After it hit the App store, one of the original developers of XPilot told us he feels adamantly that we're betraying the spirit of the GPL by charging for it.
He apparently didn't read the part of GPL that states pretty clearly that its okay to sell it as long as you give away the code as well.
If they don't go to detention you suspend them, if they don't care about suspension you fail them, and you don't pass them when their whiney little bitch of parents come in screaming at you.
You have problems because the kids are in control, until teachers start taking control of their classrooms, it will continue to stay like it is.
The pussies who run your school district aren't helping. If they aren't going to back you up, quit. If the new plan is to confiscate the battery and no one thinks the lawsuit won't return for the exact same reason then you are all complete and total fucking idiots.
The solution to your school districts problem is for you and all the other teachers to leave. When they have no teachers they'll change their tune. If you are replaced by a bunch of idiot teachers and administrators, parents will get pissed and finally start listening if they want better schooling. I know they teach the concept of supply and demand in school, why does it appear that teachers have no understanding of it.
You need to grow a backbone and stand up for yourself to your administrators, who in turn need to do the same and stand up to the parents.
Your problems are caused because you aren't in control, you aren't teaching them how it works in the real world and aren't teaching your students for shit. Do your job properly or don't do it at all. Stop continuing to do it in a half assed way, you're doing EVERYONE a disservice.
Bring back good old paddlings. They know that regardless of what they do its unlikely they will actually get any sort of punishment that is actually punishment.
You got a GED because your arrogant ass knew more than anyone else around you, even those with years more experience.
True, there are no guarantee's that you'll go either way, it actually does depend on what kind of person you are. You are an arrogant bastard, likely bragging about money you don't have. People who think of themselves as 'better' than everyone else and think of highschool/college as a 'waste of time' are generally not capable of getting very far in life.
Getting rid of GEDs isn't likely to change anything, this is true, because no one actually considers a GED to be the same as a high school diploma. Maybe you did ride a boom and make some cash, your attitude leads me to believe you're extremely likely to loose your money faster than MC Hammer.
I agree, most high school and higher education programs are a waste of time, with one exception, they show someone has the ability to stick with something, regardless of how useless it may seem.
There is a lot more to learn in high school and college than what the teachers tell you and whats in the books, you missed that and you don't even realize it and probably never will, neither will your children who will likely be even more arrogant and worse off than you will be.
Of course, its entirely possible that I've got you all wrong, it does happen, but its pretty damn rare.
You put the signature on the TPM chip and don't allow it to be modified?
Sometimes its hard to see beyond your own need to prove everyone else wrong, just because they didn't give you complete implementation specification complete with hardware and source code doesn't mean it can't be made safe, this is actually pretty common in this that really do need to be secure.
One of our BIOSes is broken, because I can turn my copy off on a whim. Perhaps its because my bios requires an admin password? I donno, but I have no problem disabling it. Perhaps its not really disabled?
Because it takes effort to make it stable and reliable enough to put out a version that works well enough to not have to ever patch. BIOS isn't exactly 'standardized'. Well, thats not true, it is because Windows expects certain things out of the BIOS and there is a lose 'standard' but its not followed close enough that there is any standard test set that says if the software passes these tests its good to go.
Doing all that takes money and time. We used to get this sort of effort out of console video games before they could be patched, now they are just as buggy as all other software.
The PC industry moves too fast and too cheaply to put proper effort into bug testing their hardware, which is why we get processors with f00f bugs, cache exploits, BIOS updates and all the other crap you get. Whats unfortunate is that its effecting other industries too, like video game consoles and phones.
We can make a BIOS that doesn't really need to be touched, but since we have the Internet, its far easier and quicker to just throw it together 'good enough' and fix it as needed later. The Internet brings many great things, and many bad things.
They do. Its not enabled from the factory. You have to pay extra to get it to actually work. It is completely hidden to the OS unless enabled in the BIOS at boot time.
I realize you just read some FUD kdawson forwarded for us, but you have to take extra steps to make this software work. Out of the box there is nothing to do, you don't have to 'remove it', when the BIOS transfers control it is for all intents and purposes not available.
It is an optional feature, like traction control on your car or overdrive, you just turn it off.
If you don't want it enabled the solution is REAL simple, don't buy a laptop with computrace installed. There are plenty out there without it.
To use a car analogy, can you go to a dealership and buy a car without an engine? No. But you can find a car without air conditioning, if you put a little effort into it (depending on where you live, air conditioning may be an option rather than standard so bear with the analogy).
When you buy mass market cookie cutter products in order to get a lower price than you don't get to specify the exact specifications yourself, you take one of the options you are given as you have to choose what most people want.
If you want to pick anything you want then you have to build it yourself, which is FAR more expensive.
First off, the 'feature' comes on a lot of laptops. Doesn't mean its enabled. You have to request it to be enabled in order for it to come from factory with it actually turned on.
If you don't turn it on, it doesn't do anything, no phone home, no remote wipe, no tracking.
Guess what, same thing applies to Blackberrys, and iPhones, and cars with LoJack that have remote shutoff. For every feature there is a potential risk, thats the way the world works.
If you want the potential to remotely locate/track and wipe a laptop or PC, then you also get the potential that someone else can do it as well.
Theres no reason WMI needs to be involved, its part of the BIOS, it already knows everything about the hardware and doesn't need much effort to read a little info off the windows disk.
For the bank account, maybe there is a risk of the law intervening. For the IRC and a domain name?
You must be pretty new to the Internet if you think anything happens to these people.
Considering the rampant identity theft, I don't really think any geek with half a clue would have a hard time covering his ass on this one.
In any case, the only way the law will be involved is if he is just busy and doesn't realize that someone stole the money before talking to the people who took it. If he is stealing the money, he isnt' going to call the cops.
You put far far too much faith in cops and the legal system. Getting several countries to work together well enough to recover the petty amounts of cash that one guy gets in donations for centos isn't enough to make them stop drinking their coffee.
Nice to try to be all scary, but if the guy isn't dead and isn't stealing the money, all you'd have to do is return it and they aren't going to push too hard, its not worth putting you in jail for no harm.
So they put you in jail, do you realize that it'd be for a few months in a minimum security facility, its not Oz, you aren't going to get raped.
You guys watch far too much TV and think the shit written in 2600 is true.
The legal system, the health care system, and even the internet, where individual humans are simply the 'passive maintaining agents,' and the systems can't be conquered without a human onslaught that's several magnitudes larger.
Funny that you pick examples that wouldn't exist without the massive amount of 'passive maintaining agents' that maintain them. Humans don't have to 'attack them' to destroy them, they just have to stop using them or maintaining them. Seems kind of silly to call then 'non-human durable systems' when with out humans they cease to exist, or in the case of the Internet will break down relatively quickly.
You mean that of all the 'geeks' that are working on this 'project', no one can take over the IRC channel and domain name? Its pretty trivial to do both, even today, with all the 'safe gaurds' in place. I haven't tried to steal a bank account but that seems pretty trivial as well.
So tell me exactly why this is a problem for a bunch of geeks?
I post here because I can be an arrogant cocky son of a bitch who shows how brilliant I am, only to come back the next day and see that someone pointed out how wrong I am.
Jesus christ, thats one of the most well thought out responses I've seen to an engineering/UI issue. I generally find myself feeling the same way as the GP, but seeing this sort of response puts me back in my place. I wish I was lucky enough to work around more people with that sort of attention to detail and knowledge.
I'm sorry but that has got to be the lamest excuse for something not working I have ever heard of. If 'it might cause someone elses software to have a security issue' is a valid reason for not allowing drag and drop of an image, plain text or any other basic format then you need to get out of the OS business and stop pretending to be in it.
My software doesn't need to know anything about the software that is providing the input to the drag and drop, it just has to make sure its safe for itself. If GIMP can read a jpeg or a bitmap in from the file system then it can take it from a memory buffer or file for the DnD operation. If there is a bug in the software it can in almost every case be exploited from the file system as well.
If you want to play with the big boys and be a real OS then this sort of retarded, bullshit, childish excuses won't cut it. You post indicates you've never dealt with drag and drop code on any operating system. The whole copy/paste/clipboard concept is what, 40 years old? Atleast 30. Is text the only thing you can handle?
I think the problem here is your reading comphrehension skills, from the line you quoted it should be pretty clear that the point of reference is the Milky Way.
It reminds me of the "debate" over whether or not 0.999... = 1. Non-mathematicians will swear up and down that it can't be. They'll pull out everything they've got, but at the end of the day, just because you don't understand it doesn't make it so. Read with a careful eye, but c'mon, the cause of the current change in global mean temperatures is no longer a debate.
Thats supposed to prove your point? Seriously? Thats what we've come to in science and math? That its okay to fudge the numbers to prove our point? Are you trying to make more people think you're wrong?
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He apparently didn't read the part of GPL that states pretty clearly that its okay to sell it as long as you give away the code as well.
IE is easy as shit to seperate from the OS. Delete iexplore.exe.
The rendering engine on the other hand, isn't. It is used by MANY apps, this applies to Windows, OS X, and lots of other OSes.
Name one so everyone can rip you a new asshole for being wrong.
File systems written by porn stars are bound to fail. If this isn't a porn star, a name change is in order.
If they don't go to detention you suspend them, if they don't care about suspension you fail them, and you don't pass them when their whiney little bitch of parents come in screaming at you.
You have problems because the kids are in control, until teachers start taking control of their classrooms, it will continue to stay like it is.
The pussies who run your school district aren't helping. If they aren't going to back you up, quit. If the new plan is to confiscate the battery and no one thinks the lawsuit won't return for the exact same reason then you are all complete and total fucking idiots.
The solution to your school districts problem is for you and all the other teachers to leave. When they have no teachers they'll change their tune. If you are replaced by a bunch of idiot teachers and administrators, parents will get pissed and finally start listening if they want better schooling. I know they teach the concept of supply and demand in school, why does it appear that teachers have no understanding of it.
You need to grow a backbone and stand up for yourself to your administrators, who in turn need to do the same and stand up to the parents.
Your problems are caused because you aren't in control, you aren't teaching them how it works in the real world and aren't teaching your students for shit. Do your job properly or don't do it at all. Stop continuing to do it in a half assed way, you're doing EVERYONE a disservice.
Bring back good old paddlings. They know that regardless of what they do its unlikely they will actually get any sort of punishment that is actually punishment.
You got a GED because your arrogant ass knew more than anyone else around you, even those with years more experience.
True, there are no guarantee's that you'll go either way, it actually does depend on what kind of person you are. You are an arrogant bastard, likely bragging about money you don't have. People who think of themselves as 'better' than everyone else and think of highschool/college as a 'waste of time' are generally not capable of getting very far in life.
Getting rid of GEDs isn't likely to change anything, this is true, because no one actually considers a GED to be the same as a high school diploma. Maybe you did ride a boom and make some cash, your attitude leads me to believe you're extremely likely to loose your money faster than MC Hammer.
I agree, most high school and higher education programs are a waste of time, with one exception, they show someone has the ability to stick with something, regardless of how useless it may seem.
There is a lot more to learn in high school and college than what the teachers tell you and whats in the books, you missed that and you don't even realize it and probably never will, neither will your children who will likely be even more arrogant and worse off than you will be.
Of course, its entirely possible that I've got you all wrong, it does happen, but its pretty damn rare.
You put the signature on the TPM chip and don't allow it to be modified?
Sometimes its hard to see beyond your own need to prove everyone else wrong, just because they didn't give you complete implementation specification complete with hardware and source code doesn't mean it can't be made safe, this is actually pretty common in this that really do need to be secure.
One of our BIOSes is broken, because I can turn my copy off on a whim. Perhaps its because my bios requires an admin password? I donno, but I have no problem disabling it. Perhaps its not really disabled?
Because it takes effort to make it stable and reliable enough to put out a version that works well enough to not have to ever patch. BIOS isn't exactly 'standardized'. Well, thats not true, it is because Windows expects certain things out of the BIOS and there is a lose 'standard' but its not followed close enough that there is any standard test set that says if the software passes these tests its good to go.
Doing all that takes money and time. We used to get this sort of effort out of console video games before they could be patched, now they are just as buggy as all other software.
The PC industry moves too fast and too cheaply to put proper effort into bug testing their hardware, which is why we get processors with f00f bugs, cache exploits, BIOS updates and all the other crap you get. Whats unfortunate is that its effecting other industries too, like video game consoles and phones.
We can make a BIOS that doesn't really need to be touched, but since we have the Internet, its far easier and quicker to just throw it together 'good enough' and fix it as needed later. The Internet brings many great things, and many bad things.
They do. Its not enabled from the factory. You have to pay extra to get it to actually work. It is completely hidden to the OS unless enabled in the BIOS at boot time.
I realize you just read some FUD kdawson forwarded for us, but you have to take extra steps to make this software work. Out of the box there is nothing to do, you don't have to 'remove it', when the BIOS transfers control it is for all intents and purposes not available.
It is an optional feature, like traction control on your car or overdrive, you just turn it off.
If you don't want it enabled the solution is REAL simple, don't buy a laptop with computrace installed. There are plenty out there without it.
To use a car analogy, can you go to a dealership and buy a car without an engine? No. But you can find a car without air conditioning, if you put a little effort into it (depending on where you live, air conditioning may be an option rather than standard so bear with the analogy).
When you buy mass market cookie cutter products in order to get a lower price than you don't get to specify the exact specifications yourself, you take one of the options you are given as you have to choose what most people want.
If you want to pick anything you want then you have to build it yourself, which is FAR more expensive.
First off, the 'feature' comes on a lot of laptops. Doesn't mean its enabled. You have to request it to be enabled in order for it to come from factory with it actually turned on.
If you don't turn it on, it doesn't do anything, no phone home, no remote wipe, no tracking.
Guess what, same thing applies to Blackberrys, and iPhones, and cars with LoJack that have remote shutoff. For every feature there is a potential risk, thats the way the world works.
If you want the potential to remotely locate/track and wipe a laptop or PC, then you also get the potential that someone else can do it as well.
Theres no reason WMI needs to be involved, its part of the BIOS, it already knows everything about the hardware and doesn't need much effort to read a little info off the windows disk.
You might want a BIOS update, I have no problem turning mine on and off.
Its even easier to add this feature to EFI than it is to BIOS since EFI was designed to be Extensible.
/me makes wanking motions.
For the bank account, maybe there is a risk of the law intervening. For the IRC and a domain name?
You must be pretty new to the Internet if you think anything happens to these people.
Considering the rampant identity theft, I don't really think any geek with half a clue would have a hard time covering his ass on this one.
In any case, the only way the law will be involved is if he is just busy and doesn't realize that someone stole the money before talking to the people who took it. If he is stealing the money, he isnt' going to call the cops.
You put far far too much faith in cops and the legal system. Getting several countries to work together well enough to recover the petty amounts of cash that one guy gets in donations for centos isn't enough to make them stop drinking their coffee.
Nice to try to be all scary, but if the guy isn't dead and isn't stealing the money, all you'd have to do is return it and they aren't going to push too hard, its not worth putting you in jail for no harm.
So they put you in jail, do you realize that it'd be for a few months in a minimum security facility, its not Oz, you aren't going to get raped.
You guys watch far too much TV and think the shit written in 2600 is true.
Funny that you pick examples that wouldn't exist without the massive amount of 'passive maintaining agents' that maintain them. Humans don't have to 'attack them' to destroy them, they just have to stop using them or maintaining them. Seems kind of silly to call then 'non-human durable systems' when with out humans they cease to exist, or in the case of the Internet will break down relatively quickly.
Especially the chickens.
You mean that of all the 'geeks' that are working on this 'project', no one can take over the IRC channel and domain name? Its pretty trivial to do both, even today, with all the 'safe gaurds' in place. I haven't tried to steal a bank account but that seems pretty trivial as well.
So tell me exactly why this is a problem for a bunch of geeks?
I post here because I can be an arrogant cocky son of a bitch who shows how brilliant I am, only to come back the next day and see that someone pointed out how wrong I am.
Jesus christ, thats one of the most well thought out responses I've seen to an engineering/UI issue. I generally find myself feeling the same way as the GP, but seeing this sort of response puts me back in my place. I wish I was lucky enough to work around more people with that sort of attention to detail and knowledge.
I'm sorry but that has got to be the lamest excuse for something not working I have ever heard of. If 'it might cause someone elses software to have a security issue' is a valid reason for not allowing drag and drop of an image, plain text or any other basic format then you need to get out of the OS business and stop pretending to be in it.
My software doesn't need to know anything about the software that is providing the input to the drag and drop, it just has to make sure its safe for itself. If GIMP can read a jpeg or a bitmap in from the file system then it can take it from a memory buffer or file for the DnD operation. If there is a bug in the software it can in almost every case be exploited from the file system as well.
If you want to play with the big boys and be a real OS then this sort of retarded, bullshit, childish excuses won't cut it. You post indicates you've never dealt with drag and drop code on any operating system. The whole copy/paste/clipboard concept is what, 40 years old? Atleast 30. Is text the only thing you can handle?
Except when double parking results in them being noticed by a cop before they even come out of the bank.
I think the problem here is your reading comphrehension skills, from the line you quoted it should be pretty clear that the point of reference is the Milky Way.
Thats supposed to prove your point? Seriously? Thats what we've come to in science and math? That its okay to fudge the numbers to prove our point? Are you trying to make more people think you're wrong?