But can they make a machine that'll come up with creative ways to train your wife for you?
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No media, no raging drunkards, just Bring your own entertainment, plug in your laptop, and make nice with the neighbors. The question remains as to whether or not Linux has just plain outgrown the grassroots ambience that is planned.
When a deal like this goes sour, and it most likely will -- if anyone is stupid enough to bid on it, it's the escrow business that wins out in no small way. It's the next best thing to being a stock broker. Your clients see millions come and go, but you always get your six figures.
Just put a keyboard, mouse, and LCD screen in front of you, with the case and whatnot in another room. Granted, it becomes prohibitively expensive and functionally impracticle if you're going to have to run it for a longer distance, but if you're just going through the wall to the next room, this solution works really well.
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This reminds me of an idea I was presented with some time back -- cement the gas tanks shut at all the gas stations in an entire city. Of course in my case it was an idea intended to protest against the high price of gas.
Just got to remember that although this kind of activity does interfere with the operation of people's businesses, it has no health risks of it's own and is not violent and chaotic.
I don't want to go way off topic, since the source code we were talking about wasn't GPL'd anyways, but since I was the one to bring up the GPL I should finish this:)
If you can't copyright something, you can't control what other people do with it. The GPL is not about public domain, it is about ensuring freedom the indefinite future, through software licensing. Without copyright, the GPL would be without any basis in law.
Perhaps the biggest lesson to be learned here is that you shouldn't blindly do as suggested and break the law because of some sort of concept of freedom. Don't forget that the GPL works BECAUSE of copyright law and BECAUSE you can license software.
The whole reason the army switched from liquid propelled rockets to solid fuel was because of the accidental explosions (and of course casualties) during the handling and transportation of these dangerous time-bombs. There is no way this guy, whith his hit and miss track record, should be playing with liquid-fueled rockets.
It's no good to have a cryptic password unless it makes some sort of sense to the user. If it's too complicated, the user has to write it down, thereby breaching security. Considering most security breaches are from inside sources, guarding against your co-workers should be a priority for most people (unless they enjoy getting framed). So go with a password that is simple and easy to for you to remember, and make sure that it's really hard for anyone else to guess it.
You can't just put your gameboy in a tub of dye and change it to your favourite color.....course, no one will heed my warnings, OSDN will be filled with cries of agony as one gameboy after another is destroyed in this quest for new colors.
Bastille is an ambitious project, but also one that those who specialize in their respective unix/linux/--dare I say BSD would do well to contribute to. It's good to see this recognized from the commercial world. HP is once again showing leadership in embracing open source and supporting the community, and especially in the area of security, we all benefit.
You don't lose useful information, only useless information. "success" type status messages will be removed as well as other messages containing things like people's names,etc, leaving behind only stuff like "hey you there, something's broken" thereby making dmesg 10 times more useful for debugging.
Naturally, this means that a dmesg output doesn't give you any idea of what a system is running, but we have other better ways of displaying that through for example the proc interface.
Now, instead of using the "update:" convention, we have/. editing their articles as they notice the flaws popping up -- whatever happened to being honest and admitting to mistakes when they happen?
On Thursday, the federal appeals court said: "Although we find no evidence of actual bias [in the earlier ruling], we hold that the actions of the trial judge seriously tainted the proceedings before the District Court and called into question the integrity of the judicial process."
The decision to reverse the earlier ruling was unanimous, by a 7-0 vote.
So just because it made the judicial system look bad, and despite the fact that they found no evidence of bias to support Microsoft's claims, they overturned the decision anyways in the interest of maintaining integrity in the judicial process?
Damn, you gotta listen to the audio stream (which clearly indicates that the meteor shower already happened and that this article is a day late). Would be neat to clean it up a bit -- sounds like a flute in the background.
Why would they need more info from Passport? How simple do you think it is for them to keep a database mapping paid subscriptions to passport IDs on their own servers (not Passport's)? Why must this information come from Passport, when it's clearly site-specific? Come on, man, think these things through!
My point precisely. You need more than just a login and a password. You need, at the very least, the database of paid subscriptions, which can reasonably be expected to contain names, addesses, perhaps even payment information.
one: A default passport contains nothing but name and login name. There's huge scale for privacy voilation there.
They'll need more info than that to ensure that "people who did not pay cannot get access" see point "two" below...
two: They sell access to the MSDN downloads discussed. Somehow, access to these downloads must be authenticated so that people who did not pay cannot get access. Passport does authentication as is required here. Using their own system for authentication is entirely reasonable, makes sense, is easy for all involved.
The system being used violates the privacy of those who use it. If an individual who uses Passport for authentication elsewhere now uses it for authentication to MSDN online, Passport can develop a profile, similar to one that doubleclick's network is able to comprise through banners on multiple websites.
Some people pointing this out _are_ MS employees, some are simply more intelligent and more rational than the majority of the idiots posting to this story. Taco started the rot: but no-one actually expected reasoned discussion from him, his command of the language can easily be demonstrated to be patchy at best.
What's your excuse?
English is my third language. In spite of this, my mediocre mastery of the language has not caused me to engage in personal attacks on anyone, nor generalized character assasinations.
I'm a little surprised at the showing of microsoft interns this time around... very quick to defend the legitimacy of passport and the requirement for MSDN online users to have one.
What's happening is that "special access" is being grated to those people who sign up for passport. On the surface, this is entirely harmless, even a mutually beneficial idea. This is not a "anti-microsoft" rant, but an issue of forced privacy violation. You could choose to not sign up, and choose to miss out on developer info, so in that sense it is voluntary. But don't bet your boss is going to take it so lightly when you explain to him why you weren't able to access MSDN online. The information age has brought with it many creative ways of collecting and extorting personal and private information from private citizens for the benefit of the corporate world.
It's really hard to figure out size from the picture since all you've got to compare it to is the landscape of an unknown red planet with water on it and a sunset in the distance.
The solar-powered machine is capable of making its way across uncharted territory while tracking the path of the Sun. It can even call for human assistance if it gets lost.
I can see it now... "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
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But can they make a machine that'll come up with creative ways to train your wife for you?
No media, no raging drunkards, just Bring your own entertainment, plug in your laptop, and make nice with the neighbors. The question remains as to whether or not Linux has just plain outgrown the grassroots ambience that is planned.
When a deal like this goes sour, and it most likely will -- if anyone is stupid enough to bid on it, it's the escrow business that wins out in no small way. It's the next best thing to being a stock broker. Your clients see millions come and go, but you always get your six figures.
Just put a keyboard, mouse, and LCD screen in front of you, with the case and whatnot in another room. Granted, it becomes prohibitively expensive and functionally impracticle if you're going to have to run it for a longer distance, but if you're just going through the wall to the next room, this solution works really well.
Just got to remember that although this kind of activity does interfere with the operation of people's businesses, it has no health risks of it's own and is not violent and chaotic.
If you can't copyright something, you can't control what other people do with it. The GPL is not about public domain, it is about ensuring freedom the indefinite future, through software licensing. Without copyright, the GPL would be without any basis in law.
Perhaps the biggest lesson to be learned here is that you shouldn't blindly do as suggested and break the law because of some sort of concept of freedom. Don't forget that the GPL works BECAUSE of copyright law and BECAUSE you can license software.
The whole reason the army switched from liquid propelled rockets to solid fuel was because of the accidental explosions (and of course casualties) during the handling and transportation of these dangerous time-bombs. There is no way this guy, whith his hit and miss track record, should be playing with liquid-fueled rockets.
It's no good to have a cryptic password unless it makes some sort of sense to the user. If it's too complicated, the user has to write it down, thereby breaching security. Considering most security breaches are from inside sources, guarding against your co-workers should be a priority for most people (unless they enjoy getting framed). So go with a password that is simple and easy to for you to remember, and make sure that it's really hard for anyone else to guess it.
... you will be assimilated ... resistance is futile! The only problem is that the external power supply is bigger than the computer itself.
You can't just put your gameboy in a tub of dye and change it to your favourite color. ....course, no one will heed my warnings, OSDN will be filled with cries of agony as one gameboy after another is destroyed in this quest for new colors.
Reconciliation makes the news! :) I'm glad to see some good vibes going around.
Bastille is an ambitious project, but also one that those who specialize in their respective unix/linux/--dare I say BSD would do well to contribute to. It's good to see this recognized from the commercial world. HP is once again showing leadership in embracing open source and supporting the community, and especially in the area of security, we all benefit.
Relying on dmesg output to decide what to configure a kernel with is error prone and SLOW. any decent admin would have the config file handy.
Naturally, this means that a dmesg output doesn't give you any idea of what a system is running, but we have other better ways of displaying that through for example the proc interface.
Now, instead of using the "update:" convention, we have /. editing their articles as they notice the flaws popping up -- whatever happened to being honest and admitting to mistakes when they happen?
So just because it made the judicial system look bad, and despite the fact that they found no evidence of bias to support Microsoft's claims, they overturned the decision anyways in the interest of maintaining integrity in the judicial process?
Damn, you gotta listen to the audio stream (which clearly indicates that the meteor shower already happened and that this article is a day late). Would be neat to clean it up a bit -- sounds like a flute in the background.
Today's X apps don't run on a 486sx 25 very well.
It's unfortunate that I should have to look at creating fraudulent accounts as a means of protecting my privacy.
My point precisely. You need more than just a login and a password. You need, at the very least, the database of paid subscriptions, which can reasonably be expected to contain names, addesses, perhaps even payment information.
They'll need more info than that to ensure that "people who did not pay cannot get access" see point "two" below...
two: They sell access to the MSDN downloads discussed. Somehow, access to these downloads must be authenticated so that people who did not pay cannot get access. Passport does authentication as is required here. Using their own system for authentication is entirely reasonable, makes sense, is easy for all involved.
The system being used violates the privacy of those who use it. If an individual who uses Passport for authentication elsewhere now uses it for authentication to MSDN online, Passport can develop a profile, similar to one that doubleclick's network is able to comprise through banners on multiple websites.
Some people pointing this out _are_ MS employees, some are simply more intelligent and more rational than the majority of the idiots posting to this story. Taco started the rot: but no-one actually expected reasoned discussion from him, his command of the language can easily be demonstrated to be patchy at best. What's your excuse?English is my third language. In spite of this, my mediocre mastery of the language has not caused me to engage in personal attacks on anyone, nor generalized character assasinations.
What's happening is that "special access" is being grated to those people who sign up for passport. On the surface, this is entirely harmless, even a mutually beneficial idea. This is not a "anti-microsoft" rant, but an issue of forced privacy violation. You could choose to not sign up, and choose to miss out on developer info, so in that sense it is voluntary. But don't bet your boss is going to take it so lightly when you explain to him why you weren't able to access MSDN online. The information age has brought with it many creative ways of collecting and extorting personal and private information from private citizens for the benefit of the corporate world.
It's really hard to figure out size from the picture since all you've got to compare it to is the landscape of an unknown red planet with water on it and a sunset in the distance.