If I have old hardware that doesn't run 2.6, I can and do drop back to an older kernel. Hell, 2.0.40 came out in 2004. And note the size! That kernel boots as fast on my 133MHz machine as 2.6 does on my 1GHz frankenstein. New features on a new kernel mean nothing on hardware that can't use it. If you want to keep running a new kernel on old hardware, obviously you're going to suffer plenty of bloat, as evidenced in the Windows world. And speaking of that, if MS had kept their old version on the market. They could have slimmed down the new versions considerably. Of course, most of us know that older versions are MS biggest competition, so that's why the lockdown, all made possible by our gracious IP overlords. So be it. I don't need them anymore. Even Apple put up their old old versions for free. But it doesn't run on new hardware. And their new software doesn't run on old hardware. And furthermore, wouldn't it be easier to troubleshoot and fix bugs in the older, smaller kernels? My general rule is to use a kernel that is approximately 6 months to a year newer than the hardware it's running on. We shouldn't try to make a single kernel to run on all hardware. We have lots of them, one for each specific time period. This also applies to the distros. The older ones are still available for your old hardware.
FTA: Nowadays, many kernel developers are employed by IT companies, such as hardware manufacturers, which can cause problems as they can mainly be motivated by self-interest.
Am I supposed to be surprised by this? Even the most altruistic of us are generally motivated by self interest. We all want some kind of return for our efforts....even if it's a simple "Thank you".
t sounds to me like someone guessed the number 1 trillion (1,000 billion) as the age of the universe and now its being quoted as fact. You cant say the universe is 986 billion years older then previously thought becuase it makes people think your using an exact science becuase you are using exact numbers. This is sensationalist science at its worst.
Now I don't know who to believe. Intel, that says my CPU is 1GHz, or Windows, that says it is running at 996MHz. And then that damn Linux says it's 996.8465MHz. What am I to do?
My UID is lower than yours, so I'd say I'm not the new one here.
I'm merely pointing out that you don't seem to be up on some of the more serious happenings on Slashdot. That was a big event, worthy of notice by everybody concerned with the issue. The point is that Slashdot does remove posts when it could cause undue inconvenience. It would have been a worthy battle but they decided to back down. It's a shame that a place that advocates freedom of speech doesn't put their money where their mouth is. But we're dealing with a publicly traded company, so I can't really expect much from them.
I don't agree with it, but if it can be said at all, then it can't be considered censorship.
Most censonship is reactive, meaning it might be printed and then removed from sight. This is what happened in the Slashdot case. Copyright, in general, is pro-active censorship in that it tries to prevent the dissemination of the information before hand. Note that in both these instances copyright is the tool for censorship. That's really what I'm saying it is. It is a tool specifically designed to silence the critics of powerful people and groups. This is how the West can accomplish the exact same thing as China. This is how our governments will attempt to control the net. Copyright law is in direct conflict with the first amendment. The amendment says,..."no law...", and here's copyright doing exactly what the first amendment says you are not allowed to do. It abridges free speech in order to protect the interests of entrenched industries.
It would be interesting to see them try force the banks to turn off SSL on their sites.
The banks already turn over any requested information without batting an eye. The SSL is used to protect them from us, not the government or data miners.
Now that we've all realized that the gornment's next step wil be to disallow any indecipherable info on the net, what's left to discuss that hasn't already been discussed on the YRO threads?...Hey! How 'bout them Cubs? I mean them White Sox.
In the Iraq war, pirate is pitted against pirate. There are no heroes. Well, maybe the mothers who try to shield their children from the bombs and bullets...
If the Chinese government thinks a citizen has the word "democracy" (for example) in their head, there is a good chance they can just lock them up, throw away the key, and nobody will ever know.
If the American government thinks a citizen has the word "jihad" (for example) in their head, there is a good chance they can just lock them up, throw away the key, and nobody will ever know.
If you watch CNNInternational, you might find that they actually put a pretty good spin on China. Sometimes they make the place sound pleasant. As for prison populations, Here's an interesting piece on the subject.
RSF estimates that 62 people in China have been jailed for what they said online.
How do we know how many people are in jail for the same thing right here? Only here we call it "copyright infringement" or "incitement" to do something illegal (some DCMA or patriot act provisions could apply here). We have reporters in jail for failure to release their sources. Not as many as China perhaps, but the numbers don't mean much to me. My problem is the fact that anybody can do this. We won't have a robust internet that can route aound the damage until we get widespread wireless mesh. It will be our only hope of escaping gov't/corp control.
Computers don't need servicing, they are solid state devices.
I could believe that...if they were sealed in epoxy, away from dust and humidity, and all the salt that's in the air around here. Many computers are outside, under nothing more than a thatch roof. We're lucky to get six months without the need for a good cleaning(servicing). And they don't always "just quit". They act very bizarrely as the contacts on the RAM corrode and become intermittent. Computers are sensitive equipment...made more so by poor design and manufacture processes. Made more ironic by the fact that my VCR ran for ten years without so much as a head cleaning. And these are precision machines with lots of monkey motion going on in there. A VCR should not be more reliable than a solid state computer. A computer should last almost indefinitely with no need to open it at all, considering there are no exposed moving parts(floppies and CDROMs excepted). But that's what we get for buying junk.
(1) Contracting Parties may, in their national legislation, provide for the same kinds of limitations or exceptions with regard to the protection of broadcasting organizations as they provide for, in their national legislation, in connection with the protection of copyright in literary and artistic works, and the protection of related rights."
But you could be right...
"(2) Contracting Parties shall confine any limitations of or exceptions to rights provided for in this Treaty to certain special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the broadcast and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the broadcasting organization." emphasis mine
That second part leaves a lot open to interpretation. Heh, what can we expect from rules written by the corporation for the corporation? Maybe I should move to Nepal. Those people actually stand up for their rights. Same with... dare I say it?... the French. It would be a shame that we might have to do the same thing to reacquire ours...instead of just voting for them. The problem is that the majority hates our freedoms, leaving the rest of us no alternative.
Is it even being attempted? The prevailing attitude is when you show that the customer is every bit as responsible for the problem, you're labeled as a "pro-spammer". Revenge is the word of the day. That's what people are always calling for. So any real solution is buried in the chaff. The subject of spam is just like Middle East politics. Emotion rules the day, and logic and reason get thrown out the window. Look for this to be the next power grab by the government in their quest to control the internet. Well, that and "kiddie porn". The public's cry of, "Do something!" will only result in more bad, unenforcable law. You aren't going to stop a guy from separating a fool from his money. As long as spam is profitable, there will always be spam. Just because we haven't found an effective way to deal with the customer yet, doesn't mean we can't. This is the direction we need to look. We need to reduce the demand. So, the next time a spam house gets raided, the authorities ought to take a good look at the list of clients and send out notices that they can be fined for purchasing from a known spammer. Most customers, while greedy and ignorant, aren't hardened criminals, and will be fairly easy to "scare straight".
You're right. Never say never. Let's just say the odds are against it because nobody is willing to try. Most are looking our for their own interests. That's our animal nature. True communism will "never" work for the same reason. That doesn't mean it can't. But until we can redirect out natural instincts, it won't. In fact It is why democracy doesn't work. Nobody has actually tried it. They accept what the authorities spoon feed them and call it democracy or communism, whatever they are being told it is. They have decided that their personal interests are better served by maintaining the status quo.
Fraudulent "internet service providers" should be sued, civilly and/or criminally, and shut down.
Look. If they don't lie, how do you expect them to get any customers? Do you expect a politician who doesn't lie to actually win an election? Of course not. You might hope for that, but you know it won't happen. We are definitely a masochistic society. We like being hurt and lied to. We crave it. And then we come back and ask for more. Metaphorically, we are very kinky(or maybe not so metaphorically). And we'll react very negatively to anybody who would try to tell us that the whore stole our wallets. Another good example of an industry that lives on lies is the cell phone business. They promised secure, private connections. How? By providing secure encryption? Nope. They had the feds instigate a prohibition on full band scanners. And we liked it! "Please sir, can I have another?"
I used an easy solution for that also. I put a splice into the wire leading to the fuel cut-off solenoid. And for double protection, I had a removable steering wheel. If I was really paranoid, I guess I could've bought a "Denver boot". But the best anti-theft device I fuond was to sell the car.
Late yesterday, in response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, the MPAA released some information from the survey, including members' U.S. and global piracy losses. emphasis mine
And that should shed more light on what's going on here.
"A study this magnitude takes some work to roll out," says an MPAA spokeswoman.
"Roll out"...is that the new euphemism for "doctoring" or "falsifying" now?
She says the numbers weren't far out of line with what the industry expected.
But of course!
It uses more consistent methods and incorporates consumer research for the first time...
And we all answer those honestly, don't we?
...the survey specifically asked consumers how many of their pirated movies they would have purchased in stores or seen in theaters if they didn't have an unauthorized copy...
Ditto
Henry, I have some reports here from your Major O'Houlihan that I frankly find hard to believe. Well, don't believe them then, General. Good-bye.
Slashdot Mirror
If I have old hardware that doesn't run 2.6, I can and do drop back to an older kernel. Hell, 2.0.40 came out in 2004. And note the size! That kernel boots as fast on my 133MHz machine as 2.6 does on my 1GHz frankenstein. New features on a new kernel mean nothing on hardware that can't use it. If you want to keep running a new kernel on old hardware, obviously you're going to suffer plenty of bloat, as evidenced in the Windows world. And speaking of that, if MS had kept their old version on the market. They could have slimmed down the new versions considerably. Of course, most of us know that older versions are MS biggest competition, so that's why the lockdown, all made possible by our gracious IP overlords. So be it. I don't need them anymore. Even Apple put up their old old versions for free. But it doesn't run on new hardware. And their new software doesn't run on old hardware. And furthermore, wouldn't it be easier to troubleshoot and fix bugs in the older, smaller kernels? My general rule is to use a kernel that is approximately 6 months to a year newer than the hardware it's running on. We shouldn't try to make a single kernel to run on all hardware. We have lots of them, one for each specific time period. This also applies to the distros. The older ones are still available for your old hardware.
FTA: Nowadays, many kernel developers are employed by IT companies, such as hardware manufacturers, which can cause problems as they can mainly be motivated by self-interest.
Am I supposed to be surprised by this? Even the most altruistic of us are generally motivated by self interest. We all want some kind of return for our efforts....even if it's a simple "Thank you".
This would be the more likely scenario.
The Anguish Languish
t sounds to me like someone guessed the number 1 trillion (1,000 billion) as the age of the universe and now its being quoted as fact. You cant say the universe is 986 billion years older then previously thought becuase it makes people think your using an exact science becuase you are using exact numbers. This is sensationalist science at its worst.
Now I don't know who to believe. Intel, that says my CPU is 1GHz, or Windows, that says it is running at 996MHz. And then that damn Linux says it's 996.8465MHz. What am I to do?
My UID is lower than yours, so I'd say I'm not the new one here.
..."no law...", and here's copyright doing exactly what the first amendment says you are not allowed to do. It abridges free speech in order to protect the interests of entrenched industries.
I'm merely pointing out that you don't seem to be up on some of the more serious happenings on Slashdot. That was a big event, worthy of notice by everybody concerned with the issue. The point is that Slashdot does remove posts when it could cause undue inconvenience. It would have been a worthy battle but they decided to back down. It's a shame that a place that advocates freedom of speech doesn't put their money where their mouth is. But we're dealing with a publicly traded company, so I can't really expect much from them.
I don't agree with it, but if it can be said at all, then it can't be considered censorship.
Most censonship is reactive, meaning it might be printed and then removed from sight. This is what happened in the Slashdot case. Copyright, in general, is pro-active censorship in that it tries to prevent the dissemination of the information before hand. Note that in both these instances copyright is the tool for censorship. That's really what I'm saying it is. It is a tool specifically designed to silence the critics of powerful people and groups. This is how the West can accomplish the exact same thing as China. This is how our governments will attempt to control the net. Copyright law is in direct conflict with the first amendment. The amendment says,
It would be interesting to see them try force the banks to turn off SSL on their sites.
The banks already turn over any requested information without batting an eye. The SSL is used to protect them from us, not the government or data miners.
...only the means to which our "rights" are negated as changed.
Not really. It's just happening at a faster pace now.
Now that we've all realized that the gornment's next step wil be to disallow any indecipherable info on the net, what's left to discuss that hasn't already been discussed on the YRO threads?...Hey! How 'bout them Cubs? I mean them White Sox.
Ummm...that's "they might be told..."
then they might told to disable the use of any encryption protocols.
In the Iraq war, pirate is pitted against pirate. There are no heroes. Well, maybe the mothers who try to shield their children from the bombs and bullets...
If the Chinese government thinks a citizen has the word "democracy" (for example) in their head, there is a good chance they can just lock them up, throw away the key, and nobody will ever know.
If the American government thinks a citizen has the word "jihad" (for example) in their head, there is a good chance they can just lock them up, throw away the key, and nobody will ever know.
I don't see slashdot removing any posts...
You ARE new here, aren't you? Censorship in China is copyright here. Same intentions, same results. Only the name has been changed.
If you watch CNNInternational, you might find that they actually put a pretty good spin on China. Sometimes they make the place sound pleasant. As for prison populations, Here's an interesting piece on the subject.
RSF estimates that 62 people in China have been jailed for what they said online.
How do we know how many people are in jail for the same thing right here? Only here we call it "copyright infringement" or "incitement" to do something illegal (some DCMA or patriot act provisions could apply here). We have reporters in jail for failure to release their sources. Not as many as China perhaps, but the numbers don't mean much to me. My problem is the fact that anybody can do this. We won't have a robust internet that can route aound the damage until we get widespread wireless mesh. It will be our only hope of escaping gov't/corp control.
Computers don't need servicing, they are solid state devices.
I could believe that...if they were sealed in epoxy, away from dust and humidity, and all the salt that's in the air around here. Many computers are outside, under nothing more than a thatch roof. We're lucky to get six months without the need for a good cleaning(servicing). And they don't always "just quit". They act very bizarrely as the contacts on the RAM corrode and become intermittent. Computers are sensitive equipment...made more so by poor design and manufacture processes. Made more ironic by the fact that my VCR ran for ten years without so much as a head cleaning. And these are precision machines with lots of monkey motion going on in there. A VCR should not be more reliable than a solid state computer. A computer should last almost indefinitely with no need to open it at all, considering there are no exposed moving parts(floppies and CDROMs excepted). But that's what we get for buying junk.
I don't see it...
"Article 12
Limitations and Exceptions
(1) Contracting Parties may, in their national legislation, provide for the same kinds of limitations or exceptions with regard to the protection of broadcasting organizations as they provide for, in their national legislation, in connection with the protection of copyright in literary and artistic works, and the protection of related rights."
But you could be right...
"(2) Contracting Parties shall confine any limitations of or exceptions to rights provided for in this Treaty to certain special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the broadcast and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the broadcasting organization. " emphasis mine
That second part leaves a lot open to interpretation. Heh, what can we expect from rules written by the corporation for the corporation? Maybe I should move to Nepal. Those people actually stand up for their rights. Same with... dare I say it?... the French. It would be a shame that we might have to do the same thing to reacquire ours...instead of just voting for them. The problem is that the majority hates our freedoms, leaving the rest of us no alternative.
Just oen more reason to burn the UN building to the ground and send those idiots home.
Are you suggesting that the 9/11 hijackers hit the wrong target?
That hasn't worked yet.
Is it even being attempted? The prevailing attitude is when you show that the customer is every bit as responsible for the problem, you're labeled as a "pro-spammer". Revenge is the word of the day. That's what people are always calling for. So any real solution is buried in the chaff. The subject of spam is just like Middle East politics. Emotion rules the day, and logic and reason get thrown out the window. Look for this to be the next power grab by the government in their quest to control the internet. Well, that and "kiddie porn". The public's cry of, "Do something!" will only result in more bad, unenforcable law. You aren't going to stop a guy from separating a fool from his money. As long as spam is profitable, there will always be spam. Just because we haven't found an effective way to deal with the customer yet, doesn't mean we can't. This is the direction we need to look. We need to reduce the demand. So, the next time a spam house gets raided, the authorities ought to take a good look at the list of clients and send out notices that they can be fined for purchasing from a known spammer. Most customers, while greedy and ignorant, aren't hardened criminals, and will be fairly easy to "scare straight".
You're right. Never say never. Let's just say the odds are against it because nobody is willing to try. Most are looking our for their own interests. That's our animal nature. True communism will "never" work for the same reason. That doesn't mean it can't. But until we can redirect out natural instincts, it won't. In fact It is why democracy doesn't work. Nobody has actually tried it. They accept what the authorities spoon feed them and call it democracy or communism, whatever they are being told it is. They have decided that their personal interests are better served by maintaining the status quo.
We build ours out of rocks. Remember the old saying: "If you put a big enough engine on it, you can fly anything." It was only a theory until 1981.
I do not like voting on one issue alone, but this is one that I would.
Even if the other guy kills kittens and eats babies?
Fraudulent "internet service providers" should be sued, civilly and/or criminally, and shut down.
Look. If they don't lie, how do you expect them to get any customers? Do you expect a politician who doesn't lie to actually win an election? Of course not. You might hope for that, but you know it won't happen. We are definitely a masochistic society. We like being hurt and lied to. We crave it. And then we come back and ask for more. Metaphorically, we are very kinky(or maybe not so metaphorically). And we'll react very negatively to anybody who would try to tell us that the whore stole our wallets. Another good example of an industry that lives on lies is the cell phone business. They promised secure, private connections. How? By providing secure encryption? Nope. They had the feds instigate a prohibition on full band scanners. And we liked it! "Please sir, can I have another?"
I used an easy solution for that also. I put a splice into the wire leading to the fuel cut-off solenoid. And for double protection, I had a removable steering wheel. If I was really paranoid, I guess I could've bought a "Denver boot". But the best anti-theft device I fuond was to sell the car.
That should tell you a lot right there.
...the survey specifically asked consumers how many of their pirated movies they would have purchased in stores or seen in theaters if they didn't have an unauthorized copy...
Late yesterday, in response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, the MPAA released some information from the survey, including members' U.S. and global piracy losses. emphasis mine
And that should shed more light on what's going on here.
"A study this magnitude takes some work to roll out," says an MPAA spokeswoman.
"Roll out"...is that the new euphemism for "doctoring" or "falsifying" now?
She says the numbers weren't far out of line with what the industry expected.
But of course!
It uses more consistent methods and incorporates consumer research for the first time...
And we all answer those honestly, don't we?
Ditto
Henry, I have some reports here from your Major O'Houlihan that I frankly find hard to believe.
Well, don't believe them then, General. Good-bye.