what's the conversion rate between internet time and the SI unit for time, the second?
The Internet second used to be much shorter than the SI second unit until around 2000-2001. Today, the Internet second is virtually infinitely long compared to the SI second, all thanks to websites like The Facebook, MySpace, and Flash Arcade.
OpenBSD puts Apache in a chroot jail by default... for security. A compromised Apache server doesn't lead to a compromised system. The OpenBSD guys are considered by many to be extremely competent with security. They are only incompetent at being nice.:-P
Why do so many people here play into this wretched stereotype
I think it is because everyone here thinks that he is the exception to the stereotype. It's along the same lines as the old story about some marines about to go into a hopeless battle:
Colonel: "This is a difficult mission. I am sorry to say that only 1 in 3 of you will come out alive."
Each marine looks to the guys on his left and right and thinks, "Those poor bastards."
[...] researched the extent of copyrighted material being hosted on Google Video [...]
[...] have discovered 300 additional instances of apparently copyrighted films [...]
[...] provides tools to help identify and remove copyrighted [...]
I bet I could find 10,000 copyrighted movies! I would go as far as to say that almost every single video on Google video is copyrighted (> 99%). The catch is that most of the copyright holders of the hosted videos have given permission for Google to host the video.
For example, this post is copyrighted by me, but by submitting it here I am giving Slashdot permission to host it. Big business isn't the only copyright holder out there. Copyright is automatic.
Either the writer of the article is confused or the watchdog group is confused. Or, if you are wearing your tinfoil hat, maybe they are intentionally being misleading to hide the facts?
OSS != commercial software Since you used "open source", I will reply to that. This comes right from the Open Source Initiative's website,
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
Free software can be commericial software too. From the GNU website's Selling Free Software,
Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on.
The word "free" has two legitimate general meanings; it can refer either to freedom or to price. When we speak of "free software", we're talking about freedom, not price. (Think of "free speech", not "free beer".) Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes.
Software can be both free software (or "open source" as you used) and commericial software at the same time. There is nothing exclusive about either. For examples, see Red Hat, Sun, IBM, and many more.
many AI's are already very very competent while most water looks like crap. So, crap simulation is already very good. Check that one off the list then.
A peer-to-peer (or "P2P") computer network exploits diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional centralized resources where a relatively low number of servers provide the core value to a service or application.
That sure sounds like BitTorrent. BitTorrent is made up of many peers that are sharing data... peer to peer. Also from the Wikipedia BitTorrent article,
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol.
Of course BitTorrent operates via peer-to-peer networks. How couldn't it?
everyone has the right to protect something that they've worked hard on
My right to do whatever I want with my computer and my duty to share with my neighbor trumps your "right to protect" your software. Freedom is too important.
What if the product you made was your only source of income and no-one bought it but everyone had a copy of it? You'd do whatever you could to protect your livelihood.
I believe the proper response would be "Your failed business model is not my problem". If you want to shit in a paper bag and sell it in your store, no one is obligated to give you money even if everyone started to make their own shit-bags.
I can imagine similar types of conversations in the 1700's as I see here,
John Adams: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
British: John Adams, stop being such a constitution zealot!
Colonist: Yeah, staying under rule of England is easier. You are such a dick, John Adams.
Colonist #2: Why does John Adams keep pushing the constitution down our throats?! Go away, you hippie!
Proprietary software prevents that exact freedom you are talking about. When you have use proprietary software you are no longer (legally) free to do whatever you want with your computer, which is your property. Free software, especially the GPL, keeps someone from taking that freedom away from you.
If you write non-free software, you are controlling someone else's property (their computer). If they use your software, you automatically limit their freedom.
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Debian is one of the most popular and widely used distributions. They use the name GNU/Linux.
Yep, I can arrange the bits in my computer in any way I want. No one should be able to dictate the order of my bits for any reason, nor decide if my arrangement is "wrong". For me, I don't think any arrangements of bits (like letters or words) is wrong.
anti-Flash zealots [...] assum[e] that bad use of a tool equals a bad tool
If 98% of the use of hammers was just to smash random things for no reason in particular, I would avoid being around people who owned hammers. I would probably call it a "bad tool" as well.
I'd say hospital equipment shouldn't malfunction when presented with interference on a widely used spectrum, but that's just me.
Remember that intensity decreases proportionally to the inverse square. This means that after a not-so-far distance (such as the parking lot at the hospital), the intensity of the cell phone radiation decreases dramatically but will be very strong at close distances, such as in a waiting room at the hospital.
Ever hold a cell phone (not all do this) near a speaker and get blasted by loud buzzing noises? Notice that the speaker is fine when you move the cell phone away, say, 5 feet.
Why is someone entering their credit card numbers into public terminals anyway? I treat public terminals the same way I treat e-mail: assume other people are looking at it.
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Free software, or "open source" as you put it, is commercial software. It's sort of like saying "nerds VS engineers".
The Internet second used to be much shorter than the SI second unit until around 2000-2001. Today, the Internet second is virtually infinitely long compared to the SI second, all thanks to websites like The Facebook, MySpace, and Flash Arcade.
OpenBSD also uses chroot for security.
OpenBSD puts Apache in a chroot jail by default ... for security. A compromised Apache server doesn't lead to a compromised system. The OpenBSD guys are considered by many to be extremely competent with security. They are only incompetent at being nice. :-P
I think it is because everyone here thinks that he is the exception to the stereotype. It's along the same lines as the old story about some marines about to go into a hopeless battle:
Colonel: "This is a difficult mission. I am sorry to say that only 1 in 3 of you will come out alive."
Each marine looks to the guys on his left and right and thinks, "Those poor bastards."
I bet I could find 10,000 copyrighted movies! I would go as far as to say that almost every single video on Google video is copyrighted (> 99%). The catch is that most of the copyright holders of the hosted videos have given permission for Google to host the video.
For example, this post is copyrighted by me, but by submitting it here I am giving Slashdot permission to host it. Big business isn't the only copyright holder out there. Copyright is automatic.
Either the writer of the article is confused or the watchdog group is confused. Or, if you are wearing your tinfoil hat, maybe they are intentionally being misleading to hide the facts?
In what way could the GPL possibly be considered non-commercial?
Yep, just tried it. It gives,
That is not an integer so the answer is obviously wrong. Here is the correct answer as provided by GNU Octave,
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
Free software can be commericial software too. From the GNU website's Selling Free Software,Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on.
The word "free" has two legitimate general meanings; it can refer either to freedom or to price. When we speak of "free software", we're talking about freedom, not price. (Think of "free speech", not "free beer".) Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes.
Software can be both free software (or "open source" as you used) and commericial software at the same time. There is nothing exclusive about either. For examples, see Red Hat, Sun, IBM, and many more.
Looks like I just fed a troll.
Since when is GNU/Linux not commercial software?
It is actually an air pipe. How do you think they breathe down there? Geeze, use your head!
You see, that's why we should instead use a name that is completely unambiguous: free software. This way no one will ever be confused.
As stated before: cron a bash script,
Huh?
P2P - Peer-to-peer (from Wikipedia)
A peer-to-peer (or "P2P") computer network exploits diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional centralized resources where a relatively low number of servers provide the core value to a service or application.That sure sounds like BitTorrent. BitTorrent is made up of many peers that are sharing data ... peer to peer. Also from the Wikipedia BitTorrent article,
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol.Of course BitTorrent operates via peer-to-peer networks. How couldn't it?
For those who don't get the joke, Chris Knight is a real genius.
My right to do whatever I want with my computer and my duty to share with my neighbor trumps your "right to protect" your software. Freedom is too important.
What if the product you made was your only source of income and no-one bought it but everyone had a copy of it? You'd do whatever you could to protect your livelihood.I believe the proper response would be "Your failed business model is not my problem". If you want to shit in a paper bag and sell it in your store, no one is obligated to give you money even if everyone started to make their own shit-bags.
I can imagine similar types of conversations in the 1700's as I see here,
Proprietary software prevents that exact freedom you are talking about. When you have use proprietary software you are no longer (legally) free to do whatever you want with your computer, which is your property. Free software, especially the GPL, keeps someone from taking that freedom away from you.
If you write non-free software, you are controlling someone else's property (their computer). If they use your software, you automatically limit their freedom.
Here: Debian
And from the main page,
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.Debian is one of the most popular and widely used distributions. They use the name GNU/Linux.
Yep, I can arrange the bits in my computer in any way I want. No one should be able to dictate the order of my bits for any reason, nor decide if my arrangement is "wrong". For me, I don't think any arrangements of bits (like letters or words) is wrong.
If 98% of the use of hammers was just to smash random things for no reason in particular, I would avoid being around people who owned hammers. I would probably call it a "bad tool" as well.
Remember that intensity decreases proportionally to the inverse square. This means that after a not-so-far distance (such as the parking lot at the hospital), the intensity of the cell phone radiation decreases dramatically but will be very strong at close distances, such as in a waiting room at the hospital.
Ever hold a cell phone (not all do this) near a speaker and get blasted by loud buzzing noises? Notice that the speaker is fine when you move the cell phone away, say, 5 feet.
Why is someone entering their credit card numbers into public terminals anyway? I treat public terminals the same way I treat e-mail: assume other people are looking at it.