parent was moderated flamebait, but he's not. the united states of america's federal government doesn't have the funds to chase after programs like this. president bush is spending money like a drunken sailor. this was commented on recently by Senator John McCain at a speech in Sioux Falls, S.D. This war on terror is producing two types of collateral damage: one to the citizen's rights, and another to our budget.
most of the old school People of Slashdot have now become outnumbered by the legions of Linux freaks and MacOSX freaks. i personally was never happy about the binary blob situation, i'm sure others feel the same way. and problems like this make the situation harder to cope with.
some people can't upload their screenshots if they're working on proprietary stuff. suffice to say left desktop had DE and right desktop had winamp, and slashdot. though right now i wish i had 3 monitors.
Wrong. The GPL is only interested in protecting the rights, and wishes of the authors of the code. The authors of GPL code wish for their code and derivatives to remain open and useable by users. This doesn't happen when a device like a tivo uses GPL code but then uses hardware that requires tivo's digital signature upon the software to run. If tivo didn't want to follow the GPL license they shouldn't have used the code. Simple as that. "Using this software on a device that does not allow the owner of the device to make changes to that software is a violation of this license."
Then watch as the cost-per-unit goes up on embedded devices that now need to make their code memory accessible and swappable (or flashable). Is it now the job of others to help companies make money when not in their employ? The GPL is about making people play nice if they want to be on the playground, it's not complicated at all.
Just stop watching TV news. It will make you stupid. Exactly. it's not even worth it. Real news about Bush not wanting to agree with the Geneva Convention gets blow over by sensationalist crap about a gay Congressman hitting on under-aged interns. [sarcasm]BTW: who the fuck voted this guy in? they're retarded. Probably don't know how to vote.[/sarcasm]
i wish they would give up or just legalize it. online gambling really isn't a problem, just like online sales of goods isn't a problem to walmart or best buy.
While analyzing this is slightly off topic, I will agree with the parent as a former McD's employee. Those 'value' items are still sold for a profit. Though the quality of materials is not exactly great, nor are they assembled nicely. Also, I have noticed in recent years that the 'Double Cheeseburger' has gotten very greasy, indicating two things: possible raised fat content, and the restaurants do not keep the meat in a nice state after being cooked (sitting in a pool of grease). When I worked at McD's I made an effort to produce quality sandwiches, it didn't take much time to do a better job, after all, what else was I going to do while at work? - Though it appears others don't share my outlook on fast food jobs.
I basically gave up on the Apple section. I still read some of the conversations but posting if futile, the insanity of Apple users runs deep.
As for OpenBSD: I actually think it will last quite a while. It aims for things like correctness and security. That combined with occassional code audits keeps the code clean and useable. But more than that, OpenBSD is great for what they provide to others: library changes (no more using strcpy b.s.), Open* (SSH, BGPD etc). I really hope they try to make a good compiler too.
They may not be very useable for a desktop but that may change. They are probably the only notable OS that tries to not include 'Blobs', which keeps the system easily debuggable and allows for easier development. This will pay off in the long run.
Because if they weren't adding features no one cares about they would most likely have spent that time making (a) feature(s) everyone wanted that/(which) didn't make it into this release This is what open source is all about, fixing the things that you want to fix. Unless you're in the position of working on code for your employer, in which case you do what they want as long as it doesn't side track you too often from the stuff you love.
Too often there's this mentality that users of open source products are owed something, and if they-the users-don't get what they want they will leave and use other products, and that can't happen now can it. But it can, the maintainers really don't care that much. A 'thank you' goes much farther than a 'work on something useful.' Because in all likely-hood these VAX patches took no time away from getting other work done: either the submitters only work on VAX or still had plenty of time to do other things.
I completely agree. How the hell did he accomplish a dual major with that few credits? Most schools require about 132 credits or so for just one major.
Threading is a Windows hack because forking is so expensive. It is better for a process to fork than be one huge, threaded mess. Actually, it all depends on the workload. Some would say that Processes are a Unix hack, because they didn't think about threads. The classic Unix process, and what it is used to accomplish is different from a modern process on a decent language that scales higher than C.
i like zonk. i think he may be a little nuts though. his weekend marathon runs where he is the only person putting up articles for hour after hour are crazy. but if slashdot seriously does all this manually without a queue they are nuts. i would assume they queue for auto-insertion since they usually hit the mainpage with a certain amount of time spacing. maybe 45 minutes or so weekdays and somewhere around double that for weekends.
At first i thought, wow, this should be modded informative, but then I thought about what you said. The ipod/itunes db thing is valid, but that has nothing to do with releasing an operating system that has been designed the right way or with security in mind. also: varying hardware has nothing at all to do with the attack mentioned in the article. In question here is a buffer overflow that has executed some code. This can happen on UNIX too, but what the overflow code did would not happen on an OS X system. If the overflow code setup an IRC server, and then tried to propogate itself onto other machines that could happen. But the windows box had other measures in place to make it so that the compromised system would stay compromised without any logging going on since this all occured on the SYSTEM account with a modified registry. RTFA and stop talking out of your ass.
BTW: i am not an apple fanboy at all as my sig indicates.
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
right on. the use of 'pod' in the name of a product should be allowed, especially a product that is not a portable music player. this is just a case of apple not playing nice.
Thanks for the excellent rebuttal. Even if arguing with Anonymous Cowards is basically pointless by nature. It's sad to see a worthwhile discussion on the invasion of privacy degenerate to an AC trying to validify incest and child abuse. I'm a libertarian and agree with personal and social freedom, but besides this being taboo, it is just wrong.
Whatever, you f'in AC fag. I'm not a Windows fanboy. I'm a linux user, and before that BeOS (which had it all right years ago, while you had a single tasking POS operating system.) and if you think that vista is a minor update to xp than you really need to go read some docs. so have fun running your proprietary almost unix, almost microkernel, almost fast operating system while i run my free software without worries.
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I was just checking to see if others thought the same thing.
amen. this is a stupid discussion.
parent was moderated flamebait, but he's not. the united states of america's federal government doesn't have the funds to chase after programs like this. president bush is spending money like a drunken sailor. this was commented on recently by Senator John McCain at a speech in Sioux Falls, S.D. This war on terror is producing two types of collateral damage: one to the citizen's rights, and another to our budget.
haha. i forgot about that. you know that benefit was pretty lame so he should be blamed for autism. or whatever that excentric millionaires name was.
most of the old school People of Slashdot have now become outnumbered by the legions of Linux freaks and MacOSX freaks. i personally was never happy about the binary blob situation, i'm sure others feel the same way. and problems like this make the situation harder to cope with.
some people can't upload their screenshots if they're working on proprietary stuff. suffice to say left desktop had DE and right desktop had winamp, and slashdot. though right now i wish i had 3 monitors.
if only you could see my screen layout right now; haha.
Wrong. The GPL is only interested in protecting the rights, and wishes of the authors of the code. The authors of GPL code wish for their code and derivatives to remain open and useable by users. This doesn't happen when a device like a tivo uses GPL code but then uses hardware that requires tivo's digital signature upon the software to run. If tivo didn't want to follow the GPL license they shouldn't have used the code. Simple as that. "Using this software on a device that does not allow the owner of the device to make changes to that software is a violation of this license." Then watch as the cost-per-unit goes up on embedded devices that now need to make their code memory accessible and swappable (or flashable). Is it now the job of others to help companies make money when not in their employ? The GPL is about making people play nice if they want to be on the playground, it's not complicated at all.
Just stop watching TV news. It will make you stupid. Exactly. it's not even worth it. Real news about Bush not wanting to agree with the Geneva Convention gets blow over by sensationalist crap about a gay Congressman hitting on under-aged interns. [sarcasm]BTW: who the fuck voted this guy in? they're retarded. Probably don't know how to vote.[/sarcasm]
i wish they would give up or just legalize it. online gambling really isn't a problem, just like online sales of goods isn't a problem to walmart or best buy.
While analyzing this is slightly off topic, I will agree with the parent as a former McD's employee. Those 'value' items are still sold for a profit. Though the quality of materials is not exactly great, nor are they assembled nicely. Also, I have noticed in recent years that the 'Double Cheeseburger' has gotten very greasy, indicating two things: possible raised fat content, and the restaurants do not keep the meat in a nice state after being cooked (sitting in a pool of grease). When I worked at McD's I made an effort to produce quality sandwiches, it didn't take much time to do a better job, after all, what else was I going to do while at work? - Though it appears others don't share my outlook on fast food jobs.
I basically gave up on the Apple section. I still read some of the conversations but posting if futile, the insanity of Apple users runs deep.
As for OpenBSD: I actually think it will last quite a while. It aims for things like correctness and security. That combined with occassional code audits keeps the code clean and useable. But more than that, OpenBSD is great for what they provide to others: library changes (no more using strcpy b.s.), Open* (SSH, BGPD etc). I really hope they try to make a good compiler too.
They may not be very useable for a desktop but that may change. They are probably the only notable OS that tries to not include 'Blobs', which keeps the system easily debuggable and allows for easier development. This will pay off in the long run.
Because if they weren't adding features no one cares about they would most likely have spent that time making (a) feature(s) everyone wanted that/(which) didn't make it into this release
This is what open source is all about, fixing the things that you want to fix. Unless you're in the position of working on code for your employer, in which case you do what they want as long as it doesn't side track you too often from the stuff you love.
Too often there's this mentality that users of open source products are owed something, and if they-the users-don't get what they want they will leave and use other products, and that can't happen now can it. But it can, the maintainers really don't care that much. A 'thank you' goes much farther than a 'work on something useful.' Because in all likely-hood these VAX patches took no time away from getting other work done: either the submitters only work on VAX or still had plenty of time to do other things.
I completely agree. How the hell did he accomplish a dual major with that few credits? Most schools require about 132 credits or so for just one major.
I will agree with you that The Hobbit is the better tale. The fact that it is shorter and a quicker read is a bonus.
Memory protection, we'll never need that.
Great summary of the situation in server space right now.
Threading is a Windows hack because forking is so expensive. It is better for a process to fork than be one huge, threaded mess.
Actually, it all depends on the workload. Some would say that Processes are a Unix hack, because they didn't think about threads. The classic Unix process, and what it is used to accomplish is different from a modern process on a decent language that scales higher than C.
i like zonk. i think he may be a little nuts though. his weekend marathon runs where he is the only person putting up articles for hour after hour are crazy. but if slashdot seriously does all this manually without a queue they are nuts. i would assume they queue for auto-insertion since they usually hit the mainpage with a certain amount of time spacing. maybe 45 minutes or so weekdays and somewhere around double that for weekends.
At first i thought, wow, this should be modded informative, but then I thought about what you said. The ipod/itunes db thing is valid, but that has nothing to do with releasing an operating system that has been designed the right way or with security in mind. also: varying hardware has nothing at all to do with the attack mentioned in the article. In question here is a buffer overflow that has executed some code. This can happen on UNIX too, but what the overflow code did would not happen on an OS X system. If the overflow code setup an IRC server, and then tried to propogate itself onto other machines that could happen. But the windows box had other measures in place to make it so that the compromised system would stay compromised without any logging going on since this all occured on the SYSTEM account with a modified registry. RTFA and stop talking out of your ass.
BTW: i am not an apple fanboy at all as my sig indicates.
Steve Ballmer breaks through the wall, armed with a number of vicous looking chairs.
I figured he'd break through the wall all pimped out like a pitcher of Kool-Aid!
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
right on. the use of 'pod' in the name of a product should be allowed, especially a product that is not a portable music player. this is just a case of apple not playing nice.
Thanks for the excellent rebuttal. Even if arguing with Anonymous Cowards is basically pointless by nature. It's sad to see a worthwhile discussion on the invasion of privacy degenerate to an AC trying to validify incest and child abuse. I'm a libertarian and agree with personal and social freedom, but besides this being taboo, it is just wrong.
yes! haha, mod parent up please.
Whatever, you f'in AC fag. I'm not a Windows fanboy. I'm a linux user, and before that BeOS (which had it all right years ago, while you had a single tasking POS operating system.) and if you think that vista is a minor update to xp than you really need to go read some docs. so have fun running your proprietary almost unix, almost microkernel, almost fast operating system while i run my free software without worries.