So with your logic it would be right to discriminate only if heteros and homos are both discriminated against? Or wait, it's okay to discriminateagainst homos, but not heteros? Could you please clarify?
Uhm, from her logic it seemed pretty obvious she didn't want parties and boyfriends/girlfriends/sex in the state funded dorms. However making them same sex dorms doesn't solve the problem. I said "...but not homos" to emphasize the falacy in her logic. The exisitence of homosexuality makes the policy change mute. After re-reading my message, your right, it's confusing.
Since they are MY tax dollars spent in MY school district/state with MY childern in them, shouldn't I get some say in how my tax dollars are spent?
Yep, that's why it's a representative government. Vote for a new representative.
Huh? When was the last time you checked a tuition bill for your local state university? I'm not talking about "per credit hour". I'm talking about administrative and resource fees. This shit ain't cheap!
Uh, see my message above about the state acting as an ISP in this instance. The 'shit' isn't cheap, but it's still at least partially funded by the state. And the last time I checked my tuition bill, you only get a 'tech' or 'lab' fee when you sign up for it. Just get a different ISP and skip signing up for the access.
If you are paying an extra fee outside your tuition then the the state is acting as your ISP. As an ISP the state has a right to regulate it's resource usage. Lots of ISP's filter out usenet alt.binaries because it's just too much to deal with. If they turn their internet access into crap, don't buy it.
I definately agree that they can't change the terms of your lease midterm into it, unless allowing changes to the lease at a whim is part of the agreement. My landlord tried to change the policy on me midterm into my lease so I know that arguement well. The policy change can legally only apply to new students that agree to it and sign into it.
And as for the blue phones, now I know they are a lot more common than I thought. I've been to 3 universities and two community colleges. One university and one college had them, but come on, the phones at ASU are *rediculous*. It looks like an airport landing pad at night:). My whole point for that was that ASU is best known as a party campus, not a place to learn.
Not about the no co-ed thing (since it descriminates against hetros but not homos), but about net filters and dorm searches. It's all paid for by tax payer's dollars. The net is too great of a learning tool to deny a university, but when it's funded by tax payer's dollars there should be some provisions so that it doesn't get abused. Bandwidth isn't cheap, and the tax payers shouldn't have to pay for it when it's just getting abused by l33t w4r3z h4x0rs and streaming video porn sites.
ASU is renowned nationwide as a party school. If you've ever been there (I live 3 miles from it) you'll notice that they have these little blue lights all over the campus. Everywhere. Those are date rape/emergency phones. Attacks by drunken assholes happen so often at ASU that they had to put in call boxes everywhere on campus. They are literally every 30 feet, on every stairway, sidewalk, etc. It's no wonder they want to change the atmosphere there. They have every right to do so, for the dorms are owned by the state. As such they should have a right to look at their own property and make sure it's not getting trashed, just like a landlord in an apartment complex has the right to enter your apartment to make sure you are not violating the lease (pets, too many tenants, etc).
There seems to be a lot of hypocrasy on/. Oh sure people bitch that the gov't spends too much money on dumb projects, but give us free net access and a grow lite in our dorm closet for our pot plants!
It's a safe L1 cache for their proccessor emulator.
On a side note, why spend all of this effort to be x86 compatible when you have the source code? IMO open source software is going to make hardware architecture very competitive. We can finally drop legacy binary compatibility and go for pure performance architectures. Using 'make' as your install program has it's advantages.
Uhm, you completely skipped my comment on Linux driver compatibility.
It also help developers. They would only have to--or at least should have to--test the driver on one OS for it to function on multiple OS's.
Take for example FreeBSD. AFAIK FreeBSD has a module that allows it to run Linux binary kernel modules like they were it's own. Isn't this the same function that UDI is trying to accomplish? The developer could test their driver on Linux and know it would work on BSD as well.
Now, vendors could create binary only linux drivers, but the fast pace of linux development makes it impractical. Most modules need a recompile when you upgrade the kernel. That would require the vendor to have a recompiled driver for every incremental kernel version.
...Remember that hardware manufacturers had no reason whatsoever to publish specs for Linux...
Huh? When linux was in it's infancy, no vendor published specs purely for the sake of getting a linux driver. Now, with 10M+ users, that's a pretty good reason to publish specs. It sells more hardware. More to the point, they will soon have to publish specs to be competetive. I wonder how many/. readers have bought a TNT2 based video card because they knew it would have good support due to open specs? Or what about Matrox?
Again, UDI can only hurt linux. Contrary to what most/. pundits will tell you, Windows in itself is not unstable. Third party drivers for Windows are what make it crash. Because of this, Linux will lose one of it's best assets; stability. Also, what happens when you want to run linux on non-x86 hardware? There goes linux portability.
UDI encourages binary only drivers which is a Bad Thing. If other OSes want universal drivers, they need to implement Linux driver compatibility. It shouldn't be the other way around. UDI can only hurt linux.
Closed drivers are buggy and they always will be without the open source development model. It's hard enough to get specs for hardware now. Imagine if the hardware vendor had a UDI driver. What would motivate them to release specs then?
Now I don't have definative proof, but a comment above stated that this was not a bug, but a deliberate security hole put there by Microsoft to allow MSN Messenger the ability to log in to Hotmail without a password. With all of the warring going on between MS and AOL, it's pretty believable that this could be exactly what happened.
They admitted the problem but completely downplayed it. It's a hair short of flat out lying about it. That is not the kind of behavior you'd expect from any other multi-billion dollar corporation, but it's what we've all come to know as typical arrogant elitist MS speak.
The main problem with IPv4 that IPv6 is trying to solve is a lack of address space. By using IP masquerading, that problem can be alieviated indefinately, at the cost of increasing the lag time. You get one IP address, which you then use IP masquerading to get up to 2^32 (minus oddballs like 127.*) addresses internally. And if that's not enough addressing for you, you can run IP masquerading on each machine of your internal network, increasing the layers indefinately.
Hmmm. I have a friend that puts on cologne, nice clothes, and uses the same old script and jokes time and again and it works for him. He has maybe a half dozen "if conditions". He gets da babe. We make bets on which script she'll fall for. Sad.
Good God No! (tm) He's definately a black hat. Chicks should be hacked for the challenge, not just to exploit. Sad? Very. heheh
Chicks are by far the most entertaining systems to hack. I highly recommend it. You don't even need good hardware, just good hacking skill, which is probably why most h4x0rs can't hack chicks. Scripts don't work on them.
(Oh, and according to most of the linux hackers, it's a scam, since you can't write a TCP/IP stack in 512 words)
You've never read the story of mel have you? You should try stepping through something like, oh, NES Zelda with an emulator and see how they fit that game into 32k. (Hint: Parts of the executable code are also used as sound samples!)
I could definitely see a TCP/IP stack being implimented in 512 clever bytes. I would hate to debug it though.
If all you want is sex, just act like a dumb jock and drink lots of beer. Intelligence seems to frighten the tee-hee girls. Remember Barbie? "Math is hard!"
If what you want out of life is a deep meaningful relationship with a female geek, just shoot yourself in the head right now. Odds are you won't be the geek guy that hooks up with the one-in-a-million geek girl.
There were about 3000 people at DEFcon this year. About 100 of them were female. Of those women about 20 were geek girls with their boyfriends. The rest were just tee-hee girls that discovered geeks have money.
Why is it the press must focus on overthrowing Microsoft in the mainstream market? Why does everybody insist that Microsoft is the evil empire and that Linux is their tool to defeat it?
I use Linux because if I don't like it, I can change it. That ability will never go away. The whole concept of copyleft has changed all of the rules.
Microsoft is NOT the enemy and it never has been. Linux will only die if the developers lose their love for it and leave. It might lose market share or gain it. It really doesn't matter to anybody except the marketroids. Linux will always be there and most of use don't give a damn what percentage of computers run it.
Linux needs this support. Not everybody can just buy a 'real' modem. Yes, winmodems suck ass, but almost every new laptop comes with a winmodem. Winmodems have less chips and require a lot less power than a normal modem which makes them ideal in the OEM's view for laptops. You can get real pcmcia modems, but even most of the new pcmcia modems are winmodems.
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It's trivial to make any program a shared library or a callable object through object brokers like CORBA or COM, so you can easily circumvent license restrictions about derived works if you are considering copyright law alone. However, licenses are a combination of copyright law and contract law, and under contract law you can be restricted from performing certain activities that the software author might consider the creation of a derived work, activities that you would otherwise be permitted to do under copyright law. And of course, if you don't except the license, you have no right to use or copy the software at all.
This has always been my qualm with the GPL. The restrictions on derivative works requires more legal power than copyright law alone provides. Enter contract law. Unfortunately contract law doesn't apply here. Reading the GPL doesn't mean you agree to the contract. Using the software doesn't mean you agree to the contract. As an example, clicking "I accept" when the Windows EULA window pops up isn't a legally binding contract.
Even if that fails and somehow the contract becomes legal, all you would need to do, at least in the United States, would be to get an under 18 year old person to modify the text of the GPL to whatever you wanted. It is illegal for a minor to enter into a legal contract.
Be wary folks. The GPL is on shaky ground in the 'derivative works' area.
When cars became mass-produced, did auto mechanics become celebrities? Think about it.
Working on cars is something most people can do. Not everybody can write their own device drivers though. It's more akin to 'rocket scientist' and 'brain surgeon' than it is to 'auto mechanic'.
The windows EULA says you can not reverse engineer. It also says that if you do not agree to the terms of the agreement, you are entitled to a refund. How many people actually got refunds? If microsoft doesn't honor their side of the agreement, legally you don't have to either.
Is it just me, or does this press release seem like a cheap way to boost their stock prices? I seriously doubt they think their patent will hold up in court. Nobody on/. does, not even the PHBs that read/. It's more like "Hey everybody, we just won a patent that's going to make us rich. Buy our stock. Our ticker symbol is Nasdaq - AHWY"
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Logically, the whole arguement is just crap.
Owning a gun does not make one a murderer.
So with your logic it would be right to discriminate only if heteros and homos are both discriminated against? Or wait, it's okay to discriminateagainst homos, but not heteros? Could you please clarify?
Uhm, from her logic it seemed pretty obvious she didn't want parties and boyfriends/girlfriends/sex in the state funded dorms. However making them same sex dorms doesn't solve the problem. I said "...but not homos" to emphasize the falacy in her logic. The exisitence of homosexuality makes the policy change mute. After re-reading my message, your right, it's confusing.
Since they are MY tax dollars spent in MY school district/state with MY childern in them, shouldn't I get some say in how my tax dollars are spent?
Yep, that's why it's a representative government. Vote for a new representative.
Huh? When was the last time you checked a tuition bill for your local state university? I'm not talking about "per credit hour". I'm talking about administrative and resource fees. This shit ain't cheap!
Uh, see my message above about the state acting as an ISP in this instance. The 'shit' isn't cheap, but it's still at least partially funded by the state. And the last time I checked my tuition bill, you only get a 'tech' or 'lab' fee when you sign up for it. Just get a different ISP and skip signing up for the access.
If you are paying an extra fee outside your tuition then the the state is acting as your ISP. As an ISP the state has a right to regulate it's resource usage. Lots of ISP's filter out usenet alt.binaries because it's just too much to deal with. If they turn their internet access into crap, don't buy it.
:). My whole point for that was that ASU is best known as a party campus, not a place to learn.
I definately agree that they can't change the terms of your lease midterm into it, unless allowing changes to the lease at a whim is part of the agreement. My landlord tried to change the policy on me midterm into my lease so I know that arguement well. The policy change can legally only apply to new students that agree to it and sign into it.
And as for the blue phones, now I know they are a lot more common than I thought. I've been to 3 universities and two community colleges. One university and one college had them, but come on, the phones at ASU are *rediculous*. It looks like an airport landing pad at night
Not about the no co-ed thing (since it descriminates against hetros but not homos), but about net filters and dorm searches. It's all paid for by tax payer's dollars. The net is too great of a learning tool to deny a university, but when it's funded by tax payer's dollars there should be some provisions so that it doesn't get abused. Bandwidth isn't cheap, and the tax payers shouldn't have to pay for it when it's just getting abused by l33t w4r3z h4x0rs and streaming video porn sites.
/. Oh sure people bitch that the gov't spends too much money on dumb projects, but give us free net access and a grow lite in our dorm closet for our pot plants!
ASU is renowned nationwide as a party school. If you've ever been there (I live 3 miles from it) you'll notice that they have these little blue lights all over the campus. Everywhere. Those are date rape/emergency phones. Attacks by drunken assholes happen so often at ASU that they had to put in call boxes everywhere on campus. They are literally every 30 feet, on every stairway, sidewalk, etc. It's no wonder they want to change the atmosphere there. They have every right to do so, for the dorms are owned by the state. As such they should have a right to look at their own property and make sure it's not getting trashed, just like a landlord in an apartment complex has the right to enter your apartment to make sure you are not violating the lease (pets, too many tenants, etc).
There seems to be a lot of hypocrasy on
Regardless of what benchmarks say, what the TCO of NT vs Linux is, GUIs, installation, or whatever FUD that gets spread around, consider this:
Under oath, Microsoft claims that Linux is a threat.
Now the PR department claims that Linux isn't competetive with NT (non-threat).
One way or another, Microsoft is lying.
Do you want to support such an unethical company?
The severed end of that fiber gives a whole new definition of piping output to /dev/null.
It's a safe L1 cache for their proccessor emulator.
On a side note, why spend all of this effort to be x86 compatible when you have the source code? IMO open source software is going to make hardware architecture very competitive. We can finally drop legacy binary compatibility and go for pure performance architectures. Using 'make' as your install program has it's advantages.
If you write clean html you won't have that problem.
Uhm, you completely skipped my comment on Linux driver compatibility.
...Remember that hardware manufacturers had no reason whatsoever to publish specs for Linux...
/. readers have bought a TNT2 based video card because they knew it would have good support due to open specs? Or what about Matrox?
/. pundits will tell you, Windows in itself is not unstable. Third party drivers for Windows are what make it crash. Because of this, Linux will lose one of it's best assets; stability. Also, what happens when you want to run linux on non-x86 hardware? There goes linux portability.
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It also help developers. They would only have to--or at least should have to--test the driver on one OS for it to function on multiple OS's.
Take for example FreeBSD. AFAIK FreeBSD has a module that allows it to run Linux binary kernel modules like they were it's own. Isn't this the same function that UDI is trying to accomplish? The developer could test their driver on Linux and know it would work on BSD as well.
Now, vendors could create binary only linux drivers, but the fast pace of linux development makes it impractical. Most modules need a recompile when you upgrade the kernel. That would require the vendor to have a recompiled driver for every incremental kernel version.
Huh? When linux was in it's infancy, no vendor published specs purely for the sake of getting a linux driver. Now, with 10M+ users, that's a pretty good reason to publish specs. It sells more hardware. More to the point, they will soon have to publish specs to be competetive. I wonder how many
Again, UDI can only hurt linux. Contrary to what most
Binary only drivers are bad.
UDI encourages binary only drivers which is a Bad Thing. If other OSes want universal drivers, they need to implement Linux driver compatibility. It shouldn't be the other way around. UDI can only hurt linux.
Closed drivers are buggy and they always will be without the open source development model. It's hard enough to get specs for hardware now. Imagine if the hardware vendor had a UDI driver. What would motivate them to release specs then?
Now I don't have definative proof, but a comment above stated that this was not a bug, but a deliberate security hole put there by Microsoft to allow MSN Messenger the ability to log in to Hotmail without a password. With all of the warring going on between MS and AOL, it's pretty believable that this could be exactly what happened.
They admitted the problem but completely downplayed it. It's a hair short of flat out lying about it. That is not the kind of behavior you'd expect from any other multi-billion dollar corporation, but it's what we've all come to know as typical arrogant elitist MS speak.
... you could be bringing Brian one step closer to a lawsuit.
With the way SGI is embracing Linux, I doubt it.
1. What do you think about graphics (i.e. KGI) in the kernel?
2. Now that Redhat is worth billions, have you asked for a raise?
The main problem with IPv4 that IPv6 is trying to solve is a lack of address space. By using IP masquerading, that problem can be alieviated indefinately, at the cost of increasing the lag time. You get one IP address, which you then use IP masquerading to get up to 2^32 (minus oddballs like 127.*) addresses internally. And if that's not enough addressing for you, you can run IP masquerading on each machine of your internal network, increasing the layers indefinately.
:)
IPv6 is way too scary to actually work
Hmmm. I have a friend that puts on cologne, nice clothes, and uses the same old script and jokes time and again and it works for him. He has maybe a half dozen "if conditions". He gets da babe. We make bets on which script she'll fall for. Sad.
Good God No! (tm) He's definately a black hat. Chicks should be hacked for the challenge, not just to exploit. Sad? Very. heheh
I think you missed my humor.
Chicks are by far the most entertaining systems to hack. I highly recommend it. You don't even need good hardware, just good hacking skill, which is probably why most h4x0rs can't hack chicks. Scripts don't work on them.
(Oh, and according to most of the linux hackers, it's a scam, since you can't write a TCP/IP stack in 512 words)
You've never read the story of mel have you? You should try stepping through something like, oh, NES Zelda with an emulator and see how they fit that game into 32k. (Hint: Parts of the executable code are also used as sound samples!)
I could definitely see a TCP/IP stack being implimented in 512 clever bytes. I would hate to debug it though.
If all you want is sex, just act like a dumb jock and drink lots of beer. Intelligence seems to frighten the tee-hee girls. Remember Barbie? "Math is hard!"
If what you want out of life is a deep meaningful relationship with a female geek, just shoot yourself in the head right now. Odds are you won't be the geek guy that hooks up with the one-in-a-million geek girl.
There were about 3000 people at DEFcon this year. About 100 of them were female. Of those women about 20 were geek girls with their boyfriends. The rest were just tee-hee girls that discovered geeks have money.
Why is it the press must focus on overthrowing Microsoft in the mainstream market? Why does everybody insist that Microsoft is the evil empire and that Linux is their tool to defeat it?
I use Linux because if I don't like it, I can change it. That ability will never go away. The whole concept of copyleft has changed all of the rules.
Microsoft is NOT the enemy and it never has been. Linux will only die if the developers lose their love for it and leave. It might lose market share or gain it. It really doesn't matter to anybody except the marketroids. Linux will always be there and most of use don't give a damn what percentage of computers run it.
Linux needs this support. Not everybody can just buy a 'real' modem. Yes, winmodems suck ass, but almost every new laptop comes with a winmodem. Winmodems have less chips and require a lot less power than a normal modem which makes them ideal in the OEM's view for laptops. You can get real pcmcia modems, but even most of the new pcmcia modems are winmodems.
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It's trivial to make any program a shared library or a callable object through object brokers like CORBA or COM, so you can easily circumvent license restrictions about derived works if you are considering copyright law alone. However, licenses are a combination of copyright law and contract law, and under contract law you can be restricted from performing certain activities that the software author might consider the creation of a derived work, activities that you would otherwise be permitted to do under copyright law. And of course, if you don't except the license, you have no right to use or copy the software at all.
This has always been my qualm with the GPL. The restrictions on derivative works requires more legal power than copyright law alone provides. Enter contract law. Unfortunately contract law doesn't apply here. Reading the GPL doesn't mean you agree to the contract. Using the software doesn't mean you agree to the contract. As an example, clicking "I accept" when the Windows EULA window pops up isn't a legally binding contract.
Even if that fails and somehow the contract becomes legal, all you would need to do, at least in the United States, would be to get an under 18 year old person to modify the text of the GPL to whatever you wanted. It is illegal for a minor to enter into a legal contract.
Be wary folks. The GPL is on shaky ground in the 'derivative works' area.
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When cars became mass-produced, did auto mechanics become celebrities? Think about it.
Working on cars is something most people can do. Not everybody can write their own device drivers though. It's more akin to 'rocket scientist' and 'brain surgeon' than it is to 'auto mechanic'.
The windows EULA says you can not reverse engineer. It also says that if you do not agree to the terms of the agreement, you are entitled to a refund. How many people actually got refunds? If microsoft doesn't honor their side of the agreement, legally you don't have to either.
Is it just me, or does this press release seem like a cheap way to boost their stock prices? I seriously doubt they think their patent will hold up in court. Nobody on /. does, not even the PHBs that read /. It's more like "Hey everybody, we just won a patent that's going to make us rich. Buy our stock. Our ticker symbol is Nasdaq - AHWY"