But the fact remains, he has removed one layer of protection, and has made his internal protection requirements more complex because of it.
That's. The. Point. He has purposelly removed one layer of protection, accepting the increase in complexity of the more internal layers because of the benefits the removal brings. Most of the comments made to this story ignore the fact that this guy's motivation was the benefit associated with the detriment. Yes yes yes there are negatives. But the guy is saying that the negatives are outweighed by the positives, i.e. decreased hassle with user applications needing to get through the firewall, and a more realistic security target. That's his point.
distros like Fedora and Ubuntu will give up yum and apt over their dead bodies
Maybe Fedora, I won't comment there, but it's unfair to say Ubuntu is unwilling to change, and especially if the change will make things easier on the user. I mean, making changes to promote ease of use is what Ubuntu is all about, yeah? And with a company staking their fortune on it, they have plenty of incentive to please users.
I don't think that's an English Sentence grammatical.
*snicker* I think also that "alchemy, which some scientists in Newton's time believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals" is ungrammatical. It should probably be, "some scientists in Newton's time believed held the secret". I could be wrong, but I'm certainly clearer.
a mediocre command of written English makes them appear less intelligent
I think this is one of the problems. When a person says that crappy English makes you appear less intelligent, the natural response is, "Well, your bad!" It's not that mediocre English makes a person appear less intelligent. It makes a person be less intelligent. If a computer couldn't properly speak HTTP, you'd get a lot less web pages from it. But people somehow think that communication is somehow different if it's human brains doing it. There's a perception that minds have some intrinsic special-ness. The ability to properly conceptualize is key to intelligence, and language is the artifact that makes that conceptualization possible.
So when I got home, I emailed oregonstateparks and got the info I needed to map out the campgrounds and stateparks all over the state.
Wow, cool. I'm always wishing I had a convenient resource to tell where the parks are (campground or not). My interest is primarily in extracting information for select personal uses. But something that often occurs to me is that map data would be very effective in showing people just how much of their world, physically in this case, is tied up by government. I mean, if you could see how much real estate is claimed, that would be something. (IANAL -- I Am Not A Libertarian)
I guess that's why it's going to court and the burden is for AMD to prove
I have much less confidence in the legal system than you apparently do. You almost make it sound as if the courts will decide what's right! But this is why these things get hashed out in places like Slashdot: because so few people are confident that justice will actually be done. (Whichever side they're on.)
Cable companies don't have to open their infrastructure to competitors? Great, so my local government is going to let me run my own cable lines to every house in the city, right? If the one cable company's lines aren't open to the public, then the ground around them must be now.
This is likely aimed at preventing Linux from gaining market share where MS is currently alienating their customers.
Nope. It's because Microsoft is a monopoly, and they can squeeze what they want out of the market. The evil bastards, being a monopoly, don't have to listen to what their customers want.
It's up to Cuban copyright law to decide whether you should have to pay Microsoft to use copies of their software.
Good catch, pointing out that technicality. It's too easy to fall into the US-law-is-world-law trap. (Because it so often is.) But I can do you one step further. It's only up to Cuban copyright law (those who write the law actually) to decide whether you *must* pay Microsoft to use copies of their software. Not whether you *should* or not. I think you've fallen into the Government-law-is-moral-law trap. (Perhaps because it sometimes is?)
1. It would be seen as an admission that the Windows Server technology is not what it is cracked up to be, and be read by the market as such. The immediate impact to the server business would be significant, and it is the only segment at Microsoft that is growing.
Microsoft is dedicated to innovating on behalf of you, our customer. With the recent acquisition of Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc. we will continue to deliver on this promise. Customers who have grown beyond Linux now have an easier upgrade path for their expanding needs. "We feel that Microsoft can bring to the table a complete business solution with the new Windows Services for Unix 9.0," said Microsoft spokesman John Smith.
Re:Newsbyte is a well known troll
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Whether or not Newsbyte is a tool isn't really an interesting issue - let's talk about the ideas that are going to make the network actually usable!
I agree with the notion that Newsbyte is a troll and not worth listening to. I also agree that it'd be much more interesting to talk about the network/project itself.
In my personal opinion the project *has* moved forward, in the form of a (not-quite-) forking. A long time ago, a talented coder named jrandom showed up on the Freenet development list and announced that he had a great idea about how to make Freenet better, and if Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, he understood, but he was going to fork it. Well, Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, and he has essentially forked it. Only, it became much more than a simple fork. It turned into a project all its own, with very different design goals, but with the same philosophy of providing an anonymizing network. And his network actually works. Now. As far as I'm concerned, it's the phoenix rising in the ashes of Freenet.
For what it's worth, this *not* a "Sub-$200" laptop, as the story's title states. From the article, this is a series of three models. The cheapest one is a desktop computer, costing less that Rs 10,000, which is US$231.27, and the cheapest laptop is less than Rs 15,000, which is US$346.90.
This statement is true: Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet
This statement is false: Al Gore invented the internet
If you do not understand the distinction, then the problem is yours.
Let's get to the point. Both of the above statements are false. Al Gore did not invent the Internet, and Al Gore did not create the Internet. He's a politician. Politicians don't create anything. The best they can hope for is to not get in the way of those who do create. Even when they take money from some people to give to other people the best they can hope for is that the money they took didn't derail some more worthy endeavor, and that the project they're giving to will actually do something with it.
Whatever you think about politicians, they don't *create* anything.
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That's. The. Point. He has purposelly removed one layer of protection, accepting the increase in complexity of the more internal layers because of the benefits the removal brings. Most of the comments made to this story ignore the fact that this guy's motivation was the benefit associated with the detriment. Yes yes yes there are negatives. But the guy is saying that the negatives are outweighed by the positives, i.e. decreased hassle with user applications needing to get through the firewall, and a more realistic security target. That's his point.
No.
Maybe Fedora, I won't comment there, but it's unfair to say Ubuntu is unwilling to change, and especially if the change will make things easier on the user. I mean, making changes to promote ease of use is what Ubuntu is all about, yeah? And with a company staking their fortune on it, they have plenty of incentive to please users.
*snicker* I think also that "alchemy, which some scientists in Newton's time believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals" is ungrammatical. It should probably be, "some scientists in Newton's time believed held the secret". I could be wrong, but I'm certainly clearer.
I think this is one of the problems. When a person says that crappy English makes you appear less intelligent, the natural response is, "Well, your bad!" It's not that mediocre English makes a person appear less intelligent. It makes a person be less intelligent. If a computer couldn't properly speak HTTP, you'd get a lot less web pages from it. But people somehow think that communication is somehow different if it's human brains doing it. There's a perception that minds have some intrinsic special-ness. The ability to properly conceptualize is key to intelligence, and language is the artifact that makes that conceptualization possible.
Wow, cool. I'm always wishing I had a convenient resource to tell where the parks are (campground or not). My interest is primarily in extracting information for select personal uses. But something that often occurs to me is that map data would be very effective in showing people just how much of their world, physically in this case, is tied up by government. I mean, if you could see how much real estate is claimed, that would be something. (IANAL -- I Am Not A Libertarian)
I have much less confidence in the legal system than you apparently do. You almost make it sound as if the courts will decide what's right! But this is why these things get hashed out in places like Slashdot: because so few people are confident that justice will actually be done. (Whichever side they're on.)
I actually kind of like that idea.
sigh... Yes, you're right. I'm loosing my touch.
My god, not that. Oh, Jesus, I think I'm going to vomit. Just the thought of someone profiting from others' labor without permission makes me sick.
You know... "Lose" and "Loose" are not even one of the more challenging mix-ups. I don't understand how people do it.
Nope. It's because Microsoft is a monopoly, and they can squeeze what they want out of the market. The evil bastards, being a monopoly, don't have to listen to what their customers want.
Good catch, pointing out that technicality. It's too easy to fall into the US-law-is-world-law trap. (Because it so often is.) But I can do you one step further. It's only up to Cuban copyright law (those who write the law actually) to decide whether you *must* pay Microsoft to use copies of their software. Not whether you *should* or not. I think you've fallen into the Government-law-is-moral-law trap. (Perhaps because it sometimes is?)
The U.S. might take all sorts of steps. We've seen how volatile a U.S. politician's "wisdom" can be. But what steps ought the U.S. take to counter it?
None. Leave the nationalism to China.
Microsoft is dedicated to innovating on behalf of you, our customer. With the recent acquisition of Linux vendor Red Hat, Inc. we will continue to deliver on this promise. Customers who have grown beyond Linux now have an easier upgrade path for their expanding needs. "We feel that Microsoft can bring to the table a complete business solution with the new Windows Services for Unix 9.0," said Microsoft spokesman John Smith.
I agree with the notion that Newsbyte is a troll and not worth listening to. I also agree that it'd be much more interesting to talk about the network/project itself.
In my personal opinion the project *has* moved forward, in the form of a (not-quite-) forking. A long time ago, a talented coder named jrandom showed up on the Freenet development list and announced that he had a great idea about how to make Freenet better, and if Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, he understood, but he was going to fork it. Well, Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, and he has essentially forked it. Only, it became much more than a simple fork. It turned into a project all its own, with very different design goals, but with the same philosophy of providing an anonymizing network. And his network actually works. Now. As far as I'm concerned, it's the phoenix rising in the ashes of Freenet.
Yeah, those aren't biased results... [ /sarcasm ]
You think that's funny? Try this:
http://freetodd.org/MS-Poster.gif
This poster was stuck up all over my San Diego, California college campus.
For what it's worth, this *not* a "Sub-$200" laptop, as the story's title states. From the article, this is a series of three models. The cheapest one is a desktop computer, costing less that Rs 10,000, which is US$231.27, and the cheapest laptop is less than Rs 15,000, which is US$346.90.
I'm with you, man. You got modded down, probably for using naughty words, but I totally share your sentiment.
Which is why the article and the summary both said so. -1, Redundant. Though the rest of your post may have been interesting to someone.
In Spanish, competencia means both, hence this is an easy error for native Spanish speakers to make in English.
"Competence" makes more sense to me. Red Hat isn't really competing with Dell.
neither did crime
That was pretty damned witty.
Let's get to the point. Both of the above statements are false. Al Gore did not invent the Internet, and Al Gore did not create the Internet. He's a politician. Politicians don't create anything. The best they can hope for is to not get in the way of those who do create. Even when they take money from some people to give to other people the best they can hope for is that the money they took didn't derail some more worthy endeavor, and that the project they're giving to will actually do something with it.
Whatever you think about politicians, they don't *create* anything.
I want my MTV, damnit, and I want the government to give it to me.