Corrupt Executive #1: "See, I passed in front of a church and heard the preacher say this: 'And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.' It seems it's in the Bible or something."
Corrupt Executive #2: "What a WONDERFUL idea! Mandatory smartcards embedded under the skin! Person buys one too many Noah Chomsky book... person never gets a job again! PERFECT!! Let's lobby for that."
Corrupt Executive #1: "I'm sending the faxes right NOW!"
Corrupt Executive #2: "Let me check with Legal if the authors of the Bible haven't patented this business method already."
ever since his time at Benetton, Schumacher has acted as if he has a god-given right to the Racing Line, something I suspect he learned from Senna
Which in turn learned it from Prost (Suzuka 1989). No wonder they called Prost "The Professor". Heh.
<shameless plug> On a completely different subject, I'd like to invite the F1 fans at Slashdot to join the formula1 newsgroup at gearbox.formula1.com -- great place to chat around if you have other interests than Linux.;-P
</shameless plug>
- The 2.0.x Linux kernel was all the rage.
- M$ launched Office 97.
- The MAME emulator was launched.
- Michael Schumacher tried to punt Jacques Villeneuve off the final race of the F1 season and thus showed all the world what a sore loser he is.
- OJ, of course.
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Wladawsky-Berger: I know, and I know that Linus [Torvalds] and the team are resisting forking the kernel.
At first I was amused when I read this. "Resisting forking the kernel"? ANYONE can fork the kernel (and any piece of GPL'd software) as they see fit. If IBM wants a mainframe-optimized, heavily altered Linux kernel to run on they machines. they can do it NOW. It's them who are resisting, not Linus. But then I started to think, why?
Buzzword compliance. Linus can't stop a kernel fork, but he CAN stop people from calling such fork "Linux" -- it's a trademark. And IBM wants badly to shout to the media, "We run Linux!" It's a better PR move. That's why they're trying to coax Linus into cramming the mainframe changes into the main kernel tree. Linus won't do that, and rightly so IMHO.
On the other hand, IBM could do the fork and negotiate a "blessing" from Linus (read: buying the right to call the new kernel "Linux something" for an obscene amount of money). I'd guess that's what's going to happen eventually.
Can M$ shareholders sue M$ for not taking steps to arrange the assassination of Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison etc? Didn't think so.
About the Indy 500 thing: You could include the NASCAR event and the Formula 1 event (this would include people from all around the world). And people, before you think this is completely offtopic, go to ronfar's page and you'll see it's about censorship too.
Remember that Start Trek episode where an ancient cone-shaped object goes about eating starships and space stations for no apparent reason? In the end, nothing is explained, the thing goes away and we are left with a big question mark.
I planned to write a sequel to that in which we find out this was a device made to bring about the End Of The Universe by the following means:
- Gather as much brainpower as possible by swallowing intelligent beings capable of heuristic thinking;
- Wire them all up in a faraway galaxy-sized superbiocomputer dedicated to solve an extremely hard math problem (like finding out if all possible sequences of K-base digits are present in the K-base expansion of Pi for any value of K, none, or an infinite number, or something equally outrageous)
- The makers of the devices have somehow deduced that the resolution of this problem will expose a self-contradiction in Mathematics (like, the aforementioned K both does and doesn't exist). If a sentient mind (or collection thereof) walks all the logical paths leading to that, everything will cease to exist, even abstract concepts.
Both companies are overly belligerant and hysterical about "intellectual property". Gimme Matrox any day, with a kick-ass CPU and 2-year-old games and I'll be happy.
That kinda sucks... even though the Allies cracked the code (I think) before the machine was stolen the first time it's kind of a shame that a Brit is willing to destroy one of the artifacts that prob saved his way of life from being wiped off the face of the earth.
Brazilian thieves stole the Jules Rimet cup and melted it to sell the gold. Never were caught, either. Shame on us. Of course, this Enigma thing is a gazillion times more outrageous.
I know B&N is a badass greedy corporate giant, but in this case this might be a good thing, because this is the kind of entity courts like to rule in favor of. In short, they're the longest, widest, hardest club we got against software patents right now. So I might as well show some support.
Yikes... listen to myself. Strange bedfellows indeed. That's war for you. Who says GNU zealots can't be pragmatic?;-P
When I install PSM into M17 and try to go to a secure page, the damn thing hangs. Bad.
Also -- get this -- the "Mozilla Mail" menu option does NOT appear unless I run mozilla as root (!).
The Mozilla CVS source is ungodly HUGE. Well, I could always try the nightlies... OK, I'm downloading the latest nightly right now. Expect a followup in 1 hour or so.
we have yet more evidence that RIAA and its ilk want to consider you guilty until proven innocent, undermining our Constitutional rights.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is too benign for their tastes. The roadmap goes like this:
1) Guilty until proven innocent.
2) Guilty, period.
3) Attempts to prove innocence are illegal.
4) Saying attempts to prove innocence should be legal is illegal.
5) Propagating in any way the anti-business lie that there once was such a thing as "rule of law" that supposedly could be used to shield (heresy!) individuals from action by corporations is a felony, subjected to a 1,000,000,000,000-year prison term and a fine of aleph-20 US dollars (as if there's any other currency or country now).
I wouldn't. And I'm very happy to declare that reading about this 1-click brouhaha got me INTO BUYING BOOKS ONLINE. Of course, I only shop B&N now. Last week I ordered the Alan Turing biography from Alan Hodges and Michio Haku's "Hyperspace". And, this article will probably make me order a couple more. Oh, and I bought the Copyleft DeCSS T-shirt too. And a "GNU and Linux" T-shirt at a RMS speech. And, and, and...
I almost agree: Konrad Zuse COULD have been the first, if the Germans had decided to fund his research. But, to be honest, the Z1 is not really a programmable machine, neither was the Z2 or the Z3. The Z1 was actually a purely mechanical device, correct me if I'm wrong.
Nevertheless, Zuse deserves a lot of credit for his work! He was a true hero of the information age. Too bad he was on the wrong side, at that time.
Sayyyy... could the name of the (German!) Linux distro SUSE have been taken from this guy?
By the way, I assume this is not the same Colossus that tried to subjugate humanity?
:)
An excellent movie. It has a "no way out" feeling that gives you the bejeebies, in a way similar to "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" but much more plausible. Get it if you never watched it.
The disadvantage of this is that you rarely if ever get anything (except smug satisfaction) at the end, since it all goes on the remaining legal fees after you've won.
Yeah, but the subject of the dispute is yours! (the right to reverse engineer for instance) and you didn't go bankrupt. Are there American lawyers who do this?
Glad to see that you have deep pockets for court cases. No matter how silly a case is, unless you pay for competent lawyers you are screwed. Also once you start to put in motion actions that would allow you to counter-sue for legal fee's, it becomes a double-edged sword because then they can take their multi-million dollar lawyers and include that in their suit (where they couldn't before)
You must be fairly young to believe that you can take on a company in a legal battle, without VERY competent representation. Even if you win, you are going to end up paying out lots of cash out of your very pocket. A company with millions of dollars can tie up a legal case for months... years... and you still have to pay your lawyer during that time.
Marketing opportunity for lawyers:
Set up a lawyer firm specialized in fighting frivolous lawsuits for people who can't pay. People go to the office and explain what kind of harassment they're being subject to, the lawyers examine the case and, if it holds the possibility of a profitable countersuit, they pick the case without the harassed person having to pay legal fees.
The firm's profits come from the countersuits and legal fees the other side has to pay if they win. Careful risk analysis has to be made, but I'm talking about a VERY professional enterprise. It should be possible.
Of course, IANAL and IHNBS (I Have Never been Sued), so if someone in the know spots some flaw in my reasoning, please point it out.
According to the latest stable kernel's Release Notes, there are separate source trees for MIPS, ARM, 68k and S/390. Looks reasonable too, it's a wildly different architecture. Heck, IBM themselves could maintain it.
Freedom of speech REQUIRES that the individual be motivated to say something relevent or @ least meaningfull.
Yeah, and two purple platypuses flew over Bill Gates' pet llama singing "Sympathy For The Devil" while chewing Porsches. In response, Bill stole 47.3% of RuPaul's wardrobe, sparking protests from Eric S. Raymond. This right before releasing WinME under the GPL.
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Corrupt Executive #2: "What a WONDERFUL idea! Mandatory smartcards embedded under the skin! Person buys one too many Noah Chomsky book... person never gets a job again! PERFECT!! Let's lobby for that."
Corrupt Executive #1: "I'm sending the faxes right NOW!"
Corrupt Executive #2: "Let me check with Legal if the authors of the Bible haven't patented this business method already."
Here are two little adaptations I did to fit Slashdot's icon size: with and without MS's logo. Feel free to use them.
Which in turn learned it from Prost (Suzuka 1989). No wonder they called Prost "The Professor". Heh.
<shameless plug> ;-P
On a completely different subject, I'd like to invite the F1 fans at Slashdot to join the formula1 newsgroup at gearbox.formula1.com -- great place to chat around if you have other interests than Linux.
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It seems the Slashdot editorial body disagrees with you.
- The 2.0.x Linux kernel was all the rage.
- M$ launched Office 97.
- The MAME emulator was launched.
- Michael Schumacher tried to punt Jacques Villeneuve off the final race of the F1 season and thus showed all the world what a sore loser he is.
- OJ, of course.
At first I was amused when I read this. "Resisting forking the kernel"? ANYONE can fork the kernel (and any piece of GPL'd software) as they see fit. If IBM wants a mainframe-optimized, heavily altered Linux kernel to run on they machines. they can do it NOW. It's them who are resisting, not Linus. But then I started to think, why?
Buzzword compliance. Linus can't stop a kernel fork, but he CAN stop people from calling such fork "Linux" -- it's a trademark. And IBM wants badly to shout to the media, "We run Linux!" It's a better PR move. That's why they're trying to coax Linus into cramming the mainframe changes into the main kernel tree. Linus won't do that, and rightly so IMHO.
On the other hand, IBM could do the fork and negotiate a "blessing" from Linus (read: buying the right to call the new kernel "Linux something" for an obscene amount of money). I'd guess that's what's going to happen eventually.
Can M$ shareholders sue M$ for not taking steps to arrange the assassination of Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison etc? Didn't think so.
No way Jose. It just decided to go away for some reason. It was as alive as before.
About the Indy 500 thing: You could include the NASCAR event and the Formula 1 event (this would include people from all around the world). And people, before you think this is completely offtopic, go to ronfar's page and you'll see it's about censorship too.
*Gakkk!!!* STAR Trek!!! @%#$&!
I planned to write a sequel to that in which we find out this was a device made to bring about the End Of The Universe by the following means:
- Gather as much brainpower as possible by swallowing intelligent beings capable of heuristic thinking;
- Wire them all up in a faraway galaxy-sized superbiocomputer dedicated to solve an extremely hard math problem (like finding out if all possible sequences of K-base digits are present in the K-base expansion of Pi for any value of K, none, or an infinite number, or something equally outrageous)
- The makers of the devices have somehow deduced that the resolution of this problem will expose a self-contradiction in Mathematics (like, the aforementioned K both does and doesn't exist). If a sentient mind (or collection thereof) walks all the logical paths leading to that, everything will cease to exist, even abstract concepts.
Alright, I'm going to take my medication now...
Both companies are overly belligerant and hysterical about "intellectual property". Gimme Matrox any day, with a kick-ass CPU and 2-year-old games and I'll be happy.
Brazilian thieves stole the Jules Rimet cup and melted it to sell the gold. Never were caught, either. Shame on us. Of course, this Enigma thing is a gazillion times more outrageous.
Yikes... listen to myself. Strange bedfellows indeed. That's war for you. Who says GNU zealots can't be pragmatic? ;-P
Is there any Free Software / Open Source ERP project going on? Just curious.
Also -- get this -- the "Mozilla Mail" menu option does NOT appear unless I run mozilla as root (!).
The Mozilla CVS source is ungodly HUGE. Well, I could always try the nightlies... OK, I'm downloading the latest nightly right now. Expect a followup in 1 hour or so.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is too benign for their tastes. The roadmap goes like this:
1) Guilty until proven innocent.
2) Guilty, period.
3) Attempts to prove innocence are illegal.
4) Saying attempts to prove innocence should be legal is illegal.
5) Propagating in any way the anti-business lie that there once was such a thing as "rule of law" that supposedly could be used to shield (heresy!) individuals from action by corporations is a felony, subjected to a 1,000,000,000,000-year prison term and a fine of aleph-20 US dollars (as if there's any other currency or country now).
(Whew, I should be taking my medication now)
I wouldn't. And I'm very happy to declare that reading about this 1-click brouhaha got me INTO BUYING BOOKS ONLINE. Of course, I only shop B&N now. Last week I ordered the Alan Turing biography from Alan Hodges and Michio Haku's "Hyperspace". And, this article will probably make me order a couple more. Oh, and I bought the Copyleft DeCSS T-shirt too. And a "GNU and Linux" T-shirt at a RMS speech. And, and, and...
Nevertheless, Zuse deserves a lot of credit for his work! He was a true hero of the information age. Too bad he was on the wrong side, at that time.
Sayyyy... could the name of the (German!) Linux distro SUSE have been taken from this guy?
An excellent movie. It has a "no way out" feeling that gives you the bejeebies, in a way similar to "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" but much more plausible. Get it if you never watched it.
Yeah, but the subject of the dispute is yours! (the right to reverse engineer for instance) and you didn't go bankrupt. Are there American lawyers who do this?
You must be fairly young to believe that you can take on a company in a legal battle, without VERY competent representation. Even if you win, you are going to end up paying out lots of cash out of your very pocket. A company with millions of dollars can tie up a legal case for months... years... and you still have to pay your lawyer during that time.
Marketing opportunity for lawyers:
Set up a lawyer firm specialized in fighting frivolous lawsuits for people who can't pay. People go to the office and explain what kind of harassment they're being subject to, the lawyers examine the case and, if it holds the possibility of a profitable countersuit, they pick the case without the harassed person having to pay legal fees.
The firm's profits come from the countersuits and legal fees the other side has to pay if they win. Careful risk analysis has to be made, but I'm talking about a VERY professional enterprise. It should be possible.
Of course, IANAL and IHNBS (I Have Never been Sued), so if someone in the know spots some flaw in my reasoning, please point it out.
According to the latest stable kernel's Release Notes, there are separate source trees for MIPS, ARM, 68k and S/390. Looks reasonable too, it's a wildly different architecture. Heck, IBM themselves could maintain it.
Geeks do drool over hardware. The myth is that it is a bad thing. Should we drool about what instead, guns?
Yeah, and two purple platypuses flew over Bill Gates' pet llama singing "Sympathy For The Devil" while chewing Porsches. In response, Bill stole 47.3% of RuPaul's wardrobe, sparking protests from Eric S. Raymond. This right before releasing WinME under the GPL.
- Juan, the criminal