My belief is that projects like CentOS are there because people want to skate on the backs of people and companies who have spent time and money making a good product, just because they don't want to pay for that hard work. I believe this is the flaw in the GNU license, and not open source in general.
As opposed to what, BSD? The GPL is viral in that all derivative products must be contributed back to the community, whereas a less strict open source license would allow CentOS to keep the modified source to themselves as long as they gave due credit. I'm not a fan of the GPL, but this is a complete misrepresentation.
It certainly could. Code, markup, graphics, it's all copyrightable. Whether it has in the past or not isn't relevant at all since it's functionally the same as any other code. And yes, people borrow from each other all the time, but that doesn't make it legally sound.
As for Stallman's ideas, it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to just not visit websites that don't license their scripts in a friendly manner. You're not going to hell just because you accidentally went to some site with non-free javascript once, it's only important (for very idealistic definitions of important) for the sites that you use regularly.
and after saying "Ok, I got it", *guarantee*, that I can turn off the system in that very moment, without losing data or corrupting the file system in any way.
Which is precisely what fsync does, and is precisely what these developers didn't use. The filesystem knows better than you do how to get all the data it has to write onto the platters as fast as possible so if you need something specific like "it's important that this data get written now, so I'll wait for you to finish", you have to ask. Otherwise your apps would run a great deal slower since every little write (even a single byte!) would have to wait for the OS to say "OK, it's on disk". And if you really want that, there are flags you can use, e.g. O_SYNC. But you don't.
NPR just spent the last week and a half spamming my ear-hole with 1-800-962-9862 begging for donations. The sad thing about their business model is that I might donate if any donation I'm personally capable of making could make the pledge drives go away faster, but as it is I would see no fruit from my labor.
The actual fucking person (emphasis yours) is a perfectly good primary source on themselves, as long as they're quoted in print somewhere so others can verify that they actually said it.
Being the official host of whitehouse.gov videos is probably worth more to Google than any value derived from those tracking cookies. It would not be implausible to make a "clean" version of the player, customized for government websites and restricted to videos from government accounts.
SRAM uses circuits that resemble a flip-flop, e.g. a latch, which would be what GPP was referring to. You are correct though that SRAM preserves state for some time after removing power, again especially at colder temperatures. However, I don't imagine it will be too much trouble, as getting a CPU to dump latent data from its cache after a power cycle is probably quite difficult -- it's small enough and fast enough that I would be surprised if the CPU didn't just zero the entire thing on boot. Certainly you wouldn't be able to get it back out the same way it went in as retrieving cache lines that are not really there would be a bug.
Tax-free fuel exists, so for vehicles that spend all their time off-road (lawnmowers, farm equipment), you can buy that. It's dyed for detection purposes although I can't imagine what would give a cop probable cause to sample your gas tank. Perhaps it's more common with trucks.
Bittorrent already has something much better than SSL (for this particular purpose) called Message Stream Encryption that hides the fact that it is even conforming to any particular protocol -- it is, for all outside purposes, a wall of random data from the moment the connection is opened. The only way to identify it is via traffic analysis by recording when packets are sent and how large they are, and even that can't necessarily distinguish bittorrent from other protocols that send lots of data to random people.
I would, however, recommend using SSL for tracker access when possible, as that is completely separate from the actual p2p exchange, and can be used to identify what you are downloading (by the infohash of the torrent). Oh, and of course you should be using SSL/TLS for mail and every website that supports it.
Because they won't work on XP anymore. It will not be supported and will no longer receive security updates.
XP receives lots of security updates. I notice every time it installs one without my permission, then interrupts my game of TF2 and forces me to reboot at gunpoint.
Editing metadata in amarok involves double-clicking on the field you want to edit, typing something, and pressing enter. I find it hard to believe that fishbowl would have a problem doing this (considering his UID, I expect it could be beard-related interference), and even if he doesn't fill out tags manually it will guess tags from the filename so it's not like there's a huge list of completely unnamed files to dig through. There is also a traditional metadata dialog with more options. You can select multiple files and assign shared information (album, genre, year, etc.) to all of them at once, assign track numbers sequentially, and similar things I've come to expect from other applications and been sorely disappointed not to find.
As for spotlight, honestly I can't say I've ever felt a need for that kind of functionality. If I'm looking for a song, then I open amarok, which is actually tailored for searching music. In fact, linux has tools similar to spotlight, one being "Beagle" which comes with my distro, but I always uninstall it because it drives up my system load. That's an implementation-specific problem but I personally don't ever feel the need to search my entire system for something when there is a domain-specific application that I know already has information about it.
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As opposed to what, BSD? The GPL is viral in that all derivative products must be contributed back to the community, whereas a less strict open source license would allow CentOS to keep the modified source to themselves as long as they gave due credit. I'm not a fan of the GPL, but this is a complete misrepresentation.
The revolution will be simulcast via twitter and telegraph, except where prohibited by law.
There's a new crime. Let's commit it!
It certainly could. Code, markup, graphics, it's all copyrightable. Whether it has in the past or not isn't relevant at all since it's functionally the same as any other code. And yes, people borrow from each other all the time, but that doesn't make it legally sound.
As for Stallman's ideas, it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to just not visit websites that don't license their scripts in a friendly manner. You're not going to hell just because you accidentally went to some site with non-free javascript once, it's only important (for very idealistic definitions of important) for the sites that you use regularly.
Which is precisely what fsync does, and is precisely what these developers didn't use. The filesystem knows better than you do how to get all the data it has to write onto the platters as fast as possible so if you need something specific like "it's important that this data get written now, so I'll wait for you to finish", you have to ask. Otherwise your apps would run a great deal slower since every little write (even a single byte!) would have to wait for the OS to say "OK, it's on disk". And if you really want that, there are flags you can use, e.g. O_SYNC. But you don't.
NPR just spent the last week and a half spamming my ear-hole with 1-800-962-9862 begging for donations. The sad thing about their business model is that I might donate if any donation I'm personally capable of making could make the pledge drives go away faster, but as it is I would see no fruit from my labor.
The actual fucking person (emphasis yours) is a perfectly good primary source on themselves, as long as they're quoted in print somewhere so others can verify that they actually said it.
Fixed that for you.
Have no fear! Guns of the future will go "pew pew"! Bang emulation not required.
Being the official host of whitehouse.gov videos is probably worth more to Google than any value derived from those tracking cookies. It would not be implausible to make a "clean" version of the player, customized for government websites and restricted to videos from government accounts.
Solution: Don't make any enemies.
Checkmate.
Aww, but that's boring.
SRAM uses circuits that resemble a flip-flop, e.g. a latch, which would be what GPP was referring to. You are correct though that SRAM preserves state for some time after removing power, again especially at colder temperatures. However, I don't imagine it will be too much trouble, as getting a CPU to dump latent data from its cache after a power cycle is probably quite difficult -- it's small enough and fast enough that I would be surprised if the CPU didn't just zero the entire thing on boot. Certainly you wouldn't be able to get it back out the same way it went in as retrieving cache lines that are not really there would be a bug.
Hey, you're right. We should ban forks!
Fixed link: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=746976a301ac9c9aa10d7d42454f8d6cdad8ff2b
If that link doesn't work, blame Slashdot because I sure as hell previewed it.
And make sure it has a leap seconds file configured properly.
Tax-free fuel exists, so for vehicles that spend all their time off-road (lawnmowers, farm equipment), you can buy that. It's dyed for detection purposes although I can't imagine what would give a cop probable cause to sample your gas tank. Perhaps it's more common with trucks.
I heard it will also simulate the LHC, which makes you wonder why CERN wasted untold billions building the damn thing in the first place.
Bittorrent already has something much better than SSL (for this particular purpose) called Message Stream Encryption that hides the fact that it is even conforming to any particular protocol -- it is, for all outside purposes, a wall of random data from the moment the connection is opened. The only way to identify it is via traffic analysis by recording when packets are sent and how large they are, and even that can't necessarily distinguish bittorrent from other protocols that send lots of data to random people.
I would, however, recommend using SSL for tracker access when possible, as that is completely separate from the actual p2p exchange, and can be used to identify what you are downloading (by the infohash of the torrent). Oh, and of course you should be using SSL/TLS for mail and every website that supports it.
Head asplode in 5... 4...
Pretty soon we're going to need a czar czar to keep track of all the czars we've been willing into existence lately.
In fact, a system that is thrashing itself to death (already "crashed") can still be scanned without disturbing its thrashing.
XP receives lots of security updates. I notice every time it installs one without my permission, then interrupts my game of TF2 and forces me to reboot at gunpoint.
$ cat > hello.pl ./hello
printf("hello world\n");
$ perlcc hello.pl -o hello
$
hello world
The 1812 Overture.
Editing metadata in amarok involves double-clicking on the field you want to edit, typing something, and pressing enter. I find it hard to believe that fishbowl would have a problem doing this (considering his UID, I expect it could be beard-related interference), and even if he doesn't fill out tags manually it will guess tags from the filename so it's not like there's a huge list of completely unnamed files to dig through. There is also a traditional metadata dialog with more options. You can select multiple files and assign shared information (album, genre, year, etc.) to all of them at once, assign track numbers sequentially, and similar things I've come to expect from other applications and been sorely disappointed not to find.
As for spotlight, honestly I can't say I've ever felt a need for that kind of functionality. If I'm looking for a song, then I open amarok, which is actually tailored for searching music. In fact, linux has tools similar to spotlight, one being "Beagle" which comes with my distro, but I always uninstall it because it drives up my system load. That's an implementation-specific problem but I personally don't ever feel the need to search my entire system for something when there is a domain-specific application that I know already has information about it.