I like this idea in theory, however I'm not sure the tubes is the right place to use it. It could, in theory, work well in a private subnet where propagation is not increasing bandwidth and you can control the spread. Still, like tfa mentions, you'd have to have a lot of knowledge about what you are patching.
I just don't see much coming down the line that is going to solve anything: Spam, Spoofing, Virii, Worms, etc. Some things give me hope, like the spread of Linux, but even then, how is it really going to help? The spammers and scammers aren't going to give up. They're going to hire Linux experts and port their code, cause some of the people are going to click ok, and install whatever it is they got. If you put some popup that warns them, most of the people who clicked ok are going to ignore the popup.
...are boring. I use tired and boring interchangeably. If I'm not bored then I'm usually also not tired.
There are lots of tired memes on Slashdot and bash MS is the strongest. Yes, there are lots of bash company X memes and they all follow the same basic script, but MS is the bugbear of Slashdot. For Slashdot to maintain relevance, there needs to be analysis that goes beyond knee jerk reactions.
This current case is a stunning example. MS offers to buy Yahoo. Slashdotters unite in dismay and dread. Yahoo rejects MS. Slashdotters unite in rejoicing. Yahoo approaches News Corp. Slashdotters slap their heads and silently weep.
As far as strong arming PC makers, there was a lot of back and forth on both sides, as there is in all business. MS won for the reasons I outlined. Linux has benefited from all of the commodity HW developed to support the PC, among other things. My distrust of IBM and Apple go back a lot farther then my distrust of MS.
I'm so tired of hearing this canard. Why not blame Intel or Dell or HP or Compaq or Gateway or IBM or Sony or Toshiba or my favorite, Treasure Chest Computers*. Microsoft won because they sold a commodity OS that ran commodity SW on commodity HW and they let pretty much anyone be a vendor. It's that simple.
Apple didn't lose, so much as they could never grow as fast as all of the windows clone makers and Apple never benefited as rapidly from economy of scale and hyper-competition, which meant that their machines were more expensive, until recently. That's not a co-ink-a-dink.
We could talk about the Amiga, Commodore or BeOS, the latter I still have the disks for, but what's the point. I used to visit the Amiga store and actually saved up enough to get a base system right before the went out of business, which I still love them for.
Would you rather be running a PCjr or Warp? Don't blame MS for those, blame IBM. I had a PCjr and believe me it was worse then painful. To say that their reach exceeded their grasp would be telling. If you want Warp, I think I still have those disks for it as well.
-------ON TOPIC------ Yahoo! should fit in nicely at News Corp. I said the same thing when MS made their bid. I don't trust either and this deal won't alter my opinion, whether it happens or not. -------/ON TOPIC-----
*They offered 12Mb free, which meant the sent a 52Mb HD instead of a 40Mb. Joy!
The attack on Afganistan and Iraq were both unwarranted attacks that have not had the intended effects.
Afghanistan was a legitimate target and has produced desired effects. A. Removed the Taliban and AQ from a place of power. B. Installed a friendly, moderate government. C. Locked the enemy in ground combat.
All of those are good things, in my opinion.
As far as Iraq, WMDs have been found and documented. Also, even Saddam thought he had a WMD program.
Einstein solved some very complex problems in a unique way. Drive your car, cross the bridge and go look thru your telescope and imagine explaining all of that with Newtonian physics. Newton was an exceptionally bright guy. Just like Einstein. You can't ascribe everything to Newton.
The tracking software, the image stabilization, etc, are not by products of Newtonian physics.
I think a patent clerk from a small city in Germany turned physics on its ear. I also think a self trained mathematician from India can derive calculus on his own and also turn physics on its ear decades after his death. More recently, I think a grad student from scandanavia can turn the computing world on its ear.
These things happen all the time. Just cause you're a 'scientist', or whatever, doesn't mean your word is manna from heaven. Even 'scientists' make mistakes, overlook things, have biases.
"That is essentially what it came to: censoring of Muslim users"
Who were trying to censor everyone else, by removing the pictures.
"tell us what is Islam and what is not"
However Muslims comment on other religions, make judgements on other cultures, etc. Wasn't it Muslims that destroyed the figures of Buddha in Afghanistan? Also, Muslims use images of non-Muslims in derogatory ways with impunity, including figures of other religions. Where's your sharia law then? Conveniently forgotten.
Go ahead and feel offended, but don't expect it to stop anytime soon.
Ahh, but they wouldn't have to move 35k+ jobs, only (Total/2) + 1, depending on what the formula is going to be for determining where a corporation gets to put its headquarters.
Still, I don't think it is workable to have the states determine where a companies HQ is. What if two states both claim the HQ? What if the employee count goes up and down each year? I'm sure Texas, California and New York would have no problem telling company X that they now pay state corporate taxes. Although I don't think Texas has state corporate taxes, so it would be a bit of a empty threat.
Hillary probably is the best candidate for the Republicans. McCain, Romney, Paul, Huckaby would all be better choices for any conservative over the Hill and Bill show. If a single issue is so important to someone that they would rather stay home then support the candidate that is closest to their political philosophy, then they have no political philosophy and should stay home.
The 35k plus employees pay taxes in state and Washington State is certainly aware of that fact. If they make too much of a grumble about the corporate loop hole, they could lose the much larger 35k plus employee tax base. Those 35k are probably just the people who work for M$. There are probably lots and lots of other Washington residents whose primary income derives from Redmund.
Everybody steals and nobody lives in a vacumn, but there's a difference between screwing your partners and screwing your competitors.
I used the ladder system as an example and it certainly isn't the most egregious one for Yahoo. The guys doing the ladder were for certain being greedier then they needed to be.
I think a lot of the accusations of stealing are misplaced. Some times it steaam engines cause it is steam engine time. The GUI, the mouse, email, chat, etc, are always brought up as X steals Y from Z. But Z stole it from A who read about it in a paper by G.
or maybe I should say 'not so nicely'. Yahoo has stolen as much as any company out there. I remember the ladder system they used for Yahoo games that they decided to replace lock, stock and barrel with their own, eerily similar, ladder system. There are plenty of other examples of Yahoo partnering with a third party all the way until they have their own in place. I'm not saying they're evil, just that they are not without their own moral grey areas.
Not really, but I can imagine using it where I live. If they can achieve last mile quality, it would be a real boon to people who don't live on the Eastern sea board or where ever there is already lots of channels. I would wager that people living there already have some broadband choices.
The reason W won is because half of the nation under-estimated him twice.
As far as furthering the causes he cares about, he's done very well. In addition to getting elected twice, he's passed tax cuts, elected conservative judges and fought two wars against countries he considered enemies. His presidency will be remembered for 9/11, which, was not his fault. People will remember Katrina to a much lesser extent mainly because there was such stunning incompetence at all levels, not just federal.
Even the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will be passed on to the next president, and the longer they go on, the less they will be tied with Bush. Nixon and LBJ are more tied to Vietnam then JFK. The same will be true for Afghanistan and Iraq, and the horse could still fly. I know Democracy is passe, but a little whiff of it now and then can sometimes make all the difference in the world.
I sometimes chuckle watching Bush play the buffoon, while always pulling a rabbit out of his hat at the end. Nominates weak political crony for the SC, gets an even stauncher conservative Chief Justice in return. Floats amnesty for illegals, makes amnesty untouchable by even the looniest lefty. He plays both sides of the aisle and no one even realizes it.
This is a true story. My bro and I were season ticket holders for the Texas Rangers baseball when W was the mascot for the owners group. One night the stadium was almost completely empty and W decides to go chat with the remaining fans. He sit down next to us and we ask him if the Rangers are going to resign their biggest hitter. He goes into this spiel about how they're trying to keep him, but that it "takes two to tango" (swear to god, actual quote), and that they realize the fans like the guy, yada, yada. 3 days later, big hitter gets traded to the Yankees. The Yankees! Possibly the most hated team for any Texas fan. Couple of years later he sold his stake in the Rangers and made a ton of money.
Talk about your double standards. Everyone in your city is going from 50% to 100% in excess of the speed limit but if the cops give any of them a ticket it's a 'revenue generation stakeout'?
I'd like to see vehicular manslaughter used more in trials when people are speeding, cause an accident and someone gets killed. I'd especially like to see it if the victim is not breaking the speed limit or as we call it in my city, the law.
Ya'd think they would drop the price to something reasonable, like $9.99. The cost of the disk is almost nothing. Still, you can join their stupid clubs and get 8 albums for a penny. I don't think you even need to use your real.
I think the real cause for the drop in sales is that the music stinks and the same artists keep pumping out the same crud.
I thought linking was okay so long as you can remove the linked code and the software still works, or something like that.
Anywhile, The whole point of my post was that I would remove the distribution clause by having the user actually do the install of the gpl portion. I send out my software without any gpl stuff and an installer, also non-gpl, that grabs gpl stuff for the user. At that point, the gpl would be between the user and the gpl author, not me and the gpl author.
Take a company like McAfee. They have a router/spam detector that runs linux. Well, maybe they want to add a gpl firewall. Instead of shipping the product with the firewall, they have the user select from the gui and it gets downloaded and installed. How is McAfee bound by the gpl to deliver the source code or abide by the gpl in this situation? What if the installer comes with a list of firewalls, all with different licenses, how would McAfee be bound to those licenses? I think in both cases it is the user who would have to abide by the license.
With the bloat that comes with software development, including oss, it would save a lot of time and energy to forego gpl issues.
I have a question for all of the GPL license experts.
What if, instead of distributing GPL software with your app/hw, you had your installation software download the same GPL software onto the box from the internet. Would you be violating the GPL in any way?
Let's put a couple of caveats... 1. Your sw/hw can work without the GPL stuff, even if in a very limited manner. 2. You make the user press the button to download the GPL stuff.
Still offtopic, but in this case the really, really bad grammer was corrected. Not that I care, I just thought it was funny and I was waiting on a build so I had time to kill and luckily some karma to burn.
I just don't see why people are so quick to mod others down. There were only 2 other posts, both a step below goatsex (they didn't even have a link), when I made mine and yet some one decided to use their mod points to be the 'topic police'. At least nobody from the 'thought police' felt the urge to 'fix that' for me.
Packets are being sniffed as they traverse thru the tubes. Try this, do a google search for something made up. Try to get a page result of 0. Do this a few times and write down each time you get a 0 result. Come back in a few days and do a google search and you will probably find some custom pages. Is this google tasting?
I'm thinking that I'm not liking the direction this is going...
Sniffing, tasting, hmmm, what comes next, digesting? Excreting?
Slashdot Mirror
I like this idea in theory, however I'm not sure the tubes is the right place to use it. It could, in theory, work well in a private subnet where propagation is not increasing bandwidth and you can control the spread. Still, like tfa mentions, you'd have to have a lot of knowledge about what you are patching.
I just don't see much coming down the line that is going to solve anything: Spam, Spoofing, Virii, Worms, etc. Some things give me hope, like the spread of Linux, but even then, how is it really going to help? The spammers and scammers aren't going to give up. They're going to hire Linux experts and port their code, cause some of the people are going to click ok, and install whatever it is they got. If you put some popup that warns them, most of the people who clicked ok are going to ignore the popup.
...are boring. I use tired and boring interchangeably. If I'm not bored then I'm usually also not tired.
There are lots of tired memes on Slashdot and bash MS is the strongest. Yes, there are lots of bash company X memes and they all follow the same basic script, but MS is the bugbear of Slashdot. For Slashdot to maintain relevance, there needs to be analysis that goes beyond knee jerk reactions.
This current case is a stunning example. MS offers to buy Yahoo. Slashdotters unite in dismay and dread. Yahoo rejects MS. Slashdotters unite in rejoicing. Yahoo approaches News Corp. Slashdotters slap their heads and silently weep.
As far as strong arming PC makers, there was a lot of back and forth on both sides, as there is in all business. MS won for the reasons I outlined. Linux has benefited from all of the commodity HW developed to support the PC, among other things. My distrust of IBM and Apple go back a lot farther then my distrust of MS.
I'm so tired of hearing this canard. Why not blame Intel or Dell or HP or Compaq or Gateway or IBM or Sony or Toshiba or my favorite, Treasure Chest Computers*. Microsoft won because they sold a commodity OS that ran commodity SW on commodity HW and they let pretty much anyone be a vendor. It's that simple.
Apple didn't lose, so much as they could never grow as fast as all of the windows clone makers and Apple never benefited as rapidly from economy of scale and hyper-competition, which meant that their machines were more expensive, until recently. That's not a co-ink-a-dink.
We could talk about the Amiga, Commodore or BeOS, the latter I still have the disks for, but what's the point. I used to visit the Amiga store and actually saved up enough to get a base system right before the went out of business, which I still love them for.
Would you rather be running a PCjr or Warp? Don't blame MS for those, blame IBM. I had a PCjr and believe me it was worse then painful. To say that their reach exceeded their grasp would be telling. If you want Warp, I think I still have those disks for it as well.
-------ON TOPIC------
Yahoo! should fit in nicely at News Corp. I said the same thing when MS made their bid. I don't trust either and this deal won't alter my opinion, whether it happens or not.
-------/ON TOPIC-----
*They offered 12Mb free, which meant the sent a 52Mb HD instead of a 40Mb. Joy!
Afghanistan was a legitimate target and has produced desired effects. A. Removed the Taliban and AQ from a place of power. B. Installed a friendly, moderate government. C. Locked the enemy in ground combat.
All of those are good things, in my opinion.
As far as Iraq, WMDs have been found and documented. Also, even Saddam thought he had a WMD program.
Einstein solved some very complex problems in a unique way. Drive your car, cross the bridge and go look thru your telescope and imagine explaining all of that with Newtonian physics. Newton was an exceptionally bright guy. Just like Einstein. You can't ascribe everything to Newton.
The tracking software, the image stabilization, etc, are not by products of Newtonian physics.
I think a patent clerk from a small city in Germany turned physics on its ear. I also think a self trained mathematician from India can derive calculus on his own and also turn physics on its ear decades after his death. More recently, I think a grad student from scandanavia can turn the computing world on its ear.
These things happen all the time. Just cause you're a 'scientist', or whatever, doesn't mean your word is manna from heaven. Even 'scientists' make mistakes, overlook things, have biases.
"That is essentially what it came to: censoring of Muslim users"
Who were trying to censor everyone else, by removing the pictures.
"tell us what is Islam and what is not"
However Muslims comment on other religions, make judgements on other cultures, etc. Wasn't it Muslims that destroyed the figures of Buddha in Afghanistan? Also, Muslims use images of non-Muslims in derogatory ways with impunity, including figures of other religions. Where's your sharia law then? Conveniently forgotten.
Go ahead and feel offended, but don't expect it to stop anytime soon.
More then that, for sure. Plus, it rains all the time.
Ahh, but they wouldn't have to move 35k+ jobs, only (Total/2) + 1, depending on what the formula is going to be for determining where a corporation gets to put its headquarters.
Still, I don't think it is workable to have the states determine where a companies HQ is. What if two states both claim the HQ? What if the employee count goes up and down each year? I'm sure Texas, California and New York would have no problem telling company X that they now pay state corporate taxes. Although I don't think Texas has state corporate taxes, so it would be a bit of a empty threat.
Hillary probably is the best candidate for the Republicans. McCain, Romney, Paul, Huckaby would all be better choices for any conservative over the Hill and Bill show. If a single issue is so important to someone that they would rather stay home then support the candidate that is closest to their political philosophy, then they have no political philosophy and should stay home.
Obabma still might make it interesting.
The 35k plus employees pay taxes in state and Washington State is certainly aware of that fact. If they make too much of a grumble about the corporate loop hole, they could lose the much larger 35k plus employee tax base. Those 35k are probably just the people who work for M$. There are probably lots and lots of other Washington residents whose primary income derives from Redmund.
Everybody steals and nobody lives in a vacumn, but there's a difference between screwing your partners and screwing your competitors.
I used the ladder system as an example and it certainly isn't the most egregious one for Yahoo. The guys doing the ladder were for certain being greedier then they needed to be.
I think a lot of the accusations of stealing are misplaced. Some times it steaam engines cause it is steam engine time. The GUI, the mouse, email, chat, etc, are always brought up as X steals Y from Z. But Z stole it from A who read about it in a paper by G.
or maybe I should say 'not so nicely'. Yahoo has stolen as much as any company out there. I remember the ladder system they used for Yahoo games that they decided to replace lock, stock and barrel with their own, eerily similar, ladder system. There are plenty of other examples of Yahoo partnering with a third party all the way until they have their own in place. I'm not saying they're evil, just that they are not without their own moral grey areas.
Not really, but I can imagine using it where I live. If they can achieve last mile quality, it would be a real boon to people who don't live on the Eastern sea board or where ever there is already lots of channels. I would wager that people living there already have some broadband choices.
Only if you have something to hide.
The reason W won is because half of the nation under-estimated him twice.
As far as furthering the causes he cares about, he's done very well. In addition to getting elected twice, he's passed tax cuts, elected conservative judges and fought two wars against countries he considered enemies. His presidency will be remembered for 9/11, which, was not his fault. People will remember Katrina to a much lesser extent mainly because there was such stunning incompetence at all levels, not just federal.
Even the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will be passed on to the next president, and the longer they go on, the less they will be tied with Bush. Nixon and LBJ are more tied to Vietnam then JFK. The same will be true for Afghanistan and Iraq, and the horse could still fly. I know Democracy is passe, but a little whiff of it now and then can sometimes make all the difference in the world.
I sometimes chuckle watching Bush play the buffoon, while always pulling a rabbit out of his hat at the end. Nominates weak political crony for the SC, gets an even stauncher conservative Chief Justice in return. Floats amnesty for illegals, makes amnesty untouchable by even the looniest lefty. He plays both sides of the aisle and no one even realizes it.
This is a true story. My bro and I were season ticket holders for the Texas Rangers baseball when W was the mascot for the owners group. One night the stadium was almost completely empty and W decides to go chat with the remaining fans. He sit down next to us and we ask him if the Rangers are going to resign their biggest hitter. He goes into this spiel about how they're trying to keep him, but that it "takes two to tango" (swear to god, actual quote), and that they realize the fans like the guy, yada, yada. 3 days later, big hitter gets traded to the Yankees. The Yankees! Possibly the most hated team for any Texas fan. Couple of years later he sold his stake in the Rangers and made a ton of money.
Talk about your double standards. Everyone in your city is going from 50% to 100% in excess of the speed limit but if the cops give any of them a ticket it's a 'revenue generation stakeout'?
I'd like to see vehicular manslaughter used more in trials when people are speeding, cause an accident and someone gets killed. I'd especially like to see it if the victim is not breaking the speed limit or as we call it in my city, the law.
Are they going to allow all windows users to go virtual or is it only going to be the uber users with their fancy schmancy pro licenses?
It's not going to matter to me how good their virt is if I have to upgrade to use it.
Ya'd think they would drop the price to something reasonable, like $9.99. The cost of the disk is almost nothing. Still, you can join their stupid clubs and get 8 albums for a penny. I don't think you even need to use your real.
I think the real cause for the drop in sales is that the music stinks and the same artists keep pumping out the same crud.
I thought linking was okay so long as you can remove the linked code and the software still works, or something like that.
Anywhile, The whole point of my post was that I would remove the distribution clause by having the user actually do the install of the gpl portion. I send out my software without any gpl stuff and an installer, also non-gpl, that grabs gpl stuff for the user. At that point, the gpl would be between the user and the gpl author, not me and the gpl author.
Take a company like McAfee. They have a router/spam detector that runs linux. Well, maybe they want to add a gpl firewall. Instead of shipping the product with the firewall, they have the user select from the gui and it gets downloaded and installed. How is McAfee bound by the gpl to deliver the source code or abide by the gpl in this situation? What if the installer comes with a list of firewalls, all with different licenses, how would McAfee be bound to those licenses? I think in both cases it is the user who would have to abide by the license.
With the bloat that comes with software development, including oss, it would save a lot of time and energy to forego gpl issues.
I have a question for all of the GPL license experts.
What if, instead of distributing GPL software with your app/hw, you had your installation software download the same GPL software onto the box from the internet. Would you be violating the GPL in any way?
Let's put a couple of caveats...
1. Your sw/hw can work without the GPL stuff, even if in a very limited manner.
2. You make the user press the button to download the GPL stuff.
Still offtopic, but in this case the really, really bad grammer was corrected. Not that I care, I just thought it was funny and I was waiting on a build so I had time to kill and luckily some karma to burn.
I just don't see why people are so quick to mod others down. There were only 2 other posts, both a step below goatsex (they didn't even have a link), when I made mine and yet some one decided to use their mod points to be the 'topic police'. At least nobody from the 'thought police' felt the urge to 'fix that' for me.
Even more offtopic...
Right now, there are three posts and yet from the score, nine moderation points have been given, all of them negative. Is that the admins? Hrrmm.
and they got a warrant.
Packets are being sniffed as they traverse thru the tubes. Try this, do a google search for something made up. Try to get a page result of 0. Do this a few times and write down each time you get a 0 result. Come back in a few days and do a google search and you will probably find some custom pages. Is this google tasting?
I'm thinking that I'm not liking the direction this is going...
Sniffing, tasting, hmmm, what comes next, digesting? Excreting?