It's funny because as much as everyone complains, its pretty apparent that DRM and Palladium are coming to a computer near you.
Instead of reading how fucked were going to be, it would be nice if we concentrated on what current efforts are being made to fight for our rights. If Slashdot is going to be posting Y.A.S.O.D.R.M.(yet another story on drm). Maybe they could actually do something positive and once a week post about the ongoing efforts to combat it. You know like "this week X happened", and have it be a ongoing thing.
I'm not really sure what page to link to, but someone out there must be organized. It would be great if every Friday their was some sort of update we could all follow along with.
Now I know some of you are saying Slashdot is a "news service" and shouldn't get involved. But gimma a break Slashdot is hardly unbiased and there is obviously no "journalism code" being followed. Amost every submission is heavily biased.
I dunno/. do you want to be remembered for posting the news, or would you like to be remembered as something that actually made a difference?
Its just a suggestion, but if I had a website read by billions a visitors a day, I'd try to do some good. Are there other more worthy causes? Sure by far(AIDS,war,education etc), but this IS a tech news site and if there is even going to be opensource news to print about, things like DRM and Palladium need to be stopped now.
You know, MS may be a bunch of grade A bastards when it comes to their business pratices, but none of things you say about XP are true. You CAN use third party software, you DON'T have to use encryption.
Your obviously having driver problems/configuration, and some PEBCAK as well. I would suggest a)buying a new lan card or b) going back to win2k if you can't get XP working right.
Tell that to the 4 million 12 year old girls who want to buy the next Nsync album.
Your plan will never work. Most of the general public have not even heard of the RIAA and will continue to buy as usual. And even if informed of the current RIAA agenda, when compared to say the the threat of terrorism, the falling stock market, and the lack of a national health care plan, the fight over $16 cd's doesn't even come close to being on the radar.
As far as most people are concerned things haven't changed. CD's cost $16 in 1985 and they cost the same now. It's one of those things that America has come to accept and frankly I can't blame them.
The only thing that even has the slightest chance of changing consumers buying habits with regards to CD's, is if CD's stopping playing on the CD players they bought 10 years ago. Until all CD's made require new consumer audio hardware to be even played, things won't change.
Some people might consider preserving Historic cities a notch above your ability maintain a clear signal, while endangering the lives of those around you while you chat in your auto.
Let me say first off I support gaming and roleplaying and all that, but to the people who are freaking out about this I say so what?
Now a bunch of UO geeks are mad because they just realized that they have wasted hours and hours of their life that could of been spent otherwise.
If anything this should be a wakeup call that spending hundreds of hours "developing" a computer character may not lead to the payoff you think it did.
To the people who feel they have been cheated, your the ones who are cheating yourselves by investing way too much time in a game.
Don't waste your bandwidth. Enterprise is just an embarrassment. The acting is terrible. Imagine every character being as bad an actor as Janeway and you have the Enterprise cast.
BTW this is coming from someone who watched and for the most part enjoyed every Star Trek season before Enterprise. Enterprise is complete crap and for the first time I have no new watchable Star Trek.
that's been around since Corel put it there in their original Corel Linux. I've been pointing that out to both users and distros for years now how easy it was to change to resolution and refresh rate in Corel linux and yet to this day I've been ignored.
That's one thing that drives me nuts about the linux distros. Clearly each one of them has one or more features that they do better than any other distro. Yet for each distro they all go their own way and going from distro to distro you end up getting 50 different apps that do the same thing. As another example, why isn't Mandrake's font importer used in every linux distro? It's been around forever and is the easiest way to get your windows fonts on your linux box.Even Debian who just NOW is starting to work on a GUI installer when working gpl GUI installers based on Debian have been around for years. The day Stormix and Corel came out is the day Debian should have been picking the best GPL pieces out and using them.
Unfortunatly this appears to be the "linux way" at least when it comes to desktop apps and config tools. And Yes IMHO we are reinventing the wheel over and over by not cherry picking and then using the best GPL apps. Is my view oversimplied? Yes. But is foolish pride preventing say Redhat from using some of Mandrake's better GUI tools? Who knows.
I thought one of the benefits to the GPL was code Darwinism?
You say that like its some sort of bad thing. Its a freaking free service what's to complain about? The gas costs just as much many other places and you have to pump it yourself.
Why would you want to pump your own gas? Trust me when its either 95F or 25F you sure as hell don't want to be standing outside. Plus the attendant comes to you and you don't have to wait in line with people buying cigarettes. As someone who has lived in both California and New Jersey, I'll take someone waiting on me any day over having to get out of my car. I don't see your logic.
Regarding the driving age I've always thought 16 was too young anyway. Having an extra year of maturity never hurt anyone. And yes I when I was 16 I was jealous of kids in other states who had their licenses, but whatever I got over it.
Before any else responds read my post again. I am NOT stating the secure email is not possible, I am stating that if you ever get sent a non-encrypted email it negates PGP until everyone uses it. That is not to say PGP should not be used, just that secure authentication is integral to secure email. I don't see what's see difficult to understand here.
Also like I clearly stated. This is a real problem for the 99% of users who don't use PGP and are on a regular POP3 server.
"You may have trouble believing this, but it is possible to use a different password for your pop account than what you use for your pgp key. "
Gee really. The point is 1) most people don't use pgp and 2) your logon and password is still going across the net unencrypted. So unless every email ever sent to you is encrypted I can sniff you packets and then read your emails on your server before you even get them.
"Even more shocking, secure IMAP and POP does exist."
Again no Sh**t. What percent of the general public uses this? Right.
of encrypting your email when every time you check it, you send your password in clear text across the net. This drives me absolutely insane. Why TF do 99% of all ISP's and webhosts still use insecure authentication? Yes if you encrypt all of your emails and if everyone who ever emails you encrypts their's your a step up, but that clear text thing kinda makes it all worthless.
Why has this most glaring of all security problems not been addressed for the general public? Why Why Why Why?
Want hear something funny and typical. My webhost for my business which also does my email, requires SSH to log into my shell account to do things like upload files to changes my website etc. But I have to use the same fricking logon and password to check my email. Does that make any sense at all? I'd out them right now so you would know not to use them but I don't want my website cut off.
I was eagerly awaiting this, but I'm a bit disappointed. Its just UT with nicer graphics. Really that's all. The games besides the Bomb run one are exactly the same ie Deathmatch and CTF. Even the weapons with the exception of the lightening gun are the same.
I've heard a few people say well what did you expect it is the UT sequel? Well I expected something besides improved graphics. Sorry but this isn't 1999 and with games like RTCW out which require actual teamwork this game just doesn't hold up.
That said if your a die-hard UT fan with new hardware who still plays the old version constantly, you'll probably like it. If you have played any games which require actual teamwork and are tired of straight up twitch deathmatch then this isn't for you.
I know my mini-review may sound a bit harsh, but after all the hype and years since UT came out, I was expecting something original.
Re:To anyone complaing because they have old syste
on
AMD Delays Hammer
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
I'm glad your happy with your slow Celeron, but don't assume that for the rest of us we don't need the fastest CPU possible. Time is money and the faster myself or someone else can get their work done the better. There are a ton of apps out there right now where that speed CPU is just no longer a viable solution.
I do happen to agree with not freaking out about a processor release date. But do realize that people are excited about this cpu for a reason.
BTW many of us here were using computers and programming before you were born. Your only 20 for Pete's sake.
"There are very, very few real "slippery slopes." DRM isn't, IMO, one of them."
Denile ain't some river in Egypt.
"The logical extreme of DRM is a flag that truly prevents you from copying or saving a file with that flag on--but that's it. Everyone, even RIAA drones, wants some use of "copyrighted works" to still be free"
Windows "media pc" is coming out in a few months and it will do just that. Next Gen HDTV's are going to prevent you from making an actual "true" copy of the signal your paying for. Soon rather than later you will be unable to make legal backups of your music CD's due to either hardware or software DRM. Right now the Entertainment industry is lobbying for total lockdown on all future products which plug into and outlet.
Your one of those people who on the road to Hell keeps commenting on how nice a drive it is.
Re:Frequently Asked User Interface Questions
on
Inside Ximian
·
· Score: 2
Why reinvent the wheel? Unless of course your goal is to make sure nobody uses your product because its too different.
But it obviously is difficult to use for most people, especially in comparsion to most of the other distros out there. Why do debian users continue insist that this is the opposite? I've used Corel, Stormix, Progeny, and Libranet and they all managed to put out good easy to use installers years ago. Why are Debian users so against adopting something so common for modern OS's? It could could only help their user base. And yes I do know about the efforts going on now, but considering Debian 4.0 or whatever the next big release won't be out for a long long time Debian is just shooting itself in the foot by not making this their biggest priority.
I say bring it on. Of course this would mean a custom bios and only "Apple approved" hardware would work, but this should at least bring the cost down.
Imagine a $600 Imac that you could use your own monitor with!!! My check if officially prewritten.
Oh it would probably be a swift kick in the balls to MS as well:-)
Slashdot Mirror
It's funny because as much as everyone complains, its pretty apparent that DRM and Palladium are coming to a computer near you.
/. do you want to be remembered for posting the news, or would you like to be remembered as something that actually made a difference?
Instead of reading how fucked were going to be, it would be nice if we concentrated on what current efforts are being made to fight for our rights. If Slashdot is going to be posting Y.A.S.O.D.R.M.(yet another story on drm). Maybe they could actually do something positive and once a week post about the ongoing efforts to combat it. You know like "this week X happened", and have it be a ongoing thing.
I'm not really sure what page to link to, but someone out there must be organized. It would be great if every Friday their was some sort of update we could all follow along with.
Now I know some of you are saying Slashdot is a "news service" and shouldn't get involved. But gimma a break Slashdot is hardly unbiased and there is obviously no "journalism code" being followed. Amost every submission is heavily biased.
I dunno
Its just a suggestion, but if I had a website read by billions a visitors a day, I'd try to do some good. Are there other more worthy causes? Sure by far(AIDS,war,education etc), but this IS a tech news site and if there is even going to be opensource news to print about, things like DRM and Palladium need to be stopped now.
You know, MS may be a bunch of grade A bastards when it comes to their business pratices, but none of things you say about XP are true. You CAN use third party software, you DON'T have to use encryption.
Your obviously having driver problems/configuration, and some PEBCAK as well. I would suggest a)buying a new lan card or b) going back to win2k if you can't get XP working right.
Tell that to the 4 million 12 year old girls who want to buy the next Nsync album.
Your plan will never work. Most of the general public have not even heard of the RIAA and will continue to buy as usual. And even if informed of the current RIAA agenda, when compared to say the the threat of terrorism, the falling stock market, and the lack of a national health care plan, the fight over $16 cd's doesn't even come close to being on the radar.
As far as most people are concerned things haven't changed. CD's cost $16 in 1985 and they cost the same now. It's one of those things that America has come to accept and frankly I can't blame them.
The only thing that even has the slightest chance of changing consumers buying habits with regards to CD's, is if CD's stopping playing on the CD players they bought 10 years ago. Until all CD's made require new consumer audio hardware to be even played, things won't change.
Typical douchebag mods. It wasn't enough to be modded down once some ass had to come and mod it down again.
:-)
Feel like a big man now? Here is a good reason to mod me down now mods....Go shit yourselves
hahahaha.
Yea is this a Western or a SciFi show?
The acting except for Baldwin(of course) is actually much better than that of Enterprise, but overall I don't think this is what people expected.
Some people might consider preserving Historic cities a notch above your ability maintain a clear signal, while endangering the lives of those around you while you chat in your auto.
Me at your door: Hello is anyone there?
Your Door: I'm open, come right in. The people who own me left my configured in the open position.
You: Burglar!!!
Your Door: Uh oh.
Let me say first off I support gaming and roleplaying and all that, but to the people who are freaking out about this I say so what?
Now a bunch of UO geeks are mad because they just realized that they have wasted hours and hours of their life that could of been spent otherwise.
If anything this should be a wakeup call that spending hundreds of hours "developing" a computer character may not lead to the payoff you think it did.
To the people who feel they have been cheated, your the ones who are cheating yourselves by investing way too much time in a game.
Life is too short, time to unplug.
Don't waste your bandwidth. Enterprise is just an embarrassment. The acting is terrible. Imagine every character being as bad an actor as Janeway and you have the Enterprise cast.
BTW this is coming from someone who watched and for the most part enjoyed every Star Trek season before Enterprise. Enterprise is complete crap and for the first time I have no new watchable Star Trek.
Yep add me to the list, Digital Restriction Mechanisms it is.
Spread the word people.
that's been around since Corel put it there in their original Corel Linux. I've been pointing that out to both users and distros for years now how easy it was to change to resolution and refresh rate in Corel linux and yet to this day I've been ignored.
That's one thing that drives me nuts about the linux distros. Clearly each one of them has one or more features that they do better than any other distro. Yet for each distro they all go their own way and going from distro to distro you end up getting 50 different apps that do the same thing. As another example, why isn't Mandrake's font importer used in every linux distro? It's been around forever and is the easiest way to get your windows fonts on your linux box.Even Debian who just NOW is starting to work on a GUI installer when working gpl GUI installers based on Debian have been around for years. The day Stormix and Corel came out is the day Debian should have been picking the best GPL pieces out and using them.
Unfortunatly this appears to be the "linux way" at least when it comes to desktop apps and config tools. And Yes IMHO we are reinventing the wheel over and over by not cherry picking and then using the best GPL apps. Is my view oversimplied? Yes. But is foolish pride preventing say Redhat from using some of Mandrake's better GUI tools? Who knows.
I thought one of the benefits to the GPL was code Darwinism?
You perves are slashdotting NationalGeographic.
I was just there to get directions on how to get away from there.
You say that like its some sort of bad thing. Its a freaking free service what's to complain about? The gas costs just as much many other places and you have to pump it yourself.
Why would you want to pump your own gas? Trust me when its either 95F or 25F you sure as hell don't want to be standing outside. Plus the attendant comes to you and you don't have to wait in line with people buying cigarettes. As someone who has lived in both California and New Jersey, I'll take someone waiting on me any day over having to get out of my car. I don't see your logic.
Regarding the driving age I've always thought 16 was too young anyway. Having an extra year of maturity never hurt anyone. And yes I when I was 16 I was jealous of kids in other states who had their licenses, but whatever I got over it.
Before any else responds read my post again. I am NOT stating the secure email is not possible, I am stating that if you ever get sent a non-encrypted email it negates PGP until everyone uses it. That is not to say PGP should not be used, just that secure authentication is integral to secure email. I don't see what's see difficult to understand here.
Also like I clearly stated. This is a real problem for the 99% of users who don't use PGP and are on a regular POP3 server.
"Well, dunno about you, but I don't. Have ssh, will travel."
And this helps the 99% of people who use regular POP3 how?
"There's also no need to do so with POP either - APOP and POP-over-SSL both exist"
And how many ISP's use this?
"Besides, if the mail is encrypted, what's the point in intercepting the POP3 password? Isn't that exactly why you *should* be encrypting the mail? "
If every email that is ever sent to you is encypted your fine. If even one of them is not that is "the point in intercepting the POP3 password".
"You may have trouble believing this, but it is possible to use a different password for your pop account than what you use for your pgp key. "
Gee really. The point is 1) most people don't use pgp and 2) your logon and password is still going across the net unencrypted. So unless every email ever sent to you is encrypted I can sniff you packets and then read your emails on your server before you even get them.
"Even more shocking, secure IMAP and POP does exist."
Again no Sh**t. What percent of the general public uses this? Right.
of encrypting your email when every time you check it, you send your password in clear text across the net. This drives me absolutely insane. Why TF do 99% of all ISP's and webhosts still use insecure authentication? Yes if you encrypt all of your emails and if everyone who ever emails you encrypts their's your a step up, but that clear text thing kinda makes it all worthless.
Why has this most glaring of all security problems not been addressed for the general public? Why Why Why Why?
Want hear something funny and typical. My webhost for my business which also does my email, requires SSH to log into my shell account to do things like upload files to changes my website etc. But I have to use the same fricking logon and password to check my email. Does that make any sense at all? I'd out them right now so you would know not to use them but I don't want my website cut off.
O.K. just relax.....I'm on a beach.....
I was eagerly awaiting this, but I'm a bit disappointed. Its just UT with nicer graphics. Really that's all. The games besides the Bomb run one are exactly the same ie Deathmatch and CTF. Even the weapons with the exception of the lightening gun are the same.
I've heard a few people say well what did you expect it is the UT sequel? Well I expected something besides improved graphics. Sorry but this isn't 1999 and with games like RTCW out which require actual teamwork this game just doesn't hold up.
That said if your a die-hard UT fan with new hardware who still plays the old version constantly, you'll probably like it. If you have played any games which require actual teamwork and are tired of straight up twitch deathmatch then this isn't for you.
I know my mini-review may sound a bit harsh, but after all the hype and years since UT came out, I was expecting something original.
I'm glad your happy with your slow Celeron, but don't assume that for the rest of us we don't need the fastest CPU possible. Time is money and the faster myself or someone else can get their work done the better. There are a ton of apps out there right now where that speed CPU is just no longer a viable solution.
I do happen to agree with not freaking out about a processor release date. But do realize that people are excited about this cpu for a reason.
BTW many of us here were using computers and programming before you were born. Your only 20 for Pete's sake.
Your joking right?
Do you think its called Wintel because they couldn't figure out how to spell AMD?
"There are very, very few real "slippery slopes." DRM isn't, IMO, one of them."
Denile ain't some river in Egypt.
"The logical extreme of DRM is a flag that truly prevents you from copying or saving a file with that flag on--but that's it. Everyone, even RIAA drones, wants some use of "copyrighted works" to still be free"
Windows "media pc" is coming out in a few months and it will do just that. Next Gen HDTV's are going to prevent you from making an actual "true" copy of the signal your paying for. Soon rather than later you will be unable to make legal backups of your music CD's due to either hardware or software DRM. Right now the Entertainment industry is lobbying for total lockdown on all future products which plug into and outlet.
Your one of those people who on the road to Hell keeps commenting on how nice a drive it is.
Why reinvent the wheel? Unless of course your goal is to make sure nobody uses your product because its too different.
But it obviously is difficult to use for most people, especially in comparsion to most of the other distros out there. Why do debian users continue insist that this is the opposite? I've used Corel, Stormix, Progeny, and Libranet and they all managed to put out good easy to use installers years ago. Why are Debian users so against adopting something so common for modern OS's? It could could only help their user base. And yes I do know about the efforts going on now, but considering Debian 4.0 or whatever the next big release won't be out for a long long time Debian is just shooting itself in the foot by not making this their biggest priority.
Holy Snikees!!!!
:-)
I say bring it on. Of course this would mean a custom bios and only "Apple approved" hardware would work, but this should at least bring the cost down.
Imagine a $600 Imac that you could use your own monitor with!!! My check if officially prewritten.
Oh it would probably be a swift kick in the balls to MS as well