Instead of modding you down, I'll bite. Out of the box? You jest sir. Aside from problems I've heard others have with even slightly esoteric hardware:
Multiple desktops? Without which I'd go insane.
Tabbed browsing on pre-installed internet browser? Again, without which I'd go insane.
Even slackware comes with KDE's IDE KDevelop, Qt Designer, Emacs, gcc. Where's the development environment/compiler installed by default in Windows XP?
Image editing as rich as Paint Shop Pro (if not Photoshop) in the form of GIMP. What's the equivalent in the default XP install?
Hex editor, Regex editor?
Portscanner?
"Bam!" indeed..don't wish to come off as a zealot, but I know which I'd prefer "out of the box"...
No offence, but that's a little assinine. Are you likening a computer crime that is more akin to trespass, to murder? If you think what he did is on the same level as murder then I despair of you, I really do.
I remember back when I were a wee nipper. I'd say, "Just one more level mum!" and she'd begrudgingly say..."Ohh, okay...". He cites GTA. How do you think she would have reacted had I said, "Awww...can't I just whack one more skank mum!?" or "Can't I just waste 10 more cacodemons??".
"Level" is a nice, conservative, bland word, it evokes no emotion. As soon as you start having to explain your progression through a game in terms of what you're actually doing...well then the ESRB win don't they, and your dirty little secret is out.
Except when you have lots of apps open. On both XP(work) and whatever KDE version I use now 3.2..I think(home), the default behaviour is to group taskbar entries per application once the taskbar is filled.
In internet explorer it's a pain when a site doesn't have meaningful titles for each page, there's no way of knowing which is which. You then have to go through the list of windows that pops up from the taskbar.
Does Windows have multiple desktops out of the box yet? That's something I couldn't do without.
Err..you're acting as if this is the hardest thing in the world. It's not hard to log the amount of time you spend working on project X, I'm sure enough people have to do it in the Real World. If a group of people then donate money for openSSH the money could be divided between the developers working on the project to recompense them for time/resources. If someone else comes up with a natty idea for openSSH and it ends up in, you could book them for a nominal amount of time on the project and recompense them. If I don't use product X, why should I fund it? It's not really unfair to want to contribute only to projects that you use...
Cyril: "I'm going to stand here on the corner speaking about anarchy, if you want to find out about anarchy, feel free to come and listen." Bert:"Ooh, yes please, I'd like to learn the meaning of anarc...*THWACK*...OWW!! You just twatted me on the head with a hammer!! Why did you do that you bastard?" Cyril:"Look, if you don't want to get hit on the head with a hammer you should wear a helmet. Now, about anarchy.."
Yeeeeeeaaah...it's perfectly reasonable to expect someone to alter the default settings of their web browser just because someone can't design a usable site! Awesome reasoning.
Having not studied Computer Science, could you give examples of cheap knock-offs produced by the GNU project?
Do you mean they take CompSci theory/research and implement it in their own products? Or do you mean they "knock-off" implementations of technology found in other projects products?
Are there not examples of similar lack of innovation by Microsoft, Oracle or any other major software vendor? Or does the Computer Science crowd not take them seriously either? Please explain...
Errr...not sure about Alan Cox or Remy Card or any of the other excellent OSS developers out there but certainly RMS feels that he would rather earn a living as a waiter and develop Free software in his spare time than earn a living developing proprietary software. So yes, it seems he would be willing to code for free. Plus he spends more time now giving speeches on Free software advocacy. (I've also been led to believe by interviews with him that he lives pretty frugally.)
Who do you think was paying Linus to develop Linux when he was a student? Did he give his labour away for free? Err...yup. Maybe he wasn't as good a developer as he is now, and he's said as much before, but he wasn't exactly a slouch either. And I'm betting the other early Linux kernel hackers weren't getting paid to work on it.
You seem to be saying that no good developer works for free. So you're saying all the developers working on free (as in beer) software in their spare time aren't good at what they do? I haven't audited all the projects on Sourceforge and checked whether their authors have been compensated for their work, but I'm guessing by the same measure that neither have you.
Perhaps you're right, but if I were you, I wouldn't make such sweeping generalisations, if only because you might hurt someone's feelings.:)
I really don't understand your point..if there was one. I thought the point of the OP was that if Google encrypted everyone's files, then the Gubmint wouldn't know where to start. But then you say something similar in the closing paragraph of your post..
You're right, Google encrypting your data doesn't make it more secure, but instead of a bright pink piece of paper in a stack of white paper, it'd be a bright pink piece in a stack of other bright pink pieces of paper.
Of course the best situation would be...
1)Encrypt your important data/family photos/pr0n
2)Upload
3)Google indexes plaintext data and ignores or fails to index encrypted data
4)Google compresses
5)Google encrypts
This way everyone's data is encrypted at least once, and the cautious among us have 2 levels of encryption to which only we have the key to one.
$El_Presidente: Nice government contract you have there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
What are they going to switch to? Microsoft has them over a barrel because of inertia. To switch to an alternative, as nice as that would be from a "Wow the government is kicking MS in the nuts" perspective, would piss off so many taxpayers who would see it as completely unneccessary that it would never fly.
Far better to hire a bunch of tame blackhats to stay on top of IE exploits in order to spy on the terrorists/criminals. Oh wait, did I just describe the function of the three letter agencies..sorry MI5/6 I mean three *character* agencies.:o)
Because then you couldn't scare the shit out of someone plugging speakers into the wrong soundcard by looping a loudass WAV of "AWOOOOGAH!! DO NOT TOUCH ME THERE HUMAN!!!!" through it.
This happened to me, I went to a friends house and he had shoutcast TV. We watched about 6 hours of Scrubs/Sealab/Venture Brothers, without adverts. Never before had I longed for an ad-break. The worst thing was, almost all of the shows didn't even have credits. I thought I was going to kill myself..
Do you let her watch cartoons? Spongebob, Powerpuff Girls, Totally Spies? Although these may just seem like totally freakin' awesome cartoons, they are in fact secretly advertising...tie-in toys.
Be warned, if you don't nip this marketing gimmick in the bud, you will be overpowered by the stench of metaphorical commercial-pollen and before you know it, your little one could be pricked by the thorn of an advertising-rose and playing Star Wars chess or, dare I say it, Star Wars Monopoly...
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Did someone say, MOONBASE?!
Slightly off-topic, but in Britain at least, trespass is now a civil not a criminal matter. IANAL.
Instead of modding you down, I'll bite. Out of the box? You jest sir. Aside from problems I've heard others have with even slightly esoteric hardware:
Multiple desktops? Without which I'd go insane.
Tabbed browsing on pre-installed internet browser? Again, without which I'd go insane.
Even slackware comes with KDE's IDE KDevelop, Qt Designer, Emacs, gcc. Where's the development environment/compiler installed by default in Windows XP?
Image editing as rich as Paint Shop Pro (if not Photoshop) in the form of GIMP. What's the equivalent in the default XP install?
Hex editor, Regex editor?
Portscanner?
"Bam!" indeed..don't wish to come off as a zealot, but I know which I'd prefer "out of the box"...
I'd like to offer you $2.7m for the movie rights to that story.
No offence, but that's a little assinine. Are you likening a computer crime that is more akin to trespass, to murder? If you think what he did is on the same level as murder then I despair of you, I really do.
I remember back when I were a wee nipper. I'd say, "Just one more level mum!" and she'd begrudgingly say..."Ohh, okay...". He cites GTA. How do you think she would have reacted had I said, "Awww...can't I just whack one more skank mum!?" or "Can't I just waste 10 more cacodemons??".
"Level" is a nice, conservative, bland word, it evokes no emotion. As soon as you start having to explain your progression through a game in terms of what you're actually doing...well then the ESRB win don't they, and your dirty little secret is out.
Ssshhhh!! I'm trying to trademark Web 3.0! ;)
Except when you have lots of apps open. On both XP(work) and whatever KDE version I use now 3.2..I think(home), the default behaviour is to group taskbar entries per application once the taskbar is filled.
In internet explorer it's a pain when a site doesn't have meaningful titles for each page, there's no way of knowing which is which. You then have to go through the list of windows that pops up from the taskbar.
Does Windows have multiple desktops out of the box yet? That's something I couldn't do without.
Err..you're acting as if this is the hardest thing in the world. It's not hard to log the amount of time you spend working on project X, I'm sure enough people have to do it in the Real World. If a group of people then donate money for openSSH the money could be divided between the developers working on the project to recompense them for time/resources. If someone else comes up with a natty idea for openSSH and it ends up in, you could book them for a nominal amount of time on the project and recompense them.
If I don't use product X, why should I fund it? It's not really unfair to want to contribute only to projects that you use...
All joking/flaming aside, wouldn't emacs be better for a blind person than a modal text editor like vi?
Cyril: "I'm going to stand here on the corner speaking about anarchy, if you want to find out about anarchy, feel free to come and listen."
Bert: "Ooh, yes please, I'd like to learn the meaning of anarc...*THWACK*...OWW!! You just twatted me on the head with a hammer!! Why did you do that you bastard?"
Cyril: "Look, if you don't want to get hit on the head with a hammer you should wear a helmet. Now, about anarchy.."
Yeeeeeeaaah...it's perfectly reasonable to expect someone to alter the default settings of their web browser just because someone can't design a usable site! Awesome reasoning.
Having not studied Computer Science, could you give examples of cheap knock-offs produced by the GNU project?
Do you mean they take CompSci theory/research and implement it in their own products? Or do you mean they "knock-off" implementations of technology found in other projects products?
Are there not examples of similar lack of innovation by Microsoft, Oracle or any other major software vendor? Or does the Computer Science crowd not take them seriously either? Please explain...
Errr...not sure about Alan Cox or Remy Card or any of the other excellent OSS developers out there but certainly RMS feels that he would rather earn a living as a waiter and develop Free software in his spare time than earn a living developing proprietary software. So yes, it seems he would be willing to code for free. Plus he spends more time now giving speeches on Free software advocacy. (I've also been led to believe by interviews with him that he lives pretty frugally.)
:)
Who do you think was paying Linus to develop Linux when he was a student? Did he give his labour away for free? Err...yup. Maybe he wasn't as good a developer as he is now, and he's said as much before, but he wasn't exactly a slouch either. And I'm betting the other early Linux kernel hackers weren't getting paid to work on it.
You seem to be saying that no good developer works for free. So you're saying all the developers working on free (as in beer) software in their spare time aren't good at what they do? I haven't audited all the projects on Sourceforge and checked whether their authors have been compensated for their work, but I'm guessing by the same measure that neither have you.
Perhaps you're right, but if I were you, I wouldn't make such sweeping generalisations, if only because you might hurt someone's feelings.
This is Slashdot. I recommend that they get Linuxes instead.
This is Slashdot. It's GNU/Linuxes.
weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed
You need a bigger hammer.
I really don't understand your point..if there was one. I thought the point of the OP was that if Google encrypted everyone's files, then the Gubmint wouldn't know where to start. But then you say something similar in the closing paragraph of your post..
You're right, Google encrypting your data doesn't make it more secure, but instead of a bright pink piece of paper in a stack of white paper, it'd be a bright pink piece in a stack of other bright pink pieces of paper.
Of course the best situation would be...
1)Encrypt your important data/family photos/pr0n
2)Upload
3)Google indexes plaintext data and ignores or fails to index encrypted data
4)Google compresses
5)Google encrypts
This way everyone's data is encrypted at least once, and the cautious among us have 2 levels of encryption to which only we have the key to one.
You're sort of pre-empting the next BBC story. Apparently doubling the production of electric cars will have no impact whatsoever on CO2 emissions.
$El_Presidente: Nice government contract you have there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
:o)
What are they going to switch to? Microsoft has them over a barrel because of inertia. To switch to an alternative, as nice as that would be from a "Wow the government is kicking MS in the nuts" perspective, would piss off so many taxpayers who would see it as completely unneccessary that it would never fly.
Far better to hire a bunch of tame blackhats to stay on top of IE exploits in order to spy on the terrorists/criminals. Oh wait, did I just describe the function of the three letter agencies..sorry MI5/6 I mean three *character* agencies.
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Because then you couldn't scare the shit out of someone plugging speakers into the wrong soundcard by looping a loudass WAV of "AWOOOOGAH!! DO NOT TOUCH ME THERE HUMAN!!!!" through it.
This happened to me, I went to a friends house and he had shoutcast TV. We watched about 6 hours of Scrubs/Sealab/Venture Brothers, without adverts. Never before had I longed for an ad-break. The worst thing was, almost all of the shows didn't even have credits. I thought I was going to kill myself..
Do you let her watch cartoons? Spongebob, Powerpuff Girls, Totally Spies? Although these may just seem like totally freakin' awesome cartoons, they are in fact secretly advertising...tie-in toys.
Be warned, if you don't nip this marketing gimmick in the bud, you will be overpowered by the stench of metaphorical commercial-pollen and before you know it, your little one could be pricked by the thorn of an advertising-rose and playing Star Wars chess or, dare I say it, Star Wars Monopoly...
You mean you don't need "multiple processors"? What about other "process activity"?
And don't you need "large memory for good caching of tunes being played"??
Seriously, all the guy's done is taken a picture of the server in his trunk/boot, there's no evidence that it's even connected..