I know one of the few good things about AT&T's DSL service is that they don't do this yet. Although, I do run BIND locally.
I'm wondering what's stopping $evil_ISP_that_typosquats_on_DNS from redirecting all UDP traffic over port 53 to their own DNS resolvers, other than making power users angry.
Blocking all ports under 1024 would cause a lot of problems, since just about every protocol known to man uses 1024. However, I don't see much of a problem with blocking all incoming ports under 1024 and select outgoing ports, such as 25 and whatever netbios uses, especially if the blocks are on a opt-out basis.
Most Linux distros have a lot more software and contain more lines of code than Windows. Therefore, you'd expect more flaws in something like Ubuntu or RHEL.
B) WMA does not inherently use or need DRM, and MS themselves don't push DRM
They may not anymore, but the default setting back in the day was to DRM WMA files you ripped from a CD (and if I recall correctly, they popped up a help page that tried to make DRM sound like a "feature" when you tried to disable it). That seems like "pushing DRM" to me.
Several states have tried this, it's been declared unconstitutional. Illinois had to pay the video game industry's lawyers a bunch of money, if I recall correctly.
Since any attempts to legislate a ban on selling M-rated games to minors have been deemed unconstitutional, I say so what.
Perhaps stores shouldn't be selling these games to minors, but that's between the store and the "OMG PROTECT THE CHILDREN" crowd
Yeah, except the data could probably be used by typosquatters to... optimize their activities. Anything that helps typosquatters is a bad thing in my opinion.
Since not all songs are created equally, Comcast needs to clarify their policy...
I'm sure that Comcast wouldn't like it if you downloaded a 469.1 MB song 30,000 times in a month.
I mean, that'd be something like 13.7 terabytes
a month, or averaging approximately 27 Mbps downstream over an entire month, which wouldn't even theoretically be possible, we're not talking about FiOS here.
Yes, it's a bit of hyperboly, but where I come from, when I download a song, it averages 30 MB or so (usually it's FLAC or Shorten). 30 MB x 30,000 is approximately 850 GB/month. I don't think they'd like that very much
I don't even know where to start here...
Headline from TFA:
Hollywood Seeks to Change "G.I. Joe" into an International Feminazi: Disgraces our Greatest Generation
from the first paragraph:
Yes, Hollywood limousine liberal idiots are exceeding my patience. I can handle their unabashed socialism, even their global warming insanity, but when they
attack G.I. Joe, enough is enough.
From the second paragraph:
Well, if we look at the facts, the rest of the world would be controlled by Nazis if it were not for the G. I. Joe.
From the final paragraph:
Now Hollywood celebrities are going to turn him into a politically correct Feminazi.
Seems to be a bit biased to be "news". Also, someone needs to introduce the guy who wrote this to Godwin's Law
If this article was about HP's 28.4% market share or Dell's 23.8% market share in total computer sales according to IDC (like this one, this wouldn't be on Slashdot. That said, it's great that an alternative to Windows is becoming somewhat mainstream, but we don't need quite so many articles about it, it's starting to become like "Vista adoption slow" or "Microsoft hates its customers" or "Microsoft is gaming ISO" or "It's finally the year of the Linux Desktop" or "Firefox gaining marketshare", we've heard it a million times, and it's not really news anymore...
In an announcement today, Linus said that he is closing down the Linux kernel.
Any users who are currently running this kernel are to reformat their machines.
Linus said the DRM* built into the kernel will ensure this occurs.
*DRM is based upon the honour system, operators are forced to stop using it.
Actually, the Linux kernel already has DRM, but I fail to see how one could use Direct Rendering Manager to cause the kernel to self-destruct because Linus Torvalds felt like killing Linux today.
We don't need no thought control.
Seriously, today it'll be a cure for epilepsy, tomorrow it'll be a cure for individuality./me puts his tinfoil hat back on
The problem with filtering is that it blocks a lot of legitimate content that shouldn't be blocked, and lets a lot of content that probably whould be blocked if the filter was behaving as the people who implemented it intended. For example, Microsoft's download page Also, forcing filtering on everyone is certainly contrary to the first amendment.
As long as the Zune's marketed by Microsoft and the iPod's marketed by Apple, the Zune is doomed because, let's face it, Apple's good at marketing, and Microsoft's good at forcing stuff down consumer's throats.
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I know one of the few good things about AT&T's DSL service is that they don't do this yet. Although, I do run BIND locally. I'm wondering what's stopping $evil_ISP_that_typosquats_on_DNS from redirecting all UDP traffic over port 53 to their own DNS resolvers, other than making power users angry.
Except AL is Alabama. Alaska is AK.
Or a car where you need to pull a small floor-mounted lever to open the door over the gas cap (I know of at least two cars with this "feature")
Blocking all ports under 1024 would cause a lot of problems, since just about every protocol known to man uses 1024. However, I don't see much of a problem with blocking all incoming ports under 1024 and select outgoing ports, such as 25 and whatever netbios uses, especially if the blocks are on a opt-out basis.
Also, it'd be fairly easy for Microsoft to pretend that a vulnerability doesn't exist if it benefitted them from a PR perspective.
Most Linux distros have a lot more software and contain more lines of code than Windows. Therefore, you'd expect more flaws in something like Ubuntu or RHEL.
Actually, I'd say the grandparent poster is more "offtopic" or "spammer" than "troll". Still doesn't make it OK, in my mind.
It's slow and an accessability nightmare. I say it still sucks.
Several states have tried this, it's been declared unconstitutional. Illinois had to pay the video game industry's lawyers a bunch of money, if I recall correctly.
Since any attempts to legislate a ban on selling M-rated games to minors have been deemed unconstitutional, I say so what. Perhaps stores shouldn't be selling these games to minors, but that's between the store and the "OMG PROTECT THE CHILDREN" crowd
Yeah, except the data could probably be used by typosquatters to... optimize their activities. Anything that helps typosquatters is a bad thing in my opinion.
Since not all songs are created equally, Comcast needs to clarify their policy... I'm sure that Comcast wouldn't like it if you downloaded a 469.1 MB song 30,000 times in a month. I mean, that'd be something like 13.7 terabytes a month, or averaging approximately 27 Mbps downstream over an entire month, which wouldn't even theoretically be possible, we're not talking about FiOS here. Yes, it's a bit of hyperboly, but where I come from, when I download a song, it averages 30 MB or so (usually it's FLAC or Shorten). 30 MB x 30,000 is approximately 850 GB/month. I don't think they'd like that very much
Headline from TFA: from the first paragraph: From the second paragraph: From the final paragraph: Seems to be a bit biased to be "news". Also, someone needs to introduce the guy who wrote this to Godwin's Law
If this article was about HP's 28.4% market share or Dell's 23.8% market share in total computer sales according to IDC (like this one, this wouldn't be on Slashdot. That said, it's great that an alternative to Windows is becoming somewhat mainstream, but we don't need quite so many articles about it, it's starting to become like "Vista adoption slow" or "Microsoft hates its customers" or "Microsoft is gaming ISO" or "It's finally the year of the Linux Desktop" or "Firefox gaining marketshare", we've heard it a million times, and it's not really news anymore...
Damn, that's a lot of pixels.
This sounds promising (if it's not marketing hyperbole), but I'm pretty sure PETA (and other fringe animal rights groups) won't like this.
If you mean lots of hype, but the product's a huge dud, sounds about right
We don't need no thought control. /me puts his tinfoil hat back on
Seriously, today it'll be a cure for epilepsy, tomorrow it'll be a cure for individuality.
The problem with filtering is that it blocks a lot of legitimate content that shouldn't be blocked, and lets a lot of content that probably whould be blocked if the filter was behaving as the people who implemented it intended. For example, Microsoft's download page Also, forcing filtering on everyone is certainly contrary to the first amendment.
As long as the Zune's marketed by Microsoft and the iPod's marketed by Apple, the Zune is doomed because, let's face it, Apple's good at marketing, and Microsoft's good at forcing stuff down consumer's throats.
Well, it's not that bad. Old laptop, 500 MHz P3, 128 MB of RAM, Debian Etch, Firefox, erm, Iceweasel runs fine enough.
I am not an expert on federal law, but I thought Bush was allowing adult stem cell research.