He seems to be up to the chapter on ridiculing it, and doing at least B level work at that.
Did you notice his sig line?
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
He's quoting field names - they wouldn't even parse as a field name... Meaning, even if he got his SQL implementation to provide any results at all, it would be the literal string "karma", and not the numeric value he appears to be seeking...
Come off it, guys... So he skimmed "SQL for Dummies" and "XML for complete, braindead morons who want to sound cool". I'm not hiring him, neither are you. He/she plays the 'puter and enjoys thinking he knows how to do stuff.
He's just having fun, and you should be, too. Didja get the joke?
I would say that Windows systems are less costly to patch for another reason. Almost anyone with technical ability can patch windows. You can hire windows admins on the cheap. To get Unix admins will cost more if you want someone that knows what they are doing.
But a Unix admin can administer more systems. If a Unix admin wasn't more effectively able to leverage himself, he wouldn't be worth more.
The free market corrects itself. Supply and demand....
Explain to me how anything is made "right" or any debt "paid" by locking a criminal up in a cage for a year. As I've said, locking bad guys in said cages makes the victims feel a bit better.
If something is "paid" for, the deal's over. Finite, No max. Except, as clearly demonstrated by the great grandparent poster, it isn't.
I think if someone was convicted of being a child molestor three times, we shouldn't let him out. But yes, if someone is released from prison, then he shouldn't be tracked. The idea of letting them out is that they have paid for their crime. They are citizens again. Tracking movements aftwards is a violation of their rights to privacy and free assembly.
You don't even see the contradiction in this, do you?
The idea of letting them out is that they have paid for their crime.
I think if someone was convicted of being a child molestor three times, we shouldn't let him out.
If somebody has "paid" for their crime, why is it ever an issue again? Let's put it another way:
The idea of letting the shoppers out of the store is that they have paid for their merchandise.
I think if someone was found to have purchased a bag of apples three times, we shouldn't let him out.
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
The truth of the matter is that sitting in a cage doesn't "pay" for anything. It's a punishment for doing something wrong, in a Pavlovian attempt to make the threat of more cage time prevent you from being bad. It might make the victim of the crime feel a bit better knowing that the cause of their woes is having a bad day. But that's about it.
There's no "rehabilitation" in the "Criminal Rehabilitation System", unless you consider extreme boredom and being Bubba's biatch "rehabilitation".
So, let's dispense this fiction, and get on with it... some crimes are committed out of mental illness for which there is no cure. (EG: Pedophilia) Why//NOT// track these criminals? Having a running history of where they were may well prove them innocent as "not at the scene" if there's ever a question in the future!
Otherwise, let's cook up a system whereby a criminal actually CAN "pay" for his misdeeds. But let's not start on a lie, eh?
I also remember when graphics cards didn't require a loud, whining fan to keep from catching on fire, not to mention a secondary power connector direct from the PSU.
I have to wonder how necessary the fan *actually* is...
I have a Radeon 8500 in my Athlon 2000+. Once it was a pretty "high end" card, it's now very hohum. It had a noisy, low-profile fan with an integrated cooler on it to keep it cool.
The fan died long ago. It never caused any instability, has continued to play my favorite games (GTA3/Vice City, Warcraft III, Max Payne, Doom3, etc) just fine. A while ago, I pulled the fan out of the heat sink so it would have better air flow.
Does it really make a difference? Has anybody disabled the fan on one of these "high end" cards to see what happens when you play XYZ game on it?
Steaks? STEAKS? WTF ?!?! You call that a Q? Pull yer head out, fella....
Sorry, pal. A rea 'Q doesn't have steaks, unless you are masochistic. A REAL 'cue has
1) Chicken. The holy, white, tasty nectar meat of the gods. Beef is for Texans and other low lifes. Extra points for salmon or tilapia.
2) Sweet/sour BBQ sauce. There is none higher. Extra points if you go for cajun sweet/sour.
3) Partially pre-baked - one of the biggest problems with a 'cue is getting the meat cooked in the center without charring the outside. A slow, medium temp (~300 degrees) pre-bake of your meat allows you to 'cue for flavor, rather than to keep yourself from getting food poisoning.
4) Cooked over low heat in the 'cue for about 30 minutes to an hour with sauce basted on. If you are a purist, you'd wrap the basted memat in foil. Either way, the end result is everything you want: crunchy, sweet, spicy, juicy, tender, OMFG delicious!
I saw the Asimo Robot on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum when my daughter competed in the US Nationals for the Sally Ride Science Foundation "Toy Challenge" recently. It was presented by an attractive, young woman.
There was a pause in her conversation when she asked the audience for a particular dance for Asimo, and I responded with the first one that came to mind... the robot!
Apparently, it does the cha-cha, the salsa, and a number of others, but it doesn't do the robot...
There's more to life than money. Money is wonderful to have, but if you don't have the time to use it, and in particular, don't have the people you care for with you to enjoy its benefits as well, it's worth less than the paper it's printed on.
As somebody who's done a number of businesses over the years, some technology-based, others not, I can say with great confidence that one of the best parts to running your own enterprise is the sense of purpose and control it can impart.
I've taken great care to SHARE my business life with my wife. She hears me prepare my speeches and presentations, often critiquing them. She knows when a big deal is about to land. She gets to share in the excitement and the disappointments. Also, I do the same with my 5 kids. I tell stories, crack jokes, and tell them what's going on and why I'm excited. (or disappointed)
My wife oversees numerous aspects of our businesses, as appropriate - and she does a good job, too!
Your friends didn't share their lives with their partners, so the partners decided to share their lives with somebody else. Don't confuse this omission with enjoying success.
To start and run a business without ever having held a job is a sure path to disaster for all but the most talented, hardworking, and lucky.
Boy, I think you missed something pretty basic...
Why do you think that sitting at a desk saying "yessir" is going to prepare you for the leadership, stamina, and adrenaline of running your own (startup) business?
I'm 32 years old. My last job was at the age of 17. Depending on where you draw lines, I've run over a dozen business and enterprises over the years. The majority came out profitable, a few were catastrophic duds.
And, with each attenpt, it gets better and bigger. Stakes get higher and higher, and it gets more and more fun!
Who'd care about gambling, with a skillset of "dump munny into da machine" when you can play with all your skills, talents, and witts in an engaging game that has real potential to improve the lives of hundreds or thousands of people, while profiting you handsomely?
Sorry. You can play your "yessir" job, if you think it'll help. But, I have stuff to GET DONE!
This might seem like an odd perspective, but if people are put out of work by the availability of open source competition and are contributing to the problem simply to remain 'on the dole', doesn't this system effectively screw professional programmers?
That's a pretty big "if"... Statements like this betray a basic concept that there's a total of NN software that needs to be developed, and that any amount satisfied by OSS is that much less bread to eat by developers
However, demand for software neither fixed nor predetermined. How many jobs have been lost as a result of the free availability of communications by the Internet? See, the cost of international, interpersonal communication dropped through the floor with the Internet - what about all those lost jobs in telecommunications?
I'm sure the Internet has cost SOME people their jobs, but how many new jobs popped up out of nowhere, doing web design, Intranet sites, database work, RPC and "middleware" based on this "free" Internet technology?
OSS works much the same way. Rather than create a condition of scarcity, it instead creates an environment of plenty - plenty of ideas to explore that otherwise wouldn't due to prohibitive cost, many of which will turn out to be very profitable.
Commonly addressed needs get commoditized by OSS software - Mail servers, databases, web servers, operating systems are all or are becoming commodities. The value, then, moves up the food chain a bit to providing services on top of these commodities.
You don't make much money selling tomatoes, but you might do very well selling food cooked with tomatoes at a restaurant. Same ideas with OSS software.
So, I was laying around lazily on a vacation here in San Diego, and an idea idly struck me while shooting the breeze with my accompanying teacher friend.
There have been plenty of schemes to use Solar Power Satellites to provide cheap, ecological power to earth-based consumers, but one big problem has always been transmission.
Lasers and microwaves have been proposed, but lasers are notoriously inefficient, and both lasers and satellites have other problems. (cooking birds, airplanes and pedestrians in the case of an alignment problem, etc)
How do you get that power down to earth?
Well, few recentarticles lead me to believe that a space elevator made of 5,5 quantum wires might be the best!
1) Transmission of power over superconductors wouldn't be very "lossy".
2) Problem of getting power to the elevators themselves largely solved.
3) 5,5 "quantum wires" are single-walled nanotubes, the best kind for tension strength, and are thus a natural fit.
4) No "cooked birds and airplanes" problems with alignment.
5) Getting sufficient material into space to build an economically feasible solar power station is cheap - just put the stuff on the elevator!
Is there any reason why this wouldn't work? Can anybody shoot holes in this idea?
That's not quite true. Many (most?) zombies and other forms of malware out there that are used to DDoS remote sites take advantage of the limitations of IPv4 (mostly the ease of forging your source IP address) to hide the true sources of the attack.
And, THAT's easily mitigated by proper configuration of border routers. It's a simple rule, easily implemented, and seriously reduces the odds that you won't be part of a DDOS attack...
Recent events have caused me to conclude that source code has no value to a software company.
The value is in the understanding on the part of the engineers who develop the software, who then develop the software to their understanding, which software gets sold.
Without this understanding, the engineers and coders produce crap and the company goes belly-up. Given the understanding, they produce wonders that are well received and highly appreciated by customers who happily pay on time.
So, the thing of most apparent value, and that which is sold, (the software) in truth is the LEAST significant assett for the software company.
It's the understanding of the industry for which the software is to be written. It's knowing all the approaches that didn't work. It's knowing the terminology of the target industry. It's knowing what's already been tried, and why it did (or did not) work.
The source code is merely a condensed, lossy format for preserving this knowledge.
It's difficult to grasp - and yet critical for the long-term survival of a software company!
Linux is no longer more secure as a web server... not when you factor in most of the PHP programs out there that people love, at least.
There's a fix in the wind... in the form of Mutex MPM
It hosts each website under its own user account rather than a catchall account like "nobody". This makes it possible to lock down your system much more so than before, and makes it much easier, when auditing after an intrusion, to determine who dun what.
It's really, REALLY a shame that this much-needed feature for Apache has been all but abandoned by the Apache Foundation. There's a guy in Europe who has more or less carried the torch solo and as soon as I can muster it, I intend to help out by using it and reporting any bugs found.
Support for hosting by UID, chroot, etc. make the security problems talked about here largely vanish!
It's sad, really. Security is so needed, and in this one area, the bazaar model is just *barely* working at all. (Thanks Asbjørn Sannes!)
This could be done today on large lans (colleges, lan partys, etc), but noone has developed the tech. Using LUFS would make it pretty easy on linux, though for windows it will still be a pain, and no windows support cuts off a lot of potential files.
Hm. Sounds interesting. WTF is LUFS? Well, google turned up a freshmeat project which says:
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many "exotic" filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
What was that again? I've been using Linux (almost!) exclusively since 1999, and I can't make heads or tails of that! Looks sorta like the kitchen sink, fridge, and auto gas-tank all rolled up into one thingamajigger.
Heh?
When would I use LUFS? Why would I use LUFS? And how would this help me get the latest Britney Spears tunes?
Sorry, but there's a reason why people aren't legally considered adults until their 18. There's a reason why there's a drinking age. There's a reason why a 21 year old can't be elected President of the U.S.
With time comes experience, and with experience, judgement.
Great! Now, Linus can be helping to build OSS counterparts to commercial software that can be truly trusted, rather than rely on the whims of a commercial vendor.
and
This is just another example of where OSS software is MORE RELIABLE than their commercial counterparts.
The thing is, they'd be right.
The only thing is to remember: The terms of Linus' use of BK was noncommercial which is poison to a commercial entity. The combination of closed-source + no charge == noncommercial. If it was OSS, with a GPL-like license, at least the OSS community could give something back to BK that wasn't money, but it wasn't, and BK had no opportunity to profit in ANY WAY from this move.
On the other hand, there is a phenomenom known as quantum tunnel transmission that has allegedly been shown to transmit information at 4.7 times the speed of light over short distances: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=q uantum+tunne ling+transmission&btnG=Google+Search/
But, did you RTFA that you mentioned? Nowhere in nthe article you mention does it indicate that, at any point they were able to transmit ENERGY or INFORMATION at a speed exceeding light.
Read it again, and maybe you'll get it this time (?)
Apparently not for you. The neat part about licenses, is that they're so damn easy to cook up. For example:
"This code is licensed under GPL 2, except that any changes must be posted to website http://foobar.com/projectname as long as such site is available".
Simple, no? You could say that:
"This code is open and free for any private, human entity. It may not be used, owned, or applied by any non-human entity, including Corporations, Trusts, or other fictitious legal entity in any form."
Hard, wasn't it?
See, as the licensor, you can put pretty much any term you want. There are *SOME* limitations, but they aren't what you might think.
Ever READ the GPL? It's written in plain English, not Lawyerspeak. (Oh, and IANAL, all that jazz) When dealing with anything legal, lawyerspeak is to English was code is to specifications. It's intentionally a little halting because it's precise.
If you figure your licensed product is worth millions, get an attorney. Otherwise, specify the terms you like, and enjoy!
You can't make as much money with open source software as you can with closed source software.
Just how much of the software written, do you think gets SOLD, in boxes? 90%? 75? 50%?
Try around 10%. Most software is written by programmers in corporations for internal needs, or written for specific, custom contracts, not intended to be sold again.
But, don't believe ME. Go and ask everybody you know that writes software, and add it up yourself. Get a decent sampling size, and you'll see what I mean.
Microsoft, Oracle, and a few others get lots of press, because they make easy stories for journalists to write. The real world is quite a bit more difficult to understand.
If OSS was an inherently flawed market architecture, why has it grown so rapidly and so well? In just 5 years, it's vaulted from relative obscurity to a central theme for servers and the data centers!
Making profit is a good thing.
I agree. That's why I'd rather base a solution on FREE Linux and FREE Postgres and FREE Apache than on PRICEY Windows Server 2003 and PRICEY SQL-Server and PRICEY IIS. I write lots of software for a living, and I'd just as soon pocket the money.
Oh, and I do give back - lots - whenever it's convenient and doesn't compromise my core "mojo" - the benefits of doing so generally outweigh the costs, and I've even, quite a number of times, found my own solution to a problem I was trying to solve, and solved earlier!
Well, this thread is aging, so my chances at mod points are pretty slim - oh well.
The problem here, is, that this doesn't pass the "sniff test". In other words, does it smell right, a bit off, or way out there?
If the idea of problems with GPL fonts commandeering works printed with them was a gallon of milk, I'd expect to see lumps of greenish goo.
It doesn't pass the sniff test. At all.
It's like those people you'll hear of from time-to-time who say that all you have to do is file XYZ papers with the IRS so that you are a "State Citizen" or a "US Citizen", thus making you exempt from the IRS taxes. Never mind all those in jail doing time for tax evasion. Just file this paper, pay me $2,000, and have a nice day....
Sorry, I'm not buying it. I'll print what I feel I want to, in whatever editor I feel like, on whatever printer I desire, and I'll rightfully retain my rights on whatever I printed. I won't pirate that word processor, either. (Nor the O/S running on the machine, or the printer driver... you get the idea)
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The SQL is perfectly valid. Backticks
Those were backticks! A detail I missed.
(hangs head in shame, withdraws nerd card, backs away sheepishly)
Some of the biggest problems that "new" database designs have:
1) Overly complex
2) Don't scale
3) Tied to a single platform/implementation
4) Poor performance
It's typical to see all four in a single try!
SQL, on the other hand:
1) Reasonably simple API
2) Scales to very large databsaes
3) Cross-platform/architecture
4) Performs very well.
Given the insane amount of inertia SQL has, it will extend into an object model, rather than be replaced by one. (EG: C/C++)
He seems to be up to the chapter on ridiculing it, and doing at least B level work at that.
Did you notice his sig line?
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
He's quoting field names - they wouldn't even parse as a field name... Meaning, even if he got his SQL implementation to provide any results at all, it would be the literal string "karma", and not the numeric value he appears to be seeking...
Come off it, guys... So he skimmed "SQL for Dummies" and "XML for complete, braindead morons who want to sound cool". I'm not hiring him, neither are you. He/she plays the 'puter and enjoys thinking he knows how to do stuff.
He's just having fun, and you should be, too. Didja get the joke?
I would say that Windows systems are less costly to patch for another reason. Almost anyone with technical ability can patch windows. You can hire windows admins on the cheap. To get Unix admins will cost more if you want someone that knows what they are doing.
But a Unix admin can administer more systems. If a Unix admin wasn't more effectively able to leverage himself, he wouldn't be worth more.
The free market corrects itself. Supply and demand....
Will you respond? Is it too late?
Explain to me how anything is made "right" or any debt "paid" by locking a criminal up in a cage for a year. As I've said, locking bad guys in said cages makes the victims feel a bit better.
If something is "paid" for, the deal's over. Finite, No max. Except, as clearly demonstrated by the great grandparent poster, it isn't.
Suffering != Payment
You don't even see the contradiction in this, do you? If somebody has "paid" for their crime, why is it ever an issue again? Let's put it another way: Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
The truth of the matter is that sitting in a cage doesn't "pay" for anything. It's a punishment for doing something wrong, in a Pavlovian attempt to make the threat of more cage time prevent you from being bad. It might make the victim of the crime feel a bit better knowing that the cause of their woes is having a bad day. But that's about it.
There's no "rehabilitation" in the "Criminal Rehabilitation System", unless you consider extreme boredom and being Bubba's biatch "rehabilitation".
So, let's dispense this fiction, and get on with it... some crimes are committed out of mental illness for which there is no cure. (EG: Pedophilia) Why
Otherwise, let's cook up a system whereby a criminal actually CAN "pay" for his misdeeds. But let's not start on a lie, eh?
I also remember when graphics cards didn't require a loud, whining fan to keep from catching on fire, not to mention a secondary power connector direct from the PSU.
I have to wonder how necessary the fan *actually* is...
I have a Radeon 8500 in my Athlon 2000+. Once it was a pretty "high end" card, it's now very hohum. It had a noisy, low-profile fan with an integrated cooler on it to keep it cool.
The fan died long ago. It never caused any instability, has continued to play my favorite games (GTA3/Vice City, Warcraft III, Max Payne, Doom3, etc) just fine. A while ago, I pulled the fan out of the heat sink so it would have better air flow.
Does it really make a difference? Has anybody disabled the fan on one of these "high end" cards to see what happens when you play XYZ game on it?
Steaks? STEAKS? WTF ?!?! You call that a Q? Pull yer head out, fella....
Sorry, pal. A rea 'Q doesn't have steaks, unless you are masochistic. A REAL 'cue has
1) Chicken. The holy, white, tasty nectar meat of the gods. Beef is for Texans and other low lifes. Extra points for salmon or tilapia.
2) Sweet/sour BBQ sauce. There is none higher. Extra points if you go for cajun sweet/sour.
3) Partially pre-baked - one of the biggest problems with a 'cue is getting the meat cooked in the center without charring the outside. A slow, medium temp (~300 degrees) pre-bake of your meat allows you to 'cue for flavor, rather than to keep yourself from getting food poisoning.
4) Cooked over low heat in the 'cue for about 30 minutes to an hour with sauce basted on. If you are a purist, you'd wrap the basted memat in foil. Either way, the end result is everything you want: crunchy, sweet, spicy, juicy, tender, OMFG delicious!
I saw the Asimo Robot on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum when my daughter competed in the US Nationals for the Sally Ride Science Foundation "Toy Challenge" recently. It was presented by an attractive, young woman.
There was a pause in her conversation when she asked the audience for a particular dance for Asimo, and I responded with the first one that came to mind... the robot!
Apparently, it does the cha-cha, the salsa, and a number of others, but it doesn't do the robot...
Whodda thought?
There's more to life than money. Money is wonderful to have, but if you don't have the time to use it, and in particular, don't have the people you care for with you to enjoy its benefits as well, it's worth less than the paper it's printed on.
As somebody who's done a number of businesses over the years, some technology-based, others not, I can say with great confidence that one of the best parts to running your own enterprise is the sense of purpose and control it can impart.
I've taken great care to SHARE my business life with my wife. She hears me prepare my speeches and presentations, often critiquing them. She knows when a big deal is about to land. She gets to share in the excitement and the disappointments. Also, I do the same with my 5 kids. I tell stories, crack jokes, and tell them what's going on and why I'm excited. (or disappointed)
My wife oversees numerous aspects of our businesses, as appropriate - and she does a good job, too!
Your friends didn't share their lives with their partners, so the partners decided to share their lives with somebody else. Don't confuse this omission with enjoying success.
To start and run a business without ever having held a job is a sure path to disaster for all but the most talented, hardworking, and lucky.
Boy, I think you missed something pretty basic...
Why do you think that sitting at a desk saying "yessir" is going to prepare you for the leadership, stamina, and adrenaline of running your own (startup) business?
I'm 32 years old. My last job was at the age of 17. Depending on where you draw lines, I've run over a dozen business and enterprises over the years. The majority came out profitable, a few were catastrophic duds.
And, with each attenpt, it gets better and bigger. Stakes get higher and higher, and it gets more and more fun!
Who'd care about gambling, with a skillset of "dump munny into da machine" when you can play with all your skills, talents, and witts in an engaging game that has real potential to improve the lives of hundreds or thousands of people, while profiting you handsomely?
Sorry. You can play your "yessir" job, if you think it'll help. But, I have stuff to GET DONE!
This might seem like an odd perspective, but if people are put out of work by the availability of open source competition and are contributing to the problem simply to remain 'on the dole', doesn't this system effectively screw professional programmers?
That's a pretty big "if"... Statements like this betray a basic concept that there's a total of NN software that needs to be developed, and that any amount satisfied by OSS is that much less bread to eat by developers
However, demand for software neither fixed nor predetermined. How many jobs have been lost as a result of the free availability of communications by the Internet? See, the cost of international, interpersonal communication dropped through the floor with the Internet - what about all those lost jobs in telecommunications?
I'm sure the Internet has cost SOME people their jobs, but how many new jobs popped up out of nowhere, doing web design, Intranet sites, database work, RPC and "middleware" based on this "free" Internet technology?
OSS works much the same way. Rather than create a condition of scarcity, it instead creates an environment of plenty - plenty of ideas to explore that otherwise wouldn't due to prohibitive cost, many of which will turn out to be very profitable.
Commonly addressed needs get commoditized by OSS software - Mail servers, databases, web servers, operating systems are all or are becoming commodities. The value, then, moves up the food chain a bit to providing services on top of these commodities.
You don't make much money selling tomatoes, but you might do very well selling food cooked with tomatoes at a restaurant. Same ideas with OSS software.
Let's just get them out of the way, shall we?
1) Imagine a beowulf cluster of... uh, hold on.
2) In Soviet Russia, the computer clusters YOU!
3) frist Psot!
4) DUPE!
5) Old people in Noth Korea...
6) How fast will the Linux Kernel compile on THAT baby?
7) Yeah, but what's the FPS in Quake III?
8)Some other comment regarding Microsoft, Sun, or SGI....
Also, if you browse at -1...
9) GNAA
10) goatse,
11) Cmdr Taco
There. Did I get them all? Let the REAL discussions begin!
So, I was laying around lazily on a vacation here in San Diego, and an idea idly struck me while shooting the breeze with my accompanying teacher friend.
There have been plenty of schemes to use Solar Power Satellites to provide cheap, ecological power to earth-based consumers, but one big problem has always been transmission.
Lasers and microwaves have been proposed, but lasers are notoriously inefficient, and both lasers and satellites have other problems. (cooking birds, airplanes and pedestrians in the case of an alignment problem, etc)
How do you get that power down to earth?
Well, few recent articles lead me to believe that a space elevator made of 5,5 quantum wires might be the best!
1) Transmission of power over superconductors wouldn't be very "lossy".
2) Problem of getting power to the elevators themselves largely solved.
3) 5,5 "quantum wires" are single-walled nanotubes, the best kind for tension strength, and are thus a natural fit.
4) No "cooked birds and airplanes" problems with alignment.
5) Getting sufficient material into space to build an economically feasible solar power station is cheap - just put the stuff on the elevator!
Is there any reason why this wouldn't work? Can anybody shoot holes in this idea?
That's not quite true. Many (most?) zombies and other forms of malware out there that are used to DDoS remote sites take advantage of the limitations of IPv4 (mostly the ease of forging your source IP address) to hide the true sources of the attack.
And, THAT's easily mitigated by proper configuration of border routers. It's a simple rule, easily implemented, and seriously reduces the odds that you won't be part of a DDOS attack...
Recent events have caused me to conclude that source code has no value to a software company.
The value is in the understanding on the part of the engineers who develop the software, who then develop the software to their understanding, which software gets sold.
Without this understanding, the engineers and coders produce crap and the company goes belly-up. Given the understanding, they produce wonders that are well received and highly appreciated by customers who happily pay on time.
So, the thing of most apparent value, and that which is sold, (the software) in truth is the LEAST significant assett for the software company.
It's the understanding of the industry for which the software is to be written. It's knowing all the approaches that didn't work. It's knowing the terminology of the target industry. It's knowing what's already been tried, and why it did (or did not) work.
The source code is merely a condensed, lossy format for preserving this knowledge.
It's difficult to grasp - and yet critical for the long-term survival of a software company!
Linux is no longer more secure as a web server... not when you factor in most of the PHP programs out there that people love, at least.
There's a fix in the wind... in the form of Mutex MPM
It hosts each website under its own user account rather than a catchall account like "nobody". This makes it possible to lock down your system much more so than before, and makes it much easier, when auditing after an intrusion, to determine who dun what.
It's really, REALLY a shame that this much-needed feature for Apache has been all but abandoned by the Apache Foundation. There's a guy in Europe who has more or less carried the torch solo and as soon as I can muster it, I intend to help out by using it and reporting any bugs found.
Support for hosting by UID, chroot, etc. make the security problems talked about here largely vanish!
It's sad, really. Security is so needed, and in this one area, the bazaar model is just *barely* working at all. (Thanks Asbjørn Sannes!)
Hm. Sounds interesting. WTF is LUFS? Well, google turned up a freshmeat project which says:What was that again? I've been using Linux (almost!) exclusively since 1999, and I can't make heads or tails of that! Looks sorta like the kitchen sink, fridge, and auto gas-tank all rolled up into one thingamajigger.
Heh?
When would I use LUFS? Why would I use LUFS? And how would this help me get the latest Britney Spears tunes?
Your statement was blatently ageist and you should be rethinking it.
There's a certain, very clear truth to "ageism". Or, perhaps, you should be taking a good, hard look one of the biggest opponents to "ageism".
Sorry, but there's a reason why people aren't legally considered adults until their 18. There's a reason why there's a drinking age. There's a reason why a 21 year old can't be elected President of the U.S.
With time comes experience, and with experience, judgement.
How would/could I use two-way security for a web-based application?
The only thing I can think of is to do something fancy and painful with javascript... any ideas?
The only thing is to remember: The terms of Linus' use of BK was noncommercial which is poison to a commercial entity. The combination of closed-source + no charge == noncommercial. If it was OSS, with a GPL-like license, at least the OSS community could give something back to BK that wasn't money, but it wasn't, and BK had no opportunity to profit in ANY WAY from this move.
I'm not surprised this didn't work out well.
On the other hand, there is a phenomenom known as quantum tunnel transmission that has allegedly been shown to transmit information at 4.7 times the speed of light over short distances:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=
But, did you RTFA that you mentioned? Nowhere in nthe article you mention does it indicate that, at any point they were able to transmit ENERGY or INFORMATION at a speed exceeding light.
Read it again, and maybe you'll get it this time (?)
Apparently not for you. The neat part about licenses, is that they're so damn easy to cook up. For example:Simple, no? You could say that:Hard, wasn't it?
See, as the licensor, you can put pretty much any term you want. There are *SOME* limitations, but they aren't what you might think.
Ever READ the GPL? It's written in plain English, not Lawyerspeak. (Oh, and IANAL, all that jazz) When dealing with anything legal, lawyerspeak is to English was code is to specifications. It's intentionally a little halting because it's precise.
If you figure your licensed product is worth millions, get an attorney. Otherwise, specify the terms you like, and enjoy!
You can't make as much money with open source software as you can with closed source software.
Just how much of the software written, do you think gets SOLD, in boxes? 90%? 75? 50%?
Try around 10%. Most software is written by programmers in corporations for internal needs, or written for specific, custom contracts, not intended to be sold again.
But, don't believe ME. Go and ask everybody you know that writes software, and add it up yourself. Get a decent sampling size, and you'll see what I mean.
Microsoft, Oracle, and a few others get lots of press, because they make easy stories for journalists to write. The real world is quite a bit more difficult to understand.
If OSS was an inherently flawed market architecture, why has it grown so rapidly and so well? In just 5 years, it's vaulted from relative obscurity to a central theme for servers and the data centers!
Making profit is a good thing.
I agree. That's why I'd rather base a solution on FREE Linux and FREE Postgres and FREE Apache than on PRICEY Windows Server 2003 and PRICEY SQL-Server and PRICEY IIS. I write lots of software for a living, and I'd just as soon pocket the money.
Oh, and I do give back - lots - whenever it's convenient and doesn't compromise my core "mojo" - the benefits of doing so generally outweigh the costs, and I've even, quite a number of times, found my own solution to a problem I was trying to solve, and solved earlier!
Well, this thread is aging, so my chances at mod points are pretty slim - oh well.
The problem here, is, that this doesn't pass the "sniff test". In other words, does it smell right, a bit off, or way out there?
If the idea of problems with GPL fonts commandeering works printed with them was a gallon of milk, I'd expect to see lumps of greenish goo.
It doesn't pass the sniff test. At all.
It's like those people you'll hear of from time-to-time who say that all you have to do is file XYZ papers with the IRS so that you are a "State Citizen" or a "US Citizen", thus making you exempt from the IRS taxes. Never mind all those in jail doing time for tax evasion. Just file this paper, pay me $2,000, and have a nice day....
Sorry, I'm not buying it. I'll print what I feel I want to, in whatever editor I feel like, on whatever printer I desire, and I'll rightfully retain my rights on whatever I printed. I won't pirate that word processor, either. (Nor the O/S running on the machine, or the printer driver... you get the idea)
Good luck with your GPL fonts.