Let's face it. Decent code is decent code. Even if it isn't the best code, if it's open sourced and useful enough, someone out there is going to improve on it. Everyone wins.
Unless a patent troll claims to have some right to it:-P
Somewhat worrying is that on a site completely unrelated to facebook (osdir, some random mailing list archive google pointed me to), I saw an ad mentioning the name and photo that I use, inviting me to "zoosk" whatever that is -- I'm quite aware that my name and a photo (not actually of me) are visible in all sorts of public listings and search results, but I'm somewhat confused as to how an advertising network is matching facebook accounts to IP addresses (a legal query as much as a technical one)...
An interesting question for any physics geeks -- what's the terminal velocity of the average USB stick, and is that velocity terminal to the stick? If they're sufficiently light and air resisting I suspect you could drop one from space without damage...
Why would you choose to store anything important in the cloud? As far as I can tell this is just a replacement for an external hard drive full of illegal mp3s:-P
FreeBSD emulating Linux or Wine letting you run Windows binaries, which you're probably not going to want if you're trying to render frames as fast as possible.
Generally when stuff runs under wine at all, it runs faster:-P Though in this case the load is almost entirely CPU-bound, with very little interaction with the OS, so I can't see it making much difference either way.
How do most people download IE? How do they download windows without an OS at all?
Answer: They don't, the OEM takes care of it for them. If you're the kind of person who installs your own OS, then you can either buy the "Windows + IE" package, or buy the "Windows Only" package then take care of a browser yourself.
Step 1) Relicence opensolaris in a linux-compatible way, then dump it in a tarball somewhere and forget about it for a while
Step 2) Wait for open source developers to port all the useful features to linux for you
Step 3) Profit!
They're demonstrating that full disclosure is bad, by making use of a secret exploit? And they aren't going to release the exploit so that it can be fixed, they're going to keep it for themselves so that they can hack more people? Do they not realise that they just shot their own point in the foot?:-/
I have to disagree. For one, I believe the majority of people would not know whether that statement is true or not
Speaking as some random guy who just happened to scroll down and hit this conversation, I do know his statement to be true -- I have indeed seen several front page slashdot articles about major security holes being exploited with the footnote "the vendor was informed about this, but chose not to do anything because they didn't think it was important", but I too can't be arsed to find them (last I checked, the slashdot search engine was pretty shit, and I don't want to waste any more time fighting with it:-P)
Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. constantly broke the law with their peaceful protests.
Peaceful protests may break the law, but they don't break many people's morals; destroying servers (if you read their site, you'll see a history of "rm -rf/"'s), even with the best of intentions, is much less morally sound.
If your alarm's password is broadcast over national TV, and you don't change it (ie, patch the hole), you're an idiot:-/
As soon as...
Last I checked, whitehat protocol says that you inform the vendor, and only release after they've either fixed it or spent a couple of months ignoring it
So basically after all this time and effort, the current state of the art wonderful new technology is "the thick client"? Colour me unimpressed:-/
People really need to stop being amazed every time the paradigm switches from thin client to thick and back, only each time with more abstraction layers...
Most monitoring systems only check each server once every 5 minutes, giving an average of 2.5 minutes between error and alert; with a customer, you'll be out of bed at 3 in the morning in a matter of seconds:-)
It's similar to an ISP -- "Unlimited bandwidth! (so far as 10GB/month. After that, it stops being unlimited and starts being a 10GB cap with massive overage charges)", only in this case it's "Unlimited listening time! (for one month)".
I'm pretty sure that advertising "unlimited up to a point" should be illegal:-/
Normally us opera fanboys get to respond to every "firefox has amazing new feature X!" post with "yeah, but opera's had that for years"; but in this case it seems firefox might end up having a feature released first -- how can this be happening?/o\
and both are extremely old and any patents there may be on them have long since expired. so basically, stop being a troll.
UNIX was still within patent range when HURD started, and C was still in patent range when GCC started; I'd refute the troll statement too if I had any idea where that came from o_O
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1) Download Firefox using FTP: instructions.
Alternative step 1) Use whatever browser the OEM has chosen to pre-install for your convenience
Let's face it. Decent code is decent code. Even if it isn't the best code, if it's open sourced and useful enough, someone out there is going to improve on it. Everyone wins.
Unless a patent troll claims to have some right to it :-P
If you hate anything so much that you injure yourself or your cause in the process of avoiding it, then yes, you have a disease.
What if the thing that you're avoiding is death?
Somewhat worrying is that on a site completely unrelated to facebook (osdir, some random mailing list archive google pointed me to), I saw an ad mentioning the name and photo that I use, inviting me to "zoosk" whatever that is -- I'm quite aware that my name and a photo (not actually of me) are visible in all sorts of public listings and search results, but I'm somewhat confused as to how an advertising network is matching facebook accounts to IP addresses (a legal query as much as a technical one)...
How on earth do you equate Microsoft following the rules of the GPL as something bad?
Because they only did it after being forced to, not of their own free will?
Also, why are you capitalising "slashdot"? It's not an acronym, and it's somewhat odd to yell random words in the middle of regular sentences o_O
An interesting question for any physics geeks -- what's the terminal velocity of the average USB stick, and is that velocity terminal to the stick? If they're sufficiently light and air resisting I suspect you could drop one from space without damage...
because then you wouldn't know what you are clicking on
Yes, totally inappropriate when compared to downloading some random .exe from the internet and clicking on it :-P
just when I need my files.
Why would you choose to store anything important in the cloud? As far as I can tell this is just a replacement for an external hard drive full of illegal mp3s :-P
FreeBSD emulating Linux or Wine letting you run Windows binaries, which you're probably not going to want if you're trying to render frames as fast as possible.
Generally when stuff runs under wine at all, it runs faster :-P Though in this case the load is almost entirely CPU-bound, with very little interaction with the OS, so I can't see it making much difference either way.
Too bad the EU saw fit to punish all of its citizens by making them go dig up a browser somewhere.
I got bored of explaining why this is wrong over and over, so here's a link
How do most people download IE? How do they download windows without an OS at all?
Answer: They don't, the OEM takes care of it for them. If you're the kind of person who installs your own OS, then you can either buy the "Windows + IE" package, or buy the "Windows Only" package then take care of a browser yourself.
Step 1) Relicence opensolaris in a linux-compatible way, then dump it in a tarball somewhere and forget about it for a while
Step 2) Wait for open source developers to port all the useful features to linux for you
Step 3) Profit!
They're demonstrating that full disclosure is bad, by making use of a secret exploit? And they aren't going to release the exploit so that it can be fixed, they're going to keep it for themselves so that they can hack more people? Do they not realise that they just shot their own point in the foot? :-/
I have to disagree. For one, I believe the majority of people would not know whether that statement is true or not
Speaking as some random guy who just happened to scroll down and hit this conversation, I do know his statement to be true -- I have indeed seen several front page slashdot articles about major security holes being exploited with the footnote "the vendor was informed about this, but chose not to do anything because they didn't think it was important", but I too can't be arsed to find them (last I checked, the slashdot search engine was pretty shit, and I don't want to waste any more time fighting with it :-P)
Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. constantly broke the law with their peaceful protests.
Peaceful protests may break the law, but they don't break many people's morals; destroying servers (if you read their site, you'll see a history of "rm -rf /"'s), even with the best of intentions, is much less morally sound.
If your alarm's password is broadcast over national TV, and you don't change it (ie, patch the hole), you're an idiot :-/
As soon as...
Last I checked, whitehat protocol says that you inform the vendor, and only release after they've either fixed it or spent a couple of months ignoring it
So basically after all this time and effort, the current state of the art wonderful new technology is "the thick client"? Colour me unimpressed :-/
People really need to stop being amazed every time the paradigm switches from thin client to thick and back, only each time with more abstraction layers...
unbeatable guaranteed fitness ... Of course you could have luck and come up with something better. But it is highly unlikely
Personally I'd say that with the exception of some bits of the brain, design has pretty much owned evolution
Most monitoring systems only check each server once every 5 minutes, giving an average of 2.5 minutes between error and alert; with a customer, you'll be out of bed at 3 in the morning in a matter of seconds :-)
digg isn't silly; they're entirely serious when they give answers that are life-endangeringly wrong :-S
But do real men use sat-nav?
Of course not -- real men navigate the same way they do everything else; with a mixture of power tools and grenades
It's similar to an ISP -- "Unlimited bandwidth! (so far as 10GB/month. After that, it stops being unlimited and starts being a 10GB cap with massive overage charges)", only in this case it's "Unlimited listening time! (for one month)".
I'm pretty sure that advertising "unlimited up to a point" should be illegal :-/
Normally us opera fanboys get to respond to every "firefox has amazing new feature X!" post with "yeah, but opera's had that for years"; but in this case it seems firefox might end up having a feature released first -- how can this be happening? /o\
The file sharing community isn't the best known for paying for downloads
If the download was as quick / simple / DRM-free as TPB is now, I would
and both are extremely old and any patents there may be on them have long since expired. so basically, stop being a troll.
UNIX was still within patent range when HURD started, and C was still in patent range when GCC started; I'd refute the troll statement too if I had any idea where that came from o_O