<p>
While I do not feel comfortable with either of the
extreme views of the Socialists or Liberterians..
I am happy to see that they take Net forums
seriously and have answered in a thoughtful manner.
<p>
In reading the replies of both men, I see that they are honest to themselves, and believe in what they say. Being able to see them allows me to be a better voter.
Here are 2 reforms that I wish were made nation (US) wide. [This will mean Constitutional amendments.]
<OL>
<LI>
Electorial votes be made percentage wise for CANDIDATE performance. It does mean in states with small amounts of electorial members that parties that score less than say 33% do not show up.. but it does mean that parties will be represented in EC.
<LI>
States must streamline the ability of non-major parties to be listed in elections. I dont like living in a state where only 4 parties will be on the election sheet this year (Dem/Rep/Lib/Natural Law).
</OL>
The reason I believe in the electorial college was do several mathematical proofs that showed that these indirect methods of electing central officials actually helped protect minority groups from being overwhelmed by a majority rules.
<p>The multiple selection method listed by the McReynolds would also be a useful method.. though I dont know how to judge their strengths and weaknesses.
Out of the 7 words quoted (and who knows how many... were dropped out.) it should be noted that we is not defined. Mr Tiemann helped start Cygnus which in the late 80's started selling Free/Open source software way way before anyone else was.
Cygnus showed that OpenSource (or as those offices say rightly Free Software) could be commercially viable and profitable when people said that Stallman was a Communist quack with delusions of being Marx.
That part of the company is quite proud of that fact and rightly so. Red Hat (OS development) came much later in the game... and i dont know of anyone around Red Hat who would say otherwise.
Must be a slow week and time for sensationalism sells (CNET that is).
Ask many other people (RMS, ERS, Bruce Perens,Linus, etc) of how many times they have been quoted out of context and then used in a news article to make up/enhance rivalry. Bleach
Re:US leads and the world follows
on
Lawsuits Suck
·
· Score: 2
Freedom when given is never appreciated. We are
going to have to earn our rights and freedoms...
"Give me Liberty or give me Death"
means more than "Give me my MP3's or I will sulk around the dorm room"
Since that is a double star system, the dynamics wont be exactly the same. What is supposedly happening there is a one old star is feeding another one causing a massive jetstream to be blown off of it.
I think a better idea of what the sun might look like in 5 billion years is more likely looking at Betelgeuse (ok its much more massive but the idea is correct.) You are going to see it bloat out,
eat the planets and then possibly there might be an interesting effect where Jupiter will eat up some of the gas from the Sun and possibly become a brown dwarf. This would be a long shot, but more likely at the 8-10 billion stage where the sun is becoming a white dwarf and spewing 50% of its mass off in a "planetary nebula"
-- weee I get to use my Astrophysics degree for the first time in 7 years!!!!
It is rather sad the amount of truth in this article. Of course the US govt would only shut down the US side of it... and all the traffic that goes through the US from Europe to South America/Asia and vice versa.
Having gone through the case files of what the FBI has done in the past.. I dont trust it any further than I could through an elephant. [Not to say all FBI people are evil mind sucking people.. just enough in high places to sour the reputations of the genuine law-abiding and upholding ones below.]
Stephen Smoogen [going to check in 5 years to see whats in my secret file:/]
While not a lot of classical hackers would get onto it because ERP isnt sexy.. there would be a "shared" expense market. That market would be companies who need it and have been burned too many times by having code that only CA, Oracle, etc can "fix" because it is too obscure or closed.
This would mean that it would be less voluntary as classical devel has done, and more company XYZ pays hacker to work on it and turn over the code back to Baan Community.
Like everyone else who worked at the labs.. I wasnt worried about the Nuclear fuel.. I was more worried about the chemicals that were spilled in the 50's and 60's because they werent thought dangerous. Heck there is a whole canyon that is off limits because it had been used for it.. probably burnt like a tinderbox too:/.
My favorite memories of the lab was watching the Lab security with their 50 caliber mounted broncos escorting nuclear rods from the processing plant. They were to be used in case of terrorist attack (the less showy stuff was the Anti Tank weapons they had in other vehicles).
I heard that once a stupid bank robber tried to rob the LA National Bank and walked out to find about enough fire power to level a small town aimed at him. They had to give a shower before they put in the cell.
Anyway it was a very pretty town. I miss it and hope that the people there and Espanola (the working town at the bottom of the hill) can rebuild.
I worked for DOE in 1994-1995. THose headers were required then and were supposed to be on all computers from 1990 or so onward. A lot of sysadmins didnt put them up for the usual "Hey this violates my rights.". Well the problem is that you are working for the agency that deals a LOT in nuclear weapons, national secrets, and other things that the US feels doesnt need to be seen by everyone.
That was your choice in going there. You can make protests (LANL scientists did one day strikes over enforcing the computer rules in 1999.. but went to work after that), but other than symbolism your only effective way of changing a lot of the rules is get a majority of Congress to pass repeals of rules that govern what you can and can not do in labs even remotely related to National Secrets.
90% of the time people will whine around the coffee pot, but dont put their feet into action.
While I know this was a troll.. I figure I would bite at the chum you threw in the water.
You have a lot of opinions of what should be there.. I hope to see your ci/co in mozilla CVS logs with all the fixes you are doing. Nope sorry no excuse in saying you cant code, or that you are a big picture kind of guy. If you can think about as much as you did here you can start digging in and helping... otherwise it can go out in any shape it wants to...
1) Coders should look at the DeCSS code and either enhance or increase its ability to play DVD's under Linux. If there are areas that would make copying the DVD's easier that arent needed in playing they should be removed.
2) A Linux DVD player needs to be coded into a "product". We need to show why this was needed.. a lot of people keep on saying it is for this.. well dont do anything but that.
3) Then use the analogy that owning a printing press means you could copy books.. however do we have to be all licensed on what we can print to make sure we arent copying books? Owning a tape recorder means you can copy tapes.. and there are a LOT of dual tape decks out there... does that mean I am a pirate?
4) Mirror the code and start a Free DVDcoders Legal Defense group. If this is the EFF then so be it.. if it needs to be another group so be it. I think the net community has some experience now on what will work and what wont (several of the Free Kevin Mitnick antics didnt work.. the T-Shirts did get attention though).
This could all be done without the WTO, through treaties from before 1940... though later ones help. One of the things that it looks like the shills are going to use are copyright laws.. ie JoeBob broke copyright by writing code that enables "copying" of said work. That is protected under many countries general treaties between nations. The main thing that has to be done is that we need to make sure that we impress on the fact that this is for playback only.
> In the case of the program crackers, reverse > engineering. (but is it really illegal to know > what the processor > knows? I mean, you *own* the damn processor > after all!)
You would think that you own yourself... but people have patents on the genes inside you. I really dont understand this myself... and while I should.. I am afraid for my mind to be warped enough to do that... I would never be sane again:)
I worked on the Alexis Project at Los Alamos New Mexico in 1993/4. It was a X-ray telescope and used processors I thought were positively ancient for the time. However I found out that these were needed because the amount of times a reset occured because of X-ray, gamma-ray, highspeed particles is really scary in space. These particles have very small wavelengths but high energies and the smaller the circuit the more circuits that they are going to affect. This will cause anything from NO-OPS to hard damage of the circuit (which eventually causes the chip to be useless.)
I am pretty sure that the 4 486's are doing the same thing that the 6-8 gyroscopes are doing.. they all do the same thing but if they dont agree they do it over again to see if the second time they do. If multiples do agree the wrong one is marked bad and may be shut down depending on how many times it occurs.
The next generation chips that will need to be used in space are the ones that are both hardened and redundant. I think it was Motorola or IBM that had a chip that you could physically abuse and it would keep going due to the amount of redundancy in it. The problem is that it aint speedy:)
BTW, in case people think that this doesnt happen on earth. I also learned the hard way that above 1km you get more and more problems from radiation on chips. A lot of non-repeatable memory problems we had at Los Alamos got linked to high energy particle/waves coming in from space that usually get blocked by the atmosphere... I also remember reading a paper where similar things occur in buildings with large amount of granite (general decay of various elements) or other stones.
I spent some time with the Mnemonic when it first came out. I think its big problem was that it broke 2 of the Bazaar rules for the Open Source projects:
No code had been written yet, and there was few people to build that code (lots of people who could outline what was needed though)
No central person who could people could focus on (no Linus).
The ideas though were very very good in having a modular browser... it just takes a LOT of work to do it.
The problems with Mozilla have been the fact that they needed to rewrite stuff for a long time, and very few people had experience to help on it. Those who had the experience were usually under NDA's for other companies (I was still under my stuff from Spyglass).
Finally, Sendmail may be a dinosaur, but it still has marketshare... Most major companies seem to want to use it still. Red Hat may offer support for Postfix also... but the share of requests has been small.
The main problem I see with the article is that he was using a very old version of Caldera. If Roblimo or someone else know how to contact him, he should be let known that he needs to have gotten Caldera 2.3 versus 1.3.
This happened to us back in 1998 when we got a bad review for what we thought was 5.2 as that was what we were shipping. It turned out to be 4.0 that the person had found at a shop.
I was a volunteer sysadmin for about a year. I wasnt the best, and made some mistakes, but I did get to hear a LOT of email conversations.
The one thing any sysadmin will run into is a very strong NIH reaction. The system has been running by about 10 or so programmers for 20? years and they do not like anything changed from how it is.
The problem is that the way it is set up is a very distributed "mess." You have NFS from multiple servers, DNS on others, little security by mandate, and a very very cranky set of users who will be quite abusive if something doesnt work the way they expect it.
However, you will get to work with some very very intelligent people who do cool things. I just dont want people to think it is some kind of Camelot.
Thank you for voicing your problems with Red Hat Technical Support. We can only address those problems brought to our attention.
For other people reading this, and looking to either give positive or negative feedback on their support, please get the name of the Technician, the time you called, and send your input to sup-manager@redhat.com.
From this we can talk to the technicians involved and work on better methods for clearing up such problems.
One studying a single clone is like studying a single human being and trying to derive that what that human goes through all humans will do. If you were to study me, you would assume that all humans are left handed, far-sighted, like Free Software, and are green eyed.
So dolly is showing some age in her genes. It could be due to telomere damage that was not corrected by the cell during incubation, or it could be a sign that her genes are a statistical anomoly...
The problem with reading too much into this report is that if her mother was 6 years old when the cloning was done, and Dolly is 3 years old then shouldnt the damage be that of a sheep that is a nine year old sheep if no telomere damage had been averted. (Or did I misread something)
Slashdot Mirror
Oops sorry wrong comic.
<p>
While I do not feel comfortable with either of the
extreme views of the Socialists or Liberterians..
I am happy to see that they take Net forums
seriously and have answered in a thoughtful manner.
<p>
In reading the replies of both men, I see that they are honest to themselves, and believe in what they say. Being able to see them allows me to be a better voter.
Here are 2 reforms that I wish were made nation (US) wide. [This will mean Constitutional amendments.]
<OL>
<LI>
Electorial votes be made percentage wise for CANDIDATE performance. It does mean in states with small amounts of electorial members that parties that score less than say 33% do not show up.. but it does mean that parties will be represented in EC.
<LI>
States must streamline the ability of non-major parties to be listed in elections. I dont like living in a state where only 4 parties will be on the election sheet this year (Dem/Rep/Lib/Natural Law).
</OL>
The reason I believe in the electorial college was do several mathematical proofs that showed that these indirect methods of electing central officials actually helped protect minority groups from being overwhelmed by a majority rules.
<p>The multiple selection method listed by the McReynolds would also be a useful method.. though I dont know how to judge their strengths and weaknesses.
Out of the 7 words quoted (and who knows how many ... were dropped out.) it should be noted that we is not defined. Mr Tiemann helped start Cygnus which in the late 80's started selling Free/Open source software way way before anyone else was.
Cygnus showed that OpenSource (or as those offices say rightly Free Software) could be commercially viable and profitable when people said that Stallman was a Communist quack with delusions of being Marx.
That part of the company is quite proud of that fact and rightly so. Red Hat (OS development) came much later in the game... and i dont know of anyone around Red Hat who would say otherwise.
Must be a slow week and time for sensationalism sells (CNET that is).
Ask many other people (RMS, ERS, Bruce Perens,Linus, etc) of how many times they have been quoted out of context and then used in a news article to make up/enhance rivalry. Bleach
Freedom when given is never appreciated. We are
going to have to earn our rights and freedoms...
"Give me Liberty or give me Death"
means more than "Give me my MP3's or I will sulk around the dorm room"
Since that is a double star system, the dynamics wont be exactly the same. What is supposedly happening there is a one old star is feeding another one causing a massive jetstream to be blown off of it.
I think a better idea of what the sun might look like in 5 billion years is more likely looking at Betelgeuse (ok its much more massive but the idea is correct.) You are going to see it bloat out,
eat the planets and then possibly there might be an interesting effect where Jupiter will eat up some of the gas from the Sun and possibly become a brown dwarf. This would be a long shot, but more likely at the 8-10 billion stage where the sun is becoming a white dwarf and spewing 50% of its mass off in a "planetary nebula"
-- weee I get to use my Astrophysics degree for the first time in 7 years!!!!
It is rather sad the amount of truth in this article. Of course the US govt would only shut ... and all the traffic that goes through the US from Europe to South America/Asia and vice versa.
:/]
down the US side of it
Having gone through the case files of what the FBI has done in the past.. I dont trust it any further than I could through an elephant. [Not to say all FBI people are evil mind sucking people.. just enough in high places to sour the reputations of the genuine law-abiding and upholding ones below.]
Stephen Smoogen [going to check in 5 years to see whats in my secret file
While not a lot of classical hackers would get onto it because ERP isnt sexy.. there would be a "shared" expense market. That market would be companies who need it and have been burned too many times by having code that only CA, Oracle, etc can "fix" because it is too obscure or closed.
This would mean that it would be less voluntary as classical devel has done, and more company XYZ pays hacker to work on it and turn over the code back to Baan Community.
Like everyone else who worked at the labs.. I wasnt worried about the Nuclear fuel.. I was more worried about the chemicals that were spilled in the 50's and 60's because they werent thought dangerous. Heck there is a whole canyon that is off limits because it had been used for it.. probably burnt like a tinderbox too :/.
My favorite memories of the lab was watching the
Lab security with their 50 caliber mounted broncos
escorting nuclear rods from the processing plant. They were to be used in case of terrorist attack (the less showy stuff was the Anti Tank weapons they had in other vehicles).
I heard that once a stupid bank robber tried to rob the LA National Bank and walked out to find about enough fire power to level a small town aimed at him. They had to give a shower before they put in the cell.
Anyway it was a very pretty town. I miss it and hope that the people there and Espanola (the working town at the bottom of the hill) can rebuild.
Smooge
I worked for DOE in 1994-1995. THose headers were
required then and were supposed to be on all computers from 1990 or so onward. A lot of sysadmins didnt put them up for the usual "Hey this violates my rights.". Well the problem is that you are working for the agency that deals a LOT in nuclear weapons, national secrets, and other things that the US feels doesnt need to be seen by everyone.
That was your choice in going there. You can make protests (LANL scientists did one day strikes over enforcing the computer rules in 1999.. but went to work after that), but other than symbolism your only effective way of changing a lot of the rules is get a majority of Congress to pass repeals of rules that govern what you can and can not do in labs even remotely related to National Secrets.
90% of the time people will whine around the coffee pot, but dont put their feet into action.
Good Luck
Stephen Smoogen
While I know this was a troll.. I figure I would bite at the chum you threw in the water.
You have a lot of opinions of what should be there.. I hope to see your ci/co in mozilla CVS logs with all the fixes you are doing. Nope sorry no excuse in saying you cant code, or that you are a big picture kind of guy. If you can think about as much as you did here you can start digging in and helping... otherwise it can go out in any shape it wants to...
1) Coders should look at the DeCSS code and either enhance or increase its ability to play DVD's under Linux. If there are areas that would make copying the DVD's easier that arent needed in playing they should be removed.
2) A Linux DVD player needs to be coded into a "product". We need to show why this was needed.. a lot of people keep on saying it is for this.. well dont do anything but that.
3) Then use the analogy that owning a printing press means you could copy books.. however do we have to be all licensed on what we can print to make sure we arent copying books? Owning a tape recorder means you can copy tapes.. and there are a LOT of dual tape decks out there... does that mean I am a pirate?
4) Mirror the code and start a Free DVDcoders Legal Defense group. If this is the EFF then so be it.. if it needs to be another group so be it.
I think the net community has some experience now on what will work and what wont (several of the Free Kevin Mitnick antics didnt work.. the T-Shirts did get attention though).
This could all be done without the WTO, through treaties from before 1940... though later ones help. One of the things that it looks like the shills are going to use are copyright laws.. ie JoeBob broke copyright by writing code that enables "copying" of said work. That is protected under many countries general treaties between nations. The main thing that has to be done is that we need to make sure that we impress on the fact that this is for playback only.
> In the case of the program crackers, reverse
:)
> engineering. (but is it really illegal to know
> what the processor
> knows? I mean, you *own* the damn processor
> after all!)
You would think that you own yourself... but people have patents on the genes inside you. I really dont understand this myself... and while I should.. I am afraid for my mind to be warped enough to do that... I would never be sane again
I worked on the Alexis Project at Los Alamos New Mexico in 1993/4. It was a X-ray telescope and used processors I thought were positively ancient for the time. However I found out that these were needed because the amount of times a reset occured because of X-ray, gamma-ray, highspeed particles is really scary in space. These particles have very small wavelengths but high energies and the smaller the circuit the more circuits that they are going to affect. This will cause anything from NO-OPS to hard damage of the circuit (which eventually causes the chip to be useless.)
I am pretty sure that the 4 486's are doing the same thing that the 6-8 gyroscopes are doing.. they all do the same thing but if they dont agree they do it over again to see if the second time they do. If multiples do agree the wrong one is marked bad and may be shut down depending on how many times it occurs.
The next generation chips that will need to be used in space are the ones that are both hardened and redundant. I think it was Motorola or IBM that had a chip that you could physically abuse and it would keep going due to the amount of redundancy in it. The problem is that it aint speedy :)
BTW, in case people think that this doesnt happen on earth. I also learned the hard way that above 1km you get more and more problems from radiation on chips. A lot of non-repeatable memory problems we had at Los Alamos got linked to high energy particle/waves coming in from space that usually get blocked by the atmosphere... I also remember reading a paper where similar things occur in buildings with large amount of granite (general decay of various elements) or other stones.
Stephen Smoogen (Physicist in Support clothing)
I spent some time with the Mnemonic when it first came out. I think its big problem was that it broke 2 of the Bazaar rules for the Open Source
projects:
could outline what was needed though)
on (no Linus).
The ideas though were very very good in having a modular browser... it just takes a LOT of work
to do it.
The problems with Mozilla have been the fact that they needed to rewrite stuff for a long time,
and very few people had experience to help on it. Those who had the experience were usually under
NDA's for other companies (I was still under my
stuff from Spyglass).
Finally, Sendmail may be a dinosaur, but it still has marketshare... Most major companies seem to want to use it still. Red Hat may offer support for Postfix also... but the share of requests has been small.
The main problem I see with the article is that
he was using a very old version of Caldera. If Roblimo or someone else know how to contact him,
he should be let known that he needs to have gotten Caldera 2.3 versus 1.3.
This happened to us back in 1998 when we got a bad review for what we thought was 5.2 as that was what we were shipping. It turned out to be 4.0 that the person had found at a shop.
I was a volunteer sysadmin for about a year. I wasnt the best, and made some mistakes, but I did get to hear a LOT of email conversations.
The one thing any sysadmin will run into is a very
strong NIH reaction. The system has been running
by about 10 or so programmers for 20? years and they do not like anything changed from how it is.
The problem is that the way it is set up is a very distributed "mess." You have NFS from multiple servers, DNS on others, little security by mandate, and a very very cranky set of users who will be quite abusive if something doesnt work the way they expect it.
However, you will get to work with some very very intelligent people who do cool things. I just dont want people to think it is some kind of Camelot.
It is short for support manager. PS the previous wasnt a form letter. I spent half the morning typing out something while answering tickets.
Dear Sir and other readers.
Thank you for voicing your problems with Red Hat Technical Support. We can only address those problems brought to our attention.
For other people reading this, and looking to either give positive or negative feedback on their support, please get the name of the Technician, the time you called, and send your input to sup-manager@redhat.com.
From this we can talk to the technicians involved and work on better methods for clearing up such problems.
Stephen Smoogen
Support Manager
Ok here are the problems with this report.
One studying a single clone is like studying a single human being and trying to derive that what that human goes through all humans will do. If you
were to study me, you would assume that all humans
are left handed, far-sighted, like Free Software,
and are green eyed.
So dolly is showing some age in her genes. It could be due to telomere damage that was not corrected by the cell during incubation, or it could be a sign that her genes are a statistical
anomoly...
The problem with reading too much into this report is that if her mother was 6 years old when the cloning was done, and Dolly is 3 years old then shouldnt the damage be that of a sheep that is a nine year old sheep if no telomere damage had been averted. (Or did I misread something)