Can't spammers use this thing to break CAPTCHAs on sites like Slashdot and many other internet forums?
No. Of course not. This is open source. Free software can do no wrong. The only software that can cause problems is non-free crap like anything made by M$. The typical Windoze installation blue-screens after seven minutes. If it lives past that, then it clogs bandwidth by sending out spam and DDoS attacks. You won't see that on Debian, or on Tesseract.
Nice try, WilliamSChips, but I know it's you (too mock-polite to be twitter). You follow twitter around like a little puppy and draw a circle of hate around his detractors (remember that sig against jb.hl.com? everyone saw it when you got FP on the last poll...).
My gripe isn't against Linux or free software, or even any of you. I'm against the kind of obnoxious zealotry that drives the common man away from FOSS and toward Windows in the first place, and twitter just happens to be where a lot of the self-absorption shows up.
The AC who posted this originally was right. You should read and adhere to these guidelines.
As a representative of the Linux community, participate in mailing list and newsgroup discussions in a professional manner. Refrain from name-calling and use of vulgar language. Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer. Your words will either enhance or degrade the image the reader has of the Linux community.
Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions. (how many times have we asked you to provide proof that Microsoft sabotages its software?)
A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities. (no more getting by with "Bill Gates rapes your wallet" or "M$ Windoze has never been stable")
Don't bite if offered flame-bait. Too many threads degenerate into a "My O/S is better than your O/S" argument. Let's accurately describe the capabilities of Linux and leave it at that.
Always remember that if you insult or are disrespectful to someone, their negative experience may be shared with many others. If you do offend someone, please try to make amends (remember when you accused FortKnox of being associated with the GNAA? What about your "I'm laughing at you, dedazo"?).
Focus on what Linux has to offer. There is no need to bash the competition. Linux is a good, solid product that stands on its own.
Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs. (changing an entire OS in response to, say, a bug in your instant messenger is not a valid solution)
Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products. (that's "M$ Windoze" and "(P)urge" if you didn't get it)
Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.
Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom. (again, minor problems don't merit an OS switch)
There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.
And YOU should post that when it's relevant. In this thread, twitter has (although surprisingly) avoided tangents bashing "M$ Windoze", "(P)urge", and "WiMP". If he had gone on such a rant, I would have posted my modified version of your guidelines rather than simply calling out an idea fragment.
Examples, please? For me, Windows behaves pretty much the way I expect it to.
Compiles? leave that for people who enjoy that kind of thing.
There is a heck of a lot of useful Linux software out there that is distributed only in source form. Basically most stuff you can find on SourceForge.
It's easier to take the live CD to the store and have it work forever than it is to try to use and keep up a windoze box.
It's spelled Windows but you spelled it Windoze. How cute. Also, this doesn't assess PoE's point at all. You're just repeating yourself. Saying the same thing a second time doesn't by itself make it right or relevant.
If you have already invested in difficult hardware, you are screwed until the free software world envelops it, a process that takes between one and five years.
How are we screwed if it works just fine on Windows??? Once again, you're exemplifying the sort of attitude that turns people away from Linux: "Since you're too stupid to buy hardware that accomodates us, you don't deserve the priviledge of having our fabulous OS."
The AC who posted this originally was right. You should read and adhere to these guidelines.
As a representative of the Linux community, participate in mailing list and newsgroup discussions in a professional manner. Refrain from name-calling and use of vulgar language. Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer. Your words will either enhance or degrade the image the reader has of the Linux community.
Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions. (how many times have we asked you to provide proof that Microsoft sabotages its software?)
A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities. (no more getting by with "Bill Gates rapes your wallet" or "M$ Windoze has never been stable")
Don't bite if offered flame-bait. Too many threads degenerate into a "My O/S is better than your O/S" argument. Let's accurately describe the capabilities of Linux and leave it at that.
Always remember that if you insult or are disrespectful to someone, their negative experience may be shared with many others. If you do offend someone, please try to make amends (remember when you accused FortKnox of being associated with the GNAA? What about your "I'm laughing at you, dedazo"?).
Focus on what Linux has to offer. There is no need to bash the competition. Linux is a good, solid product that stands on its own.
Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs. (changing an entire OS in response to, say, a bug in your instant messenger is not a valid solution)
Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products. (that's "M$ Windoze" and "(P)urge" if you didn't get it)
Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.
Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom. (again, minor problems don't merit an OS switch)
There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.
It doesn't, but it's nice of them to cooperate with the law, rather than be iffy with it. I'm sure they remember the antitrust negative publicity all too well.
through the use of 'product activation' and 'DRM' to essentially make laws via code.
Two things wrong with that:
Product activation takes two minutes at the most. You just tell it to activate, and copy/paste the activation code into the box.
What exactly are you trying to do that DRM prevents? Surely not simply listening to CDs or watching DVDs.
I'll stick with the software that respects the fact that its MY computer, not the RIAA or the MPAA
Although the *AA do tend to go overboard in their quest to stop piracy, what exactly does this have to do with Windows DRM? MS is simply complying with the DMCA. In the event that the Pirate Party takes over and the DMCA is overturned, I'm sure they will be more than happy to please the consumers (i.e. the source of their profits) by removing DRM and letting everyone get movies and music without having to pay a cent to those who created/produced them.
or the... I'm not citing acronyms all day
Please don't. If I want to see acronyms I'll examine the current poll (which really should be changed btw).
but you get the idea.
I'm getting the idea that you're an Anonymous basement-shutin Coward who thinks he's big stuff just because he can spout off counter-productive OSS propaganda on an internet forum. Move aside, little man.
I think I've figured out why he hates Microsoft so much. He's so stupid that common-sense things like this escape him. It could also explain why he seems to have this vendetta about iTunes, as many have argued that Apple does an excellent job at making user interfaces self-explanatory.
That's a good point. I'm also a softcore gamer, but I live in the dorms with the Rodman and Echols scholars, and they really are my type of people, so I'm more likely to party outside the computer. That's not to say I've abandoned gaming completely, though.:P
However, I can't help but feel sorry for the people I sat next to in a lecture the other day. They were talking about doing a raid the night before, while I had been hanging out in a sort of de facto block party with the coolest people I know.
I go to UVA. I have plenty of time to game, but there's so much fun stuff going on in the real world that I don't want to game. WoW may be great and everything, but in the end, you will have a much better time at a real party school than at a LAN party school.
d) leveraging Detente between China and the USSR, at a time when the communist alliance could have become much stronger.
Just a minor correction: the USSR and China were enemies back then, and had really no chance of an alliance. Nixon saw this and decided to ease relations with Russia as well as open mainland China for trade in an effort to play one communist state against another. Just think: "If you do this, Brezhnev, China would be quite happy to have us as an ally."
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Citations, please? If you can't back up your claims, you're just another false-propaganda troll.
It's clear you don't do any Windows programming.
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Some Slashbot moderators just can't handle the truth.
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Troll this time? You know, you really should see a counselor about your jealousy problem.
No. Of course not. This is open source. Free software can do no wrong. The only software that can cause problems is non-free crap like anything made by M$. The typical Windoze installation blue-screens after seven minutes. If it lives past that, then it clogs bandwidth by sending out spam and DDoS attacks. You won't see that on Debian, or on Tesseract.
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Yep. Really, really jealous. Applies to my other OT post too.
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Yes, that AC must have been REALLY jealous of my FP. Ah, well, I'll get the karma back at some point.
Yay, buzzwords! Ruby on Rails was fun, and now there's COWS Ajax!
What's next, Python on a Plane???
You're just jealous because I got FP and you didn't, Anonymous sailor-mouth Coward.
Looks like they kicked Hemos, too.
Nice try, WilliamSChips, but I know it's you (too mock-polite to be twitter). You follow twitter around like a little puppy and draw a circle of hate around his detractors (remember that sig against jb.hl.com? everyone saw it when you got FP on the last poll...).
My gripe isn't against Linux or free software, or even any of you. I'm against the kind of obnoxious zealotry that drives the common man away from FOSS and toward Windows in the first place, and twitter just happens to be where a lot of the self-absorption shows up.
Have a nice day to you, too.
The AC who posted this originally was right. You should read and adhere to these guidelines.
From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy.
And YOU should post that when it's relevant. In this thread, twitter has (although surprisingly) avoided tangents bashing "M$ Windoze", "(P)urge", and "WiMP". If he had gone on such a rant, I would have posted my modified version of your guidelines rather than simply calling out an idea fragment.
Examples, please? For me, Windows behaves pretty much the way I expect it to.
There is a heck of a lot of useful Linux software out there that is distributed only in source form. Basically most stuff you can find on SourceForge.
It's spelled Windows but you spelled it Windoze. How cute. Also, this doesn't assess PoE's point at all. You're just repeating yourself. Saying the same thing a second time doesn't by itself make it right or relevant.
How are we screwed if it works just fine on Windows??? Once again, you're exemplifying the sort of attitude that turns people away from Linux: "Since you're too stupid to buy hardware that accomodates us, you don't deserve the priviledge of having our fabulous OS."
The AC who posted this originally was right. You should read and adhere to these guidelines.
From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy.
It doesn't, but it's nice of them to cooperate with the law, rather than be iffy with it. I'm sure they remember the antitrust negative publicity all too well.
My Windows install "just works". Adding new hardware? It detects it and I insert the driver CD.
Fedora's a good distro, but I've always had to fight with it (or any Linux) to get, say, a DWL-520E to work.
Please see above.
Since it hasn't worked by design what?
twitter, are you at it again?
Two things wrong with that:
Although the *AA do tend to go overboard in their quest to stop piracy, what exactly does this have to do with Windows DRM? MS is simply complying with the DMCA. In the event that the Pirate Party takes over and the DMCA is overturned, I'm sure they will be more than happy to please the consumers (i.e. the source of their profits) by removing DRM and letting everyone get movies and music without having to pay a cent to those who created/produced them.
Please don't. If I want to see acronyms I'll examine the current poll (which really should be changed btw).
I'm getting the idea that you're an Anonymous basement-shutin Coward who thinks he's big stuff just because he can spout off counter-productive OSS propaganda on an internet forum. Move aside, little man.
You're not fooling us, twitter. And I've got the backbone to log in to tell you that.
I think I've figured out why he hates Microsoft so much. He's so stupid that common-sense things like this escape him. It could also explain why he seems to have this vendetta about iTunes, as many have argued that Apple does an excellent job at making user interfaces self-explanatory.
That's a good point. I'm also a softcore gamer, but I live in the dorms with the Rodman and Echols scholars, and they really are my type of people, so I'm more likely to party outside the computer. That's not to say I've abandoned gaming completely, though. :P
However, I can't help but feel sorry for the people I sat next to in a lecture the other day. They were talking about doing a raid the night before, while I had been hanging out in a sort of de facto block party with the coolest people I know.
I go to UVA. I have plenty of time to game, but there's so much fun stuff going on in the real world that I don't want to game. WoW may be great and everything, but in the end, you will have a much better time at a real party school than at a LAN party school.
Probably not. At the rate twitter uses analogies to rape (eg "Bill Gates rapes your wallet"), it's probably not a sensitive enough topic for him.