Something you're possibly already aware of is that there are a number of people who advocate both Linux and the GPL who are trying to create a scenario where these are the only forms of FOSS that exist. The entire rationale behind what drives these people is fear and hatred of groups that are in any way different from themselves...and the ultimate source of all of this bile is Richard Stallman. Most of the individuals associated with Linux who also behave in this manner are simply following his lead. He compulsively fears, hates, and seeks to destroy that which he does not have control over, and so those who follow him follow his example. It's pretty simple.
The things you are ranting about are simply not important enough to justify the level of fear and paranoia you are exhibiting. There is no conspiracy to destroy you and your friends in order to prevent them spreading the gospel of BSD. Richard Stallman is not following you wherever you go. Linus Torvalds is not hiding in your crawl space and reading your thoughts. There is no need to scream like a girl whenever a penguin appears on TV.
It is extremely important that you do not kill anybody in order to defend the BSD license. It is highly unlikely that the courts would be sympathetic.
This comment will probably get lost in the general hubub of Slashdot, but I find it somewhat amusing that I've spent my day trying to get Beryl to work in a VM of OpenSUSE (my first time working with Beryl at all)
I find it even more amusing that you've spent a day trying to get Beryl to run in a Virtual Machine. Even if that VM was VMWare with the experimental 3D support enabled, it still wouldn't work.
...and then come to Slashdot on a mini-break and find myself faced with it again.
I guess you've already gone back to work and won't see any of the replies. Now that's _really_ fucking funny.
I'm only going to compare the higher-end models, since that is what the article in question focuses on. As the article points out...the PS3 is $200 more. But the question is why? And what do you get for your $200? The answer is, quite a few things. I'm also going to assume that people who are griping about the PS3's price aren't going to upgrade the feature-set of their 360 to match it.
You're missing one factor. One console is made a well liked company that people trust to supply high quality consumer products. The other is made by Sony.
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
And for all those bulletpoint features, the one thing still desperately lacking is the one Apple has down pat: Good taste.
And so we finally approach the ultimate Apple product - an empty, white, but exquisitely designed box. $600 for the standard model or $800 for the version with extra smug.
Does this include the cost of your time to wait out in the cold on a Sunday morning to buy one? What about the markup on ebay.co.uk? Or has the Wii shortage blown over in the United Kingdom?
No, nor does it include the gold plated umbrella you'll need because it's raining out. And it certainly doesn't include the compensation you'll have to pay because you accidentally ploughed through a bus queue in your car on the way home. In fact, as a general rule it doesn't include anything that you've just fucking made up to justify the price differential with the PS3.
Also does it not occur to you that everything you've said above also applies to the PS3 except probably more so?
When you were writing your post did you not stop and think, "Hang on. This is probably the most pathetic argument that anyone has ever used in the entire history of online discourse"? If not, why the fuck not?
Do technologies like hardware acceleration for X windows, more focus on open standards (Open LDAP, SMB, etc.), make Apple as evil as microsoft?
Are you saying that Apple have made some contribution to hardware acceleration for X Windows? Maybe on their own platform.
Are you saying that SMB is an open standard and that Apple have contributed to it?
I think you're terminally confused.
What has Microsoft ever done for the open source community other than to try to undermine Linux?
Actually I'm pretty sure that MS have started more open source projects than Apple have. The only Apple one I know of is launchd. I know of at least two MS ones.
OpenBSD runs Linux binaries under emulation, does OS X? Could it be made available through fink?
You want to run a utility that does lots of low level filesystem stuff under binary emulation?
Actually, it's a good idea. Every Mac user should try it. But then I think every Mac user should try playing Russian roulette, so I may not be the best person to take advice from.
...and just like the previous versions of Truecrypt, all indications are its once again gonna be a little bitch trying to get it to build on FC6.
Objection! Comment implies that installing other software from source on FC may not be a bitch.
Why not wait until someone builds a shitty 3rd party RPM? Then you can complain about how that doesn't install properly because FC is now using libcock-1.1.3 instead of the libcock-1.1.2 that the RPM expects.
...millions of atheists orgasmed simultaneously, and then were silent.;)
Of course they went silent because a load of conservative christians came by and shot them for daring to experience sexual pleasure which did not result in childbirth.
I might be aware that that line of reasoning is nuts
When you became a Christian you automatically lost your right to declare anybody else's reasoning as nuts. We know what you believe and as a consequence, your right to describe any idea as absurd is therefore permanently revoked.
i just canceled my account today, and i look and see that they are on slashdot, small world. I'll just have to say that despite that the game play is innovative and different, and that they supply loads of free content upgrades their customer service is garbage. They treat you like you like scum if you ever deal with them directly. And GM's interfere with the game play playing favorites, on gm even is the ceo of a major alliance i hear tell!
Dear Mr Angry Internet Nerd,
Was this you being interviewed on Something Awful the other day?
Also you say they treat you like you like scum. Well, do you like scum or not bitch? If you don't specify then how can we tell whether they're being unfair?
If something exists out there that isn't normal matter, evolution says some lifeform should exist in dark matter. It makes sense nothing lives in a vacuum, but if there's something other than a vacuum?
I don't think evolution says anything about lifeforms having to exist in dark matter or indeed any matter.
On an unrelated note, you should really read Ring by Stephen Baxter. It explores the whole idea of dark matter lifeforms (and more). The guy has quite an imagination.
Just learn how to set CFLAGS when you build a Debian package and quit wasting time with Yet Another Distro.
Well, that works for the more modern, bleeding edge Debian packages. I understand that most stable packages are written in assembler or Fortran.
Of course with Debian you don't have to waste time downloading the source tarballs from online repositories like you do with Gentoo. You simply send out a self addressed envelope and the Debian maintainers send you back the punch cards by return of post.
I've been running this in a virtual machine on Windows and haven't seen anyx938U#Jklx j *** NO CARRIER ***
Hi. Can you let me know how to configure my modem so that disconnection messages get automatically written into posts I make on web forums?
It's just that I also want to be terminally unoriginal and it's such an old fucking joke that it just doesn't seem worth typing that stuff out by hand.
It seems to me that it would be easy enough to determine what port WGA is using to send this stuff, and lock down said port at one's firewall.
Great idea. Except that obviously you can't filter by the source port because that will be almost random. And then you find that they're using Port 80 as the destination port anyway because it's about the only port guaranteed to pass through most firewalls/proxies.
So you filter it by IP address instead, but then find that they're using a huge range of probably Akamized IPs. Eventually you give up and just put an entry in your Hosts file. Which is bypassed for MS sites.
You could just filter it based on the name of the executable. I'm sure they wouldn't dream of changing or randomising that just to piss you off.
There are basically two models of parallelism that are used in practice. One is the Multiple Instruction Multiple Data model, in which you write threaded code with mutexes and and the like for synchronization. The other is Single Instruction Multiple Data, in which you write code that operates on vectors of data in parallel, doing pretty much the same thing on each piece of data.
And then there's the RISC model - MISD.
This is where a long stream of single instructions each do basically fuck all to a single piece of data.
This sounds vaguely like the Amiga platform of years past (with a fervent following today still)... how innovative to copy someone else!
How ironic that you should say that when you're already the tenth fucking idiot to post a one line comment about how great the Amiga was.
Just so you know, I have the motherboard from an original A1200 here with me. I was going to give it away to anyone who might be able to make use of it. However after reading all the comments here, I've decided to snap it in half and throw it in the trash. I've had enough of whiney Amiga bitches. You're getting worse than fucking Mac users.
They get 10-20% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they use for medical imaging, aerospace/defense and data proc.
Can you provide a single example of the Cell being used in a medical/defence application or a news story from an independent (non-Sony/IBM) source suggesting that they will?
Because the thing about the medical, aerospace and defence industries is that they tend to be a bit conservative about the chips they use. And I find it extremeley hard to believe that the Cell is anywhere near to being validated for any of those applications. Do they actually make a Milspec Cell?
You see, when I read a quote like the above I mentally translate it to something like the following in realtime :
"They get 10% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they would love to use for medical imaging and aerospace/defense if there was the slightest chance of anybody in those industries actually buying them in the forseable future. Which there probably isn't."
You seem to lack that ability.
The redundancy and degradable multiuse strategies exploit yields to segment markets.
Then I read the details and capabilities of the device and it struck me as a huge waste of time. Buy a PSP, it is smaller, more powerful, and undoubted cheaper.
Yes, it's so much better to consume than to create. When you're on your deathbed and looking back over your life's achievments, please do come back and let us know how that strategy worked out for you.
He used premade components like chips and LCD displays. That's hardly building a laptop from scratch.
Building a laptop from scratch :
Step 1: You're going to need some Silicon. A lot of people would say "Just melt some rock" at this point. But that pre-supposes the existence of ready made rock, which would be cheating. So first we're going to induce a supernova in a suitable star.
...
Step 51,985: You need some plastic. Plastic is made from oil. Scour one of the planets you created in Steps 9 - 23,492 for aquatic micro-organisms. Once you've found a sufficient quantity of the little bastards, you're going to need to crush them hard. No, really hard. Now leave to stand for around 250 million years.
Oh no! Somebody asked something of Linux that it doesn't provide! Better silence him, quick!
I can't find the button that silences the person asking the original question. Is it because I'm using this damn Lunix thing? Another bloody feature it doesn't provide.
I'm just curious - did you come here and post because you work in the field of security and were interested in the question? Or did you come here just to disrupt the discussion with your two "Lunix zealots - LOL!" oneliners? If it's the latter, as it so clearly is, doesn't that make you much worse than the people you're so ineptly trying to mock?
If you're planning to argue the former, please include in your reply a short analysis of the problems with any secure key storage scheme which relies on the OS kernel being able to protect its memory against all attackers. Thanks in advance.
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Something you're possibly already aware of is that there are a number of people who advocate both Linux and the GPL who are trying to create a scenario where these are the only forms of FOSS that exist. The entire rationale behind what drives these people is fear and hatred of groups that are in any way different from themselves...and the ultimate source of all of this bile is Richard Stallman. Most of the individuals associated with Linux who also behave in this manner are simply following his lead. He compulsively fears, hates, and seeks to destroy that which he does not have control over, and so those who follow him follow his example. It's pretty simple.
The things you are ranting about are simply not important enough to justify the level of fear and paranoia you are exhibiting. There is no conspiracy to destroy you and your friends in order to prevent them spreading the gospel of BSD. Richard Stallman is not following you wherever you go. Linus Torvalds is not hiding in your crawl space and reading your thoughts. There is no need to scream like a girl whenever a penguin appears on TV.
It is extremely important that you do not kill anybody in order to defend the BSD license. It is highly unlikely that the courts would be sympathetic.
This comment will probably get lost in the general hubub of Slashdot, but I find it somewhat amusing that I've spent my day trying to get Beryl to work in a VM of OpenSUSE (my first time working with Beryl at all)
...and then come to Slashdot on a mini-break and find myself faced with it again.
I find it even more amusing that you've spent a day trying to get Beryl to run in a Virtual Machine. Even if that VM was VMWare with the experimental 3D support enabled, it still wouldn't work.
I guess you've already gone back to work and won't see any of the replies. Now that's _really_ fucking funny.
I'm only going to compare the higher-end models, since that is what the article in question focuses on. As the article points out...the PS3 is $200 more. But the question is why? And what do you get for your $200? The answer is, quite a few things. I'm also going to assume that people who are griping about the PS3's price aren't going to upgrade the feature-set of their 360 to match it.
You're missing one factor. One console is made a well liked company that people trust to supply high quality consumer products. The other is made by Sony.
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
And for all those bulletpoint features, the one thing still desperately lacking is the one Apple has down pat: Good taste.
And so we finally approach the ultimate Apple product - an empty, white, but exquisitely designed box. $600 for the standard model or $800 for the version with extra smug.
Despite the FAH PS3 client has been out under 24h the PS3 client performance is overtaking all the CPU/GPU FAH clients combined!
It's probably because the PC owners are wasting CPU time playing games.
Does this include the cost of your time to wait out in the cold on a Sunday morning to buy one? What about the markup on ebay.co.uk? Or has the Wii shortage blown over in the United Kingdom?
No, nor does it include the gold plated umbrella you'll need because it's raining out. And it certainly doesn't include the compensation you'll have to pay because you accidentally ploughed through a bus queue in your car on the way home. In fact, as a general rule it doesn't include anything that you've just fucking made up to justify the price differential with the PS3.
Also does it not occur to you that everything you've said above also applies to the PS3 except probably more so?
When you were writing your post did you not stop and think, "Hang on. This is probably the most pathetic argument that anyone has ever used in the entire history of online discourse"? If not, why the fuck not?
Do technologies like hardware acceleration for X windows, more focus on open standards (Open LDAP, SMB, etc.), make Apple as evil as microsoft?
Are you saying that Apple have made some contribution to hardware acceleration for X Windows? Maybe on their own platform.
Are you saying that SMB is an open standard and that Apple have contributed to it?
I think you're terminally confused.
What has Microsoft ever done for the open source community other than to try to undermine Linux?
Actually I'm pretty sure that MS have started more open source projects than Apple have. The only Apple one I know of is launchd. I know of at least two MS ones.
This is certainly the most single-sided comment page I've checked out in a while.
OK, try this one. Macs are shit and you're a whiney little anonymous cocksucker.
Do I win first prize?
OpenBSD runs Linux binaries under emulation, does OS X? Could it be made available through fink?
You want to run a utility that does lots of low level filesystem stuff under binary emulation?
Actually, it's a good idea. Every Mac user should try it. But then I think every Mac user should try playing Russian roulette, so I may not be the best person to take advice from.
...and just like the previous versions of Truecrypt, all indications are its once again gonna be a little bitch trying to get it to build on FC6.
Objection! Comment implies that installing other software from source on FC may not be a bitch.
Why not wait until someone builds a shitty 3rd party RPM? Then you can complain about how that doesn't install properly because FC is now using libcock-1.1.3 instead of the libcock-1.1.2 that the RPM expects.
Alternatively get a proper fucking distro.
...millions of atheists orgasmed simultaneously, and then were silent. ;)
Of course they went silent because a load of conservative christians came by and shot them for daring to experience sexual pleasure which did not result in childbirth.
I might be aware that that line of reasoning is nuts
When you became a Christian you automatically lost your right to declare anybody else's reasoning as nuts. We know what you believe and as a consequence, your right to describe any idea as absurd is therefore permanently revoked.
i just canceled my account today, and i look and see that they are on slashdot, small world.
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I'll just have to say that despite that the game play is innovative and different, and that they supply loads of free content upgrades their customer service is garbage. They treat you like you like scum if you ever deal with them directly. And GM's interfere with the game play playing favorites, on gm even is the ceo of a major alliance i hear tell!
Dear Mr Angry Internet Nerd,
Was this you being interviewed on Something Awful the other day?
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/warcraft-fro
Also you say they treat you like you like scum. Well, do you like scum or not bitch? If you don't specify then how can we tell whether they're being unfair?
I claim port 69.
You can't have it. It's already assigned to TFTP (the Titty Fuck Transport Protocol).
If something exists out there that isn't normal matter, evolution says some lifeform should exist in dark matter. It makes sense nothing lives in a vacuum, but if there's something other than a vacuum?
I don't think evolution says anything about lifeforms having to exist in dark matter or indeed any matter.
On an unrelated note, you should really read Ring by Stephen Baxter. It explores the whole idea of dark matter lifeforms (and more). The guy has quite an imagination.
Just learn how to set CFLAGS when you build a Debian package and quit wasting time with Yet Another Distro.
Well, that works for the more modern, bleeding edge Debian packages. I understand that most stable packages are written in assembler or Fortran.
Of course with Debian you don't have to waste time downloading the source tarballs from online repositories like you do with Gentoo. You simply send out a self addressed envelope and the Debian maintainers send you back the punch cards by return of post.
I've been running this in a virtual machine on Windows and haven't seen anyx938U#Jklx j *** NO CARRIER ***
Hi. Can you let me know how to configure my modem so that disconnection messages get automatically written into posts I make on web forums?
It's just that I also want to be terminally unoriginal and it's such an old fucking joke that it just doesn't seem worth typing that stuff out by hand.
The damn thing picked/guessed a valid (NATted) IP address, netmask, and gateway without using DHCP (arp tricks?)
Did that IP resemble 169.254.x.x by any chance?
But really there's no point trying to find technical explanations when the obvious one is at hand - you can't read a sniffer trace for shit.
Having the ability to install Ethereal does not magically confer on you the ability to interpret the results correctly.
It seems to me that it would be easy enough to determine what port WGA is using to send this stuff, and lock down said port at one's firewall.
Great idea. Except that obviously you can't filter by the source port because that will be almost random. And then you find that they're using Port 80 as the destination port anyway because it's about the only port guaranteed to pass through most firewalls/proxies.
So you filter it by IP address instead, but then find that they're using a huge range of probably Akamized IPs. Eventually you give up and just put an entry in your Hosts file. Which is bypassed for MS sites.
You could just filter it based on the name of the executable. I'm sure they wouldn't dream of changing or randomising that just to piss you off.
Check out very impressive clean up of a PDA camera. That's good.
My God. That's a picture of a baby!
Do they not realise that if you post pictures of children on the Internet, the paedophiles have already won??
There are basically two models of parallelism that are used in practice. One is the Multiple Instruction Multiple Data model, in which you write threaded code with mutexes and and the like for synchronization. The other is Single Instruction Multiple Data, in which you write code that operates on vectors of data in parallel, doing pretty much the same thing on each piece of data.
And then there's the RISC model - MISD.
This is where a long stream of single instructions each do basically fuck all to a single piece of data.
This sounds vaguely like the Amiga platform of years past (with a fervent following today still)... how innovative to copy someone else!
How ironic that you should say that when you're already the tenth fucking idiot to post a one line comment about how great the Amiga was.
Just so you know, I have the motherboard from an original A1200 here with me. I was going to give it away to anyone who might be able to make use of it. However after reading all the comments here, I've decided to snap it in half and throw it in the trash. I've had enough of whiney Amiga bitches. You're getting worse than fucking Mac users.
They get 10-20% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they use for medical imaging, aerospace/defense and data proc.
Can you provide a single example of the Cell being used in a medical/defence application or a news story from an independent (non-Sony/IBM) source suggesting that they will?
Because the thing about the medical, aerospace and defence industries is that they tend to be a bit conservative about the chips they use. And I find it extremeley hard to believe that the Cell is anywhere near to being validated for any of those applications. Do they actually make a Milspec Cell?
You see, when I read a quote like the above I mentally translate it to something like the following in realtime :
"They get 10% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they would love to use for medical imaging and aerospace/defense if there was the slightest chance of anybody in those industries actually buying them in the forseable future. Which there probably isn't."
You seem to lack that ability.
The redundancy and degradable multiuse strategies exploit yields to segment markets.
Please stop breathing ASAP.
Then I read the details and capabilities of the device and it struck me as a huge waste of time. Buy a PSP, it is smaller, more powerful, and undoubted cheaper.
Yes, it's so much better to consume than to create. When you're on your deathbed and looking back over your life's achievments, please do come back and let us know how that strategy worked out for you.
He used premade components like chips and LCD displays. That's hardly building a laptop from scratch.
Building a laptop from scratch :
Step 1: You're going to need some Silicon. A lot of people would say "Just melt some rock" at this point. But that pre-supposes the existence of ready made rock, which would be cheating. So first we're going to induce a supernova in a suitable star.
...
Step 51,985: You need some plastic. Plastic is made from oil. Scour one of the planets you created in Steps 9 - 23,492 for aquatic micro-organisms. Once you've found a sufficient quantity of the little bastards, you're going to need to crush them hard. No, really hard. Now leave to stand for around 250 million years.
Etc....
Oh no! Somebody asked something of Linux that it doesn't provide! Better silence him, quick!
I can't find the button that silences the person asking the original question. Is it because I'm using this damn Lunix thing? Another bloody feature it doesn't provide.
I'm just curious - did you come here and post because you work in the field of security and were interested in the question? Or did you come here just to disrupt the discussion with your two "Lunix zealots - LOL!" oneliners? If it's the latter, as it so clearly is, doesn't that make you much worse than the people you're so ineptly trying to mock?
If you're planning to argue the former, please include in your reply a short analysis of the problems with any secure key storage scheme which relies on the OS kernel being able to protect its memory against all attackers. Thanks in advance.