I could cope with 55" as a monitor... imagine, if you could have it in a gentle wrap-around semicirle. Immersive! Imagine games on something like that.
As has been mentioned on/. on several times before when this particular case came up, this guy didn't accidentally or "automagically" attach to his neighbour's wifi network: he sat outside their house, in his car, and acted very suspiciously when they walked past (e.g. snapping his laptop shut). He'd been doing this over a three month period. To my mind his punishment was more a result of his behaviour than mere connection to some idiot's wide open wireless network.
I love the section about DRM that Cory Doctorow has included in the preamble to the book:
DRM
The worst technology idea since the electrified nipple-clamp is "Digital Rights Management," a suite of voodoo products that are supposed to control what you do with information after you lawfully acquire it. When you buy a DVD abroad and can't watch it at home because it's from the wrong "region," that's DRM. When you buy a CD and it won't rip on your computer, that's DRM. When you buy an iTune and you can't loan it to a friend, that's DRM.
DRM doesn't work. Every file ever released with DRM locks on it is currently available for free download on the Internet. You don't need any special skills to break DRM these days: you just have to know how to search Google for the name of the work you're seeking.
No customer wants DRM. No one woke up this morning and said, "Damn, I wish there was a way to do less with my books, movies and music."
DRM can't control copying, but it can control competition. Apple can threaten to sue Real for making Realmedia players for the iPod on the grounds that Real had to break Apple DRM to accomplish this. The cartel that runs licensing for DVDs can block every new feature in DVDs in order to preserve its cushy business model (why is it that all you can do with a DVD you bought ten years ago is watch it, exactly what you could do with it then -- when you can take a CD you bought a decade ago and turn it into a ringtone, an MP3, karaoke, a mashup, or a file that you send to a friend?).
DRM is used to silence and even jail researchers who expose its flaws, thanks to laws like the US DMCA and Europe's EUCD.
In case there's any doubt: I hate DRM. There is no DRM on this book. None of the books you get from this site have DRM on them. If you get a DRMed ebook, I urge you to break the locks off it and convert it to something sensible like a text file.
If you want to read more about DRM, here's a talk I gave to Microsoft on the subject:
This prompts me to state something that I've wanted to say for quite a while. There's a large/. fraternity who will jump on anyone who proposes anything outside the current scientific orthodoxy. And yet here we are reminded that one of our foremost scientific forebears dabbled in a lot of stuff that, today, we see as rather esoteric (to be charitable). I think the reason he is seen as a giant of science is because he was not straightjacketed by orthodoxy. To quote Shakespeare: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'm sorry to reply to my own post, but, ARE YOU MODERATORS ON CRACK???? This is not flamebait, this is personal experience.
I don't think perfection will ever exist; I'm simply quoting from my experience. I'm a programmer who uses both UNIX (AIX/Solaris AND Linux) as well as Windows. And the only way to write decent scripts on Windows is via Cygwin (see many responders to my original post).
I'd welcome something brilliant in MSH but somehow (given their lack of creativity) I'm not holding my breath. Love and Peace and all that - I'm not interested in flame wars.
I don't think perfection will ever exist; I'm simply quoting from my experience. I'm a programmer who uses both UNIX (AIX/Solaris AND Linux) as well as Windows. And the only way to write decent scripts on Windows is via Cygwin (see many responders to my original post).
I'd welcome something brilliant in MSH but somehow (given their lack of creativity) I'm not holding my breath. Love and Peace and all that - I'm not interested in flame wars.
I bought a microsoft cordless mouse last year - and the scroll wheel has no "bumps"! I agree with you - it's an odd sensation not having them there. But you do get used to it. It's annoying though when you're playing Counterstrike and you use the scrollwheel to select weapons - you have to be careful not to overshoot the one you wanted.
In fall 2003, Microsoft briefly considered buying Google, only to realize that even if Brin, Page, and their board could have been persuaded to sell--which seemed unlikely--Microsoft would have been left to explain to the world why it was now running a search engine built entirely on Linux instead of Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
whats happening to slashdot?
:)
I thought for a second I was reading Digg...
Er... it's called a fan... I was at least hoping for something more high-tech, like Peltiers and stuff :)
Hang on... a missing parenthesis would cause a compilation error ... am I missing something?
No... it's worse than that... Duke Nukem Forever
dyne:bolic
"Dyne:bolic is a multimedia studio on a CD that you simply pop into any computer and start it up, instantly turning it into a Linux/GNU [sic] system"
Why not Knoppix??? Granted, this is more specialised towards creative people, but it never figures on my top ten, whereas Knoppix would do.
I could cope with 55" as a monitor... imagine, if you could have it in a gentle wrap-around semicirle. Immersive! Imagine games on something like that.
Why would I want Vista? I've already got Linux and it's awesome. It's going to be EVEN MORE AWESOME when Vista finally ships...
We have the technology to allow you to do this right now!
It's called PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
Have you noticed what you see when you zoom right in to Google Moon? I laughed out loud.
The GGP was quoting directly from the URL in TFA!
Since when was Ealing not in the UK? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm
As has been mentioned on /. on several times before when this particular case came up, this guy didn't accidentally or "automagically" attach to his neighbour's wifi network: he sat outside their house, in his car, and acted very suspiciously when they walked past (e.g. snapping his laptop shut). He'd been doing this over a three month period. To my mind his punishment was more a result of his behaviour than mere connection to some idiot's wide open wireless network.
This prompts me to state something that I've wanted to say for quite a while. There's a large /. fraternity who will jump on anyone who proposes anything outside the current scientific orthodoxy. And yet here we are reminded that one of our foremost scientific forebears dabbled in a lot of stuff that, today, we see as rather esoteric (to be charitable). I think the reason he is seen as a giant of science is because he was not straightjacketed by orthodoxy. To quote Shakespeare:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'm sorry to reply to my own post, but, ARE YOU MODERATORS ON CRACK???? This is not flamebait, this is personal experience.
I don't think perfection will ever exist; I'm simply quoting from my experience. I'm a programmer who uses both UNIX (AIX/Solaris AND Linux) as well as Windows. And the only way to write decent scripts on Windows is via Cygwin (see many responders to my original post).
I'd welcome something brilliant in MSH but somehow (given their lack of creativity) I'm not holding my breath. Love and Peace and all that - I'm not interested in flame wars.
I don't think perfection will ever exist; I'm simply quoting from my experience. I'm a programmer who uses both UNIX (AIX/Solaris AND Linux) as well as Windows. And the only way to write decent scripts on Windows is via Cygwin (see many responders to my original post).
I'd welcome something brilliant in MSH but somehow (given their lack of creativity) I'm not holding my breath. Love and Peace and all that - I'm not interested in flame wars.
I'll stick with bash or ksh, thanks very much. But thanks for trying.
I really did! And they all laughed at me... should have been +5 Informative :)
:-)
I bought a microsoft cordless mouse last year - and the scroll wheel has no "bumps"! I agree with you - it's an odd sensation not having them there. But you do get used to it. It's annoying though when you're playing Counterstrike and you use the scrollwheel to select weapons - you have to be careful not to overshoot the one you wanted.
So this is what they've been working on for so long. No wonder it's taking ages and they've had to cut back on other plans.
Got it right finally? I'd say he did pretty well on his first attempt...
...and look how well they've done. GMail blows Hotmail away in usability, capacity, uptime and spam filtering.
My favourite quote from the article:
In fall 2003, Microsoft briefly considered buying Google, only to realize that even if Brin, Page, and their board could have been persuaded to sell--which seemed unlikely--Microsoft would have been left to explain to the world why it was now running a search engine built entirely on Linux instead of Windows.
LOL
Because I'm sick and fed up with removing spyware, trojans and viruses from my relatives' computers?