What would be revolutionary is eliminating the need for all that crap anyway. I can't imagine diapering my computer from the big bad Internet with anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall, etc. Then again, I use a Mac...
That's the interview linked on Wikipedia. Band members have made similar statements. Ripping artists off is just making sure they don't get paid for their art.
"What are your feelings on piracy, internet or otherwise? Like anyone else that works hard on their art, I'm against it, as I would be against any kind of stealing."
Maynard Keenan on piracy: "My music is not yours to give away."
From a 2001 interview linked in the Wikipedia article on Tool:
NYROCK: There's a lot of talk about the Napster controversy. How do you view the new technology? After all, with Tool you were one of the less commercial bands in the music scene.
MAYNARD: In a way, it does destroy the music scene, not just the record companies, even more the artists, the people who write the songs and who don't get paid. I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs.
So you think Mac and Linux are as unlikely to be unaffected by such?
Well, OS X at least, because any kind of system changes that are often required by these trojans to hook themselves into the system gives either a password prompt or just doesn't work at all. Root isn't even enabled on default installs of OS X. There's no registry to bury arcane system-hook entries in either.
I'd imagine in Linux such system attacks just don't work since they have no way to hook in and propagate, but it's been about a couple of years since I used Linux.
If almost everybody in the world drove Fords, and Fords were hit with major problems every month that cost companies millions of dollars in time and money, while Chevy's kept running smoothly without a hitch, would you fault Chevy drivers for mentioning that fact?
Especially if Fords were as insecure as Windows XP (still running admin accounts in the year 2006...gotta love it).
This isn't off-topic; it's an important distinction that should be encouraged. CBS News went so far as to not only characterize the worm as a Windows-only worm, but also mention that Macs were unaffected.
People need to be told that it's not a "computer virus," it's a Windows virus.
Dude, you are projecting your personal hatred and bias against Bill Gates all over that letter, inferring things that aren't stated anywhere. And getting modded up for it.
Oh, whatever. You probably use computers today specifically because of Microsoft Windows at some point in the past. It was likely your first operating system.
"Ruining the software industry?" "Rape the world?"
What I got from that text is he was letting people know that pirating BASIC makes it a break-even operation for them. Pirating software isn't "making technology do what you want." You can still buy the software and not rip off programmers who are doing this to make an honest living.
Wow, someone on Slashdot drew the phrase "rape the world" from the words of Bill Gates. I'm SO surprised.
Hey, this isn't Flamebait, it's true. You can make whatever arguments you want (smaller target size), but Macs have been impervious to every big, newsworthy Windows virus in the past five years.
Do you realize how funny it becomes after the seventh time a big-time worm goes around in the Windows world and you're unaffected? When Blaster was rebooting the world's computers, when Code Red was making the rounds, when the WMF flaw was making people afraid to view email or visit unfamiliar websites, Mac users have just shaken their heads and kept on running. This Friday will be the same.
It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so unreliable. I switched my office to Mac last year because life is too short for this shit.
And according to WP, the mundane environments, instead of Quake's fantastic ones.
Right, why would I want to play in a floating space station and moon base or explore L.A. and see animated hot chicks in movie theaters when I could traverse the endless green and brown hallways and lava pits in Quake!
I'll say it, even though I know it's unpopular--Quake SUCKED. I was never more bored by a first person shooter. People only liked it because of its online multiplayer. Other than that, Doom 2 owned it (especially in the weapons and level design department).
Yes, but, sir, the difference is that the other guy was knocking Republicans. Can't you see the difference? Christian and conservative bashing is +5 Funny. Now do you understand?
If you haven't noticed, Slashdot has been invaded in recent years by a pro-Microsoft contingent who thinks Windows is great, outrage over its ridiculous security flaws is overblown, and who mod down those who point out how much time and money Windows has forced people to waste. For Christ's sake, you have to diaper Windows today with a hodge-podge of anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, registry cleaner, defragmenter, etc. just to keep it running smoothly for longer than six months, and even then, Windows naturally slows down after a year and requires a complete reinstall to regain its speed. Simply amazing.
At least CBS News pointed out in their report on the worm that Mac users were unaffected.
I wonder how many affected machines were infected via the WMF exploit, were patched to fix the WMF exploit, but now have its effects sitting on their hard drives waiting for Friday.
Ah, Windows. It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so unreliable.
For the last five years, they had no motivation for the reasons you listed, so IE stagnated. Now, the motivation is to update the browser to support Avalon and.NET apps, which will be Microsoft's new attempt to make the web platform-dependent on Windows, just like ActiveX.
This is one area where Microsoft excel: backwards compatibility.
And the same reason Microsoft Windows is bloated and five years behind everything else. WinFX is just managed code APIs on top of, you guess it, the same Win32 we know and love. Vista is Windows Server 2003 with a pretty layer.
It's not Safari; it's the OmniWeb browser, which has had that feature for years. OmniWeb uses the WebKit framework, so it's also got Safari's standards compliance (so there are actually two browsers that can pass the ACID test--Safari and OmniWeb).
A large part of that list was updates to system applications, like Windows Media Player, and it's not like the public is excited to get WMP10 or IE7. Others are lame like "kernel tweaks," which every OS release gets. The rest, like WinFX and its "whole host of other technologies" are managed code wrappers for Win32--the same Win32 calls that Windows has always been using. Vista isn't a rewrite; it's more layers on top of the Windows 2003 codebase. That's why the APIs are also being made available for Windows XP.
Vista just might catch up to April 2005, the month OS X Tiger came out. Then again, OS X doesn't have "Integrated AntiSpyware.":) Vista is like a big diaper on the shitty ass of Windows to protect it from the Intarnets.
On the contrary, Republicans represent extreme conservatives while Democrats represent extreme liberals. Independent thought is apparently dead. Though I'll admit the Republicans today have more moderates than the Democrats as well as a clearer message, which makes them more favorable to the public. The Democrats have crazy screaming people who throw Oreo cookies at black Republican politicans. Ugh.
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What would be revolutionary is eliminating the need for all that crap anyway. I can't imagine diapering my computer from the big bad Internet with anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall, etc. Then again, I use a Mac...
http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2000/apc_int.asp
That's the interview linked on Wikipedia. Band members have made similar statements. Ripping artists off is just making sure they don't get paid for their art.
Billy Howerdel on piracy:
"What are your feelings on piracy, internet or otherwise?
Like anyone else that works hard on their art, I'm against it, as I would be against any kind of stealing."
Maynard Keenan on piracy:
"My music is not yours to give away."
From a 2001 interview linked in the Wikipedia article on Tool:
NYROCK:
There's a lot of talk about the Napster controversy. How do you view the new technology? After all, with Tool you were one of the less commercial bands in the music scene.
MAYNARD:
In a way, it does destroy the music scene, not just the record companies, even more the artists, the people who write the songs and who don't get paid. I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs.
So you think Mac and Linux are as unlikely to be unaffected by such?
Well, OS X at least, because any kind of system changes that are often required by these trojans to hook themselves into the system gives either a password prompt or just doesn't work at all. Root isn't even enabled on default installs of OS X. There's no registry to bury arcane system-hook entries in either.
I'd imagine in Linux such system attacks just don't work since they have no way to hook in and propagate, but it's been about a couple of years since I used Linux.
If almost everybody in the world drove Fords, and Fords were hit with major problems every month that cost companies millions of dollars in time and money, while Chevy's kept running smoothly without a hitch, would you fault Chevy drivers for mentioning that fact?
Especially if Fords were as insecure as Windows XP (still running admin accounts in the year 2006...gotta love it).
As usual, Mac and Linux users are unaffected and wonder why everyone relies on such unreliable software. And the world turns...
A front page post that is just links to other blogs about gaming.
Remember when this site had cool science and tech news to post? I sense a G4-ification of Slashdot.
This isn't off-topic; it's an important distinction that should be encouraged. CBS News went so far as to not only characterize the worm as a Windows-only worm, but also mention that Macs were unaffected.
People need to be told that it's not a "computer virus," it's a Windows virus.
Dude, you are projecting your personal hatred and bias against Bill Gates all over that letter, inferring things that aren't stated anywhere. And getting modded up for it.
Oh, whatever. You probably use computers today specifically because of Microsoft Windows at some point in the past. It was likely your first operating system.
"Ruining the software industry?" "Rape the world?"
What I got from that text is he was letting people know that pirating BASIC makes it a break-even operation for them. Pirating software isn't "making technology do what you want." You can still buy the software and not rip off programmers who are doing this to make an honest living.
Wow, someone on Slashdot drew the phrase "rape the world" from the words of Bill Gates. I'm SO surprised.
Hey, this isn't Flamebait, it's true. You can make whatever arguments you want (smaller target size), but Macs have been impervious to every big, newsworthy Windows virus in the past five years.
Do you realize how funny it becomes after the seventh time a big-time worm goes around in the Windows world and you're unaffected? When Blaster was rebooting the world's computers, when Code Red was making the rounds, when the WMF flaw was making people afraid to view email or visit unfamiliar websites, Mac users have just shaken their heads and kept on running. This Friday will be the same.
It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so unreliable. I switched my office to Mac last year because life is too short for this shit.
And according to WP, the mundane environments, instead of Quake's fantastic ones.
Right, why would I want to play in a floating space station and moon base or explore L.A. and see animated hot chicks in movie theaters when I could traverse the endless green and brown hallways and lava pits in Quake!
I'll say it, even though I know it's unpopular--Quake SUCKED. I was never more bored by a first person shooter. People only liked it because of its online multiplayer. Other than that, Doom 2 owned it (especially in the weapons and level design department).
Not as much as the morally bankrupt "It makes me enlightened to hate America and mock people's beliefs" Democrats.
I wonder which one of us will get modded down?
Yes, but, sir, the difference is that the other guy was knocking Republicans. Can't you see the difference? Christian and conservative bashing is +5 Funny. Now do you understand?
If you haven't noticed, Slashdot has been invaded in recent years by a pro-Microsoft contingent who thinks Windows is great, outrage over its ridiculous security flaws is overblown, and who mod down those who point out how much time and money Windows has forced people to waste. For Christ's sake, you have to diaper Windows today with a hodge-podge of anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, registry cleaner, defragmenter, etc. just to keep it running smoothly for longer than six months, and even then, Windows naturally slows down after a year and requires a complete reinstall to regain its speed. Simply amazing.
At least CBS News pointed out in their report on the worm that Mac users were unaffected.
I wonder how many affected machines were infected via the WMF exploit, were patched to fix the WMF exploit, but now have its effects sitting on their hard drives waiting for Friday.
Ah, Windows. It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so unreliable.
For the last five years, they had no motivation for the reasons you listed, so IE stagnated. Now, the motivation is to update the browser to support Avalon and .NET apps, which will be Microsoft's new attempt to make the web platform-dependent on Windows, just like ActiveX.
This is one area where Microsoft excel: backwards compatibility.
And the same reason Microsoft Windows is bloated and five years behind everything else. WinFX is just managed code APIs on top of, you guess it, the same Win32 we know and love. Vista is Windows Server 2003 with a pretty layer.
It's not Safari; it's the OmniWeb browser, which has had that feature for years. OmniWeb uses the WebKit framework, so it's also got Safari's standards compliance (so there are actually two browsers that can pass the ACID test--Safari and OmniWeb).
"Sir, I'd recommend we use Goobuntu."
"Goo-what?"
"Goobuntu."
"Goomba? What is this? Why can't they just call it Linux Pro?"
"Sigh..."
A large part of that list was updates to system applications, like Windows Media Player, and it's not like the public is excited to get WMP10 or IE7. Others are lame like "kernel tweaks," which every OS release gets. The rest, like WinFX and its "whole host of other technologies" are managed code wrappers for Win32--the same Win32 calls that Windows has always been using. Vista isn't a rewrite; it's more layers on top of the Windows 2003 codebase. That's why the APIs are also being made available for Windows XP.
:) Vista is like a big diaper on the shitty ass of Windows to protect it from the Intarnets.
Vista just might catch up to April 2005, the month OS X Tiger came out. Then again, OS X doesn't have "Integrated AntiSpyware."
On the contrary, Republicans represent extreme conservatives while Democrats represent extreme liberals. Independent thought is apparently dead. Though I'll admit the Republicans today have more moderates than the Democrats as well as a clearer message, which makes them more favorable to the public. The Democrats have crazy screaming people who throw Oreo cookies at black Republican politicans. Ugh.
And how again does that have anything to do with the creative quality of the film, which was written and directed by Pixar?
"Buy Vista, or I'll Fucking Kill (tm) you!" - Steve Ballmer