Because these old-geezer fat cats profit from what is supposed to be an "amateur" competition.
The old "amateurs only" thing was so only the idle wealthy (or those who had wealthy benefactors) could participate. Now, the NBA players can participate, too!
Open source haven't proven more secure than closed, as the theory about "given enough eyes all bugs are shallow" says.
It's a great-sounding theory. It _could_ be true in reality, if everyone were perusing source code, but who really does? Now, some folks _have_ looked at the code for OpenBSD, so it's what I run at home.
OTOH, open source is amenable to extremely quick fixes for exploits. Once a weakness is known, the eyeballs look at the code, and it gets fixed quickly. I hope. In other words, I don't really know, but it sounds like it's true, so why not promulgate another fine-sounding theory, heh heh.
I trust the current administration, insofar as not abusing the power that they have expanded.
You missed Lord of the Rings, I take it? The ring is Power. Those who wield it are corrupted by the wielding. Bush Ashcroft et al have already shown corruption by their lust to expand power. And even if they don't arrange for a nice labor camp system in North Dakota or Montana, I'm sure somebody down the road will think it's a swell idea. Already, Alan Dershowitz is entertaining thoughts of torture.
I hope this isn't the start of what could turn into an internal visa that will apply to all forms of mass transit.
By way of example, it's not (or used not to be up until recently) an FAA regulation that you need to show your license (our de facto "National ID Card") to fly. This info used to be on the FAA website. In fact, it's something the airlines did so you wouldn't try to resell the ticket (so airlines can make more money--effectively making tickets non-transferable; what is up with that?). But who complains or raises a stink? You must be a freakin' terrorist if you want to sell your ticket! Are they doing background checks on each passenger before the flight?...
It's just how a sheep-like populace behaves, and gets fleeced. And we are being fleeced, sheared, herded to the tune of the Globalist Corporatist State. Read The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude for some interesting thoughts.
Ever since I bought my house I get several times weekly... You are pre-approved for a second mortgage/If your interest rate is above X we can save you money...
I'm not even going to talk about the credit card offers I get....
Not to mention the incessant phone calls. That's why we got Caller ID and let the answering machine filter out the solictors. But still, it's annoying, like having someone standing at your door pounding away every half hour or so. Come to think of it, I have that, too, in all the door-to-door solicitors. And all the commercials on TV, radio, banner ads, popups, the spams, etc. etc. etc.
To me, this is one of the most annoying sides of the free market. I'm constantly being bugged by people scratching and clawing and whining and wheedling to get my money. It's hard enough when my family does it. I just want to be left alone.
Maybe that's why old people seem to get victimized so often. They're just plumb wore out from a lifetime of bombardment.
It's been a year of "spreading the word". We'll see if in the next year, people start using it.
Bet on it. My mother called and asked if I could help her replace the Windows server farm she has running in the (previously unused) guest bedroom with a single IBM box running that "Linux thing".
If it's OJ Simpson, then the judge is a publicity whore, and it turns into a media circus. If it's Microsoft, there's no media to "show us the truth." I'll take my chances for once on something _not_ becoming a media circus, and maybe a cool-headed judge doing right by the law. Let's hope he's a cool-headed hangin' judge!
Here's my point. It's not the OS it's the user that sucks. If it's user friendly, you get stupider people.
And as this article documents, these people think they know what they're doing on computers ("hey, look ma! I'm a computer guru, and with no hands!"), and they won't need any help, thankyouverymuch.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
You can read this in few ways.
Ah, but if you read "People" as different from the "State", you just may notice some interesting things about the Bill of Rights. There is an implicit difference between the people and the state. The people are the mass of riff-raff of which we are a part. The state is the government. And they are different entities (if the people can be considered some entity).
With that in mind, I think there's something to the notion that the average member of the riff-raff has a right to have a gun (any gun), and thereby becomes part of the militia, which can thereby be regulated by the state (the taking away of guns or limiting their ownership being contradictory to the existence of the militia).
Maybe we just ought to amend the constitution to make it absolutely clear what this friggin' 2nd amendment really means. There is a constitutional process in place for that.
So, what are the methods they use, and how can I make it more difficult for them to tell if I have a machine running NAT?
One simple way: for any email coming out of a NATed box (Outlook, Eudora, whatever), it will have the source ip and hostname stuffed in the Received headers. E.g., 192.168.1.4 and bandwidthsucker.attbi.com. You just find those things. There's a lot of easy nabs. I could use sendmail on my NAT box and strip out that header piece, any quick tips on how to do that?
The so what is that it's happening at the U.S.P.S., not Best Buy or some other store that M.S. has ties to, but a psuedo U.S. government agency...
Birds of a feather flock together. Microsoft the Monopolist along with USPS the Monopolist.
Funny thing is, the US DOJ went after Microsoft, trying to break its monopoly grip. So why doesn't the DOJ go after the USPS for its monopoly grip on first class mail service? Because the USPS is a government-sanctioned and -backed and -enforced monopoly, which makes the whole thing against Microsoft fairly ironic.
Question: is it _being_ a monopoly that is bad for consumers? If so, go after the USPS, too.
Goddamn, this is funny and insightful. Curse the moderating system that will not allow me to mod this up further!
Perhaps after 5, each mod point should count for half. Too many 5's getting handed out these days. It's not as much the mark of distinction anymore.
Why do they cap at five? I'd like to see no limits; then we could see a top-twenty highest-moderated posts. Stuff in the 100s. It would surely make me cry, laugh, and think deep thoughts. And this being Slashdot, inspire me to hate MS even more!
Here's an idea: Pay the $40 and get a newly released official ISO and support the project. Supporting Open Source doesn't mean you have to be a cheap bastard, especially when you're complaining about unofficial ISOs. Don't agree with OpenBSD's policy on IPF? Don't use OpenBSD.
The stickers are good (hard to explain them very well to children, though), and the song on the second CD this time was a pretty good throw-in, RMS loved it I'm sure.
It is ironic, yet just desserts, that Theo is now losing control of the OpenBSD project, to a man with whom he has had many personal spats in the past.
Darren Reed wresting control of OpenBSD from Theo? Are you serious? Did Theo wrest control of NetBSD from whomever? No, he just started his own BSD. From what I can tell, NetBSD is chugging along just fine. Darren can do the same, create "OpenBiggerEgo" or something; if it ends up better, great.
I think that Theo, as good as he is for OpenBSD, would be even better if he now and then counted to ten before saying something. Having a clear vision and unwavering ideals is a good thing to have but a foul temper will only harm the cause.
Which cause? Being nice and warm and fuzzy with everyone? Or putting out a solid secure OS? I think his temperament works just fine for the latter, he weeds out the chaff who think his goal should be the former.
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The old "amateurs only" thing was so only the idle wealthy (or those who had wealthy benefactors) could participate. Now, the NBA players can participate, too!
It's a great-sounding theory. It _could_ be true in reality, if everyone were perusing source code, but who really does? Now, some folks _have_ looked at the code for OpenBSD, so it's what I run at home.
OTOH, open source is amenable to extremely quick fixes for exploits. Once a weakness is known, the eyeballs look at the code, and it gets fixed quickly. I hope. In other words, I don't really know, but it sounds like it's true, so why not promulgate another fine-sounding theory, heh heh.
Or send mass e-mailings and make lots of sales phone calls. Those really work, I know!
Now isn't that irony? GNOME started because KDE's license was not pure, and look who's doing the big Sell Out [tm].
You missed Lord of the Rings, I take it? The ring is Power. Those who wield it are corrupted by the wielding. Bush Ashcroft et al have already shown corruption by their lust to expand power. And even if they don't arrange for a nice labor camp system in North Dakota or Montana, I'm sure somebody down the road will think it's a swell idea. Already, Alan Dershowitz is entertaining thoughts of torture.
By way of example, it's not (or used not to be up until recently) an FAA regulation that you need to show your license (our de facto "National ID Card") to fly. This info used to be on the FAA website. In fact, it's something the airlines did so you wouldn't try to resell the ticket (so airlines can make more money--effectively making tickets non-transferable; what is up with that?). But who complains or raises a stink? You must be a freakin' terrorist if you want to sell your ticket! Are they doing background checks on each passenger before the flight?...
It's just how a sheep-like populace behaves, and gets fleeced. And we are being fleeced, sheared, herded to the tune of the Globalist Corporatist State. Read The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude for some interesting thoughts.
For slashdotters, I heartily recommend xbill. I believe it's in every distro out there.
Ever since I bought my house I get several times weekly... You are pre-approved for a second mortgage/If your interest rate is above X we can save you money...
I'm not even going to talk about the credit card offers I get....
Not to mention the incessant phone calls. That's why we got Caller ID and let the answering machine filter out the solictors. But still, it's annoying, like having someone standing at your door pounding away every half hour or so. Come to think of it, I have that, too, in all the door-to-door solicitors. And all the commercials on TV, radio, banner ads, popups, the spams, etc. etc. etc.
To me, this is one of the most annoying sides of the free market. I'm constantly being bugged by people scratching and clawing and whining and wheedling to get my money. It's hard enough when my family does it. I just want to be left alone.
Maybe that's why old people seem to get victimized so often. They're just plumb wore out from a lifetime of bombardment.
Looking at their stock chart, , I'd guess they're feeling downright euphoric now at 8.
Bet on it. My mother called and asked if I could help her replace the Windows server farm she has running in the (previously unused) guest bedroom with a single IBM box running that "Linux thing".
If it's OJ Simpson, then the judge is a publicity whore, and it turns into a media circus. If it's Microsoft, there's no media to "show us the truth." I'll take my chances for once on something _not_ becoming a media circus, and maybe a cool-headed judge doing right by the law. Let's hope he's a cool-headed hangin' judge!
Almost there. Just give it 20 or 25 more years.
The only P2P transfer that Microsoft recognizes is changing money from your hand to theirs.
And as this article documents, these people think they know what they're doing on computers ("hey, look ma! I'm a computer guru, and with no hands!"), and they won't need any help, thankyouverymuch.
You can read this in few ways.
Ah, but if you read "People" as different from the "State", you just may notice some interesting things about the Bill of Rights. There is an implicit difference between the people and the state. The people are the mass of riff-raff of which we are a part. The state is the government. And they are different entities (if the people can be considered some entity).
With that in mind, I think there's something to the notion that the average member of the riff-raff has a right to have a gun (any gun), and thereby becomes part of the militia, which can thereby be regulated by the state (the taking away of guns or limiting their ownership being contradictory to the existence of the militia).
Maybe we just ought to amend the constitution to make it absolutely clear what this friggin' 2nd amendment really means. There is a constitutional process in place for that.
One simple way: for any email coming out of a NATed box (Outlook, Eudora, whatever), it will have the source ip and hostname stuffed in the Received headers. E.g., 192.168.1.4 and bandwidthsucker.attbi.com. You just find those things. There's a lot of easy nabs. I could use sendmail on my NAT box and strip out that header piece, any quick tips on how to do that?
The ones that aren't idiots go into politics.
Birds of a feather flock together. Microsoft the Monopolist along with USPS the Monopolist.
Funny thing is, the US DOJ went after Microsoft, trying to break its monopoly grip. So why doesn't the DOJ go after the USPS for its monopoly grip on first class mail service? Because the USPS is a government-sanctioned and -backed and -enforced monopoly, which makes the whole thing against Microsoft fairly ironic.
Question: is it _being_ a monopoly that is bad for consumers? If so, go after the USPS, too.
Perhaps after 5, each mod point should count for half. Too many 5's getting handed out these days. It's not as much the mark of distinction anymore.
Why do they cap at five? I'd like to see no limits; then we could see a top-twenty highest-moderated posts. Stuff in the 100s. It would surely make me cry, laugh, and think deep thoughts. And this being Slashdot, inspire me to hate MS even more!
The stickers are good (hard to explain them very well to children, though), and the song on the second CD this time was a pretty good throw-in, RMS loved it I'm sure.
Darren Reed wresting control of OpenBSD from Theo? Are you serious? Did Theo wrest control of NetBSD from whomever? No, he just started his own BSD. From what I can tell, NetBSD is chugging along just fine. Darren can do the same, create "OpenBiggerEgo" or something; if it ends up better, great.
Which cause? Being nice and warm and fuzzy with everyone? Or putting out a solid secure OS? I think his temperament works just fine for the latter, he weeds out the chaff who think his goal should be the former.
It's not a "mentality." It's EVIL.
Because they're in awe of our Most Absolute Democratic Goodness [tm]?
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So, which one's the worse sell out?