I once fancied I tried to set up a completely Free userland on Solaris, starting with glibc, but discovered that glibc wouldn't build on Solaris and efforts to make it build anywhere but Linux and HURD had pretty much stopped.
If this means they have built a complete Debian userland including glibc on Open Solaris then it is a spectacular accomplishment! If they had to continue to use pieces of Solaris userland like the Solaris libc it is still an impressive accomplishment but not quite the same as just building the exact same Debian packages on Solaris.
Ah, but the difference is you actually think about the way you exercise your power. May not always be exactly what everyone wants, but you do think about it.
As far as I know, there is no Caldera IP in FreeDOS. I think you are conflating FreeDOS and OpenDOS. In particular, I think you're confused on point #2, which may or may not have happened, but was not the genesis of FreeDOS.
If I want to hire someone to put my stuff up on ebay, I'll decide whether I want them to have a license or certification or not. Please don't try to represent me by deciding this on my behalf.
Rather trollish to assert that slashcode has seen no feature additions when we all know you're still huffing and puffing from the exhaustion of the migration to CSS and standards compliant HTML. Or, at least, I thought we all knew that. I know I did.
I haven't looked at slashcode in about three years, but I have an idea it'd have to be in pretty good shape for that overhaul to have even been possible. One thing I know for certain is that given slashdot's userbase it absolutely must be using taint mode, and that's a good indication for quality.
I don't know what Checkpoint is. I don't know what Snort is. I don't know what Sourcefire is.
I could Google for these things and find out, but I don't know why I would want to know what they are.
I do know that Snort is free software, and I'm always glad to see more free software out there. Maybe some day when I have a need for whatever it does I'll find it on a Google search.
Baloney. That does not equal theft. Copyright infringement results in devaluation of property. Economically, it's the same as opening a competing store selling a commodity. If you run a shoe store you can't sue somebody for "theft" if they open a shoe store next to you and prices go way down as a result.
United States citizens and United States corporations that want better protection for their "intellectual property" in other countries should hire lawyers and lobbyists in those countries to effect the change they want. My government does not represent me by attempting to effect this change on behalf of those Americans who want these increased restrictions.
Lately Wal-Mart has started randomly asking to see a driver's license with our credit cards. This annoyed my wife to no end because until this started she just used a card with my name on it. (It's also in her name, but we never got a copy with her name printed on it.) She left a large basket of groceries defrosting in Wal-Mart one day when they wouldn't accept her use of the card.
Anyway, I've started giving fake signatures when they do this. Seems pretty senseless for them to make a fuss about seeing my ID but then not check and find out that I signed "Balthazar Gomez" or "You never read this anyway." I'm thinking of signing "Not authorized" soon and seeing what happens.
I had the same confusion when Open Source Netscape was branded Mozilla and announced they were working toward a 1.0. To me, Netscape Navigator/Composer was already Mozilla and had always been, and it was at version 4.x going on 5.x+.
Very good point. We should remember that in a democracy, a government promise means nothing. The highest good in a democracy is doing what the voters want today. Voters always have the privilege of voting not to honor a promise that was made by their representatives (or even a promise they voted directly to make).
The U.S. social security system is a great example of broken promises. There was originally a cap on annual contributions. It was promised that noone would ever pay more than (I think) $3,000 in a year. Politicians can promise anything, but the voters are not obligated to vote to keep the promise.
What makes MythTV a great product isn't its thoughtfully designed interface, it's the ability to record what you want without asking Big Brother for permission. This is something I don't think people who havn't been screwed over by draconian copyright restrictions which eliminate fair use rights really understand. From the way it deliberately fails to implement DRM flags to the ability to export whatever you want to whatever platform, MythTV constantly does things that would make me happy. It's like MythTV is my friend rather than my parent. This, I think, is the reason that so many people (hopefully to some day include myself) are fanaticaly devoted to their MythTV.
I'm not saying Tivo doesn't have its benefits, but it certainly isn't a replacement for a DVR you can actually use the way you want to.
I own a Tivo. You are right that the interface is far better than all the competition. But the previous poster wasn't bragging on the interface. He just wants to use his DVR.
Mr. Wall may have some protection from liability under federal law
You mean like the First Amendment?
(Or does he have to pull out the Second?)
The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.
Thankfully he didn't beat up anybody at all! Not a single person has been beaten, not with clubs, fists, or any other method. All the guy did, if he did anything, was say something. And actually it was apparently somebody else who did it.
I'm sick and tired of government being used as a weapon for one group of citizens to harass another group on the basis of doing something which is supposed to be our right to do anyway in a free country.
If I want to say your search engine optimization company sucks, then that's my right in a free country. And actually every search engine optimization company sucks. So you guys who are upset that I said that can just go get bent.
Yes it does. I'm happy to givemy money to help people to go through unfortunate tragedies, but I don't think I have the right to vote to take your money to do that with.
Slashdot Mirror
but it's run by a board of trustees disconnected from goverment, with a legal obligation to be impartial.
Keep thinking that one over.
Ah, but the BBC is run by the government and publicly funded, so it's unbiased. Or so many a Brit (and admiring American) has told me.
Incidentally, I was just reading up on this issue yesterday. For those who want more information, compare TAI to UTC.
He should just rename it to something more, hm, original and be done with it.
Yeah; like "Crappy Operating System Defender."
I once fancied I tried to set up a completely Free userland on Solaris, starting with glibc, but discovered that glibc wouldn't build on Solaris and efforts to make it build anywhere but Linux and HURD had pretty much stopped.
If this means they have built a complete Debian userland including glibc on Open Solaris then it is a spectacular accomplishment! If they had to continue to use pieces of Solaris userland like the Solaris libc it is still an impressive accomplishment but not quite the same as just building the exact same Debian packages on Solaris.
Account numbers, address, maybe a phone or payment amount. Is that really dangerous to the customer if only those get compromised?
Why don't you post your credit card account number here and find out? Or, if you'd rather, you can email it to me privately.
It's your site. Rant if you want. It's your personality that built this place. It should show through at times.
Ah, but the difference is you actually think about the way you exercise your power. May not always be exactly what everyone wants, but you do think about it.
As far as I know, there is no Caldera IP in FreeDOS. I think you are conflating FreeDOS and OpenDOS. In particular, I think you're confused on point #2, which may or may not have happened, but was not the genesis of FreeDOS.
Oh, wait. You were talking about Perl 6. I may be completely wrong, then.
But it doesn't change how great Perl 5 is. :)
That example of how Perl 6 is fucked is that "print (1+2)+3" will not be the same as "print(1+2) + 3".
I'm surprised nobody pointed out to you that this is incorrect.
If I want to hire someone to put my stuff up on ebay, I'll decide whether I want them to have a license or certification or not. Please don't try to represent me by deciding this on my behalf.
with the EU saying that it could 'fall apart.'
The EU could fall apart in a month?
And then there's those George Lucas movies we all used to love. But we don't love them any more because the new ones were too campy.
Rather trollish to assert that slashcode has seen no feature additions when we all know you're still huffing and puffing from the exhaustion of the migration to CSS and standards compliant HTML. Or, at least, I thought we all knew that. I know I did.
I haven't looked at slashcode in about three years, but I have an idea it'd have to be in pretty good shape for that overhaul to have even been possible. One thing I know for certain is that given slashdot's userbase it absolutely must be using taint mode, and that's a good indication for quality.
I don't know what Checkpoint is. I don't know what Snort is. I don't know what Sourcefire is.
I could Google for these things and find out, but I don't know why I would want to know what they are.
I do know that Snort is free software, and I'm always glad to see more free software out there. Maybe some day when I have a need for whatever it does I'll find it on a Google search.
I guess my only clue is the department line.
Baloney. That does not equal theft. Copyright infringement results in devaluation of property. Economically, it's the same as opening a competing store selling a commodity. If you run a shoe store you can't sue somebody for "theft" if they open a shoe store next to you and prices go way down as a result.
United States citizens and United States corporations that want better protection for their "intellectual property" in other countries should hire lawyers and lobbyists in those countries to effect the change they want. My government does not represent me by attempting to effect this change on behalf of those Americans who want these increased restrictions.
Yeah; that's where I got the idea.
Lately Wal-Mart has started randomly asking to see a driver's license with our credit cards. This annoyed my wife to no end because until this started she just used a card with my name on it. (It's also in her name, but we never got a copy with her name printed on it.) She left a large basket of groceries defrosting in Wal-Mart one day when they wouldn't accept her use of the card.
Anyway, I've started giving fake signatures when they do this. Seems pretty senseless for them to make a fuss about seeing my ID but then not check and find out that I signed "Balthazar Gomez" or "You never read this anyway." I'm thinking of signing "Not authorized" soon and seeing what happens.
I had the same confusion when Open Source Netscape was branded Mozilla and announced they were working toward a 1.0. To me, Netscape Navigator/Composer was already Mozilla and had always been, and it was at version 4.x going on 5.x+.
Very good point. We should remember that in a democracy, a government promise means nothing. The highest good in a democracy is doing what the voters want today. Voters always have the privilege of voting not to honor a promise that was made by their representatives (or even a promise they voted directly to make).
The U.S. social security system is a great example of broken promises. There was originally a cap on annual contributions. It was promised that noone would ever pay more than (I think) $3,000 in a year. Politicians can promise anything, but the voters are not obligated to vote to keep the promise.
What makes MythTV a great product isn't its thoughtfully designed interface, it's the ability to record what you want without asking Big Brother for permission. This is something I don't think people who havn't been screwed over by draconian copyright restrictions which eliminate fair use rights really understand. From the way it deliberately fails to implement DRM flags to the ability to export whatever you want to whatever platform, MythTV constantly does things that would make me happy. It's like MythTV is my friend rather than my parent. This, I think, is the reason that so many people (hopefully to some day include myself) are fanaticaly devoted to their MythTV.
I'm not saying Tivo doesn't have its benefits, but it certainly isn't a replacement for a DVR you can actually use the way you want to.
I own a Tivo. You are right that the interface is far better than all the competition. But the previous poster wasn't bragging on the interface. He just wants to use his DVR.
Me, too, and I am one of the anarchists he hates. :)
Mr. Wall may have some protection from liability under federal law
You mean like the First Amendment?
(Or does he have to pull out the Second?)
The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.
Thankfully he didn't beat up anybody at all! Not a single person has been beaten, not with clubs, fists, or any other method. All the guy did, if he did anything, was say something. And actually it was apparently somebody else who did it.
I'm sick and tired of government being used as a weapon for one group of citizens to harass another group on the basis of doing something which is supposed to be our right to do anyway in a free country.
If I want to say your search engine optimization company sucks, then that's my right in a free country. And actually every search engine optimization company sucks. So you guys who are upset that I said that can just go get bent.
Yes it does. I'm happy to give my money to help people to go through unfortunate tragedies, but I don't think I have the right to vote to take your money to do that with.