This is terrible, here is something that windows does far better than Linux and apart from two failed attempts to add virus compatibility to Linux there is nothing...
Not even an attempt to get them to run under Wine???
I vote we start an Open Source Linux Virus Project immediately before we lose out completely.
Oh yeah forgot these "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Please distibute throughout previous comment before reading.
Hmm kinda dounbt that in absolute terms that anything is free, free beer would be a good example of this. How many of us if put into an environment with beer available at no monetary cost would not be doing some serious paying the next day (/week, whatever, after the supply has run out anyway).
Also the coupons are free in the advertising/marketing understanding of the word, i.e., similar to the way anglers give free worms to fish.
Welcome to The Free Colour Printers Store! Here you have the opportunity to own a XEROX Colour Printer - FREE!
The Printer is Free! Just order a full set of supplies and pay for delivery plus any additional supplies you fancy then we will provide the printer Free!
Sky Digital is already doing something similar in the UK, on some ads there is a little icon shows up in the top left of the screen saying click the red button now, this then takes you into their interactive service thing, click through a couple of questions it dials them and they send you through the coupon.
This is probably going to be v.bad for people like me who like free things no matter what the cost or usefulness...
He also owns, or at least registered the www.befound.com site (the one hosting the old Y2K software page). Also if you write to them you can ask that they remove any data they have regarding you under the terms of the Data Protection Act (see my previous post).
Anybody know their real name?, if they are in the UK then what they have done is WAY Illegal under the data protection act, assuming that the information they have collected could be considered personal data (not entirely sure about that, but it would seem to be).
Can't find Netpd/mp3police or Bruce Ward registed as data collectors on the Data Protection website either.
Section 8 is interesting, u r not allowed to transmit data outside of the European area unless you can prove that there is sufficient protection for it....
And hey if you think you are on their list you can send a couple of quid to their registered address and they have to send you a copy of all the info they have on you.
in a large corporation, it is a significant burden on the administrators to go around and touch every single user's machine just to change a default
You don't learn do you?:P
All you need to do is send a simple email with a VBScript attachment that modifies the file associations and then forwards itself to everyone in the address book.
Make the message suffiently attractive for users to click and the problem is solved without you ever even having to get out of your chair...
The one that gets me most is people refering to web pages as "internet explorer sites", well ok it only happened once, was trying to get the latest upgrade of an e-commerce package, they gave me the url ftp.company.com, so like a fool I ftp'd in and downloaded the program. A day later and still failed it to get what it should, called again, & after 1/2 an hour or so found it was an old version, and that ftp.company.com was actually an internet explorer site, not ftp....
Umm nope, my mum uses kmail. Linux works equally well for novices as nuts (it's the majority in the middle that have problems), it has all the essential apps,
Email
Freecell
Web
Freecell
Word Processors
Freecell
etc...
doesn't crash so often, can be fixed via telnet, has mesmerising screensavers...
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, there is no way I would recommend linux/bsd systems to any of my clients, well not until I have a high priced phone number that gives me a cut of the call charges anyway...
This should serve as a wakeup call anyway (ok, I know it won't, easier to scapegoat) computers are complicated & unreliable, the majority of users don't know coalderivedsugeralternativeofyour choice, the real offenders are the people who hype and bumrush consumers into believing that there is only their way without thinking about the consequences.
Too many floors, too little foundation and allopathic rather than homeopathic solutions.
got my copy of Nominet (UK names agency) News today and it had the following...
"Are you cybersquatting?
The new Anti-Cybersquatting Act passed in the USA at the end of December 1999 could mean that a number of.com Domain Name Registrants could now be inadvertant cybersquatters!
The new Anti-Cybersquatting legislation allows those corporations or individuals which have a Domain Name or trademark registered in the USA to sue any other company, orginisation or individual who has registered a Domain Name but does not have have the name registered as a trademark in the US.
..... (more here)"
This would seem to mean that although I have my-company-name.com registered, the fact that there is a company with the same name in the US means that (if they have the name trademarked) they can basically just take it any time they want.
Also if I create any online business with it's own.com name, then unless I trademark the name, the URL can be taken, the site ripped off, and the work I put into developing & advertising benefited from.
also notice that Wired link direct to the list of mirrors, so they should be liable as well, only one more click than from the 2600 homepage than from wired's hp.
and slashdot links direct to the wired article so same number of clicks from Slashdot hp (if this topic is still on the frontapge).
where does it stop?
your #4 is very accurate if they succede in their case against 2600, and as a webmaster, quite often directly responsible for the external links from my clients sites this would make my job pretty much impossible.
try http://www.2600.ca/ or your choice of country code, 2600 give you a free lifetime subscription if you set up the DNS for the name for your country to their server.
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"For a starving college student earning $23k/yr." !!!!
Say what?? 15 grand (when converted to real money) a year is starvation level?? that's a pretty decent wage over here, and stuff costs more.
Doesn't really take too much searching to find info on most of these, actually quite a few I'd read about before, or seen on the bbc/uk channel 4 (generally at about 4 or 5 am admittedly)...
2 & 3. http://www.who.org/ http://biz.yahoo.com/p/p/pfe.html ok I know kinda irrelevant, but does anyone really believe that these corporations care so much about people that they will give millions to help them.
either that or just use clever PR and media hysteria to create a culture where hackers/crackers are seen as a serious Threat To Society As We Know It and especially The Children.
Keep those that are necesarry in high paid jobs, but let them know exactly what cardboard box they are going to be sleeping under the moment they cross the line.
Then they save the $100K (nobody's going to dare crack it however easy it is), ppl accept market lead rushed releases (naming no names, it's after midnight and I'm not sitting in a protective circle of salt), and hey everyone's happy. They better be.
They seem to be making the wrong moves at every stage, and really don't seem to understand how the internet (or its denizens) work. If they'd just accepted it, rewritten their encryption and released a statement saying that they were working on the problem of sites being wrongly censored it would probably all be forgotten by now. Instead they seem to be taking great pleasure in rubbing salt into the wound at every step.. threatning foreign nationals with a US court, trying to get the log files, sending email subpeonas to all the mirrors, and now mysteriously obtaining the copyright to the code and making themselves look damn sinister in the process. Not to mention the fact that they could have dragged the court case out for years, by which time probably very few people would have kept interest, now a lot of people who were pretty pissed off before know that they have no chance of vindication through the courts and they probably aren't going to just say "mustn't grumble" and put it down to experience.
Could it be that Mattel are actually doing this in support of free speach on the internet?? it seems the only possible logic in their actions....
Slashdot Mirror
Not even an attempt to get them to run under Wine???
I vote we start an Open Source Linux Virus Project immediately before we lose out completely.
Oh yeah forgot these "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Please distibute throughout previous comment before reading.
Also the coupons are free in the advertising/marketing understanding of the word, i.e., similar to the way anglers give free worms to fish.
For those who don't want to click . . .
now if only I could afford the supplies . . .
This is probably going to be v.bad for people like me who like free things no matter what the cost or usefulness...
See http://www.ne tworksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?host+208.14 5.34.1, actually he doesn't own the name, just the coordinator for the NS. This would be before he moved to the UK I guess, bizzare idea that though, people moving here for tech jobs....
Ho Hum
--eskimo is deprecated please use --inuit
Offtopic but interesting The data protection registrars response to the RIP bill (Word Doc)
http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
Can't find Netpd/mp3police or Bruce Ward registed as data collectors on the Data Protection website either.
Section 8 is interesting, u r not allowed to transmit data outside of the European area unless you can prove that there is sufficient protection for it....
And hey if you think you are on their list you can send a couple of quid to their registered address and they have to send you a copy of all the info they have on you.
http://208.145.34.97/
Guess they had to find something else to do when the Y2K bug did't
Doubt this page is going to be up much longer, someone want to mirror?
You don't learn do you? :P
All you need to do is send a simple email with a VBScript attachment that modifies the file associations and then forwards itself to everyone in the address book.
Make the message suffiently attractive for users to click and the problem is solved without you ever even having to get out of your chair...
The one that gets me most is people refering to web pages as "internet explorer sites", well ok it only happened once, was trying to get the latest upgrade of an e-commerce package, they gave me the url ftp.company.com, so like a fool I ftp'd in and downloaded the program. A day later and still failed it to get what it should, called again, & after 1/2 an hour or so found it was an old version, and that ftp.company.com was actually an internet explorer site, not ftp....
$ cat - >./blah.sh /* &>/dev/null ./blah.sh ./blah.sh: Permission denied
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf
$
bash:
chmod is your friend
Eudora ported to Linux
Remember, you heard it here first...
doesn't crash so often, can be fixed via telnet, has mesmerising screensavers...
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, there is no way I would recommend linux/bsd systems to any of my clients, well not until I have a high priced phone number that gives me a cut of the call charges anyway...
This should serve as a wakeup call anyway (ok, I know it won't, easier to scapegoat) computers are complicated & unreliable, the majority of users don't know coalderivedsugeralternativeofyour choice, the real offenders are the people who hype and bumrush consumers into believing that there is only their way without thinking about the consequences.
Too many floors, too little foundation and allopathic rather than homeopathic solutions.
Clearly you suffer from serious moral decay.
Count on making it into the Security Service.
Russian web hosts, http://weblist.ru/english/Business_and_economy/Com panies/Internet_services/W eb_services/Hosting/ get them while they're hot!
This is probably (ok certainly) off topic, but...
.com Domain Name Registrants could now be inadvertant cybersquatters!
.com name, then unless I trademark the name, the URL can be taken, the site ripped off, and the work I put into developing & advertising benefited from.
got my copy of Nominet (UK names agency) News today and it had the following...
"Are you cybersquatting?
The new Anti-Cybersquatting Act passed in the USA at the end of December 1999 could mean that a number of
The new Anti-Cybersquatting legislation allows those corporations or individuals which have a Domain Name or trademark registered in the USA to sue any other company, orginisation or individual who has registered a Domain Name but does not have have the name registered as a trademark in the US.
..... (more here)"
This would seem to mean that although I have my-company-name.com registered, the fact that there is a company with the same name in the US means that (if they have the name trademarked) they can basically just take it any time they want.
Also if I create any online business with it's own
also notice that Wired link direct to the list of mirrors, so they should be liable as well, only one more click than from the 2600 homepage than from wired's hp.
and slashdot links direct to the wired article so same number of clicks from Slashdot hp (if this topic is still on the frontapge).
where does it stop?
your #4 is very accurate if they succede in their case against 2600, and as a webmaster, quite often directly responsible for the external links from my clients sites this would make my job pretty much impossible.
try http://www.2600.ca/ or your choice of country code, 2600 give you a free lifetime subscription if you set up the DNS for the name for your country to their server.
"For a starving college student earning $23k/yr." !!!!
Say what?? 15 grand (when converted to real money) a year is starvation level?? that's a pretty decent wage over here, and stuff costs more.
ho hum...
Doesn't really take too much searching to find info on most of these, actually quite a few I'd read about before, or seen on the bbc/uk channel 4 (generally at about 4 or 5 am admittedly)...
d ex.html
a l.html 2 000/jh.html
... (and lazier)
1 %2D08.html
1.
http://www.zmag.org/bulletins/pdrillb.htm
http://www.edf.org/pubs/reports/chadcameroon/in
2 & 3.
http://www.who.org/
http://biz.yahoo.com/p/p/pfe.html
ok I know kinda irrelevant, but does anyone really believe that these corporations care so much about people that they will give millions to help them.
4.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ99/bo
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/swatch/headlines/
5.
http://www.kurdistan.org/Washington/index.html
6.
skipped (they say lack of evidence in the article and I'm lazy)
7.
Watch CNN and then a non US news service. (getting lazier)
8.
why bother using plutonium anyway, drop something from that height and
9.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2000/2000l%2D02%2D1
10.
http://www.zmag.org/crisescurevts/ramletter.htm
but hey, whatever...
either that or just use clever PR and media hysteria to create a culture where hackers/crackers are seen as a serious Threat To Society As We Know It and especially The Children.
Keep those that are necesarry in high paid jobs, but let them know exactly what cardboard box they are going to be sleeping under the moment they cross the line.
Then they save the $100K (nobody's going to dare crack it however easy it is), ppl accept market lead rushed releases (naming no names, it's after midnight and I'm not sitting in a protective circle of salt), and hey everyone's happy. They better be.
(hyperbole I hope)
also of course signing it could have been a really bad idea depending on what NDA they signed (assuming they did)...
probably should all be "I'm Brian! --unauthenticated"
They seem to be making the wrong moves at every stage, and really don't seem to understand how the internet (or its denizens) work. If they'd just accepted it, rewritten their encryption and released a statement saying that they were working on the problem of sites being wrongly censored it would probably all be forgotten by now. Instead they seem to be taking great pleasure in rubbing salt into the wound at every step.. threatning foreign nationals with a US court, trying to get the log files, sending email subpeonas to all the mirrors, and now mysteriously obtaining the copyright to the code and making themselves look damn sinister in the process. Not to mention the fact that they could have dragged the court case out for years, by which time probably very few people would have kept interest, now a lot of people who were pretty pissed off before know that they have no chance of vindication through the courts and they probably aren't going to just say "mustn't grumble" and put it down to experience.
Could it be that Mattel are actually doing this in support of free speach on the internet?? it seems the only possible logic in their actions....