This isn't insightful. The parent poster had a great point - IF all of your client machines are Windows, then yes, a Windows domain controller is probably your best choice. It also mentioned that if your network is largely Linux, then you're better off with a Linux directory server. That's not advocating "Microsoft for everything", it's advocating homogeneous networks. Which is sound advice.
Actually, I wish more market researchers would call me. It strikes me that most of the people who take the time to answer their questions are usually the people who just have nothing better to do. It would be nice to get more normal, active people to take part in polls, so we can start seeing a realistic representation of this country's opinions.
What...are you FUCKING kidding? This is basically worst-case scenario when it comes to security. Anybody remember M$ offering their source to China? Hello, McFly?
Whereas Linux source code is entirely beyond China's reach?
There's a relatively simple solution to turn this into a painful business model for the RIAA. Get legal insurance. It's usually about $20-25/month, and generally includes 75+ hours of trial time per year at no cost to you if you get sued.
If they start suing people who actually have lawyers to defend themselves (as opposed to stealing college kids' life savings in out-of-court settlements), they'll find out that having their lawyers go to trial for every little file sharer gets real expensive, real quick. Especially considering they have little hope of recouping those costs from most of the defendants, even if they do win. I don't know about you - but even if a judge ordered me to pay $1 million in damages, I don't have it - so RIAA couldn't get it.
Fight back. Turn the court system into a money pit for them rather than letting them use it for their scare tactics.
You may have noticed a trend in the technology industry. Things keep getting better while also getting smaller. From what I've seen, the "vision" for technologies like this (at the moment, at least) is to mimic a newspaper. Despite all of our technology, people still use, and like using, paper. Think what happens if you have a small processing unit (maybe a couple inches square) attached to a large foldable LCD. Electronic paper. You could download the newspaper every morning and read it on the train on your way to work. All of the familiarity of paper, with the convenience and updatability of an eBook. That's where portability becomes a factor. When the display is the product, rather than the processor being the product.
Gee. Sounds a lot like my Linux laptop running KDE 3.1 (except for the Photoshop thing... I haven't warmed up to Gimp yet). Or even like my previous Windows laptop, for that matter.
I won't deny Macs are good. But I don't understand the constant quest for approval by insisting everything Mac is head-and-shoulders above the rest. They're good machines. They've got very competitive technology. But they're not revolutionary.
This isn't flamebait. I just don't understand the zealotry, particularly when the story has a valid concern about a hardware manufacturer's benchmarking procedures.
And it's also highly illegal without a search warrant, and thus either 1) subject to criminal prosecution if done by corporate entities, or 2) inadmissable in a court of law if done by law enforcement. Anything else is like saying trespassing isn't illegal if you don't lock your door. Any EULA that specifically allows this type of action won't stand up in court, not to mention that once the ACLU finds out about it, they'll raise such a racket that the PR will force any company advocating the said EULA will have to back down or face boycotts.
Although the next iteration of Patriot Acts could change all that.
...the EmbeddedWatch article is just a little paranoid. While I have no doubt that the companies with interest in this group wish to push DRM technologies, there is a second very legitimate reason to have such a group. And it's spelled out very clearly in the CNet article - working together to create communication standards. EmbeddedWatch shouts, "Just use Wi-Fi!". But how did WiFi come to be popular? Only after millions of dollars in wasted R&D for other technologies that didn't pan out (HomeRF is mentioned). This group will allow companies to communicate during the R&D phase, and ideally agree on a standard before investing millions of dollars in incompatible (and competing) ones. Be skeptical if you want, but don't cry wolf and immediately delcare the entire purpose of the group to subversively destroy our media rights.
-j
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As previously posted on Slashdot - the NDA is at LinuxJournal.
I would go so far as to say that the majority of people don't have pirated software; the extent of my "piracy" revolves around downloading MP3's, but even there I BUY more CD's than the average person also.
Who needs to pirate software when you can make your employer get one for you so you can "do your job" or "work at home"? It's fair to the authors, and it costs me nothing.
Here's an interview with her from 2000... she almost sounds downright reasonable at times. I wouldn't be surprised if she was more ready to embrace new technologies than the member companies, and was forced in the other direction.
So, unless I see a two headed guy with dark sunglasses, climb into his shiny spaceship and start it's engines, I belive SCO could very well use this technique to demonstrate what part of their code is in Linux.
Enron contributed to both parties - as every large corporation does (like MPAA/RIAA companies). That's the real root of the problem. Because of the spending power of large corporations, political parties have turned into a business, and they want to please their "customers" (large contributors). The large contributors, however, contribute to BOTH parties just to cover their bases in every election. So in the end, you get two parties who gradually move to a common middle ground because they're both pandering to the same corporations to keep the large donations flowing.
Pretty sad deterioration of democracy, if you ask me.
Ah, but it's the amount of paperwork the small claims courts will send them that really matters...:) They've got to address them all, even if only to make a motion to dismiss the case...
The parallels continue. Upper management is starting to cash out. Perhaps the entire campaign is a final hurrah so that insiders can cash in on stock inflation before the whole company crashes.
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$200K... small price to pay for the entertainment I would get during my commute with one of these...
-j
So, basically everyone is exempt except the industries who forgot to pay their lobbyists this year...
-j
This isn't insightful. The parent poster had a great point - IF all of your client machines are Windows, then yes, a Windows domain controller is probably your best choice. It also mentioned that if your network is largely Linux, then you're better off with a Linux directory server. That's not advocating "Microsoft for everything", it's advocating homogeneous networks. Which is sound advice.
-j
Actually, I wish more market researchers would call me. It strikes me that most of the people who take the time to answer their questions are usually the people who just have nothing better to do. It would be nice to get more normal, active people to take part in polls, so we can start seeing a realistic representation of this country's opinions.
OK OK, I'm not normal or active, but still...
Fine. I just want more phone calls, alright??
-j
Slashot is on donotcall.gov's "Do Not Call" list...
-j
The best measurement I've heard was "an IP address for every molecule on Earth". Check the math, but it works out to something like that.
-j
What...are you FUCKING kidding? This is basically worst-case scenario when it comes to security. Anybody remember M$ offering their source to China? Hello, McFly?
Whereas Linux source code is entirely beyond China's reach?
-j
I think the R&D has pretty much been covered for toilet seats by now.
-j
There's a relatively simple solution to turn this into a painful business model for the RIAA. Get legal insurance. It's usually about $20-25/month, and generally includes 75+ hours of trial time per year at no cost to you if you get sued.
If they start suing people who actually have lawyers to defend themselves (as opposed to stealing college kids' life savings in out-of-court settlements), they'll find out that having their lawyers go to trial for every little file sharer gets real expensive, real quick. Especially considering they have little hope of recouping those costs from most of the defendants, even if they do win. I don't know about you - but even if a judge ordered me to pay $1 million in damages, I don't have it - so RIAA couldn't get it.
Fight back. Turn the court system into a money pit for them rather than letting them use it for their scare tactics.
-j
That's why I only share pr0n. Best of both worlds.
-j
My point exactly... I like Macs, I just don't happen to use one. I'm happy to coexist. And I'm happy there are Mac users like you who understand that.
-j
You may have noticed a trend in the technology industry. Things keep getting better while also getting smaller. From what I've seen, the "vision" for technologies like this (at the moment, at least) is to mimic a newspaper. Despite all of our technology, people still use, and like using, paper. Think what happens if you have a small processing unit (maybe a couple inches square) attached to a large foldable LCD. Electronic paper. You could download the newspaper every morning and read it on the train on your way to work. All of the familiarity of paper, with the convenience and updatability of an eBook. That's where portability becomes a factor. When the display is the product, rather than the processor being the product.
-j
Gee. Sounds a lot like my Linux laptop running KDE 3.1 (except for the Photoshop thing... I haven't warmed up to Gimp yet). Or even like my previous Windows laptop, for that matter.
I won't deny Macs are good. But I don't understand the constant quest for approval by insisting everything Mac is head-and-shoulders above the rest. They're good machines. They've got very competitive technology. But they're not revolutionary.
This isn't flamebait. I just don't understand the zealotry, particularly when the story has a valid concern about a hardware manufacturer's benchmarking procedures.
-j
And it's also highly illegal without a search warrant, and thus either 1) subject to criminal prosecution if done by corporate entities, or 2) inadmissable in a court of law if done by law enforcement. Anything else is like saying trespassing isn't illegal if you don't lock your door. Any EULA that specifically allows this type of action won't stand up in court, not to mention that once the ACLU finds out about it, they'll raise such a racket that the PR will force any company advocating the said EULA will have to back down or face boycotts.
Although the next iteration of Patriot Acts could change all that.
-j
...the EmbeddedWatch article is just a little paranoid. While I have no doubt that the companies with interest in this group wish to push DRM technologies, there is a second very legitimate reason to have such a group. And it's spelled out very clearly in the CNet article - working together to create communication standards. EmbeddedWatch shouts, "Just use Wi-Fi!". But how did WiFi come to be popular? Only after millions of dollars in wasted R&D for other technologies that didn't pan out (HomeRF is mentioned). This group will allow companies to communicate during the R&D phase, and ideally agree on a standard before investing millions of dollars in incompatible (and competing) ones. Be skeptical if you want, but don't cry wolf and immediately delcare the entire purpose of the group to subversively destroy our media rights.
-j
As previously posted on Slashdot - the NDA is at LinuxJournal.
-j
I would go so far as to say that the majority of people don't have pirated software; the extent of my "piracy" revolves around downloading MP3's, but even there I BUY more CD's than the average person also.
Who needs to pirate software when you can make your employer get one for you so you can "do your job" or "work at home"? It's fair to the authors, and it costs me nothing.
-j
Here's an interview with her from 2000... she almost sounds downright reasonable at times. I wouldn't be surprised if she was more ready to embrace new technologies than the member companies, and was forced in the other direction.
-j
The article specifically mentions downloading from P2P networks; standard web access with a browser would seem to be unaffected.
The real question is - when did the RIAA buy a country?
-j
So, unless I see a two headed guy with dark sunglasses, climb into his shiny spaceship and start it's engines, I belive SCO could very well use this technique to demonstrate what part of their code is in Linux.
Ok, you had me until the spaceship...
-j
Enron contributed to both parties - as every large corporation does (like MPAA/RIAA companies). That's the real root of the problem. Because of the spending power of large corporations, political parties have turned into a business, and they want to please their "customers" (large contributors). The large contributors, however, contribute to BOTH parties just to cover their bases in every election. So in the end, you get two parties who gradually move to a common middle ground because they're both pandering to the same corporations to keep the large donations flowing.
Pretty sad deterioration of democracy, if you ask me.
-j
Ah, but it's the amount of paperwork the small claims courts will send them that really matters... :) They've got to address them all, even if only to make a motion to dismiss the case...
-j
Time for everybody to sue SCO for previous GPL violations! That'll keep their lawyers tied up for awhile.
-j
Phew, I was hoping this was coming.
It's just not a slashdot story until someone comments "this isn't worth a slashdot story!".
-j
The parallels continue. Upper management is starting to cash out. Perhaps the entire campaign is a final hurrah so that insiders can cash in on stock inflation before the whole company crashes.
-j