what they're doing is a perfectly viable form of non-violent direct action. they're using technology to create the world they want rather than asking for it. i think they're doing a great thing.
would you say that interrupting the workings of the Nazi party is a bad thing? how about interrupting the working of some unnamed party who rounds up individuals off the street, without trial, and holds them in jail for years without access to lawyers, torturing them all the while?
this is the digital equivalent of blocking a street to interrupt the convention. they're just holding people responsible for their actions. believe me, most of the world is vey much in support of trying to stop our government right now.
lastly, should we try to physically stop a government which is even willing to jail people for LINKING to contraband information?
thanks for pointing out that we're witnessing the nazification of our country. you're SO RIGHT ON.
next time you see someone with an american flag hanging off of their car, think of the iraqi babies, and think of the people who supported the nazis.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials http://www.snopes2.com/quotes/goering.htm
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About the neuro-chip...
This is definitely an advancement in imaging, but as far as making something useful out of the "pictures" that it produces, we're still a long way off.
Henry Abarbanel at UCSD has been doing research on lobster ganglions and crayfish tails and has found that most of the signaling between the brain and the body that actually contains information and feedback is nonlinear and dynamic. So, to look at what areas of the brain are doing what will involve figuring out how that nonlinear, dynamic, chaotic signaling is happening, and then figuring out how the brain interprets it.
So, if you're thinking that we're not far off from seeing people's dreams, think about this: this chip just lets you see what neurons are active. That's the equivalent of watching having a movie of the transistors in a CPU, and trying to figure out the linux process scheduling algorithm. But its more complex than that, because linux is not nonlinear chaotic data. (well, not usually)
Why don't you email branden@debian.org, the treasurer for debian, and ask him what the dollar amount is on the check from Lindows.com that he received before shooting your mouth off about something you have no idea about?
" Kollar-Kotelly also modified the oversight of Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Originally, the proposal included a technical committee and an internal compliance officer. In Friday's ruling, the judge combined the two into a compliance committee made up of Microsoft board members. In turn, the committee must hire a compliance officer, to report to the committee and Microsoft's CEO.... Attorney General John Ashcroft also praised the ruling. "The court's decision is a major victory for consumers and businesses, who can immediately take advantage of the final judgment's provisions," Ashcroft said in a statement released Friday afternoon. "
I guess those huge campaign contributions MS made to Bush's and Ashcroft's campaigns really paid off!
http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_26. as p
"Microsoft also was a major contributor to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Fund, donating $100,000 to the gala last January."
I send all my patches back to the public wine tree, and in fact, our wine is just the public tree, with any obvious bugs fixed (which we also send back).
So, if you pick up wine from cvs, it will run AOL7.
It just uses wine, and I sent all the patches back to the public tree, so yes, you can use it in debian. Actually, we (lindows) just pick up the public tree, and fix any obvious bugs in office, and then put it in our iso.
Check the wine-patches list, I always send back my changes.
1. internet explorer in crossover office runs well enough to use all day. internet explorer in the public GPL tree crashes after about 15 seconds of use.
2. quicken doesn't install with the public GPL tree of wine. quicken under crossover office runs well enough to use for a long time.
I know these things because I've tested them myself. I'm comparing crossover office 1.2 to wine 20020804.
if you're looking to codeweavers to provide the community with a reliable wine while still trying to make a profit, you're not going to be happy.
Both redhat and debian ship freetype packages with the bytecode intrepreter enabled.
Apparently apple doesn't think it's worth the money the court case would cost to prevent a bunch of open source hackers fron having good fonts. Although, even with the bytecode interpreter enabled, I never have fonts that look as good as the redhat 8 beta. Using the b&h or the urw TT fonts, they just look great in their beta.
It's unfortunate that transgaming can't see that open source works. I've heard their arguments about how the DMCA won't allow them to release their code, and IF that's true, they can just put their copyright protection code into a library.
Hopefully, this is just one more issue that will bring them a little closer to using a free open source license.
There was already a version of Canvas for linux, baed on WineLib. We had around 10,000 users and then the project got scrapped because Deneba didn't have the money to continue it.
I'm sure you could dig up an old copy from somewhere if you searched around or emailed someone at deneba.
I was actually the project lead, but once the company saw how expensive it was to support 10 linux distros with 10 different window managers, they decided to scrap it because they didn't think they could ake a profit off of it. And they didnt want to go open source because it was wine based, so it was essentialy their Windows source code.
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/law/intro.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/073.htm l
"Over one-third of the mill workers died before age 25, mostly from tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. "
As I said, it's tremendously naive to think that our current working conditions are a result of kind bosses and the benevolence of the free market.
It relates to the story because Phil Zimmerman, and many others, fought hard for us to have the freedom to use strong Crypto the way we can today, and we can't forget that and give up those freedoms.
When I read that article in the Washington Post, I was a little concerned to read that he felt that way and I truly appreciate the corection.
Nevertheless, seeing the importance of vocally protecting our privacy rights in this important time, I recently began using PGP at work as well as at home. I don't send encrypted email messages, because most of the recipients of my email messages are not skilled enough to use or care about encryption. But I do try to spread the word about pgp by signing every message I send out.
If we don't make efforts to maintain our liberties, we will lose them. We have not gained eight hour work days and the freedom to use strong encryption by the grace of our employers or of the government. We have gained every freedom we have through hard, bitter struggle. We can never forget this.
I really want to participate in this, as it seems o be a fairly democratic process, and I know the the IETF and RFC's really truly matter.
My only question is, when is the next meeting? It's not mentioned on the site. Are the meetings help online? I'm not exactly flying to stockholm, no matter how much I care.
Has anyone here participated in this kind of thing before?
the problem with ogg vorbis, and why it will never be accepted widely, is the stupid name.
it should be called something cool and easy to say and remember like mpX. not something you're embarrassed tp say and have to spell out every time it's mentioned.
A few weeks ago my brother saw some statistic on television that in your entire lifetime, the chances of someone stealing your identity are like 1 in 5. While I thought this was a ridiculously high number at the time and laughed at him, maybe this story can lend some viability to it.
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what they're doing is a perfectly viable form of non-violent direct action. they're using technology to create the world they want rather than asking for it. i think they're doing a great thing.
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would you say that interrupting the workings of the Nazi party is a bad thing? how about interrupting the working of some unnamed party who rounds up individuals off the street, without trial, and holds them in jail for years without access to lawyers, torturing them all the while?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=a
should we protect the speech of mass murderers who indiscriminately kill innocent people?
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s821954.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?ite
http://iraqbodycount.net/
this is the digital equivalent of blocking a street to interrupt the convention. they're just holding people responsible for their actions. believe me, most of the world is vey much in support of trying to stop our government right now.
lastly, should we try to physically stop a government which is even willing to jail people for LINKING to contraband information?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=she
http://hubproject.org/en/?l=en
http://geneva03.net
you guys rock.
thanks for pointing out that we're witnessing the nazification of our country. you're SO RIGHT ON.
next time you see someone with an american flag hanging off of their car, think of the iraqi babies, and think of the people who supported the nazis.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes2.com/quotes/goering.htm
About the neuro-chip...
This is definitely an advancement in imaging, but as far as making something useful out of the "pictures" that it produces, we're still a long way off.
Henry Abarbanel at UCSD has been doing research on lobster ganglions and crayfish tails and has found that most of the signaling between the brain and the body that actually contains information and feedback is nonlinear and dynamic. So, to look at what areas of the brain are doing what will involve figuring out how that nonlinear, dynamic, chaotic signaling is happening, and then figuring out how the brain interprets it.
So, if you're thinking that we're not far off from seeing people's dreams, think about this: this chip just lets you see what neurons are active. That's the equivalent of watching having a movie of the transistors in a CPU, and trying to figure out the linux process scheduling algorithm. But its more complex than that, because linux is not nonlinear chaotic data. (well, not usually)
apt-get install mozilla galeon mozilla-xft fontconfig libxft2
both mozilla and galeon will look great.
Why don't you email branden@debian.org, the treasurer for debian, and ask him what the dollar amount is on the check from Lindows.com that he received before shooting your mouth off about something you have no idea about?
Here are two relevant quotes from the article:
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" Kollar-Kotelly also modified the oversight of Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Originally, the proposal included a technical committee and an internal compliance officer. In Friday's ruling, the judge combined the two into a compliance committee made up of Microsoft board members. In turn, the committee must hire a compliance officer, to report to the committee and Microsoft's CEO.
Attorney General John Ashcroft also praised the ruling. "The court's decision is a major victory for consumers and businesses, who can immediately take advantage of the final judgment's provisions," Ashcroft said in a statement released Friday afternoon. "
I guess those huge campaign contributions MS made to Bush's and Ashcroft's campaigns really paid off!
http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_26
"Microsoft also was a major contributor to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Fund, donating $100,000 to the gala last January."
Please people, vote!!!
I send all my patches back to the public wine tree, and in fact, our wine is just the public tree, with any obvious bugs fixed (which we also send back).
So, if you pick up wine from cvs, it will run AOL7.
See wine-patches and wine-devel for discussion.
It just uses wine, and I sent all the patches back to the public tree, so yes, you can use it in debian. Actually, we (lindows) just pick up the public tree, and fix any obvious bugs in office, and then put it in our iso.
Check the wine-patches list, I always send back my changes.
You didn't read closely enough.
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http://www.lindows.com/aol
You can run the client.
I wouldn't count on that if I were you.
Consider this:
1. internet explorer in crossover office runs well enough to use all day. internet explorer in the public GPL tree crashes after about 15 seconds of use.
2. quicken doesn't install with the public GPL tree of wine. quicken under crossover office runs well enough to use for a long time.
I know these things because I've tested them myself. I'm comparing crossover office 1.2 to wine 20020804.
if you're looking to codeweavers to provide the community with a reliable wine while still trying to make a profit, you're not going to be happy.
Both redhat and debian ship freetype packages with the bytecode intrepreter enabled.
Apparently apple doesn't think it's worth the money the court case would cost to prevent a bunch of open source hackers fron having good fonts. Although, even with the bytecode interpreter enabled, I never have fonts that look as good as the redhat 8 beta. Using the b&h or the urw TT fonts, they just look great in their beta.
It's unfortunate that transgaming can't see that open source works. I've heard their arguments about how the DMCA won't allow them to release their code, and IF that's true, they can just put their copyright protection code into a library.
Hopefully, this is just one more issue that will bring them a little closer to using a free open source license.
Who's going to take over for them? I'm sure there are still people buying Q3A and lots of other games.
I wonder what they'll do to make sure these apps don't just disappear from the landscape.
There was already a version of Canvas for linux, baed on WineLib. We had around 10,000 users and then the project got scrapped because Deneba didn't have the money to continue it.
I'm sure you could dig up an old copy from somewhere if you searched around or emailed someone at deneba.
I was actually the project lead, but once the company saw how expensive it was to support 10 linux distros with 10 different window managers, they decided to scrap it because they didn't think they could ake a profit off of it. And they didnt want to go open source because it was wine based, so it was essentialy their Windows source code.
ever heard of limewire?
http://www.limewire.org
they're working on supernodes as we speak.
For god's sake it is not a virtual keyboard! We need interfaces that go beyond point and click, aka, point and grunt.
Devices like this can bring us into the future where you can have many many gestures at your command, and have a rich language in your interface.
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/law/intro.htmlm l
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/073.ht
"Over one-third of the mill workers died before age 25, mostly from tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. "
As I said, it's tremendously naive to think that our current working conditions are a result of kind bosses and the benevolence of the free market.
It relates to the story because Phil Zimmerman, and many others, fought hard for us to have the freedom to use strong Crypto the way we can today, and we can't forget that and give up those freedoms.
When I read that article in the Washington Post, I was a little concerned to read that he felt that way and I truly appreciate the corection.
Nevertheless, seeing the importance of vocally protecting our privacy rights in this important time, I recently began using PGP at work as well as at home. I don't send encrypted email messages, because most of the recipients of my email messages are not skilled enough to use or care about encryption. But I do try to spread the word about pgp by signing every message I send out.
If we don't make efforts to maintain our liberties, we will lose them. We have not gained eight hour work days and the freedom to use strong encryption by the grace of our employers or of the government. We have gained every freedom we have through hard, bitter struggle. We can never forget this.
Bearshare works like a charm in a closed, local area network. I do it all the time.
this whole thing just illustrates how america is totally run by large corporations. capitalism and democracy are incompatible.
that interview was totally vapid. there was nothing of any interest in it. i'm surprised it got posted.
I really want to participate in this, as it seems o be a fairly democratic process, and I know the the IETF and RFC's really truly matter.
My only question is, when is the next meeting? It's not mentioned on the site. Are the meetings help online? I'm not exactly flying to stockholm, no matter how much I care.
Has anyone here participated in this kind of thing before?
the problem with ogg vorbis, and why it will never be accepted widely, is the stupid name.
it should be called something cool and easy to say and remember like mpX. not something you're embarrassed tp say and have to spell out every time it's mentioned.
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http://www.bearshare.com
A few weeks ago my brother saw some statistic on television that in your entire lifetime, the chances of someone stealing your identity are like 1 in 5. While I thought this was a ridiculously high number at the time and laughed at him, maybe this story can lend some viability to it.
http://www.redpolygon.com
http://www.hyperpoem.net