Righteousness of one license vs another.
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Feature:GPL vs BSD
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Here is an interesting quote from Pedro F. Giffuni, at deamonnews
"I arrived, however, to two important conclusions:
1.the GNU Public License will not save the world, 2.there shouldn't be a universal license; different situations require different licenses."
Both Joe Drew and Pedro F. Giffuni are very biased towards their favorite license in their discussions. I think it is very shortsighted to think that all software should be licensed under one system, whether its GPL, or BSD. Authors have the freedom to choose whatever suits their needs or desires, as long as they have a clear idea of what they want for their code's future. How can GPL or BSD be better and more "right" than the other when they both have very different purposes?
Re:Army of weirdo rats
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Bionic Rats
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Here's an e-mail addresses for Phoenix. If you use Phoenix's BIOS, or intend to in the future, sending them a polite and thoughtful message expressing your feelings is a probably a good idea. However, I wouldn't bother e-mailing them if you have no intention of ever buying their products.
Anyways here an email contact for the company that they listed on this web page:
Some of us do have to pay for the electricity we use. Why leave your computer on 24 hours at home? I'd rather not be wasteful, even if its a small amount of electricity.
By the way your a worthless troll - and I'm no zealot. I use 4 different OS's, and I'd be very upset if I had to sit through some friggin ad each time I reboot.
If you want some background info on Pine Gap and Alice Springs and the whole UKUSA/SIGINT bit, check out:
The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency, by James Bamford. Its an older book, but you'll learn quite a bit. I actually ended up having a lot more respect for the NSA when I had finished reading the book.
Another book you may want to check out is Pine Gap : Australia and the US Geostationary Signals Intelligence Satellite Program. It may be harder to find this one. Its ISBN is 0043030025.
If you're interested in learning about the history of the 3 letter acronym and some of its capabilities check out The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency, by James Bamford.
I'd give you the book's direct link on, but Amazon's site seems to choke so I'll just give you their main site's link - amazon.com and the book's ISBN: 0140067485. Its about $12, and it was written quite some time ago, but it is a really good book if you're interested in learning about "them."
Is that true? You need to put your eye against the scanner? I would NEVER put my cornea up against anything else that other people may have toched in any fashion. The cornea (clear part over your iris) does not receive direct blood flow, thus it is more difficult to fight off infections which could be picked up from direct contact with the scanner.
Here's a link to a picutre of the anatomy of the eye
Sorry about the bad link for the Applied Cryptography book. I must have messed it up after I previewed it but before I did the final submit. Maybe not. Well I will just leave it up to you to do a search at http://www.amazon.com. Search for Bruce Scheier's book called Applied cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C.
If you're interested in quantum computation and cryptography you may be interested in checking out the Los Alamos site on quantum crypto.
Also some of you may be interested in Bruce Scheier's book Applied cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, which was previously mentioned in other posts. You can find information on it at this Amazon.com link.
I might as well also give the link to a site on basic cryptology, called a "beginners page on cryptography" It may or may not help/interest readers.
On a side note, I really have enjoyed reading everyone's comments on this subject today. Hopefully these links don't come to late in the "day" for anyone to get good use out of them.
From what I understand, they're not loosing money on each sale, but rather spending alot of money on things like marketing and growth -spending more than they earn.
There is no port yet for Half-Life for Linux. I did read that a server version for mulitiple player Half-life was in the works. Try looking up archived info at http://www.bluesnews.com/
With the new TFC update to Half-Life there is a new spray paint tag that you can plaster anywhere you like in the game "LINUX RULES" so it shows that somebody at Valve likes Linux.
If you play Half-Life or Team Fortress multiplayer look for me the Duke of URL. I'll be spraying the LINUX RULES everywhere.
Gun control arguments are invalid
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Why Kids Kill
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I agree. Our culture is one that focuses too much on the self, rather than yielding to others. This has been weighing heavily upon my mind for years now.
Be aware of this next time you go driving. The threat of punishment for breaking laws seems to be what drives people to obey them rather than why the laws exsist. All too often people's selfish desires to reach their destination a few seconds earlier puts others in direct danger. And the offenders don't care.
In my own opinion, through my ownobservations, we as a society have become more self-centered and lazy. And thus more evil. I believe that the problem will only grow worse yet, affecting us all in sublte and not so subtle ways. People scoff at the Golden Rule and they end up stabbing themselves in the back.
I think that non-proprietary software co's like Red Hat and internet portals and stocks are two different animals in my opinion. Many of the internet stocks will eventually fall from grace anyway if they don't eventually make a profit like Yahoo.
I think that software companies that charge for popular Linux applications will make good money. Thats obvious. I have no problem with that. I like the OS free and non-proprietary though. I think that is the most important thing for the future of computing, a commonly used non-proprietary OS that is rock solid. No stinkin BSODs. Open and solid.
How much would Red Hat benefit from going public? Of course they'd get a boat load of cash, but how much cash do they need to make their goals? They don't need to take over the world to be sucessful. Young and partners may want the profits all for themselves. Tons of cash help co's like Qwest which build huge expensive physical constructs more than they do software companies which may be able to stand on their own just fine. Not every big company needs to go public.
Please don't lecture me on all the ways going public and getting instant cash would help Red Hat and maybe even us in the end. I can think of plenty of things they could do with the money, but the real question is, is it necessary and is it the best choice for Red Hat's current owners and their goals for RH?
If Red Hat went public, I wonder how they would be perceived by the investors, as far as their potential. Hopefully they'd realize that they're going to be much smaller (profit wise) than some of the other juggernauts of the software industry. 400,000 units is good. Selling service is good, but they're still selling non-proprietary software, so profits aren't going to be enormous. Who knows though? Some companies that make zero profit are watching their stocks do rather well because of the "coolness" factor. Some companies even loose big bucks and still make out good in the market. In the end though, I'm glad that RH would probably be small(er) profit wise. I'd still invest in them though to support them and the whole Linux community. Besides I wouldn't want to miss out on anything now would I?
I care very much. I don't often tell people, because they get this strange look on their face, as though they where looking at a crazy freak who has lost it. I guess what I'm saying is I know how you feel.
"Here's how it works: the website Raging Bull(www.ragingbull.com) grew from 5,000 members last July to 95,000 members on New Year's Day, primarily by emphasizing its new "ignore" buttons. Co-founder Bill Martin told the magazine Brill's Content that "ignore" buttons were developed in response to the raucous, foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric that's long been a trademark of top e-trading sites."
If the site grew so rapidly in users because of the selective blocking feature, is it really a loss not to read posts that you choose to ignore? (and choose to ignore for good reasons?) How much of a loss is it not to read "You're a jerk" for the 10th time that day? The site seemed to have grown because the content improved due to the use of selective blocking. Thats hardly a loss.
We've been ignoring fools long before the web, and for good reasons too.
Selective blocking is not censorship
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ShutUp Software
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How can you claim that selective blocking is censorship? I still don't believe that anyone can claim that selective blocking is actually censorship after reading your article. You have the right to free speech. However, it does not mean you have the right to force people to listen to you. If I choose not too read your article or to listen to you it is not censorship. It is my choice. It is my freedom. I work at a University and this whole idea comes about quite often. People have become very angry with me after I politely decline to listen to their opinions, these complete strangers, claiming that I must listen to them because they could say something profound at any moment. No one has the right to force me to listen to their opinion. I will not be held hostage to other people's rants, insightful or not. I will choose to listen, or not listen. I am intelligent enough to make my own decisions on my own, after doing my own research, on my own accord. And that will obviously involve reading works by people with varied opinions, but I choose too read it. I personally have found your writing to be unappealing because of your self-references, and informal writing style, but that does not mean that other people must to listen to my thoughts on your writing. They have a choice. I expect much from professional writers. Others may not. Having read your article, and seen some of the responses, I wonder how many more people will selectively block you using their personalized Slashdot page.
From what I had previously read Steve Balmer (sp?) wants to make MSoft's products more stable and consumer friendly. He was talking about making quality a high proirity to boost consumer's confidence. This new policy of charging for bug fixes flies totally in the opposite direction? As usual end users are left screwed by Microsoft. And on another note, where do they get off charging beta-testers for the opportunity to find Microsoft's bugs?
Truely odd... I am logged in as Duke of URL, but it posted my above comment as anon. Hopefully this will show me logged in. Anyways, I wanted to note that this article was so long I had to print it to stop my eyes from straining to read it onscreen. For those of you who have read this far what do you think of Nader's proposed 1-2% vendor tax on commercial software? I think that funding non-profit groups is a good idea but I am not for this idea. I pay enough taxes as it is, and those tax dollars (hopefully) do enough as it is. I am more in favor of individuals freely giving $ to their favorite non-profit group that supports non-proprietary code works.
Silly rabbit, tricks are for prosti.... ummm. RMS is quite the serious fellow from what I've read about him. I don't agree with him on alot of things and I don't think I'd want to hang around him either, but he's done some great work.
By the way when people see my computer screen and ask "Whats that?" I just say Linux. Its difficult enough to explain what Linux is to normal Joe or Jane, let alone explain GNU, Linux the kernal, ect.... Linux the kernal? Sounds like a puppet from the Muppet show. Beaker rocks!
Another option would be that after a certain amount of time EVERYONE's average scores go back to zero or what ever the starting point is. We could have the start over points on soltices or something, spring, summer, fall, winter.
I suppose a system could be set up to allow the user to nuke their average score and start over fresh every now and then, or give them a one time option of "reprieve" or "pardon" of past sins from Governor CmdrTaco. Who knows. Maybe it could work. Then again most of my ideas hardly ever work. ha.
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Here is an interesting quote from Pedro F. Giffuni, at deamonnews
"I arrived, however, to two important conclusions:
1.the GNU Public License will not save the world,
2.there shouldn't be a universal license; different situations require different licenses."
Both Joe Drew and Pedro F. Giffuni are very biased towards their favorite license in their discussions.
I think it is very shortsighted to think that all software should be licensed under one system, whether its GPL, or BSD.
Authors have the freedom to choose whatever suits their needs or desires, as long as they have a clear idea of what they want for their code's future. How can GPL or BSD be better and more "right" than the other when they both have very different purposes?
::stomp!, stomp:: Squish!
Here's an e-mail addresses for Phoenix. If you use Phoenix's BIOS, or intend to in the future, sending them a polite and thoughtful message expressing your feelings is a probably a good idea. However, I wouldn't bother e-mailing them if you have no intention of ever buying their products.
Anyways here an email contact for the company that they listed on this web page:
Toni Goodrich
Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
toni_goodrich@phoenix.com
Some of us do have to pay for the electricity we use. Why leave your computer on 24 hours at home? I'd rather not be wasteful, even if its a small amount of electricity.
By the way your a worthless troll - and I'm no zealot. I use 4 different OS's, and I'd be very upset if I had to sit through some friggin ad each time I reboot.
Andover News said, "Hey, don't yell at us! Yell at Jack Bryar." So why shouldn't we send Mr. Bryar a note?
Send your thoughtful yet polite comments to:
bryar@vermontel.com or
jack.bryar@newsedge.com
I think some one should send him knarf's response.
They only cover "foreign" non-domestic communications right? um. uh. hmm.
If you want some background info on Pine Gap and Alice Springs and the whole UKUSA/SIGINT bit, check out:
The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency, by James Bamford. Its an older book, but you'll learn quite a bit. I actually ended up having a lot more respect for the NSA when I had finished reading the book.
Another book you may want to check out is Pine Gap : Australia and the US Geostationary Signals
Intelligence Satellite Program. It may be harder to find this one. Its ISBN is 0043030025.
You can always look them up on Amazon.com
Here is one URL on Echelon to get you going.
By the way I think its very silly for Australia to openly or honestly admit this stuff in any fashion or form.
I'd give you the book's direct link on, but Amazon's site seems to choke so I'll just give you their main site's link - amazon.com and the book's ISBN: 0140067485. Its about $12, and it was written quite some time ago, but it is a really good book if you're interested in learning about "them."
Is that true? You need to put your eye against the scanner? I would NEVER put my cornea up against anything else that other people may have toched in any fashion. The cornea (clear part over your iris) does not receive direct blood flow, thus it is more difficult to fight off infections which could be picked up from direct contact with the scanner.
Here's a link to a picutre of the anatomy of the eye
Sorry about the bad link for the Applied Cryptography book. I must have messed it up after I previewed it but before I did the final submit. Maybe not. Well I will just leave it up to you to do a search at http://www.amazon.com. Search for Bruce Scheier's book called Applied cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C.
If you're interested in quantum computation and cryptography you may be interested in checking out the Los Alamos site on quantum crypto.
Also some of you may be interested in Bruce Scheier's book Applied cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, which was previously mentioned in other posts. You can find information on it at this Amazon.com link.
I might as well also give the link to a site on basic cryptology, called a "beginners page on cryptography" It may or may not help/interest readers.
On a side note, I really have enjoyed reading everyone's comments on this subject today. Hopefully these links don't come to late in the "day" for anyone to get good use out of them.
From what I understand, they're not loosing money on each sale, but rather spending alot of money on things like marketing and growth -spending more than they earn.
There is no port yet for Half-Life for Linux. I did read that a server version for mulitiple player Half-life was in the works. Try looking up archived info at http://www.bluesnews.com/
With the new TFC update to Half-Life there is a new spray paint tag that you can plaster anywhere you like in the game "LINUX RULES" so it shows that somebody at Valve likes Linux.
If you play Half-Life or Team Fortress multiplayer look for me the Duke of URL. I'll be spraying the LINUX RULES everywhere.
I agree. Our culture is one that focuses too much on the self, rather than yielding to others. This has been weighing heavily upon my mind for years now.
Be aware of this next time you go driving. The threat of punishment for breaking laws seems to be what drives people to obey them rather than why the laws exsist. All too often people's selfish desires to reach their destination a few seconds earlier puts others in direct danger. And the offenders don't care.
In my own opinion, through my ownobservations, we as a society have become more self-centered and lazy. And thus more evil. I believe that the problem will only grow worse yet, affecting us all in sublte and not so subtle ways. People scoff at the Golden Rule and they end up stabbing themselves in the back.
I think that non-proprietary software co's like Red Hat and internet portals and stocks are two different animals in my opinion. Many of the internet stocks will eventually fall from grace anyway if they don't eventually make a profit like Yahoo.
I think that software companies that charge for popular Linux applications will make good money. Thats obvious. I have no problem with that.
I like the OS free and non-proprietary though. I think that is the most important thing for the future of computing, a commonly used non-proprietary OS that is rock solid. No stinkin BSODs. Open and solid.
How much would Red Hat benefit from going public? Of course they'd get a boat load of cash, but how much cash do they need to make their goals? They don't need to take over the world to be sucessful.
Young and partners may want the profits all for themselves.
Tons of cash help co's like Qwest which build huge expensive physical constructs more than they do software companies which may be able to stand on their own just fine. Not every big company needs to go public.
Please don't lecture me on all the ways going public and getting instant cash would help Red Hat and maybe even us in the end. I can think of plenty of things they could do with the money, but the real question is, is it necessary and is it the best choice for Red Hat's current owners and their goals for RH?
If Red Hat went public, I wonder how they would be perceived by the investors, as far as their potential. Hopefully they'd realize that they're going to be much smaller (profit wise) than some of the other juggernauts of the software industry.
400,000 units is good. Selling service is good, but they're still selling non-proprietary software, so profits aren't going to be enormous.
Who knows though? Some companies that make zero profit are watching their stocks do rather well because of the "coolness" factor. Some companies even loose big bucks and still make out good in the market.
In the end though, I'm glad that RH would probably be small(er) profit wise. I'd still invest in them though to support them and the whole Linux community. Besides I wouldn't want to miss out on anything now would I?
I care very much. I don't often tell people, because they get this strange look on their face, as though they where looking at a crazy freak who has lost it. I guess what I'm saying is I know how you feel.
"Here's how it works: the website Raging Bull(www.ragingbull.com) grew from 5,000 members last July to 95,000 members on New Year's Day, primarily by emphasizing its new "ignore" buttons. Co-founder Bill Martin told the magazine Brill's Content that "ignore" buttons were developed in response to the raucous, foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric that's long been a trademark of top e-trading sites."
If the site grew so rapidly in users because of the selective blocking feature, is it really a loss not to read posts that you choose to ignore? (and choose to ignore for good reasons?) How much of a loss is it not to read "You're a jerk" for the 10th time that day? The site seemed to have grown because the content improved due to the use of selective blocking. Thats hardly a loss.
We've been ignoring fools long before the web, and for good reasons too.
How can you claim that selective blocking is censorship? I still don't believe that anyone can claim that selective blocking is actually censorship after reading your article. You have the right to free speech. However, it does not mean you have the right to force people to listen to you. If I choose not too read your article or to listen to you it is not censorship. It is my choice. It is my freedom.
I work at a University and this whole idea comes about quite often. People have become very angry with me after I politely decline to listen to their opinions, these complete strangers, claiming that I must listen to them because they could say something profound at any moment.
No one has the right to force me to listen to their opinion. I will not be held hostage to other people's rants, insightful or not. I will choose to listen, or not listen. I am intelligent enough to make my own decisions on my own, after doing my own research, on my own accord. And that will obviously involve reading works by people with varied opinions, but I choose too read it.
I personally have found your writing to be unappealing because of your self-references, and informal writing style, but that does not mean that other people must to listen to my thoughts on your writing. They have a choice. I expect much from professional writers. Others may not.
Having read your article, and seen some of the responses, I wonder how many more people will selectively block you using their personalized Slashdot page.
From what I had previously read Steve Balmer (sp?) wants to make MSoft's products more stable and consumer friendly. He was talking about making quality a high proirity to boost consumer's confidence. This new policy of charging for bug fixes flies totally in the opposite direction? As usual end users are left screwed by Microsoft. And on another note, where do they get off charging beta-testers for the opportunity to find Microsoft's bugs?
Truely odd... I am logged in as Duke of URL, but it posted my above comment as anon. Hopefully this will show me logged in.
Anyways, I wanted to note that this article was so long I had to print it to stop my eyes from straining to read it onscreen.
For those of you who have read this far what do you think of Nader's proposed 1-2% vendor tax on commercial software? I think that funding non-profit groups is a good idea but I am not for this idea. I pay enough taxes as it is, and those tax dollars (hopefully) do enough as it is.
I am more in favor of individuals freely giving $ to their favorite non-profit group that supports non-proprietary code works.
Kernel is spelled with two E's right? No A? sorry for the misspelling in my above comment.
Silly rabbit, tricks are for prosti....
ummm.
RMS is quite the serious fellow from what I've read about him. I don't agree with him on alot of things and I don't think I'd want to hang around him either, but he's done some great work.
By the way when people see my computer screen and ask "Whats that?" I just say Linux. Its difficult enough to explain what Linux is to normal Joe or Jane, let alone explain GNU, Linux the kernal, ect....
Linux the kernal? Sounds like a puppet from the Muppet show.
Beaker rocks!
Another option would be that after a certain amount of time EVERYONE's average scores go back to zero or what ever the starting point is. We could have the start over points on soltices or something, spring, summer, fall, winter.
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Remember! Pants first, then shoes!
I suppose a system could be set up to allow the user to nuke their average score and start over fresh every now and then, or give them a one time option of "reprieve" or "pardon" of past sins from Governor CmdrTaco.
Who knows. Maybe it could work. Then again most of my ideas hardly ever work. ha.