There is still no requirement that everything for Linux be GPL (though many essential libraries are LGPL). And my understanding of the GPL says that you can still sell a binary package and still get huffy if someone distributes it for free, it's just the source that's got to be freely available. The installer is its own program, and doesn't have to be under GPL.
Underhanded and silly, I know, but I don't honestly believe that the GPL was created to take the money out of software development.
Similar, not identical. It relies on a similar principle of presumed innocence (repeat after me: "I was just proxying for the next guy in the chain, your honor"), but on the technical side, you've still got static content somewhere in the system, as opposed to the hope-it's-in-someone's-cache logic of Freenet (which, for better or worse, seems to at least somewhat work, albeit slowly -- maybe that's just Java and the fact that I haven't put up a static node yet). That's a mixed blessing, 'cos it means on the one hand that you can get kicked in the arse for your own files, but on the other hand you can't get nailed for having someone else's {infringing material|child porn|terrorist communications} in your cache.
Feel free to hammer me for technical inaccuracy on Freenet here, BTW, as I've got only a basic understanding of the concepts.
Slashdot isn't just a cool nerdy tech news site anymore; it's become a voice of ideology.
Er, and refresh my memory on when it wasn't? Not in the six years or so since I started reading it. Besides, I thought being loudly opinionated went with the territory of geekdom in general. Malda and company never claimed to be impartial. *shrug*
What they don't mention is that they also probably record the MAC address.
Except that on an IPv4 network (and any IPv6 network where the idea of using a MAC address within an IP was properly scoffed-at), you can't read a MAC address across a gateway -- if you ever tcpdump an Internet-connected interface, you'll notice that you never see ARP requests outside your subnet (169.254/16 notwithstanding). Otherwise, you'd need an organization like ICANN just to sort out who owns what MAC addresses. (And yes, I know there's at least an informal list among network-device vendors of what vendors use what address blocks.)
Since the government also controls the hardware, they can make it harder to replace the OS. They could make the processor only execute government signed kernels.
And one of the most time-honored traditions of modern hacker culture is that there's a way around every such system. No algorithm to prove your platform, etc.
This type of mass accelerator can accelerate bullets slowly and not destroy your electronics/mechanics in your guided bullet. Maybe?
Unfortunately, the EMP involved in kicking the thing off is likely to vape the electronics anyway. Big capacitors + f-load of copper wire == BIIIIG electromagnet, yeeeeessss...
If you want to reinterpret it, you need to get a constitutional amendment.
Er, no, that's actually the express function of the courts. The very flexibility of the Constitution is the only reason that we've got one that's lasted >200 years while many (mostly third-world, yes) countries are literally rewriting them from scratch every 5-20 years. There have been far more changes in the law, even in those areas protected expressly by the Constitution and its amendments, than are encompassed in 27 Constitutional amendments.
All of this said, there are people in Europe laughing at us, and rightly.
Why do you think that is just FUD? Some fairly respected journalists have stated that they have sources inside SCO who anonymously claim that just that sort of action has occured
The very best FUD employs just the tiniest glimmer of truth, perverted beyond recognition into something far more insidious. Anyone remember the guy who tried to slam Linux as the worst OS available based on the number of Linux-related postings on Bugtraq vs. other products? The real challenge is how to twist it to best effect.
The other question is one of what is "piracy" under the BSD license. Several mentions have been made lately in other threads of the mutation from "you must give credit" to "whatever," and the latter case argues for there being no true "piracy" for BSD code. Slippery, that...
Linux is the part of the combined system that people interact with, so leaving it just at Linux is just fine with me.
Er, rather to the contrary, that's largely (though not all) GNU for two or three layers at minimum. Note bash, most of the basic userspace shell utilities, GNOME (popular but not the Only Thing, I know), and most screamingly glibc, to which EVERYTHING links.
Devil's advocate aside, though, to call it GNU/Linux or the like is IMO an appalling oversimplification. I really doubt that even the majority of the tools most people use is GNU-project stuff, unless you're counting by, say, CPU cycles devoted to glibc fucntions or the like, and there's too much contribution from other corners as well to acknowledge the GNU bits without acknowledging some others as well. Calling it Linux/glibc or the like I could see (as that forms the basis of the functionality and the basic API, putting it on a footing with what's called Solaris or Windows, say), but not GNU/Linux in spite of all the reasonably-intelligent things RMS has been caught saying from time to time.
As for getting an ssh client, that's a fairly easy trick - search freshmeat for "mindterm" and there's a fairly nice one there that'll work on any good Java 1.1-capable (I think 1.1) browser.
Hrm, that's odd. Qwest.net seems to be the
*least* available option for getting a static IP
around here (won't even do it for a residential-
class account), while my local ISP (a Mac/NetBSD
shop) says "here, give up $5/month and we'll
give you a/29." I'm happy to say qwest.net will
not be losing me as a customer 'cos they never had me
in the first place. (And as for the actual line,
well, just *try* to get selling those off past the regulators
short of actually selling off the POTS stuff too.)
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Appears I haven't been keeping up on my information - Amazon is now listing the DVD release date on Mononoke Hime as 1/2001. Pity - I was looking forward to snapping it up the day it was released.
What you're actually referring to is the TV series (Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight), which does indeed have that. (The OAV, based on the manga Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch, is just the main story, and is a little rougher, but one still gets attached to the characters.) I've never seen the sub, so I don't know how many liberties were taken with the dialogue there, but obviously some of the visuals (some, umm, compromising takes on Parn and Kashue, among others). In any case, for Rob's benefit, both series are strongly recommended. The OAV is available in a 2-disc DVD set containing dubbed, subbed and Japanese versions; I'm not sure about the TV series. (Central Park Media/US Manga Corps)
Other series I'd recommend are as follows (apologies if any of these have already been mentioned):
Kodomo no Omocha (Child's Toy) - it's a bit hard to find in the US (most of us have given up and downloaded the fansub available from The Anime Download Site), but it's good if you like cute, funny stuff. Definitely shoujo anime, but I discovered that most of what I like seems to be that or fantasy. (Fansub available via FTP)
Kiki's Delivery Service - one of the works of Hayao Miyazake, this one's distributed in the US by Disney; consequently, the dubbed version is quite impressive (featuring Phil Hartman and Janeane Garofolo among others). This is the story of a 13-year-old fledgling witch setting out to learn her trade in a distant city. Again, it's cute stuff, and set in a very Miyazake-idealistic world, but a good story. (Buena Vista)
Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) - Also directed by Hayao Miyazake, but at a sharp contrast to many of his other works. The story revolves around Ashitaka, a prince of a dwindling tribe, who sets out to discover the origin of a demon-boar who attacks his village. In the process, he is drawn into a struggle between human progress and the life of the surrounding forest, embodied in San (technically the title character), a human girl who has lived her entire life in the care of the wolf-god Moro. Again, a beatiful dubbed version was released by Disney, featuring (among others) Clare Danes, Gillian Anderson, and Billy Bob Thornton. (Miramax, DVD available 6/2000)
Project A-ko - Somewhat surreal, revolving around two girls and their struggle for the friendship (and maybe more?) of a third. Collateral damage figures prominently. (Central Park Media/US Manga Corps)
RG Veda - Based on a Clamp manga (which, unfortunately, has not been translated to my knowledge), four (somewhat disjointed but powerful) episodes tell a story based loosely in Hindu mythology. (Central Park Media/US Manga Corps)
Dragon Half - Two-episode (I think) OAV telling the story of Mink, an unlikely offspring of human and dragon, and the misadventures that follow her in part because of her teenage infatuation with famous singer (and dragon slayer) Dick Saucer. (AD Vision)
Any of the various anime based on the works of Masamune Shirow - these include but are not limited to Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, and Dominion Tank Police (Distributors vary)
IIRC America does not have an equivalent law to the European Data Protection Act, where you can find out what information is stored on you and get invalid information fixed. If this is a for-profit organisation what is to stop selling this information on to College Boards, when you go to apply or even future employers?
Well, this is not 100% true. For government information, we have the Freedom of Information Act, and for financial information we have the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Truth in Lending Act. The Privacy Act may or may not apply in this case (I know it covers most employment records unless you sign a waiver [which, incidentally, you do on most employment applications]), but overall, I don't know that there's much regulation for information collected by most of the private sector. So yes, I think it's entirely possible that Pinkerton could turn around and sell this information (though I'd like to see what would come of it in the courts if they did).
(This was sent to publicrelations@waveamerica.com - I would have chosen something a little less sweetened, but it probably would've gotten forwarded to PR or ignored anyway.) I encourage you to do similarly, if only so we can get a clearer response and a better understanding of this program.
-Snowdrake
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I'm sure I'm not the first one to ask this question, but I feel it must be asked anyway.
I admit I haven't read a great deal about your program (mostly the coverage your program received on slashdot.org and a bit of browsing on your website), but what I have seen raises some serious concerns. In the light of some of the paranoia that has surrounded certain types of students in the wake of the Columbine High School tragedy here in Colorado last year, I fear that this program, while well-intended, may have the potential to make life more difficult for healthy but "different" students who happen to fit the classification put forward by the media (among others) of young people who are potentially dangerous. These leads me to bring forward the following questions:
Aside from the few mentioned on the website (which are a good beginning but don't really gather much of information necessary to school officials to review individual cases), what kinds of questions are used to try to get an accurate view of the situation when a student or incident is reported? (Each person has their own perceptions, and it's natural that these perceptions are going to alter the way they report specific incidents or behavior, espcially in situations where they feel they are in danger.)
What kind of training and/or advice are you offering to school personnel on how to review these cases? Does this include information on how to screen out false reports (which are, after all, amost inevitable with the ability to make an anonymous report)? Also, what standard information or disclaimers (exact text if possible, please) are included with the reports provided to school personnel? (This is important because again, there does seem to be some tendency to interpret certain behaviors as dangerous without looking deeper than the visible level.)
Along the same lines, what training and materials are made available to teachers for use with students and parents? Your web site does seem to touch at least briefly on the importance of using the WAVE line responsibly, but the warning signs, etc., that are mentioned are (except for two or three specific extremes) things that could easily apply to individuals who are not, in fact, prone to violence. (I easily counted six of the early warning signs which apply to me, both now and when I was in high school.) Needless to say, this makes it important to recognize what the important signs are, as well as making it absolutely imperative that trained personnel (school psychologists, etc.) are involved in the review process at the school level.
Thank you again for your time. I would be very interested in hearing your responses to these concerns.
Similar (and fairly inexpensive, too) is the Trendnet hub I've got (TE500). Not a hugely well-known brand, but a 5-port cost me USD $30:
Uplink switch
10Mbps full-duplex (oh well, can't have it all)
Dimensions 4x3x1"
PSU 2x2x3" (or optional keyboard passthru, or if you're brave you could probably rig it for battery power - it's a standard connector)
Nice row of two-colour status lights - one LED shows link/activity/error check for each line, with another LED for power/collision indicator
Seems like this would fit the bill for something that would pack easily, and if you actually felt like rigging a battery pack you'd have the perfect item for those ever-essential in-flight/on-the-road UT games (or an instant LAN party at the local cawfee shop).
Actually it would seem to me that a good, lightweight OS (like Linux can be) would lend itself well to providing an interface layer that would allow developers to focus on game engine in more general terms rather than things like how the particular graphics hardware, hence allowing development of for the platform of your choice (gimme mah PSX, but you can have your N64 or Dreamcast).
(Platform-independence - it's not just for "real" computers anymore!)
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There is still no requirement that everything for Linux be GPL (though many essential libraries are LGPL). And my understanding of the GPL says that you can still sell a binary package and still get huffy if someone distributes it for free, it's just the source that's got to be freely available. The installer is its own program, and doesn't have to be under GPL.
Underhanded and silly, I know, but I don't honestly believe that the GPL was created to take the money out of software development.
Now some of it's obvious, but since some of it's not, I'll ask for it all - could someone PLEASE translate the Latin?
Your idea sounds very similar to Freenet.
Similar, not identical. It relies on a similar principle of presumed innocence (repeat after me: "I was just proxying for the next guy in the chain, your honor"), but on the technical side, you've still got static content somewhere in the system, as opposed to the hope-it's-in-someone's-cache logic of Freenet (which, for better or worse, seems to at least somewhat work, albeit slowly -- maybe that's just Java and the fact that I haven't put up a static node yet). That's a mixed blessing, 'cos it means on the one hand that you can get kicked in the arse for your own files, but on the other hand you can't get nailed for having someone else's {infringing material|child porn|terrorist communications} in your cache.
Feel free to hammer me for technical inaccuracy on Freenet here, BTW, as I've got only a basic understanding of the concepts.
Slashdot isn't just a cool nerdy tech news site anymore; it's become a voice of ideology.
Er, and refresh my memory on when it wasn't? Not in the six years or so since I started reading it. Besides, I thought being loudly opinionated went with the territory of geekdom in general. Malda and company never claimed to be impartial. *shrug*
What they don't mention is that they also probably record the MAC address.
Except that on an IPv4 network (and any IPv6 network where the idea of using a MAC address within an IP was properly scoffed-at), you can't read a MAC address across a gateway -- if you ever tcpdump an Internet-connected interface, you'll notice that you never see ARP requests outside your subnet (169.254/16 notwithstanding). Otherwise, you'd need an organization like ICANN just to sort out who owns what MAC addresses. (And yes, I know there's at least an informal list among network-device vendors of what vendors use what address blocks.)
Since the government also controls the hardware, they can make it harder to replace the OS. They could make the processor only execute government signed kernels.
And one of the most time-honored traditions of modern hacker culture is that there's a way around every such system. No algorithm to prove your platform, etc.
Unfortunately, the EMP involved in kicking the thing off is likely to vape the electronics anyway. Big capacitors + f-load of copper wire == BIIIIG electromagnet, yeeeeessss...
Er, no, that's actually the express function of the courts. The very flexibility of the Constitution is the only reason that we've got one that's lasted >200 years while many (mostly third-world, yes) countries are literally rewriting them from scratch every 5-20 years. There have been far more changes in the law, even in those areas protected expressly by the Constitution and its amendments, than are encompassed in 27 Constitutional amendments.
All of this said, there are people in Europe laughing at us, and rightly.
Why do you think that is just FUD? Some fairly respected journalists have stated that they have sources inside SCO who anonymously claim that just that sort of action has occured
The very best FUD employs just the tiniest glimmer of truth, perverted beyond recognition into something far more insidious. Anyone remember the guy who tried to slam Linux as the worst OS available based on the number of Linux-related postings on Bugtraq vs. other products? The real challenge is how to twist it to best effect.
The other question is one of what is "piracy" under the BSD license. Several mentions have been made lately in other threads of the mutation from "you must give credit" to "whatever," and the latter case argues for there being no true "piracy" for BSD code. Slippery, that...
Er, rather to the contrary, that's largely (though not all) GNU for two or three layers at minimum. Note bash, most of the basic userspace shell utilities, GNOME (popular but not the Only Thing, I know), and most screamingly glibc, to which EVERYTHING links.
Devil's advocate aside, though, to call it GNU/Linux or the like is IMO an appalling oversimplification. I really doubt that even the majority of the tools most people use is GNU-project stuff, unless you're counting by, say, CPU cycles devoted to glibc fucntions or the like, and there's too much contribution from other corners as well to acknowledge the GNU bits without acknowledging some others as well. Calling it Linux/glibc or the like I could see (as that forms the basis of the functionality and the basic API, putting it on a footing with what's called Solaris or Windows, say), but not GNU/Linux in spite of all the reasonably-intelligent things RMS has been caught saying from time to time.
As for getting an ssh client, that's a fairly easy trick - search freshmeat for "mindterm" and there's a fairly nice one there that'll work on any good Java 1.1-capable (I think 1.1) browser.
Hrm, that's odd. Qwest.net seems to be the *least* available option for getting a static IP around here (won't even do it for a residential- class account), while my local ISP (a Mac/NetBSD shop) says "here, give up $5/month and we'll give you a /29." I'm happy to say qwest.net will
not be losing me as a customer 'cos they never had me
in the first place. (And as for the actual line,
well, just *try* to get selling those off past the regulators
short of actually selling off the POTS stuff too.)
Appears I haven't been keeping up on my information - Amazon is now listing the DVD release date on Mononoke Hime as 1/2001. Pity - I was looking forward to snapping it up the day it was released.
Other series I'd recommend are as follows (apologies if any of these have already been mentioned):
IIRC America does not have an equivalent law to the European Data Protection Act, where you can find out what information is stored on you and get invalid information fixed. If this is a for-profit organisation what is to stop selling this information on to College Boards, when you go to apply or even future employers?
Well, this is not 100% true. For government information, we have the Freedom of Information Act, and for financial information we have the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Truth in Lending Act. The Privacy Act may or may not apply in this case (I know it covers most employment records unless you sign a waiver [which, incidentally, you do on most employment applications]), but overall, I don't know that there's much regulation for information collected by most of the private sector. So yes, I think it's entirely possible that Pinkerton could turn around and sell this information (though I'd like to see what would come of it in the courts if they did).
(This was sent to publicrelations@waveamerica.com - I would have chosen something a little less sweetened, but it probably would've gotten forwarded to PR or ignored anyway.) I encourage you to do similarly, if only so we can get a clearer response and a better understanding of this program.
-Snowdrake
----------------
I'm sure I'm not the first one to ask this question, but I feel it must be asked anyway.
I admit I haven't read a great deal about your program (mostly the coverage your program received on slashdot.org and a bit of browsing on your website), but what I have seen raises some serious concerns. In the light of some of the paranoia that has surrounded certain types of students in the wake of the Columbine High School tragedy here in Colorado last year, I fear that this program, while well-intended, may have the potential to make life more difficult for healthy but "different" students who happen to fit the classification put forward by the media (among others) of young people who are potentially dangerous. These leads me to bring forward the following questions:
Thank you again for your time. I would be very interested in hearing your responses to these concerns.
(sig)
Similar (and fairly inexpensive, too) is the Trendnet hub I've got (TE500). Not a hugely well-known brand, but a 5-port cost me USD $30:
Seems like this would fit the bill for something that would pack easily, and if you actually felt like rigging a battery pack you'd have the perfect item for those ever-essential in-flight/on-the-road UT games (or an instant LAN party at the local cawfee shop).
Actually it would seem to me that a good, lightweight OS (like Linux can be) would lend itself well to providing an interface layer that would allow developers to focus on game engine in more general terms rather than things like how the particular graphics hardware, hence allowing development of for the platform of your choice (gimme mah PSX, but you can have your N64 or Dreamcast).
(Platform-independence - it's not just for "real" computers anymore!)