Oh, well, practically EVERYTHING that the federal government does today hangs off a bizarre interpretation of the Commerce Clause. So, in-state calls are regulated by the federal government because you could just as easily be calling someone else, or because the call could be routed out of state before it comes back in-state.
I expect that he means the contract you signed for telephone service. Except, you didn't sign a contract very likely, so your relationship between the telephone company and you is governed by tort law. Tort law is effectively the default contract you get when you don't enter into an actual contract. Nearly everything in tort law can be overridden by an explicit contract, so it would be quite possible for you to sign a contract with your telco barring certain parties from calling you.
So... you think that poor people should be uneducated simply because they don't have enough to eat? Sounds like a political statement to me.
Back in reality, the governments that are considering the OLPC are already spending money on their kids' education. If you amortize the cost of the OLPC over its lifetime, and you can license electronic books for 1/10th the cost of print books, then the government spends the same amount of money licensing electronics books and buying OLPC as they do on print books. The OLPC is FREE. It costs NOTHING.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The olpc has many advances over 'ordinary' laptops. The magic screen which does not wash out in the screen, the extremely low power use, the wifi which keeps working even when the computer is off, the diversity wifi antennas which are in free space: all evidence that you have no clue.
Open source to me (and most other people) means that the source is available for examination. End of story.
Ahhhh, you must be one of the deliberately obtuse trolls to whom I refer in my previous post. If not, then show me your beard or time machine. Attempting to claim that "Open Source" sprang from your forehead fully formed without any context is simply not plausible. Sure, you can find a few people who used "Open Source" before 1998. But if you want to claim that OSI had nothing to do with the popularity of "Open Source" after then, you have to rewrite history. Here's the wikipedia link, good luck, start editing!
Errrr, except for Rip Van Winkle, a few time travellers who skipped over the last ten years, and a few trolls out there who are deliberately obtuse, everybody knows that Open Source means the Open Source Definition.
As far as I can tell, they've patented the idea of running an SMTP server on a mobile device, along with a minimal MTA that delivers the email into a mailbox, along with a MUA that immediately detects the presence of the email. It's another one of those patents where the obvious answer to a subtle question is somehow patentable. If you ask me, only the subtle answers should be patentable.
Oh, it *is* a good thing. But it's not Open Source. Named things have characteristics. A vegetarian is someone who doesn't eat flesh. A pacifist is someone who won't pick up a gun to solve a dispute. If they do, then they aren't. And if you prohibit royalty-free distribution, you're not using Open Source.
You're not free to distribute your code commercially. Even RMS believe that commercial distribution is okay. He disagrees with *proprietary* distribution, sure, but he's fine with commercial distribution. QNX isn't -- and that's why the code is neither Free Software nor Open Source.
Sheesh, this is no better than Microsoft's "Shared Source"! They restrict commercial development, just like Microsoft.
This is Source Available software, NOT Open Source Software. You don't have all the freedoms available to you that are described by the Open Source Definition.
The thing you have to realize that is the United States isn't supposed to have much of a federal government. It's not the UnitedStatesofAmerica, but the United *States* of America. So States are supposed to be free to do whatever they want, including pay carmakers to make greener cars for sale within that state. There's only a strictly limited list of things that the federal government can do -- not that anybody believes that any more. What's funny is how far they're willing to stretch the Commerce Clause to cover anything -- and if they can't stretch it, they won't do it.
I think the idea behind a PZEV is that it's a part-time ZEV, not that it's partially zero -- which would be like being partially pregnant, partially vegetarian, or partially pacifist.
So the guy was being held against his will... and you don't think that was an emergency? What if it was a girl being held against her will? Would THAT have been an emergency? What if the person regardless of gender felt threatened? Seems to me that an emergency is in the eye of the beholder, so if you weren't there, maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental?
....such as market forces that can control society for the best if they are allowed to operate unfettered. To me, this is just an absurd and ignorant proposition,
Except for the evidence, you'd be right. As it turns out, people have a built-in bias against markets. So yes, if you're an average thoughtless person, you'd think markets don't work. Libertarians aren't average or thoughtless. We actually look at the fact that those areas of society where markets are more free (e.g. entertainment or food provision) give better results than those areas where markets are less free (e.g. health care or schooling). And then we say "Gee, even though it *looks* like an absurd and ignorant propoisition, I have to trust my eyes over my heart and go with free markets."
A better question would be why the rest of the world has singularly failed to take libertarianism seriously. I have some ideas on that...
Perhaps it's because all the lovers of freedom flock to America, whereas people who think they can trade freedom for security.... stay home where they belong.
I, for myself, am a Libertarian, because I like to spel corectly. I also don't shutter when I hear that people are libertarians. I might shudder if I didn't like the fact, but I do like hearing that people are libertarians.
I agree with people's right to be idiots... including people who cant spell. Or puncuate or write run-on sentences. Even short run-on sentences and which include multiple ideas.
The intent of the GPL is to be a one-way trip. The idea is to create a large pool of identically-licensed code so that projects msy mix and match, borrow and steal from each other.
The US is more or less a free market society. So are most European countries. India is becoming more so, but has tariffs that are way too high. China, too. Of course they started so far back, that any progress is immediately noticable.
Okay, since people find this interesting, let me supply a few more details. The path is 3.87 miles with one motel and two residences on it. The highest land at the midpoint is at 420' with 10' brush (no trees). Haven't done the fresnel calculation to see if I'm getting any loss. The western end of the path is at 450' at a point 25' above ground. I'm using OpenWRT White Russian on a WRT54GL in an unheated box strapped to a chimney and a 10' pole upon which is a 24dbI dish. Powering it with a LinkSys PoE pair. The Ethernet cables snakes its way into the heated portion of the building and connects directly to the cablemodem.
My house is at 440' and the antenna is at 470' on a 10' pole mounted next to the third floor. The WRT54GL at this end is in a plastic box mounted beneath the eves, powered directly. I used to have clean optical line of sight from my house to the remote location until the trees recovered from the NorthEast Ice Storm of '98. Now I expect you need to be at the antennas' heights to have optical line of sight.
The wireless portion of the link has been flawless, even though both ends are outside in -20F winter weather. Before I upgraded to White Russian, I didn't have the distance set correctly, so I was only getting 580Kbps with the timeouts. Now, with the ack timeouts working correctly, I get the full 5Mbps that my ISP gives me. The only unreliability has been at their end. The cablemodem goes silent when it detects errors, which can be produced by a noisy cable junction. This happens once or twice a month. Was much more than that, but they found and fixed a loose connector.
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Oh, well, practically EVERYTHING that the federal government does today hangs off a bizarre interpretation of the Commerce Clause. So, in-state calls are regulated by the federal government because you could just as easily be calling someone else, or because the call could be routed out of state before it comes back in-state.
I expect that he means the contract you signed for telephone service. Except, you didn't sign a contract very likely, so your relationship between the telephone company and you is governed by tort law. Tort law is effectively the default contract you get when you don't enter into an actual contract. Nearly everything in tort law can be overridden by an explicit contract, so it would be quite possible for you to sign a contract with your telco barring certain parties from calling you.
Hehe, yes, I managed to use loose correctly, didn't I? :-) It was a struggle to get all the keystrokes out, and in the right order, but I did it!
So ... you think that poor people should be uneducated simply because they don't have enough to eat? Sounds like a political statement to me.
Back in reality, the governments that are considering the OLPC are already spending money on their kids' education. If you amortize the cost of the OLPC over its lifetime, and you can license electronic books for 1/10th the cost of print books, then the government spends the same amount of money licensing electronics books and buying OLPC as they do on print books. The OLPC is FREE. It costs NOTHING.
You use Bob and Tom to decide your plotical opinions??!!?? Wow, you're dumber than you look!
You have no idea what you are talking about. The olpc has many advances over 'ordinary' laptops. The magic screen which does not wash out in the screen, the extremely low power use, the wifi which keeps working even when the computer is off, the diversity wifi antennas which are in free space: all evidence that you have no clue.
Loose your attitude, dude.
Ahhhh, you must be one of the deliberately obtuse trolls to whom I refer in my previous post. If not, then show me your beard or time machine. Attempting to claim that "Open Source" sprang from your forehead fully formed without any context is simply not plausible. Sure, you can find a few people who used "Open Source" before 1998. But if you want to claim that OSI had nothing to do with the popularity of "Open Source" after then, you have to rewrite history. Here's the wikipedia link, good luck, start editing!
Errrr, except for Rip Van Winkle, a few time travellers who skipped over the last ten years, and a few trolls out there who are deliberately obtuse, everybody knows that Open Source means the Open Source Definition.
As far as I can tell, they've patented the idea of running an SMTP server on a mobile device, along with a minimal MTA that delivers the email into a mailbox, along with a MUA that immediately detects the presence of the email. It's another one of those patents where the obvious answer to a subtle question is somehow patentable. If you ask me, only the subtle answers should be patentable.
Well, yes, I used the GPL for the packet drivers, and I think it worked well for them.
Oh, it *is* a good thing. But it's not Open Source. Named things have characteristics. A vegetarian is someone who doesn't eat flesh. A pacifist is someone who won't pick up a gun to solve a dispute. If they do, then they aren't. And if you prohibit royalty-free distribution, you're not using Open Source.
Royalty-free redistribution is one of the freedoms that you get with Open Source. Free Software, too.
Without it, you cut your community in half: non-profit, and for-profit.
You're not free to distribute your code commercially. Even RMS believe that commercial distribution is okay. He disagrees with *proprietary* distribution, sure, but he's fine with commercial distribution. QNX isn't -- and that's why the code is neither Free Software nor Open Source.
Sheesh, this is no better than Microsoft's "Shared Source"! They restrict commercial development, just like Microsoft.
This is Source Available software, NOT Open Source Software. You don't have all the freedoms available to you that are described by the Open Source Definition.
RMS is a zealot. He believes that his path to the goal is the only path. Does anybody else think that's likely?
No relation, but Neal is a sharp cookie nonetheless. I've worked with him before.
The thing you have to realize that is the United States isn't supposed to have much of a federal government. It's not the UnitedStatesofAmerica, but the United *States* of America. So States are supposed to be free to do whatever they want, including pay carmakers to make greener cars for sale within that state. There's only a strictly limited list of things that the federal government can do -- not that anybody believes that any more. What's funny is how far they're willing to stretch the Commerce Clause to cover anything -- and if they can't stretch it, they won't do it.
I think the idea behind a PZEV is that it's a part-time ZEV, not that it's partially zero -- which would be like being partially pregnant, partially vegetarian, or partially pacifist.
So the guy was being held against his will ... and you don't think that was an emergency? What if it was a girl being held against her will? Would THAT have been an emergency? What if the person regardless of gender felt threatened? Seems to me that an emergency is in the eye of the beholder, so if you weren't there, maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental?
Except for the evidence, you'd be right. As it turns out, people have a built-in bias against markets. So yes, if you're an average thoughtless person, you'd think markets don't work. Libertarians aren't average or thoughtless. We actually look at the fact that those areas of society where markets are more free (e.g. entertainment or food provision) give better results than those areas where markets are less free (e.g. health care or schooling). And then we say "Gee, even though it *looks* like an absurd and ignorant propoisition, I have to trust my eyes over my heart and go with free markets."
Perhaps it's because all the lovers of freedom flock to America, whereas people who think they can trade freedom for security
I, for myself, am a Libertarian, because I like to spel corectly. I also don't shutter when I hear that people are libertarians. I might shudder if I didn't like the fact, but I do like hearing that people are libertarians.
... including people who cant spell. Or puncuate or write run-on sentences. Even short run-on sentences and which include multiple ideas.
I agree with people's right to be idiots
The intent of the GPL is to be a one-way trip. The idea is to create a large pool of identically-licensed code so that projects msy mix and match, borrow and steal from each other.
The US is more or less a free market society. So are most European countries. India is becoming more so, but has tariffs that are way too high. China, too. Of course they started so far back, that any progress is immediately noticable.
Okay, since people find this interesting, let me supply a few more details. The path is 3.87 miles with one motel and two residences on it. The highest land at the midpoint is at 420' with 10' brush (no trees). Haven't done the fresnel calculation to see if I'm getting any loss. The western end of the path is at 450' at a point 25' above ground. I'm using OpenWRT White Russian on a WRT54GL in an unheated box strapped to a chimney and a 10' pole upon which is a 24dbI dish. Powering it with a LinkSys PoE pair. The Ethernet cables snakes its way into the heated portion of the building and connects directly to the cablemodem.
My house is at 440' and the antenna is at 470' on a 10' pole mounted next to the third floor. The WRT54GL at this end is in a plastic box mounted beneath the eves, powered directly. I used to have clean optical line of sight from my house to the remote location until the trees recovered from the NorthEast Ice Storm of '98. Now I expect you need to be at the antennas' heights to have optical line of sight.
The wireless portion of the link has been flawless, even though both ends are outside in -20F winter weather. Before I upgraded to White Russian, I didn't have the distance set correctly, so I was only getting 580Kbps with the timeouts. Now, with the ack timeouts working correctly, I get the full 5Mbps that my ISP gives me. The only unreliability has been at their end. The cablemodem goes silent when it detects errors, which can be produced by a noisy cable junction. This happens once or twice a month. Was much more than that, but they found and fixed a loose connector.