Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
That's not why they have their own internal network.
It's because of security that they have their own network which is not connected to the Internet - what that guy calls "their own internet", but not just the ZOMG American Department of Defense, more like in most western[ized] countries..
It's because they don't want to g3t h4xx0rz0r3d l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l. "Slow" my ass.
This is a terrible thing. It's just plain stupid, restrictive, and not an act I'd expect from an advanced European nation, along with the blank CD tax.
No, I'm not going to start banning Spanish products, what's the point of that? Do you think they care about that kind of stuff? I wouldn't mind however organizing demonstrations (sans violence, of course) over this. Who in their right mind would even think about doing this sort of thing?!
Spain isn't one of the places that I'd like to live in right now, no thank you.
I know that in Denmark for example Cybercity (an ISP) along with the Danish government are actively blocking child porn websites or so. You get an error message explaining the situation in both Danish and English, you know, the whole "sorry for the interruption" sort of procedure. Freenet however isn't blocked.
Do they have the right to log IPs and such? I really don't think so.
I pretty much agree. The DS is a pretty good platform, but then again it's Nintendo, and Nintendo tends to focus on gameplay (perhaps the only company that really does), and much less on bling-bling effects.
Games, as they are now, are generally horrible. It's a lot like Hollywood nowadays, not just because of movie frenchise games, but also because it costs millions of dollars to just make a game, and then nobody wants to take their chances on a game that is less likely to sell (i.e. isn't really mainstream) so they release pretty much ONLY first person shooters.
DRM is aweful, and really is NOT going to work. RMS knows that, and so do most people with at least a tiny amount of knowledge about how digital media is transferred.
Back then in the days of the Tape Recorders, you could have copied your CDs and LPs to a tape and listen to them on the road - much like iPods and ripping CDs. It's been going like that for AGES. The music industry thought that tapes were the end, they were easy to copy and one person could have made hundreds of copies for his friends, and they did the same with their friends and so on.
Apparently the world didn't end then, and music didn't end then.
Then there was Napster, and actually after they closed down Napster I started buying LESS CDs. Why? I was exposed to less music, and didn't actually feel the need to buy anything. Basically, it was a lose-lose situation. The artists didn't get any more famous, Napster got shut down, and I didn't get the music I wanted to and couldn't "try before I buy".
The music industry is a horrible thing. Trying to abuse information in order to make money out of it. Basically "give me $X and I'll tell you Y" - it's just data on the CD after all.
Just like software, music should be free. And just about anything else should.
See? Now I'm happy I stopped using freenode. Back then the problem was that it was just consuming too much of my time. However, now after FreeNode's huge failure to protect its users, I actually have a VERY good reason to just stay away from it.
By the way, I wonder where ##otw is going to be at now..:P
This generation is the generation which reveals itself completely with blogs, personal pages and networks ala MySpace. They don't think about privacy all day long. It's both good and bad at the same time. On one hand it's much easier for some company to invent some new service "put this chip in your eye and we'll see what you like to see and then we'll recommend you some artists with a style you might like" and basically take over their eyes (if they don't read the agreement carefully). Last.fm (used to be Audioscrobbler) does something like that, but again, that's the sort of thing they would like other people to know anyway, much like their favorite food, eye color, and cup size - therefor MySpace is pretty much made for them (and they're made for MySpace)
Unsecured wireless networks, oh I love it. I just walk up and down the street with NetChaser running and I spot at LEAST 10 open ones over a range of 50 meters.. and that's just the open ones. I have around five neighbors with open wi-fi networks. I suspect one of them is actually a bank (yep).
Basically, the problem is that people don't know shit about wi-fi. They get this box saying "lol lke rlyrly fast wifirouter TM", open it up, plug it in, and look! I got internet access all the way to the kitchen! They forget however common sense that if THEY can access it, so can pretty much everyone else.
I'm really for free and open internet access for everyone, but the problem is that people are often stupid enough to, for example, share their files, run windows, etc. and people like to abuse that stuff. So, in a perfect universe where we're all nice to each other, I'd say that leaving your wi-fi network open is OK. Otherwise, just use WEP or something..
It's more of a climate change, but calling it "global warming" is a bit of a problem, since we also have some areas of the world becoming much colder. Changing climate is a natural thing. Just labeling it "global warming" makes you think it's "oh no, horrible!"
I agree. It's a very promising project. That is, if it ever succeeds. Right now it's pretty much anal pudding for most, I mean, all users and/or servers. However, windows compatibility is the one thing everybody wants to have, and if we can get that thing to work and also have a familiar look & feel, ReactOS is going to absolutely rock.
I was looking for some portable device to, well, be portable. I realized that I was pretty much the only one who's actually interested in those. 17-inch laptops are fugly and simply stupid, they lose the point of being a PORTABLE computer. The battery life generally tends to be around one hour at max on those things, to power their 1.000.000 RPM harddrives and their 40 GHz octa-core processors.
Please kill me.
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There you have it, encryption doesn't work.
This is a terrible thing. It's just plain stupid, restrictive, and not an act I'd expect from an advanced European nation, along with the blank CD tax.
No, I'm not going to start banning Spanish products, what's the point of that? Do you think they care about that kind of stuff? I wouldn't mind however organizing demonstrations (sans violence, of course) over this. Who in their right mind would even think about doing this sort of thing?!
Spain isn't one of the places that I'd like to live in right now, no thank you.
I know that in Denmark for example Cybercity (an ISP) along with the Danish government are actively blocking child porn websites or so. You get an error message explaining the situation in both Danish and English, you know, the whole "sorry for the interruption" sort of procedure. Freenet however isn't blocked.
Do they have the right to log IPs and such? I really don't think so.
Woo! Nice! I didn't know about that.
A lot more fun when some 14 year old kicks your ass after playing for 72 hours straight.
MUD forevaaahhh
I pretty much agree. The DS is a pretty good platform, but then again it's Nintendo, and Nintendo tends to focus on gameplay (perhaps the only company that really does), and much less on bling-bling effects.
Moon-buggy is an awesome game by the way.
No. That's Chuck Norris.
Games, as they are now, are generally horrible. It's a lot like Hollywood nowadays, not just because of movie frenchise games, but also because it costs millions of dollars to just make a game, and then nobody wants to take their chances on a game that is less likely to sell (i.e. isn't really mainstream) so they release pretty much ONLY first person shooters.
yawn@games & lol@interweb
What's that got to do with radiation? It's to do with gender! ;)
Hmm... I'd do it with John Lennon quotes or something.
Exactly the stuff I wanted to hear from him!
DRM is aweful, and really is NOT going to work. RMS knows that, and so do most people with at least a tiny amount of knowledge about how digital media is transferred.
Back then in the days of the Tape Recorders, you could have copied your CDs and LPs to a tape and listen to them on the road - much like iPods and ripping CDs. It's been going like that for AGES. The music industry thought that tapes were the end, they were easy to copy and one person could have made hundreds of copies for his friends, and they did the same with their friends and so on.
Apparently the world didn't end then, and music didn't end then.
Then there was Napster, and actually after they closed down Napster I started buying LESS CDs. Why? I was exposed to less music, and didn't actually feel the need to buy anything. Basically, it was a lose-lose situation. The artists didn't get any more famous, Napster got shut down, and I didn't get the music I wanted to and couldn't "try before I buy".
The music industry is a horrible thing. Trying to abuse information in order to make money out of it. Basically "give me $X and I'll tell you Y" - it's just data on the CD after all.
Just like software, music should be free. And just about anything else should.
See? Now I'm happy I stopped using freenode. Back then the problem was that it was just consuming too much of my time. However, now after FreeNode's huge failure to protect its users, I actually have a VERY good reason to just stay away from it. By the way, I wonder where ##otw is going to be at now.. :P
This generation is the generation which reveals itself completely with blogs, personal pages and networks ala MySpace. They don't think about privacy all day long. It's both good and bad at the same time. On one hand it's much easier for some company to invent some new service "put this chip in your eye and we'll see what you like to see and then we'll recommend you some artists with a style you might like" and basically take over their eyes (if they don't read the agreement carefully). Last.fm (used to be Audioscrobbler) does something like that, but again, that's the sort of thing they would like other people to know anyway, much like their favorite food, eye color, and cup size - therefor MySpace is pretty much made for them (and they're made for MySpace)
Unsecured wireless networks, oh I love it. I just walk up and down the street with NetChaser running and I spot at LEAST 10 open ones over a range of 50 meters.. and that's just the open ones. I have around five neighbors with open wi-fi networks. I suspect one of them is actually a bank (yep).
Basically, the problem is that people don't know shit about wi-fi. They get this box saying "lol lke rlyrly fast wifirouter TM", open it up, plug it in, and look! I got internet access all the way to the kitchen! They forget however common sense that if THEY can access it, so can pretty much everyone else.
I'm really for free and open internet access for everyone, but the problem is that people are often stupid enough to, for example, share their files, run windows, etc. and people like to abuse that stuff. So, in a perfect universe where we're all nice to each other, I'd say that leaving your wi-fi network open is OK. Otherwise, just use WEP or something..
Now I'm looking forward to burning warez for my PS3, oh joy.
It's more of a climate change, but calling it "global warming" is a bit of a problem, since we also have some areas of the world becoming much colder. Changing climate is a natural thing. Just labeling it "global warming" makes you think it's "oh no, horrible!"
Come on.
I agree. It's a very promising project.
That is, if it ever succeeds.
Right now it's pretty much anal pudding for most, I mean, all users and/or servers. However, windows compatibility is the one thing everybody wants to have, and if we can get that thing to work and also have a familiar look & feel, ReactOS is going to absolutely rock.
And all he needed in order to not get arrested was just buy some coffee. O, the things a coffee can do!
Imagine this "GPL add-in for VisualStudio." (Never gonna happen)
You can print stuff on a piece of aluminum foil, mirrored, and tatoo that on your . You can get a lot of information down like that.
No, it runs Vista, because Vista is superior to any other operating system because the start menu graphic is prettier. (True story.)
Yeah, it also confuses people when I implement XML in common conversation. It's a shame they don't understand me.
I overclocked my phone to 3.0 GHz and added watercooling. Works like a charm now
I was looking for some portable device to, well, be portable. I realized that I was pretty much the only one who's actually interested in those. 17-inch laptops are fugly and simply stupid, they lose the point of being a PORTABLE computer. The battery life generally tends to be around one hour at max on those things, to power their 1.000.000 RPM harddrives and their 40 GHz octa-core processors. Please kill me.