Which is worse? Google refusing to comply, being kicked out of China completely, and Chinese users getting no benefit from Google searching, or would your rather Google complying, disallowing certain searches, but Chinese users being clever and being exposed to Western ideas that leaked through anyway because it's very difficult (if not impossible) to come up with perfect filters to prevent the bad ideas from getting into China.
OK, so I didn't read the article. Debian isn't dealing with this issue, but if it's as the article says, then it's going to be even more blatantly non-DFSG free.
Debian is planning to fire back about this. The GNU FDL already has this problem, and their developers will be voting soon on a project-wide statement to include a statement that this makes a licence non-free.
I certainly hope that GPLv3 doesn't disagree with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
I don't think they mean the broken features are minor, I think they mean the bugs breaking them are minor. If the bugs were major, then I don't think they could promise a March 2006 release, considering that they're going to have to get at least one beta in between now and then.
The problem that he's referring to in ruby is coincidental naming.
I implement a function with a name "join" without knowing what the rest of the world uses it for. (e.g. my "join" joins a chatroom, but the standard use of "join" is to concatenate all of the objects in an array together into a string.) Suddenly my object looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but doesn't act like a duck. Ruby thinks it can be used in the same context that everything else uses it in, but semantically it can't be used there.
Inheritance prevents conicidental naming problems by making the default assumption that two similarly named functions *don't* do the same thing, and can't be used in the same place. You override this assumption by indicating that the class inherits from a certain class (C++) or implements a certain interface (Java).
Does the FSF provide legal backing for projects under their license? Would the EFF help? Also, didn't Red Hat put aside a pool of money during the SCO flap to help OSS developers with litigation? Can that be used for this?
No. I'm going to buy my console from a responsible corporate citizen, uh, >cough, Microsoft. No, I guess I'm going to build a gaming system with the Intel processor because...they're not a mono--... Damn.
Make an AMD64 gaming system. Is it possible that Intel isn't a monopoly anymore because of AMD?
Prevent identity theft (if you can keep your hands on your card) by using challenge-response authentication. The POS terminal sends your card a challenge, the card encrypts the challenge and sends it back, and the POS terminal checks it using your card's public key (which it fetches from the credit card company). Bonus points: put a key pad on the card, so that your key is protected with a password, and you know your password isn't going into random hostile machines.
Which is 100% wrong on how our National Nuclear Waste Facility and local facilities are figured out. No it isn't. Bush hasn't even pursued this in public.
Must we go through the whole public comment and debate again with each new president? We've been working on this for nearly 50 years, and there have been 10 presidents working on this project. If we had to start over with public comment by each new President, we'd never get a project like this off the ground.
I spent last summer researching the exact idea that Microsoft is pushing now, and never figured out how to make it faster than bittorrent in my simulations.
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But the OEMs (who already sell Windows) don't feel the same way.
Have a look at Rick Moen's essay Fear of forking to see in more detail what causes successful forking.
It can tell porn from other images? It can't describe them, but it knows it when it sees it.
How about the loser pays the legal costs of both sides? Nobody would sue unless they were willing to bet a lot of money that their case was merited.
We live in an imperfect world.
Which is worse? Google refusing to comply, being kicked out of China completely, and Chinese users getting no benefit from Google searching, or would your rather Google complying, disallowing certain searches, but Chinese users being clever and being exposed to Western ideas that leaked through anyway because it's very difficult (if not impossible) to come up with perfect filters to prevent the bad ideas from getting into China.
OK, so I didn't read the article. Debian isn't dealing with this issue, but if it's as the article says, then it's going to be even more blatantly non-DFSG free.
Yuck.
Debian is planning to fire back about this. The GNU FDL already has this problem, and their developers will be voting soon on a project-wide statement to include a statement that this makes a licence non-free.
I certainly hope that GPLv3 doesn't disagree with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
...such as Flash and Java support.
These are minor?
I don't think they mean the broken features are minor, I think they mean the bugs breaking them are minor. If the bugs were major, then I don't think they could promise a March 2006 release, considering that they're going to have to get at least one beta in between now and then.
The problem that he's referring to in ruby is coincidental naming.
I implement a function with a name "join" without knowing what the rest of the world uses it for. (e.g. my "join" joins a chatroom, but the standard use of "join" is to concatenate all of the objects in an array together into a string.) Suddenly my object looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but doesn't act like a duck. Ruby thinks it can be used in the same context that everything else uses it in, but semantically it can't be used there.
Inheritance prevents conicidental naming problems by making the default assumption that two similarly named functions *don't* do the same thing, and can't be used in the same place. You override this assumption by indicating that the class inherits from a certain class (C++) or implements a certain interface (Java).
They couldn't exactly suggest Firefox because that's open source
I really don't understand what the point of "Idle time reports Gaim usage" is. Could someone enlighten me?
"In America, you check out books at the library. In Soviet Russia, library checks you out!" -- Yakov Smirnoff
Well, looks like that one's not true anymore.
If this device becomes standard, then the government won't be able to collect revenue from speeding tickets.
**AAs are interested in poisoning data they did not publish themselves. They cannot make the uploader use blocks they have collisions for.
Why not? they did, after all, publish the music in the first place.
I don't have any mod points, but someone please mod the parent up so he reaches +4.
Does the FSF provide legal backing for projects under their license? Would the EFF help? Also, didn't Red Hat put aside a pool of money during the SCO flap to help OSS developers with litigation? Can that be used for this?
No. I'm going to buy my console from a responsible corporate citizen, uh, >cough, Microsoft. No, I guess I'm going to build a gaming system with the Intel processor because...they're not a mono--... Damn.
Make an AMD64 gaming system.
Is it possible that Intel isn't a monopoly anymore because of AMD?
That summary didn't come out right. It should probably say something like "Sony violates LGPL copyrights to protect their own"
Sony has reached a new level of evil.
You could also join a torrent you didn't like and start sending out corrupted blocks to its users. Unfortunately, the RIAA would love that :(
Is it advised to switch GnuPG from SHA-1 for signatures to SHA-256 (like immediately)? How can I make this configuration change?
From my ideas page.
A private-key credit/debit card.
Prevent identity theft (if you can keep your hands on your card) by using challenge-response authentication. The POS terminal sends your card a challenge, the card encrypts the challenge and sends it back, and the POS terminal checks it using your card's public key (which it fetches from the credit card company). Bonus points: put a key pad on the card, so that your key is protected with a password, and you know your password isn't going into random hostile machines.
I once called my ISP (a small regional DSL provider) to get my current at-the-moment IP address when I accidentally disabled my DDNS updater.
Same deal. Makes your computer vulnerable for hacks.
Which is 100% wrong on how our National Nuclear Waste Facility and local facilities are figured out.
No it isn't. Bush hasn't even pursued this in public.
Must we go through the whole public comment and debate again with each new president? We've been working on this for nearly 50 years, and there have been 10 presidents working on this project. If we had to start over with public comment by each new President, we'd never get a project like this off the ground.
Who says you'd memorize each word and parse on a word level? You'd break off the suffixes and analyze those separately (using morphological analysis)
I spent last summer researching the exact idea that Microsoft is pushing now, and never figured out how to make it faster than bittorrent in my simulations.