this is the same moron who cries every year that the Internet is going to choke under its own weight. I take everything he says with about a ton of salt.
So he invented Ethernet. That doesn't make him an expert, by any means.
Some dumb fuck will be all like, "HOLY CRAP! Wow, I'll make a million dollars if I let this thing eat all the flesh off my body?! I don't need that shit anyway, do I?!"
Someone'd volunteer. Hell, you'd get a line around the block. (Great time to hire a sniper; take out all the stupid people at once.)
Right now, I'm trying to install Windows NT 4.0. Silly me for selecting the default NTFS for installing! The fucking thing blows up, reliably, 3/4 into the install, EVERY SINGLE TIME!
"I'm not aware that we're doing any locking." Hmm, then what's this DeCSS thing about?
"I don't know of any detrimental effects that come from the protection of peoples' intellectual property." So, it's not a problem if I can't incorporate a video clip into my schoolwork or teaching?
"This has nothing to do with free speech." Sure it doesn't.
Yeah, I lived in Boston for 5 years during college. Just graduated last week; now I'm back in CT. Thankfully, I didn't have to drive much when I was in school, but everyone I knew on campus did.
There's nothing illegal about having a monopoly, or even going to certain lengths to protect it. Microsoft would probably be well within their rights to sue over IP rights to NTFS.
Technosnobbery in general is abhorrent, but to see someone like you refusing to even acknowledge that perhaps a distribution could be shipped secure out-of-the-box additionally reflects ignorance.
All I'm saying is that to assume a machine will be perfectly secure right after installation is a bit retarded. Once you network a machine, no matter what OS it runs, you open yourself up to whatever remote security holes existed in that OS at the time it was pressed to CD. Unless you continually update it, you're at risk. A truly "secure" distribution of any OS wouldn't allow its users to network it, or, if it did, wouldn't start any services that could possibly be accessed remotely. How useless would a Linux box be if it couldn't be accessed remotely?
Yes, everyone running RedHat 6.2 should feel secure, especially if they haven't updated their libc (root-giving exploit), ftp daemon (root-giving remote exploit) and sysklogd (root-giving remote exploit) packages.
Entrusting security to a distribution -- any distribution -- is asinine. Those who merely install Linux and expect it to be secure deserve to get rooted.
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If you've got a few hundred CDs, you'll run out of drive space during an automated rip anyway, so the $3000 you plonked down on a cd replicator (and the countless hours you spent writing software) that you'll probably only use a few times will be even more wasted unless you buy gobs of diskspace to store all the MP3s.
Slashdot Mirror
Ugh!
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i know this is a stupid troll, but, for everyone else's information, the fastest Alpha system Compaq sells is currently 733 MHz.
so suck it.
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Debian 2.2 was worth the wait.
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who will buy this crap?
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with a CD full of Free Software sources and precompiled binaries (Hooray for bash!).
To be fair, every commercial unix nowadays comes with a CD of free software. (At least AIX, IRIX, and Solaris do anyway.)
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Morons!
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So he invented Ethernet. That doesn't make him an expert, by any means.
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It's, in my experience, much less reliable than NT (which isn't very reliable to start).
I've, so far, been highly disappointed by 2K.
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Some dumb fuck will be all like, "HOLY CRAP! Wow, I'll make a million dollars if I let this thing eat all the flesh off my body?! I don't need that shit anyway, do I?!"
Someone'd volunteer. Hell, you'd get a line around the block. (Great time to hire a sniper; take out all the stupid people at once.)
- A.P.
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Quit wasting your time and get a real filesystem.
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"I don't know of any detrimental effects that come from the protection of peoples' intellectual property." So, it's not a problem if I can't incorporate a video clip into my schoolwork or teaching?
"This has nothing to do with free speech." Sure it doesn't.
This guy's such a shill.
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No, they aren't. My ~/.netscape/cookies file just has my userid in it. Check yours.
As a matter of fact, there are no passwords in my cookies file at all.
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I fully expect stupid people to pay $1500 for these things on eBay.
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How fucking stupid do you have to be to confuse "fastcompany" with "FUCKEDcompany"? Anyone who confuses the two needs to be shot in the head. Morons.
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All I'm saying is that to assume a machine will be perfectly secure right after installation is a bit retarded. Once you network a machine, no matter what OS it runs, you open yourself up to whatever remote security holes existed in that OS at the time it was pressed to CD. Unless you continually update it, you're at risk. A truly "secure" distribution of any OS wouldn't allow its users to network it, or, if it did, wouldn't start any services that could possibly be accessed remotely. How useless would a Linux box be if it couldn't be accessed remotely?
- A.P.
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Entrusting security to a distribution -- any distribution -- is asinine. Those who merely install Linux and expect it to be secure deserve to get rooted.
- A.P. (not flaming you in particular, just observing)
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