Who do you think has lobbied longer, stronger, and more effectively against Federal obscenity laws, "grass roots" groups like the EFF, or Playboy?
Congratulations, you've managed to discern why I think the system is completely fucked.
It's "Fist in The Air/Head Up The Ass" attitudes like yours that reinforce the "smelly hippie" stereotypes and retard the spread and acceptance of free software.
If only you knew how ridiculous your stupid assumptions are...
Wow. Your complete non-understanding of economics and currency exchange rates is staggering.
I've got a question for you -- since a kilogram weighs more than a pound, does that mean that everything in Europe is heavier than in the United States?
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How can they be compared in terms of power per *square* inch? Are they that flat?
The computing devices themselves (chips) are all essentially flat. The air space in the case is for cooling, which is irrelevant to the question of computing power. Case footprint is a reasonable lower-bound on the surface area of the computing devices. So the numbers are all lower-bound approximations, but the numbers aren't really the point of this exercise (IMHO).
I really can't think of any bad that can come from this.
You can't? What about how it strengthens the ridiculous practice of corporations lobbying for corporate interests? Government is supposed to serve the people, not corporations. No matter what Red Hat's motives are.
Because the consequences for what he did should not be jail, duh.
I agree. As I said though, it ain't fucking relevant. You can't choose to enforce some laws and not others based on whether they are "right" or not. Law is not about what is right or wrong.
You ignorant sod, you are saying that a person should be deprived of their freedom for cracking passwords, not in any malicious way, and dutifully reporting the weakness to his employer.
No, I am NOT saying that. I am saying that a person who breaks a law should be punished as the law requires. If the law is unjust, the law should be changed. What is NOT right is for us to stop enforcing laws because we don't like them.
I mean this is no small way: Go fuck yourself.
Get over your silly indignation. You and I both think the law is stupid. The difference is, I am capable of distinguishing between legality and morality. You are not.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Our thumbs did not evolve "to grasp things" or to do anything else in particular. We have thumbs simply because those individuals who did not have died off. Nature has no intent or purpose, and neither do our thumbs.
hitting a right button on a trackpad while controlling the pointer with your finger requires an odd and probably unhealthy wrist contortion as you reach under your right hand with your thumb to hit that right button.
To be fair, that motion is what makes our thumbs "opposable" and it's much of the reason the human species dominates the animal kingdom... I don't think it'll do you any harm:-)
What Randal did shouldn't have landed him in jail, but it did.
Why shouldn't it have? It's a law like any other law. You break it, you suffer the consequences.
Whether or not the law is right is a different issue. Breaking the law might be a legitimate act of civil disobedience. I highly doubt that was what was going through his mind when he did it, however. And I think there are laws much more worthy of protest than this one.
I mean, come on -- do you really think it's that unreasonable to prosecute somebody who willfully misused corporate resources? What if instead of cracking passwords he was wasting reams of paper making photocopies of his ass? Would you still think him all noble for going against the establishment?
The more complex the application, the more key+mouse button combos.
That should read: "The dumber the user interface designers, the more key+mouse button combos."
Having a zillion context menus operated with different keys doesn't make your app "complex," it makes it stupid. You're really complaining about QuarkXpress and its poor user interface design, not the lack of a second mouse button.
(1) Would we pander to a bunch of so-called "satanists" {satanism is actually a branch of christianity} who demanded to sacrifice thirteen virgins on every full moon "for religious reasons"?
There's an enormous problem with this argument. People who refuse to donate their organs are not killing anyone. Everybody has a right to life, but nobody has the right to take somebody's organs against their wishes.
(2) Does any god who would deny someone admission to Heaven for someone who had saved another life, whilst admitting someone to Heaven who had denied another the gift of life, deserve to be worshipped?
You are not in a position to dictate to others what is and is not worthy of worship. To do so would be to admit that you place no value in the concept of free religious practice. Why not just admit it? You want to do away with the separation of church and state. Only religions which fit certain criteria are allowed.
(3) Which is the greater sin: to bury or burn a valuable resource which could have saved a life, or to cut up a piece of meat without asking someone first?
As sin is a religious concept, the only person capable of judging what is and is not sin is the worshipper.
Your opinions are tyrannical and dangerous. Luckily, you're just another sociopath ranting on Slashdot.
Sure, a butterfly in China might cause a hurricane in Florida. But that same butterfly won't cause an ice age. There's a huge difference between weather and climate.
Weather is highly chaotic, climate much less so. I'd be more inclined to believe a prediction of the average global temperature in 2010 than I would a prediction of the exact temperature at my house two weeks from now.
The one button mouse, or rather glidepoint, drives her nuts. Not the glidepoint itself (she loves that), but the single button that forces her to memorize somekey+mouseclick to do basic things the rest of us do with the right mouse button and, in the case of us Linux/*BSD folks, the middle mouse button.
Let me get this straight. She's unwilling/unable to memorize how to use one key, which is the same key on all Macs, in all applications, at all times? The key which has been used for this purpose since the beginning of Mac history?
Your girlfriend has a serious learning disability.
I've had a Mini sitting on my desk at work since Monday. The only time I ever heard even a whisper come out of it was while copying 600 megabytes of source code to its local drive.
As far as I'm concerned, the thing is like any other book on my desk.
First of all, Randal Schwartz was arrested because he was cracking passwords. The fact that he was the system administrator is irrelevant to the discussion. He was told not to do it, and he did it anyway.
Yeah, Intel had a somewhat contradictory set of policies. On the one hand, he was charged with improving network security. On the other, he was told he couldn't do certain things. Where Randal went wrong was when he saw that the policies were contradictory and went ahead anyway. There is always another option which won't get you in trouble: stop what you're fucking doing, and get clarification from management. Being an arrogant ass, he didn't, and so he was arrested.
If your boss says: "Yes, sure, release that code as GPL", but your contract says: "All code is propery of The Company(TM)", then your legal position is unclear, which is very, very bad.
In such a situation, you get written clarification, or you quit your job. You do not break the law and then whine when you are sent to jail.
Then your cell-mate will say: "I like this one. He's cute!", and you will say "Why did I ever move to Oregon!!! !!!". Not good. Not good at all.
You're pulling this out of your ass. I work in the Portland area as a software developer and have never heard of anything like what you are inventing here, except for the case of Randal Schwartz, which was a pretty clear-cut case of misuse of computer resources. The guy knew the law, he broke it, he went to jail. Tough shit.
He could have simply gone to his employer and said "I cannot carry out my job function under this contradictory set of requirements. I need clarification."
"AI" is the term we generally apply to any of the most advanced algorithms. As these algorithms become more common and well understood they fall out of the "AI" category into the "advanced algorithm" category, then eventually they aren't treated as anything special anymore.
For example, alpha-beta pruning was an amazing technique when it was first invented, but these days people would hesitate to call it "AI." The complexity of the alpha-beta algorithm is about on par with quicksort, and nobody would say that quicksort is AI.
The term "AI" is really rather vague and basically just means "Stuff that's complicated enough that it borders on magical," but algorithms are eventually made transparent and the appellation of "artificial intelligence" fades.
Their press release at sun.com said OpenSolaris via the CDDL will make 1,600 patents available to open source.
ONLY IF YOU USE THEIR LICENSE.
Although they permit you to sub-license the code under a different license, you lose the explicit permission granted by Sun's license to use the patents. What this means is that while you could TECHNICALLY sub-license the code, Sun can then turn around at any time and nail you for patent infringement.
As far as I'm concerned, this code is booby-trapped.
1. You want to send/receive naked ethernet frames, perhaps as part of some network debugging tool.
2. You want to configure your system as an ARP repeater.
3. You want to sniff traffic on that interface.
None of these tasks require the interface to have an IP address...
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Congratulations, you've managed to discern why I think the system is completely fucked.
It's "Fist in The Air/Head Up The Ass" attitudes like yours that reinforce the "smelly hippie" stereotypes and retard the spread and acceptance of free software.
If only you knew how ridiculous your stupid assumptions are...
I've got a question for you -- since a kilogram weighs more than a pound, does that mean that everything in Europe is heavier than in the United States?
The computing devices themselves (chips) are all essentially flat. The air space in the case is for cooling, which is irrelevant to the question of computing power. Case footprint is a reasonable lower-bound on the surface area of the computing devices. So the numbers are all lower-bound approximations, but the numbers aren't really the point of this exercise (IMHO).
You can't? What about how it strengthens the ridiculous practice of corporations lobbying for corporate interests? Government is supposed to serve the people, not corporations. No matter what Red Hat's motives are.
So, you're an anarchist. That's fine, but I'm not going to continue to argue with an anarchist.
I agree. As I said though, it ain't fucking relevant. You can't choose to enforce some laws and not others based on whether they are "right" or not. Law is not about what is right or wrong.
You ignorant sod, you are saying that a person should be deprived of their freedom for cracking passwords, not in any malicious way, and dutifully reporting the weakness to his employer.
No, I am NOT saying that. I am saying that a person who breaks a law should be punished as the law requires. If the law is unjust, the law should be changed. What is NOT right is for us to stop enforcing laws because we don't like them.
I mean this is no small way: Go fuck yourself.
Get over your silly indignation. You and I both think the law is stupid. The difference is, I am capable of distinguishing between legality and morality. You are not.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Our thumbs did not evolve "to grasp things" or to do anything else in particular. We have thumbs simply because those individuals who did not have died off. Nature has no intent or purpose, and neither do our thumbs.
To be fair, that motion is what makes our thumbs "opposable" and it's much of the reason the human species dominates the animal kingdom... I don't think it'll do you any harm :-)
Why shouldn't it have? It's a law like any other law. You break it, you suffer the consequences.
Whether or not the law is right is a different issue. Breaking the law might be a legitimate act of civil disobedience. I highly doubt that was what was going through his mind when he did it, however. And I think there are laws much more worthy of protest than this one.
I mean, come on -- do you really think it's that unreasonable to prosecute somebody who willfully misused corporate resources? What if instead of cracking passwords he was wasting reams of paper making photocopies of his ass? Would you still think him all noble for going against the establishment?
Heavily liberal, perhaps, but that hardly equates with "peace loving."
And the wording of my post really has little to no correlation with how angry I am (which is to say, "not at all angry").
That should read: "The dumber the user interface designers, the more key+mouse button combos."
Having a zillion context menus operated with different keys doesn't make your app "complex," it makes it stupid. You're really complaining about QuarkXpress and its poor user interface design, not the lack of a second mouse button.
Just my opinion.
There's an enormous problem with this argument. People who refuse to donate their organs are not killing anyone. Everybody has a right to life, but nobody has the right to take somebody's organs against their wishes.
(2) Does any god who would deny someone admission to Heaven for someone who had saved another life, whilst admitting someone to Heaven who had denied another the gift of life, deserve to be worshipped?
You are not in a position to dictate to others what is and is not worthy of worship. To do so would be to admit that you place no value in the concept of free religious practice. Why not just admit it? You want to do away with the separation of church and state. Only religions which fit certain criteria are allowed.
(3) Which is the greater sin: to bury or burn a valuable resource which could have saved a life, or to cut up a piece of meat without asking someone first?
As sin is a religious concept, the only person capable of judging what is and is not sin is the worshipper.
Your opinions are tyrannical and dangerous. Luckily, you're just another sociopath ranting on Slashdot.
Weather is highly chaotic, climate much less so. I'd be more inclined to believe a prediction of the average global temperature in 2010 than I would a prediction of the exact temperature at my house two weeks from now.
Offtopic? How can a comment about something mentioned in the article summary be offtopic?
People are switching to Firefox because it's simply cooler than IE. The security advantages are only secondary to that, for most people.
Let me get this straight. She's unwilling/unable to memorize how to use one key, which is the same key on all Macs, in all applications, at all times? The key which has been used for this purpose since the beginning of Mac history?
Your girlfriend has a serious learning disability.
As far as I'm concerned, the thing is like any other book on my desk.
You think that's cool? The president of my company lives three doors down from him.
Actually, only the exterior of the lodge was used in the movie. The scenes inside the lodge were filmed somewhere else.
Feh. Why live in Beaver when you can live in Boring?
First of all, Randal Schwartz was arrested because he was cracking passwords. The fact that he was the system administrator is irrelevant to the discussion. He was told not to do it, and he did it anyway.
Yeah, Intel had a somewhat contradictory set of policies. On the one hand, he was charged with improving network security. On the other, he was told he couldn't do certain things. Where Randal went wrong was when he saw that the policies were contradictory and went ahead anyway. There is always another option which won't get you in trouble: stop what you're fucking doing, and get clarification from management. Being an arrogant ass, he didn't, and so he was arrested.
If your boss says: "Yes, sure, release that code as GPL", but your contract says: "All code is propery of The Company(TM)", then your legal position is unclear, which is very, very bad.
In such a situation, you get written clarification, or you quit your job. You do not break the law and then whine when you are sent to jail.
Then your cell-mate will say: "I like this one. He's cute!", and you will say "Why did I ever move to Oregon!!! !!!". Not good. Not good at all.
You're pulling this out of your ass. I work in the Portland area as a software developer and have never heard of anything like what you are inventing here, except for the case of Randal Schwartz, which was a pretty clear-cut case of misuse of computer resources. The guy knew the law, he broke it, he went to jail. Tough shit.
He could have simply gone to his employer and said "I cannot carry out my job function under this contradictory set of requirements. I need clarification."
"AI" is the term we generally apply to any of the most advanced algorithms. As these algorithms become more common and well understood they fall out of the "AI" category into the "advanced algorithm" category, then eventually they aren't treated as anything special anymore.
For example, alpha-beta pruning was an amazing technique when it was first invented, but these days people would hesitate to call it "AI." The complexity of the alpha-beta algorithm is about on par with quicksort, and nobody would say that quicksort is AI.
The term "AI" is really rather vague and basically just means "Stuff that's complicated enough that it borders on magical," but algorithms are eventually made transparent and the appellation of "artificial intelligence" fades.
I happen to really dislike the GPL, but thanks for demonstrating your ability to jump to stupid conclusions.
ONLY IF YOU USE THEIR LICENSE.
Although they permit you to sub-license the code under a different license, you lose the explicit permission granted by Sun's license to use the patents. What this means is that while you could TECHNICALLY sub-license the code, Sun can then turn around at any time and nail you for patent infringement.
As far as I'm concerned, this code is booby-trapped.
A few reasons...
1. You want to send/receive naked ethernet frames, perhaps as part of some network debugging tool.
2. You want to configure your system as an ARP repeater.
3. You want to sniff traffic on that interface.
None of these tasks require the interface to have an IP address...