Considering that Jiri happens to be the original copyright holder of the code in question, they DO very probably understand what they are or are not allowed to do with regards to the licensing of the code. Since HE does NOT need licensing to produce it, relicense it, etc. he can do with his code what he sees fit to do.
This would likely have made it into an official patch set if it could have been verified that Jiri did the change.
Still, no story really here other than Theo and company being their usual abrasive selves- move along seems fitting still...
And even more hilarious is that the **ORIGINAL AUTHOR** did it in the first place.
It's about Theo and company getting their panties in a wad over any percieved "stealing" of their codebase from the OpenBSD tree and relicensing it under the GPL. What the dummies didn't get was that the contribution and re-release of the code was under the GPL V2 by the original author which has the right to do whatever he damn well pleases with it if he's not breaching the Copyrights of other contributors to a given piece in the process of relicensing it.
If the original author did this, Theo and company need to put a brown paper bag over their heads...
Which is actually bogus. If I, an Indie, WISH to have my music given airtime without royalties, then it SHOULD. If I've got arrangements with the performers I'm streaming over the wire, I shouldn't HAVE to be required to participate in that racket- which is all this is.
It's only unfortunate if you're Capitol Records. >;-)
For the rest of us, I think it's time to grab a bowl of popcorn or some equally suitable munchie and sit back and watch them squirm- this is going to be fun.
Nothing like the flash demil process on computer gear. And yeah, I'd be a bit uneasy about needing that level of security, but with where that comm gear (and you) is at, I wouldn't have it any other way really.
Excuse me, but the Ozone Hole is more due to seasonal variations than anything else.
Freon == Heavier than Air substance.
Mt. Pinatubo dumped more REACTIVE Chlorine into the upper atmosphere than we ever dumped into the environment with Freons.
Did we lose the ozone layer completely? NO. It didn't do much of any bobble in the thing.
Ozone is produced by UV impingement on the outer layers of our atmosphere. Bet you didn't realize that there's a period of about 6 months where there is NO SUNLIGHT over the pole where they were measuring.
To be sure, there may be some science behind the Freon theory- but unfortunately everything that the anti-freon people have tossed up is bad science, much like the Global Ice Age and Global Warming people that followed them. And the whole thing is really little more than a THEORY that is not backed up by research (Here's a hint for you, WE may have quit producing Freons, but the rest of the world HAS NOT.) I have little problem believing something might be happening- but you've got to base your statements on fact and solid science before I will.
More unfortunately, not a single jot of what has been floated before is really good science- they need to show their work instead of doing the "And a Miracle Happens" crap they've been doing for some time now.
Global Warming may be happening- but the models that people keep throwing about just look at Carbon Dioxide emissions as being the culprit. It's the boogeyman du jour, really. Before we had Global Warming, there were hints at a possible "New Ice Age" coming on ten years before Global Warming became in vogue. Before that it was the "hole in the Ozone" caused by Freons.
I will NOT rule out Global Warming as a possibility- but I want these people flogging it to get MUCH BETTER DATA before they go off like they're doing right now. I'd like to do to them like a teacher would a student that put an answer down, but didn't show their work to get there. If this is all they have, they're not showing their work right- this is "And A Miracle Happens" type proof here.
One of the things Stallman and company have not managed to fully explain is how exactly I'm supposed to hunt down the "dirtbags" that take my GPL'ed code and repackage it like... well, BitTorrent. Or Audacity. Never mind adding spyware or whatever. If there's enough of them I'll spend more time in court than at the keyboard writing code contributing to his dream. Why not just use a BSD-style license if what I'm trying to do to begin with is help fellow developers, and just spare myself the post-release gastric discomfort?
One of the things that people flogging that BSD line have not fully managed to explain is how this is ANY different than GPLing it and then not enforcing or a vast myriad number of Open, Free, and Proprietary licenses. If it's getting infringed upon, it's getting infringed upon. The only magic that BSD brings to the table is that the act of closing it up, using it completely as you see fit, is expected and encouraged. I don't want that. So why do you and people like you keep insisting that I just use a license that I don't want to use?
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I wouldn't put it past Benj (Yes, Benj...) to put something like that in there as a joke.
I have a modchip on my Nintendo DS. I don't use it to play games. I have NEVER played a game on it. So why do I have it? So I can run Linux on it. I have no interest playing games, but I do have an interest in a unique hardware device. Should the FBI raid my house?
Wrong answer: Department of Homeland Security Immigration Services, Customs & Immigration Enforcement.
It's been brought under the DHS umbrella. From their website: "Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."
That would depend solely on how much money would be lost if the bubble popped.
Web 2.0 doesn't seem to rate (yet) on the people snorting the green coke scale. Dot-Com had all kinds of VC money being pissed into the breeze. Heh... I wish I had some of that kind of cash right now. >:-)
Each frame, you have a wait for engine idle notification. This is an interrupt. Depending on your implementation of how that is handled, you can be noticeably impacted by the scheduler.
Linus is mostly right- the scheduler is a smallish piece of the whole puzzle. But in the case of a GPU, a stall on the pipeline at the wrong time can and will impact framerates and playability adversely.
Basically speaking, if the transaction completes and they let you leave with your merchandise (gas), they can't go back and "correct" anything- the transaction's DONE. If you submit that "correction" and you can prove they made an error, you can get them in a whole lot of trouble as it's credit fraud at that point in time. Making sure you're charging the right amount at the time of the transaction is your onus as a business owner- just as much as making sure you pay the right amount before leaving is their onus as a customer. Anything else is fraud or theft on the part of the party failing on that whole bargain.
The biggest problem with this thinking would be that you only inject the noise ONCE into the path when you record this way- and some of the analog methods will inject minimal, if any at all, noise into the mix. If it is convertible into audible or visible information consumable by human beings, someone can hack up a means to capture that and re-encode it. Bingo- effectively clean digital copy with NO DRM whatsoever. Now, if you inject artifacts to prevent this, some gear will reproduce the artifacts. It's not the quality of music people are wanting so they buy less.
In the end, this obsession with keeping people from "pirating" is costing them bigtime- and in reality, it's nothing to do with infringements and more to do with control of what people do, what people listen to and watch, etc. It's beginning to cost them because people aren't interested in buying what they're offering.
The reality is HFCS is truly bad for human consumption.
It is not processed by your body like most people think.
Sucrose is a disaccaride composed of one Fructose and one Glucose molecule.
When your body digests it, your body converts it into Fructose and Glucose. The Glucose is used by most of your body. Fructose is largely processed in ONE organ in your body- the Liver. It can use either sugar for fuel and does a conversion of either into Glucogen. Your liver will store roughly one day's worth of glucogen up before converting the rest to FAT. The reason Fructose doesn't change blood serum sugar levels is because it isn't glucose, doesn't largely get converted to it. But it does get into your blood stream all the same and since your body detects a sugar present, it pumps Insulin into the system, causing HUGE spikes in the stuff. What HFCS does is it gets into your blood stream directly, it then causes a huge insulin spike which drives the glucose out of your system while the fructose sits there in your system waiting to be processed by your liver. It gets processed moderately quickly into glucogen by the liver for it's use (a couple of sodas can do this for you) at which time, the liver starts converting it into fats for you to be placed in reserves for a later time.
When you say it's not a cause for obesity, you're mistaken. There's validated research that indicates that HFCS will make fit people (those people you seem to praise in your comment...) fat. There's research that even smallish quantities of it over time will make someone that would otherwise be fine into a Type II Diabetic. What you find in fruit's fine and beneficial. What you find in our food supply is those "large quantities" the stuff you allude to. You can't avoid it unless you're willing to buy the more expensive "organic" foods. Exercise will not help you out as eating it like we all have been doing changes the blood chemistry in your body in a way that even that will not help you do anything except stave off the inevitable.
Heh... It's to KILL the technology and it's use- dead in it's tracks.
They can't control the consumer (and there's a BIG distinction there- they view us all that way, much like a Vampire views the living as cattle, to be fed off of...) and his access to the performers. They make their money via making an artificial, but extreme, scarcity of available content for us to listen to and watch for entertainment purposes. With Internet Radio, they DO NOT have a good way to control it like they do current Radio, TV, and Satellite services. Any single person could set up a "station" on the Internet with enough bandwidth to at least forward it to a streaming repeater server farm like they do with stuff like Live365, or to set up a P2P Streaming engine and do without most of that whole mess. The barriers to entry are nonexistent for someone- literally ANY performer can get their stuff out there through that medium, even ones that are not signed up with the Labels. They don't like that as it doesn't make them money and doesn't let them screw the consumers or the performers like they want to do. You see, with all the other, more traditional means of getting the stuff flipped about, you had to make a cash outlay of a million or more to get anything useful. Now? All you need is to have enough bandwidth on the Connected Internet to provide a stream that's reliable and a way to distribute it to more than one listener, also on the Internet. Pennies on the dollar or worse difference in expense to get it all started.
I would have less of a problem with this if I thought the people I listen to their performances would actually SEE the money in question. But, this isn't the case. It's a sham to kill the whole thing dead so they can go back to their cushy business model that's become waaay outmoded.
You can't take it back when it's an official statement like this. Any attempt to enforce at this point will go down in flames as it was done deliberately and with intent. Witness what happened with SCO v. IBM when SCO ran that line of thought up the flagpole. AT&T had sent out a similarly natured release stating the actual licensing intent- which was NOT the interpretation SCO was trying to run up the flagpole and try to see if the Court saluted it.
Why Microsoft or the drive manufacturer's chose to omit this common optical drive design feature is a bit of a mystery to me, but it is not simply a problem with gamers moving the console while the drive is in operation (although that obviously has to be the cause in at least a few cases).
They're guilty of shaving fractions of a cent here, fractions of a cent there on the BOM of the units. Those partial pennies add up when you're talking about a unit count starting at.5 million and up. They shaved it in that place because they're gambling that nobody would disrupt the machine while it's in operation- which is a garbage assumption. Without those damper/blocker pads, the disk is pretty much free-floating and can bump up against any old thing in the drive when the machine is disturbed in any way-period. Doesn't matter if you're moving it horizontal or vertical- that's just the dead-certain way to scratch the hell out of the disc. It's negligence and a very, very poor design that can damage much more than the Microsoft published discs.
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Considering that Jiri happens to be the original copyright holder of the code in question,
they DO very probably understand what they are or are not allowed to do with regards to
the licensing of the code. Since HE does NOT need licensing to produce it, relicense it, etc.
he can do with his code what he sees fit to do.
This would likely have made it into an official patch set if it could have been verified
that Jiri did the change.
Still, no story really here other than Theo and company being their usual abrasive selves-
move along seems fitting still...
And even more hilarious is that the **ORIGINAL AUTHOR** did it in the first place.
It's about Theo and company getting their panties in a wad over any percieved "stealing" of their
codebase from the OpenBSD tree and relicensing it under the GPL. What the dummies didn't get
was that the contribution and re-release of the code was under the GPL V2 by the original author
which has the right to do whatever he damn well pleases with it if he's not breaching the Copyrights
of other contributors to a given piece in the process of relicensing it.
If the original author did this, Theo and company need to put a brown paper bag over their heads...
Forget manufacturing plants...
What if you could easily reproduce the East Coast Blackout of 2003 at will?
Hacking SCADA systems can do that for you...
Heh... What I could tell people...
Yeah, you just need to loosen up.
(By the by, mnemonic is spelled M-N-E-M-O-N-I-C... >:-) )
Which is actually bogus. If I, an Indie, WISH to have my music given airtime without royalties, then it SHOULD. If I've got arrangements with the performers I'm streaming over the wire, I shouldn't HAVE to be required to participate in that racket- which is all this is.
It's only unfortunate if you're Capitol Records. >;-)
For the rest of us, I think it's time to grab a bowl of popcorn or some equally suitable munchie and sit back and watch them squirm- this is going to be fun.
Heh... Just wait... The Matrix will have you if it doesn't already.
Nothing like the flash demil process on computer gear. And yeah, I'd be a bit uneasy about needing that level of security, but with where that comm gear (and you) is at, I wouldn't have it any other way really.
Excuse me, but the Ozone Hole is more due to seasonal variations than anything else.
Freon == Heavier than Air substance.
Mt. Pinatubo dumped more REACTIVE Chlorine into the upper atmosphere than we ever dumped into the environment with Freons.
Did we lose the ozone layer completely? NO. It didn't do much of any bobble in the thing.
Ozone is produced by UV impingement on the outer layers of our atmosphere. Bet you didn't realize that there's a period of about 6 months where there is NO SUNLIGHT over the pole where they were measuring.
To be sure, there may be some science behind the Freon theory- but unfortunately everything that the anti-freon people have tossed up is bad science, much like the Global Ice Age and Global Warming people that followed them. And the whole thing is really little more than a THEORY that is not backed up by research (Here's a hint for you, WE may have quit producing Freons, but the rest of the world HAS NOT.) I have little problem believing something might be happening- but you've got to base your statements on fact and solid science before I will.
More unfortunately, not a single jot of what has been floated before is really good science- they need to show their work instead of doing the "And a Miracle Happens" crap they've been doing for some time now.
Global Warming may be happening- but the models that people keep throwing about just look at Carbon Dioxide emissions as being the culprit. It's the boogeyman du jour, really. Before we had Global Warming, there were hints at a possible "New Ice Age" coming on ten years before Global Warming became in vogue. Before that it was the "hole in the Ozone" caused by Freons.
I will NOT rule out Global Warming as a possibility- but I want these people flogging it to get MUCH BETTER DATA before they go off like they're doing right now. I'd like to do to them like a teacher would a student that put an answer down, but didn't show their work to get there. If this is all they have, they're not showing their work right- this is "And A Miracle Happens" type proof here.
One of the things that people flogging that BSD line have not fully managed to explain is how this is ANY different than GPLing it and then not enforcing or a vast myriad number of Open, Free, and Proprietary licenses. If it's getting infringed upon, it's getting infringed upon. The only magic that BSD brings to the table is that the act of closing it up, using it completely as you see fit, is expected and encouraged. I don't want that. So why do you and people like you keep insisting that I just use a license that I don't want to use?
I wouldn't put it past Benj (Yes, Benj...) to put something like that in there as a joke.
Very MUCH the case.
Better yet, it proves out my premise that services such as these shouldn't be used for anything mission/business critical- PERIOD.
You'd be asking the same questions I've got for this situation- as everyone should be asking those selfsame questions.
No, but the DHS will be visiting you shortly...
Wrong answer: Department of Homeland Security Immigration Services, Customs & Immigration Enforcement.
:-)
It's been brought under the DHS umbrella. From their website: " Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "
Nice try, but no cigar for you.
That would depend solely on how much money would be lost if the bubble popped.
Web 2.0 doesn't seem to rate (yet) on the people snorting the green coke scale.
Dot-Com had all kinds of VC money being pissed into the breeze. Heh... I wish I
had some of that kind of cash right now. >:-)
But, there IS Output- the GPU is running.
Each frame, you have a wait for engine idle notification. This is an interrupt.
Depending on your implementation of how that is handled, you can be noticeably impacted by the scheduler.
Linus is mostly right- the scheduler is a smallish piece of the whole puzzle. But in the case of a GPU, a stall on the pipeline at the wrong time can and will impact framerates and playability adversely.
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Basically speaking, if the transaction completes and they let you leave with your merchandise (gas), they can't go back and "correct" anything- the transaction's DONE. If you submit that "correction" and you can prove they made an error, you can get them in a whole lot of trouble as it's credit fraud at that point in time. Making sure you're charging the right amount at the time of the transaction is your onus as a business owner- just as much as making sure you pay the right amount before leaving is their onus as a customer. Anything else is fraud or theft on the part of the party failing on that whole bargain.
The biggest problem with this thinking would be that you only inject the noise ONCE into the path when you record this way- and some of the analog methods will inject minimal, if any at all, noise into the mix. If it is convertible into audible or visible information consumable by human beings, someone can hack up a means to capture that and re-encode it. Bingo- effectively clean digital copy with NO DRM whatsoever. Now, if you inject artifacts to prevent this, some gear will reproduce the artifacts. It's not the quality of music people are wanting so they buy less.
In the end, this obsession with keeping people from "pirating" is costing them bigtime- and in reality, it's nothing to do with infringements
and more to do with control of what people do, what people listen to and watch, etc. It's beginning to cost them because people
aren't interested in buying what they're offering.
The reality is HFCS is truly bad for human consumption.
It is not processed by your body like most people think.
Sucrose is a disaccaride composed of one Fructose and one Glucose molecule.
When your body digests it, your body converts it into Fructose and Glucose. The Glucose is used by most of your body. Fructose is largely processed in ONE organ in your body- the Liver. It can use either sugar for fuel and does a conversion of either into Glucogen. Your liver will store roughly one day's worth of glucogen up before converting the rest to FAT. The reason Fructose doesn't change blood serum sugar levels is because it isn't glucose, doesn't largely get converted to it. But it does get into your blood stream all the same and since your body detects a sugar present, it pumps Insulin into the system, causing HUGE spikes in the stuff. What HFCS does is it gets into your blood stream directly, it then causes a huge insulin spike which drives the glucose out of your system while the fructose sits there in your system waiting to be processed by your liver. It gets processed moderately quickly into glucogen by the liver for it's use (a couple of sodas can do this for you) at which time, the liver starts converting it into fats for you to be placed in reserves for a later time.
When you say it's not a cause for obesity, you're mistaken. There's validated research that indicates that HFCS will make fit people (those
people you seem to praise in your comment...) fat. There's research that even smallish quantities of it over time will make someone that would
otherwise be fine into a Type II Diabetic. What you find in fruit's fine and beneficial. What you find in our food supply is those "large
quantities" the stuff you allude to. You can't avoid it unless you're willing to buy the more expensive "organic" foods. Exercise will not
help you out as eating it like we all have been doing changes the blood chemistry in your body in a way that even that will not help you do
anything except stave off the inevitable.
Heh... It's to KILL the technology and it's use- dead in it's tracks.
They can't control the consumer (and there's a BIG distinction there- they view us all that way, much like a Vampire views the living as cattle, to be fed off of...) and his access to the performers. They make their money via making an artificial, but extreme, scarcity of available content for us to listen to and watch for entertainment purposes. With Internet Radio, they DO NOT have a good way to control it like they do current Radio, TV, and Satellite services. Any single person could set up a "station" on the Internet with enough bandwidth to at least forward it to a streaming repeater server farm like they do with stuff like Live365, or to set up a P2P Streaming engine and do without most of that whole mess. The barriers to entry are nonexistent for someone- literally ANY performer can get their stuff out there through that medium, even ones that are not signed up with the Labels. They don't like that as it doesn't make them money and doesn't let them screw the consumers or the performers like they want to do. You see, with all the other, more traditional means of getting the stuff flipped about, you had to make a cash outlay of a million or more to get anything useful. Now? All you need is to have enough bandwidth on the Connected Internet to provide a stream that's reliable and a way to distribute it to more than one listener, also on the Internet. Pennies on the dollar or worse difference in expense to get it all started.
I would have less of a problem with this if I thought the people I listen to their performances would actually SEE the money in question. But, this isn't the case. It's a sham to kill the whole thing dead so they can go back to their cushy business model that's become waaay outmoded.
You can't take it back when it's an official statement like this. Any attempt to enforce
at this point will go down in flames as it was done deliberately and with intent. Witness
what happened with SCO v. IBM when SCO ran that line of thought up the flagpole. AT&T had
sent out a similarly natured release stating the actual licensing intent- which was NOT the
interpretation SCO was trying to run up the flagpole and try to see if the Court saluted it.
They're guilty of shaving fractions of a cent here, fractions of a cent there on the BOM of the units. Those partial pennies add up when you're talking about a unit count starting at
Never fails... Try and correct someone and come out looking the fool instead- especially on Slashdot.
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