Well you can't setup software intentionally to not compile if you look at the open source definition it says that a free software (Open source) program can not be restricted in how it is used. Similarly the GPL says that an author can not restrict how a program is used if it under the GPL.
Sure it does, buy a newspaper. You can walk up to a newsstand give the guy some money and take it home and read it. Hell they will even deliver it to you every morning if you want them to. (Assuming you live somewhere where they deliver)
This is freedom of the press. The editors and publishers of the NYT have decided on a policy for how to distribute content online. It is their content and they can make that choice. If you don't like it, read a different newspaper.
Let us be clear the New York Times uses their ads to pay the bills. Having reporters all over the world and editors and all the other things they do costs a lot of money. The cover price pays for the newsprint and thats about it. Everything else is paid for by ads. No Ads no newspaper.
Apple at least used to publish a set of UI Guidelines which talked about this issue. I last saw them 10+ years ago but they said never make color be the only thing that seperates two objects. (They also point out that not everyone has a color monitor, which was much more true in the late 80's).
If you can find a copy of the Apple UI guidelines they are very good reading. If not try looking at your UI in black and white, or at least in fewer colors than you normally do. Not everyone has a big fancy monitor and video card you know.
I mean I know where a number of the local public water supplies are (you can't exactly hide a lake) or major trunk power lines, they are well big and kind of obvious when you drive under one, not to mention when you fly over it in a small plane. I would imagine that if someone were to take out several of the trunk lines that feed power into NYC it would do a hell of a lot of damage. And there is really no way to hide them.
There are a lot of older aircraft flying in the USA, and more in other parts of the world. Many of them don't have a GPS or a complex autopilot, just a VOR/NDB setup and I don't just mean cessnas I mean thinks like B727's and DC9's.
Or does this only prevent hijack by new hitech glass cockpit aircraft?
how is it censorship if *I* as a user edit outs parts that *I* don't want to see. In truth I think there is to much sex and violence on TV and the movies. If I read a book and there is a bit I don't want to read I can skip to the next section. editing what I want to see is not Censorship, its user choice.
Its only censorship if someone else tells me I can't watch the sex scene. if i don't want to watch it that my afair.
There is usually no direct connection between a topic and the animal the O'reilly folks put on the cover. If you look at the old "Ask Tim" articles you will find that somewhere he explains where the animal covers come from.
The basics of it is that 20 years ago for their first round of books they hired a designer who didn't know unix and she decided that "sed and awk" sounded like two birds. So she made a few covers in the style that they have been using ever since.
Yup, I'm the real thing, I keep the Sabbath rather strictly, and love it. When else can I invite 12 people over for dinner and spent 3+ hrs serving a 4 course feast. And take an afternoon nap!
And if you think Frum Jews are hard to find, just remember Chabad is everywhere! (http://www.chabad.org)
FYI: I often do turn the computer on after sun down on Shabbos/Yom Tov.
Say No?
Tell them that you have a life or outside obligagions (family or religous or whatever). In my case I have the falback that I am a relgious Jew, I don't work from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown do to the Sabbath. (I also don't drive my car, cook, handle money, write or do any of a large number of other things on the Sabbath).
I have the google one, and it is quite good. It has a number of hacks I'm planning to tryout in the next week. Including one rather cool looking one that uses both the google api and the amazon api.
While I'm sure we could find some poor slob to take a suicide mission, the question would be could we consider this an ethical thing to do. In truth we can get better value form a robot probe. TO send a human to Mars will be very expensive. Its a several year trip to get there and you need enough air food water etc to get there. The robot does not need food air etc.
A competent admin is a good place to start. But If my company was riding on the servers, I would invest in an isurance policy too. I assume my bank has a big strong safe and lots of other security features. But they also have some insurance agenst bank robery.
The problem is that the tighter you make your security the harder the system will be to use. So you have to find some form of a midpoint. Plus even if the systems are good. It does not prevent someone from hacking the people.
After all airlines have insurance and they train their people like very well.
What I want to know is how did he get the information in the first place. It sounds like he broke into the company's computer or he worked for them and released stuff that was not suposed to. If he broke in I have no sympathy for him. And if he worked for them and he realesed docs that he should have *KNOWN* were private then his name should be mud.
We have some level of security due to the fact that the people watching us have large but finite resources to mine the data that they have. ITs just not worth it for them to look at every call every person places. I'm sure they could get the data but to then make some sort of sense out of it? Now if there is some reason why they are watching you that is different. I do most of my calling on a cell phone and sure some one could listen in if they really wanted to, but why would they. I don't think I'm really that interesting to the cops/FBI/NSA who ever to make them spend the time.
On the other hand I't kind of does make me glad that I drop of the radar for the Jewish Sabbeth every week. No Money, no electronics, no car etc. And if they want to know what I am reading they can drop by the Beit Midrash and ask.
Prove when they were installed. Interestingly where I got to school (Brandeis) the Cosi department is almost all Linux and Mac. (One prof uses windows) and the physics department is largly the same.
And in general these License are for a year and have to be renewed at that point. So If Microsoft decides to up the price by 300% after a year or two, its a monopoly so you are stuck.
If you cancel your licence you can be sure that they will audit you and if you don't have oiginal media for each and every piece of software that you have installed you can bet they will slam your but. doing this once or twice will ensure that Microsoft does not have to do it very often.
And its probably all cars, While my 2000 Saturn is not as nearly high tech as a Mercedes, it definitly does have a computer and a lot of IC's in it. Strong argument for my bycicle.
Well you can email a congress man, I don't know if they will listen, you can also ask your MP (or whatever) to have your government have an oppinion.
The major problem is that congressmen hear from big organized groups not from the average joe. Someone needs to organize a "Geek Lobby" that will define some goals and raise money towards a PAC. But more importantly Organize letter writing. Also note that much of what happens in the US Govenment is done by Rulmaking in the various departments. When departments make rules they have to ask for comments. For example see the new Sport Pilot rules that the FAA is working on
Also if you are writing once again, be polite, direct and to the point. And Specifics are good, don't go in for abstracts, make specific points about the bill or rule and why its a problem and for whom. Mentioning job losses is probably a good idea, congress does not want to cause people to loose jobs if they can help it.
Even if senators were appointed by the state legislatures do you think that there would be no politics involved? That the prospecive senators would not be raising money for the party? Or that they would not go around giving speaches to try and sway people? (Anyone remember reading about the Lincoln Douglas debates?)
Actualy there is an airplane the Waco Classic that is being manufactured in just this way. The original Waco Aircraft company built about 8 of the big bi-planes in the 30's and went under. The plans ended up in the Smithsonian, and a company is now makeing an up to date version of it. If I had a spare $350,000 that I didn't know what to do with I might buy one. (OK probably not) Its very nice looking plane but not what you call in any way practical.
Also remember that the Cessna Skyhawk introduced in 1956 is still buing built. (And the Beach Bonanza which first was built in '47 is still being built as well in some form)
Infact it did mean day of judgement, just not by G-d but by the King and his tax collectors. William the Bastard (AKA William of Normandy) had just taken over England, and he wanted to know what he had and more importantly how much it should pay in taxes. It historicly a very interesting document, and you probably can find large parts of it on the web. In both the original Latin and in Modern English.
I hope not, I was planing to take a lazy Shabbos Afternoon to read it. (The only time I can read some weeks). And if its an E-Book it will be Muksa and therefore I can't read it on Shabbos on Yom Tov
Well its not on the Pentium, but the Merced* chip yes it is. And Linux does run 64 bit on Sparc and Alpha (And maybe a few others). And With IBM Promoting the hell out of Linux on their mainframes it does make a lot of sense to do this from Oracle's point of view.
And lets be honest the box you run Oracle Linux on will be a linux box with most of what you expect to see on it (Apache/Samba/NFS/etc) gone. It will have Oracle and just enough other stuff to run.
Is its people. Alan Cox and all the other top flight Linux programers that work for them. If RedHat were bought by AOL/TW many of them would jump ship. If someone were to buy RedHat they would have to be someone who those people would want to work for. Or do something to get them to stay.
However I can see AOL/TW working with redhat on set-top boxes or other projects, but not outright buying them.
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Well you can't setup software intentionally to not compile if you look at the open source definition it says that a free software (Open source) program can not be restricted in how it is used. Similarly the GPL says that an author can not restrict how a program is used if it under the GPL.
Sure it does, buy a newspaper. You can walk up to a newsstand give the guy some money and take it home and read it. Hell they will even deliver it to you every morning if you want them to. (Assuming you live somewhere where they deliver)
This is freedom of the press. The editors and publishers of the NYT have decided on a policy for how to distribute content online. It is their content and they can make that choice. If you don't like it, read a different newspaper.
Let us be clear the New York Times uses their ads to pay the bills. Having reporters all over the world and editors and all the other things they do costs a lot of money. The cover price pays for the newsprint and thats about it. Everything else is paid for by ads. No Ads no newspaper.
Apple at least used to publish a set of UI Guidelines which talked about this issue. I last saw them 10+ years ago but they said never make color be the only thing that seperates two objects. (They also point out that not everyone has a color monitor, which was much more true in the late 80's).
If you can find a copy of the Apple UI guidelines they are very good reading. If not try looking at your UI in black and white, or at least in fewer colors than you normally do. Not everyone has a big fancy monitor and video card you know.
well if you want a higher year number, how about 5763? And it will be 5764 in a few months.
--Zach
I mean I know where a number of the local public water supplies are (you can't exactly hide a lake) or major trunk power lines, they are well big and kind of obvious when you drive under one, not to mention when you fly over it in a small plane. I would imagine that if someone were to take out several of the trunk lines that feed power into NYC it would do a hell of a lot of damage. And there is really no way to hide them.
There are a lot of older aircraft flying in the USA, and more in other parts of the world. Many of them don't have a GPS or a complex autopilot, just a VOR/NDB setup and I don't just mean cessnas I mean thinks like B727's and DC9's.
Or does this only prevent hijack by new hitech glass cockpit aircraft?
how is it censorship if *I* as a user edit outs parts that *I* don't want to see. In truth I think there is to much sex and violence on TV and the movies. If I read a book and there is a bit I don't want to read I can skip to the next section. editing what I want to see is not Censorship, its user choice.
Its only censorship if someone else tells me I can't watch the sex scene. if i don't want to watch it that my afair.
There is usually no direct connection between a topic and the animal the O'reilly folks put on the cover. If you look at the old "Ask Tim" articles you will find that somewhere he explains where the animal covers come from.
The basics of it is that 20 years ago for their first round of books they hired a designer who didn't know unix and she decided that "sed and awk" sounded like two birds. So she made a few covers in the style that they have been using ever since.
Yup, I'm the real thing, I keep the Sabbath rather strictly, and love it. When else can I invite 12 people over for dinner and spent 3+ hrs serving a 4 course feast. And take an afternoon nap!
And if you think Frum Jews are hard to find, just remember Chabad is everywhere! (http://www.chabad.org)
FYI: I often do turn the computer on after sun down on Shabbos/Yom Tov.
Say No?
Tell them that you have a life or outside obligagions (family or religous or whatever). In my case I have the falback that I am a relgious Jew, I don't work from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown do to the Sabbath. (I also don't drive my car, cook, handle money, write or do any of a large number of other things on the Sabbath).
I have the google one, and it is quite good. It has a number of hacks I'm planning to tryout in the next week. Including one rather cool looking one that uses both the google api and the amazon api.
While I'm sure we could find some poor slob to take a suicide mission, the question would be could we consider this an ethical thing to do. In truth we can get better value form a robot probe. TO send a human to Mars will be very expensive. Its a several year trip to get there and you need enough air food water etc to get there. The robot does not need food air etc.
A competent admin is a good place to start. But If my company was riding on the servers, I would invest in an isurance policy too. I assume my bank has a big strong safe and lots of other security features. But they also have some insurance agenst bank robery.
The problem is that the tighter you make your security the harder the system will be to use. So you have to find some form of a midpoint. Plus even if the systems are good. It does not prevent someone from hacking the people.
After all airlines have insurance and they train their people like very well.
What I want to know is how did he get the information in the first place. It sounds like he broke into the company's computer or he worked for them and released stuff that was not suposed to. If he broke in I have no sympathy for him. And if he worked for them and he realesed docs that he should have *KNOWN* were private then his name should be mud.
We have some level of security due to the fact that the people watching us have large but finite resources to mine the data that they have. ITs just not worth it for them to look at every call every person places. I'm sure they could get the data but to then make some sort of sense out of it? Now if there is some reason why they are watching you that is different. I do most of my calling on a cell phone and sure some one could listen in if they really wanted to, but why would they. I don't think I'm really that interesting to the cops/FBI/NSA who ever to make them spend the time.
On the other hand I't kind of does make me glad that I drop of the radar for the Jewish Sabbeth every week. No Money, no electronics, no car etc. And if they want to know what I am reading they can drop by the Beit Midrash and ask.
Prove when they were installed. Interestingly where I got to school (Brandeis) the Cosi department is almost all Linux and Mac. (One prof uses windows) and the physics department is largly the same.
And in general these License are for a year and have to be renewed at that point. So If Microsoft decides to up the price by 300% after a year or two, its a monopoly so you are stuck.
If you cancel your licence you can be sure that they will audit you and if you don't have oiginal media for each and every piece of software that you have installed you can bet they will slam your but. doing this once or twice will ensure that Microsoft does not have to do it very often.
And its probably all cars, While my 2000 Saturn is not as nearly high tech as a Mercedes, it definitly does have a computer and a lot of IC's in it. Strong argument for my bycicle.
Well you can email a congress man, I don't know if they will listen, you can also ask your MP (or whatever) to have your government have an oppinion.
The major problem is that congressmen hear from big organized groups not from the average joe. Someone needs to organize a "Geek Lobby" that will define some goals and raise money towards a PAC. But more importantly Organize letter writing. Also note that much of what happens in the US Govenment is done by Rulmaking in the various departments. When departments make rules they have to ask for comments. For example see the new Sport Pilot rules that the FAA is working on
Also if you are writing once again, be polite, direct and to the point. And Specifics are good, don't go in for abstracts, make specific points about the bill or rule and why its a problem and for whom. Mentioning job losses is probably a good idea, congress does not want to cause people to loose jobs if they can help it.
Even if senators were appointed by the state legislatures do you think that there would be no politics involved? That the prospecive senators would not be raising money for the party? Or that they would not go around giving speaches to try and sway people?
(Anyone remember reading about the Lincoln Douglas debates?)
Actualy there is an airplane the Waco Classic that is being manufactured in just this way. The original Waco Aircraft company built about 8 of the big bi-planes in the 30's and went under. The plans ended up in the Smithsonian, and a company is now makeing an up to date version of it. If I had a spare $350,000 that I didn't know what to do with I might buy one. (OK probably not) Its very nice looking plane but not what you call in any way practical.
Also remember that the Cessna Skyhawk introduced in 1956 is still buing built. (And the Beach Bonanza which first was built in '47 is still being built as well in some form)
Infact it did mean day of judgement, just not by G-d but by the King and his tax collectors. William the Bastard (AKA William of Normandy) had just taken over England, and he wanted to know what he had and more importantly how much it should pay in taxes. It historicly a very interesting document, and you probably can find large parts of it on the web. In both the original Latin and in Modern English.
I hope not, I was planing to take a lazy Shabbos Afternoon to read it. (The only time I can read some weeks). And if its an E-Book it will be Muksa and therefore I can't read it on Shabbos on Yom Tov
Well its not on the Pentium, but the Merced* chip yes it is. And Linux does run 64 bit on Sparc and Alpha (And maybe a few others). And With IBM Promoting the hell out of Linux on their mainframes it does make a lot of sense to do this from Oracle's point of view.
And lets be honest the box you run Oracle Linux on will be a linux box with most of what you expect to see on it (Apache/Samba/NFS/etc) gone. It will have Oracle and just enough other stuff to run.
Is its people. Alan Cox and all the other top flight Linux programers that work for them. If RedHat were bought by AOL/TW many of them would jump ship. If someone were to buy RedHat they would have to be someone who those people would want to work for. Or do something to get them to stay.
However I can see AOL/TW working with redhat on set-top boxes or other projects, but not outright buying them.