For all the slashdot articles I've skimmed about this evil UCITA, and all the websites published about it, I still haven't been able to find a reasonably unbiased (nothing will be completely unbiased) summary of what exactly the UCITA is. This is not solely failure to RTFM (although reading the entire 300 page UCITA would work), I have been to 5 different pages so far after a search on google, and every one of them so far has been useless (it's bad, here is a list of people who think it's bad, blah blah blah bullshit).
Time's have changed Our kids are kids are getting worse They wont obey their parents They just want to censored and curse! Should we blame the government? Or blame society? Or should we blame the images on TV? No, blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck With all their beady little eyes And flappin heads so full of lies Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck We need to form a full assault It's the fault of words like fart and bitch and fuck! Don't blame me For my son Stan He saw the darn cartoon And now he's off to join the Klan! And my boy Eric once Had my picture on his shelf But now when I see him he tells me to censored myself! Well, blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck It seems that everythings gone wrong Since words like fart and bitch and fuck came along Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Their not even in the dictionary anyway My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire? Or the doctors who allowed him to expire? Heck no! Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck With all their hockey hubbabaloo And that censored Anne Murray too Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Shame on words like fart and bitch and fuck The smut we must stop The trash we must smash Laughter and fun must all be undone We must blame them and cause a fuss Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
7 leap years spaced by 4 years followed by one spaced by 5. so... 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 33, 37, 41... OK... So, 2000? Hmm... 33*60=1980 is... then 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2009... Good, so 2000 is a leap year either way. Now, who really wants to calculate that every time! I bet it wasn't just political reasons:)
nope, divisible by 4 except divisible by 100 except divisible by 400. Although, programmers who made your mistake can rest until 2400 without problems:).
Why would a mainframe have any advantage over a bunch of intel boxes? Processing power? Get enough athlons and you can out-process any mainframe, for easily distributed applications such as webserving. High availability? Sorry, even if one intel box is 90% reliable, 8 are 99.999999% reliable. What exactly are you using to judge "best"?
ya know, this post was completely off topic, and should have been marked down, but of course, it wasn't, because you mentioned that it would probably be marked down for being off topic, which somehow makes people think that they should ignore the fact that it is, indeed, off topic. Of course, that sort of proves your point, doesn't it? (yep, this should be marked off topic too, but i really don't care)
I have to believe that there are enough people out there with enough power to do something about it who can see the absurdity of this patent. I have to hope that this is going to result in a broad investigation of the effectiveness of the patent laws and the patent office. I hope Amazon decides to try to enforce this patent. I hope they win. Only then will it get recognition by congress or the supreme court and give us a chance of getting the laws changed.
In other news, Ford today announced that it had been granted a patent on giving away computers to workers. Ford chairman and chief idea maker, Gerald Ford, stated that "[Ford] will grant a royalty-free license to all makers of American automobiles." It was stated that makers of foreign automobiles might have to pay a royalty fee. It's still unclear whether makers of American bicycles will have to pay. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates was quoted as saying "[this patent] is great. Now Microsoft has an excuse not to implement the same plan for its workers." What do you think? Will this give more incentive to companies to move to America? Will these patent laws give more companies incentives to come up with great ideas that no one else can use for 20 years?
Well, even though they are binary files, at least there is a checksum file. I'm sure any hackers who break into the FBI computer and replace the files won't think to replace the checksum file too.
Now, if we happen to discover life on other planets someway, then we would be able to say how statistically probable life is. Until then, "probablistic" arguments are complete nonsense. Actually, even if life were discovered on 50% of planets we check, the probability of it occurring on 1 could still be 1e512. If so, the probability of it occurring on 50% of planets might be 1e512512. Not to mention, the problem that if this universe happened to roll life more often than usual, we'd be more likely to be in existence, and we'd be more likely to find others that are. If you saw five billion coins laying on the ground, 4 billion heads up and 1 billion heads down, would you conclude that flipping a coin gives 80% heads 20% tails? Probability can only be determined through experimentation, not merely observation.
Version numbers aren't really about the number of changes, or the significance of changes. There are two major branches to the FreeBSD kernel, -STABLE and -CURRENT. All changes are first made in -CURRENT, and then eventually backported into -STABLE. Some changes are too big to be safely backported into -STABLE, and will remain in -CURRENT until the next major release. When the version number is bumped, we cut a release of the -CURRENT work, and in this case, that becomes 4.0. There will almost surely be a FreeBSD 3.5, released from a -STABLE snapshot (yes, after 4.0 is released!), and then at some point -CURRENT will become -STABLE and there will be a new -CURRENT. Take the "tweaks to the VM system". This was a major rewrite of many parts of the VM system, and would be extremely dangerous and time consuming to backport into 3.X. There is also a lot of (somewhat unfinished) work that was done on IPv6 which won't be backported into 3.X. The decision was made that we have waited long enough to see these features in a -RELEASE, so we cut 4.0-RELEASE.
Having worked for a major non-free (beer and freedom) operating system, I can tell you that this is very similar the way the real operating systems development cycles work. About the only main difference is that the minor releases are usually distributed as service packs or patches.
Do I really just talk to my screen? Yes, thanks to the principles of acoustiphotoelectromagnetic resonance. In other words, your monitor screen has certain acoustical properties that vary depending on the hue and intensity of the colors it displays. The variations in resonance in response to your voice is what makes FunPhone possible.
Yeah, Steve Case will pioneer online music distribution just like Microsoft pioneered home computers. An internet radio in every house, at every bus stop, in every toaster, all running AOL. "Welcome home Bob, You've Got Mail".
Not that I care, as a filthy capitalist pig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H NSCP (now AOL) shareholder, I've got myself covered either way.
Re:Why isn't the GPL GPLed
on
GPL for Books?
·
· Score: 1
This wouldn't work, because:
According to the GPL, You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
You couldn't call the new licence the GPL, due to trademark laws (if you could, someone could just as easily create a completely proprietary licence and call it the GPL anyway).
Besides, the same argument could be made about releasing any software under the GPL. You'd have to check every single line of code for viruses and trojan horses, because someone might have added in an "rm -rf/" somewhere.
GPL applies to any type of work
on
GPL for Books?
·
· Score: 1
This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
Seems to me that a book would fall under "other work".
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
Seems to me that the preferred form for making modifications to a book would be a text/word/html version (not a printed copy).
Of course, we could create a modified GPL (the BPL?) to spell this all out, if it wasn't for the darn copyright on the GPL! (seriously, why isn't the GPL released under the GPL?)
Re:Everybody hates public domain.
on
GPL for Books?
·
· Score: 2
The problems with public domain that forced the creation of the GPL do not exist for natural-language documents.
This is not true. Consider a person who releases a 100 page book on perl into the public domain. A second person can then add 50 pages to it, creating a new work which he then copyrights. If the original author then buys the book, scans it into the internet, and then releases to the public on her website, she can be sued by the second author!
Of course, the reason that the GPL can't be used to keep this from happening, I'm not sure of...
Slashdot Mirror
For all the slashdot articles I've skimmed about this evil UCITA, and all the websites published about it, I still haven't been able to find a reasonably unbiased (nothing will be completely unbiased) summary of what exactly the UCITA is. This is not solely failure to RTFM (although reading the entire 300 page UCITA would work), I have been to 5 different pages so far after a search on google, and every one of them so far has been useless (it's bad, here is a list of people who think it's bad, blah blah blah bullshit).
Time's have changed Our kids are kids are getting worse They wont obey their parents They just want to censored and curse! Should we blame the government? Or blame society? Or should we blame the images on TV? No, blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck With all their beady little eyes And flappin heads so full of lies Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck We need to form a full assault It's the fault of words like fart and bitch and fuck! Don't blame me For my son Stan He saw the darn cartoon And now he's off to join the Klan! And my boy Eric once Had my picture on his shelf But now when I see him he tells me to censored myself! Well, blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck It seems that everythings gone wrong Since words like fart and bitch and fuck came along Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Their not even in the dictionary anyway My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire? Or the doctors who allowed him to expire? Heck no! Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck With all their hockey hubbabaloo And that censored Anne Murray too Blame words like fart and bitch and fuck Shame on words like fart and bitch and fuck The smut we must stop The trash we must smash Laughter and fun must all be undone We must blame them and cause a fuss Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
7 leap years spaced by 4 years followed by one spaced by 5. so... 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 33, 37, 41... OK... So, 2000? Hmm... 33*60=1980 is... then 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2009... Good, so 2000 is a leap year either way. Now, who really wants to calculate that every time! I bet it wasn't just political reasons :)
Your watch is probably not Y2.004K compliant either, does it even have a year setting?
nope, divisible by 4 except divisible by 100 except divisible by 400. Although, programmers who made your mistake can rest until 2400 without problems :).
better yet, get FreeBSD 4.0, and use jail().
You mean, kinda like freebsd's jail()?
Why would a mainframe have any advantage over a bunch of intel boxes? Processing power? Get enough athlons and you can out-process any mainframe, for easily distributed applications such as webserving. High availability? Sorry, even if one intel box is 90% reliable, 8 are 99.999999% reliable. What exactly are you using to judge "best"?
only $6 of it goes to NSI
ya know, this post was completely off topic, and should have been marked down, but of course, it wasn't, because you mentioned that it would probably be marked down for being off topic, which somehow makes people think that they should ignore the fact that it is, indeed, off topic. Of course, that sort of proves your point, doesn't it? (yep, this should be marked off topic too, but i really don't care)
I have to believe that there are enough people out there with enough power to do something about it who can see the absurdity of this patent. I have to hope that this is going to result in a broad investigation of the effectiveness of the patent laws and the patent office. I hope Amazon decides to try to enforce this patent. I hope they win. Only then will it get recognition by congress or the supreme court and give us a chance of getting the laws changed.
In other news, Ford today announced that it had been granted a patent on giving away computers to workers. Ford chairman and chief idea maker, Gerald Ford, stated that "[Ford] will grant a royalty-free license to all makers of American automobiles." It was stated that makers of foreign automobiles might have to pay a royalty fee. It's still unclear whether makers of American bicycles will have to pay. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates was quoted as saying "[this patent] is great. Now Microsoft has an excuse not to implement the same plan for its workers." What do you think? Will this give more incentive to companies to move to America? Will these patent laws give more companies incentives to come up with great ideas that no one else can use for 20 years?
Well, even though they are binary files, at least there is a checksum file. I'm sure any hackers who break into the FBI computer and replace the files won't think to replace the checksum file too.
the information tends to get a bit scrambled each time it is reread
sounds great for AI purposes!
Now, if we happen to discover life on other planets someway, then we would be able to say how statistically probable life is. Until then, "probablistic" arguments are complete nonsense. Actually, even if life were discovered on 50% of planets we check, the probability of it occurring on 1 could still be 1e512. If so, the probability of it occurring on 50% of planets might be 1e512512. Not to mention, the problem that if this universe happened to roll life more often than usual, we'd be more likely to be in existence, and we'd be more likely to find others that are. If you saw five billion coins laying on the ground, 4 billion heads up and 1 billion heads down, would you conclude that flipping a coin gives 80% heads 20% tails? Probability can only be determined through experimentation, not merely observation.
this should be good for sharing code/ideas with ext3 fs
Now with all the publicity over dialpad.com, even more students will be using it than if they had just kept their mouths shut in the first place.
Has anyone ever heard of this guy? News for nerds. Stuff that MATTERS.
Version numbers aren't really about the number of changes, or the significance of changes. There are two major branches to the FreeBSD kernel, -STABLE and -CURRENT. All changes are first made in -CURRENT, and then eventually backported into -STABLE. Some changes are too big to be safely backported into -STABLE, and will remain in -CURRENT until the next major release. When the version number is bumped, we cut a release of the -CURRENT work, and in this case, that becomes 4.0. There will almost surely be a FreeBSD 3.5, released from a -STABLE snapshot (yes, after 4.0 is released!), and then at some point -CURRENT will become -STABLE and there will be a new -CURRENT. Take the "tweaks to the VM system". This was a major rewrite of many parts of the VM system, and would be extremely dangerous and time consuming to backport into 3.X. There is also a lot of (somewhat unfinished) work that was done on IPv6 which won't be backported into 3.X. The decision was made that we have waited long enough to see these features in a -RELEASE, so we cut 4.0-RELEASE.
Having worked for a major non-free (beer and freedom) operating system, I can tell you that this is very similar the way the real operating systems development cycles work. About the only main difference is that the minor releases are usually distributed as service packs or patches.
hehe moderate this one up
Do I really just talk to my screen?
Yes, thanks to the principles of acoustiphotoelectromagnetic resonance. In other words, your monitor screen has certain acoustical properties that vary depending on the hue and intensity of the colors it displays. The variations in resonance in response to your voice is what makes FunPhone possible.
How is this block being implemented? There must be a way around it. SSH port forwarding?
Yeah, Steve Case will pioneer online music distribution just like Microsoft pioneered home computers. An internet radio in every house, at every bus stop, in every toaster, all running AOL. "Welcome home Bob, You've Got Mail".
Not that I care, as a filthy capitalist pig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H NSCP (now AOL) shareholder, I've got myself covered either way.
- According to the GPL, You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
- You couldn't call the new licence the GPL, due to trademark laws (if you could, someone could just as easily create a completely proprietary licence and call it the GPL anyway).
Besides, the same argument could be made about releasing any software under the GPL. You'd have to check every single line of code for viruses and trojan horses, because someone might have added in an "rm -rfThis License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
Seems to me that a book would fall under "other work".
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
Seems to me that the preferred form for making modifications to a book would be a text/word/html version (not a printed copy).
Of course, we could create a modified GPL (the BPL?) to spell this all out, if it wasn't for the darn copyright on the GPL! (seriously, why isn't the GPL released under the GPL?)
The problems with public domain that forced the creation of the GPL do not exist for natural-language documents.
This is not true. Consider a person who releases a 100 page book on perl into the public domain. A second person can then add 50 pages to it, creating a new work which he then copyrights. If the original author then buys the book, scans it into the internet, and then releases to the public on her website, she can be sued by the second author!
Of course, the reason that the GPL can't be used to keep this from happening, I'm not sure of...
IANAL, blah blah blah