In other words, the SCt weaseled out of a definitive ruling on the P2P question. They're good at weaseling out of such decisions these days - quite a shame. Maybe the next P2P company targeted by the AAs will push the Court to a clear ruling... maybe not then, either.
It has always been their policy to issue as
narrowly worded a decision as can decide the
case before them. It's not "theese days", it's
the full history of the court.
Just because writing computer programs is probably more intellectually demanding than collecting garbage or farming does not make us more essential to society. I hope that everyone reading this can easily see that the truth is the other way around. Although we do improve the efficiency of society, we are not so entrenched and important that modern civilization could not exist without us.
Are you stupid? Of course it wouldn't. Humanity
wouldn't even have metal without us. They'd
live like apes without us.
These fools did a detailed analysis of the jargon file. The jargon file explicitly states that it's about "perl hackers" and such as opposed to "l33t h4xors" and such. It would prefer you to call the latter "crackers" and not taint the word "hacker" with their association at all. At the very most, the cracker culture is a subculture of the hacker culture that the jargon file describes. This is a pretty obvious distinction that someone writing a book on the subject really shouldn't have missed.
So what if it's true? They replace one propriatary protocall with another. Real is no more a friend of opensouce than MS is, even if they have released a linux client.
Re:For good old post-apocalypse fun, try Wasteland
on
Intel using FreeBSD
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· Score: 1
I still have the paragraphs book, the "rangers survival guide" and two 5.25 inch floppys that say "WASTELAND" on them. WHEEEE! I wish i had a 5.25 drive. God, I must have played that game all the way through like 30 times. The best part was that you could start over with you expirenced charictes after you won. After like 3 games of this you could win in an hour WHEEEE!
bThis will never happen. There is no good maping between OS objects and physical ones, or "virtual" representations of physical ones. If virtual reality is ever used for a main user interface, it will bear the same kind of relationships to underlying concepts as the GUI does now. That doom-admin thing was amusing, but things like that will never be useful.
Users are not the solders, they are what's being battled over. They are the territory and the resources that both sides are fighting over. This war isn't over marketshare. It's over _mindshare_. What do you think Microsoft gains by dumping it's products to universities? Mindshare.
NO. It most certainly would not be. It is great to think about all the mean things that you would do to tyrants (yes, M$ is a tyrant) if you were in charge, but as soon as you _are_ in charge, and you are doing those mean things to the former tyrants, you are the tyrant.
Consider the Russian revolution. The Russian revolution did not start out as what it later became. It started out as an effort with very high and noble goals: to end tyranny (the Czar), institute fair distribution of resources (communism), and to eventually attain a government even better than democracy (utopian anarchy, Lenin believed that the government would eventually become unnecessary "wither away") They murdered the Czar and his family. They murdered many more who had links to the old regime. Then there was Stalin. You know the rest of the story. Who's the tyrant now?
Granted we are talking about economic tyranny, not murder and genocide, but the principle is the same:
Tyrannize the old tyrants, and you become the new tyrant.
The comparison was between the (very) large scale strategic positions of the nations involved in World War II and the large scale strategic positions between the parties involved in the "war for the web". It never compared Gates to Hitler, or Microsoft to the Nazis. Although the Nazi genocide that took place at the same time as World War II was horrific, we must not forget that it was not the only thing that happened at that time. Let's not forget the Russian genocide and the actual war itself.
Tim was only talking about the war itself. Jez, nobody got this pissed off when someone called apache/linux/open-source Microsoft's Vietnam.
IDE is cheap. Most of apple's customers don't know the difference anyway. They might notice the size of the disks, but most mac-buying-type-people don't even know what IDE or SCSI mean. My question is: Why did they ever use SCSI in the first place?
The technicalities of hyperdrive are the most annoying thing about star trek.
Most scifi storys require the writer to invent new phisics to support the plot. There are two apporaches to this. You can try to explain in depth how your new phisics works, like star trek, or you can just assume that your ship can go faster than light and leave it at that, like star wars.
I have never read/seen any scifi that tried to explain it's fake phisics that wouldn't have been better if it didn't. I think this is because trying to explain any phiscs, real or otherwise is much to large a task to fit intermitantly into a scifi story. Explaining nonexistant phisics allways seems to involve picking large words out of a dictionary, not looking at the definitions, useing them, and hopeing nobody knows what they mean.
Eh? Man pages are great resources when you need to look something up, what some randome switch does or what not, but interesting? You probably are the only one.:-)
Eh? Man pages are great resources when you need to look something up, what some random switch does or what not, but interesting? You probably are the only one.:-)
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These fools did a detailed analysis of the jargon file.
The jargon file explicitly states that it's about
"perl hackers" and such as opposed to "l33t h4xors" and such.
It would prefer you to call the latter "crackers" and not
taint the word "hacker" with their association at all. At the
very most, the cracker culture is a subculture of the
hacker culture that the jargon file describes. This is
a pretty obvious distinction that someone writing a book on the
subject really shouldn't have missed.
Just don't allow anyone except localhost to connect to them
it's even simpler than that. it doesn't matter
how secure your crypto app is. the attacker will
just root youre box.
rob, please don't turn slashdot into a tabloid.
So what if it's true? They replace one propriatary protocall with another. Real is no more a friend of opensouce than MS is, even if they have released a linux client.
I still have the paragraphs book, the "rangers survival guide" and two 5.25 inch floppys that say "WASTELAND" on them. WHEEEE! I wish i had a 5.25 drive. God, I must have played that game all the way through like 30 times. The best part was that you could start over with you expirenced charictes after you won. After like 3 games of this you could win in an hour WHEEEE!
wasteland!!!!
Wasteland is the supreme game. Wasteland is your
god.
maybe someone will just hack up an open source
server.
They did that allready. Remember DAT?
bThis will never happen. There is no good maping between OS objects and
physical ones, or "virtual" representations of physical ones. If
virtual reality is ever used for a main user interface, it will bear
the same kind of relationships to underlying concepts as the GUI does
now. That doom-admin thing was amusing, but things like that will
never be useful.
You should watch less movies
Users are not the solders, they are what's being battled over. They
are the territory and the resources that both sides are fighting over.
This war isn't over marketshare. It's over _mindshare_. What do you
think Microsoft gains by dumping it's products to universities?
Mindshare.
> 3. Would such a thing be desirable?
NO. It most certainly would not be. It is great to think about all
the mean things that you would do to tyrants (yes, M$ is a tyrant) if
you were in charge, but as soon as you _are_ in charge, and you are
doing those mean things to the former tyrants, you are the tyrant.
Consider the Russian revolution. The Russian revolution did not start
out as what it later became. It started out as an effort with very
high and noble goals: to end tyranny (the Czar), institute fair
distribution of resources (communism), and to eventually attain a
government even better than democracy (utopian anarchy, Lenin believed
that the government would eventually become unnecessary "wither away")
They murdered the Czar and his family. They murdered many more who
had links to the old regime. Then there was Stalin. You know the
rest of the story. Who's the tyrant now?
Granted we are talking about economic tyranny, not murder and genocide,
but the principle is the same:
Tyrannize the old tyrants, and you become the new tyrant.
The comparison was between the (very) large scale strategic positions
of the nations involved in World War II and the large scale strategic
positions between the parties involved in the "war for the web". It
never compared Gates to Hitler, or Microsoft to the Nazis. Although
the Nazi genocide that took place at the same time as World War II was
horrific, we must not forget that it was not the only thing that
happened at that time. Let's not forget the Russian genocide and the
actual war itself.
Tim was only talking about the war itself. Jez, nobody got this
pissed off when someone called apache/linux/open-source Microsoft's
Vietnam.
IDE is cheap. Most of apple's customers don't know the difference anyway. They might notice the size of the disks, but most mac-buying-type-people don't even know what IDE or SCSI mean. My question is:
Why did they ever use SCSI in the first place?
The technicalities of hyperdrive are the most annoying thing about star trek.
Most scifi storys require the writer to invent new phisics to support the plot. There are two apporaches to this. You can try to explain in depth how your new phisics works, like star trek, or you can just assume that your ship can go faster than light and leave it at that, like star wars.
I have never read/seen any scifi that tried to explain it's fake phisics that wouldn't have been better if it didn't. I think this is because trying to explain any phiscs, real or otherwise is much to large a task to fit intermitantly into a scifi story. Explaining nonexistant phisics allways seems to involve picking large words out of a dictionary, not looking at the definitions, useing them, and hopeing nobody knows what they mean.
Eh? Man pages are great resources when you need
to look something up, what some randome switch
does or what not, but interesting? You probably
are the only one.
Eh? Man pages are great resources when you need
to look something up, what some random switch
does or what not, but interesting? You probably
are the only one.
It's really a stretch. Information = food ?
That makes no sense at all, food is inherintly
scarse, information is inherintly un-depleteable.