So...You don't mind being told that if you buy something from National Semiconductor you'll get laid? I would rather have a product be sold to me on its merits than on the merits of some models who get paid to pretend to want to have sex with me. It's just kind of insulting.
This is not a puritanical disapproval of sex. I'm perfectly fine with sex, just not in advertising where the product is not sex related. Try to sell me a box of condoms with promises of a better sex life? Sure, go for it. Try to sell me a car, telling me it's likely to get me laid? Well, maybe...But electronics? Come on. Appeal to higher brain functions, please.
It said in the article that this stuff happens because the light leaks out the sides of the fiber and messes up the coating...would reflective coating destroy the usefulness of fiber? It seems like it would solve this problem...unless of course it ended up just heating up the fiber and melting it...does anyone know if I'm a complete idiot for suggesting this?
9/11 was an attack against America and its ideologies. Do you want to change those ideologies just to pacify the terrorists? I don't want to live here if I can't say that my President is an idiot because someone threatened Democracy. What's the point of a society where rights are taken away under the premise of protecting them?
Hell no! If you want to silence neo-nazis, who else do you want to silence? If I write a document about how to kill the president, who's to say that I don't want to improve the security system? That's some of what's wrong with the DMCA (I want to improve security, not break copyright law). I agree that harassment is not protected speech, but that's because it is actually a crime that hurts people. If this is the kind of limit we have for freedom of speech, then it really is time for a revolution.
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But the US isn't European. It broke away from that through a violent overthrow of the current (European) government. The 1st amendment was put there because the people who wrote it knew that systems get stale and governments get corrupt. It's there specifically to protect the ability to criticise the government. While I don't personally advocate the overthrow of the whole system, I'm in favor of electing someone else to run the country right now. If enough people feel oppressed enough, they should be able to advocate that revolution. Meanwhile, this is the kind of oppression that does lead to a revolution.
Says the Constitution of the United States of America:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Obviously they're doing this because it makes business sense, but does it make performance sense? Does the added overhead from Wine actually make it faster than running Windows? Can Wine work with OpenMosix/other clusters? I'm sure they can afford the computers to handle this, but it seems kinda crazy if there's no real benefit. Yes, I know that OSS and FS have advantages, but is Disney actually seeing that? If so, good for them. Otherwise, why?
But hey, if you add "cool" cathodes and windows to your case, it'll be mad cooler. Windows totally let IR out of your case, cooling it. They also work silently. Another thing that works silently is filling your case with water and putting fish in it. It looks better and won't get over 20 degrees (and if you ever get a hankering for fried fish, all you have to do is turn it on).
I'm sorry you think a power supply doesn't do anything. How about next time you see a cold cathode, you take it out of the case. Then you turn on the computer. Now look around for a computer with a power supply. Take it out of the case and turn on the computer. Works an awful lot less without the PSU than the cold cathode, doesn't it? The reason for this oddity of casemod dependence is that power supplies are not case mods. They actually DO something other than look pretty. Goodness, why isn't this modded flamebait yet?
In a cheap power supply, you can get inconsistent voltages, crazy transients, crosstalk, and if the power demand from one line goes up it can drop the wattage/voltage on the other lines. Cheap power supplies are also frequently noisier (sound too) than high end ones and run less efficiently (read: hot) than better designed, more expensive power supplies. Think about it: your computer operates because of well controlled voltages. If your voltage drops by 2V, some transistors will go into their linear range and cause crazy crazy crap to happen.
Was their existing system Windows 9x? KDE is a good knockoff of Windows/MacOS3 but I personally think that NeXT based interfaces are much snappier...I can do stuff in WindowMaker craploads faster than in WinXP. I also think that most people who are completely new to a GUI shouldn't use KDE...it's based on faulty design. This isn't KDE's fault and I'm really not trying to knock KDE, they do what they do better than I could, but the fundamental design in Windows with the start menu and the taskbar is just kinda craptastic compared to, say, OSX.
I think a more meaningful study would be to compare two different and innovative interfaces (or one of those and WinXP) for usability among people who don't have any GUI experience or have to make a drastic change (like from Win 3.1).
I'd be interested in a usability study betwen Enligtenment, WindowMaker, and Jaguar...and maybe Gnome...(I know OSX wins, but it's good for comparison.)
but? Of course it's in RH's business interest to do this. This fund is Red Hat's response to the new MS licenses that promise to take care of legal bills. I've been waiting for something like this and I'm glad RH took the initiative.
Forget the time to patch after the bug was reported: look at the time between when the software was written and when the vulnerability was found...One of these windows bugs was in Windows NT(!!!) NT is so old they stopped supporting it! Who says security^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hobscurity doesn't work?
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
This aspect of the article really surprised me...how can one of the FOUNDERS of Debian keep using the word Linux when he means GNU/Linux?
There's an easy way to avoid this: go to your user settings and tell it not to put stories about Caldera on your home page. Seriously, the tools are there, use them.
Someone did their reporting wrong. The huge gaping flaw that was announced recently pertained only to computers with the NT kernel (WinNT, Win2000, WinServ2003, WinXP). This vulnerability does NOT affect 98/98SE/ME/95/3.1/whathaveyou.
Swim across the channel, tunnel under the channel, ride that hovercraft across the channel, skydive across the channel...I'm going to get a truck full of liquid nitrogen and drive across the channel.
That...and if the government's appropriating a computer, why only take the hard drive? Where's the key stored? Is it accessible through software? I suppose it has to be for reasons demonstrated by the parent. So if my software can access my Secure Key, how is it secure at all? I don't see how this will keep the RIAA from getting at my hard drive...unless it comes with some magic Lawyer Repellent. (Ooh, I bet I could market that)
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This is not a puritanical disapproval of sex. I'm perfectly fine with sex, just not in advertising where the product is not sex related. Try to sell me a box of condoms with promises of a better sex life? Sure, go for it. Try to sell me a car, telling me it's likely to get me laid? Well, maybe...But electronics? Come on. Appeal to higher brain functions, please.
Ugh, can't anyone appeal to common sense instead of sex drive? Make way for bad hardware related puns.
It said in the article that this stuff happens because the light leaks out the sides of the fiber and messes up the coating...would reflective coating destroy the usefulness of fiber? It seems like it would solve this problem...unless of course it ended up just heating up the fiber and melting it...does anyone know if I'm a complete idiot for suggesting this?
9/11 was an attack against America and its ideologies. Do you want to change those ideologies just to pacify the terrorists? I don't want to live here if I can't say that my President is an idiot because someone threatened Democracy. What's the point of a society where rights are taken away under the premise of protecting them?
Hell no! If you want to silence neo-nazis, who else do you want to silence? If I write a document about how to kill the president, who's to say that I don't want to improve the security system? That's some of what's wrong with the DMCA (I want to improve security, not break copyright law). I agree that harassment is not protected speech, but that's because it is actually a crime that hurts people. If this is the kind of limit we have for freedom of speech, then it really is time for a revolution.
But the US isn't European. It broke away from that through a violent overthrow of the current (European) government. The 1st amendment was put there because the people who wrote it knew that systems get stale and governments get corrupt. It's there specifically to protect the ability to criticise the government. While I don't personally advocate the overthrow of the whole system, I'm in favor of electing someone else to run the country right now. If enough people feel oppressed enough, they should be able to advocate that revolution. Meanwhile, this is the kind of oppression that does lead to a revolution.
What the hell?
Obviously they're doing this because it makes business sense, but does it make performance sense? Does the added overhead from Wine actually make it faster than running Windows? Can Wine work with OpenMosix/other clusters? I'm sure they can afford the computers to handle this, but it seems kinda crazy if there's no real benefit. Yes, I know that OSS and FS have advantages, but is Disney actually seeing that? If so, good for them. Otherwise, why?
But hey, if you add "cool" cathodes and windows to your case, it'll be mad cooler. Windows totally let IR out of your case, cooling it. They also work silently. Another thing that works silently is filling your case with water and putting fish in it. It looks better and won't get over 20 degrees (and if you ever get a hankering for fried fish, all you have to do is turn it on).
I'm sorry you think a power supply doesn't do anything. How about next time you see a cold cathode, you take it out of the case. Then you turn on the computer. Now look around for a computer with a power supply. Take it out of the case and turn on the computer. Works an awful lot less without the PSU than the cold cathode, doesn't it? The reason for this oddity of casemod dependence is that power supplies are not case mods. They actually DO something other than look pretty. Goodness, why isn't this modded flamebait yet?
In a cheap power supply, you can get inconsistent voltages, crazy transients, crosstalk, and if the power demand from one line goes up it can drop the wattage/voltage on the other lines. Cheap power supplies are also frequently noisier (sound too) than high end ones and run less efficiently (read: hot) than better designed, more expensive power supplies. Think about it: your computer operates because of well controlled voltages. If your voltage drops by 2V, some transistors will go into their linear range and cause crazy crazy crap to happen.
Was their existing system Windows 9x? KDE is a good knockoff of Windows/MacOS3 but I personally think that NeXT based interfaces are much snappier...I can do stuff in WindowMaker craploads faster than in WinXP. I also think that most people who are completely new to a GUI shouldn't use KDE...it's based on faulty design. This isn't KDE's fault and I'm really not trying to knock KDE, they do what they do better than I could, but the fundamental design in Windows with the start menu and the taskbar is just kinda craptastic compared to, say, OSX.
I think a more meaningful study would be to compare two different and innovative interfaces (or one of those and WinXP) for usability among people who don't have any GUI experience or have to make a drastic change (like from Win 3.1).
I'd be interested in a usability study betwen Enligtenment, WindowMaker, and Jaguar...and maybe Gnome...(I know OSX wins, but it's good for comparison.)
Information kiosks aren't for fast typing, they're for showiness. I seriously doubt anyone will want a hologram for a keyboard in common use.
but? Of course it's in RH's business interest to do this. This fund is Red Hat's response to the new MS licenses that promise to take care of legal bills. I've been waiting for something like this and I'm glad RH took the initiative.
Forget the time to patch after the bug was reported: look at the time between when the software was written and when the vulnerability was found...One of these windows bugs was in Windows NT(!!!) NT is so old they stopped supporting it! Who says security^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hobscurity doesn't work?
There's an easy way to avoid this: go to your user settings and tell it not to put stories about Caldera on your home page. Seriously, the tools are there, use them.
The difference is that all the nerds on /. prefix their position papers with "IANAL".
And the Code Red/Nimda spam was just starting to not fill the majority of my apache logs...grumble
Someone did their reporting wrong. The huge gaping flaw that was announced recently pertained only to computers with the NT kernel (WinNT, Win2000, WinServ2003, WinXP). This vulnerability does NOT affect 98/98SE/ME/95/3.1/whathaveyou.
A production product based on the development kernel? Isn't 2.4.21 stable? What does 2.4.5 do that makes it worth using on a linksys router?
Swim across the channel, tunnel under the channel, ride that hovercraft across the channel, skydive across the channel...I'm going to get a truck full of liquid nitrogen and drive across the channel.
That...and if the government's appropriating a computer, why only take the hard drive? Where's the key stored? Is it accessible through software? I suppose it has to be for reasons demonstrated by the parent. So if my software can access my Secure Key, how is it secure at all? I don't see how this will keep the RIAA from getting at my hard drive...unless it comes with some magic Lawyer Repellent. (Ooh, I bet I could market that)
My immediat reaction to that was "A decoder without a key? That's secure how?"
Of course, the article:
I hate to be the grammar nazi, but the register could use some proof reading and some cut+paste.
Mattress tags are not to be torn off by anyone but the consumer. It is actually a pretty big deal if someone is hawking mattresses without tags.
Your other two examples do not have anything to do with the law, and as such are irrelevant.
The big deal with the MS EULA is that they claim to own stuff that's on your hard drive. Nothing else that I can think of compares to that.