Oh come on. Slashdot readers playing the stock market? Unless most of the people here are management, we are just getting by with house payments. I will not go on with this line because it leans into Offtopic mode.
This is a great thing, but yet again, the lessor if two evils. Slashdotters have not said nice things about Australia's ACCC, but they DO have teeth, and put up with no shit. SCO has just taken on a very dangerous shark that will eat them and spit out the bones.
Many years ago, in the day of the Process Camera, before the PC, as a test to see what I could do, I tossed a Social Security card on the plate, snapped a pic, and blew the negative ip to the size of a poster. I then burned it.
Had I not, I could have cleaned up the lines, printed it on nice bond, and done many illegal things with it. Same goes for money. Professional money forgers don't use color copiers or Photoshop.
In my opinion, RedHat has lost the way, and wondered into the Microsoft model. If I had RH stock, I'd dump it because they are nolonger "inovators". Let them take a place next to Microsoft and Sun.
The problem isn't that this is stopping people from printing images of currency, but that it is establishing the principle that it is ok for the government to require programmers to put crime detection / phone home features in their software.
Do you see the problem now?
Well, I don't think it is yet a government regulation, I think these companies by and large are doing it themselves, possibly for liability reasons.
But no one is telling you that you can't run PhotoShop or any other software (although they tried their hardest to make PGP a crime as in "what have you got to hide?", and it is possible that the NSA *did* in fact lean on Microsoft to install back doors in Windows), what they are saying is that they don't want you to use their software to counterfeit money.
You would consider it a big deal if the government required you to get their approval before publishing an article you had written, wouldn't you?
Yes I would, but this is not the same thing. Now if my article consisted of a series of high quality pictures of money, this might be problimatic.
I've often said that companies like Microsoft have no obligation to support obsolete software like Win95 and 98, both of which are quite old. But RedHat has done basically the same thing, with much more recent software (and about one tenth of the blathering out cry from folks around here). And so, this statement bothers me:
The warranty ensures, that in the event that an infringement issue is identified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux software code, Red Hat will replace the infringing code.
So, even though a year or so ago, I went to Office Depot and bought RH8 Pro in a box, after only a year since this professionally packaged OS graced the shelves of a major retailer, RH not only does not support it anymore (where are the cries from./ers that gave Microsoft all the heat with the 95 / 98 support death?), but we are not included in this warranty either
Sure, sure, the "slippery slop" to totalitarianism, what next and all that. But honestly, how many people *really* need to reproduce PhotoShop quality pictures of currency? Out of all the graphic artists and other visual media people out there need to do this? It's kind of a big "so what" that/. types love to sputter and froth about, but in reality, mostly effects kids trying to copy money.
"Google kicks a$$ at search results" Really?
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Google kicks everybody else's a$$ at one thing: Search results.
Really? I've noticed that when I do a search for just about anything, the top 10 to 15 are Spam. This, of course is not completly Google's fault, Spamers have learned how to manipulate Google with fake front door pages. But I've been finding Google less and less Spam free to the point now only marganably better than any other search.
Women buy more than men. What's new? I sign my paycheck over to my wife because if I didn't, at the end of the month I'd have a lot of empty beer cans and a bunch of bills. Point of fact: Women are much better with money and bills. This alone is a good reason to get married. Plus, sex all the time.
I'm very worried about the future of NASA. Consider this: A recent story on Slashdot described a program at NASA where they got personal data from an airline to try to discover if they could pin down terrorist. Now, this is an admirable study, but WHY IS NASA DOING THIS? Does it have anything to do with space? NASA needs to remember or re-evaluate their mission.
One of the things that bothers me is this statement from Linus:
I mean it's going to take, literally five to 10 years before "normal users" start seeing Linux desktop, but in the technical space it's doing pretty well, especially in companies that can support it already.
Five or ten years? I L.T. feels this is the time frame, I'm worried.
While this is offensive in many ways, anyone who thinks their private data are safe from Big Brother needs to stop flying, taking the bus, driving, and go into their basement and lock the doors.
Not wearing an abayah (female headgear) in public is asking for trouble.
Terrible. I defiantly would not want my wife to have to ware an abayah just so that we could make "very very good money" (generally, $120,000 and up, plus signing bonus.).
You really have to bite your tongue, be polite, keep your opinions to yourself, and be a gracious guest.
Oh, the horror. Be polite? Gracious? These people are animals to demand that of foreign guests!
While a lot of this might be politics, the truth is, Hubble is what it is and has reached a point of where the question is, is it important to spend billions to service Hubble, or do we move on to something better. It would be nice if the space crews could drop by Hubble now and then and clean the bugs off the mirror, charge the battery, change the oil, but the truth is, this will be a task for the antique space junk fanatics of the centuries to come, they can take pictures of them next to it and post them on the Net with their cars with fins. We need to move on.
The thing that is interesting about this is that Germany has already said that SCO does not have a valid argument. I think that the EU as a whole is more in tune to OpenSource than the United States, and see through all the SCO bullshit (review the tactics and wins of Microsoft in the EU). If SCO thinks they are going to get any license or money from this, it is just pure fantasy. But I don't think they are that stupid.
What I think, and, I have very slowly come around to this, is that like people say, it's a FUD campaign to pump up the stock.
NOW, when will the Powers That Be in the stock market realize this?
"Open source products, including Linux, are very attractive development platforms with a low barrier to entry."
Oh how I know this is going to get me flamed! Mention VB, and get ready for Slashdot Hell. But anyway...
One problem that Linux has is a smooth development platform with a great IDE, and widgets (widgets make the "enterprise" IT world go round!) Borland C Builder is very nice, but please keep in mind that the sucsess of VisualBasic is not only because an idiot can make an exicutable. It is also because it is in fact possible to build good apps in a very intuitive way.
So you think giving MS a bit of their own medicine is just as unethical as what they are doing? In principle I agree, but the Real World is not often like what we would choose, best case.
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Oh come on. Slashdot readers playing the stock market? Unless most of the people here are management, we are just getting by with house payments. I will not go on with this line because it leans into Offtopic mode.
This is a great thing, but yet again, the lessor if two evils. Slashdotters have not said nice things about Australia's ACCC, but they DO have teeth, and put up with no shit. SCO has just taken on a very dangerous shark that will eat them and spit out the bones.
Had I not, I could have cleaned up the lines, printed it on nice bond, and done many illegal things with it. Same goes for money. Professional money forgers don't use color copiers or Photoshop.
In my opinion, RedHat has lost the way, and wondered into the Microsoft model. If I had RH stock, I'd dump it because they are nolonger "inovators". Let them take a place next to Microsoft and Sun.
Do you see the problem now?
Well, I don't think it is yet a government regulation, I think these companies by and large are doing it themselves, possibly for liability reasons.
But no one is telling you that you can't run PhotoShop or any other software (although they tried their hardest to make PGP a crime as in "what have you got to hide?", and it is possible that the NSA *did* in fact lean on Microsoft to install back doors in Windows), what they are saying is that they don't want you to use their software to counterfeit money.
You would consider it a big deal if the government required you to get their approval before publishing an article you had written, wouldn't you?
Yes I would, but this is not the same thing. Now if my article consisted of a series of high quality pictures of money, this might be problimatic.
I hadn't thought of this! I retract my comment above.
On the other hand, I wonder how much of a fragment of a bill is needed before it gets recognized?
So, even though a year or so ago, I went to Office Depot and bought RH8 Pro in a box, after only a year since this professionally packaged OS graced the shelves of a major retailer, RH not only does not support it anymore (where are the cries from ./ers that gave Microsoft all the heat with the 95 / 98 support death?), but we are not included in this warranty either
Sure, sure, the "slippery slop" to totalitarianism, what next and all that. But honestly, how many people *really* need to reproduce PhotoShop quality pictures of currency? Out of all the graphic artists and other visual media people out there need to do this? It's kind of a big "so what" that /. types love to sputter and froth about, but in reality, mostly effects kids trying to copy money.
Really? I've noticed that when I do a search for just about anything, the top 10 to 15 are Spam. This, of course is not completly Google's fault, Spamers have learned how to manipulate Google with fake front door pages. But I've been finding Google less and less Spam free to the point now only marganably better than any other search.
Women buy more than men. What's new? I sign my paycheck over to my wife because if I didn't, at the end of the month I'd have a lot of empty beer cans and a bunch of bills. Point of fact: Women are much better with money and bills. This alone is a good reason to get married. Plus, sex all the time.
I'm very worried about the future of NASA. Consider this: A recent story on Slashdot described a program at NASA where they got personal data from an airline to try to discover if they could pin down terrorist. Now, this is an admirable study, but WHY IS NASA DOING THIS? Does it have anything to do with space? NASA needs to remember or re-evaluate their mission.
I mean it's going to take, literally five to 10 years before "normal users" start seeing Linux desktop, but in the technical space it's doing pretty well, especially in companies that can support it already. Five or ten years? I L.T. feels this is the time frame, I'm worried.
While this is offensive in many ways, anyone who thinks their private data are safe from Big Brother needs to stop flying, taking the bus, driving, and go into their basement and lock the doors.
Terrible. I defiantly would not want my wife to have to ware an abayah just so that we could make "very very good money" (generally, $120,000 and up, plus signing bonus.).
You really have to bite your tongue, be polite, keep your opinions to yourself, and be a gracious guest.
Oh, the horror. Be polite? Gracious? These people are animals to demand that of foreign guests!
Hubble does not have rockets. It is where it is.
While a lot of this might be politics, the truth is, Hubble is what it is and has reached a point of where the question is, is it important to spend billions to service Hubble, or do we move on to something better. It would be nice if the space crews could drop by Hubble now and then and clean the bugs off the mirror, charge the battery, change the oil, but the truth is, this will be a task for the antique space junk fanatics of the centuries to come, they can take pictures of them next to it and post them on the Net with their cars with fins. We need to move on.
What I think, and, I have very slowly come around to this, is that like people say, it's a FUD campaign to pump up the stock.
NOW, when will the Powers That Be in the stock market realize this?
I submitted this story two days ago. I guess I just don't give good head.
Oh how I know this is going to get me flamed! Mention VB, and get ready for Slashdot Hell. But anyway...
One problem that Linux has is a smooth development platform with a great IDE, and widgets (widgets make the "enterprise" IT world go round!) Borland C Builder is very nice, but please keep in mind that the sucsess of VisualBasic is not only because an idiot can make an exicutable. It is also because it is in fact possible to build good apps in a very intuitive way.
The major cost of health care is not the cost or Open Source status of the software used for billing.
I cost goes a lot more about things like malpractice insurence, and the cost of drugs.
So you think giving MS a bit of their own medicine is just as unethical as what they are doing? In principle I agree, but the Real World is not often like what we would choose, best case.
My mom is a HUGE Doctor Who fan, but I must admit, I'm shallow when it comes to Science Fiction.
Oh come on! The Daleks are "evil", of course the run Windows. Mod parent up to at least "sort of funny, kind of lame, I'm not sure if it's a troll"!
I would love a good alturnative to Intel. When AMD makes a chip that not only rocks, but can take the heat, I'll switch.
Look now, socializing with porn does not count.