a) it's certainly not fair to anyone who wants to incorporate ten lines of GPL'd code into ten thousand of his own,
Sure it is. The only reason he has my code is that I get his in return, otherwise why would I publish it?
Because you are writing FREE software. The idea is not to have other people improve your code, although that is a side effect, but to give software into the public domain that you feel should belong there. To do it for other reasons is, IMO, selfish.
"Opening the source does not create the security hole, it just makes it easier to find it and fix it."
I doubt somehow that quake players really give a damn about 'fixing' quake, making it more secure, or suffering through temporary annoyances to make a better product. Point is, that they were playing quake just fine before the source was opened, and now suddenly many security holes come to light, and they have problems.
You need to be able to look at issues from the point of view of an end user - from their point of view, opening the source has made their life difficult, and there's no way of denying it or brushing it off by pretending that it's critical to fix 'security holes' in quake. This is one instance where open source has not applied very well, IMO.
So you say Einstein is Person of the Centrury, and you post a link to the Drudge report for further information? This is about equivalent to saying "Einstein is not Person of the Century". The Drudge Report is at best, accurate half of the time. Why don't you just wait until it's officially declared, instead of reporting rumors? Is this from the same crowd that said RedHat was going to buy Be, or what?
I think Slashdot would do well to check the sources of its information, lest it become a gossip page.
It's kind of interesting they called one of their products the StreamBox VCR - the software essentially has the function of a VCR or audio tape recorder - yet those things aren't illegal. I hope they see the similarity in court. It would be hypocritical to prevent this product from being on the market while allowing VCRs and tape recorders to be sold.
It's also worth noting that both VCRs and tape recorders were originally hailed as a horrible thing for the TV and music industry, but it hasn't turned out that way... but if Amazon can patent one-click shopping, I'm sure RealNetworks could win this. -lx
Here we are, once again reading fud spewn out by a Linux user. Frankly, for a group that chalks up every criticism of their OS as fud and whines endlessly about how oppressed they are, it's intensely hypocritical.
"Be is poorly managed, poorly marketed, not open-source, will never get anywhere, is already dead," etc. I don't know of any better example of maliciously spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The same types of things have been said about FreeBSD on slashdot. What accounts for this kind of illogical behaviour? Obviously, the user, developer and application bases of both BeOS and FreeBSD are growing steadily.
My personal theory is that these people are simply neophobes who have to somehow justify the time invested in their own personal favorite OS by bashing any others. The reason they don't use other OSes is not because they haven't tried them, or don't know how to use them, but because all other OSes suck, and aren't even worth a look.
Generally, Compaq's shortcomings have been in the area of making hardware too proprietary, and really really inflexible. Other than their PCs(which suck more than any PCs since Packard Bell), most other Compaq products, i.e., servers, appear to be pretty nice. Plus, if Compaq is going to get into the net appliance arena, being proprietary and inflexible is pretty much the norm - you can't install NT on a palmpilot, or Linux on a WebTV, etc.
I have to say, the Japanese have us beat when it comes to frivolous technology. I would give it another 2-3 years(same timespan I'll give for palmtop technology) before I'll buy something like that, but I think they would be great to have. Problem is, I have carpet - can they deal with that? Or are they going to wake me up in the middle of the night.....(bo bo bee bo ba...aaaaah! Mama-mama-mama! Okirikunakatta!)?
"Their AI personalities sound extremely nauseating! Always so chipper, so friendly, so welcoming and so eager to please...
That's where the Japanese and Americans/British differ - Japanese love cuteness. I've spent a while reading up on Japanese culture, and I guess its rubbed off - these things are damn cute! I'd love to have one.
That's very true about the 1920s. I had noticed that about a year ago and got somewhat freaked out, but eventually I guess I found myself in denial about it - no one wants to think that another depression will happen. I think that when the market has the correction that it so richly deserves, it's going to really suck, but it won't be as bad as The Depression - we now have far better understandings of monetary and fiscal policy than we did back then.
I didn't mean to come off saying that Linuxcare is a worthless company, it just seems too soon to me to be having an IPO. There's been kind of a Linux IPO frenzy lately, and that's what I disapprove of, not the services that Linux-oriented companies provide. Things like VA's IPO scare the hell out of me - that kind of manic stock market doesn't bode well for the future.
For contributing in your own small way to the impending economic collapse of the United States. I'm getting really sick of hearing about mediocre companies at best going for IPOs, knowing that their stock price will be bid by a bunch of amateur investors up far further than their price/earnings multiple would indicate what they're really worth, simply because they have the word 'Linux' in the name. This is disgusting. RedHat I could understand, but VA? Linuxcare? These are companies that are nowhere near the point at which a company usually has an IPO. People are being ripped off. And this has to be screwing up the economy, throwing millions of dollars after worthless tech stocks of companies that don't actually make any money, nor do they have the potential to. It used to be good to see Linux have some success in the software market, but its just gone too far. But if the goal is to compete with Windows, I would say that Linux is well on its way. -lx
Especially with people like Roblimo and twitter writing the mentally ill off as 'nuts' or 'crazy'. And what kind of 19th century bullshit are you talking, twitter? Somehow psychologists are either witch doctors or part of a government conspiracy?
This country doesn't give a damn about mental health, and until we do, we're going to have more people who won't get help for fear of being stigmatized by people like yourselves.
Allright, I'm seeing a lot of comments saying how one shouldn't try to set off false alarms, subvert the system, pretend to steal your own car, etc. I think in such a situation people are obligated to do such a thing if they value their own freedom. Protest and causing a little trouble for a good cause is a righteous thing.
If people want to observe others by such a system, they're going to have to accept its faults. I have every right to act suspicious, behave oddly, or make unexpected moves. That's what makes me human. And if people are going to accept such a system, I think that they are relinquishing some very basic rights.
How are they going to be able to follow through on that? They didn't have to send out squad cars because you decided to walk in circles around your car, and you have the perfect right and obligation to do so.
Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper praised the actions of his officers, saying they remained in control of the streets. "I've seen some remarkable restraint and effective community-relation efforts" by the police, he said.
Mmkay, like, when I get teargassed, it does very little to build my community-relations with the police. Certainly, the police have an obligation to keep things under control, but the kinds of things that went on were hardly in order for a predominantly non-violent demonstration.
It's great to be able to read the comments of the people who were actually at the protest, rather than folks who just watched it on TV or read about it - I trust them more. And from what I hear from folks posting here sounds to me like most of the bad shit happened when the police whipped out the pepper spray and started getting violent. Remind anyone of a certain democratic convention?
Is a software executive just classified as someone who can use software? My little sister drew something in MS Paint when she was about 3, does that make her the world's youngest graphic artist? Or maybe he's a "software executive" because he can use software and is being hired by Microsoft as a PR tool?
It's just super that this kid can use a computer, but I think it would be misleading to characterize him as some kind of prodigy, although he's likely pretty bright.
-lx
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No shit? You have to disclose your IP?
Why are you so defensive about people knowing what OS you're running? You running windows or something? Besides, it's nothing anyone couldn't figure out with a simple queso.
I saw something just like this the other day! I went to this website, and my browser told the server what Web browser, version, and operating system I was using! Then I sent an e-mail and it said what mail program and my domain name!!! And sometimes, when I connect to a Quake server somewhere, it tells the server the exact IP address that I'm playing from!
Programs that just bandy about my personal information like this have to be stopped. Let's all sue iD, Netscape, Microsoft, Real Networks, and any other company that writes programs that send any non-arbitrary information of any kind over the InterNet.
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a) it's certainly not fair to anyone who wants to incorporate ten lines of GPL'd code into ten thousand of his own,
Sure it is. The only reason he has my code is that I get his in return, otherwise why would I publish it?
Because you are writing FREE software. The idea is not to have other people improve your code, although that is a side effect, but to give software into the public domain that you feel should belong there. To do it for other reasons is, IMO, selfish.
-lx
"Opening the source does not create the security hole, it just makes it easier to find it and fix it."
I doubt somehow that quake players really give a damn about 'fixing' quake, making it more secure, or suffering through temporary annoyances to make a better product. Point is, that they were playing quake just fine before the source was opened, and now suddenly many security holes come to light, and they have problems.
You need to be able to look at issues from the point of view of an end user - from their point of view, opening the source has made their life difficult, and there's no way of denying it or brushing it off by pretending that it's critical to fix 'security holes' in quake. This is one instance where open source has not applied very well, IMO.
-lx
So you say Einstein is Person of the Centrury, and you post a link to the Drudge report for further information? This is about equivalent to saying "Einstein is not Person of the Century". The Drudge Report is at best, accurate half of the time. Why don't you just wait until it's officially declared, instead of reporting rumors? Is this from the same crowd that said RedHat was going to buy Be, or what?
I think Slashdot would do well to check the sources of its information, lest it become a gossip page.
-lx
It's kind of interesting they called one of their products the StreamBox VCR - the software essentially has the function of a VCR or audio tape recorder - yet those things aren't illegal. I hope they see the similarity in court. It would be hypocritical to prevent this product from being on the market while allowing VCRs and tape recorders to be sold.
It's also worth noting that both VCRs and tape recorders were originally hailed as a horrible thing for the TV and music industry, but it hasn't turned out that way...
but if Amazon can patent one-click shopping, I'm sure RealNetworks could win this.
-lx
Here we are, once again reading fud spewn out by a Linux user. Frankly, for a group that chalks up every criticism of their OS as fud and whines endlessly about how oppressed they are, it's intensely hypocritical.
"Be is poorly managed, poorly marketed, not open-source, will never get anywhere, is already dead," etc. I don't know of any better example of maliciously spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The same types of things have been said about FreeBSD on slashdot. What accounts for this kind of illogical behaviour? Obviously, the user, developer and application bases of both BeOS and FreeBSD are growing steadily.
My personal theory is that these people are simply neophobes who have to somehow justify the time invested in their own personal favorite OS by bashing any others. The reason they don't use other OSes is not because they haven't tried them, or don't know how to use them, but because all other OSes suck, and aren't even worth a look.
But I'm open to other theories...
-lx
That's press-release-speak for "the appliance would deliver information from the web to the user".
-lx
Generally, Compaq's shortcomings have been in the area of making hardware too proprietary, and really really inflexible. Other than their PCs(which suck more than any PCs since Packard Bell), most other Compaq products, i.e., servers, appear to be pretty nice. Plus, if Compaq is going to get into the net appliance arena, being proprietary and inflexible is pretty much the norm - you can't install NT on a palmpilot, or Linux on a WebTV, etc.
-lx
How is Linux, presumably your OS of choice, supposed to make inroads without convincing companies to support 'another damn OS'?
-lx
I have to say, the Japanese have us beat when it comes to frivolous technology. I would give it another 2-3 years(same timespan I'll give for palmtop technology) before I'll buy something like that, but I think they would be great to have. Problem is, I have carpet - can they deal with that? Or are they going to wake me up in the middle of the night.....(bo bo bee bo ba...aaaaah! Mama-mama-mama! Okirikunakatta!)?
-lx
"Their AI personalities sound extremely nauseating! Always so chipper, so friendly, so welcoming and so eager to please...
That's where the Japanese and Americans/British differ - Japanese love cuteness. I've spent a while reading up on Japanese culture, and I guess its rubbed off - these things are damn cute! I'd love to have one.
-lx
Seriously, there's already a movie by the title "2001: A Sex Odyssey". Sorry. And don't ask.
:)
That's very true about the 1920s. I had noticed that about a year ago and got somewhat freaked out, but eventually I guess I found myself in denial about it - no one wants to think that another depression will happen. I think that when the market has the correction that it so richly deserves, it's going to really suck, but it won't be as bad as The Depression - we now have far better understandings of monetary and fiscal policy than we did back then.
-lx
I didn't mean to come off saying that Linuxcare is a worthless company, it just seems too soon to me to be having an IPO. There's been kind of a Linux IPO frenzy lately, and that's what I disapprove of, not the services that Linux-oriented companies provide. Things like VA's IPO scare the hell out of me - that kind of manic stock market doesn't bode well for the future.
-lx
For contributing in your own small way to the impending economic collapse of the United States. I'm getting really sick of hearing about mediocre companies at best going for IPOs, knowing that their stock price will be bid by a bunch of amateur investors up far further than their price/earnings multiple would indicate what they're really worth, simply because they have the word 'Linux' in the name. This is disgusting. RedHat I could understand, but VA? Linuxcare? These are companies that are nowhere near the point at which a company usually has an IPO. People are being ripped off. And this has to be screwing up the economy, throwing millions of dollars after worthless tech stocks of companies that don't actually make any money, nor do they have the potential to. It used to be good to see Linux have some success in the software market, but its just gone too far. But if the goal is to compete with Windows, I would say that Linux is well on its way. -lx
Especially with people like Roblimo and twitter writing the mentally ill off as 'nuts' or 'crazy'. And what kind of 19th century bullshit are you talking, twitter? Somehow psychologists are either witch doctors or part of a government conspiracy?
This country doesn't give a damn about mental health, and until we do, we're going to have more people who won't get help for fear of being stigmatized by people like yourselves.
-lx
Allright, I'm seeing a lot of comments saying how one shouldn't try to set off false alarms, subvert the system, pretend to steal your own car, etc. I think in such a situation people are obligated to do such a thing if they value their own freedom. Protest and causing a little trouble for a good cause is a righteous thing.
If people want to observe others by such a system, they're going to have to accept its faults. I have every right to act suspicious, behave oddly, or make unexpected moves. That's what makes me human. And if people are going to accept such a system, I think that they are relinquishing some very basic rights.
-lx
but here in the US it would be illegal to sell or distribute security footage. Do you guys not have laws to that effect?
-lx
How are they going to be able to follow through on that? They didn't have to send out squad cars because you decided to walk in circles around your car, and you have the perfect right and obligation to do so.
-lx
Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper praised the actions of his officers, saying they remained in control of the streets. "I've seen some remarkable restraint and effective community-relation efforts" by the police, he said.
Mmkay, like, when I get teargassed, it does very little to build my community-relations with the police. Certainly, the police have an obligation to keep things under control, but the kinds of things that went on were hardly in order for a predominantly non-violent demonstration.
It's great to be able to read the comments of the people who were actually at the protest, rather than folks who just watched it on TV or read about it - I trust them more. And from what I hear from folks posting here sounds to me like most of the bad shit happened when the police whipped out the pepper spray and started getting violent. Remind anyone of a certain democratic convention?
-lx
Is a software executive just classified as someone who can use software? My little sister drew something in MS Paint when she was about 3, does that make her the world's youngest graphic artist? Or maybe he's a "software executive" because he can use software and is being hired by Microsoft as a PR tool?
It's just super that this kid can use a computer, but I think it would be misleading to characterize him as some kind of prodigy, although he's likely pretty bright.
-lx
No shit? You have to disclose your IP?
Why are you so defensive about people knowing what OS you're running? You running windows or something? Besides, it's nothing anyone couldn't figure out with a simple queso.
-lx
We'd all just be squeaky, flat, and explosive. Speaking of which, what would happen if one lit a match on Jupiter?
-lx
You're right. It is a free market - don't play quake.
-lx
I saw something just like this the other day! I went to this website, and my browser told the server what Web browser, version, and operating system I was using! Then I sent an e-mail and it said what mail program and my domain name!!! And sometimes, when I connect to a Quake server somewhere, it tells the server the exact IP address that I'm playing from!
Programs that just bandy about my personal information like this have to be stopped. Let's all sue iD, Netscape, Microsoft, Real Networks, and any other company that writes programs that send any non-arbitrary information of any kind over the InterNet.
-lx
And it was a jackass comment to make. I assume it was made by someone close to or involved with the Debian project.
-lx