But not as big a problem as has sometimes been claimed. A year ago the papers were running stories on the mystery of where all the stolen mobile phones were going - being exported to India perhaps? But the current theory is that many (maybe most) mobile phones reported stolen have not been stolen at all - their owners are just claiming on insurance and buying newer models.
It's often said that IBM poured money into Josephson's work even though they didn't have any expectation of it succeeding because it would force their competitors to spend money on it - which they couldn't afford as well as IBM. Maybe Boeing are trying the same thing.
Or maybe BAe are trying it, and have succeeded with Boeing...
The FreeBSD Java people now have a licence from Sun, but they have to go through a testing process before they are allowed distribute the system. It wasn't ready in time for 4.5.
For now, you have to download the source from Sun, apply patches, and build it.
It's a grad student who's supposed to be able to write an XML parser in a week. The DPH extracts data from an XML document *without* an XML parser, probably by using Perl regular expressions.
In response to public comments and the reaction of various member organizations, the W3C invited Bruce Perens and Eben Moglen to join the Patent Policy Working Group. They also plan a new draft of the Patent Policy document. This was widely reported, so I'm surprised you haven't heard about it. See this announcement.
The W3C does not call itself a standards body. It issues "recommendations".
"You will appreciate the trick that makes the icons load 5% faster in particular" - how can it possibly be so slow that you can notice a 5% improvement in icon loading speed??? What's it doing, hiring graphic designers to draw them?
You think people who crash planes into buildings
are going to be *deterred* by revenge? No, your
only hope is to solve the problems that lead to
such hatred in the first place. See how
successful the military solution has been in
Northern Ireland?
I have been using and contributing to BSD since
1983 and FreeBSD since 1994. I have absolutely
no wish for FreeBSD to gain market share in
embedded devices or any other area. There are
plenty of other systems in those areas and if
that was what I wanted that's what I'd use.
What we need is a greater diversity of
approaches, rather than everything converging
on what's currently successful.
As Dennis Ritchie might say, if you want QNX
you know where to find it.
Traditional SCSI is not the right replacement
for IDE. It has exactly the same problem: the
use of multiple signal wires causes electrical
problems (interference, synchronization). It
turns out that you can do better by using a serial
rather than parallel connection. Now you might
say that we should go for serial SCSI, and that's
basically what firewire is. Search for "serial
SCSI" in Google.
I don't think I've ever had to queue to pay a utility bill - I just post it to them. Drivers' licences come by post, and anyway you only get them once. Why is it so different in America?
If someone had made this claim about Apache, we'd have looked at the source and known the answer in five minutes.
And if there *had* been such a backdoor in Apache, whoever found it could have posted the code rather than just asserting it, so we'd be *right* not to be quick to believe an unsupported assertion.
You (CmdrTaco) prejudice the question by comparing "please don't spider this page" with "you may not link this page".
How about "you may not spider this page" or "please do not link this page"?
I don't think there's any difference between linking and spidering (ie indexing). If you make something public by publishing it, other people have a right to refer to it whether in a web page or an index. Of course you can ask them not too, but that goes for both cases.
Slashdot Mirror
Aye, they'll be inventing deep-fried Mars bars real soon now.
> Mobile phone theft is a real problem in the UK
But not as big a problem as has sometimes been claimed. A year ago the papers were running stories on the mystery of where all the stolen mobile phones were going - being exported to India perhaps? But the current theory is that many (maybe most) mobile phones reported stolen have not been stolen at all - their owners are just claiming on insurance and buying newer models.
It's often said that IBM poured money into Josephson's work even though they didn't have any expectation of it succeeding because it would force their competitors to spend money on it - which they couldn't afford as well as IBM. Maybe Boeing are trying the same thing.
Or maybe BAe are trying it, and have succeeded with Boeing...
They sell a bogus product that makes it easy for corporate dickheads to enforce stupid policies. They're as blameless as heroin pushers.
You defend them, you're part of the problem.
... how about getting rid of the rest of it?
How many other countries make their children
recite any kind of pledge of allegiance?
Looked at from outside the US, it's a strange blemish of
totalitarianism on one of the world's more
democratic countries.
I wouldn't have any allegiance to a country
that made me pledge it.
The FreeBSD Java people now have a licence from Sun, but they have to go through a testing process before they are allowed distribute the system. It wasn't ready in time for 4.5.
For now, you have to download the source from Sun, apply patches, and build it.
This is from one of the newly elected TAG members
It's a grad student who's supposed to be able to write an XML parser in a week. The DPH extracts data from an XML document *without* an XML parser, probably by using Perl regular expressions.
In response to public comments and the reaction of various member organizations, the W3C invited Bruce Perens and Eben Moglen to join the Patent Policy Working Group. They also plan a new draft of the Patent Policy document. This was widely reported, so I'm surprised you haven't heard about it. See this announcement.
The W3C does not call itself a standards body. It issues "recommendations".
"You will appreciate the trick that makes the icons load 5% faster in particular" - how can it possibly be so slow that you can notice a 5% improvement in icon loading speed??? What's it doing, hiring graphic designers to draw them?
"As much as I hate advertisements"... they're fine so long as I'm the one making money out of it.
It will be interesting to see if the "many-eyes" effect of free software turns up bugs in these programs that have been used for years.
You think people who crash planes into buildings
are going to be *deterred* by revenge? No, your
only hope is to solve the problems that lead to
such hatred in the first place. See how
successful the military solution has been in
Northern Ireland?
Instead of using XFree drivers in Sun's server,
I'd like to throw away Sun's bloated server and be able
to use XFree on my Sparcstation.
The music industry uses copyright to prevent redistribution, but the GPL uses it to allow redistribution. What's so hard to understand about that?
I have been using and contributing to BSD since 1983 and FreeBSD since 1994. I have absolutely no wish for FreeBSD to gain market share in embedded devices or any other area. There are plenty of other systems in those areas and if that was what I wanted that's what I'd use. What we need is a greater diversity of approaches, rather than everything converging on what's currently successful.
As Dennis Ritchie might say, if you want QNX you know where to find it.
It's people like this - who have a ridiculously inflated view of their abilities - who make systems like this necessary.
Traditional SCSI is not the right replacement for IDE. It has exactly the same problem: the use of multiple signal wires causes electrical problems (interference, synchronization). It turns out that you can do better by using a serial rather than parallel connection. Now you might say that we should go for serial SCSI, and that's basically what firewire is. Search for "serial SCSI" in Google.
Could Bush and Lieberman win in Florida?
I don't think I've ever had to queue to pay a utility bill - I just post it to them. Drivers' licences come by post, and anyway you only get them once. Why is it so different in America?
Non-geniuses die of alcoholism all the time; they just don't get Slashdot articles.
And if there *had* been such a backdoor in Apache, whoever found it could have posted the code rather than just asserting it, so we'd be *right* not to be quick to believe an unsupported assertion.
Assuming the link posted in another message is genuine, the string you need to look for is !seineew era sreenigne epacsteN
How about "you may not spider this page" or "please do not link this page"?
I don't think there's any difference between linking and spidering (ie indexing). If you make something public by publishing it, other people have a right to refer to it whether in a web page or an index. Of course you can ask them not too, but that goes for both cases.