User: freeinformation

Re:See the code

On: SCO May Countersue Red Hat, SuSE Joins The Fray

This is very simple. If they would show the code, it would be replaced in a few days, and they would not be able to make any money from that.

So it's clear that they are only doing this for the money, and who knows what conspiracy they are involved with? I think of our big evil brother :) who will do everything to discredit Open Source Software, in particular Linux.

Let there be as many distributions at tastes

On: The Question Of Too Many Linux Distributions

If Linux would be some commercial software, there would be only one of it, incompatible with any other software.

But it is not. It is free, and it will always be free. And anyone can make his or her own customizations. Of course you want to be able to run all Linux software on your distribution, and you can.

To give an example: RedHat does hardly differ from Slackware, it's just a brand, but that actually means nothing.
Commercial software, like Oracle, which would only run on RedHat, runs on Slackware just as good.

So there's not point in the existence of many distributions, as long as you are free to choose.

Action = - reaction

On: The Reactionless Space Drive?

Most of the known theory of physics rely heavily on the principle:

ACTION = - REACTION

(Also known as the law of conservation of momentum.)

So if someone would find a way to violate this law, is would mean that neither classical nor quantum mechanics nor theory of relativity would be valid under these conditions. Would be cool.

But, as I can understand from the article, the researchers seem to focus on the movement of the magnet while they don't take into account the reaction of the "rest of the world". Did they measure the reaction force on the device that produced the magnetic field? Nothing in the article points out that they did.

So at this moment I still keep thinking that they just made a (rather stupid) mistake.

Re:Where's the _real_ information?

On: New Advance In Quantum Dot Technology

You might check out this article: http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/quant-ph/9910032

Is looks to me like this guy Supriyo Bandyopadhyay really is doing some good work.

Preprint of article available for free

On: What Happens When 99% of the Net Crashes?

at http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/cond-mat/0007048

20$ for downloading the article

On: What Happens When 99% of the Net Crashes?

I don't want to even think of paying that.