...swiping it near the screen caused an message to show up on the reader..... but this means it has an active radio signal
Maybe you are not presenting your experience with proper English, but if you swiped the card and were then told to use the chip reader, that does not imply that the card has any RFID capability. It simply means that the swipe passed along enough information that the reader learned that there was also a chip.
No, I mean I passed the card in front of the screen, not inside the card reader.
The card does have those three nested arcs that look like it might be a radio signal, a wifi indicator, or some sort of transmission thingie.
Unfortunately, all these new features come with websites that insist on them or won't work.
You really want to know problems? Play with ESR. The "long term stable" release. Major features/changes tend to land right after an ESR release.
Staying on ESR means fewer changes, no more nightly surprises, no more constantly changing interface every 6 weeks, etc.
BUT... since major features come out the next 6 week cycle? Websites wind up using them. Suddenly, the long-term stable system becomes unable to access site after site.
And you want to use something even older? Good luck.
You left out the part where he had permission from the librarian to post there. And, the librarian told them of how wonderful their message board was for posting stuff.
Testing restores is tremendously important. Worse, you have to seriously test it -- live off it.
In other words, the only *Safe* way to test a backup is to put your old drive/partition aside, restore to a new drive/partition, and then work from that.
* I AM NOT JOKING *
Recently, I was having serious trouble with my Mac. The trouble had just started a few days ago. So, I restored a time machine backup. That's what time machine is for, right?
I have a script that I check occasionally, for things that somehow get flagged as "do not backup". That script is: #!/bin/bash mdfind "com_apple_backup_excludeItem = *backup*"
Now, you might be asking, why would I need a test like that for things that are not backed up? Because, back in 10.7, I discovered that some things that I wanted backed up would get that exclusion. Once you find something you want to backup, you can clear that flag
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ notTM -- edit: Slashdot, means *DO NOT REFORMAT THIS*. There should be a newline here. -- -- Worse, angle-bracket space code space close-angle-bracket should not be removed, especially inside a 'do not reformat' code block. Sheesh. What's next, complaining about too many leading '>' symbols in a diff? -- /Users/michael/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ tmutil removeexclusion '/Users/michael/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache' keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ notTM keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ ls -le@d ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State 0 drwx------@ 41 michael staff 1394 Jul 14 20:28/Users/michael/Library/Saved Application State/
com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem 61 keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ xattr -l ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem: 00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 5F 10 11 63 6F 6D 2E 61 |bplist00_..com.a| 00000010 70 70 6C 65 2E 62 61 63 6B 75 70 64 08 00 00 00 |pple.backupd....| -- edit: Slashdot complained about "too many junk characters", so the last two lines of mostly zeros had to be removed, sorry. -- keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$
So what happened in 10.9.5? Turns out, mdfind will not look inside of/Library. Saved Application State was not backed up.
Which meant that on restore, all the "currently open windows" and their desktop assignments were gone. So, using 5 different desktops to track the current state of 5 different projects? Gone. The "Currently being editing" files? No longer open -- I have to figure out which files are in the process of being edited. Combine that with Apple's new "We edit in place, with live auto-saves", and my "in progress edits" are now in the file system somewhere, not in an AutoSave directory.
It was a serious disaster for me. I relied on saved application state / the "transparent application lifespan" restoring.
And that's with Apple's Time Machine -- which is supposed to be a "Just set it and forget it, it works out of the box" "best of category" backup system.
main(C,V) char **V;/* C program. (If you don't
* understand it look it
*/ up.) (In the C Manual) {
char _,__;
while (read(0,&__,1) & write((_=(_=C_C_(__),C)),
_C_,1)) _=C-V+subr(&V); }
(GRR, how do you tell slashdot to NOT ALTER THE FORMATTING AT ALL!?!?)
Yes, there's more (see link). But you can clearly see the importance of comments there.
I am one of those people who are swamped/flooded with stuff in my inbox. The 5 tabs was a good start, but it's hopelessly problematic for me -- not only does Google mis-catagorize stuff, but the classifications (social, mailing list+forums, promotions, personal notifications) doesn't match "important, scan, junk" for me.
And, something to let me categorize emails as a GTD-style sectioned to-do list? PLEASE, tell me how.
It failed a 60 person vote by 2. So 58% of the senate is in favor of taking away your rights and privacy. On top of the court that just said you have no right of privacy.
What's worse? *I can't vote them out*. I can only vote against one person, and not for another 2 years (not up for re-election this year).
At one point, judges were supposed to be the last defense of rights against abusive congress, and the judges even gave themselves lifetime tenure to prevent political abuse. Now, the judges are not even bothering to protect the constitution, and none of the political parties is making "Protect the constitution" their rallying cry.
But it means that you think "your" computer isn't yours; that you've assumed it's reasonably likely that your computer is running hostile software. That may be true,...
You're just two days early. Now, we've got the courts ruling that you have no expectation of privacy on your computer so the FBI can freely hack away with no warrant.
As I recall, not only did it get upheld, but the idea that you could buy an official apple power cord, cut the end off, and use the purchased, licensed, paid-for connector to make a competing product was thrown out by the courts as infringement.
Hey, I remember when Amiga introduced HAM mode, as a "leftover". They couldn't get it to work as intended/wanted, and figured, "Well, what we have works, even if it's useless".
Hold-and-modify turned out to be a major plus for graphics back in the day when you didn't have enough memory bandwidth for real full graphics.
My internet License is dated 1982 and consisted of a usenet node on a multi-user BBS system.
If you mean a real-time IP capable machine?... Probably around 1986 or so at home, 1982 at school. Paid for with a college education that taught me about networking and programming, as well as personal study into just how the stuff worked under the hood.
Where did we go wrong? How about my two favorite cases (NB: I don't have proper cites for either of these, can anyone help me?)
1. Because cell phones can be picked up by ordinary old televisions, clearly no one has an expectation of privacy because everyone knows that their cell phone calls are in the clear for anyone to pick up. This was back in the day when channels 63-83 were re-assigned to cell phones.
2. While a jury has the right to return "not guilty" for any reason, including abusive laws, it is not a mistrial if the jury is not informed of this right. Therefore, Judges can freely tell juries that they do not have such a right and must return "guilty" if the law technically makes the person guilty no matter how bad the law it.
3. Speaking of which, what happened to the jury trial?
there is a really simple solution, here: don't buy systems with intel processors.
The problem is, after reading about LibReboot, that AMD chips have essentially the identical issue.
Really curious: Apparently, modern intel chips cannot even work without loading microcode patches at startup; at least AMD chips aren't that buggy (they don't need microcode patches to run).
On Thursday, cable companies noted that they still cannot fully comply with FCC's attempt to open up the set-top box market,
Supposedly, all the big hoopla with "Cable Card" was that it would permit third party companies to provide services. So just require the companies to use this for their own boxes. If they can't? Then maybe this "Cable Card" solution wasn't a solution after all.
We have the right to record and time shift. That right was established by the supreme court back in the days of VCR tapes. These companies have a business model that is based on "Deny rights to end users".
Worse, "DVR Service" is considered something that is a $10 per month additional fee. And, if you stop paying it, it's not "You can't record more", it's "you can't even watch what you've already recorded".
What would I like to see?
1. A refund of 50% of the fees charged to customers as compensation for violating the law and rights of consumers. 2. A fine to the government for failing to obey the law. 3. A sufficiently large penalty for past violations, paid over the next several years. 4. Prohibiting a raise in rates just as a way around this.
What would be the expected results?
Why, they'd go out of business. Have to auction off all the parts of their network/setup/etc. Other companies get a chance to get started and move in.
I'm sorry. Kill off the old, and let something new start up. Mass extinction event for these abusive dinosaur companies.
Put the wallet in the *FRONT* pocket. Do you also tuck in your shirt, so that at the point where your skin naturally moves and stretches the most, you have the least actual flexibility and mobility? That will also mess up your body.
Atheism is the belief that there are exactly zero gods, taken with no proof, as an assumption. Monotheism is the belief that there are exactly one god, taken with no proof, as an assumption.
Both are religions -- a predetermined belief that is not subject to reconsideration, made without comparison to the truth.
Now, consider these two statements of Agnosticism: 1. We cannot tell the nature of God or Gods, and we never ever will be able to -- it is forever beyond the understand of man. 2. We cannot tell the nature of God or Gods today. At some point, we will understand what that actually means, and whether or not they exist.
One of those is a religion. The other is an acknowledgement of science and the current state of science.
I am not being a troll here. If you are thinking of modding me down for "troll", please consider this point:
Science has consistently been the question, "What is beyond ?".
We have gone from "What is beyond this region of the planet?" (when understanding that the world was round, before we understood gravity), to "what is beyond this solar system?", to "What is beyond this galaxy?", to now "What is beyond this universe?".
We are now at the point of asking if there is a multiverse, with multiple branes and a bulk; or, if there is a single uncollapsed wave function instead of the presumption of a wavefunction that collapses all the time; and if it does collapse all the time, does it only collapse once or does it collapse into multiple states, and if so, is there any way to send information from one to the other; does gravity actually go across all these universes or states; are virtual particles actually particles traveling from one brane to another; etc.
If there is a bulk, and there is a possibility of some form of awareness that exists outside this brane that can look at this brane, then what?
If this "universe" is a "black hole", and we know that black holes have their full state exposed on the surface, and some observer outside the black hole can read the state of the black hole? Not to mention that a black hole both radiates information out, and can take energy in?
We might not understand "God" today. Heck, I'd argue that we don't even have a single fixed concept behind the label. But we're trying to understand what's outside the stuff that can be detected by light. We've determined that gravity shows things that light does not; we've determined that there's strange types of mass we don't understand, as well as energy as a property of space that we don't understand. We're trying to push the limits of what we can understand, even to asking how our "black hole" / "brane" / "universe" might fit in with others -- and at the moment, using math as the tool to do so.
Religious? How about this: "The math that describes the universe will be correct, no matter how absurd the prediction it makes seems to be". So far, that has an alarmingly high correctness factor.
Kindle Fire pushed an update that broke Android File Transfer
I have a Kindle Fire, 7in, HD. Came with OS 4.5.
This was the first Kindle I had that could not just be hooked up to my Mac and appear as a drive. But in fairness, it was also my first kindle that was more than just a book reader.
Still, using Android File Transfer, it could move books onto it. No problem.
I had a chance to try out OS 5.something on the newer 6in. Decided that it wasn't worth it (this was when I was buying it -- the older generation, twice the price, 7in HD was a better buy than the cheaper, lower-quality, newer 6in). I did not like the new OS. Did not want it. And yes, that was a factor, but not the deciding factor, in getting the 7in.
Then, OS 5 was pushed on me by force. Could not undo. Called up Amazon. Was told that it was possible to revert by doing a "restore to factory settings", to put it back the way it was, and that doing so would tell the update system not to force a re-update.
Well, if I attempted to restore my backup from Amazon, that would force an upgrade to the newest OS. And attempting to revert without restoring? Still left me with the new OS.
There's no way to go back. Heck, iOS doesn't let you go back either, but last I checked, it did not force you to upgrade if you didn't want to.
The only good thing about the win10 upgrade is that you *CAN* go back. No one else lets you go back. More and more, everyone is forcing you to go forward whether you want to or not.
Gee, I'm so glad I *own* what I *bought*, and people attempting to run unauthorized code on my machine are fined and/or arrested/jailed for hacking. Oh, wait...
Ha. Back when SlashDot wasn't corporate, when the volume of articles was small enough to keep up with, when there were enough readers that actually went to the article.... Hmm, how much has/. changed?
Slashdot Mirror
Larry Niven, "A Gift from Earth", and many other stories -- "The Long ARM of the Law".
Very much worth reading. Speaks volumes about the importance of a good justice system, and not dealing harsh penalties for bad reasons.
Maybe you are not presenting your experience with proper English, but if you swiped the card and were then told to use the chip reader, that does not imply that the card has any RFID capability. It simply means that the swipe passed along enough information that the reader learned that there was also a chip.
No, I mean I passed the card in front of the screen, not inside the card reader.
The card does have those three nested arcs that look like it might be a radio signal, a wifi indicator, or some sort of transmission thingie.
Funny; guess WHICH card it was that prompted me to write in to Slashdot about this :-)
Unfortunately, all these new features come with websites that insist on them or won't work.
You really want to know problems? Play with ESR. The "long term stable" release. Major features/changes tend to land right after an ESR release.
Staying on ESR means fewer changes, no more nightly surprises, no more constantly changing interface every 6 weeks, etc.
BUT ... since major features come out the next 6 week cycle? Websites wind up using them. Suddenly, the long-term stable system becomes unable to access site after site.
And you want to use something even older? Good luck.
^^^ MOD PARENT UP ^^^
You left out the part where he had permission from the librarian to post there. And, the librarian told them of how wonderful their message board was for posting stuff.
Testing restores is tremendously important. Worse, you have to seriously test it -- live off it.
In other words, the only *Safe* way to test a backup is to put your old drive/partition aside, restore to a new drive/partition, and then work from that.
* I AM NOT JOKING *
Recently, I was having serious trouble with my Mac. The trouble had just started a few days ago. So, I restored a time machine backup. That's what time machine is for, right?
I have a script that I check occasionally, for things that somehow get flagged as "do not backup". That script is:
#!/bin/bash
mdfind "com_apple_backup_excludeItem = *backup*"
Now, you might be asking, why would I need a test like that for things that are not backed up? Because, back in 10.7, I discovered that some things that I wanted backed up would get that exclusion. Once you find something you want to backup, you can clear that flag
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ notTM
-- edit: Slashdot, means *DO NOT REFORMAT THIS*. There should be a newline here. --
-- Worse, angle-bracket space code space close-angle-bracket should not be removed, especially inside a 'do not reformat' code block. Sheesh. What's next, complaining about too many leading '>' symbols in a diff? --
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ tmutil removeexclusion '/Users/michael/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache'
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ notTM
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ ls -le@d ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State
0 drwx------@ 41 michael staff 1394 Jul 14 20:28
com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem 61
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$ xattr -l ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State
com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 5F 10 11 63 6F 6D 2E 61 |bplist00_..com.a|
00000010 70 70 6C 65 2E 62 61 63 6B 75 70 64 08 00 00 00 |pple.backupd....|
-- edit: Slashdot complained about "too many junk characters", so the last two lines of mostly zeros had to be removed, sorry. --
keybounceMBP:DigBuildLive michael$
So what happened in 10.9.5? Turns out, mdfind will not look inside of /Library. Saved Application State was not backed up.
Which meant that on restore, all the "currently open windows" and their desktop assignments were gone. So, using 5 different desktops to track the current state of 5 different projects? Gone. The "Currently being editing" files? No longer open -- I have to figure out which files are in the process of being edited. Combine that with Apple's new "We edit in place, with live auto-saves", and my "in progress edits" are now in the file system somewhere, not in an AutoSave directory.
It was a serious disaster for me. I relied on saved application state / the "transparent application lifespan" restoring.
My solution, moving forward?
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH
cd ~michael/Library/ && rsync -av --delete "Saved Application State/" "Saved Application State.old"
That gets run once an hour from cron.
And that's with Apple's Time Machine -- which is supposed to be a "Just set it and forget it, it works out of the box" "best of category" backup system.
The importance of good commenting can be seen in this winning example of C code
https://github.com/c00kiemon5t...
main(C,V)
char **V;
* understand it look it
*/ up.) (In the C Manual)
{
char _,__;
while (read(0,&__,1) & write((_=(_=C_C_(__),C)),
_C_,1)) _=C-V+subr(&V);
}
(GRR, how do you tell slashdot to NOT ALTER THE FORMATTING AT ALL!?!?)
Yes, there's more (see link). But you can clearly see the importance of comments there.
Would you please explain how to set this up?
I am one of those people who are swamped/flooded with stuff in my inbox. The 5 tabs was a good start, but it's hopelessly problematic for me -- not only does Google mis-catagorize stuff, but the classifications (social, mailing list+forums, promotions, personal notifications) doesn't match "important, scan, junk" for me.
And, something to let me categorize emails as a GTD-style sectioned to-do list? PLEASE, tell me how.
It failed a 60 person vote by 2.
So 58% of the senate is in favor of taking away your rights and privacy. On top of the court that just said you have no right of privacy.
What's worse? *I can't vote them out*. I can only vote against one person, and not for another 2 years (not up for re-election this year).
At one point, judges were supposed to be the last defense of rights against abusive congress, and the judges even gave themselves lifetime tenure to prevent political abuse. Now, the judges are not even bothering to protect the constitution, and none of the political parties is making "Protect the constitution" their rallying cry.
But it means that you think "your" computer isn't yours; that you've assumed it's reasonably likely that your computer is running hostile software. That may be true, ...
You're just two days early. Now, we've got the courts ruling that you have no expectation of privacy on your computer so the FBI can freely hack away with no warrant.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
I wish I was joking.
In 1998 the 1.4MB capacity of the floppy was already severely limiting. ...
Even my TRS-80 Model 1 was using 2.88 MB dual-sided double density 80 tracks (or pushing to 83 tracks in almost all drives).
Those disks were so loaded with data, we had to use two hands to pick them up because of the wait. Weight. Whatever.
As I recall, not only did it get upheld, but the idea that you could buy an official apple power cord, cut the end off, and use the purchased, licensed, paid-for connector to make a competing product was thrown out by the courts as infringement.
Hey, I remember when Amiga introduced HAM mode, as a "leftover". They couldn't get it to work as intended/wanted, and figured, "Well, what we have works, even if it's useless".
Hold-and-modify turned out to be a major plus for graphics back in the day when you didn't have enough memory bandwidth for real full graphics.
My internet License is dated 1982 and consisted of a usenet node on a multi-user BBS system.
If you mean a real-time IP capable machine? ... Probably around 1986 or so at home, 1982 at school. Paid for with a college education that taught me about networking and programming, as well as personal study into just how the stuff worked under the hood.
Where did we go wrong? How about my two favorite cases (NB: I don't have proper cites for either of these, can anyone help me?)
1. Because cell phones can be picked up by ordinary old televisions, clearly no one has an expectation of privacy because everyone knows that their cell phone calls are in the clear for anyone to pick up. This was back in the day when channels 63-83 were re-assigned to cell phones.
2. While a jury has the right to return "not guilty" for any reason, including abusive laws, it is not a mistrial if the jury is not informed of this right. Therefore, Judges can freely tell juries that they do not have such a right and must return "guilty" if the law technically makes the person guilty no matter how bad the law it.
3. Speaking of which, what happened to the jury trial?
there is a really simple solution, here: don't buy systems with intel processors.
The problem is, after reading about LibReboot, that AMD chips have essentially the identical issue.
Really curious: Apparently, modern intel chips cannot even work without loading microcode patches at startup; at least AMD chips aren't that buggy (they don't need microcode patches to run).
in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes
You left out Texts.
In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and text.
Here is the problem:
On Thursday, cable companies noted that they still cannot fully comply with FCC's attempt to open up the set-top box market,
Supposedly, all the big hoopla with "Cable Card" was that it would permit third party companies to provide services. So just require the companies to use this for their own boxes. If they can't? Then maybe this "Cable Card" solution wasn't a solution after all.
We have the right to record and time shift. That right was established by the supreme court back in the days of VCR tapes. These companies have a business model that is based on "Deny rights to end users".
Worse, "DVR Service" is considered something that is a $10 per month additional fee. And, if you stop paying it, it's not "You can't record more", it's "you can't even watch what you've already recorded".
What would I like to see?
1. A refund of 50% of the fees charged to customers as compensation for violating the law and rights of consumers.
2. A fine to the government for failing to obey the law.
3. A sufficiently large penalty for past violations, paid over the next several years.
4. Prohibiting a raise in rates just as a way around this.
What would be the expected results?
Why, they'd go out of business. Have to auction off all the parts of their network/setup/etc. Other companies get a chance to get started and move in.
I'm sorry. Kill off the old, and let something new start up. Mass extinction event for these abusive dinosaur companies.
So their motto used to be Do No Evil and now it's "Do No Evil"?
now it's "No, Do Evil"...
Put the word "good" in front of it, and then pretend you're The Character Formerly Known as Durkon.
"Good; do no evil" becomes
"Good? Do no. Evil."
Really? Every floppy-based OS I've used has permitted this.
Wasn't he found not guilty in the murder trial? Something about gloves not fitting?
Put the wallet in the *FRONT* pocket. Do you also tuck in your shirt, so that at the point where your skin naturally moves and stretches the most, you have the least actual flexibility and mobility? That will also mess up your body.
Atheism is the belief that there are exactly zero gods, taken with no proof, as an assumption.
Monotheism is the belief that there are exactly one god, taken with no proof, as an assumption.
Both are religions -- a predetermined belief that is not subject to reconsideration, made without comparison to the truth.
Now, consider these two statements of Agnosticism:
1. We cannot tell the nature of God or Gods, and we never ever will be able to -- it is forever beyond the understand of man.
2. We cannot tell the nature of God or Gods today. At some point, we will understand what that actually means, and whether or not they exist.
One of those is a religion. The other is an acknowledgement of science and the current state of science.
I am not being a troll here. If you are thinking of modding me down for "troll", please consider this point:
Science has consistently been the question, "What is beyond ?".
We have gone from "What is beyond this region of the planet?" (when understanding that the world was round, before we understood gravity), to "what is beyond this solar system?", to "What is beyond this galaxy?", to now "What is beyond this universe?".
We are now at the point of asking if there is a multiverse, with multiple branes and a bulk; or, if there is a single uncollapsed wave function instead of the presumption of a wavefunction that collapses all the time; and if it does collapse all the time, does it only collapse once or does it collapse into multiple states, and if so, is there any way to send information from one to the other; does gravity actually go across all these universes or states; are virtual particles actually particles traveling from one brane to another; etc.
If there is a bulk, and there is a possibility of some form of awareness that exists outside this brane that can look at this brane, then what?
If this "universe" is a "black hole", and we know that black holes have their full state exposed on the surface, and some observer outside the black hole can read the state of the black hole? Not to mention that a black hole both radiates information out, and can take energy in?
We might not understand "God" today. Heck, I'd argue that we don't even have a single fixed concept behind the label. But we're trying to understand what's outside the stuff that can be detected by light. We've determined that gravity shows things that light does not; we've determined that there's strange types of mass we don't understand, as well as energy as a property of space that we don't understand. We're trying to push the limits of what we can understand, even to asking how our "black hole" / "brane" / "universe" might fit in with others -- and at the moment, using math as the tool to do so.
Religious? How about this: "The math that describes the universe will be correct, no matter how absurd the prediction it makes seems to be". So far, that has an alarmingly high correctness factor.
Kindle Fire pushed an update that broke Android File Transfer
I have a Kindle Fire, 7in, HD. Came with OS 4.5.
This was the first Kindle I had that could not just be hooked up to my Mac and appear as a drive. But in fairness, it was also my first kindle that was more than just a book reader.
Still, using Android File Transfer, it could move books onto it. No problem.
I had a chance to try out OS 5.something on the newer 6in. Decided that it wasn't worth it (this was when I was buying it -- the older generation, twice the price, 7in HD was a better buy than the cheaper, lower-quality, newer 6in). I did not like the new OS. Did not want it. And yes, that was a factor, but not the deciding factor, in getting the 7in.
Then, OS 5 was pushed on me by force. Could not undo. Called up Amazon. Was told that it was possible to revert by doing a "restore to factory settings", to put it back the way it was, and that doing so would tell the update system not to force a re-update.
Well, if I attempted to restore my backup from Amazon, that would force an upgrade to the newest OS.
And attempting to revert without restoring? Still left me with the new OS.
There's no way to go back. Heck, iOS doesn't let you go back either, but last I checked, it did not force you to upgrade if you didn't want to.
The only good thing about the win10 upgrade is that you *CAN* go back.
No one else lets you go back.
More and more, everyone is forcing you to go forward whether you want to or not.
Gee, I'm so glad I *own* what I *bought*, and people attempting to run unauthorized code on my machine are fined and/or arrested/jailed for hacking. Oh, wait ...
Ha. Back when SlashDot wasn't corporate, when the volume of articles was small enough to keep up with, when there were enough readers that actually went to the article. ... Hmm, how much has /. changed?
http:///..com