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I've submitted lots of ham radio items to/. and they never post them. Maybe we need our own site, using the slashdot engine, to talk about radio. I could do it on my own server, but I'd need help.
I submitted it too. I've submitted lots of ham radio items to/. and they never post them. Maybe we need our own site, using the slashdot engine, to talk about radio. I could do it on my own server, but I'd need help.
I submitted it too. I've submitted lots of ham radio items to/. and they never post them. Maybe we need our own site, using the slashdot engine, to talk about radio. I could do it on my own server, but I'd need help.
I submitted it too. I've submitted lots of ham radio items to/. and they never post them. Maybe we need our own site, using the slashdot engine, to talk about radio. I could do it on my own server, but I'd need help.
No, Sputnik 99 has no uplink, and yes, this is unusual for a satellite - it's essentially a toy meant to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Sputnik. It's programmed in advance of launch with a set of messages to send. The transmitter is 100 miliwatts, which is more than enough power when you have an unobstructed line-of-sight to the receiver. The battery is expected to last for 30 days, so at least this will be over soon.
The owner says his competition isn't going to be significant. Who would take that seriously from any business person? It's hardly worth commenting about.
Want to see a real story? Check this out. Big corporation steals, walks all over the law, and when confronted about it shows only contempt for the accusers, mouthing bald-faced lies about what it is doing.
I didn't really have a problem with what Chris said in the interview. I mean, he could have said that insults and threats are not cool, but he said I over-reacted, which was fair.
The mail was not private - Eric wrote it on a mailing list. But the point here is that threats are never OK. Neither is it OK to stomp on opposition or shut off debate. Read the APSL Open Letter that Eric was responding to. It is a polite and welcoming letter pointing out some technical problems, and hardly worthy of a threat in response.
I'd never been threatened before and really did not know how to react - I think I took it more seriously because of the.signature, which was some Jefferson quote about the pistol being the best form of exercise. That was the next sentence after "Watch your step". Of course Eric is smart enough that he won't ever do anything like this again.
Eric communicated, through Dan Quinlan who was attempting to mediate, that he did not mean violence. At that point, I publicly dropped the issue. Dan did use the words "character defamation" in relaying Eric's message. Of course, it's hard to drop an issue when it's already in a mailing list. Both Eric and I made it clear to Leander at Wired that this was a non-issue. Other journalists, who I guess had more to write about, did drop the story when requested, including ZDNet and all of the various webzines. It felt really ironic having Eric and Brucie had a fight as the top headline at Wired while bombs were falling on Yugoslavia.
I spent part of yesterday patching Electric Fence, there's a new beta on my site. My DSL has been running full out for days serving downloads of the Digital U.S. Street Map, which I hope will seed the development of many free mapping programs. All of this is much more important than any little fight with Eric.
Is art free speech? I think it's been generally held as such. Paintings, sculpture, and, most relevant to us, performance. A play is a set of written directions for a person or persons to carry out to instantiate a performance of art. Is the written play art, or only the performance? Can one generalize and state that all plays are art, regardless of whether they are performed or not?
Certainly programs can be contrived that output an artwork. However, programs are themselves art, in the same way that a play is. You might object that programs are merely industrial design, but why then is art afforded a protection that is denied its more practical sibling, and who is to distinguish the two?
Poly-planar speakers were the rage of the 70's. They were flat, rectangular, and made of styrofoam. They did OK but were not tremendously good-sounding. Then there were the electrostatic speakers, someone mentioned Magneplanars. Those were excellent, but required a high-voltage power supply and amplifier and sometimes even smelled of ozone.
But recycling of audio trends is nothing new. Remember Quadraphonic? (4-channels instead of 2 as in stereo). It's now "Theatre sound system" or some such, and is used mainly with video.
I don't think it's accurate to call it the perens/raymond organization any longer, if it ever was. I agree that the legality of the trademark is in question for various reasons, but not for the reason you state - Open Source Systems Inc. is in a different trademark category and would not prevent the issuance of an Open Source trademark for computer software.
Isn't it ironic that Eric is now using the same Open Letter strategy that he criticized me for when I used it on Apple? Wouldn't it be funny if I said something like You should have known better. You've interfered with my private negociations with Microsoft and have made all of this much more difficult:-)
It's not bad having a cross-platform driver specification. I do think, however, that it may encourage driver writers to go closed-source when they might not have previously.
Make sure to GPL your UDI device drivers, so that they don't show up on closed-source platforms.
Perhaps Bruce Perens shouldn't be posting things that aren't worth the 3 default points?
I reply to a lot of posts, and most of my replies are not +4 material, although they may be important - for example one of my replies today was to a -1 post that displayed some easily-corrected confusion about the GPL. I might have wanted to put my reply at -1 so that only the readers of the original post would have seen it. But I was stuck with using a +4 nuclear warhead to swat a -1 fly.
Yes, that's what I meant. I want to be able to self-moderate down. For example, I sometimes answer a -1, and I might want my answer to be a -1 in that case. And when I'm just making a joke or something I'd make it a 1 rather than a 4.
There is a built-in encouragement to self-moderation. If you do it well, moderators will demote your comments less often and your score will be higher.
Maybe we are really figuring out how to do this sort of online discussion well, after years of people talking about it but not getting anywhere. I'm really intrigued.
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I've submitted lots of ham radio items to /. and they never post them. Maybe we need our own site, using the slashdot engine, to talk about radio. I could do it on my own server, but I'd need help.
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There's an ITU address in this list, as well as the addresses of various embassies to write to, the FCC, etc.
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Want to see a real story? Check this out. Big corporation steals, walks all over the law, and when confronted about it shows only contempt for the accusers, mouthing bald-faced lies about what it is doing.
Bruce
I didn't really have a problem with what Chris said in the interview. I mean, he could have said that insults and threats are not cool, but he said I over-reacted, which was fair.
I sent you the mail. Judge for yourself.
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Agreed that this is all quite silly. Next time anything like this happens, I'll do my best to bury it.
What just astounds me is that I can't blow my nose without it showing up in Wired. This while bombs were falling in Europe.
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I'd never been threatened before and really did not know how to react - I think I took it more seriously because of the .signature, which was some Jefferson quote about the pistol being the best form of exercise. That was the next sentence after "Watch your step". Of course Eric is smart enough that he won't ever do anything like this again.
Eric communicated, through Dan Quinlan who was attempting to mediate, that he did not mean violence. At that point, I publicly dropped the issue. Dan did use the words "character defamation" in relaying Eric's message. Of course, it's hard to drop an issue when it's already in a mailing list. Both Eric and I made it clear to Leander at Wired that this was a non-issue. Other journalists, who I guess had more to write about, did drop the story when requested, including ZDNet and all of the various webzines. It felt really ironic having Eric and Brucie had a fight as the top headline at Wired while bombs were falling on Yugoslavia.
I spent part of yesterday patching Electric Fence, there's a new beta on my site. My DSL has been running full out for days serving downloads of the Digital U.S. Street Map, which I hope will seed the development of many free mapping programs. All of this is much more important than any little fight with Eric.
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Bruce
Certainly programs can be contrived that output an artwork. However, programs are themselves art, in the same way that a play is. You might object that programs are merely industrial design, but why then is art afforded a protection that is denied its more practical sibling, and who is to distinguish the two?
Bruce Perens
But recycling of audio trends is nothing new. Remember Quadraphonic? (4-channels instead of 2 as in stereo). It's now "Theatre sound system" or some such, and is used mainly with video.
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I'd hope that in the future my own Open Letters would be considered more fairly by Eric. That's all I want.
Bruce
Isn't it ironic that Eric is now using the same Open Letter strategy that he criticized me for when I used it on Apple? Wouldn't it be funny if I said something like You should have known better. You've interfered with my private negociations with Microsoft and have made all of this much more difficult :-)
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The horse is stolen! Quick, lock the barn!
Make sure to GPL your UDI device drivers, so that they don't show up on closed-source platforms.
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I do agree that the OSD should have an addition that the license must be irrevocable. When we wrote it, that situation simply had not come up.
Bruce
I reply to a lot of posts, and most of my replies are not +4 material, although they may be important - for example one of my replies today was to a -1 post that displayed some easily-corrected confusion about the GPL. I might have wanted to put my reply at -1 so that only the readers of the original post would have seen it. But I was stuck with using a +4 nuclear warhead to swat a -1 fly.
I hope that makes my quandry more clear.
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Bruce
There is a built-in encouragement to self-moderation. If you do it well, moderators will demote your comments less often and your score will be higher.
Maybe we are really figuring out how to do this sort of online discussion well, after years of people talking about it but not getting anywhere. I'm really intrigued.
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Bruce