"I'm not suggesting there are government IT policy-makers on Slashdot"
I'm pretty sure there are.
"Is there any danger for various (government or not for that matter) agencies being told 'not to use this or that software from now on'?"
U.S. agencies use FOSS as much as any large corporate entity. And would deal with adverse rulings the same way any such organization would, i.e. weigh the costs and either rip it out, or replace with a competing product, or upgrade
Okay, I'm no gamer, but it seems to me that game/internet integration thing hasn't really been fully explored.
How about a Slashdot 3D?... typical scenario is that you jack into SlashdotLand, where the Dvorak avatar has just posted another inflamatory opinion piece, so everybody rushes over with their favorite weapon to smash him to bits.
Then the trolls pop in to say, well maybe Dvorak is right, and pretty soon there's an all-out brawl, and you go one-on-one with some smokin' hot MOWESYFA*, who knows more about router configuration than CISCO.
Anderer isn't confusing GPL with public domain; he saying that public domain-ing Unix is the only refuge that Linux has from the storm of IP attacks that are coming our way. It doesn't matter AT ALL whether the attacks are valid, it only matters that MS and their dependents have $billions in their war chest, and that their future depends on it.
What's wrong with paper and a pencil? Sure there are procedural exploits that are theoretically possible, but no more or less so than with the machines, and we don't have any of this chad-dangling nonsense.
it's the difference between analog and binary results. If your political system hasn't considered the implications of ambiguous individual votes in a paper-counted system, then be assured that someone is already screwing you.
Here in Virginia the bankrupt company is required to sell their assets through a third party, essentially to an open market. (At least that's what a family member had to do.) So if the software has some market value, the scammer would find themselves paying full price, and their scam falling apart.
Bankruptcy courts have been dealing with people like that forever, so they know all the tricks.
I scanned about 300 posts on this article and found 299 trolls/trollees. Lighten up dudes!
A space arms race could turn out to be the coolest freaking thing (if America could just find someone to compete with). It's the only way mankind will be motivated to colonize space; clearly pure scientific curiousity doesn't work with the voters.
So if you or your children ever want to be Captain Piccard, zooming around the universe, then GO AIR FORCE!
yes! The only book of William Gibson's that sucks, and I always attributed that to the Sterling factor, and so refused to pick up any of his books. Are there any GOOD ones by just Sterling, so I can judge his writing honestly?
I've had similarly bad experience with my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop; every time I close the case to move the machine, the $#^#@#$ power management kicks in, and linux crashes.
Well, even if the military did handle their sample sloppily, presumably the suspect can supply a fresh sample of his blood that could be tested against the crime scene blood.
The military database appears to have been used for identification, not conviction.
Actually there is a right to privacy in the U.S.--remember the Texas sodomy law that was struck down a couple weeks ago?
For the record, DARPA is a defense research agency, not a domestic spy outfit. The government that owns those traffic cameras is your local city/county/whatever. If you don't want them aggregating this information in abusive ways, then go to the council meetings and vote accordingly.
Or just post silly, hysterical messages on/., whichever you think is more effective.
Ironically, I once wrote to the Delegate who introduced this bill (my local representative), asking her to support a state-wide "do not call" list for phone-spam.
She wrote back, basically saying the bill was bad for business.
Maybe I should send campaign contributions to AOL, since they seem to get the job done.
"the most popular Open Source business application - usually among the top 10 of the 60,000+ projects in SourceForge"
I looked at it a couple years ago for a grad school project, and the documentation was limited. However, now the technical docs look solid, and there's classroom and on-line user training.
Okay, I actually read some of the free exerpts from the book, and ran across this gem, which Prensky clearly agrees with:
"In addressing the 2000 CGDC, Danny Hillis, the renowned creator of Thinking Machines... said the following:...I really believe that this is a really important group of people. I get to talk a lot to politicians and scientists and entertainers and they all assume that they are the center of the world, and that they are making the decisions that are going to control how things come out. I actually think they are overestimating how much they are really influencing how things are coming out, and I usually give as an example people whom I think are really influencing the world -- game designers..."
Well, that's modest. I've never met any big-time entertainers, but do know scientists, and have met politicians enough to agree with his observations. However, the scientists and politicians are right, they do have enormous influence over our world.
But game designers? Haven't seen too many game designers take out Iraq lately.
To those who refer to the "director's vision" and "movies as art," I hope you were excluding Hollywood. There's no more art in a John Travolta movie that there is in a Big Mac. And if I want to hold the pickles, then I oughta be able to hold the d%mn pickles.
My just-outside-the-Beltway view: politics in the U.S. is not dead, only sleeping. Middle class Northern Americans, the great majority, aren't interested right now because their lives are materially comfortable, no great injustices run unchecked, and no foreign powers threaten. Even our war-torn inner cities are healing. Gush and Bore aren't going to make anybody nervous by taking some non-mainstream positions.
5% of the population is all fired up about imagined conspiraries in the most media-surveilled place on Earth. Some folks worry about "partisanship bickering" but like that neither party has enough votes to push through their lame ideas.
My point? Enjoy these times. Make some money, drive a big car; it won't last forever....
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pretty sure there are.
"Is there any danger for various (government or not for that matter) agencies being told 'not to use this or that software from now on'?"
U.S. agencies use FOSS as much as any large corporate entity. And would deal with adverse rulings the same way any such organization would, i.e. weigh the costs and either rip it out, or replace with a competing product, or upgrade
Why Is This On Ask Slashdot?
Okay, I'm no gamer, but it seems to me that game/internet integration thing hasn't really been fully explored.
... typical scenario is that you jack into SlashdotLand, where the Dvorak avatar has just posted another inflamatory opinion piece, so everybody rushes over with their favorite weapon to smash him to bits.
How about a Slashdot 3D?
Then the trolls pop in to say, well maybe Dvorak is right, and pretty soon there's an all-out brawl, and you go one-on-one with some smokin' hot MOWESYFA*, who knows more about router configuration than CISCO.
Hey, I'd pay $ for that...
*Member Of WhatEver Sex You Find Attractive
Anderer isn't confusing GPL with public domain; he saying that public domain-ing Unix is the only refuge that Linux has from the storm of IP attacks that are coming our way. It doesn't matter AT ALL whether the attacks are valid, it only matters that MS and their dependents have $billions in their war chest, and that their future depends on it.
>be the most insightful comment
The comment completely mis-reads what Anderer is saying, so how can it be insightful?
Anderer never claimed that GPL and public domain are the same. RTFA. Again if you didn't get it the first time.
What's wrong with paper and a pencil? Sure there are procedural exploits that are theoretically possible, but no more or less so than with the machines, and we don't have any of this chad-dangling nonsense.
it's the difference between analog and binary results. If your political system hasn't considered the implications of ambiguous individual votes in a paper-counted system, then be assured that someone is already screwing you.
Here in Virginia the bankrupt company is required to sell their assets through a third party, essentially to an open market. (At least that's what a family member had to do.) So if the software has some market value, the scammer would find themselves paying full price, and their scam falling apart.
Bankruptcy courts have been dealing with people like that forever, so they know all the tricks.
A space arms race could turn out to be the coolest freaking thing (if America could just find someone to compete with). It's the only way mankind will be motivated to colonize space; clearly pure scientific curiousity doesn't work with the voters.
So if you or your children ever want to be Captain Piccard, zooming around the universe, then GO AIR FORCE!
True, but the bad teacher was educated under Kennedy. Yet another Kennedy conspiracy!?!
yes! The only book of William Gibson's that sucks, and I always attributed that to the Sterling factor, and so refused to pick up any of his books. Are there any GOOD ones by just Sterling, so I can judge his writing honestly?
We use Spolsky's FogBugz product for bug-tracking, and this guy does it right. The interface is clean, simple, and does exactly what you need.
I've "trained" about a half dozen people on it--the training consisted of "here's the URL, go to it". And they all got it right away.
If the book is as good as his product, then its a Buy.
106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
Bottom line: GPL okay!
I've had similarly bad experience with my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop; every time I close the case to move the machine, the $#^#@#$ power management kicks in, and linux crashes.
Well, even if the military did handle their sample sloppily, presumably the suspect can supply a fresh sample of his blood that could be tested against the crime scene blood.
The military database appears to have been used for identification, not conviction.
For the record, DARPA is a defense research agency, not a domestic spy outfit. The government that owns those traffic cameras is your local city/county/whatever. If you don't want them aggregating this information in abusive ways, then go to the council meetings and vote accordingly.
Or just post silly, hysterical messages on
Ironically, I once wrote to the Delegate who introduced this bill (my local representative), asking her to support a state-wide "do not call" list for phone-spam.
She wrote back, basically saying the bill was bad for business.
Maybe I should send campaign contributions to AOL, since they seem to get the job done.
http://www.compiere.org/
"the most popular Open Source business application - usually among the top 10 of the 60,000+ projects in SourceForge"
I looked at it a couple years ago for a grad school project, and the documentation was limited. However, now the technical docs look solid, and there's classroom and on-line user training.
Okay, I actually read some of the free exerpts from the book, and ran across this gem, which Prensky clearly agrees with:
...I really believe that this is a really important group of people. I get to talk a lot to politicians and scientists and entertainers and they all assume that they are the center of the world, and that they are making the decisions that are going to control how things come out. I actually think they are overestimating how much they are really influencing how things are coming out, and I usually give as an example people whom I think are really influencing the world -- game designers..."
"In addressing the 2000 CGDC, Danny Hillis, the renowned creator of Thinking Machines... said the following:
Well, that's modest. I've never met any big-time entertainers, but do know scientists, and have met politicians enough to agree with his observations. However, the scientists and politicians are right, they do have enormous influence over our world.
But game designers? Haven't seen too many game designers take out Iraq lately.
To those who refer to the "director's vision" and "movies as art," I hope you were excluding Hollywood. There's no more art in a John Travolta movie that there is in a Big Mac. And if I want to hold the pickles, then I oughta be able to hold the d%mn pickles.
5% of the population is all fired up about imagined conspiraries in the most media-surveilled place on Earth. Some folks worry about "partisanship bickering" but like that neither party has enough votes to push through their lame ideas.
My point? Enjoy these times. Make some money, drive a big car; it won't last forever....
David S.