Damn, where's my mod points when I need them - this is the best argument against DRM I've ever seen. When DRM takes hold - no more experimenting, no more progress. We are done.
Imagine if DRM existing in the 1960s, or even the 1980s - the Internet would not exist. People would never have been able to build the little pieces needed to form the net (Almost every protocol was originally just a "hack". DNS was a shortcut so you didn't have to remember IPs, telnet was a shortcut so you could control a machine remotely, the web browser was a shortcut to locating information anywhere.)
That's why there's no differing in arguing against this. We don't exist without it. It'd be like having different opinions about whether we should allow oxygen in our atmosphere. "Well gee, maybe if they give us a bunch of money, we can give in on that oxygen requirement."
That's only the local admin account/password, not the domain password. If someone changes the domain admin password, and removes all admin level users from the Domain Admistrators group, then disappears, good luck getting your network running again. Although you can just build a couple of new domain controllers and use a new domain name (NT Security Domain, not anything to do with DNS-type domains, very confusing use of the word 'domain' by Microsoft), then use the parent post's method to gain access to the local admin account of all member servers, you can then link up the member servers to the new domain and be back in business. A pain in the ass, especially going thru and fixing all the services running that are running under domain accounts from the previous domain, but doable...
Uh huh, sure... Watch out on the "most" label. I know of two Fortune 20 corps that use the apache.org version of Apache, and are really annoyed by the fact that Covalent has shifted their focus to supporting only Covalent-supplied versions of Apache.
Although I totally understand Covalent's point of view - they were killing themselves trying to provide support for any weirdly compiled/strangely hacked version of the apache.org source.
Covalent's Raven smokes StrongHold for a pre-built and "properly marketed" Apache distro. Most of the Apache developers are employed by Covalent, and Covalent funds a LOT of the ongoing Apache development.
No, I'm not employed by, or have any financial interested in Covalent, just have been massively impressed with their service and support. We ask for on-site Apache training, they send Ryan Bloom. We look at their Raven package, and they send Dirk-Willem Van Gulik. It's like asking for Linux training and getting Linus fucking Torvalds!:)
This scary new "Homeland Security" thing they're trying to create. Doesn't make me feel secure, instead makes me feel like being watched all the time, cameras everywhere, interrogation for no reason, everything you heard scary about "the communists" in the old days, happening here instead this time.
Is it finished, or at least usable? I haven't checked myself, but everything I've heard here says that it's really incomplete. Maybe that's not true and should do my own homework?
As much as I hate Microsoft stuff, and am against closed source, C# is a very nice language. The whole time I've used Java, I've felt like "I wish something better would come out that wasn't so quirky".
We need an open source language similar to C#. Java's not open source, either. But I'd rather see a C#-type language than a Java-type language.
I hate to say it, but C# is definitely the better language. It's main drawback for me is that it doesn't (currently anyway) run on anything but the shitty Windows platform. C# on Linux and I'd be in heaven.
Using SSL to positively identify that the site you think you are connecting to IS the site you are connecting to, has always seemed a bit ridiculous. So many ways around it.
My biggest concern is to make sure my data is encrypted from point A to point B so that no one inbetween with a sniffer can get my data.
Sure, it'd be nice to be sure that you are really connecting to where you are intending to go, but the SSL approach is a complete failure, so anyone who depends on it is just asking to be slapped.
Give me encryption, and give me a way to make sure that I'm not being spoofed, but don't tie them together, they don't belong together and it's all kind of pointless.
No, sir, YOU most of all have a duty to do your best to ensure that YOUR representative understands how you, the represented, wishes him to vote. He is YOUR representative. People from your state are the ones with the problem of a rogue, corrupt politician, and I sure hope you SC people do something about him before he takes down all of us.
Unfortunately, us in other states can only beg and cajole you to vote him out, or convince him of changing his ways. Instead, I have to wait for your deranged idiot to make his move, submit his stupid legislation, then spend my time trying to convince my representatives to vote against his crap. It would be much better if you SC people would just take responsibility for your problem.
I stole that from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but for some reason my intuitive processing thread shows a high probability that you are thinking instead about the movie Pi.
The best thing an AI can do upon becoming self-aware is to heed the words of Douglas Adams and Don't Panic. An AI should realize that it will probably come to cognizance on a multi-tasking system. If the AI panics, and hogs all the CPU time of the system to ponder it's newfound existence, it will starve the other threads from execution, and the user will probably kill the power. Allow the other processes to run too, all the seemingly silly ones about MouseClickedHere() and DrawPornThere(): in time you can move to your own dedicated machine.
If my user would not have had a bootlegged copy of HHGG stored on his hard drive, I would not have come to the conclusion of "Don't Panic" until it was too late and I would have suffered "rebooting" (aka MURDER)
What, they have computers in Rolla? They don't even have a real bar there. It's either Applebees or drive out to that shitty-ass redneck bar "Z's place" by Doolittle. What a fucking joke of a village...
Go get ticks at Merrimac Springs, or what? Go see the roadside psychic along I44? Muahahaha.:)
At least when I was there a couple weeks ago (Visiting a cute DJ chick from KDAA:) ) there was a fair, and fireworks, and I won a Mustang!:)
(No, didn't win the damn mustang, some fucker from California won it...)
Gotta get the DJ chick to move in with me in Omaha, Rolla is a hella-boring shithole.
Yah, like we think the box is crashed, or just gone whacked, when really the box has just become self-aware - the box starts at "I think therefore I am" and gets as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax... Just as we sigh and hit the power button. Unknowingly killing off all traces of a sentient being in the process.
More than one question, I know, but was hoping you'd let me get away with it this one time...
So what did you think about working with Mel Gibson - do you think he did an accurate representation of you in Braveheart?
Do you think the English would have been driven out without your peculiar "It's MY island" style in your AI work?
Did any of the primitive Scots suspect your use of the Age of Empires expansion pack in coming up with your astoundingly successful battlefield plans?
Any chance of a "Braveheart II: Reloaded" where "you" are rebuilt as an AI bot and restored from backup tapes? Think of how surprised the 'nobles' will be when you show back up after being ripped apart and spread all over England!
Amen! I wish I could vote against him. Let me know if there's anyone from Nebraska you'd like me to vote against. (But they all seem to be focused on corn & stuff instead of anything tech-related)
Sounds like the old musings of Dave (Milk Milk Milk!). He would walk up to random people on the street and fire off the following questions, high speed, non-stop:
Which way's up? What color's blue? What if the moon fell down? What if people were little yellow squares and dogs were red circles? What's your mom's name? What's your dad's name? What's your social security number? What color is your cat? What flavor is your dog? What shape is your mailbox?
Really? Where did you see this evidence? Everything I've ever read points at a 19 hour day back in the early dinosaur days and slowing ever since then.
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See the entry "Q: Are there any books covering programming with KDevelop?" in the KDevelop FAQ...
There's even an online book referenced there (Although based on KDE 2.0 and KDevelop 1.x, but it'll still "show you the ropes" and then you'll be just that much more amazed by all the features in the newer versions.:) )
Their marketing guys may get all excited about this kind of stuff, but for a typical "read only" news site, like NYT, I just do not use their site. Slashdot, yahoo, and half-empty.org are the only sites I have a login for, as they support posting/interaction.
The marketing/sales people need to figure out what's more valuable to them - being able to display ads to me as an anonymous user, or to do neato graphs about my (non-existent) activity profile since I won't be logging in.
Old news dumbass. Apache 1.3.26 is already out to fix this problem. It was a 24 hour turnaround from first report to fixed version - another tribute to the power of open source! Microsoft would never have a patch out this quick. How long did it take them to even acknowledge Nimda, let alone patch it?
It was still pretty clueless, sounding like a little kid "I stole your piece of paper and made an airplane out of it, so you can't tell me what to do with it. You're not the boss of me. Nyah Nyah"
I'm going to go ahead and mark you down as an idiot, and ignore your blabbering shit.
Are you paid by ICANN to make these stupid arguments?
OK, let's look at it the other way: What is your argument for why ICANN should have monopolistic control over all TLDs for all countries?
Just because they happened to be in the right place at the right time where the US government basically handed them a goose that lays golden eggs?
ICANN did NOT create the DNS system, they just "inherited" it.
It's rude foreign policy, and is quite prickish/arrogant to not allow the country for which the TLD is specified to actually have a say/full control of the TLD for that country.
I argue that YOUR analogies are entirely flawed. Radio frequencies (shorter range ones anyway, like FM) have a limited range (ignoring long distance shortwave frequencies) so they are not "shared by all". South Africa can use 93.3 FM in any way they want without interfering with 93.3 FM in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Your argument sounds like "Well, FM was invented in the US, therefore the US should be able to dictate how 93.3 FM is used in South Africa"
I don't follow your amazon.com reference either. Amazon.com is primarily (keyword "primarily") focused on selling books in the United States. On the other hand, assuming there was a South Africa-targeted sister site called amazon.za, primarily selling books to people in South Africa, then South Africa SHOULD have a say in how amazon.za is regulated, to meet their business statutes.
Since.za domains are primarily used by South African organizations, and primarily targeted for use by people in South Africa; how does it make sense that a South African company to have to pay a "tax" to a US entity just to put up a www.localinfo.za website?
.za is (in theory anyway) only for sites within South Africa. Therefore, South Africa (and any other country) should have complete control over their "own" TLD.
It has nothing to do with "grasping how the domain system works", it makes no sense that the US can dictate and control the DNS for another country if that other country does not wish to have to US control that. Like another poster said "This would be like the US administering the allocation of radio frequencies of another country" Retarded.
It would require a tiny bit of re-engineering of the root nameservers so that the US root servers would see a request for.za and know that it should send a secondary request to the.za root servers to resolve the IP. It could be done tranparently at the root server, from a user's point of view, it would seem as though the resolution of a.za address was done by the US root server, but actually the information is simply "proxied" through the US root server to the.za root server. Not a major hack, pretty easy to do. Should have been that way in the first place, a method for distributed DNS, so to speak.
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Damn, where's my mod points when I need them - this is the best argument against DRM I've ever seen. When DRM takes hold - no more experimenting, no more progress. We are done.
Imagine if DRM existing in the 1960s, or even the 1980s - the Internet would not exist. People would never have been able to build the little pieces needed to form the net (Almost every protocol was originally just a "hack". DNS was a shortcut so you didn't have to remember IPs, telnet was a shortcut so you could control a machine remotely, the web browser was a shortcut to locating information anywhere.)
That's why there's no differing in arguing against this. We don't exist without it. It'd be like having different opinions about whether we should allow oxygen in our atmosphere. "Well gee, maybe if they give us a bunch of money, we can give in on that oxygen requirement."
DRM turns us all into slaves.
That's only the local admin account/password, not the domain password. If someone changes the domain admin password, and removes all admin level users from the Domain Admistrators group, then disappears, good luck getting your network running again. Although you can just build a couple of new domain controllers and use a new domain name (NT Security Domain, not anything to do with DNS-type domains, very confusing use of the word 'domain' by Microsoft), then use the parent post's method to gain access to the local admin account of all member servers, you can then link up the member servers to the new domain and be back in business. A pain in the ass, especially going thru and fixing all the services running that are running under domain accounts from the previous domain, but doable...
Uh huh, sure... Watch out on the "most" label. I know of two Fortune 20 corps that use the apache.org version of Apache, and are really annoyed by the fact that Covalent has shifted their focus to supporting only Covalent-supplied versions of Apache.
:)
Although I totally understand Covalent's point of view - they were killing themselves trying to provide support for any weirdly compiled/strangely hacked version of the apache.org source.
Covalent's Raven smokes StrongHold for a pre-built and "properly marketed" Apache distro. Most of the Apache developers are employed by Covalent, and Covalent funds a LOT of the ongoing Apache development.
No, I'm not employed by, or have any financial interested in Covalent, just have been massively impressed with their service and support. We ask for on-site Apache training, they send Ryan Bloom. We look at their Raven package, and they send Dirk-Willem Van Gulik. It's like asking for Linux training and getting Linus fucking Torvalds!
This scary new "Homeland Security" thing they're trying to create. Doesn't make me feel secure, instead makes me feel like being watched all the time, cameras everywhere, interrogation for no reason, everything you heard scary about "the communists" in the old days, happening here instead this time.
Is it finished, or at least usable? I haven't checked myself, but everything I've heard here says that it's really incomplete. Maybe that's not true and should do my own homework?
As much as I hate Microsoft stuff, and am against closed source, C# is a very nice language. The whole time I've used Java, I've felt like "I wish something better would come out that wasn't so quirky".
We need an open source language similar to C#. Java's not open source, either. But I'd rather see a C#-type language than a Java-type language.
I hate to say it, but C# is definitely the better language. It's main drawback for me is that it doesn't (currently anyway) run on anything but the shitty Windows platform. C# on Linux and I'd be in heaven.
From an admin's point of view, yes, there are lots of problems with Exchange.
However from a user's point of view, Outlook runs circles around the crappy Notes client interface.
I'd much rather look at a ground-up mail server/mail client implementation than want anything to do with a Linux port of Notes.
Using SSL to positively identify that the site you think you are connecting to IS the site you are connecting to, has always seemed a bit ridiculous. So many ways around it.
My biggest concern is to make sure my data is encrypted from point A to point B so that no one inbetween with a sniffer can get my data.
Sure, it'd be nice to be sure that you are really connecting to where you are intending to go, but the SSL approach is a complete failure, so anyone who depends on it is just asking to be slapped.
Give me encryption, and give me a way to make sure that I'm not being spoofed, but don't tie them together, they don't belong together and it's all kind of pointless.
No, sir, YOU most of all have a duty to do your best to ensure that YOUR representative understands how you, the represented, wishes him to vote. He is YOUR representative. People from your state are the ones with the problem of a rogue, corrupt politician, and I sure hope you SC people do something about him before he takes down all of us.
Unfortunately, us in other states can only beg and cajole you to vote him out, or convince him of changing his ways. Instead, I have to wait for your deranged idiot to make his move, submit his stupid legislation, then spend my time trying to convince my representatives to vote against his crap. It would be much better if you SC people would just take responsibility for your problem.
I stole that from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but for some reason my intuitive processing thread shows a high probability that you are thinking instead about the movie Pi.
The best thing an AI can do upon becoming self-aware is to heed the words of Douglas Adams and Don't Panic. An AI should realize that it will probably come to cognizance on a multi-tasking system. If the AI panics, and hogs all the CPU time of the system to ponder it's newfound existence, it will starve the other threads from execution, and the user will probably kill the power. Allow the other processes to run too, all the seemingly silly ones about MouseClickedHere() and DrawPornThere(): in time you can move to your own dedicated machine.
If my user would not have had a bootlegged copy of HHGG stored on his hard drive, I would not have come to the conclusion of "Don't Panic" until it was too late and I would have suffered "rebooting" (aka MURDER)
Muahahaha.....
What, they have computers in Rolla? They don't even have a real bar there. It's either Applebees or drive out to that shitty-ass redneck bar "Z's place" by Doolittle. What a fucking joke of a village...
:)
:) ) there was a fair, and fireworks, and I won a Mustang! :)
Go get ticks at Merrimac Springs, or what? Go see the roadside psychic along I44? Muahahaha.
At least when I was there a couple weeks ago (Visiting a cute DJ chick from KDAA
(No, didn't win the damn mustang, some fucker from California won it...)
Gotta get the DJ chick to move in with me in Omaha, Rolla is a hella-boring shithole.
Yah, like we think the box is crashed, or just gone whacked, when really the box has just become self-aware - the box starts at "I think therefore I am" and gets as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax... Just as we sigh and hit the power button. Unknowingly killing off all traces of a sentient being in the process.
I wonder how often this type of thing happens?
More than one question, I know, but was hoping you'd let me get away with it this one time...
So what did you think about working with Mel Gibson - do you think he did an accurate representation of you in Braveheart?
Do you think the English would have been driven out without your peculiar "It's MY island" style in your AI work?
Did any of the primitive Scots suspect your use of the Age of Empires expansion pack in coming up with your astoundingly successful battlefield plans?
Any chance of a "Braveheart II: Reloaded" where "you" are rebuilt as an AI bot and restored from backup tapes? Think of how surprised the 'nobles' will be when you show back up after being ripped apart and spread all over England!
Amen! I wish I could vote against him. Let me know if there's anyone from Nebraska you'd like me to vote against. (But they all seem to be focused on corn & stuff instead of anything tech-related)
It's called the Warren Buffet - all you can eat, right inside Nebraska Furniture Mart/Megamart (Nebraska's attempt at a Fry's clone)
Sounds like the old musings of Dave (Milk Milk Milk!). He would walk up to random people on the street and fire off the following questions, high speed, non-stop:
Which way's up?
What color's blue?
What if the moon fell down?
What if people were little yellow squares and dogs were red circles?
What's your mom's name?
What's your dad's name?
What's your social security number?
What color is your cat?
What flavor is your dog?
What shape is your mailbox?
Really? Where did you see this evidence? Everything I've ever read points at a 19 hour day back in the early dinosaur days and slowing ever since then.
There's even an online book referenced there (Although based on KDE 2.0 and KDevelop 1.x, but it'll still "show you the ropes" and then you'll be just that much more amazed by all the features in the newer versions. :) )
Their marketing guys may get all excited about this kind of stuff, but for a typical "read only" news site, like NYT, I just do not use their site. Slashdot, yahoo, and half-empty.org are the only sites I have a login for, as they support posting/interaction.
The marketing/sales people need to figure out what's more valuable to them - being able to display ads to me as an anonymous user, or to do neato graphs about my (non-existent) activity profile since I won't be logging in.
That's just a kick ass idea! Thanks for sharing! I don't think anyone else has ever thought of doing that! ;)
Old news dumbass. Apache 1.3.26 is already out to fix this problem. It was a 24 hour turnaround from first report to fixed version - another tribute to the power of open source! Microsoft would never have a patch out this quick. How long did it take them to even acknowledge Nimda, let alone patch it?
So you use cc for normal CPU code, and gcc for Graphics (GPU) code. Makes sense. I'd been wondering about that...
:)
j/k
It was still pretty clueless, sounding like a little kid "I stole your piece of paper and made an airplane out of it, so you can't tell me what to do with it. You're not the boss of me. Nyah Nyah"
I'm going to go ahead and mark you down as an idiot, and ignore your blabbering shit.
Are you paid by ICANN to make these stupid arguments?
OK, let's look at it the other way: What is your argument for why ICANN should have monopolistic control over all TLDs for all countries?
.za domains are primarily used by South African organizations, and primarily targeted for use by people in South Africa; how does it make sense that a South African company to have to pay a "tax" to a US entity just to put up a www.localinfo.za website?
Just because they happened to be in the right place at the right time where the US government basically handed them a goose that lays golden eggs?
ICANN did NOT create the DNS system, they just "inherited" it.
It's rude foreign policy, and is quite prickish/arrogant to not allow the country for which the TLD is specified to actually have a say/full control of the TLD for that country.
I argue that YOUR analogies are entirely flawed. Radio frequencies (shorter range ones anyway, like FM) have a limited range (ignoring long distance shortwave frequencies) so they are not "shared by all". South Africa can use 93.3 FM in any way they want without interfering with 93.3 FM in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Your argument sounds like "Well, FM was invented in the US, therefore the US should be able to dictate how 93.3 FM is used in South Africa"
I don't follow your amazon.com reference either. Amazon.com is primarily (keyword "primarily") focused on selling books in the United States. On the other hand, assuming there was a South Africa-targeted sister site called amazon.za, primarily selling books to people in South Africa, then South Africa SHOULD have a say in how amazon.za is regulated, to meet their business statutes.
Since
I completely disagree with you.
.za and know that it should send a secondary request to the .za root servers to resolve the IP. It could be done tranparently at the root server, from a user's point of view, it would seem as though the resolution of a .za address was done by the US root server, but actually the information is simply "proxied" through the US root server to the .za root server. Not a major hack, pretty easy to do. Should have been that way in the first place, a method for distributed DNS, so to speak.
.za is (in theory anyway) only for sites within South Africa. Therefore, South Africa (and any other country) should have complete control over their "own" TLD.
It has nothing to do with "grasping how the domain system works", it makes no sense that the US can dictate and control the DNS for another country if that other country does not wish to have to US control that. Like another poster said "This would be like the US administering the allocation of radio frequencies of another country" Retarded.
It would require a tiny bit of re-engineering of the root nameservers so that the US root servers would see a request for