Spyware = Virus/Trojan, the only difference is that spyware usually mentions itself on page 33 in 6pt font in the EULA for the software that it comes with and it has an uninstall program which usually forces you to visit their site first so they can threaten you and tell you how your computer will break down if you continue to uninstall their software. Then once you download the uninstaller (for fucks sake why doesnt the uninstaller thats registered under windows actually uninstall the software instead of taking you to a website??) you can uninstall the program,but still not be sure in the back of your mind if it actually uninstalled.
What i want to do is write my own 50 page EULA and get some politician and the head of a spy-ware company to agree without reading it, then they will feel the wrath as i suddenly own them and their kids - hey if they want to dispute it fine, but that means their EULA is null and void too and i can sue them back!
Oh wow you can sue politicians for making laws?! so why has no-one been sued for the DMCA, PATRIOT-ACT, PIRATE-ACT and all those other blaitently rights-violating laws? someone needs to sue Fritz Hollings and that Hatch fool and quite rightly expose them as the incompetent idiots they are that shouldnt be in power. Can we get a fund going?
They missed out hardware, i think its important for them to mention that most hardware manufacturers are bitches when it comes to supporting, or even being in support of linux or any other OS than Windows, If you're switching to linux make sure your hardware is fully supported, its not enough that there are 'drivers availiable' you have to be ruthless and only buy the most popular and known to be supported stuff, make sure you search the forums and dont waste your time on anything thats not used by less than 30% of the linux community or anything that people complain about because its going to cause you grief.
let me just add to the list: -Sagem f@st 800 ADSL USB Modem and PPPoA, just hassle -ATI All-In-Wonder Pro dual screened with a 9200SE - if you get this working ill grovel down to you. -Diamond S90 (vortex) sound card - shove it up your ass, you'll get better performance
and unrelated - IBM Deskstar harddrives - if you hear that grinding noise your screwed.
I thought it had become mainstream when bands decided it was cool to have greasy hair and wear thick rimmed glasses? or was that supposed to be piss taking?
Afew years back i had a dream that one day i would be very rich and just for fun, buy up all advertising space in the country for the day and just make it blank, now i dont have to - you could probably do it all from one convenient location with a laptop:P
Guys it really is upto us to make sure DRM doesnt fly! no-one else cares, the general public has no idea, and the big players have alot at stake to make it work, this sort of crap must not happen or it will be the end of computing, freedom and fair trade as we know it. You will no-longer be allowed to do pretty much anything to your computer in your own home! Microsoft are going to start a campaign of mas FUD and people are going to buy it unless theres a big force there to tell everyone the other side of the story.
Well believe it or not this is how your tax dollars get spent (in most countries), most of the money goes to the PHBs and the actual techies do the work for peanuts, then the accounts are fixed up and its all good, the government gets their plane/spaceprobe/echelon system/airport scanners/voting machines and the contractor gets their money, just look at the price of a Diebold voting booth, do you really think it costs that much?
Imagine the exclusive tv rights for the entire trip! Plus selling one of the seats to the highest bidder, you could get enough funding if you had a good start and credibility, and didnt blow 40% of the budget on hookers and booze like most government contracters (they then outsource the project for 20% of the budget and keep the rest).
Update: 04/12 01:08 GMT by T: billybob writes "Someone in the forum thread originally linked to has posted pictures of the iPod taken apart, demonstrating the problem."
Update: 04/12 01:09 GMT by T_allardyce: The pictures are now down, demonstrating the slashdot problem.
Erm mac (unix) OSX? ok maybe not all of those things right out of the box, but console is right in there, and apples X11 can run at the same time as its own whatever-you-want-to-call it, and considering that most installations are considered strictly single user - eg laptops, it does pretty damn well.
If you only hear one side then its not very balanced (i think my teacher taught me that when i was about 8)
If linux was total spagetti code and no-one in the government even checked a hash, let alone checked the code before incorporating it, then maybe he would have a point. But its very hard to slip a trojan in (heh) to nice modular well designed code. History has prooven without a doubt that organisations/companies etc can be very insecure, there have been plenty of experiments and real life cases of security breach including getting on planes/tarmac with weapons and no pass, getting into corporate intranets with full access, guessing insecure passwords or seeing them left written on white-boards, trusted security/cleaners having the run of the building, PHB's with no clue modifying code and accidently leaving holes, and pissed off or joking employees leaving their own back doors and just look at Diebold and the recent Windows leak for an example of what closed source-code looks like! Linux isnt a free system on a stick for the US government to have, if they want it and want to feel safe with it they should do some of their own checking and then they can feel very safe, but with anything closed they dont have that option - just some binaries that were probably outsourced around the world anyway!
Claria take their name from Chlamydia, a common sexually transmitted infection that many people do not know they carry. Someone in the advertising/PR department must have had a bit of fun with that one;)
When we convey the problem to other people they just stare at us blankly or just forget it 3 minutes later, we come accross as a tin-foiler spouting government this and conspiracy that, we might as well be talking about roswell, and i try it all the time. If they are going to understand/believe/take notice they are gonna have to hear it in a form they can understand. You sound like you have no sense of humour, btw id rather have my wisdom coming out my ass the way it should be.
No i have absolutely not! why would i read an article or go to any links on a story? wtf do you take me for? still doesnt change the fact that something else is needed in order for the general public to learn about this stuff - goes for DRM and everything else
I can understand putting a link on your site, changing the colour scheme for a week or even putting big eye-catching banners on the front page, but closing it?? whats the point? sure if it was a well known website out of geek circles like hotmail or google (just picking well known websites here not meaningful ones) then maybe closing it and putting a reason on the front page for a day would make sense, lots of people who have no-idea about software patents would read it and learn something, but im pretty certain that anyone who visits any open-source project site or anything related will already know whats going on and will just be abit pissed off that they cant get to their site! If google changed the artwork for their logo (like they do for various holidays) for a day the number of new people learning about this cause would skyrocket!
Maybe the mac was tuned to give more priority to user input since thats the nature of its use but your system was configured to share things out equally - the way things should be on some sort of server. Mac is just a very nicely tuned up unix which rocks!
Actually most things in the western world are censored, we just dont realise it. Look at Diebold coverage in the general media - its almost zero, when it should be making the front page of every paper and be the hot topic of every channel. Beef scares and wardrobe malfunctions get more coverage than a nations most basic principles and beliefs and you dont call that censorship? And dont get me started on tv censorship, in America you cant even say shit on tv. yes the western world might seem more open than other parts but we have just as much censorship - its just more advanced - instead of killing people for having some political leaflets, we have a nice advanced hierachy of various people paying eachother off for not mentioning things.
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Spyware = Virus/Trojan, the only difference is that spyware usually mentions itself on page 33 in 6pt font in the EULA for the software that it comes with and it has an uninstall program which usually forces you to visit their site first so they can threaten you and tell you how your computer will break down if you continue to uninstall their software. Then once you download the uninstaller (for fucks sake why doesnt the uninstaller thats registered under windows actually uninstall the software instead of taking you to a website??) you can uninstall the program,but still not be sure in the back of your mind if it actually uninstalled.
What i want to do is write my own 50 page EULA and get some politician and the head of a spy-ware company to agree without reading it, then they will feel the wrath as i suddenly own them and their kids - hey if they want to dispute it fine, but that means their EULA is null and void too and i can sue them back!
Oh wow you can sue politicians for making laws?! so why has no-one been sued for the DMCA, PATRIOT-ACT, PIRATE-ACT and all those other blaitently rights-violating laws? someone needs to sue Fritz Hollings and that Hatch fool and quite rightly expose them as the incompetent idiots they are that shouldnt be in power. Can we get a fund going?
They missed out hardware, i think its important for them to mention that most hardware manufacturers are bitches when it comes to supporting, or even being in support of linux or any other OS than Windows, If you're switching to linux make sure your hardware is fully supported, its not enough that there are 'drivers availiable' you have to be ruthless and only buy the most popular and known to be supported stuff, make sure you search the forums and dont waste your time on anything thats not used by less than 30% of the linux community or anything that people complain about because its going to cause you grief.
let me just add to the list:
-Sagem f@st 800 ADSL USB Modem and PPPoA, just hassle
-ATI All-In-Wonder Pro dual screened with a 9200SE - if you get this working ill grovel down to you.
-Diamond S90 (vortex) sound card - shove it up your ass, you'll get better performance
and unrelated - IBM Deskstar harddrives - if you hear that grinding noise your screwed.
Then go to your sysadmin and demand that its unblocked or else they'll be hearing from your lawyer.
I thought it had become mainstream when bands decided it was cool to have greasy hair and wear thick rimmed glasses? or was that supposed to be piss taking?
Afew years back i had a dream that one day i would be very rich and just for fun, buy up all advertising space in the country for the day and just make it blank, now i dont have to - you could probably do it all from one convenient location with a laptop :P
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Guys it really is upto us to make sure DRM doesnt fly! no-one else cares, the general public has no idea, and the big players have alot at stake to make it work, this sort of crap must not happen or it will be the end of computing, freedom and fair trade as we know it. You will no-longer be allowed to do pretty much anything to your computer in your own home! Microsoft are going to start a campaign of mas FUD and people are going to buy it unless theres a big force there to tell everyone the other side of the story.
Well believe it or not this is how your tax dollars get spent (in most countries), most of the money goes to the PHBs and the actual techies do the work for peanuts, then the accounts are fixed up and its all good, the government gets their plane/spaceprobe/echelon system/airport scanners/voting machines and the contractor gets their money, just look at the price of a Diebold voting booth, do you really think it costs that much?
Imagine the exclusive tv rights for the entire trip! Plus selling one of the seats to the highest bidder, you could get enough funding if you had a good start and credibility, and didnt blow 40% of the budget on hookers and booze like most government contracters (they then outsource the project for 20% of the budget and keep the rest).
This sort of thing wouldnt happen if it was ogg based!
Actually that would be just like Apple - design it so that only special (expensive) apple headphones would be able to work with it.
Update: 04/12 01:08 GMT by T: billybob writes "Someone in the forum thread originally linked to has posted pictures of the iPod taken apart, demonstrating the problem."
Update: 04/12 01:09 GMT by T_allardyce: The pictures are now down, demonstrating the slashdot problem.
Erm mac (unix) OSX? ok maybe not all of those things right out of the box, but console is right in there, and apples X11 can run at the same time as its own whatever-you-want-to-call it, and considering that most installations are considered strictly single user - eg laptops, it does pretty damn well.
If you only hear one side then its not very balanced (i think my teacher taught me that when i was about 8)
If linux was total spagetti code and no-one in the government even checked a hash, let alone checked the code before incorporating it, then maybe he would have a point. But its very hard to slip a trojan in (heh) to nice modular well designed code. History has prooven without a doubt that organisations/companies etc can be very insecure, there have been plenty of experiments and real life cases of security breach including getting on planes/tarmac with weapons and no pass, getting into corporate intranets with full access, guessing insecure passwords or seeing them left written on white-boards, trusted security/cleaners having the run of the building, PHB's with no clue modifying code and accidently leaving holes, and pissed off or joking employees leaving their own back doors and just look at Diebold and the recent Windows leak for an example of what closed source-code looks like! Linux isnt a free system on a stick for the US government to have, if they want it and want to feel safe with it they should do some of their own checking and then they can feel very safe, but with anything closed they dont have that option - just some binaries that were probably outsourced around the world anyway!
Claria take their name from Chlamydia, a common sexually transmitted infection that many people do not know they carry. Someone in the advertising/PR department must have had a bit of fun with that one ;)
How about 'Pearl Necklace' a robot for the kinky?
When we convey the problem to other people they just stare at us blankly or just forget it 3 minutes later, we come accross as a tin-foiler spouting government this and conspiracy that, we might as well be talking about roswell, and i try it all the time. If they are going to understand/believe/take notice they are gonna have to hear it in a form they can understand. You sound like you have no sense of humour, btw id rather have my wisdom coming out my ass the way it should be.
No i have absolutely not! why would i read an article or go to any links on a story? wtf do you take me for? still doesnt change the fact that something else is needed in order for the general public to learn about this stuff - goes for DRM and everything else
I can understand putting a link on your site, changing the colour scheme for a week or even putting big eye-catching banners on the front page, but closing it?? whats the point? sure if it was a well known website out of geek circles like hotmail or google (just picking well known websites here not meaningful ones) then maybe closing it and putting a reason on the front page for a day would make sense, lots of people who have no-idea about software patents would read it and learn something, but im pretty certain that anyone who visits any open-source project site or anything related will already know whats going on and will just be abit pissed off that they cant get to their site! If google changed the artwork for their logo (like they do for various holidays) for a day the number of new people learning about this cause would skyrocket!
Yo mamas a lme sig, HO! fuck you biatch
Maybe the mac was tuned to give more priority to user input since thats the nature of its use but your system was configured to share things out equally - the way things should be on some sort of server. Mac is just a very nicely tuned up unix which rocks!
You mean theres a slashdot?
Im guessing you can get kazaa and download britney spears though? oh the irony
Actually most things in the western world are censored, we just dont realise it. Look at Diebold coverage in the general media - its almost zero, when it should be making the front page of every paper and be the hot topic of every channel. Beef scares and wardrobe malfunctions get more coverage than a nations most basic principles and beliefs and you dont call that censorship? And dont get me started on tv censorship, in America you cant even say shit on tv. yes the western world might seem more open than other parts but we have just as much censorship - its just more advanced - instead of killing people for having some political leaflets, we have a nice advanced hierachy of various people paying eachother off for not mentioning things.