I would love to use Wine to run all the games, but many of the games I enjoy playing either score low on working with Wine, or running really crappy. Also I have a full lisense version of win98se, all legal and what not, orig package container and all.
Brendan
Currently I'm running win2k on my main desktop fully patched, so this little problem doesn't really hurt me per say. With all the patches in place, my computer does some of the following things.
1) IE won't work (joking aside it just doesn't work at all). This happened a long time ago, so I switched to mozilla. I thanks ms for this cause moz. owns.
2) Add/Remove programs, I can no longer see the text to describe the program install. It's all grey. An icon shows, so I can uninstall that way. Its not the colo scheme either, I tried MS default and it still didn't work.
3) I was having problems with this latest worm, but patching fixed everything, so now we wait to see what broke.
All and all I'm getting extremely close to wiping the HDD, and dual booting Slackware Linux (which has been on my laptop for over a year and I love it) and win98se for games. All the backups are current, and I'm waiting for the next problem to make the system more unsuable. If I wasn't so damn lazy, this would of been done sooner.
From the Best Essay Ever on why privacy is a fundamental right: [Its not too long- just go read it]
I disagree that we have all these "rights" because we are humans, and therefore must have them. Where does it say you have a "right" to privacy? Assuming that we hold the Constitution as the highest piece of material stating our rights, then privacy is in fact not a right. Also, if we hold the Constitution in highest of regards, then we are now saying that the whole world should follow our goverment system, hence taking away their own ability to be governed as they see fit.
Since the whole world doesn't agree on the Constutition as the proper way to run a government, that must be discarded as what gives us our "rights". No other document that I can think of says you get these rights. Simply being born does not give you a right. Rights are given to you by the governing body. In America, we elect people to run our government, to speak for us and up hold the laws in our best interest. We'll set aside the argument of whether this is happening or not.
The way I see it, the only right you have is to make up your own mind. That is it. Outside of that, you have no unalienable rights. There is no force that will magically stop me from video taping you, killing you, or preventing you from being happy.
So please, please, please stop assuming you have all these rights simply because you are human. It is just not the case. The universe doesn't abide by your rights because all these rights are simply a social status inforced by modern day society. 100 years ago, you had different rights then today. 100 years from now, you'll have different rights then you do now.
That is pretty cool that Walmart is selling this setup, but before you go off and give them your money, you might read this article first. I know I don't support this company, and even though I wouldn't mind this product, I won't give any money to Walmart if I can help it.
Click Here
The US DoJ looked set to implement a proper solution just a few years ago, but the election of President Bush put an end to that.
Actually I think it might be better to say that the proper solution was set to be implemented but the judge handling the case, Jackson if I recall correctly, sometime during the trial had said something to the press that showed he was partial to microsoft. This got him removed from the case because a judge must remain partial. Justice is blind.
So really this had nothing to do with the fact that Bush Jr. was elected president.
I keep reading about how every device needs to have an ip address. WHY??? Why does every single device these days need to be connected to the internet? I see much more bad coming from a fully connected world then now.
Imagine your air conditioner, refrigerator, television and VCR, amongst other thigns, all connected via ip to the net. You could then make it so the user could log in to a server that acted as a gateway to these devices, and told them what to do when to do it. Now, say some punk kiddie scripter gets control of this gateway, and tell the frig to turn off, the air to be set at 60 (In southern cali where it gets to the 90s regularly this is bad), the tv turned on, the VCR to record (or try if a tap is there). All this is going on while joe user has no clue at all. Imagine the money lose because of someones actions all because we insist on things being connected?
I suppose that is why I just don't get why it must all be conncetd, which is why I don't see why 4.3 billion addresses isn't enough. I mean, do cell phones need ips, really? Can't the cell phone companies just nat some address space. They could fit i think 60 million by natting the 10 network if i recall. Oh well.
I have been reading slashdot for little under a year now. I rarely post but I do enjoy for the most part reading what others think about the stories. Often times some very insightful and useful information is posted, and other times a liberal will start to explain without any real facts to back the claim how the government is doing all this horrible stuff to take everyones rights and is passing a bunch of laws that do not make any sense and are stripping people of their rights.
It gets rather tiresome to hear someone with extreme leftist ideas spout off about an article they did not read and then get modded up as insight when really it just trys to excite and confuse people, getting them to take action before honestly knowing what the problem is in the first place.
If one reads the article they will see that the government is trying to get people to make a real attempt at securing their networks. They are not saying you can not run a WAP or that you will be arrested for doing so. It is saying here are some tips that someone should follow if they wish to avoid litigation. If a person runs a service they are liable for what the users of the service do. The fact that the word terrorist is thrown in at every which point is sickening but the reasons why someone should attempt to secure their networks is not.
As for the idea that the government is stealing everyones rights in the name of homeland security, while it is not necesarily a bad thing to be paranoid, at least try to think about what exactly is being done. Most of the PATRIOT ACT actually does have some parts to it that make a great deal of sense, as well a few parts that are a bit broad. Allowing our government to have more powers to watch the citizens is not necessarily a bad thing. A certain amount of privacy should be kept but not at the cost of life. If reading someone's email saves someones life, then it was worth the invasion of privacy. I know i'm going to get killed for such a comment but its true.
The more I read about the entertainment industry trying to lobby its way into a stable business model the more I want it to fall on its face and never get up. For them to expect the computer industry to include DRM into all software to prevent piracy is insane. It is not the computer industry's nor the ISP's job to police copyright infringement. The software is made to do a certain thing, but that doesn't mean someone will find another use for it.
For example, the airplane was invented as a way to travel. As soon as the military saw this, they thought, we can drop bombs from this device. Now the plane is not just for travel, but also for war. I'm sure the Wright Brothers didn't expect the creation of Stealth Bombers now did they. The same applies for developers of CD/DVD burners. I'm sure the original plan for them was to provide a great way to back up large amounts of data. Then someone said, hey, we can put multimedia on this and get our car stero, home theater to play this also.
Through this whole mess I just hope that some silly law doesn't get pasted that requires software/hardware developers to add DRM to their products, because if it does happen, I know a whole bunch of people that will stick to the last latest and greatest hard/software that doesn't include DRM.
"OS X is doing very, very well," said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing. "We were certainly more aggressive than Microsoft has ever been in making an operating system in making sure we built something we could move our whole market over to in a very short time."
Well of course it is doing very well. Whenever someone wishes to upgrade their current machine to a newer Mac, they have no choice but to get OSX with it. When a company controls both the hardware and the software they control what the user gets as soon as they decide to upgrade.
Microsoft could only wish to control the hardware and the software. Then whenever you wanted a faster computer, you would have to upgrade also to the newest version of Windows. So in theory if MS was like Apple in this respect, then I suppose WinXP would be 20% of the Windows user base, especially when many of the big businesses buy new computers within the next two to three years.
First off, I feel your example is a bit off base. If you agree to the EULA, then there is no grey area to argue in.
I honestly hope someone can get linux to run on the xbox, and then I hope that the people involved try and distribute the software, free or for a price. As soon as this happens Microsoft will take them to court, and be justified as well. If the EULA is on the side of the box, and it says you may not modify the xbox, as well as says you may not run unsigned programs on the ebox, then it pretty much means you cannot run linux on the xbox, or anything other then xbox games legally.
I personally don't think people have a right to buy the xbox to simply run linux on it. It wasn't made for that purpose. If people would use products as such for what they were meant to be used for, the market place, and consumer would be better off as a whole.
More and more articles seem to be appearing about nanotechnology from the medical science to that of a harddrive to CPUs. It will be interesting to see how many various ways nanotechnology will go, and more interesting to see if it is actually cost affordable.
Now as far as a terebyte of harddrive space, just how long would that take to format, and if I used any current type (NTFS, FAT, etc) how much of that space would I actually lose? It's great they think they can make this, but wouldn't it be nice if we could actually use the entire amount of space that we current have? I have a 40gb formated as NTFS and I lost about 2.63GB of space. Now of course 2.63GB is nothing when you still have 30gb spare, but its hardly the point.
Yeah, that makes sense. How can the user be to blame here? The every day user sees the computer as a tool that should be working and secure(actually they probably don't think twice about the security part). How can it be the users fault that there is a file attached to another file that could be a virus? I would say that if anyone is to blame for the $60 billion lose would be virus writers and sloppy coders, not the end users.
Also this was mentioned in another cost, if it cost $60 billion someone has to be collecting $60 billion, do they not?
Actually, if your in a coma are you really alive? When in a coma you yourself doesn't have a clue whether or not your actually alive. So if you are in a coma and this little message is sent out over the internet, then it was technically correct about you being dead, at least as far as your concerned.
And to imagine, all of this hassal and hardship people must face because the "geeks" decided to make the internet more user-friendly, i.e. lets use names that can be translated into 32bit number sequences(IP address) so that people don't have to remember 64.28.67.150 whenever they want to visit slashdot. While it isn't a bad idea it would only take a little more thought to realize that companies would start buying these things to attempt to sell products, and hence feel the need to protect themselves from others that might do harm.
Just imagine if in the early days we could of not added in some of the extra ease of the internet, we could of kept most, if not all business off the internet, leaving it to simpling be a place for education and learning. Oh well.
While this article was under the homour section, it still reeked of zealotry that is completely useless. The article claims that Windows is always full of bugs, and viruses and that linux is so great with being immune to viruses, and being free and all. Sure thats great. I have used linux before, but found myself going back to Win2k because I enjoyed using it more. At the time, I think it was mandrake 7.0, I thought linux was a decent OS but I couldn't play any games, and certainly didn't want to take the time to configure wine to play some of my games. Also, I don't like taking time to compile code. I'd much rather download a program, and be able to install it by double-clicking an icon.
Also, during the entire time I have ran Windows, any version, I have never once been infected by a virus. I also never use virus software. The reason for this is probably because I don't open email from people I don't know, or if it was unrequested in the first place.
Ok, I'm done ranting about that, just had to give my two cents.
P.S. I do run linux as a ftp/webserver on my Windows network as well.
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I would love to use Wine to run all the games, but many of the games I enjoy playing either score low on working with Wine, or running really crappy. Also I have a full lisense version of win98se, all legal and what not, orig package container and all. Brendan
1) IE won't work (joking aside it just doesn't work at all). This happened a long time ago, so I switched to mozilla. I thanks ms for this cause moz. owns.
2) Add/Remove programs, I can no longer see the text to describe the program install. It's all grey. An icon shows, so I can uninstall that way. Its not the colo scheme either, I tried MS default and it still didn't work.
3) I was having problems with this latest worm, but patching fixed everything, so now we wait to see what broke.
All and all I'm getting extremely close to wiping the HDD, and dual booting Slackware Linux (which has been on my laptop for over a year and I love it) and win98se for games. All the backups are current, and I'm waiting for the next problem to make the system more unsuable. If I wasn't so damn lazy, this would of been done sooner.
BrendanFrom the Best Essay Ever on why privacy is a fundamental right: [Its not too long- just go read it]
I disagree that we have all these "rights" because we are humans, and therefore must have them. Where does it say you have a "right" to privacy? Assuming that we hold the Constitution as the highest piece of material stating our rights, then privacy is in fact not a right. Also, if we hold the Constitution in highest of regards, then we are now saying that the whole world should follow our goverment system, hence taking away their own ability to be governed as they see fit.
Since the whole world doesn't agree on the Constutition as the proper way to run a government, that must be discarded as what gives us our "rights". No other document that I can think of says you get these rights. Simply being born does not give you a right. Rights are given to you by the governing body. In America, we elect people to run our government, to speak for us and up hold the laws in our best interest. We'll set aside the argument of whether this is happening or not.
The way I see it, the only right you have is to make up your own mind. That is it. Outside of that, you have no unalienable rights. There is no force that will magically stop me from video taping you, killing you, or preventing you from being happy.
So please, please, please stop assuming you have all these rights simply because you are human. It is just not the case. The universe doesn't abide by your rights because all these rights are simply a social status inforced by modern day society. 100 years ago, you had different rights then today. 100 years from now, you'll have different rights then you do now.
That is pretty cool that Walmart is selling this setup, but before you go off and give them your money, you might read this article first. I know I don't support this company, and even though I wouldn't mind this product, I won't give any money to Walmart if I can help it. Click Here
Actually I think it might be better to say that the proper solution was set to be implemented but the judge handling the case, Jackson if I recall correctly, sometime during the trial had said something to the press that showed he was partial to microsoft. This got him removed from the case because a judge must remain partial. Justice is blind.
So really this had nothing to do with the fact that Bush Jr. was elected president.I keep reading about how every device needs to have an ip address. WHY??? Why does every single device these days need to be connected to the internet? I see much more bad coming from a fully connected world then now.
Imagine your air conditioner, refrigerator, television and VCR, amongst other thigns, all connected via ip to the net. You could then make it so the user could log in to a server that acted as a gateway to these devices, and told them what to do when to do it. Now, say some punk kiddie scripter gets control of this gateway, and tell the frig to turn off, the air to be set at 60 (In southern cali where it gets to the 90s regularly this is bad), the tv turned on, the VCR to record (or try if a tap is there). All this is going on while joe user has no clue at all. Imagine the money lose because of someones actions all because we insist on things being connected?
I suppose that is why I just don't get why it must all be conncetd, which is why I don't see why 4.3 billion addresses isn't enough. I mean, do cell phones need ips, really? Can't the cell phone companies just nat some address space. They could fit i think 60 million by natting the 10 network if i recall. Oh well.
The square of 2,532 is actually 6411024. The cube is 16232712768.
I have been reading slashdot for little under a year now. I rarely post but I do enjoy for the most part reading what others think about the stories. Often times some very insightful and useful information is posted, and other times a liberal will start to explain without any real facts to back the claim how the government is doing all this horrible stuff to take everyones rights and is passing a bunch of laws that do not make any sense and are stripping people of their rights.
It gets rather tiresome to hear someone with extreme leftist ideas spout off about an article they did not read and then get modded up as insight when really it just trys to excite and confuse people, getting them to take action before honestly knowing what the problem is in the first place.
If one reads the article they will see that the government is trying to get people to make a real attempt at securing their networks. They are not saying you can not run a WAP or that you will be arrested for doing so. It is saying here are some tips that someone should follow if they wish to avoid litigation. If a person runs a service they are liable for what the users of the service do. The fact that the word terrorist is thrown in at every which point is sickening but the reasons why someone should attempt to secure their networks is not.
As for the idea that the government is stealing everyones rights in the name of homeland security, while it is not necesarily a bad thing to be paranoid, at least try to think about what exactly is being done. Most of the PATRIOT ACT actually does have some parts to it that make a great deal of sense, as well a few parts that are a bit broad. Allowing our government to have more powers to watch the citizens is not necessarily a bad thing. A certain amount of privacy should be kept but not at the cost of life. If reading someone's email saves someones life, then it was worth the invasion of privacy. I know i'm going to get killed for such a comment but its true.
Thank you for listening to me rant on a bit.
The more I read about the entertainment industry trying to lobby its way into a stable business model the more I want it to fall on its face and never get up. For them to expect the computer industry to include DRM into all software to prevent piracy is insane. It is not the computer industry's nor the ISP's job to police copyright infringement. The software is made to do a certain thing, but that doesn't mean someone will find another use for it.
For example, the airplane was invented as a way to travel. As soon as the military saw this, they thought, we can drop bombs from this device. Now the plane is not just for travel, but also for war. I'm sure the Wright Brothers didn't expect the creation of Stealth Bombers now did they. The same applies for developers of CD/DVD burners. I'm sure the original plan for them was to provide a great way to back up large amounts of data. Then someone said, hey, we can put multimedia on this and get our car stero, home theater to play this also.
Through this whole mess I just hope that some silly law doesn't get pasted that requires software/hardware developers to add DRM to their products, because if it does happen, I know a whole bunch of people that will stick to the last latest and greatest hard/software that doesn't include DRM.
"OS X is doing very, very well," said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing. "We were certainly more aggressive than Microsoft has ever been in making an operating system in making sure we built something we could move our whole market over to in a very short time."
Well of course it is doing very well. Whenever someone wishes to upgrade their current machine to a newer Mac, they have no choice but to get OSX with it. When a company controls both the hardware and the software they control what the user gets as soon as they decide to upgrade.
Microsoft could only wish to control the hardware and the software. Then whenever you wanted a faster computer, you would have to upgrade also to the newest version of Windows. So in theory if MS was like Apple in this respect, then I suppose WinXP would be 20% of the Windows user base, especially when many of the big businesses buy new computers within the next two to three years.
First off, I feel your example is a bit off base. If you agree to the EULA, then there is no grey area to argue in.
I honestly hope someone can get linux to run on the xbox, and then I hope that the people involved try and distribute the software, free or for a price. As soon as this happens Microsoft will take them to court, and be justified as well. If the EULA is on the side of the box, and it says you may not modify the xbox, as well as says you may not run unsigned programs on the ebox, then it pretty much means you cannot run linux on the xbox, or anything other then xbox games legally.
I personally don't think people have a right to buy the xbox to simply run linux on it. It wasn't made for that purpose. If people would use products as such for what they were meant to be used for, the market place, and consumer would be better off as a whole.
Brendan
More and more articles seem to be appearing about nanotechnology from the medical science to that of a harddrive to CPUs. It will be interesting to see how many various ways nanotechnology will go, and more interesting to see if it is actually cost affordable.
Now as far as a terebyte of harddrive space, just how long would that take to format, and if I used any current type (NTFS, FAT, etc) how much of that space would I actually lose? It's great they think they can make this, but wouldn't it be nice if we could actually use the entire amount of space that we current have? I have a 40gb formated as NTFS and I lost about 2.63GB of space. Now of course 2.63GB is nothing when you still have 30gb spare, but its hardly the point.
Thank You.
Yeah, that makes sense. How can the user be to blame here? The every day user sees the computer as a tool that should be working and secure(actually they probably don't think twice about the security part). How can it be the users fault that there is a file attached to another file that could be a virus? I would say that if anyone is to blame for the $60 billion lose would be virus writers and sloppy coders, not the end users.
Also this was mentioned in another cost, if it cost $60 billion someone has to be collecting $60 billion, do they not?
Thank You.
Actually, if your in a coma are you really alive? When in a coma you yourself doesn't have a clue whether or not your actually alive. So if you are in a coma and this little message is sent out over the internet, then it was technically correct about you being dead, at least as far as your concerned.
Brendan
And to imagine, all of this hassal and hardship people must face because the "geeks" decided to make the internet more user-friendly, i.e. lets use names that can be translated into 32bit number sequences(IP address) so that people don't have to remember 64.28.67.150 whenever they want to visit slashdot. While it isn't a bad idea it would only take a little more thought to realize that companies would start buying these things to attempt to sell products, and hence feel the need to protect themselves from others that might do harm.
Just imagine if in the early days we could of not added in some of the extra ease of the internet, we could of kept most, if not all business off the internet, leaving it to simpling be a place for education and learning. Oh well.
While this article was under the homour section, it still reeked of zealotry that is completely useless. The article claims that Windows is always full of bugs, and viruses and that linux is so great with being immune to viruses, and being free and all. Sure thats great. I have used linux before, but found myself going back to Win2k because I enjoyed using it more. At the time, I think it was mandrake 7.0, I thought linux was a decent OS but I couldn't play any games, and certainly didn't want to take the time to configure wine to play some of my games. Also, I don't like taking time to compile code. I'd much rather download a program, and be able to install it by double-clicking an icon. Also, during the entire time I have ran Windows, any version, I have never once been infected by a virus. I also never use virus software. The reason for this is probably because I don't open email from people I don't know, or if it was unrequested in the first place. Ok, I'm done ranting about that, just had to give my two cents. P.S. I do run linux as a ftp/webserver on my Windows network as well.