"Comparing that list to the list of NetBSD ports it is now evident that Linux has been ported to more platforms than NetBSD.
[...]
Which just goes to show how flexible Linux is..."
Um, no it doesn't go to show that there are more ports because of its flexibility. No doubt Linux is flexible, but so is NetBSD (some have argued more so). The reason that Linux has more ports is because there are more people doing porting.
Is it about "*aweful*" syntax, or awful spelling? Or are you full of awe? What's wrong with parenthesis? If you hate parenthesis...
What's wrong with it is that you spelled parentheses wrong. One parenthesis, multiple parentheses. But at least you're consistent in your misspellings.
Honestly, I wouldn't recommend open source for this. Unless there's a really great hidden business model here, there likely isn't going to be enough revenue generated to support the team of developers needed to add all the boring stuff like... keeping up with the myriad tax changes from year to year. Sure, it'd be nice if a bunch of skilled developers with nothing better to do with their time donated their efforts to poring over tax volumes and writing the code to make sure everything is properly implemented to government standards. However, I wouldn't want to trust my financials to it.
Maybe half-hearted is the wrong word. It's like a kid who toils for hours and pours his heart into trying to draw a portrait of someone. When he's done, it looks nothing like the person and you might call it nice to encourage the kid. But you certainly wouldn't call it a polished job. Judging solely from the screenshots, DesktopBSD looks nice... however, unlike Mac OS X, I wouldn't say it's ready to put in front of mainstream users quite yet.
I didn't say BSD was linux, I said I'd rather play with other flavors of linux than look at BSD. You should try to tone it down a bit, I was just trying to get some insight from the BSD users of the group as to why they felt BSD was better than linux.
You effectively said "I'd much rather go look at other Linux distros, but maybe... if someone convinced me enough... I just might try your operating system." BSD has a strong culture of RTFM. The comparisons between Linux and BSD have been made time and time again -- just go back and read a bunch of the BSD section stories where the comparisons are made. And if you still want to be sold, go and check our the respective BSD websites... after all, what better objective source is there?:)
Indeed; It seems to me that prior to any Microsoft operating system based machines, or Microsoft product running machines being widely used on the internet, the rate of spam was small. So, it would seem: Windows boxes join the internet, Spam increases beyond all understanding, Microsoft makes 7 million....
One more time... correlation does not imply causation. If every person on a Windows box today were running a secure Linux distribution, the spammers wouldn't care -- they would still see that as being "X million users" they could send email to. The only thing using bots gives them is a better ability to avoid IP-based spam filters, that's it. Besides, the bulk of the high-volume bulk mailers (whether fully legitimate or not) send their email from unix-based systems... eg: running PowerMTA which works on Linux/Solaris in addition to Windows.
Everyone gets spammed and somehow Microsoft gets $7M. How does that work?
Microsoft sued Richter for the spam that Microsoft received and had to deal with -- ie: through MSN, Hotmail, etc. If you, running your own ISP, also received spam from Richter then you are free to sue as well. Setup and issue a call for donating to your legal prosecution fund and let us know how it goes.
I think it's on slashdot because someone's soon to post the torrent. Penguin information wants to be free, right? I wonder if this film answers the pressing question of what do you get when you mate a Gnu and a Penguin?
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Space is essentially the only frontier we have left, and I think humanity needs a frontier.
How about the deep sea? We haven't explored most of it... and it's practically in our backyard. Where are our Abyss-like underwater research labs, underwater homes, etc.? How many species of ocean life are we totally unaware of?
Look at the bottom of the article. It's a link to emailsystems.com, the so-called anti-spam experts quoted in the so-called article. Basically, this is a PR piece designed to generate exposure for emailsystems. It doesn't have to make sense or be consistent -- as long as their name appears in print, and they can keep making it appear in print, somebody will eventually think, "Gee, these guys must be experts... I think I'll use their products/services."
1) Setup WiFi device operating at just under max power which randomly broadcasts packets interfering with proper WiFi operation 2) Charge the WiFi zone operator $100 a day to turn off your legal device 3) Profit!
Nah, I'm sure it's not a form of larceny... right? Right? Your honor?
Encryption technologies evolve and a plugin model means that you can swap out various encryption methods to suit your personal needs or corporate policies. Ultimately, it's up to the market to provide what consumers want and so far few see a pressing need for secure email (or secure instant message, or secure IRC, or...).
The correct answer if for e-mail programs to start including public key encryption as a feature. That WOULD render e-mail as private as a letter. IIRC, KMail has such a feature. Mozilla doesn't appear to, at least not by default. I don't know about Thunderbird. (Perhaps there are add-ons, but this really needs to be a default option.)
Outlook Express had a PGP plugin in the 1990s to support signing and encryption and just about every email program today (certainly any remotely popular commercial one) supports public key signing/encrypting. Not sure what's there by default in Thunderbird, but there is the Enigmail plugin to support GnuPG.
My VOIP plan, the cheapest and crappiest possible plan, gives me 1.6 cents per minute TO ANYWHERE, and that's the most expensive long distance you can get from the company I chose.
Out of curiosity, which company is this? Is it a raw provider of long distance over voip, or a Vonage-like company?
Whoever modded this interesting probably just plain didn't understand it and wanted to try and appear intelligent. In reality, the parent post makes no sense whatsoever -- it's output I would expect from a bot.
Personally, if I had a copy (assuming that there really were copies sold, which I doubt) I'd be sorely tempted to skim through the damn thing to glean the plot, then write and publish a review of the book. What's the government going to do? Arrest me for free speech? I purchased the book legitimately and I'm writing a legitimate review. It's not as if this is a stolen item -- the fact that it was sold early is a contractual dispute between the publisher and the retailer and is absolutely no concern to me.
If someone really wanted to, they could give the book to a friend in the US where they're free to publish all the plot details. Let's see the BC Supreme Court enforce its rights-bashing injunction on a US citizen.
Of course, I probably wouldn't do that myself -- the legal bills would be quite hefty and I wouldn't relish the ensuing hassle. Plus selling that signed copy and t-shirt on eBay would net a small fortune!:)
Innocent until proven guilty really only applies as the -black and white- form in criminal cases. Since this is a civil suit, there are degrees of guilty and innocent.
Yes, but one is still presumed innocent unless the prosecution can convince a judge/jury otherwise. The burden of proof is less -- preponderence of evidence rather than beyond a reasonable doubt -- but it still does require proof.
it shifts burden of proof from AMD proving the document was incriminating to other people proving it wasn't.
WTF? So instead of innocent until proven guilty, the court order means that Intel and others will be guilty until proven innocent? Shredding documents now means that the companies will be in contempt of court, not that they will be automatically incriminated by a now non-existent document.
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From the writeup:
"Comparing that list to the list of NetBSD ports it is now evident that Linux has been ported to more platforms than NetBSD.
[...]
Which just goes to show how flexible Linux is..."
Um, no it doesn't go to show that there are more ports because of its flexibility. No doubt Linux is flexible, but so is NetBSD (some have argued more so). The reason that Linux has more ports is because there are more people doing porting.
Is it about "*aweful*" syntax, or awful spelling? Or are you full of awe?
What's wrong with parenthesis? If you hate parenthesis...
What's wrong with it is that you spelled parentheses wrong. One parenthesis, multiple parentheses. But at least you're consistent in your misspellings.
But its better to wait one dya, than loosing a big rocket, just to stay on shedule.
That's okay... they'll wait one dya, fix the porblem, and then let loose the rocket.
Honestly, I wouldn't recommend open source for this. Unless there's a really great hidden business model here, there likely isn't going to be enough revenue generated to support the team of developers needed to add all the boring stuff like... keeping up with the myriad tax changes from year to year. Sure, it'd be nice if a bunch of skilled developers with nothing better to do with their time donated their efforts to poring over tax volumes and writing the code to make sure everything is properly implemented to government standards. However, I wouldn't want to trust my financials to it.
Maybe half-hearted is the wrong word. It's like a kid who toils for hours and pours his heart into trying to draw a portrait of someone. When he's done, it looks nothing like the person and you might call it nice to encourage the kid. But you certainly wouldn't call it a polished job. Judging solely from the screenshots, DesktopBSD looks nice... however, unlike Mac OS X, I wouldn't say it's ready to put in front of mainstream users quite yet.
I didn't say BSD was linux, I said I'd rather play with other flavors of linux than look at BSD. You should try to tone it down a bit, I was just trying to get some insight from the BSD users of the group as to why they felt BSD was better than linux.
:)
You effectively said "I'd much rather go look at other Linux distros, but maybe... if someone convinced me enough... I just might try your operating system." BSD has a strong culture of RTFM. The comparisons between Linux and BSD have been made time and time again -- just go back and read a bunch of the BSD section stories where the comparisons are made. And if you still want to be sold, go and check our the respective BSD websites... after all, what better objective source is there?
Indeed; It seems to me that prior to any Microsoft operating system based machines, or Microsoft product running machines being widely used on the internet, the rate of spam was small. So, it would seem: Windows boxes join the internet, Spam increases beyond all understanding, Microsoft makes 7 million....
One more time... correlation does not imply causation. If every person on a Windows box today were running a secure Linux distribution, the spammers wouldn't care -- they would still see that as being "X million users" they could send email to. The only thing using bots gives them is a better ability to avoid IP-based spam filters, that's it. Besides, the bulk of the high-volume bulk mailers (whether fully legitimate or not) send their email from unix-based systems... eg: running PowerMTA which works on Linux/Solaris in addition to Windows.
Everyone gets spammed and somehow Microsoft gets $7M. How does that work?
Microsoft sued Richter for the spam that Microsoft received and had to deal with -- ie: through MSN, Hotmail, etc. If you, running your own ISP, also received spam from Richter then you are free to sue as well. Setup and issue a call for donating to your legal prosecution fund and let us know how it goes.
I think it's on slashdot because someone's soon to post the torrent. Penguin information wants to be free, right? I wonder if this film answers the pressing question of what do you get when you mate a Gnu and a Penguin?
Space is essentially the only frontier we have left, and I think humanity needs a frontier.
How about the deep sea? We haven't explored most of it... and it's practically in our backyard. Where are our Abyss-like underwater research labs, underwater homes, etc.? How many species of ocean life are we totally unaware of?
The solution to this is to have a DMZ zone...
Is that something like an automated ATM machine?
Look at the bottom of the article. It's a link to emailsystems.com, the so-called anti-spam experts quoted in the so-called article. Basically, this is a PR piece designed to generate exposure for emailsystems. It doesn't have to make sense or be consistent -- as long as their name appears in print, and they can keep making it appear in print, somebody will eventually think, "Gee, these guys must be experts... I think I'll use their products/services."
Interestingly enough, as a kid I made my own alcohol fueled rocket motor, with a alcohol/oxygen mix, a small orifice, and an ignition source.
So, in other words... you lit your own farts? At any rate, given the small orifice at least we can count you out as being the goatse guy.
So we have here the key to the missing steps:
1) Setup WiFi device operating at just under max power which randomly broadcasts packets interfering with proper WiFi operation
2) Charge the WiFi zone operator $100 a day to turn off your legal device
3) Profit!
Nah, I'm sure it's not a form of larceny... right? Right? Your honor?
Encryption technologies evolve and a plugin model means that you can swap out various encryption methods to suit your personal needs or corporate policies. Ultimately, it's up to the market to provide what consumers want and so far few see a pressing need for secure email (or secure instant message, or secure IRC, or...).
The correct answer if for e-mail programs to start including public key encryption as a feature. That WOULD render e-mail as private as a letter. IIRC, KMail has such a feature. Mozilla doesn't appear to, at least not by default. I don't know about Thunderbird. (Perhaps there are add-ons, but this really needs to be a default option.)
Outlook Express had a PGP plugin in the 1990s to support signing and encryption and just about every email program today (certainly any remotely popular commercial one) supports public key signing/encrypting. Not sure what's there by default in Thunderbird, but there is the Enigmail plugin to support GnuPG.
My VOIP plan, the cheapest and crappiest possible plan, gives me 1.6 cents per minute TO ANYWHERE, and that's the most expensive long distance you can get from the company I chose.
Out of curiosity, which company is this? Is it a raw provider of long distance over voip, or a Vonage-like company?
Dumping? Wouldn't that be the same as a telegram company suing because phones/faxes/emails have replaced telegrams?
Whoever modded this interesting probably just plain didn't understand it and wanted to try and appear intelligent. In reality, the parent post makes no sense whatsoever -- it's output I would expect from a bot.
Other then that, I think you're absolutely right.
;-)
Shouldn't that be:
"Other than that..."?
Is there actually one of those in the picture? The only keyboard I see in the picture is the imac one at the bottom.
Look at the base of the monitor -- white keyboard, fairly small.
Personally, if I had a copy (assuming that there really were copies sold, which I doubt) I'd be sorely tempted to skim through the damn thing to glean the plot, then write and publish a review of the book. What's the government going to do? Arrest me for free speech? I purchased the book legitimately and I'm writing a legitimate review. It's not as if this is a stolen item -- the fact that it was sold early is a contractual dispute between the publisher and the retailer and is absolutely no concern to me.
:)
If someone really wanted to, they could give the book to a friend in the US where they're free to publish all the plot details. Let's see the BC Supreme Court enforce its rights-bashing injunction on a US citizen.
Of course, I probably wouldn't do that myself -- the legal bills would be quite hefty and I wouldn't relish the ensuing hassle. Plus selling that signed copy and t-shirt on eBay would net a small fortune!
They no longer manufacture CPUs, but have become an IP only company, like e.g. ARM.
:)
I think you misspelled SCO.
Innocent until proven guilty really only applies as the -black and white- form in criminal cases. Since this is a civil suit, there are degrees of guilty and innocent.
Yes, but one is still presumed innocent unless the prosecution can convince a judge/jury otherwise. The burden of proof is less -- preponderence of evidence rather than beyond a reasonable doubt -- but it still does require proof.
it shifts burden of proof from AMD proving the document was incriminating to other people proving it wasn't.
WTF? So instead of innocent until proven guilty, the court order means that Intel and others will be guilty until proven innocent? Shredding documents now means that the companies will be in contempt of court, not that they will be automatically incriminated by a now non-existent document.