The men and women who play the stock market on a regular basis are no fools
Care to substantiate that statement? If you mean the men and women that receive fees and commissions from the idiots that sink their savings into gambling on something like SCO then I'll agree those salaried-traders are no fools: just like the croupiers that run the tables at any large casino.
Get in trouble. Long, laborious litigation. What was solved? Nothing. Consumers don't have more rights.
Rights only exist because they are fought for and then defended -- it's like trademarks and patents, you've got to be aggressive about defining the legal boundaries. Jon Johanssen has helped to make it clear that it is not a crime to have ported DeCSS to GNU/Linux.
Then, he decides to go and pull this shit AND be vocal about it. Kid, seriously, grow up. Yes, it's very nice that you're demonstrating your "freedom". How about learning some common sense with that, Jones? You just got out of major litigation, now you want to swim back into it? Even a guy who jaywalks knows to avoid the police immediately after getting fingered.
And even a guy that has some idiot give him a ticket for "walking on the sidewalk" and wins the court case may even decide to go and commit the crime of driving a car afterwards. Seriously dude, do you ever stop to think about what you say?
Let's see, which of the following choices would've had the best effect:
* Immediately releasing a hack just after litigation.
* Releasing it anonymously.
* Waiting until the temperature settled, then quietly sneaking this past Apple and opening a bunch of doors in the process.
I vote the last one.
Let me guess, you run pirated copies of software don't you? For users of Free Software that want to allow artists to profit fairly from their endeavours and for businesses to fairly sell music, software, art and information to those Free Software users, there is no advantage in the "last one". The only thing that will help us is challenging these ridiculous laws in the courts again and again. That's what Jon Lech Johanssen is doing.
The problem is that X has three mechanisms for implementing the storage of a selection:
PRIMARY, SECONDARY
CLIPBOARD (the Ctrl-C/V/X and File->Cut/Copy/Paste)
CUTBUFFER
These are all handled by the clients. That is, the clients are responsible for notifying the X server that they are dealing with the selection in some manner. No one is supposed to be using the CUTBUFFER, but some still do apparently. JWZ has a good article explaining how it all works.
The second/fourth is a grab-bag of unrelated elements to demonstrate the graphical look of those elements. The example where she takes the Print dialogue box and reworks it two ways (one with the new theme and the other just with better layout is IMHO particularly impressive). See the third image.
The part that needs fixed is that between some applications the data isn't carried over, you copy in one app and then can't paste in another. The other hitch is that not all applications support both the mouse based method and Ctrl+c Ctrl+v. The clipboard should be app and window manager independent and should work across all applications.
Try this: hold down Shift and then drag the mouse selection. The paste should then work in the other app. I have never had it fail. Please let me know if you find that this still doesn't work and mention the particular application(s) in question.
Got some more good info on this that I thought I'd share back in case anyone else is interested. Basically if the VPN is relying on AH (authentication headers) instead of ESP then NAT becomes a problem. Good docs on this are available at the FreeS/WAN project
Heh... I wondered the same thing and asked before I saw your post. I don't understand the other response you got that says that CF would make crash recovery easier.
My impression is that CF devices have potentially a longer life than HDs due to lack of moving parts and so this might increase the reliability.
Why would you want it to boot from CF? I thought the point of CF was that it was a nice small quite replacement to a HD, but if you're using a laptop it's going to have a HD in it already. Or am I missing something?
I've never claimed or argued for either of those things and neither does Andy Oram's article. You're a particpant in a pitched battle between a Paper Tiger and the Straw Man. The UN is not democratic and neither is the US. The internet should be controlled democratically, this requires a user-based organisation preferably with a technical infrastructure similar to OpenNIC with cryptographic authentication of name-servers.
is available at his blog on O'Reilly.
It points out that there is supposed to be no organization with power over the internet and that ICANN has always claimed just to be a sort of "technical facilitator". It mentions the Open Root Server Coalition and although it doesn't mention the OpenNIC guys, it's worth having a look at their more serious project.
I notice a lot of fighting in the comments about whether the UN sucks or not and whether they're worse than ICANN. Simple fact of the matter is that neither of these bodies (or any body that isn't truly democratic) should have any control over OUR internet. Fighting over which master we bow to is a bit ridiculous.
For instance, maybe I want help with setting schedules system events. How am I supposed to know to type
man cron
if I have never heard of cron before?
Well, you could really take a risk and type:
man -k schedule
or even more snazzily:
apropos schedule
and watch in joy as the results pop out at you:
[worm@hole loser]# apropos manual man (1) - format and display the on-line manual pages man2html (1) - format a manual page in html man [manpath] (1) - format and display the on-line manual pages perlxs (1) - XS language reference manual sed (1) - manual page for sed version 4.0.3 wget (1) - GNU Wget Manual whereis (1) - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
Errmm perhaps because all companies EOL their products at some stage? Of course if you want to start a company and maintain it on a profitable basis and continue supporting kernel versions and software versions to way back whenever then by all means go ahead and do it. You'll be a hero to all of us.
I see the release notes talk about being able to do VPN through this to one of their own products. However I want to be able to masquerade through to a Cisco VPN server. The VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO (as of Oct 2003) says:
I don't have the resources to follow the development kernels, so at this time no work on VPN Masquerade for 2.3.x or 2.4.x has taken place. If you know someone who is working on this, please let me know.
So, will this allow me to run multiple clients from home through the firewall? I have two workstations and a wireless laptop and can't run the vpnclient through the firewall.
As long as we allow those in power to decide HOW they come to power, we will also allow them to decide WHO is in power.
You don't take it far enough. As long as there is a mechanism of power in place then it will be used against the every day people of the United States. The idea that we need a massive, bloated centralized administration that makes decisions for us about morality and ethics is the root cause of the problem. Representative "democracy" isn't democracy at all, it's a temporary, elected dictatorship. Until we realize that and demand real democracy with mandated and recallable delegates then we'll just be choosing between different faces of power. Yes I believe in government and some degree of centralization for the sake of efficiency, but I don't believe we have to sacrifice democracy to achieve it.
You can have all the elections you want, but if the candidates are selected from the same pool of 500 rich white men... then the voting doesn't matter.
You can have all the elections you want, but if you have non-recallable, non-mandated "representatives" then the poor black/latino/asian women will eventually become indistinguishable, in terms of behavior, from the rich white men that they replaced and you'll just be selecting faces that are better at fooling you again.
You're assuming that those companies would be competing on a level playing field against "American" ones. In fact what's more likely to happen is that a trans-national corporation obtains contracts through graft within a wealthy first world nation and then awards it to underpaid employees in one of its overseas "contractors". There is at best limited competition in monopoly capitalism as recognized by Adam Smith and other classical liberal commentators.
The only way to get more information on this topic from the SuSE website is to download the PDF formatted docs.
I appreciate the presentation-control aspects that PDF gives to documents, but I don't think that it's too much to ask that a simple webpage with text information on it be provided as an alternative. I realize this is slightly OT, but in the slim hope that some SuSE webmaster/PR people are reading the thread: please some new-fashioned good ol' XHTML would do nicely instead. Thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
So what the hell is submitsubpoena.aol.com?
These are all handled by the clients. That is, the clients are responsible for notifying the X server that they are dealing with the selection in some manner. No one is supposed to be using the CUTBUFFER, but some still do apparently. JWZ has a good article explaining how it all works.
The second/fourth is a grab-bag of unrelated elements to demonstrate the graphical look of those elements. The example where she takes the Print dialogue box and reworks it two ways (one with the new theme and the other just with better layout is IMHO particularly impressive). See the third image.
Got some more good info on this that I thought I'd share back in case anyone else is interested. Basically if the VPN is relying on AH (authentication headers) instead of ESP then NAT becomes a problem. Good docs on this are available at the FreeS/WAN project
Heh... I wondered the same thing and asked before I saw your post. I don't understand the other response you got that says that CF would make crash recovery easier.
My impression is that CF devices have potentially a longer life than HDs due to lack of moving parts and so this might increase the reliability.
Why would you want it to boot from CF? I thought the point of CF was that it was a nice small quite replacement to a HD, but if you're using a laptop it's going to have a HD in it already. Or am I missing something?
I've never claimed or argued for either of those things and neither does Andy Oram's article. You're a particpant in a pitched battle between a Paper Tiger and the Straw Man. The UN is not democratic and neither is the US. The internet should be controlled democratically, this requires a user-based organisation preferably with a technical infrastructure similar to OpenNIC with cryptographic authentication of name-servers.
is available at his blog on O'Reilly. It points out that there is supposed to be no organization with power over the internet and that ICANN has always claimed just to be a sort of "technical facilitator". It mentions the Open Root Server Coalition and although it doesn't mention the OpenNIC guys, it's worth having a look at their more serious project.
I notice a lot of fighting in the comments about whether the UN sucks or not and whether they're worse than ICANN. Simple fact of the matter is that neither of these bodies (or any body that isn't truly democratic) should have any control over OUR internet. Fighting over which master we bow to is a bit ridiculous.
or even more snazzily:
and watch in joy as the results pop out at you:
Errmm perhaps because all companies EOL their products at some stage? Of course if you want to start a company and maintain it on a profitable basis and continue supporting kernel versions and software versions to way back whenever then by all means go ahead and do it. You'll be a hero to all of us.
There appears to be some serious funkiness in the names of developers with (presumably) accents in their names in the list of contributors
A beautiful looking site otherwise and a great project, but this looks unprofessional
Thanks for the pointers. I have a lot of reading to do on this and your response was extremely helpful.
how the hell do you get games for it? The whole dk.mame website had to take down ROM images because of copyright threats.
You're assuming that those companies would be competing on a level playing field against "American" ones. In fact what's more likely to happen is that a trans-national corporation obtains contracts through graft within a wealthy first world nation and then awards it to underpaid employees in one of its overseas "contractors". There is at best limited competition in monopoly capitalism as recognized by Adam Smith and other classical liberal commentators.
The only way to get more information on this topic from the SuSE website is to download the PDF formatted docs.
I appreciate the presentation-control aspects that PDF gives to documents, but I don't think that it's too much to ask that a simple webpage with text information on it be provided as an alternative. I realize this is slightly OT, but in the slim hope that some SuSE webmaster/PR people are reading the thread: please some new-fashioned good ol' XHTML would do nicely instead. Thanks.
Pimp/Bitch is good, but perhaps a little too offensive. I like "Top/Bottom" myself.