Fifteen years ago I moved to Argentina and lived there for 10 years. The government and police are extremely corrupt, almost mafia-like.
It's every [extended] family for themselves... they have clubs where you go barter for stuff with credit chips because the Argentine peso is worthless.
Ironically, I moved out right as the dollar became uber strong when the peso was devalued...
But I don't think this decree will amount to much do to the sheer impracticalities and economic costs of implementing such a massive log system. ISPs will either do their utmost to avoid following this to the letter, or go out of business.
P.S. People in Argentina don't care much about privacy in general. For instance, they literally have no concept of personal space and will stand like 1 cm from your face while talking to you.
Not at all. It's a completely accurate assessment of the difference between the BSDL and GPL.
No, it is slightly accurate and mostly incoherent.
> The BSDL is about the code, the GPL is about the philosophy. The BSD project was started to create a better UNIX, the GNU project was started to create a free UNIX (for a given value of free). Whether the code or the philosophy is more important is a matter of individual choice.
Be that as it may (you are of course oversimplifying), the issue in question is one of "fairness":
A) BSD because is the only FAIR license that allows ANYONE to use the code? Bah.
vs.
B) What happens if a programmer doesn't want their code to be used by developers who don't share the same "philosophy" that they do? Is that fair to them? No, so they use one of the other licences, which will be more compatable with their goals for their code.
B) is very silly, because while it is obvious that for a programmer who doesn't want their code to be used by developers who don't share the same "philosophy", the GPL is indisputably "fair" to this requirement... by contrast, the GPL is not "fair" to potential users who cannot accomodate this "viral" philosophy.
And you know exactly what I mean by "viral", so don't argue semantics.
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> I'm not sure about the ammount of compatible apps, but Linux can be natively compiled for the Apple platform and it would run in native speed.
Thanks for the info, I really was born yesterday you know.
> I would even argue you could have a generally more responsive system by getting rid of a lot of bloat.
Wtf does that have to do with anything?
at a slower speed and with notably fewer compatible apps.
> This begs the question,
No, it raises the question.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html
Quick, get ballmer on a plane with a 70% discount!
If you are wondering why I link to technocrat in my sig... it is for people like you ;-)
Agreed, but it would seem anything related to Google -- however directly or indirectly -- is considered news these days.
I haven't been to Cordoba in about 7 years so I wouldn't know how things compare to Bs.As. now...
The main thing I noticed was too many Mac users... maybe I just found the wrong crowd. Had some great 5 on 5 street soccer, though...
> Just the porteños are a bunch of lowlifes.
:P
mmm... well I've driven between Puerto Madrid, Ushuaia, Bariloche, Cordoba, Posadas, and some village in Tucuman (can't remember the name).
The _only_ interesting people I ever met were from Gran Bs. As... asi que vos estas equivocado
I visited a couple years ago, and they were still going... one of my friends lives in Morón and I know his family still barters.
Fifteen years ago I moved to Argentina and lived there for 10 years. The government and police are extremely corrupt, almost mafia-like.
It's every [extended] family for themselves... they have clubs where you go barter for stuff with credit chips because the Argentine peso is worthless.
Ironically, I moved out right as the dollar became uber strong when the peso was devalued...
But I don't think this decree will amount to much do to the sheer impracticalities and economic costs of implementing such a massive log system. ISPs will either do their utmost to avoid following this to the letter, or go out of business.
P.S. People in Argentina don't care much about privacy in general. For instance, they literally have no concept of personal space and will stand like 1 cm from your face while talking to you.
thelastguardian asks: Who said moondust is useless?
I don't know about useless, but these crazy people seem to think lunar dust is a dangerous, pressing concern!
> I wonder if there is any decent code repository for .NET
/dev/null ?
You mean, besides
> but in the case of naive Windows users, even asking them to reboot can be a scary concept for them.
You have GOT to be kidding. Rebooting is the first thing Windows users learn how to do properly!
Oh but Slashdot isn't misrepresenting anything. We're just helping to ensure you read all those _really important_ stories at least once ;)
> now here we are 3 months into 2005, which if I am not mistaken is the first year since 99 that nobody called "the year of the Linux desktop".
/now/ you are mistaken.
Okay, 2005 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
There,
Uhm, that is done already. For intance, gentoo calls its kernels "linux-2.6.x-gentoo-rx"
Of course you could always start the script from /etc/conf.d/local.start
> they can just ignore the code and write their own version, same as the person who created the GPL licensed code had to do.
That is perfectly true. However, it does not pertain to the "fairness" in question.
The issue is whether it is "fairer" to license open source code:
a) without restriction
- OR -
b) with the restriction that further modifications must be released under the same license
Not at all. It's a completely accurate assessment of the difference between the BSDL and GPL.
:
No, it is slightly accurate and mostly incoherent.
> The BSDL is about the code, the GPL is about the philosophy. The BSD project was started to create a better UNIX, the GNU project was started to create a free UNIX (for a given value of free). Whether the code or the philosophy is more important is a matter of individual choice.
Be that as it may (you are of course oversimplifying), the issue in question is one of "fairness"
A) BSD because is the only FAIR license that allows ANYONE to use the code? Bah.
vs.
B) What happens if a programmer doesn't want their code to be used by developers who don't share the same "philosophy" that they do? Is that fair to them? No, so they use one of the other licences, which will be more compatable with their goals for their code.
B) is very silly, because while it is obvious that for a programmer who doesn't want their code to be used by developers who don't share the same "philosophy", the GPL is indisputably "fair" to this requirement... by contrast, the GPL is not "fair" to potential users who cannot accomodate this "viral" philosophy.
And you know exactly what I mean by "viral", so don't argue semantics.
No offence, but that has got to be the silliest assesment of BSD vs GPL I have ever read.
Only if their code has been inlcuded.
/usr/share/doc...
And if it has, there should be an email in the CREDITS file in
The commercial-free distribution costs would be insane. It would be cheaper to mail a set of DVDs to each fan.
And this is relevant to modern day apostrophe usage... how?
The day the French become part of the English speaking world, you might have a point.
(oh... so THAT is Bush's plan...)
Hint: Throughout human history, protesters and congregations have been broken up many times.
Maybe that is what they are roleplaying... with Blizzard playing the role of Big Bad Oppressive Government.
But regardless, there is nothing un-MMORPG about it.