What if, for a more extreme example, I write my own bulletin board application from scratch, but use PHPBB's code for handling BBCode ([b]foo[/b] style notation)? I am technically violating the license.
Well, yes, of course you are in violation of the GPL. You either a)open up your source or b)stop using the BBCode handling snippets you stole and write your own or c)take the code you need and make into a GPLed library that you can then call from within your own software. Re-implementing the thing should be easiest anyway, as this is such a small and unimportant piece after all, right? But why oh why, then, are you stealing it in the first place?
Massive, n00bish UI design failure there. The sane way to do it is to put three buttons up: "Yes", "No" and "No, and don't even dare thinking about asking again I will do my own upgrading as I see fit thankyouverymuch".
Erm. No. As a proud owner of a piece-of-shyte Radeon 9200 SE card I can prove conclusively that open-source DRI drivers do NOT, in fact, work properly. Or at all, with Xorg 7.1.
No, it wouldn't. A tool is a tool is a tool. If I stab you in the eye with a pen, would that say something about pens? May piles of flaming poo fall upon the house of whoever modded you interesting.
I'll bite. Yes, they did deserve it. Did, not do. The ruling they are ignoring was something like 18 or 19 months ago. They could have made public the APIs and documentations the day after and walked away with zero fines paid and a clear conscience. No, the money is not charged for "not documenting software" - it's being charged for "not complying with a court order".
Interestingly enough, there *is* a performance stats page in WinXP, only it's called something uninformative like "Performance" and is hidden in the "Administrative Tools" group, which is why you haven't noticed it:). one more "feature" for the axe.
The amounts of ex-post-facto rationalisation going on in trekkie and other fanboy circles, is nothing short of amazing. To these people, here is my message of love: stop propping up bad stories, go write/direct/design some of your own.
And yes, Minority Report really IS a craptastic movie, although sadly it cannibalizes a novel which deserves much, much better. It would seem that the karma of PKD is that his name will forever be associated with kipple - "The Minority Report", "Total Recall" and, -dare I say it?- "Bladerunner" stand testament to this.
Doesn't matter. Time to spread the meme, folks. Repeat after me: "Microsoft Is Going Down!". Believe you me, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. It's believable and it's the chance of a lifetime. The stock options and the put warrants will start melting away what's left of M$ as soon as the stock takes a bit of a dip. Intelligent investors will bet on a panic anyway, so don't get left behind.
Medieval (and earlier) people used covered-up holes in the ground (usually clay) to store their cereal. Many of these were found to have charred sides (but not bottom, which was covered in largish rocks) and bits of partly-burnt hay were found on occasion. An archeological mistery, but perhaps what these people did was to "pad" the walls of their pit with smallish amounts of hay, fill it, set the hay on fire and finally cover the lot to extinguish the fire. It is my educated guess that the hay would burn quicky and go out quickly, before being able to make a significant amount of "popcorn". Low-tech CO2-flooded seed storage, anybody?
Ah. Where's an experimental archeologist when you need one?
As long as the specs for processors and busses are open, there is zero reason for piece X of -tel hardware to *not* interoperate with piece Y, other than gross incompetence and malicious corner-cutting on the part of producers. There needs to be no documented hardware. Documented interfaces should be enough.
I end up doing there key management because they have no clue what a key ring, key server, public key, and private key is.
Well, that should give you a rather large clue to begin working with. Public-key encryption and the concept of "webs of trust" are both broken. This is proven all day, every day in the working life of anyone who's tasked with managing an encryption solution and is due to a misfeature of humans (the (in)famous 7+-2 rule), rather than a failure of protocols involved. Now, on to the constructive part of my argument.
What is direly needed is a crypto communications piece of software which is a. in the form of an all-singing all-dancing HTTP/Socks/IMAP/POP3/SMTP/FTP/SMB proxy. b. capable to provide perfect forward secrecy, perfect deniability and "strong" in-session authentication. c. optionally capable of spoofing &/ routing traffic to resist analysis. d. distributed along with an encrypted filesystem driver FOR DUMMIES (tm).
Oh, but you can. Or do you want to tell me that the firewall's blocking all authenticating websites? I documented the solution I am using, never stating it's the only one. As for teh pr0n surfing, well, seems like you have a problem that goes above and beyond network security and into human resources land. I mean seriously, who would have thought you can staff a company almost exclusively with wankers? Good luck in your chosen profession.
You, sir, are exactly the kind of ill-informed cubicle nazi because of whose kind I have to tunnel FTP and POP3/SMTP over a SSH connection to an outside machine when I actually want to get some work done *at work*. Port blocking is inane if you only need the bandwidth. Do traffic analysis and prioritize all you wish, use a caching proxy. People will soon learn to not download or use Skype in the time interval you're synching remote databases, the BitTorrent freeloaders will achieve consistent 5Kb/second speeds and therefore realise it's not worth it, the latest youtube video will only be downloaded exactly once and all will be well in network land. Also, your bosses might like you more, for not having to review inane "please boss can i look at pr0n^H^H^H^H market data all day" requests all day every day.
I sure hope you're right. If you are, then Microsoft's profits from Vista are also IN THE FUTURE. As stock markets only care about (at most) the next quarter, not about what will happen in two years' time, maybe we'll finally see the cookie crumble.
Ok, I'll bite, because I figure that you're young enough to not know how google works. ndiswrapper should take care of your network cards. as for the printer, look here. Oh, and do make sure you never buy any new piece of hardware until the company which makes it at *least* releases working binary drivers. That should help move things along rather nicely.
Also, before mods mod me down as offtopic... This here's a real-world luser with a real-world problem. He's stuck between a GoodThing(tm) (the linux driver dev process) and a BadThing(tm) (crappy hardware companies who think they've something to hide), with nowhere to go.
Yep, y'all did. Every last one of you church-baptized, sunday-school-"educated", g_d-fearing, anal-retentive, sexually-repressed, closet-homosexual white, born-again-christian-american lower-middle-class hicks sniggered. I'll say it again, so you can snigger some more and get it out of your systems: Uranus. There. It's a planet, dillweed. Your anus is quite another matter, even if it _does_ have a blue ring of its own from being way too constricted for way too long. And it's spelled differently, too!
I'm genuinely smiling with glee here. This guy's one sharp cookie, and a genius troll, to boot. Why, he's managed to get a lot of savvy techies (here and elsewhere, no doubt) all fired up on what the software for his pet machine must look like. Go Negroponte! On a more serious note, this project of is very, very nice.
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Well, yes, of course you are in violation of the GPL. You either a)open up your source or b)stop using the BBCode handling snippets you stole and write your own or c)take the code you need and make into a GPLed library that you can then call from within your own software. Re-implementing the thing should be easiest anyway, as this is such a small and unimportant piece after all, right? But why oh why, then, are you stealing it in the first place?
Massive, n00bish UI design failure there. The sane way to do it is to put three buttons up: "Yes", "No" and "No, and don't even dare thinking about asking again I will do my own upgrading as I see fit thankyouverymuch".
Erm. No. As a proud owner of a piece-of-shyte Radeon 9200 SE card I can prove conclusively that open-source DRI drivers do NOT, in fact, work properly. Or at all, with Xorg 7.1.
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No, it wouldn't. A tool is a tool is a tool. If I stab you in the eye with a pen, would that say something about pens?
May piles of flaming poo fall upon the house of whoever modded you interesting.
I'll bite.
Yes, they did deserve it. Did, not do. The ruling they are ignoring was something like 18 or 19 months ago. They could have made public the APIs and documentations the day after and walked away with zero fines paid and a clear conscience.
No, the money is not charged for "not documenting software" - it's being charged for "not complying with a court order".
Interestingly enough, there *is* a performance stats page in WinXP, only it's called something uninformative like "Performance" and is hidden in the "Administrative Tools" group, which is why you haven't noticed it :). one more "feature" for the axe.
The amounts of ex-post-facto rationalisation going on in trekkie and other fanboy circles, is nothing short of amazing. To these people, here is my message of love: stop propping up bad stories, go write/direct/design some of your own.
And yes, Minority Report really IS a craptastic movie, although sadly it cannibalizes a novel which deserves much, much better. It would seem that the karma of PKD is that his name will forever be associated with kipple - "The Minority Report", "Total Recall" and, -dare I say it?- "Bladerunner" stand testament to this.
It was long-term storage, but probably could wipe out some of the less hardy pests as well.
Doesn't matter. Time to spread the meme, folks. Repeat after me: "Microsoft Is Going Down!". Believe you me, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. It's believable and it's the chance of a lifetime. The stock options and the put warrants will start melting away what's left of M$ as soon as the stock takes a bit of a dip. Intelligent investors will bet on a panic anyway, so don't get left behind.
I love Opera. I'd love it even more if it came with the possibility to create extensions.
Oh but they could... if everyone had a *secure* biometric ID card issued at birth or shortly thereafter. Right?
Medieval (and earlier) people used covered-up holes in the ground (usually clay) to store their cereal. Many of these were found to have charred sides (but not bottom, which was covered in largish rocks) and bits of partly-burnt hay were found on occasion. An archeological mistery, but perhaps what these people did was to "pad" the walls of their pit with smallish amounts of hay, fill it, set the hay on fire and finally cover the lot to extinguish the fire. It is my educated guess that the hay would burn quicky and go out quickly, before being able to make a significant amount of "popcorn". Low-tech CO2-flooded seed storage, anybody?
Ah. Where's an experimental archeologist when you need one?
Well yes, they are, at least for those who remember who he was and what he did with the rest of his money, power and time.
True, Windows is not dope. Vendor lock-in is a lot like addiction, though.
As long as the specs for processors and busses are open, there is zero reason for piece X of -tel hardware to *not* interoperate with piece Y, other than gross incompetence and malicious corner-cutting on the part of producers. There needs to be no documented hardware. Documented interfaces should be enough.
Well, that should give you a rather large clue to begin working with. Public-key encryption and the concept of "webs of trust" are both broken. This is proven all day, every day in the working life of anyone who's tasked with managing an encryption solution and is due to a misfeature of humans (the (in)famous 7+-2 rule), rather than a failure of protocols involved. Now, on to the constructive part of my argument.
What is direly needed is a crypto communications piece of software which is
a. in the form of an all-singing all-dancing HTTP/Socks/IMAP/POP3/SMTP/FTP/SMB proxy.
b. capable to provide perfect forward secrecy, perfect deniability and "strong" in-session authentication.
c. optionally capable of spoofing &/ routing traffic to resist analysis.
d. distributed along with an encrypted filesystem driver FOR DUMMIES (tm).
OTR comes close, but no cookie.
There. Now go work on it.
Short of ? Vlad at least was very opinionated about corruption.
Oh, but you can. Or do you want to tell me that the firewall's blocking all authenticating websites? I documented the solution I am using, never stating it's the only one. As for teh pr0n surfing, well, seems like you have a problem that goes above and beyond network security and into human resources land. I mean seriously, who would have thought you can staff a company almost exclusively with wankers? Good luck in your chosen profession.
You, sir, are exactly the kind of ill-informed cubicle nazi because of whose kind I have to tunnel FTP and POP3/SMTP over a SSH connection to an outside machine when I actually want to get some work done *at work*. Port blocking is inane if you only need the bandwidth. Do traffic analysis and prioritize all you wish, use a caching proxy. People will soon learn to not download or use Skype in the time interval you're synching remote databases, the BitTorrent freeloaders will achieve consistent 5Kb/second speeds and therefore realise it's not worth it, the latest youtube video will only be downloaded exactly once and all will be well in network land. Also, your bosses might like you more, for not having to review inane "please boss can i look at pr0n^H^H^H^H market data all day" requests all day every day.
I sure hope you're right. If you are, then Microsoft's profits from Vista are also IN THE FUTURE. As stock markets only care about (at most) the next quarter, not about what will happen in two years' time, maybe we'll finally see the cookie crumble.
Ok, I'll bite, because I figure that you're young enough to not know how google works. ndiswrapper should take care of your network cards. as for the printer, look here. Oh, and do make sure you never buy any new piece of hardware until the company which makes it at *least* releases working binary drivers. That should help move things along rather nicely. Also, before mods mod me down as offtopic... This here's a real-world luser with a real-world problem. He's stuck between a GoodThing(tm) (the linux driver dev process) and a BadThing(tm) (crappy hardware companies who think they've something to hide), with nowhere to go.
Yep, y'all did. Every last one of you church-baptized, sunday-school-"educated", g_d-fearing, anal-retentive, sexually-repressed, closet-homosexual white, born-again-christian-american lower-middle-class hicks sniggered. I'll say it again, so you can snigger some more and get it out of your systems: Uranus. There. It's a planet, dillweed. Your anus is quite another matter, even if it _does_ have a blue ring of its own from being way too constricted for way too long. And it's spelled differently, too!
I'm genuinely smiling with glee here. This guy's one sharp cookie, and a genius troll, to boot. Why, he's managed to get a lot of savvy techies (here and elsewhere, no doubt) all fired up on what the software for his pet machine must look like. Go Negroponte!
On a more serious note, this project of is very, very nice.
My dear Baron! I hadn't recognized you in that disguise !