You're right about AOL but what about AT&T? I didn't know that they owned any movie/music companies. Also, Earthlink and Mindspring are still independent, aren't they?
If they use real, copyrighted MP3s, wouldn't they be liable for civil action? And if they used fakes, or legal MP3s merely renamed, then they would make it harder for Gnutella users as well?
I wonder who are the people responding to Spam. In all the years I have received it, not once did I get a spam for something I needed, much less wanted.
It doesn't matter anyway, anymore. Because of spam, I have Procmail set to send all email to/dev/nul unless you're on my cool list or have a particular unusual word in the subject line.
is XTerm so large? I've been hearing about this for a while, as it is usally cited as a reason for using rxvt.
I also have a question regarding Unix and Unicode.
Although GNU/Linux and BSD systems can support Unicode libraries for the apps that need it, the OSes themselves use only ascii (from what I understand). Has there been, or ever will be, a form of Un*x that natively supports Unicode in all things? Or would doing such a thing create too many problems?
Last year, I built my own computer. Why? Because I already had purchased a license for Windows 2000 Professional and I wanted to use it with the new CPU. Buying from Dell (for example) would have forced me to buy a second copy of Windows that I simply did not need.
And before you ask, I took Windows off the old computer before installing it on the new one, so it never ran on more than one CPU at any particular time. (The old CPU runs NetBSD now.)
This all reminds me of a Howard Chaykin comic book called "American Flagg", where the main character was a former actor who had been replaced by digital a look-a-like. Not bad for a comic that was produced in the early eighties by First Comics.
As a Florida voter, I voted against it as I believe that this thing will eventually become a huge source of captial drain on the state. We only need look at AmTrack for an example of what I believe will happen in the end.
I love this quote in the article about the proposed bill:
"What appears to be proposed is the computer equivalent of breaking into someone's house who you think has stolen some of your possessions to get them back with legal impunity, even if it turns out you broke into the wrong house"
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it unethical. I want and need that information so I know if I have a problem.
Information is just information. The problem is people who think that they have a right to control it based on their opinion of what is right and wrong.
Well, at least MS appears to address their security problems, from my casual observations. HP has done nothing to address this problem for a whole year.
It isn't just the price that makes GNU/Linux more attractive, although that is a big part of it. For example, we use a NetBSD server where I work. Why? So we don't have to deal with Microsoft's stupid "per seat" license model, which is really just a way of charging you twice for the same item.
I also run NetBSD at home. Why? Because of MS' totally stupid and artificial restriction on inbound connections to XP. Because of this, I can ever forget running a website from home with Windows.
hearing a story about an American doing something like this a long time ago during the beginning of the space program. If I recall, he took some kind of ballon so high that he needed breathing assistance and then he jumped. He is supposed to be the only man so far to break the sound barrier without mechanical assistance.
I want to say that this was on TLC or Discovery Channel. Can't remember anything else about it.
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Thanks. I can live with that, although I'd wager that a lot of people are trading music that they don't have the right to redistribute.
You're right about AOL but what about AT&T? I didn't know that they owned any movie/music companies. Also, Earthlink and Mindspring are still independent, aren't they?
> using a Gnutella honeypot
If they use real, copyrighted MP3s, wouldn't they be liable for civil action? And if they used fakes, or legal MP3s merely renamed, then they would make it harder for Gnutella users as well?
I wonder who are the people responding to Spam. In all the years I have received it, not once did I get a spam for something I needed, much less wanted.
/dev/nul unless you're on my cool list or have a particular unusual word in the subject line.
It doesn't matter anyway, anymore. Because of spam, I have Procmail set to send all email to
is XTerm so large? I've been hearing about this for a while, as it is usally cited as a reason for using rxvt.
I also have a question regarding Unix and Unicode.
Although GNU/Linux and BSD systems can support Unicode libraries for the apps that need it, the OSes themselves use only ascii (from what I understand). Has there been, or ever will be, a form of Un*x that natively supports Unicode in all things? Or would doing such a thing create too many problems?
Last year, I built my own computer. Why? Because I already had purchased a license for Windows 2000 Professional and I wanted to use it with the new CPU. Buying from Dell (for example) would have forced me to buy a second copy of Windows that I simply did not need.
And before you ask, I took Windows off the old computer before installing it on the new one, so it never ran on more than one CPU at any particular time. (The old CPU runs NetBSD now.)
This all reminds me of a Howard Chaykin comic book called "American Flagg", where the main character was a former actor who had been replaced by digital a look-a-like. Not bad for a comic that was produced in the early eighties by First Comics.
As a Florida voter, I voted against it as I believe that this thing will eventually become a huge source of captial drain on the state. We only need look at AmTrack for an example of what I believe will happen in the end.
> required to provide warranties
Free projects should just copy Microsoft's license which, by the time it is done excluding things, provides nothing to the end user.
but if I really wanted to switch, I would have just bought a copy of VMWare.
I love this quote in the article about the proposed bill:
"What appears to be proposed is the computer equivalent of breaking into someone's house who you think has stolen some of your possessions to get them back with legal impunity, even if it turns out you broke into the wrong house"
> it may not be ethical
It was ethical, provided they retained the proper copyright information. It didn't just fall out of the sky, you know?
> doesn't that mean there is a lot he can do about it?
I wonder if he will be as determined in defending a GPLed Windows program as he would be to depend a GPL GNU/Linux/Unix program.
I hope so.
As a current AT&T Broadband customer, I would consider the higher tier service if it
a. eliminated the block on incoming port 80
b. made a static IP address possible to obtain
Otherwise, they are offering my nothing I desire.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it unethical. I want and need that information so I know if I have a problem.
Information is just information. The problem is people who think that they have a right to control it based on their opinion of what is right and wrong.
> but didn't snosoft publish information on the
> vulnerability plus code to exploit it without > letting HP know first
So what? There is no requirement to notify anyone of an exploit before publication. Nor should their be.
> HP Classic would never have pulled a
:)
> stunt like this.
That was before they had that blonde bitch in charge!
Well, at least MS appears to address their security problems, from my casual observations. HP has done nothing to address this problem for a whole year.
Is this an example of HP's OS support in general?
Here is a good link that, although older, explains how bogus this is pretty well.
Here
and here
It isn't just the price that makes GNU/Linux more attractive, although that is a big part of it. For example, we use a NetBSD server where I work. Why? So we don't have to deal with Microsoft's stupid "per seat" license model, which is really just a way of charging you twice for the same item.
I also run NetBSD at home. Why? Because of MS' totally stupid and artificial restriction on inbound connections to XP. Because of this, I can ever forget running a website from home with Windows.
The bigger they are, the harder they break the law. :)
I'm sure SecurityFocus will suck by the time they are done with it.
(Sorry if this is trollish but it just seems like things get worse when an outside company aquires something useful.)
Wouldn't this also effect Microsoft (ICS)? Not to mention ipchains?
hearing a story about an American doing something like this a long time ago during the beginning of the space program. If I recall, he took some kind of ballon so high that he needed breathing assistance and then he jumped. He is supposed to be the only man so far to break the sound barrier without mechanical assistance.
I want to say that this was on TLC or Discovery Channel. Can't remember anything else about it.
CD-Record? It works on NetBSD and MacOS X is based on Unix.