Should that be Balmers job?
Balmer would would have done it but then he realized he was sitting in a chair and well... you know how he gets about google when chairs are around... Sure enough 5 minutes into the interview he was running around the room screaming like a 4 year old with half the chairs in the room smashed. I heard the reporter quit his job afterword claiming he'd never have to work again.
Dude.. OK first, it wasn't just calls to the middle east that they were listening to it was all over else they wouldn't have said international calls. More over, the warents were never even requested! They could have done it up to three daysafter the fact and they still couldn't be bothered to do it. One last thing.. pretend that you're an American citizen with relitives living internationally and realize that you could have been one of those people they were spying against. If you don't have due process then you you're not living in the land of the free.
Is it just me or does it seem like RMS created a new verion of the GPL because people stopped listening to him about the old one.
It seems to me that RMS views are no longer connected with where Open Source should go, and will just lead Open Source to be too socially libral for wide use.
OSS socially libral? We're all a bunch of commies is that it?
The GPL3 is trying to address a great number of current problems with the GPL2 including things like use of web-scripts, patents, and other holes. It has nothing to do with th lime-light or some BS like that.
The GPL functions the only possible way it could, by forcing the source code be given away for free. That is the entire goal of the GPL and it does it wonderfully. Patents threaten the GPL because someone could in thoery give away the source code with some patent hiden in and then turn around and try and charge you for making use of that source code.
I never was biased against non-english speaker's possible errors in speech. It was all about talking. If all they can say is "group with me plz" or "help me kill these?" over and over then its pretty clear that they are farmers. Also I sometimes wouldn't let different people join based on class, simply because if there are 4 rogues in a group your chances of getting winning that roll is pretty low.
At any rate, I call BS.
You'd also note that's what I said if you actually read my post. The point was that any sort of 'set' function would pass the value. If he had made a reasonable 'getref' or just plain 'get' function we could maybe assume that it was returning a C++ reference (as you always do when overloading operators in C++).
While I guess I can get behind Rambus's right to sue, I'm not convinced that the whole submarine patent thing can be excused. Of course this forbes article is really light on the history of the cases other then to mention, "Rambus designs and licenses methods for moving data into, out of and between semiconductors."
I'm more interested/worried in the whole AMD part, I do not want to see AMD mobo's running with Rambus's insanely expensive memory on it.
Bzz, compiler error, assignement without left-hand argument.
Wow thats a horrible piece of code. If you were going to call a set_sales() function, you would have to pass 0 as an arguement. Otherwise you would need a function to return a reference so that you could you could assign it like that.
If companies want to try to create supernets for their customers to better access each other, I say allow them to. I can not imagine any supernet subverting the Internet in any way. If an ISP decides to slow down traffic to non-ISP destinations, you're going to see user backlash. I've changed ISPs over the years due to bad routing (or repeatedly failed routing) and I know some of my non-techie friends have done the same.
Except that they wouldn't, not even that many people in IT could correctly figure out the problem, let a lone the general customers. When I was in university, there was a special router that directed all traffic from their customers to the university. One day this service went bonkers, I could still sometimes get to the university computers, but I could never successfully login because the university sshd would block all traffic coming from unsafe cable groups. It took me a week of complaining to the admins at the university and at the cable company before they would admit that there was even a problem instead of the "oh its the other guy" dance. Eventually I figured out the reason was because the packets weren't taking the normal route to the university and so I wouldn't be coming from a "safe" route, and thus all my ssh connections would be blocked.
Point is, if it took me a week and some to figure out why this was going on, how long do you suppose crap ass QOS problems would go unnoticed? Customer calls in because their internet is slow... Yeah, thats likely to get a proper responce from random customer service person that is being payed 7$/h and working off a script.
Just another example of greed? This is directly comparable to them being allowed to degrade voice service from another phone company. Its ridiculous for voice its ridiculous for the internet. See what happens when you stop considering them to be common-carriers where everyone is on a level playing field? It will lead to no good, thats for sure.
And then more interestingly, I'd like to run some sort of program on it to find similarities in code, to see how much one code base overlaps with another. It would be interesting to see if OSS actually does share code between projects or if its all NIH (not invented here).
They might help you some, but most are far and away from being easy to do, maybe x-windows was a poor example since its one of the better documented PITA. Still, I learned how to mess with framebuffers and grub and lots of other important unix programs because of Slackware, Gentoo, and friends. Things that still prove useful even when I'm using other distro's like Ubuntu or Red Hat. There is more to Linux then compiling in your faverate kernel modules.
I can see your point, but can't completely agree with you. Emerge doesn't do everything for you, it doesn't get your X-windows configured or many other things. It basically makes it so you can do config && make && sudo make install more simple while still enforcing any special compile time tags you'd like without having to actually say them every time. I have to say I did learn a lot from my use of gentoo, even though I'd been using Linux for quite a while at that point. It also apeals to my programmer nature:-)
I don't know abotu anybody else, but when I first read this headline I read "Why Slackers Still Matter" to which I thought to myself, "Of course Perl programmers still matter!"
In all seriousness though, I will always feel that Slackware (and others like Gentoo, or home-rolled linux) will matter because installing and using these sorts of distros really do give you an understanding into how Linux works(tm), and maybe more importantly, how to change how it does something. You can't make improvements to something as complicated as Linux without first understanding how it works.
Things like toasters and other appliances do come defective once in a while. This is not news. If your toaster is defective then you take it back and they replace it. There is nothing (yet) to indicate this Xbox problem is widespread.
But of course if I got a defective appliance I could return it, good luck on returning that XBox 360 now that he's opened it and started using it just because its crashs sometimes.
Excellent points. I still feel that knowledge of intent is more important. If you were a programmer writing code for the NSA or other Three Letter Agency, how could you be ever sure that the program you are making to spy on Some Guy isn't used incorrectly? I don't believe you can. You can only make the best choice to your knowledge.
But in this case, I would bet that this 'product' was made by said 3rd parties with this in mind - to sell it to Sony or whoever and that they went to Sony, not that Sony found them. So here the 3rd party programmers share responsibility with The Man at Sony, but vast bulk of responsibility goes with those who at the helm that make the choices.
This is the problem I have with large corps (american or otherwise) that choose to do these things. If you are management, and making those choices, then you must bear 80-90% of the responsibility. Even if your subordinates did help you do such a thing, you are the most to blame. The man who runs the drug cartel is more to blame for the drug problem then the drug dealer or drug user (ha, thats probably just as close to Godwin as I need to be, heh).
I'm sure the fungus on most geeks bathroom walls are already super strains, do we really need to send them to space where they can become super-mutate strains of fungus? We may have more then talking coffee mugs soon...
Remember that the rootkit was bought by Sony from a 3rd party, so it was a drop in. Hell, considering that Sony has other CDs that already launched DRM programs, Sony programmers may have done nothing at all. Its likely that it was some 20 minute job. They would have further prevented people from complaining about it by having a completely different QA-programmer test the rootkit who knew nothing about its intended use, or completely ignored QA's opinion on the ethics. Once they knew it worked... No matter how much anyone complained, they had no say in it, only the decision maker (aka exec bastard).
The real question is, how far up the chain did this idea get spawned from. I would bet that it started by one of the execs complaining about how easy their last DRM programs were killed (Everyone remember the hold-shift hack? Yes? Good, moving on).
In any event, remember, ethical choices require knowledge of intent.
Sometimes it would seem more relevant to just copy and paste the text from the said site and link back to it no? But oh wait, then you couldn't mislead people. Argh I don't mean to incite a pissing match, but:
4. Which blogs are included in Blog Search?
The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service.
5. How do I get my blog listed?
If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com), we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven't picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information on this.
As can be seen by the questions you directly linked to, google doesn't say just any old site that includes an RSS feed is considered a blog, no it says in fact any blog that publishes a site feed.
Jesus H Christ. A EULA is not law. It is backed by other laws, but that does not make it a law. Sigh, the entire case is based on what should be an unsupportable EULA requirement.
Clearly the editors know their readers so well! Due to the overly popular method of not reading the article, editors have apparently stopped including links to them all together so that readers aren't bothered by those nasty changes in text colors.
I work with GPS on a daily basis. There is a huge range in GPS units. some are very accurate, some are not. I wouldn't worry to much about Big Brother or them putting weird limits on your car via GPS.
GPS has a large error rate in anything but military grade GPS. All GPS units have what is called a "settling time" this is a period when the GPS unit must be absolutely still before it will get an accurate reading. Thats why if you have one of those onboard driving systems it will often make mistakes thinking you turned down some road even when you didn't. So basically, when your driving down the road it would only be a very very basic guess at your speed because of all the errors and changing conditions on the road.
Obviously, the better ones have less issues, but who seriously thinks that people are going to spend several hundreds of dollars for a GPS that actually can even remotely do all that would be required...
not to mention that this only gets worse when your int he city! GPS units get obstructed very often even through light trees, and short buildings!
The ONLY way any of this crack pipe dream will work is if it was combined with other devices in the car. Progressive Auto Insurance has a device they can put in the car to log how fast you're traveling at, combining that device with GPS would be the only way I could see this even remotely as being possible and only in areas where all the speed limits are identical (because of the GPS errors at speed will result in the computer often thinking you're driving down some other street then the one your on...).
Not that I would ever allow ANY device of this sort in my car, shit I've had more near accidents when traveling at the speed limit then I ever had traveling at high speeds.
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Should that be Balmers job? Balmer would would have done it but then he realized he was sitting in a chair and well... you know how he gets about google when chairs are around... Sure enough 5 minutes into the interview he was running around the room screaming like a 4 year old with half the chairs in the room smashed. I heard the reporter quit his job afterword claiming he'd never have to work again.
Dude.. OK first, it wasn't just calls to the middle east that they were listening to it was all over else they wouldn't have said international calls. More over, the warents were never even requested! They could have done it up to three days after the fact and they still couldn't be bothered to do it. One last thing.. pretend that you're an American citizen with relitives living internationally and realize that you could have been one of those people they were spying against. If you don't have due process then you you're not living in the land of the free.
The GPL3 is trying to address a great number of current problems with the GPL2 including things like use of web-scripts, patents, and other holes. It has nothing to do with th lime-light or some BS like that.
The GPL functions the only possible way it could, by forcing the source code be given away for free. That is the entire goal of the GPL and it does it wonderfully. Patents threaten the GPL because someone could in thoery give away the source code with some patent hiden in and then turn around and try and charge you for making use of that source code.
Because the top priority for this adminstration has been and will continue to be spying on Americans in the name of the War on Terror.
How about an abacus... It sort of works on gravity to hold its 'bits' in place. :-)
I never was biased against non-english speaker's possible errors in speech. It was all about talking. If all they can say is "group with me plz" or "help me kill these?" over and over then its pretty clear that they are farmers. Also I sometimes wouldn't let different people join based on class, simply because if there are 4 rogues in a group your chances of getting winning that roll is pretty low. At any rate, I call BS.
They have the right to sue, just like I have the right to sue anyone. That does not mean to say that they should WIN. That was my point :-)
You'd also note that's what I said if you actually read my post. The point was that any sort of 'set' function would pass the value. If he had made a reasonable 'getref' or just plain 'get' function we could maybe assume that it was returning a C++ reference (as you always do when overloading operators in C++).
I'm more interested/worried in the whole AMD part, I do not want to see AMD mobo's running with Rambus's insanely expensive memory on it.
Bzz, compiler error, assignement without left-hand argument. Wow thats a horrible piece of code. If you were going to call a set_sales() function, you would have to pass 0 as an arguement. Otherwise you would need a function to return a reference so that you could you could assign it like that.
Point is, if it took me a week and some to figure out why this was going on, how long do you suppose crap ass QOS problems would go unnoticed? Customer calls in because their internet is slow... Yeah, thats likely to get a proper responce from random customer service person that is being payed 7$/h and working off a script.
Just another example of greed? This is directly comparable to them being allowed to degrade voice service from another phone company. Its ridiculous for voice its ridiculous for the internet. See what happens when you stop considering them to be common-carriers where everyone is on a level playing field? It will lead to no good, thats for sure.
They might help you some, but most are far and away from being easy to do, maybe x-windows was a poor example since its one of the better documented PITA. Still, I learned how to mess with framebuffers and grub and lots of other important unix programs because of Slackware, Gentoo, and friends. Things that still prove useful even when I'm using other distro's like Ubuntu or Red Hat. There is more to Linux then compiling in your faverate kernel modules.
I can see your point, but can't completely agree with you. Emerge doesn't do everything for you, it doesn't get your X-windows configured or many other things. It basically makes it so you can do config && make && sudo make install more simple while still enforcing any special compile time tags you'd like without having to actually say them every time. I have to say I did learn a lot from my use of gentoo, even though I'd been using Linux for quite a while at that point. It also apeals to my programmer nature :-)
In all seriousness though, I will always feel that Slackware (and others like Gentoo, or home-rolled linux) will matter because installing and using these sorts of distros really do give you an understanding into how Linux works(tm), and maybe more importantly, how to change how it does something. You can't make improvements to something as complicated as Linux without first understanding how it works.
But in this case, I would bet that this 'product' was made by said 3rd parties with this in mind - to sell it to Sony or whoever and that they went to Sony, not that Sony found them. So here the 3rd party programmers share responsibility with The Man at Sony, but vast bulk of responsibility goes with those who at the helm that make the choices.
This is the problem I have with large corps (american or otherwise) that choose to do these things. If you are management, and making those choices, then you must bear 80-90% of the responsibility. Even if your subordinates did help you do such a thing, you are the most to blame. The man who runs the drug cartel is more to blame for the drug problem then the drug dealer or drug user (ha, thats probably just as close to Godwin as I need to be, heh).
I'm sure the fungus on most geeks bathroom walls are already super strains, do we really need to send them to space where they can become super-mutate strains of fungus? We may have more then talking coffee mugs soon...
The real question is, how far up the chain did this idea get spawned from. I would bet that it started by one of the execs complaining about how easy their last DRM programs were killed (Everyone remember the hold-shift hack? Yes? Good, moving on).
In any event, remember, ethical choices require knowledge of intent.
I'll ignore the Godwin and move on. ;-)
It would appear that google considers sourceforge as a blog site, go figure.
Must be why its "beta," har.
Jesus H Christ. A EULA is not law. It is backed by other laws, but that does not make it a law. Sigh, the entire case is based on what should be an unsupportable EULA requirement.
Clearly the editors know their readers so well! Due to the overly popular method of not reading the article, editors have apparently stopped including links to them all together so that readers aren't bothered by those nasty changes in text colors.
Well done.
I work with GPS on a daily basis. There is a huge range in GPS units. some are very accurate, some are not. I wouldn't worry to much about Big Brother or them putting weird limits on your car via GPS.
GPS has a large error rate in anything but military grade GPS. All GPS units have what is called a "settling time" this is a period when the GPS unit must be absolutely still before it will get an accurate reading. Thats why if you have one of those onboard driving systems it will often make mistakes thinking you turned down some road even when you didn't. So basically, when your driving down the road it would only be a very very basic guess at your speed because of all the errors and changing conditions on the road.
Obviously, the better ones have less issues, but who seriously thinks that people are going to spend several hundreds of dollars for a GPS that actually can even remotely do all that would be required...
not to mention that this only gets worse when your int he city! GPS units get obstructed very often even through light trees, and short buildings!
The ONLY way any of this crack pipe dream will work is if it was combined with other devices in the car. Progressive Auto Insurance has a device they can put in the car to log how fast you're traveling at, combining that device with GPS would be the only way I could see this even remotely as being possible and only in areas where all the speed limits are identical (because of the GPS errors at speed will result in the computer often thinking you're driving down some other street then the one your on...).
Not that I would ever allow ANY device of this sort in my car, shit I've had more near accidents when traveling at the speed limit then I ever had traveling at high speeds.