Are we that shopaholic in this society that we can't type in a username and password to an online store before we buy buy buy?
Frankly I -want- to think before I click "purchase". I think the real benefactors of this technology aren't the consumers but stores that can rush you in and out the door as fast as possible.
Ugh, sorry for the marketing like speak, but I feel like the quality standards in OSS are dictated in an "organic" way. Where the best software bubbles to the top, and the quality is assured by continued participation in quality software.
Look at Apache. Look at the Linux and BSD kernels. KDE, anything. All of them have organic style quality controls where the community dictates just what is quality.
I can imagine an organized group like this, though, would be excellent at answering issues like corporate generated FUD in an organized and coherent way. That's our big problem, we lack representation (not counting eccentric geniuses with big ZZ top beards).
I think they're all far too expensive. Second Life has a $9.95 one time fee, and you can kinda consider that a MMORPG.
Not saying all MMORPGs have to have a one time fee, that's not doable, but it should be cheaper at least than my crazy webhosting deal I get for like $7 a month. There needs to be an MMORPG price war, but I don't know how one would be initiated.
Quick coffee crazed idea; but I'd love to see a MMORPG client and server frameworkd developed under the GPL, and then the servers would be run by third parties who charge for access.
I'm an avid Debian user, so when I come across a package that is in RPM format or something else, I use Alien.
The problem I've run into, and it isn't a big one, and I'm not sure after reading everything how the LSB would deal with this, is that most RPM packages install start up scripts that rely on RedHat specific shell includes and functions to do the start up sequence.
"And when Linux-zealot Slashbots attack SCO and Microsoft, is that because of a position of fear and weakness too, or is there some magical reason why your generalization only applies to people you don't like?"
No that's fear and weakness as well. I'll admit even to attacking MS because I fear that they'll steamroll any love of computing I have. They also suck for real, but I wouldn't attack so harshly if I didn't have to deal with Windows at every turn.
You assumed I was leaving us out?
"Jobs doesn't care that much about the server market"
And the Xserve is just a well backed whim? Flight of fancy? Riiight.
I find when corporate CEOs openly attack the opposition it's from a position of fear and weakness more than anything. When you're attacked by your competitor, you're doing something right.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't hear Jobs attacking Linux and it's in direct competition with OSX in the server market. What did he do instead? He embraces it.
I'd love for Sun to enter the desktop market more like I think they want to, but they have to give up on the "let's replace MS" dream.
This could be what really, and I mean REALLY, legitimizes open source. I don't know anyone who hasn't heard the well deserved hype about Firefox, and I'm talking people who I wouldn't normally associate with even moderate computer use.
Everyone's been talking about it, and not just in our IT techy circles. It almost gives me the creeps.
Most under-rated feature IMHO: Bookmarks -> Open In Tabs. I can now NOT live without this.
"The goal is to make it possible for people to express their ideas in the same way they think about them."
There's your problem right there:) I think they're probably not being adopted because in the world of programming convention is the key to interoperability. Human thought and language aren't so strictly tied to convention.
...but predicting the future isn't one of them. He does have a talent for molding the present to suit him, but he's more miss than hit when it comes to being an oracle of progress.
He's of course thinking about public/private keys and such, but they're overkill for almost all web-based applications that don't require money. Do you really want to use a public/private keyshare to log on to like, well for example Slashdot, just so you can post how wrong Bill Gates is?
So at no point did this come to the attention of MS top brass. And at no point did that top brass think "geez, this kid's only 17 and we're trying to buckwheat him like he's a spammer from Florida or something, maybe we should ease up."
Riiiight. Talk about vilifying people just because you don't like their (unfortunately) popular software.
This is a good way out for both parties, really. While I don't dig Microsoft going after anyone for a domain name, it's a known tactic to squat on "near miss" domains. Usually the speculators aren't bright eyed 17 year old kids, and that tactic would be suitable for the usual bottom feeders. In this case though, where they clearly want to quash that domain, but not cripple some poor teenager, I like this.
It's amazing actually that it's taken so long for traditional science to study this. I'm positive this is a shared experience among coders and admins worldwide. Your brain turns off everything, but then runs like a "SETI@Home" kinda process on some problem you're consumed with. Come the morn, you've got all the code in your head ready to solve that problem you had no luck with all day the previous.
As we've all seen over the past couple of years, using SPEWS as a mechanism to block spam is very dangerous . You're gonna lose legit mail if you use them, because their filters are way, way, way too broad[1]. In the case of spews, I would use them in conjunction with something like SpamAssasin to assign a score e-mails rather than outright block them.
Please, please stop using SPEWS to block!
[1] - Any time you see/16's and/12's and stuff blocked, that's way to freakin' broad.
Completely different market, as far as I can see. Anyway, devices like this have been around for ages, by this rationale the Sony Clie line of Palm devices should be "iPod killers".
I'm talking about domain hosters that do mail forwarding, like register for example, or joker. Actually any mid sized hosting company that does mail forwarding. From mx to mx. I'm not talking about opt-ins.
This scheme, while slowing down UCE, as I've seen it presented, will just slow down legit mail hubs as well. Any companies that send or forward messages in any moderate amount will be impacted. No, this still seems broken. What we need to do already is replace the SMTP protocol, as painful as everyone thinks that is.
Just jump on that instead, I'm convinced it could be done in a year or two; a truly secure, authenticated protocol for sending mail across the Internet, that's still free and open, but also accountable.
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See subject;:)
Other than that, I think JWZ made himself a cubicle tent once. Netscape made him take it down as I recall. I'd love to see more examples of clear fire hazards, so if anyone has any more keep posting.
This is evolution of a very basic kind. There are new predators stalking about, so to survive the animals in question need to develop camouflage or some other defense. The ones that do will be able to head to the watering hole without much worry, the ones that don't will either have to find a new watering hole farther away or will get eaten up I'm afraid.
In OUR community this is a major thing. For everyone else on the planet this crime rates just under Grandma Smith's lawn gnome being stolen and then used in a bizarre series of cross country photos. Even I tend to forget this often, but then I remember.. *sigh*.
These things just happen. What I'm more impressed with is the detailed reports of the breakins. I mean you're going to have compramises, if you're on the Internet, try as you might to stop them dilligently. The important thing now is making sure you know when somebody's on the inside when they shouldn't be. And even more props if you make the knowledge public so that it gets harder and harder to break in.
To those who aren't intentionally trying to troll.. and computer journalists;
Slashdot Mirror
Frankly I -want- to think before I click "purchase". I think the real benefactors of this technology aren't the consumers but stores that can rush you in and out the door as fast as possible.
I can imagine an organized group like this, though, would be excellent at answering issues like corporate generated FUD in an organized and coherent way. That's our big problem, we lack representation (not counting eccentric geniuses with big ZZ top beards).
Not saying all MMORPGs have to have a one time fee, that's not doable, but it should be cheaper at least than my crazy webhosting deal I get for like $7 a month. There needs to be an MMORPG price war, but I don't know how one would be initiated.
Quick coffee crazed idea; but I'd love to see a MMORPG client and server frameworkd developed under the GPL, and then the servers would be run by third parties who charge for access.
The problem I've run into, and it isn't a big one, and I'm not sure after reading everything how the LSB would deal with this, is that most RPM packages install start up scripts that rely on RedHat specific shell includes and functions to do the start up sequence.
Other than that it's peachy.
I can wait for this... oh yes.. I'm sure I'll be able to... [quitely rocking in my chair]
No that's fear and weakness as well. I'll admit even to attacking MS because I fear that they'll steamroll any love of computing I have. They also suck for real, but I wouldn't attack so harshly if I didn't have to deal with Windows at every turn.
You assumed I was leaving us out?
"Jobs doesn't care that much about the server market"
And the Xserve is just a well backed whim? Flight of fancy? Riiight.
What, is today like assumption day or something?
I find when corporate CEOs openly attack the opposition it's from a position of fear and weakness more than anything. When you're attacked by your competitor, you're doing something right. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't hear Jobs attacking Linux and it's in direct competition with OSX in the server market. What did he do instead? He embraces it. I'd love for Sun to enter the desktop market more like I think they want to, but they have to give up on the "let's replace MS" dream.
Not sayin' it is so... but HAD the election been accidentally given to Bush, now that Kerry has conceded, what would the legal recourse be??
Anyhow this is brand new to me, I'd love to see this all over my city rather than an extension to the incredibly expensive subway system here.
This could be what really, and I mean REALLY, legitimizes open source. I don't know anyone who hasn't heard the well deserved hype about Firefox, and I'm talking people who I wouldn't normally associate with even moderate computer use. Everyone's been talking about it, and not just in our IT techy circles. It almost gives me the creeps. Most under-rated feature IMHO: Bookmarks -> Open In Tabs. I can now NOT live without this.
"The goal is to make it possible for people to express their ideas in the same way they think about them." There's your problem right there :) I think they're probably not being adopted because in the world of programming convention is the key to interoperability. Human thought and language aren't so strictly tied to convention.
...but predicting the future isn't one of them. He does have a talent for molding the present to suit him, but he's more miss than hit when it comes to being an oracle of progress.
He's of course thinking about public/private keys and such, but they're overkill for almost all web-based applications that don't require money. Do you really want to use a public/private keyshare to log on to like, well for example Slashdot, just so you can post how wrong Bill Gates is?
I know I wouldn't. Fhew!
So at no point did this come to the attention of MS top brass. And at no point did that top brass think "geez, this kid's only 17 and we're trying to buckwheat him like he's a spammer from Florida or something, maybe we should ease up." Riiiight. Talk about vilifying people just because you don't like their (unfortunately) popular software.
This is a good way out for both parties, really. While I don't dig Microsoft going after anyone for a domain name, it's a known tactic to squat on "near miss" domains. Usually the speculators aren't bright eyed 17 year old kids, and that tactic would be suitable for the usual bottom feeders. In this case though, where they clearly want to quash that domain, but not cripple some poor teenager, I like this.
It's amazing actually that it's taken so long for traditional science to study this. I'm positive this is a shared experience among coders and admins worldwide. Your brain turns off everything, but then runs like a "SETI@Home" kinda process on some problem you're consumed with. Come the morn, you've got all the code in your head ready to solve that problem you had no luck with all day the previous.
Please, please stop using SPEWS to block!
[1] - Any time you see /16's and /12's and stuff blocked, that's way to freakin' broad.
Completely different market, as far as I can see. Anyway, devices like this have been around for ages, by this rationale the Sony Clie line of Palm devices should be "iPod killers".
I'm talking about domain hosters that do mail forwarding, like register for example, or joker. Actually any mid sized hosting company that does mail forwarding. From mx to mx. I'm not talking about opt-ins.
Just jump on that instead, I'm convinced it could be done in a year or two; a truly secure, authenticated protocol for sending mail across the Internet, that's still free and open, but also accountable.
See subject; :)
Other than that, I think JWZ made himself a cubicle tent once. Netscape made him take it down as I recall. I'd love to see more examples of clear fire hazards, so if anyone has any more keep posting.
This is evolution of a very basic kind. There are new predators stalking about, so to survive the animals in question need to develop camouflage or some other defense. The ones that do will be able to head to the watering hole without much worry, the ones that don't will either have to find a new watering hole farther away or will get eaten up I'm afraid.
Abstract idealism often tells the future. The Cypherpunks can once again send up a resounding "told ya so!"
PS, full props for the Lebowski quote!
Go ahead, send them some mail. I'm sure they'll answer immediately.
To those who aren't intentionally trying to troll.. and computer journalists;
Yes, Linux servers can be compramised.
No, the sky is not falling.
No, it's not the end of Linux or open source.