What the hell are you talking about? Trollish troll is trollish eh?
Anyway, I'll bite. Windows Server 2008, like any decent server should have, is based on user permissions and if your user can't perform a given task, you can escalate to admin rights (OMG JUST LIEK SU!!) and do your thing. And obviously there won't be the same issues as on Vista because it won't be used as a desktop. At least it shouldn't be.
And the fact it's not a desktop means that the HD videos thing doesn't even matter.
Oh, I forgot one "simple" thing: JUST making available isn't a illegal by itself, because there has to be trading going on for it to be illegal. If you have a couple of crack rocks inside your pocket, you can't be arrested for drug trafficking if you haven't actually traded, right?
Same goes for this case. If they can't prove actual downloads from that shared folder, it's all meaningless.
In other words, they're complaining about sharing the MP3s, not making them. The fight against corporate copyright bullies will not be helped by intellectual dishonesty and exaggeration.
Absolutely. IMO, the second the defendant decided to share the mp3 files generated from an RIAA CD, they are no longer for personal use only and are being made available for others to download (illegally). Nobody moves their files to a shared folder for no reason at all, right? Same goes if you set your whole music folder as a shared folder.
I totally agree with RIAA on that logic. ON THAT LOGIC. Thing is, all the batshit crazy things they do go way beyond that, and attack directly all kinds of fair use rights we have. And if we want to beat them, we gotta start making sense and stop trolling with articles like this one. But then, if article trolls cease to exist, so will most of slashdot's stories.
I wonder what is the effect of this bug on officially endorsed and supported Dell notebooks with Ubuntu on them? Wouldn't something like this be caught up by Dell's QA? Or is it exclusive to 7.10?
Actually, there was a block, but it was Brasil Telecom that used the decision to block access to the VIDEO (not youtube as a whole) as an excuse to block the whole thing. They've been having loads of bandwidth problems since Youtube became quite famous and people started to use their broadband bandwidth as advertised. Blocking the site was a way to remove a bottleneck on their own system, and that's why they happily blocked the whole website at once. I remember they blocked a portion of Nasa's website too because it was bandwidth intense as well. Other backbones not owned by them didn't have the access blocked at all, as it seems to have been observed on parent post.
Now, that episode lasted only a couple of days. To use that as an excuse to compare Brazil with a country that just suffered a coup-d'etat for trolling reasons is completely unfair and is offtopic.
Well, when you listen to something online it has to be stored somehow offline so that the computer can play it. And if you can play it, you can save it. And if you can save it... well, you get the idea.
Yeah, pretty much like the Motorola phones. When you create a folder on a MicroSD card (photos, videos, music, etc) it'll consider the folder name a "category", and the whole UI is based on that concept.
I believe its much more logical to consider folders as categories and subcategories instead of just directories. That's what I do when I store my data, and that's the logic behind my folder names.
Well, I'm giving Longhorn Server a go and, once you enable UAC (it has to be actually enabled, like su), it'll prompt for admin's password when you try to elevate a software the same way gksudo works in Ubuntu (but, of course, it asks for the admin password - not yours). That makes me wonder if they actually kept it in Vista, but disabled the option with a regkey.
People talk crap about UAC, but I actually like to know when a given piece of software wants admin priviledges - something I never had on windows but is just canonical on *nix.
I'd love to see them get re-elected after pulling that little stunt.
Yes, let us remember that it's a presidential election year in Brazil, and anything goes, especially for companies interested in little advantages. Plus, Google was being scalded alive by the local media. And, like I heard once: "a polemical headline exists as a bargain for a even more polemical request".
Oh, wait a second... should I congratulate you for not taking advantage of the slashdot crowd or become worried with the fact that I actually bothered to look for XFGW?
A site specialized on Windows and with a strong relationship with Micrsooft bashes a competitor OS to defend Vista and make it look like the one that is truly original... I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
And that is the point of Orwell's novel. As you said, it's supposedly in place for the sake of the people... and that's all it needs to say so it is accepted. The same happens with Oceania - it wants people to believe they are there to defend them, and yet they use the same people to keep itself alive since nothing/nobody wants to die and fade away, and the government (especially those who benefit from its power) is no exception.
IMO, it shouldn't exist, but people are naive and know no better.
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What the hell are you talking about? Trollish troll is trollish eh?
Anyway, I'll bite. Windows Server 2008, like any decent server should have, is based on user permissions and if your user can't perform a given task, you can escalate to admin rights (OMG JUST LIEK SU!!) and do your thing. And obviously there won't be the same issues as on Vista because it won't be used as a desktop. At least it shouldn't be.
And the fact it's not a desktop means that the HD videos thing doesn't even matter.
Absolutely. Either GNOME catches up or Kubuntu 8.10 will become mainstream Ubuntu.
Oh, I forgot one "simple" thing: JUST making available isn't a illegal by itself, because there has to be trading going on for it to be illegal. If you have a couple of crack rocks inside your pocket, you can't be arrested for drug trafficking if you haven't actually traded, right? Same goes for this case. If they can't prove actual downloads from that shared folder, it's all meaningless.
In other words, they're complaining about sharing the MP3s, not making them. The fight against corporate copyright bullies will not be helped by intellectual dishonesty and exaggeration.
Absolutely. IMO, the second the defendant decided to share the mp3 files generated from an RIAA CD, they are no longer for personal use only and are being made available for others to download (illegally). Nobody moves their files to a shared folder for no reason at all, right? Same goes if you set your whole music folder as a shared folder.
I totally agree with RIAA on that logic. ON THAT LOGIC. Thing is, all the batshit crazy things they do go way beyond that, and attack directly all kinds of fair use rights we have. And if we want to beat them, we gotta start making sense and stop trolling with articles like this one. But then, if article trolls cease to exist, so will most of slashdot's stories.
4 and 128 are quite confusing, especially if the other person is left-handed...
Now, no doubts about 132.
I wonder what is the effect of this bug on officially endorsed and supported Dell notebooks with Ubuntu on them? Wouldn't something like this be caught up by Dell's QA? Or is it exclusive to 7.10?
Yeah, sure. Whatever it is, it can't be compared to the damage done to Ubuntu's launchpad after it was slashdotted.
:(
Once they control the fire and get the backup server online, maybe I'll be able to RTFA.
If I had mod points, you surely would be modded up by me.
Plus, you just described the religion/science equivalent of Godwin's law.
Mine will sell faster, since its the new trend!
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Actually, there was a block, but it was Brasil Telecom that used the decision to block access to the VIDEO (not youtube as a whole) as an excuse to block the whole thing. They've been having loads of bandwidth problems since Youtube became quite famous and people started to use their broadband bandwidth as advertised. Blocking the site was a way to remove a bottleneck on their own system, and that's why they happily blocked the whole website at once. I remember they blocked a portion of Nasa's website too because it was bandwidth intense as well. Other backbones not owned by them didn't have the access blocked at all, as it seems to have been observed on parent post.
Now, that episode lasted only a couple of days. To use that as an excuse to compare Brazil with a country that just suffered a coup-d'etat for trolling reasons is completely unfair and is offtopic.
Well, when you listen to something online it has to be stored somehow offline so that the computer can play it. And if you can play it, you can save it. And if you can save it... well, you get the idea.
Trent leaked his album himself.
Lucky us that can say that. I don't think the AB+ guys would happily say "All bow before me, the Universal Receiver!"
But I use nano you insensitive clod!
Yeah, pretty much like the Motorola phones. When you create a folder on a MicroSD card (photos, videos, music, etc) it'll consider the folder name a "category", and the whole UI is based on that concept.
I believe its much more logical to consider folders as categories and subcategories instead of just directories. That's what I do when I store my data, and that's the logic behind my folder names.
And yes, BTW: No one exects the Spanish Inquisition! :) (Sorry, couldn't help it)
What, they actually have cardinals in nice red uniforms tying the cables down with a rack? That's actually older than 19th century tech!
this is a must read
it seems exploitation and sony do indeed work well together
(Tony Montana's voice)Those fucking cockroaches!(/Tony Montana's voice)
:P
They already rule the world at this exact moment!
Come on, look at who's ruling the world right now and tell me they're not cockroaches
Well, I'm giving Longhorn Server a go and, once you enable UAC (it has to be actually enabled, like su), it'll prompt for admin's password when you try to elevate a software the same way gksudo works in Ubuntu (but, of course, it asks for the admin password - not yours). That makes me wonder if they actually kept it in Vista, but disabled the option with a regkey.
People talk crap about UAC, but I actually like to know when a given piece of software wants admin priviledges - something I never had on windows but is just canonical on *nix.
I bet they'll call it "gamma" after the RC cycle...
Yes, then they'll call it delta when they release it for volume licensing and... semi moronic epsilon when its out in the wild for home consumers.
"O wonder!
How many goodly features are there here!
How beautious vista is!
O brave new windows,
That has such features in't!"
I'd love to see them get re-elected after pulling that little stunt.
Yes, let us remember that it's a presidential election year in Brazil, and anything goes, especially for companies interested in little advantages. Plus, Google was being scalded alive by the local media. And, like I heard once: "a polemical headline exists as a bargain for a even more polemical request".
C:\> cd dos
C:\DOS> cd run
C:\DOS\RUN> cd dos
C:\DOS\RUN\DOS> cd run
C:\DOS\RUN\DOS\RUN> _
it doesn't push us into love/hate relationships with the neighborhood hottie street samurai who has built-in HUD/sunglasses.
Well, if you're into snuff porn, maybe it actually does... but then you must be some kind of sicko by nature. See the analogy with violent games?
Hey, XFGW doesn't exist!
Oh, wait a second... should I congratulate you for not taking advantage of the slashdot crowd or become worried with the fact that I actually bothered to look for XFGW?
A site specialized on Windows and with a strong relationship with Micrsooft bashes a competitor OS to defend Vista and make it look like the one that is truly original... I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
(yeah, I got the karma to burn)
And that is the point of Orwell's novel. As you said, it's supposedly in place for the sake of the people... and that's all it needs to say so it is accepted. The same happens with Oceania - it wants people to believe they are there to defend them, and yet they use the same people to keep itself alive since nothing/nobody wants to die and fade away, and the government (especially those who benefit from its power) is no exception.
IMO, it shouldn't exist, but people are naive and know no better.