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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advocacy

To be on par with GNOME history (ah, the heady days of 1.4->2.0) they'd have to give you the buggy and less functional http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/>new filemanager as default and then kill the maintenance of the former filemanager so your option of using it soon disappears. After all, choices are confusing to users, so the correct thing to do is to make all the wrong choices for them so they don't have to make any wrong choices themselves.

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advocacy

But how? If the solution is to raise the too-low speed limits, some people will still drive over the limit especially if the limits are reasonable. I mean it's always possible to drive a bit faster, to get quicker to job or home or wherever else one is going. If the limits are raised to much, roads would become unsafe.

To start, I suggest you read this: http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html

The conclusion I draw from that (and other material I've read on the same topic) is that there's no safety justification for setting speed limits such that the majority of drivers are breaking the law.

I often wondered about this. Lets assume they did store all their emails.

A few years later, when the data becomes part of the public record and a historian looks through them to try and reconstruct the discussion relating to an important decision ... the email archive appears not to contain one or two key emails. Unless another email in the record specifically mentions one of the missing ones "re your email of the 27th" - how would we know that the key emails are actually missing ?

If the records don't become public until years after the event, then there would be ample time for someone to go through and remove all references to one or two specific emails before the archives are published. They might not even need to delete an email, something a simple as removing an address from the cc list could allow someone to claim that they hadn't seen a particular email.

One solution I though of would be for the email server to create a secure hash (a one way hash, like SHA-512 or similar) of every email that went through the system. The system would be setup to publish the list of hashes on a live web server that anyone can download (a gzip file of hashes for each day perhaps).

Any external group like the Library of Congress or Ibiblio, could download and archive their own copy of the hashes for each day.

Them when a historian looks at the email archive a few years later, they can compare the contents of the archive with the lists of hashes stored by the external archives. It wouldn't prevent someone from altering the data in the email archive, but it would make it much more difficult to hide the fact that the archive had been tampered with.

To completely erase all traces of a change would require intercepting the email before it reached the mail server, or modifying the lists of hashes stored by all the external groups afterwards. Not impossible, but much much harder to do.

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advocacy

Technically, the web is still pretty much the same, but the internet "culture" sure is 100% different. The web in 1997 was used pretty much to serve up text. Most websites content was something along the lines of "I exist on the web! Isn't it great that I can reach millions of people!" with some animated gifs and maybe a marquee banner. Social networking, ecommerce and the like hardly existed, and not in the form we know them today. The net is more a place of commerce these days than a place where geeks and academics go to share information.

And even technically, the change has been slow and gradual, but it really is very different. In 1997, JavaScript was still new, "webapps" were in their infancy, online games were brand spanking new, and online video was either an animated gif, or accessing someone's warez ftp site.

As a case in point, this "Unofficial Elvis Home Page" http://www.ibiblio.org/elvis/elvishom.html was a typical 1997 page- in fact, it even boasts its awards from some big names (at least for the time, IE Excite/Yahoo) at the bottom of the page!

Things seem to have changed pretty significantly to me :)

While the participants in this stunt definitely seem reckless, in my opinion this is a wonderful example of civil disobediance.

The fact is that most speeding regulations are just a form of crypto-taxation, in which artificially low speed limits are used as tools to enrich local governments (through assessed fines) and pad the profits of insurance companies (through point-triggered increases in premiums).

Further, there is plenty of evidence out there which shows that lowered speed limits do NOT actually reduce road-related fatalities. See http://www.motorists.org/speedlimits or http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/home2.html for references.

The prudent action would be to remove rural speed limits in most cases, and set speed limits at the 85th percentile speed in other highway cases. Urban and residential speed limits, however, should remain in force.

This guy got famous in the early '60s. Then he got a bit long in the tooth and the labels kicked him to the curb. He was lost in obscurity, playing for pittances in bars to drunken geezers.

Then the old illegal Napster came along and a new generation heard his music. He says it revitalized his career.

-mcgrew

PS: the lyrics to his song "Turn Turn Turn" (music © Pete Seeger) are in the public domain.

I believe the following is the earliest example of a popular (at the time) site that received a Cease-and-Desist letter and responded by posting it for everyone to see:

http://www.ibiblio.org/elvis/manatt.html

Also see the following articles which mention it:

http://home.earthlink.net/~barefootjim/writing/websight/websight1.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/web.whatnext/hit.miss/hit06.html

Of course, posting such letters has been the standard response ever since. Interesting that it took this long for someone to try copyrighting their letter to try to prevent this...

Now, to put this in perspective: Jim Mason (of Oak Ridge National Laboratory) isn't on one side or the other, but has been doing document-format specifications for a looooong time -- he was, I believe, the founding chair of SC34 and had a hand in the creation of SGML. The dude knows documents, he knows standards, and when he writes

the submitters obviously did not read -- and edit -- this submission into a consistent whole. If it were coming through the normal ISO process, I'd say it was in the state of a Working Draft and not yet ready for registration as a Committee Draft and assignment of a number

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

As a representative of the Linux community, participate in mailing list and newsgroup discussions in a professional manner. Refrain from name-calling and use of vulgar language. Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer. Your words will either enhance or degrade the image the reader has of the Linux community.

Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions.

A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities.

Always remember that if you insult or are disrespectful to someone, their negative experience may be shared with many others. If you do offend someone, please try to make amends.

Focus on what Linux has to offer. There is no need to bash the competition. Linux is a good, solid product that stands on its own.

Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs.

Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products.

Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.

Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom.

There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/
http://esr.ibiblio.org/

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From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

Are you so sure?

What does the Torah say for the world circle in that section? It says "chuwg" which means:

      1. circle, circuit, compass
      2. (BDB) vault (of the heavens)

Well a circuit nor compass is a sphere so I don't think this interpretation is valid. Secondly it talks about earth being a tent which even if you are talking about the ancient circular tends is still not a sphere.

http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number= 2329
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2002-J uly/013442.html

(I just so happened to be near a friend who knows elementary Hebrew and so doesn't know the word sphere but that is not it)

In fact this is how speed limits are supposed to be determined, it's called the 85th percentile speed, the speed at or below which 85% of traffic moves. There's a good article here explaining how it works. One pertinent quote is this one:

So deliberately posting a speed limit below the 85th percentile speed is not only greedy, it's likely to get more people killed as well. The only benefit is to allow more tickets to be written. Personally I'd prefer to see less people wreck.

Laws on speed limits are modeled after this, and should be nearly the same in all states in the US. As someone pointed out on Slashdot before (which is where I learned all this), you can often get out of a speeding ticket by asking if a traffic survey has been done recently on the road in question. (These have to be done every so many years to ensure the speed limit is still at the 85th percentile speed, it can change over time.) If one hasn't been done in the required time the speed limit's not valid as far as enforcement goes, and if the speed posted doesn't agree with the survey you're also likely to have your ticket dismissed. I've never tried this myself (I try not to speed nowadays myself) and it'll probably vary somewhat depending on where you're located and also on the judge you deal with, but speed limits are supposed to make sense so that only the truly dangerous drivers are breaking them. If everyone's speeding then it's definitely not the 85th percentile speed.

The first thing to do is reduce our impact on the planet: make technologies more efficient and our cities, transport systems and industrial processes less damaging to ecosystems. We rely on the web of life to sustain us: we need bees to pollinate, trees to make oxygen and worms to aerate the soil, or we would swiftly perish.

And after that? Do we mandate population controls? Do we nominate an arbitrary age at which people need to 'retire', as in the dystopian fictional vision of Logan's Run? Because populations will continue to grow, especially as child mortality falls and science finds ways of extending human lives. The logical thing to do is to expand beyond Earth : to build colonies on Mars, floating habitats in Earth's Lagrange orbits, mines on the Moon and the asteroids, and expand deeper into our Solar System.

Try supergetopt instead. Much easier to use and also open source.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/devel/sugerget-1. 1.tgz

With this code, you simply specify command-line strings and variables in a printf()
style format.

E.g. supergetopt( argc, argv,
                                    "string1", "%d %d", function1,
                                    "string2", "%s", function2 )

will call function1( int a, int b ) when string1 is on the command line,
and will call function2( char *s ) when string2 is used on the command line.

A whole lot easier than gperf, IMHO.

My older brother bought Jutland in 1993 for a whopping $70 based on the unassailable logic that "if it costs that much, it must really be good." Adjusted to 2006 numbers, that's $97.06.

Also, the game was... not good.

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• There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.

From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

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• Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs.
• Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products.
• Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.
• Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom.
• There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.

From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200606/df2006 0602.jpg

you don't just push a seed in the ground and it grows you know, it takes lots of ammonia nitrate to grow crops on the scale you are talking about, the production of which requires lots of oil and gas.

I think you've never gardened. I have since I was little and most of the tyme I've had a garden that's exactly what I did. As for nitrates, there are a number of Nitrogen Fixers such as the various Astragalus species, soya, and the various clover species.

you don't just push a seed in the ground and it grows you know, it takes lots of ammonia nitrate to grow crops on the scale you are talking about, the production of which requires lots of oil and gas.

I think you've never gardened. I have since I was little and most of the tyme I've had a garden that's exactly what I did. As for nitrates, there are a number of Nitrogen Fixers such as the various Astragalus species, soya, and the various clover species.

you don't just push a seed in the ground and it grows you know, it takes lots of ammonia nitrate to grow crops on the scale you are talking about, the production of which requires lots of oil and gas.

I think you've never gardened. I have since I was little and most of the tyme I've had a garden that's exactly what I did. As for nitrates, there are a number of Nitrogen Fixers such as the various Astragalus species, soya, and the various clover species.

Anybody keeping a comprehensive and up-to-date list (or list of lists) of specific things that are wrong with OOXML?

Here you have one

Other links:

• BSI ( UK ISO's national body member ) expert panel wiki
• file "v1 comments.zip" with 77 pages of comments ( 60 of them technical, general and editorial problems throughout OOXML ) partially reviewed by the USA panel ( most of them MS partners sended by MS, so don't expect a "deep" review there ) [note: this is an email attachment, open it with Thunderbird ]

Right, but Dijkstra was probably a little bit biased to the "everything is math" definition of CS. Maybe Don Knuth is right...

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Also, there are six billion people on this planet.

6 billion in 1999, 6.7 billion now, scary isn't it.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop

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Most purchasers only used the mp3 player.

Blaming the victim is a psychological faux pas, grow up.
Just one of 1000 google links on the subject

Use of the 85th percentile speed acknowledges that 15% of the drivers are traveling above a speed that is reasonable and proper. It is to this 15% that enforcement action is directed. Studies have shown that these are the drivers who cause many of the crashes and have the worst driving records.

...you are a paid M$ PR hack ... M$ had dumped the new Office at LSU ... you want M$ at any cost ... !

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we, liek, get taht u, liek, hate M$ n lollerz, but u need hlep

All those dollar signs are clogging the internet's tubes. The little copy editors inside older computers can't handle that degree of brokenness. If you post using that new-fangled Tux-powered OS, I'm sure that constitutes some kind of animal cruelty. "M$" is just as unfunny as "Linsux", "open sores", and "twatter", and makes the grammar-nazi schizoid voice in my head go absolutely bonkers with uncontrollable hell-spawned fury, endangering countless potentially Linux-using children.

Some AC used to troll your posts with a message like this:

twitter, please read this carefully. Following this advice will make Slashdot a better place for everyone, including yourself.

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There's a lot of wisdom in these lines. Take it or leave it; just for goshsakes don't bite anyone.

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it so happens that I was looking for foss, oss, recruiting software today and ran across this.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?p=208

it's a very funny story from Eric Raymond about a MS recruiter.

I am a recruiter who only works off of word of mouth from friends and former consultants. no spam, no pesky telemarketing. As well I have been trying to develop a system for linuxrecruiting.org out of my own pocket (NFP). We recruiters are not all pimps and pests. some of us have a few skills and don't search buzz words and pester busy managers to turn the next trick.

According to this site, it's actually $0.89 and decreasing per eyeball. So I guess as the population of the Earth increases, the deal looks better and better?

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Will such massive databases make us all act like politicians?

Actually, the presence of archived messages on mailing lists and Usenet from my teens -- some twenty years ago -- ensures that I would never even consider running for office. I'm not sure this is unique to net culture, though. It's not like raking public figures over the coals for their 'youthful indiscretions' is anything new. Politicians have always been worth the effort. What's new is that it's so easy now that it becomes worth the effort for ordinary people. Every time I have a job interview, I am always dreading a visit from the Ghost of Usenet Postings Past.

Well what do you know, you are right...

Weight of a typical filling (3mm x 3mm): ~ ~0.025 g (50% Hg amalgam)
Amount of mercury in a standard fluorescent lamp: Avg ~ 20 mg but varies from 3-46 mg

Since most people have multiple fillings that is a minimal amount.

The Hg in lamps is in an elemental form and is metabolized in the environment into highly toxic methylmercury which accumulates in the food chain. Mercury amalgam slowly leaks into your mouth (approx 30 mcg/day/filling). Neither one sounds too great!

http://www.worldwise.com/recfluorlig.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/amalgam/

Oh dear God no. Seeing how he's responded to something as simple as a request for an interview I think his ego is going to respond to this news by imploding under its own mass.

here's how, using free software:

http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass63/manuals/html63_us er/i.landsat.rgb.html

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Delta is the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet, much like the letter D is the 4th letter of our alphabet.