Never attribute to malice (or paranoia) that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. There is no way the USA can stay on top for long, when even the "bright" people in the USA are brutally stupid.
You must be new here. We are geeks. We don't "find" porn mags. We spank the monkey to porn we downloaded off the net man. Don't try to pretend you belong here, we can all tell.
This is about being able to get that data in the future too. The government knows that if they want the telcos to just hand over your info in the future, they have to make sure the telcos past actions don't cost them in court. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the only way to be sure it doesn't happen again is to make sure it costs those bastards a boat load of cash, which no longer seems likely. Some "get pounded in the ass" prison time would help too, for the CEO types who had to sign off on this bullshit, but that is even less likely. The US doesn't have much in common with the Constitution anymore.
You are the one missing the point. How many commercial software venders have gone out of business and taken their entire code base off the cliff with them ? If you run your own business, (or worse, someone elses) why would you put your business in the hands of a company, that if it have some financial trouble, leaves you with no recourse whatsoever. At least with open source others have the right to pick up development, and even if no one does, you have the right to do so yourself.
Kodak here I come. I'm tired of large corparations taking advantage of the flock because we ACT like sheep. Put HP printers out of business until they get the message. I believe I read (maybe here) that HP printer cartriges had a chip on them that would report to the computer that they were out of ink, when in fact they were not, to get you to buy another over priced cartrige. Hurt them where it counts, or they will never change.
I've been buying canon printers, and canon ink (rather than slightly cheaper 3rd party ink) to try to reward them for not gouging me on the ink. I'll look into kodak next time I need a printer. Now if they have native linux drivers, Kodak would be a done deal.
They won't change until we hurt them where it counts. Next time you buy a none HP printer, email them to tell them why you won't buy their stuff anymore.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/feedbac k.do;jsessionid=GxCTB6m1p2fJcoG63U7U0P1YV8VQVD3QNP 177At6udUrxCMjeG6K!711870732
They are alreading doing this. Charging for it even. Some duffus stuck a gun on a motorized tripod sort of deal, added networking, and started to sell time for it over the net. I believe whatever state he was in (in the USA) passed a law. I had thought it was Texas, but now that I think on it, I don't believe Texas would have passed a law against it, must have been Montana or Wyoming.
has ever edited a.doc on their phone ? Is there some secret sub-class of ubber biz user who works on biz docs on his phone ? I'm a geek and I've never even thought of it. Porn, well, ya. Work on that merger ? No.
I used Mandriva 3 years ago, and some since. Ubuntu got quite a few things right, with ease, that I couldn't find a way to do in Mandriva, even given the large amount of time I spent on those tasks back then. Installing Ecipse and Java for one, were a real pain in the ass. Ubuntu, it was a 3 minute job. I like Mandriva, and I think it was great for it's time, (back when I used it daily), but I've reached the point I want to work with my system and not work on it. Ubuntu gets so much right hassle free that no other distro I've tried comes close. And the community is willing to help newbies without yelling RTFM. Throw in it's debian (read apt) based instead of rpm based (bad bad memories from my red hat trial years ago), and I have a clear choice. It's not for everyone, but it is for me.
They "victim" is choosing to broadcast radio waves. Loudly. Past the boundaries of his property, taking no precautions. Not encrypted, no filtering for ip address or mac address. It is in no way different than having him playing his radio too loud, and then complaining that his neighbors are listening. Except clueless cops charge someone for listening to his unencrypted unlocked radio when he doesn't want them to. The victim is a lazy incompetent jackass.
Dell sold my ex's Mother a P4 with 128MB of ram and Windows XP installed. It ran far slower than my old pentium 100Hz with 32MB of ram running Windows 95. You know for a fact Dell will pull the same shit with Linux, but many of those people will have no idea they forked over good cash for a crippled system, so Dell could save 40 bucks. They will blame it on Linux, which does us no favors. Just ask them to stick to selling crippled WINDOWS systems. Please.
My (unasked for) advice seems fitting for the story at hand. Try Kubuntu. Fedora choked on my wireless card too, but Kubuntu just handled it, no kung fu required. At least pop in the live cd and see if it works. I bet it "just works".
Try comparing apples with apples. He stole from no one, and hasn't even been accused of causing anyone, adult or child, harm. In all likelihood he has saved at least dozens of children from being molested. He didn't even harass the viewers of that child porn. He targeted the PRODUCERS of it. People who actively seek out children to harm. And you think you should complain about HOW he did it ? When he hurt no one and stole nothing ? There is no doubt he has done far more good than harm, at least from the point of view of the kids he's saved from being molested. People actively trying to download child porn have no expectation of privacy, nor should they.
I know it's a tradition to post comments without taking the time to RTFA, but it clearly says that the perp or target only thought they were downloading an image, but in fact any displayed image came from their own hard drive.
As for worrying about their privacy, this kid is not a cop, so if he violated your privacy by poking around looking for child porn please fell free to take him to civil court. I would rather have the police spend some time trying to find the people making the child porn, rather than harass a white knight in a black hat. Some things are worth spending time and money on, some aren't. Good judgement is knowing the difference. It's hard enough to get the police to go after stolen laptops when gifted with the ip address of the thief, don't ask them to waste their time and money trying to make a point against a lonely kid doing some good. More good than you've done in the last few years, I'm willing to bet.
They vote their wallets too, the problem is figuring out what corporation is stuffing that particular politicians's wallet on that election cycle. Then figuring out which corporation most closely matches your own beliefs. Best of luck with that.
Please tell me this isn't MicroSofts plan.
1. Pump up SuSE
2. Sue all comercial Linux distro's for software patents, EXCEPT Novell.
3. Buy Novell.
4. Take over the world.
5. Profit!!!, well, profit some more.
Maybe do step 3 before 2, but I don't really think it would matter.
Costa Rica. They don't hate Americans. You can drink the water (if you were wondering).Great weather. No army. Easy immigration. Democracy. Universal health care. I'm leaving because I was arrested and held in jail for 2 days for not having my dogs licensed in a town they didn't live in. Yes, you read that right. I had already been convicted of not having my dogs licensed, with no notice even of any infraction, much less a trial. Had no right to appear before a judge, or even call a lawyer. That's for people who haven't already been convicted. Welcome to the law for and by bored small town cops. Northern Wisconsin, for any who were wondering.
Cryptonomicon is amazing. There isn't something wrong with you, there must be many things wrong with you. Snow Crash is good too, and well, it does go a little down hill after those two, but not by much. Cryptonomicon is Art, the rest is just a damn good read, which is good enough for me. 90% of fantasy or sci-fi is unreadable. ALL of Stephenson's stuff is readable. And you really have to love any publisher or editor who let him go on and on for 3 pages on Tom Howard's letter to penthouse, the captain crunch bit or the charts and equations of Waterhouses code breaking effectiveness (and the reasons for it.:>)). They had to take a bit of a risk there, and I think it worked out for them. He includes real perl code for a crypto system in the book, you can't get more geek than that. I had heard of linux before I read Cryptonomicon, but he really sparked my interest in it, AND it's damn funny. Ok...enough sales for today......
Please don't mod me OT for this, the record needed to be set straight.
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to have the NSA and FBI investigate you to find out why you have something to hide.
Never attribute to malice (or paranoia) that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. There is no way the USA can stay on top for long, when even the "bright" people in the USA are brutally stupid.
You must be new here. We are geeks. We don't "find" porn mags. We spank the monkey to porn we downloaded off the net man. Don't try to pretend you belong here, we can all tell.
This is about being able to get that data in the future too. The government knows that if they want the telcos to just hand over your info in the future, they have to make sure the telcos past actions don't cost them in court. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the only way to be sure it doesn't happen again is to make sure it costs those bastards a boat load of cash, which no longer seems likely. Some "get pounded in the ass" prison time would help too, for the CEO types who had to sign off on this bullshit, but that is even less likely. The US doesn't have much in common with the Constitution anymore.
You are the one missing the point. How many commercial software venders have gone out of business and taken their entire code base off the cliff with them ? If you run your own business, (or worse, someone elses) why would you put your business in the hands of a company, that if it have some financial trouble, leaves you with no recourse whatsoever. At least with open source others have the right to pick up development, and even if no one does, you have the right to do so yourself.
Hi, thought I read that here on /. Here it is.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/22 24223
Have fun....
David
Kodak here I come. I'm tired of large corparations taking advantage of the flock because we ACT like sheep. Put HP printers out of business until they get the message. I believe I read (maybe here) that HP printer cartriges had a chip on them that would report to the computer that they were out of ink, when in fact they were not, to get you to buy another over priced cartrige. Hurt them where it counts, or they will never change. I've been buying canon printers, and canon ink (rather than slightly cheaper 3rd party ink) to try to reward them for not gouging me on the ink. I'll look into kodak next time I need a printer. Now if they have native linux drivers, Kodak would be a done deal. They won't change until we hurt them where it counts. Next time you buy a none HP printer, email them to tell them why you won't buy their stuff anymore. http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/feedbac k.do;jsessionid=GxCTB6m1p2fJcoG63U7U0P1YV8VQVD3QNP 177At6udUrxCMjeG6K!711870732
They are alreading doing this. Charging for it even. Some duffus stuck a gun on a motorized tripod sort of deal, added networking, and started to sell time for it over the net. I believe whatever state he was in (in the USA) passed a law. I had thought it was Texas, but now that I think on it, I don't believe Texas would have passed a law against it, must have been Montana or Wyoming.
has ever edited a .doc on their phone ? Is there some secret sub-class of ubber biz user who works on biz docs on his phone ? I'm a geek and I've never even thought of it. Porn, well, ya. Work on that merger ? No.
I used Mandriva 3 years ago, and some since. Ubuntu got quite a few things right, with ease, that I couldn't find a way to do in Mandriva, even given the large amount of time I spent on those tasks back then. Installing Ecipse and Java for one, were a real pain in the ass. Ubuntu, it was a 3 minute job. I like Mandriva, and I think it was great for it's time, (back when I used it daily), but I've reached the point I want to work with my system and not work on it. Ubuntu gets so much right hassle free that no other distro I've tried comes close. And the community is willing to help newbies without yelling RTFM. Throw in it's debian (read apt) based instead of rpm based (bad bad memories from my red hat trial years ago), and I have a clear choice. It's not for everyone, but it is for me.
This bunch just doesn't learn.
They "victim" is choosing to broadcast radio waves. Loudly. Past the boundaries of his property, taking no precautions. Not encrypted, no filtering for ip address or mac address. It is in no way different than having him playing his radio too loud, and then complaining that his neighbors are listening. Except clueless cops charge someone for listening to his unencrypted unlocked radio when he doesn't want them to. The victim is a lazy incompetent jackass.
future based. Are you new here ? A long time ago......
Dell sold my ex's Mother a P4 with 128MB of ram and Windows XP installed. It ran far slower than my old pentium 100Hz with 32MB of ram running Windows 95. You know for a fact Dell will pull the same shit with Linux, but many of those people will have no idea they forked over good cash for a crippled system, so Dell could save 40 bucks. They will blame it on Linux, which does us no favors. Just ask them to stick to selling crippled WINDOWS systems. Please.
My (unasked for) advice seems fitting for the story at hand. Try Kubuntu. Fedora choked on my wireless card too, but Kubuntu just handled it, no kung fu required. At least pop in the live cd and see if it works. I bet it "just works".
Good luck....
David
The beagle is portable too...
Try comparing apples with apples. He stole from no one, and hasn't even been accused of causing anyone, adult or child, harm. In all likelihood he has saved at least dozens of children from being molested. He didn't even harass the viewers of that child porn. He targeted the PRODUCERS of it. People who actively seek out children to harm. And you think you should complain about HOW he did it ? When he hurt no one and stole nothing ? There is no doubt he has done far more good than harm, at least from the point of view of the kids he's saved from being molested. People actively trying to download child porn have no expectation of privacy, nor should they.
I know it's a tradition to post comments without taking the time to RTFA, but it clearly says that the perp or target only thought they were downloading an image, but in fact any displayed image came from their own hard drive. As for worrying about their privacy, this kid is not a cop, so if he violated your privacy by poking around looking for child porn please fell free to take him to civil court. I would rather have the police spend some time trying to find the people making the child porn, rather than harass a white knight in a black hat. Some things are worth spending time and money on, some aren't. Good judgement is knowing the difference. It's hard enough to get the police to go after stolen laptops when gifted with the ip address of the thief, don't ask them to waste their time and money trying to make a point against a lonely kid doing some good. More good than you've done in the last few years, I'm willing to bet.
You must be new here.....
They vote their wallets too, the problem is figuring out what corporation is stuffing that particular politicians's wallet on that election cycle. Then figuring out which corporation most closely matches your own beliefs. Best of luck with that.
Please tell me this isn't MicroSofts plan. 1. Pump up SuSE 2. Sue all comercial Linux distro's for software patents, EXCEPT Novell. 3. Buy Novell. 4. Take over the world. 5. Profit!!!, well, profit some more. Maybe do step 3 before 2, but I don't really think it would matter.
Costa Rica. They don't hate Americans. You can drink the water (if you were wondering).Great weather. No army. Easy immigration. Democracy. Universal health care. I'm leaving because I was arrested and held in jail for 2 days for not having my dogs licensed in a town they didn't live in. Yes, you read that right. I had already been convicted of not having my dogs licensed, with no notice even of any infraction, much less a trial. Had no right to appear before a judge, or even call a lawyer. That's for people who haven't already been convicted. Welcome to the law for and by bored small town cops. Northern Wisconsin, for any who were wondering.
He says that he used silver because it was easiest with the equipment he had.
Don't like it ? Vote with your wallet, don't buy one.
Cryptonomicon is amazing. There isn't something wrong with you, there must be many things wrong with you. Snow Crash is good too, and well, it does go a little down hill after those two, but not by much. Cryptonomicon is Art, the rest is just a damn good read, which is good enough for me. 90% of fantasy or sci-fi is unreadable. ALL of Stephenson's stuff is readable. And you really have to love any publisher or editor who let him go on and on for 3 pages on Tom Howard's letter to penthouse, the captain crunch bit or the charts and equations of Waterhouses code breaking effectiveness (and the reasons for it. :>)). They had to take a bit of a risk there, and I think it worked out for them. He includes real perl code for a crypto system in the book, you can't get more geek than that. I had heard of linux before I read Cryptonomicon, but he really sparked my interest in it, AND it's damn funny. Ok...enough sales for today......
Please don't mod me OT for this, the record needed to be set straight.