Thing is, I don't work on open source "products", I tinker with ongoing projects, in the sense of n 2: An undertaking requiring concerted effort, and I do so for my own pleasure, not for "Peter (sigh)"'s benefit.
When I start selling you my project as shinola, you can tell me that it's a shitty product. Until then, you're welcome to contribute. If you just want to criticise, then I'll thank for your input, but advise you to calm down and take a chill pill. Anybody using my project is liable to be doing so because they enjoy playing with it as much as me, not because they're relying on it for a critical application.
You had an epiphany that you can use an XML parser to produce some really ugly, kludgy CSS/HTML that still won't look like what the XML schema describes, rather than passing the DTD to the client and letting it display it properly?
Pah, don't talk sense. It's far sexier to abuse X/HTML by shoehorning an XML schema into it. Don't you know anything about the challenge of abusing the wrong tool for the wrong job?;-P
Or put it this way: if you spot a tool being used in a useful but unexpected way, and write another tool that does much the same thing but doesn't call it "abuse", you can shine it up and sell it as the Next Big Thing. I wonder if a lot of it comes down to documentation.
Oh, not for allowing people to have and bear arms, 'cause that'd be un-American, but for indirectly promoting gun use.
<Huck Finn voice>"My little Billy-Bob was powahful' good until I bought'n him his first.22, then he up an' turned his-self into some kind of callous introvert shootist. Ah blames the gun makers for a-poisonin' his mind."</Huck Finn voice>
That makes about as much sense as hitting game makers with lawsuits, right?
Because metamoderation ensures that anyone who disgrees with the majority (which is still "lunix r0x0rz!!!!") doesn't get to moderate. It's a wonderful system that appears to be democratic while ensuring that dissenting voices are effectively stifled.
All ten of the lunix users that actually pay for games will whine for a bit, then buy it anyway and boot into the Windows install that they, you know, just keep around for games and stuff. Valve will see not one penny less at retail, and will save thousands in support costs.
Look on the bright side. If they were really smart, they'd ship them to China and pay 50 cents an hour to have a guy throw them into a big hole. They'd even make him pay for his own spade.
at best ignored, more likely spammed. You won't see penny one from Lindows because of $PSUEDO_LEGAL_MUMBO_JUMBO. But say, seeing as how you showed an interest, would you be interested in buying a copy of Lindows? How about your friends? How about your mother? How about...
>"Red Hat's legal action does nothing more than seek general guidance for the marketplace as to the legal rights SCO has with respect to Linux software," according to the motion.
Evil Red Hat! Seeking general guidance, indeed. Don't they realise that "the legal rights that SCO has [sic] with respect to Linux software" is/are a trade secret? What kind of damn commies (huh, "Red") are these guys anyway? We all know that the "marketplace" is just another word for "bazaar", which is where towel-headed terrorists buy their anthrax.
Most 2.5" HDDs plus 3.5" IBM Deskstars (and perhaps others) support ATAPI passwords. The password is written to the platter, and if it's there, the only thing the controller will respond to is the password. You can't talk to it at all in a system that doesn't know about ATAPI passwords. The only solution (that I know of) is to use a custom controller to access the platter, which is beyond the means of casual or even semi-pro Bad Men.
Never mind, they can console themselves with the thought that despite bungling their number one priority, they still managed to hit their number two goal, which is to turn a metric assload of other people's money into an assload and a half simply by shuffling it around.
Point at the person who's job description says that they are responsible for ensuring that physical hard drives don't leave the bank's premises.
Easy, it's the IT director. Um, except that because it's physical, perhaps it's the non-IT security director. Maybe it's the branch manager. Possibly it's none of the above. Possibly it's all of them.
Cynical old bastard though I am, my throat closes up and my eyes water every time I hear or read those words. Everything that defines us as human has come about because our reach has always exceeded our grasp. If we forget that now, then we might as well just go back to hooting, grunting and flinging our faeces at each other.
>Through a combination of intelligent design, lucky accident and the good sense to follow the consumer's lead, movie companies settled on the VHS video format for 25 years
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I have to ask: if it's not meant to be accessed by http, why is it accessible by http?
Once again proving the superior usability of a CLI over one of those messy, hard to understand gooweys.
>It's possible to create insecure "security" products just as readily with open-source as with closed-source software.
I'm guessing that "Peter (sigh)" is thinking of "product" in the sense of "n 1: commodities offered for sale".
Thing is, I don't work on open source "products", I tinker with ongoing projects, in the sense of n 2: An undertaking requiring concerted effort, and I do so for my own pleasure, not for "Peter (sigh)"'s benefit.
When I start selling you my project as shinola, you can tell me that it's a shitty product. Until then, you're welcome to contribute. If you just want to criticise, then I'll thank for your input, but advise you to calm down and take a chill pill. Anybody using my project is liable to be doing so because they enjoy playing with it as much as me, not because they're relying on it for a critical application.
Friend, for $10,000 , it's barely worth your while to blow your nose with their specifications, let alone design, implement, test and install it.
You had an epiphany that you can use an XML parser to produce some really ugly, kludgy CSS/HTML that still won't look like what the XML schema describes, rather than passing the DTD to the client and letting it display it properly?
Pah, don't talk sense. It's far sexier to abuse X/HTML by shoehorning an XML schema into it. Don't you know anything about the challenge of abusing the wrong tool for the wrong job? ;-P
Or put it this way: if you spot a tool being used in a useful but unexpected way, and write another tool that does much the same thing but doesn't call it "abuse", you can shine it up and sell it as the Next Big Thing. I wonder if a lot of it comes down to documentation.
>Why waste time typesetting a lecture for pimply undergrads?
So that they'll do as you say, rather than (not) doing as you (don't) do? If you won't eat your own dogfood, why expect anyone else to?
In five years we will be the biggest part of the world market, and you'll our beeyatch. Beg like a little beeyatch.
Oh, not for allowing people to have and bear arms, 'cause that'd be un-American, but for indirectly promoting gun use.
<Huck Finn voice>"My little Billy-Bob was powahful' good until I bought'n him his first .22, then he up an' turned his-self into some kind of callous introvert shootist. Ah blames the gun makers for a-poisonin' his mind."</Huck Finn voice>
That makes about as much sense as hitting game makers with lawsuits, right?
But I don't want to generate yet another dupe, you lazy cock smoker.
>Why is this post rated as a troll?
Because metamoderation ensures that anyone who disgrees with the majority (which is still "lunix r0x0rz!!!!") doesn't get to moderate. It's a wonderful system that appears to be democratic while ensuring that dissenting voices are effectively stifled.
All ten of the lunix users that actually pay for games will whine for a bit, then buy it anyway and boot into the Windows install that they, you know, just keep around for games and stuff. Valve will see not one penny less at retail, and will save thousands in support costs.
And the best bit is, when they renege, they'll get another front page Slashdot appearance and even more free advertising. It's win-win!
Look on the bright side. If they were really smart, they'd ship them to China and pay 50 cents an hour to have a guy throw them into a big hole. They'd even make him pay for his own spade.
at best ignored, more likely spammed. You won't see penny one from Lindows because of $PSUEDO_LEGAL_MUMBO_JUMBO. But say, seeing as how you showed an interest, would you be interested in buying a copy of Lindows? How about your friends? How about your mother? How about...
Sound reasonable?
>"Red Hat's legal action does nothing more than seek general guidance for the marketplace as to the legal rights SCO has with respect to Linux software," according to the motion.
Evil Red Hat! Seeking general guidance, indeed. Don't they realise that "the legal rights that SCO has [sic] with respect to Linux software" is/are a trade secret? What kind of damn commies (huh, "Red") are these guys anyway? We all know that the "marketplace" is just another word for "bazaar", which is where towel-headed terrorists buy their anthrax.
I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Most 2.5" HDDs plus 3.5" IBM Deskstars (and perhaps others) support ATAPI passwords. The password is written to the platter, and if it's there, the only thing the controller will respond to is the password. You can't talk to it at all in a system that doesn't know about ATAPI passwords. The only solution (that I know of) is to use a custom controller to access the platter, which is beyond the means of casual or even semi-pro Bad Men.
See this previous Ask Slashdot for more.
Never mind, they can console themselves with the thought that despite bungling their number one priority, they still managed to hit their number two goal, which is to turn a metric assload of other people's money into an assload and a half simply by shuffling it around.
Point at the person who's job description says that they are responsible for ensuring that physical hard drives don't leave the bank's premises.
Easy, it's the IT director. Um, except that because it's physical, perhaps it's the non-IT security director. Maybe it's the branch manager. Possibly it's none of the above. Possibly it's all of them.
See the problem?
But your tricked Microsoft into selling it to you at a loss! So it's still their hardware, you're just renting it.
No, wait... that's in Bizarro World.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
Cynical old bastard though I am, my throat closes up and my eyes water every time I hear or read those words. Everything that defines us as human has come about because our reach has always exceeded our grasp. If we forget that now, then we might as well just go back to hooting, grunting and flinging our faeces at each other.
>Through a combination of intelligent design, lucky accident and the good sense to follow the consumer's lead, movie companies settled on the VHS video format for 25 years
Sure, after fighting tooth and nail all the way up to the Supremes to have VCRs banned. If the author is unaware or incapable of acknowledging that well known piece of history, what chance they can predict the future?
They don't give a damn, because we never hold them to account. What, really, should we expect?