It's rediculously cheap, but he was in high school. Heck, a lot of high schoolers work at mcdonalds for $6 an hour. Going to someone's home and installing a hard drive for $30 probably sounds like a lot of money to a high schooler.
Provided he has the agreement of those people/groups, with or without compensation, he's fine.
I don't need someone's permission to use their ideas. Even Newton himself said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." You propose a dark and ugly world if you believe it should be otherwise.
They can take out as much as they like. It's not freaking LotR. Douglas Adams didn't sit down and say, "I will spend my life designing a coherent, beautiful universe." He said, "I will write some funny dialog, then I will find some situations where that funny dialog is appropriate."
It's a slapped together book about a guy who wakes up one morning to discover that his planet is slated for destruction and the universe absolutely, positively does not care. He spirals through the galaxy wearing nothing but a bathrobe in a spaceship running on an "infinite improbability drive" -- absolutely anything can happen, for any reason whatsoever, and it does. And, of course, funny dialog results.
Oh, and he has a crush on a cute girl who is totally out of his league.
Its nice to see this posted on./ but I think that most people here know that point to point doesn't harm the industry.
What are you talking about? P2P has the potential to ruin the industry!
The people working the industry have spent billions and billions of dollars to make sure that artists will not get a national audience unless they sign an abusive recording contract. P2P has the potential to destroy that system.
Will consumers have a wider set of choices, more convenience, and lower prices? Probably yes. Will there be more producers of commercial music, making more money than ever before? Probably yes. Will the barriers to entry be lower, allowing people to offer expirimental products and services? Probably yes.
Will the small number of parasites who are currently "the industry" continue to exist? No, they'll be gone.
Is that bad or good for capitalism? It depends on which part of capitalism you enjoy. If you enjoy the opportunity capitalism affords you to become rich, then you'll like P2P. If you enjoy the opportunity capitalism affords you to stay rich through government interference, then you'll dislike P2P.
I saw "Phantom Menace" and I immediately wanted my $10 back. Why the hell would I ever give Lucas another dime as long as I live?
The movie may or may not suck. I assure you I will never know for myself.
(Here's my prediction -- if you paid money in the theaters to see Clones, you will probably pay to see this one too. If you skipped clones, you'll skip this one too. You may or may not enjoy watching this movie. You will eat too much popcorn.)
Yeah, the Empire being defeated by teddy bears was pushing it. The greatest military mind the rebels have to offer being named "mr. squid" and saying "it's a trap!" pretty much ruined that crappy movie.
Of course, Jedi was a crappy movie in the sense that it was only so-so, unlike the excellent Star Wars and Empire. It wasn't a completely unwatchable pile of dreck like the last two movies have been.
If there's a god in the universe, Hitchiker will pull in more bucks than the final installment. I'm certainly not going to ever give that hack another dime of my money ever again.
I don't know what's scarier: That he'd say something like that, or that there's probably a couple hundred million Americans who would nod their heads in "understanding".
Every single person in America, including the person who said it, knows that he is spouting a line of complete and utter bullshit.
He just has to say something, and he got sick of always saying, "we take these concerns very seriously."
Exactly. There are certainly cases where machine security is tight enough that you can relax on network security -- in fact, that's pretty much the definition of a DMZ.
But general user networks are not such a place. As a network admin, you can be guaranteed that infected machines will try to connect to your network -- I don't care if it's bob's laptop, or jane's bluetooth phone, or billy surfing the net. Machines will be compromised. If you want to keep the network secure, you have policies to detect insecure machines, and yank them off the network.
And, if you have a network were general users can run with priviledges that allow them to easily compromise machine security (intentionally or unintentionally), you must be extra vigilant.
But the GGP sounds like he's working in a place where the network security is little more than, "If the terminals are secure, the network is secure." That policy is just busted. It's even more busted if they're not interested in keeping the terminals secure, either.
There's nothing wrong with letting users run as Admin.
But as the network admin, you have the responsibility to pull users off the network immediately if their machine is compromised. Did their virus check shut off? Unless they've been pre-approved, they're off the network. Are they running spyware? Off the network.
Can't fix it? Here's a CD that reformats your drive and re-installs the base image.
At least, that's the way it works anywhere that needs to let users run as Admin and is serious about network security. Linux and Mac workstations aren't immune, either (though obviously the compromise detection is different).
It doesn't sound like that's the situation he's in, though.
I'm going to assume you're doing something midway between trolling and playing devils advocate. I'm also going to assume you do not believe what you're writing.
I don't believe slashdot is the type of forum to allow a meaningful response to the point you're making. If anything, I think it's sad to watch some of these people try.
Do people actually read these types of articles? Or are they just filler used by the page layout people when they have a couple of column inches they can squeeze a print advertisement into?
Oh, who am I kidding? It's not like the business model used by 95% of targeted "business journals" is a big secret:
1. Identify target demographic. 2. Spend most of your money selling ads 3. Spend any money left over identifying "eyeballs", i.e. people who will recieve free copies of your magazine. 4. Let the highest commission advertising salesman write the headlines. 5. Find a monkey or a free intern to write the articles that roughly match the pre-selected headlines. 6. Profit.
Oh, and of course:
7. Troll for links from slashdot, for more eyeballs.
I'll boil down the entire article to one sentance: "If you're implementing any type of 'strategic' software system, make certain you make sound business decisions when you choose the software."
Know what you're buying. Know who you're buying it from. Consider the entire lifecycle of the software solutions you're building. Oh, and there was a throwaway blurb about open source.
16 bit games have been a pain in the ass to get working from the moment there was more than one model of IBM PC. If you play 16 bit games, you have always had special boot disks for some games, and have gone through hoops with others. Win XP X64 isn't going to change that.
Now, you might say that you never use the command line or play Chips Challenge, in which case, good for you. But most of us just expect our computers to do what we want them to.
There are two types of people running 10+ year old windows programs: the first type are IT professionals who are running legacy programs for business reasons. These people are used to negotiating difficult compatibility requirements all the time, and will not even blink at these problems. If Microsoft loses these people as customers, 16 bit support in 64 bit windows will having nothing to do with it.
The second type are folks who are running $5 games they buy at Home Depot on their eMachine from Wal*Mart. Microsoft might lose these people as customers because they dropped 16 bit support in 64 bit Windows. Maybe they'll all go by Macs! Or, maybe they'll just re-install Windows Me.
What, exactly, would a subtle Slashdot April Fools joke look like? Perhaps they'd mispell a word or two? Maybe the writeups wouldn't match the article? The writeup would be a blatant troll? They'd post the same story three times in the same day?
Slashdot Mirror
It's about an american dollar a day. That's not expensive. The WSJ is a little more than, say, The Economist. But, the WSJ is also a daily paper.
On the other hand, the WSJ doesn't just hire writers and editors so they have something to fill the space between the advertisements.
They should be paying $4.20 a year.
Could you tell me how you got that out of the article?
A buck a day for the WSJ sounds pretty damned cheap to me -- have you ever read it?
All six people running OO sure are going to be in trouble!
you were gonna charge the guy 30 to install it??
It's rediculously cheap, but he was in high school. Heck, a lot of high schoolers work at mcdonalds for $6 an hour. Going to someone's home and installing a hard drive for $30 probably sounds like a lot of money to a high schooler.
You've had Internet since before 1985? That's pretty amazing.
Why? I've been on since the late 80's, and I'm not exactly an early adopter.
I have to agree with the parent. What you've done is kinda creepy, and very jerky.
Provided he has the agreement of those people/groups, with or without compensation, he's fine.
I don't need someone's permission to use their ideas. Even Newton himself said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." You propose a dark and ugly world if you believe it should be otherwise.
They can take out as much as they like. It's not freaking LotR. Douglas Adams didn't sit down and say, "I will spend my life designing a coherent, beautiful universe." He said, "I will write some funny dialog, then I will find some situations where that funny dialog is appropriate."
It's a slapped together book about a guy who wakes up one morning to discover that his planet is slated for destruction and the universe absolutely, positively does not care. He spirals through the galaxy wearing nothing but a bathrobe in a spaceship running on an "infinite improbability drive" -- absolutely anything can happen, for any reason whatsoever, and it does. And, of course, funny dialog results.
Oh, and he has a crush on a cute girl who is totally out of his league.
Its nice to see this posted on ./ but I think that most people here know that point to point doesn't harm the industry.
What are you talking about? P2P has the potential to ruin the industry!
The people working the industry have spent billions and billions of dollars to make sure that artists will not get a national audience unless they sign an abusive recording contract. P2P has the potential to destroy that system.
Will consumers have a wider set of choices, more convenience, and lower prices? Probably yes. Will there be more producers of commercial music, making more money than ever before? Probably yes. Will the barriers to entry be lower, allowing people to offer expirimental products and services? Probably yes.
Will the small number of parasites who are currently "the industry" continue to exist? No, they'll be gone.
Is that bad or good for capitalism? It depends on which part of capitalism you enjoy. If you enjoy the opportunity capitalism affords you to become rich, then you'll like P2P. If you enjoy the opportunity capitalism affords you to stay rich through government interference, then you'll dislike P2P.
Oh, yeah -- and stealing music is wrong, mmm'kay?
omg... quit bitching! Let's see the movie first.
I saw "Phantom Menace" and I immediately wanted my $10 back. Why the hell would I ever give Lucas another dime as long as I live?
The movie may or may not suck. I assure you I will never know for myself.
(Here's my prediction -- if you paid money in the theaters to see Clones, you will probably pay to see this one too. If you skipped clones, you'll skip this one too. You may or may not enjoy watching this movie. You will eat too much popcorn.)
Yeah, the Empire being defeated by teddy bears was pushing it. The greatest military mind the rebels have to offer being named "mr. squid" and saying "it's a trap!" pretty much ruined that crappy movie.
Of course, Jedi was a crappy movie in the sense that it was only so-so, unlike the excellent Star Wars and Empire. It wasn't a completely unwatchable pile of dreck like the last two movies have been.
If there's a god in the universe, Hitchiker will pull in more bucks than the final installment. I'm certainly not going to ever give that hack another dime of my money ever again.
I don't know what's scarier: That he'd say something like that, or that there's probably a couple hundred million Americans who would nod their heads in "understanding".
Every single person in America, including the person who said it, knows that he is spouting a line of complete and utter bullshit.
He just has to say something, and he got sick of always saying, "we take these concerns very seriously."
The real point is that there is an established model that is documented and understood for setting up a system under GNU/Linux.
It's documented and understood. It's also kludgy and crappy, and is nothing but a hack to get around limitations of the linux permission system.
User terminal security != network security
Exactly. There are certainly cases where machine security is tight enough that you can relax on network security -- in fact, that's pretty much the definition of a DMZ.
But general user networks are not such a place. As a network admin, you can be guaranteed that infected machines will try to connect to your network -- I don't care if it's bob's laptop, or jane's bluetooth phone, or billy surfing the net. Machines will be compromised. If you want to keep the network secure, you have policies to detect insecure machines, and yank them off the network.
And, if you have a network were general users can run with priviledges that allow them to easily compromise machine security (intentionally or unintentionally), you must be extra vigilant.
But the GGP sounds like he's working in a place where the network security is little more than, "If the terminals are secure, the network is secure." That policy is just busted. It's even more busted if they're not interested in keeping the terminals secure, either.
There's nothing wrong with letting users run as Admin.
But as the network admin, you have the responsibility to pull users off the network immediately if their machine is compromised. Did their virus check shut off? Unless they've been pre-approved, they're off the network. Are they running spyware? Off the network.
Can't fix it? Here's a CD that reformats your drive and re-installs the base image.
At least, that's the way it works anywhere that needs to let users run as Admin and is serious about network security. Linux and Mac workstations aren't immune, either (though obviously the compromise detection is different).
It doesn't sound like that's the situation he's in, though.
I'm going to assume you're doing something midway between trolling and playing devils advocate. I'm also going to assume you do not believe what you're writing.
I don't believe slashdot is the type of forum to allow a meaningful response to the point you're making. If anything, I think it's sad to watch some of these people try.
Why is there a litte star named "joke" so far above that little person's head?
Do people actually read these types of articles? Or are they just filler used by the page layout people when they have a couple of column inches they can squeeze a print advertisement into?
Oh, who am I kidding? It's not like the business model used by 95% of targeted "business journals" is a big secret:
1. Identify target demographic.
2. Spend most of your money selling ads
3. Spend any money left over identifying "eyeballs", i.e. people who will recieve free copies of your magazine.
4. Let the highest commission advertising salesman write the headlines.
5. Find a monkey or a free intern to write the articles that roughly match the pre-selected headlines.
6. Profit.
Oh, and of course:
7. Troll for links from slashdot, for more eyeballs.
I'll boil down the entire article to one sentance: "If you're implementing any type of 'strategic' software system, make certain you make sound business decisions when you choose the software."
Know what you're buying. Know who you're buying it from. Consider the entire lifecycle of the software solutions you're building. Oh, and there was a throwaway blurb about open source.
16 bit games have been a pain in the ass to get working from the moment there was more than one model of IBM PC. If you play 16 bit games, you have always had special boot disks for some games, and have gone through hoops with others. Win XP X64 isn't going to change that.
You're telling me than Win XP X64 comes with a version of edit.com that won't run on Win XP X64?
Wow. Mod the parent up! Those guys at Microsoft sure are dumb!
Now, you might say that you never use the command line or play Chips Challenge, in which case, good for you. But most of us just expect our computers to do what we want them to.
There are two types of people running 10+ year old windows programs: the first type are IT professionals who are running legacy programs for business reasons. These people are used to negotiating difficult compatibility requirements all the time, and will not even blink at these problems. If Microsoft loses these people as customers, 16 bit support in 64 bit windows will having nothing to do with it.
The second type are folks who are running $5 games they buy at Home Depot on their eMachine from Wal*Mart. Microsoft might lose these people as customers because they dropped 16 bit support in 64 bit Windows. Maybe they'll all go by Macs! Or, maybe they'll just re-install Windows Me.
What, exactly, would a subtle Slashdot April Fools joke look like? Perhaps they'd mispell a word or two? Maybe the writeups wouldn't match the article? The writeup would be a blatant troll? They'd post the same story three times in the same day?
Seriously, what could they do to be "subtle"?
That was beautiful.
Also works well enough for "most purposes": Flat files
MySQL basically gives you flat files with an SQL syntax and a network layer.
For some applications, that's enough. For other applications, it's not enough.