If you remember all that then you shpould have no problem remembering when the deadheads in washington got together and mandated we all drive 55MPH on the interstates. You should also have no problem remembering how vrey many people completely ignored this new limit, and you should have no problem remembering how many states actively refused to enforce this ridiculous speed limit.
Finally, you should have no problem remembering how those idiots in washington finally threw up their hands in frustration and recinded that limit to 65, and then 70 - essentially putting things right back to where they were more than thirty years ago.
In other words: some of us need no "excuse" to break insane laws. Some of us do so flagrantly and willingly. And some of us just do it because we're sociopathic freaks.
If this is entirely true, then why are there still no other systems available that can run os x? Why can I not just buy a PPC motherboard, a video card, assemble a system, and run mac os?
If that is your guideline, ALL software is "perpeptual beta." I've been using XVID for quite a long time now, and it has consistently outperformed DIVX. I've done A/B comparisons on HD video and I've never seen DIVX do anything XVID could not. No software is perfect - ever.
And so far as that other guy's problem with "five minutes to fade when I FFW" well, that ain't your encoder, champ. That's the playback codec combined with the keyframe rate of the original encode. Doesn't matter what was used to encode it - if you got ten seconds between keyframes and no B frames, it's gonna take a while to settle out. If you got five minutes between'em (as lots of newbs like to do) then it's gonna take a real long time to settle.
The real irony is many "DIVX" videos out there are actually encoded with XVID (because it works better and it's free). All it takes is a switch setting in the XVID config to make it report a DIV5 fourCC, and a lot of people use this feature to avoid codec playback hassles. I used to do that too, but quit because people NEED to know there is an alternative out there.
I hope DIVX is able to make this fly (my bet is they will). The codecs are similar enough XVID will be just as compatible, which means we're free to use open source creation tools while DIVX pays the patent fees.
there you go again. Many of these people (I would even venture "most" of them, although that depends on wh9ich study you believe) have actual jobs that put them on payrolls. That means payroll taxes and NOT just "sales tax." I've made this clear several times now, but note again how you refuse to address this in your fallacious meanderings.
So far as "inforcing" (outdated) immigration laws - well, how exactly do you propose doing that? Spend more on policing the businesses that hire these workers? Spend more on hardware to patrol an essentially unpolicable desert? Spend more on building even higher walls? Spend more on prisons to retain them when they're caught and buses to ship them back? And what about the coyotes that ship them here? It's the insane laws that ship these people back across the border the minute they are caught that allows the smugglers to operate essentally without risk. The harder you make it to get across the border, the more they will charge and the more people will die - and, in the process, the smugglers profits increase.
Talk about tax and spend... you're talking about spending money - which will have to come from the tax base - while eroding that tax base.
The US has spent a goddamned fortune on this nonsense and it serves no one. Policemen and immigrants die in the desert, all for want of a buck. If these people are so determined to come to work that they will risk their lives crossing the desert on foot, who the hell do we serve by not allowing them entry? A bunch of nationalistic recedivists? Thanks, but I'd sooner toss my tax dollars into the street than to fund your racist propoganda.
Are already available. Have been for some time now.
Homes in snow areas accumulate snow on the roof. This actually helps insulate them in winter. And, even if it didn't, this means those expensive roofing panels are useless in winter until someone climbs on the roof to sweep away the snow.
You cannot "aim" shingles. If your house is "conventional" (as the building codes require in many areas) you are going to have a pitched roof with a peak. At any given time, half the area of the roof is going to be utterly wasted. And even with the sun directly overhead, one is not likely to experience "peak" generation.
That 10% efficiency is peak not average. So you might be able to get a third that - or ~3.5% efficiency - for a roof. A roof that costs ten times as much to install and five times as much to maintain when you get the semi-annual hail or wind damage.
I do think solar energy is where it's at, but I'm dismayed that solar cells seem to be the only solution the mainstream is willing to consider. The sun provides lots of energy and you DON'T have to convert it to electricity to make use of it. The earth itself also can provide huge sums of heating and cooling energy and yet, even in homes with basements, this utility source is rarely exploited in an efficient manner. Design a house properly and you need hardly pay for heating, hot water, or even for cooling in the summer. Much of this is possible without making use of a single solar cell, and without substantially adding to the maintenance costs of the building.
Yours is utterly fucked. I repeatedly use the words "garden services" and you then translate this to "lawnmower man." Crack? I think you're looking in the mirror, bud. There's a fuck of a lot more to maintaining a grounds than pushing a goddamn lawnmower.
And let's not overlook your convenient and repeated ignoring those other functions - like electrician and plumber. Have you ever had to hire a plumber? And your assertion is one can be had for a mere ten bucks an hour?
Crack, indeed.
And what about your insipid bullshit about those "illegal immigrants" not paying taxes? Rfemember them? The ones that actually do pay state and federal taxes and are refused those services they help support with their own hard work? You seem quite anxious to forget them, so I just thought I'd remind you...
I dunno where you live, but gadners in LA typically get MUCH more than minimum wage. Even the illegal immigrant performing gardening services (and plumbing, and electrical) for cash was getting more than minimum wage.
Where do you live? I didn't work there myself, but I'm certain even the McD's in LA was paying more than minumum wage. Some were even offering signing bonuses...
There's a large part of california that pays no taxes (ie: all of the immigrants making minimum wage, and people who don't work, but rather sit on welfare), and they're perfectly happy seeing taxes go up and up, because they (supposedly) get "more services", and it doesn't (directly) cost them anything.
All those "immigrants making minimum wage" DO fucking well pay taxes. Unless they are doing someone's yardwork for cash (which anyone can do, BTW) they are paying FICA, and social security (to someone else's account or even an account that doesn't exist), and federal tax and state tax - all of which most NEVER GET BACK because they are illegally working in the US and cannot collect that "refund" come April.
I lived in LA. I had a nice apartment in the hills with a view of LA and it cost me way less than $1000 a month - mostly because it was a six unit flat-top and the landlady paid a mexican immigrant about a fifth what "real" plumbers, electricians, and gardeners would have charged her to maintain the place. I've seen that system from both sides; want to see things really get expensive? Close off the border so the apartment landlords all have to pay five times as much for garening and lawn services, and the restaraunts have to pay three times as much for busboys and dishwashers and all those other laborers you never see. All people who, BTW, would now be free to make use of that infrastructure they support with their taxes.
You wanna see the tax base really erode? Run the illegal Mexicans out of California.
I wonder what the tax rate is in vanatu? I wonder how these state legislators will deal with US "phone" companies pulling up skirts and hightailing off to wired countries that don't try to tax every new service that competes with their old services?
Between this and the p2p networks lobbying to tax everyone to pay "compulsory" fees to record industry dinosaurs, it looks for all the world like the US is determined to toss away any last tiny vestiges of "technical leadership."
Because there's nothing "immoral" about what they are doing. Microsoft offers free software (something that actually costs them nothing at all) as recompense for a lawsuit they overcharged and abused a market. The school that would actually take them up on this "generous offer" would simply be locking themselves in to an even more tightly controlled revenue stream as windows evolves into a more restrictive product. Basically, MS is offering to further their control of the market as a means of paying a lawsuit for absuing the market it is trying to further control. It makes no sense that this was even acceptable to the court.
What Lindows is doing is offering to give people "free" software. The hype is that they will charge MS the fifty dollars or mroe for your "free" software but the fact remains that this costs Lindows even less than MS's offer, as I can simply download Lindows and MS has to ship actual boxes of bits.
Whether or not Lindows ever collects is irrelevant. It's irrelevant for the same reason MS should never have been allowed to settle a claim for absuing the market by furthering itself in control of that market.
Lindows is linux. It may be a "special" linux but the fact remains it is, at its core, truly free software. That means, at the worse, Lindows will be "locking in" new users to free software.
It has nothing to do with "stealing from MS" and, after filling out the forms myself, I don't think even they believe they can actually collect any money. If they can, great - but I have doubts, and one of those doubts is that the folks at Lindows believe they will be able to collect any money from MS. And if they don't collect a dime what will they be out? A few gigabytes of bandwidth - the cost of which will probably balanced out by others paying the extra ten bucks for boxed CDs to save themselves the download.
But it is a good marketing gimmick - a gimmick they even play up on the Lindows site where, at the bottom of every page, is the disclaimer "Lindows is not associated with Microsoft. In fact, we don't really even like them because they are suing us" - with "suing us" linked to a press release about the whole affair.
It's marketing. and it's not even particlularly unethical marketing. I certainly don't find this nearly as unacceptable as when MP3.com decided to co-opt the works of all those "legacy studios." It's just Lindows once again making an attempt to ride the hype machine that inevitably follows every Microsoft legal move. Stretching it only slightly you could call it the "anti-SCO" marketing ploy. Instead of suing everyone, they get themselves sued and, in the process, buy some extra hype.
Pardon, but a pedophile IS in fact breaking the law.
By "sitting around thinking about children?"
Dude, it's thinking like yours that is steering this country straight to hell. If you think thoughts constitute criminal action, my only question for you is when are you going to turn yourself in? Don't try to tell us you never thought of doing something illegal - there's not a rational person on earth who would buy that bullshit.
A pedophile is a little more than someone who just sits and thinks about children.
Most of the time, they are in posession of child pornography (which is illegal), may have harrassed one or more children (which is illegal), and contribute to the delinquency of minors (also illegal).
Just like all those "homos" who do nothing but sit around and think about butt fucking each other? Or those mulsims who are all terrorists? Or those blacks who are always stealing shit to buy crack?
Do you have any proof that most of these people have, in reality, done any of that bullshit you just so ignorantly spewed into the ether?
All of this is regardless of whether or not they ever put a hand on that child. All child molesters were pedophiles at one point
This is so incredibly ignorant even you contradict yourself in a mere two sentences! You see, it is impossible to prove "most pedophiles" do anything at all, as the actual size of that population is, at this point, wholly unkown. It is, however, entirely provable that "all child molestors" (at least all convicted child molestors) are or are not pedophiles. And, if you have the intelligence to type those words into google you will quickly see that assertion completely rebuked by numerous studies - in fact, many convicted child molestors are not pedophiles.
And, on a personal note, I will add it is ignorance (like yours) to this fact (among others) that enables a great many children to be molested each year. I realize this is a lot to ask, but you might give that some thought (especially if you plan to reproduce).
and the laws of our country are designed to catch pedophiles before they become molesters.
And this is constitutional... how? Replace "pedophiles" with "men" and "molestors" with "rapists" and see how you like that. If you have any sense of history at all you will realize this is the door many radical feminists have been struggling to open since (at least) the sixties, and it doesn't take a genius to see how that notion of "preventative law enforcement" has encroached upon many freedoms in the decades since. Stick a frog in a pot, and all that...
The FBI isn't interested in some freak who is attracted to little girls, the FBI is interested in some freak who is attracted to little girls AND is in posession of (or distributing) kiddie porn, or one or more ILLEGAL things a pedophile does.
Throughout time it has variously been made "illegal" to be a christian, muslim, jew, homosexual - even artist or poet. And the "illegal things" these people have done is share belief, share written work (go to "re-education camp" for having a bible), share knowledge - or even for people who did NOT share these things to defend such "illegal acts." In fact, in the part of the country where I live, even being black was, for decades, a crime that cost a great many innocent people (even children) their lives.
The current hysteria surrounding "pedophiles" is little different. When you make it illegal to share beliefs or even thoughts, you make existence illegal. The government, however, will use any tool at its disposal to erode your freedom in the name of "stability and security." Are you really too stupid to understand the great societal dangers inherent to this very simple, historically proven, fact?
The FBI could be going after pedophiles and rapists...
Excuse me, but why the fuck should the FBI be wasting time and money going after pedophiles?.
It seems you are clueless as to the definition of a pedophile. Being a pedophile is little different than being heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, or whatever. Molesting children is a crime, but a pedophile who never molests a child should no more be pursued than should you or I for that rape we might commit.
When you move criminality from acting to simply being you have taken one giant step toward tyranny. It's quite ironic you should be responding in a thread about our collective loss of rights and, in that very same breath, show how you have swallowed the very kool-aid that is being used to brainwash the public into willing giving up those rights.
It's no less "ethical" (and yes, the quotes are appropriate) than MS offering to pay up a lawsuit by "giving away" a few hundred million in software that, in reality, costs them only the few thousand dollars they may pay for the cardboard and CDs.
The rest of that nonsense is a troll. I got the karma to spare, but I simply don't care enough to care.
I think many of you are missing the point. I jsut went to the website and took the "quiz." During that time I took part in the dot-bust, so I actually DID buy an assload of e-machines at office depot, which I reported in the "quiz" as five licenses to windows (in this case, win98). Filled out the other stuff, including name and address and the last four digits of my SSN. I would imagine Lindows will claim the "typed signature" combined with the SSN fragment would constitute a valid "signature" but that really doesn't matter anyway.
What are they giving away? They are giving away the same thing MS is giving away - a "license" to use their software for a period of time. In my case I get 30 weeks of "free click-n-run" plus an OS install which I can use on all my home PCs (if I desire). Whether or not MS ever pays Lindows a penny really doesn't matter - what lindows has done is signed up another potential user.
MS is right about several things. I'm tempted to send many of my friends here and tell'em just to make up some shit so they get the "free click and run."
Once you fill out the form you can download lindows, install it, and use the "click and run" archive for a period of time. They lose nothing but some bandwidth, and in exchange they get the opportunity to show another person how linux can work for them. The user gets a lindows plus account, which is great because it gives them an excuse to give away "premium" software the user usually has to pay extra for.
It may be a bit shady, and MS may be right on many counts, but it doesn't matter - even if Lindows loses the ability to collect on all those "signatures" they still may drive a few more users from the arms of MS. If those new linux users stay with lindows, then they get a fresh revenue stream. And if they don't stay with lindows, maybe some of them will move onto redhat or debian or whatever. Maybe some of them will buy macs. What matters is just that people are encouraged to try something new because they have the promise of free shit. Lindows isn't normally free even to end users, so there's a greater perception of value here on the part of mom sixpack and, therefore, greater incentive to try it. and if they can't collect, so what? As much as I'd like to cost MS money, I honestly wasn't going to jump through the hoops required just to maybe get back a check for $80. At least this way there's a chance I'll cost MS some money and, hey, in the meantime I got something with some modest perceived value.
There are nearly 3/4 of a million registered users of slashdot. Like it or not, cowboy, this isn't a site that caters exclusively to those "already in the know." It's an advocacy site as much as anything, and the readers here are going to come from thousands of difference backgrounds and have thousands of different viewpoints.
this article is interesting. I'm not an admin of a corporate wan and there's only so much damage that can be done to a home network, so my interest is not sufficient to compel me to "search for it" anymore than my interest in particle physics would drive me to "search for" the latest technical papers on particel accelerators.
If this offends your l33t sensibilities then you need a thorough ass kicking by RMS and JP Barlow to remind you of why sites like slashdot even exist.
I never heard of honeynet. I didn't know I could run a kernel level logger on my firewall. Maybe someone at/. turned the story down two months ago, but I never heard of this. So why didn't you send in the story when it was "news?"
I admit google is my first pick as well, but don't dismiss ANY latecomers at this point. It's not just the spoofers and spammers who have weasled their way in - I've done many searches where the first several pages were basically useless ecommerce sites and even done searches where no useful information could be found there at all. Google is a great search engine, but it's nothing near the greatness it had as little as a year ago. Give it another year or two and someone is sure to come up with something better - even if it's google itself that is finally forced to do it.
My PC doesn't have a floppy drive. I actually took it out of the case to make room for another HD. Several other machines here have floppies, but for some time now I have not been able to find a floppy that was actually able to store data in a way that was acceptable to windows or linux. Even when floppies were the only practical way to sneakernet stuff they still didn't work worth a shit.
Good riddance. The sooner we all can carry around a gig or two of personal data on secure wireless pen drives, the better.
I used to "volunteer" in two MS chat rooms back when the comic client was shipping with IE4. it was a popular and fun service, and the only time I can recall actually enjoying chat (yes, I'm saying I liked the comic interface and it's a damn shame no one has picked up that torch). Among the people hanging about in the help room were a tech from the southeast, a service worker from canada who administered a local program for physically disabled children, and several teens who would pop in every afternoon from school.
We never saw pedos there. Not much, anyway. Because the kids didn't hesitate to tell us about inappropriate whispers from strangers, and sevral of us were given enough administrative power to handle things ourselves when they did.
IOW both our "unmonitored" rooms were fully "monitored" and there were people at the ready who could act if needed - that is, so far as acting was needed. This is chat, after all - no one can reach through the line and abduct a child telephonically.
And if there WERE twenty pedophiles hanging about in a room, so what? If they're all pedophiles they're not children - i.e. so long as they are hanging about stroking one another and swapping stories and old trophy shots they are not fucking children. You cannot make it illegal for people of similar interests to congregate and talk - even if you don't like their topic selection. Unless someone is conspiring to abduct the neighbor kid or discussing the plot of their next self directed child rape flick, no crime is being comitted, no one is endangered, and you SHOULDN'T have the "right" to shut them down. And if they ARE stupid enough to do this in public the last goddamn thing you should be doing is shutting them up. Let them talk and incriminate themselves and collect the evidence to haul'em off to the pokey. By silencing these people all you do is make them harder to police.
It's been said a thousand times already: the "child protection" issue is a complete red herring. But what's NOT being said is many of those rooms ARE monitored by people who care and can - and do - act, even if they are not on the corporate payroll.
I did. It's not my fault you are off your medication.
so little knowledge of inherent quality loss due to analog copying and of differing quality levels from various types of AV input. Some of them may have a clue. You don't.
You're an idiot. Not because you insist on spewing about shit you obviously know nothing, but because you obviously don't even know when to shut the fuck up to prevent yourself further defacement.
A/B testing is not a mysterious fucking science. Nor is setting up a high quality video system on a PC.
http://www.dscaler.org/
As to Home theaters based on PC's. No problem with them, in fact that's what I have. Doesn't blind me to the quality issues with some parts of the system.
Really. Just one post back you were too fucking blind to tell the difference between a high quality svideo capture and the crap dished out by one of those USB dongles. So now you're gonna try to convince everyone you suddenly know what the fuck you're talking about?
My company, Internacionale Moustache Wax, will soon be releasing the successor to the Amiga, "La Pene del Helado, or "The Ice Cream Penis."
I really don't understand why these amiga stories keep coming up from time to time. No matter how good the original was the platform is hopelessly antiquated, and any new product will surely be a nearly complete redesign. It makes no sense to attach all that work to a quaint rebrand.
Amiga es la vieja mujer. Step into an ice creamy futuro con pene nuevo!
Fuck off. When I enter a valid registration number and MS tells me I cannot update XP because I have an invalid registration nmumber, then yes, it is "a foreign concept."
And for future reference you might want to invest $3.95 in the Elements Of Style. There was nothing at all inappropriate about my use of quotes. You need to lay off the cocaine or pot or whatever it is that's making you so stupid.
I wonder if this works on XP systems with "invalid" registration numbers? You can't install a service pack so your machine won't be one of those littering the net with virii, but we'll let you install this "rights management" software on your cracked OS so you can watch "protected" media?
that's the thing. There are several brain dead linux server installs. I haven't looked but it wouldn't surprise me if there were even a knoppix based CD-booting server distro out now.
The thing is, I doubt most folks have the skills to cobble together the box itself. And many who do simply don't have the time or desire to screw with it - especially when 120GB of online storage is $400. You or I wouldn't buy this, but we're not the market - and 400 bucks is pretty good price when you consider most folks would end up paying $200 just to get a 120GB drive installed in their existing machine, or even a $399 e-machine.
But the "Inspiri" service is the killer app. Because you can run a stateful firewall and still get your files from a relatively secure home network by authenticating through their service. If the system works as advertised, that's a really nice feature. No need to configure "pinholes" or setup a DMZ on the home network or even know what any of that crap means. All they need now is a "matching" firewall appliance and they got a potentially killer business model: protecting home networks against intrusion while allowing plug and play telepresence.
And if they would just market it in Hong Kong and Japan and plug up all those leaky high speed home lines they might actually make the internet a better place. Very nice.
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Finally, you should have no problem remembering how those idiots in washington finally threw up their hands in frustration and recinded that limit to 65, and then 70 - essentially putting things right back to where they were more than thirty years ago.
In other words: some of us need no "excuse" to break insane laws. Some of us do so flagrantly and willingly. And some of us just do it because we're sociopathic freaks.
Long live the freaks.
If this is entirely true, then why are there still no other systems available that can run os x? Why can I not just buy a PPC motherboard, a video card, assemble a system, and run mac os?
And so far as that other guy's problem with "five minutes to fade when I FFW" well, that ain't your encoder, champ. That's the playback codec combined with the keyframe rate of the original encode. Doesn't matter what was used to encode it - if you got ten seconds between keyframes and no B frames, it's gonna take a while to settle out. If you got five minutes between'em (as lots of newbs like to do) then it's gonna take a real long time to settle.
The real irony is many "DIVX" videos out there are actually encoded with XVID (because it works better and it's free). All it takes is a switch setting in the XVID config to make it report a DIV5 fourCC, and a lot of people use this feature to avoid codec playback hassles. I used to do that too, but quit because people NEED to know there is an alternative out there.
I hope DIVX is able to make this fly (my bet is they will). The codecs are similar enough XVID will be just as compatible, which means we're free to use open source creation tools while DIVX pays the patent fees.
So far as "inforcing" (outdated) immigration laws - well, how exactly do you propose doing that? Spend more on policing the businesses that hire these workers? Spend more on hardware to patrol an essentially unpolicable desert? Spend more on building even higher walls? Spend more on prisons to retain them when they're caught and buses to ship them back? And what about the coyotes that ship them here? It's the insane laws that ship these people back across the border the minute they are caught that allows the smugglers to operate essentally without risk. The harder you make it to get across the border, the more they will charge and the more people will die - and, in the process, the smugglers profits increase.
Talk about tax and spend... you're talking about spending money - which will have to come from the tax base - while eroding that tax base.
The US has spent a goddamned fortune on this nonsense and it serves no one. Policemen and immigrants die in the desert, all for want of a buck. If these people are so determined to come to work that they will risk their lives crossing the desert on foot, who the hell do we serve by not allowing them entry? A bunch of nationalistic recedivists? Thanks, but I'd sooner toss my tax dollars into the street than to fund your racist propoganda.
Homes in snow areas accumulate snow on the roof. This actually helps insulate them in winter. And, even if it didn't, this means those expensive roofing panels are useless in winter until someone climbs on the roof to sweep away the snow.
You cannot "aim" shingles. If your house is "conventional" (as the building codes require in many areas) you are going to have a pitched roof with a peak. At any given time, half the area of the roof is going to be utterly wasted. And even with the sun directly overhead, one is not likely to experience "peak" generation.
That 10% efficiency is peak not average. So you might be able to get a third that - or ~3.5% efficiency - for a roof. A roof that costs ten times as much to install and five times as much to maintain when you get the semi-annual hail or wind damage.
I do think solar energy is where it's at, but I'm dismayed that solar cells seem to be the only solution the mainstream is willing to consider. The sun provides lots of energy and you DON'T have to convert it to electricity to make use of it. The earth itself also can provide huge sums of heating and cooling energy and yet, even in homes with basements, this utility source is rarely exploited in an efficient manner. Design a house properly and you need hardly pay for heating, hot water, or even for cooling in the summer. Much of this is possible without making use of a single solar cell, and without substantially adding to the maintenance costs of the building.
And let's not overlook your convenient and repeated ignoring those other functions - like electrician and plumber. Have you ever had to hire a plumber? And your assertion is one can be had for a mere ten bucks an hour?
Crack, indeed.
And what about your insipid bullshit about those "illegal immigrants" not paying taxes? Rfemember them? The ones that actually do pay state and federal taxes and are refused those services they help support with their own hard work? You seem quite anxious to forget them, so I just thought I'd remind you...
Where do you live? I didn't work there myself, but I'm certain even the McD's in LA was paying more than minumum wage. Some were even offering signing bonuses...
All those "immigrants making minimum wage" DO fucking well pay taxes. Unless they are doing someone's yardwork for cash (which anyone can do, BTW) they are paying FICA, and social security (to someone else's account or even an account that doesn't exist), and federal tax and state tax - all of which most NEVER GET BACK because they are illegally working in the US and cannot collect that "refund" come April.
I lived in LA. I had a nice apartment in the hills with a view of LA and it cost me way less than $1000 a month - mostly because it was a six unit flat-top and the landlady paid a mexican immigrant about a fifth what "real" plumbers, electricians, and gardeners would have charged her to maintain the place. I've seen that system from both sides; want to see things really get expensive? Close off the border so the apartment landlords all have to pay five times as much for garening and lawn services, and the restaraunts have to pay three times as much for busboys and dishwashers and all those other laborers you never see. All people who, BTW, would now be free to make use of that infrastructure they support with their taxes.
You wanna see the tax base really erode? Run the illegal Mexicans out of California.
Between this and the p2p networks lobbying to tax everyone to pay "compulsory" fees to record industry dinosaurs, it looks for all the world like the US is determined to toss away any last tiny vestiges of "technical leadership."
What Lindows is doing is offering to give people "free" software. The hype is that they will charge MS the fifty dollars or mroe for your "free" software but the fact remains that this costs Lindows even less than MS's offer, as I can simply download Lindows and MS has to ship actual boxes of bits.
Whether or not Lindows ever collects is irrelevant. It's irrelevant for the same reason MS should never have been allowed to settle a claim for absuing the market by furthering itself in control of that market.
Lindows is linux. It may be a "special" linux but the fact remains it is, at its core, truly free software. That means, at the worse, Lindows will be "locking in" new users to free software.
It has nothing to do with "stealing from MS" and, after filling out the forms myself, I don't think even they believe they can actually collect any money. If they can, great - but I have doubts, and one of those doubts is that the folks at Lindows believe they will be able to collect any money from MS. And if they don't collect a dime what will they be out? A few gigabytes of bandwidth - the cost of which will probably balanced out by others paying the extra ten bucks for boxed CDs to save themselves the download.
But it is a good marketing gimmick - a gimmick they even play up on the Lindows site where, at the bottom of every page, is the disclaimer "Lindows is not associated with Microsoft. In fact, we don't really even like them because they are suing us" - with "suing us" linked to a press release about the whole affair.
It's marketing. and it's not even particlularly unethical marketing. I certainly don't find this nearly as unacceptable as when MP3.com decided to co-opt the works of all those "legacy studios." It's just Lindows once again making an attempt to ride the hype machine that inevitably follows every Microsoft legal move. Stretching it only slightly you could call it the "anti-SCO" marketing ploy. Instead of suing everyone, they get themselves sued and, in the process, buy some extra hype.
Hey... it's their money.
By "sitting around thinking about children?"
Dude, it's thinking like yours that is steering this country straight to hell. If you think thoughts constitute criminal action, my only question for you is when are you going to turn yourself in? Don't try to tell us you never thought of doing something illegal - there's not a rational person on earth who would buy that bullshit.
A pedophile is a little more than someone who just sits and thinks about children.
Wrong.
Most of the time, they are in posession of child pornography (which is illegal), may have harrassed one or more children (which is illegal), and contribute to the delinquency of minors (also illegal).
Just like all those "homos" who do nothing but sit around and think about butt fucking each other? Or those mulsims who are all terrorists? Or those blacks who are always stealing shit to buy crack?
Do you have any proof that most of these people have, in reality, done any of that bullshit you just so ignorantly spewed into the ether?
All of this is regardless of whether or not they ever put a hand on that child. All child molesters were pedophiles at one point
This is so incredibly ignorant even you contradict yourself in a mere two sentences! You see, it is impossible to prove "most pedophiles" do anything at all, as the actual size of that population is, at this point, wholly unkown. It is, however, entirely provable that "all child molestors" (at least all convicted child molestors) are or are not pedophiles. And, if you have the intelligence to type those words into google you will quickly see that assertion completely rebuked by numerous studies - in fact, many convicted child molestors are not pedophiles.
And, on a personal note, I will add it is ignorance (like yours) to this fact (among others) that enables a great many children to be molested each year. I realize this is a lot to ask, but you might give that some thought (especially if you plan to reproduce).
and the laws of our country are designed to catch pedophiles before they become molesters.
And this is constitutional... how? Replace "pedophiles" with "men" and "molestors" with "rapists" and see how you like that. If you have any sense of history at all you will realize this is the door many radical feminists have been struggling to open since (at least) the sixties, and it doesn't take a genius to see how that notion of "preventative law enforcement" has encroached upon many freedoms in the decades since. Stick a frog in a pot, and all that...
The FBI isn't interested in some freak who is attracted to little girls, the FBI is interested in some freak who is attracted to little girls AND is in posession of (or distributing) kiddie porn, or one or more ILLEGAL things a pedophile does.
Throughout time it has variously been made "illegal" to be a christian, muslim, jew, homosexual - even artist or poet. And the "illegal things" these people have done is share belief, share written work (go to "re-education camp" for having a bible), share knowledge - or even for people who did NOT share these things to defend such "illegal acts." In fact, in the part of the country where I live, even being black was, for decades, a crime that cost a great many innocent people (even children) their lives.
The current hysteria surrounding "pedophiles" is little different. When you make it illegal to share beliefs or even thoughts, you make existence illegal. The government, however, will use any tool at its disposal to erode your freedom in the name of "stability and security." Are you really too stupid to understand the great societal dangers inherent to this very simple, historically proven, fact?
Excuse me, but why the fuck should the FBI be wasting time and money going after pedophiles?.
It seems you are clueless as to the definition of a pedophile. Being a pedophile is little different than being heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, or whatever. Molesting children is a crime, but a pedophile who never molests a child should no more be pursued than should you or I for that rape we might commit.
When you move criminality from acting to simply being you have taken one giant step toward tyranny. It's quite ironic you should be responding in a thread about our collective loss of rights and, in that very same breath, show how you have swallowed the very kool-aid that is being used to brainwash the public into willing giving up those rights.
The rest of that nonsense is a troll. I got the karma to spare, but I simply don't care enough to care.
What are they giving away? They are giving away the same thing MS is giving away - a "license" to use their software for a period of time. In my case I get 30 weeks of "free click-n-run" plus an OS install which I can use on all my home PCs (if I desire). Whether or not MS ever pays Lindows a penny really doesn't matter - what lindows has done is signed up another potential user.
MS is right about several things. I'm tempted to send many of my friends here and tell'em just to make up some shit so they get the "free click and run."
Once you fill out the form you can download lindows, install it, and use the "click and run" archive for a period of time. They lose nothing but some bandwidth, and in exchange they get the opportunity to show another person how linux can work for them. The user gets a lindows plus account, which is great because it gives them an excuse to give away "premium" software the user usually has to pay extra for.
It may be a bit shady, and MS may be right on many counts, but it doesn't matter - even if Lindows loses the ability to collect on all those "signatures" they still may drive a few more users from the arms of MS. If those new linux users stay with lindows, then they get a fresh revenue stream. And if they don't stay with lindows, maybe some of them will move onto redhat or debian or whatever. Maybe some of them will buy macs. What matters is just that people are encouraged to try something new because they have the promise of free shit. Lindows isn't normally free even to end users, so there's a greater perception of value here on the part of mom sixpack and, therefore, greater incentive to try it. and if they can't collect, so what? As much as I'd like to cost MS money, I honestly wasn't going to jump through the hoops required just to maybe get back a check for $80. At least this way there's a chance I'll cost MS some money and, hey, in the meantime I got something with some modest perceived value.
this article is interesting. I'm not an admin of a corporate wan and there's only so much damage that can be done to a home network, so my interest is not sufficient to compel me to "search for it" anymore than my interest in particle physics would drive me to "search for" the latest technical papers on particel accelerators.
If this offends your l33t sensibilities then you need a thorough ass kicking by RMS and JP Barlow to remind you of why sites like slashdot even exist.
I never heard of honeynet. I didn't know I could run a kernel level logger on my firewall. Maybe someone at /. turned the story down two months ago, but I never heard of this. So why didn't you send in the story when it was "news?"
I admit google is my first pick as well, but don't dismiss ANY latecomers at this point. It's not just the spoofers and spammers who have weasled their way in - I've done many searches where the first several pages were basically useless ecommerce sites and even done searches where no useful information could be found there at all. Google is a great search engine, but it's nothing near the greatness it had as little as a year ago. Give it another year or two and someone is sure to come up with something better - even if it's google itself that is finally forced to do it.
Good riddance. The sooner we all can carry around a gig or two of personal data on secure wireless pen drives, the better.
Like goimg yp McDonald's and buying a Billion hamburgers just to watch them change the signs?
We never saw pedos there. Not much, anyway. Because the kids didn't hesitate to tell us about inappropriate whispers from strangers, and sevral of us were given enough administrative power to handle things ourselves when they did.
IOW both our "unmonitored" rooms were fully "monitored" and there were people at the ready who could act if needed - that is, so far as acting was needed. This is chat, after all - no one can reach through the line and abduct a child telephonically.
And if there WERE twenty pedophiles hanging about in a room, so what? If they're all pedophiles they're not children - i.e. so long as they are hanging about stroking one another and swapping stories and old trophy shots they are not fucking children. You cannot make it illegal for people of similar interests to congregate and talk - even if you don't like their topic selection. Unless someone is conspiring to abduct the neighbor kid or discussing the plot of their next self directed child rape flick, no crime is being comitted, no one is endangered, and you SHOULDN'T have the "right" to shut them down. And if they ARE stupid enough to do this in public the last goddamn thing you should be doing is shutting them up. Let them talk and incriminate themselves and collect the evidence to haul'em off to the pokey. By silencing these people all you do is make them harder to police.
It's been said a thousand times already: the "child protection" issue is a complete red herring. But what's NOT being said is many of those rooms ARE monitored by people who care and can - and do - act, even if they are not on the corporate payroll.
I did. It's not my fault you are off your medication.
so little knowledge of inherent quality loss due to analog copying and of differing quality levels from various types of AV input. Some of them may have a clue. You don't.
You're an idiot. Not because you insist on spewing about shit you obviously know nothing, but because you obviously don't even know when to shut the fuck up to prevent yourself further defacement.
A/B testing is not a mysterious fucking science. Nor is setting up a high quality video system on a PC.
http://www.dscaler.org/ As to Home theaters based on PC's. No problem with them, in fact that's what I have. Doesn't blind me to the quality issues with some parts of the system.
Really. Just one post back you were too fucking blind to tell the difference between a high quality svideo capture and the crap dished out by one of those USB dongles. So now you're gonna try to convince everyone you suddenly know what the fuck you're talking about?
Dream on, Dorothy.
I really don't understand why these amiga stories keep coming up from time to time. No matter how good the original was the platform is hopelessly antiquated, and any new product will surely be a nearly complete redesign. It makes no sense to attach all that work to a quaint rebrand.
Amiga es la vieja mujer. Step into an ice creamy futuro con pene nuevo!
And for future reference you might want to invest $3.95 in the Elements Of Style. There was nothing at all inappropriate about my use of quotes. You need to lay off the cocaine or pot or whatever it is that's making you so stupid.
I wonder if this works on XP systems with "invalid" registration numbers? You can't install a service pack so your machine won't be one of those littering the net with virii, but we'll let you install this "rights management" software on your cracked OS so you can watch "protected" media?
The thing is, I doubt most folks have the skills to cobble together the box itself. And many who do simply don't have the time or desire to screw with it - especially when 120GB of online storage is $400. You or I wouldn't buy this, but we're not the market - and 400 bucks is pretty good price when you consider most folks would end up paying $200 just to get a 120GB drive installed in their existing machine, or even a $399 e-machine.
But the "Inspiri" service is the killer app. Because you can run a stateful firewall and still get your files from a relatively secure home network by authenticating through their service. If the system works as advertised, that's a really nice feature. No need to configure "pinholes" or setup a DMZ on the home network or even know what any of that crap means. All they need now is a "matching" firewall appliance and they got a potentially killer business model: protecting home networks against intrusion while allowing plug and play telepresence.
And if they would just market it in Hong Kong and Japan and plug up all those leaky high speed home lines they might actually make the internet a better place. Very nice.