and even proposed standards (dell is pushing for a standard port for upgradeable graphics cards in laptops, and is developing a solution in house for it).
God that would be a beautiful thing.. lack of upgradable video cards was my ONLY gripe with laptops... In my lombard powerbook I don't care about the sound card, it's past good enough, the USB is fine as it is, the RAM and HDD are upgradable, as they should be... and all I've ever wanted to upgrade past the RAM and HDD has been the video card... If that were possible here it'd give my system another 2 or 3 years of life I think.
I love the fact that here we've got a story about the FCC regulating 'what is profane', when I swear I haven't seen a/. story with this much profanity in a very long time.:)
Do you believe Howard Stern should also be legally permitted to waggle his genitals in the face of a small child on the subway? Assuming your answer is no, that's just another degree of "legislation of morality".
Bigbigbigbig difference, that's public indecency, and there's no way around it. Sure you can say "Well the kid can turn his head!" but even if he turns his head he knows that there's some dude with his nuts out behind him, which is just as bad.
With censorship on the radio it's as easy as "Change the station" Sure, you know he's still talking shit, but he's not in your immediate area. I agree with another poster who mentioned that we need to grow the fuck up, seriously. We've got Stern and Leykis that I personally listen to, and i'll be the first to admit that they're not for everyone, and that they'll shock the hell out of and offend a lot of people, but to those people I say, "Change the fucking station" Don't go out of your way to listen to something just to be able to bitch about it. If you like it, listen to it, if you don't like it, don't listen to it, but stop trying to push your morals on me. So you don't like cussing, you don't like sexual discussions, how many radio stations and TV stations do you have? On basic cable i've got at least 150 stations, if I don't like something that's on one of them, I think I can probably find something to pass my time on the other 149, same goes for radio. I'm sorry for the rant, but i'm so godamned sick of people trying to tell me what I can and can't hear on the radio or see on TV.
Sure, you need some limits, don't allow them to swear, don't allow them to show a tit, don't allow them to show sexual situations, but jesus, don't try to turn every station into TBN (or your other local church station)
Computers NEED to be learned or need to be simpler.
You know, I just realized that even though it looks like there's not much progress on this front, that what you explained is happening, albeit slowly. Take a look at Mac OS X or WinXP. The new versions have Documents folders for everyone, music folders, shared folders, website folders to host your own site from, Applications folders, pictures and movies folders.. If you're completely brainless and just want your computer to allow you to do what most people use them for these days, mail, web, taking the pictures off of your digital camera, i'd say WinXP and OS X have got it pretty much nailed. Separate users, separate home directories, separate everything, and no real access to the base system. I guess all we need to do away with is hardware conflicts and crashes and make sure peripherals install easily and even the biggest idiot you know will be able to use a computer. Now all we've got to do is clean up the internet... Man, I could really go on with this post, but i'll save the rest of this rant for a more appropriate time.
Two things that may possibly affect this figure... 1. Most registration forms have a dropdown with female as the first entry(alphabetical order). 2. What does a null date default to? 12/31/1969, just about 35 years ago.
I didn't catch in the article (yes, I read it) how they got these #s, i'm thinking that if this were an online form (which would account for the issues you mention) I think there'd be another issue, I doubt the # would be as low as 75%, after all, it's online.. I'd just like to know how they got these #s.
Since it "Attempts to kill instances of MSBlast, Welchia and Sobig.F" just wait for the next revision of any of these and they will probably return the favor.
Well damn, they're just going to have a regular ol' gang war on our (not my) Windows systems huh? I guess at least if PhatBot tries to kill those 3, and the next revision of one of the 3 tries to kill PhatBot, they can start irradicating themselves and people will have no more than 1 or 2 virii(?) on their system at a time!
Well, probably not, but it'd be better than our current situation.:)
This isn't to find your neighbors: it's to find your nearest McDonalds, etc. Also, the local search help page talks about finding businesses, and mentions nothing of finding specific people.
Still very helpful, I coulda used it yesterday, in fact. Funny thing is, I've found a few people I used to know just using regular google.
I'm just hoping they fixed the junkmail issue i've been having, where my mail.app crashes whenever you tag something as spam/not-spam, i've read that lots of people are having it (and yeah, i've tried the fixes, deleting certain files and such, which fixed it until I marked about 15 mails as spam, then it picked up)
if you want audio support that works consistently, why bother with linux?
Because if everybody takes this attitude then nobody will use linux for consistent audio support, so it won't be worthwhile for "the audio guys" to code up audio aps for linux, and the audio support on linux will never improve.. If they create good audio tools for a platform, I believe they'll get users' support in doing so and people will buy their stuff.. It's just a matter of finding someone with the resources to take that risk, I Guess. I thought this was the gist of the story?
Go on, you just know that you want to add a rule to the webserver that ensures their IP gets redirected to Tubgirl instead of being served the new site.
You know, at first I thought that was funny, then I realized, that's a good f'ing idea. Thanks!
(Probably won't redirect them to tubgirl, but we can probably send them SOMEWHERE, maybe a fake page, heh.)
Typical/. hypocrisy. When you misappropriate IP in the form of music, movies, and software, you say it's not "theft" -- but when someone does the same to your website, you call them thieves, and get all up at arms about it...
I've noticed this sort of thinking before, in fact, I used to agree -- Then I took into account that, think about it, slashdot has enough users to take out entire websites at the blink of an eye when a story is posted, and you STILL see a ton of posts by people who did not RTFA, so let's say it's a 50/50 split, 50% read the articles, and 50% don't. If half of the userbase reading the site at one point can take down a server, then I'm sure you can imagine that the opinions of slashdot will span the gambit. There's a lot of people here, hundreds of thousands, it's just people choose to speak up on different topics.
To use your example, usually nobody feels strongy enough against P2P "Music sharing" to say anything about it, yet a lot of people do feel strongly enough FOR P2P as a technology to defend it's right to exist. So here you see slashdot is "mostly for the piracy of music" because nobody's defending the artist's right to get paid, when in fact, I seriously doubt that's the case. Just the loudest, more vocal people are heard.
I don't think it's so much hypocracy, but a case of different people from a pool of hundreds of thousands speaking out about the stories that interest them the most.
Quite often contacting their hosting provider and simply pointing out to them that they are hosting content violating your IP will be enough.
That's what we told the people who stole our content, unfortunately they are a russian hosting company who stole all of our content, edited the company logo images (poorly) and didn't even change the layout! the phone numbers are in the same place, they even used the same "drowning dude help icon" thing.. In any case, as you can probably imagine, they were happy to hear from us until we told them it was OUR site they stole, then all of a sudden they lost their ability to speak english.. Ugh!
Also, we've been designing a new site for some time now, and it kills me to think of the time we've put into this, to know that it will probably end up on the.ru site also as soon as it's live, with minimum work on their part.
I don't think jail time is warranted for spam offenses, especially several years worth. Why don't we keep jails open for the real criminals. Sizeable and enforceable fines will be more than enough to stop the spam that we can legally stop. The rest of it (from China, etc.) will need another solution.
A probation stating that they can't touch a computer for several years or else they DO go to prison, though, would be a nice touch.
There's a reason corporations don't choose logos like Tux: they want to convey an impression of professionalism.
But what about/.'s "Linux Business" Tux, I know it sounds funny, but I half agree with you, and half disagree as well. I think Tux is an excellent mascot due to it's recognizability, I don't think it's terribly UNprofessional, if by professional you mean IBM's big blue lined letters, SUN's neat logo. We've also got a few large companies with strange or less 'professional looking' logos, one with a stupid little window logo, people certainly won't be doodling that one on a napkin when they get bored, and one with a plain ol' apple, well, it's chrome now, so I guess it's more professional? In any case, I think if they were to use the Linux Business Tux maybe they could squeeze forward in the business world, while using the regular Tux to denote their 'home' versions. I think that may actually be an outstanding marketing approach.
Linux Home Edition (tux) Linux Enterprise Edition (business tux) Linux Firewall Edition (tux in a firefighter outfit? or camo?) Linud Router Edition (tux in a traffic cop outfit)
Swich to DirecTV, and Viacom will try to shake them down next. To hell with Viacom!
That "I'll be switching to DirecTV" had me thinking (don't get me wrong, I think DirecTV has a very high quality product, and I was very happy with it until I moved somewhere where I couldn't have it.) Isn't this the company that just got busted under the RICO act for suing people with card reader/writers? Did that ever get settled? Like I said, I really dug that company, but I was extremely disappointed when I heard they were throwing out all of those lawsuits.
No different than removing other programs except windows did you the favor of sorting and categorizing windows programs in their own location
There is one difference that you missed -- the fact that all it does is remove the shortcuts to it from the desktop and start menu. I believe the post you replied to was referring to completely taking the program out of the system, not just removing the shortcuts to it. I don't think the poster is dumb.
In fact, every time I hear Everclear's "Daughter of Mine" I think of a sharp turn in the path because that song always played then.
Well! Hope you aren't listening to that song in the car then! Sounds dangerous!
-matt
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OK I don't know if this is naive or anything, I do know roughly how SMTP works and all, but how would this work? We do as Apple did with OS X's Mail.app and create it to use sendmail.. If there were a version of sendmail (or some MTA) for every platform, then why even use SMTP servers? Have future versions of OSs and Mail aps come bundled with sendmail or the elected MTA and force local sending, everyone shuts off their SMTP servers aside from corporate systems who like to use them as a proxy for monitoring. Would that be something that's easy enough to abuse and hard enough to defend against to make it not worth it? I'd like to think that at least that way there'd be an easier way to track the originating IP, or to initiate something that would check with the sending machine to basically ask it "Did you just send me an email?" and if it says no, then the messages is dumped, if it says yes then it is accepted? Any ideas?
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The mail server knows the answer in advance, and if the client provides the correct answer, the message is relayed... if not, it's denied. That way, spammers HAVE to perform the expensive computation, which significantly slows their mass-mailing efforts.
Ok, I quickly read over the article, so I may have missed something... However I had to respond to this particular point that you make. If this is going to be 'expensive computation which significantly slows [spammers'] mass-mailing efforts', won't it do the same for legitimate mass-mailing efforts as well? Newsletters? Daily mailings? News updates? I can think of several legitimate mass-mailing systems that I myself subscribe to, and I like getting them, if this makes it expensive for mass-mailing, then I may just lose the stuff that I signed up for as well as the stuff that I didn't (spam). I don't think that's necessarily the best approach..
I was expecting the cover art to have something to the effect of Lucas lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill while laughing at us and giving us the finger or something:)
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and even proposed standards (dell is pushing for a standard port for upgradeable graphics cards in laptops, and is developing a solution in house for it).
God that would be a beautiful thing.. lack of upgradable video cards was my ONLY gripe with laptops... In my lombard powerbook I don't care about the sound card, it's past good enough, the USB is fine as it is, the RAM and HDD are upgradable, as they should be... and all I've ever wanted to upgrade past the RAM and HDD has been the video card... If that were possible here it'd give my system another 2 or 3 years of life I think.
-matt
I love the fact that here we've got a story about the FCC regulating 'what is profane', when I swear I haven't seen a /. story with this much profanity in a very long time. :)
-matt
Do you believe Howard Stern should also be legally permitted to waggle his genitals in the face of a small child on the subway? Assuming your answer is no, that's just another degree of "legislation of morality".
Bigbigbigbig difference, that's public indecency, and there's no way around it. Sure you can say "Well the kid can turn his head!" but even if he turns his head he knows that there's some dude with his nuts out behind him, which is just as bad.
With censorship on the radio it's as easy as "Change the station" Sure, you know he's still talking shit, but he's not in your immediate area. I agree with another poster who mentioned that we need to grow the fuck up, seriously. We've got Stern and Leykis that I personally listen to, and i'll be the first to admit that they're not for everyone, and that they'll shock the hell out of and offend a lot of people, but to those people I say, "Change the fucking station" Don't go out of your way to listen to something just to be able to bitch about it. If you like it, listen to it, if you don't like it, don't listen to it, but stop trying to push your morals on me. So you don't like cussing, you don't like sexual discussions, how many radio stations and TV stations do you have? On basic cable i've got at least 150 stations, if I don't like something that's on one of them, I think I can probably find something to pass my time on the other 149, same goes for radio. I'm sorry for the rant, but i'm so godamned sick of people trying to tell me what I can and can't hear on the radio or see on TV.
Sure, you need some limits, don't allow them to swear, don't allow them to show a tit, don't allow them to show sexual situations, but jesus, don't try to turn every station into TBN (or your other local church station)
-matt
Computers NEED to be learned or need to be simpler.
You know, I just realized that even though it looks like there's not much progress on this front, that what you explained is happening, albeit slowly. Take a look at Mac OS X or WinXP. The new versions have Documents folders for everyone, music folders, shared folders, website folders to host your own site from, Applications folders, pictures and movies folders.. If you're completely brainless and just want your computer to allow you to do what most people use them for these days, mail, web, taking the pictures off of your digital camera, i'd say WinXP and OS X have got it pretty much nailed. Separate users, separate home directories, separate everything, and no real access to the base system. I guess all we need to do away with is hardware conflicts and crashes and make sure peripherals install easily and even the biggest idiot you know will be able to use a computer. Now all we've got to do is clean up the internet... Man, I could really go on with this post, but i'll save the rest of this rant for a more appropriate time.
-matt
Two things that may possibly affect this figure...
1. Most registration forms have a dropdown with female as the first entry(alphabetical order).
2. What does a null date default to? 12/31/1969, just about 35 years ago.
I didn't catch in the article (yes, I read it) how they got these #s, i'm thinking that if this were an online form (which would account for the issues you mention) I think there'd be another issue, I doubt the # would be as low as 75%, after all, it's online.. I'd just like to know how they got these #s.
Since it "Attempts to kill instances of MSBlast, Welchia and Sobig.F" just wait for the next revision of any of these and they will probably return the favor.
:)
Well damn, they're just going to have a regular ol' gang war on our (not my) Windows systems huh? I guess at least if PhatBot tries to kill those 3, and the next revision of one of the 3 tries to kill PhatBot, they can start irradicating themselves and people will have no more than 1 or 2 virii(?) on their system at a time!
Well, probably not, but it'd be better than our current situation.
-matt
This isn't to find your neighbors: it's to find your nearest McDonalds, etc.
Also, the local search help page talks about finding businesses, and mentions nothing of finding specific people.
Still very helpful, I coulda used it yesterday, in fact. Funny thing is, I've found a few people I used to know just using regular google.
-matt
Hey can someone post a mirror to the local.google.com? In case it gets slashdotted!?
-matt
They STILL haven't fixed the Mail.app bug [...]
I'm just hoping they fixed the junkmail issue i've been having, where my mail.app crashes whenever you tag something as spam/not-spam, i've read that lots of people are having it (and yeah, i've tried the fixes, deleting certain files and such, which fixed it until I marked about 15 mails as spam, then it picked up)
-matt
if you want audio support that works consistently, why bother with linux?
Because if everybody takes this attitude then nobody will use linux for consistent audio support, so it won't be worthwhile for "the audio guys" to code up audio aps for linux, and the audio support on linux will never improve.. If they create good audio tools for a platform, I believe they'll get users' support in doing so and people will buy their stuff.. It's just a matter of finding someone with the resources to take that risk, I Guess. I thought this was the gist of the story?
-matt
I can think of a way for Honda to turn on a profit on this baby!!
:)
By stealing it from Toyota?
-matt
Go on, you just know that you want to add a rule to the webserver that ensures their IP gets redirected to Tubgirl instead of being served the new site.
You know, at first I thought that was funny, then I realized, that's a good f'ing idea. Thanks!
(Probably won't redirect them to tubgirl, but we can probably send them SOMEWHERE, maybe a fake page, heh.)
Thanks again!
-matt
Typical /. hypocrisy. When you misappropriate IP in the form of music, movies, and software, you say it's not "theft" -- but when someone does the same to your website, you call them thieves, and get all up at arms about it...
I've noticed this sort of thinking before, in fact, I used to agree -- Then I took into account that, think about it, slashdot has enough users to take out entire websites at the blink of an eye when a story is posted, and you STILL see a ton of posts by people who did not RTFA, so let's say it's a 50/50 split, 50% read the articles, and 50% don't. If half of the userbase reading the site at one point can take down a server, then I'm sure you can imagine that the opinions of slashdot will span the gambit. There's a lot of people here, hundreds of thousands, it's just people choose to speak up on different topics.
To use your example, usually nobody feels strongy enough against P2P "Music sharing" to say anything about it, yet a lot of people do feel strongly enough FOR P2P as a technology to defend it's right to exist. So here you see slashdot is "mostly for the piracy of music" because nobody's defending the artist's right to get paid, when in fact, I seriously doubt that's the case. Just the loudest, more vocal people are heard.
I don't think it's so much hypocracy, but a case of different people from a pool of hundreds of thousands speaking out about the stories that interest them the most.
-matt
Quite often contacting their hosting provider and simply pointing out to them that they are hosting content violating your IP will be enough.
.ru site also as soon as it's live, with minimum work on their part.
That's what we told the people who stole our content, unfortunately they are a russian hosting company who stole all of our content, edited the company logo images (poorly) and didn't even change the layout! the phone numbers are in the same place, they even used the same "drowning dude help icon" thing.. In any case, as you can probably imagine, they were happy to hear from us until we told them it was OUR site they stole, then all of a sudden they lost their ability to speak english.. Ugh!
Also, we've been designing a new site for some time now, and it kills me to think of the time we've put into this, to know that it will probably end up on the
-matt
I don't think jail time is warranted for spam offenses, especially several years worth. Why don't we keep jails open for the real criminals. Sizeable and enforceable fines will be more than enough to stop the spam that we can legally stop. The rest of it (from China, etc.) will need another solution.
A probation stating that they can't touch a computer for several years or else they DO go to prison, though, would be a nice touch.
-matt
Unless some has a better idea?
/.? You remember what happened last time don't you? :)
How about just posting their info on
-matt
There's a reason corporations don't choose logos like Tux: they want to convey an impression of professionalism.
/.'s "Linux Business" Tux, I know it sounds funny, but I half agree with you, and half disagree as well. I think Tux is an excellent mascot due to it's recognizability, I don't think it's terribly UNprofessional, if by professional you mean IBM's big blue lined letters, SUN's neat logo. We've also got a few large companies with strange or less 'professional looking' logos, one with a stupid little window logo, people certainly won't be doodling that one on a napkin when they get bored, and one with a plain ol' apple, well, it's chrome now, so I guess it's more professional? In any case, I think if they were to use the Linux Business Tux maybe they could squeeze forward in the business world, while using the regular Tux to denote their 'home' versions. I think that may actually be an outstanding marketing approach.
But what about
Linux Home Edition (tux)
Linux Enterprise Edition (business tux)
Linux Firewall Edition (tux in a firefighter outfit? or camo?)
Linud Router Edition (tux in a traffic cop outfit)
Several possibilities...
-matt
Swich to DirecTV, and Viacom will try to shake them down next. To hell with Viacom!
That "I'll be switching to DirecTV" had me thinking (don't get me wrong, I think DirecTV has a very high quality product, and I was very happy with it until I moved somewhere where I couldn't have it.) Isn't this the company that just got busted under the RICO act for suing people with card reader/writers? Did that ever get settled? Like I said, I really dug that company, but I was extremely disappointed when I heard they were throwing out all of those lawsuits.
-matt
Now, without looking back, close your eyes and try to spell "rediculous".
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Ok, ridiculous
-matt
No different than removing other programs except windows did you the favor of sorting and categorizing windows programs in their own location
There is one difference that you missed -- the fact that all it does is remove the shortcuts to it from the desktop and start menu. I believe the post you replied to was referring to completely taking the program out of the system, not just removing the shortcuts to it. I don't think the poster is dumb.
-matt
In fact, every time I hear Everclear's "Daughter of Mine" I think of a sharp turn in the path because that song always played then.
Well! Hope you aren't listening to that song in the car then! Sounds dangerous!
-matt
OK I don't know if this is naive or anything, I do know roughly how SMTP works and all, but how would this work? We do as Apple did with OS X's Mail.app and create it to use sendmail.. If there were a version of sendmail (or some MTA) for every platform, then why even use SMTP servers? Have future versions of OSs and Mail aps come bundled with sendmail or the elected MTA and force local sending, everyone shuts off their SMTP servers aside from corporate systems who like to use them as a proxy for monitoring. Would that be something that's easy enough to abuse and hard enough to defend against to make it not worth it? I'd like to think that at least that way there'd be an easier way to track the originating IP, or to initiate something that would check with the sending machine to basically ask it "Did you just send me an email?" and if it says no, then the messages is dumped, if it says yes then it is accepted? Any ideas?
-matt
The mail server knows the answer in advance, and if the client provides the correct answer, the message is relayed... if not, it's denied. That way, spammers HAVE to perform the expensive computation, which significantly slows their mass-mailing efforts.
Ok, I quickly read over the article, so I may have missed something... However I had to respond to this particular point that you make. If this is going to be 'expensive computation which significantly slows [spammers'] mass-mailing efforts', won't it do the same for legitimate mass-mailing efforts as well? Newsletters? Daily mailings? News updates? I can think of several legitimate mass-mailing systems that I myself subscribe to, and I like getting them, if this makes it expensive for mass-mailing, then I may just lose the stuff that I signed up for as well as the stuff that I didn't (spam). I don't think that's necessarily the best approach..
-matt
Site already slashdotted [...] PS: The second link is heavier and probably will go down soon.
:)
Well someone needs to just put the original article on kazaa then so we can all get it!
-matt
I was expecting the cover art to have something to the effect of Lucas lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill while laughing at us and giving us the finger or something :)
-matt