weeks. I understand that you can call whatever you want "art", but in this case I really don't think the end result is meaningful in any way other than to scratch up a Jay-Z cd.
Yeah, the 2500 civillians and military casualties don't count, or something.
Then they don't have to deal with idiots posting high and mighty comments about which OS is better.
Pearl Harbor anyone?
While I was partying, I was smart enough to budget my time so I could party, AND get my work done. You're a weenie for not having any fun, except for maybe playing D&D and massaging yourself to internet porn.
How's your social life? Don't lie, we know the truth.
As you know, every Israeli hates every Palestinian. It's like cats and dogs. Five minues can't go by without one of them pulling the other's hair. There's NO way that an Israeli would cooperate with a Palestinian (or the other way around!) to get an Internet connection. Also, satellites don't fly over that area of the world, so there's no way they can get Internet access that way.
How is the EU safer? You only said you were "close to being shot at". What does this mean? You saw some minority, and assumed they would shoot you?
What job function requires an employee to not be behind a proxy or nat?
I don't know of the legality of your situation, but the issue might be different. I think what happened was that the hand-me-down computers left some sort of engineering software on it that was not used by the secretaries, but was used by the engineer. When the engineers installed their software on the new computers, two copies of the software now exist -- one 'official', and one 'forgotten'.
I thought you used to be able to install software on more computers than you have licenses for as long as the amount of running applications does not exceed the number of licenses. Apparently MSFT don't play that anymore. Linux, anyone?
First -- his issue wasn't with using "illegal" software, it was the overly-harsh rules that the BSA/Microsfot has. If you read the article, his violations stemmed from giving old computers from the engineers to the secretaries. In fact, he said that they didn't use the software they got busted for, but apparently having it on your hard drive (and not being used) is bad enough to pay a fine.
Second, Microsoft/BSA didn't attempt to solve this problem nicely. It was obvious that they were after his money, and his story to use to threaten other businesses into paying them money they probably don't have to pay. The owner said that if Microsoft/BSA had asked nicely, he would have cooperated, and they would continue to have a customer. Instead, they just bullied him, and lost a customer. The money that MSFT loses from his business is a drop in the bucket, but the exposure that this gives other businesses deciding to stick with MSFT or going to Redhat may be enough to sway other companies away from MSFT.
Apologies for knocking you off your high hobby horse.
What do document formats have to do with an Open Source project's configuration file? With a config file, you edit it once, and you're done. Not exactly something that you should be touching every day. You might have to re-write it every 2-3 years to account for new features, but that is a rare case. My old (3+ year) apache configs still work.
I'm sure that if you took some windows service and switched the config file (registry key?) with one that was 3 years old, you would have some issues as well.
Now, which *nix projects change their config file formats frequently?
Ship-Shore Communication
Military Aviation, Ground Troops, and Command
Super-Secret Spies
Commercial Intercontinential Aviation
FEMA Emergency Communications
Shortwave Radio Broadcasters
Weather Teletype/Telefax
Some Weather and Scientific Satellite Uplinks/Downlinks
I could go on. Each one of these are more efficient uses of the HF spectrum than blasting porn through power lines for the people who have the poor luck to live in an area not served by traditional broadband.
Is it right to interfere with many of these services to provide a service that could be provided in alternative ways that do not interfere with existing users?
Great. I've got a Pentium 133 from 1996(?) as my router at home, and an even older dual pentium pro box at work to serve DNS for my subnet. Right now, I am using a Pentium II from 1998 as my main workstation at work. Runs fine with Gentoo 1.4, KDE 3.1.2, and mozilla firebird nightly builds.
Oh, and for the record, anyone who has run OS X 10.2 on a B/W G3 would know better than saying they run "just fine". Yeah, they run just fine if you login to a text console.
When I ran an RPM based system, all I had to do was download an RPM, and then click on it to start a graphical RPM interface that would automatically install it. Mandrake 9.something does this out of the box.
Note I said "Like any other industry". I didn't say that environmental regulators don't affect operation of the power grid.
Yeah. There are no find - download - click - install routines.
Consistency? RPM could be considered something which most people would know how to install -- be it by a graphical installer, up2date, or on a command line. All of these packaging systems work basically the same. Download a package. Install package. Run program.
RPM+APT is a lot easier than the BS with the void that is Windows library dependencies. I can't tell you how many times I've downloaded some crappy little app for Win32 that is missing this or that dll. RPM+APT takes care of all that garbage for you.
Is XP pro "serious" to you? On my laptop (IBM T40), the initial user account created has administrator privs by default, and there's nothing warning you that this is a bad thing.
How is this different from Linux?
Linux distributions as a rule do not create a regular "user" account with administrator privs. XP Pro does. To get these privs on a normally configured unix box, you have to specifically type a command such as "su" or "sudo" to get these privs.
Many Unix services will have large notes in their documentation stating the fact that the service should NOT be run as root. In fact, there are many services which complain if run as root. I have never seen anything on a Windows box telling me not to run Apache as Administrator.
Finally, please show me how you arrived at the following statement:
"If Linux were as widespread as Windows, you'd see exactly the same dumbness."
How can you prove a claim like this? Are you claiming that when something becomes widespread, all of a sudden standards drop? I'd say Redhat Linux is pretty widespread. Yet, when I installed Apache on a freshly installed Redhat box, I see that Apache is running as Apache, not root. I didn't have to do anything, except put the CD in the drive and push OK a few times. I'm sure any Windows admin could handle this.
Obviously, you decided to RTFA.