The names of the files can be rather incriminating, since it isn't likely that a file named "U2-Sunday Bloody Sunday.mp3" is anything but that song, by that artist. Coupled with the fact that these users probably have hundreds of similarly named files, it won't be easy to dissuade a jury of your peers that you were not illegally obtaining copy righted music. Yet, with this being the only evidence that they have to go by, a defending lawyer might be able to prove that there is reasonable doubt - especially if the files are no longer present on the culprits system at the time of a law enforcemnet raid (if that ever happens over there).
The most obvious answer is to stop pirating. A person can come up with all of the self serving rationalizations that they want, like "I wasn't going to ever pay for it anways" or "the industry charges too much", but in the end, you obtained material that is explicitly protected and must be obtained through a legitimate sale in an illegal manner. Pay up.
I think that the statements concerning the article are a bit flawed, considering that the manufacturing if the FX line is already underway by Nvidia. However, the introduction of SiS (or any competitor) into the market will give consumers more options. With only two graphics card manufacturers worth mentioning, the cost of the hardware will continue to follow the same trends. A third player may shake that formula up a bit. Somehow I doubt it, though.
This shows you how big Enix must be in Japan. Wasn't Dragon Warrior 7 the highest selling game of all time? Anyways, save for a few picks out of a few titles, Enix never sold well here (not to my knowledge, since I'm not a mega-nerd that knows who the developer or publisher of every game is). Meanwhile, it seemed like Square is all over everything, and sold millions of every title it released. Yet Enix is the bigger company. Weird.
..if this site is running off a Xbox running Mandrake and Apache. It doesn't appear to be able to pass the "Slashdot Web Server Quality Assurance Test".
I find it difficult to formulate a serious theory about an event by relying on exotic (hence unproven) strangelets surrounded by electrons (which is what these so called nuclearites are/should be/may be), going on little more empirical evidence then activity on seismographs. I do not accept that SQM (strange quark matter) baryons, should they even exist, would have slammed into one side of the Earth and came booming out of the other with little more evidence then slight quakes.
Such secure practices in operating system design has been here with us all along: Unix, Linux, BSD. These OSs are designed modular, which protects the system from complete failure (single services and isolated resources may be comprimised fairly quickly with basic attacks) in the event on af infection. Intensive attention is paid to permissions, file integrity, and security - which, when paired with the modular design greatly inhibits the damage that a virus can do. The bulk of the code is written in the open source model, which further extends security. The power of these systems allows for powerful and rapid administration, which is another deterrent to the spread of worms or the potential damage inflicted by viruses.
These virus concerns should only bother Windows users right now.
As systems become more adaptive and proactive against malicious code, so too will the viruses against these counter measures. The next generation of virus writers will be bred in the same computing climate that the future white hats will hail from - there is no reason to think that viruses will not evolve right alongside the platforms that they attack.
I support the notion that the key to ultimate security lies in the quality of the code. I'll go further and say that open source is the key to reaching the absolute goal of inpenetrable code. The open source model is our best bet at insuring that many, many eyes (with varying degrees of skill and with different intentions) will scan the code for flaws. I just wish that some of the more popular open source projects were more heavily reveiwed before their latest builds went up.
I have already set aside funding for 3 months worth of subscription fees, a new motherboard and CPU, and more RAM. I shall be "Jedi Master Jerry Jigglenuts", I already have it all planned out.
Microsoft Office and OpenOffice are not so radically different that you are going to have to bring in outside help and/or send people to training classes just to migrate. Any monkey can figure it out. Have you ever even used OpenOffice? (I am not trying to sound like a know it all, but OpenOffice really is extremely simplistic and easy to learn if you are famailar with other office suites)
I have been involved with 2 "from Office" migrations, one from MS Office to Star Office, another to OpenOffice.org. The first move involved showing two secretaries, 6 library workers, one tech, and an admin Star Office. Since they were born this century and have been introduced to desktop computing, learning how to click different looking buttons was not hard for them and navigate run-of-the-mill menus. It took less then a day to "train" them. The second move was for a small office of about 6 people to OpenOffice.org. It was likewise painless and fast.
I understand that each company will have the trademark little old lady that is almost unable to learn new tricks, or the gung-ho MS fan that will whine all the way through, but that really shouldn't be a major issue to a seasoned IT pro - just business as usual. The "high training cost and time" to move to OOo is just FUD.
Right about now, Bill Gates is asking himself why in the world he paid millions for that "security approval" thing for Windows 2000 and wasted all of those marketing dollars in the over-hyped (and non-existent) "we make all of our programmers go to security school or something" campaign.
You're correct on a few points. Linux becomes insecure when left unguarded in the wrong evironment (as would any OS) - yet - it is no secret that Linux is by nature a more secure operating system then Windows 9x/ME. Before, with Windows 95 and and ZenWorks, all a student had to do was have a copy of policy editor on a floppy disk, CD, or available for download, disconnect the network cable (to disable ZenWorks), reboot, and go for broke. With Linux, the student couldn't do much, since he was running off a terminal. This was a major selling point that I brought up.
And yes, you are correct in saying that the present IT staff had no clue what "this Linux stuff" was. But they were geeks. All it took was me showing them how powerful and flexible Linux was, and they were all over it. In the few weeks that followed, the CNE admin that I worked with earned his Linux+ and was capable of handling this tiny Linux network in no time.
You also bring an obvious point: Windows does not need to be patched every week. For a library setting you just need a dedicated work study tech to keep a sharp eye on everything, and an admin that minds his security alerts.
*As a post script - they liked Linux so much that I ended up helping them move one of their their expensive GroupWise mail servers to Linux, and converted their foreign language lab of 12 PCs to Mandrake 8.2. I did this for free on a Sunday (well not free, really, I made them buy me lunch a week later;) ).
The Japanese are very reasonable and straight forward thinkers.
Microsoft: expensive, slow development for fixes, laughed-at-by-main-stream-media security, closed source - which further stifles development, foreign, you support a monopoly
Linux: cheap or free, rapid and constant development and bug fixes, industry reknowned security, open source, it is "yours" once you embrace it, you support a grass roots movement of heart felt computer users and developers
I am planning on getting a DirecWay connection as well, but I am not concerned with the influece that inclinent weather or faulty physics might have on my latency. For I intend on using Debian, which will solve all of these potential problems before they ever get the chance to make themselves known. I have been assurred repeatedly by people with numbers in their Slashdot monikers that Debian's "apt-get" will solve every computing problem in any reference frame. Rumor has it that apt-get may even unify general relativity and quantum mechanics one day soon.
See the one "Flamebait" mod-down that I got almost immediately? This is an example of the knee-jerk reactions that I told you all about.
My post did not show any favoratism for either liberal or traditional views - it merely exposed my opinion on why liberal media tends to fail. The post was, in itself, therefore liberal in nature. This said, the uneducated mod read my post, which caused some small spark to fire off in the subconcious of his tiny brain, and he quickly clicked on "Flamebait". I win by example. I am a prime time player. Troll mas fina baby.
I saved a local state college-ran-library about $35,000 with a migration to Linux on their 35-40 desktops and their app/file/web server. Basically, they had a bunch of pentium 233 systems running Windows 95, Novell clients (so that the IT staff could manage them with ZenWorks), MS Office, and some C and C++ development utilities. To run newer software and some hardware (odd peripherals used by some librarians) they were going to have to move to Windows 98 (for USB and software support), which in turn would force some hardware upgrades (CPU and memory, near complete overhauls for some systems). And of course, their office and Windows licenses were about up, and they were looking at thousands of wasted dollars on their NT server and it's software alone.
I just moved the desktops over to Red Hat (I can't remember the version, but the kernel was 2.4.x), and installed free development utilitiies. OpenOffice wasn't really "there" yet, so I used Star Office. With the ability to lock down the machines efficiently (something difficult to impossible to do with Windows), the Novell client licenses were no longer needed. OpenBSD became their server. Voila, absolutely zero dollars were spent on licenses or new hardware. I billed them a measly $475 for my trouble (I used to work there, so I cut them some major slack. Besides, I really wanted to win one for the Linux crowd).
The downside: my pay had to come under the table, because the state was so locked for funds they were not allowed to out source - even though they were still allowed to visit their local MS salesman and blow $30,000. Go figure. In the end, the manager just told the brass that his admin had thought it all up.:)
Liberal media is not going to be wildly successful in the United States for the forseeable future. Let's face it, the average American is god fearing, believes that his government can do no wrong, is misinformed about their individual rights, has had little exposure to liberal setiments, is not politically active, and is primed to have a knee jerk-reaction to whatever liberal opinions that they might hear.
Wake, work, pick up the kids, watch Friends, chat on AOL, sleep - repeat. Not much time left in that equation to develop a curiousity about politics (or the world in general, outside of your hometown and what you see on CNN).
I used this little feature about two weeks ago. I wanted to read the rest of one their "premium" articles that I really wanted to see the conclusion of. I just happened to actually read one of the ad's that claimed that I could get a free pass to read this article if only I would look at this $60,000 BMW or something. I agreed. After about 10 seconds an ad with about 10 frames generated. By the time I got to the third or fourth frame, I noticed that I didn't have to click through all of the images. In the lower corner, in very fine print, was a "skip to article" button or something. It worked.
Despite all of the anti-DMCA Slashdot stories to date, not until now did I understand just how broad and dangerous the DMCA really is. How in the hell am I supposed to know how much to save up for the Zelda GameCube release now?!?!
I have been in constant communication with 3 developers in India over the past year. Until I sent one a Red Hat CD, none of them had ever even seen Linux. Oh sorry, GNU/Linux. Anyways, the favored OS with all three is Windows 2000.
Now, the opinion of and exposure to one particular operating system by three guys in India isn't saying much, but when coupled with cyberjessy's statement, it's something.
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The names of the files can be rather incriminating, since it isn't likely that a file named "U2-Sunday Bloody Sunday.mp3" is anything but that song, by that artist. Coupled with the fact that these users probably have hundreds of similarly named files, it won't be easy to dissuade a jury of your peers that you were not illegally obtaining copy righted music. Yet, with this being the only evidence that they have to go by, a defending lawyer might be able to prove that there is reasonable doubt - especially if the files are no longer present on the culprits system at the time of a law enforcemnet raid (if that ever happens over there).
The most obvious answer is to stop pirating. A person can come up with all of the self serving rationalizations that they want, like "I wasn't going to ever pay for it anways" or "the industry charges too much", but in the end, you obtained material that is explicitly protected and must be obtained through a legitimate sale in an illegal manner. Pay up.
It is obvious that Microsoft has been the fantastic driving force behind software innovation over the past two decades. Their uncanny ability to feel out new markets and met the needs of their customers with cost effective, friendly licensed, quality software has forced all other developers to increase the quality of their products.
I think that the statements concerning the article are a bit flawed, considering that the manufacturing if the FX line is already underway by Nvidia. However, the introduction of SiS (or any competitor) into the market will give consumers more options. With only two graphics card manufacturers worth mentioning, the cost of the hardware will continue to follow the same trends. A third player may shake that formula up a bit. Somehow I doubt it, though.
How will this effect Square's torrent relationship with Nintendo? I want a new FF for my 'Cube dangit.
This shows you how big Enix must be in Japan. Wasn't Dragon Warrior 7 the highest selling game of all time? Anyways, save for a few picks out of a few titles, Enix never sold well here (not to my knowledge, since I'm not a mega-nerd that knows who the developer or publisher of every game is). Meanwhile, it seemed like Square is all over everything, and sold millions of every title it released. Yet Enix is the bigger company. Weird.
..if this site is running off a Xbox running Mandrake and Apache. It doesn't appear to be able to pass the "Slashdot Web Server Quality Assurance Test".
I find it difficult to formulate a serious theory about an event by relying on exotic (hence unproven) strangelets surrounded by electrons (which is what these so called nuclearites are/should be/may be), going on little more empirical evidence then activity on seismographs. I do not accept that SQM (strange quark matter) baryons, should they even exist, would have slammed into one side of the Earth and came booming out of the other with little more evidence then slight quakes.
These virus concerns should only bother Windows users right now.
I support the notion that the key to ultimate security lies in the quality of the code. I'll go further and say that open source is the key to reaching the absolute goal of inpenetrable code. The open source model is our best bet at insuring that many, many eyes (with varying degrees of skill and with different intentions) will scan the code for flaws. I just wish that some of the more popular open source projects were more heavily reveiwed before their latest builds went up.
I have already set aside funding for 3 months worth of subscription fees, a new motherboard and CPU, and more RAM. I shall be "Jedi Master Jerry Jigglenuts", I already have it all planned out.
I have been involved with 2 "from Office" migrations, one from MS Office to Star Office, another to OpenOffice.org. The first move involved showing two secretaries, 6 library workers, one tech, and an admin Star Office. Since they were born this century and have been introduced to desktop computing, learning how to click different looking buttons was not hard for them and navigate run-of-the-mill menus. It took less then a day to "train" them. The second move was for a small office of about 6 people to OpenOffice.org. It was likewise painless and fast.
I understand that each company will have the trademark little old lady that is almost unable to learn new tricks, or the gung-ho MS fan that will whine all the way through, but that really shouldn't be a major issue to a seasoned IT pro - just business as usual. The "high training cost and time" to move to OOo is just FUD.
UT 2003!
Linux Games!!
Tux Games!
Neverwinter Nights!
In your face you greasy little "Linux doesn't have any games" troll!
In your face you greasy little "Linux doesn't have any video card drivers" trolls!!
Stop stating the obvious and go away. Slashdotters don't need to hear this. We love our comfortable little world.
Right about now, Bill Gates is asking himself why in the world he paid millions for that "security approval" thing for Windows 2000 and wasted all of those marketing dollars in the over-hyped (and non-existent) "we make all of our programmers go to security school or something" campaign.
And yes, you are correct in saying that the present IT staff had no clue what "this Linux stuff" was. But they were geeks. All it took was me showing them how powerful and flexible Linux was, and they were all over it. In the few weeks that followed, the CNE admin that I worked with earned his Linux+ and was capable of handling this tiny Linux network in no time.
You also bring an obvious point: Windows does not need to be patched every week. For a library setting you just need a dedicated work study tech to keep a sharp eye on everything, and an admin that minds his security alerts.
*As a post script - they liked Linux so much that I ended up helping them move one of their their expensive GroupWise mail servers to Linux, and converted their foreign language lab of 12 PCs to Mandrake 8.2. I did this for free on a Sunday (well not free, really, I made them buy me lunch a week later ;) ).
Microsoft: expensive, slow development for fixes, laughed-at-by-main-stream-media security, closed source - which further stifles development, foreign, you support a monopoly
Linux: cheap or free, rapid and constant development and bug fixes, industry reknowned security, open source, it is "yours" once you embrace it, you support a grass roots movement of heart felt computer users and developers
It doesn't take a genius to figure this one out.
I am planning on getting a DirecWay connection as well, but I am not concerned with the influece that inclinent weather or faulty physics might have on my latency. For I intend on using Debian, which will solve all of these potential problems before they ever get the chance to make themselves known. I have been assurred repeatedly by people with numbers in their Slashdot monikers that Debian's "apt-get" will solve every computing problem in any reference frame. Rumor has it that apt-get may even unify general relativity and quantum mechanics one day soon.
My post did not show any favoratism for either liberal or traditional views - it merely exposed my opinion on why liberal media tends to fail. The post was, in itself, therefore liberal in nature. This said, the uneducated mod read my post, which caused some small spark to fire off in the subconcious of his tiny brain, and he quickly clicked on "Flamebait". I win by example. I am a prime time player. Troll mas fina baby.
I just moved the desktops over to Red Hat (I can't remember the version, but the kernel was 2.4.x), and installed free development utilitiies. OpenOffice wasn't really "there" yet, so I used Star Office. With the ability to lock down the machines efficiently (something difficult to impossible to do with Windows), the Novell client licenses were no longer needed. OpenBSD became their server. Voila, absolutely zero dollars were spent on licenses or new hardware. I billed them a measly $475 for my trouble (I used to work there, so I cut them some major slack. Besides, I really wanted to win one for the Linux crowd).
The downside: my pay had to come under the table, because the state was so locked for funds they were not allowed to out source - even though they were still allowed to visit their local MS salesman and blow $30,000. Go figure. In the end, the manager just told the brass that his admin had thought it all up. :)
Wake, work, pick up the kids, watch Friends, chat on AOL, sleep - repeat. Not much time left in that equation to develop a curiousity about politics (or the world in general, outside of your hometown and what you see on CNN).
I used this little feature about two weeks ago. I wanted to read the rest of one their "premium" articles that I really wanted to see the conclusion of. I just happened to actually read one of the ad's that claimed that I could get a free pass to read this article if only I would look at this $60,000 BMW or something. I agreed. After about 10 seconds an ad with about 10 frames generated. By the time I got to the third or fourth frame, I noticed that I didn't have to click through all of the images. In the lower corner, in very fine print, was a "skip to article" button or something. It worked.
Despite all of the anti-DMCA Slashdot stories to date, not until now did I understand just how broad and dangerous the DMCA really is. How in the hell am I supposed to know how much to save up for the Zelda GameCube release now?!?!
I take it that you never used either Mandrake, Suse, or Red Hat's automatic software update utilities? Red Hat network? apt-get for Debian? Linux?
Now, the opinion of and exposure to one particular operating system by three guys in India isn't saying much, but when coupled with cyberjessy's statement, it's something.