GWB doesn't want the military to look like a chump for the Iraq fiasco that is slowly unfolding, so he calls up his buddies at NASA to stage a 'Mars Landing' and then starts making speeches about how space exploration will revolutionize our universe and other claptrap.
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Charles in charge of our days and our nights
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The Future of Security
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I know, different Charles Baio.
Still, unless you count Buddy, Charles provided a great role model and environment for the kids to grow up in. Security through education, not necessarily obscurity or technological whizbangitry.
To reiterate: 1) Security can only be achieved through education. 2) I would have liked to fuck the older sister on that show.
Technology is inherently bad
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Because people can use it for bad things. That's what this article is all about, isn't it?
Maybe when you tree huggers finally realize that there will never be peace and love the world over, only then will you finally come to terms with the world as it really is.
Technology will be used in evil ways. However, it will also be used in ways that are amazingly good.
The GPL does not guarantee that the world can receive your project "Freely". It only guarantees that your project itself will be Free.
In order to guarantee that Freedom for your software, it is necessary to sometimes fight for it. Fighting for it usually means battling legal challenges to your rights as copyright owner. These fights will cost you money.
The "real alternative" is to turn over copyrights to the FSF and let them handle these violations. Of course that also means giving up rights to ever 'taking back' your code at some future date.
But if your goal is to promote Free Software, that's the way to do it.
I don't mean to stir up a hornets nest with this question, but if you intended to give away the code for free in the first place, why are you so concerned that someone is taking it and profiting off of it?
You could sue them, or contact a lawyer to send a C&D letter to them, but isn't it your own fault for choosing a license that turns you into an Indian Giver (no offense to Indians) instead of a truly beneficent code donor like the BSD licenses do?
Don't get me wrong, the GPL has its place, but if the main point was to be generous with your code in the first place why would you choose something as restrictive as the GPL?
Or in the first place did you intend to demand that changes be rolled back into your project?
It causes the atoms to grow up into bitter adults who are overachievers in their particular area of expertise but can't manage to maintain steady personal relationships.
What happens if the connection fails halfway through a download? Do you have a way of recovering? Is there a window of a few hours or days within which you can download files without limit?
Why would they open themselves up to this kind of legal problem? Let the kids share and suffer the consequences, don't bring the school into the picture!
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And this software would be available at the link provided in the story??
It's all a lie.
GWB doesn't want the military to look like a chump for the Iraq fiasco that is slowly unfolding, so he calls up his buddies at NASA to stage a 'Mars Landing' and then starts making speeches about how space exploration will revolutionize our universe and other claptrap.
Give it time, the truth will emerge.
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I know, different Charles Baio.
Still, unless you count Buddy, Charles provided a great role model and environment for the kids to grow up in. Security through education, not necessarily obscurity or technological whizbangitry.
To reiterate: 1) Security can only be achieved through education. 2) I would have liked to fuck the older sister on that show.
Because people can use it for bad things. That's what this article is all about, isn't it?
Maybe when you tree huggers finally realize that there will never be peace and love the world over, only then will you finally come to terms with the world as it really is.
Technology will be used in evil ways. However, it will also be used in ways that are amazingly good.
Have some faith.
That could explain why they need to keep buying new stuff.
Is any software really at the point where we can install it and forget about it?
Security is a job for all of us, not just Microsoft.
As long as hackers out there have the tuits to break into systems, security is everyone's business.
The GPL does not guarantee that the world can receive your project "Freely". It only guarantees that your project itself will be Free.
In order to guarantee that Freedom for your software, it is necessary to sometimes fight for it. Fighting for it usually means battling legal challenges to your rights as copyright owner. These fights will cost you money.
Freedom is not free. It is not even cheap.
The "real alternative" is to turn over copyrights to the FSF and let them handle these violations. Of course that also means giving up rights to ever 'taking back' your code at some future date.
But if your goal is to promote Free Software, that's the way to do it.
I don't mean to stir up a hornets nest with this question, but if you intended to give away the code for free in the first place, why are you so concerned that someone is taking it and profiting off of it?
You could sue them, or contact a lawyer to send a C&D letter to them, but isn't it your own fault for choosing a license that turns you into an Indian Giver (no offense to Indians) instead of a truly beneficent code donor like the BSD licenses do?
Don't get me wrong, the GPL has its place, but if the main point was to be generous with your code in the first place why would you choose something as restrictive as the GPL?
Or in the first place did you intend to demand that changes be rolled back into your project?
They've got the patent, they might as well use it.
It's not like most of the animators weren't actually 8 year old one-handed Laotian boys.
Those kids could never keep up with the rendering power of a Beowulf cluster of Xeons.
Now instead of working seamlessly, there will be a pop-up dialog to prompt the user to activate the desired control.
Fuck you, Eolas.
Red makes it go faster.
It causes the atoms to grow up into bitter adults who are overachievers in their particular area of expertise but can't manage to maintain steady personal relationships.
Not only is it lighter than air, it can be condensed into this condensate which can in turn be used as a coolant for modern PC CPUs.
Also, since it is inflammable, helium is safer than trying to use something like liquid hydrogen or liquid peroxide as an intercooler fluid.
What happens if the connection fails halfway through a download? Do you have a way of recovering? Is there a window of a few hours or days within which you can download files without limit?
When you compliment OS/2, you're complimenting Microsoft!
It was a good MP3
We prefer to be given stuff for free, so thanks to Richard Schmuck for buying the MP3 and sharing it on Kazaa.
So it seems they've already fixed the problem.
Should we blame lazy sysadmins for not keeping their systems patched?
Or should we blame Microsoft?
Name the application with an easily recognizable and appropriate name that briefly describes what the product does. That's good naming.
Coming up with obscure references to geeky things is not good naming practice.
Why would they open themselves up to this kind of legal problem? Let the kids share and suffer the consequences, don't bring the school into the picture!
You'd have yourself a Rover trained as well as an CEO?
Who cares?
If these boys want to kill themselves playing video games 24/7, what business is it of anyone?
The government has a responsibility to protect people from each other, but not from themselves.