I always thought that the best word that describes opensource is meritocracy. The best people makes the decisions.
A goal rarely, if ever, achieved.
The people with the most power, control and influence make the decisions. Merit may help get them there, but usually doesn't keep them there. then the games begin . . .
Two side of the same coin. The only difference is a single enforcer versus a "community" of enforcers.
My point was that, ugly as it may be, it's part of what defines FOSS. It just a shame that it provides an excellent source of fodder for those who wish to disparage FOSS. Because one can form their own "community" of one or many, choice does exist. It's messy, it's wasteful, it can be awkward, but it is far better overall than whatever else there is.
This kind of bickering is the ugly dark side of an otherwise decent philosophy. The cult of personality and hubris, especially within Ubuntu/Debian where it seems to erupt with regularity, is both useful and unpleasant and will always be a locus of justifiable criticism of the FOSS community in general.
Text art has been around for a long time. Typewriter art for over 100 years. RTTY art nearly as long. The principles of animation have been understood for a while. Why is this news?
<quote>No. We didn't arrest Confederate combatants in the American Civil War, nor did they set out to arrest Plains and Southwest Indian combatants who left the Reservations and treaty lands during the Indian Wars.</quote>
We also sent Americans to concentration camps and performed medical experiments on Americans without their consent. So you position is that if we did or didn't do it before, that's justification and absolution for doing it now? I would think that wrong is wrong, but you must have a much different sense of morality that other people.
That said, if American citizens are actively engaged in hostilities toward American citizens in war, their citizenship status should not protect them from harm at that time. If they are just sitting around and can be apprehended with minimal risk, then of course arrest, charge and try them. But to put them on a government-sanctioned "hit list" just because you can isn't right. That same government can also put you on that same list for no particular reason. That wouldn't be right either.
Open innovation is only possible through the licensing of third party IP rights,
As long as those rights are licensed through the GPL or a similar license focusing on free-as-in-speech, otherwise innovation is not open, but closed, controlled and restricted which does not lead to significant, rapid innovation.
It's completely, completely different. Democrats support imposing stiff penalties on infringement because it's supported by the media companies. Republicans support it because it's basically anti-American and corporatist.
We are screwed wither way, so no effective difference. The industries who want these controls have purchased enough politicians to make it happen.
... the other five are only likely to give an internet novice a horribly outdated idea of what web browsing is like.
The "other five" are there to make IE8 look good by comparison as well as infer that all alternative browsers are inferior while making Microsoft look magnanimous and unafraid of competition.
Th C=64 was the first computer I owned that I didn't build from scratch AND it had a disk operating system such as it was... Those were good times.
My first was a VIC-20, hardware-hacked from an article in 73 magazine to fill in the 'missing' chunk of memory. Hacked a few games and wrote a bunch of BASIC stuff. It served faithfully for RTTY and slow-scan TV and a second VIC20 controlled a Yaesu FT-757 transceiver including pre-programmed 10M FM repeater splits. Never did 'upgrade' to the C64.
Perhaps we can get him to sponsor a bill to make the value of Pi 3.0 so geometry can be easier and a bill defining division by zero as one. Then a bill to make not paying any tax a felony with a minimum sentence of 10 years and also make it a felony not to vote.
With the right encouragement, this asshat can go far.
You can't use "cross platform" unless it ports to OSX or Linux or other non-Windows platforms. OpenGL is cross-platform; Direct3D is not. The term you're looking for is "Windows platforms only". Nothing wrong with that; just be honest in your characterization of it.
All the posters arguing for no punishment of the parents have the same argument: No punishment is worse that that of losing a child.
And I agree because I would feel that way and obviously those making the argument would have the same feelings.
But that doesn't mean that all parents have those feelings. Some parents torture, mutilate and kill their children. I couldn't imaging doing that to a child; neither could you.
But yet some parents do horrible things to children. The "punishment enough" argument is fallacious. This should not be about punishment, and using "punishment enough" to ignore the problem is as bad as the original act itself.
Clearly in all cases of this kind, the parent has failed and society has an interest in some appropriate intervention to correct the parent and protect other children.
yeah, because her dad is probably really well right now.
He's an idiot, but I dunno if he really needs jail. I'm sure the loss of his child is punishment enough.
I can't imagine how terrible being in his situation would be, sounds worse than jail.
Perhaps, but we don't know the circumstances. What if the parents were indifferent to the danger (knew but didn't care)? What if the loss of the child is not punishment to them at all? Would your opinion be different?
Without question, this is a tragedy. Without question, the gun owner was negligent in properly caring for the weapon with a child in the house and was negligent in their care of the child.
While it may or may not make sense to remove other children from the home, certainly the right of these people to possess a gun should be forfeited until children are no longer present in the home.
Any punishment, though, should be decided by the courts and not through the sentimentality of public opinion.
It will be interesting to see how this is undone. Have no doubt, it will be undone and forced on the EU. There's too much money riding on the implementation a of ACTA to let it fail.
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I always thought that the best word that describes opensource is meritocracy. The best people makes the decisions.
A goal rarely, if ever, achieved.
The people with the most power, control and influence make the decisions. Merit may help get them there, but usually doesn't keep them there. then the games begin . . .
Two side of the same coin. The only difference is a single enforcer versus a "community" of enforcers.
My point was that, ugly as it may be, it's part of what defines FOSS. It just a shame that it provides an excellent source of fodder for those who wish to disparage FOSS. Because one can form their own "community" of one or many, choice does exist. It's messy, it's wasteful, it can be awkward, but it is far better overall than whatever else there is.
This kind of bickering is the ugly dark side of an otherwise decent philosophy. The cult of personality and hubris, especially within Ubuntu/Debian where it seems to erupt with regularity, is both useful and unpleasant and will always be a locus of justifiable criticism of the FOSS community in general.
Move along. Nothing new to see here.
Text art has been around for a long time. Typewriter art for over 100 years. RTTY art nearly as long. The principles of animation have been understood for a while. Why is this news?
unless you post pr0^H^Hics of the machine . . .
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<quote><p>Hell, we even had sex <i>like every other teenager does</i>.</p></quote>
<p>I never had sex as a teen, you insensitive clod!</p></quote>
Or as adult, Slashdotter?
MalwareBytes has been effective for the few WinXP boxes I have to deal with.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
<quote>No. We didn't arrest Confederate combatants in the American Civil War, nor did they set out to arrest Plains and Southwest Indian combatants who left the Reservations and treaty lands during the Indian Wars.</quote>
We also sent Americans to concentration camps and performed medical experiments on Americans without their consent. So you position is that if we did or didn't do it before, that's justification and absolution for doing it now? I would think that wrong is wrong, but you must have a much different sense of morality that other people.
That said, if American citizens are actively engaged in hostilities toward American citizens in war, their citizenship status should not protect them from harm at that time. If they are just sitting around and can be apprehended with minimal risk, then of course arrest, charge and try them. But to put them on a government-sanctioned "hit list" just because you can isn't right. That same government can also put you on that same list for no particular reason. That wouldn't be right either.
Open innovation is only possible through the licensing of third party IP rights,
As long as those rights are licensed through the GPL or a similar license focusing on free-as-in-speech, otherwise innovation is not open, but closed, controlled and restricted which does not lead to significant, rapid innovation.
Thankfully, US Intelligence does not appear to be that intelligent.
1. Install Windows. 2. Connect to the Internet. 3. Blink. 4. Malware detected!
Isn't the ZUNEphone superior in every way?
It's completely, completely different. Democrats support imposing stiff penalties on infringement because it's supported by the media companies. Republicans support it because it's basically anti-American and corporatist.
We are screwed wither way, so no effective difference. The industries who want these controls have purchased enough politicians to make it happen.
and they are identical in every other way.
One party has better representation on talk radio and cable "news".
... the other five are only likely to give an internet novice a horribly outdated idea of what web browsing is like.
The "other five" are there to make IE8 look good by comparison as well as infer that all alternative browsers are inferior while making Microsoft look magnanimous and unafraid of competition.
Th C=64 was the first computer I owned that I didn't build from scratch AND it had a disk operating system such as it was... Those were good times.
My first was a VIC-20, hardware-hacked from an article in 73 magazine to fill in the 'missing' chunk of memory. Hacked a few games and wrote a bunch of BASIC stuff. It served faithfully for RTTY and slow-scan TV and a second VIC20 controlled a Yaesu FT-757 transceiver including pre-programmed 10M FM repeater splits. Never did 'upgrade' to the C64.
Presumably the FSF would feel a lot better about this if the students were being spied on from laptops running Linux with open-source spying software?
Perhaps with Linux, the webcams would not have even worked if they required proprietary drivers? No spying then.
My local paper had this story in today's edition. Are they getting better or is Slashdot getting, um, sluggish?
Perhaps we can get him to sponsor a bill to make the value of Pi 3.0 so geometry can be easier and a bill defining division by zero as one. Then a bill to make not paying any tax a felony with a minimum sentence of 10 years and also make it a felony not to vote.
With the right encouragement, this asshat can go far.
Some citations will help your argument.
You can't use "cross platform" unless it ports to OSX or Linux or other non-Windows platforms. OpenGL is cross-platform; Direct3D is not. The term you're looking for is "Windows platforms only". Nothing wrong with that; just be honest in your characterization of it.
All the posters arguing for no punishment of the parents have the same argument: No punishment is worse that that of losing a child.
And I agree because I would feel that way and obviously those making the argument would have the same feelings.
But that doesn't mean that all parents have those feelings. Some parents torture, mutilate and kill their children. I couldn't imaging doing that to a child; neither could you.
But yet some parents do horrible things to children. The "punishment enough" argument is fallacious. This should not be about punishment, and using "punishment enough" to ignore the problem is as bad as the original act itself.
Clearly in all cases of this kind, the parent has failed and society has an interest in some appropriate intervention to correct the parent and protect other children.
yeah, because her dad is probably really well right now.
He's an idiot, but I dunno if he really needs jail. I'm sure the loss of his child is punishment enough.
I can't imagine how terrible being in his situation would be, sounds worse than jail.
Perhaps, but we don't know the circumstances. What if the parents were indifferent to the danger (knew but didn't care)? What if the loss of the child is not punishment to them at all? Would your opinion be different?
Without question, this is a tragedy. Without question, the gun owner was negligent in properly caring for the weapon with a child in the house and was negligent in their care of the child.
While it may or may not make sense to remove other children from the home, certainly the right of these people to possess a gun should be forfeited until children are no longer present in the home.
Any punishment, though, should be decided by the courts and not through the sentimentality of public opinion.
No surprise here. *NIX is deliberately confusing. Understanding the nuances of it are what seperates "us" from the hoi polloi.
At least they weren't confused enough NOT to choose some version of FOSS.
It will be interesting to see how this is undone. Have no doubt, it will be undone and forced on the EU. There's too much money riding on the implementation a of ACTA to let it fail.