One can only hope that if they get hit upside the head with a proverbial baseball bat often enough, perhaps they'll learn?
After all, even the dumbest dog learns after a while, right?
Nah, probably won't happen..
Does this kid have some burning desire to pay money to the RIAA till the end of time? He says first that he doesnt have the resources to defend a case, but then he follows it up by saying, yeah, I'm bringing the search engine back up.
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA is wrong, but why ask for a second ass-raping? You just know they'll come after him again. He settled once, odds are he'll settle again (or so I would guess).
I'll call an OS trusted after its been deployed for at least a year with no intrusions.
How do you call 1.0 of something 'trusted'? Regression testing and looking good on paper is great, but until you can prove that the damn thing works (i.e. make me trust it) it ain't trusted.
That said, I'm going to grab my copy and play around. We need more security-focused distros. BSD has it right (no remote exploits with a base install), linux needs to do a little catching up in the access control area.
I find it interesting that Sony endorses (i.e. they digitally signed a CD for mass production) such an application, whereas Microsoft has fought several companies trying to do the same with XBox (wish I had links). Not meaning to start a flamewar, anyone have any thoughts on why the differing strategies? Is it that MS wants to push Windows Media Center and Sony has no product to pitch in the space so it doesnt care, or am I missing something blatant?
He doesnt qualify anyway. An unmodded xbox means an unchanged one. You have to take it apart and bridge some jumpers (i.e. mod the xbox) to make this work.
Without having to release source? I mean, sure, if they do a cleanroom implementation, but who thinks they will? Seems much more likely they'll start of with mplayer or something for a shell and code against that...
That aside, nice to see the jolly greed giant finally acknowledge linux and code for it.
To me anyway, is kiosks. Buy a new 30GB iPod (shipping soon), along with a monthly subscription (Part of.Mac perhaps?). We know that Target is in bed with Apple on the iPods, and Target is everywhere (at least in my area). Add wal-mart, etc. etc. to the mix, and throw a music kiosk in each one (kiosks are cheap).
Not only can you load your iPod at home, you can add new music while on the road across the country.
This isnt necessarily wrong. Say I'm Wesayso, Inc. and my new KickassIII processor is the next big thing for CE machines. Everyone is going to be using them, Dell in the cheapos, Compaq in the iPaqs, etc. etc. It certainly makes sense for me to take the source, optimize CE for it, and make sure that my product is stable, as opposed to letting MS do it themselves and screwing up like they usually do.
Granted, it seems wrong on its face, but MS is right for a change. Wesayso gets as much benefit (an optimized CE version that they make sure is correctly coded) as Microsoft does (free labor).
Something like Logic or Cubase on Linux would absolutely kick ass. My powerbook beats the hell out of windows for music apps, but an open-sourced suite would be worth it to switch. You have no idea how often I wind up thinking, geez, if only logic had an extra slider here to control this or that or the other...
Its nothing that can't be done with a high-end PC now (including HDTV, yum), but at the right price, thats $600 for those of you who need a number, it ought to sell very well. Why $600? Take a cheapo mini-ATX barebones box ($400 at a trade show) add a DVD/RW or whatever your flavor is ($200-$250 at a trade show) and you have the same thing. At least for us geeks, thats the case. But more and more 'common folk' seem to be realizing the same cost of parts vs. cost of the unit deal.
No! Not at all! See my earlier post about the four-assed monkeys. We have the technology to take any pet you want, any at all, and give it four asses for the low low price of $3,141.59.
Company refuses to support old release. News at 11.
Come on guys, NT4 is damn near EOL, and I have to guess over 75% (BS number, I know) of people use 2000, XP, or the upcoming 2003.
We all bitch about their holes, but we expect them to patch ME, XP, 2000, 2003RC, NT4 and some people still bitch about a lack of 3.51 patches, namely some government types.
I realize they're all big and bad, but really, how many different releases do you support before you start killing some off.
And did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, it really isn't possible to patch NT4 without a drastic architectural change?
For those of us that have to do near-line storage, write-once archival (FTC guidelines for email retention, etc.), and other backup-ish stuff, this is a dream come true. Take that 10,000 disk DVD jukebox, swap the drives, and go from 40,000MB (about 3.5TB) to something nearly 10 times as dense (close to 28TB). God I can't wait for one of these. Toss in on your SAN, virtualize, and archive everything.
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No! The 0's still flow thru ok, but damn if the 1's don't keep getting stuck in the kinks..
One can only hope that if they get hit upside the head with a proverbial baseball bat often enough, perhaps they'll learn? After all, even the dumbest dog learns after a while, right? Nah, probably won't happen..
On second thought... Forget the blackjack!
Yes... Thats why people keep modding us as Troll when we tell you that BSD is dying.
> now I can't lookup slashdot.org anymore.
/. is doing real work...
Which isn't that big a deal, till you realize that the alternative to
Oh the humanity!
Does this kid have some burning desire to pay money to the RIAA till the end of time? He says first that he doesnt have the resources to defend a case, but then he follows it up by saying, yeah, I'm bringing the search engine back up.
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA is wrong, but why ask for a second ass-raping? You just know they'll come after him again. He settled once, odds are he'll settle again (or so I would guess).
IF anyone dares to complain, we'll just drop bunker-busters on them instead. Damned terrorists...
I'll call an OS trusted after its been deployed for at least a year with no intrusions.
How do you call 1.0 of something 'trusted'? Regression testing and looking good on paper is great, but until you can prove that the damn thing works (i.e. make me trust it) it ain't trusted.
That said, I'm going to grab my copy and play around. We need more security-focused distros. BSD has it right (no remote exploits with a base install), linux needs to do a little catching up in the access control area.
Hoffa named Organized Crime Prevention Czar, and Hose, the neighborhood crack dealer has been dubbed War on Drugs Czar.
That is all.
I find it interesting that Sony endorses (i.e. they digitally signed a CD for mass production) such an application, whereas Microsoft has fought several companies trying to do the same with XBox (wish I had links). Not meaning to start a flamewar, anyone have any thoughts on why the differing strategies? Is it that MS wants to push Windows Media Center and Sony has no product to pitch in the space so it doesnt care, or am I missing something blatant?
He doesnt qualify anyway. An unmodded xbox means an unchanged one. You have to take it apart and bridge some jumpers (i.e. mod the xbox) to make this work.
Without having to release source? I mean, sure, if they do a cleanroom implementation, but who thinks they will? Seems much more likely they'll start of with mplayer or something for a shell and code against that...
That aside, nice to see the jolly greed giant finally acknowledge linux and code for it.
To me anyway, is kiosks. Buy a new 30GB iPod (shipping soon), along with a monthly subscription (Part of .Mac perhaps?). We know that Target is in bed with Apple on the iPods, and Target is everywhere (at least in my area). Add wal-mart, etc. etc. to the mix, and throw a music kiosk in each one (kiosks are cheap).
Not only can you load your iPod at home, you can add new music while on the road across the country.
Just a thought.
This isnt necessarily wrong. Say I'm Wesayso, Inc. and my new KickassIII processor is the next big thing for CE machines. Everyone is going to be using them, Dell in the cheapos, Compaq in the iPaqs, etc. etc. It certainly makes sense for me to take the source, optimize CE for it, and make sure that my product is stable, as opposed to letting MS do it themselves and screwing up like they usually do.
Granted, it seems wrong on its face, but MS is right for a change. Wesayso gets as much benefit (an optimized CE version that they make sure is correctly coded) as Microsoft does (free labor).
Something like Logic or Cubase on Linux would absolutely kick ass. My powerbook beats the hell out of windows for music apps, but an open-sourced suite would be worth it to switch. You have no idea how often I wind up thinking, geez, if only logic had an extra slider here to control this or that or the other...
Its nothing that can't be done with a high-end PC now (including HDTV, yum), but at the right price, thats $600 for those of you who need a number, it ought to sell very well. Why $600? Take a cheapo mini-ATX barebones box ($400 at a trade show) add a DVD/RW or whatever your flavor is ($200-$250 at a trade show) and you have the same thing. At least for us geeks, thats the case. But more and more 'common folk' seem to be realizing the same cost of parts vs. cost of the unit deal.
No! Not at all! See my earlier post about the four-assed monkeys. We have the technology to take any pet you want, any at all, and give it four asses for the low low price of $3,141.59.
Just make the check out to Japhar81...
The first 500 people to request one, will recieve their very own four-assed monkey.
to create a slashdotted icon?
So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?
Because they can't figure out how many LOC's it is.
Speaking of which, whats the conversion factor here?
Company refuses to support old release. News at 11.
Come on guys, NT4 is damn near EOL, and I have to guess over 75% (BS number, I know) of people use 2000, XP, or the upcoming 2003.
We all bitch about their holes, but we expect them to patch ME, XP, 2000, 2003RC, NT4 and some people still bitch about a lack of 3.51 patches, namely some government types.
I realize they're all big and bad, but really, how many different releases do you support before you start killing some off.
And did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, it really isn't possible to patch NT4 without a drastic architectural change?
For those of us that have to do near-line storage, write-once archival (FTC guidelines for email retention, etc.), and other backup-ish stuff, this is a dream come true. Take that 10,000 disk DVD jukebox, swap the drives, and go from 40,000MB (about 3.5TB) to something nearly 10 times as dense (close to 28TB). God I can't wait for one of these. Toss in on your SAN, virtualize, and archive everything.
Recompile apache -- that fixes it. Don't ask my how/why.
Always add bitch at the end of the feature request.
Example
Incorrect
The program could use a print preview feature, please add it.
Correct
The program could use a print preview feature, please add it, bitch.
At least that's rule #1 where I work.
Bug number: 001
Bug location: Website
Bug symptoms: Site won't respond
Comments:
Slashdotted all to hell.