I know they are a huge company...but I really don't see how they can afford to keep losing money like they do. A few billion to Sun here, millions to BeOS here, $440 million for some patents, losing millions on X-Box, millions in lawsuits and fines, funding SCO, etc. It seems that eventually they'd run low on cash to throw away on stupid crap...but I've never had billions of dollars so I guess I wouldn't know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like he simply tweaked his browser settings a tad and got in, no cracking(I.E. A cracking program, overflow attack, etc.) involved. To me this is the NY-Times' fault more than anyone. Lamo doesn't have the skills or knowledge to actually crack a system...he trolls for people that don't know how to configure there settings properly. And it's not like the sites he gets into are small personal sites. MSN, NYTimes, etc..should all be ashamed that someone who has no real knowledge of how a computer network operates can get in that easy. Of course what he did was wrong, similar to entering an unlocked store at night, but the NYTimes is just as much at fault for either having a braindead security team, or not funding security appropriately.
Apparently you've not been introduced to the joys of autoerotic-asphyxiation...even had a cousin die from this one. Plus people have hurt themselves stimulating their prostates with wierd items.
ESR bashes 'his' community this time, in another brain-dead rant. Yes most OpenSource products are a little more archaic to use than point and click...but there are already some solutions such as Xandros and Lindows...also most home users don't need to deal with configuration scripts or advanced features, and the simple stuff(Normal network printing, internet browsing, viewing movies, etc) are usually just as easy as Windows. But thinking things through isn't one of ESR's strong points.
Like this will help anyone learn to actually program. Wow, I can make a webpage that has dancing bunnies, I'm l337! Anywho, I don't see how this could be useful to anyone, except maybe to help a Joe SixPack user learn a bit about how things work. If anyone is starting programming maybe try: normal java, python, C++, etc. and try to learn what a data structure is before learning about event driven programming.
Here has most of the answers you seek. It opens up a port to allow someone to hijack the system, and if the date on the system is Feb. 1 then it attacks. So it is possible SCO could recieve a few attacks from people with their dates wrong.
We all know that these are tech jobs they're outsourcing, and most people on Slashdot is in the tech industry, so to say that outsourcing is okay is just inviting a flame war.
It's great that they have jobs over in India, but I'd rather them stay here and keep our society functioning as best as possible. Isn't this why we started tariffs and such? Shouldn't something similar be applied to outsourcing? If we automate away and outsource all the lower level jobs, then the economy will bust, since noone but higher up management and lawyers will have any money to keep buying products.
XP has to emulate about half the stuff since they moved over to the NT lineage after ME. So yeah an emulator will usually run slower than the real thing. As far as GPL having too many features try Gentoo from stage 1, you can customize what you do and do not want every step of the way. Linus works on the kernel which just handles hardware, memory management, etc. So the kernel hackers aren't responsible for monsters like xfree86.
So if my name is Joseph Randal Rudolph Tolkein, I'm a living breathing trademark violation? How can someone's name be a trademark? It's like those prisoners who trademarked their names, and sued the courts later for using it in legal documents. Guess what? That didn't hold up in court, so why should this? Can I trademark "Anonymous Coward" and sue Slashdot for the billion+ uses of it? No! If I was a big corporation that made a movie called "Anonymous Coward" could I do it then?
And I'm assuming "jrrtolkien.com" wasn't a trademark but maybe "JRR Tolkien" was, but the site never used that phrase. Microsoft owns the trademark for "NT" but they can't go around suing people who use the word 'rant' because it contains their trademark. It sets a horrible precident for corporations to start suing for trademark violations based on more frivolous logic.
Although squatting is sleazy, I don't see why it's illegal. If there are magic reserved names that the general public can't buy then don't sell them in the first place. The guy bought it before JRR Tolkien estates, and made no reference to JRR Tolkien or LoTR so no trademark infringement occured. For all they know he could have thought it sounded like a l337 name for a porn site. So the lesson learned is that corporations have control over you no matter where you live, thanks to the U.N. and WIPO. It's just another example of a company saying they own something that they don't.
Microsoft won a cybersquatting case against Penguins Incorporated, a Canadian-based operator which registered microsoft.com and linked it to its pro-Linux.
Then everyone would be in an uproar, but simply replacing the proper nouns can make a story good or evil on Slashdot.
No, dubbing actually takes some work to make it go properly(Look at old kung-fu movies). In Japan they actually have professional 'seiyuu' that are paid respectable amounts to do the voices. In the US they probably never 'hired' voice actors, and just used people at the company. My arguement is that they cut corners in the localization since they assumed it wouldn't sell or would get negative publicity.
Xenogears the orginal for PSone almost didn't make it to the states, and when it finally did it had 'horrid' voice acting, all due to it's religious overtones. Even as far back as Lunar 2 for Sega CD they changed the warp pads from pentagrams to Star Trek symbols so as not to offend over here. I don't think Pretty Fighter X ever made it over either, due to strong sexual content. This is nothing new...and it will continue to happen until people wake up and realize they are just games.
As I said that's when I was a kid! In the past, when I was 15. I went out a hell of a lot when I was older, got married, went to college and all that other fun stuff. I guess I'd have to read slashdot just to put others down and push open source porn programs to have a life by your definition.
Bah, when I was a kid I'd put blankets around my door frame so my parents wouldn't see the light from my computer at night. Then at 6 the next morning I'd casually walk past the bus stop and wait till my parents went to work, go back home, call myself in sick and then get back to playing nethack or doom. The thing you gotta worry about is when they come home early...that can get messy. Honestly, I missed over 30 school days one semester of high school doing this, and still managed B's. There is no negative side to being on the computer 24/7 except terrible bleary eye.
No mom I was thinking about buying a goat...I came across this site by accident...I don't know how goat_sex.mpeg got on the desktop...it must have been a virus
Block anything that comes in that contains japan and porn, hentai, or doujinshi. It'll save your kid alot of nightmares from having to see things with titles like "DickGirl Extreme: Scat Edition".
I know the point of ask Slashdot is to make fun of the person asking the question but come on. Simple...log where they are going or set up some advanced Snort rules on a firewall box to alert you whenever keywords come through. But seriously I've been looking at internet pr0n since I was 11, way back in the day(About 1993), it doesn't hurt much just make sure they aren't planning on meeting someone they met in a chat room named SugarDaddy35 and it'll be fine.
Umm...most of those are met already. Let's see, I've been running Redhat 7.3 for about 3 years now. In that time I've added a second video card and replaced my sound card. Kudza takes care of it when you boot with the hardware. The only configuring I've had to do with the hardware was setting up Xinerama for multiple monitors but Joe Desktop User won't care about that. If I put in a CD it plays automatically and can be ripped using a program from the menu called grip. DVD's can be played easily using Xine which is also in the main menu under multimedia. Nautilus plays songs while they you are hovering over them with your mouse, or opens up a player when clicked. Video files that are standard play using an appropriate when clicked. And this was all out of the box, absolutely no setup or command line. I've also used 2 different USB printers that have worked pretty well, but one required a driver download and typing./install command as root. So I guess according to your list we just need simpler interface for USB drives. Unless we're going for a Linux from Scratch distro, then many issues are taken care of.
It's SCO they shun the idea of common sense. Let's see, they've sued about everyone in existence for about anything they can think of. They're now trying to piss of major movie companies for fun. It's best not to make an attempt at applying logic to their actions, it'll only make your brain hurt.
2 Lines of JavaScript isn't a business model. Although I hate X10 I hope they get this idiocy appealed. If the brothers do win, I'm patenting displaying message boxes to notify users of stuff, and then suing everyone for 3 billion each. Except MS, whom I'd sue for 1 trillion dollars, since their software displays error message boxes every few seconds.
The only company with enough bathtubs to supply the worldwide demand for crack.
Also, the only company with an actual crack team of lawyers. How much longer till the DEA shuts them down?
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I know they are a huge company...but I really don't see how they can afford to keep losing money like they do. A few billion to Sun here, millions to BeOS here, $440 million for some patents, losing millions on X-Box, millions in lawsuits and fines, funding SCO, etc. It seems that eventually they'd run low on cash to throw away on stupid crap...but I've never had billions of dollars so I guess I wouldn't know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like he simply tweaked his browser settings a tad and got in, no cracking(I.E. A cracking program, overflow attack, etc.) involved. To me this is the NY-Times' fault more than anyone. Lamo doesn't have the skills or knowledge to actually crack a system...he trolls for people that don't know how to configure there settings properly. And it's not like the sites he gets into are small personal sites. MSN, NYTimes, etc..should all be ashamed that someone who has no real knowledge of how a computer network operates can get in that easy. Of course what he did was wrong, similar to entering an unlocked store at night, but the NYTimes is just as much at fault for either having a braindead security team, or not funding security appropriately.
or taken to a morgue because of a porn overdose.
Apparently you've not been introduced to the joys of autoerotic-asphyxiation...even had a cousin die from this one. Plus people have hurt themselves stimulating their prostates with wierd items.
ESR bashes 'his' community this time, in another brain-dead rant. Yes most OpenSource products are a little more archaic to use than point and click...but there are already some solutions such as Xandros and Lindows...also most home users don't need to deal with configuration scripts or advanced features, and the simple stuff(Normal network printing, internet browsing, viewing movies, etc) are usually just as easy as Windows. But thinking things through isn't one of ESR's strong points.
Like this will help anyone learn to actually program. Wow, I can make a webpage that has dancing bunnies, I'm l337! Anywho, I don't see how this could be useful to anyone, except maybe to help a Joe SixPack user learn a bit about how things work. If anyone is starting programming maybe try: normal java, python, C++, etc. and try to learn what a data structure is before learning about event driven programming.
Here has most of the answers you seek. It opens up a port to allow someone to hijack the system, and if the date on the system is Feb. 1 then it attacks. So it is possible SCO could recieve a few attacks from people with their dates wrong.
It's great that they have jobs over in India, but I'd rather them stay here and keep our society functioning as best as possible. Isn't this why we started tariffs and such? Shouldn't something similar be applied to outsourcing? If we automate away and outsource all the lower level jobs, then the economy will bust, since noone but higher up management and lawyers will have any money to keep buying products.
XP has to emulate about half the stuff since they moved over to the NT lineage after ME. So yeah an emulator will usually run slower than the real thing. As far as GPL having too many features try Gentoo from stage 1, you can customize what you do and do not want every step of the way. Linus works on the kernel which just handles hardware, memory management, etc. So the kernel hackers aren't responsible for monsters like xfree86.
And I'm assuming "jrrtolkien.com" wasn't a trademark but maybe "JRR Tolkien" was, but the site never used that phrase. Microsoft owns the trademark for "NT" but they can't go around suing people who use the word 'rant' because it contains their trademark. It sets a horrible precident for corporations to start suing for trademark violations based on more frivolous logic.
SCO: We own all you source code!
Slashdotters: How so? We wrote it!
SCO: We just do!
Compared to:
JRR Tolkien Estates: We own that domain!
Sqautter: How so? I bought it!
Estates: We just do!
Although squatting is sleazy, I don't see why it's illegal. If there are magic reserved names that the general public can't buy then don't sell them in the first place. The guy bought it before JRR Tolkien estates, and made no reference to JRR Tolkien or LoTR so no trademark infringement occured. For all they know he could have thought it sounded like a l337 name for a porn site. So the lesson learned is that corporations have control over you no matter where you live, thanks to the U.N. and WIPO. It's just another example of a company saying they own something that they don't.
Then everyone would be in an uproar, but simply replacing the proper nouns can make a story good or evil on Slashdot.
Yet that didn't hold up in court, but somehow this one managed to? I guess only corporations and celebs have rights in the US anymore.
No, dubbing actually takes some work to make it go properly(Look at old kung-fu movies). In Japan they actually have professional 'seiyuu' that are paid respectable amounts to do the voices. In the US they probably never 'hired' voice actors, and just used people at the company. My arguement is that they cut corners in the localization since they assumed it wouldn't sell or would get negative publicity.
Xenogears the orginal for PSone almost didn't make it to the states, and when it finally did it had 'horrid' voice acting, all due to it's religious overtones. Even as far back as Lunar 2 for Sega CD they changed the warp pads from pentagrams to Star Trek symbols so as not to offend over here. I don't think Pretty Fighter X ever made it over either, due to strong sexual content. This is nothing new...and it will continue to happen until people wake up and realize they are just games.
No, my Snort box handles this just fine. Although I haven't tried it with Kazaa, works good with Usenet and e-mail
As I said that's when I was a kid! In the past, when I was 15. I went out a hell of a lot when I was older, got married, went to college and all that other fun stuff. I guess I'd have to read slashdot just to put others down and push open source porn programs to have a life by your definition.
Bah, when I was a kid I'd put blankets around my door frame so my parents wouldn't see the light from my computer at night. Then at 6 the next morning I'd casually walk past the bus stop and wait till my parents went to work, go back home, call myself in sick and then get back to playing nethack or doom. The thing you gotta worry about is when they come home early...that can get messy. Honestly, I missed over 30 school days one semester of high school doing this, and still managed B's. There is no negative side to being on the computer 24/7 except terrible bleary eye.
No mom I was thinking about buying a goat...I came across this site by accident...I don't know how goat_sex.mpeg got on the desktop...it must have been a virus
Block anything that comes in that contains japan and porn, hentai, or doujinshi. It'll save your kid alot of nightmares from having to see things with titles like "DickGirl Extreme: Scat Edition".
I know the point of ask Slashdot is to make fun of the person asking the question but come on. Simple...log where they are going or set up some advanced Snort rules on a firewall box to alert you whenever keywords come through. But seriously I've been looking at internet pr0n since I was 11, way back in the day(About 1993), it doesn't hurt much just make sure they aren't planning on meeting someone they met in a chat room named SugarDaddy35 and it'll be fine.
Umm...most of those are met already. Let's see, I've been running Redhat 7.3 for about 3 years now. In that time I've added a second video card and replaced my sound card. Kudza takes care of it when you boot with the hardware. The only configuring I've had to do with the hardware was setting up Xinerama for multiple monitors but Joe Desktop User won't care about that. If I put in a CD it plays automatically and can be ripped using a program from the menu called grip. DVD's can be played easily using Xine which is also in the main menu under multimedia. Nautilus plays songs while they you are hovering over them with your mouse, or opens up a player when clicked. Video files that are standard play using an appropriate when clicked. And this was all out of the box, absolutely no setup or command line. I've also used 2 different USB printers that have worked pretty well, but one required a driver download and typing ./install command as root. So I guess according to your list we just need simpler interface for USB drives. Unless we're going for a Linux from Scratch distro, then many issues are taken care of.
Some of us are still in college...you insensitive clod!
It's SCO they shun the idea of common sense. Let's see, they've sued about everyone in existence for about anything they can think of. They're now trying to piss of major movie companies for fun. It's best not to make an attempt at applying logic to their actions, it'll only make your brain hurt.
2 Lines of JavaScript isn't a business model. Although I hate X10 I hope they get this idiocy appealed. If the brothers do win, I'm patenting displaying message boxes to notify users of stuff, and then suing everyone for 3 billion each. Except MS, whom I'd sue for 1 trillion dollars, since their software displays error message boxes every few seconds.
The only company with enough bathtubs to supply the worldwide demand for crack. Also, the only company with an actual crack team of lawyers. How much longer till the DEA shuts them down?