Only if I feel like an elitist asshole who thinks his shit doesn't stink.
Yeah, you're right. Elitism is bad mmkay?
Let's encourage the stupid and mediocre and help to build a dull new tomorrow.
I've never fought with flaming flourescent tubes, but I have done stuff that by all rights should have earned me a maming.
So you've done things that would, with absolute inevitability, lead to your injury or death? At an age when you should know better? And involved other people?
If you did get mamed doing them, would you expect sympathy? If the answer is yes, I suggest that you keep on doing them.
should those of us with wack understandings of genetics also be bred out, mr. elitist?
No, but those of us who think it's cool to avoid using any capital letters should be shot in the face and buried in quicklime. Go back to AOL where you belong you pathetic little prick.
Why do some Linux geeks have to respond to the parent's post with: "Oh, well, I didn't have that problem when I installed MY Red Hat 8.0, really it's pretty easy.
This is a discussion forum. That means a place where people discuss things. The way it works is that someone posts a fact or opinion and then other people post replies. Now the shocking thing is, and I think you're going to need to focus all of your obviously considerable intellect to grasp this, they may actually disagree with or point out inaccuracies in the original post!
It's obvious that you condescending dorks have something to prove...get a girlfriend, then you can brag to her about your Linux skills.
I'd rather do that than have to brag about how I used my stunning wit to summon up some deeply unoriginal cliches and use them to put down people discussing their choice of OS on a discussion forum where people discuss their choice of OS.
I think that if I were in that situation, suicide would be an attractive option.
I have no idea whether he's a reputable source or not, so keep that in mind.
If you're wondering whether he's a reputable source, I suggest that you read the other docs on his site.
The one where he invents an anti-gravity device is particularly amusing.
He also writes a lot of articles for OSNews which is, in my opinion, much more damning.
I will probably get modded down for this since he also wrote an equally ludicrous article about how Apple was going to move to the Cell processor and dominate the computing industry. God help anyone who points out the technical flaws in that argument.
I got an email stating that an order had been placed with my name and it was being delivered. Now, I have two choices:
Sorry, I fail to see why this is a problem. I mean you knew you didn't order it, right?
So fucking what if something turns up at your door? I'd be like "Great! Free stuff!".
Do you think that someone would steal your card details and then use them to order something for you? It doesn't seem likely to me.
Why couldn't you just check with your bank or credit card provider? I would expect them to be able to tell me if someone had ordered something with my card. I'd hardly waste time reverse engineering the website.
No, not quite. Two absolute fucking retards are seriously injured.
Let's examine the possible benefits:
1. Assuming that they are both seriously mutilated, the chances of them ever reproducing are massively decreased. This means that their retard genes will not be passed on to their offspring. Let's face it, if they have children they'll end up doing something similar in years to come. So their removal from the gene pool will actually decrease the chances of more injury, pain and horrific deaths in the future. Are you saying that would be a bad thing?
2. If they can do this to themselves, you can bet they'd do something equally horrific to innocent bystanders in the future, if given the chance. How would you like it if these fucktards ran over a member of your family while driving at 150mph on crack?
The fact is that natural selection is no longer allowed to act on the human race to it's proper extent. We're looking at a future of gradual deterioration - devolution if you will.
To make a claim that BSD and related projects wouldn't be where they are without GCC implies that only the GNU project was/is capable of producing a good C compiler.
Right, so presumably you think that there is an infinite amount of development resource behind OpenBSD? If Theo and his crew had needed to put resources into developing a suitable compiler before they even started the project, that would have made no difference to it's current status?
It just happens that the GNU project made a good C compiler under palatable licensing terms
The last time I checked, GCC was licenced under the GPL. According to Theo the GPL is the work of Satan. Do you not read the OpenBSD mailing list?
As far as "slamming" RMS, I think the cartoon in question is basically just a "joke", and I think some people should take a chill pill before trying to scream foul.
I wasn't exactly screaming foul was I? Merely pointing out that certain people have an over-inflated sense of their own importance which isn't entirely based in reality.
The fact that this is apparently considered trolling doesn't do much to refute my argument that the OpenBSD community suffers from it's arrogance.
Anyway, feel free to mod this down. You can carry on living in your ivory towers confident in the knowledge that no-one really gives a shit.
And hey, why bring up the compiler? It's free in all the appropriate senses, so Theo and crew are simply using available tools.
Because it simply wouldn't exist without RMS. And the BSDs wouldn't be where they are now without GCC. Trying to argue otherwise is simply revisionist history.
So you can say that RMS is all mouth and no trousers if you want. And I can point out your arrogance.
Answer this - what is the greatest contribution to the Free Software community? GCC or being able to distribute the firmware for a few wireless cards?
Companies too often get a bad press when they do the responsible and praisworthy thing of honoring their promises to consumers and recall their products to repair a fault.
Yeah, but this is Apple we're talking about. If it turned out that they were at the centre of a Satanic baby-raping death cult you'd still have to read the Slashdot story at -1 to see anything approaching criticism.
Not fixing this design mistake while laughing at respected experts in the field reminds me something. I was hoping that we as a community might have became a little bit more mature during the last decade, but I seem to have been naïve again.
I don't think Linus was "laughing at respected security experts" at all. For one thing this guy isn't a respected security expert - in my experience they usually have jobs. Secondly he wasn't laughing - his point was that the best way to fix the issue was to patch the userland crypto programs to be more immune to timing attacks e.g by making them read a set amount of cache lines each time. Anything that makes the crypto software more immune to these things seems good to me.
Also, how do you patch the kernel to stop this attack? The FreeBSD patch just disables hyperthreading.
I assume you can answer this since you sound like an expert. I also assume that you bothered to read the actual e-mails and not just the retarded Slashdot blurb.
another diff is that the xbox has a burner and the ps3 doesnt.
Jesus. Look, when a drive is said to support "CD,CDR,CDRW,DVD,DVDR,DVDRW" etc..etc.. that doesn't necessarily mean that it can write to them. It just means that it can read from them.
So just because the XBox 360 press release said "CDR" support doesn't mean it's going to have a burner.
Try and use a bit of critical thought in future. Here, I'll give you a start:
Q.What advantages would MS get from building a CD/DVD burner into the XBox? What disadvantages would result?
If you'd have thought about it long enough to come up with that question I suspect you would also have come up with the answers:
None whatsoever. Extra cost, extra point of failure, piracy etc..
Notice a theme here? The horsepower of these systems surpassed the requirements of gamers a long time ago.
That's funny. The theme I notice is that technology keeps advancing which makes things possible that no-one would have even dreamed of before. Such as a C64 built in to a joystick.
You seem to lack imagination. Maybe you should try and cut down on the game playing for a while?
Additionally at least one major discussion about Apple pricing will break out, with one side claiming that Apple is simply to expensive and that you can get the same specs for a lot less money from $generic_computer_vendor_of_choice. This will of course prompt angry rebuttals from Apple fans claiming that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Indeed. I have also noticed that whenever anybody dares to suggest that perhaps Macs are not the best value personal computers in the World, the Mac zealots will run off and spend hours searching the Dell on-line store and other sources in order to provide a detailed comparison to try and disprove the point.
Hence my new sig. Obviously it's factually incorrect, but that won't stop them wasting huge amonts of time and effort disproving it.
So am I just trolling? Yes, I guess I am.
So why am I doing it? Simple. Like many others on Macslash (or Slashdot as it used to be known) I am sick of the Mac zealots turning up where they aren't wanted and preaching their own particularly nauseating brand of corporate cock-sucking platform advocacy.
An example as if it was needed - the recent Ask Slashdot story where someone was asking the best Linux distro to use on his old Powerbook. Did he get any useful answers? Maybe, but they were drowned out by the 300+ comments from the zealots telling him that he was retarded for not using OS X because "it's like pretty and stuff". Just one example of thousands.
I've wasted my time reading your spew and now I'm going to waste yours. What goes around comes around and you fuckers have most certainly got it coming.
I'm curious since AMD's Hyper Transport is similar to Intel's Hyper Threading, but in my books, superior.
Hyper Transport is a bus protocol. Hyper Threading is a means of maximising the use of the execution units on a CPU.
The only similarity is that they both start with the same letters. As such, I'm afraid that calling Hyper Transport "superior" makes you sound like a fanboy.
why PC "penetration" is really low in India is because a majority of the population has to fight hard every day to *eat*.
Quite right. What's more, until every single member of the Indian population has enough calories to survive on a daily basis, none of them should be allowed to have telephones. Let alone computers.
Just taking your argument to it's (absurd) logical conclusion.
You know there's something wrong when you see a homeless guy in India pull out a mobile better than yours and say in a perfect british accent "Hello, BT help desk"!
I am appalled by this statement. It is absurd and racist.
Absurd because in reality nobody ever answers phone calls to the BT Help Desk. And racist because you are implying that a homeless Indian guy would debase himself far enough to work for BT.
All the hand-wringing over "GPL violations" seems a tad hypocritcal when coming from a community (e.g., the "Slashdot" crowd) that supports "free-as-in-beer" music piracy and chortles at Microsoft's tribulations with software pirates.
Right, let's see if we can't deal with this tired old shit once and for all.
Imagine 2 groups of Slashdot readers - A & B.
Group A supports music piracy Group B is against GPL violations
While these 2 groups may coincide to some extent, they do not completely coincide. There are members of Group B that are not also members of Group A. Your statment does not allow this possibility. It is therefore retarded.
Second point - there is a difference between a)making an unauthorised copy of a CD and b) making an unauthorised copy of a CD, claiming that you produced it and then selling it on (i.e what Maui X-Stream are doing). Your statement makes no allowance for this possibility. It is therefore retarded on a second count.
Therefore I contend that you are: a) Retarded b) Trolling
And as such, I suggest that you: a) Seek remedial education b) Go fuck yourself
That's not offtopic - that's actually funny, please mod accordingly.
No doubt if he had just made a standard Overlord or Soviet Russia joke he would be at +5 Funny by now. Which is a rather pathetic indictement of Slashdot groupthink.
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Only if I feel like an elitist asshole who thinks his shit doesn't stink.
Yeah, you're right. Elitism is bad mmkay?
Let's encourage the stupid and mediocre and help to build a dull new tomorrow.
I've never fought with flaming flourescent tubes, but I have done stuff that by all rights should have earned me a maming.
So you've done things that would, with absolute inevitability, lead to your injury or death? At an age when you should know better? And involved other people?
If you did get mamed doing them, would you expect sympathy? If the answer is yes, I suggest that you keep on doing them.
should those of us with wack understandings of genetics also be bred out, mr. elitist?
No, but those of us who think it's cool to avoid using any capital letters should be shot in the face and buried in quicklime. Go back to AOL where you belong you pathetic little prick.
Why do some Linux geeks have to respond to the parent's post with: "Oh, well, I didn't have that problem when I installed MY Red Hat 8.0, really it's pretty easy.
This is a discussion forum. That means a place where people discuss things. The way it works is that someone posts a fact or opinion and then other people post replies. Now the shocking thing is, and I think you're going to need to focus all of your obviously considerable intellect to grasp this, they may actually disagree with or point out inaccuracies in the original post!
It's obvious that you condescending dorks have something to prove...get a girlfriend, then you can brag to her about your Linux skills.
I'd rather do that than have to brag about how I used my stunning wit to summon up some deeply unoriginal cliches and use them to put down people discussing their choice of OS on a discussion forum where people discuss their choice of OS.
I think that if I were in that situation, suicide would be an attractive option.
I have no idea whether he's a reputable source or not, so keep that in mind.
If you're wondering whether he's a reputable source, I suggest that you read the other docs on his site.
The one where he invents an anti-gravity device is particularly amusing.
He also writes a lot of articles for OSNews which is, in my opinion, much more damning.
I will probably get modded down for this since he also wrote an equally ludicrous article about how Apple was going to move to the Cell processor and dominate the computing industry. God help anyone who points out the technical flaws in that argument.
I got an email stating that an order had been placed with my name and it was being delivered. Now, I have two choices:
Sorry, I fail to see why this is a problem. I mean you knew you didn't order it, right?
So fucking what if something turns up at your door? I'd be like "Great! Free stuff!".
Do you think that someone would steal your card details and then use them to order something for you? It doesn't seem likely to me.
Why couldn't you just check with your bank or credit card provider? I would expect them to be able to tell me if someone had ordered something with my card. I'd hardly waste time reverse engineering the website.
No, not quite. Two absolute fucking retards are seriously injured.
:
Let's examine the possible benefits
1. Assuming that they are both seriously mutilated, the chances of them ever reproducing are massively decreased. This means that their retard genes will not be passed on to their offspring. Let's face it, if they have children they'll end up doing something similar in years to come. So their removal from the gene pool will actually decrease the chances of more injury, pain and horrific deaths in the future. Are you saying that would be a bad thing?
2. If they can do this to themselves, you can bet they'd do something equally horrific to innocent bystanders in the future, if given the chance. How would you like it if these fucktards ran over a member of your family while driving at 150mph on crack?
The fact is that natural selection is no longer allowed to act on the human race to it's proper extent. We're looking at a future of gradual deterioration - devolution if you will.
We should celebrate events like this.
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
Asbestos pyjamas, you fool!
Do I have to think of everything?
To make a claim that BSD and related projects wouldn't be where they are without GCC implies that only the GNU project was/is capable of producing a good C compiler.
Right, so presumably you think that there is an infinite amount of development resource behind OpenBSD? If Theo and his crew had needed to put resources into developing a suitable compiler before they even started the project, that would have made no difference to it's current status?
It just happens that the GNU project made a good C compiler under palatable licensing terms
The last time I checked, GCC was licenced under the GPL. According to Theo the GPL is the work of Satan. Do you not read the OpenBSD mailing list?
As far as "slamming" RMS, I think the cartoon in question is basically just a "joke", and I think some people should take a chill pill before trying to scream foul.
I wasn't exactly screaming foul was I? Merely pointing out that certain people have an over-inflated sense of their own importance which isn't entirely based in reality.
The fact that this is apparently considered trolling doesn't do much to refute my argument that the OpenBSD community suffers from it's arrogance.
Anyway, feel free to mod this down. You can carry on living in your ivory towers confident in the knowledge that no-one really gives a shit.
And hey, why bring up the compiler? It's free in all the appropriate senses, so Theo and crew are simply using available tools.
Because it simply wouldn't exist without RMS. And the BSDs wouldn't be where they are now without GCC. Trying to argue otherwise is simply revisionist history.
So you can say that RMS is all mouth and no trousers if you want. And I can point out your arrogance.
Answer this - what is the greatest contribution to the Free Software community? GCC or being able to distribute the firmware for a few wireless cards?
Just curious, when was the last time that RMS reverse engineered a useful device and posted the driver source?
Just curious, when was the last time Theo wrote a compiler suite capable of e.g building OpenBSD?
That's what I love about the OpenBSD community - the total lack of arrogance.
Companies too often get a bad press when they do the responsible and praisworthy thing of honoring their promises to consumers and recall their products to repair a fault.
Yeah, but this is Apple we're talking about. If it turned out that they were at the centre of a Satanic baby-raping death cult you'd still have to read the Slashdot story at -1 to see anything approaching criticism.
Not fixing this design mistake while laughing at respected experts in the field reminds me something. I was hoping that we as a community might have became a little bit more mature during the last decade, but I seem to have been naïve again.
I don't think Linus was "laughing at respected security experts" at all. For one thing this guy isn't a respected security expert - in my experience they usually have jobs. Secondly he wasn't laughing - his point was that the best way to fix the issue was to patch the userland crypto programs to be more immune to timing attacks e.g by making them read a set amount of cache lines each time. Anything that makes the crypto software more immune to these things seems good to me.
Also, how do you patch the kernel to stop this attack? The FreeBSD patch just disables hyperthreading.
I assume you can answer this since you sound like an expert. I also assume that you bothered to read the actual e-mails and not just the retarded Slashdot blurb.
But now I'm being naive aren't I?
another diff is that the xbox has a burner and the ps3 doesnt.
:
:
Jesus. Look, when a drive is said to support "CD,CDR,CDRW,DVD,DVDR,DVDRW" etc..etc.. that doesn't necessarily mean that it can write to them. It just means that it can read from them.
So just because the XBox 360 press release said "CDR" support doesn't mean it's going to have a burner.
Try and use a bit of critical thought in future. Here, I'll give you a start
Q.What advantages would MS get from building a CD/DVD burner into the XBox? What disadvantages would result?
If you'd have thought about it long enough to come up with that question I suspect you would also have come up with the answers
None whatsoever. Extra cost, extra point of failure, piracy etc..
Not so hard was it?
Notice a theme here? The horsepower of these systems surpassed the requirements of gamers a long time ago.
That's funny. The theme I notice is that technology keeps advancing which makes things possible that no-one would have even dreamed of before. Such as a C64 built in to a joystick.
You seem to lack imagination. Maybe you should try and cut down on the game playing for a while?
Additionally at least one major discussion about Apple pricing will break out, with one side claiming that Apple is simply to expensive and that you can get the same specs for a lot less money from $generic_computer_vendor_of_choice. This will of course prompt angry rebuttals from Apple fans claiming that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Indeed. I have also noticed that whenever anybody dares to suggest that perhaps Macs are not the best value personal computers in the World, the Mac zealots will run off and spend hours searching the Dell on-line store and other sources in order to provide a detailed comparison to try and disprove the point.
Hence my new sig. Obviously it's factually incorrect, but that won't stop them wasting huge amonts of time and effort disproving it.
So am I just trolling? Yes, I guess I am.
So why am I doing it? Simple. Like many others on Macslash (or Slashdot as it used to be known) I am sick of the Mac zealots turning up where they aren't wanted and preaching their own particularly nauseating brand of corporate cock-sucking platform advocacy.
An example as if it was needed - the recent Ask Slashdot story where someone was asking the best Linux distro to use on his old Powerbook. Did he get any useful answers? Maybe, but they were drowned out by the 300+ comments from the zealots telling him that he was retarded for not using OS X because "it's like pretty and stuff". Just one example of thousands.
I've wasted my time reading your spew and now I'm going to waste yours. What goes around comes around and you fuckers have most certainly got it coming.
Any efforts made by Bram to counteract this, could nudge bittorrent away from lawful use.
He doesn't need to do anything of the sort. Bittorrent already uses SHA1 for hashing.
If you believe Macrovision have found a way to spoof that in realtime then I have a bridge to sell you.
There is no debate. It has been well accepted that micro-kernels are the way to go.
Which is why nowadays it's impossible to find a widely used OS that isn't based on a microkernel!
Dear Mods,
Instead of modding the parent down as "flamebait", why not provide some counter examples?
If you can't then it's hardly flamebait is it?
I'm curious since AMD's Hyper Transport is similar to Intel's Hyper Threading, but in my books, superior.
Hyper Transport is a bus protocol. Hyper Threading is a means of maximising the use of the execution units on a CPU.
The only similarity is that they both start with the same letters. As such, I'm afraid that calling Hyper Transport "superior" makes you sound like a fanboy.
What is the standing of their GPL compliance?
Why on Earth would their GPL compliance be an issue?
Wine used to be BSD licenced (or similar, I forget the exact details) and that is what they based their product on.
Wine later changed their licence to stop other companies using the code without contributing back.
Since licence changes are not retroactive, your question makes no sense.
why PC "penetration" is really low in India is because a majority of the population has to fight hard every day to *eat*.
Quite right. What's more, until every single member of the Indian population has enough calories to survive on a daily basis, none of them should be allowed to have telephones. Let alone computers.
Just taking your argument to it's (absurd) logical conclusion.
You know there's something wrong when you see a homeless guy in India pull out a mobile better than yours and say in a perfect british accent "Hello, BT help desk"!
I am appalled by this statement. It is absurd and racist.
Absurd because in reality nobody ever answers phone calls to the BT Help Desk. And racist because you are implying that a homeless Indian guy would debase himself far enough to work for BT.
You should hang your head in shame.
All the hand-wringing over "GPL violations" seems a tad hypocritcal when coming from a community (e.g., the "Slashdot" crowd) that supports "free-as-in-beer" music piracy and chortles at Microsoft's tribulations with software pirates.
:
Right, let's see if we can't deal with this tired old shit once and for all.
Imagine 2 groups of Slashdot readers - A & B.
Group A supports music piracy
Group B is against GPL violations
While these 2 groups may coincide to some extent, they do not completely coincide. There are members of Group B that are not also members of Group A. Your statment does not allow this possibility. It is therefore retarded.
Second point - there is a difference between a)making an unauthorised copy of a CD and b) making an unauthorised copy of a CD, claiming that you produced it and then selling it on (i.e what Maui X-Stream are doing). Your statement makes no allowance for this possibility. It is therefore retarded on a second count.
Therefore I contend that you are
a) Retarded
b) Trolling
And as such, I suggest that you:
a) Seek remedial education
b) Go fuck yourself
That's not offtopic - that's actually funny, please mod accordingly.
No doubt if he had just made a standard Overlord or Soviet Russia joke he would be at +5 Funny by now. Which is a rather pathetic indictement of Slashdot groupthink.
Hi There Anonymous Repetitive PS2 troll!
How's your B-Spline based graphics engine for the PS2 going?
And most importantly, have you taken my advice and got yourself laid yet?
I'm guessing that since you're still posting your teenage boy level rants the answer is no. So sad.
Maybe suicide is the answer?