That only works if the source code for the module is compatible with your version of the kernel. And it also assumes that you have already compiled your kernel. Have you ever tried downloading a Linux driver for a new piece of hardware and installing it on a stock Linux distribution? It's not possible because Linux doesn't support binary compatibility with its modules.
Does anyone know where I can learn how much money my elected representatives have received from the RIAA, MPAA, and other pro-DMCA companies? I'd like to write letters to my Congressmen asking them to support Boucher's bill, but I want to include this financial information to let them know that I know.
That's exactly right. As soon as you allow unrestricted access to copyrighted work, you are guilty of copyright infringement (or if you're lucky, contributory copyright infringement). It's the unrestricted part that will get you. If you have a password-protected FTP or web site, and only your real friends know the password, they you might have a legal defense. But open P2P networks do not qualify as "sharing with your friends".
A degree (as meaningless as we all know it is) definitely equals job security.
The fact that you realize a degree equals job security implies that it is not meanginless. In fact, the #1 reason for getting a degree is to improve your career prospects. Companies prefer degreed individuals for good reason. If you can make it through four years of college, it shows you have good work ethics.
I remember reciting the Pledge when I was a young child and the only Muslim in my public school. The phrase "under God" always bothered me. I knew it was wrong, but I was too young to make a big deal of it. Frankly, every time a politician tries to promote something religious in this country, it always feels like it's pro-Christian and anti-everything-else.
no doubt this has been repeated before, but religion in one form or another really is necessary for *morality.* if you don't believe that life originated from something sacred, why is it really worth anything? one of the tenets of evolutionary theory is, of course, *survival of the fittest.* if this is the case, shouldn't we all do what we can to get ahead? if all that really matters is me, myself, and i, why should i care about someone else's conception of morality or ethics?
I get ahead by sharing my world with others, and allowing them to live with me. I don't need to destroy others for me to get ahead, I can do it on my own merits. I enjoy life more because I can interact and learn from other people.
I don't think you need religion to have morality. Otherwise, all atheists would be immoral, and we know that's not true. Why can't I simply decide, on my own, that I want to do good things? And why can't life be worth something all by itself? The very fact that I'm alive is worth a great deal to me.
Apple computers come with a one-button mouse, but you can always buy another mouse or trackball or whatever. I've purchased several PCs in my time, and I've never used the mouse that they've come with, so why should it be any different with a Mac?
Re:Could someone just please explain...
on
Minority Report
·
· Score: 1
It's more than just a dissenting opinion. The point behind a minority report is to ensure that the dissenting opinion is not silenced.
Re:Could someone just please explain...
on
Minority Report
·
· Score: 1
A minority report is a document produced by the people who were in the minority for a vote. This document talks about why they voted the way they did. That way, even the the majority have their way, the minority are not completely silenced.
Why do they even need a policy? Their web server can be configured to use the referrer tag to allow whatever deep linking they accept, and reject everything else. Wouldn't it be nicer if they paid their programmers instead of their lawyers?
Back then, things were different. Nobody, and I mean nobody, was paid to work on this stuff. The very idea was laughable.
Read my previous post carefully: "Linux needs programmers who are being paid to be programmers, even if their job doesn't involve Linux." In other words, Linux needs a world where there are plenty of paid, professional programmers. It doesn't matter what software they're developing, or what platform it's form, just as long as they are being paid to be programmers. Because without a healthy software industry, there will eventually not be enough people interested in becoming programmers. These people will choose other careers, and therefore not have any interest in programming anything. And then where is Linux supposed to get its programmers from?
Why does IBM need to hard dedicate manpower to Thinkpad driver writing? IBM can just provide open hardware specs(assuming they don't violate some NDA from inside or 3rd parties), a little TLC and feedback from a maintained ML, and let people who are modivated to get stuff working do their thing. Heck even IBM can maintain the CVS repositories if they want.
You make it sound as if it's no big deal that a Linux kernel developer is out of a job. How many motivated people do you think are out there?
The problem is that Linux development cannot survive on the efforts of unpaid programmers. If programmers aren't paid for their work, then they'll switch to other careers. Or they'll learn a few things on their own, but they won't have professional experience to help them really understand things. Then what? Will Linux be developed only by people who know how to program, but don't have jobs as programmers? How long do you think that will last? Can you imagine a Linux kernel being developed only by nurses, sales people, bus drivers, and students with rich parents? It's crazy.
Linux needs programmers who are being paid to be programmers, even if their job doesn't involve Linux. This idea that a hardware company just needs to release specs and some self-motivated individual will always do the work for free is ludicrous.
So you're saying that Google should be legally responsible if its cache or search engine is out of date? That's crazy. Just think of the Wayback Machine as a Google cache that's way out of date. After all, that's pretty much what it is.
TV is not the WWW. We can't allow people to believe that they can have such strict control over the contents of their web site, because otherwise the WWW is dead.
You talked to the Disney animators, and it didn't occur to you to ask how their company justifies pushing laws through Congress that would make Linux illegal?
Which "point of view" would that be? The only point of view available to you is that of the guy walking around with your memories... who, by definition, is you.
I don't agree with that at all. abreauj is 100% correct. As soon as the word "recreate" is used to describe the process, that means that the original is destroyed (i.e. killed), and the new object is just a copy. Sorry, I'm not going to step into that machine.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn, I meant to reply to the parent of the post to which I did replied.
Sorry, but a developer in the context of computer software is someone who writes code. mfarah is a contributor, not a developer.
That only works if the source code for the module is compatible with your version of the kernel. And it also assumes that you have already compiled your kernel. Have you ever tried downloading a Linux driver for a new piece of hardware and installing it on a stock Linux distribution? It's not possible because Linux doesn't support binary compatibility with its modules.
CamelCaps? I've been programming for 25 years and I never heard that term.
I've always used cypherphunks/cypherphunks without any problems.
Does anyone know where I can learn how much money my elected representatives have received from the RIAA, MPAA, and other pro-DMCA companies? I'd like to write letters to my Congressmen asking them to support Boucher's bill, but I want to include this financial information to let them know that I know.
That's exactly right. As soon as you allow unrestricted access to copyrighted work, you are guilty of copyright infringement (or if you're lucky, contributory copyright infringement). It's the unrestricted part that will get you. If you have a password-protected FTP or web site, and only your real friends know the password, they you might have a legal defense. But open P2P networks do not qualify as "sharing with your friends".
The fact that you realize a degree equals job security implies that it is not meanginless. In fact, the #1 reason for getting a degree is to improve your career prospects. Companies prefer degreed individuals for good reason. If you can make it through four years of college, it shows you have good work ethics.
The problem is that the Star Trek communicators didn't use 802.11, so it would not be a prior art. And don't think I'm joking.
I remember reciting the Pledge when I was a young child and the only Muslim in my public school. The phrase "under God" always bothered me. I knew it was wrong, but I was too young to make a big deal of it. Frankly, every time a politician tries to promote something religious in this country, it always feels like it's pro-Christian and anti-everything-else.
I get ahead by sharing my world with others, and allowing them to live with me. I don't need to destroy others for me to get ahead, I can do it on my own merits. I enjoy life more because I can interact and learn from other people.
I don't think you need religion to have morality. Otherwise, all atheists would be immoral, and we know that's not true. Why can't I simply decide, on my own, that I want to do good things? And why can't life be worth something all by itself? The very fact that I'm alive is worth a great deal to me.
Apple computers come with a one-button mouse, but you can always buy another mouse or trackball or whatever. I've purchased several PCs in my time, and I've never used the mouse that they've come with, so why should it be any different with a Mac?
It's more than just a dissenting opinion. The point behind a minority report is to ensure that the dissenting opinion is not silenced.
A minority report is a document produced by the people who were in the minority for a vote. This document talks about why they voted the way they did. That way, even the the majority have their way, the minority are not completely silenced.
I don't like football, so I watched neither the Superbowl nor its ads.
... the first time I use my TiVo to fast forward through a show so I can watch the commercials.
Why do they even need a policy? Their web server can be configured to use the referrer tag to allow whatever deep linking they accept, and reject everything else. Wouldn't it be nicer if they paid their programmers instead of their lawyers?
Well, that's a first!
Read my previous post carefully: "Linux needs programmers who are being paid to be programmers, even if their job doesn't involve Linux." In other words, Linux needs a world where there are plenty of paid, professional programmers. It doesn't matter what software they're developing, or what platform it's form, just as long as they are being paid to be programmers. Because without a healthy software industry, there will eventually not be enough people interested in becoming programmers. These people will choose other careers, and therefore not have any interest in programming anything. And then where is Linux supposed to get its programmers from?
You make it sound as if it's no big deal that a Linux kernel developer is out of a job. How many motivated people do you think are out there?
The problem is that Linux development cannot survive on the efforts of unpaid programmers. If programmers aren't paid for their work, then they'll switch to other careers. Or they'll learn a few things on their own, but they won't have professional experience to help them really understand things. Then what? Will Linux be developed only by people who know how to program, but don't have jobs as programmers? How long do you think that will last? Can you imagine a Linux kernel being developed only by nurses, sales people, bus drivers, and students with rich parents? It's crazy.
Linux needs programmers who are being paid to be programmers, even if their job doesn't involve Linux. This idea that a hardware company just needs to release specs and some self-motivated individual will always do the work for free is ludicrous.
So you're saying that Google should be legally responsible if its cache or search engine is out of date? That's crazy. Just think of the Wayback Machine as a Google cache that's way out of date. After all, that's pretty much what it is.
TV is not the WWW. We can't allow people to believe that they can have such strict control over the contents of their web site, because otherwise the WWW is dead.
You talked to the Disney animators, and it didn't occur to you to ask how their company justifies pushing laws through Congress that would make Linux illegal?
Every two months, the primes all rotate. After a year, you will all be experts on all systems.
I don't agree with that at all. abreauj is 100% correct. As soon as the word "recreate" is used to describe the process, that means that the original is destroyed (i.e. killed), and the new object is just a copy. Sorry, I'm not going to step into that machine.