No, I think what is more likely is that the Western FLOSS movement will descide that it is more important, because it is there -- in the halls of MIT and Berkely -- that the movement started. They will give their leader, Richard Stalman, is thus more important than any other leader. The Eastern hackers (Europe) will not be happy with this because it is contrary to hacker ideal of a meritocracy. At some point, Stallman will add a word in the GPL. The Eastern Free Software people will cry out, saying that changes to a licence must be aproved by the community and that Stallman does not have that autority, they start calling themselves Othodox because they are pure to their hacker ethics. The Westerners will lash back calling the Schismatics, they will refer to themselves as the Catholics (catholic means 'universal') because they 'know' they are the real hackers. At some point Stallman will excommunicate the Eastern movement calling them "capitalist pigs" and the Europeans will do the same with the hackers in the west.
There's a one paragraph summary of church history from 500-1100 AD for you.
Actually, the Christian Science viewpoint (having been raised in a CS household without having chosen to subscribe myself in my adult years) is that God and sprituality must operate by a set of governing laws as measurable and static as any set of scientific principles. IE, God isn't a magical being with a beard/4 arms/turban and a mysterious agenda, but a "greater" entity bound by the laws of the universe/creation/reality/[insert definition for everything here].
The GP's point still stands. The above is certainly not Christian. It's not scientific either because it is not based in measueable, repeatable evidence.
On top of that there are a lot of things that might be considered hacking tools that have very valid uses. For example nmap or ethereal can be very useful for network analyis, but are often used to portscan or packet sniff without permission too. I think that having a penalty for 'hacking tools' is silly.I t would be like penalizing people for using knifes in kitchens because you can also use a knive to stab someone.
I don't think anyone here will get this but my guess is that this is more of a PR issue than anything else. One thing that very few westerners will understand is the culture and mindset that these people come from. You'll notice that pro-islamic content is not discoraged. The Islamic world has a very critical view of Western media, and by blocking shows that are very offencive to them will hopefully work to ease the tentions between the US Army and the locals.
Now you might not think this is important and say that the Iraqis are the people who need to change and accept the concept of freedom. The problem is that it doesn't work like that. Your dealing with deeply embeded cultural heritage. A lot of their culture is really messed, but it is still their culture and trying to assimilate these people within the timeframe of a year would be catastrophic. More than likely it wuld not work and you would end up with another situation like Afganistan, and a bunch of dead soldiers to boot. You need to give things time.
Just replace Anti-Soviet and Counter-Revolutionary with the word Terrorist and you'll get something that is uncannily similar to this:
ASA - Anti-Soviet Agitation.
KRD - Counter-Revolutionary Activity.
KRTD - Counter-Revolutionary Trotskyite Activity (And that T made the life of a zek in camp much harder.)
PSh - Suspicion of Espionage (Espionage that went beyond the bounds of suspicion was handed over to a tribunal.)
SVPSh - Contacts leading (!) to Suspicion of Espionage.
KRM - Counter-Revolutionary Thought.
VAS - Dissemination of Anti-Soviet Sentiments.
SOE - Socially Dangerous Element.
SVE - Socially Harmful Element.
PD - Criminal Activity (a favourite accusation against former camp inmates if there was nothing else to be used against them)
Chs - Member of a Family (of a person convicted under one of the foregoing "letter" categories)
* n.b. the abbreviations may not match up with the descriptions because they are acronyms for russian words.
The above list was taken from Solzhenitsyn's study on the Gulag. They were criminal codes (mainly Article 58) used by the soviets as reasons to send people the off to the Gulag. Note that the first two (ASA and KRD) were used very liberally, for example, some engineers were warning that a particular railway system was not going to work. They were slammed with KRD and tossed in the Gulag. Later on the system failed as they had warned. They were brought out to fix it but put back as soon in when it was done.
As far as a gui is concerned it would make more sense (to me) to use something like wxWigets. Then you can support just about anything under the sun without much work.
Yes and no. First, what other people do with their computers affects all of us (i.e.spam doesn't grow on trees, computer criminals rarely do anything serious from their own machines, and viruses require hosts too). It's kind of like drinking alcohol. If you drink it and are responsible, there's no problem. But many people aren't responsible and you see car accidents. That's why laws are set up to restrict alcohol asumption.
Also I see nothing wrong with Gmail's behaviour. You can just rename the file (add a.removethis at the end or whatever). If your not intelligent enough to know how to do that than you shouldn't be allowed to recieve exe's. Personally I think the 'exe' thing should have never been in the first place. It would be like someone downloading something on our lovely linux machines and have it automagically set executible. It's just wrong.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'the church' and the 'few educated people' but for the most part the Church as a whole championed the printing press. After all, it allowed them to produce bibles at amazing speeds (before then they were hand copied by monks). Universities first emerged in the Middle Ages as well, funded and supported by the Church. A few centuries later it was the Church (the Anabaptists in particular) that pushed for public education too.
The people who were against it were the politicians — kings, lords, Popes(some of them, most were actually very decent), and other various scoundrels. As you see, not much has changed in 1000 years as these are still the same people who love to feast at others expense. Of course they claimed to be Christian and have Divine Right, but they would have happily recanted it would have given them fattier porks on the table.
I don't know the names but when I was looking for a calendar app there was a couple. Also EasyTag is still gtk+. I've seen others too but I can't remember where.
It's an optional survey, income tax is not if you owe the feds money
It's a survey, obviously the thing will phone home. What do you think, it will send all the results to/dev/null? If it didn't phone home the cds might as well be coffee trays with republican decortations.
I'm not an american and I don't agree with many of their foreign policies, but control of the root DNS servers is something I think they should do. They still protect freedom of speach more than just about any contry I know (except maybe native contry, Canada) and that I what is important. I don't want China to have a say in what us free people are free to do.
What you said is very true, but I think there's a bit of a miscommunication here. The article poster was probably trying to say something like "How to I set up a system to do this stuff and not have to sacrifice my liver to stress-related trama". Sure Windows can be kept secure, but it's a lot of work. Some of that is directly Microsoft's but most of it is a result of the plethora of poor software built on that OS.
I don't know if Brown treated his earlier book the same, but in the Da Vinci Code, alot of the statements are pretended to be facts. Of course nothing could be furthur from the truth, the whole book fictitious, and don't get me started on the Apocrypha:)
4) Hardly anyone buys Office for home. Most of them pirate it from work. As long as work drives their usage of Ofiice, it's going to stay entrenched. As long as companies continue to use the "unneccessary" features of Office, nothing else is going to manage to make a dent.
I think you hit the nail right on the head. Piracy is the greatest barrier to the Linux desktop. If I look at my brother and other friends I know they have thousands of dollars pirated windows apps and games that they use and they don't think anything of it. A few of them would happly switch over except for the fact that these pirated apps that don't run on linux.
What's even more anoying to hear is the mentality: "well, it costs hundreds of dollars so it must be better than this freeware thing". Buy that time though I'm to exhausted to try to explain GNU.
I think you've had too many experiences with poorly written frameworks. A real framework should be designed to automate all the trivial things that you do so that you can get to doing the real work. There are pleanty of poorly done frameworks out there, a few jewels, and plenty in between. When you find something that is good though, you'll know it's good. I just recently fell in love with django, after a year of PHP this thing is increadibly awesome. Sure there are some caveats, mostly related to the fact that it's not 1.0 yet, but the framework free's me from doing all that gritty stuff like form validation and allows me to do work stupidly fast.
You can recognize truth by it's beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right
I wish I had mod points for this. It is right on the mark. When people think of the situations in Civ they are usually pretending optimal situations, something like little phalanx lined up on the plains waiting for enemy machine guns to mow them down. That couldn't be any furthur from the truth. In war, just because you have poor equipment doesn't mean you just give up and die. If you consider the Native Americans in they're war against the Europeans you have a beautiful example of what happens. The natives had no guns and no steel, yet they held out amazingly well. In fact if it wasn't for the epidemics that the europeans brought we'd probably have a very very different Americas today.
For the love of everything good in this world, how is this insightful? I haven't heard of any doctor being killed over abortion (or clinics being burned) for the longest time. On top of that any sane Christian congregation would ban such activity. Maybe it's just cause I read slashdot to much and not the real news, but I'm pretty certain if something like that happened, the media would make sure everyone and they're dog knew about it.
About the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. They were almost an entire millennia ago! Since then there have been a paradigm shift in how we view freedom and such, I don't think people understand how much the renaissance did to change our world view. Not only did these events occur in a very different context than the one we live in today, they were very different from what you suggest — OMG, Christians are killing teh Jew and Muslims. In fact the Crusades were a response to the Muslim conquest. You'll notice that the Christian armies never crusaded to Mecca, they went to Jerusalem, which used to be Christian until the Muslim armies came and sacked the place. You'll also notice that the Christian armies gave up after a couple centuries, realizing that their conquest was misguided and retarded, the Islamic armies didn't. They continued until they finally got owned in Vienna in the 16th century. The conflict that still exits in Yugoslavia is largely a result of the Islamic conquest.
Another point that should be brought across is the the crusades were largely a political manuvure. In fact there were many people in the clergy who were adamantly against them. This became even more pronounced and they continued on. It became so bad that on the fourth Crusade they sacked Constantinople! There was certainly plenty of religious sentiment involved in the crusades, but it neither well thought out nor reflective of what Christianity is on a larger scale. That's why we say that doctrine must be decided by church counsels and not some yahoo who calls himself the pope (the church of Rome has been a bit confused on this issue, but I believe if you press them hard enough they will agree).
The other event, the Inquisition, was even more politically driven. Certainly, they used the masquerade of religion, but don't be fooled. They were, essentially, a trick to get rid of rival christian sects that could pose a threat to the political power of Rome. The pople most often persecuted were not heathens; but Calvinists, Lutherans, Hussites, Jacobian, or other kinds of Protestant and Anabaptist groups. It was certainly evil, but it was not a Christian vs. heathen thing, that's just what they wanted people to believe.
I'm currently a gnome/e17 user and KDE 4 looking quite promissing, but I don't really see any reason why a gnome 3 is nessicarry at this point. There's no point in changing version numbers for the sake of changing version numbers and unless the gnome people have of serious deficiancies they want to solve, whats the point. Big version changes like that can introduce all sorts of problems, just look at all the gtk+ apps that are still trying to port to gtk2.
About the parental filtering options. They've actually had those tied into IE for some time already (at least 5 years). The reason no one knows about them is that they're useless. They may work for a few websites, but the vast majority of unsightly websites do not provide the metadata that IE needs. So yeah, the only innovative part to this one is that MS has taken taken their marketing to the next level.
Ok, I'll give you that the Sony executives probably had no clue what they were doing. However, somewhere down the line someone must have had a clue as too what was going on (if they pulled this off with no one knowing about it I think the poached egg applies). Maybe Sony was not in charge of making the root kit, but then the third party who they bought it from should be nabbed for creating malicious software and then distributing it under the pretense that it was all safe and good. I don't really think that a rational person could make a root kit like this and not know what they were doing, so it's not even negligence.
On top of that it does not mean the people at Sony were not responsible either. The managers may not know everything that goes on, but it's they're responsibility to make sure the people they manage don't pull off malarkey like this. Just like a captain is responsible for his crew, a manager has some level of responsibility for what he is in charge of. I don't think they were criminally negligent, but they were definitely negligent.
While Sony's software was distributed without malicious intent
I guess that depends on what you mean by malicious. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who distributes trojans is either malicious, or mentally insane — on the same level as the man who thinks he's a poached egg.
The major difference here is that this is legal and the right thing to do. Selling expliots to scum like that is on the same moral level of skiddies. A lot of hackers have no desire damage innocent people, the rest are lame.
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No, I think what is more likely is that the Western FLOSS movement will descide that it is more important, because it is there -- in the halls of MIT and Berkely -- that the movement started. They will give their leader, Richard Stalman, is thus more important than any other leader. The Eastern hackers (Europe) will not be happy with this because it is contrary to hacker ideal of a meritocracy. At some point, Stallman will add a word in the GPL. The Eastern Free Software people will cry out, saying that changes to a licence must be aproved by the community and that Stallman does not have that autority, they start calling themselves Othodox because they are pure to their hacker ethics. The Westerners will lash back calling the Schismatics, they will refer to themselves as the Catholics (catholic means 'universal') because they 'know' they are the real hackers. At some point Stallman will excommunicate the Eastern movement calling them "capitalist pigs" and the Europeans will do the same with the hackers in the west.
There's a one paragraph summary of church history from 500-1100 AD for you.
The GP's point still stands. The above is certainly not Christian. It's not scientific either because it is not based in measueable, repeatable evidence.
On top of that there are a lot of things that might be considered hacking tools that have very valid uses. For example nmap or ethereal can be very useful for network analyis, but are often used to portscan or packet sniff without permission too. I think that having a penalty for 'hacking tools' is silly.I t would be like penalizing people for using knifes in kitchens because you can also use a knive to stab someone.
I don't think anyone here will get this but my guess is that this is more of a PR issue than anything else. One thing that very few westerners will understand is the culture and mindset that these people come from. You'll notice that pro-islamic content is not discoraged. The Islamic world has a very critical view of Western media, and by blocking shows that are very offencive to them will hopefully work to ease the tentions between the US Army and the locals.
Now you might not think this is important and say that the Iraqis are the people who need to change and accept the concept of freedom. The problem is that it doesn't work like that. Your dealing with deeply embeded cultural heritage. A lot of their culture is really messed, but it is still their culture and trying to assimilate these people within the timeframe of a year would be catastrophic. More than likely it wuld not work and you would end up with another situation like Afganistan, and a bunch of dead soldiers to boot. You need to give things time.
Just replace Anti-Soviet and Counter-Revolutionary with the word Terrorist and you'll get something that is uncannily similar to this:
* n.b. the abbreviations may not match up with the descriptions because they are acronyms for russian words.
The above list was taken from Solzhenitsyn's study on the Gulag. They were criminal codes (mainly Article 58) used by the soviets as reasons to send people the off to the Gulag. Note that the first two (ASA and KRD) were used very liberally, for example, some engineers were warning that a particular railway system was not going to work. They were slammed with KRD and tossed in the Gulag. Later on the system failed as they had warned. They were brought out to fix it but put back as soon in when it was done.
And how is a name like 'Cisco' any different? The only difference is that your familiar with Cisco do it doesn't sound weird to you.
As far as a gui is concerned it would make more sense (to me) to use something like wxWigets. Then you can support just about anything under the sun without much work.
Now everyone go register a random account at yahoo or hotmail and send AsmBiondi@njleg.org a friendly email :)
Yes and no. First, what other people do with their computers affects all of us (i.e.spam doesn't grow on trees, computer criminals rarely do anything serious from their own machines, and viruses require hosts too). It's kind of like drinking alcohol. If you drink it and are responsible, there's no problem. But many people aren't responsible and you see car accidents. That's why laws are set up to restrict alcohol asumption.
.removethis at the end or whatever). If your not intelligent enough to know how to do that than you shouldn't be allowed to recieve exe's. Personally I think the 'exe' thing should have never been in the first place. It would be like someone downloading something on our lovely linux machines and have it automagically set executible. It's just wrong.
Also I see nothing wrong with Gmail's behaviour. You can just rename the file (add a
FUD
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'the church' and the 'few educated people' but for the most part the Church as a whole championed the printing press. After all, it allowed them to produce bibles at amazing speeds (before then they were hand copied by monks). Universities first emerged in the Middle Ages as well, funded and supported by the Church. A few centuries later it was the Church (the Anabaptists in particular) that pushed for public education too.
The people who were against it were the politicians — kings, lords, Popes(some of them, most were actually very decent), and other various scoundrels. As you see, not much has changed in 1000 years as these are still the same people who love to feast at others expense. Of course they claimed to be Christian and have Divine Right, but they would have happily recanted it would have given them fattier porks on the table.
I don't know the names but when I was looking for a calendar app there was a couple. Also EasyTag is still gtk+. I've seen others too but I can't remember where.
This is even more silly than that.
I'm not an american and I don't agree with many of their foreign policies, but control of the root DNS servers is something I think they should do. They still protect freedom of speach more than just about any contry I know (except maybe native contry, Canada) and that I what is important. I don't want China to have a say in what us free people are free to do.
What you said is very true, but I think there's a bit of a miscommunication here. The article poster was probably trying to say something like "How to I set up a system to do this stuff and not have to sacrifice my liver to stress-related trama". Sure Windows can be kept secure, but it's a lot of work. Some of that is directly Microsoft's but most of it is a result of the plethora of poor software built on that OS.
I don't know if Brown treated his earlier book the same, but in the Da Vinci Code, alot of the statements are pretended to be facts. Of course nothing could be furthur from the truth, the whole book fictitious, and don't get me started on the Apocrypha :)
I think you hit the nail right on the head. Piracy is the greatest barrier to the Linux desktop. If I look at my brother and other friends I know they have thousands of dollars pirated windows apps and games that they use and they don't think anything of it. A few of them would happly switch over except for the fact that these pirated apps that don't run on linux.
What's even more anoying to hear is the mentality: "well, it costs hundreds of dollars so it must be better than this freeware thing". Buy that time though I'm to exhausted to try to explain GNU.
I think you've had too many experiences with poorly written frameworks. A real framework should be designed to automate all the trivial things that you do so that you can get to doing the real work. There are pleanty of poorly done frameworks out there, a few jewels, and plenty in between. When you find something that is good though, you'll know it's good. I just recently fell in love with django, after a year of PHP this thing is increadibly awesome. Sure there are some caveats, mostly related to the fact that it's not 1.0 yet, but the framework free's me from doing all that gritty stuff like form validation and allows me to do work stupidly fast.
You forgot group C) The people use Linux because it's free as in freedom.
You may think freedom is overrated, but for most of the linux users that I know. This is the reason.
I wish I had mod points for this. It is right on the mark. When people think of the situations in Civ they are usually pretending optimal situations, something like little phalanx lined up on the plains waiting for enemy machine guns to mow them down. That couldn't be any furthur from the truth. In war, just because you have poor equipment doesn't mean you just give up and die. If you consider the Native Americans in they're war against the Europeans you have a beautiful example of what happens. The natives had no guns and no steel, yet they held out amazingly well. In fact if it wasn't for the epidemics that the europeans brought we'd probably have a very very different Americas today.
For the love of everything good in this world, how is this insightful? I haven't heard of any doctor being killed over abortion (or clinics being burned) for the longest time. On top of that any sane Christian congregation would ban such activity. Maybe it's just cause I read slashdot to much and not the real news, but I'm pretty certain if something like that happened, the media would make sure everyone and they're dog knew about it.
About the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. They were almost an entire millennia ago! Since then there have been a paradigm shift in how we view freedom and such, I don't think people understand how much the renaissance did to change our world view. Not only did these events occur in a very different context than the one we live in today, they were very different from what you suggest — OMG, Christians are killing teh Jew and Muslims. In fact the Crusades were a response to the Muslim conquest. You'll notice that the Christian armies never crusaded to Mecca, they went to Jerusalem, which used to be Christian until the Muslim armies came and sacked the place. You'll also notice that the Christian armies gave up after a couple centuries, realizing that their conquest was misguided and retarded, the Islamic armies didn't. They continued until they finally got owned in Vienna in the 16th century. The conflict that still exits in Yugoslavia is largely a result of the Islamic conquest.
Another point that should be brought across is the the crusades were largely a political manuvure. In fact there were many people in the clergy who were adamantly against them. This became even more pronounced and they continued on. It became so bad that on the fourth Crusade they sacked Constantinople! There was certainly plenty of religious sentiment involved in the crusades, but it neither well thought out nor reflective of what Christianity is on a larger scale. That's why we say that doctrine must be decided by church counsels and not some yahoo who calls himself the pope (the church of Rome has been a bit confused on this issue, but I believe if you press them hard enough they will agree).
The other event, the Inquisition, was even more politically driven. Certainly, they used the masquerade of religion, but don't be fooled. They were, essentially, a trick to get rid of rival christian sects that could pose a threat to the political power of Rome. The pople most often persecuted were not heathens; but Calvinists, Lutherans, Hussites, Jacobian, or other kinds of Protestant and Anabaptist groups. It was certainly evil, but it was not a Christian vs. heathen thing, that's just what they wanted people to believe.
I'm currently a gnome/e17 user and KDE 4 looking quite promissing, but I don't really see any reason why a gnome 3 is nessicarry at this point. There's no point in changing version numbers for the sake of changing version numbers and unless the gnome people have of serious deficiancies they want to solve, whats the point. Big version changes like that can introduce all sorts of problems, just look at all the gtk+ apps that are still trying to port to gtk2.
About the parental filtering options. They've actually had those tied into IE for some time already (at least 5 years). The reason no one knows about them is that they're useless. They may work for a few websites, but the vast majority of unsightly websites do not provide the metadata that IE needs. So yeah, the only innovative part to this one is that MS has taken taken their marketing to the next level.
Ok, I'll give you that the Sony executives probably had no clue what they were doing. However, somewhere down the line someone must have had a clue as too what was going on (if they pulled this off with no one knowing about it I think the poached egg applies). Maybe Sony was not in charge of making the root kit, but then the third party who they bought it from should be nabbed for creating malicious software and then distributing it under the pretense that it was all safe and good. I don't really think that a rational person could make a root kit like this and not know what they were doing, so it's not even negligence.
On top of that it does not mean the people at Sony were not responsible either. The managers may not know everything that goes on, but it's they're responsibility to make sure the people they manage don't pull off malarkey like this. Just like a captain is responsible for his crew, a manager has some level of responsibility for what he is in charge of. I don't think they were criminally negligent, but they were definitely negligent.
From TFA:
I guess that depends on what you mean by malicious. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who distributes trojans is either malicious, or mentally insane — on the same level as the man who thinks he's a poached egg.
The major difference here is that this is legal and the right thing to do. Selling expliots to scum like that is on the same moral level of skiddies. A lot of hackers have no desire damage innocent people, the rest are lame.