Why not? T-Com (formerly the Deutsche Telekom) has sued other companies in the past for using the letter "T" - and, for that matter, for using the colour magenta.
The posting's misleading, unfortunately, like so many on Slashdot lately.
The proposed bill does not grant an exception to the do-not-call list to all businesses; it grants an exception to businesses that have an *existing* business relationship with you. Still not good, but a random telemarketer won't be allowed to call you if you're not already a customer one way or another.
Michael's article is quite clear in this regard, too. I really wish the Slashdot editors would check submissions for factual accuracy instead of blindly accepting any sensationalist story - Slashdot really seems to be becoming the tabloid news outlet of the internet, which is rather unfortunate.
If you had RTFA, you'd have noticed that it's a laser printer - so if anything, it eats toner, not ink (and probably also other stuff, like imaging drums, transfer belts and so on).
Explain this to me again - what's so bad about restricting the sale of adult video games to children? Unless you're not an adult yourself, you won't be affected by this, so... what's the big deal?
So you can browse sites with IDN domain names without having to type in the punycode by hand?
Strange question, really. You could just as well ask "someone give me one good reason why I should connect to the Internet EVER?" - if you think about it for a second, it answers itself.
we do have more freedom of information and able to know more, then most other countries out there
Many, yes, but most? Did you actually arrive at that conclusion after checking the amount of freedom enjoyed in all the countries in the world, or do you simply assume that because you're from the USA, everything's bigger and better and freer for you than for just about anyone else?
Sorry if this comes across as flamebait (it's not intended as such), but it's a pet peeve of mine. Of course, if you actually *do* have evidence to back this up, I'd love to hear it.
How can you remotely attack a machine that has no ports open? Answer: You can't.
Wrong. You could still exploit security problems in the TCP/IP implementation, for example - assuming that there are any, of course (but if you assume that there are none, then you also wouldn't need to disable unused services).
The only way to completely secure a machine against remote attacks is to remove it from any and all networks it is on.
If it's a sovereign nation, then why is it still occupied by the US military? Until all foreign troops withdraw from Iraq, it's neither a "sovereign country" nor "mission accomplished" nor anything like that.
Well, they *could* have said "we don't know anything about him, sorry", and left it at that. The government might not have liked that, but there would've been little they could do - after all, when you ask someone for information, then it just *happens* sometimes that he doesn't have any, and it's one of the few things you can't be bullied into, either - if you don't have it, you don't, so Yahoo could conceivably have claimed that they don't and left it at that.
This is especially true in Hong Kong, which is, for Chinese standards at least, rather liberal - despite the fact that China took over, Hong Kong is essentially still administering itself. It's certainly not the Soviet Union or the Third Reich where you had to fear the secret police at all times.
What Yahoo really showed is that they have no spine - and no ethics. Not a surprise, of course (which big company does?), but it's still disappointing.
I agree as far as MySQL is concerned, but as for Qt, it's worth noting that Trolltech has entered a contract with KDE e.V. (KDE's legal representation, a German non-profit organisation) that guarantees that all future Qt versions will continue to be available as free software. Read up on it here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the source codes of viri have been available for ages. Outside of the fact that a virus written in Assembler is essentially its own source code, anyway, there've always been virus writing diskmags etc. where commented versions with explanations were published - this is nothing new.
The only thing that seems to have changed is that it's being done for money now, but that's not exactly a 2005 development, either, I'd say.
The problem with Mozilla is that they're so swamped with bugs that some developers at least seem to have stopped caring about *any* bugs at all whatsoever anymore - to the point where they will not only not fix them, but actively try to prevent others from fixing them. Give bug 18574 a look some time, for example...
Unfortunately, there's not really much you can do. Firefox *is* wildly popular, so those at the top of the Mozilla foundation (Asa Dotzler etc.) don't even realise that some things are going wrong - they've stopped listening to the people, just like Microsoft has, after convincing themselves that those who disagree are just a small bunch of disgruntled nay-sayers. Considering Firefox' popularity, that's not a difficult thing to do, but it's still wrong - you should always listen to your users.
Unfortunately, it seems that Mozilla is heading further in this direction, with the creation of a new for-profit company that's supposed to take over from the non-profit organisation and all that. I fear that this will be used as an excuse to listen to the actual users even less - and I don't doubt that this new incarnation of Netscape (which is what it'll be, essentially) will reward Asa and co with a nice monthly sum for the whole thing, too.
In the end, what it really boils down to is PR vs. the actual product - if PR (i.e., telling people that your product is good) is more important than actually *making* your product good, everyone loses. The only exception are those at the top of the pyramid who make money that way - but the actual users will lose out, and that's even sadder when you consider that projects with more PR will usually attract more users, too.
Microsoft (Windows), Mozilla, MySQL - this is what they all have in common. They're all not really all that great at what they're supposed to do, but there's so much PR that they're still successful. And unlike with Windows and MySQL, where you have Linux/*BSD and PostgreSQL as free and better alternatives, there seems to be no real alternative to Mozilla - Opera is payware, Konqueror only runs on Linux/KDE, Safari is for OS X etc. Where is the free, no-crap browser for Windows? There seems to be none.
RTFA (and actually read it). The Google Mini has a built-in limit of 100,000 documents; it's not that it can't index more because of a lack of CPU power or HD space or whatever, it's just that if you want (or need) more than that, Google wants you to buy their regular Search Appliances instead.
All this info can also be gotten from http://www.google.com/enterprise/, which is exactly 1 (one) click away from Google's index page.
Why not just implement it? I'm not that familiar with C really, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a few lines - basically, you'd just have to add a call to syslog(3) in an appropriate place.
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Admittedly, yes, Theo is (or at least can be) quite an asshole. But what does that have to do with the quality of OpenSSH (or OpenBSD)?
Like him or not, but it's a great program, and not using it just because you don't like the lead developer, when there are no actual reasons not to, is stupid.
I think you fail to realise an important thing: change typically happens by evolution, not revolution, and that's even more true when there's a multi-billion dollar industry involved. Do you honestly believe that everyone's just going to throw every system they have away?
It's not gonna happen. The industry likes migration/upgrade paths, and in 90% of all cases, a design that extends is gonna win over one that outright replaces.
Intel seems to have been unwilling to face that fact, but what they failed to realise is that their monopoly is not big enough to simply force change on people - rather, their move just gave AMD etc. an opportunity to slowly but steadily chip away at that monopoly.
From a market perspective, that's a good thing, of course - but if I was an Intel shareholder, I'd demand that heads roll for this gross mismanagement in the top executive floor.
Everyone loves to throw numbers around, of course, and 2.5 billion people affected is a lot, too, but... wouldn't it be more realistic to measure the *percentage* of earth's population affected by these things? Otherwise, the fact that the number of peopl who're affected by natural disasters like this is pretty much worth nothing - of course there are going to be more affected people if there are more people in general.
The percentage of affected people would be much more informative, especially if also coupled with a comparison of the damage done (again, the *real* damage, not just a raw dollar amount that doesn't take inflation etc. into account).
Actually, this is the seventh generation of consoles, not the fourth. Here's a quick breakdown:
1st generation - Pong, Telstar etc. (mid-70s) 2nd generation - Atari 2600 etc. (70s/80s) 3rd generation - NES, Sega Master system etc. (mid-80s to early 90s) 4th generation - SNES, Sega Megadrive etc. (late 80s to mid-90s) 5th generation - Playstation, N64 etc. (mid- to late 90s) 6th generation - PS2, GameCube etc. (late 90s to mid-2000s) 7th generation - PS3, Revolution etc. (mid-2000s to ???)
Yeah, but you have to pay the Cedega tax instead. And considering that many (most?) computers come with windows preinstalled, you most likely *also* pay the Micro$oft tax as well.
You do realize that mod points are given out automatically and semi-randomly, right? There's no admin involved in it, at all.
That being said, yes, I absolutely agree with you, but fortunately, most moderators are decent people, so the post is +5 Funny now - as it should be (although I also would've accepted +5 Insightful).
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Why not? T-Com (formerly the Deutsche Telekom) has sued other companies in the past for using the letter "T" - and, for that matter, for using the colour magenta.
They didn't win, but they sure tried.
Give Ingo Molnar's RT preemption patches or the I-Pipe approach a look some day. "1-2 years" ago can be a long, long time when it comes to Linux... :)
How far have we fallen.
The posting's misleading, unfortunately, like so many on Slashdot lately.
The proposed bill does not grant an exception to the do-not-call list to all businesses; it grants an exception to businesses that have an *existing* business relationship with you. Still not good, but a random telemarketer won't be allowed to call you if you're not already a customer one way or another.
Michael's article is quite clear in this regard, too. I really wish the Slashdot editors would check submissions for factual accuracy instead of blindly accepting any sensationalist story - Slashdot really seems to be becoming the tabloid news outlet of the internet, which is rather unfortunate.
If you had RTFA, you'd have noticed that it's a laser printer - so if anything, it eats toner, not ink (and probably also other stuff, like imaging drums, transfer belts and so on).
And don't forget Gluttony.
Explain this to me again - what's so bad about restricting the sale of adult video games to children? Unless you're not an adult yourself, you won't be affected by this, so... what's the big deal?
So you can browse sites with IDN domain names without having to type in the punycode by hand?
Strange question, really. You could just as well ask "someone give me one good reason why I should connect to the Internet EVER?" - if you think about it for a second, it answers itself.
Many, yes, but most? Did you actually arrive at that conclusion after checking the amount of freedom enjoyed in all the countries in the world, or do you simply assume that because you're from the USA, everything's bigger and better and freer for you than for just about anyone else?
Sorry if this comes across as flamebait (it's not intended as such), but it's a pet peeve of mine. Of course, if you actually *do* have evidence to back this up, I'd love to hear it.
Wrong. You could still exploit security problems in the TCP/IP implementation, for example - assuming that there are any, of course (but if you assume that there are none, then you also wouldn't need to disable unused services).
The only way to completely secure a machine against remote attacks is to remove it from any and all networks it is on.
If it's a sovereign nation, then why is it still occupied by the US military? Until all foreign troops withdraw from Iraq, it's neither a "sovereign country" nor "mission accomplished" nor anything like that.
Well, they *could* have said "we don't know anything about him, sorry", and left it at that. The government might not have liked that, but there would've been little they could do - after all, when you ask someone for information, then it just *happens* sometimes that he doesn't have any, and it's one of the few things you can't be bullied into, either - if you don't have it, you don't, so Yahoo could conceivably have claimed that they don't and left it at that.
This is especially true in Hong Kong, which is, for Chinese standards at least, rather liberal - despite the fact that China took over, Hong Kong is essentially still administering itself. It's certainly not the Soviet Union or the Third Reich where you had to fear the secret police at all times.
What Yahoo really showed is that they have no spine - and no ethics. Not a surprise, of course (which big company does?), but it's still disappointing.
I agree as far as MySQL is concerned, but as for Qt, it's worth noting that Trolltech has entered a contract with KDE e.V. (KDE's legal representation, a German non-profit organisation) that guarantees that all future Qt versions will continue to be available as free software. Read up on it here.
Show us a prototype - then we'll talk. Until then, I think this can be dismissed as vapourware, and a rather feeble attempt at it for that matter.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the source codes of viri have been available for ages. Outside of the fact that a virus written in Assembler is essentially its own source code, anyway, there've always been virus writing diskmags etc. where commented versions with explanations were published - this is nothing new.
The only thing that seems to have changed is that it's being done for money now, but that's not exactly a 2005 development, either, I'd say.
The problem with Mozilla is that they're so swamped with bugs that some developers at least seem to have stopped caring about *any* bugs at all whatsoever anymore - to the point where they will not only not fix them, but actively try to prevent others from fixing them. Give bug 18574 a look some time, for example...
Unfortunately, there's not really much you can do. Firefox *is* wildly popular, so those at the top of the Mozilla foundation (Asa Dotzler etc.) don't even realise that some things are going wrong - they've stopped listening to the people, just like Microsoft has, after convincing themselves that those who disagree are just a small bunch of disgruntled nay-sayers. Considering Firefox' popularity, that's not a difficult thing to do, but it's still wrong - you should always listen to your users.
Unfortunately, it seems that Mozilla is heading further in this direction, with the creation of a new for-profit company that's supposed to take over from the non-profit organisation and all that. I fear that this will be used as an excuse to listen to the actual users even less - and I don't doubt that this new incarnation of Netscape (which is what it'll be, essentially) will reward Asa and co with a nice monthly sum for the whole thing, too.
In the end, what it really boils down to is PR vs. the actual product - if PR (i.e., telling people that your product is good) is more important than actually *making* your product good, everyone loses. The only exception are those at the top of the pyramid who make money that way - but the actual users will lose out, and that's even sadder when you consider that projects with more PR will usually attract more users, too.
Microsoft (Windows), Mozilla, MySQL - this is what they all have in common. They're all not really all that great at what they're supposed to do, but there's so much PR that they're still successful. And unlike with Windows and MySQL, where you have Linux/*BSD and PostgreSQL as free and better alternatives, there seems to be no real alternative to Mozilla - Opera is payware, Konqueror only runs on Linux/KDE, Safari is for OS X etc. Where is the free, no-crap browser for Windows? There seems to be none.
RTFA (and actually read it). The Google Mini has a built-in limit of 100,000 documents; it's not that it can't index more because of a lack of CPU power or HD space or whatever, it's just that if you want (or need) more than that, Google wants you to buy their regular Search Appliances instead.
All this info can also be gotten from http://www.google.com/enterprise/, which is exactly 1 (one) click away from Google's index page.
Why not just implement it? I'm not that familiar with C really, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a few lines - basically, you'd just have to add a call to syslog(3) in an appropriate place.
Admittedly, yes, Theo is (or at least can be) quite an asshole. But what does that have to do with the quality of OpenSSH (or OpenBSD)?
Like him or not, but it's a great program, and not using it just because you don't like the lead developer, when there are no actual reasons not to, is stupid.
I think you fail to realise an important thing: change typically happens by evolution, not revolution, and that's even more true when there's a multi-billion dollar industry involved. Do you honestly believe that everyone's just going to throw every system they have away?
It's not gonna happen. The industry likes migration/upgrade paths, and in 90% of all cases, a design that extends is gonna win over one that outright replaces.
Intel seems to have been unwilling to face that fact, but what they failed to realise is that their monopoly is not big enough to simply force change on people - rather, their move just gave AMD etc. an opportunity to slowly but steadily chip away at that monopoly.
From a market perspective, that's a good thing, of course - but if I was an Intel shareholder, I'd demand that heads roll for this gross mismanagement in the top executive floor.
Everyone loves to throw numbers around, of course, and 2.5 billion people affected is a lot, too, but... wouldn't it be more realistic to measure the *percentage* of earth's population affected by these things? Otherwise, the fact that the number of peopl who're affected by natural disasters like this is pretty much worth nothing - of course there are going to be more affected people if there are more people in general.
The percentage of affected people would be much more informative, especially if also coupled with a comparison of the damage done (again, the *real* damage, not just a raw dollar amount that doesn't take inflation etc. into account).
Interesting. If I didn't know better, I would've said that this is a POV-Ray animation...
Actually, this is the seventh generation of consoles, not the fourth. Here's a quick breakdown:
:)
1st generation - Pong, Telstar etc. (mid-70s)
2nd generation - Atari 2600 etc. (70s/80s)
3rd generation - NES, Sega Master system etc. (mid-80s to early 90s)
4th generation - SNES, Sega Megadrive etc. (late 80s to mid-90s)
5th generation - Playstation, N64 etc. (mid- to late 90s)
6th generation - PS2, GameCube etc. (late 90s to mid-2000s)
7th generation - PS3, Revolution etc. (mid-2000s to ???)
HTH.
Yeah, but you have to pay the Cedega tax instead. And considering that many (most?) computers come with windows preinstalled, you most likely *also* pay the Micro$oft tax as well.
You do realize that mod points are given out automatically and semi-randomly, right? There's no admin involved in it, at all.
That being said, yes, I absolutely agree with you, but fortunately, most moderators are decent people, so the post is +5 Funny now - as it should be (although I also would've accepted +5 Insightful).