Please, Gov. Bush, in his usual blundering tounge, meant un-supervised exposure to the Internet, not just simply being on the Internet. If you look at his record, he's more for minors being supervised while using the Internet and, not necassarily, by the government but by their parents. If you really want to fish for a "censorship" example in this election, look towards Tipper Gore and the PMRC.
I can't believe this tilted troll made it past the editors of Slashdot. I'd appreciate less politicing, and left of center diatribes on the part of Slashdot. Give me news for nerds, not pundits!
If people were that concerned about government infringement, they'd vote for Browne.
Libertarians like myself would LOVE to give to charities of our choice. The only problem is that the government chooses for us which charities we should give to by re-distributing our wealth (or capital) in ways we disagree with, through taxes and entitlements.
Libertarians believe in charity, so strongly in fact, that they (we) want to supplant welfare with it. For 150 years, the US depended on charity to act as the safety net of our nation and was quite often highly successful. But with the New Deal that went away, and a new corrupt and unbalanced system was forced into place.
Charity today takes a back seat to entitlement programs and this is wrong. We are left with little else choice but to give only a fraction of what we want to give to charity because we are taxed so heavily (and I'm not just talking income tax and SS either).
Libertarians are not selfish. They are quite generous because they know that a successful society should have charity to defend itself against the cancerous spread of apathy and poverty.
This unit uses the smaller cd's for their CD-RW (or was that CD-R?). IMHO, worthless compared to the power of a real MiniDisc. A real MiniDisc holds almost as much as a real CD. They are encased in a plastic housing, making them a lot more durable (no smudges or scratches), and are re-writable about a million times. MiniDiscs would have made a more superior choice of medium.
As a side note: I use MiniDisc's for portable audio. I even write MP3's to them, rather than using a pure mp3 device. My portable Sharp 722 goes with me on my commute.
http://www.minidisc.org holds the "MiniDisc Community" home page. It is pretty informative.
Sorry, but I believe Microsoft is right. This isn't an issue of free speech. It is about intellectual property. Free speech is about original opinion. You can rant all you want about microsoft, but don't steal their intellectual property. This is very much like pirating someone's music and distributing it without compensating the artist.
I didn't write the law, so don't blame me for the bad news. As I tell all my friends: "You don't have to like the law, you just have to obey it." And then they usually realize there are way too many laws infringing on their natural rights, so I point them to places like CATO or the national Libertarian Party website.
If you disagree with what Microsoft is doing, perhaps you should tell your representatives in congress that a rewrite of intellectual property laws are in order. Ranting about it on Slashdot doesn't further your cause. Getting politically active does.
Copying information is not stealing, and putting it in all caps won't make it so.
You're right. But I stand by my full statement that when you copy and trade that copy, you are stealing. Caps have nothing to do with it, except to add emphasis.
Piracy is robbery and murder on the high seas...
Rather smarmy.
I didn't "earn" the fruits I enjoyed when I read that borrowed book
That because you borrowed it.
listened to a friend play a song (off a recording, or on their guitar) at a party
My friends don't charge me to listen. I don't know about yours.
If he copies a song I write and record, I'm down nothing.
Another convienent paraphrase. If he copies the song you write, and sold that piece, you are down the revenue you should have received by that sale.
I know this is baiting you, but socialism "burns my goat" and I feel compelled to speak out whenever I see it creeping along. Jon Katz is a socialist, pure and simple, and his views of redistributing property in the name of the betterment of mankind are flawed.
Once again Comrade Katz would have you believe that the distribution of someone else's efforts, without a true exchange of goods of services, will benefit mankind. This thinking is wrong.
When you COPY someone else's intellectual property, and trade (or even give away) that property without the creator's permission, you are STEALING it.
You are profiting from somebody else's work when you engage in piracy. You did not earn the fruits that are beared when you trade your copied music with somebody else. This is as if Comrade Katz himself showed up to your work on pay day and took your paycheck and handed it to some charity of his choice.
Shame on Katz for pushing this notion of everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves.
From your articles, I tend to believe you lean a bit to the left in your politics, possibly a "left centrist". Am I mistaken, or are you more or less liberal in your beliefs?
It can easily be said that most/.'ers see the world through Linux eyes. It's good to see a news site that you know the people that contribute to its content are looking through *BSD eyes. It would be better if Daemon News embraced the reader contribution/discussion model that/. uses.
A convergence of the two would be welcome, especially to heal some of the hard feelings between the two communities. Until then, I'm glad to see Daemon News has spruced things up a bit.
Hmmm...ok, a stand that sells protein drinks that are out of this world: they come in any flavor you want, from pasta to saurbauten and moon cake to rice pudding, as filling as any regular meal, and, AND allow you to achieve the weight and health you always wanted, but couldn't find while spending all that money at MSFT's.
On the gripping hand, what if this resturant were the only one in town? No MickeyD's, no Burger King, no Pizza Hut, etc. Taking this further:
MSFT's would have food that was visually pleasing, but bland tasting (except to those that never ate anywhere else and know no better). Also, you weren't always allowed to finish your meal. The staff ignored you, unless you gave them big tips. The chefs got a cut of the bar tab so they don't care too much about the overall quality of their product, after all, who will eat anywhere else?
Of course, the selection would be enormous. Everything from pasta to saurbrauten and moon cake to rice pudding. Still, all rather bland tasting and not necassarily tasting the way it should. Whenever another resturant in town opened up, MSFT's would either:
1) announce that they intended on making the same dishes the competition made, and everyone would avoid this new resturant, salivating in anticipation of this new food at MSFT's
2) buy out the resturant and put the chef's in their resturant
3) undercut their business by threatening to starve out anyone who works for this new place or tries to eat their food
4) closely hold on to the recipe so noone has a clue what kind of animal parts MSFT's is using
Of course this lemonade from the corner stand is not from a secret recipe. Everyone kinda helped make it by contributing ingredients so you know it is safe. You can even add more sugar if you like. People buy from this stand because the kid looks wholesome, the drink is more refreshing than the sludge they serve at MSFT's to those that bothered to take a taste, and it comes with a note on how-to drink.
Say MSFT were a suburban resturant that had annual earnings of about $173,240, or $554 on an average day. That would make Red Hat a lemonade stand with annual earnings of $176 or $0.56 a day (given everyone works 6 days a week).
If you were and independent investor, who would you throw your money at? This better be the best damn lemonade in all of christendom...
I usually just place my outgoing mail in my mail slot for the postman to pickup. We don't have a corner mailbox, so when I need something deliveried timely, I'll stick in the mailbox at our local post-office on my way to work (I drive 7 minutes to the train station, so you got me there). That box is picked up earlier than when my postman shows up.
Has anyone noticed that there are less and less corner mailboxes these days in the States?
Again, those of us who work for Wall Street firms are shut out as most brokerage houses' rules say employees can't trade using accounts other than ones in house. We have to wait until these issues are in the open market and then we can attempt to buy them.
I still think VA Linux is a better investment than Red Hat.
True, I didn't think of that. But given this is Maryland, I'd give a fair chance that if it led to a pond, there would be a couple of vacationers fishing in it. I'd give that a better chance if it was the eastern side of Maryland.
Speaking of fishing, when the two yokels were finishing in the stream, the one idiot was casting, upstream, with a bobber. A bobber. In a stream. Someone shoot him and put him out of his misery.
It seemed that, on purpose, they used the audio from mike's camera and the video from the girl's camera as she went to the basement. I thought it was a good effect.
The ending, I thought was brilliant. It's how a nightmare is supposed to end. Nightmares don't end with the bad guy losing. My nightmares end with the bad guy winning.
As far as everything else, there were some really funny moments like when Mike said, "They can't be rednecks; they aren't that creative". There were also some moments you thought were just too unbelievable like that Josh knew enough to put a tarp down under a tent before you pitch, but didn't know enough to follow a stream downstream to civilization (I'm an ex-boy scout; I notice these things).
Though the scene with her (I forget her name) with the camera in her face was a bit staged, the look of horror (the "What was that?" look definately had the "is it coming for me" color to it) at the end of her soliloquey did give me goosebumps.
The morale: if you knew anything about camping, you would not believe the story, but it still will give you the willies when you reach the end.
As pointed out by a previous poster, exchange rules dictate that when you open an account, you must state your investment goals and experience. It is indeed to protect you, the consumer. Since this was an oracle handling the account opening, it was just probably following its rule set of not allowing inexperienced traders from participating in IPO's. If you talked to a human broker, the case would be different. S/He would be able to understand that you wanted to invest long on Red Hat. Etrade costs are low because you don't rely on a human broker. You get what you pay for. I wonder how web brokerage houses will do in a bear market...
At least you guys have a shot at participating. Generaly, brokerage house rules do not allow employees from exercising trades outside of their own house. We couldn't get in on the IPO if we wanted to since it must be done through Etrade. Even being at a brokerage firm doesn't help, as our trades go last and at the worst price, in order to favor the clients.
Invest smart: invest for the long run and don't get hung up on this IPO as a way to make a quick buck. Educate yourselves and talk to a broker if you never invested before.
I know this question was about Linux, but I wanted to put my 2 cents in about swap and Solaris as I often run into admins who are ardent supporters of the 2 x RAM rule. My experience is that a lot of people overdo swap on Solaris. The best way to gauge your need of swap is through trial and error. You need to look at what you are going to do with the box and you need to be familiar with the applications. Solaris 2.x deals with anonymous memory in a more efficient manner (it relieves the need for swap space when a process demands more space). The tools you can use to figure out your needs would be/usr/proc/bin/pmap, swap -s, vmstat and df. Sure bets that you will need sizable swap space are databases that rely on shared memory. Often their requirements exceed physical memory. (Check out the Solaris Performance and Tuning from Cockroft and look at Sunworld's swap article from January of `98.) The moral: KNOW YOUR APPLICATIONS. TEST, TEST, TEST! Run the application and peek at it with pmap. How much does it memory does it take? Is that what the peek is? Then do this with the other processes on the system and add them up. Look at swap with vmstat and df -k. Do you have a lot of/tmp and/tmp is swapfs? If you do, then maybe you have too much swap. Also, be sure to trim your system of unneeded processes. Why have automountd running when you don't automount? Why have nfs or rpc running if you don't need them? You will find a winning combination after trial and error. Nothing beats experience and testing in sizing a box.
I think I blundered along in my prose and made myself come across more critical than I should. I I believe in the peer review process (at the grant level, publication level, AND within a research organization) as the best way known to decide where funding and attention should go. There's nothing like a smack in the head from the friends you respect to remind you that you are in fact fallible.
I just wanted to point out that the process does have some imperfections, and unfortunately I've seen this first hand. No, not as a jilted researcher, but I worked at a research institute and have seen junk science pushed as legitimate science (not necassarily at this institute but within the field in general). I've heard post-grads and PI's alike complain about it.
I never like to hear that my hard earned tax dollars are wasted, but nothing is perfect, even government funded research.
Now about corporate funded research, have I got stories...
Peer Review is a fact of life in research. As a matter of fact it is usually the only way you can tell a bogus research project over the ones with real results.
However, peer review is definately not perfect and fails when a large portion of the peers would benefit from a certain outcome (look at the environmentalist movement). Peers will support absurd assumptions and findings to secure more grant funding (ie: "we can band together and cause concern over an issue enough to get more money from the congress!"). This happens a lot.
I wonder if there is a coorelation between that phenomena and open source? Would bands of programmers push an implementation/solution if it promised more exposure or jobs even though it was a faulty solution?
I don't know because the chance of getting a monetary benefit is not strongly present. If money were dangled in front, like maybe the bounty-ware approach, we might see this happening...
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I can't believe this tilted troll made it past the editors of Slashdot. I'd appreciate less politicing, and left of center diatribes on the part of Slashdot. Give me news for nerds, not pundits!
If people were that concerned about government infringement, they'd vote for Browne.
Libertarians like myself would LOVE to give to charities of our choice. The only problem is that the government chooses for us which charities we should give to by re-distributing our wealth (or capital) in ways we disagree with, through taxes and entitlements.
Libertarians believe in charity, so strongly in fact, that they (we) want to supplant welfare with it. For 150 years, the US depended on charity to act as the safety net of our nation and was quite often highly successful. But with the New Deal that went away, and a new corrupt and unbalanced system was forced into place.
Charity today takes a back seat to entitlement programs and this is wrong. We are left with little else choice but to give only a fraction of what we want to give to charity because we are taxed so heavily (and I'm not just talking income tax and SS either).
Libertarians are not selfish. They are quite generous because they know that a successful society should have charity to defend itself against the cancerous spread of apathy and poverty.
I just found out that the protest was at 10:30am, 5 hours ago. The court house is a block away. Damn.
This unit uses the smaller cd's for their CD-RW (or was that CD-R?). IMHO, worthless compared to the power of a real MiniDisc. A real MiniDisc holds almost as much as a real CD. They are encased in a plastic housing, making them a lot more durable (no smudges or scratches), and are re-writable about a million times. MiniDiscs would have made a more superior choice of medium.
As a side note: I use MiniDisc's for portable audio. I even write MP3's to them, rather than using a pure mp3 device. My portable Sharp 722 goes with me on my commute.
http://www.minidisc.org holds the "MiniDisc Community" home page. It is pretty informative.
I didn't write the law, so don't blame me for the bad news. As I tell all my friends: "You don't have to like the law, you just have to obey it." And then they usually realize there are way too many laws infringing on their natural rights, so I point them to places like CATO or the national Libertarian Party website.
If you disagree with what Microsoft is doing, perhaps you should tell your representatives in congress that a rewrite of intellectual property laws are in order. Ranting about it on Slashdot doesn't further your cause. Getting politically active does.
You're right. But I stand by my full statement that when you copy and trade that copy, you are stealing. Caps have nothing to do with it, except to add emphasis.
Piracy is robbery and murder on the high seas...
Rather smarmy.
I didn't "earn" the fruits I enjoyed when I read that borrowed book
That because you borrowed it.
listened to a friend play a song (off a recording, or on their guitar) at a party
My friends don't charge me to listen. I don't know about yours.
If he copies a song I write and record, I'm down nothing.
Another convienent paraphrase. If he copies the song you write, and sold that piece, you are down the revenue you should have received by that sale.
I know this is baiting you, but socialism "burns my goat" and I feel compelled to speak out whenever I see it creeping along. Jon Katz is a socialist, pure and simple, and his views of redistributing property in the name of the betterment of mankind are flawed.
When you COPY someone else's intellectual property, and trade (or even give away) that property without the creator's permission, you are STEALING it.
You are profiting from somebody else's work when you engage in piracy. You did not earn the fruits that are beared when you trade your copied music with somebody else. This is as if Comrade Katz himself showed up to your work on pay day and took your paycheck and handed it to some charity of his choice.
Shame on Katz for pushing this notion of everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves.
From your articles, I tend to believe you lean a bit to the left in your politics, possibly a "left centrist". Am I mistaken, or are you more or less liberal in your beliefs?
That's because half of comdex is porn.
It can easily be said that most /.'ers see the world through Linux eyes. It's good to see a news site that you know the people that contribute to its content are looking through *BSD eyes. It would be better if Daemon News embraced the reader contribution/discussion model that /. uses.
A convergence of the two would be welcome, especially to heal some of the hard feelings between the two communities. Until then, I'm glad to see Daemon News has spruced things up a bit.
Oh, and of course, I definately love Darby!
Hmmm...ok, a stand that sells protein drinks that are out of this world: they come in any flavor you want, from pasta to saurbauten and moon cake to rice pudding, as filling as any regular meal, and, AND allow you to achieve the weight and health you always wanted, but couldn't find while spending all that money at MSFT's.
I'm stretching here. Help me out.
On the gripping hand, what if this resturant were the only one in town? No MickeyD's, no Burger King, no Pizza Hut, etc. Taking this further:
MSFT's would have food that was visually pleasing, but bland tasting (except to those that never ate anywhere else and know no better). Also, you weren't always allowed to finish your meal. The staff ignored you, unless you gave them big tips. The chefs got a cut of the bar tab so they don't care too much about the overall quality of their product, after all, who will eat anywhere else?
Of course, the selection would be enormous. Everything from pasta to saurbrauten and moon cake to rice pudding. Still, all rather bland tasting and not necassarily tasting the way it should. Whenever another resturant in town opened up, MSFT's would either:
1) announce that they intended on making the same dishes the competition made, and everyone would avoid this new resturant, salivating in anticipation of this new food at MSFT's
2) buy out the resturant and put the chef's in their resturant
3) undercut their business by threatening to starve out anyone who works for this new place or tries to eat their food
4) closely hold on to the recipe so noone has a clue what kind of animal parts MSFT's is using
Of course this lemonade from the corner stand is not from a secret recipe. Everyone kinda helped make it by contributing ingredients so you know it is safe. You can even add more sugar if you like. People buy from this stand because the kid looks wholesome, the drink is more refreshing than the sludge they serve at MSFT's to those that bothered to take a taste, and it comes with a note on how-to drink.
Say MSFT were a suburban resturant that had annual earnings of about $173,240, or $554 on an average day. That would make Red Hat a lemonade stand with annual earnings of $176 or $0.56 a day (given everyone works 6 days a week).
If you were and independent investor, who would you throw your money at? This better be the best damn lemonade in all of christendom...
I usually just place my outgoing mail in my
mail slot for the postman to pickup. We don't have a corner mailbox, so when I need something deliveried timely, I'll stick in the mailbox at our local post-office on my way to work (I drive 7 minutes to the train station, so you got me there). That box is picked up earlier than when my postman shows up.
Has anyone noticed that there are less and less corner mailboxes these days in the States?
Jay
Again, those of us who work for Wall Street firms are shut out as most brokerage houses' rules say employees can't trade using accounts other than ones in house. We have to wait until these issues are in the open market and then we can attempt to buy them.
I still think VA Linux is a better investment than Red Hat.
There is plenty of civilization on the Oswegatchie. Before you'd hit the swap, you would hit a couple towns, some roads and a dam, no?
http://www.tupperlake.net/rotaryw.htm
True, I didn't think of that. But given this is Maryland, I'd give a fair chance that if it led to a pond, there would be a couple of vacationers fishing in it. I'd give that a better chance if it was the eastern side of Maryland.
Speaking of fishing, when the two yokels were finishing in the stream, the one idiot was casting, upstream, with a bobber. A bobber. In a stream. Someone shoot him and put him out of his misery.
It seemed that, on purpose, they used the audio from mike's camera and the video from the girl's camera as she went to the basement. I thought it was a good effect.
Pass on if you didn't see it; this has spoilers.
The ending, I thought was brilliant. It's how a nightmare is supposed to end. Nightmares don't end with the bad guy losing. My nightmares end with the bad guy winning.
As far as everything else, there were some really funny moments like when Mike said, "They can't be rednecks; they aren't that creative". There were also some moments you thought were just too unbelievable like that Josh knew enough to put a tarp down under a tent before you pitch, but didn't know enough to follow a stream downstream to civilization (I'm an ex-boy scout; I notice these things).
Though the scene with her (I forget her name) with the camera in her face was a bit staged, the look of horror (the "What was that?" look definately had the "is it coming for me" color to it) at the end of her soliloquey did give me goosebumps.
The morale: if you knew anything about camping, you would not believe the story, but it still will give you the willies when you reach the end.
Hardware:
Software:
This'll last you at least 4 years.
As pointed out by a previous poster, exchange rules dictate that when you open an account, you
must state your investment goals and experience. It is indeed to protect
you, the consumer. Since this was an oracle handling the account opening, it was just probably following its rule set of not allowing inexperienced traders from participating in IPO's. If you talked to a human broker, the case would be different. S/He would be able to understand that you wanted to invest long on Red Hat. Etrade costs are low because you don't rely on a human broker. You get what you pay for. I wonder how web brokerage houses will do in a bear market...
At least you guys have a shot at participating. Generaly, brokerage house rules do not allow employees from exercising trades outside of their own house. We couldn't get in on the IPO if we wanted to since it must be done through Etrade. Even being at a brokerage firm doesn't help, as our trades go last and at the worst price, in order to favor the clients.
Invest smart: invest for the long run and don't get hung up on this IPO as a way to make a quick buck. Educate yourselves and talk to a broker if you never invested before.
Clone whatever the hell you want. Just don't ask me to pay for it with my tax dollars; pay for it yourself.
I know this question was about Linux, but I wanted to put my 2 cents in about swap and Solaris as I often run into admins who are ardent supporters of the 2 x RAM rule. My experience is that a lot of people overdo swap on Solaris. The best way to gauge your need of swap is through trial and error. You need to look at what you are going to do with the box and you need to be familiar with the applications. Solaris 2.x deals with anonymous memory in a more efficient manner (it relieves the need for swap space when a process demands more space). The tools you can use to figure out your needs would be /usr/proc/bin/pmap, swap -s, vmstat and df. Sure bets that you will need sizable swap space are databases that rely on shared memory. Often their requirements exceed physical memory. (Check out the Solaris Performance and Tuning from Cockroft and look at Sunworld's swap article from January of `98.) The moral: KNOW YOUR APPLICATIONS. TEST, TEST, TEST! Run the application and peek at it with pmap. How much does it memory does it take? Is that what the peek is? Then do this with the other processes on the system and add them up. Look at swap with vmstat and df -k. Do you have a lot of /tmp and /tmp is swapfs? If you do, then maybe you have too much swap. Also, be sure to trim your system of unneeded processes. Why have automountd running when you don't automount? Why have nfs or rpc running if you don't need them? You will find a winning combination after trial and error. Nothing beats experience and testing in sizing a box.
I think I blundered along in my prose and made myself come across more critical than I should. I I believe in the peer review process (at the grant level, publication level, AND within a research organization) as the best way known to decide where funding and attention should go. There's nothing like a smack in the head from the friends you respect to remind you that you are in fact fallible.
I just wanted to point out that the process does have some imperfections, and unfortunately I've seen this first hand. No, not as a jilted researcher, but I worked at a research institute and have seen junk science pushed as legitimate science (not necassarily at this institute but within the field in general). I've heard post-grads and PI's alike complain about it.
I never like to hear that my hard earned tax dollars are wasted, but nothing is perfect, even government funded research.
Now about corporate funded research, have I got stories...
Peer Review is a fact of life in research. As a matter of fact it is usually the only way you can tell a bogus research project over the ones with real results.
However, peer review is definately not perfect and fails when a large portion of the peers would benefit from a certain outcome (look at the environmentalist movement). Peers will support absurd assumptions and findings to secure more grant funding (ie: "we can band together and cause concern over an issue enough to get more money from the congress!"). This happens a lot.
I wonder if there is a coorelation between that phenomena and open source? Would bands of programmers push an implementation/solution if it promised more exposure or jobs even though it was a faulty solution?
I don't know because the chance of getting a monetary benefit is not strongly present. If money were dangled in front, like maybe the bounty-ware approach, we might see this happening...