I started programming when I was about 10 years old for one very simple reason. I enjoy making things.
I recently built my own house for that same reason. I also made most of the furniture in it as well.
If, at the end of the day, I can say "I made that", then I am happy.
Musicians love the music that they created the way they created it.
They want the world to hear what they created. Not a remix put together by some tone-deaf moron.
Same here in South Africa.
Except for the last mile, which is still copper, most of the network has systematically been upgraded to fiber.
Something that made newspaper headlines a few years ago. The Western Cape is South Africa's largest exporter of copper, but there is not a single copper mine in the Western Cape.
"This kid did what exploit hunters do, release code to the internet knowing it can be used for criminal purposes."
According to that logic, if i stab you in the face, the guy who sold me the knife is responsible. This kid did not do anything wrong. All he did was let people know about the bug.
car analogy: All he did was put a flyer in your window saying that if you switch on the headlights and the radio at the same time, your car will explode. He is now responsible if somebody else uses that knowledge to blow up a lot of cars.
"What seems strange is that de Raadt is calling for BSD-licensed "binary blobs". I can't imagine why he would want that in favor of BSD-licensed code, or better the hardware interface specs."
In a case like this, it is the smart thing to do. Any company is more likely to give "binary blobs" instead of source code. de Raadt has more chance of getting what he asks for this way.
People keep buying faster and better computers because microsoft has managed to bullshit them into believing that they need all the latest and greatest features and eyecandy that their marketing department can concieve.
I long for the good old days when top of the line was a 386 and programmers knew how to get the most out of the limited hardware by actually optimizing their code.
I still use my old P2 450 MHz and my parents use an old P1 200MHz and it is more than enough for everything we want to do.
(I am a programmer, and my system is loosely based on LFS)
If we can somehow get a list of relays authorized for the sender's domain, it would be easier to flag a message as SPAM.
Also, I think the messages should be stored on the relay, with just a URL sent in the mail body. It would solve two problems:
* The size of the message will be limited by the size of the sender's mailbox.
* It will use more resources on the relay, and the admin should be less likely to run an open relay.
Did I miss something? I thought Mandrakes focus was new users/desktop users.
This actually looks the ideal solution for people wanting to mess around with linux without messing up their hard-drive.
With the USB drive, you can do quite a bit on it, and get a proper feeling for the OS.
Only the input for these "digital" speakers is digital. For you to be able to hear the music, it HAS to be converted to analog.
You can always just take the thing apart and connect the wires connected directly to the actual speaker to copy it.
If Linux (or any other OS) is going to be accepted by the idiots who allow viruses to spread (the majority of users) mail-clients that can exec an attachment with one click will have to arrive.
The thing that allows viruses to spread is people that want everything done automagically.
The bastards will never learn.
There will never be any copy protection scheme that will work.
If you can listen to it, you can copy it by just connecting the output to the input for another device.
Unless they make it so that nobody can listen to it, copy protection is an exersise in futility.
> So someone can query you wirelessly and find out what you bought - big f'ing deal! They could just look at the box, too!
I don't want the pervert with the RF scanner to know i got a blow-up Suzie, anal beads, and a strap-on dildo in the brown paper package under my arm.
It is a big f'ing deal!
My idiot boss made a deal with micro$oft, and because I have'nt used windows since 3.1, i don't have a job anymore. On my way home after telling my boss where he can shove the software he bought i got a flat tyre and ended up in a ditch. when i finally got home i broke my front door key off in the lock and was chased around my house by the neighbour's dog, dropping my new notebook in the pool. I broke into my own house only to find my wife in bed with another woman (and they did not let me watch). Now i'm sitting in my mom's basementwith an old 486 and a 56k dialup.
FUCK YOU BILLY.
I know this is off topic, but i needed to get this off my chest.
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I started programming when I was about 10 years old for one very simple reason. I enjoy making things.
I recently built my own house for that same reason. I also made most of the furniture in it as well.
If, at the end of the day, I can say "I made that", then I am happy.
Australia is not in the UK.
If you put the queen of england on your money, you're british!
Musicians love the music that they created the way they created it.
They want the world to hear what they created. Not a remix put together by some tone-deaf moron.
Same here in South Africa. Except for the last mile, which is still copper, most of the network has systematically been upgraded to fiber. Something that made newspaper headlines a few years ago. The Western Cape is South Africa's largest exporter of copper, but there is not a single copper mine in the Western Cape.
"This kid did what exploit hunters do, release code to the internet knowing it can be used for criminal purposes."
According to that logic, if i stab you in the face, the guy who sold me the knife is responsible.
This kid did not do anything wrong. All he did was let people know about the bug.
car analogy:
All he did was put a flyer in your window saying that if you switch on the headlights and the radio at the same time, your car will explode. He is now responsible if somebody else uses that knowledge to blow up a lot of cars.
http://www.youporn.com/ThreeHotChicksTakeItInTheAss
It looks like they removed it. anyone have a mirror?
"What seems strange is that de Raadt is calling for BSD-licensed "binary blobs". I can't imagine why he would want that in favor of BSD-licensed code, or better the hardware interface specs."
In a case like this, it is the smart thing to do. Any company is more likely to give "binary blobs" instead of source code. de Raadt has more chance of getting what he asks for this way.
People keep buying faster and better computers because microsoft has managed to bullshit them into believing that they need all the latest and greatest features and eyecandy that their marketing department can concieve.
I long for the good old days when top of the line was a 386 and programmers knew how to get the most out of the limited hardware by actually optimizing their code.
I still use my old P2 450 MHz and my parents use an old P1 200MHz and it is more than enough for everything we want to do.
(I am a programmer, and my system is loosely based on LFS)
You sign up for a bunch of email marketing lists using addresses from the blackhole domain.
You asked for it, it's not SPAM.(If they sell your address, then it you start getting SPAM.)
You'd have to combine it with a whitelist to let Yahoo and Hotmail and so on through, but you'd still kill a lot of spam.
I don't think a webmail interface is very good for sending bulk email, or do they now offer SMTP relays?
That second part is a great idea. I propose that we call this "Internet Message Access Protocol" or IMAP for short.
With IMAP, messages are still sent using SMTP, and stored on the reciever's server. It is not used to transfer the message to the MX.
I think it's time we get a new mail protocol.
If we can somehow get a list of relays authorized for the sender's domain, it would be easier to flag a message as SPAM.
Also, I think the messages should be stored on the relay, with just a URL sent in the mail body. It would solve two problems:
* The size of the message will be limited by the size of the sender's mailbox.
* It will use more resources on the relay, and the admin should be less likely to run an open relay.
Did I miss something? I thought Mandrakes focus was new users/desktop users.
This actually looks the ideal solution for people wanting to mess around with linux without messing up their hard-drive.
With the USB drive, you can do quite a bit on it, and get a proper feeling for the OS.
By design, Phoenix's CSS transfers digital security, network management and disaster recovery away from the control of software to hardware,...
What happens when a bug is found in the hardware?
In software it can be hard to fix, in hardware it is even harder(no pun intended).
the MAIN difference is that we do not login as root
I fully agree with you. We do not login as root, but they (all the idiots out there) probably will.
Just don't buy any "digital" speakers.
Only the input for these "digital" speakers is digital. For you to be able to hear the music, it HAS to be converted to analog.
You can always just take the thing apart and connect the wires connected directly to the actual speaker to copy it.
Stuid users.
If Linux (or any other OS) is going to be accepted by the idiots who allow viruses to spread (the majority of users) mail-clients that can exec an attachment with one click will have to arrive.
The thing that allows viruses to spread is people that want everything done automagically.
Like when it's fed directly into our brains
We just have to steal the brain-wave monitoring technology that the NSA used on me yesterday. We can use that to rip mp3's.
Now excuse me while i go put a signal scrambler into my tinfoil hat.
The bastards will never learn.
There will never be any copy protection scheme that will work.
If you can listen to it, you can copy it by just connecting the output to the input for another device.
Unless they make it so that nobody can listen to it, copy protection is an exersise in futility.
I got a Microsoft ad in the newsforge blaster article.
how many of the lobbyists work for microsoft.
> So someone can query you wirelessly and find out what you bought - big f'ing deal! They could just look at the box, too!
I don't want the pervert with the RF scanner to know i got a blow-up Suzie, anal beads, and a strap-on dildo in the brown paper package under my arm.
It is a big f'ing deal!
My idiot boss made a deal with micro$oft, and because I have'nt used windows since 3.1, i don't have a job anymore.
On my way home after telling my boss where he can shove the software he bought i got a flat tyre and ended up in a ditch.
when i finally got home i broke my front door key off in the lock and was chased around my house by the neighbour's dog, dropping my new notebook in the pool.
I broke into my own house only to find my wife in bed with another woman (and they did not let me watch).
Now i'm sitting in my mom's basementwith an old 486 and a 56k dialup.
FUCK YOU BILLY.
I know this is off topic, but i needed to get this off my chest.
Go after the people who pay them to send all the spam.
If there are no clients, spam will cease to exist.