By the way, most stores use 200-500$ cameras that the resolution isn't good enough to see an on screen password
I don't think most people who use public computers and put their passwords through them are extremely concerned about them. Why would they need a camera to see your password when they can just log the keystrokes?
Ridiculous bid for attention? What? All AI reports read like this. They cricize human rights violations no matter who it is or the situation. Their job as they've set it out for themselves is to defend human rights and this article is a fair criticism of US companies (Nortel and Cisco are also mentioned but slashdot was good enough to not mention them) that make a good deal of money building censor networks in other countries.
How would you feel if they were building those networks of censorship here?
I mean come on. Yes yes, evil monopoly out to make money and their products are being used by people to violate human rights. Well, given China's iffy record on copyright enforcement, are is anyone even sure MS got paid for those products?
MS may have a lot of problems, but I don't know how they are supposed to know a priori that certain software they sell is going to be used for human rights violations. And frankly, I think the software would be pirated even if they refused to sell it.
I ran the -ck patches to 2.4 (they have a backported pre-empt, O(1), and low latency) before moving to 2.6. The -ck patches were noticably faster than vanilla 2.4 but 2.6 still crushes them on boot. 2.6 also seems a hair more responsive than 2.4-ck but I expected that.
And I've never used a vendor kernel beyond booting the system and downloading/compiling my own.
I fixed your quote. The section you forgot is in bold:)
Unless we invent a new type of microchip that doesn't depend on semiconductor facilities offshore, we're probably only going to kick ass in countries without access to EMP technology.
So the article doesn't really cover the issue I'm most curious about - are the x86-64 extensions (yamhill) compatable with AMD's Opteron or will they require different 64-bit binaries?
Portage works fine until it doesn't Yes, but this is true of every distro. I ran debian unstable and it broke fairly often. Granted not majorly, but there were times when dpkg would break or the netstack would break and it became extremely difficult to fix.
I haven't had any issues with gentoo until I recently moved to ~x86 which has introduced a few new bugs but thats what happens running the bleeding edge:).
That implies that they are my principles which they very clearly aren't. I'm not interested in the semantic differences between the BSD license and GPL and I don't care if this driver is propreitary provided it continues to be produced. If it stops being produced, I'll take my money elsewhere and Nvidia knows that. I bought a GF4 explcitly because of Nvidia's linux driver and if I need another card, it would likely be an Nvidia (thought I don't like the massive sink on the newer cards).
Just because they're your principle's doesn't mean everyone else subscribes to them.
I looked at all the distros and kicked the tires. Gentoo is promising, but not mature enough (portage needs some work and not just technical). Slackware, well, I started with Slackware and I just can't go back. Debian (stable mind you) takes a little getting used to, but it's heart is in the right place and I look forward to being a contributing member of the community.
Its strange you should mention that as I went the other way. I used debian for 4 years on all of my machines. I got tired of upgrading all of them everyday so they (all but one) run slackware with dropline. My main machine now runs gentoo as I find it a much better fit for my needs. And if I get nostaligic I can just emerge dpkg:). Oh and I find portage just fine.:)
Do you plan on, at some point in the future, being old and collecting welfare through Medicare/Social Security? No? Oh.
I have no illusions that Social Security will be there by the time I'm ready to retire (July 2047). I'm planing on being old but I'm certainly not naive enough to believe that there will be a dime left in Social Security at that point.
And by posting such an article in its entirety you go and do everyone a disservice by violating the copyright on the article. Actions like this hurt the cause and make it harder to get any sort of postive change concerning this copyright mess.
... if there is a "political" portal similar to slashdot? The YRO section and posts like this are great and such, but I would occasionally like to read news about politics that are not directly linked to tech thingy-mah-bob's.
That and I need another site to read besides slashdot...
US distros would still not be able to distribute it because of the DMCA (CSS may not be a trade secret, but the movies are still copyrighted, and therefore covered).
Presumably that would be because DeCSS is a "circumvention device" to a copyright scheme. But how well does that argument hold up? CSS really doesn't prevent someone from copying the copywritten content on the disc (one could just make a copy of the disc, CSS scrambled et all).
Then again I'm not on the side of the "evil" corporations. I'm the "I bought the damn DVD and I want to watch it in Linux too" side.
Umm, yes. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 come to mind. They decay for a very, very long time.
And beyond the pollution issue there is the fact that fusion produces more energy than fission per the amount of mass (I think; its been a very long time since physics).
That and we have easy access to a great fusion reactor. Its that big bright thing:).
Its a valid statement. Fusion reactors require more energy to run than is produced in the reaction.
I don't know how a helium 3 reactor works, but it probably requires more energy to start the reaction than is produced by the reaction. Hopefully that will change.
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By the way, most stores use 200-500$ cameras that the resolution isn't good enough to see an on screen password
I don't think most people who use public computers and put their passwords through them are extremely concerned about them. Why would they need a camera to see your password when they can just log the keystrokes?
Umm, perhaps I'm being dense but where is this list? Or was that just to make a point? :)
Yeah, that guy's a troll. He's been posting that flamebait on article after article. Mod him down and move along ... :)
Ridiculous bid for attention? What? All AI reports read like this. They cricize human rights violations no matter who it is or the situation. Their job as they've set it out for themselves is to defend human rights and this article is a fair criticism of US companies (Nortel and Cisco are also mentioned but slashdot was good enough to not mention them) that make a good deal of money building censor networks in other countries.
How would you feel if they were building those networks of censorship here?
I mean come on. Yes yes, evil monopoly out to make money and their products are being used by people to violate human rights. Well, given China's iffy record on copyright enforcement, are is anyone even sure MS got paid for those products?
MS may have a lot of problems, but I don't know how they are supposed to know a priori that certain software they sell is going to be used for human rights violations. And frankly, I think the software would be pirated even if they refused to sell it.
I ran the -ck patches to 2.4 (they have a backported pre-empt, O(1), and low latency) before moving to 2.6. The -ck patches were noticably faster than vanilla 2.4 but 2.6 still crushes them on boot. 2.6 also seems a hair more responsive than 2.4-ck but I expected that.
And I've never used a vendor kernel beyond booting the system and downloading/compiling my own.
I think you're being sarcastic but just to make sure: you have a SSN right? :)
I fixed your quote. The section you forgot is in bold :)
Unless we invent a new type of microchip that doesn't depend on semiconductor facilities offshore, we're probably only going to kick ass in countries without access to EMP technology.
So the article doesn't really cover the issue I'm most curious about - are the x86-64 extensions (yamhill) compatable with AMD's Opteron or will they require different 64-bit binaries?
bah.. /. needs a "+1, Cynical Bastard" mod.
:)
I believe its called "insightful"
Perhaps if you read the thread instead of making an ass of yourself. Its a not a server; its a workstation - my desktop.
And no, I wasn't suprised when it broke; I just got tired of it. Try reading; it'll get you places.
Portage works fine until it doesn't
:).
Yes, but this is true of every distro. I ran debian unstable and it broke fairly often. Granted not majorly, but there were times when dpkg would break or the netstack would break and it became extremely difficult to fix.
I haven't had any issues with gentoo until I recently moved to ~x86 which has introduced a few new bugs but thats what happens running the bleeding edge
ignore your principles
That implies that they are my principles which they very clearly aren't. I'm not interested in the semantic differences between the BSD license and GPL and I don't care if this driver is propreitary provided it continues to be produced. If it stops being produced, I'll take my money elsewhere and Nvidia knows that. I bought a GF4 explcitly because of Nvidia's linux driver and if I need another card, it would likely be an Nvidia (thought I don't like the massive sink on the newer cards).
Just because they're your principle's doesn't mean everyone else subscribes to them.
I looked at all the distros and kicked the tires. Gentoo is promising, but not mature enough (portage needs some work and not just technical). Slackware, well, I started with Slackware and I just can't go back. Debian (stable mind you) takes a little getting used to, but it's heart is in the right place and I look forward to being a contributing member of the community.
:). Oh and I find portage just fine. :)
Its strange you should mention that as I went the other way. I used debian for 4 years on all of my machines. I got tired of upgrading all of them everyday so they (all but one) run slackware with dropline. My main machine now runs gentoo as I find it a much better fit for my needs. And if I get nostaligic I can just emerge dpkg
I see management giving all their employee's one of these. Well, right after the little shock module is released for it.
... *ZAP*
"Slashdoting again?!"
Umm, both my slackware and gentoo boxes have a full man page for cp. Apparently they're from the fileutils package.
I'd suggest everyone load up the funny-manpages and asr-manpages if you're bored.
man lart
Do you plan on, at some point in the future, being old and collecting welfare through Medicare/Social Security? No? Oh.
I have no illusions that Social Security will be there by the time I'm ready to retire (July 2047). I'm planing on being old but I'm certainly not naive enough to believe that there will be a dime left in Social Security at that point.
And by posting such an article in its entirety you go and do everyone a disservice by violating the copyright on the article. Actions like this hurt the cause and make it harder to get any sort of postive change concerning this copyright mess.
... if there is a "political" portal similar to slashdot? The YRO section and posts like this are great and such, but I would occasionally like to read news about politics that are not directly linked to tech thingy-mah-bob's.
...
That and I need another site to read besides slashdot
I couldn't do that to my (not yet existing) children. I mean what would they think?
..." *tear*
"Dad, I got a B on my History exam because I couldn't spell President Wojciechowski. How could you vote for him!?!"
"Son, I'm so sorry
That wasn't a temple; it was an IO tower ... I thought that was clear ...
US distros would still not be able to distribute it because of the DMCA (CSS may not be a trade secret, but the movies are still copyrighted, and therefore covered).
Presumably that would be because DeCSS is a "circumvention device" to a copyright scheme. But how well does that argument hold up? CSS really doesn't prevent someone from copying the copywritten content on the disc (one could just make a copy of the disc, CSS scrambled et all).
Then again I'm not on the side of the "evil" corporations. I'm the "I bought the damn DVD and I want to watch it in Linux too" side.
You know, I can't believe I'm posting this but I think what's worse is your inablity to do a simple internet search.
Clean up after yourself
Umm, yes. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 come to mind. They decay for a very, very long time.
:).
And beyond the pollution issue there is the fact that fusion produces more energy than fission per the amount of mass (I think; its been a very long time since physics).
That and we have easy access to a great fusion reactor. Its that big bright thing
Its a valid statement. Fusion reactors require more energy to run than is produced in the reaction.
I don't know how a helium 3 reactor works, but it probably requires more energy to start the reaction than is produced by the reaction. Hopefully that will change.