If this type of "adaptive" site becomes popular - or if you even hear one or two more of these stories from a major news publication - some idiot at ZD News will post an opinion piece ranting about how you can't trust the opinions of ordinary people, and that you should stop resisting and try to only read content approved by experts, who, after all, know how to tell the good stuff from the bad stuff. But since it will only be a transparent attempt at./-er baiting to raise readership of the story online, so no one will really care.
Am I the only one who thinks that MSNBC can be far harder on microsoft than the zd klowns?
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But does the entertainment industry make films about us? No, do they hell, instead they glamourise the lawyers, as uaual.
Many entertainment company execs are lawyers. Who do you think they want glamourized? Themselves, or the guy they call when they can't find that thing they downloaded? I doubt it's even conscious; screenwriters to it to flatter them, and they think, "gee, this screenplay is smart!"
This is obviously the worst movie about computers since Hackers, and no less insulting to the people they are supposedly representing. Meanwhile, real hackers are sitting at home trying to get their Matrix dvd to play with their illegal DVD software.
Good for Miguel, good for Gnome. When the film and tv crowd figure out that they can use Gnome or KDE or plain old X on a computer screen, they an stop spending ridiculous movie industry cash to the many companies that create fake computer software displays to get around IP issues with commercial OSes. Then more and more people will be familiar with what it looks like, which will further its kudzu-like spread across desktops everywhere. Now there's a plot!
Go rent Colossus: The Forbin Project, watch T2 again, but don't spend a dime on this atrocity. Even The Bridges of Madison County is probably a better movie about computers than this one.
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Oh well.. just how many of those 3 stars should disapear ?
Four of them.
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I believe he did address that issue, and repeatedly. Different projects have different goals, and FreeBSD has always focused on technical excellence. But it doesn't suit everyone's needs all the time, nor should it be expected to.
Your question can also be put a different way; why did Linus not just work on the BSDs in the first place? Linus has said that were it not for the lawsuit keeping the BSD down, he would probably have never created Linux, because he wouldn't have needed to.
Finally, you presume that the goal is to overthrow Windows (though Microsoft is hardly the world's largest company), and that warez is somehow "free", and that commercial software has some kind of integrity that open source lacks. There are plenty of sources to disabuse you of those notions, but really if you went back and read the article carefully, you'd get the answers to your questions.
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Right, "professionals." Leave the real work to the "experts." Get out of the 19th fucking century!
I sincerely doubt that my particular arrangement of window managers, mail clients (mutt is the only one worth a tinker's damn), shortcuts, and modifications has undergone ANY TESTING AT ALL but it feels right to me and makes me more productive.
So what, you are going to tell me that "experts" know more than I do about how I work? I doubt it.
On top of that, you're not even a good Mac zealot; Macs have ALWAYS been ahead of Windows in terms of prettiness and usability. Prettiness? Please, Windows has always had the flair of a polyester suit coat. Mac have been its unfortunate equal in stability for a long time. That may change.
As for expensive hardware, the new G4s should contain more than their share of value in terms of the lamely named "superdrive" which still rocks, and gigabit ethernet. Again, they are ahead of the curve in value, although the base price is still high. But if Apple continues the trends the've shown since Jobs came back, they should be able to trickle this down as fast as the cheaper and more open pc market can catch up to their technical jumps (look for compaq to offer an "ultradrive" or similarly named crap by the end of the year).
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I will continue using freebsd and linux for work and for servers, but if I can get bash, ssh, gcc, apache, etc working on os x it's a fair bet that it will become my home and media system.
Why? Because I just don't have the time to teach wife to use unix, even with xdm and nice window system, and it will be a long time before I can edit my video and burn dvd on my x86 bsd box. Of course I will when I can, but more importantly, i can now proudly paste a "dont' do windows" sticker on my front door.
Ok, so I'm not really that lame, but I try. The point is that it should not be seen as an either/or choice but a yes, and!
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Hmm... Answer a few questions (that together with hardware ids generate a unique profile) and create an internet connection... no data would be sent anywhere, right?
Are you aware that this description fits the profile of things that create their own serial numbers and register themselves?
I'm not saying I believe you (or believe that what it seems like you are saying is what you mean to say) but when I check it out I will definitely sniff (and block) those outbound packets!
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Yeah, you dont' get many messages sent though port 23, unless you are one of those skript kiddies who leaves messages as the filenames in anonymous ftp directories!
But really, your point about the poster being one with a grudge, and directing you to the target of the grudge. On the other hand, this illustrates where security through obscurity does work - misdirection. Sure, the first time someone looks at your hand instead of what you are pointing at, you are a sitting duck, but all the time it does work is time that no one scruntinizes the real security that's in the hat.
+1 Mixed Metaphors
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Hm... $40/mo is what cable access goes for in New York City.
But by "block offensive content", do you mean that your ISP really blocks web sites? That would suck. At least the US isn't the only English-speaking country faced with bouts of radically silly puritanism contrasting with the generally more modern outloook.
Time to start using an anonymizer or redirector!
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Compaq is more guilty than most when it comes to tarting up their products to get the sex appeal of Mac's offerings. But story on CNET makes it clear they aren't entirely in reaction mode. They announced their plan to do the DVD thing before MacWorld, though I was really shocked to find out that Apple had ALREADY DONE IT.
When it comes to my next home computer, though, edting video, burning dvds from it, not having my wife afraid to use it, and still being able to bring up a unix shell for comfort and to do my business, a G4 with OS X is an obvious choice.
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In my experience, vegetarians and vegans, if they are worth hanging out with at all, can drink copious amounts of beer, vodka, tequila, jaegermeister, arak, ouzo, unicum (zwack!), or anything else.
Of course, yeast is technically an animal, so I am sure there are vegans who object to alcoholic beverages for that reason (that makes it an animal by-product), but vegans that militant are too high up in their tree to get my attention.
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No, it's specifically the developers who use ASP who also tend to write awful HTML, because their heads are so far up their butts that they see no problem with giving the finger to 20% of their clients who have mac, free os, non-standard browsers, or even just sucky IE setups with weird builds and weird problems you see nowhere else.
Assuming that javascript is available is a major common sin.
But it's not the tool, it's the developers that are the real problem.
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You are on the right track. This is a protection money racket, plain and simple. Artists will never see dime one from this; multinational corporate entities will sink this straight into their pockets, balance the books with a bunch of phony expenses, business as usual.
Except that taxation that goes into the coffers of private entities is not taxation, it's armed robbery.
No, I'm not going to read the article, it will just waste precious seconds for ranting.
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Businesses are not citizens. They are not even people. They may not even really be American in any sense. So what gives them a right to participate in the political process?
Why not give them the right to vote, idiot?
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After having worked in a video store, I know there is no point in explaining aspect ratios. Since 99.95% of all people say "How come it's wasting space on my TV screen", I just pretend not to understand, and say "What, you mean you want to throw away 1/3 of the picture?" They don't necessarily agree but they are too fuzzy-headed to come up with a rejoinder to this. Just repeat this point ad nauseam: "So you are recommending throwing away 1/3 of the picture? I want to see the whole movie. Don't you?"
Never acknowledge what they are saying about the black bars, or "wasting the TV screen."
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Actually, the Matrix did not insist that "if your brain thinks you died, your body dies." That is ridiculous. I myself have died many times in dreams.
Matrix-bred humans have their vital functions run by the Matrix - at least within the Matrix. Their brains have co-developed with the machinery this way. So if the matrix decides that you have been struck with bullets, it does bad things to your body via brainstem implants.
Notice that the free-range humans can't even enter the Matrix.
The logic does closely resemble the common stupid device you mention on the outside, but on the inside it's totally different.
Now if they were smart, the sequel will have Neo struggling to alert Matrix humans to the Matrix - maybe they don't care, maybe they turn against his warnings.
And they will have to work hard to avoid the biblical-derived sci-fi plot device (a lot bad sci-fi cribs from biblical sources) which they dangerously stirred up with Neo being a little too messianic (died, but is reborn, etc).
I'm interested to see where they go with the future matrix films, but they have some severe challenges that could be glossed over somewhat in the first one - sequels are MORE difficult to do well.
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Remember, it doesn't benifit the ones
making the electronics, only the ones making the media.
Not entirely so. Unless the factories that make the key chips are owned and closely watched by the companies who make the whole product - and for reasons of economy they often are not - it's fairly easy for said factory owners to turn any production downtime towards the manufacture of crippled replacement chips, or special add-ons that cripple or defeat copy protection measures.
You can get your playstation modified in chinatown so that it can play COPY disks of games. Who is better positioned and motivated to make black-market add-ons than owners of under-utilized factories that make the key components of the legitmate product?
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My favorite were the ones saying "Help, I can't send or receive e-mail" that had no e-mail address, name, or phone number. God loves an idiot.
And since there are so many comments like "get another job" WRT tech support, I thought I'd point out that for many it's a good entry point into more technical jobs, and a good way to be near technical subjects to learn about them instead of going through more schooling. Those who can will (and often do) make the leap. Those who can't go into marketing.
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You are absolutely right. They DON'T specifically reject paying users, they unspecifically leave them stuck, hoping that the users will take care of their own problems so that they don't have to train staff in how to to configure a free OS for dhcp, for example.
I've been through the process twice with Roadrunner alone, and the first time I made the mistake of letting them know I run linux (after I got tired of trying to explain freebsd). The second time, I wasn't even there and told them on the phone "Yeah, I know to use DHCP, I know to cycle the power on the cable modem if I change ethernet cards/mac address, just make sure it works."
That's the real reason that we have standards. As long as they use something that almost everyone can deal with, like DHCP, they can wash their hands, and I get my service, and everyone's happy (as long as I know to lie to customer support when I call during a service outage).
But it's also why purely proprietary systems should be terminated with extreme predjudice.
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My guess is transparency. If the standard is "look at the ballot and see how the voter voted", you are likely to get better results than if the standard is "look at this piece of paper and WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE SMARTER THAN A MAGIC ROBOT? DO YOU THINK YOU ARE THAT SMART? THEN WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A REGULAR JOB?"
The thing about scalability in counting votes is that it tolerates random differences very well. If you don't understand this, you should review basic probability theory or just get an education.
From another angle, the cost isn't high if you count by batches, eliminate the ones that everyone agrees upon, recounts the remainder, removes disputed ballots, recount again to make sure that you've got the agreed-upon remainder correct, wash, rinse, repeat until you converge upon a consistent and fair vote.
This is not rocket science and anyone who can't understand that this is the procedure that should be followed should be forbidden from casting a vote.
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If this type of "adaptive" site becomes popular - or if you even hear one or two more of these stories from a major news publication - some idiot at ZD News will post an opinion piece ranting about how you can't trust the opinions of ordinary people, and that you should stop resisting and try to only read content approved by experts, who, after all, know how to tell the good stuff from the bad stuff. But since it will only be a transparent attempt at
Am I the only one who thinks that MSNBC can be far harder on microsoft than the zd klowns?
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Or, if you really like wasting their time, just put the phone down while they go through their whole spiel and leave it there until they hang up.
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This is obviously the worst movie about computers since Hackers, and no less insulting to the people they are supposedly representing. Meanwhile, real hackers are sitting at home trying to get their Matrix dvd to play with their illegal DVD software.
Good for Miguel, good for Gnome. When the film and tv crowd figure out that they can use Gnome or KDE or plain old X on a computer screen, they an stop spending ridiculous movie industry cash to the many companies that create fake computer software displays to get around IP issues with commercial OSes. Then more and more people will be familiar with what it looks like, which will further its kudzu-like spread across desktops everywhere. Now there's a plot!
Go rent Colossus: The Forbin Project, watch T2 again, but don't spend a dime on this atrocity. Even The Bridges of Madison County is probably a better movie about computers than this one.
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Your question can also be put a different way; why did Linus not just work on the BSDs in the first place? Linus has said that were it not for the lawsuit keeping the BSD down, he would probably have never created Linux, because he wouldn't have needed to.
Finally, you presume that the goal is to overthrow Windows (though Microsoft is hardly the world's largest company), and that warez is somehow "free", and that commercial software has some kind of integrity that open source lacks. There are plenty of sources to disabuse you of those notions, but really if you went back and read the article carefully, you'd get the answers to your questions.
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if this were so they would all be in massive debt - in fact, they will continue to get govt welfare while also gouging consumers...
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I sincerely doubt that my particular arrangement of window managers, mail clients (mutt is the only one worth a tinker's damn), shortcuts, and modifications has undergone ANY TESTING AT ALL but it feels right to me and makes me more productive.
So what, you are going to tell me that "experts" know more than I do about how I work? I doubt it.
On top of that, you're not even a good Mac zealot; Macs have ALWAYS been ahead of Windows in terms of prettiness and usability. Prettiness? Please, Windows has always had the flair of a polyester suit coat. Mac have been its unfortunate equal in stability for a long time. That may change.
As for expensive hardware, the new G4s should contain more than their share of value in terms of the lamely named "superdrive" which still rocks, and gigabit ethernet. Again, they are ahead of the curve in value, although the base price is still high. But if Apple continues the trends the've shown since Jobs came back, they should be able to trickle this down as fast as the cheaper and more open pc market can catch up to their technical jumps (look for compaq to offer an "ultradrive" or similarly named crap by the end of the year).
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I will continue using freebsd and linux for work and for servers, but if I can get bash, ssh, gcc, apache, etc working on os x it's a fair bet that it will become my home and media system.
Why? Because I just don't have the time to teach wife to use unix, even with xdm and nice window system, and it will be a long time before I can edit my video and burn dvd on my x86 bsd box. Of course I will when I can, but more importantly, i can now proudly paste a "dont' do windows" sticker on my front door.
Ok, so I'm not really that lame, but I try. The point is that it should not be seen as an either/or choice but a yes, and!
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how does that fix your floppy penis?
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Are you aware that this description fits the profile of things that create their own serial numbers and register themselves?
I'm not saying I believe you (or believe that what it seems like you are saying is what you mean to say) but when I check it out I will definitely sniff (and block) those outbound packets!
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But really, your point about the poster being one with a grudge, and directing you to the target of the grudge. On the other hand, this illustrates where security through obscurity does work - misdirection. Sure, the first time someone looks at your hand instead of what you are pointing at, you are a sitting duck, but all the time it does work is time that no one scruntinizes the real security that's in the hat.
+1 Mixed Metaphors
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But by "block offensive content", do you mean that your ISP really blocks web sites? That would suck. At least the US isn't the only English-speaking country faced with bouts of radically silly puritanism contrasting with the generally more modern outloook.
Time to start using an anonymizer or redirector!
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When it comes to my next home computer, though, edting video, burning dvds from it, not having my wife afraid to use it, and still being able to bring up a unix shell for comfort and to do my business, a G4 with OS X is an obvious choice.
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In my experience, vegetarians and vegans, if they are worth hanging out with at all, can drink copious amounts of beer, vodka, tequila, jaegermeister, arak, ouzo, unicum (zwack!), or anything else.
Of course, yeast is technically an animal, so I am sure there are vegans who object to alcoholic beverages for that reason (that makes it an animal by-product), but vegans that militant are too high up in their tree to get my attention.
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Assuming that javascript is available is a major common sin.
But it's not the tool, it's the developers that are the real problem.
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Except that taxation that goes into the coffers of private entities is not taxation, it's armed robbery.
No, I'm not going to read the article, it will just waste precious seconds for ranting.
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Why not give them the right to vote, idiot?
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Ted Turner, I assume?
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Never acknowledge what they are saying about the black bars, or "wasting the TV screen."
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Matrix-bred humans have their vital functions run by the Matrix - at least within the Matrix. Their brains have co-developed with the machinery this way. So if the matrix decides that you have been struck with bullets, it does bad things to your body via brainstem implants.
Notice that the free-range humans can't even enter the Matrix.
The logic does closely resemble the common stupid device you mention on the outside, but on the inside it's totally different.
Now if they were smart, the sequel will have Neo struggling to alert Matrix humans to the Matrix - maybe they don't care, maybe they turn against his warnings.
And they will have to work hard to avoid the biblical-derived sci-fi plot device (a lot bad sci-fi cribs from biblical sources) which they dangerously stirred up with Neo being a little too messianic (died, but is reborn, etc).
I'm interested to see where they go with the future matrix films, but they have some severe challenges that could be glossed over somewhat in the first one - sequels are MORE difficult to do well.
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You can get your playstation modified in chinatown so that it can play COPY disks of games. Who is better positioned and motivated to make black-market add-ons than owners of under-utilized factories that make the key components of the legitmate product?
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And since there are so many comments like "get another job" WRT tech support, I thought I'd point out that for many it's a good entry point into more technical jobs, and a good way to be near technical subjects to learn about them instead of going through more schooling. Those who can will (and often do) make the leap. Those who can't go into marketing.
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Carnivore is just an extra nail in the coffin.
Everything the founding fathers feared is coming true.
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I've been through the process twice with Roadrunner alone, and the first time I made the mistake of letting them know I run linux (after I got tired of trying to explain freebsd). The second time, I wasn't even there and told them on the phone "Yeah, I know to use DHCP, I know to cycle the power on the cable modem if I change ethernet cards/mac address, just make sure it works."
That's the real reason that we have standards. As long as they use something that almost everyone can deal with, like DHCP, they can wash their hands, and I get my service, and everyone's happy (as long as I know to lie to customer support when I call during a service outage).
But it's also why purely proprietary systems should be terminated with extreme predjudice.
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My guess is transparency. If the standard is "look at the ballot and see how the voter voted", you are likely to get better results than if the standard is "look at this piece of paper and WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE SMARTER THAN A MAGIC ROBOT? DO YOU THINK YOU ARE THAT SMART? THEN WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A REGULAR JOB?"
The thing about scalability in counting votes is that it tolerates random differences very well. If you don't understand this, you should review basic probability theory or just get an education.
From another angle, the cost isn't high if you count by batches, eliminate the ones that everyone agrees upon, recounts the remainder, removes disputed ballots, recount again to make sure that you've got the agreed-upon remainder correct, wash, rinse, repeat until you converge upon a consistent and fair vote.
This is not rocket science and anyone who can't understand that this is the procedure that should be followed should be forbidden from casting a vote.
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