And if you leave the keys in your car, you can hardly complain when *gasp* I take it downtown and sell it to a chopshop for 150 bucks.
People make the analogy of port scanning being like testing doors to see if they're unlocked. And it's a good one. You aren't allowed to "test my door", or even walk up the path to it, without my permission. Because it's all my property. That "no solicitors" sign is there to prevent just that.
Many open proxies are the result of previous hacks into the system. Many more are the result of an inexperienced admin. That doesn't make it alright to use his/her bandwidth.
If the machine isnt yours, and there is no implied or explicit consent for you to use it, you dont use it.
I'm going to stress the hell out of mozilla, find a huge gaping root-giving security hole, and then submit a bug report peppered with the words "douche", "fart", and "homo". Just so that they wont fix it out of spite, and their browser will slip into obscurity.
Am I the only one who notices that every time the Mozilla team says anything, its a whine? "Apple didnt pick us for their browser! waah" "We dont like the tone of your bug reports! waah"
No pointless comments. Unless you have something constructive and helpful to say, do not add a comment to a bug. In bugs where there is a heated debate going on, you should be even more inclined not to add a comment. Unless you have something new to contribute, then the bug owner is aware of all the issues, and will make a judgement as to what to do. If you agree the bug should be fixed, vote for it. Additional "I see this too" or "It works for me" comments are unnecessary unless they are on a different platform or a significantly different build.
Yeah I get this all the time!
No obligation. "Open Source" is not the same as "the developers must do my bidding." The only person who has any obligation to fix the bugs you want fixed is you. Never act as if you expect someone to fix a bug by a particular date or release. This is merely obnoxious, and is likely to get the bug ignored.
But why does mozilla SUCK MY ASS?! Fix it, ASAP
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But those machines in Wal Mart and Circuit City are super cheap (especially the Compaqs, Dells and eMachines) because they're subsidized by kickbacks from all the preloaded software.
A linux based PC would bear the full brunt of the hardware costs, and probably be pricier than the one with the 'Microsoft tax' on it.
It's probably much cheaper to format and install linux, if that's your fancy. Unless you really want to spend 1500 for the same machine that costs 800 with a ton of crap preloaded.
It was supposed to be gone by now, AFAIK, but there was enough customer backlash that HP extended support for the 3000 series for another 5 years.
We've committed to supporting our customers for another 5 years beyond HPs cut-off date. Of course, we're just itching to sell them all unix or NT (powered by Stratus) based replacements.
The 3000s just dont break, and for the types of systems we sell on 'em, they'd be perfectly adequate chugging along until the end of time. So luckily HP phases em out for us so we can make a lot of moolah replacing them, or supporting them at great costs.
Why the heck anyone needs a 2 GHz CPU in a laptop is a mystery to me.
Not to me, I know a few people who do graphic design, and having that kind of horsepower in a laptop is absolutely necessary to them.
A high end laptop and a docking station is also more cost/space effective than a high end desktop and a low end laptop. There are a lot of people who need/want such a portable PC.
The fact that you dont need or want something obviously means nothing. They sell like hotcakes and HP/Dell/Compaq/Sony rake in the dough hand over fist selling 'em.
(Why the heck anyone needs a 4 MHz Transmeta CPU in a linux based laptop is a mystery to me)
Completely different target customers, at least for the time being.
HP will probably ship linux on it's x86 based servers, but for the various HP3000/9000 etc big-iron servers, it'll still be HP-UX. I sincerely doubt that linux will have the punch that HP-UX carries on a bigass HP9000 N-class server.
Eventuall HP-UX and Tru64 will no doubt follow MPE into the lands of obscurity. Although, there are still a ton of MPE users/customers out there (my company being one of them with a few dozen MPE based sites installed).
The people who obfuscate their email address to avoid spams arent the ones you want to spam, since they're pretty much 100% guaranteed not to even read the email.
The spammers want the messages sent to the dopes who might actually buy the product/service.
Because the socialist agenda in education is to standardize everything, so that everyone learns and is tested on the exact same thing.
The problem is, they choose the lowest common denominator. And now a high school diploma means that you're at least as smart as the most mentally dysfunctional person in the land.
I wish I could remember this link, it had a scan of a final exam for grade 8 from like 1910. Damn, the stuff they had to know back then would blow your mind. Most of it was more advanced than anything I came across in university. You know how your grampa was a success even though he never finished high school?
Makes it easier to deal with student loans, scholarships, and other financial aids a student might recieve.
Sure, it's easy enough to correllate a student id to a SSN, but some dont.
The university I went to had our SIN (canadian version of the SSN) mixed in with other 'info', like the semester and year you started, to form a new number. It was possible to take your number and extract the SSN, but much harder to brute force student ID's and get the SSN back.
And I'm sure the chinese will use it to discuss democracy and angles and kittens will trade muffin recipies over it.
Or else the only people "hiding" their speech on it will be pedophiles and Ku Klux Klan members.
I dont want a single electron in my PC devoted to storing or serving data for either of those groups.
I wont be part of any 'network' that doesnt let me control what data is being stored and served from my machines, not just because I could be held liable, but because I find the stuff morally repugnant.
The fact that it's Open Source or Written in Java(TM) doesn't make the tiniest bit of difference to me.
I like some of the tech, and it intrigues me as to how this could be used in a corporate intranet setting (massive redundant databases distributed over all those PCs in the cubicles, rather than another rackmount?).
>> The curious thing is that if you have a fairly static IP and are contributing space to the net, you have no idea what is stored on your machine. It could be human rights info, it could be copyright material, it could be very illegal pornography. You just don't know
And regardless of if you know or not, you're still responsible, legally and/or criminally.
I personally wouldnt touch freenet with a 10 foot pole because of this. How would you like to have your home raided at 3 AM because NAMBLA is now hosting its web forums on your PC?
You can be arrested and charged for posessing child porn. I knew a guy online who was in the military, and ran a ftp server from his home. People would basically come and go trading files, mostly porn pics.
Someone stuck a bunch of kiddie porn on the site, and the short story is he's serving 5 years in military prison, and the fact that he had no idea that it was there didn't make a difference.
The same thing would happen to you if you let some friend store a bunch of his boxes in your garage, and they were full of child porn.
Now, since freenet distributes all of the "published" stuff across everyone elses machines basically, are you criminially responsible if someones kiddie porn is partially stored on your hard drive?
The answer is probably yes, though IANAL.
How can individual users claim that they have no responsiblity for what's being served by their machines?
It's completely subjective. Personally I dont, and never have, cared for the way MacOS "looks". It has a Fisher-Price quality that annoys me. Does it make it less of an OS? No, it's just an opinion.
No wonder OSS desktops are lightyears away. Everyone bickering over what color to make the menu options, and not what functionality it needs to have.
The latest linux kernels have http acceleration built in to the kernel, which at least partially has apache ceding serving of static pages to a kernel function.
So you're right. Running a webserver in kernel space sure is a monumentally stupid idea.
I mean your wrong because linux is doing it.
I mean your right because microsoft is doing it.
I mean
OMG its the singularity.
OS's are just tools. So are people who obsess over them.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The same technology used to download music from file-sharing sites makes it possible to trade pornography, tech experts testified at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday
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Who says the government doesnt have my best interests in mind?
My tax dollars at work. Now I can get porn on KaZaa, too.
Ok, consider first that I'm not a hardcore audiophile, and neither are most.
Once I got positional audio by way of the Live! series, what motivation is left to upgrade?
I mean I get positional audio and EAX in my games, I get surround sound in my movies. I rip/encode/playback my MP3s. I dont lose CPU time to the audio system, or deal with the setup hell that existed back in the ISA cards era. My PC isnt a media jukebox or lined through a $10,000 stereo, just a 4 way speaker set.
Why would anyone upgrade past Live, if they weren't an audiophile demanding the very latest (and even then, why would they? Most true audio geeks I know run 10 year old equipment).
I mean what breakthrough technologies have been developed? Two more speaker channels?
It's not like video cards. When Doom 3 comes out, and doesnt run on my computer, I can guarantee it will be because of the old Radeon card, not my SB Live.
So, really, what's been added to these things? Are there any good arguments to upgrade?
As soon as you read "Linux outperforms windows" or "windows outperforms linux" or "PS2 is cooler than xbox", you should realize you're reading biased and completely subjective opinions, and not facts.
Anyone with half a clue about what they're talking about would never make such an asinine statement.
Zealotry and misinformation will keep linux in obscure corners and backrooms, and off of the desktop.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep.
He also heads up the incentives to censor/restrict "violent" video games, TV, and movies.
He's also 100% behind DRM and censorship of 'offensive' materials on the 'net.
But he's working for Apple, so us slashdot sycophants love him now.
Luckily for apple users this is more PR than actually hiring a real employee.
And if you leave the keys in your car, you can hardly complain when *gasp* I take it downtown and sell it to a chopshop for 150 bucks.
People make the analogy of port scanning being like testing doors to see if they're unlocked. And it's a good one. You aren't allowed to "test my door", or even walk up the path to it, without my permission. Because it's all my property. That "no solicitors" sign is there to prevent just that.
Many open proxies are the result of previous hacks into the system. Many more are the result of an inexperienced admin. That doesn't make it alright to use his/her bandwidth.
If the machine isnt yours, and there is no implied or explicit consent for you to use it, you dont use it.
I'm going to stress the hell out of mozilla, find a huge gaping root-giving security hole, and then submit a bug report peppered with the words "douche", "fart", and "homo". Just so that they wont fix it out of spite, and their browser will slip into obscurity.
Am I the only one who notices that every time the Mozilla team says anything, its a whine? "Apple didnt pick us for their browser! waah" "We dont like the tone of your bug reports! waah"
Someone give the baby a bottle. And a beating.
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Yeah I get this all the time!
No obligation. "Open Source" is not the same as "the developers must do my bidding." The only person who has any obligation to fix the bugs you want fixed is you. Never act as if you expect someone to fix a bug by a particular date or release. This is merely obnoxious, and is likely to get the bug ignored.
But why does mozilla SUCK MY ASS?! Fix it, ASAP
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FUCK YOU, SHIT FOR BRAINS!
But those machines in Wal Mart and Circuit City are super cheap (especially the Compaqs, Dells and eMachines) because they're subsidized by kickbacks from all the preloaded software.
A linux based PC would bear the full brunt of the hardware costs, and probably be pricier than the one with the 'Microsoft tax' on it.
It's probably much cheaper to format and install linux, if that's your fancy. Unless you really want to spend 1500 for the same machine that costs 800 with a ton of crap preloaded.
It was supposed to be gone by now, AFAIK, but there was enough customer backlash that HP extended support for the 3000 series for another 5 years.
We've committed to supporting our customers for another 5 years beyond HPs cut-off date. Of course, we're just itching to sell them all unix or NT (powered by Stratus) based replacements.
The 3000s just dont break, and for the types of systems we sell on 'em, they'd be perfectly adequate chugging along until the end of time. So luckily HP phases em out for us so we can make a lot of moolah replacing them, or supporting them at great costs.
HP is selling and doing phone support for Red Hat. They dont own Red Hat, conrol Red Hat, or any of the such.
If HP chooses only to sell Itanium based rigs, that's their perogitive. If you want a hammer-equiped red hat rig, dont get it from HP.
So just relax. This is just HP making sure the latest IT buzzword is prominent in their marketing literature.
Why the heck anyone needs a 2 GHz CPU in a laptop is a mystery to me.
Not to me, I know a few people who do graphic design, and having that kind of horsepower in a laptop is absolutely necessary to them.
A high end laptop and a docking station is also more cost/space effective than a high end desktop and a low end laptop. There are a lot of people who need/want such a portable PC.
The fact that you dont need or want something obviously means nothing. They sell like hotcakes and HP/Dell/Compaq/Sony rake in the dough hand over fist selling 'em.
(Why the heck anyone needs a 4 MHz Transmeta CPU in a linux based laptop is a mystery to me)
Completely different target customers, at least for the time being.
HP will probably ship linux on it's x86 based servers, but for the various HP3000/9000 etc big-iron servers, it'll still be HP-UX. I sincerely doubt that linux will have the punch that HP-UX carries on a bigass HP9000 N-class server.
Eventuall HP-UX and Tru64 will no doubt follow MPE into the lands of obscurity. Although, there are still a ton of MPE users/customers out there (my company being one of them with a few dozen MPE based sites installed).
If someone is going out of their way not to recieve spam, why bother going out of your way to send it?
They aren't going to order the penis pills or join the pyramid scheme.
They dont make money per spam sent, they make it per order recieved. They want to spam the stupids who will buy the products.
It'd be like trying the old "sell the brooklyn bridge" con on a NYC realtor. It's a waste of time.
It's not worth doing.
The people who obfuscate their email address to avoid spams arent the ones you want to spam, since they're pretty much 100% guaranteed not to even read the email.
The spammers want the messages sent to the dopes who might actually buy the product/service.
WIRES BABY
WIRES
Plug those cords in
Male into female
Oooooooooh yeah
Nothing beats a fast secure wired connection.
And, look ma, no cancer!
>> So, removable optical media containing this operating system would be called...?
Worthless tripe?
Because the socialist agenda in education is to standardize everything, so that everyone learns and is tested on the exact same thing.
The problem is, they choose the lowest common denominator. And now a high school diploma means that you're at least as smart as the most mentally dysfunctional person in the land.
I wish I could remember this link, it had a scan of a final exam for grade 8 from like 1910. Damn, the stuff they had to know back then would blow your mind. Most of it was more advanced than anything I came across in university. You know how your grampa was a success even though he never finished high school?
Makes it easier to deal with student loans, scholarships, and other financial aids a student might recieve.
Sure, it's easy enough to correllate a student id to a SSN, but some dont.
The university I went to had our SIN (canadian version of the SSN) mixed in with other 'info', like the semester and year you started, to form a new number. It was possible to take your number and extract the SSN, but much harder to brute force student ID's and get the SSN back.
And I'm sure the chinese will use it to discuss democracy and angles and kittens will trade muffin recipies over it.
Or else the only people "hiding" their speech on it will be pedophiles and Ku Klux Klan members.
I dont want a single electron in my PC devoted to storing or serving data for either of those groups.
I wont be part of any 'network' that doesnt let me control what data is being stored and served from my machines, not just because I could be held liable, but because I find the stuff morally repugnant.
The fact that it's Open Source or Written in Java(TM) doesn't make the tiniest bit of difference to me.
I like some of the tech, and it intrigues me as to how this could be used in a corporate intranet setting (massive redundant databases distributed over all those PCs in the cubicles, rather than another rackmount?).
>> The curious thing is that if you have a fairly static IP and are contributing space to the net, you have no idea what is stored on your machine. It could be human rights info, it could be copyright material, it could be very illegal pornography. You just don't know
And regardless of if you know or not, you're still responsible, legally and/or criminally.
I personally wouldnt touch freenet with a 10 foot pole because of this. How would you like to have your home raided at 3 AM because NAMBLA is now hosting its web forums on your PC?
You can be arrested and charged for posessing child porn. I knew a guy online who was in the military, and ran a ftp server from his home. People would basically come and go trading files, mostly porn pics.
Someone stuck a bunch of kiddie porn on the site, and the short story is he's serving 5 years in military prison, and the fact that he had no idea that it was there didn't make a difference.
The same thing would happen to you if you let some friend store a bunch of his boxes in your garage, and they were full of child porn.
Now, since freenet distributes all of the "published" stuff across everyone elses machines basically, are you criminially responsible if someones kiddie porn is partially stored on your hard drive?
The answer is probably yes, though IANAL.
How can individual users claim that they have no responsiblity for what's being served by their machines?
+5 insightful
some guy likes how OSX looks more than WindowsXP
Who cares?
It's completely subjective. Personally I dont, and never have, cared for the way MacOS "looks". It has a Fisher-Price quality that annoys me. Does it make it less of an OS? No, it's just an opinion.
No wonder OSS desktops are lightyears away. Everyone bickering over what color to make the menu options, and not what functionality it needs to have.
1) A very usable, nice-looking GUI
2) All the functionality of Unix/Linux
Those two are mutually exclusive, hence the problem getting a desktop linux machine out of the stone ages.
Do you make a checkbox for every obscure command line parameter or configuration file setting?
It's hard to make a simple interface for a complicated app. What linux needs is a good set of simple apps, and a simple intuitive interface to them.
The latest linux kernels have http acceleration built in to the kernel, which at least partially has apache ceding serving of static pages to a kernel function.
So you're right. Running a webserver in kernel space sure is a monumentally stupid idea.
I mean your wrong because linux is doing it.
I mean your right because microsoft is doing it.
I mean
OMG its the singularity.
OS's are just tools. So are people who obsess over them.
o/t but check out this incredibly intelligent and insightful article on CNN.
File-sharing sites allow trading of porn
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The same technology used to download music from file-sharing sites makes it possible to trade pornography, tech experts testified at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday
-----
Who says the government doesnt have my best interests in mind?
My tax dollars at work. Now I can get porn on KaZaa, too.
Ok, consider first that I'm not a hardcore audiophile, and neither are most.
Once I got positional audio by way of the Live! series, what motivation is left to upgrade?
I mean I get positional audio and EAX in my games, I get surround sound in my movies. I rip/encode/playback my MP3s. I dont lose CPU time to the audio system, or deal with the setup hell that existed back in the ISA cards era. My PC isnt a media jukebox or lined through a $10,000 stereo, just a 4 way speaker set.
Why would anyone upgrade past Live, if they weren't an audiophile demanding the very latest (and even then, why would they? Most true audio geeks I know run 10 year old equipment).
I mean what breakthrough technologies have been developed? Two more speaker channels?
It's not like video cards. When Doom 3 comes out, and doesnt run on my computer, I can guarantee it will be because of the old Radeon card, not my SB Live.
So, really, what's been added to these things? Are there any good arguments to upgrade?
As soon as you read "Linux outperforms windows" or "windows outperforms linux" or "PS2 is cooler than xbox", you should realize you're reading biased and completely subjective opinions, and not facts.
Anyone with half a clue about what they're talking about would never make such an asinine statement.
Zealotry and misinformation will keep linux in obscure corners and backrooms, and off of the desktop.
String cables.
Wireless stuff is all a big fad that'll end as soon as its proven how much cancer it causes.
Wires and cables are where it's at.