It could be used for that, but it's mostly being used to harass legitamate internet users.
There's a huge difference between what it could be used for and what it is being used for; and what it is being used for isn't worth putting up with the 0.0001% legitimate useage.
One of my 8 yahoo ones, or one of my 10 gmail accounts, or my 4 hotmail accounts or the mailinator account I'm about to make up for the next online form I come across that requires a 'valid email address'?
Or do you mean the 'real' email address that belongs to one of the more obscure web-based email services?
Real authentication is impractical in large numbers; this is why it has never been implemented. It barely worked when you sent a photo copy of your drivers' license in to your local BBS; but now, in the age of instant graticication and an international scale (how *can* you tell that ID from istanbul is fake or not?) it's flat out of the question.
To repeat the point; when it comes to the internet, real authentication is impossible.
I'm sorry, I could see how having their BSD/Linux versions open and their windows versions closed could keep them in business; but now that they don't have any income generating platforms left, aren't they going to be out of business next week?
23 One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?" 25 And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the house of God, when Abi'athar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?" 27 And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath; 28 so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath."
I just subscribed to Skype, having forgotten that it was the same guy who invented Kazaa. First off, I'm pretty happy with the service (it's the only software-only VOIP I'm aware of that runs on linux as well as windows). Secondly, having read a few threads I ran spybot and adaware. I had a total of 60 entries show up in spybot, all of which were tracking cookies.
Both of those are current, so I feel safe that, unless someone knows something that I don't, skype is decently safe (at least at this moment).
No, BSD is the variation of UNIX which was put together by the research lab at the university of california. Unlike BSD there never was a single System V release, whereas BSD had several releases from the university of california until 4.4.
After that, it fragmented to NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and lastly DragonflyBSD.
I'm pretty sure that AMD will implement something similar if they haven't already.
It's "bye bye" fair use, not "bye bye intel".
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Your keyboard is the most fundamental part of your computer. It should be basic, it should be consistent, it should not change.
Anything else you can upgrade and improve; but with the exception of wireless keyboards, every 'improvement' on the basic keyboard over the last 15 years has made it worse.
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>20 years of lousy browsers MS is not to blame for the mistakes of Xerox.
>20 years of filling Bill's bank account in the forlorn hope that the next release will be better You can't blame bill for your failure to find and obtain free copies. It's not like they're not easily available.
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Doubt it. As long as there are "professional" applications that you can pirate for free, no one is going to want OSS apps (that they percieve as being inferior to what they're pirating).
Between blogs and indy news sources at least your information will be stripped of the shock sensationalism the major news sources try to rope you in with.
You've obviously never read dailykos or littlegreenfootballs.;)
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It could be used for that, but it's mostly being used to harass legitamate internet users.
There's a huge difference between what it could be used for and what it is being used for; and what it is being used for isn't worth putting up with the 0.0001% legitimate useage.
One of my 8 yahoo ones, or one of my 10 gmail accounts, or my 4 hotmail accounts or the mailinator account I'm about to make up for the next online form I come across that requires a 'valid email address'?
Or do you mean the 'real' email address that belongs to one of the more obscure web-based email services?
Real authentication is impractical in large numbers; this is why it has never been implemented. It barely worked when you sent a photo copy of your drivers' license in to your local BBS; but now, in the age of instant graticication and an international scale (how *can* you tell that ID from istanbul is fake or not?) it's flat out of the question.
To repeat the point; when it comes to the internet, real authentication is impossible.
I'm feeling pretty relieved that I skipped this too.
I'm sorry, I could see how having their BSD/Linux versions open and their windows versions closed could keep them in business; but now that they don't have any income generating platforms left, aren't they going to be out of business next week?
If not, how not? I'm very curious.
*reads the post again*
*there is no tao on slashdot*
*I watch birds fly past*
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> Skype doesn't use any standard protocols, so it's useless for communicating with most VoIP users.
I don't use it to communicate with other VoIP users, I use it as my primary telephone service.
I just subscribed to Skype, having forgotten that it was the same guy who invented Kazaa. First off, I'm pretty happy with the service (it's the only software-only VOIP I'm aware of that runs on linux as well as windows). Secondly, having read a few threads I ran spybot and adaware. I had a total of 60 entries show up in spybot, all of which were tracking cookies.
Both of those are current, so I feel safe that, unless someone knows something that I don't, skype is decently safe (at least at this moment).
No, BSD is the variation of UNIX which was put together by the research lab at the university of california. Unlike BSD there never was a single System V release, whereas BSD had several releases from the university of california until 4.4.
After that, it fragmented to NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and lastly DragonflyBSD.
BSD is an OS as opposed to linux which is just a kernel, and yet look at how fragmented BSD is.
ftp when I can, http when I have to.
Then they hit me
Then they told me
They don't like me
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That's what they said about Miscrosoft's Product Activation scheme. And yet corporate adoption of w2k and XP has gone on without even a slight hiccup.
People will buy anything, as long as there is a guy in a suit telling to.
Production quality sound (as you define it in subsequent posts) doesn't exist in Linux, either; so what's your point?
Windows 98 runs Mozilla just fine. Probably firefox too (though I haven't checked).
By embedding it into the motherboard, it sounds to me as though they are implementing it at the I/O level.
It won't matter if they use Windows, Linux, *BSD or AmigaOS; if the DRM is implemented on the hardware level it will still be enforced.
I'm pretty sure that AMD will implement something similar if they haven't already.
It's "bye bye" fair use, not "bye bye intel".
Your keyboard is the most fundamental part of your computer. It should be basic, it should be consistent, it should not change.
Anything else you can upgrade and improve; but with the exception of wireless keyboards, every 'improvement' on the basic keyboard over the last 15 years has made it worse.
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>20 years of lousy browsers
MS is not to blame for the mistakes of Xerox.
>20 years of filling Bill's bank account in the forlorn hope that the next release will be better
You can't blame bill for your failure to find and obtain free copies. It's not like they're not easily available.
>To confirm you're not a script,
please type the text shown in this image: nvvrwtc
nvvrwtc
...but only if you don't count the hours of lost or reduced productivity waiting for MS to get around to releasing their patches.
Because I've been using yahoo mail since 1999 and I don't esp feel like moving all my shit over to gmail. Esp not my 6 years worth of archived mail.
Doubt it. As long as there are "professional" applications that you can pirate for free, no one is going to want OSS apps (that they percieve as being inferior to what they're pirating).
No; most people would rather slashdotted than be goatsed.
You've obviously never read dailykos or littlegreenfootballs.