I'd have to say that the most important thing of the 3 is 'b', Why. After all, after beating my head against the code for a few days/weeks, I can figure out the 'what' and the 'how', but not the 'why'. When the assumptions around the function change, the 'why' part becomes critical.
Well, there is the question of whether or not 'shrinkwrap licenses' are enforceable. As I remember, there have been conflicting rulings on that. I think the EFF has some information on it.
Not necessarily. I've got a static from sonic.net, (block of 4 actually) and it/they haven't changed since I subscribed. I can also get them to delegate the reverse-dns, but I haven't got around to doing that in 2 years because I (don't seem to) have the problem he's reporting.
Communism? Either the mods are right or you really misunderstood me. I'm basically saying that a company should have to pay for the environmental damage they do as a cost of doing business. Are you saying I should be able to build a factory, and just dump my used toxic chemicals on the ground or pump them into a nearby river instead of paying to properly dispose of them?
Not necessarily. If you have a lab you might have the CPU boxes secured and just have the keyboards accessible. Also, being able to exploit a box without a reboot and without doing more than just handling the keyboard to plug in a USB keyfob is a lot more stealthy than ripping the drive out and attaching it to your linux laptop.
I advocate that the government step in and make the government pay the full cost of doing business. If corporations can't get away with pushing the cost of their polluting off onto the public (or their children) that would really be a 'free economy'.
What about I plug in my USB kernel hack, root your box, install a keystroke logger, record your key, decrypt your encrypted HD/files and then either come back later pick up your data or send it out over the net (if one's available and I'm not too worried about the traffic being detected). You can have tripwire installed, but if I've rooted the kernel I control access to the filesystem so any files I've installed don't show up to your 'normal' access to the system. Even rebooting won't help because I've modded your kernel. The only way you'd be able to detect it is to boot from an alternate media, or have a 'safe' bootloader (one you need to jumper to mod) which checks the kernel (md5 or otherwise) before booting it.
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NEVER buy a computer for what you think it will do. It probably won't. If the computer you're looking at won't do what you want right now, wait until it will before you buy it.
I've never bothered to setup an ad blocker, my mental filter seems to do a good enough job, and the fact that my browser loads them convinces the advertisers they should keep paying the website owners to produce content. Works for me:-)
Really? I'm not worried by it, since it's not real time and you certainly can't identify individuals there, though you might possibly be able to see that people are there. Besides, if you've ever been up in a plane, especially a light plane that you can direct (either by flying it yourself or asking the pilot to "head over there, I want to check that out") you'd know that you can get much better views into people's back yards (in real time:-). I'm with David Brin. If there's no privacy, I'd rather that the information be available to everyone, not just the powerful.
Actually, due to some software requirements (only runs under os9, non-supported), I'll probably buy the last G5 iMac that I can get. It should be cheaper, and still be supported for a long time to come. By the time I need to replace the G5 iMac the transistion to Intel should have cleared. Of course if I don't have an alternative to the software I'm stuck on OS9 with by then I'll still be screwed:-)
If it takes a 100 times as long for a zombie to send a mail with hash-cash stamps, then spam is cut by 99%. And the real owner of the computer may be more likely to realize that their computer has been hijacked when it's CPU is pegged at 100% all the time and it's completely unusable. In general, making it "harder" to send email, without making it too hard for the normal users will reduce spam. I think this is a good thing.
More developers? Of course the cost of maintaining Cocoa on Linux may be too great for the reward. If Cocoa were open-sourced on Linux maybe the open-source developers would bear the cost, but that's probably unlikely. More likely would be Apple just releasing the libraries as binaries on certain distributions. Whether or not the benefit of new developers (and perhaps users) would be worth it is certainly debatable and would take a long time to pay off. Same as with the donations Apple did to schools to get the educational market and "bring kids up Apple" in the past.
How the hell do I turn that on. Case preserving sucks ass when interacting with case-sensitive system... Use FTP to mount a remote webserver. Attempt to copy all the files to a local directory for modification. Finder complains 'some files differ in case and only one will be copied. Continue?" Would it be that fucking hard to list the files that conflict and give me the option to rename them? Jeeze.
I had this idea that if they open-sourced Cocoa, for non-commercial use only on non-MacOS platforms then they could kill off all the nightmareish APIs on top of X, build a legion of OS-X developers, while not giving developers a way to make money releasing software for Linux/Windows without releasing for MacOS.
Can always just claim eminent domain and confiscate their houses to put in Wal-Marts. Given the size of their houses, they won't even have to tear them down and build new buildings, just gut the interiors.
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I'd have to say that the most important thing of the 3 is 'b', Why. After all, after beating my head against the code for a few days/weeks, I can figure out the 'what' and the 'how', but not the 'why'. When the assumptions around the function change, the 'why' part becomes critical.
Well, there is the question of whether or not 'shrinkwrap licenses' are enforceable. As I remember, there have been conflicting rulings on that. I think the EFF has some information on it.
Yeah, though I'm getting ready to get rid of it...
I was going to post an intelligent reply to this, but I only had two weeks and $100.
Or what ever they use to program FPGAs...
Ok, weak joke I know.
Not necessarily. I've got a static from sonic.net, (block of 4 actually) and it/they haven't changed since I subscribed. I can also get them to delegate the reverse-dns, but I haven't got around to doing that in 2 years because I (don't seem to) have the problem he's reporting.
Communism? Either the mods are right or you really misunderstood me. I'm basically saying that a company should have to pay for the environmental damage they do as a cost of doing business. Are you saying I should be able to build a factory, and just dump my used toxic chemicals on the ground or pump them into a nearby river instead of paying to properly dispose of them?
Not necessarily. If you have a lab you might have the CPU boxes secured and just have the keyboards accessible. Also, being able to exploit a box without a reboot and without doing more than just handling the keyboard to plug in a USB keyfob is a lot more stealthy than ripping the drive out and attaching it to your linux laptop.
I advocate that the government step in and make the government pay the full cost of doing business. If corporations can't get away with pushing the cost of their polluting off onto the public (or their children) that would really be a 'free economy'.
Yes, but the 250M cars put out an amazing amount compared to that coal plant...
What about I plug in my USB kernel hack, root your box, install a keystroke logger, record your key, decrypt your encrypted HD/files and then either come back later pick up your data or send it out over the net (if one's available and I'm not too worried about the traffic being detected).
You can have tripwire installed, but if I've rooted the kernel I control access to the filesystem so any files I've installed don't show up to your 'normal' access to the system.
Even rebooting won't help because I've modded your kernel. The only way you'd be able to detect it is to boot from an alternate media, or have a 'safe' bootloader (one you need to jumper to mod) which checks the kernel (md5 or otherwise) before booting it.
NEVER buy a computer for what you think it will do. It probably won't. If the computer you're looking at won't do what you want right now, wait until it will before you buy it.
Actually, I don't hold the fact that 'regular' maps don't need the computer and internet against them. :-)
I've never bothered to setup an ad blocker, my mental filter seems to do a good enough job, and the fact that my browser loads them convinces the advertisers they should keep paying the website owners to produce content. Works for me :-)
Really? I'm not worried by it, since it's not real time and you certainly can't identify individuals there, though you might possibly be able to see that people are there. :-).
Besides, if you've ever been up in a plane, especially a light plane that you can direct (either by flying it yourself or asking the pilot to "head over there, I want to check that out") you'd know that you can get much better views into people's back yards (in real time
I'm with David Brin. If there's no privacy, I'd rather that the information be available to everyone, not just the powerful.
Searches for 'windows' or 'microsoft' on google now point to apple.com :-)
Just setup the parental control password and keep it to yourself...
That's what I do^did^ with my wife^ex-wife^
Actually, due to some software requirements (only runs under os9, non-supported), I'll probably buy the last G5 iMac that I can get. It should be cheaper, and still be supported for a long time to come. By the time I need to replace the G5 iMac the transistion to Intel should have cleared. Of course if I don't have an alternative to the software I'm stuck on OS9 with by then I'll still be screwed :-)
If it takes a 100 times as long for a zombie to send a mail with hash-cash stamps, then spam is cut by 99%. And the real owner of the computer may be more likely to realize that their computer has been hijacked when it's CPU is pegged at 100% all the time and it's completely unusable.
In general, making it "harder" to send email, without making it too hard for the normal users will reduce spam. I think this is a good thing.
More developers? Of course the cost of maintaining Cocoa on Linux may be too great for the reward. If Cocoa were open-sourced on Linux maybe the open-source developers would bear the cost, but that's probably unlikely. More likely would be Apple just releasing the libraries as binaries on certain distributions.
Whether or not the benefit of new developers (and perhaps users) would be worth it is certainly debatable and would take a long time to pay off. Same as with the donations Apple did to schools to get the educational market and "bring kids up Apple" in the past.
Yeah, I tried that. But selecting 'Back' from the resulting menu had no effect. (10.3.9, Safari 1.3 v312)
How the hell do I turn that on. Case preserving sucks ass when interacting with case-sensitive system...
Use FTP to mount a remote webserver. Attempt to copy all the files to a local directory for modification. Finder complains 'some files differ in case and only one will be copied. Continue?" Would it be that fucking hard to list the files that conflict and give me the option to rename them? Jeeze.
I had this idea that if they open-sourced Cocoa, for non-commercial use only on non-MacOS platforms then they could kill off all the nightmareish APIs on top of X, build a legion of OS-X developers, while not giving developers a way to make money releasing software for Linux/Windows without releasing for MacOS.
What do you think?
Can always just claim eminent domain and confiscate their houses to put in Wal-Marts. Given the size of their houses, they won't even have to tear them down and build new buildings, just gut the interiors.
Yeah, that's why I said 'route that to...' instead of 'put bash.org in my DNS as...' :-)