Now I have to start working on a movie script about the consequences of bio-engineering an organism to control the consequences of nuclear power and atomic weaponry.
Damn that gene that requires me to point these things out and damn that genome-mapping group of scientists for not finding and annhilating that gene.
I don't think the Palm appeals to the "commercially viable" sector yet - at least until the multiple TCP/IP connections part is worked out. At this stage I think we are looking more at a gotta-have-it gadget.
About fees - no numbers here, but I betcha the charges will be in per minute cost rather than per byte since the time necessary for larger transactions is still (I expect) fairly high. When we eventually get high-speed connectivity to these devices I can see a per byte rate.
Remember when Ford actually decided that the design flaw in the Ford Pinto's gas tank would cost them more to repair if they issued recall notices than they expected to pay in lawsuits to families whose members would die due to the flaw? Talk about a loser decision...
I spent all those years since high school training in martial arts, lifting weights and learning how to use every weapon you can imagine. And I've been waiting for you. >;-)
That might explain why all the most impoverished countries seem to make the best vodka: Poland (Belvedere); Russia (Stolichnaya); Finland (Finlandia). I seem to know a little too much about vodka... nevermind.
is a hell of a responsibility, to be sure, but let's take a sec and look at who really does that. What percentage of the population do you think runs the country, the world? Small, eh?
How may people who make decisions for others have their head up their ass? Plenty? Then consider Joe Average who has far less formal education and access to relevant data than the nitwits in charge.
Check your sample size - there are too many really clueless people for any government to allow its citizens to make decisions like which drugs they should take. That is simply not responsible government.
This may be a tad redundant after rc-flyer's comment - but I have to ask this are you nuts? The average person does not have the knowledge to determine what prescription drugs they should be taking, much less the resources to research those choices.
The readership on/. is (occasional appearances to the contrary notwithstanding) educated and informed, but most of the world is not. Without regulating prescriptions, we would have a problem that would quickly start to solve itself - since the people prescribing their own medicines would begin to die.
Agreed - this kind of regulation, though appealing for the "why not" factor, is only going to lay the groundwork for government to impose further regulations. Every penny-anty province is just salivating at the thought of taxing online commerce because of the enormous cash flow on the Internet.
IANAL either, but I think this kind of legislation will open the door to many local governmental bodies which will try their hand in state courts because they have even the slightest hint of precedence on their side and the money is so tempting. Expect to see varied and repeated attempts, too. When things don't pass the first time, legislators like to put just a little different spin on the reason and try again, and again...
I completely agree - it is most important that you enjoy what you do while you do it. The challenge is to do what you love and be successful at it at the same time, whether it is an entrepreneurial venture or working for someone else.
OK - you make good points, but here is a suggestion. Try it. Pick a Saturday when you have a little time to spend and make your machine dual bootable with Redhat 6.1 or Caldera 2.3. They are both very easy to install and you can always go back into 98 whenever you want.
I still use 98 for games and DVD and that won't change very soon. However, I have the option of using a more stable, bleeding edge OS without the worry of "did I get a virus visiting that site?"
I agree that the 98 interface is easy, but you probably don't realize how easy the KDE and Gnome interfaces are too. Try it and maybe, just maybe, you'll really like it.
Is the rest of your family in your mother's town going to use her computer? I think Mandrake is a great choice if she is not going to change the PC. I put Win95 on my mom's machine just because it was in the days of Redhat 5.0 and the gui was lacking a bit. She probably wouldn't have been as happy with AfterStep as with 95. Now I would like her to run Mandrake with KDE but she knows 95 a little and she detests change.
I disagree. What needs to be standard is the way new users can select tools without having to know the name to launch it. Say you like the feel of Gnome but want kPPP. GnoRPM is your favorite now, but how long before you knew it existed?
If users were given a standard toolbox list so they knew which was used for what they could pick and choose the ones they like and still have tons of variety.
Yes they will and it's not fair. A friend of mine registered the domain name Total-Fina.com when the huge oil companies merged. They filed suit in France. He was served by a U.S. Marshall and had to appear in Court in France if he wanted to keep the name. He obviously could not afford the trip and lost the name due to default judgement.
He had a great name and should have made really big $$ for it, but they just screwed him because they could.
Longing for the days of the spaceman planting the flag on the moon too, eh? I haven't been able to stand watching MTV (other than the award show) for years - and it ain't because I am now over 30. The BOX plays real videos and VH1 does a much better job of reporting about music than MTV nowadays. What happened to VIDEOS on MTV??
As was pointed out elsewhere - this could have been done *alot* easier by using Windows fdisk. Why would M$ write a convoluted article requiring all those steps when they could have just said "Insert a bootable DOS or WIN9x floppy with fdisk on it in drive a:, boot the machine, type fdisk, select 'delete non-dos partition', lather, rinse, repeat."
Because this is intended to make everything you do with Linux seem more difficult than it really is? Nah - couldn't be.
Yeah - that is definitely a different definition than I have been using. To me, a "script kiddie" has always been someone who runs a Win box with prebuilt utilities that do all the work with no understanding of the underlying processes required to accomplish what the tools do for them.
I guess what makes me balk is the idea that these 31337 d00ds will think they are doing something useful by screwing around with other people's networks. It doesn't impress me and I don't like to see it encouraged.
True, having one's systems scanned and cracked may be the only way some admins will be motivated, but I would like to consider it from the sk's perspective too. I hear too many rants from kids who think they have a clue before they have opened a book. I would prefer that these kids apply themselves, learn the protocols, OSes and NOSes and maybe even write their own utilities rather than glomming off someone else's work and calling themselves hackers.
these script kiddies are performing an invaluable job - exposing security holes without doing *too much* damage
I don't know if I can go along with that. Script kiddies really aren't exposing security holes, just launching DoS attacks, which does nothing for determining how well a site is locked down.
Now if you said *crackers* are a valuable resource for that reason I would agree, but cracking takes considerably more skill than using premade utilities to throw around TCP fragments.
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Damn that gene that requires me to point these things out and damn that genome-mapping group of scientists for not finding and annhilating that gene.
Now how can I bio-engineer a solution to this? ...
About fees - no numbers here, but I betcha the charges will be in per minute cost rather than per byte since the time necessary for larger transactions is still (I expect) fairly high. When we eventually get high-speed connectivity to these devices I can see a per byte rate.
Remember when Ford actually decided that the design flaw in the Ford Pinto's gas tank would cost them more to repair if they issued recall notices than they expected to pay in lawsuits to families whose members would die due to the flaw? Talk about a loser decision ...
I spent all those years since high school training in martial arts, lifting weights and learning how to use every weapon you can imagine. And I've been waiting for you. >;-)
That might explain why all the most impoverished countries seem to make the best vodka: Poland (Belvedere); Russia (Stolichnaya); Finland (Finlandia). I seem to know a little too much about vodka ... nevermind.
How may people who make decisions for others have their head up their ass? Plenty? Then consider Joe Average who has far less formal education and access to relevant data than the nitwits in charge.
Check your sample size - there are too many really clueless people for any government to allow its citizens to make decisions like which drugs they should take. That is simply not responsible government.
This sounds just like a South Park episode, doesn't it?
The readership on /. is (occasional appearances to the contrary notwithstanding) educated and informed, but most of the world is not. Without regulating prescriptions, we would have a problem that would quickly start to solve itself - since the people prescribing their own medicines would begin to die.
IANAL either, but I think this kind of legislation will open the door to many local governmental bodies which will try their hand in state courts because they have even the slightest hint of precedence on their side and the money is so tempting. Expect to see varied and repeated attempts, too. When things don't pass the first time, legislators like to put just a little different spin on the reason and try again, and again ...
Yeah - I listen to Rush Limbaugh too.
I completely agree - it is most important that you enjoy what you do while you do it. The challenge is to do what you love and be successful at it at the same time, whether it is an entrepreneurial venture or working for someone else.
The point is there are just way too many of us.
I still use 98 for games and DVD and that won't change very soon. However, I have the option of using a more stable, bleeding edge OS without the worry of "did I get a virus visiting that site?"
I agree that the 98 interface is easy, but you probably don't realize how easy the KDE and Gnome interfaces are too. Try it and maybe, just maybe, you'll really like it.
Is the rest of your family in your mother's town going to use her computer? I think Mandrake is a great choice if she is not going to change the PC. I put Win95 on my mom's machine just because it was in the days of Redhat 5.0 and the gui was lacking a bit. She probably wouldn't have been as happy with AfterStep as with 95. Now I would like her to run Mandrake with KDE but she knows 95 a little and she detests change.
If users were given a standard toolbox list so they knew which was used for what they could pick and choose the ones they like and still have tons of variety.
He had a great name and should have made really big $$ for it, but they just screwed him because they could.
P!!!@500 with 128Mb and 16Mb Nvidia TNT - it rocks, 'nuff said
P166 with 88Mb and 2Mb S3 - firewall, adequate in all ways except video, which is unnecessary for the box's function
K6II@400 with 128Mb and 1 Mb S3 - Apache 1.3 web server - also runs great except the gui, which again is unecessary for the box's function.
One thought - video cards - check for drivers before you buy the latest and greatest card. Matrox is supported. Have fun!
Have fun :)
Because this is intended to make everything you do with Linux seem more difficult than it really is? Nah - couldn't be.
Way offtopic, I know, but you seem like one who might care:
e.g. stands for exempli gratia and means "for example"
I think what you wanted was i.e. for id est which means "that is"
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I guess what makes me balk is the idea that these 31337 d00ds will think they are doing something useful by screwing around with other people's networks. It doesn't impress me and I don't like to see it encouraged.
True, having one's systems scanned and cracked may be the only way some admins will be motivated, but I would like to consider it from the sk's perspective too. I hear too many rants from kids who think they have a clue before they have opened a book. I would prefer that these kids apply themselves, learn the protocols, OSes and NOSes and maybe even write their own utilities rather than glomming off someone else's work and calling themselves hackers.
I don't know if I can go along with that. Script kiddies really aren't exposing security holes, just launching DoS attacks, which does nothing for determining how well a site is locked down.
Now if you said *crackers* are a valuable resource for that reason I would agree, but cracking takes considerably more skill than using premade utilities to throw around TCP fragments.