Well, my concern here was more about what could possibly be done. Let's say Stallman steps down or disappears or dies, and his successor turns out to be friendly with Company X. So the new GPL v4 comes out. And what a "coincidence", there is a clause permitting Company X to use any GPLed project in their closed source code! That code you wanted copylefted suddenly isn't quite so copyleft.;-) I don't see any protection in place which would stop this from happening...
It may take a long explanation, but the short is: Stallman not only demands everyone cave to his specific definition of "free", but he also wants control over everything.
The FSF often requires you to sign over copyright for them to give legal protection for a project--why? Some argue they need to so they can more easily use their lawyers, but they could just as easily set up a fund for lawyers or some other solution. They should at least give some help. How do we know these copyrighted works will be safe. How do we know the FSF will always be in "good" hands? In fact, why will they only help those who release under a GNU license? If they really want to support the creation of "Free Software", why does it only have to be under only Stallman's terms. The only answer I can think of would be Sallman wants to own all "Free Software."
He is also very hostile towards anyone who does not completely give in to him or "steals" his spotlight. (such as Linux) He seems more interested in politics and himself than the good of programming freedom in general or the enhancement of technology.
These are my concerns. Actually I do like some of his general ideas of sharing code, but I also think programmers should have a choice to keep their code copyrighted, as I also believe they should be allowed to free it. Both can coexist. Software patents I question, because they create monopolies, but that is another issue.
The GFDL is based on the narrow politics of the FSF, while CC was created to allow people to choose what restrictions they want on their work.
I'm not sure the wholesale changing of license under author's noses is great, but if they wrote in the GPL suggested "version x or later" clause, well...they agreed to it already. Which is why I don't like giving other people blank contracts. I probably wouldn't have minded if I had donated something as GFDL, but the implications are scary. Said clause gives them permission to do just about anything. Few people I would trust this way.
Maybe more governments and businesses are going for open source and free software, but I am not sure you could say a majority are. Ten years ago, it was almost 0% except for common things such as Apache and the like. It is up from 0%, but I doubt it is over 50% or even 25%, however I don't know for sure. Would be nice to see the actual numbers though.
I do admit there have been changes to sway things so open source / free software is in a better position, but I think the freedoms to have such things are still at risk. There are also still software and media companies pushing and lobbying for proprietary software and DRM, so there is still a reasonable possibility for them to take over.
In the future, the company who made the camera will own the "copyright" to your nose-picking video, and only people who can afford to spend lots of money on expensive software will be allowed to edit videos. I'm afraid your stenography software (or anything you or your friends program) won't be allowed by your OS, only what the vendor signs. You will also be required to pay if you want copies of your nose-picking masterpiece.
This is the real problem with "DRM"--it is really a variety of controls to keep small businesses and regular people from creating their own competing content and programs. Protecting copyright is just a cover the DRM companies use. If you look closely, DRM systems at minimum require all programs be signed by an approved key. Who do you think controls the keys?
This is an oversimplification, as there are many variations, but it all boils down to large companies having control over distribution of software and/or audio/ video/ text media.
What happens when all video players will only play content signed by the DRM consortium? What happens when all computers/electronics will only run programs signed by the DRM consortium? It will only lead to an outcome of oppression by those who control the keys.
I am on dialup and I am ignoring your 'only 300kb/s' statement. Also, why does it seem government officals always want to censor everything? This is against the constitutional idea of the state not estabilishing a religion. It isn't against my religion to view naked pictures or violence. As for the argument to "protect the children", I think the fake violence which is out of touch with reality is more damaging to children.
The FCC isn't doing this to create free internet access. They are trying to make the fact they are selling off all of our radio spectrum more palatable. (Though maybe the US edition of the Taliban wants us all to have censored internet too.) Read the article:
The FCC is considering auctioning off frequencies in a band between 2155 and 2175 MHz to operators that would be required to offer free wireless data services in that band.
Where do you think all the money is coming from for things like the bailout? Besides taking huge loans and printing money, the government is "creating wealth" by selling off our rights. What will be next?
This is why we are stuck with only a few small crap bands for 802.11 wireless networking. Just imagine if the FCC had allocated the spectrum freed by analog TV for public wireless networking. We could have networking which could reach miles not feet. You would essentially have a sharable network with all your neighbors. This would make the internet obsolete for most P2P operations--among other things.
Interference is a strawman cellphone and other companies use because they don't want any competition. They are quite happy charging absurd amounts for their services.
My theory for climbing hills would be to speed up as much as you can before you reach the hill, accelerating at the best the engine will give you. You will feel a point when your cars starts to give less acceleration as you put down the gas petal more. Use the high point of the curve. You can afford to lose speed as you are going up, but once you get below a certain speed (determined by how steep the hill and the particulars of your car's engine) you have a hard time making your car go faster or even getting up the hill. Obviously other cars on the road will make it so you can't always do this. In fact, slow going semis will often screw it up so you end up at a bad slow speed. We're talking the efficient part of the engine's torque/rpm/acceleration curve--the low and high ends give less effiency.
However, many cars (at least the ones I've driven) seem to have a limit to how fast is helpful for a particular grade/hill angle, so learn how your car moves and go from there. I also think there is a similar thing for starting from a dead stop. If you just plow down your gas, too much fuel goes in and a lot is wasted.
I'm sure someone who is more versed in the physics of cars and their engines could do better, but this is how I see it...
I think they learned punctuation and capitalization, but don't use it because it is a pain in the ass to use them in sms texts, and those habits have carried over to the internet.
Look on the bright side. You can save space by reducing ascii to five bits. we won apostrophe t have all the numbers or any puctuation comma but you can just spell those out stop
it will be exactly like the old telegram messages in movies
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cool exclamation smiley stop
Of course obfuscating information, re-obfuscating and basically confusing the hell out of everyone can help, but in time it will kill your credibility and label you a troll.
How do they know there aren't a bunch of guys with your name living in your area? Even if you have a very uncommon name, there is still a chance for name collisions. I have a rather uncommon last name, yet when I did a search on the internet, there was some old guy with my name.
So I don't see how attributing your name to other pictures would make people believe you are a troll....unless you were stupid and attached them to the same profile.
According to the page you linked, the Pandora is over $300(us). I can buy an Asus Eee for that much. As for the GP2X, it appears to be $180(us), still more expensive than a DS.
The Wikipedia page also says the GP2X has DRM, so it is also locked down like the DS. Apparently it doesn't have many restrictions yet, but who knows if it will in the future.
Maybe that should be couch prowess. Did you ever think if you made your own art instead of paying to see others, you wouldn't have to worry about it being locked down? (Assuming you didn't use a program which saves in a proprietary format.) Your work may not be as polished as the "professionals," but does it really matter. Last time I checked, there seemed to be lots of sites made for sharing various forms of art.
Everyone seems to forget quite a bit of this crap started with the Clinton administration. Convincing the fed to play with numbers to make the economy appear to be great when it is not. Telling banks to reduce their requirements for people to get loans (the whole down payment thing is to weed out those who are not finacially responsible and stable). Though I think the relaxation of bank regulations came with Bush--can't remember (either way very stupid). There is also the fact the dot com failures happened the summer before Bush was even elected.
This has been going on for a long time. Everyone just wants to blame the current administration....and I like your kicking out idea, but I am not so sure it would work. The press and self righteous idiots (pretty much every American) make it so only lying psychopaths who hide their past would ever get elected. They also only want to consider their issues and no others. Makes me unproud to be an American!
So far, in 20 days this month, I've used 1.2 GB of data. A lot more than I would have guessed.
This is because nearly all websites waste tonnes of bandwidth with "Web 2.0" Ajax / Javascript crap. I am stuck on dialup, and it takes forever to load just about anything these days. Even if it is just a page with a few lines of text. Today's "web programmers" suxxors!
I thought gestures were designed for PDAs which used a stylus, not a mouse. I haven't kept up with the times, but a hand gesture thing would have it's place, even if everybody doesn't use it. Not everyone is the same and has the same needs. Even the same people will have different needs at different times. As for this browser, it looks crappy and stupid, but then you could say that about most things when they first came out: Linux, MS Windows (okay, still crappy), computers, cars (ever drive a Model T? I haven't, but I can imagine.), etc...
People need to quit wasting cash developing crappy ideas, and spend some time generating GOOD ideas to develop.
The problem with this policy is many ideas seem crappy to many people until they get into wide use. If you asked someone in the 1980s if they would like a computer in their home, they'd probably ask: "what the hell would I do with it? I already have a calculator."
1. Which is better for children: Throwing rocks at my neighbor's window or playing GTA?
At least with GTA, they aren't doing damage to real property.
2. Which is better for children: Attending a public school or playing Age of Conan.
At least with Age of Conan, they have a chance at learning to read and do basic math. Seriously, have you looked at what the public schools try to pass as an education? And before you complain about my spelling and grammar, I'd like to say I was trained in a public school. The only reason my post is readable is because I also read tonnes of programming books on my own.
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I've been writing python for years, and I think the tab/space sensitivity is terrible. I stick with e3 partly because of Python (and make) having problems if tabs are substituted to spaces and vice versa. This is completely invisible to the user on all (if not most) text editors. Even worse, many text editors aren't very careful with what they do to whitespace. Also, more or less, 8 charactor tab stops are considered standard, but for programming many people like them at 3. Guess what most text editors do? Well, some put in 3 spaces, but others put in tab chars and define the stops as every 3 spaces.
Sometimes I have to diagnose these problems with hexdump or a hex editor. Why not just go binary then?
My favorite editor used to be jed, but when you press tab, it often puts in spaces. I think it is also the one which "optimizes" text files by compressing tabs into spaces. I think you can use it's macro language/configuration to change this behaviour, but it is hell to make sure you are safe from tab/space mangling.
A note to anyone who may be designing a language or text file format: for the burning kitten's sake, please don't make things sensitive to differences in whitespace. It will be hell for your users.
I think a rational means of dealing with dyamic content would be: use a real programming language. Using a document format augmented with a script language intended to verify form data as a base for applications does not seem rational to me.
The trouble is, once IP and information is fully exploited, what will be left to move on to?
Nanotech? Genetic engineering?
I'd say we just ran out of markets to be dominant in. And this is NOT new. This is exactly how the Roman and British empires fell.
I don't think so. The Roman empire fell because they pissed off a hired military leader who was able to rally a whole people to war--Attila the Hun. The British empire fell because they relied on labor from their opressive rule over other countries. I won't say this will not happen to the US, but your reason doesn't seem plasible. Also notice the Roman (Itailian, Spanish, Portugese) and British people are still around and doing quite well, even if their empires have crumbled.
Your view seems quite pessimistic to me. Maybe everyone in the US won't be filthy rich, but life won't suck unless you are spoiled. Craploads of money isn't everything...
Isn't this why PGP was integrated into many email clients years ago? Since when have people considered the Internet safe from eavesdropping? Since I started using the internet in 1995, I have been warned many times by countless posts and websites informing people of the potential for eavesdropping on the internet. Haven't you seen any of these warnings? This is nothing new.
Well old man, don't pretend like you are dispensing insightful observations when you really just an asshole who can't read and likes to insult people to make his statements sound better.
Oh come on! Don't try to discourage such people, otherwise we might end up with insightful, informative articles and debates. Who would want that?
There are alternate builds. pigfoot - Swiftfox - one for the Mac. I am sure there has to be one somewhere which fits your requirements. Problem is finding it.
I am not sure about using xhost 127.0.0.1 though. I just set the xauth creds for the users I need to access X. Otherwise any old daemon can access X too.
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Well, my concern here was more about what could possibly be done. Let's say Stallman steps down or disappears or dies, and his successor turns out to be friendly with Company X. So the new GPL v4 comes out. And what a "coincidence", there is a clause permitting Company X to use any GPLed project in their closed source code! That code you wanted copylefted suddenly isn't quite so copyleft. ;-) I don't see any protection in place which would stop this from happening...
It may take a long explanation, but the short is: Stallman not only demands everyone cave to his specific definition of "free", but he also wants control over everything.
The FSF often requires you to sign over copyright for them to give legal protection for a project--why? Some argue they need to so they can more easily use their lawyers, but they could just as easily set up a fund for lawyers or some other solution. They should at least give some help. How do we know these copyrighted works will be safe. How do we know the FSF will always be in "good" hands? In fact, why will they only help those who release under a GNU license? If they really want to support the creation of "Free Software", why does it only have to be under only Stallman's terms. The only answer I can think of would be Sallman wants to own all "Free Software."
He is also very hostile towards anyone who does not completely give in to him or "steals" his spotlight. (such as Linux) He seems more interested in politics and himself than the good of programming freedom in general or the enhancement of technology.
These are my concerns. Actually I do like some of his general ideas of sharing code, but I also think programmers should have a choice to keep their code copyrighted, as I also believe they should be allowed to free it. Both can coexist. Software patents I question, because they create monopolies, but that is another issue.
The GFDL is based on the narrow politics of the FSF, while CC was created to allow people to choose what restrictions they want on their work.
I'm not sure the wholesale changing of license under author's noses is great, but if they wrote in the GPL suggested "version x or later" clause, well...they agreed to it already. Which is why I don't like giving other people blank contracts. I probably wouldn't have minded if I had donated something as GFDL, but the implications are scary. Said clause gives them permission to do just about anything. Few people I would trust this way.
Maybe more governments and businesses are going for open source and free software, but I am not sure you could say a majority are. Ten years ago, it was almost 0% except for common things such as Apache and the like. It is up from 0%, but I doubt it is over 50% or even 25%, however I don't know for sure. Would be nice to see the actual numbers though.
I do admit there have been changes to sway things so open source / free software is in a better position, but I think the freedoms to have such things are still at risk. There are also still software and media companies pushing and lobbying for proprietary software and DRM, so there is still a reasonable possibility for them to take over.
In the future, the company who made the camera will own the "copyright" to your nose-picking video, and only people who can afford to spend lots of money on expensive software will be allowed to edit videos. I'm afraid your stenography software (or anything you or your friends program) won't be allowed by your OS, only what the vendor signs. You will also be required to pay if you want copies of your nose-picking masterpiece.
This is the real problem with "DRM"--it is really a variety of controls to keep small businesses and regular people from creating their own competing content and programs. Protecting copyright is just a cover the DRM companies use. If you look closely, DRM systems at minimum require all programs be signed by an approved key. Who do you think controls the keys?
This is an oversimplification, as there are many variations, but it all boils down to large companies having control over distribution of software and/or audio/ video/ text media.
What happens when all video players will only play content signed by the DRM consortium? What happens when all computers/electronics will only run programs signed by the DRM consortium? It will only lead to an outcome of oppression by those who control the keys.
I am on dialup and I am ignoring your 'only 300kb/s' statement. Also, why does it seem government officals always want to censor everything? This is against the constitutional idea of the state not estabilishing a religion. It isn't against my religion to view naked pictures or violence. As for the argument to "protect the children", I think the fake violence which is out of touch with reality is more damaging to children.
The FCC isn't doing this to create free internet access. They are trying to make the fact they are selling off all of our radio spectrum more palatable. (Though maybe the US edition of the Taliban wants us all to have censored internet too.) Read the article:
Where do you think all the money is coming from for things like the bailout? Besides taking huge loans and printing money, the government is "creating wealth" by selling off our rights. What will be next?
This is why we are stuck with only a few small crap bands for 802.11 wireless networking. Just imagine if the FCC had allocated the spectrum freed by analog TV for public wireless networking. We could have networking which could reach miles not feet. You would essentially have a sharable network with all your neighbors. This would make the internet obsolete for most P2P operations--among other things.
Interference is a strawman cellphone and other companies use because they don't want any competition. They are quite happy charging absurd amounts for their services.
My theory for climbing hills would be to speed up as much as you can before you reach the hill, accelerating at the best the engine will give you. You will feel a point when your cars starts to give less acceleration as you put down the gas petal more. Use the high point of the curve. You can afford to lose speed as you are going up, but once you get below a certain speed (determined by how steep the hill and the particulars of your car's engine) you have a hard time making your car go faster or even getting up the hill. Obviously other cars on the road will make it so you can't always do this. In fact, slow going semis will often screw it up so you end up at a bad slow speed. We're talking the efficient part of the engine's torque/rpm/acceleration curve--the low and high ends give less effiency.
However, many cars (at least the ones I've driven) seem to have a limit to how fast is helpful for a particular grade/hill angle, so learn how your car moves and go from there. I also think there is a similar thing for starting from a dead stop. If you just plow down your gas, too much fuel goes in and a lot is wasted.
I'm sure someone who is more versed in the physics of cars and their engines could do better, but this is how I see it...
I think they learned punctuation and capitalization, but don't use it because it is a pain in the ass to use them in sms texts, and those habits have carried over to the internet.
Look on the bright side. You can save space by reducing ascii to five bits. we won apostrophe t have all the numbers or any puctuation comma but you can just spell those out stop it will be exactly like the old telegram messages in movies stop cool exclamation smiley stop
With the malware, maybe they should be called "Aieee"?
How do they know there aren't a bunch of guys with your name living in your area? Even if you have a very uncommon name, there is still a chance for name collisions. I have a rather uncommon last name, yet when I did a search on the internet, there was some old guy with my name.
So I don't see how attributing your name to other pictures would make people believe you are a troll. ...unless you were stupid and attached them to the same profile.
According to the page you linked, the Pandora is over $300(us). I can buy an Asus Eee for that much. As for the GP2X, it appears to be $180(us), still more expensive than a DS.
The Wikipedia page also says the GP2X has DRM, so it is also locked down like the DS. Apparently it doesn't have many restrictions yet, but who knows if it will in the future.
Maybe that should be couch prowess. Did you ever think if you made your own art instead of paying to see others, you wouldn't have to worry about it being locked down? (Assuming you didn't use a program which saves in a proprietary format.) Your work may not be as polished as the "professionals," but does it really matter. Last time I checked, there seemed to be lots of sites made for sharing various forms of art.
Everyone seems to forget quite a bit of this crap started with the Clinton administration. Convincing the fed to play with numbers to make the economy appear to be great when it is not. Telling banks to reduce their requirements for people to get loans (the whole down payment thing is to weed out those who are not finacially responsible and stable). Though I think the relaxation of bank regulations came with Bush--can't remember (either way very stupid). There is also the fact the dot com failures happened the summer before Bush was even elected.
This has been going on for a long time. Everyone just wants to blame the current administration. ...and I like your kicking out idea, but I am not so sure it would work. The press and self righteous idiots (pretty much every American) make it so only lying psychopaths who hide their past would ever get elected. They also only want to consider their issues and no others. Makes me unproud to be an American!
This is because nearly all websites waste tonnes of bandwidth with "Web 2.0" Ajax / Javascript crap. I am stuck on dialup, and it takes forever to load just about anything these days. Even if it is just a page with a few lines of text. Today's "web programmers" suxxors!
I thought gestures were designed for PDAs which used a stylus, not a mouse. I haven't kept up with the times, but a hand gesture thing would have it's place, even if everybody doesn't use it. Not everyone is the same and has the same needs. Even the same people will have different needs at different times. As for this browser, it looks crappy and stupid, but then you could say that about most things when they first came out: Linux, MS Windows (okay, still crappy), computers, cars (ever drive a Model T? I haven't, but I can imagine.), etc...
The problem with this policy is many ideas seem crappy to many people until they get into wide use. If you asked someone in the 1980s if they would like a computer in their home, they'd probably ask: "what the hell would I do with it? I already have a calculator."
You mean besides Intel and AMD's websites? I think their specs cover just about everything, don't they? Nasm's docs do the rest.
I suppose there is linuxassembly.org if you want Linux / FreeBSD info.
At least with GTA, they aren't doing damage to real property.
At least with Age of Conan, they have a chance at learning to read and do basic math. Seriously, have you looked at what the public schools try to pass as an education? And before you complain about my spelling and grammar, I'd like to say I was trained in a public school. The only reason my post is readable is because I also read tonnes of programming books on my own.
I've been writing python for years, and I think the tab/space sensitivity is terrible. I stick with e3 partly because of Python (and make) having problems if tabs are substituted to spaces and vice versa. This is completely invisible to the user on all (if not most) text editors. Even worse, many text editors aren't very careful with what they do to whitespace. Also, more or less, 8 charactor tab stops are considered standard, but for programming many people like them at 3. Guess what most text editors do? Well, some put in 3 spaces, but others put in tab chars and define the stops as every 3 spaces.
Sometimes I have to diagnose these problems with hexdump or a hex editor. Why not just go binary then?
My favorite editor used to be jed, but when you press tab, it often puts in spaces. I think it is also the one which "optimizes" text files by compressing tabs into spaces. I think you can use it's macro language/configuration to change this behaviour, but it is hell to make sure you are safe from tab/space mangling.
A note to anyone who may be designing a language or text file format: for the burning kitten's sake, please don't make things sensitive to differences in whitespace. It will be hell for your users.
I think a rational means of dealing with dyamic content would be: use a real programming language. Using a document format augmented with a script language intended to verify form data as a base for applications does not seem rational to me.
Nanotech? Genetic engineering?
I don't think so. The Roman empire fell because they pissed off a hired military leader who was able to rally a whole people to war--Attila the Hun. The British empire fell because they relied on labor from their opressive rule over other countries. I won't say this will not happen to the US, but your reason doesn't seem plasible. Also notice the Roman (Itailian, Spanish, Portugese) and British people are still around and doing quite well, even if their empires have crumbled.
Your view seems quite pessimistic to me. Maybe everyone in the US won't be filthy rich, but life won't suck unless you are spoiled. Craploads of money isn't everything...
Isn't this why PGP was integrated into many email clients years ago? Since when have people considered the Internet safe from eavesdropping? Since I started using the internet in 1995, I have been warned many times by countless posts and websites informing people of the potential for eavesdropping on the internet. Haven't you seen any of these warnings? This is nothing new.
Oh come on! Don't try to discourage such people, otherwise we might end up with insightful, informative articles and debates. Who would want that?
There are alternate builds. pigfoot - Swiftfox - one for the Mac. I am sure there has to be one somewhere which fits your requirements. Problem is finding it.
This is what I was wondering. In fact, wasn't FUSE put in the mainline kernel, so you can now write a userspace driver for a filesystem?
I am not sure about using xhost 127.0.0.1 though. I just set the xauth creds for the users I need to access X. Otherwise any old daemon can access X too.