Assuming the download turns out to be authentic, people should remember that it was possible for anyone to create an account using the name and e-mail address of other individuals.
...And supplying other people's credit card details as well, no doubt.
FWIW, I believe that people's sex lives are their own business, married or not. But I find it difficult to drum up any sympathy for marrieds who are foolish enough to go looking for something on the side via a big flashy commercial website dedicated to that purpose.
Internet privacy was over at least a decade ago. There's been plenty of time for you to figure this out.
North Korea has a death sentence and yet people still keep pirating.
(Emphasis added.)
Pirating is sharing, but not all sharing is pirating.
In the West, simply sharing is not (for the most part) enough to get you a prison sentence, although pirating may be. In North Korea, simply sharing may get you sent to Yodok or up in front of a firing squad, and in this it matters not a whit whether what you shared happens to have been pirated. Or not.
It quit working with VirtualBox sometime back (at which time VBox was the only thing that didn't get taken care by YaST), and I quit bothering with it, and sort of managed to forget all about it. Now that I look, I see I've never even installed DKMS on this machine since I first set it up a little over a year ago.
I've been running Linux on my desktop for 10+ years and the only driver issues I've ever had were solved by ditching Nouveau and using Nvidia's own drivers.
And yes, I have to reinstall them following a kernel update:
~> uptime
12:09pm up 98 days 23:53, 8 users, load average: 1.14, 1.13, 1.14
*That* is how long it has been since the last time I had to do this.
And it takes about 30 seconds to run the installer script and restart the desktop. I could automate it, but given that I only need to do this 2-3 times a year, it doesn't really seem worth the trouble.
When I ran Windows, I'd spend hours just *looking* for drivers (and hoping they wouldn't hose my system).
I bought a 64-bit laptop a few years ago which came with 32-bit Windows 7, and on which I tried to install 64-bit Win7, only to discover after searching for 2-3 days that there were *no* 64-bit Windows drivers for the wifi or graphics cards and there was *no way to obtain them*. Installed 64-bit Linux on it instead. 30 minutes after I put the CD in the drive, I had a fully working laptop.
BTW, I use OpenSUSE. It's been passing the Zontar Challenge for better than a decade.:)
So it's a "they say" thing, and we all know what Republican President Abraham Lincoln said about that. Thanks for clarifying.
(BTW, even though I'm not a citizen, as a legal resident of Sweden I am eligible to vote in municipal/local elections here, although I don't get to vote for the Riksdag or the EU Parliament.)
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Assuming the download turns out to be authentic, people should remember that it was possible for anyone to create an account using the name and e-mail address of other individuals.
...And supplying other people's credit card details as well, no doubt.
FWIW, I believe that people's sex lives are their own business, married or not. But I find it difficult to drum up any sympathy for marrieds who are foolish enough to go looking for something on the side via a big flashy commercial website dedicated to that purpose.
Internet privacy was over at least a decade ago. There's been plenty of time for you to figure this out.
Quoth the OP,
North Korea has a death sentence and yet people still keep pirating.
(Emphasis added.)
Pirating is sharing, but not all sharing is pirating.
In the West, simply sharing is not (for the most part) enough to get you a prison sentence, although pirating may be. In North Korea, simply sharing may get you sent to Yodok or up in front of a firing squad, and in this it matters not a whit whether what you shared happens to have been pirated. Or not.
It quit working with VirtualBox sometime back (at which time VBox was the only thing that didn't get taken care by YaST), and I quit bothering with it, and sort of managed to forget all about it. Now that I look, I see I've never even installed DKMS on this machine since I first set it up a little over a year ago.
Thanks for the reminder!
I've been running Linux on my desktop for 10+ years and the only driver issues I've ever had were solved by ditching Nouveau and using Nvidia's own drivers.
And yes, I have to reinstall them following a kernel update:
~> uptime
12:09pm up 98 days 23:53, 8 users, load average: 1.14, 1.13, 1.14
*That* is how long it has been since the last time I had to do this.
And it takes about 30 seconds to run the installer script and restart the desktop. I could automate it, but given that I only need to do this 2-3 times a year, it doesn't really seem worth the trouble.
When I ran Windows, I'd spend hours just *looking* for drivers (and hoping they wouldn't hose my system).
I bought a 64-bit laptop a few years ago which came with 32-bit Windows 7, and on which I tried to install 64-bit Win7, only to discover after searching for 2-3 days that there were *no* 64-bit Windows drivers for the wifi or graphics cards and there was *no way to obtain them*. Installed 64-bit Linux on it instead. 30 minutes after I put the CD in the drive, I had a fully working laptop.
BTW, I use OpenSUSE. It's been passing the Zontar Challenge for better than a decade. :)
Try Egypt, where it's just become a criminal offence to report news that doesn't agree with the government's version of events.
That death sentence is for having or sharing media that wasn't issued by the government. Not quite the same thing.
Probably what the rest of us mean by it: an action that results in harm to another party but that does not break any laws in or per se.
Fraud is a criminal offence; there are criminal laws against it.
So it's a "they say" thing, and we all know what Republican President Abraham Lincoln said about that. Thanks for clarifying.
(BTW, even though I'm not a citizen, as a legal resident of Sweden I am eligible to vote in municipal/local elections here, although I don't get to vote for the Riksdag or the EU Parliament.)
I keep hearing about stuff like this. When I still lived in the US, non-citizens could not vote in US elections. When did this change?
I've been reading Slashdot since it was Chips & Dips, and I'd never heard of it, either. AC can go suck it.
Pfffft. That's not even close to old-skool. *I'm* waiting for a phone based on this.
You make me so very happy.
What add-on compatibility would you be talking about? There IS no fucking add-on compatibility. *Every* bloody release breaks extensions and themes.
Give me Nautipolis or Orthodox any day.
Tack så mycket! Danke schön! Xiexie ni! Gracias!
That has irritated the holy hell out of me for ages.
Sorry I don't have mod points today, but you have my gratitude. THANK YOU.
It seems more like Slashdot has a resident passive-aggressive anonymous-cowardly FF fanboi/troll who's posting horseshit.
(No, we're just mightily surprised that you'd admit to trying to follow the link.)
We're about to find out, there's no reason why a communist country couldn't be very wealthy if done right.
We're *about* to find out? Guess you missed what's happened in China since 1981?
Didn't I already teach you how to say it in Spanish? Fail fail fail.
People don't seem to understand the difference between a need and a want anymore.
Nor are they supposed to.
Forced the use of the XXX domain make tools for those who don't want to see porn.
To someone in Saudi Arabia, showing women's bare legs or even bare faces might be considered porn. "No burqa? OMG!!"
So we should put any photos that show women's legs (and faces, too, let's not forget) on a .xxx domain and that'll make everyone happy, right?
You obviously have not thought such things through very well.
Whether you're actually capable of doing so... that's an entirely different question. One which I suspect can be answered only with a negative.
(Why yes, I *am* mocking you, and most especially your anti-intellectualism. Deal with it.)
Window Maker FTW.
(Actually, I use KDE most of the time and don't find it a bit laggy or what have you, but WM is great for remote sessions, VMs, and older hardware.)
My hosts file is a symbolic link to an image of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits, holding a copy of Lotus Notes and a machine gun.
When I can remove/replace the battery again.
When I get removable storage back.
And most especially when I can buy a 12" tablet from them again!
Didn't expect an educated reply...
Believe me, after reading your post above, I was in absolutely no wise expecting one. :)