If your laptop is non-networked, then this is a non-issue. You wont be exploited via osmosis.
And if you want to shut off RPC, go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services, and stop the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service, and RPC Locator service.
And mods, quit moderating people up who don't know what in the blue hell they're talking about.
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What a bunch of candy asses and douchebags the leaders of Open Source are. I swear to god.
Linus is about the only OSS figure I can think of with any sort of dignity. And that's because he writes code and keeps his mouth shut. I respect that.
The only things RMS, ESR or Perens and their ilk 'contribute' is rhetoric and the image of the bearded loveless hippie.
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But unless anyone's heard of you and cares what you have to say, noone will read it, let alone publish it.
Nah, that's an incredibly obscure word, and he didn't even use it in a 100% proper context.
A sure sign of a hack writer using a thesaurus.
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Thing is, to successfully issue a press release, the press has to give a shit who you are.
Case in point, I ran out of Pop Tarts this morning and held a press conference about it and my plans to get some more at Super Fresh, but hardly anyone showed up - except for C-SPAN.
ESR and Perens and some slashbot jackass
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Opinions are like assholes which are, in turn, like open source advocates.
Blah blah blah an open letter to blah blah blah blah god we love to hear ourselves talk blah blah blah blah.
The more these guys pretend to speak on my behalf, the more I like SCO.
And I'm pretty sure SCO didn't compare empty lines. What a moronic excercise in "we have nothing new to say about SCO today" that was.
It actually wan't bad so far as Christmas specials go. If it was done in stop motion animation like Rudolph, it'd probably be one of those perennial classics.
My point is that people need to quit expecting every movie to be some deep intricate piece of art.
They film every Mel Gibson movie in such a way as to disguise the fact that he's like 4'3".
Maybe not that short, but he's short, way shorter than Danny Glover, closer to Joe Pesci's size. I'd heard they had a lot of problems to solve shooting the later Lethal Weapon flicks because of this.
No, lots of people want bullshit and nude scenes. It's always been thus. The arthouse and high cinema crowd is but one potential audience. For every Citizen Kane there have been 50 Shirley Temples.
So it was, so it shall be.
Sometimes I dont want to follow a plot, and rather just relax and watch shit blow up.
Last weekend, par example, Godzilla was on one channel, Out of Africa was on another. I watched Godzilla. It was even one of the later really stupid ones, with Godzooky and all the monsters living on monster island together.
The Hollywood remake of Godzilla was crap, know why? They tried to saddle my nuclear dinosaur friend with the energy beam breath with a plot.
Bah. Plot shmot, Godzilla just shows up and smashes Tokyo or battles monsters until he gets bored. There's your friggin plot, Hemingway.
Same with video games. Sometimes I dont want to play a super intricate RPG, sometimes I just want to blow stuff up or beat the crap out of zombies.
So just relax. Some movies go for the arthouse set, some just for pure entertainment.
The movie industry seems to lack creativity lately.
Lately? The movie industry has always been the same. For every piece of "great cinema" there have been 1000 goofy mass-appeal movies.
I'm tired of folks with selective memories pining for the olden days.
In the sixties we had great movies like the Elvis series, or Frankie and Annette or Santa Clause vs the Martians! Gack. Or, worse, the sappy melodrama and atrocious acting of the 40s and 50s.
What if I am a P2P user, who shares and gets only non-infringing materials, and the RIAA selects me for a subpeona?
Then you have your day in court and defend yourself. The burden of proof is on them in the end. If you're sure you've done nothing wrong, go ahead and hire a lawyer too - because at the end of the day you can countersue for all his legal fees. He'll be more than happy to represent a 100% slam-dunk innocent client when he sees those deep pockets.
BTW, none of this has to do with the DMCA whatsoever. It would have been just as illegal in the 40s if the 'net existed.
In the case of a juvinile homicide, they jail the kid because he/she poses a threat to society. That's what jail is for, really, to keep people who are threats away from the population.
You cant make arbitrary judgements about whether the parents should go to jail or not. Obviously different kids mature at different rates. Some 14 year olds are more mature and lucid than some 19 year olds. 18 is just an arbitrary number that's been pulled out of some beurocratic ass. It's up to the judge to, surprise, JUDGE.
This is my beef with manditory sentencing and three strike laws and whatnot, they take the "judgement" away from the judge. Which makes him/her nothing more than a referee. So you have 19 year old caught selling a gram of coke serving a manditory 20 years, and a 17 year old who committed three murders serving 5.
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Like what?
I've had it disabled for months and haven't seen a problem yet.
If your laptop is non-networked, then this is a non-issue. You wont be exploited via osmosis.
And if you want to shut off RPC, go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services, and stop the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service, and RPC Locator service.
And mods, quit moderating people up who don't know what in the blue hell they're talking about.
What a bunch of candy asses and douchebags the leaders of Open Source are. I swear to god.
Linus is about the only OSS figure I can think of with any sort of dignity. And that's because he writes code and keeps his mouth shut. I respect that.
The only things RMS, ESR or Perens and their ilk 'contribute' is rhetoric and the image of the bearded loveless hippie.
But unless anyone's heard of you and cares what you have to say, noone will read it, let alone publish it.
Unless it's a realllllllly slow news day.
Breaking news..
GUY ON SLASHDOT THINKS DARL MCBRIDE BIG FAG (AP)
blah blah blah blah
Nah, that's an incredibly obscure word, and he didn't even use it in a 100% proper context.
A sure sign of a hack writer using a thesaurus.
Thing is, to successfully issue a press release, the press has to give a shit who you are.
Case in point, I ran out of Pop Tarts this morning and held a press conference about it and my plans to get some more at Super Fresh, but hardly anyone showed up - except for C-SPAN.
Opinions are like assholes which are, in turn, like open source advocates.
Blah blah blah an open letter to blah blah blah blah god we love to hear ourselves talk blah blah blah blah.
The more these guys pretend to speak on my behalf, the more I like SCO.
And I'm pretty sure SCO didn't compare empty lines. What a moronic excercise in "we have nothing new to say about SCO today" that was.
Shhh, it's only "censorship" when someone tells you to shut up.
Dude, it's a punitive value. The value is chosen as to be larger than any possible benefit from spam, else it would be useless.
Ie; if it was $1 an email, and a spammer makes $2 per email on average, then hell, it's just a business expense.
So you make it arbitrarily large, also to compensate for the "they'll never catch me!" factor.
I still receive hundreds of spams per day, for viagra, enlargement, what have you. I can only note that the volume increases daily
You mean to say that shit works?!
S A N T A
C L A U S
Hooray for santy clause!
It actually wan't bad so far as Christmas specials go. If it was done in stop motion animation like Rudolph, it'd probably be one of those perennial classics.
My point is that people need to quit expecting every movie to be some deep intricate piece of art.
Why, the damages are punitive my good sir. YANNL (Youse Ain't Not No Lawyer)
Ironic spam?
How about this:
Do you need a larger, thicker penis?
Of course you don't, you have no girlfriend you frigging loser!
Come join us at slashdot.org!
Lets see a thousand posts about how you set up a bayesian filter!
Oh yeah, and keep your laws away from the internet, be they anti-spam, anti-porn, anti-terrorism, anti-hatespeech.
This is a problem easily solved with technology, thanks.
Psst.. It was just an action movie.
So was the first one. It wasn't the intellectual tour-de-force that people have made it out to be.
All the geeks trying to make it into some arthouse philosophers cinema or world-altering experience were a bunch of self-gratifying tools.
People went to see those special effects and fight scenes, hardly any of them gave a shit about Neo as a christ figure or buddhist blah blah blah.
Who the hell cares? Let's see some kung fu and slow motion explosions dammit!
If you want plot, go see Gigli, I hear it's FANTASTIC!
They film every Mel Gibson movie in such a way as to disguise the fact that he's like 4'3".
Maybe not that short, but he's short, way shorter than Danny Glover, closer to Joe Pesci's size. I'd heard they had a lot of problems to solve shooting the later Lethal Weapon flicks because of this.
No, lots of people want bullshit and nude scenes. It's always been thus. The arthouse and high cinema crowd is but one potential audience. For every Citizen Kane there have been 50 Shirley Temples.
So it was, so it shall be.
Sometimes I dont want to follow a plot, and rather just relax and watch shit blow up.
Last weekend, par example, Godzilla was on one channel, Out of Africa was on another. I watched Godzilla. It was even one of the later really stupid ones, with Godzooky and all the monsters living on monster island together.
The Hollywood remake of Godzilla was crap, know why? They tried to saddle my nuclear dinosaur friend with the energy beam breath with a plot.
Bah. Plot shmot, Godzilla just shows up and smashes Tokyo or battles monsters until he gets bored. There's your friggin plot, Hemingway.
Same with video games. Sometimes I dont want to play a super intricate RPG, sometimes I just want to blow stuff up or beat the crap out of zombies.
So just relax. Some movies go for the arthouse set, some just for pure entertainment.
The movie industry seems to lack creativity lately.
Lately? The movie industry has always been the same. For every piece of "great cinema" there have been 1000 goofy mass-appeal movies.
I'm tired of folks with selective memories pining for the olden days.
In the sixties we had great movies like the Elvis series, or Frankie and Annette or Santa Clause vs the Martians! Gack. Or, worse, the sappy melodrama and atrocious acting of the 40s and 50s.
Cubism?
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was cubesville, daddio!
Mebbe I'll review "HTML formatting in a Nutshell" for them.
I'm a busy man and don't have time to read two paragraphs.
And is it just me, or is this the first page-widening book review to appear on slashdot?
He's suing to get an injunction to stop the RIAA from doing the amnesty thing.
Even they admit it's not impossible, just harder to find the true source of the information.
What if I am a P2P user, who shares and gets only non-infringing materials, and the RIAA selects me for a subpeona?
Then you have your day in court and defend yourself. The burden of proof is on them in the end. If you're sure you've done nothing wrong, go ahead and hire a lawyer too - because at the end of the day you can countersue for all his legal fees. He'll be more than happy to represent a 100% slam-dunk innocent client when he sees those deep pockets.
BTW, none of this has to do with the DMCA whatsoever. It would have been just as illegal in the 40s if the 'net existed.
In the case of a juvinile homicide, they jail the kid because he/she poses a threat to society. That's what jail is for, really, to keep people who are threats away from the population.
You cant make arbitrary judgements about whether the parents should go to jail or not. Obviously different kids mature at different rates. Some 14 year olds are more mature and lucid than some 19 year olds. 18 is just an arbitrary number that's been pulled out of some beurocratic ass. It's up to the judge to, surprise, JUDGE.
This is my beef with manditory sentencing and three strike laws and whatnot, they take the "judgement" away from the judge. Which makes him/her nothing more than a referee. So you have 19 year old caught selling a gram of coke serving a manditory 20 years, and a 17 year old who committed three murders serving 5.
Ah fuck it.