Businesses and organizations of all sizes need consistent, predictable, scalable, self-contained platforms for server solutions.
I thought Windows was winning on the desktop? Isn't that what we're always hearing?
Linux and Windows don't compete.
Ok, so the whole "Get The Facts" campaign was done just for grins?
Open source Unix, in which category I place Linux, BSD, and Darwin (the OS layer of Apple's OS X), is a 500,000-piece bag of Legos that comes with some drawings and a few models you can use, build on, or tap into as references for your own creations.
Also wrong. There are distros that are like that, but there are distros that aren't. Linux offers choice, and not just the "bag of Legos" kind.
And, just in case the article author reads this...ever hear of Wine? As soon as Wine gets DCOM working correctly and Installshield working right, it won't matter to Joe User if the OS is Linux or Windows, just so long as he can install TurboTax and Doom3. Check back in a few years, and we'll see if you're singing a different tune.
I was all prepared to hate this show. I really was.
You gotta remember, this is the channel that made an even worse Dune than the trainwreck that aired in the theatres. The same guys who keep bringing you movies like "Killer Anaconda" and "Mansquito".
They told us there would be changes, and I was ready to hate this show for that reason too. A female Starbuck? Oh, how I would hate this show when it aired. How dare they?
But you know what? I finally got around to watching a few episodes...and it's really good! The mood is intense, the writing is good...good acting...I really can't find anything to dislike about it. It's not the same show you watched as a kid, no doubt about that - but for some reason I can't put my finger on, the changes in mood and tone and character seem to work.
My only (very minor) gripe is the camera work. The "shake the camera around" bit I find to be a little annoying. Later shows don't shake it around as much though, so it's easier to watch.
It's hard to believe, but Sci-Fi has a really good show here. A huge surprise, too. I even like the female Starbuck. Who'd have thought that was possible? I can't wait to see the next one, and it's been a *long* time since I've felt that way about anything on TV.
If you can see it on HD, I'd recommend it. It's a good show and HD could only make it better.
The whole reason they're doing this is VERY simple.
Release a tool that does some huge good - i.e. Busting child porn purveyors.
Make it open source, so the criminals can read the code.
The criminals can see how they're getting caught, and adapt.
Microsoft then proves that Open Source is evil, because it lets criminals get away.
All they did was find a limited-case example where releasing the code might be harmful, and implement it. This will be thoroughly epic FUD a year from now.
There's no mention of Mechs. Or the Yamato. Not even a single reference to a wave motion gun! Ah well, maybe those are in the next 20 year phase.
Seriously though, good luck Japan! I only wish we were as forward thinking as you guys seem to be. As it is, we can't even find a few million to keep getting data from Voyager.
Learn from us, do yourselves a favor and budget past those 20. You'll be glad you did, someday.
Greed. The model where the user controls the media they purchase produces less revenue than the model where the industry controls the media the user purchases.
More to the point, would you agree that the primary reason for DRM was to (try to) keep people from copying and distributing their product en masse?
No, I'll still go with greed. These companies exist to make money. All the noise you hear about "protecting artist's rights" is the legislative equivalent of bible-thumping.
If a DRM scheme materialized that perfectly protected copyright - but somehow cost the industry more than they're currently losing on piracy...they wouldn't go with it. They're a business, a big one, and to ascribe humanitarian qualities to a profit-minded entity is probably incorrect.
And that's the problem. People don't balk at iTunes DRM. They simply say that it's the best out there, so they're happy. Kind of like saying having a brick dropped on your foot is better than having a bowling ball dropped on your head. People keep forgetting the fact that both options suck.
If something really newsworthy did happen today. Something excellent and a little bit improbable. Maybe SCO calls it quits, or MS finally publishes their court-ordered complete API documentation.
It would be lost in all this fluff. The joke would be on us.
Because, simply put - it's a distracting chimera. It can never work. Say it with me - It Can Never Work.
Any DRM scenario I've seen put forward to date is broken. Either the user holds the keys, or there is an untrusted link in the transmission of the key, or *something*. There is always something missing.
The only DRM that would have a chance of working would be to put the media behind a plate glass window and allow the users to peek through the glass at it. But you'd still have people inside the building to social engineer info from...
Ping of death hasn't been a viable DOS technique for many years.
Well, that's kinda my point. It's the old unpatched zombie machines that'll be vulnerable. So if you accidentally ping of death an actual mail server rather than a zombie, no harm.
Well, I can think of a way to help conserve bandwidth.
Seems to me the idea is to flood zombie machines and make them unusable. So, rather than suck up valuable bandwidth - why not ping of death the zombie machine?
Zombie machines are what they are because the users don't take basic precautions. Like install patches. I'll betcha 99% of all Zombie machines aren't immune to even simple stuff like ping of death.
Education is one of the places where computers don't really belong. A computer cannot answer questions, tell memorable stories that make information stick in your head, or deal with the oddball questions that only a living flesh-and-blood teacher can field.
Also, computers - by taking the drudgery out of your homework - leave you with less of an education. An example is Calculus. I learned calc with a pencil and a piece of paper. I had a simple calculator of the $5 kind. As a result, I have a better idea of what is going on than if I just simply plugged stuff into Student Maple. To put it another way, when I see an integral, I know about Riemann and know what I'm looking at.
Bottom line - there is no shortcut to learning. If you take one, you're not learning.
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1) Where is the EFF? They need to be in on this.
2) Is there a place to donate directly to her legal expenses?
Let's get together on this one everyone - this one is important.
Interesting, considering some of his criticism of Apple's work in the past.
Not really. He's a Microsoft talking head - he's paid to pimp Bill's stuff and shun everyone else's.
Never be surprised at human behavior when a paycheck is involved.
From the article:
Businesses and organizations of all sizes need consistent, predictable, scalable, self-contained platforms for server solutions.
I thought Windows was winning on the desktop? Isn't that what we're always hearing?
Linux and Windows don't compete.
Ok, so the whole "Get The Facts" campaign was done just for grins?
Open source Unix, in which category I place Linux, BSD, and Darwin (the OS layer of Apple's OS X), is a 500,000-piece bag of Legos that comes with some drawings and a few models you can use, build on, or tap into as references for your own creations.
Also wrong. There are distros that are like that, but there are distros that aren't. Linux offers choice, and not just the "bag of Legos" kind.
And, just in case the article author reads this...ever hear of Wine? As soon as Wine gets DCOM working correctly and Installshield working right, it won't matter to Joe User if the OS is Linux or Windows, just so long as he can install TurboTax and Doom3. Check back in a few years, and we'll see if you're singing a different tune.
The genie is already out of the bottle. He's not going back in. Give up.
Sincerely,
Everyone
Not having an added layer or two of bloated advertising crapware between me and my web browsing.
...for the single most obfuscated description of anything, ever.
With their pseudomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor
Hell, I have a BSEE and just reading that gave me a headache!
I mean really, of all people...the Japanese coming up with something like this? No way.
Wonder away, but Sci-Fi's version lost me when they had Irulan hump Feyd.
I was all prepared to hate this show. I really was.
You gotta remember, this is the channel that made an even worse Dune than the trainwreck that aired in the theatres. The same guys who keep bringing you movies like "Killer Anaconda" and "Mansquito".
They told us there would be changes, and I was ready to hate this show for that reason too. A female Starbuck? Oh, how I would hate this show when it aired. How dare they?
But you know what? I finally got around to watching a few episodes...and it's really good! The mood is intense, the writing is good...good acting...I really can't find anything to dislike about it. It's not the same show you watched as a kid, no doubt about that - but for some reason I can't put my finger on, the changes in mood and tone and character seem to work.
My only (very minor) gripe is the camera work. The "shake the camera around" bit I find to be a little annoying. Later shows don't shake it around as much though, so it's easier to watch.
It's hard to believe, but Sci-Fi has a really good show here. A huge surprise, too. I even like the female Starbuck. Who'd have thought that was possible? I can't wait to see the next one, and it's been a *long* time since I've felt that way about anything on TV.
If you can see it on HD, I'd recommend it. It's a good show and HD could only make it better.
Just try to tuck a Euro into a dancer's garter belt.
Low denomination bills have their uses. ;^)
The whole reason they're doing this is VERY simple.
Release a tool that does some huge good - i.e. Busting child porn purveyors.
Make it open source, so the criminals can read the code.
The criminals can see how they're getting caught, and adapt.
Microsoft then proves that Open Source is evil, because it lets criminals get away.
All they did was find a limited-case example where releasing the code might be harmful, and implement it. This will be thoroughly epic FUD a year from now.
Get ready for it.
There's no mention of Mechs. Or the Yamato. Not even a single reference to a wave motion gun! Ah well, maybe those are in the next 20 year phase.
Seriously though, good luck Japan! I only wish we were as forward thinking as you guys seem to be. As it is, we can't even find a few million to keep getting data from Voyager.
Learn from us, do yourselves a favor and budget past those 20. You'll be glad you did, someday.
So why would they want to sidestep fair use?
Greed. The model where the user controls the media they purchase produces less revenue than the model where the industry controls the media the user purchases.
More to the point, would you agree that the primary reason for DRM was to (try to) keep people from copying and distributing their product en masse?
No, I'll still go with greed. These companies exist to make money. All the noise you hear about "protecting artist's rights" is the legislative equivalent of bible-thumping.
If a DRM scheme materialized that perfectly protected copyright - but somehow cost the industry more than they're currently losing on piracy...they wouldn't go with it. They're a business, a big one, and to ascribe humanitarian qualities to a profit-minded entity is probably incorrect.
To sidestep fair use.
But DRM like iTunes' is the most liberal there is
And that's the problem. People don't balk at iTunes DRM. They simply say that it's the best out there, so they're happy. Kind of like saying having a brick dropped on your foot is better than having a bowling ball dropped on your head. People keep forgetting the fact that both options suck.
Language is merely description, implementation is what you can benchmark.
And I also have to say, what we've got here is the single most intelligent AC post in the entire history of Slashdot.
If something really newsworthy did happen today. Something excellent and a little bit improbable. Maybe SCO calls it quits, or MS finally publishes their court-ordered complete API documentation.
It would be lost in all this fluff. The joke would be on us.
Examine the story link. It's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_1%2 C_2005/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia
April 1, right in the link. Obvious!
Because, simply put - it's a distracting chimera. It can never work. Say it with me - It Can Never Work.
Any DRM scenario I've seen put forward to date is broken. Either the user holds the keys, or there is an untrusted link in the transmission of the key, or *something*. There is always something missing.
The only DRM that would have a chance of working would be to put the media behind a plate glass window and allow the users to peek through the glass at it. But you'd still have people inside the building to social engineer info from...
Ping of death hasn't been a viable DOS technique for many years.
Well, that's kinda my point. It's the old unpatched zombie machines that'll be vulnerable. So if you accidentally ping of death an actual mail server rather than a zombie, no harm.
Well, I can think of a way to help conserve bandwidth.
Seems to me the idea is to flood zombie machines and make them unusable. So, rather than suck up valuable bandwidth - why not ping of death the zombie machine?
Zombie machines are what they are because the users don't take basic precautions. Like install patches. I'll betcha 99% of all Zombie machines aren't immune to even simple stuff like ping of death.
...it requires you place a wad of chewing gum in the headphone jack.
...computers don't belong everywhere.
Education is one of the places where computers don't really belong. A computer cannot answer questions, tell memorable stories that make information stick in your head, or deal with the oddball questions that only a living flesh-and-blood teacher can field.
Also, computers - by taking the drudgery out of your homework - leave you with less of an education. An example is Calculus. I learned calc with a pencil and a piece of paper. I had a simple calculator of the $5 kind. As a result, I have a better idea of what is going on than if I just simply plugged stuff into Student Maple. To put it another way, when I see an integral, I know about Riemann and know what I'm looking at.
Bottom line - there is no shortcut to learning. If you take one, you're not learning.
As someone who has learned three dead languages in the past six years (Latin, Egyptian, and Akkadian)
Ok pal - where are they hiding the Stargate?
The article says:
Many well-known vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were exploited by 'bot net controllers to find and take over target machines.
That's the only mention of an OS. Any metrics on exactly which OS and version/patchlevel is the most responsible?