I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with promoting local jobs, I just found it a bit of a shock that first thing he's in, he dives into pumping up the movie sector. Whether or not the jobs help local economy, or if it pisses off Canadians, the point is that as an (ex) movie star, seeing him jump right into political decisions involving the movie industry might be a bit foretelling of a personal aim whilst he is in government. How long is he in, less than a couple months, and already with an agenda obviously related to his previous career.
If Bill Gates ran for governor (and won), wouldn't you be a bit leery if he suddenly starting pushing an IT agenda?
Modded funny but, doesn't anyone else thing that Ahhhnold is in fact going to put certain personal agendas in relation to movies/entertainment ahead.
Case and point, he's severely pissed off many in Vancouver (BC, Canada) because he's decided to pump "local jobs in the film industry," "keeping it American blah blah."
Creating jobs might not be a bad thing, but anything to do with movies from an ex movie-star certainly seems to be something of a prejudiced agenda.
p.s. Any chances the RIAA helped fund Ahhhnold's campaign?
I've/never/ seen a recorded film for sale over the Internet
I'm not sure about over the internet, but in many a major city in China you can find them for sale (cheaply) without too much trouble. Some are screeners, some theatre rips.
Yeah, I don't really need a log of 50 calls, so much as I'd prefer a log of time spent during my airtime hours Vs on my daily minutes for a billing period. Wouldn't be hard to include. Having it log all the calls would be bonus in case I noticed severe discrepencies and had to tag a particular call as BS>
And this is what percentage of the industry's profits
Probably quite considerably less than they've managed to milk people for by conpiring to artificially inflate prices and create an illegal monopoly in the first place. What is the average annual profit of the RIAA?
A lot of people might laugh at this, but where worms really does shine as a game is in replay value (multiplayer doesn't really get too old even after a few years) and range of audience.
It's not hard to learn, so everyone from age 10-50+ can theoretically play after a while, and find the experience fun.
Mind you, I haven't play W3D because it isn't out here as mentioned, but prior worms games have all been quite amusing. The biggest lack I found (which hopefully they fixed) was that online multiplayer was extremely non-NAT friendly (all proper ports NAT'ed, tested with Telnet)... or perhaps didn't work well generally. Also, you had to go through team17 servers to play online, as there is no direct-to-IP internet option in Armaggeddon (trying to get it to work with GIT but no gold thus far).
Amazon has a list of Mac games, not sure about the newest and greatest for most but they do have ratings. Halo says it will be out on Dec 11... until then perhaps you can content yourself with such exciting titles as Burning Monkey Majjong
More like "Well ya see grandson, back in my day we had a handheld controller to play video games, some even had foot pedals. And you had a big screen in front of you."
*scratches back of head*
"Not that these sensory-interactive implants aren't bad mind you, they're a bit itchy and sometimes they give an old man seizures... but at least they let me frag your noob a** every now and then!"
Seriously though, who knows what to expect from games in 2056 (barring post-nuclear destruction of everyone). I wonder if some of us can expect to still be playing then (in my case, at age 79).
We can save money by outsourcing to $LOW_INCOME_COUNTRY
or conversely almost any situation where:
We can substitute $SOLUTION_X, pay-cut/fire $OVERWORKED_ALREADY_UNDERPAID_STAFF, and save $MYSTICAL_AMOUNT without any impact in service
To be fair, the second item applies to much more than computing, and the first often can as well, but has hit IT heavily more recently.
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If anyone can ding you with a hidden or nasty service fee, it's a bank. Not only that, but if you really piss them off, they can kill your credit, possibly mess with money in your account already, and sick their hugely pricey lawyers on you.
In my case, my account was supposed to be $3 min with a $12 maximum for debit charges, etc. One day I checked and noticed odd billings in the area of $50 or so. Checked into it and found that the account I had was actually $12 maximum up to 50 debit transactions or something stupid, and $0.65 after that.
Being that I debit a lot, $0.65 x 50+ tranactions or so over my limit is a rather large amount of money in service fees. I've since switched to "no fees with an >$1000 balance," but I'm still planning on switching my account over once I find a better bank. Oh, and yes, they did the same thing to my sister. FYI, the banks is CIBC.
Next, take my sister's other run-in... mechanics. She had recently gotten her car worked on, when it broke down about 3h from home while she was looking to move for work. Automotive club had it towed to nearest mechanic: GM Goodwrench. GM quoted her a rather steep fixing fee, citing that several parts were corroded or in very bad repair.
She had this forwarded to my mother (a good billkeeper) who checked it and found that these parts had just been replaced in the earlier job.
A call to the GM shop later, and both the mechanic and shop manager claimed with certainty that the parts did need replacing and it was necessary. Upon faxing them the previous invoice for parts/labour, they changed their tune, but still charged a jacked-up service rate.
All that was really wrong was a small distributor problem or something similar, but it costs several hundred dollars. I had mine done for much less than this, less than half.
Rules for mechanics (unless you know yours well):
a) Always ask for the original (supposedly worn) parts back
b) If you can, watch what is being done. It's simple for a mechanic to give you a different worn part than the good one that actually came off your car
c) If your new parts have engraved serial #'s, record them... that helps if you have problems in (a) and (b)
Which brings me to a question. Cellphones nowadays can send email, text messages, or hell, even play doom in some cases.
How hard would it be to put a feature in a cellphone when you define your "free" calling period (by hours, or day of week), start and end periods. The cellphone could then log minutes in your "free" (as in included in evening/weekend plan) time, as well as during your pay-by-the-minute time. Perhaps it could even log when calls occurred depending on memory limits (which if the cellphone can load games, should hold a monthly log)
Seriously, I'd pay an extra $50 or more for a cellphone that has that feature, and screw the games.
Sorry, the point was more that two servers were hacked in rather quick succession... I didn't know enough about the rsync vulnerability to post an extra comment on it.
Really, though, you could have a logging/warning hook for both fixed kernel exploit and rsync vulnerability (or anything else for that matter). I'm quite tempted to modify my kernel with a hook that will allow the server to email me in the event of attempted compromise, a little extra overhead but not really anything significant..
I used to have some when I was younger, brought down from Japan. Iron Kong was a cool gadget
Not to throw your point, but the reality is that you could have the zoids makers argueing that "For all slashdot knows, Zoids might be a game mod or something":-)
And if you were to burn off a copy of one of your CD's, or even - I have been told - your friend's original media that would work fine.
However, the problem is that you are not the one copying from the original media. The person ripping the mp3 might be ok with this as well, but not at the point of distribution.
Not that I in any way support an internet tax. Sorry, I already pay enough to host servers that have sweet f*** all to do with music (other than sometimes streaming my personal collection: legal, to myself at work) and an internet connection to read slashdot etc.
Exactly. Many devices use FAT for compatability with the windows Operating System. Expecting people to pay for after using it to make their projects work on a monopolized system is hopefully going to be a nice long nail in the antitrust coffin.
Seriously, is there anything Bush might leave as a (good) legacy for people to remember him by? Maybe he will re-initialize the space-race in an attempt to have something that puts his name in the annals of history in a positive way.
I mean, the best he's done so far is make a lot of ppl less worried about terrorists... but only because they're more worried about the government.
Aside from the obvious software issues, I've had these while using inferior power supplies. When things start humming and more juice was being used, my removable drives would suddenly disappear.
Upon a reboot, they would miraculously return, but quite often went away again after a heavy burning operation of something similar. Putting a decent Antec power supply in fixed things up... guess the drives weren't getting enough juice under the old one.
I wonder how far you could go in order to prove that he was at the machine. Perhaps supoena the ISP for logs, if he was like a lot of people (including myself) he may multitask... something showing email or web-browsing occuring at the hack might indicate he was at the computer and using it... making the "I was hacked" theory a little less believable (not totally disproving it, but making it less viable).
want to sue Microsoft under the same pretenses as sueing gun manufactures
No, not really. Sueing MS isn't like sueing for guns killing somebody, it's like sueing because the gun backfired, or jammed up consistently, thus making it ineffective for the purpose it was duely advertised.
Wouldn't you be pissed if your gun jammed several time when you just had a prized buck in your sites, or worse yet when an enemy soldier was turning around to aim your way?
Guns aren't inherantly defective, the usage is. Windows on the other hand, has some serious defects that have been overlooked and even simply ignored by the creating company.
Reputation sets a lot of precedence in this though. BigPond is known for screwups, and not being overly helpful to customers.
When a company is known for screwing customers over, then customers should be a little wary of what their ISP does might not in customers' best interests
But a call to what action? It's all good to say "stand up for yourself" but better to say how. Already mentioned in another response, I have my own personal actions against the RIAA (including not purchasing any of their goods for the last several years), but nothing new that hasn't already been offered.
Conversely, I think you confuse call to action with "lament." Where is the action mentioned? What is suggested we do, other than possibly/obliquely "stnad up for ourselves." Can't have a call to action without an action.
My answers would be:
a) Don't buy RIAA music
b) Do buy indie/non-RIAA music
c) Do see live concerts
d) With (c), don't support artists that support RIAA bullsh*t
e) With (d), actively list/protest/make-known artists and RIAA members that support RIAA bullsh*t.
I think these have all been mentioned before, but I suppose it's better than the old "and then they came for me" line.
I already stopped purchasing music quite some time ago. I also prefer to buy indie as opposed to pirating music that is pretty much worthless anyhow.
But that being said, bitching about the system on slashdot isn't going to help me... offering a solution is (the two above are some). If I come up with a better idea I'll pass it by for certain, but I'm not going to whine about what other people are/aren't doing unless I have something to offer that I'd expect them to take up the torch for.
p.s. How many slashdotters buy RIAA music? Maybe we need a poll about the last time one purchased their crud.
All things considered, if the RIAA lost in a lower court, wouldn't they just pursue it in a higher one? By bumping this up to the higher courts, this should determine a higher level of precedent. In the event of a win (which it should be unless the judge is bought) this would be good news for everyone.
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I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with promoting local jobs, I just found it a bit of a shock that first thing he's in, he dives into pumping up the movie sector. Whether or not the jobs help local economy, or if it pisses off Canadians, the point is that as an (ex) movie star, seeing him jump right into political decisions involving the movie industry might be a bit foretelling of a personal aim whilst he is in government. How long is he in, less than a couple months, and already with an agenda obviously related to his previous career.
If Bill Gates ran for governor (and won), wouldn't you be a bit leery if he suddenly starting pushing an IT agenda?
Modded funny but, doesn't anyone else thing that Ahhhnold is in fact going to put certain personal agendas in relation to movies/entertainment ahead.
Case and point, he's severely pissed off many in Vancouver (BC, Canada) because he's decided to pump "local jobs in the film industry," "keeping it American blah blah."
Creating jobs might not be a bad thing, but anything to do with movies from an ex movie-star certainly seems to be something of a prejudiced agenda.
p.s. Any chances the RIAA helped fund Ahhhnold's campaign?
I've /never/ seen a recorded film for sale over the Internet
I'm not sure about over the internet, but in many a major city in China you can find them for sale (cheaply) without too much trouble. Some are screeners, some theatre rips.
Yeah, I don't really need a log of 50 calls, so much as I'd prefer a log of time spent during my airtime hours Vs on my daily minutes for a billing period. Wouldn't be hard to include. Having it log all the calls would be bonus in case I noticed severe discrepencies and had to tag a particular call as BS>
And this is what percentage of the industry's profits
Probably quite considerably less than they've managed to milk people for by conpiring to artificially inflate prices and create an illegal monopoly in the first place. What is the average annual profit of the RIAA?
Most phones? I haven't seen it in either my Motorola or my LG, and I'm fairly sure not in my g/f's Nokia. What brand are you using (I might switch).
The only call log I get are the 10 last incoming/outgoing/missed calls.
A lot of people might laugh at this, but where worms really does shine as a game is in replay value (multiplayer doesn't really get too old even after a few years) and range of audience.
It's not hard to learn, so everyone from age 10-50+ can theoretically play after a while, and find the experience fun.
Mind you, I haven't play W3D because it isn't out here as mentioned, but prior worms games have all been quite amusing. The biggest lack I found (which hopefully they fixed) was that online multiplayer was extremely non-NAT friendly (all proper ports NAT'ed, tested with Telnet)... or perhaps didn't work well generally. Also, you had to go through team17 servers to play online, as there is no direct-to-IP internet option in Armaggeddon (trying to get it to work with GIT but no gold thus far).
Amazon has a list of Mac games, not sure about the newest and greatest for most but they do have ratings. Halo says it will be out on Dec 11... until then perhaps you can content yourself with such exciting titles as Burning Monkey Majjong
Arthritis cream?
More like "Well ya see grandson, back in my day we had a handheld controller to play video games, some even had foot pedals. And you had a big screen in front of you."
*scratches back of head*
"Not that these sensory-interactive implants aren't bad mind you, they're a bit itchy and sometimes they give an old man seizures... but at least they let me frag your noob a** every now and then!"
Seriously though, who knows what to expect from games in 2056 (barring post-nuclear destruction of everyone). I wonder if some of us can expect to still be playing then (in my case, at age 79).
We can save money by outsourcing to $LOW_INCOME_COUNTRY
or conversely almost any situation where:
We can substitute $SOLUTION_X, pay-cut/fire $OVERWORKED_ALREADY_UNDERPAID_STAFF, and save $MYSTICAL_AMOUNT without any impact in service
To be fair, the second item applies to much more than computing, and the first often can as well, but has hit IT heavily more recently.
If anyone can ding you with a hidden or nasty service fee, it's a bank. Not only that, but if you really piss them off, they can kill your credit, possibly mess with money in your account already, and sick their hugely pricey lawyers on you.
In my case, my account was supposed to be $3 min with a $12 maximum for debit charges, etc. One day I checked and noticed odd billings in the area of $50 or so. Checked into it and found that the account I had was actually $12 maximum up to 50 debit transactions or something stupid, and $0.65 after that.
Being that I debit a lot, $0.65 x 50+ tranactions or so over my limit is a rather large amount of money in service fees. I've since switched to "no fees with an >$1000 balance," but I'm still planning on switching my account over once I find a better bank. Oh, and yes, they did the same thing to my sister. FYI, the banks is CIBC.
Next, take my sister's other run-in... mechanics. She had recently gotten her car worked on, when it broke down about 3h from home while she was looking to move for work. Automotive club had it towed to nearest mechanic: GM Goodwrench. GM quoted her a rather steep fixing fee, citing that several parts were corroded or in very bad repair.
She had this forwarded to my mother (a good billkeeper) who checked it and found that these parts had just been replaced in the earlier job.
A call to the GM shop later, and both the mechanic and shop manager claimed with certainty that the parts did need replacing and it was necessary. Upon faxing them the previous invoice for parts/labour, they changed their tune, but still charged a jacked-up service rate.
All that was really wrong was a small distributor problem or something similar, but it costs several hundred dollars. I had mine done for much less than this, less than half.
Rules for mechanics (unless you know yours well):
a) Always ask for the original (supposedly worn) parts back
b) If you can, watch what is being done. It's simple for a mechanic to give you a different worn part than the good one that actually came off your car
c) If your new parts have engraved serial #'s, record them... that helps if you have problems in (a) and (b)
Which brings me to a question. Cellphones nowadays can send email, text messages, or hell, even play doom in some cases.
How hard would it be to put a feature in a cellphone when you define your "free" calling period (by hours, or day of week), start and end periods. The cellphone could then log minutes in your "free" (as in included in evening/weekend plan) time, as well as during your pay-by-the-minute time. Perhaps it could even log when calls occurred depending on memory limits (which if the cellphone can load games, should hold a monthly log)
Seriously, I'd pay an extra $50 or more for a cellphone that has that feature, and screw the games.
Sorry, the point was more that two servers were hacked in rather quick succession... I didn't know enough about the rsync vulnerability to post an extra comment on it.
Really, though, you could have a logging/warning hook for both fixed kernel exploit and rsync vulnerability (or anything else for that matter). I'm quite tempted to modify my kernel with a hook that will allow the server to email me in the event of attempted compromise, a little extra overhead but not really anything significant..
Well, zoids are anyhow, apparently also an anime.
:-)
I used to have some when I was younger, brought down from Japan. Iron Kong was a cool gadget
Not to throw your point, but the reality is that you could have the zoids makers argueing that "For all slashdot knows, Zoids might be a game mod or something"
And if you were to burn off a copy of one of your CD's, or even - I have been told - your friend's original media that would work fine.
However, the problem is that you are not the one copying from the original media. The person ripping the mp3 might be ok with this as well, but not at the point of distribution.
Not that I in any way support an internet tax. Sorry, I already pay enough to host servers that have sweet f*** all to do with music (other than sometimes streaming my personal collection: legal, to myself at work) and an internet connection to read slashdot etc.
Exactly. Many devices use FAT for compatability with the windows Operating System. Expecting people to pay for after using it to make their projects work on a monopolized system is hopefully going to be a nice long nail in the antitrust coffin.
Seriously, is there anything Bush might leave as a (good) legacy for people to remember him by? Maybe he will re-initialize the space-race in an attempt to have something that puts his name in the annals of history in a positive way.
I mean, the best he's done so far is make a lot of ppl less worried about terrorists... but only because they're more worried about the government.
Aside from the obvious software issues, I've had these while using inferior power supplies. When things start humming and more juice was being used, my removable drives would suddenly disappear.
Upon a reboot, they would miraculously return, but quite often went away again after a heavy burning operation of something similar. Putting a decent Antec power supply in fixed things up... guess the drives weren't getting enough juice under the old one.
I wonder how far you could go in order to prove that he was at the machine. Perhaps supoena the ISP for logs, if he was like a lot of people (including myself) he may multitask... something showing email or web-browsing occuring at the hack might indicate he was at the computer and using it... making the "I was hacked" theory a little less believable (not totally disproving it, but making it less viable).
Leading to the hacking machine? Fixing the compromises on major linux servers is one thing, but why has nobody mentioned finding the perpetrators?
Anything in these logs on the source of the hacks? Probably another hacked machine, but perhaps it can be traced to a source.
Also, in any package that were compromised or attempted at, what is being inserted? Perhaps we can use it as a honeypot to catch a hacker?
Perhaps 2.4.23 should have a kernel allowance for a log that tells when somebody was trying to use the =2.4.22 exploit (or does it)?
want to sue Microsoft under the same pretenses as sueing gun manufactures
No, not really. Sueing MS isn't like sueing for guns killing somebody, it's like sueing because the gun backfired, or jammed up consistently, thus making it ineffective for the purpose it was duely advertised.
Wouldn't you be pissed if your gun jammed several time when you just had a prized buck in your sites, or worse yet when an enemy soldier was turning around to aim your way?
Guns aren't inherantly defective, the usage is. Windows on the other hand, has some serious defects that have been overlooked and even simply ignored by the creating company.
Reputation sets a lot of precedence in this though. BigPond is known for screwups, and not being overly helpful to customers.
When a company is known for screwing customers over, then customers should be a little wary of what their ISP does might not in customers' best interests
But a call to what action? It's all good to say "stand up for yourself" but better to say how. Already mentioned in another response, I have my own personal actions against the RIAA (including not purchasing any of their goods for the last several years), but nothing new that hasn't already been offered.
Conversely, I think you confuse call to action with "lament." Where is the action mentioned? What is suggested we do, other than possibly/obliquely "stnad up for ourselves." Can't have a call to action without an action.
My answers would be:
a) Don't buy RIAA music
b) Do buy indie/non-RIAA music
c) Do see live concerts
d) With (c), don't support artists that support RIAA bullsh*t
e) With (d), actively list/protest/make-known artists and RIAA members that support RIAA bullsh*t.
I think these have all been mentioned before, but I suppose it's better than the old "and then they came for me" line.
I already stopped purchasing music quite some time ago. I also prefer to buy indie as opposed to pirating music that is pretty much worthless anyhow.
But that being said, bitching about the system on slashdot isn't going to help me... offering a solution is (the two above are some). If I come up with a better idea I'll pass it by for certain, but I'm not going to whine about what other people are/aren't doing unless I have something to offer that I'd expect them to take up the torch for.
p.s. How many slashdotters buy RIAA music? Maybe we need a poll about the last time one purchased their crud.
All things considered, if the RIAA lost in a lower court, wouldn't they just pursue it in a higher one? By bumping this up to the higher courts, this should determine a higher level of precedent. In the event of a win (which it should be unless the judge is bought) this would be good news for everyone.