If I'm remembering recent history correctly, the term "open source" was coined for the purposes of marketing the free-software meme. It was deliberately decided that the term needed a careful definition to prevent the mistake that you are making: you are assuming that if you can put your eyes to the source code, regardless to the terms & conditions for doing so, then you are viewing "open source" software. This thinking is in error. OpenBSD predates the time when "open source" came into use. By the way, their license meets the guidelines at opensource.org anyway. (so what's your point?)
It's amazing what passes for "insightful" these days. First of all, if a license prevents forking then it doesn't meet the open source guidelines. Not only that, but the GPL is the license for gcc, the gnu objective-c runtime, and countless libraries. One memorable fork in recent time was the gnu/linux split for the standard c library, and that ended up being unified quite nicely. In my opinion, being allowed to fork is necessary. Even if forking isn't desired, it must be allowed.
Lem is, by far, my favorite writer of science fiction. I must admit, though, that Solaris is not among his works that I like the most. Cyberiad and Mortal Engines are my two favorites. They are collections of short stories written in classic fable style, except they're set in a universe where the dominant form of life is robotic, and they all think that organic life is squishy, disgusting, and frightening. The language in these works is beautiful, rhythmic, and down-right amazing considering that they've been through translation from Polish. No geek should die without having read Cyberiad first.
I also liked Memoirs Found in a Bathtub a lot, and His Master's Voice. Shit, just check out this author.
The only thing you might not like about Lem is that he deliberately sets you up for a big climax (whether it be action or resolution of a mystery) and then robs you of the reward every single frigging time. One can see the smile on his face, too. He knows he's doing it. If that kind of thing would bother you, stick with Cyberiad and Mortal Engines, because he doesn't pull that shit in his shorter works. Enjoy.
God had, and still has, deserted England, but unfortunately it looks as though "people" like Marilyn Manson will soon drive him away from America as well.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but as a resident of Nebraska my vote is more meaningful if spent towards a candidate that cannot win. This may seem backwards, but we have very few electoral votes to offer, and our state has a long history of giving our electoral votes to the right-wing candidate anyway. So, if I were a liberal, a vote for Al Gore would be a wasted vote, since the electoral votes are, for all practical purposes, already Bushes for the taking. (Trust me). Matching funds in future elections, on the other hand, are determined by popular vote, not electoral, so a vote for Nader could actually be useful to help break up the one-demon-with-two-heads problem. That's my rationale...pick it to pieces.
There's a big flaw in what you are saying: you are only looking at one column of the comparison: the negative aspects. A more intellectually honest approach would include positive outcomes, and then compare the worth of the expenditure accordingly.
I have had excellent luck with DSL in Lincoln, Nebraska. I have a 2G/mo. transfer limit, 6 static IP addresses, and the reliability is really good. I've probably had 3 or 4 days in the last year where I couldn't get past my provider, and those were resolved quickly. I've been watching reports from other areas of the country, though, and have discovered that not everybody is so fortunate.
It's not much different from slashdot interviews: everybody posts comments/questions, they get filtered and posted as an article, and we get to comment all over again. Perhaps its not necessary if you don't value filtration.
We got a copy of the public beta today and installed it. There's an installation option to choose between HFS+ and a "unix filesystem". (I believe it is UFS.) We tested it, and it is properly case-sensitive. So, for those who care to install MacOS X with a sane filesystem, the option is there.
A friend made me go to it because it had go boards in the plot -- so we saw it in the local artsy-fartsy theatre in the university's art gallery. I had a good time, but the movie had little to do with it. THe only way I could imaging "amazing" being an appropriate reaction was if you took a couple of hits from the bong prior to viewing.
The pivotal "spooky" moment in the film, where the n-letter name of god (in the hebrew alphabet) was somehow supposed to translate to an n-digit base-10 number didn't fly. The dude who gave the go board a swirly before he went insane was laughable, and the cranial drill at the end was ho-hummer.
I've considered that before, and think great things could come of such a project. There might be great difficulties in finding agreement about which truths deserve to be committed to the cvs repository, but "Nothing unreal exists" might be a good start. Or "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." (--PKD?) I'll subscribe to the dev list!
It's not so much the encryption. They don't care about being able to read it, so long as they detect it.
Ah, but good encryption has as little redundancy as possible, and therefore is difficult to distinguish from random noise -- so it does make matters worse.
It seems that the KDE developers, no matter what they do, no matter what good intentions they hold, always gets bashed by the GNU/GNOME/RMS camp.
It may seem that way to you, but the nonsense is bidirectional. Many people have their favorite project, and continue to push their agenda with clumsy, ill-informed irrelevancies. Just last night there two completely off-topic slashdot posts buried within the HUGO awards article [1][2]
that serve as a recent example of stupidity aimed the other direction.
Hmmm...I open a document, and it contains some emacs lisp code...how does this code become executed automatically without me instructing emacs to do so? I know that I can use M-x eval-buffer, or select a region and use M-x eval-region -- but in order to be analagous to a Word macro virus, wouldn't emacs have to automatically execute the contents of the file without my direction to do so? If this is the case, point this feature out to me. I'm curious.
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If I'm remembering recent history correctly, the term "open source" was coined for the purposes of marketing the free-software meme. It was deliberately decided that the term needed a careful definition to prevent the mistake that you are making: you are assuming that if you can put your eyes to the source code, regardless to the terms & conditions for doing so, then you are viewing "open source" software. This thinking is in error. OpenBSD predates the time when "open source" came into use. By the way, their license meets the guidelines at opensource.org anyway. (so what's your point?)
It's amazing what passes for "insightful" these days. First of all, if a license prevents forking then it doesn't meet the open source guidelines. Not only that, but the GPL is the license for gcc, the gnu objective-c runtime, and countless libraries. One memorable fork in recent time was the gnu/linux split for the standard c library, and that ended up being unified quite nicely. In my opinion, being allowed to fork is necessary. Even if forking isn't desired, it must be allowed.
I also liked Memoirs Found in a Bathtub a lot, and His Master's Voice. Shit, just check out this author.
The only thing you might not like about Lem is that he deliberately sets you up for a big climax (whether it be action or resolution of a mystery) and then robs you of the reward every single frigging time. One can see the smile on his face, too. He knows he's doing it. If that kind of thing would bother you, stick with Cyberiad and Mortal Engines, because he doesn't pull that shit in his shorter works. Enjoy.
Not as omnipotent as advertised, I guess.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but as a resident of Nebraska my vote is more meaningful if spent towards a candidate that cannot win. This may seem backwards, but we have very few electoral votes to offer, and our state has a long history of giving our electoral votes to the right-wing candidate anyway. So, if I were a liberal, a vote for Al Gore would be a wasted vote, since the electoral votes are, for all practical purposes, already Bushes for the taking. (Trust me). Matching funds in future elections, on the other hand, are determined by popular vote, not electoral, so a vote for Nader could actually be useful to help break up the one-demon-with-two-heads problem. That's my rationale...pick it to pieces.
There's a big flaw in what you are saying: you are only looking at one column of the comparison: the negative aspects. A more intellectually honest approach would include positive outcomes, and then compare the worth of the expenditure accordingly.
Or, in other words, it's the online equivalent of barbarianism with all of the bravery afforded by being out of range. (Apologies to Roger Waters).
I believe you're thinking of "A is for Andromeda"?
But doesn't a denial of cert mean that the decision of the lower court stands?
The press release says to pronounce it /Rhine-Dahl/
Well, that's RedHat for you. When I want to update my debian boxen, I only need to download the packages that actually changed. ;-)
I have had excellent luck with DSL in Lincoln, Nebraska. I have a 2G/mo. transfer limit, 6 static IP addresses, and the reliability is really good. I've probably had 3 or 4 days in the last year where I couldn't get past my provider, and those were resolved quickly. I've been watching reports from other areas of the country, though, and have discovered that not everybody is so fortunate.
It's not much different from slashdot interviews: everybody posts comments/questions, they get filtered and posted as an article, and we get to comment all over again. Perhaps its not necessary if you don't value filtration.
We got a copy of the public beta today and installed it. There's an installation option to choose between HFS+ and a "unix filesystem". (I believe it is UFS.) We tested it, and it is properly case-sensitive. So, for those who care to install MacOS X with a sane filesystem, the option is there.
The pivotal "spooky" moment in the film, where the n-letter name of god (in the hebrew alphabet) was somehow supposed to translate to an n-digit base-10 number didn't fly. The dude who gave the go board a swirly before he went insane was laughable, and the cranial drill at the end was ho-hummer.
I hope this director does well with a budget.
You do not understand it correctly. Back to boot-camp with you. Get down and give me 20 recitations of CatB.
But M_2 = M_1, doesn't it?
I'm curious...what does an attacker gain by this knowledge?
Damn...I was going to suggest a threshold of 1000, but that's not nearly as cool as 666.
I've considered that before, and think great things could come of such a project. There might be great difficulties in finding agreement about which truths deserve to be committed to the cvs repository, but "Nothing unreal exists" might be a good start. Or "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." (--PKD?) I'll subscribe to the dev list!
Ah, but good encryption has as little redundancy as possible, and therefore is difficult to distinguish from random noise -- so it does make matters worse.
It may seem that way to you, but the nonsense is bidirectional. Many people have their favorite project, and continue to push their agenda with clumsy, ill-informed irrelevancies. Just last night there two completely off-topic slashdot posts buried within the HUGO awards article [1] [2] that serve as a recent example of stupidity aimed the other direction.
Hmmm...I open a document, and it contains some emacs lisp code...how does this code become executed automatically without me instructing emacs to do so? I know that I can use M-x eval-buffer, or select a region and use M-x eval-region -- but in order to be analagous to a Word macro virus, wouldn't emacs have to automatically execute the contents of the file without my direction to do so? If this is the case, point this feature out to me. I'm curious.
Excellent idea. What's the procedure for getting an RFC number. DeCSS non-linking exchange protocol or something?
Maybe you would understand my position if you had skills that other people wanted to leverage.