If they were going for an Orange Book, or standalone, certification, it would make sense to yank the IP stack (which would sort of be needed to achieve a Red Book, or networked, certification) off of the box. Or would removing all unneeded cruft from a box be counter-intuitive when you're hardening it? If this is so, can I get some security clearance so I can play nethack on a classified box? That would be SWEET. Also, I thought the rumormongering consensus around here was that Microsoft "borrowed" its IP stack from the reference BSD implementation?
After Cloud Nine went belly-up, he gave the 800 number (800-999-9999) to a teen runaway hotline with neither press releases nor fanfare; he did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. Compare and contrast as you will.
Pages outside the explicit protection of the editors like this one is now can be edited (vandalized, whatever) at any point in time and immediately become canonical: at that discrete point in time, they're published. It's well and good to declaim "oh but all that will be sorted out soon enough" but is an indeterminate point in the future really soon enough? And who am I counting on for vetting these "thousands of eyes" and how do I know that there really are thousands of clueful eyes paying the pages a visit (on a very regular basis)? Editors who may or may not know the subject matter vetting writers who may or may not know their subject matter?
What about letting me fill out a paper form with a pencil? No worries about crashing, system malfunctions or crackers, no setup costs, easy recounts, an interface that everyone can understand. Why the drive for electronic voting? It's an interface that people have never seen before (and won't see again for 2-4 years), is user-unfriendly and overly sensitive and ends up being slower to use for people AND more inaccurate. I got to vote with pencil and paper; voter turnout was far, far higher than I've ever seen it before and I had next to no wait to get in and get out.
You buy an Intel chip, you buy a reference mobo and you get rock-solid stability. You buy AMD, you end up rolling the dice on Via, SiS or NVidia and what feels like filthy voodoo trying to get everything to play nicely together. That said, nForce and nForce2-based mobos have come a long ways in terms of stability and overall ease of use, but then again... no one ever got fired for buying Intel. AMD separating code from data (curiously, like Intel managed to do once upon a time) is lovely but proving that they've got the best solution out there is a battle that's not going to be won overnight by a single innovation. Uptime will prove who's got the better solution.
The Nomad Jukebox 3 has an optical line in. New firmware's made recording more seamless, but it's a crapshoot with JB3s; for some, they're bulletproof. For others (like me), the bastard locks up too much to endorse it. Too bad DATs are still egregiously priced.
Human nature is not the least of a litany of reasons that moral objectivism just doesn't fucking work. Groups of people are wont to do some godawful barbaric things. The fact that they all see nothing wrong with what they're doing does not make their actions any more acceptable, merely palatable to the participants. Preaching to the choir on a message board isn't going to make laws you don't agree with (and which law do you not agree with? the DMCA? IP law? theft? you're gloriously vague...) disappear anytime soon. Writing your congresspeople might (even if mine haven't clued up to date). Openly violating the laws you disagree with and seeing through to their demise through our legal system might. Spare us all the sanctimonious bullshit: anonymously downloading an MP3 does not make you motherfucking Thoreau.
1) do you have all the services running that you possibly could? I didn't think so! Open some more up! 2) don't patch ANYTHING 3) safe computing? Bah! Ask for that Gator plugin! No, demand it! Open the new game which they hope you would like very much that you got at random via e-mail! By all means download that.pif/.exe/.scr that someone helpfully offered you without asking for it in #!!!l33t-d00Dz-uNl1M1T3d! Hell. Try running Subseven just for kicks on your machine and post to some message boards asking for help on how to use it. Don't forget to mention your IP! 4) when the jackbooted thugs come a-knockin', just tell the judge (you still get to see one, right? or is it straight to camp x-ray with you?) that "My computer was trojaned. Software I didn't know about was installed and I've never seen those files before." and bingo! Reasonable doubt! 5) ???? 6) profit!
14 distros in 7 years? And you're supporting their glaringly flawed slap 'em on the ass and ship 'em out (even if there's no way in hell we can ever support them for more than a couple of months at a time) business model, while sneering at Microsoft's long-published policy of supporting their OSes for a fixed period of time? And bringing office suites etc. in to a discussion of EOL terming of support would be the very definition of apples and oranges, good sir. These days, Windows Update works transparently to manage workstation farms and while roadbumps have happened, are you going to tell me that the RHN has never had a hiccup or that apt-get has never pulled down a flawed line of code?
> The open source world moves faster than that of the closed source world quite simply because Microsoft does not have a new version of "Paint", "Wordpad", "Calculator", et. al. every couple months (even weeks!)
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Rolling in new code fast enough that you can deem the OS unsupportable is a good idea? Even if it's arguably crufty, I'll stick with what works. Are you running an OS that needs to work or a toy that needs to be newer and cooler than your neighbor's?
I had to work with SAIC.
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Bureaucracy was the order of the day over there. We were in the same time zone, but inexplicably the roving cast of developers we had to work with would inevitably be out when we had to get in touch with them; any requests for fixes had to be routed through their project managers who couldn't find their own developers until they relented and let us contact the developers which was great until mail started bouncing and we found out that the developers had left. Great communication skills. For all I know, they could still be using the half-assed bug tracker I knocked out in a day or two (and kept revising and revising) over there. It's why I get a kick out of the black helicopter set who are all doom and gloom about SAIC and the gub'mint - SAIC really is too clueless to do anything more sinister than fuck projects up.
If you live in an affluent area where property taxes cover it, sure. Otherwise, you could be stuck living in places like Berlin, Franklin, Pittsburgh (amongst a whole host of others) where the high school class size drops 25% a year. But I guess if you subscribe to the notion that Darwin's theory should play itself out in education, then yeah. Everything's just peachy.
Once,twice,thrice an unfunny fake RFC makes it to the front page. Adding to the in-jokey humor, CmdrTaco greenlighted two of them. Ho ho! Poking fun of your inability to implement story management or spend any time editing a site you expect people to pay money for? You truly are the living end! Just post this story and nothing else all day and be done with it. It can't be any worse than any of the dreck you normally shovel off on us for April Fool's. Oh, wait. Maybe you could work in a story about Microsoft going open source because the FSF figured out a way to make open source software profitable. That'd be great, thanks.
It won all sorts of awards at the E3 in '99 and I totally can't get enough of it!!! I think it was totally awesome of Valve to build it with Prey technology because it really makes the most of my Glaze3D.
Curious that another fluff story about X00,000 bugs (haven't I seen this before?) in Mozilla is front-page news the same day that The Register reports just how many critical bugs Mozilla 1.0.1 (and one information leak that's persisted over to 1.1) and previous are shipping with. DoS? XSS? HTTPS flaws? Oh, they're in there. If this was IE we were talking about, that would mean six more front page news postings (at least) but since this is Mozilla we're talking about, we get the fluff piece here giving the old reacharound to the Mozilla team and ignore the other glaring flaws. Not that there ever were any glaring flaws because open source is more powerful and everyone checks all the source code before they compile, right?
Ebay's odd about things.
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I work with a guy who was unable to sell his Apex DVD player on Ebay because the MPAA got all in a tizzy saying that people were modifying the players to be region-free yadda yadda yadda. The fact that he advertised it as an "original, unmodified" version meant nothing and Ebay repeatedly put the kibosh on his auctions even though he had talked to "customer service" and explained that this was an unmangled off-the-shelf model. So he gave up trying to sell it and burned the mod disk and now he can't stop raving about the import DVDs he can watch. I'm bitter because Breakin', Breakin' 2, Beat Street, Rappin', The Best Of Weird Weekends and all other sorts of DVDs I'd love to buy will likely never be released stateside. And still the pirates march on on Ebay; pirates keep on doing their thing without being hassled by the man while people who do things by the book get fucked. I love intellectual "property" law.
As Republican as it comes and don't let our "Live Free or Die" motto fool you: Judd Gregg tried to do cute things like make encryption restricted and ram through the USA Act in the light of September 11th. Thankfully, both failed, but running with this, the "free" rarely refers to much more than "tax-free" these days.
If one were to replace "IBM" with "Microsoft", I wonder what sort of self-righteous fury would be rained down for this sort of legacy document-smashing behavior (even if at the root, it's just bringing things in line with Unicode).
Quoting the bill... `(I) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster during the period beginning on October 28, 1998, and ending on December 31, 1998, the minimum fee for the year shall be $500.
`(II) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster in any part of calendar years 1999 through 2002, the minimum fee for each year in which such transmissions are made shall be $2,000.
`(III) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster in any part of calendar years 2003 and 2004, the minimum fee for each year in which such transmissions are made shall be $2,000 if the eligible small webcaster had gross revenues during the immediately preceding year of not more than $50,000 and expects to have gross revenues during the applicable year of not more than $50,000.
Isn't that beautiful? To webcast a talk radio station will cost you $2,000 a year. If your station doesn't play a single RIAA-owned song, that will cost you $2,000 a year. Ain't life grand?
...and there's a reason that iD isn't releasing a *nix version of Doom 3: the market just isn't there. It's nice to cater to a niche audience, but these are big companies with a lot of outlay to recoup and they're not losing anything but not releasing a *nux version of their games as everyone dual-boots. The game's pretty and it runs almost as fast as Unreal Tournament while being noticably prettier (at least the alpha leak does on my computer or so I might say if I had gotten a copy of it). I can't wait to get my hands on a real copy of it.
Rather, there won't be much of a need to teach it to play FPSes while using aimbots or RTSes while using de-fog of war'rs; once these bots are released it'll only be a matter of time before the proxy bots themselves are hacked and that will present another, potentially impossible obstacle to overcome. If it can out-micromanage and out-aim a human and it can't be detected as it's sitting as an external process, but some may use it as its intended for (why? can you not turn the game off for 15 minutes?) then there's going to be a lot of hand-wringing and a lot of irate people on either side of the fence.
"Some of your past moderations have been meta moderated by 0 other Slashdot readers." Go and mod it down and admit that you're missing the punchline that is we're talking about beautiful physics experiments on what amounts to little more than a half-baked web experiment (see also: my quote).
You know. The time that someone thought it would be gnarly to hack OpenBSD's FTP server and trojan the makescripts? The folks at OpenBSD still haven't explained how that's happened so we've got six theoretical bugs (which will undoubtedly become reality Real Soon Now) versus an unexplained, but very real, hack, which may or may not manifest itself elsewhere. And as long as we're calling apples and oranges, take a look at the size of the codebase and the amount of functionality of one versus the other.
No, not hardly. Mos Def and Talib Kweli did put out a (very) good album together, but it's conscious rap (think Common or Blackalicious here), nothing mind-bogglingly evolutionary and aware like Public Enemy was and is. Maybe you meant to say El-P is this generation's Public Enemy? Again, not quite apt lyrics-wise (no one these days can touch Chuck D at his prime in terms of politically intelligent rap) but production-wise, he's the obvious heir to the Bomb Squad's legacy of boundary-pushing. And why listen to the White Stripes when you can listen to Bill Kirchen instead? He puts out ridiculously good blues-informed honky-tonk/rock 'n roll. Trust me.
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If they were going for an Orange Book, or standalone, certification, it would make sense to yank the IP stack (which would sort of be needed to achieve a Red Book, or networked, certification) off of the box. Or would removing all unneeded cruft from a box be counter-intuitive when you're hardening it? If this is so, can I get some security clearance so I can play nethack on a classified box? That would be SWEET.
Also, I thought the rumormongering consensus around here was that Microsoft "borrowed" its IP stack from the reference BSD implementation?
After Cloud Nine went belly-up, he gave the 800 number (800-999-9999) to a teen runaway hotline with neither press releases nor fanfare; he did it because he thought it was the right thing to do.
Compare and contrast as you will.
NEWSFLASH! Dateline, Michigan - After ACLU Intervention on Behalf of Christian Valedictorian, Michigan High School Agrees to Stop Censoring Religious Yearbook Entries.
So is fighting for a student's right to express themself in a yearbook is just the most insidious of the ACLU's never-ending struggle to exterminate Christianity in public life or are you just nurturing a healthy persecution complex?
Pages outside the explicit protection of the editors like this one is now can be edited (vandalized, whatever) at any point in time and immediately become canonical: at that discrete point in time, they're published.
It's well and good to declaim "oh but all that will be sorted out soon enough" but is an indeterminate point in the future really soon enough? And who am I counting on for vetting these "thousands of eyes" and how do I know that there really are thousands of clueful eyes paying the pages a visit (on a very regular basis)? Editors who may or may not know the subject matter vetting writers who may or may not know their subject matter?
What about letting me fill out a paper form with a pencil? No worries about crashing, system malfunctions or crackers, no setup costs, easy recounts, an interface that everyone can understand.
Why the drive for electronic voting? It's an interface that people have never seen before (and won't see again for 2-4 years), is user-unfriendly and overly sensitive and ends up being slower to use for people AND more inaccurate. I got to vote with pencil and paper; voter turnout was far, far higher than I've ever seen it before and I had next to no wait to get in and get out.
You buy an Intel chip, you buy a reference mobo and you get rock-solid stability. You buy AMD, you end up rolling the dice on Via, SiS or NVidia and what feels like filthy voodoo trying to get everything to play nicely together.
That said, nForce and nForce2-based mobos have come a long ways in terms of stability and overall ease of use, but then again... no one ever got fired for buying Intel. AMD separating code from data (curiously, like Intel managed to do once upon a time) is lovely but proving that they've got the best solution out there is a battle that's not going to be won overnight by a single innovation.
Uptime will prove who's got the better solution.
The Nomad Jukebox 3 has an optical line in. New firmware's made recording more seamless, but it's a crapshoot with JB3s; for some, they're bulletproof. For others (like me), the bastard locks up too much to endorse it.
Too bad DATs are still egregiously priced.
Human nature is not the least of a litany of reasons that moral objectivism just doesn't fucking work. Groups of people are wont to do some godawful barbaric things. The fact that they all see nothing wrong with what they're doing does not make their actions any more acceptable, merely palatable to the participants.
Preaching to the choir on a message board isn't going to make laws you don't agree with (and which law do you not agree with? the DMCA? IP law? theft? you're gloriously vague...) disappear anytime soon.
Writing your congresspeople might (even if mine haven't clued up to date). Openly violating the laws you disagree with and seeing through to their demise through our legal system might.
Spare us all the sanctimonious bullshit: anonymously downloading an MP3 does not make you motherfucking Thoreau.
1) do you have all the services running that you possibly could? I didn't think so! Open some more up! .pif/.exe/.scr that someone helpfully offered you without asking for it in #!!!l33t-d00Dz-uNl1M1T3d! Hell. Try running Subseven just for kicks on your machine and post to some message boards asking for help on how to use it. Don't forget to mention your IP!
2) don't patch ANYTHING
3) safe computing? Bah! Ask for that Gator plugin! No, demand it! Open the new game which they hope you would like very much that you got at random via e-mail! By all means download that
4) when the jackbooted thugs come a-knockin', just tell the judge (you still get to see one, right? or is it straight to camp x-ray with you?) that "My computer was trojaned. Software I didn't know about was installed and I've never seen those files before." and bingo! Reasonable doubt!
5) ????
6) profit!
14 distros in 7 years? And you're supporting their glaringly flawed slap 'em on the ass and ship 'em out (even if there's no way in hell we can ever support them for more than a couple of months at a time) business model, while sneering at Microsoft's long-published policy of supporting their OSes for a fixed period of time? And bringing office suites etc. in to a discussion of EOL terming of support would be the very definition of apples and oranges, good sir.
These days, Windows Update works transparently to manage workstation farms and while roadbumps have happened, are you going to tell me that the RHN has never had a hiccup or that apt-get has never pulled down a flawed line of code?
> The open source world moves faster than that of the closed source world quite simply because Microsoft does not have a new version of "Paint", "Wordpad", "Calculator", et. al. every couple months (even weeks!)
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Rolling in new code fast enough that you can deem the OS unsupportable is a good idea? Even if it's arguably crufty, I'll stick with what works. Are you running an OS that needs to work or a toy that needs to be newer and cooler than your neighbor's?
Bureaucracy was the order of the day over there. We were in the same time zone, but inexplicably the roving cast of developers we had to work with would inevitably be out when we had to get in touch with them; any requests for fixes had to be routed through their project managers who couldn't find their own developers until they relented and let us contact the developers which was great until mail started bouncing and we found out that the developers had left. Great communication skills.
For all I know, they could still be using the half-assed bug tracker I knocked out in a day or two (and kept revising and revising) over there. It's why I get a kick out of the black helicopter set who are all doom and gloom about SAIC and the gub'mint - SAIC really is too clueless to do anything more sinister than fuck projects up.
If you live in an affluent area where property taxes cover it, sure. Otherwise, you could be stuck living in places like Berlin, Franklin, Pittsburgh (amongst a whole host of others) where the high school class size drops 25% a year.
But I guess if you subscribe to the notion that Darwin's theory should play itself out in education, then yeah. Everything's just peachy.
Once, twice, thrice an unfunny fake RFC makes it to the front page. Adding to the in-jokey humor, CmdrTaco greenlighted two of them. Ho ho! Poking fun of your inability to implement story management or spend any time editing a site you expect people to pay money for? You truly are the living end!
Just post this story and nothing else all day and be done with it. It can't be any worse than any of the dreck you normally shovel off on us for April Fool's. Oh, wait. Maybe you could work in a story about Microsoft going open source because the FSF figured out a way to make open source software profitable. That'd be great, thanks.
It won all sorts of awards at the E3 in '99 and I totally can't get enough of it!!!
I think it was totally awesome of Valve to build it with Prey technology because it really makes the most of my Glaze3D.
Curious that another fluff story about X00,000 bugs (haven't I seen this before?) in Mozilla is front-page news the same day that The Register reports just how many critical bugs Mozilla 1.0.1 (and one information leak that's persisted over to 1.1) and previous are shipping with. DoS? XSS? HTTPS flaws? Oh, they're in there.
If this was IE we were talking about, that would mean six more front page news postings (at least) but since this is Mozilla we're talking about, we get the fluff piece here giving the old reacharound to the Mozilla team and ignore the other glaring flaws.
Not that there ever were any glaring flaws because open source is more powerful and everyone checks all the source code before they compile, right?
I work with a guy who was unable to sell his Apex DVD player on Ebay because the MPAA got all in a tizzy saying that people were modifying the players to be region-free yadda yadda yadda. The fact that he advertised it as an "original, unmodified" version meant nothing and Ebay repeatedly put the kibosh on his auctions even though he had talked to "customer service" and explained that this was an unmangled off-the-shelf model.
So he gave up trying to sell it and burned the mod disk and now he can't stop raving about the import DVDs he can watch. I'm bitter because Breakin', Breakin' 2, Beat Street, Rappin', The Best Of Weird Weekends and all other sorts of DVDs I'd love to buy will likely never be released stateside.
And still the pirates march on on Ebay; pirates keep on doing their thing without being hassled by the man while people who do things by the book get fucked. I love intellectual "property" law.
Mostly because Sir Mix-A-Lot said to "Put 'Em On The Glass".
Oh, wait... silicone, not silicon. Nevermind.
As Republican as it comes and don't let our "Live Free or Die" motto fool you: Judd Gregg tried to do cute things like make encryption restricted and ram through the USA Act in the light of September 11th. Thankfully, both failed, but running with this, the "free" rarely refers to much more than "tax-free" these days.
If one were to replace "IBM" with "Microsoft", I wonder what sort of self-righteous fury would be rained down for this sort of legacy document-smashing behavior (even if at the root, it's just bringing things in line with Unicode).
Quoting the bill...
`(I) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster during the period beginning on October 28, 1998, and ending on December 31, 1998, the minimum fee for the year shall be $500.
`(II) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster in any part of calendar years 1999 through 2002, the minimum fee for each year in which such transmissions are made shall be $2,000.
`(III) For eligible nonsubscription transmissions made by an eligible small webcaster in any part of calendar years 2003 and 2004, the minimum fee for each year in which such transmissions are made shall be $2,000 if the eligible small webcaster had gross revenues during the immediately preceding year of not more than $50,000 and expects to have gross revenues during the applicable year of not more than $50,000.
Isn't that beautiful? To webcast a talk radio station will cost you $2,000 a year. If your station doesn't play a single RIAA-owned song, that will cost you $2,000 a year.
Ain't life grand?
...and there's a reason that iD isn't releasing a *nix version of Doom 3: the market just isn't there. It's nice to cater to a niche audience, but these are big companies with a lot of outlay to recoup and they're not losing anything but not releasing a *nux version of their games as everyone dual-boots.
The game's pretty and it runs almost as fast as Unreal Tournament while being noticably prettier (at least the alpha leak does on my computer or so I might say if I had gotten a copy of it). I can't wait to get my hands on a real copy of it.
Rather, there won't be much of a need to teach it to play FPSes while using aimbots or RTSes while using de-fog of war'rs; once these bots are released it'll only be a matter of time before the proxy bots themselves are hacked and that will present another, potentially impossible obstacle to overcome. If it can out-micromanage and out-aim a human and it can't be detected as it's sitting as an external process, but some may use it as its intended for (why? can you not turn the game off for 15 minutes?) then there's going to be a lot of hand-wringing and a lot of irate people on either side of the fence.
"Some of your past moderations have been meta moderated by 0 other Slashdot readers."
Go and mod it down and admit that you're missing the punchline that is we're talking about beautiful physics experiments on what amounts to little more than a half-baked web experiment (see also: my quote).
You know. The time that someone thought it would be gnarly to hack OpenBSD's FTP server and trojan the makescripts?
The folks at OpenBSD still haven't explained how that's happened so we've got six theoretical bugs (which will undoubtedly become reality Real Soon Now) versus an unexplained, but very real, hack, which may or may not manifest itself elsewhere. And as long as we're calling apples and oranges, take a look at the size of the codebase and the amount of functionality of one versus the other.
No, not hardly. Mos Def and Talib Kweli did put out a (very) good album together, but it's conscious rap (think Common or Blackalicious here), nothing mind-bogglingly evolutionary and aware like Public Enemy was and is.
Maybe you meant to say El-P is this generation's Public Enemy? Again, not quite apt lyrics-wise (no one these days can touch Chuck D at his prime in terms of politically intelligent rap) but production-wise, he's the obvious heir to the Bomb Squad's legacy of boundary-pushing.
And why listen to the White Stripes when you can listen to Bill Kirchen instead? He puts out ridiculously good blues-informed honky-tonk/rock 'n roll. Trust me.