"If I was able to consider Slashdot a part time job, I could financially justify spending more time on Slashdot. I recieve a steady stream of ideas from you guys mentioning awesome features that I would love to implement. If the site was a part time job of some form I could code these features. I could write more editorials.
We could spell check and grammar check our articles."
and
"If we do [ads], we'll be as respectful to you as we possibly can. I hate ads just as much as everyone else, but remember if we have banner ads, we're doing it for the forces of good."
Regarding subscriptions:
" We could do this many ways-a penny a page? A buck a month? I don't know. And frankly I don't want to know. If we can't make this free to you, it's just not worth doing."
And, interestingly enough, there happens to be one of the new Big Fucking Ads in
the middle of that story as I view it...
Can someone please explain this to me? To me "machine readable copy of the source code" is another word for binary. If this is what they're trying to say, this is the most pathetic excuse to get out of the GPL that I've ever heard of. Does the GPL have a three year clause built in to it? And doesn't the source have to be included with the dist. not just made available?
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Just so there's no misunderstandings, "machine-readable source code" means, for all intents and purposes, "an electronic copy of the source code". Would you prefer to have a nice tarball, or a version printed on paper? Also, "medium customarily used for software interchange" is to prevent things like offering the source code on an eighty-foot-high stack of punch cards or reel-to-reel tape (since those media are no longer "customarily" utilized for exchanging software). I presume they left the source out of the main package in order to make a smaller download. The GPL is okay with this.
Might I suggest that you take a few minutes to read the GPL? I don't mean this as flamebait, but it's painfully obvious you haven't.
...then I would have to say that my personal award goes to the USA PATRIOT act, not only for its cumbersome expansion ("Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"), but also for calling one of the most un-Constitutional and rights-trampling pieces of legislation in recent years a "patriot".
Moderators, I leave myself at your mercy, but it just had to be said.
I've never used any of their products myself, but they're not spoken of highly on the hardware review sites. So I probably won't.
However, the linmodems.org page says that the driver was supplied by PCTel, the chipset maker, not PC Chips. I actually used that driver or a predecessor around 2.5 years ago when I was first getting into Linux and could not (at the time) afford a real modem. It did work. It required some funky stuff like/dev/ttyS19 (I forget exactly which (although I could dig it up) and some weird-ass major/minor numbers. It was binary-only, of course, but they provided object files and a Makefile for rebuilding under different versions of the kernel. It worked well through several revisions of the 2.2 kernel until I got an honest-to-goodness modem, at least, although it probably wouldn't work under 2.4 (don't know, haven't tried). Maybe they've updated it to work with 2.4.
Developers must be persuaded to provide Linux drivers, especially for "Winmodems,"
Actually, I hear there is already some good support for Winmodems, especially those with the Lucent chipset. There's even some vendor support for other chipsets.
Does anyone know if any of the distributions include Winmodem support yet?
...on how long it will take rms to write a letter to the editor of ZDNet telling them that he's not an "open-source advocate", but that he promotes "Free Software"?
Why is Blizzard trying to shut down servers that emulate Battle.net?
Servers that emulate Battle.net facilitate software piracy of Blizzard products by circumventing Blizzard's authentication code.
Notice how they cleverly shift the argument from one of "Why did Blizzard (successfully) attempt to shut down this project?" to "Are you saying you support piracy?" This is what we call a strawman, boys and girls.
All they've done is piss off a bunch of people and possibly "prevent" a couple of copies of their games from being the target of copyright violation. Let's see... a couple fewer sales, or the loss of much goodwill? The really determined copyright violators will still find a way, then they'll make their methods known, so they're back to where they were in the beginning with fewer fans.
But if you want people to reach you, you would have to give them the email address and the tag. How is that substantially different from prudan+d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613@example.co m?
How does this differ substantially from the + convention -- ie, prudan+Business@example.com? You could just filter out everything that doesn't have a + in your address...
Which is why a Supreme Court appointment is a lifetime appointment: so you (theoretically) rule the way you think is right and not have political concerns affect your actions.
Agreed. It's simply amazing how well SPARC systems hold up under load (even older SPARCs) hold up under load. An x86 system with a load average of 50 or more is almost unusable, while a SPARC system at the same load average is still good. x86 systems start out with high performance but quickly drop off, but SPARC is more flat.
Slashdot Mirror
1993.
You know, it's not really the abuse of power, but the power to abuse...
The original document is available on ESR's site, BTW. (If you're interested.)
Glad to have been of help. :)
"Canine pee".
You could always check the authoritative document itself:
Just so there's no misunderstandings, "machine-readable source code" means, for all intents and purposes, "an electronic copy of the source code". Would you prefer to have a nice tarball, or a version printed on paper? Also, "medium customarily used for software interchange" is to prevent things like offering the source code on an eighty-foot-high stack of punch cards or reel-to-reel tape (since those media are no longer "customarily" utilized for exchanging software). I presume they left the source out of the main package in order to make a smaller download. The GPL is okay with this.
Might I suggest that you take a few minutes to read the GPL? I don't mean this as flamebait, but it's painfully obvious you haven't.
Moderators, I leave myself at your mercy, but it just had to be said.
That's good to know, thanks.
However, the linmodems.org page says that the driver was supplied by PCTel, the chipset maker, not PC Chips. I actually used that driver or a predecessor around 2.5 years ago when I was first getting into Linux and could not (at the time) afford a real modem. It did work. It required some funky stuff like /dev/ttyS19 (I forget exactly which (although I could dig it up) and some weird-ass major/minor numbers. It was binary-only, of course, but they provided object files and a Makefile for rebuilding under different versions of the kernel. It worked well through several revisions of the 2.2 kernel until I got an honest-to-goodness modem, at least, although it probably wouldn't work under 2.4 (don't know, haven't tried). Maybe they've updated it to work with 2.4.
Actually, I hear there is already some good support for Winmodems, especially those with the Lucent chipset. There's even some vendor support for other chipsets.
Does anyone know if any of the distributions include Winmodem support yet?
;-)
There's another mirror up at http://censored.firehead.org:1984/bnetd/. It looks like they have source tarballs, binaries, and a recent CVS checkout.
Blizzard is 0wned by Vivendi. I mean, if huge corporations can't make more money than God, the terrorists have already won!
But that's not what happened at all. Bnetd didn't even have support for the Warcraft III beta.
Notice how they cleverly shift the argument from one of "Why did Blizzard (successfully) attempt to shut down this project?" to "Are you saying you support piracy?" This is what we call a strawman, boys and girls.
All they've done is piss off a bunch of people and possibly "prevent" a couple of copies of their games from being the target of copyright violation. Let's see... a couple fewer sales, or the loss of much goodwill? The really determined copyright violators will still find a way, then they'll make their methods known, so they're back to where they were in the beginning with fewer fans.
Yeah, great choice, guys.
But if you want people to reach you, you would have to give them the email address and the tag. How is that substantially different from prudan+d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613@example.co m?
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How does this differ substantially from the + convention -- ie, prudan+Business@example.com? You could just filter out everything that doesn't have a + in your address...
Which is why a Supreme Court appointment is a lifetime appointment: so you (theoretically) rule the way you think is right and not have political concerns affect your actions.
Agreed. It's simply amazing how well SPARC systems hold up under load (even older SPARCs) hold up under load. An x86 system with a load average of 50 or more is almost unusable, while a SPARC system at the same load average is still good. x86 systems start out with high performance but quickly drop off, but SPARC is more flat.
;-)
Congratulations to the happy couple. Your wedding day will be one you won't soon forget. (Or better not, anyway. ;-) )
Best wishes.
Not to be pedantic or anything, but you can get a 40X drive for USD $209.