Perhaps this is just a reflection of my own disillusionment with politics, but I would bet that most geeks don't vote, especially in off-year elections. We're a busy group, and the busier you are, the less likely you are to vote.
Interesting idea for a Slashdot poll: The last year I voted was
(a) 1998 (b) 1997 (c) 1996 (d) 1995 (e) 1994 (f) 1993 (g) 1992 (h) I've never voted (i) I'm not eligible to vote --
This appears to something being done on behalf of AOL, which is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia. AOL is very worried about the trend of bandwidth providers, the cable companies and the phone companies, becoming access and content providers as well.
If you've posted your email address on a web page or in a news group, I'd say you were giving tacit permission for someone to send *pertinent* email to you. You're not giving permission to be put on spam lists, however, so yes, I'd say this means you can sue a spammer.
If I step into your front yard, that technically is trespassing, although you couldn't make a case out of one incident unless I either (a) refuse to leave when you ask me to, or (b) you have "Posted: No Trespassing" signs.
Of course, when you file a lawsuit, you have to show that the defendent has caused you some damage, economic or otherwise. One unsolicited email wouldn't make much of a case, but 30,000 does.
I'm with Intel on this. Intel told the guy to stop, and he refused. Unsolicited email *is* trespassing, and I for one would like to see some class-action lawsuits filed against spammers. --
The thing that struck me about the article was this:
"Lie-nucks" is an OK translation for English speakers, but "linn-ucks" (with a short "i" as in "pit") is not acceptable, the FAQ says.
I was under the impression that "linn-ucks" was the preferred pronunciation, with "lie-nucks" as an acceptable substitute. Since the author didn't bother with a link to where he found this information, what the FAQ is he talking about? --
More like $100. Let's figure that BG makes about $10 billion a year (probably a slight underestimate), whereas the average non-student slashdotter (since according to a poll we're 20% sysadmins, 20% programmers, 10% engineers) makes about $50K.
$10G / $50K = 200K. And $20M / 200K = $100. So that's about like one of us giving $100 to some charitable cause, dollar for dollar.
Of course, if you factor in diminishing marginal utility, it's more like one of us dropping a dollar in the Salvation Army bucket.
If I had BG's money, I'd be buying up the last remaining old-growth forests in North America, and donating them to the Nature Conservancy.
Since when is a consumer boycott (organized or unorganized) not a part of the "free market"?
A letter writing campaign is just a nice way of letting the company know beforehand what the market will do.
And this is completely different from selling banner ads linked to keywords. This is more like a newspaper not putting a "Paid Advertisement" disclaimer on an ad that looks just like regular content. --
The distributors would do Linux newcomers a great service if they would just ship their product with every line in inetd.conf commented out: that way, a new user would have to consciously turn on service x if she needed it. --
All he's done to deserve your enmity is put his foot in his mouth about technological issues -- and what politicians hasn't put his foot in his mouth at least a dozen times?
Since the best voting strategy is usually "lesser of two evils," I'd wait and see who the GOP nominates before saying who you're voting for/against. Personally, the only Republican I can imagine voting for is John McCain, but he doesn't have a chance in hell of being nominated, assuming he even runs.
I'm really tired of people attempting to justify malicious actions by saying that the victims "deserved it" because they are "morons". (The most obnoxious case of this, of course, is saying that a rape victim "deserved" what she got because of how she dressed, how much she drank, etc. But it applies just as well to acts of electronic vandalism, such as virus writing and cracking.)
If someone leaves his back door unlocked, sure, he's a moron, and in some sense, he deserves to get burglarized. But that doesn't make the burglar any less a criminal! --
Robert T. Morris was convicted of violating the computer Fraud and Abuse Act (Title 18), and sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050, and the costs of his supervision. His appeal, filed in December, 1990, was rejected the following March. --
According to a much better CNN article, the charges are
second-degree charges of interruption of public communication, conspiracy to commit interruption of public communication and attempts to commit those offenses, as well as the third-degree offense of theft of computer services.
Also of note is that the CNN article makes no mention of the MS GUID being part of the evidence that led to his arrest. Apparently he was tracked through an AOL account. --
You lose! Now go look up "Godwin's Law" in the Jargon file, and type one thousand times, "Comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis are trite." Typing it once in vi and then hitting 'yy1000p' doesn't count.
But seriously folks, Hitler and the Nazis were really really bad, and just about any comparison of non-Nazis to them is disrespectful to the memory of the millions who died under the Nazi regime.
Please, find another metaphor to abuse. --
The only reason MacOS is so easy to install...
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Is that there's not the vast diversity of hardware for MacOS that's available for x86 -- and none of it is the total crap that most people run Windows on. Don't get me wrong here, Apple hardware has got some problems, but none of it is as bad as all the Pavilion/Presario/Packard-Bell (*shudder*) junk that people run Windows on.
In all my experience of installing OSes, Solaris wins hands-down for being the easiest. Now if it only didn't run so god-awful slow.
And don't get me started on FVWM95! First thing I do to a RedHat install is compile WindowMaker. --
Okay, so RMS is getting annoying. He's right that we should be thinking more about freedom, and it's true that without the GNU project we'd be nowhere: but unilaterally trying to change language is not only a waste of time, it pisses people off.
Just like it's true that women are discriminated against in almost every culture, but spelling it "wimmin" just makes you look stupid.
I'll call it GNU/Linux if the maintainers of the distro do. So it's "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Stampede GNU/Linux", but it's "Slackware Linux" and "RedHat Linux".
As for Mr. Mettler, "Esq.", I can't figure out what the hell he's talking about in his article. Does he mean that because the source code is available, it's easier to for an attacker to create a/bin/login with a back door? There are plenty of rootkits out there for proprietary systems! And has this guy never heard of MD5 checksums and hardware-locked volumes?
When it comes evaluating the security of a system, you should look at real-world track records. And if you'll do, you'll see that while Linux doesn't come out on top, another open-source OS does, viz. OpenBSD. --
The worst thing about the new site...
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Was the encouragement to "Protect your internet brand. Consider securing your dot net and dot org web addresses as well". I.e. Triple our profits, and cut the total name space by two thirds!
Is it just me, or isn't ".org" supposed to be for non-profit organization and personal sites, and.net for network service providers?
Then again there is/.
I'd say that no one entity should have control over more than one TLD. --
Why is it that every time I try to go to an MSNBC story, I keep getting bounced back and forth between www.msnbc.com and msid.msnbc.com, and no page every loads? Does anybody else have this problem? --
Slashdot Mirror
"To beg the question" is to assume that the conclusion of the argument is true (as one of the premisses of the argument).
Arguments aren't true or false; they're valid or invalid, sound or unsound.
(I just knew my ABD in philosophy would come in handy one day!)
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Perhaps this is just a reflection of my own disillusionment with politics, but I would bet that most geeks don't vote, especially in off-year elections. We're a busy group, and the busier you are, the less likely you are to vote.
Interesting idea for a Slashdot poll: The last year I voted was
(a) 1998
(b) 1997
(c) 1996
(d) 1995
(e) 1994
(f) 1993
(g) 1992
(h) I've never voted
(i) I'm not eligible to vote
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This appears to something being done on behalf of AOL, which is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia. AOL is very worried about the trend of bandwidth providers, the cable companies and the phone companies, becoming access and content providers as well.
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IANAL, but:
If you've posted your email address on a web page or in a news group, I'd say you were giving tacit permission for someone to send *pertinent* email to you. You're not giving permission to be put on spam lists, however, so yes, I'd say this means you can sue a spammer.
If I step into your front yard, that technically is trespassing, although you couldn't make a case out of one incident unless I either (a) refuse to leave when you ask me to, or (b) you have "Posted: No Trespassing" signs.
Of course, when you file a lawsuit, you have to show that the defendent has caused you some damage, economic or otherwise. One unsolicited email wouldn't make much of a case, but 30,000 does.
I'm with Intel on this. Intel told the guy to stop, and he refused. Unsolicited email *is* trespassing, and I for one would like to see some class-action lawsuits filed against spammers.
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It would mean one less reason for my wife to boot my machine into MacOS.
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"Lie-nucks" is an OK translation for English speakers, but "linn-ucks" (with a short "i" as in "pit") is not acceptable, the FAQ says.
I was under the impression that "linn-ucks" was the preferred pronunciation, with "lie-nucks" as an acceptable substitute. Since the author didn't bother with a link to where he found this information, what the FAQ is he talking about?
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More like $100. Let's figure that BG makes about $10 billion a year (probably a slight underestimate), whereas the average non-student slashdotter (since according to a poll we're 20% sysadmins, 20% programmers, 10% engineers) makes about $50K.
$10G / $50K = 200K. And $20M / 200K = $100. So that's about like one of us giving $100 to some charitable cause, dollar for dollar.
Of course, if you factor in diminishing marginal utility, it's more like one of us dropping a dollar in the Salvation Army bucket.
If I had BG's money, I'd be buying up the last remaining old-growth forests in North America, and donating them to the Nature Conservancy.
Cheap bastard!
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Since when is a consumer boycott (organized or unorganized) not a part of the "free market"?
A letter writing campaign is just a nice way of letting the company know beforehand what the market will do.
And this is completely different from selling banner ads linked to keywords. This is more like a newspaper not putting a "Paid Advertisement" disclaimer on an ad that looks just like regular content.
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The distributors would do Linux newcomers a great service if they would just ship their product with every line in inetd.conf commented out: that way, a new user would have to consciously turn on service x if she needed it.
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All he's done to deserve your enmity is put his foot in his mouth about technological issues -- and what politicians hasn't put his foot in his mouth at least a dozen times?
Since the best voting strategy is usually "lesser of two evils," I'd wait and see who the GOP nominates before saying who you're voting for/against. Personally, the only Republican I can imagine voting for is John McCain, but he doesn't have a chance in hell of being nominated, assuming he even runs.
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I'm really tired of people attempting to justify malicious actions by saying that the victims "deserved it" because they are "morons". (The most obnoxious case of this, of course, is saying that a rape victim "deserved" what she got because of how she dressed, how much she drank, etc. But it applies just as well to acts of electronic vandalism, such as virus writing and cracking.)
If someone leaves his back door unlocked, sure, he's a moron, and in some sense, he deserves to get burglarized. But that doesn't make the burglar any less a criminal!
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Is that the virus-protection industry, i.e. Symantec and Network Associates, is churning these things out to keep their stock prices up.
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Robert T. Morris was convicted of violating the computer Fraud and Abuse Act (Title 18), and sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050, and the costs of his supervision. His appeal, filed in December, 1990, was rejected the following March.
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second-degree charges of interruption of public communication, conspiracy to commit interruption of public communication and attempts to commit those offenses, as well as the third-degree offense of theft of computer services.
Also of note is that the CNN article makes no mention of the MS GUID being part of the evidence that led to his arrest. Apparently he was tracked through an AOL account.
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You lose! Now go look up "Godwin's Law" in the Jargon file, and type one thousand times, "Comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis are trite." Typing it once in vi and then hitting 'yy1000p' doesn't count.
But seriously folks, Hitler and the Nazis were really really bad, and just about any comparison of non-Nazis to them is disrespectful to the memory of the millions who died under the Nazi regime.
Please, find another metaphor to abuse.
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Is that there's not the vast diversity of hardware for MacOS that's available for x86 -- and none of it is the total crap that most people run Windows on. Don't get me wrong here, Apple hardware has got some problems, but none of it is as bad as all the Pavilion/Presario/Packard-Bell (*shudder*) junk that people run Windows on.
In all my experience of installing OSes, Solaris wins hands-down for being the easiest. Now if it only didn't run so god-awful slow.
And don't get me started on FVWM95! First thing I do to a RedHat install is compile WindowMaker.
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Okay, so RMS is getting annoying. He's right that we should be thinking more about freedom, and it's true that without the GNU project we'd be nowhere: but unilaterally trying to change language is not only a waste of time, it pisses people off.
/bin/login with a back door? There are plenty of rootkits out there for proprietary systems! And has this guy never heard of MD5 checksums and hardware-locked volumes?
Just like it's true that women are discriminated against in almost every culture, but spelling it "wimmin" just makes you look stupid.
I'll call it GNU/Linux if the maintainers of the distro do. So it's "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Stampede GNU/Linux", but it's "Slackware Linux" and "RedHat Linux".
As for Mr. Mettler, "Esq.", I can't figure out what the hell he's talking about in his article. Does he mean that because the source code is available, it's easier to for an attacker to create a
When it comes evaluating the security of a system, you should look at real-world track records. And if you'll do, you'll see that while Linux doesn't come out on top, another open-source OS does, viz. OpenBSD.
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Was the encouragement to "Protect your internet brand. Consider securing your dot net and dot org web addresses as well". I.e. Triple our profits, and cut the total name space by two thirds!
.net for network service providers?
/.
Is it just me, or isn't ".org" supposed to be for non-profit organization and personal sites, and
Then again there is
I'd say that no one entity should have control over more than one TLD.
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Why is it that every time I try to go to an MSNBC story, I keep getting bounced back and forth between www.msnbc.com and msid.msnbc.com, and no page every loads? Does anybody else have this problem?
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Looking at the Blender Shop page, the price is quoted as 89.00 NLG. Anyone know how much that is in American money?
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So it's okay for *you* to go ahead and download from rasterman.com, but everyone *else* should wait for a mirror.
Practice what you preach, AC!
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But if Judith Lewis will find a local LUG, she'll find out that Linux users have *better* ones.
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I thought Pitr was more the Slackware type, myself.
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BTW, if you're using LinuxPPC (or any flavor for PPC other than the MkLinux), the new 2.2.x kernel screams!
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