She's as Scottish as she is English, being Queen Elizibeth the First of Scotland.
...and head of the Church of Scotland (as well as the Church of England). That one's always confused me - Episcopalian South of the Border, Presbyterian North of the Border. I'd hate to be the kids, getting dragged off to church twice each Sunday;)
Apparently it's not even legal here in Scotland! There was a "your money"-type programme recently that featured this, and a Royal Bank of Scotland "expert" was asked to comment on the grief Scots get in England with our funny money. He basically said it wasn't legal tender, even here in Soctland, and it was up to individual shops, etc, whether to accept it. (And Wikipedia supports this view).
Not that that changes anything; I'm still going to act all petulant when my Clydesdale notes get rejected all the way down the Tottenham Court Road...
Our borders weren't attacked after Pearl Harbor either.
Well, I was under the impression that Pearl Harbour was US territory, but I'd need to check my history, so I'll defer to your superior knowledge. (And don't forget that the Japanese attacked US outposts in the Phillipines and lesewhere, and sent firebombs against the Continental USA, too). Also Japan was a nation. Different rules traditionally have, and in my view should still, apply to nations compared to people - Britain didn't hold Eire responsible for the actions of Irish citizens in the Provisional IRA, or the US accountable for US citizens supporting Noraid.
As for the rest - well, since Afghanistan, what? Spain's been attacked. I'm struggling to come up with other examples. I'd totally agree with you that, in terms of destroying the Taliban and whatever rag-tag allies they had, Afghanistan has been a success.
As for Iraq? Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. Riverbend (sorry, no URL, at work) says Baghdad's been without water for several days, petrol's impossible to find and kerosine is running low. That's hearsay, but the BBC reports seem to support it. "The chaos" may only be in certain areas, but their trying to hold elections in many of those areas. And the chaos is a direct result of our actions - Saddam might have been a despot, but he didn't preside over anarchy (and I'm one of those nutters who don't believe that regime change is an acceptable motivation for invasion - if it is, we surrender to "might is right", and may just as well accept that the US could occupy, say, Cuba - a move many EU states would regard as as illegal and bizarre as the blockade consistently opposed by the UN General Assembly).
if you are downloading it and installing it then you obviously have a reson to use it, and are more likely to set an actual password.
I'd like to agree with you - I've installed MySQL (plus Apache and mod_php) on Windows boxes before now, for development (production server is a Solaris box, but my boss - for some bizarre reason - won't fork out for a Sparcstation for me;) However - many developers I know believe that dev machines don't merit the same kind of hardening as production machines. "Hey! We're behind the firewall, we're safe!" Maybe this'll serve as a wake-up call.
When you have to fight a bunch of belligerent goons, do you fight 'em one at a time or all at once
Whoa, dude! Why do we have to fight a "bunch of belligerant goons"? I can understand that during the Cold War we needed USAF/RAF bases scattered through the Arabian Peninsula, but now? I'd also humbly suggest that Libya's capitulation was a long time a-coming, and stemmed from a slow-and-steady legal process that started with the bombing over Lockerbie, and the subsequent rational and measured response from the USA and the UK - in marked contrast to the declaration of war that followed September 11th (mass murderers were immediately elevated to the status of nations by the declaration of war on terror. The hijackers were mass-murdering scum who deserved nowt more than to rot in jail - we've now made them heroes and martyrs).
There's no nation - not one - attacking the USA or the UK now. US and UK soldiers are attacked daily abroad, but our borders aren't threatened. I see belligerent goons, sure, but I see our belligerent goons (in Congress and Parliament - I mean no disrespect to the heroes risking their lives on their leaders' whim). Al Qaeda et al were - and are - largely irrelevant to our safety. They only threaten us where anarchy has been allowed to occur: in Iraq, in Somalia, etc.
And common sense be damned! We've had to fight multiple goons before - from 1939 to 1945. It wasn't pretty, we couldn't have done it without cooperation, but we did it. The USA, the UK, France, the Soviet Union, and untold others (I'm a Kiwi, I'm lumping the Commonwealth in with the UK - apologies).
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
No link, but you can google for the country if you've not heard of it: Pakistan. Has nukes? Check. Dictatorial regime? Check (opposed by the US until it became useful in the fight against Terra^wterror). Toppled the prvious democratic government? Check.
Kudos to the original poster - the West's attitude towards Pakistan (and Saudi Arabia, and Operation Condor-era South American, and our new client states in former-Soviet Asia) is shameful.
invasion that would make uncle ghengis proud, then finding out their target was some persons zombie-bot machine.
...and not caring, and doing the damage regardless. Yeah, I can see that too, sadly. Like when Britain last got riled about paedophiles, and a paediatrician was attacked by an angry mob "for being a well-known paediatrician".
OK, where to begin? The correct usage of the exclamation mark/point is like this:
ME TOO!!!!1!!!!1!!!!
See what you did wrong? Now, give me 500 lines: "I will not use accepted forms of punctuation with my AOL account..."
the speed increase is a tiny part of what makes gentoo so nice for me.
It was a while after I'd installed Gentoo that I became aware of it's reputation as being for "ricers" - I installed it because (a) it worked with my slightly wierd set-up, and (b) I was interested in learning more about Linux than I could with a "regular" distro. That speed increase is nice, though;)
I dunno, I'm a Gentoo... user (avoid saying you love operating systems, you fool!) and I came across funroll-loops via the Gentoo forums t'other day. Loved it - good for a laugh, if you don't take your gentooing too seriously.
I can not even configure why gentoo fails to mount/dev/ROOT after doing it successfully for 3 days!)
Never mine why is doesn't work now (see above in the thread for answers) - I'm curious as to how you got it to work at all! Sir, I bow before your superior luck^Wskill!;)
(and for the record, I don't see portage as being a large benefit to Solaris over pkgadd for the typical server, either)
I prefer pkg-get, which seemed to be quite like Gentoo's "emerge". I last deployed a Solaris box before I first installed Gentoo, so I can't recall how similar they are. Does pkg-get resolve dependencies? Reason I ask is, I'm gradually falling in love with "emerge" - it's a superb tool.
Then again, I had no end of trouble convincing the owners of the last Solaris box I touched that I should be allowed to install various GNU tools, so I don't know how much of an advantage Portaris will really bring - unless it becomes accepted as "part" of Solaris.
I sympathise, but I can think of a couple of reasons:
legacy machines (say running Solaris 2.6, 7) can be updated using "Portaris" and standard GNU tools more easily than, say, "pkg-get"
cheap Sparcs on eBay!
Another good thing to come from Portaris and Gentoo on Sparc is that Jonathon Schwarz will evenetually have to acknowledge the contribution Linux has made to Solaris...;)
...and the UK. Foreign nationals can be detained indefinitely without trial. I believe it's recently been ruled illegal, but the Government, Gawd bless them!, decided to ignore that.
It's a sore point with me as I'm a New Zealander. My upstairs neighbour was from the US, and similarly "affected". Of course, I accept it's unlikely either of us will end up in Belmarsh Detention Centre, but I'd still prefer to live in a country that respected human rights and the rule of law.
For sure, and I know I'm not the only left-leaner here. By-and-large, though, Slashdot (and the US in general) appears to like <voice type="Barmaid in Blues Brothers">both kinds of music - conservative and more-so!</voice>
My sister-in-law worked until recently in the LibDems' whips' office, and took great delight in informing me just how radical you lot are! Unfortunately, in the West of Scotland the LibDems have no chance (to be honest, no-one has any chance unless they're Labour), so my vote can only ever be a protest vote - hence my support for the SSP. Right now I'm voting tactically, though I'm happy to support the SSP.
You really think capitalism is the dominant school of thought on slashdot?
Well, aye. If not, what? I've made left-leaning comments on Slashdot (I'm an unashamed Socialist - former UK Labour Party member, current Scottish Socialist Party supporter) and been accused of being "dangerously liberal" (it's funny because "liberal" outside the US isn't a nice thing to call most leftists - we associate Liberalism with the US Democrats or Blair's New Labour project).
I'd argue that the line being followed is that of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, not the UK Labour Party per se. The EPLP's line may very well differ from UKLP, just as the Welsh and Scottish Labour Parties differ in policies while remaining close (politically) to John Smith House.
I suspect the EPLP is towing the GPES (European Socialists) line, while the UK Labour Party is doing whatever the Civil Service and Big Business tell it to.
I think keeping any serious issue secret is bad, but I'm prepared to accept that exposing a flaw may take some time - time to categorise, allocate resources, etc. I sincerely doubt that Linus would begrudge "the Industry" 24 hours, and I certainly don't.
"I'd be very happy with a 'private' list in the sense that people wouldn't feel pressured to fix it that day," Torvalds wrote.
I read that as he'd accept a private list solely for internal discussion in the very short-term; I'm not convinced it suggests Linus opposes full disclosure at the earliest convenient opportunity. For example, he continues this quote with:
But it should be very clear that no entity (neither the reporter nor any particular vendor/developer) can require silence, or ask for anything more than 'let's find the right solution.'
...and later on...
Torvalds said he would accept a totally open list with no embargo and no limits on who reads it. However he does admit that his preferences are extreme and that there needs to be some middle ground between that and vendor-sec...
...and rounds off the article with...
"So I believe that in the case of hiding vulnerabilities, any 'security gain' from the obscurity is more than made up for by all the security you lose through delaying action and not giving people information about the problem."
However, the right to make private modifications (and keep them private) is essential for Open Source. Even RMS agrees, though I'm too lazy to find the proper URL.
However... I'm not sure if IBM's definition contradicts that? It seems to me that IBM are defining open source as software that makes the source available when distributed. I've probably missed something, though... (too little coffee).
Hopefully, this will finally prove to the "all software patents are evil" crowd that software patents are not inherently evil: it's just how they're sometimes unfortunately used.
I'm not sure if I fit into the "all software patents are evil" category, but I do oppose the current move towards software patents in Europe. My reasoning is that until there are decent protections in place to prevent software patents being abused said patents are effectively evil. I'm basing that on how software patents have been used in the US, and my lack of confidence that the EU will behave any differently. Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that for all IBM's apparently good intentions, 500 patents is a mere fraction of IBM's 40000 patents worldwide.
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She's as Scottish as she is English, being Queen Elizibeth the First of Scotland.
...and head of the Church of Scotland (as well as the Church of England). That one's always confused me - Episcopalian South of the Border, Presbyterian North of the Border. I'd hate to be the kids, getting dragged off to church twice each Sunday ;)
Typcial fucking jock...
You know, as a New Zealander living in Scotland, I sometimes wonder why so many Scots have issues with the English at times. Thanks for reminding me.
At this point, we don't even know someone really has been arrested.
We do. We also know s/he's been released on bail.
Although its legal throughout the UK
Apparently it's not even legal here in Scotland! There was a "your money"-type programme recently that featured this, and a Royal Bank of Scotland "expert" was asked to comment on the grief Scots get in England with our funny money. He basically said it wasn't legal tender, even here in Soctland, and it was up to individual shops, etc, whether to accept it. (And Wikipedia supports this view).
Not that that changes anything; I'm still going to act all petulant when my Clydesdale notes get rejected all the way down the Tottenham Court Road...
Our borders weren't attacked after Pearl Harbor either.
Well, I was under the impression that Pearl Harbour was US territory, but I'd need to check my history, so I'll defer to your superior knowledge. (And don't forget that the Japanese attacked US outposts in the Phillipines and lesewhere, and sent firebombs against the Continental USA, too). Also Japan was a nation. Different rules traditionally have, and in my view should still, apply to nations compared to people - Britain didn't hold Eire responsible for the actions of Irish citizens in the Provisional IRA, or the US accountable for US citizens supporting Noraid.
As for the rest - well, since Afghanistan, what? Spain's been attacked. I'm struggling to come up with other examples. I'd totally agree with you that, in terms of destroying the Taliban and whatever rag-tag allies they had, Afghanistan has been a success.
As for Iraq? Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. Riverbend (sorry, no URL, at work) says Baghdad's been without water for several days, petrol's impossible to find and kerosine is running low. That's hearsay, but the BBC reports seem to support it. "The chaos" may only be in certain areas, but their trying to hold elections in many of those areas. And the chaos is a direct result of our actions - Saddam might have been a despot, but he didn't preside over anarchy (and I'm one of those nutters who don't believe that regime change is an acceptable motivation for invasion - if it is, we surrender to "might is right", and may just as well accept that the US could occupy, say, Cuba - a move many EU states would regard as as illegal and bizarre as the blockade consistently opposed by the UN General Assembly).
if you are downloading it and installing it then you obviously have a reson to use it, and are more likely to set an actual password.
I'd like to agree with you - I've installed MySQL (plus Apache and mod_php) on Windows boxes before now, for development (production server is a Solaris box, but my boss - for some bizarre reason - won't fork out for a Sparcstation for me ;) However - many developers I know believe that dev machines don't merit the same kind of hardening as production machines. "Hey! We're behind the firewall, we're safe!" Maybe this'll serve as a wake-up call.
When you have to fight a bunch of belligerent goons, do you fight 'em one at a time or all at once
Whoa, dude! Why do we have to fight a "bunch of belligerant goons"? I can understand that during the Cold War we needed USAF/RAF bases scattered through the Arabian Peninsula, but now? I'd also humbly suggest that Libya's capitulation was a long time a-coming, and stemmed from a slow-and-steady legal process that started with the bombing over Lockerbie, and the subsequent rational and measured response from the USA and the UK - in marked contrast to the declaration of war that followed September 11th (mass murderers were immediately elevated to the status of nations by the declaration of war on terror. The hijackers were mass-murdering scum who deserved nowt more than to rot in jail - we've now made them heroes and martyrs).
There's no nation - not one - attacking the USA or the UK now. US and UK soldiers are attacked daily abroad, but our borders aren't threatened. I see belligerent goons, sure, but I see our belligerent goons (in Congress and Parliament - I mean no disrespect to the heroes risking their lives on their leaders' whim). Al Qaeda et al were - and are - largely irrelevant to our safety. They only threaten us where anarchy has been allowed to occur: in Iraq, in Somalia, etc.
And common sense be damned! We've had to fight multiple goons before - from 1939 to 1945. It wasn't pretty, we couldn't have done it without cooperation, but we did it. The USA, the UK, France, the Soviet Union, and untold others (I'm a Kiwi, I'm lumping the Commonwealth in with the UK - apologies).
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
No link, but you can google for the country if you've not heard of it: Pakistan. Has nukes? Check. Dictatorial regime? Check (opposed by the US until it became useful in the fight against Terra^wterror). Toppled the prvious democratic government? Check.
Kudos to the original poster - the West's attitude towards Pakistan (and Saudi Arabia, and Operation Condor-era South American, and our new client states in former-Soviet Asia) is shameful.
invasion that would make uncle ghengis proud, then finding out their target was some persons zombie-bot machine.
...and not caring, and doing the damage regardless. Yeah, I can see that too, sadly. Like when Britain last got riled about paedophiles, and a paediatrician was attacked by an angry mob "for being a well-known paediatrician".
ME TOO!
OK, where to begin? The correct usage of the exclamation mark/point is like this:
ME TOO!!!!1!!!!1!!!!
See what you did wrong? Now, give me 500 lines: "I will not use accepted forms of punctuation with my AOL account..."
the speed increase is a tiny part of what makes gentoo so nice for me.
It was a while after I'd installed Gentoo that I became aware of it's reputation as being for "ricers" - I installed it because (a) it worked with my slightly wierd set-up, and (b) I was interested in learning more about Linux than I could with a "regular" distro. That speed increase is nice, though ;)
no, we don't care about your funroll loops link.
I dunno, I'm a Gentoo ... user (avoid saying you love operating systems, you fool!) and I came across funroll-loops via the Gentoo forums t'other day. Loved it - good for a laugh, if you don't take your gentooing too seriously.
I can not even configure why gentoo fails to mount /dev/ROOT after doing it successfully for 3 days!)
Never mine why is doesn't work now (see above in the thread for answers) - I'm curious as to how you got it to work at all! Sir, I bow before your superior luck^Wskill! ;)
(and for the record, I don't see portage as being a large benefit to Solaris over pkgadd for the typical server, either)
I prefer pkg-get, which seemed to be quite like Gentoo's "emerge". I last deployed a Solaris box before I first installed Gentoo, so I can't recall how similar they are. Does pkg-get resolve dependencies? Reason I ask is, I'm gradually falling in love with "emerge" - it's a superb tool.
Then again, I had no end of trouble convincing the owners of the last Solaris box I touched that I should be allowed to install various GNU tools, so I don't know how much of an advantage Portaris will really bring - unless it becomes accepted as "part" of Solaris.
I sympathise, but I can think of a couple of reasons:
Another good thing to come from Portaris and Gentoo on Sparc is that Jonathon Schwarz will evenetually have to acknowledge the contribution Linux has made to Solaris... ;)
...and the UK. Foreign nationals can be detained indefinitely without trial. I believe it's recently been ruled illegal, but the Government, Gawd bless them!, decided to ignore that.
It's a sore point with me as I'm a New Zealander. My upstairs neighbour was from the US, and similarly "affected". Of course, I accept it's unlikely either of us will end up in Belmarsh Detention Centre, but I'd still prefer to live in a country that respected human rights and the rule of law.
For sure, and I know I'm not the only left-leaner here. By-and-large, though, Slashdot (and the US in general) appears to like <voice type="Barmaid in Blues Brothers">both kinds of music - conservative and more-so!</voice>
My sister-in-law worked until recently in the LibDems' whips' office, and took great delight in informing me just how radical you lot are! Unfortunately, in the West of Scotland the LibDems have no chance (to be honest, no-one has any chance unless they're Labour), so my vote can only ever be a protest vote - hence my support for the SSP. Right now I'm voting tactically, though I'm happy to support the SSP.
You really think capitalism is the dominant school of thought on slashdot?
Well, aye. If not, what? I've made left-leaning comments on Slashdot (I'm an unashamed Socialist - former UK Labour Party member, current Scottish Socialist Party supporter) and been accused of being "dangerously liberal" (it's funny because "liberal" outside the US isn't a nice thing to call most leftists - we associate Liberalism with the US Democrats or Blair's New Labour project).
Pedantic, but pertinent: UK Labour Party line
I'd argue that the line being followed is that of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, not the UK Labour Party per se. The EPLP's line may very well differ from UKLP, just as the Welsh and Scottish Labour Parties differ in policies while remaining close (politically) to John Smith House.
I suspect the EPLP is towing the GPES (European Socialists) line, while the UK Labour Party is doing whatever the Civil Service and Big Business tell it to.
With the 'very limited' exception of Germany, no european country exists within 'Echelon'
The UK? I know, it doesn't really want to be European! ;)
I think keeping any serious issue secret is bad, but I'm prepared to accept that exposing a flaw may take some time - time to categorise, allocate resources, etc. I sincerely doubt that Linus would begrudge "the Industry" 24 hours, and I certainly don't.
"I'd be very happy with a 'private' list in the sense that people wouldn't feel pressured to fix it that day," Torvalds wrote.
I read that as he'd accept a private list solely for internal discussion in the very short-term; I'm not convinced it suggests Linus opposes full disclosure at the earliest convenient opportunity. For example, he continues this quote with:
However, the right to make private modifications (and keep them private) is essential for Open Source. Even RMS agrees, though I'm too lazy to find the proper URL.
You're quite corerct about private use: the GPL only applies when you distribute the software: For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. (emphasis added).
However... I'm not sure if IBM's definition contradicts that? It seems to me that IBM are defining open source as software that makes the source available when distributed. I've probably missed something, though... (too little coffee).
Hopefully, this will finally prove to the "all software patents are evil" crowd that software patents are not inherently evil: it's just how they're sometimes unfortunately used.
I'm not sure if I fit into the "all software patents are evil" category, but I do oppose the current move towards software patents in Europe. My reasoning is that until there are decent protections in place to prevent software patents being abused said patents are effectively evil. I'm basing that on how software patents have been used in the US, and my lack of confidence that the EU will behave any differently. Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that for all IBM's apparently good intentions, 500 patents is a mere fraction of IBM's 40000 patents worldwide.