Finally some big-time artists are deciding to bypass the obsolete middleman (RIAA) which gets most of the revenue from CD sales.
Yea, but read what you said. They wouldn't be "big-time" artists if they HADN'T gone through the "obsolete middlemen" in the first place. They'd still be smoking dope playing to garage band size audiences in some crappy venue in a bar in Indiana or something. Seems like the only bands that do things like this are RIAA success stories who have a swollen head and think they are actually talented. The RIAA made these groups and the RIAA can break them. Do not fuck with multinational corporate conglomerates or they will ruin your day people!
Though if they were smart (history perhaps hints otherwise... but hypothetically) they could do alot of good by going against RedHat's 'unification' of window managers which seems to be a generally unpopular move.
Unpopular with whom? I think it's a fantastic move on Red Hat's part to try and provide a common desktop experience for their users no matter which interface they need to use. Apple and Microsoft are both widely popular for exactly this reason and dwarf all other Linux distributions combined in terms of ease of use and a well integrated desktop environment.
Of course, when you're talking about power supplies that's another story. As long as you NEVER shut them off they may run forever, but a couple power cycles on an old power supply and it may never start again (usually after a loud bang-pop noise). We had many FDDI concentrators that were under ten years old that you knew if you lost power you needed to replace the power supply on them when power was restored. It was just a given. Course, maybe they were just crap.:-)
Click the Windows Update button and reboot and you're fixed. Or if you're like many people, the fix has already installed during an automatic update check last night. This isn't really news unless Slashdot is merging with Bugtraq (Slashtraq? Bugdot?). Are we just posting this to bash Microsoft once again? Automatic updates were one of the best new features they added to Windows and they make life much easier. Oh and no, I don't wrap tinfoil around my head worrying whether Microsoft is going to invade my PC and lock me out of it.
So why are the Arnold Terminators the only ones these futuristic nimrods can capture and reprogram? How about a black female Terminator coming back to save John Conner next time. Maybe Oprah could play the part. As for the female terminator, I hope her breasts are missile launchers like Aphrodite X in Tranzor Z. Otherwise, what is the point, they're just obstructions and are not logical to have on a cyborg.
Bah, forget it. Stupid web cache had the old teaser cached at that address. The new trailer doesn't look much better though. Skynet never gets built, terminators can never happen, this movie should not be released. Period. If you want to make it Terminator 1.5 fine. Have her come back and try to kill Sarah Conner, but Skynet is gone after they destroyed it years earlier. Also, that reminds me, wasn't the LAST movie grasping at straws on sending back a liquid metal guy? I thought in the original movie the only way the terminators could time travel was because they were covered in an organic skin which is why they showed up naked. Naked metal guy didn't have skin, but metal. Why could he travel in time while an arnold without skin couldn't? If they can send machines back in time, why not send 300 terminators back or a big atomic bomb to destroy the city where John Conner lives. Duh.
Did you just watch a different trailer than I did? All I saw was the Warner Brothers logo for 8 seconds, then it turned into liquid metal and dripped onto the ground, then reformed into a big block that said T3. That was it. Where is the buxom chick in the red skintight outfit or Arnold or an army of terminators? I didn't see shit.
A probe that wanders away isn't really very useful, unless perhaps somebody picks it up and sends it home or comes to visit.
This happened in the fictional NASA documentary entitled "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". It was a telltale look at the future of interstellar space travel and the consequences of blindly sending out probes without any hope of ever getting them back. Eventually NASA fears that one day a powerful alien civilization will come along and destroy us.
Because my want to play COMPLETELY LEGAL DVDs under Linux is the reason for your bad ping times.
There's no legal DVD player for Linux? There's gotta be some company that licensed the technology correctly and sells a DVD player for Linux. If not, just reboot to Windows and use the DVD player that comes with Windows2000. Or *gasp* go buy one of those cheapy $50 DVD players from Best Buy and hook it up to that big box we like to call a television. The only reason people are using watching DVDs under Linux as an excuse is because they're grapsing at straws. There are plenty of other ways to watch DVDs from standalone players to Xboxs and PS2's, Macs, Windows boxes, etc. If you're really insistent then just download the Linux libraries and codecs to play it. You know you can. The MPAA isn't going to bust down your door for watching a legally bought DVD under Linux with a hacked player as much as you crazy people would like to believe they would.
After all, that's so much easier for their egos to handle than admitting they have a fucked up business model and are not responsive to their customers.
Just out of curiosity, I hear this a lot. What is the RIAA or MPAA's "fucked up business model"? The fact that they spend a shitload of money fronting new unknown material with a low chance that it will become popular and successful enough that they can cover future risks like that to perpetuate the industry's talent base? Spend money to produce something, sell it, make money. How is that a fucked up business model? Should they spend money to produce music and movies and then give them away for free? THAT would definitely be a fucked up business model and we saw plenty of idiotic companies go quickly out of business utilizing that strategy during the Dot-Com era. Personally I think the RIAA and MPAA are doing an awesome job at protecting their business model in whatever way they can.
Why do you need a DVD player in your car? Are your kids so troublesome that they can't stand a pleasant 5-6 hour car ride without needing to watch movies or play video games? How sad. Give them some coloring books, or a novel depending on how old they are, and you'll be pleasantly suprised as they immerse themselves in quiet non-confrontational learning.
...and what was that industry claim, again, about how pirate DVD's are hurting the industry...and why anyone should care?
Are you really that stupid? Of course pirate DVDs are hurting the industry! Have you seen the utter shit they've been putting out recently? If they had had the money lost to the pirates they could've produced some good quality movies instead of the garbage cast upon us. Mr. Deeds was a personal "FUCK YOU" to the movie pirates of America for stealing from the MPAA. You spend a few hours downloading that piece of crap and end up deleting it since it's such a waste of space.
If it is true that the vulnerability is caused by a flaw in the input validation of a CGI (common gateway interface) script, and yet there is no workaround other than removing the Security Hardening Package, this implies that the CGI validation script (overflow.cgi) is not available for modification, so regardless of what license this is under, it's effectively not open source, otherwise there would be a workaround.
There are workarounds though including removing the offending package. This is NOT Solaris, it's just a Linux distribution on the Cobalt RaQ. In my honest opinion though I would no longer recommend a Cobalt RaQ to anyone anymore since Sun bought the company. They have gone downhill and patches take months to come out. We didn't get a patch for the Apache ROOT EXPLOIT for over 2 months! Thankfully there is a dedicated community that helps to support the product and there was a workaround using the mod_blowchunks, or you could recompile Apache yourself, but then why pay $4k for an appliance if you're compiling shit? I could just get a $500 x86 box and install Debian on it. Anyway, when it comes time to replace the raq4's I guess we'll just have to hack together scripts to do everything the RaQ did as far as GUI administration or maybe try one of those packages.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.....with guns.
Here is a short list of things people kill other people with that should also be banned:
baseball bats
hockey sticks
cars
knives
chemicals
cigarettes
sexually transmitted diseases
piano wire
ice picks
Please, for the love of God, register your knives and take a knife safety course!!! THEY ARE SHARP AND DANGEROUS!
Who says that Linux Gamers won't pay for games, nothing says that you can't have comercial software on Linux, Linux people are gamers too and Open Source games are never going to be as close as the $50.00 game you payed for in the store unless its a buggy, rushed out the publisher's door game, but thats another story.
No commercial game (or software for that matter) has ever been successfully sold because it "runs on Linux". The very rare number of commercial games that are available for Linux are there either because someone took an extreme risk to port them (Loki ported ancient games to Linux and we see where they are now.. out of business) or they ported already wildly successful or anticipated Windows games (Quake being the main one I can recall). Linux didn't even show up as a blip on the sales sheet for these games though. 98% of gamers are going to be running Windows so why bother supporting anything else? There's no benefit to it! Hell, Mac gamers can barely get decent game support and there's far more of them than there are Linux users.
Imagine if you were trapped by an earthquake under tonnes of microwave transparent material, and the only thing in your little coffin shaped cavity was your fully charged and still operational laptop. You fire up snort and find a wireless lan and then attempt to contact the admin...
Well, if you're going to use that argument then all businesses should have a cell phone antenna within the building to make sure you can call 911. That's silly.
Either that, or he was very serious about his poor performance as a student...
This is Slashdot afterall. It's usually very hard for someone to go to all the trouble of making a post and not have a single mispeling. Cut the guy some slack.
In six years they never thought to have a backup/redundant system in place in case of a failure like this?
What business keeps an entirely redundant network in place just IN CASE something like this happens? Networks take millions of dollars to build and you want them to spend twice as much on a network that'll just remain unused 99.999% of the time? Try justifying that to the financial people. Almost all problems are with individual components. It's fine to keep spares on hand for things like that, but keeping an entire redundant network is ludicrous.
If Spanning Tree is what brought them down, and it had campus wide effect, then they're running their production networks as one big flat layer 2 network.
Why do you assume that? Per-vlan spanning tree has been available for quite some time and works fine.
This is almost definitely the root of the problem. Modern network design would divide the campus (and often individual buildings) into multiple subnets, using routing to get between nets.
Yep, and you still use spanning tree. Think multilayer switched networks and vlans not the antiquated central routers and a bunch of switches hanging off of it tying you to whatever subnet your switch happens to be uplinked to. These days you can move across the campus, plug into a completely seperate switch, have your port set automatically via policy manager, and keep working using the same IP address and subnet. You still use spanning tree for loop avoidance and redundancy with these multilayer switches though.
Are you talking about a different spanning tree protocol than I think you're talking about? Spanning tree is a very good thing to run to stop loops exactly like this. More than likely one of the hospital network techs misconfigured something and ended up disabling it (portfast on two access points linked into another switch accidently or a rogue switch?).
but the wise man saith, `Put all your eggs in the one basket and--watch that basket!'
This is why the American parts of the Internet backbone should be administered and maintained by the Department of Homeland Security or a division of it. We must ensure that terrorists do not take down this vital information super-highway. Who better than Tom Ridge? Corporations? I don't think so, they're part of the conspiracy!
Hmm, I wonder if this is why I got a message about needing to be registered to view a video of Michael Jackson hanging his baby over the ledge last week on CNN. I said "Ho hum" and went to foxnews.com instead where it was readily available. There's a beautiful thing about the Internet: choice.
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Yea, but read what you said. They wouldn't be "big-time" artists if they HADN'T gone through the "obsolete middlemen" in the first place. They'd still be smoking dope playing to garage band size audiences in some crappy venue in a bar in Indiana or something. Seems like the only bands that do things like this are RIAA success stories who have a swollen head and think they are actually talented. The RIAA made these groups and the RIAA can break them. Do not fuck with multinational corporate conglomerates or they will ruin your day people!
Unpopular with whom? I think it's a fantastic move on Red Hat's part to try and provide a common desktop experience for their users no matter which interface they need to use. Apple and Microsoft are both widely popular for exactly this reason and dwarf all other Linux distributions combined in terms of ease of use and a well integrated desktop environment.
Of course, when you're talking about power supplies that's another story. As long as you NEVER shut them off they may run forever, but a couple power cycles on an old power supply and it may never start again (usually after a loud bang-pop noise). We had many FDDI concentrators that were under ten years old that you knew if you lost power you needed to replace the power supply on them when power was restored. It was just a given. Course, maybe they were just crap. :-)
Click the Windows Update button and reboot and you're fixed. Or if you're like many people, the fix has already installed during an automatic update check last night. This isn't really news unless Slashdot is merging with Bugtraq (Slashtraq? Bugdot?). Are we just posting this to bash Microsoft once again? Automatic updates were one of the best new features they added to Windows and they make life much easier. Oh and no, I don't wrap tinfoil around my head worrying whether Microsoft is going to invade my PC and lock me out of it.
So why are the Arnold Terminators the only ones these futuristic nimrods can capture and reprogram? How about a black female Terminator coming back to save John Conner next time. Maybe Oprah could play the part. As for the female terminator, I hope her breasts are missile launchers like Aphrodite X in Tranzor Z. Otherwise, what is the point, they're just obstructions and are not logical to have on a cyborg.
Bah, forget it. Stupid web cache had the old teaser cached at that address. The new trailer doesn't look much better though. Skynet never gets built, terminators can never happen, this movie should not be released. Period. If you want to make it Terminator 1.5 fine. Have her come back and try to kill Sarah Conner, but Skynet is gone after they destroyed it years earlier. Also, that reminds me, wasn't the LAST movie grasping at straws on sending back a liquid metal guy? I thought in the original movie the only way the terminators could time travel was because they were covered in an organic skin which is why they showed up naked. Naked metal guy didn't have skin, but metal. Why could he travel in time while an arnold without skin couldn't? If they can send machines back in time, why not send 300 terminators back or a big atomic bomb to destroy the city where John Conner lives. Duh.
Did you just watch a different trailer than I did? All I saw was the Warner Brothers logo for 8 seconds, then it turned into liquid metal and dripped onto the ground, then reformed into a big block that said T3. That was it. Where is the buxom chick in the red skintight outfit or Arnold or an army of terminators? I didn't see shit.
In Soviet Russia, Fark cliches beat YOU to death! Watch out for Mustard Man and Nutsack Squirrel if you happen into a dark alley in Moscow.
This happened in the fictional NASA documentary entitled "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". It was a telltale look at the future of interstellar space travel and the consequences of blindly sending out probes without any hope of ever getting them back. Eventually NASA fears that one day a powerful alien civilization will come along and destroy us.
There's no legal DVD player for Linux? There's gotta be some company that licensed the technology correctly and sells a DVD player for Linux. If not, just reboot to Windows and use the DVD player that comes with Windows2000. Or *gasp* go buy one of those cheapy $50 DVD players from Best Buy and hook it up to that big box we like to call a television. The only reason people are using watching DVDs under Linux as an excuse is because they're grapsing at straws. There are plenty of other ways to watch DVDs from standalone players to Xboxs and PS2's, Macs, Windows boxes, etc. If you're really insistent then just download the Linux libraries and codecs to play it. You know you can. The MPAA isn't going to bust down your door for watching a legally bought DVD under Linux with a hacked player as much as you crazy people would like to believe they would.
Just out of curiosity, I hear this a lot. What is the RIAA or MPAA's "fucked up business model"? The fact that they spend a shitload of money fronting new unknown material with a low chance that it will become popular and successful enough that they can cover future risks like that to perpetuate the industry's talent base? Spend money to produce something, sell it, make money. How is that a fucked up business model? Should they spend money to produce music and movies and then give them away for free? THAT would definitely be a fucked up business model and we saw plenty of idiotic companies go quickly out of business utilizing that strategy during the Dot-Com era. Personally I think the RIAA and MPAA are doing an awesome job at protecting their business model in whatever way they can.
Why do you need a DVD player in your car? Are your kids so troublesome that they can't stand a pleasant 5-6 hour car ride without needing to watch movies or play video games? How sad. Give them some coloring books, or a novel depending on how old they are, and you'll be pleasantly suprised as they immerse themselves in quiet non-confrontational learning.
Are you really that stupid? Of course pirate DVDs are hurting the industry! Have you seen the utter shit they've been putting out recently? If they had had the money lost to the pirates they could've produced some good quality movies instead of the garbage cast upon us. Mr. Deeds was a personal "FUCK YOU" to the movie pirates of America for stealing from the MPAA. You spend a few hours downloading that piece of crap and end up deleting it since it's such a waste of space.
Whaaaaat? You didn't like the crashing of the Enterprise-D's saucer section (twice)?? That was fantastic!!
There are workarounds though including removing the offending package. This is NOT Solaris, it's just a Linux distribution on the Cobalt RaQ. In my honest opinion though I would no longer recommend a Cobalt RaQ to anyone anymore since Sun bought the company. They have gone downhill and patches take months to come out. We didn't get a patch for the Apache ROOT EXPLOIT for over 2 months! Thankfully there is a dedicated community that helps to support the product and there was a workaround using the mod_blowchunks, or you could recompile Apache yourself, but then why pay $4k for an appliance if you're compiling shit? I could just get a $500 x86 box and install Debian on it. Anyway, when it comes time to replace the raq4's I guess we'll just have to hack together scripts to do everything the RaQ did as far as GUI administration or maybe try one of those packages.
Here is a short list of things people kill other people with that should also be banned: baseball bats hockey sticks cars knives chemicals cigarettes sexually transmitted diseases piano wire ice picks Please, for the love of God, register your knives and take a knife safety course!!! THEY ARE SHARP AND DANGEROUS!
No commercial game (or software for that matter) has ever been successfully sold because it "runs on Linux". The very rare number of commercial games that are available for Linux are there either because someone took an extreme risk to port them (Loki ported ancient games to Linux and we see where they are now.. out of business) or they ported already wildly successful or anticipated Windows games (Quake being the main one I can recall). Linux didn't even show up as a blip on the sales sheet for these games though. 98% of gamers are going to be running Windows so why bother supporting anything else? There's no benefit to it! Hell, Mac gamers can barely get decent game support and there's far more of them than there are Linux users.
Well, if you're going to use that argument then all businesses should have a cell phone antenna within the building to make sure you can call 911. That's silly.
This is Slashdot afterall. It's usually very hard for someone to go to all the trouble of making a post and not have a single mispeling. Cut the guy some slack.
And Microsoft solutions are free, run themselves for free, and require no administrators? What color is the sky in your world?
What business keeps an entirely redundant network in place just IN CASE something like this happens? Networks take millions of dollars to build and you want them to spend twice as much on a network that'll just remain unused 99.999% of the time? Try justifying that to the financial people. Almost all problems are with individual components. It's fine to keep spares on hand for things like that, but keeping an entire redundant network is ludicrous.
Why do you assume that? Per-vlan spanning tree has been available for quite some time and works fine. This is almost definitely the root of the problem. Modern network design would divide the campus (and often individual buildings) into multiple subnets, using routing to get between nets.
Yep, and you still use spanning tree. Think multilayer switched networks and vlans not the antiquated central routers and a bunch of switches hanging off of it tying you to whatever subnet your switch happens to be uplinked to. These days you can move across the campus, plug into a completely seperate switch, have your port set automatically via policy manager, and keep working using the same IP address and subnet. You still use spanning tree for loop avoidance and redundancy with these multilayer switches though.
Are you talking about a different spanning tree protocol than I think you're talking about? Spanning tree is a very good thing to run to stop loops exactly like this. More than likely one of the hospital network techs misconfigured something and ended up disabling it (portfast on two access points linked into another switch accidently or a rogue switch?).
This is why the American parts of the Internet backbone should be administered and maintained by the Department of Homeland Security or a division of it. We must ensure that terrorists do not take down this vital information super-highway. Who better than Tom Ridge? Corporations? I don't think so, they're part of the conspiracy!
Hmm, I wonder if this is why I got a message about needing to be registered to view a video of Michael Jackson hanging his baby over the ledge last week on CNN. I said "Ho hum" and went to foxnews.com instead where it was readily available. There's a beautiful thing about the Internet: choice.