However, it also has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it matters that some piece of hardware Microsoft is releasing now is fully compatible with something that Microsoft is not releasing to the public for another two or three months.
Considering that Vista is not available for sale, and won't be until January, I fail to see how this is in any way newsworthy. The "fud" tag has been correctly applied to this story.
If a story came out downing Linux because some device isn't compatible with a future and unreleased version of the kernel, everyone would be crying "foul!" from the highest mountain. But since its Microsoft, its okay to have a double standard.
All joking aside, that sort of argument was tried extensively in the US against both the satellite TV industry ("The signals are leaking in to the air on to my property, I should be allowed to decode them and watch them for free!") and the cable TV industry ("If they don't want me to watch the 'All Nude Girls' channel for free, then why is it on the cable coming in to my house?"). The arguments met with no success. The only persons who would benefit from those particular arguments in a US court would be the shieste...er...excuse me...lawyers.
Everyone here that makes a reply of the form "An open access point should be treated as an invitation to use it", please also post your home address. That way, next time you leave your house unlocked, I can treat it as an invitation to use your TV set and kitchen facilities. I will also assume that the next time you leave your keys in your car, that is your invitation for me to feel free to use the car. Damned nice of you!
While I would agree that 3 years for leaching wi-fi is a bit excessive, even in Singapore, I do think there should be some punishment, both in the US and anywhere else. An open access point is no more an invitation to use it than an open door is for you to walk in to someone's house uninvited.
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They've got it backwards. Instead of rewarding teachers for good grades, they should tax the parent(s) for poor grades. A teacher can only do so much, and they can't do a damned thing without the parent(s) taking an interest. Behind the majority of kids doing poorly in school is a parent that doesn't give a damn.
That why if you looked at the reply that I posted to my own post a mere two minutes later, you would find I corrected myself. You're preaching to the choir.
The end users who buy from these middlemen are *every bit* as guilty as Sony or the middlemen. If it weren't for these buyers, there would be no market for the middlemen.
Shit. I should have used "preview". That first sentence should read "The great majority of people who acquire Vista will not do so by buying Vista at retail, they will do so by buying an entirely new machine."
The great majority of people who acquire Vista will not do so by buying Vista on an entirely new machine. Therefore, what the full retail price of Vista is does not have a lot of impact here. Anyone who thinks Gateway, Dell, or HP pays full retail for Vista (or XP) needs to take off their rose-colored glasses and look again. Acer probably doesn't pay retail either, although they also probably do pay more than "the big three".
Right. What ever you say. I guess this is why I can go in to any retail big-box store like Circuit City or Best Buy or Fry's and buy a name-brand machine off the shelf with Linux preloaded, and why I don't see any Windows boxes in the same stores, eh?
Nothing radical (in either direction) is going to happen during the term of the next Congress. While the Dems have small majorities in both the House and the Senate, the President still wields a "veto" stamp. And the Dem's majority is not enough to override a veto in either the House or the Senate. Presidink Shrub is still a major factor, and one third of the equation, whether we like it or not.
Overall, the next Congress will be as much a do-nothing Congress as the current one has been. But while they won't restore any of the (many) rights we have lost, at least maybe they won't take away the few we have left.
Okay, you got me on that one. I hadn't thought about that because I live in one of the (majority of) states (Indiana) that does not permanently ban felons from voting unless that right is reinstated by [appropriate government official]. Only a handful of states are still that restrictive.
Obligatory corruption joke: I don't see why they ban felons from voting, since so many felons are in Congress...
Maybe next year you can take 30 minutes out of your busy schedule to look over the candidates. And then you can step up and do your duty as a citizen to vote, instead of being the lazy-ass sniveling dumb fuck you were this year.
The only acceptable excuse for a citizen not being informed and not voting is their own death on election day. Anything else is bullshit. No exceptions.
What's so amazing and new about this? Models of IBM Thinkpads came with an option for encrypted hard drives years ago. I know the Thinkpad 770 did it, because I have one.
And while I'm here, I'll nod in agreement with some of the other posts...especially in this era of George W. Brezhnev and his minions, I don't trust my encryption to anything that isn't open source and peer reviewed.
If this dude had simply put up a site that said "I made a fake boarding pass, here's how I did it, and maybe here's some suggestions to fix the problem", I'd be sympathetic to his cause.
Instead, he put up a website that said (or so the articles claimed...I wasn't about to go to such a site using my own machine) "I made a fake boarding pass, here, let me make one for you too with this website".
Look at it this way. If I discovered an easy way to make a working key to your house without your knowledge or permission or one of your existing keys, made one for myself, and then demonstrated for you how it was done, you'd probably be greatful and take steps to fix the problem. However, if I found a way to make such a key to your house, and sat up a machine three blocks from your house that allowed *anyone* to make a key to your house for free, I bet you'd be a bit less greatful, eh?
Do I think he should see jail time or a major blotch on his record? No. But do I think he should be tossed out the door with no consequences, its never mentioned again, and he's treated like a hero? That would be a "no" too.
People who help others get copyrighted material without paying for it and then get busted are worshiped as martyrs.
But if someone dares violate the GPL, those same Slashdotters rise up and demand the heads of everyone involved on a silver platter.
It amazes me that more of you don't run for public office...you've got the "talking out of both sides of mouth" and "double standards" parts well covered.
This guy is lucky. I used to have to travel with two Compaq "lugable" computers. Each was the size of a small suitcase, and all you got for that was a tiny b/w crt. And a good workout from carrying them;-)
Seriously, while I thought the video was really good, and I realize it was done mostly tongue-in-cheek, I have to echo what others have said. I have a Toshiba laptop. Its used for when I want to eat lunch at Panera and still get some work done, or at the library. When I need true portability, I'll use my Palm TX (and here lately, I'm using the TX at the library too).
I was in the Boy Scouts, from start to finish...started as a Cub Scout as soon as I could get in, stayed in until I was 21, and then served four years as a Scoutmaster. I was also in the OA, Explorers, and several other "side groups" (for lack of a better term). This was in the 60s through the 80s. I have nothing but fond memories of the experiences. There are **MANY** positive skills I learned and things I did that I would have never experienced without having been a Boy Scout.
That was then, this is now.
Now I'll echo what you say here. The organization has changed so much from what it was then that if I had children and they were to ask to be in Scouts, I'm not sure I would approve. I ceased donating even my money in the mid-90s.
See, that's the Slashdot Way. We show our appreciation for someone creating free software by pounding their server in to the ground, and shooting their bandwidth bill in to the stratosphere.
This is why I keep saying that when its something put out by a "little guy" (in otherwords, two guys in a garage, not Microsoft), the very least Slashdot could do is mirror the site for a few days. I used to think that having your site announced on Slashdot was a good thing, but now I would avoid it.
And out of all those colors it can display, the one that will be seen the most is green...as in the big piles of green you have to hand over to buy one when they first come out.
I must admit I get a chuckle out of a lot of the posts here that bitch about the bugs in Vista RC2.
The funny thing is I have yet to see a Linux distribution release come out bug-free either. In fact, in the 12 years I've been playing with Linux, I've seen at least a handful of releases that, a month later, had hundreds of megs of "bug fixes". And I remember at least one distribution that, upon its final release, destroyed certain CD recorders. I won't even bring up the fact that I have PCs that Ubuntu won't even install on, much less run correctly on, but both XP and Vista install and run on all the machines without a hitch.
But I guess that's okay, since its Linux and we love Linux even when it fucks up.
I have a hammer. I can build a house with it. Or I can kill someone with it. Does that make the hammer bad? Should we restrict the availability of hammers? Should we start requiring FBI background checks at Walmart in order to purchase a hammer? If we make it illegal to own a hammer, only criminals will have hammers.
Seriously, any "tool" is like this. You can do wonderful creative things with it. Or you can do nefarious evil with it. That doesn't make the availability of the tool wrong or undesireable.
I'll tell you the reason why Ubuntu is not, in fact "the winner", and why many people still use Mandriva.
Because on my hardware (three desktop machines, two laptops), Mandriva works out of the box. Ubuntu won't even install a bootable system on *any* of them, much less allow me to accomplish actual work. And apparently I'm not the only one. I'm also an "early seeder" for Mandriva, and the drag on my dedicated server has not been *less* than 2 megaBYTES/second since the release announcement this morning.
Yes, I could probably tinker with Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) and make it work. But I didn't have to tinker with Windows XP for it to install correctly on any of that hardware, why should I expect any less from a Linux distribution? (Hint: Don't say "because Linux is free" because I'm a Mandriva Club silver member, which means I actually put my money where my mouth is and pay cash for my Linux.)
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What you say here about Microsoft is indeed true.
However, it also has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it matters that some piece of hardware Microsoft is releasing now is fully compatible with something that Microsoft is not releasing to the public for another two or three months.
Considering that Vista is not available for sale, and won't be until January, I fail to see how this is in any way newsworthy. The "fud" tag has been correctly applied to this story.
If a story came out downing Linux because some device isn't compatible with a future and unreleased version of the kernel, everyone would be crying "foul!" from the highest mountain. But since its Microsoft, its okay to have a double standard.
All joking aside, that sort of argument was tried extensively in the US against both the satellite TV industry ("The signals are leaking in to the air on to my property, I should be allowed to decode them and watch them for free!") and the cable TV industry ("If they don't want me to watch the 'All Nude Girls' channel for free, then why is it on the cable coming in to my house?"). The arguments met with no success. The only persons who would benefit from those particular arguments in a US court would be the shieste...er...excuse me...lawyers.
Everyone here that makes a reply of the form "An open access point should be treated as an invitation to use it", please also post your home address. That way, next time you leave your house unlocked, I can treat it as an invitation to use your TV set and kitchen facilities. I will also assume that the next time you leave your keys in your car, that is your invitation for me to feel free to use the car. Damned nice of you!
While I would agree that 3 years for leaching wi-fi is a bit excessive, even in Singapore, I do think there should be some punishment, both in the US and anywhere else. An open access point is no more an invitation to use it than an open door is for you to walk in to someone's house uninvited.
They've got it backwards. Instead of rewarding teachers for good grades, they should tax the parent(s) for poor grades. A teacher can only do so much, and they can't do a damned thing without the parent(s) taking an interest. Behind the majority of kids doing poorly in school is a parent that doesn't give a damn.
That why if you looked at the reply that I posted to my own post a mere two minutes later, you would find I corrected myself. You're preaching to the choir.
Congratulations, Sony. Nicely done.
The end users who buy from these middlemen are *every bit* as guilty as Sony or the middlemen. If it weren't for these buyers, there would be no market for the middlemen.
Shit. I should have used "preview". That first sentence should read "The great majority of people who acquire Vista will not do so by buying Vista at retail, they will do so by buying an entirely new machine."
The great majority of people who acquire Vista will not do so by buying Vista on an entirely new machine. Therefore, what the full retail price of Vista is does not have a lot of impact here. Anyone who thinks Gateway, Dell, or HP pays full retail for Vista (or XP) needs to take off their rose-colored glasses and look again. Acer probably doesn't pay retail either, although they also probably do pay more than "the big three".
'The war is over and Linux won'
Right. What ever you say. I guess this is why I can go in to any retail big-box store like Circuit City or Best Buy or Fry's and buy a name-brand machine off the shelf with Linux preloaded, and why I don't see any Windows boxes in the same stores, eh?
Nothing radical (in either direction) is going to happen during the term of the next Congress. While the Dems have small majorities in both the House and the Senate, the President still wields a "veto" stamp. And the Dem's majority is not enough to override a veto in either the House or the Senate. Presidink Shrub is still a major factor, and one third of the equation, whether we like it or not.
Overall, the next Congress will be as much a do-nothing Congress as the current one has been. But while they won't restore any of the (many) rights we have lost, at least maybe they won't take away the few we have left.
Okay, you got me on that one. I hadn't thought about that because I live in one of the (majority of) states (Indiana) that does not permanently ban felons from voting unless that right is reinstated by [appropriate government official]. Only a handful of states are still that restrictive.
Obligatory corruption joke: I don't see why they ban felons from voting, since so many felons are in Congress...
Maybe next year you can take 30 minutes out of your busy schedule to look over the candidates. And then you can step up and do your duty as a citizen to vote, instead of being the lazy-ass sniveling dumb fuck you were this year.
The only acceptable excuse for a citizen not being informed and not voting is their own death on election day. Anything else is bullshit. No exceptions.
What's so amazing and new about this? Models of IBM Thinkpads came with an option for encrypted hard drives years ago. I know the Thinkpad 770 did it, because I have one.
And while I'm here, I'll nod in agreement with some of the other posts...especially in this era of George W. Brezhnev and his minions, I don't trust my encryption to anything that isn't open source and peer reviewed.
If this dude had simply put up a site that said "I made a fake boarding pass, here's how I did it, and maybe here's some suggestions to fix the problem", I'd be sympathetic to his cause.
Instead, he put up a website that said (or so the articles claimed...I wasn't about to go to such a site using my own machine) "I made a fake boarding pass, here, let me make one for you too with this website".
Look at it this way. If I discovered an easy way to make a working key to your house without your knowledge or permission or one of your existing keys, made one for myself, and then demonstrated for you how it was done, you'd probably be greatful and take steps to fix the problem. However, if I found a way to make such a key to your house, and sat up a machine three blocks from your house that allowed *anyone* to make a key to your house for free, I bet you'd be a bit less greatful, eh?
Do I think he should see jail time or a major blotch on his record? No. But do I think he should be tossed out the door with no consequences, its never mentioned again, and he's treated like a hero? That would be a "no" too.
The Duality of Slashdot never ceases to amuse me.
People who help others get copyrighted material without paying for it and then get busted are worshiped as martyrs.
But if someone dares violate the GPL, those same Slashdotters rise up and demand the heads of everyone involved on a silver platter.
It amazes me that more of you don't run for public office...you've got the "talking out of both sides of mouth" and "double standards" parts well covered.
Ain't it great how the real world works...
If Google removes the blogs, half the world bitches at them for censorship.
But if Google lets the blogs stay, then the *other* half of the world bitches that Google is helping spread racism.
This guy is lucky. I used to have to travel with two Compaq "lugable" computers. Each was the size of a small suitcase, and all you got for that was a tiny b/w crt. And a good workout from carrying them ;-)
Seriously, while I thought the video was really good, and I realize it was done mostly tongue-in-cheek, I have to echo what others have said. I have a Toshiba laptop. Its used for when I want to eat lunch at Panera and still get some work done, or at the library. When I need true portability, I'll use my Palm TX (and here lately, I'm using the TX at the library too).
I was in the Boy Scouts, from start to finish...started as a Cub Scout as soon as I could get in, stayed in until I was 21, and then served four years as a Scoutmaster. I was also in the OA, Explorers, and several other "side groups" (for lack of a better term). This was in the 60s through the 80s. I have nothing but fond memories of the experiences. There are **MANY** positive skills I learned and things I did that I would have never experienced without having been a Boy Scout.
That was then, this is now.
Now I'll echo what you say here. The organization has changed so much from what it was then that if I had children and they were to ask to be in Scouts, I'm not sure I would approve. I ceased donating even my money in the mid-90s.
See, that's the Slashdot Way. We show our appreciation for someone creating free software by pounding their server in to the ground, and shooting their bandwidth bill in to the stratosphere.
This is why I keep saying that when its something put out by a "little guy" (in otherwords, two guys in a garage, not Microsoft), the very least Slashdot could do is mirror the site for a few days. I used to think that having your site announced on Slashdot was a good thing, but now I would avoid it.
And out of all those colors it can display, the one that will be seen the most is green...as in the big piles of green you have to hand over to buy one when they first come out.
I must admit I get a chuckle out of a lot of the posts here that bitch about the bugs in Vista RC2.
The funny thing is I have yet to see a Linux distribution release come out bug-free either. In fact, in the 12 years I've been playing with Linux, I've seen at least a handful of releases that, a month later, had hundreds of megs of "bug fixes". And I remember at least one distribution that, upon its final release, destroyed certain CD recorders. I won't even bring up the fact that I have PCs that Ubuntu won't even install on, much less run correctly on, but both XP and Vista install and run on all the machines without a hitch.
But I guess that's okay, since its Linux and we love Linux even when it fucks up.
I have a hammer. I can build a house with it. Or I can kill someone with it. Does that make the hammer bad? Should we restrict the availability of hammers? Should we start requiring FBI background checks at Walmart in order to purchase a hammer? If we make it illegal to own a hammer, only criminals will have hammers.
Seriously, any "tool" is like this. You can do wonderful creative things with it. Or you can do nefarious evil with it. That doesn't make the availability of the tool wrong or undesireable.
I'll tell you the reason why Ubuntu is not, in fact "the winner", and why many people still use Mandriva.
Because on my hardware (three desktop machines, two laptops), Mandriva works out of the box. Ubuntu won't even install a bootable system on *any* of them, much less allow me to accomplish actual work. And apparently I'm not the only one. I'm also an "early seeder" for Mandriva, and the drag on my dedicated server has not been *less* than 2 megaBYTES/second since the release announcement this morning.
Yes, I could probably tinker with Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) and make it work. But I didn't have to tinker with Windows XP for it to install correctly on any of that hardware, why should I expect any less from a Linux distribution? (Hint: Don't say "because Linux is free" because I'm a Mandriva Club silver member, which means I actually put my money where my mouth is and pay cash for my Linux.)
Any "top 5 games" list that does not include Zork is obviously fucked, and cannot be trusted.