Have you read the FAQ section (see "Who" below) concerning this? Maybe you just weren't eligible often enough for some reason or other. More than once I have missed the opportunity to moderate because I just didn't have the time to do it before the points expired (just a quick glance into/., and then moderator access when I least want it).
Anyway, it shouldn't be that important - it's not as if you couldn't express your own thoughts...
seeing as software is a 'service' and not a 'product'
Software is a product, not a service, and it is sold under terms more suitable for a work of art. Software vendors routinely refuse to extend the contract to anything the software might do (I, as you can easily see, ANAL).
Just like if I buy a lock for my house, a talented lockpick can probably always open it, but then s/he's faced with the fact that it's a crime to break in anyway.
Right - so it's not necessary to criminalize picking locks. Picking locks or climbing on balconies isn't a crime - but it's an indication of significant obstacles, which makes it relevant to the crime of breaking into a house, and it's definitely grounds for suspicion. The DMCA, on the other hand, aims at criminalizing, metaphorically, the practice of lockpicking and the ownership of ladders.
According to Terry Pratchett's "Maskerade" a mob IQ is even a bit less than what could be read into your post.
Quote:
"And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened."
Knowledge is power. It's great to know where to find the really important information.
Kiwaiti
Re:but what about the Internet Connection Firewall
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Dual booting for M$-only games doesn't expose you to network vulnerabilities, cuz you don't need a connection to do some serious hole-punching. If you really want to play those games by Internet then you should have a dedicated gaming machine, completely untrusted.
Kiwaiti
P.S.: To think that I'm actually posting this from a 2000 box at work... *shudder*...thank god I'm not responsible for it's security!
Ideally, Mom and Dad don't even think about gcc, X, and bash, because in fact they don't know about their existence. To them, it's just part of the disk space eaten by the OS installation - no, not even that, they don't know about that either. They know that it works somehow, and where to click for certain tasks they perform on a regular basis (otherwise they just forget), and who to call if anything differs from their experience (i.e. "it's broken"), which just doesn't happen.
That's all they need to know. You set it up for them and explained how to do what they want to do. All choices were made for them, so the technical background really doesn't matter.
It is now possible, with some effort, to create an environment that behaves like that and is virtually unbreakable, as far as Mom and Dad are concerned. This does, however, still require some thinking and time spent (by you!) to set up, instead of already explaining its use. I think the step towards more desktop marketshare will be even more automated configuration providing a default install that works practically all the time. Those that want choice can still do whatever they like, but no routine modifications or even tweakings should ever be needed when you set up some computer illiterate friend's (or parent's) machine.
Why don't you just pipe your output to less? Then you can be sure of what you see. You can always switch to another console or suspend the pipe to make use of copy & paste.
The bottom line is: given a choice between releasing a quality product, late, or rushing a product out the door, MS has often chosen the latter. No question about that.
In many cases, they have managed to combine the best of both worlds, rushing their buggy products out the door, late.
What company has said "We won't release our API because Microsoft told us not to"?
Do you know what would happen to them if they said that in public? Microsoft has been shown to do illegal things. Do you think these are all visible at first glance? Obviously, if they threatened illegal measures or just bullied companies into submission, no obvious clues would be allowed. If they can "persuade" others not to release their specifications, they can just as easily have them claim it was genuinely their own idea to withhold them.
Kiwaiti
More viable choices == A Good Thing [TM]
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Back when I had to use those HP-UX machines, CDE offered much more than any free alternative (err... were there any?), but today, I'd really like a modern Gnome (or KDE, which I prefer) on those thingies. It doesn't take anything away, and it will surely put some pressure on CDE - so more power to them!
I wouldn't mind a software rent model - at least here in Germany, rent means full liability and fulfilment of the contract only if the product works as intended. Get the picture?
Just compare our age of maturity, average rate of pregnancy and average number of births per pregnancy to that of pigs, another large mammal similar to us in many other aspects. Compared to ours, their growth is truly explosive, if unchecked. Our only advantage is the combination of brain and hands.
The Agent's rant serves the purpose of illustrating his hatred for mankind, yet makes a stupid quote. Though some species do have a mechanism to prevent overpopulation, IIRC none of them are mammals. On the contrary, mammals multiply and have the excess migrate to expand their territory, increasing the sustainable number, or die.
Man's inventiveness pushes the border both by supporting more people in a given area and enabling us to spread into areas previously uninhabitable. Still, the total number is invariantly capped by death.
No problem - if the average movie title is, say, 20 characters long, that makes for some 100 KB plus overhead - you could put that on any floppy disk...
The very question is irrelevant. Requiring a trial for detention is not a privilege granted to worthy americans, but a necessity to prevent injustice and violation of basic human rights against anyone.
If the general public in the US is forgetting that, it is an alarming sign of a striking need for reeducation. You should keep VERY quiet about any human rights violations until you remember what human rights are all about.
If it records and transmits, it must use power. You keep the device, so you are responsible of recharging it. Testing the devices for activity during the time when they should be switched off would be fairly easy - just monitor their power consumption.
This is just off the top of my head - there are probably more subtle approaches promising more accurate results.
When did viruses in mail attachments become a problem? I'd guess it started with W98, probably some time after it was introduced (for W98 to gain installed base, and for crackers to realize the new opportunities introduced). At the time, he may have been right. However, M$ soon changed the rules in favour of crackability...
Mohammed was dead about half a millennium before the crusades began.
Mohammed operated in the area of Mecca and Medina, NOT Jerusalem (though he considered Jerusalem the most sacred of places, IIRC).
Mohammed vigorously fought jews (for political reasons), not christians. Generally, both groups were tolerated under muslim regimes, recognised as believers of similar religions (well, some of the time) and left alone more or less, paying a special per capita tax in compensation for whatever.
Christians in Palestine were rather pissed off when Europe decided they needed some holy wars.
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- fortunately, I don't need the compiler at run-time
- no, thanks, I'll use LILO instead
- haven't really looked in that area, but I'm sure there are alternatives
- if I wanted one (which I might not, since Anders quoted a router as an example), I'd generally prefer KDE
So?Kiwaiti
Anyway, it shouldn't be that important - it's not as if you couldn't express your own thoughts...
Kiwaiti
Software is a product, not a service, and it is sold under terms more suitable for a work of art. Software vendors routinely refuse to extend the contract to anything the software might do (I, as you can easily see, ANAL).
Just like if I buy a lock for my house, a talented lockpick can probably always open it, but then s/he's faced with the fact that it's a crime to break in anyway.
Right - so it's not necessary to criminalize picking locks. Picking locks or climbing on balconies isn't a crime - but it's an indication of significant obstacles, which makes it relevant to the crime of breaking into a house, and it's definitely grounds for suspicion. The DMCA, on the other hand, aims at criminalizing, metaphorically, the practice of lockpicking and the ownership of ladders.
Kiwaiti
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Knowledge is power. It's great to know where to find the really important information.
Kiwaiti
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P.S.: To think that I'm actually posting this from a 2000 box at work... *shudder* ...thank god I'm not responsible for it's security!
That's all they need to know. You set it up for them and explained how to do what they want to do. All choices were made for them, so the technical background really doesn't matter.
It is now possible, with some effort, to create an environment that behaves like that and is virtually unbreakable, as far as Mom and Dad are concerned. This does, however, still require some thinking and time spent (by you!) to set up, instead of already explaining its use. I think the step towards more desktop marketshare will be even more automated configuration providing a default install that works practically all the time. Those that want choice can still do whatever they like, but no routine modifications or even tweakings should ever be needed when you set up some computer illiterate friend's (or parent's) machine.
Kiwaiti
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In many cases, they have managed to combine the best of both worlds, rushing their buggy products out the door, late.
Kiwaiti
Do you know what would happen to them if they said that in public? Microsoft has been shown to do illegal things. Do you think these are all visible at first glance? Obviously, if they threatened illegal measures or just bullied companies into submission, no obvious clues would be allowed. If they can "persuade" others not to release their specifications, they can just as easily have them claim it was genuinely their own idea to withhold them.
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Just compare our age of maturity, average rate of pregnancy and average number of births per pregnancy to that of pigs, another large mammal similar to us in many other aspects. Compared to ours, their growth is truly explosive, if unchecked. Our only advantage is the combination of brain and hands.
Kiwaiti
Man's inventiveness pushes the border both by supporting more people in a given area and enabling us to spread into areas previously uninhabitable. Still, the total number is invariantly capped by death.
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free(array);
I prefer this one - the comment doesn't interfere with reading the code, and it can be seen even when scrolling by at 100+ lines/s.
Kiwaiti
If the general public in the US is forgetting that, it is an alarming sign of a striking need for reeducation. You should keep VERY quiet about any human rights violations until you remember what human rights are all about.
Kiwaiti
This is just off the top of my head - there are probably more subtle approaches promising more accurate results.
Kiwaiti
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Mohammed was dead about half a millennium before the crusades began.
Mohammed operated in the area of Mecca and Medina, NOT Jerusalem (though he considered Jerusalem the most sacred of places, IIRC).
Mohammed vigorously fought jews (for political reasons), not christians. Generally, both groups were tolerated under muslim regimes, recognised as believers of similar religions (well, some of the time) and left alone more or less, paying a special per capita tax in compensation for whatever.
Christians in Palestine were rather pissed off when Europe decided they needed some holy wars.
Kiwaiti