And yet, here you are complaining on Slashdot and trying to convince *other* people to donate to the EFF instead of doing so yourself.
Please excuse my "complaining on Slashdot," but I find having freedom extremely important. I do really hope I am not alone in that belief.
TCPA mandates that the system be user-disableable. It's part of the spec. TCPA will *never* refuse to load Linux, though it will *always* refuse to load as a trusted OS (since the kernel isn't signed...
Of course. TCPA will *never* refuse to obey our commands, should we choose to become second class citizens having absolutely no access to mainstream media whatsoever. One only has to wonder if that is a bad thing indeed...
But jokes aside. Do you think University which publishes online papers as Windows Word today is not going to use "Trusted" Word tomorrow?
Do you think a bank which has IE-only website will change its mind when there's finally a way to make sure people indeed connect only with "Trusted" IE?
What about government websites? Are they going to allow "untrusted hacker software" to connect to their servers? Don't even let me start about Internet voting... The list goes on.
Let me guess what OS are you using right now... Oh, right, I thought so.
So you're lucky. But
are you going to give a Blinux using person few thousands dollars
for software she will need soon? I hope so.
though I believe there is a project to get a TCPA-enabled copy of Linux).
Right! Are you really so naive to believe we'll be able to run our own kernals as part of our "trusted" OSen? Please...
The number of beige boxes that are sold to be Linux servers is not a trivial number. If you're Michael Dell, are you going to sell boxes that can't be installed with Linux?
If I was Michael Dell then, as a greedy, money-obsessed businessman (I know what I'm talking about -- let's just say I've had a (doubtful, I might add) "pleasure" to meet this guy), I would be going to consider what is more important: my thin margins on few OSen-less boxen, or huge discounts on OEM Windows licenses. (Let us not kid ourself, Michael and Bill are hardly strangers.)
One only has to wonder how long before
TCPA chip will refuse to load Linux BIOS loading only "trusted" Windows BIOS which will of course never load "untrusted" GNU OS. Truely scary perspective especially considering the fact that back in 1997 we all thought The Right to Read was a huge overexeggaration.
I think it is time to renew my EFF membership. I believe everyone should do that instead of just complaining on Slashdot.
SQLite is tiny, fast and ACID compliant. SQLite is a public domain embedded SQL database library. It is similar to BDB, but provides a complete SQL database.
Let us not forget about
DBD::SQLite [cpan.org]
— a
DBI [cpan.org]
(Perl [perl.org] Database Interface) driver which, not being a driver per se,
includes a *full* SQLite distribution, so when one needs to use SQLite in a Perl program, one is only perl -W -MCPAN '-einstall"DBD::SQLite"' away from $dbh=DBI->connect(q(dbi:SQLite:dbname=dbfile));
which is truely amazing.
Lindows is great but what I'd really like to see is a choice:
Knoppix,
Dyne:bolic or Biatchux. These are all GNU/Linux live bootable CD-ROM based operating systems with automatic hard ware detection, which makes them particularly well suited for such a purpose. Knoppix is a general-purpose system, Dyne:bolic is for multimedia production and broadcasting and Biatchux is a data recov./forensics anal. and incident response tool, which is great if one buys a new hard drive because one's old one contains important data but the system/security failure has made it inoperative. I do really hope more hard ware vendors will employ my idea, which I have been promoting for quite some time now as someone who is sort of into operating systems in my institute. Lindows should prepare the new ground for professional operating systems. This is great news indeed. All we have to worry about is making sure there will be no hard drives with Microsoft operating systems preinstalled, but Microsoft is a convicted illegal monopolist, so they wouldn't be able to do it anyway, thanks to DoJ verdict. Great news and a very interesting article.
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Please excuse my "complaining on Slashdot," but I find having freedom extremely important. I do really hope I am not alone in that belief.
Of course. TCPA will *never* refuse to obey our commands, should we choose to become second class citizens having absolutely no access to mainstream media whatsoever. One only has to wonder if that is a bad thing indeed...
But jokes aside. Do you think University which publishes online papers as Windows Word today is not going to use "Trusted" Word tomorrow? Do you think a bank which has IE-only website will change its mind when there's finally a way to make sure people indeed connect only with "Trusted" IE?
What about government websites? Are they going to allow "untrusted hacker software" to connect to their servers? Don't even let me start about Internet voting... The list goes on.
Let me guess what OS are you using right now... Oh, right, I thought so. So you're lucky. But are you going to give a Blinux using person few thousands dollars for software she will need soon? I hope so.
Right! Are you really so naive to believe we'll be able to run our own kernals as part of our "trusted" OSen? Please...
If I was Michael Dell then, as a greedy, money-obsessed businessman (I know what I'm talking about -- let's just say I've had a (doubtful, I might add) "pleasure" to meet this guy), I would be going to consider what is more important: my thin margins on few OSen-less boxen, or huge discounts on OEM Windows licenses. (Let us not kid ourself, Michael and Bill are hardly strangers.)
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Bob overlords.
One only has to wonder how long before TCPA chip will refuse to load Linux BIOS loading only "trusted" Windows BIOS which will of course never load "untrusted" GNU OS. Truely scary perspective especially considering the fact that back in 1997 we all thought The Right to Read was a huge overexeggaration. I think it is time to renew my EFF membership. I believe everyone should do that instead of just complaining on Slashdot.
Let us not forget about DBD::SQLite [cpan.org] — a DBI [cpan.org] (Perl [perl.org] Database Interface) driver which, not being a driver per se, includes a *full* SQLite distribution, so when one needs to use SQLite in a Perl program, one is only perl -W -MCPAN '-einstall"DBD::SQLite"' away from $dbh=DBI->connect(q(dbi:SQLite:dbname=dbfile)); which is truely amazing.
Lindows is great but what I'd really like to see is a choice: Knoppix, Dyne:bolic or Biatchux. These are all GNU/Linux live bootable CD-ROM based operating systems with automatic hard ware detection, which makes them particularly well suited for such a purpose. Knoppix is a general-purpose system, Dyne:bolic is for multimedia production and broadcasting and Biatchux is a data recov./forensics anal. and incident response tool, which is great if one buys a new hard drive because one's old one contains important data but the system/security failure has made it inoperative. I do really hope more hard ware vendors will employ my idea, which I have been promoting for quite some time now as someone who is sort of into operating systems in my institute. Lindows should prepare the new ground for professional operating systems. This is great news indeed. All we have to worry about is making sure there will be no hard drives with Microsoft operating systems preinstalled, but Microsoft is a convicted illegal monopolist, so they wouldn't be able to do it anyway, thanks to DoJ verdict. Great news and a very interesting article.
Their new ad campaign with naked women went too far in my opinion. They were basically asking to be sued. Didn't they think about the children?
Say about them what you want but I admire VeriSign's new ad campaign.
More appropriate for SCO CEO than Darl McBribe? Certainly. Everyone is.
If that is indeed true, then he is not a moron, not even an imbecile, but an idiot -- plain and simple.