IIRC, you could still go to start->shutdown and reboot to MS-DOS mode. The disadvantage is of course that now you have to boot windows and then shut it down before you can run a DOS program. My bets are also on some undocumented switch in MSDOS.SYS to turn back on the command prompt options
If nothing like that exists, I would imaging it'd still be possible to hexedit IO.SYS into doing what you want to do, or maybe even something as simple as replacing COMMAND.COM with 4DOS would let you do it.
It seems to me that the author simply lacks experience with RPM. RPM in its more recent incarnations has a Prefix option so that you can define relocations from/usr to/usr/local or from/usr/doc to/usr/share/doc or whatever. You simply specify directories that can be relocated without breaking the package.
That solves the problem of different directories for different distributions. If you are not using the same paths as the packager, you can give options to RPM to move the files to where you want them. Obviously it's not perfect because some programs hard code path information, in which case the directory cannot be relocated and should not be specified in a Prefix line.
The author also says that a standard.tar.gz should be used. I totally disagree with this. CPIO is very similar to tar, but has some distinnct advantages over tar. One such advantage is the ability to read filenames to include from stdin. Of course there is the tar -T option, which may be able to take "-" as an argument, or possibly/dev/stdin to read files from input. Another advantage to cpio is that it deals with device special files and pipes/sockets better than cpio. Of course all of these are moot points, RPM is already using cpio, DEBs use tar. Either way it's about the same thing.
Another concern was the dependency problems. Sometimes package maintainers will list other packages on the requires line. This is a really bad thing to do. RPM will automatically find library dependencies, so there is no need to do this. Packagers who do this are creating the problem, not RPM itself. Do note that RedHat has a habit of doing this, so they are somewhat guilty.
One issue I would like to bring up is that RPM works best on a system when EVERYTHING is an RPM and you do not install any shared libraries as source. I am thinking of making a tool that will generate a small.spec file which given a directory where a program has already been built, it will make install to a buildroot and then package the files into an RPM. That would be usefull for keeping track of programs that are constantly changing, such as those you are updating from CVS and recompiling only the necessary parts.
Finally, there is a need for a better version of alien. Right now alien is severly broken in that you must run as root to get good results. Alien should instead read the permissions and any device special information from the source file and use that information when packaging instead of requiring root access.
Perhaps another way to fix the packaging problem is a tool sort of like alien that would conver an RPM from one distro to an RPM of another. Something that could relocate files, fix dependency info, and then create an output RPM with the changed information. Of course I still say if the package is made right in the first place, this is unnecessary
Well, that's a lot to think about, hopefully I got some other people thinking too.
I wouldn't say the Wine team is having much trouble with Win32. You really should check out the newer releases. Wine gets better literally every single day.
Also, I would definitely suggest grabbing the CVS version of Wine. Very few new bugs are introduced, and if so they are fixed quickly. Most patches that make it past Alexandre actually fix a problem, not introduce a new one
I still think trying to make an exact clone of Windows is a bad idea. It'd be better/easier just to use an existing UNIX kernel and Wine.
Hey, not to bite your head off, but watch the stereotypes there. I plan on voting for the best person for the job whether it be republican, democrat, or maybe even a smaller party. I have no problem whatsoever with people who have a different sexual preference than mine. Being only 20 and coming up on the first real election I get to vote in, I guess I can't exactly declare myself as part of any party just yet. I also suppose I am more independent. But in the past despite not being able to vote for candidates, I have liked a lot of the ideas of the republican party, except for the vocal minority who like to make sexual preference a political issue.
Actually, the major portion of an RPM is a cpio containing the package files. The rest of it is things like install/remove scripts and package dependency information. You can always rpm2cpio some.rpm | cpio -t to get a list of the files.
You could always try running the windows program under Wine. Get the latest 20000716 release if you feel like trying it. Also, check the newsgroup about a patch to fix compiling with OpenGL and XFree86 4.0 (4.0.1 will work fine though). Or just "./configure --disable-opengl" if you have XFree86 4.0 and don't care about OpenGL anyway.
There are several ways to send spam, for more information, look at the MAPS website.
One type of SPAM comes directly from a dial-up account to your ISP's mail-server. This type of spam can be prevented if your ISP uses the MAPS DUL (Dialup User List). The idea is that no-one should be using a dynamically assigned IP to send mail, they should forward through their ISP's mail-server. Spammers don't want to do this though, because their ISP's mail-server will keep a very detailed log the messages sent.
Many times spammers will find what is known as an open relay. An open relay is a system which is accepting mail from anywhere and sending mail to anywhere. In the old days (that is, a few years ago) that was common practice. Now that spammers abuse this, any system which is an open relay and has been known to have had spam sent through it and has been reported to MAPS will be placed into the MAPS RSS (Relay Spam Stopper). Again, you must encourage your ISP to use the RSS to filter mail. There is one drawback to the RSS though: it blocks ALL mail from an otherwise legitimate mail-server. However, if the sysadmin of that mail-server gets his act together and stops the open relay, the system will be immediately removed from the MAPS RSS. The sysadmin can even contact MAPS for help, and there are volunteers available to help with server configuration.
The final list is the RBL, which is the one that is being challenged. The RBL is very unlike the other two lists. The RBL exists to stop known spammers. By using the RBL, a sysadmin is really putting his/her trust in MAPS. Personally, I do use the RBL because it does help keep the spam problem down. To get on the RBL, there must be a repeated abuse shown. The reason MAPS wants to add yesmail to the RBL is because they are being bad net citizens by allowing anyone to enter anyones e-mail address to subscribe to one of yesmail's mailing lists. So basically, one of your friends (or enemies) could send them your address and you would start receiving "marketing materials" from them on a regular basis. It is then your responsibility to opt-out of the list that you didn't even opt-in to in the first place!
What MAPS would rather see is for them to send one and only one e-mail to the address that contains further instructions to verify that the e-mail should really be subscribed to the list. If the person who receives the e-mail actually wants to be subscribed, then it is only one extra step for him/her. If the person does not want the e-mail, he/she does not have to do anything because yesmail should never send further correspondence unless requested to again.
Those are the basic facts about what is going on. I am sure several people have submitted yesmail to the RBL. Obviously, there are plenty of MAPS RBL subscribers who want yesmail on the RBL. Note that your ISP must subscribe to the RBL to actually have the e-mail blocked.
Now, for those of you saying that you don't want your ISP to use the services of MAPS, I say, tough shit, take it up with them. Do not forget that it is your ISP's server space and you are merely leasing the rights to use it and have an e-mail account and accesss and so on. If you don't like them filtering by the MAPS lists, then either ask them specifically not to filter your mail (which can be done) or get another ISP. Personally, I think you are crazy if you don't want your mail filtered by the MAPS lists, but to each his own I guess.
Anyway, talk to your ISP about filtering using MAPS and see if they will do it. Mention that it does reduce the load on their server resources because they no longer have to store and transmit mail that you don't want to see anyway!!
After totally shooting you down on the whole frenchman thing, I will definitely say that this article is very good. I especially like this part:
Although today's Net-connected youth are denounced for being technology-addicted or socially isolated, the truth is they use the Net and the Web to communicate with one another, not to disconnect. For them, the Net is a social as well as a technological medium. They gather in chat rooms, on mailing lists and messaging systems and form enduring relationships that frequently last for years.
I was talking to my mom about this only a couple weeks ago. Her long-time friend from high-school said the very stereotypical "Technology is isolating everyone". Her argument was exactly yours.. technology isn't isolating people, it's bringing them together. My mom and I chat on ICQ often. My mom and her cousin also chat on ICQ all the time. Technology is actually bringing the people who use it closer together. It's unfortunate that most people don't understand this.
In about a month my mom will be selling her house here and moving to retire with my dad. I'll still be able to talk with her through ICQ just like I do now. She'll still be able to talk to her cousin, and her friends up here, even though she'll be miles away.
I now ask anyone to even think about saying that technology is destroying our social interactions. In my opinion, it's improving them!
The Senator Kelly commercial is actually shown on Fox TV. It was on last night on Fox 32 Chicago. Check your TV listings for more info. Sorry, TV-Guide's site is kind of lame with Netscape/Linux, and a search for X-Men didn't show anything, maybe someone else will have better luck.
Here's an idea: Why not stop bitching and go make some money. It sickens me that people think they have a god-given right for everyone to be equal. I believe the phrase was supposed to be "are created equal" and not "are equal". If you don't like your situation, then get off your ass and do something about it other than complaining that you are being treated unfairly and thus deserve yet another dumb law to be passed to help your situation
If I don't like it, I am going to read it, and I am going to make my voice known. Of course that has the unfortunate side effect of actually helping Katz's career because after all, he basically gets paid to write sensationalist crap so that everyone can bootstomp his ass in the comments system and Slashdot gets more advertising revenue from everyone continuing to post comments
Yeah, my sentiments exactly dude... but it's generally better I would think to at least try to post a well thought out response (see all of mine, though I also found the need for the F word). Still, you are right on
If I were you, I'd read some of the comments and find out the real truth (unless that whole message was sarcasm, in which case... carry on). However, it sickens me that it got moderated up to 2 for basically saying "Yeah d00d, c00l art1cle"
And for those who refer to the Boston Tea Party as a protest against big business, get the facts right. The East India Company was a royal charter company -- which means they were essentially an extension of British government interests, owned by the Royal family, granted military-backed monopolies who used captured prisoners as slave labor. They made Microsoft look like the FSF.
Right on dude.. lemme guess, it took about 2 seconds to search for the facts on the Boston Tea Party if you didn't already know them. For christ's sake, we have a whole fucking World Wide Web at our fingertips (just open another browser window while writing your comment) and most people on here don't seem to know how to fucking use it.
The subject says it all cocklick. There seem to be several instances of vandalism. The one with the 28-year old manager is true, but was a different incident. See comment #311 for a link to the story at libres.org(in french, use bablefish if you need to).
See this comment for more info. It contains a link to an article you might want to read. Essentially he condemned the terrorist action, but it was done by a member of his so-called trade union. It sounds to me like there have been several incidents between his group and McDonalds.
The article basically says that he totally denies the fact that he had anything to do with the incident in which the woman was killed. It sounds to me like there is just a little bit of bullshit in that.
I would love to know why people are defending this person despite the fact that he at least had something to do with the murder of a person.
Also, trashing someone's private property for a political cause is most definitely not civil disobedience. Please do not tarnish that term.
Please read this comment of mine which contains a section explaining that McDonalds is not a monopoly.
The Boston Tea Party was a different situation with people fighting directly against a government handed tea monopoly and the military of that British government. This is an act of terrorism against a U.S. company, but it is the French government that will have to deal with this sorry bastard and his so-called trade union members.
Since when is McDonalds a monopoly? Do I need to draw you a picture to understand this? Maybe I should just take one of a typical city with a McDonalds. There are plenty of other places I can go for a burger.
On the other hand, Microsoft is a monopoly. They use their business practices to drive out other companies. There is no question whatsoever that Microsoft is a monopoly.
I am a firm support of anti-trust laws. If you can't play nice with the other children, then you deserve to be punished. However, running a legitimate business of selling burgers and coexisting with several other places that sell burgers does not even come close to a monopoly. Yes, it is corporatism. Yes, corporations can be bad. Yes, I am extremely glad that there are people care about the effects corporations are having on the rest of the world. However, terrorism is not the solution.
Sorry for the blunt subject, but it had to be said. I am so sick of hearing this bullshit that you spew out on Slashdot on a regular basis. However, you have a fucking right to spew it out, and I am not about to challenge that in any way. I am extremely thankfull that Slashdot has a comments system where everyone can see both sides of the issue and not just what your opinion is. Thank god that you did find the perfect medium for your work.
Trashing a McDonalds and being possibly responsible for the murder of a 28-year-old woman is not civil disobedience. It is fucking murder plain and simple. Yes, I do live in a country founded because of a revolutionary war. Yes, war is hell, it's never pretty. Comparing this to the start of the revolutionary war is ludicrous. If one wants to start a war, he should fucking start a war and not do this petty trash a McDonalds shit.
Comparing it to the boston tea party is a big maybe. The ship had a military escort, and the fighting was not only against trashing the icon of the tea company, but was a big fuck you to the british military as well. Also, IIRC, wasn't the tea company a government handed monopoly as well? In contrast, McDonald's is just a corporation. Yes, they are big-- they make a lot of money, but you know what, they do it fair and square. They don't have a monopoly on hamburgers or any shit like that; if you want to you can go to Burger King or Wendy's or a bunch of other smaller chains, or even a local burger joint. Honestly, the US government could really give a flying fuck about some dude trashing a McDonald's in another country. That is the French governments responsibility, and I hope they hit this motherfucker with everything they possibly can.
This is exactly how I am planning on making my money (so please god tell me this is gonna work!).
Fortunately I am in College still and am planning on writing some software in my free time that I plan to sell. It will be GPLed because I refuse to write a piece of proprietary software (my ideals getting in the way of my wallet there).
The way I figure it, if I price my service decently, I will be the author of the program and the one person who will know the code the best. If people are cheap and want to go to someone else, that is fine, because I only want the big money-making customers anyway!!
Hey, it might not mike Microsoft-like profits, but it oughtta make a living.
-Dave
P.S. I'd like to moderate you up but I already posted:(, so hopefully someone else will take the hint;^)
Ummm.. why... if you are going to use a GPLed piece of code, you need to GPL the program you are using it in, so that prety much already takes care of all of those requirements.
Of course it seems that you don't want to even make it available unless those requirements are met, unlike the GPL which would let you see it, but not use it in something.
Or maybe you would like to allow companies that meet those requirements to use the code in a closed-source project... definitely not going to happen, not my code anyways.
If I release something GPL I am letting anyone use it so long as they grant everyone else the priviledge. That is fine by me. I have also released code under the X11 license (basically free for all). That is also fine for me, and I actually would prefer to see more X11 licensed code, especially for really simple stuff.
Honestly, I don't exactly see the point of what you are proposing (and it almost seems like you are just trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are just ignorant).
First of all, being one step closer to 1984 is like living in a "nazi utopia". Do you honestly believe that making encryption illegal would stop anyone from using it? Also, consider that this was during war time for war. Assuming encryption was illegal, I am sure every government would still encrypt their own data.
It is vitally important that we continue to come up with better and better encryption algorithms. Don't forget, the allies encrypted data too. Apparently we had better encryption! Either that or the nazi's screwed up and didn't even think about cracking it, or didn't have the resources to crack it.
Remember that one way to crack RSA is to factor the numbers. RSA relies on the fact that factoring is a tough algorithm for a normal computer. However, there are already algorithms for quantum computers to factor in a reasonable amount of time. Just a few weeks ago there was a story about the US Gov't (or someone, I think it was Gov't related) building a quantum computer.... hmmmm.... wonder what they'll be using that for!
Incidently, I think one of the flaws of the enigma machine was that revealing the algorithm to the opposition really weakened the encryption. That is another reason why we should be using public algorithms that people have hammered on and are known to be safe.
Okay, I'll admit, it took me a good minute or two of reading the site to sit there and go, ummm... what the.. OH! HAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHHAA!
What threw me off was the calling it hydroxylic acid or hydrogen hydroxide, until I realized that an hydroxide is an OH, so hydrogen hydroxide is HOH which is H2O. I also just realized that hydroxylic (HO, but that's a stretch of terminology) acid (H) is also H2O.
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IIRC, you could still go to start->shutdown and reboot to MS-DOS mode. The disadvantage is of course that now you have to boot windows and then shut it down before you can run a DOS program. My bets are also on some undocumented switch in MSDOS.SYS to turn back on the command prompt options
If nothing like that exists, I would imaging it'd still be possible to hexedit IO.SYS into doing what you want to do, or maybe even something as simple as replacing COMMAND.COM with 4DOS would let you do it.
-Dave
It seems to me that the author simply lacks experience with RPM. RPM in its more recent incarnations has a Prefix option so that you can define relocations from /usr to /usr/local or from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc or whatever. You simply specify directories that can be relocated without breaking the package.
That solves the problem of different directories for different distributions. If you are not using the same paths as the packager, you can give options to RPM to move the files to where you want them. Obviously it's not perfect because some programs hard code path information, in which case the directory cannot be relocated and should not be specified in a Prefix line.
The author also says that a standard .tar.gz should be used. I totally disagree with this. CPIO is very similar to tar, but has some distinnct advantages over tar. One such advantage is the ability to read filenames to include from stdin. Of course there is the tar -T option, which may be able to take "-" as an argument, or possibly /dev/stdin to read files from input. Another advantage to cpio is that it deals with device special files and pipes/sockets better than cpio. Of course all of these are moot points, RPM is already using cpio, DEBs use tar. Either way it's about the same thing.
Another concern was the dependency problems. Sometimes package maintainers will list other packages on the requires line. This is a really bad thing to do. RPM will automatically find library dependencies, so there is no need to do this. Packagers who do this are creating the problem, not RPM itself. Do note that RedHat has a habit of doing this, so they are somewhat guilty.
One issue I would like to bring up is that RPM works best on a system when EVERYTHING is an RPM and you do not install any shared libraries as source. I am thinking of making a tool that will generate a small .spec file which given a directory where a program has already been built, it will make install to a buildroot and then package the files into an RPM. That would be usefull for keeping track of programs that are constantly changing, such as those you are updating from CVS and recompiling only the necessary parts.
Finally, there is a need for a better version of alien. Right now alien is severly broken in that you must run as root to get good results. Alien should instead read the permissions and any device special information from the source file and use that information when packaging instead of requiring root access.
Perhaps another way to fix the packaging problem is a tool sort of like alien that would conver an RPM from one distro to an RPM of another. Something that could relocate files, fix dependency info, and then create an output RPM with the changed information. Of course I still say if the package is made right in the first place, this is unnecessary
Well, that's a lot to think about, hopefully I got some other people thinking too.
-Dave
I wouldn't say the Wine team is having much trouble with Win32. You really should check out the newer releases. Wine gets better literally every single day.
Also, I would definitely suggest grabbing the CVS version of Wine. Very few new bugs are introduced, and if so they are fixed quickly. Most patches that make it past Alexandre actually fix a problem, not introduce a new one
I still think trying to make an exact clone of Windows is a bad idea. It'd be better/easier just to use an existing UNIX kernel and Wine.
Hey, not to bite your head off, but watch the stereotypes there. I plan on voting for the best person for the job whether it be republican, democrat, or maybe even a smaller party. I have no problem whatsoever with people who have a different sexual preference than mine. Being only 20 and coming up on the first real election I get to vote in, I guess I can't exactly declare myself as part of any party just yet. I also suppose I am more independent. But in the past despite not being able to vote for candidates, I have liked a lot of the ideas of the republican party, except for the vocal minority who like to make sexual preference a political issue.
Actually, the major portion of an RPM is a cpio containing the package files. The rest of it is things like install/remove scripts and package dependency information. You can always rpm2cpio some.rpm | cpio -t to get a list of the files.
You could always try running the windows program under Wine. Get the latest 20000716 release if you feel like trying it. Also, check the newsgroup about a patch to fix compiling with OpenGL and XFree86 4.0 (4.0.1 will work fine though). Or just "./configure --disable-opengl" if you have XFree86 4.0 and don't care about OpenGL anyway.
There are several ways to send spam, for more information, look at the MAPS website.
One type of SPAM comes directly from a dial-up account to your ISP's mail-server. This type of spam can be prevented if your ISP uses the MAPS DUL (Dialup User List). The idea is that no-one should be using a dynamically assigned IP to send mail, they should forward through their ISP's mail-server. Spammers don't want to do this though, because their ISP's mail-server will keep a very detailed log the messages sent.
Many times spammers will find what is known as an open relay. An open relay is a system which is accepting mail from anywhere and sending mail to anywhere. In the old days (that is, a few years ago) that was common practice. Now that spammers abuse this, any system which is an open relay and has been known to have had spam sent through it and has been reported to MAPS will be placed into the MAPS RSS (Relay Spam Stopper). Again, you must encourage your ISP to use the RSS to filter mail. There is one drawback to the RSS though: it blocks ALL mail from an otherwise legitimate mail-server. However, if the sysadmin of that mail-server gets his act together and stops the open relay, the system will be immediately removed from the MAPS RSS. The sysadmin can even contact MAPS for help, and there are volunteers available to help with server configuration.
The final list is the RBL, which is the one that is being challenged. The RBL is very unlike the other two lists. The RBL exists to stop known spammers. By using the RBL, a sysadmin is really putting his/her trust in MAPS. Personally, I do use the RBL because it does help keep the spam problem down. To get on the RBL, there must be a repeated abuse shown. The reason MAPS wants to add yesmail to the RBL is because they are being bad net citizens by allowing anyone to enter anyones e-mail address to subscribe to one of yesmail's mailing lists. So basically, one of your friends (or enemies) could send them your address and you would start receiving "marketing materials" from them on a regular basis. It is then your responsibility to opt-out of the list that you didn't even opt-in to in the first place!
What MAPS would rather see is for them to send one and only one e-mail to the address that contains further instructions to verify that the e-mail should really be subscribed to the list. If the person who receives the e-mail actually wants to be subscribed, then it is only one extra step for him/her. If the person does not want the e-mail, he/she does not have to do anything because yesmail should never send further correspondence unless requested to again.
Those are the basic facts about what is going on. I am sure several people have submitted yesmail to the RBL. Obviously, there are plenty of MAPS RBL subscribers who want yesmail on the RBL. Note that your ISP must subscribe to the RBL to actually have the e-mail blocked.
Now, for those of you saying that you don't want your ISP to use the services of MAPS, I say, tough shit, take it up with them. Do not forget that it is your ISP's server space and you are merely leasing the rights to use it and have an e-mail account and accesss and so on. If you don't like them filtering by the MAPS lists, then either ask them specifically not to filter your mail (which can be done) or get another ISP. Personally, I think you are crazy if you don't want your mail filtered by the MAPS lists, but to each his own I guess.
Anyway, talk to your ISP about filtering using MAPS and see if they will do it. Mention that it does reduce the load on their server resources because they no longer have to store and transmit mail that you don't want to see anyway!!
After totally shooting you down on the whole frenchman thing, I will definitely say that this article is very good. I especially like this part:
I was talking to my mom about this only a couple weeks ago. Her long-time friend from high-school said the very stereotypical "Technology is isolating everyone". Her argument was exactly yours.. technology isn't isolating people, it's bringing them together. My mom and I chat on ICQ often. My mom and her cousin also chat on ICQ all the time. Technology is actually bringing the people who use it closer together. It's unfortunate that most people don't understand this.
In about a month my mom will be selling her house here and moving to retire with my dad. I'll still be able to talk with her through ICQ just like I do now. She'll still be able to talk to her cousin, and her friends up here, even though she'll be miles away.
I now ask anyone to even think about saying that technology is destroying our social interactions. In my opinion, it's improving them!
The Senator Kelly commercial is actually shown on Fox TV. It was on last night on Fox 32 Chicago. Check your TV listings for more info. Sorry, TV-Guide's site is kind of lame with Netscape/Linux, and a search for X-Men didn't show anything, maybe someone else will have better luck.
Here's an idea: Why not stop bitching and go make some money. It sickens me that people think they have a god-given right for everyone to be equal. I believe the phrase was supposed to be "are created equal" and not "are equal". If you don't like your situation, then get off your ass and do something about it other than complaining that you are being treated unfairly and thus deserve yet another dumb law to be passed to help your situation
If I don't like it, I am going to read it, and I am going to make my voice known. Of course that has the unfortunate side effect of actually helping Katz's career because after all, he basically gets paid to write sensationalist crap so that everyone can bootstomp his ass in the comments system and Slashdot gets more advertising revenue from everyone continuing to post comments
Yeah, my sentiments exactly dude... but it's generally better I would think to at least try to post a well thought out response (see all of mine, though I also found the need for the F word). Still, you are right on
If I were you, I'd read some of the comments and find out the real truth (unless that whole message was sarcasm, in which case... carry on). However, it sickens me that it got moderated up to 2 for basically saying "Yeah d00d, c00l art1cle"
Right on dude.. lemme guess, it took about 2 seconds to search for the facts on the Boston Tea Party if you didn't already know them. For christ's sake, we have a whole fucking World Wide Web at our fingertips (just open another browser window while writing your comment) and most people on here don't seem to know how to fucking use it.
The subject says it all cocklick. There seem to be several instances of vandalism. The one with the 28-year old manager is true, but was a different incident. See comment #311 for a link to the story at libres.org(in french, use bablefish if you need to).
See this comment for more info. It contains a link to an article you might want to read. Essentially he condemned the terrorist action, but it was done by a member of his so-called trade union. It sounds to me like there have been several incidents between his group and McDonalds.
The article basically says that he totally denies the fact that he had anything to do with the incident in which the woman was killed. It sounds to me like there is just a little bit of bullshit in that.
I would love to know why people are defending this person despite the fact that he at least had something to do with the murder of a person.
Also, trashing someone's private property for a political cause is most definitely not civil disobedience. Please do not tarnish that term.
Please read this comment of mine which contains a section explaining that McDonalds is not a monopoly.
The Boston Tea Party was a different situation with people fighting directly against a government handed tea monopoly and the military of that British government. This is an act of terrorism against a U.S. company, but it is the French government that will have to deal with this sorry bastard and his so-called trade union members.
Lock him up for good!
Since when is McDonalds a monopoly? Do I need to draw you a picture to understand this? Maybe I should just take one of a typical city with a McDonalds. There are plenty of other places I can go for a burger.
On the other hand, Microsoft is a monopoly. They use their business practices to drive out other companies. There is no question whatsoever that Microsoft is a monopoly.
I am a firm support of anti-trust laws. If you can't play nice with the other children, then you deserve to be punished. However, running a legitimate business of selling burgers and coexisting with several other places that sell burgers does not even come close to a monopoly. Yes, it is corporatism. Yes, corporations can be bad. Yes, I am extremely glad that there are people care about the effects corporations are having on the rest of the world. However, terrorism is not the solution.
Sorry for the blunt subject, but it had to be said. I am so sick of hearing this bullshit that you spew out on Slashdot on a regular basis. However, you have a fucking right to spew it out, and I am not about to challenge that in any way. I am extremely thankfull that Slashdot has a comments system where everyone can see both sides of the issue and not just what your opinion is. Thank god that you did find the perfect medium for your work.
Trashing a McDonalds and being possibly responsible for the murder of a 28-year-old woman is not civil disobedience. It is fucking murder plain and simple. Yes, I do live in a country founded because of a revolutionary war. Yes, war is hell, it's never pretty. Comparing this to the start of the revolutionary war is ludicrous. If one wants to start a war, he should fucking start a war and not do this petty trash a McDonalds shit.
Comparing it to the boston tea party is a big maybe. The ship had a military escort, and the fighting was not only against trashing the icon of the tea company, but was a big fuck you to the british military as well. Also, IIRC, wasn't the tea company a government handed monopoly as well? In contrast, McDonald's is just a corporation. Yes, they are big-- they make a lot of money, but you know what, they do it fair and square. They don't have a monopoly on hamburgers or any shit like that; if you want to you can go to Burger King or Wendy's or a bunch of other smaller chains, or even a local burger joint. Honestly, the US government could really give a flying fuck about some dude trashing a McDonald's in another country. That is the French governments responsibility, and I hope they hit this motherfucker with everything they possibly can.
Right on brother (or sister)!
This is exactly how I am planning on making my money (so please god tell me this is gonna work!).
Fortunately I am in College still and am planning on writing some software in my free time that I plan to sell. It will be GPLed because I refuse to write a piece of proprietary software (my ideals getting in the way of my wallet there).
The way I figure it, if I price my service decently, I will be the author of the program and the one person who will know the code the best. If people are cheap and want to go to someone else, that is fine, because I only want the big money-making customers anyway!!
Hey, it might not mike Microsoft-like profits, but it oughtta make a living.
-Dave
P.S. I'd like to moderate you up but I already posted :(, so hopefully someone else will take the hint ;^)
Ummm.. why... if you are going to use a GPLed piece of code, you need to GPL the program you are using it in, so that prety much already takes care of all of those requirements.
Of course it seems that you don't want to even make it available unless those requirements are met, unlike the GPL which would let you see it, but not use it in something.
Or maybe you would like to allow companies that meet those requirements to use the code in a closed-source project... definitely not going to happen, not my code anyways.
If I release something GPL I am letting anyone use it so long as they grant everyone else the priviledge. That is fine by me. I have also released code under the X11 license (basically free for all). That is also fine for me, and I actually would prefer to see more X11 licensed code, especially for really simple stuff.
Honestly, I don't exactly see the point of what you are proposing (and it almost seems like you are just trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are just ignorant).
First of all, being one step closer to 1984 is like living in a "nazi utopia". Do you honestly believe that making encryption illegal would stop anyone from using it? Also, consider that this was during war time for war. Assuming encryption was illegal, I am sure every government would still encrypt their own data.
It is vitally important that we continue to come up with better and better encryption algorithms. Don't forget, the allies encrypted data too. Apparently we had better encryption! Either that or the nazi's screwed up and didn't even think about cracking it, or didn't have the resources to crack it.
Remember that one way to crack RSA is to factor the numbers. RSA relies on the fact that factoring is a tough algorithm for a normal computer. However, there are already algorithms for quantum computers to factor in a reasonable amount of time. Just a few weeks ago there was a story about the US Gov't (or someone, I think it was Gov't related) building a quantum computer.... hmmmm.... wonder what they'll be using that for!
Incidently, I think one of the flaws of the enigma machine was that revealing the algorithm to the opposition really weakened the encryption. That is another reason why we should be using public algorithms that people have hammered on and are known to be safe.
-Dave
Hey, thanks dude.
Okay, I'll admit, it took me a good minute or two of reading the site to sit there and go, ummm... what the.. OH! HAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHHAA!
What threw me off was the calling it hydroxylic acid or hydrogen hydroxide, until I realized that an hydroxide is an OH, so hydrogen hydroxide is HOH which is H2O. I also just realized that hydroxylic (HO, but that's a stretch of terminology) acid (H) is also H2O.
BTW.. Dihydrogen Monoxide is a joke, but please don't ruin it, because it's funny as hell reading it and then when you finally realize what DHMO is.