I had alot of fun with NFS during my Univerity years. Sure it has some nice features as it's lightning-fast and stateless but it's totally unsecure, period.
The NFS server has two parts, the authentication part and the data-server part. The authentication part authenticates based on the IP address of the requester, if successful, it will send the requester the 'key' for the export.
After that, anybody can use that key to request files from the data-server part. And from any IP address!!
There exist a very nice ftp-like tool that lets you play with NFS systems, enter the key manually or use the UID overflow bug to get root privs. And this is only the beginning of the fun !!
Trust me, "Don't use NFS" unless you are running it on a network that is not connected to the rest of the world, and you trust everyone that has access to this network.
I think you?re trying to incite that marketing creates demand which is totally false, marketing just matches buyers and sellers.
And not a single smiley in there, darn, you realy belive this ?
The primary goal of marketing is to "create" buyers for a particular product. I guess you have never seen the "Prepare to want one" commercial from Hyundai (or was it Honda ?)
The purpose is to *make people want to buy a particular product* weather they are already consumers of that type of product or not.
This is just more of the TV industry coming to
grips with what happened to the music industry.
And just what is it that happened to the music *industry* ??
As far as I know, the so-called "losses" from "piracy" are all theoretical, CD sales were never as high as during Napsters prime-time and there is nothing indicating today that the music *industry* is losing anything from people downloading free music.
The argument goes something like : "50.000 copies of GroupX were downloaded, that whould otherwise have been sold for 30$ a piece, that makes 50.000*30$ = 1.500.000 $ in losses", which is nonesense.
Well, I live in France, I don't know of that counts. Since we have no software patents nobody is doing any research and development.
We do our calculations on ABACUS systems (you know with sliding balls). We also have no modern telephones, televisions, VCR or the latest cars, since all those require software to work.
You should know how hard it is to read/. with a Abacus.
We are all wishing we were living in America, the land of the free (and brave).
Listen, buddy. As Richard Stallman points out, software is an entire different entity. It's very easily copied. It's easy to take those copies and transfer them. Therefore, the amount of damage that can be done by pirating software is massive and much larger than other more tangible products.
Tsk, tsk, you been listening to closely to the media ? Let's say that reading books costed money, so if you borrow a book and read it without paying for it you're causing ***damage*** ??
These developments exist because they address real requirements for portability, ease-of-use etc. - "Mono"
doesn't need to justify itself in principle.
Who is talking about justification ??? Gee, why is everybody *assuming* so much ??
Repeat after me: "Justification is not the same as explanation"
but keep in mind that Tivo doesn't know, even remotely, what commercials you may or may not be fast forwarding through, so they don't have any useful info about you at all!
From the article:
" Based on a random sampling of 10,000 of the 280,000 subscribers, they found out that Pepsi/Britney was the subject of the most replayed Ad(s)..."
If they know what ads you're *watching*, then they surely must know what ads you're fast-forwarding through..
Couple reasons why Sun still will be preferable to off-the-shelf, commodity Linux boxes for many a year (with or without Oracle?s blessing)
What you don't mention is "Does it work", my former company bought 3 Enterprise 10000 servers, optical disk array,, the whole lot.. 2 Sun Cluster engineers spent a a month with us, installing and tuning (You should have seen the bill..), but it never worked..
Of course, those were very good servers, fast and stable, but, from time to time something happened that required the cluster to shift it's main server services to the other. And there were always some problem. Only after a few of those incidents did we learn that they are all to common with Sun clusters and very few have Sun clusters that actually work as advertised. Search google for "sun cluster problems"
From the article: Things will move slowly," he said, adding that many
customers aren't convinced yet that clustering even works.
I wonder if New Line Cinema can take any lessons from Star Ballz? If they can get away with a PORN parody it
seems like a weak reference like "Goldmember" should be allowed too. Especially when New Line Cinema (with all
that cash) is backing it...
No, New Line Cinema plans to release this movie in time for the Summer season and has already distributed huge amount of promotional material for the movie (with references to "goldmember"), if they want to fight this case out in court, they can forget all about this summer for the release.
MGM knows this and is simply trying to make a "quick buck" from New Line Cinema with some kind of compensation for the name.
So to speak MGM has New Line Cinema's "GoldMember" in a tight squeeze.
I'm with Cox on the matter that I think Aunt Tillie would be better off with the distro's kernel (where she might have lm_sensors, nVidia, TV and Radio drivers), but !
I'l defend Aunt Tillie's *right* to chose !! That's what freedom is all about, options !
I love the fact that patent wars might erupt between the PVR folks while at the same time theyre battling copyright wars with everyone else....Damn, I love capitalism;)
Actually, stupid patents hinder free competition and the growth of the market, so it shouldn't be consider capitalism.
The patent laws and the implementation we have today is much because of big companies with big bucks and lots of lawyers. It realy has a lot more to do with Fachism than anything else.
Just think about it, you want to assemble a few hardware parts write some software and start your business. But you can't somebody has patented the business idea you just got... Capitalism ?? Bwahaha
I assume you are talking about the cameras. Well, sure it does, In all countries we call 'civilised' there is a certain degree of freedom for the individual to break the law. This is an accepted fact and there is a legal (latin) expression for it (which I don't remember at this instant).
Take for example walking over a zebra crossing at 4am sunday morning on a red light.
This is one of the things that define our freedom.
This is a good thing. These cameras help law enforcement with street crime, traffic violations, etc..
Good and not so good, do we want machines to watch our every step and automaticaly extract the fine from our bank account ? Because that's where we'l end if we never say "stop".
Give me an example where a citizen's rights were trampled on by video cameras in public places.
In sweden, if you run a red light, a picture is taken and sent along with a bill to pay to the owner of the car. It has broken up more than one family when the spouse discovers "that other woman" sitting in the car with the husband.
So you see, the cameras take away your private life outside your home.
And don't try to say that "you have no private life outside your home" because that depends on who's watching (i.e. the cameras play a role).
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I had alot of fun with NFS during my Univerity years. Sure it has some nice features as it's lightning-fast and stateless but it's totally unsecure, period.
The NFS server has two parts, the authentication part and the data-server part. The authentication part authenticates based on the IP address of the requester, if successful, it will send the requester the 'key' for the export.
After that, anybody can use that key to request files from the data-server part. And from any IP address!!
There exist a very nice ftp-like tool that lets you play with NFS systems, enter the key manually or use the UID overflow bug to get root privs. And this is only the beginning of the fun !!
Trust me, "Don't use NFS" unless you are running it on a network that is not connected to the rest of the world, and you trust everyone that has access to this network.
I think you?re trying to incite that marketing creates demand which is totally false, marketing just matches buyers and sellers.
And not a single smiley in there, darn, you realy belive this ?
The primary goal of marketing is to "create" buyers for a particular product. I guess you have never seen the "Prepare to want one" commercial from Hyundai (or was it Honda ?)
The purpose is to *make people want to buy a particular product* weather they are already consumers of that type of product or not.
Welcome to take-no-prisoners capitalism.
Mr asv108, you are the weakest link, goodbye !
and just because he only got CAUGHT once, doesn't mean he was only speeding once.
Then what does it mean ? And what significance does it hold in this discussion ?
This is just more of the TV industry coming to grips with what happened to the music industry.
And just what is it that happened to the music *industry* ??
As far as I know, the so-called "losses" from "piracy" are all theoretical, CD sales were never as high as during Napsters prime-time and there is nothing indicating today that the music *industry* is losing anything from people downloading free music.
The argument goes something like : "50.000 copies of GroupX were downloaded, that whould otherwise have been sold for 30$ a piece, that makes 50.000*30$ = 1.500.000 $ in losses", which is nonesense.
Well, I live in France, I don't know of that counts. Since we have no software patents nobody is doing any research and development. /. with a Abacus.
We do our calculations on ABACUS systems (you know with sliding balls). We also have no modern telephones, televisions, VCR or the latest cars, since all those require software to work.
You should know how hard it is to read
We are all wishing we were living in America, the land of the free (and brave).
Or just click here !
And then Slashdot complains that MS is taking too much control.
Freedom is about choises, freedom is about having options and beeing able to choose (even if you don't do it).
Having so-called "upgrades" and "patches" showed down your throat, is not freedom.
That's why the /. crowd is complaining !!
When did I stop living in America?
You weren't born in America.. The America you have belived you lived in, ceased to exist a long long time ago.
Listen, buddy. As Richard Stallman points out, software is an entire different entity. It's very easily copied. It's easy to take those copies and transfer them. Therefore, the amount of damage that can be done by pirating software is massive and much larger than other more tangible products.
Tsk, tsk, you been listening to closely to the media ? Let's say that reading books costed money, so if you borrow a book and read it without paying for it you're causing ***damage*** ??
The chances may be slim, and a conspiracy theory involved, but still, this is a good reason not to trust Microsoft.
Why ?
These developments exist because they address real requirements for portability, ease-of-use etc. - "Mono" doesn't need to justify itself in principle.
Who is talking about justification ??? Gee, why is everybody *assuming* so much ??
Repeat after me: "Justification is not the same as explanation"
Too late
But people, get a grip !! Seriously !!
Ever heard of occam's razor ? :
RMS is simply asking Miguel what he ment by
"I'd like to see Gnome applications written in .NET in version 4.0 - no, version 3.0. But Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET,"
Nothing more.
but keep in mind that Tivo doesn't know, even remotely, what commercials you may or may not be fast forwarding through, so they don't have any useful info about you at all!
From the article:
" Based on a random sampling of 10,000 of the 280,000 subscribers, they found out that Pepsi/Britney was the subject of the most replayed Ad(s)..."
If they know what ads you're *watching*, then they surely must know what ads you're fast-forwarding through..
Couple reasons why Sun still will be preferable to off-the-shelf, commodity Linux boxes for many a year (with or without Oracle?s blessing)
What you don't mention is "Does it work", my former company bought 3 Enterprise 10000 servers, optical disk array ,, the whole lot.. 2 Sun Cluster engineers spent a a month with us, installing and tuning (You should have seen the bill..), but it never worked..
Of course, those were very good servers, fast and stable, but, from time to time something happened that required the cluster to shift it's main server services to the other. And there were always some problem. Only after a few of those incidents did we learn that they are all to common with Sun clusters and very few have Sun clusters that actually work as advertised. Search google for "sun cluster problems"
From the article:
Things will move slowly," he said, adding that many customers aren't convinced yet that clustering even works.
IMHO, that is a lot Sun's fault.
I wonder if New Line Cinema can take any lessons from Star Ballz? If they can get away with a PORN parody it seems like a weak reference like "Goldmember" should be allowed too. Especially when New Line Cinema (with all that cash) is backing it...
Forget what is right and wrong, this case has nothing to do with what stuff.
No, New Line Cinema plans to release this movie in time for the Summer season and has already distributed huge amount of promotional material for the movie (with references to "goldmember"), if they want to fight this case out in court, they can forget all about this summer for the release.
MGM knows this and is simply trying to make a "quick buck" from New Line Cinema with some kind of compensation for the name.
So to speak MGM has New Line Cinema's "GoldMember" in a tight squeeze.
- Austin Powers: The Shag is Not Enough
This might be of interest:
RFC-3098 How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-Mail and Newsgroup
I'm with Cox on the matter that I think Aunt Tillie would be better off with the distro's kernel (where she might have lm_sensors, nVidia, TV and Radio drivers), but !
I'l defend Aunt Tillie's *right* to chose !!
That's what freedom is all about, options !
This will give you some idea about how the real virus looks like. Click Here
In order to use this tech you will have to create a transistor that can *detect* a single photon.
And just how is this patent-circus supposed to be good for the economy ?
Your computer is open if you stumble across a specially constructed site. If you browse /. the news, stock quotes etc. then you're prett much safe.
Wrong, if you have a gaping security hole on your computer, then you're vulnberable (open) even if no-one exploits the hole.
The story, as posted on /. has it right.
Actually, stupid patents hinder free competition and the growth of the market, so it shouldn't be consider capitalism.
The patent laws and the implementation we have today is much because of big companies with big bucks and lots of lawyers. It realy has a lot more to do with Fachism than anything else.
Just think about it, you want to assemble a few hardware parts write some software and start your business. But you can't somebody has patented the business idea you just got ... Capitalism ?? Bwahaha
This does not take away any choices...
I assume you are talking about the cameras. Well, sure it does, In all countries we call 'civilised' there is a certain degree of freedom for the individual to break the law. This is an accepted fact and there is a legal (latin) expression for it (which I don't remember at this instant).
Take for example walking over a zebra crossing at 4am sunday morning on a red light.
This is one of the things that define our freedom.
This is a good thing. These cameras help law enforcement with street crime, traffic violations, etc..
Good and not so good, do we want machines to watch our every step and automaticaly extract the fine from our bank account ? Because that's where we'l end if we never say "stop".
Give me an example where a citizen's rights were trampled on by video cameras in public places.
In sweden, if you run a red light, a picture is taken and sent along with a bill to pay to the owner of the car. It has broken up more than one family when the spouse discovers "that other woman" sitting in the car with the husband.
So you see, the cameras take away your private life outside your home.
And don't try to say that "you have no private life outside your home" because that depends on who's watching (i.e. the cameras play a role).