The intention is that it does not cause a big impact on the development process. It simply requires that anybody making a contribution claim responsibility for it. That way, you have something of an electric paper-trail for Linux.
The timing of this actually ties nicely with the SCO/IBM trail shenanigans. IBM has just made a request that the Court certify that It's use of Linux (and, in effect, anrybody's use of Linux does not violate any of SCO's purported copyrights. This would apply to pretty much everything contributed up to SCO's last disclosure in court (which would be, I think,
sometime mid-April).
Given that the UNIX code base (read: SCOX) is the biggest threat to the legal cleanliness of the Linux, having a responsibility trail for everything that gets added in from here on in is a good fit. It only leaves about a one month hole in the documented cleanlines of Linux -- which shouldn't be that hard to close.
I The weblogs.log page has a "Space Suits for Mars" link.
That's where I found it.
I guess that that doesn't quite qualify for a RTFA moniker.
I often follow indirect links, so I sometimes forget when I'm on a primary or a secondary.
Try reading googld-watche's Why we watch google page. Even they acknowledge that Google does a not-so-bad job of taking care of their customers -- and they're the critics!.
One thing to note here is that, if Microsoft-watch.com had been as dedicatedly critical of MS, I think they would have probably been sued into non-existence a long time ago.
That comeone criticizes google isn't necessarily bad.. Hopefully the pertinent people at google read this page from time to time.
Part of what they do well is take care of their customers' needs. If I knew that google was avoiding sending people to spyware sites, I'd be that much more interested in making sure that my friends go there.
This may just seem like a geek thing, but who do you think that people go to when they want to know where is a good search site? Their computer-illiterate grandmother, or their geek uncle? That's part of what made google what it is, and it's good to know that they intend to keep up that protocol.
BTW: I consider spyware to be essentialy viral code with a veneer of legality. Most people consider anti-viral protocols to be a good thing.
I actually started blocking a bunch of chinese IPs a long time ago. Now, I'm also getting a lot of spam from Brazil. I figure if we block both Brazil and China, spam volume might drop 80-90%.
China is not trying to stifle the voices of their people as much as it is trying to prevent them from reading certain things. Supressing speech inside of China is simply an easy way to limit what people can read.
They don't really care that much about what the outside world can read about China, as long as that information doesn't get back into the country.
For those who don't know, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html describes IP via avian carrier. If you haven't read it yet, you should. It pushes the capability of IP under difficult conditions, especially conditions where little to no power is available.
It's a fun explanation, but I think that the anti-particle thing is a bit odd.
On the other hand it got me thinking: Perhaps an explanation for the quantum problem really is a parallel universe, but what's hsppening is that the photons are essentially 'phansing' in and out of the parallel universe. It's the phasing of the particles which determine their interaction. The Photons that 'arrive' at the dark bands are simply consistently in a 'dark' phase (i.e. in the alternate universe and, thus, non-interacting).
This would allow photons to keep their particulate state, and simultaneously explains their wave features.
fake products -- scam artists shipping stuff to stores that RIIA membership doesn't know about -- but good enough to fool consumers (haven't heard of this running rampant).
Less spoilage (shipping fewer, selling more, returning way less). Better profits all the way 'round. Works for stores, artists get more money, so does the RIAA.
RIAA scam (they tell artists "140M records", but they sell 160M) -- but the RIAA wouldn't do that would they???
Note that, in all possible circumstances, record sales are up.
Only in (1) would the RIAA (and artists) actually get less money, but that's not the fault of the "pirate scum" 12 year olds that the RIAA insists on suing. If this is the case, then the RIAA needs to start going after the real pirates, and stop suing kids.
For (3), The artists are getting less money, but that would be because the RIAA is scamming on both ends (cheating artists, raising prices, suing customers). It'd take a public scandal to fix that.
I presume that this is just coincidence, but it turns out that
41 miles is also the altitude for first-stage separation for Saturn V rockets going to the moon)
See the section How Apollo Got to The Moon.
But when a pirate does it, gets sued, and settles, somehow it's evil that the RIAA sued in the first place
No. you've got it a bit different. The RIAA, at least has some legitimacy to their position (as much as we may disagree with it).
The Music industry claiming that they didn't know where to send David Bowie's royalty cheque is getting a bit closer to the territory (but not quite there).
This is more like the current blow-up over US torture and mistreatment of prisoners. The US basically went in on 2 issues: one was WMD (Weapons of Mass Distraction), and the other was the point that Saddamn was a despot who ate babies, killed civilians and tortured prisoners.
Now the WMD's turn out to be vaporware, and we find the US engaging in it's own murder of prisoners, and torture that some Iraqi's seem to consider worse than what Saddamn did.
It kinda blows up what's left of their moral high-ground.
First of all: This is an election year. Wonderful promises of a vague solution sometime in the future aren't going to do much.
I would also note that The Lubicon Indians were promised a solution to their problem (no land deal) about a century ago. They still haven't gotten a solution. Every election, the new government promises a fast solution to the problem. The next election we get the same promise from the new government.
The proof of this one is in the pudding, and there's nothing on the table yet.
I realize that, but it still caught me off guard, and gave me a good laugh. I like life's little ironies, and this is one of them.
BTW: Dont expect that "the rest of the OS will be pulled down over the network". Remember, this box is likely to be the only fileserver your company is going to need.
256MB is enough of a filesystem (especially if compressed) to boot up and have all of the needed drivers and networking tools for what could be described as one of the worlds largest embeded systems. Having a 500TB fileserver require part of it's production filesystem be served by yet another fileserver wouldn't be ironic. It would be just plain stupid.
Back in the early '80s some friends of mine started a company called Myrias. The company was originally intending to build a massively parallel supercomputer (their original aim was a 4K processer (68020) cluster). I used to joke that they'd be able to calculate realtime holograms and pop popcorn at the same time.
Now you can do the same thing with a 4 CPU system.
There's definitely a link between language and the way that we think about things.
Some mathematicians are very interested in one native language here in BC (almost dead). Apparently, they have two different number systems, and mathematicians are interested in what's different in the concepts of the two, and what it may be able to teach them.
I can see a CD player lasting a good length of time... Remember CD players often run for an entire day at a time -- often with the addition of having to deal with people going walking/jogging with them.
In terms of thermal stress, the difference between 8-14hours/day and 24/7 is roughly zilch. Having the CD player running in an absolutely stationary position might actually seem like a bit of a vacation.
WIth hard disks, the main failure-incucing stress is usually startup/shutdown. If the CD player is simply running, this should actually be easier on them.... Having them continuously running would also minimize thermal stress.
That having been said -- If you can find some cheap MP3/OGG players for the same price, you're likely to be better off with NO moving parts other than the (big-ass Video-game quality) push-button..
Bad math. They offered $250K for the writer of one of the worst viruses in a long time. $250Kx10=$2.5M. At that point, they still have half of their reward fund left.
As somebody else has pointed out, $5M is peanuts to a company that got fined $450M by the European Union for antitrust violations (they could have been fined much more) and agreed to pay SUN $1B to settle a lawsuit.
They may need some. If what we're seeing her is accurate, then the only thing that's stopping them from being GPL violators is the fact that they haven't distributed anything yet.
When they do that, they'll need IP lawyers (not that it'll do them much good). At the very least they'll need lawyers to sign the out of court settlement with the wine/crossover people.
That's like complaining that your car comes with more seats than you use, so you have a "Seatbelt Tax".
The Tax shows up more in lower-end machines. Right now you can get a low end machine for about $300CAD. The microsoft tax on top of that is pushing 1/4 the price of the machine. That's more than just seatbelts. It's more like paying for a passenger-van even if you just want a 2-seater.
The last version of Windows I got was Windows 95. Back around '2000 I managed to get around the MS tax by buying a bare motherboard and CPU, combining it with an empty case that they were throwing out at work.
Nowadays (In Vancouver, at least) it's pretty easy to get a box without Windows. This is a good thing. I'd be pretty pissed at having to pay Microsoft a 25% tax for software that I really don't want to use.
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The timing of this actually ties nicely with the SCO/IBM trail shenanigans. IBM has just made a request that the Court certify that It's use of Linux (and, in effect, anrybody's use of Linux does not violate any of SCO's purported copyrights. This would apply to pretty much everything contributed up to SCO's last disclosure in court (which would be, I think, sometime mid-April).
Given that the UNIX code base (read: SCOX) is the biggest threat to the legal cleanliness of the Linux, having a responsibility trail for everything that gets added in from here on in is a good fit. It only leaves about a one month hole in the documented cleanlines of Linux -- which shouldn't be that hard to close.
The groklaw article about the (proposed) change in the Linux submission process tries to explain (among other things) some fof the legal and technical implications of the change.
I The weblogs.log page has a "Space Suits for Mars" link. That's where I found it. I guess that that doesn't quite qualify for a RTFA moniker.
I often follow indirect links, so I sometimes forget when I'm on a primary or a secondary.
One thing to note here is that, if Microsoft-watch.com had been as dedicatedly critical of MS, I think they would have probably been sued into non-existence a long time ago.
That comeone criticizes google isn't necessarily bad.. Hopefully the pertinent people at google read this page from time to time.
This may just seem like a geek thing, but who do you think that people go to when they want to know where is a good search site? Their computer-illiterate grandmother, or their geek uncle? That's part of what made google what it is, and it's good to know that they intend to keep up that protocol.
BTW: I consider spyware to be essentialy viral code with a veneer of legality. Most people consider anti-viral protocols to be a good thing.
I actually started blocking a bunch of chinese IPs a long time ago. Now, I'm also getting a lot of spam from Brazil. I figure if we block both Brazil and China, spam volume might drop 80-90%.
They don't really care that much about what the outside world can read about China, as long as that information doesn't get back into the country.
For those who don't know, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html describes IP via avian carrier. If you haven't read it yet, you should. It pushes the capability of IP under difficult conditions, especially conditions where little to no power is available.
PJ' post about this on groklaw notes that the best translation for tocqueville would be city of the crazy falsness -- or, as I would put it: fudville.
But you need both money and motivation for something like that to happen.
Uhm... nevermind.
On the other hand it got me thinking: Perhaps an explanation for the quantum problem really is a parallel universe, but what's hsppening is that the photons are essentially 'phansing' in and out of the parallel universe. It's the phasing of the particles which determine their interaction. The Photons that 'arrive' at the dark bands are simply consistently in a 'dark' phase (i.e. in the alternate universe and, thus, non-interacting).
This would allow photons to keep their particulate state, and simultaneously explains their wave features.
- fake products -- scam artists shipping stuff to stores that RIIA membership doesn't know about -- but good enough to fool consumers (haven't heard of this running rampant).
- Less spoilage (shipping fewer, selling more, returning way less). Better profits all the way 'round. Works for stores, artists get more money, so does the RIAA.
- RIAA scam (they tell artists "140M records", but they sell 160M) -- but the RIAA wouldn't do that would they???
Note that, in all possible circumstances, record sales are up.Only in (1) would the RIAA (and artists) actually get less money, but that's not the fault of the "pirate scum" 12 year olds that the RIAA insists on suing. If this is the case, then the RIAA needs to start going after the real pirates, and stop suing kids.
For (3), The artists are getting less money, but that would be because the RIAA is scamming on both ends (cheating artists, raising prices, suing customers). It'd take a public scandal to fix that.
I presume that this is just coincidence, but it turns out that 41 miles is also the altitude for first-stage separation for Saturn V rockets going to the moon)
See the section How Apollo Got to The Moon.
No. you've got it a bit different. The RIAA, at least has some legitimacy to their position (as much as we may disagree with it).
The Music industry claiming that they didn't know where to send David Bowie's royalty cheque is getting a bit closer to the territory (but not quite there).
This is more like the current blow-up over US torture and mistreatment of prisoners. The US basically went in on 2 issues: one was WMD (Weapons of Mass Distraction), and the other was the point that Saddamn was a despot who ate babies, killed civilians and tortured prisoners.
Now the WMD's turn out to be vaporware, and we find the US engaging in it's own murder of prisoners, and torture that some Iraqi's seem to consider worse than what Saddamn did.
It kinda blows up what's left of their moral high-ground.
I would also note that The Lubicon Indians were promised a solution to their problem (no land deal) about a century ago. They still haven't gotten a solution. Every election, the new government promises a fast solution to the problem. The next election we get the same promise from the new government.
The proof of this one is in the pudding, and there's nothing on the table yet.
BTW: Dont expect that "the rest of the OS will be pulled down over the network". Remember, this box is likely to be the only fileserver your company is going to need.
256MB is enough of a filesystem (especially if compressed) to boot up and have all of the needed drivers and networking tools for what could be described as one of the worlds largest embeded systems. Having a 500TB fileserver require part of it's production filesystem be served by yet another fileserver wouldn't be ironic. It would be just plain stupid.
Now you can do the same thing with a 4 CPU system.
I dunno if anybody else laughed at that, but I sure did.
There's definitely a link between language and the way that we think about things.
Some mathematicians are very interested in one native language here in BC (almost dead). Apparently, they have two different number systems, and mathematicians are interested in what's different in the concepts of the two, and what it may be able to teach them.
Yeah.. It's one of the few languages that's just as (in)comprehensible no matter what human language you use.
Have you ever listened to a brit, a southener, and a Carribean speaker have a conversation??
And they're all speaking english!
In terms of thermal stress, the difference between 8-14hours/day and 24/7 is roughly zilch. Having the CD player running in an absolutely stationary position might actually seem like a bit of a vacation.
WIth hard disks, the main failure-incucing stress is usually startup/shutdown. If the CD player is simply running, this should actually be easier on them.... Having them continuously running would also minimize thermal stress.
That having been said -- If you can find some cheap MP3/OGG players for the same price, you're likely to be better off with NO moving parts other than the (big-ass Video-game quality) push-button..
If you don't need stereo sound, then each sound card (stereo) output can be used to handle two headphones.
As somebody else has pointed out, $5M is peanuts to a company that got fined $450M by the European Union for antitrust violations (they could have been fined much more) and agreed to pay SUN $1B to settle a lawsuit.
They may need some. If what we're seeing her is accurate, then the only thing that's stopping them from being GPL violators is the fact that they haven't distributed anything yet.
When they do that, they'll need IP lawyers (not that it'll do them much good). At the very least they'll need lawyers to sign the out of court settlement with the wine/crossover people.
The Tax shows up more in lower-end machines. Right now you can get a low end machine for about $300CAD. The microsoft tax on top of that is pushing 1/4 the price of the machine. That's more than just seatbelts. It's more like paying for a passenger-van even if you just want a 2-seater.
The last version of Windows I got was Windows 95. Back around '2000 I managed to get around the MS tax by buying a bare motherboard and CPU, combining it with an empty case that they were throwing out at work.
Nowadays (In Vancouver, at least) it's pretty easy to get a box without Windows. This is a good thing. I'd be pretty pissed at having to pay Microsoft a 25% tax for software that I really don't want to use.