Chill. What is so wrong with poking a little humor at Microsoft, Gates, and the millions that run Windows? They may have market share, but do they have a sense of humor?
I bought 100 shares of RHAT at $5/share (couple of months ago), basically to put my money where my mouth was. It was a token of my support and I could not care less whether I lose it all or make a million (although I DO have a preference).
I expected/hoped that RedHat would make decisions that struck a balance between open source and capitalistic risk taking. I think I'll pick up another 100 shares. Nice job.
And just three months ago Enron was the largest most successful energy company in America, at least according to their financials. Accounting is often the black magic used to decieve investors and the government alike.
Imagine my suprise when I came across this in IBM's most recent Annual Report; "Why I believe Linux will fundementally change the Information
Technology industry." [ibm.com]
Annual Reports are like newsletters to current and potential insvestors in the company's stock. The highlights:
IBM is a Founding Member and contributor to the Open Source Development Lab.
Over the next three years, IBM will invest more than $300 Million to develop Linux consulting, implementation and support services.
IBM is going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and dedicated 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software product for Linux.
IBM, like almost no other company I can think of, has the resources to weather this slump in the high tech sector. It's continued support of Open
Source and Linux in bad times as well as the good is encouraging. Red Hat, SuSe, Caldera, and every other distro combined doesn't even come close to the resources that IBM is bringing to the table! In fact they ALL could go belly up and as long as Big Blue is still on board, Linux has a bright
future.
If "money talks", one-billion-three-hundered-million dollars says volumes, and while "talk is cheap," IBM appears to be putting it's money where it's mouth is. I hope they don't blow it!
There is a game that REQUIRES a very high level of strategy and tactics (although blitz tactics occasionally do work), it constantly evolves and there are versions that run on multiple platforms. There are commercial and Open Source implementations and the best are VERY difficult to beat. It's called chess.
Read The Fucking Legistlation, before you post (this is going to blow my Karma all to hell). In summary (if you want the EXACT language, look it up yourself):
Authorization of "roving wiretaps," so that law enforcement officials can get court order to wiretap any phone a suspected terrorist would use. Current law requires a court order for each phone number, which most say is outdated with the advent of cellular and disposable phones.
Allows the federal government to detain non-U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism for up to seven days without specific charges. The administration originally wanted to hold them indefinitely.
Allows law enforcement officials greater subpoena power for e-mail records of terrorist suspects.
Relaxes restrictions on information sharing between U.S. law enforcement and intelligence
officers about suspected terrorists.
Makes it illegal to knowingly harbor a terrorist.
Triples the number of Border Patrol, Customs Service Inspectors and Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors at the northern border of the United States, and provides $100 million to improve technology and equipment on the U.S. border with Canada.
Expands current measures against money laundering by requiring additional record keeping and reports for certain transactions and requiring identification of account holders.
Eliminates the statute of limitations for prosecuting the most egregious terrorist acts, but maintains the statute of limitation on most crimes at five to eight years.
I don't feel any safer, but I don't feel any less free either! Exactly what is it about more border guards do all the/. fear so much?
Perhaps you should mod it as both. Or how about "food for thought." In any event, mod'ing it as "flamebait" omly lends credibility to the comments underlying truth.
I wonder how many Corportate IT Dept's have deployed Microsoft products precisely BECAUSE they are so full of vulnerabilities. It offers ongoing access to CEO, CFO, and BOD computers! Hard to keep a secret about future corporate plans. In addition, its a way of doing constant ongoing survielance of employees.
Tony Blair RAWKS! We won't be able to tease the Brit's about pulling their bacon out of the fire in WWII ever again. I was not a huge Tony Blair fan before this. Since September 11th, however, I have become a huge fan. His elequence, grace, vision, and determination echo's back to the great PM's of Great Britian's past.
More hysteria, hype, doom and gloom from the self-styled elite of the extreme reactionary hacker community. Oh well, with VA bleeding money like a hemopheliac in a room full of Islamic Fundementalist with box cutters, we won't have to put up with their nonsense much longer.
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Isn't that the way it always is? Those that complain the most loudly, are usually just as guilty. We call it hypocracy. At least Jerry Falwell apologised for his ignorance. I'm sure/. will either ignore this inconsistency or attempt some justification for their hypocracy. Oh well, with VA bleeding money like a hemopheliac in a room full of Islamic Fundementalist with box cutters, we wont have to put up with their nonsense much longer.
All of our rights and freedoms have significant restrictions:
Speech - Can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
Press - Libel and slander.
Movement - Cant protest with 100 yards of abortion clinics.
The key is striking a just the right BALANCE. Difficult, yes, but the answer is not blind ideological adherence to principal without any concession to practical reality.
IBM is a Founding Member and contributor to the Open Source Development Lab.
Over the next three years, IBM will invest more than $300 Million to develop Linux consulting, implementation and support services.
IBM is going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and dedicated 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software product for Linux.
IBM, like almost no other company I can think of, has the resources to weather this slump in the high tech sector. It's continued support of Open Source and Linux in bad times as well as the good is encouraging. Red Hat, SuSe, Caldera, and every other distro combined doesn't even come close to the resources that IBM is bringing to the table!
In fact they ALL could go belly up and as long as Big Blue is still on board, Linux has a bright future. If "money talks", one-billion-three-hundered-million dollars says volumes, and while "talk is cheap," IBM appears to be putting it's money where it's mouth is. I hope they don't blow it!
Or rather, I think that all information of all kinds should be owned by all people -- and that nobody should be able to hide information of any kind for any reason.
What a load of crap. As an example, please provide the following information: 1) Your address. 2) Your social Security Number. 3) Your bank account number and PINS.
Knowledge is power and in society we use power (of all kinds) to provide for our needs. Forcing anyone to give up a means they use to provide for themself is theft. Theft for the good of society is socialism. Theft from minorities for the good of the majority is slavery.
But in my gut, I know that not only does information want to be free -- it must be free, owned by all of the people everwhere, in order for me to feel at ease. Information is just too powerful to be controlled by the few -- and yet under our current system, the more powerful the information, the fewer the people who are likely to have access to it.
Again, another bunch of crap. "Information" doesn't have any wants, let alone "to be free." As an example, Where is Chandra Levy? How come that information doesn't want to be free?
As always, Eric S. Raymond's analysis hits the mark. Everyone should be allowed to act in their own self interest, so long as they don't take other people's stuff without consent. This should be true for Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, you or me.
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Chill. What is so wrong with poking a little humor at Microsoft, Gates, and the millions that run Windows? They may have market share, but do they have a sense of humor?
Copyright the questions and answers, then sue those students who infringe on prior art!
I bought 100 shares of RHAT at $5/share (couple of months ago), basically to put my money where my mouth was. It was a token of my support and I could not care less whether I lose it all or make a million (although I DO have a preference).
I expected/hoped that RedHat would make decisions that struck a balance between open source and capitalistic risk taking. I think I'll pick up another 100 shares. Nice job.
Only Outlaws Will have Strong Crypto.
And just three months ago Enron was the largest most successful energy company in America, at least according to their financials. Accounting is often the black magic used to decieve investors and the government alike.
Should make pub crawling ALOT easier!
It sucked so hard! Even Jerry Springer looks good now.
Annual Reports are like newsletters to current and potential insvestors in the company's stock. The highlights:
IBM is a Founding Member and contributor to the Open Source Development Lab.
Over the next three years, IBM will invest more than $300 Million to develop Linux consulting, implementation and support services.
IBM is going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and dedicated 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software product for Linux.
IBM, like almost no other company I can think of, has the resources to weather this slump in the high tech sector. It's continued support of Open Source and Linux in bad times as well as the good is encouraging. Red Hat, SuSe, Caldera, and every other distro combined doesn't even come close to the resources that IBM is bringing to the table! In fact they ALL could go belly up and as long as Big Blue is still on board, Linux has a bright future.If "money talks", one-billion-three-hundered-million dollars says volumes, and while "talk is cheap," IBM appears to be putting it's money where it's mouth is. I hope they don't blow it!
There is a game that REQUIRES a very high level of strategy and tactics (although blitz tactics occasionally do work), it constantly evolves and there are versions that run on multiple platforms. There are commercial and Open Source implementations and the best are VERY difficult to beat. It's called chess.
in the immortal words of someone who's name escapes me:
"Information wants to be free."
Authorization of "roving wiretaps," so that law enforcement officials can get court order to wiretap any phone a suspected terrorist would use. Current law requires a court order for each phone number, which most say is outdated with the advent of cellular and disposable phones.
Allows the federal government to detain non-U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism for up to seven days without specific charges. The administration originally wanted to hold them indefinitely.
Allows law enforcement officials greater subpoena power for e-mail records of terrorist suspects.
Relaxes restrictions on information sharing between U.S. law enforcement and intelligence
officers about suspected terrorists.
Makes it illegal to knowingly harbor a terrorist.
Triples the number of Border Patrol, Customs Service Inspectors and Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors at the northern border of the United States, and provides $100 million to improve technology and equipment on the U.S. border with Canada.
Expands current measures against money laundering by requiring additional record keeping and reports for certain transactions and requiring identification of account holders.
Eliminates the statute of limitations for prosecuting the most egregious terrorist acts, but maintains the statute of limitation on most crimes at five to eight years.
/. fear so much?
I don't feel any safer, but I don't feel any less free either! Exactly what is it about more border guards do all the
Perhaps you should mod it as both. Or how about "food for thought." In any event, mod'ing it as "flamebait" omly lends credibility to the comments underlying truth.
I wonder how many Corportate IT Dept's have deployed Microsoft products precisely BECAUSE they are so full of vulnerabilities. It offers ongoing access to CEO, CFO, and BOD computers! Hard to keep a secret about future corporate plans. In addition, its a way of doing constant ongoing survielance of employees.
Tony Blair RAWKS! We won't be able to tease the Brit's about pulling their bacon out of the fire in WWII ever again. I was not a huge Tony Blair fan before this. Since September 11th, however, I have become a huge fan. His elequence, grace, vision, and determination echo's back to the great PM's of Great Britian's past.
God Bless The Brit's and God Bless The Queen!
Runn IIS, Go To Jail. First offense, zero tolerance. It's the ONLY way to solve this problem.
More hysteria, hype, doom and gloom from the self-styled elite of the extreme reactionary hacker community. Oh well, with VA bleeding money like a hemopheliac in a room full of Islamic Fundementalist with box cutters, we won't have to put up with their nonsense much longer.
Isn't that the way it always is? Those that complain the most loudly, are usually just as guilty. We call it hypocracy. At least Jerry Falwell apologised for his ignorance. I'm sure /. will either ignore this inconsistency or attempt some justification for their hypocracy. Oh well, with VA bleeding money like a hemopheliac in a room full of Islamic Fundementalist with box cutters, we wont have to put up with their nonsense much longer.
All of our rights and freedoms have significant restrictions:
Speech - Can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
Press - Libel and slander.
Movement - Cant protest with 100 yards of abortion clinics.
The key is striking a just the right BALANCE. Difficult, yes, but the answer is not blind ideological adherence to principal without any concession to practical reality.
Only outlaws will have burners.
Annual Reports are like newsletters to current and potential insvestors in the company's stock. The highlights:
IBM is a Founding Member and contributor to the Open Source Development Lab.
Over the next three years, IBM will invest more than $300 Million to develop Linux consulting, implementation and support services.
IBM is going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and dedicated 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software product for Linux.
IBM, like almost no other company I can think of, has the resources to weather this slump in the high tech sector. It's continued support of Open Source and Linux in bad times as well as the good is encouraging. Red Hat, SuSe, Caldera, and every other distro combined doesn't even come close to the resources that IBM is bringing to the table! In fact they ALL could go belly up and as long as Big Blue is still on board, Linux has a bright future. If "money talks", one-billion-three-hundered-million dollars says volumes, and while "talk is cheap," IBM appears to be putting it's money where it's mouth is. I hope they don't blow it!
And theft for the good of individuals is capitalism.
Nope, its just plain theft. Capitalism is trading your stuff for their stuff, as long as you both agree on the trade.
Or rather, I think that all information of all kinds should be owned by all people -- and that nobody should be able to hide information of any kind for any reason.
What a load of crap. As an example, please provide the following information: 1) Your address. 2) Your social Security Number. 3) Your bank account number and PINS.
Knowledge is power and in society we use power (of all kinds) to provide for our needs. Forcing anyone to give up a means they use to provide for themself is theft. Theft for the good of society is socialism. Theft from minorities for the good of the majority is slavery.
But in my gut, I know that not only does information want to be free -- it must be free, owned by all of the people everwhere, in order for me to feel at ease. Information is just too powerful to be controlled by the few -- and yet under our current system, the more powerful the information, the fewer the people who are likely to have access to it.
Again, another bunch of crap. "Information" doesn't have any wants, let alone "to be free." As an example, Where is Chandra Levy? How come that information doesn't want to be free?
As always, Eric S. Raymond's analysis hits the mark. Everyone should be allowed to act in their own self interest, so long as they don't take other people's stuff without consent. This should be true for Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, you or me.
An we all know how well the E-Commerce sites are doing!
Women are from Venus,
Men are from Mars,
Politicians are from Uranus.
I want my replacement body parts, and I want them at reasonable prices.