People do not complain because they realize that the lack of openness that you greatly exaggerate is only to require GPL'd code to remain GPL'd. GPL is not a license of "openness" -- it is a mechanism by which to counteract copyright (by means of copyleft). It is restrictive in the sense that proprietary software has restrictions, but in the opposite manner. You must keep it free in the same way that you must keep propietary software closed and proprietary by law.
My opinion is that this is a good thing for furthering the Free Software movement.
Stallman tries to make it clear that the number of people using your code is of no importance, but rather that it remain free.
Getting GRUB to load ZFS was easy since Sun released GPL boot code which could minimally read a ZFS partition. The hard part is making it so that the kernel can use the filesystem as root, which requires ZFS to be built into the kernel. Unless you are using an initrd or some other FS for the boot partition. Direct booting is extremely difficult.
It has been decided that the deciding factor with the GPL is whether or not something links to it. Instead of a userspace program which simply makes a system call by tripping an interrupt or using the SYSENTER opcode (which would not require kernel source code to do), a kernel module (which, without FUSE, a filesystem must be) actually gets linked into kernel space, and has its symbols added to the kernel. Any calls to other parts of the kernel directly call the kernel. That is the distinction.
The summary makes it sound as if ZFS will ever be included in the kernel. Anything FUSE will never be in the kernel, except the FUSE driver itself. Userspace programs and kernelspace are considered separate for a reason.
Of course, this will all change if both Sun and Torvalds switch to GPL3...
I think you are trying to make a sarcastic remark on how we all want capitalism (I'm American), yet despise this DRM situation. However, one important note is that legislation like the DRM is hardly capitalistic -- if anything, its socialism, enforcing a policy. With a more pure system of capitalism, you would never find the government essentially protecting corporations with legislation -- that leads to monopolies.
This would true except for the fact that our market is NOT a 'zero-sum' system. Just because someone makes money does not mean someone else has to lose money. Investors are investing in these companies for their own benefit, but what does the company do with this money? They use it to expand their business, fund things, etcetera. This creates wealth -- when a company produces a product, that is wealth, in terms of stock. Nobody lost money in the production of that product. In fact, others probably gained wealth as well, as that company may have bought materials and parts from other companies, with them making a profit off of selling their created wealth. Just because there is a static amount of physical cash in this system does not mean that the amount of wealth is static.
The projection onto the lens will be at a focal length that is much longer than an inch. So just because you are looking at something an inch away, you're not focusing at an inch. Very much like if you get close to a mirror, and look at the objects that are behind you in the mirror. The image is a few inches away, but the objects are that few inches away plus the distance between the mirror and the objects. It's perfectly safe.
Think about what that would be in decimal. Thats like saying "There are 2 types of people _____", and saying that means there are three types of people because thats "0, 1 and 2". While you start counting at 0...you start counting from 0 in decimal as well.
F does equal M*A. In our world, the force of gravity follows this equation...the acceleration is commonly known as G, which is 9.8 m/s^2. So Force =G times mass. Therefore, the force is directly proportional to the mass, and the more stacked up upon it, the more force.
It hurts me every time I see someone post something like this -- it creates such a bad name for libertarians, as I can just imagine someone responding "Oh you silly immature libertarian, you need government", when really the view you state is such an impartial perspective on libertarianism that it isnt worth recognizing.
The libertarian belief is that there should be less government, but we do understand its place, and understand that some government is needed. Just spouting that you hate government and how we are all "fucked", without any connection, any evidence, even some analysis as to how you came to this conclusion... I hope nobody actually think's libertarians are like this.
About ISPs -- ISP's provide connectivity between points. It's what they do -- they are the common point in the pipe between Google and the enduser. Are they supposed to be paying Google for it's content? No, Google pays them for the connectivity that gives them the users that watch their ads and creates their profits. Google, nor the ISP, is "evil" here, theyre just providing a service, a very much needed one.
Please, grow up, and don't give the people you are trying to emulate a bad image.
While yes, I suppose it is careless of these companies doing mass transit of sensitive data in plaintext, easily acquired, encryption is not a panacea... Many people have posted that some type of law should be made that requires companies to encrypt sensitive data such as CC#s and expiration dates, but two things here: People entrust this information with these companies. The responsibility should be put upon the individual; ie, Dont submit this number if you dont want us to be driving around your data in plaintext. No law should be made on the company itself -- they can do whatever they want with something given to them.
But in all seriousness, take a look at what's going on down there. There is an insane amount of looting and anarchy, stores are being looted, people are hoarding anything they can find. Hell, even reports of horrible crimes such as rape have been going around, because there is no way to control a mob the size of a city...
The government *is* doing what it can, which isn't much really, the city is flooded, and we're trying to fly as many people out as we can, but in the meantime, we need some order, and a nonlethal method of maintaining order seems very appropriate.
It really disgusts me when people always throw around ideas and lines, such as that going to porn sites will get u viruses, or that using any p2p program will contract viruses, etc. These are extreme generalizations. If you go to a porn site using a browser like firefox, and dont allow any executable programs to be run (which is really quite simple, just click cancel if one attempts to download), nothing at all will happen, i assure you.
I will admit that some p2p programs do come with a payload of spyware, and other goodies, but if you pick right, you are in the clear: For example...Limewire has nothing of the sort.
I have been going back and forth between gentoo and windows xp for years, and other than a close encounter with the blaster virus (fixable by downloading a program called fixblast), i have never had any problems: Windows itself is not that insecure, unless you really are running an old unpatched version that can be attacked through a security whole (on dmz, because if your natted with no port forwarding I would say you're safe), you are safe.
All the problems result from ignorant users. For example, with the recent aim virus going around (the one that im's a link to a virus), if people would see that it attempts to download a "com" (executable) file, it would be pretty obvious.
I believe someone above said that if you dont automatically open executables from friends, stay patched, and use firefox (and gaim instead of aim), you are relatively safe.
The whole idea is to provide a supposed outlet for the emotional side of horror stories related to human crisis', etc. I personally would find it analogous to the the dreams of the leftist media stations of the US (although I am sure that other countries have it worse)...
Yes, I would say that the removal of free speech in any situation is bad, and things like this just shouldnt be allowed. Furthermore it just provides more support for the ill-treated organization.
However, Just to throw my personal view into the mix...I find that such organizations such as this are more biased than most news, and have the sole purpose of pushing leftist heart string stories to gain the support of the global public. This kind of manipulation outrages me.
It's not that its running too much, but its that the portalplayer chip inside the Ipod isnt known very well (closed specifications). It has two ARM processors--one normally for playback and one normally for the GUI, except currently linux is utilizing only one of the processors.
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People do not complain because they realize that the lack of openness that you greatly exaggerate is only to require GPL'd code to remain GPL'd. GPL is not a license of "openness" -- it is a mechanism by which to counteract copyright (by means of copyleft). It is restrictive in the sense that proprietary software has restrictions, but in the opposite manner. You must keep it free in the same way that you must keep propietary software closed and proprietary by law. My opinion is that this is a good thing for furthering the Free Software movement. Stallman tries to make it clear that the number of people using your code is of no importance, but rather that it remain free.
Getting GRUB to load ZFS was easy since Sun released GPL boot code which could minimally read a ZFS partition. The hard part is making it so that the kernel can use the filesystem as root, which requires ZFS to be built into the kernel. Unless you are using an initrd or some other FS for the boot partition. Direct booting is extremely difficult.
It has been decided that the deciding factor with the GPL is whether or not something links to it. Instead of a userspace program which simply makes a system call by tripping an interrupt or using the SYSENTER opcode (which would not require kernel source code to do), a kernel module (which, without FUSE, a filesystem must be) actually gets linked into kernel space, and has its symbols added to the kernel. Any calls to other parts of the kernel directly call the kernel. That is the distinction.
The summary makes it sound as if ZFS will ever be included in the kernel. Anything FUSE will never be in the kernel, except the FUSE driver itself. Userspace programs and kernelspace are considered separate for a reason.
Of course, this will all change if both Sun and Torvalds switch to GPL3...
I think you are trying to make a sarcastic remark on how we all want capitalism (I'm American), yet despise this DRM situation. However, one important note is that legislation like the DRM is hardly capitalistic -- if anything, its socialism, enforcing a policy. With a more pure system of capitalism, you would never find the government essentially protecting corporations with legislation -- that leads to monopolies.
This would true except for the fact that our market is NOT a 'zero-sum' system. Just because someone makes money does not mean someone else has to lose money. Investors are investing in these companies for their own benefit, but what does the company do with this money? They use it to expand their business, fund things, etcetera. This creates wealth -- when a company produces a product, that is wealth, in terms of stock. Nobody lost money in the production of that product. In fact, others probably gained wealth as well, as that company may have bought materials and parts from other companies, with them making a profit off of selling their created wealth. Just because there is a static amount of physical cash in this system does not mean that the amount of wealth is static.
The projection onto the lens will be at a focal length that is much longer than an inch. So just because you are looking at something an inch away, you're not focusing at an inch. Very much like if you get close to a mirror, and look at the objects that are behind you in the mirror. The image is a few inches away, but the objects are that few inches away plus the distance between the mirror and the objects. It's perfectly safe.
Think about what that would be in decimal. Thats like saying "There are 2 types of people _____", and saying that means there are three types of people because thats "0, 1 and 2". While you start counting at 0...you start counting from 0 in decimal as well.
F does equal M*A. In our world, the force of gravity follows this equation...the acceleration is commonly known as G, which is 9.8 m/s^2. So Force =G times mass. Therefore, the force is directly proportional to the mass, and the more stacked up upon it, the more force.
What are you talking about? Slashdotter's don't have girlfriends!
While we're on it, I get practice by keeping one eye on my mountain dew can, and the other watching to see when gentoo finishes installing...
One way that i am sure many slashdotters avoid the windows tax is buy building your own computer...
It hurts me every time I see someone post something like this -- it creates such a bad name for libertarians, as I can just imagine someone responding "Oh you silly immature libertarian, you need government", when really the view you state is such an impartial perspective on libertarianism that it isnt worth recognizing.
The libertarian belief is that there should be less government, but we do understand its place, and understand that some government is needed. Just spouting that you hate government and how we are all "fucked", without any connection, any evidence, even some analysis as to how you came to this conclusion... I hope nobody actually think's libertarians are like this.
About ISPs -- ISP's provide connectivity between points. It's what they do -- they are the common point in the pipe between Google and the enduser. Are they supposed to be paying Google for it's content? No, Google pays them for the connectivity that gives them the users that watch their ads and creates their profits. Google, nor the ISP, is "evil" here, theyre just providing a service, a very much needed one.
Please, grow up, and don't give the people you are trying to emulate a bad image.
Immature 13 year olds?
While yes, I suppose it is careless of these companies doing mass transit of sensitive data in plaintext, easily acquired, encryption is not a panacea... Many people have posted that some type of law should be made that requires companies to encrypt sensitive data such as CC#s and expiration dates, but two things here: People entrust this information with these companies. The responsibility should be put upon the individual; ie, Dont submit this number if you dont want us to be driving around your data in plaintext. No law should be made on the company itself -- they can do whatever they want with something given to them.
But in all seriousness, take a look at what's going on down there. There is an insane amount of looting and anarchy, stores are being looted, people are hoarding anything they can find. Hell, even reports of horrible crimes such as rape have been going around, because there is no way to control a mob the size of a city...
The government *is* doing what it can, which isn't much really, the city is flooded, and we're trying to fly as many people out as we can, but in the meantime, we need some order, and a nonlethal method of maintaining order seems very appropriate.
It really disgusts me when people always throw around ideas and lines, such as that going to porn sites will get u viruses, or that using any p2p program will contract viruses, etc. These are extreme generalizations. If you go to a porn site using a browser like firefox, and dont allow any executable programs to be run (which is really quite simple, just click cancel if one attempts to download), nothing at all will happen, i assure you.
I will admit that some p2p programs do come with a payload of spyware, and other goodies, but if you pick right, you are in the clear: For example...Limewire has nothing of the sort.
I have been going back and forth between gentoo and windows xp for years, and other than a close encounter with the blaster virus (fixable by downloading a program called fixblast), i have never had any problems: Windows itself is not that insecure, unless you really are running an old unpatched version that can be attacked through a security whole (on dmz, because if your natted with no port forwarding I would say you're safe), you are safe.
All the problems result from ignorant users. For example, with the recent aim virus going around (the one that im's a link to a virus), if people would see that it attempts to download a "com" (executable) file, it would be pretty obvious.
I believe someone above said that if you dont automatically open executables from friends, stay patched, and use firefox (and gaim instead of aim), you are relatively safe.
Ditto
Indymedia...."Independant Media"....
The whole idea is to provide a supposed outlet for the emotional side of horror stories related to human crisis', etc. I personally would find it analogous to the the dreams of the leftist media stations of the US (although I am sure that other countries have it worse)...
Yes, I would say that the removal of free speech in any situation is bad, and things like this just shouldnt be allowed. Furthermore it just provides more support for the ill-treated organization.
However, Just to throw my personal view into the mix...I find that such organizations such as this are more biased than most news, and have the sole purpose of pushing leftist heart string stories to gain the support of the global public. This kind of manipulation outrages me.
It's not that its running too much, but its that the portalplayer chip inside the Ipod isnt known very well (closed specifications). It has two ARM processors--one normally for playback and one normally for the GUI, except currently linux is utilizing only one of the processors.