ah, the bald truth gets marked a troll. america meets real resistance in nato so the fox talking heads suggest leaving nato. i put up a post cluttered with unpleasant truth and the post gets two troll scores.
yes, blaming the government for the lobbying efforts of private industry is ridiculous. i couldn't agree more.
since the government is just the institutional expression of the will of the people it has whatever right the people see fit to give it.
since most americans appear to be clueless sheep, this means that the power companies (who wrote the initial legislation that privatised them) have a prime opportunity to get the government to do what they want. this is because most people in california/america: are too stupid, are too apathetic, are moronic privatisation-happy libertarians or they work for those power companies.
so i say congrats to the libertarians. they got their private industry. and it seems the private electrical companies are competing every way they can. power companies and their employees can use the governemnt to further their interests just like anyone else. if libertarians want to oppose that move and lobby their reps then they should do so. but *blaming* the government is just plain stupid.
unless of course you're actually blaming the pathetic excuse for an electorate that is the american electorate. then in that case, sure. blame away.
a whole bunch of you idiots are going to blame the government. however, the government is just doing what its constituents want. since most of you are too lazy to vote, never mind really get involved in politics, the real constituents are the ***PRIVATE*** power companies that essentially wrote this proposal.
just like they wrote the energy privatisation bills in california and tons of other states. so all you moronic, short-sighted, ignorant libertarian "privatisation-at-any-cost!" now have *EXACTLY* what you want.
congratulations. go team. ra-ra.
so i really only have one question - why in the hell are you complaining?
you live in america. you're some lame employee. you have no rights at work - how would capitalism work if employees had rights?
i'm not totally serious of course, but the fact is that employees in america have less rights then their counterparts in other developed countries. some people might even argue that's a good thing. as for me, i fail to see how firing an office worker for smoking at a pub on a weekend does anything to drive capital.
since open source people don't worry about distributing source, scripting languages like perl, python, ruby and others fill this niche to some degree as well. binary vm's exist to a large degree to allow people to hide their source and still have portable apps.
plus i remember there being work long ago to have gcc's intermediate language done as a runtime. someone more knowledgable then me could mention that. and elisp precompiles (so does python).
the complaint is not that binaries are not distributed. the problem is the the mplayer developers have licensed their code under the gpl AND said that people are NOT ALLOWED to distribute binaries. the gpl does not allow that kind of restriction.
what's the point of distributing your code under a license if you're going to ignore it. when i write code i write what i mean, otherwise it doesn't work right. shouldn't the same logic apply to a license?
yes, and i did it that year (i think - maybe 1991). i take it you over-scheduled too?:) the cs course guide said to limit yourself to two programming classes. i read that halfway through the semester as i was trying to survive three.
i remember doing two all-nighters in a row and sleeping in bell hall as that guy got arrested for breaking into the vax cluster.
did i learn all the ins and outs? no. but i learned enough to do my projects. and i learned some other things along the way - how to learn languages, how to work with a language, how to get information on a variety of tools and how different languages have cultures around them.
that last part is hard to explain, but a good example might be perl - cpan, perlmonks, perl mongers and naming conventions. back then it was just newsgroups, but even those had their own conventions.
you'll learn the depths of languages later on - primarily when you get a job programming. first learn what exists - though cobol and visual basic would admittedly be rather vile choices. kinda fun learning fp and vax assembly at the same time. fp had not variables or control structures; vax assembly was practically c!:)
i took three programming courses one semester and learned fp, ml, prolog, lisp, clos, vax assembler and ada. in addition i had some projects in modula-2 and c. and you're worried about cobol and visual basic? come on, yer just messing.
i like the blurb where they said that kazaa made millions without spending any money on content. the same could be said of ebay or fedex.
i've never used p2p services, but from a high level kazaa is like a directory service. maybe it does some caching, anonymizing and other kinds of negotiation, but on the whole it's major selling point is that it hooks up different classes of users: producers (well, maybe "data holders" would be better) and consumers.
and it's not all that fair to blame a directory for what its users do wrong. i do find kazaa's "corporate hacks" interesting. they've gone to great lengths to level the playing field on a corporate/legal level. i don't like their tech or their ethics in other areas but they have proved that there are ways for an underdog to fight large corporations.
i was born and raised in america. i have great admiration for germany and germans outside of wwii and wwi. however, no offence to germans, but i have no desire to increase my empathy with german history.
i don't say this to inflame opinions of my fellow americans. i honestly fear that america's current course might take it in a similar direction. i hope that people in america wake up and see what is happening in their names and to their own freedoms - that they're stronger then me and stay there and get the system to change.
if you really think that the structure and location of the debate will make a difference - and you'll make an effort in that direction - then i hope you're successful. i watch foxnews - america's most-watched cable news - and i find the war mongering and disrespect for american's rights to be truly horrifying.
there is no room for legitimate discussion about those cases. they are bad men. the bush administration has identified them as evildoers. questioning their imprisonment is not ony wrong it is unpatriotic and hurts america's national security.
in fact, i'd like a little more detail about you mynameisfred. just post up your name and where we can contact you.
(btw, in case anyone was confused the above wasn't sarcasm. it was "your likely future.")
i think what i described is basically in the lsb. i'm sure they describe it better.
nothing is cut in stone but that's what people *should* do. you can help enforce that by patching or not using s/w that's not like that.
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my rule of thumb about linux/unix dirs./lib - libs for binaries for single user mode (ones in/bin)./usr/lib - libs for binaries for multi-user mode (ones in/usr/bin)./var/lib - data files for various applications.
you're on crack. i can do more in vim then most commercial text editors. for one thing i can pipe my whole buffer, a single line, a paragraph or whatever through any unix utility. i get syntax hilighting for everything from c to postscript. etc, etc.
as far as gui editors go, i'm sure there are lots out there. i don't use them, but for those who do i'm sure there are oodles of useful free editors.
closed source does not equal quality. there are a ridiculous number of counter examples. when you graduate from high school and see closed source applications in the real world, trust me, you'll see just how much crap closed source code is out there. and sure, there's crap free/open code out there - but guess which one you have a chance to fix.
he didn't make money on porting a text editor to linux. really? i'm shocked. there are just so few text editors on linux, that's just a huge market waiting to be exploited there.
ok, for the sarcasm impaired, here's a list of linux text editors off the top of my head:
ed, vi (nvi, elvis, vim), emacs, joe, jed, xedit, gedit, microemacs, pico, nano... and there are likely hundreds of others.
ask microsoft or citrix. go buy their books or their cdrom reference libraries.
you paid for licenses and support, now go get your money's worth. why are you asking a bunch of (mainly) free software people who probably don't know the best answer?
and if you think we do, why don't you use the software we use?
you're right on the first para, but kind of wrong on the second. that method of log rotation is a kludge to support poorly written daemons. you'll lose log data.
it's better to mv messages messages.0 and then hup syslog. you'll annoy log tailers (but not smart ones), but it's faster and you don't lose log messages.
of course in this case cryptome wouldn't really mind losing log messages!
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hey, good point. since there have never been projects to port linux to other game consoles, this *must* be an effort to target microsoft.
oh.
wait...
you realise that the bush administration has further hampered the sec's ability to do its job, right?
ah, the bald truth gets marked a troll. america meets real resistance in nato so the fox talking heads suggest leaving nato. i put up a post cluttered with unpleasant truth and the post gets two troll scores.
aw, poor babies.
yes, blaming the government for the lobbying efforts of private industry is ridiculous. i couldn't agree more.
since the government is just the institutional expression of the will of the people it has whatever right the people see fit to give it.
since most americans appear to be clueless sheep, this means that the power companies (who wrote the initial legislation that privatised them) have a prime opportunity to get the government to do what they want. this is because most people in california/america: are too stupid, are too apathetic, are moronic privatisation-happy libertarians or they work for those power companies.
so i say congrats to the libertarians. they got their private industry. and it seems the private electrical companies are competing every way they can. power companies and their employees can use the governemnt to further their interests just like anyone else. if libertarians want to oppose that move and lobby their reps then they should do so. but *blaming* the government is just plain stupid.
unless of course you're actually blaming the pathetic excuse for an electorate that is the american electorate. then in that case, sure. blame away.
a whole bunch of you idiots are going to blame the government. however, the government is just doing what its constituents want. since most of you are too lazy to vote, never mind really get involved in politics, the real constituents are the ***PRIVATE*** power companies that essentially wrote this proposal.
just like they wrote the energy privatisation bills in california and tons of other states. so all you moronic, short-sighted, ignorant libertarian "privatisation-at-any-cost!" now have *EXACTLY* what you want.
congratulations. go team. ra-ra.
so i really only have one question - why in the hell are you complaining?
now that's not fair. livestock are not allowed to own guns in america. now if you meant *assholes" per square mile then ok...
you live in america. you're some lame employee. you have no rights at work - how would capitalism work if employees had rights?
i'm not totally serious of course, but the fact is that employees in america have less rights then their counterparts in other developed countries. some people might even argue that's a good thing. as for me, i fail to see how firing an office worker for smoking at a pub on a weekend does anything to drive capital.
happily i have the choice not to work in america.
you mean the corner that os-x is in?
you mean like squeak? or perl's parrot?
since open source people don't worry about distributing source, scripting languages like perl, python, ruby and others fill this niche to some degree as well. binary vm's exist to a large degree to allow people to hide their source and still have portable apps.
plus i remember there being work long ago to have gcc's intermediate language done as a runtime. someone more knowledgable then me could mention that. and elisp precompiles (so does python).
you're a moron.
the complaint is not that binaries are not distributed. the problem is the the mplayer developers have licensed their code under the gpl AND said that people are NOT ALLOWED to distribute binaries. the gpl does not allow that kind of restriction.
what's the point of distributing your code under a license if you're going to ignore it. when i write code i write what i mean, otherwise it doesn't work right. shouldn't the same logic apply to a license?
yes, and i did it that year (i think - maybe 1991). i take it you over-scheduled too? :) the cs course guide said to limit yourself to two programming classes. i read that halfway through the semester as i was trying to survive three.
i remember doing two all-nighters in a row and sleeping in bell hall as that guy got arrested for breaking into the vax cluster.
did i learn all the ins and outs? no. but i learned enough to do my projects. and i learned some other things along the way - how to learn languages, how to work with a language, how to get information on a variety of tools and how different languages have cultures around them.
:)
that last part is hard to explain, but a good example might be perl - cpan, perlmonks, perl mongers and naming conventions. back then it was just newsgroups, but even those had their own conventions.
you'll learn the depths of languages later on - primarily when you get a job programming. first learn what exists - though cobol and visual basic would admittedly be rather vile choices. kinda fun learning fp and vax assembly at the same time. fp had not variables or control structures; vax assembly was practically c!
that last "finally" - can you pin a year on that? actually, a rough guess is fine. will it be before or after the sun goes nova?
i took three programming courses one semester and learned fp, ml, prolog, lisp, clos, vax assembler and ada. in addition i had some projects in modula-2 and c. and you're worried about cobol and visual basic? come on, yer just messing.
study, play with the langs and generally learn.
i like the blurb where they said that kazaa made millions without spending any money on content. the same could be said of ebay or fedex.
i've never used p2p services, but from a high level kazaa is like a directory service. maybe it does some caching, anonymizing and other kinds of negotiation, but on the whole it's major selling point is that it hooks up different classes of users: producers (well, maybe "data holders" would be better) and consumers.
and it's not all that fair to blame a directory for what its users do wrong. i do find kazaa's "corporate hacks" interesting. they've gone to great lengths to level the playing field on a corporate/legal level. i don't like their tech or their ethics in other areas but they have proved that there are ways for an underdog to fight large corporations.
i was born and raised in america. i have great admiration for germany and germans outside of wwii and wwi. however, no offence to germans, but i have no desire to increase my empathy with german history.
i don't say this to inflame opinions of my fellow americans. i honestly fear that america's current course might take it in a similar direction. i hope that people in america wake up and see what is happening in their names and to their own freedoms - that they're stronger then me and stay there and get the system to change.
if you really think that the structure and location of the debate will make a difference - and you'll make an effort in that direction - then i hope you're successful. i watch foxnews - america's most-watched cable news - and i find the war mongering and disrespect for american's rights to be truly horrifying.
there is no room for legitimate discussion about those cases. they are bad men. the bush administration has identified them as evildoers. questioning their imprisonment is not ony wrong it is unpatriotic and hurts america's national security.
in fact, i'd like a little more detail about you mynameisfred. just post up your name and where we can contact you.
(btw, in case anyone was confused the above wasn't sarcasm. it was "your likely future.")
i think what i described is basically in the lsb. i'm sure they describe it better.
nothing is cut in stone but that's what people *should* do. you can help enforce that by patching or not using s/w that's not like that.
my rule of thumb about linux/unix dirs. /lib - libs for binaries for single user mode (ones in /bin). /usr/lib - libs for binaries for multi-user mode (ones in /usr/bin). /var/lib - data files for various applications.
don't want things in your bedroom? don't put them there. who cares.
nearly all technology shares a common feature. an off switch. learn how that works and quit whining.
what a ridiculous story.
you're on crack. i can do more in vim then most commercial text editors. for one thing i can pipe my whole buffer, a single line, a paragraph or whatever through any unix utility. i get syntax hilighting for everything from c to postscript. etc, etc.
as far as gui editors go, i'm sure there are lots out there. i don't use them, but for those who do i'm sure there are oodles of useful free editors.
closed source does not equal quality. there are a ridiculous number of counter examples. when you graduate from high school and see closed source applications in the real world, trust me, you'll see just how much crap closed source code is out there. and sure, there's crap free/open code out there - but guess which one you have a chance to fix.
he didn't make money on porting a text editor to linux. really? i'm shocked. there are just so few text editors on linux, that's just a huge market waiting to be exploited there.
ok, for the sarcasm impaired, here's a list of linux text editors off the top of my head:
ed, vi (nvi, elvis, vim), emacs, joe, jed, xedit, gedit, microemacs, pico, nano... and there are likely hundreds of others.
ask microsoft or citrix. go buy their books or their cdrom reference libraries.
you paid for licenses and support, now go get your money's worth. why are you asking a bunch of (mainly) free software people who probably don't know the best answer?
and if you think we do, why don't you use the software we use?
you're right on the first para, but kind of wrong on the second. that method of log rotation is a kludge to support poorly written daemons. you'll lose log data.
it's better to mv messages messages.0 and then hup syslog. you'll annoy log tailers (but not smart ones), but it's faster and you don't lose log messages.
of course in this case cryptome wouldn't really mind losing log messages!
actually, rm is a bad way to delete log files. it's best to cat /dev/null > logfile