Copyright is a bargain between producer and consumer, not a right. The producer creates something of interest, and the consumer promises, in return for getting the interesting thing, not to copy it for a period of time. Right now, the producers are demanding that consumers never copy it ever. They're breaking the bargain, so the consumer isn't sticking to his side of the bargain.
- A large number of sites still don't have IPv6 DNS addresses That's the biggest problem. Until I can reach every server with IPv6, I'll still need IPv4. Since I need IPv4, why should I bother with IPv6?
IPv6 still does nothing for me. Until I can reach everybody who is listen()'ing for me using IPv6, having an IPv6 address, or IPv6 stack, or IPv6 routing doesn't help me one bit.
Until that happens, NOBODY can adopt IPv6. That's the law, and no legislation can change that.
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People experience the passage of time in terms of new and unfamiliar experiences. That's why the second leg of an out-and-back trip seems to take less time. That's why time seems to drag when you're bored. That's why "Time flies when you're having fun."
I'm amazed at the stupidity of the responses, and the moderators moderating it down to -1. How could you not see that I was explaining WHY people don't want to get immunized? The selfish response is to not get immunized. YES, IT IS THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS, YOU DOPE.
I don't understand the fuss behind Ruby on Rails. Ruby is a programming language. Rails is a framework. Frameworks are a dime a dozen. Is RoR all that wonderful or are we being marketed-to?
Infection diseases strike individuals, yes, but they thrive or die on a population. If everyone around you is immunized, but you are not, there is ZERO BENEFIT to you getting immunized. All you're doing is taking the risk that you'll actually get the disease. That's how it was at the end of polio. The only cases of polio were the ones caused by the immunization.
Oh, is THAT how shorting works?!?! No wonder I've always lost money on my short trades! Gosh! The sarcasm is just dripping today! I'm gonna wear out my exclamation mark key!
See the "or" connecting the two concepts? That means that you would do one but probably not the other. Reading lessons on slashdot. What ARE they teaching the victims of government schooling these days?
"Get things done for New Yorkers"?? You mean "trade favors with other legislators so that every legislator gets things done for their state, but the only thing that really happens is our own federal tax dollars comes back to it." I ask "why did they ever leave New York State?"
No, daemontools is a *good* thing. First, because it includes a logging facility that uses a fixed amount of resources, and requires no special action on the part of the programmer. Anything your program writes to stdout gets logged. If your program exits when it's finished, daemontools will automatically restart it. You can configure a program to be up or down using "svc -u/service/facility" or "svc -d/service/facility" and you can keep it down with "touch/service/facility/down". You can send signals to the program using 'svc -h/service/facility" to send a HUP signal for example. How do you use init to send a HUP signal to a daemon? (answer: you don't, because init has no facility to do that -- but nothing else can provide such a facility since long-running processes can be started outside of init after boot time.)
Also, I'm not familiar with the qmail source; what are some of the wheels that djb reinvented?
For example, str_chr(). The standard strchr returns EITHER a pointer to the found character, or NULL. djb's str_chr always returns a usable pointer; either to the character or to the null terminating the string. Compare this idiom:
strcpy(secondhalf, strchr(wholething, ';'));
to djb's
str_cpy(secondhalf, str_chr(wholething, ';'));
This code works even if ';' isn't found, whereas the first code segfaults. In order to avoid segfaulting, you need this:
char *cp
cp = strchr(wholething, ';');
if (!cp) strcpy(secondhalf, cp);
But what's better about the djb C library is his hashing array lookup, and counted string code, which automagically lengthens strings using realloc() as needed.
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Is the article summary talking about Open Source or Microsoft's Shared Source? They're Not At All the same thing.
I have a 1st Dan black belt in taiji.
My dad wouldn't do that, because he's dead. Anyway, being dead, he wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks.
Copyright is a bargain between producer and consumer, not a right. The producer creates something of interest, and the consumer promises, in return for getting the interesting thing, not to copy it for a period of time. Right now, the producers are demanding that consumers never copy it ever. They're breaking the bargain, so the consumer isn't sticking to his side of the bargain.
http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/a-bargain-not-a-right.html
Oh, and I suppose YOU'RE a 9th-level grandmaster in Tae Kwon Do?
Not that Chuck needs my support... If Chuck Norris needed your support, he would just take it.
Hmph. I think I've been doing too much wikipedia editing lately. It'd sure be nice if Slashdot supported wikilinking that way, though.
[[Matheran]] is very pretty.
I've chosen Sheepdog.
- A large number of sites still don't have IPv6 DNS addresses
That's the biggest problem. Until I can reach every server with IPv6, I'll still need IPv4. Since I need IPv4, why should I bother with IPv6?
IPv6 still does nothing for me. Until I can reach everybody who is listen()'ing for me using IPv6, having an IPv6 address, or IPv6 stack, or IPv6 routing doesn't help me one bit.
Until that happens, NOBODY can adopt IPv6. That's the law, and no legislation can change that.
People experience the passage of time in terms of new and unfamiliar experiences. That's why the second leg of an out-and-back trip seems to take less time. That's why time seems to drag when you're bored. That's why "Time flies when you're having fun."
Hi. Where do you live? I'd like to put a dam in the river near your house and flood your property. KTHX BYE.
True. You explained it better than I.
I'm amazed at the stupidity of the responses, and the moderators moderating it down to -1. How could you not see that I was explaining WHY people don't want to get immunized? The selfish response is to not get immunized. YES, IT IS THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS, YOU DOPE.
I don't understand the fuss behind Ruby on Rails. Ruby is a programming language. Rails is a framework. Frameworks are a dime a dozen. Is RoR all that wonderful or are we being marketed-to?
Oh yeah? How do we know that YOU are correct? Maybe we SHOULD trust Pharmaceutical Companies?!?
Infection diseases strike individuals, yes, but they thrive or die on a population. If everyone around you is immunized, but you are not, there is ZERO BENEFIT to you getting immunized. All you're doing is taking the risk that you'll actually get the disease. That's how it was at the end of polio. The only cases of polio were the ones caused by the immunization.
Oh? The newspapers cover their every word up to the time when one of them gets elected.
Oh, is THAT how shorting works?!?! No wonder I've always lost money on my short trades! Gosh! The sarcasm is just dripping today! I'm gonna wear out my exclamation mark key!
See the "or" connecting the two concepts? That means that you would do one but probably not the other. Reading lessons on slashdot. What ARE they teaching the victims of government schooling these days?
But it creates a nice buying opportunity for Netflix stockholders ... or selling opportunity for people who had already shorted Netflix.
"Get things done for New Yorkers"?? You mean "trade favors with other legislators so that every legislator gets things done for their state, but the only thing that really happens is our own federal tax dollars comes back to it." I ask "why did they ever leave New York State?"
No, daemontools is a *good* thing. First, because it includes a logging facility that uses a fixed amount of resources, and requires no special action on the part of the programmer. Anything your program writes to stdout gets logged. If your program exits when it's finished, daemontools will automatically restart it. You can configure a program to be up or down using "svc -u /service/facility" or "svc -d /service/facility" and you can keep it down with "touch /service/facility/down". You can send signals to the program using 'svc -h /service/facility" to send a HUP signal for example. How do you use init to send a HUP signal to a daemon? (answer: you don't, because init has no facility to do that -- but nothing else can provide such a facility since long-running processes can be started outside of init after boot time.)
For example, str_chr(). The standard strchr returns EITHER a pointer to the found character, or NULL. djb's str_chr always returns a usable pointer; either to the character or to the null terminating the string. Compare this idiom:
strcpy(secondhalf, strchr(wholething, ';'));
to djb's
str_cpy(secondhalf, str_chr(wholething, ';'));
This code works even if ';' isn't found, whereas the first code segfaults. In order to avoid segfaulting, you need this:
char *cp
cp = strchr(wholething, ';');
if (!cp) strcpy(secondhalf, cp);
But what's better about the djb C library is his hashing array lookup, and counted string code, which automagically lengthens strings using realloc() as needed.
Yes; just like everybody else who's publishing Open Source Software, they're doing it using an OSI Approved Open Source License.