Well, If we can build a secure way of notifying the source network providers of an offending IP. Then have that network provider block that IP from sending on the Internet.
Wonderful. Then later we can expand the system to block at will anyone who says something we don't want to hear. We could even hook it into Microsoft Passport! It will be easy to silence people.
You're ignoring the fact that I said *merchant*, not *charity*. In addition, you cannot send cash through the mail. How do you get a donation to an out of city or out of country charity by using cash?
Ask any merchant who doesn't accept VISA, MasterCard, Discover, Diner's Club, etc.. how many sales they have missed out on because they only accept cash... if you can find a merchant who doesn't accept VISA, MC,...
That is to say, if the Abi folks are saying "Look, we knew that PayPal sucked and was insecure, but we used them anyway, so please write them to tell them how much they suck" then it's a little harder to take their complaint seriously.
What the AbiWord folks think of PayPal should have absolutely no bearing on PayPal's liability in this theft. PayPal is bound to provide a certain service, and should be responsible enough to remedy this situation, if only because required by law.
Let's say you have ONE department store in your town. You heard that that department store screwed one of your friends. You hope it's an isolated incident, because there's really nowhere else to go. You continue to stop at that store, and you yourself get screwed. Is it your fault for shopping there even though your friend was ripped off?
That's great advice - wish I'd heard it earlier. I got screwed just this way. I purchased something using PayPal and when the seller screwed me, I tried to get my money back through the bank. Too bad PayPal didn't use the VISA option on my debit card, but the debit account. So, my purchase wasn't automatically insured as it would have been had the payment went through VISA. PayPal is comprised of a bunch of blood sucking leeches. That goes for EBay, too. By the way, try and contact somebody at either establishment. Have fun.
Server blades also share a power supply, cables and memory
Normally, redundancy is a high priority. Is the savings in hardware and electricity worth the risk of losing (say) 10 machines because one power supply failed?
Indeed. I would have looked miffed too, and probably would have sat down, but not before singing "I'M SORRY MAMA <offkey> I DIDNT MEAN TO HURT YOO<offkey>OOOUUUU<offkey>. I DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY BUT TONIGHT, IM CLEANING OUT MY CL<offkey>O<offkey>SET." Then again, that is what I have been programmed to say by my radio.
And with that the XML committee slapped their foreheads and admitted that they had not forseen such an application.
Actually, the first MS link you offered makes several good points about Linux-Windows interoperability deficiencies. I don't consider these overtly biased.
Sometimes, it's what is not said that raises my brow. For example, Linux comes with thousands of free software applications covering every interest. Windows does not. Linux is and always has been based on industry standard protocols. Not always so with Windows.
Regarding the "straight-forward licensing" claim, they make it sound as if the use of Linux requires that you package up all your source code and intellectual property and send it off to an external server for public consumption. If you used GPL software and improve upon it, then it's not really your intellectual property. You're using somebody else's work to get the job done. What's wrong with giving something back? Don't like it - start from scratch. Whatever was yours before using Linux, remains yours.
Rather than log IPs, use WHOIS, etc.. and go through all that trouble, I would be more willing to bet the RIAA is just targetting the Fortune 1000 who are all guaranteed to have high speed Internet access and just _assume_ that everyone is swapping music. What do they have to lose? Sounds like how Microsoft handles their antitrust trial... just throw lie after lie out until it strikes a nerve and people believe them.
The city of New York (imagine the lawyers they could unleash) was nice enough to only fine Microsoft $50 and tell them to clean the mess up. Microsoft, in all of its infinite arrogance, "... insisted that it was authorized to place the decals.
"There are permits for everything". Uh huh - does that mean filling someone's pocket with money so they'll turn the other way? Why can't we know who it is?
This is very a bad show of sincerity given Steve Balmer's statement regarding the Microsoft Switch Campaign fiasco. I am fully expecting more events like these to take place. Microsoft's dirty tactics are alive and well.
I agree. GPL basically hinders commercial development using the code but that shouldn't be the case. The code should be free for ALL. GPL isn't always the best answer, although it certainly works where it is suited. LGPL and BSD certainly have their places and this is just such a case.
I almost signed up for a distributed computing project until I read the terms very carefully.
What bothered me is they weren't responsible for damage to your computer, your data, they wouldn't guarantee the non-existence of virii, and they wouldn't tell you what kinds of things were being computed on your computer (it was processing power as a service - you'd get paid a measly amount to let them use your computer).
How was I to know they wouldn't be using MY computer to do things I'd consider unethical or illegal?
Whatever service you join, be SURE to read the fine print carefully beforehand.
This reminds me of the good ol C64 days when it was common to use screen memory for assembly language routines and flags, etc. When the program ran, you could actually _see_ the memory being toggled and incremented. Pretty neat. I wonder what it would look like these days...
As a VMS sysadmin, I've lost count of the number of times I've lost large amounts of text because I pressed ^Z !! Aargh!
(At least on Unix, it backgrounds your job, which is usually recoverable:)
I've lost quite a bit of text myself that way! ARGH is right. If you hit CTRL-Z while typing an email in Netscape, you're hosed. That's why I usually use an external editor to enter my email text if it's a long one. I wish this wasn't necessary, though!
I'm quite able to use the middle mouse button for pasting text. Using the middle button is fine under certain circumstances, but for most situations I'd be happy to have CTRL-[X|C|V] work as it does under Windows. I shouldn't have to use the mouse anyway. How do you Undo a text change in most apps? In Windows it's CTRL-Z.
My biggest complaint is that it's just too easy to overwrite your clipboard buffer by accidentally selecting something else. And Klipboard (not sure of the exact name) sucks. I don't care about multiple clipboard entries - just keep _one_ in a nonvolatile area for me.
I'd be happy if they fixed cut & paste in Linux/X-Windows, and button focusing behaviour. User input is not treated with enough "respect" at the moment, such that it is often lost and has to be repeated. Not good.
It's an even bigger problem if the rights of the many cancel the rights of the few.
Define "few".
Take slavery for example.
Or the holocaust.
Millions of people were treated horribly and killed in your examples. That's not at all what I'm talking about.
Or the separation of church and state.
This only concerned a few people? Some clarification needed.
Or phone, sewer and electricity service for people who live outside a major city.
This has nothing to do with rights. It has to do with economics. Rural folks could have electricity if they were willing to pay millions of dollars to bring it in, but that's not realistic.
Good God, don't get me started. I have a strong feeling that the social breakdown in North America is largely due to that fact. Women's lib, minority rights, etc.. etc.. Sure we all have rights, but if the rights of the few cancel the rights of the many, there's a BIG problem.
How many times a day do you subconsciously think and not say or do things because it MAY offend somebody and it MAY not be politically correct? It makes me ill. I'm not talking about blatant disregard for others, just minor shit.
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Well, If we can build a secure way of notifying the source network providers of an offending IP. Then have that network provider block that IP from sending on the Internet.
Wonderful. Then later we can expand the system to block at will anyone who says something we don't want to hear. We could even hook it into Microsoft Passport! It will be easy to silence people.
You're ignoring the fact that I said *merchant*, not *charity*. In addition, you cannot send cash through the mail. How do you get a donation to an out of city or out of country charity by using cash?
Ask any merchant who doesn't accept VISA, MasterCard, Discover, Diner's Club, etc.. how many sales they have missed out on because they only accept cash... if you can find a merchant who doesn't accept VISA, MC, ...
That is to say, if the Abi folks are saying "Look, we knew that PayPal sucked and was insecure, but we used them anyway, so please write them to tell them how much they suck" then it's a little harder to take their complaint seriously.
What the AbiWord folks think of PayPal should have absolutely no bearing on PayPal's liability in this theft. PayPal is bound to provide a certain service, and should be responsible enough to remedy this situation, if only because required by law.
Let's say you have ONE department store in your town. You heard that that department store screwed one of your friends. You hope it's an isolated incident, because there's really nowhere else to go. You continue to stop at that store, and you yourself get screwed. Is it your fault for shopping there even though your friend was ripped off?
That's great advice - wish I'd heard it earlier. I got screwed just this way. I purchased something using PayPal and when the seller screwed me, I tried to get my money back through the bank. Too bad PayPal didn't use the VISA option on my debit card, but the debit account. So, my purchase wasn't automatically insured as it would have been had the payment went through VISA. PayPal is comprised of a bunch of blood sucking leeches. That goes for EBay, too. By the way, try and contact somebody at either establishment. Have fun.
Server blades also share a power supply, cables and memory
Normally, redundancy is a high priority. Is the savings in hardware and electricity worth the risk of losing (say) 10 machines because one power supply failed?
Indeed. I would have looked miffed too, and probably would have sat down, but not before singing "I'M SORRY MAMA <offkey> I DIDNT MEAN TO HURT YOO<offkey>OOOUUUU<offkey>. I DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY BUT TONIGHT, IM CLEANING OUT MY CL<offkey>O<offkey>SET." Then again, that is what I have been programmed to say by my radio.
;)
And with that the XML committee slapped their foreheads and admitted that they had not forseen such an application.
Actually, the first MS link you offered makes several good points about Linux-Windows interoperability deficiencies. I don't consider these overtly biased.
Sometimes, it's what is not said that raises my brow. For example, Linux comes with thousands of free software applications covering every interest. Windows does not. Linux is and always has been based on industry standard protocols. Not always so with Windows.
Regarding the "straight-forward licensing" claim, they make it sound as if the use of Linux requires that you package up all your source code and intellectual property and send it off to an external server for public consumption. If you used GPL software and improve upon it, then it's not really your intellectual property. You're using somebody else's work to get the job done. What's wrong with giving something back? Don't like it - start from scratch. Whatever was yours before using Linux, remains yours.
A few quotes come to mind:
:)
Fight fire with fire.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
What's good for the goose, is good for the gander.
If you can't beat them, join them.
And while I'm quoting, I thought these were thought provoking
Choose the lesser of two evils.
Don't set a wolf to watch the sheep.
what a balanced and fair summary
l uation/compare/advantage.asp e r/evaluation/whyupgrade/default.asp
You mean like the documents Microsoft produces?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Embedded/sak/eva
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/advancedserv
Rather than log IPs, use WHOIS, etc.. and go through all that trouble, I would be more willing to bet the RIAA is just targetting the Fortune 1000 who are all guaranteed to have high speed Internet access and just _assume_ that everyone is swapping music. What do they have to lose? Sounds like how Microsoft handles their antitrust trial... just throw lie after lie out until it strikes a nerve and people believe them.
It seems like they can't win, even if they are doing the precise thing slashdot asked them to do.
And WHO, pray tell, is Slashdot?
Do you think we all have the same opinions here? There would be little discussion if we did.
The city of New York (imagine the lawyers they could unleash) was nice enough to only fine Microsoft $50 and tell them to clean the mess up. Microsoft, in all of its infinite arrogance, "... insisted that it was authorized to place the decals.
"There are permits for everything". Uh huh - does that mean filling someone's pocket with money so they'll turn the other way? Why can't we know who it is?
This is very a bad show of sincerity given Steve Balmer's statement regarding the Microsoft Switch Campaign fiasco. I am fully expecting more events like these to take place. Microsoft's dirty tactics are alive and well.
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Go see a movie. Play with your dog. Have lunch.
RUN
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I wonder how many man-hours will have been wasted deciphering the contents of this person's sig by the yad eht fo dne.
I agree. GPL basically hinders commercial development using the code but that shouldn't be the case. The code should be free for ALL. GPL isn't always the best answer, although it certainly works where it is suited. LGPL and BSD certainly have their places and this is just such a case.
I almost signed up for a distributed computing project until I read the terms very carefully.
What bothered me is they weren't responsible for damage to your computer, your data, they wouldn't guarantee the non-existence of virii, and they wouldn't tell you what kinds of things were being computed on your computer (it was processing power as a service - you'd get paid a measly amount to let them use your computer).
How was I to know they wouldn't be using MY computer to do things I'd consider unethical or illegal?
Whatever service you join, be SURE to read the fine print carefully beforehand.
This reminds me of the good ol C64 days when it was common to use screen memory for assembly language routines and flags, etc. When the program ran, you could actually _see_ the memory being toggled and incremented. Pretty neat. I wonder what it would look like these days...
As a VMS sysadmin, I've lost count of the number of times I've lost large amounts of text because I pressed ^Z !! Aargh!
:)
(At least on Unix, it backgrounds your job, which is usually recoverable
I've lost quite a bit of text myself that way! ARGH is right. If you hit CTRL-Z while typing an email in Netscape, you're hosed. That's why I usually use an external editor to enter my email text if it's a long one. I wish this wasn't necessary, though!
What do you get when you mix a Beowulf cluster with this? Parallel computing plus asynchronous computing... drooolll.
I'm quite able to use the middle mouse button for pasting text. Using the middle button is fine under certain circumstances, but for most situations I'd be happy to have CTRL-[X|C|V] work as it does under Windows. I shouldn't have to use the mouse anyway. How do you Undo a text change in most apps? In Windows it's CTRL-Z.
My biggest complaint is that it's just too easy to overwrite your clipboard buffer by accidentally selecting something else. And Klipboard (not sure of the exact name) sucks. I don't care about multiple clipboard entries - just keep _one_ in a nonvolatile area for me.
I'd be happy if they fixed cut & paste in Linux/X-Windows, and button focusing behaviour. User input is not treated with enough "respect" at the moment, such that it is often lost and has to be repeated. Not good.
It's an even bigger problem if the rights of the many cancel the rights of the few.
Define "few".
Take slavery for example.
Or the holocaust.
Millions of people were treated horribly and killed in your examples. That's not at all what I'm talking about.
Or the separation of church and state.
This only concerned a few people? Some clarification needed.
Or phone, sewer and electricity service for people who live outside a major city.
This has nothing to do with rights. It has to do with economics. Rural folks could have electricity if they were willing to pay millions of dollars to bring it in, but that's not realistic.
Good God, don't get me started. I have a strong feeling that the social breakdown in North America is largely due to that fact. Women's lib, minority rights, etc.. etc.. Sure we all have rights, but if the rights of the few cancel the rights of the many, there's a BIG problem.
How many times a day do you subconsciously think and not say or do things because it MAY offend somebody and it MAY not be politically correct? It makes me ill. I'm not talking about blatant disregard for others, just minor shit.