Running as root is safe, beta is good for production use and MS is open enough. Next thing you know, they'll be saying that Adobe bought Macromedia, one of its enemies.
Uh, no. VS2005 is not free. (Only some individual watered-down components or it are) You have to pay for it (I think through MSDN subscription or something)
At the risk of getting modded as Redundant, I'll say it... Certain things can't be done as regular users and needs root privileges. Lindows (or Linspire or whatever) wants to dumb down things and so wants to avoid asking password prompts and such. Therefore Lindows either already logs in the main regular user as root or it wants to do it in the future (I don't know, I've never used it). Of course, pretty much every Linux newbie site and every Linux user says that doing normal things as root is bad and stupid. This makes Lindows look bad in the eye of its users and in the eyes of experienced people and the media. Therefore it wants to start spreading shit that root is safe and people who disagree are paranoid and idiots.
(Although I don't like getting modded down, I do hope this post is redundant and everyone did know this point)
(As the other poster said in his own words) The user doesn't have to check the hashes in p2p. The program does it automatically. That's how it recognizes and checks files.
The post was +4 Insightful about an hour ago (with some overrated mods) and now it came down to +3 Insightful with a troll mod and it looks like it'll go down even more. I can swear that if I had replaced "US" with "China" or "Russia", I would have stayed at +5 Insightul/Informative all along. Saying that the US might not be perfect on slashdot is like saying terrorism might not be right on an Al Qaeda forum. At least the Al Qaeda forum (if there is one) won't claim that they are fair in arguments.
That was their official version. They just shut it down (and made it pay-only) because they wanted to make some money off of it and didn't want to "give away" something for free.
Would this make writing spyware itself illegal in USA or just installing it on other people's computers without permission? I suppose it's installing, since I don't think they can dictate what programs people can create.
Actually, perens was trying not to insult torvalds. By saying he can be an idiot sometimes, perens was implying that torvalds wasn't a bad person and didn't do a bad thing on purpose but merely out of idiocy.
It looks like most people who have replied haven't read this. (AFAIK, this wasn't reported on slashdot, but was on the Register. Another reason to have sources of news other than/.)
This is the second thread I'm seeing saying that they don't know what "Philanthropy" means. Do people really don't know what philanthropy means? I live in a non-English (non-European/American) country and English is not my mother-tongue and philanthropy was one of the words we learnt here as little kids. This is really surprising me.
Let me be the first to say: Slashdot's default thread display system sucks. I had no idea what the heck parent was talking about. If you too have no idea, then click on the parent link of parent. It's a post which is "invisible" because it's been modded down as troll.
If this case goes against Comcast, then other ISPs will get intimidated. That'll be bad for RIAA. So, maybe, RIAA might demand an unreasonably high amount from that woman (for downloading copyrighted music, RTFA) or sue her pants off, so that she can't go ahead with the comcast case. Maybe even ask her to "settle" so that they'll drop anything they have against here if she drops the comcast case.
What do you read? Definitely not slashdot. Pretty much every comment here doesn't do anything other bashing China. What, you want the slashdot logo to be turned into a picture of man spitting on a burning chinese flag?
Would you be happy if a criminal gang carrying dangerous chemicals invaded your extremely-annoying neighbour's house, beat up your neighbour and set up a camp there?
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What is different this time is that it is not greedy webmasters clicking ads on their own site but rather the advertisers themselves.
RTFA. It *was* a greedy webmaster clicking ads on his own site. Auctin Experts is no advertiser.
Running as root is safe, beta is good for production use and MS is open enough. Next thing you know, they'll be saying that Adobe bought Macromedia, one of its enemies.
Uh, no. VS2005 is not free. (Only some individual watered-down components or it are) You have to pay for it (I think through MSDN subscription or something)
At the risk of getting modded as Redundant, I'll say it... Certain things can't be done as regular users and needs root privileges. Lindows (or Linspire or whatever) wants to dumb down things and so wants to avoid asking password prompts and such. Therefore Lindows either already logs in the main regular user as root or it wants to do it in the future (I don't know, I've never used it). Of course, pretty much every Linux newbie site and every Linux user says that doing normal things as root is bad and stupid. This makes Lindows look bad in the eye of its users and in the eyes of experienced people and the media. Therefore it wants to start spreading shit that root is safe and people who disagree are paranoid and idiots.
(Although I don't like getting modded down, I do hope this post is redundant and everyone did know this point)
(As the other poster said in his own words) The user doesn't have to check the hashes in p2p. The program does it automatically. That's how it recognizes and checks files.
The post was +4 Insightful about an hour ago (with some overrated mods) and now it came down to +3 Insightful with a troll mod and it looks like it'll go down even more. I can swear that if I had replaced "US" with "China" or "Russia", I would have stayed at +5 Insightul/Informative all along. Saying that the US might not be perfect on slashdot is like saying terrorism might not be right on an Al Qaeda forum. At least the Al Qaeda forum (if there is one) won't claim that they are fair in arguments.
(-1 Troll, here I come.)
Uh, I was serious.
And everyone keeps complaining about chinese or russian militaries using hackers.
That was their official version. They just shut it down (and made it pay-only) because they wanted to make some money off of it and didn't want to "give away" something for free.
Would this make writing spyware itself illegal in USA or just installing it on other people's computers without permission? I suppose it's installing, since I don't think they can dictate what programs people can create.
Idiot... "The Register". "®". Get it?
Actually, perens was trying not to insult torvalds. By saying he can be an idiot sometimes, perens was implying that torvalds wasn't a bad person and didn't do a bad thing on purpose but merely out of idiocy.
RTFA. It says why reverse-engineering BK is pragmatic (among other things).
It looks like most people who have replied haven't read this. (AFAIK, this wasn't reported on slashdot, but was on the Register. Another reason to have sources of news other than /.)
Your computer hates you.
(That's seems like a logical explanation for most of my problems)
Yeah, we are all really greatful for our Capitalist care-takers in USA. Can we please have the priviledge of worshipping your feet?
This is the second thread I'm seeing saying that they don't know what "Philanthropy" means. Do people really don't know what philanthropy means? I live in a non-English (non-European/American) country and English is not my mother-tongue and philanthropy was one of the words we learnt here as little kids. This is really surprising me.
Informative? INFORMATIVE?!?
Let me be the first to say: Slashdot's default thread display system sucks. I had no idea what the heck parent was talking about. If you too have no idea, then click on the parent link of parent. It's a post which is "invisible" because it's been modded down as troll.
Not warez. Music. All this is against music sharing. Not much action has been taken against warez (at least comparitively to music).
If this case goes against Comcast, then other ISPs will get intimidated. That'll be bad for RIAA. So, maybe, RIAA might demand an unreasonably high amount from that woman (for downloading copyrighted music, RTFA) or sue her pants off, so that she can't go ahead with the comcast case. Maybe even ask her to "settle" so that they'll drop anything they have against here if she drops the comcast case.
You're being sarcastic, right?
What do you read? Definitely not slashdot. Pretty much every comment here doesn't do anything other bashing China. What, you want the slashdot logo to be turned into a picture of man spitting on a burning chinese flag?
Would you be happy if a criminal gang carrying dangerous chemicals invaded your extremely-annoying neighbour's house, beat up your neighbour and set up a camp there?
This story is a dupe. (Yes, these are the same story. If you visit the links you 'll know)