The government and anyone with money can effective ignore the right to privacy, technology gives lots of tools to simply collect lots of data on anyone. Next up, is the ability of common people to use technology to end the privacy and secrecy of the authorities. The privacy laws remain the same, but every day it becomes less possible to enforce any of it.
Actually everyone downloaded stacks of 1.44MB diskettes over 9600bps. Mp3 could easily be done too, especially with 56Kbps modems. But alas, MP3 took some time to come around.
That "NO CARRIER" thing hasn't been funny in 20 years.
Yeah, the modern equivalent would be something like -> www.google.com [enter] "Page failed to load. Server not found. Program failed to locate www.google.com." "Check the spelling, your network connection. If you are in France, check if someone has been downloading music and videos they love."
The numbers are interesting. The "connection-less" will start being really interesting in real lively form, as soon as thousands of people start getting cut off and a social reaction starts. Perhaps the Pirate Party will elect some in France too.
IMHO, in contrast it's large projects (OS's, database technologies (both sql and non-traditional), compiler chains, Gnu CoreUtils) that benefit most from F/OSS
You only gave examples of projects that are of interest to the programmers themselves. Products for themselves.
So we find it is entirely within reason and justice for a person to shoot their friends, coworkers, family, and neighbors - as long as they also shoot themselves in the end. Everyone was treated equally.
Sony doesn't make money from second hand game sales. This is very bad for GameStop. Why doesn't slashdot make up their mind who they hate more?
There's nothing wrong with hating everyone equally.
Yes it is perfectly coherent to equally hate and despise the whole planet and oneself, equal opportunity for all. Murder and suicide, equal hate and fate.
Yeah, very well thought out. Open source needs similar financial engineering. Would be cool to get some open source projects, design a Kickstarter around them for an upgrade and new releases.
Confused indeed. Some were release as open source. And they run on Linux, and are DRM free. That's where I got the confusion from. Was reading about Kickstarter/Diaspora and Humble Bundle at the same time, researching some ways open source projects could be funded.
And I thought you were talking about a home building robot. Which I think could be done, with some robots working with compressed earth and forms. Compressed earth is amazingly solid, and easily made from regular soil and water, it's just a whole lot of manual labor.
It all boils down to one thing - developer support. Open source needs more coordinated developer support, in many forms. Google Summer of Code was a great idea. Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, etc, Humble Bundle, bounties, etc, are helping find a financial model, which I have great hope for - money is an important recognition too. Being able to put it on resumes, getting proper recognition for quality work, could apparently be better, but already works. What I don't see happening too well is mediation to resolve conflicts, which end up getting in the way too often, and some efforts to increase compatibility, improve tools, etc. The best way to increase compatibility, it seems, is really just reaching agreements on open standards. Many proposals and discussions on creating open standards for things is the only way everyone will try to make things according to some common design. The telecom and IT industry are full of examples of how common standards made things work better for everyone.
Would be cool is someone came up with more ways to help bigger projects continue and conclude. Lots of help for developers, I guess. Reduce disagreements, forking, incompatibilities for no good reason, some economic engineering, better developer tools, libraries, etc.
It probably also apply to all content, not just content specifically in Italian. In which case the entirety of Wikipedia is threatened - assuming, of course, that anyone really gives a bugger about what some half-arsed country puts into law.
I'd say just move the servers offshore, and don't log the IP addresses of anyone who edits content.
Yep. And meanwhile, until the migration happens, just to wake up every Italian as to what is going on- leave wikipedia inacessible to Italy IP numbers. Nobody will ever forget.
If they weren't alienated by all of Sony's shenanigans by now they never will be. Some people will put up with anything. Me, I stopped buying Sony way back when they rooted my PC with XCP.
I can't quite understand why open source gaming doesn't advance.
I don't know how are IPv6 numbers to be distributed, if there will be some way to link the IP to a single person. But as they connect directly to servers with their own IP, they will leave a record of the individual computer, instead of the IP of the router.
Has made both labor and capital obsolete. Capital has been defined as sufficient money to contract salaried labor. It other words, nothing but the force and ability to gather and organize labor, by paying for it. Technology substitutes a lot of the labor, and now, it's substituting the methods for gathering, organizing, and paying for the labor.
Capitalism died a long time ago, but (almost) nobody knows how to work any other way. Humanism remains an idea nobody has ever heard of.
Virtual Entertainment? - George Lucas has all sorts of prior "art" on that one.
Let's hope he sues. And everyone sues everyone, until everything comes to a standstill, an impossible-resolution scenario. After Intellectual Property World War One, perhaps we'll have some peace treaties. Because as things are going, soon you won't be able to buy soap and bread anymore, you'll have a Subscription to Biological Sterilization and Nutritional Services, with an Agreement and License to Use Proprietary Methods for Human Sterilization and Nutritional Planning Programs. For only $698.50 per month, you can get service contracts, training programs, and... soap, milk, and bread.
Is there a windows-to-linux migration how-to somewhere that helps admins deal with the usual technical challenges in doing something like this? It's a tough challenge, in many ways. Technical, training, political. Retraining, application migration, data migration, dealing with non-portable applications, migration cost payback time calculations, etc. There should be more cooperation in helping make Linux more competitive on more front that the technical. Microsoft has entire strategies dedicated to only undercutting Linux wherever possible. The "Starter Edition" for Windows and Office have hugely reduced the numbers of machines with OpenOffice and Linux preinstalled.
Reading between the lines here. If an entity known for manipulating the facts is "promising" something, seems to me it is basically telling you it won't do it. If the intent was to actually do it, it would be a "contract", "law", "regulation". Or at least a "decision", "commitment" perhaps. It would come with firm numbers - percentages, dates, amounts, numbers of contracts. If the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, Pinocchio or Gaddafi said "I promise", what would you count on happenning?
Several kinds of apps can already distribute their load across processors, workstations, and even operating systems. Most of our apps however don't do any of that. If I'm on an old, old, workstation running trying to run GIMP and Firefox with a bunch of web 2.0 apps, in an office full of idling quad-core workstations, the apps will still run slow as molasses. Even GMail and Google Maps won't run properly on old pc's anymore.
I doubt any of this will exist anytime soon. We still can just barely manage to get the desktops in the lab to cooperate with each other on most apps. And it is just software, and they are connected with cables, which are more reliable and higher transfer speeds. Or is there anyone here who manages to use distributed processing on most apps on their desktop?
I guess the only real alternative for the future is insist on complete transparency from all authorities. Because they are going to have increasing "transparency", or rather, espionage, on everything the entire population does, whether or not we like it, approve of it, or legalize it. We can't really control the authorities, they simply state they don't collect any data on our activities, only on crime, but it is just not believable. Technology simply makes it possible and ever easier to collect, sort, exchange, etc, vast amounts of data. And we know well that data tends to go free all over the place, with little control. Our only alternative is to increasingly see more of what they are doing, too.
You bought a couple of robots, downloaded some software to them, and they built a house for you out of compressed earth, sprayed foam, carbon fiber and plastics. In five days, working 24/7. As well as a huge telecom antenna, and energy plant, which supplies the whole neighborhood. Your robots now also wash, plant, pick, clean, drive, cook, deliver, and all sorts of other drudgery. You've cancelled and substituted most things that used to cost you a ton of money because you and a couple of cousins can produce all of it in the basement. You spend 10 hours a week doing robot maintenance and other jobs for yourself and some others. Otherwise you've picked up biotech and AI studies and tennis at the local community college, where you also do some robot programming.
You're worried about keeping a job for some big company? What for? You miss the spin, meetings, politics, and confusion?
Slashdot Mirror
The government and anyone with money can effective ignore the right to privacy, technology gives lots of tools to simply collect lots of data on anyone. Next up, is the ability of common people to use technology to end the privacy and secrecy of the authorities. The privacy laws remain the same, but every day it becomes less possible to enforce any of it.
Funny how the debate is between Linux-1 and Linux-2. Would be good if most Linux apps ran on most Linux OS's.
Actually everyone downloaded stacks of 1.44MB diskettes over 9600bps. Mp3 could easily be done too, especially with 56Kbps modems. But alas, MP3 took some time to come around.
That "NO CARRIER" thing hasn't been funny in 20 years.
Yeah, the modern equivalent would be something like
-> www.google.com [enter]
"Page failed to load. Server not found. Program failed to locate www.google.com."
"Check the spelling, your network connection. If you are in France, check if someone has been downloading music and videos they love."
The numbers are interesting. The "connection-less" will start being really interesting in real lively form, as soon as thousands of people start getting cut off and a social reaction starts. Perhaps the Pirate Party will elect some in France too.
IMHO, in contrast it's large projects (OS's, database technologies (both sql and non-traditional), compiler chains, Gnu CoreUtils) that benefit most from F/OSS
You only gave examples of projects that are of interest to the programmers themselves. Products for themselves.
Eye for an Eye!
So we find it is entirely within reason and justice for a person to shoot their friends, coworkers, family, and neighbors - as long as they also shoot themselves in the end. Everyone was treated equally.
Sony doesn't make money from second hand game sales. This is very bad for GameStop. Why doesn't slashdot make up their mind who they hate more?
There's nothing wrong with hating everyone equally.
Yes it is perfectly coherent to equally hate and despise the whole planet and oneself, equal opportunity for all. Murder and suicide, equal hate and fate.
Yeah, very well thought out. Open source needs similar financial engineering. Would be cool to get some open source projects, design a Kickstarter around them for an upgrade and new releases.
Confused indeed. Some were release as open source. And they run on Linux, and are DRM free. That's where I got the confusion from. Was reading about Kickstarter/Diaspora and Humble Bundle at the same time, researching some ways open source projects could be funded.
And I thought you were talking about a home building robot. Which I think could be done, with some robots working with compressed earth and forms. Compressed earth is amazingly solid, and easily made from regular soil and water, it's just a whole lot of manual labor.
It all boils down to one thing - developer support. Open source needs more coordinated developer support, in many forms. Google Summer of Code was a great idea. Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, etc, Humble Bundle, bounties, etc, are helping find a financial model, which I have great hope for - money is an important recognition too. Being able to put it on resumes, getting proper recognition for quality work, could apparently be better, but already works. What I don't see happening too well is mediation to resolve conflicts, which end up getting in the way too often, and some efforts to increase compatibility, improve tools, etc. The best way to increase compatibility, it seems, is really just reaching agreements on open standards. Many proposals and discussions on creating open standards for things is the only way everyone will try to make things according to some common design. The telecom and IT industry are full of examples of how common standards made things work better for everyone.
Would be cool is someone came up with more ways to help bigger projects continue and conclude. Lots of help for developers, I guess. Reduce disagreements, forking, incompatibilities for no good reason, some economic engineering, better developer tools, libraries, etc.
It probably also apply to all content, not just content specifically in Italian. In which case the entirety of Wikipedia is threatened - assuming, of course, that anyone really gives a bugger about what some half-arsed country puts into law.
I'd say just move the servers offshore, and don't log the IP addresses of anyone who edits content.
Yep. And meanwhile, until the migration happens, just to wake up every Italian as to what is going on- leave wikipedia inacessible to Italy IP numbers. Nobody will ever forget.
I came to this thread to moderate, but screw it.
If they weren't alienated by all of Sony's shenanigans by now they never will be. Some people will put up with anything. Me, I stopped buying Sony way back when they rooted my PC with XCP.
I can't quite understand why open source gaming doesn't advance.
Humble Bundle is going again. http://www.humblebundle.com/. In fact, I'm going to do some more looking into open source gaming.
I don't know how are IPv6 numbers to be distributed, if there will be some way to link the IP to a single person. But as they connect directly to servers with their own IP, they will leave a record of the individual computer, instead of the IP of the router.
Has made both labor and capital obsolete. Capital has been defined as sufficient money to contract salaried labor. It other words, nothing but the force and ability to gather and organize labor, by paying for it. Technology substitutes a lot of the labor, and now, it's substituting the methods for gathering, organizing, and paying for the labor.
Capitalism died a long time ago, but (almost) nobody knows how to work any other way. Humanism remains an idea nobody has ever heard of.
Please someone just blow up the patent office with a few RPGs, or there's going to be no end to this insanity.
That's so 1990's. These days, you patent a Document Reviewing Process, sue them, and get an injunction.
Virtual Entertainment? - George Lucas has all sorts of prior "art" on that one.
Let's hope he sues. And everyone sues everyone, until everything comes to a standstill, an impossible-resolution scenario. After Intellectual Property World War One, perhaps we'll have some peace treaties. Because as things are going, soon you won't be able to buy soap and bread anymore, you'll have a Subscription to Biological Sterilization and Nutritional Services, with an Agreement and License to Use Proprietary Methods for Human Sterilization and Nutritional Planning Programs. For only $698.50 per month, you can get service contracts, training programs, and... soap, milk, and bread.
Is there a windows-to-linux migration how-to somewhere that helps admins deal with the usual technical challenges in doing something like this? It's a tough challenge, in many ways. Technical, training, political. Retraining, application migration, data migration, dealing with non-portable applications, migration cost payback time calculations, etc. There should be more cooperation in helping make Linux more competitive on more front that the technical. Microsoft has entire strategies dedicated to only undercutting Linux wherever possible. The "Starter Edition" for Windows and Office have hugely reduced the numbers of machines with OpenOffice and Linux preinstalled.
Reading between the lines here. If an entity known for manipulating the facts is "promising" something, seems to me it is basically telling you it won't do it. If the intent was to actually do it, it would be a "contract", "law", "regulation". Or at least a "decision", "commitment" perhaps. It would come with firm numbers - percentages, dates, amounts, numbers of contracts. If the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, Pinocchio or Gaddafi said "I promise", what would you count on happenning?
Several kinds of apps can already distribute their load across processors, workstations, and even operating systems. Most of our apps however don't do any of that. If I'm on an old, old, workstation running trying to run GIMP and Firefox with a bunch of web 2.0 apps, in an office full of idling quad-core workstations, the apps will still run slow as molasses. Even GMail and Google Maps won't run properly on old pc's anymore.
I doubt any of this will exist anytime soon. We still can just barely manage to get the desktops in the lab to cooperate with each other on most apps. And it is just software, and they are connected with cables, which are more reliable and higher transfer speeds. Or is there anyone here who manages to use distributed processing on most apps on their desktop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
I guess the only real alternative for the future is insist on complete transparency from all authorities. Because they are going to have increasing "transparency", or rather, espionage, on everything the entire population does, whether or not we like it, approve of it, or legalize it. We can't really control the authorities, they simply state they don't collect any data on our activities, only on crime, but it is just not believable. Technology simply makes it possible and ever easier to collect, sort, exchange, etc, vast amounts of data. And we know well that data tends to go free all over the place, with little control. Our only alternative is to increasingly see more of what they are doing, too.
You bought a couple of robots, downloaded some software to them, and they built a house for you out of compressed earth, sprayed foam, carbon fiber and plastics. In five days, working 24/7. As well as a huge telecom antenna, and energy plant, which supplies the whole neighborhood. Your robots now also wash, plant, pick, clean, drive, cook, deliver, and all sorts of other drudgery. You've cancelled and substituted most things that used to cost you a ton of money because you and a couple of cousins can produce all of it in the basement. You spend 10 hours a week doing robot maintenance and other jobs for yourself and some others. Otherwise you've picked up biotech and AI studies and tennis at the local community college, where you also do some robot programming.
You're worried about keeping a job for some big company? What for? You miss the spin, meetings, politics, and confusion?