You forgot something:) p2p programs like kazza Try logging all of those? Or.. email? or usenet? I think I've made my point:)
The proper way to filter access is to deny everything and allow only individual exemptions. Make them come to you and justify the reason why they need access to a website or need to be able to e-mail a certain individual. They are your children and you have the responsibility to ensure what they're doing is in line with your rules. End of story. I know that sounds harsh to liberal slashdotters, but it's the only way you're going to keep them from getting involved in screwed up things like porn and drugs.
"And Red Hat will offer more expensive but still discounted options for schools that want Red Hat technical support."
Debian countered the Red Hat and SuSE announcements with a press release of their own saying that Debian will continue to offer a completely free Linux distribution to academic users so they can avoid the "pompous greedy sods" at those other two companies.
While I don't have the X1 yet (still waiting for a few bonuses and such), I have put a good amount of research into it. The bulb is rated for 3,000 hours, and goes for $300.
I bought an X1 over the summer and have been satisfied with it. The only complaint I have is a bit of rainbow effect from the slow spinning color-wheel on dark action sequences (I see this a bit in the Matrix and Spider-man). Otherwise it's great. I went into it with the expectation that it was just a step up from my 32" TV for watching DVDs so it's been fantastic. It's not going to beat a high end $5000 projector, but I'd take it over a 65" HDTV if given the choice. Hell, I project my movies onto an off-white wall without a screen and it looks fine to me.
I've only used it for about 19 hours of bulb life so far (I ONLY watch movies on it so far, no TV since I don't have an extra digital cable box) so I imagine my 3000 hour bulb, even if it only lasts 1000 hours, will be just fine for me for years to come. Check out avsforum.com before you make any decisions though. They have a LOT of comments on various projects under $5000 and how well they rate in real world users' perspectives. IMHO though the X1 is a great value for a budget projector. It's not going to beat any $5000 projector, but it's not even in the same league as people who spend $25k refurbishing their basements to build a real theater.
Don't post if you dont understand, jesus. All versions of redhat are free software, open source, publically available, get it? All you pay for is *support*.
You didn't even read the FAQ you included did you? Point me to the ISOs of RHEL 3 please. Point me to the disk images so I can FTP install it even. No? Oh right, I can download the GPL'd source RPMs to satisfy that technicality of including GPL'd software in their otherwise closed-source proprietary distribution. Building all the source RPMs will not give you RHEL so why even bother to assert that "All versions of redhat are free software, open source, publically available" when they are not?
They could try, but they'd have to start over from scratch if they used the GPL, for example. At any rate, once they started charging, the source would be out there, and the community could continue development.
Tell that to Red Hat. For example, their AMD64 workstation distribution is $792. I don't know what they're smoking...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS? From where, a warez site? You can download it for $179 from Red Hat. I'm not referring to Red Hat Linux 9 since they've killed that product. Anyone stupid enough to deploy that in a new installation deserves whatever they get since there will be no new patches released after April 2004.
Strange I thought Redhat had just abandoned the desktop. If Redhat are going to push Linux out of the back office, where are they going to push it too?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS I would imagine. They abandoned the free desktop version, not their overpriced enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat finally woke up and realized, no matter how much you try, you're not going to successful selling nothing but support for an otherwise free product. That's where the GNU model is flawed unfortunately. Writing books and offering tech support will not be enough to satisfy today's stock holders. That's also the problem with using a public company's open source product. Today they can be your friend, but tomorrow the stockholders could vote to charge you $699 for the same product.
Interesting. I was testing my suspicion about odd moderation going on and it seems justified. After this (obviously Godwin-invoking) post, 3 of my other previously high ranking relevent posts from earlier in the week suddenly were randomly moderated down as trolls. Is this an automatic Slashdot "feature" or just some zealot going back through the queue and unleashing his wrath on people speaking unkindly of Nazis? Get over it man, Nazis suck ass.
And while T-Online is the biggest online provider of Europe it is largely unknown outside of Europe, thus buying AOL would make sense to some people because T-Online likes to expand and conquer markets outside of Europe.
Figures, they're a German company. The founder's father was probably a high ranking SS Officer in Hitler's personal guard.
I believe you remember wrong. I seem to recall CDE (SunOS) using a taskbar years before 95 was released. 95 just released it to the PC masses, and Microsoft was NOT the innovator of the taskbar.
Hell, they didn't even do that. OS/2 Warp 3 had a taskbar when it was released in 1994. Yes, they probably borrowed the idea from CDE, but Windows95 definitely didn't "innovate" anything in that area. Hell, Microsoft has NEVER innovated any part of the computing world. They're rancid parasites who feed off the ideas of others and pervert it into their own product for personal financial gain. Can anyone name one useful feature that Microsoft has invented that wasn't prior art on some other platform?
Soon pop-up ad companies will be hiring lawyers to attack Microsoft for blocking ads...
No, the ad companies will just go on to more intrusive advertising, like full page click-through ads like on some sites. This is actually a bad thing since IE's idiot customer base was actually still generating some decent revenue for the popup spammers. Now once that dwindles off they'll need to find new and more annoying ways of advertising. Full screen Java commercials anyone? Yes, I know, shut off Java/Javascript/Flash/animation, etc. We can all go back to HTML 1.0 and Lynx right?
This just came to me. What if Xbox is only a prelude to DRM based computing? What if the next Windows only accepts Signed Code, and will only run on DRM HW?
This *just* came to you? Did you just crawl out of your WWII bunker or something? Welcome to the 21st century, alas, no flying cars yet.:-)
Seriously though, this is definitely where computing is going and I can't necessarily say it's a bad thing. Viruses won't get very far if they have to be signed by a trusted authority before they're physically capable of running on your hardware. On the other hand, the days of compiling your own source code and running the resulting binaries is probably nearing an end if the trusted computing platform people have their say in it. Unless there's a setting to disable this I'd say open source computing is destined to die off.
I wouldn't worry too much though since as long as the Asian computer companies exist there'll be suppliers for hardware to satisfy our requirements for non-DRM capabilities.
Say I vote for X, and someone has compromised the system that wants Y to win. So my vote is registered for Y, both in the database and in the printout. How do I, the voter at home, know this has happened?
How do you know the volunteers at the local elementary school don't take the ballot box full of punch cards out back and toss them into the incinerator? You don't.
An even bigger concern I see with it is auditability. There's no paper trail, how can you verify that your vote was counted correctly? If someone cracks their database and changes the results, how would you even know?
I've got an old Epson dot-matrix printer and a couple boxes of 5000 sheets of perforated paper I could contribute to the election if anyone's interested. There's no reason the interface couldn't be printing out the results in realtime on paper at the same time they're written to a database. Why does this have to be so complex? If the database is suspect then simply examine the printout to find the discrepencies.
Ooh. Maybe I'm missing something because I'm only using it on Windows
There isn't really any reason to anymore since you can get iTunes for Windows. Granted, it sucks and seems to take far too much background processor time so I had to kill it off, but it's available.
Maybe, but i'm convinced it is this EXACT same thing that drives people to hack in counter-strike.
No, being a loser with a low self-esteem drives people to hack. I'll never understand people who feel they need to cheat in an online game to feel superior. It's like the epitome of being a complete dork.
What is this "respawn" thing you speak of? Multiplayer online games would be a lot better without players respawning in the same round they die in. Take Counter-Strike. *Excellent* model. You get shot, you're dead until the end of the round. With other games, you get shot, you die, you wait 20 seconds, you respawn, you run back you kill someone in a suicidal move, you die and they die, you wait 20 seconds, you respawn, you run back, etc. Lame. It cheapens the value of your character's life by giving you no real incentive to not get shot.
There are alternatives to lengthy contracts, such as prepaid accounts.
And there are alternatives for people who need a phone for a short period: Renting.
But what about those of us who need untraceable throw-away phones for conducting our illegal terrorist activities? Before we had to rely on cloned cell phones, but with this new technology we may step up to legitimacy!
- yes, joking, not a terrorist, honest, don't even know how to fly.
In all honesty, I'd have to wonder whether the collection of local sales taxes from companies with no physical presence in a state would be able to stand on constitutional grounds - it sounds dangerously similar to state/local governments 'interfering with interstate trade' if you ask me.
My state, Ohio, gets around it by calling it a "Use Tax". For example, if I buy something in one county that has a 5% sales tax and I live in a county that has 8% sales tax, I must pay a 3% Use tax to the state to make up the difference. If I buy something from California I must pay the full 8% Use tax since I'm using it in my county in Ohio.
Don't ask me, it doesn't make any sense to me either. It's just damn lucky I've never ever ever bought anything online from out of state or in another county so I haven't had to declare any Use tax on my tax return.:-P
So that means that they can charge 5c for an incoming email if they wanted to?
Look, I used to say it all the time to our customers when I used to work tech support in 1996: "Don't be silly, there's no such thing as an e-mail virus. It's just text and you'd have to have some kind of broken client that attempted to execute the text. It's just another hoax like the modem tax."
I blame Microsoft for Internet taxation when (not if) we get it.;-)
It's been like that for a few years already with the earpiece cellphone speakers?
Not just earpiece cellphones, but even my landline phone headset at work (easier to type with a headset). I love when people just come in and start talking to you. You try to ignore them thinking maybe they'll get the farking point, but they keep going on and on for minutes. Until you look at them like they're a moron, point to the obvious headset and shoo them away. What, do they think I'm Judy the Time Life operator just sitting around all day with a headset on. I'm farking talking on the god damn phone (or a telecon). Now I get to hold my finger in my ear all day? I'll just stick to a bluetooth headset instead, thanks anyway Japs.
I guess it's mainly because ad are often obstrusive : they open a new window, or they don't fit well in the page were they are (for example : 50% of the page), or because they were at first used a lot on x websites (espacially : pop-ups).
Making ads obtrusive is the whole point of the advertiser. Unfortunately it also flies in the face of what the user will accept. In 1995 when banner ads were just starting to trickle onto pages they were pretty tame. Maybe one static banner image at the top of a screen advertising something and generating some revenue for the site. Now it's a full blown business with god damn annoying flash animation and animated GIFs practically inducing seizures in people to get your attention. Popup ads, full page click through ads, stupid activex or java ads that have shit scrolling across your screen like cars or people running (this is REALLY annoying).
Internet advertising is MORE annoying than the commercially acceptable level on television because television has usually not been as in-your-face. I don't have a scrolling banner ad at the top of the screen while watching Law and Order, although I'm sure this isn't too far off since SpikeTV does this a lot with huge graphics in the lower corners that cover up large parts of the show. They're striving to annoy consumers though by increasing time per half hour spent in consumers though. I'm starting to wonder why I bother watching a half hour show for 20 minutes of content. It's much more productive to record it and skip commercials later. And they wonder why they're losing viewers for commercials?
For me, I've just resorted to using Mozilla, blocking all popups, turning off animated images, using adblock to block banner ads and flash, etc. Generally this has increased my enjoyability of the Internet tenfold. I simply cannot concentrate and read content on a site with 10-20 banner ads constantly blipping and blinking to get my attention. Try going to Fark sometime for an example of how to annoy your users with horrible advertising.
I know, you'll say I can always sign up for a Slashdot subscription or TotalFark account to disable the ads, but I resent needing to maintain yet another monthly collection of bills I have to worry about keeping paid. It's a hassle. ISP, Water, Gas, Electricity, Mortgage, Car, Telephone, etc., etc. Why add to it Fark membership, Slashdot subscription, CNN subscription, New York Times subscription, Yahoo subscription, etc.?
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The proper way to filter access is to deny everything and allow only individual exemptions. Make them come to you and justify the reason why they need access to a website or need to be able to e-mail a certain individual. They are your children and you have the responsibility to ensure what they're doing is in line with your rules. End of story. I know that sounds harsh to liberal slashdotters, but it's the only way you're going to keep them from getting involved in screwed up things like porn and drugs.
Debian countered the Red Hat and SuSE announcements with a press release of their own saying that Debian will continue to offer a completely free Linux distribution to academic users so they can avoid the "pompous greedy sods" at those other two companies.
I bought an X1 over the summer and have been satisfied with it. The only complaint I have is a bit of rainbow effect from the slow spinning color-wheel on dark action sequences (I see this a bit in the Matrix and Spider-man). Otherwise it's great. I went into it with the expectation that it was just a step up from my 32" TV for watching DVDs so it's been fantastic. It's not going to beat a high end $5000 projector, but I'd take it over a 65" HDTV if given the choice. Hell, I project my movies onto an off-white wall without a screen and it looks fine to me.
I've only used it for about 19 hours of bulb life so far (I ONLY watch movies on it so far, no TV since I don't have an extra digital cable box) so I imagine my 3000 hour bulb, even if it only lasts 1000 hours, will be just fine for me for years to come. Check out avsforum.com before you make any decisions though. They have a LOT of comments on various projects under $5000 and how well they rate in real world users' perspectives. IMHO though the X1 is a great value for a budget projector. It's not going to beat any $5000 projector, but it's not even in the same league as people who spend $25k refurbishing their basements to build a real theater.
You didn't even read the FAQ you included did you? Point me to the ISOs of RHEL 3 please. Point me to the disk images so I can FTP install it even. No? Oh right, I can download the GPL'd source RPMs to satisfy that technicality of including GPL'd software in their otherwise closed-source proprietary distribution. Building all the source RPMs will not give you RHEL so why even bother to assert that "All versions of redhat are free software, open source, publically available" when they are not?
Tell that to Red Hat. For example, their AMD64 workstation distribution is $792. I don't know what they're smoking...
Goodbye.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS? From where, a warez site? You can download it for $179 from Red Hat. I'm not referring to Red Hat Linux 9 since they've killed that product. Anyone stupid enough to deploy that in a new installation deserves whatever they get since there will be no new patches released after April 2004.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS I would imagine. They abandoned the free desktop version, not their overpriced enterprise Linux distribution. Red Hat finally woke up and realized, no matter how much you try, you're not going to successful selling nothing but support for an otherwise free product. That's where the GNU model is flawed unfortunately. Writing books and offering tech support will not be enough to satisfy today's stock holders. That's also the problem with using a public company's open source product. Today they can be your friend, but tomorrow the stockholders could vote to charge you $699 for the same product.
Interesting. I was testing my suspicion about odd moderation going on and it seems justified. After this (obviously Godwin-invoking) post, 3 of my other previously high ranking relevent posts from earlier in the week suddenly were randomly moderated down as trolls. Is this an automatic Slashdot "feature" or just some zealot going back through the queue and unleashing his wrath on people speaking unkindly of Nazis? Get over it man, Nazis suck ass.
Figures, they're a German company. The founder's father was probably a high ranking SS Officer in Hitler's personal guard.
Hell, they didn't even do that. OS/2 Warp 3 had a taskbar when it was released in 1994. Yes, they probably borrowed the idea from CDE, but Windows95 definitely didn't "innovate" anything in that area. Hell, Microsoft has NEVER innovated any part of the computing world. They're rancid parasites who feed off the ideas of others and pervert it into their own product for personal financial gain. Can anyone name one useful feature that Microsoft has invented that wasn't prior art on some other platform?
No, the ad companies will just go on to more intrusive advertising, like full page click-through ads like on some sites. This is actually a bad thing since IE's idiot customer base was actually still generating some decent revenue for the popup spammers. Now once that dwindles off they'll need to find new and more annoying ways of advertising. Full screen Java commercials anyone? Yes, I know, shut off Java/Javascript/Flash/animation, etc. We can all go back to HTML 1.0 and Lynx right?
Buy? I think you mean lease all your software from MS. :-) Much more profitable for them if they have a guarenteed annual income from you.
This *just* came to you? Did you just crawl out of your WWII bunker or something? Welcome to the 21st century, alas, no flying cars yet. :-)
Seriously though, this is definitely where computing is going and I can't necessarily say it's a bad thing. Viruses won't get very far if they have to be signed by a trusted authority before they're physically capable of running on your hardware. On the other hand, the days of compiling your own source code and running the resulting binaries is probably nearing an end if the trusted computing platform people have their say in it. Unless there's a setting to disable this I'd say open source computing is destined to die off.
I wouldn't worry too much though since as long as the Asian computer companies exist there'll be suppliers for hardware to satisfy our requirements for non-DRM capabilities.
And here's the text summary from the researcher:
Stop using P2P clients you fscking pirates, you're wasting all my pr0n bandwidth at the university.
How do you know the volunteers at the local elementary school don't take the ballot box full of punch cards out back and toss them into the incinerator? You don't.
I've got an old Epson dot-matrix printer and a couple boxes of 5000 sheets of perforated paper I could contribute to the election if anyone's interested. There's no reason the interface couldn't be printing out the results in realtime on paper at the same time they're written to a database. Why does this have to be so complex? If the database is suspect then simply examine the printout to find the discrepencies.
There isn't really any reason to anymore since you can get iTunes for Windows. Granted, it sucks and seems to take far too much background processor time so I had to kill it off, but it's available.
No, being a loser with a low self-esteem drives people to hack. I'll never understand people who feel they need to cheat in an online game to feel superior. It's like the epitome of being a complete dork.
What is this "respawn" thing you speak of? Multiplayer online games would be a lot better without players respawning in the same round they die in. Take Counter-Strike. *Excellent* model. You get shot, you're dead until the end of the round. With other games, you get shot, you die, you wait 20 seconds, you respawn, you run back you kill someone in a suicidal move, you die and they die, you wait 20 seconds, you respawn, you run back, etc. Lame. It cheapens the value of your character's life by giving you no real incentive to not get shot.
And there are alternatives for people who need a phone for a short period: Renting.
But what about those of us who need untraceable throw-away phones for conducting our illegal terrorist activities? Before we had to rely on cloned cell phones, but with this new technology we may step up to legitimacy!
- yes, joking, not a terrorist, honest, don't even know how to fly.
My state, Ohio, gets around it by calling it a "Use Tax". For example, if I buy something in one county that has a 5% sales tax and I live in a county that has 8% sales tax, I must pay a 3% Use tax to the state to make up the difference. If I buy something from California I must pay the full 8% Use tax since I'm using it in my county in Ohio.
Don't ask me, it doesn't make any sense to me either. It's just damn lucky I've never ever ever bought anything online from out of state or in another county so I haven't had to declare any Use tax on my tax return. :-P
Look, I used to say it all the time to our customers when I used to work tech support in 1996: "Don't be silly, there's no such thing as an e-mail virus. It's just text and you'd have to have some kind of broken client that attempted to execute the text. It's just another hoax like the modem tax."
I blame Microsoft for Internet taxation when (not if) we get it. ;-)
Not just earpiece cellphones, but even my landline phone headset at work (easier to type with a headset). I love when people just come in and start talking to you. You try to ignore them thinking maybe they'll get the farking point, but they keep going on and on for minutes. Until you look at them like they're a moron, point to the obvious headset and shoo them away. What, do they think I'm Judy the Time Life operator just sitting around all day with a headset on. I'm farking talking on the god damn phone (or a telecon). Now I get to hold my finger in my ear all day? I'll just stick to a bluetooth headset instead, thanks anyway Japs.
Making ads obtrusive is the whole point of the advertiser. Unfortunately it also flies in the face of what the user will accept. In 1995 when banner ads were just starting to trickle onto pages they were pretty tame. Maybe one static banner image at the top of a screen advertising something and generating some revenue for the site. Now it's a full blown business with god damn annoying flash animation and animated GIFs practically inducing seizures in people to get your attention. Popup ads, full page click through ads, stupid activex or java ads that have shit scrolling across your screen like cars or people running (this is REALLY annoying).
Internet advertising is MORE annoying than the commercially acceptable level on television because television has usually not been as in-your-face. I don't have a scrolling banner ad at the top of the screen while watching Law and Order, although I'm sure this isn't too far off since SpikeTV does this a lot with huge graphics in the lower corners that cover up large parts of the show. They're striving to annoy consumers though by increasing time per half hour spent in consumers though. I'm starting to wonder why I bother watching a half hour show for 20 minutes of content. It's much more productive to record it and skip commercials later. And they wonder why they're losing viewers for commercials?
For me, I've just resorted to using Mozilla, blocking all popups, turning off animated images, using adblock to block banner ads and flash, etc. Generally this has increased my enjoyability of the Internet tenfold. I simply cannot concentrate and read content on a site with 10-20 banner ads constantly blipping and blinking to get my attention. Try going to Fark sometime for an example of how to annoy your users with horrible advertising.
I know, you'll say I can always sign up for a Slashdot subscription or TotalFark account to disable the ads, but I resent needing to maintain yet another monthly collection of bills I have to worry about keeping paid. It's a hassle. ISP, Water, Gas, Electricity, Mortgage, Car, Telephone, etc., etc. Why add to it Fark membership, Slashdot subscription, CNN subscription, New York Times subscription, Yahoo subscription, etc.?
1. Write virus that causes billions of dollars in damage.
2. ??
3. Profit!!!
Microsoft just revealed step 2 as "Turn in your accomplice, get immunity and $250k".