There are better ways to enable the customer to pay them directly than what you're describing. There are simply better ways to distribute software to valid paying customers. It sounds like from the rest of the concensus Valve will have to learn this the hard way, by losing money.
It's sad really that they actually spent money on a system to try and control distribution of digital media instead of concentrating on the actual product. There is not one single effective DRM system on the market yet. Not one, they've all been circumvented in one way or another. It hasn't even curbed piracy. Makes you wonder who actually makes these bad business decisions.
That happens on your computer to, and it's still possible to find out what is going on because everything is saved to registers in your computer. Someone will write a util to pull the data off and spend some time cracking it. Then the hardware tcpa stuff will be pretty much useless.
I don't understand whats so good about it? You complain in a silly rant above about how this isn't something one should fight against. It's a game. HELLO?! McFLY?!
DRM does nothing in assisting ones game play in this instance. All it does from what I can see is cause problems for legit customers. I'm not really into games and I don't necessarily care what Valve does but I would not accept this with software I buy.
Microsoft Auth Server? It already exist and has for a long time. DRM software is fundamentally flawed and if I was a customer I'd return my copy or email Valve and explain why I've returned my copy.
It's 2005, one pays 50 dollars or whatever it is for a game they expect to install it where they want and have it work. Without them needing all the excess bullshit. The same way they play PS2 or Xbox.. One sticks in some media and play.
Fucking around talking about, "DRM is here to stay". The original poster was right, I don't know why he/she sullies his original stance with that reply. If you don't like DRM or what one would consider bullshit from Valve. DO NOT BUY THE GAME and tell them why you aren't buying it.
For the original parent, no one will take a stance or position one has seriously if you aren't willing to stand and defend it. I believe DRM to be bad. I will stand by this belief and pay whatever consequences the world will impose for having such a belief.
Thats the difference between someone fighting for a cause, and one willing to roll over and take it.
This isn't interesting at all. The emergence of MP3 players has been built on the convience of having ones music collection at the tip of their fingers. Instead of walking about with tapes and cd's. You simply go from Bach to N.E.R.D with the touch of the Next button.
Sonys mishaps have been their own based on their contesting to own "media". To put everything in their own proprietary, undocumented and closed formats.
As for the "terrabytes of stolen material". Theives will be theives, it doesn't stop honest abiding customers from purchasing product and never has.
To date, the RIAA nor the MPAA has been able to prove this. Nor has anyone else for that matter. What happened when dvd's came to advent? The thieves just went from tape to dvd, before that it was 8 track and vinyl. So on and so on.
Technology is supposed to make an area in your life more convienent. For music it's been my ipod. Does Sony have an equivalent? No. Have they failed and lost business because of this? Yes.
It's up to them and their management to decide if they continue to fail or if they want to try something new. Something that doesn't fail.
The problem is that Science and statistical data are inherently two different things. Once one factors in bias and the anamolies, it becomes increasingly difficult to isolate and study the differences between men and women.
I won't necessarily knock the studies (independent, non-biased and/or anomaly free as they may be) or statistical data you might be referring to. You're comment however in focusing purely on science is clearly blind as you are already dealing with a tainted pool. How can you expect to get data sets that are statiscally pure enough as well as being verifiable on something as dynamic as humans? Especially in the differences between one single human being and another.
Clearly there are differences between men and women, some seen and some unseen. In all my life i've never come across anything that the other couldn't do. Whether it be via anamoly or just a completely different human being. When this is the case i'll believe in the differences between men and women psuedo science. Until then, minus the physical differences and some obvious chemical imbalances do to those differences. There is no difference.
A long time ago someone I respect as a scientist, mentor and friend told me that trying to find the differences between two people, is like trying to count stars. There are alot, but all of them are relatively the same. People who practice such "science" are doing their community a disservice. There are bigger and more important questions to be answered.
Ever since I was told that i've lived by it and till this day no one has proved me wrong. So I don't doubt your stand and ideology, they seem altruistic. However you must realize, those are your own motivations. Others might not be as honorable.
What a horrible example. A Rage128 driver was developed with funding from ATI for XFree86 v4, and that driver was later extended to support Radeon cards. Thats exactly the kind of thing they should get back to doing, and something that nVidia never has been interested in. Its why we have a decent free ATI driver now, and none for nvidia.
A decent free ATI driver?? Have you ever used it? Rage128 3d support took forever to get. By the time it was complete people had moved on to the next generation of cards. That is one; two I need drivers that work ALL the time, not sometimes and not with poor performance.
The opensource driver is irrelevant to me. It is sad that we can't have an opensource driver for the latest graphics chipsets but the reality is that until some company comes along providing specs it will not come from ATI or Nvidia. No matter how hard you bitch. Even if they hire an external firm like lets say Precision Insight (which is no longer iirc). They are probably NDA bound and can't disclose needed specs anyway. Where's the Rage128 chipset data/specs?
In the meantime I will support the company that provides world class closed source drivers for Unix and that company is Nvidia. Infact, ATI can't even produce proper drivers for a windows platform and that is their premier platform.
You want opensource drivers? Fine, that is your perogative. In the mean time the rest of us want stuff that actually works when we purchase the hardware. Even if it means the driver is closed. With ATI you get the hardware, which is usually excellent. However, good luck with the drivers.
Nothing. Thats why it's the most stable design 40+ years running. To my knowledge it's only gotten better since then. Add on open source and free software. What the hell else do you want?
If something doesn't work you modify it and keep going. Unix or Unix-like systems are the most prolific and used systems in the world when it comes to no bullshit stable operations.
This isn't even a question. Google itself is an example of what Unix-like systems are capable of. Whats to change?
If Lycos was really serious about stopping spam, they should put the technical, managerial, and public relations resources they are dumping into this and go after the spammers one at a time. There are a finite number of people doing this in the world, and a corporation that wants to hunt them down can do it. Just follow the money, maybe buy some spam from these guys to confirm it. Then decide what to do about it. They might even consider posting a list of spammers, companies that profit from spam, and spam purchasers, on the net. Though that might make it hard to do subsequent investigations into spammers.
This is so far from the truth. A corporation just doesn't get a bunch of people and find the finite number of spammers in the world. The fact that you can say this it is obvious you don't understand that going after spammers is NOT an easy thing.
You're dealing with an international threat to which, most countries just don't care. The law isn't even on your side or in your town. No matter how many spammers you actually find, the sheer resources involved in stopping just one group of them would leave you bankrupt. The returns just aren't worth it. ISP's need to form a major coalition, a board and some sort of advisory council and simply goes around lobbying governments. That is the only way for spam to truly stop. I see this as the wrong way to do things but until some hardline legal action is taking against spam, we will continue to have it. The PR part of this is obvious but saying the above? You need to rethink your own position.
As for your fiber connection, you'll be happy to know that the price of it will continue to increase exponentially over X years do to spammers.
The reality is that the incurred bandwidth is paid by companies like Lycos. Which then passes the fee onto its customers. I'd rather know the extra fees that i'll be paying are going to fight spam and the isp's which harbor them. Usually; one in the same.
How is this insightful, all of these comments thus far seem to neglect the fact that spammers DO NOT PLAY FAIR. They ARE in fact the ISPs. You think Spammers nowadays have any problem finding ways to send their spam? Drone networks, Exploited machines, Buying and running their own hosting facilities. The list continues. What Lycos is doing is nothing more than what the Spammers are doing now. In effect all they are trying to do is balance the playing field. That is until the spammers move on to something bigger. Which they will and the cycle will continue. It pays to look at things objectively instead of from your own small view.
Is Lycos right or wrong? You can not be wrong when the attack was sent to you first. If the law, judicial system and everything else has failed you thus far your only form of recourse is not to lay down and take it; but to give back when and where you can.
They rejected the last one because it gave them everything except one point: the right of return.
And you might want to look into how Palestinian snipers use demonstrations for cover when they want to take shots at the Israelis. There are times when the Israelis go off and shoot the wrong person, but it's not 100%, and there have been numerous Israelis brought up on charges for improper conduct up to and including murder.
Can't you see how irrelevant that is? It's apart of the fight. That's like saying we are in war and someone was killed. Of course someone was killed, we are in war. It's neither a solution or a reason that would enable a solution.
So instead of saying yes we are in a war and people are doing dirty things. How about looking at cause and effect? Find the deep rooted cause and watch for an effect that is agreeable.
When did they pick up Abrams tanks? I've never heard of them using the M1, favoring the home-built (and arguably as good or even better) Merkava instead
When they got of bunch of them from the US during the 70's and early 80's. They started working on the Merkava I believe in the early 80s and came out with the MK 1 in the early 80's (i'm not sure of exact dates) the MK2 came out soon after in the 90's later went on to use the Merkava 3 and now the Merkava 4. They still have the Abrams in their arsenal even though the Merkava is stll being made I suspect it's only because Israel takes out loans, because compared to the Abrams it's expensive. This is all suspect as I don't really follow this crap anymore but it's something like that. I do know that Israel can't keep up production if they don't get funding from the US.
Yes, I agree with the rest of it but I don't think it'll spiral down into a arab vs arab situation at least not before they take some of the fight to the Israeli's. That's just always the way it has been, the greedy, the "too peaceful", the too violent always have detractors and then form groups of their own. It's a cycle not a specific situation.
I do know the difference, you learn the difference in basic training. It was just an error on my part. Every soldier regardless of MOS especially if they are overseas knows this. Well let me not say every soldier knows, but every soldier does learn this.
The PLO was actually founded in 1964. You suggest that "14 arab states" (by which I'm going to assume you mean the majority of countries in the middle east, since I don't know any arab states outside of there) intended to work diplomatically to create a state of Palestine. This, of course, explains the various wars of extermination Israel's neighbors have waged upon it, inclusive of the 1967 Six Day War which was between the creation of the peaceful, diplomatic PLO and when Arafat and his pack of terrorists (and I'm not using the word "terrorist" in the rhetorical sense that's become so popular since 9/11--I'm using it in the "hey, let's go blow up a school bus" sense) took the reins of the PLO in 1968.
The League of Arab States, and yes the PLO was founded in 1964. I was going off the top of my head. I was wrong, it wasn't 1968, it was 1964 as you said. How does that explain the Six Day War? I'm confused? To my knowledge not all of the countries involved in the Arab League of Nations fought in that war. Also to my knowledge wasn't this war the same ongoing fighting which continues today? Over the same exact areas? Like the Gaza Strip? Did I not mention the fact that both sides are being run by extremists at this point?
They THINK they came from? I think they're probably right unless you consider the city of Jerusalem to be an ambiguous or false marker...
Take a look at the skin color of the Palestinians and then take a look at the skin color of the Jews. Historians and people more knowleagable and capable of speaking on this subject have said the following. The physical genotype of the Jews or the people who live in Israel now are not those of the people they claim are their ancestors. Infact most people in the field don't believe things like Jesus was of light skin color etc etc. So I don't claim Jerusalem a false marker, I claim the Jews who think they came from there to be of false pretense. Religion will do this to people. If I was born in Africa and am of darker skin and move to Northern Europe then claim to have been from Northern Europe for thousands of years that would make no sense.
I'm not ignorant of the situation (read my original post again--I used to be nominally anti-Israel, and your description of 1948 was one of the major reasons for my attitude) and I daresay my opinion one way or the other has exactly NO impact on "keeping the flames of this situation hot."
Well you run off all the typical responses of someone who hasn't even read on the history of the area or the subject itself. It's easy to listen to other people, it takes a sufficient amount of time to read some books, maybe even visit the area and come to a logical conclusion based on facts, evidence and what you've seen, heard and experienced. If I go to Israel i'll hear one side and if I go to Syria, i'll hear another. Between the two sides i'll apply the facts, what I've seen, heard and experienced to make a logical decision.
I'm sure our friends across the pond will be happy to know they're communist. The primary source of funding for Arafat, is, as I said, the EU. And Arafat's Palestinian Authority is, as I said, funding the terrorists--not vice versa.
Wow, shocking isn't it. Lets take a look at what I actually said Each is a pawn for opposite countries, and it's not been uncommon to find China and terror organizations in northern Europe funding Palestnians.. One could go on, and there are a bunch of law enforcement agencies trying to CUT off the funding but like they are finding, it's not easy. It doesn't just come from the EU and a majority of it comes from other places. The PLA funds terror groups in Palestine like the US funds Israel. Again, I said that already.
Know what will fix the situation? The arab states stepping up, condemning Arafat and his ilk and cutting off funding and driving them out, and to pledge--believably--that they're not going to send tank armies anymore. Then someone else has to step in and maintain
1. THERE WERE NO PALESTINIANS IN 1948. None. There were Arabs living in the British Mandate of Palestine, but they have absolutely nothing in common with the Palestinians of today, who are Egyptians and Jordanians who were refused return to their own countries.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire the area was in disarray. NO ONE owned it, where do you get that there Arabs were living under British Mandate? The whole area was void of any one countries control until after World War 1. Where the Allies decided to carve the area up into pieces. This didn't work too well.
2. Your vicious anti-semitism here is noted. The Jewish settlers were not terrorists. They bought the land they lived on. Bought it.
They did not buy the land, the land simply was not up for sale. The jews who settled in the middle east emigrated from Northern Europe. All the facts and history point to that. Jews constantly site that they bought the land but that's in their religious text and isn't bound by any historical document or trade of land that I know of to date. The jews who claim to have bought private land from private land owners have no record of this and what private land owners are they speaking of? The British who summarily gave up control of their respective areas? There is no record or proof of this at all, anywhere. Show me some proof and I'll be willing to update that idea. As for history any sale of land in the past has been documented with buyers and purchases. There is NOTHING like that, i'm aware of for the land the Jews claim to own. Not withstanding that some of the areas they moved into were clearly already occupied. Of course I'm not being anti-semetic when I say that the original jewish "settlers" were terrorists. These weren't the jews who were living in the vicinity but people who started killing others in the name of a biblical state.
It's not hard to understand the situation:
The Israelies want to live in peace. The Palestinians want to murder the entire population of Israel.
Wow so the palestinians want to murder the entire population of Israel. For no reason? They just don't like you right? Let me guess, you're Israeli?
No they don't. Very simply, no they don't. The Israelis simply and absolutely do not target non-combatants, regardless of gender or age. Sometimes a sad accident will happen, as the Palestinians do use children as human shields.
All those children that die are being used as human shields? Do you realize that most of the children killed by Israeli's are killed in house raids? Children throwing rocks at tanks and a couple of rounds go off, dead child. It's not new.
My conclusion is that you are a complete idiot. The Palestinians have been offered a state twice , giving them more than 90% of what they had asked for, and both times they rejected it in favour of continued murder.
They rejected it because it came with stipulations and lands they weren't willing to concede to Israel. You neglect to mention that fact, then you throw in the mix that you aren't dealing with one people but many other different sects of people.
On the other hand, the Palestinians do deliberately target women and children, and always target non-combatants when they can find them. Not long ago, they shot and killed a pregnant woman in her car along with her three daughters. The blow up crowded cafes and packed buses. They send teenagers to their deaths just so as to kill a few more Israelis.
Violence begets violence? What would you like me to say? The truth is, you are killing one another.
You can't blame the entire situation on the Palestinians; the Israelis aren't perfect angels. And the other Arab nations have been carefully fostering the situation for decades, after they realised that they couldn't hope to defeat Israel militarily.
Because the Israel military has such great might a strength fostered on their own?
My error I don't know why I put 7.68 mm. I mean.308 Nato/7.62mm rounds.. They use much more heavy hitting ammo as well. M249's, Gatlin gun systems, etc, Infact i'm not even sure the specific ammo is NATO certified. Thats why you have several people check your work, before sending out or saying things. Again, my mistake. It's interesting to note however. You should also be aware that sadly the intelligence analysis gets a bad name even though 99% of the people tasked with the job of finding out things like if Iraq had weapons of mass desutrction, said they didn't exist.
Wow this is the most uninformed rehash babble I've seen a while on Israel. If you look at the actual conflict and the reasons why there is fighting going on you'd better understand the current situation. Another point is that Israel was loaned 50 billion dollars recently by the US. They use US Abrams, Apaches, F16's, to fight against the Palestinians who the majority of which have rocks as their only defense. A majority of the Palestinian civilians killed are civilian teen boys.
I was a military analyst for the US army up until Dec 2002. Personally i've taken it upon myself to learn more but professionally it was my job to know about such things. I'll try to give a simple explanation, feel free to factcheck me. In 1948 Israel was founded as a state in the current area of the Middle East they occupy. Before that the land was occupied by Palestinians, Jew terrorist organizations or "settlers" as they called themselves were of the position that they were restoring the biblical state of Israel. Some of these groups exist today Kahane Chai or if you prefer Kach. They felt that they had a holy destiny and right to the land and were willing to kill it for. This brought on the 1948 war known to Jews as the Holy war, known to the Arabs and the Arab Invasion. This fight or war, was based on the fact that that Israel had a right to the land. Now, there were a group of jews who did not belong to any of the "settling" groups who actually decided to move and some of them actually stayed around and in the middle east. Those group of jews you won't hear much about as well as the Ethiopian Jews (who always lived in Ethiopia) who Israel once neglected but recently have taken to, allowing them to immigrate into Israel. This is another story but from what can be assessed i'd assume they just want to get their hand on the holy covenant (The ethiopian jews are currently being persecuted and in some cases killed, starved, etc by another group; so their choices are slim). Anyway, when the jews say they have been in Israel for thousands of years that would be incorrect, they are primarily speaking about a place in a book and this is where they think they once came from. Most of the migration took place during a time when the Jews themselves were being murdered and persecuted by the Germans. Israel as a state, or for that matter even for the people that live there have only been around for approximately 70 years or so.
The Palestinians don't have clean hands either but it would be silly to neglect their reasons for the absolute hatred and violence. The primary reason Israel was and is backed by the US is because it was in the interest of this country and an answer to the Soviets. If we let the middle east come under Soviet control we would of lost alot in natural resources during the cold war and could have been energy starved should anything have happened. The actual people, the Palestinians, didn't want anything to do with the Soviets or the US however so they formed the PLO which was an organization of I believe 14 Arab states in 1968. They wanted to work diplomatically but basically could not keep control of all the terror organizations working to attack and keep Israel off of what they considered holy land. Then Israel being backed by the UN (League of Nations but for the sake of simple explanation) and the US it became clear that the Arab nations had to get support from somewhere. They got this support from the Soviets, this is why you'll see alot of terror organizations with Soviet made weapons and jets. MIGs, AK's etc.
Basically what's going on now is that both groups are being led by extremists. You have the extremists on the Palestinian side and the extremists which run the gov't on the Israeli side. Each is a pawn for opposite countries, and it's not been uncommon to find China and terror organizations in northern Europe funding Palestnians.
I'm impartial either way, my views are only based on fact. Not religious or holy beliefs, and i'm not all that religious personally. However, from both books none of
How is this insightful? An illegal immigrant is illegal.
Illegal: Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.
An illegal immigrant is illegal. They are entitled to none of the benefits this country offers it's citizens. If you are illegal and can receive the benefits then why become a citizen? Why pay the taxes? Why contribute?
There is nothing wrong with legal immigrants, they contribute and go through the process which allows them to legally contribute to this country.
The argument that illegal citizens contribute is FALSE. If corporations can hire them and pay them less than minimum wage, they can't contribute in taxes or social security and they use infrastructure and resources like regular citizens. They utilize public utilities, parks and events. They send their children to school, hospitals etc etc etc.
You call it nationalist trash, others call it being a citizen. Also while i'm venting, I'm sick and tired of people saying that Americans aren't hard working. We are the most hard working nation in the world. We work more hours, have less vacation and produce more "work" than any other industrialized country.
How about maybe putting it on a computer by itself? Discussing the specs of that system, the environment that Ubuntu is running in and describing the actual system? What features does it offer over Debian or add to debian? What if any problems were encountered during normal usage of applications etc etc. What sort of management system exists for the system. What has the system changed or how is it differentiating itself? Why would you run a distro in Vmware? That's clearly going to cause performance problems.
This review has absolutely nothing in it. All it says is I installed Unbuntu, funny name, and it didn't work with my wireless card but everything else is cool. I'm not trying to knock you as a person but this, like the parent poster said in more blunt terms is an extremely poor review.
If you write reviews in the future and submit them to slashdot be sure to let others read it before you thoroughly embarass yourself. Next time, and hopefully there is a next time (good technical writers are hard to find and you only get good with practice) try writing the review using the scientific method. It will be more compendious in an informative manner and come out all the better. It will also take longer to write than however long this took. If you write decent reviews people will come back to read more of your reviews in the future. If you write crap it stands out and is easy to discredit the author.
This is constructive needed criticism, neither me or any other person who reads reviews would consider this a review. I'm just tired of seeing these types of reviews on Slashdot, with that, good luck.
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There are better ways to enable the customer to pay them directly than what you're describing. There are simply better ways to distribute software to valid paying customers. It sounds like from the rest of the concensus Valve will have to learn this the hard way, by losing money.
It's sad really that they actually spent money on a system to try and control distribution of digital media instead of concentrating on the actual product. There is not one single effective DRM system on the market yet. Not one, they've all been circumvented in one way or another. It hasn't even curbed piracy. Makes you wonder who actually makes these bad business decisions.
DRM is bad for business.
That happens on your computer to, and it's still possible to find out what is going on because everything is saved to registers in your computer. Someone will write a util to pull the data off and spend some time cracking it. Then the hardware tcpa stuff will be pretty much useless.
I don't understand whats so good about it? You complain in a silly rant above about how this isn't something one should fight against. It's a game. HELLO?! McFLY?!
DRM does nothing in assisting ones game play in this instance. All it does from what I can see is cause problems for legit customers. I'm not really into games and I don't necessarily care what Valve does but I would not accept this with software I buy.
Microsoft Auth Server? It already exist and has for a long time. DRM software is fundamentally flawed and if I was a customer I'd return my copy or email Valve and explain why I've returned my copy.
It's 2005, one pays 50 dollars or whatever it is for a game they expect to install it where they want and have it work. Without them needing all the excess bullshit. The same way they play PS2 or Xbox.. One sticks in some media and play.
Fucking around talking about, "DRM is here to stay". The original poster was right, I don't know why he/she sullies his original stance with that reply. If you don't like DRM or what one would consider bullshit from Valve. DO NOT BUY THE GAME and tell them why you aren't buying it.
For the original parent, no one will take a stance or position one has seriously if you aren't willing to stand and defend it. I believe DRM to be bad. I will stand by this belief and pay whatever consequences the world will impose for having such a belief.
Thats the difference between someone fighting for a cause, and one willing to roll over and take it.
This isn't interesting at all. The emergence of MP3 players has been built on the convience of having ones music collection at the tip of their fingers. Instead of walking about with tapes and cd's. You simply go from Bach to N.E.R.D with the touch of the Next button.
Sonys mishaps have been their own based on their contesting to own "media". To put everything in their own proprietary, undocumented and closed formats.
As for the "terrabytes of stolen material". Theives will be theives, it doesn't stop honest abiding customers from purchasing product and never has.
To date, the RIAA nor the MPAA has been able to prove this. Nor has anyone else for that matter. What happened when dvd's came to advent? The thieves just went from tape to dvd, before that it was 8 track and vinyl. So on and so on.
Technology is supposed to make an area in your life more convienent. For music it's been my ipod. Does Sony have an equivalent? No. Have they failed and lost business because of this? Yes.
It's up to them and their management to decide if they continue to fail or if they want to try something new. Something that doesn't fail.
The problem is that Science and statistical data are inherently two different things. Once one factors in bias and the anamolies, it becomes increasingly difficult to isolate and study the differences between men and women.
I won't necessarily knock the studies (independent, non-biased and/or anomaly free as they may be) or statistical data you might be referring to. You're comment however in focusing purely on science is clearly blind as you are already dealing with a tainted pool. How can you expect to get data sets that are statiscally pure enough as well as being verifiable on something as dynamic as humans? Especially in the differences between one single human being and another.
Clearly there are differences between men and women, some seen and some unseen. In all my life i've never come across anything that the other couldn't do. Whether it be via anamoly or just a completely different human being. When this is the case i'll believe in the differences between men and women psuedo science. Until then, minus the physical differences and some obvious chemical imbalances do to those differences. There is no difference.
A long time ago someone I respect as a scientist, mentor and friend told me that trying to find the differences between two people, is like trying to count stars. There are alot, but all of them are relatively the same. People who practice such "science" are doing their community a disservice. There are bigger and more important questions to be answered.
Ever since I was told that i've lived by it and till this day no one has proved me wrong. So I don't doubt your stand and ideology, they seem altruistic. However you must realize, those are your own motivations. Others might not be as honorable.
Where do you people come from? It's like you enjoy talking giberish just to hear yourself speak.
"How many IE exploits can you enumerate that gives you Administrator if it's run as a limited user?"
Are you serious?
Disclaimer: No is this kid really serious?
It could also help me if I forget your root password.
What a horrible example. A Rage128 driver was developed with funding from ATI for XFree86 v4, and that driver was later extended to support Radeon cards. Thats exactly the kind of thing they should get back to doing, and something that nVidia never has been interested in. Its why we have a decent free ATI driver now, and none for nvidia.
A decent free ATI driver?? Have you ever used it? Rage128 3d support took forever to get. By the time it was complete people had moved on to the next generation of cards. That is one; two I need drivers that work ALL the time, not sometimes and not with poor performance.
The opensource driver is irrelevant to me. It is sad that we can't have an opensource driver for the latest graphics chipsets but the reality is that until some company comes along providing specs it will not come from ATI or Nvidia. No matter how hard you bitch. Even if they hire an external firm like lets say Precision Insight (which is no longer iirc). They are probably NDA bound and can't disclose needed specs anyway. Where's the Rage128 chipset data/specs?
In the meantime I will support the company that provides world class closed source drivers for Unix and that company is Nvidia. Infact, ATI can't even produce proper drivers for a windows platform and that is their premier platform.
You want opensource drivers? Fine, that is your perogative. In the mean time the rest of us want stuff that actually works when we purchase the hardware. Even if it means the driver is closed. With ATI you get the hardware, which is usually excellent. However, good luck with the drivers.
Nothing. Thats why it's the most stable design 40+ years running. To my knowledge it's only gotten better since then. Add on open source and free software. What the hell else do you want?
If something doesn't work you modify it and keep going. Unix or Unix-like systems are the most prolific and used systems in the world when it comes to no bullshit stable operations.
This isn't even a question. Google itself is an example of what Unix-like systems are capable of. Whats to change?
How about making drivers that actually work for a change?
Let me help you a bit with ATI and my experiences.
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That was a couple of years ago. Get an nvidia or don't bother.
No he was a convicted murder, in a free an open fair trial.
Are you serious?
If Lycos was really serious about stopping spam, they should put the technical, managerial, and public relations resources they are dumping into this and go after the spammers one at a time. There are a finite number of people doing this in the world, and a corporation that wants to hunt them down can do it. Just follow the money, maybe buy some spam from these guys to confirm it. Then decide what to do about it. They might even consider posting a list of spammers, companies that profit from spam, and spam purchasers, on the net. Though that might make it hard to do subsequent investigations into spammers.
This is so far from the truth. A corporation just doesn't get a bunch of people and find the finite number of spammers in the world. The fact that you can say this it is obvious you don't understand that going after spammers is NOT an easy thing.
You're dealing with an international threat to which, most countries just don't care. The law isn't even on your side or in your town. No matter how many spammers you actually find, the sheer resources involved in stopping just one group of them would leave you bankrupt. The returns just aren't worth it. ISP's need to form a major coalition, a board and some sort of advisory council and simply goes around lobbying governments. That is the only way for spam to truly stop. I see this as the wrong way to do things but until some hardline legal action is taking against spam, we will continue to have it. The PR part of this is obvious but saying the above? You need to rethink your own position.
As for your fiber connection, you'll be happy to know that the price of it will continue to increase exponentially over X years do to spammers.
The reality is that the incurred bandwidth is paid by companies like Lycos. Which then passes the fee onto its customers. I'd rather know the extra fees that i'll be paying are going to fight spam and the isp's which harbor them. Usually; one in the same.
How is this insightful, all of these comments thus far seem to neglect the fact that spammers DO NOT PLAY FAIR. They ARE in fact the ISPs. You think Spammers nowadays have any problem finding ways to send their spam? Drone networks, Exploited machines, Buying and running their own hosting facilities. The list continues. What Lycos is doing is nothing more than what the Spammers are doing now. In effect all they are trying to do is balance the playing field. That is until the spammers move on to something bigger. Which they will and the cycle will continue. It pays to look at things objectively instead of from your own small view.
Is Lycos right or wrong? You can not be wrong when the attack was sent to you first. If the law, judicial system and everything else has failed you thus far your only form of recourse is not to lay down and take it; but to give back when and where you can.
They rejected the last one because it gave them everything except one point: the right of return.
And you might want to look into how Palestinian snipers use demonstrations for cover when they want to take shots at the Israelis. There are times when the Israelis go off and shoot the wrong person, but it's not 100%, and there have been numerous Israelis brought up on charges for improper conduct up to and including murder.
Can't you see how irrelevant that is? It's apart of the fight. That's like saying we are in war and someone was killed. Of course someone was killed, we are in war. It's neither a solution or a reason that would enable a solution.
So instead of saying yes we are in a war and people are doing dirty things. How about looking at cause and effect? Find the deep rooted cause and watch for an effect that is agreeable.
When did they pick up Abrams tanks? I've never heard of them using the M1, favoring the home-built (and arguably as good or even better) Merkava instead
When they got of bunch of them from the US during the 70's and early 80's. They started working on the Merkava I believe in the early 80s and came out with the MK 1 in the early 80's (i'm not sure of exact dates) the MK2 came out soon after in the 90's later went on to use the Merkava 3 and now the Merkava 4. They still have the Abrams in their arsenal even though the Merkava is stll being made I suspect it's only because Israel takes out loans, because compared to the Abrams it's expensive. This is all suspect as I don't really follow this crap anymore but it's something like that. I do know that Israel can't keep up production if they don't get funding from the US.
Yes, I agree with the rest of it but I don't think it'll spiral down into a arab vs arab situation at least not before they take some of the fight to the Israeli's. That's just always the way it has been, the greedy, the "too peaceful", the too violent always have detractors and then form groups of their own. It's a cycle not a specific situation.
I do know the difference, you learn the difference in basic training. It was just an error on my part. Every soldier regardless of MOS especially if they are overseas knows this. Well let me not say every soldier knows, but every soldier does learn this.
The PLO was actually founded in 1964. You suggest that "14 arab states" (by which I'm going to assume you mean the majority of countries in the middle east, since I don't know any arab states outside of there) intended to work diplomatically to create a state of Palestine. This, of course, explains the various wars of extermination Israel's neighbors have waged upon it, inclusive of the 1967 Six Day War which was between the creation of the peaceful, diplomatic PLO and when Arafat and his pack of terrorists (and I'm not using the word "terrorist" in the rhetorical sense that's become so popular since 9/11--I'm using it in the "hey, let's go blow up a school bus" sense) took the reins of the PLO in 1968.
The League of Arab States, and yes the PLO was founded in 1964. I was going off the top of my head. I was wrong, it wasn't 1968, it was 1964 as you said. How does that explain the Six Day War? I'm confused? To my knowledge not all of the countries involved in the Arab League of Nations fought in that war. Also to my knowledge wasn't this war the same ongoing fighting which continues today? Over the same exact areas? Like the Gaza Strip? Did I not mention the fact that both sides are being run by extremists at this point?
They THINK they came from? I think they're probably right unless you consider the city of Jerusalem to be an ambiguous or false marker...
Take a look at the skin color of the Palestinians and then take a look at the skin color of the Jews. Historians and people more knowleagable and capable of speaking on this subject have said the following. The physical genotype of the Jews or the people who live in Israel now are not those of the people they claim are their ancestors. Infact most people in the field don't believe things like Jesus was of light skin color etc etc. So I don't claim Jerusalem a false marker, I claim the Jews who think they came from there to be of false pretense. Religion will do this to people. If I was born in Africa and am of darker skin and move to Northern Europe then claim to have been from Northern Europe for thousands of years that would make no sense.
I'm not ignorant of the situation (read my original post again--I used to be nominally anti-Israel, and your description of 1948 was one of the major reasons for my attitude) and I daresay my opinion one way or the other has exactly NO impact on "keeping the flames of this situation hot."
Well you run off all the typical responses of someone who hasn't even read on the history of the area or the subject itself. It's easy to listen to other people, it takes a sufficient amount of time to read some books, maybe even visit the area and come to a logical conclusion based on facts, evidence and what you've seen, heard and experienced. If I go to Israel i'll hear one side and if I go to Syria, i'll hear another. Between the two sides i'll apply the facts, what I've seen, heard and experienced to make a logical decision.
I'm sure our friends across the pond will be happy to know they're communist. The primary source of funding for Arafat, is, as I said, the EU. And Arafat's Palestinian Authority is, as I said, funding the terrorists--not vice versa.
Wow, shocking isn't it. Lets take a look at what I actually said Each is a pawn for opposite countries, and it's not been uncommon to find China and terror organizations in northern Europe funding Palestnians. . One could go on, and there are a bunch of law enforcement agencies trying to CUT off the funding but like they are finding, it's not easy. It doesn't just come from the EU and a majority of it comes from other places. The PLA funds terror groups in Palestine like the US funds Israel. Again, I said that already.
Know what will fix the situation? The arab states stepping up, condemning Arafat and his ilk and cutting off funding and driving them out, and to pledge--believably--that they're not going to send tank armies anymore. Then someone else has to step in and maintain
1. THERE WERE NO PALESTINIANS IN 1948. None. There were Arabs living in the British Mandate of Palestine, but they have absolutely nothing in common with the Palestinians of today, who are Egyptians and Jordanians who were refused return to their own countries.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire the area was in disarray. NO ONE owned it, where do you get that there Arabs were living under British Mandate? The whole area was void of any one countries control until after World War 1. Where the Allies decided to carve the area up into pieces. This didn't work too well.
2. Your vicious anti-semitism here is noted. The Jewish settlers were not terrorists. They bought the land they lived on. Bought it.
They did not buy the land, the land simply was not up for sale. The jews who settled in the middle east emigrated from Northern Europe. All the facts and history point to that. Jews constantly site that they bought the land but that's in their religious text and isn't bound by any historical document or trade of land that I know of to date. The jews who claim to have bought private land from private land owners have no record of this and what private land owners are they speaking of? The British who summarily gave up control of their respective areas? There is no record or proof of this at all, anywhere. Show me some proof and I'll be willing to update that idea. As for history any sale of land in the past has been documented with buyers and purchases. There is NOTHING like that, i'm aware of for the land the Jews claim to own. Not withstanding that some of the areas they moved into were clearly already occupied. Of course I'm not being anti-semetic when I say that the original jewish "settlers" were terrorists. These weren't the jews who were living in the vicinity but people who started killing others in the name of a biblical state.
It's not hard to understand the situation:
The Israelies want to live in peace.
The Palestinians want to murder the entire population of Israel.
Wow so the palestinians want to murder the entire population of Israel. For no reason? They just don't like you right? Let me guess, you're Israeli?
No they don't. Very simply, no they don't. The Israelis simply and absolutely do not target non-combatants, regardless of gender or age. Sometimes a sad accident will happen, as the Palestinians do use children as human shields.
All those children that die are being used as human shields? Do you realize that most of the children killed by Israeli's are killed in house raids? Children throwing rocks at tanks and a couple of rounds go off, dead child. It's not new.
My conclusion is that you are a complete idiot. The Palestinians have been offered a state twice , giving them more than 90% of what they had asked for, and both times they rejected it in favour of continued murder.
They rejected it because it came with stipulations and lands they weren't willing to concede to Israel. You neglect to mention that fact, then you throw in the mix that you aren't dealing with one people but many other different sects of people.
On the other hand, the Palestinians do deliberately target women and children, and always target non-combatants when they can find them. Not long ago, they shot and killed a pregnant woman in her car along with her three daughters. The blow up crowded cafes and packed buses. They send teenagers to their deaths just so as to kill a few more Israelis.
Violence begets violence? What would you like me to say? The truth is, you are killing one another.
You can't blame the entire situation on the Palestinians; the Israelis aren't perfect angels. And the other Arab nations have been carefully fostering the situation for decades, after they realised that they couldn't hope to defeat Israel militarily.
Because the Israel military has such great might a strength fostered on their own?
No, only 99% or so of the blame ca
My error I don't know why I put 7.68 mm. I mean .308 Nato/7.62mm rounds.. They use much more heavy hitting ammo as well. M249's, Gatlin gun systems, etc, Infact i'm not even sure the specific ammo is NATO certified. Thats why you have several people check your work, before sending out or saying things. Again, my mistake. It's interesting to note however. You should also be aware that sadly the intelligence analysis gets a bad name even though 99% of the people tasked with the job of finding out things like if Iraq had weapons of mass desutrction, said they didn't exist.
Wow this is the most uninformed rehash babble I've seen a while on Israel. If you look at the actual conflict and the reasons why there is fighting going on you'd better understand the current situation. Another point is that Israel was loaned 50 billion dollars recently by the US. They use US Abrams, Apaches, F16's, to fight against the Palestinians who the majority of which have rocks as their only defense. A majority of the Palestinian civilians killed are civilian teen boys.
I was a military analyst for the US army up until Dec 2002. Personally i've taken it upon myself to learn more but professionally it was my job to know about such things. I'll try to give a simple explanation, feel free to factcheck me. In 1948 Israel was founded as a state in the current area of the Middle East they occupy. Before that the land was occupied by Palestinians, Jew terrorist organizations or "settlers" as they called themselves were of the position that they were restoring the biblical state of Israel. Some of these groups exist today Kahane Chai or if you prefer Kach. They felt that they had a holy destiny and right to the land and were willing to kill it for. This brought on the 1948 war known to Jews as the Holy war, known to the Arabs and the Arab Invasion. This fight or war, was based on the fact that that Israel had a right to the land. Now, there were a group of jews who did not belong to any of the "settling" groups who actually decided to move and some of them actually stayed around and in the middle east. Those group of jews you won't hear much about as well as the Ethiopian Jews (who always lived in Ethiopia) who Israel once neglected but recently have taken to, allowing them to immigrate into Israel. This is another story but from what can be assessed i'd assume they just want to get their hand on the holy covenant (The ethiopian jews are currently being persecuted and in some cases killed, starved, etc by another group; so their choices are slim). Anyway, when the jews say they have been in Israel for thousands of years that would be incorrect, they are primarily speaking about a place in a book and this is where they think they once came from. Most of the migration took place during a time when the Jews themselves were being murdered and persecuted by the Germans. Israel as a state, or for that matter even for the people that live there have only been around for approximately 70 years or so.
The Palestinians don't have clean hands either but it would be silly to neglect their reasons for the absolute hatred and violence. The primary reason Israel was and is backed by the US is because it was in the interest of this country and an answer to the Soviets. If we let the middle east come under Soviet control we would of lost alot in natural resources during the cold war and could have been energy starved should anything have happened. The actual people, the Palestinians, didn't want anything to do with the Soviets or the US however so they formed the PLO which was an organization of I believe 14 Arab states in 1968. They wanted to work diplomatically but basically could not keep control of all the terror organizations working to attack and keep Israel off of what they considered holy land. Then Israel being backed by the UN (League of Nations but for the sake of simple explanation) and the US it became clear that the Arab nations had to get support from somewhere. They got this support from the Soviets, this is why you'll see alot of terror organizations with Soviet made weapons and jets. MIGs, AK's etc.
Basically what's going on now is that both groups are being led by extremists. You have the extremists on the Palestinian side and the extremists which run the gov't on the Israeli side. Each is a pawn for opposite countries, and it's not been uncommon to find China and terror organizations in northern Europe funding Palestnians.
I'm impartial either way, my views are only based on fact. Not religious or holy beliefs, and i'm not all that religious personally. However, from both books none of
How is this insightful? An illegal immigrant is illegal.
Illegal: Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.
An illegal immigrant is illegal. They are entitled to none of the benefits this country offers it's citizens. If you are illegal and can receive the benefits then why become a citizen? Why pay the taxes? Why contribute?
There is nothing wrong with legal immigrants, they contribute and go through the process which allows them to legally contribute to this country.
The argument that illegal citizens contribute is FALSE. If corporations can hire them and pay them less than minimum wage, they can't contribute in taxes or social security and they use infrastructure and resources like regular citizens. They utilize public utilities, parks and events. They send their children to school, hospitals etc etc etc.
You call it nationalist trash, others call it being a citizen. Also while i'm venting, I'm sick and tired of people saying that Americans aren't hard working. We are the most hard working nation in the world. We work more hours, have less vacation and produce more "work" than any other industrialized country.
How about maybe putting it on a computer by itself? Discussing the specs of that system, the environment that Ubuntu is running in and describing the actual system? What features does it offer over Debian or add to debian? What if any problems were encountered during normal usage of applications etc etc. What sort of management system exists for the system. What has the system changed or how is it differentiating itself? Why would you run a distro in Vmware? That's clearly going to cause performance problems.
This review has absolutely nothing in it. All it says is I installed Unbuntu, funny name, and it didn't work with my wireless card but everything else is cool. I'm not trying to knock you as a person but this, like the parent poster said in more blunt terms is an extremely poor review.
If you write reviews in the future and submit them to slashdot be sure to let others read it before you thoroughly embarass yourself. Next time, and hopefully there is a next time (good technical writers are hard to find and you only get good with practice) try writing the review using the scientific method. It will be more compendious in an informative manner and come out all the better. It will also take longer to write than however long this took. If you write decent reviews people will come back to read more of your reviews in the future. If you write crap it stands out and is easy to discredit the author.
This is constructive needed criticism, neither me or any other person who reads reviews would consider this a review. I'm just tired of seeing these types of reviews on Slashdot, with that, good luck.
Why is this modded as a troll?? The review does clearly lack any information. At least it wasted my time, not that slashdot hasn't already.