Before others go off on similar paranoid rants, read the articles that were linked to. This law applies to domain names registered with the intent of selling them to the trademark holders. You can register "hastalavista.com" and whatever the hell else you want as long as you don't try selling it to Paramount.
Augh.
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The Wired link (used as the link for "downsides") doesn't seem to elucidate *any* downsides to this bill. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it either, at least the way it's worded. Hopefully, if this thing becomes law, the courts won't interpret it to mean "you can no longer register trademarked words, even if you have no malicious intent." I'm confident they won't.
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Last time I looked at the population figures, Americans *are* the minority.
Nice try, but no go. There are something like 100 million American internet users, which is orders of magnitude higher than any other country on the planet in terms of wired citizens. As such, Americans should certainly have much more of a say than a country like China or India who, while they may indeed have a few billion people living within their borders, have only a few thousand actually able to get onto the internet.
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Every once in a while, they'll run an actual truthful news story, but they seem to do the bulk of their reporting sheerly off of rumors and conjecture. 99% of the stuff they print turns out not to be true. Why do people still use them as a "news source"?
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And don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Whose site is this? Andover.net's, and, by extension, Rob Malda's. If you don't like the way he runs it, get the fuck out. Nobody's forcing you to type "slashdot.org" in the URL box.
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Seems Apple's got some sense after all. Props for reversing the cancellations, and mad props for actually calling their customers to explain -- I've never had that happen with anything I've ever ordered.
This is the proper way to do business.
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Ah, back to the old Apple we all know and loathe.
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Next, they'll start asking their loyal customers to bend over and "take one for the team" again; it seems to be the only way they know how to do business -- abuse their customers.
How do you "Apple fanatic" people put up with this shit? Intel hardware is pretty disgusting, but at least you don't have to deal with this kind of bait-and-switch crap.
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If you can afford a digital camcorder, surely a DDS-2 SCSI drive shouldn't be out-of-reach, pricewise? They've been selling Aiwa units on onsale.com for about 75 bucks, and they handle 4 gigs of raw data, 8 gigs compressed. I've got a pair (one I pulled from an SGI, and another a great external Digital) and couldn't be happier with them.
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Sure, but the list of "stuff that works" is longer for Linux than it is for NT.
2. Installing Windows NT where it doesn't belong
Ditto goes for installing Linux/Be/*BSD/etc/etc when another OS is present.
The article itself mentions specifically sharing your Windows 95/98 partition with NT. Linux can run atop Windows 95/98 with UMSDOS without a problem. Why can't NT?
3. Choosing the wrong file system
Ditto goes for linux. You could use UMDOS or ext2.
Sure, you'd use UMSDOS if you were installing on top of Windows, and you'd use ext2 if you were installing on a clean hard drive. The funny thing about it is that the installer will pick it for you, so there's really no chance that you'll pick the wrong one by accident. You'd have to deliberately set out to pick the wrong one for it not to work, which is something I wouldn't put past NT fanatics trying to find something "wrong" with Linux that they could "break" and point at.
4. No emergency repair disk
Ditto goes for Linux. You do have a boot disk right? ERD is your friend, deciding not to use it is stupid.
Sure is, but if you fuck up your Linux partition, you're not SOL, as long as you can make a boot disk on any other machine. Heck, use the default Red Hat one -- it's got support for just about anything that could possibly be on your machine anyway. If I fuck up my NT box and don't have an ERD, I can't just go using one from another machine, since there's a lot more than just a kernel and drivers on it.
5. Using the wrong Pagefile size
Hmm... when I gave linux a 2mb swap file it didn't work so well.... Ditto for any OS.
If you have enough RAM a swap partition isn't really necessary anyway.
6. Missing a key network component
Dittoe goes for any OS.
Except that TCP/IP comes standard with Linux. It's awfully difficult to be missing it, unless you've deliberately gone in and literally removed thousands of lines of source code. It would hardly be "missing" then, would it? You'd know where it went.
7. Forgetting the password
Ditto again.
Mister Boot Disk fixes this.
8. Using older applications
So you're telling me old libc programs work fine under all distros? Hmmm.
As far as I've seen, yes. As long as the libraries are there, they'll work beautifully.
9. Applying service packs unwisely
Last I checked Redhat had at least 20 bug fixes, if you apply them wrong you can break stuff.
Last I checked, Red Hat wasn't the only Linux distribution, and, even if you broke a few things with a few bugfixes gone awry, the OS would still boot.
10. Cloning Windows NT
Ditto again.
Wrong. Given two identically configured (hardware-wise) systems, cloning a Linux system is absolutely trivial. Linux, unlike Windows NT, doesn't have a "SID" number. As long as you've changed the IP on the cloned machine, you're set.
Just why do you guys feel the need to lie?
You should be asking yourself that.
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It's already been done... Just open any history book to a pre-1970's section and start reading.
It used to suck.
Did it? Sure, there were other things to worry about then, but I maintain that the human condition was in a much better state back then than it is now. Computers only seem to get in the way most of the time. Sure, you can make a small exception in the field of scientific research, but think about all the other things we've lost due to the advent of the personal computer.
People are less productive at work. (Studies have proven this again and again.)
The government finds it much easier to maintain huge databases of people and their habits. It's a simple matter nowadays to find out any information you want about anyone -- something that was out of reach for anyone in the past who couldn't afford a private inspector is now as simple as entering your credit card and waiting for a tidy report of your neighbors' dirty laundry to arrive in your electronic mailbox. We have less privacy than before.
Think of how much time you waste wrestling with your computer every day, every week, every month. Add it all up. Some day, you'll want that time back.
So science has grown us a healthier tomato plant and given us the ability to maintain erections well into our sixties, and computers are a part of that. Small contribution compared to the rather enormous chunks of life and liberty they've usurped from us.
Has your quality of life really improved?
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You're using Mac OS as an example of "current technology or cheaper technology", right? Cooperative multitasking and dreadful instability are hardly the hallmarks of anything I'd call "the best technology".
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Things change _very quickly_ in the IT/CS industry. I think spending any amount of time (much less entire semesters) learning the Language Du Jour would be very wasted time indeed.
I've found it very easy, once I knew the basic concepts behind programming, which I was taught (and am being taught) in college, to pick up on whatever language I've been required to learn with little effort. Spending time learning the foibles of ASP or Visual Basic or PHP is great to do on your own time, but, as soon as you get your degree, you'll find that every language you learned backwards and forwards in college (besides, perhaps, the stalwart C) has been forgotten by everyone in the industry, who are using bigger, better, newer "technologies" to create with.
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How the holy f*cking HELL is this "offtopic"? What kind of MORON are you to not notice that, in a conversation about dual celeron machines, someone talking about a dual-celeron machine is about as ON-TOPIC as you can GET?
/. really, REALLY needs to start giving moderator access to people with *working brains*.
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The IPv6 spec calls for 128 bit IP addresses. You know how HUGE that is? "wasting" 48 bits of it amounts to a grain of sand on a seashore, or a blade of grass in your backyard; it's absolutely immaterial. You've still got 2^80 IP addresses to play with -- that's 1,208,925,819,615,000,000,000,000 addresses even AFTER you've used up 48 bits with the MAC address. Hell, wasting even a few trillion addresses wouldn't mean squat.
Once we start giving a few hundred billion IPs away in every cereal box or package of sports trading cards, I'll be slightly worried.
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I don't see how, as others have said, this is any different from having your IPv4 address sent around the Internet in IP packets. Once there's a way of matching a name, face, and address with a NIC card, I'll become the slightest bit worried. Until then, I have more important things to care about, and, apparently, so does the rest of the world.
This is not an outrage. This is not even invasive. Hell, you can change your MAC address most of the time. If you're worried someone will find it easier to catch you DoSsing others on the Internet, well, that's your problem.
- A.P. --
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Don't be a lame skript kiddie, and nobody will have any reason to need your MAC address. It's not like it'd be incredibly difficult to figure out who's got what IP anyway.
I really don't see this as a usurping of my freedom. Maybe I'm just not paranoid enough.
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Slashdot Mirror
Augh.
- A.P.
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Nice try, but no go. There are something like 100 million American internet users, which is orders of magnitude higher than any other country on the planet in terms of wired citizens. As such, Americans should certainly have much more of a say than a country like China or India who, while they may indeed have a few billion people living within their borders, have only a few thousand actually able to get onto the internet.
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Didn't you just answer your own question? Re-read those two lines.
Also, how would the advent of 1GHz CPUs allow code bloat to increase at a quicker rate than it already is increasing?
-A.P.
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- A.P.
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This is the proper way to do business.
- A.P.
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How do you "Apple fanatic" people put up with this shit? Intel hardware is pretty disgusting, but at least you don't have to deal with this kind of bait-and-switch crap.
- A.P.
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Ditto goes for Linux/Be/*BSD/etc/etc.
Sure, but the list of "stuff that works" is longer for Linux than it is for NT.
2. Installing Windows NT where it doesn't belong
Ditto goes for installing Linux/Be/*BSD/etc/etc when another OS is present.
The article itself mentions specifically sharing your Windows 95/98 partition with NT. Linux can run atop Windows 95/98 with UMSDOS without a problem. Why can't NT?
3. Choosing the wrong file system
Ditto goes for linux. You could use UMDOS or ext2.
Sure, you'd use UMSDOS if you were installing on top of Windows, and you'd use ext2 if you were installing on a clean hard drive. The funny thing about it is that the installer will pick it for you, so there's really no chance that you'll pick the wrong one by accident. You'd have to deliberately set out to pick the wrong one for it not to work, which is something I wouldn't put past NT fanatics trying to find something "wrong" with Linux that they could "break" and point at.
4. No emergency repair disk
Ditto goes for Linux. You do have a boot disk right? ERD is your friend, deciding not to use it is stupid.
Sure is, but if you fuck up your Linux partition, you're not SOL, as long as you can make a boot disk on any other machine. Heck, use the default Red Hat one -- it's got support for just about anything that could possibly be on your machine anyway. If I fuck up my NT box and don't have an ERD, I can't just go using one from another machine, since there's a lot more than just a kernel and drivers on it.
5. Using the wrong Pagefile size
Hmm... when I gave linux a 2mb swap file it didn't work so well.... Ditto for any OS.
If you have enough RAM a swap partition isn't really necessary anyway.
6. Missing a key network component
Dittoe goes for any OS.
Except that TCP/IP comes standard with Linux. It's awfully difficult to be missing it, unless you've deliberately gone in and literally removed thousands of lines of source code. It would hardly be "missing" then, would it? You'd know where it went.
7. Forgetting the password
Ditto again.
Mister Boot Disk fixes this.
8. Using older applications
So you're telling me old libc programs work fine under all distros? Hmmm.
As far as I've seen, yes. As long as the libraries are there, they'll work beautifully.
9. Applying service packs unwisely
Last I checked Redhat had at least 20 bug fixes, if you apply them wrong you can break stuff.
Last I checked, Red Hat wasn't the only Linux distribution, and, even if you broke a few things with a few bugfixes gone awry, the OS would still boot.
10. Cloning Windows NT
Ditto again.
Wrong. Given two identically configured (hardware-wise) systems, cloning a Linux system is absolutely trivial. Linux, unlike Windows NT, doesn't have a "SID" number. As long as you've changed the IP on the cloned machine, you're set.
Just why do you guys feel the need to lie?
You should be asking yourself that.
-A.P.
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Thanks in advance!
- A.P.
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book to a pre-1970's section and start reading.
It used to suck.
Did it? Sure, there were other things to worry about then, but I maintain that the human condition was in a much better state back then than it is now. Computers only seem to get in the way most of the time. Sure, you can make a small exception in the field of scientific research, but think about all the other things we've lost due to the advent of the personal computer.
People are less productive at work. (Studies have proven this again and again.)
The government finds it much easier to maintain huge databases of people and their habits. It's a simple matter nowadays to find out any information you want about anyone -- something that was out of reach for anyone in the past who couldn't afford a private inspector is now as simple as entering your credit card and waiting for a tidy report of your neighbors' dirty laundry to arrive in your electronic mailbox. We have less privacy than before.
Think of how much time you waste wrestling with your computer every day, every week, every month. Add it all up. Some day, you'll want that time back.
So science has grown us a healthier tomato plant and given us the ability to maintain erections well into our sixties, and computers are a part of that. Small contribution compared to the rather enormous chunks of life and liberty they've usurped from us.
Has your quality of life really improved?
- A.P.
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- A.P. (I agree with the rest of the stuff, though. Rambus is for servers, let it linger and die there.)
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Next week, I'm gonna let Bill Gates and Steve Balmer perform open-heart surgery on me, too.
- A.P.
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I've found it very easy, once I knew the basic concepts behind programming, which I was taught (and am being taught) in college, to pick up on whatever language I've been required to learn with little effort. Spending time learning the foibles of ASP or Visual Basic or PHP is great to do on your own time, but, as soon as you get your degree, you'll find that every language you learned backwards and forwards in college (besides, perhaps, the stalwart C) has been forgotten by everyone in the industry, who are using bigger, better, newer "technologies" to create with.
- A.P.
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/. really, REALLY needs to start giving moderator access to people with *working brains*.
- A.P. (Score -1 Flamebait, if you want. I just hope I knocked some *sense* into some idiot moderators.)
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Hell, wasting even a few trillion addresses wouldn't mean squat.
Once we start giving a few hundred billion IPs away in every cereal box or package of sports trading cards, I'll be slightly worried.
- A.P.
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This is not an outrage. This is not even invasive. Hell, you can change your MAC address most of the time. If you're worried someone will find it easier to catch you DoSsing others on the Internet, well, that's your problem.
- A.P.
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I really don't see this as a usurping of my freedom. Maybe I'm just not paranoid enough.
- A.P.
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