So explain this: people complain about Verizon in so many ways: big evil corporation, doesn't care about the customer, rapes you on unnecessary fees and services, crappy service, etc. Verizon gives up market share by selling their piece of the pie in a bunch of areas to a smaller company. So big bad evil company goes away, and now people complain that the little (well, smaller anyway) guy is back in town? WTF do you really want? Yes, yes I know, welcome to Slashdot....
That's easy. Are you running VMWare with a Windows virtual install on this Linux box? Delete that virtual machine. Rootkit eliminated.
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Why do systems have to have third party games to be successful? I always thought that Nintendo's greatest strength has been the games published by Nintendo and not third parties. If a company can rely on what it does in-house to succeed, isn't it better for them that they can be so independent? If Konami or Capcom or Electronic Arts went out of business tomorrow, would Playstation continue to be as successful as it is now? I don't think so. Nintendo, on the other hand, could continue to rely on its in-house development team to make successful games. I can name a bunch of games I love/have loved that were made by Nintendo. I have a hard time coming up with an equal list of Playstation games actually published by Sony. In my opinion, that speaks volumes about the success of a system.
Hmm...I see by the look of this log showing the Denial of Service attack on Megacorp's Web server, the suspect is:
40 year old white male
lacks typical social skills
unmarried, no girlfriend
drinks highly caffinated beverages
has a scraggly, unkempt beard
does not shower
lives in his parent's basement...(for free)
That narrows the list of a bajillion suspects down to...hmm...maybe this profiling thing doesn't work as well as it does on tv? Screw it, bring 'em all in!
Sung to the tune of "Saftey Dance", George Takei's words are in italics, as spoken by himself.
"S-U-L-U Sulu DANCE!"
You can dance like Sulu hello
And shake your little behind yes
You've gotta give it a chance when you do the sulu and dance and you're friends will say oh my
I say, jump around if you want to and move your arms like a machine yes
If you do the sulu dance while wearing tight pants some people may call you a queen
The sulu dance! Sulu! Sulu! Just fine! Sulu! Sulu! Now that's ridiculous!
Sulu dance is fun to do, well
but you're girl may get jealous no
cause if you abuse you'll girl will lose it and run up and say who is this?
ahhh, you can dance like sulu you know
but some may choose to not no
you gotta give it a chance when you do the sulu dance and you'll girl will give up the balloon knot
Taken from "Why you shouldn't use the Library GPL" - Later renamed, "Lesser GPL" (boy, if that doesn't sound like some real icky propoganda), written by RMS:
"If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries. University projects can easily be influenced; nowadays, as companies begin to consider making software free, even some commercial projects can be influenced in this way.
Proprietary software developers, seeking to deny the free competition an important advantage, will try to convince authors not to contribute libraries to the GPL-covered collection. For example, they may appeal to the ego, promising "more users for this library" if we let them use the code in proprietary software products. Popularity is tempting, and it is easy for a library developer to rationalize the idea that boosting the popularity of that one library is what the community needs above all.
But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition."
I can't believe developers out there follow this crap. It's worse than fundie religions. Limiting libraries to "free software only" is just that - limiting. It limits the potential of free software. It potentially limits my choice of software to "free" or "non-free". I'll tell you what gives me freedom - when I see "free" software ported for use on my "non-free" OS, linked to whatever it requires in the OS to work. I'd like to use Linux as my primary OS, not just for "free" software, but I can't because of shit like this. The quoted statements are only one example of the attitudes in the "free" software community that restrict it from being so much more widely used and accepted. I would totally abandon my "non-free" OS if the developer(s) of my one or two "non-free" apps could do what "free" software developers are able to do with the "non-free" OS. Having the best of both worlds is freedom.
The response "Let the commercial non-GPL vendors release their code or purchase the rights to the free code under a separate license agreement." is not valid. If Microsoft wanted to purchase a license to use someone's GPL'd code in their closed source, would they be successful, or would they hit the brick wall of "Viva La Stallman! Viva la revolution!!!"? Or maybe MS would have to pay 2 billion dollars while someone else gets the right to use it for free. In other circles, this would constitute unfair, anti-competetive practices. Gee, what does that sound like?
Um whoever modded this offtopic is wrong, the post is extremely on topic as I was making a reference to Snow White...see in the English language we have the ability to interchange words that are spelled differently and have different meanings but kinda sound the same to execute a play on words in a humorous manner and...o nevermind I'm talking to slashdotters, what's the point?
Many people say that Linux in general will never make it to "the next level" (whatever that may mean) because the community wishes to keep Linux fully open. It is difficult to make something on the hardware level fully Linux compatiable without re-using GPLed code. This means hardware/software vendors would need to open their code on their associated drivers/software to legally make their product fully Linux compatiable. Closed source vendors see opening their code as a major threat to their business, as the openness could reveal intellectual property that their competitors could exploit to take away market share.
Do you see any way that a happy medium could be reached with vendors that require their source to be closed?
Make open-source worth a company's time and effort. If a company relies on its source being closed to make money, show them how opening their source will provide potential rewards that are greater than the risks of providing something for free, exposing company secrets to their competitors, and investing in the R&D necessary to make their hardware/software Linux compatiable.
If this can not be done, then there is no reason for XYZ company to open their source and/or make its product work on Linux. I won't blame them for that either. Typical responses like "It's not the fault of Linux/OSS that corporations are greedy" are not valid. Every product, company, organization, collective, etc has strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It is difficult to make tons of money off of something open source when the source code itself (compiled or otherwise) is what generates the revenue. That is a huge weakness that Linux needs to overcome to "make it to the next level". Show an NVidia or a Microsoft how losing money on their proprietary code is a strength and creates opportunity for them. Otherwise provide a method for companies to keep their source closed and still legally make their products fully Linux compatiable so they can sell their product on Linux the same way they sell it on Windows.
A company...making money and concentrating on things that make money??? My word, what is this world coming to? What happens when Ubuntu wants to make some serious money?
The FBI did 2600 a favor by doing this during the convention...I'm sure this arrest will bring more attention to 2600 and the HOPE conventions, watch how much the attendance goes up for the next con due to the added publicity.
That is the single most intelligent, worthwile post in this whole topic...banks are so worried about "are we really talking to the customer?" No one is concerned about "is the customer really talking to the bank?" The perception is the bank needs more security than the customer, the bank has more to lose, the bank is where the customer's money is, therefore protect the bank, right?
The best solution out there right now to protect the customer seems to be customer education - if you subscribe to the philosophy that the problem is social, like social engineering. Education is only a solution to those who are open to being educated. To everyone else who sees the problem as technical - as a computer problem - education will do nothing. So what can the bank do to tell us they are really them and there is nobody else between us? What can be done technically that can not be forged, snooped, copied, replayed, passed along, etc, so non-technical people will understand without any doubt that they are really talking to the bank?
When I go to a brick and mortar bank I know it is the bank because the building can not be reproduced in the same physical spot where the bank normally stands, and I recognize the people who work there as something that can not otherwise be possible. When I approach the teller no one stands between us handing over the information during the transaction. There may be mechanisms in place watching the transaction such as a security camera, but I also know they are legitimate because of where I am physically standing and everything else around me. In this way, the bank has proven to me that they really are who I think they are. How can a customer instinctivly "just know" that something electronic is what is really appears to be?
Damn political correctness...first we go from "secretary" to "administrative assistant", from "janitor" to "sanitation engineer", now we go from "computer room" to "data center"? What is this world coming to??? Are we afraid of offending the non-computers?
um...check on your "American Made car" again, most likely only the final assembly was performed in America. Body work was probably done in Canada, aluminum and steel parts were probably forged or cast in Asia somewhere, what about all the wires, lubrication, computer chips, etc? Who wrote the software embedded on the chips? Where were the owners manuals printed? Who weaved the textiles that cover the seats and floor? And where did all the waste from the manufacture of the vehicle go, including hazordus chemical waste? This is how my "American made" Chevy was built, probably the same with Ford, etc...
Verified: Record-breaking number of consecutive days without a date! Record holder Daniel Vignes ends his run by emerging from his parents' basement on 6/5/06 to announce his perfect Pitfall! game with 1:28 left in time.
j/k dude, congrats! I could never beat that game.
Wii??? I'd feel more comfortable asking for the Nintendo Pony! What the hell kind of a name is Wii? How do you pronounce it? O yeah my friend is coming over tonight...he doesn't have Nintendo, so he is going to play with my Wii. Sounds great...
Absolutely correct, what an insightful post! Some of the replies to the parent suggest that they could have done better by including another browser to push msn.com and not writing IE, however I believe that the tight integration of IE and the OS could not have been possible by simply distributing someone else's browser, and at some point that must have helped Microsoft somehow, otherwise they would not have continued doing so. Maybe IE provides software developers an avenue to easier, tighter integration w/Windows and that creates more income for Microsoft? (IANAP so maybe someone else knows if this is the case).
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no, no, no... "In Soviet Russia, software pirates YOU!!!"
So explain this: people complain about Verizon in so many ways: big evil corporation, doesn't care about the customer, rapes you on unnecessary fees and services, crappy service, etc. Verizon gives up market share by selling their piece of the pie in a bunch of areas to a smaller company. So big bad evil company goes away, and now people complain that the little (well, smaller anyway) guy is back in town? WTF do you really want? Yes, yes I know, welcome to Slashdot....
That's easy. Are you running VMWare with a Windows virtual install on this Linux box? Delete that virtual machine. Rootkit eliminated.
Why do systems have to have third party games to be successful? I always thought that Nintendo's greatest strength has been the games published by Nintendo and not third parties. If a company can rely on what it does in-house to succeed, isn't it better for them that they can be so independent? If Konami or Capcom or Electronic Arts went out of business tomorrow, would Playstation continue to be as successful as it is now? I don't think so. Nintendo, on the other hand, could continue to rely on its in-house development team to make successful games. I can name a bunch of games I love/have loved that were made by Nintendo. I have a hard time coming up with an equal list of Playstation games actually published by Sony. In my opinion, that speaks volumes about the success of a system.
Hmm...I see by the look of this log showing the Denial of Service attack on Megacorp's Web server, the suspect is:
40 year old white male
lacks typical social skills
unmarried, no girlfriend
drinks highly caffinated beverages
has a scraggly, unkempt beard
does not shower
lives in his parent's basement...(for free)
That narrows the list of a bajillion suspects down to...hmm...maybe this profiling thing doesn't work as well as it does on tv? Screw it, bring 'em all in!
"La Rene Blanche...The White Queen..."
Sung to the tune of "Saftey Dance", George Takei's words are in italics, as spoken by himself.
"S-U-L-U Sulu DANCE!"
You can dance like Sulu hello
And shake your little behind yes
You've gotta give it a chance when you do the sulu and dance and you're friends will say oh my
I say, jump around if you want to and move your arms like a machine yes
If you do the sulu dance while wearing tight pants some people may call you a queen
The sulu dance! Sulu! Sulu! Just fine! Sulu! Sulu! Now that's ridiculous!
Sulu dance is fun to do, well
but you're girl may get jealous no
cause if you abuse you'll girl will lose it and run up and say who is this?
ahhh, you can dance like sulu you know
but some may choose to not no
you gotta give it a chance when you do the sulu dance and you'll girl will give up the balloon knot
..."I don't think you are really Ricardo Montalban..."
...that Sept 18 is a Monday, not Friday? Talk Like A Pirate Day is the 19th, and that's a Tuesday. Arrr!!!!
Taken from "Why you shouldn't use the Library GPL" - Later renamed, "Lesser GPL" (boy, if that doesn't sound like some real icky propoganda), written by RMS:
"If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries. University projects can easily be influenced; nowadays, as companies begin to consider making software free, even some commercial projects can be influenced in this way.
Proprietary software developers, seeking to deny the free competition an important advantage, will try to convince authors not to contribute libraries to the GPL-covered collection. For example, they may appeal to the ego, promising "more users for this library" if we let them use the code in proprietary software products. Popularity is tempting, and it is easy for a library developer to rationalize the idea that boosting the popularity of that one library is what the community needs above all.
But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition."
I can't believe developers out there follow this crap. It's worse than fundie religions. Limiting libraries to "free software only" is just that - limiting. It limits the potential of free software. It potentially limits my choice of software to "free" or "non-free". I'll tell you what gives me freedom - when I see "free" software ported for use on my "non-free" OS, linked to whatever it requires in the OS to work. I'd like to use Linux as my primary OS, not just for "free" software, but I can't because of shit like this. The quoted statements are only one example of the attitudes in the "free" software community that restrict it from being so much more widely used and accepted. I would totally abandon my "non-free" OS if the developer(s) of my one or two "non-free" apps could do what "free" software developers are able to do with the "non-free" OS. Having the best of both worlds is freedom.
The response "Let the commercial non-GPL vendors release their code or purchase the rights to the free code under a separate license agreement." is not valid. If Microsoft wanted to purchase a license to use someone's GPL'd code in their closed source, would they be successful, or would they hit the brick wall of "Viva La Stallman! Viva la revolution!!!"? Or maybe MS would have to pay 2 billion dollars while someone else gets the right to use it for free. In other circles, this would constitute unfair, anti-competetive practices. Gee, what does that sound like?
THANK YOU!!!! Damn where are my mod points??????
Um whoever modded this offtopic is wrong, the post is extremely on topic as I was making a reference to Snow White...see in the English language we have the ability to interchange words that are spelled differently and have different meanings but kinda sound the same to execute a play on words in a humorous manner and...o nevermind I'm talking to slashdotters, what's the point?
8 Planets and 8 Dwarfs? Sounds simple enough...
Many people say that Linux in general will never make it to "the next level" (whatever that may mean) because the community wishes to keep Linux fully open. It is difficult to make something on the hardware level fully Linux compatiable without re-using GPLed code. This means hardware/software vendors would need to open their code on their associated drivers/software to legally make their product fully Linux compatiable. Closed source vendors see opening their code as a major threat to their business, as the openness could reveal intellectual property that their competitors could exploit to take away market share. Do you see any way that a happy medium could be reached with vendors that require their source to be closed?
Make open-source worth a company's time and effort. If a company relies on its source being closed to make money, show them how opening their source will provide potential rewards that are greater than the risks of providing something for free, exposing company secrets to their competitors, and investing in the R&D necessary to make their hardware/software Linux compatiable.
If this can not be done, then there is no reason for XYZ company to open their source and/or make its product work on Linux. I won't blame them for that either. Typical responses like "It's not the fault of Linux/OSS that corporations are greedy" are not valid. Every product, company, organization, collective, etc has strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It is difficult to make tons of money off of something open source when the source code itself (compiled or otherwise) is what generates the revenue. That is a huge weakness that Linux needs to overcome to "make it to the next level". Show an NVidia or a Microsoft how losing money on their proprietary code is a strength and creates opportunity for them. Otherwise provide a method for companies to keep their source closed and still legally make their products fully Linux compatiable so they can sell their product on Linux the same way they sell it on Windows.
A company...making money and concentrating on things that make money??? My word, what is this world coming to? What happens when Ubuntu wants to make some serious money?
The FBI did 2600 a favor by doing this during the convention...I'm sure this arrest will bring more attention to 2600 and the HOPE conventions, watch how much the attendance goes up for the next con due to the added publicity.
That is the single most intelligent, worthwile post in this whole topic...banks are so worried about "are we really talking to the customer?" No one is concerned about "is the customer really talking to the bank?" The perception is the bank needs more security than the customer, the bank has more to lose, the bank is where the customer's money is, therefore protect the bank, right?
The best solution out there right now to protect the customer seems to be customer education - if you subscribe to the philosophy that the problem is social, like social engineering. Education is only a solution to those who are open to being educated. To everyone else who sees the problem as technical - as a computer problem - education will do nothing. So what can the bank do to tell us they are really them and there is nobody else between us? What can be done technically that can not be forged, snooped, copied, replayed, passed along, etc, so non-technical people will understand without any doubt that they are really talking to the bank?
When I go to a brick and mortar bank I know it is the bank because the building can not be reproduced in the same physical spot where the bank normally stands, and I recognize the people who work there as something that can not otherwise be possible. When I approach the teller no one stands between us handing over the information during the transaction. There may be mechanisms in place watching the transaction such as a security camera, but I also know they are legitimate because of where I am physically standing and everything else around me. In this way, the bank has proven to me that they really are who I think they are. How can a customer instinctivly "just know" that something electronic is what is really appears to be?
Damn political correctness...first we go from "secretary" to "administrative assistant", from "janitor" to "sanitation engineer", now we go from "computer room" to "data center"? What is this world coming to??? Are we afraid of offending the non-computers?
ectinsay obotsray, say Bandyopadhyay!!!!!
Wow, where the hell are my mod points????? damn people, mod parent up!!!
um...check on your "American Made car" again, most likely only the final assembly was performed in America. Body work was probably done in Canada, aluminum and steel parts were probably forged or cast in Asia somewhere, what about all the wires, lubrication, computer chips, etc? Who wrote the software embedded on the chips? Where were the owners manuals printed? Who weaved the textiles that cover the seats and floor? And where did all the waste from the manufacture of the vehicle go, including hazordus chemical waste? This is how my "American made" Chevy was built, probably the same with Ford, etc...
Verified: Record-breaking number of consecutive days without a date! Record holder Daniel Vignes ends his run by emerging from his parents' basement on 6/5/06 to announce his perfect Pitfall! game with 1:28 left in time. j/k dude, congrats! I could never beat that game.
Wii??? I'd feel more comfortable asking for the Nintendo Pony! What the hell kind of a name is Wii? How do you pronounce it? O yeah my friend is coming over tonight...he doesn't have Nintendo, so he is going to play with my Wii. Sounds great...
Absolutely correct, what an insightful post! Some of the replies to the parent suggest that they could have done better by including another browser to push msn.com and not writing IE, however I believe that the tight integration of IE and the OS could not have been possible by simply distributing someone else's browser, and at some point that must have helped Microsoft somehow, otherwise they would not have continued doing so. Maybe IE provides software developers an avenue to easier, tighter integration w/Windows and that creates more income for Microsoft? (IANAP so maybe someone else knows if this is the case).