And its Web of Trust might help you. Let the social net filter the bad stuff.
It works very well on small samples, IMHO. In fact, I believe a Web of Trust doesn't scale in the thousands, or hundreds of thousands, because of the dilution of the metric.
Also, since you run a political website, a Web of Trust can help to "cluster" similar points of view.
What would happen if Microsoft starts claiming copyright infringement or other Intellectual Property claims in the wizard-inserted code that Visual C++ generates?
Nothing yet, since they currently don't do this kind of limiting with the wizard-code.
Would it be possible that even the simplest 'Hello, world' is tainted?
Yes, if they prove that your Hello World came from a Wizard instead of other method. (highly unlikely)
Copyrights don't even require uniform enforcement. Could they selectively enforce it on Free Software projects for Windows that have used VC++ for development?
If they make a license which says "Forbidden to use with Free Software", and someone uses it, then yes.
Could they license it in such a way that makes it illegal to use Visual C++ for Free Software?
Yes.
Should this be a wake-up call to never use Visual C++ unless you have a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft (obviously not for Free Software projects)?
My take (brazilian, male, 23, caucasian, programmer, free thinker) is simply:
THIS IS THE MOST SICK THING I'VE EVER SEEN. Sicker than an African myth that you can cure AIDS by having sex with girls less than 12 years old, which generate hundreds of rapes.
SICK! SICK! SICK!
It's outrageous that a federal USA departament is allowing people to bet (profit) from total CHAOTIC situations.
Fuck! We're talking about war! Revolution! Monarchy overthrow! Hundreds of deaths! Estabilization of societies! Democracy! Free will! Terrorism! Geopolitics! Family!
develop products for Free Software - like drivers for web-cams etc., which attracts yet more usrs, who attract more devs, snowballing support for OSS
You know, I was thinking about this today. But comparing to % of market share. A ridiculous account that I made to start my thinking:
Linux has 3% of the desktops. Windows has 92% of the desktops.
Well, we could say that the whole Windows industry, the software and services built around it, are 31 times bigger than Linux.
Of course, it's not 31 times, you have to take in account to many factors. But let's be pessimist and cut this in half, as in, Linux generates half of the industry value attached to Windows.
You still have a Windows market that's around 15 times greater than Linux.
Now compare Linux to Windows. Is Windows 15 better than Linux? I don't think it is.
Anyway, my point follows yours, altough with a different line of tought. Imagine what Linux will be when it has 10% of the market share.
I know it isn't a straight line that you would draw in a graph, but hey, for 15 minutes of brainstorming, maybe someone will care to develop it further;)
I don't see it the way you described... for me the author said that, while C/C++ has been used a lot to do various tasks, there are areas where it's not the best language.
He didn't failed to recognize the massive amount of software written with C/C++. He just said that it shouldn't have been used:p
It's like saying that everyone should use and develop for Windows, because "a colossal amount of people" (~91%?) use it, isn't? For me it is...
As you know, lots of people use C/C++ when better solutions are available, but as with IBM and Oracle, none has been fired because they've used these languages;)
One of the previous arguments of proprietary vendors is that a governament shouldn't base their decisions on the license of the software, specifically, the GPL. Instead, governament should decide based on the functionalities of the software. For example, Microsoft Office's Word is the best word processor available, so the governament should buy it, since it meets the user's demands.
Now, the table have turned. These UK lobbists are asking to deny a software based on its license, and that it doesn't matter if it is the best tool for the job. As long as it is GPL, it is wrong.
Highly amusing. It only indicates that proprietary vendors are shooting everywhere hoping that one of their arguments convince someone. And that the "feature-rich" argument, after all, isn't working.
I don't know why IBM isn't acting, but I am sure it is working:)
Everyone and their mom now hates SCO. If IBM somehow settled this a couple months ago, nothing of this would have happened. SCO dig its own grave, and IBM is just watching the show.
Does Brazilian political culture have a tradition of bribery-induced corruption?
Sadly, yes. And a lot. Right now politicians are trying to cover an investigation of more then US$ 30 Billion (that's right, THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS) from a bank. It's going downhill because it's said that some big names from our administration are involved (up to ministers, perhaps even the president).
But generally, the current dominant party (PT) fights against corruption. Its members are passionate against, for historical and ideological reasons. It's something that deeply matters to them. So, even if there are cases where some scandals are trying to be ignored, generally, I belive it's harder to corrupt a PT memeber than from other parties.
Brazil not only forced lower patent prices, it also CANCELLED some of them, and opened for anyone who wants to fabricate it, specially on AIDS treatment.
"We must support the software industry, make it stronger so it can generate jobs for our citizens, and increases export (export? Sell something to other country)."
Pretty standard, IMHO. This anwer works not only for the software industry, but for any other else.
Lula's answer:
"We should support free software, not only because it's cheaper, but because our country needs a larger tech base, more computer and people that knows how to use it".
And Lula won the dispute. Especifically, when asked about the software industry, he cited free solutions.
So it's not a matter of what Bill Gates think, it's already happening. Cool, isn't?:)
Ps: I know you made a joke I am just trying to make the topic broader and explain some of the things that are happening.
1) Soccer/BasketBall/Any Ball game: Put a sensor on everyone's shoes (or hands) and one at the ball. Consider each player as a webpage and each pass as a link. The ball is the vertex. Then you can find what player (from what position) makes a good pass, and to who; Optimize your strategy:)
2) P2P: Store and analyze peer positions (both geographically or between network connections/routes) to find the best combination. Consider the download as link, and each peer is a vertex. For example, "cluster" peers with the same content (if you make the file hash as the link initiator), or from the same country.
3) User Interface: Streaming and saving inumerous screenshots from people using their computer, you can correlate what are the most common tasks performed on an application, or how "difficult" is to use it. For example, how many pixels the mouse pointer usually travel, either when you pass where you wanted to click, or from buttom to buttom. If you plot a web graphic showing that users usually go from buttom "A" to "B", and they are 20 pixels away, you could reduce the distance.
4) Compression (I guess?): Find on your hard drive common byte sequences between files, and create "webpages" for them. When you open a file, it will look for its bytes on a vertex (the "link" from the webgraph). The more files you have, the better they are compressed.
Also good for defrag: Keep the most accessed vertexes on the start of the hard drive, or its files "around";
5) Surveys: If each answer and the profile of who's answering is a webpage, you can create vertexes of interests
6) Spam: Consider each word from the spam as a vertex. Parse the email and connect each word with a vertex. Store this information (how many links a vertex have). When an email comes, check if it is spam by watching to how many vertexes its words connect to (and how "big" the vertexes are, ie: previous connections).
Either you are trolling, or you don't realize the irony of this topic.
If you don't want someone snooping your mail or online activities, then use encryption.
That's exactly what "terrorists" will do (or already do) anyway. If they want to communicate in private, using "advanced technologies", such as email, they will find a way to do it.
What Villanizer fights against is a much more broader topic than security, or the lack of it. It's to show how useless these techniques are, specially since they're being used for political reasons (and 75% of the people agree with me on that).
Because I have to... I spent many hours looking for a free (as in beer) web project management software.
If you search google for "project management" you get at least 4 advertisements. Just for you to know how much supply (and demand) exists.
My requirements are very simple: Web-based, runs on Linux, contacts, projects, tasks, bugs and companies. Almost every project management has these features, but they don't have in MY way.
For an example to show how most of them work: I can start a project. But I can't assign this project to multiple clients. Heck. A project can only 'belong' to ONE client.
Also, user management. I didn't find one single software that would let me create an user, and let this user only browse ONE project, just for reading or writing entries. Most of them either concede full access or none at all.
So I decided to write my own. Will I reinvent the project management software wheel? Nope. Because my wheel is different.
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And its Web of Trust might help you. Let the social net filter the bad stuff.
It works very well on small samples, IMHO. In fact, I believe a Web of Trust doesn't scale in the thousands, or hundreds of thousands, because of the dilution of the metric.
Also, since you run a political website, a Web of Trust can help to "cluster" similar points of view.
Announcer: this is another public service announcement brought to you, in
Part, by slim shady.
Eminem: (whispered): tell 'em I don't give a fuck
Announcer: slim shady does not give a fuck...what you think!
Eminem: tell 'em to suck it
Announcer: if you don't like it, you can suck his fucking cock!
Eminem: tell 'em they kissed my ass
Announcer: little did you know, upon purchasing this album, you have just
Kissed his ass!
Eminem: tell 'em I'm fed up
Announcer: slim shady is fed up with your shit...and he's going to kill you!
Eminem: yeah
Announcer: uh...anything else?
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Damn, forget it. I totally missed the link which points to exactly this.
Anyone knows if there's a demo or video file?
At the risk of burning my karma or being ignored, I just want to say that I liked this guy. Seems a good fellow, in-line with a lot of my thinkings.
:)
Just like everyone in politics, but, anyway...
Yes, GPL. But not every Free Software license.
What would happen if Microsoft starts claiming copyright infringement or other Intellectual Property claims in the wizard-inserted code that Visual C++ generates?
Nothing yet, since they currently don't do this kind of limiting with the wizard-code.
Would it be possible that even the simplest 'Hello, world' is tainted?
Yes, if they prove that your Hello World came from a Wizard instead of other method. (highly unlikely)
Copyrights don't even require uniform enforcement. Could they selectively enforce it on Free Software projects for Windows that have used VC++ for development?
If they make a license which says "Forbidden to use with Free Software", and someone uses it, then yes.
Could they license it in such a way that makes it illegal to use Visual C++ for Free Software?
Yes.
Should this be a wake-up call to never use Visual C++ unless you have a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft (obviously not for Free Software projects)?
No. They won't do this.
My take (brazilian, male, 23, caucasian, programmer, free thinker) is simply:
THIS IS THE MOST SICK THING I'VE EVER SEEN. Sicker than an African myth that you can cure AIDS by having sex with girls less than 12 years old, which generate hundreds of rapes.
SICK! SICK! SICK!
It's outrageous that a federal USA departament is allowing people to bet (profit) from total CHAOTIC situations.
Fuck! We're talking about war! Revolution! Monarchy overthrow! Hundreds of deaths! Estabilization of societies! Democracy! Free will! Terrorism! Geopolitics! Family!
SICK! SICK! SICK!
develop products for Free Software - like drivers for web-cams etc., which attracts yet more usrs, who attract more devs, snowballing support for OSS
;)
You know, I was thinking about this today. But comparing to % of market share. A ridiculous account that I made to start my thinking:
Linux has 3% of the desktops.
Windows has 92% of the desktops.
Well, we could say that the whole Windows industry, the software and services built around it, are 31 times bigger than Linux.
Of course, it's not 31 times, you have to take in account to many factors. But let's be pessimist and cut this in half, as in, Linux generates half of the industry value attached to Windows.
You still have a Windows market that's around 15 times greater than Linux.
Now compare Linux to Windows. Is Windows 15 better than Linux? I don't think it is.
Anyway, my point follows yours, altough with a different line of tought. Imagine what Linux will be when it has 10% of the market share.
I know it isn't a straight line that you would draw in a graph, but hey, for 15 minutes of brainstorming, maybe someone will care to develop it further
Should we be against this?
Should we be against deCSS, too? Kazaa?
Nah.
I don't see it the way you described... for me the author said that, while C/C++ has been used a lot to do various tasks, there are areas where it's not the best language.
:p
;)
He didn't failed to recognize the massive amount of software written with C/C++. He just said that it shouldn't have been used
It's like saying that everyone should use and develop for Windows, because "a colossal amount of people" (~91%?) use it, isn't? For me it is...
As you know, lots of people use C/C++ when better solutions are available, but as with IBM and Oracle, none has been fired because they've used these languages
Its popularity drive a lot of decisions....
So, because something has been done before, it should be done forever?
my that-was-ridiculously-stupid meter flew off the scale
What about your attention span? The paragraph below says:
it was a very difficult transformation to accept that these languages are not viable development languages for application level work.
One of the previous arguments of proprietary vendors is that a governament shouldn't base their decisions on the license of the software, specifically, the GPL. Instead, governament should decide based on the functionalities of the software. For example, Microsoft Office's Word is the best word processor available, so the governament should buy it, since it meets the user's demands.
Now, the table have turned. These UK lobbists are asking to deny a software based on its license, and that it doesn't matter if it is the best tool for the job. As long as it is GPL, it is wrong.
Highly amusing. It only indicates that proprietary vendors are shooting everywhere hoping that one of their arguments convince someone. And that the "feature-rich" argument, after all, isn't working.
If "Everyone and their mom now hates SCO",
:\
:p
why is their stock so high?
Because they aren't wearing their coats, and it's cold outside.
Well, there are gamblers everywhere. Personally, I don't believe in SCO's case. But hey, 0.00001% that they might be right, and win against IBM.
Whatever it happens, there's a chance of profit. Just choose one side
I don't know why IBM isn't acting, but I am sure it is working :)
Everyone and their mom now hates SCO. If IBM somehow settled this a couple months ago, nothing of this would have happened. SCO dig its own grave, and IBM is just watching the show.
Does Brazilian political culture have a tradition of bribery-induced corruption?
Sadly, yes. And a lot. Right now politicians are trying to cover an investigation of more then US$ 30 Billion (that's right, THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS) from a bank. It's going downhill because it's said that some big names from our administration are involved (up to ministers, perhaps even the president).
But generally, the current dominant party (PT) fights against corruption. Its members are passionate against, for historical and ideological reasons. It's something that deeply matters to them. So, even if there are cases where some scandals are trying to be ignored, generally, I belive it's harder to corrupt a PT memeber than from other parties.
Brazil not only forced lower patent prices, it also CANCELLED some of them, and opened for anyone who wants to fabricate it, specially on AIDS treatment.
He already met (twice) with Brazil's president (one time before the election, one after, during Davos), and it didn't change our president's mind.
:)
During the campaign some IT newspaper asked the candidates what they would do for the software industry. It went something like this:
José Serra's answer:
"We must support the software industry, make it stronger so it can generate jobs for our citizens, and increases export (export? Sell something to other country)."
Pretty standard, IMHO. This anwer works not only for the software industry, but for any other else.
Lula's answer:
"We should support free software, not only because it's cheaper, but because our country needs a larger tech base, more computer and people that knows how to use it".
And Lula won the dispute. Especifically, when asked about the software industry, he cited free solutions.
So it's not a matter of what Bill Gates think, it's already happening. Cool, isn't?
Ps: I know you made a joke I am just trying to make the topic broader and explain some of the things that are happening.
1) Soccer/BasketBall/Any Ball game: Put a sensor on everyone's shoes (or hands) and one at the ball. Consider each player as a webpage and each pass as a link. The ball is the vertex. Then you can find what player (from what position) makes a good pass, and to who; Optimize your strategy :)
2) P2P: Store and analyze peer positions (both geographically or between network connections/routes) to find the best combination. Consider the download as link, and each peer is a vertex. For example, "cluster" peers with the same content (if you make the file hash as the link initiator), or from the same country.
3) User Interface: Streaming and saving inumerous screenshots from people using their computer, you can correlate what are the most common tasks performed on an application, or how "difficult" is to use it. For example, how many pixels the mouse pointer usually travel, either when you pass where you wanted to click, or from buttom to buttom. If you plot a web graphic showing that users usually go from buttom "A" to "B", and they are 20 pixels away, you could reduce the distance.
4) Compression (I guess?): Find on your hard drive common byte sequences between files, and create "webpages" for them. When you open a file, it will look for its bytes on a vertex (the "link" from the webgraph). The more files you have, the better they are compressed.
Also good for defrag: Keep the most accessed vertexes on the start of the hard drive, or its files "around";
5) Surveys: If each answer and the profile of who's answering is a webpage, you can create vertexes of interests
6) Spam: Consider each word from the spam as a vertex. Parse the email and connect each word with a vertex. Store this information (how many links a vertex have). When an email comes, check if it is spam by watching to how many vertexes its words connect to (and how "big" the vertexes are, ie: previous connections).
Either you are trolling, or you don't realize the irony of this topic.
If you don't want someone snooping your mail or online activities, then use encryption.
That's exactly what "terrorists" will do (or already do) anyway. If they want to communicate in private, using "advanced technologies", such as email, they will find a way to do it.
What Villanizer fights against is a much more broader topic than security, or the lack of it. It's to show how useless these techniques are, specially since they're being used for political reasons (and 75% of the people agree with me on that).
It's placebo, nothing more than that.
Because I have to... I spent many hours looking for a free (as in beer) web project management software.
If you search google for "project management" you get at least 4 advertisements. Just for you to know how much supply (and demand) exists.
My requirements are very simple: Web-based, runs on Linux, contacts, projects, tasks, bugs and companies. Almost every project management has these features, but they don't have in MY way.
For an example to show how most of them work: I can start a project. But I can't assign this project to multiple clients. Heck. A project can only 'belong' to ONE client.
Also, user management. I didn't find one single software that would let me create an user, and let this user only browse ONE project, just for reading or writing entries. Most of them either concede full access or none at all.
So I decided to write my own. Will I reinvent the project management software wheel? Nope. Because my wheel is different.
I believe you would be screwed under the US laws... pretty much like when Amazon was forbidden to ship Mein Kampf to some countries. (Germany?)
It would not be practible to sue you, but if someone ever want to do it, then I believe you would have problems...
Sure it could, but it's not Kazaa's fault... I am not saying that you implied this, but some people might go on rampage against Kazaa because of this.
Sharman will give the user an option, and it's up to the user the decision to use it or not...
And when the right light shines, what do you do?