The problem is that Verisign (who recently paid a hefty sum for Thawte) now controls roughly 99% of certificate issuing. So, if you want to have an online commerce site, it will be just short of impossible to do it without involving Verisign to get a certificate issued. Something needs to be done about Verisign's monopoly on certificate issuing. I seriously do not trust one company controling 99% of anything security related.
Same here my man! I've been on slashdot for years (woo! another point added to my/. inpurity) and I got a jonkatz wannabe rating too. I think the test is rigged.
I don't like this idea at all. I think this will introduce too many incompatabilities with vendors releasing software for a specific hardware company's distribution. If you don't have popular hardware, I guess you're just screwed if a company decides that your hardware-specific distro isn't popular enough to warrent a release.
Besides.. their mascot is a dork. And so is their PR Manager. "Free from ABIT, free from worry!" makes it sound like he's dumped his ABIT hardware, so he has no more worries.
Maybe I'm not reading the article closely enough, but I don't see how Network Associates' statesments and website equal Microsoft trying to spin this into a PR coup. Network Associates isn't connected with Microsoft, are they?
Nope. If you spend any time on slashdot, you'll find that the linux using "me too"ers will use even the most minute point to trash MS. Even when there is no relation to MS at all in an article, they will come up with something. (ie. "I bet Aibo would piss on your shoe if it ran winbl0wz.") Even in the face of defeat, they just say "well, [free OS] will do x real soon now" and in the next paragraph, accuse MS of vaporware. My advice: pay no attention to it.
I'm not sure about now, but 2 years ago when I had an account with Concentric, they were running SunOS/Solaris on their boxes. They also have more bandwidth than god, so I don't think they'll fill up any time soon.
Transmeta is the new Fudmeister these days taking the crown from MS. They seem to be living by press releases and yet where is the product. Have you tried buying any of the new Crusoe chips lately or better yet since they were announced. They can issue all the PR they want and announce new CPu's but where is the product in the pipeline?
Soooooooo let Transmeta announce all they want but unti its in the piplelie and readily available to OEM's and VAR's its just vapour.
Kinda reminds me of the old commercial..... Where's the beef?
Of course piracy will continue to exist. People have pirated things since there has been people and software. The software and music companies know this. Even though they won't ever stop all piracy, they can stop some of it. They protective measures won't stop people that make their lives out of pirating things, but they will stop Joe User from getting around the procection. If they can make it difficult for someone to pirate their wares, then they increase the chance of selling their items. For instance, if I wanted some new cd, I'd probably look around for a day or 2 to see if I could find it in mp3 format somewhere. If I couldn't, I'd just go out and buy the cd.
The record companies try to prevent piracy for the same reason the police try to prevent crime: they know they can't wipe it all out, but they can keep it under some control.
Well, he's wrong then.:-) Finding a song you want is extremely easy and relatively painless, with programs like Napster and some of the better MP3 web searches.
Only if you're looking for the latest boy band song. Try finding some more obscure songs/albums and you'll have considerably less luck.
Instead, they'll destroy themselves in the process of trying to convince people that it's better to license music instead of buying it. What morons.
They have to go at it full steam. They missed the boat with digital music. Digital music sat around and grew for a couple of years before the recording industry took notice of it. They're trying so damn hard now because they realize they screwed up. If I were a record exec, I'd be running scared too. With more people on fast and cheap connections and 20+ gig hard drives common these days, music can fly around at will. And it will only get worse for them. They will never relenquish control of their intellectual propery. They'd be crazy to do that. They want to make it as hard as they possibly can to find that cd you're looking for so you'll go buy it. Can't blame them for chasing profit.
ASF isn't a compression codec. It's a "media delivery system" as MS calls it. Most of the ASF movies are compressed in MPEG4, the MPEG standard for streaming a/v. So, don't jump the gun and blame MS for the fact that someone didn't encode the video in a high enough bitrate. ASF could just as easily be used with MPEG 1 and have wonderful quality.
Katz really does suck. I'm not trolling or anything, just expressing my opinion. I can't believe slashdot still carries this guy. Hell, I can write a few paragraphs catering to slashdot demographic and be about as insightful as this trash. Every articles has the same basic points. 1. "The media" doesn't get it. 2. Politicians don't get it. 3. We're starting an information revolution which will bring about a utopia for all. 4. Packed with references to "geek culture." Throw in a few pseudo-philosophical questions and you have one genuine Katz article.
Back when slashdot had a poll on whether or not to keep Jon around, I voted yes because I thought he might branch out and express some original and different ideas. Well, I was wrong. How long did he drag out the Columbine ordeal? The first article was decent. Leave it at that. Jon has a tendency to beat an idea to death. Perhaps it's because he's not good at expressing other ideas, or maybe he simply doesn't have other idea, or whatever. The end result is pages of mindless already-done drivel and still more pages of the same slashbots replying with the same thing.
Surely slashdot, being the large tech news/community site that it is, could attract someone with more ties to the community he writes about and an ounce more creativity. Jon's writing skills are decent, but he needs to stick to other areas.
Not everyone devotes their lives to IRC and the pirating of everything in sight with their elite budz in #elitew4r3z or whatever. Many people actually pay for what they want. Perhaps it is a bit of a foreign concept, but it actually does happen.
Schools should get that bandwidth because they need it more than you do. The applications of i2 REQUIRE that they have 1MB+/sec of bandwidth. Playing quake and downloading mp3s do not.
Solutions for the internet are being worked on. There is much money to be made by providing/selling bandwidth. With advances in fiber, bandwidth for the 'common man' is rapidly rising. With my cable modem, I routinely get 80K+/sec downloads. That's quite fine for me. However, 80K/s is laughable on i2. The internet 2 would not be possible if everyone and their mother was allowed on it.
Your tax dollars don't get you the bandwidth of i2, but they do help you indirectly. Getting information to students and doctors is a good thing. With more information and quicker access to that information, they can work faster/better. And because of that, you will get better and faster technology and medical procedures.
For $270 of *my* dollars, I'd go to buy.com and get a Creative Labs Annhilation Pro (the geforce 256 with ddr ram), buy it for $250, and go grab myself a pizza to celebrate not buying an ATI card.
Which I just did. Not like I can really afford it, but that's what credit cards are for, right?
Many people are complaining about the lack of Linux support. Don't feel too bad, linux types. The drivers for the current Rage Fury for windows are crap. Pitiful quality. I'd LOVE to get rid of my Rage Fury due purely to the unacceptable quality of the drivers, but I'm a bit short on cash at the moment.
Basically, you have 2 driver options for the Rage Fury: 1) release drivers, which are slower than old people fucking, or 2) beta drivers, which are faster, but ridiculously buggy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Don't bother emailing ATI for Linux drivers. They aren't worth having. Except for you poor souls who bought Rage Furies. (my condolences to you all)
/*Too bad internet2 probably wont be that for home users for many years to come.*/
No! Keep the average person OFF of i2. I2 is there for very (very. 30fps full quality video and sound) high bandwidth applications which absolutely requite obscene bandwidth and QoS. What does Joe Net really need with i2? Nothing. He just wants his mp3s and porn and AOL. The internet already provides him with everything he needs.
The same goes for slashdot geeks. Only a select few have any business having access to i2.
I want students and researchers having the best quality i2 they can get. They are the ones who need it the most, not every silly bastard with an @home account.
I believe this was mentioned some other time, but I'll bring it up again.
I think it would be a good idea for AC posts to be -1 by default and moderate up the good ones. By far, most AC posts are crap that will be moderated down to -1 in about 2 minutes. So, rather than waste moderation points that could well be used elsewhere, it would be better to just have them at the lowest score immediately and let the moderation system improve the scores of the interesting comments.
That way, there could be fewer moderators (fewer chances of abuse) and moderation could be concentrated on Rob's goal of concentrating on moderating good comments up rather than bad comments down. (This was mentioned in the moderation guidelines. Read the section on How, about half way down the page.)
Christ was the first Icon for CHRISTmas, which is the the day we celebrate his birth reguardless of the actual day of the event)
The winter solstice was the original reason for a celebration around this time. The Christians "converted" the holiday when they tried to wipe out the pagans.
now we have an addition icon for christmas, santa claus. and now the people he's was created for (childern) are turning on him....
Santa has a very long and complex history, but he was originally invented in Europe and was evil.
Basically everything about Christmas is just ripped off cultural icons and events. And commercialism. Can't forget that.
Does anybody know if this release includes support for the ATI Rage Fury? Suse(?) released a driver for this a while ago and I'm wondering if it will be included in this distro.
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The problem is that Verisign (who recently paid a hefty sum for Thawte) now controls roughly 99% of certificate issuing. So, if you want to have an online commerce site, it will be just short of impossible to do it without involving Verisign to get a certificate issued. Something needs to be done about Verisign's monopoly on certificate issuing. I seriously do not trust one company controling 99% of anything security related.
Same here my man! I've been on slashdot for years (woo! another point added to my /. inpurity) and I got a jonkatz wannabe rating too. I think the test is rigged.
Only if it's cool enough to make people want to develop for it. How many open source projects have died out because no one wanted to work on them?
Ouch. That was looooow.
I don't like this idea at all. I think this will introduce too many incompatabilities with vendors releasing software for a specific hardware company's distribution. If you don't have popular hardware, I guess you're just screwed if a company decides that your hardware-specific distro isn't popular enough to warrent a release.
Besides.. their mascot is a dork. And so is their PR Manager. "Free from ABIT, free from worry!" makes it sound like he's dumped his ABIT hardware, so he has no more worries.
Maybe I'm not reading the article closely enough, but I don't see how Network Associates' statesments and website equal Microsoft trying to spin this into a PR coup. Network Associates isn't connected with Microsoft, are they?
Nope. If you spend any time on slashdot, you'll find that the linux using "me too"ers will use even the most minute point to trash MS. Even when there is no relation to MS at all in an article, they will come up with something. (ie. "I bet Aibo would piss on your shoe if it ran winbl0wz.") Even in the face of defeat, they just say "well, [free OS] will do x real soon now" and in the next paragraph, accuse MS of vaporware. My advice: pay no attention to it.
I'm not sure about now, but 2 years ago when I had an account with Concentric, they were running SunOS/Solaris on their boxes. They also have more bandwidth than god, so I don't think they'll fill up any time soon.
Transmeta is the new Fudmeister these days taking the crown from MS. They seem to be living by press releases and yet where is the product. Have you tried buying any of the new Crusoe chips lately or better yet since they were announced. They can issue all the PR they want and announce new CPu's but where is the product in the pipeline?
Soooooooo let Transmeta announce all they want but unti its in the piplelie and readily available to OEM's and VAR's its just vapour.
Kinda reminds me of the old commercial..... Where's the beef?
Of course piracy will continue to exist. People have pirated things since there has been people and software. The software and music companies know this. Even though they won't ever stop all piracy, they can stop some of it. They protective measures won't stop people that make their lives out of pirating things, but they will stop Joe User from getting around the procection. If they can make it difficult for someone to pirate their wares, then they increase the chance of selling their items. For instance, if I wanted some new cd, I'd probably look around for a day or 2 to see if I could find it in mp3 format somewhere. If I couldn't, I'd just go out and buy the cd.
The record companies try to prevent piracy for the same reason the police try to prevent crime: they know they can't wipe it all out, but they can keep it under some control.
Well, he's wrong then. :-) Finding a song you want is extremely easy and relatively painless, with programs like Napster and some of the better MP3 web searches.
Only if you're looking for the latest boy band song. Try finding some more obscure songs/albums and you'll have considerably less luck.
Instead, they'll destroy themselves in the process of trying to convince people that it's better to license music instead of buying it. What morons.
They have to go at it full steam. They missed the boat with digital music. Digital music sat around and grew for a couple of years before the recording industry took notice of it. They're trying so damn hard now because they realize they screwed up. If I were a record exec, I'd be running scared too. With more people on fast and cheap connections and 20+ gig hard drives common these days, music can fly around at will. And it will only get worse for them. They will never relenquish control of their intellectual propery. They'd be crazy to do that. They want to make it as hard as they possibly can to find that cd you're looking for so you'll go buy it. Can't blame them for chasing profit.
ASF isn't a compression codec. It's a "media delivery system" as MS calls it. Most of the ASF movies are compressed in MPEG4, the MPEG standard for streaming a/v. So, don't jump the gun and blame MS for the fact that someone didn't encode the video in a high enough bitrate. ASF could just as easily be used with MPEG 1 and have wonderful quality.
Katz really does suck. I'm not trolling or anything, just expressing my opinion. I can't believe slashdot still carries this guy. Hell, I can write a few paragraphs catering to slashdot demographic and be about as insightful as this trash. Every articles has the same basic points. 1. "The media" doesn't get it. 2. Politicians don't get it. 3. We're starting an information revolution which will bring about a utopia for all. 4. Packed with references to "geek culture." Throw in a few pseudo-philosophical questions and you have one genuine Katz article.
Back when slashdot had a poll on whether or not to keep Jon around, I voted yes because I thought he might branch out and express some original and different ideas. Well, I was wrong. How long did he drag out the Columbine ordeal? The first article was decent. Leave it at that. Jon has a tendency to beat an idea to death. Perhaps it's because he's not good at expressing other ideas, or maybe he simply doesn't have other idea, or whatever. The end result is pages of mindless already-done drivel and still more pages of the same slashbots replying with the same thing.
Surely slashdot, being the large tech news/community site that it is, could attract someone with more ties to the community he writes about and an ounce more creativity. Jon's writing skills are decent, but he needs to stick to other areas.
That would be the MAPS RBL. http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/
Not everyone devotes their lives to IRC and the pirating of everything in sight with their elite budz in #elitew4r3z or whatever. Many people actually pay for what they want. Perhaps it is a bit of a foreign concept, but it actually does happen.
Schools should get that bandwidth because they need it more than you do. The applications of i2 REQUIRE that they have 1MB+/sec of bandwidth. Playing quake and downloading mp3s do not.
Solutions for the internet are being worked on. There is much money to be made by providing/selling bandwidth. With advances in fiber, bandwidth for the 'common man' is rapidly rising. With my cable modem, I routinely get 80K+/sec downloads. That's quite fine for me. However, 80K/s is laughable on i2. The internet 2 would not be possible if everyone and their mother was allowed on it.
Your tax dollars don't get you the bandwidth of i2, but they do help you indirectly. Getting information to students and doctors is a good thing. With more information and quicker access to that information, they can work faster/better. And because of that, you will get better and faster technology and medical procedures.
For $270 of *my* dollars, I'd go to buy.com and get a Creative Labs Annhilation Pro (the geforce 256 with ddr ram), buy it for $250, and go grab myself a pizza to celebrate not buying an ATI card.
Which I just did. Not like I can really afford it, but that's what credit cards are for, right?
Many people are complaining about the lack of Linux support. Don't feel too bad, linux types. The drivers for the current Rage Fury for windows are crap. Pitiful quality. I'd LOVE to get rid of my Rage Fury due purely to the unacceptable quality of the drivers, but I'm a bit short on cash at the moment.
Basically, you have 2 driver options for the Rage Fury: 1) release drivers, which are slower than old people fucking, or 2) beta drivers, which are faster, but ridiculously buggy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Don't bother emailing ATI for Linux drivers. They aren't worth having. Except for you poor souls who bought Rage Furies. (my condolences to you all)
/*Too bad internet2 probably wont be that for home users for many years to come.*/
No! Keep the average person OFF of i2. I2 is there for very (very. 30fps full quality video and sound) high bandwidth applications which absolutely requite obscene bandwidth and QoS. What does Joe Net really need with i2? Nothing. He just wants his mp3s and porn and AOL. The internet already provides him with everything he needs.
The same goes for slashdot geeks. Only a select few have any business having access to i2.
I want students and researchers having the best quality i2 they can get. They are the ones who need it the most, not every silly bastard with an @home account.
I think it would be a good idea for AC posts to be -1 by default and moderate up the good ones. By far, most AC posts are crap that will be moderated down to -1 in about 2 minutes. So, rather than waste moderation points that could well be used elsewhere, it would be better to just have them at the lowest score immediately and let the moderation system improve the scores of the interesting comments.
That way, there could be fewer moderators (fewer chances of abuse) and moderation could be concentrated on Rob's goal of concentrating on moderating good comments up rather than bad comments down. (This was mentioned in the moderation guidelines. Read the section on How, about half way down the page.)
Christ was the first Icon for CHRISTmas, which is the the day we celebrate his birth reguardless of the actual day of the event)
The winter solstice was the original reason for a celebration around this time. The Christians "converted" the holiday when they tried to wipe out the pagans.
now we have an addition icon for christmas, santa claus. and now the people he's was created for (childern) are turning on him....
Santa has a very long and complex history, but he was originally invented in Europe and was evil.
Basically everything about Christmas is just ripped off cultural icons and events. And commercialism. Can't forget that.
If anyone has the video encoded, email me. I have space and bandwidth to put up a mirror. robert-lovelady@ouhsc.edu
Does anybody know if this release includes support for the ATI Rage Fury? Suse(?) released a driver for this a while ago and I'm wondering if it will be included in this distro.
Why not post it here? I'm interested in seeing what he said.
What alternatives to censorware do you propose to keep kids from material that parents don't want the kid to see?
Of course the internet should not be used as a babysitter, but it's impossible for the parent to look over the kid's shoulder every second.
Because the average user doesn't know this information. And the newbie user doesn't even know what hsync and vsync are.