You are thinking of one specific fork of BSD (OpenBSD), where it's maintainers place a great emphasis on no out-of-the-box security flaws. No OS is more secure than the person setting up and maintaining makes it.
I'm not sure why cracks found in MacOS 10 will serve as a wakeup call to people using or administering any other Operating System.
It's fairly trivial to convert.pdf files into editable vectored graphics. I have a NetBSD box at work on my private subnet (the main machines at work are all Win32, OS/2, or rather controlled Sparc boxes, my subnet is composed of a second net card in my NT Box and a crossover cable to my NetBSD box). I run the xpdf package on it expressly to convert.pdf files to pure postscript (the print command). Then I drag them back to the NT side and import them into Micrografx Designer. Viola! Editable vectored drawings from stuff formerly locked up in the.pdf format. Any good graphics program that can import postscript vectors will do the same. I like being able to resize and manipulate the schematics we get from an outside design house only as PDF files....
Sadly, whenever the black community riots and 'tears shit up' it is usually their own communities that they destroy. I don't bemoan this because I wish they'd rip up anybody else's stuff, but it sure is counterproductive to their aims as a community when rip themselves apart every decade or so.
You'll need one or several dongles at most. They will 'autheticate' you to some website. Thus if you clone your dongle or fake it out somehow the evidence will be pointing right at you.
Of course, there will always be hacks and workarounds. There always have been. They won't be mainstream though, so the revenue will continue to stream in to the content providers. That's really all they're concerned about.
Easy answer: Your employer does one of two things:
1. Moves their traffic to a private network.
2. Gets some sort of wavier to transmit encrypted traffic.
I mean, let's get real here. They're not going to ban https://, it's just going to be a bit more controlled. You'll have to be some sort of 'certified authority' to serve up secured sites and/or transmit encrypted traffic.
It sucks, I don't endorse it (so don't flame me) but it'll happen.
What I am thinking is that the people who provided all the 'muscle' to give them the status they have can't be terribly concerned about geeks getting their music and movies for free. So said 'big muscle' will make sure nobody rocks the boat and spoils the deal they have going. In other words, don't count on a warm welcome to Sealand if all you are is a 'Fair Use' freedom fighter.
Where do you buy a replacement hammer head without a handle? I've never seen such a product for sale anywhere. (potential illegal bundling case for the DOJ??)
Microsoft's "Pandora's Box" game is one of the coolest games I've played in a long time. It's definitely not for ADD-impaired First Person Shooter addicts, but it's an excellent game if you like mind-expanding puzzles.
Unless you purchased retail-box copies of Windows 98 that you put on those two new machines, you're in violation of the license terms on the OEM copies that you moved to the other machine.
Actually, the Retail box version of Windows, even at the higher cost, is a pretty good deal (albeit only from a non Freenix point of view) because you basically have the right to a completely transferrable copy of Windows that you can run forever on any single machine that you choose. A 'free' OEM license dies when the machine it was purchased on dies.
We don't have to actually count the number of 'Windows Refund' Rallies that occured. We can simply call up the places that rent costumes and see how many times a paunchy middle aged nerd has been in to rent the Darth Vader costume.
Or I suppose we could offer a reward to costume rental places that are willing to reveal that info to us.
China will impose 'approved only' filtering, not 'block disapproved' filtering. The 300,000 censors will be checking each site, then making it an approved place for 'the masses' to surf to.
That's a far easier job than blocking the huge number of sites they'll not be allowing their people to gain access to.
Actually Orwell's '1984' was a satire on Stalinism.
You're right, though, there is an active body of people striving to re-write history in the West these days. And the very concept of 'hate crime' reeks of 'newspeak.' Guess what, though? That's all coming from the left. The same folks Orwell was railing against. He himself was a disillustioned former socialist.
So you're basically saying that most Chinese people are as apathetic as the typical middle class sports fan in the West. Luckily for us, we have significantly more freedom, so our 'rebellious minority' doesn't have as much to fight for.
I really doubt there was a mass movement behind the 'great leap forward' (a period when millions of peasants starved to death because the central authorities decided agriculture needed to be 'collectivized') or the 'cultural revolution' (when 'intellectuals' were basically driven out to the countryside and forced into slave labor). Any work you find that makes a claim like that has, frankly, the stink of death about it.
With the opening (for a brief period, actually, hardliners slammed the vaults shut in the last few years) of the records in the former Soviet Union, what was found is that those 'darn Communists' were just as nasty as the worst 'red baiters' suspected.
We do live in relative freedom in the West. No amount of sneering from an intellectual elite that still has a fondness for 'dictatorship by an intellectual minority' (basically what happened in the USSR) can cover up the history of the past century of Communism.
Yeah, yeah. We know. 'Communism just needs to be given a fair chance this time.' It definitely hasn't been given enough chances in the last 100 years. Let's hear it for a new 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat.'
Did you know that Leon Trotsky wanted to testify before the HUAC, to denounce the Comintern? Stalin's agents got to him first.
Or are you a wobblie or some other weird splinter faction?
Isn't preference for dorm rooms still given to students in the first two years? (Freshmen and Sophomores) If not, I'd be watching for that to become the rule again, like it used to. There's no reason why upperclassmen shouldn't start getting used to the real world after a few years of college.
Qwest has had a competing service, but Thursday it was announced (or rather, it made it to the newspaper) that they're shutting down their ISP operation nationwide and transferring all their customers over to MSN accounts.
In fact, the Qwest exodous to MSN needs to be a major story here on/., if it hasn't already been an article that I've missed.
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You are thinking of one specific fork of BSD (OpenBSD), where it's maintainers place a great emphasis on no out-of-the-box security flaws. No OS is more secure than the person setting up and maintaining makes it.
I'm not sure why cracks found in MacOS 10 will serve as a wakeup call to people using or administering any other Operating System.
It's fairly trivial to convert .pdf files into editable vectored graphics. I have a NetBSD box at work on my private subnet (the main machines at work are all Win32, OS/2, or rather controlled Sparc boxes, my subnet is composed of a second net card in my NT Box and a crossover cable to my NetBSD box). I run the xpdf package on it expressly to convert .pdf files to pure postscript (the print command). Then I drag them back to the NT side and import them into Micrografx Designer. Viola! Editable vectored drawings from stuff formerly locked up in the .pdf format. Any good graphics program that can import postscript vectors will do the same. I like being able to resize and manipulate the schematics we get from an outside design house only as PDF files....
Sadly, whenever the black community riots and 'tears shit up' it is usually their own communities that they destroy. I don't bemoan this because I wish they'd rip up anybody else's stuff, but it sure is counterproductive to their aims as a community when rip themselves apart every decade or so.
You'll need one or several dongles at most. They will 'autheticate' you to some website. Thus if you clone your dongle or fake it out somehow the evidence will be pointing right at you.
Of course, there will always be hacks and workarounds. There always have been. They won't be mainstream though, so the revenue will continue to stream in to the content providers. That's really all they're concerned about.
Easy answer: Your employer does one of two things:
1. Moves their traffic to a private network.
2. Gets some sort of wavier to transmit encrypted traffic.
I mean, let's get real here. They're not going to ban https://, it's just going to be a bit more controlled. You'll have to be some sort of 'certified authority' to serve up secured sites and/or transmit encrypted traffic.
It sucks, I don't endorse it (so don't flame me) but it'll happen.
What I am thinking is that the people who provided all the 'muscle' to give them the status they have can't be terribly concerned about geeks getting their music and movies for free. So said 'big muscle' will make sure nobody rocks the boat and spoils the deal they have going. In other words, don't count on a warm welcome to Sealand if all you are is a 'Fair Use' freedom fighter.
And those guys (the techie kids) are best reached with Microsoft's message how?
Certainly not by an article on the InfoWorld site.
Probably the best way to get the word out would be, ummm... a nice big discussion on Slashdot.
Where do you buy a replacement hammer head without a handle? I've never seen such a product for sale anywhere. (potential illegal bundling case for the DOJ??)
Microsoft's "Pandora's Box" game is one of the coolest games I've played in a long time. It's definitely not for ADD-impaired First Person Shooter addicts, but it's an excellent game if you like mind-expanding puzzles.
Unless you purchased retail-box copies of Windows 98 that you put on those two new machines, you're in violation of the license terms on the OEM copies that you moved to the other machine.
Actually, the Retail box version of Windows, even at the higher cost, is a pretty good deal (albeit only from a non Freenix point of view) because you basically have the right to a completely transferrable copy of Windows that you can run forever on any single machine that you choose. A 'free' OEM license dies when the machine it was purchased on dies.
We don't have to actually count the number of 'Windows Refund' Rallies that occured. We can simply call up the places that rent costumes and see how many times a paunchy middle aged nerd has been in to rent the Darth Vader costume.
Or I suppose we could offer a reward to costume rental places that are willing to reveal that info to us.
Yep. The millions of peasants who've starved to death in the years since 1949 thought of themselves as part of a "glorious people's revolution."
Uh-huh. When the Red Army soldiers came and took away their land and forced them into communes, they were joyful.
China will impose 'approved only' filtering, not 'block disapproved' filtering. The 300,000 censors will be checking each site, then making it an approved place for 'the masses' to surf to.
That's a far easier job than blocking the huge number of sites they'll not be allowing their people to gain access to.
Actually Orwell's '1984' was a satire on Stalinism.
You're right, though, there is an active body of people striving to re-write history in the West these days. And the very concept of 'hate crime' reeks of 'newspeak.' Guess what, though? That's all coming from the left. The same folks Orwell was railing against. He himself was a disillustioned former socialist.
lets all get together and write that treaty,
Fine. When the democratically elected delegation from China is ready to participate, we'll hold the first session.
I'm not holding my breath.
So you're basically saying that most Chinese people are as apathetic as the typical middle class sports fan in the West. Luckily for us, we have significantly more freedom, so our 'rebellious minority' doesn't have as much to fight for.
I really doubt there was a mass movement behind the 'great leap forward' (a period when millions of peasants starved to death because the central authorities decided agriculture needed to be 'collectivized') or the 'cultural revolution' (when 'intellectuals' were basically driven out to the countryside and forced into slave labor). Any work you find that makes a claim like that has, frankly, the stink of death about it.
With the opening (for a brief period, actually, hardliners slammed the vaults shut in the last few years) of the records in the former Soviet Union, what was found is that those 'darn Communists' were just as nasty as the worst 'red baiters' suspected.
We do live in relative freedom in the West. No amount of sneering from an intellectual elite that still has a fondness for 'dictatorship by an intellectual minority' (basically what happened in the USSR) can cover up the history of the past century of Communism.
Sounds like a license to me.
Are you a foreign national, btw?
Would it be that easy for random Chinese citizen X in a distant part of the country to do what you did?
How many Falun Gong websites did you view online? Any sites with info from the Dali Lama?
Yeah, yeah. We know. 'Communism just needs to be given a fair chance this time.' It definitely hasn't been given enough chances in the last 100 years. Let's hear it for a new 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat.'
Did you know that Leon Trotsky wanted to testify before the HUAC, to denounce the Comintern? Stalin's agents got to him first.
Or are you a wobblie or some other weird splinter faction?
Oh, puhleeze! Don't try to characterize the dictatorship in Beijing as being a 'generation gap' issue.
Isn't preference for dorm rooms still given to students in the first two years? (Freshmen and Sophomores) If not, I'd be watching for that to become the rule again, like it used to. There's no reason why upperclassmen shouldn't start getting used to the real world after a few years of college.
Qwest has had a competing service, but Thursday it was announced (or rather, it made it to the newspaper) that they're shutting down their ISP operation nationwide and transferring all their customers over to MSN accounts.
/., if it hasn't already been an article that I've missed.
In fact, the Qwest exodous to MSN needs to be a major story here on
Wrong. Lowest cost for equivalent quality wins in the long run. And that's good.
You know, you've got a point. Maybe next month when we shut down the Internet for it's annual backup we should address it.
Thanks, VA Linux, for spreading the word on your sponsored/owned site about your competitors hardware.
(umm, VA Stockholders- look over there! That dog looks funny! Funny dog! )