I read this Slashdot article and write a report at the same time and just want to verify I spelled 'heterogeneous' correctly. So I type it into this new thing and voila! suggestions such as the following pop up:
'hetero handjobs' 'hetero handjob fanclubs'
Typing a word starting with 'dic' or 'glory' provide similar experiences.
You have a point. From personal experience, many schools won't incorporate The Gimp into their curriculum, because the name is "intolerant" and "derogatory" of special education students.
I think its stupid, but thats how the real world thinks.
Since when is free software not for poor people?!?
It's the hardware, stupid.
During your laughably ignorant rant, you forgot
that most of the price of the PIC is the
hardware.
How could limiting software choice possibly add value to those devices?
It reduces the company's (and thus the
customer's) cost for support issues related
to people mucking with their PICs and trying
to put Brown Shat Linux on it and then
calling up AMD for help on getting Windows CE
back.
Your moaning sounds like the indignant soup kitchen owner who is upset because the poor won't eat your rancid swill, prefering to feed it to their hogs!
Such is the way of the low-cost solution.
If you don't like it, I suggest you donate
your money and time toward the causes that
bother you the most.
but I've been pretty dissappointed with the slow OS that ships with Windows-based PDAs
Uhm, when's the last time you used a "Windows-based" PDA? Windows CE 2.11? Windows Mobile devices blow the pants off of PalmOS devices speedwise AND they can actually multithread, to boot.
This would have been great news, had Palm announced this a year or two ago when they weren't already far behind in the PDA curve.
But instead, PalmOS Colbalt devices are still vaporware*, and we're still using PDAs with ancient OS designs that lack multithreading, decent network stacks, and outdated APIs that are compiled for a CPU no one even uses in their PDAs anymore.
And now, to further cloud the situation, they're diverting their apparently already limited resources to start up yet another project: PalmOS on Linux. Wow, sounds great. Gimme a Tungsten C with Linux any day.
I just hope you release it sometime this century.
* Yes, yes, we know PalmOS Cobalt exists somewhere, but it doesn't exist where it counts: the market.
The word's laws aren't protecting us, so this sort of thing is needed. These people are committing crimes of theft of service (including bandwidth, server resources, man-hours), and possibly hacking laws, with some of the methods they use (VERIFY, the use of mangled headers to bypass SMTP server protections, etc)
What happens when the law won't protect you? Sure, you possibly endure the crime being committed and lobby for laws. Or you go vigilante on them.
What happens when you're on the Internet with hundreds of different governments? You can't lobby them all and when you get laws in one country, they just move their operations to another.
You're essentially shit out of luck here, and vigilantism/mob justice is in order. You don't have to like it, but don't stop us.
When I grew up in the 70's and 80's, it was also very common to also see home computers from Atari (400/800/etc), Commodore (VIC-20/64 and later the 128/Amigas), TRS-80's, Coleco Adams, and Texas Instrument machines.
Apples and IBMs were delegated to the more well-off families, until well after clones started appearing.
Why not try SageTV? It's mature, inexpensive, pretty stable, and nicely designed. It's even hackable (via STV modules) to boot. People have already written STV mods for weather, early itunes functionality, and a web interface for it.
I believe in privacy, personally, and I don't think the public has a "right" to know everything.'
This case is really about Linux, and Linux is written by "the public". As a (small-time) kernel contributor I want to hear the sealed information relating to arguments in a court case that is attempting to damage the reputation of a project that I am a contributing author of.
You want to be a hero? Go into a profession that saves lives.
I'm not a hero for any of the computer stuff I do.... even when I save Betsy in Accounting's spreadsheet that she's been working on for a week. And neither are you.
If you want to see a hero, go do a ride-along with a cop or a firefighter. Go serve in the military and learn what it really means to have others depend on you, on your competence.
I never saw you as Wesley Crusher or whoever. I don't like Star Trek, nor any sci-fi/fantasy stuff. I remember you vaguely from Stand By Me and I find your blog entertaining and interesting on the rare occasion I have time in my life and get bored.
My question is: What's an average day in the life of Wil Wheaton like? What do you eat, what do you do?
To say nothing of the MIPS-derived CPU in 20 gazillion Playstation2's and the POWER CPU that's going into the XBox 2. Yeah, RISC sure is dead all right...
And microwaves... My microwave has an R3300 powering it... apparently MIPS processors are quite common in appliances. And then we could get into ARM processors and their dominance in PDAs and embedded devices... yep... dead... sure:)
4 months is quick? Boy, I'm sure glad there's such a large anti-full disclosure mentality going around lately. Now, vendors don't have to secure their vulnerabilities in a timely manner!
1. Get notified about a serious security flaw 2..... 3. Release a patch a quarter of a year later 4. Profit!
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Or maybe it didn't even happen and we're all ignorant of the Matrix!
Uh huh.
Uhm, if you RTFA, you'd see that they state the burglars heard the police sounds from the game and fled. Great going, genius.
And through the great Slashdot moderation system your post gets moderated "insightful".
I read this Slashdot article and write a report at the same time and just want to verify I spelled 'heterogeneous' correctly. So I type it into this new thing and voila! suggestions such as the following pop up:
'hetero handjobs'
'hetero handjob fanclubs'
Typing a word starting with 'dic' or 'glory' provide similar experiences.
Needs work.
You have a point. From personal experience, many schools won't incorporate The Gimp into their curriculum, because the name is "intolerant" and "derogatory" of special education students.
I think its stupid, but thats how the real world thinks.
Since when is free software not for poor people?!?
It's the hardware, stupid.
During your laughably ignorant rant, you forgot
that most of the price of the PIC is the
hardware.
How could limiting software choice possibly add value to those devices?
It reduces the company's (and thus the
customer's) cost for support issues related
to people mucking with their PICs and trying
to put Brown Shat Linux on it and then
calling up AMD for help on getting Windows CE
back.
Your moaning sounds like the indignant soup kitchen owner who is upset because the poor won't eat your rancid swill, prefering to feed it to their hogs!
Such is the way of the low-cost solution.
If you don't like it, I suggest you donate
your money and time toward the causes that
bother you the most.
but I've been pretty dissappointed with the slow OS that ships with Windows-based PDAs
Uhm, when's the last time you used a "Windows-based" PDA? Windows CE 2.11? Windows Mobile devices blow the pants off of PalmOS devices speedwise AND they can actually multithread, to boot.
This would have been great news, had Palm announced this a year or two ago when they weren't already far behind in the PDA curve.
But instead, PalmOS Colbalt devices are still vaporware*, and we're still using PDAs with ancient OS designs that lack multithreading, decent network stacks, and outdated APIs that are compiled for a CPU no one even uses in their PDAs anymore.
And now, to further cloud the situation, they're diverting their apparently already limited resources to start up yet another project: PalmOS on Linux. Wow, sounds great. Gimme a Tungsten C with Linux any day.
I just hope you release it sometime this century.
* Yes, yes, we know PalmOS Cobalt exists somewhere, but it doesn't exist where it counts: the market.
There is a reason why those things didn't last more than one generation.
Off the top of my head...
Atari 400
Atari 800XL
Atari 130 et al
Atari ST
Commodore PET
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128 (and then later the C128 with 512k RAM)
Commodore Amiga
You were saying? Oh right, you were spewing bullshit, sorry.
If you're stupid enough not to forsee the problems with targeting a dns name, then you might as well just stop now.
Clued people don't bother using DNS names, because they can be removed/redirected/whatever.
Of course, it is of vital importance to monitor their dns changes, in the event they move their services to another ip address.
The word's laws aren't protecting us, so this sort of thing is needed. These people are committing crimes of theft of service (including bandwidth, server resources, man-hours), and possibly hacking laws, with some of the methods they use (VERIFY, the use of mangled headers to bypass SMTP server protections, etc)
What happens when the law won't protect you? Sure, you possibly endure the crime being committed and lobby for laws. Or you go vigilante on them.
What happens when you're on the Internet with hundreds of different governments? You can't lobby them all and when you get laws in one country, they just move their operations to another.
You're essentially shit out of luck here, and vigilantism/mob justice is in order. You don't have to like it, but don't stop us.
When I grew up in the 70's and 80's, it was also very common to also see home computers from Atari (400/800/etc), Commodore (VIC-20/64 and later the 128/Amigas), TRS-80's, Coleco Adams, and Texas Instrument machines.
Apples and IBMs were delegated to the more well-off families, until well after clones started appearing.
Maybe you should add "getting out more" to that list of yours.
Spelling: Google wrote its own spell checker, and maintains that nobody know as many spelling errors as it does.
That's only because it indexes slashdot.org.
Remove that from the Google index, and I bet you Slashdot wins over the rest of the net.
Why not try SageTV? It's mature, inexpensive, pretty stable, and nicely designed. It's even hackable (via STV modules) to boot. People have already written STV mods for weather, early itunes functionality, and a web interface for it.
I believe in privacy, personally, and I don't think the public has a "right" to know everything.'
This case is really about Linux, and Linux is written by "the public". As a (small-time) kernel contributor I want to hear the sealed information relating to arguments in a court case that is attempting to damage the reputation of a project that I am a contributing author of.
Who are you to tell me (or anyone) which was more important?
Well, aside from being a former soldier, I'm an American citizen exercising his first amendment right to an opinion.
How is this truth a troll post?
You want to be a hero? Go into a profession that saves lives.
I'm not a hero for any of the computer stuff I do.... even when I save Betsy in Accounting's spreadsheet that she's been working on for a week. And neither are you.
If you want to see a hero, go do a ride-along with a cop or a firefighter. Go serve in the military and learn what it really means to have others depend on you, on your competence.
I never saw you as Wesley Crusher or whoever. I don't like Star Trek, nor any sci-fi/fantasy stuff. I remember you vaguely from Stand By Me and I find your blog entertaining and interesting on the rare occasion I have time in my life and get bored.
My question is: What's an average day in the life of Wil Wheaton like? What do you eat, what do you do?
To say nothing of the MIPS-derived CPU in 20 gazillion Playstation2's and the POWER CPU that's going into the XBox 2. Yeah, RISC sure is dead all right...
:)
And microwaves... My microwave has an R3300 powering it... apparently MIPS processors are quite common in appliances. And then we could get into ARM processors and their dominance in PDAs and embedded devices... yep... dead... sure
RISC vendors failed.
That's funny, IBM and Motorola seem to be doing just fine. I guess all these Macs are figments of our imagination.
Whoops!
4 months is quick? Boy, I'm sure glad there's such a large anti-full disclosure mentality going around lately. Now, vendors don't have to secure their vulnerabilities in a timely manner!
....
1. Get notified about a serious security flaw
2.
3. Release a patch a quarter of a year later
4. Profit!
pee pee
tee hee
Do most Linux users trust Solaris enough to let go of Linux? No.
That should be "Do most Linux users trust Sun...". Solaris is great. It's the company behind it that... not to troll but, sucks.
And yes, the answer is still "no".
suck it, nerd.
oh, and it's "loser", not "looser".