this is all alot of mindless bickering. there is only one important point here, poilitical or not, RMS has overstepped his authority. glibc belongs to nobody, and we are greatful to have such a talented programmer spearheading the developement of it.
RMS has no right to dictate terms or to use a BS SC to usurp the seats of influence or any other means.
if he attempts this sort of thing again, it is the duty of the community to throw him out on his ass. but lets be a little forgiving, put him on parol, don't nail him to a cross.
RMS has done some really cool stuff for us, permit him the dignity of a second shot. thats the very least you can do for a comrad who has strayed from the flock.
where would we be with out the GPL? the GNU project? the FSF? or RMS?
we have already heard the voice of the courts: code is speech, and their for not something which can be held by our government as a privalige. as speech the government take the side of the KKK over that of software developers. the law has always been firm on this, the government may not like what we say, but it has no right to shut us up.
hrm, compare and contrast the free software people and the KKK, add in the government's interaction between the two. that sounds like an essay.
first his solution sounded a lot like PGP signing. also the whole tcp/ms thing sounds like he reads to many spook stories. i honestly doubt that bill gates has some giant map of the world with pointers and arrows show how he will dominate (today the internet, tommarrow the world!). although the concept of microsoft coming up with a proprietary protocol to replace a standard is not a far fetched one, i think that at somepoint someone really just needs to go up, bitch-slap MS and say, "prove it" at somepoint someone needs to sue MS for misreprisentation in advertizing and force them to scientifically back-up there claims of security (and especially of stability). enough with the scaed act, i'm getting to old for scary bed time stories like this. if anybody is really scared about this then they should perhaps activly produce code that distroyes, not cripples MS. i do not personally think that this kind of shit is even morally right, but hell, if MS wants war against script kiddies and virus writers, give it them.
i dont mean to be a bitch or anything like that, but to enter the eye of a storm you have to either pass through the eye wall (where the storm is strongest), or fall out of the sky (which i hear also sucks without the proper prep). just so you know
I am a student at Eastern Michigan University. When I took a C++ class last year, we were told in no uncertian terms, "share your work, or post your work in any way, and you will fail." Not that it stopped me from putting my projects on a web server (didn't have a printer), so he knew what I thought of the policy, but didn't fail me. its your code, give it what ever license you think works the best, GPL is kinda cool...
i hope that the canadian government is at LEAST as reasonable as the american government when it comes to space flight; meaning that a couple of millions dollars (canadian) will get me on the mission team, and because of the lovely exchange rate, that like four bucks american...
on a serious note, i hope that they are gunna use ISS as a staging point, cause that would just be kinda cool. also, how much do you want to bet that the american government doesn't want to be betten by a bunch of moose hunting, hockey playing, canadians and steps up their mars project from 'nill' to 'a bunch'.
...if the artists or civilization who produced them had contact with all of the different earth lifeforms (espcially the aquatic ones) in the "enhanced" pictures, not to mention the pharoahs of ancient egypt.
it is however more likely, that in any given set of thousands of pictures of desert, espcially ones which are heavily impacted by extra-planetary bodies (like mars or the moon; whos surfaces are both effected heavily by meteor showers), you will find a picture of a dolphin, a scorpian, and probable one with your social security number.
there are most likely going to be good explinations for all of these photographs, even the ones which appear as those they can not occur naturally (like perpendicular lines, which may have been the result of two seperate carbon dioxide flows).
i had thought about this acouple of years back, which means that someone probably thought of it before. the reasonm i decided to not bother trying to do a 'GPL for tradition art' (audio/visual/text - arts), is that, i personally would perfere to have control over who plays the music that i compose, in fact i'm somewhat of a bastard about it, and although i'll likely only charge for my music if someone (for some strage reason) where to try to put it on an album.
i can also see that the argument for this is the likely to be the exact same one as the arguement for free software; i support free software, it helps people, and they have the ability to reciprocate. to make music equivolent, you would have to make some form on notation (sheet music) availible (freely and likely online to save on postage). not only does this remove one source of income for compossers (royalties), but would add the expense (social and moneytary) of either having to transcribe and public every peice, or to be ridiculaled (like the freshmeat people).
even if they can find a way to make this pracitle, i don't think i would support it, i've never run across a situation where i needed a peice of music that did something and wished that it wasn't closed source. i do not think i will support this.
isn't there a way that they can link to paypal, so when people sign up from that link, they automagically get $5? cause i think that some of us (even people who don't like nautilus, cough cough) would be willing to do that. on top of that, the commercial distro who use it, should all think about donating some money to it, since its true that they will be the ones who reape the benifits of its continued existance...
sue the school district. one of the reasons im glad im not in highschool anymore, i dont have to deal with administrators, or mofos with nothing better to do then torment inocents.
i like the fact that its a linux based PDA, but the screen has a resolution of 160x240, which isn't even as good as palms, that i since i have one, i'll wait to see where they are in a couple of years. does anybody know if the IR on these things will talk to and understand palms? if so, is it possible to transfer documents and things of this nature?
lzip: noun, 1. a stuffed monkey with banannas. 2. the most amazing license agreement i've ever seen. 3. a powerful utility, second in importance only to fortune.
let him on! everybody knows that people with money are better than everybody else! money makes you, among other things, a fully qualified astronuat with viable epxreiments to perform on a very expensive research staion! we are a capitolist society so that people with money can be exclued from activities that are usually reserved for "professionals", or "people who are trained to perform tsks in outerspace and have any reason to be up there besideds having a bunch of cash"! of course we do have to have standards, sochange the next ISS module to him, and put him on the next rocket up there! what do you mean he can't afford a module? IMHO, anybody who isn't a contributing country should be able to designate who goes on. so he should buy a module, or shut the fuck up and deal with the fact that most people don't go in to outerspace. this opinion will naturally be repealed if he wants me to go up there too, so, well, we'll see...
this summer i read a book called "the connection machine", has anybody else read this book? if so, does this sound like it qualifies? wasn't FPGA one of the example models as to how a connection machine could be built?
hey, couldn't i just go something like this: 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso'? it seems to me, that if it can be read, it can be saved, if it can be saved, it can be burned. naturally it can't that simple, but i mean, aside from painting the shiny side with a can of matte black or something, i don't think that there is any way to prevent burning a cd.
if the web is becoming unsearchable:
make smarter search engines:
only search part of the net
very specialised
reorganize search engines
reoranganize the web
i would be willing to receive an advertising email in exchange for an ad free slashdot. people who don't care just wouldn't check that box off in there user preferences. once you selected the box, its sends an explorartory email, you go to the link in the email to confirm that you askes for this, and poof!, slashdot is with out ads. you just have to deal with a weekly news letter then.
i ment to hit preview, not submit, but whatever. the terms of patents should be specific to what is being patented, like books should be for the life of the author, gizmos (things) should be for a couple of years, and software should be for 6 months (thats enough time that if you are serious about trying to make money with it, that you will do something with it, and not that you get a patent, then wait for someone to infringe and sue). the main problems with patents is their terms, and the generallity of the terms. every state sanctioned license has restrictions, a federal license to sue people for being creative (not to mention being a bad thing) should be specific and have restrictions. i don't think that unless the hacker community get people elected, that we will ever see software patents removed (even then it would be difficult), the least we can do is to try to patch the laws if we can remove them.
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RMS has no right to dictate terms or to use a BS SC to usurp the seats of influence or any other means.
if he attempts this sort of thing again, it is the duty of the community to throw him out on his ass. but lets be a little forgiving, put him on parol, don't nail him to a cross.
RMS has done some really cool stuff for us, permit him the dignity of a second shot. thats the very least you can do for a comrad who has strayed from the flock.
where would we be with out the GPL? the GNU project? the FSF? or RMS?
hrm, compare and contrast the free software people and the KKK, add in the government's interaction between the two. that sounds like an essay.
first his solution sounded a lot like PGP signing. also the whole tcp/ms thing sounds like he reads to many spook stories. i honestly doubt that bill gates has some giant map of the world with pointers and arrows show how he will dominate (today the internet, tommarrow the world!). although the concept of microsoft coming up with a proprietary protocol to replace a standard is not a far fetched one, i think that at somepoint someone really just needs to go up, bitch-slap MS and say, "prove it" at somepoint someone needs to sue MS for misreprisentation in advertizing and force them to scientifically back-up there claims of security (and especially of stability). enough with the scaed act, i'm getting to old for scary bed time stories like this. if anybody is really scared about this then they should perhaps activly produce code that distroyes, not cripples MS. i do not personally think that this kind of shit is even morally right, but hell, if MS wants war against script kiddies and virus writers, give it them.
i dont mean to be a bitch or anything like that, but to enter the eye of a storm you have to either pass through the eye wall (where the storm is strongest), or fall out of the sky (which i hear also sucks without the proper prep). just so you know
make sure the candidate doesn't know anyone named simon...
i wonder when they have scheduled the congressional herrings on the phone book...
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judge: clerk?
clerk: yes judge?
judge: do we still have that first amendment
thingy hanging around?
clerk: we do.
judge: case dismissed.
I am a student at Eastern Michigan University. When I took a C++ class last year, we were told in no uncertian terms, "share your work, or post your work in any way, and you will fail." Not that it stopped me from putting my projects on a web server (didn't have a printer), so he knew what I thought of the policy, but didn't fail me. its your code, give it what ever license you think works the best, GPL is kinda cool...
i hope that the canadian government is at LEAST as reasonable as the american government when it comes to space flight; meaning that a couple of millions dollars (canadian) will get me on the mission team, and because of the lovely exchange rate, that like four bucks american...
on a serious note, i hope that they are gunna use ISS as a staging point, cause that would just be kinda cool. also, how much do you want to bet that the american government doesn't want to be betten by a bunch of moose hunting, hockey playing, canadians and steps up their mars project from 'nill' to 'a bunch'.
...if the artists or civilization who produced them had contact with all of the different earth lifeforms (espcially the aquatic ones) in the "enhanced" pictures, not to mention the pharoahs of ancient egypt.
it is however more likely, that in any given set of thousands of pictures of desert, espcially ones which are heavily impacted by extra-planetary bodies (like mars or the moon; whos surfaces are both effected heavily by meteor showers), you will find a picture of a dolphin, a scorpian, and probable one with your social security number.
there are most likely going to be good explinations for all of these photographs, even the ones which appear as those they can not occur naturally (like perpendicular lines, which may have been the result of two seperate carbon dioxide flows).
thats what you get for buying closed source products. i wonder if a site license for a spacestation is more than for an office...
i had thought about this acouple of years back, which means that someone probably thought of it before. the reasonm i decided to not bother trying to do a 'GPL for tradition art' (audio/visual/text - arts), is that, i personally would perfere to have control over who plays the music that i compose, in fact i'm somewhat of a bastard about it, and although i'll likely only charge for my music if someone (for some strage reason) where to try to put it on an album. i can also see that the argument for this is the likely to be the exact same one as the arguement for free software; i support free software, it helps people, and they have the ability to reciprocate. to make music equivolent, you would have to make some form on notation (sheet music) availible (freely and likely online to save on postage). not only does this remove one source of income for compossers (royalties), but would add the expense (social and moneytary) of either having to transcribe and public every peice, or to be ridiculaled (like the freshmeat people). even if they can find a way to make this pracitle, i don't think i would support it, i've never run across a situation where i needed a peice of music that did something and wished that it wasn't closed source. i do not think i will support this.
isn't there a way that they can link to paypal, so when people sign up from that link, they automagically get $5? cause i think that some of us (even people who don't like nautilus, cough cough) would be willing to do that. on top of that, the commercial distro who use it, should all think about donating some money to it, since its true that they will be the ones who reape the benifits of its continued existance...
sue the school district. one of the reasons im glad im not in highschool anymore, i dont have to deal with administrators, or mofos with nothing better to do then torment inocents.
it really a shame that agenda didnt do a good job.
i like the fact that its a linux based PDA, but the screen has a resolution of 160x240, which isn't even as good as palms, that i since i have one, i'll wait to see where they are in a couple of years. does anybody know if the IR on these things will talk to and understand palms? if so, is it possible to transfer documents and things of this nature?
did you read the code sample? this is ten times better than the fucking boots. although the picture in lzip was kinda funny.
lzip: noun, 1. a stuffed monkey with banannas. 2. the most amazing license agreement i've ever seen. 3. a powerful utility, second in importance only to fortune.
let him on! everybody knows that people with money are better than everybody else! money makes you, among other things, a fully qualified astronuat with viable epxreiments to perform on a very expensive research staion! we are a capitolist society so that people with money can be exclued from activities that are usually reserved for "professionals", or "people who are trained to perform tsks in outerspace and have any reason to be up there besideds having a bunch of cash"! of course we do have to have standards, sochange the next ISS module to him, and put him on the next rocket up there! what do you mean he can't afford a module? IMHO, anybody who isn't a contributing country should be able to designate who goes on. so he should buy a module, or shut the fuck up and deal with the fact that most people don't go in to outerspace. this opinion will naturally be repealed if he wants me to go up there too, so, well, we'll see...
this summer i read a book called "the connection machine", has anybody else read this book? if so, does this sound like it qualifies? wasn't FPGA one of the example models as to how a connection machine could be built?
hey, couldn't i just go something like this: 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso'? it seems to me, that if it can be read, it can be saved, if it can be saved, it can be burned. naturally it can't that simple, but i mean, aside from painting the shiny side with a can of matte black or something, i don't think that there is any way to prevent burning a cd.
if the web is becoming unsearchable:
make smarter search engines:
only search part of the net
very specialised
reorganize search engines
reoranganize the web
i would be willing to receive an advertising email in exchange for an ad free slashdot. people who don't care just wouldn't check that box off in there user preferences. once you selected the box, its sends an explorartory email, you go to the link in the email to confirm that you askes for this, and poof!, slashdot is with out ads. you just have to deal with a weekly news letter then.
i ment to hit preview, not submit, but whatever. the terms of patents should be specific to what is being patented, like books should be for the life of the author, gizmos (things) should be for a couple of years, and software should be for 6 months (thats enough time that if you are serious about trying to make money with it, that you will do something with it, and not that you get a patent, then wait for someone to infringe and sue). the main problems with patents is their terms, and the generallity of the terms. every state sanctioned license has restrictions, a federal license to sue people for being creative (not to mention being a bad thing) should be specific and have restrictions. i don't think that unless the hacker community get people elected, that we will ever see software patents removed (even then it would be difficult), the least we can do is to try to patch the laws if we can remove them.