My father-in-law is a supervisor for Ameren and they are no allowed to use digital cameras when they photograph damage, etc. (For instance, if they drive across someone's lawn and tear it up).
Talking about selling software for money? On slashdot? Blasphemy!!!
Games companies are in business to make money. They're not charities, and even if they were, even charities need money to operate. Valve is simply making what it believes to be the best decision based on its reading of the market.
Let's not forget how people tore into Metallica for doing exactly what you're talking about.
Uncle Eazy
I think people would be much more inclined to respect the laws if it were the artists themselves pressing the charges against people and stepping up to remand piracy stops instead of the RIAA which doesn't serve any purpose other than to litigate. If I hear the artists themselves screaming about losing money then I might care. When I hear a big corporation telling me to stop copying stuff when they themselves aren't the ones creating the music, then it does nothing more than piss me off. And by artists screaming, I don't mean ones being sponsored by the RIAA-- I mean they themselves must go and speak out against it. I don't hear the indie artists complaining about piracy, and there are plenty of big indie artists out there that I'm sure have their music pirated too.
First this (DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader?) and now the RIAA is doing this? It's getting so that a guy can't steal anything around here without getting into trouble. Sheesh.
I agree with this guy. Having the uncompressed files (WAVs maybe) available for download, for a bit more money, is a good idea.
Also, if you've got a fat server with MHZ to spare, maybe setup some sort of "compress on demand" where the consumer could choose the format they want (MP3, OGG, etc.) and the bitrate they want. You could also set this up in a queue fashion. Let them queue things to be compressed, send them an email when it's done. Of course, to prevent scammers and script kiddies trying to kill your MHZ, make them pay first before the compressing goes forward.
Uncle Eazy
Might be the option to have cd quality files (different format maybe?), maybe for a slightly higher price.
Especially if it's something like ambient music, where hearing everything is important.
error: failed dependencies:
widget-foo-0.2.1 is needed by Cool_Program
blah-1.2.2-02.so.1 is needed by Cool_Program
You're right. Linux security r0x0rs.
;-)
Uncle Eazy
If Joe User ran linux, even as a user, then downloaded a binary (or even source, he aint reading 10,000 lines of C++) "cool program", the install would simply say "please enter your root password for install to continue".
I broke down and installed SuSE 8.2 (default install) on my Dell L400 laptop. P3-700, 256mb RAM, 10g HD. I'm a Microsoft person, Exchange "expert". The main reason I installed Linux was to check out Evolution. Outlook XP, 2003 and Outlook Express have problems connecting to my home IMAP email server.
Overall, I like SuSE. I installed it via FTP and whenever I need to install packages (YaST2 rocks) it gets them from the SuSE FTP site.
My biggest complain with Linux in general, is dependancy hell. It is pretty hard to install anything, whether by RPM or by MAKE, etc., without running into: blah-1.2.1 requires GTK+-2.0.blah. Try to install GTK+-2.0.blah, that fails because it requires this other package. Mostly, if I use Yast2 this problem doesn't exist, but SuSE doesn't always have the latest packages available. Example, gaim. The version available through Yast2 only supports AOL, no MSN, no Yahoo!.
I haven't tried getting my wireless pcmcia 3com card working yet, but I have tried to make PPTP/PPPD work to connect to work's MS VPN. No luck.
The only real problem I had during the install was with the video. My little laptop screen went blank after bootup. After tearing up groups.google.com and SuSE's support, I got it working.
As for what SaintJab said about rdesktop, it is a nice program. But it really can't compare to the Remote Desktop app that comes with XP (and can be DL'd for any modern MS OS). If nothing else, for me, if rdesktop is not in full-screen mode, then it has trouble with screen refresh (similar to VNC).
I think Linux is a good little hax0r OS for the desktop. But for ease of use, hardware, install and uninstall, Windows is a better choice for people that don't want to mess around "under the hood".
Uncle Eazy
What needs to take place is for the MS biggots to give *NIX a try. I work in a mostly MS environment and I use my Linux box for most of my entire day. I am able to administer out Win2K AD domain, as well as the other mundane daily tasks. I very rarely go to my windoze bos for anything. I didn't think this was possible when I built the workstation but I wanted to ?try?. I've been on it since. In fact, for most of the stuff I do on a daily basis, this machine out performs the MS machines. In fact, I use Rdesktop a lot to connect to MS servers, and it is WAY smother and better than the MS TS crap. This is all a lot for me to come out with, as I even worked at MS for quite a few years, and at one time was hardcore MS (hold the flames please, no asbestos underwear today). But I've changed my thoughts and ideals, as would many others if they just give it a freekin try. Sure, there are million antiquated excuses as to why MS is better or worse, but you will never know what works best for YOU unless we try new things.
I mean, there is nudity in reality, so why shun it from a movie? A bit of realism in movies doesn't hurt, it's not like you'd want to remove the blood and noise from Saving Private Ryan and show it to your children.
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I want the Stephan King ending where the monitor smashes itself over the coder's head...but only after he's gone completely insane. Then he becomes the bug.
Uncle Eazy
...for the Disney/Pixar movie treatment if you want a "happy kitty, fluffy bunny" ending.
Whew!! Name calling! Nice. Way to make your point.
I was responding specifically to the girl with the disease analogy, not the whole filters thing. FWIW, I think filtering for kids in a public place like a library isn't such a bad idea, as long as someone can make exceptions to the filter so that legitimate sites (non-pr0n) would not be blocked.
If by "long before" you mean before the WWW, then what was that... like 15 years ago?
There will always be new technology coming out that after a few years we think we can't live without. Cell phones for instance.
As for comparing the importance of the Internet to any of your first three "substitutions" that's absurd. If the Internet went away tomorrow, we would still wake up and life would go on. Maybe not the majority of the people on here (me included), but it would.
Here goes my first/. flame and with it whatever creds I had.
You unthinkably moronic twit! Try substituting "antibiotics," "telephones," "electricity," or "Sherman AntiTrust Act" for "Internet" in your dipshitted response. Now what do you think about living the way people lived "long before" ?
Internet filters, like the DMCA, the Disney copyright law, and the new FCC ownership regs, serve only to concentrate information, and thus power, in the hands of a few well-connected people. You don't have to be a Socialist or an Orwell fan to think this is a really bad idea.
Not to piss all over the hax0r spirit, but why not look into something like the Audiotron from Turtle Beach. It's a bit on the pricey side, but it's great for serving up (actually receiving) MP3s to a stereo over CAT5 from some machine in your home.
Then maybe she should go see the doctor. Or a free clinic...or the hospital.
You know, people got by just fine long before the Internet came along.
So what? Let's say that some young woman believes her boyfriend has given her an STD. She is poor and cannot afford a computer at home, so she goes to research female sexual health online in the library. Unfortunately such a pornographic site as this is blocked, the young woman would have to go and ask the librarian to remove filtering so she can research her "problem". Doubly unfortunate is that the stigma of having an STD is so great, she is too embarrassed to ask because she doesn't want to direct any attention towards herself (she feels bad enough already). Thus she doesn't do the research, and it turns out she has syphillis. By the time the disease is caught, serious heart complications she will live with for the rest of her life have set in.
A simple course of antibiotics could have killed the bacteria long before this, of course... but she didn't know that because there were filters on the computers, and those filters could not distinguish between a picture of a woman trying to arouse men by exhibiting her vagina, and a picture of a woman with chancres on her vagina.
*This* is the constitutionally protected speech the filters block that we are worried about. I'd rather have 100 perverts view pictures of vile pornography than have 1 young woman end up sterile or worse because she did not have access to information on reproductive health. That is why I am opposed to filters.
I just moved to Fenton (also just outside St. Louis). It wasn't until AFTER we had our new phone turned on with SWBell that we found out the number couldn't call St. Louis, nor receive calls from St. Louis, for free. Of course, this was after Bell assigned us a number, then a week later told us it was already assigned.
As for Internet, I'm too far for DSL and my neighborhood (new construction) doesn't even have cable TV! But, since I host web sites from my basement, I could actually afford a T1. Only pay $400 per month from Birch.com, who also will do local phone service (but, of course, not to Fenton).
So, should the pilots union picket to have the black boxes removed from airplanes? After all, those black boxes could be used to point out pilot error in a crash.
I'm glad he's off the streets as well, but I'm appalled at the technology being used this way. As for the manufacturers and accident investigators with some sort of interest in this sort of data...well screw 'em. There's nothing in the constitution that says it's my job to make another guy's job easier, even if I'm dead. I hate to use the term slippery slope because we all throw it around all the time here on Slashdot, but I don't see how this is any different from the TIA initiatives. Sure they can be used for good uses, but that doesn't mean that acquiring data on citizens is a good thing. If I want to find out if my kids are running around the house I try to catch them in the act, I don't place electronics in their pants to tattle on them - even if it might prevent accidents or make it easier to muddle through sequences of events when something gets broken.
I understand that's how all the hot bars in L.A. operate. (At least according to "Swingers".)
You "buy" a few words on their DNS server, which gets mirrored by every other Primary DNS server out there. In a way, it's like buying a sign for the front of your store. Sure, people might stumple upon your pr0n server at 18.1.26.5 by random, but if you have something that says sex.com and it point there, you'll generate a lot more revenue. Think of it like having the best Strip bar in all of New York City, but no sign. All customers have to identify you is the street address. Sure, some word of mouth bussiness will occur, but when you get a sign that says "SEX" you'll get more perv^H^H^H^Hcustomers.
You are probably altering the C:\Winnt\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, not/etc/hosts, as I'm sure anyone running *nix would be savvy enough to alter their own hosts file.
My employees'/etc/hosts so that slashdot resolves to 127.0.0.1 Seriously, if I'm managing you and you are getting paid to do 8 hours of work, then you are going to do EIGHT HOURS OF WORK.
Slashdot Mirror
The cast of Trading Spaces is unavailable for comment. TSIA.
when he went to Alt.Nerd.Obsessive.
My father-in-law is a supervisor for Ameren and they are no allowed to use digital cameras when they photograph damage, etc. (For instance, if they drive across someone's lawn and tear it up).
When Pud was getting sued by PrintCafe, he changed his WHOIS info. Funniest thing I'd read in a while.
Here's the link:
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/printcafe.html
Talking about selling software for money? On slashdot? Blasphemy!!!
Games companies are in business to make money. They're not charities, and even if they were, even charities need money to operate. Valve is simply making what it believes to be the best decision based on its reading of the market.
Let's not forget how people tore into Metallica for doing exactly what you're talking about.
Uncle Eazy
I think people would be much more inclined to respect the laws if it were the artists themselves pressing the charges against people and stepping up to remand piracy stops instead of the RIAA which doesn't serve any purpose other than to litigate. If I hear the artists themselves screaming about losing money then I might care. When I hear a big corporation telling me to stop copying stuff when they themselves aren't the ones creating the music, then it does nothing more than piss me off. And by artists screaming, I don't mean ones being sponsored by the RIAA-- I mean they themselves must go and speak out against it. I don't hear the indie artists complaining about piracy, and there are plenty of big indie artists out there that I'm sure have their music pirated too.
First this (DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader?) and now the RIAA is doing this? It's getting so that a guy can't steal anything around here without getting into trouble. Sheesh.
Uncle Eazy
I agree with this guy. Having the uncompressed files (WAVs maybe) available for download, for a bit more money, is a good idea.
Also, if you've got a fat server with MHZ to spare, maybe setup some sort of "compress on demand" where the consumer could choose the format they want (MP3, OGG, etc.) and the bitrate they want. You could also set this up in a queue fashion. Let them queue things to be compressed, send them an email when it's done. Of course, to prevent scammers and script kiddies trying to kill your MHZ, make them pay first before the compressing goes forward.
Uncle Eazy
Might be the option to have cd quality files (different format maybe?), maybe for a slightly higher price.
Especially if it's something like ambient music, where hearing everything is important.
And then the install would still fail because:
;-)
error: failed dependencies:
widget-foo-0.2.1 is needed by Cool_Program
blah-1.2.2-02.so.1 is needed by Cool_Program
You're right. Linux security r0x0rs.
Uncle Eazy
If Joe User ran linux, even as a user, then downloaded a binary (or even source, he aint reading 10,000 lines of C++) "cool program", the install would simply say "please enter your root password for install to continue".
I broke down and installed SuSE 8.2 (default install) on my Dell L400 laptop. P3-700, 256mb RAM, 10g HD. I'm a Microsoft person, Exchange "expert". The main reason I installed Linux was to check out Evolution. Outlook XP, 2003 and Outlook Express have problems connecting to my home IMAP email server.
Overall, I like SuSE. I installed it via FTP and whenever I need to install packages (YaST2 rocks) it gets them from the SuSE FTP site.
My biggest complain with Linux in general, is dependancy hell. It is pretty hard to install anything, whether by RPM or by MAKE, etc., without running into: blah-1.2.1 requires GTK+-2.0.blah. Try to install GTK+-2.0.blah, that fails because it requires this other package. Mostly, if I use Yast2 this problem doesn't exist, but SuSE doesn't always have the latest packages available. Example, gaim. The version available through Yast2 only supports AOL, no MSN, no Yahoo!.
I haven't tried getting my wireless pcmcia 3com card working yet, but I have tried to make PPTP/PPPD work to connect to work's MS VPN. No luck.
The only real problem I had during the install was with the video. My little laptop screen went blank after bootup. After tearing up groups.google.com and SuSE's support, I got it working.
As for what SaintJab said about rdesktop, it is a nice program. But it really can't compare to the Remote Desktop app that comes with XP (and can be DL'd for any modern MS OS). If nothing else, for me, if rdesktop is not in full-screen mode, then it has trouble with screen refresh (similar to VNC).
I think Linux is a good little hax0r OS for the desktop. But for ease of use, hardware, install and uninstall, Windows is a better choice for people that don't want to mess around "under the hood".
Uncle Eazy
What needs to take place is for the MS biggots to give *NIX a try. I work in a mostly MS environment and I use my Linux box for most of my entire day. I am able to administer out Win2K AD domain, as well as the other mundane daily tasks. I very rarely go to my windoze bos for anything. I didn't think this was possible when I built the workstation but I wanted to ?try?. I've been on it since. In fact, for most of the stuff I do on a daily basis, this machine out performs the MS machines. In fact, I use Rdesktop a lot to connect to MS servers, and it is WAY smother and better than the MS TS crap. This is all a lot for me to come out with, as I even worked at MS for quite a few years, and at one time was hardcore MS (hold the flames please, no asbestos underwear today). But I've changed my thoughts and ideals, as would many others if they just give it a freekin try. Sure, there are million antiquated excuses as to why MS is better or worse, but you will never know what works best for YOU unless we try new things.
Don't think Professor Sprout is going to like this too much.
Some people would disagree with you. Saving Private Ryan
Uncle Eazy
I mean, there is nudity in reality, so why shun it from a movie? A bit of realism in movies doesn't hurt, it's not like you'd want to remove the blood and noise from Saving Private Ryan and show it to your children.
Slashdot green shirt with white letters:
Micro$oft sux0rs.
I want the Stephan King ending where the monitor smashes itself over the coder's head...but only after he's gone completely insane. Then he becomes the bug.
...for the Disney/Pixar movie treatment if you want a "happy kitty, fluffy bunny" ending.
Uncle Eazy
Whew!! Name calling! Nice. Way to make your point.
/. flame and with it whatever creds I had.
You unthinkably moronic twit! Try substituting "antibiotics," "telephones," "electricity," or "Sherman AntiTrust Act" for "Internet" in your dipshitted response. Now what do you think about living the way people lived "long before" ?
Internet filters, like the DMCA, the Disney copyright law, and the new FCC ownership regs, serve only to concentrate information, and thus power, in the hands of a few well-connected people. You don't have to be a Socialist or an Orwell fan to think this is a really bad idea.
I was responding specifically to the girl with the disease analogy, not the whole filters thing. FWIW, I think filtering for kids in a public place like a library isn't such a bad idea, as long as someone can make exceptions to the filter so that legitimate sites (non-pr0n) would not be blocked.
If by "long before" you mean before the WWW, then what was that... like 15 years ago?
There will always be new technology coming out that after a few years we think we can't live without. Cell phones for instance.
As for comparing the importance of the Internet to any of your first three "substitutions" that's absurd. If the Internet went away tomorrow, we would still wake up and life would go on. Maybe not the majority of the people on here (me included), but it would.
Here goes my first
Not to piss all over the hax0r spirit, but why not look into something like the Audiotron from Turtle Beach. It's a bit on the pricey side, but it's great for serving up (actually receiving) MP3s to a stereo over CAT5 from some machine in your home.
Uncle Eazy
Then maybe she should go see the doctor. Or a free clinic...or the hospital.
You know, people got by just fine long before the Internet came along.
So what? Let's say that some young woman believes her boyfriend has given her an STD. She is poor and cannot afford a computer at home, so she goes to research female sexual health online in the library. Unfortunately such a pornographic site as this is blocked, the young woman would have to go and ask the librarian to remove filtering so she can research her "problem". Doubly unfortunate is that the stigma of having an STD is so great, she is too embarrassed to ask because she doesn't want to direct any attention towards herself (she feels bad enough already). Thus she doesn't do the research, and it turns out she has syphillis. By the time the disease is caught, serious heart complications she will live with for the rest of her life have set in.
A simple course of antibiotics could have killed the bacteria long before this, of course... but she didn't know that because there were filters on the computers, and those filters could not distinguish between a picture of a woman trying to arouse men by exhibiting her vagina, and a picture of a woman with chancres on her vagina.
*This* is the constitutionally protected speech the filters block that we are worried about. I'd rather have 100 perverts view pictures of vile pornography than have 1 young woman end up sterile or worse because she did not have access to information on reproductive health. That is why I am opposed to filters.
I just moved to Fenton (also just outside St. Louis). It wasn't until AFTER we had our new phone turned on with SWBell that we found out the number couldn't call St. Louis, nor receive calls from St. Louis, for free. Of course, this was after Bell assigned us a number, then a week later told us it was already assigned.
As for Internet, I'm too far for DSL and my neighborhood (new construction) doesn't even have cable TV! But, since I host web sites from my basement, I could actually afford a T1. Only pay $400 per month from Birch.com, who also will do local phone service (but, of course, not to Fenton).
So, should the pilots union picket to have the black boxes removed from airplanes? After all, those black boxes could be used to point out pilot error in a crash.
I'm glad he's off the streets as well, but I'm appalled at the technology being used this way. As for the manufacturers and accident investigators with some sort of interest in this sort of data...well screw 'em. There's nothing in the constitution that says it's my job to make another guy's job easier, even if I'm dead. I hate to use the term slippery slope because we all throw it around all the time here on Slashdot, but I don't see how this is any different from the TIA initiatives. Sure they can be used for good uses, but that doesn't mean that acquiring data on citizens is a good thing. If I want to find out if my kids are running around the house I try to catch them in the act, I don't place electronics in their pants to tattle on them - even if it might prevent accidents or make it easier to muddle through sequences of events when something gets broken.
I understand that's how all the hot bars in L.A. operate. (At least according to "Swingers".)
You "buy" a few words on their DNS server, which gets mirrored by every other Primary DNS server out there. In a way, it's like buying a sign for the front of your store. Sure, people might stumple upon your pr0n server at 18.1.26.5 by random, but if you have something that says sex.com and it point there, you'll generate a lot more revenue. Think of it like having the best Strip bar in all of New York City, but no sign. All customers have to identify you is the street address. Sure, some word of mouth bussiness will occur, but when you get a sign that says "SEX" you'll get more perv^H^H^H^Hcustomers.
You are probably altering the C:\Winnt\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, not /etc/hosts, as I'm sure anyone running *nix would be savvy enough to alter their own hosts file.
/etc/hosts so that slashdot resolves to 127.0.0.1 Seriously, if I'm managing you and you are getting paid to do 8 hours of work, then you are going to do EIGHT HOURS OF WORK.
My employees'
Of course... HD-DVD is just around the corner. Check CNET or Blu-Ray.
Still, be good to have those movies on DVD. After all, "Nazis make the best bad guys."
Uncle Eazy