I think the word you are looking for is optimist. RMS is an idealist (and an ideolog.)
The needed adjustment won't occur without your involvement. I tried to use the slashdot search engine but it's down... I wanted to point to a recent article in which the primary (republican) backer claimed there was no opposition when the DMCA bill came out of committee (and to hide their votes they used a voice vote... you can't know how your congresscritter voted.)
All that happens when they ban, for instance, publishing flaws in encryption schemes, is that people can no longer do it legally.
That's not all, in fact most people I've talked with regarding this think we are embarking on a slippery slope the end of which is over a gaping chasm of totalitarian control of open discussion.
I don't think a full glottal stop is enough to make it two syllables.
Approaching the topic a little more closely, I've always said Linux even though I've always understood and been in full support of RMS's efforts.
No one else in the *ahem* GNU/Linux community seems to understand better than RMS the importance of keeping a very clear objective present in a wholly idealogical argument, even in the face of its obvious success.
I'm not saying there are not equally powerful alternative licensing forms out there, just that there have been some spectacular examples of code being swept up into privately owned software, and other examples of the same phenomena wherein a part of the objective has been to break a standard protocol incorporated into that software.
I'm gonna disagree with Taco and say that Drepper's "announcement" was an obvious attempt to start a flame war.
If there's a female character in a big furry suit on Barney or Sesame Street, she has long eyelashes and flits and flutters about like some nightmarish caricature from Jerry Falwell's wet dream.
So if you want to release Free Software, free in the libre sense that anyone can use it and improve it and still keep it free.
that should read:
So if you want to release Free Software, free in the libre sense that anyone can use it and improve it and still keep it free, you have to do it under the prevailing conditions, using Copyright to protect the liberty of your work.
What hypocrisy? This is the real world, and in the real world there are copyrights and patents, and there are private distributors of proprietary software incorporating copyrighted and patented information. That's it.
So if you want to release Free Software, free in the libre sense that anyone can use it and improve it and still keep it free.
The fact the developer of a given body of work can maintain his right to re-license the work is immutable (unless you are a musician or a hack;)
Licensing the work under different conditions than those of the GPL to a private entity who will use the work to create a non-free product is totally consistent with the idea of Free Software. It both allows the developer his choice of licensing, and allows the distribution of Free Software.
That 'remote exploit' isn't a root exploit, it doesn't even let you run commands. The only danger to it is that it allows anyone to read directory listings on your system. I think 'involuntary information release' is a better description, a weakness that allows remote parties to gather some data about your filesystem.
But thanks for the warning, I'm updated and subscribed.:)
Heheh, maybe it's you that thinks he's smart. I mean, turning javascript off is a good defense against hostile web-pages that throw up pop-under ads. And then you said some really stupid things. So... you're right.
Pop-under ads are not a good revenue stream when they serve to anger and alienate eyeballs.
If you weren't such a chump and hated people for being smarter than you, maybe you'd be smart too.
Take care, chump.
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sole purpose is to grow to the point where it kills its host.
Huh? Get a grip, man. Cells, tumorous or otherwise, lack any purposefulness whatsoever. They just are as you find them. These particular cells lost the ability to regulate their growth rate, so they continue to multiply. Or divide. Or something. Now I forgot what I was... Oh what's this button do?
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Well, I left out the little part about finding the text, that can be done later when quantum desktop computers are the norm.
But once found, the position can be described in some shorthand notation, and with the length, can be extracted at the target machine...
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I think that would make PI a repeating pattern...
so... IANAM, but I think that's been ruled out.
Damn, slashcode thinks I'm cowboyNeal, and won't let me post!
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That pattern (1828...) breaks down after awhile, if that's what you mean.
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at position 2^300+1 the next 600,222 bytes are the Linux kernel compiled for Io Rover VII (or whatever)
What's uncompressed about that?
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...of an article in Nature, if as they say:
Mathematicians have known for more than two centuries that the number is an infinite,
non-repeating decimal.
I mean, isn't that the implication being made by that Nature article?
If it has now been shown, then Nature (Ma Nature, not the journal) has given us the proverbial infinite monkeys, and I'm going to look for Shakespearean sonnets in that number. <g>
Any similarities between my DNA and IP-protected DNA are purely conincidental or due to a natural and accepted process of selection based on the fitness of said DNA, familial connections, or some combination of these factors. (yada yada)
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The corporations own the politicians.
We still pay for the government (in all the ways that may apply.)
The needed adjustment won't occur without your involvement. I tried to use the slashdot search engine but it's down... I wanted to point to a recent article in which the primary (republican) backer claimed there was no opposition when the DMCA bill came out of committee (and to hide their votes they used a voice vote... you can't know how your congresscritter voted.)
Approaching the topic a little more closely, I've always said Linux even though I've always understood and been in full support of RMS's efforts.
No one else in the *ahem* GNU/Linux community seems to understand better than RMS the importance of keeping a very clear objective present in a wholly idealogical argument, even in the face of its obvious success.
I'm not saying there are not equally powerful alternative licensing forms out there, just that there have been some spectacular examples of code being swept up into privately owned software, and other examples of the same phenomena wherein a part of the objective has been to break a standard protocol incorporated into that software.
I'm gonna disagree with Taco and say that Drepper's "announcement" was an obvious attempt to start a flame war.
I s'pose this'll get me modded down...
Across... industries?
Are you a citizen or an employee?
...now I know from whence Dynasty ripped its plotline.
The material in Knuth's books is trivial compared to a one-click button. Now that's genius!!!
That's gv, pronounced ghostview
hey you scratch my back I'll scartch yours.
So if you want to release Free Software, free in the libre sense that anyone can use it and improve it and still keep it free, you have to do it under the prevailing conditions, using Copyright to protect the liberty of your work.
Sorry about the double post....
What hypocrisy? This is the real world, and in the real world there are copyrights and patents, and there are private distributors of proprietary software incorporating copyrighted and patented information. That's it.
;)
So if you want to release Free Software, free in the libre sense that anyone can use it and improve it and still keep it free.
The fact the developer of a given body of work can maintain his right to re-license the work is immutable (unless you are a musician or a hack
Licensing the work under different conditions than those of the GPL to a private entity who will use the work to create a non-free product is totally consistent with the idea of Free Software. It both allows the developer his choice of licensing, and allows the distribution of Free Software.
That 'remote exploit' isn't a root exploit, it doesn't even let you run commands. The only danger to it is that it allows anyone to read directory listings on your system. I think 'involuntary information release' is a better description, a weakness that allows remote parties to gather some data about your filesystem.
:)
But thanks for the warning, I'm updated and subscribed.
Heheh, maybe it's you that thinks he's smart. I mean, turning javascript off is a good defense against hostile web-pages that throw up pop-under ads. And then you said some really stupid things. So... you're right.
Pop-under ads are not a good revenue stream when they serve to anger and alienate eyeballs.
If you weren't such a chump and hated people for being smarter than you, maybe you'd be smart too.
Take care, chump.
reset your major premise to:
s/Pattern/Recurring Sequence/
I think someone's privatized your clinic, by now...
Well, I left out the little part about finding the text, that can be done later when quantum desktop computers are the norm.
But once found, the position can be described in some shorthand notation, and with the length, can be extracted at the target machine...
I think that would make PI a repeating pattern...
so... IANAM, but I think that's been ruled out.
Damn, slashcode thinks I'm cowboyNeal, and won't let me post!
That pattern (1828...) breaks down after awhile, if that's what you mean.
???
at position 2^300+1 the next 600,222 bytes are the Linux kernel compiled for Io Rover VII (or whatever)
What's uncompressed about that?
If it has now been shown, then Nature (Ma Nature, not the journal) has given us the proverbial infinite monkeys, and I'm going to look for Shakespearean sonnets in that number. <g>
Any similarities between my DNA and IP-protected DNA are purely conincidental or due to a natural and accepted process of selection based on the fitness of said DNA, familial connections, or some combination of these factors. (yada yada)