I see your point, and its a valid one , but just giving money away can kinda take the sense of 'ownership' a distributed computing project engenders.
Let me make a parallel. I'm a volenteer. Pretty much a fulltime one. I've given away a huge source of income, cos some things are worth fighting for and I chose to do that.
For the money I could make in my old IT consulting job, I could probably fund, say, 2 young dudes to do twice the job I do, but damn it theres no fun in that. Altruism does have a sense of selfishness to it. Nothing can take away the sense of satisfaction you get from lobbying and winning. Its just not the same as writing a check and forgetting.
Same with SETI@Home. The average dumb joe gets lots of little readouts he couldnt possibly understand, but its got bar graphs and scrolling "Science text(tm)" and generally it lets mr dumb guy feel like a smart guy. Its worth it just for the sense of empowerment he gets from it.
Doing it yourself in person also has a parallel to computing it your self in PC. Your body wears out. I've seen lobbyists mentally breakdown from the sheer crap politicians will do. Theres nothing like getting on the inside of government to build a sense of "Holy crap! These bastards are evil and corrupt! The lies! The lies!". It messes with peoples head. Same too with Seti in a sense. It diminishes the fast-ishness (yeah I know, not a real word) of your pc. Fills it with crap.
But at the end of the day, both the lobbyist and the SETI@Home participant will battle on, because the cause is noble and theres a sense of ownership.
Encryption may or may not be the difference between a democratic peaceful revolution in China or another bunch of hapless schoolkids being mashed under tanks.
And if this code is shown to crack easy, we know to be cautious of how we encrypt. Thats a caution that can be life or death to a chinese or iranian dissident.
Then I suppose you have no trouble endorsing your paycheck over to your favorite charity, since financial concerns pale in comparison to the humanitarian good that can be done. Or are you missing the point also?
This person's not missing the point at all. He just doesn't want to donate something he might not be able to afford.
Understood. Mindyou , I volenteer about 30 hours a week for about 4 or 5 different causes;) Some people are wired that way.
While it is an interesting question, the reason you donate cycles to seti/columb rulers/cancer research/whatever is you love science and the progress of humanity.
Its not about money.
Or to put it another way. How much CPU cycles are wasted on Pr0n, and how does this help society?:)
Exactly. If IBM's legal eagles thought for a second they might lose this, I guarantee they would of quietly bought SCO, then had Darl dragged of to a nice quiet field , kneecapped, nailed to a post and left for the vultures.
But they can win, so they are going to first destroy SCO in court, then have Darl dragged off to a nice quiet field, kneecapped , nailed to a post and left for the vultures.
Which prison do you think Darl will serve his time at?
I dunno, but I somehow think his ligigous threatening won't work well against some 6' hells angel called "Bruiser" who is really keen on Darl picking up the soap.
So what usually happens if a company keeps using licensed material after the license has been revoked?
It hasnt been revoked. Theres no basis for that. To revoke a licence you have to tell someone why, not just vague alusions of "we revoked your licence, you have to guess why".
Dude, SCO might say theyve started that clock, but it hasnt started till they tell them the breach. *NO* court would accept that.
SGI has remedied the *MINOR* breaches it previously had, and is free. Its own analysis proved that.
Also its vital to remember that SCO are lying about alot of this. I'd wager that the primary reason they are stalling, is because perjury can land folk in jail.
sn't gonna explain themselves. That part is pretty clear already...
They don't have a choice on it. The ACCC are giant killers and have some pretty impressive powers.
If they want to trade in australia, they have to explain, and probably quicksmart. We might just end up seeing the evidence sooner than we thought.
And its a good idea. When verison stop this thing, the A record fall back is great, cos it means that the rather large population of misconfigured DNS records will still get mail.
Most mail lookups first go for the mx, then if that dont exist, try for an A (for misconfigured dns records).
The underlying "mail bounced" message is seen by the client and *may* be passed on, but most mail clients are compliant with standards and report that the user wasnt found, which is wrong.
That breaks alot of default behaviours, and in my case often gets bizare resends/multiple return emails etc.
Some might argue that nz is our eighth state tho. Theres actually a provision in the aust constitution welcoming them in. They seem to of declined the offer:)
Dude. There are plenty of differences. From there its really just a matter of preferences.
I started off on SysV and ended up on BSD and hated it. Then after a while I loved it. Now I'm a penguinista and care less for the diff between SysV and BSD , cos there both diferent to linux:)
. Joe Voter calculates the hash himself and looks for it in the list. If it's not there, someone is playng games. You need the secret string because Joe's name and address are public knowledge.
I can just see it.
Billy joe: "I'LL FEED THE HOGS LATER MARY SUE! I'M CALCULATIN' MAH SH1 HASH CODE!".
Mary sue: "WELL SAVE ME SOME O THAT HASH BILLY JOE! I'M DANG TOOTIN STRAIT AS A POLE RITE NOW".
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I see your point, and its a valid one , but just giving money away can kinda take the sense of 'ownership' a distributed computing project engenders.
Let me make a parallel. I'm a volenteer. Pretty much a fulltime one. I've given away a huge source of income, cos some things are worth fighting for and I chose to do that.
For the money I could make in my old IT consulting job, I could probably fund, say, 2 young dudes to do twice the job I do, but damn it theres no fun in that. Altruism does have a sense of selfishness to it. Nothing can take away the sense of satisfaction you get from lobbying and winning. Its just not the same as writing a check and forgetting.
Same with SETI@Home. The average dumb joe gets lots of little readouts he couldnt possibly understand, but its got bar graphs and scrolling "Science text(tm)" and generally it lets mr dumb guy feel like a smart guy. Its worth it just for the sense of empowerment he gets from it.
Doing it yourself in person also has a parallel to computing it your self in PC. Your body wears out. I've seen lobbyists mentally breakdown from the sheer crap politicians will do. Theres nothing like getting on the inside of government to build a sense of "Holy crap! These bastards are evil and corrupt! The lies! The lies!". It messes with peoples head. Same too with Seti in a sense. It diminishes the fast-ishness (yeah I know, not a real word) of your pc. Fills it with crap.
But at the end of the day, both the lobbyist and the SETI@Home participant will battle on, because the cause is noble and theres a sense of ownership.
Ah, but your missing the science behind it :)
:)
Encryption may or may not be the difference between a democratic peaceful revolution in China or another bunch of hapless schoolkids being mashed under tanks.
And if this code is shown to crack easy, we know to be cautious of how we encrypt. Thats a caution that can be life or death to a chinese or iranian dissident.
Think about it
Then I suppose you have no trouble endorsing your paycheck over to your favorite charity, since financial concerns pale in comparison to the humanitarian good that can be done. Or are you missing the point also?
;) Some people are wired that way.
:(
This person's not missing the point at all. He just doesn't want to donate something he might not be able to afford.
Understood.
Mindyou , I volenteer about 30 hours a week for about 4 or 5 different causes
Don't do no good for the bank balance tho
While it is an interesting question, the reason you donate cycles to seti/columb rulers/cancer research/whatever is you love science and the progress of humanity.
:)
Its not about money.
Or to put it another way. How much CPU cycles are wasted on Pr0n, and how does this help society?
holy fucking shit.
I'd like to find the guy who made that video and beat him with sticks.
That response sounds farmiliar AC,.... Hmm. Do you have stairs in your house? [/End secret Mason question]
Exactly. If IBM's legal eagles thought for a second they might lose this, I guarantee they would of quietly bought SCO, then had Darl dragged of to a nice quiet field , kneecapped, nailed to a post and left for the vultures.
But they can win, so they are going to first destroy SCO in court, then have Darl dragged off to a nice quiet field, kneecapped , nailed to a post and left for the vultures.
Which prison do you think Darl will serve his time at?
I dunno, but I somehow think his ligigous threatening won't work well against some 6' hells angel called "Bruiser" who is really keen on Darl picking up the soap.
So what usually happens if a company keeps using licensed material after the license has been revoked?
It hasnt been revoked. Theres no basis for that. To revoke a licence you have to tell someone why, not just vague alusions of "we revoked your licence, you have to guess why".
Actually I want to first see the shareholders in sco screwed over first. *THEY* are the evil bastards who are encouraging these slimes.
Dude, SCO might say theyve started that clock, but it hasnt started till they tell them the breach. *NO* court would accept that.
SGI has remedied the *MINOR* breaches it previously had, and is free. Its own analysis proved that.
Also its vital to remember that SCO are lying about alot of this. I'd wager that the primary reason they are stalling, is because perjury can land folk in jail.
Of course they could 'stop doing business', but if the ACCC imposes something like a 50million dollar fine, they'd still be forced to pay it.
:)
Plus if its a fraud matter, we do have a fairly robust extradition treaty with the US too.
But Oh My! Am I dreaming aloud now
sn't gonna explain themselves. That part is pretty clear already...
They don't have a choice on it. The ACCC are giant killers and have some pretty impressive powers.
If they want to trade in australia, they have to explain, and probably quicksmart. We might just end up seeing the evidence sooner than we thought.
Indeed , and its the correct spelling, cos its in english as oposed to american ;)
And its a good idea. When verison stop this thing, the A record fall back is great, cos it means that the rather large population of misconfigured DNS records will still get mail.
No.
Most mail lookups first go for the mx, then if that dont exist, try for an A (for misconfigured dns records).
The underlying "mail bounced" message is seen by the client and *may* be passed on, but most mail clients are compliant with standards and report that the user wasnt found, which is wrong.
That breaks alot of default behaviours, and in my case often gets bizare resends/multiple return emails etc.
;)
Hehe. Perfectly honest dude. If one really did have a melding of countries, I'd probably rather us become nz's west island then other way around.
Our government is quite the menace at the moment, whereas I've been quite impressed by the kiwi's.
wollongong = australia not new zealand.
:)
Some might argue that nz is our eighth state tho. Theres actually a provision in the aust constitution welcoming them in. They seem to of declined the offer
Dude. There are plenty of differences. From there its really just a matter of preferences.
:)
I started off on SysV and ended up on BSD and hated it. Then after a while I loved it. Now I'm a penguinista and care less for the diff between SysV and BSD , cos there both diferent to linux
Excuse me, but why the fuck should the FBI be wasting time and money going after pedophiles?.
Because pedophiles should be shot in the head?
. Joe Voter calculates the hash himself and looks for it in the list. If it's not there, someone is playng games. You need the secret string because Joe's name and address are public knowledge.
I can just see it.
Billy joe: "I'LL FEED THE HOGS LATER MARY SUE! I'M CALCULATIN' MAH SH1 HASH CODE!".
Mary sue: "WELL SAVE ME SOME O THAT HASH BILLY JOE! I'M DANG TOOTIN STRAIT AS A POLE RITE NOW".
You will have no control over it. We have already lost control. And we can't stop running it downhill.
Unless we are verry nice to the earlier posters aliens and get them to send a cold ray beam.
Well yeah. There is Leiah.
But perhaps between episodes she did her own brother which might of made her too unbalanced to be a true jedi.
1 Jedi, 1 dang confused princess, 3 ghosts and a wookie.
Apt can be configured for how talkative it is.
I have a little script that checks to see if the update needs interaction, and if so emails me drops it out for manual use.
apt-get update
:)
apt-get upgrade
Stick it in a cronjob.
Solved
If this is the Attorney General for California's website, why doesn't it have the form Microsoft-Antitrust.ca.us?
;)
Hehe. Cos its one thing to have a lil state pissed off at you and another to have the entire goddam USA have a hate website based on you.
Now if *I* did a hate-site on someone that pissed me off, I'd probably cop a stalking charge!
BTW Mods. Parent was funny. Someone might want to un-troll that moderation.