Alito and Roberts have proven to be every bit the right wing extremeists that they were predicted to be, which means that the courts are no longer a form of recourse against incursions against personal liberties.
Why can't you hippies get it through your heads that you've been conquered already?
>>this is just a sign that the web has got dumb enough for dumb people to use it
>People have been complaining about dumb people using the internet ever since AOL started giving their users access to it....and if you read the posts from august 93, then the early geocities boards, and then your l33t-filled myspace pages you can see two things:
a)the decline in intelligence in online user-generated content
b)that the people bitching about AOL were spot-on.
That was my favorite quote of the whole article. If the Myspace Ganstas are as "hardcore" as the emo witches and goth satanists than I strongly suspect the police are being led on a wild goose chase.
It was a nice ride while it lasted; but we've reached the endgame. The telecos have the resources to both choke google's air supply and then drag them through the court system until they've spent every last cent of their assets.
The telecos have the government on their side, they own the wire and they own the people who write and enforce the law.
I mean, it's nice of google to throw themselves in front of the juggernaut this way, but in the end it's as futile as it is stupid.
Maybe after a third neocon administration you hippies will get it through your heads you've been conquered.
Or maybe not. You are running sarge. Software that's twelve years old would still be considered a bit on the new side of things. I, for one, am surprised it made it out of testing so quickly.
Why is it that decent, hard-working business owners are regularly subjected to legal harrasment and abuse while real criminals are allowed to walk our streets and engage in unfair business practices willy-nilly?
It's called "picking your battles". It has been demonstrated time and again that the major corporations own our government and act in their interests, and not ours. It's also been demonstrated, time and again, that the government is in no way accountable to the common man. Computing is a lost cause, fortunately there are still plenty of other persuits left to enjoy.
While you hippies choose to bang your head against a wall which will never budge, I'll be too busy enjoying life (though one which will include computers less and less as time goes on) to notice that I lack a 'cause'.
Until MS dips into their war chest and has the reactos project shut down. You and every other hippy in this place seems to forget that MS owns the justice department; once reactos becomes any kind of viable threat -- they're shut down. Period.
Why can't you fucking hippies get that through your thick skulls?
>I'm convinced that Sun really doesn't get open source or how it works. Solaris is a perfect example of this.
How so? Even Richard Stallman called OpenSolaris 'Free'.[1] It's not "gnu compatible" but that's the fault of the GPL more than anything else. The FreeBSD people don't seem to be having any licensing problems using DTrace.
So, again I ask; how is Solaris a "perfect example" that "Sun really doesn't get open source"?
[1] "The current license of Solaris is a free software license, which means it is basically ethical. But it would be a more useful contribution to the free software commnuity if it had a GPL-compatible license, and I wish Sun would make that change." http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messa geID=7785#7785 (emphasis mine)
Against MS and their lapdogs in the EU and in the US judicial system. You too busy fapping over accusations of trolldom to read the fucking news, or what?
Any gains by the lunatic fringe are negated by the loss of net neutrality and also by the gains in the prevelance of DRM, "trusted computing" and Patent legislation.
FACT: OSS is doomed. For all practical intents and purposes, OSS is Dead.
This is why it's time to get out of the computer industry. The net has been cast wide and far, and now all that the major corporations have to do is pull it tight and all of the niche OSS freaks will be caught up in a legal quagmire that will end this 'free as in speech' nonsense.
Sure, IBM might bitch a bit, but they'll get consessions from intel and MS and eventually they'll get over it.
The net has been sold down the river, DRM is going to take over the next generation of desktop computers and MS and Sun will collude to have any projects such as linux and apache and reactos (or whatever else threatens their markets) shut down through patent litagation.
The sky Has Fallen, folks; pack up your bags and find another avocation: computing is DONE (unless you're simply a consumer).
I mean, mysql may not be a serious professional solution; but you can't beat the price! Have you looked at what oracle costs these days? That's a little too steep for my web sight, I'll tell you what.
At the end of the day, both will get 'er done, and that's what's important.
...I think the last time I tried to take it seriously was in...97? when I first got on the web?
Netscape.com has never been any kind of geek destination as far as I'm aware of. I usually hate "how is this news for nerds" comments, but this time around...I dont' see the geek angle here.
Yes, it was the first dot-com IPO -debuting in 1995. And yes netscape was the major web browser for the mid and late 90's but...the portal hasn't been relevent for like 10 years.
So, tell me, who in/.land really cares? or is this Yet Another Slashvertisement?
Slashdot Mirror
Alito and Roberts have proven to be every bit the right wing extremeists that they were predicted to be, which means that the courts are no longer a form of recourse against incursions against personal liberties.
Why can't you hippies get it through your heads that you've been conquered already?
>>this is just a sign that the web has got dumb enough for dumb people to use it
...and if you read the posts from august 93, then the early geocities boards, and then your l33t-filled myspace pages you can see two things:
>People have been complaining about dumb people using the internet ever since AOL started giving their users access to it.
a)the decline in intelligence in online user-generated content
b)that the people bitching about AOL were spot-on.
That was my favorite quote of the whole article. If the Myspace Ganstas are as "hardcore" as the emo witches and goth satanists than I strongly suspect the police are being led on a wild goose chase.
It was a nice ride while it lasted; but we've reached the endgame. The telecos have the resources to both choke google's air supply and then drag them through the court system until they've spent every last cent of their assets.
The telecos have the government on their side, they own the wire and they own the people who write and enforce the law.
I mean, it's nice of google to throw themselves in front of the juggernaut this way, but in the end it's as futile as it is stupid.
Maybe after a third neocon administration you hippies will get it through your heads you've been conquered.
>>They haven't released anything in 12 years
>spliffy@sarge:~$ apt-cache search freedos
>...
>dosemu-freedos - FreeDOS package for DOSEMU
>Seems they have.
Or maybe not. You are running sarge. Software that's twelve years old would still be considered a bit on the new side of things. I, for one, am surprised it made it out of testing so quickly.
Why is it that decent, hard-working business owners are regularly subjected to legal harrasment and abuse while real criminals are allowed to walk our streets and engage in unfair business practices willy-nilly?
It's called "picking your battles". It has been demonstrated time and again that the major corporations own our government and act in their interests, and not ours. It's also been demonstrated, time and again, that the government is in no way accountable to the common man. Computing is a lost cause, fortunately there are still plenty of other persuits left to enjoy.
While you hippies choose to bang your head against a wall which will never budge, I'll be too busy enjoying life (though one which will include computers less and less as time goes on) to notice that I lack a 'cause'.
Enjoy your crusade...and your concussion.
>> Well, I think I exhausted my vocabulary coming up with the subject line, so I'll wait for responses.
> FUCKING bullshit!
MOTHER FUCKING bullshit!
Until MS dips into their war chest and has the reactos project shut down. You and every other hippy in this place seems to forget that MS owns the justice department; once reactos becomes any kind of viable threat -- they're shut down. Period.
Why can't you fucking hippies get that through your thick skulls?
>I'm convinced that Sun really doesn't get open source or how it works. Solaris is a perfect example of this.
a geID=7785#7785
How so? Even Richard Stallman called OpenSolaris 'Free'.[1] It's not "gnu compatible" but that's the fault of the GPL more than anything else. The FreeBSD people don't seem to be having any licensing problems using DTrace.
So, again I ask; how is Solaris a "perfect example" that "Sun really doesn't get open source"?
[1]
"The current license of Solaris is a free software license, which means
it is basically ethical. But it would be a more useful contribution
to the free software commnuity if it had a GPL-compatible license, and
I wish Sun would make that change."
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?mess
(emphasis mine)
>we've had some bright spots in our 200+ years of history. I sure would like to see those come along more often. Or indeed, ever again...
I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.
>It's obviously a joke, if someone actually believed it they would have to be Ann Coulter, insane... :)
Fixed your post.
Against MS and their lapdogs in the EU and in the US judicial system. You too busy fapping over accusations of trolldom to read the fucking news, or what?
Any gains by the lunatic fringe are negated by the loss of net neutrality and also by the gains in the prevelance of DRM, "trusted computing" and Patent legislation.
FACT: OSS is doomed. For all practical intents and purposes, OSS is Dead.
This is why it's time to get out of the computer industry. The net has been cast wide and far, and now all that the major corporations have to do is pull it tight and all of the niche OSS freaks will be caught up in a legal quagmire that will end this 'free as in speech' nonsense.
Sure, IBM might bitch a bit, but they'll get consessions from intel and MS and eventually they'll get over it.
The net has been sold down the river, DRM is going to take over the next generation of desktop computers and MS and Sun will collude to have any projects such as linux and apache and reactos (or whatever else threatens their markets) shut down through patent litagation.
The sky Has Fallen, folks; pack up your bags and find another avocation: computing is DONE (unless you're simply a consumer).
Microsoft owns the courts, and the US owns the EU.
ReactOS doesn't stand a fucking chance.
I mean, mysql may not be a serious professional solution; but you can't beat the price! Have you looked at what oracle costs these days? That's a little too steep for my web sight, I'll tell you what.
At the end of the day, both will get 'er done, and that's what's important.
at least he'll always have his royalties from sha-na-na to console himself with.
The only thing that (linking to) userfriendly says is that you have crap taste in webcomics. :-P
Judgeing by my experience with the 2.6 kernel (on myriad machines) the answer would have to be...probably not!.
Linux has become crapware; I'm off to *BSD.
the topic of the discussion is the slashdot article on the netscape portal. In my post I was asking why we should care about the portal.
That's not offtopic, you crack-smoking monkeys; it's not even close!
...I think the last time I tried to take it seriously was in ...97? when I first got on the web?
/.land really cares? or is this Yet Another Slashvertisement?
Netscape.com has never been any kind of geek destination as far as I'm aware of. I usually hate "how is this news for nerds" comments, but this time around...I dont' see the geek angle here.
Yes, it was the first dot-com IPO -debuting in 1995. And yes netscape was the major web browser for the mid and late 90's but...the portal hasn't been relevent for like 10 years.
So, tell me, who in
>It's about as bare a distro as can be, and as such it's nice learning material when you like to explore the innards of a linux distro.
I think you have slackware confused with Linux From Scratch.
Shit like this is why I don't bother to read the news any more. It's depressing to the point of being totally demoralising.
>Ok, so rather than whine about how our government is corrupt and quickly ruining life in America...I want to talk about solutions.
There are none.
Next question?