yea I noted I wasn't sure, but my point is, even if they have order to shoot you on place for copying MPAA DVD's, if *I* want to release a DVD with *my* content, *I* set the rules.
I bet FBI wouldn't want to shoot someone on place in my name if I want my own content distributed in a free manner.
Ah damn it I can't believe Jobs this. This is honestly dissapointing.
The least thing is that those mergers are highly stressfull for the company being acquired, since you can expect some of the staff to be layed off in the reorganisation, but most importantly, Pixar was the true opposite of Disney in terms of spirit and phylosophy about creating quality content.
This may leave lots of the artists in Pixar demoralized and maybe quit the company to open small independent studios.
Disney is way to greedy and too huge for its own good. It just got bigger.
"I used to install ZoneAlarm on all the family PCs, but I found no one pays attention and just click the "let foo.exe acceess the internet" button."
You've trained your family bad:) I preconfigure the apps that can and cannot access internet, and I've told my mom that should a yellow box with an orange title appear, call me and don't touch it:)
Even if copyright infringement is made a criminal offence (it's not right now as far as I know), to complex reality we live in means still the owner has to take some actions to sue the infringer.
Which means that the said "customary historic use" really impairs usage of content by RIAA/MPAA and those who are in the same camp as them.
The independent labels and artists need not enforce this law, and if it's really that bad, what it'll kill in the end is the usage of RIAA/MPAA content, rather than boost its usage.
So I say let's go with it and see what happens. They won't stop until their ruin themselves.
"Replace ZoneAlarm with a NAT box and I'd agree with you."
NAT is fake security as well and hinders some important functionality (like direct peer communication, like for video chats for ex.).
Sure, it sorta acts like firewall in that port scans don't reach you, but it doesn't replace the need for a firewall, especially since it has no (crappy but still useful) outbound protection which often serves as an early warning in case of infection.
And backup.. close to zero trojans would destroy data intentionally nowadays. They are with commercial purpose, and try to operate undetected.
But you gotta backup for million other reasons anyway.
"Use a router for the firewall. Software firewalls are junk that cause more headaches than they're worth."
One of my machines got infected through the WMF flaw, and guess how I understood? The outbound protection of my firewall popped a box letting me know some.exe I've never heard of tries to access the Internet.
Hardware firewall in that situation would do nothing to either protect me from the WMf flaw (since it's not a port issue), or warn me since it has no outbound protection.
Are software firewalls perfect? Of course not, and their outbound protection can be worked around as well. But truth is, they do good enough and still may provide more value to an average consumer than a hardware firewall.
Last but not least, ZoneAlarm is free, which hardware firewalls are not.
"Don't cruise the net as root, or the admin user on a windows box. If you have to use Windows as your OS get a real firewall product, hardware even better than software, don't run unnecessary services, don't use IE unless its for the MS site itself. Don't use Outlook. Keep your system patched. Avoid sites like the free game and pr0n sites that are forever infesting computers. Get a useful book on security. Keep proper backups so that you can recover if all else fails"
Dude, wow, wow, wow... Is all this supposed to make him switch to broadband with an easier mind?
You don't need to freak him out. All this can be said in a much simpler fashion:
- Leave autoupdates on your windows ON, it'll take care of itself - Download and install : ZoneAlarm for your firewall, and AVG Free for antivirus. Both free, user friendly and do their job. - Download and install Firefox for your browsing needs.
And dial-up is indeed fake sense of security, so there.
We need some sort of filter to filter out all those study "news" that floods Slashdot imho.
I for one had enough of those sensational study conclusions that basically either reiterate the obvious, or try to disprove the obvious with dubious link and fallacious logic.
Right now they make up around half of the articles on Slashdot (and various other similar sites) and contain zero useful information.
"Those sites that are restricted to particular combinations..."
i.e. all of them unless you tested your sites on the full evolt browser archive collection.
"...have often been created by people who either don't understand the concept of HTML (in particular that the users browser is in control of the way the content is rendered), or have built the site using building block components over which they have little understanding and control."
People who talk like you are often people on an extreme edge where it only matters that the code is semantical and shows your text.
But in real situations, presentation matters, and yea I totally want that pink sidebar with 3D graphics for my girl fashion site (for example).
"The problem is not the bugs, it is how they are handled."
Well if it's a Microsoft bug, the problem is the bugs, if it's KDE bug, it's how they are handled, but if Microsoft starts handling them like OSS handles them, we know reasons will be found to bash MS anyway.
Because the problem isn't in bugs or handling or anything: the problem is in that it's too easy to twist so that Microsoft always looks bad.
"This attitude is short-sighted though. Just because they are using a Mac as web-browser does not mean they are not interested in your product."
You are shortsighted. What if they don't have internet or browser, or use DOS? It doesn't mean they're not interested in your product.
What if they don't have computer? And what, you market via web sites?! How shortsighted.
What if they are aliens and don't understand human languages. There is STILL some possibility they can be interested in your product! Prove me wrong! Can you? No you can't.
Oh wait we live in a real world, where it's just enough to have a reasonable threshold when targeting potential customers, rather than speculating on random assumptions.
"No, they haven't. There are at least 7% of all users out there which do not happen to run windows and have no IE. Do you really want to lock out 7% of your potential customers, and annoy another 10-20% or something which could use IE, but doesn't want to?"
The question is if those 7% are actual potential customers at all. Usually not.
"True, the level has stayed the same.. but perhaps without the lawsuits and FUD campaign the amount of file sharing would have grown?"
I'd say it's sound to stay away from conclusions with a lot of "maybe", "perhaps" and "what if" in them. Even the mighty RIAA doesn't have magic future vision to back any of this.
Slashdot Mirror
"Asynchronous Requests with JavaScript and Ajax"
AJAX means "Asynchronous JavaScript & XML", so if we'll be redundant, do it properly:
"Asynchronous Requests with JavaScript and XML and Ajax"
- From the department of redundancy department
Aren't we supposed to know that. This is Slashdot after all.
Next article: What is cmd.exe?
RIAA: Hey. WTF is this, you got 30 gigs of pirated mp3s! You're so sued!
Gollegeboy: Dude I swear one asshole sits in front of the building and beams his iPod contents to everyone with wireless USB!
"might want to check on that..."
yea I noted I wasn't sure, but my point is, even if they have order to shoot you on place for copying MPAA DVD's, if *I* want to release a DVD with *my* content, *I* set the rules.
I bet FBI wouldn't want to shoot someone on place in my name if I want my own content distributed in a free manner.
So *AA, be ****ed.
"Maybe you missed the part of the article that explains how Jobs made 3.5 billion dollars (in stock) by selling Pixar to Disney."
So that now you repeated it to me, should I jump around about that Job made a buck while potentially ruining the best 3D film house in the world?
Ah damn it I can't believe Jobs this. This is honestly dissapointing.
The least thing is that those mergers are highly stressfull for the company being acquired, since you can expect some of the staff to be layed off in the reorganisation, but most importantly, Pixar was the true opposite of Disney in terms of spirit and phylosophy about creating quality content.
This may leave lots of the artists in Pixar demoralized and maybe quit the company to open small independent studios.
Disney is way to greedy and too huge for its own good. It just got bigger.
"I used to install ZoneAlarm on all the family PCs, but I found no one pays attention and just click the "let foo.exe acceess the internet" button."
:) I preconfigure the apps that can and cannot access internet, and I've told my mom that should a yellow box with an orange title appear, call me and don't touch it :)
You've trained your family bad
Even if copyright infringement is made a criminal offence (it's not right now as far as I know), to complex reality we live in means still the owner has to take some actions to sue the infringer.
Which means that the said "customary historic use" really impairs usage of content by RIAA/MPAA and those who are in the same camp as them.
The independent labels and artists need not enforce this law, and if it's really that bad, what it'll kill in the end is the usage of RIAA/MPAA content, rather than boost its usage.
So I say let's go with it and see what happens. They won't stop until their ruin themselves.
"You did omit some things there, the "not cruising the net as admin or root" is one important thing."
In Linux yes, but Windows has broken user mode, so it's not recommended. Vista is supposed to fix this in a major way.
User mode makes too much stuff simply not work at all, so you might be a little safer, but tons of other issues will arise.
The advice for today: don't soil yourself.
"Replace ZoneAlarm with a NAT box and I'd agree with you."
NAT is fake security as well and hinders some important functionality (like direct peer communication, like for video chats for ex.).
Sure, it sorta acts like firewall in that port scans don't reach you, but it doesn't replace the need for a firewall, especially since it has no (crappy but still useful) outbound protection which often serves as an early warning in case of infection.
And backup.. close to zero trojans would destroy data intentionally nowadays. They are with commercial purpose, and try to operate undetected.
But you gotta backup for million other reasons anyway.
"Use a router for the firewall. Software firewalls are junk that cause more headaches than they're worth."
.exe I've never heard of tries to access the Internet.
One of my machines got infected through the WMF flaw, and guess how I understood? The outbound protection of my firewall popped a box letting me know some
Hardware firewall in that situation would do nothing to either protect me from the WMf flaw (since it's not a port issue), or warn me since it has no outbound protection.
Are software firewalls perfect? Of course not, and their outbound protection can be worked around as well. But truth is, they do good enough and still may provide more value to an average consumer than a hardware firewall.
Last but not least, ZoneAlarm is free, which hardware firewalls are not.
"Don't cruise the net as root, or the admin user on a windows box. If you have to use Windows as your OS get a real firewall product, hardware even better than software, don't run unnecessary services, don't use IE unless its for the MS site itself. Don't use Outlook. Keep your system patched. Avoid sites like the free game and pr0n sites that are forever infesting computers. Get a useful book on security. Keep proper backups so that you can recover if all else fails"
Dude, wow, wow, wow... Is all this supposed to make him switch to broadband with an easier mind?
You don't need to freak him out. All this can be said in a much simpler fashion:
- Leave autoupdates on your windows ON, it'll take care of itself
- Download and install : ZoneAlarm for your firewall, and AVG Free for antivirus. Both free, user friendly and do their job.
- Download and install Firefox for your browsing needs.
And dial-up is indeed fake sense of security, so there.
That's
We need some sort of filter to filter out all those study "news" that floods Slashdot imho.
I for one had enough of those sensational study conclusions that basically either reiterate the obvious, or try to disprove the obvious with dubious link and fallacious logic.
Right now they make up around half of the articles on Slashdot (and various other similar sites) and contain zero useful information.
There are two popular studies. One is that multitasking makes you stupid:
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http://www.clarkeching.com/2004/12/multitasking_i
http://www.sauria.com/blog/misc/103
Also we have all the studies that women are better at multitasking.
So I just added 2 and 2 there...
"Those sites that are restricted to particular combinations..."
i.e. all of them unless you tested your sites on the full evolt browser archive collection.
"...have often been created by people who either don't understand the concept of HTML (in particular that the users browser is in control of the way the content is rendered), or have built the site using building block components over which they have little understanding and control."
People who talk like you are often people on an extreme edge where it only matters that the code is semantical and shows your text.
But in real situations, presentation matters, and yea I totally want that pink sidebar with 3D graphics for my girl fashion site (for example).
"The problem is not the bugs, it is how they are handled."
Well if it's a Microsoft bug, the problem is the bugs, if it's KDE bug, it's how they are handled, but if Microsoft starts handling them like OSS handles them, we know reasons will be found to bash MS anyway.
Because the problem isn't in bugs or handling or anything: the problem is in that it's too easy to twist so that Microsoft always looks bad.
"This attitude is short-sighted though. Just because they are using a Mac as web-browser does not mean they are not interested in your product."
You are shortsighted. What if they don't have internet or browser, or use DOS? It doesn't mean they're not interested in your product.
What if they don't have computer? And what, you market via web sites?! How shortsighted.
What if they are aliens and don't understand human languages. There is STILL some possibility they can be interested in your product! Prove me wrong! Can you? No you can't.
Oh wait we live in a real world, where it's just enough to have a reasonable threshold when targeting potential customers, rather than speculating on random assumptions.
"No, they haven't. There are at least 7% of all users out there which do not happen to run windows and have no IE. Do you really want to lock out 7% of your potential customers, and annoy another 10-20% or something which could use IE, but doesn't want to?"
The question is if those 7% are actual potential customers at all. Usually not.
"True, the level has stayed the same .. but perhaps without the lawsuits and FUD campaign the amount of file sharing would have grown?"
I'd say it's sound to stay away from conclusions with a lot of "maybe", "perhaps" and "what if" in them.
Even the mighty RIAA doesn't have magic future vision to back any of this.
"Nothing to be seen here besides another sensational Apple bashing report. Please move along."
Nice, if Apple fucks up, reporting it is "nothing to be seen here besides another sensational Apple bashing report".
If Microsoft fucks up, reporting it is "literally saving the world from the evil Micro$oft OMG! OMG!"
Sigh, if you don't want the objective truth, fine, but some want it.
"Don't answer that."
Ok, I won't.
To get it to the level of an Andy Kaufman they'd have to post at least once/daily for the rest of our lives.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear viruses...
"People coming together for a common good.
I'd love to see more of that."
Tune in the StarTrek theme. Tam ta daam, paa pa pa pa paaaa.