I do not own a gun. I see no reason to force law abiding citizens to not own a gun. Criminals will get guns regardless of laws. One day, I may want to own a gun and the Second Amendment guarantees that I can get one. If some politician thinks of violating the Constitution, I will definitely have need of a gun.
blah blah blah. who cares if Linux (a kernel?) takes over the desktop? seriously, what do you think are the motivations to write software that is given away for free? i keep hearing this meme:
Such and such needs to change if you expect to take over the market...
wtf? get out of your capitalistic, money grubbing mindset. it is not about money. it is not about power over other people. everything is working just fine. linux may not be ready for the "great unwashed" right now. it may never be ready for such a task...
Why would you want to port WinAmp? Granted, it is a nice media player (for the most part) but, XMMS is awesome. XMMS also integrates just fine with mplayer. I see no need at all to get source for WinAmp.
What I find hilarious is that when some parent sues Take 2 Interactive because their son went on a shooting spree, people come out of the woodwork screaming bloody murder about how the parents are at fault and not the game... but then, stupid things like this get posted and we see lots of comments like yours saying that GTA did/does affect how you think. hm.
Maybe it can still be reconciled though: You did NOT run over any pedestrians, nor did you take a policeman's car. Therefore, while it might affect your thinking at some level, you were still able to make your own choice. Perhaps violent games should be restricted to those who are legally recognized at knowing wrong from right?
>>And where is the advantage to the user?! If Steam eliminated all piracy of Half-Life 2, why isn't it cheaper?! >I don't understand that logic. So if a product can be pirated, then it has to be more expensif? Damn dude! Lets Raise the price of Windows up to $5000 USD!"
I think his point was that the industry always says they have to raise prices because of piracy. Since there is supposedly less piracy under Steam, the prices should therefore be lower.
Personally, I think it is absurd to pay retail prices through Steam since there are fewer middlemen to have to pay.
"The simplest solution is probably going to be further restrictions on what an IP on a broadband connection can and cannot do. I expect to see more DSL services that are blocked prevented from running servers on certain ports, forced to send email through the ISP's gateway server, and possibly even outright firewalling of certain "remote access" ports like NetBIOS, RPC and so on"
a restricted internet connection is not an internet connection. this solution is untenable to myself and many others. why can't the ISPs just cut off those who are causing problems? they should already be doing traffic analysis.
fuck it. i am going to pirate everything. there was a time not too long ago, where i felt it was important to reimburse people who created intellectual property. i bought cds. i paid for mirc. i even bought half life 2 recently. no more. the greed and disrespect towards me (and the public at large) is too much. i almost feel a twinge of guilt towards those who would have earned my money legitimately. i am officially an outlaw now. come arrest me you bastards.
steam does not get in the way of pirating the game. to be honest though, i wish i did pirate the game. steam just rammed an update down on my counter strike source game and now it, and half life 2, won't launch at all. i paid 60 dollars for a game that i can't play until the next update.
yeah, i am pissed. i will be pirating all future valve games... if i can even be bothered to play them.
"These are the knobs you vote for--don't cry to me."
Oddly enough, in my 20 years of voting, not once has the person that *I* voted for been elected. Voting is the most pointless exercise; but, I still vote.
I like your Bob the Orca logo. It is the best one you have there. I imagine Bob would scale well as an icon. It is also very memorable. I am not sure Bob is such a great name for a mascot though.
or, maybe they realized that you hitting the refresh button brings in more ad revenue and therefore they will not fix it. in other words, broken html is a feature, not a bug. (kind of like the mysql "bug" that allows you to waste your mod points on a comment that can not benefit from your points)
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"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that training people who will ultimately take that knowledge and compete against you isn't a viable long-term strategy."
oh, you obviously forgot what software patents are for.
yes, spybot is a very handy tool as well; although i could complain about its cookie determination sometimes.
you are correct about keyloggers and other such stealthy malware. it is very difficult to detect them through resource usage.
trojaned utilities and "browser exploits" can be caught much of the time, i am not certain why you classify them together. let's say that you get agobot installed. sure, you may not notice the installation, but newly opened ports will be visible (i think) and you should certainly notice when someone connects to your computer to utilise agobot.
realize that i am not proposing using "resource usage" as the only method of detecting malware. i was merely demonstrating that antivirus software is not the only way to detect it. furthermore, i would assert that relying strictly on antivirus is a bad thing since it won't detect zero-day or government sponsored malware (magic lantern anyone?).
"Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but how do you know?"
People are always asking this question but I have never seen anyone answer... so I will.
If a virus/worm/whatever is going to be doing anything interesting, it MUST use resources. If you are always monitoring your resource usage, you WILL (eventually anyways) notice the new/different/extreme resource usage. Blinking lights (hard drive, router, etc), sounds, resource meters, firewalls that report activity, are all things that can alert you to malicious code. Antivirus software can be useful, but it is not the only way to detect a virus.
"when you have enough knowledge to say setup a linux box from source, you keep you knowledge closely guarded and dont share shit with the average user."
whoah. hold on there a second chief. i recall when i first started out using linux (many years ago) i became proficient really fast. i actually felt GUILTY for using such awesome software without paying for it or otherwise reimbursing the programmers for their incredible work and generosity. what i did to "pay" for the use of my software (yes, mine. like commercial software can never be) was to go into irc and the newsgroups and i shared my hard earned knowledge. i did this for years. i have absolutely ZERO problems with sharing my knowledge, it would be hypocritical of me to use open source software and then deny others my own knowledge that i earned using that software.
i think your premise is full of holes.
"Part of the reason people are ignorant is there is no way for them to learn from experienced users."
definitely not a truism. people who are so miserly with their knowledge are probably not going to be users of open source to begin with since it is based on people NOT being miserly with their knowledge.
>>Magnatune is incredible -- if only they also had Opera
>You can get Opera here
Someone once suggested reading with flamebait comments set to +4, so I have been trying it. I find it amazing that so many comments which give me a small chuckle are marked as flamebait. What gives?
It would probably be easier if you just booted with a Knoppix cd and mounted the drive you want to install to under/mnt/gentoo. You can then start from stage 1 in a chroot environment. Do dmesg | less to see what kind of drivers you will need. Gentoo does come with a LiveCD that is perfect for installing from... but Knoppix has Frozen Bubble and Mozilla to keep you occupied while it compiles.
Actually, semi-conductors are only semi-conductors at near room temperatures. If it gets too hot or too cold, your semi-conducting material becomes an insulator.
No guarantees here, but here is why I imagine your system is still slow after reading a huge file:
The huge file forces everything (for example IE) out to the swap file. Once you finish using that memory and access IE, the kernel pulls IE from the swap, which is slow. Five minutes pass by and Windows agressively clears out ram... which includes IE because there is a perfectly good image of it in swap. Every time you access IE after it hits the swap file, it will be from swap if it hasn't been used recently.
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I do not own a gun. I see no reason to force law abiding citizens to not own a gun. Criminals will get guns regardless of laws. One day, I may want to own a gun and the Second Amendment guarantees that I can get one. If some politician thinks of violating the Constitution, I will definitely have need of a gun.
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blah blah blah. who cares if Linux (a kernel?) takes over the desktop? seriously, what do you think are the motivations to write software that is given away for free? i keep hearing this meme:
Such and such needs to change if you expect to take over the market...
wtf? get out of your capitalistic, money grubbing mindset. it is not about money. it is not about power over other people. everything is working just fine. linux may not be ready for the "great unwashed" right now. it may never be ready for such a task...
but that is not its purpose.
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Why would you want to port WinAmp? Granted, it is a nice media player (for the most part) but, XMMS is awesome. XMMS also integrates just fine with mplayer. I see no need at all to get source for WinAmp.
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Oh how soon we forget. Do you recall a jpeg parsing vulnerability less than a year ago? Several years ago, WinAmp could choke on certain ID3 tags.
I do recall when email was safe though.
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What I find hilarious is that when some parent sues Take 2 Interactive because their son went on a shooting spree, people come out of the woodwork screaming bloody murder about how the parents are at fault and not the game... but then, stupid things like this get posted and we see lots of comments like yours saying that GTA did/does affect how you think. hm.
Maybe it can still be reconciled though: You did NOT run over any pedestrians, nor did you take a policeman's car. Therefore, while it might affect your thinking at some level, you were still able to make your own choice. Perhaps violent games should be restricted to those who are legally recognized at knowing wrong from right?
strike
>>And where is the advantage to the user?! If Steam eliminated all piracy of Half-Life 2, why isn't it cheaper?!
>I don't understand that logic. So if a product can be pirated, then it has to be more expensif? Damn dude! Lets Raise the price of Windows up to $5000 USD!"
I think his point was that the industry always says they have to raise prices because of piracy. Since there is supposedly less piracy under Steam, the prices should therefore be lower.
Personally, I think it is absurd to pay retail prices through Steam since there are fewer middlemen to have to pay.
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the mods are on crack again. you spoke true words and they were moderated as flamebait. let's try a different perspective though:
if you were the software, would you feel more free with a GPL or a BSD license?
*shrug*
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"The simplest solution is probably going to be further restrictions on what an IP on a broadband connection can and cannot do. I expect to see more DSL services that are blocked prevented from running servers on certain ports, forced to send email through the ISP's gateway server, and possibly even outright firewalling of certain "remote access" ports like NetBIOS, RPC and so on"
a restricted internet connection is not an internet connection. this solution is untenable to myself and many others. why can't the ISPs just cut off those who are causing problems? they should already be doing traffic analysis.
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do you live in el cajon, california?
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fuck it. i am going to pirate everything. there was a time not too long ago, where i felt it was important to reimburse people who created intellectual property. i bought cds. i paid for mirc. i even bought half life 2 recently. no more. the greed and disrespect towards me (and the public at large) is too much. i almost feel a twinge of guilt towards those who would have earned my money legitimately. i am officially an outlaw now. come arrest me you bastards.
strike
steam does not get in the way of pirating the game. to be honest though, i wish i did pirate the game. steam just rammed an update down on my counter strike source game and now it, and half life 2, won't launch at all. i paid 60 dollars for a game that i can't play until the next update.
yeah, i am pissed. i will be pirating all future valve games... if i can even be bothered to play them.
strike
"These are the knobs you vote for--don't cry to me."
Oddly enough, in my 20 years of voting, not once has the person that *I* voted for been elected. Voting is the most pointless exercise; but, I still vote.
strike
I like your Bob the Orca logo. It is the best one you have there. I imagine Bob would scale well as an icon. It is also very memorable. I am not sure Bob is such a great name for a mascot though.
strike
or, maybe they realized that you hitting the refresh button brings in more ad revenue and therefore they will not fix it. in other words, broken html is a feature, not a bug. (kind of like the mysql "bug" that allows you to waste your mod points on a comment that can not benefit from your points)
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that training people who will ultimately take that knowledge and compete against you isn't a viable long-term strategy."
oh, you obviously forgot what software patents are for.
strike
yes, spybot is a very handy tool as well; although i could complain about its cookie determination sometimes.
you are correct about keyloggers and other such stealthy malware. it is very difficult to detect them through resource usage.
trojaned utilities and "browser exploits" can be caught much of the time, i am not certain why you classify them together. let's say that you get agobot installed. sure, you may not notice the installation, but newly opened ports will be visible (i think) and you should certainly notice when someone connects to your computer to utilise agobot.
realize that i am not proposing using "resource usage" as the only method of detecting malware. i was merely demonstrating that antivirus software is not the only way to detect it. furthermore, i would assert that relying strictly on antivirus is a bad thing since it won't detect zero-day or government sponsored malware (magic lantern anyone?).
strike
"Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but how do you know?"
People are always asking this question but I have never seen anyone answer... so I will.
If a virus/worm/whatever is going to be doing anything interesting, it MUST use resources. If you are always monitoring your resource usage, you WILL (eventually anyways) notice the new/different/extreme resource usage. Blinking lights (hard drive, router, etc), sounds, resource meters, firewalls that report activity, are all things that can alert you to malicious code. Antivirus software can be useful, but it is not the only way to detect a virus.
strike
"when you have enough knowledge to say setup a linux box from source, you keep you knowledge closely guarded and dont share shit with the average user."
whoah. hold on there a second chief. i recall when i first started out using linux (many years ago) i became proficient really fast. i actually felt GUILTY for using such awesome software without paying for it or otherwise reimbursing the programmers for their incredible work and generosity. what i did to "pay" for the use of my software (yes, mine. like commercial software can never be) was to go into irc and the newsgroups and i shared my hard earned knowledge. i did this for years. i have absolutely ZERO problems with sharing my knowledge, it would be hypocritical of me to use open source software and then deny others my own knowledge that i earned using that software.
i think your premise is full of holes.
"Part of the reason people are ignorant is there is no way for them to learn from experienced users."
definitely not a truism. people who are so miserly with their knowledge are probably not going to be users of open source to begin with since it is based on people NOT being miserly with their knowledge.
"I haven't seen any figures on how Al Queda's numbers compare to Saddam's"
Ahem. What does Al Queda have to do with Iraq?
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>>Magnatune is incredible -- if only they also had Opera
>You can get Opera here
Someone once suggested reading with flamebait comments set to +4, so I have been trying it. I find it amazing that so many comments which give me a small chuckle are marked as flamebait. What gives?
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Dan Rather acknowledged his errors and apologized. Hollywood has not. I trust Dan Rather more than Hollywood.
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It would probably be easier if you just booted with a Knoppix cd and mounted the drive you want to install to under /mnt/gentoo. You can then start from stage 1 in a chroot environment. Do dmesg | less to see what kind of drivers you will need. Gentoo does come with a LiveCD that is perfect for installing from... but Knoppix has Frozen Bubble and Mozilla to keep you occupied while it compiles.
strike
Actually, semi-conductors are only semi-conductors at near room temperatures. If it gets too hot or too cold, your semi-conducting material becomes an insulator.
strike
No guarantees here, but here is why I imagine your system is still slow after reading a huge file:
The huge file forces everything (for example IE) out to the swap file. Once you finish using that memory and access IE, the kernel pulls IE from the swap, which is slow. Five minutes pass by and Windows agressively clears out ram... which includes IE because there is a perfectly good image of it in swap. Every time you access IE after it hits the swap file, it will be from swap if it hasn't been used recently.
Just a guess. I don't run Windows.
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