The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race.
Riight... Like the U.S. would let anyone else even participate in a race. Any country going in that direction will first be nudged lightly with reminders of economic sanctions, and if that doesn't stop them, nudged lightly with a sledgehammer.
The race is over, the U.S. won, but they seem to go on racing on their own. (No poetry intended)
Dr. Evil: Here's the plan: We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransomed for... One MILLION DOLLARS! Nr. 2: Ahem...well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than a million dollars? I mean, a million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over nine billion
dollars a year! Dr. Evil: Really? Nr. 2: Mm-hmm. Dr. Evil: That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for... One hundred.. BILLION DOLLARS!
However, Disney's legal department has developed a policy that enables Disney to protect its intellectual property while keeping within the statutes of the GNU General Public License.
...and there is no mention of what that policy is. Would be interesting to know, since we are - as we all know - dealing with a good, old-fashioned Evil Corporation here. Could be nothing, but I'm rather suspicious by default when it comes to Disney.
I could probbably make an equally persuasive argument that violence is movies and videogames reduces violence because it releases peoples agressions in a nonviolent way.
What you describe is happening in Norway right now. Skolelinux ("School Linux") is a distribution based on Debian, targeting schools by - among other things - customizing the installer for use of thin clients (with LTSP), including and translating applications vital to the curriculums and writing Norwegian documentation. Even though the iso still is in beta, several schools are already using the system. Last thing I heard, some students started making a fork specially for other students who wish to use Skolelinux at home. Schools in Denmark and Germany (and some other countries I can't remember) are also showing an interest for the project. World domination is not far away:)
Did you ever consider contributing to open source? Oh, programming is not "your thing"? That's okay, if you speak a second language, you can help translating software. Here are some links for translation tools ("OversetterverktÃy"), type your language's equivalent to "translation guidelines" into Google, and you are ready to go. Thanks:)
All it takes is ONE PROGRAMMER out of the thousands that contribute code to have done this, for the Linux camp to be screwed.
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If SCO can prove that one person messed up, Linux is screwed.
You seem to be avoiding elaborating the consequences here. Exactly how is "Linux screwed" and "the Linux camp screwed"?
The person submitting the code? Sure. The company hiring him to submit code? Mmm, okay.
"Linux" and "the Linux community"? No, why? Remove, rewrite, move on.
I hate to bring in bad analogies, but: Building house. Stolen bricks. Tear down? [Y/N].
Oh, cool. When I read my own writeup, I notice the Slashdot banner ad is divided into four parts; Two English and one Norwegian selling Xbox consoles, and one selling mod chips:)..and when I pressed "Preview" in this writeup, the banners changed to Nintendo ads when I added the word "console". Oh, the wonders of modern technology:)
"It must be legal, I saw it in a Slashdot banner ad."
A Xbox is cheaper than the PS2 (An Xbox is about $150, according to OSDN Pricewatch), comes with twice the amount of memory, ethernet, and instead of buying a $200 Linux kit, you pick up a flashable, legal* mod chip for $25-$50. How the Emotion Engine compares to the Xbox P733 I have no idea, but I can't imagine the EE is that much faster. Both The Xbox-Linux Project and Gentoox can provide you with a distro. For free.
Even if you're not planning a cluster, this is a good deal for a low-performance work station, or just a "media box", using Xbox Media Player, which plays most (all?) popular media formats, both music and video.
It's been repeated countles times that Microsoft are losing money on the console itself, and depend on the games to cover their expenses. Therefore, paying up for a Xbox and giving your money to MS isn't immoral as long as you don't buy any games.
See, it's a win-win situation:)
* I lost track of the current situation in the U.S., but in the free world (Read: Europe) at least the chips not using MS code is legal.
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If we start bending the definition of censorship a little, I'd rather say spammers like him are the censoring part, since they make it harder for me to find my _real_ mail. I'm moving to another country now, and keep contact with my soon-to-be employers using e-mail. In addition to my regular "contact person", HR etc. send me info. It is really hard to tell their mail from spam by looking at the sender name and subject, since a lot of spam imitates that kind of "work-related look".
In addition there were a lot of writing problems earlier in the season like everyone leaving town in fear of an apocalypse that wasn't manifesting itself at all.
But it was! People acted all mad and aggressive when the seal was open, especially in the school ("MARCHING BAND RULES!", "DIE CHEERLEADERS, DIE!").
People were leaving because of feeling the evil and craziness in the city coming closer, and that makes it more believable (Uhm, you know what I mean) than if they were hanging around 'till the hordes of evil roamed the streets. IMHO.
But yeah, I can agree with you on The First. No clear goals, no real surprises and just not 3V1L enough. A wannabe-evil slacker, that is what is.
The expression "Legally entitled" has no meaning in this context.
Usually "legally" should reflect "morally", as in "is this right?", but with the influence the ONE side in these cases has on the laws, the scales of Justice are not balanced any more.
Repeat after me: I shall not automatically assume that "The Law" and "What's right" are synonyms.
It's not just a glib overgeneralisation to say that it helps admin, and from what I've seen of OSX server it has much the same advantages.
I'm sorry for going off topic here, but could anyone give an URL to a page summarizing the whole glibc issue? Neither Google or the glibc webpage/faq provides easily understandable information on it.
IMHO, a quick guide to what to do to avoid it, how to fix it if it happens, etc. could help a lot of people.
Non-English user can help translating software to their own language.
Translating commonly used desktop software can make it easier for your school/workplace/mom/dad to consider Linux for the desktop. Obvious applications from the top of my head to start with is KMail/Evolution, Mplayer/Xine, Mozilla/Konqueror, GnuCash, The Gimp, Solitaire, you know, the ones the new desktop users might be playing around with.
It's not hard, anyone can do it. Check out poEdit and start editing. If you have the opportunity, have a few others check your translation before you submit it to the program author, and I'm sure someone at some point has released translation guidlines for your language (Even though it might be general guidlines or for Windows software). Use them, because ending up with a $yourlanguage/English hybrid is not very attractive. Yes, you might think "server" and "session" are perfectly fine words to use, but if there are words that can replace them in your language, better use those and go for consistency.
You are of the kind who have the opposite problem of what the paranoid UFO freaks have: If someone comments that it's a remote possibility that someone, somewhere, is doing something sinister, you run in the opposite direction waving your hands, shouting about tinfoil hats. I know the down-to-earth feeling you are chasing, but really, try stopping for breath for a moment and look at both Microsoft history and general corporate history. (From the top of my head: Checking for Dr.Dos before deciding to start Windows, lying in court about the possibility of separating Internet Explorer from Win95.)
What the parent thread suggests, corporate structure is SUPPOSED to do: Make money by any means, as long as you get away with it. It's not Satan or Evil (Well...), it's what the free market and power is all about. Of course they are trying to squeeze others out: If the biggest stock holders found out that Microsoft have no strategy regarding the growing threat of Linux, a lot of people pretty high up in Microsoft would lose their jobs.
Microsoft can be forced to include a backdoor in Windows, and no-one will know/be able do anything about it, as the need of "getting those Evil Freedom-Hating Wife-Beating (etc) terrorists" is > *. Open source software is a bit harder to control, therefore it must die.
Oh, and didn't Georgieboy W. B. explain the tax cuts for the rich with "What is good for American corporations is good for the American economy"? If open source is a competitior to American corporations, open source is bad for the American economy. What further proof of commu^H^H^H^H terrorism do you need?
I went to The Gathering every year from 93 till 00 (except 95), and it just got more and more crap. That is, from the perspective of someone who is more interested in the creative aspect.
From year to year the following increases:
Younger and younger participants.
More and more gamers.
The focus IS on the network, network games and "bringing empty harddrives". Oh, and meet the cute girl you talked to on #teenchat
"Look, my dad bought me bigger soundsystem than you got from your dad. Now, hear. Everyone hear."
Ticket prices. Food prices.
Nazi security guards. "Does it smell beer here? Please come with me."
Sponsors trying to adapt the compos to fit the "market" more.
It might be me that got old and grumpy, but in the end it seemed like ~95 percent of the people didn't even realize that there were demo compos going on, they just turned their stereos louder.
The Gathering is a LAN party, even though they throw in a striptease, a DJ or a "Microsoft talks about their exciting new technology" conference in the middle of it. DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU COME FOR THE DEMO SCENE.
If you want creativity, check out Breakpoint, a party held in Germany from the 19th till the 21st of April. Yep, this weekend. I'm going, and I am from Norway.
Or what about the creep who uses the library's Internet connection to download pr0n, then goes into the men's room to masturbate? What do you say to the 8-year-old who walks into the men's room and discovers him? What do you say to the kid's mother when little Johnny tells her about it?
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The difference here is that books/videos are read-only. Internet access is not. Since immediate harm can be done via the Internet, more restrictions should apply.
I guess American libraries are more censored than European, but I'm sure you can find books that can be considered at least partly pornographic in the U.S. too. The same creep can go to the bathroom after reading Henry Miller or flipping through an artbook with paintings by Gustav Klimt. Your example sucks, and is following the same technophobic pattern of those who want dedicated laws for the internet, because it is the OOH, SCARY INTERNET!
If you are not with us... you are against us. If you are against us, you won't be for long.
And sadly, this seems to be more and more the policy of the U.S. Government against USA's own citizens (and - very important - media) too. I really hope you are trolling, but I fear you are not.
The coalition are already trying to cripple Iraqi media by bombing TV stations and [uncertain, last time I checked] transfering their own "surrender, we come in peace" messages on radio.
Isn't this a natural next step? Even though Al-Jazeera is not Iraqi, it certainly publishes information our allies don't want out there. (Especially pictures of dead children have a tendency to get people to think war sucks.)
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I've read your writeup several times, but I still can't determine if it is authism, alcoholism or a rewrite of the Chewbacca Defense.
You were trying to say what?Riight... Like the U.S. would let anyone else even participate in a race. Any country going in that direction will first be nudged lightly with reminders of economic sanctions, and if that doesn't stop them, nudged lightly with a sledgehammer.
The race is over, the U.S. won, but they seem to go on racing on their own. (No poetry intended)Dr. Evil: Here's the plan: We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransomed for... One MILLION DOLLARS! .. BILLION DOLLARS!
Nr. 2: Ahem...well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than a million dollars? I mean, a million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over nine billion dollars a year!
Dr. Evil: Really?
Nr. 2: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Evil: That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for... One hundred
Check out http://www.illegal-art.org/video/ for some good examples. Some are crap, some are funny, but I found in particular "Spin" a bit interesting.
Will they finally be able to make AIM incompatible with unauthorized (Read: Open source) clients?
What you describe is happening in Norway right now. Skolelinux ("School Linux") is a distribution based on Debian, targeting schools by - among other things - customizing the installer for use of thin clients (with LTSP), including and translating applications vital to the curriculums and writing Norwegian documentation. Even though the iso still is in beta, several schools are already using the system. Last thing I heard, some students started making a fork specially for other students who wish to use Skolelinux at home. Schools in Denmark and Germany (and some other countries I can't remember) are also showing an interest for the project. World domination is not far away :)
Did you ever consider contributing to open source? Oh, programming is not "your thing"? That's okay, if you speak a second language, you can help translating software. Here are some links for translation tools ("OversetterverktÃy"), type your language's equivalent to "translation guidelines" into Google, and you are ready to go. Thanks :)
The person submitting the code? Sure.
The company hiring him to submit code? Mmm, okay.
"Linux" and "the Linux community"? No, why? Remove, rewrite, move on.
I hate to bring in bad analogies, but: Building house. Stolen bricks. Tear down? [Y/N].
Oh, cool. When I read my own writeup, I notice the Slashdot banner ad is divided into four parts; Two English and one Norwegian selling Xbox consoles, and one selling mod chips :) ..and when I pressed "Preview" in this writeup, the banners changed to Nintendo ads when I added the word "console". Oh, the wonders of modern technology :)
"It must be legal, I saw it in a Slashdot banner ad."
A Xbox is cheaper than the PS2 (An Xbox is about $150, according to OSDN Pricewatch), comes with twice the amount of memory, ethernet, and instead of buying a $200 Linux kit, you pick up a flashable, legal* mod chip for $25-$50. How the Emotion Engine compares to the Xbox P733 I have no idea, but I can't imagine the EE is that much faster.
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Both The Xbox-Linux Project and Gentoox can provide you with a distro. For free.
Even if you're not planning a cluster, this is a good deal for a low-performance work station, or just a "media box", using Xbox Media Player, which plays most (all?) popular media formats, both music and video.
It's been repeated countles times that Microsoft are losing money on the console itself, and depend on the games to cover their expenses. Therefore, paying up for a Xbox and giving your money to MS isn't immoral as long as you don't buy any games.
See, it's a win-win situation
* I lost track of the current situation in the U.S., but in the free world (Read: Europe) at least the chips not using MS code is legal.
If we start bending the definition of censorship a little, I'd rather say spammers like him are the censoring part, since they make it harder for me to find my _real_ mail.
I'm moving to another country now, and keep contact with my soon-to-be employers using e-mail. In addition to my regular "contact person", HR etc. send me info. It is really hard to tell their mail from spam by looking at the sender name and subject, since a lot of spam imitates that kind of "work-related look".
The expression "Legally entitled" has no meaning in this context.
Usually "legally" should reflect "morally", as in "is this right?", but with the influence the ONE side in these cases has on the laws, the scales of Justice are not balanced any more.
Repeat after me: I shall not automatically assume that "The Law" and "What's right" are synonyms.Where have you been lately? They already thought of that. Try googling for "plugging the analog hole".
Whoa, I can't wait to play around with THAT baby. YEAH! Who said Windows doesn't let you take a look under the hood?
Translating commonly used desktop software can make it easier for your school/workplace/mom/dad to consider Linux for the desktop. Obvious applications from the top of my head to start with is KMail/Evolution, Mplayer/Xine, Mozilla/Konqueror, GnuCash, The Gimp, Solitaire, you know, the ones the new desktop users might be playing around with.
It's not hard, anyone can do it. Check out poEdit and start editing. If you have the opportunity, have a few others check your translation before you submit it to the program author, and I'm sure someone at some point has released translation guidlines for your language (Even though it might be general guidlines or for Windows software). Use them, because ending up with a $yourlanguage/English hybrid is not very attractive. Yes, you might think "server" and "session" are perfectly fine words to use, but if there are words that can replace them in your language, better use those and go for consistency.
Good luck.You are of the kind who have the opposite problem of what the paranoid UFO freaks have: If someone comments that it's a remote possibility that someone, somewhere, is doing something sinister, you run in the opposite direction waving your hands, shouting about tinfoil hats. I know the down-to-earth feeling you are chasing, but really, try stopping for breath for a moment and look at both Microsoft history and general corporate history. (From the top of my head: Checking for Dr.Dos before deciding to start Windows, lying in court about the possibility of separating Internet Explorer from Win95.)
What the parent thread suggests, corporate structure is SUPPOSED to do: Make money by any means, as long as you get away with it. It's not Satan or Evil (Well...), it's what the free market and power is all about. Of course they are trying to squeeze others out:
If the biggest stock holders found out that Microsoft have no strategy regarding the growing threat of Linux, a lot of people pretty high up in Microsoft would lose their jobs.
Microsoft can be forced to include a backdoor in Windows, and no-one will know/be able do anything about it, as the need of "getting those Evil Freedom-Hating Wife-Beating (etc) terrorists" is > *. Open source software is a bit harder to control, therefore it must die.
Oh, and didn't Georgieboy W. B. explain the tax cuts for the rich with "What is good for American corporations is good for the American economy"? If open source is a competitior to American corporations, open source is bad for the American economy. What further proof of commu^H^H^H^H terrorism do you need?
I went to The Gathering every year from 93 till 00 (except 95), and it just got more and more crap. That is, from the perspective of someone who is more interested in the creative aspect.
It might be me that got old and grumpy, but in the end it seemed like ~95 percent of the people didn't even realize that there were demo compos going on, they just turned their stereos louder.
The Gathering is a LAN party, even though they throw in a striptease, a DJ or a "Microsoft talks about their exciting new technology" conference in the middle of it. DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU COME FOR THE DEMO SCENE.
If you want creativity, check out Breakpoint, a party held in Germany from the 19th till the 21st of April. Yep, this weekend. I'm going, and I am from Norway.
The same creep can go to the bathroom after reading Henry Miller or flipping through an artbook with paintings by Gustav Klimt.
Your example sucks, and is following the same technophobic pattern of those who want dedicated laws for the internet, because it is the OOH, SCARY INTERNET!
I really hope you are trolling, but I fear you are not.
Isn't this a natural next step? Even though Al-Jazeera is not Iraqi, it certainly publishes information our allies don't want out there.
(Especially pictures of dead children have a tendency to get people to think war sucks.)
I swear - I almost couldn't tell the animated women from genuine Realdolls!