"Being able to play video games is a privilege, not a right."
That's crap. Rights are not delineated, not things that have to be written down and voted on before they exist. Any exercise of free will that is not coercively harmful to others is everyone's inaliable right, including the manufacture and use of video games.
I cannot agree that Windows doesn't "suffer" in SCM. The issue is not so much the SCM tool (CVS, PVCS, RCS, Perforce, or SourceSafe), but the development tool being managed. Windows tools tend to save source as blobs. Linux/Unix tools have the tradition of saving code, makefiles, scripts, even documentation as text files. This is far superior from a SCM point of view for several reasons, not the least of which is superior debugging (the essence of debugging is isolation, and you can't do a diff on a blob). So before we even discuss stability or openness, Windows tools are a lap behind in the race.
IANAEE, however I can attest that my simple home intercom that does FM over the house wiring is in the clear out to the transformer. We had what amounted to a party line with an unidentified neighbor in one house that we lived in. Then we changed frequencies (the box has a A-B-C switch).
My new house has Cat-5 in the walls. I'll stick to that, thank you.
1. What sort of data needs extraterritorial protection?
2. Who guarantees your physical security. For example, if you host data considered by some government to be a threat to them, who will defend you against commando raids, air strikes, and the like?
Just as the Internet allows for a new level of free communication, it also allows a new level of disinformation to be spread. Can you remark on what safeguards we might have or expect to have to filter the purposefully misleading information out of Internet campaigns?
. . . but I fear thet the FDA's historic dedication to corporate profits over health will torpedo the project. Which brings me back to the basic question on the FDA: why do we have a government agency ruling by fiat on matters that should be resolved within the _open_ scientific community?
That must have been one embarrassing URL! By the time I hit it (approx 1630 PDT 7/22) it was taken off the server. Maybe someone could tell the rest of us what Spence said . . .
As a registered Democrat who agrees with you, what'll we do? Take over the Libertarians? (Don't laugh -- a kid from Finland is taking over the world as we speak.)
I'm a little surprised that no one's mentioned the other side of the equation -- nootropics (drugs that make you smarter). No one out there on Piracetam, Cognitex, Pregnenolone, Ergoloid Mesylates? Poor children! Come up to where the clear heads are, or just visit http://www.ceri.com (Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute) as a starting place (not affilfited with me, I regret).
. . . but it's going to be hard. From now on, I'll refer to my system as my GNU/Wall/Ousterhout/XFree86/Linux box. Obviously, I may have to add to that as my awareness of my debt grows.
This system's going to have more names than the Andy Williams Golf Tournament.
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"Being able to play video games is a privilege, not a right." That's crap. Rights are not delineated, not things that have to be written down and voted on before they exist. Any exercise of free will that is not coercively harmful to others is everyone's inaliable right, including the manufacture and use of video games.
Why did anyone do this in the first place? Has key escrow become law without my realizing it?
To me, the point of key escrow is simple: I'm allowed to have secrets from little Timmy, but not from Mummy and Daddy.
Even when I was a kid, I didn't like being treated like one.
I cannot agree that Windows doesn't "suffer" in SCM. The issue is not so much the SCM tool (CVS, PVCS, RCS, Perforce, or SourceSafe), but the development tool being managed.
Windows tools tend to save source as blobs. Linux/Unix tools have the tradition of saving code, makefiles, scripts, even documentation as text files. This is far superior from a SCM point of view for several reasons, not the least of which is superior debugging (the essence of debugging is isolation, and you can't do a diff on a blob).
So before we even discuss stability or openness, Windows tools are a lap behind in the race.
IANAEE, however I can attest that my simple home intercom that does FM over the house wiring is in the clear out to the transformer. We had what amounted to a party line with an unidentified neighbor in one house that we lived in. Then we changed frequencies (the box has a A-B-C switch).
My new house has Cat-5 in the walls. I'll stick to that, thank you.
1. What sort of data needs extraterritorial protection?
2. Who guarantees your physical security. For example, if you host data considered by some government to be a threat to them, who will defend you against commando raids, air strikes, and the like?
Just as the Internet allows for a new level of free communication, it also allows a new level of disinformation to be spread. Can you remark on what safeguards we might have or expect to have to filter the purposefully misleading information out of Internet campaigns?
. . . but I fear thet the FDA's historic dedication to corporate profits over health will torpedo the project.
Which brings me back to the basic question on the FDA: why do we have a government agency ruling by fiat on matters that should be resolved within the _open_ scientific community?
That must have been one embarrassing URL! By the time I hit it (approx 1630 PDT 7/22) it was taken off the server. Maybe someone could tell the rest of us what Spence said . . .
. . . and try him as an adult.
(I'm sick of all this liberal coddling.)
As a registered Democrat who agrees with you, what'll we do? Take over the Libertarians? (Don't laugh -- a kid from Finland is taking over the world as we speak.)
Your opinion might be a little more credible if you could ascribe software to its correct manufacturer (Borland and VC++?) or spell simple words.
:-)
1. CVS (and RCS) archive text or binary. Try man cvs.
2. Some of us, myself included, believe that text based code is superior. Easier to maintain (NB spelling). Easier to debug.
3. Professionals devote time to learning their tools. Training wheels are for children.
Happy computing
I'm a little surprised that no one's mentioned the other side of the equation -- nootropics (drugs that make you smarter). No one out there on Piracetam, Cognitex, Pregnenolone, Ergoloid Mesylates? Poor children! Come up to where the clear heads are, or just visit http://www.ceri.com (Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute) as a starting place (not affilfited with me, I regret).
. . . but it's going to be hard. From now on, I'll refer to my system as my GNU/Wall/Ousterhout/XFree86/Linux box. Obviously, I may have to add to that as my awareness of my debt grows.
This system's going to have more names than the Andy Williams Golf Tournament.
We can make this whole controversy go away simply by changing the name to "PNGWN/Stallmux."