The solution is not to get news from one site only. news.google.com is your friend. For any given 'newsworthy' topic, there will be dozens of links to stories on different sites. Oh, and most of them wont have a paywall to view.
... Although OpenSSH is usually included along with the Linux kernel in complete distributions of an OS. In fact (calling attention to the 'Open') it was actually developed by the OpenBSD group.
Categorizing this story as 'Linux' is misleading. OpenSSH is used with a variety of platforms, of which Linux is only one.
"Camera ready" might be appropriate for artwork - for books, the author submits the manuscript to the publisher - and the PUBLISHER typesets it, using whatever styles they want. TeX makes this easy, since TeX source files don't specify style, only logical constructs.
The author shouldn't need to be involved in the styles and typesetting.
If his publisher wants "Microsoft-style" anything, I suggest he find a real publisher.
They want to be able to sell 'parts' of their operating system to people who don't want to pay full price, basically. And they want to make sure that those people only get the parts that they pay for. Oh, and they want to make sure no other developer of operating systems can do something similar.
Why this is news, or anyone cares, I've no idea. It has no effect on those of us that wrote MS systems off as crapware long ago.
The iPhone 'product' is a hardware device, produced by Apple. You purchase it outright for cash in a one-time transaction.
Internet access (unlimited or otherwise), as well as 'the ability to receive (or make) calls' are services provided by a telecom company, which you pay an ongoing monthly fee for.
For the most part, when you buy the hardware device you are also forced to subscribe to the service from (a particular) telecom company.
You sound like you are 'all for' forced bundling of the two, as opposed to free market competition. Good luck with that. I'd prefer choose and purchase a device. and then (separately) choose and purchase service. Eg I consider a "device" product (which I might use with one or more of a variety of service products) as entirely and wholly seperate from a "service" product (which I might choose to use with one or more of a variety of device products)
Sure, catch up with an undocumented proprietary moving standard. Guess what - thats one of the reasons MS keeps changing things - it isn't to make it work better, its to make solutions from anyone other than MS work less well.
The correct solution is to ditch the entire Microsoft paradigm altogether. Things like Samba are just a band aid for the drooling masses who's eyes glaze over if the buttons aren't in exactly the same position on every computer.
Becuase after all, who cares about resale value?
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I mean, carmakers worry about it enough to *advertise* their car's historical resale value (well, if its good, eg Honda).
Granted, I suppose 'gamerz' probably dont worry *quite* as much about resale value when deciding to buy a game as someone buying a new car, but with the way the economy is going, they might start doing so more and more.
Just like companies that don't offer support (even documentation) on older products becuase they don't sell them anymore - no concept whatsoever that resale value might affect the price the market is willing to pay for new products.
You are a fool if you think MS needs to *intentionally* put any special 'backdoors' in any of their software in order for even the average scipt-kiddy to be able to Pwn their system.
Expecting anything from Microsoft to be 'secure' is like building a fence with toothpicks, and using pocket lint to hold it together.
goddamn link that leads to a login page instead of the described articles.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - if you cant find a link to a news story that goes directly to the story instead of a login page, DON'T FUCKING POST IT!
editors: It would be nice, if when you get links like these, you could take ten seconds once to use google to find the same story hosted by a site thats not run by ASSHOLES, and potentially save thousands of people from having to waste ten seconds each (thus resulting in tens of thousands of wasted seconds)
Youv'e got to be kidding me? cell coverage is far more complete than public wifi coverage.
And besides, if you have broadband access (and a wifi router) what on earth do you need to access a cell network for? You want to access an asterisk box, get a SPA-2000 and do it. And it would just be insane to use cell 'internet' access proxied via wifi.
And no, since all cellular frequencies are licensed, you are never going to find any 'small, cheap cell transponders' sold to the public.
Granted, this device won't quite fit in your pocket (its closer to the size of a typical home router), but you aren't locked into one particular carrier or contract, which could be a deal breaker for some.
They are specifically trying to get the 'legal weight' - they showed this at the DMCA 'review of exceptions' to try to stop the exception for educational use from being renewed.
The groups that make unauthorized 'counterfeit' copies of dvd's use commercial dvd pressing equipment, not consumer dvd burners.
Also note that consumer dvd burners would be quite happy to burn the areas where the keys are stored, however all blank consumer dvd-rs have these areas 'burned out' specifically to prevent that.
I agree that making a phone call to retrieve voicemails via an annoying press-this-for-that menu is obnoxious, especially from a cellphone (without a headset).
However, while googles transcribing options are interesting, they arent the only other option. I use an asterisk server, and all my voicemails are emailed to me as mp3, which I can access either the normal way from a desktop/laptop, or from my cellphone. No wading through menus, no worrying about deleting (They are all saved).
Will they be able to keep devices after they leave school?
If so, Will they be able to continue to access the "e" books permanently, or choose to sell (some/all) of them to a bookstore (but keep their kindle)?
I wonder who is making this endowment. It wouldnt happen to be book publishers, would it? After all, they will get to save on physical publication costs, and at the same time prevent any of these books from finding their way to the resale market, if they get this to catch on. I'm also assuming that they wont fund the books for these kids following years of school. (Although they might get a 10% discount, just to give them encouragement to stick with the electronic books that they cant then sell at the end of the year to other students or bookstores)
I wasn't aware there were any ISP's that offered service in the middle of the Indian Ocean anyway.
Do they use their Internet access to notify the ship owners what their ransom is?
Ooh. I see, you were using the wrong term, which lead to my confusion.
"Piracy" is the act of attacking ships with weapons and either stealing their cargo, or the whole ship, and "pirates" is what people who do that are called. Lately its in fashion to ransom the ships.
Assuming you don't agree that 'making copies of music files' is a crime on par with attacking ships and ransoming them, maybe a different term would be more appropriate. Try one of the ones mentioned at:
Seems like the particular extreme (cold) is ideal for something that might need supplemental/emergency cooling, eg, a nuclear reactor.
How is this any less safe than nuclear powered subs/carriers? In fact, if Russia has excess nuclear subs, I wonder why not just drive a few of them out there and use them instead of building something else.
In my area, is is the telecom that has 'lock in' with their (crappy) DSL requiring multi-year contracts and termination fees. The cableco's (crappy) Internet service has always been month-to-month.
RFC-1918, issued February 1996, came a bit late for even the 34/8 network, which was originally assigned in 1991.
You can safely assume that all the lower-numbered networks than 34 were assigned earlier than 34 was.
Note: There is no longer any such thing as a "Class A network". This has been the case for over a decade, despite far too many educational institutions having continued to teach it that way. The proper term for what used to be called a "Class A" is "/8"
Also, I'm not sure why you are calling them 'licenses'. This isn't a radio network.
Yes 'software as a service' is _usually_ not free, but that doesn't mean it can't be free.
If the service being offered is provided entirely with Free software (including the OS, daemons, and the application itself), which you can obtain under a Free software license, *and* you have access to all the data that software stores on your behalf, then that particular instance of SaS is free.
Go to http://nongnu.org/ and read the very first 3 lines on that page. Go to
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The solution is not to get news from one site only. news.google.com is your friend. For any given 'newsworthy' topic, there will be dozens of links to stories on different sites. Oh, and most of them wont have a paywall to view.
... Although OpenSSH is usually included along with the Linux kernel in complete distributions of an OS. In fact (calling attention to the 'Open') it was actually developed by the OpenBSD group.
Categorizing this story as 'Linux' is misleading. OpenSSH is used with a variety of platforms, of which Linux is only one.
"Camera ready" might be appropriate for artwork - for books, the author submits the manuscript to the publisher - and the PUBLISHER typesets it, using whatever styles they want. TeX makes this easy, since TeX source files don't specify style, only logical constructs.
The author shouldn't need to be involved in the styles and typesetting.
If his publisher wants "Microsoft-style" anything, I suggest he find a real publisher.
due to its ability to render funky typography. Its used because it separates the function of 'writing' from the function of 'typesetting'.
If you want to see a better explanation, see http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
They want to be able to sell 'parts' of their operating system to people who don't want to pay full price, basically. And they want to make sure that those people only get the parts that they pay for. Oh, and they want to make sure no other developer of operating systems can do something similar.
Why this is news, or anyone cares, I've no idea. It has no effect on those of us that wrote MS systems off as crapware long ago.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
The iPhone 'product' is a hardware device, produced by Apple. You purchase it outright for cash in a one-time transaction.
Internet access (unlimited or otherwise), as well as 'the ability to receive (or make) calls' are services provided by a telecom company, which you pay an ongoing monthly fee for.
For the most part, when you buy the hardware device you are also forced to subscribe to the service from (a particular) telecom company.
You sound like you are 'all for' forced bundling of the two, as opposed to free market competition. Good luck with that. I'd prefer choose and purchase a device. and then (separately) choose and purchase service. Eg I consider a "device" product (which I might use with one or more of a variety of service products) as entirely and wholly seperate from a "service" product (which I might choose to use with one or more of a variety of device products)
Sure, catch up with an undocumented proprietary moving standard. Guess what - thats one of the reasons MS keeps changing things - it isn't to make it work better, its to make solutions from anyone other than MS work less well.
The correct solution is to ditch the entire Microsoft paradigm altogether. Things like Samba are just a band aid for the drooling masses who's eyes glaze over if the buttons aren't in exactly the same position on every computer.
MS has not had time since they released Vista to write an entirely new OS.
"Windows 7" *IS* Vista with a different name and and an eye-candy face lift.
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I mean, carmakers worry about it enough to *advertise* their car's historical resale value (well, if its good, eg Honda).
Granted, I suppose 'gamerz' probably dont worry *quite* as much about resale value when deciding to buy a game as someone buying a new car, but with the way the economy is going, they might start doing so more and more.
Just like companies that don't offer support (even documentation) on older products becuase they don't sell them anymore - no concept whatsoever that resale value might affect the price the market is willing to pay for new products.
You are a fool if you think MS needs to *intentionally* put any special 'backdoors' in any of their software in order for even the average scipt-kiddy to be able to Pwn their system.
Expecting anything from Microsoft to be 'secure' is like building a fence with toothpicks, and using pocket lint to hold it together.
goddamn link that leads to a login page instead of the described articles.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - if you cant find a link to a news story that goes directly to the story instead of a login page, DON'T FUCKING POST IT!
editors: It would be nice, if when you get links like these, you could take ten seconds once to use google to find the same story hosted by a site thats not run by ASSHOLES, and potentially save thousands of people from having to waste ten seconds each (thus resulting in tens of thousands of wasted seconds)
As long as the extension offered users an option to set a preference that they wanted to never see the popups, and always hide the ads anyway.
Youv'e got to be kidding me? cell coverage is far more complete than public wifi coverage.
And besides, if you have broadband access (and a wifi router) what on earth do you need to access a cell network for? You want to access an asterisk box, get a SPA-2000 and do it. And it would just be insane to use cell 'internet' access proxied via wifi.
And no, since all cellular frequencies are licensed, you are never going to find any 'small, cheap cell transponders' sold to the public.
Granted, this device won't quite fit in your pocket (its closer to the size of a typical home router), but you aren't locked into one particular carrier or contract, which could be a deal breaker for some.
http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/
Also, who cares if its 'open source'.
Its only news if its Free software
Thank you, but I'll store my data on *MY* server, using protocols implemented in *Free* software.
They are specifically trying to get the 'legal weight' - they showed this at the DMCA 'review of exceptions' to try to stop the exception for educational use from being renewed.
The groups that make unauthorized 'counterfeit' copies of dvd's use commercial dvd pressing equipment, not consumer dvd burners.
Also note that consumer dvd burners would be quite happy to burn the areas where the keys are stored, however all blank consumer dvd-rs have these areas 'burned out' specifically to prevent that.
I agree that making a phone call to retrieve voicemails via an annoying press-this-for-that menu is obnoxious, especially from a cellphone (without a headset).
However, while googles transcribing options are interesting, they arent the only other option. I use an asterisk server, and all my voicemails are emailed to me as mp3, which I can access either the normal way from a desktop/laptop, or from my cellphone. No wading through menus, no worrying about deleting (They are all saved).
Will they be able to keep devices after they leave school?
If so, Will they be able to continue to access the "e" books permanently, or choose to sell (some/all) of them to a bookstore (but keep their kindle)?
I wonder who is making this endowment. It wouldnt happen to be book publishers, would it? After all, they will get to save on physical publication costs, and at the same time prevent any of these books from finding their way to the resale market, if they get this to catch on. I'm also assuming that they wont fund the books for these kids following years of school. (Although they might get a 10% discount, just to give them encouragement to stick with the electronic books that they cant then sell at the end of the year to other students or bookstores)
I wasn't aware there were any ISP's that offered service in the middle of the Indian Ocean anyway.
Do they use their Internet access to notify the ship owners what their ransom is?
Ooh. I see, you were using the wrong term, which lead to my confusion.
"Piracy" is the act of attacking ships with weapons and either stealing their cargo, or the whole ship, and "pirates" is what people who do that are called. Lately its in fashion to ransom the ships.
Assuming you don't agree that 'making copies of music files' is a crime on par with attacking ships and ransoming them, maybe a different term would be more appropriate. Try one of the ones mentioned at:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
Seems like the particular extreme (cold) is ideal for something that might need supplemental/emergency cooling, eg, a nuclear reactor.
How is this any less safe than nuclear powered subs/carriers? In fact, if Russia has excess nuclear subs, I wonder why not just drive a few of them out there and use them instead of building something else.
In my area, is is the telecom that has 'lock in' with their (crappy) DSL requiring multi-year contracts and termination fees. The cableco's (crappy) Internet service has always been month-to-month.
I have neither, and loathe both companies.
RFC-1918, issued February 1996, came a bit late for even the 34/8 network, which was originally assigned in 1991.
You can safely assume that all the lower-numbered networks than 34 were assigned earlier than 34 was.
Note: There is no longer any such thing as a "Class A network". This has been the case for over a decade, despite far too many educational institutions having continued to teach it that way. The proper term for what used to be called a "Class A" is "/8"
Also, I'm not sure why you are calling them 'licenses'. This isn't a radio network.
Yes 'software as a service' is _usually_ not free, but that doesn't mean it can't be free.
If the service being offered is provided entirely with Free software (including the OS, daemons, and the application itself), which you can obtain under a Free software license, *and* you have access to all the data that software stores on your behalf, then that particular instance of SaS is free.
Go to http://nongnu.org/ and read the very first 3 lines on that page.
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