First, Rusty's well known in the nerd world. Second, there was a submission yesterday "Rusty Foster is Dead" which sort of startled me. Third, if you didn't want to see the story posted you could have tagged it "slow news day" in the firehose. Fourth, you're in the minority -- it was voted up. Sixth, you didn't have to click the link. Seventh and most important, TFA was a good one and worth a read. How can FB be so sloppy? Doesn't anyone there have database experience? Names are terrible identifiers!
All three were buffer overflows -- in essence, poorly written programs. I never heard of the first one, but to hear of this kind of shoddiness in iTunes and Winamp is disturbing. I would imagine you could have a text file be a virus if you found the right buggy program to exploit..
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
A thousand years ago the idea of leaving South America was ludicrous. A hundred years ago landing on the moon was ludricous. No, nobody alive will ever see a terraformed planet, but it will happen.
"Loose" does not mean "destroy", it means "set free." The work won't be loosed, it will be lost. And I, for one, do not want any of that early jazz to go away, nor Tolkien or Asimov. "Lost to history" means nothing to me, "lost to society" does. I want a reasonable copyright length rather than the clusterfuck of "forever" we have now so that works don't get lost (or "loosed" as you so retardedly put it). And I say that as a holder of two registered copyrights and many, many unregistered ones.
Feel free to go write a quality work people actually want to read or listen to. Not something a handful of nuts want to listen to. A big hit. Then release it for free. I'll wait.
No need to wait, just go to boingboing, where Cory Doctorow puts all his books online for free. He credits giving it away for his status as a new York Times best seller. You don't agree that a NYT best seller is a big hit only a handful of people want to read?
One Internet with all the lock down measures in place, and one with all the free rain and dangers that come with it.
Dangers of free rain? Like floods and tornados? Nice pun there; rain is indeed like open source, it's free as in freedom and free as in free of cost, and it's hard to live without.
Although I believe you meant "rein" (as in steering a horse).
It depends on what you call "data". You can hide a virus in a text file, but that virus will be harmless, as there's no way to execute it. But a Word file isn't just data, since you can insert a macro. IMO whoever thought of putting embedded macros in word processing documents was brain-dead stupid; a word processing document should NOT be able to infect a system. Even a spreadsheet should not be able to infect; there should be two files in a spreadsheet with macros, the data and the macros, just like a database has data (uninfectable) and code (which can BE infection).
Your MP3s are safe from viruses, your WMAs are not. WMA's DRM-friendliness make it a virus vector, while MP3s are safe. Anything subject to DRM can and most likely is infected or is an infection itself. On'y the ignorant use WiMP and WMA, they beg to have your system pwned.
I don't mean to sound rude or ignorant, but really...who cares?
Only the intelligent and educated. Art is like science and technology, in that everything new comes from the old. Can you imagine how badly technology would stagnate if patents lased as long as copyrights? Well, that's how art is stagnating.
As to your "lack of ownership of digital copies", many of us don't believe the digital domain should enjoy copyright protection, since until recently in order to get a copyright, the work had to be "affixed to a tangible medium" and bits are hardly tangible. You should be able to copyright a CD, you should not be able to copyright a song.
I think we have uncovered a new fallacy; argumentum ad grammatica.
Sometimes that fallacy isn't fallacious. In your redundancy illustration, yes, but if someone continuously gets "there" homophones wrong, or uses an apostrophe where one should not be used ("Suzie ate all the potato's") you can be sure that the writer isn't very educated and doesn't read very many books. How much credence can you put on the arguments of the uneducated? Undeducated is, after all, a synonym for "ignorant."
What do you think the onboard computers in those rockets, as well as the computers at Mission Control, will be running? I seriously doubt it will be Windows 8.
Quite a bit, actually, as much as I am loathe to admit it. It was started by Joseph Smith in much the same way is many other Christian denominations. This was a thing that alread existed an was believed in. Scientology, OTOH, is more like the FSM; an invented construct of modern times that there is no argument that it is an invented contsruct.
That said, WTF, Mormons? My ex-wife converted to Mormonism and my daughters weren't allowed to attend her wedding when she was remarried. And WTF do you have against drinking, when Jesus was a self-proclaimed winebibber? You guys have a shitty religion.
Bullshit. Nothing YOU value was lost, that is not the same as "nothing of value". I place no value on fashion, your values may vary.
This is a warning: subscriptions can be cancelled. Want a game you know will be there? Shiny disks. "The cloud" and its iStreaming and iSteaming will fuck you every time. As soon as the item you "bought" is out of style, you no longer have it.
Virus authors, on the other hand, can use virustotal.com to see who can detect their stuff and evolve as necessary to avoid detection.
Virus writers make their viruses evolve? Creationism, anyone? Computer viruses don't evolve, they are engineered/programmed. And viruses that attack animals (including humans) don't have to evolve features necessary to bind to our receptor sites, those features have already evolved. What they do is mutate so that the animal's immune system doesn't recognize it as a threat.
The animal immune system is nothing whatever like computer antivirus, and animal viruses are nothing like computer viruses. You guys are anthropomorphising WAY too much here.
Every time I try Linux, even recently, I spend more time trying to get everything to work than actually doing what I want to do. Wireless STILL didn't work. A driver was installed but it wouldn't find any networks. Wired LAN randomly didn't work, and for some reason was dependent upon for booting. Most of the time I end up having to compile a newer kernel to sort some things out. I could go on. Eventually I give up because I'm tired of spending my entire time trying to get things to just work.
That's really odd, I've had none of those issues in ten years of using Linux. What distro and what hardware? Don't try to use a server distro for the desktop!
Celeb or not I'd tell Torvalds to kiss my ass... I don't give a flying fuck WHO it is, be it Torvalds or Ballmer or Cook or Ellison if someone acts like a total fucking douchebag they should be called out for it
LOL, I'd ask you if you ever got pissed off and fired off an angry, expletive-filled email, but the answer is obvious. He's not a CEO and doesn't have to act like one.
I experienced it firsthand in a dual-boot computer with XP and Mandriva five or so years ago. Win got flakier and flakier while Lin went on seemingly unfazed until Windows wouldn't boot. Two days later nothing would boot.
Being done "in the name of the diety" is not the diety's doing. Humans are human, and an evil man will use whatever he can against you, even your religion. Like Coffey said in "The Green Mile", "He kill dem wit dey love." I don't for a minute believe that Bin laden believed in Allah, he used the faithful for his own greedy ends.
As to "God said go ahead and kill them all", that's the old testament -- the Jewish bible. The Christian bible starts with the book of Matthew, everything before is just a prefix that explains what it's all about.
Companies abuse their customers and...the customers like it?
Sony roots paying customers' computers with vandalism malware, removes the OtherOS feature that paying customers already paid for, gets "hacked" by putting sensitive customer info in a plain text internet facing database, yet still there are people posting at slashdot talking about their new Sony TV or computer. Hell, there are even people here who defend the RIAA!
Yes, they're stupid and yes, they don't care that they're being assfucked. I guess some people like being assfucked.
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First, Rusty's well known in the nerd world. Second, there was a submission yesterday "Rusty Foster is Dead" which sort of startled me. Third, if you didn't want to see the story posted you could have tagged it "slow news day" in the firehose. Fourth, you're in the minority -- it was voted up. Sixth, you didn't have to click the link. Seventh and most important, TFA was a good one and worth a read. How can FB be so sloppy? Doesn't anyone there have database experience? Names are terrible identifiers!
The con man needs a reason to con, or why would he?
All three were buffer overflows -- in essence, poorly written programs. I never heard of the first one, but to hear of this kind of shoddiness in iTunes and Winamp is disturbing. I would imagine you could have a text file be a virus if you found the right buggy program to exploit..
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
A thousand years ago the idea of leaving South America was ludicrous. A hundred years ago landing on the moon was ludricous. No, nobody alive will ever see a terraformed planet, but it will happen.
So we loose that particular piece of work.
"Loose" does not mean "destroy", it means "set free." The work won't be loosed, it will be lost. And I, for one, do not want any of that early jazz to go away, nor Tolkien or Asimov. "Lost to history" means nothing to me, "lost to society" does. I want a reasonable copyright length rather than the clusterfuck of "forever" we have now so that works don't get lost (or "loosed" as you so retardedly put it). And I say that as a holder of two registered copyrights and many, many unregistered ones.
Only if you don't think that all other religions are a con, too
In order to be a con, someone has to be after your money or other posessions. That fits both scientology and mormonism, but not most Christian faiths.
Feel free to go write a quality work people actually want to read or listen to. Not something a handful of nuts want to listen to. A big hit. Then release it for free. I'll wait.
No need to wait, just go to boingboing, where Cory Doctorow puts all his books online for free. He credits giving it away for his status as a new York Times best seller. You don't agree that a NYT best seller is a big hit only a handful of people want to read?
One Internet with all the lock down measures in place, and one with all the free rain and dangers that come with it.
Dangers of free rain? Like floods and tornados? Nice pun there; rain is indeed like open source, it's free as in freedom and free as in free of cost, and it's hard to live without.
Although I believe you meant "rein" (as in steering a horse).
It depends on what you call "data". You can hide a virus in a text file, but that virus will be harmless, as there's no way to execute it. But a Word file isn't just data, since you can insert a macro. IMO whoever thought of putting embedded macros in word processing documents was brain-dead stupid; a word processing document should NOT be able to infect a system. Even a spreadsheet should not be able to infect; there should be two files in a spreadsheet with macros, the data and the macros, just like a database has data (uninfectable) and code (which can BE infection).
Your MP3s are safe from viruses, your WMAs are not. WMA's DRM-friendliness make it a virus vector, while MP3s are safe. Anything subject to DRM can and most likely is infected or is an infection itself. On'y the ignorant use WiMP and WMA, they beg to have your system pwned.
If copyright lengths were sane there would be no need to worry about heirs, as few authors would outlive their copyrights.
You're backwards. Catholic == Christian, Christian != Catholic.
There's another side of the coin, since that means that software protected under GPL would loose its protection
I don't think you said what you thought you said.
I don't mean to sound rude or ignorant, but really...who cares?
Only the intelligent and educated. Art is like science and technology, in that everything new comes from the old. Can you imagine how badly technology would stagnate if patents lased as long as copyrights? Well, that's how art is stagnating.
As to your "lack of ownership of digital copies", many of us don't believe the digital domain should enjoy copyright protection, since until recently in order to get a copyright, the work had to be "affixed to a tangible medium" and bits are hardly tangible. You should be able to copyright a CD, you should not be able to copyright a song.
You and those like you are nothing but leaches stealing whatever you please while the rest of us have to pay the taxes to keep the lights on.
LOL, that's "leech," Mr. Pedant. As in blood sucking worm, rather than to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid.
I guess you're not allowed on the internet, either!
I think we have uncovered a new fallacy; argumentum ad grammatica.
Sometimes that fallacy isn't fallacious. In your redundancy illustration, yes, but if someone continuously gets "there" homophones wrong, or uses an apostrophe where one should not be used ("Suzie ate all the potato's") you can be sure that the writer isn't very educated and doesn't read very many books. How much credence can you put on the arguments of the uneducated? Undeducated is, after all, a synonym for "ignorant."
What do you think the onboard computers in those rockets, as well as the computers at Mission Control, will be running? I seriously doubt it will be Windows 8.
Quite a bit, actually, as much as I am loathe to admit it. It was started by Joseph Smith in much the same way is many other Christian denominations. This was a thing that alread existed an was believed in. Scientology, OTOH, is more like the FSM; an invented construct of modern times that there is no argument that it is an invented contsruct.
That said, WTF, Mormons? My ex-wife converted to Mormonism and my daughters weren't allowed to attend her wedding when she was remarried. And WTF do you have against drinking, when Jesus was a self-proclaimed winebibber? You guys have a shitty religion.
Bullshit. Nothing YOU value was lost, that is not the same as "nothing of value". I place no value on fashion, your values may vary.
This is a warning: subscriptions can be cancelled. Want a game you know will be there? Shiny disks. "The cloud" and its iStreaming and iSteaming will fuck you every time. As soon as the item you "bought" is out of style, you no longer have it.
Virus authors, on the other hand, can use virustotal.com to see who can detect their stuff and evolve as necessary to avoid detection.
Virus writers make their viruses evolve? Creationism, anyone? Computer viruses don't evolve, they are engineered/programmed. And viruses that attack animals (including humans) don't have to evolve features necessary to bind to our receptor sites, those features have already evolved. What they do is mutate so that the animal's immune system doesn't recognize it as a threat.
The animal immune system is nothing whatever like computer antivirus, and animal viruses are nothing like computer viruses. You guys are anthropomorphising WAY too much here.
Wow , where do I start?
Every time I try Linux, even recently, I spend more time trying to get everything to work than actually doing what I want to do. Wireless STILL didn't work. A driver was installed but it wouldn't find any networks. Wired LAN randomly didn't work, and for some reason was dependent upon for booting. Most of the time I end up having to compile a newer kernel to sort some things out. I could go on. Eventually I give up because I'm tired of spending my entire time trying to get things to just work.
That's really odd, I've had none of those issues in ten years of using Linux. What distro and what hardware? Don't try to use a server distro for the desktop!
Celeb or not I'd tell Torvalds to kiss my ass... I don't give a flying fuck WHO it is, be it Torvalds or Ballmer or Cook or Ellison if someone acts like a total fucking douchebag they should be called out for it
LOL, I'd ask you if you ever got pissed off and fired off an angry, expletive-filled email, but the answer is obvious. He's not a CEO and doesn't have to act like one.
I experienced it firsthand in a dual-boot computer with XP and Mandriva five or so years ago. Win got flakier and flakier while Lin went on seemingly unfazed until Windows wouldn't boot. Two days later nothing would boot.
Since I don't use either I don't have an opinion. As to iTunes, I get my media in physical format.
Being done "in the name of the diety" is not the diety's doing. Humans are human, and an evil man will use whatever he can against you, even your religion. Like Coffey said in "The Green Mile", "He kill dem wit dey love." I don't for a minute believe that Bin laden believed in Allah, he used the faithful for his own greedy ends.
As to "God said go ahead and kill them all", that's the old testament -- the Jewish bible. The Christian bible starts with the book of Matthew, everything before is just a prefix that explains what it's all about.
Companies abuse their customers and ...the customers like it?
Sony roots paying customers' computers with vandalism malware, removes the OtherOS feature that paying customers already paid for, gets "hacked" by putting sensitive customer info in a plain text internet facing database, yet still there are people posting at slashdot talking about their new Sony TV or computer. Hell, there are even people here who defend the RIAA!
Yes, they're stupid and yes, they don't care that they're being assfucked. I guess some people like being assfucked.