Is it possible to use threads (>5.6.0 threads) in a Perl/Tk program yet? (you know, one for the gui and others for the cpu intensive stuff). Last I heard, you could try it but it might blow up in your face. Will Perl 6.0 or a new version of Tk solve the problem?
Unfortunately, we don't...
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...band together. I have to say I was a little bit shocked to find out that the EFF only had 8500 members. Is that the best we could do? Are there only 8500 people who care about the fate of the 'Net? And the story for free software is even more sad. How many people here run Linux or Apache or Mozilla or OpenOffice or other free software? I'd bet Slashdot is coming close to having over 50,000 comments on the SCO debacle. And yet the FSF has only ~1,000 associate members. It's almost depressing.
Overview
A low cost device to temporarily disable the reception of the civilian
course acquisition (C/A) code used for the standard positioning service
(SPS)[1] on the Global Positioning System (GPS/NAVSTAR) L1 frequency of
1575.42 MHz.
This is accomplished by transmitting a narrowband Gaussian noise signal,
with a deviation of +/- 1.023 MHz, on the L1 GPS frequency itself. This
technique is a little more complicated than a simple continuous wave (CW)
jammer, but tends to be more effective (i.e. harder to filter) against
spread spectrum based radio receivers....
Why doesn't the FSF pony up $699 for one license and end this mess? Under the terms of the GPL they would then have the right to redistribute, correct? And SCO can no longer claim ignorance of copyright violations, right? Seems like that would be a cheap and easy way to stick it to SCO.
Just make sure that the work involved is put towards the proper ends. Writing a letter to your congressman about the latest incarnation of the CDBDTA/Patriot Act/whatever has little long term effect, since there is an endless supply of people wanting to impose their will on you. That's like playing defense only. In my opinion, we need to take the game to them. And that means we need to do all that we can to insure a limited government. If there were no favors to be handed out, they wouldn't be sold to the highest bidder.
"...what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson November 13, 1787
Once every four years? When was the last time a day went by that there wasn't a story in yro that you shouldn't have written to your congressman about.
Your JOB as a US citizen is to select a representative who will adequately represent your views. It is essential that you not turn off from politics.
Spoken like a true insider. Whatever happened to limited government? It seems to me that the most moral form of government is one in which you didn't have to spend copious amounts of time checking up on it, just to see if some group is buying influence in order to screw you over.
I whole heartedly agree with the parent and grandparent posts. You need to do something you *want* to do. Or at least find something you can stand to do on a part-time basis (you have to pay the rent after all). I find I all of my procrastnation problems stem from the fact that I pretty much hate to do certain (extremely boring but still important) things at work. I also need a lot of variety in order to keep my interest level high(i.e. I like to learn/experience new things).
If you've only a year or two left of school, be sure to focus on that fact that you've only got a relatively short amount of time left until you're free. If you're just starting out, I'd seriously start shopping around for a new major. But you should still try to pick a field which is interesting but still has some practial use (hard sciences, engineering, business, etc.) and avoid those that seem a little too easy and fun (art, sociology, etc.).
Now the other key thing is to live well below your means. This allows you to live off the earnings of a part-time job. You won't be able to afford a new car, but now instead of spending time working to pay it off, you can spend that time learning how to fix a used one. Instead of ploping down in front of the TV to help you unwind from a boring day at work (and don't forget that you had to work longer at your job in order to pay for the cable TV in the first place) You can instead spend your (large amount of) free time writing a screen play for a movie (or what ever floats your boat). And after a few years at your current job you will get bored and start procrastinating again. That's the indicator that it is time to change jobs/careers again.
it'd be great if he read the responses to the answers of the responses
to the call for the original questions and then replied - that is, meta-ask-slashdot?
No. That would fall under the regular ask-slashdot catagory. Asking questions about ask-slashdot itself would be meta-ask-slashdot. And answering a question about meta-ask-slashdot qualifies this post as meta-meta-ask-slashdot.
This presents quite a dilemma. Do I root for Microsoft and hope
quell the tide of overly broad patents? Or do I root for InterTrust and
hope this derails DRM for the time being? I guess I'm leaning toward the
option where the trial
drags out for two years, but MS eventually wins. That way at least the patent
gets busted (because we know that MS would eventually license and implement DRM
anyway).
He's a rich doctor who apparently can't afford to take the time to fight for $3500. And the reason he got in trouble is that he wasn't willing to pay $30 a month for TV. I'll bet he only sends the servents out to the grocery store on double-coupon days.
Someone should slip the source code for Linux in one of those mamoth appropriation bills Congress passes right before the end of session. Since the lawmakers never read the bills they vote on, and law becomes uncopyrightable *presto* no more SCO problems.
Hmmm... Let's see, you've got a recording of a horribly bad telemarketing pitch from Disney. I notice that disneysux.com is available. Looks like a match made in heaven to me.
You get personal fulfillment from watching someone you've never met floating around and drinking Tang? You might want to check out religion. Or love. Or something that you can actually participate in. Maybe some silent meditation for a few moments.
Not only will they want to look for the items on their "blacklist", but they'll also want to see if any of the items you purchase match a terrorist profile. You know, obviously terrorist-like items such as box cutters, nail files, fingernail clippers, etc.
I have to say I think the idea of intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with a conventional warhead makes more sense. You could put a couple of those anywhere in the world with only 30 minutes notice.
I'm sure they would smack you down pretty hard if they caught you, but getting caught might not be so easy. First you would probably want to get an account with one of those free fax services, which allow you to send and recieve faxes using email. You might also want a phone number to be reached at, in case there are any questions. You might like to try something like
vonage which gives you an actual phone number which people can use to call you over the internet. You might also try DialPad or one of the other free voice-over-ip providers. The next step is to war-drive to your favorite open 802.11b network and login (be sure to spoof everything possible). Then you merely chain together 4-5 of those anonymous web proxies in Russia and the Netherlands, so you can't easily be tracked. Easy as...
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Is it possible to use threads (>5.6.0 threads) in a Perl/Tk program yet? (you know, one for the gui and others for the cpu intensive stuff). Last I heard, you could try it but it might blow up in your face. Will Perl 6.0 or a new version of Tk solve the problem?
...band together. I have to say I was a little bit shocked to find out that the EFF only had 8500 members. Is that the best we could do? Are there only 8500 people who care about the fate of the 'Net? And the story for free software is even more sad. How many people here run Linux or Apache or Mozilla or OpenOffice or other free software? I'd bet Slashdot is coming close to having over 50,000 comments on the SCO debacle. And yet the FSF has only ~1,000 associate members. It's almost depressing.
Why doesn't the FSF pony up $699 for one license and end this mess? Under the terms of the GPL they would then have the right to redistribute, correct? And SCO can no longer claim ignorance of copyright violations, right? Seems like that would be a cheap and easy way to stick it to SCO.
Just make sure that the work involved is put towards the proper ends. Writing a letter to your congressman about the latest incarnation of the CDBDTA/Patriot Act/whatever has little long term effect, since there is an endless supply of people wanting to impose their will on you. That's like playing defense only. In my opinion, we need to take the game to them. And that means we need to do all that we can to insure a limited government. If there were no favors to be handed out, they wouldn't be sold to the highest bidder.
"...what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson November 13, 1787
Once every four years? When was the last time a day went by that there wasn't a story in yro that you shouldn't have written to your congressman about.
Obviously, for the wireless mouse situation, you need two flywheels rotating in opposite directions, so that the system has zero angular momentum
The parent's question was copied verbatim from the original Perens interview. It was question #5 and submitted by a Mr. John L Grantham.
If you've only a year or two left of school, be sure to focus on that fact that you've only got a relatively short amount of time left until you're free. If you're just starting out, I'd seriously start shopping around for a new major. But you should still try to pick a field which is interesting but still has some practial use (hard sciences, engineering, business, etc.) and avoid those that seem a little too easy and fun (art, sociology, etc.).
Now the other key thing is to live well below your means. This allows you to live off the earnings of a part-time job. You won't be able to afford a new car, but now instead of spending time working to pay it off, you can spend that time learning how to fix a used one. Instead of ploping down in front of the TV to help you unwind from a boring day at work (and don't forget that you had to work longer at your job in order to pay for the cable TV in the first place) You can instead spend your (large amount of) free time writing a screen play for a movie (or what ever floats your boat). And after a few years at your current job you will get bored and start procrastinating again. That's the indicator that it is time to change jobs/careers again.
This presents quite a dilemma. Do I root for Microsoft and hope quell the tide of overly broad patents? Or do I root for InterTrust and hope this derails DRM for the time being? I guess I'm leaning toward the option where the trial drags out for two years, but MS eventually wins. That way at least the patent gets busted (because we know that MS would eventually license and implement DRM anyway).
He's a rich doctor who apparently can't afford to take the time to fight for $3500. And the reason he got in trouble is that he wasn't willing to pay $30 a month for TV. I'll bet he only sends the servents out to the grocery store on double-coupon days.
Without copyright you could copy, redistribute, disassemble, reverse-engineer, fold, spindle, and mutilate the binaries.
You might want to check out the Free Software Foundation
Someone should slip the source code for Linux in one of those mamoth appropriation bills Congress passes right before the end of session. Since the lawmakers never read the bills they vote on, and law becomes uncopyrightable *presto* no more SCO problems.
*Sounds* like they need some melamine ceiling tiles.
It's not gold, but $20 trillion from precious metal asteroid mining might provide a motivation for someone to "exploit the resourses"
Hmmm... Let's see, you've got a recording of a horribly bad telemarketing pitch from Disney. I notice that disneysux.com is available. Looks like a match made in heaven to me.
You get personal fulfillment from watching someone you've never met floating around and drinking Tang? You might want to check out religion. Or love. Or something that you can actually participate in. Maybe some silent meditation for a few moments.
Not only will they want to look for the items on their "blacklist", but they'll also want to see if any of the items you purchase match a terrorist profile. You know, obviously terrorist-like items such as box cutters, nail files, fingernail clippers, etc.
I have to say I think the idea of intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with a conventional warhead makes more sense. You could put a couple of those anywhere in the world with only 30 minutes notice.