200 years from now, the 'sanitary landfills' will be viewed as a resource. The refining and resource recovery technology have advanced to the point that anybody lucky enough to own 'landfill property' will be rich, as all the resources stored there are mined out and recovered for use.
It works fine on your voice phone if you live crowded into a sardine can neighborhood.
I like going out at night and looking at the field behind my house that I own. These past few weeks there have been fireflies dancing in it.
All I can get here in this rurual area is dialup internet access, so I paid a $35 additional one time charge to have a second line installed, and pay for an additional line monthly.
It works out pretty well, considering the paucity of worthwhile content that can be downloaded online. (I can download all the NetBSD packages source code that I will realistically need at 56K)
I go to friend's houses where they have DSL and all it means is they're lost in a sea of unlabeled CDR media full of porn.
Of course, now you've set it up so there's a pipeline that punches through your company's IT security, and you're pumping in and out stuff nobody can identify. You yourself can't really prove you aren't smuggling confidential documents out through the pipe, so you're likely to be fired and possibly prosecuted.
Actually, there are companies that offer 'mod chips' for automobile engines. They change the performance of the engine, usually causing the car to pollute more but deliver more power.
And the 'mod chips' are about as illegal and 'frowned on' by the people in power in the automotive industry (and the pollution control people) as these mod chips for console games are.
The good news is that with Microsoft's penchant for continuing to add hardware requirements year after year for their current product, they render huge amounts of older equipment useless for running Windows. The huge surplus of said cheap used equipment for the geeks is really why Linux has succeeded.
Microsoft has to be realizing that it's better to let rampant piracy of their products continue and make some profit from those who do buy
Microsoft has known that for decades. They are very loose about license enforcement for individuals and for people who dabble in software. All the people who mess around with Excel at home are the best kind of advocates to have in the office, where they're much more strict about collecting their dollar.
Anybody serious about monitoring what comes into and out of an X-Box is gonna put the X-Box on a subnet behind a firewall and run ethereal on the subnet.
You're thinking like somebody with one single box. Evolve a little, kay?
One of the easiest, and most inexpensive ways to teach a child respect for expensive media is the uttered phrase 'Oh, well' when they wreck a disc by not taking proper care of it.
Much of the 'cheap electronics' made in the Far East is the lower-end stuff. Huge volumes of integrated circuits are labeled 'Malaysia' or 'Singapore' but if you look closely into it, you find that the wafers are made in the United States (extremely high-tech capital intensive process) and shipped to the third world for the dies to be scored, wires bonded and packaged (lower-tech less capital intensive, more labor intensive process).
They don't make Pentium III dies in China, and likely not anywhere else in the third world.
Well, I for one have no plan to 'pirate' any cable provider who I subscribe to. I'd just as soon subscribe to a service where the admins are competent enough that the resources I pay for aren't leaking out to bandwidth hogs who aren't paying for it.
Early coins are more interesting, and to the point without being so religious. One of the very first coins, the Fugio Cent, says Mind Your Business among other things. It's one of my favorite coins.
In their default configuration, which allowed crude old things like 'mail' to work without any real effort, a bunch of that stuff stopped working (the init scripts started closing stuff by default) at, I would say, about the time of Slackware 4.0.
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It's really amusing to study the naturally developed structure of the top level comments in a Slashdot discussion.
The first bunch rant and fume about whatever Rob and his bunch have written a distorted article summary to claim.
About halfway through the top-level comments, one finds these 'Did anybody actually read the article!?!' comments, written by people who actually read the article first, instead of just rushing past to the comments section to rant and flame and sputter.
Yeah. I know. I run a bunch of NetBSD machines on my home network, safely isolated from the Internet, so I use telnet, too.
If Linux/BSD hadn't been as 'insecure' as it was five years ago when I started out, I probably would have given up networking. Nothing 'off the CD' works and is newbie-friendly for subnetting these days like it used to be.
I had a hell of a lot of fun with all those 386sx boxes and the 3c503 cards I got for a few bux a pound at a surplus store. I feel a little sorry for the people trying to learn these days on sphinchter-tight distros.
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No, the attachment won't require them to run it as root. It'll be easy to run and it'll wipe, and/or seriously corrupt, their home directory. And... just about the only thing that can't be spooled back off a distro CD is what the user keeps in the home directory.
End result: one pissed off Linux user, wondering what all the hype about 'security' was for.
(Backed-up home directories in managed commercial enviroments are not what I am talking about, BTW, so please don't make that your only response.)
The RIAA wants to flood the network with defective content, so that 70-80% of what you download turns out to be a waste of your bandwidth.
That's very different from what most people think of as a DoS attack, and it doesn't impede network communications. Certainly not any more than the people who download massive amounts of content are already doing.
You really should start reading articles before coming to the discussion area to rant.
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200 years from now, the 'sanitary landfills' will be viewed as a resource. The refining and resource recovery technology have advanced to the point that anybody lucky enough to own 'landfill property' will be rich, as all the resources stored there are mined out and recovered for use.
It works fine on your voice phone if you live crowded into a sardine can neighborhood.
I like going out at night and looking at the field behind my house that I own. These past few weeks there have been fireflies dancing in it.
All I can get here in this rurual area is dialup internet access, so I paid a $35 additional one time charge to have a second line installed, and pay for an additional line monthly.
It works out pretty well, considering the paucity of worthwhile content that can be downloaded online. (I can download all the NetBSD packages source code that I will realistically need at 56K)
I go to friend's houses where they have DSL and all it means is they're lost in a sea of unlabeled CDR media full of porn.
If I was on the ancient Greek island of Delos I most certainly would NOT want anybody who dialed my regular number to be able to reach me.
Sorry. Some of us value our right to privacy more than others of you.
It was enough for over a decade. It didn't cease to be enough until long after Unix was a reality.
But anyway, back to copying the same canned multimedia crap from one hard drive to another all around the world. Whee, we're so advanced!
It's grown-up music. You wouldn't understand.
Geeks burn up processors by overclocking them and then demand a refund. It's not necessarily a good deal to sell to geeks.
I used to use the mouse on the right side. One day I realized 'hey wait a minute' and switched it to my left hand (I am left handed).
It actually seemed to affect the way I think when using the computer, in subtle ways.
A few times I have actually open up the mouse's case itself, cut some traces and add jumper wires to physically reverse the buttons.
Of course, now you've set it up so there's a pipeline that punches through your company's IT security, and you're pumping in and out stuff nobody can identify. You yourself can't really prove you aren't smuggling confidential documents out through the pipe, so you're likely to be fired and possibly prosecuted.
80% of the comments posted here would instantly become redundant.
Actually, there are companies that offer 'mod chips' for automobile engines. They change the performance of the engine, usually causing the car to pollute more but deliver more power.
And the 'mod chips' are about as illegal and 'frowned on' by the people in power in the automotive industry (and the pollution control people) as these mod chips for console games are.
The good news is that with Microsoft's penchant for continuing to add hardware requirements year after year for their current product, they render huge amounts of older equipment useless for running Windows. The huge surplus of said cheap used equipment for the geeks is really why Linux has succeeded.
Microsoft has to be realizing that it's better to let rampant piracy of their products continue and make some profit from those who do buy
Microsoft has known that for decades. They are very loose about license enforcement for individuals and for people who dabble in software. All the people who mess around with Excel at home are the best kind of advocates to have in the office, where they're much more strict about collecting their dollar.
Anybody serious about monitoring what comes into and out of an X-Box is gonna put the X-Box on a subnet behind a firewall and run ethereal on the subnet.
You're thinking like somebody with one single box.
Evolve a little, kay?
One of the easiest, and most inexpensive ways to teach a child respect for expensive media is the uttered phrase 'Oh, well' when they wreck a disc by not taking proper care of it.
Kids CAN learn to be responsible.
If it wasn't for Microsoft, we hackers wouldn't have anything to hack.
'Thank you, Microsoft, for this SparcStation 5 to hack around on with NetBSD'
'They' only go after non-paying customers.
That little ditty about the fascists doesn't apply to this case.
PowerPC could be emulated on Intel chips as well.
It's just that who would want to? To run the few Mac-only packages on the market? Imitation is one form of flattery.
The entire 68K Macintosh is virtualized on a product called 'Executor' which is (was?) available for x86 on DOS/Windows and Linux.
Much of the 'cheap electronics' made in the Far East is the lower-end stuff. Huge volumes of integrated circuits are labeled 'Malaysia' or 'Singapore' but if you look closely into it, you find that the wafers are made in the United States (extremely high-tech capital intensive process) and shipped to the third world for the dies to be scored, wires bonded and packaged (lower-tech less capital intensive, more labor intensive process).
They don't make Pentium III dies in China, and likely not anywhere else in the third world.
Well, I for one have no plan to 'pirate' any cable provider who I subscribe to. I'd just as soon subscribe to a service where the admins are competent enough that the resources I pay for aren't leaking out to bandwidth hogs who aren't paying for it.
Early coins are more interesting, and to the point without being so religious. One of the very first coins, the Fugio Cent, says Mind Your Business among other things. It's one of my favorite coins.
In their default configuration, which allowed crude old things like 'mail' to work without any real effort, a bunch of that stuff stopped working (the init scripts started closing stuff by default) at, I would say, about the time of Slackware 4.0.
It's really amusing to study the naturally developed structure of the top level comments in a Slashdot discussion.
The first bunch rant and fume about whatever Rob and his bunch have written a distorted article summary to claim.
About halfway through the top-level comments, one finds these 'Did anybody actually read the article!?!' comments, written by people who actually read the article first, instead of just rushing past to the comments section to rant and flame and sputter.
You still use Telnet?!?
Ted the Rat says it's insecure.
Yeah. I know. I run a bunch of NetBSD machines on my home network, safely isolated from the Internet, so I use telnet, too.
If Linux/BSD hadn't been as 'insecure' as it was five years ago when I started out, I probably would have given up networking. Nothing 'off the CD' works and is newbie-friendly for subnetting these days like it used to be.
I had a hell of a lot of fun with all those 386sx boxes and the 3c503 cards I got for a few bux a pound at a surplus store. I feel a little sorry for the people trying to learn these days on sphinchter-tight distros.
No, the attachment won't require them to run it as root. It'll be easy to run and it'll wipe, and/or seriously corrupt, their home directory. And... just about the only thing that can't be spooled back off a distro CD is what the user keeps in the home directory.
End result: one pissed off Linux user, wondering what all the hype about 'security' was for.
(Backed-up home directories in managed commercial enviroments are not what I am talking about, BTW, so please don't make that your only response.)
Nope.
The RIAA wants to flood the network with defective content, so that 70-80% of what you download turns out to be a waste of your bandwidth.
That's very different from what most people think of as a DoS attack, and it doesn't impede network communications. Certainly not any more than the people who download massive amounts of content are already doing.
You really should start reading articles before coming to the discussion area to rant.