This is what I heard the M$ lawers say: First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The Linux community has been laughing at us and our users for a long time. Now they seem to want to fight us. Just a bit of time and we win, Mr. Balmer.
550USD? Where do you get that? Hosting, with unlimited emailaccounts, can be gotten from 20EUR per year at this site and others will be available as well. I would say that a 50 EUR account is sufficient for about 95% of small businesses.
Well, I never died before, so I don't need an insurance to provide my kids if it does happen. Also you are reading slashdot, so that means you belong to the elite that does know how virusses and the internet work. The numrous spam emails I get tell me that there are enough people out ther that are not as smart as you are.
Discouraging friends and family to not use them is sending me spam, unless all of your friends and family are as technical-savy as you are. Most unlikely.
That it is bad for you does not mean it is bad for everybody. Safe computing is NOT blindly advising people about security and think they are as technical as you are. If that were the case, I would not be getting any spam.
First it is SUSE, not SuSE Second There is only SUSE 10. The next will be SUSE 11. That is SLES and SLED for you Third, the versions you talk about is openSUSE. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4 just came out and is unrelated to this whole deal. There are no coupons for openSUSE. You can just download it.
Now SLES or SLED are valid for 7 years anyway.
Also understand that these coupons buy you one year of free updates on SLES or SLED. Now what if in 8 years they are at SUSE 14 and you recieve a coupon from Microsoft. What most likely will be is that they send you to the URL where you can download it just as you can now. They activate your account for one year and send you a bill if you want to use it for the next 6 years.
That is all that coupon is. It is a registration key that Microsoft has payed for. The product will not stop running, you just won't be able to update for free. Now if that is not an issue, then you might as well use openSUSE with a 2 year lifespan on free updates.
So no, if Novell is smart, they will sned you a bright new shiney whatever they have as their latest URL. They got Microsoft payed for their promotional material.
You though you had problems with "new directions" Can you imagine telling the software to go to this site? haatch tee tee pee double point slash slash slash dot dot org. http:///..org not found
My dad once asked me what computer he should buy. I asked him what he was going to do with it. I am still waiting for an answer.
So instead of looking up things on his PC, they go out and ask people. And if I want to show them pictures, I print them out and put them in snailmail.
and for some sites that I want to see without the stoopid ads all over or where I do not like the standard layout (like slashdot or Toms hardware) I use http://userstyles.org/
OK, perhaps I am overactive, but I am now unable to watch the internet on an other computer, because of all the ads that are trown to me.
All this should be a hint to companies that people do niot want this. Ebay should look at who its base customers are and serve them. Ignore the extra money you can make. It pisses people off.
But as it is a company, the management will be only there for three years, or so, so as long as they can milk it, who cares, right?
A study in Belgium revealed that telecomuters still drove as much as others. They just drove for different reasons. Bringing the children to school was a major one.
Actually, security through obscurity is very functional and useful as part of a security scheme. Your password is security through obscurity. Why don't you just give it to everyone if it makes no difference?
Login : 81121 Password : 123456
And yes, they are actual logins and passwords I use on my Cisco phone. Makes no difference to me.
People like to know what other people do or did. That is why we will look at some people living in a house, on an island or whatever other lame shows there are.
Probably you say that you don't do that, but plenty of other people will. Thise will be the people who will dig into what you once said.
The problem is not that you do know that. The problem is that many people don't know that.
I doubt anybody here on slashdot will ever fall for phishing. However this is not about making it more secure for people who have a clue. It is about making it more secure for people who don't have a clue.
It is about protecting the people who fall for it. I believe education is the best way to solve it.
I think most people do that. At least with smaller programs and scripts. The fact that you end up spending way much more time then you could actualy win the first time is irrelevant.
e.g. I made a script makeSUSEdvd so I did not need to do the process manually each month. The time I gained by doing it with a script is completely and utterly lost by the time I spend making and perfecting the script.
The up side is that several thousand of people have enjoyed it and it is the basis for making your own SUSE based distribution. Another plus thing is that I have learned many things doing this, which will help me in the future.
The downside of automating things is that when you need to do it again, you sometimes have to look it up again.
Only if it is done by idiots. In Europe many people get a healthplan by default. Still many people try to rip off the insurance, yet those are no idiots and will catch about 99.9% of the people why try to do it. The 0.1% they don't get are smaller amounts, so investigation is not that strict.
They also will require a 6 month timedelay on many ilnesses. That way accidents will be coverd directly, but many others are not, like chronical diseases.
As if somebody will take a look at your house to be sure it is not only not on fire, but also to see if your house is not in too much of a risk (otherwise you pay more)
What happens when a publisher or author who owns a copyright dies without heirs?
First he must be an orphan, otherwise his closest relatives will inherit the copyright. They can say no to inheriting anything. In that case all his belongings are belong to the state, including the copyright.
Or if an author submits a book to a publisher using a false id? Or if a publisher prints a book anonymously?
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This is what I heard the M$ lawers say:
First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The Linux community has been laughing at us and our users for a long time. Now they seem to want to fight us. Just a bit of time and we win, Mr. Balmer.
Now I can not only steal the electricity to run my computer, I can also let the city do the cooling of my PC.
550USD? Where do you get that? Hosting, with unlimited emailaccounts, can be gotten from 20EUR per year at this site and others will be available as well. I would say that a 50 EUR account is sufficient for about 95% of small businesses.
Well, I never died before, so I don't need an insurance to provide my kids if it does happen.
Also you are reading slashdot, so that means you belong to the elite that does know how virusses and the internet work. The numrous spam emails I get tell me that there are enough people out ther that are not as smart as you are.
Discouraging friends and family to not use them is sending me spam, unless all of your friends and family are as technical-savy as you are. Most unlikely.
That it is bad for you does not mean it is bad for everybody.
Safe computing is NOT blindly advising people about security and think they are as technical as you are. If that were the case, I would not be getting any spam.
then surely 2007 is the yard of the Linux desktop
First it is SUSE, not SuSE
Second There is only SUSE 10. The next will be SUSE 11. That is SLES and SLED for you
Third, the versions you talk about is openSUSE. openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4 just came out and is unrelated to this whole deal.
There are no coupons for openSUSE. You can just download it.
Now SLES or SLED are valid for 7 years anyway.
Also understand that these coupons buy you one year of free updates on SLES or SLED. Now what if in 8 years they are at SUSE 14 and you recieve a coupon from Microsoft. What most likely will be is that they send you to the URL where you can download it just as you can now. They activate your account for one year and send you a bill if you want to use it for the next 6 years.
That is all that coupon is. It is a registration key that Microsoft has payed for. The product will not stop running, you just won't be able to update for free. Now if that is not an issue, then you might as well use openSUSE with a 2 year lifespan on free updates.
So no, if Novell is smart, they will sned you a bright new shiney whatever they have as their latest URL. They got Microsoft payed for their promotional material.
You though you had problems with "new directions"
Can you imagine telling the software to go to this site?
haatch tee tee pee double point slash slash slash dot dot org.
http:///..org not found
Yeah, I say that opt-out is the way to go. (NOT)
Why not have a robots.txt to opt-in?
Those people who think they realy need it 24x7 must be irreplacable people.
Cementaries are full of them.
My dad once asked me what computer he should buy. I asked him what he was going to do with it. I am still waiting for an answer.
So instead of looking up things on his PC, they go out and ask people. And if I want to show them pictures, I print them out and put them in snailmail.
We do not want to see pages full of advertisement. Especially not when they move around. This was already clear with the tag.
I even hate it when movies I want to see start playing before I pressed start.
I myself use several different methods to avoid seeing spam.
1) http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (Update the hosts file once per month with a cron job)
2) Adblock
3) http://www.privoxy.org/
4) Adblock
and for some sites that I want to see without the stoopid ads all over or where I do not like the standard layout (like slashdot or Toms hardware) I use http://userstyles.org/
OK, perhaps I am overactive, but I am now unable to watch the internet on an other computer, because of all the ads that are trown to me.
All this should be a hint to companies that people do niot want this. Ebay should look at who its base customers are and serve them. Ignore the extra money you can make. It pisses people off.
But as it is a company, the management will be only there for three years, or so, so as long as they can milk it, who cares, right?
Islam is based on the old testament as well, For Muslims, Jezus did exist and he is a profet. Mohammed was just the last profet.
the governement monitors you.
because the consumer is not their customer.
A study in Belgium revealed that telecomuters still drove as much as others. They just drove for different reasons. Bringing the children to school was a major one.
Login : 81121
Password : 123456
And yes, they are actual logins and passwords I use on my Cisco phone. Makes no difference to me.
People like to know what other people do or did. That is why we will look at some people living in a house, on an island or whatever other lame shows there are.
Probably you say that you don't do that, but plenty of other people will. Thise will be the people who will dig into what you once said.
Mod this up.
The problem is not that you do know that. The problem is that many people don't know that.
I doubt anybody here on slashdot will ever fall for phishing. However this is not about making it more secure for people who have a clue. It is about making it more secure for people who don't have a clue.
It is about protecting the people who fall for it. I believe education is the best way to solve it.
I think most people do that. At least with smaller programs and scripts. The fact that you end up spending way much more time then you could actualy win the first time is irrelevant.
e.g. I made a script makeSUSEdvd so I did not need to do the process manually each month. The time I gained by doing it with a script is completely and utterly lost by the time I spend making and perfecting the script.
The up side is that several thousand of people have enjoyed it and it is the basis for making your own SUSE based distribution. Another plus thing is that I have learned many things doing this, which will help me in the future.
The downside of automating things is that when you need to do it again, you sometimes have to look it up again.
Only if it is done by idiots. In Europe many people get a healthplan by default. Still many people try to rip off the insurance, yet those are no idiots and will catch about 99.9% of the people why try to do it. The 0.1% they don't get are smaller amounts, so investigation is not that strict.
They also will require a 6 month timedelay on many ilnesses. That way accidents will be coverd directly, but many others are not, like chronical diseases.
As if somebody will take a look at your house to be sure it is not only not on fire, but also to see if your house is not in too much of a risk (otherwise you pay more)
Sorry.
First he must be an orphan, otherwise his closest relatives will inherit the copyright. They can say no to inheriting anything. In that case all his belongings are belong to the state, including the copyright.
The copyright is then the publishers.
And still available from my site here at 394.1k
Sorry, only Windows. No Linux version
and when they have there degree, they can get high payment from said **AA, because they know the material so well.