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Y'know, in spite of all the press you see, understand that the only legal action SCO has entered into is a *contract* suit against IBM. If they win that suit, there are no consequences for anybody but IBM. -russ
Humanity is naturally inclined to violence?? Do you seriously believe that? Because the "libertarian model" that you decry is one of voluntary organizations where nothing peaceful is prohibited. Verisign wouldn't need government oversight if it didn't have a government monopoly. You're putting the cart before the horse. Fix the right problem (the monopoly) and you won't HAVE the second problem.
Oh, so you think government is the solution to tribality (I just made that word up)? Obviously you haven't seen what a democratic government does when faced with *real* tribal factionalism. Basically, it goes like this: All tribes put up candidates. All tribes vote only for their candidates. The tribe which is numerically superior ends up running the government. And... they do it solely for the benefit of their own tribe.
Now, as for the private organizations having problems, perhaps you haven't considered the possibility that the problem they are trying to solve is simply a hard problem. The fact that one party has failed to solve a problem is IN NO WAY evidence that another party will be able to solve the problem any better. In fact, it's even more likely that a government will fail to solve the problem any better, because it can use guns to force people to cooperate, rather than having to persuade people as private parties have to do. -russ
I'm sorry but critical infrastructure should not be left in the hands of a free market.
Interestingly, you didn't even bother addressing my point: that government intervention in the marketplace created this problem. You just repeated your assertion. I suppose that there are are bunch of people who agree with you, and that merely repeating the Big Lie is sufficient for you and them. -russ
To all you damn Libertarians that thing private commerce and capitalism is important for the proper functioning of ANYTHING, wake up and take a look around. Some things NEED to be regulated by the government; some times efficency is NOT as important as accountability. This is one of them (as a Californian, energy regulation is another!).
Dear clue-free slashdot reader:
You twit! Who do you think GOT us in the sorry position? THE GOVERNMENT! If you weren't such a fardling idiot, you would be calling for the MARKETPLACE to save us from the GOVERNMENT's SCREWUP in granting a monopoly to Verisign. Instead, you want the hair of the dog that bit you. That's a sure sign of someone who's addicted to government. -russ
Well, yes, that page makes my point. He doesn't *call* himself ESR, but instead makes reference to the fact that other people do so. RMS has expressed a preference that he be called "RMS" during one period in his life or another. -russ (aka RNN:)
Go look to see if he said that BEFORE members of that arab culture attacked our country. Note that he's not referring to all members of Islam. He's referring specifically to a small subset of Arab culture. Islam is just as capable of being read as a peaceful religion as is Christianity, "Onward Christian Soldiers" and all. -russ
Have you ever gotten a press release printed? If not, then don't criticize Eric (BTW, "ESR" is a slashdot invention -- he never calls himself ESR) for doing what's necessary to get press attention to fact that SCO is lying. -russ
My point is that anonymous cowards are stupid; that is why they remain anonymous. -russ p.s. they die before leaving Everest, as opposed to the other three-quarters, who make it to the bottom alive.
Rabbit Semiconductor makes a Z80 compatible which has all sorts of interesting hardware on-board, like a PWM generator and two quadrature encoders. -russ
Not enough astronauts are dying. Fully one-quarter of the people who make it to the top of Everest die. The fact that astronauts don't says that we're not making space travel cheap enough. More at my blog
Yup. Jim Gettys is starting to work on this. Many toolkits (cough, kde, cough, gtk, cough) have way too many X server round-trips. This greatly slows X down. jg has a program which shows developers exactly what they're doing wrong, so they'll be able to fix it. -russ
Sorry, but the GNU autobuild tools suck. They start with a broken idea (Hey, let's give everybody a *different* makefile, so that you can't debug makefile problems! Hey, let's build the Makefile itself from a file which is automatically created, so you can't tell which of the four levels has the build problem!) and break things from there.
As usual, djb's got the innovative ideas. Google for djb and redo. -russ
Geez, I dumped my SCOX at $2 because I knew the lawsuit was a crock. Obviously their tactic was to pump up the lawsuit to the idiots AND THEN dump their stock. Time for a shareholder lawsuit, I think. -russ
How can a company take away your freedom? Only a government can do that. Deny that power to the government, and the corporation is reduced to toothlessness.
Okay, so people say that Microsoft is a monopoly. Some monopoly! They can't shut a bunch of college-student amateurs from writing an operating system which is slowly but surely replacing their proprietary operating system. Their web server has already been relegated to a minority role. Their MTA is #3 behind an MTA written by a college student (sendmail) and a college professor (qmail). -russ
A socialist democracy is a contradiction in terms. If you don't believe me, wait a hundred years. The freedom necessary to sustain a democracy cannot be allowed by a socialist state. It will take time for the socialist democratic states to change, but change they will, hopefully by abandoning socialism. -russ
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Y'know, in spite of all the press you see, understand that the only legal action SCO has entered into is a *contract* suit against IBM. If they win that suit, there are no consequences for anybody but IBM.
-russ
Humanity is naturally inclined to violence?? Do you seriously believe that? Because the "libertarian model" that you decry is one of voluntary organizations where nothing peaceful is prohibited. Verisign wouldn't need government oversight if it didn't have a government monopoly. You're putting the cart before the horse. Fix the right problem (the monopoly) and you won't HAVE the second problem.
... they do it solely for the benefit of their own tribe.
Oh, so you think government is the solution to tribality (I just made that word up)? Obviously you haven't seen what a democratic government does when faced with *real* tribal factionalism. Basically, it goes like this: All tribes put up candidates. All tribes vote only for their candidates. The tribe which is numerically superior ends up running the government. And
Now, as for the private organizations having problems, perhaps you haven't considered the possibility that the problem they are trying to solve is simply a hard problem. The fact that one party has failed to solve a problem is IN NO WAY evidence that another party will be able to solve the problem any better. In fact, it's even more likely that a government will fail to solve the problem any better, because it can use guns to force people to cooperate, rather than having to persuade people as private parties have to do.
-russ
I'm sorry but critical infrastructure should not be left in the hands of a free market.
Interestingly, you didn't even bother addressing my point: that government intervention in the marketplace created this problem. You just repeated your assertion. I suppose that there are are bunch of people who agree with you, and that merely repeating the Big Lie is sufficient for you and them.
-russ
Dear clue-free slashdot reader:
You twit! Who do you think GOT us in the sorry position? THE GOVERNMENT! If you weren't such a fardling idiot, you would be calling for the MARKETPLACE to save us from the GOVERNMENT's SCREWUP in granting a monopoly to Verisign. Instead, you want the hair of the dog that bit you. That's a sure sign of someone who's addicted to government.
-russ
You could upgrade to djbdns and install http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patchu ss
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It is propagating, as .com and .net servers are reloaded.
-russ
Here's a patch to djbdns which lets you ignore certain A records in responses. If you're not already using djbdns, you should.
http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patch
Well, yes, that page makes my point. He doesn't *call* himself ESR, but instead makes reference to the fact that other people do so. RMS has expressed a preference that he be called "RMS" during one period in his life or another. :)
-russ (aka RNN
Go look to see if he said that BEFORE members of that arab culture attacked our country. Note that he's not referring to all members of Islam. He's referring specifically to a small subset of Arab culture. Islam is just as capable of being read as a peaceful religion as is Christianity, "Onward Christian Soldiers" and all.
-russ
Sigh. I saw the lawsuit, said "This is bullshit. SCO is going down. Better sell now that the stock is at 2.5".
-russ
Interesting. Eric models his pacifism after the Buddhist tradition. Doesn't seem like intense disrespect to me.
-russ
Have you ever gotten a press release printed? If not, then don't criticize Eric (BTW, "ESR" is a slashdot invention -- he never calls himself ESR) for doing what's necessary to get press attention to fact that SCO is lying.
-russ
Jon Katz isn't dead. The rest of your facts are equally factual.
-russ
Even better than starting a movement is: just stop buying CDs.
-russ
My point is that anonymous cowards are stupid; that is why they remain anonymous.
-russ
p.s. they die before leaving Everest, as opposed to the other three-quarters, who make it to the bottom alive.
Duh.
Rabbit Semiconductor makes a Z80 compatible which has all sorts of interesting hardware on-board, like a PWM generator and two quadrature encoders.
-russ
Not enough astronauts are dying. Fully one-quarter of the people who make it to the top of Everest die. The fact that astronauts don't says that we're not making space travel cheap enough. More at my blog
Sorry. Other people managed to find djb's redo.
-russ
gpe.
-russ
Yup. Jim Gettys is starting to work on this. Many toolkits (cough, kde, cough, gtk, cough) have way too many X server round-trips. This greatly slows X down. jg has a program which shows developers exactly what they're doing wrong, so they'll be able to fix it.
-russ
Sorry, but the GNU autobuild tools suck. They start with a broken idea (Hey, let's give everybody a *different* makefile, so that you can't debug makefile problems! Hey, let's build the Makefile itself from a file which is automatically created, so you can't tell which of the four levels has the build problem!) and break things from there.
As usual, djb's got the innovative ideas. Google for djb and redo.
-russ
Geez, I dumped my SCOX at $2 because I knew the lawsuit was a crock. Obviously their tactic was to pump up the lawsuit to the idiots AND THEN dump their stock. Time for a shareholder lawsuit, I think.
-russ
You would enjoy reading The Angry Economist.
-russ
How can a company take away your freedom? Only a government can do that. Deny that power to the government, and the corporation is reduced to toothlessness.
Okay, so people say that Microsoft is a monopoly. Some monopoly! They can't shut a bunch of college-student amateurs from writing an operating system which is slowly but surely replacing their proprietary operating system. Their web server has already been relegated to a minority role. Their MTA is #3 behind an MTA written by a college student (sendmail) and a college professor (qmail).
-russ
A socialist democracy is a contradiction in terms. If you don't believe me, wait a hundred years. The freedom necessary to sustain a democracy cannot be allowed by a socialist state. It will take time for the socialist democratic states to change, but change they will, hopefully by abandoning socialism.
-russ