I believe in people taking full responsibility for the software they use -- hence I use OpenBSD.
I'm happy when I read about a worm destroying Windows and costing them time & money: if they want to be irresponsible and run that stuff, it is important that they get some negative feedback, else they are likely to persist in falling victim to keyloggers and other malware.
I'm one of those, "it has to get worse before it gets better folks."
I don't think you know much about New Orleans or urban redevelopment.
The nice areas of New Orleans are on high(er) ground. They are intact and not flooded. So the historical attractions are preserved. N.O. is an urban redeveloper's dream: if you can somehow get the criminal class to stay away, and only bring back the hard-working, law-abiding folks, you can make a great tourist attraction, and make a lot of money.
Slum clearing is classic urban redevelopment practice. The slums are under water, so it is easier to ask for razing them.
All I've done is explain how America works. I didn't say anything about what should or should not happen.
E.g. I didn't say, "they should find a way to keep the undesirables out." I haven't discriminated against anyone -- just mentioned the facts: get rid of the blacks in New Orleans and you'll drop the crime rate. Ask any cop that (especially a black cop) -- he'll tell you the same. That's just facts, not "discrimination". That's why blacks who can move away from other blacks.
P.S. By flagging the people who write thoughtless comments, I make it easier to allocate my attention. It isn't necessarily to ignore them -- but to see them coming.
The flood is an urban redeveloper's dream. Normally the problem is getting them out. After they are out, you borrow money cheaply from the government and build crap for the yuppies. This has happened time and time again in American cities.
The geography in N.O. is so bad that it will cost a money to build anything proper. A great time to tell the undesirables -- sorry, you can't move back, too expensive.
The point isn't to forbid blacks from moving back (that would be illegal according the Civil Rights Act of 1964), but rather, to price them out. condemning their property is the first step -- it is always cheaper to redevelop property if you can take it away at a below-market price. As is clear from people refusing to leave even now, the people in N.O. don't like to move. It takes a monster flood to get them out.
This idea isn't just my idea. Many blacks at the Superome were claiming that "The Man" broke the levee on purpose -- to get the blacks out of the way.
As for you being on my foes list, if you'll read my profile, you'll see: "If you are in my foe-list it is nothing personal; I do this so that folks who make thoughtless comments are easier to spot (red mark), allowing me to waste less time scanning through crap."
The technical stuff is interesting, but not the most interesting thing about how the city will get reconstructed. It is a sideshow.
New Orleans is the only major city now with a miniscule number of blacks. They've been flooded out. How the city gets redeveloped could have major implications. I can imagine some real estate devlopers would like to turn it into a Vegas-on-the-Gulf with history (French Quarter). A good way to make that a "success" would be to condemn the black neighborhoods and put in parks and clubs.
It would be sort of like what happened in midtown Manhattan under Guiliani: force out the criminal class, then make money. I'm sure there are a lot of real estate developers trying to figure out how to turn it into the "next" Vegas. The city has gotten so much publicity it would simply be too tempting.
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There's a really neat website called "google.com". I just found out about it a few years ago.
You can type in queries like "bram porn bittorrent" and somehow you'll get a bunch of links to things related to what you've typed. It is really neat, and I recommend you try it out.
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Remember, when Bram wanted folks to test BitTorrent, he put up a porn flic -- he knew there'd be enough who'd want to get it that they'd download and install BitTorrent, and then wait for the porn to (maybe) download.
I bet porn leads to people installing lots of software, good and bad.
Theo De Raadt has chutzpah: he dropped support for adaptec hardware in OpenBSD, because they strung them along about giving him docs. Not code/binaries -- documentation.
And although I don't like the GPL (I prefer MIT/BSD terms), I really appreciate that RMS and the GPL crowd have such balls to do this one.
It is a long time coming -- finally the GPL people figure they are big enough to make a difference where it really counts.
It will be ready enough for the applications that need it -- they'll be willing to put up with the high price/features&quality. Later it will get cheap and be everywhere.
Just about everything you use started out really pricey and flaky -- but then got cheap and reliable.
The Koreans are mostly running Windows, so they are probably loaded down with keyloggers -- or they will be, once it pays to load them down with keyloggers.
What's the point of the encryption? They still lose.
So this is the 2nd or 3rd time this lawsuit has produced interesting titbits about M$. This thing is going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Get the popcord and sit back and watch.
I somehow suspect that M$ will continue coming off as anti-human, anti-worker and just plain nasty.
Yeah. Sounds right. I just don't get what this stuff was good for, and if it will have any real effect now that it will be unsupported.
The way they are doing things these days it seems clear: Billy's way, or the highway. If you choose the highway, you are moving to BSD/Linux/Solaris --- and there's no turning back.
If their switching costs meant anything, you might choose M$ all the way -- but if you want any control, you say, "fuck off, Billy!"
I've gotten the impression that Intel is evil, and you don't want to mess with them.
Is AMD evil enough? Or is this just some P.R. campaign for them, where they hope to get some serious attention and maybe a bit of business based on their competitive offerings?
As a BSD user, I understand the attractiveness of Unix. I can see M$ was trying to get people like me to feel a bit better about their software.
But I don't get the real consequences of this -- what are the Unix-lovers going to do, now that this product is officially dead?
E.g. switch entirely to NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD? Port the Unix userland they need to NT? Buy other crap from other people? Run Windows and a BSD on the same machine under some weird emulation?
It is great that Germany is chipping in to help out the disaster victims. I hear Hugo Chavez is helping out with oil from Venezuela.
I remember hearing that the citizens of the USA (not the govt.) are extremely generous, and help out when others have problems. Our government doesn't help out much (it allows the citizens to decide how the money gets spent, if it gets spent at all) -- but the citizens of the USA are insanely generous. At the drop of a hat, they send teddy bears and other useless feelgood items to disaster sites. I'm fixing to send a big stuffed dinosaur to Alabama, Missispi and Lousiana any minute now.
Anyway, I'm happy to see it isn't only a one way street, and that other coutries can be generous too. E.g. India, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand will be sending us something -- e.g. maybe some of those made-in-China teddy bears we sent them.
I guess as soon as you can watch Star Wars with this stuff, the DRM will get cracked in a few days.
Pure software methods always get cracked. Even hardware, as Bruce Schneier mentions, gets cracked, routinely.
It really is just a question of how much time, and how much resources it takes to break it. The problem with digital stuff is that once you do it, you've cracked it for everyone.
The town of "Fucking" (that really is the name) in Austria had a problem with people stealing the signs. They recently moved to a new system, where the signs are really hard to steal. But as the mayor said -- "it would take all night to steal".
Not, "you can't steal it" -- but it will take so long that someone will/may come along and arrest you before you make off with it.
With DRM, the guy gets to take the "sign" home for a few weeks at a time, until he can manage to crack it -- and once he does, you don't have any clue that he's done it.
It seems unfortunate that Linus was basically forced to take the Linux mark away from the shyster lawyer who registered the mark and was then using it to shakedown people -- once Linus got it, he had to protect it. So then he's forced to play a game that he really doesn't want to play in the first place (otherwise he would have grabbed the mark, charged companies in the first place, and so on).
I never really got why trademarks are important, but this sorry case (and the Unix (TM) AT&T stuff) makes it clear -- this stuff, in the real world, really does matter.
I'm surprised Tux is not trademarked. The BSD world works a bit different: McKusick trademarked the red-demon who represents BSD. That's his, and you need permission to use it. Although I guess you could make your own red-devil mascot -- but that's a trademark issue, and perhaps you'd better talk to a lawyer.
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I'm a full disclosure sort of guy.
I believe in people taking full responsibility for the software they use -- hence I use OpenBSD.
I'm happy when I read about a worm destroying Windows and costing them time & money: if they want to be irresponsible and run that stuff, it is important that they get some negative feedback, else they are likely to persist in falling victim to keyloggers and other malware.
I'm one of those, "it has to get worse before it gets better folks."
Here is one guy's opinion on Google and China and "local law". His point is they have a lot of choices -- not just to bend over for the dictators.
I really wonder what local law means in Burma and Somalia -- is it "do what the local mafia running stuff says?"
I read Schmidt (of Google) talking about this in China, and filtering.
He made it very clear: they must follow local law wherever they do business. Otherwise they get squashed -- naturally.
That being said, perhaps they should choose not to do business in someplaces -- like Burma.
I don't think you know much about New Orleans or urban redevelopment.
The nice areas of New Orleans are on high(er) ground. They are intact and not flooded. So the historical attractions are preserved. N.O. is an urban redeveloper's dream: if you can somehow get the criminal class to stay away, and only bring back the hard-working, law-abiding folks, you can make a great tourist attraction, and make a lot of money.
Slum clearing is classic urban redevelopment practice. The slums are under water, so it is easier to ask for razing them.
All I've done is explain how America works. I didn't say anything about what should or should not happen.
E.g. I didn't say, "they should find a way to keep the undesirables out." I haven't discriminated against anyone -- just mentioned the facts: get rid of the blacks in New Orleans and you'll drop the crime rate. Ask any cop that (especially a black cop) -- he'll tell you the same. That's just facts, not "discrimination". That's why blacks who can move away from other blacks.
P.S. By flagging the people who write thoughtless comments, I make it easier to allocate my attention. It isn't necessarily to ignore them -- but to see them coming.
You don't get it.
The flood is an urban redeveloper's dream. Normally the problem is getting them out. After they are out, you borrow money cheaply from the government and build crap for the yuppies. This has happened time and time again in American cities.
The geography in N.O. is so bad that it will cost a money to build anything proper. A great time to tell the undesirables -- sorry, you can't move back, too expensive.
The point isn't to forbid blacks from moving back (that would be illegal according the Civil Rights Act of 1964), but rather, to price them out. condemning their property is the first step -- it is always cheaper to redevelop property if you can take it away at a below-market price. As is clear from people refusing to leave even now, the people in N.O. don't like to move. It takes a monster flood to get them out.
This idea isn't just my idea. Many blacks at the Superome were claiming that "The Man" broke the levee on purpose -- to get the blacks out of the way.
As for you being on my foes list, if you'll read my profile, you'll see: "If you are in my foe-list it is nothing personal; I do this so that folks who make thoughtless comments are easier to spot (red mark), allowing me to waste less time scanning through crap."
You've misunderstood me.
The blacks are out of town now. Their homes are underwater. Hence, the city has a miniscule number of blacks.
If their homes get condemned, then they don't have anywhere to live. They don't come back. Voila -- Disneyland/Vegas on the Gulf.
The technical stuff is interesting, but not the most interesting thing about how the city will get reconstructed. It is a sideshow.
New Orleans is the only major city now with a miniscule number of blacks. They've been flooded out. How the city gets redeveloped could have major implications. I can imagine some real estate devlopers would like to turn it into a Vegas-on-the-Gulf with history (French Quarter). A good way to make that a "success" would be to condemn the black neighborhoods and put in parks and clubs.
It would be sort of like what happened in midtown Manhattan under Guiliani: force out the criminal class, then make money. I'm sure there are a lot of real estate developers trying to figure out how to turn it into the "next" Vegas. The city has gotten so much publicity it would simply be too tempting.
Cohen collected a batch of free porn and used it to lure beta testers.
You might like how I found this.
There's a really neat website called "google.com". I just found out about it a few years ago.
You can type in queries like "bram porn bittorrent" and somehow you'll get a bunch of links to things related to what you've typed. It is really neat, and I recommend you try it out.
Remember, when Bram wanted folks to test BitTorrent, he put up a porn flic -- he knew there'd be enough who'd want to get it that they'd download and install BitTorrent, and then wait for the porn to (maybe) download.
I bet porn leads to people installing lots of software, good and bad.
Theo De Raadt has chutzpah: he dropped support for adaptec hardware in OpenBSD, because they strung them along about giving him docs. Not code/binaries -- documentation.
And although I don't like the GPL (I prefer MIT/BSD terms), I really appreciate that RMS and the GPL crowd have such balls to do this one.
It is a long time coming -- finally the GPL people figure they are big enough to make a difference where it really counts.
They really care about this stuff!
It will be ready enough for the applications that need it -- they'll be willing to put up with the high price/features&quality. Later it will get cheap and be everywhere.
Just about everything you use started out really pricey and flaky -- but then got cheap and reliable.
The Koreans are mostly running Windows, so they are probably loaded down with keyloggers -- or they will be, once it pays to load them down with keyloggers.
What's the point of the encryption? They still lose.
So this is the 2nd or 3rd time this lawsuit has produced interesting titbits about M$. This thing is going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Get the popcord and sit back and watch.
I somehow suspect that M$ will continue coming off as anti-human, anti-worker and just plain nasty.
That gamers (1) don't care about DRM or other "side issues" -- they just great games and (2) have money to burn for the great games?
Are they thinking that if they get this out, create some envy/demand and drop the price as they hit production volumes, they could have a hit?
Just read the opinion, you lazy ass.
Buy buying the one with the "prebate", you enter into a contract to have Lexmark, and only Lexmark, remanufacture.
Yeah. Sounds right. I just don't get what this stuff was good for, and if it will have any real effect now that it will be unsupported.
The way they are doing things these days it seems clear: Billy's way, or the highway. If you choose the highway, you are moving to BSD/Linux/Solaris --- and there's no turning back.
If their switching costs meant anything, you might choose M$ all the way -- but if you want any control, you say, "fuck off, Billy!"
I've gotten the impression that Intel is evil, and you don't want to mess with them.
Is AMD evil enough? Or is this just some P.R. campaign for them, where they hope to get some serious attention and maybe a bit of business based on their competitive offerings?
I wish AMD all the luck!
As a BSD user, I understand the attractiveness of Unix. I can see M$ was trying to get people like me to feel a bit better about their software.
But I don't get the real consequences of this -- what are the Unix-lovers going to do, now that this product is officially dead?
E.g. switch entirely to NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD? Port the Unix userland they need to NT? Buy other crap from other people? Run Windows and a BSD on the same machine under some weird emulation?
How will this change impact actual (power) users?
The people over here really have it in for Zonk and his dupes.
I didn't really get the role of editors in making these mistakes. The jihad folks figure Zonk is one of the worst offenders.
I'm agnostic in all this, of course. This is just for informational purposes.
It is great that Germany is chipping in to help out the disaster victims. I hear Hugo Chavez is helping out with oil from Venezuela.
I remember hearing that the citizens of the USA (not the govt.) are extremely generous, and help out when others have problems. Our government doesn't help out much (it allows the citizens to decide how the money gets spent, if it gets spent at all) -- but the citizens of the USA are insanely generous. At the drop of a hat, they send teddy bears and other useless feelgood items to disaster sites. I'm fixing to send a big stuffed dinosaur to Alabama, Missispi and Lousiana any minute now.
Anyway, I'm happy to see it isn't only a one way street, and that other coutries can be generous too. E.g. India, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand will be sending us something -- e.g. maybe some of those made-in-China teddy bears we sent them.
When Apple called a project "Sagan", the astronomer got irritated, and told them to cease and desist.
Then they changed it to "Butthead Astronomer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
I guess as soon as you can watch Star Wars with this stuff, the DRM will get cracked in a few days.
Pure software methods always get cracked. Even hardware, as Bruce Schneier mentions, gets cracked, routinely. It really is just a question of how much time, and how much resources it takes to break it. The problem with digital stuff is that once you do it, you've cracked it for everyone.
The town of "Fucking" (that really is the name) in Austria had a problem with people stealing the signs. They recently moved to a new system, where the signs are really hard to steal. But as the mayor said -- "it would take all night to steal". Not, "you can't steal it" -- but it will take so long that someone will/may come along and arrest you before you make off with it.
With DRM, the guy gets to take the "sign" home for a few weeks at a time, until he can manage to crack it -- and once he does, you don't have any clue that he's done it.
It seems unfortunate that Linus was basically forced to take the Linux mark away from the shyster lawyer who registered the mark and was then using it to shakedown people -- once Linus got it, he had to protect it. So then he's forced to play a game that he really doesn't want to play in the first place (otherwise he would have grabbed the mark, charged companies in the first place, and so on).
I never really got why trademarks are important, but this sorry case (and the Unix (TM) AT&T stuff) makes it clear -- this stuff, in the real world, really does matter.
I'm surprised Tux is not trademarked. The BSD world works a bit different: McKusick trademarked the red-demon who represents BSD. That's his, and you need permission to use it. Although I guess you could make your own red-devil mascot -- but that's a trademark issue, and perhaps you'd better talk to a lawyer.
It doesn't make sense to charge $.99 for John Cage's completely silent piece. Apple is making a step in the right direction.
Mod me down -- I don't care:
So if it happened at Apple or Google, would it get the same writeup at Slashdot?
If you want neat news for geeks, I suggest you try: reddit.com
Much less b.s. than Slashdot, which lately seems to get worse.