As humans are forced to choose what is right for them, the real free will is to make a mistake, generally by having a wrong scale of values, or not seeing what is best in the long term. Humans have the right to make a mistake, and free will to take the better.
In a modern theology, Inferno is the absence of God and the real suffering is loosing the joy of His presence. Evil is the entropic tendency to end life, to spit to the sky, to please only oneself and by that, stopping the flux of love.
Which brings us to the Superhacker. There is no need for a hacker to obtain near omnipotent technical skills. In any case people with extremely high levels of technical skills have better uses for them. Instead, a hacker exploits the stubbornness and stupidity of people who own computers. They won't pay competent people to manage them. They'll choose software for superficial convenience. In Augustinian terms they choose the lesser goods of short term cost savings and convenience over the greater good of security.
The super hacker is a super pathetic human being. And he will enjoy harming innocent people, sometimes not stupid but with a bad skill for computers. Just that. I liked what you wrote. but reading it better I came to the conclusion you are being to hard with the victims.
Indeed it is a bribe. And bribes hits that way: splitting the universe in halves. The second intention of a company with such a low reputation is to undermine the ones of the blogging community.
On the contrary, it makes RedHat stupid, because the reasonable thing to do would be to take the good package management system that already exists -- namely, dpkg and apt -- and just ditch RPM in favor of it!
The main problem with this kind of thinking is that we end up with fewer choices. Keep choices alive and you will have freedom!
Many ISP's hate the multiplicity of OS's because they have to support them. You have a problem, you call the ISP and they ask you: "which version of Windows do you have?" And you answer that you don't have Windows, so they say: "we only support windows", and hangs!
An ISP providing an ADSL connection states in its contract that is illegal to connect without their software, a modified version of WinPoet, only available in Windows platform.
So the thing here is not security but BANNING people from networks, or making the BAN for unsupported OS a common thing, so WAKE UP!!!!
I think is a stupid solution made by someone on the marketing department.
First target: corporate upgrades. The old 98 pcs will not connect unless they are "patched", and many will be thinking on upgrade them to avoid problems.
Second target: to create a crazy standard where any network provider (even ISP's) will accept connections only from operating systems known to be safe. If a computer is not safe, it may harm others or impact on network performance.
This approach is so easy to circumvent that Linux users, hackers and virus makers will make their one patches. And complains will be weakened by the fact that patches are available. But in the end, our OS could be banned from the Network.
That's the main thing: I do not design THAT software. When I design a software, it may produce ODF documents as output, and it may receive ODF documents as input, but when my clients USE those documents, they do what THEY want.
I recommend them to use OpenOffice, or KOffice, and they like those apps a lot. And when they try to use the macros of OpenOffice on KOffice they ask me what's all about ODF anyway?
Hey! And I do my piece of work to change the world, I never forget my personal crusade. And I respect the work my clients do so I give them advice, not judgment.
Macros where taken out of their initial scope by commercial software vendors who needed to add features to their products, but they are pretty useful in the world of single files, and that is: the files affected by the definitions of ODF.
I hate macros more than you can imagine, but my clients needs them.
There is a problem with macros, AFAIK, and they do not work properly between programs. I know it is not easy to implement, but macros are very important and something has to arise to solve the matter.
In the meantime, any problem associated with the way the information is stored or interpreted will introduce usability issues. I do implement ODF applications everywhere I can, and I end up finding this things.
ODF is not perfect yet, but it smells a lot better than MS.
It uses the engine of IE to render pages, that's why it's so small. This kind of project would take a good programmer a week or so. This buddy knows how to get good press for nothing. No footprint? All right, but this guy does not talk about security in his site. Linux? Mac? Sure! if enough people insists and he's got enough money he will think about it! Sure Send email!
My father in law had a problem with his car, a BMW and without him having to sue them for anything have the car replaced in 3 weeks. So, you can buy MS and yes, have to sue them, or buy Apple wich is more suited for your video editing and stuff and have far less troubles than with MS.
For the games, PS o XBOX is really cheaper in the long term so you don't mess with your computer.
So don't corner yourself with no options, you really don't have to.
All right, I'll make it easy for you as I see you are a M$ Fan boy: you buy a computer. It has an operating system installed. Make it a crapy on: Microsoft Windows. What do you want to to with it? You whant to use your office applications, perhaps a game or two... or may be you want to send an email? or surf the web? or post in Slashdot?
OK, instead of that you have to waste your time calling MS to fix a problem they have created, or go to court to fight being called a pirate for nothing. OK? That's what I'm saying in English.
so you think that who buys a piece of software wants to play in court? If you buy a computer with a crappy OS is to work WITH it (sort of), not FOR it!
That's why you are not a real geek, you just look geek. Be a man and recompile the kernel;-) Anyway, the real thing here is to keep Darwin a part of the community. Thank God there are out there geeks who wants to recompile the kernel, and see what's in it, and point out bugs and throw ideas about it.
Really? Well... no wonder why the movie industry is so late on the internet business.
DK: It is ridiculous to believe that you can give product away for free and be more successful. I mean it defies the laws of nature.
This is good... but hey! Dan Glickman knows what is an iPod... or at least he has seen one... or... what?
Laws of nature? Someone call Danny and tell him he's playing the bad guy in this movie. A kind of stupid/funny bad guy... I don't have his phone, that's why... thanks!
I'm not sure about the journalism in general... and I don't know how much are they paid for this kind of crap. The main thing is to entertain. As long as you keep reading!
And Microsoft is so NOT cool everybody wants Apple to kick MS in the head. And this kind of rumours spreads only because someone thinks this will hurt Redmond guys.
-Hey! that Nintento DOES look like an Apple product!
-So the smart boys at Apple are planning to buy them to shake MS!
-But they don't have the money!
-They have a lot of partners... someone is going to lend them the rest, no big deal.
-COOL!
-Hey!!! Look, that Lamborghini DOES looks like an Apple product!
I am looking at the docs here, in developer.apple.com/opensource, and Darwin is based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Match 3.0 microkernel. Darwin is based in FreeBSD as Next was. So Darwin gets the same idea of Next.
And while Apple makes a substantial development of Darwin, it keeps Darwin Open Source, beeing helpfull with the community, and serving from it to, quite often.
If you look at this, the ideas behind this model are different from the Microsoft model, so there is the point...
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clap-clap-clap!
Indeed it is a bribe. And bribes hits that way: splitting the universe in halves. The second intention of a company with such a low reputation is to undermine the ones of the blogging community.
Many ISP's hate the multiplicity of OS's because they have to support them. You have a problem, you call the ISP and they ask you: "which version of Windows do you have?" And you answer that you don't have Windows, so they say: "we only support windows", and hangs!
An ISP providing an ADSL connection states in its contract that is illegal to connect without their software, a modified version of WinPoet, only available in Windows platform.
So the thing here is not security but BANNING people from networks, or making the BAN for unsupported OS a common thing, so WAKE UP!!!!
I think is a stupid solution made by someone on the marketing department.
First target: corporate upgrades. The old 98 pcs will not connect unless they are "patched", and many will be thinking on upgrade them to avoid problems.
Second target: to create a crazy standard where any network provider (even ISP's) will accept connections only from operating systems known to be safe. If a computer is not safe, it may harm others or impact on network performance.
This approach is so easy to circumvent that Linux users, hackers and virus makers will make their one patches. And complains will be weakened by the fact that patches are available. But in the end, our OS could be banned from the Network.
Nasty and Dirty, that's MS!
That's the main thing: I do not design THAT software. When I design a software, it may produce ODF documents as output, and it may receive ODF documents as input, but when my clients USE those documents, they do what THEY want.
I recommend them to use OpenOffice, or KOffice, and they like those apps a lot. And when they try to use the macros of OpenOffice on KOffice they ask me what's all about ODF anyway?
Hey! And I do my piece of work to change the world, I never forget my personal crusade. And I respect the work my clients do so I give them advice, not judgment.
Macros where taken out of their initial scope by commercial software vendors who needed to add features to their products, but they are pretty useful in the world of single files, and that is: the files affected by the definitions of ODF.
I hate macros more than you can imagine, but my clients needs them.
There is a problem with macros, AFAIK, and they do not work properly between programs. I know it is not easy to implement, but macros are very important and something has to arise to solve the matter.
In the meantime, any problem associated with the way the information is stored or interpreted will introduce usability issues. I do implement ODF applications everywhere I can, and I end up finding this things.
ODF is not perfect yet, but it smells a lot better than MS.
It uses the engine of IE to render pages, that's why it's so small. This kind of project would take a good programmer a week or so. This buddy knows how to get good press for nothing. No footprint? All right, but this guy does not talk about security in his site. Linux? Mac? Sure! if enough people insists and he's got enough money he will think about it! Sure Send email!
Crap!
And that's why my keyboard has an ethernet connector!
Damn!
My father in law had a problem with his car, a BMW and without him having to sue them for anything have the car replaced in 3 weeks. So, you can buy MS and yes, have to sue them, or buy Apple wich is more suited for your video editing and stuff and have far less troubles than with MS.
For the games, PS o XBOX is really cheaper in the long term so you don't mess with your computer.
So don't corner yourself with no options, you really don't have to.
All right, I'll make it easy for you as I see you are a M$ Fan boy: you buy a computer. It has an operating system installed. Make it a crapy on: Microsoft Windows. What do you want to to with it? You whant to use your office applications, perhaps a game or two... or may be you want to send an email? or surf the web? or post in Slashdot?
OK, instead of that you have to waste your time calling MS to fix a problem they have created, or go to court to fight being called a pirate for nothing. OK? That's what I'm saying in English.
The best thing I've found: run your Windows on a VMWare, save a snapshot and restore that snapshot on every boot.
so you think that who buys a piece of software wants to play in court? If you buy a computer with a crappy OS is to work WITH it (sort of), not FOR it!
What are they so afraid of?
that mocks on users with funny anecdotes and stuff like that? A GUIDE?!
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That's why you are not a real geek, you just look geek. Be a man and recompile the kernel ;-) Anyway, the real thing here is to keep Darwin a part of the community. Thank God there are out there geeks who wants to recompile the kernel, and see what's in it, and point out bugs and throw ideas about it.
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Apple will release the kernel code when Vista comes around. They are just so sick of Microsoft copying them they'll wait till vista is out and done...
I know, it may take some time...
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This is good... but hey! Dan Glickman knows what is an iPod... or at least he has seen one... or... what?
Laws of nature? Someone call Danny and tell him he's playing the bad guy in this movie. A kind of stupid/funny bad guy... I don't have his phone, that's why... thanks!
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PLEASE!!! GO VOMIT ON THEIR DOOR!!! That's where a vomit worths it!
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as Windows Vista is postponed again!
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I'm not sure about the journalism in general... and I don't know how much are they paid for this kind of crap. The main thing is to entertain. As long as you keep reading!
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Donde Ser Geek No Duele
And Microsoft is so NOT cool everybody wants Apple to kick MS in the head. And this kind of rumours spreads only because someone thinks this will hurt Redmond guys.
-Hey! that Nintento DOES look like an Apple product!
-So the smart boys at Apple are planning to buy them to shake MS!
-But they don't have the money!
-They have a lot of partners... someone is going to lend them the rest, no big deal.
-COOL!
-Hey!!! Look, that Lamborghini DOES looks like an Apple product!
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Donde Ser Geek No Duele
I am looking at the docs here, in developer.apple.com/opensource, and Darwin is based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Match 3.0 microkernel. Darwin is based in FreeBSD as Next was. So Darwin gets the same idea of Next.
And while Apple makes a substantial development of Darwin, it keeps Darwin Open Source, beeing helpfull with the community, and serving from it to, quite often.
If you look at this, the ideas behind this model are different from the Microsoft model, so there is the point...