Here in the South, we have People for the Eating of Tastey Animals - especially on BBQ day here in Memphis. So rather than protect the animals, we should kill them humanely and roast their corpses.
It's just inevitable that a high-profile Gentoo server got broken into. I use Gentoo for my desktop, but if I were in a business environment, I'd stick with Redhat or SuSe. Gentoo has always been an enthusiast's distribution. I personally hold Gentoo and Debian in as high regard as one another, and Gentoo is just my personal preference. Both have excellent package managers. Behaving a as a Zealot, whether for Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, or for a religion just makes you look like a blind fool.
I don't think the problem of buying cheap drugs from Canada/Mexico is the whole piece. Counterfeit drugs are a real problem. The are plenty of mail order drug companies that have been featured on TV. Quite a few politicians are still supporting state programs that import from Canada and/or mandate discounts from the Big Drug Companies. From an ethical standpoint, I find the prices drug corporations rake in on their patented drugs more revolting than the RIAA. My impression is that the drug companies spend more money on marketing than they do on R&D, despite their B.S. excuse that mandatory discounts will cut their R&D budget.
IMHO, it's far easier for a nation like Iran to simply buy a GPS-based guidance system from the Chinese or Russians. The Russians and Chinese have no issue with selling missile equipment to each other, and to rogue states. Or how Pakistan is rumored to have helped North Korea in the development of Nuclear weapons in the past.
As far as I'm concerned, Nintendo didn't make the GCN able to play DVD's because 1) it would have required the addition of a SPDIF (optical digital audio) - which the other two have. And 2) the ability to read normal 120mm discs. Don't forget quite a few Nintendo-branded games still MSRP for more than $30 - despite how their gameplay is oh so similar to some of the Mario 64 titles.
My Xbox has a "Trusted Computing"-style BIOS and OS (the dashboard). That didn't stop me from modding it and being able to play videos/photos with Xbox Media Center, a kind of homebrew version of XP Media Center Edition for Xbox. Yes, I know the Xbox is a poor example because it's a homogeneous platform. But as long as there is demand for non-TCP motherboards, manufacturers will build boards without DRM. And as far as I'm concerned, the whole idea of TCP becoming mandatory by law is BS. Yes, the assbags in Washington could pass a bill like the DMCA for DRM-loving corps, but has the DMCA really stopped the spread of DeCSS or the Diebold memos?
Yes, but simply giving Congress the ability to pull an RIAA levey will snowball. The RIAA will want it increased at least 5% every year, depending on how many Senators they can afford. And the MPAA, BSA, and SPA - all of which behave like the RIAA will lobby for the same privelige.
As a matter of fact, Monica Lewinski gave some teenager who lives in his parent's basement oral sex to write the rootkit. It wasn't that hard - Monica showed up wearing a poncho to shield herself from the shower of "milk", and then the script kidde saw the Saturday Night Live rerun on Comedy Central, in which Bill Clinton announces the end of his legacy, says "Suck it! Suck on it!", and Dubya shows up and brags about how he bought a Big Mouth Billy Bass for $1,000. Hence, the name. Now as to how the script kidde got mad at the Debian project, well, I'll leave that to the Gentoo Zealots.
Sure they do - they tried to sell me their insurance on a Gamecube. Which is about as likely to die as my Linksys, which I've had since 2000. It's not returning items I have a problem with - it's the whole idea that I should trust BustBuy to honor a reciept that's 2 years old (or 5-9 in the case of a Gamecube).
I'm still playing Q3A mods like Xtreme Arena with my friends - to show how popular id games still are. Sure, it doesn't have as much eye candy as UT2003, but unlike UT2003 all I have to do to install a Q3A mod in Linux is to just unzip it. Now I'm just waiting for ATI to fix the bug in their 3.2.8 driver that keeps crashing my 9200 in Q3A, UT2003, and NWN. I'm using the DRI r200 driver, and tada! no crashing.
Excuse me Mr Fat Wallet, but did you purchase insurance for that item? If your attorney winds up dead, just bring him to the store and we'll replace him with a look-a-like at no charge. Just 25% of the cost of the item - a real value!
* You must have your reciept, otherwise we will laugh at you
I wholeheardtedly agree with this - Halo came with the ability to make custom game types - something I see rarely in Xbox games. And *suprise* Halo isn't Live Aware. Halo 2 will be, but it's unreleased at the moment. I didn't even get my Xbox until this past Summer, and when I first put Mechassault on Live I was amazed at the amount of post-production content they added to it. My impression is that they planned to release most of the maps after the game was released.
Or better yet, while Darl's smoking his crack pipe and hallucinating, whisper into his ear that suing the Church of Scientology would be a an open-and-shut legal case.
And if this ban sticks, it will simply result in people duping the retail DVD version of said movie. I can only wonder what kind of encryption they'll put in dvd audio discs, assuming they even put them on the market. From what I gather, the RIAA is afraid to put dvd audio discs out, after watching what happened to their twins at the MPAA.
It does sound like it, except Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" is like any PR campaign - it's more about convincing the public to think you're organization is doing something about x problem, as opposed to fixing the problem and being happy the press isn't on you're back.
A positive example of Microsoft security would be Xbox Live. Microsoft is full aware of modders running cracked games off their Xbox's upgraded hard drives. But all you have to do to play a modded Xbox on Live is to turn off the modchip while on Live, and use an official game disc. But you dont' see the Xbox division bragging about how they keep cheaters using modded Xbox's off Live, do you?
Don't forget that since he just got kicked off Counterstrike, that he won't go audition at the neighborhood adult film company. Or go give some corporate exec a lapdance.
Be sure to put these ninny soccer moms on the mailing lists of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Perhaps reminding that no matter how overprotective they are, they're going to register for Selective Service unless they go live on a Commune. So be sure and mail them CD's w/ America's Army for the ultimate insult.
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My v1.1 Xbox was assembled in Mexico, according to the sticker.
Here in the South, we have People for the Eating of Tastey Animals - especially on BBQ day here in Memphis. So rather than protect the animals, we should kill them humanely and roast their corpses.
It's just inevitable that a high-profile Gentoo server got broken into. I use Gentoo for my desktop, but if I were in a business environment, I'd stick with Redhat or SuSe. Gentoo has always been an enthusiast's distribution. I personally hold Gentoo and Debian in as high regard as one another, and Gentoo is just my personal preference. Both have excellent package managers. Behaving a as a Zealot, whether for Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, or for a religion just makes you look like a blind fool.
The CoS sent a DMCA notice to Google for having links to CoS Copyrighted propoganda.
I don't think the problem of buying cheap drugs from Canada/Mexico is the whole piece. Counterfeit drugs are a real problem. The are plenty of mail order drug companies that have been featured on TV. Quite a few politicians are still supporting state programs that import from Canada and/or mandate discounts from the Big Drug Companies. From an ethical standpoint, I find the prices drug corporations rake in on their patented drugs more revolting than the RIAA. My impression is that the drug companies spend more money on marketing than they do on R&D, despite their B.S. excuse that mandatory discounts will cut their R&D budget.
Notice how there are very few if any AdWords when searching for "goat" or "goatse".
IMHO, it's far easier for a nation like Iran to simply buy a GPS-based guidance system from the Chinese or Russians. The Russians and Chinese have no issue with selling missile equipment to each other, and to rogue states. Or how Pakistan is rumored to have helped North Korea in the development of Nuclear weapons in the past.
As far as I'm concerned, Nintendo didn't make the GCN able to play DVD's because 1) it would have required the addition of a SPDIF (optical digital audio) - which the other two have. And 2) the ability to read normal 120mm discs. Don't forget quite a few Nintendo-branded games still MSRP for more than $30 - despite how their gameplay is oh so similar to some of the Mario 64 titles.
My Xbox has a "Trusted Computing"-style BIOS and OS (the dashboard). That didn't stop me from modding it and being able to play videos/photos with Xbox Media Center, a kind of homebrew version of XP Media Center Edition for Xbox. Yes, I know the Xbox is a poor example because it's a homogeneous platform. But as long as there is demand for non-TCP motherboards, manufacturers will build boards without DRM. And as far as I'm concerned, the whole idea of TCP becoming mandatory by law is BS. Yes, the assbags in Washington could pass a bill like the DMCA for DRM-loving corps, but has the DMCA really stopped the spread of DeCSS or the Diebold memos?
Yes, but simply giving Congress the ability to pull an RIAA levey will snowball. The RIAA will want it increased at least 5% every year, depending on how many Senators they can afford. And the MPAA, BSA, and SPA - all of which behave like the RIAA will lobby for the same privelige.
I use phrase passwords. Pick two or three words. Add a symbol in there or two, and bam! secure password. Like 'bat.fart!smith?'
As a matter of fact, Monica Lewinski gave some teenager who lives in his parent's basement oral sex to write the rootkit. It wasn't that hard - Monica showed up wearing a poncho to shield herself from the shower of "milk", and then the script kidde saw the Saturday Night Live rerun on Comedy Central, in which Bill Clinton announces the end of his legacy, says "Suck it! Suck on it!", and Dubya shows up and brags about how he bought a Big Mouth Billy Bass for $1,000. Hence, the name. Now as to how the script kidde got mad at the Debian project, well, I'll leave that to the Gentoo Zealots.
Sure they do - they tried to sell me their insurance on a Gamecube. Which is about as likely to die as my Linksys, which I've had since 2000. It's not returning items I have a problem with - it's the whole idea that I should trust BustBuy to honor a reciept that's 2 years old (or 5-9 in the case of a Gamecube).
After finding out the suckit rootkit was used, Bill Clinton spontaneously appeared and began saying, "Suck it! Suck on it! Suck it! .."
He might as well be hosting it off his Xbox, considering how Slashdotted his site is.
I'm still playing Q3A mods like Xtreme Arena with my friends - to show how popular id games still are. Sure, it doesn't have as much eye candy as UT2003, but unlike UT2003 all I have to do to install a Q3A mod in Linux is to just unzip it. Now I'm just waiting for ATI to fix the bug in their 3.2.8 driver that keeps crashing my 9200 in Q3A, UT2003, and NWN. I'm using the DRI r200 driver, and tada! no crashing.
Excuse me Mr Fat Wallet, but did you purchase insurance for that item? If your attorney winds up dead, just bring him to the store and we'll replace him with a look-a-like at no charge. Just 25% of the cost of the item - a real value!
* You must have your reciept, otherwise we will laugh at you
I wholeheardtedly agree with this - Halo came with the ability to make custom game types - something I see rarely in Xbox games. And *suprise* Halo isn't Live Aware. Halo 2 will be, but it's unreleased at the moment.
I didn't even get my Xbox until this past Summer, and when I first put Mechassault on Live I was amazed at the amount of post-production content they added to it. My impression is that they planned to release most of the maps after the game was released.
Or better yet, while Darl's smoking his crack pipe and hallucinating, whisper into his ear that suing the Church of Scientology would be a an open-and-shut legal case.
And if this ban sticks, it will simply result in people duping the retail DVD version of said movie. I can only wonder what kind of encryption they'll put in dvd audio discs, assuming they even put them on the market. From what I gather, the RIAA is afraid to put dvd audio discs out, after watching what happened to their twins at the MPAA.
It does sound like it, except Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" is like any PR campaign - it's more about convincing the public to think you're organization is doing something about x problem, as opposed to fixing the problem and being happy the press isn't on you're back.
A positive example of Microsoft security would be Xbox Live. Microsoft is full aware of modders running cracked games off their Xbox's upgraded hard drives. But all you have to do to play a modded Xbox on Live is to turn off the modchip while on Live, and use an official game disc. But you dont' see the Xbox division bragging about how they keep cheaters using modded Xbox's off Live, do you?
Don't forget that since he just got kicked off Counterstrike, that he won't go audition at the neighborhood adult film company. Or go give some corporate exec a lapdance.
And just think of their reaction to the kill command!
god_box# killall losangelos
Be sure to put these ninny soccer moms on the mailing lists of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Perhaps reminding that no matter how overprotective they are, they're going to register for Selective Service unless they go live on a Commune. So be sure and mail them CD's w/ America's Army for the ultimate insult.
ICANN is good today, because the alternative lets bass-ackwards dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia and the "People's Republic of China" have a say.