And what makes you think that you PERSONALLY won't be able to make copies onto you PERSONAL mp3 player?
There are already systems like this in place where you are able to DL (C) music and make 2 CD copies legally.
And if the publisher decides they don't want to give you any fair use? Screw-em! Who the hell needs to listen to yet another boy-band anyway? Who the hell needs to watch another Star Wars movie? Go get music from Indie sources, read a book, brew some beer. DO someting!
The publishers will either cave in or go broke. It's their own throats they're cutting.
I agree with the root, this is all Chicken Little. Let them have their locked up universe, I don't need thier crap, you don't need their crap. They will come back begging us to take their stuff after a while!
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Artificially created life, artificially induced death.
Look at and mod the parent of this post UP. It is maybe 1 in 500 that actually tells you what went on.
Re:IPv6 implementations for various OSs
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Slashdot over IPv6
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Unfortunately, like most of the net, that site is at least 6 months out of date. All currently shipping copies of Windows XP contain a PRODUCTION quality IPv6 stack, and all Windows XP installs with SP1 installed also have it. Not the tech preview stack as they indicate "Windows XP" has.
Why does anyone (not you I know) bother to maintain a list like that if they aren't going to keep it up to date? Old information (that is not dated as old information) is less than worthless.
Considering that MS is on a security campaign and this is as anti-security as you can get, I doub't they'll adopt it. They may rightly point out that it is a stupid concept in the face of ever growing security concerns, but that would be considered by you as B) I'm sure.
What a great thing to be able to have any stranger pop-over and hook up to your printer without you knowing it and print out whatever kind of crap. Or just waste your supplies. Make it wireless and even more fun can be had!
In this day and age, this is the stupidest thing imaginable. Apple and the WiFi people have completely ignored all the warnings and are working as hard as they can to make this an even less secure world than it is.
Course it "Easier" so 99% of the people will flock to it. Sad.
Considering that a cdr costs around 15 cents, and can be written to dozens of times till it fills up, holding like 450 times the amount of a single floppy, CDRs are pretty damn cheap. Just don't "Finalize" the disk and you've wasted nothing. Reuse it after burning a boot disk on it. What's the problem?
Versions of windows today support the USB fobs without drivers. And if olders versions need drivers, they virtually ALWAYS come on CD. CDs are cheaper to make and ship than floppies.
CD-R drives and disks cost virtually the same as floppys. Floppy's are slower to write to and less reliable. CD drives are bootable and bootable disks can be made by any CDR writing software. CDRs can, and have, replaced floppies completely in funtionality and price. Overkill for the same price is not overkill. So what if 90% of the disk space remains empty. That cdr disk is still cheaper than a floppy for giving away.
Any NEW machine that comes with a floppy drive just costs more to make and is more resource wasteful if the machine comes with a CDR drive.
Of just boot off of the CDROM like ALL modern motherboards do... CD-R drives being $59 or less and probably standard on all new systems make the floppy completely redundant. Floppy disks even cost more than CD-Rs. Unless you got a friend with no internet connection and no cd-r and you just have to get your p()orn off his machine, well make a machine yourself and put as many floppy drives in it as you possibly can! Otherwise, the day of the floppy is gone and good riddance.
... trying to get people to patch their software when the vendor spoon feeds them fixes. (note the recent super virus was exploiting code that had a easily avalable patch). You actually think the majority of these people (or even 1 in 1000) are going to fix their own bugs just because it's Open Source? Even if a fix from another vendor is available? That's some kind of dream land you're in there Timmy.
Hell huge numbers of BIND users are still running unpatched server software and that's Open Source.
I'd say that yes, this is quite "Microsoftish", but even MS supports OS versions for at least 4-5 years.
Buisness is buisness. In fact nothing MS did WAS illegal until they were declared a monopoly. Then they were tried for past crimes based on new legal status. They did nothing different than any other buisness does. It was only their sheer mass that got them fingered.
Look at sun, giving away an entire office suite and an OS for free. That would be considered "dumping" if they were a much more sucessful company, but because they are currently an underdog on the desktop, its "ok" for them to give away what is currently considered a money making product for free to undercut competitors. When MS did that with IE you cried foul. Where is your morality now?
Frankly "Anti-trust" is a bogus concept. Moral is moral and immoral is immoral, size does not matter. Open source is in many ways as, and more, immoral than anything MS has done. MS never gave away an entire office suite and OS to undercut a competitor. Just because something or someone is small vs large doesn't change what is right or wrong. "The ends justify the means" is a bogus concept at MS's level and it's just as bogus at the Open Source level.
If Open Source were truly ethical, then it would be open AND sold for what it was worth and the people slaving away long hours on it paid just compensation for their work. Gaining market share by dumping your product based on the good will of others is not ethical in any way. Red Hat itself is far more evil than MS in this regard.
So how ethical and bright is Linus? (Who works for a closed archetecture company and runs close source software while gloating about it? (Re DVD playback)) How buisness savvy is he or RMS? How about ESR being "Suprised by wealth" then "Suprised by poverty" as he produced nothing of value with all that wasted money? Who are you comparing Bill Gates to anyway to call him a bad person? He's a candy bear compared to anyone running an entertainment or energy company or indeed most other large company tech leaders. Jobs has been positively maniacal twards mac fans, mac support companies, the press and competitors of all kinds. And yet he now has a new friend in slashdot.
Slashdot's continuous, flaming, non-self-examining bias with the entire Open Source Vs Microsoft "war" is beyond old. We need to concentrate on the success, security and commercial success of this little OS that could and drop all the retoric. It's going nowhere.
No good reason?!?!? This has already been hashed out with bicycles, skate boards, roller blades, scooters and other devices which are ALL banned from sidewalks in most places for obvious reasons.
What made anyone think the Segway was somehow "Special" or "Magical" and the laws of physics that have kept every other faster than walking personal vehicle off the sidewalks would somehow not apply to the segway.
Anyone that didn't see this coming simply didn't have their eyes open.
"Essentially, SCO will continue to charge IBM but not RedHat or SCO's UnitedLinux partners."
Isn't that called being discriminatory? Charging different people different amounts for the same thing? (Actually The entire Linux pricing issue skirts legality, but that's a different topic)
Besides, their "word" on that convinces who? If/when Linux actually does take off on the desktop, and Red Hat starts raking in the billions, SCO will just stick to their word then? "United Linux" vs Red Hat? You don't think this won't heat up in the future?
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Re:What are the ten worst Windows vulnerabilities?
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Ask Kevin Mitnick
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Since this is slashdot and since Open Source and Linux are more our concern here, shouldn't the question be:
"What are the ten worst Linux vulnerabilities to hacking, how would you attack such systems, and what has to be done with Linux to prevent such vulnerabilities?"
Surely you don't actually believe that Linux is unhackable? Wouldn't finding out what Linux's weakest areas are and fixing them before Linux becomes widspread enough on "Dumb User" hardware that it becomes the next great hacking target?
Maybe you should. BTW, just so you know. Telling the truth (Even if it is a bit heated) is not trolling. If you mod as such you will quickly find that you are no longer eligable for modding as people will have metamoderated you out of the pool.
That latest VM episode was with the very latest JVM DLed from sun itself on Dec 25 2002. That's what I meant about "It's still crappy after 4 years". I admit that their installer and general "user experience" with the installation of the JVM and use for running java files has improved greately. Not having to manually set path variables (what a concept!) was nice. But as soon as I started using it, all the same old horrors were still there.
Suns JVM is the ONLY... PROGRAM... EVER... To cause my 512 meg windows machine with 752 meg of VM popup and say "Windows is increasing your windows VM" when running a tiny editing program. Every single actual java program I have ever run using Suns JVM has been buggy and slow. It turns a p4 2.5 gig machine into a 486. It's the crappiest piece of junk I have ever been forced to install on a Windows box (And I've been forced to install both Quicktime AND Real multiple times), and now the entire world has to suffer having it.
Microsoft's JVM was 4x faster and less buggy that Suns. It was SO FAST, that sun had to rig one of their benchmarking programs to hide the fact!
Sun screwed themselves over by being lazy and stupid with their poor JVM implentation and lousy development tools. 4 years later, Sun's Java on the desktop is still a piece of crap. Java could have been something if Sun had had any balls and/or brains. But they have neither and they destroyed their chance.
Maybe, maybe not. I have an HDTV and had the ATI AIW card and no amount of frequencey tweaking could get HD/1080i out of the card.
HDTVs are not (god knows why) multi-frequency monitors. They require an exact specification or they don't sync at all. Using programs to adjust the various frequencies and polarities of the signals in theory could get you there, but after several days tewaking with all kinds of "help" from the net, I never did get anything above 480p which the TV itself could do with a normal TV signal from the AIW card.
I for one am looking forward to this "plug and play" HDTV out card!
The graphics are flash with a C++ client running it. And for further correction, I've been told that the Macromedia linux flash client has been released. (Yeah, I know this isn't fresh meat)
Would you care to elaborate on your "out of the ass" phrase "Windows is paying a huge price for backwards compatibility"? In fact Windows is paying a very small price. In fact the ability to run DOS or Win16 executables is also a very very small price.
The way it looks to me is that ALL of Linux pays a very large price for this constantly moving target of Kernel and GUI API changes. Not to mention constant and complex liscencing issues. The original user was right. MS makes it easy on both the user and the developer. Linux is extremely hostle to both. I mean the facts speak for themselves. Whitness the graveyard of quality user-level Apps on linux Vs Windows or Mac. It's been going on for over a decade and it still show no sign of changing. If Linux is to compete at all, then it can't go on as it has been.
ALL bonuses are bad news, for exactly the same reason. It is popular to tie company performance with bonuses, but in bad times like these the employees are called on to do even more to help the company, then when the product doesn't sell as well as hoped, instead of being rewarded for their hard work, they get a lump of coal. "Sorry, no bonus after all!"
Another bad one. "Employee of the week/month/year" awards and bonuses. You give one guy a prize and you guarantee that you piss off everyone else. Next time no one tries because they know they'll just lose whether they work hard or not.
The best way to avoid smashing someone's expectations is not not give them phoney expectations to begin with. Pay a good salary, have a good work environment, good non-"bonus" benefits and you'll have happy loyal employees.
"The problem is ICANN. Why are we limited to so few TLDs? Why can't anybody willing to put up a shingle put together their own TLD in a cooperative fashion?"
Because the TLDs are supposed to MEAN something. (Not like they really do any more but...) Assuming for a second that they DO mean something, they are used for high-level organization. If you go to a.gov site you are supposed to be relatively sure that you are really on a government site! If there were an unlimited amount of TLDs they would no longer be useful. You will in fact have completely gotten rid of the concept of a Top Level Domain completely.
The only real question is, how many should there be? 10? 100? as the net grows I would expect the TLD list to grow, but within tightly controlled bounds! The fact is, the more TLDs there are and the less controlled they are, the less meaning they will have. What if TDL registrar A created "trash" then B created "junk", then C created "garbage", then "crap", "waste", "sewage", "effluance"... After a while, then entire concept of a TLD has no meaning at all.
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And what makes you think that you PERSONALLY won't be able to make copies onto you PERSONAL mp3 player?
There are already systems like this in place where you are able to DL (C) music and make 2 CD copies legally.
And if the publisher decides they don't want to give you any fair use? Screw-em! Who the hell needs to listen to yet another boy-band anyway? Who the hell needs to watch another Star Wars movie? Go get music from Indie sources, read a book, brew some beer. DO someting!
The publishers will either cave in or go broke. It's their own throats they're cutting.
I agree with the root, this is all Chicken Little. Let them have their locked up universe, I don't need thier crap, you don't need their crap. They will come back begging us to take their stuff after a while!
Artificially created life,
artificially induced death.
Look at and mod the parent of this post UP. It is maybe 1 in 500 that actually tells you what went on.
Unfortunately, like most of the net, that site is at least 6 months out of date. All currently shipping copies of Windows XP contain a PRODUCTION quality IPv6 stack, and all Windows XP installs with SP1 installed also have it. Not the tech preview stack as they indicate "Windows XP" has.
Why does anyone (not you I know) bother to maintain a list like that if they aren't going to keep it up to date? Old information (that is not dated as old information) is less than worthless.
Considering that MS is on a security campaign and this is as anti-security as you can get, I doub't they'll adopt it. They may rightly point out that it is a stupid concept in the face of ever growing security concerns, but that would be considered by you as B) I'm sure.
What a great thing to be able to have any stranger pop-over and hook up to your printer without you knowing it and print out whatever kind of crap. Or just waste your supplies. Make it wireless and even more fun can be had!
In this day and age, this is the stupidest thing imaginable. Apple and the WiFi people have completely ignored all the warnings and are working as hard as they can to make this an even less secure world than it is.
Course it "Easier" so 99% of the people will flock to it. Sad.
Considering that a cdr costs around 15 cents, and can be written to dozens of times till it fills up, holding like 450 times the amount of a single floppy, CDRs are pretty damn cheap. Just don't "Finalize" the disk and you've wasted nothing. Reuse it after burning a boot disk on it. What's the problem?
Versions of windows today support the USB fobs without drivers. And if olders versions need drivers, they virtually ALWAYS come on CD. CDs are cheaper to make and ship than floppies.
CD-R drives and disks cost virtually the same as floppys. Floppy's are slower to write to and less reliable. CD drives are bootable and bootable disks can be made by any CDR writing software. CDRs can, and have, replaced floppies completely in funtionality and price. Overkill for the same price is not overkill. So what if 90% of the disk space remains empty. That cdr disk is still cheaper than a floppy for giving away.
Any NEW machine that comes with a floppy drive just costs more to make and is more resource wasteful if the machine comes with a CDR drive.
Of just boot off of the CDROM like ALL modern motherboards do... CD-R drives being $59 or less and probably standard on all new systems make the floppy completely redundant. Floppy disks even cost more than CD-Rs. Unless you got a friend with no internet connection and no cd-r and you just have to get your p()orn off his machine, well make a machine yourself and put as many floppy drives in it as you possibly can! Otherwise, the day of the floppy is gone and good riddance.
Did you not notice the price tag? THAT was it's failure. If had been all that AND $199... then who knows.
... trying to get people to patch their software when the vendor spoon feeds them fixes. (note the recent super virus was exploiting code that had a easily avalable patch). You actually think the majority of these people (or even 1 in 1000) are going to fix their own bugs just because it's Open Source? Even if a fix from another vendor is available? That's some kind of dream land you're in there Timmy.
Hell huge numbers of BIND users are still running unpatched server software and that's Open Source.
I'd say that yes, this is quite "Microsoftish", but even MS supports OS versions for at least 4-5 years.
Buisness is buisness. In fact nothing MS did WAS illegal until they were declared a monopoly. Then they were tried for past crimes based on new legal status. They did nothing different than any other buisness does. It was only their sheer mass that got them fingered.
Look at sun, giving away an entire office suite and an OS for free. That would be considered "dumping" if they were a much more sucessful company, but because they are currently an underdog on the desktop, its "ok" for them to give away what is currently considered a money making product for free to undercut competitors. When MS did that with IE you cried foul. Where is your morality now?
Frankly "Anti-trust" is a bogus concept. Moral is moral and immoral is immoral, size does not matter. Open source is in many ways as, and more, immoral than anything MS has done. MS never gave away an entire office suite and OS to undercut a competitor. Just because something or someone is small vs large doesn't change what is right or wrong. "The ends justify the means" is a bogus concept at MS's level and it's just as bogus at the Open Source level.
If Open Source were truly ethical, then it would be open AND sold for what it was worth and the people slaving away long hours on it paid just compensation for their work. Gaining market share by dumping your product based on the good will of others is not ethical in any way. Red Hat itself is far more evil than MS in this regard.
So how ethical and bright is Linus? (Who works for a closed archetecture company and runs close source software while gloating about it? (Re DVD playback)) How buisness savvy is he or RMS? How about ESR being "Suprised by wealth" then "Suprised by poverty" as he produced nothing of value with all that wasted money? Who are you comparing Bill Gates to anyway to call him a bad person? He's a candy bear compared to anyone running an entertainment or energy company or indeed most other large company tech leaders. Jobs has been positively maniacal twards mac fans, mac support companies, the press and competitors of all kinds. And yet he now has a new friend in slashdot.
Slashdot's continuous, flaming, non-self-examining bias with the entire Open Source Vs Microsoft "war" is beyond old. We need to concentrate on the success, security and commercial success of this little OS that could and drop all the retoric. It's going nowhere.
That list is much much smaller than the actual included utilities. It also include csh, ksh and tcsh. (Though NO bash)
There is! But that doesn't stop conflicting acronyms though. My favorite conflict. POS = Point Of Sale and POS = Piece Of Shi...
Check this out and look up POS for a great example of TLA overloading...
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
No good reason?!?!? This has already been hashed out with bicycles, skate boards, roller blades, scooters and other devices which are ALL banned from sidewalks in most places for obvious reasons.
What made anyone think the Segway was somehow "Special" or "Magical" and the laws of physics that have kept every other faster than walking personal vehicle off the sidewalks would somehow not apply to the segway.
Anyone that didn't see this coming simply didn't have their eyes open.
"Essentially, SCO will continue to charge IBM but not RedHat or SCO's UnitedLinux partners."
Isn't that called being discriminatory? Charging different people different amounts for the same thing? (Actually The entire Linux pricing issue skirts legality, but that's a different topic)
Besides, their "word" on that convinces who? If/when Linux actually does take off on the desktop, and Red Hat starts raking in the billions, SCO will just stick to their word then? "United Linux" vs Red Hat? You don't think this won't heat up in the future?
When monkeys fly out of my...
Since this is slashdot and since Open Source and Linux are more our concern here, shouldn't the question be:
"What are the ten worst Linux vulnerabilities to hacking, how would you attack such systems, and what has to be done with Linux to prevent such vulnerabilities?"
Surely you don't actually believe that Linux is unhackable? Wouldn't finding out what Linux's weakest areas are and fixing them before Linux becomes widspread enough on "Dumb User" hardware that it becomes the next great hacking target?
Maybe you should. BTW, just so you know. Telling the truth (Even if it is a bit heated) is not trolling. If you mod as such you will quickly find that you are no longer eligable for modding as people will have metamoderated you out of the pool.
That latest VM episode was with the very latest JVM DLed from sun itself on Dec 25 2002. That's what I meant about "It's still crappy after 4 years". I admit that their installer and general "user experience" with the installation of the JVM and use for running java files has improved greately. Not having to manually set path variables (what a concept!) was nice. But as soon as I started using it, all the same old horrors were still there.
Suns JVM is the ONLY... PROGRAM... EVER... To cause my 512 meg windows machine with 752 meg of VM popup and say "Windows is increasing your windows VM" when running a tiny editing program. Every single actual java program I have ever run using Suns JVM has been buggy and slow. It turns a p4 2.5 gig machine into a 486. It's the crappiest piece of junk I have ever been forced to install on a Windows box (And I've been forced to install both Quicktime AND Real multiple times), and now the entire world has to suffer having it.
Microsoft's JVM was 4x faster and less buggy that Suns. It was SO FAST, that sun had to rig one of their benchmarking programs to hide the fact!
Sun screwed themselves over by being lazy and stupid with their poor JVM implentation and lousy development tools. 4 years later, Sun's Java on the desktop is still a piece of crap. Java could have been something if Sun had had any balls and/or brains. But they have neither and they destroyed their chance.
Maybe, maybe not. I have an HDTV and had the ATI AIW card and no amount of frequencey tweaking could get HD/1080i out of the card.
HDTVs are not (god knows why) multi-frequency monitors. They require an exact specification or they don't sync at all. Using programs to adjust the various frequencies and polarities of the signals in theory could get you there, but after several days tewaking with all kinds of "help" from the net, I never did get anything above 480p which the TV itself could do with a normal TV signal from the AIW card.
I for one am looking forward to this "plug and play" HDTV out card!
The graphics are flash with a C++ client running it. And for further correction, I've been told that the Macromedia linux flash client has been released. (Yeah, I know this isn't fresh meat)
It's written entirely in flash. It MIGHT work on Linux using Redhat and the latest Redhat flash beta binaries from Maromedia itself...
Would you care to elaborate on your "out of the ass" phrase "Windows is paying a huge price for backwards compatibility"? In fact Windows is paying a very small price. In fact the ability to run DOS or Win16 executables is also a very very small price.
The way it looks to me is that ALL of Linux pays a very large price for this constantly moving target of Kernel and GUI API changes. Not to mention constant and complex liscencing issues. The original user was right. MS makes it easy on both the user and the developer. Linux is extremely hostle to both. I mean the facts speak for themselves. Whitness the graveyard of quality user-level Apps on linux Vs Windows or Mac. It's been going on for over a decade and it still show no sign of changing. If Linux is to compete at all, then it can't go on as it has been.
ALL bonuses are bad news, for exactly the same reason. It is popular to tie company performance with bonuses, but in bad times like these the employees are called on to do even more to help the company, then when the product doesn't sell as well as hoped, instead of being rewarded for their hard work, they get a lump of coal. "Sorry, no bonus after all!"
Another bad one. "Employee of the week/month/year" awards and bonuses. You give one guy a prize and you guarantee that you piss off everyone else. Next time no one tries because they know they'll just lose whether they work hard or not.
The best way to avoid smashing someone's expectations is not not give them phoney expectations to begin with. Pay a good salary, have a good work environment, good non-"bonus" benefits and you'll have happy loyal employees.
"The problem is ICANN. Why are we limited to so few TLDs? Why can't anybody willing to put up a shingle put together their own TLD in a cooperative fashion?"
.gov site you are supposed to be relatively sure that you are really on a government site! If there were an unlimited amount of TLDs they would no longer be useful. You will in fact have completely gotten rid of the concept of a Top Level Domain completely.
Because the TLDs are supposed to MEAN something. (Not like they really do any more but...) Assuming for a second that they DO mean something, they are used for high-level organization. If you go to a
The only real question is, how many should there be? 10? 100? as the net grows I would expect the TLD list to grow, but within tightly controlled bounds! The fact is, the more TLDs there are and the less controlled they are, the less meaning they will have. What if TDL registrar A created "trash" then B created "junk", then C created "garbage", then "crap", "waste", "sewage", "effluance"... After a while, then entire concept of a TLD has no meaning at all.