Oh boy, let's watch CmdrTaco rant YET AGAIN without reading the full article that he's ranting about. Of course partners like DirecTV and AOL will have access to the customer data -- they need it in order to service the account. It's not like they're broadcasting your viewing choices to anyone and everyone, they are sharing very specific account data with partners that have a valid need for it, and from whom you have purchaseed a device or service.
Whatever happened to giving someone the benefit of the doubt when you don't know all the facts? This is very much like the RedHat sensationalism that was posted yesterday, and I'm sure there'll be another issue that'll get blown entirely out of proportion tomorrow.
Taco asked us to give Andover the benefit of the doubt when they purchased Slashdot, but he's not willing to do the same for TiVo when they form partnerships with other corporations. Aren't double standards great?
Veritas also has an outstanding Java based admin tool for their cluster server software package. It's incredibly snappy, and helps to take away some of the stigma that is usually associated with Java based interfaces being slow.
NASA did not fire the guy, the contractor that he worked for did. Those are two very, very different things.
The contractor thought the guy was making too many waves.. it seems odd that they'd think that, considering his job was to be a pain in the ass WRT radiation safety, but still.
I'm assuming, based on your comments, that you don't think permits for guns should be required either? I mean, HEY, the right to bear arms is a constitutional right, so we shouldn't have to jump through any special hoops, right?
The problem that these people had is that their right to assembly DOES NOT override the citizens of Philadelphia's right to leave their homes. Would you like it if there were 10,000 people surrounding your home, preventing you from leaving? I suspect that your position would be just a little different in this case.
On the download page it says that a requirement for use is that you display a Slashdot logo and a link back to Slashdot, but it appears to be under the GPL which would seem to preclude the old BSD-ish obnoxious advertising clause. Which is it?
ML had support for this same concept as far back as 1994 or so -- it too was free software, but it hasn't been maintained in a very, very long time. The web site is stull up though, for those who are interested:
http://people.netscape.com/max/ml/
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Oh boy, let's watch CmdrTaco rant YET AGAIN without reading the full article that he's ranting about. Of course partners like DirecTV and AOL will have access to the customer data -- they need it in order to service the account. It's not like they're broadcasting your viewing choices to anyone and everyone, they are sharing very specific account data with partners that have a valid need for it, and from whom you have purchaseed a device or service. Whatever happened to giving someone the benefit of the doubt when you don't know all the facts? This is very much like the RedHat sensationalism that was posted yesterday, and I'm sure there'll be another issue that'll get blown entirely out of proportion tomorrow. Taco asked us to give Andover the benefit of the doubt when they purchased Slashdot, but he's not willing to do the same for TiVo when they form partnerships with other corporations. Aren't double standards great?
Veritas also has an outstanding Java based admin tool for their cluster server software package. It's incredibly snappy, and helps to take away some of the stigma that is usually associated with Java based interfaces being slow.
NASA did not fire the guy, the contractor that he worked for did. Those are two very, very different things. The contractor thought the guy was making too many waves .. it seems odd that they'd think that, considering his job was to be a pain in the ass WRT radiation safety, but still.
I'm assuming, based on your comments, that you don't think permits for guns should be required either? I mean, HEY, the right to bear arms is a constitutional right, so we shouldn't have to jump through any special hoops, right? The problem that these people had is that their right to assembly DOES NOT override the citizens of Philadelphia's right to leave their homes. Would you like it if there were 10,000 people surrounding your home, preventing you from leaving? I suspect that your position would be just a little different in this case.
On the download page it says that a requirement for use is that you display a Slashdot logo and a link back to Slashdot, but it appears to be under the GPL which would seem to preclude the old BSD-ish obnoxious advertising clause. Which is it?
ML had support for this same concept as far back as 1994 or so -- it too was free software, but it hasn't been maintained in a very, very long time. The web site is stull up though, for those who are interested: http://people.netscape.com/max/ml/