January 2003: Apple released Safari browser based on khtml engine.
That definately should have been there.
Ummmm let me see apple releases Safari, it runs on... oh yes Mac OS X, hmmmm this is at best peripheral to Linux, how would that fit in a Linux Time-line, an OS X time-line sure but not a Linux Time-line.
Were you worried Mac OS X wouldn't get a mention?? why should it this a story about a Linux Time-line, stop whoring.
Although a lot of people are aware of how nice it is and a practical thing to be working with free software, most of them have never thought about the issues of freedom, and that weakens us, because people who don't value their freedom are likely to toss it away.
--Richard Stallman
I don't care what some of you think, RMS is a great man.
The idea for commercial storage came from the Mormon church, which opened its six tunnel vaults in 1964, four years earlier than Perpetual Storage. The church rarely opens its vaults to outsiders and turned down an AP request to visit.
Come on the couldn't risk some one stealing and "Elder" badge, could they:-D?.
Inside the climate-controlled repository, the proprietors insist neither earthquake, fire, flood nor the most James Bond-inspired thief could penetrate its security. The vault is protected and safe from "any force known to man," they say, even a nuclear blast. Geologists are reluctant to endorse all these claims but say it's probably as safe as vaults get.
Never make it a challenge, now all the James Bondesque thieves have taken the challenge, and even now are readying their special equipment:-D.
Not to mention all the Earthquakes, Fires and Floods that now feel honour bound to get them:-D.
Thanks for being so polite about it:-D, is this motivated by envy because PAL is so far superior to NTSC (Never The Same Colour twice), you do realise that with digital we'll all be even again at last.
Besides you do realise don't you that NTSC, is not something we inflicted on you, it's just an accident of history, you got TV first, you got the more primitive clumsy standard. Then again may be I just over reacting may be your just a Troll with the manners of a pig:-D. Thank you very much.
We should be careful when we attack people like this. Did he make a huge mistake? Yes. Was the mistake a result of caving into greed? Yes. However, millions of Americans are currently putting themselves into similar situations by getting deeper and deeper into debt by taking loans to buy luxury items: a new yacht, a larger house, a fancy new car, etc. The evils of debt and the mounting interest costs is well documented, but it happens time and time again.
While you may not have fallen victim to this particular scheme, are you certain that you have not fallen victim to the "must-have" commercialization scheme so prevalent (and legal) today? Yes, this was a very stupid mistake, but we are all just as capable of making equally stupid mistakes (an investment in the next Enron perhaps).
Do not be so quick to judge and save a little room for compassion. If nothing else, think of his wife who has lost so much and may have had little to say in the decision. Consider the difficulties that they will both face in their marriage as they approach their final years in poverty. This is a heartbreaking story. Do not become so cynical that we lose sight of this.
Very true, also another thought that come to me is, this guys stupidity and gullibility are extreme, and well, I cannot help wondering done this poor old chap, suffer from dementia? And well it doesn't sit well with me to say as the great-grandparent post said, that stupidity deserves punishment. Um like do we punish, being born without legs, or loosing your legs in a car crash, ok this guy is stupid an he brought it on himself. So most of us bring a certain amount of grief on ourselves in life, those who are more vulnerable should be protected, not left to be preyed upon.
Don't show his photo to your boss as you talk about the 2.4 kernels you're probably still running. The kernel maintainer for your corporate servers is a 20 year old guy who was 18 when he started maintaining. Whoah.
In the corporate world, even if there was some kind of genius kid really running the show, he'd be hidden behind grey haired puppets so that it didn't look like some genius kid was really running the show.
Kudos to Marcello, even though child labour laws (if he was paid to work with the ISP in Brazil when he was 13 years old) and human rights issues might get a mention if the press could ever see beyond Linus as a Linux hacker.
That just goes to show how stupid and puerile the "corporate world" is, the truth is people who decide on someones competence based on stuff like that, are just shallow and incompetent themselves.
No, I don't mean Microsoft, I mean all the posts I've read here so far.
We have nothing to fear from the world's largest software maker paying attention to the needs and wants of the Linux community. Really. Honestly. We've loathed them for years because their software sucks -- why not help them do it better? If your answer is that they *can't* do it better, then fine. But that's not my answer. I can think of a number of things that I'd like them to do. I'll still use Linux, but I'm hopeful that those times I'm obligated to use Windows won't be as painful.
Or are you too afraid that Microsoft can beat Linux after all?
The only Jerk I see here is you TROLL, and the idiots who moded you up, have you ever considered that M$, has nothing to offer to some of us. There is nothing M$ can do to win my busness I don't want anything from them, except for them to get LOST. GET IT STUPID.
I don't fear them paying attention to my needs, I am indifferent, I don't want them to make better software, their just irrelevant looser, I will never use a propriety OS again, not thiers not Apples not anyones. And I never use anything but Linux, and if I ever do it'll *BSD or some other FOSS OS.
15. List the top one or two possible improvements that you would like to see made to Windows.
Kill Bill gates.
Flush it down the toilet.
Set Steve Balmer on fire.
16. List the top one or two improvements that you would like to see made to Linux.
Keep M$ out.
less binary only drivers
17. Please list your e-mail address if you don't mind answering follow-up questions. Your e-mail address will only be used for follow-up on this survey.
grizzly@fuck.off.m$.u.bastards
What do you mean, "missing letter"? The URL is "goatse.cx", the joke is that the top level domain is part of the word spelled in the domain name. See also cr.yp.to, www.the-b.org (although the page seems unrelated to the Borg, unfortunately...), and others that I can't seem to remember.
Good point - the first time I ran across it was before Slashdot implemented the [top level domain] trailing text at the end of every linked url. I should have said 'ending letterS' (goatse_____?) or maybe 'extra letters' (goats?) and I have to agree with MicroBerto, tubgirl is far more painful a memory than goatse.
Hmmm I believe thats a how should I say it, a matter of distaste, since there's nothing tasteful about either of those atrocities, I personally find goatse.cx the worst, and I just don't understand both the perverted trolls who create these images, and the equally perverted trolls who try to inflict them on people. Ick.
I have worked out the solution to the goat man but, insert one house brick in that gaping hole, and ram it home with your boot, that'll teach the bastard:-D.
What if you're that person that everyone talks about when you're not around? I've found out because people tell me about these conversations.
What if you're that hot girl that everyone wants to meet, and you despise all those creepy geeks? All of a sudden you keep bumping into the same stalkers, at every club you go to, at every store you visit. Everytime you step out of the house?
Cool, so don't carry your cell-phone with you. Great solution, now that they've eliminated most public pay-phones. You too can live in a communications-free world. Hello? It's like stepping back in time a 100 years. It's particularly disabling when your car breaks down, and nobody will stop to help you - and there's no phone around to call for help. It's a problem when people *expect* to be able to reach you at anytime - you become a social pariah.
Time for a new solution. We just need to out-innovate these stupid restrictions.
-- Ender, Duke_of_URL
Who the paranoid little geek then:-D, ok yeah there's something in what you say, but the really life shattering thing most of you paranoid types are hiding from is, the truth that no one can be bothered seriously talking about you behind your back, your only the center about which all else revolves in your own little mind:-D, sorry but it's true.
i am more worried about things you cannot opt out of, like face scanning in public places. or non-approval required phone taps etc....
Face scanning tracking my real where abouts doesn't worry me, as it works so crap, what I would worry about if I was paranoid enough, is it tracking someone else but id'ing them as me, because as I said Face scanning is total crap for now.:-D
I am a field investigator for MUFON. I've been investigating sightings here in the Midwest for quite some time now, and I've come to believe that stories like this one are planted by the government to make people believe that UFO's are secret military aircraft.
Well, I've been out there, in the field, taking the eyewitness reports. I do not believe for a second that these craft that people are seeing are made by humans.
Go out there, talk to eyewitnesses, talk to an abductee - you'll quickly realize that stories like this are carefully written "plants" by conspirators that reach the highest corridors of power in World Government.
I strongly suspect this guy is serious, my recommendation is for +/-1 raving loony mod option.
You will note that there were few sheep in LOTR. This is largely due to sterling work by the team at Weta deveopling sheep removal software. Sheep are even a critcal part of the development of some scenes. Many of the battle scenes were in-fact flocks of sheep that were rounded up and used as seed data for computers to turn them into humans/orcs.
The raw footage of the Battle of Pelennor Fields is a sight to behold indeed.
Hmmm ok the grand Parent post is by an Aussie I think, classic sheep joke, but you are either another Aussie or a Kiwi right??:-D
They really Miss the real Problem, the real problem is that it requires to little in the way of info to identify yourself as who you are these days, here in Australia to talk to social security and id myself, all I need is my name in full (sort of usually dropping middle names), my address and my date of birth. Really how hard is it to know all that for people your aren't even close to???.
If I'm asked for more then it'll be stuff like bank card, credit card, licence, Medicare card. non being totally secure, though that does improve it.
how do we improve this hmmmm not easy, one thing I've noticed here in New South Wales (my state), is that my latest licence has not just the one photo in the usual place, but on the left under my licence number and date of birth is another copy of it in the background, thats good makes it that little bit more work to fake. Then they've got a scanned copy of my signature, which I had to give at the time, on the bottom of the background picture. They've also put my full name (plus both middles) above my address, and my full name again across the bottom of the traditional photo, (across the neck and shoulders), Finally they've got the water marking, right through the card, not just the background but since the photo is digital, right through both photos and everything else. So clearly someone in the Road Traffic Authority here has put some thought into this issue.
But clearly this does not suffice, as this is only one step in the chain, and even all of this can be over come.
The biometrics people will say they are the answer, well to a point they can help yes, finger print scanners if done under proper supervision to prevent exploits which are already know to exist might work; facial scanning, yeah right; Hand-print scanning, might be good, at least it would be hard to fake the general size and shape of your hand.
In short there a no complete answers yet, especially when we factor in phone and internet identification, but hell we sure must find some better ones. Remembering of course that this whole issue is closely related to privacy, on one hand we don't necessarily want these organisations to know everything about us, on the other hand there can be very few if any violations of our privacy greater than having our identity stolen.
NB: With the privacy issue we do we do well to remember:
some information about us doesn't need to be private.
The whole police state thing is a bit of a nonsense, a police state can come about just as easily without this, most of them did, and once established said police state, both can and will institute it's own far more extreme id system. so Good Id system != police state
Whichever side of the political divide we stand on over Iraq, I don't think anyone could disagree now that if we can help here then it will do good for them.
We don't have to wait for a stable government, we can work on multiple fronts at the same time.
At least with Open Source we're not asking for anything and we're not just blindly giving, we're sharing. They have an equal right to be able to contribute to open source.
For those in the US, please also lobby your government to remove the restrictions that stop you sending Linux (and presumably *BSD) to Iraq whilst allowing MS, etc, to sell proprietory systems.
Chris down under
Hmmmm very true, for however good/bad reasons we've wrecked their country, I think we should fix it before we go, it's only polite:-D, also I think it's a human duty to help a fellow human when we can, I know the commercial world don't work that way, but they are only part of the world, whatever they think.
BTW: why post as an Anonymous Coward if you sign your name Chris down under, why not just register as "Chris down under", just a thought
But regional coding exists to allow staggered releases. By locking different territories, the theory goes, you can release videos in one market while creating pent-up demand in another, but without allowing importers to satisfy that demand. Nigel is arguing that not only is the demand is deflated by piracy, but by having these staggered releases they are responsible for creating a thriving pirate market. The regional coding is, therefore, a failure, and its removal will either force similar worldwide release schedules or will allow people who want to see movies to go to a secondary retailer like an importer and buy a legitimate copy.
If you believe thats the real reason for region coding then you really are gullible, region coding exists for one and only one reason, profiteering, so that they can rip us all off with weird pricing that just wouldn't work in a level playing field.
AFAIK New Zealand and particularly Australia don't respect region encoding, some laws they have setup don't allow for it. I think all the players in that region of the globe ignore region encoding.
That would be because region coding is an immoral and evil act, creating artificial trade barriers, to rip people off.
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Ummmm let me see apple releases Safari, it runs on ... oh yes Mac OS X, hmmmm this is at best peripheral to Linux, how would that fit in a Linux Time-line, an OS X time-line sure but not a Linux Time-line.
Never make it a challenge, now all the James Bondesque thieves have taken the challenge, and even now are readying their special equipment :-D.
Thanks for being so polite about it :-D, is this motivated by envy because PAL is so far superior to NTSC (Never The Same Colour twice), you do realise that with digital we'll all be even again at last.
That just goes to show how stupid and puerile the "corporate world" is, the truth is people who decide on someones competence based on stuff like that, are just shallow and incompetent themselves.
Flamebait huh it's good to see how unbiased some moderators are, M$ sycophant.
Offtopic what are you on the topic is the M$ Survey, I completely on topic.
I prefer whisky and wine :-D
grizzly@fuck.off.m$.u.bastards
they come from your nose :-D
If I'm asked for more then it'll be stuff like bank card, credit card, licence, Medicare card. non being totally secure, though that does improve it.
how do we improve this hmmmm not easy, one thing I've noticed here in New South Wales (my state), is that my latest licence has not just the one photo in the usual place, but on the left under my licence number and date of birth is another copy of it in the background, thats good makes it that little bit more work to fake. Then they've got a scanned copy of my signature, which I had to give at the time, on the bottom of the background picture. They've also put my full name (plus both middles) above my address, and my full name again across the bottom of the traditional photo, (across the neck and shoulders), Finally they've got the water marking, right through the card, not just the background but since the photo is digital, right through both photos and everything else. So clearly someone in the Road Traffic Authority here has put some thought into this issue.
But clearly this does not suffice, as this is only one step in the chain, and even all of this can be over come.
The biometrics people will say they are the answer, well to a point they can help yes, finger print scanners if done under proper supervision to prevent exploits which are already know to exist might work; facial scanning, yeah right; Hand-print scanning, might be good, at least it would be hard to fake the general size and shape of your hand.
In short there a no complete answers yet, especially when we factor in phone and internet identification, but hell we sure must find some better ones. Remembering of course that this whole issue is closely related to privacy, on one hand we don't necessarily want these organisations to know everything about us, on the other hand there can be very few if any violations of our privacy greater than having our identity stolen.
well it needed doing honest, ok the little blue men made me do it. :-D
My first reaction to this is yuck, but then I'm highly allergic to coffee :-D.