I've had people that use my stuff at NASA, the Pentagon and even Disney. Until that quote I was thinking, 'maybe I should put my shite up on sourceforge'. NASA would be cool, but... I suppose the image in the mind is of one's code being useful to fellow geeks with similar liberal leaning mind set, but so far as I know there isn't an IPL (Ideologically Pure) license. Nothing stopping even Microsoft from using the GPL, other than the fact that they break out in hives at the mere thought.
B) The guy that seems "lazy", sits around not doing much at all while dozens to hundreds of carefully written scripts fire off all day long, sending an occasional message when an error condition is detected. Since this guy would have to be nominated by a sysadmin, and sysadmins are in the minority, this contest is biased in favor of the incompetent. It's probably a problem that could be overcome by a perl script of only a few lines, but I not only seem lazy, I AM lazy. Though the free shirt would be nice...
I read the story with interest as something like this happened to me the other day. It didn't even occur to me that Google had been hacked. I figured the original site had been compromised. A hacked web site can be defaced for shits and giggles, obviously, but it could also have a meta refresh tag added to send the browser off to wherever the defacer wants. With the security hole history of most CMS systems out there, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often.
As hardware prices fall below OS cost, it will be possible for Microsoft to 'bundle' the hardware with the OS. Perhaps the next Windows family will be 'Windows Laptop', 'Windows Home Computer', 'Windows Server', each coming with the hardware pre-installed. The current situation only appears to be something of a conundrum because we are accustomed to thinking that the hardware should be the most expensive part.
I suspect a large part of the reason for Coka-Cola keeping the recipe secret is marketing, the mysterious allure of secret recipes, secret herbs and spices, and how do they get the caramel into the Caramilk bar? Open sourcing it wouldn't lead to reduced sales from people making their own, as it's a pain in the butt, and their competitors (esp. Pepsi) are looking to do their own thing and are also engaged primarily in a marketing game.
I'm not sure a secret cola recipe analogy works with regard to something as complicated as source code. If you could take the cola recipe, configure, make, and make install it into the fridge all from the command line, then Coke would have something to actually worry about. And, being Slashdot, it's more traditional to use a car analogy, perhaps something about McLaren stealing Ferrari's secrets or something like that.
Extortion is wrong, even when the government does it, allegedly for essential and even noble ends (unless you believe ends justify means). Sales and luxury taxes on non-essential items could be regarded as less evil, since there's a means to avoid them -- don't buy stuff that's so taxed. But if you're a seller compelled to collect it on behalf of the government you might have some reasonable reservations. People who evade extortion aren't Robin Hoods (even if they gave what they saved from extortion to the poor, it would be their own money), and where income tax evasion is a criminal offense they are indeed criminals, but I wish I had their guts rather than meekly giving in to government extortion every year.
Despite Democratic sluggishness in Congress, we can hope. The past several years have been an object lesson in the FDR quote "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Seriously, that does sound a bit pervy. "Ok, now, take off your shirt and bra, we need to be sure they're real. Ok, now stand up and take off the rest, then turn about real slow like... yah, that's it, yes, we are becoming convinced."
Hard to believe this is 100% modded funny. I guess that's what you get for making a great point humorously.
The only thing good about the word piracy being applied to copyright infringement is that pirates are regarded by many as really cool, so it has kind of backfired against those who want to encourage us to regard what is (or should be) a civil offense as a criminal one. Ironically, Disney is an entity which has contributed repeatedly to the impression of pirates being really cool, and the authorities being a bunch of stuffed shirts.
I think many of your concerns would be addressed by the addition of an inertial compensator. As the wikipedia article points out, this may not fully protect against sudden shocks. It also seems less effective on people suffering from HPD (hamminess personality disorder), who may be thrown about much more violently than people less drama prone.
Once you get those ISBN numbers, perhaps in the school bookstore with a little secret spy camera or whatever, check out bookmooch.com . Bookmooch is a site which allows you to 'mooch' books off of others for free, in exchange for people being able to mooch from you, the whole thing being governed by a point system. It is not a one stop shopping solution for all books, since much of the time what you want isn't available from anyone (though in that case you can put it on your wishlist), but the price is right, so it could be worth checking. Also a good way to get rid of those texts you don't want to keep afterwards for points you can exchange for books you do want. Certainly worth checking out, and you can search on ISBN.
Aye, and I think you could probably get more Canadians behind an initiative to defend actual Canadian territory than are behind the current military effort in Afghanistan. Bring the boys 'n' girls back home to defend the actual country.
When the name change occurred my account with their Mickey Mouse... make that Mandrake... rather Mandriva Club broke. My emails went unanswered, in spite of the fact I'd shelled out money to them. Switched to Fedora and haven't looked back (though am looking forward to trying Kubuntu). Frankly, I'm surprised they still exist.
Copyright and patents extend a monopoly of limited duration on creative works to the creator or their employer, depending on contracts or law. If it can be considered 'property', then it is the property of all. If you don't like the idea that ultimately your creative work doesn't belong to you, then work to get copyright abolished and replaced with some sort of actual intellectual property right. This idea that copyright makes something 'intellectual property' is ass backwards and only serves the interests of those who are trying to get us to believe that copyright infringement equates to theft. Copyright infringement is wrong because it violates the monopoly control granted by law to the holder of the copyright, not because it's stealing, or even more laughable 'piracy'.
"We could blame Microsoft for creating crappy operating systems, but if people wanted to pay us billions for our shit, which of us would not rejoice in every bowel movement?"
Should be some sort of metric which expresses a comparison of calories burned by sysadmins, vs the uptime of services on the system. If the uptime of services is high, while calories burned are low, then that's a good thing. If sysadmins are burning lots of calories putting out fires struggling to keep a highly unstable system from collapsing, that's a bad thing.
So... ummm... who created the creator? And... ummm... it's creator? And... ummmm... it's creator's creator?
He wasn't created, he was just hanging out in non-space/time with nothing to do because of the non-existence of events in non-space/time. We don't need to feel sorry for him, since he couldn't 'become' bored there. The real mystery is how he managed to make a huge event like the Big Bang happen, thus giving birth to space/time.
Any way you look at it, it's so problematic that it seems reasonable to doubt that he ever existed. But people can believe whatever they like, for example, in WMD in Iraq or that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, all evidence to the contrary. However, when it comes to electing people to high public office, it would be preferable to look for candidates who respect reason based on sound evidence, even if it contradicts initial impressions, or derails the agenda of a sub group, like the neocons in the Pentagon in GW's first term.
Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending,
If that's the case, then who cares? Why bother to block them? If they're just a wee group of cheapos who aren't likely to respond to ads whether or not they're displayed, why go to the trouble? Spite?
.... whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers..
The logic here is somewhat baffling. Looks to me that while they try to diminish concern about blocking it by characterizing its users as a small group of non-spenders, in truth they're scared shitless by firefox and especially ad-block.
to sue Microsoft because Windows allowed the installation of software such as Kazaa and the manufacturer of her computer for allowing the installation of a Windows that allowed the installation of Kazaa and the local power company for permitting the operation of a computer which allowed the.... oh you get the point
And don't forget the person who bought the computer in the first place and placed such a dangerous instrument in the home. They're in for a good suing. Talk about irresponsibility.
I did. Nothing yet. Chopped up into little ebay sized pieces, that would be a lot of lots of Tunguska meteorite. Perhaps they're hacking it up even now. Though the question would be how would one know it was authentic? I guess it would be one of those things where they provide a 'certificate of authenticity' to guarantee it...
Just had an idea. Time to fire up the old printer.
Slashdot Mirror
I read the story with interest as something like this happened to me the other day. It didn't even occur to me that Google had been hacked. I figured the original site had been compromised. A hacked web site can be defaced for shits and giggles, obviously, but it could also have a meta refresh tag added to send the browser off to wherever the defacer wants. With the security hole history of most CMS systems out there, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often.
It looks like Firefox 3 will allow disabling of meta refresh.
The Firefox NoScript extension might be worth considering as well.
As hardware prices fall below OS cost, it will be possible for Microsoft to 'bundle' the hardware with the OS. Perhaps the next Windows family will be 'Windows Laptop', 'Windows Home Computer', 'Windows Server', each coming with the hardware pre-installed. The current situation only appears to be something of a conundrum because we are accustomed to thinking that the hardware should be the most expensive part.
There actually is an open source cola
I suspect a large part of the reason for Coka-Cola keeping the recipe secret is marketing, the mysterious allure of secret recipes, secret herbs and spices, and how do they get the caramel into the Caramilk bar? Open sourcing it wouldn't lead to reduced sales from people making their own, as it's a pain in the butt, and their competitors (esp. Pepsi) are looking to do their own thing and are also engaged primarily in a marketing game.
I'm not sure a secret cola recipe analogy works with regard to something as complicated as source code. If you could take the cola recipe, configure, make, and make install it into the fridge all from the command line, then Coke would have something to actually worry about. And, being Slashdot, it's more traditional to use a car analogy, perhaps something about McLaren stealing Ferrari's secrets or something like that.
Yup. Judaism is the eldest, Christianity is the middle child, and Islam is the youngest.
Extortion is wrong, even when the government does it, allegedly for essential and even noble ends (unless you believe ends justify means). Sales and luxury taxes on non-essential items could be regarded as less evil, since there's a means to avoid them -- don't buy stuff that's so taxed. But if you're a seller compelled to collect it on behalf of the government you might have some reasonable reservations. People who evade extortion aren't Robin Hoods (even if they gave what they saved from extortion to the poor, it would be their own money), and where income tax evasion is a criminal offense they are indeed criminals, but I wish I had their guts rather than meekly giving in to government extortion every year.
Then it changed back.
Despite Democratic sluggishness in Congress, we can hope. The past several years have been an object lesson in the FDR quote "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Seriously, that does sound a bit pervy. "Ok, now, take off your shirt and bra, we need to be sure they're real. Ok, now stand up and take off the rest, then turn about real slow like... yah, that's it, yes, we are becoming convinced."
"Those anti-piracy ads are getting really mean."
Hard to believe this is 100% modded funny. I guess that's what you get for making a great point humorously.
The only thing good about the word piracy being applied to copyright infringement is that pirates are regarded by many as really cool, so it has kind of backfired against those who want to encourage us to regard what is (or should be) a civil offense as a criminal one. Ironically, Disney is an entity which has contributed repeatedly to the impression of pirates being really cool, and the authorities being a bunch of stuffed shirts.
I think many of your concerns would be addressed by the addition of an inertial compensator. As the wikipedia article points out, this may not fully protect against sudden shocks. It also seems less effective on people suffering from HPD (hamminess personality disorder), who may be thrown about much more violently than people less drama prone.
Once you get those ISBN numbers, perhaps in the school bookstore with a little secret spy camera or whatever, check out bookmooch.com . Bookmooch is a site which allows you to 'mooch' books off of others for free, in exchange for people being able to mooch from you, the whole thing being governed by a point system. It is not a one stop shopping solution for all books, since much of the time what you want isn't available from anyone (though in that case you can put it on your wishlist), but the price is right, so it could be worth checking. Also a good way to get rid of those texts you don't want to keep afterwards for points you can exchange for books you do want. Certainly worth checking out, and you can search on ISBN.
Aye, and I think you could probably get more Canadians behind an initiative to defend actual Canadian territory than are behind the current military effort in Afghanistan. Bring the boys 'n' girls back home to defend the actual country.
When the name change occurred my account with their Mickey Mouse... make that Mandrake... rather Mandriva Club broke. My emails went unanswered, in spite of the fact I'd shelled out money to them. Switched to Fedora and haven't looked back (though am looking forward to trying Kubuntu). Frankly, I'm surprised they still exist.
Done already. In fact, Linux has many of them: apt-get, yum, emerge, and more! It's a veritable cornucopia of unified program installation methods.
Copyright and patents extend a monopoly of limited duration on creative works to the creator or their employer, depending on contracts or law. If it can be considered 'property', then it is the property of all. If you don't like the idea that ultimately your creative work doesn't belong to you, then work to get copyright abolished and replaced with some sort of actual intellectual property right. This idea that copyright makes something 'intellectual property' is ass backwards and only serves the interests of those who are trying to get us to believe that copyright infringement equates to theft. Copyright infringement is wrong because it violates the monopoly control granted by law to the holder of the copyright, not because it's stealing, or even more laughable 'piracy'.
/rant
...and it's ALL JUST ONE COMPANY'S FAULT!"We could blame Microsoft for creating crappy operating systems, but if people wanted to pay us billions for our shit, which of us would not rejoice in every bowel movement?"
Damn the nephews for all spam
Should be some sort of metric which expresses a comparison of calories burned by sysadmins, vs the uptime of services on the system. If the uptime of services is high, while calories burned are low, then that's a good thing. If sysadmins are burning lots of calories putting out fires struggling to keep a highly unstable system from collapsing, that's a bad thing.
He wasn't created, he was just hanging out in non-space/time with nothing to do because of the non-existence of events in non-space/time. We don't need to feel sorry for him, since he couldn't 'become' bored there. The real mystery is how he managed to make a huge event like the Big Bang happen, thus giving birth to space/time.
Any way you look at it, it's so problematic that it seems reasonable to doubt that he ever existed. But people can believe whatever they like, for example, in WMD in Iraq or that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, all evidence to the contrary. However, when it comes to electing people to high public office, it would be preferable to look for candidates who respect reason based on sound evidence, even if it contradicts initial impressions, or derails the agenda of a sub group, like the neocons in the Pentagon in GW's first term.
If that's the case, then who cares? Why bother to block them? If they're just a wee group of cheapos who aren't likely to respond to ads whether or not they're displayed, why go to the trouble? Spite?
.... whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers..The logic here is somewhat baffling. Looks to me that while they try to diminish concern about blocking it by characterizing its users as a small group of non-spenders, in truth they're scared shitless by firefox and especially ad-block.
And don't forget the person who bought the computer in the first place and placed such a dangerous instrument in the home. They're in for a good suing. Talk about irresponsibility.
.... the late, great, AllOfMp3.comhttp://mp3sparks.com/
Not so late, and still great. A rose by any other name.... :)
I did. Nothing yet. Chopped up into little ebay sized pieces, that would be a lot of lots of Tunguska meteorite. Perhaps they're hacking it up even now. Though the question would be how would one know it was authentic? I guess it would be one of those things where they provide a 'certificate of authenticity' to guarantee it...
Just had an idea. Time to fire up the old printer.