Steve Jobs announced that everyone wishing for cheaper Apple systems not built around grossly overpriced CPUs and related hardware can "...just go to hell...."
Anyone else notice that this popped up right after the article about Sun selling Linux PCs? Given how quickly the Lindows brand name is establishing itself, I think Sun would do well to drop Red Hat and move to Lindows for their PCs.
I'm not making any accusations *cough*, but does this strike anyone else as a great addition to Microsoft's "fuck them over and make them upgrade" business model? Leave a product full of security flaws, and, years later, when people aren't upgrading to the new version, refuse to fix security flaws in the old versions.
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Why are so many smart people such complete dorks? They come up with a car that handles electricity so well, and what do they make it out of? A fucking Delorean. How lame is that? They probably could have done it with an Accord or a Camry and have earned a great sponsorship with parts that wouldn't break down, and could be easily replaced, but they choose a fucking Delorean... sigh.
"So far all the replies to this story have been "we already knew that" and "duh". I find those comments idiotic. In that spirit, when cigarette execs admitted they knew their products were bad for people, there should have been no story."
It never was a story. The story was them admitting it in court and losing multi-billion dollar lawsuits.
Try online classified advertising. A great example for this is Fark. You pay a small fee, and get a space of text on the front page that links where you want it to. If it goes nowhere you didn't spend much, and if it worked well you have found a space for banner ads. Penny Arcade also does really nice, big ads cheap. If you have a DSL/Cable connection at home or work, run a P2P node carrying mp3s from your band and other indy bands, and instead of carrying the mp3s on your limited web site's bandwidth, tell users to just search for you.
If there's one thing that desktop Linux needs, it's straightening out the whole font/X mess. Nice to see some serious stuff getting done abouting. Propz, gratz, and thankz to the whole team.
If there is a god out there, please let this be true, and please let Apple switch to AMD processors that don't cost so damned much for such crappy performance!
Aside from continuing to send my money to the EFF, has anyone found a grass-roots-support-campaign for this one? Sort of like the fake campaign microsoft started against the DoJ? It would be great if a bunch of citizens, social organizations, and citizens all banded together at a common site or something...
If you are creating public access Linux boxes, do the rest of the internet a favor and strictly restrict all internet access out as well as in. This protects everyone else in case a local user roots a box.
Don't put floppy drives in the systems, and disable the CD drives. This will help prevent a user from walking in with a disc of exploits and root kits, forcing anyone who wants to use local hacks to go download the hacks, which you can track in firewall logs.
Aesthetic suggestions:
Consider renaming all the KDE/Gnome apps withing the config files. Many Linux apps have lame, undecipherable names (Stick a G in front of the name of a python actor type crap.), and if you make the purpose of an app obvious, a newbie will learn the real name of the app over time.
Do your users a huge favor and avoid Gnome. KDE is a much easier transition for Mac/Windows users.
Know what would be really cool? If all these companies that use Linux to save millions of dollars would each hire one or two full-time open source developers to advance the cause (Helping save them more money down the line.). HP has lead a good example with their shining support of PERL, time for us to encourage others to follow.
Useless. Open hardware to do what, play open formats that only open-source geeks use? Of course, you could always make open hardware to play proprietary formats, at least for a day or two before you end up in jail.
Not all ISPs are small. AT&T, Cox, Comcast, and Verizon all have just as much reason to follow Information Wave's lead as all the small ISPs out there. If a large number of ISPs hit RIAA members with a simultaneous traffic block, angry AOL members unable to access a huge number of internet locations would suddenly get really pissed - especially if the traffic blocks all redirected to a short explanation.
"for example, AOL/TW & child company Warner Music are opposed to it."
That hasn't stopped AOL/TW from supporting the RIAA financially. Perhaps if a few big ISPs blocked traffic by AOL, Sony, Bertlesmann, those companies would think twice about continuing to fund the RIAA. This would work well with AOL/TW, which have political reasons within the computer industry for staying available. AOL needs people to have access to Netscape and AIM to keep from losing (More.) ground to Microsoft.
Instead of just blocking the RIAA itself, how about blocking RIAA members? Imagine if Sony, RCA, AOL/TW, etc.. had all of their internet traffic blocked by ISPs? It really wouldn't be that hard to get the consumers on the side of the ISPs, as the ISPs could argue that the RIAA and its members are promoting and financially supporting electronic terrorism!
"...the DMCA is both an egregious law and a brazen power grab by Hollywood, the music industry and software companies", groups like the EFF are not much better, engaging in "fear-mongering" and scare tactics to increase opposition.""
Let's all watch Declan McCullagh try to survive the next round of CNET layoffs by writing an article designed to piss off everyone on both sides of an issue, generating millions of hits for CNET! I wonder who the "anonymous reader" works for *cough*CNET*cough*.
Why the hell should they do it? You're the one who wants the fonts, either do it yourself or run Windows. Open/free software isn't about entitlements, because nobody owes you a goddamned thing. People do Open/Free work because they want to, not to satisfy geeks who want a free stuff to dick around with.
Just a thought, how about putting it in the original shipping box? LCD monitor boxes almost always have something along the lines of "Save this box in case you ever need to ship this hardware later!" on all four sides. Too bad nobody pays attention to it...
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"...a physical one-way function that cannot be tampered, copied or faked!"
Yeah, and DES is too strong to crack...
Steve Jobs announced that everyone wishing for cheaper Apple systems not built around grossly overpriced CPUs and related hardware can "...just go to hell...."
Anyone else notice that this popped up right after the article about Sun selling Linux PCs? Given how quickly the Lindows brand name is establishing itself, I think Sun would do well to drop Red Hat and move to Lindows for their PCs.
I'm not making any accusations *cough*, but does this strike anyone else as a great addition to Microsoft's "fuck them over and make them upgrade" business model? Leave a product full of security flaws, and, years later, when people aren't upgrading to the new version, refuse to fix security flaws in the old versions.
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Why are so many smart people such complete dorks? They come up with a car that handles electricity so well, and what do they make it out of? A fucking Delorean. How lame is that? They probably could have done it with an Accord or a Camry and have earned a great sponsorship with parts that wouldn't break down, and could be easily replaced, but they choose a fucking Delorean... sigh.
"So far all the replies to this story have been "we already knew that" and "duh". I find those comments idiotic. In that spirit, when cigarette execs admitted they knew their products were bad for people, there should have been no story."
It never was a story. The story was them admitting it in court and losing multi-billion dollar lawsuits.
Try online classified advertising. A great example for this is Fark. You pay a small fee, and get a space of text on the front page that links where you want it to. If it goes nowhere you didn't spend much, and if it worked well you have found a space for banner ads. Penny Arcade also does really nice, big ads cheap. If you have a DSL/Cable connection at home or work, run a P2P node carrying mp3s from your band and other indy bands, and instead of carrying the mp3s on your limited web site's bandwidth, tell users to just search for you.
If there's one thing that desktop Linux needs, it's straightening out the whole font/X mess. Nice to see some serious stuff getting done abouting. Propz, gratz, and thankz to the whole team.
Hmmm... it seems that the MPAA has closed half of the analog hole. Now they can do video-on-demand and charge for each connected headset!
Of reasons HP investors will sue the board of directors. Carly Fiorina, that idiotic Compaq merger, and now releasing these systems... morons.
If there is a god out there, please let this be true, and please let Apple switch to AMD processors that don't cost so damned much for such crappy performance!
Aside from continuing to send my money to the EFF, has anyone found a grass-roots-support-campaign for this one? Sort of like the fake campaign microsoft started against the DoJ? It would be great if a bunch of citizens, social organizations, and citizens all banded together at a common site or something...
Liquid Audio = Another proprietary audio format, and this one doesn't even have a big company like MSFT backing it... don't let the door hit ya, guys.
"Restrict all acess out fro ma public terminal. Are you insane?"
Restrict, not block. Everyone will need port 80, nobody will need port 31337.
A few security suggestions:
If you are creating public access Linux boxes, do the rest of the internet a favor and strictly restrict all internet access out as well as in. This protects everyone else in case a local user roots a box.
Don't put floppy drives in the systems, and disable the CD drives. This will help prevent a user from walking in with a disc of exploits and root kits, forcing anyone who wants to use local hacks to go download the hacks, which you can track in firewall logs.
Aesthetic suggestions:
Consider renaming all the KDE/Gnome apps withing the config files. Many Linux apps have lame, undecipherable names (Stick a G in front of the name of a python actor type crap.), and if you make the purpose of an app obvious, a newbie will learn the real name of the app over time.
Do your users a huge favor and avoid Gnome. KDE is a much easier transition for Mac/Windows users.
"and vi more popular than Emacs."
Wow, software developers aren't retards... who knew?
Know what would be really cool? If all these companies that use Linux to save millions of dollars would each hire one or two full-time open source developers to advance the cause (Helping save them more money down the line.). HP has lead a good example with their shining support of PERL, time for us to encourage others to follow.
"most AOL users never leave AOL, right?"
The thousands of AOL advertising staff laid off this year only wish that were true.
Useless. Open hardware to do what, play open formats that only open-source geeks use? Of course, you could always make open hardware to play proprietary formats, at least for a day or two before you end up in jail.
Not all ISPs are small. AT&T, Cox, Comcast, and Verizon all have just as much reason to follow Information Wave's lead as all the small ISPs out there. If a large number of ISPs hit RIAA members with a simultaneous traffic block, angry AOL members unable to access a huge number of internet locations would suddenly get really pissed - especially if the traffic blocks all redirected to a short explanation.
"for example, AOL/TW & child company Warner Music are opposed to it."
That hasn't stopped AOL/TW from supporting the RIAA financially. Perhaps if a few big ISPs blocked traffic by AOL, Sony, Bertlesmann, those companies would think twice about continuing to fund the RIAA. This would work well with AOL/TW, which have political reasons within the computer industry for staying available. AOL needs people to have access to Netscape and AIM to keep from losing (More.) ground to Microsoft.
Instead of just blocking the RIAA itself, how about blocking RIAA members? Imagine if Sony, RCA, AOL/TW, etc.. had all of their internet traffic blocked by ISPs? It really wouldn't be that hard to get the consumers on the side of the ISPs, as the ISPs could argue that the RIAA and its members are promoting and financially supporting electronic terrorism!
"...the DMCA is both an egregious law and a brazen power grab by Hollywood, the music industry and software companies", groups like the EFF are not much better, engaging in "fear-mongering" and scare tactics to increase opposition.""
Let's all watch Declan McCullagh try to survive the next round of CNET layoffs by writing an article designed to piss off everyone on both sides of an issue, generating millions of hits for CNET! I wonder who the "anonymous reader" works for *cough*CNET*cough*.
"Guess it's time for the OSS people to make..."
Why the hell should they do it? You're the one who wants the fonts, either do it yourself or run Windows. Open/free software isn't about entitlements, because nobody owes you a goddamned thing. People do Open/Free work because they want to, not to satisfy geeks who want a free stuff to dick around with.
Just a thought, how about putting it in the original shipping box? LCD monitor boxes almost always have something along the lines of "Save this box in case you ever need to ship this hardware later!" on all four sides. Too bad nobody pays attention to it...