IDENTD is helpful in preventing against mass-join attacks. I've never seen a mass-join channel attack where the clones have ident. Thus, it allows legit users to continue doing their thing while there's an evident attack.
As someone that's written a couple scientifically minded papers, and read quite a few papers myself for personal-interest research (dealing with the psychology of sex, violence, advertising, etc), I'd have to disagree with you.
My parents have a television that is a couple years older than I am - placing it at least 21 years old. It is the only television they have ever owned. While it's not high tech, and they don't watch much TV, it has gotten (on average, I'd say) at least 3 hours of use a day, conservatively.
On the newer side of things, I've seen televisions, monitors, LCDs, and projection units fail within a year quite a few times in the last 5 years. I'm sure everyone has. I know of people that have 3 or 4 in their house, and one tends to die on them every year.
I still have a Nintendo Gameboy (what might be deemed the Classic now) that runs fine - even after being flung at the wall uncountable times in rage, and even being run over once by a truck by accident once. It's had fluids (not just water) spilled in it, and has been used in nearly every environment. (I'm also led to believe that my situation here isn't exactly rare.)
I've heard several friends' children complain about their GBAs not working, or actually seeing the result of one flying down a staircase onto a hardwood floor myself. (I find it plauseable that someone could take a GBC and use it as a hammer to destroy GBA units to dust.)
To say nothing of the plethora of old PC systems (as old as 10 years) still running strong, whereas there are many, many new systems that have a major problem within a year (mainly memory or hard drive problems, it seems). Or the items that just happen to fail just shortly after going out of warranty.
Posts like this make me wonder if it would be practical for me to put scripts for my film ideas online, and set up a paypal "penny jar" so people liking the scripts could make donations. Later, after the film has been produced, people that have made signficiant contributions (10$?) would get the finished product...
I am exceedingly glad that I decided on a Gigabyte board for my latest system instead of an Abit. Too bad, Abit has had a very good reputation for quite a few years for having good boards. Looks like they'll have to rebrand.:P
2. Try being agnostic. At that point you're everyone's whipping boy.
Seriously, though, you're shitting me, right? Yes, reverse discrimination occurs, but what's the ratio of white-against-minority versus minority-against-white discrimination? It sounds like someone has a serious sense of entitlement but a lack of any actual skills to back that up.
Your points are valid; however, he's saying that 'white, middle class Christian males" are being politically, legally and financially discriminated against. That's different than social descrimination - not to minimize your pain and anguish over verbal abuse rendered you for your beliefs (you should be so lucky).
Especially since they'll likely charge for 'product updates' (which would include everything from bug patches, security patches, and kludged together privacy-violating contraptions).
It's already been done, fools!
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DC Comics made an issue years ago where this actually happened. If I remember it correctly, Batman used a piece of kryptonite and weakened Superman, then commenced to beat the living super-doo from him for something he'd done - likely being an incompetent super-fiend. I'm sure most people would guess this, since Superman is just... superman. He's blind to the facts and all about truth, justice, and the "American" way. Batman's all about getting the job done the right way, or simply about just getting it done. He uses his head.
On a side note, superman is just too unbelieveable. He's a bygone artifact of another era of America's history, sadly enough.
As far as deadpool is concerned... I'm thinking he and batman would get along well, what little I know of deadpool.:P The two of them, teamed up with Wolverine would be an incredible asskicking combination.
I wonder if Wolverine could beat up Superman, personally. Superman is the Man of Steel, and Wolverine has adamantium (sp?) claws - which can cut through steel. (I'm thinking of the earlier Superman, not the pre-Doomsday Superman that was practically invincible and nothing could touch him - which is why they killed him, to bring him down a bit) Not only that, but Wolvie can heal really quickly. Considering Wolverine has caught a blast from sentinals before, and undergone hell, I think he could do it.:P I was really hoping for that during the Marvel/DC crossover. Instead they did Superman vs. Hulk... bah.
What ever happened to taht crossover universe, anyway? I've not been seeing any comics from it.
copyright influences every product you purchase, short of grown food items. otherwise, copyright is alive and kicking.
asside from anything you've made yourself, I'd wager there's precious little that you own that's not protected by copyright.
If you work in a computer-centric field (actual computer work, engineering, design, marketing, etc) over 1/3rd of your day is essentially shaped by copyright laws. (granted, this is a really peverse copyright law standard, not what it was originally meant to be). Tack on another 1/3rd of your day to that if you use a computer at home to a large extent, or if you work after-hours frequently.
What about your car? Granted, it won't expire, but it's been built to only last a certain period of time so that you'll get a new vehicle in another 5 - 10 years. Etc. etc.
Who said anything about a) owning a copy of windows, b) ever touching VB, c) having the time to teach myself how to program, or d) various other items which fall into the same category?
Is it possible that your monitor is a piece of shit and has a low DPI? I've seen AA fonts look like ass on monitors before, simply because the monitor sucked and had hugeass pixels/high DPI (like.28 or something) and each pixel bleeded into each other, rendering a horrendous appearence.
America's democratic and constitutionally run government is no longer the power head of the US. Let me illustrate.(bold emphasis mine)
government (gvrn-mnt) n.
1. The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit. 2. The office, function, or authority of a governing individual or body. 3. Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule. 4. The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.
This is why I say there is no more US government - the RIAA, MPAA, and software industry in general controls all aspects of our lives through 'copyright' law, EULAs, and various other levels of contortion such as forced upgrade paths and product lifetime expiration. We pay their taxes and tarrifs. The so-called 'federal' government has become little more than their lapdogs, their police.
By very definition, the "US government" doesn't have governmental rule over the US any longer. We can kid ourselves that this EULA will promote the US feds to do something about the horror that is the EULA, and possibly consider software licensing in general in a more sane manner, but let's be honest with ourselves.
The government no longer cares about you, and you are simply a subject to be kept from doing stupid things, to be protected from yourself through inane laws. You are a consumer; you do not even obtain the status of 'citizen' any longer, despite the fact that you hold claim to the title.
This EULA will go untouched by the government, and won't even stir the water enough to break surface tension.
I've been just waiting for this very thing to happen! My edge-of-the-chair suspense is finally climaxed with a barrage of laughter. Great stuff.:P
I thought of doing this quite a few times myself, but have always lacked the resources. This is pure genius, really. You get people to propigate the virus willingly, all the while having them agree to transmit it without their knowledge - despite the fact that they agreed.
This brings forth some fairly serious implications and issues involving EULAs. I'm not exactly sure what they are, but I'm sure they're there, and have probably already have been discussed in this or that post concerning MS's dastardly EULA garbage.
Certainly there has been a mistype. The initial post isn't serious when it lists "anti-abortion" and "pro-Nazi" right next to each other? I can't imagine a governmental state both condoning the slaughter/killing/removal of preborn and newborn children, and at the same time, condemning Nazi/socialist beliefs (and obviously the horror that prevailed during WWII). That sounds incredibly hypocritical.
No, actually, my counterexample wasn't moot. The fact that Microsoft and Apple gave away copies in the early days when there was no forseeable competition is insignificant. That was simply the cheapest way for them to get advertising out - a very effective one, granted.
Now, with a competitive computer market, giving things away rarely makes you money. Regardless of the market, if they were to provide it for free for a short period of time, -everyone- and their great aunt would be downloading/signing up for it just like -that-. If one out of 5 slashdot users were to download or sign up for a free CD, they'd be bankrupt with the bandwidth/shipping fees. This isn't the 80's, where computer users were rare and far between. Joe Jock might see something about a free computer OS nowadays and think, "Hey, I'll upgrade my computer, it crashes a lot" with no real consideration to how to do it, why it crashes, etc. That would never happen in the 80's.
These things aside, won't people be able to download it within a couple of weeks anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this distro is under the GPL just like any other distro, and that allows for someone that has it to copy the material and redistribute it. What's to stop someone - cheapbytes.com, even - from simply slapping the disks in, dd'ing the disk to an ISO, and putting it online (linuxiso.org) or selling it on CDR media? Maybe they've worked some sort of licensing out that prevents that, I don't know. This is just hypothetical.
As mentioned by several people already, they're not talking about actual units sold, they're talking about money - in terms of LCDs surpassing CRTs.
Something most people don't realize is that the price of actually making an LCD is significantly lower than that of making a CRT. The reason for CRTs to be so much higher priced is simple: demand.
Now, granted, most people would love to have a flatscreen LCD, but they also want to be able to play games that don't look like crap. Consumers wouldn't, for the most part, put up with games running poorly in that fashion. Thus, why CRTs are predominantly sold to the home user by people like Dell. Only now that LCD technology is getting reasonable on that area are people getting LCDs for personal use.
However, the price of LCDs is still high because their main consumer is the professional: businesses, graphing technicians, artists, and the like. Simply put: the people with money that are willing to spend it on a specific tool for their job. Having a 17" monitor on a secretarial desk isn't rational; however, having a 17" LCD is feasable.
For a corporation to even consider it, they want to know what others' reactions are. Period.
Complete and utter bullshit. Ever hear of a company named MS? They started with nothing, their products have done nothing but underperform, and millions of people hate computers because of them.
And that's just one counterexample. So, what were you saying?
For those of you who are just dying to string "fiber around your entire house"
That's one masturbation euphinism I've not heard before. Slashdot sure gets +1 for originality, I'll say.
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the natives of Hawaii aren't 'native americans', they're 'hawaiians'.
When I skimmed the article...
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I thought he was talking of slackware. Thus, the following picture occured to me:
slack = 70% of time spent busy debian = 5% of time spent busy... thus the article defeated itself.
Granted, I know this isn't what it's talking about, but the idea of someone writing of - or even thinking - that slackware is a time-efficient distro is quite humorous.
Rune was kind of like that, and I thought it was (is) an incredible game. I didn't tend to look a the game as having such a character as you described.
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IDENTD is helpful in preventing against mass-join attacks. I've never seen a mass-join channel attack where the clones have ident. Thus, it allows legit users to continue doing their thing while there's an evident attack.
As someone that's written a couple scientifically minded papers, and read quite a few papers myself for personal-interest research (dealing with the psychology of sex, violence, advertising, etc), I'd have to disagree with you.
My parents have a television that is a couple years older than I am - placing it at least 21 years old. It is the only television they have ever owned. While it's not high tech, and they don't watch much TV, it has gotten (on average, I'd say) at least 3 hours of use a day, conservatively.
On the newer side of things, I've seen televisions, monitors, LCDs, and projection units fail within a year quite a few times in the last 5 years. I'm sure everyone has. I know of people that have 3 or 4 in their house, and one tends to die on them every year.
I still have a Nintendo Gameboy (what might be deemed the Classic now) that runs fine - even after being flung at the wall uncountable times in rage, and even being run over once by a truck by accident once. It's had fluids (not just water) spilled in it, and has been used in nearly every environment. (I'm also led to believe that my situation here isn't exactly rare.)
I've heard several friends' children complain about their GBAs not working, or actually seeing the result of one flying down a staircase onto a hardwood floor myself. (I find it plauseable that someone could take a GBC and use it as a hammer to destroy GBA units to dust.)
To say nothing of the plethora of old PC systems (as old as 10 years) still running strong, whereas there are many, many new systems that have a major problem within a year (mainly memory or hard drive problems, it seems). Or the items that just happen to fail just shortly after going out of warranty.
Posts like this make me wonder if it would be practical for me to put scripts for my film ideas online, and set up a paypal "penny jar" so people liking the scripts could make donations. Later, after the film has been produced, people that have made signficiant contributions (10$?) would get the finished product...
*wipes brow*
:P
I am exceedingly glad that I decided on a Gigabyte board for my latest system instead of an Abit. Too bad, Abit has had a very good reputation for quite a few years for having good boards. Looks like they'll have to rebrand.
2. Try being agnostic. At that point you're everyone's whipping boy.
Seriously, though, you're shitting me, right? Yes, reverse discrimination occurs, but what's the ratio of white-against-minority versus minority-against-white discrimination? It sounds like someone has a serious sense of entitlement but a lack of any actual skills to back that up.
Your points are valid; however, he's saying that 'white, middle class Christian males" are being politically, legally and financially discriminated against. That's different than social descrimination - not to minimize your pain and anguish over verbal abuse rendered you for your beliefs (you should be so lucky).
Especially since they'll likely charge for 'product updates' (which would include everything from bug patches, security patches, and kludged together privacy-violating contraptions).
DC Comics made an issue years ago where this actually happened. If I remember it correctly, Batman used a piece of kryptonite and weakened Superman, then commenced to beat the living super-doo from him for something he'd done - likely being an incompetent super-fiend. I'm sure most people would guess this, since Superman is just... superman. He's blind to the facts and all about truth, justice, and the "American" way. Batman's all about getting the job done the right way, or simply about just getting it done. He uses his head.
:P The two of them, teamed up with Wolverine would be an incredible asskicking combination.
:P I was really hoping for that during the Marvel/DC crossover. Instead they did Superman vs. Hulk... bah.
On a side note, superman is just too unbelieveable. He's a bygone artifact of another era of America's history, sadly enough.
As far as deadpool is concerned... I'm thinking he and batman would get along well, what little I know of deadpool.
I wonder if Wolverine could beat up Superman, personally. Superman is the Man of Steel, and Wolverine has adamantium (sp?) claws - which can cut through steel. (I'm thinking of the earlier Superman, not the pre-Doomsday Superman that was practically invincible and nothing could touch him - which is why they killed him, to bring him down a bit) Not only that, but Wolvie can heal really quickly. Considering Wolverine has caught a blast from sentinals before, and undergone hell, I think he could do it.
What ever happened to taht crossover universe, anyway? I've not been seeing any comics from it.
copyright influences every product you purchase, short of grown food items. otherwise, copyright is alive and kicking.
asside from anything you've made yourself, I'd wager there's precious little that you own that's not protected by copyright.
If you work in a computer-centric field (actual computer work, engineering, design, marketing, etc) over 1/3rd of your day is essentially shaped by copyright laws. (granted, this is a really peverse copyright law standard, not what it was originally meant to be). Tack on another 1/3rd of your day to that if you use a computer at home to a large extent, or if you work after-hours frequently.
What about your car? Granted, it won't expire, but it's been built to only last a certain period of time so that you'll get a new vehicle in another 5 - 10 years. Etc. etc.
Who said anything about a) owning a copy of windows, b) ever touching VB, c) having the time to teach myself how to program, or d) various other items which fall into the same category?
Is it possible that your monitor is a piece of shit and has a low DPI? I've seen AA fonts look like ass on monitors before, simply because the monitor sucked and had hugeass pixels/high DPI (like .28 or something) and each pixel bleeded into each other, rendering a horrendous appearence.
Why is it called marketting when IBM does it, but vandalism when MS does? Does monopoly status have any play in the determining?
government (gvrn-mnt) n.
1. The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.
2. The office, function, or authority of a governing individual or body.
3. Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule.
4. The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.
This is why I say there is no more US government - the RIAA, MPAA, and software industry in general controls all aspects of our lives through 'copyright' law, EULAs, and various other levels of contortion such as forced upgrade paths and product lifetime expiration. We pay their taxes and tarrifs. The so-called 'federal' government has become little more than their lapdogs, their police.
By very definition, the "US government" doesn't have governmental rule over the US any longer. We can kid ourselves that this EULA will promote the US feds to do something about the horror that is the EULA, and possibly consider software licensing in general in a more sane manner, but let's be honest with ourselves.
The government no longer cares about you, and you are simply a subject to be kept from doing stupid things, to be protected from yourself through inane laws. You are a consumer; you do not even obtain the status of 'citizen' any longer, despite the fact that you hold claim to the title.
This EULA will go untouched by the government, and won't even stir the water enough to break surface tension.
I've been just waiting for this very thing to happen! My edge-of-the-chair suspense is finally climaxed with a barrage of laughter. Great stuff. :P
I thought of doing this quite a few times myself, but have always lacked the resources. This is pure genius, really. You get people to propigate the virus willingly, all the while having them agree to transmit it without their knowledge - despite the fact that they agreed.
This brings forth some fairly serious implications and issues involving EULAs. I'm not exactly sure what they are, but I'm sure they're there, and have probably already have been discussed in this or that post concerning MS's dastardly EULA garbage.
Hrm, yes, that's a point. Like I said, I wasn't aware of what Xandros' licensing prohibitted.
Certainly there has been a mistype. The initial post isn't serious when it lists "anti-abortion" and "pro-Nazi" right next to each other? I can't imagine a governmental state both condoning the slaughter/killing/removal of preborn and newborn children, and at the same time, condemning Nazi/socialist beliefs (and obviously the horror that prevailed during WWII). That sounds incredibly hypocritical.
No, actually, my counterexample wasn't moot. The fact that Microsoft and Apple gave away copies in the early days when there was no forseeable competition is insignificant. That was simply the cheapest way for them to get advertising out - a very effective one, granted.
Now, with a competitive computer market, giving things away rarely makes you money. Regardless of the market, if they were to provide it for free for a short period of time, -everyone- and their great aunt would be downloading/signing up for it just like -that-. If one out of 5 slashdot users were to download or sign up for a free CD, they'd be bankrupt with the bandwidth/shipping fees. This isn't the 80's, where computer users were rare and far between. Joe Jock might see something about a free computer OS nowadays and think, "Hey, I'll upgrade my computer, it crashes a lot" with no real consideration to how to do it, why it crashes, etc. That would never happen in the 80's.
These things aside, won't people be able to download it within a couple of weeks anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this distro is under the GPL just like any other distro, and that allows for someone that has it to copy the material and redistribute it. What's to stop someone - cheapbytes.com, even - from simply slapping the disks in, dd'ing the disk to an ISO, and putting it online (linuxiso.org) or selling it on CDR media? Maybe they've worked some sort of licensing out that prevents that, I don't know. This is just hypothetical.
As mentioned by several people already, they're not talking about actual units sold, they're talking about money - in terms of LCDs surpassing CRTs.
Something most people don't realize is that the price of actually making an LCD is significantly lower than that of making a CRT. The reason for CRTs to be so much higher priced is simple: demand.
Now, granted, most people would love to have a flatscreen LCD, but they also want to be able to play games that don't look like crap. Consumers wouldn't, for the most part, put up with games running poorly in that fashion. Thus, why CRTs are predominantly sold to the home user by people like Dell. Only now that LCD technology is getting reasonable on that area are people getting LCDs for personal use.
However, the price of LCDs is still high because their main consumer is the professional: businesses, graphing technicians, artists, and the like. Simply put: the people with money that are willing to spend it on a specific tool for their job. Having a 17" monitor on a secretarial desk isn't rational; however, having a 17" LCD is feasable.
if there were no cars for roads, people would ride motorcycles.
alterdns and the like.
Complete and utter bullshit. Ever hear of a company named MS? They started with nothing, their products have done nothing but underperform, and millions of people hate computers because of them.
And that's just one counterexample. So, what were you saying?
For those of you who are just dying to string "fiber around your entire house"
That's one masturbation euphinism I've not heard before. Slashdot sure gets +1 for originality, I'll say.
the natives of Hawaii aren't 'native americans', they're 'hawaiians'.
I thought he was talking of slackware. Thus, the following picture occured to me:
... thus the article defeated itself.
slack = 70% of time spent busy
debian = 5% of time spent busy
Granted, I know this isn't what it's talking about, but the idea of someone writing of - or even thinking - that slackware is a time-efficient distro is quite humorous.
Could you explain radiometric dating?
Rune was kind of like that, and I thought it was (is) an incredible game. I didn't tend to look a the game as having such a character as you described.