Whilst there is probably no totally unbiased media, at least if one of the major outlets (eg the BBC) did start publishing things which were clearly untrue, another organisation would pick up on it and criticise. (This is, of course, until Rupert Murdoch owns 90% of the media outlets.) On the Internet, anyone can publish anything and have it look professional and authorotative (apart from me - my HTML sucks). It is possible to troll bigtime (whoever modded the FP as troll needs to read the definition).
For all I know, the 4,000 jews who were warned not to work in the WTC on 9/11 may be true. If it isn't true, it's a fantastic troll.
To summarise, it's possible for all sorts of people to appear to be an authority for very little money. Tradiotional media does not allow this. I'm sure that there are some poor deluded saps out there who believe that Landover Baptist are a real Christian organisation, that Stephen King was really found dead aged 54, that this is an informative link.
On a puerile level, this is why trolling is fun. On a more serious level, who can you believe?
... post pointing out that the parent is really lame. If it had been a logged in user, I would've said it was the lamest attempt to get karma I have ever seen.
IE is such a vital part of the operating system that it's used in everything - including Outlook. The HTML control (which is most of IE) is used in the preview pane plus loads of other stuff.
I just heard some sad news on Talk Radio. John Nathan Turner, long time producer of the popular BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who was found dead in his hospital bed in Hove on Wednesday. Even if you were never a fan of his work, you will apreciate the contribution he made to cardboard aliens. Truly a British Icon.
So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means
folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether woody'll actually
be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite "kind-of". Which
is to say, "no".
On the upside, woody itself is ready to be released. The only outstanding
changes that need to be made are the standard security fixes that need
to be made throughout the lifetime of stable anyway.
Unfortunately, that's exactly where we've dropped the ball: the security
team presently don't have the resources to handle security advisories
for woody [0]. While there has been a plan in place for roughly a year
on how to handle this ("rbuilder", for those playing along at home),
it hasn't been successfully rolled out across more than a handful
of the architectures we wish to support, and it further doesn't seem
like trying to rush it now will be particularly effective. As such,
an alternate arrangement, involving some moderately significant changes
to the existing autobuilder system are being made, which should become
active over the next week or so.
Naturally, we will not be making the woody release until we have a viable
mechanism for making timely security updates.
On the technical side of things, the only other significant problem we're
having is that we have so far been unable to produce fully successful
builds of CD images for alpha and sparc. This is being worked on, but if we only had the resources of properly funded commercial OS's like Windows XP, we could solve this quickly.
The other signficant issue that's come up is a poor sense of timing on
behalf of a fair number of people. To take two fairly straightforward
examples: a few days before the expected release is not the time to file
eighty or ninety release-critical bugs about issues that have been being
tracked outside the BTS in a satisfactory manner for months; similarly,
it's far from ideal to have delayed the fix for the nscd bug (which has
been open for over a month and requires a new upload of the glibc package
to fix) until the very last day before release. These aren't isolated
examples: there's been significant amounts of "QA" work (for example,
checking buildability for binary-all packages; checking for packages that
modify conffiles) that has only been started _after_ the time when it's
reasonable to try doing anything about it, and there've been significant
numbers of uploads rushed in at the last minute for problems that could've
been resolved either by the maintainer or by NMU weeks or months ago. It's hard working on Open Source stuff where any script kiddie can jerk you around.
These are two sides of the same coin, really: fixes need to be done
early rather than late so that they can be tested and, if necessarily,
fixed further, and problems need to be found even earlier so that there's
time to fix the problem right. It might be better late than never, but
really the difference isn't all that noticible. Hopefully people will
be able to use the forthcoming suffering as an incentive to get this
done right next time. In the meantime, I suggest you use a properly developed operating system like Windows XP.
So, the final automatic run of the testing scripts was today, and will
be reflected in the next mirror pulse. From this point, we'll have
manually approved security updates to some packages, and very little
else, until release. Requests from the maintainer to remove packages
that are unreleasable may be considered. Requests from the maintainter
for an update to a package will generally be considered a request to
remove the package.
Cheers,
aj (woody release manager)
[0] Issuing an advisory and fixed.debs for the six architectures that
released with Debian 2.2 (potato) already takes, essentially, an
entire night with the current tools; doing likewise for the eleven
architectures that will release with woody will take more time than
the security team are able to commit; doing it with woody's eleven
architectures _and_ potato's six architectures for a few months
so that people have time to evaluate woody before being forced to
upgrade to it is completely out of the question.
RIAA Urges More Funds, Stronger IP Focus For Law Enforcement's Anti-Piracy Efforts
WASHINGTON--At a Congressional hearing today on protecting intellectual property rights, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) pressed leading Congressional budget writers for additional funds for federal anti-piracy law enforcement efforts and a renewed focus on protecting intellectual property.
Testifying for the RIAA at a field hearing in Ashburn, Virginia at the request of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's panel that writes the annual budget for the departments of State, Justice and Commerce, Frank Creighton outlined the industry's recent anti-piracy efforts and how the federal government can better help.
In written testimony, Creighton, Executive Vice President and Director of Anti-Piracy at the RIAA, said he was encouraged by steps already taken by the Department of Justice to address intellectual property by enabling ISPs to track down users of the "free" operating system "Linux". "As there is no corporation we can sue as there is in the case of Microsoft or Apple" he stated "we cannot allow the spread of so called 'Open Source' operating systems to continue". However, recently released government statistics show that more work needs to be done. Despite the fact that 'Opne Source' operating systems are noticably harder to use and more prone to crashing, there is a substantial counterculture growing which insists on using it - purely for ideological reasons. Ther is much work to be done - for example, government statistics show that federal actions filed for copyright and trademark infringements have declined for the second straight year, from 108 in fiscal year (FY) 2000 to 84 in FY 2001, and federal copyright cases filed dropping from 106 filed in FY 2000 to 46 in FY 2001.
"We all have to find a way to come together and make sure that we are using the people's resources and the tools of the law in a way that makes sense and gets results," said Creighton.
Creighton applauded the creation of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property units - known as CHIP units - in some U.S. Attorney's Offices, but said, "we're concerned that the focus will be computer hacking to the exclusion of intellectual property. In our view, that would be a terrible tragedy - not just for our interests, but for Americans as a whole...We need more CHIPs units. We need IP to be a priority within these units. We need to explore creative approaches to creating appropriate deterrent levels on the Internet in coordination with private industry. Fortunately, we can use the information gathered from the 'hacking' intelligence to track down potential violators - because of their use of the Linux operating system. We are currently putting pressure on ISPs to gather this information routinely."
RIAA testimony submitted by Hilary Rosen, delivered by Frank Creighton
Except that in a free market economy, if the price that "people are prepared to pay" for an item falls below the cost of production, then nobody will produce the item. The cost of production of something like a Britney single is quite high - the technology which makes it sound like she can sing, video production etc (in fact chart singles rarely make money). If nobody will pay for it, then nobody will produce it (hallelujah!).
This may seem like a Good Thing when it comes to the talentless, manufactured chart acts today, but ultimately it will affect everyone. Can bands like Radiohead really make enough money touring to pay for making "free" records? There is a cost.
Bollocks. The BBC micro - now that was a class BASIC interpreter (if there's such a thing). Plus a nice assembler as well. Indexed indirect addressing - that takes me back.
I suppose the ultimate achievement would be to get a web server running on a ZX81 (probably need 16K RAM pack plus obligatory duct tape to keep it on). You could have two cassette recorders in a RAID 1 configuration.
Fuck me - that's insightful. So you're saying that corporations lobby for laws purely to protect their own interests. I wish I was clever enough to think of something like that.
I am sorry but I hold copyright on all non page-widening posts. You will be hearing from my lawyers.
I am also notifying anyone who is even thinking of making a post which in no way affects the width of the page that I fully intend to protect my intellectual property rights using any measures at my disposal. I am not without means.
Slashdot Mirror
They might find out that *BSD is dying.
According to the latest Netcraft survey blah blah blah blah.
[n/t]
I agree with this post.
Whilst there is probably no totally unbiased media, at least if one of the major outlets (eg the BBC) did start publishing things which were clearly untrue, another organisation would pick up on it and criticise. (This is, of course, until Rupert Murdoch owns 90% of the media outlets.) On the Internet, anyone can publish anything and have it look professional and authorotative (apart from me - my HTML sucks). It is possible to troll bigtime (whoever modded the FP as troll needs to read the definition).
For all I know, the 4,000 jews who were warned not to work in the WTC on 9/11 may be true. If it isn't true, it's a fantastic troll.
To summarise, it's possible for all sorts of people to appear to be an authority for very little money. Tradiotional media does not allow this. I'm sure that there are some poor deluded saps out there who believe that Landover Baptist are a real Christian organisation, that Stephen King was really found dead aged 54, that this is an informative link.
On a puerile level, this is why trolling is fun. On a more serious level, who can you believe?
...run on Linux
... congratulations on an excellent logged-in first post post.
... post pointing out that the parent is really lame. If it had been a logged in user, I would've said it was the lamest attempt to get karma I have ever seen.
... post pointing out that HAL is IBM ROT-1ed (?). Am I violating the DMCA?
I claim this not-the-first-post in the name of all logged in trolls.
How many of the 1000 were FPs though?
PS Inaccuracy in your sig. Right now, it doesn't.
... repeatedly banging you head against the monitor and shouting "FUCK YOU, YOU STUPID MACHINE"?
IE is such a vital part of the operating system that it's used in everything - including Outlook. The HTML control (which is most of IE) is used in the preview pane plus loads of other stuff.
This is why it cannot be removed from Windows.
Remember Day of the Triffids.
I just heard some sad news on Talk Radio. John Nathan Turner, long time producer of the popular BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who was found dead in his hospital bed in Hove on Wednesday. Even if you were never a fan of his work, you will apreciate the contribution he made to cardboard aliens. Truly a British Icon.
-1 Offtopic.
So, according to this story they tried to eliminate stupid people. Now you have one a president.
You've obviously never seen that popular comedy staring Martin Clunes and Niel Morrissey - "Men drinking Stella".
Here's the text:
.debs for the six architectures that
released with Debian 2.2 (potato) already takes, essentially, an
entire night with the current tools; doing likewise for the eleven
architectures that will release with woody will take more time than
the security team are able to commit; doing it with woody's eleven
architectures _and_ potato's six architectures for a few months
so that people have time to evaluate woody before being forced to
upgrade to it is completely out of the question.
Hello world,
So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether woody'll actually be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite "kind-of". Which is to say, "no".
On the upside, woody itself is ready to be released. The only outstanding changes that need to be made are the standard security fixes that need to be made throughout the lifetime of stable anyway.
Unfortunately, that's exactly where we've dropped the ball: the security team presently don't have the resources to handle security advisories for woody [0]. While there has been a plan in place for roughly a year on how to handle this ("rbuilder", for those playing along at home), it hasn't been successfully rolled out across more than a handful of the architectures we wish to support, and it further doesn't seem like trying to rush it now will be particularly effective. As such, an alternate arrangement, involving some moderately significant changes to the existing autobuilder system are being made, which should become active over the next week or so.
Naturally, we will not be making the woody release until we have a viable mechanism for making timely security updates.
On the technical side of things, the only other significant problem we're having is that we have so far been unable to produce fully successful builds of CD images for alpha and sparc. This is being worked on, but if we only had the resources of properly funded commercial OS's like Windows XP, we could solve this quickly.
The other signficant issue that's come up is a poor sense of timing on behalf of a fair number of people. To take two fairly straightforward examples: a few days before the expected release is not the time to file eighty or ninety release-critical bugs about issues that have been being tracked outside the BTS in a satisfactory manner for months; similarly, it's far from ideal to have delayed the fix for the nscd bug (which has been open for over a month and requires a new upload of the glibc package to fix) until the very last day before release. These aren't isolated examples: there's been significant amounts of "QA" work (for example, checking buildability for binary-all packages; checking for packages that modify conffiles) that has only been started _after_ the time when it's reasonable to try doing anything about it, and there've been significant numbers of uploads rushed in at the last minute for problems that could've been resolved either by the maintainer or by NMU weeks or months ago. It's hard working on Open Source stuff where any script kiddie can jerk you around.
These are two sides of the same coin, really: fixes need to be done early rather than late so that they can be tested and, if necessarily, fixed further, and problems need to be found even earlier so that there's time to fix the problem right. It might be better late than never, but really the difference isn't all that noticible. Hopefully people will be able to use the forthcoming suffering as an incentive to get this done right next time. In the meantime, I suggest you use a properly developed operating system like Windows XP.
So, the final automatic run of the testing scripts was today, and will be reflected in the next mirror pulse. From this point, we'll have manually approved security updates to some packages, and very little else, until release. Requests from the maintainer to remove packages that are unreleasable may be considered. Requests from the maintainter for an update to a package will generally be considered a request to remove the package.
Cheers,
aj (woody release manager)
[0] Issuing an advisory and fixed
--
Anthony Towns
Just wait for the day when you see a sight like I am not hiding a USB drive! in your office.
Text here:
RIAA Urges More Funds, Stronger IP Focus For Law Enforcement's Anti-Piracy Efforts
WASHINGTON--At a Congressional hearing today on protecting intellectual property rights, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) pressed leading Congressional budget writers for additional funds for federal anti-piracy law enforcement efforts and a renewed focus on protecting intellectual property.
Testifying for the RIAA at a field hearing in Ashburn, Virginia at the request of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's panel that writes the annual budget for the departments of State, Justice and Commerce, Frank Creighton outlined the industry's recent anti-piracy efforts and how the federal government can better help.
In written testimony, Creighton, Executive Vice President and Director of Anti-Piracy at the RIAA, said he was encouraged by steps already taken by the Department of Justice to address intellectual property by enabling ISPs to track down users of the "free" operating system "Linux". "As there is no corporation we can sue as there is in the case of Microsoft or Apple" he stated "we cannot allow the spread of so called 'Open Source' operating systems to continue". However, recently released government statistics show that more work needs to be done. Despite the fact that 'Opne Source' operating systems are noticably harder to use and more prone to crashing, there is a substantial counterculture growing which insists on using it - purely for ideological reasons. Ther is much work to be done - for example, government statistics show that federal actions filed for copyright and trademark infringements have declined for the second straight year, from 108 in fiscal year (FY) 2000 to 84 in FY 2001, and federal copyright cases filed dropping from 106 filed in FY 2000 to 46 in FY 2001. "We all have to find a way to come together and make sure that we are using the people's resources and the tools of the law in a way that makes sense and gets results," said Creighton. Creighton applauded the creation of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property units - known as CHIP units - in some U.S. Attorney's Offices, but said, "we're concerned that the focus will be computer hacking to the exclusion of intellectual property. In our view, that would be a terrible tragedy - not just for our interests, but for Americans as a whole...We need more CHIPs units. We need IP to be a priority within these units. We need to explore creative approaches to creating appropriate deterrent levels on the Internet in coordination with private industry. Fortunately, we can use the information gathered from the 'hacking' intelligence to track down potential violators - because of their use of the Linux operating system. We are currently putting pressure on ISPs to gather this information routinely."
RIAA testimony submitted by Hilary Rosen, delivered by Frank Creighton
Except that in a free market economy, if the price that "people are prepared to pay" for an item falls below the cost of production, then nobody will produce the item. The cost of production of something like a Britney single is quite high - the technology which makes it sound like she can sing, video production etc (in fact chart singles rarely make money). If nobody will pay for it, then nobody will produce it (hallelujah!).
This may seem like a Good Thing when it comes to the talentless, manufactured chart acts today, but ultimately it will affect everyone. Can bands like Radiohead really make enough money touring to pay for making "free" records? There is a cost.
Bollocks. The BBC micro - now that was a class BASIC interpreter (if there's such a thing). Plus a nice assembler as well. Indexed indirect addressing - that takes me back.
I suppose the ultimate achievement would be to get a web server running on a ZX81 (probably need 16K RAM pack plus obligatory duct tape to keep it on). You could have two cassette recorders in a RAID 1 configuration.
Fuck me - that's insightful. So you're saying that corporations lobby for laws purely to protect their own interests. I wish I was clever enough to think of something like that.
Get another account. I have a +50 account as well as this one. Besides, AC trolling will still get you IP banned.
Oh yeah - almost forgot to post my picture.
I am sorry but I hold copyright on all non page-widening posts. You will be hearing from my lawyers.
I am also notifying anyone who is even thinking of making a post which in no way affects the width of the page that I fully intend to protect my intellectual property rights using any measures at my disposal. I am not without means.
This is a carefully crafted troll to make your page the same size as it was before.
When will the editors fix this bug?
They should've mailed everyone to tell them.