The BBC are proposing to make recent scheduled programs available using their own p2p client.
Also, although supposedly a community project, Fedora is still run by RedHat who make bittorrents available for their ISO releases. I'm sure other distros are available this way too, although I don't know if the torrents are actually seeded by the distro compilers themselves. Can anyone shed any light?
It's nothing like that at all because there is clear and evident damage being caused to her.
How is copying a game that can't be bought damaging the copyright holder?
How would they be any better off if you didn't copy it?
Stealing 10,000 CDs is damaging to a company. Downloading them and continuing to buy the CDs you'd have bought anyway means they are not losing anything.
on the moral side of things, you're not depriving them of any money because there's no way for you to buy the game from them.
That's similar to the argument that downloading 10,000 songs when you are broke is costing the industry $30,000 (I don't know how much cd singles cost, I only buy vinyl), clearly it's not because the money for them was never there in the first place, and as it's a copy there is no product being stolen.
We just got a new housemate who works for our local cable supplier (hello half price broadband!). After setting up a Linux router / fileserver and LAN, the first thing I did was insist he install FirefoxBirdEonix, AVG, and Adaware, cleaned all the trojans and dialers off his machine and set up XP auto-update (yeuch.. but if he's going to have XP's 'lovely' new features, they may as well be to date).
Regarding my folks PC, they live in Ireland, although I'm in the UK, and after many a long tech support call, I'm seriously considering putting Fedora on their box, setting them up a webmail account on my server (spamassassin, clamav, several DNSRBLs), and installing Firebird, OO.o, some basic utils (GPDF etc), and locking down the desktop as much as possible.
That way, if they want stuff installing they can just mail me, and it's 2 mins with apt-rpm to set up whatever they want (I'm online about 12 hours a day on weekdays anyway).
In the mean time, there's far less chance of them breaking things with a mis-click here and there, and far less maintenance required because no more trojan cleanup is required, and my younger brother and sister are pretty much completely protected from porn spam.
That's a scam. If you've received a mail from them saying someone is doing a search on you (and it'll show up on their 'free search') then just chuck it away.
They still provide Linux boxes. I've got an RH7.3 box from them and it's just dandy thanks.
They offer a wider range of *nix (Linux and FreeBSD) servers than Windows servers. Granted the Windows servers are more prominent on the homepage but that's hardly a crime is it?
"What's your point? One's a continent and one's a country dumbass. I bet Asia has more people online than the USA too."
RTFC, 60% of spam comes from the US, but there are more computers outside the US than inside, that means that the claim that the US is only so high because it has so many computers is provably wrong.
I haven't had a TV license for the last year. I rang them up, told them I would only be using my TV for consoles and DVDs and they said that was fine, that I should just detune the TV so that it wouldn't pick up any TV channels without retuning, even though the aerial would be unplugged.
He is in this case specifying a very rapid attack / failure, he talks about an attack lasting seconds.
I've seen large scale well organised backup programs fail before too, but if we're talking about credit card companies then surely we can expect that they'll at least have some sort of backup validation in place.
I guess my main point is that he outlines a doomsday scenario of systematic failures of a whole raft of different systems that to me seems like pure fantasy.
I'm sorry, I couldn't finish the article, it was just pissing me off too much.
This guy is utterly clueless, I mean look at this:
Five factors distinguish the digital Pearl Harbor from the virus attacks we've suffered to date.
First, it disrupts backup systems. Fragile networks heretofore have been mitigated largely with backup. Disrupt that and badness follows.
Second, it leads to cascading failures. All of those massively inconvenient attacks people previously referred to as Pearl Harbors pile up. Due to the loss of backup, corporate earnings data is irretrievably lost. This panics Wall Street and destabilizes the financial sector.
OK, a couple of things. First, "it disrupts backup systems". Riiiight. So this Flaw in 'the internet infrastructure' can also get to tape backups in safes? OH NOS!!!1!
Second, "it leads to cascading failures. All of those massively inconvenient attacks people previously referred to as Pearl Harbors pile up."
"it attacks the Internet infrastructure--such as domain name servers and routers--and industrial systems connected to the Internet, like utility control systems.". I'm sorry but if someone connects utility control systems to the net then they are the ones who should be strung up.
The point is that bugs aren't a risk to 'national security', they are a big problem, and will be very costly to business I'm sure, but an attack or accident that has a serious detrimental effect on peoples lives, caused by security holes just shouldn't be possible.
This important infrastructure should not be connected to a fundamentally insecure network, and if you're looking for scapegoats, they should be those who allow that sort of level of insecurity. Look at that power station that got Blaster...
I think perhaps the image of a demon wearing a turban could be offensive to people who wear turbans.
They might feel they were being 'daemonised'
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It covers everything in the PHP5 spec up to about a month and a half ago I think. Had to have a peek inside though, because the cover says it covers 4.x, which is clearly a misprint because it's got all the new OO stuff, SQL Lite and simpleXML stuff in there.
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The BBC are proposing to make recent scheduled programs available using their own p2p client.
Also, although supposedly a community project, Fedora is still run by RedHat who make bittorrents available for their ISO releases. I'm sure other distros are available this way too, although I don't know if the torrents are actually seeded by the distro compilers themselves. Can anyone shed any light?
The critical mass will come from Linux making it's way into business then into the home office. Then It'll be worth developers releasing for Linux.
Score:+1, Miaow!
Fuck you.
It's nothing like that at all because there is clear and evident damage being caused to her.
How is copying a game that can't be bought damaging the copyright holder?
How would they be any better off if you didn't copy it?
Stealing 10,000 CDs is damaging to a company. Downloading them and continuing to buy the CDs you'd have bought anyway means they are not losing anything.
Twat.
Indeed, however the fact that you also need XP to connect to help them is somewhat *special*.
I used to run VNC on their box, but it's pretty slow (they're on dialup), so I was talking about ssh.
And please don't even think about telling me how you can do that with XP's command line, that's not a useful tool at all.
on the moral side of things, you're not depriving them of any money because there's no way for you to buy the game from them.
That's similar to the argument that downloading 10,000 songs when you are broke is costing the industry $30,000 (I don't know how much cd singles cost, I only buy vinyl), clearly it's not because the money for them was never there in the first place, and as it's a copy there is no product being stolen.
heh.. jinx! see below :)
We just got a new housemate who works for our local cable supplier (hello half price broadband!). After setting up a Linux router / fileserver and LAN, the first thing I did was insist he install FirefoxBirdEonix, AVG, and Adaware, cleaned all the trojans and dialers off his machine and set up XP auto-update (yeuch.. but if he's going to have XP's 'lovely' new features, they may as well be to date).
:)
Regarding my folks PC, they live in Ireland, although I'm in the UK, and after many a long tech support call, I'm seriously considering putting Fedora on their box, setting them up a webmail account on my server (spamassassin, clamav, several DNSRBLs), and installing Firebird, OO.o, some basic utils (GPDF etc), and locking down the desktop as much as possible.
That way, if they want stuff installing they can just mail me, and it's 2 mins with apt-rpm to set up whatever they want (I'm online about 12 hours a day on weekdays anyway).
In the mean time, there's far less chance of them breaking things with a mis-click here and there, and far less maintenance required because no more trojan cleanup is required, and my younger brother and sister are pretty much completely protected from porn spam.
I'm seriously tempted
I run gnome 2.4 on an athlon 800 with 384 meg ram, and it's pretty slow to be honest.
I know that's not a particularly up to date processor, but it's not that uncommon for home users.
If you're not trolling, it scares me that someone intelligent enough to sign up for a website is capable of holding such an opinion.
That's a scam. If you've received a mail from them saying someone is doing a search on you (and it'll show up on their 'free search') then just chuck it away.
Unfortunately money is everything when it comes to companies... It's all about shareholder value :(
*None have been filed yet
*It says "with two *suits more* likely." NOT "with two *more suits* likely."
Have you tried actually looking at their site?
They still provide Linux boxes. I've got an RH7.3 box from them and it's just dandy thanks.
They offer a wider range of *nix (Linux and FreeBSD) servers than Windows servers. Granted the Windows servers are more prominent on the homepage but that's hardly a crime is it?
Number of online computers in the US Number of online computers in the rest of the world.
I don't see what IPs has to do with it.
"What's your point? One's a continent and one's a country dumbass. I bet Asia has more people online than the USA too."
RTFC, 60% of spam comes from the US, but there are more computers outside the US than inside, that means that the claim that the US is only so high because it has so many computers is provably wrong.
The VM isn't the problem, it's the API code. Which is why the GNU Classpath project is so important.
Not true.
I haven't had a TV license for the last year. I rang them up, told them I would only be using my TV for consoles and DVDs and they said that was fine, that I should just detune the TV so that it wouldn't pick up any TV channels without retuning, even though the aerial would be unplugged.
So I did, no problem.
so good.
so very very good
god yes...
I've been ranting about freevibe to anyone who'd listen for years, it's atrocious..
there aren't :)
Sure. Sorry I did over-simplify in my rage ;)
He is in this case specifying a very rapid attack / failure, he talks about an attack lasting seconds.
I've seen large scale well organised backup programs fail before too, but if we're talking about credit card companies then surely we can expect that they'll at least have some sort of backup validation in place.
I guess my main point is that he outlines a doomsday scenario of systematic failures of a whole raft of different systems that to me seems like pure fantasy.
I'm sorry, I couldn't finish the article, it was just pissing me off too much.
This guy is utterly clueless, I mean look at this:
Five factors distinguish the digital Pearl Harbor from the virus attacks we've suffered to date.
First, it disrupts backup systems. Fragile networks heretofore have been mitigated largely with backup. Disrupt that and badness follows.
Second, it leads to cascading failures. All of those massively inconvenient attacks people previously referred to as Pearl Harbors pile up. Due to the loss of backup, corporate earnings data is irretrievably lost. This panics Wall Street and destabilizes the financial sector.
OK, a couple of things. First, "it disrupts backup systems". Riiiight. So this Flaw in 'the internet infrastructure' can also get to tape backups in safes? OH NOS!!!1!
Second, "it leads to cascading failures. All of those massively inconvenient attacks people previously referred to as Pearl Harbors pile up."
"it attacks the Internet infrastructure--such as domain name servers and routers--and industrial systems connected to the Internet, like utility control systems.". I'm sorry but if someone connects utility control systems to the net then they are the ones who should be strung up.
The point is that bugs aren't a risk to 'national security', they are a big problem, and will be very costly to business I'm sure, but an attack or accident that has a serious detrimental effect on peoples lives, caused by security holes just shouldn't be possible.
This important infrastructure should not be connected to a fundamentally insecure network, and if you're looking for scapegoats, they should be those who allow that sort of level of insecurity. Look at that power station that got Blaster...
I think perhaps the image of a demon wearing a turban could be offensive to people who wear turbans.
They might feel they were being 'daemonised'
It covers everything in the PHP5 spec up to about a month and a half ago I think. Had to have a peek inside though, because the cover says it covers 4.x, which is clearly a misprint because it's got all the new OO stuff, SQL Lite and simpleXML stuff in there.
on amazon.