You're using a forced situation as an example. Invalid. The microwave is for mobs, not for a case like that. And speaking about the left, that situation wouldn't be happening at all, because the left doesn't want the checkpoints in the first place (because they don't like the invation).
Let's get our country to get back to speaking English first. Once companies stop conforming to the Spanish-only speaking "citizens", then we could implement your idea, because i think it's a good one.
"Please press 1 for English"?? F*ck off.
I think that should be modded "Funny" instead of "Insightful". That kind of thought from someone living in a colony is at least hilarious (and I live in a colony too).
Sure, but what's to keep people from importing these into the U.S.? Their domestic sales would suffer as a result.
Localized covers in russian maybe? For example in Argentina an original CD can cost 7 dollars. Anyway, that's a lot of money for an argentinian, so there's a lot of illegal copying (that's not piracy. Piracy is to attack and steal a navy in the sea).
Whatever, there's no export from argentina to the usa, since the same label sells both records in both countries. And if you try to import several records by yourself, you'll probably get shot.
Lindose can infect both ELF and PE executables but it's only a proof of concept.
Thank you very much for your lesson, it was very productive. I always love to learn new things. However, as you said, it was only a "proof of concept". A laboratory experiment. The linux world is inherently diverse. glibc, which breaks binary compatibility very often (reason of critics from some vendors too) ironically makes almost impossible to a virus to infect. By the other hand, the multitude of options in MUA's, browsers, etc., requires as real genius to make an "all-road" virus. Leaving the architecture apart (which, in my opinion, it IS better) it's its diverse nature which protects it the most.
However, it is my opinion, and you have yours. Thanks again for telling this newbie well-known stuff.
If everyone switches to Linux or Mac OS then you'll start to see viruses for those operating systems.
With all due respect, I think you're wrong. The *nix architecture has been around for more than 20 years, and they were never affected by viruses. When you mutate an OS that was ment to run from a floppy disk, things like this happen. They will solve the problem only when they change their architecture towards a succesfull one.
I sold a domain name during the dot-com boom, and I suddenly found myself young, and with money. So I quitted my job and spent 10 months partying with "money-girls", alcohol and so on. When the money disappeared, I just started to find a job again. In the job interviews, I used to say that "I've been working in Europe". Nobody checked a damn thing. It took me 2 weeks to find another job. And man, in my country is IS hard to find a job!
So lie, lie all you can! Lie so badly, that no one wouldn't ever think you aren't telling the truth!
For example here in Argentina, during the militar government in the 70's, the best method for "terrorist cleaning" was "catch a terrorist, view his/her agenda, and kill everyone in it". So it's pretty possible to use the Buddy List for the same purposes in this days.
Please somebody explain it to me. As far as I can see, this Act is valid only for the USA. I guess some "googlebot" launched outside the US could grab the info and show it. I see this Act valid for some databases, but I can't see it applicable in the Internet. As I said, this law stuff is too much to me. Any help would be great.
Ok, e100/e1000 began proprietary, but they've got almost rewritten after they've been open sourced. So why can't we have a decent driver from the beginning? nVidia's modules are bigger than kernel. That's dirty. I bet they could be cleaned up a lot. In the other hand. the other day I tried to install a not so old SM56 windodem from motorola. I've got an uncredibly unstable driver from www.sm56.tk. An that's because that driver was propietary from the beginning, and Motorola decided to stop its support. My point is: proprietary drivers are a lousy idea, specially for such a dynamic kernel as Linux.
Debian didn't do anything, you did it yourself. You installed telnetd, an debconf probably told you that was a bad idea. Obviously, if you didn't configure debconf to be "non-interactive". I bet you did this too.
By the way, Debian has a package, called debootstrap, which installs all the default packages during the install process, and then boots itself into it. Then, the "base-config" package asks you things like your root password. And then, yes, only then, you install packages with dselect or tasksel (which can be done during this base-config process too). You installed the system, you rebooted it, it asked you for the root password, and you still complain about a lack of administrator login. For what, put the password you just set? It is OK if you were learning, but come on, you can't blame Debian. You did at least 10 mistakes on your own...
I live in a so-called third world country, where Liberty is a choice between work hard or starve to death, in the best case. The GNU General Public License is the only oportunity for people like us (tha vast majority of the world) to get involved in the technological revolution, to learn, and to get a subsistence medium.
Two and a half years ago, I even din't have a computer. Today, thanks to GNU/Linux, I have a skill, I can pay may college, and I eat. It wasn't easy (and it isn't) at all, but is the only chance we got here, and I thank to it. Is that socialist, or "un-american"? I don't think so. It's the most democratic thing in the IT world. And as long as you continue living in your bubble of shit, you'll never undestand it.
Greetings from Argentina.
Dario.
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You're using a forced situation as an example. Invalid. The microwave is for mobs, not for a case like that.
And speaking about the left, that situation wouldn't be happening at all, because the left doesn't want the checkpoints in the first place (because they don't like the invation).
Yes, justify it thru fear. That's the way to go, boy.
By the way, muslims don't drink alcohol, so there's no chance to find "drunken mobs".
I think that should be modded "Funny" instead of "Insightful". That kind of thought from someone living in a colony is at least hilarious (and I live in a colony too).
ten grand?
Localized covers in russian maybe? For example in Argentina an original CD can cost 7 dollars. Anyway, that's a lot of money for an argentinian, so there's a lot of illegal copying (that's not piracy. Piracy is to attack and steal a navy in the sea).
Whatever, there's no export from argentina to the usa, since the same label sells both records in both countries. And if you try to import several records by yourself, you'll probably get shot.
Oh boy, emacs will be illegal!!!!
Thank you very much for your lesson, it was very productive. I always love to learn new things. However, as you said, it was only a "proof of concept". A laboratory experiment. The linux world is inherently diverse. glibc, which breaks binary compatibility very often (reason of critics from some vendors too) ironically makes almost impossible to a virus to infect. By the other hand, the multitude of options in MUA's, browsers, etc., requires as real genius to make an "all-road" virus. Leaving the architecture apart (which, in my opinion, it IS better) it's its diverse nature which protects it the most.
However, it is my opinion, and you have yours. Thanks again for telling this newbie well-known stuff.
With all due respect, I think you're wrong. The *nix architecture has been around for more than 20 years, and they were never affected by viruses. When you mutate an OS that was ment to run from a floppy disk, things like this happen. They will solve the problem only when they change their architecture towards a succesfull one.
Using another MUA?
I sold a domain name during the dot-com boom, and I suddenly found myself young, and with money. So I quitted my job and spent 10 months partying with "money-girls", alcohol and so on. When the money disappeared, I just started to find a job again. In the job interviews, I used to say that "I've been working in Europe". Nobody checked a damn thing. It took me 2 weeks to find another job. And man, in my country is IS hard to find a job! So lie, lie all you can! Lie so badly, that no one wouldn't ever think you aren't telling the truth!
A new way to fight crime: karaoke.....
Who can robber a bank with a dancing-singing robot behind?
I think I'll buy a microphone....
For example here in Argentina, during the militar government in the 70's, the best method for "terrorist cleaning" was "catch a terrorist, view his/her agenda, and kill everyone in it". So it's pretty possible to use the Buddy List for the same purposes in this days.
> "The sky is Blue."(C)
>
> (C) International Business Machines, Inc. 2004
"The Screen is Blue." (C)
(C) Microsoft Corporation
Please somebody explain it to me. As far as I can see, this Act is valid only for the USA. I guess some "googlebot" launched outside the US could grab the info and show it.
I see this Act valid for some databases, but I can't see it applicable in the Internet.
As I said, this law stuff is too much to me. Any help would be great.
Ok, e100/e1000 began proprietary, but they've got almost rewritten after they've been open sourced.
So why can't we have a decent driver from the beginning?
nVidia's modules are bigger than kernel. That's dirty. I bet they could be cleaned up a lot.
In the other hand. the other day I tried to install a not so old SM56 windodem from motorola. I've got an uncredibly unstable driver from www.sm56.tk. An that's because that driver was propietary from the beginning, and Motorola decided to stop its support.
My point is: proprietary drivers are a lousy idea, specially for such a dynamic kernel as Linux.
Debian didn't do anything, you did it yourself.
You installed telnetd, an debconf probably told you that was a bad idea. Obviously, if you didn't configure debconf to be "non-interactive". I bet you did this too.
By the way, Debian has a package, called debootstrap, which installs all the default packages during the install process, and then boots itself into it. Then, the "base-config" package asks you things like your root password. And then, yes, only then, you install packages with dselect or tasksel (which can be done during this base-config process too).
You installed the system, you rebooted it, it asked you for the root password, and you still complain about a lack of administrator login. For what, put the password you just set?
It is OK if you were learning, but come on, you can't blame Debian. You did at least 10 mistakes on your own...
Is writing a user-mode (and hence not very efficient) driver the only way for a company to protect it's intellectual property?
I think that question has a problem in itself. The GPL is about protecting intellectual property. Perhaps the lawyer should read it better.
My favorite unbreakable command is "yes".
I live in a so-called third world country, where Liberty is a choice between work hard or starve to death, in the best case. The GNU General Public License is the only oportunity for people like us (tha vast majority of the world) to get involved in the technological revolution, to learn, and to get a subsistence medium. Two and a half years ago, I even din't have a computer. Today, thanks to GNU/Linux, I have a skill, I can pay may college, and I eat. It wasn't easy (and it isn't) at all, but is the only chance we got here, and I thank to it. Is that socialist, or "un-american"? I don't think so. It's the most democratic thing in the IT world. And as long as you continue living in your bubble of shit, you'll never undestand it. Greetings from Argentina. Dario.
Considering the upcoming commercial alliance between Microsoft and NVidia, I wonder for how long they will be realeasing Linux drivers.