Please someone contact them about putting out a firefox plugin. The spammers already have these things figured out (man in the middle attacks described further down in the comments) and I just want to get into my bank account and forums without having to take my glasses off, get about an inch away from the monitor and then have to try two or three times before getting one that's legible. Thankfully I got image-zoom on here so I haven't had to do the first two steps in a while. It's only a matter of time before they start using flash for these things though and then it's back to practically felching the monitor just to read the stupid things.
As an aside I handn't logged in yet to post and the person in the next cube over tells me the captchkacinno thing for this particular comment was "accuracy". Funny.
There's also N-Generate, which makes rave flyers and CD-Covers. It's a shame they never updated or made any more addons for the thing, as it's still useful for making CD covers and labels for. Yes, I realize they made it as a joke about trendwhore graphics design, but still...
Goodwill. Not only can you find CD's full of music for a buck or two, but you can get all kinds of nice software, sometimes only one version out of date. Word Perfect 8 suite still works as good as it ever has, and I really like all those fonts it came with. I've also discovered a lot of people throwing their early 90's rock collections to the curb. Thanks guys.
With real luck you can get CDR's that someone has already thoughtfully filled with mp3s for you.
If it was anyone else (the government) who was advocating this, people would be outraged.
People already ARE outraged, and the more people find out how email that they were expecting is being held hostage, the less support this group has. Or as I thought to myself upon hearing about how the nutball from Osirus decided to 'make the world go away' -
Anonymous Internet vigilantes with no accountability and a loose grasp of ethics shutting down communications to further some petty agenda. Whod'a thunkit?
What's needed is a list, a'la MAPS or something, and freeware/'free software' that automatically updates your hosts file. Have clients for every OS+browser combination you can think of, after all we WANT joe-sixpack to jump on this. Make a big deal about how faster pages will load and how much more protected your "privacy" is.
Using the arguments that featured piracy-bounty-hunter guy was using (thin of the bandwitdh!)ISPs should be all over this, and maybe even reccomend it to their customers. After all, they still get paid, their service will be faster all around, which of course equates to more overselling they can get away with...you get the drift.
You're right about one thing. TV doesn't use clickthrough's or ad banners for it's advertising. Fortunately, I haven't seen too many sites that interrupt their content so that you can't see it for anywhere from a minute to 3 because you're looking at ads instead.
Of course someone will get the bright idea to do something like this with a flash animation that doesn't let you into more content until it's done. Just wait.
I've imagined this happening to me...
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mudsh -/home/mcrandello # cas colorsp bin
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****/home/mcrandello/bin
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****/home/mcrandello/bin
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello/bin has big nasty wounds and scratches.
/home/mcrandello/bin swings at you, but misses.
mudsh -/home/mcrandello # back bin
Your backstab wounds/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello/bin is mortally wounded.
/home/mcrandello/bin has died.
***You get 5 gold pieces from the corpse of/home/mcrandello/bin.
***You find the charred remains of an rxvt binary on the corpse of/home/mcrandello/bin.
Real simple. Create tests based on real-world fair use situations. Simply report whether the device allowed you to copy the information, or whether it did not. Since you are not employing any technological means to defeat the copy-protection, you are not running afoul of any laws, right(IANAL)?
Have a simple pass/fail chart with big shiny red and green check marks, so the customers will instantly recognize which products employ content-control measures, and base their purchases accordingly.
They'd assign the rights to the patent to the FSF or some other organization as a safegaurd, or anti-patent if you will. I think it's nice that they made this statement, though, and it shows then in a little bit better light than simply letting it go without saying anything, then all of a sudden breaking out the guns.
I'm personally imagining a button on the toolbat that opens up another panel, with a row of "on/off" style pushbuttons. Have one for each feature that people would want disabled at a given time, so that feature is never more than two clicks away. Make it nice, simple and candylike in it's beauty so that "end users" will grok it right away and begin playing with it. Something like the following:
[on ] javascript.
[off] javascript pop-up windows.
[off] animated gifs.
[on ] customized ad block list [details]
[off] block all ad-banner sized images.
[on ] block cookies from places we don't know.
AFAIK the trademark being used in the product name is what tatu has a problem with. As the article states there are several other SSH(TM) implementations out there that aren't being hassled over this.
My suggestion is to have the installer name the command 'stn' then simply symlink it to 'ssh' by default.
Try nano sometime. I remember hearing about it first a year or two ago, I believe it was an attempt to rewrite Pico under the GPL...although there are a few nice things in it like a search/replace function, plus it's not tied to pine (which my OpenBSD won't install from ports w/o editing the makefile, something about being unsafe or some kind of bother).
Sounds pretty stand-up of them. As far as Linux is concerned, the point they are trying to make is that your "total cost of ownership" will be higher when you figure in the amount of time spen on setup and troubleshooting, support costs, and all the hidden costs that pop up (upgrading to compatible hardware, etc.)
Of course this is also taking the stance the the TCO of your commercial will not exceed the purchase price, which as we all know is rarely the case. One of the areas where Linux (and the other free-as-in-whatever OS's) has really progressed is the amount of support that's available for it for only the cost of your internet service. There are other areas where you may need to spend money after installation, such as hardware, but as HW support for Linux expands the whole "free doesn't mean much" argument will approach moot.
Try telling that to a judge. I'm sure he'd have a good laugh before throwing you in jail.
I thought it already had been tried (I saw it mentioned here, perhaps someone can provide a link) and won. Basically the providers sued the defendant for descrambling their signal. His argument was if they didn't want him receiving their signal they should get it the "hell off his property". I believe the same would apply here.
So then the easiest way to take care of them is to simply return every postage free envelope you get.
If you live near an Apartment and see more mailings in the trash can they usually set out by the mail kiosk then mail those back in too.
Make up some labels with known bad adresses, and affix them to anyplace they ask for one, so that they'll send out even more crap mail and get it returned.
Unfortunately I only got 640X480 out of the xf86cfg option, fortunately I just copied the relevent info out of my 3.3.6 config for the screens, etc. and it seemed to like that. Personally though I really long for the return of the xset package (XF86Setup). Being able to know in advance that you won't have problems with your mouse, and being able to fine tune the display before saving out your XF86Config file is a really nice thing.
from what I've seen the look and feel of the themes isn't close enough to warrant any action.
It seems to be a case of (at least reading through the comments on the themes.org site) the themes in questing were infringing upon *trademarks* belonging to APPL, either using 'logos' or trademarked names (aqua, Mac, etc.)
This should be relatively easy to fix. Rename them to, say "Smack-Agua" and put little pictures of the fruit of your choice (Oranges for maximum effect) instead of apples.
I would think an open letter to them would be much better, get/. to post it, see about salon, wired, anyone who will carry it. Something very politely worded, along the lines of "We think you made that statement in error, would you please let us know exactly what portions of the program (source available) that are infringing? After all, we're reasonable people who would never dream of infringin on anyone elses IP and would be happy to correct anything we find doing just that..."
They pulled their heads out of their asses long enough to come up with this tripe for the sake of a little FUDmongering. Let's make them walk away with ogg* on their faces.
You bring up an interesting point, that the development of OSS projects may well stagnate when the economy turns sour. Here's something to consider. Between, say Konqueror and Opera, which will likely still be available for download if the $$ heads south? At least in the case of the former, there is source code, that anyone can pick up and work with.
If Opera were to close their doors tommorrow, would we need to write a "fake out" program to feed fake ads to the free version so it will continue to work(note that others here say it needs to 'phone home')? And some would say that working for small startups is not conducive to a regular paycheck either:-)
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Please someone contact them about putting out a firefox plugin. The spammers already have these things figured out (man in the middle attacks described further down in the comments) and I just want to get into my bank account and forums without having to take my glasses off, get about an inch away from the monitor and then have to try two or three times before getting one that's legible. Thankfully I got image-zoom on here so I haven't had to do the first two steps in a while. It's only a matter of time before they start using flash for these things though and then it's back to practically felching the monitor just to read the stupid things.
As an aside I handn't logged in yet to post and the person in the next cube over tells me the captchkacinno thing for this particular comment was "accuracy". Funny.
There's also N-Generate, which makes rave flyers and CD-Covers. It's a shame they never updated or made any more addons for the thing, as it's still useful for making CD covers and labels for. Yes, I realize they made it as a joke about trendwhore graphics design, but still...
From the linked article:c kshire/3378445.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwi
"Mr Nichols says he has spent £6,000 in bail and legal fees"
Apparently his Euros weren't good for that either.
Goodwill. Not only can you find CD's full of music for a buck or two, but you can get all kinds of nice software, sometimes only one version out of date. Word Perfect 8 suite still works as good as it ever has, and I really like all those fonts it came with. I've also discovered a lot of people throwing their early 90's rock collections to the curb. Thanks guys.
With real luck you can get CDR's that someone has already thoughtfully filled with mp3s for you.
oops, goofed up the url. Anyway look at that newsgroup, its probably your best bet.
news://comp.graphics.apps.gimp
If it was anyone else (the government) who was advocating this, people would be outraged.
People already ARE outraged, and the more people find out how email that they were expecting is being held hostage, the less support this group has. Or as I thought to myself upon hearing about how the nutball from Osirus decided to 'make the world go away' -
Anonymous Internet vigilantes with no accountability and a loose grasp of ethics shutting down communications to further some petty agenda. Whod'a thunkit?
I always added "Parent Directory" in to make sure I'm getting a real index. May help weed out porn pages as someone above me suggested may happen.
Works fine in Firebird. Easy way to test is just to click one of the recent searches in their sidebar.
What's needed is a list, a'la MAPS or something, and freeware/'free software' that automatically updates your hosts file. Have clients for every OS+browser combination you can think of, after all we WANT joe-sixpack to jump on this. Make a big deal about how faster pages will load and how much more protected your "privacy" is.
Using the arguments that featured piracy-bounty-hunter guy was using (thin of the bandwitdh!)ISPs should be all over this, and maybe even reccomend it to their customers. After all, they still get paid, their service will be faster all around, which of course equates to more overselling they can get away with...you get the drift.
You're right about one thing. TV doesn't use clickthrough's or ad banners for it's advertising. Fortunately, I haven't seen too many sites that interrupt their content so that you can't see it for anywhere from a minute to 3 because you're looking at ads instead.
Of course someone will get the bright idea to do something like this with a flash animation that doesn't let you into more content until it's done. Just wait.
mudsh - /home/mcrandello # cas colorsp bin
/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello # back bin
/home/mcrandello/bin
/home/mcrandello/bin.
/home/mcrandello/bin.
/home/mcrandello #
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****
Your Colorspray Spell ****Obliterates****
/home/mcrandello/bin has big nasty wounds and scratches.
/home/mcrandello/bin swings at you, but misses.
mudsh -
Your backstab wounds
/home/mcrandello/bin is mortally wounded.
/home/mcrandello/bin has died.
***You get 5 gold pieces from the corpse of
***You find the charred remains of an rxvt binary on the corpse of
mudsh -
Real simple. Create tests based on real-world fair use situations. Simply report whether the device allowed you to copy the information, or whether it did not. Since you are not employing any technological means to defeat the copy-protection, you are not running afoul of any laws, right(IANAL)?
Have a simple pass/fail chart with big shiny red and green check marks, so the customers will instantly recognize which products employ content-control measures, and base their purchases accordingly.
They'd assign the rights to the patent to the FSF or some other organization as a safegaurd, or anti-patent if you will. I think it's nice that they made this statement, though, and it shows then in a little bit better light than simply letting it go without saying anything, then all of a sudden breaking out the guns.
I'm personally imagining a button on the toolbat that opens up another panel, with a row of "on/off" style pushbuttons. Have one for each feature that people would want disabled at a given time, so that feature is never more than two clicks away. Make it nice, simple and candylike in it's beauty so that "end users" will grok it right away and begin playing with it. Something like the following:
[on ] javascript.
[off] javascript pop-up windows.
[off] animated gifs.
[on ] customized ad block list [details]
[off] block all ad-banner sized images.
[on ] block cookies from places we don't know.
AFAIK the trademark being used in the product name is what tatu has a problem with. As the article states there are several other SSH(TM) implementations out there that aren't being hassled over this.
My suggestion is to have the installer name the command 'stn' then simply symlink it to 'ssh' by default.
Try nano sometime. I remember hearing about it first a year or two ago, I believe it was an attempt to rewrite Pico under the GPL...although there are a few nice things in it like a search/replace function, plus it's not tied to pine (which my OpenBSD won't install from ports w/o editing the makefile, something about being unsafe or some kind of bother).
Sounds pretty stand-up of them. As far as Linux is concerned, the point they are trying to make is that your "total cost of ownership" will be higher when you figure in the amount of time spen on setup and troubleshooting, support costs, and all the hidden costs that pop up (upgrading to compatible hardware, etc.)
Of course this is also taking the stance the the TCO of your commercial will not exceed the purchase price, which as we all know is rarely the case. One of the areas where Linux (and the other free-as-in-whatever OS's) has really progressed is the amount of support that's available for it for only the cost of your internet service. There are other areas where you may need to spend money after installation, such as hardware, but as HW support for Linux expands the whole "free doesn't mean much" argument will approach moot.
Try telling that to a judge. I'm sure he'd have a good laugh before throwing you in jail.
I thought it already had been tried (I saw it mentioned here, perhaps someone can provide a link) and won. Basically the providers sued the defendant for descrambling their signal. His argument was if they didn't want him receiving their signal they should get it the "hell off his property". I believe the same would apply here.
So then the easiest way to take care of them is to simply return every postage free envelope you get.
If you live near an Apartment and see more mailings in the trash can they usually set out by the mail kiosk then mail those back in too.
Make up some labels with known bad adresses, and affix them to anyplace they ask for one, so that they'll send out even more crap mail and get it returned.
Unfortunately I only got 640X480 out of the xf86cfg option, fortunately I just copied the relevent info out of my 3.3.6 config for the screens, etc. and it seemed to like that. Personally though I really long for the return of the xset package (XF86Setup). Being able to know in advance that you won't have problems with your mouse, and being able to fine tune the display before saving out your XF86Config file is a really nice thing.
I was looking for something to put on my mac other than Debian.
Although they really ought to call it iSlack...
from what I've seen the look and feel of the themes isn't close enough to warrant any action.
It seems to be a case of (at least reading through the comments on the themes.org site) the themes in questing were infringing upon *trademarks* belonging to APPL, either using 'logos' or trademarked names (aqua, Mac, etc.)
This should be relatively easy to fix. Rename them to, say "Smack-Agua" and put little pictures of the fruit of your choice (Oranges for maximum effect) instead of apples.
I would think an open letter to them would be much better, get /. to post it, see about salon, wired, anyone who will carry it. Something very politely worded, along the lines of "We think you made that statement in error, would you please let us know exactly what portions of the program (source available) that are infringing? After all, we're reasonable people who would never dream of infringin on anyone elses IP and would be happy to correct anything we find doing just that..."
They pulled their heads out of their asses long enough to come up with this tripe for the sake of a little FUDmongering. Let's make them walk away with ogg* on their faces.
*Oh dear, that was bad. Terribly sorry.
You bring up an interesting point, that the development of OSS projects may well stagnate when the economy turns sour. Here's something to consider. Between, say Konqueror and Opera, which will likely still be available for download if the $$ heads south? At least in the case of the former, there is source code, that anyone can pick up and work with.
:-)
If Opera were to close their doors tommorrow, would we need to write a "fake out" program to feed fake ads to the free version so it will continue to work(note that others here say it needs to 'phone home')? And some would say that working for small startups is not conducive to a regular paycheck either