Likely. Well, actually, Ubuntu with "restricted", but I suspect the package also exists in Debian non-free.
But then, if you're complaining about how hard it is to install non-free software when you deliberately don't have the non-free repository setup... (Which is point-and-click in Ubuntu, by the way.)
This isn't about voiding a warranty I understand. I think it should be.
When you buy an appliance, it is just that, and appliance that does certain things. When that appliance is running software -- in particular, when it's running my software -- that changes the game a bit.
You say that you have yet to find a laptop that rivits the case shut. Probably true, but But my analogy works then. Shocking!
you have seen laptops that won't offer support or drivers for different operating systems I have not, however, seen a laptop which goes out of its way to prevent a different operating system from working with it.
I don't expect them to help me -- that takes effort and money. I wish they wouldn't keep trying to hinder me -- that also takes effort and money, and ultimately fails at their intended purpose.
the DRM is being used in appliances like Game consoles, Cell Phones, and Tivo PVRs and such, not general purpose computers. And you know, I have appliances like air conditioners, TVs, and high-powered drills -- far from general purpose -- which also don't rivet their cases shut. Sure, they can't support it if I start collecting parts to build a robot, or if I try to fool/fix the thermostat on a weak air conditioner, but they don't actively try to stop me.
You seem to be having problems with the concept of an "analogy".
Just skimming the summary, it seems that the open specs have nothing to do with the story in question, and are just about how ATI is good. And yeah, that's great, but...
All these new features are very likely being added to ATI's binary driver, and will be a long time coming in the FOSS driver. And while nVidia's driver isn't great, it has (in my experience) been much better than ATI's. Keep in mind that the nVidia driver has had most of these things (SLI, etc) for a very long time.
However, both ATI and nVidia's binary drivers suck giant donkey balls, unless something has changed with ATI since I last owned one of their cards. Intel's drivers have been better in every respect. If Intel's Larabee is what's promised...
I don't think this is so much about FOSS being better than proprietary. I think it's got at least as much to do with the moving target of the Linux kernel -- the most reliable way to get a working driver on Linux is to open the source and work with the kernel devs. This is almost certainly not true on other platforms, but it is on Linux.
I think people (in the US at least) either don't understand the simplicity of sniffing cleartext, or don't think they care. Hmm. I propose we start sniffing emails everywhere we can, and put the results up on Wikileaks for the world to see. Then we'll know who really cares.
The reason PGP, and GPG as well, fail is because PKI is just too difficult to setup and maintain. That's why no one uses SSL.
it's too difficult to do in most corporations Most corporations aren't smart enough to use S/MIME.
If you truly want secure email for the masses it has to be transparent. If it was transparent, it wouldn't be truly secure.
Still, I'd argue that we should go for PGP/GPG. It's a lot simpler than a lot of other things people do on a daily basis -- driving a car, for instance. Certainly much simpler than a lot of things which are taught in school.
corporations and governments don't WANT secure applications being adopted. Hope that tinfoil hat is comfortable... (And you accuse me of living in my mom's basement?)
How else can the government spy on you or corporations steal secrets from each other if things are encrypted. The government, I can see, but it's not as though they can reasonably outlaw it. There's not really much the government can do, other than use the same encryption themselves when appropriate.
But corporations? Seems to me that if this ever was the case, all it would take is one smart corporation to realize that if they implement crypto and their competitors don't, they can spy on competitors, but not vice versa. Of course, this would lead to an arms race resulting in no one being able to spy on anyone, which would be better for all involved.
we are living in a 1984'esqe society. There are hints of that, but have you actually read 1984? I don't see thought police or memory holes.
When I last installed it, it was actually pretty simple:
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Of course, it'd still ultimately do the same thing -- download a tarball, unpack it, and prompt me for a license agreement. But it wasn't really that much more difficult than it is now with openjdk-6-jdk.
When is GNU going to learn that the language of doom ("shackled," "trap," etc.) is a good way to ensure that you preach only to the choir? I suspect it'll be around the same time that Republicans learn that people care about more issues than the terrorists.
I was actually expecting to be modded "Funny", but I put that disclaimer there because I thought people might mod me insightful. Backfired, of course. D'oh!
Native interop is huge for our application because we have to interface with hardware and other applications. Wine will never work for you, unless you deliberately port to it.
That's why I mentioned ntfsclone. Or, in cases where I don't know how big the drive I restore to will be, ntfsresize as low as it will go, dd that, then resize it to fit the partition.
Also, depending on the entropy of that free space, modify it "dd | gzip" and it works.
For Linux partitions, I'd use tar, so again, I assert that not having Ghost is a terrible excuse, given that free bare-metal backup has been available for forever.
The drives will also tend to become rather warm and stay that way for too long. Which, if the drives are at all good, that won't hurt them.
And for all of the idiots stating that the "router" gave them permission, give me a break. The router isn't a legal entity, and only works in the way you interact with it. Just like a laptop -- many of which are configured to auto-connect to any open wireless.
I twisted the doorknob (initiated association with the accesspoint), and the doorknob gave me permission to enter by retracting the latch (allowing me to associate and giving me a DHCP lease). Never mind that the doorknob also had a little built-in speaker screaming "Hey everyone! Free stuff in here!" (SSID broadcast.)
I'm not "stealing" from him, because it's not like he has less HBO (internet) now that I've viewed some of his HBO (internet). Except he does. If he's on a metered service, he does have less Internet. Even if he's not, I'd be sucking down bandwidth, possibly lagging him out if he's on at the same time.
that only gives you authorization to access his LAN. You still have no right to use his paid broadband internet services. No, the fact that the same DHCP lease also included information about available gateways and DNS servers, and that the DNS servers responded, and the gateway let me through -- I think that pretty much constitutes an invitation to use his broadband.
You don't have that right, because you aren't paying the ISP, and because the owner of the access point doesn't have the right to share or transfer his right to use his internet service with all of his neighbors, Really? How should I know? Shouldn't that be (again) their responsibility for not sharing their service with me (assuming they don't have that right), rather than my responsibility to ask them (and then their ISP) for permission?
What if they tell me it's OK? Surely, if I'm visiting someone's house, there's no meaningful difference between them sharing their Internet with my laptop, or inviting me to use their computer.
For that matter, if SSID broadcast, working DHCP, working DNS, and a working gateway aren't enough to authorize someone, is there any technological means by which I can declare a wireless network to be open and legal?
just like I don't have the right to share my HBO programming with all of my neighbors. As far as I know, it's still legal to throw your own superbowl party -- invite a few friends over to watch TV with you. So your analogy fails.
Giving away your wifi by intentionally hosting open access points is very likely a breach of your contract with your ISP. Then that is between you and your ISP -- not between every random passerby with an iPhone and your ISP.
Using someone else's wifi is a crime You've fallen into the same trap as the MPAA -- I bet you think sharing copyrighted music is a crime?
Wrong on both counts. When I go to the coffee shops in this town, they have public wifi set up, deliberately, explicitly as free for their customers -- one of them has a sign in the window from their ISP which advertises it.
And copyrighted music, of course, is entirely legal to share if you have permission of the copyright holder to do so.
But you know very well that the only reason the AP is open is because the owners don't know how to secure it. Their fault. This is one of the most trivial things to learn about computer security.
And, consider the other poster's analogy: While I can see how it's easy to do so, the fact remains that these people are by accident broadcasting that their network exists, and handing out IP addresses (and DNS, gateway, etc) to anyone who asks.
At a certain point, claiming ignorance is no excuse.
I'm not the GP, but... I have never done the first two. The third, though, is done by default by some OSes -- and here in the US, I would go by what the router is configured to broadcast. Seriously, if it says "private", that implies that someone knew how to change the SSID, but not so much as to even turn on WEP -- WTF?
It's stupid, but I always look twice... pop 10k here, so I would have seen them before.
Still, my favorite has to be this one, and ones like it.
Seriously, one of these days, I have got to get into the porn business. If any idiot with FrontPage can make money, imagine what will happen when you get someone competent... I can see it now: PornDB! Complete with buzzword compliance (social networking! REST!) and a query language!
SELECT videos.* FROM models LEFT JOIN videos ON model_id WHERE bust_size > size('33C') AND bmi 120;
If you decide to make it do something it was never represented as being able to do and break it, that's your fault Indeed -- my fault, I voided the warranty, fine. Kind of like opening up a laptop -- you get to a certain point, and there are stickers which say "Warranty void if sticker removed."
I have not yet found a laptop manufacturer which goes beyond these stickers and rivets the case shut. Even Apple doesn't do shit like that anymore.
Never mind that Ghost is an absurdly simple program -- Linux (and any other Unix, for that matter) has had dd, for free, pretty much forever. More recently, there's ntfsclone, which will grab everything but unallocated space.
First, it's something like 3 years of development -- maybe they've had the idea since the Atari days, but they only claim 3 years.
Second, it was 3 guys. That means that at a minimum, 33% of the dev team knew what was going on, and the other 67% were clueless at best. But seriously, I work in a team with 3 guys, and just being in the office, I overhear more than enough to have a solid idea of what's going on.
Third, "worked hard"? They didn't even write the engine. It's roughly equivalent to RPGMaker, as I understand it -- and I'll remind you, the "hard work" of building an RPGMaker games is artwork, story, and setting stats on various characters and enemies.
Given that the reviews don't rate the story or the gameplay very high, this means that the "hard work" is really just putting together the screenshots.
First, he modified the software on the computer, not the printer. He didn't flash any firmware or anything into the printer. I see your nitpick and raise you an analogy.
TO say that gives you a right or some inherent notion of being able to execute code on any hardware, you really have to ignore reality. No, what gives me the right to execute code on any hardware is the fact that I bought that hardware, which makes it mine.
Not even going to respond to the accusations of lying...
I imagine this being similar in principle to the shim that makes the Internet Explorer embedding API map to Mozilla. Let's hope not. The Mozilla wrapper is an old version of Gecko, and it's not Wine-specific, it's Windows-specific. Wine just happens to support it.
Now, I think I understand what you're saying, wherein Mono should be able to call Wine DLLs, and Wine should be able to run.NET EXEs in Mono. But that would be tricky -- as it stands, I'm guessing P/Invoke allows support for Mono calling out to native Linux libraries, which is as it should be. What's needed, then, is a way for Linux apps to call Wine libs...
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Likely. Well, actually, Ubuntu with "restricted", but I suspect the package also exists in Debian non-free.
But then, if you're complaining about how hard it is to install non-free software when you deliberately don't have the non-free repository setup... (Which is point-and-click in Ubuntu, by the way.)
I don't expect them to help me -- that takes effort and money. I wish they wouldn't keep trying to hinder me -- that also takes effort and money, and ultimately fails at their intended purpose. the DRM is being used in appliances like Game consoles, Cell Phones, and Tivo PVRs and such, not general purpose computers. And you know, I have appliances like air conditioners, TVs, and high-powered drills -- far from general purpose -- which also don't rivet their cases shut. Sure, they can't support it if I start collecting parts to build a robot, or if I try to fool/fix the thermostat on a weak air conditioner, but they don't actively try to stop me.
You seem to be having problems with the concept of an "analogy".
Would said device not work without the SSID broadcast, though?
Oh, and there's always MAC filtering.
Just skimming the summary, it seems that the open specs have nothing to do with the story in question, and are just about how ATI is good. And yeah, that's great, but...
All these new features are very likely being added to ATI's binary driver, and will be a long time coming in the FOSS driver. And while nVidia's driver isn't great, it has (in my experience) been much better than ATI's. Keep in mind that the nVidia driver has had most of these things (SLI, etc) for a very long time.
However, both ATI and nVidia's binary drivers suck giant donkey balls, unless something has changed with ATI since I last owned one of their cards. Intel's drivers have been better in every respect. If Intel's Larabee is what's promised...
I don't think this is so much about FOSS being better than proprietary. I think it's got at least as much to do with the moving target of the Linux kernel -- the most reliable way to get a working driver on Linux is to open the source and work with the kernel devs. This is almost certainly not true on other platforms, but it is on Linux.
Still, I'd argue that we should go for PGP/GPG. It's a lot simpler than a lot of other things people do on a daily basis -- driving a car, for instance. Certainly much simpler than a lot of things which are taught in school. corporations and governments don't WANT secure applications being adopted. Hope that tinfoil hat is comfortable... (And you accuse me of living in my mom's basement?) How else can the government spy on you or corporations steal secrets from each other if things are encrypted. The government, I can see, but it's not as though they can reasonably outlaw it. There's not really much the government can do, other than use the same encryption themselves when appropriate.
But corporations? Seems to me that if this ever was the case, all it would take is one smart corporation to realize that if they implement crypto and their competitors don't, they can spy on competitors, but not vice versa. Of course, this would lead to an arms race resulting in no one being able to spy on anyone, which would be better for all involved. we are living in a 1984'esqe society. There are hints of that, but have you actually read 1984? I don't see thought police or memory holes.
I was actually expecting to be modded "Funny", but I put that disclaimer there because I thought people might mod me insightful. Backfired, of course. D'oh!
Out of curiosity, what hardware?
Also, depending on the entropy of that free space, modify it "dd | gzip" and it works.
For Linux partitions, I'd use tar, so again, I assert that not having Ghost is a terrible excuse, given that free bare-metal backup has been available for forever. The drives will also tend to become rather warm and stay that way for too long. Which, if the drives are at all good, that won't hurt them.
Beholder.
Slashdot ate my <; I reposted the real query.
Well, the original query also wasn't valid SQL -- it needs an = in there to do what you want.
What if they tell me it's OK? Surely, if I'm visiting someone's house, there's no meaningful difference between them sharing their Internet with my laptop, or inviting me to use their computer.
For that matter, if SSID broadcast, working DHCP, working DNS, and a working gateway aren't enough to authorize someone, is there any technological means by which I can declare a wireless network to be open and legal? just like I don't have the right to share my HBO programming with all of my neighbors. As far as I know, it's still legal to throw your own superbowl party -- invite a few friends over to watch TV with you. So your analogy fails. Giving away your wifi by intentionally hosting open access points is very likely a breach of your contract with your ISP. Then that is between you and your ISP -- not between every random passerby with an iPhone and your ISP. Using someone else's wifi is a crime You've fallen into the same trap as the MPAA -- I bet you think sharing copyrighted music is a crime?
Wrong on both counts. When I go to the coffee shops in this town, they have public wifi set up, deliberately, explicitly as free for their customers -- one of them has a sign in the window from their ISP which advertises it.
And copyrighted music, of course, is entirely legal to share if you have permission of the copyright holder to do so.
And, consider the other poster's analogy: While I can see how it's easy to do so, the fact remains that these people are by accident broadcasting that their network exists, and handing out IP addresses (and DNS, gateway, etc) to anyone who asks.
At a certain point, claiming ignorance is no excuse.
I'm not the GP, but... I have never done the first two. The third, though, is done by default by some OSes -- and here in the US, I would go by what the router is configured to broadcast. Seriously, if it says "private", that implies that someone knew how to change the SSID, but not so much as to even turn on WEP -- WTF?
It's stupid, but I always look twice... pop 10k here, so I would have seen them before.
Still, my favorite has to be this one, and ones like it.
Seriously, one of these days, I have got to get into the porn business. If any idiot with FrontPage can make money, imagine what will happen when you get someone competent... I can see it now: PornDB! Complete with buzzword compliance (social networking! REST!) and a query language!
SELECT videos.* FROM models LEFT JOIN videos ON model_id WHERE bust_size > size('33C') AND bmi 120;
(Nobody mod me insightful!)
I have not yet found a laptop manufacturer which goes beyond these stickers and rivets the case shut. Even Apple doesn't do shit like that anymore.
Never mind that Ghost is an absurdly simple program -- Linux (and any other Unix, for that matter) has had dd, for free, pretty much forever. More recently, there's ntfsclone, which will grab everything but unallocated space.
First, it's something like 3 years of development -- maybe they've had the idea since the Atari days, but they only claim 3 years.
Second, it was 3 guys. That means that at a minimum, 33% of the dev team knew what was going on, and the other 67% were clueless at best. But seriously, I work in a team with 3 guys, and just being in the office, I overhear more than enough to have a solid idea of what's going on.
Third, "worked hard"? They didn't even write the engine. It's roughly equivalent to RPGMaker, as I understand it -- and I'll remind you, the "hard work" of building an RPGMaker games is artwork, story, and setting stats on various characters and enemies.
Given that the reviews don't rate the story or the gameplay very high, this means that the "hard work" is really just putting together the screenshots.
Never mind the whole Release Candidate process. Seriously, security researchers waited until release day to start looking for the bug?
Not even going to respond to the accusations of lying...
Now, I think I understand what you're saying, wherein Mono should be able to call Wine DLLs, and Wine should be able to run