Perhaps the report should state that people who use P2P for illegal purposes are more likely to commit other crimes. Which is completely logical: if you're willing to commit one type of crime, you're probably more likely to commit others.
I make occaisional use of P2P, but I don't do illegal things with it.
A shop I worked at had a DG Aviion that was being shared by several developers. We all had root access, and things generally ran smoothly.
One day as I was working, some of my friends came into my office and mentioned they were having trouble with the system, that it wasn't allowing logins. I was surprised, since I hadn't noticed anything in several hours of work. "Look", I said, "I'm not having any problems", whereupon I logged out and couldn't get back in.
After lots of diagnostics, and booting from the support tape (which is something that I'm glad I'll never do again), we determined that the ownership of critical files had been changed. It turned out that one of my friends (normally a very bright guy) noticed that all the files that were in the/bin dierectory weren't owned by "bin"...so he fixed it. And all the suid programs that had to be root to work stopped working, including the ones that handled the login process.
The really annoying part is that the fellow in question didn't come forward (for a long time). The day it happened, he swore he didn't do anything, and even went to lunch with the other programmers while I was on the phone with DG support trying to track down the problem! It was still many months of occasional failures before we got most of the files fixed.
I actually got an answer to this. According to CmdrTaco, they almost always know it's a dupe, but they rerun the story if they get I high rate of submissions. The theory is that if readers are still submitting the story in large batches, then they didn't see it the first time.
He wants to "place calls from your GSM phone across your VOIP connection or though your local landline". You can do that with the gateway as described. Nothing is mentioned about setting up a private cell.
And how am I confusing GSM with peer-to-peer radio? Why did you feel a need to be insulting, rather than provide useful information?
The article explains how to do what the poster asked for: make a call on the cell phone and route it through asterisk. It looks like the GSM gateway acts as an extension in the Asterisk PBX network, so you should be able to do anything that a locally attached phone is permitted to do (based on configuration). That inclues placing outgoing calls on the land line.
One has to assume that part of the costs of purchasing the retail version of WoW are the retail packaging itself. In the case of the free trial I used, that cost had already been paid for the media I used (by my friend). After I had installed the game and tried it, I should have been able to simply activate a subscription without buying a retail box (which was already obsolete due to patches).
The problem is not that WoW doesn't have an offline mode, the problem is that they want you to invest in spending a substantial upfront fee to "buy" the game. The game is useless without a separate subscription. If you don't pay the subscription you lose the ability to use the program.
So, I won't buy a game I can't at least try, and I won't buy a game that requires a subscription to play, and has no offline content.
I would love to play WoW, but there is not freely downloadable client. Further, a friend gave me the trial CDs that came with his collector's edition, and quit after I determined that even though I had a fully functional, legal copy, I couldn't upgrade to a paid subscription without going out and buying another box.
This seems to be a problem with most of the genre. I haven't played City of Heroes (no free trial), and I didn't follow up the Star Wars: Galaxies free trial because you have to go buy the full box even though you already have the full client installed.
I cannot justify spending money to buy the box for a game that CANNOT be played in an offline mode without a subscription. Why do MMORPG developers and publishers think this is an acceptable practice?
The problem is that there is a significant group of/. readers who are submitting the dupe. Since the editors feel it's important to post the dupe, it won't be rejected.
After a recent go-round with CmdrTaco regarding dupes, he mentioned that they typically know it's a dupe, but that they repost it because they have lots and lots of submissions for the same story. The thinking being, I presume, that if tons of people are submitting it, they don't (and won't) realize it's a dupe.
As far as technical fixes go, that's easy: add a "dupe" field to posts, and let users filter them out. Since it is claimed that the editors know it's a dupe most of the time, that would solve the problem (for me, at any rate).
No, it's not Windows fault (although generally everything else is). The fault is with the ISPs that allow computers to conect to each other in the first place. Sue the ISPs!
I saw the dupe and sent an email about it before it was published, and the response was (paraphrasing) "I know it's a dupe, but people keep submitting it, so I'm running it again". The line about/. having covered the story a few days before was added after that exchange.
My suggestion back was to have a way for the editors to flag a known dupe, and give users a way to filter out "re-runs".
I don't see where people suffering from obvious mental problems should be a source for humor. This is certainly a low point for/.
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If you saw a neighbor laying on his lawn in a puddle of blood, would you just "mind your own god damn business"? Or would you try to get them help? These people are obviously disturbed, and need help.
As far as "arbitrary social standards" are concerned, that's really the definition of civilization, isn't it?
All I can say is, I didn't rush throguh the game. I explored everything I could with my character, and eagerly played the first 2 expansions. But with such an open ended system, they should have been able to create many more official add-ons. And considering that the relative expense of creating a new expansion compared to the creation of the tool set, I think they (and Bioware) should have a small team of content creators just working on modules for these wonderfully extensible games. While there are some decent community created modules, they're usually very small.
I really don't understand what's up with Bethesda (and Bioware, for that matter). They spent a huge amount of time creating a flexible game architecture, and then created very little additional game content. I fully expected to be buying add-ons for years, but instead they only released 2 expansion packs each, and then abandoned them. Well, NWN has released a few small modules as download-only, but I was hoping for more full-fledged expansions.
I don't see anywhere in the article that indicates they're using undocumented internal com.sun.* classes. The problem seems to be that some key functionality in OpenOffice is implemented with Java, and that Java itself is not free. Also, it adds a requirement that any platform that runs OpenOffice must have a compatible implementation on Java.
That also means that, if OpenOffice is coded to the Java spec (which it should be), then they shouldn't feel responsible for making the code run with Kaffe, GCJ, Harmony, or any other non-spec Java environment.
On the other hand, if they coded it to spec, then OO shouldn't preclude the use of a different Java environment. If Kaffe, etc. were up to spec, it wouldn't be an issue. (I have no problems with these implementation, they all admit to various places where they don't fully implement the Java spec).
This is a purely political/religious/philosphical issue, not a technical one. The objection to Java is because Java itself isn't free, not that OpenOffice is tied to a particular implementation of Java.
popup, popunder: My popup blocker handles these. It's my broswer and desktop. You don't get to pick what's displayed, I do.
audio, animated, layer ads: These are distractions for me. I simply can't read a web page with an animated ad moving around off to the side, or wedged into the article, or some sliding ad box covering the text. I can usually tune my junkbuster file to get all of these.
IntelliTxt: This is not only annoying, it's almost criminally wasteful of bandwidth. I block this with junkbuster, so the requests to the IntelliTxt servers never happen.
Interstitals: Most sites are designed such that I get a JunkBuster display before moving to the main content. Sites that don't work that way, I simply ignore.
Basically, if I find something annoying enough, I block it. I won't spend more than a minute or so setting up my blocks, though. If it takes longer than that, I just won't go to that site anymore. There's too much content available from too many sources for any one site to command my attention.
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Perhaps the report should state that people who use P2P for illegal purposes are more likely to commit other crimes. Which is completely logical: if you're willing to commit one type of crime, you're probably more likely to commit others.
I make occaisional use of P2P, but I don't do illegal things with it.
Why does this guy get to post his game reviews on the front page? That's what the games section is for.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/31/154 6252&tid=172&tid=109
Now, they just need to buy/merge with Real, and you'd have a real powerhouse competitor to Microsoft.
A shop I worked at had a DG Aviion that was being shared by several developers. We all had root access, and things generally ran smoothly.
/bin dierectory weren't owned by "bin"...so he fixed it. And all the suid programs that had to be root to work stopped working, including the ones that handled the login process.
One day as I was working, some of my friends came into my office and mentioned they were having trouble with the system, that it wasn't allowing logins. I was surprised, since I hadn't noticed anything in several hours of work. "Look", I said, "I'm not having any problems", whereupon I logged out and couldn't get back in.
After lots of diagnostics, and booting from the support tape (which is something that I'm glad I'll never do again), we determined that the ownership of critical files had been changed. It turned out that one of my friends (normally a very bright guy) noticed that all the files that were in the
The really annoying part is that the fellow in question didn't come forward (for a long time). The day it happened, he swore he didn't do anything, and even went to lunch with the other programmers while I was on the phone with DG support trying to track down the problem! It was still many months of occasional failures before we got most of the files fixed.
I actually got an answer to this. According to CmdrTaco, they almost always know it's a dupe, but they rerun the story if they get I high rate of submissions. The theory is that if readers are still submitting the story in large batches, then they didn't see it the first time.
Of course, this might just be one they missed...
I finally got a first post and didn't realize it...
He wants to "place calls from your GSM phone across your VOIP connection or though your local landline". You can do that with the gateway as described. Nothing is mentioned about setting up a private cell.
And how am I confusing GSM with peer-to-peer radio? Why did you feel a need to be insulting, rather than provide useful information?
The article explains how to do what the poster asked for: make a call on the cell phone and route it through asterisk. It looks like the GSM gateway acts as an extension in the Asterisk PBX network, so you should be able to do anything that a locally attached phone is permitted to do (based on configuration). That inclues placing outgoing calls on the land line.
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=How+t o+connect+VoIP+GSM+gateway+to+Asterisk+PBX
One has to assume that part of the costs of purchasing the retail version of WoW are the retail packaging itself. In the case of the free trial I used, that cost had already been paid for the media I used (by my friend). After I had installed the game and tried it, I should have been able to simply activate a subscription without buying a retail box (which was already obsolete due to patches).
The problem is not that WoW doesn't have an offline mode, the problem is that they want you to invest in spending a substantial upfront fee to "buy" the game. The game is useless without a separate subscription. If you don't pay the subscription you lose the ability to use the program.
So, I won't buy a game I can't at least try, and I won't buy a game that requires a subscription to play, and has no offline content.
I would love to play WoW, but there is not freely downloadable client. Further, a friend gave me the trial CDs that came with his collector's edition, and quit after I determined that even though I had a fully functional, legal copy, I couldn't upgrade to a paid subscription without going out and buying another box.
This seems to be a problem with most of the genre. I haven't played City of Heroes (no free trial), and I didn't follow up the Star Wars: Galaxies free trial because you have to go buy the full box even though you already have the full client installed.
I cannot justify spending money to buy the box for a game that CANNOT be played in an offline mode without a subscription. Why do MMORPG developers and publishers think this is an acceptable practice?
The problem is that there is a significant group of /. readers who are submitting the dupe. Since the editors feel it's important to post the dupe, it won't be rejected.
After a recent go-round with CmdrTaco regarding dupes, he mentioned that they typically know it's a dupe, but that they repost it because they have lots and lots of submissions for the same story. The thinking being, I presume, that if tons of people are submitting it, they don't (and won't) realize it's a dupe.
As far as technical fixes go, that's easy: add a "dupe" field to posts, and let users filter them out. Since it is claimed that the editors know it's a dupe most of the time, that would solve the problem (for me, at any rate).
No, it's not Windows fault (although generally everything else is). The fault is with the ISPs that allow computers to conect to each other in the first place. Sue the ISPs!
I saw the dupe and sent an email about it before it was published, and the response was (paraphrasing) "I know it's a dupe, but people keep submitting it, so I'm running it again". The line about /. having covered the story a few days before was added after that exchange.
My suggestion back was to have a way for the editors to flag a known dupe, and give users a way to filter out "re-runs".
I don't see where people suffering from obvious mental problems should be a source for humor. This is certainly a low point for /.
If you saw a neighbor laying on his lawn in a puddle of blood, would you just "mind your own god damn business"? Or would you try to get them help? These people are obviously disturbed, and need help.
As far as "arbitrary social standards" are concerned, that's really the definition of civilization, isn't it?
All I can say is, I didn't rush throguh the game. I explored everything I could with my character, and eagerly played the first 2 expansions. But with such an open ended system, they should have been able to create many more official add-ons. And considering that the relative expense of creating a new expansion compared to the creation of the tool set, I think they (and Bioware) should have a small team of content creators just working on modules for these wonderfully extensible games. While there are some decent community created modules, they're usually very small.
I really don't understand what's up with Bethesda (and Bioware, for that matter). They spent a huge amount of time creating a flexible game architecture, and then created very little additional game content. I fully expected to be buying add-ons for years, but instead they only released 2 expansion packs each, and then abandoned them. Well, NWN has released a few small modules as download-only, but I was hoping for more full-fledged expansions.
The message you quote is from 1 Jul 2002, nearly 3 years ago. Do you have any current indication that com.sun.* classes are still in use?
I don't see anywhere in the article that indicates they're using undocumented internal com.sun.* classes. The problem seems to be that some key functionality in OpenOffice is implemented with Java, and that Java itself is not free. Also, it adds a requirement that any platform that runs OpenOffice must have a compatible implementation on Java.
That also means that, if OpenOffice is coded to the Java spec (which it should be), then they shouldn't feel responsible for making the code run with Kaffe, GCJ, Harmony, or any other non-spec Java environment.
On the other hand, if they coded it to spec, then OO shouldn't preclude the use of a different Java environment. If Kaffe, etc. were up to spec, it wouldn't be an issue. (I have no problems with these implementation, they all admit to various places where they don't fully implement the Java spec).
This is a purely political/religious/philosphical issue, not a technical one. The objection to Java is because Java itself isn't free, not that OpenOffice is tied to a particular implementation of Java.
I block any ads that are annoying. That means:
popup, popunder: My popup blocker handles these. It's my broswer and desktop. You don't get to pick what's displayed, I do.
audio, animated, layer ads: These are distractions for me. I simply can't read a web page with an animated ad moving around off to the side, or wedged into the article, or some sliding ad box covering the text. I can usually tune my junkbuster file to get all of these.
IntelliTxt: This is not only annoying, it's almost criminally wasteful of bandwidth. I block this with junkbuster, so the requests to the IntelliTxt servers never happen.
Interstitals: Most sites are designed such that I get a JunkBuster display before moving to the main content. Sites that don't work that way, I simply ignore.
Basically, if I find something annoying enough, I block it. I won't spend more than a minute or so setting up my blocks, though. If it takes longer than that, I just won't go to that site anymore. There's too much content available from too many sources for any one site to command my attention.
We know.