I wouldn't give them shell access -- spammers could use shell scripting to grep for all 12 digit numbers in their mbox. Your idea needs work, but I like your starting point: the spammer is in prison.
This is for those of you that hate the "scratch-proof" coating on your glasses, because the coating becomes fogged or whatever.
soak the glasses in ammonia, and wipe with a non-scratching cloth (like linen). wait a while before you put them on, or rinse thoroughly, because ammonia + your eyes = t3h sux0r.
is a fairly well-split mix -- some school sites have mostly PCs, some school sites have mostly Macs. It's around 50/50.
The server room is a heterogeneous environment including FreeBSD, Netware, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX Server, and Windows Server 2003. Hooray for the computer equivalent of biodiversity, it means we have to choose software based on cross-platform availability and standards. It also doesn't hurt that most of the administrators use Macs.
This will get modded down, but I've got to respond to your points.
a) what if you're a business that wants to sell software and not services? I believe in f/oss licenses, but I don't think a company doesn't have the right to implement something as proprietary (at least until there is an open-source cloned implementation of it).
b) as the article states, you are granted royalty-free patent rights to implement your own gpl version.
c) Sun controls Java so no competing corporation can dilute the standard. without platform compatibility, java is useless.
This might be tough for the fanboy crowd to hear, but without Java, Linux dies. I know slashdot generally hates sun because of the whole 'what have you done for me lately' crowd, but think about what made IBM embrace linux and spend a billion dollars of advertising on it.
Imagine a worm writer (WW) that could find vulnerabilities. The WW targets this program, especially if the system has the ability to take people off the network. Then WW could write a worm that would take anyone infected off the internet. Think about the damage that could be done -- an internet blackout, and think of why it's a bad idea.
the user would be told not to delete this entry from their address book for any reason.
At least half the people told this would delete the entry within a month. You'd have to get it built into every address book out there.
I think the most effective solution would be for cable / dsl / dialup companies to remove access for computers that are spewing virus traffic. I don't think it will happen though.
I can tell you've never really tried to get freebsd working *just right* on a laptop.
That's why I got an apple, anyway -- to get a laptop that behaved like BSD but I didn't have to endlessly tweak. That, and to run NetBSD on PowerPC so I could endlessly tweak.
a different ports system is on the way -- darwinports, fink, and metapackages(?) are working together to make the one true ports/packaging system. I think the end result will someday show up at www.openpackages.org.
And darwinports was included in earlier developer previews of macosx 10.3, but later removed.
The basic reason that they used apt-get instead of FreeBSD's ports is basically this: the ports system rules for users, but sucks for developers, to paraphrase the ports system creator Jordan Hubbard, known here in the BSD section as "God."
Darwinports is his rewrite of said FreeBSD ports system.
I wish I could, buddy. BSD articles don't usually make it to the main page anymore. The best a BSD user can usually hope for is a repost of whatever is at daemonnews with 5 intelligent comments and 40 automated "BSD is dying" trolls.
It's pretty much a lost cause to mention BSD anywhere here without someone getting childish sooner or later, which is too bad.
netscape (7 and 7.1) is really handy as a transition from netscape 4.7 or earlier to mozilla, as it converts 4.7 user profiles, bookmarks, etc. automagically.
I disagree. He's using language that his target audience will understand.
Criminy, Apple's one of the biggest technical companies that "Gets It" from an open source perspective. What more do you want from the guy? Open source apple out of business?
winning the big lawsuit: whatever it costs to pay the lawyers. proving your business strategy: whatever it costs to pay the lawyers. telling the entire tech industry "don't fuck with me": priceless
They all have an ifconfig (even windows has, but it's spelled ipconfig), but a different one. The GNU version takes different arguments anyway - like for example none at all, which the FreeBSD version doesn't allow
umm, no. ifconfig on freebsd with no arguments will run the equivalent of 'ifconfig -a'.
the problem with your analogy is that video games span multiple age ranges, therefore combining multiple 'iq' values.
e.g., a 14 year old with an iq of 120 may not be as smart as a 25 year old with a 110 iq may not be as smart as a 45 year old with a 100 iq may not be as smart as etc. etc.
IQ is derived from a person's perceived 'intelligence' as compared to their AGE GROUP.
The problem will solve itself as the young set grows up and demands more mature (in the not-porn sense of the word) and intelligent titles.
disclaimer: IQ is a shite way to measure intelligence
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I wouldn't give them shell access -- spammers could use shell scripting to grep for all 12 digit numbers in their mbox. Your idea needs work, but I like your starting point: the spammer is in prison.
they'll probably just use perl.
This is for those of you that hate the "scratch-proof" coating on your glasses, because the coating becomes fogged or whatever.
soak the glasses in ammonia, and wipe with a non-scratching cloth (like linen). wait a while before you put them on, or rinse thoroughly, because ammonia + your eyes = t3h sux0r.
sorry, pal.
os x is the most deployed unix-like os in the world. linux has not yet caught up, though it probably will in the next year or so.
sleep 4294080 /s
shutdown
is a fairly well-split mix -- some school sites have mostly PCs, some school sites have mostly Macs. It's around 50/50.
The server room is a heterogeneous environment including FreeBSD, Netware, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX Server, and Windows Server 2003. Hooray for the computer equivalent of biodiversity, it means we have to choose software based on cross-platform availability and standards. It also doesn't hurt that most of the administrators use Macs.
with some other dude. :-)
nope -- OSX counts as Darwin.
The proof is in the pudding:
lookup of www.apple.com.
Great Cthulhu does not care.
It's a good thing you're not in Maine.
This will get modded down, but I've got to respond to your points.
a) what if you're a business that wants to sell software and not services? I believe in f/oss licenses, but I don't think a company doesn't have the right to implement something as proprietary (at least until there is an open-source cloned implementation of it).
b) as the article states, you are granted royalty-free patent rights to implement your own gpl version.
c) Sun controls Java so no competing corporation can dilute the standard. without platform compatibility, java is useless.
This might be tough for the fanboy crowd to hear, but without Java, Linux dies. I know slashdot generally hates sun because of the whole 'what have you done for me lately' crowd, but think about what made IBM embrace linux and spend a billion dollars of advertising on it.
At least half the people told this would delete the entry within a month. You'd have to get it built into every address book out there.
I think the most effective solution would be for cable / dsl / dialup companies to remove access for computers that are spewing virus traffic. I don't think it will happen though.
I can tell you've never really tried to get freebsd working *just right* on a laptop.
That's why I got an apple, anyway -- to get a laptop that behaved like BSD but I didn't have to endlessly tweak. That, and to run NetBSD on PowerPC so I could endlessly tweak.
a different ports system is on the way -- darwinports, fink, and metapackages(?) are working together to make the one true ports/packaging system. I think the end result will someday show up at www.openpackages.org.
And darwinports was included in earlier developer previews of macosx 10.3, but later removed.
The basic reason that they used apt-get instead of FreeBSD's ports is basically this: the ports system rules for users, but sucks for developers, to paraphrase the ports system creator Jordan Hubbard, known here in the BSD section as "God."
Darwinports is his rewrite of said FreeBSD ports system.
I wish I could, buddy. BSD articles don't usually make it to the main page anymore. The best a BSD user can usually hope for is a repost of whatever is at daemonnews with 5 intelligent comments and 40 automated "BSD is dying" trolls.
It's pretty much a lost cause to mention BSD anywhere here without someone getting childish sooner or later, which is too bad.
http://daily.daemonnews.org
For the epistemologically curious, Lance's position happens to be valid but not sound, an important distinction.
Of course, if that weren't bad enough, Cthulhu also eats 1d4 people per round.
bah, you kids have it lucky. back in my day, cthulhu ate no less than 1d8+2 people per round. and we were happy for it, we felt lucky.
my current cthulhu character is rocksteady at 87 sanity.
netscape (7 and 7.1) is really handy as a transition from netscape 4.7 or earlier to mozilla, as it converts 4.7 user profiles, bookmarks, etc. automagically.
I disagree. He's using language that his target audience will understand.
Criminy, Apple's one of the biggest technical companies that "Gets It" from an open source perspective. What more do you want from the guy? Open source apple out of business?
yup, it's good news indeed. red hat advanced server, i mean red hat academic server, is $50 per year.
:-)
Read hat workstation is $25. and if you can't turn a workstation into a dhcp or dns server, well...
i dunno. i don't have the heart to say anything really nasty.
winning the big lawsuit: whatever it costs to pay the lawyers.
proving your business strategy: whatever it costs to pay the lawyers.
telling the entire tech industry "don't fuck with me": priceless
They all have an ifconfig (even windows has, but it's spelled ipconfig), but a different one. The GNU version takes different arguments anyway - like for example none at all, which the FreeBSD version doesn't allow
umm, no. ifconfig on freebsd with no arguments will run the equivalent of 'ifconfig -a'.
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
the problem with your analogy is that video games span multiple age ranges, therefore combining multiple 'iq' values.
e.g., a 14 year old with an iq of 120 may not be as smart as a 25 year old with a 110 iq may not be as smart as a 45 year old with a 100 iq may not be as smart as etc. etc.
IQ is derived from a person's perceived 'intelligence' as compared to their AGE GROUP.
The problem will solve itself as the young set grows up and demands more mature (in the not-porn sense of the word) and intelligent titles.
disclaimer: IQ is a shite way to measure intelligence
yes, but that particular excellent technical solution only converts from female to male.
the male to female converters, they cost a lot of money.