If you think corporate control over things like this are bad now, wait 'til G.W. (god forbid) is running the show.
People that donate the sums of money that he's received do not give money away without expecting something in return. He way overspent on the primaries, and now needs to re-fund his campaign again. How much is $$ is that going to take? How many more favors is he going to have to promise?
Sorry to politicize this, and I'm not saying that any of the other candidates are any better, but this kind of "corporate-first" ideal has been totally taking over this country as of late, and I don't see it changing any time soon.
Our government charter (US) was built on protecting individual rights. Our individual rights are now secondary to Corporate rights. I'd like to see this trend stop, rather than get pushed further into Greedville.
So, the airwaves are all for sale. Granted, in a way they always have been, but at this point companies will be free to buy up all of the frequencies, then "rent" the "ones they're not currently using" to those of us that couldn't/can't get in on this land-grab.
Is this hardware, or an election? Honestly, this is just ridiculous. Somebody tell ATI that hardware can't have charisma. Somebody tell Sony that hardware can't have emotions.
Yeah, that's me, trendspotter extraordinaire. Takes a genius these days, eh?
I was wondering if you've taken a look at Penguin Play, or any of the other API-like attempts at making it easier for people to program/port games for linux.
Do you think that initiatives like this are good for the OS in the long run, or do you think they're more dangerous as a way of vanilla-izing or lowering the bar for good game programming?
It's something the government deems worthy of protecting us from "a threat to national security," at which point all all individual and civil rights become null and void.
Really, this does take us one giant leap closer to Big Brother -- the majority of our traffic is either from a) the office or b) our homes, which means that traceability is extremely effective. Our activities already are being watched from our job and our home, and this will allow them to watch us even closer.
It's time to enable ourselves to encrypt every bit of data that leaves our machines, and get everyone you know to do the same. I don't even get involved in any "unseemly" activities on the net, I think that a large number of us/. users have gone through the script-kiddie phase (hey, if we were never there we understand it quite as well), have gotten past the warezing and the filezing and whatnot, and have gotten to a point where we just don't think it's right for government eyes to follow us and read our communications -- that''s what's at stake here.
If you don't want all of your communications to be a) traceable or b) even intercepted and processed *legally* by your government agencies (can you imagine if they could read all of our mail? It'd be a public outrage, an invastion of privacy, against our personal ri... oh, wait, "matter of national security," we have no rights...) the time to act is NOW. Fight to keep crazy legislation like this gets enacted, and learn your encryption. Get thyself to www.pgp.org, or if you know of something better, let us all know.
Anyone else think that the ACLU needs a political party? They'd be on our side on this one...
Hypothetical situation -- let's say a company has a product that they'd like to open source and allow free non-commercial use, but require payment for commercial use?
Are there licenses in existence to cover this?
Anyone wanna start a website that covers things like this? Maybe a segment of one of the already-existing code/source sites?
Linux should acquire HA/FT, no doubt, but Linux should have ONE VERY ROBUST HA/FT and not three or four or five not-very-much-useful HA/FT.
Kinda silly suggestion, really. No offense intended, but this SGI solution is not a "not-very-much-useful" solution, it's a tried and proven solution.
There are many routes to take to a HA system, and merging them all into one is going to a) stifle individual development (since a lot of open-source projects are for the developers to develop as well as the code), b) limit our choices and c) I don't really have time to come up with a "c)", but just an "A)" and a "B)" would look silly.
"THREE" different implementations is a) not an outrageous number, b) not even beginning to reveal the real number of options when you call into play the hardware and other software solutions for a HA system and c) I've got that "c)" problem again.
Linux is no longer an infant, but it's still too early to start cutting off its options as it works its way into adolescence. Give it time to experiment. There's room for a lot of projects.
I can't begin to say how pumped I am for what this means to the networking of console gaming systems. I mean yes, they're saying "Dolphin/PSX2 will have DSL/Cable/Eth capabilities," but I didn't expect much from them.
Zoid, however, is the key to this. Yes, CTF was cool, yes, his mods are cool, but the coolest thing Zoid has done for all of us was QuakeWorld. Quake 1 was pretty cool, and i was amazed at it, but the internet play wasn't there. You couldn't play very good games on a modem, and the promise of netplay faltered for most of us.
But then..... Oh, then.... Zoid made QuakeWorld, and the world changed for me and millions of others like me. Fast networking code, a reasonable level of playability on a modem...
Thanks Zoid, and keep kicking ass. Let's see some sweet-ass multiplayer on the Dolphin. Someday I wanna sit on my couch in front of the TV and kick esses' ass instead of having to sit at my desk.:]
Not every college sees this benefit. Also, I'm not arguing for turning the NCAA sports into money machines...
It's just that a number of schools with good teams (UConn, St. John's, etc.) indeed *do* make a lot of money from their programs. These are schools with huge, well-known teams that win consistently. I don't see why a school with a very good, well-known science program shouldn't reap the same benefit.
Yes, educational facilities that are spending how many bazillions on research should be entirely funded with taxes?
Wouldn't you rather see the experiments fund themselves as much as possible?
The basketball team helps support the school, the football team helps support the school, why shouldn't the science department help fund the school?
They weren't SOLD... they were optioned in Germany
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Cap City/ABC (read: DISNEY, plus almost every single newspaper in the US, even your little local town-based rag is most likely owned by them...) already has the US rights, it's right there in the article:
The Jim Henson Co. also has production agreements with the American cable company Odyssey Channel, Capital Cities/ABC and Sony's Columbia Tristar Home Video in the home video arena.
I remember the big hoopla when Disney optioned them, and ran a "Muppets in Epcot: Epcot Becomes Almost Interesting" special.
This company has a major investment in Odyssey, which unfrotunately isn't on my cable network. I do, however, get Disney, and "Muppets Tonight" is a really good, high-quality, true-to-the-original show.
Java development is growing daily. The speed with which Java applications and servlets can be developed is unprecedented. The speed issues with Java are decreasing with each release, and 1.2.2 is pretty quick. The 1.3 early-release 1.3 JRE is quite a bit faster, and Blackdown is already working on the port.
This is very good news for Linux, which, as you may have noticed, a few/. readers seem to care about. If you wanna bitch, try posting at http://dev.null.com.
Well, a lot of times these kinds of things aren't really rumors or misinformation, they're test-marketing.
Some casting person leaks rumors about Warburton. Net begins to buzz. Some schmoe working at casting companyshakes the net to see what falls out. People seem to be very pumped about this, so it probably bodes well for him, whether they'd already decided to cast him or not.
If everyone booed and hissed, the production company could just say, "It was a rumor. We'll find someone much more suitable for the part."
As a network/sysadmin, this kind of stuff scares the shit out of me.
As a citizen of an ever-encroaching big-brotherlike planet, this kind of stuff makes me sleep better at night.
To whoever is pulling off these attacks:
You're our well-armed militia. I think it's important that people can do this if necessary. I think it's crucial to the freedom of future inhabitants of this planet that people have the ability to do this.
The more you pull stuff like this off, the better their defenses are going to be. Every time you whack a site, they're gonna analyze every move you made and figure out ways to defend. Don't give them the bits they need to put it all together.
I can't stress enough how important it is that the people have the ability to do this in an age when government surveillance is reaching ludicrous bounds. Our cell phones and cars will be tracked, our movements will all be known, and it's not too much of a leap to see that all of this will be done electronically. It is absolutely essential that the people have the ability to throw off the system if need be.
I'm not even pro-militia in the sense of today's publicized militias... I'm not some wing-nut, I don't even own a gun, or even like them. I just realize the importance of the people's ability to defend themselves from oppressive governments or "New World Orders" if push comes to shove.
at first glance, fom an administrator's perspective, I can understand this.
however, once you take into account the realities of the machines that are on the net today, this is nigh impossible. every day, DSL and cable modems are bringing more and more windows, linux, xBSD, etc. boxes onto the net with assigned IP addresses and security holes the size of Texas.
you can't, however, pin this on these individual users. if you're a systems administrator and that's your only working task, it is still difficult to keep up with security issues these days. it's more than a full-time job to keep a network secure from all of the possible attacks. you're never going to get all of the broadband users to secure their systems themselves, it'd be a herculean task.
it's better to start at the software/OS distributors and force them to hande the situation better. much like setting up ipmasq for the first time, the first thing to do is deny everything, then allow only what is necessary. operating systems should install the same way.
jimmy installs redhat, and decides that he needs web, email, ftp and nntp access. he runs through the installation, and at the end only ports 80, 25, 21 and 119 are open. he doesn't know any more than that, and he shouldn't need to know more than that.
there's no bind running errantly on his system, no apache running... honestly, at the end of pretty much any linux installation users have daemons running that they'll never need or use, opening up ports and holes that just aren't necessary.
instead of expecting every single end user out there to attend BOF security conferences and read bugtraq, maybe we should give them more secure setups to start with.
after all, in your scenario BOF don't exist, since everyone would already be included.
It would take some big schpense to develop and manufacture, but it seems possible...
Take a camera, and give it a bit of sonar-like ability to determine the distance between the camera and whatever scene you have it aimed at. The camera builds a wire mesh of the objects in front of it, then breaks the image data down into textures, which it then wraps the mesh with.
Sonar is of course out of the question, but I'm sure there's better technology out there. I mean, I just come up with 'em, I don't implmenent 'em.
excellent, thank you, good to know. of course, I'm currently about 5 minutes from completion on installing Solaris on a Sparc box, when I could have done a 64-bit linux and saved myself about a million hours of trouble...
The Unix workstation market has been dwindling for quite some time, more to the NT market than the Linux market (Remember SGI going to NT?).
Given the cash to set up a server environment, Intel hardware is the last place you should look. Give me a couple of UltraSparcs over the fastest SMP Intel boxes anyday.
Maybe Merced will change that, assuming that we see it sometime in the near future, but I don't think so. Workstations are a different issue, but I don't think that workstations make up quite the bulk of their sales that servers do. I could be very wrong on that, but it's just my impression.
Cheaper and easier mean little when you're interested in raw speed, throughput and stability. Linux isn't utilizing the 64-bit Sun hardware anyway at this point, IIRC, anyway. So, if you need the speed, you need the hardware. If you've got the hardware, why cripple it with an OS that doesn't utilize it to its fullest potential?
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If you think corporate control over things like this are bad now, wait 'til G.W. (god forbid) is running the show.
People that donate the sums of money that he's received do not give money away without expecting something in return. He way overspent on the primaries, and now needs to re-fund his campaign again. How much is $$ is that going to take? How many more favors is he going to have to promise?
Sorry to politicize this, and I'm not saying that any of the other candidates are any better, but this kind of "corporate-first" ideal has been totally taking over this country as of late, and I don't see it changing any time soon.
Our government charter (US) was built on protecting individual rights. Our individual rights are now secondary to Corporate rights. I'd like to see this trend stop, rather than get pushed further into Greedville.
So, the airwaves are all for sale. Granted, in a way they always have been, but at this point companies will be free to buy up all of the frequencies, then "rent" the "ones they're not currently using" to those of us that couldn't/can't get in on this land-grab.
Is this hardware, or an election? Honestly, this is just ridiculous. Somebody tell ATI that hardware can't have charisma. Somebody tell Sony that hardware can't have emotions.
Yeah, that's me, trendspotter extraordinaire. Takes a genius these days, eh?
I was wondering if you've taken a look at Penguin Play, or any of the other API-like attempts at making it easier for people to program/port games for linux.
Do you think that initiatives like this are good for the OS in the long run, or do you think they're more dangerous as a way of vanilla-izing or lowering the bar for good game programming?
oops, thanks. the sad thing is that i've typed the wrong url in about 20 times now, and will probably still continue to. :]
It's something the government deems worthy of protecting us from "a threat to national security," at which point all all individual and civil rights become null and void.
/. users have gone through the script-kiddie phase (hey, if we were never there we understand it quite as well), have gotten past the warezing and the filezing and whatnot, and have gotten to a point where we just don't think it's right for government eyes to follow us and read our communications -- that''s what's at stake here.
Really, this does take us one giant leap closer to Big Brother -- the majority of our traffic is either from a) the office or b) our homes, which means that traceability is extremely effective. Our activities already are being watched from our job and our home, and this will allow them to watch us even closer.
It's time to enable ourselves to encrypt every bit of data that leaves our machines, and get everyone you know to do the same. I don't even get involved in any "unseemly" activities on the net, I think that a large number of us
If you don't want all of your communications to be a) traceable or b) even intercepted and processed *legally* by your government agencies (can you imagine if they could read all of our mail? It'd be a public outrage, an invastion of privacy, against our personal ri... oh, wait, "matter of national security," we have no rights...) the time to act is NOW. Fight to keep crazy legislation like this gets enacted, and learn your encryption. Get thyself to www.pgp.org, or if you know of something better, let us all know.
Anyone else think that the ACLU needs a political party? They'd be on our side on this one...
Hypothetical situation -- let's say a company has a product that they'd like to open source and allow free non-commercial use, but require payment for commercial use?
Are there licenses in existence to cover this?
Anyone wanna start a website that covers things like this? Maybe a segment of one of the already-existing code/source sites?
they shut down a company for good for $50k
The company isn't shut down. They're still making new games, still turning out high-quality stuff.
Just vist http://www.sjgames.com/
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Linux should acquire HA/FT, no doubt, but Linux should have ONE VERY ROBUST HA/FT and not three or four or five not-very-much-useful HA/FT.
Kinda silly suggestion, really. No offense intended, but this SGI solution is not a "not-very-much-useful" solution, it's a tried and proven solution.
There are many routes to take to a HA system, and merging them all into one is going to a) stifle individual development (since a lot of open-source projects are for the developers to develop as well as the code), b) limit our choices and c) I don't really have time to come up with a "c)", but just an "A)" and a "B)" would look silly.
"THREE" different implementations is a) not an outrageous number, b) not even beginning to reveal the real number of options when you call into play the hardware and other software solutions for a HA system and c) I've got that "c)" problem again.
Linux is no longer an infant, but it's still too early to start cutting off its options as it works its way into adolescence. Give it time to experiment. There's room for a lot of projects.
I can't begin to say how pumped I am for what this means to the networking of console gaming systems. I mean yes, they're saying "Dolphin/PSX2 will have DSL/Cable/Eth capabilities," but I didn't expect much from them.
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Zoid, however, is the key to this. Yes, CTF was cool, yes, his mods are cool, but the coolest thing Zoid has done for all of us was QuakeWorld. Quake 1 was pretty cool, and i was amazed at it, but the internet play wasn't there. You couldn't play very good games on a modem, and the promise of netplay faltered for most of us.
But then..... Oh, then.... Zoid made QuakeWorld, and the world changed for me and millions of others like me. Fast networking code, a reasonable level of playability on a modem...
Thanks Zoid, and keep kicking ass. Let's see some sweet-ass multiplayer on the Dolphin. Someday I wanna sit on my couch in front of the TV and kick esses' ass instead of having to sit at my desk.
Not every college sees this benefit. Also, I'm not arguing for turning the NCAA sports into money machines...
It's just that a number of schools with good teams (UConn, St. John's, etc.) indeed *do* make a lot of money from their programs. These are schools with huge, well-known teams that win consistently. I don't see why a school with a very good, well-known science program shouldn't reap the same benefit.
Yes, educational facilities that are spending how many bazillions on research should be entirely funded with taxes?
Wouldn't you rather see the experiments fund themselves as much as possible?
The basketball team helps support the school, the football team helps support the school, why shouldn't the science department help fund the school?
Cap City/ABC (read: DISNEY, plus almost every single newspaper in the US, even your little local town-based rag is most likely owned by them...) already has the US rights, it's right there in the article:
The Jim Henson Co. also has production agreements with the American cable company Odyssey Channel, Capital Cities/ABC and Sony's Columbia Tristar Home Video in the home video arena.
I remember the big hoopla when Disney optioned them, and ran a "Muppets in Epcot: Epcot Becomes Almost Interesting" special.
This company has a major investment in Odyssey, which unfrotunately isn't on my cable network. I do, however, get Disney, and "Muppets Tonight" is a really good, high-quality, true-to-the-original show.
He's down and he ain't getting up. HE's down in the dirt in the driveway.... I think it's his lung.
Point taken, but misplaced.
/. readers seem to care about. If you wanna bitch, try posting at http://dev.null.com.
Java development is growing daily. The speed with which Java applications and servlets can be developed is unprecedented. The speed issues with Java are decreasing with each release, and 1.2.2 is pretty quick. The 1.3 early-release 1.3 JRE is quite a bit faster, and Blackdown is already working on the port.
This is very good news for Linux, which, as you may have noticed, a few
Well, a lot of times these kinds of things aren't really rumors or misinformation, they're test-marketing.
Some casting person leaks rumors about Warburton. Net begins to buzz. Some schmoe working at casting companyshakes the net to see what falls out. People seem to be very pumped about this, so it probably bodes well for him, whether they'd already decided to cast him or not.
If everyone booed and hissed, the production company could just say, "It was a rumor. We'll find someone much more suitable for the part."
Get it? Suitable? Big, blue suit? Ha. Ha. Oh.
If Newmann plays Arthur I will have him hunted down and beaten, along with the casting director.
Puddy's perfect, he's big and not really dumb, just confused. He's got a quality kinda like the Tick's almost ignorant brilliance.
Sun-worshipping dog launchers, you face.... the TICK!!
Anyone who is even thinking of mining asteroids has never felt the wrath of Sinistar.
He hungers....
As a network/sysadmin, this kind of stuff scares the shit out of me.
As a citizen of an ever-encroaching big-brotherlike planet, this kind of stuff makes me sleep better at night.
To whoever is pulling off these attacks:
You're our well-armed militia. I think it's important that people can do this if necessary. I think it's crucial to the freedom of future inhabitants of this planet that people have the ability to do this.
The more you pull stuff like this off, the better their defenses are going to be. Every time you whack a site, they're gonna analyze every move you made and figure out ways to defend. Don't give them the bits they need to put it all together.
I can't stress enough how important it is that the people have the ability to do this in an age when government surveillance is reaching ludicrous bounds. Our cell phones and cars will be tracked, our movements will all be known, and it's not too much of a leap to see that all of this will be done electronically. It is absolutely essential that the people have the ability to throw off the system if need be.
I'm not even pro-militia in the sense of today's publicized militias... I'm not some wing-nut, I don't even own a gun, or even like them. I just realize the importance of the people's ability to defend themselves from oppressive governments or "New World Orders" if push comes to shove.
at first glance, fom an administrator's perspective, I can understand this.
however, once you take into account the realities of the machines that are on the net today, this is nigh impossible. every day, DSL and cable modems are bringing more and more windows, linux, xBSD, etc. boxes onto the net with assigned IP addresses and security holes the size of Texas.
you can't, however, pin this on these individual users. if you're a systems administrator and that's your only working task, it is still difficult to keep up with security issues these days. it's more than a full-time job to keep a network secure from all of the possible attacks. you're never going to get all of the broadband users to secure their systems themselves, it'd be a herculean task.
it's better to start at the software/OS distributors and force them to hande the situation better. much like setting up ipmasq for the first time, the first thing to do is deny everything, then allow only what is necessary. operating systems should install the same way.
jimmy installs redhat, and decides that he needs web, email, ftp and nntp access. he runs through the installation, and at the end only ports 80, 25, 21 and 119 are open. he doesn't know any more than that, and he shouldn't need to know more than that.
there's no bind running errantly on his system, no apache running... honestly, at the end of pretty much any linux installation users have daemons running that they'll never need or use, opening up ports and holes that just aren't necessary.
instead of expecting every single end user out there to attend BOF security conferences and read bugtraq, maybe we should give them more secure setups to start with.
after all, in your scenario BOF don't exist, since everyone would already be included.
It would take some big schpense to develop and manufacture, but it seems possible...
Take a camera, and give it a bit of sonar-like ability to determine the distance between the camera and whatever scene you have it aimed at. The camera builds a wire mesh of the objects in front of it, then breaks the image data down into textures, which it then wraps the mesh with.
Sonar is of course out of the question, but I'm sure there's better technology out there. I mean, I just come up with 'em, I don't implmenent 'em.
VA Linux buys Andover, Andover makes close to a billion in stock and cash... 60 million in cash.
:]
So, the commercialization pays for some, eh?
excellent, thank you, good to know. of course, I'm currently about 5 minutes from completion on installing Solaris on a Sparc box, when I could have done a 64-bit linux and saved myself about a million hours of trouble...
The Unix workstation market has been dwindling for quite some time, more to the NT market than the Linux market (Remember SGI going to NT?).
Given the cash to set up a server environment, Intel hardware is the last place you should look. Give me a couple of UltraSparcs over the fastest SMP Intel boxes anyday.
Maybe Merced will change that, assuming that we see it sometime in the near future, but I don't think so. Workstations are a different issue, but I don't think that workstations make up quite the bulk of their sales that servers do. I could be very wrong on that, but it's just my impression.
Cheaper and easier mean little when you're interested in raw speed, throughput and stability. Linux isn't utilizing the 64-bit Sun hardware anyway at this point, IIRC, anyway. So, if you need the speed, you need the hardware. If you've got the hardware, why cripple it with an OS that doesn't utilize it to its fullest potential?