These fuckers can find excuses anywhere. [...] What I want is not the bullshit excuses...
Okay, so what's your excuse? If it's so easy and profitable, why didn't you raise some capital, start your own company, and beat them to it? Excuses, right?
If water was free in our homes - no one would even bother to turn off the tapp - "I like the sound the water makes - so I leave it on."
Water's free (ie: unmetered, paid through taxes) in my home and I don't leave the taps on. Do you know of any people who hyperventilate constantly because air is free?
"Plus, you get compact flash/sd slots that the powerbook doesn't have."
The PowerBook doesn't need those slots. That's what Firewire is for.
What if you want to offload your digital images from a CF card into iPhoto and you didn't want to lug the camera around for the task? Yeah, I guess you could connect a CF reader via Firewire...
It's entirely feasible that Rob Malda and friends want to make more money. Especially if they think they can do it at our expense without us recognizing the funny business.
You have a point, but keep in mind that it is their site to do with as they please. Also, consider that you are reading slashdot at *their* expense, so is it really wrong for them to recoup their bandwidth, server, and other overhead costs while you're busy hitting reload on the front page?
He is advertising, really, though it is political in nature.
Well, if you really want to boil it down, most speech can easily be construed as advertising. "I will be voting for Kerry" -- a simple statement, but this is really advertising one citizen's choice of Kerry in the hopes that you will sway others into voting for Kerry as well. "Stay in School" is similarly an advertisement as you wish children to hear the message and act upon it. Be careful when you start calling one thing an advertisement... that *is* a slippery slope.
Well, as I understand callback spoofs your caller ID as a (maybe not planned) side-effect, since the machine will call the calee with its own number. It seems like the new part is only that you can choose the number from which you seem to be calling from.
That's exactly what's new. The callback feature is merely a side effect. The only reason it calls you back is because you have to input the values into a web form, so it makes sense for them to call you. With a bit more work, they could generate a password online -- you would then initiate the call to them yourself, enter your password, and their system would connect you directly to your intended party.
I don't blame you... I went to the website, started the torrent download, but only after reading through the comments did I realize that this *wasn't* Half Life 2.
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3) Distribute the rest, anonymously, into my friends' bank accounts after *somehow* surreptitiously getting their account numbers. Explain my sudden wealth by saying "Yeah, it happened to me, too - weird, innit?"
Except for the fact that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a tech support forum...
And what is an encyclopedia but a collection of facts? This isn't a "post your question and we'll help you out" forum, it's documenting whether a piece of hardware works with Linux or not. It might be stretching the bounds of what Wikipedia is for, but it's really up to the site maintainers to say if such a topic is appropriate.
... which makes you wonder why they didn't just put up a few pages on Wikipedia for this. The infrastructure is already there and as long as they're not doing any really custom wiki coding (and it's not outside of Wikipedia's intended scope), they might as well let someone else do the hosting who has everything in place.
The fact that you are asked to sign an NDA is fair game. After all, what if you refuse to sign? You could safely say that "I've refused to sign an NDA saying that I won't discuss anything regarding the making of episodes seven, eight, and nine."
On the other hand, if you do sign it is it legal for them to add into the NDA that you are not allowed to disclose the fact that you've even signed an NDA? You could always then say "Before I sign this, hang on a sec..." [send email to news site before NDA is applicable] "Okay, I'm ready to sign now..."
Frankly, the odds of a September 11th-type terrorist attack happening again are a million to one.
In 1999, the total number of airline passengers was over 3 billion people. If you consider a very generous 500 people per flight (equivalent of everyone flying in a maxed out 747 for every flight), that's still over 6 million flights per year. Your million to one odds would mean that a September 11th scale attack would happen every 2 months.
Women should give up their personal rights to make it easier on people who want to rape them.
Just so I understand the distinction here, let me sum up the different licenses:
Under BSD it's okay to get raped and then you can go on having sex however you like.
Under GPL it's okay to get raped, but if you go on having sex and discover a new position or technique, you are required to rape the person back and teach them that new position/technique.
Obviously you've forgotten all the "Linux FUD" that was going around when it was first realized that XP would have raw sockets. There was talk about a virus apocalypse. Guess what? The apocalypse is already here - you cannot put a computer on the internet with Windows without it becoming infected within 20 minutes.
A virus doesn't depend on raw sockets. The ability of Windows XP to support raw sockets doesn't increase its vulnerability to viruses nor worms. It does make it easier to launch DoS attacks without being traced back easily, but that's about it. Nice FUD you have going there.
What's even more amusing is that this behavior exactly mimicks that of the Billy-G boys, whose complete and utter devotion to Gates-As-God and Microsoft as His Church is nothing short of nauseating. If Bill whipped out his tiny pecker at a convention these morons would line up in droves for the opportunity to give him a blow job.
Yes, it probably will run only on IIS or similar Microsoft server software, but it appeared that you thought it was going to Microsoft Corporation when you wrote: "And while I'm sure there will be encryption, do you really want all the data you input to office programs flying across the web?"
I swear the anti-MS FUD around here is really, really starting to get to me.
I'll probably get modded to oblivion for saying this, but the Linux FUD is different from the Microsoft FUD. For Linux zealots, FUD stands for Fanaticism and Undying Devotion. The zealots want a reason to believe that their software/ideals/whatever is better, so they mindlessly attack anything which contradicts their ideology. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
And we want you to give Microsoft a copy of all of your important business documents. Who could think that was not a good idea?
Quit trolling. If you bothered to read about it, you would discover that being web-based doesn't mean that it's run only on Microsoft's web server. Ever hear of an intranet?
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As opposed to anti-Microsoft propaganda? Either way, it's all propaganda.
Some propagandas are more equal than others.
No, but I know plenty of people who pump poisonous fumes out of their tailpipes because air is free.
A good point.
I hope you can see the difference between a person breathing too much air and a corporation polluting the air, Mr. Pompous Buffoon.
These fuckers can find excuses anywhere. [...] What I want is not the bullshit excuses...
Okay, so what's your excuse? If it's so easy and profitable, why didn't you raise some capital, start your own company, and beat them to it? Excuses, right?
If water was free in our homes - no one would even bother to turn off the tapp - "I like the sound the water makes - so I leave it on."
Water's free (ie: unmetered, paid through taxes) in my home and I don't leave the taps on. Do you know of any people who hyperventilate constantly because air is free?
"Plus, you get compact flash/sd slots that the powerbook doesn't have."
The PowerBook doesn't need those slots. That's what Firewire is for.
What if you want to offload your digital images from a CF card into iPhoto and you didn't want to lug the camera around for the task? Yeah, I guess you could connect a CF reader via Firewire...
It's entirely feasible that Rob Malda and friends want to make more money. Especially if they think they can do it at our expense without us recognizing the funny business.
You have a point, but keep in mind that it is their site to do with as they please. Also, consider that you are reading slashdot at *their* expense, so is it really wrong for them to recoup their bandwidth, server, and other overhead costs while you're busy hitting reload on the front page?
He is advertising, really, though it is political in nature.
Well, if you really want to boil it down, most speech can easily be construed as advertising. "I will be voting for Kerry" -- a simple statement, but this is really advertising one citizen's choice of Kerry in the hopes that you will sway others into voting for Kerry as well. "Stay in School" is similarly an advertisement as you wish children to hear the message and act upon it. Be careful when you start calling one thing an advertisement... that *is* a slippery slope.
Well, as I understand callback spoofs your caller ID as a (maybe not planned) side-effect, since the machine will call the calee with its own number. It seems like the new part is only that you can choose the number from which you seem to be calling from.
That's exactly what's new. The callback feature is merely a side effect. The only reason it calls you back is because you have to input the values into a web form, so it makes sense for them to call you. With a bit more work, they could generate a password online -- you would then initiate the call to them yourself, enter your password, and their system would connect you directly to your intended party.
I don't blame you... I went to the website, started the torrent download, but only after reading through the comments did I realize that this *wasn't* Half Life 2.
3) Distribute the rest, anonymously, into my friends' bank accounts after *somehow* surreptitiously getting their account numbers. Explain my sudden wealth by saying "Yeah, it happened to me, too - weird, innit?"
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I've just added you to my friends list.
Except for the fact that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a tech support forum...
And what is an encyclopedia but a collection of facts? This isn't a "post your question and we'll help you out" forum, it's documenting whether a piece of hardware works with Linux or not. It might be stretching the bounds of what Wikipedia is for, but it's really up to the site maintainers to say if such a topic is appropriate.
... which makes you wonder why they didn't just put up a few pages on Wikipedia for this. The infrastructure is already there and as long as they're not doing any really custom wiki coding (and it's not outside of Wikipedia's intended scope), they might as well let someone else do the hosting who has everything in place.
And after the Farscape fans' write-in campaign, the fighting in Iraq intensified! Won't someone please think of the children!!
I have that wav file as my "Empty Recycle Bin" sound in Windows.
The fact that you are asked to sign an NDA is fair game. After all, what if you refuse to sign? You could safely say that "I've refused to sign an NDA saying that I won't discuss anything regarding the making of episodes seven, eight, and nine."
On the other hand, if you do sign it is it legal for them to add into the NDA that you are not allowed to disclose the fact that you've even signed an NDA? You could always then say "Before I sign this, hang on a sec..." [send email to news site before NDA is applicable] "Okay, I'm ready to sign now..."
Jonathan Stewart? Is this some freaky future episode where Jonathan Frakes (Riker) and Patrick Stewart (Picard) have a son together?
Frankly, the odds of a September 11th-type terrorist attack happening again are a million to one.
In 1999, the total number of airline passengers was over 3 billion people. If you consider a very generous 500 people per flight (equivalent of everyone flying in a maxed out 747 for every flight), that's still over 6 million flights per year. Your million to one odds would mean that a September 11th scale attack would happen every 2 months.
Just so I understand the distinction here, let me sum up the different licenses:
- Under BSD it's okay to get raped and then you can go on having sex however you like.
- Under GPL it's okay to get raped, but if you go on having sex and discover a new position or technique, you are required to rape the person back and teach them that new position/technique.
Is that about right?Obviously you've forgotten all the "Linux FUD" that was going around when it was first realized that XP would have raw sockets. There was talk about a virus apocalypse. Guess what? The apocalypse is already here - you cannot put a computer on the internet with Windows without it becoming infected within 20 minutes.
A virus doesn't depend on raw sockets. The ability of Windows XP to support raw sockets doesn't increase its vulnerability to viruses nor worms. It does make it easier to launch DoS attacks without being traced back easily, but that's about it. Nice FUD you have going there.
What do *you* think will happen if all your data is put on an IIS server?
Probably what it should -- get served up. Or what did you have in mind?
What's even more amusing is that this behavior exactly mimicks that of the Billy-G boys, whose complete and utter devotion to Gates-As-God and Microsoft as His Church is nothing short of nauseating. If Bill whipped out his tiny pecker at a convention these morons would line up in droves for the opportunity to give him a blow job.
Er... thanks for making my point.
Yes, it probably will run only on IIS or similar Microsoft server software, but it appeared that you thought it was going to Microsoft Corporation when you wrote: "And while I'm sure there will be encryption, do you really want all the data you input to office programs flying across the web?"
I swear the anti-MS FUD around here is really, really starting to get to me.
I'll probably get modded to oblivion for saying this, but the Linux FUD is different from the Microsoft FUD. For Linux zealots, FUD stands for Fanaticism and Undying Devotion. The zealots want a reason to believe that their software/ideals/whatever is better, so they mindlessly attack anything which contradicts their ideology. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
And we want you to give Microsoft a copy of all of your important business documents. Who could think that was not a good idea?
Quit trolling. If you bothered to read about it, you would discover that being web-based doesn't mean that it's run only on Microsoft's web server. Ever hear of an intranet?