How come there isn't software to identify addiction? Or government agencies? Or social groups? My strip club addiction is poison to my wallet and my life. Where's my handout? I think we as people should have identified this long ago. It's not any kind of particular addiction, it's addiction itself. If we had it burned in at an early age on how to identify and combat, then no more global warming, no more WOW binges, no more drug cartels, no more casino empire, no more television stronghold. Not to say we wouldn't have the things that we are addicted, but maybe we could handle things more responsibly. --- The only thing preventing utopia is addiction - unknown
And by that logic, Walmart must be the poorest company ever, with their cheap prices, their welfare plans and low dollar salaries to their employees - yep, gotta maximize that shareholder value. MozeeToby is correct, but lets not forget that balance in a competitive marketplace is always key. If you can't come up with something new, copy something that works - like Walmart. Low ball the employees, they will be grateful to have the job. Low ball the price for goods, we will be grateful to save money. When you have billions of shares. In fact, every company in the forbes top 10 list has made their fortunes a couple of dollars at a time.
Note to self: Approach corporate Walmart with plan to distribute open source software and have local community devs at local stores, then host data warehouses at every store with free developer business centers - and cover all software and technology under the Walmart Public License.
Turns out that exchanging one technology for the other is absurd; the situation is a ying-yang of sorts. The key is always to find the balance and harmony between things, including technology.
Browser based OS? Maybe. Monolithic OS? Not really. Finding a balance between wired and wireless, flash memory and cloud computing, social and isolation, the power of independence AND the power of the collective is the best solution.
Someday we will embrace value through innovative technology - until then we'll watch "Ow, my Balls!"
The other day something happened around the corner to the courthouse - some guys with RIAA baseball caps threw a CD sleeve of some Metallica album and it brushed this dude on the back. The guy turns around only to meet the baseball cap crew saying something like "You didn't pay for that CD" and the guy said "It isn't mine - you threw it at me." Then the baseball cap gang proceeded to buttfuck the guy. The End.
The cool part of FOSS is that YOU ultimately have the responsibility to do something about the problem. FOSS was engineered so that "if I have a problem, I can do something about it" instead of "if I have a problem, I'll blame it on the company because they don't want to do something about it." You realise and identified the problems with:
1. MTP008 temperature sensor was removed from 2.6 (was in 2.4). 2. Peracomm USB ethernet (stopped working while in kernel tree) 3. DIB0700 (and many, many other) based DVB cards - the manufacturer helped making the driver but it still (after over 3 years, in 8.10) is not up-to-date/maintained in the kernel tree. 4. Numerous Wifi cards some of which partially work and some not. 5. Webcams (gspca).
The source code for this hardware is available. Compilers and free C and C++ tutorials are available. You have time to complain. If writing code is not a skill you possess or want to possess, then organize a group so that said drivers are revised. Try to ask the original code writers to support the old hardware by paying them. If it's not valuable to you that this stuff works then stop wasting the world's time with your whining. If you can't help your whining the i suggest http://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/Whinning.html
Dude you are a true gangsta, I've been trying to figure out how to set up my Wireless ISP and I can totally do HTB with the Mikrotik routers that I use. You totally rock! I guess $20/month for "Unlimited Best Effort" will do nicely for people capped at 5M/1M connection. Also I can use HTB for my $10 VoIP package. Thanks!
It doesn't matter how smart you are; if your sideburns extend past your ear holes, you're a Dirt Bag Airmen - or DBA for short. What the hell was i supposed to do anyway? Stay? 2001 rocked until about April (my birthday) we started bombing Baghdad until the 9/11 response. It wasn't a terrorist attack - we had all just got raises because of Bush, and we were out to prove a point. The Al Qaeda just took credit for some rogue vigilantes scared outta their minds from 6 months of bombing for no reason. Then i was like "My career in Unix is going nowhere in this NT4 world - Peace out!"
Now i make $150K in my spare time. With Linux. And Networks. F--- the Man
The moment where patent trolls battle it out with large corporations is right around the corner. I feel that this is not only the beginning of a shitstorm, but when it's finished - software patents will be made illogical if not illegal in most countries, and people will realize that it was just a marketing scam that big corporations used to squash the little guys, and then differently designed little guys built to take advantage of an unfair law will take down the big corporations at their own game. Its the way of things, until balance is found. Same with licensing software, same with MPAA and RIAA, and other such BS. No unfair advantage cannot be exploited, which is why free enterprise & the internet kicks ass. Value through innovation will always win. Period.
CAcert certificates are pretty nice because they are FREE!!! even if they need to become a little more responsible in the near future. The cool thing about "Free" is the value is in innovation, because it's the only way to survive being free in the first place. Maybe tie CAcerts to an OpenID??? Honestly, you get what you pay for... friends... hookers... etc.
http://firewi.com/ - The site (and the company) is in beta, used mostly for internal stuff right now, and I don't officially launch until April 1st and thats no joke. I already have nearly a thousand customers, and i'm still working out the bugs. Hopefully I can find some CCIE-ish guys that understand Debian based routers like I do before launch because I already sleep 6-8 hours a day and work the other 16 all week long.
Clearly "coryking" was making a reference to the reliability of how awesome MySQL really is, and how ridiculous it is to have a company like Sun try to say "If it breaks, then we fix it" to the FOSS community. Its exactly that kind of thinking that put FOSS where it is today.
For example, imagine that Microsoft and Sun are GM and Ford 20 years ago, and that FOSS is Honda. Everybody points and laughs at the little box that could, what a great idea - but people don't want reliability, they want features. But now because unforseen turns in the economy, an informed general public, and Honda's ability to place Marketing ***BEHIND*** the Scientific Method, GM and Ford are left scratching their head, wondering what happened to their plan to rape consumers. And now the great American motor companies need a few hundred billon dollars of OUR friggin money to pay for their mistakes, while Honda is now the gold standard. Are we to make the same mistake with FOSS?
Now put the CEO's of GM behind the wheel of Honda. You expect the Honda engineers to WHAT? Screw the consumers and make the model year release date! WHAT!
an exerpt... "This explains a lot if true; we seem to have multiple providers all
simultaneously setting up a transparent proxy on Wikimedia, and only Wikimedia.
In a way I hope it's not true because it means a media shitstorm, but... meh.
Someone ought to contact, er, whoever the relevant authorities are."
Hehe... I concur. Also the NSA just wants to see how many secrets the Vatican has stolen from the US. Among them are technical nuclear weapons documents that the Roman Catholic Church used to steer the outcome of wars! NSA = Prevent the Rapture... CONSPIRACY!!!
http://www.exposingsatanism.org/illuminati-vatican-cia-documents.htm
I crack me up!
My business that i've built from the ground up offers $20 internet, $20 Phone, and $20 TV over a fixed base wireless connection at a customer's place of residence. I've built the entire business from the ground up on open source technologies and at 25MB down/ 5MB up, unlimited phone, low latency links, and dirt cheap television, I really don't feel that i have any competition. So maybe by the time "Clearwire" is actually beginning to do something, I'll take my 802.11/802.16 network and slap a billion dollar price tag on it. I mean if Wal-mart can do it, why can't I? Oh, and the name of my company is FIREWI, and we open to the public Jan 1 for all of SoCal. I have a 300MB full duplex backhaul to set up right now. Late-
It's creepy that i posted exactly about this a minute before this story appeared in the previous listing about "RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation"
Maybe I'm missing something here, but why can the RIAA and MPAA sue individuals for file sharing? Can't they just back the movie and music studios and labels out there? Whats wrong with making money from box office movies? It's not like i can download a Theater or a Concert! Those things are awesome, and they are irreplacable and not cheaply duplicatable! But come on now, putting things in a data format and giving them out to everyone and telling them not to copy it, what did they expect? Are they just angry because their business model is no longer viable? It's free enterprise, plain and simple. If someone can do the same for cheaper... What if Target went to court and said "City of Los Angeles, please give us the video records of customers going to Wal-Mart. We would like to sue individuals for shopping there since we can't stop Wal-Mart from being so cost-effective, and we're holding the DMV an DOT liable as conspirators unless you comply." Have we completely gone insane? Why do we tolerate this?
Everyone I knew in IT in 2004 knew how to do it, even showed me how to do it - thats also the year I started taking Linux seriously, and actually learned how vastly interconnected everything is. Nowadays I have an exponentially greater knowledgebase on inter-networking and how all this stuff actually works, and just NOW it's important that "There is a bug in the Internet?" So if I list a bunch of really hush-hush secrets about how screwed up things REALLY are with the internet, will i get credited with exposing the internet as the "butthole of planetary networks?"
All slashdoting aside, how would we deal with this situation? I know we're mainly a bunch of nerds, but aren't we the most influential people on the planet in today's society? What could we seriously do to circumvent this policy? Any ideas? Come on people, we're the brains of the world!
well, if the software is worth while and you don't mind releasing it under the GNU GPL then i don't see why you can't. You wouldn't be competing with the project because you wouldn't be making money from the code. You CAN make money by supporting the software, also in California non competes and the like have been ruled "NO GOOD" in this state (search SLASHDOT 3 days ago) and you would have the benefit of IBM's financial backing of legal services if anyone tries to quash your great idea. Just don't make bingo software, i HATE bingo software...
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slashdotters please click the above link many times to increase the /. entropy - the twitter admins will thank you someday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction
How come there isn't software to identify addiction? Or government agencies? Or social groups? My strip club addiction is poison to my wallet and my life. Where's my handout? I think we as people should have identified this long ago. It's not any kind of particular addiction, it's addiction itself. If we had it burned in at an early age on how to identify and combat, then no more global warming, no more WOW binges, no more drug cartels, no more casino empire, no more television stronghold. Not to say we wouldn't have the things that we are addicted, but maybe we could handle things more responsibly.
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The only thing preventing utopia is addiction - unknown
And by that logic, Walmart must be the poorest company ever, with their cheap prices, their welfare plans and low dollar salaries to their employees - yep, gotta maximize that shareholder value. MozeeToby is correct, but lets not forget that balance in a competitive marketplace is always key. If you can't come up with something new, copy something that works - like Walmart. Low ball the employees, they will be grateful to have the job. Low ball the price for goods, we will be grateful to save money. When you have billions of shares. In fact, every company in the forbes top 10 list has made their fortunes a couple of dollars at a time.
Note to self: Approach corporate Walmart with plan to distribute open source software and have local community devs at local stores, then host data warehouses at every store with free developer business centers - and cover all software and technology under the Walmart Public License.
Turns out that exchanging one technology for the other is absurd; the situation is a ying-yang of sorts. The key is always to find the balance and harmony between things, including technology.
Browser based OS? Maybe. Monolithic OS? Not really. Finding a balance between wired and wireless, flash memory and cloud computing, social and isolation, the power of independence AND the power of the collective is the best solution.
Someday we will embrace value through innovative technology - until then we'll watch "Ow, my Balls!"
The other day something happened around the corner to the courthouse - some guys with RIAA baseball caps threw a CD sleeve of some Metallica album and it brushed this dude on the back. The guy turns around only to meet the baseball cap crew saying something like "You didn't pay for that CD" and the guy said "It isn't mine - you threw it at me." Then the baseball cap gang proceeded to buttfuck the guy. The End.
* Reprogram the massive botnet used for spamming into components of a massive AI system
* Launch "Skynet" to combat the growing problems of spam and malware
* Find your friends, go to the local pub, have a beer, and wait for the whole thing to blow over ;)
The cool part of FOSS is that YOU ultimately have the responsibility to do something about the problem. FOSS was engineered so that "if I have a problem, I can do something about it" instead of "if I have a problem, I'll blame it on the company because they don't want to do something about it." You realise and identified the problems with:
1. MTP008 temperature sensor was removed from 2.6 (was in 2.4).
2. Peracomm USB ethernet (stopped working while in kernel tree)
3. DIB0700 (and many, many other) based DVB cards - the manufacturer helped making the driver but it still (after over 3 years, in 8.10) is not up-to-date/maintained in the kernel tree.
4. Numerous Wifi cards some of which partially work and some not.
5. Webcams (gspca).
The source code for this hardware is available.
Compilers and free C and C++ tutorials are available.
You have time to complain.
If writing code is not a skill you possess or want to possess, then organize a group so that said drivers are revised.
Try to ask the original code writers to support the old hardware by paying them.
If it's not valuable to you that this stuff works then stop wasting the world's time with your whining.
If you can't help your whining the i suggest http://www.positivediscipline.com/articles/Whinning.html
Dude you are a true gangsta, I've been trying to figure out how to set up my Wireless ISP and I can totally do HTB with the Mikrotik routers that I use. You totally rock! I guess $20/month for "Unlimited Best Effort" will do nicely for people capped at 5M/1M connection. Also I can use HTB for my $10 VoIP package. Thanks!
It doesn't matter how smart you are; if your sideburns extend past your ear holes, you're a Dirt Bag Airmen - or DBA for short. What the hell was i supposed to do anyway? Stay? 2001 rocked until about April (my birthday) we started bombing Baghdad until the 9/11 response. It wasn't a terrorist attack - we had all just got raises because of Bush, and we were out to prove a point. The Al Qaeda just took credit for some rogue vigilantes scared outta their minds from 6 months of bombing for no reason. Then i was like "My career in Unix is going nowhere in this NT4 world - Peace out!"
Now i make $150K in my spare time. With Linux. And Networks. F--- the Man
The moment where patent trolls battle it out with large corporations is right around the corner. I feel that this is not only the beginning of a shitstorm, but when it's finished - software patents will be made illogical if not illegal in most countries, and people will realize that it was just a marketing scam that big corporations used to squash the little guys, and then differently designed little guys built to take advantage of an unfair law will take down the big corporations at their own game. Its the way of things, until balance is found. Same with licensing software, same with MPAA and RIAA, and other such BS. No unfair advantage cannot be exploited, which is why free enterprise & the internet kicks ass. Value through innovation will always win. Period.
CAcert certificates are pretty nice because they are FREE!!! even if they need to become a little more responsible in the near future. The cool thing about "Free" is the value is in innovation, because it's the only way to survive being free in the first place. Maybe tie CAcerts to an OpenID??? Honestly, you get what you pay for... friends... hookers... etc.
http://firewi.com/ - The site (and the company) is in beta, used mostly for internal stuff right now, and I don't officially launch until April 1st and thats no joke. I already have nearly a thousand customers, and i'm still working out the bugs. Hopefully I can find some CCIE-ish guys that understand Debian based routers like I do before launch because I already sleep 6-8 hours a day and work the other 16 all week long.
Clearly "coryking" was making a reference to the reliability of how awesome MySQL really is, and how ridiculous it is to have a company like Sun try to say "If it breaks, then we fix it" to the FOSS community. Its exactly that kind of thinking that put FOSS where it is today.
For example, imagine that Microsoft and Sun are GM and Ford 20 years ago, and that FOSS is Honda. Everybody points and laughs at the little box that could, what a great idea - but people don't want reliability, they want features. But now because unforseen turns in the economy, an informed general public, and Honda's ability to place Marketing ***BEHIND*** the Scientific Method, GM and Ford are left scratching their head, wondering what happened to their plan to rape consumers. And now the great American motor companies need a few hundred billon dollars of OUR friggin money to pay for their mistakes, while Honda is now the gold standard. Are we to make the same mistake with FOSS?
Now put the CEO's of GM behind the wheel of Honda. You expect the Honda engineers to WHAT? Screw the consumers and make the model year release date! WHAT!
If only Hondas were free... a guy can dream...
an exerpt... "This explains a lot if true; we seem to have multiple providers all simultaneously setting up a transparent proxy on Wikimedia, and only Wikimedia. In a way I hope it's not true because it means a media shitstorm, but... meh. Someone ought to contact, er, whoever the relevant authorities are."
Hehe... I concur. Also the NSA just wants to see how many secrets the Vatican has stolen from the US. Among them are technical nuclear weapons documents that the Roman Catholic Church used to steer the outcome of wars! NSA = Prevent the Rapture... CONSPIRACY!!! http://www.exposingsatanism.org/illuminati-vatican-cia-documents.htm I crack me up!
Moon Patrol music on the C64! I LOVE that game!
My business that i've built from the ground up offers $20 internet, $20 Phone, and $20 TV over a fixed base wireless connection at a customer's place of residence. I've built the entire business from the ground up on open source technologies and at 25MB down/ 5MB up, unlimited phone, low latency links, and dirt cheap television, I really don't feel that i have any competition. So maybe by the time "Clearwire" is actually beginning to do something, I'll take my 802.11/802.16 network and slap a billion dollar price tag on it. I mean if Wal-mart can do it, why can't I? Oh, and the name of my company is FIREWI, and we open to the public Jan 1 for all of SoCal. I have a 300MB full duplex backhaul to set up right now. Late-
It's creepy that i posted exactly about this a minute before this story appeared in the previous listing about "RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation"
Maybe I'm missing something here, but why can the RIAA and MPAA sue individuals for file sharing? Can't they just back the movie and music studios and labels out there? Whats wrong with making money from box office movies? It's not like i can download a Theater or a Concert! Those things are awesome, and they are irreplacable and not cheaply duplicatable! But come on now, putting things in a data format and giving them out to everyone and telling them not to copy it, what did they expect? Are they just angry because their business model is no longer viable? It's free enterprise, plain and simple. If someone can do the same for cheaper... What if Target went to court and said "City of Los Angeles, please give us the video records of customers going to Wal-Mart. We would like to sue individuals for shopping there since we can't stop Wal-Mart from being so cost-effective, and we're holding the DMV an DOT liable as conspirators unless you comply." Have we completely gone insane? Why do we tolerate this?
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We've been looking for you, Mr Anderson...
Everyone I knew in IT in 2004 knew how to do it, even showed me how to do it - thats also the year I started taking Linux seriously, and actually learned how vastly interconnected everything is. Nowadays I have an exponentially greater knowledgebase on inter-networking and how all this stuff actually works, and just NOW it's important that "There is a bug in the Internet?" So if I list a bunch of really hush-hush secrets about how screwed up things REALLY are with the internet, will i get credited with exposing the internet as the "butthole of planetary networks?"
All slashdoting aside, how would we deal with this situation? I know we're mainly a bunch of nerds, but aren't we the most influential people on the planet in today's society? What could we seriously do to circumvent this policy? Any ideas? Come on people, we're the brains of the world!
well, if the software is worth while and you don't mind releasing it under the GNU GPL then i don't see why you can't. You wouldn't be competing with the project because you wouldn't be making money from the code. You CAN make money by supporting the software, also in California non competes and the like have been ruled "NO GOOD" in this state (search SLASHDOT 3 days ago) and you would have the benefit of IBM's financial backing of legal services if anyone tries to quash your great idea. Just don't make bingo software, i HATE bingo software...
i believe this site explains it all - i googled the contact address for the location of their business http://www.sail-with.us/