It is not a question about the evil of the items sold, they, and the people who buys them, are indeed evil. But that is not the question. The question is whetever it is practical and ethical, to, in order to stop this auctions, have the american website ban french IPs, or have staff enought to censor the auctions. It will probably NOT decrease the number of nazi-items sold - nazis are not stup, just evil, they'l find a way around, while normal french sitizens who wants to buy other things from the US, will not be able to do so through the american website.
This is a question whetever the common carrier, or the individuals using it, are accountable for illegal acts performed by the individuals.
You can not download StarOffice source. You can download the GPLed parts of the code (nearly everything, except for printer drivers), released under the name OpenOffice. In fact, those sources have allready been made RPMs out of by MandrakeSoft, some weeks ago!
Have you ever used Word 2000? Windows? Anything made by MS? Or Sun's StarOffice (Newly opened up as OpenOffice). All of those are developed in a non-democratic fashion. Are the non-bloated, small and contain only the features the users want? Far from. Ok, you have minimalistic projects like QNX, too. But in my experience, the model of developement does not matter at all for the level of featurebloat.
Generating porn. That would be a nice thing. Then at least the moralists in my country would loose their argument - their argument is that porn-making is most of the time a bad workplace and not good for the women.
Oh, and how would it generate porn? Wouldn't a 3D model of a generic human body, plus some randomization of the individual differencies, a physics-sim. plus some general rules about what's sex do it pretty much easier?
Whst's wrong with.health.com? Why can't they just create a subdomain? Why do they need a topplevel domain? The system was intended to be hierarchical, not flat. And health-industries are industries, aren't they? Should be under.com!
Btw, someone at some moment suggested here on/. that a good idea might be to have the price on domains raise with the numbers of domains an organisation wants - that way, the system would force hierarchy. I like the idea, but it is to easy to work around - just have an employee register the domain name on him/her, or a daughter-company...
Freedom is not something you get. Its something you take. And you have to continue fighting to keep it.
And when it comes to figuring out whats on the servers, we have laws. Laws that most of the time says you are to be regarded as not guilty until proven guilty. And with some technical solutions (like freenet), you can not prove that a person actually posted some information, that the person actually downloaded it, or delete it from the net (without shutting down _all_ servers). On freenet, if I put a document there, you don't like, you can put a pistol to my head, there is no way I can remove it anyway...
There are technical solutions to get freedom. Those are hard work. Freedom is political, but politics can be pure technical if technitians start argue.
I know this may sound childish... But:
What if we (as in "internet users") declared it independent?
Yes, individual servers are physically located in a physical country. However, information doesn't have to. A very good example is if you XOR a message with random data, and store the random data, and the result of the XOR, on two different hosts on the net. Both of them contain as much information as the other, and independent of each other, they both are useless random data...
We have the technical tools to defend such a country (e.g. freenet). We seem to ahve the people (the free software community is quite a good start, but there are quite a lot of other communities that I think (c|w)ould gather up)...
What I mean, is a declaration of independence, including a basic set of rights and obligations of the sitizens of the net.
In an agreement (made when MS bought some non-voting shares in Corel), Corel agreed MS may optionally have Corel port MS.NET to Linux. If MS opt so, they should hand over the sources to MS.NET, and Corel is entitled to a non-transferable, sitewide source-license. As I remember the text from the agreement (It's not by the letter, but freely from my memmory).
The difference is, I can have your's, without you not having it.
Human nature is to have. To have more, and finaly, have even more. It is not neccessarily to make other not to have, have less, and even less. At least, I hope so. If not, we may as well fire a good atom-bomb over all of t his place, and erase this virus from the universe!
Without theoretical dreams, we would all be killing, raping and making each other starve. Oh, waitabit - we are...
This is the type of problem Freenet was designed to solve. Freenet is not really ready fro prime-time, but in a year or so, it might be ready for putting endangered information in...
Time's wrapping around the corner. Not they try to make assembly a high-(or at least, middle-)level-language. Perheaps it works this time, since machines are not that damn slow as they where at the good old time of the symbolics LISP-machines. But at least LISP is a minimal language...
MAC addresses where not meant to be changed. However, you can on most cards. For some, there even exist linux-utilities to do so (You don't even have to reboot if your kernel have the card-driver as a module). For an example for 3com-cards, you can grab my modified version of Donald Becker's 3c5x9setup here.
ReiserFS, or just any journaled FS will do the trick... There are distros which includes this prepatched into the kernel (Hint, hint: Linux-Mandrake)...
Me: pro free software on the client and server. Linux: Where it suits? Windows: Nowhere!
Try to find RPM packages of your programs. Their install instructions are _allways_ "do rpm -i packagename.rpm". This is as simple as it can be. If you need to upgrade other packages (highly unlikely), you will be told so in a standard-manner. If you are using Mandrake, you can use urpmi instaed of rpm -i, and it will automatically install what packages are needed from the dist to satisfy the dependencies of your package.
And if you can not find RPMs, most packages use autoconf, which means that you probably can do "./configure; make; make install" (as root, of course) to install them. This holds true for _a_lot_ of packages. But still RPMs are better, since if they depend on any other program or lib to allready be installed, they will tell you so in a standardised an d nice way, not just resist to work.
Most windows apps ask you one million of questions from a graphical installer. In addition, you can not do any other work at the same time you are installing an app, and usually have to reboot to be able to use the new app.
These graphical installations are made by someone. The producer of the software. The same can be said about RPMs. And RPM packaged programs are easier to install, since they will _never_ ask you any questions. My point? Linux is not user-unfriendly. but you are trying to install programs as a developer does. This is clearly not suited for you (since you are not a developer). RPM (Or deb if you are using debian) is suited for you.
Ok, enought ranting thusfar.
Here are some questions on the article:
Could you (the author of the article) please contact me regarding DrakSync on redhog@mandrakesoft.com and explain exactly _how_ it went wrong?
So, world, we just have to wait, and the technical knowledge of the US will slowly but steadily degrade. Soon, they'l be in their own little stone-age. if feel sorry for the smart people in the US, but they may perheaps flee before it's too late. Unfourtunately, I don't know if fleeing to the EU will make it any better for you... We may ass well soon be a burning hole...
Or why not just write a server that translates the commands it recieves from its X-clients into native calls? That way, you wouldn't miss any of the networking features, but still have real MAC-windowses and so on.
And probably someone else have allready written this somewhere below 0...
There is one operating system, which is like that - Windows. From my point of view, there is a value in having several competing dists. I am working for MandrakeSoft, and how much I want to see MandrakeSoft successfull, I don't want it to kill the competitors. One of the strengths of Free Software is that it reinsert competition in the software market. Do we really want to go back to The One True Operating System?
Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions, and may or may not comform to those of my employer.
tacking uses two forces (the wind and the resitance of the water). In space, you have solar wind and you have grvity. *should* work... Oh, and this is not well thought through at all, so you may have to >/dev/null
So, crack it, and release the crack one day or soe after the contest is officially over. And release it to some sience magazine or so. A math/CS one would perheaps be interrested in such a thing. Then you call NY Times or something and tell them about the article and that SDMI sux. If they put DMCA against you, say that you only used the contest time (during which you where urged by the creators of the thingie to crack it), and just waited with the release... Should be fairly water-tight. And if they sue you, even the most stupid non-hacker will laught at them...
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, they had 9 moth of delay...
He's obviously coding the loop
for (i=0; i = MAX_INT; i++) { foo }
in an innovative way (but why in hell does he write iMax? It should clearly be -1)...
Mind me if I say I don't want even inovative things like this become påatented...
It is not a question about the evil of the items sold, they, and the people who buys them, are indeed evil. But that is not the question. The question is whetever it is practical and ethical, to, in order to stop this auctions, have the american website ban french IPs, or have staff enought to censor the auctions. It will probably NOT decrease the number of nazi-items sold - nazis are not stup, just evil, they'l find a way around, while normal french sitizens who wants to buy other things from the US, will not be able to do so through the american website.
This is a question whetever the common carrier, or the individuals using it, are accountable for illegal acts performed by the individuals.
I opt for the individuals.
You can not download StarOffice source. You can download the GPLed parts of the code (nearly everything, except for printer drivers), released under the name OpenOffice. In fact, those sources have allready been made RPMs out of by MandrakeSoft, some weeks ago!
Have you ever used Word 2000? Windows? Anything made by MS? Or Sun's StarOffice (Newly opened up as OpenOffice). All of those are developed in a non-democratic fashion. Are the non-bloated, small and contain only the features the users want? Far from. Ok, you have minimalistic projects like QNX, too. But in my experience, the model of developement does not matter at all for the level of featurebloat.
Generating porn. That would be a nice thing. Then at least the moralists in my country would loose their argument - their argument is that porn-making is most of the time a bad workplace and not good for the women.
Oh, and how would it generate porn? Wouldn't a 3D model of a generic human body, plus some randomization of the individual differencies, a physics-sim. plus some general rules about what's sex do it pretty much easier?
Whst's wrong with .health.com? Why can't they just create a subdomain? Why do they need a topplevel domain? The system was intended to be hierarchical, not flat. And health-industries are industries, aren't they? Should be under .com!
/. that a good idea might be to have the price on domains raise with the numbers of domains an organisation wants - that way, the system would force hierarchy. I like the idea, but it is to easy to work around - just have an employee register the domain name on him/her, or a daughter-company...
Btw, someone at some moment suggested here on
Freedom is not something you get. Its something you take. And you have to continue fighting to keep it.
And when it comes to figuring out whats on the servers, we have laws. Laws that most of the time says you are to be regarded as not guilty until proven guilty. And with some technical solutions (like freenet), you can not prove that a person actually posted some information, that the person actually downloaded it, or delete it from the net (without shutting down _all_ servers). On freenet, if I put a document there, you don't like, you can put a pistol to my head, there is no way I can remove it anyway...
There are technical solutions to get freedom. Those are hard work. Freedom is political, but politics can be pure technical if technitians start argue.
I know this may sound childish... But: What if we (as in "internet users") declared it independent? Yes, individual servers are physically located in a physical country. However, information doesn't have to. A very good example is if you XOR a message with random data, and store the random data, and the result of the XOR, on two different hosts on the net. Both of them contain as much information as the other, and independent of each other, they both are useless random data... We have the technical tools to defend such a country (e.g. freenet). We seem to ahve the people (the free software community is quite a good start, but there are quite a lot of other communities that I think (c|w)ould gather up)... What I mean, is a declaration of independence, including a basic set of rights and obligations of the sitizens of the net.
Nope.
.NET to Linux. If MS opt so, they should hand over the sources to MS .NET, and Corel is entitled to a non-transferable, sitewide source-license. As I remember the text from the agreement (It's not by the letter, but freely from my memmory).
Your memmory don't serve you...
In an agreement (made when MS bought some non-voting shares in Corel), Corel agreed MS may optionally have Corel port MS
Moderator: That was meant to be _funny_
You may not like my sense of humor, but that moderation was plain hostile!
The difference is, I can have your's, without you not having it.
Human nature is to have. To have more, and finaly, have even more. It is not neccessarily to make other not to have, have less, and even less. At least, I hope so. If not, we may as well fire a good atom-bomb over all of t his place, and erase this virus from the universe!
Without theoretical dreams, we would all be killing, raping and making each other starve. Oh, waitabit - we are...
Ha. And that option doesn't _save_ it anywhere (like in EEPROM of the card). Wake up yourself!
This is the type of problem Freenet was designed to solve. Freenet is not really ready fro prime-time, but in a year or so, it might be ready for putting endangered information in...
Time's wrapping around the corner. Not they try to make assembly a high-(or at least, middle-)level-language. Perheaps it works this time, since machines are not that damn slow as they where at the good old time of the symbolics LISP-machines. But at least LISP is a minimal language...
MAC addresses where not meant to be changed. However, you can on most cards. For some, there even exist linux-utilities to do so (You don't even have to reboot if your kernel have the card-driver as a module). For an example for 3com-cards, you can grab my modified version of Donald Becker's 3c5x9setup here.
ReiserFS, or just any journaled FS will do the trick... There are distros which includes this prepatched into the kernel (Hint, hint: Linux-Mandrake)...
Me: pro free software on the client and server. Linux: Where it suits? Windows: Nowhere!
Try to find RPM packages of your programs. Their install instructions are _allways_ "do rpm -i packagename.rpm". This is as simple as it can be. If you need to upgrade other packages (highly unlikely), you will be told so in a standard-manner. If you are using Mandrake, you can use urpmi instaed of rpm -i, and it will automatically install what packages are needed from the dist to satisfy the dependencies of your package.
And if you can not find RPMs, most packages use autoconf, which means that you probably can do "./configure; make; make install" (as root, of course) to install them. This holds true for _a_lot_ of packages. But still RPMs are better, since if they depend on any other program or lib to allready be installed, they will tell you so in a standardised an d nice way, not just resist to work.
Most windows apps ask you one million of questions from a graphical installer. In addition, you can not do any other work at the same time you are installing an app, and usually have to reboot to be able to use the new app.
These graphical installations are made by someone. The producer of the software. The same can be said about RPMs. And RPM packaged programs are easier to install, since they will _never_ ask you any questions. My point? Linux is not user-unfriendly. but you are trying to install programs as a developer does. This is clearly not suited for you (since you are not a developer). RPM (Or deb if you are using debian) is suited for you.
Ok, enought ranting thusfar.
Here are some questions on the article:
Could you (the author of the article) please contact me regarding DrakSync on redhog@mandrakesoft.com and explain exactly _how_ it went wrong?
Regards,
Egil
So, world, we just have to wait, and the technical knowledge of the US will slowly but steadily degrade. Soon, they'l be in their own little stone-age. if feel sorry for the smart people in the US, but they may perheaps flee before it's too late. Unfourtunately, I don't know if fleeing to the EU will make it any better for you... We may ass well soon be a burning hole...
Capitalism:
Take from the worker, give to the owner (money gathers money, since you can hire people, build industries, etc)
Socialism:
Take from the successfull workers and give to the not-so-sucessfull ones (regardless of if the reason is lazieness or unability).
All economic and political system thusfar have killed a lot of people. People kill people.
Or why not just write a server that translates the commands it recieves from its X-clients into native calls? That way, you wouldn't miss any of the networking features, but still have real MAC-windowses and so on.
And probably someone else have allready written this somewhere below 0...
You can work for a living, or live for your work.
I prefer doing the latter. I'm a coder. I won't breed.
There is one operating system, which is like that - Windows. From my point of view, there is a value in having several competing dists. I am working for MandrakeSoft, and how much I want to see MandrakeSoft successfull, I don't want it to kill the competitors. One of the strengths of Free Software is that it reinsert competition in the software market. Do we really want to go back to The One True Operating System?
Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions, and may or may not comform to those of my employer.
tacking uses two forces (the wind and the resitance of the water). In space, you have solar wind and you have grvity. *should* work... Oh, and this is not well thought through at all, so you may have to > /dev/null
So, crack it, and release the crack one day or soe after the contest is officially over. And release it to some sience magazine or so. A math/CS one would perheaps be interrested in such a thing. Then you call NY Times or something and tell them about the article and that SDMI sux. If they put DMCA against you, say that you only used the contest time (during which you where urged by the creators of the thingie to crack it), and just waited with the release... Should be fairly water-tight. And if they sue you, even the most stupid non-hacker will laught at them...