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Virtual Decentralized Networks: Linux's Organization
barries writes: "Here is an interesting take on the Linux Project which tries to put it in a historical perspective and explain why traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it. It overlooks a few things but gets most of the basics right." You might want to skip ahead a bit in the paper to get to the Linux-specific sections.
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this is very cool.
gonna beat them bitches gonna bust a cap
over clock that pussy and fuck a hat
first jeff k, fuckhats
.... oh well
OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMERS STINK
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Slashot admits the truth here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/25/219
As we already know open source programmers stink, both at their jobs, and in general. Take RMS for instance. He can't get a job as a real programmer so he starts the FSF. He also hasn't taken a bath or shower in over 20 years making him stink in general. Living in a dark cave doesn't help either. I don't want to know what is crawling around in his hair.
I'm sure there are people at your office who are just like RMS if they can hold their jobs. You know they are close because you can smell them. You are spending hours of overtime fixing their code.
For anyone reading this post none of this is a suprise. However, slashdot is a bastion of open source programmers. That is why the code is so bad, and its the only website that you can smell over the internet because it reaks!!!!
What was suprising to me (and to you I'm sure) was that slashdot admitted in the above linked article that open source programmers stink.
I commend slashdot for admitting the brutal yet honest truth.
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
i am lame.
The Origins of Bukkake:
Let me start with the origin of this fetish. The term bukkake is from the country of Japan. This term is actually not a sexual term at all. It was just brought out as a sexual term just recently (around the late 80s) That is the facts. I have heard so many times in the past of people saying that Bukkake is a ancient form of humiliation in Japan (this is NOT the case) It was actually just brought about in porno videos in Japan not too long ago. Now bukkake is growing and moving across the world rapidly.
True Term Meaning of Bukkake:
As I said earlier on the site that Bukkake is from Japan. The term of Bukkake is not a sexual term at all. After this explanation of bukkake hopefully you will understand why the term is not and why it could be a sexual term and fetish. So let me get on to the explanation of this hot new fetish racing through the American continent.
Bukkake in Japanese is base form of a verb, as it stands alone it is a noun. Bukkake means splash or heavy squirt. This being said let me give you an example of this misunderstood word:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketa.
I her water splashed
English:
I splashed her with the water.
When adding something to the end of bukkake such as: ta (makes it past tense) te(command, such as do it) or teru(present) or tai(want to do)
With that being said you could say as well:
SIMPLE EXAMPLE:
Japanese:
boku ha kanojo ni mizu wo bukkaketai
I her water want to splash
English:
I want to splash her with the water.
Either way you know what bukkake means as a word. believe it or not Japan even has a soup called bukkake udon. That's how much of a normal word it is. This soup has nothing to do with sex at all. It is a soup that Japanese call bukkake because it makes the soup sound more appetizing. They put a lot of vegetables and liquid in the soup, and by calling it bukkake it gives the feeling that the soup was made quickly and its fresh. As if they splashed the soup together. So maybe that will give you more of an insight as to the meaning or feeling of the word as well. Now on the the sexual meaning of it.....
Sexual Definition and History of Bukkake:
Now that you know that bukkake is a term from Japan that means splash, let me tell you why it is a new sexual fetish.
Around the late 80's early 90's a couple of video companies were trying to make videos that catered to facial and sperm lovers in Japan. So they decided to make videos that would consist of a girl getting facial after facial over and over again.There are many videos series and companies from Japan that do nothing but bukkake specific videos such as: Soft on Demand, Shuttle, M's video group, Deeps and a few more smaller companies (these videos are hard to find, but do exist). There are also a list of great sites and magazines that show this Japanese bukkake fetish such as: gotcum.com or the magazine Gal's shower. With this information you can do your own research as well as see examples to cure your own curiosity or sexual desire.
After these Japanese companies did such extreme facial and cum play videos, pictures and websites; the world caught on like a bon fire in the Evergreen Forest. Now all countries around the world are trying to emulate what the Japanese have done with this new and exciting sexual fetish.There are many American videos out as well other great key players of bukkake media such as Germany or the U.K. Although these countries have tried to emulate the Japanese, nobody does quite like Japan. so far Japan has the most exciting and extreme bukkake out.
The Japanese usually have a cute girl sit down in front of a line of up to 200 men. From there she awaits her huge sperm shower. These men repeatedly give her facial after facial. These is where the term bukkake is used because it is like they are splashing her with sperm!! This is not the usual facial you see at the end of a video but rather a shower of facials over and over again on a willing person. This is what makes the fetish a group project rather than just something that two people do together. With this being said, bukkake is not only a fetish but also a sort of orgy.
Now that the fetish on video has blown up so big there are many parties through out the U.S. being thrown by amateurs doing large bukkake parties. You can go to the yahoo groups and find many types of bukkake groups who throw parties all the time. Just do a little research and you are on your way to even being in one of these parties. You could be a giver or a receiver!!! Its up to you and it is no holds barred.
So now you know exactly what bukkake means. The true meaning (in the sexual term) is to splash or squirt a large amount of sperm on a girl (or man, if you are gay) This being said you are well on your way to knowing more about this great phenomenon that is bukkake. Go out and have a good time....but please make sure before you do any parties to make sure everyone is tested for STD's (although they say that aids is difficult to pass through saliva or semen) Be sure to use your best judgment, or just join a site or buy videos and be completely safe.
Different types of Bukkake:
There aren't really a lot of genres of Bukkake, but rather a different way or additions to them. Here is a simple list that I have come across in the past of this style of sex.
Forced Bukkake:
This is were a willing participant acts or seems unwilling to get a facial shower from several men.
Bukkake Summit: Here is where a person receives a bukkake shower but tilts their head back and opens their mouth for the full experience, trying to catch it all. At the end of all the facials the cum is collected and drank by the target of the bukkake shower.
Costume Play Bukkake: Here is where a party or video is made in a theme setting such as a girl wearing a schoolgirl uniform in a schoolroom. She would sit and suck off each guy in a line waiting. The men repeatedly cum in her mouth or face.
Dream Shower Bukkake: This is where the group of men have sex with the target. As one man is having sex the other men watch and cum on the girls face. When the man comes to his climax he cums on her face and the next man in line has sex with her. This one can last a while depending on how many men the target is willing to have sex with.
Snowball or Trade Bukkake: This style of bukkake has two or more targets, which when receive facials swap the cum from mouth to mouth or lick it off of eat others faces.
Cum Play Bukkake: Here is where many men cum on the girls face, after which she plays with the cum. Also the men cum on the girls food and the proceeds to eat the food with the sperm glazing.
The genre of Bukkake that I listed above are just a few. There are many more and there are many that are created everyday. You might want to check back to get new ideas on what can be done with bukkake. I will be listing more styles of bukkake in the future.
"People should be allowed to keep midgets as pets."
- Gov. Jesse Ventura
- I throw rocks at retarded kids.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
This pseudoscience about organizational dynamics is what is referred to as curve fitting - using your results to frame your hypothesis.
"Loosely decentralized virtual organizations" could just as soon describe a bowling team. Its gibberish folks.
Some interesting snippets:
On MS Culture and Management
Mozilla
My submission was rejected so I will just post this here. Dont let facist slashdot editors take away our right to free speech!
TAMARAC -- As he lay dying in his brother-in-law's arms, Robert Campbell, victim of what police say was a Halloween prank gone tragically awry, had instructions for his family: Don't grieve for me.
"He wants us to wear Dolphin shirts and have a couple beers in his name," said family friend Jason Clark. "Those were his last words."
Campbell was waiting for his three youngest nephews to come home with Halloween candy Wednesday night when eggs hit his bedroom window. He was dead more than two hours later, nine days before his 41st birthday.
According to Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal, Campbell was deliberately run over about 10:10 p.m. Wednesday by Richard Day, 58, who had gone to three houses seeking revenge after Halloween pranksters pelted his home with eggs and shaving cream.
Deputies said Day told them he deliberately ran over Campbell with his Dodge Dakota pickup. He was arrested Thursday on murder charges at his home in the 7300 block of Northwest 61st St.
Day, whose 12-year-old son was in the truck during the alleged rampage, is being held without bond in Broward County Jail.
According to police, Day became enraged when his house was egged shortly before 10 p.m. on Halloween. He grabbed a carton of eggs from the refrigerator, jumped in the truck with his son and drove to a home on Northwest 62nd Street, a few blocks away.
As he pulled into the driveway, he knocked over a trash can, jumped out of the truck and threw eggs at the house. When the owner came outside, Day tried to punch him but missed and fell to the ground, hitting his face on a cement meter box, police said.
Day jumped back into his truck and sped southeast to the home on Northwest 71st Avenue where Robert Campbell lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Connie and Fred Rosser, and four nephews. Day may have headed to the house because his son knew the boys who lived there, Clark said.
Under a full moon, Day started hurling eggs at the home, police said. Campbell heard the eggs hit his bedroom window and came outside with his brother-in-law, Fred Rosser, and his eldest nephew, Michael Spinella, said Clark.
Michael, a 16-year-old football player at Piper High School, said he was one of the kids who egged Day's house, but did not say why. The rest of the Rosser family was out trick-or-treating at a neighborhood in Margate. Although Campbell never liked Halloween much, he did like to share his nephews' candy, Clark said.
Campbell was standing in front of the house when he was hit by Day's truck and dragged six houses to the north, police said. Campbell died of massive internal injuries at Broward General Medical Center at 12:37 a.m. Thursday.
"He took my son's life, for eggs," Campbell's mother, Marie Spinella, told reporters Thursday near the spot where her son died. "He was a good boy. He never hurt anybody."
Campbell worked for an independent contractor laying tile, Clark said. He was a native New Yorker, but he always rooted for the Miami Dolphins.
"My last memory of Robert was sitting in his room having a beer. That's the way I want to remember him," Clark said from the front porch of his friend's home, broken egg shells and dried yellow yolk not far from his feet. After Day's truck was free of Campbell's body, Day continued on to a third house for another egging, police said. He then returned to where Campbell lay in the street and yelled, "He got what he deserved," according to police. At that, he drove home with his son.
Neighbors describe Day as being a private, kind man who doted on his wife and son and worked hard to keep his yard neat.
He was unemployed, and had no criminal history, Leljedal said.
"He was a nice fella," said Enrico Summaria, 79, who often saw Day fishing with his son in the lake that edged up to their back yard. "I don't know what triggered him off. I just talked to him [Wednesday] afternoon. Everything was fine."
But apparently, everything was not fine. Police say they were called to Day's house twice on May 14. The first call was a domestic disturbance, Leljedal said. The second came an hour later and involved a suicide attempt. Details were not available Thursday as to the domestic disturbance or who made the suicide attempt.
Campbell's family spent much of Thursday in shock and tears.
"This is incredible," said Campbell's 34-year-old brother, Anthony Spinella, staring at the bloody skid marks down Northwest 71st Avenue. "This is just unbelievable."
The woman who lives in the first home targeted in Day's Halloween rampage stared at the skid marks in front of her home on Northwest 62nd Street.
"You see these marks here?" she said. "He killed somebody. Killed somebody. I was asleep the whole time."
2001-11-02 05:34:52 The Virtual Networked Organisation (articles,news) (rejected)
How to Download YouTube Videos
It's good to see a business administration view of this, but a little odd. All of the substance is in large numbers of pretty pictures (targeting the market I suppose). This is a new way of doing things to the writer's audience, but to a large chunk of the world it is nothing new.
Q: What does an unemployed person with a degree in business say?
A:Hey buddy, can you paradigm?
He was a Miami Dolphins fan?
God, I would have run him over with something a LOT bigger than a pickup truck.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
Sorry about the bad HTML formatting. I guess I can't have separate paragraphs inside a BLOCKQUOTE in a comment posted as Plain Old Text. It formatted fine in preview.
this is what I saw in the comment preview. I'm too lazy to find the proper place to submit bugs to slashcode, hence the horribly off-topic post.
Mozilla
I don't know about everyone else here, but personally after 2000 I've been a bit skeptical of claims that something "is breaking new ground and traditional structures and theory don't fully apply to it."
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
American Dissident Voices Broadcast of November 3, 2001
Why Revolution Is Necessary
By Dr. William Pierce
Hello!
One of the most interesting developments I've seen since September 11 is the public hinting by people in the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it really would be helpful to them if they were permitted to torture suspects or other people from whom they wanted information, like the police in Israel do. These hints haven't been given a big play by the news media, but there is a report on the subject in the October 21 issue of the Washington Post and a column by Jonathan Alter in this week's issue of Newsweek. These stories seem to be what the media people call "trial balloons": give a new proposal just enough exposure to get a bit of public reaction from the perceptive minority without alarming the
lemmings. If the response isn't strongly negative, then push the proposal hard.
I'll read you just a few sentences from the October 21 story in the Washington Post, to give you the flavor of the proposal. I quote: "FBI
and Justice Department investigators are increasingly frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin Laden's al Quaeda network, and some are beginning to say that traditional civil liberties may have to be cast aside if they are to extract information about the September 11 attacks and terrorist plans. . . . Said one experienced FBI agent involved in the investigation: 'We are known for humanitarian treatment, so basically we are stuck. . . . Usually there is some incentive, some angle to play, what you can do for them. But it could get to that spot where we could go to pressure . . . where we won't have a choice, and we are probably getting there.' Among the alternative strategies under discussion are using drugs or pressure tactics, such as those employed occasionally by Israeli interrogators, to extract information." -- end of quote --
Well, the article goes on to quote other FBI officials who are "frustrated" by their inability to "extract information" from some suspects and who wish that they could use drugs or "pressure tactics" -- that's a euphemism for torture -- like the Israelis do, and more than
"occasionally." Actually the story, by Walter Pincus, is pretty low key. It nowhere says that there already is a plan to use torture, just
"wouldn't it be nice if we could." And he quotes a former senior FBI official who believes that the American public will go along with such a
plan if there is another terror attack on the United States. And, of course, there will be. As I said, the article reads like a "trial balloon."
It's a funny thing: after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Jewish media were all over my 1978 novel, The Turner Diaries, claiming that a fictional bombing of the FBI headquarters building in Washington that occurred in the novel was a "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing. They really wanted to tie the Oklahoma City bombing to me and to everyone else who had criticized the Jews' monopoly control of the news
and entertainment media. I won't be surprised when they discover that the last chapter of The Turner Diaries describes a suicide attack on the
Pentagon with a bomb-carrying airplane and then begin claiming that that was a "blueprint" for the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. There's
something else in The Turner Diaries, however, that I'm quite certain they won't try to blame on me, and that is my description of the adoption of torture as an interrogation technique by the FBI. In the book, published 23 years ago, I described quite vividly the FBI's
torture of a terrorism suspect, using the services of an experienced Israeli torturer. The media bosses won't blame the current yearning in
the FBI for the authorization to use torture on my book because they themselves also are solidly in favor of the use of torture. It is no mere coincidence that both the Washington Post story and the Newsweek column are written by Jews.
They also are solidly in favor of every other measure to strengthen the hand of the government in dealing with its opponents -- and not just
with terrorists. They would like to put an end to all dissent, to all Politically Incorrect speech or writing or expression of opinion: an end to all opposition to them and to the government. And really, the media and the government are far too close to being one and the same these days. That's quite a different situation from the one we had 30 years ago, during the Vietnam war, and the situation is far more dangerous today than it was then. Then, when Jewish and Marxist groups were burning ROTC buildings on our university campuses, setting off bombs in banks and other businesses they claimed were supporting the White government in South Africa, and committing other acts of terrorism on a continuing basis, if the FBI had suggested that perhaps it should use torture in interrogating terrorist suspects, the media would have gone ballistic and screamed for the head of the FBI director. Well, if the FBI begins using torture now, at least the government canclaim that it is just going along with tradition. After all, it wasn't so long ago that witches were tortured to make them confess to having congress with the devil -- and also to reveal the names of other witches or sorcerers. The torture was justified on the grounds that it was essential for the safety and welfare of the public: you can't allow witches and sorcerers to run around putting spells on people; the government needs to find out who they are so that it can get them off the street. Of course, the danger from witches wasn't real, so the government wasn't justified in using torture in the 17th century, but the danger from terrorists today is real, and many people believe that justifies the use of torture and the curtailment of other civil liberties. And my answer to that is that the danger of terrorism today is real only because the government has made it real through its own policies: policies that it could change at will, eliminating the danger of terrorism without limiting the freedom of Americans.
Unfortunately, however, the government not only refuses to admit that any of its policies are the cause of terrorism against Americans; it is
moving with unseemly haste to silence anyone who dares to suggest that is the case. The ghastly new law, the badly misnamed "USA PATRIOT" law signed by George Bush last week, is a giant step in that direction. The "USA PATRIOT" title is a highly contrived acronym standing for "Uniting
and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism." The new law is both un-American and unpatriotic. It is also un-Constitutional, although you shouldn't make
any wagers that the Supreme Court will overturn it. The law specifically trashes the Fourth Amendment, and it is aimed at intimidating all
opponents of the government or its policies into silence by threatening to put them into the category of being suspected "supporters of
terrorism," whereupon they immediately lose all of their civil liberties and become, in effect, outlaws.
The new law certainly succeeded in intimidating nearly every legislator in the Congress even before George Bush signed it on Friday of last
week. The bill's sponsors rammed it through the Congress without any of the customary debate or public hearings or opportunity to modify it. The
customary legislative process of "regular order" was completely short-circuited, and terrified Congressman dared not protest or vote against the bill from fear of being denounced as "unpatriotic."
Denounced by whom, you ask? By the media, of course, which were solidly behind the new law. It was reminiscent of the witch trials of 400 years ago, when people who knew that the accused was innocent were afraid to speak up lest they too be accused of being in league with the devil.
If you still believe that the people elected by the voters to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are America's "leaders" and are
looking out for the interests of the public, you should contemplate in detail the course of the "USA PATRIOT" bill through the Congress. Nearly
90 per cent of the members of the Congress, Republicans and Democrats, all of whom took a solemn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, let themselves be stampeded by fear of media criticism into damaging the
Constitution in a grievous way -- perhaps into striking a death blow against the Constitution -- by voting for this bill. And George Bush was
his usual smirking self as he triumphantly signed it into law last Friday.
Now Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison, the principal owner of Oracle, the country's second-largest software company, is trying to persuade the government to require everyone to carry a national identity card that will allow the FBI to keep track of their movements. Ellison has generously offered to provide the software without charge to the FBI to operate the tracking system. In the government the biggest booster of Ellison's national identity plan is Senator Diane Feinstein, who heads
the Senate subcommittee on terrorism.
Hey! It's not Osama bin Laden who hates America's freedom: it's our government, our media, and people like Larry Ellison and Diane
Feinstein.
If you've been listening to many of my broadcasts, you know what I think about democracy and democrats. I think democracy is a lousy political system, and it is inherently crooked. It pretends to put power into the hands of the majority of the people -- which is a stupid idea in itself -- while it actually puts power into the hands of the tiny minority that
control the opinions of the majority: namely, the media bosses. And I loathe Democrats: they are demagogues who seek power for themselves by
appealing to society's resentful losers and dispensing bread and circuses paid for by society's more productive elements. But as much as I hate Democrats, I hate and fear Republicans even more: especially conservative Republicans: for example, Chief Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Vice
President Richard Cheney, and George W. Bush. It is among the conservative politicians and bureaucrats that one finds the greatest mania for regimenting people, for making everyone march in step and sing in tune, for slapping down anyone who gets out of line, for sticking the government's nose into every aspect of people's lives. And I'll guarantee you, the mania these conservative politicians and bureaucrats have for controlling citizens and suppressing dissent is not based on either patriotism or a conviction that it's for our own good. They are crooks and liars, and the only good they're concerned about is their own.
You know, just because I have one view of an issue, and a politician has a different view, doesn't in itself mean that the politician is a crook and a liar. People -- even politicians -- are entitled to have different opinions about things. But when a politician like George Bush announces to the nation in completely unambiguous terms that the September 11 attack was unprovoked and was simply an expression of hatred by fundamentalist Muslims for America's freedom and democracy, it's not a difference of opinion; the man is simply lying. He's lying consciously and deliberately. He's lying to the whole nation on a matter of the utmost importance. This is much, much more reprehensible -- much, much more dangerous for the country -- than Bill Clinton's lies about the
sexual services he was receiving in the Oval Office from a Jewish intern.
George Bush has lied us into a war -- for two very obvious reasons. First, just as the members of the Congress were afraid to question the new anti-terrorism bill from fear of being painted by the media as "unpatriotic," George Bush is afraid to talk about the provocation which caused the September 11 attack -- namely, the U.S. government's support of Israeli aggression against her neighbors -- because he knows that the media would then accuse him of "anti-Semitism."
And second, if he raised the subject of the provocation, he would have to explain why the government pursued such a policy. He would have to talk about the enormous power of organized Jewry over government policy, and again that would cause the controlled media to denounce him as an "anti-Semite." And he also would stand revealed as a man who had consciously followed a policy dictated by organized Jewry knowing that
it was a policy harmful to America. He would stand revealed as a man at least partly responsible, along with his predecessors, who knowingly followed the same policy, for the September 11 attack. He would stand revealed as a traitor, who had served a foreign power to the detriment of American security and welfare.
You know, being a traitor is a bit like grabbing a tiger by the tail. Once you embark on that course, you can't go back. It's either hang on
or be hanged. So George Bush lies to the whole country about a matter of the utmost importance and continues serving his alien masters. And the
man smirks about it.
Such a man cannot be trusted. A government headed by such a President cannot be trusted. Any reasonable patriot must fear such a government when it is given the powerful tools for repression that are in the new "USA PATRIOT" law and when its secret police agencies begin suggesting that it would be nice if they were permitted to torture suspects in order to extract information. And such a government especially should be feared when it is in cahoots with the news media. In a free society one force that keeps the government from getting completely out of control is a free press. Even when the media also are crooked, if they at least
are hostile to the government they can keep the government in check. But when crooked media are in cahoots with a crooked government, the country
is in real trouble. And that is the situation we're in now.
In America's present situation, terrorism is the least of our problems. Certainly, it is a bad thing when our country is so hated by much of the
rest of the world because of our government's policies that airliners are hijacked and flown into office buildings, killing thousands of
Americans. Certainly it is a bad thing when anthrax-infected letters are mailed around the country, killing innocent people and causing major disruptions in the postal service. But these things are nothing compared to the loss of our civil liberties. They are nothing compared to the danger of a treasonous, lying government. They are nothing compared to the damage done to our society by mass media of news and entertainment being in the hands of an alien minority pursuing its own agenda. Americans made far greater sacrifices 225 years ago to secure civil liberties that King George III was denying them than they made in New York and Washington on September 11. When we are obliged to fight again to restore civil liberties now being given up so lightly by an irresponsible and thoughtless public seeking more security, the loss of lives and property will be far greater than in the World Trade Center attack. When we take the necessary actions to regain control of our mass media and our government, the disruption and suffering will be incomparably greater than that caused by the current anthrax terrorism.
In other words, even if the terrorism threat to Americans were a thousand times greater than we have experienced so far -- even if terrorism cost us five million lives instead of five thousand -- it would not be as harmful to us and as great a threat to our national survival as a treasonous government and alien-controlled mass media. The public, frightened of terrorism, may be willing to give up its freedom in the hope of gaining more security, but it will end up with neither. Unfortunately, the minority of us who really value our freedom will lose it too.
And you know, none of this is necessary. It is easy for us to eliminate -- or at least greatly reduce -- the threat of terrorism without giving
up any of our civil liberties. Without scrapping the Bill of Rights it is possible for the Sally Soccermoms and the Joe Sixpacks to go back to
cruising the malls and watching the ball games without having to worry about being hit by a hijacked airliner or opening an anthrax-infected
letter. It is possible for them to have their comfort and security and for us to have our freedom at the same time.
Regimentation is not necessary for security. The authoritarians in our government would like to regiment the people whether there is a threat
of terrorism or not, but regimentation isn't necessary. The way to eliminate the threat of terrorism is to eliminate the causes of
terrorism. And as far as terrorism from outside the country is concerned, the cause is the U.S. government's blind support of Israeli aggression in the Middle East. Every recent terrorist attack against Americans by foreigners has had this single cause: the 1993 bombing of
the World Trade Center, the 1998 bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the 1996 bombing of our servicemen in Saudi Arabia, last
year's bombing of the USS Cole, and the September 11 attack on New York and Washington. In fact, we can go back much further, even to the
bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, which killed 241 Americans. None of these attacks would have occurred if the U.S.
government had pursued a policy in the Middle East based on American interests instead of on Jewish interests.
To eliminate or greatly reduce domestict errorism, more than a change in U.S. foreign policy is required. Here's an example: the Jewish media now are entertaining the theory that the anthrax letters causing so much
anxiety are being mailed by neo-Nazi groups inside the United States. Even though the anthrax letters refer specifically to Israel and close with the words "Allah is great," Jews are speculating that because all of the letters were mailed inside the United States and so many of the targets were media figures -- that is, Jews -- they could have been mailed by domestic anti-Semites rather than by Muslim backers of Osama bin Laden.
Perhaps so, but that still remains to be seen. The relevant fact is that domestic terrorism that would have been inconceivable 50 or 60 years ago is becoming increasingly common. Fifty years ago no American would have considered launching a campaign of anthrax terrorism in this country. Today it is at least conceivable. And it's not that the technology is new. Any reasonably resourceful graduate student in microbiology can find anthrax spores or other lethal pathogens in the natural environment, identify them, isolate them, cultivate them in a small laboratory using inexpensive equipment, and grow enough of them to inoculate hundreds of letters. And he could have done the same thing 50
years ago. The spores always have been around, and the techniques are not new. What is new is the motivation.
What is new is the enormously greater corruption and irresponsibility of our government today and the consequent distrust of the government by
perceptive citizens. What is new is the enormously greater intrusion of the government into the lives of law-abiding citizens today and the consequent hatred of the government by freedom-loving Americans. What is new is the enormously greater degree of alienation on the part of most Americans -- at least on the part of those Americans who care about more than mall cruising and televised ball games. The principal cause of this alienation is, again, the government, with its destructive immigration policy and its destructive program of forced multiculturalism.
That's easy enough to understand, but to act on our understanding in order to eliminate the cause of either foreign or domestic terrorism
will require the replacement not only of the present U.S. government but also of the system on which it is based. Which is to say, until we have a thoroughly cleansing revolution in America, we must endure more and more terrorism and more and more loss of freedom at the same time.
Thanks for being with me again today.
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it says so here
When I see the tab in the screenshot labeled "Google S...rbation". I think, "That's a little more than we needed to know".
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I was a bit supprised at the smallish arrows in figure 9, (these led back to the trusted lieutenents and Linus.)
Considering the shere volumes of emails these guys get...
-=fshalor
.. gu-hay
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
Confessing up front that I've only read the parts relating to free/open source and Linux, and skimmed the rest of that HUGE opus ...
At some level the observations here are completely predictable. It's old hat to anyone who's tried to get something large under way; the buzzwords aren't news. The interesting bits are when the author talks about how the Linux model might work in other industries.
What I've found interesting about the Linux community is best observed as a contrast between how Linux works, and how most other software projects I've been on have worked. Briefly, it's the central planning thing. Microsoft is just a big and current example, not the only one.
Traditional OS software orgs insist on being able to control lots and lots of things, just so that they can present plans justifying themselves to folk who finance their work. And many of those financers are actually trying to sell hardware; look at Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, or most folk now working in OS software without Linux. OS decisions that don't immediately sell hardware tend to get under-rewarded, compared to Linux. And because of management overheads, there is no way to incorporate very much work that's not a current "top" priority since such efforts detract from the process of collecting fat bonuses (issued for short term goals far more than long term ones).
A lot of the "parallelism" of Linux is just the fact that developers have finally started to be able to escape from such straitjackets, and don't need to tie themselves so exclusively to short sighted bottom line issues. It's those short planning horizons that have hobbled most software organizations without the benefit of a monopoly over most of a large industry.
Lame enough to claim first post well after the fact.
Any ideas why they cancelled Alias today?
Nice catch!
Now here's a lot more than you needed to know.
The fourth search result is actually quite good. It's related to the math assignment I mentioned in my first post. The course in Engineering 9100 - Numerical Analysis, and joy of joys, we're doing Perturbation methods. The assignment has a dumb cubic polynomial that I'm supposed to solve approximately. I'd rather be anywhere else but in school working on this assignment right now...
Christopher
Mozilla
May I suck onto Linux Torvald's penis?
I hear it is most thin and small.
Like a tiny delicate rod of flesh.
It would be most tasty.
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
There is nothing in this paper to convince me that such a model would work for a capitalist enterprise. The comparison between the Linux Project and Microsoft is absurd, as the first is a volunteer-based non profit project, while the second is a company. Models that work for a class of projects don't necessarily work for others.
Moreover, statements like:
If the automobile industry started taking on an open source development model with sharing across companies and countries, the cost and prices would eventually drop, innovation and development would speed up and exceptional features would be shared across many makers and models. The auto industry could finally come up with the safe, clean energy car.
are simply hallucinogenic.
Remember, the difference between communism and capitalism is that sharing is mandatory in the first and optional in the second.
The Raven.
The Raven
spare me with the dull linux propaganda crap
Linux Torvalds raped me with his monolithic kernel!!
And don't even ask what Anal Cox did with his network stack!!
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
http://spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll6.html (Yes, it's a troll, but it really is good for a laugh.)
To quote:
"In fact, the Linux OS is licensed under the GNU GPL and uses most of the GNU programs. That is why it is often referred as GNU/Linux."
Ummm, I don't know anyone who calls it that, and I hear RMS is on of the few who actually does.
Things like this can really distract a reader, ya know?
It defies Brook's Law because of its parallel release structure, extreme modularity, "trusted lieutenants" structure and as a consequence, co-ordination costs are almost negligible.
IIRC, Brook's law applies for networked communication. Hierarchical communication is therefore created to reduce this overhead. Extreme modularity doesn't prevent the merging cost. The interesting note here is that this paper doesn't address who is behind the scene to put all of this together.
I am not a Linux developer, but I believe Linus is the ruler of all of them. If he doesn't like the way things integrated, he just demote the component. Thus the maintainer does the job to comply. Recall on how many "new" components, such as ext3 and others must wait and comply to this rule? The rule is pretty rigid and widely accepted by all developers. All his "lieutenants", such as Alan Cox, also applies the same rule.
Moreover, Linux developers are all dedicated people, not just people that wants money to do their work. They want recognition. So, they will try very hard to push their "product" into the development line.
It's not just the Brook's Law, I suppose... Anyway, that's my 2c.
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Maybe I'm just picky, but the author lost my respect by the third paragraph of the section on Linux, when he started talking about "trademarked" software. It seems like someone who is writing about the effects of different ways of creating intellectual products should have a basic, layman's understanding of Intellectual Property law, at least.
Software can be (and almost always is) copyrighted. It can also be kept as a trade secret and, in some cases and in some countries, software algorithms can be patented. But "trademarking" is something done to names and logos, not pieces of software.
Annoying.
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
What does this mean for Joe Sixpack?
For example:
The Linux kernel is 'copylefted' software, patented under the GNU GPL, and thus, nobody actually owns it.
In fact, the relevant law is copyright not patent and most portions of the kernel are owned by the programmer who wrote them.
For example:
Similarly important was Linus's decision to create a highly portable [their emphasis] system.
In fact, the original kernel was very i386 specific and non-portable . The portability only came later. (Torvalds did aim for POSIX compatibility to make it easier to port codes to his kernel.)
There are many other errors in the article. Admittedly, mostly minor details but they do make me wonder about the quality of the "peer-review".
People in our business can talk and often write lucidly, but not one of us can draw worth a damn. Because of the pictures and tables, this is a great resource to show PHBs who need pictures and tables to draw their short attention spans back to the text.
Do I want to skip ahead to the Linux section?
What a fine analogy of the current situation at Slashdot. Move the blocks around so that the Linux shows. What ever happened to that complex idea of balance? Do you not think that a primary function of propaganda is to dismiss all propaganda as propaganda, all but your own?
Mark as offtopic or flame as you will. But at least take a short moment to realize the herding of ideas that is before us. Thanks.
Uh... because the emmys and the game 7 would have trounced that stupid show DUH
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
This person is a linux fanboy troll as can clearly be seen by this post. Mod down accordingly.
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
that was a lot of work for one troll
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
Oh wow, that is a seriously shitty web browser you are using. Try IE, it actually WORKS
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
What is the ultimate burger flipping technique? :)
This person is obviously a prolific troll who is also a seinfeld fan as can be seen by this post. Mod up accordingly.
Love And Kisses,
BiffJerky the Troll
Next week version 2 of this doc will be put on the Net after the author has a chance to read Slashdot and incorporate all of the corrections (read: criticisms) we are posting here.
:)
Maybe I'll just save some time and frustration by skipping this one and reading the next version.
----- rL
Hm---------G-----------------D------A(V)
Tak ljubat dzhaz, tak ljubat vino,
Tak voploschajut soderzhanije snov.
Tak vstajut na stupeni veduscheje v raj.
Tak zhivut vse, kto umret vse ravno.
Tak vynimajut gvozdj iz steny,
Tak zhdut udara so storony spiny,
Tak vyxodjat iz doma sobravshisj v raj.
Tak idut na vojnu, tak idut s vojny.
G-----D------A(V)--------Hm
A ty igraj, a ty igraj, igraj
Hm------------G----------------D
Mozhet bytj uvidish dorogu v raj.
Tak mednyj pjatak proverjajut na zub.
Tak vytirajut pocelui z gub,
Tak uzhe vstav na dorogu v raj.
Opjatj zabyvajut schtatj kazhdyj rupj.
Tak rozhdajut detej, ne znaja otca,
Tak vstajut vo vesj rost ne bojasj svinca,
Eto tak voljno - doroga v raj.
No zhiznj iz jajca, a doroga s konca.
Pr.
Kto zdesj jestj bogatyj otvetj,
Kak serebro prevraschajut v medj,
Kak vyvorachivajut nutro po doroge v raj.
Kak dobro prevrachajut v pletj.
Kak na utro legko smotretj,
Na to, kak tancujet smertj,
Na gorojachej doroge veduschej v raj.
I dazhe pytajetsja chto-to petj.
Pr.
Ty boljshoj xozain sonnoj travy,
Eto znachit tebe ne snosotj golovy,
Eto znachit rjadom doroga v raj.
Gde na guby truby nalozheny shvy.
Gde nalivajut gitaru vody,
Gde obnimajut kosjasj na lady,
Gde vidja son pro dorogu v raj.
Uspevajut prosnutsja za mig do bedy.
Pr.
The piece is lucid and interesting. However, it is intended to advocate rather than to critically examine the principles of the open source/free software movement. It admits that this movement is a kind of "religion," and like a religious propagandist, the author shies away from asking hard questions about central points of doctrine.
/. crowd.
E. Raymond describes this phenomenon in this way - "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - pointing out that security is an aspect of reliability. And such reliability can only be achieved through massive and parallel peer review.
A clear principle, to be sure, but is it a valid one? When bugs are tracked on major open source projects, such as Debian and Mozilla, the number of outstanding bugs only increases as a trend. When ESR turned up recently on the Linux kernel mailing list, he was jeered for the above maxim and told that it was demonstrably false. Robert Dewar of Ada Core Technologies -- a small business frequently cited as an open source success story -- has said that his organization is not particularly interested in outside bug fixes, since they are usually incorrect or incomplete. These anomalies and disagreements are not mentioned in the paper. A false picture of doctrinal consensus is painted instead.
Linux is synonymous to decentralisation since the project is developed by thousands of dispersed people who collaborate under no central planning.
Is it really true that Linux employs a decentralized network structure supported by volunteers? In fact it appears that hierarchical control is maintained, and maintained primarily by people who are paid to perform that job.
Nowadays, increasingly more 'big players' are joining the web: IBM, Dell, Oracle, Intel, HP, SAP and others have been tantalised by Linux and its Open Source development model, that have started investing heavily in the 'Linux platform'.
Tantalized? Oracle and SAP are proprietary par excellence. At a recent meeting with SAP in Frankfurt, I was told directly that the use of free software development tools would thwart SAP participation due to the lack of a liability structure. Dell offers Linux on its servers but that's the extent of its open source software development. This company list appears to be fabricated -- only IBM is clearly an open source backer, and even there, this year's open source campaign may have been a flash in the pan.
The management of this web depends heavily on the fact that every member of the web does not place any restrictions or rules on the other participants.
This is not at all true. In fact the large projects are tightly controlled by their inner circle, who place many restrictions on would-be volunteers. This is not news to the
Calling Emacs editor an editor is like calling the Earth a nice hunk of dirt. Emacs is an editor, a web browser, news reader, mail reader, personal information manager, typesetting program, programming editor, hex editor, word processor, and a number of video games. Many programmers use a kitchen sink as an icon for their copy of Emacs. There are many programmers who enter Emacs and don't leave to do anything else on the computer. Emacs, you'll find, isn't just a program, but a religion, and RMS is its saint.
This final passage is plainly ideological and even hero-worshipping. It is where the author drops all pretense at objectivity. In fact emacs is a design nightmare. It is wholly unsuitable for the use of non-engineers. If emacs is the free software ideal, that demonstrates why free software may never break out of its engineering niche. Strangely for a business-targeted paper, virtually nothing is said about customer satisfaction issues under the open source model. There are a few comments on the topic before the author gets to Linux, but once he's there, there's nothing from a process perspective on how open source development can enhance customer satisfaction. The reason may be that it can't. Programmers left to themselves create software for themselves, and programmers are strange people whose software requirements are very different from those of the public. Unless they are placed under hierarchical discipline by others more attuned to real-world requirements, they are incapable of producing software for end users. Unfortunately, there seems to be little place for that accountability to the customer in the open source development model.
Tim
I saw that too and found it interesting. Given how microsoft has a significant investment in corel and apple, perhaps they do have a partnership with redhat that they like to keep quiet. Imagine if linux did take off on the desktop someday, well microsoft would have a large controlling interest in the largest distributor of linux. Besides, is it smarter to stay close t what has the potential to hurt you or oversee it from far off? For all we know, alan cox could be unwittingly imlementing microsoft hooks into redhat's kernel builds.. (nsakey etc) .. or the article could be wrong and full of factual errors like everyone else is claiming.
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and the "Halloween Memo" have covered this ground, and better.
There are major unanswered questions to ask about "open source" as a process, but this paper doesn't ask them.
The Diamondbacks Win !!!!!!
....The Diamondbacks Win !!!!!!
The Diamondbacks Win !!!!!!
The Diamondbacks Win !!!!!!
and did i mention
There's two kinds of anarchy: good anarchy and bad anarchy. Linux and OSS development is good anarchy. People going apeshit during a blackout is bad anarchy.
:)
In good anarchy, people will forge alliances and teams to achieve a goal, for the betterment of all other members. While there might be some centralized control of each team, this is not neccesary, and such short heirarchies are only around long enough to get the job done.
If we took the open source model -- with maneuverable teams and management that works on things for fun or betterment of all -- to, say, industrial development, food production, etc, odds are we'd have a working anarchy there too...
Plus nobody would bother flying planes into an anarchist country's buildings, cuz there's no big evil government to overextend its power, or to launch vast retaliatory actions. Anarchy doesn't need them. Once you infect someone with the idea, they end up infecting others, and have a hard time getting convinced there's a better way
"Look at me, I invented the stove!" -- Ben Franklin
This person is imagining the development and process management structures and practices at Microsoft. For that matter, the same conclusions apply to everything done at Oracle, Symantec, CA and IBM and everywhere else, and therefore only Linus Torvalds knows how to lead a project successfully and everyone else (that is not an open source company or project) is completely clueless and doomed to failure. Sheesh.
It's a good analysis of how one of the few really successful Open Source project models work but I can see no evidence there that Microsoft is doing something wrong (except perhaps, in the eye of the author, not giving away the code for Windows).
It's really surprising when one finds out that the enemy really doesn't breathe fire or smell of sulfur, but it's also hard to accept.
The software development process sucks more or less depending on who dreams it up and puts it to practice, but the quality of its end results have nothing to do with whether or not the source is being given away.
That is what our researcher friend is missing here.
Those diagrams in the paper really get the point across. I mean, take a look at them; especially Figures 8, 10 and 14. Now if they don't clear things up I don't know what will. How succint!
Are the graphs in this document completley screwey and arbitrary? One looked like a bowl of bambo chutes, but most of them looked like things I've seen in a microscope.
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
I'm sorry, but after the first couple of paragraphs I just got so irritated by the shockingly bad punctuation that I gave up. I'm too busy for this junk.
A lot of things boil down to this,
Pax Romanus [Roman rumour]
Religions [Who believe they have The Truth]
Gossip
Jokes [e.g. spreading around the internet]
Ideas [Democracy, isms (communisim, fascism)]
Empires [EU, USSR, US 'sphere of influence']
Open Source
Marketing & Mindshare (&Microsoft)
I would be very surprised if study on the growth, or lifecycle, of any of these networks (some more decentralised than others) would not shine light on the others. No new pardigm is needed.
Just my 2 euro cents,
Turloch
Be Free: Free Software Tuition
Why doesn't the author also mention some of the problems of open-source? Stuff like:
- Boring but necessary stuff usually lies around longer.
- Development is (at first) targeted at fellow programmers, leading to higher costs for companies who wish to employ Linux because Linux admins cost more than MS operators. (As a result, it will eat more market share from commercial Unices than from NT)
- No shipping dates. Ok, MS shipping dates are not known to be the most reliable, but something is better than nothing to some managers.
Not that I care about those issues, but it would have contributed to a more credible article.
Marijn
This is merely an attempt by a capitalist system to define the information age in terms of the industrial age.
The information age is about limitless communication and sharing. Information must be free.
Most of economic theory only applies in an economy of limited resources and high energy costs. The information age is defined by the sharing of ideas. Ideas can instantly be comunicated to everyone through an effective communications system like the internet at almost no energy cost to duplicate the idea.
And systems like gnutella and other free networks are opening up information sharing more and more.
Oh, that's right.
The whole world has changed.
None of the old concepts of management and business apply anymore.
The new wave, as manifest in the Dot.com revolution represents a radical new paradigm that will take over the world, and make everything wonderful.
Uh......
Many of these ideas are covered better in "The Hacker Ethic". It does a much better job than this article, and takes a more studious approach. It also includes a secton written by Linus Torvalds.
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
Of course, the author meant to refer to An Open Letter to Hobbyists. One wonders if this mistake was made by the original author, or by well-meaning but ignorant editors.
This piece is typical first-MBA-thesis quality, and I agree it casts doubt on the quality of the peer review and the site that publishes it.
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Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
'That is why it is often referred as GNU/Linux'
Often? OFTEN?
Is there anybody who actually calls it
'GNU/Linux' except for journalists etc. who want
to be able to interview RMS in the future?