Until they can figure out how to filter spam effectively and efficiently, this is just vapor. What do they plan on doing? "Oh look a.mp3 file, lets block it" type filter? That's retarded.
FTFA:
"...given the money and time that will be required to implement such a system..."
Indeed. Did you guys not learn anything from DRM? How about copy protection? Maybe the anti-virus arms race will jog your memory? Oh wait, I know how about 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0? Still nothing?
There's always going to be faster gun, and you cannot "invent" a solution around that.
The problem with digital media; it's digital and can be reproduced and transferred easily. Non-standard CDROM formats are just as ill fated as the physically damaged floppy sectors of the early 90's. The spell books for entering RPG games were easily xeroxed or scanned, and anyone that can trace a program through softice, or ida, can circumvent dongles and just about anything else. Copy protection is a false sense of security that will cost you a lot of money. There are plenty of snake-oil salesmen out there to sell you neet whizz-bang hardware and software libraries that don't really work like they told you. I read something in a Louis Lamour book once that said "There's always a faster gun" and it's true. You can put all the copy protection you want on something, and there is always someone who can undo it. Don't you think windows, with it's infinite pool of money and software budgets, would have figured something out by now? A lot of people argue M$ hasn't because they want their product plastered all over; pirated or not. I think that's BS. It's a convenient answer for a problematic question.
He had an Apple IIe and was trying to draw pictures using BASIC. I was fascinated with how it worked. I asked him if I could come in on my study halls and watch. I then changed my electives around to take more Art classes so I could use the thing. The Agriculture class also had an Apple IIe, so I took an Ag class so I could mess around with it for another hour of the day. It was the most fascinating year I ever spent in school. So for me, it was another person (a teacher to be exact) showing me something that I didn't know interested me. The other part of the equation though was that I was interested. Interested enough to make conscious changes about how I spent my day at school. You need to have both parts of the equation there.
Closed source does not offer the same many-eyes availability which is Opera's biggest disadvantage as well as it's advantage. This same problem is for Firefox, only reversed. Many eyes and mouths will point out the problems, but very few hands are willing to touch them. It's the mouths that are Firefox's biggest problem as many of them do not have enough technical familiarity to understand that 20 tabs of youtube videos, 3 of animated weather channels, and 1 tab of kittencannon is going to use a little memory. Unfortunately, Firefox has been labeled as a gluttonous memory hog, while people forget this is what they are asking the application to do. Firefox will never live this label down and there is something in peoples nature that makes them enjoy a good witch hunt/burning due to simple ignorance.
Certainly not the normal "Please piss off, and have a nice day." response of:
"We're sorry to hear of your disappointment with our product.
Unfortunately, we have a very large volume of customers who
are very satisfied with our products, at the the prices
we offer. We do our best to please every customer"
If he retracts his statement, he'll have a bunch of angry ninjas after him. If he doesn't retract, he's got a whole temple of kung-fu masters on his ass. I can't imagine a more troubling situation.
They want to make sure they know what kind of people, past and present, the space program attracts. If you get a big enough sample, you can profile wanted vs. unwanted by the numbers. Corner cases are risky, so you don't have to be exact. Profiling makes sure you get the type of population that you want.
Both in terms of taxpayer funding for legal spaghetti monsters and stifling innovation. The Patent System needs to be reformed or the US may just find itself wearing a legal straightjacket that doesn't even allow one to change direction, let alone innovate freely.
The firefox profile is a little weird, but programs read/etc/passwd all the time to get the running user ID and groups. If you are not using shadow passwords, you should be, and all normal Unix distros are. Want to know a secret? If you use LDAP, it will query LDAP to find out your UID and GID also. It's normal./etc/shadow is a different story. Root is the only one that can read that file, and if you are running skype as root, you're foolish.
I'd suggest that anyone with concern about skype on linux simply add a user to the system called "xskype" or similar. Run skype as that user, and it will be contained to only what that user has access to. Problem solved.
> Call bullshit all you want, but I've tried both, and I know which I prefer.
And that's all the counts.
I like gentoo, and I *especially* like their documentation. The surprise is, much of what's on the gentoo wiki applies to many other distros besides just gentoo. I've setup LDAP on CentOS following most of the gentoo documentation. Know why? Because it was thorough and up to date, as well as very accurate and detailed. It beats the hell out of a 6-month outdated How-To on tldp. The in-depth knowledge that people glean from compling everything benefits the entire linux community. Imagine all the compile time bug-fixes that get reported because of the compile-time exposure the bugs are getting.
So what if Linus doesn't prefer it, it doesn't mean gentoo sucks, it means he has different interests and preference. That's really about all you can get out of it.
The motivation to try something else, if your current solution isn't working, should not be "unthinkable". Winston Churchill once said: "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism"
This applies to whatever folly and ideal your "stuck" with whether it be Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris or *BSD. If it's not working, change. You're the only thing stopping you from trying something different.
The first wisdom acquired when digging a hole is knowing when to stop digging; the first task you're faced with is deciding when it's deep enough.
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"I was nearly killing my company in the name of blindly insisting Rails was the answer to all questions, timeframes be damned."
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism -- winston churchill
This is probably just a way for CSIRO to saying they don't hear enough ching in the bling.
Until they can figure out how to filter spam effectively and efficiently, this is just vapor. What do they plan on doing? "Oh look a .mp3 file, lets block it" type filter? That's retarded.
FTFA:
"...given the money and time that will be required to implement such a system..."
Indeed. Did you guys not learn anything from DRM? How about copy protection? Maybe the anti-virus arms race will jog your memory? Oh wait, I know how about 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0? Still nothing?
There's always going to be faster gun, and you cannot "invent" a solution around that.
The problem with digital media; it's digital and can be reproduced and transferred easily. Non-standard CDROM formats are just as ill fated as the physically damaged floppy sectors of the early 90's. The spell books for entering RPG games were easily xeroxed or scanned, and anyone that can trace a program through softice, or ida, can circumvent dongles and just about anything else. Copy protection is a false sense of security that will cost you a lot of money. There are plenty of snake-oil salesmen out there to sell you neet whizz-bang hardware and software libraries that don't really work like they told you. I read something in a Louis Lamour book once that said "There's always a faster gun" and it's true. You can put all the copy protection you want on something, and there is always someone who can undo it. Don't you think windows, with it's infinite pool of money and software budgets, would have figured something out by now? A lot of people argue M$ hasn't because they want their product plastered all over; pirated or not. I think that's BS. It's a convenient answer for a problematic question.
He had an Apple IIe and was trying to draw pictures using BASIC. I was fascinated with how it worked. I asked him if I could come in on my study halls and watch. I then changed my electives around to take more Art classes so I could use the thing. The Agriculture class also had an Apple IIe, so I took an Ag class so I could mess around with it for another hour of the day. It was the most fascinating year I ever spent in school. So for me, it was another person (a teacher to be exact) showing me something that I didn't know interested me. The other part of the equation though was that I was interested. Interested enough to make conscious changes about how I spent my day at school. You need to have both parts of the equation there.
> Posting the info and having people slashdot the mentioned sites is not going to help them either :)
*l* at this point, it's not going to hurt either.
When all your friends jump off a cliff, and you follow, you are just as phucked as they are.
Keep you warm and close to the microsoft boosum.
Closed source does not offer the same many-eyes availability which is Opera's biggest disadvantage as well as it's advantage. This same problem is for Firefox, only reversed. Many eyes and mouths will point out the problems, but very few hands are willing to touch them. It's the mouths that are Firefox's biggest problem as many of them do not have enough technical familiarity to understand that 20 tabs of youtube videos, 3 of animated weather channels, and 1 tab of kittencannon is going to use a little memory. Unfortunately, Firefox has been labeled as a gluttonous memory hog, while people forget this is what they are asking the application to do. Firefox will never live this label down and there is something in peoples nature that makes them enjoy a good witch hunt/burning due to simple ignorance.
> You are more likely to win the lottery twice in a row
l ottery+twice
Hmm.. I'm not feeling all warm and fuzzy with that statement
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&as_epq=wins+
Certainly not the normal "Please piss off, and have a nice day." response of:
"We're sorry to hear of your disappointment with our product.
Unfortunately, we have a very large volume of customers who
are very satisfied with our products, at the the prices
we offer. We do our best to please every customer"
.
Who said it was the ISP deciding?
Sincerely,
GW
If he retracts his statement, he'll have a bunch of angry ninjas after him. If he doesn't retract, he's got a whole temple of kung-fu masters on his ass. I can't imagine a more troubling situation.
What's a cop going to do, chase you? Muhahahahahaha...
They want to make sure they know what kind of people, past and present, the space program attracts. If you get a big enough sample, you can profile wanted vs. unwanted by the numbers. Corner cases are risky, so you don't have to be exact. Profiling makes sure you get the type of population that you want.
Maybe George Lucas is pissed somehow too.
Both in terms of taxpayer funding for legal spaghetti monsters and stifling innovation. The Patent System needs to be reformed or the US may just find itself wearing a legal straightjacket that doesn't even allow one to change direction, let alone innovate freely.
The firefox profile is a little weird, but programs read /etc/passwd all the time to get the running user ID and groups. If you are not using shadow passwords, you should be, and all normal Unix distros are. Want to know a secret? If you use LDAP, it will query LDAP to find out your UID and GID also. It's normal. /etc/shadow is a different story. Root is the only one that can read that file, and if you are running skype as root, you're foolish.
I'd suggest that anyone with concern about skype on linux simply add a user to the system called "xskype" or similar. Run skype as that user, and it will be contained to only what that user has access to. Problem solved.
obviously.
This sounds much more effective if read in Monty Burns voice. Substitute Simmons for Smithers.
If your HMI wire is connected to a layer 1 device that is connected to a wire connected to the internet, you are at risk.
> Call bullshit all you want, but I've tried both, and I know which I prefer.
And that's all the counts.
I like gentoo, and I *especially* like their documentation. The surprise is, much of what's on the gentoo wiki applies to many other distros besides just gentoo. I've setup LDAP on CentOS following most of the gentoo documentation. Know why? Because it was thorough and up to date, as well as very accurate and detailed. It beats the hell out of a 6-month outdated How-To on tldp. The in-depth knowledge that people glean from compling everything benefits the entire linux community. Imagine all the compile time bug-fixes that get reported because of the compile-time exposure the bugs are getting.
So what if Linus doesn't prefer it, it doesn't mean gentoo sucks, it means he has different interests and preference. That's really about all you can get out of it.
http://www.kettering.edu/~jhuggins/humor/flowchart .html
The incident falls under Hide It.
Does this thing have any navigation on it or anything to keep from splatting into stuff?
The motivation to try something else, if your current solution isn't working, should not be "unthinkable". Winston Churchill once said: "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism"
This applies to whatever folly and ideal your "stuck" with whether it be Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris or *BSD. If it's not working, change. You're the only thing stopping you from trying something different.
The first wisdom acquired when digging a hole is knowing when to stop digging; the first task you're faced with is deciding when it's deep enough.