I've seen your posts. Most of them are trolls and flamebait. You post first, read later.
This makes me wonder how you managed to rack up enough karma points to get a +1 bonus, because according to the moderation done to your comment, you were posting at +2.
No, you're not telling the truth. You're mis-informed, and besides. Anything that's going to start a flame-war is flamebait.:)
The truth is,
- Linux is a kernel.
- A kernel does not have a GUI.
- Users never interface with the kernel at all.
- There is no such thing as a user-friendly kernel.
- There is no such thing as a non-user-friendly kernel.
Let me re-iterate:
Linux is not an operating system... and what you are referring to as "linux", a distribution of kernel and user programs, has NOT existed for ten years, and is NOT what this article is about.
So even if you're not flamebait, you're offtopic.:)
I was just about to do an "In other news" post, but the page wouldn't load. Then when I finally get here, somebody's already done one. Oh well, I guess i'll have to add onto it.
In a related story, Slashdot turns sour. Somebody forgot to put it back in the refridgerator again.
"Turn the Page" -- Bob Seger
"Turn Turn Turn" -- Backup Singers for the Byrds (immediately following "To Everything" and "There is a Season".:)
Oh well, that's all the turns I can think of right now.:P
But if it's legal to spoof the FROM field, and probably anything else...
then that makes it theoretically impossible to find a spammer.
This is based on two assumptions:
1) That they get good enough at spoofing stuff
2) That spamming, and spoofing, are legal (which they pretty much are)
If the whole point is to catch spammers, it sounds to me like there has to be some sort of law. Like "Thou shalt not send unsolicited communications advertising a product or service"
Freudian Psychology, in case you missed the reference... but I have no idea what your post is about.:)
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That may be true, but that issue has been tackled before from a different standpoint.
Libraries such as SDL exist to speed development on graphics and sound I/O, and things like game engines exist (the quake engine, for example) as open-source re-usable engines.
The graphics engine is what creates the "gee-whiz graphics" that you speak of, not the graphics tiles and textures themselves. (Although they do help).
I think that an open source graphics engine is more useful than re-usable graphics tiles and sounds.
Well, I was making up a fake "spam" about Samba. Tying in a couple of threads.:)
I made up "Siagra" to be like "Viagra". The whole "spam" continues along that metaphor. It was meant to be funny...
That's my explanation. But...
What is "SWAT"?
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I like the idea of the project, but I am concerned about the proliferation of games that are all using the same base for graphics, sound, etc.
What happens when there are 20 different RTS games with the same sound samples and graphics tiles?
Seems to me that this would have a negative effect, in that the creative aspect of the graphics tiles and sound samples (how your game "looks" and "sounds") would be lost.
On another note though, I really like the idea of a GPL'ed repository of this stuff. Thanks, and great job!
But seriously. If your Samba isn't working right, then you do have a problem... how are you supposed to attract the opposite sex without the proper tools?
UUCP and FTP may be attractive, but lets face it. The girls want Samba, and lots of it. And what can you do about that?
Introducing Siagra, the one and only fix for all of your Samba problems.
Can't get your Samba up to do its thing? Siagra can help. 40% of men over 50 can't get their Samba to work. But Siagra is a new revolutionary herbal extract. It's not a drug. It will work wonders. It can do what you never thought possible!
But that's not the piracy that the MPAA is after, anyway. Personal DivX and VCD trading on the internet is not the "piracy" that the MPAA is trying to stop. However, this is the primary use of DeCSS.
Have you ever seen somebody selling a DivX movie for download?
The DVD's that are pirated for money are the ones the MPAA is trying to stop, and the ones that never need to be decrypted (DeCSS'ed) in the first place.
Whoa! Moderators, mod this up... actual information!:)
You've got some kicking hardware - then, and now.
I am very envious, especially of your Atari ST 1040 (specifically, the peripherals you had). All I had that was that great was a high-res (for the time) monochrome monitor. Don't remember the model.
If I had a modem, or even a HD for my ST I might have done more with it after I got a bit older. Instead, I got locked into the Windows world before discovering linux. (Then of course trying every distro in existence before dropping linux for BeOS):)
Anything could be valuable to anybody. Who knows... 10000 years from now, we might have destroyed our entire civilization (or what we consider to be civilization, that is) due to war or just total chaos of some kind.
Lets say that the people in the Congo are the first to rebuild a new civilization from scratch.
They have something their entire society is completely dependant on; it's called an "arithmachine". But it needs to be made out of a few common metals, as well as something called Deletium.
Deletium can only be found in America. Specifically, in the northwest region, near where Seattle is now. The people of the Congo, civilized as they are, feel it is their right to exploit the poverty-stricken and corruption-plagued Americans for deletium. Which essentially translates directly to profit.
Now when deletium is valuable, do you want your great^83-grandkids to be mining it for slave wages, with no hope of self-determination or even a better job?
I don't quite understand the VB-style conditional things (I don't code for crappy OSes as a general rule;)
It seems to me that
"if fuck break else shit break end"
is the equivalent of perl code like:
"if (stuff) {dothis;} else (stuff2) {dothis;}"
Now... wasn't the perl a helluva lot easier?
WTF is with the "break" and "end" things? Why the HELL would somebody want to put the word "end" at the end of a statement, block, line, or whatever the fsck that is, instead of a simple semicolon??
My first computer was an Atari ST 1040. I think it had a half a meg of RAM. Wow... and you could do so much on it! I remember thinking, as a 5 year old, this thing is cool! I can draw, then erase, then keep drawing... and it doesn't smudge like a real eraser!:P
Later I had a DOS machine, which I really started to do stuff on, like QBASIC and word processing. I had a copy of Print Shop Deluxe (remember, the old one, on 5.25" floppies?) and used it to make cards, and printed them out on my screaming (loud, not fast) printer. The kind with paper fed through it by the little holes on the side.:)
Hrm. Apparently I'm not well-versed on Code Red II as opposed to the original. I thought it would be all fixed with a reboot, but I guess there's more to it. Wasn't the whole point of the Microsoft fix to fix the whole thing? I guess you're securityfocus.com link is unnecessary then.
As for people who "might as well install linux or BSD and apache instead": that's not really possible. There are tons of people who have IIS installed by accident, and have never heard of this "Eunuchs" thing.;)
Actually, the re-booting is quite significant to the process.
The worm only stays resident in memory after you are infected. Therefore, you are instantly clean after a reboot. It _does_ not stay anywhere else except RAM, which is cleared when you reboot.
However, the need for installing the patch is that you will be infected again within minutes (statistically) after the reboot, unless the patch is installed.
I don't think you can define "should have known" in court. Either you knew something, or you didn't.
It is not a matter of simply looking at the files; you would have to find the keys and decrypt everything in your node.
I think that holding someone responsible for what is on their node should not hold up in court any more than holding someone responsible for what is in a car they lent to an anonymous stranger.
If you lend your car to an anonymous stranger, and they find drugs in it, I don't see how you can be liable.
If you lend your hard drive space to an anonymous stranger, and they find stuff in it that violates the DMCA, I don't see how you can be liable.:)
Freenet is specifically designed to circumvent this legal liability, by denying the (easy) ability for a node operator to see what is in their node.
Well, I think the problem lies not in the fact that P2P is bad, but that the naysayers and lawmakers don't understand the fundamental concepts of P2P and the Internet.
The Internet is inherently P2P. It allows any 2 people to give each other information directly. You can't outlaw a specific program that does that, but allow the actual act to continue.
That would be like making murder _legal_, but making it illegal to shoot people (because that is a common, high-media-profile way of murdering people).
The lawmakers and corporations opposed to P2P don't understand that the Internet is essentially P2P, and that to make P2P illegal is retarded if the Internet still exists at all.
Is your "business friendly e-commerce buy-it-direct-now connection" to Dealer37362 not a P2P connection?:P
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Where the fuck do you get your karma!??
I've seen your posts. Most of them are trolls and flamebait. You post first, read later.
This makes me wonder how you managed to rack up enough karma points to get a +1 bonus, because according to the moderation done to your comment, you were posting at +2.
No, you're not telling the truth. You're mis-informed, and besides. Anything that's going to start a flame-war is flamebait. :)
:)
The truth is,
- Linux is a kernel.
- A kernel does not have a GUI.
- Users never interface with the kernel at all.
- There is no such thing as a user-friendly kernel.
- There is no such thing as a non-user-friendly kernel.
Let me re-iterate:
Linux is not an operating system... and what you are referring to as "linux", a distribution of kernel and user programs, has NOT existed for ten years, and is NOT what this article is about.
So even if you're not flamebait, you're offtopic.
Damn, you got there first!!
:)
:P
I was just about to do an "In other news" post, but the page wouldn't load. Then when I finally get here, somebody's already done one. Oh well, I guess i'll have to add onto it.
In a related story, Slashdot turns sour. Somebody forgot to put it back in the refridgerator again.
"Turn the Page" -- Bob Seger
"Turn Turn Turn" -- Backup Singers for the Byrds (immediately following "To Everything" and "There is a Season".
Oh well, that's all the turns I can think of right now.
But if it's legal to spoof the FROM field, and probably anything else...
then that makes it theoretically impossible to find a spammer.
This is based on two assumptions:
1) That they get good enough at spoofing stuff
2) That spamming, and spoofing, are legal (which they pretty much are)
If the whole point is to catch spammers, it sounds to me like there has to be some sort of law. Like "Thou shalt not send unsolicited communications advertising a product or service"
No, I guess that's why I missed the reference. :)
Umm... i'm wondering how a Russian space shuttle ended up in Titusville, Florida. Who bought this thing originally, and why are they selling it? :)
My guess is, it's a hoax.
Freudian Psychology, in case you missed the reference... but I have no idea what your post is about. :)
That may be true, but that issue has been tackled before from a different standpoint.
Libraries such as SDL exist to speed development on graphics and sound I/O, and things like game engines exist (the quake engine, for example) as open-source re-usable engines.
The graphics engine is what creates the "gee-whiz graphics" that you speak of, not the graphics tiles and textures themselves. (Although they do help).
I think that an open source graphics engine is more useful than re-usable graphics tiles and sounds.
Well, I was making up a fake "spam" about Samba. Tying in a couple of threads. :)
I made up "Siagra" to be like "Viagra". The whole "spam" continues along that metaphor. It was meant to be funny...
That's my explanation. But...
What is "SWAT"?
I like the idea of the project, but I am concerned about the proliferation of games that are all using the same base for graphics, sound, etc.
What happens when there are 20 different RTS games with the same sound samples and graphics tiles?
Seems to me that this would have a negative effect, in that the creative aspect of the graphics tiles and sound samples (how your game "looks" and "sounds") would be lost.
On another note though, I really like the idea of a GPL'ed repository of this stuff. Thanks, and great job!
Tell me about your mother...
But seriously. If your Samba isn't working right, then you do have a problem... how are you supposed to attract the opposite sex without the proper tools?
UUCP and FTP may be attractive, but lets face it. The girls want Samba, and lots of it. And what can you do about that?
Introducing Siagra, the one and only fix for all of your Samba problems.
Can't get your Samba up to do its thing? Siagra can help. 40% of men over 50 can't get their Samba to work. But Siagra is a new revolutionary herbal extract. It's not a drug. It will work wonders. It can do what you never thought possible!
Well, I disagree... the /. spammers are not as bad as the real thing. Or maybe worse. Depends on your perspective.
:)
Spam: "Get thin! Make money! Hot girls!!"
/.: "First post! Natalie Portman! Hot Grits!!"
One is trying to screw you over and get your credit card number, while the other is just amused by annoying people... you decide which is worse.
But that's not the piracy that the MPAA is after, anyway. Personal DivX and VCD trading on the internet is not the "piracy" that the MPAA is trying to stop. However, this is the primary use of DeCSS.
Have you ever seen somebody selling a DivX movie for download?
The DVD's that are pirated for money are the ones the MPAA is trying to stop, and the ones that never need to be decrypted (DeCSS'ed) in the first place.
Okay... I guess I understand it better now. I was looking at it very late at night. :)
;)
It still seems wierd to me though.
Whoa! Moderators, mod this up... actual information! :)
:)
You've got some kicking hardware - then, and now.
I am very envious, especially of your Atari ST 1040 (specifically, the peripherals you had). All I had that was that great was a high-res (for the time) monochrome monitor. Don't remember the model.
If I had a modem, or even a HD for my ST I might have done more with it after I got a bit older. Instead, I got locked into the Windows world before discovering linux. (Then of course trying every distro in existence before dropping linux for BeOS)
Dude... WTF is a "valuable resource"?
Anything could be valuable to anybody. Who knows... 10000 years from now, we might have destroyed our entire civilization (or what we consider to be civilization, that is) due to war or just total chaos of some kind.
Lets say that the people in the Congo are the first to rebuild a new civilization from scratch.
They have something their entire society is completely dependant on; it's called an "arithmachine". But it needs to be made out of a few common metals, as well as something called Deletium.
Deletium can only be found in America. Specifically, in the northwest region, near where Seattle is now. The people of the Congo, civilized as they are, feel it is their right to exploit the poverty-stricken and corruption-plagued Americans for deletium. Which essentially translates directly to profit.
Now when deletium is valuable, do you want your great^83-grandkids to be mining it for slave wages, with no hope of self-determination or even a better job?
I don't quite understand the VB-style conditional things (I don't code for crappy OSes as a general rule ;)
:)
It seems to me that
"if fuck break else shit break end"
is the equivalent of perl code like:
"if (stuff) {dothis;} else (stuff2) {dothis;}"
Now... wasn't the perl a helluva lot easier?
WTF is with the "break" and "end" things? Why the HELL would somebody want to put the word "end" at the end of a statement, block, line, or whatever the fsck that is, instead of a simple semicolon??
I guess i'm just confused.
My first computer was an Atari ST 1040. I think it had a half a meg of RAM. Wow... and you could do so much on it! I remember thinking, as a 5 year old, this thing is cool! I can draw, then erase, then keep drawing... and it doesn't smudge like a real eraser! :P
:)
Later I had a DOS machine, which I really started to do stuff on, like QBASIC and word processing. I had a copy of Print Shop Deluxe (remember, the old one, on 5.25" floppies?) and used it to make cards, and printed them out on my screaming (loud, not fast) printer. The kind with paper fed through it by the little holes on the side.
Those were the good old days.
Hrm. Apparently I'm not well-versed on Code Red II as opposed to the original. I thought it would be all fixed with a reboot, but I guess there's more to it. Wasn't the whole point of the Microsoft fix to fix the whole thing? I guess you're securityfocus.com link is unnecessary then.
;)
As for people who "might as well install linux or BSD and apache instead": that's not really possible. There are tons of people who have IIS installed by accident, and have never heard of this "Eunuchs" thing.
Actually, the re-booting is quite significant to the process.
The worm only stays resident in memory after you are infected. Therefore, you are instantly clean after a reboot. It _does_ not stay anywhere else except RAM, which is cleared when you reboot.
However, the need for installing the patch is that you will be infected again within minutes (statistically) after the reboot, unless the patch is installed.
I'm not sure if this is "funny" or "troll"... :)
:P
/. that mentions Natalie Portman, though. ;)
Seems like there should be a "+1, troll" option.
I'm kinda scared of any post on
Somehow I doubt that's the first case of insurance fraud.
Like the (modified) saying goes: there's been insurance fraud as long as there's been insurance.
Unless insurance was an extremely new thing at the time of this claim...
You know, it's not morning everywhere... tons of people are working during the day right now. I'm not sure where though.
By the way, where are you? It's 11 pm where I am.
IANAL, of course, but...
:)
I don't think you can define "should have known" in court. Either you knew something, or you didn't.
It is not a matter of simply looking at the files; you would have to find the keys and decrypt everything in your node.
I think that holding someone responsible for what is on their node should not hold up in court any more than holding someone responsible for what is in a car they lent to an anonymous stranger.
If you lend your car to an anonymous stranger, and they find drugs in it, I don't see how you can be liable.
If you lend your hard drive space to an anonymous stranger, and they find stuff in it that violates the DMCA, I don't see how you can be liable.
Freenet is specifically designed to circumvent this legal liability, by denying the (easy) ability for a node operator to see what is in their node.
Well, I think the problem lies not in the fact that P2P is bad, but that the naysayers and lawmakers don't understand the fundamental concepts of P2P and the Internet.
:P
The Internet is inherently P2P. It allows any 2 people to give each other information directly. You can't outlaw a specific program that does that, but allow the actual act to continue.
That would be like making murder _legal_, but making it illegal to shoot people (because that is a common, high-media-profile way of murdering people).
The lawmakers and corporations opposed to P2P don't understand that the Internet is essentially P2P, and that to make P2P illegal is retarded if the Internet still exists at all.
Is your "business friendly e-commerce buy-it-direct-now connection" to Dealer37362 not a P2P connection?