He he. Just wait until some 12 year old russian kid figures out how to hack it and starts selling government documents. Ideas like this sound SO cool until they shit in your face. But isn't that life? He he.
It looks like more people took offense to this then I'd imagined. I was joking, but think about it a little. Americans may not 'all be full of shit' but as a wealthy consumer nation I think it would be hard to argue that we don't produce a good deal of solid waste.
And for all the misplaced Microsoft fan bois, the post is obvoiusly meant to be funny, but it carries a bit of the old truth. If Linux was in Microsofts position (convicted monopolist, proprietary, pedatory) we'd all be laughing at them. News? I though Slashdot was more of a IT gossip column.;-)
Free upgrades. At least with Mandrake, why not release frequently? The upgrade is free and generally does include nice new features (and fancy KDE updates and such). This one inculdes the new kernel. If you like Mandrake and didn't wan't to do the full disk download I'd suggest doing an internet *upgrade* (ie point in to an active mirror and let it download only the updated files). If you'd like your system to simply do package updates try Mandrake cooker, bleeding edge with new software packages released continuously (I'm too chicken but have heard from at least one person who uses it).
And remember, before Windows XP (is that a numeral?) Windows was at 2000! WOW!;-)
Anyhow, in all seriousness I think its just a Linux culture thing. Linux (and the family of accociated applications) has been under heavy development for year with exciting new changes coming out regulary. This isn't a conservative OS (yet). Look at BSD.
Thats my trick with just about anyone I help out with computer trouble. Most of the problems you've mentioned are insidious and even passive computer users find the idea of marketing/tracking software making their computers unstable (or slow, or run out of memory) pretty unpalpable. Most of the time after explaining the problem users look pretty incredulous and ask the most basic question: why? Damn right, why.
Anyhow by then its something like a personal attack on them. Give them a copy of Mozilla, Spybot, AVG set them to update themsevles where possible and things will be a little better (at least they will gain a little bit of a distrust of software, thats a start).
Bad programming can, just like guns don't kill, people do. An engineer makes mathmatical mistakes designing a bridge and the bridge later collapses, do bridges kill? Seems like a dedundent question, mistakes we make sometimes cost peoples lives, why would software be any different?
But isn't this just a motherboard with its OS embedded in the 'bios'? Sort of one of those things I'd been expecting to see, but always figured it would be ushered in as a DRM requirement.;-)
Re:Root certificates? Unfortunately not quite.
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Then split your email into two categories: authenticated and non-authenticated. Most computers don't need a root certificate. They would only be necessary for domains that host mail services. With that would (arguably, should) come a little added responsibility.
I'm willing to bet that you'd find that people would accept the authenticated email quickly. Its more secure/smarter (basically adding seamless pgp and root server certificates). Its not going to be much of a hassle to anyone accept users who want their own email gateways but are technical/can't be bother with getting a certificate (users who are currently probably unwitting spam relays themselves).
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Why not use a system based on something like root certificates, which:
A) Cost money (hopefully not break the bank).
B) Are revokable (with a review process funded by registrations?).
C) Can be used to validate the authenticity of the source (PGP style domain/user authentication should be seamlessly built into ANY new RFC).
I know I'm not the first person to suggest this, but if white/grey/black listing or filtering (which I hate) isn't enough why use a per email fee instead of just validating the from field and revoking servers that allow spam.
I bet if we did this it wouldn't be long before almost everybody signed up with a registered email service (or purchased their own certificates) only leaving illegitimate senders in the cold. Forged headers *should* be a thing of the past, we have the technology.
Anyhow, I fear at this point its going to be decided by the first large system that comes to market. Which looks like MS is really pushing to be.
The dual weapons (pistols? assault rifles?) were there but it was so much more dark. It was an extreme sport setting with somewhat realistic human (future) characters. I really miss that.
How is using cooker? I've used a few betas (been using Mandrake for ages, so I like to try to help out from time to time). Do you come across a lot of problem (would it work for my *main* system or a secondary).
But the assumption that there is 'evol' going on here seems pretty silly. XFree86 isn't one of the sexier OSS pieces, its important, sure, but its much to deeply nested a component for it to a popular search string for new users. If they blocked/rerouted 'Linux' it would pretty much go without saying that they were being petty, but this certainly looks like a stupid error (or if intentional, a stupid joke).
Ouch. I did. But I think its too inaccessable for less technical. I think this is somewhere KDE has had success. Not knocking Gnome. I think its a paradigm thing.
I understand what your posting. But take a look at Kde-look. Its a very different thing, slightly OT, but its a working community site that *encourages* non-developer interaction, something I believe KDE has pioneered with some success here. Everyone has a bugzilla site (which can be pretty intimidating to newer users) but KDE has succeeded in fostering a peripherial community in kde-look and I think its an important and sometimes (often) over looked thing. We need to encourage more participation from the non-developer community and I think they have something of a good track record (Kde-look has a good design that encourages new ideas).
For fostering a community unlike any other. www.kde-look.org has been my first stop to see modern ideas on desktop design for years now. I am not nor have I ever been a KDE fanboy (I'm a Blackbox user) but they have managed to form a remarkable bond with the graphics design community (and the graphically inclined). They should be a model for more OSS projects and this is something we should look at as a community as a whole. There is more to good software then 1's and 0's.
I don't mean to piss anyone off, but c'mon. iMusic retailers business models seem to be basically draconian restrictions in exchange for as high or higher prices.
How the FUCK does that work? I buy something I want it to reflect just 2 little things:
1) What I need.
2) Fair market value.
What I need is simple, to be able to play the media I just paid for. Where ever I fucking want. Period.
Fair market value? We've been jacked around for years by record companies asking ourselves why as recording media prices continued to fall retail prices continued to increase. Well this is just fucking ridiculous. It doesn't take a genius to see the cost advantages of using the internet as a delivery medium, but low and behold, prices haven't dropped drastically to reflect the new and economically improved distribution method. Surprise.
The only reason I can fathom that we have accepted iTunes and others unrealistically high prices is because the technology is so new. Its novel and convenient, well, its not really convenient. I hope that this market corrects itself soon. Buying music off the internet doesn't really make a lot of sense, or it wouldn't, accept you get more really product for you dollar right now in a format that can easily be transcoded and used in a variety of different places (aside from your iPod).
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I seriously wonder if I even want to see this.
He he.
Seriously, I think your just tripped over the future of entertainment.
He he. Just wait until some 12 year old russian kid figures out how to hack it and starts selling government documents. Ideas like this sound SO cool until they shit in your face. But isn't that life? He he.
I'll bet Carnivore heard that!
Erm..look at that a purple dinosaur!
It looks like more people took offense to this then I'd imagined. I was joking, but think about it a little. Americans may not 'all be full of shit' but as a wealthy consumer nation I think it would be hard to argue that we don't produce a good deal of solid waste.
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My extra karma modifier didn't even bother to take effect! You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
Lighten up, you'll live longer. ;-)
The most powerful country ever!
You mean the register? He he, its close.
And for all the misplaced Microsoft fan bois, the post is obvoiusly meant to be funny, but it carries a bit of the old truth. If Linux was in Microsofts position (convicted monopolist, proprietary, pedatory) we'd all be laughing at them. News? I though Slashdot was more of a IT gossip column. ;-)
Windows is absolutely crawling with it. Until some good spyware programs run natively under Linux I won't be migrating towards it!
Free upgrades. At least with Mandrake, why not release frequently? The upgrade is free and generally does include nice new features (and fancy KDE updates and such). This one inculdes the new kernel. If you like Mandrake and didn't wan't to do the full disk download I'd suggest doing an internet *upgrade* (ie point in to an active mirror and let it download only the updated files). If you'd like your system to simply do package updates try Mandrake cooker, bleeding edge with new software packages released continuously (I'm too chicken but have heard from at least one person who uses it).
;-)
And remember, before Windows XP (is that a numeral?) Windows was at 2000! WOW!
Anyhow, in all seriousness I think its just a Linux culture thing. Linux (and the family of accociated applications) has been under heavy development for year with exciting new changes coming out regulary. This isn't a conservative OS (yet). Look at BSD.
Thats my trick with just about anyone I help out with computer trouble. Most of the problems you've mentioned are insidious and even passive computer users find the idea of marketing/tracking software making their computers unstable (or slow, or run out of memory) pretty unpalpable. Most of the time after explaining the problem users look pretty incredulous and ask the most basic question: why? Damn right, why.
Anyhow by then its something like a personal attack on them. Give them a copy of Mozilla, Spybot, AVG set them to update themsevles where possible and things will be a little better (at least they will gain a little bit of a distrust of software, thats a start).
KDE fanboi's have obviously infiltrated some of the higher ranks of Slashdot editors *probably the same one's who have been double posting stories*.
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We HAVE TO STOP THEM!
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Bad programming can, just like guns don't kill, people do. An engineer makes mathmatical mistakes designing a bridge and the bridge later collapses, do bridges kill? Seems like a dedundent question, mistakes we make sometimes cost peoples lives, why would software be any different?
But isn't this just a motherboard with its OS embedded in the 'bios'? Sort of one of those things I'd been expecting to see, but always figured it would be ushered in as a DRM requirement. ;-)
Then split your email into two categories: authenticated and non-authenticated. Most computers don't need a root certificate. They would only be necessary for domains that host mail services. With that would (arguably, should) come a little added responsibility.
I'm willing to bet that you'd find that people would accept the authenticated email quickly. Its more secure/smarter (basically adding seamless pgp and root server certificates). Its not going to be much of a hassle to anyone accept users who want their own email gateways but are technical/can't be bother with getting a certificate (users who are currently probably unwitting spam relays themselves).
I bet if we did this it wouldn't be long before almost everybody signed up with a registered email service (or purchased their own certificates) only leaving illegitimate senders in the cold. Forged headers *should* be a thing of the past, we have the technology.
Anyhow, I fear at this point its going to be decided by the first large system that comes to market. Which looks like MS is really pushing to be.
The dual weapons (pistols? assault rifles?) were there but it was so much more dark. It was an extreme sport setting with somewhat realistic human (future) characters. I really miss that.
How is using cooker? I've used a few betas (been using Mandrake for ages, so I like to try to help out from time to time). Do you come across a lot of problem (would it work for my *main* system or a secondary).
But the assumption that there is 'evol' going on here seems pretty silly. XFree86 isn't one of the sexier OSS pieces, its important, sure, but its much to deeply nested a component for it to a popular search string for new users. If they blocked/rerouted 'Linux' it would pretty much go without saying that they were being petty, but this certainly looks like a stupid error (or if intentional, a stupid joke).
Ouch. I did. But I think its too inaccessable for less technical. I think this is somewhere KDE has had success. Not knocking Gnome. I think its a paradigm thing.
I understand what your posting. But take a look at Kde-look. Its a very different thing, slightly OT, but its a working community site that *encourages* non-developer interaction, something I believe KDE has pioneered with some success here. Everyone has a bugzilla site (which can be pretty intimidating to newer users) but KDE has succeeded in fostering a peripherial community in kde-look and I think its an important and sometimes (often) over looked thing. We need to encourage more participation from the non-developer community and I think they have something of a good track record (Kde-look has a good design that encourages new ideas).
What don't they read Slashdot? I thought we were the Quality Assurance!!
For fostering a community unlike any other. www.kde-look.org has been my first stop to see modern ideas on desktop design for years now. I am not nor have I ever been a KDE fanboy (I'm a Blackbox user) but they have managed to form a remarkable bond with the graphics design community (and the graphically inclined). They should be a model for more OSS projects and this is something we should look at as a community as a whole. There is more to good software then 1's and 0's.
How the FUCK does that work? I buy something I want it to reflect just 2 little things: What I need is simple, to be able to play the media I just paid for. Where ever I fucking want. Period.
Fair market value? We've been jacked around for years by record companies asking ourselves why as recording media prices continued to fall retail prices continued to increase. Well this is just fucking ridiculous. It doesn't take a genius to see the cost advantages of using the internet as a delivery medium, but low and behold, prices haven't dropped drastically to reflect the new and economically improved distribution method. Surprise.
The only reason I can fathom that we have accepted iTunes and others unrealistically high prices is because the technology is so new. Its novel and convenient, well, its not really convenient. I hope that this market corrects itself soon. Buying music off the internet doesn't really make a lot of sense, or it wouldn't, accept you get more really product for you dollar right now in a format that can easily be transcoded and used in a variety of different places (aside from your iPod).