It is true, after sticking it out working a 75 hour week for 12 months salary in the US, I nearly refuse to even entertain the idea of taking a salary position. I would rather make minimum wage and be paid hourly than ever do that again.
To me, advocating atheism to adults is a little like telling little kids there is no Santa Claus. People follow organized religion mostly because they would fear death without it and there isn't much to lose claiming affiliation with a religion. I do however believe atheists are within their right to draw the line at protecting their own freedom of religion.
Yes, but the fact that the SCO thing failed has only reinforced the credibility of Linux. Linux was the best example MS gave in defending the right to keep their monopoly, even if they were to win a court case against "Linux", it would land them back in another anti-trust case and in the crosshairs of the EU. A legal attack on Linux is a lose-lose situation for them, so all they can really do is make empty accusations and hope nobody calls them on it.
Additionally, if these statements could be shown to be damaging to Linux sales and someone calls them on it, they could force MS to support their claims or reimburse them for damages.
A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation's largest 100 public school districts.
Larges public school districts = black kids
Also, Nationally, 68 percent of state prison inmates are dropouts.
What about this guy? A white guy was murdered in cold blood by a black police officer on camera and it didn't even make national news. It is only wrong when the victim is a non-white* minority.
* Whites are a minority in 4 states, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas but are not given minority status in those states.
"It's Mark Shuttleworth's project and everything is designed to be perfect according to Mark Shuttleworth's taste"
This is pretty much how Firefox started too. There were hundreds of people on the Mozilla team only to have 2 people create their own vision instead of design by committee and their creation was so much more popular the moz-dev team had no choice but to merge it into the main line and focus on it.
Same with Linux distros, there are distros out there that are pretty much design by community, but Shuttleworth's vision has become the most popular.
Apple computers does not design by committee either, but they created OSX with a fraction of the number of devs that work on Linux and in only a couple years time.
The problem with giving everyone equal say in matters is that most of their ideas are wrong. You are a perfect example, you bash the one man show that is Shuttleworth but conveniently overlook the fact that that same one man show puts out one of the best desktop distros available.
You might know all kinds of stuff about Linux but it makes fuck all difference because you are incapable of understanding the simple point I just made. You would spend days arguing with me and getting you to agree with me would be impossible.
For people like you GNU/Linux is not a product, it is a religion and you just can't reason with that.
Thank you slashdot for an article summary that decided for me that Ubuntu was wrong not to accept the artwork. Nevermind that it was canned becasue they were not pleased with the look of the artwork.
The sad thing is that most people who read this will now side with the tone set in the summary (that Shuttlesworth is wrong and/or a bad person).
Sometimes I think the folks who edit slashdot get a story and roll the dice to see if they are going to give it a positive or negitave slant, and then monitor their success rate of getting the larger part of the community to agree with them.
I guess Ubuntu's success upset./ so it is time we turn on them too in keeping with our underdog mentality, but last I checked OSTG no garage based effort either. Maybe it is time for./ to turn on itself?
Exactly, what did you think was meant by them not suing SuSE Linux customers"
GPL says patents can't be included, so Novell can't ship it downstream to them in the first place. So why the protection? It is intended to cover in-house contributions on the part of the SuSE customers to their SuSE based virtualization solutions.
In a sense, it makes no difference anyway for the reasons you stated above (although your post was about hobbyists).
Unfortunately, what this means for SuSE, is that it likely really didn't do anything wrong, and they would pretty much have been stupid not to accept that 108 million deal meaning the FOSS community is likely unnecessarily divided on the issue.
He said his sons system with locked down parental controls (He can't download and run anything) does not have AV installed and he feels comfortable with that. Given the problems with AV software, I can't really disagree.
You don't have any idea what you are talking about. Outside of the fact that there are no plans to bundle MS code into SuSE Linux, even if MS did agree to release the code under GPL they wouldn't have a very strong case against attacking people for using it. Not to mention even if they could do this it is highly unlikely they would gain anything from doing it.
I hope for the sake of humanity that you are mentally retarded and it isn't considered normal to be that stupid.
Well, there are cases where an ISP is notified of a compromised machine on their network (often being used as a launch platform for spam etc.) and the user is (sometimes) glad to be made aware. Outside of that, you are correct. ISP's have little to gain from holding these records and staffing abuse teams, outside of the fact that if there was complete refusal to co-operate with authorities on legitimate cases (like the Secret Service, NSA, FBI, state police etc.) they could be accused of covering for the criminals.
AFAIK US ISP's are required to keep the logs for some 180 days in case of a criminal investigation. It is fairly common to get investigations for things that happened more than, say 60 days prior. I believe there is legislation in the works to force ISP's to keep logs for longer periods of time (1 year?).
Disclaimer: By "logs" I don't mean record of what web sites were surfed and what files downloaded, I mean record of what customer had X IP address at Y time.
I have looked and asked. There is no "FreeSecurityGuide.com" you can send people to that will give them these basic tips. The result is that many IT people end up answering the same questions over and over for these people, some of whom are genuinely interested in learning.
The problem with that idea is that SGI sold much of their 3D graphics patents portfolio to Microsoft. Most of their best talent has gone to work at other companies and I am sure they have a great deal of catching up to do in terms of R&D if they again want to be a major player. MIPS and IRIX have fallen behind on R&D as well.
What they do still have is a name, and if their $multi million/year executives are worth the money they make, that will be all they need to get back on the map.
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It is true, after sticking it out working a 75 hour week for 12 months salary in the US, I nearly refuse to even entertain the idea of taking a salary position. I would rather make minimum wage and be paid hourly than ever do that again.
To me, advocating atheism to adults is a little like telling little kids there is no Santa Claus. People follow organized religion mostly because they would fear death without it and there isn't much to lose claiming affiliation with a religion. I do however believe atheists are within their right to draw the line at protecting their own freedom of religion.
If want a good chuckle, you don't need to go much further than Genisis.
Additionally, if these statements could be shown to be damaging to Linux sales and someone calls them on it, they could force MS to support their claims or reimburse them for damages.
Larges public school districts = black kids
Also, Nationally, 68 percent of state prison inmates are dropouts.
* Whites are a minority in 4 states, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas but are not given minority status in those states.
This is pretty much how Firefox started too. There were hundreds of people on the Mozilla team only to have 2 people create their own vision instead of design by committee and their creation was so much more popular the moz-dev team had no choice but to merge it into the main line and focus on it.
Same with Linux distros, there are distros out there that are pretty much design by community, but Shuttleworth's vision has become the most popular.
Apple computers does not design by committee either, but they created OSX with a fraction of the number of devs that work on Linux and in only a couple years time.
The problem with giving everyone equal say in matters is that most of their ideas are wrong. You are a perfect example, you bash the one man show that is Shuttleworth but conveniently overlook the fact that that same one man show puts out one of the best desktop distros available.
You might know all kinds of stuff about Linux but it makes fuck all difference because you are incapable of understanding the simple point I just made. You would spend days arguing with me and getting you to agree with me would be impossible.
For people like you GNU/Linux is not a product, it is a religion and you just can't reason with that.
The sad thing is that most people who read this will now side with the tone set in the summary (that Shuttlesworth is wrong and/or a bad person).
Sometimes I think the folks who edit slashdot get a story and roll the dice to see if they are going to give it a positive or negitave slant, and then monitor their success rate of getting the larger part of the community to agree with them.
I guess Ubuntu's success upset ./ so it is time we turn on them too in keeping with our underdog mentality, but last I checked OSTG no garage based effort either. Maybe it is time for ./ to turn on itself?
Sentry Robot + PackBot = Pwnage
If you don't want to get punched in the face, dont fight the police!
GPL says patents can't be included, so Novell can't ship it downstream to them in the first place. So why the protection? It is intended to cover in-house contributions on the part of the SuSE customers to their SuSE based virtualization solutions.
In a sense, it makes no difference anyway for the reasons you stated above (although your post was about hobbyists).
Unfortunately, what this means for SuSE, is that it likely really didn't do anything wrong, and they would pretty much have been stupid not to accept that 108 million deal meaning the FOSS community is likely unnecessarily divided on the issue.
He said his sons system with locked down parental controls (He can't download and run anything) does not have AV installed and he feels comfortable with that. Given the problems with AV software, I can't really disagree.
I hope for the sake of humanity that you are mentally retarded and it isn't considered normal to be that stupid.
Well, there are cases where an ISP is notified of a compromised machine on their network (often being used as a launch platform for spam etc.) and the user is (sometimes) glad to be made aware. Outside of that, you are correct. ISP's have little to gain from holding these records and staffing abuse teams, outside of the fact that if there was complete refusal to co-operate with authorities on legitimate cases (like the Secret Service, NSA, FBI, state police etc.) they could be accused of covering for the criminals.
The problem with keeping them forever is that for a largish ISP even keeping them for 180 days can amount to a few thousand TB of data.
-1 * -1 = +1
Disclaimer: By "logs" I don't mean record of what web sites were surfed and what files downloaded, I mean record of what customer had X IP address at Y time.
Your answer is that it doesn't exist.
I believe it becasue there are some leaks in FF. I saw 200+ yesterday with 3 tabs open.
Especially considering the amount of time and money they already have invested.
At $10,000 to support one install for 5 years their support better be good. I wonder if they plan to give any of that back to the community?
They could be indirectly be impacted. The removal of spamhaus could make spamming a more provocative business, which wouldn't be good for anyone.
And not to mention that they sold off much of their 3D graphics portfolio to MS back in 2002.
What they do still have is a name, and if their $multi million/year executives are worth the money they make, that will be all they need to get back on the map.
Did you get a chance to read that as you were typing it?