grep for "Regents of California" on a win95/98/NT drive and you will find at least a few instances.
Errrm, no. I did just that on a stock NTW4SP6 box here at work. Not there. That doesn't mean there's no BSD code in Win95/98/NT. That just means that none of the copyrights made it to the compiled object code. It'd be a bad compiler that'd put comments (where the BSD copyrights are located in the BSD source) in the object code.
Darwin (aka NeXTSTEP and others) is based on BSD 4.4 not FreeBSD.
Perhaps you'd like to read a little before going off half cocked? http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html > (second paragraph of the "Mac OS X is Unix-savvy" section) clearly states that the Mac OS X kernel "is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at Berkeley's BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era."
So I'm sitting here at work, and I reload Slashdot. Ooh! New article! Playboy article on Linux! I temporarily forget where I am and click through: BLOCKED BY SURFWATCH. I wonder if my supervisor's going to believe me when I say I was just trying to look at an article.:P
IMHO these kids are merely reacting in a manner consistant with what I call the "the Spirit of Xmas" (Christmas without Christ) that is consistant with the level of commercialism attached to this season of oh-so-many-dollars-spent.
"The Spirit of Xmas" is only "Christmas without Christ" if you ignore the fact that the Greek spelling of Christ starts with a Greek letter that looks suspiciously like an X.
While I realize that the anti-religous zealots may be offended by my association of Jesus w/ Christmas *boggle*, the "spirit of christmas" spoken of in most of the previous posts died long ago...
I'm not an "anti-religious zealot," but I'm offended by your half-assed troll disguise job.
Additional evidence: Notice how each and every one of the Microsoft OS's is/was vunerable to the same 'nuke' type attacks?
Nope. There was an "issue" with Win98 and one of the Win2K betas or RCs and IGMP floods. They'd cause a bluescreen in the affected versions of Win98 and Win2K, but didn't in Win95 or NT4.
Yes there will be a close alignment of planets on May 5 next year, but close alignments of planets occur every year to varying degrees. Why is May 5 significant, anyway?
why didn't Hitler wipe out these goddamned xians off the face of the planet? fuck these bible fuckers.
Probably because he was too busy going after the Jews. He was a "Christian" too, you know. He did, AFAIK, also persecute/imprison/kill a good amount of Catholics, but nowhere near the scale to which he persecuted/imprisioned/killed Jews.
I for one know hundreds of Christians, and not a one believes the crap you just accused them of believing.
I do too. Many of them can also read English. Reread what he wrote and then try again, Sparky:
Is it just me or is anybody else sick of all of the supersticious goo and various other scare mongering flying about just before all four digits in the Christian year flip?
Isn't this just another symptom of rampant Milleniophobia? No matter how much it's debunked by Science, the supersticious apolcalyptophiles will still stick to their supersticions like flies to tape.
He didn't say the people going around spreading this were Christians. He merely stated that the years were Christian years. And then he talked about "supersticious apolcalyptophiles." No mention of actual Christians there.
From the Yahoo quote page: "Quotes delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes otherwise."
Is it just a way to get money for "realtime" data?
dict capitalism when you get a chance.
Is it meant to keep power away from the small investors by acting as a buffer?
Well, most small investors do most of their "buying" and "selling" during off hours, when realtime NASDAQ, AMEX, and NYSE quotes won't be much help. Additionally, most of the "small investors" are members of eTrade and online trading websites that do provide real-time quotes to paying members.
Is the info publically owned or private?
Privately-owned by the respective exchanges. There are, however, some freely-available realtime quote websites. Free RealTime is the one I use.
I'm not sure how much it costs to lay fiber, but I'm willing to bet it's not cheap. I'm betting it's even more expensive in more dense, urban areas. While your average Joe can't afford to cough up $150K for the base unit, your average telco *can*.
That isn't to say, however, that your average telco *will*. On a whim, I called BellAtlantic early last summer inquiring about broadband in my area. I was informed that my exchange didn't even support ISDN. I'd have to be "virtually hosted," which is to say that I'd have to pay for them to string a line from my neighboring exchange--$200 more at install, Either $30 or $50 more a month, and, I think, $0.02-$0.05/minute more.
When dealing with corporations, don't make the mistake of equating "can" with "will."
Especially if the contents of said message are "Please transfer $1.5 Million into account XXX-XXX-XXX from account XXX-XXX-XXX" (that was actually in a bounced message I saw once).
Has the long-standing flamewar between KDE and GNOME helped to motivate development of a better product, or has it just made you annoyed at the community at large?
As much as I agree with the concensus here about this patent, there are far too many people on/. who think they're lawyers:)
Yes. I have read many posts where the poster starts off by saying "IANAL" and then goes and sticks his foot in his mouth trying to use alternate meanings of words and half-truths to "prove" his agenda that Everybody Is Out To Get The Open Source Movement.
Don't get me wrong--I like Open Source software; I use it daily to get my work done. I thoroughly detest, however, the zealots that decry anything other than Open Source.
As Chris Rock said, "I love black people, but I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE niggas."
Yes, one. Both people harassed by the lawyers were not American citizens. So, not only do they not have to abide by some of our stupid laws, they also (surprise!!!) are not covered by our almost useful ones (e.g., fair use).
Does anyone know what the intrinsic cost to manufacture these things is? In the last 15 years we have seen "consumer" monitor size increase from around 10" to 15" (call it 14" to 19" if you prefer). Will it take another 15 years to see another 5 inch increase? Monitors just don't seem to follow Moore's Law.
My old 386 (purchased in 1988) had a 14" monitor. In 1997 when I purchased a new computer, I bought a 14" monitor again. I just recently bought a 17" monitor and could not imagine using anything smaller--even this is a bit small. Many "higher-end" consumer computers (i.e., home computers that Gateway, Dell, et al plug that have P!!!s instead of Celerons) are now being bundled with 17" monitors--some with 19". The rate of growth is faster than you might think.
Me? I'm saving up to buy: A) New PowerBook to replace my rather tattered Rev. A Wallstreet. B) Big-assed Athlon with big-assed monitor (21"+)
Dunno how long it'll take--PowerBooks are expensive (but nice), as are Athlons (but nice as well), and I don't get paid very well (not nice).
The AUTHORITY for registering and enforcing keywords would be centralized, but the resolution wouldn't have to be. True, there is a hole in this "Central Authority", and that's the fact that the global internet couldn't have keyword assignment policy dictated by an American government. Well. . . shouldn't.
Then there's the issue you didn't bring up: The same trademark can have different owners in different countries. How would you go about resolving this? Give the top billing to the company that registered it in the most countries? Or perhaps to the one that registered it in the most important countries?
I'm not talking technical, I'm talking useability, and legal, and compatability with real-life problems like corporate trademarks and stuff like that.
That's what this law is proposing. If you register a domain name that is covered by a trademark "in bad faith," you lose it and can get fined. Don't add another layer of abstraction where it isn't necessary.
I'm saying, if you get in the car for the first time, it's going to run as an automatic. If you're a hot-shit driver, and want the stick shift, press the button over there on the console, and the clutch and gearshift will pop up, and you can grind to your heart's content.
And stall on the freeway at rush hour.
And your attempt to map this over to slashdot posting is, well, silly.
Not compared to your proposal. At least my asinine proposal wasn't serious and didn't favor the invocation of Yet Another Bureaucracy To Fuck Things Up.
Again: the endusers (99% of people surfing the net with your standard trusty web-browser), should NOT have access to the "location" field (for netscape, called "address" on IE), and instead should have a site-name field to enter stuff into.
Doesn't bullshit like this go against the one of the most-celebrated "features" of the Internet (i.e., a vehicle for empowerment)?
"Yes, there is a thing called DNS that lets you go from www.yahoo.com to the Yahoo! website, but you are not allowed to use it! NO DNS FOR YOU!"
Then this data can go to a central trademark repository which acts as sort of a "yellow pages", maps to either their site's DNS or IP address, and zips the user to that site.
I thought another one of the Big Things about the Internet is that it was relatively de-centralized with the exception of things that are necessary (IANA doling out IP Addresses) and things that started as sundries but are now de facto necessary (Domain Name Registrars). Ever notice that DNS as a whole goes down extremely infrequently? That's because it's decentralized. There isn't only one big point of failure. There are lots of smaller ones.
Another layer of name-resolution, if you will.
No, I won't. It's totally unnecessary and has no technical merit.
The actual http:// address should only be accesible to power users (who can configure that field to appear by going into the preferences dialog and checking a box).
People who deal with self-proclaimed computer "experts" on a daily basis will tell you that this will do very little good. If access to the location thing is so bad, why make it available with just a checkbox?
"See that porche? You're not good enough at driving cars to drive it--unless, of course, you think you are, in which case the keys are in the ignition. Have a nice day!"
There exists a minority of Slashdot readers that abuse the posting system. 99% of Slashdot readers should NOT have access to posting their own opinions. They should be merely given the option to type in a one-word response and submit that to a centralized opinion-generating computer. The opinions generated by this computer will then be placed on Slashdot. A second layer of opinion making, if you will.
Only power-users should have access to posting their own opinions--they can go into their preferences and check a checkbox.
The fact that Microsoft's headquarters are on Microsoft Way doesn't make it illegal for there to be a Microsoft Drive in Redmond (although the 911 people may not like it), nor does it make it illegal for a concern named The Software Company to have their offices on Microsoft Drive.
You may be wrong on the first point, but if you're not, then you are correct on the second point.
As with snail mail addresses, no one should expect to have an easily remembered Internet address.
Why not? The capability exists. It has been working fine for many years.
Before the Internet, people used Rolodexes and the like because they could not know all the street addresses and phone numbers they had reason to need; there is no reason they should expect to avoid the electronic equivalents, e-mail address books and browser bookmarks.
Before indoor plumbing, people went outside to outhouses to take a shit--even in the dead of winter.
Before automobiles, people used horses and carriages to travel from place to place.
Before electricity, people used lamplight and cooked on woodstoves with dutch ovens.
There is, therefore, no reason for people to expect to avoid doing the electronic equivalent.
Netscape and Internet Explorer are making our minds soft. Just present us with the HTML and allow us to render it ourselves mentally. We get a lot more control over how it looks that way.
Hell, don't even just present us with the HTML. Let us manipulate raw bits on the computer so we can open sockets ourselves, form all of our TCP/IP packets ourselves (even PPP or Ethernet ones too!!!), decipher the output, and then get our jollies that way.
There's a reason old people wear lots of polyester--when they were growing up, everything they wore needed to be ironed. They got sick of this, so when polyester came around and didn't need ironing, they clutched onto it and haven't let go since.
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Errrm, no. I did just that on a stock NTW4SP6 box here at work. Not there. That doesn't mean there's no BSD code in Win95/98/NT. That just means that none of the copyrights made it to the compiled object code. It'd be a bad compiler that'd put comments (where the BSD copyrights are located in the BSD source) in the object code.
Perhaps you'd like to read a little before going off half cocked? http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html > (second paragraph of the "Mac OS X is Unix-savvy" section) clearly states that the Mac OS X kernel "is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at Berkeley's BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era."
Sounds an awful lot like FreeBSD to me.
So I'm sitting here at work, and I reload Slashdot. Ooh! New article! Playboy article on Linux! I temporarily forget where I am and click through: BLOCKED BY SURFWATCH. I wonder if my supervisor's going to believe me when I say I was just trying to look at an article. :P
It's nice to see that The Big Guys(TM) do listen to the community once in a while.
May other corporations follow this precedent!
"The Spirit of Xmas" is only "Christmas without Christ" if you ignore the fact that the Greek spelling of Christ starts with a Greek letter that looks suspiciously like an X.
I'm not an "anti-religious zealot," but I'm offended by your half-assed troll disguise job.
Nope. There was an "issue" with Win98 and one of the Win2K betas or RCs and IGMP floods. They'd cause a bluescreen in the affected versions of Win98 and Win2K, but didn't in Win95 or NT4.
Uhm...no. To wit:
- Boot from bootable Win95 floppy
- Enter fdisk
- Hit 3 (Delete Partition)
- Hit 4 (Delete Non-DOS Partition)
- Select partition you wish to blow away.
- Repeat as needed
I've done it many, many times. Works wonderfully.Ask any Mexican astronomer and he'll tell you. :P
Probably because he was too busy going after the Jews. He was a "Christian" too, you know. He did, AFAIK, also persecute/imprison/kill a good amount of Catholics, but nowhere near the scale to which he persecuted/imprisioned/killed Jews.
I do too. Many of them can also read English. Reread what he wrote and then try again, Sparky:
He didn't say the people going around spreading this were Christians. He merely stated that the years were Christian years. And then he talked about "supersticious apolcalyptophiles." No mention of actual Christians there.
From the Yahoo quote page: "Quotes delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes otherwise."
dict capitalism when you get a chance.
Well, most small investors do most of their "buying" and "selling" during off hours, when realtime NASDAQ, AMEX, and NYSE quotes won't be much help. Additionally, most of the "small investors" are members of eTrade and online trading websites that do provide real-time quotes to paying members.
Privately-owned by the respective exchanges. There are, however, some freely-available realtime quote websites. Free RealTime is the one I use.
That isn't to say, however, that your average telco *will*. On a whim, I called BellAtlantic early last summer inquiring about broadband in my area. I was informed that my exchange didn't even support ISDN. I'd have to be "virtually hosted," which is to say that I'd have to pay for them to string a line from my neighboring exchange--$200 more at install, Either $30 or $50 more a month, and, I think, $0.02-$0.05/minute more.
When dealing with corporations, don't make the mistake of equating "can" with "will."
Has the long-standing flamewar between KDE and GNOME helped to motivate development of a better product, or has it just made you annoyed at the community at large?
Don't get me wrong--I like Open Source software; I use it daily to get my work done. I thoroughly detest, however, the zealots that decry anything other than Open Source.
As Chris Rock said, "I love black people, but I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE niggas."
Disclaimer: I am an American citizen.
Why is it that whenever a portion of a law gets quoted, people keep operating under the assumption that it's U.S. Law?
Are we really that stupid?
Do we really think that the film companies are?
Real owns Xing.
(Yes, redundant. Yes, informative. Let your moderation urges cancel each other out.)
This is irrelevant with DVD, as there is no physical contact between the laser and the media like there is with VHS.
I wish *I* had three 21-foot monitors.
My old 386 (purchased in 1988) had a 14" monitor. In 1997 when I purchased a new computer, I bought a 14" monitor again. I just recently bought a 17" monitor and could not imagine using anything smaller--even this is a bit small. Many "higher-end" consumer computers (i.e., home computers that Gateway, Dell, et al plug that have P!!!s instead of Celerons) are now being bundled with 17" monitors--some with 19". The rate of growth is faster than you might think.
Me? I'm saving up to buy:
A) New PowerBook to replace my rather tattered Rev. A Wallstreet.
B) Big-assed Athlon with big-assed monitor (21"+)
Dunno how long it'll take--PowerBooks are expensive (but nice), as are Athlons (but nice as well), and I don't get paid very well (not nice).
Then there's the issue you didn't bring up: The same trademark can have different owners in different countries. How would you go about resolving this? Give the top billing to the company that registered it in the most countries? Or perhaps to the one that registered it in the most important countries?
That's what this law is proposing. If you register a domain name that is covered by a trademark "in bad faith," you lose it and can get fined. Don't add another layer of abstraction where it isn't necessary.
And stall on the freeway at rush hour.
Not compared to your proposal. At least my asinine proposal wasn't serious and didn't favor the invocation of Yet Another Bureaucracy To Fuck Things Up.
Doesn't bullshit like this go against the one of the most-celebrated "features" of the Internet (i.e., a vehicle for empowerment)?
"Yes, there is a thing called DNS that lets you go from www.yahoo.com to the Yahoo! website, but you are not allowed to use it! NO DNS FOR YOU!"
I thought another one of the Big Things about the Internet is that it was relatively de-centralized with the exception of things that are necessary (IANA doling out IP Addresses) and things that started as sundries but are now de facto necessary (Domain Name Registrars). Ever notice that DNS as a whole goes down extremely infrequently? That's because it's decentralized. There isn't only one big point of failure. There are lots of smaller ones.
No, I won't. It's totally unnecessary and has no technical merit.
People who deal with self-proclaimed computer "experts" on a daily basis will tell you that this will do very little good. If access to the location thing is so bad, why make it available with just a checkbox?
"See that porche? You're not good enough at driving cars to drive it--unless, of course, you think you are, in which case the keys are in the ignition. Have a nice day!"
There exists a minority of Slashdot readers that abuse the posting system. 99% of Slashdot readers should NOT have access to posting their own opinions. They should be merely given the option to type in a one-word response and submit that to a centralized opinion-generating computer. The opinions generated by this computer will then be placed on Slashdot. A second layer of opinion making, if you will.
Only power-users should have access to posting their own opinions--they can go into their preferences and check a checkbox.
You may be wrong on the first point, but if you're not, then you are correct on the second point.
Why not? The capability exists. It has been working fine for many years.
There is, therefore, no reason for people to expect to avoid doing the electronic equivalent.
Netscape and Internet Explorer are making our minds soft. Just present us with the HTML and allow us to render it ourselves mentally. We get a lot more control over how it looks that way.
Hell, don't even just present us with the HTML. Let us manipulate raw bits on the computer so we can open sockets ourselves, form all of our TCP/IP packets ourselves (even PPP or Ethernet ones too!!!), decipher the output, and then get our jollies that way.
There's a reason old people wear lots of polyester--when they were growing up, everything they wore needed to be ironed. They got sick of this, so when polyester came around and didn't need ironing, they clutched onto it and haven't let go since.