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said the acedsl.com website when I said I didn't have Verizon as my "local service provider."
Re:Innovation? Yes. Better than a scooter? No.
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This is IT?
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· Score: 0, Troll
Who the fuck can't ride a scooter or drive a car? Is there some huge group of uncoordinated retards who cant operate a scooter or a car but can ride an IT? Is that the market for this piece of shit? It's some sort of scooter for the severely challenged?
How is IT as safe as a car? You're totally unprotected on an IT, just like on a scooter or a bike.
What a fucking joke. This has to be one of the biggest hoaxes ever.
Someone tell Steve Jobs I have an invention that will totally revolutionize the way we eat dinner. It involves a George Foreman Grill, a shredder, and a funnel. But I don't want to reveal any more because I'm filing hundreds of patent applications. Just tell Steve to make the check out to "cash."
Re:Begging Questions and Urban Planning
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This is IT?
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· Score: 2
Obviously, the abolitions of cars in cities will have to await the construction of weather-controlling domes over all places of habitation. But this will follow naturally once every fuckwit who invested in this piece of complete shite loses all of his money... oops, I lost my train of thought there.
>You can see how trivially easy that was and if you had put about half an hour's thought into it, you could have realized that the "outdated" howto hasn't been updated because the process is pretty much unchanged and you would not have wasted our time with yet another linux newbie Ask/. question. But that's just my opinion.
Well, that's quite an attitude from someone with a/. ID in the low four-hundred-thousands.
That's interesting... looking at that link, it appears that SuSE has a kernel module for doing Twofish encryption. I wonder if the source is available and can be ported to other distros...
... take a look at "man losetup", which has a good example of setting up an XOR encrypted loopback filesystem. XOR is pretty crappy encryption however.
Re:Question
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KDE 2.2.2
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· Score: 5, Informative
You have the right idea for sure... just run WindowMaker, and if you want to run an occasional KDE or Gnome app, just run it. Forget about that "desktop" idiom B.S., that's just an over-the-hill paradigm that isn't worth the extra overhead to run.
I mean, I just got a 1.2 GHz Athlon box, and I have no intention of giving up my nice, barebones WM desktop. It's perfect.
What might happen is we'll see increasingly invasive tactics used to stop P2P. Courts are going to protect the copyright holders' rights (they HAVE to) and they don't like their orders to be ignored. They have the power of the government at their disposal, and can call on it to enforce their orders.
So we might see pressure on ISPs to cancel accounts, maybe a Carnivore-like system to track down file-sharers, seizures of computers, criminal prosecutions, etc.
What I'm saying is they can't MAKE you stop pirating mp3s, but they sure as hell can make you WANT to stop, because getting all those cool free tunes just won't be worth the hassle they can cause you. That's what it means for something to be unlawful.
"why are people setting up these elaborate networks to share music in the first place?"
Answer: to get something for nothing.
The argument that P2P is the record companies' fault because they just aren't keeping up with technology is totally fucking bogus. When the record companies try to charge for music on the web, as they are about to do with Napster, they'll be laughed at and ignored because we don't want to pay ANYTHING.
Listen, everything you do will eventually become boring. If you switch to another field you think will be more interesting, that will become boring too. The smart thing to do is to go into a career where you can become independently wealthy when you're young, after that you can do whatever you want, when you want. The only career like that is business, particularly finance. If I had to do it all over again, I would go to Wall Street for sure, and I'd be retired by now.
It would have been a cool part of this article if they had mentioned that hackers figured out how the device worked and came up with useful applications for it, only to be met with the DC's ridiculous claims that this somehow violated their rights.
We/.ers are all to familiar with it, but the general public may not be.
I got rid of my landline phone a year ago, and I don't miss it. The quality of cellular is not as good as landline, but you can't beat the use-practically-everywhere convenience. In NYC, a cheap cell plan costs about the same as landline (maybe a little more).
I don't mean to be purely critical of the counter effort, though. I understand the "Stand up and be counted" impulse. But why not change it into a "Linux success stories" weblog, where admins can provide details about their installations (how many boxes, the kinds of services they run, number of users, etc.) that might inspire others?
It may have made sense when the community was small and a there was a reasonable likelihood that the count might be accurate, but now, it just makes no sense. The vast majority of Linux users aren't going to register, so what are you counting? You're just generating an inaccurate, meaningless number.
Re:Version 3? Don't think so.
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Code Red III
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Oh, so that's why Slashdot sucks so much. Thanks for the info.
Everyone seems to agree that releasing a white worm is a Bad Thing to Do, but shouldn't it be done anyway? If the alternative is that hundreds of thousands of IIS-running idiots are going to keep Code Red alive forever, thereby increasing latency & eating up bandwidth for everyone, why not do them the favor of fixing their machines, even if it is without their knowledge? They won't even notice it is happening. Oh, but it would be Against the Rules. And Unethical. So what? The guy who does this will be a hero if it works.
And as far as bandwith usage goes, the Code White worm will kill itself off as it fixes the very hosts it needs to propagate.
Slashdot Mirror
said the acedsl.com website when I said I didn't have Verizon as my "local service provider."
Who the fuck can't ride a scooter or drive a car? Is there some huge group of uncoordinated retards who cant operate a scooter or a car but can ride an IT? Is that the market for this piece of shit? It's some sort of scooter for the severely challenged?
How is IT as safe as a car? You're totally unprotected on an IT, just like on a scooter or a bike.
What a fucking joke. This has to be one of the biggest hoaxes ever.
Someone tell Steve Jobs I have an invention that will totally revolutionize the way we eat dinner. It involves a George Foreman Grill, a shredder, and a funnel. But I don't want to reveal any more because I'm filing hundreds of patent applications. Just tell Steve to make the check out to "cash."
Obviously, the abolitions of cars in cities will have to await the construction of weather-controlling domes over all places of habitation. But this will follow naturally once every fuckwit who invested in this piece of complete shite loses all of his money... oops, I lost my train of thought there.
>You can see how trivially easy that was and if you had put about half an hour's thought into it, you could have realized that the "outdated" howto hasn't been updated because the process is pretty much unchanged and you would not have wasted our time with yet another linux newbie Ask /. question. But that's just my opinion.
/. ID in the low four-hundred-thousands.
Well, that's quite an attitude from someone with a
That's interesting... looking at that link, it appears that SuSE has a kernel module for doing Twofish encryption. I wonder if the source is available and can be ported to other distros...
... take a look at "man losetup", which has a good example of setting up an XOR encrypted loopback filesystem. XOR is pretty crappy encryption however.
Turn in your Score +1 Bonus!
You have the right idea for sure... just run WindowMaker, and if you want to run an occasional KDE or Gnome app, just run it. Forget about that "desktop" idiom B.S., that's just an over-the-hill paradigm that isn't worth the extra overhead to run.
I mean, I just got a 1.2 GHz Athlon box, and I have no intention of giving up my nice, barebones WM desktop. It's perfect.
Oh, this is cool... here's a page with a lot of those classic games, and they're already typed in! Has some other cool classic computing stuff also:
Oh, those games are classic... anyone remember Minotaur, and Wumpus?
Does anyone know if the games are available anywhere in a format that will run on Linux, I'd love to get a set...
"Consent of the governed" does not mean it's improper to enforce a law against a particular individual who disagrees with it as applied to him.
What might happen is we'll see increasingly invasive tactics used to stop P2P. Courts are going to protect the copyright holders' rights (they HAVE to) and they don't like their orders to be ignored. They have the power of the government at their disposal, and can call on it to enforce their orders.
So we might see pressure on ISPs to cancel accounts, maybe a Carnivore-like system to track down file-sharers, seizures of computers, criminal prosecutions, etc.
What I'm saying is they can't MAKE you stop pirating mp3s, but they sure as hell can make you WANT to stop, because getting all those cool free tunes just won't be worth the hassle they can cause you. That's what it means for something to be unlawful.
"why are people setting up these elaborate networks to share music in the first place?"
Answer: to get something for nothing.
The argument that P2P is the record companies' fault because they just aren't keeping up with technology is totally fucking bogus. When the record companies try to charge for music on the web, as they are about to do with Napster, they'll be laughed at and ignored because we don't want to pay ANYTHING.
Listen, everything you do will eventually become boring. If you switch to another field you think will be more interesting, that will become boring too. The smart thing to do is to go into a career where you can become independently wealthy when you're young, after that you can do whatever you want, when you want. The only career like that is business, particularly finance. If I had to do it all over again, I would go to Wall Street for sure, and I'd be retired by now.
[Checking the minutes of the Slashdot/GNUTard Illumnati...]
Yes. You are now allowed to like Amazon. Their endorsement of Linux is deemed to make up for their earlier insolence regarding their patents.
Selah.
- Grytpype, Deputy Poobah of the Penguin Pee
It's called UTC. Aviation uses it all the time.
It would have been a cool part of this article if they had mentioned that hackers figured out how the device worked and came up with useful applications for it, only to be met with the DC's ridiculous claims that this somehow violated their rights.
/.ers are all to familiar with it, but the general public may not be.
We
"Zo? Do you haff your lizence papiers? WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE ZE PAPIERS?"
Don't give bin Laden a three-letter acronym. It's a sign of admiration.
I got rid of my landline phone a year ago, and I don't miss it. The quality of cellular is not as good as landline, but you can't beat the use-practically-everywhere convenience. In NYC, a cheap cell plan costs about the same as landline (maybe a little more).
I don't mean to be purely critical of the counter effort, though. I understand the "Stand up and be counted" impulse. But why not change it into a "Linux success stories" weblog, where admins can provide details about their installations (how many boxes, the kinds of services they run, number of users, etc.) that might inspire others?
It may have made sense when the community was small and a there was a reasonable likelihood that the count might be accurate, but now, it just makes no sense. The vast majority of Linux users aren't going to register, so what are you counting? You're just generating an inaccurate, meaningless number.
Oh, so that's why Slashdot sucks so much. Thanks for the info.
Everyone seems to agree that releasing a white worm is a Bad Thing to Do, but shouldn't it be done anyway? If the alternative is that hundreds of thousands of IIS-running idiots are going to keep Code Red alive forever, thereby increasing latency & eating up bandwidth for everyone, why not do them the favor of fixing their machines, even if it is without their knowledge? They won't even notice it is happening. Oh, but it would be Against the Rules. And Unethical. So what? The guy who does this will be a hero if it works.
And as far as bandwith usage goes, the Code White worm will kill itself off as it fixes the very hosts it needs to propagate.
Score -1 : Frickin' obvious