No, it's an article because it legally licences a CSS decryptor. That's why it's sold for money (and isn't Free).
For years Linux users claimed that they had to use DeCSS/libdvdcss/some other reverse-engineered CSS decryptor since there is no DVD player for Linux with a legal decryptor. Now there is one. That's news.
They are likely encouraging the use of Mozilla/Firefox, or at least ignoring IE development, so that
a) Firefox becomes mainstream enough for attackers to consider, removing one of its advantages,
b) it becomes known enough that when bad things happen to it the event will be noticed and associated with OSS, which they are also pushing into the public consciousness, or even possibly
c) it becomes better and considered as a normal browser, both for monopoly defense and so that
d) they can integrate at least the Gecko renderer into Windows and spend no resources on IE/MSHTML, which makes it a possibility that
e) Microsoft can shift away from HTML into whatever it thinks it can have a tighter, proprietary hold on.
Even though Microsoft has its own dialect of C++ and libraries, it still made a C# that it created and owns. In the same way, MS may abandon HTML simply because most everything is a free standard, and if the browser wars are coming back, the exotic proprietary stuff (largely ActiveX and MS's DHTML and VBScript/JavaScript customizations) won't be as important to developers.
Moreover, MS is making no profit from IE. It's profits are coming from Windows and Office - areas that OSS has not yet surpassed in functionality and ease of use and installation. It's probably not worth fighthing the browser wars in terms of resources; they'll have to develop something giving them no profits, when they can concede that Mozilla is better and not pay for its development.
The "web app" future didn't arrive quite the way people thought it would. Local software is still more common than any web app (the most common web apps are webmail, etc.), and the Internet is still separate from the rest of the computer. I doubt MS would lose anything of importance even if it made Firefox the default, bundled (that's legal) browser with Windows, and designed small, isolatable parts of Office/Windows to be OSS so that they can link with Gecko. All they would lose is the division of IE development that's taking resources from their budget.
We've got a firewall, NAT, and HTTP content filter (blocka IE malware) at the school board office, and it works well. I think the last time my computer science teacher's NT server went down is when she hit the wrong button on her UPS.
Maybe two or three machines run Linux, and a couple are ancient beige Macs not yet found by the phaser-outers. Our web page even uses old IIS. There have only been a few viruses as far as I saw, and all of them easily containable.
Most people have Word; it comes with many computers sold. And Mac OS until recently had no compiler included (you had to get CodeWarrior or the like, which was as expensive as Visual Studio); now it includes GCC, which is available for Windows with an optional GUI, both Free, though MS won't include open-source stuff with Windows. And Mac OS X's Developer Tools comes on a separate disc (though it comes in the OS box).
And do you want GUI or not? Half your post implies you need command-line, not GUI; the other half, the reverse.
Where's a free (stripped down) version of Visual Basic on Windows? You know, include a low VB 5 compiler for quick stuff..
Microsoft Word | Tools | Options | Visual Basic.
Visual Basic for Applications can do most of basic VB stuff. I had to write an applet at a non-networked Win98 computer with just Office, and VBA came in quite useful.
Oh, and the.NET SDK is a free download from MS...I don't have the link now, but you can search for it. Install it, and you get the commandline "vbc" VB.NET compiler and "csc" C#.NET compiler. Moreover, this is not stripped-down; this is the full Visual Studio.NET compilers less the "Visual" part.
Or the reverse. In Lafayette, Louisiana, we have "GEAUX CAJUNS" printed on our buses and stuff as support for our sports teams. Never mind that "geaux" would actually be pronounced "joe", not "go", because of the e-makes-soft-g rule (which exists in both English and French).
We'll see how you like this in a few years when there's a 'security agent' pestering you for your ID every morning as you go to your job.
I won't care. Honestly, what is the problem? Here's my ID, go run any scans you want, turn up nothing, and let me pass. And I have the skin color of the stereotypical terrorist, whereas I might assume you're probably white, the race of most of the government - not that I'm racist, just that I'm not worried if others are.
And no, I'm not a "sheep" as some may say. I just know what real threats are and what's not worth worrying about. Smart man knows when to fight. Wise man knows when not to.
Not unless having a half-intelligent government of a nation of people is Orwellian.
The government reserves the right to know who exactly is in the country. You're a citizen, you have certain responsibilities to the state if you don't want to get arrested - or you're an alien, and you have even more if you don't want to get evicted.
The government has always reserved this right. Public anonymity to other private individuals has its uses and should be permitted under most cases, but public anonymity to the police is basically hiding from the government, which you should be detained for.
And the Supreme Court has always had the ability to refuse an appeal - whereupon the lower court's decision (federal appellate, IIRC) continues its effect.
Yes, the police's rights can be abused. But e-mail can be and has been abused, so is e-mail thus a bad thing?
If you don't like what the government's doing, show me YOUR plan, and tell me how it introduces no new shortcomings. For longstanding principles like this that are somehow "news" (on Slashdot of all places), I really doubt you can.
unless I am mistaken, has only a FireWire cable for control. If you buy the adapter, can you connect another FW unit that responds like an iPod would...e.g, a satellite-based or 802.11-wardriving IP phone, or a GPS system (control buttons and text-to-speech directions)?
If English isn't your native language, I can sympathize with your situation. I hate conjugating oddball irregular verbs in French...and yes, you were quite understandable.
I would, because I use CDs rarely enough and get new CDs almost never. Enough of what you need is on the Internet. And the few things I do get can be trusted (mostly software I'm installing that could put whatever it wants on through that channel anyway).
Most of the time Slashdot spelling comments are just offtopic nitpicking (especially the virii/viruses debate), but seriously, "buyed"!?
Repeat after me. B. O. U. G. H. T.
Slashdot's language is English, and English has its share of irregular verbs. If you don't like it, use a constructed language like Interlingua or Esperanto or Lojban...but leave normal English the bleep alone.
Me, a callous, angst-ridden loser? Wow. Maybe you ought to meet me. I'm the person who cannot be en-angst-ed even if there is sufficient reason. A hyper, overhappy loser might describe me, though.
I argued that point for the sake of philosophical argument, because the point needed to be argued, not because I personally believe in it. I'm not that crazy. Re: the question: no, I do not believe the risk is worth the money.
And I said nothing about family. Paul Johnson is probably perfectly happy right now. His family isn't.
I wasn't serious, of course. You think I'm that crazy, to take such a risk if there are safer alternatives? I was arguing a point for the sake of arguing.
And yes, I would prefer to be a prisoner in an American jail than a prisoner anywhere else (well, except maybe the Vatican's or something). However, with an expectation of quick death, I would rather be captured and killed for no fault of mine than be given a life after torment and a dark stain on my conscience.
And, morally, I feel more comfortable suffering at the hands of evil people for their fault than suffering at the hands of good people for my fault.
There is a way. Xbox Live. When you connect with a game that needs patching, Live informs the console, and the console makes it mandatory to download the update (to the HD) before finishing connecting.
Of course, that's assuming that the game supports Xbox Live and Live-based patching. Crimson Skies, the Xbox dashboard, etc. support these. I haven't played Thief, so I don't know if it has Live...
Not every teenager can pass these certifications. I wouldn't expect the majority of my CS II class to. Whatever you say about inept certifieds, these people are worse.
And your generalization of "nobody" ignores the extremely rare exceptions such as Evariste Galois, who in his teens solved a problem that had troubled mathematicians for centuries and laid the foundation for abstract algebra, and was killed fighting a duel over love.
Death by terrorists is, literally, nothing, after a few possible days of torture and a few years of good job, followed by practically worldwide sympathy. Jail is a few years of you rotting, preceded by a few years of an illegal job below your knowledge, followed by a criminal record.
I would prefer the void of death to the destroyed life of jail. Frankly, I wonder why this guy facing the death penalty is fighting to the Supreme Court for life in prison; isn't death preferable?
And, of course, older versions don't have replace, and there's no Print dialog (it immediately starts printing, which can be wasteful if you accidentally clicked Print, or meant to change settings). Moreover, the default settings have page headers (so it's hard to get a blank page), and at least recent versions refuse to print a blank page. And find/replace on new ones doesn't handle newlines, which compounds the problem. And undo undoes too much; a paste is considered part of typing, so undoing a paste undoes to the beginning of your own typing.
It does have one feature: try creating a text file with.LOG as the first line, closing, and reopening it. (not sure if it still works....)
I think, politically, that Christianity has two aspects (left and right). The left is more like the original Christians, fighting for their upstart religion against an oppressive religious community in Israel and a generally oppressive government in Rome. The right is more like Christianity today, with Bush fighting half on religious grounds.
There are teachings of Jesus that are politically conservative, e.g., "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's [taxes on money with his picture printed on them] and render unto God what is God's [yourself, created in God's image]." However, there is also the liberal aspect, of giving your tunic when a man takes your cloak, of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, of loving your neighbor, and the like. Maybe a Christian left, the religious left, could be stronger than the left or the Christians by themselves.
I know many leading figures in F/OSS are not Christians, yet I have never seen any difference between the two sets of beliefs.
Except possibly where the Bible says the rulers are those God has appointed, and we should submit to their will. But then the rulers of America are only those elected by the people in accordance with the Constitution. After all, the Antichrist takes power somehow, and it's obvious he's not a God-fearing ruler.
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He's talking about a computer chip, not a potato chip.
No, it's an article because it legally licences a CSS decryptor. That's why it's sold for money (and isn't Free).
For years Linux users claimed that they had to use DeCSS/libdvdcss/some other reverse-engineered CSS decryptor since there is no DVD player for Linux with a legal decryptor. Now there is one. That's news.
They are likely encouraging the use of Mozilla/Firefox, or at least ignoring IE development, so that
a) Firefox becomes mainstream enough for attackers to consider, removing one of its advantages,
b) it becomes known enough that when bad things happen to it the event will be noticed and associated with OSS, which they are also pushing into the public consciousness, or even possibly
c) it becomes better and considered as a normal browser, both for monopoly defense and so that
d) they can integrate at least the Gecko renderer into Windows and spend no resources on IE/MSHTML, which makes it a possibility that
e) Microsoft can shift away from HTML into whatever it thinks it can have a tighter, proprietary hold on.
Even though Microsoft has its own dialect of C++ and libraries, it still made a C# that it created and owns. In the same way, MS may abandon HTML simply because most everything is a free standard, and if the browser wars are coming back, the exotic proprietary stuff (largely ActiveX and MS's DHTML and VBScript/JavaScript customizations) won't be as important to developers.
Moreover, MS is making no profit from IE. It's profits are coming from Windows and Office - areas that OSS has not yet surpassed in functionality and ease of use and installation. It's probably not worth fighthing the browser wars in terms of resources; they'll have to develop something giving them no profits, when they can concede that Mozilla is better and not pay for its development.
The "web app" future didn't arrive quite the way people thought it would. Local software is still more common than any web app (the most common web apps are webmail, etc.), and the Internet is still separate from the rest of the computer. I doubt MS would lose anything of importance even if it made Firefox the default, bundled (that's legal) browser with Windows, and designed small, isolatable parts of Office/Windows to be OSS so that they can link with Gecko. All they would lose is the division of IE development that's taking resources from their budget.
We've got a firewall, NAT, and HTTP content filter (blocka IE malware) at the school board office, and it works well. I think the last time my computer science teacher's NT server went down is when she hit the wrong button on her UPS.
Maybe two or three machines run Linux, and a couple are ancient beige Macs not yet found by the phaser-outers. Our web page even uses old IIS. There have only been a few viruses as far as I saw, and all of them easily containable.
Yes.
Whatever the circumstances, it is still a step in the right direction.
Most people have Word; it comes with many computers sold. And Mac OS until recently had no compiler included (you had to get CodeWarrior or the like, which was as expensive as Visual Studio); now it includes GCC, which is available for Windows with an optional GUI, both Free, though MS won't include open-source stuff with Windows. And Mac OS X's Developer Tools comes on a separate disc (though it comes in the OS box).
And do you want GUI or not? Half your post implies you need command-line, not GUI; the other half, the reverse.
Where's a free (stripped down) version of Visual Basic on Windows? You know, include a low VB 5 compiler for quick stuff..
.NET SDK is a free download from MS...I don't have the link now, but you can search for it. Install it, and you get the commandline "vbc" VB.NET compiler and "csc" C#.NET compiler. Moreover, this is not stripped-down; this is the full Visual Studio.NET compilers less the "Visual" part.
Microsoft Word | Tools | Options | Visual Basic.
Visual Basic for Applications can do most of basic VB stuff. I had to write an applet at a non-networked Win98 computer with just Office, and VBA came in quite useful.
Oh, and the
Or the reverse. In Lafayette, Louisiana, we have "GEAUX CAJUNS" printed on our buses and stuff as support for our sports teams. Never mind that "geaux" would actually be pronounced "joe", not "go", because of the e-makes-soft-g rule (which exists in both English and French).
We'll see how you like this in a few years when there's a 'security agent' pestering you for your ID every morning as you go to your job.
I won't care. Honestly, what is the problem? Here's my ID, go run any scans you want, turn up nothing, and let me pass. And I have the skin color of the stereotypical terrorist, whereas I might assume you're probably white, the race of most of the government - not that I'm racist, just that I'm not worried if others are.
And no, I'm not a "sheep" as some may say. I just know what real threats are and what's not worth worrying about. Smart man knows when to fight. Wise man knows when not to.
Sound Orwellian?
No.
Not unless having a half-intelligent government of a nation of people is Orwellian.
The government reserves the right to know who exactly is in the country. You're a citizen, you have certain responsibilities to the state if you don't want to get arrested - or you're an alien, and you have even more if you don't want to get evicted.
The government has always reserved this right. Public anonymity to other private individuals has its uses and should be permitted under most cases, but public anonymity to the police is basically hiding from the government, which you should be detained for.
And the Supreme Court has always had the ability to refuse an appeal - whereupon the lower court's decision (federal appellate, IIRC) continues its effect.
Yes, the police's rights can be abused. But e-mail can be and has been abused, so is e-mail thus a bad thing?
If you don't like what the government's doing, show me YOUR plan, and tell me how it introduces no new shortcomings. For longstanding principles like this that are somehow "news" (on Slashdot of all places), I really doubt you can.
unless I am mistaken, has only a FireWire cable for control. If you buy the adapter, can you connect another FW unit that responds like an iPod would...e.g, a satellite-based or 802.11-wardriving IP phone, or a GPS system (control buttons and text-to-speech directions)?
If English isn't your native language, I can sympathize with your situation. I hate conjugating oddball irregular verbs in French...and yes, you were quite understandable.
Sorry for getting angry.
Take off every 'SpaceShipOne'!
You know what you doing.
Move 'SpaceShipOne'!
For great history!
Or, derived from Wikipedia's freeform translation:
We have no time to lose. It's up to him.
All our hope for the future is in his hands.
Godspeed, SpaceShipOne pilot!
Libel lawsuit. Viacom has too much money.
And, I assume, enough common sense that they wouldn't risk one.
I would, because I use CDs rarely enough and get new CDs almost never. Enough of what you need is on the Internet. And the few things I do get can be trusted (mostly software I'm installing that could put whatever it wants on through that channel anyway).
Most of the time Slashdot spelling comments are just offtopic nitpicking (especially the virii/viruses debate), but seriously, "buyed"!?
Repeat after me.
B. O. U. G. H. T.
Slashdot's language is English, and English has its share of irregular verbs. If you don't like it, use a constructed language like Interlingua or Esperanto or Lojban...but leave normal English the bleep alone.
Me, a callous, angst-ridden loser? Wow. Maybe you ought to meet me. I'm the person who cannot be en-angst-ed even if there is sufficient reason. A hyper, overhappy loser might describe me, though.
I argued that point for the sake of philosophical argument, because the point needed to be argued, not because I personally believe in it. I'm not that crazy. Re: the question: no, I do not believe the risk is worth the money.
And I said nothing about family. Paul Johnson is probably perfectly happy right now. His family isn't.
You're a disgrace to humanity.
I plead no contest.
I wasn't serious, of course. You think I'm that crazy, to take such a risk if there are safer alternatives? I was arguing a point for the sake of arguing.
And yes, I would prefer to be a prisoner in an American jail than a prisoner anywhere else (well, except maybe the Vatican's or something). However, with an expectation of quick death, I would rather be captured and killed for no fault of mine than be given a life after torment and a dark stain on my conscience.
And, morally, I feel more comfortable suffering at the hands of evil people for their fault than suffering at the hands of good people for my fault.
There is a way. Xbox Live. When you connect with a game that needs patching, Live informs the console, and the console makes it mandatory to download the update (to the HD) before finishing connecting.
Of course, that's assuming that the game supports Xbox Live and Live-based patching. Crimson Skies, the Xbox dashboard, etc. support these. I haven't played Thief, so I don't know if it has Live...
The average machine IS Windows. Even Windows 95 machines probably outnumber every non-Windows OS machine combined.
"Don't misunderestimate me!"
Not every teenager can pass these certifications. I wouldn't expect the majority of my CS II class to. Whatever you say about inept certifieds, these people are worse.
And your generalization of "nobody" ignores the extremely rare exceptions such as Evariste Galois, who in his teens solved a problem that had troubled mathematicians for centuries and laid the foundation for abstract algebra, and was killed fighting a duel over love.
Death by terrorists is, literally, nothing, after a few possible days of torture and a few years of good job, followed by practically worldwide sympathy. Jail is a few years of you rotting, preceded by a few years of an illegal job below your knowledge, followed by a criminal record.
I would prefer the void of death to the destroyed life of jail. Frankly, I wonder why this guy facing the death penalty is fighting to the Supreme Court for life in prison; isn't death preferable?
And, of course, older versions don't have replace, and there's no Print dialog (it immediately starts printing, which can be wasteful if you accidentally clicked Print, or meant to change settings). Moreover, the default settings have page headers (so it's hard to get a blank page), and at least recent versions refuse to print a blank page. And find/replace on new ones doesn't handle newlines, which compounds the problem. And undo undoes too much; a paste is considered part of typing, so undoing a paste undoes to the beginning of your own typing.
.LOG as the first line, closing, and reopening it. (not sure if it still works....)
It does have one feature: try creating a text file with
I think, politically, that Christianity has two aspects (left and right). The left is more like the original Christians, fighting for their upstart religion against an oppressive religious community in Israel and a generally oppressive government in Rome. The right is more like Christianity today, with Bush fighting half on religious grounds.
There are teachings of Jesus that are politically conservative, e.g., "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's [taxes on money with his picture printed on them] and render unto God what is God's [yourself, created in God's image]." However, there is also the liberal aspect, of giving your tunic when a man takes your cloak, of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, of loving your neighbor, and the like. Maybe a Christian left, the religious left, could be stronger than the left or the Christians by themselves.
I know many leading figures in F/OSS are not Christians, yet I have never seen any difference between the two sets of beliefs.
Except possibly where the Bible says the rulers are those God has appointed, and we should submit to their will. But then the rulers of America are only those elected by the people in accordance with the Constitution. After all, the Antichrist takes power somehow, and it's obvious he's not a God-fearing ruler.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of renderfarms...a 2D cluster!