Obviously the whole dumbing down of the society angle. Compare the family the people watch on the "wall" versus what is called "reality TV shows" in todays world (in America). How did Ray Brabury know? Just a massive flood of this image that people need to be a certain way or that most people are a certain way and give a false sense of inferiority to any not conforming to these ideals.
Those reality TV shows are basically nothing like anyones reality that I know. As a comedian has said, "Reality TV would be acurate if all they showed were fat, lazy, americans sitting on their asses watching TV." So if we can get a lot of Americans to watch these fake shows, we can show them all these rugged SUV commercials and make them think they need a tough $30,000 vehicle and that they need this and that and have to keep up with the Jones'. Beer, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford, Pepsi, Britney Spears, etc etc. In Fahrenheit 451 they convince you books are bad for society and thus you should fear them. If you do not, you are basically a felon and shunned by the entire society, only a few secret admirers exist.
Brainwashed, dumbed down and no sense of individuality except in the form of status based on how much you own is what the society in F451 is with a rather tragic ending, losing most everthing tangible you ever knew. In real life, are we really much better? We have big bombs with half of our citizens not voting. Decisions made by less and less people, less diversity means less resistance to anything new.
I do not have a graceful ending to this comment/rant so it ends... now
I think the idea was that not only would Linux benefit, but all on the HUGE list of supported platforms supported by GCC have the potential for performance gain. If proprietary code compiled using GCC for athlons is sold, that could benefit too.
It might be argueable how much benefit could be gained, but that would be up to AMD to determine how much work would have to go into the GCC and how much of a gain could be made.
Funny. I think Yahoo! still uses freebsd for their web servers. Hmmm... also... OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are NOT 'for profit corporations out for market share' So long as those hackers keep hacking on the *BSDs, they will never be "DYING" and will therefore never die.
Anyone else here read Neal Stephenson's Zodiac? Big corporations pretty much can do what the want: bend or break laws, change laws thru their political pressure, murder, etc. There is no person that can be held responsibly, morally or legally. It is just a big giant pulsating entity that absorbs money, people, and political power. It is like every corporation is its own little nazi-like world domination campaign. Use confusion, lies, violence, and the government to get out of trouble and avoid anything that makes them look bad, otherwise step on anyone in our way.
There are even a few movies out that deal with these kinds of issues: Erin Brockavich, Born Yesterday, etc. People probably just think it these kinds of things don't happen. Businessmen with senators in their pockets, companies poisoning their residential neighbors with thier toxic chemicals. Wake up people - America is fscked!
If the desktop changes, I will be so pissed. This article is dumb and baseless. Why is this even being discussed?!?!?!
WHY O WHY would you take M$'s motto that "Choices are confusing" and remove our ability to use the desktop for storing frequently accessed items or as a temporary swap space. If you get your desktop cluttered, that is your problem, clean it. If your bedroom is cluttered, clean it up you lazy ass schmuck!
I wonder how much this company's stock would jump if everything the claim turns out true and they kick ass on the last mile!!! Could be a Microsoft sized jump?
Nacny looks like it will rule the land. Compression so good and FAST to be able to stream video over cell phones, especially those new 3G phones that have broadband bandwidth capablilities.
Running DNS on a different port and/or in some distributed way... There are tons of things that will change because of distributed networks/computing. The cDc are working on Peekabooty which should defeat the great firewall of china. I am sure that distributed networks are going to screw it up for a lot of corporations and consortiums.
Things will change, try to grab a hold of the changing net and follow along with it.
---on a side note I have my own website running on port 80 and 81 because I have AT&T cable modem which is STILL blocking port 80! So I am right there with you on using different port numbers.
Archive here Use your realplayer to open this file. For some reason I could not get sound though?? Could be just my client I suppose. Had volume maxed and speakers on... Try it and see if it works for you.
This is nothing new for OS/FS companies like GNOME and various Linux distros in general. You have to figure out a new business model. The same old model that MICROSOFT says is mandatory to make money says it is the ONLY model to make money in the software business. It is up to business people to determine a new model.
Did MS make all the money they have now, back in the mid 80's? No. They have to develop a successful model. Regardless of all the things MS has done wrong, developing a successful business model is one thing they have done very well. Now times are changing and more and more is becoming digital and the legal system can not keep up with it. Models will have to change, people's feelings will be hurt, companies will fail, and when the smoke clears there will be a few champions standing a hill of slain compaines proving what they have to offer is going to be the de facto norm (at least for a while).
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I must comment on a Bruce Schneier talk that was held recently post on the free dmitry site. It was about how the entities are involved with copy protection and the digital age.
In extremely paraphrased words, copyright owners can not technically/physically stop copying (legal or otherwise) from going on so they are trying to pull the legal angle with things such as the DMCA, SSSCA, ATA, etc. Some of these are obviously quite misguided. Bruce Schneier talked about these things and the history of their inability to completely stop copying. There are countries in the world that do not and will not conform to american companies' wishes/laws/edicts (mostly one-in-the-same anyway); such countries will not apply the DMCA, SSSCA, etc to their people and thus ignore entities such as the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft, etc
There will never be a time when millions of people will be overpowered by any entity(ies) technically, legally or any way in the end. There will always be a way around it or thru it or to bypass it. It is just a matter of time before the way is understood. How long did Windows XP last before it was cracked? How long for the watermarking was cracked? How long before CSS was cracked? How long before 802.11b password keys can be revealed?
Where is OpenBSD based because of encryption laws being to strict in the US? Canada. There are countries out there that don't recognize IP. What is Disney going to do when their beloved life-extended from the public domain Mickey Mouse is used in some defamating way in one such country? Nothing!
I grasped from Bruce's speech that there are tough times ahead for many but there is no way everyone can be stopped. Just keep persistent and keep trying to figure things out and how they work and in the end this barrage of legal assaults against us and our freedoms will cease when it yields no more results.
It may be considered a work of art. If you think it is, support the maker and buy his/her stuff. Ultimately you can not own an arrangement of notes. Just because you thought of it doesn't mean you can just own it, just as you can not own any of the notes.
I think it looks like this:
If you produce quality work that people like, they will support you by buying your CDs. If you are 100 years old but still turn out good songs, you will still get supported by your fans. If your music stinks, then you should be ready to support yourself another way (your offspring maybe?).
What you produce are just notes. Notes are the same as code to a computer. You can NOT own them. They are just speech/ideas, NOT intellectual property! You can only share ideas.
Piracy is what? Stealing or taking without permission? How is downloading stealing?
What am I stealing if I download a copyrighted song? Am I going to a warehouse and grabbing a CD? NO!
Am I grabbing the artists money I found in their wallets? NO!
Am I stealing anything?
Speech (like music and computer programs) are just ideas. You can not steal ideas, only share them. If you BUY a CD then you are supporting the maker. If you COPY a CD then what I am stealing? I legally bought a blank CD-R. I didn't steal anything!
If something is stolen that means it is gone. Copying something leaves the original intact and unchanged.
Why is it that we (meaning big companies like Cisco, US government, Microsoft, etc) have so much trouble? Just look at all the messes! Sep 11, nimda, code $color_of_choice, DMCA, etc! They are almost always in the business of fixing problems after they become problems!!! ARGH!!! That is one of the most beautiful things about Free and OS Software... a lot of problems get fixed before (out of proportion just like in any estimation done by any research/analysis study) $trillions in losses occur due to some major effing catastophe. Why?? pre-emptive code auditing. Free/OS software is expected to have flaws and faults that's why people are encouraged to look and examine the code! Find, fix, enhance!
Now, the US Gov, Microsoft etc. seem to not care (they don't seem to make outward attempts anyway) if what they are doing is stupid/wrong. Let's bomb Iraq 4-5 times a month then complain Saddam is a threat to freedom and is happy about Sep. 11! Hey, let's just act like we own the place then millions of people get pissed off at us and we call THEM terrorists because our way is about freedom and you must be against freedom if you are against us!
...(Back on topic now)
When a router is hacked (especially big ones) they have the capability to use a DOS attack on a mammoth amount of people. DOS = denial of service.... not just packet flooding. Imagine if you changed the DNS information or routing information and starting sending EVERYONE from the router to slashdot.org. I am sure Slashdot would drop like a rock. Plus all those people can not view any website and no one can view slashdot. That is a huge DOS. Why are routers easy targets? Monopoly.
I don't know any current stats but like in 1998 or 1999 something like 80% of the internet infrastructure was Cisco based. I am sure there are at least one common flaw amongst most Cisco routers. Some say it is that reason, others say it's incompetent admins. I say a little from column A, and a little from column B. Cisco needs to make IOS upgrades easier to obtain. Go buy a Cisco router off of ebay and try to upgrade the IOS. Aint going to happen unless you are a CCIE or have a service contract with them. Of course there are illegal ways as well. The point being, you probably are screwed. And to the admins... please... read documentation and understand what you are doing and do it with prior thought before you plug in and turn on. Don't use exec password:cisco and enable password:class (It has been a while since my Cisco training... do they still use that for the lab routers?)
Ok... the problem with video conferencing is... ? It is just not an established technique yet. Do you have a DSL? Not an established net connection (in my opinion). Just because you can't or don't want to (vid conference) doesn't mean millions and millions of people don't either.
Now imagine you want to show somebody something like outside your car window because you are lost, your clothes, your mom wants to see if you cleaned your pit of a room.
Then there is the 3D teleconferencing. Brand new... you have to give it time before it becomes really functional. I am also sure that using vid phones will NOT be mandatory... merely an option, perhaps the standard but audio-only will always be an option.
Hey brainiac! I suppose you use a 28.8k dial-up right? You will never need anything faster?? Good luck to you. Those of whom are preparing for the *future* what like 15+ years in the future and installed fibre in their neighborhood will be fine in the future. Streaming video (ie phones in the future) WILL require that bandwidth. Hard drives of the future will be able to handle that bandwidth too. Maxtor is working on their ATA 133 drives. in 10 years who knows how fast they will be.
So it is not just for geeks for games and porn, it is serious preparation for the future!! Probably will be lonely in those pubs you speak of being in. Everyone will be conversing online except you; you will just be reading slashdot on your 28.8 still. Bah humbug!
OpenBSD is an offshoot of NetBSD. Theo (lead developer for OBSD) had philosophical differences with the rest of NetBSD and thus started OpenBSD. OpenBSD being the most code-audited BSD with some good cross platform support as well.
There is another small BSD offshoot in the name of emBSD. It is a stripped down version of OpenBSD and its primary objective is to create a firewall and/or router using as little hardware as possible (ideally with not moving parts like a hard drive).
Hmmm... let's not forget the "XM" in XM radio is not really anything besides THEIR NAME. They are totally owning everyone it seems when it comes to language. It seems like there is a third radio option from AM and FM when really there is NOT a third option.
"Radio to the power of X" ARGH. Makes me wanna vomit. They are just so 1337!
What?? If I can read than Nimda uses something like 12 or more different exploits in MS products. Not just IIS! It affects IE web browser (the client ya know), is sent via email from people who got it already, and additional IIS exploits as well. So I do not believe there is an old MS Patch for all of Nimda.
I am affected by AT&T blocking port 80 as well I think that port blocking is crazy and drives me nuts. I set my entire web sight up to listen on port 81 and link everywhere on port 81. What a damn joke! Screw big dumbass corps that do whatever they want! They make me feel like I am being telefragged in that I can't do anything about it!!!
As Katz said it, if you have not seen the other Kevin Smith movies, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, then you will miss some/a lot of the jokes. There are also seens from the short comic book series called Jay & Silent Bob: Jay & SB with the monkey in the tunnel with the Wildlife Marshall (parody The Fugitive).
We are looking forward to Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, Brandy, Goo Goo Dolls, Macy Gray, Enrique Iglesias, Jewel, Natalie Merchant, and Alanis Morrissette releasing works in the coming months,? Rosen concluded.
If I relied on the quality of these artists to sell for my salary I would be worried about sales dropping too!!
CD-R's are a godsend. Who doesn't use them or know someone who does? If they are worried about CD-R's then that will take some focus away from their other unmoral actions like robbing artists, lying to the public, maybe
faking letters of support, you know, the typical evil company with lots of power stuff.
And as another/.'er commented, sales drop during an economic depression???? That's unheard of... those evil hackers are behind it!
Obviously all you people who are bashing Jon Katz for what he posts on slashdot have not heard of freedom! If you don't like his postings you have what we call *freedom* to NOT read what he posts or go to Slashduh.
But people like you who just whine about how Katz is not being accurate or intuitive are worse than what you think about Katz. He averages what like 1 to 4 posts a week wheras all you amount to probably several hundred a week bashing Katz. Calm down, and read past Katz.
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Because look, geeks can get girls too in spite of the stereotype that geeks don't even know any girls in real life that they aren't related to.
Obviously the whole dumbing down of the society angle. Compare the family the people watch on the "wall" versus what is called "reality TV shows" in todays world (in America). How did Ray Brabury know? Just a massive flood of this image that people need to be a certain way or that most people are a certain way and give a false sense of inferiority to any not conforming to these ideals.
Those reality TV shows are basically nothing like anyones reality that I know. As a comedian has said, "Reality TV would be acurate if all they showed were fat, lazy, americans sitting on their asses watching TV." So if we can get a lot of Americans to watch these fake shows, we can show them all these rugged SUV commercials and make them think they need a tough $30,000 vehicle and that they need this and that and have to keep up with the Jones'. Beer, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford, Pepsi, Britney Spears, etc etc. In Fahrenheit 451 they convince you books are bad for society and thus you should fear them. If you do not, you are basically a felon and shunned by the entire society, only a few secret admirers exist.
Brainwashed, dumbed down and no sense of individuality except in the form of status based on how much you own is what the society in F451 is with a rather tragic ending, losing most everthing tangible you ever knew. In real life, are we really much better? We have big bombs with half of our citizens not voting. Decisions made by less and less people, less diversity means less resistance to anything new.
I do not have a graceful ending to this comment/rant so it ends... now
I think the idea was that not only would Linux benefit, but all on the HUGE list of supported platforms supported by GCC have the potential for performance gain. If proprietary code compiled using GCC for athlons is sold, that could benefit too.
It might be argueable how much benefit could be gained, but that would be up to AMD to determine how much work would have to go into the GCC and how much of a gain could be made.
Funny. I think Yahoo! still uses freebsd for their web servers. Hmmm... also... OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are NOT 'for profit corporations out for market share' So long as those hackers keep hacking on the *BSDs, they will never be "DYING" and will therefore never die.
FACT: You don't understand what BSD is about.
There are even a few movies out that deal with these kinds of issues: Erin Brockavich, Born Yesterday, etc. People probably just think it these kinds of things don't happen. Businessmen with senators in their pockets, companies poisoning their residential neighbors with thier toxic chemicals. Wake up people - America is fscked!
If the desktop changes, I will be so pissed. This article is dumb and baseless. Why is this even being discussed?!?!?!
WHY O WHY would you take M$'s motto that "Choices are confusing" and remove our ability to use the desktop for storing frequently accessed items or as a temporary swap space. If you get your desktop cluttered, that is your problem, clean it. If your bedroom is cluttered, clean it up you lazy ass schmuck!
I wonder how much this company's stock would jump if everything the claim turns out true and they kick ass on the last mile!!! Could be a Microsoft sized jump?
Nacny looks like it will rule the land. Compression so good and FAST to be able to stream video over cell phones, especially those new 3G phones that have broadband bandwidth capablilities.
Things will change, try to grab a hold of the changing net and follow along with it.
---on a side note I have my own website running on port 80 and 81 because I have AT&T cable modem which is STILL blocking port 80! So I am right there with you on using different port numbers.
Archive here Use your realplayer to open this file. For some reason I could not get sound though?? Could be just my client I suppose. Had volume maxed and speakers on... Try it and see if it works for you.
This is nothing new for OS/FS companies like GNOME and various Linux distros in general. You have to figure out a new business model. The same old model that MICROSOFT says is mandatory to make money says it is the ONLY model to make money in the software business. It is up to business people to determine a new model.
Did MS make all the money they have now, back in the mid 80's? No. They have to develop a successful model. Regardless of all the things MS has done wrong, developing a successful business model is one thing they have done very well. Now times are changing and more and more is becoming digital and the legal system can not keep up with it. Models will have to change, people's feelings will be hurt, companies will fail, and when the smoke clears there will be a few champions standing a hill of slain compaines proving what they have to offer is going to be the de facto norm (at least for a while).
I must comment on a Bruce Schneier talk that was held recently post on the free dmitry site. It was about how the entities are involved with copy protection and the digital age.
S ch neier.pdf
In extremely paraphrased words, copyright owners can not technically/physically stop copying (legal or otherwise) from going on so they are trying to pull the legal angle with things such as the DMCA, SSSCA, ATA, etc. Some of these are obviously quite misguided. Bruce Schneier talked about these things and the history of their inability to completely stop copying. There are countries in the world that do not and will not conform to american companies' wishes/laws/edicts (mostly one-in-the-same anyway); such countries will not apply the DMCA, SSSCA, etc to their people and thus ignore entities such as the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft, etc
There will never be a time when millions of people will be overpowered by any entity(ies) technically, legally or any way in the end. There will always be a way around it or thru it or to bypass it. It is just a matter of time before the way is understood. How long did Windows XP last before it was cracked? How long for the watermarking was cracked? How long before CSS was cracked? How long before 802.11b password keys can be revealed?
Where is OpenBSD based because of encryption laws being to strict in the US? Canada. There are countries out there that don't recognize IP. What is Disney going to do when their beloved life-extended from the public domain Mickey Mouse is used in some defamating way in one such country? Nothing!
I grasped from Bruce's speech that there are tough times ahead for many but there is no way everyone can be stopped. Just keep persistent and keep trying to figure things out and how they work and in the end this barrage of legal assaults against us and our freedoms will cease when it yields no more results.
http://www.faircopyright.org
http://www.eff.org
http://freesklyarov.org/
http://www.2600.com
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/071601
It may be considered a work of art. If you think it is, support the maker and buy his/her stuff. Ultimately you can not own an arrangement of notes. Just because you thought of it doesn't mean you can just own it, just as you can not own any of the notes.
I think it looks like this:
If you produce quality work that people like, they will support you by buying your CDs. If you are 100 years old but still turn out good songs, you will still get supported by your fans. If your music stinks, then you should be ready to support yourself another way (your offspring maybe?).
What you produce are just notes. Notes are the same as code to a computer. You can NOT own them. They are just speech/ideas, NOT intellectual property! You can only share ideas.
Piracy is what? Stealing or taking without permission? How is downloading stealing?
What am I stealing if I download a copyrighted song? Am I going to a warehouse and grabbing a CD? NO!
Am I grabbing the artists money I found in their wallets? NO!
Am I stealing anything?
Speech (like music and computer programs) are just ideas. You can not steal ideas, only share them. If you BUY a CD then you are supporting the maker. If you COPY a CD then what I am stealing? I legally bought a blank CD-R. I didn't steal anything!
If something is stolen that means it is gone. Copying something leaves the original intact and unchanged.
Copying does not equate to theft!!!
Why is it that we (meaning big companies like Cisco, US government, Microsoft, etc) have so much trouble? Just look at all the messes! Sep 11, nimda, code $color_of_choice, DMCA, etc! They are almost always in the business of fixing problems after they become problems!!! ARGH!!! That is one of the most beautiful things about Free and OS Software... a lot of problems get fixed before (out of proportion just like in any estimation done by any research/analysis study) $trillions in losses occur due to some major effing catastophe. Why?? pre-emptive code auditing. Free/OS software is expected to have flaws and faults that's why people are encouraged to look and examine the code! Find, fix, enhance!
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
Now, the US Gov, Microsoft etc. seem to not care (they don't seem to make outward attempts anyway) if what they are doing is stupid/wrong. Let's bomb Iraq 4-5 times a month then complain Saddam is a threat to freedom and is happy about Sep. 11! Hey, let's just act like we own the place then millions of people get pissed off at us and we call THEM terrorists because our way is about freedom and you must be against freedom if you are against us!
...(Back on topic now)
When a router is hacked (especially big ones) they have the capability to use a DOS attack on a mammoth amount of people. DOS = denial of service.... not just packet flooding. Imagine if you changed the DNS information or routing information and starting sending EVERYONE from the router to slashdot.org. I am sure Slashdot would drop like a rock. Plus all those people can not view any website and no one can view slashdot. That is a huge DOS. Why are routers easy targets? Monopoly.
I don't know any current stats but like in 1998 or 1999 something like 80% of the internet infrastructure was Cisco based. I am sure there are at least one common flaw amongst most Cisco routers. Some say it is that reason, others say it's incompetent admins. I say a little from column A, and a little from column B. Cisco needs to make IOS upgrades easier to obtain. Go buy a Cisco router off of ebay and try to upgrade the IOS. Aint going to happen unless you are a CCIE or have a service contract with them. Of course there are illegal ways as well. The point being, you probably are screwed. And to the admins... please... read documentation and understand what you are doing and do it with prior thought before you plug in and turn on. Don't use exec password:cisco and enable password:class (It has been a while since my Cisco training... do they still use that for the lab routers?)
Excuse me while I
Ok... the problem with video conferencing is... ? It is just not an established technique yet. Do you have a DSL? Not an established net connection (in my opinion). Just because you can't or don't want to (vid conference) doesn't mean millions and millions of people don't either.
Now imagine you want to show somebody something like outside your car window because you are lost, your clothes, your mom wants to see if you cleaned your pit of a room.
Then there is the 3D teleconferencing. Brand new... you have to give it time before it becomes really functional. I am also sure that using vid phones will NOT be mandatory... merely an option, perhaps the standard but audio-only will always be an option.
Hey brainiac! I suppose you use a 28.8k dial-up right? You will never need anything faster?? Good luck to you. Those of whom are preparing for the *future* what like 15+ years in the future and installed fibre in their neighborhood will be fine in the future. Streaming video (ie phones in the future) WILL require that bandwidth. Hard drives of the future will be able to handle that bandwidth too. Maxtor is working on their ATA 133 drives. in 10 years who knows how fast they will be.
So it is not just for geeks for games and porn, it is serious preparation for the future!! Probably will be lonely in those pubs you speak of being in. Everyone will be conversing online except you; you will just be reading slashdot on your 28.8 still. Bah humbug!
There is another small BSD offshoot in the name of emBSD. It is a stripped down version of OpenBSD and its primary objective is to create a firewall and/or router using as little hardware as possible (ideally with not moving parts like a hard drive).
"Radio to the power of X" ARGH. Makes me wanna vomit.
They are just so 1337!
What?? If I can read than Nimda uses something like 12 or more different exploits in MS products. Not just IIS! It affects IE web browser (the client ya know), is sent via email from people who got it already, and additional IIS exploits as well. So I do not believe there is an old MS Patch for all of Nimda.
I am affected by AT&T blocking port 80 as well I think that port blocking is crazy and drives me nuts. I set my entire web sight up to listen on port 81 and link everywhere on port 81. What a damn joke! Screw big dumbass corps that do whatever they want! They make me feel like I am being telefragged in that I can't do anything about it!!!
Please... post responsibly
As Katz said it, if you have not seen the other Kevin Smith movies, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, then you will miss some/a lot of the jokes. There are also seens from the short comic book series called Jay & Silent Bob: Jay & SB with the monkey in the tunnel with the Wildlife Marshall (parody The Fugitive).
If I relied on the quality of these artists to sell for my salary I would be worried about sales dropping too!!
CD-R's are a godsend. Who doesn't use them or know someone who does? If they are worried about CD-R's then that will take some focus away from their other unmoral actions like robbing artists, lying to the public, maybe faking letters of support, you know, the typical evil company with lots of power stuff.
And as another /.'er commented, sales drop during an economic depression???? That's unheard of... those evil hackers are behind it!
Yo, read the letter! They ARE making money now. Loki is very high class; there is no reason they shouldn't make money.
But people like you who just whine about how Katz is not being accurate or intuitive are worse than what you think about Katz. He averages what like 1 to 4 posts a week wheras all you amount to probably several hundred a week bashing Katz. Calm down, and read past Katz.