As usual, the United States of America is lagging behind its partners in democracy when it comes to the reform of social engineering practices. It must have taken years to amass this extremely detailed information on virtually every Canadian citizen.
Only this year have we here in the states begun (formally and openly, that is) to require under threat of imprisonment and monetary penalty that all citizens volunteer (sic) detailed information on every member of their household. If you don't think they were serious, then you did not spend the last two months travelling only to come home and have your office secretary relay the message that "He better contact us immediately, you know he could go to jail for this." The 2000 census was a blatant act of facism which I am sure won't be the last. See the story on/. today about the world conference in France. These people are out of their *u:?ing minds. We are already suffering the attacks of corporatist megaconglomerates, and a federal gov't who until now at least gave the impression that they were bumbling idiots. Sounds to me like maybe they are getting their act together - and I do not mean that in a positive fashion.
Yes! I think that most here will agree, Open Standards are an essential. Could not a modified GPL, especially in the case of security/encryption standards be used?
ie. You may use this code/algo/etc. in for- profit software, even if modified. However, the original GPL'd version is a standard (definition if you will). Any modification which alters the state of compatibility between the original and the derivitave must be immediately and wholly released in the form of GPL'd source.
Now, I understand the objections to this. Namely, that if you want your product to have an edge on the competition's product then the best way to do that is have a secret ingredient But, this is shortsightedness in action. If a standard is developed in an open source model that is better than anything else, why not use it? You get to focus your team(s) on other aspects of a project and save yourself some bucks. All while being able to have a piece of mind, in this case, about a secure protocol.
Microsoft is another matter. If I am paranoid I am not going to apologize for it. Redmond has the scent now - and they're in a tight spot. If you don't think they are going to pull all the stops, then I am afraid you are wrong. The truly sad part is, it did'nt have to come to this. maker
The reason that thousands of corporations and individuals purchase what the influencers peddle, is because it works. It always has, and always will. We refer to them now as lobbyists. They used to be called courtiers.
its gone. the only reason it still lives on my hdd is that i _had_ to fire up opera and try to wash the stink from myself. that, and i wanna take it apart first:) did anyone else feel like they had just walked out onto the strip when they fired this piece up? maker
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How is this flaimbait?
Lineo was CREATED TO MARKET EMBEDDED DOS!!!!!!
HENCE this IPO is about DR. DOS.
Try and understand what you read. I was making
a valid point.
Wow, that really pised me off.
Linux whatever.
It'll be awhile for a solid embedded linux.
Dr. Dos otoh is what this ipo is all about.
As usual, the United States of America is lagging
/. today about the world conference
behind its partners in democracy when it comes
to the reform of social engineering practices.
It must have taken years to amass this extremely
detailed information on virtually every Canadian
citizen.
Only this year have we here in the states begun
(formally and openly, that is) to require
under threat of imprisonment and monetary
penalty that all citizens volunteer (sic)
detailed information on every member of their
household.
If you don't think they were serious, then
you did not spend the last two months travelling
only to come home and have your office secretary
relay the message that "He better contact us
immediately, you know he could go to jail for
this."
The 2000 census was a blatant act of facism
which I am sure won't be the last. See the
story on
in France. These people are out of their
*u:?ing minds. We are already suffering the
attacks of corporatist megaconglomerates, and a
federal gov't who until now at least gave the
impression that they were bumbling idiots.
Sounds to me like maybe they are getting their
act together - and I do not mean that in a
positive fashion.
maker
If /.'d go here
http://www.analogsf.com/0004/av0004.html
Yes!
I think that most here will agree, Open Standards
are an essential.
Could not a modified GPL, especially in the case
of security/encryption standards be used?
ie. You may use this code/algo/etc. in for-
profit software, even if modified. However,
the original GPL'd version is a standard
(definition if you will). Any modification
which alters the state of compatibility between
the original and the derivitave must be
immediately and wholly released in the form of
GPL'd source.
Now, I understand the objections to this. Namely,
that if you want your product to have an
edge on the competition's product then the best
way to do that is have a secret ingredient
But, this is shortsightedness in action. If a
standard is developed in an open source model
that is better than anything else, why not use
it? You get to focus your team(s) on other
aspects of a project and save yourself some bucks.
All while being able to have a piece of mind,
in this case, about a secure protocol.
Microsoft is another matter. If I am paranoid
I am not going to apologize for it. Redmond has
the scent now - and they're in a tight spot. If
you don't think they are going to pull all the
stops, then I am afraid you are wrong.
The truly sad part is, it did'nt have to come
to this. maker
Why was Kerberos not GPL'd?
Why did the dev team trust Microsoft?
maker
The reason that thousands of corporations and
individuals purchase what the influencers peddle,
is because it works. It always has, and always will.
We refer to them now as lobbyists.
They used to be called courtiers.
itbwtcl
its gone. the only reason it still lives on my hdd is that i _had_ to fire up opera and try to wash the stink from myself. that, and i wanna take it apart first :) did anyone else feel like they had just walked out onto the strip when they fired this piece up? maker
If your machine uses an S3Trio chipset, don't bother downloading (at least for now). On this page of the "Be for Intel FAQ,"
7 .html
http://www.be.com/support/faqs/faqs/be_faq-0002
you will find that support for the Trio set has been dropped. The driver included with release 5 is unsupported and unstable.
I tried. Grey Screen of Death. Booting in Safe Video Mode only got me as far as the BSoD.
Oh, well. Guess I'll convert that brand new shiny partition over there into another Penguin Condo.
maker
Didn't read the article. Just loved the Apple reference!