You are responsible for all the content going in and out of your network. They will hold you to that, and should anything illegal enough to get the feds interested come along ( plans to blow up buildings, or your favorite 4 minute crap-of-the-week song. Guess which one is worse ), that's what they hold you to.
Stuck up "actors" I don't like doing their normal piss-poor job of acting on high budget, yet poorly designed ( technologically and cinamantically ) games that I will never play, opting for net hack.
Further, let's turn a cheezy game into a movie! Yeah, it'll be slop, so people will pay us MILLIONS to bad mouth it.
And you know what? We will. At the end of the day, the execs know that we will fork over our cash for crap because we are told to do so.
In closing, let me leave you with this thought: Moo.
"The whole idea of Windows Update is a joke. Using an unreliable and insecure network as the primary means of distributing security updates is simply idiotic."
Um...so, we aren't supposed to get software updates over the internet.
Side note here: To those who have not, READ THE BOOK. I got my hands on it, not really thinking a great deal about it after seeing the movie, and I was completely shocked by how good the story is. It is, by far, one of the best books I have ever read.
Hollywood raped this book for fun and profit. And by rape, I mean they sorta stuck with the first couple chapters of the story...sorta...but then kinda dropped the ball with the rest of the book, could they have been said to ever be carrying it in the first place, which I wouldn't.
This is a short-sighted and a naive opinion. While I believe most of the original article is FUD and mere political banter (especially the part about "Linux Activists" believing all patent/trademark law should be eradicated), your commentis outrageous.
Good, they were supposed to be. My comment was designed to get people thinking and talking. Seeing how 6 people have commented, and several others are moderating this all over the place, I'd say I accomplished what I set out to do.
I do believe in some sort of protection, but nothing NEAR what we have now. And I do believe that if you can take an idea and make it better, then you shouldn't be limited by a law that is supposed to protect innovation, not stifle it.
How this system is supposed to work I haven't quite figured out yet.;)
I'm not entirely sure of the point you were trying to make, but I assure you, if you had somehow improved upon my post, I would do nothing other than aplaud you.
However, as it stands, you didn't even fix my spelling mistakes.:)
Call me naive if you must, but am I the only one who doesn't really care about IP laws? Wouldn't it be more innovative if we got rid of the ip laws and let it be free reign on creation and development? Then, the market truely would be customer driven.
Without IP laws, companies would be forced to do as good of a job designing and implementing the product for fear of a competitor coming along and doing it better than they.
Which reminds me of the other thing I do: I run squid, with some extra stuff, and I have been known to be fairly vicious with the blacklist button.
Basically, I shoot first and don't worry about the questions later. If someone needs access to a page, they can file a request.
I do have a few apps that like to be annoying with the user security, but so far I've been able to find what the programs need access to, and give it to them. The hardest one required me to go digging though/c/program files/common file to find the right files to give my users access to, but I did it and it works.
This does take more setup time initially, but I don't deal with spyware either, so I think it's a worthy trade off.
..so forgive me for asking ( and no, this is not meant to be a "troll" ), but how do your users install this stuff on their machines?
I run a 100-node network ( ~80 employees ), and I only have to deal with this stuff on my poweruser's computer. Everyone else is a limited user ( win2k ), and the machines are updated nightly ( if needed, via SUS for win2k server ).
Did you read the S-1? They're saying that they will not be changing the way they do business, and in particular that shares sold to external investors won't have the same voting rights as the internal shares. Sergey, Larry and Eric will pretty much retain total control of the business.
Shit, and I say I'm the king of Glooby-Doo. Who are you more likely to believe? Folks who have a huge financial stake in lying, or me, who has no interest one way or another in lying to you.
Looks like it's time for me to find a different search engine.
It's not that I don't trust a board of highly paid incompentent people to make technology decisions...it's just that...I...
No, wait, that's exactly it. 5 years from now they'll be restating their earnings for 2005 because of some black voodoo in the finance dept, you watch.
How many of you would notice if your box was down, then when you ssh'd into it because your boss was upset, would keep going inspite of the warning that the SSH key changed.
I suppose that all depends on ones' comptetence level.
Sorry, I'm going to go with a WTF here. Windows is, far and away, the harder system to keep up to date, and it's dead easy to do now ( so no excuse to those of you window admins that don't keep your systems patched daily ).
Depending on the distro, Linux is mindlessly easy to keep up to date. Of course, you wouldn't use slack in this sort of enviroment, but RH has a nice package management system, and let us not forget Debian.
Either way, I'd say let the boat sink. Unbundle stuff but if you open up the engine, people are going to nut and bolt it to where it should be and Microsoft will gain from it.
Honestly, who cares WHO gains from it. I just want a decent desktop OS that I can run my apps on.
Remember folks, we're the ones spouting, "Use the right tool for the right job". If MS becomes the right tool, then you can bet your ass I'm gonna use it.
And any efforts to make software better I am fully behind, regardless of who "owns" it.
Let me ask you this: Is evidence found illegally admissable in court?
Answer: Depends. If you are law enforcement, then no. If you are a private citizen, then again, it depends. In this instance, with judges being as stupid as they are with computer crimes, I would guess they would take a very dim view of anybody doing anything illegal to gain computer evidence.
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Why yes, I do speak blackmail-ese. >:)
Never underestimate a BOFH.
But not for the average user.
You are responsible for all the content going in and out of your network. They will hold you to that, and should anything illegal enough to get the feds interested come along ( plans to blow up buildings, or your favorite 4 minute crap-of-the-week song. Guess which one is worse ), that's what they hold you to.
That's just what I play video games to see:
Stuck up "actors" I don't like doing their normal piss-poor job of acting on high budget, yet poorly designed ( technologically and cinamantically ) games that I will never play, opting for net hack.
Further, let's turn a cheezy game into a movie! Yeah, it'll be slop, so people will pay us MILLIONS to bad mouth it.
And you know what? We will. At the end of the day, the execs know that we will fork over our cash for crap because we are told to do so.
In closing, let me leave you with this thought: Moo.
"The whole idea of Windows Update is a joke. Using an unreliable and insecure network as the primary means of distributing security updates is simply idiotic."
Um...so, we aren't supposed to get software updates over the internet.
Carrier Pigeon, anyone?
they did it to the Neverending Story
Side note here: To those who have not, READ THE BOOK. I got my hands on it, not really thinking a great deal about it after seeing the movie, and I was completely shocked by how good the story is. It is, by far, one of the best books I have ever read.
Hollywood raped this book for fun and profit. And by rape, I mean they sorta stuck with the first couple chapters of the story...sorta...but then kinda dropped the ball with the rest of the book, could they have been said to ever be carrying it in the first place, which I wouldn't.
So you admit to Flamebaiting? Nice. Mods - you know what to do.
Only on slashdot could a comment that gets people thinking and talking be called flaming.
I see stupid people.
This is a short-sighted and a naive opinion. While I believe most of the original article is FUD and mere political banter (especially the part about "Linux Activists" believing all patent/trademark law should be eradicated), your commentis outrageous.
;)
Good, they were supposed to be. My comment was designed to get people thinking and talking. Seeing how 6 people have commented, and several others are moderating this all over the place, I'd say I accomplished what I set out to do.
I do believe in some sort of protection, but nothing NEAR what we have now. And I do believe that if you can take an idea and make it better, then you shouldn't be limited by a law that is supposed to protect innovation, not stifle it.
How this system is supposed to work I haven't quite figured out yet.
I'm not entirely sure of the point you were trying to make, but I assure you, if you had somehow improved upon my post, I would do nothing other than aplaud you.
:)
However, as it stands, you didn't even fix my spelling mistakes.
Call me naive if you must, but am I the only one who doesn't really care about IP laws? Wouldn't it be more innovative if we got rid of the ip laws and let it be free reign on creation and development? Then, the market truely would be customer driven.
Without IP laws, companies would be forced to do as good of a job designing and implementing the product for fear of a competitor coming along and doing it better than they.
Why the hell *do* we have these laws?
Which reminds me of the other thing I do: I run squid, with some extra stuff, and I have been known to be fairly vicious with the blacklist button.
/c/program files/common file to find the right files to give my users access to, but I did it and it works.
Basically, I shoot first and don't worry about the questions later. If someone needs access to a page, they can file a request.
I do have a few apps that like to be annoying with the user security, but so far I've been able to find what the programs need access to, and give it to them. The hardest one required me to go digging though
This does take more setup time initially, but I don't deal with spyware either, so I think it's a worthy trade off.
..so forgive me for asking ( and no, this is not meant to be a "troll" ), but how do your users install this stuff on their machines?
I run a 100-node network ( ~80 employees ), and I only have to deal with this stuff on my poweruser's computer. Everyone else is a limited user ( win2k ), and the machines are updated nightly ( if needed, via SUS for win2k server ).
Am I missing something here?
Did you read the S-1? They're saying that they will not be changing the way they do business, and in particular that shares sold to external investors won't have the same voting rights as the internal shares. Sergey, Larry and Eric will pretty much retain total control of the business.
Shit, and I say I'm the king of Glooby-Doo. Who are you more likely to believe? Folks who have a huge financial stake in lying, or me, who has no interest one way or another in lying to you.
Exactly.
Looks like it's time for me to find a different search engine.
It's not that I don't trust a board of highly paid incompentent people to make technology decisions...it's just that...I...
No, wait, that's exactly it. 5 years from now they'll be restating their earnings for 2005 because of some black voodoo in the finance dept, you watch.
How many of you would notice if your box was down, then when you ssh'd into it because your boss was upset, would keep going inspite of the warning that the SSH key changed.
I suppose that all depends on ones' comptetence level.
Sorry, I'm going to go with a WTF here. Windows is, far and away, the harder system to keep up to date, and it's dead easy to do now ( so no excuse to those of you window admins that don't keep your systems patched daily ).
Depending on the distro, Linux is mindlessly easy to keep up to date. Of course, you wouldn't use slack in this sort of enviroment, but RH has a nice package management system, and let us not forget Debian.
Cron jobs, that's where it's at.
Either way, I'd say let the boat sink. Unbundle stuff but if you open up the engine, people are going to nut and bolt it to where it should be and Microsoft will gain from it.
Honestly, who cares WHO gains from it. I just want a decent desktop OS that I can run my apps on.
Remember folks, we're the ones spouting, "Use the right tool for the right job". If MS becomes the right tool, then you can bet your ass I'm gonna use it.
And any efforts to make software better I am fully behind, regardless of who "owns" it.
Let me ask you this: Is evidence found illegally admissable in court?
Answer: Depends. If you are law enforcement, then no. If you are a private citizen, then again, it depends. In this instance, with judges being as stupid as they are with computer crimes, I would guess they would take a very dim view of anybody doing anything illegal to gain computer evidence.
If you use your cell for work as much as you say you do, and you are not alone, then the impact of this new policy will be felt.
Do what they tell you to do, don't use your cell at work.
On the flip side of it: If you truly do use your cell for work, then get them to spring for it ( monthly costs and all ). It's only fair.
Let's hope the show isn't well liked or anything. Otherwise, given Sci-fi's amazing ability to shoot itself in the foot, it'll cancel the show.
Cynical? Only on Wensdays.
It's the citizens of California the AG is sworn to protect.
You poor, naive fool. The AG's purpose is much the same as everyone's purpose: To keep his/her job.
Doing what's right for the people don't make a popular politician.
thankfully we're all far more cynical now
*cough*Blair Witch Project*cough*
...one of the things he does NOT carry around is bandwidth.
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And more to the point, whose God is better? Yours or theirs These are the questions that need answering by Christians
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THE deathmatch of the MILLENIA!
Mars God vs. Earth God!
I wouldn't have much of a problem with this if it weren't for the fact that updates tend to break stuff as often as it fixes them.
Even mobo manufactures say to upgrade only if the update fixes a specific problem you are having.
...this is some neat shit.
:)
Personally, I find it facinating that the brain can so readily adapt to adding and removing hardware ( limbs ), but reading about it is even cooler.
What other computer do you know can learn how to use foriegn devices without a driver disk?