> And I'd like a pony to sprinkle fairy dust on me that I snort up and change gender.
This is probably the strangest place to announce your wish to change genders, but we of slashdot will defend to the death your right to make that decision. Good luck to you, future brother or sister.
Never installed PulseAudio or Network Manager. doing great with WPA_GUI and Jack2/Cadence. Bluetooth doesn't depend on either, and my wiimotes/speakers work great with the bluetooth stack.
Jack allows me to take a WebRTC audio stream, pipe it into FL Studio (Under WINE!) for effects, and then pipe that output into Skype/Audacious/Audacity/VLC/ffmpeg/Carla at the same time, to as many different sound outputs as I want (even on different PC's!), in _realtime_. PulseAudio is a toy.
His father (EU Member of Parliament Nils Torvalds) put his son's actions (saying no, while nodding yes) on the record in EU parliament shortly afterwards. His father believes he's been approached.
If you're really concerned about security, you are likely running OpenBSD or a heavily-modified linux kernel by now.
Linus Torvalds was asked during a LinuxWorld keynote two years back if he was told by government agents to put hardware backdoors in linux. he said no, while nodding yes. His father, Nils Torvalds, a member of EU parliament, put it on the record that his son was approached by government agents requesting backdoors.
There is a known issue with the random number generator being _forced_ to do hardware-based (known to be broken on Intel/AMD chipsets) random number generation. under Open/Net/FreeBSD, there's an intermediary (software) random number generator that ensures actual randomness. Linus uncharacteristically led this charge to keep the RDRAND weakened, even resorting to calling others stupid for thinking otherwise. a prominent developer resigned due to it.
There is at least one recent Intel Management Engine talk at last year's Chaos Communication Congress. There was a similar talk the year before about AMD chipsets and their secret undocumented internal firmware. If you enjoy strong encryption, you would be wise to apply the proposed RDRAND patches that Linus rejected.
Now that all the major distributions have adopted systemd, there's now a full RPC backdoor to not only the GPL's linking requirements, but a backdoor to run "Approved" (by whom? we'll get to that) code automatically. Many people have pubatlicly posited that systemd will be the cause of "The Big One" vulnerability that eventually comes out of Linux and ruins its reputation.
Now, for the Ubuntu side: Canonical is incorporated in City of London, which means they are under the jurisdiction of GCHQ. Anyone who has watched/read a talk by Moxie Marlinspike will know that SSL/TLS is easily-spoofable by nation states. They will probably also know how exploitable SSL/TLS is today. All the draconian crap the GCHQ has jurisdiction over can easily be extended to a corporation registered under their governance. If Canonical refuses, they will be forced to, the way Google is forced to comply in the United States under similar framework. End result is that you cannot trust anything beyond your initial install CD, if you can even trust that.
You will likely never look through the custom patches compiled into your binaries, let alone think about Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" essay. You will just download your updates, and assume everything is A-OK. You are an end-user, and that's okay. Just don't think Shuttleworth's words are anything but a big fat placebo to keep his stock value afloat.
I logged in after a few years of lurking because of how truly offended I was by this submission.
This is not the/. I remembered./. would not have tolerated such astroturfing in comments, nevermind allow it to make it to the front page. slashdot would have modded all these astroturfing comments -1 Troll, and the metamoderation would have said those -1's were fair. this submission proves that the libertarian-geeks that used to reign supreme on/. no longer post or live here. this submission proves/. was a failed revolution.
If there's an admin around looking at this, could you delete my account? I want nothing to do with this site anymore.
This is not the Slashdot we knew. It's been handed down to at least two companies by now. it's prettier now, but the soul disappeared.
All the good vibes of/. now exist on hackernews, but that's starting to go downhill as well. It seems that there's a cycle to the nerd news site: unknown and small -> good community -> community you actually mention to others as newsworthy -> purchased by a large corporation -> Trolls and newbs take notice -> eternal september commences -> site abandoned by quality participants.
I remember looking up "Reproduction" in my school library's Encyclopedia back in fourth grade, and seeing fairly graphic pictures and content. "Sex" was another good one. Eventually, we looked up "Vulva" and "Breasts". 'Twas a good time had by all the kids hovering over the World Book.
I bet you Larry Sanger had a similar experience when he was younger.
Now that I'm a parent, who am I to deny my children the same pleasure of discovery? It seems like this is the one area where everyone is afraid that being informed will somehow make all these children shoot up a school or something. They aren't going to just magically stumble upon "Dutch Pancake (sex act)" or whatever; they're going to be directly searching for the term after one of their friends tells them about it. More than likely, it'll make having "the talk" a lot easier later on if they're already educated; you'll be largely discussing responsibility, rather than technical questions.
so two Anon were caught, and the other 6,000+ people (many with >30k botnets) collaborating on irc.partyvan.org back in the day went free.
it seems that, on this metric, the internet raids were a resounding success.
we feel entitled because we own the machine. because it's our property, we can disassemble and modify it to our liking. a quick review of property law would support this, and is encouraged as an exercise for the reader.
everything we're doing is fully legal, as we have the rights to modify our machines to do so. we don't even care if nintendo does support us (though it'd be nice if we could trust firmware updates). we're just surprised they don't, considering how much they like to talk about disruptive markets and technologies.
it's amazing that, out of all the things you could've replied with, you went with something pointless and redundant; containing the inherent supposition that your terseness had some sort of depth. good job. you have a bright future in politics.
my PC is not a game console, though. this made emulation on the Xbox that much more appealing, because I could just sit in front of my television and play, terrible controllers notwithstanding.
the Wii classic controller is like a dream, which means games just plain feel better when using it. and the Wii is faster than the original Xbox, which means that things like MAME will work with Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat now without slowdown and flicker.
I purchased my xbox used on eBay back in 2006. it came with nothing but a controller, and power/video cables. this machine was to be used for XBox Media Center. most of the time, it's used for watching DVD's and media streamed from the network. (with much more freedom than the xbox 360 allows, I might add). often times, I find myself playing Super Mario War, or one of the other homebrew games people have developed for the system. Occasionally, I fire up an emulator and play one of my favorite games from a better era. if I'm really bored, I'll start looking through the countless scripts and toys people have made for XBMC, and I spend a while tweaking things.
I admit, I downloaded an iso of Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for the Xbox. it was also the only Xbox game that has ever been in the system since i purchased it.
my wii will be arriving in the next few days. I plan on installing the homebrew channel and helping to scratch the media center itch the wii homebrew scene will eventually get. sure, I'll be able to pirate games. but I really don't want to. I have enough money to buy them, so there's no need to pirate. I just want something I can put in my living room to replace the xbox.
thanks for your work. maybe one day, Nintendo will learn to accept that the community will be able to write better software then they can.
kinda odd that the people spouting the "blue ocean" strategy are being so resistant to this huge new market that talented fans like you are opening up for them.
interesting. but how does this apply when the supplier has no monetary incentive for more goods? see, it is VERY rare that someone is profiting on child pornography. almost all people downloading child pornography do not pay for it. this was made very clear in the essay that Pete Townshend of The Who wrote about child pornography; the distribution and acquisition of the good (being the pornography) is done without monetary exchange.
now, without financial incentive, how does the supply rise? in fact, how does one gauge the demand without a measurable market?
well, then. how about a specific example. you see, up until a few years ago, homosexuality was considered "crimes against humanity". if you were caught having gay sex, not only were you incarcerated, but you were now a registered sex offender. What is a crime against humanity, you ask? well, according to Texas law (and all but 10 other states), it is the act of performing anal sex, oral sex, or sex with an animal.
now you know why all religious talking heads always equate homosexuality with bestiality. anyway, now that homosexuality is tolerated (due to a supreme court ruling), all the laws needed to be changed.
the point? our laws are based on morals. morals change. laws will change with them. in the 14th century, Colombus brought many young girls (13 and young was the preference) back to spain and portugal from his conquests, to be sold to the wealthy. not only was it socially accepted, but it was a lucrative side-business. now, I don't condone such an activity - slavery or pedophilia - but I do realize that it is a social no-no, and the law was crafted around this type of thinking. the law might not change in our lifetimes, but individual rights should not be trampled because of it.
no matter what laws are passed, or what social taboos are in place, people will still download child pornography. it is near-impossible to prosecute the photographers, as even finding them is difficult. instead, the government prosecutes the end of the chain. the sad thing is how truly ineffective this is even compared to the failing war on drugs, as at least they catch a fair number of dealers and middlemen. you may hear about a child pornography ring busted, but they're very few and far between. and judging from the glut of files being offered on file sharing networks (bittorrent being an interesting exception), it isn't even making a dent.
this is not to say that I advocate people having sex with minors. that is a violation of an individual's rights. and even if there is consent, the law has appropriate punishments for most cases. that said, this law prevents an indulgence in fantasy. the supreme court rightly ruled that virtual child pornography (drawings, comics, hentai, 3D renderings) is protected under the first amendment. so we can fantasize about it when it's still pretend, but bring any element of realism into it, and it suddenly becomes illegal. very interesting conundrum there.
uh, no. you can purchase metal dance mats (rated for 250lbs) for $150 each. including shipping, you can get two of these for less than $400. whole lot less than $1,000.
personally, I built my own using schematics I found on the web (had to change some things to make it support 500lbs on each side - me and fat friends). for about $160 total. two cheapie playstation gamepads (hacked into an abomination of wires), an EMS USB2 adapter, sheet metal, some plexiglass, foam, and some printouts of the arrows. work fantastically well. and if I don't want to play with my HTPC (stepmania is awesome), I can just plug it into a PS2.
actually, this _was_ the case. the Gaim-vv devs were all ready to merge into CVS HEAD, but Sean Egan changed all the hooks for voice and video without any notice, all so google's voice chat could be integrated. this means that all the gaim-vv work was essentially for naught, and it seems that the devs have given up merging in the support. the lead gaim-vv dev updated his blog with the situation, and others like Christian "ChipX86" Hammond chimed in with their personal horror stories working with Sean Egan. Egan has alienated most of the other GAIM contributors, who refuse to work with him anymore. sadly, it looks like Kopete will still be the only IM client for linux with cam support.
no. you described democracy. a constitutional republic (at least The United States pre-1868) was three christian fundamentalists afraid to tell the homosexual that he cannot marry, as the homosexual could fight for the ability to do so.
you'd be right, if the Revolution wasn't very much up to the task of producing visuals comparable to Xbox360 and PS3. you might want to read Hannibal's Analysis of the Revolution specs that were leaked.
save for the fact that the Xbox versions of titles tend to be prettier than PS2 or GC ports.
this is not a fact at all. usually, Gamecube ports looked the best. Xbox could do higher resolution (Halo on an HDTV is pretty), but framerate and image quality was usually higher on the Gamecube.
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> And I'd like a pony to sprinkle fairy dust on me that I snort up and change gender.
This is probably the strangest place to announce your wish to change genders, but we of slashdot will defend to the death your right to make that decision. Good luck to you, future brother or sister.
Running Gentoo. Full KDE5 desktop.
Never installed PulseAudio or Network Manager. doing great with WPA_GUI and Jack2/Cadence. Bluetooth doesn't depend on either, and my wiimotes/speakers work great with the bluetooth stack.
Jack allows me to take a WebRTC audio stream, pipe it into FL Studio (Under WINE!) for effects, and then pipe that output into Skype/Audacious/Audacity/VLC/ffmpeg/Carla at the same time, to as many different sound outputs as I want (even on different PC's!), in _realtime_. PulseAudio is a toy.
His father (EU Member of Parliament Nils Torvalds) put his son's actions (saying no, while nodding yes) on the record in EU parliament shortly afterwards. His father believes he's been approached.
If you're really concerned about security, you are likely running OpenBSD or a heavily-modified linux kernel by now.
Linus Torvalds was asked during a LinuxWorld keynote two years back if he was told by government agents to put hardware backdoors in linux. he said no, while nodding yes. His father, Nils Torvalds, a member of EU parliament, put it on the record that his son was approached by government agents requesting backdoors.
There is a known issue with the random number generator being _forced_ to do hardware-based (known to be broken on Intel/AMD chipsets) random number generation. under Open/Net/FreeBSD, there's an intermediary (software) random number generator that ensures actual randomness. Linus uncharacteristically led this charge to keep the RDRAND weakened, even resorting to calling others stupid for thinking otherwise. a prominent developer resigned due to it.
There is at least one recent Intel Management Engine talk at last year's Chaos Communication Congress. There was a similar talk the year before about AMD chipsets and their secret undocumented internal firmware. If you enjoy strong encryption, you would be wise to apply the proposed RDRAND patches that Linus rejected.
Now that all the major distributions have adopted systemd, there's now a full RPC backdoor to not only the GPL's linking requirements, but a backdoor to run "Approved" (by whom? we'll get to that) code automatically. Many people have pubatlicly posited that systemd will be the cause of "The Big One" vulnerability that eventually comes out of Linux and ruins its reputation.
Now, for the Ubuntu side: Canonical is incorporated in City of London, which means they are under the jurisdiction of GCHQ. Anyone who has watched/read a talk by Moxie Marlinspike will know that SSL/TLS is easily-spoofable by nation states. They will probably also know how exploitable SSL/TLS is today. All the draconian crap the GCHQ has jurisdiction over can easily be extended to a corporation registered under their governance. If Canonical refuses, they will be forced to, the way Google is forced to comply in the United States under similar framework. End result is that you cannot trust anything beyond your initial install CD, if you can even trust that.
You will likely never look through the custom patches compiled into your binaries, let alone think about Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" essay. You will just download your updates, and assume everything is A-OK. You are an end-user, and that's okay. Just don't think Shuttleworth's words are anything but a big fat placebo to keep his stock value afloat.
for the list. I went to kickass.to and paid what I wanted for the books. Even got the $15-tier books.
All my systems are now switched to Devuan.
The essay made people like me (linux-only since 1998) switch.
I logged in after a few years of lurking because of how truly offended I was by this submission.
This is not the /. I remembered. /. would not have tolerated such astroturfing in comments, nevermind allow it to make it to the front page. slashdot would have modded all these astroturfing comments -1 Troll, and the metamoderation would have said those -1's were fair. this submission proves that the libertarian-geeks that used to reign supreme on /. no longer post or live here. this submission proves /. was a failed revolution.
If there's an admin around looking at this, could you delete my account? I want nothing to do with this site anymore.
This is not the Slashdot we knew. It's been handed down to at least two companies by now. it's prettier now, but the soul disappeared.
All the good vibes of /. now exist on hackernews, but that's starting to go downhill as well. It seems that there's a cycle to the nerd news site: unknown and small -> good community -> community you actually mention to others as newsworthy -> purchased by a large corporation -> Trolls and newbs take notice -> eternal september commences -> site abandoned by quality participants.
I remember looking up "Reproduction" in my school library's Encyclopedia back in fourth grade, and seeing fairly graphic pictures and content. "Sex" was another good one. Eventually, we looked up "Vulva" and "Breasts". 'Twas a good time had by all the kids hovering over the World Book.
I bet you Larry Sanger had a similar experience when he was younger.
Now that I'm a parent, who am I to deny my children the same pleasure of discovery? It seems like this is the one area where everyone is afraid that being informed will somehow make all these children shoot up a school or something. They aren't going to just magically stumble upon "Dutch Pancake (sex act)" or whatever; they're going to be directly searching for the term after one of their friends tells them about it. More than likely, it'll make having "the talk" a lot easier later on if they're already educated; you'll be largely discussing responsibility, rather than technical questions.
so two Anon were caught, and the other 6,000+ people (many with >30k botnets) collaborating on irc.partyvan.org back in the day went free. it seems that, on this metric, the internet raids were a resounding success.
3 billion years for a species to not kill itself long enough to escape this galaxy, lest all life on it perish?
we feel entitled because we own the machine. because it's our property, we can disassemble and modify it to our liking. a quick review of property law would support this, and is encouraged as an exercise for the reader. everything we're doing is fully legal, as we have the rights to modify our machines to do so. we don't even care if nintendo does support us (though it'd be nice if we could trust firmware updates). we're just surprised they don't, considering how much they like to talk about disruptive markets and technologies.
it's amazing that, out of all the things you could've replied with, you went with something pointless and redundant; containing the inherent supposition that your terseness had some sort of depth. good job. you have a bright future in politics.
my PC is not a game console, though. this made emulation on the Xbox that much more appealing, because I could just sit in front of my television and play, terrible controllers notwithstanding.
the Wii classic controller is like a dream, which means games just plain feel better when using it. and the Wii is faster than the original Xbox, which means that things like MAME will work with Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat now without slowdown and flicker.
I purchased my xbox used on eBay back in 2006. it came with nothing but a controller, and power/video cables. this machine was to be used for XBox Media Center. most of the time, it's used for watching DVD's and media streamed from the network. (with much more freedom than the xbox 360 allows, I might add). often times, I find myself playing Super Mario War, or one of the other homebrew games people have developed for the system. Occasionally, I fire up an emulator and play one of my favorite games from a better era. if I'm really bored, I'll start looking through the countless scripts and toys people have made for XBMC, and I spend a while tweaking things.
I admit, I downloaded an iso of Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for the Xbox. it was also the only Xbox game that has ever been in the system since i purchased it.
my wii will be arriving in the next few days. I plan on installing the homebrew channel and helping to scratch the media center itch the wii homebrew scene will eventually get. sure, I'll be able to pirate games. but I really don't want to. I have enough money to buy them, so there's no need to pirate. I just want something I can put in my living room to replace the xbox.
thanks for your work.
maybe one day, Nintendo will learn to accept that the community will be able to write better software then they can.
kinda odd that the people spouting the "blue ocean" strategy are being so resistant to this huge new market that talented fans like you are opening up for them.
interesting. but how does this apply when the supplier has no monetary incentive for more goods? see, it is VERY rare that someone is profiting on child pornography. almost all people downloading child pornography do not pay for it. this was made very clear in the essay that Pete Townshend of The Who wrote about child pornography; the distribution and acquisition of the good (being the pornography) is done without monetary exchange.
now, without financial incentive, how does the supply rise? in fact, how does one gauge the demand without a measurable market?
I think you missed his entire point. he was stating that there is no proof that the existence of demand will lead to an increase in supply.
well, then. how about a specific example.
you see, up until a few years ago, homosexuality was considered "crimes against humanity". if you were caught having gay sex, not only were you incarcerated, but you were now a registered sex offender. What is a crime against humanity, you ask? well, according to Texas law (and all but 10 other states), it is the act of performing anal sex, oral sex, or sex with an animal.
now you know why all religious talking heads always equate homosexuality with bestiality. anyway, now that homosexuality is tolerated (due to a supreme court ruling), all the laws needed to be changed.
the point? our laws are based on morals. morals change. laws will change with them. in the 14th century, Colombus brought many young girls (13 and young was the preference) back to spain and portugal from his conquests, to be sold to the wealthy. not only was it socially accepted, but it was a lucrative side-business. now, I don't condone such an activity - slavery or pedophilia - but I do realize that it is a social no-no, and the law was crafted around this type of thinking. the law might not change in our lifetimes, but individual rights should not be trampled because of it.
no matter what laws are passed, or what social taboos are in place, people will still download child pornography. it is near-impossible to prosecute the photographers, as even finding them is difficult. instead, the government prosecutes the end of the chain. the sad thing is how truly ineffective this is even compared to the failing war on drugs, as at least they catch a fair number of dealers and middlemen. you may hear about a child pornography ring busted, but they're very few and far between. and judging from the glut of files being offered on file sharing networks (bittorrent being an interesting exception), it isn't even making a dent.
this is not to say that I advocate people having sex with minors. that is a violation of an individual's rights. and even if there is consent, the law has appropriate punishments for most cases. that said, this law prevents an indulgence in fantasy. the supreme court rightly ruled that virtual child pornography (drawings, comics, hentai, 3D renderings) is protected under the first amendment. so we can fantasize about it when it's still pretend, but bring any element of realism into it, and it suddenly becomes illegal. very interesting conundrum there.
uh, no. you can purchase metal dance mats (rated for 250lbs) for $150 each. including shipping, you can get two of these for less than $400. whole lot less than $1,000.
personally, I built my own using schematics I found on the web (had to change some things to make it support 500lbs on each side - me and fat friends). for about $160 total. two cheapie playstation gamepads (hacked into an abomination of wires), an EMS USB2 adapter, sheet metal, some plexiglass, foam, and some printouts of the arrows. work fantastically well. and if I don't want to play with my HTPC (stepmania is awesome), I can just plug it into a PS2.
actually, this _was_ the case. the Gaim-vv devs were all ready to merge into CVS HEAD, but Sean Egan changed all the hooks for voice and video without any notice, all so google's voice chat could be integrated. this means that all the gaim-vv work was essentially for naught, and it seems that the devs have given up merging in the support. the lead gaim-vv dev updated his blog with the situation, and others like Christian "ChipX86" Hammond chimed in with their personal horror stories working with Sean Egan. Egan has alienated most of the other GAIM contributors, who refuse to work with him anymore. sadly, it looks like Kopete will still be the only IM client for linux with cam support.
apparently, you missed the "pre-1868" part.
oh wait. it was in parenthesis. you're claiming plausible deniability.
we are no longer a constitutional republic. we are a constitutional representative democracy, where the majority rules.
by the way, homosexuals can still get married in MA.
yeah, yeah. YHBT. YHL. HAND.
no. you described democracy.
a constitutional republic (at least The United States pre-1868) was three christian fundamentalists afraid to tell the homosexual that he cannot marry, as the homosexual could fight for the ability to do so.
you'd be right, if the Revolution wasn't very much up to the task of producing visuals comparable to Xbox360 and PS3. you might want to read Hannibal's Analysis of the Revolution specs that were leaked.
save for the fact that the Xbox versions of titles tend to be prettier than PS2 or GC ports.
this is not a fact at all. usually, Gamecube ports looked the best. Xbox could do higher resolution (Halo on an HDTV is pretty), but framerate and image quality was usually higher on the Gamecube.
Sound, however, was where the Xbox shined.
"swag" is the free crap you pick up at conventions and expositions.
"schwag" is low-grade cannabis. usually seedy and only lasts for about 30 minutes at a time. otherwise known as brick weed or brown frown.