Exactly, I could code up some kind of spyware and deploy it as a standard.exe via email with the subject line "Important security update from your IT department." If I target 5 people the chances of my code being detected by heuristics is very low and the chances of one of these 5 people reporting it to the big AV companies is close to zero.
Favoring strongmen? No. Caerfulling weighing the costs of war vs containment? Yes.
Youre like that kid in grade school who would egg someone to on to fight and if they didnt you called them a coward. It wasnt convincing them and its not convincing now.
Not to mention, Iraq shows us that toppling a dictator doesnt automatically result in a western-style democracy by default.
Yep and Boost mobile phones which are also feature-poor and cheap. Something tells me submitter is either an ad or didnt look too hard and just wanted to bitch and moan.
Well, he does have an incredible amount of influence and has shown to have made good judgements in the past.
That said, I largely agree with him. The anti-tivoization provisions and anti-DRM is way too much personal ethics where there should only be free software. v4 I expect to have more personal ethics like 'cannot be used by the military' or 'cannot be used by republicans.' Or maybe just 'cannot dual boot windoze.' Who knows what personal ethical stand is popular with geeks at the time of the next drafting. This is a slipperly slope.
The reason you think huge bandwidth to the home is unfeasible is because you're stuck in the capitalist mentality
As opposed to all the communist gigbit connections and computer advancements? His criticisms, if you read them, are about bus speeds mostly.
Plentiful, cheap anything is bad for business
Bullshit. Cheap plentiful computer components means cheap PCs for you and me and lots of business for Dell and HP.
Dont let the music company and teeny-bopper fans turn you off from everything every company has ever done. Unfortunatly, using the goofy mafiaa acronym means +3 insightful around here.
I got maybe 50% of these while scrolling down and seeing the graphic first and the name last. Thats also expecting to see a celebrity too. I doubt your best Dick Cheney (or identical george costanza) would be recognizable. On the wii people would just think of you as just another fat bald guy.
A cheaper wii probably isnt the way to go. After spending some time with a wii, I was stunned at how terrible the graphics were. I swear my gamecube looked nicer. I'd love to see them release a box that looks better than a 1990s era PC game running a geforce3 card.
Don't pretend that geeks are somehow special in a way that no one else ever was.
Very true. The problem is that slashdot caters to HS/college age people who have all sorts of rebellious attitudes (see the the rant posted by gp). At the end of the day most places have given in to casual dress, work is not as bad as you think, and life gets easier when you start shedding your inflated ego/snobishness/chip-on-shoulder.
If someone feels so strongly about work structures I suggest they attempt to start their own business, be all wavy-gravey, and try not to act too surprised when your customers hate your "in your face service" and your employees come in wearing stinky beach-wear over their obese bodies.
That said, I believe any position that involves moving heavy things should be allowed to wear jeans and regular shoes.
>'Apple's released a proprietary & DRM-crippled phone - I wonder if it has GPLd software on it?'
First off, just saying that implies it does and gplv2 has no provision to stop drm. And who are these people "saving?" Apple customers are more tech savvy than PC buyers and probably know what they are getting into. iTunes proves that DRM is not "crippling" but acceptable to the public and is the defacto way to get legal downloads. The problem here are the fsf snobs who are implying apple as a company is running a scam against oss and its own "ignorant" customers.
If anything, this is a huge disinventive for any company in the future to deal with any oss software. The rabid fanboys who think they know better than everyone will simply denounce you and cause bad publicity, sometimes without proof.
Another reason I will never send money to the fsf.
I dont like it either and I think in the long run its going to hurt oss adoption, but at the same time its almost trivial for manufacturers to 'tivoise' all their equipment. If this happens en masse it would hurt oss quite a bit. I'm not sure who wins in this scenario, but the neckbeards have decided to shoot back and declare hardware as theirs. This is something to consider before releasing anything under v3.
Ive run skype over a cell phone used as a modem and even with EVDO speeds the latency and dropped packets are pretty bad. I doubt EDGE will be much better and I'm certain plain-jane GSM will sound much, much better. I also wouldnt put it past cell phone providers to make sure that voip gets either blocked or the lowest priority on the data network end of things.
Laser isn't much better, but at least it doesn't feel like virtual buggering.
Its not? I bought a $100 samsung personal laser printer about 3 years ago and have bought toner once. Thats less than 200 dollars spent in 3 years for great B&w quality, no inky messes, no head cleaning, amazing reliability, etc. When i had an inkjet I think I bought ink almost monthly at 20-30 bucks a pop.
For me, laser has been much cheaper, more reliable, and no midnight runs for ink. I can't imagine going back.
>If this is false and you know it and M$ paid you to put it here,
Wait, yuore telling me the Mozilla foundation does not get money (72 million) from google to make it the default search AND I'm paid by MS because I mentioned this fact?
Right, by paying firefox (and others) to default to google search. The end users don't choose based on merits, companies who take their money make the choices.
Lets not pretend google isnt the same as any big company. They are.
Wow, thats not being overly dramatic. In the real world these attacks are managed risks. You cant ever have some kind of perfect system. Equating a virus outbreak and a few hundred attacks on a computer network to the fall of an ancient empire is being goofy.
Here in illinois the 1.5mbps package is only 19.99. Sure you need a landline but there's no contracts. Comcast in Chicago is something like 60-70 dollars. 20 dollars a month should be the price point for usable and stable broadband not 50-70.
Gold-farming itself creaets inflation. Thus casual, and even not-so casual players, cant afford items they should be able to afford considering the time they spent online playing because of this inlfation. Thse people then considering buying from farmers and leading to even worse inflation.
Also. Gold farmers dont just farm gold. They also sell items. That messes with groups (ninja looters) and with the game economy.
>For example, with my Treo I'm forced to purchade the $15/month unlimited data plan from Sprint. It's required for all their smartphones.
I'm not. I dont know what kind of contract you decided to sign, but I've canceled the data plan on my treo for a long time before deciding I really need it.
Actually the aerosmith I do like is from the 70s. What I dont like are these non-singles like 'last child' that no one seems to know about being put in the game. No other player I know has heard of it or can sing along to it. They managed to get aerosmith but couldnt pay the fees for a more popular song. This isn't a music geeks game, its a mass produced goofy game. Hell, if licensing for every song on that album was the same why not go with back in the saddle? It really hurts the game to be this cheap.
I bought guitar hero two a month or so ago and its become pretty obvious that theyre making an effort to license "budget" songs. Theres an aerosmith song on there Ive never even heard of. There are songs from bands on there that make you go 'huh why this?' They are continuing this tradition with the 80s series. Pretty sad, I'd rather have less songs that are bad ass guitar songs instead of 6 or 8 singles i can recognize and bunch of filler. Hopefully, some enterpising developer will move in with something better using thee gh controler, if the whole this isnt a patent minefield.
I don't know where all the anti-union rhetoric comes from
The only thing I know about unions is that when my dad started a little business (wont say where) and had the carpenter hes worked with for decades came by and do the interior some local union decided to picket. They picketed a tiny business. Fine, thats freedom of speech. Nothing came of it but later that week the air conditioner on the roof magically had a big hole in it around opening day. The air conditioning guy thought it was shot with a pistol. Ah, nothing like terrorizing small business.
Toss in stuff like Hoffa, that Ratzilla inflatable thing, incredible wages/penions for people who didnt even go to college, union wages, corruption, etc and you'll begin to get the idea that some (most?) hard working people see Unions as a historical relic at best or a scam at worst.
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Exactly, I could code up some kind of spyware and deploy it as a standard .exe via email with the subject line "Important security update from your IT department." If I target 5 people the chances of my code being detected by heuristics is very low and the chances of one of these 5 people reporting it to the big AV companies is close to zero.
Favoring strongmen? No. Caerfulling weighing the costs of war vs containment? Yes.
Youre like that kid in grade school who would egg someone to on to fight and if they didnt you called them a coward. It wasnt convincing them and its not convincing now.
Not to mention, Iraq shows us that toppling a dictator doesnt automatically result in a western-style democracy by default.
Yep and Boost mobile phones which are also feature-poor and cheap. Something tells me submitter is either an ad or didnt look too hard and just wanted to bitch and moan.
Well, he does have an incredible amount of influence and has shown to have made good judgements in the past.
That said, I largely agree with him. The anti-tivoization provisions and anti-DRM is way too much personal ethics where there should only be free software. v4 I expect to have more personal ethics like 'cannot be used by the military' or 'cannot be used by republicans.' Or maybe just 'cannot dual boot windoze.' Who knows what personal ethical stand is popular with geeks at the time of the next drafting. This is a slipperly slope.
The reason you think huge bandwidth to the home is unfeasible is because you're stuck in the capitalist mentality
As opposed to all the communist gigbit connections and computer advancements? His criticisms, if you read them, are about bus speeds mostly.
Plentiful, cheap anything is bad for business
Bullshit. Cheap plentiful computer components means cheap PCs for you and me and lots of business for Dell and HP.
Dont let the music company and teeny-bopper fans turn you off from everything every company has ever done. Unfortunatly, using the goofy mafiaa acronym means +3 insightful around here.
Hey now, lets not be mean. Lets give sony some credit:
1. ATRAC. You know, like, "Im gonna download me some ATRACs."
2. UMD. As in "Im gonna go rent some UMDs"
3. Home betamax. As in "Im going to go rent some beta tapes!"
4. Memory stick. Its memory on a stick!
5. The first commercial rootkit.
6. That 3,000 dollar robot dog thing.
I got maybe 50% of these while scrolling down and seeing the graphic first and the name last. Thats also expecting to see a celebrity too. I doubt your best Dick Cheney (or identical george costanza) would be recognizable. On the wii people would just think of you as just another fat bald guy.
A cheaper wii probably isnt the way to go. After spending some time with a wii, I was stunned at how terrible the graphics were. I swear my gamecube looked nicer. I'd love to see them release a box that looks better than a 1990s era PC game running a geforce3 card.
Don't pretend that geeks are somehow special in a way that no one else ever was.
Very true. The problem is that slashdot caters to HS/college age people who have all sorts of rebellious attitudes (see the the rant posted by gp). At the end of the day most places have given in to casual dress, work is not as bad as you think, and life gets easier when you start shedding your inflated ego/snobishness/chip-on-shoulder.
If someone feels so strongly about work structures I suggest they attempt to start their own business, be all wavy-gravey, and try not to act too surprised when your customers hate your "in your face service" and your employees come in wearing stinky beach-wear over their obese bodies.
That said, I believe any position that involves moving heavy things should be allowed to wear jeans and regular shoes.
>'Apple's released a proprietary & DRM-crippled phone - I wonder if it has GPLd software on it?'
First off, just saying that implies it does and gplv2 has no provision to stop drm. And who are these people "saving?" Apple customers are more tech savvy than PC buyers and probably know what they are getting into. iTunes proves that DRM is not "crippling" but acceptable to the public and is the defacto way to get legal downloads. The problem here are the fsf snobs who are implying apple as a company is running a scam against oss and its own "ignorant" customers.
If anything, this is a huge disinventive for any company in the future to deal with any oss software. The rabid fanboys who think they know better than everyone will simply denounce you and cause bad publicity, sometimes without proof.
Another reason I will never send money to the fsf.
We're still going to have 80 14 year olds crying that they're being put down "by the man"
Hello. Welcome to slashdot!
I dont like it either and I think in the long run its going to hurt oss adoption, but at the same time its almost trivial for manufacturers to 'tivoise' all their equipment. If this happens en masse it would hurt oss quite a bit. I'm not sure who wins in this scenario, but the neckbeards have decided to shoot back and declare hardware as theirs. This is something to consider before releasing anything under v3.
Ive run skype over a cell phone used as a modem and even with EVDO speeds the latency and dropped packets are pretty bad. I doubt EDGE will be much better and I'm certain plain-jane GSM will sound much, much better. I also wouldnt put it past cell phone providers to make sure that voip gets either blocked or the lowest priority on the data network end of things.
Laser isn't much better, but at least it doesn't feel like virtual buggering.
Its not? I bought a $100 samsung personal laser printer about 3 years ago and have bought toner once. Thats less than 200 dollars spent in 3 years for great B&w quality, no inky messes, no head cleaning, amazing reliability, etc. When i had an inkjet I think I bought ink almost monthly at 20-30 bucks a pop.
For me, laser has been much cheaper, more reliable, and no midnight runs for ink. I can't imagine going back.
>If this is false and you know it and M$ paid you to put it here,
Wait, yuore telling me the Mozilla foundation does not get money (72 million) from google to make it the default search AND I'm paid by MS because I mentioned this fact?
Are you just stupid or crazy and stupid?
>competes on merits.
Right, by paying firefox (and others) to default to google search. The end users don't choose based on merits, companies who take their money make the choices.
Lets not pretend google isnt the same as any big company. They are.
>This is how Rome fell.
Wow, thats not being overly dramatic. In the real world these attacks are managed risks. You cant ever have some kind of perfect system. Equating a virus outbreak and a few hundred attacks on a computer network to the fall of an ancient empire is being goofy.
>Unix and Mac users in fact liked to joke
Youve obviously never:
1. Worked in a mac shop
2. Worked with mac users
3. Or come to the realiztion how immature desktop *nix is.
If conspiracy theories make you feel better thats great, but you're just fooling yourself.
Here in illinois the 1.5mbps package is only 19.99. Sure you need a landline but there's no contracts. Comcast in Chicago is something like 60-70 dollars. 20 dollars a month should be the price point for usable and stable broadband not 50-70.
Gold-farming itself creaets inflation. Thus casual, and even not-so casual players, cant afford items they should be able to afford considering the time they spent online playing because of this inlfation. Thse people then considering buying from farmers and leading to even worse inflation.
Also. Gold farmers dont just farm gold. They also sell items. That messes with groups (ninja looters) and with the game economy.
>For example, with my Treo I'm forced to purchade the $15/month unlimited data plan from Sprint. It's required for all their smartphones.
I'm not. I dont know what kind of contract you decided to sign, but I've canceled the data plan on my treo for a long time before deciding I really need it.
Actually the aerosmith I do like is from the 70s. What I dont like are these non-singles like 'last child' that no one seems to know about being put in the game. No other player I know has heard of it or can sing along to it. They managed to get aerosmith but couldnt pay the fees for a more popular song. This isn't a music geeks game, its a mass produced goofy game. Hell, if licensing for every song on that album was the same why not go with back in the saddle? It really hurts the game to be this cheap.
I bought guitar hero two a month or so ago and its become pretty obvious that theyre making an effort to license "budget" songs. Theres an aerosmith song on there Ive never even heard of. There are songs from bands on there that make you go 'huh why this?' They are continuing this tradition with the 80s series. Pretty sad, I'd rather have less songs that are bad ass guitar songs instead of 6 or 8 singles i can recognize and bunch of filler. Hopefully, some enterpising developer will move in with something better using thee gh controler, if the whole this isnt a patent minefield.
I don't know where all the anti-union rhetoric comes from
The only thing I know about unions is that when my dad started a little business (wont say where) and had the carpenter hes worked with for decades came by and do the interior some local union decided to picket. They picketed a tiny business. Fine, thats freedom of speech. Nothing came of it but later that week the air conditioner on the roof magically had a big hole in it around opening day. The air conditioning guy thought it was shot with a pistol. Ah, nothing like terrorizing small business.
Toss in stuff like Hoffa, that Ratzilla inflatable thing, incredible wages/penions for people who didnt even go to college, union wages, corruption, etc and you'll begin to get the idea that some (most?) hard working people see Unions as a historical relic at best or a scam at worst.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but 11 years in prison is too much, that's a murder's sentence..
No its not. Its more like "I sold pot to a consenting adult."
The average sentence for a state crime is 4.5 years. 11 is the max here, he'll get less than half and get out in less than 2 years.