I recieve a LOT of mail. Much of it is from Linux geekoids.
Congratulations
Those users expect me to be able to read their crappy ass text format files without complaint. (Like I am going to spend a large part of my spare time installing and tweaking an arcane, hard to use operating system in order to read their email.)
ASCII Text is crappy ass now, and restricted by copyright law?
They expect that I read their non-formatted mail with bizzare Unix-only line feeds.
right click, open with; wordpad.
These are the same people who become totally baffled if I send them a Word document like the rest of the civilized world does.
The rest of the US or Canada. Word is definately not the universal standard for documents. And likely if they are the same Linux geekoids I know, they will (if you are lucky) respond nicely, asking for you to save the word doc as html or text. Most likely they will simply ask for it in html and/or text.
At some point you get tired of dealing with people who expect the world to conform to their expectations and platform while making *no* effort to adapt to anything outside of their narrow world-view.
This of course is totally fair, though it's irrefutable fact that linux/*nix formatting of documents/attachments is significantly easier to read on windows machines than vice versa. And the goal after all I think is to provide the most functionality for the most people. In this case functionality is communication, not communication with pretty formatting.
Absolutely, I was just making light that in the American criminal system, any joe can pretty much get a long list of charges against them (how many of us don't speed?) that can easily add up to years.
Also note that in nearly every jurisdiction there are tons of other laws that could apply, and thus the rapist would get a similarly large number of counts.
California for example says that sodomy (defined as anal penetration) with someone unwilling or underage (2 counts if they are both unwilling *and* underage) is a seperate crime. There are other, similar, laws that make various differentiations between very similar acts, so usually a rapist can still end up with 10+ counts and probably well over 30 years
You don't backup known good apps when doing a recompile?
Perhaps I'm the one that should ask if *you've* ever used Linux once?
Of course the distro will keep a backup, and one would hope that the new user friendly kernel tool would make a backup that auto-boots if the new one fails.
The point of the entire exercise is that ma and pa will *not* get any bells rung from "bootmanager" or "multiple kernel images"...
I'm personally of the opinion that kernels should be tiny and load in what's needed at boot time (and preferably later as well). And also imo Linux will not grow beyond its clique of zealots, but that's because I think someone will make something better.
OSX maybe? probably not, but something similarly balanced between common users and adepts. Personally again I'd like to see cmd in win2k replaced with bash (or tcsh for those that don't script) and a nicely integrated CLI based interface to the OS. Something akin to cygwin, without the kludge-feel.
While I think the interview was tantamount to preaching to the choir around here, I think Mr. Lessig quite eloquently makes the arguments sound reasonable.
funny that a Stanford Law Professor would be able to do such things...
I think the point regarding Napster is the court rulings against it kind of "woke up" the less technical crowd to the Internet. It no longer was a magical playland where anything and everything could happen, without hinderance from real life (read: the man).
People realised that if the wonderful world of free music could go away, then www.eMonkeySales.com probably wouldn't stay for long either....
Note that this scenario is just as likely, if not more likely to happen to *nix servers. Immagine someone doing something similar to a remote exploit in SSHD or Apache... The only benefit of hitting windows machines is the admins are less likely to patch it, but in this 'first strike' scenario that's pretty irrelevant.
[note that windows machines and even macs are just as likely to be affected, I'm just saying that the open source community should never think they are beyond such things...]
In nearly every state driving is a "privledge" (which is bullshit in this day and age, but allows government to control drivers and cars to 'protect' the public from unsafe drivers).
Does this mean that citizenship is now a "privledge" as well?
My favorite windows text editor Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/) allows modular syntax highlighting, and supports scripting commandline things (compile this using...., send through cvs, etc) into the dropdown menus. It recognizes and can save things 'unix style'.
Better yet it is freely downloadable ($20 for a few 'advanced features'). One of my required apps with any windows install.
(d) In the case of e-mail, this section shall apply when the unsolicited e-mailed documents are delivered to a California resident via an electronic mail service provider's service or equipment located in this state. For these purposes "electronic mail service provider" means any business or organization qualified to do business in this state that provides individuals, corporations, or other entities the ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in this state and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail.
Does this not mean that the section only cover RECIPIENTS who are residents of CA, or better yet who's mail server resides in CA? That would be nice because then anyone who wishes to be protected by this law needs only an account on an email server there/here.
Maybe I'm showing signs of age, but I know how much knowing DOS helped me when I moved to win95 as it came out. I knew how to do things, and more importantly how things worked rather than how windows showed it to me.
So when I installed linux (SuSE at first) I benefitted greatly from using just console for a short while (mostly because I couldn't setup X properly, but that's another thing). I learned how things worked in this new system before I encountered window managers that assumed I knew such things.
I certainly understand the need for lightweight WM's for some machines, but for learning purposes the only thing they can provide is maybe Netscape to help files. Of course imo someone should use the system they are comfortable with to browse help, because god knows the easiest way to get frustrated is having to fight with a machine while trying to find help.
True, things perhaps don't need water, but afaik things will almost absolutely need acids or bases, which only act as such in the presence of water by changing pH (or more accurately the pH changes because of the presence of the substance in water).
It's difficult chemically to break things down without the water.
Not as far as I know, but now thinking about it, why couldn't someone use a Nomad Jukebox or something similar to transfer sensitive information? Is there something that limits them to taking mp3? Almost certainly not, and if anyone asks any questions, you're just transferring harmless bootleg music; and everyone loves bootleg music.
The game had wonderful physics, just not *realistic* physics. The wildly over the top game would've suffered quite a bit if it was limited by 'the real world'.
on who found the solution. Depending on the culture and the individual the proper thing maybe posting it to slashdot. If someone in the NSA finds the solution (if it exists) the 'proper' thing maybe to hide it forever.
Most likely it will be a 1st world academic who will find a solution, in which case I think the common course would be to claim the find, and open it for peer review after doing a thorough personal review. Humans, academics in particular, are very egocentric creatures.
Yes, currently there is still quite a bit of "pure science" being done. Number theory for example is something that is done mainly to be done. Only great advances will be useful, and even then almost only in cryptography.
To me it seems that for the majority of my lifetime (Reagan administration - now) has been a time where the United States government has to an increasing degree used the inherent 'checks and balances' in a much more forceful way than perhaps they were intended. To be more specific, congress seems to be passing many more laws at are questionably, and even at times blatantly unconstitutional. The large amount of time involved in judiciary process allows lawmakers to pass such questionionably unconstitutional bills knowing full well that they may only last four to eight years or so.
While this delay may have been less effective in the past, in the "Internet Age" four to eight years is enough to wildly shape emergent technologies and processes to the government's whims (which by extension is the lobbyists' whims in this day and age).
Do you feel that these 'temporary' laws (such as the new anti-terrorism bill, which I believe even has an explicit expiriation date) have a place in modern US government as it is now?
For those that do not know, America has recently had a large problem with it's deer population growing to the point that deer are now commonplace in most suburban areas in the east and north.
New Jersey for example is a very developed area with (afaik) the highest person/sq mi at ~1150 [http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/34000.htm l] with 8.4 million people. There's an estimated 2 million deer in the state, leading to something akin to 275 deer/sq mi.
The problems aren't so much that 2 million deer eat alot, but that in a highly suburban and developed place, they wander onto highways and buildings.
New Jersey's solution has been to expand allowed hunting, especially bow hunters. Last year 77 thousand deer were 'harvested' [http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/hunting.htm]. This does not count the thousands killed every year by Joe Cardriver.
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Absolutely, I was just making light that in the American criminal system, any joe can pretty much get a long list of charges against them (how many of us don't speed?) that can easily add up to years.
Hurray for un-zealous Libertarians.
Also note that in nearly every jurisdiction there are tons of other laws that could apply, and thus the rapist would get a similarly large number of counts.
California for example says that sodomy (defined as anal penetration) with someone unwilling or underage (2 counts if they are both unwilling *and* underage) is a seperate crime. There are other, similar, laws that make various differentiations between very similar acts, so usually a rapist can still end up with 10+ counts and probably well over 30 years
You don't backup known good apps when doing a recompile?
Perhaps I'm the one that should ask if *you've* ever used Linux once?
Of course the distro will keep a backup, and one would hope that the new user friendly kernel tool would make a backup that auto-boots if the new one fails.
The point of the entire exercise is that ma and pa will *not* get any bells rung from "bootmanager" or "multiple kernel images"...
I totally agree being an NT administrator myself.
I'm personally of the opinion that kernels should be tiny and load in what's needed at boot time (and preferably later as well). And also imo Linux will not grow beyond its clique of zealots, but that's because I think someone will make something better.
OSX maybe? probably not, but something similarly balanced between common users and adepts. Personally again I'd like to see cmd in win2k replaced with bash (or tcsh for those that don't script) and a nicely integrated CLI based interface to the OS. Something akin to cygwin, without the kludge-feel.
Will it happen? No, probably not.
If people expect to make linux a desktop OS, then this will probably not fly. The sheer number of total borkages compared to the gain is not worth it.
If people expect to make linux a server/embedded OS then it *would* be nice if powerful things could be done without scaring off PHB's and NT admins.
Though of course it could be argued that PHB's and NT administrators are just as likely to screw themselves as Joe User...
How you ask?
He's a COBOL programmer, and has for 20+ years worked at the same place writing COBOL and things as old, only more esoteric.
gallagher
funny that a Stanford Law Professor would be able to do such things...
I think the point regarding Napster is the court rulings against it kind of "woke up" the less technical crowd to the Internet. It no longer was a magical playland where anything and everything could happen, without hinderance from real life (read: the man).
People realised that if the wonderful world of free music could go away, then www.eMonkeySales.com probably wouldn't stay for long either....
Note that this scenario is just as likely, if not more likely to happen to *nix servers. Immagine someone doing something similar to a remote exploit in SSHD or Apache... The only benefit of hitting windows machines is the admins are less likely to patch it, but in this 'first strike' scenario that's pretty irrelevant.
[note that windows machines and even macs are just as likely to be affected, I'm just saying that the open source community should never think they are beyond such things...]
In nearly every state driving is a "privledge" (which is bullshit in this day and age, but allows government to control drivers and cars to 'protect' the public from unsafe drivers).
Does this mean that citizenship is now a "privledge" as well?
My favorite windows text editor Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/) allows modular syntax highlighting, and supports scripting commandline things (compile this using...., send through cvs, etc) into the dropdown menus. It recognizes and can save things 'unix style'.
Better yet it is freely downloadable ($20 for a few 'advanced features'). One of my required apps with any windows install.
(d) In the case of e-mail, this section shall apply when the unsolicited e-mailed documents are delivered to a California resident via an electronic mail service provider's service or equipment located in this state. For these purposes "electronic mail service provider" means any business or organization qualified to do business in this state that provides individuals, corporations, or other entities the ability to send or receive electronic mail through equipment located in this state and that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail.
Does this not mean that the section only cover RECIPIENTS who are residents of CA, or better yet who's mail server resides in CA? That would be nice because then anyone who wishes to be protected by this law needs only an account on an email server there/here.
Maybe I'm showing signs of age, but I know how much knowing DOS helped me when I moved to win95 as it came out. I knew how to do things, and more importantly how things worked rather than how windows showed it to me.
So when I installed linux (SuSE at first) I benefitted greatly from using just console for a short while (mostly because I couldn't setup X properly, but that's another thing). I learned how things worked in this new system before I encountered window managers that assumed I knew such things.
I certainly understand the need for lightweight WM's for some machines, but for learning purposes the only thing they can provide is maybe Netscape to help files. Of course imo someone should use the system they are comfortable with to browse help, because god knows the easiest way to get frustrated is having to fight with a machine while trying to find help.
What?!? Her clothes never really come off? What kind of cheapass stripper is this?!?
At least she's not a Klein stripper =]
And remember kiddies, coders love anonymously sent strippers... (or hookers for those of you in enlightened nations)
...if I'm ever in a porno, my stage name is going to be Alan Cox.
True, things perhaps don't need water, but afaik things will almost absolutely need acids or bases, which only act as such in the presence of water by changing pH (or more accurately the pH changes because of the presence of the substance in water).
It's difficult chemically to break things down without the water.
Not as far as I know, but now thinking about it, why couldn't someone use a Nomad Jukebox or something similar to transfer sensitive information? Is there something that limits them to taking mp3? Almost certainly not, and if anyone asks any questions, you're just transferring harmless bootleg music; and everyone loves bootleg music.
The game had wonderful physics, just not *realistic* physics. The wildly over the top game would've suffered quite a bit if it was limited by 'the real world'.
on who found the solution. Depending on the culture and the individual the proper thing maybe posting it to slashdot. If someone in the NSA finds the solution (if it exists) the 'proper' thing maybe to hide it forever.
Most likely it will be a 1st world academic who will find a solution, in which case I think the common course would be to claim the find, and open it for peer review after doing a thorough personal review. Humans, academics in particular, are very egocentric creatures.
for when trolls piss in your cornflakes.
Seriously though, I've heard mainly good things about AbiWord, and am fairly certain they get alot of crap and very little offers of assistance.
Yes, currently there is still quite a bit of "pure science" being done. Number theory for example is something that is done mainly to be done. Only great advances will be useful, and even then almost only in cryptography.
Dr. Lessig,
To me it seems that for the majority of my lifetime (Reagan administration - now) has been a time where the United States government has to an increasing degree used the inherent 'checks and balances' in a much more forceful way than perhaps they were intended. To be more specific, congress seems to be passing many more laws at are questionably, and even at times blatantly unconstitutional. The large amount of time involved in judiciary process allows lawmakers to pass such questionionably unconstitutional bills knowing full well that they may only last four to eight years or so.
While this delay may have been less effective in the past, in the "Internet Age" four to eight years is enough to wildly shape emergent technologies and processes to the government's whims (which by extension is the lobbyists' whims in this day and age).
Do you feel that these 'temporary' laws (such as the new anti-terrorism bill, which I believe even has an explicit expiriation date) have a place in modern US government as it is now?
For those that do not know, America has recently had a large problem with it's deer population growing to the point that deer are now commonplace in most suburban areas in the east and north.
m l] with 8.4 million people. There's an estimated 2 million deer in the state, leading to something akin to 275 deer/sq mi.
New Jersey for example is a very developed area with (afaik) the highest person/sq mi at ~1150 [http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/34000.ht
The problems aren't so much that 2 million deer eat alot, but that in a highly suburban and developed place, they wander onto highways and buildings.
New Jersey's solution has been to expand allowed hunting, especially bow hunters. Last year 77 thousand deer were 'harvested' [http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/hunting.htm]. This does not count the thousands killed every year by Joe Cardriver.