You're not asserting that anything else GP stated is false, but despite the truth of the things he says, we should take them as false?
You're on drugs.
This is not true! This person's belief about his "right" to purchase copyrighted music has NOTHING to do with his credibility. You are victim to a common pitfall of argument. Here are a series of logical fallacies that are quite commonly used in the support of an argument, but cannot logically be used to support it.
I very much agree with this. I am actually a 3rd Year undergrad. and I just recently got myself an intership with an investment bank doing some software development. I have a slightly larger skillset, and a little work experience, but it wasn't them that got me my internship (which i hear from ex-interns tends to turn into a job post-graduation...). What got me my internship was my relationship with my professors, and the alumni network at my school. I do research with a professor of mine, and she contacted everyone in industry that she knew, but I ended up taking an internship that I learned of through an alumnus. College educations are valuable for the things that one can learn in class, but in my experience, most of the stuff I've learned in class, I could have learned from a book and a few weeks of study. The thing that I feel like I'm paying for as a Computer Science major at an engineering school is the huge amount of contacts that I have developed in the communities surrounding these fields, academically and industrially. I feel like finding a job when I leave here will not be much of a problem because I've made a concerted effort to get to know lots of people who know lots of people. My advice is to do the same; find a professor or advisor or alumnus who you think has a cool job, and just talk to them. Also, if you can swing it, get a job as a research assistant, because I think its a lot of fun, and usually really interesting (and as a bonus, you can get yourself published before you graduate!)
Good luck!
most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!
This guy is a real asshat. I sit at night writing up non-malicious code that will hopefully make Linux a (more) superior product to microsoft offerings. I'm not sure how this article even got posted, this guy doesn't sound like very credible individual, nor does he sound very intelligent. To overlook the individual strong points of both windows and linux and mac, and to say something to the effect of "linux is dumb and stupid cuz its dumb, and mac is too much munee" is not only subjective and total bs, but makes this guy look like a punchy jack-ass. I like certain aspects of windows, I love the macOS ui, but I use linux on my desktop (for various reasons, mainly development). I would really like if this guy would post again with 1 iota of support for these silly arguments. and also, his comment about windows bringing the PC to the mainstream..yadda yadda... what about MAC?! the Apple I/II/IIE i remember being pretty much the first guy on the scene, as far as the personal computer goes. Mac (to me at least) put computers in our homes and offices and schools.
This guy is a moron.
Not a linspire fan, but i think its about time someone's thinking this way.
Portability is key for widespread acceptance, and I like cedega, because in my experience, it works.
Agreed. Red Hat made me want to dive into a river to rid myself of all of these dependency issues, and I was aged by the time X,KDE,Gnome,Firefox,Thunderbird, et al finished compiling on Gentoo. I've got high hopes for autopackage, but haven't used it yet. I think that it is obvious that the thing that is keeping linux off the desktop is the difficulty in installing software. RedHat (and other RPM distros) - if you want to have a completely nontechnical-user environment, you can't expect them to touch a shell at all, and when the fancy RPM GUI crashes and burns, or 9000 unresolved dependency require the user installing to do a little forcing and shodding, it comes to a shell. I hope AutoPackage is *it*. The choice of multiple install options is irreplacable and not something I want to, nor am about to give up, but simplicity is paramount in end-user environments, and most distros lack this when it comes to installs.
I think that this is a fine example of a congressman with limited understanding of what it means to be a P2P app. trying to tell those who do understand that he is correct, and will stand fast against P2P software. However, having a better understanding of the issue, P2P proponents can see the forest for the trees, rather than just seeing a way to feign moral standards in politics, or to appease the media regulation authorities to keep corporate media business interest happy. I think that this is worse than ignoring the problem of P2P piracy, because it is a shoddy solution that negelcts the true problem at hand. Instead, it places a tremendous amount of stress on developers to meet vague standards on what is and isn't preventing illegal use of their software (because inevitably, these standards will be stupid initially, and need to be refined via arguments in court etc.) so no one is going to want to develop P2P apps (I'm talking in terms of the version of "P2P" in question here, not the technicality of it all that classifies web browsers et al as P2P) for useful reasons like legitimate and infinitely extensible robust file transfers (see: bittorrent). This is an awesome technology, and just because some people are abusing it, the solution is *not* to just ban/prohibitivly restrict all users of the software. These are my bits, and I'll send them where ever I feel like, and in fact, as long as people are offering up theirs, I'll take whatever bits I please, too.
clueless ninny, maybe, but it seems he/she's got enough of a clue to realize that bush is, and will probably be remembered in ~50 years as, the worst president in decades of american history. Unilateralism lacks the tact necessary to maintain international favor. The Bush administration has ignored this, giving no regard to the fact that the US is not the only nation on the planet of any consequence. Imperialist, sadly lacking diplomacy, and having outrightly lied to the nation they lead about botched military intelligence that started at least one unjustifiable war, this administration needs to go, even if it takes the votes of clueless ninnies who see nothing more than the fact that the Bush administration is doing no good for anyone, and that our nation will be in deeper than we already are under another four years of Bush Administration decision botching.
Vote Kerry and end this Buffoonery.
i was born in 85, and in the subsequent 5 years, Mario Bros. - the original- the eternal - assisted my transformation into the geek i am today. i am eternally in its debt. =) also, how much does Mario Bros Rock? its fanastic (that's right, fanastic)
I would totally mess with people. I'd hang around in busy public areas claiming to be undead (or dead, not sure which is creepier) and then when people questioned me i'd be able to prove, by traditional metrics that i am dead (no pulse). then i would try to avoid the police, because, c'mon, people get creeped out pretty easily.
I work for an event staging company and we use about 20 of these shuttle pc's to run our portable media (powerpoint, dvd's, mpeg video etc.). For standard presentation fare, and general use, over very long periods of time (sometimes on for days) these little boxes perform very well. we've never had a heat problem (though it doesn't seem outrageous that there could arise such an issue, as they tend to run *very* warm, but not to the point of anything critical).
i didn't rtfa (c'mon, i'm a busy man....) but regardless of what they say, by experience, i say that these get the job done, and take up a hell of a lot less weight/space in shipping.
that's what im sayin, i've got about 200 45's and X,000,000 331/3's and i say there's no way there outlawing these babies.::coniving grin at your confiscated iPod::
OK, here is my opinion of Orrin Hatch:
It seems that this man does not know what he is saying before he says it, and somehow it makes it to various stages of review in congress and ends up on slashdot. The idea that manufacturers of devices that are able to copy media can be held liable, etc. is proposterous.
ie: liquor store sued because drunk husband beats wife. not right, eh?
Mr. Hatch is attempting a proactive elimination of illegal use of media (well i mean he's gotta get the riaa to keep paying him somehow), but he's doing it at the wrong level. *users* need regulation (if anyone does...). This is not the way to prevent illegal abuse of copyrighted material. This is a good way to
Piss off music lovers
Make people not like you just a bit more
Mr. H. Thanks, but i'll fill my iPod with all the music i just finished d/ling from my favorite shiesty P2P all afternoon. (until, of course, P2P is illegal, as you would have it.....)
Alright, so now we're being watched even more than before. I don't like it (and i live in Boston, so I really don't like it).
The police/government are a regulating body acting on behalf of the members of the population that they are to be regulating/protecting (assuming that those members abide by the established laws of that society). Since they are acting on my behalf and for the (in their opinion) greater public well being by watching us to make sure we do our part not to detriment our society, i think that we ought to be able to monitor them (the law enforcement agencies/gov't agencies) to ensure that they are doing their part. I would like to see what goes on in the public areas of my local precinct/city hall/etc. via a wired video feed that i can browse at my leisure to ensure that this societal handshake agreement to live civilizedly, us being protected and them protecting, is upheld. If they need to watch us all the time for no particular reason, i feel that we should be allowed to do the same.
i guess us users of *nix OSes just far surpass the intelligence of pc users (because we don't use IE...) and transcend the reported intelligence of the mac users, as we can use more than one way of thinking (ext*,fat vs. HFS+; KDE, GNOME, WinMaker vs. OS X etc. etc.)
ok, so this will be marked flamebait in short order. think humorous
First, i think that our invasive government has done enough to deprive us of any personal space. Tom Ridge, or anyone else doesn't need to know my pants size, yearly income, and how many pets i have if i'm getting on a plane. Security is one thing, but this is blatant excess, and abuse of authority. I'm glad we've at least got someone in congress with enough sense to say, "ok, so now when we get on planes, they'll anal probe us... Not so sure if i like that...". I just wish that good sense was around when the "Patriot" Act was written/passed. Well, change is not easy to swing these days, so i don't imagine we'll be seeing any less of this nonsense flying through congress (until we get some new faces in gov't....)
Sarcasm aside here, to you or I, that would be fantastic, but that is a tactic that would be as sinister to resort to as the initial IE monopolization of the browser market. Ideally, we need absolute standardization, and with that we could have absolute compatibility. For those lost souls who "prefer" IE (those who have not been out from under the wool that MS/IE has pulled over their eyes) there still needs to be compatibility. It is then up to the users to deal with the risk they take in using an insecure browser.
You touch on a point that i believe is greatly overlooked in all the piping up of security in non-MS OSes, and all the treading on security in MS.
sure for now, MS looks really bad security-wise, but when you have 98% (or somewhere thereabouts)of the desktop market, you will also have 98% of the malware directed at you. Security certainly could and should be better in a product that has become so pervasive, but it is an unfair (and in my opinion, too common) comparison to make to say that non-MS is MORE secure than MS, just because we hear about more exploiting of MS software -- There's just more of it out there to exploit.
On the topic of [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags, me and my co-workers have adopted the messaging convention of |sarcastic remark goes here|
to indicate sarcasm in text.
Works for us, thought i'd spread the good word.
This is absolutely no surprise, and seems at this point almost un-newsworthy. There are so many holes in the virtual screen door that we call IE, its becoming moot to mention them. Why not solve the problem at its base, and switch to Mozilla. I am director of IT at the company that I work for, and we all use Mozilla now, and I feel a lot better about this. I am waiting for 2 things though:
1.IE to not be a part of the actual operating system (not going to happen, they've already committed)
and
2.Web Developers to write code that is compatible with all browsers (i.e.: not written just for IE, such that if another browser is noticed, service rendered unusable).
when this happens, i will be pleased.... until then, i guess we're going to be fighting off more exploits than one can shake a stick at.
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You're not asserting that anything else GP stated is false, but despite the truth of the things he says, we should take them as false? You're on drugs.
This is not true! This person's belief about his "right" to purchase copyrighted music has NOTHING to do with his credibility. You are victim to a common pitfall of argument. Here are a series of logical fallacies that are quite commonly used in the support of an argument, but cannot logically be used to support it.
I very much agree with this. I am actually a 3rd Year undergrad. and I just recently got myself an intership with an investment bank doing some software development. I have a slightly larger skillset, and a little work experience, but it wasn't them that got me my internship (which i hear from ex-interns tends to turn into a job post-graduation...). What got me my internship was my relationship with my professors, and the alumni network at my school. I do research with a professor of mine, and she contacted everyone in industry that she knew, but I ended up taking an internship that I learned of through an alumnus. College educations are valuable for the things that one can learn in class, but in my experience, most of the stuff I've learned in class, I could have learned from a book and a few weeks of study. The thing that I feel like I'm paying for as a Computer Science major at an engineering school is the huge amount of contacts that I have developed in the communities surrounding these fields, academically and industrially. I feel like finding a job when I leave here will not be much of a problem because I've made a concerted effort to get to know lots of people who know lots of people. My advice is to do the same; find a professor or advisor or alumnus who you think has a cool job, and just talk to them. Also, if you can swing it, get a job as a research assistant, because I think its a lot of fun, and usually really interesting (and as a bonus, you can get yourself published before you graduate!) Good luck!
most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!
This guy is a real asshat. I sit at night writing up non-malicious code that will hopefully make Linux a (more) superior product to microsoft offerings. I'm not sure how this article even got posted, this guy doesn't sound like very credible individual, nor does he sound very intelligent. To overlook the individual strong points of both windows and linux and mac, and to say something to the effect of "linux is dumb and stupid cuz its dumb, and mac is too much munee" is not only subjective and total bs, but makes this guy look like a punchy jack-ass. I like certain aspects of windows, I love the macOS ui, but I use linux on my desktop (for various reasons, mainly development). I would really like if this guy would post again with 1 iota of support for these silly arguments. and also, his comment about windows bringing the PC to the mainstream..yadda yadda... what about MAC?! the Apple I/II/IIE i remember being pretty much the first guy on the scene, as far as the personal computer goes. Mac (to me at least) put computers in our homes and offices and schools. This guy is a moron.
Or we need a browser to run an OS...
JS/UIX
Not a linspire fan, but i think its about time someone's thinking this way. Portability is key for widespread acceptance, and I like cedega, because in my experience, it works.
Agreed. Red Hat made me want to dive into a river to rid myself of all of these dependency issues, and I was aged by the time X,KDE,Gnome,Firefox,Thunderbird, et al finished compiling on Gentoo. I've got high hopes for autopackage, but haven't used it yet. I think that it is obvious that the thing that is keeping linux off the desktop is the difficulty in installing software. RedHat (and other RPM distros) - if you want to have a completely nontechnical-user environment, you can't expect them to touch a shell at all, and when the fancy RPM GUI crashes and burns, or 9000 unresolved dependency require the user installing to do a little forcing and shodding, it comes to a shell. I hope AutoPackage is *it*. The choice of multiple install options is irreplacable and not something I want to, nor am about to give up, but simplicity is paramount in end-user environments, and most distros lack this when it comes to installs.
I think that this is a fine example of a congressman with limited understanding of what it means to be a P2P app. trying to tell those who do understand that he is correct, and will stand fast against P2P software. However, having a better understanding of the issue, P2P proponents can see the forest for the trees, rather than just seeing a way to feign moral standards in politics, or to appease the media regulation authorities to keep corporate media business interest happy. I think that this is worse than ignoring the problem of P2P piracy, because it is a shoddy solution that negelcts the true problem at hand. Instead, it places a tremendous amount of stress on developers to meet vague standards on what is and isn't preventing illegal use of their software (because inevitably, these standards will be stupid initially, and need to be refined via arguments in court etc.) so no one is going to want to develop P2P apps (I'm talking in terms of the version of "P2P" in question here, not the technicality of it all that classifies web browsers et al as P2P) for useful reasons like legitimate and infinitely extensible robust file transfers (see: bittorrent). This is an awesome technology, and just because some people are abusing it, the solution is *not* to just ban/prohibitivly restrict all users of the software. These are my bits, and I'll send them where ever I feel like, and in fact, as long as people are offering up theirs, I'll take whatever bits I please, too.
clueless ninny, maybe, but it seems he/she's got enough of a clue to realize that bush is, and will probably be remembered in ~50 years as, the worst president in decades of american history. Unilateralism lacks the tact necessary to maintain international favor. The Bush administration has ignored this, giving no regard to the fact that the US is not the only nation on the planet of any consequence. Imperialist, sadly lacking diplomacy, and having outrightly lied to the nation they lead about botched military intelligence that started at least one unjustifiable war, this administration needs to go, even if it takes the votes of clueless ninnies who see nothing more than the fact that the Bush administration is doing no good for anyone, and that our nation will be in deeper than we already are under another four years of Bush Administration decision botching. Vote Kerry and end this Buffoonery.
woo 1st post
this is a dupe article.
Teh original post is here
to those not getting this joke: "j00z g07 0wnzr3d" and that's all
i was born in 85, and in the subsequent 5 years, Mario Bros. - the original- the eternal - assisted my transformation into the geek i am today. i am eternally in its debt. =) also, how much does Mario Bros Rock? its fanastic (that's right, fanastic)
I would totally mess with people. I'd hang around in busy public areas claiming to be undead (or dead, not sure which is creepier) and then when people questioned me i'd be able to prove, by traditional metrics that i am dead (no pulse). then i would try to avoid the police, because, c'mon, people get creeped out pretty easily.
I work for an event staging company and we use about 20 of these shuttle pc's to run our portable media (powerpoint, dvd's, mpeg video etc.). For standard presentation fare, and general use, over very long periods of time (sometimes on for days) these little boxes perform very well. we've never had a heat problem (though it doesn't seem outrageous that there could arise such an issue, as they tend to run *very* warm, but not to the point of anything critical).
i didn't rtfa (c'mon, i'm a busy man....) but regardless of what they say, by experience, i say that these get the job done, and take up a hell of a lot less weight/space in shipping.
that's what im sayin, i've got about 200 45's and X,000,000 331/3's and i say there's no way there outlawing these babies. ::coniving grin at your confiscated iPod::
OK, here is my opinion of Orrin Hatch: It seems that this man does not know what he is saying before he says it, and somehow it makes it to various stages of review in congress and ends up on slashdot. The idea that manufacturers of devices that are able to copy media can be held liable, etc. is proposterous.
ie: liquor store sued because drunk husband beats wife. not right, eh?
Mr. Hatch is attempting a proactive elimination of illegal use of media (well i mean he's gotta get the riaa to keep paying him somehow), but he's doing it at the wrong level. *users* need regulation (if anyone does...). This is not the way to prevent illegal abuse of copyrighted material. This is a good way to
Piss off music lovers
Make people not like you just a bit more
Mr. H. Thanks, but i'll fill my iPod with all the music i just finished d/ling from my favorite shiesty P2P all afternoon. (until, of course, P2P is illegal, as you would have it.....)
Alright, so now we're being watched even more than before. I don't like it (and i live in Boston, so I really don't like it).
The police/government are a regulating body acting on behalf of the members of the population that they are to be regulating/protecting (assuming that those members abide by the established laws of that society). Since they are acting on my behalf and for the (in their opinion) greater public well being by watching us to make sure we do our part not to detriment our society, i think that we ought to be able to monitor them (the law enforcement agencies/gov't agencies) to ensure that they are doing their part. I would like to see what goes on in the public areas of my local precinct/city hall/etc. via a wired video feed that i can browse at my leisure to ensure that this societal handshake agreement to live civilizedly, us being protected and them protecting, is upheld. If they need to watch us all the time for no particular reason, i feel that we should be allowed to do the same.
i guess us users of *nix OSes just far surpass the intelligence of pc users (because we don't use IE...) and transcend the reported intelligence of the mac users, as we can use more than one way of thinking (ext*,fat vs. HFS+; KDE, GNOME, WinMaker vs. OS X etc. etc.) ok, so this will be marked flamebait in short order. think humorous
First, i think that our invasive government has done enough to deprive us of any personal space. Tom Ridge, or anyone else doesn't need to know my pants size, yearly income, and how many pets i have if i'm getting on a plane. Security is one thing, but this is blatant excess, and abuse of authority. I'm glad we've at least got someone in congress with enough sense to say, "ok, so now when we get on planes, they'll anal probe us... Not so sure if i like that...". I just wish that good sense was around when the "Patriot" Act was written/passed. Well, change is not easy to swing these days, so i don't imagine we'll be seeing any less of this nonsense flying through congress (until we get some new faces in gov't....)
...and Keyboard. Without them, you're sunk.
Sarcasm aside here, to you or I, that would be fantastic, but that is a tactic that would be as sinister to resort to as the initial IE monopolization of the browser market. Ideally, we need absolute standardization, and with that we could have absolute compatibility. For those lost souls who "prefer" IE (those who have not been out from under the wool that MS/IE has pulled over their eyes) there still needs to be compatibility. It is then up to the users to deal with the risk they take in using an insecure browser.
You touch on a point that i believe is greatly overlooked in all the piping up of security in non-MS OSes, and all the treading on security in MS.
sure for now, MS looks really bad security-wise, but when you have 98% (or somewhere thereabouts)of the desktop market, you will also have 98% of the malware directed at you. Security certainly could and should be better in a product that has become so pervasive, but it is an unfair (and in my opinion, too common) comparison to make to say that non-MS is MORE secure than MS, just because we hear about more exploiting of MS software -- There's just more of it out there to exploit.
On the topic of [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags, me and my co-workers have adopted the messaging convention of |sarcastic remark goes here| to indicate sarcasm in text.
Works for us, thought i'd spread the good word.
This is absolutely no surprise, and seems at this point almost un-newsworthy. There are so many holes in the virtual screen door that we call IE, its becoming moot to mention them. Why not solve the problem at its base, and switch to Mozilla. I am director of IT at the company that I work for, and we all use Mozilla now, and I feel a lot better about this. I am waiting for 2 things though:
1.IE to not be a part of the actual operating system (not going to happen, they've already committed)
and
2.Web Developers to write code that is compatible with all browsers (i.e.: not written just for IE, such that if another browser is noticed, service rendered unusable).
when this happens, i will be pleased.... until then, i guess we're going to be fighting off more exploits than one can shake a stick at.