Uh oh. If I read this correctly, if you take part in a DDOS attack also known as "Slashdotting", it takes just a single trigger-happy sysadmin somewhere on the way to knock you and the rest of us from the participating networks.
The article is pretty vague, and if I read correctly, there _is_ a human factor involved. Of course, humans are better from machines from telling apart a bone-fide Slashdotting (beh, a "bona-fide" DDOS attack:p ) from something that's meant just to destroy.
However, our bona-fide attack just took their server down. We're entering a gray area here: is it still a legitimate flash crowd? It's often hard to tell. The problem is, until today, the one who used to lose was the affected server. If enough backbone ISPs will join this alliance, it will be us getting hurt by the collateral damage.
Nah, communism=political monopoly (the "dictatorship of the proletariat"). On the other hand, free software is closely related to free speech, and free speech typically goes together with democracy.
What they call "people's democracy" is as far from "democracy" as possible. A popular Polish joke says: the difference between democracy and people's democracy is same as those between a chair and an electric chair.
It doesn't matter whether you're curbing free speech and free market because of extreme left-wing (communist) reasons or of extreme right-wing (religious) ones. The net effect is the same.
Note that RMS still haven't realized his error where it comes to GFDL. In nearly every reviewer's but the FSF point of view, GFDL is flawed to the point of uselessness, and yet RMS sticks to his standpoint.
From what I see, people are escaping the leaking GFDL ship like crazy, with FSF manuals and Wikipedia being the biggest bastions. The former is governed by RMS, the latter is simply too big to allow relicensing.
Some of the contributors are dead, too, in the non-figurative sense. Try to get them to relicense the part they hold the copyright on.
Linux is the biggest GPLed project, with many thousands of separate copyright holders. The mere code audit would take years, not to mention trying to actually contact them. They are often unreachable, their mail address may be no longer valid, they may use the name Anonymous Chinese Dissident #75483, they may be in a persistent vegetative state, etc etc.
And the Berne convention forbids you to ignore even a single copyright holder.
Note that we don't have swastika in Unicode, even though we have a lot of symbols that don't warrant being included. And no, that goofy Chinese rare-used ideogram that looks vaguely like swastika but is drawn in a different way ("sticks", uneven lines, etc) doesn't count.
Well, I wouldn't call anything that includes getting your government to ban words a "good job". French government forbidding their employees to say "e-mail" just because it's a word that came from English is nothing but pure nazism.
I heard a rumour that in Sweden, traffic tickets and many other fines are proportional to your income as opposed to being fixed. This means, if a rich guy gets caught speeding, this mere fine can cost him millions. It's just a rumour I overheard, so don't take it for granted nor accurate.
However, this is a good idea for corporate fines. The "amplification of damages" you're speaking of can be made a portion of the plaintiff or defendant's income.
Right now, if an individual tries to bring a legal action against a corporation who breached his rights, in most cases, that individual can't even afford legal costs -- and even if he wins, the corporation loses nothing. On the other hand, any transgression against the corporation will make you ruined or jailed, often _even_ if the letter of law stands on your side.
This idea would also make it possible for a small corporation to stand a chance against big guys like Microsoft.
On the other hand, Debian is good for servers and for developers.
Ubuntu does far more handholding than Debian. This is exactly what the non-technical user wants. On the other hand, the system doing automated things behind your back is an atrocity for sysadmins.
You also have freaks like me who detest graphical fluff. And, Ubuntu isn't the very best console system. Use it and be happy while I'm fooling around on my Debian Unstable home box (I admit, my boxes at work are Testing not Stable because I'm too lazy to backport new MySQL:p).
Well, we're talking about publically funded research. Commercialization is a valid concern only if the research was done using private funds.
The "value of intellectual assets" is paid by the government, and thus, is a property of the government (and thus goes into Public Domain).
If you want a monopoly on the fruits of your research, sure, go ahead! Just use your own funds for it. We deserve the results of the research we paid for with our taxes.
This site started from exactly the same thing this article is about. Marek Futrega (my roommate at the time) made an implementation of Scrabble in Java.
Soon, he received a cease-and-desist letter from Cronix (basically Hasbro Poland). What he did, was renaming the game from "Szkrable" to "Literaxx" and changing the copyrighted board to a similar version. This made him compliant with both trademark and copyright laws.
Now, his site is the biggest Central European (or perhaps even European) gaming site with a crapload of other games in 11 languages.
The cease-and-desist in Polish can be found close to the bottom of "Old news".
in most commercial distro's, this won't help much because they do sell their products
Debian and Gentoo won't accept such a piece of software, too. While most people download the packages themselves, a lot still relies on getting ready CD sets. Licenses such as CC non-c deny even such uses.
CC non-c is in no way similar to GPL. You _can_ sell GPL stuff, and in many cases, you're supposed to do that. Also, it breaks the freedom to use for any purpose, which is one of the key Free Software pillars.
In other words, CC non-c is doing more evil than it does good, by confusing people into using it.
From the way their firewall is set up, I see a trivial DoS attack. After the first hundred or two of SYNs they completely drop all traffic coming from the source IP for quite a long time.
So, would anyone malicious with too much time on his hands want to give Netcraft a nice blackout on the Bad Guys?:p
But, I have an easier target for all you script kiddies out there. 127.0.0.1! Get this h4x0r3d!
A year ago, I tried to setup an Oracle server on a mid-class machine. I stopped the attempt after a day. The next day, I've chosen to do it in two attempts -- installing the server itself (6 hours) and then creating a database (8h). The machine had only 256MB of memory, though.
As a test, I've dug a 486 box with 24MB ram from my cellar, and put mysql with a full copy of our data there. The performance was just a bit sluggish (with just one client, though -- but the app itself never has more than 5-10 concurrent users at a time).
In fact, Google seems to be doing this on all their pages.
For example, Google Maps sports a 90KB file named "maps" (no extension) that is included from the main page and contains nothing but such compressed javascript.
Communist? The last time I checked, capitalism was all about free market, and monopolies are the very opposite of the free market concept. In fact, they are a lot closer to communism itself.
In Marx' and Lenin's works, communism is called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship is pretty much equal to monopoly, except it's applied to government as opposed to economy. The thing is, the line between politics and business is often blurred, especially for companies with capitalisation as big as that of Microsoft...
If you don't own "trademark" to your own name, something is really fucked up...
Besides, Milka-the-company owns their trademark only for chocolate and dairy products, it's available for all other uses. If a "script kiddie for hire" company in town A is named "Pwnage", this doesn't restrict a "bouncers for hire" company in town B from using the same name. In fact, giving one of them advantage over the other -- that is, any advantage other than preventing people from knowingly infringing an established name -- is just plain wrong. And show me how exactly the old lady's parents were knowingly abusing the company's name...
What about doing it the way the kernel does? That is, the whole command line is hidden, replaced by: the command being run ("CC") and the target being built.
On the other hand, it can log the whole thing with full details to a file.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh oh.
:p ) from something that's meant just to destroy.
If I read this correctly, if you take part in a DDOS attack also known as "Slashdotting", it takes just a single trigger-happy sysadmin somewhere on the way to knock you and the rest of us from the participating networks.
The article is pretty vague, and if I read correctly, there _is_ a human factor involved. Of course, humans are better from machines from telling apart a bone-fide Slashdotting (beh, a "bona-fide" DDOS attack
However, our bona-fide attack just took their server down. We're entering a gray area here: is it still a legitimate flash crowd? It's often hard to tell. The problem is, until today, the one who used to lose was the affected server. If enough backbone ISPs will join this alliance, it will be us getting hurt by the collateral damage.
Nah, communism=political monopoly (the "dictatorship of the proletariat"). On the other hand, free software is closely related to free speech, and free speech typically goes together with democracy.
What they call "people's democracy" is as far from "democracy" as possible. A popular Polish joke says: the difference between democracy and people's democracy is same as those between a chair and an electric chair.
It doesn't matter whether you're curbing free speech and free market because of extreme left-wing (communist) reasons or of extreme right-wing (religious) ones. The net effect is the same.
According to your sig, I'm afraid that you, sir, are a troll.
Uh oh. Someone left some ethanol next to bored scientists again.
People like my friends know the right thing to do, but it appears that this knowledge is not common enough.
Note that RMS still haven't realized his error where it comes to GFDL. In nearly every reviewer's but the FSF point of view, GFDL is flawed to the point of uselessness, and yet RMS sticks to his standpoint.
From what I see, people are escaping the leaking GFDL ship like crazy, with FSF manuals and Wikipedia being the biggest bastions.
The former is governed by RMS, the latter is simply too big to allow relicensing.
Some of the contributors are dead, too, in the non-figurative sense.
Try to get them to relicense the part they hold the copyright on.
Linux is the biggest GPLed project, with many thousands of separate copyright holders. The mere code audit would take years, not to mention trying to actually contact them. They are often unreachable, their mail address may be no longer valid, they may use the name Anonymous Chinese Dissident #75483, they may be in a persistent vegetative state, etc etc.
And the Berne convention forbids you to ignore even a single copyright holder.
Note that we don't have swastika in Unicode, even though we have a lot of symbols that don't warrant being included.
And no, that goofy Chinese rare-used ideogram that looks vaguely like swastika but is drawn in a different way ("sticks", uneven lines, etc) doesn't count.
Well, I wouldn't call anything that includes getting your government to ban words a "good job".
French government forbidding their employees to say "e-mail" just because it's a word that came from English is nothing but pure nazism.
No, this would result in lost business.
An idiot's money is as good as a bright's person's money, and it's easier to get.
I heard a rumour that in Sweden, traffic tickets and many other fines are proportional to your income as opposed to being fixed. This means, if a rich guy gets caught speeding, this mere fine can cost him millions. It's just a rumour I overheard, so don't take it for granted nor accurate.
However, this is a good idea for corporate fines. The "amplification of damages" you're speaking of can be made a portion of the plaintiff or defendant's income.
Right now, if an individual tries to bring a legal action against a corporation who breached his rights, in most cases, that individual can't even afford legal costs -- and even if he wins, the corporation loses nothing.
On the other hand, any transgression against the corporation will make you ruined or jailed, often _even_ if the letter of law stands on your side.
This idea would also make it possible for a small corporation to stand a chance against big guys like Microsoft.
The thing is, Ubuntu is an user distribution.
:p).
On the other hand, Debian is good for servers and for developers.
Ubuntu does far more handholding than Debian. This is exactly what the non-technical user wants.
On the other hand, the system doing automated things behind your back is an atrocity for sysadmins.
You also have freaks like me who detest graphical fluff. And, Ubuntu isn't the very best console system. Use it and be happy while I'm fooling around on my Debian Unstable home box (I admit, my boxes at work are Testing not Stable because I'm too lazy to backport new MySQL
Do I need to point you at an opportunity for free promotion?
Well, we're talking about publically funded research. Commercialization is a valid concern only if the research was done using private funds.
The "value of intellectual assets" is paid by the government, and thus, is a property of the government (and thus goes into Public Domain).
If you want a monopoly on the fruits of your research, sure, go ahead! Just use your own funds for it. We deserve the results of the research we paid for with our taxes.
Well... try to give kurnik.{org,pl} a slashdotting.
This site started from exactly the same thing this article is about. Marek Futrega (my roommate at the time) made an implementation of Scrabble in Java.
Soon, he received a cease-and-desist letter from Cronix (basically Hasbro Poland). What he did, was renaming the game from "Szkrable" to "Literaxx" and changing the copyrighted board to a similar version. This made him compliant with both trademark and copyright laws.
Now, his site is the biggest Central European (or perhaps even European) gaming site with a crapload of other games in 11 languages.
The cease-and-desist in Polish can be found close to the bottom of "Old news".
in most commercial distro's, this won't help much because they do sell their products
Debian and Gentoo won't accept such a piece of software, too. While most people download the packages themselves, a lot still relies on getting ready CD sets. Licenses such as CC non-c deny even such uses.
CC non-c is in no way similar to GPL. You _can_ sell GPL stuff, and in many cases, you're supposed to do that. Also, it breaks the freedom to use for any purpose, which is one of the key Free Software pillars.
In other words, CC non-c is doing more evil than it does good, by confusing people into using it.
If you're a convincted monopolist, many things than otherwise would be legal are considered a breach of the rules.
From the way their firewall is set up, I see a trivial DoS attack. After the first hundred or two of SYNs they completely drop all traffic coming from the source IP for quite a long time.
:p
So, would anyone malicious with too much time on his hands want to give Netcraft a nice blackout on the Bad Guys?
But, I have an easier target for all you script kiddies out there. 127.0.0.1! Get this h4x0r3d!
Can use it on a web page or such: sure.
Can use it for a Free Software piece of software? Nope.
Even experienced lawyers do have trouble reading copyright notices, EULAs and similar crap.
The established and official practice is to put the machine-readable "copyright" into robots.txt.
They would have to degrade all TCP traffic, including ssh, http and stuff. Otherwise, I'll just tunnel VoIP. Encrypted.
Oracle, fast, scalable? Scalable my ass.
A year ago, I tried to setup an Oracle server on a mid-class machine. I stopped the attempt after a day. The next day, I've chosen to do it in two attempts -- installing the server itself (6 hours) and then creating a database (8h). The machine had only 256MB of memory, though.
As a test, I've dug a 486 box with 24MB ram from my cellar, and put mysql with a full copy of our data there. The performance was just a bit sluggish (with just one client, though -- but the app itself never has more than 5-10 concurrent users at a time).
In fact, Google seems to be doing this on all their pages.
For example, Google Maps sports a 90KB file named "maps" (no extension) that is included from the main page and contains nothing but such compressed javascript.
Communist? The last time I checked, capitalism was all about free market, and monopolies are the very opposite of the free market concept. In fact, they are a lot closer to communism itself.
In Marx' and Lenin's works, communism is called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship is pretty much equal to monopoly, except it's applied to government as opposed to economy. The thing is, the line between politics and business is often blurred, especially for companies with capitalisation as big as that of Microsoft...
So, who is the communist here?
If you don't own "trademark" to your own name, something is really fucked up...
Besides, Milka-the-company owns their trademark only for chocolate and dairy products, it's available for all other uses. If a "script kiddie for hire" company in town A is named "Pwnage", this doesn't restrict a "bouncers for hire" company in town B from using the same name. In fact, giving one of them advantage over the other -- that is, any advantage other than preventing people from knowingly infringing an established name -- is just plain wrong. And show me how exactly the old lady's parents were knowingly abusing the company's name...
What about doing it the way the kernel does?
That is, the whole command line is hidden, replaced by: the command being run ("CC") and the target being built.
On the other hand, it can log the whole thing with full details to a file.