If anyone were stupid enough to buy that book (an $89 book? WTF? text is free), you would have made $4.45 in commissions. This abuse of the comments system for personal gain is egregious and in violation of the Terms of Service for Slashdot.
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Jeez, Cringely. First you ordered a book from amazon.com, one of the most consumer-hostile companies on the Internet given their "privacy policy" and dependence on trivial patents.
Then, you expect the corrupt government postal service to deliver it on time.
Here's a tip, Cringely. Go to this place called a "book store." It sells books for cash. You may have been able to "save" 50 cents on a Kelley Blue Book from spamazon.com, but how much is your privacy worth?
Pay for everything in cash. Never work for an employer that demands your Social Security number; if asked for it, make one up and use it instead. The algorithm for validating SSNs is freely available. Don't trust your money with "banks" or "credit cards." The only way to prevent identity theft is to protect your own identity as if it were a golden object -- or, as the French say, un objet d'or.
The $699 license fee is for servers. I pay only $199 per workstation. Also, that license is good forever, not for one year like Micro$soft's "license."
Frankly, I believe that $199 is a perfectly fair price for Linux.
As a recognized cybersecurity activist, I can assure you that Lamo's actions are wholly benign and not subject to prosecution.
As you all know, and as I've written before, we live in a police state. This so-called "land of the free" imposes undue hardships on people who do not blindly accept the tyrannical rhetoric of George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, and Condoleezza Rice. Prosecuting Adrian Lamo for exploiting well-known security flaws is simply unacceptable.
What if the United States were to stop favouring corporations and go after the New York Times? After all, it is their incompetent, Microsoft-worshiping sysadmins who left the holes open in the first place.
Impeach the New York Times and Condoleezza Rice, not Adrian Lamo.
I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *80s*) so I think I know my stuff. I've never taken a computer course, either -- all my knowledge is self-taught!
No, I "boycott" Slashdot by not supporting its advertisers. Every page view costs Slashdot six cents. If I visit Slashdot 100 times a day for 10 years, that's more than $21,000 in costs.
Now tell me how "not visiting" Slashdot hurts it as a business..
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don't believe anonymous cowards.
The real Seth Finkelstein has an account on this system. If he cares about protecting his identity, he'll post after having logged in.
In other news, nobody cares about what a dyslexic moron you are.
P.S. I read your last sentence as "I'm a stupid pigfucker who can't read text on a computer monitor."
No, because Verisign never goatse'ed my web site, as Michael Sims did. I swear on my father's grave that Mr. Sims will pay.
I'll be back, motherfuckers.
I bet Michael Sims was DDOSing me.
Sit perfectly still. Only I may post.
I've taken the liberty of removing the referrer tag from your amazon.com link.
If anyone were stupid enough to buy that book (an $89 book? WTF? text is free), you would have made $4.45 in commissions. This abuse of the comments system for personal gain is egregious and in violation of the Terms of Service for Slashdot.
Please delete your account.
Jim Gray? Why the fuck should I believe anything from a man who demonized future Hall of Famer Pete Rose?
And what does Jim Gray know about storage? He's a sports commentator, and a terrible one at that.
RMS doesn't believe in money, sillypants.
Gentoo
Debian
Red Hat
Jeez, Cringely. First you ordered a book from amazon.com, one of the most consumer-hostile companies on the Internet given their "privacy policy" and dependence on trivial patents.
Then, you expect the corrupt government postal service to deliver it on time.
Here's a tip, Cringely. Go to this place called a "book store." It sells books for cash. You may have been able to "save" 50 cents on a Kelley Blue Book from spamazon.com, but how much is your privacy worth?
Pay for everything in cash. Never work for an employer that demands your Social Security number; if asked for it, make one up and use it instead. The algorithm for validating SSNs is freely available. Don't trust your money with "banks" or "credit cards." The only way to prevent identity theft is to protect your own identity as if it were a golden object -- or, as the French say, un objet d'or.
SCO paid my way out to Utah so that I could inspect the "offending code."
It's the real deal, folks. Get out your checkbooks because SCO owns a large amount of code in Linux.
Of course, I can't elaborate on what I saw. SCO made me sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement, or "NDA."
The $699 license fee is for servers. I pay only $199 per workstation. Also, that license is good forever, not for one year like Micro$soft's "license."
Frankly, I believe that $199 is a perfectly fair price for Linux.
Good post, Seth!
It's a web search engine that you have to pay money to use.
Think of it as "Google for suckers."
Sure, you can. Posting the results of a commercially sold $95 research report is every bit as illegal as posting a rip of a $20 CD or a $15 DVD.
I've never done any of those things, and I've won more than 47 lawsuits against people for illegal use of my works.
Maybe I should just copy material verbatim from Seth Finkelstein's web site into comments and claim that I own it.
Lexis/Nexis is a search engine. The only difference between them and Google is that Lexis/Nexis charges money to unsuspecting companies.
As a lawyer, I've often found more relevant results on Google than on Lexis/Nexis, for 0% of the price.
As a recognized cybersecurity activist, I can assure you that Lamo's actions are wholly benign and not subject to prosecution.
As you all know, and as I've written before, we live in a police state. This so-called "land of the free" imposes undue hardships on people who do not blindly accept the tyrannical rhetoric of George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, and Condoleezza Rice. Prosecuting Adrian Lamo for exploiting well-known security flaws is simply unacceptable.
What if the United States were to stop favouring corporations and go after the New York Times? After all, it is their incompetent, Microsoft-worshiping sysadmins who left the holes open in the first place.
Impeach the New York Times and Condoleezza Rice, not Adrian Lamo.
Join one of the industry organizations. Support your fellow worker. Don't steal research reports.
Good for you. I know it must be tough for you, considering nobody cares where your Control key is, but you'll pull through.
Have I told you about Michael Sims? He stole control of my web site using his Control key.
"Proper UNIX keyboards" are QWERTY, not QUERTY.
I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *80s*) so I think I know my stuff. I've never taken a computer course, either -- all my knowledge is self-taught!
I think ed, as hilariously parodied in a fake manual page, is inferior to vi.
Once again, I speak from experience.
My web host charges about $9 per month, and I get 150 hits per month. That works out to roughly 6 cents per hit.
I only assume that Slashdot uses an equally economic web service.
No, I "boycott" Slashdot by not supporting its advertisers. Every page view costs Slashdot six cents. If I visit Slashdot 100 times a day for 10 years, that's more than $21,000 in costs.
Now tell me how "not visiting" Slashdot hurts it as a business..