This is really getting ridiculous. Moderators driven by Anti-GPL sentiment have moderated this comment down as "Flamebait" and "Troll." It is clearly not that.
The guy had some reasonable points, with which you may agree or disagree. But, have the decency to reply to him in a comment, instead of using your moderator points to respond. Moderators who do this sort of thing are the real "Anonymous Cowards."
This is quite possibly a troll, but I will reply anyway.
Call it earning a place at the table before you get to sit down. We would get rid of "Naked Petrified Grits" imbeciles and Stallmanist collectivists by ramping up access costs, and we would get rid of cheap fly-by-night web garbage by seriously increasing the cost of a domain name.
Sheer idiocy.
You are completely ignoring the egalitarian nature of the Internet, which is what made it as popular as it is in the first place.
If anything, the cost of entry is too high, as decent broadband is still expensive and limited in coverage.
The measurements are inaccurate. The previous crime rate didn't include crimes committed by the state, which were likely more prevalent than modern gang crime.
I used to use bash, when I was a less frequent UNIX user, but got hooked on tcsh under Solaris. Now, I only use bash for occasional shell scripting. As for ksh, I avoid it all together. Still a good thing to see the source coming out though. The more shells, the merrier. To each his own.
BTW, there are some really cool.tcshrc files on dotfiles.com. Check out the [gjvc].tcshrc-* tarball!
...you have to come to Portland, OR, and sample an ale called "Fred" (named after a local beer writer). It's brewed by the Hair of the Dog Brewing Company, and has an alcohol content of 11.5%.
I'd wager that's a bit stronger than Molson Ice (yes, that's blatantly unfair, but so were your characterizations of American brews).
As someone (Bob Hope?) once said, "That'll put hair on your chest, and part it in the middle."
If you ever get a chance to try this brew, do so. It's quite an experience.
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MPAA goons are the ones subverting the law. There's a thing called "fair use" that has been established over the course of many years. DMCA explicitly states that it does *not* remove these rights. Yet, MPAA is trying to do *exactly* that through CSS.
Watching a DVD that you've purchased under Linux is perfectly legal. Making a copy of a DVD for your personal use is perfectly legal. Yet, MPAA tries to stop you from exercising your rights to do these *legal* things. That's what this is all about: MPAA breaking the law, and us putting a stop to it.
Yes qt 2.0 is supposed to be more open source-ish, but I think that a commercial entity would still have to have some license to sell there product.
Not to be pedantic, but this is inaccurate.
They would only need to get the pay license if they want to distribute without source. If/how much they charge, and whether or not they are a "commercial" organization doesn't enter into it.
It's arguable that QPL is like GPL in this respect, and less like LGPL.
I assume you are attempting to refer to the X Window System.
X (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) is an important part of any UNIX-like operating system in which GUI-based programs are used; without it, you lose network transparancy for GUI-based programs, which, believe it or not, can be quite useful in a multiuser environment.
Slashdot bashed ZDNet, Cnet, etc for posting positive Windows 2000 reviews. At least those news companies are making an attempt at presenting both sides, they also tout linux from time to time.. Here at Slashdot you're only shown one side.
So, then, why don't you just go read zdnet or cnet, and spare us the pissing and moaning? Slashdot has always been a Linux/UNIX site...the people here have enough experience with Microsoft products to know that there is absolutely no reason to expect Windows 2000 to be any different than all the other substandard shit they ship every day.
Man...you'd think it was some sort of crime to hold an anti-MS opinion these days, with all they crying going on in these threads.
Oh, yeah...I'll try out Windows 2000...as soon as they ship it under GPL.
Y'know, when I saw South Park: The Movie, and Bill Gates got shot, pretty much everyone in the theater applauded.
I said to my wife at that time that Microsoft's monopoly is over, because the average person had finally acquired contempt for their shoddy products, even if they were still using them.
Usenet II exists, but is (IMO) too restrictive
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Usenet II was created sometime around 1996-97, I believe. It revived the old net.* hierarchy. It has some *very* stringent trust-based rules about who can join the network. This is a good thing, but it has limited the usefulness of Usenet II,
IMO, because the reach is just a bit too limited. I'm not saying they need to relax the rules, necessarily; I'm just saying that the fact that many otherwise clueful people don't even know Usenet II exists suggests that the strictness does have a negative side effect.
I'm a fairly long-time Usenet user (since 1990), but I don't use Usenet II, because it's just too restricted.
This guy is trolling, and/or has *no* idea what he's talking about.
Fair Use is well-established in U.S., and I believe, other countries' legal precedent. Copyright holders cannot legally restrict Fair Use of copyrighted material.
I'm presuming that a judge as prejudiced as this judge is against the defendants (and their arguments) will likely rule against the defendants...most likely repeating most of the nonsense he has offered in this preliminary decision.
At that point, the case will be appealed, and he will be overturned.
Congress and its masters (MPAA) have really made a mess of things with DMCA.
What he is saying is that copyright holders can eliminate Fair Use through technological measures. This makes *no* sense whatsoever; it suggests that the law only applies to the technologically challenged.
If legal precedent means anything, it is common sense that technological impediments to Fair Use:
may legally be circumvented
are probably illegal prima facie (ooh, Latin)
could be construed to represent contempt of court
I'm fairly certain that this judge's idiotic decision will be promptly overturned.
I haven't used AIX much, so I don't know that much about JFS, but I do know that many other regard it as an excellent file system. IBM was, last I heard, porting JFS to OS/2, so that it would finally have a journalling, secure file system (HPFS, while a decent FS for a single-user system, lacked any kind of built-in security as well as journalling).
I wonder which UNIX vendor-contributed FS will make it into distributions first: AIX or XFS.
Can anyone explain differences/advantages/disadvantages of the two filesystems, and perhaps how they compare to some of the other solutions (ReiserFS, ext3)?
I don't have any answers, but would ask you this: which Win 95 are you running (i.e., Win 95 original retail version, Win 95 OEM SR2, etc.)? That may help others troubleshoot this problem.
Everyone should go read the transcript of the New York injunction hearing. I found it very enlightening... and it made me realize just what the DMCA is going to look like in practice. What I consider "fair use", and what the law now allows, are diverging.
I'm no lawyer...but I don't think the DMCA invalidates Fair Use...and I'm pretty sure the courts will ensure that that is the case, notwithstanding the N.Y. judge's apparent distaste for consumer rights.
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The guy had some reasonable points, with which you may agree or disagree. But, have the decency to reply to him in a comment, instead of using your moderator points to respond. Moderators who do this sort of thing are the real "Anonymous Cowards."
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/bin/tcsh: Try it; you'll like it.
Call it earning a place at the table before you get to sit down. We would get rid of "Naked Petrified Grits" imbeciles and Stallmanist collectivists by ramping up access costs, and we would get rid of cheap fly-by-night web garbage by seriously increasing the cost of a domain name.
Sheer idiocy.
You are completely ignoring the egalitarian nature of the Internet, which is what made it as popular as it is in the first place.
If anything, the cost of entry is too high, as decent broadband is still expensive and limited in coverage.
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/bin/tcsh: Try it; you'll like it.
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BTW, there are some really cool .tcshrc files on dotfiles.com. Check out the [gjvc] .tcshrc-* tarball!
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I'd wager that's a bit stronger than Molson Ice (yes, that's blatantly unfair, but so were your characterizations of American brews).
As someone (Bob Hope?) once said, "That'll put hair on your chest, and part it in the middle."
If you ever get a chance to try this brew, do so. It's quite an experience.
Here's a brief review.
We have many, many fine brews here in Oregon. You might want to try them before slagging on American brewers.
One of my non-Oregon favorites (but not far from Oregon): Downtown Brown, from the Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka, California.
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You haven't seen my workstations... :-)
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So, do it for yourself, then, instead of for your boss. It might make your life easier, and you'll probably learn something.
I wrote a GUI DNS thingy a while back in Perl/Tk. It was fun, and I learned a bit about GUI development under Perl.
Advanced Perl Programming has a chapter on Perl/Tk, and now there's even a whole O'Reilly book on Perl/Tk, I think.
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Watching a DVD that you've purchased under Linux is perfectly legal. Making a copy of a DVD for your personal use is perfectly legal. Yet, MPAA tries to stop you from exercising your rights to do these *legal* things. That's what this is all about: MPAA breaking the law, and us putting a stop to it.
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Not to be pedantic, but this is inaccurate.
They would only need to get the pay license if they want to distribute without source. If/how much they charge, and whether or not they are a "commercial" organization doesn't enter into it.
It's arguable that QPL is like GPL in this respect, and less like LGPL.
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And you don't need any knowledge greater than the ability to run a program to use DeCSS.
You're talking about *writing* DeCSS? Well, OK...but you certainly need special knowledge to *make* a knife.
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X (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) is an important part of any UNIX-like operating system in which GUI-based programs are used; without it, you lose network transparancy for GUI-based programs, which, believe it or not, can be quite useful in a multiuser environment.
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You forget that not everyone lives in an area served by numerous connectivity options.
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So, then, why don't you just go read zdnet or cnet, and spare us the pissing and moaning? Slashdot has always been a Linux/UNIX site...the people here have enough experience with Microsoft products to know that there is absolutely no reason to expect Windows 2000 to be any different than all the other substandard shit they ship every day.
Man...you'd think it was some sort of crime to hold an anti-MS opinion these days, with all they crying going on in these threads.
Oh, yeah...I'll try out Windows 2000...as soon as they ship it under GPL.
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Excellent idea! I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner.
Man...that would save the world a *lot* of headaches.
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I said to my wife at that time that Microsoft's monopoly is over, because the average person had finally acquired contempt for their shoddy products, even if they were still using them.
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IMO, because the reach is just a bit too limited. I'm not saying they need to relax the rules, necessarily; I'm just saying that the fact that many otherwise clueful people don't even know Usenet II exists suggests that the strictness does have a negative side effect.
I'm a fairly long-time Usenet user (since 1990), but I don't use Usenet II, because it's just too restricted.
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Fair Use is well-established in U.S., and I believe, other countries' legal precedent. Copyright holders cannot legally restrict Fair Use of copyrighted material.
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At that point, the case will be appealed, and he will be overturned.
Congress and its masters (MPAA) have really made a mess of things with DMCA.
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What he is saying is that copyright holders can eliminate Fair Use through technological measures. This makes *no* sense whatsoever; it suggests that the law only applies to the technologically challenged.
If legal precedent means anything, it is common sense that technological impediments to Fair Use:
- may legally be circumvented
- are probably illegal prima facie (ooh, Latin)
- could be construed to represent contempt of court
I'm fairly certain that this judge's idiotic decision will be promptly overturned.New XFMail home page
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I wonder which UNIX vendor-contributed FS will make it into distributions first: AIX or XFS.
Can anyone explain differences/advantages/disadvantages of the two filesystems, and perhaps how they compare to some of the other solutions (ReiserFS, ext3)?
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I was thinking about some kind of satellite service, but that route doesn't sound very promising.
Guess I'm still dialing up for a while. :-(
Maybe Cisco's wireless thing will be my salvation...
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I'm no lawyer...but I don't think the DMCA invalidates Fair Use...and I'm pretty sure the courts will ensure that that is the case, notwithstanding the N.Y. judge's apparent distaste for consumer rights.
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