I love Junkbusters, it lets you specify only the domains that you trust with your cookies, and filters out the rest. If you don't like the idea of arbitrary web sites tracking your every move (the eyes, the eyes), don't like all the 'accept this cookie' windows that pop up when you have the confirm option on in Netscape, and still want/. to auto-log you in, you should check it out.
Also, it lets me tell everyone that the web-browser I'm using is 'Flipper the web-surfing goat (C64 edition)';-)
God, that sounded to much like an advert, btw you can it from here.
Does this mean that GNU/Linux will be banned in the US of A, since Richard Stallman is obviously a communist...;-)
On a serious note, though, this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated - I'm surprised that this doesn't contravene some EU directive. Perhaps if the defragger had some pop-up instructing the user to join the Church of Scientology, then it might be justifiable. Also, do the German government intend to ban all John Travolta (or any other star related to the Scientologist) films?
If you want to ban W2K, I can think of far better reasons.
How about keeping the 'CE' part and losing the 'Windows', what with the name 'Windows' implying "buggy, slow, painful, etc", hence: Mini-CE, or MinCE for short;)
Any application can be fun and interesting, because of the related challenge to produce it. The reason that larger applications are not as proliferant (sp?) is because they require much more time and skill to produce -- this is where the 'bazaar' phenomenom works perfectly, since the time and skill can be shared to produce something that is greater than the sum of its parts (see the GIMP for a perfect example), but the big challenge is getting the application 'off the ground', i.e. writing the framework and organising CVS, the mailing list, etc.
Machine translation is in fact a fascinating area of AI, and very difficult to achieve -- hence why this is the first GPL'd application.
I agree with the stamp collecting analogy, what's the point in trying to rewrite something that's already been done well? Why write yet another window manager, when you can write the first ever GPL'd goat/sponge simulator (this needs to be done, btw - anyone?). --
I don't know about a direct violation of the GPL, but it's certainly a violation of Debian's Social Contract (and the open source definition, which is based on it anyway), which states:
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
The GPL conforms to this, but I don't know if it specifically prohibits discrimination, however since Corel Linux is based on Debian, it probably should comply with the Social Contract. --
That's the real reason they didn't pick up on the Indian Missile tests, the Indian communication was littered with smileys, rendering it invisible to the NSA;-)
Perhaps with phone tapping, they filter out anything said in a sarcastic tone of voice... Hmmmm - maybe I can patent that idea... --
I agree that companies who refuse to properly fix well known exploits are probably worse than the people that exploit the bugs, but that still doesn't remove any blame from the people who create the utilities to do the exploiting.
Bugs should be brought to light, but there's far better ways to do that than uploading a script to rootshell. --
The term ease of use is something of a misnomer when applied to WinNT, what it should be is ease of learning. WinNT has a much lower learning curve than that of Unix, but once you reach a certain level of proficiency in both, you will actually find that many tasks are far easier under a unix system.
The problem is, of course, remembering the right incantations and understanding what they actually do, rather than clicking a few buttons, selecting some radio-buttons and then rebooting.
What it comes down to really, is what you class as 'ease of use'. I find Unix much more natural to use than NT, but I'm a bit of a masochist when it comes to computers -- if it doesn't hurt you aren't doing it right;) --
I don't blame gun manufacturers or knife manufacturers for murders. I don't blame car manufacturers for drunk drivers
If the gun or knife where sold to anyone, with no restrictions, and blatently advertised as for murder; or the car given 3-foot pointy spikes at the front for killing pedestrians -- what then?
It sounds silly, but that's what things like viruses and the scripts that script-kiddies use (what is the name for these anyways?) are essentially doing.
The bulk of responsibility does lie with the user, and I believe that it is the person who uses the utility that should be held to account, but there is a line that must be drawn between useful utilities that may be used by the unscrupulous(sp?) to do illegal things, and programs created with the intention of letting people crack systems or whatever more easily. --
The implication was that I wanted them ready by Xmas, everyone knows that no GPL'd product ever has a release declared 'stable' until it actually is;) --
I remember reading in Alan Cox's Diary that someone mailed him asking for inflatable Tuxes (Tuxii?) What I really want is a 7-foot inflatable Tux to use instead of an Xmas tree.
Any of the following would also be nice:
A sixteen-way Symmetric Multi Penguin Alpha machine -- to play Space Invaders on a Speccy emulator, just for the hell of it
Linux 2.4/XFree86 4.0/KDE 2.0 (by Xmas, yeah - right)
World Peace
Bill Gates' head on a spike (ok, that's counted in the last one) --
Quote from Excite article:But without the popular code, Web sites become largely passive and unable to deliver the most basic interactivity.
Just what exactly is 'interactivity' defined as here? Most 'interactivity' can be achieved through well-coded HTML/forms and server-side code such as PHP3 or perl (hell, even a shell-script with CGI). Perhaps 'pointless memory-hogging eyecandy' might be a better expression for most of the 'interaction' that Javasctipt/ActiveX offer;)
... if it doesn't work with lynx, it doesn't work at all, IMHO. --
As if anyone cares... That was the entire point of the article! I use BeOS myself, it's a great OS. The article, however, was arguing that AmigaOS should be Open Source, so the comparison was valid.
Aphex Twin is a genius, I've heard that at his gigs, he goes on stage with just a Mac laptop and produces real-time stuff, if this is what he uses to do that, then I'm in heaven.
One problem, the ftp site only allows 10 ppl on at a time, which is not very accomodating for the/. effect, any mirrors?
I remember reading that M$ offered Alan Cox a job... he declined of course. I'd like to see how much of Gates' $100 billion fortune he'd have to use to lure Linus (my guess is at least 200%)
Slashdot Mirror
I love Junkbusters, it lets you specify only the domains that you trust with your cookies, and filters out the rest. If you don't like the idea of arbitrary web sites tracking your every move (the eyes, the eyes), don't like all the 'accept this cookie' windows that pop up when you have the confirm option on in Netscape, and still want /. to auto-log you in, you should check it out.
;-)
Also, it lets me tell everyone that the web-browser I'm using is 'Flipper the web-surfing goat (C64 edition)'
God, that sounded to much like an advert, btw you can it from here.
Right I'm moving to Germany ;)
;-)
Does this mean that GNU/Linux will be banned in the US of A, since Richard Stallman is obviously a communist...
On a serious note, though, this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated - I'm surprised that this doesn't contravene some EU directive. Perhaps if the defragger had some pop-up instructing the user to join the Church of Scientology, then it might be justifiable. Also, do the German government intend to ban all John Travolta (or any other star related to the Scientologist) films?
If you want to ban W2K, I can think of far better reasons.
Something like:
Hmmmm, maybe not
How about keeping the 'CE' part and losing the 'Windows', what with the name 'Windows' implying "buggy, slow, painful, etc", hence: Mini-CE, or MinCE for short ;)
No mention of it on the GNU software project page, it did mention GNUScape (the em*cs browser), w3m and the mighty all-conquering lynx.
Of course, since there's an Emacs browser, here's a beta version of the vim browser:
function browse(url)
r !lynx -dump a:url
endfunction
slashandmaimdot -- news for potential criminals, stuff that matters
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They missed out 'penguins' from that list.
... worship the penguin, or die!
Not that there's anything wrong with being obsessed with satanic penguin death cults
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Any application can be fun and interesting, because of the related challenge to produce it. The reason that larger applications are not as proliferant (sp?) is because they require much more time and skill to produce -- this is where the 'bazaar' phenomenom works perfectly, since the time and skill can be shared to produce something that is greater than the sum of its parts (see the GIMP for a perfect example), but the big challenge is getting the application 'off the ground', i.e. writing the framework and organising CVS, the mailing list, etc.
Machine translation is in fact a fascinating area of AI, and very difficult to achieve -- hence why this is the first GPL'd application.
I agree with the stamp collecting analogy, what's the point in trying to rewrite something that's already been done well? Why write yet another window manager, when you can write the first ever GPL'd goat/sponge simulator (this needs to be done, btw - anyone?).
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The GPL conforms to this, but I don't know if it specifically prohibits discrimination, however since Corel Linux is based on Debian, it probably should comply with the Social Contract.
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That's the real reason they didn't pick up on the Indian Missile tests, the Indian communication was littered with smileys, rendering it invisible to the NSA ;-)
... Hmmmm - maybe I can patent that idea ...
Perhaps with phone tapping, they filter out anything said in a sarcastic tone of voice
--
I agree that companies who refuse to properly fix well known exploits are probably worse than the people that exploit the bugs, but that still doesn't remove any blame from the people who create the utilities to do the exploiting.
Bugs should be brought to light, but there's far better ways to do that than uploading a script to rootshell.
--
The term ease of use is something of a misnomer when applied to WinNT, what it should be is ease of learning. WinNT has a much lower learning curve than that of Unix, but once you reach a certain level of proficiency in both, you will actually find that many tasks are far easier under a unix system.
;)
The problem is, of course, remembering the right incantations and understanding what they actually do, rather than clicking a few buttons, selecting some radio-buttons and then rebooting.
What it comes down to really, is what you class as 'ease of use'. I find Unix much more natural to use than NT, but I'm a bit of a masochist when it comes to computers -- if it doesn't hurt you aren't doing it right
--
I don't blame gun manufacturers or knife manufacturers for murders. I don't blame car manufacturers for drunk drivers
If the gun or knife where sold to anyone, with no restrictions, and blatently advertised as for murder; or the car given 3-foot pointy spikes at the front for killing pedestrians -- what then?
It sounds silly, but that's what things like viruses and the scripts that script-kiddies use (what is the name for these anyways?) are essentially doing.
The bulk of responsibility does lie with the user, and I believe that it is the person who uses the utility that should be held to account, but there is a line that must be drawn between useful utilities that may be used by the unscrupulous(sp?) to do illegal things, and programs created with the intention of letting people crack systems or whatever more easily.
--
The implication was that I wanted them ready by Xmas, everyone knows that no GPL'd product ever has a release declared 'stable' until it actually is ;)
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What I really want is a 7-foot inflatable Tux to use instead of an Xmas tree.
Any of the following would also be nice:
A sixteen-way Symmetric Multi Penguin Alpha machine -- to play Space Invaders on a Speccy emulator, just for the hell of it
Linux 2.4/XFree86 4.0/KDE 2.0 (by Xmas, yeah - right)
World Peace
Bill Gates' head on a spike (ok, that's counted in the last one)
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So-called Windows freaks
...
I thought anyone who chooses to use Windows was a freak
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Quote from Excite article: But without the popular code, Web sites become largely passive and unable to deliver the most basic interactivity.
;)
Just what exactly is 'interactivity' defined as here?
Most 'interactivity' can be achieved through well-coded HTML/forms and server-side code such as PHP3 or perl (hell, even a shell-script with CGI).
Perhaps 'pointless memory-hogging eyecandy' might be a better expression for most of the 'interaction' that Javasctipt/ActiveX offer
... if it doesn't work with lynx, it doesn't work at all, IMHO.
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I'm a GNURD
... 10am and bored already
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The third millennium is 2001-3000 ;-)
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As if anyone cares...
That was the entire point of the article!
I use BeOS myself, it's a great OS. The article, however, was arguing that AmigaOS should be Open Source, so the comparison was valid.
Yes, But BeOS isn't Open Source
I noticed that www.netaid.org is also running Red Hat, cool since their claiming to be expecting 60 Million hits a day...
Aphex Twin is a genius, I've heard that at his gigs, he goes on stage with just a Mac laptop and produces real-time stuff, if this is what he uses to do that, then I'm in heaven.
/. effect, any mirrors?
One problem, the ftp site only allows 10 ppl on at a time, which is not very accomodating for the
-neil
I remember reading that M$ offered Alan Cox a job ... he declined of course. I'd like to see how much of Gates' $100 billion fortune he'd have to use to lure Linus (my guess is at least 200%)