APT is great, but I couldn't stomach the license bigotry in the debian camp. I gave up on the GNU-and-improved GNU/Debian GNU/Linux and wiped the whole damn thing off my GNU/hard drive. Besides, if I wanted to run a system that's 6 months behind the bleeding edge I would use win98.
You give him too much credit.
He still has yet to match the keen intellect of The Glorious Meept.
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Why bother with bombing, when the USgov can just "persuade" British Telecom (or whoever provides Sealand's internet connectivity) to pull the plug. Sealand can have all the data they want, but they do the rest of the world no good if we have to sail out there with a stack of discs to get it.
Lawsuits and threatening letters are expensive. Massive mirroring schemes work by making so many copies of the "forbidden" data that it would be prohibitively expensive to sue all the archives. If a company thinks that having some abandonware game available for free on the net will cost them $10,000 in lost revenue, and a nastly letter from the legal department costs $100, it makes financial sense to go after 1 or 10 or 50 mirrors. However, if there are more than 100 mirrors shutting them all down would be more expensive than forgoing the revenue lost due to downloading. Mirroring won't stop lawsuits, but it can make them too costly to use in some cases
Netscape 4.x is misdesigned as a single user program
Well, netscape 4.x was written back when Winblows was misdesigned as a single user OS. You can't really expect a retroactive fix; it would require a lot of rewriting.
You would consider a user level Unix program that required elevated privs a bug, right? Yes, but I would also consider a kernel that mindlessly forbids me to use insecure (or more likely non-GPL) software a bug too. The option should be there, regardless of if it's a bad idea. Otherwise, it seems like political policy rather than security. Microsoft is treading dangerous ground if this is true. They're already in trouble for unfairly pusing IE on win9x users. Disabling it altogether in the next release will look very bad.
...source code to Windows and Office was supposedly stolen (I'll believe that when I see it)
Unfortunately, persuant to subparagraph J of section 3, chapter 13 of the Microsoft end-user license agreement (EULA), Microsoft reserves the right to terminate any user who comes in contact with the Windows source code.
If you do recieve the code via email or any other means, you are required to unplug your computer, telephone, and television, close your eyes, cover your ears, and chant "la la la, I can't hear you". Failure to comply with these provisions that protect our intellectual property is a violation of the DMCA, and will result in the MS Death-Commando(tm) being dispatched to your location.
We reserve the right to take legal action against anyone who has seen the aforementioned code, anyone who assisted in the theft of the code, anyone who made funny remarks about our IP protection measures, and anyone who found said illegal statements humourous. Stop lauging, we mean it
As long as the FBI's best methods for dealing with electronic crime are things like carnivore and long-term seizure of student's computers, I'd rather see their budget cut than increased.
Damn straight. I encourage anyone who has a civics book lying around to look up Mapp v Ohio. Police raided Dolree Mapp's apartment looking for a fugitive. They didn't find him, however they found pr0n and gambling papers. They seized the goods and arrested Mapp, but her conviction was thrown out because the warrant was to search for a fugitive, not porn or gambling materials.
Mount takes forever on large partitions too. I had mandrake 7.1 installed on a 40GB drive. It took about 5 minutes to mount the root partition every boot cycle. Now the same drive broken into 3 partitions mounts in 20 seconds total.
Breathe deeply and read what I posted again, troll boy. I didn't say all government was bad, just that our (assuming you live in the US of A) government has recently been acting like a surrogate mother to the population than. I don't need to be told not to smoke cigarettes every time I turn on the TV, I don't need to be told what to eat and drink, and I don't need to be told which leaves I'm allowed to roll up and smoke and which ones I can't.
If you haven't "heard a peep" about where to get drugs in America, you obviously haven't been listening. Most middle-school students apparently know more than you, since some of them can and do buy pot on a regular basis. Even the ones who don't use know where to find a dealer. Hell, I did, and I've never smoked pot in my life.
Yes, I admit that a lot of people have fucked up their lives using drugs. There are a lot of people who have ruined their lives with alcohol, tobacco, fast cars, dangerous sports, and sex too, and I don't hear anyone clamouring fo a federal law against those. I mean can you imagine the government saying "Ok, this sex problem is just out of hand. We have too many teenage pregnancies, too many diseases, and so on. We're implementing a three-strikes policy, anyone caught having sex three times goes to prison for life." There would be an armed insurrection!
The government was no right to regulate who is allowed to have sex [1], and when. If you go out to a bar and "get laid" that's nobody's business but you and your partner's. The same should go for drugs. If someone chooses to smoke a bowl over the weekend, it's nobody's business save him and his dealer.
[1] except rape, which is an act of violence that violates the victim's rights. That is a crime, and should be punished. When I use sex as an example, I mean consensual sex.
That's impossible. Firstly, it would require admitting that people are capable of thinking without government assistance. That's no a popular sentiment among the people who run the public schools in America. Second, students might realize that certain illegal drugs are no worse for their health than smoking or drinking. This would lead to uncomfortable questions about why marajuana is illegal, and alcohol is sold in the grocery store. The lies are an integral part of the DARE program.
take them along with the dare officers in hand cuffs and leg irons to a school
A DARE officer in handcuffs and leg irons? I wish I could see that. Maybe that could be the penalty for lying; lie to the kids, and you have to teach the next class in chains.
People who have used drugs seem to get lower grades than when they were not taking drugs as a norm
Your assertion is full of weasel words. You say drug users "seem" to get lower grades, and "appear to get lower scores" because you don't really have the facts, but you want to shout your opinions anyway. Next time you want to debate the effects of pot-smoking on students, bring a few facts instead of your subjective anecdotes.
Most of the studies I have seen from professional teaching institutes have in fact corroprates this
Then link to the studies, or quote the relevant bits. And for chrissakes, learn to spell and use proper verb tense.
This is one of the tell tale signs that parents have been instructed to see if a child is taking drugs
DARE also instructs parents to be suspicious of children wo are concerned for world peace, the environment, or who favor decriminalization, none of which are positive proof of drug use. Your point?
I personally want to know how people on slashdot can say one thing and the data says another
I want to know how you can claim to have the data on your side, without quoting so much as one statistic. Please go troll somewhere else.
The titlebars looked like Enlightenment. The icons on the right side look like gkrellm, a system monitoring app. I have no idea how they got the WindowMaker clip to display if that really is E managing the windows, though.
32-bit keys would only give a cracker a possible 4.3 billion keys to search. You should really use at least 128-bit keys (3.4E+38 possible keys) to keep data secure for any length of time.
Why do you think businesses are more dangerous than an oppressive Government?
Because my right to publish articles about why congress sucks, and back it up with voting records and hearing transcrips has been upheld by the courts for centuries. I have no right, however, to publish an article about how much the new version of [some software] sucks, and back it up with disassembled code or even benchmarks.
Who seems more oppressive? Congress, which can do nothing and knows it, or a large corporation, who has the resources to sue me into nonexistence?
Because that's not all there is to worry about. I'm more concerned that GWB would nominate pro-corporate and/or anti free speech justices. Then we'll be stuck with the DMCA and it's brain-dead successors for at least the next 10 years. I don't want my First Amendment rights given away by appointees of Mr "There ought to be limits to freedom".
If he's not, he's pretending to be stupid, which is just as bad.
From some of the slips Bush has made when questioned about foriegn policy, it sounds like the man's entire knowledge of geography came from reading the menu at IHOP. Furthermore, I think anyone who talks about "nuke-yuh-ler" weapons is not qualified to command them. Call me crazy, but if someone is going to have the means to destroy life as we know it, I think he should at least know how to pronounce the name of the device, if not a basic grasp of the physics involved.
How many "soccer moms" know the timing-advance curve for the engine in their new minivan, or even where to look it up? Hardly any, but somehow they're all able to drive anyway...
It gets moderated down as "offtopic" because "fucking sick of the anti-slashdot rhetoric; if you don't like it here, go read salon.com or MSNBC" doesn't fit nicely in the moderation menu.
We're attacking their "inellectual property" because DC hasn't got the cojones to specify exactly what sort of inellectual property is being infringed.
Taco says to go ahead and hack your CueCat even if your EULA says no. What am I missing?
If you never installed their software, you never agreed to any EULA.
Furthermore, If you're the real Bruce Perens, I'm Mickey Mouse. Shouldn't you be in school right now, troll?
But it can scan *any* barcode, not just the::cue:::cat:::: specific codes in magazine ads. Anything product that has a UPC barcode is listed in a database, and book with an ISBN number is listed with the Library of Congress, most CDs have either a UPC or some other identifying barcode on them.
DC's problem with the new drivers is that people can use the cue::cat; to access publc UPC databases, or the library of Congress, instead of DC's database. If people use the scanner, but not with DC's servers, DC's (poorly thought out) business model goes right out the window.
Really, do 3rd degree burns and reconstructive surgery...
I don't care what the courts think happened to this woman, but you can't get 3rd degree burns from anything that contains water. A 3rd degree burn happens when skin or flesh is burned away. I don't know what the ignition temperature of human flesh is, but it is well above 100 C, when her coffee would have turned to vapor.
pedantic? yes. pointless? yes, but so was the suit
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APT is great, but I couldn't stomach the license bigotry in the debian camp. I gave up on the GNU-and-improved GNU/Debian GNU/Linux and wiped the whole damn thing off my GNU/hard drive. Besides, if I wanted to run a system that's 6 months behind the bleeding edge I would use win98.
You give him too much credit.
He still has yet to match the keen intellect of The Glorious Meept.
Why bother with bombing, when the USgov can just "persuade" British Telecom (or whoever provides Sealand's internet connectivity) to pull the plug. Sealand can have all the data they want, but they do the rest of the world no good if we have to sail out there with a stack of discs to get it.
Lawsuits and threatening letters are expensive. Massive mirroring schemes work by making so many copies of the "forbidden" data that it would be prohibitively expensive to sue all the archives. If a company thinks that having some abandonware game available for free on the net will cost them $10,000 in lost revenue, and a nastly letter from the legal department costs $100, it makes financial sense to go after 1 or 10 or 50 mirrors. However, if there are more than 100 mirrors shutting them all down would be more expensive than forgoing the revenue lost due to downloading. Mirroring won't stop lawsuits, but it can make them too costly to use in some cases
Netscape 4.x is misdesigned as a single user program
Well, netscape 4.x was written back when Winblows was misdesigned as a single user OS. You can't really expect a retroactive fix; it would require a lot of rewriting.
You would consider a user level Unix program that required elevated privs a bug, right?
Yes, but I would also consider a kernel that mindlessly forbids me to use insecure (or more likely non-GPL) software a bug too. The option should be there, regardless of if it's a bad idea. Otherwise, it seems like political policy rather than security. Microsoft is treading dangerous ground if this is true. They're already in trouble for unfairly pusing IE on win9x users. Disabling it altogether in the next release will look very bad.
Do you think Dubya would have happily signed this one off?
Yes. This is George "there ought to be limits to freedom" Bush we're talking about here.
Unfortunately, persuant to subparagraph J of section 3, chapter 13 of the Microsoft end-user license agreement (EULA), Microsoft reserves the right to terminate any user who comes in contact with the Windows source code.
If you do recieve the code via email or any other means, you are required to unplug your computer, telephone, and television, close your eyes, cover your ears, and chant "la la la, I can't hear you". Failure to comply with these provisions that protect our intellectual property is a violation of the DMCA, and will result in the MS Death-Commando(tm) being dispatched to your location.
We reserve the right to take legal action against anyone who has seen the aforementioned code, anyone who assisted in the theft of the code, anyone who made funny remarks about our IP protection measures, and anyone who found said illegal statements humourous. Stop lauging, we mean it
As long as the FBI's best methods for dealing with electronic crime are things like carnivore and long-term seizure of student's computers, I'd rather see their budget cut than increased.
Damn straight. I encourage anyone who has a civics book lying around to look up Mapp v Ohio. Police raided Dolree Mapp's apartment looking for a fugitive. They didn't find him, however they found pr0n and gambling papers. They seized the goods and arrested Mapp, but her conviction was thrown out because the warrant was to search for a fugitive, not porn or gambling materials.
Mount takes forever on large partitions too. I had mandrake 7.1 installed on a 40GB drive. It took about 5 minutes to mount the root partition every boot cycle. Now the same drive broken into 3 partitions mounts in 20 seconds total.
Breathe deeply and read what I posted again, troll boy. I didn't say all government was bad, just that our (assuming you live in the US of A) government has recently been acting like a surrogate mother to the population than. I don't need to be told not to smoke cigarettes every time I turn on the TV, I don't need to be told what to eat and drink, and I don't need to be told which leaves I'm allowed to roll up and smoke and which ones I can't.
If you haven't "heard a peep" about where to get drugs in America, you obviously haven't been listening. Most middle-school students apparently know more than you, since some of them can and do buy pot on a regular basis. Even the ones who don't use know where to find a dealer. Hell, I did, and I've never smoked pot in my life.
Yes, I admit that a lot of people have fucked up their lives using drugs. There are a lot of people who have ruined their lives with alcohol, tobacco, fast cars, dangerous sports, and sex too, and I don't hear anyone clamouring fo a federal law against those. I mean can you imagine the government saying "Ok, this sex problem is just out of hand. We have too many teenage pregnancies, too many diseases, and so on. We're implementing a three-strikes policy, anyone caught having sex three times goes to prison for life." There would be an armed insurrection!
The government was no right to regulate who is allowed to have sex [1], and when. If you go out to a bar and "get laid" that's nobody's business but you and your partner's. The same should go for drugs. If someone chooses to smoke a bowl over the weekend, it's nobody's business save him and his dealer.
[1] except rape, which is an act of violence that violates the victim's rights. That is a crime, and should be punished. When I use sex as an example, I mean consensual sex.
That's impossible. Firstly, it would require admitting that people are capable of thinking without government assistance. That's no a popular sentiment among the people who run the public schools in America. Second, students might realize that certain illegal drugs are no worse for their health than smoking or drinking. This would lead to uncomfortable questions about why marajuana is illegal, and alcohol is sold in the grocery store. The lies are an integral part of the DARE program.
take them along with the dare officers in hand cuffs and leg irons to a school
A DARE officer in handcuffs and leg irons? I wish I could see that. Maybe that could be the penalty for lying; lie to the kids, and you have to teach the next class in chains.
People who have used drugs seem to get lower grades than when they were not taking drugs as a norm
Your assertion is full of weasel words. You say drug users "seem" to get lower grades, and "appear to get lower scores" because you don't really have the facts, but you want to shout your opinions anyway. Next time you want to debate the effects of pot-smoking on students, bring a few facts instead of your subjective anecdotes.
Most of the studies I have seen from professional teaching institutes have in fact corroprates this
Then link to the studies, or quote the relevant bits. And for chrissakes, learn to spell and use proper verb tense.
This is one of the tell tale signs that parents have been instructed to see if a child is taking drugs
DARE also instructs parents to be suspicious of children wo are concerned for world peace, the environment, or who favor decriminalization, none of which are positive proof of drug use. Your point?
I personally want to know how people on slashdot can say one thing and the data says another
I want to know how you can claim to have the data on your side, without quoting so much as one statistic. Please go troll somewhere else.
The titlebars looked like Enlightenment. The icons on the right side look like gkrellm, a system monitoring app. I have no idea how they got the WindowMaker clip to display if that really is E managing the windows, though.
(32-bit+ encryption)
32-bit keys would only give a cracker a possible 4.3 billion keys to search. You should really use at least 128-bit keys (3.4E+38 possible keys) to keep data secure for any length of time.
Why do you think businesses are more dangerous than an oppressive Government?
Because my right to publish articles about why congress sucks, and back it up with voting records and hearing transcrips has been upheld by the courts for centuries. I have no right, however, to publish an article about how much the new version of [some software] sucks, and back it up with disassembled code or even benchmarks.
Who seems more oppressive? Congress, which can do nothing and knows it, or a large corporation, who has the resources to sue me into nonexistence?
Because that's not all there is to worry about. I'm more concerned that GWB would nominate pro-corporate and/or anti free speech justices. Then we'll be stuck with the DMCA and it's brain-dead successors for at least the next 10 years. I don't want my First Amendment rights given away by appointees of Mr "There ought to be limits to freedom".
If he's not, he's pretending to be stupid, which is just as bad.
From some of the slips Bush has made when questioned about foriegn policy, it sounds like the man's entire knowledge of geography came from reading the menu at IHOP. Furthermore, I think anyone who talks about "nuke-yuh-ler" weapons is not qualified to command them. Call me crazy, but if someone is going to have the means to destroy life as we know it, I think he should at least know how to pronounce the name of the device, if not a basic grasp of the physics involved.
How many "soccer moms" know the timing-advance curve for the engine in their new minivan, or even where to look it up? Hardly any, but somehow they're all able to drive anyway...
It gets moderated down as "offtopic" because "fucking sick of the anti-slashdot rhetoric; if you don't like it here, go read salon.com or MSNBC" doesn't fit nicely in the moderation menu.
We're attacking their "inellectual property" because DC hasn't got the cojones to specify exactly what sort of inellectual property is being infringed.
Taco says to go ahead and hack your CueCat even if your EULA says no. What am I missing?
If you never installed their software, you never agreed to any EULA.
Furthermore, If you're the real Bruce Perens, I'm Mickey Mouse. Shouldn't you be in school right now, troll?
But it can scan *any* barcode, not just the ::cue:::cat:::: specific codes in magazine ads. Anything product that has a UPC barcode is listed in a database, and book with an ISBN number is listed with the Library of Congress, most CDs have either a UPC or some other identifying barcode on them.
DC's problem with the new drivers is that people can use the cue::cat; to access publc UPC databases, or the library of Congress, instead of DC's database. If people use the scanner, but not with DC's servers, DC's (poorly thought out) business model goes right out the window.
is it just me or wouldn't the rotation of the earth on a tether that large be a real pain
That's what holds it up!
Really, do 3rd degree burns and reconstructive surgery...
I don't care what the courts think happened to this woman, but you can't get 3rd degree burns from anything that contains water. A 3rd degree burn happens when skin or flesh is burned away. I don't know what the ignition temperature of human flesh is, but it is well above 100 C, when her coffee would have turned to vapor.
pedantic? yes. pointless? yes, but so was the suit