I had another thought: what if your system is just slightly out of tune and it ends up allowing you to drive at, say, 46 mph in a 40 mph area? Will you get fined anyway? Will you have the benefit of the doubt? Or will you be decreed responsible for the absolute good working order of such equipment? Or will the cops just assume you maliciously hacked your car's computer and screw you even more?
You know, I wouldn't mind having this system in my car if it acted as some kind of insurance against speeding fines. But the gubmint won't let such a cash cow go that easily. Reminds me of the Bertelsmann Tax.
More likely, Ximian were paid just to make the port (which HP could do themselves but comissioning Ximian is more effective). After that, HP/UX becomes just another supported Unix. And, according to the press release, there's a maintenance contract too. Good, it means they're able to make money after all.
This is one of the reasonings for Free Software in full effect: hardware companies have an interest in the availability of software to their platform.
As a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if they timed their release with GNOME 1.4's.
Mostly true, but the article says the computers are intended for libraries, schools, hospitals, community centers etc., not to be bought by individuals. They're diskless workstations with a NIC and a 16 MB flash-memory filesystem.
Of course, the article is in Portuguese, so you'll have to either trust me or wait for somebody to translate (I haven't scrolled down yet, maybe somebody already did).
P.S.: People able to afford $200 on something here are not "quite wealthy". They're middle class, just like in the USA. The difference is, only about 10% of people here are middle-class, versus 89% poor and 1% obscenely rich.
More probably, one member will encrypt the juicy stuff with PGP, create a Hotmail account through Anonymizer and relay the info to a trusted party who'll let everybody know about the latest security hole in BIND.
...be able to prevent it from being nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar? That'd be a riot. Imagine RMS delivering the acceptance speech. Or better yet, Jon Johannsen. And Jackass Valenti's reaction.
ViaVoice is Open Source???? There was nothing, either in the linked article or in its comments, that would imply that. Can anyone provide a link to confirm?
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For me the scarey bit is why the blazes the US DoD wants the info.
Colonel: "General, where are we going to make our next bio-warfare experiment?" General: "Wait a sec, lemme see that web stats... mmm, it seems in Whateverville, MA, schoolchildren read Noam Chomsky online 17% more than the national average. Yep, this is the place". Colonel: "Yes, Sir!"
Napster will start to offer MP3 themselves -- in addition to users making theirs available from download. With the Bertelsmann deal they're in a position to do just that (at least with Bertelsmann material at first). Expect to see usernames like "NapsterRepository00028834" in your Napster search results.
Some kind of CRC check for legitimacy could also be added, so I know the copy of Rush's "Tom Sawyer"(*) L33tD00d has is the same as the original and not some horribly recorded-from-tape version.
Also, I want discounts (preferrably up to 100% depending on collection size) for people who put songs up as opposed to download-only people.
(*)I don't know which megacorp owns Rush. If it isn't Bertelsmann, what the heck, you understood the general scheme.
Good. You touched a subject that never ceases to nag me in the back of my head: textbooks. So here's my question to the interviewees:
What do you think of the idea of Open Textbooks? For example, books on World History, Biology, Math, Physics etc. that can be used in high schools and for which no copy restrictions are in place? Schools and/or parents and/or students would be able to print the book themselves at a fraction of the cost. Maybe the result wouldn't be so nice-looking, but it would be effective.
Think schools in poor neighborhoods, or in the Third World. Think cheap, fast inkjet printers. Think a central repository (or a number thereof) whose contents is certified as "Good For Schools" by some reputable academic body, govt-ran or not.
I guess the event is not "nerdy" enough. But, since you mentioned india, in Dec 2, 1999 we had 15 years since the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal. I don't recall a/. story about that (at least, not in the front page). Anyone can confirm that? Michael? Rob? Taco? Katz? Tim?
Anti-Hollywood or not, repealing the DMCA has the unmistakable scent of "thing-the-ACLU-will-be-happy-about". As much as he hates Hollywood, nothing will happen there. More, expect heavy pressure upon all other countries to enact similar "legislation".
Damn, I just can't envision the guy doing anything even remotely good. Yes, I'm terminally pessimistic. Sue me.
Ditto. For what you said it seems you can help your friends more from outside than from inside. Other than your own well-being, that should be your only concern regarding this case.
Reserve your conscience to entities who have consciences, i.e. human beings.
What scares me is that RH7 still ships with the vulnerable, unpatched version of wu-ftpd. Wasn't that hole fixed ages ago?
Hopping through CERT and eventually into Red Hat I found this. Fixes only for RH5 and RH6 (RH7 didn't exist at the time).
I can't get to RH's FTP to check the status for wu-ftpd in RH7 right now, but their list of security advisories for RH7 does not mention wu-ftpd.
Does it play the most recent region 1 discs? I heard the bad guys came up with a scheme in which new region 1 discs refuse to play in all-regions players, but found nothing about this except a very short notice in some DVD player manufacturer's site. Anyone has more information about this?
Correct. That's why such "tightening" can work in ways other than intended. For instance, let's see one of the cases:
AndyP wrote two months ago that he'd been arrested for vandalism after one Halloween mischief night when he was sixteen. An online tracking agency dug up the arrest -- even though it was a misdeanor offense, was supposed to be kept sealed, and had happened a decade earlier. "I was turned down because my company was working on a government project and we all needed a moderate security clearance. I never got it sorted out, because it was technically true. But jeez, it was a spray-painting incident. I guess in certain quarters, I'm unemployable for the rest of my life."
I tell you, any place that does hire AndyP -- either because they don't run paranoid checks on people or because they don't mind such a minor, ancient offense -- earns karma points in my book. Think of it this way: not only employers select employees; it works the other way around too.
Of course, there might be some areas in which the demand/offer balance is in a way that people get truly screwed. IT, however, isn't one of them.
It's worldwide. Must be a stupidity virus or something. In Brazil they tried to change the name of the Petrobras oil company to Petrobrax. People screamed so loud they backed out in 24 hours! Maybe we could do the same with Helix^H^H^H^H^HXimian?
If the Helix name has for some reason become verboten, I think they should present a list of names and cast a vote. Ximian, frankly, sucks. I'm e-mailing them right now.
This sounds very much like those spammers that offer an "unsubscribe" option in their unsolicited emails. You know, where they send you to a site to unsubscribe which really means you just put your email into a "yep, this one really exists" list and you will now get about four times as many emails from them?
Yep. I'm probably being the victim of that right now (I do remember opting out of some spam recently, and the spam I receive skyrocketed). It might have been that son-of-a-female-dog that de-spamproofs people's e-mail in/. too.
I'm very much inclined to obliterate all my e-mail addresses and go to Sneakemail.
You should not force a teacher to teach something that he or she fundamentally disagrees with.
I fundamentally disagree that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. My religion tells me it's made of lithium and selenium. Should a scholl allow me to teach Chemistry "my" way?
And you can't fire someone because of their religious beliefs.
Great! That confirms I could teach Chemistry the way described above and they couldn't even fire me!
As in, is there a >0 probability of this monstrosity NOT making it into the official stardard? (as opposed to merely becoming "optional", which would be the proverbial foot in the door)
...is people failing to do the jump from MacOS to Linux -- when OSX starts to come bundled in every Mac. Especially if it runs a few select *nix apps well (e.g. Apache, Gimp).
AFAIK it's impossible to buy a Mac without also buying MacOS... right? I'm not a Mac guy... is Apple still mercilessly crushing any and all attempt at cloning?
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You know, I wouldn't mind having this system in my car if it acted as some kind of insurance against speeding fines. But the gubmint won't let such a cash cow go that easily. Reminds me of the Bertelsmann Tax.
This is one of the reasonings for Free Software in full effect: hardware companies have an interest in the availability of software to their platform.
As a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if they timed their release with GNOME 1.4's.
Of course, the article is in Portuguese, so you'll have to either trust me or wait for somebody to translate (I haven't scrolled down yet, maybe somebody already did).
P.S.: People able to afford $200 on something here are not "quite wealthy". They're middle class, just like in the USA. The difference is, only about 10% of people here are middle-class, versus 89% poor and 1% obscenely rich.
More probably, one member will encrypt the juicy stuff with PGP, create a Hotmail account through Anonymizer and relay the info to a trusted party who'll let everybody know about the latest security hole in BIND.
...be able to prevent it from being nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar? That'd be a riot. Imagine RMS delivering the acceptance speech. Or better yet, Jon Johannsen. And Jackass Valenti's reaction.
ViaVoice is Open Source???? There was nothing, either in the linked article or in its comments, that would imply that. Can anyone provide a link to confirm?
Colonel: "General, where are we going to make our next bio-warfare experiment?"
General: "Wait a sec, lemme see that web stats... mmm, it seems in Whateverville, MA, schoolchildren read Noam Chomsky online 17% more than the national average. Yep, this is the place".
Colonel: "Yes, Sir!"
Some kind of CRC check for legitimacy could also be added, so I know the copy of Rush's "Tom Sawyer"(*) L33tD00d has is the same as the original and not some horribly recorded-from-tape version.
Also, I want discounts (preferrably up to 100% depending on collection size) for people who put songs up as opposed to download-only people.
(*)I don't know which megacorp owns Rush. If it isn't Bertelsmann, what the heck, you understood the general scheme.
What do you think of the idea of Open Textbooks? For example, books on World History, Biology, Math, Physics etc. that can be used in high schools and for which no copy restrictions are in place? Schools and/or parents and/or students would be able to print the book themselves at a fraction of the cost. Maybe the result wouldn't be so nice-looking, but it would be effective.
Think schools in poor neighborhoods, or in the Third World. Think cheap, fast inkjet printers. Think a central repository (or a number thereof) whose contents is certified as "Good For Schools" by some reputable academic body, govt-ran or not.
AFAIK Nautilus is going to be THE file navigation tool for the next version of GNOME, period. This sounds like just marketing hoopla to me.
I guess the event is not "nerdy" enough. But, since you mentioned india, in Dec 2, 1999 we had 15 years since the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal. I don't recall a /. story about that (at least, not in the front page). Anyone can confirm that? Michael? Rob? Taco? Katz? Tim?
What about the US Constitution? Doesn't it allow just that?
Anti-Hollywood or not, repealing the DMCA has the unmistakable scent of "thing-the-ACLU-will-be-happy-about". As much as he hates Hollywood, nothing will happen there. More, expect heavy pressure upon all other countries to enact similar "legislation". Damn, I just can't envision the guy doing anything even remotely good. Yes, I'm terminally pessimistic. Sue me.
...what I REALLY want to see is when are they going to bitchslap the DMCA.
Reserve your conscience to entities who have consciences, i.e. human beings.
Does Dubya know that? If not, don't tell him! (at least until Saturday when he'll be Prez but not TX governor any more).
In his analysis he says RH7's vulnerability comes from LPRng, not wu-ftpd. A patched version of LPRng is offered as an update by Red Hat here.
Hopping through CERT and eventually into Red Hat I found this. Fixes only for RH5 and RH6 (RH7 didn't exist at the time). I can't get to RH's FTP to check the status for wu-ftpd in RH7 right now, but their list of security advisories for RH7 does not mention wu-ftpd.
Does it play the most recent region 1 discs? I heard the bad guys came up with a scheme in which new region 1 discs refuse to play in all-regions players, but found nothing about this except a very short notice in some DVD player manufacturer's site. Anyone has more information about this?
AndyP wrote two months ago that he'd been arrested for vandalism after one Halloween mischief night when he was sixteen. An online tracking agency dug up the arrest -- even though it was a misdeanor offense, was supposed to be kept sealed, and had happened a decade earlier. "I was turned down because my company was working on a government project and we all needed a moderate security clearance. I never got it sorted out, because it was technically true. But jeez, it was a spray-painting incident. I guess in certain quarters, I'm unemployable for the rest of my life."
I tell you, any place that does hire AndyP -- either because they don't run paranoid checks on people or because they don't mind such a minor, ancient offense -- earns karma points in my book. Think of it this way: not only employers select employees; it works the other way around too.
Of course, there might be some areas in which the demand/offer balance is in a way that people get truly screwed. IT, however, isn't one of them.
If the Helix name has for some reason become verboten, I think they should present a list of names and cast a vote. Ximian, frankly, sucks. I'm e-mailing them right now.
Yep. I'm probably being the victim of that right now (I do remember opting out of some spam recently, and the spam I receive skyrocketed). It might have been that son-of-a-female-dog that de-spamproofs people's e-mail in /. too.
I'm very much inclined to obliterate all my e-mail addresses and go to Sneakemail.
I fundamentally disagree that water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. My religion tells me it's made of lithium and selenium. Should a scholl allow me to teach Chemistry "my" way?
And you can't fire someone because of their religious beliefs.
Great! That confirms I could teach Chemistry the way described above and they couldn't even fire me!
As in, is there a >0 probability of this monstrosity NOT making it into the official stardard? (as opposed to merely becoming "optional", which would be the proverbial foot in the door)
AFAIK it's impossible to buy a Mac without also buying MacOS... right? I'm not a Mac guy... is Apple still mercilessly crushing any and all attempt at cloning?