OSI: Open Source International.
DFSG: Debian Free Software guidelines.
The OSI definition is the same as Debian's Open Source and Free Software are two entirely different things.
See the contradiction? In fact, if you'd done your homework a bit more you'd see that the DFSG are not the same as the OSI rules. Debian's rules are stricter, which is why the Apple license doesn't qualify.
And please lose the condescending attitude. It dosen't suit you.
Let's see... The very first release of the Linux kernel was introduced in 1992. Windows 3 was released in 1990.
Of course, that's not a very fair comparison -- Windows 3.1 had much more functionality than Linux 0.01, and came from an older code base including DOS and earlier versions of windows.
Someone else has already addressed the falsity in the comparison of number of service packs.
If you'll pardon me for spouting a slashdotism, keep in mind that behind every sleazy lawyer there's a sleazy client.
The problem is with the system, not with any individual company, and certainly not with any individual lawyer. Fix the system and you'll fix the problem.
Why would anyone want to pay for their bandwidth if they could easily get commercial sponsors to pay for it?
Perhaps they don't like advertising? Perhaps they think that american culture is toxic, and that one of the main causes of the destructive consumeristic society they live in is the spread of advertising onto virtually every surface?
Or, perhaps they just think they will get better service if their provider is beholden to them, and not to some advertiser.
Er, actually Abovenet *did* used to advertise null BGP routes for hosts on the RBL.
The important thing to consider is that the RBL is host-based, not address-based, and it's perfectly possible for a router en route to drop packets for a certain host.
Of course, this is fairly moot anyway, because, as anohter poster pointed out, Abovenet stopped this practice a while back.
DSL is a line protocol run on top of a dry line. The main difference between DSL you buy, and home-brew DSL with a dry pair is that when you buy DSL, the circuit goes only as far as the central office.
Using twisted pair, there's no line protocol that will go 45 miles and give you a decent amount of bandwidth. You can alleviate this with repeaters, but then you're talking more money. Another poster pointed out that you might be able to power the repeaters with solar power, but there's high equipment costs there, too.
Fiber is definately the way to do this, and even there you might need a repeater or two.
It's not clear to me why it's necessary to use batteries here. Why not just use a medium-to-large sized capacitor and an optional voltage regulator?
It seems unlikely the power requirements of RAM justify the cost and maintenance of a battery, and a capacitor would have the added benefit of smoothing out notches and spikes.
Do you have a citation on this "giving money to the taliban" thing? I've seen the meme bandered around, but I've been unable to get a hard reference.
We did give about a hundred million dollars of humanitarian aid last year, but that was mostly wheat and other food - hardly money given to the Taliban itself.
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We went into the Gulf to protect Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (an Ally and Europe's partial supply of oil) and to prevent a known militant government from imposing its government on MORE civilized nations.
Which sounds great, until you realize that we were (and are) supporting a Saudi dictatorship only because they will keep the oil flowing. Face it, if it weren't for the oil, we wouldn't have been there.
And the only reason we stopped short of Baghdad was because Bush decided he didn't want to take the bad press of going in.
Kosovo: Forensics teams from Spain and the FBI found less than 2500 bodies, and it's impossible to know how many of those were a consequence of "the Serbs' brutal, but hardly genocidal, two-year counterinsurgency campaign against the KLA". (Colony Kosovo, Christian Parenti) There are more murders than that in the US in a year. And what was the inevitable consequence of our involement? The brutality is switched from one of serbs attacking albanians to one of albanians attacking serbs.
As to Vietnam, so killing innocent civillians and villigers is a "middle ground" approach? Under that definition, I suppose they should be thankful we didn't nuke them once or thrice.
How about Latin America? read here for a description of our noble involment in Nicaragua. Think were's so hot about promoting democracy? Why are we giving attack helicopters and other arms to the Columbian dictatorship? Ostensibly, to fight drugs - but seriously, who thinks they aren't going to use them against the guerillas?
Finally, it's worthwhile to discuss China. Although we haven't been involved in any direct military action in China, we stand by while they slaughter civilians and wage war on Tibet. Why? Because we can't afford to stop trading. We also grant "most favored nation" status, despite their awful human rights record, and entirely non-democratic government.
Face it, our political involment in the world over the last 30 years has been noble; Rather, it has consistantly been to force our own economic advantage, everything else be damned.
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I can't believe you cite Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as instances of "protecting the ideals of democracy". How exactly does murdering villagers, destroying the wildlife, and generally trashing the country espouse democracy?
And as for Iraq - that was about nothing but the oil. Our continuing embargo against Iraq accomplishes nothing save keeping starving civillians starving. In what way did the gulf war save democracy?
Finally, you do yourself a disservice by ignoring our involvement in South America. In Panama, Columbia, and other countries, we served to undermine democratic countries with policies we didn't like. Not exactly "protecting the ideals of democracy".
I think the big greenhouse gas culprits are volcanoes and such.
At least in the U.S., think again.
Unfortunately, there are no good global statistics, but I can tell you that there's no reason why volcanos would be contributing more to climate change now than they would have been 150 years ago.
And finally, global warming isn't about lung cancer - it's about global climate change, which has the potential to affect not only the human race, but every other species on the planet as well.
Actually, Northpoint's equipment uses a bastardized ARP implementation, which has essentially hardcoded responses. The packets are forwarded to the ISP's router over a PVC, so there's no ARP there either. So your ISP saying "We don't use ARP" may, in fact, have been 100% correct.
Actually, I view keenspot as a rather serious problem. They place the keenspot brand far more prominently than that of the comics, even on the comics' individual pages. I think they appear to be trying to position themselves to be the comic syndication industry of the internet.
And ultimately, with respect to Sluggy, I think their systems are much better than Keenspot (e.g. no cookies required for ad-free, no limits on logins, better archives, etc.) and I imagind Pete Abrams gets more money from his systems than he would from Keen.
I think `everything' in this context refers to all the network equipment, not the servers. All the OSDN services were down, so it obviously wasn't a problem with just the slashdot servers.
Slashdot Mirror
DFSG: Debian Free Software guidelines.
The OSI definition is the same as Debian's
Open Source and Free Software are two entirely different things.
See the contradiction? In fact, if you'd done your homework a bit more you'd see that the DFSG are not the same as the OSI rules. Debian's rules are stricter, which is why the Apple license doesn't qualify.
And please lose the condescending attitude. It dosen't suit you.
Let's see... The very first release of the Linux kernel was introduced in 1992. Windows 3 was released in 1990.
Of course, that's not a very fair comparison -- Windows 3.1 had much more functionality than Linux 0.01, and came from an older code base including DOS and earlier versions of windows.
Someone else has already addressed the falsity in the comparison of number of service packs.
Neither KDE nor Gnome are products: They are projects.
If you'll pardon me for spouting a slashdotism, keep in mind that behind every sleazy lawyer there's a sleazy client.
The problem is with the system, not with any individual company, and certainly not with any individual lawyer. Fix the system and you'll fix the problem.
Actually, pretty much all programming languages are isomorphic. Church-turing thesis and all.
Perhaps they don't like advertising? Perhaps they think that american culture is toxic, and that one of the main causes of the destructive consumeristic society they live in is the spread of advertising onto virtually every surface?
Or, perhaps they just think they will get better service if their provider is beholden to them, and not to some advertiser.
Don't forget: It may have been hard to find this number, but verifying the primeness of any particular number is fairly easy.
Genetically - any ape is 99.9999% the same as a human. So if you feel species determines behaviour, you are an idiot.
No, the DMCA only concerns devices that "circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a protected work".
Er, actually Abovenet *did* used to advertise null BGP routes for hosts on the RBL.
The important thing to consider is that the RBL is host-based, not address-based, and it's perfectly possible for a router en route to drop packets for a certain host.
Of course, this is fairly moot anyway, because, as anohter poster pointed out, Abovenet stopped this practice a while back.
DSL is a line protocol run on top of a dry line. The main difference between DSL you buy, and home-brew DSL with a dry pair is that when you buy DSL, the circuit goes only as far as the central office.
Using twisted pair, there's no line protocol that will go 45 miles and give you a decent amount of bandwidth. You can alleviate this with repeaters, but then you're talking more money. Another poster pointed out that you might be able to power the repeaters with solar power, but there's high equipment costs there, too.
Fiber is definately the way to do this, and even there you might need a repeater or two.
It's not clear to me why it's necessary to use batteries here. Why not just use a medium-to-large sized capacitor and an optional voltage regulator?
It seems unlikely the power requirements of RAM justify the cost and maintenance of a battery, and a capacitor would have the added benefit of smoothing out notches and spikes.
That must have been before he was a slashdotter. It's doubtful he gets any today.
You're missing the kigo. It's a senryu, not a haiku.
Why not make a scan of the EULA, and post it on the web?
Do you have a citation on this "giving money to the taliban" thing? I've seen the meme bandered around, but I've been unable to get a hard reference.
We did give about a hundred million dollars of humanitarian aid last year, but that was mostly wheat and other food - hardly money given to the Taliban itself.
Which sounds great, until you realize that we were (and are) supporting a Saudi dictatorship only because they will keep the oil flowing. Face it, if it weren't for the oil, we wouldn't have been there.
And the only reason we stopped short of Baghdad was because Bush decided he didn't want to take the bad press of going in.
Kosovo: Forensics teams from Spain and the FBI found less than 2500 bodies, and it's impossible to know how many of those were a consequence of "the Serbs' brutal, but hardly genocidal, two-year counterinsurgency campaign against the KLA". (Colony Kosovo, Christian Parenti) There are more murders than that in the US in a year. And what was the inevitable consequence of our involement? The brutality is switched from one of serbs attacking albanians to one of albanians attacking serbs.
As to Vietnam, so killing innocent civillians and villigers is a "middle ground" approach? Under that definition, I suppose they should be thankful we didn't nuke them once or thrice.
How about Latin America? read here for a description of our noble involment in Nicaragua. Think were's so hot about promoting democracy? Why are we giving attack helicopters and other arms to the Columbian dictatorship? Ostensibly, to fight drugs - but seriously, who thinks they aren't going to use them against the guerillas?
Finally, it's worthwhile to discuss China. Although we haven't been involved in any direct military action in China, we stand by while they slaughter civilians and wage war on Tibet. Why? Because we can't afford to stop trading. We also grant "most favored nation" status, despite their awful human rights record, and entirely non-democratic government.
Face it, our political involment in the world over the last 30 years has been noble; Rather, it has consistantly been to force our own economic advantage, everything else be damned.
I can't believe you cite Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as instances of "protecting the ideals of democracy". How exactly does murdering villagers, destroying the wildlife, and generally trashing the country espouse democracy?
And as for Iraq - that was about nothing but the oil. Our continuing embargo against Iraq accomplishes nothing save keeping starving civillians starving. In what way did the gulf war save democracy?
Finally, you do yourself a disservice by ignoring our involvement in South America. In Panama, Columbia, and other countries, we served to undermine democratic countries with policies we didn't like. Not exactly "protecting the ideals of democracy".
I think the big greenhouse gas culprits are volcanoes and such.
At least in the U.S., think again.
Unfortunately, there are no good global statistics, but I can tell you that there's no reason why volcanos would be contributing more to climate change now than they would have been 150 years ago.
And finally, global warming isn't about lung cancer - it's about global climate change, which has the potential to affect not only the human race, but every other species on the planet as well.
Actually, Northpoint's equipment uses a bastardized ARP implementation, which has essentially hardcoded responses. The packets are forwarded to the ISP's router over a PVC, so there's no ARP there either. So your ISP saying "We don't use ARP" may, in fact, have been 100% correct.
Actually, I view keenspot as a rather serious problem. They place the keenspot brand far more prominently than that of the comics, even on the comics' individual pages. I think they appear to be trying to position themselves to be the comic syndication industry of the internet.
And ultimately, with respect to Sluggy, I think their systems are much better than Keenspot (e.g. no cookies required for ad-free, no limits on logins, better archives, etc.) and I imagind Pete Abrams gets more money from his systems than he would from Keen.
That's a great quote. You should cite the person by name, though.
Do you have a reference for it?
Thanks.
I think `everything' in this context refers to all the network equipment, not the servers. All the OSDN services were down, so it obviously wasn't a problem with just the slashdot servers.
It should be easy enough to find out. Download a version of XFree86 from 10 years ago and run a performance comparison against a current version.
And my point is that the book-a-minutes leave the claims unsubstantiated.