It looks a bit like Knoppix, but comes with more features, such as the capability to eject the MandrakeMove CD-ROM during its use, in order to read audio or video files from another CD!
Are we going backwards to the dark days of DOS?
boot to floppy, remove floppy,
C:\ >I am so awesome.exe
Syntax Error
There were two 10/100 ethernet ports in a jack that was always located in the center of the wall on one side of the room in all of our dorms... This always led to the buying of enormous ethernet cables and boxing/duct tape to run across the floor;)
As far as electrical outlets, they were never a problem, although myself and fellow technologically enabled were known to have more than two power strips (NO, we didn't plug them into each other!). Never really found a need for more outlets in our dorms, just more ethernet!.
Im not an apple evangelist, I hated all Mac OS thru 9, but once I had a good whiff of 10 I picked up my powerbook... the point (im getting there) is that I use it because the OS is SO inclined to pushing the boundaries of technology - wireless ethernet just works, all the time, i have a UNIX SubSystem! And it's PHAT with and F! Awesome graphics, use of memory, I do a lot of systems development and programming for a win/mac/sun/linux network and I have to tell you my ability to develop rapidly, with ease, pleasure and KY would be greatly hindered by using windows for anything other than verifying that CSS displays properly in win browsers (blargh!)
i don't need to use cygwin to compile common and standard GNU source code, my system logs can be displayed embedded in my desktop! (lookup GeekTool on version tracker, if you don't know, now you know foo'!) These are not capabilities that will appeal to the traditional mac user! i think with Mac OS X, Apple is making a commitment to have the all-around top desktop OS - perfect for nerdliness if you want it, and beautiful and easy to use for your parents!
or some other tax for our students time? I mean, we pay to send our kids to school to get their learn on, not to be brainwashed... so this is basically advertising time! schools really ought to charge the heck out of them for the audience!
i guess you're right, while unauthorized access is made, itdoesn't say anything in there about non-damage situations.... and perhaps it's in the aol terms that they can do this? anybody (show yourselves!) have a copy of those terms?
"The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes this clearly illegal; if this were a 17-year-old instead of AOL, the FBI would be investigating. "
actually, the FBI won't investigate without a reported loss of $10K (see The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll - tho i don't know how this has changed since cliff wrote his goofy book.
of course, given some of the claims made of damages by corporations (cough! nytimes! cough!), perhaps all these users could claim 10million in damages with about as much plausability and get an investigation!
Oh your poetry is *so* deep, for a pie-eating troll But when it's time for survival you can go crawl back in your hole With your prefabricated security devices and prefaded jeans My home is the internet, you call this a Ghetto? Please! Save that talk for your intranet still teeming with viruses But hey, when in doubt you run defrag and hope you still come out on top With all the other front-runners and hanger-ons I don't wish you bad luck cuz i don't have to, *BSD is the bomb that you can't step to.
I agree. One of my favorite things about MySQL is that I can use as many languages as have a plugin for connecting to it and sending queries, and many of them also have lots of bundled modules, packages, pear and cpan, if you get my drift. Hell i could even use java if i was feeling especially masochistic... I haven't found anything on their site like an API or protocol for connecting, just Java. Blech.
It's in the freebsd handbook, in the sendmail section. it tells you to set sendmail_enable to none if you want to turn it off completely, or no if you want to just disable the daemon, but still wish to be able to send outgoing mail... you can find most basic stuff listed in the freebsd handbook, you really should be using it a lot in the beginning!
in the music business (and this dates back to a Guitar World, or some other guitar rag article from 1998) that the artists who publish records on major labels are lucky if they even see 1% of the sale price of a record... which is considerably lower than Card guesses at, but certainly add more fuel to the fire.
Then please post your SSN, PIN, bank account numbers, any and all plans or ideas and all other personal information here.
First off, SSN and bank account numbers certainly don't fall under IP since you don't 'own' them! The rest of your retort is ridiculous as well - all other personal info, c'mon! I don't know necessarily why he doesn't believe in IP, but I do know that Intellectual Property is a VAGUE term that doesn't describe anything legal. I don't believe in IP either, but I do believe in Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents, which are all different things for Good Reasons.
You are also arguing the wrong topic.
Is he really? I'm actuallly relieved to see his post that points out that there is more going on here than cut and dry legality. I would actually refer you to this other post that is more relevant than yours on said topic:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77865&cid= 6919786
How do you figure it was so beneficial as to be unmeasurable? First off, it's main purpose was to beat the Russians and win an ideological victory for the United States during the cold war, which was why they set the deadline of by 1970. Considering that, the benefits only go to those in charge of the US Population, not the Human Population. It was the investment in billions of dollars on what was basically a PR move. Money from the tax coffers. Money that could have been put into desperately needed programs like EDUCATION and FEEDING PEOPLE WHO ARE HUNGRY. Money that perhaps did not need to be taken from the people who earned it in the first place! I apologize for making such a crude diatribe, but the beneficial and humanitarian ways in which that money could have been otherwise invested are immeasurable. Especially considering the forced deadline requiring the immediate spending of billions in funds!
He did say it was "for the reader who...," he did not say "it was perfect for me because i want to setup and forget." It's pretty clear from the review that the guy is looking to do exactly the opposite.
Anybody who makes a statement like that quite obviously has never gotten too serious about setting up and maintaining an IDS.
right, which is why he is picking up some books on the subject. the reviews were damn informative for me, who is in the same boat. I don't think that a person looking for knowledge and sharing what they gained is a bad thing.
In the chapter "When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying" from the book Hal's Legacy by David G. Stork, Ray Kurzweil writes about ASR, the difficulties in getting there and asserts that actual ASR will be impossible until 2020:
We can't yet build a brain like HAL's, but we can describe right now how we could do it. It will take langer than the time needed to build a computer with the raw computing speed of the human brain, which I believe we will do by around 2020. By sometime in the first half of the next century, I predict, we will have mapped the neural circuitry of the brain.
So even whacky old Kurzweil does not believe we will have actual AI by 2020, just the computing power to begin chipping away at the necessary components like ASR, and vision. Marvin Minski believes that the field of AI itself has been dead in the water for some time now.
Minsky: [1] So Clarke made the same mistake..., that AI was progressing so well and would continue to progress that we should start by concentrating on particular problems, such as Go or chess. But that's the wrong idea. The bottom line is that we really haven't progressed to ofar toward a truly intelligent machine. We have collections of dumb specialists in small domains; the true majesty of general intelligence still awaits our attack.
Out of curiosity, does the slashdot crowd of of any major breakthroughs made in the field of general intelligence recently?
~frank
[1]from the chapter Scientist on the Set of Hal's Legacy, page 27
The root of the matter is why is copyright infringement a matter of national state.
probably for the same reason that our prisons, our poor, and our umemployed are not matters of national state. This is clearly more important. so is war.
It is in fact a weak premise to suggest that IP penalties have been stiffer than violent crime penalties without providing examples... but is this assumption linked in any to the heavy hand of the law in meeting out years of jail sentence punishments to poorer people while letting corporate criminals and even federal criminals off without even year of jail time? I'm not going to provide examples, save to say that you can read about the tougher urban crime laws created in the 70's (for example the Rockefeller laws) that have filled our prisons with a certain demographic of our society, and of course spurred a prison building growth that hopes to rival continued coldwar level arms spending.
It would not be surprising to find similar behavior in this area of the law. It is a known fact (re: The Cuckoo's Egg) that FBI investigators will NOT investigate "computer crime" without the reported loss of a significant amount of money (in any area, either IP, network hacking, viruses, etc). While this part of the DoJ being interviewed deals only with the IP part of things, their dept. will NOT investigate cases that do not involve a substantial loss of money.
"Substantial", I believe, is like neal stephenson's "fuck you money", a pricetag subject to the times, probably a lot lower when Cliff Stoll wrote his silly book.
But then again we also need to re-think our ethics which give all the concern to the people on top at the expense of everyone on the bottom who support the ones up on top.
Every time we cast a vote, we basically declare that we are leaving it up to them. And every time we pay are taxes we are consenting to their decisions.
I like Thoreau's comparison of voting to gamming: we are declaring feebly to other men how we would like things to be, but we are not actually doing anything about it.
I'm glad somebody else noticed that. As if the electoral process wasn't enough to take the steam out of democracy, the EU can ensure the selling of its very soul.
That's an odd comment for the author to make. I think Alan is asserting his answer by the questions he is posing, as they are formed a very certain way: Our current system protects the entrenched rich in their physical properties, and now we need to extend that protection, regardless of the concepts of freedom, liberty, or even (actual) fair trade to continue to protect the entrenched rich. In fact, we should extend it over "Intellectual Property," a vile and deceptive term, recently discuessed by R.Stallman in his column regarding the SCO Saga and what it means for GNU.
Is this really extending the rights of those who need to protect their property, or to squash "unfair competition"?
"It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support." - Henry David Thoreau in "Civil Disobedience".
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jk. The moon is waaaaaay more important.
Are we going backwards to the dark days of DOS?
boot to floppy, remove floppy,
C:\ >I am so awesome.exe
Syntax Error
There were two 10/100 ethernet ports in a jack that was always located in the center of the wall on one side of the room in all of our dorms... This always led to the buying of enormous ethernet cables and boxing/duct tape to run across the floor ;)
As far as electrical outlets, they were never a problem, although myself and fellow technologically enabled were known to have more than two power strips (NO, we didn't plug them into each other!). Never really found a need for more outlets in our dorms, just more ethernet!.
Franki don't need to use cygwin to compile common and standard GNU source code, my system logs can be displayed embedded in my desktop! (lookup GeekTool on version tracker, if you don't know, now you know foo'!) These are not capabilities that will appeal to the traditional mac user! i think with Mac OS X, Apple is making a commitment to have the all-around top desktop OS - perfect for nerdliness if you want it, and beautiful and easy to use for your parents!
a brainwash tax???
or some other tax for our students time? I mean, we pay to send our kids to school to get their learn on, not to be brainwashed... so this is basically advertising time! schools really ought to charge the heck out of them for the audience!
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html
i guess you're right, while unauthorized access is made, itdoesn't say anything in there about non-damage situations.... and perhaps it's in the aol terms that they can do this? anybody (show yourselves!) have a copy of those terms?
-Frankactually, the FBI won't investigate without a reported loss of $10K (see The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll - tho i don't know how this has changed since cliff wrote his goofy book.
of course, given some of the claims made of damages by corporations (cough! nytimes! cough!), perhaps all these users could claim 10million in damages with about as much plausability and get an investigation!
-FrankSo far that hasn't been a priority. Or a problem, no.
Oh your poetry is *so* deep, for a pie-eating troll
But when it's time for survival you can go crawl back in your hole
With your prefabricated security devices and prefaded jeans
My home is the internet, you call this a Ghetto? Please!
Save that talk for your intranet still teeming with viruses
But hey, when in doubt you run defrag and hope you still come out on top
With all the other front-runners and hanger-ons
I don't wish you bad luck cuz i don't have to,
*BSD is the bomb that you can't step to.
I agree. One of my favorite things about MySQL is that I can use as many languages as have a plugin for connecting to it and sending queries, and many of them also have lots of bundled modules, packages, pear and cpan, if you get my drift. Hell i could even use java if i was feeling especially masochistic... I haven't found anything on their site like an API or protocol for connecting, just Java. Blech.
It's in the freebsd handbook, in the sendmail section. it tells you to set sendmail_enable to none if you want to turn it off completely, or no if you want to just disable the daemon, but still wish to be able to send outgoing mail... you can find most basic stuff listed in the freebsd handbook, you really should be using it a lot in the beginning!
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/mail-changingmta.html
-Frankin the music business (and this dates back to a Guitar World, or some other guitar rag article from 1998) that the artists who publish records on major labels are lucky if they even see 1% of the sale price of a record... which is considerably lower than Card guesses at, but certainly add more fuel to the fire.
it looks just fine in safari, but quite a mess mozilla 1.4 on mac os x.
Then please post your SSN, PIN, bank account numbers, any and all plans or ideas and all other personal information here.
First off, SSN and bank account numbers certainly don't fall under IP since you don't 'own' them! The rest of your retort is ridiculous as well - all other personal info, c'mon! I don't know necessarily why he doesn't believe in IP, but I do know that Intellectual Property is a VAGUE term that doesn't describe anything legal. I don't believe in IP either, but I do believe in Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents, which are all different things for Good Reasons.
You are also arguing the wrong topic.
Is he really? I'm actuallly relieved to see his post that points out that there is more going on here than cut and dry legality. I would actually refer you to this other post that is more relevant than yours on said topic: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77865&cid= 6919786
that is conveniently brushed/blacked out in the SCO page, and kind of hidden on the ipswitch page?
do you ever get that desire to just mod SCO down to troll? i mean, they might as well be a user here!
How do you figure it was so beneficial as to be unmeasurable? First off, it's main purpose was to beat the Russians and win an ideological victory for the United States during the cold war, which was why they set the deadline of by 1970. Considering that, the benefits only go to those in charge of the US Population, not the Human Population. It was the investment in billions of dollars on what was basically a PR move. Money from the tax coffers. Money that could have been put into desperately needed programs like EDUCATION and FEEDING PEOPLE WHO ARE HUNGRY. Money that perhaps did not need to be taken from the people who earned it in the first place! I apologize for making such a crude diatribe, but the beneficial and humanitarian ways in which that money could have been otherwise invested are immeasurable. Especially considering the forced deadline requiring the immediate spending of billions in funds!
He did say it was "for the reader who...," he did not say "it was perfect for me because i want to setup and forget." It's pretty clear from the review that the guy is looking to do exactly the opposite.
Anybody who makes a statement like that quite obviously has never gotten too serious about setting up and maintaining an IDS.
right, which is why he is picking up some books on the subject. the reviews were damn informative for me, who is in the same boat. I don't think that a person looking for knowledge and sharing what they gained is a bad thing.
In the chapter "When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying" from the book Hal's Legacy by David G. Stork, Ray Kurzweil writes about ASR, the difficulties in getting there and asserts that actual ASR will be impossible until 2020:
So even whacky old Kurzweil does not believe we will have actual AI by 2020, just the computing power to begin chipping away at the necessary components like ASR, and vision. Marvin Minski believes that the field of AI itself has been dead in the water for some time now.
Out of curiosity, does the slashdot crowd of of any major breakthroughs made in the field of general intelligence recently?
~frank[1]from the chapter Scientist on the Set of Hal's Legacy, page 27
probably for the same reason that our prisons, our poor, and our umemployed are not matters of national state. This is clearly more important. so is war.
FrankIt is in fact a weak premise to suggest that IP penalties have been stiffer than violent crime penalties without providing examples ... but is this assumption linked in any to the heavy hand of the law in meeting out years of jail sentence punishments to poorer people while letting corporate criminals and even federal criminals off without even year of jail time? I'm not going to provide examples, save to say that you can read about the tougher urban crime laws created in the 70's (for example the Rockefeller laws) that have filled our prisons with a certain demographic of our society, and of course spurred a prison building growth that hopes to rival continued coldwar level arms spending.
It would not be surprising to find similar behavior in this area of the law. It is a known fact (re: The Cuckoo's Egg) that FBI investigators will NOT investigate "computer crime" without the reported loss of a significant amount of money (in any area, either IP, network hacking, viruses, etc). While this part of the DoJ being interviewed deals only with the IP part of things, their dept. will NOT investigate cases that do not involve a substantial loss of money.
"Substantial", I believe, is like neal stephenson's "fuck you money", a pricetag subject to the times, probably a lot lower when Cliff Stoll wrote his silly book.
Frank
Every time we cast a vote, we basically declare that we are leaving it up to them. And every time we pay are taxes we are consenting to their decisions.
I like Thoreau's comparison of voting to gamming: we are declaring feebly to other men how we would like things to be, but we are not actually doing anything about it.
I'm glad somebody else noticed that. As if the electoral process wasn't enough to take the steam out of democracy, the EU can ensure the selling of its very soul.
That's an odd comment for the author to make. I think Alan is asserting his answer by the questions he is posing, as they are formed a very certain way: Our current system protects the entrenched rich in their physical properties, and now we need to extend that protection, regardless of the concepts of freedom, liberty, or even (actual) fair trade to continue to protect the entrenched rich. In fact, we should extend it over "Intellectual Property," a vile and deceptive term, recently discuessed by R.Stallman in his column regarding the SCO Saga and what it means for GNU.
Is this really extending the rights of those who need to protect their property, or to squash "unfair competition"?
"It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support." - Henry David Thoreau in "Civil Disobedience".