Har! Wrong, matey. That is exactly what most of them are. I don't know too many rich people who bother to download games/movies/music. Why should they? The ones who most object to paying for a 'free' copy of something are the ones who have to work at some shite job that they can't stand doing, where they are counting every minute of every hour until they can escape from their wage slave existence.
Then how are they able to afford braodband?
For me it's more about convenient time shifting. I missed the 1st episode of the new terminator show on fox. Fox themselves don't have it for download, so I found a copy on mininova. They certainly aren't losing any money for this. I just missed watching it when it was on the cable that I pay a ludicrous amount for each month.
Show them something from FOSS that solves their particular problem more elegantly and easily than the closed (or perhaps nonexistent, better yet) solution. Otherwise, why *should* they care if what they have works well for them and causes them negligible frustration? If the free alternative doesn't do what they want, people will spend money on something else. Everyone's time, as well, has value to them. If the OSS (or the commercial, it goes both ways) takes too much time, they will look for something else, or just forgo doing that particular thing with their computer.
As a security professional who has written firewall code for a Fortune 500, I'd have no problems seeing how my 'crappy code' stacks up against anything you have written. I've also written assembler for control systems that control wind tunnels, measurement tools, and satellite and aircraft realtime stability simulation when I was earning my undergraduate Aerospace Engineering degree. Unlike you, however, we had to teach ourselves those tools. Compared to the EE (we also had to create our own circuit boards), though, the programming was pretty simple. Simple to do right, as you are blathering on about.
Really. You expect me to believe that you have to be *taught* how to properly write code? That was what the basics of english and math in GRADE SCHOOL were for. For the specifics, buy a book and learn from others who are solving the same problems.
Sorry for the lengthy flame, but attitudes from people^H^H^H^H^H^H l33t h4xx0rz like yourself whose head would probably explode if they had to derive a simple fluid dynamics or staged rocket equation have been really annoying the hell out of me lately.
The best I've met have degrees in English, Physics, Engineering, or Math. They then focused on the programming aspect as needed to create tools that helped them and their peers to streamline their work. As that focus became more of a primary job function, they honed their skills and methodology around maintainable code, version control, security, documentation, reusable modules, etc.
I'm guilty of being one of these types myself, but have since moved up to project management around security type stuff after having taught those who replaced me the things that I learned through experience.
I worked at McDonald's. So would eat a quarter pounder or two every day. I also played a lot of video games, and played with computers. But I wasn't fat. Am now, however.
Being captain of the cross country team and also in the marching band probably helped. I think 'social networks' (to include networked video games) are more to blame than just games themselves. It is much harder to pull yourself away from interaction with other people online. It's just so much easier than doing it in real life. It's that need to belong, and being in your element thing. We didn't have those electronics networks when we were younger, so getting away from the computer or game was a lot easier.
Really, communicating online is the addiction here, I think.
But the point isn't "A high quality *insert os of choice* experience". I don't want an experience. I want the damned thing to be transparent and stay out of my way!!! The same can be said of customer service. I really don't want to have an experience. I want you to solve my problem.
How is using something that your laptop connects to without any effort an analogy? If you don't want to share your connection, even just turning off broadcasting will stop legitimate clients from using you automatically (but if you took the effort to do that, you likely enabled privacy settings too).
It's pretty bad when I sit in my living room, forgetting that my 802.11 configuration was for'any' SSID and swear about WTH can't I get to my local servers?:-)
I mean, with windoze (and linux, if you set it up that way) automatically associating with any open AP that advertises, is it really stealing?
In my neighborhood, there are a number of 'belkin54' and 'linksys' APs advertising default SSIDs and networks with no privacy settings.
Now, if you log in to the device (which likely has a default password too), and change any setting, that is definitely tresspass (despite the utter lack of security). But as far as just using it goes? How can you be accused of stealing something when it is automatically just given to you when you turn your laptop on with no nefarious action whatsoever on your part? Breaking WEP keys, although easy, would be IMHO stealing. Using a wide open AP that not only allows you to connect, but encourages it? I don't think so.
But the entire point of the OLPC is education. A computer that shows you its code, so you can learn and create with it. This is entirely the opposite of EVERYTHING M$ does. Programming aside, just being able to customize how you use the damned thing is difficult in Microsoft's world. They. don't. get. it.
The crap talk for me mostly came when they took over my existing cable provider, who I had business class service with. When you are paying extra for that, and there is an issue, and you do not go straight to level 2 and have it resolved RIGHT THEN, it kind of ticks you off.
It annoyed me so much that I told comcast to put me back on their residential plan, because I wasn't getting the service that I was paying for. In addition, the transition was a complete clusterfuck, with each group at comcast not communicating with each other, let alone communicating to ME that they would make a change that nuked my service until one of their technicians could come install their own router at my place. Most frustrating customer disservice I have ever encountered.
I said "can be construed as nefarious". Remember, some people think lite brites are bombs and shut down cities when they see them hanging on a building...
I don't own a windows box. Linux boxes all boot runlevel 3. I don't like using a DM. Putting 'startx' in the login script wouldn't be too bad, I guess. How are they going to see any other accounts on my pretty framebuffer screen? I don't let *friends* use my own login, I certainly am not about to let strangers take control of it. There's nothing terrifying about logging in on my restricted account and saying "here you go, have at it.". I'm more afraid of them fucking up legitimate stuff than I am of them finding something implicating me as being a spy or terrorist. Why make that easy, or even possible?
I just moved, and decided that it would be easier to deal with transferring current comcrap than to initiate service with somebody else. I told them to move my existing service, so if they gave me something else, I'll argue and not pay....
But my bandwidth has been peaking at about 20Mbps, and averaging around 15-17 inbound, and 2-5Mbps outbound. This is up from about 8Mbps/300kbps at the previous residence. Nifty fast.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm now in a more rural area and not having to share with as many people or what, but I won't complain about it.
I don't think you'd need to encrypt anything. Your laptop won't be on when they begin their inspection, right? So add another account that you fully cooperate with them with that has access to nothing, and maybe has some default pictures and stuff for them to browse around with. Configure login script to fix whatever they screw up on that account on each login. Log into *that* one for them to do their probing. They won't have any way of knowing it isn't your main account. Heck, make that a nice self-healing account that friends can use. Bonus!
If you assume somewhat more sophisticated inspectors, you may want to put what can be construed as nefarious software (nmap, tcpdump, nessus, kismet, etc) in a more secure than normal place.
Now, if you expect the thing to be confiscated, that is a different story.
Store the music at the store you have to go to to redeem the stuff as.flac on the server. Select whatever the hell you want from the store's database. Pay sane price. Burn uncompressed music to CD that you can then re-encode whenever and however you see fit. The 'sane price' thing is the key here, mafiaa.
The music industry should simply provide that type of infrastructure to retailers. It would work for both brick and mortar as well as online. Use some intelligent method to sync between different locations to save bandwidth and storage.
It'd be a good patent, but unlikely to be anything that ever gets done.
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You should have tried OS/2 :-). Around 1998, windoze 95/98 were trying to catch up, and doing a horrible job of it. TCP/IP? What's that?
http://www.youporn.com/ (nsfw)
Then how are they able to afford braodband?
For me it's more about convenient time shifting. I missed the 1st episode of the new terminator show on fox. Fox themselves don't have it for download, so I found a copy on mininova. They certainly aren't losing any money for this. I just missed watching it when it was on the cable that I pay a ludicrous amount for each month.
Where do I sign up??
Show them something from FOSS that solves their particular problem more elegantly and easily than the closed (or perhaps nonexistent, better yet) solution. Otherwise, why *should* they care if what they have works well for them and causes them negligible frustration? If the free alternative doesn't do what they want, people will spend money on something else. Everyone's time, as well, has value to them. If the OSS (or the commercial, it goes both ways) takes too much time, they will look for something else, or just forgo doing that particular thing with their computer.
As a security professional who has written firewall code for a Fortune 500, I'd have no problems seeing how my 'crappy code' stacks up against anything you have written. I've also written assembler for control systems that control wind tunnels, measurement tools, and satellite and aircraft realtime stability simulation when I was earning my undergraduate Aerospace Engineering degree. Unlike you, however, we had to teach ourselves those tools. Compared to the EE (we also had to create our own circuit boards), though, the programming was pretty simple. Simple to do right, as you are blathering on about.
Really. You expect me to believe that you have to be *taught* how to properly write code? That was what the basics of english and math in GRADE SCHOOL were for. For the specifics, buy a book and learn from others who are solving the same problems.
Sorry for the lengthy flame, but attitudes from people^H^H^H^H^H^H l33t h4xx0rz like yourself whose head would probably explode if they had to derive a simple fluid dynamics or staged rocket equation have been really annoying the hell out of me lately.
The best I've met have degrees in English, Physics, Engineering, or Math. They then focused on the programming aspect as needed to create tools that helped them and their peers to streamline their work. As that focus became more of a primary job function, they honed their skills and methodology around maintainable code, version control, security, documentation, reusable modules, etc.
I'm guilty of being one of these types myself, but have since moved up to project management around security type stuff after having taught those who replaced me the things that I learned through experience.
I worked at McDonald's. So would eat a quarter pounder or two every day. I also played a lot of video games, and played with computers. But I wasn't fat. Am now, however.
Being captain of the cross country team and also in the marching band probably helped. I think 'social networks' (to include networked video games) are more to blame than just games themselves. It is much harder to pull yourself away from interaction with other people online. It's just so much easier than doing it in real life. It's that need to belong, and being in your element thing. We didn't have those electronics networks when we were younger, so getting away from the computer or game was a lot easier.
Really, communicating online is the addiction here, I think.
So....
In order to travel around the USA, as a citizen of that country, I need to present identification and clearance to fly?
What happens when it's no longer just airlines that require this? Show your ID to shop at the store? See a movie? Attend a sporting event?
And it was Netscape (where firefox came from, go figure) who first broke them.
But the point isn't "A high quality *insert os of choice* experience". I don't want an experience. I want the damned thing to be transparent and stay out of my way!!! The same can be said of customer service. I really don't want to have an experience. I want you to solve my problem.
How is using something that your laptop connects to without any effort an analogy? If you don't want to share your connection, even just turning off broadcasting will stop legitimate clients from using you automatically (but if you took the effort to do that, you likely enabled privacy settings too).
:-)
It's pretty bad when I sit in my living room, forgetting that my 802.11 configuration was for'any' SSID and swear about WTH can't I get to my local servers?
I mean, with windoze (and linux, if you set it up that way) automatically associating with any open AP that advertises, is it really stealing?
In my neighborhood, there are a number of 'belkin54' and 'linksys' APs advertising default SSIDs and networks with no privacy settings.
Now, if you log in to the device (which likely has a default password too), and change any setting, that is definitely tresspass (despite the utter lack of security). But as far as just using it goes? How can you be accused of stealing something when it is automatically just given to you when you turn your laptop on with no nefarious action whatsoever on your part? Breaking WEP keys, although easy, would be IMHO stealing. Using a wide open AP that not only allows you to connect, but encourages it? I don't think so.
I agree. But do you really think that M$ is going to provide a solution that does this, let alone with elegance?
But the entire point of the OLPC is education. A computer that shows you its code, so you can learn and create with it. This is entirely the opposite of EVERYTHING M$ does. Programming aside, just being able to customize how you use the damned thing is difficult in Microsoft's world. They. don't. get. it.
The crap talk for me mostly came when they took over my existing cable provider, who I had business class service with. When you are paying extra for that, and there is an issue, and you do not go straight to level 2 and have it resolved RIGHT THEN, it kind of ticks you off.
It annoyed me so much that I told comcast to put me back on their residential plan, because I wasn't getting the service that I was paying for. In addition, the transition was a complete clusterfuck, with each group at comcast not communicating with each other, let alone communicating to ME that they would make a change that nuked my service until one of their technicians could come install their own router at my place. Most frustrating customer disservice I have ever encountered.
I said "can be construed as nefarious". Remember, some people think lite brites are bombs and shut down cities when they see them hanging on a building...
I don't own a windows box. Linux boxes all boot runlevel 3. I don't like using a DM. Putting 'startx' in the login script wouldn't be too bad, I guess. How are they going to see any other accounts on my pretty framebuffer screen? I don't let *friends* use my own login, I certainly am not about to let strangers take control of it. There's nothing terrifying about logging in on my restricted account and saying "here you go, have at it.". I'm more afraid of them fucking up legitimate stuff than I am of them finding something implicating me as being a spy or terrorist. Why make that easy, or even possible?
Somewhat related.
I just moved, and decided that it would be easier to deal with transferring current comcrap than to initiate service with somebody else. I told them to move my existing service, so if they gave me something else, I'll argue and not pay....
But my bandwidth has been peaking at about 20Mbps, and averaging around 15-17 inbound, and 2-5Mbps outbound. This is up from about 8Mbps/300kbps at the previous residence. Nifty fast.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm now in a more rural area and not having to share with as many people or what, but I won't complain about it.
Damn, no mod points today :-)
I don't think you'd need to encrypt anything. Your laptop won't be on when they begin their inspection, right? So add another account that you fully cooperate with them with that has access to nothing, and maybe has some default pictures and stuff for them to browse around with. Configure login script to fix whatever they screw up on that account on each login. Log into *that* one for them to do their probing. They won't have any way of knowing it isn't your main account. Heck, make that a nice self-healing account that friends can use. Bonus!
If you assume somewhat more sophisticated inspectors, you may want to put what can be construed as nefarious software (nmap, tcpdump, nessus, kismet, etc) in a more secure than normal place.
Now, if you expect the thing to be confiscated, that is a different story.
Not just that you can get other music, but you can also find it in flac, if you so desire.
Store the music at the store you have to go to to redeem the stuff as .flac on the server. Select whatever the hell you want from the store's database. Pay sane price. Burn uncompressed music to CD that you can then re-encode whenever and however you see fit. The 'sane price' thing is the key here, mafiaa.
The music industry should simply provide that type of infrastructure to retailers. It would work for both brick and mortar as well as online. Use some intelligent method to sync between different locations to save bandwidth and storage.
It'd be a good patent, but unlikely to be anything that ever gets done.
But who says you need to use gnome or kde? Windowmaker with Rox is an awesome combination, IMNSHO.
How about designing a system that doesn't frustrate those who are trying to use it in the first place?