Apparently all copyright of submitted code is to be handed over to them, and they only accept patches from those select people (basically people who've submitted some legal documents reguarding the copyright, I would assume).
That's not exactly true; there quite a few GNU projects that work like you have described, i.e. developers assigning copyright to the FSF, but it is not a requirement. This is from an RMS mail sent to me about what it means to be a GNU project:
For a program to be GNU software does not require transferring
copyright to the FSF; that is a separate question. If you transfer
the copyright to the FSF, the FSF will enforce the GPL for the program
if someone violates it; if you keep the copyright, enforcement will be
up to you.
Altough C is not an OO language, it can be used in an OO way. And this is exactly what GObject, the object system upon which GTK+ is built provides; GTK+ has an OO API, not a procedural one, despite it's written in C. Wrapping this in C++ (or another OO language) is relatively straightforward; you get a nicer syntax, but the concepts stay the same.
Actually, various forms of deep ocean disposal, whether at plate edges or, perhaps better, in the center of geologically inert areas, are an excellent option.
I for one, wouldn't make any guarantees that the nuclear waste is safe down there for an practically unlimited amount of time. Nuclear waste has a half-life of 25,000 years. I think its just plain irresponsible behaviour to produce something that imposes such a long-lived danger.
Conclusion: Say no to fission energy, however safe reactors may be.
Well, it might be that state-of-the art reactors are quite safe, but that still leaves the problem of handling the resulting nuclear waste. It is a fact, that however safe a reactor might be, it produces very long lasting nuclear waste; there are no satisfying solutions on how to deal with that waste IMO/AFAIK.
I was not aiming my comment at the "unobserving parents", but rather my idea was that in a "better" society, those kids would have other ways to have fun, be it partying all night long (occasionally;-)) or some other non-destructive activity (well, one might argue that partying tends to be self-destructive, but that's another thing).
It's not a hobby, it's a social life. These kids don't have much outside of this. Most of them, if they were to go parties they would get beat up. This is their social life.
Well, the whole article just talks about how to prevent the "skript kiddie" behaviour, but no word about that the cause might be our society, not giving these kids a way to enjoy theirselves without involving in malicious actions. It's the same as with drugs: everybody is talking about how to stop drug dealing and consumption, but little is done to tackle the root of the problem; the reason why the kids are not welcome on parties, get bored and thus involve in DDoSing or start experimenting with drugs.
I've written an SQL DB access library that exposes an JDBC-like C++ interface. It's called GQL (Generic SQL Library). It currently has drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
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That's not exactly true; there quite a few GNU projects that work like you have described, i.e. developers assigning copyright to the FSF, but it is not a requirement. This is from an RMS mail sent to me about what it means to be a GNU project:
For a program to be GNU software does not require transferring copyright to the FSF; that is a separate question. If you transfer the copyright to the FSF, the FSF will enforce the GPL for the program if someone violates it; if you keep the copyright, enforcement will be up to you.an object oriented language is the way to go.
Altough C is not an OO language, it can be used in an OO way. And this is exactly what GObject, the object system upon which GTK+ is built provides; GTK+ has an OO API, not a procedural one, despite it's written in C. Wrapping this in C++ (or another OO language) is relatively straightforward; you get a nicer syntax, but the concepts stay the same.
Don't compare apples to oranges. QT has a C++ API, whereas GTK+ is plain C. Better compare QT against gtkmm, the GTK+ C++ bindings.
I for one, wouldn't make any guarantees that the nuclear waste is safe down there for an practically unlimited amount of time. Nuclear waste has a half-life of 25,000 years. I think its just plain irresponsible behaviour to produce something that imposes such a long-lived danger.
Conclusion: Say no to fission energy, however safe reactors may be.
Well, it might be that state-of-the art reactors are quite safe, but that still leaves the problem of handling the resulting nuclear waste. It is a fact, that however safe a reactor might be, it produces very long lasting nuclear waste; there are no satisfying solutions on how to deal with that waste IMO/AFAIK.
GNU Arch can already do this.
I was not aiming my comment at the "unobserving parents", but rather my idea was that in a "better" society, those kids would have other ways to have fun, be it partying all night long (occasionally ;-)) or some other non-destructive activity (well, one might argue that partying tends to be self-destructive, but that's another thing).
Or the HURD L4 port is finished ;-)
I've written an SQL DB access library that exposes an JDBC-like C++ interface. It's called GQL (Generic SQL Library). It currently has drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Probably one of the writers in his genre (horror) that will be remebered.