like the government is going to work with these software companies on extending their closed-source, proprietary products, with the intent to redistribute. When have you ever heard of that happening?
I think it'd be easier just to ask GPL'd software authors nicely if they could specially license XYZ to the government for whatever purpose they need.
Then they could have their name attached to whatever it is the government releases, and feel proud they are doing their civic duty. Only assholes would decline that. So fuck them.
In the most extreme case, you can release a source code patch under a different license to circumvent the GPL.
Running GPL software, and Purchasing GPL software (which is what Intellect is trying to prevent) have N O T H I N G to do with the rules of the GPL regarding derivative work.
If the government wanted to release a derivative product (which they won't) they can take it up with the original author to release it under a different license if they so desire.
BSD license is fine. But there is no reason why not to use GPL software, especially in this case.
GPL doesn't prevent the government from doing anything. The government does not act as a software distributor, thus there is no reason why the GPL should infringe upon the Government (IE the "user's") rights.
Why is everyone against the GPL? Because it's easy to twist the language? Because it takes a few sentences to explain?
Mog(tm) is my best friend, and a trademark of Square Enix CO, LTD. To claim he descends from either monkey or dog is so demeaning, it makes me so.... ooooh.... KUPO!*
you know, most companies web-facing computers and intranet computers are completely seperate beasts run by completely seperate entities.
No one in the office will ever play with the web-facing machines; they will see the internal windows boxes and exchange servers and IIS-based intranet portal and CMS.
So to use a netcraft survey to determine the OS-cluefulness of a company only servers to guage the sanity of the IT dept. only.
So the linux@work writers don't care. They probably all have Macs anyway.
Look, the comments made that the Ancient Unix release may have been a trap are cute, but lets face it, what they actually released in 2000 IS COMPLETE AND UTTER REFUSE THAT'S NOT WORTH ANYTHING.
Go ahead and take a look: about 5M compressed worth of binaries and source for the only 32-bit release (32V), which only works on the VAX.
Linux probably reached that level of sophistication and functionality some time in 1998. So I think that anyone looking at the source wouldn't have found anything of merit to bring over that they couldn't already figure out from reading man pages.
The southbridge itself is attached to the (or one of the) PCI bus(es) provided by the northbridge. Most consumer PCs have the southbridge attached like a PCIPCI bridge on the main PCI bus with the rest of the card slots. So all those devices CAN reach the saturation point of the PCI bus attaching all of it to the northbridge.
The exception is in the case of some server architectures where there are two or more PCI busses and the southbridge with it's embedded stuff is on a seperate one from add-on cards.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what the fuck is that about? If you have sound card driver problems, then your sound card must be ass. (This goes for Windows too, btw; try finding a decent Maestro3 driver, oh wait! IT DOESNT EXIST!!!!!)
Honest to god. Just say what you meant to say, instead of setting up an anecdotal straw man.
kids who wouldn't buy it anyway because they don't give a shit about musicians will use it, and download crappy MP3s of radio recordings, and look for YuGiOh porn.
Who gives a shit about that?
No one looking for quality, hard to find material uses Kazaa anyway. It's harmless, and good when you need quick jack-off material. Leave the poor P2P nets alone.
Finally, guess what, the Internet lets you copy and share things. Someone will just make another application to make it easier, or kids'll have to learn about FTP and u/d ratios.
God I hate this information superhighway. I'm always stuck behind some loser rice-rocket pinto with the windows down blaring Latin dance music.
Believe or not, since Taco Bell is a franchise, the individual store managers are not required to get their food from whomever Pepsi-Cola dictates (it probably varies from region to region anyway).
I've been to a particular Taco Bell that makes all of their food out in the open, and from what I can tell, it's all fresh. IE you see them press the tortillas from dough, cook the ground beef in pans, cut tomatos (but the lettuce is pre-shredded in bags, i think)
It's the best mexican in a 5 mile radius. Same price as others, same cups and wrappers, but the food is 10 times better than the Taco Bell express on my campus.
Otherwise you wouldn't be posting AC. Or maybe that actually explains it. Hmmmm.
Anyway, IBM is you, SCO is your bitch, and the parents downstairs is my, because you have my good graces and I will continue watching Law and Order (ie compiling Linux kernel)
Besides, it's in the tires. If you're going to smuggle drugs, then make sure to visit a chop shop every week to keep the feds running in circles.
Also, I'd be more worried about RFID tags in various parts of the vehicle frame, which probably is going to happen soon (or is already happening) to ease factory production.
Now I want to research this more and build a detector! I can think of all sorts of neat things to do with this tech. Thanks, AC, for alerting me to this (not really so private) issue!
Care to provide a source for a statistic that rates the durability mechanism of a seat-belt release in a serious accident resulting in fire vis-a-vis the chance of being even capable of escaping such a wreck to begin with?
I think seat-belt release mechanisms are very simple and durable devices (mine tend to get stuck in the unlatched position when it's hot outside).
I'd be more concerned about being concious after the wreck so I can crawl out the window. If I hit my head against the steering wheel because I'm not harnased, I don't think I'd have a chance and I'd likely asphyxiate.
Oh, and there are plenty of high-speed collisions in which a seat-belt would be important that don't result in fire. That's a Hollywoodism. God forbid the car touches something, BAM! There goes the gas tank. Christ on crutches...
If you read a previous article about netblock hijacking, the methods by which spammers operate my themselves be illegal. These are the crimes which by investigating, the FTC may expose and leverage for the FBI to bring them to trial (wire fraud, etc.)
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Hi, nice to meetcha!
(you stole my id, damnit. I should have complained about this some time ago, but back then there weren't journals ^_^)
like the government is going to work with these software companies on extending their closed-source, proprietary products, with the intent to redistribute. When have you ever heard of that happening?
I think it'd be easier just to ask GPL'd software authors nicely if they could specially license XYZ to the government for whatever purpose they need.
Then they could have their name attached to whatever it is the government releases, and feel proud they are doing their civic duty. Only assholes would decline that. So fuck them.
In the most extreme case, you can release a source code patch under a different license to circumvent the GPL.
Running GPL software, and Purchasing GPL software (which is what Intellect is trying to prevent) have N O T H I N G to do with the rules of the GPL regarding derivative work.
If the government wanted to release a derivative product (which they won't) they can take it up with the original author to release it under a different license if they so desire.
BSD license is fine. But there is no reason why not to use GPL software, especially in this case.
GPL doesn't prevent the government from doing anything. The government does not act as a software distributor, thus there is no reason why the GPL should infringe upon the Government (IE the "user's") rights.
Why is everyone against the GPL? Because it's easy to twist the language? Because it takes a few sentences to explain?
I'm a moogle, so I take offense.
.... KUPO!*
Mog(tm) is my best friend, and a trademark of Square Enix CO, LTD. To claim he descends from either monkey or dog is so demeaning, it makes me so.... ooooh
*: @%!$@^#
you know, most companies web-facing computers and intranet computers are completely seperate beasts run by completely seperate entities.
No one in the office will ever play with the web-facing machines; they will see the internal windows boxes and exchange servers and IIS-based intranet portal and CMS.
So to use a netcraft survey to determine the OS-cluefulness of a company only servers to guage the sanity of the IT dept. only.
So the linux@work writers don't care. They probably all have Macs anyway.
the ancient unix release is NOT SYSTEM V.
SCO claims Linux has parts of SYSV via IBM. These releases predate SYSV by a huge evolutionary gap.
So it has nothing to do with anything. Just a coincidence (well not really, but the situation is irrelevant to SCO's claims)
Look, the comments made that the Ancient Unix release may have been a trap are cute, but lets face it, what they actually released in 2000 IS COMPLETE AND UTTER REFUSE THAT'S NOT WORTH ANYTHING.
Go ahead and take a look: about 5M compressed worth of binaries and source for the only 32-bit release (32V), which only works on the VAX.
Linux probably reached that level of sophistication and functionality some time in 1998. So I think that anyone looking at the source wouldn't have found anything of merit to bring over that they couldn't already figure out from reading man pages.
The southbridge itself is attached to the (or one of the) PCI bus(es) provided by the northbridge. Most consumer PCs have the southbridge attached like a PCIPCI bridge on the main PCI bus with the rest of the card slots. So all those devices CAN reach the saturation point of the PCI bus attaching all of it to the northbridge.
The exception is in the case of some server architectures where there are two or more PCI busses and the southbridge with it's embedded stuff is on a seperate one from add-on cards.
but I'm trying to remember which Andrew this is. Do you come with a last name?
(You're friends with Kev... I'm recognizing the whole nethernet thing)
ROTFLMAO
I can just see this Australian beanpole Joseph moaning and screaming about how he hates his father (James) the pompous buzzwordful gasbag.
heeeeeeere's KAJI!
He'll keep 'em in check.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
IS A HAMMERFALL NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!?!?!?!
HOW ABOUT AN ENVY24, ICE1xxx, or CS4236?!?!??!?!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
what the fuck is that about? If you have sound card driver problems, then your sound card must be ass. (This goes for Windows too, btw; try finding a decent Maestro3 driver, oh wait! IT DOESNT EXIST!!!!!)
Honest to god. Just say what you meant to say, instead of setting up an anecdotal straw man.
And the parent posts are jokes, so lighten up.
kids who wouldn't buy it anyway because they don't give a shit about musicians will use it, and download crappy MP3s of radio recordings, and look for YuGiOh porn.
Who gives a shit about that?
No one looking for quality, hard to find material uses Kazaa anyway. It's harmless, and good when you need quick jack-off material. Leave the poor P2P nets alone.
Finally, guess what, the Internet lets you copy and share things. Someone will just make another application to make it easier, or kids'll have to learn about FTP and u/d ratios.
God I hate this information superhighway. I'm always stuck behind some loser rice-rocket pinto with the windows down blaring Latin dance music.
FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
so, where are you now?
(I bet you don't miss HFS or WDC anymore now that they're owned by ClearChannel. Besides, theres' a website if you really miss Elliot in the morning)
Believe or not, since Taco Bell is a franchise, the individual store managers are not required to get their food from whomever Pepsi-Cola dictates (it probably varies from region to region anyway).
I've been to a particular Taco Bell that makes all of their food out in the open, and from what I can tell, it's all fresh. IE you see them press the tortillas from dough, cook the ground beef in pans, cut tomatos (but the lettuce is pre-shredded in bags, i think)
It's the best mexican in a 5 mile radius. Same price as others, same cups and wrappers, but the food is 10 times better than the Taco Bell express on my campus.
Otherwise you wouldn't be posting AC.
Or maybe that actually explains it. Hmmmm.
Anyway, IBM is you, SCO is your bitch, and the parents downstairs is my, because you have my good graces and I will continue watching Law and Order (ie compiling Linux kernel)
Windows and a few other scary apps ain't written in C or C++.
It's some kinda internal monstrosity that from what I heard, bears a passing resemblance to C#. Coincidence? I think not.
This was posted to slashdot a few months ago: Michelin to add DOT tags to all new tires
Besides, it's in the tires. If you're going to smuggle drugs, then make sure to visit a chop shop every week to keep the feds running in circles.
Also, I'd be more worried about RFID tags in various parts of the vehicle frame, which probably is going to happen soon (or is already happening) to ease factory production.
Now I want to research this more and build a detector! I can think of all sorts of neat things to do with this tech. Thanks, AC, for alerting me to this (not really so private) issue!
So do you hear those McLean Bible Church commercials at night a lot on WTOP too? :-)
... systems so that your car passes inspection.
I don't imagine that such a statute would go into law unless this was permitted; the taxpayers would not have it.
into a guardrail at 45 MPH, your car catches fire?
WHAT KIND OF CHEAP-ASS DETROIT DEATH TRAP DO YOU DRIVE????
Fine, don't wear your safety belt, if your car is a piece of shit.
Care to provide a source for a statistic that rates the durability mechanism of a seat-belt release in a serious accident resulting in fire vis-a-vis the chance of being even capable of escaping such a wreck to begin with?
I think seat-belt release mechanisms are very simple and durable devices (mine tend to get stuck in the unlatched position when it's hot outside).
I'd be more concerned about being concious after the wreck so I can crawl out the window. If I hit my head against the steering wheel because I'm not harnased, I don't think I'd have a chance and I'd likely asphyxiate.
Oh, and there are plenty of high-speed collisions in which a seat-belt would be important that don't result in fire. That's a Hollywoodism. God forbid the car touches something, BAM! There goes the gas tank. Christ on crutches...
If you read a previous article about netblock hijacking, the methods by which spammers operate my themselves be illegal. These are the crimes which by investigating, the FTC may expose and leverage for the FBI to bring them to trial (wire fraud, etc.)
so they can play it anytime with the same quality, all on a 80min CDR.
;-)
Aaah yes, the good life.
Netflix for Games
;-)
Let me know how that works out for you.