Yes, a little bit funny, once. Let me remind me of what the/. faq says: Be Original: Avoid being redundant and just
repeating what has already been said. Smirk. Yes, being
moderated as "redundant" is worth "-1" to your post and your
karma. Especially to be avoided are the "what he said" and "me
too" posts.
By the way, I don't drink coffee and I was modded down as redundant first.
Obviously that is the question everybody is asking, but getting/giving different answers too. Why don't Ximian build a competitor to Passport and Hailstorm in stead of supporting them? Why don't the open-source community lay their own.NET strategy? It really could work and I would even dare to say that the odds would be in favor of the open-source solutions. Why? Because they're free and large corporations main focus is on cost and income. Therefore potential.NET implementors would - based on cost efficiensy - implement the open-source alternative, provided it's also avaiable on the most widely used platform (Windows) and has a userfriendly design for Joe Ordinary.
Why can't the open-source community unify its power and aggree
Could someone explain the idea of passport. I haven't paid much attention to it until tonight. I went on their pages and read about it there. I can't see why I should bother to subscribe to it. I only use one or two usernames and passwords on all of my logins so why bother. And there's no need for an online wallet, creditcards do excist and I doubt serios online shops will stop delivering to card holders. Many shops even lets you pay on delivery. Why would the general heap bother?
Of course them signing up with large companies will force some use making the question: How make Joe Ordinary aware of open-source solutions that aren't proprietary and MS bound? Who's developing this? seemingly nobody. Why? becouse the hackers obviously hasn't realised what threat this is. Helix think they're doing the right thing but I have to agree with Petreley. Ximian should rather make a competitor than a weak ally.
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Good point. Here's my solution. Ship all software to Joe Ordinary -as they are being today - with a medium security level as standard. Accompaning the software (e.g. an OS) there is a highly 'visible' security tool included. A wizard making all necessary changes to config-files. Because there's today's problem. The options are there, but not visible. They're buried under a pile of I'll-just-skip-these-options. Joe Ordinary don't know what a cookie really does, so he'll just turn it off.
Add-on v0.02: Good idea as more and more computers are hooked up to DSL, Cable, Ethernet a.s.o. (At least far from every body is hooked up here in Norway.) These are just sitting ducks for wannabe/newbee crackers.
I agree, but the state attorney, will probably have to try to educate them on technology to convince them that this misuse of trust is worth a 500.000$ fine and 15 years in jail. So the question will be: who's going to educate the obviously misinformed state attorney.
correct from the distributed.net homepage: You may not run any distributed.net software on a system unless you own the system or have received permission from the owner to run distributed.net software.
Just explain them what the correct definition of hacking. Writing or altering sourcecode or system-settings e.g. programming. Cracking on the otherhand is illegal. I'm a hacker, but I've never broken the law. I agree that he misused the means given to him but 500000$ and 15 years among hard criminals. Anyone should be able to see what's wrong. (Well obviously not lawyers, but then again...)
Read what you're saying. They must be informed. Not just given the means to gather the information. I doubt the populace will look for information on chemical fertilizers. Maybe they'll just look for some information on clean water and then just leave it or do as the rest of the world; use it for useless stuff.
learn how to clean their water, cook food properly, cure common illness, etc...
Water purifiers aren't cheap. And I bet it would help just as much if someone gave them a purifier and teached them how to use it rather than letting them see one on the internett, but not getting one. In the western world illness' are cured by medicine. Medisine costs money, and telling them about medicines won't raise their sallaries. (In addition I think they know how to cook)
Now they can learn about all the things they don't have like water and food. They can also learn about things they have like AIDS. It sounds great, but when are they going to get the things they know more than me about?
How about removing the telescope and the lightbulb and just having a laser and some sort of sensor. Cheaper, more reliable and so on. On the other hand, what if it's a hazy/foggy day?
What if there is a mountain in between. Is it possible to construct something that for instance reflects in the atmosphere? My neighborough town is probably getting DSL, it's only 5 km away, but there is a mountain inbetween. The first long-long-long distance transmissions were done that way.
1.Yes, I can now complete my life work: "The meaning of life"
2. It was my lacking piece in my 10 jillion piece puzzle.
3. I've devoted my life to figure this one out. Now I'm going to hang myself.
The main problem with Windows vs. Linux (and GPL) isn't just that the parties can't accept each other (wich they to a large extent can't) but that MS wants money and Linux (and GPL) want's users, free software for the public. MS has got money which means that they can tell everyboy about Windows and Office and FS2K etc. The GPL can't and many hackers and Linux/GPL-key-persons don't see this. They think people will find it themselves. NEWSFLASH: They won't! Maybe someone should create GIP (GPL Information to the Public)
Imagine you living in a room with tall, tall trees in it your whole life. The lowest branch hangs high above your head. In fear of falling you stay on the ground your whole life because all you really need is on the ground. Or so you think. Up in the tall trees there are leather balls, which you've never seen. When you've played soccer down on the ground you've used a bush (and that's not very good for playin soccer.)
This is how the world is for the regular PC user. They can't see the better software and they don't dare to "climb" looking for it.
I bet that if you randomly pick 10 normal people from the main-street of your town and ask them what Mozilla is you'll get at least 9 nos
Nada, if GPL doesn't survive then someone will create a new free, public license because when all comes to all the monopolies, governments and large corporations won't outlive the people, the masses.
That is now, acording to a Norwegian article on www.hardware.no Rambus is changing their arcitechture and goning for 64 bits per tick at 1200Mhz. DDR is 64 bits per ticks at 266Mhz. Now do the math.
Their current owners/managers are obviusly not fit for the job, so someone should by 'em and sack 'em. This way we won't lose someone who've got the solution to the PC's currently largest problem, transfere rates between the CPU and the RAM. There is no use in a 1Thz CPU if the ram can only put data into it with a speed of 266Mhz (I know; you can't compare bus and CPU Mhz, but still...) Rambus is going for 1200Mhz within 2005 so someone should take over before someone burns the blueprints. (Todays managers ruthless and sadistic enough to do something like that)
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Yes, a little bit funny, once. Let me remind me of what the /. faq says: Be Original: Avoid being redundant and just
repeating what has already been said. Smirk. Yes, being
moderated as "redundant" is worth "-1" to your post and your
karma. Especially to be avoided are the "what he said" and "me
too" posts.
By the way, I don't drink coffee and I was modded down as redundant first.
Sombody mod them down for saying slashdot got slashdotted by slashdot, it's funny once, but everybody knows it.
has a better controller
The X-Box is even shipping without controllers, they come on top of the price. (Last time I checked - long time ago)
Shipping is one thing, selling another thing. Try stuffing 3-billions into a 32-bit integer.
Obviously that is the question everybody is asking, but getting/giving different answers too. Why don't Ximian build a competitor to Passport and Hailstorm in stead of supporting them? Why don't the open-source community lay their own .NET strategy? It really could work and I would even dare to say that the odds would be in favor of the open-source solutions. Why? Because they're free and large corporations main focus is on cost and income. Therefore potential .NET implementors would - based on cost efficiensy - implement the open-source alternative, provided it's also avaiable on the most widely used platform (Windows) and has a userfriendly design for Joe Ordinary.
Why can't the open-source community unify its power and aggree
Could someone explain the idea of passport. I haven't paid much attention to it until tonight. I went on their pages and read about it there. I can't see why I should bother to subscribe to it. I only use one or two usernames and passwords on all of my logins so why bother. And there's no need for an online wallet, creditcards do excist and I doubt serios online shops will stop delivering to card holders. Many shops even lets you pay on delivery. Why would the general heap bother? Of course them signing up with large companies will force some use making the question: How make Joe Ordinary aware of open-source solutions that aren't proprietary and MS bound? Who's developing this? seemingly nobody. Why? becouse the hackers obviously hasn't realised what threat this is. Helix think they're doing the right thing but I have to agree with Petreley. Ximian should rather make a competitor than a weak ally.
Add-on v0.01:I missed NSA on the members list. Their knowledge from their Security-Enhanced Linux could be valuable.
Add-on v0.02: Good idea as more and more computers are hooked up to DSL, Cable, Ethernet a.s.o. (At least far from every body is hooked up here in Norway.) These are just sitting ducks for wannabe/newbee crackers.
I agree, but the state attorney, will probably have to try to educate them on technology to convince them that this misuse of trust is worth a 500.000$ fine and 15 years in jail. So the question will be: who's going to educate the obviously misinformed state attorney.
correct from the distributed.net homepage: You may not run any distributed.net software on a system unless you own the system or have received permission from the owner to run distributed.net software.
Just explain them what the correct definition of hacking. Writing or altering sourcecode or system-settings e.g. programming. Cracking on the otherhand is illegal. I'm a hacker, but I've never broken the law. I agree that he misused the means given to him but 500000$ and 15 years among hard criminals. Anyone should be able to see what's wrong. (Well obviously not lawyers, but then again ...)
Maybe owned but their not the benefitier. Sony is still Registrated in Japan. Microsoft brings much more profit through XBox than Sony does.
Any US-patriots please look away.
Sony's Japanes, Microsoft American.
the populace must be informed.
Read what you're saying. They must be informed. Not just given the means to gather the information. I doubt the populace will look for information on chemical fertilizers. Maybe they'll just look for some information on clean water and then just leave it or do as the rest of the world; use it for useless stuff.
Water purifiers aren't cheap. And I bet it would help just as much if someone gave them a purifier and teached them how to use it rather than letting them see one on the internett, but not getting one. In the western world illness' are cured by medicine. Medisine costs money, and telling them about medicines won't raise their sallaries. (In addition I think they know how to cook)
Now they can learn about all the things they don't have like water and food. They can also learn about things they have like AIDS. It sounds great, but when are they going to get the things they know more than me about?
How about removing the telescope and the lightbulb and just having a laser and some sort of sensor. Cheaper, more reliable and so on. On the other hand, what if it's a hazy/foggy day?
What if there is a mountain in between. Is it possible to construct something that for instance reflects in the atmosphere? My neighborough town is probably getting DSL, it's only 5 km away, but there is a mountain inbetween. The first long-long-long distance transmissions were done that way.
Three comments:
1.Yes, I can now complete my life work: "The meaning of life"
2. It was my lacking piece in my 10 jillion piece puzzle.
3. I've devoted my life to figure this one out. Now I'm going to hang myself.
To all those people this man is talking about: I've found out that it's best not to claim anything, there is always someone above claiming you're not.
Off-topic, I know, please don't mod me down. (I was bored)
The main problem with Windows vs. Linux (and GPL) isn't just that the parties can't accept each other (wich they to a large extent can't) but that MS wants money and Linux (and GPL) want's users, free software for the public. MS has got money which means that they can tell everyboy about Windows and Office and FS2K etc. The GPL can't and many hackers and Linux/GPL-key-persons don't see this. They think people will find it themselves. NEWSFLASH: They won't! Maybe someone should create GIP (GPL Information to the Public)
Imagine you living in a room with tall, tall trees in it your whole life. The lowest branch hangs high above your head. In fear of falling you stay on the ground your whole life because all you really need is on the ground. Or so you think. Up in the tall trees there are leather balls, which you've never seen. When you've played soccer down on the ground you've used a bush (and that's not very good for playin soccer.)
This is how the world is for the regular PC user. They can't see the better software and they don't dare to "climb" looking for it.
I bet that if you randomly pick 10 normal people from the main-street of your town and ask them what Mozilla is you'll get at least 9 nos
Nada, if GPL doesn't survive then someone will create a new free, public license because when all comes to all the monopolies, governments and large corporations won't outlive the people, the masses.
Futureware ...
That is now, acording to a Norwegian article on www.hardware.no Rambus is changing their arcitechture and goning for 64 bits per tick at 1200Mhz. DDR is 64 bits per ticks at 266Mhz. Now do the math.
Their current owners/managers are obviusly not fit for the job, so someone should by 'em and sack 'em. This way we won't lose someone who've got the solution to the PC's currently largest problem, transfere rates between the CPU and the RAM. There is no use in a 1Thz CPU if the ram can only put data into it with a speed of 266Mhz (I know; you can't compare bus and CPU Mhz, but still...) Rambus is going for 1200Mhz within 2005 so someone should take over before someone burns the blueprints. (Todays managers ruthless and sadistic enough to do something like that)