"Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services and create new protocols
"Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server infrastructure. By folding extended functionality (e.g. Storage+ in file systems, DAV/POD for networking) into today's commodity services, we raise the bar & change the rules of the game"
Its much easier (and cheaper) to get a lawyer to do a PHB's dirty work than it is to find a competent geek who will 1) understand what the PHB is saying and 2) agree to do it.
Good, competent, amoral technical people who can communicate with non-geeks are hard to find and expensive.
Pay any old lawyer enough money and he will litigate for you until doomsday, regardless of the cause, and no technical expertise needed.
Re:"Good Times" wasn't a hoax
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Ok, hands up - who was the turkey who moderated THIS one up?
You (and your clueless moderator) missed the joke. The Good Times virus is a REAL virus.. a meta-virus that spreads via email. Dig? This Particular virus pop up again and again. It spreads via clueless users who bounce their email warnings (telling to you beware the good times virus) around like... um... a virus?
That in turn reminds me of a short SciFi story I read a while ago..
The gist of it was that Earth's first extra solar, manned mission gets shot into deep space, to land on a far away planet. Years later, they arrive, only to be met by (much younger) explorers from Earth, who had left Earth much more recently....
The only reason the GPL exists is to protect itself from copyright law itself. If there were no copyright law, the GPL wouldn't be needed. If somebody "steals" your GPL'd "product" and "sells" it, they can only stop you from undercutting them by pasting their own copyright on it.
In any case you are missing the point. Moving information around is inevitably going to be easier and easier. It has nothing to do with morality, or "natural" law, or any other mindless human construct. The fact of the matter is, up until recently, information could be treated like a limited resource. Copyrights and patents and other IP law were only a stop gap measure.
The world is collapsing around you, and all you can bleat about is "pirates" (yes, they pillage and rape "your" precious ideas - sometimes for profit, and only because copyrights allow them to) and the failure of your precious intellectual property law kludges.
Copyrights and patents are a government enforced monopoly, and anybody who claims they are part of a functioning free market is selling you something.
Wake up, smell the coffee, and adjust. 100 years from now we will laugh at how silly we were to make the first infinite resource artificially limited simply to make it fit with our delusional concept of a durable consumable goods market.
I can't tell you what the solution is, but the current structure is about to collapse under its own weight. Try not to get caught in the rubble. Work for a company that produces real goods and services and hires people to work on internal projects. Work for McDonalds. I don't care. But rest assured something has got to give, and retail software as we know it is inevitably doomed.
This one is a bit easier to recall: dig @dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net. axfr | grep decss | sort | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d
I basically concur, but with one major complaint: English is a piss poor language for any rigid, structured rules system. It is very good for conveying human concepts, emotions, and constructs (hey, go read Steven Pinker's new book, Words and Rules, it is simply OUTSTANDING).
If lawyers were serious about making law accessible, precise, and intelligible, they should take a hint from computer science...
I, for one, would have absolutely NO objections to an arbitrary form of languange construct that defines a law, as long as the definition made sense and was itself rigidly defined.
Just because its contrarian doesn't mean its NOT a troll either.
Its pretty troll like and content free AND plain incorrect. Linux was developed fine without the help of patents or any proprietary standards. You could say it was developed DESPITE those things (which do tend to stifle innovation).
As a server admin I can tell you that OpenSourcing quakeworld was a total disaster to the gaming community. At one point my ban list was 50k of IP addresses and subnets.
While quakelives actions are completely deplorable, and I truely believe Slade really has zero clue, we are nowhere nearer to a real solution than we were when the source was released.
Gamers who cared about a cheat free server were not coders.
Coders who wanted to play with the source didn't care whether public servers were even marginally viable.
This is a situation in which NOBODY won. The real gamers gave up and moved to another game. The real coders told the gamers "good riddance, we don't like you anyway" and decided that public servers (let alone competitive matches) were pointless. The cheaters rejoiced and now make my hobby as a public server admin a total pain in the ass.
At the same time, Slade assumed (wrongly) 1) that security by obscurity is viable and 2) that he could completely ignore the GPL.
I challenge any of you to due useful work in securing the client/server AND keep the source open. Nettrek has some good things, as does DNet, but I have yet to see any progress other than the bletcherously horrible speed cheat checker.
In the end, I'm guessing a secure online game solution that is opensource will not emerge, because its just not interesting to coders.
While I was trying to be humorous, I still stand by my numbers (vaguely) =)
60 million people might well be a nice round number for computer literacy (perhaps "knowing what a computer is" was a bit too pessimistic).
One level down:
Most people don't know how a computer works. I'm talking basic computing concepts here, not transistor/gate level.
RAM. Registers. I/O. This is not rocket science, but I doubt if 6 million people could satisfy my criterion for knowing how a computer works.
One further level down:
Knowing how to use linux != running a Red Hat installer. To me, knowing == adminning, because anything less is a disaster waiting to happen.
What's wrong with asking for a modicum of competence from Linux users? We already know what a nation full of unsecured DSL/Cable modem subscribers and RedHat CDs can do to global network security.
Frankly, I really don't think Linux should be the Macintosh of the 21st century, just as I don't think reading a "Brain Surgery for Dummies" book qualifies you to open up somebody's skull and dig around inside.
Actually no, it doesn't but here's my thoughts on time travel:
I predict: time travel as envisioned by most sci fi movies/tv shows/books will not happen.
Why? If time machines like that did get invented (presumably in the future), there would be time machines all over the place.
Not only that, but they would have been "invented" at the dawn of time, since they can be easily reconstructed and mass produced anytime, and sent whenever needed. Talk about JIT production!
Since a time machine has not landed in my backyard (or anytime throughout history for that matter) I conclude that time machines will never exist.
Heck, the BEGINNING of time (when it was really small) would be packed, since presumably, the earliest time machines would have no control over WHERE they ended up, so why not send it to a time when the universe is really small. Now imagine if every intelligent being in the universe did that as soon as they invented time machines.
Wait a minute! No wonder the early universe had such insanely high density!
Slashdot Mirror
I herby give dialectizer permission to touch anything from my domain(s).
Now all I have to do is put up a proxy server.
Learn a little more, troll...
Guess where this quote came from:
"Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services and create new protocols
"Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server infrastructure. By folding extended functionality (e.g. Storage+ in file systems, DAV/POD for networking) into today's commodity services, we raise the bar & change the rules of the game"
Why is it ok for Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus, but not ok for me to come to your house and kill you?
Warning: nitpick.
You're not supposed to use metaphors and/or similes in classical haiku.
It is?
64.28.67.48 is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.22 on Linux
Got a IBM ppc 750 running here on my embedded project running mklinux. bus clock is 33Mhz
(internally multiplied to 450-ish)
it does about 1.2 Mkeys/sec for rc5.
All he is saying is give peas a chance.
Path of least resistance...
Its much easier (and cheaper) to get a lawyer to do a PHB's dirty work than it is to find a competent geek who will 1) understand what the PHB is saying and 2) agree to do it.
Good, competent, amoral technical people who can communicate with non-geeks are hard to find and expensive.
Pay any old lawyer enough money and he will litigate for you until doomsday, regardless of the cause, and no technical expertise needed.
Ok, hands up - who was the turkey who moderated THIS one up?
... um... a virus?
You (and your clueless moderator) missed the joke. The Good Times virus is a REAL virus.. a meta-virus that spreads via email. Dig? This Particular virus pop up again and again. It spreads via clueless users who bounce their email warnings (telling to you beware the good times virus) around like
Now do you get it?
That in turn reminds me of a short SciFi story I read a while ago..
The gist of it was that Earth's first extra solar, manned mission gets shot into deep space, to land on a far away planet. Years later, they arrive, only to be met by (much younger) explorers from Earth, who had left Earth much more recently....
Try this or maybe this.
Here's a mirror thats easier to remember
dig @dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net. axfr |
grep decss | sort | cut -b5-36 |
perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' |
gunzip -c
I think the car thing should be stopped. The people had no right to drive it and run over other people.
The only reason the GPL exists is to protect itself from copyright law itself. If there were no copyright law, the GPL wouldn't be needed. If somebody "steals" your GPL'd "product" and "sells" it, they can only stop you from undercutting them by pasting their own copyright on it.
In any case you are missing the point. Moving information around is inevitably going to be easier and easier. It has nothing to do with morality, or "natural" law, or any other mindless human construct. The fact of the matter is, up until recently, information could be treated like a limited resource. Copyrights and patents and other IP law were only a stop gap measure.
The world is collapsing around you, and all you can bleat about is "pirates" (yes, they pillage and rape "your" precious ideas - sometimes for profit, and only because copyrights allow them to) and the failure of your precious intellectual property law kludges.
Copyrights and patents are a government enforced monopoly, and anybody who claims they are part of a functioning free market is selling you something.
Wake up, smell the coffee, and adjust. 100 years from now we will laugh at how silly we were to make the first infinite resource artificially limited simply to make it fit with our delusional concept of a durable consumable goods market.
I can't tell you what the solution is, but the current structure is about to collapse under its own weight. Try not to get caught in the rubble. Work for a company that produces real goods and services and hires people to work on internal projects. Work for McDonalds. I don't care. But rest assured something has got to give, and retail software as we know it is inevitably doomed.
This one is a bit easier to recall:
dig @dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net dmca.really.fuckingsucks.net. axfr |
grep decss | sort | cut -b5-36 |
perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' |
gzip -d
Enjoy!
ok better now.
Actually, its worse than that, it searches for the first instance of really heh. OOPS. maybe i should fix it.
First one to send me php code to split into a string array wins... well... hrm. nothing.
I basically concur, but with one major complaint: English is a piss poor language for any rigid, structured rules system. It is very good for conveying human concepts, emotions, and constructs (hey, go read Steven Pinker's new book, Words and Rules, it is simply OUTSTANDING).
If lawyers were serious about making law accessible, precise, and intelligible, they should take a hint from computer science...
I, for one, would have absolutely NO objections to an arbitrary form of languange construct that defines a law, as long as the definition made sense and was itself rigidly defined.
Just because its contrarian doesn't mean its NOT a troll either.
Its pretty troll like and content free AND plain incorrect. Linux was developed fine without the help of patents or any proprietary standards. You could say it was developed DESPITE those things (which do tend to stifle innovation).
Yes it is a troll.
Is it just me, or is there really not much to censor in "Blame Canada" in the first place?
As a server admin I can tell you that OpenSourcing quakeworld was a total disaster to the gaming community. At one point my ban list was 50k of IP addresses and subnets.
While quakelives actions are completely deplorable, and I truely believe Slade really has zero clue, we are nowhere nearer to a real solution than we were when the source was released.
Gamers who cared about a cheat free server were not coders.
Coders who wanted to play with the source didn't care whether public servers were even marginally viable.
This is a situation in which NOBODY won. The real gamers gave up and moved to another game. The real coders told the gamers "good riddance, we don't like you anyway" and decided that public servers (let alone competitive matches) were pointless. The cheaters rejoiced and now make my hobby as a public server admin a total pain in the ass.
At the same time, Slade assumed (wrongly) 1) that security by obscurity is viable and 2) that he could completely ignore the GPL.
I challenge any of you to due useful work in securing the client/server AND keep the source open. Nettrek has some good things, as does DNet, but I have yet to see any progress other than the bletcherously horrible speed cheat checker.
In the end, I'm guessing a secure online game solution that is opensource will not emerge, because its just not interesting to coders.
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While I was trying to be humorous, I still stand by my numbers (vaguely) =)
60 million people might well be a nice round number for computer literacy (perhaps "knowing what a computer is" was a bit too pessimistic).
One level down:
Most people don't know how a computer works. I'm talking basic computing concepts here, not transistor/gate level.
RAM. Registers. I/O. This is not rocket science, but I doubt if 6 million people could satisfy my criterion for knowing how a computer works.
One further level down:
Knowing how to use linux != running a Red Hat installer. To me, knowing == adminning, because anything less is a disaster waiting to happen.
What's wrong with asking for a modicum of competence from Linux users? We already know what a nation full of unsecured DSL/Cable modem subscribers and RedHat CDs can do to global network security.
Frankly, I really don't think Linux should be the Macintosh of the 21st century, just as I don't think reading a "Brain Surgery for Dummies" book qualifies you to open up somebody's skull and dig around inside.
About this .1% number..
.1%, 90% dont know how linux works.
The percentage of the population that is illiterate and lives in mud huts is probably around 90%
Of the remaining 10%, 90% dont know what a computer is.
Of the remaining 1%, 90% dont know how a computer works.
Of the remaining
.1% sounds plenty high to me.
Whats the problem?
Actually no, it doesn't but here's my thoughts on time travel:
I predict: time travel as envisioned by most sci fi movies/tv shows/books will not happen.
Why? If time machines like that did get invented (presumably in the future), there would be time machines all over the place.
Not only that, but they would have been "invented" at the dawn of time, since they can be easily reconstructed and mass produced anytime, and sent whenever needed. Talk about JIT production!
Since a time machine has not landed in my backyard (or anytime throughout history for that matter) I conclude that time machines will never exist.
Heck, the BEGINNING of time (when it was really small) would be packed, since presumably, the earliest time machines would have no control over WHERE they ended up, so why not send it to a time when the universe is really small. Now imagine if every intelligent being in the universe did that as soon as they invented time machines.
Wait a minute! No wonder the early universe had such insanely high density!