Just because I'm white, drive a truck, and live in North Florida does not make me a terrorist. Now you take that cracker comment back boy or else I'll hafta come after you with my frog gigin' pole.
I always thought censorship was something done when the government silences something. This is simply a choice made by a company not to play songs. Not censorship but a self imposed choice. No one has taken away freedom of speech and no one will.
What kind of civil liberties are we going to lose Mr Stallman?
I will gladly allow a computer to scan my face if it will deter terrorism and save lives. I will accept a change in wiretap laws which will give the government the rights to tap the phones of a person rather than a single device. That is all Ashcroft is asking. Currently once law enforcement is given the permission to tap a phone such as a cell phone that order is for that phone only. Criminals know this and as long as they get new phones or a new number daily they are always one step ahead of the law.
Once we have a full fledged war on our hands each and every one of us is going to have to get used to a change in lifestyle. That is something I as an American am prepared to live with. We have the chance here to eliminate terrorism forever, but in order to do so we have to make a sacrifice. If that means searching my bags when I fly, or checking my ID 3 or 4 times while I am in line I can live with that. If that means my email has the potential to be scanned then so be it. I have nothing to hide, why should I let it bother me?
I'd much rather give up a little "privacy" than to watch my wife and child fall ill and die to a biological attack which was planned and executed without knowledge because people are afraid of what big brother might do with the knowledge of who's on their instant messenger friends list.
It is sad that our freedoms and way of life have been attacked. Maybe someday they can be restored, but until then we must accept change or accept the status quo and continue to live in fear.
I read the damn thing twice trying to figure out who the hell Bill is. Why do people need to add things to articles that are not there? Isn't that what Katz's columns are for?
from house to house for almost 20 years so my kids can play with them and DAMMIT they WILL play with them when they are old enough!:)
I can't imagine growing up without them either. At first I had the Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs but I enjoyed the Legos much much more. I see the new sets available like the Star Wars sets and would think that sets like these could limit ones imagination. They still look cool, too bad my kid is only 4 weeks old (although I almost bought two sets last week, LOL). Now the Mindstorms are something I should already own for my own personal enjoyment. Those are just too damn cool.
Feels like all I've been hearing is Top dogs in the Linux world stepping down. Do they know something we don't?
Yeah, there's no money in free software. But that's not a problem really until you get investors involved who want to see some returns.
Why would you worry though? If Joe CEO steps down how is that going to impact Linux in general? It might mean the end of your favorite distribution but that's not going to do much to the community as a whole other than shine a little more light on the other distros out there.
I was hoping to paint my face blue like The Lone Gunmen did to see if that would foil their system.
As time goes on I think we'll see more of these surveylance systems in place. In time no one will care about the privacy implications. If you stop to think about it, unless you pay for everything with cash big brother knows what you're doing and where you have been.
And how many of us really buy our O'Reilly books at a store? Who has that much free time.
When you get pulled over for drunk driving they take away your license and impound your car all without a trial. This is very similar, although it was the ISP who shut him off not the local police. I'm sure if he goes to trial and is found innocent then he'll get his internet connection out of the impound yard. But this is hardly guilty until proven innocent. If they carted him off and threw him in jail for weeks without a trial, you might have an valid argument.
Isn't X-Box Hackproof?
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I thought Microsoft was trying really hard to keep people from hacking the X-Box by adding alternate OS's, accessing the hardware internals, etc. If this is still the case, how does one expect to put MAME on it and all the games that go with it?
Unless X-Box is running IIS, it might be pretty hard to hack.:)
Windows was also late coming to the table with the internet. Unix is much more mature in this area. I remember a few years back some nasty holes in sendmail that caused a lot of grief. That is where Microsoft is today and I think they're doing a good job learing.
For example, Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 was recently released. Now look at all the fixes found since SP2. Yeah, there's a buttload of problems there, much more than need be but they're all fixed.
Which is exactly what happened with Code Red. The pach was available months before. It all comes down to reliable admins who keep up with patches and security alerts. Platorm and dick size have nothing to do with it.
The fact that worms are cross platform doesn't change the fact that ultimately with closed source programs, a user is left waiting for a vendor to supply a patch, which in many cases is too late which leads them to having to either:
And with open source you have to wait for someone to write a patch or write one yourself. Not everyone can write a patch and few people can eyeball code and say "oh look, an exploit waiting to happen". And even with closed source, there are watchdog groups that look for potential problems and report them to the vendors just as there are people who look through open source looking for problems. Vendors like Sun, Apple, and Microsoft are just as quick to get patches out from what I can see. True, with open source you can pull down a source tree and rebuild Apache if a bug is found, but how many "admins" can do that? In fact, how man admins can install RedHat and pick Apache and then go download the latest Apache tarball and get it to work? Many would wait for RedHat to release a new RPM.
They aren't acting like it is new. In fact the article mentions Linux being used on Titanic and Shrek. The article is announcing IBM's Linux Digital Studio package. Sometimes it helps to read the article before responding to it.:)
Try Blender. It's a very good and very powerful 3D modeler and rendering tool. You might also want to take a look at BMRT. It is a very good rendering tool/ray tracer. You've probably seen it's work in A Bug's Life, Stuart Little, and Hollow Man.
There's probably other modelers and user interfaces from BMRT and POVRay. They may not be what George Lucas uses but they aren't shabby. I've seen some amazing stuff done in Blender and it is FREE.
Rather than donate $5 or $10 why not show them the support by buying thier products? I am not a game author or producer or software publishing house... But with my business background I would imagine that the ability for Loki to get a license for a given title and to get the resources it takes to produce a title has something to do with GAME SALES. If you want to help them, supporting them is the answer, but not with donations. Do it with sales.
Creating a paypal donations system is just absurd. If I was a developer at Loki and read that suggestion I think my feelings would be hurt. I would be flat out pissed if you believed in me but would rather spend $5 donation than support my work. Especially since things like this have been done in the past as a joke, ie send Lars money for his songs you ripped off Napster.
AT&T Broadband in SERIOUS trouble.
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I live in Jacksonville, FL and each night on the local news they report AT&T's customer service reports. The service (both cable and internet) is so bad the city even has a page to help people get their problems resolved.
Two weeks ago AT&T decided to drop the jacksonville.net domain we all use for our email. I complained about it and was told I should pay a business rate if I wanted a guaranteed email address. They've since turned the domain back on. It amazes me that AT&T lets their new aquisitions get away with such bad service.
On the bright side, this has allowed DSS retailers and DSL resellers to make a mint offering alternatives. In fact, AT&T has been hurt so bad they are fighting the city's requests to have access to their customer service reports. Now if they would only put the time they spend fighting city hall into fixing service problems...
That's exactly what I did but a day late. AT&T should have at least sent warning to subscribers that this was going to happen. Last week AT&T decides to change my email domain without telling me. This week they block incoming port 80 requests. What will this do for them in the long term? I think what we'll see is the next Code Red flooding ports used to MSN and AOL messenger so the ISP's will block those ports as well.
I just checked my Apache logs on my linux box and it looks like I'm getting hit about every 15 minutes or so. It's out there...
As for Sircam, I think the press is just tired of Outlook/VBS exploits and doesn't give them their due coverage anymore. (They're as common as space shuttle launches and only those with a general interest bother to tune in.) And no VB script worm has gone after the Whitehouse yet.:)
They can do more than just search databases of people who sell pirated cards. I've been able to pick up the audio from the channel I'm currently watching on my TV using a $79 handheld scanner. With that in mind, they could monitor from the street what people are watching and cross reference that with their database of known subscribers to generate a suspect list. That would be a major invasion of privacy however. Another tactic they could employ would be to offer rewards to those who turn in their neighbors. I could see this working the best for them. "Earn one free month or a package upgrade for reporting signal theft. After all, piracy ends up costing you, the paying customer." I know people who'd jump on that deal.
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Just because I'm white, drive a truck, and live in North Florida does not make me a terrorist. Now you take that cracker comment back boy or else I'll hafta come after you with my frog gigin' pole.
I always thought censorship was something done when the government silences something. This is simply a choice made by a company not to play songs. Not censorship but a self imposed choice. No one has taken away freedom of speech and no one will.
What kind of civil liberties are we going to lose Mr Stallman?
I will gladly allow a computer to scan my face if it will deter terrorism and save lives. I will accept a change in wiretap laws which will give the government the rights to tap the phones of a person rather than a single device. That is all Ashcroft is asking. Currently once law enforcement is given the permission to tap a phone such as a cell phone that order is for that phone only. Criminals know this and as long as they get new phones or a new number daily they are always one step ahead of the law.
Once we have a full fledged war on our hands each and every one of us is going to have to get used to a change in lifestyle. That is something I as an American am prepared to live with. We have the chance here to eliminate terrorism forever, but in order to do so we have to make a sacrifice. If that means searching my bags when I fly, or checking my ID 3 or 4 times while I am in line I can live with that. If that means my email has the potential to be scanned then so be it. I have nothing to hide, why should I let it bother me?
I'd much rather give up a little "privacy" than to watch my wife and child fall ill and die to a biological attack which was planned and executed without knowledge because people are afraid of what big brother might do with the knowledge of who's on their instant messenger friends list.
It is sad that our freedoms and way of life have been attacked. Maybe someday they can be restored, but until then we must accept change or accept the status quo and continue to live in fear.
I read the damn thing twice trying to figure out who the hell Bill is. Why do people need to add things to articles that are not there? Isn't that what Katz's columns are for?
The Music of Middle Earth on CD. I've been anxiously awaiting the Songs of Tom Bombadil for years but have sadly had to settle for Zamfir.
from house to house for almost 20 years so my kids can play with them and DAMMIT they WILL play with them when they are old enough! :)
I can't imagine growing up without them either. At first I had the Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs but I enjoyed the Legos much much more. I see the new sets available like the Star Wars sets and would think that sets like these could limit ones imagination. They still look cool, too bad my kid is only 4 weeks old (although I almost bought two sets last week, LOL). Now the Mindstorms are something I should already own for my own personal enjoyment. Those are just too damn cool.
Feels like all I've been hearing is Top dogs in the Linux world stepping down. Do they know something we don't?
Yeah, there's no money in free software. But that's not a problem really until you get investors involved who want to see some returns.
Why would you worry though? If Joe CEO steps down how is that going to impact Linux in general? It might mean the end of your favorite distribution but that's not going to do much to the community as a whole other than shine a little more light on the other distros out there.
I was hoping to paint my face blue like The Lone Gunmen did to see if that would foil their system.
As time goes on I think we'll see more of these surveylance systems in place. In time no one will care about the privacy implications. If you stop to think about it, unless you pay for everything with cash big brother knows what you're doing and where you have been.
And how many of us really buy our O'Reilly books at a store? Who has that much free time.
I wonder how much of that has to do with...
1. The Economy.
2. Bands that target kids too young to have jobs.
How many 8 year old Britney Spears fans can afford $17.99 for a CD? If I was 10 and had a small allowance I'd be downloading and burning too.
When you get pulled over for drunk driving they take away your license and impound your car all without a trial. This is very similar, although it was the ISP who shut him off not the local police. I'm sure if he goes to trial and is found innocent then he'll get his internet connection out of the impound yard. But this is hardly guilty until proven innocent. If they carted him off and threw him in jail for weeks without a trial, you might have an valid argument.
Unless X-Box is running IIS, it might be pretty hard to hack.
For example, Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 was recently released. Now look at all the fixes found since SP2. Yeah, there's a buttload of problems there, much more than need be but they're all fixed.
Which is exactly what happened with Code Red. The pach was available months before. It all comes down to reliable admins who keep up with patches and security alerts. Platorm and dick size have nothing to do with it.
I agree. I think most Solaris, HP/UX, AIX admins out there have far better skills than most NT or Linux admins.
And with open source you have to wait for someone to write a patch or write one yourself. Not everyone can write a patch and few people can eyeball code and say "oh look, an exploit waiting to happen". And even with closed source, there are watchdog groups that look for potential problems and report them to the vendors just as there are people who look through open source looking for problems. Vendors like Sun, Apple, and Microsoft are just as quick to get patches out from what I can see. True, with open source you can pull down a source tree and rebuild Apache if a bug is found, but how many "admins" can do that? In fact, how man admins can install RedHat and pick Apache and then go download the latest Apache tarball and get it to work? Many would wait for RedHat to release a new RPM.
You simply change the user that the service logs in as on the Log On tab.
They aren't acting like it is new. In fact the article mentions Linux being used on Titanic and Shrek. The article is announcing IBM's Linux Digital Studio package. Sometimes it helps to read the article before responding to it. :)
There's probably other modelers and user interfaces from BMRT and POVRay. They may not be what George Lucas uses but they aren't shabby. I've seen some amazing stuff done in Blender and it is FREE.
Creating a paypal donations system is just absurd. If I was a developer at Loki and read that suggestion I think my feelings would be hurt. I would be flat out pissed if you believed in me but would rather spend $5 donation than support my work. Especially since things like this have been done in the past as a joke, ie send Lars money for his songs you ripped off Napster.
Two weeks ago AT&T decided to drop the jacksonville.net domain we all use for our email. I complained about it and was told I should pay a business rate if I wanted a guaranteed email address. They've since turned the domain back on. It amazes me that AT&T lets their new aquisitions get away with such bad service.
On the bright side, this has allowed DSS retailers and DSL resellers to make a mint offering alternatives. In fact, AT&T has been hurt so bad they are fighting the city's requests to have access to their customer service reports. Now if they would only put the time they spend fighting city hall into fixing service problems...
That's exactly what I did but a day late. AT&T should have at least sent warning to subscribers that this was going to happen. Last week AT&T decides to change my email domain without telling me. This week they block incoming port 80 requests. What will this do for them in the long term? I think what we'll see is the next Code Red flooding ports used to MSN and AOL messenger so the ISP's will block those ports as well.
Doesn't having two open source versions of .NET validate Microsoft's .NET strategy?
As for Sircam, I think the press is just tired of Outlook/VBS exploits and doesn't give them their due coverage anymore. (They're as common as space shuttle launches and only those with a general interest bother to tune in.) And no VB script worm has gone after the Whitehouse yet. :)
They can do more than just search databases of people who sell pirated cards. I've been able to pick up the audio from the channel I'm currently watching on my TV using a $79 handheld scanner. With that in mind, they could monitor from the street what people are watching and cross reference that with their database of known subscribers to generate a suspect list. That would be a major invasion of privacy however. Another tactic they could employ would be to offer rewards to those who turn in their neighbors. I could see this working the best for them. "Earn one free month or a package upgrade for reporting signal theft. After all, piracy ends up costing you, the paying customer." I know people who'd jump on that deal.