I would go so far as to assert that any competition where the goal is putting more of a substance into your body than your body is capable of coping with is a bad idea. Seems like revolutionary thinking, but there you are.
People die all... the... time... and it's always tragic. One hundred innocent people die every day in Iraq, and have for for the last 9 months. Every three seconds someone starves to death. The only reason we're all not paralyzed with grief, all the time, is because it doesn't affect us.
If Nina Reiser is dead, then her death is tragic.
But after the tragedy, after the grief, there's only one way this story will affect my life, and that's in the fate of ReiserFS. Just like the only way the thousands of deaths in Iraq affect me is in my political opinions, and the death every three seconds of someone from starvation affects what charities I give money to. What else can you possibly expect?
On the contrary, far from being crass, the fate of ReiserFS is the only part of this sorry subject that merits discussion on Slashot. Anything else, discussed in a forum of people who don't personally know those involved, is nothing more than lurid gossip
I totally disagree, I think that every one of these cases you've specified has *benefitted* from the very competition that you're saying has harmed them.
Every Linux distribution was designed to fill a niche, every single one of them has a different take on how things are done. And every single one of them has the opportunity to learn from all the others. In terms of what to do, and what not to do.
I think the best example of this *is* Gnome and KDE. Both of these systems have a very different approach to solving the same problem. Both of them also have learned from and borrowed ideas off of the other one.
I love open source software for one simple reason: The choices I am able make in my computers look, feel, and behaviour. If I don't like KDE, I switch to GNOME. If GNOME is pissing me off, I'll play with Fluxbox.
Without the multiple competing options in the form of all these software projects/distributions, what would we have? We'd end up with ONE option that we'd have to use, whether we liked it or not, and no alternative to go to. Does that sound familiar? It's the situation I was in before I discovered there were other options to Windows.
I'm not going back to those dark days, not if I can help it.
But if the sysadmin has root access to the computer you are SSH'ing to, he or she can run any kind of logging/file monitoring software he or she likes.
But it won't necessarily work if your ssh'ing from your corporate computer to one the sysadmin can't log. (although of course, if they're *really* paranoid, they can install keyloggers onto the computers:-) )
I'm curious about this... how much luck would the traffic shaper have telling apart, for example, an SSL-encrypted IMAP session, HTTP session, or Jabber session. If they were going to arbitrary ports how would it tell them apart?
Does it need to perform its own man-in-the-middle attack to get at the transmitted data?
Can you name any examples of applications that use shared libraries, but which the libraries
aren't shared?
I don't usually pay attention to such details. But I know that Exult builds a lot of utility libraries which are then linked statically to the program. Makes sense since these libraries are unlikely to be used very often elsewhere. However I think it bloats the Exult binary to something like 20 megabytes.
Imagine what kind of nastiness could happen if people decided to put pre-determined instructions on the bits of brain that are inserted into your head... "Buy Walmart!" etc... GREAT possibility for sponsorship by big companies into the research though...
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I would go so far as to assert that any competition where the goal is putting more of a substance into your body than your body is capable of coping with is a bad idea. Seems like revolutionary thinking, but there you are.
And that was with a $50 downpayment.
I like the pretty colors.
People die all... the... time... and it's always tragic. One hundred innocent people die every day in Iraq, and have for for the last 9 months. Every three seconds someone starves to death. The only reason we're all not paralyzed with grief, all the time, is because it doesn't affect us.
If Nina Reiser is dead, then her death is tragic. But after the tragedy, after the grief, there's only one way this story will affect my life, and that's in the fate of ReiserFS. Just like the only way the thousands of deaths in Iraq affect me is in my political opinions, and the death every three seconds of someone from starvation affects what charities I give money to. What else can you possibly expect?
On the contrary, far from being crass, the fate of ReiserFS is the only part of this sorry subject that merits discussion on Slashot. Anything else, discussed in a forum of people who don't personally know those involved, is nothing more than lurid gossip
After all, living in Kansas they're probably convinced the world is flat, too...
Hey, in Kansas, the evidence is on their side.
Also, I think it's the case that the only KDE package required by most apps is kdelibs.
So if you only want one particulay application, you only need the one KDE dependency to get it running, rather than having to install the whole thing.
I totally disagree, I think that every one of these cases you've specified has *benefitted* from the very competition that you're saying has harmed them.
Every Linux distribution was designed to fill a niche, every single one of them has a different take on how things are done. And every single one of them has the opportunity to learn from all the others. In terms of what to do, and what not to do.
I think the best example of this *is* Gnome and KDE. Both of these systems have a very different approach to solving the same problem. Both of them also have learned from and borrowed ideas off of the other one.
I love open source software for one simple reason: The choices I am able make in my computers look, feel, and behaviour. If I don't like KDE, I switch to GNOME. If GNOME is pissing me off, I'll play with Fluxbox.
Without the multiple competing options in the form of all these software projects/distributions, what would we have? We'd end up with ONE option that we'd have to use, whether we liked it or not, and no alternative to go to. Does that sound familiar? It's the situation I was in before I discovered there were other options to Windows.
I'm not going back to those dark days, not if I can help it.
It's a lucky thing that you and her didn't have any children... SCO might have tried to class them as derivative works.
;-)
And then you'd be in a *whole* lot of trouble.
But if the sysadmin has root access to the computer you are SSH'ing to, he or she can run any kind of logging/file monitoring software he or she likes.
:-) )
But it won't necessarily work if your ssh'ing from your corporate computer to one the sysadmin can't log. (although of course, if they're *really* paranoid, they can install keyloggers onto the computers
I'm curious about this... how much luck would the traffic shaper have telling apart, for example, an SSL-encrypted IMAP session, HTTP session, or Jabber session. If they were going to arbitrary ports how would it tell them apart?
Does it need to perform its own man-in-the-middle attack to get at the transmitted data?
I don't usually pay attention to such details. But I know that Exult builds a lot of utility libraries which are then linked statically to the program. Makes sense since these libraries are unlikely to be used very often elsewhere. However I think it bloats the Exult binary to something like 20 megabytes.
"Only two security vulnerabilities in 17 years!"
Did you ever consider the possibility that your parents told you April 1st was your birthday as an April fools joke?
Some parents can make childhood cruelty as pure as a science :-)
Sounds like fun, but I won't be signing up...
Imagine what kind of nastiness could happen if people decided to put pre-determined instructions on the bits of brain that are inserted into your head... "Buy Walmart!" etc... GREAT possibility for sponsorship by big companies into the research though...
I don't know... I tried to install debian on a duck, but it choked on the CD's. It must be a problem with the installer...