This from the company who equates "Free Software" with "Spyware". Who would expect them to massacre other definitions, like what an office suite is?
"Other computer systems without Microsoft AntiSpyware don't provide the safety that you get with Windows," he explains, in a swipe at the Linux OS. "when you download free software - even a free operating system - you double this effect. You are putting your computer and precious data at risk."
know every major web browser by default sends out info about your operating system name and version, your CPU type, usually your ISP, your browser and version and sometimes extras added onto your browser, and allows it to be logged on almost every single website you have ever visited. Most web browsers DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THIS.
Bullshit. In 11 years of website admin I have never heard of ANY web browser doing all of this. Ever. Irregardless, I'm sure if Firefox or other open source browsers had done anything of the sort even in their early periods people would have known about it within days and removed the code for it, or at least made it an option turned OFF by default.
You forget to mention that the Dual CPU powerbooks (the 5600 models, the only PPC604 ones coincidentally) did not run MacOS at the time, rather ran AIX, IBM's UNIX also used in some of their servers.
Not to mention Powerbook 5600's had woeful battery life as bad as the machine in this article. When new it was rare for users to get the full 1.5 hours quoted with just one hour the norm. Those two 604's ate up more power relative to battery capacity than even the beast in the review here.
No Macintosh OS and bad battery life. I don't think it counts as a first for apple, do you?
This is part of what you need if you want to listen to Sony's music legally. It's not like it's suddenly allowing a bunch of crackers on some IRC network to turn you into a spam zombie, you've got a piece of code in your computer that only gives Sony access. nobody else. All they're going to use it for is making sure you abide by the terms of the license of the music you're using. Nothing more.
Nothing to see here people, move along etc. Making a mountain out of a molehill with this one.
Indeed. Real life is that the nigerian scammers are criminals, and deserve to be locked up and/or shot. Not looked at as some kind of cultural escapism that is the necessary end result of a boring life. Get them up off their asses and not indulging in criminality, or jail them. No other options should be considered.
What's going to happen is the slow adoption of blu-ray will give the illusion that it's leading the pack. Then when the xbox is released it will sell tens of millions, quicker than any console before it. The pent up demand is already there.
With so many HD-DVD players out there working, in the field, Microsoft wins again and the rest of the industry will need to make a massive change of tack and bring themselves into line.
I doubt those figures of 97 million homes still with VCRs. Everybody I know has at least a DVD player in their home, most actually having a DVD recorder of some form and most having a home theater PC.
> Someone may want a feature but may not have the time > to code it up. People have lives! They're not sitting in their > parents basement with tons of time on their hands.
And I might want a new computer but not know how to put one together. SO I LEARNED HOW TO DO IT. Your lazy ass is indicative of so many problems. Oh woe for the people who may want something but don't want to find a way to do it. Nobody got to land on the moon by sitting around waiting for someone else to get up and do it, but they went and did it themselves. Fucking lazy shits in this country not willing to get up off their own backsides and put in some effort for something they want.
If you want something, PUT IN THE GODDAMNED EFFORT or shut the fuck up and leave the accomplishments of this world up to the people who have the guts to put in work.
> Great, programmers can do things with it that they can't > do with closed-source. Now how about everyone else?
First off coding is something anybody can learn and is improved by simple practice. Now there is no "anybody else" if people would just take the effort to learn a little.
But I fear for society in a world where people refuse to learn because they don't want to, instead of can't.
A friend in the industry tells me he's converted at least a dozen pro audio editors to ardour, leaving behind pro tools and logic for good. This looks like it's one of the killer apps that's going to take linux far. We already have several that are making F/OSS well known in the wider world like apache, blender, gimp and the rest.
What's insane is the pro proprietary companies charge prices in the four figures just for some of their software alone. Can't be justified when you have the same abilities free.
> Second, Ars is not an Apple fansite. In fact it is in many ways a lot better than Slashdot.
Any site that tries to combat the known problems with iPod nano's lack of reliability, screen cracking and bad scratching problems with a fluff piece showing how "well" it handles abuse is a mac fan site in my books.
The rest of the world is seeing nano screens cracking at a touch and scratching like nobody's business and this one lone site tries to show they're tough? I think you have to be pretty naive not to see the link, or who might be sponsoring the arstechnica article.
Maybe you have a better monitor than me that can see invisible things but sorry, there is no indication in that photo which manufacturer made the chips, whether toshiba samsung or ibm.
Care to give a better source than a story on some mac fan site?
the poster claims that the logo in question is identified as a rotated Debian logo even when compared pixel-by-pixel. Simply using the same Illustrator brush shouldn't produce that kind of similarity, should it?
Illustrator has the facility to draw spirals based on a set of mathematical criteria. The default spiral settings plus the default brush used also makes the exact same debian logo. There wasn't much creativity put into making that specific debian spiral.
A free operating system logo made on a non-free graphics app running on a non free operating system, created with non-free default settings and a non-free font used throughout debian. That's just wrong.
Did you even read the link you gave? Quoting directly from it.
"By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health, within a few exceptional, restricted areas"
Too many people react emotionally because they have been fed a diet of bad science from the beginning, and their belief systems override the facts they read every time. You are a prime example of this.
Not only the science, but the interpreting of the results. The world's bad reporters would have us believe tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people died and are in ill health because of chernobyl, but when it comes down to facts and reality 56 people are known to have died, and there are no profound negative impacts to the surrounding population.
Bad Science is all about getting attention for personal, political or financial gain.
Exactly. Look at the font faq regarding font face copyrightability.
You cannot copyright the typeface itself, so documents printed from a font have no link legally with the font used to create it. That's embedded as a specific exception in copyright law.
You can't embed the font file itself or substantial pieces of the data that created it in a document (such as a PDF) without permission from the owner, and it is there that GPL exceptions may be needed to prevent the entire document from becoming GPL.
If anybody tells you that a typeface on a document you have created is GPLd, then that has absolutely no legal weight. Can't copyright font typefaces, fullstop.
The point is that anyone can eventually find your blog if your real identity is tied to it in some way. And there may be consequences. Family members may be shocked or upset when they read your uncensored thoughts. A potential boss may think twice about hiring you. But these concerns shouldn't stop you from writing. Instead, they should inspire you to keep your blog private, or accessible only to certain trusted people.
What tripe. What complete unadulterated tripe. Breeding a group of people who are convinced they're doing their thing for the world, yet who write anonymously behind the safety of a pseudonym or "Anonymous Coward" moniker?
Get some integrity people, and write with your real names. Stand up for what you believe in and put your name next to your thoughts.
Or are they not really thoughts worth standing up for?
Worth mentioning is that lunar dust has not been in contact with the common gases we simply breathe as humans. Nor with the fluids & matter of our lungs.
As well as not being ground down by the action of air and water like dust on earth is, many of these particles could contain practically any mix of extremely reactive substances, substances that have not been oxidised for example, by the actions of an air atmosphere.
> This takes very little away, but think about what it might add: > the ability to pay for tolls, gas, or parking meters without > swiping a card.
Cool. So when a thief takes off with my car, they pay for gas, pay for tolls, pay to park, all under my account. When the car is discovered burnt out & dumped, there's no trail going back through the thief's finances to see who paid for gas in my now useless burnt out car.
Wait. Did you listen to yourself when you speak? first off:
> I have been running Windows 2000 for years, and there is no > spyware. And I am not doing anything special.
You're not doing anything special. nothing? but wait!
> make sure to fdisk the mbr before an instal > Add a software firewall > connect through a router > disable active-x from IE > the only net protocol I install is tcp/ip, > I do not instal the other 2- client > or file & printer sharing.
Oh *PLEASE*. You make a statement like "I am not doing anything special" then go on to state a half dozen special things you do to protect yourself. You're so used to continually performing workarounds to get past the deficiencies of windows that you can't see that you're doing it, even when you write it plainly in text.
"This is a safe neighbourhood, I've never been hurt and I do nothing special. I just have bars on all the windows, lock the shutters after 5pm, install bullet proof glass and don't make eye contact with anyone. See, perfectly safe. Not been hit yet."
> Come on, when will all this anti-windows BS stop?
Slashdot Mirror
This from the company who equates "Free Software" with "Spyware". Who would expect them to massacre other definitions, like what an office suite is?
"Other computer systems without Microsoft AntiSpyware don't provide the safety that you get with Windows," he explains, in a swipe at the Linux OS. "when you download free software - even a free operating system - you double this effect. You are putting your computer and precious data at risk."
know every major web browser by default sends out info about your operating system name and version, your CPU type, usually your ISP, your browser and version and sometimes extras added onto your browser, and allows it to be logged on almost every single website you have ever visited. Most web browsers DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THIS.
Bullshit. In 11 years of website admin I have never heard of ANY web browser doing all of this. Ever. Irregardless, I'm sure if Firefox or other open source browsers had done anything of the sort even in their early periods people would have known about it within days and removed the code for it, or at least made it an option turned OFF by default.
You forget to mention that the Dual CPU powerbooks (the 5600 models, the only PPC604 ones coincidentally) did not run MacOS at the time, rather ran AIX, IBM's UNIX also used in some of their servers.
Not to mention Powerbook 5600's had woeful battery life as bad as the machine in this article. When new it was rare for users to get the full 1.5 hours quoted with just one hour the norm. Those two 604's ate up more power relative to battery capacity than even the beast in the review here.
No Macintosh OS and bad battery life. I don't think it counts as a first for apple, do you?
This is part of what you need if you want to listen to Sony's music legally. It's not like it's suddenly allowing a bunch of crackers on some IRC network to turn you into a spam zombie, you've got a piece of code in your computer that only gives Sony access. nobody else. All they're going to use it for is making sure you abide by the terms of the license of the music you're using. Nothing more.
Nothing to see here people, move along etc. Making a mountain out of a molehill with this one.
> That's real life.
Indeed. Real life is that the nigerian scammers are criminals, and deserve to be locked up and/or shot. Not looked at as some kind of cultural escapism that is the necessary end result of a boring life. Get them up off their asses and not indulging in criminality, or jail them. No other options should be considered.
What's going to happen is the slow adoption of blu-ray will give the illusion that it's leading the pack. Then when the xbox is released it will sell tens of millions, quicker than any console before it. The pent up demand is already there.
With so many HD-DVD players out there working, in the field, Microsoft wins again and the rest of the industry will need to make a massive change of tack and bring themselves into line.
I doubt those figures of 97 million homes still with VCRs. Everybody I know has at least a DVD player in their home, most actually having a DVD recorder of some form and most having a home theater PC.
VHS died years ago.
> Someone may want a feature but may not have the time
> to code it up. People have lives! They're not sitting in their
> parents basement with tons of time on their hands.
And I might want a new computer but not know how to put one together. SO I LEARNED HOW TO DO IT. Your lazy ass is indicative of so many problems. Oh woe for the people who may want something but don't want to find a way to do it. Nobody got to land on the moon by sitting around waiting for someone else to get up and do it, but they went and did it themselves. Fucking lazy shits in this country not willing to get up off their own backsides and put in some effort for something they want.
If you want something, PUT IN THE GODDAMNED EFFORT or shut the fuck up and leave the accomplishments of this world up to the people who have the guts to put in work.
> Great, programmers can do things with it that they can't
> do with closed-source. Now how about everyone else?
First off coding is something anybody can learn and is improved by simple practice. Now there is no "anybody else" if people would just take the effort to learn a little.
But I fear for society in a world where people refuse to learn because they don't want to, instead of can't.
A friend in the industry tells me he's converted at least a dozen pro audio editors to ardour, leaving behind pro tools and logic for good. This looks like it's one of the killer apps that's going to take linux far. We already have several that are making F/OSS well known in the wider world like apache, blender, gimp and the rest.
What's insane is the pro proprietary companies charge prices in the four figures just for some of their software alone. Can't be justified when you have the same abilities free.
> Second, Ars is not an Apple fansite. In fact it is in many ways a lot better than Slashdot.
Any site that tries to combat the known problems with iPod nano's lack of reliability, screen cracking and bad scratching problems with a fluff piece showing how "well" it handles abuse is a mac fan site in my books.
The rest of the world is seeing nano screens cracking at a touch and scratching like nobody's business and this one lone site tries to show they're tough? I think you have to be pretty naive not to see the link, or who might be sponsoring the arstechnica article.
Maybe you have a better monitor than me that can see invisible things but sorry, there is no indication in that photo which manufacturer made the chips, whether toshiba samsung or ibm.
Care to give a better source than a story on some mac fan site?
> A class-action suit was filed against Apple over the illegal bundling of iTunes with iPod. This practice is anti-competitive.
ROFL! because bundling a driver with the hardware SHOULD BE BANNED.
retards.
the poster claims that the logo in question is identified as a rotated Debian logo even when compared pixel-by-pixel. Simply using the same Illustrator brush shouldn't produce that kind of similarity, should it?
Illustrator has the facility to draw spirals based on a set of mathematical criteria. The default spiral settings plus the default brush used also makes the exact same debian logo. There wasn't much creativity put into making that specific debian spiral.
A free operating system logo made on a non-free graphics app running on a non free operating system, created with non-free default settings and a non-free font used throughout debian. That's just wrong.
Did you even read the link you gave? Quoting directly from it.
"By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health, within a few exceptional, restricted areas"
Too many people react emotionally because they have been fed a diet of bad science from the beginning, and their belief systems override the facts they read every time. You are a prime example of this.
Not only the science, but the interpreting of the results.
The world's bad reporters would have us believe tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people died and are in ill health because of chernobyl, but when it comes down to facts and reality 56 people are known to have died, and there are no profound negative impacts to the surrounding population.
Bad Science is all about getting attention for personal, political or financial gain.
Riiiiight. Give yourself none of the advantages of a real raid setup and all of the disadvantages.
Not bright.
The best bit about magnatune is you get to download their entire catalog without paying. Best few weeks I've spent on the net.
Exactly. Look at the font faq regarding font face copyrightability.
You cannot copyright the typeface itself, so documents printed from a font have no link legally with the font used to create it. That's embedded as a specific exception in copyright law.
You can't embed the font file itself or substantial pieces of the data that created it in a document (such as a PDF) without permission from the owner, and it is there that GPL exceptions may be needed to prevent the entire document from becoming GPL.
If anybody tells you that a typeface on a document you have created is GPLd, then that has absolutely no legal weight. Can't copyright font typefaces, fullstop.
Nah, I had another anonymous coward in mind sorry.
The point is that anyone can eventually find your blog if your real identity is tied to it in some way. And there may be consequences. Family members may be shocked or upset when they read your uncensored thoughts. A potential boss may think twice about hiring you. But these concerns shouldn't stop you from writing. Instead, they should inspire you to keep your blog private, or accessible only to certain trusted people.
What tripe. What complete unadulterated tripe. Breeding a group of people who are convinced they're doing their thing for the world, yet who write anonymously behind the safety of a pseudonym or "Anonymous Coward" moniker?
Get some integrity people, and write with your real names. Stand up for what you believe in and put your name next to your thoughts.
Or are they not really thoughts worth standing up for?
Worth mentioning is that lunar dust has not been in contact with the common gases we simply breathe as humans. Nor with the fluids & matter of our lungs.
As well as not being ground down by the action of air and water like dust on earth is, many of these particles could contain practically any mix of extremely reactive substances, substances that have not been oxidised for example, by the actions of an air atmosphere.
Or until it shows Area 51, which I notice is conspicuously missing.
> This takes very little away, but think about what it might add:
> the ability to pay for tolls, gas, or parking meters without
> swiping a card.
Cool. So when a thief takes off with my car, they pay for gas, pay for tolls, pay to park, all under my account. When the car is discovered burnt out & dumped, there's no trail going back through the thief's finances to see who paid for gas in my now useless burnt out car.
Cool.
Wait. Did you listen to yourself when you speak? first off:
> I have been running Windows 2000 for years, and there is no
> spyware. And I am not doing anything special.
You're not doing anything special. nothing? but wait!
> make sure to fdisk the mbr before an instal
> Add a software firewall
> connect through a router
> disable active-x from IE
> the only net protocol I install is tcp/ip,
> I do not instal the other 2- client
> or file & printer sharing.
Oh *PLEASE*. You make a statement like "I am not doing anything special" then go on to state a half dozen special things you do to protect yourself. You're so used to continually performing workarounds to get past the deficiencies of windows that you can't see that you're doing it, even when you write it plainly in text.
"This is a safe neighbourhood, I've never been hurt and I do nothing special. I just have bars on all the windows, lock the shutters after 5pm, install bullet proof glass and don't make eye contact with anyone. See, perfectly safe. Not been hit yet."
> Come on, when will all this anti-windows BS stop?
When it deserves it.