Also you can't write cliché here unless you type out cliché. Or, if you're an American, cliche. Which you presumably pronounce to rhyme with "pitch".
And then you wonder why people fly aeroplanes into your buildings.
36:50 What we are entering in upon then is our maturity. It isn't that GNU is finished. GNU, fortunately, is renewed all the time and is becoming renewable. In the same way that there was a moment a few years back when I talked to Leon, and I realized that there were a bunch of young hackers in their late teens who were getting into apps and that's going to have an enormous effect in renewing what was there. We are gonna have a flood of people towards GNU, and that's going to make an immense difference.
It's going to happen everywhere. But Mr. Jobs is investing heavily in LLVM solely so he can stop using GCC, lest the patents somehow leak across the GPLv3 barrier, and we become able to use his claims. Nobody has ever tried before, to build a multi-platform C compiler solely in order to undermine freedom. [laughter] A hardware manufacturer or two has done something here and there -- we had a little bit of BSD interest in non-copyleft compilation -- but here's the man whose selfishness surpasses any recorded selfishness. [laughter/applause]
38:26 It's unfortunate. But writing software is what we do best. And catching GCC with LLVM isn't going to be easy. [?] you know, there's lots to do.
Basically the FSF's objection to LLVM is that it duplicates functionality in GCC and that they don't control it so they can't put it under GPVv6 when an angel reads that out to Stallman in a toejam inspired hallucination.
The strange thing is that bad mouthing competing projects because you don't control them is the sort of thing Jobs or Ballmer would do.
Oh that's just great. Just because a woman of colour objects to your advances as the mastah of the plantation just put her in the hot box or set the dogs on her.
The stuff about the dongles wasn't even logical and as a self professed nerd, that bothered me. Dongles are intended to be small and unobtrusive. They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software. I'd consulted in the past with an automotive shop that needed data recovery and technical support. I know what PCMCIA dongles look like.
No wait, we need to attract them because of their superior people skills. Like tweeting a picture of someone and getting them fired over a stupid comment because they were too passive to confront them and too aggressive to just let it slide and then making up a bullshit but-think-of-the-children justification to make it seem like they were doing it for some higher purpose than self promotion.
They're all wonderfully effective wind ups of the sort of people who still infest tech sites to this day. I just wish people were doing this sort of tormenting of the wankers on reddit who make the 2001-era slashdotter actually seem like a well rounded human being.
You could imagine doing RAID like striping of the data so that if some was lost you could recover. And/or encryption actually. Plus you can always stop using a path if it is doing something evil with the data. Its easy to imagine multi path TCP being more secure than single path TCP. Also imagine a case where you have multiple, untrusted Wifi networks to leach off - with multi path TCP you don't have to worry about them dropping or snooping packets.
Posers, hipsters, wannabes and pretenders think they are "power users, creators, people who think different" etc. Those are all the sort of labels that douchebags attach to themselves when everyone else just looks on them with vague distaste.
I miss adequacy. Back in the day it was like the only web site populated by non Aspies.
In fact that's unfair - I'm sure real Asperger's sufferers actually do understand irony and humour. It's the geeks who self diagnosing as an Aspie means you're entitled to behave like Mr Spock that are the problem. Probably there's nothing wrong with them that a shower, gym membership and a few hundred bucks on some new clothes wouldn't fix.
Do you think it's just coincidence that "Joseph Stalin" died a mere 11 days before "Richard Stallman" was born? Also "Stålman" pronounced "Stallman" is Swedish for "Man of Steel", the same meaning as Stalin.
I.e. it's pretty clear that Richard Stallman is Stalin, still trying to spread Communism via his theory of Permanent Revolution - Trotsky believed in Socialism in One Country.
On April 14, 2009, Windows XP and its family of operating systems reached the end of their mainstream support period and entered the extended support phase as it marks the progression of the legacy operating system through the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy. During the extended support phase, Microsoft continues to provide security updates every month for Windows XP; however, free technical support, warranty claims, and design changes are no longer being offered. Extended support will end on April 8, 2014â"after which no more security patches or new support information will be provided.
When you think it was released October 25, 2001 providing bug fixes for 14 years is not that unreasonable.
And the thing is it will still work - I'm sure there will be a few XP boxes sat behind hardware firewalls for a long time after 2014 simply because people have forgotten about them and they work fine.
If you wall a machine off from the internet but for a couple of ports and keep the software that listens on those ports patched it could last until the PSUs and hard disks fail.
The activation is already cracked for the corporate versions and I'm sure someone will make an "XP forever" bootleg with the last set of security patches slipstreamed in and activation cracked. If MS patch the machines to self destruct with the last Windows Update I bet people will work out ways to disable that patch.
It doesn't support UEFI but most boards have the compatibility support module necessary to boot XP. Like I say, people will be running XP boxes long after 2014.
It's like in the Soviet Union. Stalin invented the collective farm for which he won the Stalin prize each year from 1932 to his death in 1956. The people were happy apart from some Kulaks who had to be sent to refutation through hunger camps.
Right now it's clear that Wayland is the collective farm, X zealots are the Kulaks and the Internet is the refutation through hunger camp.
Leigh is a weasel but he probably didn't know he was publishing 'the' key because Assange told him it would expire in hours. Also Leigh is typically technically incompetent Guardian hack.
On 25 August 2011, the German magazine Der Freitag published an article about it,[62] and while it left out the crucial details, there was enough to allow others to piece the information together. The story was also published in the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information the same day.[64] By 1 September, the encrypted Cablegate file had been decrypted and published by a Twitter user, and WikiLeaks therefore decided to publish all the diplomatic cables unredacted. Their reasoning, according to Glenn Greenwald in Salon, was that government intelligence agencies were able to find and read the files, while ordinary peopleâ"including journalists, whistleblowers, and those directly affectedâ"were not. WikiLeaks took the view that sources could better protect themselves if the information were equally available.[6] The archive includes 34,687 files on Iraq, 8,003 on Kuwait, 9,755 on Australia, and 12,606 on Egypt.[65] According to The Guardian, it includes more than 1,000 cables containing the names of individual activists, and around 150 identifying whistleblowers.[66]
Leigh disclaimed responsibility for the release, saying Assange had assured him the password would expire hours after it was disclosed to him.[67] The Guardian wrote that the decision to publish the cables was made by Assange alone, a decision that itâ"and its four previous media partnersâ"condemned. The partners released a joint statement saying the uncensored publication put sources at risk of dismissal, detention and physical harm,[68] while other commentators have agreed with WikiLeaks' rationale for the release of unredacted cables.[6][69] Leigh was nevertheless criticized by several commentators, including Glenn Greenwald, who called the publication of the password "reckless", arguing that, even if it had been a temporary one, publishing it divulged the type of passwords WikiLeaks was using.[6] WikiLeaks said it was pursuing pre-litigation action against The Guardian for an alleged breach of a confidentiality agreement.
All of which raises the question of why Assange didn't make a session key for Leigh. Then if you'd need Leigh's copy and the Leigh's key to decrypt. Publishing the encrypted archive and then giving the key to someone as clueless as Leigh is morally not that far off just releasing the information unencrypted. In fact look at what Assange did when someone somewhere worked out how to decrypt - he published the unencrypted archive.
Mr Assange: No, thereâ(TM)s no row going on about redactions at all....There was a group of reports where although they were not really intelligence informants there were sort of hotline tips...something called threat reports comprised one in five of the Afghan War Logs and so we held them back for a line by line redaction...But what we didnâ(TM)t do was redact one in five lines, putting black marker through it, we just removed them, and so it looked like we hadnâ(TM)t redacted everything but in fact we had
If you don't pay income tax but still take advantage of the services the government provides, like police, roads, and schools, then you have failed in your duty.
Isn't that like the people who don't pay for movies, pirate them anyway and or use Adblock on websites then say something like
Slashdot Mirror
Or you could buy a netbook for far less.
Valley View is out Q4 2013 or thereabouts and it will have 4xout of order Atoms at 2.7Ghz and Intel Gen 7 graphics
anandtech
xbitlabs
Windows Me! - Windows is a verb, and an obscene one
Windows Blue - Windows means Porterhouse
So LLVM is free software because of its license but it was 'written solely to undermine freedom'? Wait, what?
thought terminating cliché
Also you can't write cliché here unless you type out cliché. Or, if you're an American, cliche. Which you presumably pronounce to rhyme with "pitch".
And then you wonder why people fly aeroplanes into your buildings.
It's actually easier to read if you read 'ionic liquid' in an Arnold voice like 'mimetic poly- alloy'.
Which is not in fact the title of a song by Austrian Death Machine but arguably should be.
That's not free software according to the FSF because it is BSD licensed rather than GPL. Also it was 'written solely to undermine freedom'.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100806143457345
36:50
What we are entering in upon then is our maturity. It isn't that GNU is finished. GNU, fortunately, is renewed all the time and is becoming renewable. In the same way that there was a moment a few years back when I talked to Leon, and I realized that there were a bunch of young hackers in their late teens who were getting into apps and that's going to have an enormous effect in renewing what was there. We are gonna have a flood of people towards GNU, and that's going to make an immense difference.
It's going to happen everywhere. But Mr. Jobs is investing heavily in LLVM solely so he can stop using GCC, lest the patents somehow leak across the GPLv3 barrier, and we become able to use his claims. Nobody has ever tried before, to build a multi-platform C compiler solely in order to undermine freedom. [laughter] A hardware manufacturer or two has done something here and there -- we had a little bit of BSD interest in non-copyleft compilation -- but here's the man whose selfishness surpasses any recorded selfishness. [laughter/applause]
38:26
It's unfortunate. But writing software is what we do best. And catching GCC with LLVM isn't going to be easy. [?] you know, there's lots to do.
Basically the FSF's objection to LLVM is that it duplicates functionality in GCC and that they don't control it so they can't put it under GPVv6 when an angel reads that out to Stallman in a toejam inspired hallucination.
The strange thing is that bad mouthing competing projects because you don't control them is the sort of thing Jobs or Ballmer would do.
Oh that's just great. Just because a woman of colour objects to your advances as the mastah of the plantation just put her in the hot box or set the dogs on her.
TWANNGGGG
^ The sound an analogy makes when you stretch it past breaking point.
Is this because Rupert Murdoch's organs are now paywalled
What's "paywalled" a euphemism for? Either way your post has hurt my feelings and I think you should be fired.
We need to attract women like Adria because of their immense tech skills
http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/
The stuff about the dongles wasn't even logical and as a self professed nerd, that bothered me. Dongles are intended to be small and unobtrusive. They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software. I'd consulted in the past with an automotive shop that needed data recovery and technical support. I know what PCMCIA dongles look like.
No wait, we need to attract them because of their superior people skills. Like tweeting a picture of someone and getting them fired over a stupid comment because they were too passive to confront them and too aggressive to just let it slide and then making up a bullshit but-think-of-the-children justification to make it seem like they were doing it for some higher purpose than self promotion.
"Professional python programmers"? A whole room full of them? What a brave new world we live in that has such people in it...
I still think these are all classics
http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
http://adequacy.org/stories/2001.10.2.33542.4010.html
http://adequacy.org/stories/2002.1.28.153048.268.html
They're all wonderfully effective wind ups of the sort of people who still infest tech sites to this day. I just wish people were doing this sort of tormenting of the wankers on reddit who make the 2001-era slashdotter actually seem like a well rounded human being.
You could imagine doing RAID like striping of the data so that if some was lost you could recover. And/or encryption actually. Plus you can always stop using a path if it is doing something evil with the data. Its easy to imagine multi path TCP being more secure than single path TCP. Also imagine a case where you have multiple, untrusted Wifi networks to leach off - with multi path TCP you don't have to worry about them dropping or snooping packets.
*ca-ching* ;-)
BADUM-TUSH
FTFY
Posers, hipsters, wannabes and pretenders think they are "power users, creators, people who think different" etc. Those are all the sort of labels that douchebags attach to themselves when everyone else just looks on them with vague distaste.
Way to Godwin the discussion.
I miss adequacy. Back in the day it was like the only web site populated by non Aspies.
In fact that's unfair - I'm sure real Asperger's sufferers actually do understand irony and humour. It's the geeks who self diagnosing as an Aspie means you're entitled to behave like Mr Spock that are the problem. Probably there's nothing wrong with them that a shower, gym membership and a few hundred bucks on some new clothes wouldn't fix.
Do you think it's just coincidence that "Joseph Stalin" died a mere 11 days before "Richard Stallman" was born? Also "Stålman" pronounced "Stallman" is Swedish for "Man of Steel", the same meaning as Stalin.
I.e. it's pretty clear that Richard Stallman is Stalin, still trying to spread Communism via his theory of Permanent Revolution - Trotsky believed in Socialism in One Country.
XP will get bug fixes to 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle
On April 14, 2009, Windows XP and its family of operating systems reached the end of their mainstream support period and entered the extended support phase as it marks the progression of the legacy operating system through the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy. During the extended support phase, Microsoft continues to provide security updates every month for Windows XP; however, free technical support, warranty claims, and design changes are no longer being offered. Extended support will end on April 8, 2014â"after which no more security patches or new support information will be provided.
When you think it was released October 25, 2001 providing bug fixes for 14 years is not that unreasonable.
And the thing is it will still work - I'm sure there will be a few XP boxes sat behind hardware firewalls for a long time after 2014 simply because people have forgotten about them and they work fine.
If you wall a machine off from the internet but for a couple of ports and keep the software that listens on those ports patched it could last until the PSUs and hard disks fail.
The activation is already cracked for the corporate versions and I'm sure someone will make an "XP forever" bootleg with the last set of security patches slipstreamed in and activation cracked. If MS patch the machines to self destruct with the last Windows Update I bet people will work out ways to disable that patch.
It doesn't support UEFI but most boards have the compatibility support module necessary to boot XP. Like I say, people will be running XP boxes long after 2014.
They're probably just interested in money or something.
It's like in the Soviet Union. Stalin invented the collective farm for which he won the Stalin prize each year from 1932 to his death in 1956. The people were happy apart from some Kulaks who had to be sent to refutation through hunger camps.
Right now it's clear that Wayland is the collective farm, X zealots are the Kulaks and the Internet is the refutation through hunger camp.
I like my Android phone, so I'm going to say let Google off any spying, murder, genocide etc they might have done.
It's like when MS made OSs I liked like XP, 7 and so on. Maybe they sued some bytes and wasted some Kenyans or something or something but I didn't care.
Leigh is a weasel but he probably didn't know he was publishing 'the' key because Assange told him it would expire in hours. Also Leigh is typically technically incompetent Guardian hack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak#September_2011_release_of_unredacted_cables
On 25 August 2011, the German magazine Der Freitag published an article about it,[62] and while it left out the crucial details, there was enough to allow others to piece the information together. The story was also published in the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information the same day.[64] By 1 September, the encrypted Cablegate file had been decrypted and published by a Twitter user, and WikiLeaks therefore decided to publish all the diplomatic cables unredacted. Their reasoning, according to Glenn Greenwald in Salon, was that government intelligence agencies were able to find and read the files, while ordinary peopleâ"including journalists, whistleblowers, and those directly affectedâ"were not. WikiLeaks took the view that sources could better protect themselves if the information were equally available.[6] The archive includes 34,687 files on Iraq, 8,003 on Kuwait, 9,755 on Australia, and 12,606 on Egypt.[65] According to The Guardian, it includes more than 1,000 cables containing the names of individual activists, and around 150 identifying whistleblowers.[66]
Leigh disclaimed responsibility for the release, saying Assange had assured him the password would expire hours after it was disclosed to him.[67] The Guardian wrote that the decision to publish the cables was made by Assange alone, a decision that itâ"and its four previous media partnersâ"condemned. The partners released a joint statement saying the uncensored publication put sources at risk of dismissal, detention and physical harm,[68] while other commentators have agreed with WikiLeaks' rationale for the release of unredacted cables.[6][69] Leigh was nevertheless criticized by several commentators, including Glenn Greenwald, who called the publication of the password "reckless", arguing that, even if it had been a temporary one, publishing it divulged the type of passwords WikiLeaks was using.[6] WikiLeaks said it was pursuing pre-litigation action against The Guardian for an alleged breach of a confidentiality agreement.
All of which raises the question of why Assange didn't make a session key for Leigh. Then if you'd need Leigh's copy and the Leigh's key to decrypt. Publishing the encrypted archive and then giving the key to someone as clueless as Leigh is morally not that far off just releasing the information unencrypted. In fact look at what Assange did when someone somewhere worked out how to decrypt - he published the unencrypted archive.
And look at this
http://vimeo.com/38670049
about 36 minutes in
Transcript here
http://wlstorage.net/file/cms/Folder%202/7.%20Assange%20Adjudication%20for%20publication.pdf
And on the Ofcom site
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb213/obb213.pdf page 112
Mr Assange: No, thereâ(TM)s no row going on about redactions at all....There was a group of reports where although they were not really intelligence informants there were sort of hotline tips...something called threat reports comprised one in five of the Afghan War Logs and so we held them back for a line by line redaction...But what we didnâ(TM)t do was redact one in five lines, putting black marker through it, we just removed them, and so it looked like we hadnâ(TM)t redacted everything but in fact we had
Killing insurgents isn't legally speaking murder if you're in the US army in Iraq - the SOFA gives them immunity.
If you don't pay income tax but still take advantage of the services the government provides, like police, roads, and schools, then you have failed in your duty.
Isn't that like the people who don't pay for movies, pirate them anyway and or use Adblock on websites then say something like
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3532567&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=43130289
So what? Most Dutch investments in 1636 were in tulips. They didn't have a god-given right to make money, either.
Another popular analogy is BUGGY WHIP MANUFACTURERS who also DON'T HAVE A GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY.
Though apparently slashdotters do have a god given right to use stuff without paying.