Debian has this. When you want to install something, you just say apt-get install program. To upgrade every program on your system, you just say apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
IANAL, but I imagine that since when something is public domain it means that its copyright is, at least for legal purposes, owned by the public. You can't take MetaFOO 1.5's copyright away from the public any more than you could take Windows'. Of course, you're free to use the source however you want and even sell MetaFOO commercially. You can even use, say, 100% of the MetaFOO source code in a completely new product which you own.
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I'm an NYS resident too. If this gets passed here (over the petitions I'll have to start...) and the situation as to communication w/ representatives is as bad as you say, what is the procedure for calling for a vote of no confidence in the state government? I don't mean in a particular member of the government, but for the blokes in Albany (New York State capital) as a whole. And no, not a vote by those same legislators, but by the people.
The TiK client, which was written by AOL in TCL/Tk, comes with full protocol documentation. It also comes with source. It used to be available from http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/, but that is no longer functioning (probably because of this nonsense.)
I am currently working on an IRC to AIM gateway. I even have a fully functional one that I now use as my main AIM client. You send it commands like/msg aimserv signon mynick mypass and/msg aimserv send buddy Hi, what's up?. It supports chats, the directory, everything. It even converts HTML to text. I am working on having it convert HTML bold\italic\underlined\font (FONT COLOR and FONT BACK, that is) tags into their IRC equivalents (which can be turned off on a per-client basis.) Then I want to change it so it would be/msg AIM-buddy Hi, what's up? instead of the current model. And I'd like to have it convert DCC to AOL file transfer. I'll release it under the GPL (it's written in Perl) in a week or so. E-mail me if you want the source now.
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There was, during the French revolution (of the 1780s-90s, not the 2nd one w/ Napoleon). Mind you, this is the same revolution that had the Reign of Terror. The one where those who disagreed with the Jacobins (who more or less wanted to turn France communist IIRC) got their heads cut off. And these killings, done in the name of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, were performed on a disproportionately high number of peasants.
They were just thinking ahead. If this chip was the K7, the next one would be the K8. And what about the chip after that? It would have to be called the K9. Insert your own joke here.
"It shall be lawful for any person within any State, and for any United States person in a foreign country, to use " (or sell) "any encryption, regardless of the encryption algorithm selected, encryption key length chosen, or implementation technique or medium used."
Nope, that's not a virus. It's a trojan (assuming you're pretending it's a useful program in order to trick people into running it instead of calling it a virus.) A trojan (as in "trojan horse") is something malicious (executable, script, macro, whatever) which pretends to be something useful. A virus is something malicious which attaches itself to another program in order to replicate and infect other programs and also usually to do something malicious, or at least non-benevolent. The key difference is that virii replicate and attach to other programs, while trojans just do something malicious on your machine.
Medichlorians would first-level primitives. Booleans would use light\dark instead of true\false. You destroy an object by setting its alignment to dark, or maybe by incrementing its anger counter. A | (lightsaber) would be used in place of a;. The core distribution would include the Light and Dark modules. use Dark| lets you create objects which have kill and choke methods. And of course, "The source is strong in this one."
Medichlorians would be first-level primitives. Booleans would use light\dark instead of true\false. You destroy an object by setting its alignment to dark, or maybe by incrementing its anger counter. A | (lightsaber) would be used in place of a;. The core distribution would include the Light and Dark modules. use Dark| lets you create objects which have kill and choke methods. And of course, "The source is strong in this one."
use Tk; use Tk::Dialog; MainWindow->new->Dialog(-title => "MsgBox", -text => "MsgBox is not needed - use perl/Tk. You get the added benefit of cross-platform compatibility.", -wraplength => "4i", -default_button => "OK", -buttons => ["OK"])->Show;
Security through obscurity can be used to supplement other security methods, but by itself it does not make things secure. If the only thing making something secure is security through obscurity, one sufficiently-determined person (or 'bot even) will destroy its entire security model. OTOH, STO can be used on top of other methods. But it really shouldn't, since peer review is an excellent way to find things that weaken your security method which you might have missed. If STO is a significant part of your security, than it's a significant part of something that's non-existant but for the temporary ignorance of others.
Nope, -h is short for --human-readable (alters the way file sizes are printed) in GNU ls 4.0 at least. For GNU ls 3.16, -h was not a valid option. The answer for SunOS 5.5.1 ls is -e, -h, -j, -k, -v, -w, -y, -z. I think that the GNU fileutils people need to make some more options. --extra-large-print, --just-show-special-files, --yes-i-want-recursion-to-depth-n, and --gzip-output perhaps?;P
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Why should we take you seriously? If you want to report serious problems on Slashdot, get a login! (j/k)
Debian has this. When you want to install something, you just say apt-get install program. To upgrade every program on your system, you just say apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
The article makes no mention of spam.
IANAL, but I imagine that since when something is public domain it means that its copyright is, at least for legal purposes, owned by the public. You can't take MetaFOO 1.5's copyright away from the public any more than you could take Windows'. Of course, you're free to use the source however you want and even sell MetaFOO commercially. You can even use, say, 100% of the MetaFOO source code in a completely new product which you own.
I'm an NYS resident too. If this gets passed here (over the petitions I'll have to start...) and the situation as to communication w/ representatives is as bad as you say, what is the procedure for calling for a vote of no confidence in the state government? I don't mean in a particular member of the government, but for the blokes in Albany (New York State capital) as a whole. And no, not a vote by those same legislators, but by the people.
Yeah, I think it's unnecessary. That's why I use epic4. And why you can /msg aimserv color 0.
The TiK client, which was written by AOL in TCL/Tk, comes with full protocol documentation. It also comes with source. It used to be available from http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/, but that is no longer functioning (probably because of this nonsense.)
I am currently working on an IRC to AIM gateway. I even have a fully functional one that I now use as my main AIM client. You send it commands like /msg aimserv signon mynick mypass and /msg aimserv send buddy Hi, what's up?. It supports chats, the directory, everything. It even converts HTML to text. I am working on having it convert HTML bold\italic\underlined\font (FONT COLOR and FONT BACK, that is) tags into their IRC equivalents (which can be turned off on a per-client basis.) Then I want to change it so it would be /msg AIM-buddy Hi, what's up? instead of the current model. And I'd like to have it convert DCC to AOL file transfer. I'll release it under the GPL (it's written in Perl) in a week or so. E-mail me if you want the source now.
You may be able to use trn in the near future. I've had a news server for Slash out there for a while now. Rob knows about it and plans to use it, but that page has said "soon" for a while now.
There was, during the French revolution (of the 1780s-90s, not the 2nd one w/ Napoleon).
Mind you, this is the same revolution that had the Reign of Terror. The one where those who disagreed with the Jacobins (who more or less wanted to turn France communist IIRC) got their heads cut off. And these killings, done in the name of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, were performed on a disproportionately high number of peasants.
They were just thinking ahead. If this chip was the K7, the next one would be the K8. And what about the chip after that? It would have to be called the K9. Insert your own joke here.
0, unless the NSA can crack any encryption. This bill frees all crypto, regardless of methods chosen or key length used.
"It shall be lawful for any person within any State, and for any United States person in a foreign country, to use " (or sell) "any encryption, regardless of the encryption algorithm selected, encryption key length chosen, or implementation technique or medium used."
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, and I claim my Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch.
Nope, that's not a virus. It's a trojan (assuming you're pretending it's a useful program in order to trick people into running it instead of calling it a virus.) A trojan (as in "trojan horse") is something malicious (executable, script, macro, whatever) which pretends to be something useful. A virus is something malicious which attaches itself to another program in order to replicate and infect other programs and also usually to do something malicious, or at least non-benevolent. The key difference is that virii replicate and attach to other programs, while trojans just do something malicious on your machine.
Medichlorians would first-level primitives. Booleans would use light\dark instead of true\false. You destroy an object by setting its alignment to dark, or maybe by incrementing its anger counter. A | (lightsaber) would be used in place of a ;. The core distribution would include the Light and Dark modules. use Dark| lets you create objects which have kill and choke methods. And of course, "The source is strong in this one."
Medichlorians would be first-level primitives. Booleans would use light\dark instead of true\false. You destroy an object by setting its alignment to dark, or maybe by incrementing its anger counter. A | (lightsaber) would be used in place of a ;. The core distribution would include the Light and Dark modules. use Dark| lets you create objects which have kill and choke methods. And of course, "The source is strong in this one."
use Tk;
use Tk::Dialog;
MainWindow->new->Dialog(-title => "MsgBox", -text => "MsgBox is not needed - use perl/Tk. You get the added benefit of cross-platform compatibility.", -wraplength => "4i", -default_button => "OK", -buttons => ["OK"])->Show;
Security through obscurity can be used to supplement other security methods, but by itself it does not make things secure. If the only thing making something secure is security through obscurity, one sufficiently-determined person (or 'bot even) will destroy its entire security model. OTOH, STO can be used on top of other methods. But it really shouldn't, since peer review is an excellent way to find things that weaken your security method which you might have missed. If STO is a significant part of your security, than it's a significant part of something that's non-existant but for the temporary ignorance of others.
Am I the only one who thought this was some sort of "first one to register foo.com wins a prize" deals?
Here now, I was just trying to read about Australian stupidity, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
Nope, -h is short for --human-readable (alters the way file sizes are printed) in GNU ls 4.0 at least. For GNU ls 3.16, -h was not a valid option. The answer for SunOS 5.5.1 ls is -e, -h, -j, -k, -v, -w, -y, -z. I think that the GNU fileutils people need to make some more options. --extra-large-print, --just-show-special-files, --yes-i-want-recursion-to-depth-n, and --gzip-output perhaps? ;P
At least according to Debian, mysql is not free (as in speech.) You should be able to find the mysql license at http://www.tcx.se
If it allows anything up to 25nm, does that mean it allows 20nm, 2nm, 0.0002nm, etc.?
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