>> what are all those losers whose only skill is having a big mouth and being able to follow a script going to do for a living now?
Politics.
MadCow.
Add a NIC, mod the CD = Firewall
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I've been wanting to have a Linux firewall that boots from CD (with no HD) for security reasons... script it to reboot every night a 3am, and you could be pretty confident in it not being cracked.
Any idea if the Lindows version has anything special to enable it to run 100% from CD? Is the entire CD GPL'd?
Any "upgrade" that takes away functionality, or adds restrictions to functionality should be optional by law. Forcing me to add DRM while fixing a security hole is like sodomizing me while re-keying my front door lock.
>> It's fairly obvious, by now, that humanity is no longer at a point where natural selection, in the genetic sense of the term, applies.
And natural selection isn't helping the human race get any smarter either... just look at all the bright people here on Slashdot that don't have a hope in hell of getting a date, much less reproduce!
I like the title of this article posted under "news" for SCO on Nasdaq... it's too bad the artical is boring in comparison.:)
MadCow./K I L L K I L L K I L L -- The SCO Group/
Jul 22, 2003/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- We are advised by The SCO Group that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX) Expands Web Services Strategy With Vultus Technology and Asset Acquisition, issued earlier today over PR Newswire. The SCO Group said a revised release will be issued later today.
1) go pick up a pack of blades 2) dump it elsewhere in the store 3) when security wants to search you for shoplifting, ask them what compensation they're going to give you for your inconvenience when they find nothing 4) if there's some cute (to your specification) security people, then do it several times a day
Get enough people to do this, and they'll give up on the practice.
That's why the world has Denmark... 90% of the women are tall, thin, blonde, gorgeous, and best of all don't have the attitude that usually goes with all that!
At least from a Canadian perspective (ok, my horny Canadian perspective), that's ideal...!
5) In the end, IBM squashes SCO, gets all the remaining Unix IP in the process of countersuing, releases it to the world under GPL and Linux lives happily ever after in the clear just like the BSD code base.
Try throwing a styrofoam cup out your window at 100mph and see how much delta-V there is by the time it passes your bumper. I bet it'll be at least 40mph delta... scale that up to shuttle proportions and speeds with a 1.5lb chunk of foam and yes, this experiment is very realistic.
MadCow.
Re:Looks great, why not for Windows too?
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Because I'm not a cruel man, and I'd hate to abuse the current volunteers in that way.:)
Looks great, why not for Windows too?
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It looks like a great replacement for Excel... why not make it buildable on Windows too?
I know that half the point of creating great desktop apps for Linux is to encourage the use of Linux on the desktop, but it also limits the usage (and therefor usage and availability of developer support too) of the product.
These days, there's almost no technical limitation to writing code that can be compiled on multiple platforms. Usually the limitation is the UI toolkit (gee, like Gnome?), but there are many cross-platform ones available too (like Tcl/Tk, etc.)
You DO know that there are legitimate uses for P2P filesharing, don't you?
Just because it CAN be used for illegal purposes, doesn't make it illegal in itself. Now if the PRIMARY purpose was to break the law, then that's a different story.
Guns don't kill people, bullets do. Um... or something like that.:)
>> And how would your try to prove that a file was deliberately corrupted?
Well, in a matter of sense you wouldn't have to, at least if you could prove it was the xxAA that introduced the file.
If they purposefully shared it, and claim that it was not delibrately corrupted or fake (otherwise they'd be violating your terms of use), you might legally be allowed to "assume" that they were granting you the right to use/distribute the REAL version of that same file.
Current P2P systems are being hampered by deliberately corrupted files, as well as music companies joining the network to get evidence against users.
Solution:
1) create new protocol for P2P sharing 2) patent that protocol (in as many countries as possible, or at least all those that the xxAA operates in), ideally giving the patent rights to somebody like EFF 3) release code/client with a patent license that prohibits the behavior above
If the RIAA/MPAA/xxAA violate the patent, charge them with DMCA or patent violations.
Just a thought... the DMCA can work both ways, you know.
You said it yourself... although it would be "cool" to run Linux on it, it is NOT designed to be a full computer, and M$ should NOT have to make it possible to do anything else with it than what they designed it for.
Sure, if you want to hack it, solder it, or whatever to make it do something else, that should be 100% your perogiative.
However, consider this: your new 2003 Ford Mustang has a computer in it too... do you want to force Ford to make it possible to run Linux on it so you can have fun making the lights blink?
Don't forget the theories about an ecosystem being present in Lake Vostok, several miles below the surface of Antarctica.
As cool as it would be to find out (along with the scientific significance of the data), should we really contaminate that ecosystem if it exists? As much as we try not to, any intervention would upset a potentially fragile system.
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>>They were ordering for a friend
And being involved in your "friend's" erectile dysfunction is somehow LESS embarassing?
Hmmm...
MadCow
>> what are all those losers whose only skill is having a big mouth and being able to follow a script going to do for a living now?
Politics.
MadCow.
I've been wanting to have a Linux firewall that boots from CD (with no HD) for security reasons... script it to reboot every night a 3am, and you could be pretty confident in it not being cracked.
Any idea if the Lindows version has anything special to enable it to run 100% from CD? Is the entire CD GPL'd?
MadCow.
There's 109 hits for "Hello World" for patents between 1979 and now... I'm sure one of those covers the Hello World program itself!
MadCow.
Any "upgrade" that takes away functionality, or adds restrictions to functionality should be optional by law. Forcing me to add DRM while fixing a security hole is like sodomizing me while re-keying my front door lock.
My $0.02 (Cdn).
MadCow.
>> I bet the security fixes would be free.
That'd be a great thing... you could get security features without them trying to ram "upgrades" like DRM down your throat then!
A lot of MS's current patches come along with unwanted tag-alongs like that... I'd welcome the change.
MadCow.
>> It's fairly obvious, by now, that humanity is no longer at a point where natural selection, in the genetic sense of the term, applies.
And natural selection isn't helping the human race get any smarter either... just look at all the bright people here on Slashdot that don't have a hope in hell of getting a date, much less reproduce!
q:]
MadCow.
I like the title of this article posted under "news" for SCO on Nasdaq... it's too bad the artical is boring in comparison. :)
/K I L L K I L L K I L L -- The SCO Group/
/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- We are advised by The SCO Group that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX) Expands Web Services Strategy With Vultus Technology and Asset Acquisition, issued earlier today over PR Newswire. The SCO Group said a revised release will be issued later today.
MadCow.
Jul 22, 2003
1) go pick up a pack of blades
2) dump it elsewhere in the store
3) when security wants to search you for shoplifting, ask them what compensation they're going to give you for your inconvenience when they find nothing
4) if there's some cute (to your specification) security people, then do it several times a day
Get enough people to do this, and they'll give up on the practice.
>> Will this do?
Sure, I'd take a free copy of MacOS instead any day!
That's why the world has Denmark... 90% of the women are tall, thin, blonde, gorgeous, and best of all don't have the attitude that usually goes with all that!
At least from a Canadian perspective (ok, my horny Canadian perspective), that's ideal...!
OT, but there's Karma to burn.
MadCow.
>> but a beowulf cluster of these could reduce all of Britain to hot grits!
Man, I misread that... I though you typed "reduce all of Britain to hot girls!", which obviously stunned me... that'd be QUITE the feat!
MadCow.
>>the styrofoam cup would lose almost all of it's inertia almost immediately after leaving your hand
Um, yeah... and your point would be?
Try running into a stationary styrofoam cup that has "no inertia" while YOU are going 1000MPH. It still hurts.
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MadCow.
You forgot 5:
5) In the end, IBM squashes SCO, gets all the remaining Unix IP in the process of countersuing, releases it to the world under GPL and Linux lives happily ever after in the clear just like the BSD code base.
MadCow.
Try throwing a styrofoam cup out your window at 100mph and see how much delta-V there is by the time it passes your bumper. I bet it'll be at least 40mph delta... scale that up to shuttle proportions and speeds with a 1.5lb chunk of foam and yes, this experiment is very realistic.
MadCow.
Because I'm not a cruel man, and I'd hate to abuse the current volunteers in that way. :)
It looks like a great replacement for Excel... why not make it buildable on Windows too?
I know that half the point of creating great desktop apps for Linux is to encourage the use of Linux on the desktop, but it also limits the usage (and therefor usage and availability of developer support too) of the product.
These days, there's almost no technical limitation to writing code that can be compiled on multiple platforms. Usually the limitation is the UI toolkit (gee, like Gnome?), but there are many cross-platform ones available too (like Tcl/Tk, etc.)
MadCow.
Well, it wouldn't be THAT bad, we'd just have 5 different versions of each book, each released about a day apart.
MadCow.
You DO know that there are legitimate uses for P2P filesharing, don't you?
:)
Just because it CAN be used for illegal purposes, doesn't make it illegal in itself. Now if the PRIMARY purpose was to break the law, then that's a different story.
Guns don't kill people, bullets do. Um... or something like that.
MadCow.
>> And how would your try to prove that a file was deliberately corrupted?
Well, in a matter of sense you wouldn't have to, at least if you could prove it was the xxAA that introduced the file.
If they purposefully shared it, and claim that it was not delibrately corrupted or fake (otherwise they'd be violating your terms of use), you might legally be allowed to "assume" that they were granting you the right to use/distribute the REAL version of that same file.
Just a thought...
Current P2P systems are being hampered by deliberately corrupted files, as well as music companies joining the network to get evidence against users.
Solution:
1) create new protocol for P2P sharing
2) patent that protocol (in as many countries as possible, or at least all those that the xxAA operates in), ideally giving the patent rights to somebody like EFF
3) release code/client with a patent license that prohibits the behavior above
If the RIAA/MPAA/xxAA violate the patent, charge them with DMCA or patent violations.
Just a thought... the DMCA can work both ways, you know.
MadCow.
>> It's an appliance box, not a full computer
You said it yourself... although it would be "cool" to run Linux on it, it is NOT designed to be a full computer, and M$ should NOT have to make it possible to do anything else with it than what they designed it for.
Sure, if you want to hack it, solder it, or whatever to make it do something else, that should be 100% your perogiative.
However, consider this: your new 2003 Ford Mustang has a computer in it too... do you want to force Ford to make it possible to run Linux on it so you can have fun making the lights blink?
MadCow.
Don't forget the theories about an ecosystem being present in Lake Vostok, several miles below the surface of Antarctica.
As cool as it would be to find out (along with the scientific significance of the data), should we really contaminate that ecosystem if it exists? As much as we try not to, any intervention would upset a potentially fragile system.
MadCow.
>> Is SCO's lawsuit relevant to Gimp, for example? Or /bin/ls?
/dev/null
Well, it's actually more relevant to
MadCow.
Exactly... as it happens, the management of the new SCO is coming close to getting laid too. Well, if you call getting reamed by IBM "laid", anyways.
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