so, the big question is: if YOU were a major media corporation's CEO, and YOUR family's livelihood depended on keeping your corporation afloat in the face of underground distribution channels, what would YOU do?
"Tell me how this is not wrong? Sure maybe its not physical theft but it can be just as dangerous. "
Can you imagine, in a world without copyright, there would be no financial reward for people like Britney Spears, and she could'nt afford fake boobs. In this miraculous world, the Backstreet Boys would shut the fuck up, Michael Jackson would still have a humanoid face,...
Wasn't Mr Disney himself a zealous collaborationist with the sinister Mc Carthy commission?
Next we'll have cartoons inciting youngsters to turn in their relatives to the authorities... just like under Stalin's regime, where communist teachers manipulated children for the same purpose.
By "expensive" I mean, you can buy an old 486 for $40, which is cheap, but putting say, 128MB on it to be able to run the latest linux kernel will cost you the same price...
The problem with old PC's like your 486 is that their RAM is very expensive. So while you could turn them in el'cheapo file servers or HTTP servers, they usually boast the standard win 3.11 RAM configuration, like 8MB.
So yeah, you can use them to make a simple router, but then you have another problem: they use a lot of electrical power, esp. since they have to be running 24/7.
Well you can always start by not giving her the root password:)
Network connections and software installs being all under superusers priviledges, you're set up, mostly.
It should'nt be too hard to configure Gnome-panel or the KDE equivalent to only have a couple icons and programs. You can still have other programs installed without those.
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An interesting feature of Linux on the desktop is that it's easy to setup a locked-up desktop. You don't want your grand mother opening random.exe files, you don't want her to trash the windows / system folders, you don't want her to fuck up the connection parameters, etc...
"And this wonderful Quad Turbo Jet Powered Lamborghini is yours for ONLY $40000000!"
"Err well it's kind of over my budget you know"
"Ah; I understand. But you can have the key ring for ONLY $2000!"
"Hmm... ok"
Offer something completely outrageous... and you're more likely to get something lesser, yet still much worse than what you would have got through otherwise.
It's not the wrong way, because it defaults to identifying as Konqueror. But when a website barfs on you because of it, and only in that case, you can fake using IE.
You might be able to abuse this function, but hey, it's up to you.
The 2.2.1 version doesn't seem have any noticeable memory leak. It's fast. It hardly ever crashes (though, admittedly, it happens). It displays most pages very well. It's compatible with Netscape plugins.
Most display problems are actually due to faulty HTML that IE is more tolerant with; for example, unclosed <table>.
"Call me crazy, but I think I would've stopped when "SEIG HEIL" started. Maybe that's only because I don't fit into groups well or something."
Social psychologist have found that most people tend to think of themselves as more different from the majority than they really are. They even have a name for that phenomenon. (See Joule / Beauvois, "Soumission librement consentie")
Take mine, Wanadoo. Their answer to spam relaying? They made mail.wanadoo.fr and news.wanadoo.fr resolve differently if queried from their internal DNS, or from an outside DNS. You can't access their DNS from outside the network.
Why is it silly? Both servers are still accessible from outside the network (at least, the SMTP server still is, and is listed on dorkslayers.com, haven't checked the news server lately), and they do accept external connections and relaying. The publicized addresses though don't accept relaying.
It will be an annoyance, however I think it can be countered. Theoretically, you could destroy eBay's market by posting shitloads of phony auctions. But they have that scoring system that prevents just this.
It's not trivial, but not that difficult to set up a crypto-based trusting/scoring system.
"You are stealing the opportunity to make a sale."
Ok, tell me know what bad I'm doing if I'm making an illegal copy of Microsoft's SQLServer (full version), which I could'nt afford to buy anyway, and which I have no use for... ??
Hmm?
But I'm still considered a "criminal" for merely copying it.
This is a rather erroneous description of the situation. Wine is both an emulator, and not an emulator at the same time. It doesn't emulate machine code (unlike, say, Bochs). It does however translate Windows calls to Unix/XWindows calls.
And in many cases, when it does'nt translate directly, it has to emulate.
Anyway, this nitpicking on the word "emulator" does not matter. Don't call it an emulator if you don't want to. It's still a fact that some parts of Wine run slower than native calls, because of important semantic differences between the two OSs.
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Scurf's statement: "Timothy's statement: "Thanks Russ" provokes me" provokes me.
Mainly because Timothy was quoting Saratoga_C++ who was actually thanking Russ Feingold.
so, the big question is: if YOU were a major media corporation's CEO, and YOUR family's livelihood depended on keeping your corporation afloat in the face of underground distribution channels, what would YOU do?
Please, moderate this as funny
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Indeed, and being able to run graphic apps on virtual machines, or through SSH tunnels, remote administration etc .. is priceless.
Direct FB has its place on PDAs, though.
Hmm, how is this "offtopic"?
"Tell me how this is not wrong? Sure maybe its not physical theft but it can be just as dangerous. "
...
Can you imagine, in a world without copyright, there would be no financial reward for people like Britney Spears, and she could'nt afford fake boobs. In this miraculous world, the Backstreet Boys would shut the fuck up, Michael Jackson would still have a humanoid face,
What a wonderful world it would be.
Wasn't Mr Disney himself a zealous collaborationist with the sinister Mc Carthy commission?
... just like under Stalin's regime, where communist teachers manipulated children for the same purpose.
Next we'll have cartoons inciting youngsters to turn in their relatives to the authorities
By "expensive" I mean, you can buy an old 486 for $40, which is cheap, but putting say, 128MB on it to be able to run the latest linux kernel will cost you the same price ...
The problem with old PC's like your 486 is that their RAM is very expensive. So while you could turn them in el'cheapo file servers or HTTP servers, they usually boast the standard win 3.11 RAM configuration, like 8MB.
So yeah, you can use them to make a simple router, but then you have another problem: they use a lot of electrical power, esp. since they have to be running 24/7.
Well you can always start by not giving her the root password :)
Network connections and software installs being all under superusers priviledges, you're set up, mostly.
It should'nt be too hard to configure Gnome-panel or the KDE equivalent to only have a couple icons and programs. You can still have other programs installed without those.
An interesting feature of Linux on the desktop is that it's easy to setup a locked-up desktop. You don't want your grand mother opening random .exe files, you don't want her to trash the windows / system folders, you don't want her to fuck up the connection parameters, etc ...
At least goatse.cx is still up.
Classic salesman tactics.
... ok"
... and you're more likely to get something lesser, yet still much worse than what you would have got through otherwise.
"And this wonderful Quad Turbo Jet Powered Lamborghini is yours for ONLY $40000000!"
"Err well it's kind of over my budget you know"
"Ah; I understand. But you can have the key ring for ONLY $2000!"
"Hmm
Offer something completely outrageous
7. There are now good, free web browsers: Konqueror and Mozilla.
It was'nt the case two years ago.
It's not the wrong way, because it defaults to identifying as Konqueror. But when a website barfs on you because of it, and only in that case, you can fake using IE.
You might be able to abuse this function, but hey, it's up to you.
KHTML rocks.
The 2.2.1 version doesn't seem have any noticeable memory leak. It's fast. It hardly ever crashes (though, admittedly, it happens). It displays most pages very well. It's compatible with Netscape plugins.
Most display problems are actually due to faulty HTML that IE is more tolerant with; for example, unclosed <table>.
Web design at its worst ...
... it's the frog icon on the alternate toolbar.
One interesting feature of Konqueror is that it allows you to change the User-Agent string on the fly
"Call me crazy, but I think I would've stopped when "SEIG HEIL" started. Maybe that's only because I don't fit into groups well or something."
Social psychologist have found that most people tend to think of themselves as more different from the majority than they really are. They even have a name for that phenomenon. (See Joule / Beauvois, "Soumission librement consentie")
I think we have a pretty anal mod bunch today, every single post is modded down, 't must be that time of the month again.
Take mine, Wanadoo. Their answer to spam relaying? They made mail.wanadoo.fr and news.wanadoo.fr resolve differently if queried from their internal DNS, or from an outside DNS. You can't access their DNS from outside the network.
Why is it silly? Both servers are still accessible from outside the network (at least, the SMTP server still is, and is listed on dorkslayers.com, haven't checked the news server lately), and they do accept external connections and relaying. The publicized addresses though don't accept relaying.
Fucked up, heh.
Could you post the same in English, please. k thx.
It will be an annoyance, however I think it can be countered. Theoretically, you could destroy eBay's market by posting shitloads of phony auctions. But they have that scoring system that prevents just this.
It's not trivial, but not that difficult to set up a crypto-based trusting/scoring system.
"You are stealing the opportunity to make a sale."
... ??
Ok, tell me know what bad I'm doing if I'm making an illegal copy of Microsoft's SQLServer (full version), which I could'nt afford to buy anyway, and which I have no use for
Hmm?
But I'm still considered a "criminal" for merely copying it.
This is a rather erroneous description of the situation. Wine is both an emulator, and not an emulator at the same time. It doesn't emulate machine code (unlike, say, Bochs). It does however translate Windows calls to Unix/XWindows calls.
And in many cases, when it does'nt translate directly, it has to emulate.
Anyway, this nitpicking on the word "emulator" does not matter. Don't call it an emulator if you don't want to. It's still a fact that some parts of Wine run slower than native calls, because of important semantic differences between the two OSs.
If you steal a box in a shop, there's one less box in the shop.
... well there's still a computer program where you took it.
If you copy a computer program
Not to say that there's no indirect loss, however for this very reason it's not the same thing, at all.