I can see it here, US Government is progressively inventing laws that ensures:
Only the Government can investigate crimes. Only the Government can test, examine, uncover defectives in consummer products Only the Government can perform reverse engineering on anything Only the Government is allowed to use top-grade encryption The scope of Free Speech is defined by senators, and it happens that no constitutional right are being intruded.
That's to say, US would become a country where citizens, by laws, SHOULD trust the Government and any questions on the already established laws and regulations are prohibited.
What's wrong with the picture? I don't know, but I've read a novel book about a country whose government has absolute power over their citizens and no citizen is allowed to question the decision of the government. This government does not use any military power or violence to control their citizens, but by laws.
IIRC at the end of this story all the citizens end up living in an array of big tubes of liquid, and the rest of the rebels are either jailed(brains were sperated from their body) or terminated(becomes food for others). It's like Matrix, but this time some humans control everything.
....Imagine, no violence, no crime, no hunger...a perfect world!
Just in case few of us here don't know about him. You can find his homepage here , and in his Bio you can find:
"Hewlett-Packard Corporation - 2000 to Present
Senior strategist, Linux and Open Source. I am the first Open Source evangelist to gain a role in top management of a multi-Billion-dollar corporation. On the org chart there are only three people between me and the CEO - a general manager, a vice president, and a president. Among my assignments is to challenge HP management."
So he's in position to speak up in this case.
Note: I don't know if it's redundent but I'm sure some people would like to know. I don't ask for any mod point.
One thing we love R2D2 is that it has one thing unfound in any real/imaginative robots
ATTITUDE
It'd be cool if this little thingy has this characteristic: like throw the beer on his master's face on bad day, or give his master a push when he's near the windows....etc.
I figured some senators thought that Free software idea initiated by europeans and some commies(which is wrong) and that hurts corps. in US. They forgot that when it comes to computers, Microsoft is not the only US player here; IBM and HP could take a even bigger pies of share there if the bill passed.
My former company really did that...but on ME. My situation was exactly like the poster and I've done all the coding, turned out it was me who got complained for being 'insubordinate' and 'disgruntled'. I told the movtivational consultant "Do I look like a killer? Oh forget about that huge stapler I swing in front of your face..."
I'm not the orignal poster, but I've add you to my bookmark just in case my project on embedded system approved I'll contact you.:)
Anyway, it was the fault of the company hire somebody who couldn't do the job at the first place. How could the interviewers failed to recognize their inability in doing such specialized stuffs? These are no Java or VB, just a couple of questions in emebeded system could identify them.
Once upon a time there lived a turtle named Timmy. Timmy
lived with his mother and father at the bottom of a hollow tree. Timmy
had no brothers or sisters.
He lived in a clearing surrounded by woods. In the clearing
was a pond with rocks around it. Most of the time Timmy would swim in the
pond or explore in the woods. On hot afternoons Timmy would lay on a rock
and sleep.
One day when Timmy was exploring he saw a beautiful bird
flying gracefully in the sky. Then he thought for a moment, "Hmmm.... wouldn't
it be nice if I could fly." That night Timmy dreamed about flying with
the birds. He planned to make friends with them and play their games.
The next day he went to the top of a cliff and then jumped
into the air. For a second he thought he was flying but he quickly fell
with a big bang.
The next day he had to stay in bed because he had hurt
his leg so badly. He looked out of the cracks of the hollow tree and saw
a frisky little squirrel sneaking around. Timmy watched the squirrel scurry
around as fast as the wind. He thought to himself, "Hmmm.... I can't fly
but maybe I can be quick like that squirrel." That night Timmy dreamed
about scampering around in the grass and tall trees like the squirrel had
done. He dreamt that he could scurry faster than the wind like a squirrel.
The next morning Timmy went to look for a squirrel. Soon
he saw a little gray squirrel looking for nuts. Then he saw a dog. He knew
the dog would chase the squirrel. He decided to try catching up with the
squirrel because if he did he knew he would be fast. The squirrel ran.
But Timmy wasn't fast enough and the squirrel zipped away leaving Timmy
far behind. Now the dog was chasing Timmy. Timmy popped into his shell
and stayed there. The dog circled around Timmy a few times and finally
left. Poor Timmy got so frightened that he shivered all the way home.
The next day Timmy saw a cat sneaking through the woods.
Timmy thought, "I can't fly or run fast but maybe I can climb trees." That
night he dreamed about climbing the tallest and oldest trees living.
The next morning he went to a big tree to practice climbing.
First he started to walk up one of the roots. Then where the tree started
going straight up he put his feet on it so that he was on his side. Then
he tried to climb but as soon as he moved his feet he fell on his shell.
Poor Timmy lay helplessly on his back. He started to call for help. Along
came a bunny. Timmy asked, "Will you please turn me over?" The bunny did.
Timmy walked home feeling sad. He kept saying, "I am no
good. I can't do anything." Then he heard a little voice say, "You can
do a lot of things! Suppose a big animal were chasing me. You could take
me out into the middle of your pond on your back so I would be safe." Timmy
looked around and saw a little gray field mouse. "Well, you're right. I
could do that." said Timmy. "I wouldn't be able to do it without you, right?"
said the field mouse. "Right!" said Timmy, looking a lot happier. "I may
be able to run fast but I can't swim." said the mouse. "Right." said Timmy,
feeling fine now.
That day he walked home thinking about what the field mouse
had told him. From that day on Timmy was never jealous of other animal
friends again.
But it's already too late, in a brief moment after you chose to feature your shiny story in NYT, cool dudes around the world has already mirrored everything about you. Sweetie.
"LWN.net closing down" "More on LWN.net closing down" "LWN.net closing down - count down" "LWN.net 3 days before closing down" "LWN.net closing down" (/. editor repeat the last week's news) "Will LWN.net closing down tomorrow?"
The hits gained from/. effect along could help pulling them out of misery.
Frankly, I think it's due to their plain stupidity. If they are smart, they wouldn't sign the partnership with a questionable non-profit organization and gave them legal convenience. Assume them being conned is pretty much the only way to comfort 'ourselves'.:(
I really don't want to reply to AC, but I'll take the bait...
Here is what actually happened here:
1) Software price are high, because the software vendors said they need to charge higher to cover the lost in piracy. 2) Most small and media size companies cannot afford to pay for the licenses, and choose to use pirate copies when there's chance. 3) Software vendors complaint. To deal with the problem, Government invited BSA to fight piracy. 4) The no. of piracy decreased significantly. Now the lost in piracy is lowered, and we expected the software vendors would lower software price, at least close to the price in U.S.
THEY DIDN'T! THEY EVEN RAISE THE PRICE BECAUSE THEY'VE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE MARKET.
Now the Government know they were conned. Bastards.
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I can see it here, US Government is progressively inventing laws that ensures:
....Imagine, no violence, no crime, no hunger...a perfect world!
Only the Government can investigate crimes.
Only the Government can test, examine, uncover defectives in consummer products
Only the Government can perform reverse engineering on anything
Only the Government is allowed to use top-grade encryption
The scope of Free Speech is defined by senators, and it happens that no constitutional right are being intruded.
That's to say, US would become a country where citizens, by laws, SHOULD trust the Government and any questions on the already established laws and regulations are prohibited.
What's wrong with the picture? I don't know, but I've read a novel book about a country whose government has absolute power over their citizens and no citizen is allowed to question the decision of the government. This government does not use any military power or violence to control their citizens, but by laws.
IIRC at the end of this story all the citizens end up living in an array of big tubes of liquid, and the rest of the rebels are either jailed(brains were sperated from their body) or terminated(becomes food for others). It's like Matrix, but this time some humans control everything.
Just in case few of us here don't know about him. You can find his homepage here
, and in his Bio you can find:
" Hewlett-Packard Corporation - 2000 to Present
Senior strategist, Linux and Open Source. I am the first Open Source evangelist to gain a role in top management of a multi-Billion-dollar corporation. On the org chart there are only three people between me and the CEO - a general manager, a vice president, and a president. Among my assignments is to challenge HP management."
So he's in position to speak up in this case.
Note: I don't know if it's redundent but I'm sure some people would like to know. I don't ask for any mod point.
This is of course faked, otherwise it'd be hacked long ago.
They are in fact running FreeBSD with fake signatures like those high uptime servers within Microsoft.
# one of many many ways to do this...
My take....
ab -k -n 99999 -c 10 www.riaa.com/index.html
"Why to use apt-get:"
:)
:)
This is very funny but not being fair.
Any package system when connecting all packages with dependencies would look horrible.
Please refer to my previous post and create a similar dependencies graph in Debian and you'll see.
The above is non-graphical and apt-cache dotty * would return errors in some case. I made a little modification to make a full graph out of it:
apt-get install graphviz
apt-cache dotty `dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | cut -f 1` | dotty -
WARNING: it would take a lot of time. You may try `apt-cache dotty ssh | dotty -` just to see a simpler graph.
finally made a script drawing the hell.
One thing we love R2D2 is that it has one thing unfound in any real/imaginative robots
ATTITUDE
It'd be cool if this little thingy has this characteristic: like throw the beer on his master's face on bad day, or give his master a push when he's near the windows....etc.
Just score:3? Interesting, I believe I saw some people posting with score:4 by default. They must be some big guys out there. :)
I found it amused that a message posted by /. editor could only get one +1 informative.
:)
In retrospective, why don't they post at score 5 if they want us to know something? Some trolls here has default score of 2,3 and even 4 anyway.
cheat in examination with this?
I figured some senators thought that Free software idea initiated by europeans and some commies(which is wrong) and that hurts corps. in US. They forgot that when it comes to computers, Microsoft is not the only US player here; IBM and HP could take a even bigger pies of share there if the bill passed.
Like NSA_KEY
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My former company really did that...but on ME. My situation was exactly like the poster and I've done all the coding, turned out it was me who got complained for being 'insubordinate' and 'disgruntled'. I told the movtivational consultant "Do I look like a killer? Oh forget about that huge stapler I swing in front of your face..."
I'm not the orignal poster, but I've add you to my bookmark just in case my project on embedded system approved I'll contact you. :)
Anyway, it was the fault of the company hire somebody who couldn't do the job at the first place. How could the interviewers failed to recognize their inability in doing such specialized stuffs? These are no Java or VB, just a couple of questions in emebeded system could identify them.
We are different, we only need money, got it? MORE MONEY, got it?
Off-topic?! Does that moderator bother to read the story before moderate?
Read the damn story and see who is Camberley Crick, and what is Timmy the Turtle.
Damn, some moderators today even worse that trolls, who post before reading, now they moderate before reading the damn article.
Once upon a time there lived a turtle named Timmy. Timmy lived with his mother and father at the bottom of a hollow tree. Timmy had no brothers or sisters.
He lived in a clearing surrounded by woods. In the clearing was a pond with rocks around it. Most of the time Timmy would swim in the pond or explore in the woods. On hot afternoons Timmy would lay on a rock and sleep.
One day when Timmy was exploring he saw a beautiful bird flying gracefully in the sky. Then he thought for a moment, "Hmmm.... wouldn't it be nice if I could fly." That night Timmy dreamed about flying with the birds. He planned to make friends with them and play their games.
The next day he went to the top of a cliff and then jumped into the air. For a second he thought he was flying but he quickly fell with a big bang.
The next day he had to stay in bed because he had hurt his leg so badly. He looked out of the cracks of the hollow tree and saw a frisky little squirrel sneaking around. Timmy watched the squirrel scurry around as fast as the wind. He thought to himself, "Hmmm.... I can't fly but maybe I can be quick like that squirrel." That night Timmy dreamed about scampering around in the grass and tall trees like the squirrel had done. He dreamt that he could scurry faster than the wind like a squirrel.
The next morning Timmy went to look for a squirrel. Soon he saw a little gray squirrel looking for nuts. Then he saw a dog. He knew the dog would chase the squirrel. He decided to try catching up with the squirrel because if he did he knew he would be fast. The squirrel ran. But Timmy wasn't fast enough and the squirrel zipped away leaving Timmy far behind. Now the dog was chasing Timmy. Timmy popped into his shell and stayed there. The dog circled around Timmy a few times and finally left. Poor Timmy got so frightened that he shivered all the way home.
The next day Timmy saw a cat sneaking through the woods. Timmy thought, "I can't fly or run fast but maybe I can climb trees." That night he dreamed about climbing the tallest and oldest trees living.
The next morning he went to a big tree to practice climbing. First he started to walk up one of the roots. Then where the tree started going straight up he put his feet on it so that he was on his side. Then he tried to climb but as soon as he moved his feet he fell on his shell. Poor Timmy lay helplessly on his back. He started to call for help. Along came a bunny. Timmy asked, "Will you please turn me over?" The bunny did.
Timmy walked home feeling sad. He kept saying, "I am no good. I can't do anything." Then he heard a little voice say, "You can do a lot of things! Suppose a big animal were chasing me. You could take me out into the middle of your pond on your back so I would be safe." Timmy looked around and saw a little gray field mouse. "Well, you're right. I could do that." said Timmy. "I wouldn't be able to do it without you, right?" said the field mouse. "Right!" said Timmy, looking a lot happier. "I may be able to run fast but I can't swim." said the mouse. "Right." said Timmy, feeling fine now.
That day he walked home thinking about what the field mouse had told him. From that day on Timmy was never jealous of other animal friends again.
Story with illustrations can be found here
"You can't remove pieces of yourself from the Web," Ms. Crick said.
You can always request to remove index and cache from Google, provided that you owned the original.
But it's already too late, in a brief moment after you chose to feature your shiny story in NYT, cool dudes around the world has already mirrored everything about you. Sweetie.
by posting more news of them.
/. effect along could help pulling them out of misery.
"LWN.net closing down"
"More on LWN.net closing down"
"LWN.net closing down - count down"
"LWN.net 3 days before closing down"
"LWN.net closing down" (/. editor repeat the last week's news)
"Will LWN.net closing down tomorrow?"
The hits gained from
In summary...
1. DMCA
2.
3. World Peace!
I'd rather my dollars go towards his legal defense rather than paying unjust fines.
I'll contribute my part if he ever got arrested. Arrogant he may be, but I always like his attitude toward unjustice.
Frankly, I think it's due to their plain stupidity. If they are smart, they wouldn't sign the partnership with a questionable non-profit organization and gave them legal convenience. Assume them being conned is pretty much the only way to comfort 'ourselves'. :(
I really don't want to reply to AC, but I'll take the bait...
Here is what actually happened here:
1) Software price are high, because the software vendors said they need to charge higher to cover the lost in piracy.
2) Most small and media size companies cannot afford to pay for the licenses, and choose to use pirate copies when there's chance.
3) Software vendors complaint. To deal with the problem, Government invited BSA to fight piracy.
4) The no. of piracy decreased significantly. Now the lost in piracy is lowered, and we expected the software vendors would lower software price, at least close to the price in U.S.
THEY DIDN'T! THEY EVEN RAISE THE PRICE BECAUSE THEY'VE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE MARKET. Now the Government know they were conned. Bastards.