The problem is the acquisition system, especially congress's oversight, doesn't have an independent verification mechanism to prove that said equipment works within required parameters
Sounds like your independent verification mechanism needs an independent verification mechanism.
The military knows the flaws, but fudges the figures... for whom? It sounds like Congress can't be trusted to dispassionately evaluate mixed results. Which is what you get with experimental weapon designs! Some of the weapons systems you mentioned above are good performers. Shall we say the military has made a successful adaptation to the Congressional threat?
Consider the following. A programmer works for a company. The programmer creates a piece of software. Who owns the software? Is it the programmer or is it the company? The GPL and the German law on owner of the code conflicts here.
German employment law and the contract between the hacker and the suit would determine ownership. This issue applies in a sphere prior to the GPL. Only the copyright owner may release code under the GPL. BRD law, or US law, or insert-country-here law, determines the copyright holder.
Also, as for your API example, the GPL has a definition (sect. 2) of derived work. API's are generally understood to function as borders and barriers as well as enablers. The LGPL was created, in fact, exactly to address that issue. If your app uses MySQL through ODBC, it stands to reason that it could use almost any SQL plugin, OSS or proprietary. That counts as a stand alone work, and is not derived per the GPL. If German law says much different, then I guess MS owns all programs using the Win32 API that have ever been distributed in Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
First - The Open Group was created in order to manage Microsoft's " open systems activities"(ActiveX).
How sad to have a brain and not use it. That is not what your link says at all. The Open Group was a pre-existing company chosen by Microsoft to manage some aspect of ActiveX(tm):
The Open Group, created this year to act as the holding company for The Open Software Foundation (OSF) and X/Open Company Ltd., provides a....
And before you post, you brainless prat: no, X/Open had nothing to do with ActiveX.
You might convince someone if the US government had only recently started treating suspects to the following:
"We have evidence you were at Location A, at Time B, which other evidence shows was the time and place Crime C was committed. You can claim 5th Amendment rights against incriminating yourself, or you MUST tell us what happened, as mere witnesses do not benefit at all from the 5th's protection against SELF-incrimination."
In other words, testify, confess, or refuse to speak lest you self-incriminate. Three choices -- no magic 4th choice pulled out your ass. That's as old as the hills, and perfectly legal and proper -- and unpleasant, but that's real life law for you.
Well I have never used VMS so please excuse my ignorance but doesn't VMS have like 200 options just for the set command?
I don't remember that being the case.
No. It's more like 40 (VMS Alpha 7.3). I'll tell you what I remember: I run 20 VMS machines here everyday. (They will be mustered out by the end of this year, in favor of its grandchild, Win2K, blech.)
The commands such as set, delete v. stop, show v. dir, print v. batch queues... ecch. As usual, when you hide complexity behind a pretend-English language, you get massive confusion. VMS'ers like to say that DCL only has a few commands. True, but they interact in very different ways:
set entry/release <BATCH_#>
delete/entry=<BATCH_#>
You have a batch queue. It is a queue of jobs, running or pending. You use the delete command to remove a job, the set/release command to run a pending job. But why is entry an option in the first and a qualifier in the other? Answer: extensible English-like syntax sucks, because people write things differently; that's great for literature, and lousy for programming
Not really, the very first version of UNIX did come out before VMS, however there was no significant use of UNIX until the BSD release which was developed on a VAX which had originally shiped with VMS loaded.
On the contrary, Unix was quite popular before the VAX -- for an OS that AT&T could not, by law, market. And RX11 was VMS-like, so we may count them as contemporaries, I think. Unix became much more popular post-VAX just because the VAX was so popular and powerful that all OS's that ran on it got a boost. Also, VAX came out in 1979, Sun in 1982 -- a three-year head start.
No, VMS does not make that mistake. Things that are not usefully described as files are not represented as files.
No, it makes the mistake of using logicals! What fun they are! A spaghetti operating system built from symbolic links and GOTO statements (which is what a symbolic link basically is). And GOTO and IF/THEN/ELSE statements (okay, they have GOSUB, too) are your only flow control. And don't get me started on dereferencing variables in DCL.
VMS was finely built. (Mostly. I once stop/id=##### a job that mounted a bad tape without thinking and we had to reboot the machine. But it was the Macintosh of minicomputers: proprietary hardware and software, through and through. VMS is actually less capable than you might think, because it deals with a tiny, limited subset of problems extant on only a tiny, limited subset of hardware.
And don't remind me that to up the number of users on PATHWORKS (1) you have to reboot the server!
1. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. -- DEC, 1979.
Can someone explain what this guy means? He's the second person to complain that he has static IP #'s dynamically assigned.
Yes, DHCP can be used to assign static IP's to designated hosts. But assuming the static IP is yours, and your ISP hasn't embedded your static IP in a block of dynamic IP #'s, AND that your ISP correctly sets BOTH the A and PTR records (so mylittledomain.com and 202.3.4.125 point at each other) in their DNS.... then "dynamically assigned" shouldn't break a thing.
On my self-hosted DSL mailserver, my only problem was that killdevil.org's IP du jour reverse-lookup'd to 876.dsl.klmz.ameritech.net. A lot of mailhosts hated that (rr.com, ameritech.net).
E-mail the HOWTO writer, or locate a Linux Wiki and document those errors as being unmatched DMA settings or potential hardware failure. And leave a spam-proofed email address.
Why, yes, it did, you moron. Three years the space shuttle was on hold.
When will we reject the space shuttle for the next true manned, reusable space vehicle? I'll pay any deficit George Frickin' Bush chooses to shove down my throat
for the next-gen vehicle.:-(
How can Freeman Dyson complain about a technical problem in Prey when his famous Dyson Sphere ( a star surrounded by a shell with ppl living on the inside ) is flawed as well.
The original proposal simply assumed there would be enough solar collectors around the star to absorb the starlight, not that they would form a continuous shell. Rather, the shell would consist of independently orbiting structures, around a million kilometres thick and containing more than 1e5 objects. But various science fiction authors seem to have misinterpreted the concept to mean a solid shell enclosing the star, usually having an inhabitable surface on the inside, and this idea was so compelling that it has been the main use of the term in science fiction. The earliest appearance of this version seems to be Robert Silverberg's novel Across a Billion Years.
I just did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for Debian unstable Tuesday (the first since 12-31-02, when I moved out of my DSL-ecquipped apartment) and debconf popped up saying they just started using xft2 by default, please check this, et al. Sure enough, when I brought up X, gnome panel's menu font was anti-aliased.
Previouisly, there was byte-code hinting interpretation (unlawful, patent-protected by Apple, Xft re-compilation required) and autohinting (best turned off) to mess with. Only now does the Debian system support AA properly. Kudos to Debian for getting it working, and many more to the GNOME Foundation for negotiating the Bitstream deal. Thanks, GNOMEs!
N.B. You could turn on good AA under Debian's KDE a lot earlier than GNOME, but I stopped using KDE when I discovered the libs weren't re-entrant. I tried to run 2 X servers, so my wife and I could both be logged on, but KDE puked where GNOME didn't, so I reluctantly switched to the latter.
Asking people (as opposed to corporations) to actively wipe their HD's seems ineffective when most people don't even practice safe data, anyway.
I inherited some PC's at one site I support. One such PC had the previous IT contractor's personal Hotmail folder downloaded to Outlook Express. I had no idea whose mail this was, so I had to look at it (I was about to wipe and reinstall Windows to get rid of IPX/SPX). It was, ah, personal mail... indeed. The contractor... their spouse... a third party....
I wiped it and kept my mouth shut. Don't trashtalk competitors; it's unprofessional.:)
I wish I could mod you all up. I too dropped the home(busy)work and aced the tests, and finally dropped out in junior year rather than face the pressure of bitching teachers (esp. the former Marines:) who hated me for not doing half their lousy homework.
Stop trolling. ``all his other software to support djbdns'' consists of one package: daemontools
I said "other software," not "other packages," didn't I? Daemontools and djbdns installed a lot of programs, inclunding svscan and supervise, log and all the programs, directories and rc files to run and manage them; not to mention/package, DJB's personal global namespace.
And if you felt like setting up djbdns by hand,
And deny myself the right to post questions to DJB's mailing lists about running his software The Wrong Way. Which I didn't.
Unless, of course, you don't care if your services stay up without you constantly watching them.
My home machine still runs inetd, fer Chrissake, and I've never woken up to my machine without it. I've also used xinetd and daemon on 'real' servers happily enough.
Stop trolling..... The rest of your post is complete FUD....
You're the strident one. Hell, you even declined to quote or reply to my statement of observation that BIND 9 is almost as fast as dnscache, but if you started arguing facts, that wouldn't be fud, I mean, fun anymore, would it?
And do consider that remedial English course. I said, "since I cannot use djbdns in the spirit of Bernstein's license, I will not use it." If you like his terms, by all means, go to it. That's not FUD, that's one man voting with his dselect.
YMMV, but I find BIND9 more responsive than BIND8. Yes, dnscache is still quicker, but I substituted 9 for 8 on a small file/mail/fax/print server (P-166, 80 MB RAM) and was perfectly happy with the (faster) results. A friend with a much larger IT campus to serve noted that he didn't experience memory leaks under BIND9, as opposed to BIND8.
FWIW, I tried djbdns (via Debian's.deb wrapper that goes and gets it off cr.yp.to) at home. Then I reinstalled BIND. I didn't like installing all his other software to support djbdns and I didn't feel up to maintaining mods to change it--mods that would be violating the spirit of the license. I neither pirate commercial software nor rip off GPL'ed software: since I cannot use djbdns in the spirit of Bernstein's license, I will not use it.
Though I understand your concern for your boundaries, I'll make two points:
If she broke down after one romantic evening, she wasn't really all that upset to begin with, i.e., the ultimatum was largely dismayed rhetoric.
For all the story says, she may have been complaining for a while and asking for restraint on his part (and she's living with quite a bit of boxen as it is), whereupon he screwed the pooch.
People like building someone up and then tearing them down.
People, such as rock stars, like whining about this, too. They'll forever claim that the "American" press or the "British" press more or less purposely engage in this build-'em-up-and-tear-'em-down cycle. The truth about modern artistic failure is closer to "Your last three albums sucked." You could blame the record companies, but they just work with people as they find 'em. If these people are unwilling to grow, then they're disposable stars.
"I'm a sucker for that timeless element.... Who wants to grow up to be a disposable lighter?" -- Robbie Robertson
My final rant is that if Lucas was in it SOLELY for the money he would have made 10 SW films by now and 7 of them would be cheap crappy films (see Star Trek).
If he was in it for the fans would he have waited until his ex-wife wasn't in a position to get any more money? And I suppose Gene Roddenberry is turning in his grave, yes, but while he was alive the franchise was true to his particular vision.
Speaking as an off-and-on homosexual, I think this is the funniest and saddest comment on/. After years of listening to rumors about Richard Gere, Axl Rose, Matthew Broderick, et al., the one thing I can say with near-absolute authority is that the best indicator of homosexuality is spreading rumors about other guys being gay.
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Krugman predicts doom in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007...
"What's the one time that Paul Krugman didn't forecast a recession? That would be when we actually had a recession. It just wasn't a recession that could be blamed on George Bush."
"Barack Obama is not a real progressive." -- Paul Krugman
"Iâ(TM)d give up the whole first page of my Google Scholar listing to have written 'The Queen and the Soldier.'" - Paul Krugman
What's not to like about Paul Krugman?
The problem is the acquisition system, especially congress's oversight, doesn't have an independent verification mechanism to prove that said equipment works within required parameters Sounds like your independent verification mechanism needs an independent verification mechanism. The military knows the flaws, but fudges the figures... for whom? It sounds like Congress can't be trusted to dispassionately evaluate mixed results. Which is what you get with experimental weapon designs! Some of the weapons systems you mentioned above are good performers. Shall we say the military has made a successful adaptation to the Congressional threat?
German employment law and the contract between the hacker and the suit would determine ownership. This issue applies in a sphere prior to the GPL. Only the copyright owner may release code under the GPL. BRD law, or US law, or insert-country-here law, determines the copyright holder.
Also, as for your API example, the GPL has a definition (sect. 2) of derived work. API's are generally understood to function as borders and barriers as well as enablers. The LGPL was created, in fact, exactly to address that issue. If your app uses MySQL through ODBC, it stands to reason that it could use almost any SQL plugin, OSS or proprietary. That counts as a stand alone work, and is not derived per the GPL. If German law says much different, then I guess MS owns all programs using the Win32 API that have ever been distributed in Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
How sad to have a brain and not use it. That is not what your link says at all. The Open Group was a pre-existing company chosen by Microsoft to manage some aspect of ActiveX(tm):
And before you post, you brainless prat: no, X/Open had nothing to do with ActiveX.
You might convince someone if the US government had only recently started treating suspects to the following:
"We have evidence you were at Location A, at Time B, which other evidence shows was the time and place Crime C was committed. You can claim 5th Amendment rights against incriminating yourself, or you MUST tell us what happened, as mere witnesses do not benefit at all from the 5th's protection against SELF-incrimination."
In other words, testify, confess, or refuse to speak lest you self-incriminate. Three choices -- no magic 4th choice pulled out your ass. That's as old as the hills, and perfectly legal and proper -- and unpleasant, but that's real life law for you.
No. It's more like 40 (VMS Alpha 7.3). I'll tell you what I remember: I run 20 VMS machines here everyday. (They will be mustered out by the end of this year, in favor of its grandchild, Win2K, blech.)
The commands such as set, delete v. stop, show v. dir, print v. batch queues... ecch. As usual, when you hide complexity behind a pretend-English language, you get massive confusion. VMS'ers like to say that DCL only has a few commands. True, but they interact in very different ways:
set entry/release <BATCH_#>
delete/entry=<BATCH_#>
You have a batch queue. It is a queue of jobs, running or pending. You use the delete command to remove a job, the set/release command to run a pending job. But why is entry an option in the first and a qualifier in the other? Answer: extensible English-like syntax sucks, because people write things differently; that's great for literature, and lousy for programming
On the contrary, Unix was quite popular before the VAX -- for an OS that AT&T could not, by law, market. And RX11 was VMS-like, so we may count them as contemporaries, I think. Unix became much more popular post-VAX just because the VAX was so popular and powerful that all OS's that ran on it got a boost. Also, VAX came out in 1979, Sun in 1982 -- a three-year head start.
No, it makes the mistake of using logicals! What fun they are! A spaghetti operating system built from symbolic links and GOTO statements (which is what a symbolic link basically is). And GOTO and IF/THEN/ELSE statements (okay, they have GOSUB, too) are your only flow control. And don't get me started on dereferencing variables in DCL.
VMS was finely built. (Mostly. I once stop/id=##### a job that mounted a bad tape without thinking and we had to reboot the machine. But it was the Macintosh of minicomputers: proprietary hardware and software, through and through. VMS is actually less capable than you might think, because it deals with a tiny, limited subset of problems extant on only a tiny, limited subset of hardware.
And don't remind me that to up the number of users on PATHWORKS (1) you have to reboot the server!
1. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. -- DEC, 1979.
Can someone explain what this guy means? He's the second person to complain that he has static IP #'s dynamically assigned.
Yes, DHCP can be used to assign static IP's to designated hosts. But assuming the static IP is yours, and your ISP hasn't embedded your static IP in a block of dynamic IP #'s, AND that your ISP correctly sets BOTH the A and PTR records (so mylittledomain.com and 202.3.4.125 point at each other) in their DNS.... then "dynamically assigned" shouldn't break a thing.
On my self-hosted DSL mailserver, my only problem was that killdevil.org's IP du jour reverse-lookup'd to 876.dsl.klmz.ameritech.net. A lot of mailhosts hated that (rr.com, ameritech.net).
First off, Imperator Linus Augustus wouldn't kill us for Windows. Second, we'd be winning. ;-)
E-mail the HOWTO writer, or locate a Linux Wiki and document those errors as being unmatched DMA settings or potential hardware failure. And leave a spam-proofed email address.
Yes, the (grand)parent post *is* funny--and, like most jokes, haha only serious. Damn it, I just had mod points. :-(
Why, yes, it did, you moron. Three years the space shuttle was on hold.
When will we reject the space shuttle for the next true manned, reusable space vehicle? I'll pay any deficit George Frickin' Bush chooses to shove down my throat for the next-gen vehicle. :-(
Because he didn't:
I just did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for Debian unstable Tuesday (the first since 12-31-02, when I moved out of my DSL-ecquipped apartment) and debconf popped up saying they just started using xft2 by default, please check this, et al. Sure enough, when I brought up X, gnome panel's menu font was anti-aliased.
Previouisly, there was byte-code hinting interpretation (unlawful, patent-protected by Apple, Xft re-compilation required) and autohinting (best turned off) to mess with. Only now does the Debian system support AA properly. Kudos to Debian for getting it working, and many more to the GNOME Foundation for negotiating the Bitstream deal. Thanks, GNOMEs!
N.B. You could turn on good AA under Debian's KDE a lot earlier than GNOME, but I stopped using KDE when I discovered the libs weren't re-entrant. I tried to run 2 X servers, so my wife and I could both be logged on, but KDE puked where GNOME didn't, so I reluctantly switched to the latter.
I inherited some PC's at one site I support. One such PC had the previous IT contractor's personal Hotmail folder downloaded to Outlook Express. I had no idea whose mail this was, so I had to look at it (I was about to wipe and reinstall Windows to get rid of IPX/SPX). It was, ah, personal mail... indeed. The contractor... their spouse... a third party.... I wiped it and kept my mouth shut. Don't trashtalk competitors; it's unprofessional. :)
I also apologize for that run-on.
FWIW, I tried djbdns (via Debian's .deb wrapper that goes and gets it off cr.yp.to) at home. Then I reinstalled BIND. I didn't like installing all his other software to support djbdns and I didn't feel up to maintaining mods to change it--mods that would be violating the spirit of the license. I neither pirate commercial software nor rip off GPL'ed software: since I cannot use djbdns in the spirit of Bernstein's license, I will not use it.
God, I think you're sexy when you club baby seals.... Mod this parent up!
That was a stand-up comic's joke, right down to the okee-dokee. Don't remember whose, just saw him on TV one night.
You don't eat the broiler, huh? Good for you, monolinguist.
- If she broke down after one romantic evening, she wasn't really all that upset to begin with, i.e., the ultimatum was largely dismayed rhetoric.
- For all the story says, she may have been complaining for a while and asking for restraint on his part (and she's living with quite a bit of boxen as it is), whereupon he screwed the pooch.
Dispatches from the other side, as it were....Go mail-bomb your 'friends' with some more urban letter chain mails, B1FF.
"I'm a sucker for that timeless element.... Who wants to grow up to be a disposable lighter?" -- Robbie Robertson
If he was in it for the fans would he have waited until his ex-wife wasn't in a position to get any more money? And I suppose Gene Roddenberry is turning in his grave, yes, but while he was alive the franchise was true to his particular vision.Hopefully, as Moz and XFree86 mature, as well as GNOME and KDE, component sharing will become only more prevalent.
Speaking as an off-and-on homosexual, I think this is the funniest and saddest comment on /. After years of listening to rumors about Richard Gere, Axl Rose, Matthew Broderick, et al., the one thing I can say with near-absolute authority is that the best indicator of homosexuality is spreading rumors about other guys being gay.