I'm not a user of Lynx, but I use links quite often. The thought of being jailed due to my using of a text browser that makes the world of popups and the loading of images a world in another universe makes me laugh and slightly worried. I hope I don't decide to make a website about something relatively useful and get canned for it. Thinking that this is jail-able is an idea so exotic I'd never think of it.
He definitely may still be a pirate, and I agree with you that he is donating money to only avoid taxes. However, even though his reasoning for donating (if what your saying is true) is poor, he is still doing a good thing. This is really not a thing to argue about. If someone is donating to charity to benefit their own asses, they are still donating to charity. It's still a good thing.
Wow, I cannot wait to service someone's computer that has one of these keyboards. I guess I'll have to start bringing my own keyboard with me between jobs, otherwise the customer will be forced to do all the typing.
If you encode your CDs as Ogg FLAC today, you can still play them in 40 years.
Are you sure? I didn't know the audio format had anything to do with the lifetime of the media. I though it was the actual material making up the media itself that determined how long it would last before it starts decaying.
I've always been a fan of top notch high quality synthesizers. When I was younger I played alot of the piano, so naturally sweet synthesizers was the cool, geeky thing to pursue. KORG has always made some of the best synths, however the ones worth buying have always been very expensive.
It is nice to know that an important player in the synthesizer biz is starting to use Linux, mainly because I am a lover of Linux and I want to see the technology spread. However, when we're dealing with synthesizers, I cannot see moving to an open source OS for a synthesizer making that huge of a difference, except for one big thing. The most important parts are the keyboard itself, the sounds, the mixing capabilities, various added features such as looping and creating new sounds, etc; all which can be achieved regardless of the OS. What I hope the inclusion of Linux will affect is the price. Naturally a free OS should cause the price to go down.
I'm using Mozilla 1.7.5 on Linux and the "SHOP ONLINE" button doesn't work on the website (hmm...that's funny), so I can't check the price. If anyone can find out the price of this thing, is it cheaper than other synths with similiar capabilities?
Well with current encryption methods you usually have a public key and a secure key. Let's say I give everyone here my public key. Well then everyone can encrypt me messages, but only I can decode it with my secure key. However within that public keys lies the secrets of the secure key, but it would take an extremely long time to break the public key cipher. With quantum computing, which can perform really hard factorizations quickly, it would make the whole many current cryptographic schemes obsolete, because it would be so easy to crack the public key. Therefore the only solution to this is the introduction of quantum cryptography, which would theoretically be able to avoid being cracked easily, RTFA for more.
Imagine buying a CD, for example, and not being able to play it AT ALL for 2 days.
Hmm, that reminds me a wee bit of a game called Half-Life 2.
Joking aside (even tho what was just said is quite true), if your CD is frequently skipping I suggest you return it as that is probably a manufacturing error.
Database rolling back to an earlier point? We used to call that a "time warp" in Ultima Online. When that game was in its earlier stages (which was, IMO, the best MMORPG ever available, too bad it went so downhill), it would experience database rolling quite often. It was really a pain, however it was quite sweet if your character ever died and lost all his inventory right before a server crash. When the server would come back up you would have your health and stuff back.
There is always the chance however that the various contributors to the kernel-dev used methods not exactly like the alleged-IP's, but similiar enough to possibly legally warrant an infringement. I think rewriting those parts does not necessarily tell people that you knew about the infringements, but you only overlooked them perhaps. Due to the mass amount of people that can contribute to the kernel, its not the kernel-dev leaders fault if someone contributes IP property that was previously closed source to the public...how would Linus or them know if they are putting in that if they have no published code to compare it to?
If you factor in all these elements, and if the kernel is indeed infringing on certain IP's, I believe that would not make them legally liable, as the inclusion of IP material may have well been implemented without the awareness of the fact that the material was intellectual property. Nonetheless, I have not studied all of the IP's alleged to have been infringed in the kernel code, but so far I see no reason for changing it. It would be wise only to do so if absolutely necessary, as that would really throw Linux development down a hole.
If Linux is proven to infringe on IP's, than it is really essential that those are taken out. But the infringements must be proven with hard facts. But anyways, when I first heard of the rumors I dismissed them myself due to their nonsensical nature. That being, if there was a plan to rewrite the code that was infringing on IP's, it would be done through www.kernel.org since Linus Torvald is employed at OSDL and heads that website. You would have definitely heard something from Linus on the kernel development mailing list also. I would highly doubt that OSDL along with Linus would rewrite the kernel code outside of www.kernel.org and its contributors.
Well actually in criticism against Drop It Like It's Hot, the synth line you hear in between verses sounds very very familiar and sounds very likely to have been sampled. Since that's probably the more prominent feature of the song, it seems kind of a rip off.
Yes its art...but its extremely lacking in all the departments that make it good hip hop, like pretty much all rap on MTV today.
It is impressive that they have somewhat emulated DX, however I fail to see the features Cedega provides as being outstanding. I followed all the documentation, everything was set up correctly, and only one game ran, and it lagged terribly. This game that was lagging terrible is a game that will run perfectly at 1280x1024 resolution, with 8xS anti-aliasing, 16x anistropic filtering, and all other options set to max while running many other applications in the background in windows.
Linux itself really doesn't need that much added to it, its the game developers themselves who need to change over to making more OpenGL games so the game can run fine on both platforms.
Its always possible for spyware makers to get their spyware on Linux through security flaws like buffer overflows (like let's say a buffer overflow vuln in the mozilla browser), but what's really causing spyware to flourish in Windows are two things:
1. ActiveX. It can be configured so its not a big security risk (like if you completely disable it), but its pretty scary how easily it allows whomever to install nasty spyware/malware.
2. The default administrator privledges of the user in Windows. Since Linux effectively separates administrator processes from user processes, there's no way I could get spyware to install itself anywhere outside of my home directory when surfing around the net (unless I'm an idiot and like to go everywhere on the net while being root). Windows unfortunately makes the user an administrator by default, and I'm not entirely sure that if you run as just a plain ol' user in Windows if that really helps that much. Probably not as well as user mode in Linux, but I'm sure it makes a great difference.
Facts do exist. The scientific community regards evolution as a fact. Natural selection is merely a mechanism or a way of describing how what is happening is happening. Evolution is as much of a theory as a tree has bark is a theory. Evolution is simply an observation that species change over time and new species are formed (if you do not believe new species are formed, then you believe that 1 million years ago every species that exists today existed back then). HOW this happens is what the theory is.
The reason there is a huge problem with that sticker is that its wrong in every single degree. No matter what religion you follow, evolution is not something that can possibly be questioned. Evolution is a fact, because it is a simple observable phenomenon. Natural selection, as much as I like it, is a theory. Evolution is observed, documented, and easily seen, but the mechanism of evolution (which is natural selection) falls under the term theory.
This is a definite truth, however to the best of my knowledge, people who specialize and are only familiar with server OS's like Windows heavily rely on being able to click around than knowing what to type. Kinda like Windows' user base, but to a lesser degree since your average Windows network admin probably knows a bit more than you average Windows user.
It would definitely make Windows look alot better in that market if they did in fact have a purely command line mode just like unix/linux which you could do everything that the GUI allows you to do. My guess is that this would just confuse people who are used to using the old fashioned Windows Server OS's though.
Here is the dead parrot joke for those too lazy to read the article:
That implies that you didn't unmount it before powering it down, which is bad (it's like removing a floppy without unmounting it). If you really want to use it that way, then try supermount or some of the other "on-the-fly" mount utilities.
Or do you mean that the disk just powered down on its own, and is just sleeping? If so, everything is fine, and it should come right back up when it's needed. "It's not dead, it's just sleeping."
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I really don't know...sarcastic intuition I suppose is the reason.
I'm not a user of Lynx, but I use links quite often. The thought of being jailed due to my using of a text browser that makes the world of popups and the loading of images a world in another universe makes me laugh and slightly worried. I hope I don't decide to make a website about something relatively useful and get canned for it. Thinking that this is jail-able is an idea so exotic I'd never think of it.
She almost sounds a little dismayed, perhaps even slightly frightened, by that fact.
Jack the Ripper password cracker I suppose.
He definitely may still be a pirate, and I agree with you that he is donating money to only avoid taxes. However, even though his reasoning for donating (if what your saying is true) is poor, he is still doing a good thing. This is really not a thing to argue about. If someone is donating to charity to benefit their own asses, they are still donating to charity. It's still a good thing.
Please mod parent up, this is not flamebait. If anything the story summary itself was flamebait.
Wow, I cannot wait to service someone's computer that has one of these keyboards. I guess I'll have to start bringing my own keyboard with me between jobs, otherwise the customer will be forced to do all the typing.
Are you sure? I didn't know the audio format had anything to do with the lifetime of the media. I though it was the actual material making up the media itself that determined how long it would last before it starts decaying.
It is nice to know that an important player in the synthesizer biz is starting to use Linux, mainly because I am a lover of Linux and I want to see the technology spread. However, when we're dealing with synthesizers, I cannot see moving to an open source OS for a synthesizer making that huge of a difference, except for one big thing. The most important parts are the keyboard itself, the sounds, the mixing capabilities, various added features such as looping and creating new sounds, etc; all which can be achieved regardless of the OS. What I hope the inclusion of Linux will affect is the price. Naturally a free OS should cause the price to go down.
I'm using Mozilla 1.7.5 on Linux and the "SHOP ONLINE" button doesn't work on the website (hmm...that's funny), so I can't check the price. If anyone can find out the price of this thing, is it cheaper than other synths with similiar capabilities?
Well with current encryption methods you usually have a public key and a secure key. Let's say I give everyone here my public key. Well then everyone can encrypt me messages, but only I can decode it with my secure key. However within that public keys lies the secrets of the secure key, but it would take an extremely long time to break the public key cipher. With quantum computing, which can perform really hard factorizations quickly, it would make the whole many current cryptographic schemes obsolete, because it would be so easy to crack the public key. Therefore the only solution to this is the introduction of quantum cryptography, which would theoretically be able to avoid being cracked easily, RTFA for more.
Hmm, that reminds me a wee bit of a game called Half-Life 2.
Joking aside (even tho what was just said is quite true), if your CD is frequently skipping I suggest you return it as that is probably a manufacturing error.
Database rolling back to an earlier point? We used to call that a "time warp" in Ultima Online. When that game was in its earlier stages (which was, IMO, the best MMORPG ever available, too bad it went so downhill), it would experience database rolling quite often. It was really a pain, however it was quite sweet if your character ever died and lost all his inventory right before a server crash. When the server would come back up you would have your health and stuff back.
Username: slashdotfreedom
Password: anonymous
Of course some idiot kid will probably change the password rather quickly, but for the sake of convenience please try to resist the temptation to.
If you factor in all these elements, and if the kernel is indeed infringing on certain IP's, I believe that would not make them legally liable, as the inclusion of IP material may have well been implemented without the awareness of the fact that the material was intellectual property. Nonetheless, I have not studied all of the IP's alleged to have been infringed in the kernel code, but so far I see no reason for changing it. It would be wise only to do so if absolutely necessary, as that would really throw Linux development down a hole.
If Linux is proven to infringe on IP's, than it is really essential that those are taken out. But the infringements must be proven with hard facts. But anyways, when I first heard of the rumors I dismissed them myself due to their nonsensical nature. That being, if there was a plan to rewrite the code that was infringing on IP's, it would be done through www.kernel.org since Linus Torvald is employed at OSDL and heads that website. You would have definitely heard something from Linus on the kernel development mailing list also. I would highly doubt that OSDL along with Linus would rewrite the kernel code outside of www.kernel.org and its contributors.
Well to join the fun, Dr. Netcraft has just confirmed it...the death can be attributed to poisoning from an internal source.
Yes, but it's rather sad that one has to be an enthusiast to find and hear good music these days.
Well actually in criticism against Drop It Like It's Hot, the synth line you hear in between verses sounds very very familiar and sounds very likely to have been sampled. Since that's probably the more prominent feature of the song, it seems kind of a rip off.
Yes its art...but its extremely lacking in all the departments that make it good hip hop, like pretty much all rap on MTV today.
Linux itself really doesn't need that much added to it, its the game developers themselves who need to change over to making more OpenGL games so the game can run fine on both platforms.
1. ActiveX. It can be configured so its not a big security risk (like if you completely disable it), but its pretty scary how easily it allows whomever to install nasty spyware/malware.
2. The default administrator privledges of the user in Windows. Since Linux effectively separates administrator processes from user processes, there's no way I could get spyware to install itself anywhere outside of my home directory when surfing around the net (unless I'm an idiot and like to go everywhere on the net while being root). Windows unfortunately makes the user an administrator by default, and I'm not entirely sure that if you run as just a plain ol' user in Windows if that really helps that much. Probably not as well as user mode in Linux, but I'm sure it makes a great difference.
Facts do exist. The scientific community regards evolution as a fact. Natural selection is merely a mechanism or a way of describing how what is happening is happening. Evolution is as much of a theory as a tree has bark is a theory. Evolution is simply an observation that species change over time and new species are formed (if you do not believe new species are formed, then you believe that 1 million years ago every species that exists today existed back then). HOW this happens is what the theory is.
The reason there is a huge problem with that sticker is that its wrong in every single degree. No matter what religion you follow, evolution is not something that can possibly be questioned. Evolution is a fact, because it is a simple observable phenomenon. Natural selection, as much as I like it, is a theory. Evolution is observed, documented, and easily seen, but the mechanism of evolution (which is natural selection) falls under the term theory.
It would definitely make Windows look alot better in that market if they did in fact have a purely command line mode just like unix/linux which you could do everything that the GUI allows you to do. My guess is that this would just confuse people who are used to using the old fashioned Windows Server OS's though.
Ha.
I was thinking that it was more funny than insightful, but then I remembered that porn is a very serious thing not to be taken lightly here at /.