Finding it too expensive to live in your area? As Thatcher said, 'On your bike'. Sure, accommodation costs more in areas where jobs pay higher wages -- that is the result of market mechanisms ensuring that the value of the exchange medium (dollars) is constant accross the economy. If you think that the rest of the country has cheaper houses, and reasonable wages, then why don't you enrich yourself by moving there?
(PS: Doesn't the way they're describing this make it sound like it's gonna be a super-powerful RISC chip with x86 emulation?)
In your dreams. In most geeks dreams too, because alternative architechtures are cool, and breaking with industry inertia is cool. Even I think it would be cool, but i bet you a fiver it doesnt happen.
Althought the insecurity of code that is only 'theoretically' exploitable ought to be fixed (we all prefer bug free code, right?) many theoretical exploits will never be practically exploited for technical reasons.
There is a distinction here which needs to be made between code which is exploitable but for which no public exploit code or method has been released -- in which cases it 'wont stay that way for ever' -- and code wherein the calculation of an arbitrary or runtime offset (e.g for a buffer overflow) is impossible and guesswork is impractically unlikely. Theoretical insecurities of the latter type are very likely to 'stay that way for ever'
Really though. For Christ's sake guys, Troll? Flamebait? The guy's expressing a perfectly legitimate opinion on the legality of the issue which happens to co-incine with the industry attitude towards it. I can't see a problem with that.
And I don't care if the guy is considered a regular "Troll" or not, the point is valid, it should be "+n Interesting" even if you don't agree with it.
All values in XML are quoted, so:
<answer type="long"> not <answer type=long>.
and content shouldn't occur in HTML-style metatags, but as plain element contents, viz.
1. No feedback on message delivery. 2. Bandwidth overhead introduced by error correction/checking (UDP is the wrong protocol) 3. Central server still needed to record IP addresses to pass to clients. 4. Massive bandwidth outlay on connection. (Modem user has to send buddy image to all 100 buddies online). 5. It wouldnt work throught a NAT firewall. 6. You wouldnt know if you had become disconnected. 7. You couldnt log on from any machine (ala msn, icq), because no central server to give you your contacts list.
In short i think your idea sucks in SO many ways. It would be suck a step back. Serverless UDP is not a scaleable communications system. It sucks for P2P and would for IM too.
If you want to consider more intelligent message delivery system, consider networks like OpenFastTrack.
In Opera it's changeable from within the program, and for Mozilla it's a compile-time option (IIRC). If you really need to use these sites, just report as IE5 on Windows 98 or something similar.
My self I simply dont use sites which tell me my browser isnt compatible.
Bullshit. Vinyl does have a flat frequency response. If you read the article you linked to you would see that it was to drown out HF noise, not anything todo with the linearity or otherwise of the recording medium.
Some mass media may be owned by the companies which are fighting for DRM, but this is an unfair generalisation. I cant speak for America but in the UK, most of the mass media are not owned by DMCA/EUCD-promoting companies:
The BBC, The Times of London, The Independent, ITV, The Sun, Private Eye, etc.
Of course we can always `vote with our feet' and just not buy their product, but as always with the slashdot BOYCOTT $insert_company, it is doomed to fail because the non tech crowd just dont get it.
Indeed instead of talking about it on slashdot (or other geek media) as I am now, we really need to talk to the MASS media about these things. When the EU version of the DMCA came out (EUCD) I put up stickers around my home town entitled `NO EUCD'. Perhaps people to whom this REALLY is worrying, ought to consider a similarly proactive course:
Write to your MP/Govenor, Write to the Times/Herald_Tribune, Tell your friends. And remember, `If there is hope, it lies with the proles'.
You are all forgetting one thing: The GPL allows modification and relicense. I can make a trivial modification to nmap and release it under the GPL without any such caveat.
I hereby grant permission to the SCO group to use under the GPL license dhowells-map which is similar to nmap but seperately licenced. Doesnt this fuck up fyodor's restriction. Although he can still sue them for violation for the violations of the GPL which they have already comitted, but not for continuing to use and redistribute dhowells-map
Although there *may* be a limited revenue stream from the comission from these lift-music systems, that not what independant music is really about. A lot of MP3.com artists hoped to start by giving their music away and/or selling it cheaply and by gaining popularity to get a record deal, i.e. get famous and repected first.
On the other hand having your music played in some random lift with noone knowing who you are will never get anyone musical success. I feel this is just another facet to the exploitation of the artist by the industry.
More important than being able to buy what is currently the hottest shit like LoTR, is in my opinion having access to a whole load of old and `out of print' movies, continental film, television archives, etc.
Im sure that such a thing could be implemented easily and would reflect very well on the industry from an academic and cultural point of view.
I and (perhaps) all the rest of the Europeans out there thought: Old enough to drink... For a nice burgandy that probably means '94.
D.
Re:You are of course right,
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That crazy gun-nut has done more for the OSS movement than you ever have or ever will, Mr. dhowells. Care to explain why you should even be compared to Utah hillbillies?
And that is, of course, what is so sad about the situation. ESR has indeed done more than me, and quite possibly more than you, for the furtherance of the open source community from the logistical, technical, etc point of view. However measuring his net benefit as am amasador for OSS is difficult, and if i believe his influence to have been negative that is a view which can only be dismissed with counter-argument (for example how his pro-gun views dont matter if that is what you think) not merely dismissed with throw-away comments like:
Care to explain why you should even be compared to Utah hillbillies
This comment is not only non-valid as a dismissal of my viewpoint but it is also an unfounded personal slur. Because what matters in this is not my merit as an OSS bod, or as a person, but ESR's. It is equally important to remember that his immorality is not seperable from his role as an ambassador and the idea that it could be is a nonsense. I belive that his gun views are palpably absurd, backward, and immoral and responsible in effect for the deaths of hundreds of innocents. Doesnt this put his OSS contributions in perspecive a little?
You are effectively defending his gun-nut views. And before you jump to the keyboard in defense of my claim consider this: If ESR were a pedophile would you write That sick pedophile has done more for oss than you ever...... etc? I think not
Think about it. Defend ESR on the basis that he made good contributions to OSS and you are effectively legitimising his political views, i.e. gun 'freedoms'. Given that to a moral person such views are utterly unteneble, this reflects as badly on you as it does on him
Consider the heirarchy of goods you have created:
Contributing to OSS
Morality and the human right to life
Mmmmm. lush
Dom
A really nice response.
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I am pleased to see that although the letter is formally written it manages at the same time to be empassioned about the spirit of OSS which is something I am glad has not been lost in all this corporate embroilment.
I would have liked it to address more directly SCO IP claims which can be countered by for example: Code that already has been negotiated to be allowed in BSD, Code from 'ancient unix' released by SCO themselves, etc.
However the spirit of the letter itself is sufficient to address the bulls**t that SCO is prepared to throw at us.
Just a shame that it was co-authored by that gun-toting fucktard ESR who makes the lot of us seem like a bunch of hillbillies from Utah.
We all know that red shift occurs when objects are moving away from one, and blue shift when they are moving towards
1. Put on porn. 2. Local girls all make a beeline for your living room at ~ speed of light. 3. As the girl moves towards the porn-watching geek the peaks and troughs of her wave get pushed closer together in real space -> wavelength shorter -> frequency higher -> blue shift. 4. profit!!!
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I believe you mean Muslims, which is an important distinction.
Finding it too expensive to live in your area? As Thatcher said, 'On your bike'. Sure, accommodation costs more in areas where jobs pay higher wages -- that is the result of market mechanisms ensuring that the value of the exchange medium (dollars) is constant accross the economy. If you think that the rest of the country has cheaper houses, and reasonable wages, then why don't you enrich yourself by moving there?
While this statement is correct, ‘effect’ can in fact be used as noun and verb.
‘I intend to effect these changes immediately.’ (I intend to bring about these changes ...)
In your dreams. In most geeks dreams too, because alternative architechtures are cool, and breaking with industry inertia is cool. Even I think it would be cool, but i bet you a fiver it doesnt happen.
Althought the insecurity of code that is only 'theoretically' exploitable ought to be fixed (we all prefer bug free code, right?) many theoretical exploits will never be practically exploited for technical reasons.
There is a distinction here which needs to be made between code which is exploitable but for which no public exploit code or method has been released -- in which cases it 'wont stay that way for ever' -- and code wherein the calculation of an arbitrary or runtime offset (e.g for a buffer overflow) is impossible and guesswork is impractically unlikely. Theoretical insecurities of the latter type are very likely to 'stay that way for ever'
Some things never change... google.com's front page still doesn't validate, or even contain a doctype! I gues they're in good company on /.
Really though. For Christ's sake guys, Troll? Flamebait? The guy's expressing a perfectly legitimate opinion on the legality of the issue which happens to co-incine with the industry attitude towards it. I can't see a problem with that.
And I don't care if the guy is considered a regular "Troll" or not, the point is valid, it should be "+n Interesting" even if you don't agree with it.
Grow up.
Dasher. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/. The right tool for the job. Use the joystick to control motion,
that would fucking suck.
1. No feedback on message delivery.
2. Bandwidth overhead introduced by error correction/checking (UDP is the wrong protocol)
3. Central server still needed to record IP addresses to pass to clients.
4. Massive bandwidth outlay on connection. (Modem user has to send buddy image to all 100 buddies online).
5. It wouldnt work throught a NAT firewall.
6. You wouldnt know if you had become disconnected.
7. You couldnt log on from any machine (ala msn, icq), because no central server to give you your contacts list.
In short i think your idea sucks in SO many ways. It would be suck a step back. Serverless UDP is not a scaleable communications system. It sucks for P2P and would for IM too.
If you want to consider more intelligent message delivery system, consider networks like OpenFastTrack.
Dom.
See: http://www.crazycolour.com/os/grammar_03.shtml
If I had mod points, I would mod you up. Straight dope. Mon...
User-agent spoofing, my man.
In Opera it's changeable from within the program, and for Mozilla it's a compile-time option (IIRC). If you really need to use these sites, just report as IE5 on Windows 98 or something similar.
My self I simply dont use sites which tell me my browser isnt compatible.
Bullshit. Vinyl does have a flat frequency response. If you read the article you linked to you would see that it was to drown out HF noise, not anything todo with the linearity or otherwise of the recording medium.
Some mass media may be owned by the companies which are fighting for DRM, but this is an unfair generalisation. I cant speak for America but in the UK, most of the mass media are not owned by DMCA/EUCD-promoting companies:
The BBC, The Times of London, The Independent, ITV, The Sun, Private Eye, etc.
Of course we can always `vote with our feet' and just not buy their product, but as always with the slashdot BOYCOTT $insert_company, it is doomed to fail because the non tech crowd just dont get it.
Indeed instead of talking about it on slashdot (or other geek media) as I am now, we really need to talk to the MASS media about these things. When the EU version of the DMCA came out (EUCD) I put up stickers around my home town entitled `NO EUCD'. Perhaps people to whom this REALLY is worrying, ought to consider a similarly proactive course:
Write to your MP/Govenor, Write to the Times/Herald_Tribune, Tell your friends. And remember, `If there is hope, it lies with the proles'.
D.
I hereby grant permission to the SCO group to use under the GPL license dhowells-map which is similar to nmap but seperately licenced. Doesnt this fuck up fyodor's restriction. Although he can still sue them for violation for the violations of the GPL which they have already comitted, but not for continuing to use and redistribute dhowells-map
Although there *may* be a limited revenue stream from the comission from these lift-music systems, that not what independant music is really about. A lot of MP3.com artists hoped to start by giving their music away and/or selling it cheaply and by gaining popularity to get a record deal, i.e. get famous and repected first.
On the other hand having your music played in some random lift with noone knowing who you are will never get anyone musical success. I feel this is just another facet to the exploitation of the artist by the industry.
More important than being able to buy what is currently the hottest shit like LoTR, is in my opinion having access to a whole load of old and `out of print' movies, continental film, television archives, etc.
Im sure that such a thing could be implemented easily and would reflect very well on the industry from an academic and cultural point of view.
Dom
Christ, we get enough of the 'IANAL but....' crowd sounding off on here without needing to be invited. Sounds like we'll be in for a tirade.
D.
I and (perhaps) all the rest of the Europeans out there thought: Old enough to drink... For a nice burgandy that probably means '94.
D.
And that is, of course, what is so sad about the situation. ESR has indeed done more than me, and quite possibly more than you, for the furtherance of the open source community from the logistical, technical, etc point of view. However measuring his net benefit as am amasador for OSS is difficult, and if i believe his influence to have been negative that is a view which can only be dismissed with counter-argument (for example how his pro-gun views dont matter if that is what you think) not merely dismissed with throw-away comments like:
This comment is not only non-valid as a dismissal of my viewpoint but it is also an unfounded personal slur. Because what matters in this is not my merit as an OSS bod, or as a person, but ESR's. It is equally important to remember that his immorality is not seperable from his role as an ambassador and the idea that it could be is a nonsense. I belive that his gun views are palpably absurd, backward, and immoral and responsible in effect for the deaths of hundreds of innocents. Doesnt this put his OSS contributions in perspecive a little?
You are effectively defending his gun-nut views. And before you jump to the keyboard in defense of my claim consider this: If ESR were a pedophile would you write That sick pedophile has done more for oss than you ever...... etc? I think not
Think about it. Defend ESR on the basis that he made good contributions to OSS and you are effectively legitimising his political views, i.e. gun 'freedoms'. Given that to a moral person such views are utterly unteneble, this reflects as badly on you as it does on him
Consider the heirarchy of goods you have created:
Mmmmm. lush
Dom
I am pleased to see that although the letter is formally written it manages at the same time to be empassioned about the spirit of OSS which is something I am glad has not been lost in all this corporate embroilment.
I would have liked it to address more directly SCO IP claims which can be countered by for example: Code that already has been negotiated to be allowed in BSD, Code from 'ancient unix' released by SCO themselves, etc.
However the spirit of the letter itself is sufficient to address the bulls**t that SCO is prepared to throw at us.
Just a shame that it was co-authored by that gun-toting fucktard ESR who makes the lot of us seem like a bunch of hillbillies from Utah.
Anyway, Dom.
Whats this, ?smart quotes? on Slashdot, surely not.
Note the ? in Nextel?s. tut tut. I expected more of you.
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Pah! Call yourself a real geek?!
We all know that red shift occurs when objects are moving away from one, and blue shift when they are moving towards
1. Put on porn.
2. Local girls all make a beeline for your living room at ~ speed of light.
3. As the girl moves towards the porn-watching geek the peaks and troughs of her wave get pushed closer together in real space -> wavelength shorter -> frequency higher -> blue shift.
4. profit!!!
like duh!