At the risk of sounding controversial, I'd like to point out that just about every single person in the computer industry know his position on the patents issue, and discounts it. Why does Mr Stalinmann persist in flogging a dead horse ?
I realise that Asparger's sufferers and autistic savants such as RMS have trouble listening to other people, but surely after banging on about software patents to a disinterested audience for 10 whole years he should by now have got the message!
RMS - give up, the world doesn't care, you are wasting you breath and your time.
The reason the govt does not care about strong crypto is that it almost certainly has figured out how to crack it. Either they have a quantum computer somewhere or more likely an enormous beowulf cluster of E10K Suns that can brute force almost anything. Or maybe they have finally figured out how to factor large prime numbers like Bill Gates predicted.
After all, Cuba is still Communist, and we don't actually know whether they harbour terrorists. PCs are one of the terrorists most vital tools. They help him to organize atrocities, and access illegal information such as bomb-making guides and lock picking HOWTOs. I guess the Cuban government is just making sure that it minimises the risk of these powerful tools getting into the wrong hands
On the Greek story, I think its great that a government can step in and say when something has gone too far. Like, I enjoy a game of galaxians or pacman as much as the next guy, but if I discovered that these games were turning us into a nation of gambling addicts, I would be quite happy for my government to ban them. After all, I am not a sociopath. Im not so self-centered that I cannot see where I need to make a sacrifice for the greater good. The USA could learn a lot from the Cubans and the Greeks.
You have to admire the French. I cannot be the only one who is fed up with this American idea that you must be available at all times. The idea that your employer can contact you whenever they like, that they in effect Own you.
Lets hope these jammers are put in every public place, movie theaters, malls, etc etc. This is a step forward in our evolution. Congratulations to the French.
Interesting that the French often try and do something about Internet problems (e.g. Nazis) whereas the Americans simply sit there, throw their hands up and claim that 'nothing can be done'. The French are showing us the way forward here, we would do well to learn from them.
Ikeya-Zhang is predicted by Nostradamus, in the quatrain:
A fiery ball from the sky
Two Twin brothers fall
The eagle is destroyed
The thirteen horned harlot prepares her bed
This is thought by many scholars to signify the collapse of the USA (eagle) and the rise of the EU (13-horned harlot). The EU backlash against US steel tariffs is a timely reminder of her dormant powers.
If this comet really is the one referred to by Nostradamus, then the end times truly are near. Perhaps the Antichrist will put in an appearence. Mind you, we won't be able to recognise him even if he does:-(
I wonder if any of NASA's astrologers have an opinion on this one ?
To improve security, my company is switching servers from Microsoft to RedHat
If you were genuinely concerned about security you would switch to OpenBSD. Therefore, I can only assume you are trolling. Redhat is not exactly known for its high levels of security. Indeed, at the risk of being accused of working for Microsoft, I would humbly suggest that you might in fact be better off retaining your Microsoft servers if security is that important.
In some ways the 21st century is an echo of the twentieth: science will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future whether it likes it or not, and once again very important work has been done by non scientists.
So true. Even after the Wright brothers had sucessfully demonstrated heavier than air powered flight, East Coast newspapers were still reporting on the 'hoax' and deriding them.
My grandfather lived from seeing horses and carts as the main mode of transport, to seeing Concorde, computers and the Moon landings. If anything the pace of progress is increasing. I expect man will be living on Mars within my lifetime (assuming I don't get hit by a bus).
It became clear to me (when my main machine had to be sent away for repairs for a week) that it's high time to finally divorce myself from any particular computer by using data and software accessible from any internet connected computer as much as possible
It didn't occur to you to get a spare machine, and invest in a CDRW drive or ethernet hub instead ?
It trivialises apple to go down this route
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Apple has no need for fashionable gimmicks. OS X should be enough to see them reach the top of Corporate computer sales. Its a technical tour-de-force that makes Micro$hit look like the bunch of law-breaking IP-theives that they are...
I mean, with the Gnome/KDE/X11 battles and the lack of a consistant user interface, there is little hope of Linux ever making it onto corporate or domestic desktops.
Sure, you zealots can fantasize all you like, but Linux is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Micrsoft OWNS the desktop and is moving into the medium sized server arena. Sun and IBM OWN the high-end server market and are pushing down.
There is no niche left for an operating system hacked together by students, with an appaling security model, and an antideluvian user interface.
You might just as well argue that the Commodore AMIGA would make the ideal corporate PC. It just isn't happening dudes, time to pick upi your toys and go home...
You are so high and mighty. You do realise that it takes years and years of study to become a lawyer or a politician. You do realise that we would live in a violent anarchic society without them. I would much rather live in a world without computer programmers than a world without lawyers or politicians.
As for marketing, it serves a valuable function in a capitalist society. To criticise marketing people is tantamount to supporting Al-Quaeda, after all, without marketing there would be no capitalism, and we all know that Osama Bin Laden would love to see capitalism die.
I wonder how long it will be before the American public gets so fed up with these "scientists" who seem to be constantly getting it wrong that they cease to pay any attention to them at all.
First we get 'global warming' then other scientists disagree, and say there will be another ice age. Then the NASA morons cannot even get a simple thing like a mars probe to land, then they launch that hubbard space telescope which didn't work.
Scientists these days are just stupid and lazy. I blame the terrible state of America's education system.
Surely this kind of problem could be easily avoided if the developers had used 'purify' to check for memory leaks. Or are the open-sourcers too high and mighty to use 'proprietary' software even when it would improve the quality of their code ?
It will either prove once and for all that the GPL is not worth the paper it is written on, OR it will demonstrate to big corporations that they cannot ride roughshod over the open source community.
I say, keep quiet, let your corportation take the legal flak. At least we can then resolve the legal status of the GPL ONCE AND FOR ALL and then move on.
Personally its issues like this that make the BSD license seem so much more "free" than the rather more restrictive and viral GPL
Elements within the CIA may have deliberately targeted the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, without NATO approval, because it was serving as a rebroadcast station for the Yugoslavian army.
The London Observer and Copenhagen's Politiken reported that, according to senior U.S. and European military sources, NATO knew very well where the Chinese embassy was located and listed it as a "strictly prohibited target" at the beginning of the war.
For example: They have never based a machine around a segmented memory processor like the x86 series. They have never had all that fuss with IRQs and DMAs. Basically, they produce an appliance.
PCs are not appliances. Macs are. Its as simple as that.
Certain corporations have a policy of not allowing any references to be given. You might want to check if you work for such a corporation, since they may be able to put you in breach of contract if you give one of their employees a reference.
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I find the community over at the most controversial site on the Internet always provide a thought-provoking discussion of the issues at hand.
I realise that Asparger's sufferers and autistic savants such as RMS have trouble listening to other people, but surely after banging on about software patents to a disinterested audience for 10 whole years he should by now have got the message!
RMS - give up, the world doesn't care, you are wasting you breath and your time.
The reason the govt does not care about strong crypto is that it almost certainly has figured out how to crack it. Either they have a quantum computer somewhere or more likely an enormous beowulf cluster of E10K Suns that can brute force almost anything. Or maybe they have finally figured out how to factor large prime numbers like Bill Gates predicted.
Developers should work in their own sound-proofed offices, preferably without a telephone.
They should only be interrupted under extreme circumstances.
On the Greek story, I think its great that a government can step in and say when something has gone too far. Like, I enjoy a game of galaxians or pacman as much as the next guy, but if I discovered that these games were turning us into a nation of gambling addicts, I would be quite happy for my government to ban them. After all, I am not a sociopath. Im not so self-centered that I cannot see where I need to make a sacrifice for the greater good. The USA could learn a lot from the Cubans and the Greeks.
Lets hope these jammers are put in every public place, movie theaters, malls, etc etc. This is a step forward in our evolution. Congratulations to the French.
Interesting that the French often try and do something about Internet problems (e.g. Nazis) whereas the Americans simply sit there, throw their hands up and claim that 'nothing can be done'. The French are showing us the way forward here, we would do well to learn from them.
A fiery ball from the sky
Two Twin brothers fall
The eagle is destroyed
The thirteen horned harlot prepares her bed
This is thought by many scholars to signify the collapse of the USA (eagle) and the rise of the EU (13-horned harlot). The EU backlash against US steel tariffs is a timely reminder of her dormant powers.
If this comet really is the one referred to by Nostradamus, then the end times truly are near. Perhaps the Antichrist will put in an appearence. Mind you, we won't be able to recognise him even if he does :-(
I wonder if any of NASA's astrologers have an opinion on this one ?
If you were genuinely concerned about security you would switch to OpenBSD. Therefore, I can only assume you are trolling. Redhat is not exactly known for its high levels of security. Indeed, at the risk of being accused of working for Microsoft, I would humbly suggest that you might in fact be better off retaining your Microsoft servers if security is that important.
thank you
So true. Even after the Wright brothers had sucessfully demonstrated heavier than air powered flight, East Coast newspapers were still reporting on the 'hoax' and deriding them.
My grandfather lived from seeing horses and carts as the main mode of transport, to seeing Concorde, computers and the Moon landings. If anything the pace of progress is increasing. I expect man will be living on Mars within my lifetime (assuming I don't get hit by a bus).
It didn't occur to you to get a spare machine, and invest in a CDRW drive or ethernet hub instead ?
Apple has no need for fashionable gimmicks. OS X should be enough to see them reach the top of Corporate computer sales. Its a technical tour-de-force that makes Micro$hit look like the bunch of law-breaking IP-theives that they are...
And yet you keep coming back, time after time...
probably could have done it in 10 lines of Smalltalk then...
Sure, you zealots can fantasize all you like, but Linux is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Micrsoft OWNS the desktop and is moving into the medium sized server arena. Sun and IBM OWN the high-end server market and are pushing down.
There is no niche left for an operating system hacked together by students, with an appaling security model, and an antideluvian user interface.
You might just as well argue that the Commodore AMIGA would make the ideal corporate PC. It just isn't happening dudes, time to pick upi your toys and go home...
It is simply impossible to verify the authenticity of the emails.
As for marketing, it serves a valuable function in a capitalist society. To criticise marketing people is tantamount to supporting Al-Quaeda, after all, without marketing there would be no capitalism, and we all know that Osama Bin Laden would love to see capitalism die.
So think before you post next time !
First we get 'global warming' then other scientists disagree, and say there will be another ice age. Then the NASA morons cannot even get a simple thing like a mars probe to land, then they launch that hubbard space telescope which didn't work.
Scientists these days are just stupid and lazy. I blame the terrible state of America's education system.
Surely this kind of problem could be easily avoided if the developers had used 'purify' to check for memory leaks. Or are the open-sourcers too high and mighty to use 'proprietary' software even when it would improve the quality of their code ?
I say, keep quiet, let your corportation take the legal flak. At least we can then resolve the legal status of the GPL ONCE AND FOR ALL and then move on.
Personally its issues like this that make the BSD license seem so much more "free" than the rather more restrictive and viral GPL
They apparently read adequacy as well. Adequacy yanked a highly controversial article about 9-11, due to FBI intervention.
Elements within the CIA may have deliberately targeted the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, without NATO approval, because it was serving as a rebroadcast station for the Yugoslavian army. The London Observer and Copenhagen's Politiken reported that, according to senior U.S. and European military sources, NATO knew very well where the Chinese embassy was located and listed it as a "strictly prohibited target" at the beginning of the war.
PCs are not appliances. Macs are. Its as simple as that.
ClearCase is pretty good though. But then, that was bought from Atria by Rational.
And no, this is not a troll, this is what I really think of him.
Certain corporations have a policy of not allowing any references to be given. You might want to check if you work for such a corporation, since they may be able to put you in breach of contract if you give one of their employees a reference.