Hmmm. Alot of these mistakes come from starting things like your httpd or sshd before you're actually secure. It sounds like someone at Red Hat made a mistake.
I love unix (it's all I use) but we're not quite at the "offer to everyone" level. We really just need to iron out the kinks. Ubuntu and a couple of others are really close, but I'd really like to see them ready for when Vista is released (and it looks like its gonna happen).
It's interesting how those secular humanists who sing the hue and cry of tolerance are always at the ready to mock Christians in the most nasty (and juvenile) way possible.
I would never discriminate against someone for their religous beliefs, but I'm likely to mock them. You cannot ban satire.
There is an important difference between freedom of speech and discrimination. Everyone is willing to accept you as members of society, but no one is safe from satire. I'm sure you'll come to terms with it.
Sort of. It's a nationalised thing. This is a governmental service, paid through tax. I think it's a horrible way to do things, but it seems to have created the most reputable news service in the world; The BBC. This is probably the only public service we have that really is pulling its weight.
The Dreamcast was nothing special. I know there are always a few people who say "No, I liked $game" but it just didn't inspire people to buy it. But they certainly didn't fail to buy it because they were afraid it would do too much.
The problem is that people see the console to be important. Improved hardware is only useful if it allows you to do something new and different with your games. I've played recent Xbox360 games, and they remind me of why I gave up computer games. It's far more fun to play around and play old things that are different and weird and have strange gaming concepts than it is to play yet another platforming game
Many of my friends and people I meet feel the same. I'm starting to think many of the "hardcore gamer" crowd has long moved on to other things.
ed2k isn't going to have 200 million songs, but it does have far, far, far more than iTunes does. iTunes has only 2 million songs; ed2k will have far more than this. In addition, it also has video, books, games and anything else digital that you can think off.
In terms of unique content, its isn't completely out of the questions that the ammount of content on ed2k outstrips iTunes 100 to 1. p2p networks are growing at an incredible rate, and it will probably happen in the future. You have no way of measuring ed2k. It's immeasurably vast, and songs are only a part of ed2k.
When you distribute source, but don't allot redistribution of source, that's closed source. I believe AT&T used to do exactly the same thing, back in the day.
This seems like the professor is trying to limit access to his source in order to either keep the number of people with access to the softare low. This is probably for a couple of reasons; people could pick holes is his source and find ways to beat his code, or he just doesn't want anyone outside of government to have the program.
He's throwing aroung terms like "Open Source" but he's actually trying to stop Linus's Law from coming into effect. Sounds more like security through obscurity.
"if you knew anything about linux you would not be saying that. all distros are more or less the same, it would have been more impressive had you said 'i have a non-windows os installed'. besides other things, there are more stable things you could be running, such as a bsd.
you should probably run something such as nessus.
If you knew anything about linux, you would not be saying that. All distros are not the same. There are differences, else there wouldn't be so many seperate distros. Running debian is clearly a different deal from running something like gentoo.
And saying I "I have a non-windows OS installed" wouldn't have been anymore "impressive", it would make you look like the kind of idiot who doesn't especially like unix, but just hates Microsoft.
There was no need to suggest that the grandparent used BSD and nessus. That's is just arrogance. Theres no way in hell you could be in a position to recomend anything to the grandparent; he's not asking for help or making a common error - it's none of your business. This part was just you wanting to fire off a "BSD is better" message, I'll wager, and it's irrelevant.
Most of these newspapers seems to be only interested because they think they may be able to get money out of sueing Google. If Google offered this as some kind of advertising agreement which they paid for, my guess would be that it would be pretty popular.
Meh. I'd switch. Solaris apparantly treats everything in a more Unix way. Having hda1 instead of hd(0,0) for my first partition in Linux makes me feel strange and violated. Why does eth0 subscribe to the 0-9 order, and yet hd is on 1-10? Linus is deluded if he thinks this is socially acceptable.
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Every so often someone comes in and claims to have found some blatently obvious "double standards." What you've failed to take account of is that these are opinions expressed by different people. They could only be double standards if they were voiced by the same person.
The slashdot community isn't some kind of hive mind; generally, people have different opinions.
And it's not funny until it occurs to you that the Times is one of the most highly regarded newspapers in the UK. This isn't a tabloid; its probably the worlds oldest broadsheet.
Strange. It almost seems like these guys wrote the majority of programs for any given Linux distro.
That sweeping statement don't take into account just how vast the Free Software Directory is. Maybe you should look it over, its pretty large. OpenBSD, and many other distros/operating systems with strong philosophy have alot of code, making that statement false.
The philosopy of sharing code (whether GNU or BSD or otherwise) is only reason we have code to look at at all.
If thats a question, you obviously have no idea exactly just how crooked these figures are. We do all kinds of idiotic things to get the results that get the baby-kissers re-elected:
Only people actively looking for jobs are on the register (people who don't apply at the job centre who aren't caught on the census are excluded).
You must claim benefits (and you can't claim benefits if you fit into a number of pigeon holes - house in too high a class, you know what I mean)
If you partner works, you don't qualify for the list.
If you're not unemployed long enough, you don't qualify (it takes a certain ammount of time to get on the list)
Conversely, if you are unemployed long enough, you're taken off the list, as you can no longer claim benfits.
There is often a long lag time before anyone realises you should be on the list.
A lot of the time, if you've just left school and can't get a job, someone will classify you as being in further education or training.
There are a METRIC FUCKLOAD of other exceptions which you probably fall into.
And all these measures generally remove quite alot of people who are generally included in the fiigures quoted for other countries. Also, if references another countries figures in relation to ours, they will normally pick the worst figures they can find. Generally, they can normally get away with picking figures that are up to 5 years old (the obviously pick the highest) and the ones that include all kinds of weird crap (ie, if there are a set of figures that will factor in an estimate for people that have probably been missed, they will use those).
UK unemployment figures are wildly inaccurate, and i don't think other countries fudge the figures to the extent we do.
I think I just figured out what the rest of this story's comments are gonna be;
Type 1: "Why use linux when you have MacOS? It doesn't make sense!"
Type 2: "Linux is way better than MacOS! Program x has feature y, which lets me do z, which I can't go without because of w"
Almost everyone on slashdot seems to have only used one, and hates the other (sometimes they've used the other one briefly, and will bitch about how inferior it was). This is childish.
I use my operating system because I like it, not because the other OS's are so inferior.
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Really? Companies make profits now??? When did this happen?
Obviously, the employee is on fire.
Hmmm. Alot of these mistakes come from starting things like your httpd or sshd before you're actually secure. It sounds like someone at Red Hat made a mistake.
I love unix (it's all I use) but we're not quite at the "offer to everyone" level. We really just need to iron out the kinks. Ubuntu and a couple of others are really close, but I'd really like to see them ready for when Vista is released (and it looks like its gonna happen).
It's interesting how those secular humanists who sing the hue and cry of tolerance are always at the ready to mock Christians in the most nasty (and juvenile) way possible.
I would never discriminate against someone for their religous beliefs, but I'm likely to mock them. You cannot ban satire.
There is an important difference between freedom of speech and discrimination. Everyone is willing to accept you as members of society, but no one is safe from satire. I'm sure you'll come to terms with it.
Sort of. It's a nationalised thing. This is a governmental service, paid through tax. I think it's a horrible way to do things, but it seems to have created the most reputable news service in the world; The BBC. This is probably the only public service we have that really is pulling its weight.
The Dreamcast was nothing special. I know there are always a few people who say "No, I liked $game" but it just didn't inspire people to buy it. But they certainly didn't fail to buy it because they were afraid it would do too much.
The problem is that people see the console to be important. Improved hardware is only useful if it allows you to do something new and different with your games. I've played recent Xbox360 games, and they remind me of why I gave up computer games. It's far more fun to play around and play old things that are different and weird and have strange gaming concepts than it is to play yet another platforming game
Many of my friends and people I meet feel the same. I'm starting to think many of the "hardcore gamer" crowd has long moved on to other things.
Huh? What are you smoking?
In Google China, we recommend you for purchase.
Karma. If you build it, they will come.
He said content. You said songs.
ed2k isn't going to have 200 million songs, but it does have far, far, far more than iTunes does. iTunes has only 2 million songs; ed2k will have far more than this. In addition, it also has video, books, games and anything else digital that you can think off.
In terms of unique content, its isn't completely out of the questions that the ammount of content on ed2k outstrips iTunes 100 to 1. p2p networks are growing at an incredible rate, and it will probably happen in the future. You have no way of measuring ed2k. It's immeasurably vast, and songs are only a part of ed2k.
Jesus. Was that relevant? Does making empty threats about the future on slashdot actually make anyone care?
When you distribute source, but don't allot redistribution of source, that's closed source. I believe AT&T used to do exactly the same thing, back in the day.
This seems like the professor is trying to limit access to his source in order to either keep the number of people with access to the softare low. This is probably for a couple of reasons; people could pick holes is his source and find ways to beat his code, or he just doesn't want anyone outside of government to have the program.
He's throwing aroung terms like "Open Source" but he's actually trying to stop Linus's Law from coming into effect. Sounds more like security through obscurity.
"if you knew anything about linux you would not be saying that. all distros are more or less the same, it would have been more impressive had you said 'i have a non-windows os installed'. besides other things, there are more stable things you could be running, such as a bsd. you should probably run something such as nessus.
If you knew anything about linux, you would not be saying that. All distros are not the same. There are differences, else there wouldn't be so many seperate distros. Running debian is clearly a different deal from running something like gentoo.
And saying I "I have a non-windows OS installed" wouldn't have been anymore "impressive", it would make you look like the kind of idiot who doesn't especially like unix, but just hates Microsoft.
There was no need to suggest that the grandparent used BSD and nessus. That's is just arrogance. Theres no way in hell you could be in a position to recomend anything to the grandparent; he's not asking for help or making a common error - it's none of your business. This part was just you wanting to fire off a "BSD is better" message, I'll wager, and it's irrelevant.
Most of these newspapers seems to be only interested because they think they may be able to get money out of sueing Google. If Google offered this as some kind of advertising agreement which they paid for, my guess would be that it would be pretty popular.
It's a sad state of affairs when we have to block our own goddamn house of government for vandalising public property.
Meh. I'd switch. Solaris apparantly treats everything in a more Unix way. Having hda1 instead of hd(0,0) for my first partition in Linux makes me feel strange and violated. Why does eth0 subscribe to the 0-9 order, and yet hd is on 1-10? Linus is deluded if he thinks this is socially acceptable.
Every so often someone comes in and claims to have found some blatently obvious "double standards." What you've failed to take account of is that these are opinions expressed by different people. They could only be double standards if they were voiced by the same person.
The slashdot community isn't some kind of hive mind; generally, people have different opinions.
With the convergence of technologies and the explosion of geospatial technologies
I think every IT marketer on the planet just found this years buzzword. Quick! Invest! To the stock market , Robin!
And it's not funny until it occurs to you that the Times is one of the most highly regarded newspapers in the UK. This isn't a tabloid; its probably the worlds oldest broadsheet.
This is interesting, but I have a sneaking suspicion it would be a serious pain in a court.
Strange. It almost seems like these guys wrote the majority of programs for any given Linux distro.
That sweeping statement don't take into account just how vast the Free Software Directory is. Maybe you should look it over, its pretty large. OpenBSD, and many other distros/operating systems with strong philosophy have alot of code, making that statement false.
The philosopy of sharing code (whether GNU or BSD or otherwise) is only reason we have code to look at at all.
"Britain (the UK) is actually a part of europe. There are in the EU also."
When did this happen?!
If thats a question, you obviously have no idea exactly just how crooked these figures are. We do all kinds of idiotic things to get the results that get the baby-kissers re-elected:
And all these measures generally remove quite alot of people who are generally included in the fiigures quoted for other countries. Also, if references another countries figures in relation to ours, they will normally pick the worst figures they can find. Generally, they can normally get away with picking figures that are up to 5 years old (the obviously pick the highest) and the ones that include all kinds of weird crap (ie, if there are a set of figures that will factor in an estimate for people that have probably been missed, they will use those).
UK unemployment figures are wildly inaccurate, and i don't think other countries fudge the figures to the extent we do.
I think I just figured out what the rest of this story's comments are gonna be;
Type 1: "Why use linux when you have MacOS? It doesn't make sense!"
Type 2: "Linux is way better than MacOS! Program x has feature y, which lets me do z, which I can't go without because of w"
Almost everyone on slashdot seems to have only used one, and hates the other (sometimes they've used the other one briefly, and will bitch about how inferior it was). This is childish.
I use my operating system because I like it, not because the other OS's are so inferior.