Wow, someone else that actually knows that Stalinist Russia and any current "Communist" countries aren't really "Marxist Communists"? What's the world coming to... are people actually starting to think?
If he says Linus is Stallin/lennin/marx, then he's Hitler by the same set of parameters.
Ok, as an outspoken communist I NEED to slap you around a bit. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER Put Stalin in the same grouping as Lenin and Marx. EVER. Any true Communist is very outspoken about how much Stalin was not a communist (under Lenin's, Marx's, Trotski's, or anyone else even remotely credible's definition)
A MUCH more appropriate comment would have literally been:
If he says Linus is Lenin/Marx/etc. then he's Stalin by the same set of parameters.
Any time a topic like this comes up, I feel the need to somehow explain to people that Open Source IS a very Communist idea, and that's exactly why it's so great.
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."
Seems to kind of summarize the Open Source ideology, right? The people that can code, should. The people that can make graphics, should. The people that can only use the system and bitch when it breaks, should. And if everyone does this, everyone should get what they need out of it.
The quote is from Marx.
Think twice about saying that OSS isn't a very communist ideal, because it is.
Sorry, this turned from a reply into a rant in about 2 minutes.
Ok, so maybe this ONE single idea can't solve our energy consumption problems, but what happens when we combine this (which uses primarily air space) with solar farms (which use primarily ground space)? Even if THAT doesn't solve our energy problem, we can keep combining all of the alternative fuels together to keep us off dino-fuel. I LOVE how everybody assumes that any replacement for our current energy crisis has to be a total solution, because the truth is: every little bit helps.
So... how do you plan to run power plants when we run out of fossil fuels (or places to store the waste, or not enough space for wind/solar)? Oh yeah, I forgot... that would "NEVER" happen, we have all the resources we want... Like it or not, people are going to have to admit that we can't keep consuming as much energy as we're used to. While we do have alternatives, none of them really solve the post-fossil fuels dillema, so conservation is going to be a requirement.
I can tell you that the most obvious cause of death resulting from alcohol is car-related fatalities, and I can also tell you that driving while stoned is a hell of a lot safer than driving while drink.
Ummm... no... it's not.
Don't get me wrong, the war on drugs is completely fucked up, but under NO circumstances would I argue that driving stoned is safer than driving drunk. I'd argue more along the lines of "just as safe when driving, and (much) safer when not driving."
Like it or not, weed impares your judgment, making it a bad choice for driving. This is actually a large reason I support de-criminilization. If kids (and adults, for that matter) could smoke in safe places (back yard, in home, marijuana bars, etc), they wouldn't have to drive to avoid the law.
Anybody that's ever smoked more than once will tell you that it's a much safer substance than alcohol.
Think about it... when's the last time you saw an angry stoner?
How about an angry drunk?
I don't know how accurate your comments are. Big time game manufacturers have been making games for YEARS, or at least employing people that have.
I remember how excited I was when I got opengl acceleration to work... earlier last year. It's gotten MUCH better, but it's still one of those things that's inconvienient. And to be honest, I STILL have problems with it every kernel upgrade (the radeon 7500 has had a bug in the kernel driver for AGES... it's a known bug, and it just takes getting a cvs snapshot of the dri tree to fix... but seriosly, should I really have to do that EVERY kernel upgrade?)
A lot of posters have pointed out that once ID stops making a lot of cash from Doom 3, they'll just sell the engine to other developers (who don't have the skill, time, or budget to make one at the same calibur).
In my oppinion, once the open source community gets even a decent engine out (OGRE looks REALLY promising) the people with great game ideas, will have a great foundation to start from. Chances are, if someone has a great game idea, they probably won't be able to program a great game engine (before anyone comments, I'm just saying that the two are rare traits, so to have both is a statistical fluke), so having a first class engine out will help tremendously.
For example, look at what SDL did for the 2D linux gaming experience... EVERYONE uses it. Could those same people that use it have coded it? Probably not.
Give it some time...
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You are fucking stupid because you are willing to live with shitty software that requires an expert to make "secure". The consequence of that sort of design is that Apache will get the same reputation for lack of security as Microsoft, and for the same reason.
Dude! Shut the fuck up! I need to get a job when I'm out of college... if apache is 'secure by default' then what is stopping the janitor at my old high school from becoming an admin!
The more mysterious we keep the silicon, the more I get paid!
(It's only kind of a joke... so laugh half-heartedly)
Fair enough. I guess what I was trying to get at was if you were the kind of kid in high school that got asked out by the popular kids just to make them laugh, that's probably not going to change in college. So try to avoid THOSE people.
I hang out with a lot of people, and the best way I found to meet people with similar interests and ideologies is to meet the FRIENDS of people you like. Last semester my room mate and I ended up being REALLY compatable. Lo and Behold, his friends were also the kind of people I wanted to hang out with. Same went with my friends in his case.
It's sad to say, but I met most of the people I still hang out with by smoking. The smokers in a college will tend to collectivly go to the same place to smoke, which makes a really easy way to meet new people. It usually takes about a week for all the freshmen to 'catch on' to the smoker hangouts, but it's still a really good place to meet people that you have at least one thing in common with.
I'm hardly advocating slowly killing yourself to meet new people, but this isn't just the case for smokers. Pretty much every clique does the same thing. Find out where the people you'd like to be associated with go to relax (or do crosswords, or debate politics, etc), and do the same. If nothing else, ask where the best all-night family restaraunt is (in most towns this is a Perkins or a Denny's, or the like). In a college town these places expect a crowd of college kids late at night, so they are usually OK with students sitting there for a few hours drinking coffee and socializing.
Ok... I don't know if you're a troll, but you have a good point. I hated high school. Not so much the learning part, but the people I had to go to school with. My parents always told me that 'it will be so much better in college because those people are usually too stupid to go to college.' Boy were they wrong. Those kind of people are the same ones that have rich parents. MY rule for college (I'm still in it) is the same as it was in high school. You know the kind of people you like hanging out with. Stick with them! Since you're on slashdot, you're probably pretty computer smart, and you'd be AMAZED how many CoSci majors are really cool people. I usually keep to a smallish group of friends. Makes staying out of trouble easier.
All that I am saying is that the 1st amendment is the most hotly contested (and upheld in court) of the 27. When was the last time you heard of an ACLU case involving the housing of soldiers? The freedoms that the 1st amendment give us are the same freedoms that allow change and reform to happen, so, without the first amendment a democracy cannot succeed. Can the same be said about the other amendments (ok, the ones that don't pertain to allowing free speech, ie 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th -- they prevent descrimination from voting based on race, sex, poll taxes, and age respectivly. The fact that 4 amendments were added to the constitution to PRESERVE free speech shows its importance)?
You're missing the inherent issue. He IS NOT providing the source for the windows port, which means that he is modifying GPL code and redistributing the binaries without providing the source (download the *nix source and see if it contains the 30 day trial code, etc.) Anybody even remotely familiar with the GPL would cry foul.
You're right... because Driving an SUV is explicitly protected under the 666th amendment. *sarcasm*
The main problem I have with obtaining a permit to hold a demonstration is that permits cost money, and even if it's only 50 bucks or something, a lot of people can't afford 50 bucks to get their message out.
All I'm saying is that people going about their daily routine is being held higher than (arguably) the most important RIGHT (as opposed to a privlage, which seems to be what it's turning into) Americans are given.
At the same time I also believe that the ability to NOT listen to protesters is an equally great use of the first ammendment, so, to me, making sure that the flow of traffic around the protest is uninhibited is an important part of protected speech.
Ok, I'm blatently off topic with this one, but since you shared your 'dirty crossword' story, I have to share mine.
Same situation, only with an improper solution, so the clue was "______ gussler" and the blanks were C__ (3 letters if you can't tell)...
Obviously, the solution was GAS, but my friends (yes... we collectivly do crosswords while hanging out) and I all gave each other a queer look.
Ok, the grandparent post was refering to the fact that 90% of slashdot readers are more liberal... I was responding by using another slashdot stereotype (primarily that windows is the worst OS ever blah blah blah)
OpenBSD is supposedly more secure than FreeBSD, but in terms of direct remote root exploits, they're just about the same as FreeBSD- both use Openssh which hasn't had that great a security track record. OpenSSH appears to be developed and maintained by the OpenBSD team. Whether OpenSSH's security/quality is representative of the rest of the OpenBSD team's work is up to you to figure out.
Wrong. 99% of the OpenSSH vulnerablities don't affect OpenBSD. I can't tell you the specifics, but the reason is basicly that the way OpenSSH is integrated into the system along with kernel specific security measures prevent exploits that would affect another POSIX OS. If you read the security announcements for the OpenSSH vulnerabilities, you'll usually see that OpenBSD is immune.
1. The big advantage of open soure - sharing and code reuse - just isn't happening. For example, I'm looking for a new OSS webmail program. I have certain criteria. There are something like 209 projects related to this on Freshmeat. Why? That is no more efficient than a couple hundred closed-source vendors doing separate implementations of competing products. What have we gained?
I was never told of THAT advantage of OSS. The line I was always fed was that if a project that you use becomes abandoned, then you (or someone else that uses it) can maintain it easily, and frankly this has been proven in recent months with the XFree fiasco. XF was stagnant (in reality the liscence was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back) and nobody liked that. X.org 'forked' this stagnant project and made a signifigant number of bugfixes/etc.
The problem with your statement is that not all features can be 'dropped in' to similar projects. The codebase is too different. Granted, the blueprint is there to look at (and in my oppinion that SHOULD be used), but sometimes the structure of a project can't be radically changed for just one feature.
To be completely fair, I can solve about 90% of my linux errors. I find that most of the error messages I've seen (I've used both KDE 3.2.1 and GNOME 2.6) are fairly specific to the problem.
I'll admit that linux doesn't have a "Try this... then this... then this" menu, like windows. Sure, those are 'friendly' but they are absolutely worthless. They are only good for the 'are you sure you a CD in the drive' style problems. For example, a friend of mine called me over to see why their Cable Modem wasn't working. I tried the "You appear to be installing a modem" dialogue. Didn't work. Checked all of the available help in the menu. I tried to solve it myself. Didn't work. Would have looked online... but, the problem was for the modem. Turns out it was some weird combitation of hardware that was causing the problem, and we had to get driver updates to get it to work.
What I'm trying to point out is that sometimes windows has some pretty cryptic errors, too. Explorer.exe crashes (although MUCH less common in XP) are usually REALLY hard to 'fix'.
You know, you're right... because people are always kicking a ball in american FOOTball.
I'm sorry, but how is calling a sport where the foot rarely touches the ball football 'less-confusing'?
Your two other replies say how easy it was on debian, and at the risk of sounding like a gentoo zealot, all it took was to emerge the sources. Granted I had to compile a kernel myself, but it worked first boot.
In all honesty, I'm sick of people calling THAT the anarchists cookbook. 1) It's not the real thing! 2) It's juvinile.
The REAL book has very in-depth coverage of everything from guerilla tactics to killing informants that leak information to the enemy (ie the government). People really need to do some REAL research on these things rather than just assume 'all cookbooks are created equal'.
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Wow, someone else that actually knows that Stalinist Russia and any current "Communist" countries aren't really "Marxist Communists"?
What's the world coming to... are people actually starting to think?
(That's a compliment, trust me)
If he says Linus is Stallin/lennin/marx, then he's Hitler by the same set of parameters.
Ok, as an outspoken communist I NEED to slap you around a bit.
NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER Put Stalin in the same grouping as Lenin and Marx. EVER. Any true Communist is very outspoken about how much Stalin was not a communist (under Lenin's, Marx's, Trotski's, or anyone else even remotely credible's definition)
A MUCH more appropriate comment would have literally been:
If he says Linus is Lenin/Marx/etc. then he's Stalin by the same set of parameters.
Any time a topic like this comes up, I feel the need to somehow explain to people that Open Source IS a very Communist idea, and that's exactly why it's so great.
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."
Seems to kind of summarize the Open Source ideology, right? The people that can code, should. The people that can make graphics, should. The people that can only use the system and bitch when it breaks, should. And if everyone does this, everyone should get what they need out of it.
The quote is from Marx.
Think twice about saying that OSS isn't a very communist ideal, because it is.
Sorry, this turned from a reply into a rant in about 2 minutes.
Ok, so maybe this ONE single idea can't solve our energy consumption problems, but what happens when we combine this (which uses primarily air space) with solar farms (which use primarily ground space)? Even if THAT doesn't solve our energy problem, we can keep combining all of the alternative fuels together to keep us off dino-fuel.
I LOVE how everybody assumes that any replacement for our current energy crisis has to be a total solution, because the truth is: every little bit helps.
So... how do you plan to run power plants when we run out of fossil fuels (or places to store the waste, or not enough space for wind/solar)?
Oh yeah, I forgot... that would "NEVER" happen, we have all the resources we want...
Like it or not, people are going to have to admit that we can't keep consuming as much energy as we're used to.
While we do have alternatives, none of them really solve the post-fossil fuels dillema, so conservation is going to be a requirement.
I can tell you that the most obvious cause of death resulting from alcohol is car-related fatalities, and I can also tell you that driving while stoned is a hell of a lot safer than driving while drink.
Ummm... no... it's not.
Don't get me wrong, the war on drugs is completely fucked up, but under NO circumstances would I argue that driving stoned is safer than driving drunk. I'd argue more along the lines of "just as safe when driving, and (much) safer when not driving."
Like it or not, weed impares your judgment, making it a bad choice for driving. This is actually a large reason I support de-criminilization. If kids (and adults, for that matter) could smoke in safe places (back yard, in home, marijuana bars, etc), they wouldn't have to drive to avoid the law.
Anybody that's ever smoked more than once will tell you that it's a much safer substance than alcohol.
Think about it... when's the last time you saw an angry stoner?
How about an angry drunk?
I don't know how accurate your comments are.
Big time game manufacturers have been making games for YEARS, or at least employing people that have.
I remember how excited I was when I got opengl acceleration to work... earlier last year. It's gotten MUCH better, but it's still one of those things that's inconvienient. And to be honest, I STILL have problems with it every kernel upgrade (the radeon 7500 has had a bug in the kernel driver for AGES... it's a known bug, and it just takes getting a cvs snapshot of the dri tree to fix... but seriosly, should I really have to do that EVERY kernel upgrade?)
A lot of posters have pointed out that once ID stops making a lot of cash from Doom 3, they'll just sell the engine to other developers (who don't have the skill, time, or budget to make one at the same calibur).
In my oppinion, once the open source community gets even a decent engine out (OGRE looks REALLY promising) the people with great game ideas, will have a great foundation to start from. Chances are, if someone has a great game idea, they probably won't be able to program a great game engine (before anyone comments, I'm just saying that the two are rare traits, so to have both is a statistical fluke), so having a first class engine out will help tremendously.
For example, look at what SDL did for the 2D linux gaming experience... EVERYONE uses it. Could those same people that use it have coded it? Probably not.
Give it some time...
You are fucking stupid because you are willing to live with shitty software that requires an expert to make "secure". The consequence of that sort of design is that Apache will get the same reputation for lack of security as Microsoft, and for the same reason.
Dude! Shut the fuck up! I need to get a job when I'm out of college... if apache is 'secure by default' then what is stopping the janitor at my old high school from becoming an admin!
The more mysterious we keep the silicon, the more I get paid!
(It's only kind of a joke... so laugh half-heartedly)
Fair enough.
I guess what I was trying to get at was if you were the kind of kid in high school that got asked out by the popular kids just to make them laugh, that's probably not going to change in college. So try to avoid THOSE people.
I hang out with a lot of people, and the best way I found to meet people with similar interests and ideologies is to meet the FRIENDS of people you like. Last semester my room mate and I ended up being REALLY compatable. Lo and Behold, his friends were also the kind of people I wanted to hang out with. Same went with my friends in his case.
It's sad to say, but I met most of the people I still hang out with by smoking. The smokers in a college will tend to collectivly go to the same place to smoke, which makes a really easy way to meet new people. It usually takes about a week for all the freshmen to 'catch on' to the smoker hangouts, but it's still a really good place to meet people that you have at least one thing in common with.
I'm hardly advocating slowly killing yourself to meet new people, but this isn't just the case for smokers. Pretty much every clique does the same thing. Find out where the people you'd like to be associated with go to relax (or do crosswords, or debate politics, etc), and do the same. If nothing else, ask where the best all-night family restaraunt is (in most towns this is a Perkins or a Denny's, or the like). In a college town these places expect a crowd of college kids late at night, so they are usually OK with students sitting there for a few hours drinking coffee and socializing.
Ok... I don't know if you're a troll, but you have a good point. I hated high school. Not so much the learning part, but the people I had to go to school with. My parents always told me that 'it will be so much better in college because those people are usually too stupid to go to college.' Boy were they wrong. Those kind of people are the same ones that have rich parents.
MY rule for college (I'm still in it) is the same as it was in high school. You know the kind of people you like hanging out with. Stick with them! Since you're on slashdot, you're probably pretty computer smart, and you'd be AMAZED how many CoSci majors are really cool people.
I usually keep to a smallish group of friends. Makes staying out of trouble easier.
All that I am saying is that the 1st amendment is the most hotly contested (and upheld in court) of the 27.
When was the last time you heard of an ACLU case involving the housing of soldiers? The freedoms that the 1st amendment give us are the same freedoms that allow change and reform to happen, so, without the first amendment a democracy cannot succeed. Can the same be said about the other amendments (ok, the ones that don't pertain to allowing free speech, ie 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th -- they prevent descrimination from voting based on race, sex, poll taxes, and age respectivly. The fact that 4 amendments were added to the constitution to PRESERVE free speech shows its importance)?
You're missing the inherent issue.
He IS NOT providing the source for the windows port, which means that he is modifying GPL code and redistributing the binaries without providing the source (download the *nix source and see if it contains the 30 day trial code, etc.)
Anybody even remotely familiar with the GPL would cry foul.
You're right... because Driving an SUV is explicitly protected under the 666th amendment. *sarcasm*
The main problem I have with obtaining a permit to hold a demonstration is that permits cost money, and even if it's only 50 bucks or something, a lot of people can't afford 50 bucks to get their message out.
All I'm saying is that people going about their daily routine is being held higher than (arguably) the most important RIGHT (as opposed to a privlage, which seems to be what it's turning into) Americans are given.
At the same time I also believe that the ability to NOT listen to protesters is an equally great use of the first ammendment, so, to me, making sure that the flow of traffic around the protest is uninhibited is an important part of protected speech.
Ok, I'm blatently off topic with this one, but since you shared your 'dirty crossword' story, I have to share mine. Same situation, only with an improper solution, so the clue was "______ gussler" and the blanks were C__ (3 letters if you can't tell)... Obviously, the solution was GAS, but my friends (yes... we collectivly do crosswords while hanging out) and I all gave each other a queer look.
Ok, the grandparent post was refering to the fact that 90% of slashdot readers are more liberal...
I was responding by using another slashdot stereotype (primarily that windows is the worst OS ever blah blah blah)
See, it's at least kind of funny
Yeah... ...
Well...
Your mother uses Windows!!!
(haha... it's a joke)
Why not just look at how Kopete does it?
Kopete can ONLY transfer files through MSN.
This site should show how
OpenBSD is supposedly more secure than FreeBSD, but in terms of direct remote root exploits, they're just about the same as FreeBSD- both use Openssh which hasn't had that great a security track record. OpenSSH appears to be developed and maintained by the OpenBSD team. Whether OpenSSH's security/quality is representative of the rest of the OpenBSD team's work is up to you to figure out.
Wrong. 99% of the OpenSSH vulnerablities don't affect OpenBSD. I can't tell you the specifics, but the reason is basicly that the way OpenSSH is integrated into the system along with kernel specific security measures prevent exploits that would affect another POSIX OS. If you read the security announcements for the OpenSSH vulnerabilities, you'll usually see that OpenBSD is immune.
No. Jesus Christ, man. This is slashdot... Ummm... Ok, so a lot of people probably did.
1. The big advantage of open soure - sharing and code reuse - just isn't happening. For example, I'm looking for a new OSS webmail program. I have certain criteria. There are something like 209 projects related to this on Freshmeat. Why? That is no more efficient than a couple hundred closed-source vendors doing separate implementations of competing products. What have we gained?
I was never told of THAT advantage of OSS. The line I was always fed was that if a project that you use becomes abandoned, then you (or someone else that uses it) can maintain it easily, and frankly this has been proven in recent months with the XFree fiasco. XF was stagnant (in reality the liscence was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back) and nobody liked that. X.org 'forked' this stagnant project and made a signifigant number of bugfixes/etc.
The problem with your statement is that not all features can be 'dropped in' to similar projects. The codebase is too different. Granted, the blueprint is there to look at (and in my oppinion that SHOULD be used), but sometimes the structure of a project can't be radically changed for just one feature.
Basically imagine flipping programming languages and natural languages, so that you spoke in perl/c/asm/etc, and coded in english/french/german/etc.
Ick... and I thought american english was hard to understand...
To be completely fair, I can solve about 90% of my linux errors. I find that most of the error messages I've seen (I've used both KDE 3.2.1 and GNOME 2.6) are fairly specific to the problem.
I'll admit that linux doesn't have a "Try this... then this... then this" menu, like windows. Sure, those are 'friendly' but they are absolutely worthless. They are only good for the 'are you sure you a CD in the drive' style problems. For example, a friend of mine called me over to see why their Cable Modem wasn't working. I tried the "You appear to be installing a modem" dialogue. Didn't work. Checked all of the available help in the menu. I tried to solve it myself. Didn't work. Would have looked online... but, the problem was for the modem. Turns out it was some weird combitation of hardware that was causing the problem, and we had to get driver updates to get it to work.
What I'm trying to point out is that sometimes windows has some pretty cryptic errors, too. Explorer.exe crashes (although MUCH less common in XP) are usually REALLY hard to 'fix'.
Just for exposure, it should also be pointed out the the reverse is true...
You know, you're right... because people are always kicking a ball in american FOOTball. I'm sorry, but how is calling a sport where the foot rarely touches the ball football 'less-confusing'?
Your two other replies say how easy it was on debian, and at the risk of sounding like a gentoo zealot, all it took was to emerge the sources. Granted I had to compile a kernel myself, but it worked first boot.
In all honesty, I'm sick of people calling THAT the anarchists cookbook.
1) It's not the real thing!
2) It's juvinile.
The REAL book has very in-depth coverage of everything from guerilla tactics to killing informants that leak information to the enemy (ie the government).
People really need to do some REAL research on these things rather than just assume 'all cookbooks are created equal'.