Here's an interesting idea, although it may be a great oxymoron.
DRM'd open source code.
Basically, the code comes in a special encrypted file that you can read, modify, and save, but not extract text/compile. In order to use your modified code, either a) build it with a special version of a compiler (GCC if they're willing) that doesn't allow the executable to be moved...by loading hidden files or detecting hardware, or b) ask the copyright holder to unlock the code once the copyright holder is satisfied the code isn't illegal and the modifier won't violate the terms of the license.
I'm not sure if the system here is truly "open source", but it does allow free viewing and local modification of the source. As always, if someone has a legitimate need that isn't covered by the standard license, she can contact the copyright holder for a special exemption.
> If I want to load up my HD with bloatware, spyware, malware or whatever, as long as it harms no one else... who the hell cares?
If you'll allow this is, you'll likely free your computer for a spam/DoS zombie. Then it will harm others, and people will care.
> If the government doesn't know anything about what the hell it is regulating, it out to stay the hell out of trying to do anything with it.
The government is made out of people. If the government can't fix something right, it means people in general couldn't fix it right. Have you seen the loads of malware on the Add/Remove Programs list on any Windows PC today? One whose network's hardware filter should've blocked all malware sites? One whose data (student grade records) should not be seen by unauthorized others in the campus, let alone random people at Spyware Co.?
> maybe folks itching to play the game without spending money will figure out how to port it to their machines.
And definitely folks itching to play the game without spending money - and using standard hardware - will provide no monetary incentive for the game's existence.
Open source is great and all, but the world economy is largely market-based/capitalist. You don't get an open-source meal or clothing or housing, do you? Then why expect people's hard work for years to be made free?
Listen up: open source is not the be-all and end-all of everything related to software. Many people make a living off writing software.
C:\>nslookup -type=mx webmasters-e-mail-host.com Mail exchanger...smtp.webmasters-e-mail-host.com
Then go to your e-mail client, create a new account, leave the POP3 server blank, and put the mail exchanger (smtp.webmasters-e-mail-host.com) as the SMTP server. Send the mail, and delete the account.
This is the SMTP insecurity that's causing trouble with spam and forged headers. Nothing exists to prove that you are who you claim you are. If you looked up the mail exchanger for the Pentagon and claimed yourself president@whitehouse.gov, you technically could wreak a bit of havoc (although the Pentagon probably has their own mail system and would mistrust public SMTP mail from the President).
I have learned French at school for a few years, and I can read most normal written French and speak it almost fluently. I probably make a lot of errors when speaking, and I ask people if I messed up so that I can speak better.
People with English as a second/third... language who make errors probably want them pointed out to them so they can speak better English and not look illiterate later.
There's a reason teachers mark spelling/grammar errors in papers: to help the student improve, not to make fun of the student or demonstrate their superior knowledge.
Would you like a C compiler that just ignored it if you, say, implicitly cast 1000 to a char? I would prefer one that gave me a warning, so that I can fix the code and/or know to explicitly cast these in the future.
If Wikipedia is one of those online encyclopedias, simply delete the copy your article: click Edit this page and remove your text, noting copyvio and that you are the copyright owner in the explanation box. WP cannot check every submission, but if you remove something as copyvio and it is copyrighted (and not GFDL'd) it will not get reinstated.
If the US Armed Forces are ever defeated (as in we tried hard but they thoroughly pwned us, not as in we pulled out or didn't have the soldiers) it will not be for technological inferiority. It will not be for a strategic failure. The US has spent many, many resources ensuring this is unlikely to happen. It will be for something unexpected and completely unrelated to actual battle.
If any of the Armed Forces are locked into one platform (be it Microsoft or Linux or...) it will open a wide hole for any cracker employed by the opposing governments. The homogeneity will ensure that something that takes one computer will take them all.
This is probably no different from one providing binaries but not source for a GPL application. You agreed to provide a format in your contract, you either do so, or argue that the contract doesn't cover that instance. And if you're smart you do so even if it isn't explicitly in the contract, so there's no chance of a lawsuit and you look good in the other people's eyes.
Microsoft can sue you, and probably successfully, for not using Windows if Microsoft and you had contracted for you to sell dual-boot machines, and you start selling all-Linux machines.
Agreed. Today at school I had to look at a teacher's computer that had over 5 different {spy,ad}ware apps installed. I gave up trying to identify and remove them after struggling through 2 or 3 and instead took off the shortcuts to IE and downloaded Firefox.
I renamed the desktop shortcut "Internet (Firefox)" so it looks like "Internet Explorer", and put it in the spot where IE was. I would've felt guilty if I'd changed the icon to the blue e.
Now if only I can convince the school board to standardize on Mozilla...well, after I convince them to switch from Borland C++ 4.5 to the latest GCC (MinGW) that actually complies with the C++ standard, and tell them to stop using IIS 4.0. Ah, seems like they just upgraded to IIS 5.0, what an improvement.
Odd. I read that as "Hobbits: The Battle for Ender." Ender, as in Ender's Game. Hobbits floating in weightlessness chambers and shooting at each other with laser guns. And controlling wars against other alien races in realtime millions of lightyears away (happily violating causality as they go).
Or the same link with partner=SLASHDOT instead of partner=GOOGLE. It still works, though I'm sure some of the other get-variables identify Google numerically.
What would it take to get/. the ability to have its own Google-style links?
I do not want to block all of AOL, Earthlink, and myriad local ISPs by blocking UUNet,/the/ major backbone that another post says carries 90% of all e-mail, just because UUNet by itself allows spammers.
(I think AOL uses UUNet as their backbone, am I right?)
As far as ease of use, true. As far as compatibility.... (though they've come a long way since a few years ago)
I can't get either GNOME or KDE to run right. I downloaded them both via Fink, and tried to run them in Apple's X11. KDE crashes on start giving errors on start about Freetype's libraries, and GNOME doesn't display right.
I installed OpenOffice.org. It works only on X11, the recommended release is still 1.0.3 (they're up to at least 1.1 or something now), and it's awfully slow. I'm working on a 300MHz 128MB original-generation iBook. Everything was much faster on OS9 with AppleWorks 4 or something.
I have still not been able to get SMB network printing to this XP box's Canon BJC-210 (an older printer whose drivers are standard with recent Windowses). The driver I think shows up in the local printer list, but not the SMB printer. Really, what's the difference, 'cept one sends printer-format stuff over a local port and one over the network?
Maybe I should have partitioned my drive and installed Linux or a BSD on it. But then I wouldn't get the Mac OS's ease of use, features, etc. (Does AirPort work with Linux or *BSD?)
In Sov...er...Capitalist America, Verisign sues ICANN for improper actions and abuse of power!
Anything resembling System V includes lots of code
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SCO Licenses Now Available
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· Score: 5, Interesting
If you're reading this, you have to buy a license, since you're using some implementation of sockets. The standard sockets API should be in System V (correct me if I'm wrong).
Many, many standard C libraries, for that matter, are in System V. This would make Windows and Mac OS also infringing, if indeed SCO holds this much control.
Has Apple ever said anything about SCO and its possible complaints over Mac OS X's tri-BSD foundation? Has Microsoft offered indemnification for its users, since there is a lot of POSIX, and thus Unix, compatibility in Windows?
What of #ifndef thisfile_h #define thisfile_h... #endif code in headers that everyone uses? What of code in Unix copied from/inspired by other sources?
Probably not, because a compatibility wrapper and real Wintel hardware are equivalent in Microsoft's eyes: one license for Office. If they didn't allow Office to run on Linux, people would install OpenOffice.org, not Windows.
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If anything needs to be liberated, it's the "u" in "Quaeda". Honestly, do people go around pronouncing it "All Kwida"?
Here's an interesting idea, although it may be a great oxymoron.
DRM'd open source code.
Basically, the code comes in a special encrypted file that you can read, modify, and save, but not extract text/compile. In order to use your modified code, either a) build it with a special version of a compiler (GCC if they're willing) that doesn't allow the executable to be moved...by loading hidden files or detecting hardware, or b) ask the copyright holder to unlock the code once the copyright holder is satisfied the code isn't illegal and the modifier won't violate the terms of the license.
I'm not sure if the system here is truly "open source", but it does allow free viewing and local modification of the source. As always, if someone has a legitimate need that isn't covered by the standard license, she can contact the copyright holder for a special exemption.
Two reasons:
> If I want to load up my HD with bloatware, spyware, malware or whatever, as long as it harms no one else... who the hell cares?
If you'll allow this is, you'll likely free your computer for a spam/DoS zombie. Then it will harm others, and people will care.
> If the government doesn't know anything about what the hell it is regulating, it out to stay the hell out of trying to do anything with it.
The government is made out of people. If the government can't fix something right, it means people in general couldn't fix it right. Have you seen the loads of malware on the Add/Remove Programs list on any Windows PC today? One whose network's hardware filter should've blocked all malware sites? One whose data (student grade records) should not be seen by unauthorized others in the campus, let alone random people at Spyware Co.?
> maybe folks itching to play the game without spending money will figure out how to port it to their machines.
And definitely folks itching to play the game without spending money - and using standard hardware - will provide no monetary incentive for the game's existence.
Open source is great and all, but the world economy is largely market-based/capitalist. You don't get an open-source meal or clothing or housing, do you? Then why expect people's hard work for years to be made free?
Listen up: open source is not the be-all and end-all of everything related to software. Many people make a living off writing software.
Assuming the webmaster's not using Hotmail:
C:\>nslookup -type=mx webmasters-e-mail-host.com
Mail exchanger...smtp.webmasters-e-mail-host.com
Then go to your e-mail client, create a new account, leave the POP3 server blank, and put the mail exchanger (smtp.webmasters-e-mail-host.com) as the SMTP server. Send the mail, and delete the account.
This is the SMTP insecurity that's causing trouble with spam and forged headers. Nothing exists to prove that you are who you claim you are. If you looked up the mail exchanger for the Pentagon and claimed yourself president@whitehouse.gov, you technically could wreak a bit of havoc (although the Pentagon probably has their own mail system and would mistrust public SMTP mail from the President).
I have learned French at school for a few years, and I can read most normal written French and speak it almost fluently. I probably make a lot of errors when speaking, and I ask people if I messed up so that I can speak better.
People with English as a second/third... language who make errors probably want them pointed out to them so they can speak better English and not look illiterate later.
There's a reason teachers mark spelling/grammar errors in papers: to help the student improve, not to make fun of the student or demonstrate their superior knowledge.
Would you like a C compiler that just ignored it if you, say, implicitly cast 1000 to a char? I would prefer one that gave me a warning, so that I can fix the code and/or know to explicitly cast these in the future.
Because PHP 5 is currently being distributed with SQLite and no bundled MySQL client (separate download).
If Wikipedia is one of those online encyclopedias, simply delete the copy your article: click Edit this page and remove your text, noting copyvio and that you are the copyright owner in the explanation box. WP cannot check every submission, but if you remove something as copyvio and it is copyrighted (and not GFDL'd) it will not get reinstated.
That breaks things up by geography - the complete antithesis of the Internet.
If I wanted information based on my physical location, I'd stay in the physical world.
If the US Armed Forces are ever defeated (as in we tried hard but they thoroughly pwned us, not as in we pulled out or didn't have the soldiers) it will not be for technological inferiority. It will not be for a strategic failure. The US has spent many, many resources ensuring this is unlikely to happen. It will be for something unexpected and completely unrelated to actual battle.
If any of the Armed Forces are locked into one platform (be it Microsoft or Linux or...) it will open a wide hole for any cracker employed by the opposing governments. The homogeneity will ensure that something that takes one computer will take them all.
Of course not. If you won't RTFA, RTFB (blurb).
This is probably no different from one providing binaries but not source for a GPL application. You agreed to provide a format in your contract, you either do so, or argue that the contract doesn't cover that instance. And if you're smart you do so even if it isn't explicitly in the contract, so there's no chance of a lawsuit and you look good in the other people's eyes.
Microsoft can sue you, and probably successfully, for not using Windows if Microsoft and you had contracted for you to sell dual-boot machines, and you start selling all-Linux machines.
Agreed. Today at school I had to look at a teacher's computer that had over 5 different {spy,ad}ware apps installed. I gave up trying to identify and remove them after struggling through 2 or 3 and instead took off the shortcuts to IE and downloaded Firefox.
I renamed the desktop shortcut "Internet (Firefox)" so it looks like "Internet Explorer", and put it in the spot where IE was. I would've felt guilty if I'd changed the icon to the blue e.
Now if only I can convince the school board to standardize on Mozilla...well, after I convince them to switch from Borland C++ 4.5 to the latest GCC (MinGW) that actually complies with the C++ standard, and tell them to stop using IIS 4.0. Ah, seems like they just upgraded to IIS 5.0, what an improvement.
Odd. I read that as "Hobbits: The Battle for Ender." Ender, as in Ender's Game. Hobbits floating in weightlessness chambers and shooting at each other with laser guns. And controlling wars against other alien races in realtime millions of lightyears away (happily violating causality as they go).
In Soviet Russia, the Internet eats YOU! :-)
This was *informative*??
Inverting the soundwave only makes it a half-cycle off, so it's probably easier being exactly a half-cycle late in a circus parade.
(i.e., you can't time the real parade to the MP3...even if they were exactly the same noises.)
There probably aren't enough geeks who know of the SCO thing, like Linux, and would support a SCO target to offset the costs of a lawsuit.
Or the same link with partner=SLASHDOT instead of partner=GOOGLE. It still works, though I'm sure some of the other get-variables identify Google numerically.
/. the ability to have its own Google-style links?
What would it take to get
What if someone manages to mess up the power supply in an area with voters for your political opponents?
Yes.
/the/ major backbone that another post says carries 90% of all e-mail, just because UUNet by itself allows spammers.
I do not want to block all of AOL, Earthlink, and myriad local ISPs by blocking UUNet,
(I think AOL uses UUNet as their backbone, am I right?)
You messed up on the last two lines:
7) ???
8) PROFIT!!! ($6 - $4 = $2, plus whatever you got from Step 7)
While I'm at it....In Soviet Russia, dollar bills cut YOU up into thirds, mix YOU with parts of other people, and give YOU to the government!
Transfer everything to a joint council of OSDN, Microsoft, and the United Nations. ;-)
As far as ease of use, true.
As far as compatibility.... (though they've come a long way since a few years ago)
I can't get either GNOME or KDE to run right. I downloaded them both via Fink, and tried to run them in Apple's X11. KDE crashes on start giving errors on start about Freetype's libraries, and GNOME doesn't display right.
I installed OpenOffice.org. It works only on X11, the recommended release is still 1.0.3 (they're up to at least 1.1 or something now), and it's awfully slow. I'm working on a 300MHz 128MB original-generation iBook. Everything was much faster on OS9 with AppleWorks 4 or something.
I have still not been able to get SMB network printing to this XP box's Canon BJC-210 (an older printer whose drivers are standard with recent Windowses). The driver I think shows up in the local printer list, but not the SMB printer. Really, what's the difference, 'cept one sends printer-format stuff over a local port and one over the network?
Maybe I should have partitioned my drive and installed Linux or a BSD on it. But then I wouldn't get the Mac OS's ease of use, features, etc. (Does AirPort work with Linux or *BSD?)
In Sov...er...Capitalist America, Verisign sues ICANN for improper actions and abuse of power!
If you're reading this, you have to buy a license, since you're using some implementation of sockets. The standard sockets API should be in System V (correct me if I'm wrong).
... #endif code in headers that everyone uses? What of code in Unix copied from/inspired by other sources?
Many, many standard C libraries, for that matter, are in System V. This would make Windows and Mac OS also infringing, if indeed SCO holds this much control.
Has Apple ever said anything about SCO and its possible complaints over Mac OS X's tri-BSD foundation? Has Microsoft offered indemnification for its users, since there is a lot of POSIX, and thus Unix, compatibility in Windows?
What of #ifndef thisfile_h #define thisfile_h
Probably not, because a compatibility wrapper and real Wintel hardware are equivalent in Microsoft's eyes: one license for Office. If they didn't allow Office to run on Linux, people would install OpenOffice.org, not Windows.