The FSF has stated that the APSL 1.2 is still not truly "copyleft", as it fails their criteria. The subject makes it sound like the FSF is denying that the APSL exists. I get a mental image of RMS sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth with his hands over his ears, sceaming, "I can't hear you. Nyah, nyah, nyah. You're not real! Not real!"
He already used Windows. According to NBC, the entire FBI maintains its entire espionage system in a Word documents. Last nights 6 o'clock news had an example of how he checked to see if he was being followed. He would follow this somple procedure:
Open blank Word doc
Type in name
Type in "spy station names"
See if they showed up on the screen
What a wonderful marvel MS Word is to be able do these things.
Brrrr. You really know how to get a guy's goat, don't you? Microbilt's Credit Commander comes with a floppy dongle. We use it to run credit reports for bond issuance, and it's a pain in the butt if we have to replace a PC.
True, but the "Property" is still "Property," the difference is that the "owners" of the "Property" are the "Public", not an individual or a corporation. In other words, it's the property of all of us. The only real restriction on us is that we cannot prevent others from becoming "owners" of the "Property", and if we improve on the "Property", our improvements must also belong to the "Public."
Allchin's concerns, eWEEK was told, stem from GPL paragraph (2B), which states, "You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
Are they saying that my creating/innovating something, then licensing it under the GPL so that it will exist in the state that I desire (free as in speech), is un-American? Isn't that what the Microsoft EULAs included with all their software, even their "free beer-ware", is designed to do?
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use... [which] might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development." How is it un-American for hundreds/thousands/one or two people who work for the government (any government) to take their paychecks (taxpayer money), purchase a PC and Net connection, and use those taxpayer-funded resources to create a mail/groupware client that will handle text/RTF/HTML/XML email, calendaring, To-Do lists, address books and collaboration WITHOUT automatically running the Virus of the Week before the user can stop it?
Perhaps it's because the GPL is not a profit/vulnerablility/upgrade-protection license.
That's very nice, but when you buy a PBX from a REPUTABLE vendor/manufacturer, you get what you pay for. We recently paid $70,000.00+ for a PBX switch w/voice mail that will do LCR outbound, selecting our T-1 for long distance, or our PRI for toll-free, DID inbound voice, hunt groups for incoming calls, auto attendant and basic voice mail. It can do 6-way conferences, in-house forwarding and follow-me, and 3-way calls. We can page through the phone. If we are someday willing to pay some ungodly amount, it will do what the poster is asking. But, unlike a PC, the only time it has gone down on us was when the power was out for a couple hours (Big UPS). It is well past 99.999% reliability. Our biggest trouble is AT&T, who love to play Point-The-Finger almost as much as MCI. Granted, we could probably contract w/a Perl contractor or three and a Linux/*BSD conslutant to put together a box for you (P-III, Cyclades card, shitload of Sportsters, etc) for a fraction of the cost, but it wouldn't be as solid.
At home, though, something open that would do some of this would get my juices going.
With Ameritech, you can forward No Answer, or just plain Forward All Calls. They offer these sevices a la carte, I think, and they also have them as a package w/Caller-ID, Call Waiting, 3-way, etc.
Too bad they program their PBXs to give out the "Out of Area" code.
Actually, that's all you need to nail them. If there is no ID, (Out of Area or Private/Blocked ANI), then the phone doesn't ring. That how Ameritechs "Privacy Manager" service works. All unidentified callers get a recording that asks them to leave their name. After that, it rings your phone and tell you that there is a call from $PERSON. You have the option to take the call, refuse the call, or refuse the call with a "go away" message. Much as I hate giving more money to Ameritech, it's worth it to avoid those assholes.
"Privacy Manager" also gives the option of setting up a PIN to ring straight through, in case someone has a real reason to get through, but has to call from a payphone, cellphone, or through AT&T provided service. That would be a nice addition to this sort of thing, too.
Napster gave me no problems. Since I'm using IP Masq I don't think Napster even hiccupped. If you use the FTP proggie that comes with Windows, you'll need to load the "ip_masq_ftp" module. I do that via a very simple (one line + comment) SysVinit script: "/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp". You have to have the module compiled and available though. I don't use Netmeeting or ICQ, but I think that there is an ICQ mod, I know there is a Quake mod. I set it up using the template provided in "Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition", look here. It was well commented on what each line in the template did, and why. Starting from there, I modified it to meet my needs; Napster, HTTP, FTP. Very simple needs. Keep in mind that I am running kernel 2.2.14 at home, so that's ipchains, NOT netfilter. Using the 2.4.x kernels are a diferent ballgame. Last I looked, ~month ago, many of those modules did not exist yet, or could be done by netfilter itself.
Absolutely. First thing I did was install Dead Rat 6.2 over the net. Then I spent several hours w/Napster trying out songs. Since probably August 2000, my (Comcast) bandwidth has been mostly free. I check my mail at night, and browse whatever topic has caught my attention during the day that I feel guilty about using works bandwidth for, but that's about it. I am using NAT, and ipchains on a firewall, but just for my single PC inside. Basically, it's there for security, so that I don't have my Win9x PC connected directly.
$make world.c
Hmmm.... immeaurable by the naked eye. Let's see if it runs.
$./world
"Hello, World."
Yippee! Don't need no 1600MHz Athlon to make my world!
"Should we tell them the truth about how all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent?" "No, I don't think we'll be telling them THAT."
"What if the alien doesn't show up?"
"Then we'll fake it, and sell it to the FOX network."
"Yeah, they'll buy anything!"
"Now son, they do a lot of quality programming, too." --Pregnant pause--
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!"
Don't forget the guns. The standard issue Stomtrooper blaster rifle is a Sterling submachine gun. The long rifles, seen on Tattoine and carried by Chewbacca on the Death Star, are German MG-42 machine guns.
Does anyone make one of these to fit on a crib? The $CHILD_PROCESS is 6 months old now, and nothing pisses her off like going to bed. We need something to quiet her down. A quantum state of relaxation on her part would enable a good nights sleep for me and the SO.
As far as I can see, all this story does is point out that Federal bureaucrats fund programs completely without technical review.
Nah, they just put a picture of a Playmate on the cover of the proposal and run it by a Congressman. Maybe it's not a technical review, but it's a review of sorts.
Will e-paper be as effective at containing messes during housebreaking the dog as the New York Times?
On another topic, will the e-paper give off toxic fumes when burned? Newsprint makes excellent kindling for the fireplace: it burns fast and hot, is easy to manipulate, and doesn't poison the people settling in for a romatic glass of wine in front of the fire.
All in all though, it would be nice to have tough, waterproof pages that can stand up to reading and rereading as well as assaults by toddler.
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The FSF has stated that the APSL 1.2 is still not truly "copyleft", as it fails their criteria. The subject makes it sound like the FSF is denying that the APSL exists. I get a mental image of RMS sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth with his hands over his ears, sceaming, "I can't hear you. Nyah, nyah, nyah. You're not real! Not real!"
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That wailing denial you hear is the Board of Education and the legislature of the state of Kansas, United States of America.
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Open blank Word doc
Type in name
Type in "spy station names"
See if they showed up on the screen
What a wonderful marvel MS Word is to be able do these things.
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Probably along the lines of the "Waterworld" game from The Simpsons:
-move one step-
"Game Over. Please deposit forty quarters"
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That would be great. Four people could play Gauntlet without crowding.
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Brrrr. You really know how to get a guy's goat, don't you? Microbilt's Credit Commander comes with a floppy dongle. We use it to run credit reports for bond issuance, and it's a pain in the butt if we have to replace a PC.
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True, but the "Property" is still "Property," the difference is that the "owners" of the "Property" are the "Public", not an individual or a corporation. In other words, it's the property of all of us. The only real restriction on us is that we cannot prevent others from becoming "owners" of the "Property", and if we improve on the "Property", our improvements must also belong to the "Public."
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ROTFL. Never having I being seeing such beautyingly crafting satiring responding.
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It's not IP that the GPL destroys, but instead the ability for others use that IP to exploit customers and competitors.
In other words, it doesn't destroy Intellectual Property, but Intellectual Profiteering.
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Allchin's concerns, eWEEK was told, stem from GPL paragraph (2B), which states, "You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
... [which] might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development."
Are they saying that my creating/innovating something, then licensing it under the GPL so that it will exist in the state that I desire (free as in speech), is un-American? Isn't that what the Microsoft EULAs included with all their software, even their "free beer-ware", is designed to do?
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use
How is it un-American for hundreds/thousands/one or two people who work for the government (any government) to take their paychecks (taxpayer money), purchase a PC and Net connection, and use those taxpayer-funded resources to create a mail/groupware client that will handle text/RTF/HTML/XML email, calendaring, To-Do lists, address books and collaboration WITHOUT automatically running the Virus of the Week before the user can stop it?
Perhaps it's because the GPL is not a profit/vulnerablility/upgrade-protection license.
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That's very nice, but when you buy a PBX from a REPUTABLE vendor/manufacturer, you get what you pay for. We recently paid $70,000.00+ for a PBX switch w/voice mail that will do LCR outbound, selecting our T-1 for long distance, or our PRI for toll-free, DID inbound voice, hunt groups for incoming calls, auto attendant and basic voice mail. It can do 6-way conferences, in-house forwarding and follow-me, and 3-way calls. We can page through the phone. If we are someday willing to pay some ungodly amount, it will do what the poster is asking. But, unlike a PC, the only time it has gone down on us was when the power was out for a couple hours (Big UPS). It is well past 99.999% reliability. Our biggest trouble is AT&T, who love to play Point-The-Finger almost as much as MCI. Granted, we could probably contract w/a Perl contractor or three and a Linux/*BSD conslutant to put together a box for you (P-III, Cyclades card, shitload of Sportsters, etc) for a fraction of the cost, but it wouldn't be as solid.
At home, though, something open that would do some of this would get my juices going.
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With Ameritech, you can forward No Answer, or just plain Forward All Calls. They offer these sevices a la carte, I think, and they also have them as a package w/Caller-ID, Call Waiting, 3-way, etc.
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Too bad they program their PBXs to give out the "Out of Area" code.
Actually, that's all you need to nail them. If there is no ID, (Out of Area or Private/Blocked ANI), then the phone doesn't ring. That how Ameritechs "Privacy Manager" service works. All unidentified callers get a recording that asks them to leave their name. After that, it rings your phone and tell you that there is a call from $PERSON. You have the option to take the call, refuse the call, or refuse the call with a "go away" message. Much as I hate giving more money to Ameritech, it's worth it to avoid those assholes.
"Privacy Manager" also gives the option of setting up a PIN to ring straight through, in case someone has a real reason to get through, but has to call from a payphone, cellphone, or through AT&T provided service. That would be a nice addition to this sort of thing, too.
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Napster gave me no problems. Since I'm using IP Masq I don't think Napster even hiccupped. If you use the FTP proggie that comes with Windows, you'll need to load the "ip_masq_ftp" module. I do that via a very simple (one line + comment) SysVinit script: "/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp". You have to have the module compiled and available though. I don't use Netmeeting or ICQ, but I think that there is an ICQ mod, I know there is a Quake mod. I set it up using the template provided in "Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition", look here. It was well commented on what each line in the template did, and why. Starting from there, I modified it to meet my needs; Napster, HTTP, FTP. Very simple needs. Keep in mind that I am running kernel 2.2.14 at home, so that's ipchains, NOT netfilter. Using the 2.4.x kernels are a diferent ballgame. Last I looked, ~month ago, many of those modules did not exist yet, or could be done by netfilter itself.
Regarding your statement about Netmeeting, this may help. Look for H.323 programs.
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Absolutely. First thing I did was install Dead Rat 6.2 over the net. Then I spent several hours w/Napster trying out songs. Since probably August 2000, my (Comcast) bandwidth has been mostly free. I check my mail at night, and browse whatever topic has caught my attention during the day that I feel guilty about using works bandwidth for, but that's about it. I am using NAT, and ipchains on a firewall, but just for my single PC inside. Basically, it's there for security, so that I don't have my Win9x PC connected directly.
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$make world.c
Hmmm.... immeaurable by the naked eye. Let's see if it runs.
$./world
"Hello, World."
Yippee! Don't need no 1600MHz Athlon to make my world!
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"Should we tell them the truth about how all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent?"
"No, I don't think we'll be telling them THAT."
"What if the alien doesn't show up?"
"Then we'll fake it, and sell it to the FOX network."
"Yeah, they'll buy anything!"
"Now son, they do a lot of quality programming, too."
--Pregnant pause--
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!"
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The turtle couldn't help us.
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Don't forget the guns. The standard issue Stomtrooper blaster rifle is a Sterling submachine gun. The long rifles, seen on Tattoine and carried by Chewbacca on the Death Star, are German MG-42 machine guns.
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"SWETSHOP" # Ok, we need lowercase to
"CHILDLBR" # unfuck the lameness filter
"KATHYLEE" # to let this post get through.
"KIDWORK" # I find it worth posting, and
"$.05/hr" # the caps are to make sure
"LBRUNION" # the the "ell" character shows.
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Does anyone make one of these to fit on a crib? The $CHILD_PROCESS is 6 months old now, and nothing pisses her off like going to bed. We need something to quiet her down. A quantum state of relaxation on her part would enable a good nights sleep for me and the SO.
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How about: So Shit Happens
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As far as I can see, all this story does is point out that Federal bureaucrats fund programs completely without technical review.
Nah, they just put a picture of a Playmate on the cover of the proposal and run it by a Congressman. Maybe it's not a technical review, but it's a review of sorts.
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Will e-paper be as effective at containing messes during housebreaking the dog as the New York Times?
On another topic, will the e-paper give off toxic fumes when burned? Newsprint makes excellent kindling for the fireplace: it burns fast and hot, is easy to manipulate, and doesn't poison the people settling in for a romatic glass of wine in front of the fire.
All in all though, it would be nice to have tough, waterproof pages that can stand up to reading and rereading as well as assaults by toddler.
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NAVASSHOSSH: Not As Vulnerable As SSH Open Secure SHell
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