Thank you for spreading the word to the unbelieving heathens brother. We can only pray that all will be touched by His Noodly Appendage in sensitive places.
He does, I'll sue him for sexual harrassment. What do I look like, an altar boy????????????
If I'm reading this correctly, it's the Sony rootkit that disables CD burning to preserve DRM. Disabling autorun doesn't affect the burning function of a drive.
Have you tried one of the DRM locking CDs that the whole post is talking about yet?
You're totally missing my point. Apple can afford to spend time making MacOS Look Pretty Cool(tm) because it only has to support a limited set of hardware due to its vertical integration. Linux can't because of the massive choices out there. I've seen cutting edge AMD machines still running old IDE-100 hard drives, I still have a couple old 16 bit Soundblaster sound cards that are perfectly supported by Linux. They still work just fine. Just because a piece of hardware is 'obsolete' by the latest standards doesn't mean it magically stops working.
Wanting to go to the top-end cutting edge hardware is a nice goal. How many of those hardware manufacturers divulge everything about their gear? I can't think of a one. This means some brave soul is gonna have to reverse engineer the drivers and figure out how to make it work under Linux, usually after they bought the card and want to use it. And the drivers tend to be 'half baked' in your terms because once somebody gets it working for them, there's a tendency to go do something else.
I used to write quite a bit of code before I ran out of time for the rest of my life away from the keyboard. Code that was for my use only tended to be ugly as sin, but it worked Just Fine(tm) for me. No WAY would I have implemented it on a production machine for someone else to use without 'foolproofing' it to the best of my ability. That gets tricky, cause in my experience, foolproofing anything merely generates a higher class of fool.
Obligatory Simpsons reference, followed by gratuitous useage of the phrase 'Beowulf cluster', followed by the offtopic and manditory '3 steps to $$PROFIT$$' joke.
OSX 'Just Works(tm)' because Apple controlled what hardware went into the box and wrote the OS to match it. No need to support 950 zillion video cards et al, just the default set. Linux users have to worry about hardware compatibility at times, particularly in cutting edge video cards and 'Windows-specific' peripherals that offload hardware functions into software drivers, like the dreaded 'WinModem'. When you save 30 cents a pop by not having to buy/make a chip for your peripheral card, you save $300,000 when you make a million cards.
Colonists are more likely to settle near equator due to temperature
Sounds dubious to me. The lunar day is about a month long, so they'll get a couple weeks of sun and warmth at the equator, sure... then another couple weeks of pitch-black and freezing temperatures.
Actually, parent was talking about where we'd likely settle on Mars. On Luna, we'll probably have to dig into the regolith for our colonies, so sunshine is a moot point, unless we rig a ring of solar collectors around the equator all tied together with superconducting cables or something.
Embezzlement of countless billions : 5 years
Stealing a slice of Pizza : life
Murder : life or death penalty
Copyright infringement : Life , then the death penalty , then your family are sold into slavery
Calling a politician an idiot: Life imprisonment in an offshore 'facility' for revealing state secrets.
More laws lead to more criminals; more criminals need bigger jails, and government employees to build the jails and catch the criminals. Hiring more government workers requires higher taxes and additional bureaucracy to track and collect the money. Meanwhile, Joe Senator gets re-elected because he delivered the legislation specified by his large corporate donors.
Jails are built by private contractors. My brother in law has built a couple, in between contracts to build other things, like new campuses for the University of California.
Still, methinks George Carlin may have had it right. The biggest growth industry in the US is prisons...
Considering their caseloads generated by making anything and everything illegal, cops are getting swamped with cases. By tweaking the laws, the government makes it easier for them to clear these cases, so, by generating encrypted data, you automatically paint yourself as a target for law enforcement/national security risk/whatever. The old saw of 'Why do you need encryption if you've nothing to hide?' comes immediately to mind. The government and law enforcement types prefer everything out in the open. They want smoking guns they can point to in order to make their cases.
Personally, I think what this country needs is less idiotic laws instead of more. And I believe I need more privacy from the government, not less. The government seems to stand on one principle that is in total error: the belief that they have no oversight. My government is SUPPOSED to work for ME. I'm the guy paying their paychecks. And you bet I vote.
We're a hop, skip and jump from this to having the computer just write the music itself. Now all we need are some barely legal girls with breast implants to "sing" the output. Actually, let's just skip the music.
Why use barely legal girls? You want to snag the 14-21 year old market, go for barely illegal girls, pre-implant.
Far easier to brute force the suspect at Gitmo or one of those recently revealed former Eastern Bloc facilities that openned up four years ago, according to the Arizona Republic's report of a Washington Post article of last week....
You're laughing now, but did you know that the Food Equipment industry has become an integral part of the defense industry?
From wikipedia (referring to United Defense):
The company started as a division of the agricultural machine business, Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), when they won a US government contract to build LVTs and became a weapon manufacturer during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Defense
Guess that explains the inedibility of C-rations...
According to Yahoo, SCOX openned around 3.89, now trading around 3.70. Obviously, another attempt to pump & dump. Just goes to show, if you can't innovate, litigate. Nothing to see here, move along, move along...
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Of course they do. You think their budget allows them to get the top of the line models?
When was the last time Apple updated their hardware?
He does, I'll sue him for sexual harrassment. What do I look like, an altar boy????????????
Who's to say MS Anti-Spyware won't label Firefox as a 'virus'?
Er...
Have you tried one of the DRM locking CDs that the whole post is talking about yet?
Wanting to go to the top-end cutting edge hardware is a nice goal. How many of those hardware manufacturers divulge everything about their gear? I can't think of a one. This means some brave soul is gonna have to reverse engineer the drivers and figure out how to make it work under Linux, usually after they bought the card and want to use it. And the drivers tend to be 'half baked' in your terms because once somebody gets it working for them, there's a tendency to go do something else.
I used to write quite a bit of code before I ran out of time for the rest of my life away from the keyboard. Code that was for my use only tended to be ugly as sin, but it worked Just Fine(tm) for me. No WAY would I have implemented it on a production machine for someone else to use without 'foolproofing' it to the best of my ability. That gets tricky, cause in my experience, foolproofing anything merely generates a higher class of fool.
FSCK!!!!!!! Forgot to mention the 'I for one welcome our overlords' bit.
Obligatory Simpsons reference, followed by gratuitous useage of the phrase 'Beowulf cluster', followed by the offtopic and manditory '3 steps to $$PROFIT$$' joke.
OSX 'Just Works(tm)' because Apple controlled what hardware went into the box and wrote the OS to match it. No need to support 950 zillion video cards et al, just the default set. Linux users have to worry about hardware compatibility at times, particularly in cutting edge video cards and 'Windows-specific' peripherals that offload hardware functions into software drivers, like the dreaded 'WinModem'. When you save 30 cents a pop by not having to buy/make a chip for your peripheral card, you save $300,000 when you make a million cards.
Actually, parent was talking about where we'd likely settle on Mars. On Luna, we'll probably have to dig into the regolith for our colonies, so sunshine is a moot point, unless we rig a ring of solar collectors around the equator all tied together with superconducting cables or something.
Calling a politician an idiot: Life imprisonment in an offshore 'facility' for revealing state secrets.
Jails are built by private contractors. My brother in law has built a couple, in between contracts to build other things, like new campuses for the University of California.
Still, methinks George Carlin may have had it right. The biggest growth industry in the US is prisons...
Considering their caseloads generated by making anything and everything illegal, cops are getting swamped with cases. By tweaking the laws, the government makes it easier for them to clear these cases, so, by generating encrypted data, you automatically paint yourself as a target for law enforcement/national security risk/whatever. The old saw of 'Why do you need encryption if you've nothing to hide?' comes immediately to mind. The government and law enforcement types prefer everything out in the open. They want smoking guns they can point to in order to make their cases.
Personally, I think what this country needs is less idiotic laws instead of more. And I believe I need more privacy from the government, not less. The government seems to stand on one principle that is in total error: the belief that they have no oversight. My government is SUPPOSED to work for ME. I'm the guy paying their paychecks. And you bet I vote.
Why use barely legal girls? You want to snag the 14-21 year old market, go for barely illegal girls, pre-implant.
I was wondering why that seemed so familiar. So it took RIAA 2 years to follow up on a Slashdot article? This surprises us how?
As in, ran them over with a '57 Chevy? INMSFBHO, it's high time to run 'em over again.
Or is it Linux only?
"Screw you guys, I'm goin home..."
Far easier to brute force the suspect at Gitmo or one of those recently revealed former Eastern Bloc facilities that openned up four years ago, according to the Arizona Republic's report of a Washington Post article of last week....
Last time I read the Constitution, the police still had to WORK for a living.
Can't say anything about the UK, though, never been there, but I heard it's (used to be) nice...
Guess that explains the inedibility of C-rations...
No wonder they got replaced by MREs...
We won't even get into the real reason for anal probes...
No, I think SCO's board of directors has been smokin some good shit and just won't share.
According to Yahoo, SCOX openned around 3.89, now trading around 3.70. Obviously, another attempt to pump & dump. Just goes to show, if you can't innovate, litigate. Nothing to see here, move along, move along...