The lede and the story don't have quite the same spin. If you read the story it's clear that Linus is pretty pleased that they've gotten rid of the worst aspects in the previous draft. He's no longer puking all over this draft but he's by no means ready to switch.
It's already illegal to enter premises where you know you're not invited, even if the door is open. Were it not for the fact that your premise is COMPLETELY WRONG, this would a great satire.
The problem with SPF is that it's really easy to implement, and works really badly. DomainKeys is a real solution to the problem, but it's harder to implement because you can't munge the email (which various MTAs are prone to do).
This *is* an email signature system, only at the MTA level rather than the MUA level like PGP. The idea is to make mass adoption easier, since, as you say, it's the main difficulty. So get off your butt and get DomainKeys working!
If you look at their _domainkey.paypal.com record, it looks like this:
_domainkey.paypal.com. 3600 IN TXT "t=y\; o=~"
The t=y value says that they're still just testing. According to the DomainKeys standard, that means that you're not supposed to take any action based on the result of checking the DomainKeys signature.
Leftism is not a person, thus leftist nidjits is not ad-hominem argumentation. It's attacking the idea of worker "protection". Workers aren't stupid (although the conceit of the leftists is that they are smarter than mere workers, and need to be protected from making bad choices).
Markets are like balloons. You can squeeze them in various ways, but they always pop out somewhere else, probably where you can't see or wouldn't like if you could.
I wish that people wouldn't be such leftist nidjits (but I repeat myself). The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich. The rich pay huge prices to get the latest and greatest technology, which of course signals how rich they are. For example, the Tesla Roadster. The company uses those high prices to pay back the R&D. Unfortunately (for them) they soon run out of rich people to sell to. They then accept lower profit margins (but higher sales) by selling to the middle class and then the poor, in turn.
If you interrupt this process by forcing them to sell at lower profit margins to a wider population earlier, they won't be able to pay for the R&D costs, so they won't bother creating new technologies.
This is a public corporation. They're in this to make money.
I guess it's too much to ask for people to not be idiots before they post, but c'mon. Only certain types of jobs are exempt from hourly labor laws, and the mandatory lunch break and two short breaks are FORCED on Google by the government. This has NOTHING to do with Google being a public corporation or trying to make money. All these "worker protection" laws just screw the workers.
However, in order to stimulate economic activity and the general welfare, sometimes it's necessary for government to aid industries. Note that the farm subsidies, for example, were intended to help the small family farmer, during times of low demand when the corporate farm economies of scale were killing them. I won't judge whether it's worth it for government to try to preserve "the American way of life," since that is what was intended.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Farm subsidies go to the people who can afford to hire tax lawyers and accountants to file for them. They don't go to small family farmers, regardless of what anybody thought was going to happen.
BTW, how can government stimulate economic activity by aiding industries, when the money it takes from taxpayers takes away aid from other industries? Plus the bureaucrats expect to get paid to do this, so this is a negative-sum activity. More industry is destroyed than is stimulated, but you can be sure that the politically powerful industries gain at the cost of the industries that ignore government and just concentrate on good products.
100% of all the libertarian slashdotters who have already jumped in and gone 'OMG teh socialism sux lol!!'
Huh? Libertarians are against all forms of welfare, whether for people or companies. In particular, you won't find a single libertarian who likes Con-Agra, or Archer-Daniels-Midland. They both suck at the government teat.
If this was a market signal, that would be a great idea. Unfortunately, it's a result of some jerkwad politicians deciding how the market should behave. That's not just wrong, that's evil wrong.
Yes, it's in recognition of Microsoft's increasing acceptance of Open Source that we moved the Halloween Documents off our website onto Eric Raymond's website. We only have a link from http://opensource.org/halloween/ to Eric's site. Perhaps if Microsoft makes some more concrete step towards being a member of the Open Source community (e.g. by sumitting their licenses for OSI approval, hint, hint), we might remove even the link.
Surely you jest! The Erie Canal was profitable, but none of the subsequent canals built in NY generated enough income to cover the public money sspent on them. Socialism has always been a bad idea. Didn't ork for the Puritans, didn't work for the communes (e.g. Amana or Oneida), didn't work for the canals or railroads, and currently isn't working for government schooling. Give it a rest!
have to be paid sooner or later unless you enjoy drinking lead, arsenic, etc.
Landfills are capped precisely to prevent water movement through the landfill. Not clear how lead and arsenic are going to migrate out of the landfill.
Stop thinking about your constitutional rights, and start thinking that the constitution doesn't give the feds the ability to tap our phones. If it's not specifically called out, they can't do it.
In what way is waste disposal a commons? If you just throw your stuff on somebody else's property, that's trespass. If you pay someone to take your waste, that's a private property transfer between you and them. What makes "E-Waste" any concern of a third party?
Glad you enjoyed packet drivers. Doesn't make an E-Waste tax any less stupid, though.
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The lede and the story don't have quite the same spin. If you read the story it's clear that Linus is pretty pleased that they've gotten rid of the worst aspects in the previous draft. He's no longer puking all over this draft but he's by no means ready to switch.
Gee, I'm surprised that Rediffmail's
announcement of unlimited email storage didn't make Slashdot.
It's already illegal to enter premises where you know you're not invited, even if the door is open. Were it not for the fact that your premise is COMPLETELY WRONG, this would a great satire.
The problem with SPF is that it's really easy to implement, and works really badly. DomainKeys is a real solution to the problem, but it's harder to implement because you can't munge the email (which various MTAs are prone to do).
This *is* an email signature system, only at the MTA level rather than the MUA level like PGP. The idea is to make mass adoption easier, since, as you say, it's the main difficulty. So get off your butt and get DomainKeys working!
They actually do cause hurricanes, y'know. That's why hurricanes used to always be named after women.
Leftism is not a person, thus leftist nidjits is not ad-hominem argumentation. It's attacking the idea of worker "protection". Workers aren't stupid (although the conceit of the leftists is that they are smarter than mere workers, and need to be protected from making bad choices).
Markets are like balloons. You can squeeze them in various ways, but they always pop out somewhere else, probably where you can't see or wouldn't like if you could.
I wish that people wouldn't be such leftist nidjits (but I repeat myself). The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich. The rich pay huge prices to get the latest and greatest technology, which of course signals how rich they are. For example, the Tesla Roadster. The company uses those high prices to pay back the R&D. Unfortunately (for them) they soon run out of rich people to sell to. They then accept lower profit margins (but higher sales) by selling to the middle class and then the poor, in turn.
If you interrupt this process by forcing them to sell at lower profit margins to a wider population earlier, they won't be able to pay for the R&D costs, so they won't bother creating new technologies.
I guess it's too much to ask for people to not be idiots before they post, but c'mon. Only certain types of jobs are exempt from hourly labor laws, and the mandatory lunch break and two short breaks are FORCED on Google by the government. This has NOTHING to do with Google being a public corporation or trying to make money. All these "worker protection" laws just screw the workers.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Farm subsidies go to the people who can afford to hire tax lawyers and accountants to file for them. They don't go to small family farmers, regardless of what anybody thought was going to happen.
BTW, how can government stimulate economic activity by aiding industries, when the money it takes from taxpayers takes away aid from other industries? Plus the bureaucrats expect to get paid to do this, so this is a negative-sum activity. More industry is destroyed than is stimulated, but you can be sure that the politically powerful industries gain at the cost of the industries that ignore government and just concentrate on good products.
Huh? Libertarians are against all forms of welfare, whether for people or companies. In particular, you won't find a single libertarian who likes Con-Agra, or Archer-Daniels-Midland. They both suck at the government teat.
If this was a market signal, that would be a great idea. Unfortunately, it's a result of some jerkwad politicians deciding how the market should behave. That's not just wrong, that's evil wrong.
Everything is patentable because nothing is obvious.
Don't tell me, let me guess: you were educated in a government school, right? quod est demonstratum.
Errrr, is Google down today?
I say that we terraform Earth first. If you've ever flown over Colorado, Nevada, or Utah, you quickly realize that Those Places Ain't Habitable.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Shangri-La diet.
http://www.sethroberts.net/
Yes, it's in recognition of Microsoft's increasing acceptance of Open Source that we moved the Halloween Documents off our website onto Eric Raymond's website. We only have a link from http://opensource.org/halloween/ to Eric's site. Perhaps if Microsoft makes some more concrete step towards being a member of the Open Source community (e.g. by sumitting their licenses for OSI approval, hint, hint), we might remove even the link.
"The canals were hug cash cows."???
Surely you jest! The Erie Canal was profitable, but none of the subsequent canals built in NY generated enough income to cover the public money sspent on them. Socialism has always been a bad idea. Didn't ork for the Puritans, didn't work for the communes (e.g. Amana or Oneida), didn't work for the canals or railroads, and currently isn't working for government schooling. Give it a rest!
have to be paid sooner or later unless you enjoy drinking lead, arsenic, etc.
Landfills are capped precisely to prevent water movement through the landfill. Not clear how lead and arsenic are going to migrate out of the landfill.
I don't know. Why do you always answer rhetorical questions? Are you stupid or something?
Stop thinking about your constitutional rights, and start thinking that the constitution doesn't give the feds the ability to tap our phones. If it's not specifically called out, they can't do it.
ITYM fascist.
In what way is waste disposal a commons? If you just throw your stuff on somebody else's property, that's trespass. If you pay someone to take your waste, that's a private property transfer between you and them. What makes "E-Waste" any concern of a third party?
Glad you enjoyed packet drivers. Doesn't make an E-Waste tax any less stupid, though.