I think the most interesting part of Bernstein's answer is here. The last paragraph states:
I am astonished that anyone would publish this obvious use of mesh routing as if it were an interesting new result; I am annoyed that my grant proposal has been characterized as presenting slower algorithms than it actually does; and I am particularly disappointed in Lenstra and Shamir for publishing their paper after I informed them in plain language that their claim of an ``improvement'' was false.
And on the same page he cites an email he sent to Arjen Lenstra in April which explains what this all is about in a much more understandable way.
Oh well, I already submitted this story more than 24 hours ago to Slashdot, and it got rejected immediately. Now it finally got its place on the front page!
After Samba and kIllustrator there is another open-source-program which
keeps the attorneys busy. The lawyer Günter Frhr. v. Gravenreuth has
won a preliminary injunction at the Landgericht (court) in Munich against
the German Linux distributor SuSE. The cause seems to be some
open-source-software referenced on one of SuSE's CDs. Apparently
Gravenreuth keeps the company from Nuremberg legally from delivering their
Linux-distribution any further, as long as it contains the contoversial
program name. This could bring a significant financial loss for SuSE if
the already produced copies couldn't be sold any more.
Mr. Gravenreuth confirmed on inquiry to be granted a preliminary injunction
against the name of an open-source-software. But he didn't want to tell
further details, since his client is going to aggree with the
opponent and would like not to be mentioned. Christian Egle, press
spokesman of SuSE, explained that his company would express itself on the
matter in the next days.
I already tried to email EFF with the same question, only that I asked about the tax-deducability in Germany, not Canada. Unfortunately absolutely every email address I tried from their web page bounced.:-( So I concluded that they don't want my money.
But I'd like to extend that question above: Is there an organization in Germany (or Europe) similar to EFF?
I run a Debian Potato system, and when I tried the *.deb package there were a bunch of errors.
Maybe you should upgrade your Debian System. Unfortunately they have very long cycles for "stable" releases, so you have to get the "unstable" release, which really isn't as unstable as the name indicates. And I installed the Abiword.deb package without any problem there.
I even upgrade my Debian system about once or twice a month since it is so easy (apt-get update && apt-get -uy dist-upgrade), and I very rarely encounter any problems. There is even no need to log out and quit the X session.
Make it so that more than one adjective can be applied to posts: (Score: 5; Funny, Insightful)
Good point! I always find it quite confusing to see a comment rated (Score:4, Troll), just because it got one "troll" and four or five "interesting" moderations.
Removal of Comments Given the recent controversy over Microsoft and what not, give users the ability to remove their own comments, maybe with a karma penalty or something. We can moderate our system, but we can't responsibly manage it.
No, I think that would be a very Bad Thing. Everybody should stand behind what he said or wrote, even hours or days later.
And what about replies to removed comments? Would they be removed then, too? If they wouldn't, you would end up with comments without correlation.
NB, I think the above comment is totally overrated.:-(
The real scary part about this, is that now the trolls will have the full source code to analyse for loopholes and bugs that will allow them further abuse of the system.
The real good part about this is that now the skilled programmers have the full source code to quickly fix the loopholes and bugs that allow the trolls to abuse the system.
I once emailed Rob with a nasty bug which annoys me almost every day:
When I have set my default threshold to tree and commentsort to nested, and when I click on the "Parent" link of a comment, where the parent is beyond my threshold, I get nothing or at least nothing useful. (No cid and pid=0).
It looks like now I have no excuse any more not to fix this bug myself.:-/
Isn't there a "largest" known prime number? Take double that + 2 and isn't it disproven?
Sometimes I wish there would be a moderation option -1 stupid.
It's an enormous difference between largest known and largest! And it's a very basic proof to show that there is no largest prime, you will always find a bigger one if you search long enough. That was already proven by some ancient greek more than 2000 years ago.
Although it's interesting to see an academic body offer a lot of cash to solve these problems, they're asking the wrong crowd.
The world contains more Mathematicians that just those at the Clay Mathematics Institute. Considering the number of readers/. has, there are certainly quite a few good Mathematicians among them.
I'm certainly not qualified enough even to try to solve any of these, but I always found those unresolved problems quite interesting, and it's refreshing to see this article on/., among the huge amount of political one!
MIT could press them on this, take away their right to call the software kerberos, or insist that MS publish the extension to qualify for the interoperability rule.
I think MIT should (not could) do take some legal action against M$ themselves, after all that what M$ has done. Does anybody know anything about whether the MIT is considering such legal steps or not?
I bet Microsoft would love to just drop this and hope everyone forgets about it.
I guess we learned that if you're going to post a letter from a Microsoft attorney on your web site the same day you implement a few new troll filters you better be prepared for the fury of hell to rain down on you.
What kind of troll filters do you use? I haven't read anywhere about this yet (About page, FAQ or similar), so could you please tell us a little bit more about that?
Although it's not a good idea to advertise their security infrastructure layout to the world. (Hint, Hint, CmdrTaco!)
Why not? As we all know, security by obscurity is no security at all. And when many people tell their opinions about their infrastructure here, the admins can only improve it, I think.
I think France is just too big to ignore them. And other (European) contries may follow this. Some are actually supporting Open Source Software already in one way or the other. So refusing to comply would mean losing a big market.
Spellchecking is for imagination impaired drones who wouldn't know poetry if a Dr. Seuss book fell off a shelf and fractured their skull.
Granted that this signature is quite funny, but English is not my first language and sometimes I have to look up a word in the dictionary. Have you ever tried to look up a misspelled word? Try to guess what the correct spelling could be?
[Sorry, but I know that this is offtopic. Moderate it down if you feel so.]
Could you please explain the reasons why you seem not wanting to be involved in any "big business" with open source or free software? I mean, a lot of well-known open source people showed up at the Linux World Expo in NYC this February. Often your name was mentiond as being the one who "started this all". What are the reasons that you don't attend such an event?
Okay, agreed, except for one point: This story is about Aardman Animations and about them releasing their new stuff over the net. It is not about the Times and their licensing issues, and neither about good or bad HTML.
And it wasn't clear at all from your first post that your ranting wasn't about Aardman. Of course, it wasn't as offtopic as "cool fried bananas", but IMHO it's not quite on topic, either.
Anyway, I think I should stop now, because it's getting completely offtopic now.:-)
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the creators of all cool-looking animated movie files for their work, because I'd rather be watching their movies than reading their HTML.
I think you are totally confusing Aardman Animations (aardman.com) with a British newspaper (the-times.co.uk) which accidentally wrote an article about them. All your ranting about bad HTML applies to the latter, and none about Aardman. So what's your point?
I took a quick glance at aardman.com and I think they made a pretty cool web site.
Did you really click on both links in this/. article? I suppose not.
And I'm really surprised that something as offtopic as this gets moderated up to five. (I could have wasted my moderator points on this, but this time I chose to reply.)
This timecube site is really weird... I wonder if one could imagine any font face, font size or font color that guy didn't try out!;-)
I will give $1,000.00 to any person who can disprove 4 days in each earth rotation.
Did anybody else notice this paragraph? I wonder whom he accepts for the jury... probably nobody but himself. Otherwise he could become poor very soon, I suspect.
Slashdot Mirror
- Stephan.
Heise just reported that SuSE and Crayon now reached an agreement and settled the case, so SuSE may continue to sell their distro CDs.
Gravenreuth against Linux-Distribution SuSE
After Samba and kIllustrator there is another open-source-program which keeps the attorneys busy. The lawyer Günter Frhr. v. Gravenreuth has won a preliminary injunction at the Landgericht (court) in Munich against the German Linux distributor SuSE. The cause seems to be some open-source-software referenced on one of SuSE's CDs. Apparently Gravenreuth keeps the company from Nuremberg legally from delivering their Linux-distribution any further, as long as it contains the contoversial program name. This could bring a significant financial loss for SuSE if the already produced copies couldn't be sold any more.
Mr. Gravenreuth confirmed on inquiry to be granted a preliminary injunction against the name of an open-source-software. But he didn't want to tell further details, since his client is going to aggree with the opponent and would like not to be mentioned. Christian Egle, press spokesman of SuSE, explained that his company would express itself on the matter in the next days.
So I concluded that they don't want my money.
But I'd like to extend that question above: Is there an organization in Germany (or Europe) similar to EFF?
- Stephan.
Maybe you should upgrade your Debian System. Unfortunately they have very long cycles for "stable" releases, so you have to get the "unstable" release, which really isn't as unstable as the name indicates. And I installed the Abiword .deb package without any problem there.
I even upgrade my Debian system about once or twice a month since it is so easy (apt-get update && apt-get -uy dist-upgrade), and I very rarely encounter any problems. There is even no need to log out and quit the X session.
- Stephan.
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
'nuff said.
And what about replies to removed comments? Would they be removed then, too? If they wouldn't, you would end up with comments without correlation.
NB, I think the above comment is totally overrated. :-(
--Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
When I have set my default threshold to tree and commentsort to nested, and when I click on the "Parent" link of a comment, where the parent is beyond my threshold, I get nothing or at least nothing useful. (No cid and pid=0).
It looks like now I have no excuse any more not to fix this bug myself. :-/
--Carpe diem!
It's an enormous difference between largest known and largest! And it's a very basic proof to show that there is no largest prime, you will always find a bigger one if you search long enough. That was already proven by some ancient greek more than 2000 years ago.
--Carpe diem!
I'm certainly not qualified enough even to try to solve any of these, but I always found those unresolved problems quite interesting, and it's refreshing to see this article on /., among the huge amount of political one!
--Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
Thanks,
--Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
[Sorry, but I know that this is offtopic. Moderate it down if you feel so.]
--Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
And it wasn't clear at all from your first post that your ranting wasn't about Aardman. Of course, it wasn't as offtopic as "cool fried bananas", but IMHO it's not quite on topic, either.
Anyway, I think I should stop now, because it's getting completely offtopic now. :-)
--Carpe diem!
I took a quick glance at aardman.com and I think they made a pretty cool web site.
Did you really click on both links in this /. article? I suppose not.
And I'm really surprised that something as offtopic as this gets moderated up to five. (I could have wasted my moderator points on this, but this time I chose to reply.)
--Carpe diem!
Did anybody else notice this paragraph? I wonder whom he accepts for the jury ... probably nobody but himself. Otherwise he could become poor very soon, I suspect.
--Carpe diem!