Wrong. Many sites already have instructions for turning off User Access Controls and giving you the ability to do anything you want. Vista sucks big time, but not because of Limuted Use Accounts.
Through all the discussions of terrorists, guns and whether or not showing ID accomplishes anything, everyone has missed the most important issue here.
Throughout this case, Gilmore has repeatedly said "Show me the law that says ID is required". And the government has refused, on the grounds of "security". This is beyond absurd. Secret laws have no place in a free society.
Anyone can write a book. But, writing a book that's *GOOD* and that people will want to read is an entirely different matter. Computer software is no different.
"Internet Explorer 7 has kicked in at last on all MS Windows OS running PCs because of the fact M$ decided to force it's users to migrate through update."
Oh really? I still have IE6, although I never use it except when forced to. Who are these people who have been "forced" to upgrade?
"Google's vice president for people operations, sees no reason the company won't reach 20,000 by the end of the year. This will mean hiring something like 200 people a week, every week, all year."
Google is falling into the same trap that has hurt so many companies. Right now, profits are high. The cash is rolling by the billions. As a result, nobody (in Google management) is questioning why they need to hire 200 people every week, nonstop for a year. There's plenty of money to pay everyone, so there isn't a problem.
But eventually, profits will level off and then start to decline. Nothing goes up forever.
And when the money gets tight, Google will suddenly realize that they've got a whole bunch of people that they don't really need.
"The new interface does look nice, but the old menu makes it much easier for the help desks to provide support over the phone. It is easier to tell a user to "Click the File menu, then Save" than it is to say "Do you see the icon that looks like a floppy disk? It is on the first toolbar, third from the left."
What some programmer thinks is an "intuitive" interface is incomprehensible to the average clueless user.
True story. I'm helping a friend with some things in Word 2000 and noticed that he would always save a file by first clicking on the "file" menu and then selecting "Save". So I said "Why don't you just click on the disk icon, it's faster".
He looks at me with a total blank stare, so I point to the screen and say "right there, the floppy disk icon".
He continues to look totally confused so I put my finger right on the computer screen.
And my friend says "Oh, that looks live a TV" followed by a long pause and then "but I don't have any floppy disks".
There's no DRM in your.wav. There's no DRM in your.mp3. There's no DRM...
You haven't been paying attention.
When you "squirt" a song from a Zune, the recipient is only allowed to play it three times, whether the song is Defective Recorded Media (DRM) or a plain, unencumbered MP3.
True, but irrelevant. Anyone who buys a Zune is an idiot. Anyone who "squirts" a file to another Zune is an idiot. The acts of idiots is of no concern to me or any other rational person.
Prove that this defect in the Zune will not be "back-ported" to Vista. (Answer: You can't.)
Prove to me that you don't beat your wife and steal from your employer (Answer: You can't.)
from the article: "Two years ago, university IT managers busted comScore for tricking students into installing tracking software packaged with a free Web-accelerator program."
Why are university students downloading a "Web-accelerator program"? Because they're too stupid to know that these programs are worthless bullshit. Once again, we see that the biggest problem is not viruses or "spyware" -- it's user stupidity.
"It's the exact same dillemma TV networks have. If they spend too much advertising time advertising their own shows, then they don't make enough money from REAL advertisers. But if they don't spend enough, no one knows about their new shows.
I don't see who Google's situation is any different AT ALL."
The television analogy is wrong because the TV networks don't sell anything other than ad time. Google, on the other hand, sells lots of other products and services besides Internet search.
Suppose that NBC wasn't just a TV network. Suppose that they also manufactured automobiles, in direct competition with Ford, General Motors and all the other car companies. If the other car companies couldn't buy any prime commercial time because NBC was using it all to promote their own cars, they would be pissed.
Also, advertisers actually benefit from TV networks promoting their own shows. When a TV network advertises its own programs, it (hopefully) results in more viewers, which (hopefully) means that more people see the commercials, which benefits the companies who buy advertising time on those shows -- more people see the commercials and (hopefully) buy the advertised products.
When Google commandeers certain key search words for itself, it benefits only Google and no one else.
"But in any event, I can't pass judgement on this source code, since I can't find it. I looked through the source he linked to and I couldn't find a single C file."
Exactly the problem with the "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" answer.
The particular source code you are looking for (rendering pages or putting up menus or toolbars) is located in some directory whose name makes no sense except to the person who originally created it. You probably looked in the directory called "Browser", but, as someone who used to build my own customized versions of Firefox, I can tell you -- it ain't there.
Unfortunately it's been over a year since I worked with the code so I don't remember where things are anymore and have no desire to go thru the whole process of finding them again.
"why we (or they depending on your POV) are spending sooo much to build DRM systems that are designed to prevent publishing of music when this is exactly what they and the artists really want to do."
You are missing the point here. It isn't about the musicians. And it never was.
The entire entertainment industry is run by people who are so consumed with greed that they are unable to think clearly and rationally. Although the record companies will ocassionaly pay lip service to "you're ripping of the artitis when you download music from the internet", the truth is, over the past 50 years, nobody has screwed and cheated musicians more than the record companies. A record company is simply a group of people, with no talent or creative ability, who exist for the sole purpose of getting rich by stealing money from people who DO have talent.
And that's why they are so in love with DRM. The entire entertainment industry is so consumed with greed that they are absolutely convinced that there is only one way to do busines: they must maintain absolute, iron-fisted, totalitarian control over they precious "content".
The idea of "an open, collaborative culture" is impossible for them to comprehend. The idea that you can eliminate all the DRM crap and just sell a good product at a fair price, is impossible for them to comprehend.
"Luckily, for most users Apple has shielded most of the scary Unix details. In the Finder you can't even see directories like/bin,/dev,/usr, etc.
It is only when you open the Terminal and get to a shell that you see all the ancient Unix directory structures, combined with Apple's more hip and happening directory names like Applications, System, etc. (The folks at Apple aren't afraid of using upper-case letters once in a while!)"
I really wish that somebody would do this to Linux. It's time to stop mimicing the 30+ year old structure of Unix.
Companies got around that restriction by moving offshore, since the Internet makes it easy to do business anywhere in the world. The purpose of this law is not to actually outlaw online gambling, but to close a loophole by not allowing U.S. banks to be involved in it.
USB Devices/Hosts are currently not supported. Wireless Networking is currently not supported. SATA drives are currently not supported (if you have such an option in BIOS, try using SATA->PATA emulation). Printers, scanners, digital cameras and webcams are currently not supported.
I like Wierd Al, and even own a few of his CDs. But today, there is absolutely no reason for ANY musician to be beholden to a record company with a draconian contract that pays them practically nothing. The cost of recording equipment is a tiny fraction of what it was 20 years ago and the internet allows artists to sell their work directly to the public with no need for a record company to handle distrubution and take their 99.9% cut.
There is no reason why Wierd Al (or any other musician) can't record his music in his own studio, have the CDs pressed (there are companies out there that do it for $1 per CD) and then set up a website to sell the CDs as well as digital downloads. He gets 100% of the profits, we get to hear the music and the RIAA goes out of business.
There was a story about Sun here a few weeks ago titled "The comedy of Scott McNealy". The new Slashdot design should perhaps be called "The comedy of Cmdr. Taco".
Nearly 5 years ago, the great and all knowing Steve Gibson predicted that the raw sockets in Windows XP would allow packet spoofing that would bring down the internet with unstoppable DOS attacks.
Slashdot Mirror
"In Vista, LUA's are mandatory and inescapable."
Wrong. Many sites already have instructions for turning off User Access Controls and giving you the ability to do anything you want. Vista sucks big time, but not because of Limuted Use Accounts.
Through all the discussions of terrorists, guns and whether or not showing ID accomplishes anything, everyone has missed the most important issue here.
Throughout this case, Gilmore has repeatedly said "Show me the law that says ID is required". And the government has refused, on the grounds of "security". This is beyond absurd. Secret laws have no place in a free society.
Anyone can write a book. But, writing a book that's *GOOD* and that people will want to read is an entirely different matter.
Computer software is no different.
Oh really? I still have IE6, although I never use it except when forced to. Who are these people who have been "forced" to upgrade?
But eventually, profits will level off and then start to decline. Nothing goes up forever. And when the money gets tight, Google will suddenly realize that they've got a whole bunch of people that they don't really need.
True story. I'm helping a friend with some things in Word 2000 and noticed that he would always save a file by first clicking on the "file" menu and then selecting "Save". So I said "Why don't you just click on the disk icon, it's faster".
He looks at me with a total blank stare, so I point to the screen and say "right there, the floppy disk icon".
He continues to look totally confused so I put my finger right on the computer screen.
And my friend says "Oh, that looks live a TV" followed by a long pause and then "but I don't have any floppy disks".
Prove to me that you don't beat your wife and steal from your employer (Answer: You can't.)
How is this an operating system?
I guess "WebOS" sounds a lot sexier than "crappy useless Flash programs that just barely work".
More Orwellian Double-Speak from the FSF Crackpots.
1. Insert Internet Freedom Disk
2. Scanner doesn't work -- no Linux drivers.
3. Printer doesn't work -- no Linux drivers.
4. None of my most commonly used applications are available.
Instead I am forced to use inferior substitutes.
Sorry, but that doesn't sound like "Freedom" to me.
They should have spelled it "YUO". That would have been funny.
from the article:
"Two years ago, university IT managers busted comScore for tricking students into installing tracking software packaged with a free Web-accelerator program."
Why are university students downloading a "Web-accelerator program"? Because they're too stupid to know that these programs are worthless bullshit. Once again, we see that the biggest problem is not viruses or "spyware" -- it's user stupidity.
Suppose that NBC wasn't just a TV network. Suppose that they also manufactured automobiles, in direct competition with Ford, General Motors and all the other car companies. If the other car companies couldn't buy any prime commercial time because NBC was using it all to promote their own cars, they would be pissed.
Also, advertisers actually benefit from TV networks promoting their own shows. When a TV network advertises its own programs, it (hopefully) results in more viewers, which (hopefully) means that more people see the commercials, which benefits the companies who buy advertising time on those shows -- more people see the commercials and (hopefully) buy the advertised products.
When Google commandeers certain key search words for itself, it benefits only Google and no one else.
"But in any event, I can't pass judgement on this source code, since I can't find it. I looked through the source he linked to and I couldn't find a single C file."
Exactly the problem with the "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" answer.
The particular source code you are looking for (rendering pages or putting up menus or toolbars) is located in some directory whose name makes no sense except to the person who originally created it. You probably looked in the directory called "Browser", but, as someone who used to build my own customized versions of Firefox, I can tell you -- it ain't there.
Unfortunately it's been over a year since I worked with the code so I don't remember where things are anymore and have no desire to go thru the whole process of finding them again.
Anyone stupid enough to buy DRM infested material deserves to get screwed.
The entire entertainment industry is run by people who are so consumed with greed that they are unable to think clearly and rationally. Although the record companies will ocassionaly pay lip service to "you're ripping of the artitis when you download music from the internet", the truth is, over the past 50 years, nobody has screwed and cheated musicians more than the record companies. A record company is simply a group of people, with no talent or creative ability, who exist for the sole purpose of getting rich by stealing money from people who DO have talent.
And that's why they are so in love with DRM. The entire entertainment industry is so consumed with greed that they are absolutely convinced that there is only one way to do busines: they must maintain absolute, iron-fisted, totalitarian control over they precious "content".
The idea of "an open, collaborative culture" is impossible for them to comprehend. The idea that you can eliminate all the DRM crap and just sell a good product at a fair price, is impossible for them to comprehend.
Online gambling is already illegal in the U.S.
Companies got around that restriction by moving offshore, since the Internet makes it easy to do business anywhere in the world. The purpose of this law is not to actually outlaw online gambling, but to close a loophole by not allowing U.S. banks to be involved in it.
open source prostitutes?
"Unfortunately, my radio station doesn't have the capacity to do pre-recorded phone interviews."
Your mother's basement is not a radio station.
From the "System Requirements" FAQ:
USB Devices/Hosts are currently not supported.
Wireless Networking is currently not supported.
SATA drives are currently not supported (if you have such an option in BIOS, try using SATA->PATA emulation).
Printers, scanners, digital cameras and webcams are currently not supported.
Did Bronson Pinchot really jerk off on Johnson Ct. ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bronson_Pinchot
In Soviet Russia
... and I don't feel sorry for him in the least.
I like Wierd Al, and even own a few of his CDs. But today, there is absolutely no reason for ANY musician to be beholden to a record company with a draconian contract that pays them practically nothing. The cost of recording equipment is a tiny fraction of what it was 20 years ago and the internet allows artists to sell their work directly to the public with no need for a record company to handle distrubution and take their 99.9% cut.
There is no reason why Wierd Al (or any other musician) can't record his music in his own studio, have the CDs pressed (there are companies out there that do it for $1 per CD) and then set up a website to sell the CDs as well as digital downloads. He gets 100% of the profits, we get to hear the music and the RIAA goes out of business.
There was a story about Sun here a few weeks ago titled "The comedy of Scott McNealy". The new Slashdot design should perhaps be called "The comedy of Cmdr. Taco".
Nearly 5 years ago, the great and all knowing Steve Gibson predicted that the raw sockets in Windows XP would allow packet spoofing that would bring down the internet with unstoppable DOS attacks.
So it must be true.