The articles author starts out with "How to control what is online..." but never asks the question if it should be controlled. (To a very limited extent, yes, but certainly not to the degree he's suggesting.)
Then, he goes on to give an example of a woman who was killed by "someone whose fantasies of killing were nurtured, if not engendered, by the pornographic images he found so easily on the web". I find it difficult to believe that someone went from being a perfectly normal person to a killer sjust he viewed some internet porn. (If that were true, half of Slashdot readership could turn into killers!;) )
Then, his solution to all this is to let the government control the internet, and to "change" it to support that control. There are two problems with that:
1) The government is not some giant parental figure who's supposed to protect us from harm, no matter how much liberalism would like us to believe that.;) We're responsible for our own actions.
2) Since he suggests "changing" the internet, but provides no plan on doing that, I have to question whether he has any idea of what would be involved. Market-driven forces are the only thing that really make significant changes now, and giving control the the government would completely undermine that. It would have to be in the interest of the market to have changes made to the internet, and until that happens, change won't.
...all that's going to happen is that people are going to put in correct information, and then make it unlisted. When the people in Congress are given the analogy with the phone system (ie, unlisted numbers) it will become a matter of subpeonas, and then for the courts in the cases of infringement, as it should be.
It's unfortunate that spam must be lucrative enough that one man will send himself the same message 10,000 times and train an evil filter! We need to get people to stop buying products advertised through spam (granted, easier said than done), as in the end, it's the financial incentive that makes a spammer spam.:(
It seems a little too coincidental that Mandrake (originally a derivative of RedHat) is now switching to the same model as RedHat. RedHat has their "community" version, Fedora, and an "official" version, the Red Hat Enterprise Server.
- All the links are available in the menus on the left. - Links that "surprise" people tend to make them more inclined to see what else they can find. - If you can find them, then I imagine just about anyone can, huh?:P
I read the report, and it's good to see that so much work is being done on BSD. Having tried it (and gone back to Gentoo), I was unaware that there was so much community support for it. I may just have to give it another look!
The article mentions that the iLug needs books... however, it does not mention where we can send them (or even if we can!). I have a ton of old Linux books that I would happily send (at my expense, though probably only one or two a month), but how do we go about doing that?
...and their IPO has been a lot of speculation from the start, and wasn't ever "official".
While there have been some hints, it has largely been hype that is responsible for people thinking that Google would have an IPO.
Furthermore, it seems that it would be a smart move for Google to capitalise on this, and have their CEO say that an IPO wasn't even on his agenda. That would make people want it all the more, so it's a smart move that they've done that! Using the hype to their advantage without committing to anything... very shrewd.
"I already have a customer asking for Perens LLC to provide commercial support for KDE on the UserLinux platform. And we will do so, even though KDE is not the chosen GUI of the UserLinux project. This is an option for any UserLinux service provider."
So, in other words, if your customers want it, you should provide it. Makes sense to me.;)
...given that we probably know little about the surface of the comet.
Given that it could be porous (or even lots of shatterable ice), I hope that the harpoon has the force to bury itself deeply enough to actually anchor itself in something solid.
...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far.;)
"Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."
My girlfriend and I were in a similar situation. We played Civ:CTP (via email). This had several advantages:
1) Being that it was via email, we could do it "asynchronously" as needed. 2) While we were chatting online (which we both prefer to the phone), we could still play, and it was easy enough to do since it was still email based. 3) It was a fun game! 4) We could "show off" to each other based on our Civilisation building skills. (Hers were always better.) 5) I played it on Linux, and she played on Windows, and there were no problems!
All in all, it was a good experience, and allowed us to game together while far apart.
People who have open relays (in most instances) are either too stressed or too ignorant to understand what that means, and getting a letter from the FTC won't change that (in most instances.)
The FTC can only suggest that the relays be closed. Until they have some form of enforcement, there is nothing preventing those with open relays from ignoring the emails (assuming this is the rare situation where the above does not apply).
This doesn't take into account that some of those relays may be there on purpose, as in ISPs possibly colluding with, and also possibly profiting from, spam.
CONS - slightly wider (not that much) - slightly thicker (not that much) - slightly heavier (not that much) - not as many songs (after 2500, does it make a difference?) PROS - cheaper - twice the battery life
For a commuter on a budget, this looks like it stands to gain some market share.
...it's an incredible piece, and very well written. One never understands such things until it is succinctly written out, and these authors did an amazing job.
...do what exactly? With US 52.8 billion dollars in the bank, even they take half that, they still have 26+ billion dollars. With profit margins of 25%, and revenue of 32 billion a quarter, those would have to be some hefty cash fines to even make the smallest dent in how MS does business.
Not to mention that Bill Gates could sell some of his stock if he wanted to, and put that money back in the company.
Since Dell has half the market cap of IBM. which makes it a sizable company in its own right, Microsoft (granted, which still has a larger market cap than both combined) should realise that two of the biggest computer makers are trying to distance themselves. If they weren't already afraid of the free movement (whether it be Linux or FreeDOS!) they should be paying a lot more attention very soon!
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The articles author starts out with "How to control what is online..." but never asks the question if it should be controlled. (To a very limited extent, yes, but certainly not to the degree he's suggesting.)
;) )
;) We're responsible for our own actions.
Then, he goes on to give an example of a woman who was killed by "someone whose fantasies of killing were nurtured, if not engendered, by the pornographic images he found so easily on the web". I find it difficult to believe that someone went from being a perfectly normal person to a killer sjust he viewed some internet porn. (If that were true, half of Slashdot readership could turn into killers!
Then, his solution to all this is to let the government control the internet, and to "change" it to support that control. There are two problems with that:
1) The government is not some giant parental figure who's supposed to protect us from harm, no matter how much liberalism would like us to believe that.
2) Since he suggests "changing" the internet, but provides no plan on doing that, I have to question whether he has any idea of what would be involved. Market-driven forces are the only thing that really make significant changes now, and giving control the the government would completely undermine that. It would have to be in the interest of the market to have changes made to the internet, and until that happens, change won't.
Mr. Fox, would you be so kind as to go to that henhouse and guard those chickens? Thank you, that is all. ;)
...all that's going to happen is that people are going to put in correct information, and then make it unlisted. When the people in Congress are given the analogy with the phone system (ie, unlisted numbers) it will become a matter of subpeonas, and then for the courts in the cases of infringement, as it should be.
Knock knock...
;)
Who's there?
Usher.
Usher who?
Usher wish I could SSH to your server!
Sorry...
...as then everything will be tracked. People and transactions. :/
It's unfortunate that spam must be lucrative enough that one man will send himself the same message 10,000 times and train an evil filter! We need to get people to stop buying products advertised through spam (granted, easier said than done), as in the end, it's the financial incentive that makes a spammer spam. :(
...who will see his tuition go up by $699 next year. ;)
Gentoo already has this, but it's masked.
/usr/portage/kde-base/kdebase, and there is an ebuild for it:
Go to
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7922 Jan 18 23:35 kdebase-3.0.5b.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3971 Jan 13 12:40 kdebase-3.1.4.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3630 Jan 29 08:42 kdebase-3.1.5.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3084 Feb 2 07:26 kdebase-3.2.0.ebuild
You'll have to unmask it, so see The Masked Packages FAQ at Gentoo.org.
...except the last one! And it's that last one that's always left over and never fits anywhere. I would like to know where that one goes!
It seems a little too coincidental that Mandrake (originally a derivative of RedHat) is now switching to the same model as RedHat. RedHat has their "community" version, Fedora, and an "official" version, the Red Hat Enterprise Server.
- All the links are available in the menus on the left. :P
- Links that "surprise" people tend to make them more inclined to see what else they can find.
- If you can find them, then I imagine just about anyone can, huh?
I read the report, and it's good to see that so much work is being done on BSD. Having tried it (and gone back to Gentoo), I was unaware that there was so much community support for it. I may just have to give it another look!
The article mentions that the iLug needs books... however, it does not mention where we can send them (or even if we can!). I have a ton of old Linux books that I would happily send (at my expense, though probably only one or two a month), but how do we go about doing that?
...and their IPO has been a lot of speculation from the start, and wasn't ever "official".
While there have been some hints, it has largely been hype that is responsible for people thinking that Google would have an IPO.
Furthermore, it seems that it would be a smart move for Google to capitalise on this, and have their CEO say that an IPO wasn't even on his agenda. That would make people want it all the more, so it's a smart move that they've done that! Using the hype to their advantage without committing to anything... very shrewd.
...and I quote:
;)
"I already have a customer asking for Perens LLC to provide commercial support for KDE on the UserLinux platform. And we will do so, even though KDE is not the chosen GUI of the UserLinux project. This is an
option for any UserLinux service provider."
So, in other words, if your customers want it, you should provide it. Makes sense to me.
...if the jobs can go to India, it would make sense that the workers can too.
;)
Someone told someone whose job was outsourced to "think outside the box", and look what happened.
...given that we probably know little about the surface of the comet.
Given that it could be porous (or even lots of shatterable ice), I hope that the harpoon has the force to bury itself deeply enough to actually anchor itself in something solid.
...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far. ;)
;) )
"Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."
(And yes, I read the whole thing.
My girlfriend and I were in a similar situation. We played Civ:CTP (via email). This had several advantages:
1) Being that it was via email, we could do it "asynchronously" as needed.
2) While we were chatting online (which we both prefer to the phone), we could still play, and it was easy enough to do since it was still email based.
3) It was a fun game!
4) We could "show off" to each other based on our Civilisation building skills. (Hers were always better.)
5) I played it on Linux, and she played on Windows, and there were no problems!
All in all, it was a good experience, and allowed us to game together while far apart.
People who have open relays (in most instances) are either too stressed or too ignorant to understand what that means, and getting a letter from the FTC won't change that (in most instances.)
The FTC can only suggest that the relays be closed. Until they have some form of enforcement, there is nothing preventing those with open relays from ignoring the emails (assuming this is the rare situation where the above does not apply).
This doesn't take into account that some of those relays may be there on purpose, as in ISPs possibly colluding with, and also possibly profiting from, spam.
CONS
- slightly wider (not that much)
- slightly thicker (not that much)
- slightly heavier (not that much)
- not as many songs (after 2500, does it make a difference?)
PROS
- cheaper
- twice the battery life
For a commuter on a budget, this looks like it stands to gain some market share.
...already, when two Australians copyrighted all phone numbers way back in 2001.
...it's an incredible piece, and very well written. One never understands such things until it is succinctly written out, and these authors did an amazing job.
...do what exactly? With US 52.8 billion dollars in the bank, even they take half that, they still have 26+ billion dollars. With profit margins of 25%, and revenue of 32 billion a quarter, those would have to be some hefty cash fines to even make the smallest dent in how MS does business.
Not to mention that Bill Gates could sell some of his stock if he wanted to, and put that money back in the company.
Since Dell has half the market cap of IBM. which makes it a sizable company in its own right, Microsoft (granted, which still has a larger market cap than both combined) should realise that two of the biggest computer makers are trying to distance themselves. If they weren't already afraid of the free movement (whether it be Linux or FreeDOS!) they should be paying a lot more attention very soon!