I guess this guy must have written a pretty big Linux app to get such a lot of coverage. What does this "kernel" program do and where can I download it?
It was over the weekend, right? Maybe people were just home from work and wanted to do a little surfing. Since most people don't use their home PCs much, I bet all the domain names had TTL'd out and needed to be refreshed. Maybe this "UltraDNS" place is less ultra than their name suggests. A lot of companies nowadays are trying to make their underpowered server rooms sound like DoS situations to get hold of anti-terrorism funds.
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I've found that most computer and science people are pro-technology and anti-mysticism and so have little interest in "issues" such as environmentalism.
CDs work by having lasers bounce off of tiny pits in the CD. There doesn't have to be any physical contact with the media, so it is safe to apply substances to the substrate as long as they are transparent. This is why I recommend spraying them with hairspray. It hardens into a protective coating (anyone who watches the local TV news can attest to that) and resists scratches beautifully. Just reapply every few weeks or so for long-lasting CD goodness.
Or has no predictions you feel comfortable relating?
My library has this book and I checked it out once for fun. Some of the material is indeed dated, the advice to use CP/M being an egregious example (even then). However it is simply false to say he makes no predictions when the last chapter, entitled "Predictions for the Future", contains nothing but that.
He mentions a young startup called "MicroSoft" and predicts that their superior OS technology will lead the market. He talks about how programming, with it's rejection of the human element, was going to become something of a young, socially-inept boys's game. He even talks about the nature of IP law and how we must be careful to codify our common sense view, that computer copies are still copies of someone else's property, into law.
All in all a very prescient book by a high-respected, deep-thinking author.
2. Restrictions. The software contains copyrighted and patented material, trade secrets and other proprietary material. In order to protect them, and except as permitted by applicable legislation, you may not: a) decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the software to a human-perceivable form; b) modify, network, rent, lend, loan, distribute or create derivative works based upon the software in whole or in part; or c) electronically transmit the software from one computer to another or over a network or otherwise transfer the software except as permitted by this license.
Yay, more secret-ware for my Linux box. I think I'll stick to textmode.
Why do these huge conglomerates think they can keep pumping out "standards" designed to remove consumer choice from the marketplace? If the People want to buy an OS, such as Linux, that puts the time remaining into the time_t struct in the select call instead of leaving that param unmodified, then I think they should be able to do that. If that means they have to write a wrapper around select or use some compile time conditionals, then so be it.
Linux is about choice and I suggest that we do what the customer wants, not some faceless standards committee.
If you want lead time, you have to see them sooner. Seeing them sooner implies that at some early date they are visible on a photographic plate, which in turn implies that an image be captured, preferably ASAP. The only way to do this is to make sure you take pictures prior to the the "drop dead" date.
As for pushing them aside, there are several options. You can deflect an asteroid. You can perturb the orbit. You can also lateralize the velocity vector. One approach that I haven't seen talked about much is bending the worldline of the asteroid such that it no longer intersects Earth's worldline, but that method may require some scientific advances beyond our current technology.
For 5 years, programmers, web "designers" and system administrators surfed porn sites claiming it was research, posted self-congratulatory remarks on chat sites and general did little if any work at all. Now they are being required to justify their enormous salaries and all they can do is whine about their "exponentially" grow TODO list. Cry me a river.
All browser's are required to contain the name and age of the user. If the age is under the age of majority (18) the user will be prohibited from clicking any non-kids.us link. Furthermore, their name and the site they were trying to link to will be recorded and sent to their parents.
You also have to remember that this was scientific information. High-energy physics papers are of a sensitive security nature, what with terrorists threatening our way of life. Even biological information should probably be removed from the web to ensure that Al Qaeda doesn't try their hand at engineering any bio-virii.
There is a time and a place for the luxury of freedoms such as these, and this isn't it.
So now all MS has to do to compile page of Reasons To Switch is do a quick query against Bugzilla.Linux and there you go. I predict making these bugs public is going to give Linux a big ol' black eye.
Ever since Washington and Jefferson, this is how Congress has worked. And patriotic Americans understand that trying to dismantle the political process doesn't show proper solidarity and unity of purpose. Please don't post this kind of story in the future.
I guess the submitter has never read anything by Linus on the Linux mailing list. He is constantly making changes to the kernel and saying "screw stupid userland apps, this is the right way to do things". Even about non-security issues. And he's right, the only way to avoid massive layers of backwards-compatible cruft is to just slough off the existing infrastructure and create the OS anew for every release.
His "client" wants to modify the original home bit. That's the bit that indicates the copyright holder of the encoded movie. If the RIAA gets wind of this story on Slashdot, you can bet Slashdot's Attorney will get a cease and desist.
Thanks for dealing another death blow to Linux's image, Slashdot!
Let me try to put it into terms the educated laymen of Slashdot might understand.
Take two hemispherical cylinders and fasten them together with a differential offset. Allow matter in a fluidic state to pass over the orifices thereby created. With a probability approaching Aleph Naught, some particles will necessarily be transmuted hyperspatially and re-emerge with reverse lepton numbers. When these shifted particles recombine on the other side, they will annihilite in a (small) burst of pure negative energy, cooling the atmosphere. Basically it's a cure for global warming.
You missed the point. Joe Programmer has intellectual ownership of the code he produces at his company. When raise time comes around, he hopes to get a bonus based on his excellent work. Then Jane comes along and says the work his hers. When Joe protests, Jane says that "information wants to be free" and anybody can claim to own it.
If this sounds ridiculous it's because you are entirely comfortable with the idea of two coworkers knowing who owns the code. Same with music. BMI owns the music and you are stealing it.
You know, like programs. Would you like it if your coworker went to your boss and claimed that all the code you produced was his work and then got a raise out of it?
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I guess this guy must have written a pretty big Linux app to get such a lot of coverage. What does this "kernel" program do and where can I download it?
(Moderators, please -1 Redundify any posts that make the old "42" joke.)
It was over the weekend, right? Maybe people were just home from work and wanted to do a little surfing. Since most people don't use their home PCs much, I bet all the domain names had TTL'd out and needed to be refreshed. Maybe this "UltraDNS" place is less ultra than their name suggests. A lot of companies nowadays are trying to make their underpowered server rooms sound like DoS situations to get hold of anti-terrorism funds.
Information wants to be set on fire.
Just my $.02.
CDs work by having lasers bounce off of tiny pits in the CD. There doesn't have to be any physical contact with the media, so it is safe to apply substances to the substrate as long as they are transparent. This is why I recommend spraying them with hairspray. It hardens into a protective coating (anyone who watches the local TV news can attest to that) and resists scratches beautifully. Just reapply every few weeks or so for long-lasting CD goodness.
The way to "effectively promote" technical stuff is to run an ad in Wired. No legislators need apply.
My library has this book and I checked it out once for fun. Some of the material is indeed dated, the advice to use CP/M being an egregious example (even then). However it is simply false to say he makes no predictions when the last chapter, entitled "Predictions for the Future", contains nothing but that.
He mentions a young startup called "MicroSoft" and predicts that their superior OS technology will lead the market. He talks about how programming, with it's rejection of the human element, was going to become something of a young, socially-inept boys's game. He even talks about the nature of IP law and how we must be careful to codify our common sense view, that computer copies are still copies of someone else's property, into law.
All in all a very prescient book by a high-respected, deep-thinking author.
Yay, more secret-ware for my Linux box. I think I'll stick to textmode.
While Alaska was indeed virgin territory back then, I have serious misgivings about a tale of a "bone-crushing hymen" roaming the land.
Why do these huge conglomerates think they can keep pumping out "standards" designed to remove consumer choice from the marketplace? If the People want to buy an OS, such as Linux, that puts the time remaining into the time_t struct in the select call instead of leaving that param unmodified, then I think they should be able to do that. If that means they have to write a wrapper around select or use some compile time conditionals, then so be it.
Linux is about choice and I suggest that we do what the customer wants, not some faceless standards committee.
As for pushing them aside, there are several options. You can deflect an asteroid. You can perturb the orbit. You can also lateralize the velocity vector. One approach that I haven't seen talked about much is bending the worldline of the asteroid such that it no longer intersects Earth's worldline, but that method may require some scientific advances beyond our current technology.
Just my $.02.
For 5 years, programmers, web "designers" and system administrators surfed porn sites claiming it was research, posted self-congratulatory remarks on chat sites and general did little if any work at all. Now they are being required to justify their enormous salaries and all they can do is whine about their "exponentially" grow TODO list. Cry me a river.
All browser's are required to contain the name and age of the user. If the age is under the age of majority (18) the user will be prohibited from clicking any non-kids.us link. Furthermore, their name and the site they were trying to link to will be recorded and sent to their parents.
Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. *snort*
There is a time and a place for the luxury of freedoms such as these, and this isn't it.
So now all MS has to do to compile page of Reasons To Switch is do a quick query against Bugzilla.Linux and there you go. I predict making these bugs public is going to give Linux a big ol' black eye.
Ever since Washington and Jefferson, this is how Congress has worked. And patriotic Americans understand that trying to dismantle the political process doesn't show proper solidarity and unity of purpose. Please don't post this kind of story in the future.
I guess the submitter has never read anything by Linus on the Linux mailing list. He is constantly making changes to the kernel and saying "screw stupid userland apps, this is the right way to do things". Even about non-security issues. And he's right, the only way to avoid massive layers of backwards-compatible cruft is to just slough off the existing infrastructure and create the OS anew for every release.
Thanks for dealing another death blow to Linux's image, Slashdot!
Take two hemispherical cylinders and fasten them together with a differential offset. Allow matter in a fluidic state to pass over the orifices thereby created. With a probability approaching Aleph Naught, some particles will necessarily be transmuted hyperspatially and re-emerge with reverse lepton numbers. When these shifted particles recombine on the other side, they will annihilite in a (small) burst of pure negative energy, cooling the atmosphere. Basically it's a cure for global warming.
If this sounds ridiculous it's because you are entirely comfortable with the idea of two coworkers knowing who owns the code. Same with music. BMI owns the music and you are stealing it.
You know, like programs. Would you like it if your coworker went to your boss and claimed that all the code you produced was his work and then got a raise out of it?
people are stealing their property. I'd be hostile too.