You mention MSNBC; yet MSNBC was clearly superior to all other TV networks who covered the Microsoft court case recently. They were fair and somewhat clued.
You are looking for a lack of bias where one never existed in the first place.
I would think it is a good cause if DeCSS is a matter of rights. But it is not. You have no right to play DVDs on your computer. You have no right to distribute information (an encryption key) that belongs to someone else who has not given you permission to distribute it. You have no right to pirate DVDs. Yes, the guy's rights were abused by the police, it seems, but the whole DeCSS issue is not about rights, it is about wants. You want to play DVDs on your computer in the manner in which you see fit, despite the fact that you have no right to it.
That is not worth the attention or the money, to me.
Oh, and even if I thought it was a good cause, I would never go to a fundraiser that required jacket and tie. I'd send a check instead. Losers.
> Malda is a delightfully ornery soul who surely will not take kindly to > being told what he can or cannot do. Slashdot readers can count on that. > But isn't this a case in which Caesar's wife must be above suspicion? > Malda declined to be purchased by VA Linux last year because he wanted > to avoid even the perception that Slashdot might not be its own > editorial master. > > Too bad. That perception exists now, and there's little that Malda can > do to change it. The world of free software is all the poorer for it.
What rubbish. The world of free software is poorer because of what? Because money is involved? Not all of us believe that free software is about communism. Jeez.
You are, frankly, ignorant about these matters. Perhaps you missed this little gem in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
"The Congress shall have Power to... promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors exlusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Certain limits to speech are BUILT IN to the Constitution. You do not have an absolute right to free speech, no matter how much you beg and scream. Your interpretation of the First Amendment is one no Supreme Court justice has EVER held to. Taking your interpretation, copyright law is all invalid. That is not Constitutional. Please, read a book.
Can't someone post a story about Perl and not have it devolve into a language war? Discuss the book and book review at hand, or shut up and go somewhere else.
You are incorrect. The code is under the GPL. There is no longer a requirement for the link back to Slashdot.
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Well, it is not big secret. There has been a lot of work on this in recent weeks, and Patrick did a hell of a lot of work over the weekend, and as expected right before a release, we did a lot of work on Tuesday, all day and into the night. Sweat and tears and Perl and MySQL.
What is best? Whatever you like. For something like Slashdot, I think Perl is the best choice, because it has great scalability and speed and flexibility, and it runs everywhere. PHP might be fine for you; I don't like it because I can't do as much with it, and because I know Perl well enough to do whatever I want with it. Simply put, I don't need PHP.
The only bad thing about Perl is one of its primary virtues: it lets you write code in pretty much any style you want. What does that mean? It means that code like Slash, which is hack upon hack upon hack over years, can get kinda ugly (although it is much better than I thought it would be, judging from what some people had told me). I hope we can clean it up and make it better. That would be a Good Thing.
"Flamebait"? That previous post was marked as "Flamebait"? I wish I knew what country the moderator in question came from and what "Flamebait" means in his culture.
Actually, Keyes is by far the most libertarian of the candidates in any race (except for the Libertarian one:). He is against the income tax, social security, medicare, threats to American sovereignty (like the WTO), etc. He is for the right to bear arms, truly free enterprise, and local control of -- well, just about everything.
Yes, he is also against abortion, but no matter what anyone tells you, that is not an anti-libertarian view. He believes life begins in the womb, and that that life has civil rights, and therefore he must believe that abortion violates that life's civil rights. While the Libertarian party platform is pro-choice, if you believe that those lives have civil rights like anyone else, you have no choice but to be pro-life, as a good Libertarian.
His policies are libertarian, even if you disagree with some of them. It is kinda odd that you would think that they aren't. It is almost as if you were... uninformed. Imagine that.
He ruins an otherwise good point about how UF et al are unfunny by trying to stick an ethical mandate on it. "just plain wrong"? Please. It is not a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of Iliad often making unintelligently conceived jokes. The difference between the two frames posted, one from UF and one from Help Desk, is that the Help Desk one is simply a smarter joke. It has insight. The UF joke is just stating the obvious, which isn't very funny. But there is nothing unethical about it.
For his tremendous efforts in bringing Open Source stuff to the Mac. He has authored MacPerl and GUSI (a POSIX library for Mac OS), and has ported many other Unix Open Source programs. Hip hip, hooray!
Please. Most overhyped event in years? If it were not hyped at or near the level it was, we would have seen disasters. Call it the most useful hype in years.
The define mental disorders as "health conditions marked by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior that cause distress or impair a person's ability to function." Sounds like woman problems to me.
First, put your name behind it or shut up, ladies.
Second, the overwhelming majority of the time when someone is kicked or devoiced it is because they are offtopic, rude, refusing to read documentation, or otherwise being generally disagreeable. The small portion of the time that someone gets kicked for no good reason... well, we are all human. Get over it. If merlyn had a bad day and kicked you, deal.
Dollars to dipswitches you got kicked for being a KLB [ lyrics | mp3 ] though.
Third, merlyn may not be the best programmer in the world, and he is not perfect, but he is certainly a better programmer and a better person than most of the people who post on/. (though I realize that isn't saying much, unfortunately). And he has few "followers" on #perl. He has what people who know about life apart from computers call "friends."
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And if you STILL don't get it about being kicked... check out the KLB song [ lyrics | mp3 ].
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You mention MSNBC; yet MSNBC was clearly superior to all other TV networks who covered the Microsoft court case recently. They were fair and somewhat clued.
You are looking for a lack of bias where one never existed in the first place.
Wow, what a waste of money.
I would think it is a good cause if DeCSS is a matter of rights. But it is not. You have no right to play DVDs on your computer. You have no right to distribute information (an encryption key) that belongs to someone else who has not given you permission to distribute it. You have no right to pirate DVDs. Yes, the guy's rights were abused by the police, it seems, but the whole DeCSS issue is not about rights, it is about wants. You want to play DVDs on your computer in the manner in which you see fit, despite the fact that you have no right to it.
That is not worth the attention or the money, to me.
Oh, and even if I thought it was a good cause, I would never go to a fundraiser that required jacket and tie. I'd send a check instead. Losers.
> Malda is a delightfully ornery soul who surely will not take kindly to
> being told what he can or cannot do. Slashdot readers can count on that.
> But isn't this a case in which Caesar's wife must be above suspicion?
> Malda declined to be purchased by VA Linux last year because he wanted
> to avoid even the perception that Slashdot might not be its own
> editorial master.
>
> Too bad. That perception exists now, and there's little that Malda can
> do to change it. The world of free software is all the poorer for it.
What rubbish. The world of free software is poorer because of what? Because money is involved? Not all of us believe that free software is about communism. Jeez.
You are, frankly, ignorant about these matters. Perhaps you missed this little gem in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
... promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors exlusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
"The Congress shall have Power to
Certain limits to speech are BUILT IN to the Constitution. You do not have an absolute right to free speech, no matter how much you beg and scream. Your interpretation of the First Amendment is one no Supreme Court justice has EVER held to. Taking your interpretation, copyright law is all invalid. That is not Constitutional. Please, read a book.
Doesn't CERT have anything better to do?
;-)."
Perhaps a better CERT advisory would be "people who don't check data from untrusted sources should not be allowed to program (or breed
Can't someone post a story about Perl and not have it devolve into a language war? Discuss the book and book review at hand, or shut up and go somewhere else.
There is one. http://lists.slashdot.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi
You are incorrect. The code is under the GPL. There is no longer a requirement for the link back to Slashdot.
Well, it is not big secret. There has been a lot of work on this in recent weeks, and Patrick did a hell of a lot of work over the weekend, and as expected right before a release, we did a lot of work on Tuesday, all day and into the night. Sweat and tears and Perl and MySQL.
What is best? Whatever you like. For something like Slashdot, I think Perl is the best choice, because it has great scalability and speed and flexibility, and it runs everywhere. PHP might be fine for you; I don't like it because I can't do as much with it, and because I know Perl well enough to do whatever I want with it. Simply put, I don't need PHP.
The only bad thing about Perl is one of its primary virtues: it lets you write code in pretty much any style you want. What does that mean? It means that code like Slash, which is hack upon hack upon hack over years, can get kinda ugly (although it is much better than I thought it would be, judging from what some people had told me). I hope we can clean it up and make it better. That would be a Good Thing.
Oh, real mature.
"Flamebait"? That previous post was marked as "Flamebait"? I wish I knew what country the moderator in question came from and what "Flamebait" means in his culture.
Go ye therefore to http://lists.slashdot.org/mailman/li stinfo.cgi and subscribe to yonder slashcode mailing lists.
jjohn, you kiss just like my dad!
This post was at 7:30 last night, and the story was posted this morning. How did that happen?
Actually, Keyes is by far the most libertarian of the candidates in any race (except for the Libertarian one :). He is against the income tax, social security, medicare, threats to American sovereignty (like the WTO), etc. He is for the right to bear arms, truly free enterprise, and local control of -- well, just about everything.
... uninformed. Imagine that.
Yes, he is also against abortion, but no matter what anyone tells you, that is not an anti-libertarian view. He believes life begins in the womb, and that that life has civil rights, and therefore he must believe that abortion violates that life's civil rights. While the Libertarian party platform is pro-choice, if you believe that those lives have civil rights like anyone else, you have no choice but to be pro-life, as a good Libertarian.
His policies are libertarian, even if you disagree with some of them. It is kinda odd that you would think that they aren't. It is almost as if you were
The infobot (and oz, her master) on EFnet's #perl channel. She rules all, contains a crapload of information, is very helpful, and plays games.
He ruins an otherwise good point about how UF et al are unfunny by trying to stick an ethical mandate on it. "just plain wrong"? Please. It is not a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of Iliad often making unintelligently conceived jokes. The difference between the two frames posted, one from UF and one from Help Desk, is that the Help Desk one is simply a smarter joke. It has insight. The UF joke is just stating the obvious, which isn't very funny. But there is nothing unethical about it.
For his tremendous efforts in bringing Open Source stuff to the Mac. He has authored MacPerl and GUSI (a POSIX library for Mac OS), and has ported many other Unix Open Source programs. Hip hip, hooray!
I refuse to feel obligation to "prove" anything to an Anonymous Coward.
Please. Most overhyped event in years? If it were not hyped at or near the level it was, we would have seen disasters. Call it the most useful hype in years.
The define mental disorders as "health conditions marked by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior that cause distress or impair a person's ability to function." Sounds like woman problems to me.
You are all losers.
First, put your name behind it or shut up, ladies.
Second, the overwhelming majority of the time when someone is kicked or devoiced it is because they are offtopic, rude, refusing to read documentation, or otherwise being generally disagreeable. The small portion of the time that someone gets kicked for no good reason ... well, we are all human. Get over it. If merlyn had a bad day and kicked you, deal.
Dollars to dipswitches you got kicked for being a KLB [ lyrics | mp3 ] though.
Third, merlyn may not be the best programmer in the world, and he is not perfect, but he is certainly a better programmer and a better person than most of the people who post on /. (though I realize that isn't saying much, unfortunately). And he has few "followers" on #perl. He has what people who know about life apart from computers call "friends."
And if you STILL don't get it about being kicked ... check out the KLB song [ lyrics | mp3 ].
It has nothing to do with the poster being a Yankee. It has to do with him being a damned moron.