The article says ATM any owner of.ru domain can be seen, while many owners of.com domains can 'hide' behind registrar's data. It is going to be an optional service in case site owners want to do it. That's all. Turn your paranoid mods off, please!
Cheers!
Bloomberg, just stop trolling with your articles. All the online press that Russians actually bother reading is already licensed by the Ministry of Press, TV Broadcast and Mass Media of the Russian Federation:
None of these businesses is going to risk their investments. The irony is that it is exactly the same in the U.S. as well - big companies just support one of the two candidates and nobody cares about the smaller ones. So Bloomberg and the rest, stop scaring your people while attempting to control them.
And you,/. - take note.
Cheers!
We lost countless users to Ubuntu. Admittedly, Ubuntu drew a lot of its users from other distributions and even from Windows. But there is no reason for Debian to be simply the distribution upon which Debian-based distributions are based, we can also get new users by being more appealing.
Debian has turned into a political zoo of OSS dinosaurs, who are too big and too ancient. They spend lots of time arguing over political issues and raise barrier too high for hew developers.
During Debian Project Leader (DPL) election campaign candidates were almost in unison looking up to Ubuntu as an example on how to attract new users and developers. With Etch out and new DPL in Debian's goal can be summarized in one phrase: "Let's catch up with Ubuntu"
Eve will beat them all... Well, whenever they shoot a movie after it... And at the moment of the greatest of battles, when bad guys are about to be totally annihilated, the server claster will crash! And voice behind the scene will say "We are sorry, but the server was working fine. You lost ship petitions are going to be denied".
-- Thou shall pew-pew --From the book of Revelations...
I've created http://alex-ponosov-en.livejournal.com/ and started translating Alexander's journal. Any help from the Russian-English translators would be highly appreciated. I know my English is not perfect, so any corrections are more than welcome.
Dear Microsoft,
Can we take this statement "winning against linux the smart way" as an acknowledgement that fighting Linux with SCO-like cases and threatening its community with patents and intellectual property infridgements is 'not so smart way' afterall?
Curious Linux community...
So what? M$ has realized that not many are willling to read only glorified blog posts about MS products. You have to have some so-called 'rebels'. At the same time, despite all the criticism, it looks that the author still sucks up to M$. In which case the whole thing is nothing more than yet another PR stunt.
What I don't understand in this case is what the hell this post is doing on/. ? You'd better give us some more about how much better Ubuntu is comparing to SuSe and we can have our holy war ourselves. Forget M$, this dying dinosaur...
Everyone seems to know of high-profile cases, such as AllOfMp3. No wonder, AllOfMP3 used to one of the most popular music shops out there, just a bit less popular than iTunes.
Unfortunately, due to this 'fight', a lot of innocent people get hurt by the system. You heard of Ponosov's case, where a headmaster of God-forgotten school in Perm region has been tried for an alleged 'intellectual property violation'. And this case was not brought on by Microsoft. It was brought by a regional prosecution office. And that was just a beginning...
Nowadays corrupted goverment officials and law enforcement officers use 'software piracy' as yet another way to make a 'quick buck' in bribes. Their demands are completely ridiculous. Here is a couple of examples:
In big cities they stop people for documents checks and 'random' searches. And now if they see a laptop, they demand to turn it on and demand a license for the software. And that's suppose to be an 'antiterrorist' activity...
Police came over to some company recently and confiscated their Linux servers with the following explanation: Your computer does not have 'My Computer' icon, so it must be illegal. No other explanation was given. When the company visited local police office and demanded explanation, they were told: you can sue us and wait for another half a year until the court processes your case. Keep in mind, though, that all this time your equipment is going to lie here as evidence. Alternatively, you can just pay the fine that is reasonable to both of us and get your sh&t outta here.... What do you think the businessmen have done? You can read about it (in Russian)here and here.
Here are the poll results of exUSSR citizens that live abroad (mostly in Ireland). Lots of them think it was FSB that killed Litvinenko, but majority actually think it was an accident (Lugovoi and Litvinenko were smuggling radioactive materials from Russia). Poll options one by one:
Federal Security Bureau
Russian Mafia that Litvinenko tried to blackmail
Suicide to blame Putin
Americans or other enemies of Russia
Accident when smuggling radioactive materials
Option #5 seems to be the most popular one. I know this poll is not very representative, but it certainly beats your coworker's opinion...
Tschuss...
Some people actually think Berezovsky is behind the whole story with Litvinenko. His has a good motive - to discredite Putin's government at all costs.
I was talking about default install from OLPC. Anything else does not matter since people who are mainly going to use the laptop will not really care what browser they are using. You, on other hand, are more than welcome to install Opera on your own $100 laptop that is probably going to cost you around $400.
Unles Opera open sources its browser, this news of little value. There is little chance closed source Opera will be installed on any standard OLPC distribution. The OLPC guys made such a huge issue out of close-source wireless Marvel chips, the only closed-source hardware component of the laptop that Marvel finally open source its drivers. So whoever thinks they would allow close-source browser on the 100$ laptops must be out of little mad...
Ah, maybe that's why Debian founder made his own distro? And Mark, too? And that's why lots of good and properly motivated Debian were quick to jump on Ubuntu bandwagon when offered a salary for their hard work? Let's be pragmatic. We can all have philantropic ideas, but at the end of the day, everyone has to eat. Look who is making most of contributions to the kernel nowadays - Red Hat, Novell, and folks at OSDL. Even Debian with its philantropic motivation is torn apart nowadays with its new leader and DUNC-Tank. Call it troll, but that's how life is...
Mr. Cosmonaut clearly understands that Novell will get a tremendous money advantage over the next few years. It would be enough to lure all bright developers that remain in Debian/Ubuntu world to SUSE. Even RedHat should be aware...
Ubuntu needs a big push to get its place under the sun. Currently RedHat and SUSE control the enterprise Linux market. That's why Ubuntu guys want to make it pretty, and even agreed to include binary modules - the goal is to win at all costs. After than they can get more generous and fair, and finally close their bug #1.
Google could make its own open source project. All they need to do is to hire Gaia's creator to keep working on it. Then it would not violate terms of licensing with satellite data providers. Google's Gaia could offer simpler functionality than Google Earth or Google Eearch Plus, but still workable and useful on multiple and exotic platforms.
my 2 cents.
Year after year, technology gets abused more and more, intruding lives of people on greater and greater scale. But since these increments are little, only a handful of people talk or do something about it. The rest of the public just don't care. They keep voting for politicians that pass tigher and more privacy-intrusive laws, and send country's soliders to die for no purpose into God-forgotten countries. Shame! Shame to politicians, shame to irrogant public!
1. Since lots of characters in different languages are look-alike, this would create lots of security problems with character substitutions. There was a demonstration a year ago or so, with the registration of paypal.com and obtaining a legal ssl certificate for it, where a where non-latin. when user cannot distinguish between the two, how can he or she trust any site on the internet?
2. Creating domains in different languages is also bad idea for collaboration. It will create unnecessary internet segments. Essentially, now people of the world use latin characters for accessing websites and sending emails. How in a world an English speaker suppose to type chinese or arabic characters of a domain to send an email if he or she doesn't know the alphabet or doesn't have a keyboard support installed? No way... so all these domains should really be a supplement to normal latin domains if you want to collaborate with the rest of the world...
Slashdot Mirror
Here is a tutorial from Greg KH from Ottawa Linux Symposium 2005 (and 2006):t utorial/t utorial_example_code.tar.gz
http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2005_driver_
And sample code for a USB thermometer
http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2005_driver_
close(rantPage);
System.out.println("Nothing here to see. Please, move along...");
The article says ATM any owner of .ru domain can be seen, while many owners of .com domains can 'hide' behind registrar's data. It is going to be an optional service in case site owners want to do it. That's all. Turn your paranoid mods off, please!
Cheers!
- http://www.lenta.ru/info/license.htm
- http://www.rbc.ru/
- http://www.mail.ru/
- http://www.gazeta.ru/
...
Same goes for the most popular blog services:- http://www.livejournal.com/ which has Russian-speaking abuse team controlled by a Russian company
- http://www.liveinternet.ru/
- ...
None of these businesses is going to risk their investments. The irony is that it is exactly the same in the U.S. as well - big companies just support one of the two candidates and nobody cares about the smaller ones. So Bloomberg and the rest, stop scaring your people while attempting to control them. And you,Debian has turned into a political zoo of OSS dinosaurs, who are too big and too ancient. They spend lots of time arguing over political issues and raise barrier too high for hew developers.
During Debian Project Leader (DPL) election campaign candidates were almost in unison looking up to Ubuntu as an example on how to attract new users and developers. With Etch out and new DPL in Debian's goal can be summarized in one phrase: "Let's catch up with Ubuntu"
How Debian's brand new DPL wants to do this:
- rework website
- rework bugtracking system
- sex up the desktop, and
- encourage optional desktop releases every 6 months...
I wonder how they are going to do it... Especially the last bitEve will beat them all... Well, whenever they shoot a movie after it... And at the moment of the greatest of battles, when bad guys are about to be totally annihilated, the server claster will crash! And voice behind the scene will say "We are sorry, but the server was working fine. You lost ship petitions are going to be denied".
--
Thou shall pew-pew --From the book of Revelations...
I've created http://alex-ponosov-en.livejournal.com/ and started translating Alexander's journal. Any help from the Russian-English translators would be highly appreciated. I know my English is not perfect, so any corrections are more than welcome.
Dear Microsoft, Can we take this statement "winning against linux the smart way" as an acknowledgement that fighting Linux with SCO-like cases and threatening its community with patents and intellectual property infridgements is 'not so smart way' afterall? Curious Linux community...
with google search, gmail, gmaps, gphone, gspots (wireless ones), gapps we are all heading full ahead to the greatest g of them ever - ginternet.
i, for one, gwelcome our gnew goverlords!
eh, /... what you have turned me into...
So what? M$ has realized that not many are willling to read only glorified blog posts about MS products. You have to have some so-called 'rebels'. At the same time, despite all the criticism, it looks that the author still sucks up to M$. In which case the whole thing is nothing more than yet another PR stunt.
What I don't understand in this case is what the hell this post is doing on /. ? You'd better give us some more about how much better Ubuntu is comparing to SuSe and we can have our holy war ourselves. Forget M$, this dying dinosaur...
Everyone seems to know of high-profile cases, such as AllOfMp3. No wonder, AllOfMP3 used to one of the most popular music shops out there, just a bit less popular than iTunes.
Unfortunately, due to this 'fight', a lot of innocent people get hurt by the system. You heard of Ponosov's case, where a headmaster of God-forgotten school in Perm region has been tried for an alleged 'intellectual property violation'. And this case was not brought on by Microsoft. It was brought by a regional prosecution office. And that was just a beginning...
Nowadays corrupted goverment officials and law enforcement officers use 'software piracy' as yet another way to make a 'quick buck' in bribes. Their demands are completely ridiculous. Here is a couple of examples:
slashdotting google... the funniest joke i've heard all week!
- Federal Security Bureau
- Russian Mafia that Litvinenko tried to blackmail
- Suicide to blame Putin
- Americans or other enemies of Russia
- Accident when smuggling radioactive materials
Option #5 seems to be the most popular one. I know this poll is not very representative, but it certainly beats your coworker's opinion... Tschuss...Some people actually think Berezovsky is behind the whole story with Litvinenko. His has a good motive - to discredite Putin's government at all costs.
OLPC has its own browser that uses Gecko engine. Do you imply that Gecko engine does not work well?
I was talking about default install from OLPC. Anything else does not matter since people who are mainly going to use the laptop will not really care what browser they are using. You, on other hand, are more than welcome to install Opera on your own $100 laptop that is probably going to cost you around $400.
Unles Opera open sources its browser, this news of little value. There is little chance closed source Opera will be installed on any standard OLPC distribution. The OLPC guys made such a huge issue out of close-source wireless Marvel chips, the only closed-source hardware component of the laptop that Marvel finally open source its drivers. So whoever thinks they would allow close-source browser on the 100$ laptops must be out of little mad...
Ah, maybe that's why Debian founder made his own distro? And Mark, too? And that's why lots of good and properly motivated Debian were quick to jump on Ubuntu bandwagon when offered a salary for their hard work? Let's be pragmatic. We can all have philantropic ideas, but at the end of the day, everyone has to eat. Look who is making most of contributions to the kernel nowadays - Red Hat, Novell, and folks at OSDL. Even Debian with its philantropic motivation is torn apart nowadays with its new leader and DUNC-Tank. Call it troll, but that's how life is...
damn /. for not being able to edit comments!
Michael == Mark
$20m $368 == $20m lot less than $348
Mr. Cosmonaut clearly understands that Novell will get a tremendous money advantage over the next few years. It would be enough to lure all bright developers that remain in Debian/Ubuntu world to SUSE. Even RedHat should be aware... Ubuntu needs a big push to get its place under the sun. Currently RedHat and SUSE control the enterprise Linux market. That's why Ubuntu guys want to make it pretty, and even agreed to include binary modules - the goal is to win at all costs. After than they can get more generous and fair, and finally close their bug #1.
Google could make its own open source project. All they need to do is to hire Gaia's creator to keep working on it. Then it would not violate terms of licensing with satellite data providers. Google's Gaia could offer simpler functionality than Google Earth or Google Eearch Plus, but still workable and useful on multiple and exotic platforms. my 2 cents.
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Year after year, technology gets abused more and more, intruding lives of people on greater and greater scale. But since these increments are little, only a handful of people talk or do something about it. The rest of the public just don't care. They keep voting for politicians that pass tigher and more privacy-intrusive laws, and send country's soliders to die for no purpose into God-forgotten countries. Shame! Shame to politicians, shame to irrogant public!
1. Since lots of characters in different languages are look-alike, this would create lots of security problems with character substitutions. There was a demonstration a year ago or so, with the registration of paypal.com and obtaining a legal ssl certificate for it, where a where non-latin. when user cannot distinguish between the two, how can he or she trust any site on the internet?
2. Creating domains in different languages is also bad idea for collaboration. It will create unnecessary internet segments. Essentially, now people of the world use latin characters for accessing websites and sending emails. How in a world an English speaker suppose to type chinese or arabic characters of a domain to send an email if he or she doesn't know the alphabet or doesn't have a keyboard support installed? No way... so all these domains should really be a supplement to normal latin domains if you want to collaborate with the rest of the world...