Stallman himself describes the demise of the AI Lab as only one of many reasons for GNU's creation in this landmark Stocholm talk.
You write: The GPL arose from Stallman's desire to sabotage his colleagues prospects for success -- as well as those of all other commercial developers
- sure, he's trying to sabotage all commercial developers by writing free code. On the other hand, commercialization of formerly public domain (and publicly funded) university "intellectual property" is natural.
An untouched TTL is not the core factor which provides stealth; it's the non-creation of ICMP time exceededs, which tend to originate from the router's IP address and thereby expose the hop. If these are silenced, few other clues to the router's identity remain. (well, let's ignore esoteric ICMPs).
WARNING: TTL was meant to be decremented to thwart a particularly nasty problem: infinite routing loops. If you ever notice a ever-wrapping packet count on the loopback interface, or a solid activity light between two of these dementedly configured routers, you might have just fscked yourself.
Today, using a BSD license rather than GPL, anyone may take your source and profit from a repackaged, copyright-restricted commercial program. Essentially, they may leapfrog ahead at your expense and promote a non-sharing consumerist culture. It encourages a degenerating cycle dependent on proprietary providers benefiting from many of the advantages of shared source and few of the drawbacks. Not only do you turn the other cheek, but you pretend to ignore the shoulder buried deep beyond your borderline.
In an imperfect situation like this, GPL provides a stop-gap and fosters what it can of a sharing spirit, carved from the inhospitable terrain of selfishness.
To those who would use GPL code for non-sharing purposes, the tools of their own hoarding will be turned against them. Poetic justice, to me. And for a pragmatic mind capable of mildly complex reasoning, perfectly justified.
Terms to think about:
"Peace-keeping"
"National defense"
"Fighting fire with fire"
Consider the policeman who has to speed to pull over a reckless driver, or deploy tear gas in a riot. To assert that opponents of copyright should not be allowed to employ the weapons of copyright as a means to an end seems somewhat skewed.
As penance, I'll plagiarize some text for my honorable master, the slashdot audience:
Novel Semiconductor Device Heats and Cools on a Dime
[...] Rama Venkatasubramanian and co-workers, publishing in today's Nature, built a faster and more powerful than ordinary thermoelectric device, which converts heat and electricity back and forth, by alternating very thin layers of two semiconducing materials. This film-made of bismuth, antimony and tellurium-is 2.4 times more efficient than conventional bulk devices, 23,000 times faster, and can be applied in tiny dots for pinpoint refrigeration. "This marks a major advance in a field that has stagnated for 30 years," says John Pazik of the Office of Naval Research, which provided funding for the research.
Thermoelectric devices are longer lasting and tougher than mechanical refrigerators. Their high cost and low efficiency, though, have generally confined them to niche markets: powering deep-space probes, cooling infrared detectors, and, lately, heating and cooling luxury car seats. Cheaper, more convenient thermoelectrics could speed up microprocessors and fiber-optic lines, make possible miniature biotech tools capable of stopping and starting small biochemical reactions, or running a car's air conditioner with waste heat from the engine.
-Pimproot, betting his transplantable head on the Promised Land of scientific salvation
Well written. Those of us who are actually aware of what nourishes productive creativity have got to stay one step ahead of the concession-happy mobs who unthinkingly help drive the employment market towards the assembly-line sweatshop model.
Fortunately, there ARE outfits which recognize that the duplicatable nature of our work product (information) renders a unique situation. One man can produce a million shoes as easily as one. A programmer should be selected and treated with that in mind: the quality of his actions will compound - not the quantity.
Executive summary: consider a "programmer" an engineer of software akin to an architect; while the schema of his trade may be less intelligeable and palpable than a blueprint or scale model, the degree to which his actions are amplified is a fitting parallel.
You're right; neither did the X20 directly trigger Quebec's overload. The events occurred on separate months. However, a correlation may exist between high rad output seasons and the probability of inductive star dust spewing onto our little blue marble of a planet. Thanks for the heads-up on April's X20. I hadn't read that.
You missed yesterday's, which was a brilliant X2.6. Today's was only an M8 (equiv to X0.8). If today's is a chest x-ray, yesterday's was three. The largest recorded since we've started measuring these things was an X20 in 1989. Quebec's power system overloaded that year.
Spaceweather.com reported yesterday:
This morning at 1038 UT a powerful X2.6 solar flare erupted near the large sunspot 9632. A radiation storm (currently S2-class) is in progess and intensifying.The explosion also hurled a lopsided halo coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The Earth-directed CME, pictured right in a SOHO coronagraph animation, will sweep past our planet late Tuesday or Wednesday and probably trigger geomagnetic storms.
Interested in what the solar flares have affected in the past (from Roman legions to gas line explosions to Galaxy IV)?
You fail to realize the latency IS the source of your storage. The more latency you have, the longer the delay between bounce returns, and the less bandwidth you have to spend sending it back out. Because, see, your bandwidth is the ultimate limitor.
I had the same idea for ICMP ping packets. Basically, you can use the temporary storage capacity of routers, modems, the signal on the line itself, and everything in between to store your data. Your only limits, on something such as the internet, where nearly everyone will bounce a packet for you, are the fatness of your pipe, latency, and packet loss (which RAID is for).
Pimpin'!
However, as long as cheap storage outpaces cheap bandwidth, wacky ideas like this will have little utility..
Since then I've managed to get a very active social live which has nothing to do with computers, and I can look back on my school days with a laugh. I've got a job programming, lots of friends and a distinct lack of bitterness. I'm friends with a lot of people who you would label "mental vegetables" - they can't work a computer and they might not be the brightest sparks in the world, but they're nice, good people whose company I enjoy.
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Stallman himself describes the demise of the AI Lab as only one of many reasons for GNU's creation in this landmark Stocholm talk.
You write:
The GPL arose from Stallman's desire to sabotage his colleagues prospects for success -- as well as those of all other commercial developers
- sure, he's trying to sabotage all commercial developers by writing free code. On the other hand, commercialization of formerly public domain (and publicly funded) university "intellectual property" is natural.
War is Peace.
An untouched TTL is not the core factor which provides stealth; it's the non-creation of ICMP time exceededs, which tend to originate from the router's IP address and thereby expose the hop. If these are silenced, few other clues to the router's identity remain. (well, let's ignore esoteric ICMPs).
WARNING: TTL was meant to be decremented to thwart a particularly nasty problem: infinite routing loops. If you ever notice a ever-wrapping packet count on the loopback interface, or a solid activity light between two of these dementedly configured routers, you might have just fscked yourself.
In an imperfect situation like this, GPL provides a stop-gap and fosters what it can of a sharing spirit, carved from the inhospitable terrain of selfishness.
To those who would use GPL code for non-sharing purposes, the tools of their own hoarding will be turned against them. Poetic justice, to me. And for a pragmatic mind capable of mildly complex reasoning, perfectly justified.
Terms to think about:
"Peace-keeping"
"National defense"
"Fighting fire with fire"
Consider the policeman who has to speed to pull over a reckless driver, or deploy tear gas in a riot. To assert that opponents of copyright should not be allowed to employ the weapons of copyright as a means to an end seems somewhat skewed.
http://www.sciam.com/news/101101/3.html
As penance, I'll plagiarize some text for my honorable master, the slashdot audience:
Novel Semiconductor Device Heats and Cools on a Dime
[...] Rama Venkatasubramanian and co-workers, publishing in today's Nature, built a faster and more powerful than ordinary thermoelectric device, which converts heat and electricity back and forth, by alternating very thin layers of two semiconducing materials. This film-made of bismuth, antimony and tellurium-is 2.4 times more efficient than conventional bulk devices, 23,000 times faster, and can be applied in tiny dots for pinpoint refrigeration. "This marks a major advance in a field that has stagnated for 30 years," says John Pazik of the Office of Naval Research, which provided funding for the research.
Thermoelectric devices are longer lasting and tougher than mechanical refrigerators. Their high cost and low efficiency, though, have generally confined them to niche markets: powering deep-space probes, cooling infrared detectors, and, lately, heating and cooling luxury car seats. Cheaper, more convenient thermoelectrics could speed up microprocessors and fiber-optic lines, make possible miniature biotech tools capable of stopping and starting small biochemical reactions, or running a car's air conditioner with waste heat from the engine.
-Pimproot, betting his transplantable head on the Promised Land of scientific salvation
http://www.sciam.com/news/101101/3.html This could be used to convert some of that heat back into useful energy.
-Pimproot, advocating Rube Goldberg machines in homage to car alternators.
Well written. Those of us who are actually aware of what nourishes productive creativity have got to stay one step ahead of the concession-happy mobs who unthinkingly help drive the employment market towards the assembly-line sweatshop model.
Fortunately, there ARE outfits which recognize that the duplicatable nature of our work product (information) renders a unique situation. One man can produce a million shoes as easily as one. A programmer should be selected and treated with that in mind: the quality of his actions will compound - not the quantity.
Executive summary: consider a "programmer" an engineer of software akin to an architect; while the schema of his trade may be less intelligeable and palpable than a blueprint or scale model, the degree to which his actions are amplified is a fitting parallel.
You're right; neither did the X20 directly trigger Quebec's overload. The events occurred on separate months. However, a correlation may exist between high rad output seasons and the probability of inductive star dust spewing onto our little blue marble of a planet. Thanks for the heads-up on April's X20. I hadn't read that.
-Fellow astronaut on Spaceship Earth
Spaceweather.com reported yesterday:
This morning at 1038 UT a powerful X2.6 solar flare erupted near the large sunspot 9632. A radiation storm (currently S2-class) is in progess and intensifying.The explosion also hurled a lopsided halo coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The Earth-directed CME, pictured right in a SOHO coronagraph animation, will sweep past our planet late Tuesday or Wednesday and probably trigger geomagnetic storms.
Interested in what the solar flares have affected in the past (from Roman legions to gas line explosions to Galaxy IV)?
A little NASA article.
We're at the height of the 11 year solar flare cycle. I wonder what will happen tomorrow..
Shit. Forgot a "yes" response will actually cost you money. But encoding your data into the response delay would still work.
OR - You could place a collect call back in reverse! I suppose you don't need a payphone to do this.
hahahaha. How cheap can you get?
Additionally, you can tunnel a response by the binary encoded "yes/no" response - one bit at a time.
Perhaps you could squeeze more bits into the datastream by timing the delay in response.
You fail to realize the latency IS the source of your storage. The more latency you have, the longer the delay between bounce returns, and the less bandwidth you have to spend sending it back out. Because, see, your bandwidth is the ultimate limitor.
I had the same idea for ICMP ping packets. Basically, you can use the temporary storage capacity of routers, modems, the signal on the line itself, and everything in between to store your data. Your only limits, on something such as the internet, where nearly everyone will bounce a packet for you, are the fatness of your pipe, latency, and packet loss (which RAID is for).
Pimpin'!
However, as long as cheap storage outpaces cheap bandwidth, wacky ideas like this will have little utility..
H0 H0 H0
Yes, and you love Big Brother too.
ARRRRGH!! THE OCEAN WAVE METAPHOR!!
Is not the ocean wave composed of water and salt molecules?
STOP ASSERTING THAT WAVES ARE NOT COMPOSED OF PARTICLES - ALL REFERENCE "WAVES" -ARE- COMPOSED OF PARTICLES!!