Oh come on, troll? Sheesh, I know that idiot fanboi moderators are among life's lesser annoyances, but really- grow up, already. It's a legitimate question, especially after Taco wrote that idiotic piece on Being A Great Editor or whatever it was called.
Why are alarm bells going off in your brain? Is it something about this story? Or maybe you just forgot an important appointment? Perhaps a telepathic reader can find out, since you're not telling.
What is a blood mare?
Why didn't you read the article before commenting? "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
A big problem with Linspire was its former CEO, Kevin Carmony. They guy is a snake-oil salesman with no technical expertise. The idea of bundling all this closed, proprietary crud and paying to license codecs isn't all that terrible- people who don't want it have plenty of other Linux distributions to choose from. Though Linspire went overboard and ignored perfectly good FOSS alternatives in several cases. But Mr. Carmony's double-talk and criticism of Free and open source software alienated a whole lot of people. He doesn't understand the basic Unix security model, and despite his later denials, Linspire did indeed deliberately create only a root user during installation up through Linspire 5.0, and had zero documentation for educating their precious "new Linux desktop users" on the importance of security fundamentals.
Then a bigger problem was Linspire itself was poo. It had many broken parts, and their much-hyped CNR didn't offer anything that users wanted. But you did get a genuine, time-wasting infuriating Windows-like experience with bales of crapware, nagware, and trialware that just wouldn't shut up and go away.
To make matters worse, Carmony badmouthed FOSS principles and deliberately misstated the meaning of "free" in free software when he released Freespire. I know, the word "free" meaning "libre" is problematic anyway, and Carmony made it worse. He pretty much spit on the very community that made it possible for Linspire to exist.
So. Maybe a new CEO will make it all better. Time will tell.
In the olden days, would you have let them bring cribbage boards and cards into the classroom? Get a grip. They're fancier toys, but still toys.
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You didn't read the article, did you. What do you get out of bending over for ridiculous antics like "in five years we can recall everything you ever wrote"?
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Uh no, you're stupid. If you don't want a reporter to publish confidential information, you don't give it to them. If they dig it up on their own, oh well, too bad so sad, that's life in the free world. I sure wonder about all these/. retards who are so extremely pro-business. Why? What's in it for you? How do you benefit from a free press being muzzled and controlled?
It's also interesting how many people who don't care took the time to post flames about how much they don't care. It's important to the people involved, and as you said possibly a good lesson for any online community.
As far as nerdy stuff goes, well,/. is heavily-infested with trolls who are not nerds, and don't really have skills of any kind, except wandering all over the Internet putting down everything and everyone.
It is not illegal for private citizens to use trademarked names any old non-commercial way they want to. This new/. generation is seriously uninformed, and way too willing to put up with corporate bullshit.
I know that to be cool on/. you're not supposed to have even minimal competence in English, especially for native English speakers. But why not be even cooler and rebel against this retarded ethos! Be bold and brave! Dare to spell!
"Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, has vowed to purge Kazakh sites of "dirt" and "lies."
"Those who think it is impossible to control the Internet can continue living in a world of illusions," Yertysbayev told the Vremya newspaper in a recent interview."
Which admittedly sounds like he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder related to housecleaning, and possibly bulimia, but it's really not that bad:
"On Thursday, in a speech at OSCE headquarters in Vienna, Yertysbayev insisted his country was committed to democracy and the creation of what he called an "e-government" that would expand Internet access and make "our information sphere more open and our media more free.""
See? So it's all OK. Everyone is very free, and also clean and well-purged.
You poor windows users sure live in a different world. Red Hat and SUSE Linux released 64-bit editions way back in 2005. No broken backwards-compatibility, no drama, no wasted billions of dollars. By 2006 all Linux distributions had happy shiny 64-bit editions as a matter of routine, thanks to AMD + the sensible Linux architecture.
One might suppose that with tens of billions of dollars and masses of talent available that Microsoft should be able to produce the most efficient, most flexible, most secure operating system in the world. It takes real talent to piss away such massive advantages.
Wow, has this ever been the Week of the Trolls. Mr Adrian Hyphenate, why don't you also study the typical Microsoft or Apple EULA. You'll find they are much scarier. Assuming you're even interested in a fact or two.
Best Buy is famous for its shady, customer-hostile tactics. I don't know why people even shop there. Maybe it's for the thrill of combat with idiot Stepford Staff who are trained to foil your every wish. The ole bait-n-switch is something they've been doing since their doors opened- just try to find an advertised special actually on the shelf, at the advertised price. When you do get lucky and find one, their highly-trained Twit Squad pressures you to purchase a more expensive model, or to purchase useless junk like protection plans. The only time store staff don't bother you is when you need them.
Biggest laugh of the day: "The future of our company depends on our ability to build trusted relationships with our customers," Busch said.
I guess it's a form of trust when you trust Best Buy to always try to stick it to you.
Though I give him points for being a paid troll. The article itself is worthless. I wish I could get paid to write pointless drivel, instead of giving it away for free on/.
Yes, that part seems to have escaped them, just like the bit where their shiny new technology excludes a lot of existing listeners and potential new customers. Dum de dum dum.
I don't know about CDs- Movie DVDs contain an encryption key on the first 8 bits (or something, I forget the exact number) of the disk. So commercial DVD players have the decryption keys built-in. Why can't you just copy the disk? Because blank
DVDs have that same first 8 bits (or whatever it is) blanked out so you cannot record on that part. Nice little legal conspiracy, there. And that's why libdvdcss works, because it would be a huge deal to change those encryption keys, since they're hardwired into meelyuns of players. So once the key is cracked, it's cracked forever.
WTF was Lucas thinking when he filmed the three "prequels"? Didn't he make enough money from the original series to hire real writers? JarJar Binks alone should cement Lucas' place in infamy.
Of course the CEO of Circuit City won't suffer. He's getting seven-figure compensation for driving the company into the ground. So this is really a plan in keeping with overall company strategy, which is to reward the failures.
Sysinternals was one the very few companies with the expertise to dissect and analyze Windowses truthfully. It's no accident that after the Sony rootkit fiasco they were quietly acquired by microsoft. Just one more assimilation.
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Oh come on, troll? Sheesh, I know that idiot fanboi moderators are among life's lesser annoyances, but really- grow up, already. It's a legitimate question, especially after Taco wrote that idiotic piece on Being A Great Editor or whatever it was called.
Why are alarm bells going off in your brain? Is it something about this story? Or maybe you just forgot an important appointment? Perhaps a telepathic reader can find out, since you're not telling.
What is a blood mare? Why didn't you read the article before commenting? "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
Then a bigger problem was Linspire itself was poo. It had many broken parts, and their much-hyped CNR didn't offer anything that users wanted. But you did get a genuine, time-wasting infuriating Windows-like experience with bales of crapware, nagware, and trialware that just wouldn't shut up and go away.
To make matters worse, Carmony badmouthed FOSS principles and deliberately misstated the meaning of "free" in free software when he released Freespire. I know, the word "free" meaning "libre" is problematic anyway, and Carmony made it worse. He pretty much spit on the very community that made it possible for Linspire to exist.
So. Maybe a new CEO will make it all better. Time will tell.
In the olden days, would you have let them bring cribbage boards and cards into the classroom? Get a grip. They're fancier toys, but still toys.
You didn't read the article, did you. What do you get out of bending over for ridiculous antics like "in five years we can recall everything you ever wrote"?
Uh no, you're stupid. If you don't want a reporter to publish confidential information, you don't give it to them. If they dig it up on their own, oh well, too bad so sad, that's life in the free world. I sure wonder about all these /. retards who are so extremely pro-business. Why? What's in it for you? How do you benefit from a free press being muzzled and controlled?
It's also interesting how many people who don't care took the time to post flames about how much they don't care. It's important to the people involved, and as you said possibly a good lesson for any online community. As far as nerdy stuff goes, well, /. is heavily-infested with trolls who are not nerds, and don't really have skills of any kind, except wandering all over the Internet putting down everything and everyone.
It is not illegal for private citizens to use trademarked names any old non-commercial way they want to. This new /. generation is seriously uninformed, and way too willing to put up with corporate bullshit.
I know that to be cool on /. you're not supposed to have even minimal competence in English, especially for native English speakers. But why not be even cooler and rebel against this retarded ethos! Be bold and brave! Dare to spell!
"Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, has vowed to purge Kazakh sites of "dirt" and "lies." "Those who think it is impossible to control the Internet can continue living in a world of illusions," Yertysbayev told the Vremya newspaper in a recent interview."
Which admittedly sounds like he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder related to housecleaning, and possibly bulimia, but it's really not that bad:
"On Thursday, in a speech at OSCE headquarters in Vienna, Yertysbayev insisted his country was committed to democracy and the creation of what he called an "e-government" that would expand Internet access and make "our information sphere more open and our media more free.""
See? So it's all OK. Everyone is very free, and also clean and well-purged.
You poor windows users sure live in a different world. Red Hat and SUSE Linux released 64-bit editions way back in 2005. No broken backwards-compatibility, no drama, no wasted billions of dollars. By 2006 all Linux distributions had happy shiny 64-bit editions as a matter of routine, thanks to AMD + the sensible Linux architecture. One might suppose that with tens of billions of dollars and masses of talent available that Microsoft should be able to produce the most efficient, most flexible, most secure operating system in the world. It takes real talent to piss away such massive advantages.
A crappy place-holder that took nearly seven years to release? That's some placeholder.
Wow, has this ever been the Week of the Trolls. Mr Adrian Hyphenate, why don't you also study the typical Microsoft or Apple EULA. You'll find they are much scarier. Assuming you're even interested in a fact or two.
Biggest laugh of the day: "The future of our company depends on our ability to build trusted relationships with our customers," Busch said.
I guess it's a form of trust when you trust Best Buy to always try to stick it to you.
Though I give him points for being a paid troll. The article itself is worthless. I wish I could get paid to write pointless drivel, instead of giving it away for free on /.
Yes, that part seems to have escaped them, just like the bit where their shiny new technology excludes a lot of existing listeners and potential new customers. Dum de dum dum.
I don't know about CDs- Movie DVDs contain an encryption key on the first 8 bits (or something, I forget the exact number) of the disk. So commercial DVD players have the decryption keys built-in. Why can't you just copy the disk? Because blank DVDs have that same first 8 bits (or whatever it is) blanked out so you cannot record on that part. Nice little legal conspiracy, there. And that's why libdvdcss works, because it would be a huge deal to change those encryption keys, since they're hardwired into meelyuns of players. So once the key is cracked, it's cracked forever.
WTF was Lucas thinking when he filmed the three "prequels"? Didn't he make enough money from the original series to hire real writers? JarJar Binks alone should cement Lucas' place in infamy.
Typical sloppy journalism, not specifying the species.
Of course the CEO of Circuit City won't suffer. He's getting seven-figure compensation for driving the company into the ground. So this is really a plan in keeping with overall company strategy, which is to reward the failures.
Sysinternals was one the very few companies with the expertise to dissect and analyze Windowses truthfully. It's no accident that after the Sony rootkit fiasco they were quietly acquired by microsoft. Just one more assimilation.
So we have a GOOD reason, for once, to comment without reading the article.
never mind. it's in the article. *blush*
IDG news service got a more sensible reply... which is...? Or is this a telepathic moment?