This will allow the government to get around the 4th ammendment. Here is how it will happen:
First they get the regulations approved by saying we won't conduct "inspections". Second, more people telecommute, and it becomes a necessary way of life, a-la drivers licenses. Third, a series of home accidents causes them to revise their prohibition against home inspections. Fourth, People are now expected to work from home, if they don't they can lose their jobs. By blocking a OSHA inspector you are basically forcing you employer to fire you.
Thus, you become forced to let the government into your home. For your own safety of course.
Chris
Where am I gonna find an MSDS sheet for the molding pizza in the back corner of my office?
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Well Since Andover jumped 45 points on its first day of trading opening at 18 and closing at 63, I'd say it would have been a good IPO to get in on.
There are two ways I can think of to fight the deployment of Mosaic-2000 (M2k) in our schools. One is to protest it on the grounds that it is an intrusive unconstitutional invasion of privacy. The second is to prove it doesn't work.
With the rise of the internet and Geeks running these new companies, it is now ok, among many (but not all) people to be geek.
My proposal is to ask these successful, socially productive geeks, Who game, play doom, were different in school, and get profiled by M2k. I suspect that M2k (if it is as bad and dangerous as we say) will profile these socially productive geeks as being dangerous, and we can prove by example how dangerous M2k will be.
What if we combined the DataHaven idea from Cryptonomicon (yes I know it isn't an original idea from the book), with some kind of remote PC, using strong encryption? Then ppl who wanted privacy could keep their computers in a bomb proof vault in SE Asia, and only have a dumb Xterminal in the US. Of course TEMPEST monitoring would still work, but at least then the feds would need to get off their donut eating asses and work for a living.
Has it maybe occured to you that if you want conferences like ALS/OLS/LWCE etc to cover KDE you need to have KDE developers submitt papers on what they are doing with KDE? I would have loved to see some KDE talks at ALS, but we didn't get any submissions from them.
Ah, but theres the rub. Any redistribution is under the SCSL and therefore won't really be open.
Looks to me like Sun is trying to limit who is in their "community" and can receive code. This violates one of the Open Source principles.
Besides, I think sun is niave if it thinks it can build a community like Linux has got. The Linux community built up around almost no rules (other than the GPL). The SCSL's redistribution limitations and compatibility requirements will be a serious hinderance.
Contrary to the other posts (ie trolls), I think you will find the reason the Linux Companies have the larger presenses at shows like LWCE or ALS is that they can get more bang for their buck. Linux companies like RedHat, VA, etc are more likely to sell to Linux people that to the folks at a PC Expo.
Also, there are a lot of computer shows around, Comdex, Interop, PC expo, beyond the Linux shows. Most companies probably don't have the resources to do to all of them. Even with RedHat IPOing, they still don't have the resources of an Oracle or IBM to hit every major show they would want to sell at. What might be a better idea is if the Linux companies pooled their resources under say Linux International, and sent one rep from each company to sell the Idea of Linux. Then they can be sold on VA or RedHat or SuSE.
Finally, If the audience of PC Expo is IT professionals, then maybe a less glitzy presence is what they want. Selling to the Linux Community is different than selling to the Suits, even if there is some cross over at both kinds of shows.
Chris
I'm not speaking for any Linux Comapnies or any Linux shows here. Just tossing out stuff to think about. -- 3rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase
For the people who do feel alone, this is the right audience. The young(er) people reading this are the ones going through it right now, The rest of us who have been paroled, can show them there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that geeks can have a very enjoyable life once they get out of the Public Education-prison system.
I've been working on a solution to the problem of consumer rights and the Constitional* right of the artist to get paid for their work.
My problem is it is a fairly complicated solution, and will require a good deal of money to get started, Especially in flooding the market to get my format out their before the Big corps format is accepted. Parts will even be Open Source.
If anyone out there is familiar with the music industry, has a bit of managment & marketing background, and wants to see their stock soar like Amazon.com, shoot me an email. I just don't happen to know anyone who can complement my skills in this area.
The beauty of the idea, is it gives the consumer complete right to listen to the work, but they can't give it away. Plus it can be used to bypass the record companies, thus cutting out the leach layer.
Chris *(yup read it, the US Constitution (Article I Section 8.):
"To promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for a limited time to authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective writings and discoveries")
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Humm..... Robert De Niro as Bobby Shaftoe? Or Randy Waterhouse?
First they get the regulations approved by saying we won't conduct "inspections".
Second, more people telecommute, and it becomes a necessary way of life, a-la drivers licenses.
Third, a series of home accidents causes them to revise their prohibition against home inspections.
Fourth, People are now expected to work from home, if they don't they can lose their jobs. By blocking a OSHA inspector you are basically forcing you employer to fire you.
Thus, you become forced to let the government into your home. For your own safety of course.
Chris
Where am I gonna find an MSDS sheet for the molding pizza in the back corner of my office?
Damn, why didn't I bid higher.....
Chris
With the rise of the internet and Geeks running these new companies, it is now ok, among many (but not all) people to be geek.
My proposal is to ask these successful, socially productive geeks, Who game, play doom, were different in school, and get profiled by M2k. I suspect that M2k (if it is as bad and dangerous as we say) will profile these socially productive geeks as being dangerous, and we can prove by example how dangerous M2k will be.
Chris
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Three nights of BOFs
65+ Vendors who know this is a technical audience
The largest Technical conference track
WIPs, and an introduction to Linux for people migrating from windows
Chris
(Yes, i'm one of the people running the thing)
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3rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase
What the world needs is massive bandwidth.
Chris
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Looks to me like Sun is trying to limit who is in their "community" and can receive code. This violates one of the Open Source principles.
Besides, I think sun is niave if it thinks it can build a community like Linux has got. The Linux community built up around almost no rules (other than the GPL). The SCSL's redistribution limitations and compatibility requirements will be a serious hinderance.
Chris
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3rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase
Also, there are a lot of computer shows around, Comdex, Interop, PC expo, beyond the Linux shows. Most companies probably don't have the resources to do to all of them. Even with RedHat IPOing, they still don't have the resources of an Oracle or IBM to hit every major show they would want to sell at. What might be a better idea is if the Linux companies pooled their resources under say Linux International, and sent one rep from each company to sell the Idea of Linux. Then they can be sold on VA or RedHat or SuSE.
Finally, If the audience of PC Expo is IT professionals, then maybe a less glitzy presence is what they want. Selling to the Linux Community is different than selling to the Suits, even if there is some cross over at both kinds of shows.
Chris
I'm not speaking for any Linux Comapnies or any Linux shows here. Just tossing out stuff to think about.
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3rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase
For the people who do feel alone, this is the right audience. The young(er) people reading this are the ones going through it right now, The rest of us who have been paroled, can show them there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that geeks can have a very enjoyable life once they get out of the Public Education-prison system.
- Space availability was limited in that time frame.
- We are focusing more on being a Linux Technical Conference, and feel that many companies will send people as training.
Chris--
My problem is it is a fairly complicated solution, and will require a good deal of money to get started, Especially in flooding the market to get my format out their before the Big corps format is accepted. Parts will even be Open Source.
If anyone out there is familiar with the music industry, has a bit of managment & marketing background, and wants to see their stock soar like Amazon.com, shoot me an email. I just don't happen to know anyone who can complement my skills in this area.
The beauty of the idea, is it gives the consumer complete right to listen to the work, but they can't give it away. Plus it can be used to bypass the record companies, thus cutting out the leach layer.
Chris *(yup read it, the US Constitution (Article I Section 8.):
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