As much as I'm against move, just like everyone else here. No rights have been denied to forign countries. The fact of the matter is that none of us have lost any rights anywhere. A single company has chosen to take the PR route of supporting an anti-terrorist measure.
No legally binding instructions have come from the government (that we know of) to _force_ these companies to do this.
Use different AV software. Either that or be one of the several hundred people who will just write custom removal scripts after recieving this email and not opening it.
Until it's against the law to remove ML and it becomes a standard, un-installable portion of all O/S's, you haven't lost any rights at all.
I work for a dot com that actually has a working business model, imagine that? Unfortunate thing is that we started a little late and never did get big investment. Turned out to be the best thing for us.
I think what it really comes down to is that a lot of people out there assigned the wrong reason to dot com failures. Your business has to have a realistic way to make money, it just that simple. So many of these companies started up with a euphoric misconception that the money would just stream in from nowhere somehow. I don't think it had a whole lot to do with it being fun or not.
I had a nerf gun in our office along with a couple of other people, mines broke now, a small bout of hand to hand combat. It would be allowed again if I could afford it.
After nearly 6 months without a paycheque things are looking up again, but the office has been fun the whole time. The trick is just to remember that having fun in the office is intended to raise productivity. As soon as you're going into work to relax and unwind, you're having a little too much.
As much as I'm against the government having access to all of our private information, it's also important to note that just the fact that Terrorist Tim used a non-mandated encryption scheme will probably be a federal offence. Enough to arrest him anyway.
I've been interested in upgrading the FS on the machines I manage here in the office, give or take about 15 servers. The fact of the matter is that it is no small job bringing down a production machine to change its filesystem. So, it sits with an unjournaled ext2 fs. Which is where it would sit, potentially forever until it left the production scope. The ability to upgrade the FS to ext3 without even a reboot, AND maintaining the security of being able to roll back those changes are more than enough to convince me that this is the best way to go.
If I push to have the systems upgraded, say to ReiserFS, and something goes wrong. I'm just plain f**ked. It's that simple. This offers me the ability to upgrade with a fraction of the risk. Which, considering RedHats duties to its customers, I think is the perfect decision.
I don't think it is at all suprising that we see more and more confusion between open source, pirating, viruses, cracking, hacking and the like. We have to remember that the true meanings of all of these terms, and the hundred more we use each day are (largely) still belonging only to a small subculture.
Take these terms and give them to the general populous, including judges, and they are as forign as say chemical names are to non-chemists. Sodium chloride is not something the average person wants to sprinkle on fries... A hacker is not someone the average person wants protecting their private data. They want salt on fries, and a Computer Programmer / Data Security Expert for their data.
We as a community flant with and love the somewhat reckless nature of our subculture, fully knowning where its intentions and morals lie, but the average person does not. Most importantly, no matter how much we want to educate the average person on the nuances of our subculture, they won't learn it. Just like they'll never know what sodium chloride is.
Don't ever expect them to. It's not a failing, it's just reality.
More and more as these kinds of studies are made and linux as a whole, either KDE, GNOME, or any other user interface becomes more and more scrutinized by the masses, I wonder if this is good or bad for our community as a whole.
The steady adoption of linux has developers more and more conserned about what joe-average would like on their desktop. And often (as this report shows) joe-average wants fewer options, less customizability, fewer utilities, fewer programs. Really what they want is more herding. Clippy.
Linux (GNOME, KDE, whatever) is great because those things aren't present. I'm terrified that one day I'll be writing a linux app and my boss'll walk in and say: "Those advanced search tools you've been writing... too many buttons, cut out 10 features... I don't care which". And I'll say, "But it's stable, ready to ship". And the response'll be, "We know, I've allocated two more weeks so you can remove the buttons."
Usability issues are one thing,
"It seems like there's more than normal, that it's giving me a whole bunch of choices." (P1)
Is just scary.
I don't know if it's just me, but I pray that we don't see a steady decline of value to suit the Lowest Common Denominator.
Absolutely no, Linus is not killing linux. This world is wonderful because everyone has a different view. Different view of code, implementation, ice cream flavors, you name it. The problem is that when you try to freeform combine those efforts you always end up with a half-assed mixed mess. One man with a solid vision in the best interest of the people, supported by the people will always be more effective than a group of self-interested specialists.
I think it's simple. The opensource community is a team, a kick-ass team. But every team needs a leader. It's that simple.
A single vision with the support of the people is unstoppable. Linux proves that every day. But the second that vision is damaged by a special interest the end is near. Linus isn't leading linux, he is linux. Under any other banner linux wouldn't be linux. I don't think anyone should ever forget that.
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As much as I'm against move, just like everyone else here. No rights have been denied to forign countries. The fact of the matter is that none of us have lost any rights anywhere. A single company has chosen to take the PR route of supporting an anti-terrorist measure.
No legally binding instructions have come from the government (that we know of) to _force_ these companies to do this.
Use different AV software. Either that or be one of the several hundred people who will just write custom removal scripts after recieving this email and not opening it.
Until it's against the law to remove ML and it becomes a standard, un-installable portion of all O/S's, you haven't lost any rights at all.
I work for a dot com that actually has a working business model, imagine that? Unfortunate thing is that we started a little late and never did get big investment. Turned out to be the best thing for us.
I think what it really comes down to is that a lot of people out there assigned the wrong reason to dot com failures. Your business has to have a realistic way to make money, it just that simple. So many of these companies started up with a euphoric misconception that the money would just stream in from nowhere somehow. I don't think it had a whole lot to do with it being fun or not.
I had a nerf gun in our office along with a couple of other people, mines broke now, a small bout of hand to hand combat. It would be allowed again if I could afford it.
After nearly 6 months without a paycheque things are looking up again, but the office has been fun the whole time. The trick is just to remember that having fun in the office is intended to raise productivity. As soon as you're going into work to relax and unwind, you're having a little too much.
As much as I'm against the government having access to all of our private information, it's also important to note that just the fact that Terrorist Tim used a non-mandated encryption scheme will probably be a federal offence. Enough to arrest him anyway.
I've been interested in upgrading the FS on the machines I manage here in the office, give or take about 15 servers. The fact of the matter is that it is no small job bringing down a production machine to change its filesystem. So, it sits with an unjournaled ext2 fs. Which is where it would sit, potentially forever until it left the production scope. The ability to upgrade the FS to ext3 without even a reboot, AND maintaining the security of being able to roll back those changes are more than enough to convince me that this is the best way to go.
If I push to have the systems upgraded, say to ReiserFS, and something goes wrong. I'm just plain f**ked. It's that simple. This offers me the ability to upgrade with a fraction of the risk. Which, considering RedHats duties to its customers, I think is the perfect decision.
Take these terms and give them to the general populous, including judges, and they are as forign as say chemical names are to non-chemists. Sodium chloride is not something the average person wants to sprinkle on fries... A hacker is not someone the average person wants protecting their private data. They want salt on fries, and a Computer Programmer / Data Security Expert for their data.
We as a community flant with and love the somewhat reckless nature of our subculture, fully knowning where its intentions and morals lie, but the average person does not. Most importantly, no matter how much we want to educate the average person on the nuances of our subculture, they won't learn it. Just like they'll never know what sodium chloride is.
Don't ever expect them to. It's not a failing, it's just reality.
The steady adoption of linux has developers more and more conserned about what joe-average would like on their desktop. And often (as this report shows) joe-average wants fewer options, less customizability, fewer utilities, fewer programs. Really what they want is more herding. Clippy.
Linux (GNOME, KDE, whatever) is great because those things aren't present. I'm terrified that one day I'll be writing a linux app and my boss'll walk in and say: "Those advanced search tools you've been writing... too many buttons, cut out 10 features... I don't care which". And I'll say, "But it's stable, ready to ship". And the response'll be, "We know, I've allocated two more weeks so you can remove the buttons."
Usability issues are one thing,
"It seems like there's more than normal, that it's giving me a whole bunch of choices." (P1)
Is just scary. I don't know if it's just me, but I pray that we don't see a steady decline of value to suit the Lowest Common Denominator.
Absolutely no, Linus is not killing linux. This world is wonderful because everyone has a different view. Different view of code, implementation, ice cream flavors, you name it. The problem is that when you try to freeform combine those efforts you always end up with a half-assed mixed mess. One man with a solid vision in the best interest of the people, supported by the people will always be more effective than a group of self-interested specialists. I think it's simple. The opensource community is a team, a kick-ass team. But every team needs a leader. It's that simple. A single vision with the support of the people is unstoppable. Linux proves that every day. But the second that vision is damaged by a special interest the end is near. Linus isn't leading linux, he is linux. Under any other banner linux wouldn't be linux. I don't think anyone should ever forget that.