Win2k was the first (fairly) stable os from microsoft. I actually liked 2k, xp improved on that a bit.
I installed vista for a week or so. I liked aero. But the slow copying, and inability to access certain parts of the file system without doing a "Take Ownership" operation was completely out of control.
Ill say it again "copying is not stealing" please use the right terminology because you are making youself look bad when you try to compare the two. copying and stealing do not connect. there is no connection. Dont try to make one.
Any one using torrents to download copyrighted material, especially recently released copyrighted material, should never lose sight of the fact that what they are doing is illegal and probably at least a little immoral. You have to balance the immoral hijacking of the copyright laws against taking the results of peoples work without compensating them.
Ill have to point out that people inherently know when they are doing things wrong. Just because there is a law on the books that says you cant make copies without the right holders permission doesn't make it right. It just means a bunch of people who support the that law THINK its wrong. Copyright is way out of step with the times and people are aware of this. In this case the reason why people choose to not pay for copyrighted works is because its easier to do now with the Internet. had it been easier before without it, I think people would be doing the same thing. Some of the main reasons are, not having enough money to by a product, wanting to try before you buy, not worth the money that the product is charging, but wanting to have a copy for the sake of having it.
Make no mistake, this is about people in power trying to impose their set of ideals on the world, when clearly the majority of public DO NOT AGREE that it is wrong to download copyrighted works. making a copy of something does NOT deprive people of the property. So I think its complete bullshit for you even imply that its about moral issues. This is about CONTROL and who has the CONTROL makes the decisions about what people can and cannot have. IF you want the music industry to have CONTROL over how you live your life, then go ahead and subscribe to their ideals. But I don't buy it for one minute that copying peoples works is wrong. If you put something out their, expect that it will be taken and used without permission, thats part of life, part of being creative. The only time copyright law should be used is on someone that is small and not making enough money and depends on his work to survive. he needs copyright protection from groups of people that have no vested interest other than trying to profit on his work. how the hell does that apply to the small guy thats makes a copy of a song? or someone that runs a server that points to material, some of them copyrighted works that needs money to keep the server going?
I want to comment on this because I have had some experiences with depression and have used drugs in the past. Basicley I think the problem with all of us today is we are relaying way to much on external things or ideas to give our lives meaning. The mind is just a tool, to be used to help you live a better life. Not to be used compulsively. When you wrap your identity around the things you do as a person in the world its really hard to break free. You are not what you do. Who you are goes beyond the physical part of this world that we live in.
I think LSD helps you connect with that part of yourself, but I dont really think you need drugs to reach that. Present moment awareness practice is all you will ever need..
A couple of books I would recommend: The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle The Divine Matrix - Gregg Braden
I think its a mistake to try and use a computer system to try and prevent terrorism in this way. its hard to differentiate from valid and suspicious behavior. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Dear Stewart D. Mclaurin, What our students do on the campus network is really none of your fucking business. Comparing physical theft to COPY RIGHT INFRINGEMENT is utter nonsense and holds no basis in reality. I find it amusing that you are trying to impose your limited view on us. I pity anyone who fights the tide of a new understanding. An understanding that if you do provide what people want the way they want it at a low cost with minimal hassle you will find yourself out of a job as others that are not limited by your constraints will take over for you. The very reason this situation has reached the point of insanity is because your belief system is drenched in a deep sense of greed. Your organization and affiliates have lost all touch with the very people you are trying to serve.
Your actions show that you are unable to understand and accept a long standing unexpected shift in the ideas and values of our society. Its time to either alter your perception of the situation or pass the decision making on to the next generation.
Sincerely yours, Presidents from all collages and universities across the country.
The Bush administration has shit all over the Constitution and this country. They have committed treason.
Actually its the corporations that put him into power that we should be focusing on. He is just the fall guy for a policy created by organizations that have only one rule, maximize profits for shareholders. Dont shoot the messenger. Now im not saying let him off the hook, im just saying that people are focusing there energy in the wrong place and its preventing corporations from having to take responsibility for their actions.
fact it is their only job to provide us with services...
Actually the role of Government is to protect our individual rights as human citizens, and only that. The role government is playing now is hugely out of balance with the American publics ideals. It will only change when we stand up and demand it works our way, not the ways of mass corporations that are partnered with our government to provide services to us at the expense of our freedom.
I'm now just watching news about american politics like its an episode of 24. Try it sometime, its actually pretty enjoyable.
The only problem with this (and I dont mean to sound like the US is all that) is that our bullshit capitalistic system will be comming to a country near you in the very near future. Better that everyone get involved in putting a stop to this balent disregard for civil and human rights.
Point Taken, there is beauty in math. I think its the application S&T that should be driven from an Art perspective. I think we focus to much on the next best thing when we really can be appreciating the moment by creating for beauty's sake, and let the progressive part be a byproduct of that..
the games that really blew my mind were Another World, Flashback, and Shadow of the beast. When I saw Another world using vector graphics to draw in game shots of action via real life camera angles I couldn't believe what I was seeing.. Then I spent some of my College tuition money on TrueSpace (a revolutionary 3d application back then.. I was making models and animations.. Amiga just kicked ass, and I thought with this kind of technology anything is possible. But that was before I realized revolutionary technology doesn't really matter if you don't know how to market it like lame as commodore.. (sorry no offense):(.
Marking the 50th anniversary of Sputnik with a call for renewed emphasis on science and technology in America's schools
Actually I think it would be better to have an emphasis on expressive art with science and technology complimenting it. S&T is great for the mind, but it doesn't feed the soul.
Tiny Personal Firewall, but its been taking over by Computer Associates, so you cant buy it anymore.. Their are other firewall replacements out there with sandbox technology for windows, but they are buggy as hell.
This is why I use a firewall with sandbox technology. I never allow any service on my system to make changes to my OS without warning me first. And I never use Windows Update. If I have to install a patch (which is not usually the case because my system is pretty secure) I do it manually from the executable. and I am able to revert changes if it messes shit up.
Ill chime in on this issue from a philosophical standpoint. It seems like what is happening is people are falling into two camps. People that believe in the power of capitalism (our current economical system), and people that value the ability to provide solutions to problems and benefit from that solution or improving on it, without restrictions.
It breaks down even farther than that. People that believe in ownership and people that dont. Its starting to become apparent that if you identify with the idea of owning something (for the purpose of limiting everyone around you), you have let the idea of ownership cut you of from the collective good. Whenever you making something important enough to claim as 'mine and not and yours' you are missing out on the bigger picture of life. Everything that we create in this universe was built on from the ideas of others. You can't claim anything as yours because of this reason. To do so is to restrict the flow of life to yourself in such away as for everyone that values the freedom to build on the ideas of others (and profit as a byproduct of that ideal) from dealing with you entirely. Sure there are going to be people that sacrifice this ideal to gain an advantage in their own life at the expense of their own freedom (they might not need that freedom) The problem is that they do not represent the entire collective as they dont understand what they are giving up, which is long term good that open source provides to us as a social paradigm. A way to take away the power of centralized control and replace it with distributed empowerment through out the social collective.
The people that understand this goal are the ones that are going to save this society from ourselves as I dont think anyone with a capitalist mindset is going to understand the impact this is causing completely. They have been trained at birth to believe that whats mine is mine and whats yours is yours is the best approach, we have to start teaching people that this ideal (taken to its extreme) is causing a great deal of stagnation and misalignment to the common good.
The GPL3 takes the power away from organizations that focus on centralized power and gives it to the common man, a much more balanced approach to empowering people to live completely free.
OMG, another nice person making snap judgments as if he has everything all figured out. that will get you really far in this world. consider a therapist much?
Evolutionary theory has been repeated by Scientist for decades. It isn't new, and it isn't yours. But the basic idea behind it, that Science is such a tidy answer, has been known to be worthless in gaining wisdom for centuries. knoledge is a small part of a bigger equasion. In particular, the Evolutionary theory in its totality in explaining how life came about is weak a best, so it's even worse, because there is no reason for Evolution to use a common set of coding molecules.
But, in more simplistic terms, when you can come up with a better theory to that explains how evolution solves the "how we came about question", we will talk. It's not only the ability to falsify the theory (which happens all the time), but being able to come up with predictions. In either case, one cannot come up with an observational set that completely proves evolution captures the complete picture of life on earth. It may even be Science, but science doesn't explain everything, just a small portion of the truth about any one thing.
Hows that? sound pretty much like the same insanity you were just spewing? Science isnt god when it comes to understanding life, get some balance, then come back and talk about evolution and god.
The reason we should believe in evolution is because the experts in fields from geology, to genetics, to astrophysics all endorse theories in their fields supportive of evolution.
Sorry but that is utter bullshit. I like how you put that sentence in bold as if it is going to give it more weight.
Just because a bunch of so called experts in a particular filed believe something to be true doesn't necessarily mean its completely true. Collective belief systems can be just as flawed, the more experts you have in field the easier it is for the data to be subjected to a biased approach.
IMHO Science in and of it self, is its own religion. Its a belief system like anything else accept its based on so called facts that are determined though tests. In theory the world can return exactly what the observer/observers want to see, and if it becomes a collective belief, it becomes a so called fact because enough people believe in it.
We need to get off the science proves everything kick, its not helping us understand the world or our selfs better, it just helps us express one particular version of the truth about a object or subject. Their are multiple facets to everything in the universe some of which we are unable to experience in this reality.
Anyway, thats one way to look at it that i feel makes more sense.
first post I have ever seen on slashdot that contains utter insanity... Judging someone on hers or her beliefs on how life got started on earth is called discrimination. Beliefs have nothing to do with how a candidate does his job while he is in office. Get off your high horse and stop expecting people to think like you. Everyone is entitled to there opinions...
Should we double-guess what Microsoft tells us in their tech notes, and manually check every single patch? Every patch Tuesday, we get about 8 patches on average, how can any end user co. be expected to test out all these on their production networks? How exactly can sysadmins go about checking all these patches themselves? Does it add to their 'experience' or job value? I don't think so, and the sysads can't be bothered to verify what Microsoft ought to know.
I don't see why you think this is so hard, just turn off automatic updates on all the client machines. Have someone apply updates manually from a server on the network to the client machines after you have verified nobody else in the world is having problems with the updates after a couple of weeks. You would want to also check to see what each update does and think about what kind of impact it would have if you decide to apply that update to one of your client systems. Or you would want to probably setup a test client system that emulates other client machines in that business and apply updates to that machine, test the applications just to make sure there are not any problems. Failure to perform these actions could get you into a world of hurt you don't even want to think of being in, trust me, i have been there, learn from someone else who already made that mistake once. When it comes to making your job harder then it needs to be, never trust anyone but yourself.
Battlezone II: Combat Commander (From pandemic Studios) Minus the bugs, Best realtime first person combat strategy game ever made, hands down. Its not being distributed anymore, but there is a huge fan base that keeps updating the engine and game.
Deus Ex: Great music and game play, graphics and ai could have used some work
I'm an avid believer in minimizing my credit use. I think obtaining credit for certain things like buying a car or a house is fine, but I think credit cards give us a false sense of security. In that, it causes us to to devalue what things are worth. When you buy something with cash in hand you feel a sense of empowerment because you have the means to accomplish what you set out to do NOW. With credit you are operating at a deficiency (if you use credit cards to pay for things with money that you don't plan on having in the early future) You don't have worth to give you to the means to accomplish what you want, so you resort to sacrificing your financial future for a short term gain that isn't always quantifiable. This causes you to accumulate debt that you didn't think you would have. Now im not blaming people for this, its just the way it is and I understand that people feel like they need to obtain credit to buy in times of need, im just not sure how far you should go.
Secondly, I think that credit report system is flawed, having lenders use it for lending purposes are certainly understandable. The problem is I don't think its a good idea to use it as an end all solution to determine if someone is legit. People change, mistakes are made and are possibly corrected. Also the big thing i have a problem is with is that it is used by non-lenders. Paying bills such as utilities and rent should not even be factored into the use of credit reports. The largest problem of all, you don't have much control over what goes on your record. Basically you are putting someone else in power of determining your creditability and that is not something you want to do.
I'm interested in knowing if anyone would be interested in joining a grass roots effort to limit the scope of credit bureau influence.
I'm going to setup a website put something together, please email me if you are interested trinsic@in-trinsic.net
You took my response out of context. Im not defending the MPAA notice issue, im just drawing focus to the fact that the admins need to be able to identify computers on the network incase they need to be shut down for serious issues such as DDOS attacks and what not.
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Win2k was the first (fairly) stable os from microsoft. I actually liked 2k, xp improved on that a bit.
I installed vista for a week or so. I liked aero. But the slow copying, and inability to access certain parts of the file system without doing a "Take Ownership" operation was completely out of control.
Ill say it again "copying is not stealing" please use the right terminology because you are making youself look bad when you try to compare the two. copying and stealing do not connect. there is no connection. Dont try to make one.
Ill have to point out that people inherently know when they are doing things wrong. Just because there is a law on the books that says you cant make copies without the right holders permission doesn't make it right. It just means a bunch of people who support the that law THINK its wrong. Copyright is way out of step with the times and people are aware of this. In this case the reason why people choose to not pay for copyrighted works is because its easier to do now with the Internet. had it been easier before without it, I think people would be doing the same thing. Some of the main reasons are, not having enough money to by a product, wanting to try before you buy, not worth the money that the product is charging, but wanting to have a copy for the sake of having it.
Make no mistake, this is about people in power trying to impose their set of ideals on the world, when clearly the majority of public DO NOT AGREE that it is wrong to download copyrighted works. making a copy of something does NOT deprive people of the property. So I think its complete bullshit for you even imply that its about moral issues. This is about CONTROL and who has the CONTROL makes the decisions about what people can and cannot have. IF you want the music industry to have CONTROL over how you live your life, then go ahead and subscribe to their ideals. But I don't buy it for one minute that copying peoples works is wrong. If you put something out their, expect that it will be taken and used without permission, thats part of life, part of being creative. The only time copyright law should be used is on someone that is small and not making enough money and depends on his work to survive. he needs copyright protection from groups of people that have no vested interest other than trying to profit on his work. how the hell does that apply to the small guy thats makes a copy of a song? or someone that runs a server that points to material, some of them copyrighted works that needs money to keep the server going?
I want to comment on this because I have had some experiences with depression and have used drugs in the past. Basicley I think the problem with all of us today is we are relaying way to much on external things or ideas to give our lives meaning. The mind is just a tool, to be used to help you live a better life. Not to be used compulsively. When you wrap your identity around the things you do as a person in the world its really hard to break free. You are not what you do. Who you are goes beyond the physical part of this world that we live in.
I think LSD helps you connect with that part of yourself, but I dont really think you need drugs to reach that. Present moment awareness practice is all you will ever need..
A couple of books I would recommend:
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
The Divine Matrix - Gregg Braden
Hope they help.
Scott.
I think its a mistake to try and use a computer system to try and prevent terrorism in this way. its hard to differentiate from valid and suspicious behavior. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Dear Stewart D. Mclaurin,
What our students do on the campus network is really none of your fucking business. Comparing physical theft to COPY RIGHT INFRINGEMENT is utter nonsense and holds no basis in reality. I find it amusing that you are trying to impose your limited view on us. I pity anyone who fights the tide of a new understanding. An understanding that if you do provide what people want the way they want it at a low cost with minimal hassle you will find yourself out of a job as others that are not limited by your constraints will take over for you. The very reason this situation has reached the point of insanity is because your belief system is drenched in a deep sense of greed. Your organization and affiliates have lost all touch with the very people you are trying to serve.
Your actions show that you are unable to understand and accept a long standing unexpected shift in the ideas and values of our society. Its time to either alter your perception of the situation or pass the decision making on to the next generation.
Sincerely yours, Presidents from all collages and universities across the country.
Actually its the corporations that put him into power that we should be focusing on. He is just the fall guy for a policy created by organizations that have only one rule, maximize profits for shareholders. Dont shoot the messenger. Now im not saying let him off the hook, im just saying that people are focusing there energy in the wrong place and its preventing corporations from having to take responsibility for their actions.
Actually the role of Government is to protect our individual rights as human citizens, and only that. The role government is playing now is hugely out of balance with the American publics ideals. It will only change when we stand up and demand it works our way, not the ways of mass corporations that are partnered with our government to provide services to us at the expense of our freedom.
The only problem with this (and I dont mean to sound like the US is all that) is that our bullshit capitalistic system will be comming to a country near you in the very near future. Better that everyone get involved in putting a stop to this balent disregard for civil and human rights.
Point Taken, there is beauty in math. I think its the application S&T that should be driven from an Art perspective. I think we focus to much on the next best thing when we really can be appreciating the moment by creating for beauty's sake, and let the progressive part be a byproduct of that..
the games that really blew my mind were Another World, Flashback, and Shadow of the beast. When I saw Another world using vector graphics to draw in game shots of action via real life camera angles I couldn't believe what I was seeing.. Then I spent some of my College tuition money on TrueSpace (a revolutionary 3d application back then.. I was making models and animations.. Amiga just kicked ass, and I thought with this kind of technology anything is possible. But that was before I realized revolutionary technology doesn't really matter if you don't know how to market it like lame as commodore.. (sorry no offense) :(.
Actually I think it would be better to have an emphasis on expressive art with science and technology complimenting it. S&T is great for the mind, but it doesn't feed the soul.
Tiny Personal Firewall, but its been taking over by Computer Associates, so you cant buy it anymore.. Their are other firewall replacements out there with sandbox technology for windows, but they are buggy as hell.
This is why I use a firewall with sandbox technology. I never allow any service on my system to make changes to my OS without warning me first. And I never use Windows Update. If I have to install a patch (which is not usually the case because my system is pretty secure) I do it manually from the executable. and I am able to revert changes if it messes shit up.
Ill chime in on this issue from a philosophical standpoint. It seems like what is happening is people are falling into two camps. People that believe in the power of capitalism (our current economical system), and people that value the ability to provide solutions to problems and benefit from that solution or improving on it, without restrictions.
It breaks down even farther than that. People that believe in ownership and people that dont. Its starting to become apparent that if you identify with the idea of owning something (for the purpose of limiting everyone around you), you have let the idea of ownership cut you of from the collective good. Whenever you making something important enough to claim as 'mine and not and yours' you are missing out on the bigger picture of life. Everything that we create in this universe was built on from the ideas of others. You can't claim anything as yours because of this reason. To do so is to restrict the flow of life to yourself in such away as for everyone that values the freedom to build on the ideas of others (and profit as a byproduct of that ideal) from dealing with you entirely. Sure there are going to be people that sacrifice this ideal to gain an advantage in their own life at the expense of their own freedom (they might not need that freedom) The problem is that they do not represent the entire collective as they dont understand what they are giving up, which is long term good that open source provides to us as a social paradigm. A way to take away the power of centralized control and replace it with distributed empowerment through out the social collective.
The people that understand this goal are the ones that are going to save this society from ourselves as I dont think anyone with a capitalist mindset is going to understand the impact this is causing completely. They have been trained at birth to believe that whats mine is mine and whats yours is yours is the best approach, we have to start teaching people that this ideal (taken to its extreme) is causing a great deal of stagnation and misalignment to the common good.
The GPL3 takes the power away from organizations that focus on centralized power and gives it to the common man, a much more balanced approach to empowering people to live completely free.
OMG, another nice person making snap judgments as if he has everything all figured out. that will get you really far in this world. consider a therapist much?
Evolutionary theory has been repeated by Scientist for decades. It isn't new, and it isn't yours. But the basic idea behind it, that Science is such a tidy answer, has been known to be worthless in gaining wisdom for centuries. knoledge is a small part of a bigger equasion. In particular, the Evolutionary theory in its totality in explaining how life came about is weak a best, so it's even worse, because there is no reason for Evolution to use a common set of coding molecules.
But, in more simplistic terms, when you can come up with a better theory to that explains how evolution solves the "how we came about question", we will talk. It's not only the ability to falsify the theory (which happens all the time), but being able to come up with predictions. In either case, one cannot come up with an observational set that completely proves evolution captures the complete picture of life on earth. It may even be Science, but science doesn't explain everything, just a small portion of the truth about any one thing.
Hows that? sound pretty much like the same insanity you were just spewing?
Science isnt god when it comes to understanding life, get some balance, then come back and talk about evolution and god.
Sorry but that is utter bullshit. I like how you put that sentence in bold as if it is going to give it more weight.
Just because a bunch of so called experts in a particular filed believe something to be true doesn't necessarily mean its completely true. Collective belief systems can be just as flawed, the more experts you have in field the easier it is for the data to be subjected to a biased approach.
IMHO Science in and of it self, is its own religion.
Its a belief system like anything else accept its based on so called facts that are determined though tests. In theory the world can return exactly what the observer/observers want to see, and if it becomes a collective belief, it becomes a so called fact because enough people believe in it.
We need to get off the science proves everything kick, its not helping us understand the world or our selfs better, it just helps us express one particular version of the truth about a object or subject. Their are multiple facets to everything in the universe some of which we are unable to experience in this reality.
Anyway, thats one way to look at it that i feel makes more sense.
first post I have ever seen on slashdot that contains utter insanity...
Judging someone on hers or her beliefs on how life got started on earth is called discrimination.
Beliefs have nothing to do with how a candidate does his job while he is in office. Get off your high horse and stop expecting people to think like you. Everyone is entitled to there opinions...
I cant believe this story actually got accepted..
Anyone know what this is?
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I don't see why you think this is so hard, just turn off automatic updates on all the client machines. Have someone apply updates manually from a server on the network to the client machines after you have verified nobody else in the world is having problems with the updates after a couple of weeks. You would want to also check to see what each update does and think about what kind of impact it would have if you decide to apply that update to one of your client systems. Or you would want to probably setup a test client system that emulates other client machines in that business and apply updates to that machine, test the applications just to make sure there are not any problems.
Failure to perform these actions could get you into a world of hurt you don't even want to think of being in, trust me, i have been there, learn from someone else who already made that mistake once. When it comes to making your job harder then it needs to be, never trust anyone but yourself.
Battlezone II: Combat Commander (From pandemic Studios) Minus the bugs, Best realtime first person combat strategy game ever made, hands down. Its not being distributed anymore, but there is a huge fan base that keeps updating the engine and game.
:)
Deus Ex: Great music and game play, graphics and ai could have used some work
Vampire The masquerade, great gameplay
Half-Life 2
cant think of a 5th... dammit!
I'm an avid believer in minimizing my credit use. I think obtaining credit for certain things like buying a car or a house is fine, but I think credit cards give us a false sense of security. In that, it causes us to to devalue what things are worth. When you buy something with cash in hand you feel a sense of empowerment because you have the means to accomplish what you set out to do NOW. With credit you are operating at a deficiency (if you use credit cards to pay for things with money that you don't plan on having in the early future) You don't have worth to give you to the means to accomplish what you want, so you resort to sacrificing your financial future for a short term gain that isn't always quantifiable. This causes you to accumulate debt that you didn't think you would have. Now im not blaming people for this, its just the way it is and I understand that people feel like they need to obtain credit to buy in times of need, im just not sure how far you should go.
Secondly, I think that credit report system is flawed, having lenders use it for lending purposes are certainly understandable. The problem is I don't think its a good idea to use it as an end all solution to determine if someone is legit. People change, mistakes are made and are possibly corrected. Also the big thing i have a problem is with is that it is used by non-lenders. Paying bills such as utilities and rent should not even be factored into the use of credit reports. The largest problem of all, you don't have much control over what goes on your record. Basically you are putting someone else in power of determining your creditability and that is not something you want to do.
I'm interested in knowing if anyone would be interested in joining a grass roots effort to limit the scope of credit bureau influence.
I'm going to setup a website put something together, please email me if you are interested
trinsic@in-trinsic.net
You took my response out of context. Im not defending the MPAA notice issue, im just drawing focus to the fact that the admins need to be able to identify computers on the network incase they need to be shut down for serious issues such as DDOS attacks and what not.