Nifty, isn't it? There's a lot of positive karma flowing around.
See yesterday's post for qualifications, however here they are as I remember them:
1. Logged in, of course 2. Non-negative karma 3. Willing to moderate 4. Moderation rights haven't been revoked 5. Haven't already moderated today 6. Account is in the 75% oldest Slashdot accounts
Check the post yesterday about meta-moderation for exact requirements, however here they are as I remember them:
1. Most have an account. 2. Non-negative karma 3. Moderator access hasn't been revoked 4. Hasn't already meta-moderated today (I'm not sure if it goes by the calender day, or by number of hours since you last meta-moderated) 5. Account must be in the oldest 75% of Slashdot accounts.
Those are all I remember.
On another note:
1. It would be nice to see HOW our moderation is fairng (i.e. how many times posts we've moderated have been marked fair/unfair), because I've gotten 8 points of karma in 2 days from this, and I'm wondering what I did right.
2. Is there any way to specify what order Slashboxes appear in? I decided to try adding a few more Slashboxes, but the poll is no longer at the top of the page, and that's annoying. If it's NOT possible, it really should be.
In case anyone reads this, is there any way at all to search for all the comments written by a user, or at least by myself?
Just click the "User Info" link on any of the user's posts.
As the page states, that only keeps track of comments from the past few weeks.. other than that, I don't believe there's any way to search for a user's comments.
I *DIDN'T* mean that someone could take a BSD'd program or its source code, copyright it, and then exert any control over EXISTING copies of that software or source code created or distributed by other people, I meant that according to my understanding of the BSDL, someone COULD take a copy of of BSDL'd source code, compile it, modify it or not, and then distribute it under ANY terms they like, free or otherwise, as long as those terms comply with the remaining restrictions of the BSD License.
Here's what I think it comes down to: if Faceless Corporation can download the source to a BSDL'd program called Foo, and they're able to incorporate it into a program called Faceless Foo and say "You can't use this program unless you give us money and comply with the FacelessCo EULA," why can't a GPL advocate, let's call him Dick Stillman, release a new version, let's call it KNUFoo, and say "You can't use this program unless you comply with the terms of the GPL?"
It does seem like a small case of sour grapes on the part of BSD folks when they acknowledge that that BSDL'd code can be incorporated into commercial software, but cry foul when Dick Stillman wants to incorporate it into another form of free software.
I must be missing something here... do Faceless Co. and Dick Stillman BOTH have the right to do what the want, or does only one, or do neither?
If neither of them do, then how does the GPL restrict programmers any more than the BSDL does?
Obviously I don't understand the purpose of the BSD license very well, then. I had always heard (mainly from the BSD'ers), that the whole point of the BSD license as opposed to the GPL is that BSD allows BSD'd code to become non-free. If this isn't the case, *IS* there a difference between the BSD and GPL anymore? It seems that what was touted as the one major freedom of the BSDL is a freedom that BSD'ers either want to reject or invalidate when someone wants to EXERCISE that freedom.
You've done very good research, but it seems to me that other than the GPL's requirements that source be made available, there's not too much difference between the GPL and the BSDL -- if BSDL'd code CAN'T be made proprietary, I fail to see the charm of a license that once bragged about being "truly free" because licensed software could be made non-free. Even if source isn't distributed, anyone can decompile, modify, and re-distribute a BSD's program.. the GPL just goes the extra inch and requires that source be distributed.
And what, I ask of the previous posters, gives you the right to take *my* code, which I put my name on and BSD'd... and change the license terms on it???
What gives someone the right? The BSD license. Read it! Sure, anyone can still get a copy from YOU governed by the BSD license terms, but the person who GPL'd it is more than free under the BSD license to hold copies HE distributes to the terms of the GPL.
The whole point of the BSD license is that someone else can take the software and release a new version of it NOT governed by the BSD license.
If you want your free software to remain free, use the GPL. That's what it's designed for.
Do that to me and I'll take you to court... I may have given you the right to modify it, but I certainly didn't give you the right to change the license terms that *I* chose for *my* code...
You did give anyone that right, when you applied the BSD license to it. Microsoft can distribute a proprietary version of it, Joe Smith can distribute another BSD'd version of it, and Jane Doe can distribute a GPL'd version of it.
Those are the consequences of you choosing the BSD license. Everyone else is free to distribute copies of it licensed under NEW terms. Don't like giving other people that right? That's what the GPL is for.
Funny how everyone praises the BSD license until someone else decided to actually USE the freedom that the praise about the BSD license, then it's EXPLOITATION! THEFT! EVIL!!
Here's a little culture for Internet Birthday Day. This is a famous poem about ArpaNET being switched on for the first time, which can be found in RFC1121, along with many other gems like "Ode to a Queue."
THE BIG BANG! (or the birth of the ARPANET) by Leonard Kleinrock
It was back in '67 that the clan agreed to meet. The gangsters and the planners were a breed damned hard to beat. The goal we set was honest and the need was clear to all: Connect those big old mainframes and the minis, lest they fall.
The spec was set quite rigid: it must work without a hitch. It should stand a single failure with an unattended switch. Files at hefty throughput 'cross the ARPANET must zip. Send the interactive traffic on a quarter second trip.
The spec went out to bidders and t'was BBN that won. They worked on soft and hardware and they all got paid for fun. We decided that the first node would be we who are your hosts And so today you're gathered here while UCLA boasts.
I suspect you might be asking "What means FIRST node on the net?" Well frankly, it meant trouble, 'specially since no specs were set. For you see the interface between the nascent IMP and HOST Was a confidential secret from us folks on the West coast.
BBN had promised that the IMP was running late. We welcomed any slippage in the deadly scheduled date. But one day after Labor Day, it was plopped down at our gate! Those dirty rotten scoundrels sent the damned thing out air freight!
As I recall that Tuesday, it makes me want to cry. Everybody's brother came to blame the other guy! Folks were there from ARPA, GTE and Honeywell. UCLA and ATT and all were scared as hell.
We cautiously connected and the bits began to flow. The pieces really functioned - just why I still don't know. Messages were moving pretty well by Wednesday morn. All the rest is history - packet switching had been born!
You can find a number of them at http://www.spinster.org/my_photos.html, that's http://www.spinster.org/my_photos.html if that didn't work. She IS kinda cute, and I must admit to having certain statue-related leanings myself, so this whole MAE LING MAK NAKE-- um... I mean, You-know-who, You-know-what and you-know-what is pretty intriuging to me. Careful with that trademark, I think they mean business.
I understand, sir. We'll dispatch the police to your house just as soon as we reboot. Please stay on the line, sir. Is the murderer nearby? Yes sir, I understand, but please stay on the line, we're rebooting. Please hold! Scandisk is still running. It'll only be a bit longer. OKAY, THERE'S NO NEED TO SCREAM! Please stay on the line. Sir, I'm sorry, it looks like we've got a problem here... a registry corruption. It won't boot. Can you hold a bit longer? Sir? Sir? What was that screaming sound? Oh, hell... blue screen again.
I've switched a couple times between INTJ and INTP. Never very far from the borderline between the J and the P, but pretty strongly entrenched in the other 3 traits.
There is a good GtK-based AIM clone called GAIM that functions much like TiK, but looks better and doesn't look as kludgy IMHO. I've been using it for a month now and have been more than happy with it. You can find it at http://www.marko.net/gaim/
The page is fixed, but the alf.jpg is still right where it was. I can't really think of why they might have left it there. It DOES mean that they most likely DIDN'T do a full restore of the site from a backup, as someone earlier said they might.
This really could be a hoax or some other kind of "sanctioned" event. I bet, at the least, they're laughing about it; if they regarded it as a serious threat I doubt they would have left an image file in their root www directory that someone else had put there.
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South Park The Movie
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I'm sure the South Park movie was well past completed when Star Wars: Episode 1 was released, but that leads me to wonder, how did Trey and Matt get their hands on that wonderfully-timed Jar Jar line? Did they perhaps have advance notice that Jar Jar would be a hot target by the time the movie was released?
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Nifty, isn't it? There's a lot of positive karma flowing around.
See yesterday's post for qualifications, however here they are as I remember them:
1. Logged in, of course
2. Non-negative karma
3. Willing to moderate
4. Moderation rights haven't been revoked
5. Haven't already moderated today
6. Account is in the 75% oldest Slashdot accounts
Check the post yesterday about meta-moderation for exact requirements, however here they are as I remember them:
1. Most have an account.
2. Non-negative karma
3. Moderator access hasn't been revoked
4. Hasn't already meta-moderated today (I'm not sure if it goes by the calender day, or by number of hours since you last meta-moderated)
5. Account must be in the oldest 75% of Slashdot accounts.
Those are all I remember.
On another note:
1. It would be nice to see HOW our moderation is fairng (i.e. how many times posts we've moderated have been marked fair/unfair), because I've gotten 8 points of karma in 2 days from this, and I'm wondering what I did right.
2. Is there any way to specify what order Slashboxes appear in? I decided to try adding a few more Slashboxes, but the poll is no longer at the top of the page, and that's annoying. If it's NOT possible, it really should be.
In case anyone reads this, is there any way at all to search for all the comments written by a user, or at least by myself?
Just click the "User Info" link on any of the user's posts.
As the page states, that only keeps track of comments from the past few weeks.. other than that, I don't believe there's any way to search for a user's comments.
Okay, I misstated myself slightly there.
I *DIDN'T* mean that someone could take a BSD'd program or its source code, copyright it, and then exert any control over EXISTING copies of that software or source code created or distributed by other people, I meant that according to my understanding of the BSDL, someone COULD take a copy of of BSDL'd source code, compile it, modify it or not, and then distribute it under ANY terms they like, free or otherwise, as long as those terms comply with the remaining restrictions of the BSD License.
Here's what I think it comes down to: if Faceless Corporation can download the source to a BSDL'd program called Foo, and they're able to incorporate it into a program called Faceless Foo and say "You can't use this program unless you give us money and comply with the FacelessCo EULA," why can't a GPL advocate, let's call him Dick Stillman, release a new version, let's call it KNUFoo, and say "You can't use this program unless you comply with the terms of the GPL?"
It does seem like a small case of sour grapes on the part of BSD folks when they acknowledge that that BSDL'd code can be incorporated into commercial software, but cry foul when Dick Stillman wants to incorporate it into another form of free software.
I must be missing something here... do Faceless Co. and Dick Stillman BOTH have the right to do what the want, or does only one, or do neither?
If neither of them do, then how does the GPL restrict programmers any more than the BSDL does?
Thanks for your help on this.
Obviously I don't understand the purpose of the BSD license very well, then. I had always heard (mainly from the BSD'ers), that the whole point of the BSD license as opposed to the GPL is that BSD allows BSD'd code to become non-free. If this isn't the case, *IS* there a difference between the BSD and GPL anymore? It seems that what was touted as the one major freedom of the BSDL is a freedom that BSD'ers either want to reject or invalidate when someone wants to EXERCISE that freedom.
You've done very good research, but it seems to me that other than the GPL's requirements that source be made available, there's not too much difference between the GPL and the BSDL -- if BSDL'd code CAN'T be made proprietary, I fail to see the charm of a license that once bragged about being "truly free" because licensed software could be made non-free. Even if source isn't distributed, anyone can decompile, modify, and re-distribute a BSD's program.. the GPL just goes the extra inch and requires that source be distributed.
Hardly grounds for a holy war!!
I am *NOT* going to touch an OS from a company that doesn't know the difference between "its" and "it's." Time to short-sell some stock.
And what, I ask of the previous posters, gives you the right to take *my* code, which I put my name on and BSD'd... and change the license terms on it???
What gives someone the right? The BSD license. Read it! Sure, anyone can still get a copy from YOU governed by the BSD license terms, but the person who GPL'd it is more than free under the BSD license to hold copies HE distributes to the terms of the GPL.
The whole point of the BSD license is that someone else can take the software and release a new version of it NOT governed by the BSD license.
If you want your free software to remain free, use the GPL. That's what it's designed for.
Do that to me and I'll take you to court... I may have given you the right to modify it, but I certainly didn't give you the right to change the license terms that *I* chose for *my* code...
You did give anyone that right, when you applied the BSD license to it. Microsoft can distribute a proprietary version of it, Joe Smith can distribute another BSD'd version of it, and Jane Doe can distribute a GPL'd version of it.
Those are the consequences of you choosing the BSD license. Everyone else is free to distribute copies of it licensed under NEW terms. Don't like giving other people that right? That's what the GPL is for.
Funny how everyone praises the BSD license until someone else decided to actually USE the freedom that the praise about the BSD license, then it's EXPLOITATION! THEFT! EVIL!!
Gads.
Here's a little culture for Internet Birthday Day. This is a famous poem about ArpaNET being switched on for the first time, which can be found in RFC1121, along with many other gems like "Ode to a Queue."
THE BIG BANG!
(or the birth of the ARPANET)
by
Leonard Kleinrock
It was back in '67 that the clan agreed to meet.
The gangsters and the planners were a breed damned hard to beat.
The goal we set was honest and the need was clear to all:
Connect those big old mainframes and the minis, lest they fall.
The spec was set quite rigid: it must work without a hitch.
It should stand a single failure with an unattended switch.
Files at hefty throughput 'cross the ARPANET must zip.
Send the interactive traffic on a quarter second trip.
The spec went out to bidders and t'was BBN that won.
They worked on soft and hardware and they all got paid for fun.
We decided that the first node would be we who are your hosts
And so today you're gathered here while UCLA boasts.
I suspect you might be asking "What means FIRST node on the net?"
Well frankly, it meant trouble, 'specially since no specs were set.
For you see the interface between the nascent IMP and HOST
Was a confidential secret from us folks on the West coast.
BBN had promised that the IMP was running late.
We welcomed any slippage in the deadly scheduled date.
But one day after Labor Day, it was plopped down at our gate!
Those dirty rotten scoundrels sent the damned thing out air freight!
As I recall that Tuesday, it makes me want to cry.
Everybody's brother came to blame the other guy!
Folks were there from ARPA, GTE and Honeywell.
UCLA and ATT and all were scared as hell.
We cautiously connected and the bits began to flow.
The pieces really functioned - just why I still don't know.
Messages were moving pretty well by Wednesday morn.
All the rest is history - packet switching had been born!
You can find a number of them at http://www.spinster.org/my_photos.html, that's http://www.spinster.org/my_photos.html if that didn't work. She IS kinda cute, and I must admit to having certain statue-related leanings myself, so this whole MAE LING MAK NAKE-- um... I mean, You-know-who, You-know-what and you-know-what is pretty intriuging to me. Careful with that trademark, I think they mean business.
WHY THEY DON'T RUN NT
I understand, sir. We'll dispatch the police to your house just as soon as we reboot. Please stay on the line, sir. Is the murderer nearby? Yes sir, I understand, but please stay on the line, we're rebooting. Please hold! Scandisk is still running. It'll only be a bit longer. OKAY, THERE'S NO NEED TO SCREAM! Please stay on the line. Sir, I'm sorry, it looks like we've got a problem here... a registry corruption. It won't boot. Can you hold a bit longer? Sir? Sir? What was that screaming sound? Oh, hell... blue screen again.
Who needs anything else?
/dev/urandom going at the same time, and you'll have an endless multimedia experience AT LEAST on par with CBS.
An unlimited amount of free music, much of it better than some junk on the radio today.
Get a simple cat
I've switched a couple times between INTJ and INTP. Never very far from the borderline between the J and the P, but pretty strongly entrenched in the other 3 traits.
CENSORSHIP: Denying someone the right to express his or her opinion.
NOT CENSORSHIP: After someone has expressed his or her opinion, examining it and attaching a label stating, "this opinion sucks."
There is a good GtK-based AIM clone called GAIM that functions much like TiK, but looks better and doesn't look as kludgy IMHO. I've been using it for a month now and have been more than happy with it. You can find it at http://www.marko.net/gaim/
The page is fixed, but the alf.jpg is still right where it was. I can't really think of why they might have left it there. It DOES mean that they most likely DIDN'T do a full restore of the site from a backup, as someone earlier said they might.
This really could be a hoax or some other kind of "sanctioned" event. I bet, at the least, they're laughing about it; if they regarded it as a serious threat I doubt they would have left an image file in their root www directory that someone else had put there.
I'm sure the South Park movie was well past completed when Star Wars: Episode 1 was released, but that leads me to wonder, how did Trey and Matt get their hands on that wonderfully-timed Jar Jar line? Did they perhaps have advance notice that Jar Jar would be a hot target by the time the movie was released?
Initial Public Offering. It means opening sale of company stocks to the public.
Yahoo now owns 17.9 gigabytes of crappy, angst-filled teenage poetry.
"Oh, how dark my life is.
Let's all embrace the Night.
I wish I were a vampire."
Lucky bastards.
The D.net team lists contain EVERY e-mail address that has ever contributed blocks to the team. Even if you submitted a single block, you're on the list for the long haul.