The submitter doesn't seem to know as much about academia as he believes. What kind of scientific publication is "obsolete"? More importantly when does that change occur?
Even more importantly, why is it necessarily a bad thing if it 'hinders technological advancement'?
Technological advancement in and of itself isn't automatically a good thing. In fact, unless informed with scholarly scrutiny, it can rapidly become a bad thing. I am not speaking here as a luddite. A luddite chants 'all bad' just like a technophile chants 'all good.' The truth is more complicated than that.
Indeed it should frighten advocates of big government to learn that their opponents act on their ideas, not just because 'they are in the pockets of The Rich (tm).'
Since I voted for George Bush (twice) and Bill Clinton (twice!) I classify MYSELF as a terrorist. I've certainly done enough damage to the country to sit the next election cycle or two out. heheh I need to be careful since whichever lame tool I vote for gets elected....
Unfortunately those PHP files are just rendered HTML wrapped in a PHP extension. Now, if it was a 'bug' where the actual PHP files were being downloaded because the Apache extension was being bypessed, some of us would be out getting a Mac to snatch PHP source in a jiffy.
(not because the PHP source would be necessarily of much value- real programmers need a laugh once in awhile from reading 'web programmers' source code.)
Open Source software is 'end of lifed' all the time, for all sorts of reasons. All it takes is for the last developer to stop supporting it. I am speaking in the context of the end user's experience, however. But also in the context of library dependencies, etc. It is easy, and it happens all the time, for open source packages to effectively reach 'end of life' because critical dependencies cease to be compatible. Sure, it's theoretically possible that a team could resurrect it. But that's only a theoretical possibility, just like the possiblity of Visual Basic for MS-DOS being resurrected.
If you're like me, it's more fun to fix and maintain cool old electromechanical stuff than it is to play it. But I don't have a pinball machine at home.
When I was in tech school, I considered a Television set that didn't work far more interesting than one that did work, for similar reasons.
Geological evidence isn't good for discerning fine-tuned things like the average temperature over a year's span.
'Science Channel' TV programming aside, there really is a lot we don't know. The geological record has immense value, but it's not what people make it out to be.
This effect isn't simply true for 'certain' companies. It is the general case for IT staffers in general. They either move into management, or remain 'data janitors', the modern equivalent of file clerks, for their whole career. Or they get an engineering or marketing job. IT is an 'infrastructure' job, like the dudes down on the loading dock, or the security guards.
Not on the basis of what happeend in Zimbabwe. I pointed out Zimbabwe as an example. The goverment in Venezeuala (sp.?) is the most recent example of a democratically elected regime that is sliding into authoritarianism. (and yes: 'authoritarian' is the term people like Kissenger used to refer to the 'good' dictatorships- I do not differentiate.)
I am not asking you to trust anything I say, since I certainly don't trust anything you have to say. This is written to add a viewpoint to the discussion. I will let other people reading this judge who is pounding an ideological hammer and who is trying to introduce some reason into the discussion.
Are you saying the USSR occupied and dominated Eastern Europe out of the goodness of their heart? That it was the United States that put up a big wall to keep the West Germans from escaping to the East??
You'd better go see if your Trabant needs an oil change. I see a slick underneath it again.
If you read and analyze the Cold War context of the moves in Iran in 1953 it becomes a more gray issue. 'Democratically Elected' governments located that close to the USSR at the time had an unfortunate tendency to become 'One Man, One Vote, One Time' countries, similar to what has happened in Zimbabwe.
This doesn't fully excuse the US-sponsored coup. It does, however place it into the proper context of 'two forces in struggle' not the ignorant 'pure evil US government and greedy Oil Companies' interpretaton that the class warriors who lost the Cold War try to frame it in.
Most of what is 'out' is deep technical data. This appears to be a specific plan.
It's the difference between forcing a newbie to read Man Pages and actually know what he's doing, and setting some tard loose with a Howto that allows him to unleash a soon worm-infested server on the Net.
The 'Howto' by it's nature allows people without the stones to know what they are doing to 'Mix A and B and toss it at the Bad People' he wants to blow up.
At least that's my nutshell interpretation of it, with an analogy to the 'abrasive' approach the OpenBSD community takes toward newbies.
I was just wondering how many screens full of spelling-nazi there would be before the Linux people would acknowledge in the first comment what was being reported. For anybody looking at this comment, it's a ways down there. heh
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Even more importantly, why is it necessarily a bad thing if it 'hinders technological advancement'?
Technological advancement in and of itself isn't automatically a good thing. In fact, unless informed with scholarly scrutiny, it can rapidly become a bad thing. I am not speaking here as a luddite. A luddite chants 'all bad' just like a technophile chants 'all good.' The truth is more complicated than that.
Indeed it should frighten advocates of big government to learn that their opponents act on their ideas, not just because 'they are in the pockets of The Rich (tm).'
Since I voted for George Bush (twice) and Bill Clinton (twice!) I classify MYSELF as a terrorist. I've certainly done enough damage to the country to sit the next election cycle or two out. heheh I need to be careful since whichever lame tool I vote for gets elected....
Unfortunately those PHP files are just rendered HTML wrapped in a PHP extension. Now, if it was a 'bug' where the actual PHP files were being downloaded because the Apache extension was being bypessed, some of us would be out getting a Mac to snatch PHP source in a jiffy.
(not because the PHP source would be necessarily of much value- real programmers need a laugh once in awhile from reading 'web programmers' source code.)
Everybody should just switch to Seamonkey and be done with it.
Open Source software is 'end of lifed' all the time, for all sorts of reasons. All it takes is for the last developer to stop supporting it. I am speaking in the context of the end user's experience, however. But also in the context of library dependencies, etc. It is easy, and it happens all the time, for open source packages to effectively reach 'end of life' because critical dependencies cease to be compatible. Sure, it's theoretically possible that a team could resurrect it. But that's only a theoretical possibility, just like the possiblity of Visual Basic for MS-DOS being resurrected.
We have an 'Ant Infestation Test' work instruction at work. The test involves ordering these special lab-grade ants from some lab at Purdue...
Maybe they're trying to drive the price of their stock down in hopes that Yahoo will be able to afford to buy them.
Microsoft is pretty good at being big and aggressive. Don't discount the importance of those two things in the business world.
It isn't every company or organization that can scale as well as Microsoft has and still remain dominant.
You could easily create works equal to those of the creative people who copyright their works.
Couldn't you?
Then why are you carrying on about your 'right' to enjoy their creative work? Isn't the spirit of the Slashdot Community a 'do it yourself' thing?
If you're like me, it's more fun to fix and maintain cool old electromechanical stuff than it is to play it. But I don't have a pinball machine at home.
When I was in tech school, I considered a Television set that didn't work far more interesting than one that did work, for similar reasons.
You wouldn't have to hand deliver your postcards. You could just put a stamp on it, dude.
Geological evidence isn't good for discerning fine-tuned things like the average temperature over a year's span.
'Science Channel' TV programming aside, there really is a lot we don't know. The geological record has immense value, but it's not what people make it out to be.
For that reason, I have been wondering why USENIX is wasting time on it.
Didn't USENIX used to be about Unix and interesting stuff?
This effect isn't simply true for 'certain' companies. It is the general case for IT staffers in general. They either move into management, or remain 'data janitors', the modern equivalent of file clerks, for their whole career. Or they get an engineering or marketing job. IT is an 'infrastructure' job, like the dudes down on the loading dock, or the security guards.
A spelling nazi would say you misspelled inciteful.
Not on the basis of what happeend in Zimbabwe. I pointed out Zimbabwe as an example. The goverment in Venezeuala (sp.?) is the most recent example of a democratically elected regime that is sliding into authoritarianism. (and yes: 'authoritarian' is the term people like Kissenger used to refer to the 'good' dictatorships- I do not differentiate.)
I am not asking you to trust anything I say, since I certainly don't trust anything you have to say. This is written to add a viewpoint to the discussion. I will let other people reading this judge who is pounding an ideological hammer and who is trying to introduce some reason into the discussion.
Are you saying the USSR occupied and dominated Eastern Europe out of the goodness of their heart? That it was the United States that put up a big wall to keep the West Germans from escaping to the East??
You'd better go see if your Trabant needs an oil change. I see a slick underneath it again.
If you read and analyze the Cold War context of the moves in Iran in 1953 it becomes a more gray issue. 'Democratically Elected' governments located that close to the USSR at the time had an unfortunate tendency to become 'One Man, One Vote, One Time' countries, similar to what has happened in Zimbabwe.
This doesn't fully excuse the US-sponsored coup. It does, however place it into the proper context of 'two forces in struggle' not the ignorant 'pure evil US government and greedy Oil Companies' interpretaton that the class warriors who lost the Cold War try to frame it in.
On Slashdot superficial 'history knowlege' granted by reading magazine articles and leaflets is 'insightful.'
Most of what is 'out' is deep technical data. This appears to be a specific plan.
It's the difference between forcing a newbie to read Man Pages and actually know what he's doing, and setting some tard loose with a Howto that allows him to unleash a soon worm-infested server on the Net.
The 'Howto' by it's nature allows people without the stones to know what they are doing to 'Mix A and B and toss it at the Bad People' he wants to blow up.
At least that's my nutshell interpretation of it, with an analogy to the 'abrasive' approach the OpenBSD community takes toward newbies.
I thought it was a toothless gerbil with Richard Gere.
Then again, with the company he keeps, there's probably been a supersizing...
Like many things there's an element of truth to the assumption that Windows has more users worthy of blame than most OSes other than possibly OSX.
Except we're discussing servers here, and rather than 'users' it is presumably 'admins' being counted.
I was just wondering how many screens full of spelling-nazi there would be before the Linux people would acknowledge in the first comment what was being reported. For anybody looking at this comment, it's a ways down there. heh
We use it because it will run on a fleet of lower end boxes to fool around with networking.
Ten years ago that was why I was running it on a bunch of old 386sx boxes anyway.
Now I run freenixes on hardware so old and obscure that Linux doesn't even run (well) on them.