I wonder how long it will be until we see something similar to this becomes a reality. For those who haven't seen it, it's a good one:
Plot Outline: Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
I'd like to think that MS wouldn't be keeping tabs on my online activity. Makes me wonder if this is why that bought Gator... I mean Claria.
Oh, don't worry, MS isn't keeping tabs on your online activity. The new Gat...Claria software that is OEM installed on your brand new Vista system is doing that for them.
Wrap your mind around this though - how funny is it going to be when you find a serial/crack on astalavista.box.sk for Vista?
Yeah, he explained a vulnerability on Cisco equipment and he works for a security firm. What I don't understand is did he sign anything stating he wouldn't spout out the information?
Well, if he didn't sign anything and can get sued, then I guess that I could get in trouble for telling people about astalavista.box.sk right? Just because you speak about a vulnerability (or other questionable content), it doesn't mean you are responsible for the malicious assholes that abuse it. The abusers are responsible for their own actions.
I'm not saying that I agree with the fact that he told a large group of black hats about a Cisco vulnerability, but legally, what did he do wrong?
Yes, I know the shuttle is a heavily modified jet, but do we really need a full straight-up-in-the-air launch? Is there any reason a differently designed heavily modified jet can't take off like a regular jet and keep climbing at an angle into space? Regular jets have been doing this safely for years, so rather than stop at 27,000 feet, why not create a space-equipped jet to keep climbing?
I'm no rocket scientist by any means, but why the burst straight up versus a more "normal" take-off? Is there any such thing as a hydrogen-powered jet engine? Can one be engineered with the millions upon millions that NASA gets in funding each year?
Just a thought, please give some insight if I'm way off base in my thinking here or if I'm wrong on some of the details, but I hope you get my point.
Really. Mandriva offers thousands upon thousands of packages in their main and contrib repositories, and then we haven't counted 3rd party repositories yet. What packages could you possibly be missing?
apt-get upgrade
There's one - an upgrade to the next version via network connectivity. Hell, you can install an entire Debian system over the net. With Mandrake, I got to download 3 CDs, hope they install properly (they actually were getting really good at getting no errors as of 9.2) and then you're off. With Debian, you can fire up the business card CD to set up the network, then unplug the monitor and ssh to the machine remotely for the rest of the install.
Mandrake, several times, had you start from scratch just to upgrade to the newest version. I had to more than once. Last ones I recall were from 7.x to 8.x, and then again from 8.x to 9.x. "Wipe it clean and start over" isn't my cup of tea, so before I bothered with 10.x/2005, I decided to look at my options. Ubuntu nailed everything on my desktop and laptop - every piece of hardware just worked. From my cheap cheap firewire card, to both wireless cards on my laptop - two things that Mandrake could never seem to take hold of.
Don't take this wrong, I really did like Mandrake and it served its purpose well for several years. I thank Mandrake for turning me on to Linux. But when they decided to change, so did I.
The download version (iso's) can be extended to be equal to the enterprise-level edition by simply adding the free urpmi repositories to the media manager.
I would be very interested in finding these free urpmi repositories as every time I tried to find more, I kept running into "join mandrakeclub first". The closest I came was here, which took me to distro link, then to a list of alphabetical packages, then to a description of the package with a link of where to download the package (similar to rpmfind.net), and then you get to install it and hope you have the dependencies required for the package. ARGGG! If you have to jump through hoops to find/download several rpms, you're in for a long night doing it that way. With three checkmarks to configure what package lists to include, I was ready to go. Either use Synaptic or apt-get install in the terminal. There was no guessing as to "will this rpm have all the dependencies or do I have to search for those too?", apt-get simply grabs the most recent stable release and installs it with any dependencies needed.
Well, good luck with Mandrake/Mandriva anyways. I'm not looking back.
Personally, I had used Mandrake since somewhere in the 6.x era. I only recently switched to Ubuntu which was a snap to install, but I miss a few things about Mandrake (which are still configurable in Ubuntu). I find that "apt-get install" is just as easy as "urpmi --update --auto --auto-select", but things tend to not get broken like they do with RPMs. Using Synaptic is just as easy as using Mandrakes package manager (can't remember the name offhand) for comparison sake.
I'm also in the process of switching my web server (my last machine using Mandrake) to Debian. I have to say IMO that Debian/Ubuntu has a much larger package selection than Mandrake does (Debian's package list vs. Mandrake's package list) and I'm quite happy that I made the switch. I especially like the fact that I can use the most current Debian version (3.1) for my two Sun stations (one single-processor and one dual-processor) vs. using a way outdated (and not really supported) Mandrake 7.2.
Overall, it was experimenting with Ubuntu that turned me on to Debian even though I had been using Knoppix (Debian-based) in the past. What turned me away from Mandrake/Mandriva is the fact that they're turning into a Redhat-type organization. Meaning "For $$ we have the enterprise-level edition, and for free, we have the cut-down, shaved-off, download version". I don't forsee Debian doing that any time in the near future.
Disturbingly enough, this makes me want to mod a post containing goatse.cx as +1, Informative. It's a good thing I don't have mod points or I'd have to kill myself afterwards.
Well if you did, the pictures should get posted to the gore gallery (which also didn't make the top 10). This must've been the G-rated top 10.
I just received a letter telling me I had a citation for illegal parking in San Francisco. I never go to San Francisco during the day - I neither live nor work there. So my first response was to go into my email to see if there is a 'paper' trail for what I was doing that day.
DId the letter ask for a credit card number to pay the fine or have a small ad for \/|4GR/-\ somewhere on it? Damn snail mail phishers...
When you put something on a CD thats being sold, you're just asking for some fool that doesnt get it to start bothering you for support, even if you DO have big fat "not supported" disclaimers all over the place.
When was the last time you saw "Linux not supported" on a game? Just because it doesn't say "supports Linux" on the box, doesn't mean crap. Quake 3, RTCW, and UT come to mind - they didn't make installers that came with the game.
Distro, version, blah, doesn't matter. I've used the same installer on Mandrake, Debian, Slack, and Ubuntu and it doesn't make a bit of difference. Just like Windows, Linux drivers and installers just work with no more effort to install than the Windows installers. Just like the Nvidia drivers - one file takes care of all distros. It's probably been a while since you've used Linux eh? Yeah, it's come a long way since 1998...you should try it.
"Try before I buy" doesn't work in the US - we can't return opened software because of the laws here. They're afraid you'll copy it and return it. I ran into that when I tried to buy some software for Windows years ago at Best Buy (some CD burning software) and Win 95 wasn't supported (no freakin idea why). And no, it didn't say Windows 95 not supported, it only said "{software name} for Windows".
So who the hell is asking for full blown support? I'm simply asking if there is a shell script on the released CD of the game (just like there is a shell script INCLUDED in UT2003 or UT2004). If not, I'm asking if anyone has heard of a shell script created by someone after the release of the game (like UT, quake 2, quake 3, etc). Is that really hard to understand? I'm not sure why you think I'm "bitching", I'm merely asking a question before I go out and buy the damn game so I don't waste $40.00 or $50.00 on it.
I'm not the one bitching, I'm asking if this game has linux support either from the manufacturer or after the fact. See, that's the beauty of Linux - we have the option of having all these wonderful free programs and some in the community create installers because, well, they can. It's open source, so it certainly can be easier to do than Windows, so it's only a matter of if it has been done yet by the manufacturer or after the fact by someone in the community.
It's obvious that some game manufacturers are taking the Linux community seriously and spending a little time creating an installer for their game. No, it doesn't double the price for games there, spanky, so my assumption is that you pulled that number right out of your ass. Maybe you can pull your head out of there while you're at it.
Why should I dedicate a machine to gaming on Windows? Do you buy a Mac when you can't do just the right graphics/video rendering on your PC? Hell no. So don't ask me to build a machine to run Windows on to run games. My first inquiry, if you would've bothered to read, said simply this:
1) I'm finding files to run a BF2 server on Linux (yes, I googled it), but can you play BF2 on Linux? Is it like UT200x where they include an installer file on the CD/DVD?
2) Is this possible? I would think game manufacturers would knock off the whole "server-only game releases" for Linux and give us the goods to play the game itself.
Yeah, I can tweak the shit out of everything, but that doesn't have much to do with the install files for a game.
Seriously are you same person that complains there isn't a Linux port everytime a video game is mentioned? I just want to know if there is more than one of you writing a post every damn time. It's old.
Nope, this is the first time I have INQUIRED as to whether anyone knows if there is a CLIENT installer to this game. I'm certainly not complaining as I would rather not have any games run on my machine then have to deal with the countless other problems with Windows. I'd say it's a fairly legit question since there is a Linux server installer found pretty much everywhere for this game. Perhaps if you would have read my question to begin with, you would have seen what I was asking for. Are you the same person that doesn't RTFA/RTFP then posts/responds blindly? I just want to know if there is more than one of you writing a blind post every damn time. It's old.
I'm finding files to run a BF2 server on Linux (yes, I googled it), but can you play BF2 on Linux? Is it like UT200x where they include an installer file on the CD/DVD?
I'd like to buy this game, but I don't have Windows on any of my machines and would like to keep it that way. I'm not finding info anywhere, nor do I know of any good web sites dedicated to Linux gaming (other than games that come with the distro + Loki). I have UT, UT2003, Quake 3, and RTCW installed, so I'm not completely new on how to install the games and troubleshoot issues. I don't want to use some other software to get games working other than an installer for the game itself.
Is this possible? I would think game manufacturers would knock off the whole "server-only game releases" for Linux and give us the goods to play the game itself.
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
I just don't get sick of these good ol' days stories. Yeah, I posted this to another article before, but the other article was a slashdot dupe, so I'm only following suit:)
Though I can see how the system in the above mentioned article could be abused, I thought I'd pass on this little tidbit of what I do for snail mail spam. This doesn't apply to *all* junk mail, but it helps me fell better when it does:)
Next time you receive junk mail, open it and look carefully for a reply envelope that says "Postage pre-paid...permit #(whatever number)". What this means is you don't need a stamp to send this envelope to the business on the front of the reply envelope.
Now that you have this reply envelope, stuff it with as much other junk mail you obtained during the week to cause it to be overweight (over 3.3 oz) possibly requiring a premium. Ok, you're thinking "wtf am I wasting my time doing this for?". Here's why:
If that envelope gets sent, the business sending that junk mail gets charged for a reply envelope and its contents being mailed back to them. If you don't send it and throw it away (what they hope you do with it if you don't "sign up" with their service/card/etc), they don't get charged. Simple enough. The business will likely also have to pay for that premium weight since the letter is overweight, though not always.
You're sending them an envelope that they supplied to you with other junk mail (which is, basically, what they sent you - junk). You're not breaking the law.
Though this doesn't stop junk mail, but rather eventually, it might stop them from including bulk postage pre-paid envelopes with their crap. In the mean time, it's gratifying to know that they're paying anywhere from $0.27 to $0.33 per envelope they receive back with (you guessed it), mail that they don't want on top of paying that much just to get it to you in the first place! I don't just hate spam in my email box, I don't like it in my snail mail box either. Spam is spam.
Oh the irony...anyways, it would be nice to apply this to email spam, but is much more difficult as email address spoofing is rampant while the URLs they want to to visit are normally legit. The article's method simply won't work, but a little script to reload the spammer's web site they sent you every 5 or 10 seconds would be enough to hopefully annoy them. 5 or 10 seconds isn't a DDoS to me - hey, I wouldn't want to miss any brand new deals on CAALlS, \/ALUUM, \/llGRA, XANA, L0RAAZEPAM, etc.
BTW - thanks eBay/paypal for allowing my email address to be handed over to spammers, you fucking cock knockers.
That would be kind of nice because then maybe networks would realize that not nearly as many people tune in to reality shows as they think. BUT:
1) Unfortunately, not everyone uses RoadRunner nor does everyone have it available.
2) Secondly, not everyone would necessarily watch TV from their computer. They'd...you know...go out in the living room and watch TV.
3) Lastly, I wouldn't use it because then Time Warner can grab statistical data for their own marketing purposes freely and easily (don't tell me you don't think they would). Thanks, but I don't want to assist them in ways of more accurately targeting advertising to me so they can make more money from their advertising clients. Advertising (to me) == spam and I don't need someone to bombard me with adverts of what I should be buying. That's why I use Adblock with Firefox to begin with.
I know I know..."you use Adblock, so why worry about it?". That's not the point.
Now that it looks like their case is beyond salvation, and suppose they were to lose their lawsuit and become financially void, what would happen to the UnixWare and OpenServer codebases?
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs.
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
Until a robot can produce some really good pinch harmonics and do some really killer bending, this looks like something that will only be found at special exhibits. Let's face it, for now and likely a very long time, only humans have the feeling of touch that is essential to playing good guitar.
Maybe they should submit a few mp3s to guitarwar.com and see how it rates;P
Still no replacement for Zakk Wylde here people...move along...
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
I live in an apartment complex with about 7 other visible access points. I occasionally get bored and plug in a spare access point with no internet connection attached to see who accidentally locks on to me and loses their internet access.
Well, if the wireless AP owner in the article can get the gentleman in the SUV arrested for accessing his AP, then by the same rights, I wonder if you could be charged with a DOS attack on your neighbors by boosting your signal on your wireless AP with no internet access. After all, you're denying them access to the internet by circumventing their means to access their own wireless AP. Not that I think you should get arrested mind you, but it would seem just as silly to arrest you for DOS as it would to arrest the man in the SUV for accessing a wide open wireless AP.
Like I always say though, we need stupid people in this world...if it wasn't for stupid people, the rest of us wouldn't be considered as smart as we are.
Slashdot Mirror
Plot Outline: Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
Tinfoil hats for everyone!
Check it out!
Thank you Windows Vista!
Oh, don't worry, MS isn't keeping tabs on your online activity. The new Gat...Claria software that is OEM installed on your brand new Vista system is doing that for them.
Wrap your mind around this though - how funny is it going to be when you find a serial/crack on astalavista.box.sk for Vista?
"Vista ...a name you can trust" ;x
Well, if he didn't sign anything and can get sued, then I guess that I could get in trouble for telling people about astalavista.box.sk right? Just because you speak about a vulnerability (or other questionable content), it doesn't mean you are responsible for the malicious assholes that abuse it. The abusers are responsible for their own actions.
I'm not saying that I agree with the fact that he told a large group of black hats about a Cisco vulnerability, but legally, what did he do wrong?
Thanks for the insight Planesdragon - as I said, I'm no expert, but you gave me the answer I was looking for. :)
Yes, I know the shuttle is a heavily modified jet, but do we really need a full straight-up-in-the-air launch? Is there any reason a differently designed heavily modified jet can't take off like a regular jet and keep climbing at an angle into space? Regular jets have been doing this safely for years, so rather than stop at 27,000 feet, why not create a space-equipped jet to keep climbing?
I'm no rocket scientist by any means, but why the burst straight up versus a more "normal" take-off? Is there any such thing as a hydrogen-powered jet engine? Can one be engineered with the millions upon millions that NASA gets in funding each year?
Just a thought, please give some insight if I'm way off base in my thinking here or if I'm wrong on some of the details, but I hope you get my point.
If video games influenced us, the Pacman generation will be running in dark rooms, eating pills and listening to repetitive music.
Oh wait...
apt-get upgrade
There's one - an upgrade to the next version via network connectivity. Hell, you can install an entire Debian system over the net. With Mandrake, I got to download 3 CDs, hope they install properly (they actually were getting really good at getting no errors as of 9.2) and then you're off. With Debian, you can fire up the business card CD to set up the network, then unplug the monitor and ssh to the machine remotely for the rest of the install. Mandrake, several times, had you start from scratch just to upgrade to the newest version. I had to more than once. Last ones I recall were from 7.x to 8.x, and then again from 8.x to 9.x. "Wipe it clean and start over" isn't my cup of tea, so before I bothered with 10.x/2005, I decided to look at my options. Ubuntu nailed everything on my desktop and laptop - every piece of hardware just worked. From my cheap cheap firewire card, to both wireless cards on my laptop - two things that Mandrake could never seem to take hold of.
Don't take this wrong, I really did like Mandrake and it served its purpose well for several years. I thank Mandrake for turning me on to Linux. But when they decided to change, so did I.
The download version (iso's) can be extended to be equal to the enterprise-level edition by simply adding the free urpmi repositories to the media manager.
I would be very interested in finding these free urpmi repositories as every time I tried to find more, I kept running into "join mandrakeclub first". The closest I came was here, which took me to distro link, then to a list of alphabetical packages, then to a description of the package with a link of where to download the package (similar to rpmfind.net), and then you get to install it and hope you have the dependencies required for the package. ARGGG! If you have to jump through hoops to find/download several rpms, you're in for a long night doing it that way. With three checkmarks to configure what package lists to include, I was ready to go. Either use Synaptic or apt-get install in the terminal. There was no guessing as to "will this rpm have all the dependencies or do I have to search for those too?", apt-get simply grabs the most recent stable release and installs it with any dependencies needed.
Well, good luck with Mandrake/Mandriva anyways. I'm not looking back.
I'm also in the process of switching my web server (my last machine using Mandrake) to Debian. I have to say IMO that Debian/Ubuntu has a much larger package selection than Mandrake does (Debian's package list vs. Mandrake's package list) and I'm quite happy that I made the switch. I especially like the fact that I can use the most current Debian version (3.1) for my two Sun stations (one single-processor and one dual-processor) vs. using a way outdated (and not really supported) Mandrake 7.2.
Overall, it was experimenting with Ubuntu that turned me on to Debian even though I had been using Knoppix (Debian-based) in the past. What turned me away from Mandrake/Mandriva is the fact that they're turning into a Redhat-type organization. Meaning "For $$ we have the enterprise-level edition, and for free, we have the cut-down, shaved-off, download version". I don't forsee Debian doing that any time in the near future.
Just my 2 pennies.
Well if you did, the pictures should get posted to the gore gallery (which also didn't make the top 10). This must've been the G-rated top 10.
DId the letter ask for a credit card number to pay the fine or have a small ad for \/|4GR/-\ somewhere on it? Damn snail mail phishers...
When was the last time you saw "Linux not supported" on a game? Just because it doesn't say "supports Linux" on the box, doesn't mean crap. Quake 3, RTCW, and UT come to mind - they didn't make installers that came with the game.
Distro, version, blah, doesn't matter. I've used the same installer on Mandrake, Debian, Slack, and Ubuntu and it doesn't make a bit of difference. Just like Windows, Linux drivers and installers just work with no more effort to install than the Windows installers. Just like the Nvidia drivers - one file takes care of all distros. It's probably been a while since you've used Linux eh? Yeah, it's come a long way since 1998...you should try it.
"Try before I buy" doesn't work in the US - we can't return opened software because of the laws here. They're afraid you'll copy it and return it. I ran into that when I tried to buy some software for Windows years ago at Best Buy (some CD burning software) and Win 95 wasn't supported (no freakin idea why). And no, it didn't say Windows 95 not supported, it only said "{software name} for Windows".
I'm not the one bitching, I'm asking if this game has linux support either from the manufacturer or after the fact. See, that's the beauty of Linux - we have the option of having all these wonderful free programs and some in the community create installers because, well, they can. It's open source, so it certainly can be easier to do than Windows, so it's only a matter of if it has been done yet by the manufacturer or after the fact by someone in the community.
It's obvious that some game manufacturers are taking the Linux community seriously and spending a little time creating an installer for their game. No, it doesn't double the price for games there, spanky, so my assumption is that you pulled that number right out of your ass. Maybe you can pull your head out of there while you're at it.
Why should I dedicate a machine to gaming on Windows? Do you buy a Mac when you can't do just the right graphics/video rendering on your PC? Hell no. So don't ask me to build a machine to run Windows on to run games. My first inquiry, if you would've bothered to read, said simply this:
1) I'm finding files to run a BF2 server on Linux (yes, I googled it), but can you play BF2 on Linux? Is it like UT200x where they include an installer file on the CD/DVD?
2) Is this possible? I would think game manufacturers would knock off the whole "server-only game releases" for Linux and give us the goods to play the game itself.
Yeah, I can tweak the shit out of everything, but that doesn't have much to do with the install files for a game.
Nope, this is the first time I have INQUIRED as to whether anyone knows if there is a CLIENT installer to this game. I'm certainly not complaining as I would rather not have any games run on my machine then have to deal with the countless other problems with Windows. I'd say it's a fairly legit question since there is a Linux server installer found pretty much everywhere for this game. Perhaps if you would have read my question to begin with, you would have seen what I was asking for. Are you the same person that doesn't RTFA/RTFP then posts/responds blindly? I just want to know if there is more than one of you writing a blind post every damn time. It's old.
I'm finding files to run a BF2 server on Linux (yes, I googled it), but can you play BF2 on Linux? Is it like UT200x where they include an installer file on the CD/DVD?
I'd like to buy this game, but I don't have Windows on any of my machines and would like to keep it that way. I'm not finding info anywhere, nor do I know of any good web sites dedicated to Linux gaming (other than games that come with the distro + Loki). I have UT, UT2003, Quake 3, and RTCW installed, so I'm not completely new on how to install the games and troubleshoot issues. I don't want to use some other software to get games working other than an installer for the game itself.
Is this possible? I would think game manufacturers would knock off the whole "server-only game releases" for Linux and give us the goods to play the game itself.
Death Star Plans
Wow...that bad boy is robust!
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
:)
I just don't get sick of these good ol' days stories. Yeah, I posted this to another article before, but the other article was a slashdot dupe, so I'm only following suit
Next time you receive junk mail, open it and look carefully for a reply envelope that says "Postage pre-paid...permit #(whatever number)". What this means is you don't need a stamp to send this envelope to the business on the front of the reply envelope.
Now that you have this reply envelope, stuff it with as much other junk mail you obtained during the week to cause it to be overweight (over 3.3 oz) possibly requiring a premium. Ok, you're thinking "wtf am I wasting my time doing this for?". Here's why:
If that envelope gets sent, the business sending that junk mail gets charged for a reply envelope and its contents being mailed back to them. If you don't send it and throw it away (what they hope you do with it if you don't "sign up" with their service/card/etc), they don't get charged. Simple enough. The business will likely also have to pay for that premium weight since the letter is overweight, though not always.
You're sending them an envelope that they supplied to you with other junk mail (which is, basically, what they sent you - junk). You're not breaking the law.
Though this doesn't stop junk mail, but rather eventually, it might stop them from including bulk postage pre-paid envelopes with their crap. In the mean time, it's gratifying to know that they're paying anywhere from $0.27 to $0.33 per envelope they receive back with (you guessed it), mail that they don't want on top of paying that much just to get it to you in the first place! I don't just hate spam in my email box, I don't like it in my snail mail box either. Spam is spam.
Oh the irony...anyways, it would be nice to apply this to email spam, but is much more difficult as email address spoofing is rampant while the URLs they want to to visit are normally legit. The article's method simply won't work, but a little script to reload the spammer's web site they sent you every 5 or 10 seconds would be enough to hopefully annoy them. 5 or 10 seconds isn't a DDoS to me - hey, I wouldn't want to miss any brand new deals on CAALlS, \/ALUUM, \/llGRA, XANA, L0RAAZEPAM, etc.
BTW - thanks eBay/paypal for allowing my email address to be handed over to spammers, you fucking cock knockers.
1) Unfortunately, not everyone uses RoadRunner nor does everyone have it available.
2) Secondly, not everyone would necessarily watch TV from their computer. They'd...you know...go out in the living room and watch TV.
3) Lastly, I wouldn't use it because then Time Warner can grab statistical data for their own marketing purposes freely and easily (don't tell me you don't think they would). Thanks, but I don't want to assist them in ways of more accurately targeting advertising to me so they can make more money from their advertising clients. Advertising (to me) == spam and I don't need someone to bombard me with adverts of what I should be buying. That's why I use Adblock with Firefox to begin with.
I know I know..."you use Adblock, so why worry about it?". That's not the point.
Easy - GPL it and make it open source :D
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
I love these good ol' days stories :)
Maybe they should submit a few mp3s to guitarwar.com and see how it rates ;P
Still no replacement for Zakk Wylde here people...move along...
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
Well, if the wireless AP owner in the article can get the gentleman in the SUV arrested for accessing his AP, then by the same rights, I wonder if you could be charged with a DOS attack on your neighbors by boosting your signal on your wireless AP with no internet access. After all, you're denying them access to the internet by circumventing their means to access their own wireless AP. Not that I think you should get arrested mind you, but it would seem just as silly to arrest you for DOS as it would to arrest the man in the SUV for accessing a wide open wireless AP.
Like I always say though, we need stupid people in this world...if it wasn't for stupid people, the rest of us wouldn't be considered as smart as we are.