but then again this is an article about computing in education and most modern campuses have ethernet to the dorm so not realy "home computers". Let's not forget that modern wired university campuses gave rise to the popularity of mp3 files.
no, they should all be mocked. mock mock mock. aaaaaaaaaaaah, better.
Re:I have a better idea
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we can configure our mail systems to not accept unsigned messages
yes. yes again. the certificates are not the whole solution, but the ability and freedom of users on the edges of the network to decide what they are and aren't willing to accept is. Now let's all stop waiting for the one world goverment to "fix spam" and just edit those.conf files
No, obviousely you will not be able to set your "filters" to a less restrictive level than your upstream provider (ISP, school, company, whatever) but if you don't like it... change. Mailservers are the gated communities (or hippy communes, depending) of the future.
i didn't read the article completly but they prolly paid for some of the recharge cards with a credit card that when the card was redeemd into the cell phone automatically asociated it with the person(s). there should still be ways to use them without being tracked by name. you just need to be more carefull in how you do it. on another note, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just monitoring all the phones like this looking for keywords and certain languages being spoken.
GSM phones (the standard outside the US) have a unique hardware identifier (the IMEI or "International Mobile Equipment Identifier"). This number is most probably recorded by the network along with the phone number. Once you have number X (the calling number off pay as you go card), you can probably ask for any other calls made with that IMEI. If the terrs were sloppy: ie they used the same phone with several SIM chips (which hold your account info) and at least one of those chips was from a "normal" ie "nominative" account...
dear black helicopter people: i'm smoking a cigarette, i'll be right back. thanks for waiting.
Re:Why not just tax virgin CD's ?
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Europe (where the history comes from) already has a tax on blank CD's - it doesn't stop the labels and their trade associations from sueing people and putting pos drm on new CD's so that you can rip them in your computer but can't play them in your car.
As for MP3 players: look at DVD players: Sony makes sleek units that are difficult/expensive to dezone. Meanwhile, whatever country is doing to the koreans what the koreans did to the japanese is exporting zillions of cheap units that you can dezone by holding down a key combo on the remote.
Err, and the IPod works just fine with mp3's off the net...
Re: what would happen if they did win, Jim Ready wrote a pretty interesting op peice in the Feb 2004 issue of Linux World - "Linux vs. SCO--A Foregone Conclusion"
It's a bit rah-rah "come and get it" but his conclusions are well reasoned.
(and it would have made one hell of a Slashdot posting;)/t
Yeah but a confidentiality clause won't keep everything quiet. The headline will still read "AutoZone settles lawsuit with SCO for an undisclosed amount." The fact that they settled will be public information.
So why doesn't SCO offer to settle for 1$ - they get what they want out of it.
It's hard to see what they're (SCO) thinking: these new lawsuits mean that they will be fighting three - THREE - fortune 500 companies at the same time. Forget right or wrong, that's just nuts - each of these companies probably has a legal department bigger than all of SCO.../t
Ah c'mon, you're being a tad harsh there. I use firefox at home and mozilla 1.6 (with *all kinds* of xpi goodness) at work and they are both rock stable under normal usage conditions. I'm a web developer, and things like the form manager, password manager, and live http recorder are - at that price - pretty damn fantastic. Top it all off with the "preview in IE" feature for that final sanity check and bob's your uncle.
Sure, 1.3 was still kinda buggy and even 1.5 had a few remaining issues, but 1.6 is almost perfect for day to day use and firefox is so cool you could install it for your parents.
In my mind, mozilla.org is where you download the ultimate IE patch./t
Ah c'mon you're all being just a tad harsh. Sure, gratituous flash usage sucks but flash can do some pretty nifty things: you can build simple web based video conferencing or shared whiteboard apps in flash quickly and easily, and there are some nice games out there as well. Don't think of it as the heavier and even more annoying replacement for animated gifs, think of it as an alternative gui technology - "not-so-thin client".
As pcs get faster and faster and more and more people get broadband, you will see more and more flash being used - but maybe not used well. One of the problems today is that web designers still think in html, so they do something that looks like moving html at 10 - 20 times the weight and 1/100th the reaction time./t
printed out and stuck to my wall
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You want to be more secure on windows and consider the outlook to be totally insecure just use a simple email application, it is as simple as that. i use Mozilla as my mail client on Windows 2000.
Your response is a direct proof that Linux will never replace Windows on the desktop. is it really? wow.
nobody is going to move to linux just because there are viruses spreading through the mistakes of the people using an email application i think people will move away from windows (at least partly) because of the endless security problems with that platform. it's just an opinion.
Linux will never replace windows on the desktop, cause there is no real incentive other than made-up news, stories.
like all those made-up news stories about a virus that spreads through a mail reader and causes millions of dollars (if not more) of lost productivity?
When you read a review on Amazon.com, you are expecting an unbiased review. The person making a self-interested post is actively decieving you.
ah c'mon. it would have been surprising if this kind of stuff didn't happen - but so what: it's not about one review, it's about the general impression you get from reading all the reviews./t
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but then again this is an article about computing in education and most modern campuses have ethernet to the dorm so not realy "home computers". Let's not forget that modern wired university campuses gave rise to the popularity of mp3 files.
no, they should all be mocked.
mock mock mock.
aaaaaaaaaaaah, better.
we can configure our mail systems to not accept unsigned messages
.conf files
yes. yes again. the certificates are not the whole solution, but the ability and freedom of users on the edges of the network to decide what they are and aren't willing to accept is. Now let's all stop waiting for the one world goverment to "fix spam" and just edit those
No, obviousely you will not be able to set your "filters" to a less restrictive level than your upstream provider (ISP, school, company, whatever) but if you don't like it... change. Mailservers are the gated communities (or hippy communes, depending) of the future.
"There's nothing like convincing people to open random excutable attachments to keep your job safe."
If there's any justice in the world, that's the next thinkgeek t-shirt.
after which the revolution will be reloaded... available for only a *small* surcharge on your license fees.
i didn't read the article completly but they prolly paid for some of the recharge cards with a credit card that when the card was redeemd into the cell phone automatically asociated it with the person(s). there should still be ways to use them without being tracked by name. you just need to be more carefull in how you do it. on another note, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just monitoring all the phones like this looking for keywords and certain languages being spoken.
/t
GSM phones (the standard outside the US) have a unique hardware identifier (the IMEI or "International Mobile Equipment Identifier"). This number is most probably recorded by the network along with the phone number. Once you have number X (the calling number off pay as you go card), you can probably ask for any other calls made with that IMEI. If the terrs were sloppy: ie they used the same phone with several SIM chips (which hold your account info) and at least one of those chips was from a "normal" ie "nominative" account...
dear black helicopter people: i'm smoking a cigarette, i'll be right back. thanks for waiting.
depends: joe linux user or joe microsoft user?
Europe (where the history comes from) already has a tax on blank CD's - it doesn't stop the labels and their trade associations from sueing people and putting pos drm on new CD's so that you can rip them in your computer but can't play them in your car.
...
/t
As for MP3 players: look at DVD players: Sony makes sleek units that are difficult/expensive to dezone. Meanwhile, whatever country is doing to the koreans what the koreans did to the japanese is exporting zillions of cheap units that you can dezone by holding down a key combo on the remote.
Err, and the IPod works just fine with mp3's off the net
i think that about handles it?
Re: what would happen if they did win, Jim Ready wrote a pretty interesting op peice in the Feb 2004 issue of Linux World - "Linux vs. SCO--A Foregone Conclusion"
;) /t
It's a bit rah-rah "come and get it" but his conclusions are well reasoned.
(and it would have made one hell of a Slashdot posting
Yeah but a confidentiality clause won't keep everything quiet. The headline will still read "AutoZone settles lawsuit with SCO for an undisclosed amount." The fact that they settled will be public information.
/t
So why doesn't SCO offer to settle for 1$ - they get what they want out of it.
It's hard to see what they're (SCO) thinking: these new lawsuits mean that they will be fighting three - THREE - fortune 500 companies at the same time. Forget right or wrong, that's just nuts - each of these companies probably has a legal department bigger than all of SCO...
Well, if you like tabs...
/t
go to mozdev.org and install the multizilla extension. Tab super power.
You said:
According to your own "UNCONFIRMED" (not "verified") bug, Linux also becomes unstable from using Mozilla FireFox.
Your parent said:
When FireFox crashes under Linux, Linux remains completely stable. (I suppose you could have guessed that.)
dyslexic or just too fucking stupid to read the comment you're replying to?
Yeah, yeah, i know, i have been trolled. Friggin morning slashdot before coffee...
Ah c'mon, you're being a tad harsh there. I use firefox at home and mozilla 1.6 (with *all kinds* of xpi goodness) at work and they are both rock stable under normal usage conditions. I'm a web developer, and things like the form manager, password manager, and live http recorder are - at that price - pretty damn fantastic. Top it all off with the "preview in IE" feature for that final sanity check and bob's your uncle.
/t
Sure, 1.3 was still kinda buggy and even 1.5 had a few remaining issues, but 1.6 is almost perfect for day to day use and firefox is so cool you could install it for your parents.
In my mind, mozilla.org is where you download the ultimate IE patch.
You can be CEO of a nonprofit and have a $1,000,000 salary.
;)
so you're the guy sending me all that spam
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i tried that but it didn't seem to help much...
INCONCEIVABLE!
i'm thinking real hard of modding you +1 funny. let me know how it works out.
Ah c'mon you're all being just a tad harsh. Sure, gratituous flash usage sucks but flash can do some pretty nifty things: you can build simple web based video conferencing or shared whiteboard apps in flash quickly and easily, and there are some nice games out there as well. Don't think of it as the heavier and even more annoying replacement for animated gifs, think of it as an alternative gui technology - "not-so-thin client".
/t
As pcs get faster and faster and more and more people get broadband, you will see more and more flash being used - but maybe not used well. One of the problems today is that web designers still think in html, so they do something that looks like moving html at 10 - 20 times the weight and 1/100th the reaction time.
debugging is a state of mind /t
You obviously haven't seen the classified reports...
we all did - they're posted here on slashdot every friday.
You want to be more secure on windows and consider the outlook to be totally insecure just use a simple email application, it is as simple as that.
i use Mozilla as my mail client on Windows 2000.
Your response is a direct proof that Linux will never replace Windows on the desktop.
is it really?
wow.
nobody is going to move to linux just because there are viruses spreading through the mistakes of the people using an email application
i think people will move away from windows (at least partly) because of the endless security problems with that platform. it's just an opinion.
Linux will never replace windows on the desktop, cause there is no real incentive other than made-up news, stories.
like all those made-up news stories about a virus that spreads through a mail reader and causes millions of dollars (if not more) of lost productivity?
When you read a review on Amazon.com, you are expecting an unbiased review. The person making a self-interested post is actively decieving you.
/t
ah c'mon. it would have been surprising if this kind of stuff didn't happen - but so what: it's not about one review, it's about the general impression you get from reading all the reviews.
i dunno, ask the chinese?
could they just add the 1100 new machines to the 1100 existing machines?