I am aghast that in this day of information flow and digital everything that some individuals are forced to use coin-op cd copiers.
To think for only a few cents a day these poor souls could have CD-RW's for their computers.
What are YOU doing to help?
Hahahaha, get serious.
Anyone can sue me for anything they want but:
1. they wont get any money ( I don't have any:) )
2. they won't stop me from doing anything
The RIAA would run out of money very very quickly going after the individual file trader...especially me
I say good for Wal-Mart! I don't much like going to Walmart cuz it's full of mutants, BUT I hope they do well with this. I think it's important for companies who can not and will not be bullied by micros~1 to sell computers without OS preinstalled. Walmart != Microsofts bitch I remember reading not too long ago that Walmart sets the pace of business in North America and it makes the rules. If that is true we may see an increase in this sort of behavior.
Why? If I take, say, KWord... and I obfuscate the shit outta it... isn't that a derivate work? Never heard of the part of the GPL that said you couldn't alter the code, that'd make it all kinda pointless.
huh? iirc the purpose of the GPL is to legaly guarantee the right to alter the code and create any derivive program you want. WTF good is the GPL if you cannot modify code? You must be thinking of selling a derivitive work as a non GPL product.
This is silly. Tying the BIOS to a crypto key is still a far far far stretch even in the era of the DMCA. Apart from the current illegality of such a deal, if they did strike a deal with the manufacturers, people who didn't want to buy them would buy machines were not tied to a crypto key.
but to never use. My first thoughts were something along the lines of.
"Now I just have to pop in this new memory stick, and I'm done, Oh @$%#!@! I must have shorted something out when I accidentally dragged this contact against something on the motherboard.
No it's the RIAA's fault, no wait it's Adobe's fault, er I'm confused, didn't Microsoft author the bug?
> if this guy would've stayed quiet then WinXP
>would still be secure today.
That's right, it would be secure. It would be a fortress. This bug would not exist. Does anyone else fail to follow this logic or are you all to busy mod'ing this comment up?
While it's not very responsible to release the details of a security exploit to the public before the vendor has a patch, the product is plainly not secure regardless of who knows about it.
>SSH helps, but isn't a complete solution to
>command-line vulnerabilities.
SSH isn't even a partial solution to local vulnerabilities. Ssh is used as a security precaution which will prevent the bad guys from sniffing out sensitive information.
The use of ssh in this case is prudent b/c it does not (by default) use the login mechanism.
This article describes a REMOTE expolit which represents threat that has nothing to do with the LOCAL expoit that is available to users with valid accounts on a machine.
>All the webpages loose their "content" and turn
> into advertisements, like on TV.
Wrong. You are missing the point. Noone likes having to watch advertisements on TV. Noone wants the internet to become like TV.
>For those of
>you complaining, I'd recommend spending your
>energies working on a viable micropayment system
>which will allow the webmasters to keep their
>content driven sites open.
No! For those of you complaining, stop going to these websites that "litter" the internet, you have the power!
I've recently gotten "off" of Yahoo! for exactly this reason...and you know what? I'm just as productive with AltaVista and I don't have to wait for the pizzas (read "litter") to get off the screen to use their search engine.
Hmm, stretch my imagination as far as I can and I still don't see the connection between committing genocide and lobbying for copyright law.
I am not missing your point, I am disgusted with your comparison.
I just cannot fathom why some folks rave about the benefits of investing time learning an IDE which limits them to a single language (or even a couple of languages) but they think it's a waste of time learning to use a general purpose text editor - which is designed for developers.
Emacs and vim have higher than average learning curves, but I can't imagine a better investment.
It's an investment you can take advantage of in any programming language for the rest of your life.
>But I feel the time invested in a good IDE is far more valuable than time wasted memorizing all the silly vi and emacs commands
>and keystrokes. I can't imagine anyone in this day and age using vi. I just cannot fathom why they can't
> break out of their mental chains to use something more powerful, and more easy to use.
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I am aghast that in this day of information flow and digital everything that some individuals are forced to use coin-op cd copiers.
To think for only a few cents a day these poor souls could have CD-RW's for their computers.
What are YOU doing to help?
Hahahaha, get serious. :) )
Anyone can sue me for anything they want but:
1. they wont get any money ( I don't have any
2. they won't stop me from doing anything
The RIAA would run out of money very very quickly going after the individual file trader...especially me
Oddly, only the smallest niche market players can afford to blow Microsoft off, because thier products cost more anyway.
I read here last week on slashdot about Walmart selling pc's w/o preloaded OS's? Walmart's customers do not represent a niche market.
I say good for Wal-Mart! I don't much like going to Walmart cuz it's full of mutants, BUT I hope they do well with this. I think it's important for companies who can not and will not be bullied by micros~1 to sell computers without OS preinstalled.
Walmart != Microsofts bitch
I remember reading not too long ago that Walmart sets the pace of business in North America and it makes the rules. If that is true we may see an increase in this sort of behavior.
Why? If I take, say, KWord... and I obfuscate the shit outta it... isn't that a derivate work? Never heard of the part of the GPL that said you couldn't alter the code, that'd make it all kinda pointless.
huh? iirc the purpose of the GPL is to legaly guarantee the right to alter the code and create any derivive program you want. WTF good is the GPL if you cannot modify code? You must be thinking of selling a derivitive work as a non GPL product.
This is silly. Tying the BIOS to a crypto key is still a far far far stretch even in the era of the DMCA. Apart from the current illegality of such a deal, if they did strike a deal with the manufacturers, people who didn't want to buy them would buy machines were not tied to a crypto key.
Microsoft bashing realm? Did you even read what he wrote? I think this sounds like Microsoft bashing bashing.
Larry Ellison, err, wait is that one taken? No, no I name the dolphin Oracle
This is the smartest post to /. I have seen in the couple of months now I've been reading it.
but to never use. My first thoughts were something along the lines of.
"Now I just have to pop in this new memory stick, and I'm done, Oh @$%#!@! I must have shorted something out when I accidentally dragged this contact against something on the motherboard.
> It's not really Microsoft's fault,
No it's the RIAA's fault, no wait it's Adobe's fault, er I'm confused, didn't Microsoft author the bug?
> if this guy would've stayed quiet then WinXP
>would still be secure today.
That's right, it would be secure. It would be a fortress. This bug would not exist. Does anyone else fail to follow this logic or are you all to busy mod'ing this comment up?
While it's not very responsible to release the details of a security exploit to the public before the vendor has a patch, the product is plainly not secure regardless of who knows about it.
>SSH helps, but isn't a complete solution to
>command-line vulnerabilities.
SSH isn't even a partial solution to local vulnerabilities. Ssh is used as a security precaution which will prevent the bad guys from sniffing out sensitive information.
The use of ssh in this case is prudent b/c it does not (by default) use the login mechanism.
This article describes a REMOTE expolit which represents threat that has nothing to do with the LOCAL expoit that is available to users with valid accounts on a machine.
>All the webpages loose their "content" and turn
> into advertisements, like on TV.
Wrong. You are missing the point. Noone likes having to watch advertisements on TV. Noone wants the internet to become like TV.
>For those of
>you complaining, I'd recommend spending your
>energies working on a viable micropayment system
>which will allow the webmasters to keep their
>content driven sites open.
No! For those of you complaining, stop going to these websites that "litter" the internet, you have the power!
I've recently gotten "off" of Yahoo! for exactly this reason...and you know what? I'm just as productive with AltaVista and I don't have to wait for the pizzas (read "litter") to get off the screen to use their search engine.
Hmm, stretch my imagination as far as I can and I still don't see the connection between committing genocide and lobbying for copyright law.
I am not missing your point, I am disgusted with your comparison.
I just cannot fathom why some folks rave about the benefits of investing time learning an IDE which limits them to a single language (or even a couple of languages) but they think it's a waste of time learning to use a general purpose text editor - which is designed for developers.
Emacs and vim have higher than average learning curves, but I can't imagine a better investment.
It's an investment you can take advantage of in any programming language for the rest of your life.
>But I feel the time invested in a good IDE is far more valuable than time wasted memorizing all the silly vi and emacs commands
>and keystrokes. I can't imagine anyone in this day and age using vi. I just cannot fathom why they can't
> break out of their mental chains to use something more powerful, and more easy to use.