My buddy Ben Frankline summed this up the best: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I think history also will show that Ben Franklin never flew on an airplane.
Are you sure about that? I'm almost positive he took the Concorde to Paris to solicit French aide in the Revolution
Oooh. I get it. You were being ironic.
You're right. Maybe American Airlines can demand blood and tissues samples too. Or ask you to sign a five year indentured servitude contract to travel across the atlantic. If you do that, your coach ticket gets upgraded to first class.
Hmm, does this vulnerability affect linux clones, too?
I doubt it.
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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has a major security vulnerability in the latest stable (4.7.2480) and beta (4.8.2616) Windows versions. This vulnerability will allow remote penetration of the victim's system without any indication as to who performed the attack. There is no opportunity to refuse the request. This does not affect the non-Windows versions, because the non-Windows versions currently do not yet support the feature that this vulnerability occurs in.
May I propose an addition? What if the law said "Software that is avaliable for sale must be available indefinitely". Example: Microsoft makes Windows 3.1 a success by selling copies for $49. If we apply this rule, Microsoft is required to keep on selling Windows 3.1 for $49. We shouldn't require them to keep on manufacturing boxes forever, but when they stop making boxes it shouldn't be too hard to make it available for electronic purchase over the Internet at the same price (maybe increasing profit margins?).
Lame. As little as I like MS, I won't *require* them to keep selling Microsoft Bob. Or XP with the UPnP bug, for that matter.
There is definetly more to a CS degree than simply being able to program. Other courses in the arts, sciences and languages are usually required. The point of a CS degree is not to produce programmers; it is produce well rounded students who can apply their knowledge to more fields than just computer programming.
If that's the stated goal, then they are failing miserably.
I don't have a CS degree (or any degree for that matter) and sometimes I think that I should go and get one. Then I go to work and hang out around my coworkers. We're about 50/50 with cs degree and without.
The degreed people aren't any more clueful than the non-degreed people. I'd say people with freshly-minted degrees are, um, less-than-clueful.
Four years in a dorm creates a 'rounded' person who can kick my ass in Unreal Tournament and has 30 gigs of mp3s, but beyond that... I don't see it.
I know I'm not a guru or anything, but I'd say 18 months or actual work experience in a production environments is better than a cs degree in all but but the most complex situations, provided you have a brain and motivation.
Hedge: we have two alpha geeks here who *really* know their stuff. They do have cs degrees, but they also have 7-10 years work experience, plus they were geeks in high school. I'd lay the experience made them gurus, not the degree.
Hedge #2: regardless, if it's on your resume, you can almost certainly command more salary. That's just the fact of the matter.
Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD fame, Arpad Gereoffy of the MPlayer project, and Brett Glass will team up to form a new PR firm called Darker Image. The concept is simple, like reverse psychology. For a fee, the team will act as advocates for your competition. Rumors have it that the dynamic trio is already in discussions with Redmond about championing the Free Software Foundation.
What is this? Is this an in-joke I'm not privy to? What's the story?
Seriously, the only way break the megacorp's choke-hold on the net is to go totally wireless, and completely circumvent the need for the existing millions of miles of strung wire. There needs to be a communcation method that can go end-to-end without *depending* on all that wire.
Right now, he who owns the pipe controls the communication.
No start-up or co-op or RMSophile (of which I am one) is going to gather enough resources to lay down an equal amount of wire to compete.
It's gonna be AT&T or TimeWarner. Coax or twisted pair. Cable or DSL. There is no other option, and all the wire is owned.
There will have to be an all-wireless solution. Until then, grab your ankles -- but don't hold your breath.
No. I'd prefer to pay per use. If red carpet could tell what it wants to update, (and provide some kind of info telling why it's *worth* updating) I can press the "update now" button and credit my credit card 9.95.
That way, I can upgrade and pay on my initiation. I can ignore incremental upgrades. And update my machine only twice per year, for twenty bucks. Or more if there's an urgent security fix.
That'd be worth it. But a subscription fee for the ability to update any time? Nah. Pay-per-use is the way to go.
Congress is the legislative branch of the Federal government authorized under the Federal Constitution. It creates legislation and can, either in cooperation with, or independently from, the President, pass it into law. The Constitution enumerates a number of powers to be granted to the Congress. One power is the ability to create copyright laws.
I don't think we need to teach civics anymore.
The Constitution is just fancy toilet paper now. Just say "necessary and proper clause" or "regulate interstate commerce" and Congress has a de facto blank check to pass any law it damn well pleases, regardless of the Constitution's limited government doctrine.
If civics is necessary, an honest civics class in modern america would be one sentence: "The government is your master and can do what it likes. As a consolation for being a kept citizen, you get to pick who holds the whip every two or four years."
Students will then have the rest of the day to watch "Friends" or "WWF".
Watch the movie "THX 1138" (George Lucas's first film, btw, before he became a whore, also staring Robert Duvall)
The government in the movie says: Buy more, and be happy Or just listen to Bush recently: I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy.
Crap like this pisses me off. Megacorporations who own all the wires (twisted pair or coax) suck. It's their wires, and they can block whatever traffic they want, at any time, and outside of bitching and moaning, there's not much we can do about it.
The deeper problem is that laying all that wire (especially to the home) is *expensive* and an almost impossible barrier for new competitors to enter the market. (Can someone say CLEC?)
So, in most markets, we have two choices: Megacorp One offering cable access with draconian user agreements, or Megacorp Two offering dsl access with draconian user agreements.
What needs to happens is secure, reliable wireless net connections.
A smaller company is in a much better position to put up a few towers and charge for the service than they can lay a few million miles of wire to truly be able to compete with aoltimewarnercoxcomcastatt with even footing.
I know "me too" posts are bad form for slashdot, but I also strongly recommend the Red Mars trilogy.
It was very believable in the technological, policatal and social areas, like the original poster said.
I wanted to add that is was an extremely vivid book. The imagery, events, and characters were so well done. A top-notch series.
This is the type of book that I (at least) still talk about and get enthused about even though I haven't read them for about 3-4 years.
I bought the 3rd book in the trilogy in hard-back when it was first released. If you knew how much of a tightwad I am, you would know that this is high praise indeed.
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Oh, man. I don't think I'm ready to open up a book and see the author introducing the book in full motion video on the first page, and the trailer for the movie on the last...
True, but with this technology, I can guarantee that I will *never* let my Penthouse subscription expire.
I registered a domain name a month ago with no problems. I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you mad because you can't register a trademark or someone elses name and then make money off it?
You mean like the etoy.com saga? Internet artists as squatters? Right....
Commenting poorly written code won't help you worth a damn. Plus, why assume that someone who writes bad code will write good comments? Good code speaks for itself.
Not always. A new method in a class does not explain itself in absence of the whole class. If I'm working on just this one method, I want to know how if fits in with the rest of the class -- without having to read the whole class.
Code warriors write the code, and it may be great, but more times than not (in my experience), it's less skilled folk who have to support and maintain the code. The Warriors have moved to to develop the next great thing.
No. Why would a user move when everything is being brought to them. Seems to me this makes it easier to stay in Windows.
This makes it easier for people to migrate away from windows. If the path from win32 to Linux is a literally that: a path and not a cliff, people will be more inclined to walk that path. Few people will jump off the cliff, even if what's below is much better.
Once this port is working, then all of our win32 joe-sixpack users will start being exposed to all sorts of software packages that they can use: games, productivity, etc. Gnumeric. Abiword. Xmms. Not demos, but free. Always free. Just download and run. They'll see GNU and OSS in license agreements. They's see it our emails. They'll join announcement mailing lists get immediate upgrades -- for free.
They'll come to expect free software all the time. Not as a political statement. Not as a anti-corporate philosophy. But because they are cheap bastards. No offense. (None taken)
Then, in a couple years, when ol' Bill rolls out his next Windows XS. Joe six-pack will think: "What? He expects me to pay?"
At that time, he say "I've got all this free software that people keep telling me will run on a free operating system." So instead of getting Windows XS, he will get RedHat 10.2.
And the transition will be complete.
One last note: The OSS community often complains about people taking from the community but not giving back. This phenomenon will increase as more joe-sixpack's start using free software. As oss gains more popular, the ratio of those who contribute to those who don't will continute to grow.
Most of these guys wouldn't even know how to contribute if they wanted. They sure aren't going to donate cash, because that's the overidding motivation for the growth of free software beyond your basic slashdot reader: free as in beer. Screw politics.
That's okay. Consider it this way: they're primary contribution to oss and your project is:
1) a big user base bestows legitimacy
2) they *aren't* supporting ms/aol/apple etc.
This will have to be enough. We can *not* spit on these people. We can't view them with contempt because they understand "The specs are open. Write your own device driver to that digital camera."
My "boss" (read:wife) won't consider switching to linux unless I can show her something she can use that is equivalent to Macromedia Dreamweaver. Netscape Composer didn't impress her.
1) It won't yet do email alerts calendar events, or so the pop up tells me. So my cell phone won't beep me when a meeting is in ten minutes and I'm still eating burritos at the mexican restaurant on the next block. Sucks.
2) I can't expunge mail at all. It's got something to do with the UID EXPUNGE header while using IMAP and the commercial version of Sendmail running here. Pine can do it. Netscape can do it. So can Outlook. But Evolution can't. I've reported this issue, and unfortunately they didn't address it in the 1.0 release.
Evolution looks nice. But if I can't expunge my mail without loading up pine, then I'll stick with pine.
1) When it's rainy, windy, snowing, or othewise inclimate weather, this thing will not be used.
2) You can't pick up chicks with it.
3) There's no trunk to store even a gallon of milk. And you have to control it with two hands. If I'm going from here to there, it's for a reason. Most of the time, I'm going to takes something with me and/or bring something back.
Looks like these guys got carried away with a good idea and didn't take the time to translate their idea into a good product.
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If this keeps up, we'll soon see a patent for "facilitating data-entry via an alphanumeric input device" ;)
Dammit, don't encourage them!
Guess who uses IIS? eBay, Dell, Gateway, Intel, Nasdaq, Compaq, most of the UK Government sites... etc.
Guess who uses OSS? Tivo, Yahoo, Google, Cisco, Home Depot, Mexico City, more...
http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html
Or, Emergency 911 systems.
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iWannaTreo
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Don't get me wrong; I'd like to see more CG films, but I don't really want that all-familliar Hollywood trend of copying an idea to death.
Get ready to be disappointed.
My buddy Ben Frankline summed this up the best: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I think history also will show that Ben Franklin never flew on an airplane.
Are you sure about that? I'm almost positive he took the Concorde to Paris to solicit French aide in the Revolution
Oooh. I get it. You were being ironic.
You're right. Maybe American Airlines can demand blood and tissues samples too. Or ask you to sign a five year indentured servitude contract to travel across the atlantic. If you do that, your coach ticket gets upgraded to first class.
I doubt it.
Quoting:
May I propose an addition? What if the law said "Software that is avaliable for sale must be available indefinitely". Example: Microsoft makes Windows 3.1 a success by selling copies for $49. If we apply this rule, Microsoft is required to keep on selling Windows 3.1 for $49. We shouldn't require them to keep on manufacturing boxes forever, but when they stop making boxes it shouldn't be too hard to make it available for electronic purchase over the Internet at the same price (maybe increasing profit margins?).
Lame. As little as I like MS, I won't *require* them to keep selling Microsoft Bob. Or XP with the UPnP bug, for that matter.
Parrot 0.0.3 was released way back on the 11th of dec, nearly three weeks ago.
If you want *new* news on perl/parrot, the latest parrot in CVS is now "fully-functional" (interpret that however you want.)
The right education will discipline your mind, not "discipline as in right-versus-wrong", but "discipline as in focusing mental energy".
To repeat, if that's the stated goal of college, then it is failing miserably.
There is definetly more to a CS degree than simply being able to program. Other courses in the arts, sciences and languages are usually required. The point of a CS degree is not to produce programmers; it is produce well rounded students who can apply their knowledge to more fields than just computer programming.
If that's the stated goal, then they are failing miserably.
I don't have a CS degree (or any degree for that matter) and sometimes I think that I should go and get one. Then I go to work and hang out around my coworkers. We're about 50/50 with cs degree and without.
The degreed people aren't any more clueful than the non-degreed people. I'd say people with freshly-minted degrees are, um, less-than-clueful.
Four years in a dorm creates a 'rounded' person who can kick my ass in Unreal Tournament and has 30 gigs of mp3s, but beyond that... I don't see it.
I know I'm not a guru or anything, but I'd say 18 months or actual work experience in a production environments is better than a cs degree in all but but the most complex situations, provided you have a brain and motivation.
Hedge: we have two alpha geeks here who *really* know their stuff. They do have cs degrees, but they also have 7-10 years work experience, plus they were geeks in high school. I'd lay the experience made them gurus, not the degree.
Hedge #2: regardless, if it's on your resume, you can almost certainly command more salary. That's just the fact of the matter.
Guru in training,
Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD fame, Arpad Gereoffy of the MPlayer project, and Brett Glass will team up to form a new PR firm called Darker Image. The concept is simple, like reverse psychology. For a fee, the team will act as advocates for your competition. Rumors have it that the dynamic trio is already in discussions with Redmond about championing the Free Software Foundation.
What is this? Is this an in-joke I'm not privy to? What's the story?
So how would we replace the university backbones that began the internet?
Communicate the old-fashioned way: FidoNet
Seriously, the only way break the megacorp's choke-hold on the net is to go totally wireless, and completely circumvent the need for the existing millions of miles of strung wire. There needs to be a communcation method that can go end-to-end without *depending* on all that wire.
Right now, he who owns the pipe controls the communication.
No start-up or co-op or RMSophile (of which I am one) is going to gather enough resources to lay down an equal amount of wire to compete.
It's gonna be AT&T or TimeWarner. Coax or twisted pair. Cable or DSL. There is no other option, and all the wire is owned.
There will have to be an all-wireless solution. Until then, grab your ankles -- but don't hold your breath.
Paying per quarter or year makes much more sense.
No. I'd prefer to pay per use. If red carpet could tell what it wants to update, (and provide some kind of info telling why it's *worth* updating) I can press the "update now" button and credit my credit card 9.95.
That way, I can upgrade and pay on my initiation. I can ignore incremental upgrades. And update my machine only twice per year, for twenty bucks. Or more if there's an urgent security fix.
That'd be worth it. But a subscription fee for the ability to update any time? Nah. Pay-per-use is the way to go.
Or, if you like the people in your block, you can actually share bandwidth this way?
Yeah, right. Which one? The wife beater or the gangsta rapper?
Congress is the legislative branch of the Federal government authorized under the Federal Constitution. It creates legislation and can, either in cooperation with, or independently from, the President, pass it into law. The Constitution enumerates a number of powers to be granted to the Congress. One power is the ability to create copyright laws.
I don't think we need to teach civics anymore.
The Constitution is just fancy toilet paper now. Just say "necessary and proper clause" or "regulate interstate commerce" and Congress has a de facto blank check to pass any law it damn well pleases, regardless of the Constitution's limited government doctrine.
If civics is necessary, an honest civics class in modern america would be one sentence: "The government is your master and can do what it likes. As a consolation for being a kept citizen, you get to pick who holds the whip every two or four years."
Students will then have the rest of the day to watch "Friends" or "WWF".
Watch the movie "THX 1138" (George Lucas's first film, btw, before he became a whore, also staring Robert Duvall)
The government in the movie says: Buy more, and be happy Or just listen to Bush recently: I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy.
Crap like this pisses me off. Megacorporations who own all the wires (twisted pair or coax) suck. It's their wires, and they can block whatever traffic they want, at any time, and outside of bitching and moaning, there's not much we can do about it.
The deeper problem is that laying all that wire (especially to the home) is *expensive* and an almost impossible barrier for new competitors to enter the market. (Can someone say CLEC?)
So, in most markets, we have two choices: Megacorp One offering cable access with draconian user agreements, or Megacorp Two offering dsl access with draconian user agreements.
What needs to happens is secure, reliable wireless net connections.
A smaller company is in a much better position to put up a few towers and charge for the service than they can lay a few million miles of wire to truly be able to compete with aoltimewarnercoxcomcastatt with even footing.
But it's got to be secure and reliable.
Fuckin' corporations.
I know "me too" posts are bad form for slashdot, but I also strongly recommend the Red Mars trilogy.
It was very believable in the technological, policatal and social areas, like the original poster said.
I wanted to add that is was an extremely vivid book. The imagery, events, and characters were so well done. A top-notch series.
This is the type of book that I (at least) still talk about and get enthused about even though I haven't read them for about 3-4 years.
I bought the 3rd book in the trilogy in hard-back when it was first released. If you knew how much of a tightwad I am, you would know that this is high praise indeed.
Oh, man. I don't think I'm ready to open up a book and see the author introducing the book in full motion video on the first page, and the trailer for the movie on the last...
True, but with this technology, I can guarantee that I will *never* let my Penthouse subscription expire.
I registered a domain name a month ago with no problems. I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you mad because you can't register a trademark or someone elses name and then make money off it?
You mean like the etoy.com saga? Internet artists as squatters? Right....
Commenting poorly written code won't help you worth a damn. Plus, why assume that someone who writes bad code will write good comments? Good code speaks for itself.
Not always. A new method in a class does not explain itself in absence of the whole class. If I'm working on just this one method, I want to know how if fits in with the rest of the class -- without having to read the whole class.
Code warriors write the code, and it may be great, but more times than not (in my experience), it's less skilled folk who have to support and maintain the code. The Warriors have moved to to develop the next great thing.
No. Why would a user move when everything is being brought to them. Seems to me this makes it easier to stay in Windows.
This makes it easier for people to migrate away from windows. If the path from win32 to Linux is a literally that: a path and not a cliff, people will be more inclined to walk that path. Few people will jump off the cliff, even if what's below is much better.
Once this port is working, then all of our win32 joe-sixpack users will start being exposed to all sorts of software packages that they can use: games, productivity, etc. Gnumeric. Abiword. Xmms. Not demos, but free. Always free. Just download and run. They'll see GNU and OSS in license agreements. They's see it our emails. They'll join announcement mailing lists get immediate upgrades -- for free.
They'll come to expect free software all the time. Not as a political statement. Not as a anti-corporate philosophy. But because they are cheap bastards. No offense. (None taken)
Then, in a couple years, when ol' Bill rolls out his next Windows XS. Joe six-pack will think: "What? He expects me to pay?"
At that time, he say "I've got all this free software that people keep telling me will run on a free operating system." So instead of getting Windows XS, he will get RedHat 10.2.
And the transition will be complete.
One last note: The OSS community often complains about people taking from the community but not giving back. This phenomenon will increase as more joe-sixpack's start using free software. As oss gains more popular, the ratio of those who contribute to those who don't will continute to grow.
Most of these guys wouldn't even know how to contribute if they wanted. They sure aren't going to donate cash, because that's the overidding motivation for the growth of free software beyond your basic slashdot reader: free as in beer. Screw politics.
That's okay. Consider it this way: they're primary contribution to oss and your project is:
1) a big user base bestows legitimacy
2) they *aren't* supporting ms/aol/apple etc.
This will have to be enough. We can *not* spit on these people. We can't view them with contempt because they understand "The specs are open. Write your own device driver to that digital camera."
The RIAA and MPAA doesn't yet see that they are dinosaurs in the tarpits.
How long do you think it will be till this service is cracked? A week?
My "boss" (read:wife) won't consider switching to linux unless I can show her something she can use that is equivalent to Macromedia Dreamweaver. Netscape Composer didn't impress her.
Any other options I can look into?
1) It won't yet do email alerts calendar events, or so the pop up tells me. So my cell phone won't beep me when a meeting is in ten minutes and I'm still eating burritos at the mexican restaurant on the next block. Sucks.
2) I can't expunge mail at all. It's got something to do with the UID EXPUNGE header while using IMAP and the commercial version of Sendmail running here. Pine can do it. Netscape can do it. So can Outlook. But Evolution can't. I've reported this issue, and unfortunately they didn't address it in the 1.0 release.
Evolution looks nice. But if I can't expunge my mail without loading up pine, then I'll stick with pine.
Bummer.
1) When it's rainy, windy, snowing, or othewise inclimate weather, this thing will not be used.
2) You can't pick up chicks with it.
3) There's no trunk to store even a gallon of milk. And you have to control it with two hands. If I'm going from here to there, it's for a reason. Most of the time, I'm going to takes something with me and/or bring something back.
Looks like these guys got carried away with a good idea and didn't take the time to translate their idea into a good product.