What "tabloid press pack mentality?" We're just talking about some kid who probably wrote this thing. Of course the FBI going to announce that they have a suspect writer for one of the variants, to let other virus writers know that this behavior is not tolerated. Good for them. If he turns out to be innocent, nothing will happen to him. What are you complaining about?
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Complete and utter FUD. The vulnerability was patched a whole month before Blaster was let loose, and the government warned people twice to install the patch.
Please, Microsoft didn't write anything. How is that advertisement? It's simple truth. Slashdot had an article just like it that talked about how Microsoft avoided the DOS. Obviously, they're giong to explain what windowsupdate.com is and why it's so important that someone wanted to attack it. It's called being informative.
Someone randomly mentions SCO in literally every single article. It's not funny or clever to just say "And in other news, SCO will sue them for using their code!" This exact same joke has been used in every article every day. Why does it keep getting modded up?
So you think modifying a few dialogs and changing some colors means the whole interface has changed?
What's that big thing at the bottom? Oh, it's a taskbar. Look, there's a Start button. What? Window controls have been in the same place since 1995? I'm waiting for actual interface changes here.
The interface has not changed. Of course they'll make tweaks now and then. First Slashbots accuse Microsoft of repackaging new Windows versions with nothing new, and now they're claiming the entire interface is changing every two years. Highly amusing.
Slashbots love to post FUD that Microsoft somehow changed the interface. Here you are saying it's somehow been changing "every couple of years." Which is, of course, a complete falsehood. The only real change was XP.
XP just made the widgets blue, and gave you the option of moving those system icons on the desktop to the Start menu.
Where is the major difference here? That's right; there's none.
And now the value of your car and computer is diminished to nothing when it is freely traded with people. Why? Because it was obtained without paying for it.
People love to get hung up on "stealing" versus "copying," when it doesn't matter. The issue is not paying for it.
Exchanging music is not about piracy, it is about exchanging culture, just like when my grandfather leant me some old Jazz records and said, "here, you might like this".
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Exchanging music is about exchanging culture, not piracy? What kind of hippie, flower-eyed world do you live in? People download entire albums left and right without paying for them. Do you think they reason that they're "downloading culture" or that they're obtaining the latest CD for free?
Today culture moves at the speed of light and the RIAA believes it has the right to tax this movement. It cannot succeed except by destroying the Internet.
It's not about culture. This is the most bullshit thing I've ever heard. It's about paying for music that took money to make. The artists whose "culture" your taking from expect you to pay them for the effort they put in to it. Did they give you permission to contribute their mp3s to the "culture" on Kazaa?
I'm starting to believe, watching this debate evolve over many years, that the file traders are right, for the wrong reasons.
They are wrong. If you wrote something, be it music or software or whatever, and sold it for retail, and then found out it's been traded all over the Internet, would you be excited with glee at the "exchange of culture," or realize that the way you make your living is being cheated from you because there are people out there who are so used to the convenience of downloading whatever they please that they have justified it to themselves to get rid of their guilt?
Human culture depends on exchange of ideas and information, and music and films are a large part of this in today's world.
Right. This exchange depends on the trade of money in return to keep all that nice culture funded. If people don't have the money to pay for the studio or the instruments, there won't be culture-makers. You're just freeloading.
No album, no movie scene, no written text is a personal creation, they are all taken from the pool of common culture, modified, and redistributed.
They are all personal creations. They have influences that they may share, but the beauty and intent of our system is that you can own your creation without people just taking it from you to do whatever they please. People like you are freeloading.
Seeking all means to do this faster than ever - and ignoring the barriers, such as "ownership", that stand in the way - is the prerrogative of today's world.
Listen to yourself. "Ownership" of my music is a barrer to you? Of course it is, because you'd trade it all over Kazaa! And I wouldn't get money in return for my work. You have decided how to present my art without my permission, all in the name of a bizarre pet theory worldview you have. Your head is in the clouds.
Did you steal your computer? That's a device for "exchanging culture." What about your clothes? They're culture. How about your car? Your DVDs? Your house? How much would you take without paying for it because it's "culture?" Is it simply that downloading mp3s is convenient, and so you have formed and entire worldview around it to justify your illegal distribution? Because, let's face it, there is no other way to look at it from a moral or legal standpoint--on either of those fronts, it's wrong. So you have to create oddball excuses like this.
Of course, here comes the point where you chime in with how you're not really "stealing" anything because you're just making copies. How things are suddenly magically different because you can make copies of the files instead of taking them. Which, of course, doesn't change a thing because you still didn't pay for it, which is the actual issue. But freeloaders love to get hung up on semantics because it's the only point they can really argue. They can't argue the rest because the simple truth is that they're wrong on all fronts.
Here's the amusing part: if it were a Microsoft product that did this, hordes of Slashbots would post hundreds of "+5" posts decrying the evil antics and poor design. But it's standard procedure when it comes to major Linux apps, and nobody bats an eye.
Every single time someone writes one of those annoying "here's what's wrong with Windows" posts, I have to laugh because of much, much worse stuff like this.
Funny, since a couple of years ago, people said there was a pro-OSS bias in the media, back when Linux was the darling child of the dot-com boom.
In the end, it's not bias against OSS, it's bias toward controversy which gets readers. Just like Slashdot and its obsessive string of SCO and Microsoft hole stories.
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According to tests Slashdot has posted here before, Gentoo is no faster than other distros. The important thing to compile is the kernel. Everything else doesn't matter all that much.
Half-Life 2 has been designed with a scalable engine that requires at least a DX-7 card. The engine will scale back its effects for older machines. You won't need "PC systems the likes of which we have never seen." I hate when people don't read up on what they're talking about and just make assumptions instead.
I don't get the obsessive need to point this out. It can be quite convincingly argued that WINE is emulating an API. Stop being so pointlessly anal for mod points.
Slashdot is corporate-owned. It's a business. It makes money. They're not going to shut down their business for a day when they could be posting more SCO, "Microsoft hole," anime, and amateur rocket stories.
My experience has been that the compile system is broken when it comes to serial devices and modules. I couldn't compile things as modules without manual editing of some build configs.
Honestly, I saw no improvement after a stock Slackware 9 install and 2.6.0-test4-bk2. I would have kept using 2.6, but when I recompiled again to tweak options, I had module problems (there appears to be a bug involving serial devices being compiled as modules), so I switched back to Slackware's stock kernel. But I wasn't doing anything intensive for comparison, though.
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What "tabloid press pack mentality?" We're just talking about some kid who probably wrote this thing. Of course the FBI going to announce that they have a suspect writer for one of the variants, to let other virus writers know that this behavior is not tolerated. Good for them. If he turns out to be innocent, nothing will happen to him. What are you complaining about?
Complete and utter FUD. The vulnerability was patched a whole month before Blaster was let loose, and the government warned people twice to install the patch.
Please, Microsoft didn't write anything. How is that advertisement? It's simple truth. Slashdot had an article just like it that talked about how Microsoft avoided the DOS. Obviously, they're giong to explain what windowsupdate.com is and why it's so important that someone wanted to attack it. It's called being informative.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for you because you got yourself into prison in the first place? Or were you "innocent?"
Bad things happen in prison, but you know what? Bad people are IN prison, and they did bad things to get there.
...and the mods fell for it.
Someone randomly mentions SCO in literally every single article. It's not funny or clever to just say "And in other news, SCO will sue them for using their code!" This exact same joke has been used in every article every day. Why does it keep getting modded up?
So you think modifying a few dialogs and changing some colors means the whole interface has changed?
What's that big thing at the bottom? Oh, it's a taskbar. Look, there's a Start button. What? Window controls have been in the same place since 1995? I'm waiting for actual interface changes here.
The interface has not changed. Of course they'll make tweaks now and then. First Slashbots accuse Microsoft of repackaging new Windows versions with nothing new, and now they're claiming the entire interface is changing every two years. Highly amusing.
Why limit your ambitions because "Linus said this"?
Slashbots love to post FUD that Microsoft somehow changed the interface. Here you are saying it's somehow been changing "every couple of years." Which is, of course, a complete falsehood. The only real change was XP.
XP just made the widgets blue, and gave you the option of moving those system icons on the desktop to the Start menu.
Where is the major difference here? That's right; there's none.
So where is it?
4 seconds is still too long.
And now the value of your car and computer is diminished to nothing when it is freely traded with people. Why? Because it was obtained without paying for it.
People love to get hung up on "stealing" versus "copying," when it doesn't matter. The issue is not paying for it.
Exchanging music is not about piracy, it is about exchanging culture, just like when my grandfather leant me some old Jazz records and said, "here, you might like this".
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Exchanging music is about exchanging culture, not piracy? What kind of hippie, flower-eyed world do you live in? People download entire albums left and right without paying for them. Do you think they reason that they're "downloading culture" or that they're obtaining the latest CD for free?
Today culture moves at the speed of light and the RIAA believes it has the right to tax this movement. It cannot succeed except by destroying the Internet.
It's not about culture. This is the most bullshit thing I've ever heard. It's about paying for music that took money to make. The artists whose "culture" your taking from expect you to pay them for the effort they put in to it. Did they give you permission to contribute their mp3s to the "culture" on Kazaa?
I'm starting to believe, watching this debate evolve over many years, that the file traders are right, for the wrong reasons.
They are wrong. If you wrote something, be it music or software or whatever, and sold it for retail, and then found out it's been traded all over the Internet, would you be excited with glee at the "exchange of culture," or realize that the way you make your living is being cheated from you because there are people out there who are so used to the convenience of downloading whatever they please that they have justified it to themselves to get rid of their guilt?
Human culture depends on exchange of ideas and information, and music and films are a large part of this in today's world.
Right. This exchange depends on the trade of money in return to keep all that nice culture funded. If people don't have the money to pay for the studio or the instruments, there won't be culture-makers. You're just freeloading.
No album, no movie scene, no written text is a personal creation, they are all taken from the pool of common culture, modified, and redistributed.
They are all personal creations. They have influences that they may share, but the beauty and intent of our system is that you can own your creation without people just taking it from you to do whatever they please. People like you are freeloading.
Seeking all means to do this faster than ever - and ignoring the barriers, such as "ownership", that stand in the way - is the prerrogative of today's world.
Listen to yourself. "Ownership" of my music is a barrer to you? Of course it is, because you'd trade it all over Kazaa! And I wouldn't get money in return for my work. You have decided how to present my art without my permission, all in the name of a bizarre pet theory worldview you have. Your head is in the clouds.
Did you steal your computer? That's a device for "exchanging culture." What about your clothes? They're culture. How about your car? Your DVDs? Your house? How much would you take without paying for it because it's "culture?" Is it simply that downloading mp3s is convenient, and so you have formed and entire worldview around it to justify your illegal distribution? Because, let's face it, there is no other way to look at it from a moral or legal standpoint--on either of those fronts, it's wrong. So you have to create oddball excuses like this.
Of course, here comes the point where you chime in with how you're not really "stealing" anything because you're just making copies. How things are suddenly magically different because you can make copies of the files instead of taking them. Which, of course, doesn't change a thing because you still didn't pay for it, which is the actual issue. But freeloaders love to get hung up on semantics because it's the only point they can really argue. They can't argue the rest because the simple truth is that they're wrong on all fronts.
The debate is huge, but
Yeah. It's emulating the Win32 API so the apps can run. This is pretty clear-cut.
You call it "implementation," but there is no real difference. The API is being emulated.
This exact post was in the last SCO story, word for word. Let's pay a little attention, huh, guys?
There is no collusion. You're just being anal about a figure of speech.
To steal something implies obtaining without giving something in return, in most cases money. To obtain it illegally.
You're probably one of those anal "hacker" vs. "cracker" definition types too, aren't you?
You still didn't answer the question. Why was "Speaking of Outlook and anguish" used when the second subject didn't have to do with it?
Here's the amusing part: if it were a Microsoft product that did this, hordes of Slashbots would post hundreds of "+5" posts decrying the evil antics and poor design. But it's standard procedure when it comes to major Linux apps, and nobody bats an eye.
Every single time someone writes one of those annoying "here's what's wrong with Windows" posts, I have to laugh because of much, much worse stuff like this.
"Wherefore art thou" is the most incorrectly used phrase I've ever heard.
Funny, since a couple of years ago, people said there was a pro-OSS bias in the media, back when Linux was the darling child of the dot-com boom. In the end, it's not bias against OSS, it's bias toward controversy which gets readers. Just like Slashdot and its obsessive string of SCO and Microsoft hole stories.
According to tests Slashdot has posted here before, Gentoo is no faster than other distros. The important thing to compile is the kernel. Everything else doesn't matter all that much.
Half-Life 2 has been designed with a scalable engine that requires at least a DX-7 card. The engine will scale back its effects for older machines. You won't need "PC systems the likes of which we have never seen." I hate when people don't read up on what they're talking about and just make assumptions instead.
I don't get the obsessive need to point this out. It can be quite convincingly argued that WINE is emulating an API. Stop being so pointlessly anal for mod points.
Slashdot is corporate-owned. It's a business. It makes money. They're not going to shut down their business for a day when they could be posting more SCO, "Microsoft hole," anime, and amateur rocket stories.
My experience has been that the compile system is broken when it comes to serial devices and modules. I couldn't compile things as modules without manual editing of some build configs.
Why are Linux users so afraid of change? It's the very reason we suffer through so much legacy compability to slow things down.
I welcome any sort of innovation. People will update their apps to meet any changes.
Honestly, I saw no improvement after a stock Slackware 9 install and 2.6.0-test4-bk2. I would have kept using 2.6, but when I recompiled again to tweak options, I had module problems (there appears to be a bug involving serial devices being compiled as modules), so I switched back to Slackware's stock kernel. But I wasn't doing anything intensive for comparison, though.