So when we find out a new proposed patent that is inherently bullshit, bitching about it on Slashdot can actually do something! Wow, I like this idea (for now).
What the hell does your link have to do with your post? It's obviously not a signature (I have them disabled), and you apparently missed the "my homepage" option in your preferences.
Linux 2.6.25 will be the most feature-rich version of the Linux kernel ever! Amazingly, it will still be backwards compatible with older 2.6.x releases, so maybe that's why they're not going to fork to 2.7/2.8 until DNF comes out.
Coral cache of the link. Some fucknut thought it would be a good idea to use the "Cache-Control: no-store" HTTP header, so it'll be only a short amount of time until their server blows up due to excessive MySQL queries.
The US Constitution is like 2 fucking pages. You could read that while on the shitter and still have time left over. I think it's more of the idea that they just don't care.
Windows only "just works" when it comes pre-installed for you. Setting up a Windows install from scratch is just as annoying as setting up a *nix system for the first time, but people conveniently forget that. If you had a computer with a Linux-based distro pre-installed and configured for you, I'm sure you'd think otherwise to your previous statement.
I like how it does that "sign up with email" test. Too bad there's no good way of determining legitimacy without actually looking at them. Slashdot's emails are story summaries of the day (or in my experience, of two days ago). Besides, there's always dodgeit for signing up with throwaway email addresses.
There is AppleWorks, but as far as I remember, it's not so good, especially when compared to a professional level office suite like MS Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc.
Also, I'm pretty sure that in many cases, Microsoft's and Apple's proprietary formats are created so that they don't have to pay licensing fees to the original patenters or leeches. I know that's true for at least WMV; Microsoft didn't want to pay any licensing fees for the video and audio codecs at the time, so they developed their own formats which would cost them nothing in licensing fees. Too bad they didn't just look to open source where the royalty-free and unencumbered formats lay.
People at Google do read Slashdot threads like these; they're always interested in improving their products, and places like Slashdot seem to be a haven for complaints, so this is a good place to start in many cases.
That problem can be easily fixed: make mudslinging ads illegal for political campaigns and whatnot. If a politician does something blatantly illegal, it'll hurt the advertising politician more than it could hurt the person being FUD'd.
In fact, you're viewing the Bill of Rights from the opposite perspective of that intended: it is a nonexhaustive, nonexclusive list of rights. Just because the rights to chew gum, or reproduce, or play videogames are not listed in the Constitution does not mean you don't have those rights.
Considering that the Ninth Amendment goes over that fact, I think he just completely missed the point of what the Bill of Rights says.
Hmm, if all you did was add a comment in the audio file of your user ID with the company (maybe even encrypt that), then all the stupid pirates that you're trying to stop with DRM would be fucked as they wouldn't bother removing the comments. Better than a watermark because it would be easily removable if you felt it to be necessary to get rid of it. Most people wouldn't give a damn, so why bother enforcing the watermark either?
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I don't think anyone would license that sort of software under the GPL anyhow. Take a look at OpenBSD and its largely successful OpenSSH.
So when we find out a new proposed patent that is inherently bullshit, bitching about it on Slashdot can actually do something! Wow, I like this idea (for now).
What the hell does your link have to do with your post? It's obviously not a signature (I have them disabled), and you apparently missed the "my homepage" option in your preferences.
Linux 2.6.25 will be the most feature-rich version of the Linux kernel ever! Amazingly, it will still be backwards compatible with older 2.6.x releases, so maybe that's why they're not going to fork to 2.7/2.8 until DNF comes out.
Uh, dude, Bayesian filtering is based on an understanding of how the human mind words, not the other way around...
I think he prefers BBC News instead. We all do.
Interesting as usual, but very old news, my friend.
Who browses any forum-like website with sigs enabled? Sheesh... :P
That's because the actual idea behind the standard was flawed. That will always lead to problems.
Coral cache of the link. Some fucknut thought it would be a good idea to use the "Cache-Control: no-store" HTTP header, so it'll be only a short amount of time until their server blows up due to excessive MySQL queries.
The US Constitution is like 2 fucking pages. You could read that while on the shitter and still have time left over. I think it's more of the idea that they just don't care.
Windows only "just works" when it comes pre-installed for you. Setting up a Windows install from scratch is just as annoying as setting up a *nix system for the first time, but people conveniently forget that. If you had a computer with a Linux-based distro pre-installed and configured for you, I'm sure you'd think otherwise to your previous statement.
Or you could just re-add the sources.list widget to Synaptic's .glade files. I guess that could be a good idea if this became a problem.
And since it's so easy to modify the hosts file in Windows, that's a common method to fucking up an ownz0rd box.
I like how it does that "sign up with email" test. Too bad there's no good way of determining legitimacy without actually looking at them. Slashdot's emails are story summaries of the day (or in my experience, of two days ago). Besides, there's always dodgeit for signing up with throwaway email addresses.
There is AppleWorks, but as far as I remember, it's not so good, especially when compared to a professional level office suite like MS Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc.
Also, I'm pretty sure that in many cases, Microsoft's and Apple's proprietary formats are created so that they don't have to pay licensing fees to the original patenters or leeches. I know that's true for at least WMV; Microsoft didn't want to pay any licensing fees for the video and audio codecs at the time, so they developed their own formats which would cost them nothing in licensing fees. Too bad they didn't just look to open source where the royalty-free and unencumbered formats lay.
Do you mean like collaborative editting? OpenOffice has support for that. KOffice probably does as well, but I still prefer OpenOffice.
And people would be willing to listen if you gave us information on how to frickin' get some of their music... ;)
Hell, even MSN and Microsoft's other AJAX websites work betting in Firefox; they apply some MSIE hacks via extra scripts in the first place.
People at Google do read Slashdot threads like these; they're always interested in improving their products, and places like Slashdot seem to be a haven for complaints, so this is a good place to start in many cases.
You do know about GmailFS, right? There was a Slashdot article long ago about it; it's quite good.
That problem can be easily fixed: make mudslinging ads illegal for political campaigns and whatnot. If a politician does something blatantly illegal, it'll hurt the advertising politician more than it could hurt the person being FUD'd.
Sylpheed Claws is also worth checking out. It has all sorts of Outlook-esque features and whatnot.
In fact, you're viewing the Bill of Rights from the opposite perspective of that intended: it is a nonexhaustive, nonexclusive list of rights. Just because the rights to chew gum, or reproduce, or play videogames are not listed in the Constitution does not mean you don't have those rights.
Considering that the Ninth Amendment goes over that fact, I think he just completely missed the point of what the Bill of Rights says.
Hmm, if all you did was add a comment in the audio file of your user ID with the company (maybe even encrypt that), then all the stupid pirates that you're trying to stop with DRM would be fucked as they wouldn't bother removing the comments. Better than a watermark because it would be easily removable if you felt it to be necessary to get rid of it. Most people wouldn't give a damn, so why bother enforcing the watermark either?