DO NOT post ANYTHING that he might disagree with! You will be mod-bommed to death. Do NOT disagree that this tripe of "news" is actually news. He "KNOWS" it is.
Of course, he sits on his wittle seat with mods ready to go. The little turd thinks he's god. Oh well. Like I care.
I'll just lie and get more +5'es when I need it. You watch. Back up to 50 karma ready to troll you again.
That's why there's usually 2 or 3 parties at EACH poll place.
And also, that's NOT a technological step. That's a human problem.
Of course, it's easily solved by capturing retinal (eyes, guys) images of EVERYBODY and then linking the retinas to MD5's (which the md5 is lonked to votes).
If that happpened, everybody would scream bloody murder, and rightly so.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I dont know why they'd implement a vote DB using Microsoft Abcess. Still, if they REALLY wanted to, they could implement this system.
1: DB exists with basic vote rules. 2: User walks up to votebox. 3: Person hired to do polls check idetity (so that they can legitly vote)- enables 1 session for user 4: The votes are tallied by unsigned long int incrementation counter for each "Politican". Be aware, the machine knows exactly what this user votes for. 5: An MD5sum is made for the whole vote session, along with printing the md5 and votes cast on 1 small piece of paper. 6: The MD5 checksum is stored in concurrent use of the data.
Some people may think there's a security hazard in step 3-5 as the poll worker can probably see what the MD5sum might be. That could be solved by saying to the user 'press any key at random. this is NOT part of the vote"
I work for a small 8 person IT business in the town I live in. I'm computer help while I go back to college.
When I first started, I found out there's a bunch of clients (many medical), but when we install, we usually use simplistic passwords. Simplistic as in Roberts' wordlist. We dont even change them either. We also have a Winnt4 domain controller for our internal fileserver that simply shares 4 directories. ALL OF THEM HAVE GLOBAL +RWX ON EVERYBODY.
Even the shcool I go to has decent protections on their shares.
1: People's browser preference also simulates religion. I started a heavy flamewar on an Opera 7.0 patch under the name "Josh Crawley".
2: Just plain LIE. If people want to know something and everybody's alking, claim to be the "specialist". It's a great way to get mod points quickly.
3: Come over as sensible, but flame more and more as posts go on. That idea is like a fly sticky trap. 1 draws in more, and more draw in more yet.
4: If you do Karma trolls or post repetitive things, have the last 30 replies DIFFERENT trolls so your history doesnt show anything.
5: Never claim to be a troll, as a user can link to it and ruin your moderation.
6: If you want to post nasty pics (goatse comes to mind), use a DYNdns-like account and point it towards goatse. Then when somebody says it's nasty, change it. If you want karma, have it "good", then change it to really nasty, then back to good when somebody complains.
7: Make sure to have multiple accounts to 'test' ideas. It's also goo to respond to your own threads so both get moderated up. NEVER choose name that sounds trollish. -1 immediately. Fake names are good.
8: Unless you know everybody will laugh, dont post funnies. Some mods enjoy -1'ing them for the hell of it.
EVERY moderator should be reading this post and the parent BEFORE moderating. It can save you from upping crap while taking a HEAVY M2 hit, and getting good posts out of 0, or 1 cesspool.
Micropayments in this system we have WILL NOT WORK. Instead, we need a Xanadu type system where everybody's contents are self-assesed and charged appropiately by the micropayment counter.
By then, if you're juat a consumer, you pay. However, if you actually give something back, you get too. Make enough content, and you make money. Pictre the Xanadu system as a cab fare the rapidly flings back and forth.
Even with micropayments/subscription, my content on Slashdot and tech related sites is worth money (probably.001c - but it's something). If slash and related sites didnt have us users, they'd be a nothing. The best system is where high-quality posters should have free subscriptions, and lowish ones pay.
>>>First off, I'll just say that as an Xbox Live player I find the whole concept of integrated the general service (buddy list/matchmaking) into Xbox titles that have no other online component fascinating, and I certainly hope that it's implemented as well as they expect.
5$ bet that somebody'll make some statement saying "Linux will do better because....". Still, do they intend to do buddy/voice by an OSD overlay? Would'nt that be.. ugly? I'd expect to have a way to "kill" msn messanger (which is what I assume's on there).
>>>Second, here's a list of the topics I expect to be brought up here on Slashdot with relation to this article:
1. Online console gaming is a fad.
Yep, until they turn into moddable computers. Moddable as in adding all sorts of chars/levels/weapons/quests. Only the XBox has the capability because of the hard drive. The other 2 dont.
2. This is just another Microsoft ploy to find out if you've modded your Xbox.
No problem there. I can understand why they DON'T want cheaters. But it'll turn into a "We've got a better stealth modchip" war.
3. FreeBSD is dead. (yes, completely offtopic but almost inevitable).
Insert Goatse Pic;-)
4. Microsoft is using this to gather information about offline gaming habits. (Maybe not a bad point!)
I've gotta let holes in my firewall for a reason. I dont ave an Xbox, but I'd sure demand to know what's going out of there before letting it "Live".
5. I would rather have a Gamecube which I can use in privacy and play Zelda and Metroid.
I'd prefer a computer. There's all present day computer games, along with older console games. I'd like to see a PSX go on the net.. OH WAIT! It can with EpsxE;-)
>>>And my most eagerly anticipated topic?
6. Xbox needs more than one game before I'll buy it.
Most of what the XBox has is cookie-cutter formula games. Even Nintendo has the same problem. wow. A new metroid. In 3d. Soo innovative. I'm not saying they're bad, but just tired ideas.
Probably the best platform to date is either the SNES or PSX. Both had a multitude of games, many very crappy. But those gems (Snes: Tales of Phantasia, SOM series-for 3player, EVO...PSX: Bemani Games, Star Ocean2, Gundam Games, various RPGS)
I figure there's those nifty wireless2wired bridges that DLink and company sells. Has anybody sniffed the servers, ports, and protocols?
I'd be interested in how data is sent to these servers (is it pke'ed with your serial along with a modchip scan?). Oh well, I dont even own an X-Box, but general computers made to cripple-terminals interest me.
Many spammers have found ways to profit from sending unsolicited e-mail without selling a single product, using a range of tactics from simple banner ads to outright deception and identity theft.
It has long been thought that spammers made money only because people bought the products advertised in e-mails, like pornography or weight-loss plans. Now antispam advocates are warning consumers against even replying to spam or going to sites advertised in e-mail, because it could put more money in spammers' pockets.
"I really don't believe [spam] is about selling things," said Joe St. Sauver, a director at the Computing Center at the University of Oregon, who has worked with the state attorney general to craft antispam legislation. "It'd be nice if that were true, but that's not the case anymore."
Online industry observers say many spammers make money as long as people visit their Web sites. In such cases, spammers get revenue from banner advertisements displayed on those sites. Web site operators receive a fee from the advertiser for every user that visits the site, and often use unsolicited e-mail ads to attract Web users there. The recipient of the e-mail does not need to register at the site or pay any money.
Some spammers also use banner ads on Web sites designed to allow people to opt out of future e-mails. For instance, a spammer may include in an e-mail a link titled "Click Here to Opt Out of Future E-mails." But most often the opt-out requests are not honored and spammers simply lure e-mail recipients there to collect banner ad revenue, Mr. St. Sauver and others said.
Spam is generally considered any unsolicited commercial e-mail. Most of it is either deceptive, pornographic, or both, and costs businesses billions of dollars a year in services and lost productivity.
Other ways spammers have profited from spam without selling any products include:
Offering e-mail recipients "free pornography" if they download a software program. The program often provides the pornography, but only after the user's computer dials a 1-900 number to an overseas location, racking up hundreds of dollars in phone charges.
"Pump and dump" stock schemes, in which a spammer sends e-mails touting a certain stock and encourages people to buy it. The stock's value goes up, and spammers sell it at a profit.
Accepting payment for an item without sending it. Spammers bet that someone buying Viagra or pills for the enlargement of body parts would be too embarrassed to call the police or Better Business Bureau.
It is not clear how much spammers profit from these tactics, but it is likely only a fraction of the millions of dollars they pull in each year, antispam advocates said.
Some observers of spam trends downplayed the severity of these tactics.
"We don't really think that's significant, to tell you the truth," said Sara Radicati, president of the Radicati Group, a consulting and research firm that tracks e-mail trends. "I doubt that spammers really get much money for it."
More troublesome, Ms. Radicati said, are the spammers who hijack consumers' identities using e-mail and phony Web sites in a effort to make money.
The Federal Trade Commission and the FBI in July issued a warning to consumers to look out for "phisher" sites, which are made to look like an official Web site from a company requesting personal information.
Typically, an e-mail user receives a message with a link to such a site, where he is asked to enter credit-card, social security and personal identification numbers. The FTC and FBI said that incidents with "phisher" sites are increasing, and that they settled a case with a teenager in Los Angeles who had gone on a shopping spree using stolen information.
Antispam groups advise against replying to any unsolicited commercial e-mail, or clicking on any links. They suggest deleting all e-mails or forwarding them to the FTC's spam database, at uce@ftc.gov.
>>>I think it would benefit the graphics designers if Photoshop for Linux was made Open Source.
Sheesh. You're the TRASH in the Linux community that we DESPISE! You're the type that wants every-fucking-thing to be FREE FREE FREE. HELL, you're mom aint free. She has the decency to CHARGE.
>>>The Open Source developer community would be able to enhance the offerings of the Adobe Team by adding new Gaussian blur filters, better fill methodologies, and Ogg Vorbis export functionality.
Yeah. "Developer comunity" MY ASS. More like, lets leach off of Adobe. MIGHT ACTUALLY BUILD 32 BIT COLOR IN GIMP.
>>>The Linux platforms is an untapped market for Adobe and by making Photoshop Open Source, not only would the community forgive them for the ElcomSoft lawsuit but would also create a new revenue stream by offering support and consulting for Linux adopters.
Untapped for a good reason. How could ADOBE fight the Awe-Inspiring power of THE GIMP (other than 20$ of 'investements')
>>>Only when we free the works of Milne from the clutches of depraved millionaires will we be able to entertain our children.
ONLY when we free YOUR life, will your scum-sucking trash-ridden pussy-depraved hippie-shit-fucking body NOT TORMENT US WITH "'n make it free for ALL of us".
No wonder Novell quit saying they sold rights to SCO.
This whole situation is becoming a legal teergrube. Wonder what YEAR it will be resolved?
Andways, what happened to a law-suit that puts SCO as the code stealer? I figure that Linux is open sourced, and SCO's isn't. What happened to claim that SCO did it backwards?
Oh. I just thought another article said it took 2 Million to do the first level of cert, and went up from there. IIRC, it's about 9 million for EAL7 test as it has the NSA certify all the source, compiled binaries, default configuration, and configuability. The hardware is also certified the same way, so that the OS is joined to the exact brand of chip. And EAL7 takes about 1-3 years of rigorus testing.
EAL1 = "Whats a computer?" user tested EAL2 = "What's this button do?" user tested EAL3 = "What's this linux thingy?" user EAL4 = "Script kiddie tested, hacker approved" EAL5 = "Woah, it has NMAP!" user tested EAL6 = "Cool! I just transffered 2e6$ to my swiss acct" user tested EAL7 = "The black hat's are pissed" system secure
Hey, you really cant go wrong with a open source, GPL'ed operating system where drivers are wrote by guys from NASA (Thanks Mr. Becker), and your security ACL's are wrote by the Spooks (heh, thanks NoSuchAgency;-).
It REALLY beats closed source OS'es (for govt's) as even our own MS of America wont let us see the code because it's "dangerous". However showing the Chinese is A-OK.
Gotta makes you think: what would our gov't choose if they didnt have their hand in MS'es pocket?
I'm reffering the lingering "Make Content all free" mentality. I have no problem with free things, but understand if somebody wants something for their work.
>>>I make a decent living putting my foot into the doors of companies by providing inexpensive solutions up front. Over time I have built up a respectable customer base who come back to me for improvements and the like.
A very respectable job, as I do the same thing. Sad that I still cannot get rid of Exchange. Other than proprietary servers that only run on windows (certain cash programs and the like), putting in FreeBSD and Linux are easy to work with. One thing I do is stress multiple machines taking care of the load, even on medium sized networks. Tossing 1 server that takes care of it all is quite nasty when it backfires(fs crash, some random dll gets mangled).
>>>I also contribute to open source and make a bit of my living by installing, configuring and customizing it.
That's exactly where the money in Open Source is. Any user can run a "Server", but can they secure it, configure it properly, and create a backup mechanism to have high uptime? Usually, no. That's where we come in.
>>>So if you write your own music and wish to keep it to yourself, that is fine. If you don't think it is good, even better that you keep it to yourself.
I dont think it's good because I have high standards. I want to strive for "perfection" before ousting it to the world. Many software projects do exactly that: putting version.000001superA and then hoping some developer will do it for them. Go look at 4/5 of the projects on Sourceforge.
>>>However, I do believe the "tripe" that an musician who put a composition into open content (remember, attribution is not normally permitted to be removed as copyright is retained by the author) would gain by the ability to be "heard".
I have no poroblem of an author putting anything into Copyright-Royalty_free status. I have a probelm of people on slashdot demanding that darn near everything MUST be "open" or royalty-free, or some form of license of GPL.
>>>If you are good, being heard through your compositions is only going to improve your likelyhood of success. I will leave it as an excersise for the reader in the alternate case.
Actually, I prefer just to play. Being 1'st clarinet in a Symphony also tends to increase chances of being heard.
But realistically, I want to get about 10 jazz numbers before working on a large piece.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a Michael POST.
DO NOT post ANYTHING that he might disagree with! You will be mod-bommed to death.
Do NOT disagree that this tripe of "news" is actually news. He "KNOWS" it is.
Of course, he sits on his wittle seat with mods ready to go. The little turd thinks he's god. Oh well. Like I care.
I'll just lie and get more +5'es when I need it. You watch. Back up to 50 karma ready to troll you again.
I bet that ALL the cows that post on Slashdot will complain and stampede!!
seen on back of cowboy: "trample me" (Gary Larson, Far Side)
Mooooooo!
That's why there's usually 2 or 3 parties at EACH poll place.
And also, that's NOT a technological step. That's a human problem.
Of course, it's easily solved by capturing retinal (eyes, guys) images of EVERYBODY and then linking the retinas to MD5's (which the md5 is lonked to votes).
If that happpened, everybody would scream bloody murder, and rightly so.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I dont know why they'd implement a vote DB using Microsoft Abcess. Still, if they REALLY wanted to, they could implement this system.
1: DB exists with basic vote rules.
2: User walks up to votebox.
3: Person hired to do polls check idetity (so that they can legitly vote)- enables 1 session for user
4: The votes are tallied by unsigned long int incrementation counter for each "Politican". Be aware, the machine knows exactly what this user votes for.
5: An MD5sum is made for the whole vote session, along with printing the md5 and votes cast on 1 small piece of paper.
6: The MD5 checksum is stored in concurrent use of the data.
Some people may think there's a security hazard in step 3-5 as the poll worker can probably see what the MD5sum might be. That could be solved by saying to the user 'press any key at random. this is NOT part of the vote"
Just an idea.
Do I really HAVE to spell it out for you?
I'm a troll. That's a karma-whore'ish comment so I can continue to troll.
Or that's what I want you to believe.
I work for a small 8 person IT business in the town I live in. I'm computer help while I go back to college.
When I first started, I found out there's a bunch of clients (many medical), but when we install, we usually use simplistic passwords. Simplistic as in Roberts' wordlist. We dont even change them either. We also have a Winnt4 domain controller for our internal fileserver that simply shares 4 directories. ALL OF THEM HAVE GLOBAL +RWX ON EVERYBODY.
Even the shcool I go to has decent protections on their shares.
I much prefer my LIE on HERE. Lying on such a big thread guarantees you to be +4'ed or +5'ed without repurcussions.
That and nobody listens to anony-cowards. That means I'm safe to troll.
Heh, that was an old '98 troll. That's why it was -1'ed.
;-) Methinks it doesnt apply to xserve
Even the original complaint was using a 68k mac
Here's some more hints on how to troll.
1: People's browser preference also simulates religion. I started a heavy flamewar on an Opera 7.0 patch under the name "Josh Crawley".
2: Just plain LIE. If people want to know something and everybody's alking, claim to be the "specialist". It's a great way to get mod points quickly.
3: Come over as sensible, but flame more and more as posts go on. That idea is like a fly sticky trap. 1 draws in more, and more draw in more yet.
4: If you do Karma trolls or post repetitive things, have the last 30 replies DIFFERENT trolls so your history doesnt show anything.
5: Never claim to be a troll, as a user can link to it and ruin your moderation.
6: If you want to post nasty pics (goatse comes to mind), use a DYNdns-like account and point it towards goatse. Then when somebody says it's nasty, change it. If you want karma, have it "good", then change it to really nasty, then back to good when somebody complains.
7: Make sure to have multiple accounts to 'test' ideas. It's also goo to respond to your own threads so both get moderated up. NEVER choose name that sounds trollish. -1 immediately. Fake names are good.
8: Unless you know everybody will laugh, dont post funnies. Some mods enjoy -1'ing them for the hell of it.
EVERY moderator should be reading this post and the parent BEFORE moderating. It can save you from upping crap while taking a HEAVY M2 hit, and getting good posts out of 0, or 1 cesspool.
Micropayments in this system we have WILL NOT WORK. Instead, we need a Xanadu type system where everybody's contents are self-assesed and charged appropiately by the micropayment counter.
.001c - but it's something). If slash and related sites didnt have us users, they'd be a nothing. The best system is where high-quality posters should have free subscriptions, and lowish ones pay.
By then, if you're juat a consumer, you pay. However, if you actually give something back, you get too. Make enough content, and you make money. Pictre the Xanadu system as a cab fare the rapidly flings back and forth.
Even with micropayments/subscription, my content on Slashdot and tech related sites is worth money (probably
>>>First off, I'll just say that as an Xbox Live player I find the whole concept of integrated the general service (buddy list/matchmaking) into Xbox titles that have no other online component fascinating, and I certainly hope that it's implemented as well as they expect.
;-)
;-)
5$ bet that somebody'll make some statement saying "Linux will do better because....". Still, do they intend to do buddy/voice by an OSD overlay? Would'nt that be.. ugly? I'd expect to have a way to "kill" msn messanger (which is what I assume's on there).
>>>Second, here's a list of the topics I expect to be brought up here on Slashdot with relation to this article:
1. Online console gaming is a fad.
Yep, until they turn into moddable computers. Moddable as in adding all sorts of chars/levels/weapons/quests. Only the XBox has the capability because of the hard drive. The other 2 dont.
2. This is just another Microsoft ploy to find out if you've modded your Xbox.
No problem there. I can understand why they DON'T want cheaters. But it'll turn into a "We've got a better stealth modchip" war.
3. FreeBSD is dead. (yes, completely offtopic but almost inevitable).
Insert Goatse Pic
4. Microsoft is using this to gather information about offline gaming habits. (Maybe not a bad point!)
I've gotta let holes in my firewall for a reason. I dont ave an Xbox, but I'd sure demand to know what's going out of there before letting it "Live".
5. I would rather have a Gamecube which I can use in privacy and play Zelda and Metroid.
I'd prefer a computer. There's all present day computer games, along with older console games. I'd like to see a PSX go on the net.. OH WAIT! It can with EpsxE
>>>And my most eagerly anticipated topic?
6. Xbox needs more than one game before I'll buy it.
Most of what the XBox has is cookie-cutter formula games. Even Nintendo has the same problem. wow. A new metroid. In 3d. Soo innovative. I'm not saying they're bad, but just tired ideas.
Probably the best platform to date is either the SNES or PSX. Both had a multitude of games, many very crappy. But those gems (Snes: Tales of Phantasia, SOM series-for 3player, EVO...PSX: Bemani Games, Star Ocean2, Gundam Games, various RPGS)
There are in this X-BOX live stuff?
I figure there's those nifty wireless2wired bridges that DLink and company sells. Has anybody sniffed the servers, ports, and protocols?
I'd be interested in how data is sent to these servers (is it pke'ed with your serial along with a modchip scan?). Oh well, I dont even own an X-Box, but general computers made to cripple-terminals interest me.
Many spammers have found ways to profit from sending unsolicited e-mail without selling a single product, using a range of tactics from simple banner ads to outright deception and identity theft.
It has long been thought that spammers made money only because people bought the products advertised in e-mails, like pornography or weight-loss plans. Now antispam advocates are warning consumers against even replying to spam or going to sites advertised in e-mail, because it could put more money in spammers' pockets.
"I really don't believe [spam] is about selling things," said Joe St. Sauver, a director at the Computing Center at the University of Oregon, who has worked with the state attorney general to craft antispam legislation. "It'd be nice if that were true, but that's not the case anymore."
Online industry observers say many spammers make money as long as people visit their Web sites. In such cases, spammers get revenue from banner advertisements displayed on those sites. Web site operators receive a fee from the advertiser for every user that visits the site, and often use unsolicited e-mail ads to attract Web users there. The recipient of the e-mail does not need to register at the site or pay any money.
Some spammers also use banner ads on Web sites designed to allow people to opt out of future e-mails. For instance, a spammer may include in an e-mail a link titled "Click Here to Opt Out of Future E-mails." But most often the opt-out requests are not honored and spammers simply lure e-mail recipients there to collect banner ad revenue, Mr. St. Sauver and others said.
Spam is generally considered any unsolicited commercial e-mail. Most of it is either deceptive, pornographic, or both, and costs businesses billions of dollars a year in services and lost productivity.
Other ways spammers have profited from spam without selling any products include:
Offering e-mail recipients "free pornography" if they download a software program. The program often provides the pornography, but only after the user's computer dials a 1-900 number to an overseas location, racking up hundreds of dollars in phone charges.
"Pump and dump" stock schemes, in which a spammer sends e-mails touting a certain stock and encourages people to buy it. The stock's value goes up, and spammers sell it at a profit.
Accepting payment for an item without sending it. Spammers bet that someone buying Viagra or pills for the enlargement of body parts would be too embarrassed to call the police or Better Business Bureau.
It is not clear how much spammers profit from these tactics, but it is likely only a fraction of the millions of dollars they pull in each year, antispam advocates said.
Some observers of spam trends downplayed the severity of these tactics.
"We don't really think that's significant, to tell you the truth," said Sara Radicati, president of the Radicati Group, a consulting and research firm that tracks e-mail trends. "I doubt that spammers really get much money for it."
More troublesome, Ms. Radicati said, are the spammers who hijack consumers' identities using e-mail and phony Web sites in a effort to make money.
The Federal Trade Commission and the FBI in July issued a warning to consumers to look out for "phisher" sites, which are made to look like an official Web site from a company requesting personal information.
Typically, an e-mail user receives a message with a link to such a site, where he is asked to enter credit-card, social security and personal identification numbers. The FTC and FBI said that incidents with "phisher" sites are increasing, and that they settled a case with a teenager in Los Angeles who had gone on a shopping spree using stolen information.
Antispam groups advise against replying to any unsolicited commercial e-mail, or clicking on any links. They suggest deleting all e-mails or forwarding them to the FTC's spam database, at uce@ftc.gov.
POooo TAaang!!!
RIMshot
Heh, thanks.
;-) And I really hate those kind of idiots.
It's great to do a original USENET-style "don your radioactive fire control suit" flame.
It really releaves stress
>>>I think it would benefit the graphics designers if Photoshop for Linux was made Open Source.
Sheesh. You're the TRASH in the Linux community that we DESPISE! You're the type that wants every-fucking-thing to be FREE FREE FREE. HELL, you're mom aint free. She has the decency to CHARGE.
>>>The Open Source developer community would be able to enhance the offerings of the Adobe Team by adding new Gaussian blur filters, better fill methodologies, and Ogg Vorbis export functionality.
Yeah. "Developer comunity" MY ASS. More like, lets leach off of Adobe. MIGHT ACTUALLY BUILD 32 BIT COLOR IN GIMP.
>>>The Linux platforms is an untapped market for Adobe and by making Photoshop Open Source, not only would the community forgive them for the ElcomSoft lawsuit but would also create a new revenue stream by offering support and consulting for Linux adopters.
Untapped for a good reason. How could ADOBE fight the Awe-Inspiring power of THE GIMP (other than 20$ of 'investements')
>>>Only when we free the works of Milne from the clutches of depraved millionaires will we be able to entertain our children.
ONLY when we free YOUR life, will your scum-sucking trash-ridden pussy-depraved hippie-shit-fucking body NOT TORMENT US WITH "'n make it free for ALL of us".
>>>Which is nice.
You're a fucktard. Drink bleach and DIE.
Haha. Your brain just Oopsed.
Should've used GCC 2.95 instead of the 2.96 .
No wonder Novell quit saying they sold rights to SCO.
This whole situation is becoming a legal teergrube. Wonder what YEAR it will be resolved?
Andways, what happened to a law-suit that puts SCO as the code stealer? I figure that Linux is open sourced, and SCO's isn't. What happened to claim that SCO did it backwards?
So you do agree with the statement I said? I figure if the only errors you can find are simple grammatical errors, then you agree with the content.
After all, you even corrected my sentance. Seems you understood me.
Oh. I just thought another article said it took 2 Million to do the first level of cert, and went up from there. IIRC, it's about 9 million for EAL7 test as it has the NSA certify all the source, compiled binaries, default configuration, and configuability. The hardware is also certified the same way, so that the OS is joined to the exact brand of chip. And EAL7 takes about 1-3 years of rigorus testing.
EAL1 = "Whats a computer?" user tested
EAL2 = "What's this button do?" user tested
EAL3 = "What's this linux thingy?" user
EAL4 = "Script kiddie tested, hacker approved"
EAL5 = "Woah, it has NMAP!" user tested
EAL6 = "Cool! I just transffered 2e6$ to my swiss acct" user tested
EAL7 = "The black hat's are pissed" system secure
Hey, you really cant go wrong with a open source, GPL'ed operating system where drivers are wrote by guys from NASA (Thanks Mr. Becker), and your security ACL's are wrote by the Spooks (heh, thanks NoSuchAgency ;-).
It REALLY beats closed source OS'es (for govt's) as even our own MS of America wont let us see the code because it's "dangerous". However showing the Chinese is A-OK.
Gotta makes you think: what would our gov't choose if they didnt have their hand in MS'es pocket?
And if it was H2O.99999973 , we'd know what CPU they used to count it with....
>>>Actually, I do believe "this tripe".
.000001superA and then hoping some developer will do it for them. Go look at 4/5 of the projects on Sourceforge.
I'm reffering the lingering "Make Content all free" mentality. I have no problem with free things, but understand if somebody wants something for their work.
>>>I make a decent living putting my foot into the doors of companies by providing inexpensive solutions up front. Over time I have built up a respectable customer base who come back to me for improvements and the like.
A very respectable job, as I do the same thing. Sad that I still cannot get rid of Exchange. Other than proprietary servers that only run on windows (certain cash programs and the like), putting in FreeBSD and Linux are easy to work with. One thing I do is stress multiple machines taking care of the load, even on medium sized networks. Tossing 1 server that takes care of it all is quite nasty when it backfires(fs crash, some random dll gets mangled).
>>>I also contribute to open source and make a bit of my living by installing, configuring and customizing it.
That's exactly where the money in Open Source is. Any user can run a "Server", but can they secure it, configure it properly, and create a backup mechanism to have high uptime? Usually, no. That's where we come in.
>>>So if you write your own music and wish to keep it to yourself, that is fine. If you don't think it is good, even better that you keep it to yourself.
I dont think it's good because I have high standards. I want to strive for "perfection" before ousting it to the world. Many software projects do exactly that: putting version
>>>However, I do believe the "tripe" that an musician who put a composition into open content (remember, attribution is not normally permitted to be removed as copyright is retained by the author) would gain by the ability to be "heard".
I have no poroblem of an author putting anything into Copyright-Royalty_free status. I have a probelm of people on slashdot demanding that darn near everything MUST be "open" or royalty-free, or some form of license of GPL.
>>>If you are good, being heard through your compositions is only going to improve your likelyhood of success. I will leave it as an excersise for the reader in the alternate case.
Actually, I prefer just to play. Being 1'st clarinet in a Symphony also tends to increase chances of being heard.
But realistically, I want to get about 10 jazz numbers before working on a large piece.