What you do with your own network is your business, if you're afraid of legal trouble, its your choice. But calling other people idiots for not doing pulling the same restrictions is asinine. Who is going to press charges on the NYC parks dep. for some hack-job? You seem to be saying any anonymous use of the Internet is dangerous, and shouldn't be allowed. Not that offering it opens you up to liability.
No wonder the spellchecker couldn't figure out what I meant. I don't really put that much effort into slashdot postings, there are other things in life to worry about. And I do know where the word comes from, thank you.
Yes, and ban any computer with DRM too!!
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What is the difference between what your suggesting and efforts by the RIAA and others to ban computers with DRM? Lets cripple technology so people can't do bad things.
In this case, it's even stupider. You're basically saying we should put restrictions on everyone because some people haven't bothered keep up with security patches. As far as spamming goes, well I might agree with an SMTP block, but that has more to do with the fact that SMTP is an obsolete protocol, and there's no real reason to be running a mail server from a park with (I'm assuming) a DHCP address.
Once they SSH out they're back in their own system, and acountable again. Unless they are connecting to a hacked box, but they wouldn't be able to hack their first one from the park anyway.
Well, 5 people seem to have dissagreed.
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Btw, this one actualy makes sense, like the soviets would wire things up without purpose, etc...
If they really want to redeem make AOL an attractive choice, they should allow broadband AOLers to download TWs Tv shows and old movies and the like.
Of course they'd rather sit on their ass and wait for things like CDBPTPA or whatever to 'promote' broadband by making computers illegal so people won't steal their crap. Sheesh.
I do read CNN once in a while though, when people to link to it.
What does this mean exactly? That Posting DeCSS to the internet isn't bad enough to be sued or whatever? Or is it something more specific to this case, like his posting to the internet doesn't put him under the jurisdiction of Cali courts?
Itanium chips do Run x86 code, but, they are not optimized for it. They have a new, modern ISA thats supposed to be really good. Hammer on the other hand, is simply a 286->396 style extension to x86.
Of course, Itanium chips don't really seem to run all that fast, so who knows what's going on:P
The codebase for the project I'm working on at work is currently about 170,000 lines, big, but certainly not a "huge" project, and it takes nearly ten minutes to rebuild on a P4 2 GHz
Perhaps you should stop using such a crappy compiler/linker.
Um, how does that make it the 'coolest'?
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I don't really think you can really quantify coolness in general, but I fail to see how the fact that this thing is cheap makes it all that cool.
Perhaps if it was going to run simulations of ultra-low temperature physics... get it? haha. I kill me.
If you're writing a browser, just change the behavior of the popup-blocker from actually stopping popups, to having the window open without displaying it, IE it doesn't show up on the taskbar and can't be seen. It's the same effect as not opening, really.
Of course, this probably wont work with an add-on popup blocker to IE. It's to bad M$ doesn't have the guts to put a popup blocker in IE.
I've found a simple way to prevent popups is to put frequently-visited sites (salon, the onion) that do have popup's in the restricted sites list.
Also these people are crazy. The kinds of people who would actually put this software on their pages probably aren't making pages worth visiting anyway.
I think anyone reading slashdot for the past few years would know what berlin was.
Of course, since slashdot has gone down in quality so much most of the people from long ago are gone (actualy the comments have been getting a little better lately, but the stories are still crappy as hell)
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I had a really low UID on kuro5hin, but while I wouldn't say it got taken over by terroris sympathisers, it definetly got boring.
I still stop buy once in a while. The diary section is always a good place to get tech answers, I've found.
manhattan has the highest population density of anywhere in the world. It works out to just one 6x6 meter square per person.
But someone at the NYT might wonder what this 'goatse.cx' thing is their logs...
Where does it say in the constitution that the government is only allowed to supply essential services?
What you do with your own network is your business, if you're afraid of legal trouble, its your choice. But calling other people idiots for not doing pulling the same restrictions is asinine. Who is going to press charges on the NYC parks dep. for some hack-job? You seem to be saying any anonymous use of the Internet is dangerous, and shouldn't be allowed. Not that offering it opens you up to liability.
Well, for one thing, the model of selling a product doesn't work in the software development industry.
Is that why bill gates is only worth $65 billion?
Wouldn't be nice if people who didn't know what they were talking about would keep their mouth shut?
ellipsis == '...'
Asterisk == '*'
He only said freedom to redistribute. All Open source software may be redistributed, that's the whole fucking point, dumbass.
Better then the american approach of having the FBI raid your house and confiscate all your computers, never to be returned...
No wonder the spellchecker couldn't figure out what I meant. I don't really put that much effort into slashdot postings, there are other things in life to worry about. And I do know where the word comes from, thank you.
What is the difference between what your suggesting and efforts by the RIAA and others to ban computers with DRM? Lets cripple technology so people can't do bad things.
In this case, it's even stupider. You're basically saying we should put restrictions on everyone because some people haven't bothered keep up with security patches. As far as spamming goes, well I might agree with an SMTP block, but that has more to do with the fact that SMTP is an obsolete protocol, and there's no real reason to be running a mail server from a park with (I'm assuming) a DHCP address.
Once they SSH out they're back in their own system, and acountable again. Unless they are connecting to a hacked box, but they wouldn't be able to hack their first one from the park anyway.
Btw, this one actualy makes sense, like the soviets would wire things up without purpose, etc...
Check out BBC Americas. Quality news, and it's all subsidized by the British tax payers!
Talk about camablizing TW for the sake of AOL.
If they really want to redeem make AOL an attractive choice, they should allow broadband AOLers to download TWs Tv shows and old movies and the like.
Of course they'd rather sit on their ass and wait for things like CDBPTPA or whatever to 'promote' broadband by making computers illegal so people won't steal their crap. Sheesh.
I do read CNN once in a while though, when people to link to it.
What does this mean exactly? That Posting DeCSS to the internet isn't bad enough to be sued or whatever? Or is it something more specific to this case, like his posting to the internet doesn't put him under the jurisdiction of Cali courts?
Itanium chips do Run x86 code, but, they are not optimized for it. They have a new, modern ISA thats supposed to be really good. Hammer on the other hand, is simply a 286->396 style extension to x86.
:P
Of course, Itanium chips don't really seem to run all that fast, so who knows what's going on
A lot of OS-X apps are written in java these days, and those would run right off.
Apple fans are probably pissing themselves with excitement. Perhaps now Apple will actualy be able to deliver faster computers!
The codebase for the project I'm working on at work is currently about 170,000 lines, big, but certainly not a "huge" project, and it takes nearly ten minutes to rebuild on a P4 2 GHz
Perhaps you should stop using such a crappy compiler/linker.
I don't really think you can really quantify coolness in general, but I fail to see how the fact that this thing is cheap makes it all that cool.
Perhaps if it was going to run simulations of ultra-low temperature physics... get it? haha. I kill me.
They might as well use intersistials, which are irritating, but not nearly so much as popups, IMO.
If you're writing a browser, just change the behavior of the popup-blocker from actually stopping popups, to having the window open without displaying it, IE it doesn't show up on the taskbar and can't be seen. It's the same effect as not opening, really.
Of course, this probably wont work with an add-on popup blocker to IE. It's to bad M$ doesn't have the guts to put a popup blocker in IE.
I've found a simple way to prevent popups is to put frequently-visited sites (salon, the onion) that do have popup's in the restricted sites list.
Also these people are crazy. The kinds of people who would actually put this software on their pages probably aren't making pages worth visiting anyway.
Damn, what a fugly widget set. Hopefully they'll get something better soon.
How extensible is the API that these people are using, as far as the ability to theme the widgets/windows/etc?
I think anyone reading slashdot for the past few years would know what berlin was.
Of course, since slashdot has gone down in quality so much most of the people from long ago are gone (actualy the comments have been getting a little better lately, but the stories are still crappy as hell)