Thompson's license is stronger on freedom than the GPL.
I beg your pardon? What freedom is that?
Freedom to write code under a different license that either A: I can't profit from (freeware); B: I can't sell without paying them a royalty (commercial); C: Release under a license that another company can sell my code without paying me anything (BSD-style).
IANAL, but it appears that a BSD licensed equivalent of mpg321 and XMMS plugin would have no legal problems with distribution from a 3rd party non-profit site?
IANAL either, but unless you own copyright to ALL of the code you can't change the licensing of the product to an incompatible license, and GPL considers BSD incompatible because distributors can take a fork proprietary.
If group A releases GPL code project, and 25 other people later contribute to it, isn't the work's ownership hopelessly complex? Wouldn't the 25 who modified the product have to agree with group A to release the code under BSD or a different license? How many contributors are there to the GPL'ed mp3 libraries? And would their morals and/or political agendas/opinions allow them to release the source code under a "free beer" license if they could?
I've read the GPL a couple of times and I don't recall it saying that any modifications become the legal property of the original author.
When I read the announcement I downloaded the latest release tarballs and the CVS snapshot tarballs for xmms, mpg123 and lame. Freeamp's site was down that night. I guess I'll look for some more source to download just in case. (I saw MAD and a couple of other decoder libraries mentioned.)
However, in answer to your question I suppose if it were possible to release those packages or equivalent as BSD then. ..well, I don't know because I've never read BSD's licence, but it seems pretty loose so I suppose it would work.
OS/2 2.1 and Warp were available as "OS/2 for Windows" if you already had Windows 3.1. That version was cheaper and was what I had. But the more expensive version included the Windows binaries.
IBM and Microsoft codeveloped Windows for a while, so IBM had full rights to the Windows code through Win3.1 I think.
But I suppose you are right that it wasn't emulation; it actually had the (full) API and binary libraries.
OS/2 was a kick-ass product. I never used it extensively but recognized its technical superiority right away. It was the first fully 32-bit system I ever used. No thunking. No 64k file limits on any apps. You could associate the individual data file with an application so the 3-letter extension default app could be overridden.
I'm glad I found Linux after OS/2. I still mainly run Windows for various reasons but the geek in me needs the good OS'es.
The "problem" I see with Linux success is that there is no agreement on what success is. Should it become the dominant server OS? Client OS? Gaming platform? Does its sales have to outnumber or outrevenue competitors or just be installed on more systems? How do you count multiboot systems?
People have different ideas. Companies have different ideas. Some try to sell a Linux distribution with manuals, polish and support. Some want to sell their hardware and consulting services and use Linux as the grease/glue. Some want a free way to turn their old PCs into tinkertoys.
To me, the scalability (floppy based firewalls and 4/8MB embedded systems to renderfarms) and flexibility of Linux is an awesome success.
As far as gaming, when my late Grandmother can configure her XFree86 4.0 DRI, load her sound modules and cross-install QuakeIII then Linux will be ready for commercial games.:-)
Where are all the comments about Microsoft bloatware obligatory with an article like this? Maybe viewing Score 3's and above is keeping me from seeing them now.
Better yet: they can use this in high-altitude zeppelins or space stations for surgery. (No cloud problems, more intense sunlight.) The Rocket Guy should be able to send people up cheaper than ground-based surgery; if not then we'll have that space elevator in 15 years, right?
I just bought a used Radeon 64 DDR VIVO instead of a GeForce 2 GTS that bench tests as faster because I know that even if ATI goes under or gets bought out like 3DFX did the open source drivers will live on.
Of course I don't suppose that helps much in Windows, and open source drivers aren't on the bleeding edge. (One reason I bought the older Radeon: I checked XFree86 DRI driver status first.)
I've never had a problem with ATI drivers, but I don't play the latest games, either. I just bought and started playing Quake III a month ago.
My previous two video cards: A Rage Xpert 128 PCI (Rage 128 based) and an All-in-Wonder Pro PCI (Rage Pro based).
Don't like it? Don't buy it! If people didn't throw piles of money at them for doing this, maybe they wouldn't do it any more...
I don't buy near as much as I used to, and for the reasons I was bitching about in my post. I'm leery of new harwdare, software and services because of all the restrictions, so I spend a lot less money on products with these restrictions, and I pay more for more open products.
I already mentioned that I've always paid extra for my ISP. My only MP3 player was a cheapie gift, but somebody will get some money from me if they come out with an Ogg Vorbis--or better yet codec-reprogramable--digital music player.
I rarely buy movies or CDs anymore, and I'm not filling the gap with P2P copyright violations, either.
I don't mean to write all this as an argument to what you said; I guess I mean you make a good point, and I'm already patronizing these businesses much less and then bitching about it on Slashdot. But maybe I should be writing letters to the companies instead of Slashdot. Although ideally in a free market voting with my money would be good enough. I can find plenty of products to not vote for, but I'm having trouble finding products worth voting for. Maybe it's time to actually purchase a Linux distro and open office suite instead of using them for free.
Article: "It's the Nuclear Worm (genus Namalycastis), Vietnam's biological revenge for all that napalm and Agent Orange 30 years ago."
Vulture: "This is not saying that the worm was created by napalm or Agent Orange. Read it a little more carefully."
The way I read it and still read it is that the Washington post is implying that napalm and Agent Orange caused a biological series of events that led to this mutated worm. "Caused", "series of events" and "mutated" are my words, but I think the article explicitly implies some sort of cause-effect relationship but makes no effort to explain or prove it.
It's a total hype story, but I see reason for concern over importing something that will, sooner or later, be released alive into the wild. I'm glad that the appropriate departments are checking into it.
Okay, now that I'm remembering my high school English grammar and sentence diagramming, maybe you're right. "Biological" is an adjective. It's Vietnam's revenge, and that revenge is biological in nature. It's not biology's revenge, but that's how I read it the first few times.
Still I'm cynical enough to think that the Post wanted the casual reader to make a cause-effect connection, though. (Besides, who likes diagramming sentences?)
It's the fact that hardware I *bought* and the DVD I *bought* artificially limits my ability to use the media as designed. And against my will.
Okay, maybe some warnings are 12 seconds, but how long do you think it will be before there are more trailers and even must-watch commercials on DVDs? I've seen commercials on VHS, why not DVD? (Trailers ARE commercials, anyway.)
I like DVD's ability to pause, skip and jump in a random-access fashion (or I should say on-demand fashion).
Two things I HATE and am getting more and more irritated by daily:
1: Services that I pay for are forcing advertising upon me and/or harvesting my "consumer information" and using it against my desires (email spam, junk mail, telemarketing, etc..). Services include telephone service, internet service, cable TV, my grocery store and my credit cards. (For years I refused to get a store card, but now I moved and the only two close grocery stores have store cards; it's pay up, drive far or give in, and I gave in, put I'm pissed off about it and will switch in a second if something better comes by.) I understand some products and services (such as low cost ISP's , adware and broadcast TV) use these tactics to offer a lower-priced option to the consumer. If there's another reasonably-priced option and the terms are disclosed I'm okay with that. I've always paid more than the minimum for my ISP.
2: Products I legitimately buy intrusively warn me, nag me or inconvenience me with things like legal warnings and anti-piracy measures such as CD keys and copy protection. Frankly it's easier to install free (legitimately) or pirated software than it is to find *my* CD key whenever I reinstall.
Books don't have legal warnings beyond the copyright date. Print art has no warnings on it. My furniture and appliances don't warn me that I'll be sued if I use their design to build copies and sell them. Vinyl records didn't have warnings. Cassette tape (prerecorded or blank) didn't have warnings. My CD-R, CD-RW, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm, Betamax, DAT, TR-1, QIC-80, SanDisk, floppy disk and hard disk media didn't come with warnings. The movies in the theater have no warnings. By video and system BIOS don't have warnings. Why do VHS, DVD and software require intrusive and inconvenient warnings?
If someone has a spam filter in place, there is not *way* they're going to buy your unsolicited crap.
A techie who hand-installs filters on his personal mail server definitely doesn't want the spam, but maybe the spammer hopes to reach people on Hotmail and Yahoo mail services that may have filtering enabled but not vehemently against spam or curious enough to read one or two of them.
Or, as the other poster mentioned, it may be to boost marketing claims: "2,000,000 people will read your ad if you use our services."
And I just thought about a techie's mother, girlfriend, boyfriend, etc.. Maybe a techie spam filters friends' and family's accounts but the end user might click on the spam if it gets through.
I learned QWERTY typing 17 years ago and have been using it ever since. Before that I used a QWERTY keyboard for 6 years and typed with two index fingers by looking or physical memory of common commands (catalog, run, other Apple DOS 3.3 stuff). I'm a tech/sysadmin that works on many PC's, not a developer who uses the same workstation all day.
For those of you using Dvorak, can you switch back and forth between Dvorak and QWERTY easily or do you get confused?
I've thought about trying Dvorak but have been afraid to because it would only be on my home PCs and laptop (and maybe 'my' workstation at work) and I might get confused like I do when I try to speak Spanish or French--I get them confused because I took two years of French in high school and two semesters of Spanish in college and hardly ever use either but mix them horribly when I try to use them.
But with no discernable feedback on how much energy it uses, no 1337 energy saving mods available, and nobody who would be impressed by those mods, the A/C unit remains out of sight, out of mind.
Keep the lint/dust/feathers/leaves/etc. out of the fins. One summer the outside fan broke, and until I replaced it I aimed a water sprinkler onto the condenser to assist cooling the house during the hottest part of the day.
I finally convinced my mother to replace her 20- to 25-year old A/C outside unit a few years back. The electric bill savings paid for it within two years.
My favorite--but most dangerous--A/C mod was when one of the three electrical connectors to the compressor corroded the spade part off so only a post was left and nothing to hook the spade connector to. There wasn't much room to work with and two other A/C phase connectors in close proximity. My kludge was a vice-grip plier. It held the connector on for a year or two. It was dangerous because the pliers were energized and stuck out so that I had to leave the whole cover off. I'm surprised I didn't fry any cats or rats.
The Slashdot Way involves duct tape, bailing wire, and, sometimes, a 386 running RedHat.
Dude, you're way wrong. Pentium 166's are now the preferred GNU/Linux "rescued from the garbage heap" platforms for these applications. And you've got the sometimes in the wrong place. It always involves Linux, although not necessarily RedHat. Duct tape and bailing wire are in the sometimes used category.
[Disclaimer: this is not a serious post, and I don't usually talk or type this way.)
I think it's more likely, as someone else pointed out in these comments, that more addresses are harvested by "email this web page to:" and e-greeting card links.
Sometimes I wonder if the "email this to ten of your friends" "friend" emails get harvested by some people. After a few forwards you can see 40 or fifty legitimate email addresses.
Odd. This is the second pro-Microsoft (/Hotmail) response I've seen today written, completed and posted within 3-5 minutes of the article posting. Both by an Anonymous Coward. Now I'm getting "Microsoft paranoid".
My Hotmail account is a rather long name but still gets TONS of spam, way more than 80%--closer to 99.5%. I haven't used it in a while. It takes a few minutes to scan the titles to see if there's any "real" mail in there.
I just pulled that figure from the anti-grav story for a silly reference.
In all the discussion in how a gravity-shielded object would fly off the Earth I never saw anyone consider the effects of air friction or the fact that the gravity shielding situation would change depending on whether the anti-grav spinning disc were fixed to the ground or the flying object, and if it were fixed to the flying object then if there were some mechanism to rotate the gyroscopic superconductor to new angles as it's angular position over Earth changed, etc. Plus it would block gravity from certain angles; there would be plenty of gravitational pull from other nearby sources if you blocked Earth's gravity. To me the whole discussion was silly. But hey, this is Slashdot and I'm by no means a physicist.
Also, tangential speed on the Earth depends on your latitude.
And speaking of gyroscopic tendencies--and getting back on topic--some people thought the flyweels would be on the trains. A flywheel heavy and fast enough for this purpose would interefere with/be interfered with by the train's motions, wouldn't it? Plus the refrigerator-sized boxes (one of which featuring a hovering ping pong ball) the article describes are presumably the flywheel batteries, and they were in a control/monitoring station and not on the train, although the article didn't seem to clearly state this.
Of course it runs windows. So will the fly/MFI. How else will it be able to defend us from hostile aliens? We've already seen that Windows can be used to infect alien control systems with a virus and crash the whole invading fleet. That's why the Pentagon is interested, right?
Then again, those aliens were too dumb to have their own coordinating communications; they had to use our satellite.
Wait, stop! I saw the words "Open Source" and read the whole question. I didn't see anything about coding, systems design, politics/anarchy, Microsoft bashing (nary even an "M$"), IP debates, GPL, RMS, Eric Raymond, Linuxs Torvalds, GNU, FSF, GNU/Linux, Linux, the Hurd or BSD. And this made it on Slashdot!
I don't think Bochs can or will do it, but Plex86 (old site) might if it ever gets finished.
This page is a paper by the creator of Plex86 (also the creator of Bochs, I think) explaining pure (machine) emulation, OS/API emulation and virtualization. None of these seem to be exactly what you mentioned, but they're close. By the way, Bochs is pure (machine) emulation and Plex86 uses (will use) virtualization like VMWare. Wine is an example of OS/API emulation.
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This story from cockeyed.deadtrout.com is by a guy who wondered what the story behind all those "lose weight" and "earn $$,$$$ per month" signs were about. They are physical spam illegally nailed to posts everywhere.
Basically they're almost all by multi-level marketers of Herbalife, and apparently very few of them make ANY money, but they buy lots of signs and nail them everywhere.
And to buy in to the MLM costs money. The sample products cost money. The signs cost money. The nails cost money. The signs take time to deploy and then later revisit to see if they've been defaced or taken down by angry citizens. (Some people say defacing the sign discourages the posters more than removing the sign.)
spam costs very little to send. I know Herbalife isn't the only MLM out there.
I wonder how much spam is from MLM distributors who aren't making any decent money?
After reading that article I conclude that spam doesn't work, and that most of it is from desperate people trying futilely to make their dream MLM distributorship take off. Or maybe their half-baked business idea they came up with themselves or bought from someone else.
By the way, Cockeyed is a pretty cool website. That guy is nuts. He does pranks, sculptures and experiments on how much of something fits into something else and takes pictures and puts them on that site.
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Thompson's license is stronger on freedom than the GPL.
I beg your pardon? What freedom is that?
Freedom to write code under a different license that either A: I can't profit from (freeware); B: I can't sell without paying them a royalty (commercial); C: Release under a license that another company can sell my code without paying me anything (BSD-style).
IANAL, but it appears that a BSD licensed equivalent of mpg321 and XMMS plugin would have no legal problems with distribution from a 3rd party non-profit site?
.well, I don't know because I've never read BSD's licence, but it seems pretty loose so I suppose it would work.
IANAL either, but unless you own copyright to ALL of the code you can't change the licensing of the product to an incompatible license, and GPL considers BSD incompatible because distributors can take a fork proprietary.
If group A releases GPL code project, and 25 other people later contribute to it, isn't the work's ownership hopelessly complex? Wouldn't the 25 who modified the product have to agree with group A to release the code under BSD or a different license? How many contributors are there to the GPL'ed mp3 libraries? And would their morals and/or political agendas/opinions allow them to release the source code under a "free beer" license if they could?
I've read the GPL a couple of times and I don't recall it saying that any modifications become the legal property of the original author.
When I read the announcement I downloaded the latest release tarballs and the CVS snapshot tarballs for xmms, mpg123 and lame. Freeamp's site was down that night. I guess I'll look for some more source to download just in case. (I saw MAD and a couple of other decoder libraries mentioned.)
However, in answer to your question I suppose if it were possible to release those packages or equivalent as BSD then. .
OS/2 2.1 and Warp were available as "OS/2 for Windows" if you already had Windows 3.1. That version was cheaper and was what I had. But the more expensive version included the Windows binaries.
:-)
IBM and Microsoft codeveloped Windows for a while, so IBM had full rights to the Windows code through Win3.1 I think.
But I suppose you are right that it wasn't emulation; it actually had the (full) API and binary libraries.
OS/2 was a kick-ass product. I never used it extensively but recognized its technical superiority right away. It was the first fully 32-bit system I ever used. No thunking. No 64k file limits on any apps. You could associate the individual data file with an application so the 3-letter extension default app could be overridden.
I'm glad I found Linux after OS/2. I still mainly run Windows for various reasons but the geek in me needs the good OS'es.
The "problem" I see with Linux success is that there is no agreement on what success is. Should it become the dominant server OS? Client OS? Gaming platform? Does its sales have to outnumber or outrevenue competitors or just be installed on more systems? How do you count multiboot systems?
People have different ideas. Companies have different ideas. Some try to sell a Linux distribution with manuals, polish and support. Some want to sell their hardware and consulting services and use Linux as the grease/glue. Some want a free way to turn their old PCs into tinkertoys.
To me, the scalability (floppy based firewalls and 4/8MB embedded systems to renderfarms) and flexibility of Linux is an awesome success.
As far as gaming, when my late Grandmother can configure her XFree86 4.0 DRI, load her sound modules and cross-install QuakeIII then Linux will be ready for commercial games.
Where are all the comments about Microsoft bloatware obligatory with an article like this? Maybe viewing Score 3's and above is keeping me from seeing them now.
I'm too tired to think of a good one myself.
I had a dream a couple of nights ago about a meteorite crashing through the roof of my room and smashing my server right through the RAID array.
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Now I'm going to have more nightmares . .
Well, at least the meteorite in my dream didn't hit the tape backups 6" away from my server. I would've only lost a few hours of data.
Better yet: they can use this in high-altitude zeppelins or space stations for surgery. (No cloud problems, more intense sunlight.) The Rocket Guy should be able to send people up cheaper than ground-based surgery; if not then we'll have that space elevator in 15 years, right?
I just bought a used Radeon 64 DDR VIVO instead of a GeForce 2 GTS that bench tests as faster because I know that even if ATI goes under or gets bought out like 3DFX did the open source drivers will live on.
Of course I don't suppose that helps much in Windows, and open source drivers aren't on the bleeding edge. (One reason I bought the older Radeon: I checked XFree86 DRI driver status first.)
I've never had a problem with ATI drivers, but I don't play the latest games, either. I just bought and started playing Quake III a month ago.
My previous two video cards: A Rage Xpert 128 PCI (Rage 128 based) and an All-in-Wonder Pro PCI (Rage Pro based).
Now we can finally have tabbed pie menus!
And if there isn't enough room in the pie we can have coencentric choices!
(Remember how tabs started simple and then turned into multi-rowed or side scrolling stupidities?)
Don't like it? Don't buy it! If people didn't throw piles of money at them for doing this, maybe they wouldn't do it any more...
I don't buy near as much as I used to, and for the reasons I was bitching about in my post. I'm leery of new harwdare, software and services because of all the restrictions, so I spend a lot less money on products with these restrictions, and I pay more for more open products.
I already mentioned that I've always paid extra for my ISP. My only MP3 player was a cheapie gift, but somebody will get some money from me if they come out with an Ogg Vorbis--or better yet codec-reprogramable--digital music player.
I rarely buy movies or CDs anymore, and I'm not filling the gap with P2P copyright violations, either.
I don't mean to write all this as an argument to what you said; I guess I mean you make a good point, and I'm already patronizing these businesses much less and then bitching about it on Slashdot. But maybe I should be writing letters to the companies instead of Slashdot. Although ideally in a free market voting with my money would be good enough. I can find plenty of products to not vote for, but I'm having trouble finding products worth voting for. Maybe it's time to actually purchase a Linux distro and open office suite instead of using them for free.
Article: "It's the Nuclear Worm (genus Namalycastis), Vietnam's biological revenge for all that napalm and Agent Orange 30 years ago."
Vulture: "This is not saying that the worm was created by napalm or Agent Orange. Read it a little more carefully."
The way I read it and still read it is that the Washington post is implying that napalm and Agent Orange caused a biological series of events that led to this mutated worm. "Caused", "series of events" and "mutated" are my words, but I think the article explicitly implies some sort of cause-effect relationship but makes no effort to explain or prove it.
It's a total hype story, but I see reason for concern over importing something that will, sooner or later, be released alive into the wild. I'm glad that the appropriate departments are checking into it.
Okay, now that I'm remembering my high school English grammar and sentence diagramming, maybe you're right. "Biological" is an adjective. It's Vietnam's revenge, and that revenge is biological in nature. It's not biology's revenge, but that's how I read it the first few times.
Still I'm cynical enough to think that the Post wanted the casual reader to make a cause-effect connection, though. (Besides, who likes diagramming sentences?)
It's the fact that hardware I *bought* and the DVD I *bought* artificially limits my ability to use the media as designed. And against my will.
Okay, maybe some warnings are 12 seconds, but how long do you think it will be before there are more trailers and even must-watch commercials on DVDs? I've seen commercials on VHS, why not DVD? (Trailers ARE commercials, anyway.)
I like DVD's ability to pause, skip and jump in a random-access fashion (or I should say on-demand fashion).
Two things I HATE and am getting more and more irritated by daily:
1: Services that I pay for are forcing advertising upon me and/or harvesting my "consumer information" and using it against my desires (email spam, junk mail, telemarketing, etc..). Services include telephone service, internet service, cable TV, my grocery store and my credit cards. (For years I refused to get a store card, but now I moved and the only two close grocery stores have store cards; it's pay up, drive far or give in, and I gave in, put I'm pissed off about it and will switch in a second if something better comes by.) I understand some products and services (such as low cost ISP's , adware and broadcast TV) use these tactics to offer a lower-priced option to the consumer. If there's another reasonably-priced option and the terms are disclosed I'm okay with that. I've always paid more than the minimum for my ISP.
2: Products I legitimately buy intrusively warn me, nag me or inconvenience me with things like legal warnings and anti-piracy measures such as CD keys and copy protection. Frankly it's easier to install free (legitimately) or pirated software than it is to find *my* CD key whenever I reinstall.
Books don't have legal warnings beyond the copyright date. Print art has no warnings on it. My furniture and appliances don't warn me that I'll be sued if I use their design to build copies and sell them. Vinyl records didn't have warnings. Cassette tape (prerecorded or blank) didn't have warnings. My CD-R, CD-RW, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm, Betamax, DAT, TR-1, QIC-80, SanDisk, floppy disk and hard disk media didn't come with warnings. The movies in the theater have no warnings. By video and system BIOS don't have warnings. Why do VHS, DVD and software require intrusive and inconvenient warnings?
If someone has a spam filter in place, there is not *way* they're going to buy your unsolicited crap.
A techie who hand-installs filters on his personal mail server definitely doesn't want the spam, but maybe the spammer hopes to reach people on Hotmail and Yahoo mail services that may have filtering enabled but not vehemently against spam or curious enough to read one or two of them.
Or, as the other poster mentioned, it may be to boost marketing claims: "2,000,000 people will read your ad if you use our services."
And I just thought about a techie's mother, girlfriend, boyfriend, etc.. Maybe a techie spam filters friends' and family's accounts but the end user might click on the spam if it gets through.
I learned QWERTY typing 17 years ago and have been using it ever since. Before that I used a QWERTY keyboard for 6 years and typed with two index fingers by looking or physical memory of common commands (catalog, run, other Apple DOS 3.3 stuff). I'm a tech/sysadmin that works on many PC's, not a developer who uses the same workstation all day.
For those of you using Dvorak, can you switch back and forth between Dvorak and QWERTY easily or do you get confused?
I've thought about trying Dvorak but have been afraid to because it would only be on my home PCs and laptop (and maybe 'my' workstation at work) and I might get confused like I do when I try to speak Spanish or French--I get them confused because I took two years of French in high school and two semesters of Spanish in college and hardly ever use either but mix them horribly when I try to use them.
Thanks.
But with no discernable feedback on how much energy it uses, no 1337 energy saving mods available, and nobody who would be impressed by those mods, the A/C unit remains out of sight, out of mind.
Keep the lint/dust/feathers/leaves/etc. out of the fins. One summer the outside fan broke, and until I replaced it I aimed a water sprinkler onto the condenser to assist cooling the house during the hottest part of the day.
I finally convinced my mother to replace her 20- to 25-year old A/C outside unit a few years back. The electric bill savings paid for it within two years.
My favorite--but most dangerous--A/C mod was when one of the three electrical connectors to the compressor corroded the spade part off so only a post was left and nothing to hook the spade connector to. There wasn't much room to work with and two other A/C phase connectors in close proximity. My kludge was a vice-grip plier. It held the connector on for a year or two. It was dangerous because the pliers were energized and stuck out so that I had to leave the whole cover off. I'm surprised I didn't fry any cats or rats.
The Slashdot Way involves duct tape, bailing wire, and, sometimes, a 386 running RedHat.
Dude, you're way wrong. Pentium 166's are now the preferred GNU/Linux "rescued from the garbage heap" platforms for these applications. And you've got the sometimes in the wrong place. It always involves Linux, although not necessarily RedHat. Duct tape and bailing wire are in the sometimes used category.
[Disclaimer: this is not a serious post, and I don't usually talk or type this way.)
I think it's more likely, as someone else pointed out in these comments, that more addresses are harvested by "email this web page to:" and e-greeting card links.
Sometimes I wonder if the "email this to ten of your friends" "friend" emails get harvested by some people. After a few forwards you can see 40 or fifty legitimate email addresses.
So that's why you never reply to my emails!
Odd. This is the second pro-Microsoft (/Hotmail) response I've seen today written, completed and posted within 3-5 minutes of the article posting. Both by an Anonymous Coward. Now I'm getting "Microsoft paranoid".
My Hotmail account is a rather long name but still gets TONS of spam, way more than 80%--closer to 99.5%. I haven't used it in a while. It takes a few minutes to scan the titles to see if there's any "real" mail in there.
I just pulled that figure from the anti-grav story for a silly reference.
In all the discussion in how a gravity-shielded object would fly off the Earth I never saw anyone consider the effects of air friction or the fact that the gravity shielding situation would change depending on whether the anti-grav spinning disc were fixed to the ground or the flying object, and if it were fixed to the flying object then if there were some mechanism to rotate the gyroscopic superconductor to new angles as it's angular position over Earth changed, etc. Plus it would block gravity from certain angles; there would be plenty of gravitational pull from other nearby sources if you blocked Earth's gravity. To me the whole discussion was silly. But hey, this is Slashdot and I'm by no means a physicist.
Also, tangential speed on the Earth depends on your latitude.
And speaking of gyroscopic tendencies--and getting back on topic--some people thought the flyweels would be on the trains. A flywheel heavy and fast enough for this purpose would interefere with/be interfered with by the train's motions, wouldn't it? Plus the refrigerator-sized boxes (one of which featuring a hovering ping pong ball) the article describes are presumably the flywheel batteries, and they were in a control/monitoring station and not on the train, although the article didn't seem to clearly state this.
But then it would fly into space at 25,000 miles per hour. . .
Are you sure that's a raise?
What's the Guiness/Celine exchange rate today? The market is very volatile!
Not to mention that their server runs Windows.
Of course it runs windows. So will the fly/MFI. How else will it be able to defend us from hostile aliens? We've already seen that Windows can be used to infect alien control systems with a virus and crash the whole invading fleet. That's why the Pentagon is interested, right?
Then again, those aliens were too dumb to have their own coordinating communications; they had to use our satellite.
I'll bet that satellite ran GNU/Linux.
Wait, stop! I saw the words "Open Source" and read the whole question. I didn't see anything about coding, systems design, politics/anarchy, Microsoft bashing (nary even an "M$"), IP debates, GPL, RMS, Eric Raymond, Linuxs Torvalds, GNU, FSF, GNU/Linux, Linux, the Hurd or BSD. And this made it on Slashdot!
Ow! Ow! I sprained my brain!
I don't think Bochs can or will do it, but Plex86 (old site) might if it ever gets finished.
This page is a paper by the creator of Plex86 (also the creator of Bochs, I think) explaining pure (machine) emulation, OS/API emulation and virtualization. None of these seem to be exactly what you mentioned, but they're close. By the way, Bochs is pure (machine) emulation and Plex86 uses (will use) virtualization like VMWare. Wine is an example of OS/API emulation.
This story from cockeyed.deadtrout.com is by a guy who wondered what the story behind all those "lose weight" and "earn $$,$$$ per month" signs were about. They are physical spam illegally nailed to posts everywhere.
Basically they're almost all by multi-level marketers of Herbalife, and apparently very few of them make ANY money, but they buy lots of signs and nail them everywhere.
And to buy in to the MLM costs money. The sample products cost money. The signs cost money. The nails cost money. The signs take time to deploy and then later revisit to see if they've been defaced or taken down by angry citizens. (Some people say defacing the sign discourages the posters more than removing the sign.)
spam costs very little to send. I know Herbalife isn't the only MLM out there.
I wonder how much spam is from MLM distributors who aren't making any decent money?
After reading that article I conclude that spam doesn't work, and that most of it is from desperate people trying futilely to make their dream MLM distributorship take off. Or maybe their half-baked business idea they came up with themselves or bought from someone else.
By the way, Cockeyed is a pretty cool website. That guy is nuts. He does pranks, sculptures and experiments on how much of something fits into something else and takes pictures and puts them on that site.