4. We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible. If we have one IP address in New York, then one in Tokyo 60 minutes later, we know it cant be the same person because you cant get from New York to Tokyo in one hour.
I don't know. Switching proxies from one in New York to one in Tokyo takes me certainly less than 60 minutes...
>> In other words, you must NOT pretend that Mambo >> is yours, and you must NOT charge people for >> Mambo iteself.
> I thought that GPL software could be sold as > long as the source was attached.
Yes, and you're right. You can sell the software for whatever price you'd like, but you MUST keep it under GPL licence which means you have to provide the source and the people who paid you money can again sell it or give it away. You CAN'T relicence the program if you don't have the COMPLETE copyright for it.
Some companies go to great lengths to make sure they have the complete copyright for the code they release and then they have the possibility to have the software as GPL and as a commercial licence (e.g. the competitor to Mambo: eZ publish or QT). But even they can't take back code that they've once licenced under the GPL.
I really dislike people who spin things like the mambo people. It's clearly stated in the GPL FAQ.
It does a disservice to the GPL licence because people get confused. And it only discourages people who don't know the GPL well enough.
[...] I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion. It might be BSD, it might be Linux, it might be some third thing. [...]
So, no, he won't say "I was right I tell ya!!! Its the third thing!!" when Marshmallows evolve into the dominant lifeform of this planet. Unless they are a breed of UNIX by that time and that UNIX has transformed into a lifeform which I seriously doubt....
I disagree. This thing is not about legal or illegal or hacking. It is about ethics.
Not everything that is legal is also ethically correct as we know. You can take this as an ethical test for applicants. Those who cheated to get an (information) advantage might also use questionable methods to get advantages in their future business life.
I prefer the honest types and personally try to never work with people if they use dirty tricks. Glad to know that the b-schools seem to start and think along similar lines.
I used to use your system. Unfortunately it has 2 flaws which made me change it again:
First, the spambots also send a lot of mail to fantasy names with your domain or-- even worse-- they use a fantasy name with your domain as the sender address so you get the millions of error mails.
Second, I once received a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer because I used their domain as part of my email address to subscribe to their newsletter. It was something like lawyer.com@my-domain.net.
I then decided to have only some emails addresses like public@my-domain.net, lists@my-domain.net etc. to roughly know where they come from.
For useless one-time email addresses, I use the Mailinator. Excellent for that purpose.
But you are a foreigner. The Chinese are not foreigners in their own country, are they? Look at the demonstrations against Bush and Blair to see that it's no problem there.
Now look at the demonstrations in China against their government... (tiananmen)
Then you can understand why people look over their shoulders when they criticize their government publicly.
I lived for 4 months in Baoji and then for 2.5 years in Shanghai. My girlfriend lived for 2 years in Baoji working in University and Middle Schools and for 6 months in Beijing. So, I've seen and experienced probably more than you.
Living in China made me realize how much freedom we have in the west. Yes, many people speak quite openly about what they dislike. As do most people still believe Mao was the greatest person on earth (put some "70% good, 30% bad" in it to water it a bit down). But you realize how much freedom is missing when people criticize the government and keep looking over their shoulders if no strangers are listening. Can you imagine bashing Bush in Central Park in New York or bashing Blair in London and worrying that someone might hear it and get you into trouble? Privately and with foreigners they don't risk too much by being honest.
The worst thing about China in my experience is the utterly useless and terrible media (because of the extreme censorship) and the non-existing legal system. So, theoretically many people have rights. But when a street with its buildings gets completely destroyed outside the university (as happened in Baoji) to make room for a wider road, then theoretically all the shop owners and restaurant owners get compensated for losing their main source of income. But they don't and they don't even think about going to court because it's useless.
It's true about the police, but only because the police actually has little rights. The communist party is the ruler and they take care of things. But aside from that Chinese are in most cases very decent people (much more than in the west) because of peer pressure to not lose face for the family and other reasons.
Go there for a longer period of time and you'll see what the real deal is. Most people only go for some weeks or months and haven't even scratched the surface. The Chinese people are very good at making you believe things are great and only later you find out that things actually aren't great.
(Not often that I see the precious chicken (Baoji) mentioned on/.:-) )
I can appreciate your argument to a degree, but not the silly, undifferentiated one before. There are many valid arguments against the ID card, but just because it could make it easier to create a genocide doesn't mean that you should in any way use that kind of "end-of-discussion" argument.
Genocide doesn't need an ID card at all. The jews were much easier identified by the markings they had to wear. No need for an ID card. People in Darfur get killed in a Genocide without an ID card.
My point is that using this argument goes against what you like to achieve, because people stop taking you seriously then. You have an ID card anyway which is your passport (or driver's license). What if the government just declares that everybody has to carry their passport from now on? Same effect without the new ID card. Can also be used for Genocide (like everything).
What about all the countries that *DO* have an ID card? Do the Germans still use their ID card to track down Jews or anybody else? How come they are quite happy to only have a small card instead of a passport to carry around. Do they really have less freedom than anybody else?
What about the Americans with their driver's license which is a defacto ID card? Are those used to find and exterminate anybody? Or the French with their ID card. Is it used to kill people on a great scale?
Unbelievable to what lows some people go to argue against something like this. ID cards might be useless or scary in some eyes, but don't argue against them by citing Genocides which made use of some identification of people. No Genocide needs any ID card to be carried out.
Well, use the GPL-licensed eZ publish CMS. It's designed like a real CMS (well, for online content at least) with great flexibilty, object orientation for all content, workflows, versions, multi-language, etc. etc. In development for several years already.
It's not easy to get into, but if you want flexibilty and power then that's the way to go. PHPNuke et al. are for small websites that just want to publish news/articles and have other predefined content. eZ publish or Typo3 go the more professional way.
Especially in a socialist/communist country, it doesn't really matter whether the company makes big profits[...]
Uh-oh. If you really think that this is the case, then you should come to China. It's "socialist/communist" only in the sense that they have party dictatorship, censorship, and no functioning law system. The economy is pure capitalism, sometimes in its worst meaning.
Take a look at the Chinese currency.[...]
Your explanation for the same exchange rates in the last decade have one big problem: the exchange rate is fixed to the dollar. The state decides what it should be which is a big problem as the exchange rate would develop in a extremely frightening way for the Chinese if it was freed. The Chinese companies invest not even close to 3% of the amount of incoming money into American (or other) companies. Complete nonsense.
So, sorry, as someone who lives and works in China, I can tell you that your knowledge about it is very lacking. Please read more about it or go to China to experience it (but don't just go to Beijing and Shanghai and then think everything is honky-dory).
For your accuracy, it depends a bit if you want to have it *really* real-time or if it's ok to look at the data later (post-processing). You can get the GPS signals from your sensors and have another static GPS station with a powerful computer for doing the differential stuff.
Well, it seems you don't know much about the market then. Otherwise you would know that there are two players in it.
GPS (first launch in 1978) and GLONASS (first launch in 1982). Both still operational (although GPS is the better system now due to lack of money for GLONASS)
Wow, this is actually news! I've been working in China for over 1,5 years and only now I can access the Google cache.
Before, if you accessed e.g. http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:jo3aRe29uHsJ:s lashdot.org/+slashdot&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 then you received timeouts. Only way round it would be by using proxies (encrypted if possible). They seem to have improved their Firewall of China and now let users look at "unclassified" Google caches.
Slashdot Mirror
Once it comes out where you are, I guess the best option would be the T-Mobile MDA Pro (currently just available in Germany):
...), but is expensive and a bit large.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/6142.html
It has about everything you would ever want (640x480 screen, large thumb keyboard, ssh, vnc, UMTS,
A pretty much identical Ask Slashdot from two years ago
Exactly. 2 years is definitely too old.
4. We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible. If we have one IP address in New York, then one in Tokyo 60 minutes later, we know it cant be the same person because you cant get from New York to Tokyo in one hour.
I don't know. Switching proxies from one in New York to one in Tokyo takes me certainly less than 60 minutes...
But I guess no method can be perfect.
>> In other words, you must NOT pretend that Mambo
>> is yours, and you must NOT charge people for
>> Mambo iteself.
> I thought that GPL software could be sold as
> long as the source was attached.
Yes, and you're right. You can sell the software for whatever price you'd like, but you MUST keep it under GPL licence which means you have to provide the source and the people who paid you money can again sell it or give it away. You CAN'T relicence the program if you don't have the COMPLETE copyright for it.
Some companies go to great lengths to make sure they have the complete copyright for the code they release and then they have the possibility to have the software as GPL and as a commercial licence (e.g. the competitor to Mambo: eZ publish or QT). But even they can't take back code that they've once licenced under the GPL.
I really dislike people who spin things like the mambo people. It's clearly stated in the GPL FAQ.
It does a disservice to the GPL licence because people get confused. And it only discourages people who don't know the GPL well enough.
So, no, he won't say "I was right I tell ya!!! Its the third thing!!" when Marshmallows evolve into the dominant lifeform of this planet. Unless they are a breed of UNIX by that time and that UNIX has transformed into a lifeform which I seriously doubt....
Lots of fingers in China too...
I disagree. This thing is not about legal or illegal or hacking. It is about ethics.
Not everything that is legal is also ethically correct as we know. You can take this as an ethical test for applicants. Those who cheated to get an (information) advantage might also use questionable methods to get advantages in their future business life.
I prefer the honest types and personally try to never work with people if they use dirty tricks. Glad to know that the b-schools seem to start and think along similar lines.
Better to google for "free shell accounts".
Viva la France!
;-)
I'd recommend some French lessons before you go.
I used to use your system. Unfortunately it has 2 flaws which made me change it again:
First, the spambots also send a lot of mail to fantasy names with your domain or-- even worse-- they use a fantasy name with your domain as the sender address so you get the millions of error mails.
Second, I once received a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer because I used their domain as part of my email address to subscribe to their newsletter. It was something like lawyer.com@my-domain.net.
I then decided to have only some emails addresses like public@my-domain.net, lists@my-domain.net etc. to roughly know where they come from.
For useless one-time email addresses, I use the Mailinator. Excellent for that purpose.
But you are a foreigner. The Chinese are not foreigners in their own country, are they? Look at the demonstrations against Bush and Blair to see that it's no problem there.
Now look at the demonstrations in China against their government... (tiananmen)
Then you can understand why people look over their shoulders when they criticize their government publicly.
I've lived there and seen it for myself.
/. :-) )
I lived for 4 months in Baoji and then for 2.5 years in Shanghai. My girlfriend lived for 2 years in Baoji working in University and Middle Schools and for 6 months in Beijing. So, I've seen and experienced probably more than you.
Living in China made me realize how much freedom we have in the west. Yes, many people speak quite openly about what they dislike. As do most people still believe Mao was the greatest person on earth (put some "70% good, 30% bad" in it to water it a bit down). But you realize how much freedom is missing when people criticize the government and keep looking over their shoulders if no strangers are listening. Can you imagine bashing Bush in Central Park in New York or bashing Blair in London and worrying that someone might hear it and get you into trouble? Privately and with foreigners they don't risk too much by being honest.
The worst thing about China in my experience is the utterly useless and terrible media (because of the extreme censorship) and the non-existing legal system. So, theoretically many people have rights. But when a street with its buildings gets completely destroyed outside the university (as happened in Baoji) to make room for a wider road, then theoretically all the shop owners and restaurant owners get compensated for losing their main source of income. But they don't and they don't even think about going to court because it's useless.
It's true about the police, but only because the police actually has little rights. The communist party is the ruler and they take care of things. But aside from that Chinese are in most cases very decent people (much more than in the west) because of peer pressure to not lose face for the family and other reasons.
Go there for a longer period of time and you'll see what the real deal is. Most people only go for some weeks or months and haven't even scratched the surface. The Chinese people are very good at making you believe things are great and only later you find out that things actually aren't great.
(Not often that I see the precious chicken (Baoji) mentioned on
I can appreciate your argument to a degree, but not the silly, undifferentiated one before. There are many valid arguments against the ID card, but just because it could make it easier to create a genocide doesn't mean that you should in any way use that kind of "end-of-discussion" argument.
Genocide doesn't need an ID card at all. The jews were much easier identified by the markings they had to wear. No need for an ID card. People in Darfur get killed in a Genocide without an ID card.
My point is that using this argument goes against what you like to achieve, because people stop taking you seriously then. You have an ID card anyway which is your passport (or driver's license). What if the government just declares that everybody has to carry their passport from now on? Same effect without the new ID card. Can also be used for Genocide (like everything).
What a stupid and outrageous argument!
What about all the countries that *DO* have an ID card? Do the Germans still use their ID card to track down Jews or anybody else? How come they are quite happy to only have a small card instead of a passport to carry around. Do they really have less freedom than anybody else?
What about the Americans with their driver's license which is a defacto ID card? Are those used to find and exterminate anybody? Or the French with their ID card. Is it used to kill people on a great scale?
Unbelievable to what lows some people go to argue against something like this. ID cards might be useless or scary in some eyes, but don't argue against them by citing Genocides which made use of some identification of people. No Genocide needs any ID card to be carried out.
Well, use the GPL-licensed eZ publish CMS. It's designed like a real CMS (well, for online content at least) with great flexibilty, object orientation for all content, workflows, versions, multi-language, etc. etc. In development for several years already.
It's not easy to get into, but if you want flexibilty and power then that's the way to go. PHPNuke et al. are for small websites that just want to publish news/articles and have other predefined content. eZ publish or Typo3 go the more professional way.
Have a look at this list:
Easiest Installable Wiki Contest
Excellent resource to find easy to install Wikis.
Especially in a socialist/communist country, it doesn't really matter whether the company makes big profits[...]
Uh-oh. If you really think that this is the case, then you should come to China. It's "socialist/communist" only in the sense that they have party dictatorship, censorship, and no functioning law system. The economy is pure capitalism, sometimes in its worst meaning.
Take a look at the Chinese currency.[...]
Your explanation for the same exchange rates in the last decade have one big problem: the exchange rate is fixed to the dollar. The state decides what it should be which is a big problem as the exchange rate would develop in a extremely frightening way for the Chinese if it was freed. The Chinese companies invest not even close to 3% of the amount of incoming money into American (or other) companies. Complete nonsense.
So, sorry, as someone who lives and works in China, I can tell you that your knowledge about it is very lacking. Please read more about it or go to China to experience it (but don't just go to Beijing and Shanghai and then think everything is honky-dory).
Secondly, under the GPL for non-commercial usage only
Erm... if it's GPL, then it can't be "for non-commercial usage only". Not possible, because then it wouldn't be GPL anymore.
You can be commercial with the GPL. No problem. (But not proprietary. Maybe you meant that.)
Here's the GPL FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
(But yeah, bummer, it's not GPL for Windows. They would really gain in my opinion like they did with GPL'ing it for *nix systems.)
Google for "realtime kinetic GPS" or "RTK GPS"
For your accuracy, it depends a bit if you want to have it *really* real-time or if it's ok to look at the data later (post-processing). You can get the GPS signals from your sensors and have another static GPS station with a powerful computer for doing the differential stuff.
Well, it seems you don't know much about the market then. Otherwise you would know that there are two players in it.
GPS (first launch in 1978) and GLONASS (first launch in 1982). Both still operational (although GPS is the better system now due to lack of money for GLONASS)
Here is a comparison
But surely one of the major fuctions of a phone is that people can wring you.
;-)
Wow, I'm glad my phone doesn't do that to me.
Ah, that good old joke. I used to believe it too (and used it for Gore bashing when I thought Bush was the better one (how wrong was I!!)).
Unfortunately, he never claimed that.
Wow, this is actually news! I've been working in China for over 1,5 years and only now I can access the Google cache.
s lashdot.org/+slashdot&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 then you received timeouts. Only way round it would be by using proxies (encrypted if possible). They seem to have improved their Firewall of China and now let users look at "unclassified" Google caches.
Before, if you accessed e.g. http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:jo3aRe29uHsJ:
Same in China (not everywhere, but sometimes even in quite remote cities).
Very useful, indeed! Especially if the traffic is like India or China.
aCC
I'm not Chinese.
Quit trolling.