In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting [Vega], suggesting it had a solar system
Am I the only one who thought that quote a little off? Isn't "solar system" the one with the Sun (our star) and 8 specific planets (sorry Pluto, I've finally let you go off the list. I miss you though!).
It would have been better to say "suggesting it had a planetary system".
Pick me! Pick me! Usage of/dev/random is blocking, so it would take a while to get enough entropy going for a full-disk wipe, especially all 7 times of it.
By the way, the "for i in `1 2 3 4 5 6 7` is syntactically wrong. Backquotes are for execution and that command will return "1: command not found". Better to have done: for i in `seq 1 7`
There is a provision in the US Copyright Act allowing one to use a small subset of code under fair use. Slashdotters might look at it from the point of view of sampling non-free, closed source into their own code and claim that their sample is so small it must qualify as fair use.
You wrote the GPL so that proprietary companies couldn't lock free code. My question is related to the reverse approach, where a proprietary company "samples" some free code and claims fair use. While you certainly consider this unethical, what protection could you think of to prevent such events? Would you want to prevent such events?
Dude, you don't talk to RMS about Open-Source, he's about Free Software. Let's rephrase the question:
What does RMS and other Slashdot readers think about Microsoft's recent offerings to come closer to free software model? Microsoft has Codeplex for free software and they have made vivid and vast improvements to the Linux kernel and software stack. Is it good that free software is now working closer with Microsoft than ever before?
I'd like to take issue with your position. It is unethical to distinguish between children, prisoners and old folks. All are human beings that merit full protection of their lives. The moment you start categorizing people as sub-human (untermenschen anyone?) you've failed your sense of ethics.
Personally (and professionally), I use Fossil. It has much of the strength of Git while remaining approachable. Bonus, the built-in cgi server/bug tracking/wiki/timeline tree. All this in a single binary less than 1 Mb.
Hey mods, I understand some have a policy of not using their mod points for anon comments, but come on, this one is the most insightful of them all and I can't believe no one's mentioned that already.
To be clear, I am not discussing here whether it's happening, whether it's man-made, whether it's reversible or even addressable. My points is: an organization that expects a very profitable outcome (should I say income?) for event X actively promotes/advertise event X and NO-ONE calls them on it?
"Support the troops!" means something else. It actually means "support our agenda unquestioningly" and that is exactly what has been happening.
Glad to see that coming from someone who was in the middle of it.
Changing (twisting?) the meaning of words is no new feat. Of course most people would think of Orwell's newspeak when discussing this point, but did you know that it was mentioned way earlier by a French revolutionary named Jean-Paul Marat in his book "Chains of Slavery" published in 1774?
In particular, you want to read section 53 of the French version: "Adulterating the nature of words". It's a little oldish French but totally understandable (to the French). Maybe Google translate will do it justice.. Anyways, here's the original extract:
Peu d'hommes ont des idées saines des choses, la plupart ne s'attachent même qu'aux mots. Les Romains n'accordèrent-ils pas à César, sous le (1) titre d'empereur, le pouvoir qu'ils lui avaient refusé sous celui de roi.
Abusé par les mots, les hommes n'ont pas horreur des choses les plus infâmes, décorées de beaux noms ; et ils ont horreur des choses les plus louables, décriées par des noms odieux. Aussi l'artifice ordinaire des cabinets est il d'égarer les peuples en pervertissant le sens des mots ; et souvent des hommes de lettres avilis ont l'infamie de se charger de ce coupable emploi.
En fait de politique, quelques vains sons mènent le stupide vulgaire, j'allais dire le monde entier. Jamais aux choses leurs vrais noms. Les princes, leurs ministres, leurs agents, leurs flatteurs, leurs valets, appellent art de régner celui d'épuiser les peuples, de faire de sottes entreprises, d'afficher un faste scandaleux, et de répandre partout la terreur ; politique, l'art honteux de tromper les hommes ; gouvernement, la domina- tion lâche et tyrannique ; prérogatives de la couronne, les droits usurpés sur la souve- raineté des peuples ; puissance royale, le pouvoir absolu ; magnificence, d'odieuses prodigalités ; soumission, la servitude ; loyauté, la prostitution aux ordres arbitraires; rébellion, la fidélité aux lois ; révolte, la résistance à l'oppression ; discours séditieux, la réclamation des droits de l'homme ; faction, le corps des citoyens réunis pour défendre leurs droits ; crimes de lèse-majesté, les mesures prises pour s'opposer à la tyrannie ; charges de l'état, les dilapidations de la cour et du cabinet ; contributions publiques, les exactions ; guerre et conquête, le brigandage (2) à la tête d'une armée, art de négocier, l'hypocrisie, l'astuce, le manque de foi, la perfidie et les trahisons; coups d'état, les outrages, les meurtres et les empoisonnements ; officiers du prince, ses satellites ; observateurs, ses espions ; fidèles sujets, les suppôts du despotisme; mesure de sûreté, les recherches inquisitoriales ; punition des séditieux, le massacre des ennemis de la liberté. Voilà comment ils parviennent à détruire l'horreur qu'ins- pire l'image nue des forfaits et de la tyrannie.
(1) La preuve qu'ils ne crurent jamais avoir fait ce qu'ils venaient de faire, c'est que lorsque César essaya de se faire poser le diadème sur la t
Just use Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org). It does what you want, for free, including disconnected mode. Plus it has built-in bug reports, wiki and authentication.
Tell your boss that you need nothing in terms of hardware, you already have your machines between you and the developer. However that tool allows you to measure your progress (she can see a RSS of your commits), track development, and allows you to develop new features easily without breaking the code.
I know it happened 12 years ago, but come on, the chip cards with pin have been cracked and crackable for a long time. In 2000, Serge Humpich, a french hacker found a flaw in the chip design and used Japanese algorithm to factorize the prime used in the chip card.
What about the seventh and the tenth commandments? For refresher: 7th = "You must not commit adultery." 10th = "You must not desire your fellowman’s house. You must not desire your fellowman’s wife, nor his slave man nor his slave girl nor his bull nor his ass nor anything that belongs to your fellowman."
I think that should cover rape and even more points.
That guy made me think of Tony Stark who build himself an armour out of spare parts in a cave, except that Tony had hands to do it and also this guy can't fly.
I thought Julian Assange was never even close to being in the United States when the cables were leaked. In that case, why should the Swedes execute an extradition to the US?
The Swedes a legal obligation to extradite people charged with crimes 1) in the US 2) to the US 3) if the US files a valid request.
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in this case living on the earth can be called a suicide mission too, since the only outcome is death.
I agree to the grandparent. It's not suicide if the goal is to establish permanent residence.
In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting [Vega], suggesting it had a solar system
Am I the only one who thought that quote a little off? Isn't "solar system" the one with the Sun (our star) and 8 specific planets (sorry Pluto, I've finally let you go off the list. I miss you though!).
It would have been better to say "suggesting it had a planetary system".
Pick me! Pick me! /dev/random is blocking, so it would take a while to get enough entropy going for a full-disk wipe, especially all 7 times of it.
Usage of
By the way, the "for i in `1 2 3 4 5 6 7` is syntactically wrong. Backquotes are for execution and that command will return "1: command not found".
Better to have done: for i in `seq 1 7`
JigJag
Let me quote this from theregister.co.uk:
I see your point. Let me ask you this:
was he a traitor to:
1) the United States of America,
2) its Government
3) the human race
I pick #2, and at the same time make him a hero for #1 and #3.
There is a provision in the US Copyright Act allowing one to use a small subset of code under fair use. Slashdotters might look at it from the point of view of sampling non-free, closed source into their own code and claim that their sample is so small it must qualify as fair use.
You wrote the GPL so that proprietary companies couldn't lock free code. My question is related to the reverse approach, where a proprietary company "samples" some free code and claims fair use. While you certainly consider this unethical, what protection could you think of to prevent such events? Would you want to prevent such events?
JigJag
Dude, you don't talk to RMS about Open-Source, he's about Free Software. Let's rephrase the question:
What does RMS and other Slashdot readers think about Microsoft's recent offerings to come closer to free software model? Microsoft has Codeplex for free software and they have made vivid and vast improvements to the Linux kernel and software stack. Is it good that free software is now working closer with Microsoft than ever before?
I'd like to take issue with your position. It is unethical to distinguish between children, prisoners and old folks. All are human beings that merit full protection of their lives. The moment you start categorizing people as sub-human (untermenschen anyone?) you've failed your sense of ethics.
Personally (and professionally), I use Fossil. It has much of the strength of Git while remaining approachable. Bonus, the built-in cgi server/bug tracking/wiki/timeline tree. All this in a single binary less than 1 Mb.
Hey mods, I understand some have a policy of not using their mod points for anon comments, but come on, this one is the most insightful of them all and I can't believe no one's mentioned that already.
To be clear, I am not discussing here whether it's happening, whether it's man-made, whether it's reversible or even addressable. My points is: an organization that expects a very profitable outcome (should I say income?) for event X actively promotes/advertise event X and NO-ONE calls them on it?
JigJag
Right, except if you had read all of the serie, you'd know that Axlotl tanks are in fact... *spoiler alert* nemow uxalielt fo bmow
much appreciated
"Support the troops!" means something else. It actually means "support our agenda unquestioningly" and that is exactly what has been happening.
Glad to see that coming from someone who was in the middle of it.
Changing (twisting?) the meaning of words is no new feat. Of course most people would think of Orwell's newspeak when discussing this point, but did you know that it was mentioned way earlier by a French revolutionary named Jean-Paul Marat in his book "Chains of Slavery" published in 1774?
Here's a link to the book in English: http://www.jpmarat.de/english/jpmie.html. It details the process to Tyranny as a warning example.
Unfortunately, the interesting part is not found in the English version, rather in the French, found at: http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/marat_jean_paul/chaines_esclavage/marat_chaines_esclavage.pdf (PDF)
In particular, you want to read section 53 of the French version: "Adulterating the nature of words". It's a little oldish French but totally understandable (to the French). Maybe Google translate will do it justice.. Anyways, here's the original extract:
Peu d'hommes ont des idées saines des choses, la plupart ne s'attachent même
qu'aux mots. Les Romains n'accordèrent-ils pas à César, sous le (1) titre d'empereur,
le pouvoir qu'ils lui avaient refusé sous celui de roi.
Abusé par les mots, les hommes n'ont pas horreur des choses les plus infâmes,
décorées de beaux noms ; et ils ont horreur des choses les plus louables, décriées par
des noms odieux. Aussi l'artifice ordinaire des cabinets est il d'égarer les peuples en
pervertissant le sens des mots ; et souvent des hommes de lettres avilis ont l'infamie
de se charger de ce coupable emploi.
En fait de politique, quelques vains sons mènent le stupide vulgaire, j'allais dire le ; ; ;
monde entier. Jamais aux choses leurs vrais noms. Les princes, leurs ministres, leurs
agents, leurs flatteurs, leurs valets, appellent art de régner celui d'épuiser les peuples,
de faire de sottes entreprises, d'afficher un faste scandaleux, et de répandre partout la
terreur ; politique, l'art honteux de tromper les hommes ; gouvernement, la domina-
tion lâche et tyrannique ; prérogatives de la couronne, les droits usurpés sur la souve-
raineté des peuples ; puissance royale, le pouvoir absolu ; magnificence, d'odieuses
prodigalités ; soumission, la servitude ; loyauté, la prostitution aux ordres arbitraires
rébellion, la fidélité aux lois ; révolte, la résistance à l'oppression ; discours séditieux,
la réclamation des droits de l'homme ; faction, le corps des citoyens réunis pour
défendre leurs droits ; crimes de lèse-majesté, les mesures prises pour s'opposer à la
tyrannie ; charges de l'état, les dilapidations de la cour et du cabinet ; contributions
publiques, les exactions ; guerre et conquête, le brigandage (2) à la tête d'une armée,
art de négocier, l'hypocrisie, l'astuce, le manque de foi, la perfidie et les trahisons
coups d'état, les outrages, les meurtres et les empoisonnements ; officiers du prince,
ses satellites ; observateurs, ses espions ; fidèles sujets, les suppôts du despotisme
mesure de sûreté, les recherches inquisitoriales ; punition des séditieux, le massacre
des ennemis de la liberté. Voilà comment ils parviennent à détruire l'horreur qu'ins-
pire l'image nue des forfaits et de la tyrannie.
(1) La preuve qu'ils ne crurent jamais avoir fait ce qu'ils venaient de faire, c'est que lorsque César
essaya de se faire poser le diadème sur la t
this is a fascinating. Would you be kind enough to forward a link to this?
Surely you mean "In USSA xbox watches YOU"...
Considering that 1/2 of the populace has lower than (or equal to) 100 IQ, by definition
Your definition is wrong. IQ is defined as:
IQ = (mental age/real age) * 100
As a result, the ratio is not a comparison with others but with an established standard.
I always thought the TSA was NOT law enforcement. Sure, they have a badge and a uniform, but so do private security firms.
And for the record, OpenCA is all you need, although it's not super simple to use.
JigJag
well done, your efforts paid off.
Mine didn't....
JigJag
seems like we're one step closer to Soylent Green.
Just use Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org). It does what you want, for free, including disconnected mode. Plus it has built-in bug reports, wiki and authentication.
Tell your boss that you need nothing in terms of hardware, you already have your machines between you and the developer. However that tool allows you to measure your progress (she can see a RSS of your commits), track development, and allows you to develop new features easily without breaking the code.
JigJag
I know it happened 12 years ago, but come on, the chip cards with pin have been cracked and crackable for a long time. In 2000, Serge Humpich, a french hacker found a flaw in the chip design and used Japanese algorithm to factorize the prime used in the chip card.
In French:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Humpich
http://www.bibmath.net/crypto/moderne/cb.php3
In English:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/02/26/french_credit_card_hacker_convicted/
http://www.amazon.com/Serge-Humpich/e/B001K7H3DE
I remember my reaction when chip cards appeared in Canada *after* 2000, as if they were waiting on having a backdoor before they deployed them.
JigJag
What about the seventh and the tenth commandments? For refresher: 7th = "You must not commit adultery." 10th = "You must not desire your fellowman’s house. You must not desire your fellowman’s wife, nor his slave man nor his slave girl nor his bull nor his ass nor anything that belongs to your fellowman."
I think that should cover rape and even more points.
That guy made me think of Tony Stark who build himself an armour out of spare parts in a cave, except that Tony had hands to do it and also this guy can't fly.
I thought Julian Assange was never even close to being in the United States when the cables were leaked. In that case, why should the Swedes execute an extradition to the US?
The Swedes a legal obligation to extradite people charged with crimes 1) in the US 2) to the US 3) if the US files a valid request.
1) does not apply
2) may apply
3) does not apply
once I read an ad talking about a Compact CD-ROM Disc.