By the reasoning of most of the posters here, unless your home is as secure as fort knox, anyone who breaks in and steals stuff isn't really to blame
By YOUR example, your reasoning is that, if you leave your front door wide open, you're not equally to blame if some dishonest bastard walks in the door and steals your stuff.
No. Breakins are going to happen. PERIOD. Understand this. Lock your door.
So the hacker. The person doing this because they're naturally predisposed towards thinking outside the neat little security box is at fault. Someone just wants to see if they CAN get on.
This dipshit would rather this stuff be sub-rosa until someone DELIBERATELY does it under the aegis of corporate espionage? Or for blackmail purposes?
On those systems that would actually BENEFIT from a near-complete self-compiled setup, most are too underpowered to do it in any reasonable amount of time (think days or weeks).
On those systems that are actually fast enough to compile the system in a reasonable amount of time, they see performance improvements measured in fractions of a percentage point. Big flarkin' whoop.
Add to that the dev community (who seem to be taking classes "You're too stupid to use OUR distro newbie!"), and you have just cooked up a rather unattractive pudding known as Gentoo.
Yep. I still have my old version Suse manuals sitting on my desk as reference material. Great books.
Unfortunately, I've never been able to get the distro itself working worth a damn. Even with bog standard, KNOWN-supported hardware, there's always some glitch, or nastiness that no amount of tweaking, updating, and even sometimes recompiling from scratch will rectify. This is why I stopped giving my cash up for successive versions of Suse. I miss the splefty manuals terribly. But I can live without them. A nice book isn't enough of a sop to throw someone when your distro just doesn't work properly.
I still just want a distro that works great with my Thinkpad laptop.
DEFINITELY try Ubuntu then. I have it working on my A31P with nary a hitch. It even likes my PCMCIA wireless B/G card (Netgear WG511T).
I have several friends on newer (and several on older) Thinkpads. And the problems are damn few.
Also, DEFINITELY hit the Ubuntu Starter Guide. Even if you're an old hand with Linux, the SG will point you in the right direction to get everything purring right from the outset.
My advice. Play around with one of the LiveCD versions of one of your perspective distros (if any such exist). If you like what you see, move on to a full install version.
I've been raving about Ubuntu for the last half year and more now. Works really well as a desktop. Yet has everything you need to run CLI if you need to. The "Warthog" version was damn impressive. The current "Hedgehog" version is just about perfect for me. I could plunk a Windows user down in front of it, and they'd never miss Windows unless they're part of the "Wintendo" crowd.
I have yet to use any video hardware that required an external dongle and still got decent throughput to the monitor. There was always some image degradation due to the passthrough. No matter how non-shoddy it was.
I wanna know who's actually THAT gullible! I have a few bridges to sell them and some potions that'll guarantee them immortality, infinite sexual prowess, and make them a magnet for the most attractive specimens of the opposite sex extant!
Jesus H. Fuck people! If the government actually told us the truth about this stuff, they'd be slapped back into a corner and most of their ability to act with reckless impunity stripped from them!
I know this. YOU know this. And what's more, THE GOVERNMENT TYPES KNOW IT! Why the fuck do you think they lie to us in the first place?
"Yeah, we're funding terrorist cells and training camps." "Yeah, we're assassinating foreign leaders who're a pain in the ass to our foreign policy." "Yeah, we're making politically inconvenient individuals/citizens disappear."
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Their software steals a few zillion here, a few bajillion there. Then, when we have exhausted all our naturally occurring cycles, they'll make a killing selling their horded stockpiles to us!
If we're talking about someone who's putting a system together themselves, we're definitely NOT just talking about home users. Or at least not the "what's a computer?" variety of home users.
And yes, it takes a really huge set of cojones to call someone a "fucking idiot" when you're posting AC you flaming fucktard.
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By YOUR example, your reasoning is that, if you leave your front door wide open, you're not equally to blame if some dishonest bastard walks in the door and steals your stuff.
No. Breakins are going to happen. PERIOD. Understand this. Lock your door.
And stop bitching about the effort it takes.
So the hacker. The person doing this because they're naturally predisposed towards thinking outside the neat little security box is at fault. Someone just wants to see if they CAN get on.
This dipshit would rather this stuff be sub-rosa until someone DELIBERATELY does it under the aegis of corporate espionage? Or for blackmail purposes?
There are times that licensing issues could kill you straight-out.
A stealth period allows you to get a working demo up and going for a prospective licensee without having people flooding the crap outta your site.
I'm not knocking it.
I'm not knocking the users.
I'm knocking the devs who respond to simple, straightforward questions with asinine non-answers and recriminations about how stupid I must be.
Here's the problem I have with Gentoo.
On those systems that would actually BENEFIT from a near-complete self-compiled setup, most are too underpowered to do it in any reasonable amount of time (think days or weeks).
On those systems that are actually fast enough to compile the system in a reasonable amount of time, they see performance improvements measured in fractions of a percentage point. Big flarkin' whoop.
Add to that the dev community (who seem to be taking classes "You're too stupid to use OUR distro newbie!"), and you have just cooked up a rather unattractive pudding known as Gentoo.
Yep. I still have my old version Suse manuals sitting on my desk as reference material. Great books.
Unfortunately, I've never been able to get the distro itself working worth a damn. Even with bog standard, KNOWN-supported hardware, there's always some glitch, or nastiness that no amount of tweaking, updating, and even sometimes recompiling from scratch will rectify. This is why I stopped giving my cash up for successive versions of Suse. I miss the splefty manuals terribly. But I can live without them. A nice book isn't enough of a sop to throw someone when your distro just doesn't work properly.
DEFINITELY try Ubuntu then. I have it working on my A31P with nary a hitch. It even likes my PCMCIA wireless B/G card (Netgear WG511T).
I have several friends on newer (and several on older) Thinkpads. And the problems are damn few.
Also, DEFINITELY hit the Ubuntu Starter Guide. Even if you're an old hand with Linux, the SG will point you in the right direction to get everything purring right from the outset.
http://www.ubuntuguide.org
My advice. Play around with one of the LiveCD versions of one of your perspective distros (if any such exist). If you like what you see, move on to a full install version.
I've been raving about Ubuntu for the last half year and more now. Works really well as a desktop. Yet has everything you need to run CLI if you need to. The "Warthog" version was damn impressive. The current "Hedgehog" version is just about perfect for me. I could plunk a Windows user down in front of it, and they'd never miss Windows unless they're part of the "Wintendo" crowd.
I have yet to use any video hardware that required an external dongle and still got decent throughput to the monitor. There was always some image degradation due to the passthrough. No matter how non-shoddy it was.
Jeeze.
WELL DUH!
Their government to tell them THE TRUTH?!?!?
I wanna know who's actually THAT gullible! I have a few bridges to sell them and some potions that'll guarantee them immortality, infinite sexual prowess, and make them a magnet for the most attractive specimens of the opposite sex extant!
Jesus H. Fuck people! If the government actually told us the truth about this stuff, they'd be slapped back into a corner and most of their ability to act with reckless impunity stripped from them!
I know this. YOU know this. And what's more, THE GOVERNMENT TYPES KNOW IT! Why the fuck do you think they lie to us in the first place?
"Yeah, we're funding terrorist cells and training camps."
"Yeah, we're assassinating foreign leaders who're a pain in the ass to our foreign policy."
"Yeah, we're making politically inconvenient individuals/citizens disappear."
Now feels my +Infinity Cluebat!
I wondered why this was so familiar.
Here's Apple's Terms of Service, followed by their terms of sale.
Notice they say NOTHING about actually accepting the DRM on your end. Nor that you're supposed to actually use the iTunes client to receive the files.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/legal/terms.ht ml
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/legal/policies .html
Terms of Service
The BBB is a fucking joke.
Essentially it's just a front to maintain an appearance of respectability.
All offenders have to do is respond with "No. He's wrong." and the BBB just bobble-heads and dismisses it.
Ah. Now I see...
Into the politicians pockets of course! Just to make things look "neat".
Ask a silly question...
Turin Turambaranta, I'm fucking GONE!
Maybe it was a bad 'fish translation. What? It was written in English from the get-go? You couldn't prove that by me!
Okay, I have a couple tiers.
Business:
Personal:
It's a conspiracy!
Their software steals a few zillion here, a few bajillion there. Then, when we have exhausted all our naturally occurring cycles, they'll make a killing selling their horded stockpiles to us!
Hey, if this could somehow turn women into hottie rabbit/cat-babes, all the anime fiends would be forever grateful.
Besides, ask any feminazi, men have already been pigs for centuries.
If we're talking about someone who's putting a system together themselves, we're definitely NOT just talking about home users. Or at least not the "what's a computer?" variety of home users.
And yes, it takes a really huge set of cojones to call someone a "fucking idiot" when you're posting AC you flaming fucktard.
Here's two words for you.
UNATTENDED INSTALL.
Set up, point it at the answer file, and walk away.
Excuse the blood, I had to dig my eyes out in a hurry.