Using AltaVista, paid results are listed with a little divider between the rest of the results
google also does this. a search for "digital camera" comes up with two sponsored links right at the top of the page for pricegrabber and one for cnet shopping, clearly marked as advertisements. I see no problem with and have actually found the links to be useful sometimes.
If its working now why does this decision change anything? sure there is no new development but it sounds like the current version fulfills your old companies needs. nothing stopping you from continuing to use it and if you want more features then spend some cash and hire some developers to add it in for you (and release back to the community). the only problem I could see is if security vulnerabilities are discovered then you need to patch it yourself or look to the comunity for a patch.
I think the easiest setup would be if you could emulate linux apps in a window without having to boot up the whole disto. either way I think it will be more of a good thing for OSS than Linux because most users will think of linux as just a program that allows them to run OSS software.
well its hard to ask for damages if there are none. this just seems stupid to me, either way its bad for the school. they probably have the Wifi so they didnt have to spend the money to wire the buildings with cat5. so now they get to waste money on legal defense and possibly wire the schools as well if they loose. also they could be stuck with wireless equipment that they have already purchased but wont be able to use. wifi is all over in both business and home so I hope these parents keep there kids away from say starbucks which has wireless hotspots. will they sue their neighbor when they find out they have a WAP?
The article says that "developers" were the ones sued and only selected ones at that. Seems Timeline only went after the big lucrative fish starting with microsoft. I wounder what would happen if someone used propriatary code in a gpl program and someone else incorporated that code into their work. would they then be liable? Anyway I dont see how the end user could be held liable. even if they have access to the source, how would they spot offending code?
why not make the company responsible for notifying my credit card company? Or better yet make them pay for fraudulent charges that I could prove were from their negligance? They screwed up they should incur the cost of cleaning up the mess. If companies were responsible to that degree than watch how high security budgets would skyrocket. If they shouldnt be responsible to that degree with my sensitive information than why bother passing legislation like this?
"C+P Presswerk.13 Media. All Rights Reserved. These titles may not be mass manufactured,
resold, or otherwise distributed in stores without the permission of Presswerk.13 Media.
They are to remain FREE as the artist intended. If you bought this album, please report it to us!
why not? sounds like they dont care if you redistribute it, you just cant sell it.
like they say "any publicity is good publicity". I'm sure that any commercial site that gets linked on slashdot is happy to get all the hits. after all why do you set up a public webpage other than to have people visit it and why did this band do this? small personal sites probably don't like a/.ing as much. This story reminds me of The Offspring. I'm pretty sure they released an album a few years ago and prereleased it on their website in mp3. they were convinced that the trading of their music on P2P networks actually help their album sales. Currently they have an album where the cd looks like a generic CDR with marker writing that says the title of the album "steal this album".:)
well you did get to enjoy it all this time, thats what you paid for
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What I mean, is that what are you going to do from a windows remote terminal
you don't necessarily have to set up a shell, you could install port scanners, eggdrop bots and ddos tools. even though its windows you dont want to get hacked for a lot of the same reasons you dont want any computer with internet access to become compromised.
"Microsoft denies that they changed the name due to the criticism 'Palladium' has recieved, and released the source code to the core part of the software to show that the software is secure and does what they claim."
Released the source to who? I don't remember seeing this anywhere and a little googling comes up with nothing. Seems like you would want to post it to slashdot since open source users are the ones most concerned about the ramifications of pallad... Err next generation secure computing base.
Big business no care about the regular linux geek, they care only about the money.
Business is pretty much based on a simple formula. Maximize profits with a minimum of expenditure. It always surprises me that this surprises people.
Google is hardly ubiquitous. there are plenty of search engines out there. Google is just the choice of people that enjoy the striped down interface and relevent search results. Its moves like this that keep those results from being poluted.
By that argument, all films are also art and should be unclassified...
I think most people classify film as an art form and rightly so. Games are already rated similar to films. I think the issue here is when words like "Distribution Control" and "Probation" start getting thrown around it makes some people nervous. I think the ratings are enough. A lot of parents are too lazy or irresponsible when it comes to being informed about what their kids are doing. Ratings are fine but in the end you cant legislate parenting skills or morals.
Only problem is that the bots cant differentiate between illegal and legal files. A friend of my had AT&T threaten to shut off his service for sharing the LOTR movie, only problem was that he was actually sharing the movie trailer. I think they just assume that anyone using a P2P program is a pirate and make it seem like a bigger problem than it really is. kind of like hacking monetary damage figures, ridiculously high.
"and the n00bs can't reasonably be expected to do everything from a command line"
Actually my first linux was slackware 3.2. I chose slack because I want to learn and not click check boxes. Ive tried others but keep coming back to slack. If the noob wants to learn what's really going on they might choose slack. I choose it because people said not to use it unless you wanted to have to learn a lot, which appealed to me.
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Using AltaVista, paid results are listed with a little divider between the rest of the results
google also does this. a search for "digital camera" comes up with two sponsored links right at the top of the page for pricegrabber and one for cnet shopping, clearly marked as advertisements. I see no problem with and have actually found the links to be useful sometimes.
If its working now why does this decision change anything? sure there is no new development but it sounds like the current version fulfills your old companies needs. nothing stopping you from continuing to use it and if you want more features then spend some cash and hire some developers to add it in for you (and release back to the community). the only problem I could see is if security vulnerabilities are discovered then you need to patch it yourself or look to the comunity for a patch.
I think the easiest setup would be if you could emulate linux apps in a window without having to boot up the whole disto. either way I think it will be more of a good thing for OSS than Linux because most users will think of linux as just a program that allows them to run OSS software.
"brilliant digital" spyware which istalls with kazza i think, does just that. I have seen this on more and more machines lately
well its hard to ask for damages if there are none.
this just seems stupid to me, either way its bad for the school. they probably have the Wifi so they didnt have to spend the money to wire the buildings with cat5. so now they get to waste money on legal defense and possibly wire the schools as well if they loose. also they could be stuck with wireless equipment that they have already purchased but wont be able to use.
wifi is all over in both business and home so I hope these parents keep there kids away from say starbucks which has wireless hotspots. will they sue their neighbor when they find out they have a WAP?
welcome our new supercomputer overlords
The article says that "developers" were the ones sued and only selected ones at that. Seems Timeline only went after the big lucrative fish starting with microsoft.
I wounder what would happen if someone used propriatary code in a gpl program and someone else incorporated that code into their work. would they then be liable?
Anyway I dont see how the end user could be held liable. even if they have access to the source, how would they spot offending code?
why not make the company responsible for notifying my credit card company? Or better yet make them pay for fraudulent charges that I could prove were from their negligance?
They screwed up they should incur the cost of cleaning up the mess. If companies were responsible to that degree than watch how high security budgets would skyrocket. If they shouldnt be responsible to that degree with my sensitive information than why bother passing legislation like this?
IE is required? I have no problem administering my BEFSR41 with Mozilla.
Look here
why is your sig "tard"? are you special?
from the site
"C+P Presswerk.13 Media. All Rights Reserved. These titles may not be mass manufactured, resold, or otherwise distributed in stores without the permission of Presswerk.13 Media. They are to remain FREE as the artist intended. If you bought this album, please report it to us!
why not?
sounds like they dont care if you redistribute it, you just cant sell it.
like they say "any publicity is good publicity". I'm sure that any commercial site that gets linked on slashdot is happy to get all the hits. after all why do you set up a public webpage other than to have people visit it and why did this band do this? small personal sites probably don't like a /.ing as much. :)
This story reminds me of The Offspring. I'm pretty sure they released an album a few years ago and prereleased it on their website in mp3. they were convinced that the trading of their music on P2P networks actually help their album sales.
Currently they have an album where the cd looks like a generic CDR with marker writing that says the title of the album "steal this album".
think of how much you would get if sending junk mail was free
Except for Samba, PoPToP,
1. Slack has Samba included in the N disk set weather you choose to install it or not is up to you.
2, Slack uses Popa3d by default but your welcome to chang it to whatever you like.
well you did get to enjoy it all this time, thats what you paid for
What I mean, is that what are you going to do from a windows remote terminal you don't necessarily have to set up a shell, you could install port scanners, eggdrop bots and ddos tools. even though its windows you dont want to get hacked for a lot of the same reasons you dont want any computer with internet access to become compromised.
"Microsoft denies that they changed the name due to the criticism 'Palladium' has recieved, and released the source code to the core part of the software to show that the software is secure and does what they claim."
Released the source to who? I don't remember seeing this anywhere and a little googling comes up with nothing. Seems like you would want to post it to slashdot since open source users are the ones most concerned about the ramifications of pallad... Err next generation secure computing base.
Big business no care about the regular linux geek, they care only about the money. Business is pretty much based on a simple formula. Maximize profits with a minimum of expenditure. It always surprises me that this surprises people.
just microwave your tires on the high setting for 60 seconds
Google is hardly ubiquitous. there are plenty of search engines out there. Google is just the choice of people that enjoy the striped down interface and relevent search results. Its moves like this that keep those results from being poluted.
By that argument, all films are also art and should be unclassified...
I think most people classify film as an art form and rightly so. Games are already rated similar to films. I think the issue here is when words like "Distribution Control" and "Probation" start getting thrown around it makes some people nervous. I think the ratings are enough. A lot of parents are too lazy or irresponsible when it comes to being informed about what their kids are doing. Ratings are fine but in the end you cant legislate parenting skills or morals.
Only problem is that the bots cant differentiate between illegal and legal files. A friend of my had AT&T threaten to shut off his service for sharing the LOTR movie, only problem was that he was actually sharing the movie trailer. I think they just assume that anyone using a P2P program is a pirate and make it seem like a bigger problem than it really is. kind of like hacking monetary damage figures, ridiculously high.
Exactly
Ive felt that in the past 10 years or so most of the huge budgets for movies must go to advertising because the movies themselves suck ass
"and the n00bs can't reasonably be expected to do everything from a command line"
Actually my first linux was slackware 3.2. I chose slack because I want to learn and not click check boxes. Ive tried others but keep coming back to slack. If the noob wants to learn what's really going on they might choose slack. I choose it because people said not to use it unless you wanted to have to learn a lot, which appealed to me.
How long before taggers start doing animated grafiti, now that would be cool.