Okay folks, they've done it again! The clams have succeeded in bending RobLimo, Taco, Cowboy Neal and the whole of Andover and VA Linux over and slipping it to them (How disgusting an image is THAT?) EEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!
Here's the 'freekeith' Google cache NOTE TO THE CLAMBOTS, WISE, The Poodle Korps and OSA/SeaOrg: Try and cancelbot/DDOS THAT, without tipping your hands to the SEC, the Bundeswehr, INTERPOL, Treasury or the FBI as to your TRUE level of control over Earthlink (NOTE to all others: Mouseover and check the link. It's http://www.netcom.com/pub/hk/hkhenson , one of Keith's sites shut down when they took over the Web!) and what you have planned for the rest of the Net
"Picture 1980. Ted Nelson is running around with his Xanadu guys: Roger Gregory, H. Keith Henson (now waging war against the Scientologists) and K. Eric Drexler, later to build the Foresight Institute. They dream of creating what is to become the World Wide Web. Nowadays guys at hacker cons might dress like vampires. In 1980 they wear identical black baseball caps with silver wings and the slogan: 'Xanadu: wings of the mind.'"
That's right! Keith Henson was a member (and continues to develop) of the original Hypertext Projct, Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. Therefore, it can seriously be argued that Keith is one of the fathers of the Web! (As well as as a thinker on space travel, a Life Member of the L5 Society, an original pioneer in the concept of 'Mega-Scale Engineering', a close friend of Dr. Richard Feynman, and a pioneer in the study of nano- and micro-technology, cryonics/cryogenics and technological Life Extension.) Further proof can be seen when Nelson's Appendix to his updated Xanadu Proposal also thanks Keith, directly, along with the other US XOC visionary, Roger Gregory. Other citations mentioning Keith include a citation from Johnathon Vos Post's 'Letter to the Editor' in response to Wired's 1995 'The Curse of Xanadu' Finally, from Xanadu's (original) timeline
1994-current. Work continues on the second XOC fine-grain hyper-sharin transpublishing server, under Roger Gregory and Keith Henson.
Of course, Keith has had troubles in Riverside County before. But because of David Miscavaige (The Poodle), WISE and the other clam enterprises in Riverside County, as well as past allegations of government corruption and bribery (that started Henson on his crusade there), any thinking person can easily come to the conclusion that Riverside County is already in the control of the clams, and is now wholly compromised.
XenuBat has some of Keith's call-ins to KGO archived for all to hear. Here's some more of Keith's troubles with the clams, in his fight to get the FDA to admit that the clams were 'practicing medicine without a license.' (the famous San Jose 'NOTS' case).
o In 1992, the Church of Scientology had become the first religious
organization in Canada to be convicted of criminal conduct. Specifically,
stealing documents from law firms, public associations and government
entities -- and breach of trust. In addition, in the Casey Hill
litigation, Scientology was ordered to pay millions of dollars to Canadian
lawyer, Casey Hill, for slandering his reputation.
Keith and his family have been banrupted, harassed, threatened and assaulted. The clams continue to 'Fair Game' him (note the allegations of Child Molestation, a clasic of the clams against their enemies). Some other acts of clam terrorism against other individuals, all over the world. Here's Google's Scientology in the courts page.
Scary stuff, huh? That you can be sued to poverty for telling the truth and then jailed isn't the scariest thing, though. It's what they have planned for us wogs and SPs, if we don't knuckle under and begin to accept them for what they believe they are. The FBI still classifies them as a 'paramilitary' organization and, after the Aum Shinrikio incident, watches them for similar behaviors to Aum's, especially in Riverside County, California.
NOTE TO TACO and ANDOVER: Okay, you pussies knuckled under to these assholes once before. GET THE LINKS AND UPDATES OUT NOW, OR _EVERYONE_ IS GOING TO THINK YOU'RE PUSSYING OUT AGAIN!!!! Additionally, get rid of the OSA plants and the max-karma PoodleBots you were forced to accept. Kick these murdering, lying fascist slime out!!! Keep at least part of the net CLAM FREE!!!!!!!!!
and C2 means nothing. It is a minimum, not a certified and cleared workstation... again, any auditor worth his or her salt would not let an NT machine into his or her network to process even FIPS docs, much less participate in a classified network...if they are, there's a LOT of CO's about to get their asses burnt...
Yes, NT (and, I believe, W2K) is part of many C2-certified configs...so?
Every machine in every SCIF I've ever been in is either a purpose-built, R/T OS or some variant of Unix, cleaned up by NSA...
The original poster I was quoting stated in no uncertain terms that the "...NSA was using NT to process and store classified traffic." That was a lie. Additionally, I asked even if it were so and the NSA was a satisfied Microsoft customer, why would they devote a large chunk of THREE DIVISION'S budgets to SELinux?...
I ask you the same question. Also remember that it took the end of the Cold War and the NSA and OTA deprecating some of their standards before Microsoft was even able to get C2, and it was still with many of the shipping.dll's and functionality of the system removed and or crippled (ie. no File and Printer sharing, no ability to browse the networks, etc.).
RE: "...also the NSA uses NT quite heavily and may even use it solely for storing highly classified secrets."
Actually, you wanna get fired, court-martialed or otherwise dismissed, fined and face possible jail, put an NT (or any other non-certified) box on any network that carries or in anyway is exposed to CMS data. Most of the REALLY high-access workstations are a variant of Open VMS, Solaris, or HP/UX.
Whoever posted this kark about Microsoft being allowed within two MILES of a secure computing facility is obviously HIGHLY misinformed (must...not...use...the 'I' word...nnnngh...ERGH!) Also, if this were true, why would the NSA and its SCD and R&D offices be using budgeted funds for SELinux....mmmmmm?
...release early, and release often, which is a good thing, in my opinion.
After all, now that they are BSD, the 31337 g4y20r script kiddeez are gonna be huntin' and targettin' all the boxen OS X they can portscan.
BTW, now that the Apple OS is BSD, and M$ has already announced an active OS X/Carbonlib/Cocoa Office porting effort, anybody else glom on to the fact that:
At Linus' first appearance at COMDEX, in 1999, in Chicago (the year of Gates'/Ballmer's infamous 'Disco Deflection' movie, and the year after the '98 BSOD), he was asked about forking the code. I was the member of the audience that asked the question. Some coverage is here (thank god for Google!)
"...Torvalds deflected concerns about the potential for similar fragmentation in the Linux space, noting that the copyright/license for Linux requires anyone who modifies the source code to make changes available to others under the same license.
'This insures that the splinter heals,' quipped Torvalds.
Torvalds added that the Internet development paradigm under which Linux has evolved has made it less likely to splinter, as well. Different programmers are working on different pieces of the OS. Linux has been ported to a variety of form factors, from the Palm Pilot to supercomputers, Torvalds said. Some developers, like Torvalds, are working on the kernel; others are more focused on user-space issues. He did acknowledge that more work needs to be done to make Linux a "serious mom and pop contender on the desktop," but that, too, is possible in two to three more years, Torvalds predicted."
IIRC (and I am sure I do!), as reflected in the quoted story, the question came right after his answer to a question about Java and some jokes about the then still-secret TransMeta. My question was along the lines of "What if there is a serious commercial challenge to your license and they fork the code?" I distinctly remember that I used the word 'fork.'
Linus, as usual, used his own metaphors, to enlighten the press and non-geeks. IOW, he simplified my question, de-jargoned it and answered it plainly and honestly. His metaphor was a tree with branches, and that brought up the 'splinter' comment.
What wasn't reported in the article, was how he ended his answer, and I clearly remember this:
"
Besides," he said, "Because of the GPL, and international trademark law, I own the source. If the fork drifts too far off the trunk, I can cut it off and kill it."
That was also the year I recognized why I admired and supported the OSS movement.
When Gates was done with his speech, he was hustled off-stage by an army of handlers and into a waiting limo, looking neither left nor right, and interacting with none of his so-valued cutomers.
When Linus was done, he and his wife and children hung around the show floor. His wife pushed the stroller around, and, despite the press and admirers, he kept his focus on them. After the show floor closed, there was a gathering sponsored by one of the early Linux companies. Linus was there with his wife and kids. They mingled for about two more hours, then someone suggested Buster's for video games and more beers.
In contrast to Gates, his handlers and the limos, the last I saw of Linus that night, he was piling with his wife and kids into a mini-van, on their way to Busters', with mad-dog and a bunch of geeks (Can I bum a ride? situational carpool).
NO MATTER HOW GATES AND COMPANY SPIN IT, _THAT'S_ THE TRUE SPIRIT OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE....and that's why we will win, AND THEY WILL LOSE.
import any MS sockets implementation into any *nix and run 'string'
Also, the ftp in any MS OS clearly states 'copyright University of California Board of Regents' the holders of the original BSD license (from which all others derive)
This was pointed out to me today in a similar thread at.5e.
1. NO on-call employees - 3 rotating shifts
2. On-call time divided into 'watches' Watch part of job description, formalized in contracts. Actual response time paid as legal over-time.
Of the two, #1 worked best, for various legal reasons.
Here, two questions come to mind. Your investment (stock options, bonuses, amount of time to find another comparable job, 'psychic' investment) in the company and the loyalty they feel they have a 'right' to demand of you.
It's reassuring to hear management is willing to work with you. That will probably change as the economy continues to shrink (especially in IT).
ChiliSoft uses Perl as the language for ASP on Unix and other platforms (including Windows), as well as some proprietary extensions. Additionally, Chilisoft's products are not really ASP, since you can't take advantage of DCOM and ADO anywhere but in Windoze-land. Finally, the ChiliSoftware implementations are subsets and often lag M$ by as much as a year. Finally, ChiliSoft is rather useless as a platform, since the most skilled (and 'productive') ASP 'programmers and developers' cannot use the toolsets and libraries they are used to.
As to your comments about the author's choices for extending Java: these are examples, and this site is used by IBM as an attractant for beginners and to stimulate exchanges such as this. Don't like it? Write one of your own. IBM might even publish it. But lave off the smiping until YOU have the cojones to put your reputation on the line (with your real name and available for peer review) as this writer has. Constructive criticism, yes. But your comments are nothing but snniping and whinging.
Notes Server on Linux. IBM says client coming soon (some probs w/ libs). Remember, NOTES is on OS/2, AIX and Mac...all now have *nix desktops (thanx KDE and Gnome!) and now IBM will port to Linux. DB2 client/server==there...WebSphere Server==there...httpd==there (and FREE (gratis, not libre))...JDK==there...jikes==there...550 total sponsored OSS projects (and growing==THERE...Iron Penguin (Linux on a zOS/z390 LPAR)==there...u want more????YOU COULDN'T HANDLE MORE!!
A friend of mine at Almaden said that KorpMgt sees Linux as 2 things:
an entry and foot in the door for Global Services
a way to sell WAAAAY more hardware and software
Want proof? Look at their last quarterly numbers and then do a comparison with MicroShit!!!!
DAMN RIGHT, IBM GETS IT...to the tune of an additional 6 billion in sales this last period!!!!!
hmmm...I'm jealous. You get Mark and Mike...we only get Mike (when KorpAm lets him through!...USAnet has stopped broadcasting and promoting his show.)
As to the licenses...when I lived in the UK, I also had to pay the fee...got back to the US and used to ROTFLMAO at the 'Young Ones' episodes when they were trying to duck the Minders (always played by Alexi Sayles)...my friends here never got it though, even when I explained it.
Now Vivian is the voice for Expedia here in the KSA. Is he there, too?
I didn't call you an asshole...I called you a troll, a twit and a wanker...but those are minor details...
The REAL point was that for all its flaws, the UK is more stable, less corrupt, less violent and more tolerant than we have EVER been here in KorpAm...
...and you still missed the posters' point! He believes that the original point of the submitted story was to throw muck on the privacy issue in the UK...and they have FAR more privacy and administer it FAR more intelligently than we EVER have. He then goes on to posit that the attention is misplaced, as its mostly a non-issue there. Finally, he made some tries at guessing why all the misplaced attention from here in the good old KSofA.
As to the 'problems of blacks in the UK,' boy, are YOU barking up the wrong tree!! The MAJOR problem in the UK (and one, incidentally, that we DO deal with here, too) is the classful society.
...the other stuff, like your original post is just red herrings...oh, and as to your comment about 'socialist paradise,' the UK has never been socialist...anymore than we have been a fascist state since the Mullahs took over in 1970. What we are, and they are becoming, is an oligarchy.
Finally, I am 'some other minority...' born on the Chickahsha Apache Reservation in Southwest Oklahoma...all 25 acres of it that are left!...was 'transported' to 'Indian Schools' in the '50s and still served 27 years in the military...travelled the world and returned here anyway...I lived in London on a PAL Exchange, served in Ulster, too, right alongside the RUC and the 'Specials'...spent time with Scotland Yard...also trained cops and sheriffs' deputies here...now I live in Chicago...believe me when I say that there is NO COMPARISON between the attitudes of the MAJORITY of UK police and Public Safety officers and law enforcement employees here in the KSA...they are FAR more professional and always have been...
What really took the cake tho, was your MI5 comment....baseless CRAP spread by idiots and cowards for the benefit of criminals (some of whom are KSA Korps!)
...THIS is MY home...and MY country...three times over...much more mine than yours, or any other white-eye, even a mestizo white-eye such as yourself...and when I say you don't know what you're talking about, you don't...you're just spouting the same nonsense that the KorpAm media would have you believe. It's obvious that you do. Bad judgement comarade
...OUR resident curmudgeon.
More info at: http://www.dogeatdogfilms.com/middlepage.html
Sounds like something Mike would do for one of HIS TV shows...
I still want the DPA here in the KSA...at least it would be a start!
But since the Korporations now own our gubbamint here in the good ol' Korporate States of Amerika, served by their Republikan butt-servants, the Kompassionate Konservative Koalition (Keystone Kops Klavern), here in KorpAmerika, we'll never see it. Of course, data that refers to us and can damage our privacy and rights (including our right to life!) doesn't belong to us, the sheeple of the KSA!!! That's only fair. Corporations are MUCH more trustworthy than gubbamint...besides, they can sell the data to the gubbamint and make a tidy profit, never worrying or being responsible for the accuracy of the data!!!!
*sigh* at least we can be happy God and Jesus (and LRH!) are on our side!!! and that one day, everyone in the world will live under our glorious rule!!!
Mr. beta 2 buyer/tester and M$ apologist, how do you suggest I play those files on my Rio or PJukeBox? Or my new MP3-playing stereo system? How about streaming from something other than a WinTel monopoly-approved microprocessor or other platform? Keep in mind that the really big surprise of the past Christmas retail season here in the states was the sales of CD/RW drives, proving most people not only rip from CD's, they rip TO them (BTW, also rendering your lame 'album-cover art' comment moot...THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!!! IT'S ANOTHER POINTLESS FEATURE, LIKE THE M$ FLIGHT SIMULATOR IN EXCEL, THAT REDMOND FORCES DOWN OUR NECKS!!!!)
Also, given the requirements for connectivity in NOT YET and eXPee, how are you gonna run that laptop you seem so proud of?
BTW, now I know why the OZ SAGE groups in IRC have suddenly seemed so brain dead....because you're their President!!!! In my uniformed days, we'd call a guy like you a 'Judas Goat,' you can't have it both ways, boyo. You can't be 'Open Source' and support the enemy...and they are the enemy. What use will there be for Systems Administrators if M$'s visions of NOT YET and eXPee come true? How can you support OSS and software on the one hand and stick up for someone so obviously inimical to your own enlightened self-interest on the other?
Oh, and change the picture on your home page. It scared my dog.
Don't UCITA and the standing WIPO treaty structures render this moot?
CorpAmerika runs the world, and they won't EVER let this stand. Don't need an 'informed populace' when you live in a litigious society. There's not a General Counsel in the world who would advise their Board or Stockholders to buy/improve their computer systems if this were allowed to pass or be ratified in the US. If it was law you'd probably see them pushing for a return to abaci.
Besides, who'll enforce it? Who's clueful enough given the laughable exploits of those Keystone Kops in the NIPC and its ilk overseas?
As to your.sig: move to FreeZone...oh, wait, they'll sink that. Better stock up on guns and ammo with the rest of your Kompassionate Konservative Klavern.
Take a look at Sprint's footprint (and read the mail from their dissatisfied customers in +20 POP cities). Realize the physics behind this, along with the fact that, without a tremendous build-out of infrastructure (and concommitant burn of non-existent capital), it's impossible for this to scale to anything like a profitable subscriber model.
Especially since by then, long distance and wired (and short-range high-bandwidth wireless) will be flat-rate or free in precisely the markets these folks are targetting (++10POP w/ high-use/low-churn subscriber bases) and you'll see the best thing AT&T for its shareholders was to spin off Lucent.
Another thing, anyone else notice that Sprint's default in even home-market is AMPS/Analog and not digital, and the signal still sucks?
So you are tooling along, using your XP laptop the only way you can use it and your connection returns to analog, you go to ~~9.6Kbps and you get the blue, pink or taupe screen of death (whatever that month's flavor is).
More than enough time for world domination. NOT YET will fail MORE miserably than Win2K and M$ will slowly die. They're aiming it at 'the corporate user' who will run screaming from it like it was the crapola it is, right into the arms of Linux/BSD. CIOs and CTOs in CorpAmerika are especially wary after the debacle of the 'clean and easy' upgrades to Win2K and the requirements of the licenses. Oracle's bad enough in CorpAmerika, now you're gonna do that to the desktop OS, too?
We're already seeing the push-back against the bloat required of SOAP and the W3C is moving towards the 'semantic net,' whose infrastructure will invalidate all that M$ is working towards. Thin clients are in. Even IE is losing share.
Most importantly, M$ has been trying, and failing, for 13 years to move to a 'spoken' UI. Mac is there, LINUX/BSD almost (thanx IBM!).
Finally, Java/Python/Perl have a 5 - 7 year headstart on NOT YET and even M$ admits that it's 2 years out until they even have the groundwork laid.
We've already won. Soon, we can tell Bill, Steve, Jim & Company: "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
On the one-hand, the CLEC/Local ISP evolved from local BBS owner/operators who added Internet 'gateways' in the late eighties and early nineties (a la the WELL, and all the old Mustang BBS's). They were packet switched, internally, but depended on the ILECs (CO-based circuit switched) for access and primarily concentrated on local services and/or underserved local markets. They extended services mainly by RAS. These were the early 'hobbyists.' MUDs are here today, but not much else unless the companies evolved into local ISP's. The point-of-presence these folks concentrated on spanned only inter-Area Local Exchanges.
Then there were the early 'nationals' such as AOL and CompuServe who fell into one of two business models: Pure play online (AOL), or Loss-leader/Commodity Resale (CompuServe and Prodigy). They were packet switched on a much wider basis, but still depended on the TELCOs, in this case the long-distance carriers. These folks defined POPs in terms of markets and populations served.
When the NSF 'privatized' the internet, these two fundamentally incompatible models (infrastrucures, business models, markets and customer bases served were different enough to be incompatible) attempted to merge at the push of an ignorant Wall Street, stuck in early Industrial-age 'economies of scale" models.
The above, as well as inexperienced management, pushes into additional 'services' such as consulting, and the froth of the 'Internet craze,' left us where we are today.
The ironic thing is that for the small, local ISP, in the right market, it is a license for geeks to print money. It can be Nirvana for a tech-crazed geek, in the right market, with realistic expectations. You just have to have some discipline and not be too greedy.
Those of us who are working (and earning money) are on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net)
The best real community (even has a moderation system that was planned, written by the guy who wrote kuro5hin's) is Half-Empty at http://www.half-empty.org... be aware, however that the moderation system has a local Java applet (about 10k) that is required in order to securely track session state.
...the fscking helicopters! Christ!!! LA was like Cu Chi in '68-'69. Helicopters everywhere with Nightsuns and loudspeakers. It was like Apocalypse Now in the 1st Cav sub-plot! Now, I read that LA and Orange Counties are buying BLIMPS fer chrissakes!!! Sheeple!
Face it guys, This IS world domination
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....I mean, TV fer chrissakes!!!
The answer to the "why Linux?" questions typical of mainstream media was telling and amounted to "Because it was there, and we didn't have to license it!" Once the reporters begin to understand what the GPL REALLY means, the lid will be off and we will all be mainstream.
REPORTER: Why Linux?
SAVVY ENTREPRENEUR: Because we already owned it and held the license for it. So do you. So does everybody. We DID contribute to the Linux International organization, but we didn't have to. We already owned the software and system. So do you.
REPORTER: Huh???!!!
SE: (continuing) Yeah. The GPL meant that we could build on work already done by others, take that work for free, extend it and give the stuff we paid people to do back to the community/source. For free. We the spent our investors' money in making the idea consumer-friendly and affordable. Because we didn't HAVE to take on or license a partner or partners' technology, we have a better chance of survival. Our business model works BECAUSE OF THE GPL. We can be assured that, from the standpoint of the operating system and hardware drivers, at least, we don't have exposure to intellectual-property or copyright issues...There may be patent issues on the terms of the interface, or the functions of the system, but we wrote that into the business plan and are funded to either license or defend against Gemstar. We were prepared for that when we made the decision to enter the space.
REPORTER: But...but...but...you didin't pay for the software......!!!!!!!! That's STEEEEEALING!!!! (begins to swoon)
SE: No, it's not. You can't steal something you already own. More importantly, we paid people to extend the work others did and then gave that work back to the community to be further extended by those same people...That gave us another tremendous advantage. Because we set the project up on a publicly accessible project hosting platform, we can look at those people continuing to volunteer to improve the project and extend it's functionality and get to know them and perhaps hire the best of them based on work they have already done and that has proved a valuable extension and great fit for our business. It makes the problem of finding the personnel resources necessary to grow our business faster than the competition that much easier; thereby further ensuring the success of our business. We concentrate on the consumer. We made a TV behave and receive data like a computer...It's still a TV...simple to operate. Inexpensive. That's our business: to extend the TV as an appliance and add some computer functionality to it. Because we own the base platform the technology is built on, we're free to extend it or allow the community to do so while we continue to make it cheaper and easier to use. Understand?
REPORTER: BUT YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR THE SOFTWARE!!! YOU DON'T HAVE A PLATFORM PARTNER!!! HOW WILL YOU SUCCEED? WHO WILL PAY FOR YOUR SUPPERBOWL ADS?
SE: Ummmm...I think maybe you better read the first paragraph of the GPL. I think that concludes the interview. Thanks.
Questions from the audience:
1. How long befor Gemstar goes after these guys?
2. What's the next great embedded Linux platform/idea?
3. How long befor CE REALLY is dead?
4. Does J2ME have a chance without Sun GPL'ing the whole J2 package?
"President Bush's plan for faith-based groups helping their local communities?"
Not Bush's plan, Ralph Reed's, announced while
Bush was on the campaign trail, in concert with Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson (see
next).
'faith-based' groups-whose faith? In Wisconsin, where this originated,
the great majority of the groups that initially replied and were 'selected'
(favored by the State?) were Xtian. Many dropped out of the program, because
it required they submit their books to government scrutiny, (something that
is not in the Federal proposal-and something most of these 'leaders' consider
pure poison.)
'faith-based' groups don't currently pay taxes, and unlike 501-C3 non-profits
(Sierra Club, etc.), don't have to declare their campaign contributions or
open their books to IRS scrutiny, and public access. If a 501-C3 is found
to have 'significantly' contributed in a 'partisan' manner (also known as
lobbying) whether in the interests of their members or not, they are subject
to lose their tax-exempt status, subject to review and appeal. Additionally,
501-C3's books must be public. This was the argument the US used against
the Scientologists, and why they sued to become a Church. 501-C3's have to
walk a fine line (which churches don't, ever) in order to represent the interests
of their members to gub'mint.
Careful Zaphod, your slip is showing.
BTW, I'm not saying 'faith-based' is a bad idea: just make it open to all
faiths (including - *shudder* - Scientologists, Wiccans, Satanists, etc.), and
use the same rules that you use for non-faith-based public
charities (same with school vouchers). Then let's see how many of these 'churches'
line up for the free handout from Uncle Sugar.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the 'freekeith' Google cache
NOTE TO THE CLAMBOTS, WISE, The Poodle Korps and OSA/SeaOrg: Try and cancelbot/DDOS THAT, without tipping your hands to the SEC, the Bundeswehr, INTERPOL, Treasury or the FBI as to your TRUE level of control over Earthlink (NOTE to all others: Mouseover and check the link. It's http://www.netcom.com/pub/hk/hkhenson , one of Keith's sites shut down when they took over the Web!) and what you have planned for the rest of the Net
Who IS Keith Henson? Who is he? A patriot, a thinker, an eccentric, a brave and fearless man. From Caroline P. Meinel's classic, Guide to (mostly) Harmless Hacking That's right! Keith Henson was a member (and continues to develop) of the original Hypertext Projct, Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. Therefore, it can seriously be argued that Keith is one of the fathers of the Web! (As well as as a thinker on space travel, a Life Member of the L5 Society, an original pioneer in the concept of 'Mega-Scale Engineering', a close friend of Dr. Richard Feynman, and a pioneer in the study of nano- and micro-technology, cryonics/cryogenics and technological Life Extension.) Further proof can be seen when Nelson's Appendix to his updated Xanadu Proposal also thanks Keith, directly, along with the other US XOC visionary, Roger Gregory. Other citations mentioning Keith include a citation from Johnathon Vos Post's 'Letter to the Editor' in response to Wired's 1995 'The Curse of Xanadu' Finally, from Xanadu's (original) timeline Of course, Keith has had troubles in Riverside County before. But because of David Miscavaige (The Poodle), WISE and the other clam enterprises in Riverside County, as well as past allegations of government corruption and bribery (that started Henson on his crusade there), any thinking person can easily come to the conclusion that Riverside County is already in the control of the clams, and is now wholly compromised.
This great and brave man has fought and continues to fight these murdering fascists for us and his neighbors.
XenuBat has some of Keith's call-ins to KGO archived for all to hear. Here's some more of Keith's troubles with the clams, in his fight to get the FDA to admit that the clams were 'practicing medicine without a license.' (the famous San Jose 'NOTS' case).
Some of Keith's site other caches are these Google caches.
As for why Canada, here's a quote from the Google cache as to why: Keith and his family have been banrupted, harassed, threatened and assaulted. The clams continue to 'Fair Game' him (note the allegations of Child Molestation, a clasic of the clams against their enemies). Some other acts of clam terrorism against other individuals, all over the world. Here's Google's Scientology in the courts page.
Scary stuff, huh? That you can be sued to poverty for telling the truth and then jailed isn't the scariest thing, though. It's what they have planned for us wogs and SPs, if we don't knuckle under and begin to accept them for what they believe they are. The FBI still classifies them as a 'paramilitary' organization and, after the Aum Shinrikio incident, watches them for similar behaviors to Aum's, especially in Riverside County, California.
NOTE TO TACO and ANDOVER: Okay, you pussies knuckled under to these assholes once before. GET THE LINKS AND UPDATES OUT NOW, OR _EVERYONE_ IS GOING TO THINK YOU'RE PUSSYING OUT AGAIN!!!! Additionally, get rid of the OSA plants and the max-karma PoodleBots you were forced to accept. Kick these murdering, lying fascist slime out!!! Keep at least part of the net CLAM FREE!!!!!!!!!
and C2 means nothing. It is a minimum, not a certified and cleared workstation... again, any auditor worth his or her salt would not let an NT machine into his or her network to process even FIPS docs, much less participate in a classified network...if they are, there's a LOT of CO's about to get their asses burnt...
.dll's and functionality of the system removed and or crippled (ie. no File and Printer sharing, no ability to browse the networks, etc.).
Yes, NT (and, I believe, W2K) is part of many C2-certified configs...so?
Every machine in every SCIF I've ever been in is either a purpose-built, R/T OS or some variant of Unix, cleaned up by NSA...
The original poster I was quoting stated in no uncertain terms that the "...NSA was using NT to process and store classified traffic." That was a lie. Additionally, I asked even if it were so and the NSA was a satisfied Microsoft customer, why would they devote a large chunk of THREE DIVISION'S budgets to SELinux?...
I ask you the same question. Also remember that it took the end of the Cold War and the NSA and OTA deprecating some of their standards before Microsoft was even able to get C2, and it was still with many of the shipping
RE: "...also the NSA uses NT quite heavily and may even use it solely for storing highly classified secrets."
Actually, you wanna get fired, court-martialed or otherwise dismissed, fined and face possible jail, put an NT (or any other non-certified) box on any network that carries or in anyway is exposed to CMS data. Most of the REALLY high-access workstations are a variant of Open VMS, Solaris, or HP/UX.
Whoever posted this kark about Microsoft being allowed within two MILES of a secure computing facility is obviously HIGHLY misinformed (must...not...use...the 'I' word...nnnngh...ERGH!) Also, if this were true, why would the NSA and its SCD and R&D offices be using budgeted funds for SELinux....mmmmmm?
...release early, and release often, which is a good thing, in my opinion.
After all, now that they are BSD, the 31337 g4y20r script kiddeez are gonna be huntin' and targettin' all the boxen OS X they can portscan.
BTW, now that the Apple OS is BSD, and M$ has already announced an active OS X/Carbonlib/Cocoa Office porting effort, anybody else glom on to the fact that:
since Darwin ~= OS X ~= BSD ~= *BSD,
we'll be able to say that Office runs on *BSD?
and your point is? MY point was the GPL. Yours is...?
Linus, as usual, used his own metaphors, to enlighten the press and non-geeks. IOW, he simplified my question, de-jargoned it and answered it plainly and honestly. His metaphor was a tree with branches, and that brought up the 'splinter' comment.
What wasn't reported in the article, was how he ended his answer, and I clearly remember this: That was also the year I recognized why I admired and supported the OSS movement.
When Gates was done with his speech, he was hustled off-stage by an army of handlers and into a waiting limo, looking neither left nor right, and interacting with none of his so-valued cutomers.
When Linus was done, he and his wife and children hung around the show floor. His wife pushed the stroller around, and, despite the press and admirers, he kept his focus on them. After the show floor closed, there was a gathering sponsored by one of the early Linux companies. Linus was there with his wife and kids. They mingled for about two more hours, then someone suggested Buster's for video games and more beers.
In contrast to Gates, his handlers and the limos, the last I saw of Linus that night, he was piling with his wife and kids into a mini-van, on their way to Busters', with mad-dog and a bunch of geeks (Can I bum a ride? situational carpool).
NO MATTER HOW GATES AND COMPANY SPIN IT, _THAT'S_ THE TRUE SPIRIT OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE....and that's why we will win, AND THEY WILL LOSE.
Hell, they already have.
import any MS sockets implementation into any *nix and run 'string'
.5e.
Also, the ftp in any MS OS clearly states 'copyright University of California Board of Regents' the holders of the original BSD license (from which all others derive)
This was pointed out to me today in a similar thread at
1. NO on-call employees - 3 rotating shifts
2. On-call time divided into 'watches' Watch part of job description, formalized in contracts. Actual response time paid as legal over-time.
Of the two, #1 worked best, for various legal reasons.
Here, two questions come to mind. Your investment (stock options, bonuses, amount of time to find another comparable job, 'psychic' investment) in the company and the loyalty they feel they have a 'right' to demand of you.
It's reassuring to hear management is willing to work with you. That will probably change as the economy continues to shrink (especially in IT).
ChiliSoft uses Perl as the language for ASP on Unix and other platforms (including Windows), as well as some proprietary extensions. Additionally, Chilisoft's products are not really ASP, since you can't take advantage of DCOM and ADO anywhere but in Windoze-land. Finally, the ChiliSoftware implementations are subsets and often lag M$ by as much as a year. Finally, ChiliSoft is rather useless as a platform, since the most skilled (and 'productive') ASP 'programmers and developers' cannot use the toolsets and libraries they are used to.
As to your comments about the author's choices for extending Java: these are examples, and this site is used by IBM as an attractant for beginners and to stimulate exchanges such as this. Don't like it? Write one of your own. IBM might even publish it. But lave off the smiping until YOU have the cojones to put your reputation on the line (with your real name and available for peer review) as this writer has. Constructive criticism, yes. But your comments are nothing but snniping and whinging.
KEWL!!! As long as Redmond doesn't get a penny, I say GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
A friend of mine at Almaden said that KorpMgt sees Linux as 2 things:
a way to sell WAAAAY more hardware and software
Want proof?
Look at their last quarterly numbers and then do a comparison with MicroShit!!!!
DAMN RIGHT, IBM GETS IT...to the tune of an additional 6 billion in sales this last period!!!!!
hmmm...I'm jealous. You get Mark and Mike...we only get Mike (when KorpAm lets him through!...USAnet has stopped broadcasting and promoting his show.)
As to the licenses...when I lived in the UK, I also had to pay the fee...got back to the US and used to ROTFLMAO at the 'Young Ones' episodes when they were trying to duck the Minders (always played by Alexi Sayles)...my friends here never got it though, even when I explained it.
Now Vivian is the voice for Expedia here in the KSA. Is he there, too?
I didn't call you an asshole...I called you a troll, a twit and a wanker...but those are minor details...
The REAL point was that for all its flaws, the UK is more stable, less corrupt, less violent and more tolerant than we have EVER been here in KorpAm...
...and you still missed the posters' point! He believes that the original point of the submitted story was to throw muck on the privacy issue in the UK...and they have FAR more privacy and administer it FAR more intelligently than we EVER have. He then goes on to posit that the attention is misplaced, as its mostly a non-issue there. Finally, he made some tries at guessing why all the misplaced attention from here in the good old KSofA.
As to the 'problems of blacks in the UK,' boy, are YOU barking up the wrong tree!! The MAJOR problem in the UK (and one, incidentally, that we DO deal with here, too) is the classful society.
...the other stuff, like your original post is just red herrings...oh, and as to your comment about 'socialist paradise,' the UK has never been socialist...anymore than we have been a fascist state since the Mullahs took over in 1970. What we are, and they are becoming, is an oligarchy.
Finally, I am 'some other minority...' born on the Chickahsha Apache Reservation in Southwest Oklahoma...all 25 acres of it that are left!...was 'transported' to 'Indian Schools' in the '50s and still served 27 years in the military...travelled the world and returned here anyway...I lived in London on a PAL Exchange, served in Ulster, too, right alongside the RUC and the 'Specials'...spent time with Scotland Yard...also trained cops and sheriffs' deputies here...now I live in Chicago...believe me when I say that there is NO COMPARISON between the attitudes of the MAJORITY of UK police and Public Safety officers and law enforcement employees here in the KSA...they are FAR more professional and always have been...
What really took the cake tho, was your MI5 comment....baseless CRAP spread by idiots and cowards for the benefit of criminals (some of whom are KSA Korps!)
...THIS is MY home...and MY country...three times over...much more mine than yours, or any other white-eye, even a mestizo white-eye such as yourself...and when I say you don't know what you're talking about, you don't...you're just spouting the same nonsense that the KorpAm media would have you believe. It's obvious that you do. Bad judgement comarade
...OUR resident curmudgeon.
More info at: http://www.dogeatdogfilms.com/middlepage.html
Sounds like something Mike would do for one of HIS TV shows...
I still want the DPA here in the KSA...at least it would be a start!
Yes!!!
But since the Korporations now own our gubbamint here in the good ol' Korporate States of Amerika, served by their Republikan butt-servants, the Kompassionate Konservative Koalition (Keystone Kops Klavern), here in KorpAmerika, we'll never see it. Of course, data that refers to us and can damage our privacy and rights (including our right to life!) doesn't belong to us, the sheeple of the KSA!!! That's only fair. Corporations are MUCH more trustworthy than gubbamint...besides, they can sell the data to the gubbamint and make a tidy profit, never worrying or being responsible for the accuracy of the data!!!!
*sigh* at least we can be happy God and Jesus (and LRH!) are on our side!!! and that one day, everyone in the world will live under our glorious rule!!!
Okaaaay...
Mr. beta 2 buyer/tester and M$ apologist, how do you suggest I play those files on my Rio or PJukeBox? Or my new MP3-playing stereo system? How about streaming from something other than a WinTel monopoly-approved microprocessor or other platform? Keep in mind that the really big surprise of the past Christmas retail season here in the states was the sales of CD/RW drives, proving most people not only rip from CD's, they rip TO them (BTW, also rendering your lame 'album-cover art' comment moot...THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!!! IT'S ANOTHER POINTLESS FEATURE, LIKE THE M$ FLIGHT SIMULATOR IN EXCEL, THAT REDMOND FORCES DOWN OUR NECKS!!!!)
Also, given the requirements for connectivity in NOT YET and eXPee, how are you gonna run that laptop you seem so proud of?
BTW, now I know why the OZ SAGE groups in IRC have suddenly seemed so brain dead....because you're their President!!!! In my uniformed days, we'd call a guy like you a 'Judas Goat,' you can't have it both ways, boyo. You can't be 'Open Source' and support the enemy...and they are the enemy. What use will there be for Systems Administrators if M$'s visions of NOT YET and eXPee come true? How can you support OSS and software on the one hand and stick up for someone so obviously inimical to your own enlightened self-interest on the other?
Oh, and change the picture on your home page. It scared my dog.
Don't UCITA and the standing WIPO treaty structures render this moot?
.sig: move to FreeZone...oh, wait, they'll sink that. Better stock up on guns and ammo with the rest of your Kompassionate Konservative Klavern.
CorpAmerika runs the world, and they won't EVER let this stand. Don't need an 'informed populace' when you live in a litigious society. There's not a General Counsel in the world who would advise their Board or Stockholders to buy/improve their computer systems if this were allowed to pass or be ratified in the US. If it was law you'd probably see them pushing for a return to abaci.
Besides, who'll enforce it? Who's clueful enough given the laughable exploits of those Keystone Kops in the NIPC and its ilk overseas?
As to your
Take a look at Sprint's footprint (and read the mail from their dissatisfied customers in +20 POP cities). Realize the physics behind this, along with the fact that, without a tremendous build-out of infrastructure (and concommitant burn of non-existent capital), it's impossible for this to scale to anything like a profitable subscriber model.
Especially since by then, long distance and wired (and short-range high-bandwidth wireless) will be flat-rate or free in precisely the markets these folks are targetting (++10POP w/ high-use/low-churn subscriber bases) and you'll see the best thing AT&T for its shareholders was to spin off Lucent.
Another thing, anyone else notice that Sprint's default in even home-market is AMPS/Analog and not digital, and the signal still sucks?
So you are tooling along, using your XP laptop the only way you can use it and your connection returns to analog, you go to ~~9.6Kbps and you get the blue, pink or taupe screen of death (whatever that month's flavor is).
RE: ...5 to 10 years...
More than enough time for world domination. NOT YET will fail MORE miserably than Win2K and M$ will slowly die. They're aiming it at 'the corporate user' who will run screaming from it like it was the crapola it is, right into the arms of Linux/BSD. CIOs and CTOs in CorpAmerika are especially wary after the debacle of the 'clean and easy' upgrades to Win2K and the requirements of the licenses. Oracle's bad enough in CorpAmerika, now you're gonna do that to the desktop OS, too?
We're already seeing the push-back against the bloat required of SOAP and the W3C is moving towards the 'semantic net,' whose infrastructure will invalidate all that M$ is working towards. Thin clients are in. Even IE is losing share.
Most importantly, M$ has been trying, and failing, for 13 years to move to a 'spoken' UI. Mac is there, LINUX/BSD almost (thanx IBM!).
Finally, Java/Python/Perl have a 5 - 7 year headstart on NOT YET and even M$ admits that it's 2 years out until they even have the groundwork laid.
We've already won. Soon, we can tell Bill, Steve, Jim & Company: "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
Part of the problem is how the market evolved:
On the one-hand, the CLEC/Local ISP evolved from local BBS owner/operators who added Internet 'gateways' in the late eighties and early nineties (a la the WELL, and all the old Mustang BBS's). They were packet switched, internally, but depended on the ILECs (CO-based circuit switched) for access and primarily concentrated on local services and/or underserved local markets. They extended services mainly by RAS. These were the early 'hobbyists.' MUDs are here today, but not much else unless the companies evolved into local ISP's. The point-of-presence these folks concentrated on spanned only inter-Area Local Exchanges.
Then there were the early 'nationals' such as AOL and CompuServe who fell into one of two business models: Pure play online (AOL), or Loss-leader/Commodity Resale (CompuServe and Prodigy). They were packet switched on a much wider basis, but still depended on the TELCOs, in this case the long-distance carriers. These folks defined POPs in terms of markets and populations served.
When the NSF 'privatized' the internet, these two fundamentally incompatible models (infrastrucures, business models, markets and customer bases served were different enough to be incompatible) attempted to merge at the push of an ignorant Wall Street, stuck in early Industrial-age 'economies of scale" models.
The above, as well as inexperienced management, pushes into additional 'services' such as consulting, and the froth of the 'Internet craze,' left us where we are today.
The ironic thing is that for the small, local ISP, in the right market, it is a license for geeks to print money. It can be Nirvana for a tech-crazed geek, in the right market, with realistic expectations. You just have to have some discipline and not be too greedy.
Those of us who are working (and earning money) are on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net) The best real community (even has a moderation system that was planned, written by the guy who wrote kuro5hin's) is Half-Empty at http://www.half-empty.org ... be aware, however that the moderation system has a local Java applet (about 10k) that is required in order to securely track session state.
...the fscking helicopters! Christ!!! LA was like Cu Chi in '68-'69.
Helicopters everywhere with Nightsuns and loudspeakers. It was like Apocalypse Now in the 1st Cav sub-plot!
Now, I read that LA and Orange Counties are buying BLIMPS fer chrissakes!!!
Sheeple!
The answer to the "why Linux?" questions typical of mainstream media was telling and amounted to "Because it was there, and we didn't have to license it!" Once the reporters begin to understand what the GPL REALLY means, the lid will be off and we will all be mainstream.
REPORTER: Why Linux?
SAVVY ENTREPRENEUR: Because we already owned it and held the license for it. So do you. So does everybody. We DID contribute to the Linux International organization, but we didn't have to. We already owned the software and system. So do you.
REPORTER: Huh???!!!
SE: (continuing) Yeah. The GPL meant that we could build on work already done by others, take that work for free, extend it and give the stuff we paid people to do back to the community/source. For free. We the spent our investors' money in making the idea consumer-friendly and affordable. Because we didn't HAVE to take on or license a partner or partners' technology, we have a better chance of survival. Our business model works BECAUSE OF THE GPL. We can be assured that, from the standpoint of the operating system and hardware drivers, at least, we don't have exposure to intellectual-property or copyright issues...There may be patent issues on the terms of the interface, or the functions of the system, but we wrote that into the business plan and are funded to either license or defend against Gemstar. We were prepared for that when we made the decision to enter the space.
REPORTER: But...but...but...you didin't pay for the software......!!!!!!!! That's STEEEEEALING!!!! (begins to swoon)
SE: No, it's not. You can't steal something you already own. More importantly, we paid people to extend the work others did and then gave that work back to the community to be further extended by those same people...That gave us another tremendous advantage. Because we set the project up on a publicly accessible project hosting platform, we can look at those people continuing to volunteer to improve the project and extend it's functionality and get to know them and perhaps hire the best of them based on work they have already done and that has proved a valuable extension and great fit for our business. It makes the problem of finding the personnel resources necessary to grow our business faster than the competition that much easier; thereby further ensuring the success of our business. We concentrate on the consumer. We made a TV behave and receive data like a computer...It's still a TV...simple to operate. Inexpensive. That's our business: to extend the TV as an appliance and add some computer functionality to it. Because we own the base platform the technology is built on, we're free to extend it or allow the community to do so while we continue to make it cheaper and easier to use. Understand?
REPORTER: BUT YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR THE SOFTWARE!!! YOU DON'T HAVE A PLATFORM PARTNER!!! HOW WILL YOU SUCCEED? WHO WILL PAY FOR YOUR SUPPERBOWL ADS?
SE: Ummmm...I think maybe you better read the first paragraph of the GPL. I think that concludes the interview. Thanks.
Questions from the audience:
1. How long befor Gemstar goes after these guys?
2. What's the next great embedded Linux platform/idea?
3. How long befor CE REALLY is dead?
4. Does J2ME have a chance without Sun GPL'ing the whole J2 package?
I was in there about 30 seconds, 3 pages: got 3 subz...if that's 'change,' no more scour.
"President Bush's plan for faith-based groups helping their local communities?"
Not Bush's plan, Ralph Reed's, announced while Bush was on the campaign trail, in concert with Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson (see next).
Careful Zaphod, your slip is showing.
BTW, I'm not saying 'faith-based' is a bad idea: just make it open to all faiths (including - *shudder* - Scientologists, Wiccans, Satanists, etc.), and use the same rules that you use for non-faith-based public charities (same with school vouchers). Then let's see how many of these 'churches' line up for the free handout from Uncle Sugar.