The other reason is religious fanaticism directed against science because of the unpleasant truths it persists in revealing.
I think it's worse than that. From my perspective (I'm in catholic Italy) there was really no need for the church to go back to challenge scientific discoveries. In fact the Pope is fighting for what is seen as unethical research on human cloning and so on, but doesn't challenge Darwinism, for example. On the other hand, IIRC, one minister tried to remove Darwin from teaching programs, but the model for this behaviour stays in US, not in the Vatican (I don't want to try and excuse the Roman Catholics, which should speak out louder against this, as I do)
So, why politicians of us and italian right fight science more than the official Church? I have one dystopic explanation. Science as it existed before big money came in (that is: peer review, published results, quest for personal glory of the scientist...) is no longer desirable for the society we are transforming into. Scientific discovery must be directed by the market, in controlled environments and regulated by patents so that the big players exert their superiority.
Among other strategies, the enemies of science are using religion as a mere weapon of disinformation. They want people to blindly obey faith and negate scientific evidence and couldn't care less for the message itself. Else they would be evangelizing in a totally different way...
You are assuming that Linux security is directly related to its popularity. This is not the case with Apache, as many/.ers pointed out many times.
I say the obvious, that its security is directly related to its design and some peculiarities of the open source process.
I cannot prove it, but I am convinced that if you are competing with Microsoft your vulnerabilities surface quickly, and Linux is being a dangerous competitor since Apache took off.
I'm no linux guru either. Got xine nicely packaged by a simple apt-get install. Installed. Gave error/dev/dvd not found. ls/dev/dvd confirms. ln -s/dev/scd0/dev/dvd fixed it (now it would be/dev/hdc, it was like 2 years ago). worked. On a laptop, on powerpc, on the oh so much difficult to use debian.
I agree that it takes a bare minimum of linux knowledge but it also takes more time to fill out the forms to run windows media player 9 even if it came pre installed.
I, can't stand registration or shareware forms anymore. YMMV.
(don't even get started on the easyness of setting policies for selinux, you get offtopic: post the link of a MS equivalent else you lose the argument:D )
I think an advantage to the consumer is an external drive that behaves as closely as possible to an internal one. It seems that firewire performs better: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/usb20vsfirewire/
Given the option I'd get an HD with both interfaces and use firewire as much as i can.
Oh, come on! When will the submitter realize that stableis what most of us want to run on our servers and mission-critical hardware.
Maybe the submitter meant he can't wait for the testing release to become the new stable one because most of the included packages are mature enough (Sarge seems to be lagging because they wanted to include gnome 2.8) and because security updates are done asap on stable.
As for making a "server" distribution, I think it's not worth the effort, as answering the FAQ "which debian branch is better for my needs" should do. Personally i'm using debian unstable powerpc for my desktop and x86 stable with some backports for a server.
Before somebody dismisses parent post as being paranoid, a couple more thoughts that I find pertinent:
1) During war in Afghanistan against Bin Laden I reasonably assume that the military intelligence was closely monitoring all kind of communication in the area, which has smaller and simpler communication infrastructures than western countries. But they didn't capture the guy, so the trying to catch all the traffic for intelligence info is not so great a method.
2) I am from Italy, we had lots of terrorism in the past decades, both communist and fascist. It is disturbing to notice some similarities with the modern international terrorism that make me really wonder.
a) terrorists attack when the economy is down. Even communist ones. The public opinion steers away from discussing the economic crisis and are fed hours of scarcely useful data about terrorism.
b) terrorists attack normal people, not infrastructures or elites. A well conceived attack like 9/11 on infrastructures would have caused huge economic damage to western countries, and given Bin Laden a broader mass of followers.
c) if terrorists attack politicians, their victims are chosen among the moderates. It happened with Moro and Biagi, but anthrax was sent to democrats there, IIRC. Seems that terrorists like to appear as bad as possible.
Ok, so the great innovators at Microsoft patented using XML to store a word processing document.
If you are going to take into account all things that have been patented you can well stop developing software altogether (I found your comment informative, anyway, sorry if I sounded offensive).
The choice is between signing over the copyright or not getting published at all (I am talking about traditional record companies, not internet-based ones like Magnatune)
IANAL but I'm convinced there are lots of countries that don't allow corporate personhood and at the same time allow somebody to sue a company for damage.
I got it.... but if one defines piracy as "violation of license agreement of the software product" it is quite possible to pirate linux and somebody may already have done that.
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Much recorded music is not relased in a fashion that he's going to know about it (think about a band selling homemade CDs from a stage).
Indeed. Even if we leave out white labels and homemade stuff and stick to officially released records I do not see how a single person can get all the releases. It is already impossible to _listen to_ all _vinyl_ releases of this week, and some people think vinyl is dead...
A company the size of MS that cannot write a decent test suite. Incompetence or the need to keep the proposed standard as obscure as possible to stifle competition... or both?
Not that I have any reason to trust IBM but I have all the reasons not to trust SCO: What if a corrupt IBM employee made that code disappear? SCO cannot do that? What about another company who already helped SCO out?
It's SCO's *third* claim, so maybe they devised a better FUD tactic this time? These questions and similar ones I would have dismissed as too unlikely, but in this case I believe IBM is innocent until SCO proves otherwise.
On a relatively up to date 10.2.8 running in a Mac on linux window as we speak, my user account cannot write into [Volume Name]:System:Library:StartupItems nor into its subdirectories (haven't tried them all but a quick chown or chmod can be a solution in that case). That folder is owned by 'system' and group 'wheel'.
So a script that needs to be installed as root is definitely not comparable to the plethora of vulnerabilities win users are exposed to. If that were the case osx and linux should have approx 5 percent of the total viruses, according to their market share. That simply doesnt happen so I consider this/. article FUD until somebody discovers what can remotely install such script. Keep your "boxen" updated, though.
Well the gizmo's instructions have to state that such uses are not permitted or they face lawsuits. People are going to do that anyway and somebody's going to get hurt. The days of the ubuquitous laser pointer are back:/
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The other reason is religious fanaticism directed against science because of the unpleasant truths it persists in revealing.
I think it's worse than that. From my perspective (I'm in catholic Italy) there was really no need for the church to go back to challenge scientific discoveries. In fact the Pope is fighting for what is seen as unethical research on human cloning and so on, but doesn't challenge Darwinism, for example. On the other hand, IIRC, one minister tried to remove Darwin from teaching programs, but the model for this behaviour stays in US, not in the Vatican (I don't want to try and excuse the Roman Catholics, which should speak out louder against this, as I do)
So, why politicians of us and italian right fight science more than the official Church? I have one dystopic explanation. Science as it existed before big money came in (that is: peer review, published results, quest for personal glory of the scientist...) is no longer desirable for the society we are transforming into. Scientific discovery must be directed by the market, in controlled environments and regulated by patents so that the big players exert their superiority.
Among other strategies, the enemies of science are using religion as a mere weapon of disinformation. They want people to blindly obey faith and negate scientific evidence and couldn't care less for the message itself. Else they would be evangelizing in a totally different way...
You are assuming that Linux security is directly related to its popularity. This is not the case with Apache, as many /.ers pointed out many times.
I say the obvious, that its security is directly related to its design and some peculiarities of the open source process.
I cannot prove it, but I am convinced that if you are competing with Microsoft your vulnerabilities surface quickly, and Linux is being a dangerous competitor since Apache took off.
Never tested it, but Zone minder seems promising.
Wait. I forgot. I had also gotten the decss package in advance. Add a couple minutes to the installation :)
I'm no linux guru either. Got xine nicely packaged by a simple apt-get install. Installed. Gave error /dev/dvd not found. ls /dev/dvd confirms. ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd fixed it (now it would be /dev/hdc, it was like 2 years ago). worked. On a laptop, on powerpc, on the oh so much difficult to use debian.
I agree that it takes a bare minimum of linux knowledge but it also takes more time to fill out the forms to run windows media player 9 even if it came pre installed.
I, can't stand registration or shareware forms anymore. YMMV.
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SElinux?
(don't even get started on the easyness of setting policies for selinux, you get offtopic: post the link of a MS equivalent else you lose the argument
I think an advantage to the consumer is an external drive that behaves as closely as possible to an internal one. It seems that firewire performs better:e /
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/usb20vsfirewir
Given the option I'd get an HD with both interfaces and use firewire as much as i can.
Oh, come on! When will the submitter realize that stableis what most of us want to run on our servers and mission-critical hardware.
Maybe the submitter meant he can't wait for the testing release to become the new stable one because most of the included packages are mature enough (Sarge seems to be lagging because they wanted to include gnome 2.8) and because security updates are done asap on stable.
As for making a "server" distribution, I think it's not worth the effort, as answering the FAQ "which debian branch is better for my needs" should do. Personally i'm using debian unstable powerpc for my desktop and x86 stable with some backports for a server.
Free to mod as you prefer, as I have karma to burn, pal.
I still think that is appropriate as it represent exactly the stages microsoft went through when confronted with linux.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
(Ghandi)
Anybody running windows on nuts is an apache.
In corporate IT, only guys selling inferior software raise the issue of secure distribution of competing products.
Before somebody dismisses parent post as being paranoid, a couple more thoughts that I find pertinent: 1) During war in Afghanistan against Bin Laden I reasonably assume that the military intelligence was closely monitoring all kind of communication in the area, which has smaller and simpler communication infrastructures than western countries. But they didn't capture the guy, so the trying to catch all the traffic for intelligence info is not so great a method. 2) I am from Italy, we had lots of terrorism in the past decades, both communist and fascist. It is disturbing to notice some similarities with the modern international terrorism that make me really wonder. a) terrorists attack when the economy is down. Even communist ones. The public opinion steers away from discussing the economic crisis and are fed hours of scarcely useful data about terrorism. b) terrorists attack normal people, not infrastructures or elites. A well conceived attack like 9/11 on infrastructures would have caused huge economic damage to western countries, and given Bin Laden a broader mass of followers. c) if terrorists attack politicians, their victims are chosen among the moderates. It happened with Moro and Biagi, but anthrax was sent to democrats there, IIRC. Seems that terrorists like to appear as bad as possible.
Ok, so the great innovators at Microsoft patented using XML to store a word processing document.
If you are going to take into account all things that have been patented you can well stop developing software altogether (I found your comment informative, anyway, sorry if I sounded offensive).
It was their choice to sign over the copyright...
The choice is between signing over the copyright or not getting published at all (I am talking about traditional record companies, not internet-based ones like Magnatune)
IANAL but I'm convinced there are lots of countries that don't allow corporate personhood and at the same time allow somebody to sue a company for damage.
I got it.... but if one defines piracy as "violation of license agreement of the software product" it is quite possible to pirate linux and somebody may already have done that.
Much recorded music is not relased in a fashion that he's going to know about it (think about a band selling homemade CDs from a stage).
Indeed. Even if we leave out white labels and homemade stuff and stick to officially released records I do not see how a single person can get all the releases. It is already impossible to _listen to_ all _vinyl_ releases of this week, and some people think vinyl is dead...
Meet my good friend applesoft basic CLI prompt: ] (he is over twenty, BTW)
A company the size of MS that cannot write a decent test suite. Incompetence or the need to keep the proposed standard as obscure as possible to stifle competition... or both?
Not that I have any reason to trust IBM but I have all the reasons not to trust SCO: What if a corrupt IBM employee made that code disappear? SCO cannot do that? What about another company who already helped SCO out?
It's SCO's *third* claim, so maybe they devised a better FUD tactic this time? These questions and similar ones I would have dismissed as too unlikely, but in this case I believe IBM is innocent until SCO proves otherwise.
On a relatively up to date 10.2.8 running in a Mac on linux window as we speak, my user account cannot
/. article FUD until somebody discovers what can remotely install such script. Keep your "boxen" updated, though.
write into [Volume Name]:System:Library:StartupItems nor into its subdirectories (haven't tried them all but a quick chown or chmod can be a solution in that case). That folder is owned by 'system' and group 'wheel'.
So a script that needs to be installed as root is definitely not comparable to the plethora of vulnerabilities win users are exposed to. If that were the case osx and linux should have approx 5 percent of the total viruses, according to their market share. That simply doesnt happen so I consider this
Well the gizmo's instructions have to state that such uses are not permitted or they face lawsuits. People are going to do that anyway and somebody's going to get hurt. The days of the ubuquitous laser pointer are back :/
I'd not provoke them, they might go for roSCO.com and claim prior art on Hazzard.