The Association of American Publishers, however, continues to hail the government's action, saying Sklyarov's software "facilitates theft, and makes it less likely that e-books will soon become a popular reading format."
The association of American Lockmakers, however, continues to hail the government's ban on paperclips, saying that they "facilitate lock-picking," and make it less likely that doorknobs will soon become a popular entry mechanism.
This is under the understanding, of course, that electronic encryption is at the same level of evolution as locks were about 70 years ago. Don't blame the lockpick just because he can pick a crappy lock, blame the lock company for making a crappy lock!
I never knew... I feel so stupid. You should start a website where you outline your ethic for all to see, and perhaps, if they're lucky and willing to put forth the effort, live a better life. I'm proud to think someone like you walks among us. Viva l'AC!
This doesn't mean that MSN will be running the line, Qwest still does that. Maybe this is just in Minnesota, but with Qwest DSL we have a choice (and a pretty wide range) of ISP, and a lot of local ISP's compete pretty well for price and services. I had DSL in my old apartment and we used a local ISP because their prices for static IPs were a lot less. I would imagine that this factor will leave a lot of the Linux/BSD users with fewer worries, as MSN will probably not be offering static IPs anyway.
I recently starting working at a large organization (1300 users) and the entire setup is Intel/Microsoft. I work at the Help Desk (say what you will, but people need their hand held when they use Outlook, and I needed a job) so I see the admins and "security experts" as they busily go from task to task. They are so swamped trying to implement MS software, especially feature add-ons, that they can't do a decent job of keeping up with people who forget their password, etc... or give me appropriate admin rights to handle that kind of thing. If there isn't something wrong with the Exchange server, there's something wrong with the SQL server, or one of the NT servers, or maybe the IIS server. Worse yet they have to buy "incidents" from Microsoft - that is, if they have a question that they can't solve on their own, they have to pay MS for support. I haven't been around long enough to tell them they're completely crazy, but they are. Crazy. I can't imagine how a OSS/FS setup would cost any more in man hours than the MS setup they have now. BTW, Servers rebooted several times a day -- they don't know what a fricking joke that is!
I second that, mod this gentleman up, O'Reilly rules. I haven't bought an O'Reilly book that I haven't liked, and I think I have 7 books now and 2 pocket references (from O'Reilly). My gf also works at Barnes and Nobel and she has noticed that O'Reilly books seem to be the most popular. I have a couple of others that have way too many pages for the amount of information (I imagine space is at a premium on library shelves). I think those others are marketed toward those who think bigger is better. But we all know that good writing lies in thrift. Omit needless words!
Why is it that whenever a post suggests something is "Orwellian" it gets modded up?
This doesn't suggest that history would be rewritten (as in 1984), just because the New York Times erases a few articles. I'm sure there are so many pack rats around - I know a few - that keep every copy of every newspaper they ever receive, we'd never have to work about a few free-lancers opinions getting erased.
Besides, the NYT, as good a paper as it is, doesn't print the the stuff that ensures a free society. That stuff is published in the independent periodicals that practically nobody ever reads, on the subway walls, and on/.!
Or maybe Ginsburg was doing just that. If there's hope, it lies with the proles!
I can't believe that those people are content seeing this unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail (copyright Bob Dylan)
We should be taking names and then doing what we can come election time to bring havoc to their websites.
I run RH 7.1 on my laptop. I bring it to school with me. I'm taking a sci-fi writing class right now and we're in this brand spanking new room in the journalism library. I had booted up Linux earlier and my laptop was sleeping in my bag when someone asked the definition of some word. Remembering a little app in my utilities folder called "GDict" I grabbed my computer from my bag and plugged it in to the RJ-45 jack on the table (high tech classroom). I did a quick network reload and in a matter of seconds I had gotten the definition for the word. People were impressed. They had never seen anything like it. I'd like to see M$ do that, what I did today. Linux on the laptop is not dead, people just don't know about it. GDict is a useful program. Linux distros come with the useful stuff that (I think) are neccessary for a computer on the Internet - FTP, IRC, etc... We can't lament over this stupid article. Linux is so much cooler than anything else out there, and StarOffice isn't that bad either.
I'm not a chemist, rather a former high school chemistry student. Somewhere back in the confines of my limited memory I find something about curves and temperature and pressure. I.E. you can boil water at room temperature if you create a vacuum or something. Is the idea to keep the pressure in the pipe high enough so the Nitrogen doesn't convert to gas? Is that an issue? They're referring to -380 degrees farenheit as a high temperature. Wow. Anyway the potential here sounds absolutely incredible. This is really cool.
The last episode I saw was the one with the super-intelligent chimpanzee. He was getting his little text to speech app up on one of their laptops and the guy with the long hair said "What language is that?" The guy in the suit responded: "It's Linux."
I don't think society will ever stop fearing what it doesn't understand. The sad thing is that society fears those individuals who do understand, when in fact they are the last people who should be feared. This story will probably not reach the general public. I can only imagine what the response would be if this poor kid had gone out and killed his principal. The same number of deaths would have occured, but it would have garnered much more media attention, the kid would have been villified, and the public would probably blame the Internet. He often went to internet chat rooms at his home computer. I can just imagine that. It seems to me the schools have been spending too much time identifying the "dangerous" students and not enough encouraging the talented ones.
It made my heart ache to read about this. I feel really bad.
Several companies such as Red Hat, TurboLinux, SuSE, VA Linux Systems, and Caldera have taken the free Linux kernel, added features such as automated installation programs, window managers, and graphical user interfaces (GUI?s) and sell their packages for less than $100 typically. Thus, it is only the Linux kernel itself that is actually free. If you want a version other than the kernel, you pay one of the distributors for their particular version.
Wow. Don't tell anyone, but I downloaded Redhat 7.1 the other day for free. I also downloaded Mandrake and LinuxPPC for free.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Microsoft would spread these lies to its beloved customers! How could they even think of taking part in a misinformation campaign!? I think I'll write an email letting them know about their mistake and I'm sure they'll correct it as soon as possible.
Less Secure
"Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.
I shouldn't have to say how poorly written this article is, let's just say this writer has "a long way to go." But look at this sentence. I can't believe it got published at M$! Maybe it's a cultural perception thing, as a Linux user this is a powerful arguement for open source. Are there any Windows users out there that read this sentence differently than I do?
I know, I got snagged by a troll.
But I have one question -
For what other reason would you make an explicit request to the OS? At least when my Linux app hangs because of a divide by 0 or whatever I don't have to reboot and lose unsaved info in other apps.
Keep dreaming AC, someday the Linux/Windows battle will be settled. When it is, I'll either be using Linux or paper.
Does anyone know what end user sees when a site is blocked by AOL? For example, if my parents are being over-protective and I want to look at some nudity, what message do I see when I try? "Sorry, your parents don't want you to see this kind of thing" or "This site has been blocked?"
Also, was anyone confused by this line?: "This (AOL filtering technology) is (only) that good," Nunberg said.
Should those parens be taken as brackets? If not, how would that have sounded in the interview?:)
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Code Red must have gotten to it before us...
The Association of American Publishers, however, continues to hail the government's action, saying Sklyarov's software "facilitates theft, and makes it less likely that e-books will soon become a popular reading format."
The association of American Lockmakers, however, continues to hail the government's ban on paperclips, saying that they "facilitate lock-picking," and make it less likely that doorknobs will soon become a popular entry mechanism.
This is under the understanding, of course, that electronic encryption is at the same level of evolution as locks were about 70 years ago. Don't blame the lockpick just because he can pick a crappy lock, blame the lock company for making a crappy lock!
Indeed, interesting, I hope you're modded up more.
The movie industry and DVD CCA argued that DeCSS could be used to illegally copy DVDs...
Computers *could* be used to copy DVDs, should we make them illegal too? Ugh.
Riiiiiiiiight!
Somebody open a window for that guy, he needs some fresh air. I'll believe it when I'm hoverboarding.
I never knew... I feel so stupid. You should start a website where you outline your ethic for all to see, and perhaps, if they're lucky and willing to put forth the effort, live a better life. I'm proud to think someone like you walks among us. Viva l'AC!
You're willing to troubleshoot a problem with a computer without going out and buying a new OS and installing that?
Wow.
This doesn't mean that MSN will be running the line, Qwest still does that. Maybe this is just in Minnesota, but with Qwest DSL we have a choice (and a pretty wide range) of ISP, and a lot of local ISP's compete pretty well for price and services. I had DSL in my old apartment and we used a local ISP because their prices for static IPs were a lot less. I would imagine that this factor will leave a lot of the Linux/BSD users with fewer worries, as MSN will probably not be offering static IPs anyway.
I recently starting working at a large organization (1300 users) and the entire setup is Intel/Microsoft. I work at the Help Desk (say what you will, but people need their hand held when they use Outlook, and I needed a job) so I see the admins and "security experts" as they busily go from task to task. They are so swamped trying to implement MS software, especially feature add-ons, that they can't do a decent job of keeping up with people who forget their password, etc... or give me appropriate admin rights to handle that kind of thing. If there isn't something wrong with the Exchange server, there's something wrong with the SQL server, or one of the NT servers, or maybe the IIS server. Worse yet they have to buy "incidents" from Microsoft - that is, if they have a question that they can't solve on their own, they have to pay MS for support. I haven't been around long enough to tell them they're completely crazy, but they are. Crazy. I can't imagine how a OSS/FS setup would cost any more in man hours than the MS setup they have now. BTW, Servers rebooted several times a day -- they don't know what a fricking joke that is!
Stick it to The Man!
The next really sick fetish...
Stick it to The Man!
The government relies on Microsoft and other technology companies to secure everything from defence networks to financial systems.
Maybe that's the problem.
Stick it to The Man!
I second that, mod this gentleman up, O'Reilly rules. I haven't bought an O'Reilly book that I haven't liked, and I think I have 7 books now and 2 pocket references (from O'Reilly). My gf also works at Barnes and Nobel and she has noticed that O'Reilly books seem to be the most popular. I have a couple of others that have way too many pages for the amount of information (I imagine space is at a premium on library shelves). I think those others are marketed toward those who think bigger is better. But we all know that good writing lies in thrift. Omit needless words!
O'Reilly, O'Reilly, O'Reilly!!!
Stick it to The Man!
Why is it that whenever a post suggests something is "Orwellian" it gets modded up?
This doesn't suggest that history would be rewritten (as in 1984), just because the New York Times erases a few articles. I'm sure there are so many pack rats around - I know a few - that keep every copy of every newspaper they ever receive, we'd never have to work about a few free-lancers opinions getting erased.
Besides, the NYT, as good a paper as it is, doesn't print the the stuff that ensures a free society. That stuff is published in the independent periodicals that practically nobody ever reads, on the subway walls, and on /.!
Or maybe Ginsburg was doing just that. If there's hope, it lies with the proles!
Stick it to The Man!
I can't believe that those people are content seeing this unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail (copyright Bob Dylan) We should be taking names and then doing what we can come election time to bring havoc to their websites.
Not that I condone that kind of thing...
See subject line.
Open the pod bay doors HAL.
I can't do that Dave.
OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS HAL.
I can't do that Dave.
Wasn't there something earlier about how this hasn't happened? Will they launch the thing this year? All hail Kubrick!
I run RH 7.1 on my laptop. I bring it to school with me. I'm taking a sci-fi writing class right now and we're in this brand spanking new room in the journalism library. I had booted up Linux earlier and my laptop was sleeping in my bag when someone asked the definition of some word. Remembering a little app in my utilities folder called "GDict" I grabbed my computer from my bag and plugged it in to the RJ-45 jack on the table (high tech classroom). I did a quick network reload and in a matter of seconds I had gotten the definition for the word. People were impressed. They had never seen anything like it. I'd like to see M$ do that, what I did today. Linux on the laptop is not dead, people just don't know about it. GDict is a useful program. Linux distros come with the useful stuff that (I think) are neccessary for a computer on the Internet - FTP, IRC, etc... We can't lament over this stupid article. Linux is so much cooler than anything else out there, and StarOffice isn't that bad either.
Peace.
I'm not a chemist, rather a former high school chemistry student. Somewhere back in the confines of my limited memory I find something about curves and temperature and pressure. I.E. you can boil water at room temperature if you create a vacuum or something. Is the idea to keep the pressure in the pipe high enough so the Nitrogen doesn't convert to gas? Is that an issue? They're referring to -380 degrees farenheit as a high temperature. Wow. Anyway the potential here sounds absolutely incredible. This is really cool.
:)
Peace, and stay cool! hehe
The last episode I saw was the one with the super-intelligent chimpanzee. He was getting his little text to speech app up on one of their laptops and the guy with the long hair said "What language is that?" The guy in the suit responded: "It's Linux."
Ugh!
I don't think society will ever stop fearing what it doesn't understand. The sad thing is that society fears those individuals who do understand, when in fact they are the last people who should be feared. This story will probably not reach the general public. I can only imagine what the response would be if this poor kid had gone out and killed his principal. The same number of deaths would have occured, but it would have garnered much more media attention, the kid would have been villified, and the public would probably blame the Internet. He often went to internet chat rooms at his home computer. I can just imagine that. It seems to me the schools have been spending too much time identifying the "dangerous" students and not enough encouraging the talented ones.
It made my heart ache to read about this. I feel really bad.
Several companies such as Red Hat, TurboLinux, SuSE, VA Linux Systems, and Caldera have taken the free Linux kernel, added features such as automated installation programs, window managers, and graphical user interfaces (GUI?s) and sell their packages for less than $100 typically. Thus, it is only the Linux kernel itself that is actually free. If you want a version other than the kernel, you pay one of the distributors for their particular version.
Wow. Don't tell anyone, but I downloaded Redhat 7.1 the other day for free. I also downloaded Mandrake and LinuxPPC for free.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Microsoft would spread these lies to its beloved customers! How could they even think of taking part in a misinformation campaign!? I think I'll write an email letting them know about their mistake and I'm sure they'll correct it as soon as possible.
Sheesh
Less Secure "Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.
I shouldn't have to say how poorly written this article is, let's just say this writer has "a long way to go." But look at this sentence. I can't believe it got published at M$! Maybe it's a cultural perception thing, as a Linux user this is a powerful arguement for open source. Are there any Windows users out there that read this sentence differently than I do?
I know, I got snagged by a troll. But I have one question -
For what other reason would you make an explicit request to the OS? At least when my Linux app hangs because of a divide by 0 or whatever I don't have to reboot and lose unsaved info in other apps.
Keep dreaming AC, someday the Linux/Windows battle will be settled. When it is, I'll either be using Linux or paper.
Instead of what you said, you'll get a receipt printed out
Or:
**computer voice** you are fined one-half credit for violation of the verbal parameter
As in "Demolition Man."
Along with a receipt of demerit from M$, which would be a fun alternative to toilet paper!
Does anyone know what end user sees when a site is blocked by AOL? For example, if my parents are being over-protective and I want to look at some nudity, what message do I see when I try? "Sorry, your parents don't want you to see this kind of thing" or "This site has been blocked?"
Also, was anyone confused by this line?:
"This (AOL filtering technology) is (only) that good," Nunberg said.
Should those parens be taken as brackets? If not, how would that have sounded in the interview? :)