Many systems (to my personal experience, FreeBSD and Gentoo), check all downloaded packages against an MD5 sum that was set by the port/package maintainer. So even if this person had changed the signature on the openbsd site, any installations of openssh on at least these operating systems would have mysteriously failed with a signature mismatch.
Then what would you call it? Whose fault is it? It's a clearly detrimental trait, and thus a fault, and it's obviously his...
You're playing with words.
There is a clear difference between a person <i>having a</i> fault and a person <i>being at</i> fault.
Consider the (admittedly poor) analogy of a weapon misfiring and injuring someone. Who or what do you blame for the misfire? You certainly wouldn't blame the gun; after all, the gun is at the mercy of physics. You might blame the gunsmith, or the person who pulled the trigger, or simple bad luck. In any case, however, it makes no sense to blame the gun.
Assuming there is such a thing as free will (a necessary precondition for the concept of blame to have any meaning), this analogy breaks down when it comes to full-blown human beings. We're not just guns. Our actions aren't purely governed by physics or chemistry or genetics. We have a choice, and therefore must accept some responsibility in what we choose.
At least, most of us do. In people with severe mental illness, like Richard Wallace here, free will breaks down. Because their brains are (provably) malfunctioning, they are to a greater extent controlled by genetics, and are to a lesser extent the masters of their own actions.
Where do we draw the line? When does a person no longer have free will, and when is he therefore inculpable? I don't know, but the line must surely be drawn somewhere.
Winamp puts MULTIPLE entries in your Directories' contex menus, installs the "Winamp Agent" in the system tray, automatically takes over every file-type it can, etc.
The following options are simply and obviously deselectable at install time:
Associate with files
Associate with Audio CDs
Add Start Menu Icons
Add Desktop icon
Add Quicklaunch icon
System tray icon
Preserve file associations
XMMS certainly does have more options.
I seem to recall from the last time I was in XMMS (a couple of weeks ago, when I was playing around with Gentoo), that my preferences menu consisted of input/output/visualization plugins, as well as a few general options. My memory may be faulty, but that's how I remember it.
XMMS has plugins for every format you could want (VQF, AAC, MPEG, etc)
As does WinAmp, in addition to many more quality plugins.
XMMS has always started up quicker than Winamp for me
I don't see how you can get much quicker than a second. Even if you did, what difference would it make at that scale? A 3x speed-up means nothing if we're talking about the difference between.3 and.9 seconds.
Sure XMMS may be sleeker, playlist may scroll better, may be optomized for your machine, may have more configuration options, may have source available for modification, may not take over your entire system when you install it, may have better plugins, run much faster and better than Winamp...
Um, either you have never used Winamp, never used XMMS, or have been using too many visualization plugins yourself, but...
Winamp starts in less than a second, does practically nothing to your system when you install (I can literally copy and paste my winamp directory onto a floppy, bring the floppy to another computer, and have winamp run there as if it has never left), contains far more configuration options than Xmms, and can handle playlists of an absolutely collosal length with grace. It has a tremendous number or plugins of varying quality, compared to XMMS's relatively few or similarly varying quality (simply compare the number or plugins listed at xmms.org compared to winamp.com). As for "optimized for your computer": music plays at 1second/second. What difference does it make if your decoding engine is capable of playing.5ms faster, if it's still only going to play at 1x?
I'll give you "source is available", but that does not, ipso facto, make it a better product.
Legal reform for this problem made simple: The loosing party pays ALL legal expenses for ALL parties!....just think...no more nuiscense suits, no more extortion by the big guys because I could get the BEST defense on contingency by the BEST professional who would WANT to help me defend my position! He wins, he charges plaintif company X whatever he wants (huge is fine with me!). Contingency has done wonders for the plaintif lawsuit market, perhaps by making legal defense profitable, we can reverse the trend!
Pray tell, what if you lose? Do you then have to pay yee old MegaCorp's legal bills?
Sorry, I didn't realize that these implementations don't require a decryption key (I was thinking that it was pretty much the same as PGP). You're right.
It won't work unless you also require agents to keep a disk with the decryption key seperate from the computer at all times except when mounting and unmounting the drive (and then the key is even more likely to get lost than the computer, leaving the data totally inaccessible). Otherwise, you have to store the key unencrypted on the computer, and it's a simple matter of cracking the password to the key, which will be extremely easy given unlimited time to do so.
Got ahold of an "uncorrected advance copy" through ABEBooks.com, and I must say that this book at least lives up to the standard of Ender's Shadow, if not Ender's Game. Card goes into the battle between Peter and Bean vs. Achilles, you find out something...interesting about Ender's parents, and Peter Wiggin's character finally becomes a little more 3-dimensional. I won't say more than that, other than that I read this book in something like 3 or 4 hours flat...it's that good.
Don't people have any idea how easy it is to buy a ticket to the latest Disney movie, give it to the guy at the door, and then head straight to the latest Schwarzenneger(sp?) flick? It's pathetic...
Even at some theaters where they put the ticket-checkers closer to the screenings, instead of just at the door, they'll usually wave you in the direction of the ticket's screening, and not notice when you head in the other direction. (I've done this, believe me).
All in all, any belief that by dropping a child off at a theater that enforces the age-18 limit for rated R movies will actually stop the child from seeing whatever he/she wants to see is laughable.
Who else thinks that that "Punch the monkey" ad is one of the most aggravating and, heck, painful-on-the eyes ads you've ever seen? I mean, it's just plain hard to read the page you're trying to see with that thing flashing at you!
Ok, so this is somewhat off-topic, but I've got a major gripe with the Palm.
There's no way to synchronize datebooks, addressbooks, etc., with another person.
I can't believe I'm the only one out there who thinks that it would be extremely useful to synchronize schedules with someone else, so that if I need to know where they are, and what they're doing, I can just click a tab and look at their schedule. Am I missing something?
Even if Microsoft is split up in Baby Bills, this won't automatically change MS Office's market share.
That isn't the point of splitting the company up. I liken splitting up Microsoft to seperating the criminal from a gun. If, for example, Office and Windows are spun off into smaller companies, they will still (theoretically), be able to create Office and Windows, respectively. The difference is: the Windows company won't be able to leverage it's dominance in the word processing field in order to stifle competition, and vice verca (sp?).
Why? Because for the first time in a long time the polls might actually be balanced. For many years this country has had more power given to older people than younger people because of how the voting system works. Let's face it: If you're retired and dependent on medicare, you're going to be damn sure to get your voice heard at the ballots! On top of that, you one of the few people who have the time to get down to the ballot boxes. Other people, however, who may work 9-5 jobs or worse, do not!
Now politicians may start having to pay attention to the younger generation once again!
Amazon's policies and actions may be deplorable, but in all the time I've been ordering from them (this amounts to about 20 or 30 orders), I've gotten nothing but great customer service: low time on hold for telephone support, and next day replies to my e-mails. The only exception to this has been during the holiday season, when my gift arrived 2 weeks after I ordered it (it said 2-3 day shipping), missing Hannukah. I still fully intend to boycott Amazon for what they've done so far with their frivolous patenting, but support is hardly a basis for criticism.
My, and many other people's, favorite part of the original Fantasia was The Sorcerer's Apprentice. One of the greatest things they could have done with this in the second Fantasia would be to bring Mickey to life again, this time in CGI. Walt Disney was a visionary, and Mickey Mouse was one of his greatest contributions to Disney. As an earlier poster said, he seems to have been born at the wrong time, but at least we could have (can?) brought his vision forward. Pixar could have done a great job with this, and really used the power of the Imax screen to its full potential. Of course, all this IMHO, -Sam Black
Where?!? I've been searching long hours (well, not quite) for an RPM of the last snapshot, to no avail. If you can tell me where to find these, I'd be much obliged =). -Sam Black
The one feature of WordPerfect that I love, and that has quite possibly kept me from switching away from it, is the "reveal codes" option. Say what you will, but the difference between the power with and without that is like the difference in power between a purely WYSIWYG interface and a "tags-on" view ala HotMetal (which, IMHO, is one of the best out there).
I've downloaded (and am running), the Red Hat beta. It seems to me that most of the issues with QT have been resolved. I got licq (and the qt-gui plugin) to compile and run without a hitch. There are a few programs that I've seen that still seem to have library problems (the first one that comes to mind is kicq), even though I checked "kde" in the installer. Other than that, I think things are being patched up with QT.
Jon Katz, Slashdot's self-appointed crusader against corporate misdeeds, has been silent on the matter.
Anyone else notice that this guy sounds a whole lot like Katz? He also reminds me of Dvorak: it looks like this entire article is about hitting a nerve and getting his article/.'ed.
Slashdot Mirror
Bzzzzt. Wrong.
Many systems (to my personal experience, FreeBSD and Gentoo), check all downloaded packages against an MD5 sum that was set by the port/package maintainer. So even if this person had changed the signature on the openbsd site, any installations of openssh on at least these operating systems would have mysteriously failed with a signature mismatch.
Then what would you call it? Whose fault is it? It's a clearly detrimental trait, and thus a fault, and it's obviously his...
You're playing with words.
There is a clear difference between a person <i>having a</i> fault and a person <i>being at</i> fault.
Consider the (admittedly poor) analogy of a weapon misfiring and injuring someone. Who or what do you blame for the misfire? You certainly wouldn't blame the gun; after all, the gun is at the mercy of physics. You might blame the gunsmith, or the person who pulled the trigger, or simple bad luck. In any case, however, it makes no sense to blame the gun.
Assuming there is such a thing as free will (a necessary precondition for the concept of blame to have any meaning), this analogy breaks down when it comes to full-blown human beings. We're not just guns. Our actions aren't purely governed by physics or chemistry or genetics. We have a choice, and therefore must accept some responsibility in what we choose.
At least, most of us do. In people with severe mental illness, like Richard Wallace here, free will breaks down. Because their brains are (provably) malfunctioning, they are to a greater extent controlled by genetics, and are to a lesser extent the masters of their own actions.
Where do we draw the line? When does a person no longer have free will, and when is he therefore inculpable? I don't know, but the line must surely be drawn somewhere.
Associate with files
Associate with Audio CDs
Add Start Menu Icons
Add Desktop icon
Add Quicklaunch icon
System tray icon
Preserve file associations
I seem to recall from the last time I was in XMMS (a couple of weeks ago, when I was playing around with Gentoo), that my preferences menu consisted of input/output/visualization plugins, as well as a few general options. My memory may be faulty, but that's how I remember it. As does WinAmp, in addition to many more quality plugins. I don't see how you can get much quicker than a second. Even if you did, what difference would it make at that scale? A 3x speed-up means nothing if we're talking about the difference betweenUm, either you have never used Winamp, never used XMMS, or have been using too many visualization plugins yourself, but...
Winamp starts in less than a second, does practically nothing to your system when you install (I can literally copy and paste my winamp directory onto a floppy, bring the floppy to another computer, and have winamp run there as if it has never left), contains far more configuration options than Xmms, and can handle playlists of an absolutely collosal length with grace. It has a tremendous number or plugins of varying quality, compared to XMMS's relatively few or similarly varying quality (simply compare the number or plugins listed at xmms.org compared to winamp.com). As for "optimized for your computer": music plays at 1second/second. What difference does it make if your decoding engine is capable of playing .5ms faster, if it's still only going to play at 1x?
I'll give you "source is available", but that does not, ipso facto, make it a better product.
I'm wasting my time, but:
Administer
v. intr.
To manage as an administrator.
administrate (d-mn-strt)
tr.v.
To administer.
Hence, administer == administrate.
Sorry, I didn't realize that these implementations don't require a decryption key (I was thinking that it was pretty much the same as PGP). You're right.
It won't work unless you also require agents to keep a disk with the decryption key seperate from the computer at all times except when mounting and unmounting the drive (and then the key is even more likely to get lost than the computer, leaving the data totally inaccessible). Otherwise, you have to store the key unencrypted on the computer, and it's a simple matter of cracking the password to the key, which will be extremely easy given unlimited time to do so.
...unless it has sufficient escape velocity to leave Earth orbit :-).
**Warning! Possible Spoilers!**
Got ahold of an "uncorrected advance copy" through ABEBooks.com, and I must say that this book at least lives up to the standard of Ender's Shadow, if not Ender's Game. Card goes into the battle between Peter and Bean vs. Achilles, you find out something...interesting about Ender's parents, and Peter Wiggin's character finally becomes a little more 3-dimensional. I won't say more than that, other than that I read this book in something like 3 or 4 hours flat...it's that good.
Don't people have any idea how easy it is to buy a ticket to the latest Disney movie, give it to the guy at the door, and then head straight to the latest Schwarzenneger(sp?) flick? It's pathetic...
Even at some theaters where they put the ticket-checkers closer to the screenings, instead of just at the door, they'll usually wave you in the direction of the ticket's screening, and not notice when you head in the other direction. (I've done this, believe me).
All in all, any belief that by dropping a child off at a theater that enforces the age-18 limit for rated R movies will actually stop the child from seeing whatever he/she wants to see is laughable.
Who else thinks that that "Punch the monkey" ad is one of the most aggravating and, heck, painful-on-the eyes ads you've ever seen? I mean, it's just plain hard to read the page you're trying to see with that thing flashing at you!
Ok, so this is somewhat off-topic, but I've got a major gripe with the Palm.
There's no way to synchronize datebooks, addressbooks, etc., with another person.
I can't believe I'm the only one out there who thinks that it would be extremely useful to synchronize schedules with someone else, so that if I need to know where they are, and what they're doing, I can just click a tab and look at their schedule. Am I missing something?
Even if Microsoft is split up in Baby Bills, this won't automatically change MS Office's market share.
That isn't the point of splitting the company up. I liken splitting up Microsoft to seperating the criminal from a gun. If, for example, Office and Windows are spun off into smaller companies, they will still (theoretically), be able to create Office and Windows, respectively. The difference is: the Windows company won't be able to leverage it's dominance in the word processing field in order to stifle competition, and vice verca (sp?).
Piracy is only one use for them.
Riiiiiight.
Your argument goes along the line of:
"Should I not be able to buy an axe to cut wood because it can also be used as a weapon?"
While this argument certainly applies to networks like IRC, it should read (at least in reference to napster/gnutella), like this:
"Should I not be able to buy a machine gun just because it's intended purpose is to kill people? It can be used for self-defense, too!"
Sorry, but arguing that napster/gnutella wasn't designed with the sole purpose of pirating music is bullshit.
Cliché: Trite of overused expression or idea.
The cliché he used may have been referring to an oxymoron, but that doesn't make it wrong to call it a cliché.
Why?
Because for the first time in a long time the polls might actually be balanced. For many years this country has had more power given to older people than younger people because of how the voting system works. Let's face it: If you're retired and dependent on medicare, you're going to be damn sure to get your voice heard at the ballots! On top of that, you one of the few people who have the time to get down to the ballot boxes. Other people, however, who may work 9-5 jobs or worse, do not!
Now politicians may start having to pay attention to the younger generation once again!
Amazon's policies and actions may be deplorable, but in all the time I've been ordering from them (this amounts to about 20 or 30 orders), I've gotten nothing but great customer service: low time on hold for telephone support, and next day replies to my e-mails. The only exception to this has been during the holiday season, when my gift arrived 2 weeks after I ordered it (it said 2-3 day shipping), missing Hannukah.
I still fully intend to boycott Amazon for what they've done so far with their frivolous patenting, but support is hardly a basis for criticism.
My, and many other people's, favorite part of the original Fantasia was The Sorcerer's Apprentice. One of the greatest things they could have done with this in the second Fantasia would be to bring Mickey to life again, this time in CGI. Walt Disney was a visionary, and Mickey Mouse was one of his greatest contributions to Disney. As an earlier poster said, he seems to have been born at the wrong time, but at least we could have (can?) brought his vision forward. Pixar could have done a great job with this, and really used the power of the Imax screen to its full potential. Of course, all this IMHO, -Sam Black
Where?!? I've been searching long hours (well, not quite) for an RPM of the last snapshot, to no avail. If you can tell me where to find these, I'd be much obliged =). -Sam Black
Bring in your catatonic Uncle Charlie.
The one feature of WordPerfect that I love, and that has quite possibly kept me from switching away from it, is the "reveal codes" option. Say what you will, but the difference between the power with and without that is like the difference in power between a purely WYSIWYG interface and a "tags-on" view ala HotMetal (which, IMHO, is one of the best out there).
-Sam Black
I've downloaded (and am running), the Red Hat beta. It seems to me that most of the issues with QT have been resolved. I got licq (and the qt-gui plugin) to compile and run without a hitch. There are a few programs that I've seen that still seem to have library problems (the first one that comes to mind is kicq), even though I checked "kde" in the installer. Other than that, I think things are being patched up with QT.
Jon Katz, Slashdot's self-appointed crusader against corporate misdeeds, has been silent on the matter.
/.'ed.
Anyone else notice that this guy sounds a whole lot like Katz? He also reminds me of Dvorak: it looks like this entire article is about hitting a nerve and getting his article
Just a thought,
-Sam Black
Just a simple, "Thanks!"