Well, one reason ISPs might want to filter NetBIOS is to prevent Windows boxen getting owned and used in the next round of DDoS attacks. On the offchance that you weren't trolling: you should never, NEVER run Windows filesharing across a public network, EVER, unless you're absolutely certain that you know what you're doing. And if you're absolutely certain you know what you're doing, you won't do it anyway.
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I'm being sued in California for hosting deCSS on my UK based website (yes, I'm a UK citizen.)People have been thrown out of college and lost their jobs for the same thing.
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Disclaimer: white English male. Grew up in a part of the UK with literally NO ethnic minorities at all (in fact I was the closest thing - I got beaten up for having an accent from the south east, cos that was the West.)
I'm saddened but not really surprised by the general response of most here, "rascism? Of course not, it's just that very few black people apply for tech jobs / have the qualificiations / yadda yadda yadda". Guess some of you should have bothered to try learning something from the humanities people. Yes, some of sociology is real science too.
Western society is intrinsically rascist, mostly for historical reasons. How anyone in the UK or US could deny it when white people are so much better off across the board (income, life expectancy, social class, education, victims of crime, you name it.) Either society is set up to subtly (or none-to-subtly) discriminate against people on the basis of their skin colour, or black people are intrinsically more stupid / violent / criminal / unhealthy. Which I don't think (I really hope) no-one here actually consciously believes.)
In the last year my brother married Ghanaian woman and they have just had a beautiful baby girl. I've also just started work at a company with a black CEO. (Yes, man-in-black, he has a public school (ie, expensive fee-paying here in the UK) accent.) Watching people getting introduced to either of these two without having been explicitly told 'oh, by the way, s/he's black" has been rather...educational. And rather depressing.
Looking on the bright side: in Western Europe, where we haven't quite the same historical relationship with black people and slavery (yeah yeah, Liverpool and Bristol were built with slave trade blood money, but we never had millions of black slaves *here*) -- there surely is rascism here but (I hope) through hard work & educational efforts & not least legal sanction (like: not letting the police get away with it when yet-another black suspect accidentally falls down some stairs in a policestation and dies on the floor of a cell) -- things are getting better, for black AND white.
Final word for the white folks here who really believe they're too smart to be rascist. How do you think you can grow up in a rascist society and NOT absorb ANY of those attitudes? I know I did. Without lacerating oneself with liberal guilt, it's good to look for the speck in your own eye before denying there's a beam in Microsoft's (or society's at large.)
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>The Windows update utility will fix this more some Windows users, but again, most users aren't using the latest version, or they'll just cancel the download.
Spookily, one of my co-workers -- a classic Linux zealot -- takes a rather similar attitude. After tiring of his constant trolling about Windoze security holes etc (there are lots, true, but NT!=95, and M$ do now release advisories and patches... there is of course room for improvement though;) -- I did some quiet looking around at his setup. He's locked his machine down fairly well - tcpwrappers, turned off unwanted stuff from inetd.conf et al. But
according to Red Hat
there are 53 post-release vulnerabilites he hasn't bothered to apply, including GPG and Sendmail stuff, several remote root vulnerabilities etc. And this machine is on a permanent net connection (public IP), as well as being his daily workstation. He'd believed his own press about Linux being infinitely secure compared to Windows... of course, nothing is secure if you don't keep up with Bugtraq and apply patches when they come out, as well as configuring the thing for security when you first set it up.
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...and then they'll be thrown in jail as soon as they tell anyone else about it, publish details on the web etc.
Unless they do it outside the USA of course, where we have no DMCA. Then they'll just get their ISP account nuked, sacked from college / job / whatever thanks to pseudo-legalese letters from the MPAA/RIAA etc. --
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Why would we want to go get rocks from the asteroid belt? There seems to be an awful lot of this planet still lying around... --
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2001 is the best SF film I've ever seen, and I speak as one who got to see Star Wars I on the second day it was out in the UK - special trip to Leicester Square in London and everything, which was a big deal for a seven-year old;)
The coolest thing about the depiction of tech in the film is that, for the first time, the post-modern banality of hi-tech was successfully shown. Check the early scene where the scientist is buzzing around in shuttle craft en-route for the moon. The decor, stewardesses, the whole atmosphere is like any generic jetliner -- in the 60s, or today. Or when Bowman plays chess with HAL and gets videomail from his family: purely routine, banal, un-romantic, technocratic. It's just a job.
(imdb) 2001 is wonderful but let's not try to pretend that Clarke is responsible for the film -- it was Stanley Kubrick who made the film, and as he also made another of my all-time top five Doctor Strangelove (or , how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb), you have to give the props to him. I mean, apart from a random prediction about geo-stationary satellites which happened to be accurate -- oh wait, that wasn't even a prediction, he just noticed it would be possible -- what the hell else did Clarke do that (say, as random Slashdot-friendly examples) John Wyndham, Brian Aldiss or Michael Moorcock didn't manage? In fact Moorcock even got to appear on stage with Hawkwind, top that.
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"Agency officials said during the first connection controllers were able to connect with only part of the station for a brief period. During this time they were able to confirm that the station was "alive and breathing." "
They continued, "and look at the patterns, dude, they're like huge fractal webs spun by the great light-spider! And it's moving, man, check it out!!!!!
Sounds like they're having a very merry Christmas in mission control...
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Bah humbug, they've got it back. But wait, all is not lost! A dull slow-news end-of-year snoozefest could still be kicked into life...
CNN reports the Russians saying "Contact was restored at around 4 p.m. local time (1300 GMT), and reported nothing unusual in the station's operation. They said the crisis was over." -- except that they don't say what caused the blackout in the first place, nor how to fix it, or even what's stopping it happening again. If I were the crew training to go up and prepare it for a controlled de-orbiting I'd be checking my life insurance. And possibly taking an Iridium phone...
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This is somewhat off-topic, but it's an idea I've been pondering and
this is the first relevant Slashdot story to come up since.
My employer looks after a dozen or so reasonably busy websites for
clients; most have some sort of ecommerce component, with credit
card transactions and so on.
The machines are hosted at A.N. BigName Hoster (NSP), are behind
really solid BSD firewalls and generally pretty safe even though
some of them run on NT. Nevertheless, we get our fair share of
scans & probes for common vulnerabilities.
Sod's law says that sooner or later we'll be caught out and something
will get owned. My idea is for a last-chance attempt to prevent the
attacker doing any damage:
Stash a file in the public htdocs, called something obvious like
"creditcards.txt" or "hax0rs.readme"; not linked to from anything.
This file contains (an) offer(s) for the reader, on following
conditions:
If the intruder:
does no damage to the live site (including (D)DoS, DNS poisoning,
using it to attack other systems, etc)
does not access any cc numbers
leaves a text file with an email address / passphrase etc in a
nominated location -- somewhere in htdocs would be OK (after all
it's htdocs you really want to protect on a public http server.)
Must contain unique stuff to authenticate later contact.
explains in detail to the admins how he did it (via email, or
in person, irc, whatever -- but detailed & interactive)
THEN:
(perhaps) they get a guaranteed no-strings cash reward
(say $1000)
if they promise not to break into anyone else's systems without
authorisation, and subject to normal standard T's & C's, they can
have a job working for us as a security consultant; doing penetration
testing, tiger-teamage, vulnerability research etc as well as
consulting for our clients and us;
PROVIDED THAT
- they are old enough;
- they can relocate (?)
they promise never to break the law, attack unauthorised hosts, etc.
The only problems I can only see with this are:
it might be seen as providing an incentive to crackers.
we might find ourselves employing hundreds of kiddies within a
couple of months;)
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Don't forget the
Energia heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the then-Soviet Union to carry their Buran shuttle. Only flew once, then scrapped. The thing was
incredible. Check the picture -- Energia is the thing that looks like the shuttle's external fuel tank. It's not, it's a self-contained liquid-fuelled launcher. Now THAT could have put us back on the moon. --
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On the contrary -- Pluto, although probably interesting in it's own right (what with having an enormous moon (relative to it's own size), is really just a nice bit of PR chrome. Pluto is really just a big asteroid that happened to be in roughly the right place when Clyde Tombaugh went looking for the ninth planet. (AFAIK the body causing the perturbations of the orbit of Uranus that lead him to look have still not been located - Pluto wasn't it.)
The real point of getting out there is carrying on to the Kuiper Belt.If memory serves, the Pluto mission NASA cancelled earlier this year was called the Kuiper Express.
Kuiper Belt objects would be really interesting because they're a huge cloud of proto-comets left over from the collapse of the gas cloud which eventually formed the solar system 5 billion years ago. They'd consist of virgin, primordial material the proto-stellar disk coalesced from. Although there are a couple of sample return missions to comets in the works ('Stardust' mission) they're not going out to the source.
It would be really interesting to look for complex amino acids in such material, and get another data point on the Wickramasinghe/Hoyle panspermia theory.
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> What is the legitimacy of the Open Source
> licenses on a global level?
Where I work, we're preparing to Free or Open Source our main IP. We're a web development (and hosting, and consultancy,and Windows apps...yadda yadda) house, and all the web apps we do now use the same core, "just" a mod_perl module.
We just heard from our alpha geek that the IP lawyers have basically convinced him to go with a BSD license rather than GPL. It sounds to me like he's been fed some FUD (although I can't understand why); Apparently the lawyers' opinion is that the GPL is very likely to be knocked down in court in the near future. I expressed considerable scepticism about this - after all, Red Hat's business model would be in big trouble if that were to happen - and when it later turned out that said alpha geek didn't even realise that Linux is GPL'd. (He's a very good hacker, possibly because he hasn't spent much of the last few years reading license flamewars on Slashdot at work;)
Is this just FUD? The FSF put a lot of lawyer-hours into the GPL(s)...
There was also something about the core stuff becoming a derivative work/of the sites we build for clients/. The core stuff is a small percentage, bytes-wise, of the total 'distribution' we sell the clients. (Each chunk of functionality in each site is implemented in mostly-custom code.) At this point the A-G became vague about precisely what the problem would be if (in some unimaginable manner) our internal codebase was held to be a derivative of work we had done for a client. Presumably that would just mean that we wouldn't be able to close the source and 'non-free' it -- but that's part of the point, as far as I'm concerned (and why would we want to, anyway?)
Anyone got some pointers (beyond the generic stuff on gnu.org / fsf.org) to vaguely objective comparisons of the different licenses?
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How about XFree86? v3.3 and WindowMaker (!) compile and run using gcc under cygwin. It's not totally stable yet, but it works. Can't wait for v4...
Porting Free software to the Windows environment is an excellent way to infiltrate software Freedom into the corporate environment. I started with by surrupticiously swapping IIS for Apache... then MySQL instead of Access (!)... (this was $previous->[1]'s global intranet.)
Then cygwin's GNU utils... bash, then tcsh... I came to emacs late (long learning curve on a Linux box, until I went through the pain barrier and found myself trying ^l in Windows-standard text editors -- then it came over to the Windows environment.
The interesting part of this process in retrospect is that I knew five years ago that I/had/ to learn about web programming (at the time I was writing VBA macros in Excel on win3.1... *shudder*) -- anyway, I kept hearing about Perl, and discovered that I could get it (free, beer!) for 16-bit Windows. Never looked back... thanks, Larry!
Apparently Gimp runs too, although I haven't checked it out for over a year.
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A very similar situation developed on Skylab in the mid 70s (for those too young to remember, Skylab was a spacestation built inside the upper stage of one of the remaining Apollo rockets after the remaining moon missions were cancelled. It was huge, and it rocked:)
Tension between ground controllers and the astronauts reached a point where the crew actually mutinied, refused to obey ground instructions and took a day off.
Can't find any info on this on nasa.gov... go figure;) Some generic info --
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>An estimated 80% of the cc transactions originating
>in this country are with stolen cc numbers. So, if
>you have online cc processing on your site, MAKE
>SURE you block any requests originating with 202.*
Where IS geographical location)?
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I should be so lucky as to have time to play GAMES... I fire up MAME once a month for 20 mins of Pacman and count myself lucky... rest of the time I'm too busy playing `life':(
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I saw the Northern Lights from the north coast of Ireland in 1989 -- utterly fantastic. If you're anywhere near clear-ish skies, and you get the chance, stick your head outside every once in a while just in case. It's up there with a good Leonids outburst in my personal list, uh, really cool stuff to see in the sky. With the naked eye.
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There's considerable resistance to GM food outside the US. For example, here in the UK Iceland, a major supermarket, make a big deal about stocking NO GM food whatsoever. Also, the Greenpeace>
">Anti GM foods policy (http://www.greenpeace.org/%7Egeneng/reports/food/ food001.htm
) goes back three years. Even the Daily Mail, a notoriously right-wing UK newspaper, has run campaigns about so-called "frankenfoods".
There are plenty of reasons why GM technology should be approached with caution; however I have to say I'm pretty repulsed by the means Greenpeace and similar organisations take to it. Their campaigns are almost entirely based around fuzzy, emotion-based appeals to anti-science sentiment. I am actually a member of Greenpeace, because I happen to think climate change is an enormous problem, but I nearly resigned over this.
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Yeah? but is it a BSD or GPL-type license?
And what happens when we fork the codebase?
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OK, mp3s breach this hoster's AUP. Fair enough, you sign on the line, that's what you get - they're within their rights (and you can go elsewhere if you don't like it.)
But how about the analagous situation where ISPs or network (transit) providers who choose to filter ports 137/139? All this does is prevent clueless people leaving their windows machines' default SMB shares open to the world, right? Helps prevent nasty DoS attacks, pisses off kiddies, etc, can only be good, yes? Uncontroversial, right?
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Well, one reason ISPs might want to filter NetBIOS is to prevent Windows boxen getting owned and used in the next round of DDoS attacks. On the offchance that you weren't trolling: you should never, NEVER run Windows filesharing across a public network, EVER, unless you're absolutely certain that you know what you're doing. And if you're absolutely certain you know what you're doing, you won't do it anyway.
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I'm being sued in California for hosting deCSS on my UK based website (yes, I'm a UK citizen.)People have been thrown out of college and lost their jobs for the same thing.
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There you go, the one time I submit without a preview..!
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I'm saddened but not really surprised by the general response of most here, "rascism? Of course not, it's just that very few black people apply for tech jobs / have the qualificiations / yadda yadda yadda". Guess some of you should have bothered to try learning something from the humanities people. Yes, some of sociology is real science too.
Western society is intrinsically rascist, mostly for historical reasons. How anyone in the UK or US could deny it when white people are so much better off across the board (income, life expectancy, social class, education, victims of crime, you name it.) Either society is set up to subtly (or none-to-subtly) discriminate against people on the basis of their skin colour, or black people are intrinsically more stupid / violent / criminal / unhealthy. Which I don't think (I really hope) no-one here actually consciously believes.)
In the last year my brother married Ghanaian woman and they have just had a beautiful baby girl. I've also just started work at a company with a black CEO. (Yes, man-in-black, he has a public school (ie, expensive fee-paying here in the UK) accent.) Watching people getting introduced to either of these two without having been explicitly told 'oh, by the way, s/he's black" has been rather...educational. And rather depressing.
Looking on the bright side: in Western Europe, where we haven't quite the same historical relationship with black people and slavery (yeah yeah, Liverpool and Bristol were built with slave trade blood money, but we never had millions of black slaves *here*) -- there surely is rascism here but (I hope) through hard work & educational efforts & not least legal sanction (like: not letting the police get away with it when yet-another black suspect accidentally falls down some stairs in a policestation and dies on the floor of a cell) -- things are getting better, for black AND white.
Final word for the white folks here who really believe they're too smart to be rascist. How do you think you can grow up in a rascist society and NOT absorb ANY of those attitudes? I know I did. Without lacerating oneself with liberal guilt, it's good to look for the speck in your own eye before denying there's a beam in Microsoft's (or society's at large.)
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Spookily, one of my co-workers -- a classic Linux zealot -- takes a rather similar attitude. After tiring of his constant trolling about Windoze security holes etc (there are lots, true, but NT!=95, and M$ do now release advisories and patches ... there is of course room for improvement though ;) -- I did some quiet looking around at his setup. He's locked his machine down fairly well - tcpwrappers, turned off unwanted stuff from inetd.conf et al. But
according to Red Hat
there are 53 post-release vulnerabilites he hasn't bothered to apply, including GPG and Sendmail stuff, several remote root vulnerabilities etc. And this machine is on a permanent net connection (public IP), as well as being his daily workstation. He'd believed his own press about Linux being infinitely secure compared to Windows... of course, nothing is secure if you don't keep up with Bugtraq and apply patches when they come out, as well as configuring the thing for security when you first set it up.
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...and then they'll be thrown in jail as soon as they tell anyone else about it, publish details on the web etc. Unless they do it outside the USA of course, where we have no DMCA. Then they'll just get their ISP account nuked, sacked from college / job / whatever thanks to pseudo-legalese letters from the MPAA/RIAA etc.
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You know - that word - I do not think it mean what you think it mean
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Why would we want to go get rocks from the asteroid belt? There seems to be an awful lot of this planet still lying around...
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You do not know what you are talking about. Climate change due to human activities absolutely HAS been proven, for any reasonable standard of 'proof'.
Some random links. Yes I know these aren't authoratitive primary sources but you can't deep link into the `Nature' site :(
BBC News
BBC News
paper in `Science'
Crowley in `Science'
(UN) IPCC
more U.N.
NASA
NASA
NASA
Nature
BBC News
New Scientist's excellent overview, ideal for clueless know-nothing^W^W getting a basic grounding in the major issues
Next time, try to avoid talking nonsense on a subject you know nothing about.
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http://www.linuxcertification.com/kmatrix/
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The coolest thing about the depiction of tech in the film is that, for the first time, the post-modern banality of hi-tech was successfully shown. Check the early scene where the scientist is buzzing around in shuttle craft en-route for the moon. The decor, stewardesses, the whole atmosphere is like any generic jetliner -- in the 60s, or today. Or when Bowman plays chess with HAL and gets videomail from his family: purely routine, banal, un-romantic, technocratic. It's just a job.
(imdb) 2001 is wonderful but let's not try to pretend that Clarke is responsible for the film -- it was Stanley Kubrick who made the film, and as he also made another of my all-time top five Doctor Strangelove (or , how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb), you have to give the props to him. I mean, apart from a random prediction about geo-stationary satellites which happened to be accurate -- oh wait, that wasn't even a prediction, he just noticed it would be possible -- what the hell else did Clarke do that (say, as random Slashdot-friendly examples) John Wyndham, Brian Aldiss or Michael Moorcock didn't manage? In fact Moorcock even got to appear on stage with Hawkwind, top that.
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They continued, "and look at the patterns, dude, they're like huge fractal webs spun by the great light-spider! And it's moving, man, check it out!!!!!
Sounds like they're having a very merry Christmas in mission control...
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CNN reports the Russians saying "Contact was restored at around 4 p.m. local time (1300 GMT), and reported nothing unusual in the station's operation. They said the crisis was over." -- except that they don't say what caused the blackout in the first place, nor how to fix it, or even what's stopping it happening again. If I were the crew training to go up and prepare it for a controlled de-orbiting I'd be checking my life insurance. And possibly taking an Iridium phone...
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My employer looks after a dozen or so reasonably busy websites for clients; most have some sort of ecommerce component, with credit card transactions and so on.
The machines are hosted at A.N. BigName Hoster (NSP), are behind really solid BSD firewalls and generally pretty safe even though some of them run on NT. Nevertheless, we get our fair share of scans & probes for common vulnerabilities.
Sod's law says that sooner or later we'll be caught out and something will get owned. My idea is for a last-chance attempt to prevent the attacker doing any damage:
Stash a file in the public htdocs, called something obvious like "creditcards.txt" or "hax0rs.readme"; not linked to from anything. This file contains (an) offer(s) for the reader, on following conditions:
If the intruder:
THEN:
PROVIDED THAT
The only problems I can only see with this are:
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Don't forget the Energia heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the then-Soviet Union to carry their Buran shuttle. Only flew once, then scrapped. The thing was incredible. Check the picture -- Energia is the thing that looks like the shuttle's external fuel tank. It's not, it's a self-contained liquid-fuelled launcher. Now THAT could have put us back on the moon.
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The real point of getting out there is carrying on to the Kuiper Belt.If memory serves, the Pluto mission NASA cancelled earlier this year was called the Kuiper Express.
Kuiper Belt objects would be really interesting because they're a huge cloud of proto-comets left over from the collapse of the gas cloud which eventually formed the solar system 5 billion years ago. They'd consist of virgin, primordial material the proto-stellar disk coalesced from. Although there are a couple of sample return missions to comets in the works ('Stardust' mission) they're not going out to the source. It would be really interesting to look for complex amino acids in such material, and get another data point on the Wickramasinghe/Hoyle panspermia theory.
Once we've done the Kuiper Belt, there's only the Oort cloud between us and interstellar space. Pluto isn't going to look that different from the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, both of which will by then have been thoroughly checked out by Galileo and Cassini.
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> licenses on a global level?
Where I work, we're preparing to Free or Open Source our main IP. We're a web development (and hosting, and consultancy,and Windows apps...yadda yadda) house, and all the web apps we do now use the same core, "just" a mod_perl module.
We just heard from our alpha geek that the IP lawyers have basically convinced him to go with a BSD license rather than GPL. It sounds to me like he's been fed some FUD (although I can't understand why); Apparently the lawyers' opinion is that the GPL is very likely to be knocked down in court in the near future. I expressed considerable scepticism about this - after all, Red Hat's business model would be in big trouble if that were to happen - and when it later turned out that said alpha geek didn't even realise that Linux is GPL'd. (He's a very good hacker, possibly because he hasn't spent much of the last few years reading license flamewars on Slashdot at work ;)
Is this just FUD? The FSF put a lot of lawyer-hours into the GPL(s)...
There was also something about the core stuff becoming a derivative work /of the sites we build for clients/. The core stuff is a small percentage, bytes-wise, of the total 'distribution' we sell the clients. (Each chunk of functionality in each site is implemented in mostly-custom code.) At this point the A-G became vague about precisely what the problem would be if (in some unimaginable manner) our internal codebase was held to be a derivative of work we had done for a client. Presumably that would just mean that we wouldn't be able to close the source and 'non-free' it -- but that's part of the point, as far as I'm concerned (and why would we want to, anyway?)
Anyone got some pointers (beyond the generic stuff on gnu.org / fsf.org) to vaguely objective comparisons of the different licenses?
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Porting Free software to the Windows environment is an excellent way to infiltrate software Freedom into the corporate environment. I started with by surrupticiously swapping IIS for Apache... then MySQL instead of Access (!)... (this was $previous->[1]'s global intranet.) Then cygwin's GNU utils... bash, then tcsh... I came to emacs late (long learning curve on a Linux box, until I went through the pain barrier and found myself trying ^l in Windows-standard text editors -- then it came over to the Windows environment.
The interesting part of this process in retrospect is that I knew five years ago that I /had/ to learn about web programming (at the time I was writing VBA macros in Excel on win3.1 ... *shudder*) -- anyway, I kept hearing about Perl, and discovered that I could get it (free, beer!) for 16-bit Windows. Never looked back... thanks, Larry!
Apparently Gimp runs too, although I haven't checked it out for over a year.
Now all I need is enlightenment ;)
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Tension between ground controllers and the astronauts reached a point where the crew actually mutinied, refused to obey ground instructions and took a day off. Can't find any info on this on nasa.gov ... go figure ;) Some generic info
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Where IS geographical location)?
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I should be so lucky as to have time to play GAMES... I fire up MAME once a month for 20 mins of Pacman and count myself lucky... rest of the time I'm too busy playing `life' :(
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I saw the Northern Lights from the north coast of Ireland in 1989 -- utterly fantastic. If you're anywhere near clear-ish skies, and you get the chance, stick your head outside every once in a while just in case. It's up there with a good Leonids outburst in my personal list, uh, really cool stuff to see in the sky. With the naked eye.
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There are plenty of reasons why GM technology should be approached with caution; however I have to say I'm pretty repulsed by the means Greenpeace and similar organisations take to it. Their campaigns are almost entirely based around fuzzy, emotion-based appeals to anti-science sentiment. I am actually a member of Greenpeace, because I happen to think climate change is an enormous problem, but I nearly resigned over this.
Sorry if the links are screwed, this mozilla daily build is a bit flakey.
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Yeah? but is it a BSD or GPL-type license? And what happens when we fork the codebase? Anyone got the URL for the sourceforgepage?
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But how about the analagous situation where ISPs or network (transit) providers who choose to filter ports 137/139? All this does is prevent clueless people leaving their windows machines' default SMB shares open to the world, right? Helps prevent nasty DoS attacks, pisses off kiddies, etc, can only be good, yes? Uncontroversial, right?
Think again... (lengthy nanog thread)
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