Get off it... I'm against most campaign finance reforms too, but what you are saying is the same sort of tripe that people argue when "privatization" efforts fail.
Just as in many cases of failed privatation, the implementation was so screwed up that it had no chance of succeeding anyway. Don't blame the idea for the completely bungled implementation.
You can't be charged with "attempted" anything unless you make a substancial action toward the end of committing the crime.
I can say all I want "I'm going to kill that fucking idiot MrTheBunny from slashdot!"
As long as I don't... buy a gun... search out your address, drive by your house with a gun in my car, etc, I have committed no crime. If I said that and then was picked up in your city (assuming I don't visit your city normally) with a weapon on me, I could be charged with attempted murder.
The key is that talk about committing a crime is never enough. There must be actions that indicate I am working toward the end of actually committing the crime for there to be a criminal act. Those actions demonstrate real intent.
Well, it's not much of a fork. I don't consider it much more of a fork than Red Hat's backporting of patches to older versions, or distro kernels, etc.
In other words, it doesn't particularly threaten the viability of the original project.
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MS hasn't sent cease and desist letters to sites like bootdisk.com, if that counts.
You can have a closely held GPL project. The key is to not accept even 2 line patches unless the submitter is willing to sign a copyright assignment to you for it.
You still own all the code and are free to dual-license it as you see fit.
Batteries have been getting better. These lithium polymers for example. It's easy to get the idea that other areas of engineering should advance as quickly as semiconductors, but the reality isn't such.
One fundamental problem is that storing large amounts of energy in a small space is inherently dangerous, unless it has intrinsic output limiting. Think of shorting a carbon-zinc D-cell battery vs igniting the same volume of gasoline. One is much more dangerous!
I admit I stopped reading your post after seeing the first few blue-collar jobs in the list.
To get away from the phrase computer literacy, "A computer 'dumb' CEO, is a recipe for disaster".
As someone who has had shitty software purchasing decisions forced onto him by executive types who believe software sales people's claims, I can tell you a non-computer-savvy executive bunch can be very damaging to a company.
That's only because idiots that can't use a computer are still in charge of hiring. You just wait 20 years and see where the non-computer-literate worker is. In a gutter somewhere is likely.
Yeah, I'd think this would be a job more suited to RS-485. It can be far more robust than ethernet (mostly since you can run it slower), and it can use existing CAT5. That's likely what your boxes communicate via.
I want a system where I can get a list of running services (not just all processes), the ports on which they are listening (I don't care if they are TCP, UDP, Unix domain, whatever passes for IPC on Windows, or even Mach ports), and be able to trivially turn a service on, or off, or configure it with a simple commandline or a click of the mouse.
Are you aware of netstat -anp as root?
chkconfig fulfills a lot of your later wants too.
I'm happy using those tools, if you want to write a front end UI, feel free! It wouldn't be hard, mostly just external calls to those commands.
That is an interesting proposal, a CVS like merge for config files.
The problem I see is the same sort of thing that CVS fails at, logical inconsistancy.
Suppose I have added foo=off at the top of the file, and the new config adds a default for foo, foo=on at the bottom. I'm sure going to be shocked when I'm exploited through the foo unicode vulnerability I didn't know I was subject to!
Nah, I just wanted to convey my strong support for the GPL by adding a little exaggeration implying the BSD license is non-"stallman"-free.
I'm not anti-BSD license, I think important infrastructure parts should be BSD so that implementations are more or less standardized. But I really like the GPL for most things.
If the version has been released elsewhere, then the thief probably does have the right to make copies and redistribute them under the GPL, but if he is imprisoned for stealing the CD he may have to wait until his release before doing so.
If the version in question is unpublished and considered by a company to be its trade secret, then publishing it may be a violation of trade secret law, depending on other circumstances. The GPL does not change that. If the company tried to release its version and still treat it as a trade secret, that would violate the GPL, but if the company hasn't released this version, no such violation has occurred.
Cadence OrCAD uses pspice, a derivative work of Spice. Because because wasn't licensed under a free software license (it was BSD), they have no obligation to support the community.
Bah, it's not worth worrying about. The Aztec calendar ends long before 2038, and as we all know, the coming singularity will hit at the same time, rendering all current technology extremely obselete.
Unless we get a brain tumor and die first. That would suck.
If the other 90% actively reported attempted social engineering, and those reports were followed up on by real law enforcement, then it would raise the bar as to who would actually attempt such an attack.
The only measure of security is:
It would make an effective deterrent to all but the most dedicated intruder.
That's all that matters. Increasing the dedication needed to break in is what security is all about.
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I think people stopped taking fine art seriously after crap like Picasso.
Get off it... I'm against most campaign finance reforms too, but what you are saying is the same sort of tripe that people argue when "privatization" efforts fail.
Just as in many cases of failed privatation, the implementation was so screwed up that it had no chance of succeeding anyway. Don't blame the idea for the completely bungled implementation.
Actually, there are no criminal charges involved.
You can't be charged with "attempted" anything unless you make a substancial action toward the end of committing the crime.
I can say all I want "I'm going to kill that fucking idiot MrTheBunny from slashdot!"
As long as I don't... buy a gun... search out your address, drive by your house with a gun in my car, etc, I have committed no crime. If I said that and then was picked up in your city (assuming I don't visit your city normally) with a weapon on me, I could be charged with attempted murder.
The key is that talk about committing a crime is never enough. There must be actions that indicate I am working toward the end of actually committing the crime for there to be a criminal act. Those actions demonstrate real intent.
You emailed the wrong people, Time Trax was in syndacation, sci-fi probably doesn't own it (unless I'm wrong and they bought it later).
Well, it's not much of a fork. I don't consider it much more of a fork than Red Hat's backporting of patches to older versions, or distro kernels, etc.
In other words, it doesn't particularly threaten the viability of the original project.
MS hasn't sent cease and desist letters to sites like bootdisk.com, if that counts.
Nobody's forked ghostscript, and that's closely held like I said.
You can have a closely held GPL project. The key is to not accept even 2 line patches unless the submitter is willing to sign a copyright assignment to you for it.
You still own all the code and are free to dual-license it as you see fit.
The Highlander Effect.
:)
Well documented.
Batteries have been getting better. These lithium polymers for example. It's easy to get the idea that other areas of engineering should advance as quickly as semiconductors, but the reality isn't such.
One fundamental problem is that storing large amounts of energy in a small space is inherently dangerous, unless it has intrinsic output limiting. Think of shorting a carbon-zinc D-cell battery vs igniting the same volume of gasoline. One is much more dangerous!
loving your customers
By forcing DRM onto them?
One of the jobs I named was CEO
:)
Heh, tricky tricky. No you didn't.
Oh well. Your argument about blue collar jobs was valid anyway.
I admit I stopped reading your post after seeing the first few blue-collar jobs in the list.
To get away from the phrase computer literacy, "A computer 'dumb' CEO, is a recipe for disaster".
As someone who has had shitty software purchasing decisions forced onto him by executive types who believe software sales people's claims, I can tell you a non-computer-savvy executive bunch can be very damaging to a company.
I was thinking in terms of white-collar jobs only. You took my post entirely the wrong way.
That's only because idiots that can't use a computer are still in charge of hiring. You just wait 20 years and see where the non-computer-literate worker is. In a gutter somewhere is likely.
Yeah, I'd think this would be a job more suited to RS-485. It can be far more robust than ethernet (mostly since you can run it slower), and it can use existing CAT5. That's likely what your boxes communicate via.
I want a system where I can get a list of running services (not just all processes), the ports on which they are listening (I don't care if they are TCP, UDP, Unix domain, whatever passes for IPC on Windows, or even Mach ports), and be able to trivially turn a service on, or off, or configure it with a simple commandline or a click of the mouse.
Are you aware of netstat -anp as root?
chkconfig fulfills a lot of your later wants too.
I'm happy using those tools, if you want to write a front end UI, feel free! It wouldn't be hard, mostly just external calls to those commands.
That is an interesting proposal, a CVS like merge for config files.
:)
The problem I see is the same sort of thing that CVS fails at, logical inconsistancy.
Suppose I have added foo=off at the top of the file, and the new config adds a default for foo, foo=on at the bottom. I'm sure going to be shocked when I'm exploited through the foo unicode vulnerability I didn't know I was subject to!
You get the idea.
You sure seem to have a lot of suggestions for someone who still thinks binaries should go into /etc.
I think you should go read the FHS before giving half-baked ideas.
We can't even some people to use /etc correctly. I won't say who, but it starts with a P and ends with ostgres.
Nah, I just wanted to convey my strong support for the GPL by adding a little exaggeration implying the BSD license is non-"stallman"-free.
I'm not anti-BSD license, I think important infrastructure parts should be BSD so that implementations are more or less standardized. But I really like the GPL for most things.
It's right in the GPL FAQ
If the version has been released elsewhere, then the thief probably does have the right to make copies and redistribute them under the GPL, but if he is imprisoned for stealing the CD he may have to wait until his release before doing so.
If the version in question is unpublished and considered by a company to be its trade secret, then publishing it may be a violation of trade secret law, depending on other circumstances. The GPL does not change that. If the company tried to release its version and still treat it as a trade secret, that would violate the GPL, but if the company hasn't released this version, no such violation has occurred.
Cadence OrCAD uses pspice, a derivative work of Spice. Because because wasn't licensed under a free software license (it was BSD), they have no obligation to support the community.
Bah, it's not worth worrying about. The Aztec calendar ends long before 2038, and as we all know, the coming singularity will hit at the same time, rendering all current technology extremely obselete.
Unless we get a brain tumor and die first. That would suck.
If the other 90% actively reported attempted social engineering, and those reports were followed up on by real law enforcement, then it would raise the bar as to who would actually attempt such an attack.
The only measure of security is:
It would make an effective deterrent to all but the most dedicated intruder.
That's all that matters. Increasing the dedication needed to break in is what security is all about.