Better hope one of those doesn't drop out of the powerplant's containment field and starts bouncing around in the center of the earth. Getting your planet eaten by a black hole would really suck.
So, let me get this straight: He's concerned that we are going to be missing a revolution in biotechnology, and therefore he doesn't want to give money to drive research in biotech. Isn't this a case of the wagon before the horse? I mean, if he's concerned about us missing a revolution, how is he helping by withholding money?
there's no reason to believe that some deus ex machina is suddenly going to save net users from a police state.
You're damn right... I have enough to deal with between school and trolling Slashdot, not to mention crew 6 days a week, to save you all from yourselves. Why don't you all take a little initiative?
In regards to your sig linking to OpenBSD ISOs: the OpenBSD project doesn't distribute ISOs for a reason. They need the money to continue their work on new hardware, and that kind of money comes mainly from CD sales. Please don't be an open source leech and take without giving. Show a little consideration.
Although the parent post may seem like a troll at first glance, it actually raises several interesting problems. One of the first questions that comes to my mind is "How would you write a TCP/IP stack for a nanotube?"
Of course, there are many other intriguing fields of research that this opens up, such as the problem of making a processor that consists of only 1 nanotube and creating some kind of networking interface that would allow individual nanotubes to communicate.
So please, before you go off blindly moderating posts such as these, please think of the questions that they are really asking, rather than your ingrained Slashdot instincts.
The dangers of homogenous network hardware
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Just as it has been shown that there are inherent dangers in having homogenous desktop and server operating systems (witness Code Red and Sircam), it is important that no one vendor's hardware and software control a majority of the internet. Cisco is a single entity, and they can pretty much do as they please as long as they have a huge majority of the market in networking hardware.
Perhaps we should have more use of Linux in routing hardware, as it both runs on commodity hardware like the x86 architecture and it is blazing fast in its networking code. Surely it is nicer in the operating system market to be able to use an OS such as Linux that is unencumbered by patents, battles over which mega-corp controls the desktop icons, and is not controlled by one single entity.
After all, no one ever got fired for replacing Cisco with Linux on x86, as I still have my job and the data center has never been better ever since we stopped shelling out huge amounts of cash for expensive Cisco hardware and expensive routing software.
Wow, I don't know how to express my sorrow at the fact that yet another Linux company has gone out of business. This is horrible. How else am I supposed to get quality games for my favorite operating system? I loved Quake III and Tribes 2, but it looks like there just weren't enough people who share my views.
However, perhaps there is a deeper lesson that can be learned here. Perhaps there really isn't money in open source and Linux. Just look at companies like Eazel and Stormix. And Ximian seems to be following the business model of "give as much away for free before the investors realize what's going on". Could it be that writing software for Linux just isn't profitable?
I mean, I always thought that Slashdot was of the opinion that you use the best tool for the job. Perl for short programs. C for serious jobs. Linux for servers. Wouldn't it follow, then, that people oughta just leave Windows on their computers if they want to play games? After all, Linux is more of a serious operating system, sporting a high powered TCP/IP stack and pitiful OpenGL support, not to mention lackluster drivers for leading video cards. While some people may accuse me of being a troll, I'd like to contend that maybe Linux isn't the best operating system for every job. Also, consider that our leader, CmdrTaco, keeps a Windows partition on his computer just for playing games.
To conclude, althought this is a tragic loss of a leading software developer, perhaps it would be a better choice to just go with the best tool for the job, instead of the best tool for your political views.
Except for the lack of semicolons at the end of statments, Ruby comes off looking incredibly like PHP in its basic syntax. Anyone else care to comment on the possible relation between the languages?
This looks really cool. Sure beats the hell out of learning Perl for system administration scripts, since I already know PHP and have a basic understanding of OOP...
...because this has convinced me to never take a Korean Air flight.
I mean, sure, Linux is great for messing around with or running small to mid-sized servers and for rendering farms, due to the fact that it runs fast on commodity hardware, but would you really trust it to run the airline systems?
I really don't trust Linux as far as stability goes. Sure, it beats the hell out of the stability of something like Windows NT, but there are (and have been for a while) commercially developed systems that were designed soley for reliability (QNX and OS/390 come to mind). While you may have philosophical objections to commercial software (it costs money), you can't deny that there it is nevertheless much more stable and reliable due to it's purpose-built nature. We are talking about systems that just don't have downtime. Period. Linux just doesn't quite live up to that task yet.
Ok, first of all, let's get through the lie that this guy had no idea what DeCSS did when he posted it on his website. Unless he was just a reactionary sheep who mirrors stuff whenever Slashdot tells him to, he had a pretty good idea of what DeCSS could do and why other website operators were having it taken down by the MPAA. He knew what he was doing.
Secondly, the court did the right thing in declaring his actions illegal. It is not the job of the courts to make the laws (as any first year poli-sci major, or, for that matter, almost anyone who's taken US History will tell you). The job of the courts is to enforce the laws, and under the DMCA, the actions of Mr. Pavlovich were unquestionably illegal.
People, if you really hate the DMCA, you should write your congressional representative. What you shouldn't do is sit around on a weblog complaining about how the courts are crooked when they are really just doing their job. Inaction gets you nothing.
Lastly, as anyone who is familiar with the actions and works of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, or Thoreau knows, civil disobedience does not come without a price. If you aren't willing to take the punishment for standing up against unjust laws, then you really shouldn't be breaking the law in the first place. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
even this bill doesn't necessarily solve all of the current problems with copyright law.
Yeah, like our right to have all the free information that we want! GIMME GIMME GIMME! Unless, of course, it is our PERSONAL information! Then, kind sir, YOU STOP RIGHT THERE! No, we at Slashdot aren't hypocrites at all. In fact, we hold the firm belief that programmers should not be paid for their code and, similarly, musicians should not be paid for their music. See? Perfectly consistent.
...but personally, I could never support a court injunction
preventing a company from shipping their product. Isn't this a little like Dmitri being arrested for the "innovation" that he did?
I think that the day that we allow the government to keep a perfectly safe product from shipping is the day that we have finally undermined all our principles of capitalism and the free market.
Intervening in Microsoft's business practices, while it may give the suffering Microserfs some kind of satisfaction, won't really solve anything, and it certainly sets a bad precedent.
Personally, I don't see what everyone's complaining about. I use Linux on a daily basis, and I certainly have seen nothing that would drive me back into the waiting arms of M$. We have a great operating system, what is everyone so scared of M$ for?
Congrats, Slashdot! I was expecting to see another horribly slanted
article where the authors attempt to rationalize stealing from others and otherwise breaking the law, but I was pleasantly surprised
to see that the attitude of the article, so to speak, wasn't "yeah, man! Steal MP3s and pirate software, 'cause when you do that, your taking a swing at the man, man!"
Slashdot Mirror
(Has anyone else read David Brin's Earth?)
Yay for open source!
...and you aren't running Linux or another proven OS, then why not just use Windows? Sheesh, looks like a business plan shakier than VA Linux's
That is the most clever play on words that I have seen/heard all week! Thank you!
Who donated? The Rainbow Coalition?
So, let me get this straight: He's concerned that we are going to be missing a revolution in biotechnology, and therefore he doesn't want to give money to drive research in biotech. Isn't this a case of the wagon before the horse? I mean, if he's concerned about us missing a revolution, how is he helping by withholding money?
What the hell is a "Netowrk"?
Really? WOW, I'VE NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE! If I had mod points, you, sir, would get at least 1 (-1, Redundant).
You're damn right... I have enough to deal with between school and trolling Slashdot, not to mention crew 6 days a week, to save you all from yourselves. Why don't you all take a little initiative?
especially regarding the new features you'd a book updated for Solaris 8 to cover.
Did anyone else understand what he was trying to say?
Well, whooptie shit, it matches your furniture. I suppose you bought a Mac too?
has all the grunt I need at home.
Yeah, and for twice the price, how can you go wrong?
Solaris 8 is great too.
If you have a fetish for slow OSes that only work well on massively MP platforms, then yes, Slowaris is great.
In regards to your sig linking to OpenBSD ISOs: the OpenBSD project doesn't distribute ISOs for a reason. They need the money to continue their work on new hardware, and that kind of money comes mainly from CD sales. Please don't be an open source leech and take without giving. Show a little consideration.
Of course, there are many other intriguing fields of research that this opens up, such as the problem of making a processor that consists of only 1 nanotube and creating some kind of networking interface that would allow individual nanotubes to communicate.
So please, before you go off blindly moderating posts such as these, please think of the questions that they are really asking, rather than your ingrained Slashdot instincts.
Perhaps we should have more use of Linux in routing hardware, as it both runs on commodity hardware like the x86 architecture and it is blazing fast in its networking code. Surely it is nicer in the operating system market to be able to use an OS such as Linux that is unencumbered by patents, battles over which mega-corp controls the desktop icons, and is not controlled by one single entity.
After all, no one ever got fired for replacing Cisco with Linux on x86, as I still have my job and the data center has never been better ever since we stopped shelling out huge amounts of cash for expensive Cisco hardware and expensive routing software.
However, perhaps there is a deeper lesson that can be learned here. Perhaps there really isn't money in open source and Linux. Just look at companies like Eazel and Stormix. And Ximian seems to be following the business model of "give as much away for free before the investors realize what's going on". Could it be that writing software for Linux just isn't profitable?
I mean, I always thought that Slashdot was of the opinion that you use the best tool for the job. Perl for short programs. C for serious jobs. Linux for servers. Wouldn't it follow, then, that people oughta just leave Windows on their computers if they want to play games? After all, Linux is more of a serious operating system, sporting a high powered TCP/IP stack and pitiful OpenGL support, not to mention lackluster drivers for leading video cards. While some people may accuse me of being a troll, I'd like to contend that maybe Linux isn't the best operating system for every job. Also, consider that our leader, CmdrTaco, keeps a Windows partition on his computer just for playing games.
To conclude, althought this is a tragic loss of a leading software developer, perhaps it would be a better choice to just go with the best tool for the job, instead of the best tool for your political views.
Only George W. Bush speaks "Mexican". Everyone else speaks what we like to call "Spanish". Especially the Hispanically-owned businesses.
This looks really cool. Sure beats the hell out of learning Perl for system administration scripts, since I already know PHP and have a basic understanding of OOP...
SMP support
Full-screen 32-bit color rendering
Curved 3D surfaces
That's just about all that I can recall besides what you mentioned.
I mean, sure, Linux is great for messing around with or running small to mid-sized servers and for rendering farms, due to the fact that it runs fast on commodity hardware, but would you really trust it to run the airline systems?
I really don't trust Linux as far as stability goes. Sure, it beats the hell out of the stability of something like Windows NT, but there are (and have been for a while) commercially developed systems that were designed soley for reliability (QNX and OS/390 come to mind). While you may have philosophical objections to commercial software (it costs money), you can't deny that there it is nevertheless much more stable and reliable due to it's purpose-built nature. We are talking about systems that just don't have downtime. Period. Linux just doesn't quite live up to that task yet.
Secondly, the court did the right thing in declaring his actions illegal. It is not the job of the courts to make the laws (as any first year poli-sci major, or, for that matter, almost anyone who's taken US History will tell you). The job of the courts is to enforce the laws, and under the DMCA, the actions of Mr. Pavlovich were unquestionably illegal.
People, if you really hate the DMCA, you should write your congressional representative. What you shouldn't do is sit around on a weblog complaining about how the courts are crooked when they are really just doing their job. Inaction gets you nothing.
Lastly, as anyone who is familiar with the actions and works of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, or Thoreau knows, civil disobedience does not come without a price. If you aren't willing to take the punishment for standing up against unjust laws, then you really shouldn't be breaking the law in the first place. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
Who's going to be the first to register "slashdot.info"?
Yeah, like our right to have all the free information that we want! GIMME GIMME GIMME! Unless, of course, it is our PERSONAL information! Then, kind sir, YOU STOP RIGHT THERE! No, we at Slashdot aren't hypocrites at all. In fact, we hold the firm belief that programmers should not be paid for their code and, similarly, musicians should not be paid for their music. See? Perfectly consistent.
Umm... no. I'm running 0.9.2 and it still sucks shit. And I have 128MB of RAM.
Intervening in Microsoft's business practices, while it may give the suffering Microserfs some kind of satisfaction, won't really solve anything, and it certainly sets a bad precedent. Personally, I don't see what everyone's complaining about. I use Linux on a daily basis, and I certainly have seen nothing that would drive me back into the waiting arms of M$. We have a great operating system, what is everyone so scared of M$ for?
Has Slashdot been hacked or something?
All joking aside, please keep up the good work.