Sheesh, no need to get all self-righteous on me. I know that nmap is useful for more than black hat purposes, I use it myself, blah blah. If you look through my post, you'll find nowhere that I'm suggesting banning it, making it illegal, or anything like that. Instead, what my post, intending to be humorous, was about, was simply stating that it IS used for blackhat things too, and version detection doesn't change things that much with regards to that.
It's great that you're a crusader against people who would take useful things away from us through laws, but, as in any such thing, be careful where you're aiming -- friendly fire isn't a good thing, and you'll just make yourself and others in the cause look like jerks who can't stop posturing on who's the bigger crusader. Not useful.
Gosh, who could possibly imagine that, with the addition of version detection, the most 'white hat' tool out there that could never possibly be used for anything bad suddenly becomes a 'black hat' tool.. It's a complete 180!
The wiring is indeed oddly sensitive.. I spent about an hour swapping network cables on the thing, as the network lights wouldn't come on. I then unplugged it, and plugged it back in at another outlet, to try some shorter cables, and it was suddenly happy with all the old cables that I was thinking of throwing away. It's surprising -- I hadn't had problems with other devices on that outlet before..
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Exchanging music is about exchanging culture, not piracy? What kind of hippie, flower-eyed world do you live in? People download entire albums left and right without paying for them. Do you think they reason that they're "downloading culture" or that they're obtaining the latest CD for free?
It is, of course, both. Music is part of culture. And yes, people do download entire collections without paying for them. We're all doing it, apart from a few people who either don't know how, or are morally opposed to it. Of course, they're not CDs we're getting.. CDs are physical objects, and can be owned. What we're doing is getting information, and information, like air, cannot be owned (of course, by our philosophy. Yours may differ)
It's not about culture. This is the most bullshit thing I've ever heard. It's about paying for music that took money to make. The artists whose "culture" your taking from expect you to pay them for the effort they put in to it. Did they give you permission to contribute their mp3s to the "culture" on Kazaa?
It doesn't matter what the artists expect. They can expect what they want, and we have no philosophical obligation to obey. Hell, what if a bunch of people (who obviously had no taste) decided to copy the way I dress? Well, if they really want to do that, there's no way I could stop them, even if I did spend spare afternoons figuring out exactly how to make my overall dress style unique. Even if I told people they can't dress like me without shelling out dough, quit my job, and were determined to live off the proceeds, there's no way I could create an obligation to them to pay me. It's simply an unrealistic expectation.
This exchange depends on the trade of money in return to keep all that nice culture funded. If people don't have the money to pay for the studio or the instruments, there won't be culture-makers. You're just freeloading.
People are creative because of inclination, not because they think they can make money. Having known many artists, I can tell you that most of them live paycheck to paycheck, often in deep debt. Like the open source movement, and like much else in life, we do it because of what we are, not what we want. We take the money we get from our jobs, and buy the instruments of our creativity, whatever that may be, so we can share.
They are all personal creations. They have influences that they may share, but the beauty and intent of our system is that you can own your creation without people just taking it from you to do whatever they please. People like you are freeloading.
That's somewhat questionable historically, but I'm not one of the strict constitutionalists who cares that the original intent was not to create another property system. What matters is what should be, and IP should not be. Property is for physical objects, not for style, not for ideas, not for anything like that. Information shall be free. Attempting to dam the flow of information is like trying to stop the tide. Futile, stupid, and greedy attempts to do so will just cause the rest of us to give you an extra stomp as we stampede, free of your old-fashioned shackles.
I'm a zealot for rechargables, and have used a charger and a lot of AAs I got about 2 years ago (which replaced in turn a previous charger and set of batteries). However, it is true that they don't last as long as standard batteries. In my car, I have a CD player that takes AAs, and I end up swapping batteries into it about twice a week, where when using standard batteries I can go for about 3 weeks. This might be partly the extreme age of the batteries though. Still, I save a lot of money, and I'm not hurting the environment, so I'm happy. I of course use the charger/batteries for other things too.
It's good that he took the time to dissect Apple's benchmarks, and I would be interested to see new benchmarks (although I do think that using gcc on x86 isn't unreasonable). What really struck me as childish about the author was that he actually took the time to meet snide comments on his website with snide comments of his own.
Does it really matter that the different parts of an URL have different degrees of specificity?
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> We all have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft (okay, mostly a 'hate' one for Slashdotters) but at least they don't control the architecture, OS, and CPU for the Windows platform.
That's not true. Microsoft, along with intel, steers most committees that come to agreements on how many pieces of hardware work. It also has a lot of de facto power. Look at your keyboard.
Except there isn't any Motif community anymore. Motif died several years ago, a victim of vendor apathy and newer, mostly-better toolkits. Nobody really wants Motif, nor CDE.
The barrier is largely on the hardware side. It's easy to have open source software, and not so easy to have our community make hardware like this. As for your comparison between X and RDP, I too would be interested in speed comparisons.
Then the patent is no good to begin with. I shouldn't need to check to see if sliding a spoon across a smooth table to someone sitting on the other side is already claimed, should I?
Seriously, I guess if I can manage to actually achieve normal weight for awhile (I'm too skinny), it might be worthwhile to do that just for the purpose of harvesting some fat in case of later damage...
I never cared about Apple's OS's. OSX might be usable for awhile, but what I really want is modern hardware. x86 still has the legacy of the x86 architecture, where PowerMacs are considerably closer to hardware designed for Unix. Consider the following features: 1) Common, flexible boot firmware 2) ROM Monitor (I don't think PPC has this) 3) Poke around in filesys before booting (related to #1 4) No strange legacy limitations
The universality of four parts is laughable, doubly so because of the examples he chooses. I've never had a mp3 encoder that left logs, and as far as I know, mine doesn't look for configuration files either. The classification of logs and temporary files together is pretty stupid, and is only made so he can fit things into each category and maintain his claim of universality. Text editors don't leave logs or dumps.
On a side note, he doesn't know how to spell "binaries" in the table.
I want to run *BSD or Linux (not OSX) on a cutting-edge Mac. I want to choose my own video card (I'm specifically thinking about a multihead video card like a Matrox G450), and I want a 3-button mouse to come with the system. Give me that, and I can guarantee my next workstation will be a Mac. Otherwise, I might consider one of Sun's cheaper SPARCs or perhaps some other non-x86 system.
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Sheesh, no need to get all self-righteous on me.
I know that nmap is useful for more than
black hat purposes, I use it myself, blah blah.
If you look through my post, you'll find nowhere
that I'm suggesting banning it, making it illegal,
or anything like that. Instead, what my post,
intending to be humorous, was about, was simply
stating that it IS used for blackhat things too,
and version detection doesn't change things that
much with regards to that.
It's great that you're a crusader against people
who would take useful things away from us through
laws, but, as in any such thing, be careful where
you're aiming -- friendly fire isn't a good thing,
and you'll just make yourself and others in the
cause look like jerks who can't stop posturing
on who's the bigger crusader. Not useful.
Gosh, who could possibly imagine that, with the
addition of version detection, the most 'white hat'
tool out there that could never possibly be used for
anything bad suddenly becomes a 'black hat' tool..
It's a complete 180!
The wiring is indeed oddly sensitive..
I spent about an hour swapping network cables
on the thing, as the network lights wouldn't come
on. I then unplugged it, and plugged it back in
at another outlet, to try some shorter cables, and
it was suddenly happy with all the old cables that
I was thinking of throwing away. It's surprising --
I hadn't had problems with other devices on that
outlet before..
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Exchanging music is about exchanging culture, not piracy? What kind of hippie, flower-eyed world do you live in? People download entire albums left and right without paying for them. Do you think they reason that they're "downloading culture" or that they're obtaining the latest CD for free?
It is, of course, both. Music is part of culture.
And yes, people do download entire collections
without paying for them. We're all doing it, apart
from a few people who either don't know how, or
are morally opposed to it. Of course, they're not
CDs we're getting.. CDs are physical objects, and
can be owned. What we're doing is getting
information, and information, like air, cannot
be owned (of course, by our philosophy. Yours
may differ)
It's not about culture. This is the most bullshit thing I've ever heard. It's about paying for music that took money to make. The artists whose "culture" your taking from expect you to pay them for the effort they put in to it. Did they give you permission to contribute their mp3s to the "culture" on Kazaa?
It doesn't matter what the artists expect. They
can expect what they want, and we have no
philosophical obligation to obey. Hell, what if
a bunch of people (who obviously had no taste)
decided to copy the way I dress? Well, if they
really want to do that, there's no way I could
stop them, even if I did spend spare afternoons
figuring out exactly how to make my overall dress
style unique. Even if I told people they can't
dress like me without shelling out dough, quit
my job, and were determined to live off the
proceeds, there's no way I could create an
obligation to them to pay me. It's simply an
unrealistic expectation.
This exchange depends on the trade of money in return to keep all that nice culture funded. If people don't have the money to pay for the studio or the instruments, there won't be culture-makers. You're just freeloading.
People are creative because of inclination, not
because they think they can make money. Having
known many artists, I can tell you that most of
them live paycheck to paycheck, often in deep
debt. Like the open source movement, and like
much else in life, we do it because of what we
are, not what we want. We take the money we get
from our jobs, and buy the instruments of our
creativity, whatever that may be, so we can
share.
They are all personal creations. They have influences that they may share, but the beauty and intent of our system is that you can own your creation without people just taking it from you to do whatever they please. People like you are freeloading.
That's somewhat questionable historically, but I'm
not one of the strict constitutionalists who
cares that the original intent was not to create
another property system. What matters is what
should be, and IP should not be. Property is for
physical objects, not for style, not for ideas,
not for anything like that. Information shall be
free. Attempting to dam the flow of information
is like trying to stop the tide. Futile,
stupid, and greedy attempts to do so will just
cause the rest of us to give you an extra stomp
as we stampede, free of your old-fashioned
shackles.
Well, to view it another way,
how dare he endanger his family by doing such
rotten things? Having a family is not a magic
get-out-of-trouble card.
I'm a zealot for rechargables, and have used
a charger and a lot of AAs I got about 2 years
ago (which replaced in turn a previous charger
and set of batteries). However, it is true that
they don't last as long as standard batteries.
In my car, I have a CD player that takes AAs, and
I end up swapping batteries into it about twice a
week, where when using standard batteries I can
go for about 3 weeks. This might be partly the
extreme age of the batteries though. Still, I save
a lot of money, and I'm not hurting the environment,
so I'm happy. I of course use the charger/batteries for other things too.
It's good that he took the time to dissect Apple's
benchmarks, and I would be interested to see new
benchmarks (although I do think that using gcc
on x86 isn't unreasonable). What really struck me
as childish about the author was that he actually
took the time to meet snide comments on his website
with snide comments of his own.
Or, to say it humourously, when even :)
links supports PNG, you know it's time to move on
Does it really matter that the different parts of
an URL have different degrees of specificity?
> We all have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft (okay, mostly a 'hate' one for Slashdotters) but at least they don't control the architecture, OS, and CPU for the Windows platform.
That's not true. Microsoft, along with intel, steers
most committees that come to agreements on how
many pieces of hardware work. It also has a lot
of de facto power. Look at your keyboard.
Except there isn't any Motif community anymore.
Motif died several years ago, a victim of
vendor apathy and newer, mostly-better toolkits.
Nobody really wants Motif, nor CDE.
The barrier is largely on the hardware side.
It's easy to have open source software, and not
so easy to have our community make hardware like
this. As for your comparison between X and
RDP, I too would be interested in speed comparisons.
Although I'm looking forward to the release,
and will upgrade eventually, I'm *REALLY* looking
forward to the next song..
You forget that power consumption goes down with
smaller CPUs (e.g. when they find a way to etch
things yet smaller)
As it turns out, most Windows and Office users don't :)
read
Then the patent is no good to begin with.
I shouldn't need to check to see if sliding
a spoon across a smooth table to someone sitting
on the other side is already claimed, should I?
Why do you accept the notion of soverignty?
What good is it?
Dirty laundry list: /
Terminal settings
Two seperate, incompatible package systems
Crazy symlinks
Root's homedir is
Nazi license manager
Yeah, I'm a geek.
Is this the geographic or the magnetic north
pole we're talking about?
Seriously, I guess if I can manage to actually
achieve normal weight for awhile (I'm too skinny),
it might be worthwhile to do that just for the
purpose of harvesting some fat in case of later
damage...
Microsoft has acquired *many* companies and
*many* products from other companies.
I think Intercal must be for sexual criminals... :O
and Brainf*** is probably for people with
necrophilia
I never cared about Apple's OS's. OSX might be
usable for awhile, but what I really want is
modern hardware. x86 still has the legacy of the
x86 architecture, where PowerMacs are considerably
closer to hardware designed for Unix. Consider
the following features:
1) Common, flexible boot firmware
2) ROM Monitor (I don't think PPC has this)
3) Poke around in filesys before booting (related to #1
4) No strange legacy limitations
The universality of four parts is laughable,
doubly so because of the examples he chooses.
I've never had a mp3 encoder that left logs,
and as far as I know, mine doesn't look for
configuration files either. The classification
of logs and temporary files together is
pretty stupid, and is only made so he can fit
things into each category and maintain his claim
of universality. Text editors don't leave logs
or dumps.
On a side note, he doesn't know how to spell
"binaries" in the table.
I want to run *BSD or Linux (not OSX) on
a cutting-edge Mac. I want to choose my own
video card (I'm specifically thinking about
a multihead video card like a Matrox G450),
and I want a 3-button mouse to come with the
system. Give me that, and I can guarantee
my next workstation will be a Mac. Otherwise,
I might consider one of Sun's cheaper SPARCs or
perhaps some other non-x86 system.