If they are trying to get a little more orginazation into the shipwreck we now call the web, that's not such a bad thing. I think charging businesses more money for something (a.biz) that they probably dont even want won't encourage anything other then a good laugh from a CFO and a web team.
"Should we get a.com which is commercially viable or should we take a risk and be one of the first.biz's (which might not even take off) for 2 G's more?" "I dont remember that question on the MCSE exam..." "Me Ted"
Being a newbie to linux I'm most of the way through "Running Linux" published by O'Reilly
It's a great book, very readable, and is really good at explaining a lot of nuances in a concise and easy to understand way. It's also really good for reference. It's in it's third edition, last published in Aug 1999. I highly reccomend it to anyone ready to bust into Linux.
Regardless of what their opinions are you have to assume that it doesn't matter. The only thing the president will push for > endorse > sign are the bills and policies his largest constituates (Corporations) demand.
We all know the marriage between corporations and politics so I'll stop trolling now.
Regardless of what their opinions are you have to assume that it doesn't matter. The only thing the president will push for > endorse > sign are the bills and policies his largest constituates (Corporations) demand.
We all know the marriage between corporations and politics so I'll stop trolling now.
German media giant Bertelsmann, parent of music label BMG, has announced an alliance with Napster. Bertelsmann will provide money for Napster to change to a pay service in return for equity in the company, and will make its catalogue of artists legally downloadable.
Besides the obvious "this-is-the-end-of-Napster-as-we-know-it" what could this mean for the other p2p programs? I'll tell you. The RIAA police (aka FBI) will continue to confiscate computers, continue to violate civil rights and continue to criminalize file sharing. As long as IP laws are written by content providers we're just gonna get fucked harder and harder and harder...
Believe it or not, I'd rather pay $20 a month (hypothetical number) then have to worry about the RIAA police (aka FBI) bust down my door for trafficking mp3's. $20 a month is as high as I would be willing to pay btw
IMO it's a better alternative the dark ages of mp3 collecting; surfing web page after web page of mp3 containing broken link after broken link.
I didn't even read the entire byte article with exception to the first page. It read like one of those "Intel-Doesn't-Want-You-To-Know-" articles. Scuze me while I yawn.
This is an excerpt from Tom's Hardware What is 'micro code update'? Well, all of Intel's 6th-generation processors have a little area that can store some software ('micro code') to deal with processor bugs right inside the CPU. Usually the motherboard BIOS loads this software into the processor right after boot-up. Each time Intel finds a new bug they try to create a new little software patch that is called 'micro code update'. These 'micro code updates' make the processor more reliable, but they always cost a bit of performance, because they basically turn off some internal features. Let's go find a conspiracy somewhere else.
The study surveyed the opinions and online habits of 2,096 respondents --
Last I heard there were more then 2,096 people in the US that use the internet. But I'll agree that these people are confirming what we already know about the internet.
66.9% of Americans use the Net; 54.6% use e-mail. More than 86% of Americans with college degrees use the Net regularly; 78.7% of adults say children in their households...
Now maybe I shouldn't have cut all my sociology classes in college but the sameple used doesn't seem to represent "America". I bring this up despite the fact that it confirms everything I know but someone who doesn't know any better would say, "How does 2096 people's opinions represent the country at large? Maybe if it was 2096 people from each state, or each time zone or each demographic, or..." Wait a sec, if they were smart enough to ask a question like that they should be smart enough to already know the results really are representitive of the truth... fuck it.
If you toss in the other five, life and the structure of the universe as we know it become unlikely to an absurd degree
Lets not forget the distinction between improbable and impossible. Yeah those six numbers say that for everything to work out as they have, a lot of things have to align correctly and the chances of that happening are astronical. The universe is old. In its being old its very possible that a lot of those permutations of those six numbers have already happened and more yet are inevitable somewhere else in the universe as well as here. The bottom line is given enough time, anything can happen. Or in this case, with those six numbers, it did. If you must have an analogy here's one. I drive to work every day. I am a really good driver. Despite me being a good driver it is statistically inevtiable that I will get into an accident.
I don't see it as an issue of "hacker ethic" or "script kiddie mentality". More like, there's always someone responsible for this machine. More likely then not he's a lot like me. If he was cool to me by doing it, and then telling me the hows and whys I'd buy him a beer and maybe even call him a friend. But maybe by my doing it for him he'll turn around and do it for someone else cause then he knows. This is morality and ethos, not policy and/or responsibility. See what I mean?
The ability to misuse a tool for malignant reasons exist in any aspect of our existence. I'm not just talking about tools that make me a usefull admin. Chainsaws, spray paints, hardware tools (hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, etc) were all created to serve a usefull purpose but they're not regulated or outlawed but if you wanted to you seriously hurt people with em you could. Is it any easier/harder to ddos ebay and yahoo then it is to buy a chainsaw or a nailgun from Home Depot and go to town?
My point is that it's easy to misuse a tool to do harm and piss people off but it should at least be clear that outlawing it is not the answer.
Until the mainstream stops associating hacking/cracking with criminal behavior we'll still have to live in fear of helping people by trying to tell them how to plug their holes.
Hopefully those couple of white hats in the news stories we've seen lately will help push the movement forward but until then every time you tell someone that you comprimised their system you're running the risk of being cavity searched by the FBI for the PDA that you did it on.
Don't be so pessimistic... If the forking is truly inevitable then it's possible for a consortium to form, converge and drive the innovation forward. The industry proved a model like this is possible with the formation of groups like ASCII, JEDEC, IEEE and a bunch of others with even more arcane acronyms.
Yeah, I know everyone is about 100x more litigous then back in "those days" but I don't think it can go on like this forever.
I knew you could... Try to examine the popularity ( I use the term loosely ) of Abandonware to find the answer to whether or not new games are as fun as the old ones. Is it intertia/nostalgia that keeps interest in old games? The problem is that whether or not new games are as good as their Abandonware brethren is too subjective a question. Ask my little brother and he'll say StarCraft is the best game ever made. I say that starcraft has spoiled him and that some of the old Sid Meier (sp?) games would change his mind. Personally I'm a CS addict and yet this past weekend I just finished Monkey Island 2 for the 1000th time.
Ask yourself if new games "do it" for you but don't assume your opinion represents the gaming community no matter how many ppl agree with you.
I personally don't recall anyone questioning Red Hats commitment to open source which is all that he really addressed. What he didn't address was the fact that some claims about shady practices were directed towards Red Hat. Is this really anything more then market(ing) speak?
That kinda sucks... even though the Allies cracked the code (I think) before the machine was stolen the first time it's kind of a shame that a Brit is willing to destroy one of the artifacts that prob saved his way of life from being wiped off the face of the earth. I mean, if Enigma wouldn't have been cracked (or stolen) the UK would have been pushed closer to the brink of destruction then it was.
Message to Enigma Owner: Have some respect for what your parents fought for and give the friggin thing back!
Could it be that Dick Armey is a legit politician? Oxymorons aside, I like seeing someone in gov't questioning this obvious conflict of interest. I read something about how someone needs security clearance in order to be considered for a project like this but still. One of those schmos was a contributor to the Clinton campaign (and not a nickel/dime contributor either)! It's obvious the FBI has an agenda to serve by giving the job to IIT. What's wrong with MIT and a hardcore NDA??
Does anyone else wonder if this could be a prelude towards MS's penetration into Linux? If you think about it, MS will test the linux waters with an office suite and if it gets enough attention (notice I left out good or bad?) that corporate penguin Taco uses won't be so funny anymore.
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If they are trying to get a little more orginazation into the shipwreck we now call the web, that's not such a bad thing. I think charging businesses more money for something (a .biz) that they probably dont even want won't encourage anything other then a good laugh from a CFO and a web team.
.com which is commercially viable or should we take a risk and be one of the first .biz's (which might not even take off) for 2 G's more?"
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"I dont remember that question on the MCSE exam..."
"Me Ted"
If it aint broke, fix it till it is (broken)
Being a newbie to linux I'm most of the way through "Running Linux" published by O'Reilly
It's a great book, very readable, and is really good at explaining a lot of nuances in a concise and easy to understand way. It's also really good for reference. It's in it's third edition, last published in Aug 1999. I highly reccomend it to anyone ready to bust into Linux.
Regardless of what their opinions are you have to assume that it doesn't matter. The only thing the president will push for > endorse > sign are the bills and policies his largest constituates (Corporations) demand. We all know the marriage between corporations and politics so I'll stop trolling now.
constituates = constituents
Regardless of what their opinions are you have to assume that it doesn't matter. The only thing the president will push for > endorse > sign are the bills and policies his largest constituates (Corporations) demand.
We all know the marriage between corporations and politics so I'll stop trolling now.
German media giant Bertelsmann, parent of music label BMG, has announced an alliance with Napster. Bertelsmann will provide money for Napster to change to a pay service in return for equity in the company, and will make its catalogue of artists legally downloadable.
Besides the obvious "this-is-the-end-of-Napster-as-we-know-it" what could this mean for the other p2p programs? I'll tell you. The RIAA police (aka FBI) will continue to confiscate computers, continue to violate civil rights and continue to criminalize file sharing. As long as IP laws are written by content providers we're just gonna get fucked harder and harder and harder...
Believe it or not, I'd rather pay $20 a month (hypothetical number) then have to worry about the RIAA police (aka FBI) bust down my door for trafficking mp3's. $20 a month is as high as I would be willing to pay btw
IMO it's a better alternative the dark ages of mp3 collecting; surfing web page after web page of mp3 containing broken link after broken link.
I didn't even read the entire byte article with exception to the first page. It read like one of those "Intel-Doesn't-Want-You-To-Know-" articles. Scuze me while I yawn.
This is an excerpt from Tom's Hardware
What is 'micro code update'? Well, all of Intel's 6th-generation processors have a little area that can store some software ('micro code') to deal with processor bugs right inside the CPU. Usually the motherboard BIOS loads this software into the processor right after boot-up. Each time Intel finds a new bug they try to create a new little software patch that is called 'micro code update'. These 'micro code updates' make the processor more reliable, but they always cost a bit of performance, because they basically turn off some internal features.
Let's go find a conspiracy somewhere else.
The study surveyed the opinions and online habits of 2,096 respondents --
Last I heard there were more then 2,096 people in the US that use the internet. But I'll agree that these people are confirming what we already know about the internet.
66.9% of Americans use the Net; 54.6% use e-mail. More than 86% of Americans with college degrees use the Net regularly; 78.7% of adults say children in their households...
Now maybe I shouldn't have cut all my sociology classes in college but the sameple used doesn't seem to represent "America". I bring this up despite the fact that it confirms everything I know but someone who doesn't know any better would say, "How does 2096 people's opinions represent the country at large? Maybe if it was 2096 people from each state, or each time zone or each demographic, or..." Wait a sec, if they were smart enough to ask a question like that they should be smart enough to already know the results really are representitive of the truth... fuck it.
"Hmmmm, mechanical bull or pong?"
If you toss in the other five, life and the structure of the universe as we know it become unlikely to an absurd degree
Lets not forget the distinction between improbable and impossible. Yeah those six numbers say that for everything to work out as they have, a lot of things have to align correctly and the chances of that happening are astronical. The universe is old. In its being old its very possible that a lot of those permutations of those six numbers have already happened and more yet are inevitable somewhere else in the universe as well as here. The bottom line is given enough time, anything can happen. Or in this case, with those six numbers, it did.
If you must have an analogy here's one. I drive to work every day. I am a really good driver. Despite me being a good driver it is statistically inevtiable that I will get into an accident.
I don't see it as an issue of "hacker ethic" or "script kiddie mentality". More like, there's always someone responsible for this machine. More likely then not he's a lot like me. If he was cool to me by doing it, and then telling me the hows and whys I'd buy him a beer and maybe even call him a friend. But maybe by my doing it for him he'll turn around and do it for someone else cause then he knows. This is morality and ethos, not policy and/or responsibility. See what I mean?
:)
Yeah yeah, I know, peace love and flower-power.
I don't agree with you. Here's why:
The ability to misuse a tool for malignant reasons exist in any aspect of our existence. I'm not just talking about tools that make me a usefull admin. Chainsaws, spray paints, hardware tools (hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, etc) were all created to serve a usefull purpose but they're not regulated or outlawed but if you wanted to you seriously hurt people with em you could. Is it any easier/harder to ddos ebay and yahoo then it is to buy a chainsaw or a nailgun from Home Depot and go to town?
My point is that it's easy to misuse a tool to do harm and piss people off but it should at least be clear that outlawing it is not the answer.
Until the mainstream stops associating hacking/cracking with criminal behavior we'll still have to live in fear of helping people by trying to tell them how to plug their holes.
Hopefully those couple of white hats in the news stories we've seen lately will help push the movement forward but until then every time you tell someone that you comprimised their system you're running the risk of being cavity searched by the FBI for the PDA that you did it on.
...once they open source my tuition.
Don't be so pessimistic... If the forking is truly inevitable then it's possible for a consortium to form, converge and drive the innovation forward. The industry proved a model like this is possible with the formation of groups like ASCII, JEDEC, IEEE and a bunch of others with even more arcane acronyms.
:)
Yeah, I know everyone is about 100x more litigous then back in "those days" but I don't think it can go on like this forever.
Is this off topic or what??
Are you saying that forking of the X86 architecture and software written for it is inevitable?
A Match made in heaven. A whole episode can be watched in 10 minutes.
I knew you could... Try to examine the popularity ( I use the term loosely ) of Abandonware to find the answer to whether or not new games are as fun as the old ones. Is it intertia/nostalgia that keeps interest in old games? The problem is that whether or not new games are as good as their Abandonware brethren is too subjective a question. Ask my little brother and he'll say StarCraft is the best game ever made. I say that starcraft has spoiled him and that some of the old Sid Meier (sp?) games would change his mind. Personally I'm a CS addict and yet this past weekend I just finished Monkey Island 2 for the 1000th time.
Ask yourself if new games "do it" for you but don't assume your opinion represents the gaming community no matter how many ppl agree with you.
I personally don't recall anyone questioning Red Hats commitment to open source which is all that he really addressed. What he didn't address was the fact that some claims about shady practices were directed towards Red Hat. Is this really anything more then market(ing) speak?
That kinda sucks... even though the Allies cracked the code (I think) before the machine was stolen the first time it's kind of a shame that a Brit is willing to destroy one of the artifacts that prob saved his way of life from being wiped off the face of the earth. I mean, if Enigma wouldn't have been cracked (or stolen) the UK would have been pushed closer to the brink of destruction then it was.
Message to Enigma Owner: Have some respect for what your parents fought for and give the friggin thing back!
I'm a newbie so take it easy on me but didn't Slackware get most of you guys goin?
Could it be that Dick Armey is a legit politician? Oxymorons aside, I like seeing someone in gov't questioning this obvious conflict of interest. I read something about how someone needs security clearance in order to be considered for a project like this but still. One of those schmos was a contributor to the Clinton campaign (and not a nickel/dime contributor either)! It's obvious the FBI has an agenda to serve by giving the job to IIT. What's wrong with MIT and a hardcore NDA??
Does anyone else wonder if this could be a prelude towards MS's penetration into Linux?
If you think about it, MS will test the linux waters with an office suite and if it gets enough attention (notice I left out good or bad?) that corporate penguin Taco uses won't be so funny anymore.
Chapter U: It's not wrong if we do it. Chapter V: If it is indeed wrong, litigate, litigate and obfiscate then litigate some more.