Not trying to be an M$ apologist, but who will really be vulnerable to this? Home (l)users will most likely have the firewall on (because it is on by default) and any sane IT dept. will have a hardware firewall guarding any internet facing windows boxen. If you haven't firewalled your boxen in this day and age, you pretty much get what you deserve.
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"I started using Gentoo on the desktop and now I've rolled it out as a production server using some great technologies: ReiserFS, RAID-5, Gentoo patched kernel, Samba... you name it."
Liscense and Contract don't especially matter in this case. Neither does the cost of the software or the fact that MS has a monopoly. The Japanese trade commission is stating that an agreement regarding use of the software can not include a clause that revokes the users right to sue for patent infringement if they discover something they feel is infringing while using the software.
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Intel is also looking to cut down on RMAs. There are a suprising number of asshats that overclock components then attempt to RMA components that fail. Read any overclocking forum or bbs and you find a fair amount of people that have no problem trying to defraud vendors when they burn their chip out from overclocking/overvolting.
regarding RFID tags, but one question that never seems to get answered is: What are the range of these tags? If the tags have a range of many miles, I can understand the privacy concerns, but if the tags' range is inside the store or the parking lot, I have a lot of trouble seeing what the big deal is.
Enemy Territory I can agree on, but America's Army is rated T. The author didn't say the age of the kids, but he indicated that they might be learning blender, and that he wants to give them a LiveCD to use at home so I am guessing they are teens (perhaps early). If they are younger than that, then neither of those games would be appropriate, but that wasn't apparent in the article.
My suggestion would be nix (no pun intended) the whole linux angle to this. The kids are going to be learning difficult apps, and having to deal with an operating system that functions differently (think stuff like cut/paste) will just be frustrating. You also don't know about the hardware the kids are using at home, so a LiveCD that may or may not detect their hardware correctly could end up being more of a hassle than a bonus.
Second, LiveCDs have very subpar performance compared to a hard-disk install, doing graphical work or trying to model in 3d is going to be a painful experience to say the least; and will leave a poor impression of linux in the campers minds.
You mentioned that the commercial versions of these apps are expensive; they are. In many cases, the company that makes the app offers a much discounted or even free version. For 3d studio max, there is the excellent gmax software that does what most of your campers would likely love to do, create models for computer games. If you aren't content with gmax (which is a truly great program), there is always the Maya Learning Edition which is a learning version of the program the pros are using.
I would contact the software companies that offer learning versions and see if you could distribute those. The companies will be very happy that you want to use their programs, and may throw some free stuff your way (I can't think of anything cooler to win at summer camp than a software t-shirt).
If you are dead set on FOSS, I would make a compilation of those apps(gimp, OO.o, thunderbird/firebird, etc.) for Windows and throw them on a CD. Without Linux, you'll have more space for some killer free apps, and you'll have way more kids that will use Gimp or Open Office or Blender if they can use them without having to install a new, unfamiliar operating system. Remember, gratis will mean more to them than libre . If you want to get them intested in FOSS, download a small game (even something like a solitaire/tetris clone) and show them little snippets and explain what they do ingame.
Lastly, if this is a summer (read fun) camp, there will be some time for gaming. I obviously wouldn't recommend a live CD for this, but if you are looking for free(beer) software that is multiplatform, I'd recommend America's Army and Enemy Territory
I searched around and I came up with a list I think you'd get some good mileage out of, and I promise you'll hook more kids with these than you will a Linux liveCD.
I run a Mom n Pop computer shop and we recently added a $29 feature we call the "Privacy Pack", and it has been wildly popular.
We do several things: We install the google toolbar (for popup blocking), we configure the hosts file (to block almost all ad companies), and we configure IE's cookie settings (and active X) to better protect privacy.
People love it, and for $29 its not a bad deal. This is in addition to the virus scanner which all our PCs include.
The problem is (and not to be blunt), most people find anime mostly uninteresting and almost no one would pay for an anime channel. You get a very unrepresentative view of anime appreciation when you read places like slashdot. There are huge numbers of anime fans to begin with and on top of that, the fans favorites are quite varied. Someone's favorite series is someone elses unwatchable shit.
For an anime network to be successful, it would have to have a unrealistically high percentage of anime fans watching it, something you'd have a hard time selling to network heads.
Language changes. The meanings of words change over time as they get popularised, and perverted by popular media. Gay meant "to be happy" a few decades ago, and refers exclusively to homosexuality today. Sure, one can use it in its older meaning, but you will confuse 90% of young Americans. But when does one decide that "gay" means homosexual as well as happy? I will suggest that it is when the majority of people understand it that way. This is an uncontroversial opinion - if everyone believes a word means a particular thing, and the dictionaries define it that way, then that word does mean that thing. The word has become part of the laguage.
So coming back to our word of controversy, the "hacker" nomen, if we were to conduct a survey amongst the people in the world who acually believe they know the meaning of the word, we will find that 100% understand it to mean a person who breaks into computer systems. Of these 100%, perhaps 80% will exclusively give it that meaning, and the remaining 20% (the slashdot editors included), will admit that it has a dual meaning. A small percentage will insist that it has a single meaning - a computer programmer, but are aware that others understand it differently.
Of course, my statistics come from a whole lot of nothing, but they are logically representative. I'm sure other numbers as espoused by other people will be similar.
It is established that most people understand a hacker to be a cracker(slashdot meaning). The interesting twist is that the people who believe the hacker to be a cracker, will mostly believe a cracker to be a biscuit! And these people constitute the vast majority of the internet saavy.
There is no doubt that these words have dual meanings, but if we were to fall back to formal definations, we will see that the dictionaries exclusively define a cracker to be a biscuit, and may attribute a dual meaning to the word hacker. There is no formal defination for cracker that says it to have the same meaning as the populist "hacker" word. As such, we have only one formal fallback for the computer intruder - the word "hacker".
I think it is time that the programmers and slashdot editors accepted it - the hacker is the bad guy, and it is almost impossible that you will be able to change this defination. Give it up, the masses have spoken.
A hacker hacks into computer systems A cracker is a type of biscuit
I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him. As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass.
I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist. I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerkoff fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud. Why not?
I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.. I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged.
I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss. I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my hankercheif, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom. I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours.. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.
Sweet beautiful irony. goatse.cx is number 34 and Slashdot is right below it on the list. Nice to know that a stretched anus gets more requests than "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Do you work for a "big ugly corporation"? Do you work for a company? Do you work at all?
If you honestly believe you would be better off with out that "big ugly corporation" paying your salary (and the salaries of many others), by all means continue to work at destroying corporate profit.
But then again, nations are not formed by big corporations for big corporate profit. They are formed by the poeple and for the people. Every decision a government makes should be in the best interest of the people.
What exactly is a corporation? Can it exist without people? If there were no people, would Microsoft exist? Would the FSF?
Your problem is you only see a forest (a big ugly forest) and are blind to the fact that it is made up entirely of individual trees. Think of Microsoft only as a corporation. You hate them don't you? Go to redmond, see their building. Do you hate it? Maybe you still do. Go inside that building and meet a coder, a manager and a receptionist. Do you hate them? They are Microsoft, and chances are, they are the exact same as you. They are that "big ugly corporation" you so desperately want to destroy.
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I'm really wasted and drove home completely drunk. I got followed by a pig that had his headlights turned off and I drove perfectly.
Police = 0
Me = 1
Not trying to be an M$ apologist, but who will really be vulnerable to this? Home (l)users will most likely have the firewall on (because it is on by default) and any sane IT dept. will have a hardware firewall guarding any internet facing windows boxen. If you haven't firewalled your boxen in this day and age, you pretty much get what you deserve.
Do you spit or swallow?
"I started using Gentoo on the desktop and now I've rolled it out as a production server using some great technologies: ReiserFS, RAID-5, Gentoo patched kernel, Samba ... you name it."
Liscense and Contract don't especially matter in this case. Neither does the cost of the software or the fact that MS has a monopoly. The Japanese trade commission is stating that an agreement regarding use of the software can not include a clause that revokes the users right to sue for patent infringement if they discover something they feel is infringing while using the software.
New Core Team
=============
watson (196)
imp (181)
peter (164)
jhb (146)
murray (137)
wes (128)
scottl (125)
markm (109)
kuriyama (100)
Runners up
==========
marcel (98)
dfr (92)
obrien (68)
jmallett (47)
mux (47)
green (44)
cperciva (42)
alfred (41)
gordon (38)
benno (38)
krion (29)
josef (26)
hmp (21)
simon (16)
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Or maybe we should start early in kindergarten and eliminate the part where we teach children how to share
Do we teach Timmy to share the other kids juice boxes?
Do we teach Timmy to take without asking or to take what isn't given?
Intel is also looking to cut down on RMAs. There are a suprising number of asshats that overclock components then attempt to RMA components that fail. Read any overclocking forum or bbs and you find a fair amount of people that have no problem trying to defraud vendors when they burn their chip out from overclocking/overvolting.
Slashdot does not correctly display correctly for me in 0.9. The left hand bar (sections, help, stories) overlaps the main page.
regarding RFID tags, but one question that never seems to get answered is: What are the range of these tags? If the tags have a range of many miles, I can understand the privacy concerns, but if the tags' range is inside the store or the parking lot, I have a lot of trouble seeing what the big deal is.
Enemy Territory I can agree on, but America's Army is rated T. The author didn't say the age of the kids, but he indicated that they might be learning blender, and that he wants to give them a LiveCD to use at home so I am guessing they are teens (perhaps early). If they are younger than that, then neither of those games would be appropriate, but that wasn't apparent in the article.
My suggestion would be nix (no pun intended) the whole linux angle to this. The kids are going to be learning difficult apps, and having to deal with an operating system that functions differently (think stuff like cut/paste) will just be frustrating. You also don't know about the hardware the kids are using at home, so a LiveCD that may or may not detect their hardware correctly could end up being more of a hassle than a bonus.
Second, LiveCDs have very subpar performance compared to a hard-disk install, doing graphical work or trying to model in 3d is going to be a painful experience to say the least; and will leave a poor impression of linux in the campers minds.
You mentioned that the commercial versions of these apps are expensive; they are. In many cases, the company that makes the app offers a much discounted or even free version. For 3d studio max, there is the excellent gmax software that does what most of your campers would likely love to do, create models for computer games. If you aren't content with gmax (which is a truly great program), there is always the Maya Learning Edition which is a learning version of the program the pros are using.
I would contact the software companies that offer learning versions and see if you could distribute those. The companies will be very happy that you want to use their programs, and may throw some free stuff your way (I can't think of anything cooler to win at summer camp than a software t-shirt).
If you are dead set on FOSS, I would make a compilation of those apps(gimp, OO.o, thunderbird/firebird, etc.) for Windows and throw them on a CD. Without Linux, you'll have more space for some killer free apps, and you'll have way more kids that will use Gimp or Open Office or Blender if they can use them without having to install a new, unfamiliar operating system. Remember, gratis will mean more to them than libre . If you want to get them intested in FOSS, download a small game (even something like a solitaire/tetris clone) and show them little snippets and explain what they do ingame.
Lastly, if this is a summer (read fun) camp, there will be some time for gaming. I obviously wouldn't recommend a live CD for this, but if you are looking for free(beer) software that is multiplatform, I'd recommend America's Army and Enemy Territory
I searched around and I came up with a list I think you'd get some good mileage out of, and I promise you'll hook more kids with these than you will a Linux liveCD.
6.19 MB - Firefox 0.8
7.52 MB - Thunderbird 0.5
257 MB - Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
51.0 MB - gmax + help, tutorials, and textures
133 MB - Maya Personal Learning edition
2.20 MB - Blender
63.5 MB - OpenOffice 1.1 installer
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520.41 MB total
Embrace and extend.
I run a Mom n Pop computer shop and we recently added a $29 feature we call the "Privacy Pack", and it has been wildly popular.
We do several things: We install the google toolbar (for popup blocking), we configure the hosts file (to block almost all ad companies), and we configure IE's cookie settings (and active X) to better protect privacy.
People love it, and for $29 its not a bad deal. This is in addition to the virus scanner which all our PCs include.
he probably just ran it through a cnc punch, no need to go exotic for some small holes in a thin sheet like that.
They have video of it here, and they have an index of their stories about it here (The index also links to screenshots)
The problem is (and not to be blunt), most people find anime mostly uninteresting and almost no one would pay for an anime channel. You get a very unrepresentative view of anime appreciation when you read places like slashdot. There are huge numbers of anime fans to begin with and on top of that, the fans favorites are quite varied. Someone's favorite series is someone elses unwatchable shit.
For an anime network to be successful, it would have to have a unrealistically high percentage of anime fans watching it, something you'd have a hard time selling to network heads.
The problem with getting rid of Bush is that you must replace him, and none of the candidates are much of an improvement.
Language changes. The meanings of words change over time as they get popularised, and perverted by popular media. Gay meant "to be happy" a few decades ago, and refers exclusively to homosexuality today. Sure, one can use it in its older meaning, but you will confuse 90% of young Americans.
But when does one decide that "gay" means homosexual as well as happy? I will suggest that it is when the majority of people understand it that way. This is an uncontroversial opinion - if everyone believes a word means a particular thing, and the dictionaries define it that way, then that word does mean that thing. The word has become part of the laguage.
So coming back to our word of controversy, the "hacker" nomen, if we were to conduct a survey amongst the people in the world who acually believe they know the meaning of the word, we will find that 100% understand it to mean a person who breaks into computer systems. Of these 100%, perhaps 80% will exclusively give it that meaning, and the remaining 20% (the slashdot editors included), will admit that it has a dual meaning. A small percentage will insist that it has a single meaning - a computer programmer, but are aware that others understand it differently.
Of course, my statistics come from a whole lot of nothing, but they are logically representative. I'm sure other numbers as espoused by other people will be similar.
It is established that most people understand a hacker to be a cracker(slashdot meaning). The interesting twist is that the people who believe the hacker to be a cracker, will mostly believe a cracker to be a biscuit! And these people constitute the vast majority of the internet saavy.
There is no doubt that these words have dual meanings, but if we were to fall back to formal definations, we will see that the dictionaries exclusively define a cracker to be a biscuit, and may attribute a dual meaning to the word hacker. There is no formal defination for cracker that says it to have the same meaning as the populist "hacker" word. As such, we have only one formal fallback for the computer intruder - the word "hacker".
I think it is time that the programmers and slashdot editors accepted it - the hacker is the bad guy, and it is almost impossible that you will be able to change this defination. Give it up, the masses have spoken.
A hacker hacks into computer systems
A cracker is a type of biscuit
The download link is here
I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him. As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass.
I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist. I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerkoff fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud. Why not?
I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.. I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged.
I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss. I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my hankercheif, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom. I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours.. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.
Sweet beautiful irony. goatse.cx is number 34 and Slashdot is right below it on the list. Nice to know that a stretched anus gets more requests than "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Do you work for a "big ugly corporation"? Do you work for a company? Do you work at all?
If you honestly believe you would be better off with out that "big ugly corporation" paying your salary (and the salaries of many others), by all means continue to work at destroying corporate profit.
But then again, nations are not formed by big corporations for big corporate profit. They are formed by the poeple and for the people. Every decision a government makes should be in the best interest of the people.
What exactly is a corporation? Can it exist without people? If there were no people, would Microsoft exist? Would the FSF?
Your problem is you only see a forest (a big ugly forest) and are blind to the fact that it is made up entirely of individual trees. Think of Microsoft only as a corporation. You hate them don't you? Go to redmond, see their building. Do you hate it? Maybe you still do. Go inside that building and meet a coder, a manager and a receptionist. Do you hate them? They are Microsoft, and chances are, they are the exact same as you. They are that "big ugly corporation" you so desperately want to destroy.