A man named Boyle, a freedom fighter He smiled when he challenged a tiger They televised the fights Showed consumers have rights and a Boyle in the face of the tiger.
I predict that in 10 years/. has been ranamed to./ and focuses on local news on each continent.
I predict that in 10 years weblinks have become illegal because a) they are almost invariably a copyright violation b) they can be used to direct slashdot DDoS attacks
I predict that in 10 years we have moved on and slashdot is being read by another generation of pimple faced nerds.
FAQ as in questions frequently asked by Richard Stallman?
Frankly, I don't know anybody who gives a rat's ass what it is called, except for the entertainment value and the rousing flamewars.
To not sound like a complete troll, I have to say that I respect RMS for all the things he has achieved. However, every time this topic comes up, a little of that respect, however deserved, erodes away. This continuous begging for recognition is simply pathetic.
If anybody asks, I'm running liGNUx which, astonishingly, is pronounced exactly the same as Linux...
In any large group of people you will find a few idiots, a few luminaries, and a great number of average thinkers. Sometimes the only thing that separates idiots from luminaries is their lack of social grace. Welcome to democracy.
But my question is, what (if any) change is this going to make to my daily use of linux...?
Well, for one thing, you're now going to have to start typing a helluva lot faster. The machine is not going to slow you down.;-)
In truth, this is great news for those running servers but you probably won't notice much of a difference on a desktop, barring a few really thread heavy applications. UML (User Mode Linux) is one notorious example.
According to Michael Baltierra, a reporter for ABC News, "we tested the car and it ran quite well. The only major problem that we noticed," he continues, "was that it was quite noisy...
I knew there was a catch! I read the article thinking to myself: "How can the car pass wind like that without making the noise?". And the carbon filter is starting to make sense, too.
I've read the GPL a couple times, and have never gotten the perception that it prevented a company from preserving its right to sell a product and not offer Joe Q. Hacker full rights to recompile the source.
If a company reuses GPLed software written by others, there is no such right in the first place, so it cannot be preserved. The GPL is very clear on this:
"To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights."
Well if you drink too much, you either fall flat on your face, staring into a planet;
That's how I found planet Earth! Don't quite remember where I came from... I do remember that planets smell kind of funny. And they have bits of sausage on them. And cucumber. Definately cucumber. Well known scientific fact.
Researches will implant small chips in animals and release them in the wild... no power source of their own... would there be a way to amplify this technology to the point where a person could have a wireless-ly powered PDA or Laptop?
You can't just release geeks into the wild. They don't have the necessary skills to survive. They would starve to death!
Nah. Let's have a Star Trek movie with Steven Segal. I would love to see him assimilate the Borg, armed with a pool que. Star Fleet would show up just in time to pick up the pieces, of course.
Slashdot Mirror
...and reprogram the screen capture function to the Windows key.
A man named Boyle, a freedom fighter
He smiled when he challenged a tiger
They televised the fights
Showed consumers have rights
and a Boyle in the face of the tiger.
I can hire the neighbor's kid to stand behind the couch and jump up and down on cue, and still have $19,980 left over.
;-)
For $20K I could hire someone to rock my world while I hung on to the couch, and still have enough left to smoke myself to death afterwards.
As part of my work I have:
Slept in a snowbank (ambient temp -30C)
Advanced course on thermodynamics.
Scaled ice covered rock faces with 30 kilos of equipment
Laboratory assignment on mechanics for post-graduate students.
Faced bears and wolves unarmed.
Armed with Occam's razor -- survival course for graduate students.
Hiked alone in the Amazon rain forest.
General relativity theory, and how amazons manage to procreate anyway.
I predict that in 10 years /. has been ranamed to ./ and focuses on local news on each continent.
I predict that in 10 years weblinks have become illegal because
a) they are almost invariably a copyright violation
b) they can be used to direct slashdot DDoS attacks
I predict that in 10 years we have moved on and slashdot is being read by another generation of pimple faced nerds.
People always overrate the future, its the one constant..
"The future looked much better in the olden days." -- Grandfather
It should be called GNU/Freax.
Did you know that Linus initially wanted to call the kernel Freaks? It was Ari Lemmke, who came up with the name Linux. Fortunately it stuck.
I wonder if RMS would be rooting as eagerly for the name GNU/Freaks...
FAQ as in questions frequently asked by Richard Stallman?
Frankly, I don't know anybody who gives a rat's ass what it is called, except for the entertainment value and the rousing flamewars.
To not sound like a complete troll, I have to say that I respect RMS for all the things he has achieved. However, every time this topic comes up, a little of that respect, however deserved, erodes away. This continuous begging for recognition is simply pathetic.
If anybody asks, I'm running liGNUx which, astonishingly, is pronounced exactly the same as Linux...
Who manages the management system?
The management?
In any large group of people you will find a few idiots, a few luminaries, and a great number of average thinkers. Sometimes the only thing that separates idiots from luminaries is their lack of social grace. Welcome to democracy.
But my question is, what (if any) change is this going to make to my daily use of linux...?
;-)
Well, for one thing, you're now going to have to start typing a helluva lot faster. The machine is not going to slow you down.
In truth, this is great news for those running servers but you probably won't notice much of a difference on a desktop, barring a few really thread heavy applications. UML (User Mode Linux) is one notorious example.
According to Michael Baltierra, a reporter for ABC News, "we tested the car and it ran quite well. The only major problem that we noticed," he continues, "was that it was quite noisy...
I knew there was a catch! I read the article thinking to myself: "How can the car pass wind like that without making the noise?". And the carbon filter is starting to make sense, too.
It's like combining a nose hair trimmer with a toothbrush
Do you meant to say that you carry a nose hair trimmer and a toothbrush with you at all times?
Kinky.
Censoring child porn? The very idea sickens me. Do people honestly think the problem is going to go away if we just put the blinders on?
The more people know about these atrocities the better. What we need to do is go after the damn perverts and shut them down for good.
Censorship is the ultimate hypocricy.
I've read the GPL a couple times, and have never gotten the perception that it prevented a company from preserving its right to sell a product and not offer Joe Q. Hacker full rights to recompile the source.
If a company reuses GPLed software written by others, there is no such right in the first place, so it cannot be preserved. The GPL is very clear on this:
"To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights."
Well if you drink too much, you either fall flat on your face, staring into a planet;
That's how I found planet Earth! Don't quite remember where I came from... I do remember that planets smell kind of funny. And they have bits of sausage on them. And cucumber. Definately cucumber. Well known scientific fact.
Give that R&D money to our Irish astronomers and they will find planets with beer and whiskey.
I have no idea how you go about finding planets equipped with beer and whisky but I'm willing to give it a go.
If the banner said things "Would you like another coffee?" and the waitress would bring it within a couple of minutes I might even like it.
Otherwise I'd probably just ignore the banner.
If the adverts were too intrusive to ignore I'd stop using the service.
Locally relevant advertising, that's the thing.
A ride on the Russian Soyuz space taxi?
This could easily turn into "Pepsi -- burning all the way down."
In prison you will have to barter for every little luxury. Having something of value to trade can be a matter of life and death.
Do you think your experience with swapping things will help you fit in?
What are your strongest assets on the prison market place?
Visual Basic and the Art of Coding.
Can you blame them for trying to code the art?
Is that why?
Indubitably. Rumour has it that Alan has a 802.11b base station hidden in his beard.
Researches will implant small chips in animals and release them in the wild ... no power source of their own ... would there be a way to amplify this technology to the point where a person could have a wireless-ly powered PDA or Laptop?
You can't just release geeks into the wild. They don't have the necessary skills to survive. They would starve to death!
They need to go back to good old ship fights.
Nah. Let's have a Star Trek movie with Steven Segal. I would love to see him assimilate the Borg, armed with a pool que. Star Fleet would show up just in time to pick up the pieces, of course.