An open letter from RMS to clarify the situation and convince Mr. Phipps that the free software community loves him and that the open source community does not accurately represent our opinions.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03):
acronym
An identifier formed from some of the letters (often
the initials) of a phrase and used as an abbreviation. This
dictionary contains a great many acronyms; see the contents
page for a list.
Especially unattended guns locked in relatively secure containers that only the gun-owner is allowed a key to...
Very dangerous...
Why, I saw in the Weekly World News just last week a story about a gun going wonky on a flight in argentina...
It just broke the lock on its container somehow, loaded itself and shot a hole right through the floor and out the ceiling of the aircraft...instantly depressurizing the cabin...the plan exploded with the force of the air exiting and 30,000 people were killed as the plane, all of its passengers and its fuel load plummeted right down into the Christmas parade in Buenos Aires
I was allowed to travel last March with an unopened half-pint of everclear in my carry-on... I was give the extra-special checking they give to all one-way passengers, the security guy chuckled at it, but put it back in my bag and let me through.
given that the star in question is ~25 light-years away, I doubt they're seeing the 5000bc-age earth....but they are seeing the late seventies, which may be even more disturbing to them.
Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a
Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics
revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to
decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit
by the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams quickly revealed that
the exploit used an integer overflow in the brk system call. Using
this bug it is possible for a userland program to trick the kernel into
giving access to the full kernel address space. This problem was found
in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for
the 2.4.22 kernel release.
This bug has been fixed in kernel version 2.4.23 for the 2.4 tree and
2.6.0-test6 kernel tree. For Debian it has been fixed in version
2.4.18-12 of the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the i386
kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha kernel images.
Comparing movie-sharing to stealing a ferrari is inaccurate as there is no material loss to the producer/distributor when you share a movie.
It's more like going to a dealership, taking a mold of the body and building your own body on top of a fiero chassis.
Or it's more like a test drive, you take it for a spin, see if you like it...if you do, you buy it, if not, the dealership still has it's car (just like the movie folk have their movies). You wouldn't buy a car if the dealer said "oh no, you can't drive it. You can watch Jim drive it...but you yourself can't touch it."
Think of the target audience. C[AEIOU]Os and junk like that. Good old boys who like to relax with their buddies on a quiet sunday afternoon...fire up the grill...things like that...
Incidentally, this isn't even a thing of the past. It turns out 56K Frame Relay links live on. I know of a _massive_ corporation that links most of its stores to the central mainframe via 56K FR links. Why? Because It Works.
My store 'third largest grocer in the nation or something (not counting Wal-mart) recently upgraded all of the store connections to T1 so we can quickly upload advertisements to the POS.
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An open letter from RMS to clarify the situation and convince Mr. Phipps that the free software community loves him and that the open source community does not accurately represent our opinions.
I suffer from diabetes, hypochondria, narcisicm and schitzophrenia. I used to have breast cancer, ,but it got better.
Or does a good slashdotting just get you off...
This
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this seem to disagree with you as to how the tags should be used. (the <acronym> example uses "WWW" as its example...hardly pronouncable.
It seems you don't know what an acronym is...
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
acronym
An identifier formed from some of the letters (often
the initials) of a phrase and used as an abbreviation. This
dictionary contains a great many acronyms; see the contents
page for a list.
See also TLA.
(1995-03-15)
I'd be real pissed at you earthlings dumping all your cruddy robots on my planet.
Mars is *not* a landfill!
Ruining our ecosystem with your trash!
Death to earth!
Where's the ka-boom?
Trits are for kids!
It's because guns kill people!
Especially unattended guns locked in relatively secure containers that only the gun-owner is allowed a key to...
Very dangerous...
Why, I saw in the Weekly World News just last week a story about a gun going wonky on a flight in argentina... It just broke the lock on its container somehow, loaded itself and shot a hole right through the floor and out the ceiling of the aircraft...instantly depressurizing the cabin...the plan exploded with the force of the air exiting and 30,000 people were killed as the plane, all of its passengers and its fuel load plummeted right down into the Christmas parade in Buenos Aires
Yes, my friend, guns are dangerous
Ammunition *is* allowed in small quantaties if it is packaged correctly.
Just stick the goatse.cx guy as the background on your laptop...after seeing that a couple times, these security bozos will learn not to ask.
I was allowed to travel last March with an unopened half-pint of everclear in my carry-on...
I was give the extra-special checking they give to all one-way passengers, the security guy chuckled at it, but put it back in my bag and let me through.
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given that the star in question is ~25 light-years away, I doubt they're seeing the 5000bc-age earth....but they are seeing the late seventies, which may be even more disturbing to them.
There would then need to be a vulnerability in apache/httpd to allow a user to execute arbitrary code.
Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit by the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams quickly revealed that the exploit used an integer overflow in the brk system call. Using this bug it is possible for a userland program to trick the kernel into giving access to the full kernel address space. This problem was found in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for the 2.4.22 kernel release.
This bug has been fixed in kernel version 2.4.23 for the 2.4 tree and 2.6.0-test6 kernel tree. For Debian it has been fixed in version 2.4.18-12 of the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the i386 kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha kernel images.
As part of the FSF's GNU project, in order to preserve the ethical implications of the project, the preferred nomenclature is Free Software
Fairly amusing for a place that's called "alwayson-network.com"
Comparing movie-sharing to stealing a ferrari is inaccurate as there is no material loss to the producer/distributor when you share a movie.
It's more like going to a dealership, taking a mold of the body and building your own body on top of a fiero chassis.
Or it's more like a test drive, you take it for a spin, see if you like it...if you do, you buy it, if not, the dealership still has it's car (just like the movie folk have their movies). You wouldn't buy a car if the dealer said "oh no, you can't drive it. You can watch Jim drive it...but you yourself can't touch it."
The better off IBM is as a company, the better off the employees are (more stable environment, fewer layoffs).
They might not give savings back to individual employees, but it may stop (delay?) them from making cutbacks.
You obviously haven't seen Wing Commander
And I certainly haven't seen anything that can even come close.
So don't be trollin'.
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Think of the target audience. C[AEIOU]Os and junk like that. Good old boys who like to relax with their buddies on a quiet sunday afternoon...fire up the grill...things like that...