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It's not anti-American, it's getting to be a fact. Gay-bashers will often say that they live in an open-minded country and in the same breath call someone with a different sexual orientation a fag.
While your idea is intriguing, please try to stay away from the generating of social security numbers. If you happen to "generate" *MY* social security number, I will be very upset and have to make you mysteriously disappear to the bottom of Lake Superior.
In all seriousness, I'd kinda... stay away from that. There's a better chance that credit card numbers will not exist than social security numbers, probability-wise. Or am I wrong?
You know I meant relay the actual transfers, right? Like if someone was legally downloading a song by an indie band through P2P, one of the P2P network's servers would act as a go-between between the two IPs. So rather than seeing the other person's IP, both sides would see the server's IP. It would cause latency/lag, but what the hell...
One of my friends cannot even stand to sit through any kind of event with any religious overtones as it "freaks her out" too much.
One day, you should go to a church and just listen to the people. Follow along, maybe, but just listen, and try to see it from the perspective of someone who maybe isn't so religious.
Seriously, I'm not that religious. In fact, when I went to a church and didn't know the words, I listened to everyone else and one of the first things that came to mind was that they sounded like a friggin' cult. It freaked me out, too. I'm starting to call it "church voice" because it sounds exactly the same, no matter what church you go to (which is interesting to say the least).
If a P2P provider can get servers to relay data transfers without logging anything, and the P2P provider can prove that the servers are relay only, no storage or logging, then that defeats netstat and similar attempts, unless the RIAA hacks the server (in which case the P2P provider can actually bring a lawsuit against the RIAA for hacking/illegal access of computers).
A P2P network without usernames would also make it harder to trace someone, unless they stupidly left a handle or some other information in their shared directory.
Add in some encryption, and there you go. I'm not entirely sure about the legality of these measures, however...
Watch me get modded down for the sole reason that I like Gentoo and am sticking up for it. It seems to be the current Slashdot trend to stick by Microsoft, too, so I have no idea what's going on anymore.
First off, God, I love how you Gentoo-haters go on about "oh, it's not such a performance increase". While you're probably right, I tend to think it's doing something good for my system, an AMD Athlon 500 with 128 MB of RAM. Oh, and guess what? It only took a couple days of compilation. One weekend, basically. And you're complaining of it taking longer on your 2.6 GHz processor? Are you using a Celeron?;) Anything runs at a pretty decent speed, actually, though I will be needing a new computer (the time keeps going off by a few hours, I think the battery is beginning to die).
"But... but.. the Gentoo evangelists are so elitist!" Are you seriously seeing a different community than I am? Granted, I haven't looked at the boards in a while, but I haven't seen any leetspeakers or arrogant assholes there. I am seeing quite a bit of that here, though. It also seems that a lot of the Gentoo haters use *gasp* Debian, another source-based distro (if I'm not mistaken). If they were companies in competition, I'd say Debian's got a lot to lose -- I've heard that their branches are really getting long in the tooth. I've also heard that their communities are quite elitist, but to be fair, I haven't been there myself. Debian may die. I know of few people who use it, but I know the people who do use it are kicking and screaming and denying that Debian is growing old. (By the way, I'm getting modded down for saying things about Debian, the average elitist Slashdotter's favorite distro)
All that said, the graphical installer for Gentoo is a good idea. If hardware could be autodetected and used correctly (by *ANY* distribution, not necessarily just Gentoo), it'd be even better. As it stands, there does need to be an easier way. One of the least favorite steps of the installation with me was changing the root password so I could use another terminal to read the install guide as I put in the instructions. Nowadays, I think I can do it blind, but I've never tried. That's how good portage is to me. I can type emerge -u world and know that nearly everything I've ever installed is being updated without me having to check in on it every second. My only problem with it being that sometimes it emerges stuff I *really* don't need (for example, it decided I needed gstreamer when there was no USE flag that specified it, so it was probably required by the new GNOME or something).
My speed problems are related to my computer being old. C'mon, an AMD Athlon 500? Whenever I can save up enough money, I'm going to try and get one of those yummy little Sager NP4750's (an AMD64 laptop), which I will run Linux on almost exclusively (I'll keep Windows around for the few applications that Wine can't take care of;))
Slashdot trends are truly bizarre. One second they're all Linux/BSD advocates, the next they're Windows users flaming all the *NIX users for being slashbots. It's just weird how they can be pro-Microsoft and against DRM.
Oh, and watch me get flamed and my karma obliterated by the same people.
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Why are you posting this anonymously? That might tell you something up front as most of us have an innate sense of right and wrong and have no problem posting in the clear.
Well, not necessarily; it just means that "most of us" share the same opinion, and anyone who differs will probably have to protect themselves from being modded down as overrated (ugh), troll, or flamebait.
Someone once said to me that Linux wouldn't be anything other than a server OS because it was "meant to be" a server OS.
I would have corrected him, since Linux is actually a hobbyist/multi-purpose OS, but he's kind of a stubborn ass.
Anyway...
Linux is not an alternative for Joe Schmoe who wouldn't know the difference between a floppy disk and a hard drive, as you can see from the numbers noone uses it at all, i'll just call that 3% a statistical abberation.
I disagree. For Joe Schmoe, Mandrake would be a good choice, and nearly every Linux distro has support for nearly every piece of hardware you can think of save for things like winmodems (which can't be helped too easily), and not many people use dialup anymore...
And why would that 3% be a statistical aberration? Just because it's Linux?
A search for "cable" on Yahoo! and a search for "cable" on Google both return results with sponsors' links, but Yahoo! puts their sponsor links intrusively before their results as well as on the right, in contrast to Google, who merely puts them on the right. Most people I know wouldn't notice; advertisements in a vertical box at the right side of the screen (ESPECIALLY the way Google does it) seem a lot less intrusive to me than a horizontal at the top or somesuch.
No flaming me for this, but exactly how many non-obscure webcams work on Linux? Just for kicks, include cameras that use chipsets/whatever from other cameras.
I don't really know of any, so this is out of curiosity, too. But besides the finding of a webcam, is there a standard interface to get images/video from it, too?
Disclaimer: I am an avid Linux user who doesn't own a webcam.
In one instance, I'm glad that they're keeping people employed by using the good old-fashioned guard. And human interpretation is usually much better than a machine trying to perform a simple task and alarm if their criteria for someone breaking in is met.
However, at the same time, there's always the human weakness in a given security system. If someone were able to pose as a fellow security guard, museum archivist, or anyone higher-up than the security guard, they could still get access to the painting through the guard. Of course, this depends on how smart the guard is (and the procedures of the museum), but it could probably work.
As Kevin Mitnick has shown, humans can be a great weakness to a security system as well as a great strength. The only real exception here is that it's in the real world with a museum rather than through the internet/modem lines with a corporation (or a security expert's laptop)
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Not to mention all the sales they'll be losing.
MOD PARENT UP: this is the reason I read at 0. It's not anti-American, it's getting to be a fact. Gay-bashers will often say that they live in an open-minded country and in the same breath call someone with a different sexual orientation a fag.
Oh no you di'int! I know you di'int!
While your idea is intriguing, please try to stay away from the generating of social security numbers. If you happen to "generate" *MY* social security number, I will be very upset and have to make you mysteriously disappear to the bottom of Lake Superior.
In all seriousness, I'd kinda... stay away from that. There's a better chance that credit card numbers will not exist than social security numbers, probability-wise. Or am I wrong?
You know I meant relay the actual transfers, right? Like if someone was legally downloading a song by an indie band through P2P, one of the P2P network's servers would act as a go-between between the two IPs. So rather than seeing the other person's IP, both sides would see the server's IP. It would cause latency/lag, but what the hell...
Seriously, I'm not that religious. In fact, when I went to a church and didn't know the words, I listened to everyone else and one of the first things that came to mind was that they sounded like a friggin' cult. It freaked me out, too. I'm starting to call it "church voice" because it sounds exactly the same, no matter what church you go to (which is interesting to say the least).
If a P2P provider can get servers to relay data transfers without logging anything, and the P2P provider can prove that the servers are relay only, no storage or logging, then that defeats netstat and similar attempts, unless the RIAA hacks the server (in which case the P2P provider can actually bring a lawsuit against the RIAA for hacking/illegal access of computers).
A P2P network without usernames would also make it harder to trace someone, unless they stupidly left a handle or some other information in their shared directory.
Add in some encryption, and there you go. I'm not entirely sure about the legality of these measures, however...
Watch me get modded down for the sole reason that I like Gentoo and am sticking up for it. It seems to be the current Slashdot trend to stick by Microsoft, too, so I have no idea what's going on anymore.
;) Anything runs at a pretty decent speed, actually, though I will be needing a new computer (the time keeps going off by a few hours, I think the battery is beginning to die).
;))
First off, God, I love how you Gentoo-haters go on about "oh, it's not such a performance increase". While you're probably right, I tend to think it's doing something good for my system, an AMD Athlon 500 with 128 MB of RAM. Oh, and guess what? It only took a couple days of compilation. One weekend, basically. And you're complaining of it taking longer on your 2.6 GHz processor? Are you using a Celeron?
"But... but.. the Gentoo evangelists are so elitist!" Are you seriously seeing a different community than I am? Granted, I haven't looked at the boards in a while, but I haven't seen any leetspeakers or arrogant assholes there. I am seeing quite a bit of that here, though. It also seems that a lot of the Gentoo haters use *gasp* Debian, another source-based distro (if I'm not mistaken). If they were companies in competition, I'd say Debian's got a lot to lose -- I've heard that their branches are really getting long in the tooth. I've also heard that their communities are quite elitist, but to be fair, I haven't been there myself. Debian may die. I know of few people who use it, but I know the people who do use it are kicking and screaming and denying that Debian is growing old. (By the way, I'm getting modded down for saying things about Debian, the average elitist Slashdotter's favorite distro)
All that said, the graphical installer for Gentoo is a good idea. If hardware could be autodetected and used correctly (by *ANY* distribution, not necessarily just Gentoo), it'd be even better. As it stands, there does need to be an easier way. One of the least favorite steps of the installation with me was changing the root password so I could use another terminal to read the install guide as I put in the instructions. Nowadays, I think I can do it blind, but I've never tried. That's how good portage is to me. I can type emerge -u world and know that nearly everything I've ever installed is being updated without me having to check in on it every second. My only problem with it being that sometimes it emerges stuff I *really* don't need (for example, it decided I needed gstreamer when there was no USE flag that specified it, so it was probably required by the new GNOME or something).
My speed problems are related to my computer being old. C'mon, an AMD Athlon 500? Whenever I can save up enough money, I'm going to try and get one of those yummy little Sager NP4750's (an AMD64 laptop), which I will run Linux on almost exclusively (I'll keep Windows around for the few applications that Wine can't take care of
Flame and mod-down away, men!
It started four years ago, started in earnest two years ago, and she's suing him now.
If she was so confused and hurt, why didn't she just tell someone?
I mean, call me an insensitive clod, but someone had to have known about it..!
Slashdot trends are truly bizarre. One second they're all Linux/BSD advocates, the next they're Windows users flaming all the *NIX users for being slashbots. It's just weird how they can be pro-Microsoft and against DRM.
Oh, and watch me get flamed and my karma obliterated by the same people.
Xbox, anyone?
Off-topic, but that RFC is totally retarded. Was it written as a joke?
Care to explain?
Cross-compilation?
I would have corrected him, since Linux is actually a hobbyist/multi-purpose OS, but he's kind of a stubborn ass.
Anyway...
I disagree. For Joe Schmoe, Mandrake would be a good choice, and nearly every Linux distro has support for nearly every piece of hardware you can think of save for things like winmodems (which can't be helped too easily), and not many people use dialup anymore...
And why would that 3% be a statistical aberration? Just because it's Linux?
You serious?
A search for "cable" on Yahoo! and a search for "cable" on Google both return results with sponsors' links, but Yahoo! puts their sponsor links intrusively before their results as well as on the right, in contrast to Google, who merely puts them on the right. Most people I know wouldn't notice; advertisements in a vertical box at the right side of the screen (ESPECIALLY the way Google does it) seem a lot less intrusive to me than a horizontal at the top or somesuch.
No flaming me for this, but exactly how many non-obscure webcams work on Linux? Just for kicks, include cameras that use chipsets/whatever from other cameras.
I don't really know of any, so this is out of curiosity, too. But besides the finding of a webcam, is there a standard interface to get images/video from it, too?
Disclaimer: I am an avid Linux user who doesn't own a webcam.
In one instance, I'm glad that they're keeping people employed by using the good old-fashioned guard. And human interpretation is usually much better than a machine trying to perform a simple task and alarm if their criteria for someone breaking in is met.
:)
However, at the same time, there's always the human weakness in a given security system. If someone were able to pose as a fellow security guard, museum archivist, or anyone higher-up than the security guard, they could still get access to the painting through the guard. Of course, this depends on how smart the guard is (and the procedures of the museum), but it could probably work.
As Kevin Mitnick has shown, humans can be a great weakness to a security system as well as a great strength. The only real exception here is that it's in the real world with a museum rather than through the internet/modem lines with a corporation (or a security expert's laptop)
But that's just my opinion.
Unless of course you're writing the program in VB. ;)
Or do both, or actually *gasp* use efficient code.