I actually glanced at my lawbook, and found that that about ownership is not linked in swedish law. The swedish law is made up of Regeringsformen (Constitution Act), Successionsordningen (Act of succession), Tryckfrihetsförordningen (Freedom of press regulation) and Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen (Freedom of speech constitutional law), which are all grundlagar (constitutional laws) and other laws sorted into Balkar (sections). Land ownership is governed by jorda balk (land code), while the relation between the king and Riksdagen (parlament) is governed by Regeringsformen, which specifies that the power stems from teh people, represented by the parlament, and that the king is head of state etc, and Successionsordningen, which specifies who will be head of state when the current king is sick, dead, abdicates etc. Thus, the two things are even governed by different kind of laws (constitution vs normal law). Note that land ownership in sweden is not a constitutional right, only a normal law, only the right to freedom of thought, speech and press and the Declaration on humans rights is... You may also note that land ownership is governed differently from all other ownership rights, and that you can _not_ own an apartement in a building as such, only a piece of land (with or without a house) (this is different from most other european countries).
I can tell you an aesthetic law:) In Sweden, we do have a king and a queen. They have no power (but do receive some money from the state), but there are a shitload of special laws that governs things around them - the guards of catsles are militaries who should do that and that and that, and who do have the right to shoot you if you step closer than so and so. It really doesn't matter much, but it _is_ a fine theater. I'm not for the monarchy, and I'd like to have it all removed, but I can see the point of the monarchists that this is indeed aesthetic:)
HTTPD POST works out of da box:) No need for stupid Javascript there. Javascript is only good to do heavy client-side viewport/visibility computing that requires very little (or no) information from the server for each visibility change.
Tha. LDAP is not a DAP implementation. It is a DAP compatible mini-directory, that, in the non-ISO-non-telecom-world is a huge mastodont. But nevertheless, there's really no other system that solves as many of the type of problem it solves as it does... There _is_ LDAP-support for most servers and services out there.
During the last two years, I've been hacking on a generalized system for managing an LDAPized system, including all sysadmin tasks like home-dir-creation etc, for my employer. The system is GPL:ed and available from http://grimoire.takeit.se (the webdemo doesn't work ATM, sorry).
The aim of the system is to carry out any sysadmin task on any host in the system, and combine those tasks into more complex ones, even if executed on different machines, and then control access to tasks in a very fine-grained way (a bit similar to Novell:s trustees, in that you have inheritance down the tree).
ATM, the system can handle users, groups (it can let users create their own groups in a controllable fashion), machine accounts and printer ques interacting with Samba, OpenLDAP, Courier, Postfix, CUPS, pam/nss-ldap and some other tools. It is however in beta-stage...
Before remaking their UI:s and such, please make them at least to _work_ together.
First, make them all handle the same file-formats - i.e. make them handle PNG and SVG. Not just pixmap formats, and not just a buggy SVG-model that can't handle fonts properly, but a fucking working import/export.
Secondly, make copy/paste of non-text data work. Implement something like OLE and make it work in _all_ apps.
An example of a scenario that does not work, but _must_ work: Start out to create a diagram in dia. Export to svg. Import i inkscape. Change some details. Save. Import in kpresenter or OO Impress.
For additional complexity, add some pixmap picture made in GIMP (with variable transparency) to the picture in Inkscape. Perheaps use eps in some steps instaed of svg. Also, you could import the vector-graphics picture as a path in GIMP somewhere in the middle too. Be sure to check that foints work all the way through, even with non-USASCII-characters (We non USAians don't like it when our Ås, Äs and Ös gets mangled to Ãås or =4711 or some other garbage).
When done with this, _then_ I think it would be apropriate to hack on the UI:s to get the a bit more streamlined. But until then, I'd much rather have it just work and look uggly, than not work bu t look great.
Are those "natural rights" written down somewhere, or are they just taken for granted? If they are not written down and guaranteed by the government, how can they then be guaranteed to anyone, lest he defend it with force?
I think my problem with understunding this is that you can not give or not give something you don't have. The people does not have much power over the government except from what the government grants the people, as the government has _virtual_ armed force monopoly. Of course, in my country all rights given to the people has bee fought for one by one, won by general strikes, elections, good political maneuvers etc, not by a revolution all at once.
What was the last one, or where could I read it? Excuse my lack of knowledge, but I'm not american, I 'm just a swede who would like to know more about your culture and laws and compare them with ours (I think its interresting that you do not really have any rights, just that your government does neither except some very specific. In sweden, the government have all the rights, except the ones (quite some:) that are excplicitly given to you, but those are then also your rights, and can not be stepped on by anyone, government or not. In practice, I don't think the differences are that big, it's just a difference of legal tradition)
No. It teaches you that The Government (the government of a child's world is the teachers and to some degree, their parents) decides what you are allowed to publish and what not.
Had there been more than one school news paper, each selling its papers to the children and competing for readers, that would have teached what you say this does. And my guess is, in such a world, an article about sex would have skyrocketed the sales of the publishing paper... Take a look at real newspaper and see how this mirrors the real world. Then think again about what teaches how it really works and what teaches something different...
You, and many others commenting his post forgetts one very important thing, and that is the point he tried to make - that schools are NOT teaching about your 1st amendment rights. If a school where to do that, it would mean that the students would have a similar right _within_ the school and its provided environment. That students can go outside the school environment to express their views is protected by the law, but does not _teach_ students that law, which is precisely the problem at hand.
Do _you_ know what happens when you, as root, do rm -rf / on a modern Linux system? I do, or at least, I know what happened some years ago when I tested on some old RedHat 5 or something...
rm -rf / recurses into all subdirs of the root-directory and for each, it attempts to empty it, and then rmdir it. One of those is/proc./proc contains a directory for each process, so also the rm process itself. When it comes to that directory, it will in it find a directory representing the current directory of it self. It will descend into that directory to empty it, only to end up where it allready where, and down that path, it will recurse to its private little hell... Muahedhehe.
But what actually happens, depends on the order of the directory entries in your root-filesystem. You can only hope/proc was created before/home...
I've now read their Common Developement and Distribution License (CDDL), and it seems rather complicated, complex and problematic. It is a free software license, and even some type of copyleft. But it is so wordy and uses such a complex language that it is hard to tell what it really says in some sections, and some of that could even be used to construe a workaround for the copyleftism... In addition, it contains a shitload of of special patent-related rules... All in all, it is NOT GPL compatible, and not SANity compatible to read:( They must have smoked some expensive shit when writing this...
Hm, scarily, this is the actual scenario in a book based on a real story, called (freely translated) "behind closed doors" (I don't know its origin, but I think its from Norway).
And actually, it _did_ get quite some headlines. But of course, no one was arguing that there should be some type of control over who would be allowed to have children...
You are a strange strange country... Here in the EU, the post is not even a state-owned operation in all countries, and for example in my country, sweden, there are even several more or less successfull post operators/delivery services. And it is, and has allways been, very common that companies deliver their own advertising material (snailmail spam) rather than send it through the post...
Nonono, fill their snail-mail-box with a thousands of dummy mails. From what I know, there's no law against delivering mail yourself rather than using the post to do it for you. Perheaps you can write in the mails that "You can buy fully LEGAL methods for sending MASS EMAIL to customers" or something...
When this happen, that's when the hacker-counter has wrapped.
This would just be LISP with a fancier, ugglier and less readable syntax. Data and code are the same, and data structure and code structure are the same, and the same tools can process both.
The semantic content of XML and S-expressions is the same, only syntax and verbosity/redundancy of said syntax differs...
Actually, when I was working for MandrakeSoft, I heard one of the hackers there had actually done exactly this - implemented an XML->S-expression rewriter and hacked Scheme in XML...
It surely is well-defined, but that's not what Mr. Stallman is arguing about, but about that it is a very broad term, which includes several distinct legal protections and rights such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, pattern protections, etc (the areas varies between jurisdictions, I don't think the US has something like pattern protections for example)
He argues it is (most of the time) much better to specify which legal area one is talking about.
In addition, he oppose the use of the term property in connection with these areas, as property law is yet again another area of law, which intellectual property does _neither_ include nor is included in.
Anyone is free to use any language he/she wants (except in US televission, where BEEP is not BEEEP allowed BEEP BEEEEP BEEEP:), and any arguments about this term will probably not change the language usage by those who likes all of the covered areas of law, as a borader term benefits their stance. However, for those opposing any of these laws, it is propably more usefull to not use the term, but a more specific term.
Balancing between competing goals or resources forces you to choose. And choice is what allows for artisic creativity.
Also, I find it strange that most people miss that programming is most often not about algorithms at all. Most programs does not contain a single complex algorithm (exceptions are libs made just for the sake of the algorithms, such as compression or cryptography libraries)! What programming is about is API:s - slicing the world in some interresting way that makes thinking about a specific class of problems easy. It is about creating a language. If this isn't art, then nothing is.
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I actually glanced at my lawbook, and found that that about ownership is not linked in swedish law. The swedish law is made up of Regeringsformen (Constitution Act), Successionsordningen (Act of succession), Tryckfrihetsförordningen (Freedom of press regulation) and Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen (Freedom of speech constitutional law), which are all grundlagar (constitutional laws) and other laws sorted into Balkar (sections). Land ownership is governed by jorda balk (land code), while the relation between the king and Riksdagen (parlament) is governed by Regeringsformen, which specifies that the power stems from teh people, represented by the parlament, and that the king is head of state etc, and Successionsordningen, which specifies who will be head of state when the current king is sick, dead, abdicates etc. Thus, the two things are even governed by different kind of laws (constitution vs normal law). Note that land ownership in sweden is not a constitutional right, only a normal law, only the right to freedom of thought, speech and press and the Declaration on humans rights is... You may also note that land ownership is governed differently from all other ownership rights, and that you can _not_ own an apartement in a building as such, only a piece of land (with or without a house) (this is different from most other european countries).
I can tell you an aesthetic law :) In Sweden, we do have a king and a queen. They have no power (but do receive some money from the state), but there are a shitload of special laws that governs things around them - the guards of catsles are militaries who should do that and that and that, and who do have the right to shoot you if you step closer than so and so. It really doesn't matter much, but it _is_ a fine theater. I'm not for the monarchy, and I'd like to have it all removed, but I can see the point of the monarchists that this is indeed aesthetic :)
HTTPD POST works out of da box :) No need for stupid Javascript there. Javascript is only good to do heavy client-side viewport/visibility computing that requires very little (or no) information from the server for each visibility change.
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Living in a nice sv_SE.UTF8 locale
That's because yum sucks goats through the |.
urpmi however is on par with apt.
Tha. LDAP is not a DAP implementation. It is a DAP compatible mini-directory, that, in the non-ISO-non-telecom-world is a huge mastodont. But nevertheless, there's really no other system that solves as many of the type of problem it solves as it does... There _is_ LDAP-support for most servers and services out there.
I just have to make some advertisement:
During the last two years, I've been hacking on a generalized system for managing an LDAPized system, including all sysadmin tasks like home-dir-creation etc, for my employer. The system is GPL:ed and available from http://grimoire.takeit.se (the webdemo doesn't work ATM, sorry).
The aim of the system is to carry out any sysadmin task on any host in the system, and combine those tasks into more complex ones, even if executed on different machines, and then control access to tasks in a very fine-grained way (a bit similar to Novell:s trustees, in that you have inheritance down the tree).
ATM, the system can handle users, groups (it can let users create their own groups in a controllable fashion), machine accounts and printer ques interacting with Samba, OpenLDAP, Courier, Postfix, CUPS, pam/nss-ldap and some other tools. It is however in beta-stage...
I do have several (non comp.nerd) friends who allready uses thir PC:s (or rather a special-purpose PC) as "media-centers"...
You do realize that lottery is just a tax on people bad at math, don't you? So higher fines will only work as a detterent to stupid people.
Actually, GIMP isn't my main hate-object atm - OO and koffice are worst, since they can't even handle vector data read from a file correctly...
Before remaking their UI:s and such, please make them at least to _work_ together.
First, make them all handle the same file-formats - i.e. make them handle PNG and SVG. Not just pixmap formats, and not just a buggy SVG-model that can't handle fonts properly, but a fucking working import/export.
Secondly, make copy/paste of non-text data work. Implement something like OLE and make it work in _all_ apps.
An example of a scenario that does not work, but _must_ work: Start out to create a diagram in dia. Export to svg. Import i inkscape. Change some details. Save. Import in kpresenter or OO Impress.
For additional complexity, add some pixmap picture made in GIMP (with variable transparency) to the picture in Inkscape. Perheaps use eps in some steps instaed of svg. Also, you could import the vector-graphics picture as a path in GIMP somewhere in the middle too. Be sure to check that foints work all the way through, even with non-USASCII-characters (We non USAians don't like it when our Ås, Äs and Ös gets mangled to Ãås or =4711 or some other garbage).
When done with this, _then_ I think it would be apropriate to hack on the UI:s to get the a bit more streamlined. But until then, I'd much rather have it just work and look uggly, than not work bu t look great.
That's why you use LyX. LyX is a nice UI and produces stock LaTeX files. Too bad it does not include a simple LaTeX style editor...
Or use DocBook with some evil graphical editor. Oups. That way you prollyt have java, CSS and XSLT and a nice stack of 200MB apps...
Just proves she's not a blonde bimbo who just marries a man for the money, but truly love him as the person he is.
Your cynism, or whatever it is, is disgusting!
Are those "natural rights" written down somewhere, or are they just taken for granted? If they are not written down and guaranteed by the government, how can they then be guaranteed to anyone, lest he defend it with force?
I think my problem with understunding this is that you can not give or not give something you don't have. The people does not have much power over the government except from what the government grants the people, as the government has _virtual_ armed force monopoly. Of course, in my country all rights given to the people has bee fought for one by one, won by general strikes, elections, good political maneuvers etc, not by a revolution all at once.
What was the last one, or where could I read it? Excuse my lack of knowledge, but I'm not american, I 'm just a swede who would like to know more about your culture and laws and compare them with ours (I think its interresting that you do not really have any rights, just that your government does neither except some very specific. In sweden, the government have all the rights, except the ones (quite some :) that are excplicitly given to you, but those are then also your rights, and can not be stepped on by anyone, government or not. In practice, I don't think the differences are that big, it's just a difference of legal tradition)
No. It teaches you that The Government (the government of a child's world is the teachers and to some degree, their parents) decides what you are allowed to publish and what not.
Had there been more than one school news paper, each selling its papers to the children and competing for readers, that would have teached what you say this does. And my guess is, in such a world, an article about sex would have skyrocketed the sales of the publishing paper... Take a look at real newspaper and see how this mirrors the real world. Then think again about what teaches how it really works and what teaches something different...
You, and many others commenting his post forgetts one very important thing, and that is the point he tried to make - that schools are NOT teaching about your 1st amendment rights. If a school where to do that, it would mean that the students would have a similar right _within_ the school and its provided environment. That students can go outside the school environment to express their views is protected by the law, but does not _teach_ students that law, which is precisely the problem at hand.
Do _you_ know what happens when you, as root, do rm -rf / on a modern Linux system? I do, or at least, I know what happened some years ago when I tested on some old RedHat 5 or something...
/proc. /proc contains a directory for each process, so also the rm process itself. When it comes to that directory, it will in it find a directory representing the current directory of it self. It will descend into that directory to empty it, only to end up where it allready where, and down that path, it will recurse to its private little hell... Muahedhehe.
/proc was created before /home...
rm -rf / recurses into all subdirs of the root-directory and for each, it attempts to empty it, and then rmdir it. One of those is
But what actually happens, depends on the order of the directory entries in your root-filesystem. You can only hope
I've now read their Common Developement and Distribution License (CDDL), and it seems rather complicated, complex and problematic. It is a free software license, and even some type of copyleft. But it is so wordy and uses such a complex language that it is hard to tell what it really says in some sections, and some of that could even be used to construe a workaround for the copyleftism... In addition, it contains a shitload of of special patent-related rules... All in all, it is NOT GPL compatible, and not SANity compatible to read :( They must have smoked some expensive shit when writing this...
Hm, scarily, this is the actual scenario in a book based on a real story, called (freely translated) "behind closed doors" (I don't know its origin, but I think its from Norway).
And actually, it _did_ get quite some headlines. But of course, no one was arguing that there should be some type of control over who would be allowed to have children...
You are a strange strange country...
Here in the EU, the post is not even a state-owned operation in all countries, and for example in my country, sweden, there are even several more or less successfull post operators/delivery services. And it is, and has allways been, very common that companies deliver their own advertising material (snailmail spam) rather than send it through the post...
Nonono, fill their snail-mail-box with a thousands of dummy mails. From what I know, there's no law against delivering mail yourself rather than using the post to do it for you. Perheaps you can write in the mails that "You can buy fully LEGAL methods for sending MASS EMAIL to customers" or something...
When this happen, that's when the hacker-counter has wrapped.
This would just be LISP with a fancier, ugglier and less readable syntax. Data and code are the same, and data structure and code structure are the same, and the same tools can process both.
The semantic content of XML and S-expressions is the same, only syntax and verbosity/redundancy of said syntax differs...
Actually, when I was working for MandrakeSoft, I heard one of the hackers there had actually done exactly this - implemented an XML->S-expression rewriter and hacked Scheme in XML...
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Today it's not "No one ever got fired for bying IBM", but "No one ever got sued for hacking free software like IBM". Wheeee!
It surely is well-defined, but that's not what Mr. Stallman is arguing about, but about that it is a very broad term, which includes several distinct legal protections and rights such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, pattern protections, etc (the areas varies between jurisdictions, I don't think the US has something like pattern protections for example)
:), and any arguments about this term will probably not change the language usage by those who likes all of the covered areas of law, as a borader term benefits their stance. However, for those opposing any of these laws, it is propably more usefull to not use the term, but a more specific term.
He argues it is (most of the time) much better to specify which legal area one is talking about.
In addition, he oppose the use of the term property in connection with these areas, as property law is yet again another area of law, which intellectual property does _neither_ include nor is included in.
Anyone is free to use any language he/she wants (except in US televission, where BEEP is not BEEEP allowed BEEP BEEEEP BEEEP
Balancing between competing goals or resources forces you to choose. And choice is what allows for artisic creativity.
Also, I find it strange that most people miss that programming is most often not about algorithms at all. Most programs does not contain a single complex algorithm (exceptions are libs made just for the sake of the algorithms, such as compression or cryptography libraries)! What programming is about is API:s - slicing the world in some interresting way that makes thinking about a specific class of problems easy. It is about creating a language. If this isn't art, then nothing is.