Oh yeah, the kiddie porn principle. Saying you can't use uncontrolled media because someone can abuse it.
Like you can't talk to someone in a public room because maybe you're planning a murder.
I seriously doubt that Freenet is any a better medium for secrecy than encryption or anything else. It's public; the only secret thing is who put it there.
The problem with child porn is that people pay to have it. Well, you must know who to pay (there goes anonimity), and you don't pay for publicly available stuff (so there goes the money incentive). And personally, I don't think that child abusers have the same kind of power in Congress as the RIAA and MPAA, so unless Freenet raises interest in anonymous, underpaid "indy pornographers", I don't know what.
Streaming media, to me, is a matter of licensing, not technology.
If I got the option to download an audio or video clip in "256k" or "broadband", I would make the same choices as I do now with "streaming" media, and I would also let it "buffer" and then start viewing the stuff before it was completely transmitted.
But then I would also have it
on disk
. I could see it once more, check which media player supports the freaky file format, etc.
Streaming media is the throw-away camera of the digital world.
Another thing is that ROR wants you to design the database from scratch to fit it's naming rules. It's not really designed to work with existing databases. For example it can't map the ugly database field names into nice attribute names for your objects. To me that's a pretty big shortcoming.
Hibernate also completely stinks with existing databases. In my experience, there's nothing structurally wrong with a good O/R mapping (where data can always be reached in a non-OO way), but you simply can't expect to reach non-OO data in an OO way. There's SQL for that.
I mean, the timestamp of the news item says 2005 and all, but I remember that Sc. vs Spaink from my earliest Internet days, and the news was suspiciously similar. So what's the real story behind this reoccuring?
Another reason could be that Linus is an a-political OSS writer, while the FS Award seems to be oriented at ideology. Last year's winner, IIRC, was Lawrence Lessig. I've never used a line of software he's written, but he's going all the way for FS ideology.
Nevertheless, there's no such thing as a perfect match for an award winner (prove the Nobel Prices for Peace:p), and it cannot be denied that Linus has done his share.
As with NextStep in its days, the MacOS X "microkernel" was mainly based on Mach because it allowed fast development. The concept is called a "monolithic microkernel": a microkernel with just one "server" doing just about everything.
You will realise how long it took the (handful of) HURD developers to port to L4. I don't think Apple has any ambitions in that direction. It just wants to sell a working system.
While there are many "dying" projects out there (remember the "Windows replacements OS" hype?), HURD has always had the most of critique, mainly because it embodied the very promise of a GNU system to many people in its days.
But putting the whole history aside, you could see HURD as an exercise in OS development following the route of the more progressive design theories. You might be able to imagine how this pulls the interest of a small group of developers over a longer time, despite of the fact that development is going slowly.
You know how Free Software has the ability to evolve and persist aside from political influences, well, here is your new schoolbook example.
Years ago, I introduced a little concept called SoFiNet, which would be an instant messenger/ personalized DNS service based on the Dutch Social/ Fiscal number.
I never quite got into implementing the concept, but I see Microsoft is getting on to me here. Don't know if I can invalidate any of their patents now...
The whole idea was meant to be ironic, and to display the abuse of what originally was a fiscal personal ID. Somehow I've got the idea that Microsoft (as usual) didn't get the irony:-)
It is hardly considered good advise to check whether your time machine has worked by loading up Slashdot to see what Gnome is up to now.
More seriously, I still miss the command-line style tab expansion from ye olde days. It's the only thing that *really* worked for my mp3 collection, at least given the current state of the iTunes clones.
Friday 27 August 2004 in the Germany-based internet newspaper Iran Emrooz, Dr. Hoseyn Baqer Zadeh, an Iranian human rights activist observed that the laws of the Islamic Republic are the "most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory" against women.
Well, I guess they won't be joining the EU for a while, then:-)
The results were various. Every virus went through the whole hospital, and somehow it invites the more sloppy third party providers. OTOH that may well be because the package selectors only look at the looks of the app, not at the problems.
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Put differently, the file chooser hasn't been fucked up more since Eugenia started her contest. I hate not being able to do a tab-based regexp search, as common in ye olde GTK+. Yet, patience may be the solution.
With devices that record brainwaves through from a skull thickness' distance, I reckon the recordings cannot be very detailed.
As such, I think it would require a relatively large amount of brain to emit these signals, and it would require yet another amount of surrounding brain to be practically dead -- as not to interfere with the signal. (I guess it's common knowledge that certain thoughts and feelings interfere within the brain because of their close positions. That is, I'm not a researcher, but I've heard of this and presume it's true.)
So I'm not sure how harmless it is to train your brain to move that pointer.
Nevertheless, I've found myself quite numb just using a mouse... Nope, what I want is a tablet the size of a basketball field and a jumping cushion as a keyboard. We need to move more to fight RSI, not less!
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How long until McAfee becomes self aware!
Long as it isn't even aware that all it plightfully does is stalling Java build processes, I don't really think you'll have to worry.
I should marry a nurse, and get a nice hermaphrodite.
Oh yeah, the kiddie porn principle. Saying you can't use uncontrolled media because someone can abuse it.
Like you can't talk to someone in a public room because maybe you're planning a murder.
I seriously doubt that Freenet is any a better medium for secrecy than encryption or anything else. It's public; the only secret thing is who put it there.
The problem with child porn is that people pay to have it. Well, you must know who to pay (there goes anonimity), and you don't pay for publicly available stuff (so there goes the money incentive). And personally, I don't think that child abusers have the same kind of power in Congress as the RIAA and MPAA, so unless Freenet raises interest in anonymous, underpaid "indy pornographers", I don't know what.
Try to imagine that I *want* to use it.
It scares me to still hear Reiser 4 being described as "having problems". Anyone knows more?
If I got the option to download an audio or video clip in "256k" or "broadband", I would make the same choices as I do now with "streaming" media, and I would also let it "buffer" and then start viewing the stuff before it was completely transmitted.
But then I would also have it
- on disk
. I could see it once more, check which media player supports the freaky file format, etc.Streaming media is the throw-away camera of the digital world.
Another thing is that ROR wants you to design the database from scratch to fit it's naming rules. It's not really designed to work with existing databases. For example it can't map the ugly database field names into nice attribute names for your objects. To me that's a pretty big shortcoming.
Hibernate also completely stinks with existing databases. In my experience, there's nothing structurally wrong with a good O/R mapping (where data can always be reached in a non-OO way), but you simply can't expect to reach non-OO data in an OO way. There's SQL for that.
How's this "news"?
I mean, the timestamp of the news item says 2005 and all, but I remember that Sc. vs Spaink from my earliest Internet days, and the news was suspiciously similar. So what's the real story behind this reoccuring?
...there goes my handy Sparc server...
Another reason could be that Linus is an a-political OSS writer, while the FS Award seems to be oriented at ideology. Last year's winner, IIRC, was Lawrence Lessig. I've never used a line of software he's written, but he's going all the way for FS ideology.
:p), and it cannot be denied that Linus has done his share.
Nevertheless, there's no such thing as a perfect match for an award winner (prove the Nobel Prices for Peace
Finally something good coming out of the country that brought us the Europatent initiator himself (Bolkestein).
(Yes, I'm Dutch as well, but I hardly ever leave my country.)
Hmm... I hoped "perceived" meant something like "envisioned". That's what I meant, anyway.
Like Hurd was the perceived GNU kernel, GNUstep was the perceived GNU GUI.
As with NextStep in its days, the MacOS X "microkernel" was mainly based on Mach because it allowed fast development. The concept is called a "monolithic microkernel": a microkernel with just one "server" doing just about everything.
You will realise how long it took the (handful of) HURD developers to port to L4. I don't think Apple has any ambitions in that direction. It just wants to sell a working system.
While there are many "dying" projects out there (remember the "Windows replacements OS" hype?), HURD has always had the most of critique, mainly because it embodied the very promise of a GNU system to many people in its days.
But putting the whole history aside, you could see HURD as an exercise in OS development following the route of the more progressive design theories. You might be able to imagine how this pulls the interest of a small group of developers over a longer time, despite of the fact that development is going slowly.
You know how Free Software has the ability to evolve and persist aside from political influences, well, here is your new schoolbook example.
Years ago, I introduced a little concept called SoFiNet, which would be an instant messenger/ personalized DNS service based on the Dutch Social/ Fiscal number.
:-)
I never quite got into implementing the concept, but I see Microsoft is getting on to me here. Don't know if I can invalidate any of their patents now...
The whole idea was meant to be ironic, and to display the abuse of what originally was a fiscal personal ID. Somehow I've got the idea that Microsoft (as usual) didn't get the irony
It is hardly considered good advise to check whether your time machine has worked by loading up Slashdot to see what Gnome is up to now.
More seriously, I still miss the command-line style tab expansion from ye olde days. It's the only thing that *really* worked for my mp3 collection, at least given the current state of the iTunes clones.
So no they're all responsible all of a sudden.
Friday 27 August 2004 in the Germany-based internet newspaper Iran Emrooz, Dr. Hoseyn Baqer Zadeh, an Iranian human rights activist observed that the laws of the Islamic Republic are the "most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory" against women.
:-)
Well, I guess they won't be joining the EU for a while, then
You should've expected Santa Linus, it IS Christmas after all. I personally kind of planned for this and plan to install it with reiser4 to play with.
My healthcare toko was a Microsoft house.
The results were various. Every virus went through the whole hospital, and somehow it invites the more sloppy third party providers. OTOH that may well be because the package selectors only look at the looks of the app, not at the problems.
Put differently, the file chooser hasn't been fucked up more since Eugenia started her contest. I hate not being able to do a tab-based regexp search, as common in ye olde GTK+. Yet, patience may be the solution.
Now all I want for Christmas is kernel 2.6.10+reiser4.
Wah? An Original Slashdot story?
Who could've preditcted that...
With devices that record brainwaves through from a skull thickness' distance, I reckon the recordings cannot be very detailed.
As such, I think it would require a relatively large amount of brain to emit these signals, and it would require yet another amount of surrounding brain to be practically dead -- as not to interfere with the signal. (I guess it's common knowledge that certain thoughts and feelings interfere within the brain because of their close positions. That is, I'm not a researcher, but I've heard of this and presume it's true.)
So I'm not sure how harmless it is to train your brain to move that pointer.
Nevertheless, I've found myself quite numb just using a mouse... Nope, what I want is a tablet the size of a basketball field and a jumping cushion as a keyboard. We need to move more to fight RSI, not less!