How is not providing the source to a driver 'not wanting you're business.'
Because those are the rules of doing business with the free software community. If Nvidia wants to ship their drivers with Windows Vista they have to agree to whatever rules Microsoft requires. If they want to ship their drivers compiled into the Linux kernel, they have to agree to the rules the Linux kernel team requires.
The fact is that Nvidia doesn't agree to the Linux kernel team's rules. They want to sell video chips to Linux users, but they want to keep the functioning of those chips a secret. They have every right to refuse to cooperate, but the resulting difficulty of configuring Nvidia's chips is a problem they have created on their own.
Except XGL is Kororaa's main feature (in fact, the only reason for the LiveCD), and that won't run without those drivers.
And this is the sleeping evil of ATI and Nvidia's binary drivers. Most recent 3D games for Linux were developed using these binary drivers. XGL also seems to be written largely for the binary-only drivers (you might get some of the old Radeon's or some of the newer Intel chips to work with DRI, but that doesn't seem to be the emphasis.) The fact that developers are writing software that relies on these proprietary blobs for acceptable performance is a step backward for free software. I would rather have the X we have today than an improved X that only works when I install non-free drivers.
However, quite a few people will probably keep the default OS out of laziness, if nothing else, so Windows will loose market share.
If they installed a working, full featured Linux distro this would be true. Past experience shows that whenever Linux gets preinstalled in the U.S. it's some stripped-down useless distro like Thizlinux,Linspire or FreeDos.
I'm not sure who the marketing geniuses are that pick ThizLinux over Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, Mepis, Ubuntu, etc.....but it seems fairly consistent.
Asimov was clear that robots could be used to kill people -- that was the excuse for bringing up the three laws to begin with -- people scared that robots would run around killing them.
But the real problem isn't that the robots will rise up Matrix style. The real problem is that no government on this planet can be trusted with automated police and military forces.
Imagine the Soviet Coup of 1991 where the Russian military is composed primarily of robots. The images on TV would have been tanks driving right over people. Imagine Hitler's scorched earth policy at the end of WW2 with an army and police force of robots. Bosnia, Kosovo, Tiananmen Square...as bad as these were, the human decency of the people tasked with carrying out these artocities did restrain the bloodlust of their leaders to a certain degree.
I can't imagine Democracy (such as we have now) surviving long after replacing the human beings in the military with robots. The often flawed ethics of human beings are still better than no ethics at all.
I agree. But again, the way I read the alert, isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack?
It's a replay attack. I take a very terse/vague signed message that you've written and append important evil data to the front or back and resend it. The signature checks out and the meat of the message (the stuff I've added on to the front or end) appears to come from you.
This sort of problem has come up before in other contexts. When you sign an email, for example, it's doesn't include the headers or date. If your signed message is general enough, I can copy it and send it to someone else (GPG signatures verify the sender, not the recipient.) One of the situations where this has come up is in the Debian voting process. If a DD mistakenly sends their ballot to the wrong person, then changes their vote, anyone who has a copy of the old ballot can send it again and change the vote back. Debian safeguards against this by allowing each DD to see how their vote was cast after the vote is complete.
If you're shopping with rebates as an option you can pick up a cheap laptop for around $500. Honestly, if you want an inexpensive computer with Windows installed you just can't beat the big vendors on price. The discounts they receive from buying in bulk are impossible to compete with.
All we get in the USA is photos of naked "brave Iraqi insurgents" being humiliated by the evil US military.
I tend to think we get the GI Joe version of war reporting. We get to see plenty of blown up tanks, buildings and bridges, but we never really see dead civilians or soldiers.
On a personal note: I don't understand why ID is needed for someone to see the hand of god in the creation - even if the origins of life would be traced back to phosphorous parts brought to earth by comets from another solar system: it will always be an amazing accident.
There's no religious problem with the big bang or evolution. It's only a problem for religious fundamentalists. If you don't believe in a clergy with the ability to understand god's message then you're left with the bible as the only source of knowledge about god. The bible is obviously not meant to be interpreted as a literal history of the earth, but fundamentalism has no other source of divine revelation. The bible in their view must be true, from start to finish. Where observable reality differs from the bible, observable reality is wrong.
With modern animal husbandry techniques, we now keep the animals penned and well fed, control their breeding, and we wind up with cows who have easily 50 times the milk production of medieval cows.
There is one problem with your analogy. The cows in this case aren't the musicians, they're the consumers. The RIAA wants to keep consumers penned in and forced to listen to radio stations they control, to watch music television they control, and to buy CDs at record stores they control. We are the cows that can't be trusted to make decisions on our own.
and even the Aeneid and the Odyssey, both of which are sequels to the Iliad.
Hmm.. I remember reading before (though I can't find any link supporting it now) that the Iliad and Odyssey were originally connected together in a larger story of the Trojan war. If that's true, then they are different sections from the same story that have been pulled out of context (Star Wars would be a good example of this in movies.)
The Aeneid is fairly disconnected from the homeric epics and has a different author. I wouldn't call it a sequel. It borrows the setting from Homer and goes off on a new plot line with new characters. It's like Underworld borrowing from Blade.
The best greek example of ruthelessly profiteering off a succesful story would have to be Oedipus. The third story, Antigone, was written first and highly successful. The Oedipus story was just popular culture that was used as background. Antigone was well recieved though, so he went back and wrote two prequels.
Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude.
These are great tools for package management, but have virtually nothing to do with configuration/administration. If you mess up the configuration during the initial package install, you're on your own in figuring out which package to "dpkg-reconfigure".
As an example.... Lets say you install the x-window-system and gnome metapackages. You attempt to configure X, but for one reason or another it doesn't start up correctly. Which package needs to be reconfigured to fix X? You could simply edit/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by hand, but that's not the correct solution (Debconf will give up on managing the file if you edit it.)
Debian doesn't give you any real guidance in these situations. It does have powerful tools to fix problems but they're not simple to use. Unfortunately, most of the third-party admin tools don't integrate well with Debian's existing configuration system. If adminmenu is different in this respect, it would be a worthwhile addition to Debian.
Part 2 is wrong though. Fry's does sell Linux boxes and even goes as far as advertising them in the Houston Chronicle on most Sundays. It's a crappy ThizLinux box used as a bait and switch. Shoppers come in for the cheap Linux box and get sold the slightly more expensive emachines WinXP box.
Linspire is truely evil though. Linspire boxes come with virtually no applications. The whole point of preloaded Linspire is to upsell the purchaser into click-and-run. ($99 CNR subscription for the $200 computer you just purchased!?!?!) I would bet that Linspire pays the OEM a small fee for each install or each CNR subscription. In a sane world these Linux preloaded machines would come with Debian, Fedora or some other free distro. They should be preloaded with thousands of applications and games. Instead anyone who experiences Linux for the first time through a preloaded machine will see the worst that Linux has to offer.
I realize that #debian has a reputation as a terrible place to visit, but why would you expect that questions about Knoppix or Ubuntu would be answered there? Would you expect RedHat's support staff to diagnose problems with Mandrake or CentOS?
In my opinion, DCC is good for debian, and good for LInux.
IMHO, DCC is great for end users (more support and preconfiguration options for Debian Stable) and great for the derived distributions (pooled resources), but completely irrelevant to the Debian Project.
Any work done fixing Debian Stable is worthless to Debian. Debian will not allow anything other than security fixes into stable, and a patch against the stable version of a package is useless for updating the unstable version of a package.
The people in DCC...they're great folks and do lots of spectacular things for Debian. DCC itself though, its goal is to improve Debian derivatives, not Debian.
Admittedly, I wouldn't buy an ebook. I might consider it a nice piece of added value if it was shipped with a paperback book, but I wouldn't waste money on an ebook alone. Ebooks do have other valid uses though.
For instance, the Houston Public Library allows you to check out and read certain books online. Rather than hopping in a car and driving around town to find a physical copy of book X at one of the 30 library locations, I can simply fire up a browser and check it out. No need to worry about late fees. If I forget to check the book back in, it happens automatically.
There will be more than 7. This doesn't factor in the versions tailored to other nations. Microsoft is just working out the details of an effective price discrimination scheme.
"They wanted unlimited access to the buildings, which we could not give to anyone in the media," said Gloria Roemer, a spokesperson for Harris County, which has jurisdiction over the Astrodome complex. Currently reporters are allowed in only on 15-minute guided tours.
Now this makes perfect sense... If you're a refugee forced to live in a room with 10,000 other people do you really want reporters taking pictures and invading what little privacy you have?
I wasn't claiming that you can urlencode a POST into an hyperlink. I was saying that many scripts say they want POST but will happily accept urlencoded GET without complaining.
If you track evil POSTs, you have to track evil GETs or you leave a simple workaround (just copy/paste your evil string on the URL.) OTOH, if you track and report evil GETs, then any unsuspecting fool who clicks on a bad hyperlink might be wrongfully reported.
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How is not providing the source to a driver 'not wanting you're business.'
Because those are the rules of doing business with the free software community. If Nvidia wants to ship their drivers with Windows Vista they have to agree to whatever rules Microsoft requires. If they want to ship their drivers compiled into the Linux kernel, they have to agree to the rules the Linux kernel team requires.
The fact is that Nvidia doesn't agree to the Linux kernel team's rules. They want to sell video chips to Linux users, but they want to keep the functioning of those chips a secret. They have every right to refuse to cooperate, but the resulting difficulty of configuring Nvidia's chips is a problem they have created on their own.
Except XGL is Kororaa's main feature (in fact, the only reason for the LiveCD), and that won't run without those drivers.
And this is the sleeping evil of ATI and Nvidia's binary drivers. Most recent 3D games for Linux were developed using these binary drivers. XGL also seems to be written largely for the binary-only drivers (you might get some of the old Radeon's or some of the newer Intel chips to work with DRI, but that doesn't seem to be the emphasis.) The fact that developers are writing software that relies on these proprietary blobs for acceptable performance is a step backward for free software. I would rather have the X we have today than an improved X that only works when I install non-free drivers.
However, quite a few people will probably keep the default OS out of laziness, if nothing else, so Windows will loose market share.
If they installed a working, full featured Linux distro this would be true. Past experience shows that whenever Linux gets preinstalled in the U.S. it's some stripped-down useless distro like Thizlinux, Linspire or FreeDos.
I'm not sure who the marketing geniuses are that pick ThizLinux over Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, Mepis, Ubuntu, etc.....but it seems fairly consistent.
Business didn't start this nonsence. FDR started it in 1943 with Executive Order 9397.
When you are the victim of identity theft you know who to sue: Sue Baldwin
No no no.... It says right on the mortgage that her name is VERNA Sue Baldwin.
Personally I love her oath to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Florida." Priceless...
Asimov was clear that robots could be used to kill people -- that was the excuse for bringing up the three laws to begin with -- people scared that robots would run around killing them.
But the real problem isn't that the robots will rise up Matrix style. The real problem is that no government on this planet can be trusted with automated police and military forces.
Imagine the Soviet Coup of 1991 where the Russian military is composed primarily of robots. The images on TV would have been tanks driving right over people. Imagine Hitler's scorched earth policy at the end of WW2 with an army and police force of robots. Bosnia, Kosovo, Tiananmen Square...as bad as these were, the human decency of the people tasked with carrying out these artocities did restrain the bloodlust of their leaders to a certain degree.
I can't imagine Democracy (such as we have now) surviving long after replacing the human beings in the military with robots. The often flawed ethics of human beings are still better than no ethics at all.
I agree. But again, the way I read the alert, isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack?
It's a replay attack. I take a very terse/vague signed message that you've written and append important evil data to the front or back and resend it. The signature checks out and the meat of the message (the stuff I've added on to the front or end) appears to come from you.
This sort of problem has come up before in other contexts. When you sign an email, for example, it's doesn't include the headers or date. If your signed message is general enough, I can copy it and send it to someone else (GPG signatures verify the sender, not the recipient.) One of the situations where this has come up is in the Debian voting process. If a DD mistakenly sends their ballot to the wrong person, then changes their vote, anyone who has a copy of the old ballot can send it again and change the vote back. Debian safeguards against this by allowing each DD to see how their vote was cast after the vote is complete.
If you're shopping with rebates as an option you can pick up a cheap laptop for around $500. Honestly, if you want an inexpensive computer with Windows installed you just can't beat the big vendors on price. The discounts they receive from buying in bulk are impossible to compete with.
These Theora files crash VLC and Totem on my Debian Stable box. With Xine I get an empty blue screen. Other Theora files work fine for me.
All we get in the USA is photos of naked "brave Iraqi insurgents" being humiliated by the evil US military.
I tend to think we get the GI Joe version of war reporting. We get to see plenty of blown up tanks, buildings and bridges, but we never really see dead civilians or soldiers.
On a personal note: I don't understand why ID is needed for someone to see the hand of god in the creation - even if the origins of life would be traced back to phosphorous parts brought to earth by comets from another solar system: it will always be an amazing accident.
There's no religious problem with the big bang or evolution. It's only a problem for religious fundamentalists. If you don't believe in a clergy with the ability to understand god's message then you're left with the bible as the only source of knowledge about god. The bible is obviously not meant to be interpreted as a literal history of the earth, but fundamentalism has no other source of divine revelation. The bible in their view must be true, from start to finish. Where observable reality differs from the bible, observable reality is wrong.
With modern animal husbandry techniques, we now keep the animals penned and well fed, control their breeding, and we wind up with cows who have easily 50 times the milk production of medieval cows.
There is one problem with your analogy. The cows in this case aren't the musicians, they're the consumers. The RIAA wants to keep consumers penned in and forced to listen to radio stations they control, to watch music television they control, and to buy CDs at record stores they control. We are the cows that can't be trusted to make decisions on our own.
and even the Aeneid and the Odyssey, both of which are sequels to the Iliad.
Hmm.. I remember reading before (though I can't find any link supporting it now) that the Iliad and Odyssey were originally connected together in a larger story of the Trojan war. If that's true, then they are different sections from the same story that have been pulled out of context (Star Wars would be a good example of this in movies.)
The Aeneid is fairly disconnected from the homeric epics and has a different author. I wouldn't call it a sequel. It borrows the setting from Homer and goes off on a new plot line with new characters. It's like Underworld borrowing from Blade.
The best greek example of ruthelessly profiteering off a succesful story would have to be Oedipus. The third story, Antigone, was written first and highly successful. The Oedipus story was just popular culture that was used as background. Antigone was well recieved though, so he went back and wrote two prequels.
In a completely robotic war the only casualties will be civilians.
Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude.
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by hand, but that's not the correct solution (Debconf will give up on managing the file if you edit it.)
These are great tools for package management, but have virtually nothing to do with configuration/administration. If you mess up the configuration during the initial package install, you're on your own in figuring out which package to "dpkg-reconfigure".
As an example.... Lets say you install the x-window-system and gnome metapackages. You attempt to configure X, but for one reason or another it doesn't start up correctly. Which package needs to be reconfigured to fix X? You could simply edit
Debian doesn't give you any real guidance in these situations. It does have powerful tools to fix problems but they're not simple to use. Unfortunately, most of the third-party admin tools don't integrate well with Debian's existing configuration system. If adminmenu is different in this respect, it would be a worthwhile addition to Debian.
Part 2 is wrong though. Fry's does sell Linux boxes and even goes as far as advertising them in the Houston Chronicle on most Sundays. It's a crappy ThizLinux box used as a bait and switch. Shoppers come in for the cheap Linux box and get sold the slightly more expensive emachines WinXP box.
Linspire is truely evil though. Linspire boxes come with virtually no applications. The whole point of preloaded Linspire is to upsell the purchaser into click-and-run. ($99 CNR subscription for the $200 computer you just purchased!?!?!) I would bet that Linspire pays the OEM a small fee for each install or each CNR subscription. In a sane world these Linux preloaded machines would come with Debian, Fedora or some other free distro. They should be preloaded with thousands of applications and games. Instead anyone who experiences Linux for the first time through a preloaded machine will see the worst that Linux has to offer.
I realize that #debian has a reputation as a terrible place to visit, but why would you expect that questions about Knoppix or Ubuntu would be answered there? Would you expect RedHat's support staff to diagnose problems with Mandrake or CentOS?
In my opinion, DCC is good for debian, and good for LInux.
IMHO, DCC is great for end users (more support and preconfiguration options for Debian Stable) and great for the derived distributions (pooled resources), but completely irrelevant to the Debian Project.
Any work done fixing Debian Stable is worthless to Debian. Debian will not allow anything other than security fixes into stable, and a patch against the stable version of a package is useless for updating the unstable version of a package.
The people in DCC...they're great folks and do lots of spectacular things for Debian. DCC itself though, its goal is to improve Debian derivatives, not Debian.
Admittedly, I wouldn't buy an ebook. I might consider it a nice piece of added value if it was shipped with a paperback book, but I wouldn't waste money on an ebook alone. Ebooks do have other valid uses though.
For instance, the Houston Public Library allows you to check out and read certain books online. Rather than hopping in a car and driving around town to find a physical copy of book X at one of the 30 library locations, I can simply fire up a browser and check it out. No need to worry about late fees. If I forget to check the book back in, it happens automatically.
With news of there being 7 Vista editions...
There will be more than 7. This doesn't factor in the versions tailored to other nations. Microsoft is just working out the details of an effective price discrimination scheme.
Yes, so the world can know about the conditions you are living in, and can press the authorities about it.
These people deserve privacy.
If a group of refugees want to hold a press conference about mistreatment, that's a different story.
"They wanted unlimited access to the buildings, which we could not give to anyone in the media," said Gloria Roemer, a spokesperson for Harris County, which has jurisdiction over the Astrodome complex. Currently reporters are allowed in only on 15-minute guided tours.
Now this makes perfect sense... If you're a refugee forced to live in a room with 10,000 other people do you really want reporters taking pictures and invading what little privacy you have?
This is just a bunch of geeks that got told, "No, your idea won't actually help anyone", so they went and complained to /.
Exactly
I wasn't claiming that you can urlencode a POST into an hyperlink. I was saying that many scripts say they want POST but will happily accept urlencoded GET without complaining.
If you track evil POSTs, you have to track evil GETs or you leave a simple workaround (just copy/paste your evil string on the URL.) OTOH, if you track and report evil GETs, then any unsuspecting fool who clicks on a bad hyperlink might be wrongfully reported.
You have to be doing something deliberately malicious in order to get caught by the honeypot.
So you encode evil input into the URL. Many scripts accept POST and GET.