Come on, Taco. Some regular "navel gazing" is how things improve over time. Is Slashdot worth so little to you?
Rather the reverse I think. All the things you've sited are not likely to change. Why? Advertising.
Dupes bring eyeballs(you never see the low commented stories duped only the big ones). Not checking facts invites the flame wars, trolling, and grammar-Nazis to all come forth and post. All are eye balls looking at the ads. And such things draw people in to view the flame walls and trolling because while we all say we hate such things most people read them just like most people can't help but rubberneck at a traffic accident.
The stuff isn't going to change it brings them money.
Well not to feed the RPM bashing troll:-) , not all RPM based distros are unable to handle dependency errors. I use Suse(YaST) and Mandriva(urpmi) and both will install missing packages just as easy as Gentoo does. Apt-get can be run on both Debian and RPM based distros and it too handles things just as nicely.
And you ignored the grandparent's point about a package that isn't in your distro. If the package anit a part of gentoo you are out hunting for dependency tarballs like the rest of us.
Comfy shoes implies to me your typical sneaker/running shoe. Bad idea. You may be stepping in alot of debris. Things that can be sharp like glass, nails, and so forth. You'll want a sturdy set of work boots. Perhaps even steel toed shoes. Bring a hard hat as well for the same reason. You'll do them no good if you get injured trying to help them out.
And additionally, how were we supposed to know the Shuttle wasn't a solid idea, until we had actually built a few and tested them operationally?
Engineers were criticizing the shuttle as it was being built and pointing out the flaws in it's design before it was built. The problems that the shuttle has have all been predicted. One doesn't need a operational test to know that if I fling my self off a 100 story building I will end up as a crumpled dead smear on the ground.
What would be the point of outlining an entire plan of "What would I have done if I was king of NASA?" I prefer that he outline what he will do NOW. Which if you note the beginnings of this was announced last week.
10 years from now, the latest Mozilla version will probably have critical vulnerabilities. Each new version will have different technologies to deal with as well as have new developers/programmers involved. If one thing is constant in programming any app, as time goes on and new versions come out, there are always new bugs and problems. Mozilla won't be immune to those.
This is true. However IE is supposed to be a mature application. It isn't a new version that comes out every few months. At some point shouldn't a developed app reach a point that it is locked down and secure?
I've got Karma to burn, I guess so I'll risk it and voice my opinion.
What possible good is SETI@Home? Isn't working on Cancer or Folding proteins a much better use of the CPU time then trying to have some fantasy about Aliens trying to communicate with us?
It is very unlikely that we will ever find anything. If we do find it people will not believe it. There would probably be so little of the signal that it we would never understand it and it would be so old that likely the thing that sent it has long been dead. So what's the point?
You don't have the right NOT to have nosy people snoop through your things. The 4th amendment only stops the government. If you left your diary in the car there's nothing illegal about looking through it. Plenty of immoral reasons but nothing illegal about it. Don't want your diary read then don't hand it over to a stranger.
The parent poster is exactly correct. The computer owner looses the right to privacy when he invites someone to view and repair my computer.
If I invite guests over to my house and serve cocaine to my guests then I can't expect privacy either if one of them reports me the cops. In either case the cops can't just bash my door in they must get a warrant. But swore testimony of a witness is usually enough to land said warrant.
Simply put EFF is correct about needing a warrant and most likely they would have easily obtained one with a phone call. Cops screwed up here.
Suse is already open source. The pro version only adds a few commerical programs and drivers that you don't get on the download versions.
What this really means is that they are axing the Retail Product that no one buys to focus on the server and workstation versions for corporation. Gee have we not seen this before in Fedora/Red Hat?
I'm a big fan of Suse and have used it for years but I haven't bought a copy since 9.0.
uh, no. you see, some of us like to play our games. and dont give me that bit about macs playing games too, the performance is terrible.
If performance means so much then why not buy something that is designed for games? X-box, PS2, just to name two, come to mind. I can spend less money and get better performance with a cheap PC running Linux and an X-box or even a Mac Mini and a X-Box.
The systems they aim at the Home User market or small SOHO market are often that way but the workstations aimed at businesses still come with Dell Bios locked versions of Windows and all the software. Most of them use to come with a hidden image that a program called ZZTOP could reimage the system with. No help if you loose a hard disk but just fine for a wipe and reinstall.
I've got 3 computers all crammed in a small office. Sometimes when I'm working on clients PCs I'll have as many as 6. Room gets very hot. I don't have a window that I can open to put in a room air conditioner. What can I do to cool down the room?
It is an interesting idea but I doubt it is consitutional. Both the Congress and the Senate can make the rules of how they govern themselves without passing a law. This is set in the consitution itself. I don't think this bill could be passed except as an ammendment.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR POINT, GO AFTER THE REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW JERSEY WHO MADE A LAW THAT ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Well the problem is that they shouldn't ever had that power to begin with. They are prohibited it.
Article IV Section 2 Paragraph 1
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
Pair that with the 5th Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Note the wording, the powers and protections are guaranteed to THE PEOPLE not the STATES.
And also note the 9th and 10th Amendments which should lock this up. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is no way that one can call forcing someone to sell land just so that another can buy it can be called Public Use. A hotel, my home, the 7-11 are all private lands not public. They can take my land for a park or a freeway but not for a shopping mall. Everyone knows that yet the justices ruled against it anyway. When Judges are that out of control and that unafraid to invent law then it's time to remove them from office. It's time to pass new laws about HOW judges hold office. The constitution does not set term limits, or a lack there of, for the courts. We can pass new laws limiting terms of Judges or even require them to be elected officials as they are in many states. We are NOT stuck with them. It's time to remove them.
Apollo? Uh we haven't had anything from Apollo in space in 30 years. Soyuz is up but no Apollo. Part of the problem is that not all shuttle missions can put them in the correct orbit with ISS. This mission will be in the correct orbit and most of the planned shuttle missions are but not the last mission of Columbia for example.
Before this ruling neither the states NOR the fed had this power now the states have the power to take my home. How is giving the states more power, at the expense of the people, a good thing?
It's called Taxation without Representation! If I can't vote on the tax or vote for/against the guy that votes on the Tax why can he levy it against me?
[quote]For 90+% of the population computers should be more like appliances, that just sit there and work. Not enough effort has been made by the hardware or software manufactures towards this end.[/quote]
Your TiVO is a one function item. Yes it is a computer but it's only got one job. A desktop computer tries to a be jack of all trades device and that is one reason it fails. How would you redesign windows or other OSs to make it an appliance. The only way I can see would be to PROHIBIT users from installing ANYTHING. Buy a game, take it to the computer dealer to get it installed. Can't really see that happening with a $300 computer.
Ok so a bunch of geeks get a Credit card thinking that a percentage will fund OSS projects yet the money sits untouched. Is this not fraud? (All be it stupid fraud?)
Is this a legally setup non profit organization? Is taxes Federal or otherwise being paid on this money? Seems like somebody ought to be heading to a jail cell to me.
Here's a good example. If you install the Windows on a box, but choose not to install all of the components, then you patch it with the latest service pack and all, it should be fully patched.
Then you go back and install one of the components you didn't install initially.
Is it still fully patched? Will Microsoft's BaseLine scanner find any flaws?
MBSA is not perfect but I've never seen it ignore a product just because you didn't install it during the initial install.
But I admit that I'm nitpicking a bit here as I've learned not to trust it as the only check on what a system needs. Often times MBSA is just plain wrong. I have found that Windows Update, MBSA, and even GFI's tool will disagree on what is installed or what patches are available for your system. It is a convoluted mess.
I use Suse myself not Debian but the approach is basically the same. Offer updated packages that are prepatched so if you decide you need to run Apache you get the latest version not a buggy one that you have to add patches too.
Now, whether that promotion happens through the profit motive, or whether it happens through the creator being happy to have his name on a Patent for an idea - for mere posterity, is utterly irrelevant to how Copyright is worded in the Constitution.
Which is why the government shouldn't be putting a dollar limit on profit. How can the government quantify your good will? Who gets to decide if I am being a greedy bastard? At what dollar amount am I promoting the useful arts and at what dollar amount am I just a miser?
That means - it's not there to guarantee profit, or a certain return on R&D invested. It's there to promote. Period.
Another reason not to have a dollar limit. You'll just create accounting firms who's job it is to make sure that the profit level is never technically reached.
I understood you the first time. I just don't agree with it. Who are you to tell the world at what point the change over occurs? Who decides this? And what method do you use to decide it?
Is one dollar enough? A million, a billion? hmm. And what If I am in a third world nation? A million dollars is an insane amount oversees yet is a modest amount today in the US. Cash limits are pointless what if inflation happens in the third year of your copyright? What is deflation happens?
A time limit I'll except but I refuse to have some buracratic ninny tell me how much I can make. For example a million dollars isn't what it use to be. Having a set limit of cash will invite everyone to try and correct it every few years.
If your product is so good that you make a billion, great! If you only make a $1.50 that's just too bad. The market will tell you if you made enough or not given a set time frame. The problem with Copyrights now is that we no longer have a time frame anymore. They are forever so long as they are allowed to change the laws every time Mickey Mouse comes up for release to the public domain.
The biggest problems with our Copyright laws is that we keep changing 'em.
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Rather the reverse I think. All the things you've sited are not likely to change.
Why? Advertising.
Dupes bring eyeballs(you never see the low commented stories duped only the big ones). Not checking facts invites the flame wars, trolling, and grammar-Nazis to all come forth and post. All are eye balls looking at the ads. And such things draw people in to view the flame walls and trolling because while we all say we hate such things most people read them just like most people can't help but rubberneck at a traffic accident.
The stuff isn't going to change it brings them money.
Well not to feed the RPM bashing troll :-) , not all RPM based distros are unable to handle dependency errors. I use Suse(YaST) and Mandriva(urpmi) and both will install missing packages just as easy as Gentoo does. Apt-get can be run on both Debian and RPM based distros and it too handles things just as nicely.
And you ignored the grandparent's point about a package that isn't in your distro. If the package anit a part of gentoo you are out hunting for dependency tarballs like the rest of us.
Well I disable root access to that, use only ssh2, use keys, use deny all users/allow only users to limit who can logon, and use a nonstandard port.
Not perfect but works well for me.
Comfy shoes implies to me your typical sneaker/running shoe. Bad idea. You may be stepping in alot of debris. Things that can be sharp like glass, nails, and so forth. You'll want a sturdy set of work boots. Perhaps even steel toed shoes. Bring a hard hat as well for the same reason. You'll do them no good if you get injured trying to help them out.
Engineers were criticizing the shuttle as it was being built and pointing out the flaws in it's design before it was built. The problems that the shuttle has have all been predicted. One doesn't need a operational test to know that if I fling my self off a 100 story building I will end up as a crumpled dead smear on the ground.
What would be the point of outlining an entire plan of "What would I have done if I was king of NASA?" I prefer that he outline what he will do NOW. Which if you note the beginnings of this was announced last week.
This is true. However IE is supposed to be a mature application. It isn't a new version that comes out every few months. At some point shouldn't a developed app reach a point that it is locked down and secure?
I've got Karma to burn, I guess so I'll risk it and voice my opinion.
What possible good is SETI@Home? Isn't working on Cancer or Folding proteins a much better use of the CPU time then trying to have some fantasy about Aliens trying to communicate with us?
It is very unlikely that we will ever find anything. If we do find it people will not believe it. There would probably be so little of the signal that it we would never understand it and it would be so old that likely the thing that sent it has long been dead. So what's the point?
So?
You don't have the right NOT to have nosy people snoop through your things. The 4th amendment only stops the government. If you left your diary in the car there's nothing illegal about looking through it. Plenty of immoral reasons but nothing illegal about it. Don't want your diary read then don't hand it over to a stranger.
The parent poster is exactly correct. The computer owner looses the right to privacy when he invites someone to view and repair my computer.
If I invite guests over to my house and serve cocaine to my guests then I can't expect privacy either if one of them reports me the cops. In either case the cops can't just bash my door in they must get a warrant. But swore testimony of a witness is usually enough to land said warrant.
Simply put EFF is correct about needing a warrant and most likely they would have easily obtained one with a phone call. Cops screwed up here.
Suse is already open source. The pro version only adds a few commerical programs and drivers that you don't get on the download versions.
What this really means is that they are axing the Retail Product that no one buys to focus on the server and workstation versions for corporation. Gee have we not seen this before in Fedora/Red Hat?
I'm a big fan of Suse and have used it for years but I haven't bought a copy since 9.0.
If performance means so much then why not buy something that is designed for games? X-box, PS2, just to name two, come to mind. I can spend less money and get better performance with a cheap PC running Linux and an X-box or even a Mac Mini and a X-Box.
The systems they aim at the Home User market or small SOHO market are often that way but the workstations aimed at businesses still come with Dell Bios locked versions of Windows and all the software. Most of them use to come with a hidden image that a program called ZZTOP could reimage the system with. No help if you loose a hard disk but just fine for a wipe and reinstall.
I've got 3 computers all crammed in a small office. Sometimes when I'm working on clients PCs I'll have as many as 6. Room gets very hot. I don't have a window that I can open to put in a room air conditioner. What can I do to cool down the room?
It is an interesting idea but I doubt it is consitutional. Both the Congress and the Senate can make the rules of how they govern themselves without passing a law. This is set in the consitution itself. I don't think this bill could be passed except as an ammendment.
Well the problem is that they shouldn't ever had that power to begin with. They are prohibited it.
Article IV Section 2 Paragraph 1
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
Pair that with the 5th Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Note the wording, the powers and protections are guaranteed to THE PEOPLE not the STATES.
And also note the 9th and 10th Amendments which should lock this up.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is no way that one can call forcing someone to sell land just so that another can buy it can be called Public Use. A hotel, my home, the 7-11 are all private lands not public. They can take my land for a park or a freeway but not for a shopping mall. Everyone knows that yet the justices ruled against it anyway. When Judges are that out of control and that unafraid to invent law then it's time to remove them from office. It's time to pass new laws about HOW judges hold office. The constitution does not set term limits, or a lack there of, for the courts. We can pass new laws limiting terms of Judges or even require them to be elected officials as they are in many states. We are NOT stuck with them. It's time to remove them.
Apollo? Uh we haven't had anything from Apollo in space in 30 years. Soyuz is up but no Apollo. Part of the problem is that not all shuttle missions can put them in the correct orbit with ISS. This mission will be in the correct orbit and most of the planned shuttle missions are but not the last mission of Columbia for example.
Before this ruling neither the states NOR the fed had this power now the states have the power to take my home. How is giving the states more power, at the expense of the people, a good thing?
It's called Taxation without Representation! If I can't vote on the tax or vote for/against the guy that votes on the Tax why can he levy it against me?
[quote]For 90+% of the population computers should be more like appliances, that just sit there and work. Not enough effort has been made by the hardware or software manufactures towards this end.[/quote]
Your TiVO is a one function item. Yes it is a computer but it's only got one job. A desktop computer tries to a be jack of all trades device and that is one reason it fails. How would you redesign windows or other OSs to make it an appliance. The only way I can see would be to PROHIBIT users from installing ANYTHING. Buy a game, take it to the computer dealer to get it installed. Can't really see that happening with a $300 computer.
Ok so a bunch of geeks get a Credit card thinking that a percentage will fund OSS projects yet the money sits untouched. Is this not fraud? (All be it stupid fraud?)
Is this a legally setup non profit organization? Is taxes Federal or otherwise being paid on this money? Seems like somebody ought to be heading to a jail cell to me.
MBSA is not perfect but I've never seen it ignore a product just because you didn't install it during the initial install.
But I admit that I'm nitpicking a bit here as I've learned not to trust it as the only check on what a system needs. Often times MBSA is just plain wrong. I have found that Windows Update, MBSA, and even GFI's tool will disagree on what is installed or what patches are available for your system. It is a convoluted mess.
I use Suse myself not Debian but the approach is basically the same. Offer updated packages that are prepatched so if you decide you need to run Apache you get the latest version not a buggy one that you have to add patches too.
Yeah but the astronauts had better do so.
Which is why the government shouldn't be putting a dollar limit on profit. How can the government quantify your good will? Who gets to decide if I am being a greedy bastard? At what dollar amount am I promoting the useful arts and at what dollar amount am I just a miser?
Another reason not to have a dollar limit. You'll just create accounting firms who's job it is to make sure that the profit level is never technically reached.
I understood you the first time. I just don't agree with it. Who are you to tell the world at what point the change over occurs? Who decides this? And what method do you use to decide it?
Is one dollar enough? A million, a billion? hmm. And what If I am in a third world nation? A million dollars is an insane amount oversees yet is a modest amount today in the US. Cash limits are pointless what if inflation happens in the third year of your copyright? What is deflation happens?
A time limit I'll except but I refuse to have some buracratic ninny tell me how much I can make. For example a million dollars isn't what it use to be. Having a set limit of cash will invite everyone to try and correct it every few years.
If your product is so good that you make a billion, great! If you only make a $1.50 that's just too bad. The market will tell you if you made enough or not given a set time frame. The problem with Copyrights now is that we no longer have a time frame anymore. They are forever so long as they are allowed to change the laws every time Mickey Mouse comes up for release to the public domain.
The biggest problems with our Copyright laws is that we keep changing 'em.