On the one hand, I certainly understand and appreciate the concerns that too many free and almost-free licenses will muddy the landscape. Especially if they end up being incompatible, either by accident or design. But to insist that original developers cannot use a license of their choice -- even one that they make up themselves -- is counter to the developers' freedom. Is limiting the developers' choices any different than Microsoft's efforts to limit users' choices? Christopher A. Bohn
Actually, it lists Beowulf (not by name, but by description) as one of the "four areas" in which Linux excells. I think that when the author refers to multiple processors in the same computer, he's talking SMP. Christopher A. Bohn
As I read the article, the suspect was caught with the help of AOL, and the article mentions that the president of another software company linked Melissa's originator with VicodinES, and he claims the AOL account used to distribute Melissa was stolen from AOL 15 months ago... but the link between the suspect and VicodinES is never explicit. Christopher A. Bohn
There was the gentleman who wrote the "Internet Worm" of 1988 -- IIRC, he admitted to it (he didn't intend it to reach the scale it did), and he was charged with something or other. Christopher A. Bohn
IANAL. In a nutshell, treason can be defined as providing aid or comfort to the enemy. In this particular case, If you are a citizen of one of the belligerents (a NATO member or Yugoslavia), and you compromise or attempt to compromise your country's or its allies' ability to wage the war, then that could be considered aiding or comforting the enemy. OTOH, if you conduct your IW attack against the enemy, and if you are not a member of your country's armed forces, then under the Geneva Conventions, the enemy can consider you to be a criminal and try you under their laws (assuming they can get their hands on you). Christopher A. Bohn
Actually, the technology to do this exists now. Not enough to fully charge your batteries, but enough to slow down the discharge (how much? dunno, this is a back-of-envelope analysis).
By attaching small magnets to the underside of the keys, and wires near the keys, then when you depress a key, a small electric current will be induced in the nearby wire. Of course, when you release the key, a reverse current is then induced -- we'd have to use itsy-bitsy rectifier bridges to maintain a positive voltage across the battery terminals, but with IC technology, that shouldn't be hard.
Of course, you'll have to keep your floppies (and maybe hard drive) away from your keyboard now...
Metaphors are supposed to make it easier to convey a concept, but this article has little but metaphors, making it difficult to follow. I think I can summarize this article: Only trust reliable sources; news media outlets need to keep their facts straight; decisions should be made holistically, based upon facts and not assumptions. --I still say keep him. Christopher A. Bohn
I wanted to hail to the original "Cygnus"
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I wanted to hail to the original "Cygnus" so I scratched my brain for a spell-out for "Swan". I got the spell-out from Cygnus' name for open source / free software... sourceware. So my submission is "SourceWare ANswers". And to help matters, there does not appear to be a swan.com. Christopher A. Bohn
Methinks its a little unreasonable to place the blame squarely on the programmers' shoulders. In normal conversation, people tend to use two digits for a date, so it isn't surprising that programmers opted for this abbreviation (limited memory or no). As far as lawsuits go, it needs to be balanced with how much of a good-faith effort the vendor made to correct the software, the nature of the warrantee provided with the software, and just how much the bug hurt the customer.
Any word on whether the RPMs are sufficient to bring RH 5.0 up to speed? I rather expect they would be, but I'd prefer to hear from someone "in the know." Thanks, cb
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a) MS is unhappy that they are being restricted by licensing terms. (no further comment)
b) Because they cannot extend Java to the point it cannot be executed on any platform, they are now going to make MS C++ sufficiently non-standard that it cannot be compiled on any platform. (can anyone say "Russian Roulette"?)
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Except that's exactly one of the things the moderation system is for ... to sort through the clutter and find the good comments.
Christopher A. Bohn
Pigeons, like F77 code, can be found everywhere.
Christopher A. Bohn
On the one hand, I certainly understand and appreciate the concerns that too many free and almost-free licenses will muddy the landscape. Especially if they end up being incompatible, either by accident or design.
But to insist that original developers cannot use a license of their choice -- even one that they make up themselves -- is counter to the developers' freedom. Is limiting the developers' choices any different than Microsoft's efforts to limit users' choices?
Christopher A. Bohn
Actually, it lists Beowulf (not by name, but by description) as one of the "four areas" in which Linux excells. I think that when the author refers to multiple processors in the same computer, he's talking SMP.
Christopher A. Bohn
The article states August Dvorak developed the Dvorak keyboard in the 1930s.
Christopher A. Bohn
As I read the article, the suspect was caught with the help of AOL, and the article mentions that the president of another software company linked Melissa's originator with VicodinES, and he claims the AOL account used to distribute Melissa was stolen from AOL 15 months ago ... but the link between the suspect and VicodinES is never explicit.
Christopher A. Bohn
There was the gentleman who wrote the "Internet Worm" of 1988 -- IIRC, he admitted to it (he didn't intend it to reach the scale it did), and he was charged with something or other.
Christopher A. Bohn
IANAL. In a nutshell, treason can be defined as providing aid or comfort to the enemy. In this particular case, If you are a citizen of one of the belligerents (a NATO member or Yugoslavia), and you compromise or attempt to compromise your country's or its allies' ability to wage the war, then that could be considered aiding or comforting the enemy. OTOH, if you conduct your IW attack against the enemy, and if you are not a member of your country's armed forces, then under the Geneva Conventions, the enemy can consider you to be a criminal and try you under their laws (assuming they can get their hands on you).
Christopher A. Bohn
(no fooling)o pher A. Bohn
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/4549.html
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Actually, the technology to do this exists now. Not enough to fully charge your batteries, but enough to slow down the discharge (how much? dunno, this is a back-of-envelope analysis).
By attaching small magnets to the underside of the keys, and wires near the keys, then when you depress a key, a small electric current will be induced in the nearby wire. Of course, when you release the key, a reverse current is then induced -- we'd have to use itsy-bitsy rectifier bridges to maintain a positive voltage across the battery terminals, but with IC technology, that shouldn't be hard.
Of course, you'll have to keep your floppies (and maybe hard drive) away from your keyboard now...
cb
Christopher A. Bohn
Well, I based my statement on not being able to locate their server.
Christopher A. Bohn
Metaphors are supposed to make it easier to convey a concept, but this article has little but metaphors, making it difficult to follow. I think I can summarize this article: Only trust reliable sources; news media outlets need to keep their facts straight; decisions should be made holistically, based upon facts and not assumptions.
--I still say keep him.
Christopher A. Bohn
I wanted to hail to the original "Cygnus" so I scratched my brain for a spell-out for "Swan". I got the spell-out from Cygnus' name for open source / free software ... sourceware. So my submission is "SourceWare ANswers". And to help matters, there does not appear to be a swan.com.
Christopher A. Bohn
Methinks its a little unreasonable to place the blame squarely on the programmers' shoulders. In normal conversation, people tend to use two digits for a date, so it isn't surprising that programmers opted for this abbreviation (limited memory or no).
As far as lawsuits go, it needs to be balanced with how much of a good-faith effort the vendor made to correct the software, the nature of the warrantee provided with the software, and just how much the bug hurt the customer.
Any word on whether the RPMs are sufficient to bring RH 5.0 up to speed? I rather expect they would be, but I'd prefer to hear from someone "in the know."
Thanks, cb
a) MS is unhappy that they are being restricted by licensing terms. (no further comment)
b) Because they cannot extend Java to the point it cannot be executed on any platform, they are now going to make MS C++ sufficiently non-standard that it cannot be compiled on any platform. (can anyone say "Russian Roulette"?)
cb