They were using standard ping and traceroute packets, what is wrong about that? If you are so paranoid that you don't even want to be pinged you need your head checked.
That is not a problem here since its hardware, they could only be saying 'we support linux vx.x.x'. Unless you count the patches distros such as mandrake have....
Who is deciding what is wrong and right? And who is going to monitor them?
The fact remains that they invaded someones privacy nomatter what they found out.
In another way: would you allow video cameras to be installed in every room of your house. Ofcourse only for monitoring you for 'criminal activity'? I don't think so. Freedom is a very important right but most people are to easy in giving it away for a little bit of false security.
Yes, but that is not my data. I could care less if some decided to GPL the ttl of an IP packet I sent. My data is not altered in any way so such a claim would be absurd.
So is your claim, the data you put into the compiler is not altered to, so it is not under the GPL. And the data comming out is made out of both your source and data generated by gcc. So only the data generated by gcc is covered by the GPL, and that data is already opensource.
BTW ever thought about the interprater you use for your script, is it GPL'ed????? And the encoding/decoding program????
Duh! Are the ip packets altered in any way when passing through a node running Linux?
Yes, MAC address, ttl, etc
Is the output (binary) of gcc the same as the input (source code)? No. It is derived from the input.
Then what the hell are you talking about, first it is derived from gcc now from the source? It looks like you just killed your own argument. Make up your mind!
Please buy a dictionary (a lot cheaper than a legal department) and look up the word 'derive'.
On the other hand, your program probably is under the gpl if you are right anyway. Ever send a binary over the internet? chanches are you will encounter some server running linux. And since the ip packets are being processed by it they are under the GPL, right?
Even your posts here are under the gpl since the slashdot servers processed it.
I don't think you read it well, A program compiled with gcc is not based on gcc but on your source code and is thus NOT covered by the GPL. Unless you compile the gcc source ofcourse.... The output off is based on your work and only processed by gcc.
The fact that you compile something with gcc does not make it dependant on it, you could just use another compiler. If your program depends on a lot of free software it is different.
I find the unix environment and philosophy more sane than the windows one. Like all devices have a similar (to some degree) interface to the user in/dev. In linux there also is less need to get something done real quick and ugly so new things tend to be more thought about.
ASCII has only 128 codes since it is an 7 bit code. Most vendors such as IBM have added an extra 128 characters to it, they are not really standard ASCII.
It would be far better if people concentrated on creating new, innovative, software rather than simply maintaining age-old
Old doesn't mean bad.....
By maintaining an existing project you don't have to reinvent the wheel. As for potential: the new maintainers might take the project on an entirely different road than the original one.
Normally if you make a change you submit a patch to the maintainer. If he doesn't respond and you think he has abandoned it you can fork the code. But generally this is not done quickly and certainly not for small patches.
By selecting a new maintainer there is again a central point for submitting patches.
In practice you are right, but an em field is distorted by a receiver. For example try to use a satelite dish behind another one, it won't receive much unless you move further back were the distortion is less.
You can't have unlimited receivers, but since each is only getting a very small piece of the available energy it looks unlimited. Unlimited power is also impossible because of some stupid law that says that the total energy is constant. (you can't get more out than you put in)
Since elektromagnetic field strength gets smaller in square with the distance to the source (twice the distance four times less energy) you would:
a) have slept during your 'technical studies' b) have equipment that does not comply with standards regarding radiation sensetivity c) live so close to the transmittor you can piss on it.
Still not very likely since if fifty people would be able to light such a light bulb nobody would receive anything since all power goes to the bulbs. Get the point???? It will be almost impossible to 'catch' all that power Jeroen
You need much more for a motor to run then for a light bulb to glow, a typical electric train runs at 12V with about 0.1A (some up to 0.5A) That would require at least 1W of power. To pick up this kind of power you would have to live VERY close to the antenna, and I know Lopik, there are only a few people living really close to it and I don't think anybody is that close to it. Besides Lopik doesn't cover the entire country, there are several substations accross the country. Which again is only a few hundred kilometers from one end to another. Since a few years most transmittors have been moved to a more remote area in the FlevoPolder anyway. Jeroen
Slashdot Mirror
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You would just get some nagging about interupts disappearing, connect the cable and wait a minute and you are fine...
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Shouldn't this be: :)
(IE/Win32)keep pushing back, you don't deserver better?
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Then why are you using c++ style commenting?
/* All this C has ruined my spelling... */
it should be:
You could also say that the frontpage is more representative of the rest slashdot :)
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The fact remains that they invaded someones privacy nomatter what they found out.
In another way: would you allow video cameras to be installed in every room of your house. Ofcourse only for monitoring you for 'criminal activity'? I don't think so.
Freedom is a very important right but most people are to easy in giving it away for a little bit of false security.
Jeroen
Jeroen
So is your claim, the data you put into the compiler is not altered to, so it is not under the GPL. And the data comming out is made out of both your source and data generated by gcc. So only the data generated by gcc is covered by the GPL, and that data is already opensource.
BTW ever thought about the interprater you use for your script, is it GPL'ed????? And the encoding/decoding program????
Jeroen
Yes, MAC address, ttl, etc
Is the output (binary) of gcc the same as the input (source code)? No. It is derived from the input.
Then what the hell are you talking about, first it is derived from gcc now from the source? It looks like you just killed your own argument. Make up your mind!
Jeroen
On the other hand, your program probably is under the gpl if you are right anyway. Ever send a binary over the internet? chanches are you will encounter some server running linux. And since the ip packets are being processed by it they are under the GPL, right?
Even your posts here are under the gpl since the slashdot servers processed it.
Does your point sound ridiculous yet???
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Old doesn't mean bad.....
By maintaining an existing project you don't have to reinvent the wheel. As for potential: the new maintainers might take the project on an entirely different road than the original one.
Jeroen
By selecting a new maintainer there is again a central point for submitting patches.
Jeroen
You can't have unlimited receivers, but since each is only getting a very small piece of the available energy it looks unlimited. Unlimited power is also impossible because of some stupid law that says that the total energy is constant. (you can't get more out than you put in)
Jeroen
a) have slept during your 'technical studies'
b) have equipment that does not comply with standards regarding radiation sensetivity
c) live so close to the transmittor you can piss on it.
Slashdot poll?
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Still not very likely since if fifty people would be able to light such a light bulb nobody would receive anything since all power goes to the bulbs.
Get the point???? It will be almost impossible to 'catch' all that power
Jeroen
You need much more for a motor to run then for a light bulb to glow, a typical electric train runs at 12V with about 0.1A (some up to 0.5A) That would require at least 1W of power. To pick up this kind of power you would have to live VERY close to the antenna, and I know Lopik, there are only a few people living really close to it and I don't think anybody is that close to it. Besides Lopik doesn't cover the entire country, there are several substations accross the country. Which again is only a few hundred kilometers from one end to another.
Since a few years most transmittors have been moved to a more remote area in the FlevoPolder anyway.
Jeroen