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Slashback: Quiesence, Jazz, RAND
Please write your elected W3C representative. haplo21112 writes "The W3C has posted a next-steps comment on the mailing list for the Patent Policy Frame Work proposal.
It announces among other things that two Open Source People have been added to the working group as Invited experts, Eben Moglen (General Counsel, Free Software Foundation) and Bruce Perens (Co-Founder of the Open Source Initiative). They have also announced a home page for the Working Group at: http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/
Especially interesting is the Second Objection noted on the page from IBM, where basically they are revealed as one of the drivers of the proposal. They grumble about RF and pretty much say they would vastly prefer RAND."
You'd like to think so, eh? ColaMan writes: "Is CodeRed finally dead? I've had a counter on my webserver (yay apache!) that tracks attempts, but since the start of the month only 1 lone attempt has been logged on our permanent IP dialup connection (and that was just overnight). This compares to 2490 attempts for August and 931 for September. Nimda still seems to be plodding along though - I've had 159 unique ip's so far this month and 466 for September. Knowing that my IP address is in some bandwidth-forsaken backwater of the internet, I was wondering how things were going CodeRed-wise in the Real Internet?"
I forget -- does the M stand for "Microsoft," or "Macintosh"? An Anonymous Coward writes: "Remember this story from last Tuesday asking about audio applications on linux? Today the Jazz++ mailinglist declared jazz++ dead (find the message here). While not the perfect midi sequencer, jazz++ is robust and GPL'd. Since jazz++ only appeared twice in the postings (each moderated at +1 ...) related to the earlier story, it would seem this fine product has low visibility among the /. crowd. The only viable GNU/Linux midi solution died the same week ./ had a call for audio solutions on Linux. Gotta love irony..."
From Bundesrat to Bangkok Germany may be considering it, but Thailand is doing them one better. TheMMaster writes "According to this article on newsbytes, the Thai government will switch to open-source software, linux on the desktop, StarOffice. This is a nice example of OSS, and probably why a lot of people contribute, to help people (OK and for fun)"
As usual, the actual developers float high above the flames on their behalf. Yep, KDE is 5 years old -- and fm6 writes: "A nice contrast to the usual GNOME-versus-KDE flamage: the users of news.gnome.org wish KDE a happy 5th birthday." Remember, the flame wars you see about these two projects have little to do with the fact that both have already created killer desktops, and are continuing to do so faster than human beings should be allowed to travel.
woah awesome!
1st deja vu post
The w3 patent policy list, now that the rucus from the patent proposal has died down, is full of repeated spam messages.
Denise Richards or Salma Hayek?
yeah, whe had a good time.... sniff :)
Why have I only got cheese and onion crisps? I hate them !!
Damn, it did it again...slashdot really REALLY doesn't like anyone even suggesting the word BLINK surrounded by angle brackets.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Have you posted that as a story?
I enjoyed his books, but not his films.
sorry they dont post made up troll stories. submit it to grimm's fairy tales. they accept troll tales
I want a celeron 1.2ghz tutalian (i think thats how its spelt) in SMP.... I think it would make a great SMP system, they are currently selling for $103!!! They also have 256kbs L2 cache so they are basicly a p3, tomshardware.com was able to overclock it to 1500mhz, 12x125!!! thats amazing... I know they do SMP but I cant find a good SMP motherboard for the tutalian, I want one with Agp4x for my geforce 3... I currently have dual p3s(700mhz's) at 1050mhz with a Abit Vp6 but I dont believe it supports tutalian cpus.
Anyone know where to get a good SMP motherboard that would support these bad boys?
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred last month, and now we're involved in a WAR and you people have the gall to be discussing Code Red, RAND patents in Web standards, the sad death of some MIDI software, and an upgrade for Thailand???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about Code Red, RAND patents in Web standards, the sad death of some MIDI software, and an upgrade for Thailand, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me!
Regarding your mother, I think this one should satisfy her.
I wouldn't mind getting her in the kernel
SUCK
...And then I would like you to:
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PENIS!
SUCK
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PENIS!
again.
I send you this document in order to have your advice!
When you look into China for long enough, China looks back at you.
You must be some kind of super-genius!!!
I'll bet, your script is even written in perl, the super-hacker programming language!
I know this is offtopic, but I couldn't help but notice your sig...
Back in the day (bbs's, 300-2400 baud, etc.) we used to call that duplex hence the oldschool duplex joke sigs:
WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
Slashdot: rejecting tech news in favor of rubber band guns since 1997.
I can satisfy your mother...an act at which you have obviously failed repeatedly.
A bad troll always blames his tools.
Trolling tutorial my ass..
"Flegm OFF!" - The Anonymous Flaming Troll