What do you mean? Didnt you read the article? They are giving the money to the poor and seeing all us linux developers are the unwashed unpaid masses, that means us.
Wanna name the law exactly here? I can bribe whoever the hell I want to bribe in a foriegn country baby. It has got didly squat to do with my government unless I'm endangering national security or something. Shit, M$ could probably just buy Mexico outright couldn't they?
our society is fucked up. I'm a computer geek, I work at a computer company. I want to talk to the women who work here because I have met so few females in the computer industry. I like to hear everyone's opinion, everyone's outlook because I believe it improves my own. What do I get in return? People naturally assume that a girl couldn't have anything worth while to say and that I could only have biological reasons to be talking to them.
shit, I'm impressed. I've often wondered why the political environment we first expose our children to is a tyrany or dictatorship, and then wonder why they dont appear to be able to function in our democratic republics. Maybe if we truely believed in democracy we could find a way for children to participate.
Social skills are important too. My greatest fear is that I'll end up working at some commercial research lab and my years and years of brilliant work will never see the light of day. If you cant convince people that what you think is worth something then you might as well sit in your room and drool all day.
Sheesh man. People put their lives, their hopes and dreams and fortunes into these companies. They failed because the market is hostile. To most people that doesnt mean much. So I'll put it more clearly: They failed because they cannot sell their product and they can't sell their product because of the GPL. So the question you have to ask yourself is: do I want to exploit people to get my software? Talk about slave labour.
And the little companies that do succeed are going to be the ones that keep their expenses way down until they are profitable, rather than ride the more extravagant venture capital road.
Wow, you mean like real companies that make products and sell them? As if that would ever work.
it would be good. Sorry, I cant find the name of the person I'm quoting. He is a professor doing research into the neurological function of art apprication. He is indian (I think) and focuses a lot of his research on hindu art. I wish I could remember his name.
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Pretty damn easily actually. Just look for a bit of code like:
for (i = 0; i < BUF_LEN; i++) {
do lots of junk
}
and add the code:
for (i = 0; i < BUF_LEN; i++) {
do lots of stuff
if (buf[i] == '\n') {
buf[++i]=0;
break;
}
do lots of stuff
}
it looks like it belongs, but if the \n is at the end of the buffer it will result in a one byte overflow. If the one byte it overflows is the frame pointer (which you can rearrange the declarations to make it so) you can perform a one byte overflow and execute arbitary code.
other alternatives: you could restrict the number of hits you allow each day, maybe serving a "you would be able to see this page if you forked some cash you cheap bastard" message.
So someone in the know: is time a dimension or not? When string theory talks of 10 dimensions it is talking about 10 physical dimensions. So the question is, if time is a dimension, is it a physical dimension and we just experience it differently to the other physical dimensions, or is it inheriently different?
Appart from the fact that people will just run free servers like they do now for Ultima Online, wouldn't it make more sense to charge for those graphics that are costing you a fortune to create? Sure, keep the source open, you get all those great benefits and don't have to assign developers to fixing bugs, but you've paid for the graphics and the sounds and the like to be created, doesn't it make sense to charge people for this? If not, put that under a GNU license too!
as Einstien used to say, never commit to memory anything that which you can write down. I used to get very upset with myself when I couldn't remember the memory map of my c64 or the hex value of every opcode. The attitude is perverse and only necessary if you plan to be stranded on a desert island with your c64. Since when has memory had any association with intelligence what-so-ever? That's sort of quiz show mentality went out in the 50's didn't it?
Miller asserted that the "industry vision" centers around Web-based services, which allow software and data to be delivered over networks instead of having to be installed or stored on user's computers.
And "Microsoft is leading the charge with.Net," said Miller. "Linux is not leading anything, it is simply providing a 'free' operating system."
Industry vision? I thought this was Sun's vision! and I thought we all agreed that it was a pretty lame vision a long time ago. But hey, if Microsoft wants to enter the Java market (even though they wont admit it) and take on Sun, I wish them good luck. On your way out, dont forget to slam operating systems as being stupid and lame and "flat clients" as just being silly (sound familiar?) I'll be over here running my Free operating system with all my Free applications that I have to install and loving it.
"If you want to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut off its head? [...] Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how --- or why --- he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much, the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people --- 'older and wiser heads,' as they say --- supply the control. Which is as it should be."
"We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die."
umm. have you heard of a newspaper? Perhaps you've heard of a book? This may not be so new fangled as HDTV but it is a form of broadcast and it is exactly what the first ammendment is there to protect. Why can't you understand this? We respect and tollerate all speech, all viewpoints, all religions, all cultures. When we have to make exceptions to this rule we do it with great reluctance. For god's sake, I would much rather you see something you didnt like than have our right to say it taken away! About the last thing people want to hear about is their government, that they elected, killing or torturing people. It is precisely that we dont want to see it that we have to have the right to make people aware of it. That said, I really have to ask who it is who is forcing you to view child porn?
you my friend are an ignoramous. Victimless crimes do not include the perpetrator in the count of victims. If I want to stab myself in the heart I will do so and neither you or your stupid laws will stop me. If I want to go bungy jumping off a large bridge, I will do so and the last thing I expect from my government is a law saying I cant because I might kill myself and leave behind a grieving widow. People OD because drugs have an unknown purity. They have an unknown purity because they are created in backyard labs or are of poor quality. The drugs are of poor quality because they are illegal. If you want a maternial government to make sure you are safe and sound and cant play with anything dangerous go somewhere else, the rest of us value freedom a little more than safety.
no this isnt a pleasant topic. But we have to deal with these unpleasantries or our adversaries who just want to restrict our rights will use these unpleasantries against us. Saying that someone who likes child porn is probably a child abuser is lunicy. I love movies about the mafia, am I assumed to be gangsta? It is funny but all these arguments used to be made about homosexual pornography.
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What do you mean? Didnt you read the article? They are giving the money to the poor and seeing all us linux developers are the unwashed unpaid masses, that means us.
As opposed to say the whole of China?
Wanna name the law exactly here? I can bribe whoever the hell I want to bribe in a foriegn country baby. It has got didly squat to do with my government unless I'm endangering national security or something. Shit, M$ could probably just buy Mexico outright couldn't they?
our society is fucked up. I'm a computer geek, I work at a computer company. I want to talk to the women who work here because I have met so few females in the computer industry. I like to hear everyone's opinion, everyone's outlook because I believe it improves my own. What do I get in return? People naturally assume that a girl couldn't have anything worth while to say and that I could only have biological reasons to be talking to them.
you gotta hand it to him though.. that was beautiful.
shit, I'm impressed. I've often wondered why the political environment we first expose our children to is a tyrany or dictatorship, and then wonder why they dont appear to be able to function in our democratic republics. Maybe if we truely believed in democracy we could find a way for children to participate.
Social skills are important too. My greatest fear is that I'll end up working at some commercial research lab and my years and years of brilliant work will never see the light of day. If you cant convince people that what you think is worth something then you might as well sit in your room and drool all day.
yep, it's called a "strawman"
Sheesh man. People put their lives, their hopes and dreams and fortunes into these companies. They failed because the market is hostile. To most people that doesnt mean much. So I'll put it more clearly: They failed because they cannot sell their product and they can't sell their product because of the GPL. So the question you have to ask yourself is: do I want to exploit people to get my software? Talk about slave labour.
And the little companies that do succeed are going to be the ones that keep their expenses way down until they are profitable, rather than ride the more extravagant venture capital road.
Wow, you mean like real companies that make products and sell them? As if that would ever work.
So what you're saying is that SOAP gets you off? The showers must be sticky at your place.
it would be good. Sorry, I cant find the name of the person I'm quoting. He is a professor doing research into the neurological function of art apprication. He is indian (I think) and focuses a lot of his research on hindu art. I wish I could remember his name.
Pretty damn easily actually. Just look for a bit of code like:
for (i = 0; i < BUF_LEN; i++) {
do lots of junk
}
and add the code:
for (i = 0; i < BUF_LEN; i++) {
do lots of stuff
if (buf[i] == '\n') {
buf[++i]=0;
break;
}
do lots of stuff
}
it looks like it belongs, but if the \n is at the end of the buffer it will result in a one byte overflow. If the one byte it overflows is the frame pointer (which you can rearrange the declarations to make it so) you can perform a one byte overflow and execute arbitary code.
other alternatives: you could restrict the number of hits you allow each day, maybe serving a "you would be able to see this page if you forked some cash you cheap bastard" message.
So someone in the know: is time a dimension or not? When string theory talks of 10 dimensions it is talking about 10 physical dimensions. So the question is, if time is a dimension, is it a physical dimension and we just experience it differently to the other physical dimensions, or is it inheriently different?
Appart from the fact that people will just run free servers like they do now for Ultima Online, wouldn't it make more sense to charge for those graphics that are costing you a fortune to create? Sure, keep the source open, you get all those great benefits and don't have to assign developers to fixing bugs, but you've paid for the graphics and the sounds and the like to be created, doesn't it make sense to charge people for this? If not, put that under a GNU license too!
as Einstien used to say, never commit to memory anything that which you can write down. I used to get very upset with myself when I couldn't remember the memory map of my c64 or the hex value of every opcode. The attitude is perverse and only necessary if you plan to be stranded on a desert island with your c64. Since when has memory had any association with intelligence what-so-ever? That's sort of quiz show mentality went out in the 50's didn't it?
Miller asserted that the "industry vision" centers around Web-based services, which allow software and data to be delivered over networks instead of having to be installed or stored on user's computers.
.Net," said Miller. "Linux is not leading anything, it is simply providing a 'free' operating system."
And "Microsoft is leading the charge with
Industry vision? I thought this was Sun's vision! and I thought we all agreed that it was a pretty lame vision a long time ago. But hey, if Microsoft wants to enter the Java market (even though they wont admit it) and take on Sun, I wish them good luck. On your way out, dont forget to slam operating systems as being stupid and lame and "flat clients" as just being silly (sound familiar?) I'll be over here running my Free operating system with all my Free applications that I have to install and loving it.
"If you want to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut off its head? [...] Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how --- or why --- he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much, the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people --- 'older and wiser heads,' as they say --- supply the control. Which is as it should be."
"We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die."
- Heinlein (Starship Troopers 1959).
oh and M$ft geeks learn to use Microsoft products by paying for books.
big != monopoly.
umm. have you heard of a newspaper? Perhaps you've heard of a book? This may not be so new fangled as HDTV but it is a form of broadcast and it is exactly what the first ammendment is there to protect. Why can't you understand this? We respect and tollerate all speech, all viewpoints, all religions, all cultures. When we have to make exceptions to this rule we do it with great reluctance. For god's sake, I would much rather you see something you didnt like than have our right to say it taken away! About the last thing people want to hear about is their government, that they elected, killing or torturing people. It is precisely that we dont want to see it that we have to have the right to make people aware of it. That said, I really have to ask who it is who is forcing you to view child porn?
you my friend are an ignoramous. Victimless crimes do not include the perpetrator in the count of victims. If I want to stab myself in the heart I will do so and neither you or your stupid laws will stop me. If I want to go bungy jumping off a large bridge, I will do so and the last thing I expect from my government is a law saying I cant because I might kill myself and leave behind a grieving widow. People OD because drugs have an unknown purity. They have an unknown purity because they are created in backyard labs or are of poor quality. The drugs are of poor quality because they are illegal. If you want a maternial government to make sure you are safe and sound and cant play with anything dangerous go somewhere else, the rest of us value freedom a little more than safety.
no this isnt a pleasant topic. But we have to deal with these unpleasantries or our adversaries who just want to restrict our rights will use these unpleasantries against us. Saying that someone who likes child porn is probably a child abuser is lunicy. I love movies about the mafia, am I assumed to be gangsta? It is funny but all these arguments used to be made about homosexual pornography.
no, as in they cant code for anything except microsoft products.