Don't be so paranoid. Intel have been releasing microcode updates for ages, for processors much older than the current Core 2 models. This is nothing new and is not news.
If a suspect runs from the police, they should be required to shoot them in the back if they don't stop when asked to. [...] Lets face it, innocent people don't run.
Oh, yes, just like UK style: chase them through the London Underground, then pin them to the floor and blow their brains out at point-blank range.
According to some reports, the crackers say they were driven to desperate measures. "We had to go this far because they just weren't listening to our concerns. How much more of being spread with this soft, white mush should we tolerate? Is a decent Cheddar so much to ask for?!"
What you failed to understand is that making a deal with Microsoft is the most evil thing RedHat can do right now.
I think we all understand that.
That they respond initially with a flat "no" is truly not saying much. All it really says is that they are not very evil (which we already knew). If, for example, RedHat publicly announced that they considered MS's tactics to be racketeering, that would be news.
But that language would be brazenly combative (Truth Happens is just an ad campaign). Might it not alienate enterprise customers?
As it currently stands, RedHat's actions just aren't that significant. They haven't hurt Microsoft in any way, and they haven't challenged Microsoft to "put up or shut up." All they've said is "we aren't playing."
Why would they want to hurt Microsoft? That's stooping to the enemy's level. Neither does their stance add up to appeasement. Choosing to not get involved and carrying on as normal, rather than letting loose with (potentially expensive) sound and fury, would seem to make tactical sense.
This is a very reasonable gripe. I've secured my network with WPA-Enterprise, and as far as I know none of those fancy wireless-enabled devices (cameras, games consoles, print servers, etc.) support EAP-TLS authentication (where do I store the certificate?). It's a nuisance.
This is false and could be very confusing for readers who don't already know about the structure of Linux.
Yes, it's as if a billion pure assembler programmers cried out in terror... aren't glibc system calls wrappers for SYSENTER instructions on modern Intel processors?
You used to get bizarre trolls around here that took our learned editor-folk and made them characters in short, absurdly pornographic fictitious literary scenes.
It's disguised anti-Red Hatism from those who resent a company making money out of Linux. Mostly ungrateful fucks who don't realise just how much Red Hat's money puts back into the system. There are also a lot of lazy buggers out there who can't be bothered to figure out how to make it work and talk shit about yum and rpm. Add in those who don't seem to realise that Fedora eschews non-Free/possibly patented stuff by default and haven't figured out what a third-party repository is: "I can't play MP3s!" "MP3 is covered by software patents and so its inclusion in the distro is legally dubious. You just need the extra packages from (some repo)." "What's (some repo)? Where do I get that?" "Google is your friend." "Whaaat? That's crap!" "Well fuck off back to Windows, then." It's l33t to bash Red Hat and Fedora (which does look better) and sing the praises of Ubuntu's supposed ease. Lock 'em up in a small room with a clean box and a copy of FreeBSD; then see how l33t they feel after an hour or so.
If you compare Tron's computer graphics with the computer graphics we have in movies today, they seem crude, yes, but surely if the designers back then had wanted to, they could have made all the shots as complex and slick as what you can do today.
Modern CG is all about photorealism. The imagery in Tron was not --- after all, it was meant to be a visualisation of an address space --- hence the blocky, Phong-shaded look.
No, it's certainly not the worst sci-fi film ever made. If they made sure Battlefield Earth was shown immediately afterwards, people would certainly appreciate Tron more.
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Might The Artist Formerly Known as Prince then become, in response, The Artist Formerly Giving A Flying Fuck?
This is an interesting question, and I too would like to know the answer. I wonder what RMS thinks of this.
Don't be so paranoid. Intel have been releasing microcode updates for ages, for processors much older than the current Core 2 models. This is nothing new and is not news.
According to the Prophets of WBC, we UKians are nothing more than a "raunchy little group of pagans".
Raunchy pagan? Moi?!
Ker-ching!
In 2007, cyberwar was beginning.
According to some reports, the crackers say they were driven to desperate measures. "We had to go this far because they just weren't listening to our concerns. How much more of being spread with this soft, white mush should we tolerate? Is a decent Cheddar so much to ask for?!"
So what, in your military analogy, do you think is going to happen to the BSDs in all this?
What do you mean by that? In what way are Red Hat "sell-outs"?
Does the fact that Red Hat makes money out of Linux and uses this to plow tons of resources into Free Software projects unnerve you?
Red Hat may take, but they sure as hell pay it back with interest.
Damn, beat me to it.
"IE season!"
"Firefox season"
"IE season!"
"Firefox season!"
"Firefox season!"
"IE season!"
"Firefox season!"
"IE season! Fire!!!"
So I'm guessing the disc I found the other day with a tiny Lemonparty hologram on it ain't legit...
That said, I've just found out some high-end Lexmark print servers do support WPA-Enterprise.
This is a very reasonable gripe. I've secured my network with WPA-Enterprise, and as far as I know none of those fancy wireless-enabled devices (cameras, games consoles, print servers, etc.) support EAP-TLS authentication (where do I store the certificate?). It's a nuisance.
That does include a whole ton of drivers.
Troi attained the rank of Commander. Anyhoo, I'd like... no, I'm just curious to know what a "sexy lemur" is.
You see, I've seen a whole bunch of lemurs.
Mostly in captivity.
Not one of them turned me on.
You used to get bizarre trolls around here that took our learned editor-folk and made them characters in short, absurdly pornographic fictitious literary scenes.
Guess that too counts as fan-fiction, right?
It's disguised anti-Red Hatism from those who resent a company making money out of Linux. Mostly ungrateful fucks who don't realise just how much Red Hat's money puts back into the system. There are also a lot of lazy buggers out there who can't be bothered to figure out how to make it work and talk shit about yum and rpm. Add in those who don't seem to realise that Fedora eschews non-Free/possibly patented stuff by default and haven't figured out what a third-party repository is: "I can't play MP3s!" "MP3 is covered by software patents and so its inclusion in the distro is legally dubious. You just need the extra packages from (some repo)." "What's (some repo)? Where do I get that?" "Google is your friend." "Whaaat? That's crap!" "Well fuck off back to Windows, then." It's l33t to bash Red Hat and Fedora (which does look better) and sing the praises of Ubuntu's supposed ease. Lock 'em up in a small room with a clean box and a copy of FreeBSD; then see how l33t they feel after an hour or so.
No, it's certainly not the worst sci-fi film ever made. If they made sure Battlefield Earth was shown immediately afterwards, people would certainly appreciate Tron more.
The "backdoor from hell" already has a name: hello.jpg.
To think that English doesn't fit in 7-bit ASCII is na\"ive.