RMS has always said his intention was to develop a GNU operating system and he started with the tools and would then develop the kernel (I find this unbelieveable, I mean, who wouldn't start with the kernel).
No, it is completely believable, because you omit a crucial part of the GNU goal: create a Unix-compatible operating system. With such a goal, it became possible for him to "eat the problem slowly by the sides", so to speak, for that way he could start working on existing, proprietary Unix systems. Make a little utility to replace cat -- trivial. Make a little utility to replace ls -- easy. Make a not-so-little utility to replace grep -- not so easy but totally doable... you get the point. If you make them with portability in mind, it makes total sense to attack the problem "outside in".
I'd also say the fact Linus' kernel fit so perfectly in that missing slot WITHOUT IT BEING LINUS' INTENTION speaks a lot for the wonders of portability.
Put a sticker on the distribution - "Contains GNU tools" if you like. After all, there isn't all that much stuff in your average Linux distro that couldn't be replaced with a non-GNU version.
Do you know of any free (as in speech) non-GNU C or C++ compiler? How about all those gazillion classic-Unix command line utilities?
Having said this, RMS is an extraordinary individual and people should have respect for what he has achieved.
I wonder if her parents didn't anticipate this reaction to the project, though.
I wonder if they reacted properly when talking to their daughter afterwards. If I was the father, I'd say:
"Sweetie, don't be sad. There are a lot of ignorant people in the world, and sadly many of them find themselves in a position of authority, or worse yet, in charge of the education of children. Yep, I'm talking about the bozos who pulled your exhibit. Dumbasses, all of them. Ah, I have a surprise for you. I took a newspaper article about your project and framed it. Here take a look. Yep, you made it into the news! Oh and by the way, I'll check your future grades making corrections for the 'A' you should have gotten. Which, for all that matters, you have. Bye darling. I'm very proud of you."
For all we know, 8-year-old black girls were running out of the room crying, emotionally hurt by the display.
If anything it would be the white girls who'd run away crying. The whole point of the exhibit (unintended by the author at first, since it only appeared after all numbers were summed up) was to show that children can, yes, be more racist than adults.
Or no, maybe it's not that. Maybe children are just not afraid of making aesthetic judgment, and they just thought one doll was prettier than the other.
Then again, children chose the white Barbie even after the dresses were switched... damn, that was a pretty disturbing result. A commendable work at that. Pure Science, with a capital S. Cold, hard, unquestionable facts, diligently researched and presented in an impartial way. Too bad the assholes who ran the fair -- unlike that girl -- aren't mature enough to handle unpleasant truths.
That's not really conclusive. Since different User-Agent headers can concievably appear when someone is using multiple vmware virtual machines, along with different browsers within them.
'sright. But then again, both are probably very low percentages of the general population of users, so the ISP has it narrowed down a lot. Bottom line is, a Linux firewall is your friend.
...no matter what chemical reactions occur to them. So, unless those microbes have cold fusion as part of their metabolism, you're left with radioactive metal (as opposed to the previously existing radioactive oxides and salts). The nice thing is they won't melt into the soil as easily as their unoxidated equivalent, but all radiation is still there. The radioactive metals have to be physically taken away from the place at some point. How?
This is true for non-radioactive poisonous metals too, for most metals don't like to stay unoxidated for long. Electron-hungry things in the environment like oxygen, sulphur, chloride and some organic materials will revert them back to their nasty, combined state. Again, you have to get the damn thing away from there ASAP.
Even in the States we have companies with terms of service such as these. And it is easy to detect NAT running, because so many "odd" port numbers keep passing through.
??? The client-side ports are supposed to be "odd" -- they're assigned by the OS from the pool of unsigned ints. It all looks like simultaneous client connections from the same address to, say, port 80 on the other side (for web browsing) or port 21 (for FTP) or whatever.
Now what they might be doing is check things like the User-Agent header sent by web browsers. If they see request coming from Win98 IE and Linux Mozilla at the same time, they have something.
This, of course, can also be forged in browsers like Galeon, or better yet, by the proxy itself (there's an option in Squid to forcefully set the User-Agent for all HTTP requests).
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That is your right as a parent. Do you actually suggest that the government step in to censor what goes on? To turn this country into a christian version of Iran?
Iran has grown wussy as of late. Afghanistan is what's hot today in the theocracy scene. 1 square inch of skin accidentaly showed for 1/10 of a second -> beaten to death. Top that, ayatollahs!
Well, there doesn't seem to be anything on bornintheusa.com, so he could argue malice, but isn't that too generic a phrase? I could think of many legitimate uses for that one:
- Informations for Americans abroad;
- Official govt. info;
- Immigration information, e.g., what are your rights if you're the son of illegal Haitian imigrants born in US soil;
- Campaigns to "buy American" etc...
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Is there such a thing as a "(C) on Mickey"? AFAIK Mickey is a trademark. What there is is a copyright on Steamboat Willie, another copyright on Fantasia etc., which have different expiration dates. If (C) on Snowboat Willie ever expires, Disney is still able to create a new cartoon starring only Mickey and it will still be copyrighted. More, if you create a Mickey cartoon yourself, even with an original plot, you're subject to a trademark (not copyright) lawsuit.
This begs the question, "So why was it released to begin with?"
This movie was released 22 years ago. Let's say copyright expires in N years. Now, without anyone noticing, you can't find the old version anymore. This version's copyright expires in N+22 years. Ooops. Maybe they're taking precautions against not being able to extend copyright to more than 5,000 years.
It dawned on me when I bought a copy of Don Quixote in a bookstore in Madrid. It was the original, centuries-old text by Cervantes... but it was annotated by some Spanish academic. Guess what? Yes, (C) 19XX Some Spanish Publishing Company.
The occasional book might make it to the shelves but that would only be 1 out of 1000. The main reason for this is that the books were not licenced in such a way that we could put them on the shelves.
HEY!!! Who ran away with the First Sale doctrine???
The publishers are not trying to stop libraries from lending real books
Yeah. Right. Of course not. They're just trying to phase out "real books" in favor of e-books, which they will be able to charge per use. Same thing as VCR --> DVD.
She has discovered that libraries, for anything that they have available (from the local newspaper to a flashy CD-ROM), are already paying more than you and me will pay at Barns and Noble for the same item. Much more. They pay more because this information will be available to lots of people.
Uh, excuse me, what about donations? Or are people not allowed to donate books to a library? What keeps Joe Schmoe from walking into a B&N, buying the latest Clancy, going to the library and making a donation?
It's denial. The existence of GNU, Linux, the philosophy behind it and its success are so unbearable to some people they block it from their minds. She should see a shrink.
Sneakemail. Although you'll have to obliterate every email address you currently use, establish a new one and never ever EVER give it to anyone. You only give away aliases created by Sneakemail. The moment one of them is used to send you spam, you delete it.
I'm seriously plan to start using it Real Soon Now(TM), but getting rid of the current ones (and redoing all the subscriptions etc etc) will be a PITA. Yeah, I'm lazy. Sue me.
Please don't preach to me about hard working artists. It's not hard work being an artist. Some record exec decides what songs you'll sing, what look you'll have, what demographic you'll be targetting. Some dip shit writes your songs. All the "artist" has to do is sing(wow, that's real hard to learn how to do) and go on Leno once in a while to demonstrate his/her stupidity in an interview ("I've been singing since I was 3!"). It's hard work being a pediatrician, or researcher, but instead, the artists are becoming billioners instead of these people, who are actually doing something for humanity.
Heh. Reminds me of Dire Straits' Money For Nothing:
Look at 'em yo-yos, that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't working, that's the way you do it
Money for nothing and chicks for free
(...)
The little faggot got his own jet airplane
The little faggot is a millionaire
The REAL problem here is that the people who hire consultants tend not to even consider these issues. I have seen far too many consultants be allowed to make very large business decisions unhindered by management that brings them in.
These are usually the same companies that bitchslap employees who ask for an increase in their server space quota, or for a faster PC.
What consequences will this have on GTK+ themes that emulate the MacOS X style? I've noticed that several OSX-like theme developers have already recieved warnings from Apple's legal dept.
You should make it look like a satire. It will then be protected by the First Amendment (I assume you're American; if you're not, check your local law, but most democratic countries protect satire).
although it isn't OSX, it does incorporate an Apple logo so I'd be interested to see how this develops.
Bad. Vulnerable to trademark infringement suit (IANAL). But if you change the logo in some funny fashion while leaving evident where it was spoofed from, you should be in the clear. Heck, it worked for Larry Flynt, didn't it?
Split the code. But he's already made plans for that I bet.
Is there anything he can do? BIND being BSD-licensed, anyone can just slap a GPL on it, call in OpenBind or GnuBind or GnuDNS and that's about it. At the VERY worst, maybe it'd be required to show a message like "this software contains code (c) blahblah". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
(*sigh*) I wish DJB wouldn't be so anal about his licensing (forced install locations? Sheesh!) I administered qmail, and it rocks. I bet djbdns is just as well-done.
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No, it is completely believable, because you omit a crucial part of the GNU goal: create a Unix-compatible operating system. With such a goal, it became possible for him to "eat the problem slowly by the sides", so to speak, for that way he could start working on existing, proprietary Unix systems. Make a little utility to replace cat -- trivial. Make a little utility to replace ls -- easy. Make a not-so-little utility to replace grep -- not so easy but totally doable... you get the point. If you make them with portability in mind, it makes total sense to attack the problem "outside in".
I'd also say the fact Linus' kernel fit so perfectly in that missing slot WITHOUT IT BEING LINUS' INTENTION speaks a lot for the wonders of portability.
Put a sticker on the distribution - "Contains GNU tools" if you like. After all, there isn't all that much stuff in your average Linux distro that couldn't be replaced with a non-GNU version.
Do you know of any free (as in speech) non-GNU C or C++ compiler? How about all those gazillion classic-Unix command line utilities?
Having said this, RMS is an extraordinary individual and people should have respect for what he has achieved.
Amen to that bro.
I wonder if they reacted properly when talking to their daughter afterwards. If I was the father, I'd say:
"Sweetie, don't be sad. There are a lot of ignorant people in the world, and sadly many of them find themselves in a position of authority, or worse yet, in charge of the education of children. Yep, I'm talking about the bozos who pulled your exhibit. Dumbasses, all of them. Ah, I have a surprise for you. I took a newspaper article about your project and framed it. Here take a look. Yep, you made it into the news! Oh and by the way, I'll check your future grades making corrections for the 'A' you should have gotten. Which, for all that matters, you have. Bye darling. I'm very proud of you."
If anything it would be the white girls who'd run away crying. The whole point of the exhibit (unintended by the author at first, since it only appeared after all numbers were summed up) was to show that children can, yes, be more racist than adults.
Or no, maybe it's not that. Maybe children are just not afraid of making aesthetic judgment, and they just thought one doll was prettier than the other.
Then again, children chose the white Barbie even after the dresses were switched... damn, that was a pretty disturbing result. A commendable work at that. Pure Science, with a capital S. Cold, hard, unquestionable facts, diligently researched and presented in an impartial way. Too bad the assholes who ran the fair -- unlike that girl -- aren't mature enough to handle unpleasant truths.
'sright. But then again, both are probably very low percentages of the general population of users, so the ISP has it narrowed down a lot. Bottom line is, a Linux firewall is your friend.
This is true for non-radioactive poisonous metals too, for most metals don't like to stay unoxidated for long. Electron-hungry things in the environment like oxygen, sulphur, chloride and some organic materials will revert them back to their nasty, combined state. Again, you have to get the damn thing away from there ASAP.
??? The client-side ports are supposed to be "odd" -- they're assigned by the OS from the pool of unsigned ints. It all looks like simultaneous client connections from the same address to, say, port 80 on the other side (for web browsing) or port 21 (for FTP) or whatever.
Now what they might be doing is check things like the User-Agent header sent by web browsers. If they see request coming from Win98 IE and Linux Mozilla at the same time, they have something.
This, of course, can also be forged in browsers like Galeon, or better yet, by the proxy itself (there's an option in Squid to forcefully set the User-Agent for all HTTP requests).
Iran has grown wussy as of late. Afghanistan is what's hot today in the theocracy scene. 1 square inch of skin accidentaly showed for 1/10 of a second -> beaten to death. Top that, ayatollahs!
- Informations for Americans abroad;
- Official govt. info;
- Immigration information, e.g., what are your rights if you're the son of illegal Haitian imigrants born in US soil;
- Campaigns to "buy American" etc...
Is there such a thing as a "(C) on Mickey"? AFAIK Mickey is a trademark. What there is is a copyright on Steamboat Willie, another copyright on Fantasia etc., which have different expiration dates. If (C) on Snowboat Willie ever expires, Disney is still able to create a new cartoon starring only Mickey and it will still be copyrighted. More, if you create a Mickey cartoon yourself, even with an original plot, you're subject to a trademark (not copyright) lawsuit.
This begs the question, "So why was it released to begin with?"
This movie was released 22 years ago. Let's say copyright expires in N years. Now, without anyone noticing, you can't find the old version anymore. This version's copyright expires in N+22 years. Ooops. Maybe they're taking precautions against not being able to extend copyright to more than 5,000 years.
It dawned on me when I bought a copy of Don Quixote in a bookstore in Madrid. It was the original, centuries-old text by Cervantes... but it was annotated by some Spanish academic. Guess what? Yes, (C) 19XX Some Spanish Publishing Company.
So, how many football-playing good-for-nothing piles of muscle did you turn in? ;-P
We are supposed to be members of a civilization, not pack animals that leave the weak to fend for themselves and die.
Made me forgive you for this:
If Linux were a beer, it would be shipped in open barrels so that anybody could piss in it before delivery.
What can I say? Thank God Linux isn't beer (it's speech, and speech can't be ruined by pissing on it)
YES! That's what the DVD-CCA/SDMI/CPRM proponents are! BACTERIA!
Easy. Lockheed's bribe budget is not as high as Verizon's or Guiness'. My theory.
HEY!!! Who ran away with the First Sale doctrine???
Yeah. Right. Of course not. They're just trying to phase out "real books" in favor of e-books, which they will be able to charge per use. Same thing as VCR --> DVD.
Uh, excuse me, what about donations? Or are people not allowed to donate books to a library? What keeps Joe Schmoe from walking into a B&N, buying the latest Clancy, going to the library and making a donation?
It's denial. The existence of GNU, Linux, the philosophy behind it and its success are so unbearable to some people they block it from their minds. She should see a shrink.
I'm seriously plan to start using it Real Soon Now(TM), but getting rid of the current ones (and redoing all the subscriptions etc etc) will be a PITA. Yeah, I'm lazy. Sue me.
Easy. (Good) entertainment is food for the brain. That's the same reason why Olympic athletes eat so much.
Heh. Reminds me of Dire Straits' Money For Nothing:
Look at 'em yo-yos, that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't working, that's the way you do it
Money for nothing and chicks for free
(...)
The little faggot got his own jet airplane
The little faggot is a millionaire
These are usually the same companies that bitchslap employees who ask for an increase in their server space quota, or for a faster PC.
You should make it look like a satire. It will then be protected by the First Amendment (I assume you're American; if you're not, check your local law, but most democratic countries protect satire).
although it isn't OSX, it does incorporate an Apple logo so I'd be interested to see how this develops.
Bad. Vulnerable to trademark infringement suit (IANAL). But if you change the logo in some funny fashion while leaving evident where it was spoofed from, you should be in the clear. Heck, it worked for Larry Flynt, didn't it?
Is there anything he can do? BIND being BSD-licensed, anyone can just slap a GPL on it, call in OpenBind or GnuBind or GnuDNS and that's about it. At the VERY worst, maybe it'd be required to show a message like "this software contains code (c) blahblah". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
(*sigh*) I wish DJB wouldn't be so anal about his licensing (forced install locations? Sheesh!) I administered qmail, and it rocks. I bet djbdns is just as well-done.