No they are not out to "destroy the western world" they just want us to stay the hell of their world.
They preceive that the US meddles in their affairs too much. Typically most Arabs are taught from a very young age that America (as a proxy through Israel of course) are the reason for their sad condition. So the natural thought progression is that if they can rid the middle east of American influence they will achieve their dream of a utopia pan-arabia that is free, advanced, religious cohesive, moral, etc.
Of course this thinking is result of a very successful propanga/education machine. Nevertheless it is useful to understand their motives. And it is useful not to fall for the same style rhetoric traps like "they hate freedom".
The terrorist are not out to destroy the "free world". Bush used this lingo when he said on several occasions "they hate freedom". my thought is how can you fight an enemy when you do not even understand their basic motivation. regardless how twisted your enemies philosophy is you should understand it so that you fight them more effectively.
For example, if destroying terrorist camps is your highest priority objective, then invading iraq was the wrong thing to do because the ensuing chaos and lawlessness has created an ideal nesting ground for terrorist camps.
McBride wanted to somehow classify the GPL as anti-copyright since there is no payment exchange or financial gain by the holders. Of course a monkey could see thru McBides twisted logic.
Linus adroitly pointed out that the term 'financial gain' that is used in us copyright includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works. this means that some coders prefer to be compensated by getting access to a larger body of code in exchange for contributing their code.
I had an interesting exchange with overture (aka Yahoo) on this very issue a while back. Their vaulted Click Protection is amaturistic at best. In fact inside the ad manager if you click on your own links to be sure they work you are charged. If you want to have a look at your competition to see what they are offering they will be charged. This is from inside their manager. For those interested see the paper that details my conversion with them.
sigh it is "owned". At our installation EDS actual reran wire throughout, even though we have a fully modern gigabit ethernet in place. so now we have two parallel networks. All the name of saving money no matter how much it costs.
Govt owned desktops were actually given straight over to the contractor. This is no exaggeration. It was part of the contract. I heard through the grape vine that employees could buy back computers for personal use but the prices were ridiculously high and no guarentees on product quality.
I also labor under the nmci network. I work at research lab were we are working on the next generation technology but the nmci contract requires us to use prior generation tools!
A little known fact about the navy's tansition is that they sold the entire network infrastructure to a private concern! EDS actually "owns" the navy's entire infrastucture including the cable plant, routers, and desktop computers. this decision is so astounding dumb for several different reasons. first, if the contract doesn't work out (which it does not) how do you divorce yourself from a company that owns your infrastructure! keep in mind the navy has to work within a year-to-year budget, so if they decided to take back the infrastructure they could not because of the expense.
second, do you think it as wise to trust all your important secrets to single source? we are small detachment, our local file storage was sensible local before. now our "lan" is a "wan" over 2000 miles away! which creates preformance and reliabilty problems and nicely concentrates information for a would be hacker.
Then there is the monoculture thing, the slow desktop thing and the inability to use the software that works best for us. last I checked the list of approved software we could use mozilla v1.1. I was looking into writing a command and control intraface using xul and moz and now have to resort to vb.
For package management what is wrong (i am sure I will be told shortly) with using standard naming conventions and just use the files system and links instead of resorting to a database and flinging components far and wide - which invariably leads to cruft buildup over time.
For example if/inst is the install node then a simple myapp would look like:
/inst/myapp/bin docs man icons conf lib -->/lib/glibc/2.0 modules -->/moduls/core/1.2
Everything about an app resides at this location. All dependencies would be created via links from a installation script.
Then some service during install would come thru and create the appropiate links to stand places.
If applications are installed from a single directory node then removing an application could be as simple as rf -rf myapp. Checking what an application depends on would be a ls -l in the install directory.
Maybe now msnbc.com will not require IE to view video. If you click on a video link on msnbc (and probably msn but i never go there) the very first requirement is to download and install IE.
I make it point to periodically send their customer support an email requesting that they adhere to standards and not require a specific web browser to view video. I encourage others to do the same.
One time I told them I tried to follow their recommendations by the "IE thing" just would not run on my lunix machine.
Speaking is just a mechanisim to communicate. It just so happens that we "evolved" a way of communicating by modulating and receiving gas pressure waves. What's so special about that.
Whales and dolphins do the same except they use the ocean instead of the atmosphere as a transport media.
In the field I have seen coyotes communication via vocalizations - does that give them soul status?
The implications of a "humanzee" is enough to keep philosophers and religious thinkers busy for quite a while.
Does a humanzee really have a soul? Should they be granted "human rights"? Can we use them to test drugs or clean out clogged sewer lines? Really quite interesting.
Just another humbling experience for those who think humans are something special apart from the rest of creation.
Yep, sometimes the reporting around here can be design to envoke passion rather than inform. All that is missing are the picture of mangled babies that were the cause of faulty microsoft software.
It's not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to maintain the monopoly by conspiracy. Microsoft has done this
Mod the fellow up! Am I missing something here?
If SCO was litigating a commercial MS competitor (say Corel) would this not be something that could initiate another anti-trust case or review of their compliance to the current remedies set forth?
While that may be true and even logical, each department within the government will trust a clearance provided by another. I had a clearance from NASA and when I went to work for the the Navy I had to fill out similar but different forms and a second background check was run.
It would be the way you described if the federal gov't established a single entity to issue and track clearances but it sadly does not - for reasons that probably have to do with maintaining budgets and departments and increasing the general inefficiency that gov't is naturally predisposed to do.
Must work for a different part of the govt than I do.
Clearances are not transferable. That is if you work for one part of the government (lets say NASA) and have a clearance but are offered a job with another part (lets say Navy) they will do another workup on you. I believe this is true even within the Dept of Defense (ie from Navy to Air Force).
do not agree with all his policies, and all his decisions. However, I do support a vast majority of him
Do you mind listing any of Bush's policies that you do agree with? You wrote three paragraphs but failed to even hint at any areas where you are in agreement with Bush.
I am a right wing nut job and I voted for the Kerry - the anti-bush. Whatever happened to the Republician ideal of:
+ Smaller government + Fiscal responsibility
These are republican planks and areas that Bush scores a resounding D-
For those who somehow believe things in the world are going to get better now that we have destabalized Iraq - hang on - and I hope you do have any sons close to the drafting age.
Four years ago Iraq was isolated on the world stage and today it is the US that is isolated, four year of a lame duck Bush admin and who knows were we will be.
If we stick to our principles and "let the Iraqi people" pick their own government they will (if you believe the current polls) choose an Islamic based theocracy that thinks the US is the Great Satan. The only way we can prevent that is to become the imperialistic bastards that we are already being blamed for.
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That was easy next... Actually I think it is just a survey marker the heavy equipment will be here next tuesday.
If one was going to buy a scanner to use with linux which is the best choice in terms of driver support.
No they are not out to "destroy the western world" they just want us to stay the hell of their world.
They preceive that the US meddles in their affairs too much. Typically most Arabs are taught from a very young age that America (as a proxy through Israel of course) are the reason for their sad condition. So the natural thought progression is that if they can rid the middle east of American influence they will achieve their dream of a utopia pan-arabia that is free, advanced, religious cohesive, moral, etc.
Of course this thinking is result of a very successful propanga/education machine. Nevertheless it is useful to understand their motives. And it is useful not to fall for the same style rhetoric traps like "they hate freedom".
The terrorist are not out to destroy the "free world". Bush used this lingo when he said on several occasions "they hate freedom". my thought is how can you fight an enemy when you do not even understand their basic motivation. regardless how twisted your enemies philosophy is you should understand it so that you fight them more effectively.
For example, if destroying terrorist camps is your highest priority objective, then invading iraq was the wrong thing to do because the ensuing chaos and lawlessness has created an ideal nesting ground for terrorist camps.
sorry I was terse and not clear.
McBride wanted to somehow classify the GPL as anti-copyright since there is no payment exchange or financial gain by the holders. Of course a monkey could see thru McBides twisted logic.
Linus adroitly pointed out that the term 'financial gain' that is used in us copyright includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works. this means that some coders prefer to be compensated by getting access to a larger body of code in exchange for contributing their code.
Indeed however let the coding individual who has rights to their the code determine the means they wish to be compensated
I had an interesting exchange with overture (aka Yahoo) on this very issue a while back. Their vaulted Click Protection is amaturistic at best. In fact inside the ad manager if you click on your own links to be sure they work you are charged. If you want to have a look at your competition to see what they are offering they will be charged. This is from inside their manager. For those interested see the paper that details my conversion with them.
sigh it is "owned". At our installation EDS actual reran wire throughout, even though we have a fully modern gigabit ethernet in place. so now we have two parallel networks. All the name of saving money no matter how much it costs.
Govt owned desktops were actually given straight over to the contractor. This is no exaggeration. It was part of the contract. I heard through the grape vine that employees could buy back computers for personal use but the prices were ridiculously high and no guarentees on product quality.
Mod the parent up as he speaks the truth.
I also labor under the nmci network. I work at research lab were we are working on the next generation technology but the nmci contract requires us to use prior generation tools!
A little known fact about the navy's tansition is that they sold the entire network infrastructure to a private concern! EDS actually "owns" the navy's entire infrastucture including the cable plant, routers, and desktop computers. this decision is so astounding dumb for several different reasons. first, if the contract doesn't work out (which it does not) how do you divorce yourself from a company that owns your infrastructure! keep in mind the navy has to work within a year-to-year budget, so if they decided to take back the infrastructure they could not because of the expense.
second, do you think it as wise to trust all your important secrets to single source? we are small detachment, our local file storage was sensible local before. now our "lan" is a "wan" over 2000 miles away! which creates preformance and reliabilty problems and nicely concentrates information for a would be hacker.
Then there is the monoculture thing, the slow desktop thing and the inability to use the software that works best for us. last I checked the list of approved software we could use mozilla v1.1. I was looking into writing a command and control intraface using xul and moz and now have to resort to vb.
For package management what is wrong (i am sure I will be told shortly) with using standard naming conventions and just use the files system and links instead of resorting to a database and flinging components far and wide - which invariably leads to cruft buildup over time.
/inst is the install node then a simple myapp would look like:
/lib/glibc/2.0 /moduls/core/1.2
/usr/inst/myapp/docs /usr/share/man/myapp --> /usr/inst/myapp/man /usr/inst/myapp/bin/
For example if
/inst/myapp/bin
docs
man
icons
conf
lib -->
modules -->
Everything about an app resides at this location. All dependencies would be created via links from a installation script.
Then some service during install would come thru and create the appropiate links to stand places.
/usr/share/docs/myapp -->
/usr/bin/myapp -->
If applications are installed from a single directory node then removing an application could be as simple as rf -rf myapp. Checking what an application depends on would be a ls -l in the install directory.
Maybe now msnbc.com will not require IE to view video. If you click on a video link on msnbc (and probably msn but i never go there) the very first requirement is to download and install IE.
I make it point to periodically send their customer support an email requesting that they adhere to standards and not require a specific web browser to view video. I encourage others to do the same.
One time I told them I tried to follow their recommendations by the "IE thing" just would not run on my lunix machine.
"evolutionarily-hardwired moral reasoning"
Would this not mean that your ethics are based on the principle of increasing the probability of replicating the set of genes that constitute you.
I'm an atheist and me have second thoughts about ethics over progress.
Being an atheist what forms the ground truth of your "ethics"?
Speaking is just a mechanisim to communicate. It just so happens that we "evolved" a way of communicating by modulating and receiving gas pressure waves. What's so special about that.
Whales and dolphins do the same except they use the ocean instead of the atmosphere as a transport media.
In the field I have seen coyotes communication via vocalizations - does that give them soul status?
The implications of a "humanzee" is enough to keep philosophers and religious thinkers busy for quite a while.
Does a humanzee really have a soul? Should they be granted "human rights"? Can we use them to test drugs or clean out clogged sewer lines? Really quite interesting.
Just another humbling experience for those who think humans are something special apart from the rest of creation.
Yep, sometimes the reporting around here can be design to envoke passion rather than inform. All that is missing are the picture of mangled babies that were the cause of faulty microsoft software.
That was assessment also.
However i did visit alice.org. I clicked on gallery and found no way to navigate back!
Seems kinda of odd that a site dedicated to "natural programming" concepts would not take the time to employ "natural navigation". Hmmmmm.
It's not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to maintain the monopoly by conspiracy. Microsoft has done this
Mod the fellow up! Am I missing something here?
If SCO was litigating a commercial MS competitor (say Corel) would this not be something that could initiate another anti-trust case or review of their compliance to the current remedies set forth?
I beg to differ
Even the US gov't realizes this.
While that may be true and even logical, each department within the government will trust a clearance provided by another. I had a clearance from NASA and when I went to work for the the Navy I had to fill out similar but different forms and a second background check was run.
It would be the way you described if the federal gov't established a single entity to issue and track clearances but it sadly does not - for reasons that probably have to do with maintaining budgets and departments and increasing the general inefficiency that gov't is naturally predisposed to do.
Must work for a different part of the govt than I do.
Clearances are not transferable. That is if you work for one part of the government (lets say NASA) and have a clearance but are offered a job with another part (lets say Navy) they will do another workup on you. I believe this is true even within the Dept of Defense (ie from Navy to Air Force).
do not agree with all his policies, and all his decisions. However, I do support a vast majority of him
Do you mind listing any of Bush's policies that you do agree with? You wrote three paragraphs but failed to even hint at any areas where you are in agreement with Bush.
SCO does not put a cap on crap!
Oh Well Darl McBride in his role as the Snidely Whiplash of the tech world has provided hours of entertainment. Can't wait for the ending....
You never name a ship after a spectacular failure
Would you sail on the Titanic II
Indeed.
I am a right wing nut job and I voted for the Kerry - the anti-bush. Whatever happened to the Republician ideal of:
+ Smaller government
+ Fiscal responsibility
These are republican planks and areas that Bush scores a resounding D-
For those who somehow believe things in the world are going to get better now that we have destabalized Iraq - hang on - and I hope you do have any sons close to the drafting age.
Four years ago Iraq was isolated on the world stage and today it is the US that is isolated, four year of a lame duck Bush admin and who knows were we will be.
If we stick to our principles and "let the Iraqi people" pick their own government they will (if you believe the current polls) choose an Islamic based theocracy that thinks the US is the Great Satan. The only way we can prevent that is to become the imperialistic bastards that we are already being blamed for.
He thought Sweden was neutral and had no army
Yep that is our guy in the front office
Every boy scout knows better than that...
What is really scary about this incident is that none of his yes m^h^h^h^h^h er advisers attempted to correct him.