You've replaced the case twice and the keyboard several times in just four years and you call that a "solid computer"? Even for a laptop that sees a lot of action that sounds pretty chintzy to me. Do others out there have similar issues with off-the-shelf laptops that aren't made by Apple?
If you look at the insider trades for SCOX, you will notice that there are no sales for Darl McBride listed. Neither he nor Sontag appear to have sold one single share of SCOX in several months. A couple other execs, however, have been selling shares regularly, in small lots.
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Depending on the type of CPU in your machine, compiling for that specific architecture could make a big difference-- in theory. In practice I have no hard evidence of my own. But I would hope that being able to target the Athlon XP over, say, the generic 386 is some sort of optimization (beyond simply being able to set the -O flag to 11).
And actually, compiling the compiler is probably one of the few places in Gentoo where this is most important. After all, with the right optimizations, maybe your "days watching [your] system compile" could have been a day less-- compiling an entire system worth of software is pretty CPU-intense after all. I doubt the optimizations matter so much in an email client or a text editor (both of which probably spend 99% of their time waiting for user input).
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It's one thing to have a small base footprint for an install. It's another thing to have a small selection of packages available. Gentoo isn't quite up to the Debian level of packages, but it's got a very wide range.
Plus, for added geek factor you compile everything from source. Everything. It can take a couple of days to get a system up to speed. And then once you're up and running, some package maintainer will update an ebuild, you'll do an 'emerge sync; emerge -u world' and your favorite package will suddenly break or change in odd little ways. My latest favorite is how the recent Gentoo ebuilds of the GIMP don't have any printing facility by default. Some -u upgrade!
In this case, the DMCA does not (as far as I can tell) prevent you from writing DeCSS yourself (which allows you to exercise your consumer rights)-- so technically we still have the right to use our purchases (I agree, that's pretty slim). What the DMCA does do is prevent you from telling others how to make DeCSS. That's clearly a violation of the first amendment to Constitution (at least it's clear to me), but as I understand it the lower courts leave those kinds of pronouncements to the Supremes (in cases where such a ruling would invalidate a law or a part of a law, that is).
Either way, the DMCA and the RIAA can get stuffed, no?:)
Right now we need strong language; we need people willing to put it on the line and kick business and government.
You're telling me this hotheaded rant is somehow a constructive contribution to the fray? I think I much prefer Linus' "smoking crack" comment (humorous, short, to the point) and the much more level-headed responses given by RMS and the FSF. I also very much appreciate Red Hat's contribution. ESR sounds like an angry 12-year-old.
Oh, okay. In that case I'm also a million other things, including a supplier (the opposite of consumer). In this case, however, the rights in question are those of a citizen (e.g. free speech), not those of a consumer (e.g. product labeling).
I don't know about you but I'm a citizen not a consumer. I do stuff like vote and pay taxes... although I have to wonder why I bother with the former and if there are any good ways to avoid the latter. Got room in that cave?
If the differences are that marked in the U.S. then it's obvious that GDP has (at best) very little to do with it. So I think you need a better theory.:)
Want to know how CEOs think? Why not just read the books they all write? You might start with the following authors: Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Warren Buffett, Ray Croc, Andy Grove, etc. I also found this list at amazon.com which lists some books by or about major industrialists.
Violating the GPL on one piece of software does not automatically prevent you from accepting and honoring the GPL on other software. If I violate the GPL on emacs I can no longer distribute emacs... but I can still distribute GCC as long as I follow the GPL with respect to GCC.
The point is that even if the GPL is valid the end user is still responsible for any infringement.
That might be true if the user committed any sort of copying or distribution that did not constitute Fair Use and if they continued to do so after being reasonably notified that they were doing so in an infringing manner. Simple possession of a work does not violate any clause in Title 17 that I'm aware of. If you are aware of such a clause or a precedent in law that would be sufficient to back up the idea that simple possession of a work that was created or distributed in an infringing manner is illegal, please cite.
Patents are a different issue and there end users cannot use patented stuff without a license. To date I have not heard SCO once mention that they own patents that are being infringed.
Better yet, you can choose color randomly each turn (even using the color on the wheel if you like). This doesn't change the odds of winning one bit. I'm guessing the flaw here is that casinos will have adjusted payouts and tables rules to account for this strategy. Most likely you get no money on 0 and 00, you may even have to leave your bet on the spot. You are also probably subject to min/max bets that will interfere with this system. Not to mention that casinos are famous for their "invitations to take your winnings and enjoy the buffet" speeches.
# All copies of Linux in use that include the stolen code must either be licensed or destroyed including those in use
Prove it. Find me even one word in the Title 17 or a single precedent in case law that would indicate forfeiture of copies of works received in good faith but are later found to have been created or distributed in an infringing manner.
Yeah, it's a fabulous idea to leave a gap on your work/experience history. Then you either end up explaining, "well, I didn't want to tell you about my PhD" or you end up lying. Either way you are treading on thin ice. In the first case, because for a PhD you're going to look like an idiot (you spent how much on that edumacashun just to leave it off the single most valuable piece of self-advertising you do?) or a person with a severe moral handicap (hmmm, willing to hide a postive educational experience with lies, wonder what he/she does when something that's actually bad happens).
By pre-programmed I assume you mean that you set up a scrambled list of possible outcomes (using the same unscrambled list each time) and then pop an entry from the list until the list is gone. The scrambled list will be different each time, but the same amount of payoffs will happen each cycle. Long enough cycle time with enough redundancies in the payoff list and no one could possibly tell when a cycle started or track when a payoff was "due" (by "due" I mean the cycle was almost complete and the larger payoffs had not yet been used).
I think 90% of what you're concerned about is covered by the FSF's policy of getting the copyright to the code assigned to them in writing. If the work is being done out of a company's offices, does the FSF not also ask for documentation that the company is approving this donation of code? Of course, the Linux kernel may not have it so good, because Linus does nothing like this that I'm aware of.
Again, much of what you're saying SCO is claiming is not stuff I've read myself, and I've been trying to keep up on this case. If you have links to where they've explicitly retracted their contributions or those made by their employees in good faith, let me know. As I understand it, the things they're claiming are infringements aren't even things they wrote-- but things they think they have the rights to because of some old contract with Sequent or IBM.
Very interesting article on the topic of HTML/JavaScript email. In short: never ever ever allow your email client to run JavaScript.:)
The article talks about some very interesting possibilities that make simply knowing how long you viewed the mail seem pale by comparison: JavaScript can be used to track any text added when forwarding the mail, track who gets the mail next (their email address), how many times a specific copy of a message is forwarded, etc etc. So, if you leave JavaScript turned on, there may have been some truth to those "If you forward this mail to everyone you know, Bill Gates will give you a penny" type of chain emails after all.
Note that this functionality is still available in some clients, but ought to be turned off by default.
Doesn't JavaScript often get executed in HTML mails? (obviously depending on your client and security settings) If so, isn't there an onClose function that can be called?
OK. I can see that-- although I don't see a properly hardened firewall as being any more protective than properly hardening the server itself. After all, many firewalls are simply servers that do not offer any services beyond packet filtering and forwarding. The extra layer of protection can't hurt-- and most home users would need to ipmasq their DMZ anyway, since they'll only have the IP address of their modem/DSL to work with anyway. The key here is that you keep your public servers on a separate LAN from your internal systems.
It compiles to "you get what you pay for - and you're no better off if you don't pay for it anyway".
No, what it compiles to is "Wow. Those people spent lots of money and it didn't do so well. Apparently you don't always get what you pay for. "
...comparing free software to "charity" is also a bad idea.
How is it a "bad idea"? The FSF is a charity. Much free software is developed for no pay and given away freely. You make it sound like charity is a bad thing. It's not.
Question is: why are you running an FTP server? You don't normally need an FTP server at home. The same functionality is available via scp/ssh, which (I think) is the way to go unless you are providing anonymous, read-only downloads of FTP files from your home system to those outside your firewall (not necessarily unreasonable desire).
In which case: why don't you set up a unique machine for that purpose and put it outside the firewall where it belongs? Then you can keep a secure copy of the files themselves on a safer machine and when the FTP server is compromised you needn't worry that your set of backup files was compromised. Plus, your other machines don't need the attention and exposure that normally get heaped on internet services systems. I mean, if you're running FTP on the same machine on which you use GnuCash to track your finances and someone cracks the FTP server...
Anyways, those are my thoughts. If someone could point out the weaknesses in my thinking, I'd love it.:)
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You've replaced the case twice and the keyboard several times in just four years and you call that a "solid computer"? Even for a laptop that sees a lot of action that sounds pretty chintzy to me. Do others out there have similar issues with off-the-shelf laptops that aren't made by Apple?
If you look at the insider trades for SCOX, you will notice that there are no sales for Darl McBride listed. Neither he nor Sontag appear to have sold one single share of SCOX in several months. A couple other execs, however, have been selling shares regularly, in small lots.
Depending on the type of CPU in your machine, compiling for that specific architecture could make a big difference-- in theory. In practice I have no hard evidence of my own. But I would hope that being able to target the Athlon XP over, say, the generic 386 is some sort of optimization (beyond simply being able to set the -O flag to 11).
And actually, compiling the compiler is probably one of the few places in Gentoo where this is most important. After all, with the right optimizations, maybe your "days watching [your] system compile" could have been a day less-- compiling an entire system worth of software is pretty CPU-intense after all. I doubt the optimizations matter so much in an email client or a text editor (both of which probably spend 99% of their time waiting for user input).
It's one thing to have a small base footprint for an install. It's another thing to have a small selection of packages available. Gentoo isn't quite up to the Debian level of packages, but it's got a very wide range.
Plus, for added geek factor you compile everything from source. Everything. It can take a couple of days to get a system up to speed. And then once you're up and running, some package maintainer will update an ebuild, you'll do an 'emerge sync; emerge -u world' and your favorite package will suddenly break or change in odd little ways. My latest favorite is how the recent Gentoo ebuilds of the GIMP don't have any printing facility by default. Some -u upgrade!
In this case, the DMCA does not (as far as I can tell) prevent you from writing DeCSS yourself (which allows you to exercise your consumer rights)-- so technically we still have the right to use our purchases (I agree, that's pretty slim). What the DMCA does do is prevent you from telling others how to make DeCSS. That's clearly a violation of the first amendment to Constitution (at least it's clear to me), but as I understand it the lower courts leave those kinds of pronouncements to the Supremes (in cases where such a ruling would invalidate a law or a part of a law, that is).
:)
Either way, the DMCA and the RIAA can get stuffed, no?
Right now we need strong language; we need people willing to put it on the line and kick business and government.
You're telling me this hotheaded rant is somehow a constructive contribution to the fray? I think I much prefer Linus' "smoking crack" comment (humorous, short, to the point) and the much more level-headed responses given by RMS and the FSF. I also very much appreciate Red Hat's contribution. ESR sounds like an angry 12-year-old.
Oh, okay. In that case I'm also a million other things, including a supplier (the opposite of consumer). In this case, however, the rights in question are those of a citizen (e.g. free speech), not those of a consumer (e.g. product labeling).
rights as consumers
I don't know about you but I'm a citizen not a consumer. I do stuff like vote and pay taxes... although I have to wonder why I bother with the former and if there are any good ways to avoid the latter. Got room in that cave?
If the differences are that marked in the U.S. then it's obvious that GDP has (at best) very little to do with it. So I think you need a better theory. :)
The way I see it, an attack on one member of the Open Source community is an attack on all of us.
;)
Hmmm. Does that include those of us in the Free Software movement as well?
This aside, I agree with the previous posts, and our records confirm that a Senor D. MCBRIDE is a serious consumer of our prime products.
:)
Hmmm. Nice to know that you don't have much of a privacy policy. I think I'll be buying my crack from someone who can keep their yap shut.
Want to know how CEOs think? Why not just read the books they all write? You might start with the following authors: Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Warren Buffett, Ray Croc, Andy Grove, etc. I also found this list at amazon.com which lists some books by or about major industrialists.
Violating the GPL on one piece of software does not automatically prevent you from accepting and honoring the GPL on other software. If I violate the GPL on emacs I can no longer distribute emacs... but I can still distribute GCC as long as I follow the GPL with respect to GCC.
The point is that even if the GPL is valid the end user is still responsible for any infringement.
That might be true if the user committed any sort of copying or distribution that did not constitute Fair Use and if they continued to do so after being reasonably notified that they were doing so in an infringing manner. Simple possession of a work does not violate any clause in Title 17 that I'm aware of. If you are aware of such a clause or a precedent in law that would be sufficient to back up the idea that simple possession of a work that was created or distributed in an infringing manner is illegal, please cite.
Patents are a different issue and there end users cannot use patented stuff without a license. To date I have not heard SCO once mention that they own patents that are being infringed.
Hmmm. So, in other words, you don't actually know what you're talking about and you're making this up as you go along?
Better yet, you can choose color randomly each turn (even using the color on the wheel if you like). This doesn't change the odds of winning one bit. I'm guessing the flaw here is that casinos will have adjusted payouts and tables rules to account for this strategy. Most likely you get no money on 0 and 00, you may even have to leave your bet on the spot. You are also probably subject to min/max bets that will interfere with this system. Not to mention that casinos are famous for their "invitations to take your winnings and enjoy the buffet" speeches.
# All copies of Linux in use that include the stolen code must either be licensed or destroyed including those in use
Prove it. Find me even one word in the Title 17 or a single precedent in case law that would indicate forfeiture of copies of works received in good faith but are later found to have been created or distributed in an infringing manner.
Yeah, it's a fabulous idea to leave a gap on your work/experience history. Then you either end up explaining, "well, I didn't want to tell you about my PhD" or you end up lying. Either way you are treading on thin ice. In the first case, because for a PhD you're going to look like an idiot (you spent how much on that edumacashun just to leave it off the single most valuable piece of self-advertising you do?) or a person with a severe moral handicap (hmmm, willing to hide a postive educational experience with lies, wonder what he/she does when something that's actually bad happens).
In short: tell the truth.
By pre-programmed I assume you mean that you set up a scrambled list of possible outcomes (using the same unscrambled list each time) and then pop an entry from the list until the list is gone. The scrambled list will be different each time, but the same amount of payoffs will happen each cycle. Long enough cycle time with enough redundancies in the payoff list and no one could possibly tell when a cycle started or track when a payoff was "due" (by "due" I mean the cycle was almost complete and the larger payoffs had not yet been used).
I think 90% of what you're concerned about is covered by the FSF's policy of getting the copyright to the code assigned to them in writing. If the work is being done out of a company's offices, does the FSF not also ask for documentation that the company is approving this donation of code? Of course, the Linux kernel may not have it so good, because Linus does nothing like this that I'm aware of.
Again, much of what you're saying SCO is claiming is not stuff I've read myself, and I've been trying to keep up on this case. If you have links to where they've explicitly retracted their contributions or those made by their employees in good faith, let me know. As I understand it, the things they're claiming are infringements aren't even things they wrote-- but things they think they have the rights to because of some old contract with Sequent or IBM.
Very interesting article on the topic of HTML/JavaScript email. In short: never ever ever allow your email client to run JavaScript. :)
The article talks about some very interesting possibilities that make simply knowing how long you viewed the mail seem pale by comparison: JavaScript can be used to track any text added when forwarding the mail, track who gets the mail next (their email address), how many times a specific copy of a message is forwarded, etc etc. So, if you leave JavaScript turned on, there may have been some truth to those "If you forward this mail to everyone you know, Bill Gates will give you a penny" type of chain emails after all.
Note that this functionality is still available in some clients, but ought to be turned off by default.
Doesn't JavaScript often get executed in HTML mails? (obviously depending on your client and security settings) If so, isn't there an onClose function that can be called?
OK. I can see that-- although I don't see a properly hardened firewall as being any more protective than properly hardening the server itself. After all, many firewalls are simply servers that do not offer any services beyond packet filtering and forwarding. The extra layer of protection can't hurt-- and most home users would need to ipmasq their DMZ anyway, since they'll only have the IP address of their modem/DSL to work with anyway. The key here is that you keep your public servers on a separate LAN from your internal systems.
It compiles to "you get what you pay for - and you're no better off if you don't pay for it anyway".
...comparing free software to "charity" is also a bad idea.
No, what it compiles to is "Wow. Those people spent lots of money and it didn't do so well. Apparently you don't always get what you pay for. "
How is it a "bad idea"? The FSF is a charity. Much free software is developed for no pay and given away freely. You make it sound like charity is a bad thing. It's not.
Question is: why are you running an FTP server? You don't normally need an FTP server at home. The same functionality is available via scp/ssh, which (I think) is the way to go unless you are providing anonymous, read-only downloads of FTP files from your home system to those outside your firewall (not necessarily unreasonable desire).
:)
In which case: why don't you set up a unique machine for that purpose and put it outside the firewall where it belongs? Then you can keep a secure copy of the files themselves on a safer machine and when the FTP server is compromised you needn't worry that your set of backup files was compromised. Plus, your other machines don't need the attention and exposure that normally get heaped on internet services systems. I mean, if you're running FTP on the same machine on which you use GnuCash to track your finances and someone cracks the FTP server...
Anyways, those are my thoughts. If someone could point out the weaknesses in my thinking, I'd love it.