they will win an election in the near future. And it will be a good thing, because they will mess things up so badly that they wont gain support in the future, and in the meantime things will finally be fixed without going to either extreme....
Short of a bloody revolution in the streets, there's very little chance of that happening. There's just too much corporate money and corporate power behind the DMCA and other laws for the common man fight.
It's a shame really. We'd have a viable alternative energy source if we could just harness the kinetic energy of our founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
I would think that a man who'd seen combat, in all its ugliness, served honorably, and then returned to civilian life and spoke truth to power about the horrors of war would be less likely to mislead the country into unnecessary war.
Yep, I saw a quote the other day that sums things up rather succinctly...
"Two dozen people running the Iraq war from the White House and, outside of signing execution orders, the only one to ever kill a man is Bush's fucking wife."
...What did he do instead? What would *you* have done? Just sat there?...
Thats what I tend to ask people:
On the morning of September 11, 2001; the moment you heard that planes had been flown into the World Trade Center in NYC, did you stop what you were doing?
If so, you did more than the President of the United States did.
If I interview 20 people and 6 of them agree with me and I only use those 6 to support my point of view even though 14 disagreed then did I represent "fact"?
Why not? Microsoft does it all the time and people take it as fact. US News media does it all the time and people take it as fact. Marketing people do this all the time and people take it as fact.
Did you get this from Fedora or a 3rd party? Since Fedora won't even support read-only for NTFS or MP3 playback out of the box, what makes you expect they'd _ever_ release anything that'll play encrypted DVD's? For something like that, you'd need to go to someplace like Freshrpms and get the libdvd* packages.
C'mon - this is slashdot - you're _supposed_ to be a nerd and know this shit.
Apparently Redhat/Fedora considers using floppies to install passe or something. They offer no install methods other than cdrom or usb pen drive - no floppy images are included. So much for trying this out on my laptop that has no cdrom:(
And nearly all of the functionality that Linux has depends on third party software that just so happens to come on a couple CDs, instead of being downloaded... But hey, you guys like CDs so much, maybe the sysadmin could just hand everyone a Windows CD and two or three extra CDs with all the third party software they need. Same net effect as what you're getting with Linux distros.
Except for the fact that those Linux vendors actually provide support those apps... Microsoft barely supports their own apps.
Honestly, it tends to go more like this... [langa] I bought a Linux distribution and my soundcard doesn't work, what can I do? [LiNuXRlz] Which distro? [langa] Mandrake [LiNuXRlz] which version? [langa] I dunno [LiNuXRlz] you can find out by looking at the box or opening a terminal (usually konsole in your menu system) and using this command: cat/etc/issue [Ianga] Ok, it's 9.2 [LiNuXRlz] ok, do you know what kernel is used? [langa] I dunno [LiNuXRlz] back at that terminal, do this: uname -r [langa] it says Linux 2.4.22mdk [LiNuXRlz] Ok good, what sound card are you using? [langa] I dunno, some old thing I had in a drawer [LiNuXRlz] PCI or ISA? [langa] I dunno [LiNuXRlz] Ok...
And YES, this is fairly typical - ask anyone who's spent any time helping out in an irc channel. It's amazing sometimes how little is known to some about their computers, yet expect them to "magically work". People are fond of using the car analogies when it comes to computers - but how would you expect a car to work when you pulled some dsitributor cap out of a drawer somewhere - and didn't even know what it was made for - and expect it to work?
And yes... there's plenty of RTFM attitude out there - but in 99% of the cases, you'd find that it's because the particular user hasn't even bothered to try _anything_ on their own - and you can almost always tell they haven't.
>If he would've reported it to the vendor (in this case Microsoft), it wouldn't have been 'a known hole', but to the Microsoft developers. They would've came up with a patch...
>did anybody notice how suspiciously like one of Leonardo Divinci's drawings this thing is?
No, but did I notice that the linked picture looks like it was made with MS paint with those cheezy ass voice balloons. You'd think with all the $$ Epson charges for ink that they'd be able to afford a copy of Photoshop or something;-)
>you're overlooking the fact that they are fixing it, per the customer demands.
Bullshit. They're fixing it because they got caught scamming people, made some lame excuses, attempted to justify their abhorrable behavior, and now they're trying desperately to save face. The _only_ reason they're fixing it is because they got caught.
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And the saddest part is... kids to today are LESS educated than they were in generl before forced schooling. Need proof of that? Take a look at the popular literature and best sellers lists from 100-125 years ago. Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come to mind immediately. Most kids today could barely handle the ABRIDGED versions of those now _classics_, yet the everyone from the "country mice" to the "city mice" were reading the UNABRIDGED versions as their favorite literature.
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they will win an election in the near future. And it will be a good thing, because they will mess things up so badly that they wont gain support in the future, and in the meantime things will finally be fixed without going to either extreme....
:o/
yeah, we said that here in the USA too
just came in his own pants.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
Assholes.
Short of a bloody revolution in the streets, there's very little chance of that happening. There's just too much corporate money and corporate power behind the DMCA and other laws for the common man fight.
It's a shame really. We'd have a viable alternative energy source if we could just harness the kinetic energy of our founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
I would think that a man who'd seen combat, in all its ugliness, served honorably, and then returned to civilian life and spoke truth to power about the horrors of war would be less likely to mislead the country into unnecessary war.
Yep, I saw a quote the other day that sums things up rather succinctly...
"Two dozen people running the Iraq war from the White House and, outside of signing execution orders, the only one to ever kill a man is Bush's fucking wife."
...What did he do instead? What would *you* have done? Just sat there?...
Thats what I tend to ask people:
On the morning of September 11, 2001; the moment you heard that planes had been flown into the World Trade Center in NYC, did you stop what you were doing?
If so, you did more than the President of the United States did.
If I interview 20 people and 6 of them agree with me and I only use those 6 to support my point of view even though 14 disagreed then did I represent "fact"?
Why not?
Microsoft does it all the time and people take it as fact.
US News media does it all the time and people take it as fact.
Marketing people do this all the time and people take it as fact.
yeah, but since when to corporations have to contend with the same laws that citizens do?
where there's a dollar to be made, there's a senator that can be bought...
Everyone remember what a hit the Barbie PC was?
Yes... yes I do.
Did you get this from Fedora or a 3rd party?
Since Fedora won't even support read-only for NTFS or MP3 playback out of the box, what makes you expect they'd _ever_ release anything that'll play encrypted DVD's? For something like that, you'd need to go to someplace like Freshrpms and get the libdvd* packages.
C'mon - this is slashdot - you're _supposed_ to be a nerd and know this shit.
How To Destroy Your Computer, a step by step guide.
But it's EXTREME!!!
It's from EXTREMEtech.com!!!
Since the entire site is based on the cheezy EXTREME!!! marketing BS, what else would you expect?
You gotta fight
for your right
to jump the shark!
Watch all the competition run themselves into the ground spending lots and lots of $$ scrambling to buy up hardware to try and keep up
backwards, you can hear satanic messages. But even worse, if you play it forward, it installs their software!
Thanks, I'll be here all week... try the veal...
What is the terminal velocity of a strand of ribbon?
African or European ribbon?
Apparently Redhat/Fedora considers using floppies to install passe or something. They offer no install methods other than cdrom or usb pen drive - no floppy images are included. :(
So much for trying this out on my laptop that has no cdrom
And nearly all of the functionality that Linux has depends on third party software that just so happens to come on a couple CDs, instead of being downloaded... But hey, you guys like CDs so much, maybe the sysadmin could just hand everyone a Windows CD and two or three extra CDs with all the third party software they need. Same net effect as what you're getting with Linux distros.
Except for the fact that those Linux vendors actually provide support those apps...
Microsoft barely supports their own apps.
Honestly, it tends to go more like this... /etc/issue
[langa] I bought a Linux distribution and my soundcard doesn't work, what can I do?
[LiNuXRlz] Which distro?
[langa] Mandrake
[LiNuXRlz] which version?
[langa] I dunno
[LiNuXRlz] you can find out by looking at the box or opening a terminal (usually konsole in your menu system) and using this command: cat
[Ianga] Ok, it's 9.2
[LiNuXRlz] ok, do you know what kernel is used?
[langa] I dunno
[LiNuXRlz] back at that terminal, do this: uname -r
[langa] it says Linux 2.4.22mdk
[LiNuXRlz] Ok good, what sound card are you using?
[langa] I dunno, some old thing I had in a drawer
[LiNuXRlz] PCI or ISA?
[langa] I dunno
[LiNuXRlz] Ok...
And YES, this is fairly typical - ask anyone who's spent any time helping out in an irc channel. It's amazing sometimes how little is known to some about their computers, yet expect them to "magically work". People are fond of using the car analogies when it comes to computers - but how would you expect a car to work when you pulled some dsitributor cap out of a drawer somewhere - and didn't even know what it was made for - and expect it to work?
And yes... there's plenty of RTFM attitude out there - but in 99% of the cases, you'd find that it's because the particular user hasn't even bothered to try _anything_ on their own - and you can almost always tell they haven't.
>If he would've reported it to the vendor (in this case Microsoft), it wouldn't have been 'a known hole', but to the Microsoft developers. They would've came up with a patch...
Oh... you mean like this, this, this, and this?
>did anybody notice how suspiciously like one of Leonardo Divinci's drawings this thing is?
;-)
No, but did I notice that the linked picture looks like it was made with MS paint with those cheezy ass voice balloons.
You'd think with all the $$ Epson charges for ink that they'd be able to afford a copy of Photoshop or something
>Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows? I hope not...
No, but that geocities website with all the midi's and ani-gif's you put up 5 years ago is still there...
>you're overlooking the fact that they are fixing it, per the customer demands.
Bullshit.
They're fixing it because they got caught scamming people, made some lame excuses, attempted to justify their abhorrable behavior, and now they're trying desperately to save face.
The _only_ reason they're fixing it is because they got caught.
And the saddest part is... kids to today are LESS educated than they were in generl before forced schooling.
Need proof of that?
Take a look at the popular literature and best sellers lists from 100-125 years ago. Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come to mind immediately.
Most kids today could barely handle the ABRIDGED versions of those now _classics_, yet the everyone from the "country mice" to the "city mice" were reading the UNABRIDGED versions as their favorite literature.
RMS wins, you know it's fixed ;-)
Yeah.... just like those Enron and Worldcom execs
The big fish were tossed back, what makes you think little fish will be kept?