What's the big deal about "cutting the cord"? Everyone's acting like this is the Holy Grail or something, but as near as I can tell, I'll still be sitting in front of the same old cubicle using the same old workstation, so what's so Evil(tm) about the "cord"?
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Q2. Is it legal to start a new fork like this?
A. The GPL guarantees this possibility. It's one of the better reasons for choosing GPL'd software - you are assured that if the product is good but the management is bad, the developers are free to continue their work.
Actually, that's an attribute common to ALL free and open source licenses, not just the GPL. You can't prohibit forking and still be approved by the FSF or OSI.
His argument also ignores the fact that opinions contrary to his own are also on the internet. Including "free Iraq" opinions. Some of the biggest bloggers out there are "free Iraq" types.
You're missing the whole point. It's "free fucking plastic gadgets from the government." All hail the Magnificent and Mighty State from which all good things come. Amen.
Unlike Europe, which everyone insists we must be compared to, North America is an extremely rural place. If you're going to grade on the curve, don't compare The US to Europe, compare the US to Canada. Does everyone in the Yukon have high speed broadband? What did it take to wire every home in Saskatchewan with quality reliable broadband access? Is the provider the government, private ISP, or state monopolized corporation? Do you have a choice of provider in upper Manitoba, or do you have to settle with the lowest-common-denominator solution?
Please stop comparing us to Europe. The distances between some US homes and the nearest computer retail outlet are greater than the size of some European nations.
You guys are the newbies on the block! "Tatanka" is a MODERN name. It's also only one modern word out of several modern Amerindian languages. These animals were known by more than just the Lakota! The Bison also roamed the San Joaquin Valley of California, but the Yokut word for them was NOT "Tatanka"!
We should instead call this species by their proper name, which is whatever the first human to North America 20,000+ years ago called them.
So why isn't VServer in the kernel yet? I'm not faulting the quality of the code, I'm faulting the strange attitude that experimental code is suitable for mission critical production use. FreeBSD put jails in the kernel, so we know they trust theirs. But why isn't VServer in Linux? Doesn't Linus trust it?
I you're allowed to count every project in existance somewhere on someone's harddrive, then of COURSE Linux does everything! Comparing Linux Vservers to Solaris Zones is silly because one is shipping on production enterprise class systems and the other is experimental.
What the EFF is upset about is that they skipped step #3
What about probable cause? In this particular case there was evidence that a crime was current and continuing, as the mere possession of child pornography is illegal.
Why should this computer owner be treated any differently than a someone who had his stash of child pornography discovered by the automobile technician who opened his trunk?
The technician accidentally discovers the presence of child pornography. Thus, you have probable cause. Duh.
This IS NOT a case of some police state arbitrarily searching people's computers in the hopes they might find something. This is instead analogous to a plumber noticing a stack of child pornography under the bathroom sink, and telling the cops about it.
Not being a stupid city fcuk I happen to know where food comes from. A cow and a bull make googoo eyes at each other then hump like there's no tomorrow. I know, because I've seen it. Usually though there's artificial insemination involved, with a guy wearing elbow length rubber gloves and a pvc pipe. Afterwards you get calves. They're definitely natural even if the fertilization might not be. They aren't grown in test tubes, but grow inside their mommies' tummies, then get birthed out of a real genuine cow orifice. Bull calves get castrated into steers (and we get mountain oysters as a byproduct). They grow up on a diet of pasture and hay. Then they get sent to the feed lot where they eat lots of corn. The pasture is real grass growing in real dirt, the hay is real timothy, real alfalfa and real oats, and the corn is genuine zea mays. Sometimes hormones are added. So what? Then we kill them and slice them up into yummy juicy steaks.
...wherein every little unix script I write, no matter how small, and even if nobody at the company will ever make money off of it or even use it, can't be taken with me to my next job.
I once saw the source code to the "yes" script on a commercial Unix. One half line of code, three screenfuls of nasty legalize about unpublished code.
As far as outcome in the Electoral College went, it really didn't matter whether I voted Democratic, Republican, Green, or Cthulhutarian.
If the Greens couldn't even get a sizable fraction of their own membership to vote for them in liberal Massaschussetts, then I really do have to hand it to the Democrats. When the Dems say "jump!" the Greens say "how high?"
There was no way Bush could have won in Mass, but the Greens voted Democrat there just like everywhere. I guess when the Dems say "jump" the Greens say "how high?" Frankly, I would be embarassed to be a Green.
I realize that. But the Green rhetoric made me think for a while that they were a party of principle. Now I realize that they're nothing more than merely a slightly more liberal version of the Democrat party.
What made AT&T different from modern corporations when it came to pure research? Nothing. In fact, they had even more restrictions on them than most companies, because for a long time they weren't even allowed as a monopoly to profit off of their innovations. But they did it anyway. Why?
Two reasons. First, pure research into many of their areas wasn't as "pure" as many make it out to be. Claude Shannon's work had a direct effect on telecommunications. There's a reason he was working on what he was.
Second, in relation to Unix, they were in the right time at the right place. Unix wasn't "pure" research in any sense of the word. It was just some guys trying to make use of an cheap unused computer. It started out terribly small and semi-usable, it didn't get to what we think of as "Unix" after many years. Unix "grew" and "evolved" rather than being "researched" fully formed from the brow of AT&T.
As "cool" as Google is, they still aren't doing "pure" research into stuff like the mating habits of the flea. They're still not going to do research into areas that aren't going to help them. They're a software company, which is why all of their "pure" research is into software related stuff.
Next election, I see a critical mass of people voting for a third party.
That's what everyone said last election, but that didn't stop 9 out of 10 registered Green Party members from voting a straight Democrat ticket. Even in a "safe" state like California where Bush could not have won, most Greens voted Democrat. My respect for the Green Party plummeted to nothing in the last election, because that's when I realized that it's all just hollow words. To the American liberal, it's all just an "us versus them" battle, and they'll all join together under the "us" banner regardless of belief, ideology or conviction. Pretty shallow if you ask me.
On the other "side", the vast majority of Libertarians and Constitutionalists stayed loyal to their beliefs.
The.org pavilion was banished to an upstairs mezzanine. This caused many attendees to miss it. I felt that it sent a message that the.orgs are unimportant.
I worked at the KDE booth. We were remarking on the steady but someone slow traffic. Then I went downstairs (for my turn at snagging swag and Redhat chocolate bars) and discovered where all the people were. Just a tenth of those people upstairs would have been cool. Oh well.
Like any tool, cookies can be used for either good or evil. I've got a cookie set at Netflix. In what possible manner could Netflix use this cookie for evil? They already have my information! If they wanted to sell my movie rental history to the highest bidder, they don't need a cookie to do it!
I've got cookies set to "ask" by default, and I routinely set sites to "no" if I'm casually browsing, or "yes" if I have a commercial relationship to them. Most other cases get a "no" as well.
For your reference, the patent was NOT on that Indian herb, but on a pharmeceutical. While it may prevent other multinational corporations from duplicated the synthesis, it does not prevent anyone from using the original herb or creating a new drug with a different synthesis.
These nanotube transistors are very cheap to make... but they're a bitch and a half getting them to the right spot on the chip and a bugger making them stay there afterwards!
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And what do you know? The ability to fork is inherent in YOUR open source license as well! You've just proved my point, thank you.
What's the big deal about "cutting the cord"? Everyone's acting like this is the Holy Grail or something, but as near as I can tell, I'll still be sitting in front of the same old cubicle using the same old workstation, so what's so Evil(tm) about the "cord"?
Q2. Is it legal to start a new fork like this?
A. The GPL guarantees this possibility. It's one of the better reasons for choosing GPL'd software - you are assured that if the product is good but the management is bad, the developers are free to continue their work.
Actually, that's an attribute common to ALL free and open source licenses, not just the GPL. You can't prohibit forking and still be approved by the FSF or OSI.
His argument also ignores the fact that opinions contrary to his own are also on the internet. Including "free Iraq" opinions. Some of the biggest bloggers out there are "free Iraq" types.
Or is it just more fucking plastic gadgets?
You're missing the whole point. It's "free fucking plastic gadgets from the government." All hail the Magnificent and Mighty State from which all good things come. Amen.
The real challenge is rural areas.
Unlike Europe, which everyone insists we must be compared to, North America is an extremely rural place. If you're going to grade on the curve, don't compare The US to Europe, compare the US to Canada. Does everyone in the Yukon have high speed broadband? What did it take to wire every home in Saskatchewan with quality reliable broadband access? Is the provider the government, private ISP, or state monopolized corporation? Do you have a choice of provider in upper Manitoba, or do you have to settle with the lowest-common-denominator solution?
Please stop comparing us to Europe. The distances between some US homes and the nearest computer retail outlet are greater than the size of some European nations.
Now if they wanted to bring back to vast herds of buffalo, sure.
We don't have vast herds anymore, but we do have herds.
p.s. I'm wondering how much that extinction of 13,000 years ago led to the bison megaherds of two centuries ago.
You guys are the newbies on the block! "Tatanka" is a MODERN name. It's also only one modern word out of several modern Amerindian languages. These animals were known by more than just the Lakota! The Bison also roamed the San Joaquin Valley of California, but the Yokut word for them was NOT "Tatanka"!
We should instead call this species by their proper name, which is whatever the first human to North America 20,000+ years ago called them.
So why isn't VServer in the kernel yet? I'm not faulting the quality of the code, I'm faulting the strange attitude that experimental code is suitable for mission critical production use. FreeBSD put jails in the kernel, so we know they trust theirs. But why isn't VServer in Linux? Doesn't Linus trust it?
Not only is SVG the only answer, it's the only answer to everything!
New? Not that is news! SVG 1.1 was ratified on the 14th of January, 2003.
Actually, that's pretty damned new. Some of us are old enough to remember the days when two weeks ago wasn't ancient history.
Solaris wasn't really all that thrilling on Sparc.
It wasn't supposed to be thrilling, it was just supposed to get the job done. Which it did.
I you're allowed to count every project in existance somewhere on someone's harddrive, then of COURSE Linux does everything! Comparing Linux Vservers to Solaris Zones is silly because one is shipping on production enterprise class systems and the other is experimental.
What the EFF is upset about is that they skipped step #3
What about probable cause? In this particular case there was evidence that a crime was current and continuing, as the mere possession of child pornography is illegal.
Why should this computer owner be treated any differently than a someone who had his stash of child pornography discovered by the automobile technician who opened his trunk?
The technician accidentally discovers the presence of child pornography. Thus, you have probable cause. Duh.
This IS NOT a case of some police state arbitrarily searching people's computers in the hopes they might find something. This is instead analogous to a plumber noticing a stack of child pornography under the bathroom sink, and telling the cops about it.
Not being a stupid city fcuk I happen to know where food comes from. A cow and a bull make googoo eyes at each other then hump like there's no tomorrow. I know, because I've seen it. Usually though there's artificial insemination involved, with a guy wearing elbow length rubber gloves and a pvc pipe. Afterwards you get calves. They're definitely natural even if the fertilization might not be. They aren't grown in test tubes, but grow inside their mommies' tummies, then get birthed out of a real genuine cow orifice. Bull calves get castrated into steers (and we get mountain oysters as a byproduct). They grow up on a diet of pasture and hay. Then they get sent to the feed lot where they eat lots of corn. The pasture is real grass growing in real dirt, the hay is real timothy, real alfalfa and real oats, and the corn is genuine zea mays. Sometimes hormones are added. So what? Then we kill them and slice them up into yummy juicy steaks.
All natural!
...wherein every little unix script I write, no matter how small, and even if nobody at the company will ever make money off of it or even use it, can't be taken with me to my next job.
I once saw the source code to the "yes" script on a commercial Unix. One half line of code, three screenfuls of nasty legalize about unpublished code.
As far as outcome in the Electoral College went, it really didn't matter whether I voted Democratic, Republican, Green, or Cthulhutarian.
If the Greens couldn't even get a sizable fraction of their own membership to vote for them in liberal Massaschussetts, then I really do have to hand it to the Democrats. When the Dems say "jump!" the Greens say "how high?"
There was no way Bush could have won in Mass, but the Greens voted Democrat there just like everywhere. I guess when the Dems say "jump" the Greens say "how high?" Frankly, I would be embarassed to be a Green.
This is a pretty standard tactic
I realize that. But the Green rhetoric made me think for a while that they were a party of principle. Now I realize that they're nothing more than merely a slightly more liberal version of the Democrat party.
What made AT&T different from modern corporations when it came to pure research? Nothing. In fact, they had even more restrictions on them than most companies, because for a long time they weren't even allowed as a monopoly to profit off of their innovations. But they did it anyway. Why?
Two reasons. First, pure research into many of their areas wasn't as "pure" as many make it out to be. Claude Shannon's work had a direct effect on telecommunications. There's a reason he was working on what he was.
Second, in relation to Unix, they were in the right time at the right place. Unix wasn't "pure" research in any sense of the word. It was just some guys trying to make use of an cheap unused computer. It started out terribly small and semi-usable, it didn't get to what we think of as "Unix" after many years. Unix "grew" and "evolved" rather than being "researched" fully formed from the brow of AT&T.
As "cool" as Google is, they still aren't doing "pure" research into stuff like the mating habits of the flea. They're still not going to do research into areas that aren't going to help them. They're a software company, which is why all of their "pure" research is into software related stuff.
Next election, I see a critical mass of people voting for a third party.
That's what everyone said last election, but that didn't stop 9 out of 10 registered Green Party members from voting a straight Democrat ticket. Even in a "safe" state like California where Bush could not have won, most Greens voted Democrat. My respect for the Green Party plummeted to nothing in the last election, because that's when I realized that it's all just hollow words. To the American liberal, it's all just an "us versus them" battle, and they'll all join together under the "us" banner regardless of belief, ideology or conviction. Pretty shallow if you ask me.
On the other "side", the vast majority of Libertarians and Constitutionalists stayed loyal to their beliefs.
The .org pavilion was banished to an upstairs mezzanine. This caused many attendees to miss it. I felt that it sent a message that the .orgs are unimportant.
I worked at the KDE booth. We were remarking on the steady but someone slow traffic. Then I went downstairs (for my turn at snagging swag and Redhat chocolate bars) and discovered where all the people were. Just a tenth of those people upstairs would have been cool. Oh well.
Like any tool, cookies can be used for either good or evil. I've got a cookie set at Netflix. In what possible manner could Netflix use this cookie for evil? They already have my information! If they wanted to sell my movie rental history to the highest bidder, they don't need a cookie to do it!
I've got cookies set to "ask" by default, and I routinely set sites to "no" if I'm casually browsing, or "yes" if I have a commercial relationship to them. Most other cases get a "no" as well.
For your reference, the patent was NOT on that Indian herb, but on a pharmeceutical. While it may prevent other multinational corporations from duplicated the synthesis, it does not prevent anyone from using the original herb or creating a new drug with a different synthesis.
These nanotube transistors are very cheap to make... but they're a bitch and a half getting them to the right spot on the chip and a bugger making them stay there afterwards!