I prefs for marketing have stayed the same. In addition to having a spam/product registration e-mail account at yahoo, I also belong to some clubs and groups. When I looked at my prefs, they had not changed.
I have noticed that the mail-forwarding has ended. All of my pr0n stays on yahoo.
Stop and consider the discussion, debate, and even trolling that happens just on this site would be considered dangerous in Cuba. Your free speach is a rare and unique thing in the world.
Not only has Cuba banned computer sales to individuals, but the story say it's $260 dollars a month for an internet subscription. Annual saleries average $240 dollars. It sounds to me like the Cuban dictatorship has been unsuccessful in it's filtering of "enemy" web content. So they just make it too expensive to read.
There's a reason people are willing to float to the US on unsafe boats and rafts. Life sucks in Cuba. People disappear every day never to be seen again. The standard of living is terrible. School is nothing more than communist indoctrination.
The world will be a better place once Castro kicks off.
Janet Reno is a damn fool. I can't imagine the Cuban exile community in southern Florida ever forgivive Reno for deporting Elian Gonzolas.
"Wouldn't Time Warner's critcism of AOL be a violation of the DMCA?"
Why was I modded down to troll for posting this? There have been examples where the DMCA has been invoked to quash criticism of products by websites. I just thought that AOL could use the DMCA to shut up Time Warner.
Lately I seem to have a moderator with a grudge against me. It would be nice if moderation wasn't anonymous.
>>Oh, I must have misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were concerned about the welfare of programmers. You're paying for "added value", you say? Umm, how about the "added value" of creating the software in the first place? I don't disagree with your decision to use Red Hat or Mandrake.
What's wrong with supporting the better developer? When RMS gives his code away, you can't get upset when someone else makes money with it.
>>Just don't try to pass yourself off as some kind of morally superior developer advocate.
Oh please. I wasn't passing myself off as Ghandi. I just get sick of RMS's sanctimonious Free-everything crap.
>>he characterizes any attempt to charge money for software as evil.
>>Yeah, whatever. I love a good rant, but at least try to get your facts straight.
Yeah, whatever.
Many people/companies think they can't sell software and give it away at the same time. Hence my Blender example. RMS wants everyone to give away the source code, and gets pissy when someone thinks that might threaten their business model.
It's not enought just to give away a free copy of the software. They actually need to surrender their IP.
Honestly, I think the GPL relies on the fact that most humans are lazy.
Or how about the idea that I support the effort financially so it continues to serve me.
I buy a copy of Red Hat about once a year. I don't have to - my cable modem could grab the ISO overnight and I could burn it in the morning. But it's my way of supporting the cause. And I'm not distro biased - next time it may be Mandrake or someone who has the better mousetrap.
I have paid for GNU software. I paid Red Hat for it's distribution of Linux.
Oh, I'm sorry, did you mean I should pay RMS for some GNU software? Well, when you give your code away to your competetors you have to accept that they may package your code with something that adds to it's value. Red Hat has done just that. And next time I may buy Mandrake. They took Red Hat's (and RMS's) code, and added still more. Just because my money didn't go in RMS's pocket doesn't mean I didn't buy it.
In the end, I'm looking for the best software, and as a consumer, I appreciate the fact that Linux distros are cheaper that Windows.
I will not retract my statement. RMS wants all software code to be open under terms such as GPL. The code is the ONLY THING that a small company or independant programmer owns. And I think they have the right to own that code and keep it private if they so choose.
While opening the code would allow wider development, bug-checking and all of that good stuff, it also removes the incentive to pay the original author.
RMS is so biased towards free software that anything that he characterizes any attempt to charge money for software as evil.
Sorry Richard, but this is how some of people put bread of the table. There is nothing evil about seeking training, obtaining a skill, and then marketing that skill.
Recently NaN went out of business. They published a closed source but free beer piece of software called Blender. They gave a free version away and sold manuals and such to support the company. Towards the end, they came out with a slightly higher end product and charged money for it, while still maintaining the free version. It was the best peice of 3d software for Linux, bar none.
I would pay good money to bring back NaN and Blender. I financially support them, and would again.
Some people write free software and give it because they can afford to. Linus is one of those people. Good for him. But if he decided tomorrow that he needed to sell the Linux kernel instead of giving it away, I'd pay for it. He's proven it's worthwhile. And RMS would shaft Linus publicly for it.
I guess what I wish RMS could understand is that free and charity are good, but supporting small business and start ups and freeware independant programmers is also good.
When an underdog company produces a piece of software that beats whatever M$ has made, RMS could get behind them, but he won't. RMS will have none of that.
There are two reasons I can think of that Nvidia would do this:
They are greedy cocksuckers. Pardon my French.
It's a pre-emptive strike. Nvidia sees all of they whacked-out patents being issued on technologies that impact the PC market, and they are working to secure technologies that impact them directly or indirectly. They may not want to rape other companies for money. They just don't want to be raped.
I'd take the drive and be grateful it was offered. Most companies wouldn't do that much for you.
If the data was that important, you should have been backing up. Maybe that sounds trite, but it's true. You've learned a leason. I hope you can rebuild/replace the data that was lost.
But his opinion is crap ever since he claimed that he "cried at the end of Armagedeon". What a sell out. They were his site's biggest sponsor at the time.
Palm and WinCE devices qualify, depending on how liberally you want to read this. The synchronization of data with a desktop is compromised by such a narrow license.
Just more anti-competitive FUD. I swear, if the day ever comes where Linux is crippled by new laws and DMCA, I will never go back to M$ Windoze.
If you go to the LainOS ebscite, you see this is nothing but a brand new project with a Sawfish theme as it's sole finished component.
So all they needed to do to make the front page of/. is write and say "Hey guess what we're doing?"
How many good pieces of software come out that never get decent coverage on Slashdot? Buttloads. But these lamers put out a FILE and there they are. Frontpage of Slashdot.
If the EFF was smart they would fight the RIAA and MPAA over DVDs and CD copy protection using this argument.
Example: I think the argument could be made that DVD readers are a social device, and the CSS encryption scheme denies access to an important social resource.
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I prefs for marketing have stayed the same. In addition to having a spam/product registration e-mail account at yahoo, I also belong to some clubs and groups. When I looked at my prefs, they had not changed.
I have noticed that the mail-forwarding has ended. All of my pr0n stays on yahoo.
I've been using Gnu Privacy Assistant(GPA) for key maintenance and Evolution for email. Evolution has seamless GPA and PGP support.
GPA features a GUI and is very straightforward to use. I'm an encryption retard and I figured it out.
"You're terminated!"
(sounds of a pan flute)
Would I be correct that any homework that a student would want to publish after being exposed to the MS source code would be a violation of DMCA?
At the very least I imagine that students would be bound to a non-disclosure agreement.
The very language of computer science becomes compromised when you let MS in the classroom.
Stop and consider the discussion, debate, and even trolling that happens just on this site would be considered dangerous in Cuba. Your free speach is a rare and unique thing in the world.
Not only has Cuba banned computer sales to individuals, but the story say it's $260 dollars a month for an internet subscription. Annual saleries average $240 dollars. It sounds to me like the Cuban dictatorship has been unsuccessful in it's filtering of "enemy" web content. So they just make it too expensive to read.
There's a reason people are willing to float to the US on unsafe boats and rafts. Life sucks in Cuba. People disappear every day never to be seen again. The standard of living is terrible. School is nothing more than communist indoctrination.
The world will be a better place once Castro kicks off.
Janet Reno is a damn fool. I can't imagine the Cuban exile community in southern Florida ever forgivive Reno for deporting Elian Gonzolas.
Funny, isn't it, how the pirates don't need to crack any encryption to make copies of DVDs, but we have to ban DeCSS anyhow?
It doesn't state any such thing in the story. Where are you getting your details?
"Wouldn't Time Warner's critcism of AOL be a violation of the DMCA?"
Why was I modded down to troll for posting this? There have been examples where the DMCA has been invoked to quash criticism of products by websites. I just thought that AOL could use the DMCA to shut up Time Warner.
Lately I seem to have a moderator with a grudge against me. It would be nice if moderation wasn't anonymous.
Wouldn't Time Warner's critcism of AOL be a violation of the DMCA?
>>Oh, I must have misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were concerned about the welfare of programmers. You're paying for "added value", you say? Umm, how about the "added value" of creating the software in the first place? I don't disagree with your decision to use Red Hat or Mandrake.
What's wrong with supporting the better developer? When RMS gives his code away, you can't get upset when someone else makes money with it.
>>Just don't try to pass yourself off as some kind of morally superior developer advocate.
Oh please. I wasn't passing myself off as Ghandi. I just get sick of RMS's sanctimonious Free-everything crap.
>>he characterizes any attempt to charge money for software as evil.
>>Yeah, whatever. I love a good rant, but at least try to get your facts straight.
Yeah, whatever.
Many people/companies think they can't sell software and give it away at the same time. Hence my Blender example. RMS wants everyone to give away the source code, and gets pissy when someone thinks that might threaten their business model.
It's not enought just to give away a free copy of the software. They actually need to surrender their IP.
/rant
Honestly, I think the GPL relies on the fact that most humans are lazy.
Or how about the idea that I support the effort financially so it continues to serve me.
I buy a copy of Red Hat about once a year. I don't have to - my cable modem could grab the ISO overnight and I could burn it in the morning. But it's my way of supporting the cause. And I'm not distro biased - next time it may be Mandrake or someone who has the better mousetrap.
I have paid for GNU software. I paid Red Hat for it's distribution of Linux.
Oh, I'm sorry, did you mean I should pay RMS for some GNU software? Well, when you give your code away to your competetors you have to accept that they may package your code with something that adds to it's value. Red Hat has done just that. And next time I may buy Mandrake. They took Red Hat's (and RMS's) code, and added still more. Just because my money didn't go in RMS's pocket doesn't mean I didn't buy it.
In the end, I'm looking for the best software, and as a consumer, I appreciate the fact that Linux distros are cheaper that Windows.
I will not retract my statement. RMS wants all software code to be open under terms such as GPL. The code is the ONLY THING that a small company or independant programmer owns. And I think they have the right to own that code and keep it private if they so choose.
While opening the code would allow wider development, bug-checking and all of that good stuff, it also removes the incentive to pay the original author.
RMS is so biased towards free software that anything that he characterizes any attempt to charge money for software as evil.
Sorry Richard, but this is how some of people put bread of the table. There is nothing evil about seeking training, obtaining a skill, and then marketing that skill.
Recently NaN went out of business. They published a closed source but free beer piece of software called Blender. They gave a free version away and sold manuals and such to support the company. Towards the end, they came out with a slightly higher end product and charged money for it, while still maintaining the free version. It was the best peice of 3d software for Linux, bar none.
I would pay good money to bring back NaN and Blender. I financially support them, and would again.
Some people write free software and give it because they can afford to. Linus is one of those people. Good for him. But if he decided tomorrow that he needed to sell the Linux kernel instead of giving it away, I'd pay for it. He's proven it's worthwhile. And RMS would shaft Linus publicly for it.
I guess what I wish RMS could understand is that free and charity are good, but supporting small business and start ups and freeware independant programmers is also good.
When an underdog company produces a piece of software that beats whatever M$ has made, RMS could get behind them, but he won't. RMS will have none of that.
Besides the National Weather Service issuing storm warnings, EBS is there for pretty much one reason - the missles are coming.
As terrible as 9/11 was, it was not an emergency large enough to invoke the EBS.
There are two reasons I can think of that Nvidia would do this:
I'd take the drive and be grateful it was offered. Most companies wouldn't do that much for you.
If the data was that important, you should have been backing up. Maybe that sounds trite, but it's true. You've learned a leason. I hope you can rebuild/replace the data that was lost.
He probably saw it. I won't argue that.
But his opinion is crap ever since he claimed that he "cried at the end of Armagedeon". What a sell out. They were his site's biggest sponsor at the time.
I shit you not.
Palm and WinCE devices qualify, depending on how liberally you want to read this. The synchronization of data with a desktop is compromised by such a narrow license.
Just more anti-competitive FUD. I swear, if the day ever comes where Linux is crippled by new laws and DMCA, I will never go back to M$ Windoze.
Looking for Blender discusion forums. Anybody know where there are some good forums besides NaN's site?
NEWSFLASH!!!
Many nerds* use 1701 as an ATM pin number.
*in addition to Wil Wheaton.
The more I think of it, the more this bugs me.
/. is write and say "Hey guess what we're doing?"
If you go to the LainOS ebscite, you see this is nothing but a brand new project with a Sawfish theme as it's sole finished component.
So all they needed to do to make the front page of
How many good pieces of software come out that never get decent coverage on Slashdot? Buttloads. But these lamers put out a FILE and there they are. Frontpage of Slashdot.
Makes ya wonder who you have to blow around here.
It's just a sawfish theme.
If you like it, that's nice. but it's not an OS.
If the EFF was smart they would fight the RIAA and MPAA over DVDs and CD copy protection using this argument.
Example: I think the argument could be made that DVD readers are a social device, and the CSS encryption scheme denies access to an important social resource.
Did you seeks authorization before you added a network node?
Most of us with office jobs would ask for permission before we made the assumption that we can extend the network in an unauthorized manner.
Network security might have an opinion about an open node to the outside world that circumvents firewalls.