... or does writing about such "conspiracy theories" tell of journalistic downfall. I mean, we have studies now that show that the youth of today can't/doesn't distinguish the difference between CNN, The BBC or there buddies facebook page. Perhaps its bled its way up the chain to an even more significant degree then previously thought.
... is to keep Administrators with fucking retarded ideas like this out of our lives. Perhaps tattooing a warning on there forehead like, "Warning, this is an Administrator and will needlessly complicate and inconvenience your life if only by wasting profound amounts of your time." Well, perhaps more then there forehead, but who cares. They're just Administrators and deserve what they (should) get.
I was expecting to read a biased view toward the GPL, etc. Went straight to the BSD(-style) section and it's exactly what I found. Not about what the BSD(-style) licenses do/do not permit, but a commentary about what features of the GPL aren't in the BSD and how that's "good" "according to some people."
Gotta say that I've read a lot about licenses, etc and have yet to see one that isn't biased in one direction or another. And this is certainly no exception. I'd just love to see a commentary that keeps people's fucking politics out of it.
Everything that I've read on the topic of disclosure says wait at least a week. Hell, even some mail to the security focus lists have histories in them that go back a couple months! So, I can understand that Opera is rather pissed at the Mozilla people for not giving them ample time to respond. Quite frankly, I find the whole thing rather rude.
That being said, "Opera's" response wasn't exactly professional either. At least it should have been better worded and cited industry standard ways of working to solve an issue.
Yup, there are definitely similarities between the US and Canada. This CDMCA NOT being one of them. But, having racists like this jackass certainly is. Though, from what I've seen, it is rather not tolerated here (or at least as much as in the US).
It's not our fault that your government hasn't done the same thing or similar. We own you people nothing. Take care of your own house before you comment on ours.
It's obvious that the FSF will only list GPL (or GPL compatible) licences. They have a very *very* obvious agenda which they are proud of. There opinions are *very* clearly biased in a *very* clear direction. They are a *very* poor source of information, even when it comes to there own licenses (I've found several false and misleading material on there site which they refused to fix).
FYI, to the original poster: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BEST LICENSE. To think there is, is to ignore reality. The "best" license will change from person to person, from company to company,... profoundly impacted by the goals of the "project."
Who allowed this story to surface? How many times does this bullshit have to come up on this site?
I think it's obvious the nonsense that'll come out of this. People will say, x OS is more insecure than y and z because it fell first/so quickly. Regardless of the skewed skill/effort that went into breaking it.
Speaking about the language, sure. But, actually causing problems, I highly doubted.
It would be trivial to work around this. Change:
#!/usr/local/bin/python
To:
#!/usr/local/bin/python2.4
Then if you really really wanted to, start moving to 3.x at your leisure. There is exactly zero reason why this should cause serious problems if one doesn't have a need to "upgrade."
Actually, that might not be true as there were equivalent regimes across the planet. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that THAT Big Brother was British. It COULD have originated in the US (or Canada, or somewhere in Asia, or...).
""" Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills. """
But, there's lots and lots of other reasons why there's tonnes of fat in the Linux world. Namely, because "we" can and without it, Linux won't compete with the other OS's out there.
Perhaps this guy should work more on developing experiments that actually work the way he thinks they do, instead of fussing with this stuff.
""" I find that I am much more effective when I multi-task at many computer related tasks since they often involve waiting. """
Then you're not doing (or trying to do) them at the same time. You're putting things in a queue and doing them one after the other when available (them or you). So, you're not multitasking in this case.
Canada has wonderful privacy laws. I recommend checking us out. Of course, you should really investigate the specific company you might wish to host with. Because, many will submit to such foreign requests.
Btw, if privacy is really your concern, you should at most co-locate and use disk encryption, etc. Also, if you aren't in the physical US, you should consider hosting the site yourself. That's really the only way you'll know for sure...
For the future, yes, they can. Retroactively, not so much. The copyright holder(s) can change the license should they want to, to any other license. This includes closing the source. Of course, this cannot be done retroactively, but they could take down CVS/tar balls/etc under there control and continue with the different license. This, of course, is played down by RMS and the GPL zealots because it isn't there agenda.
But, I think that this highlights the need to choose your license(s) carefully. I'll also note that a gigantic warning appears when one chooses a license when registering a project at sf.net... which is where this was posted... god this guys a dumbass.
""" And the more pressing question, why? """
Because, most people's agenda doesn't coincide with RMS' and situations can and do change.
Then they'll brainwash there kids into thinking they have a genetic disorder that prevents them from learning (educators will propagate this as well). Then the activists will get involved and say that poor grades are discriminatory against something that these people have no control over. Then...
Actually, it isn't a compromise at all. It's M$ doing the BS again. Are you so naive that you think it'll end there? Are you so naive to think that the new better compliance mode is actually standards compliant?
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You'd have a point if your list didn't include projects that when they've changed, those changes actually had an impact.
iTunes = DRM changes
Vista = Functionality changes (i.e. reduction)
I'm serious! Maintainership changed... who cares. Oh wait, /. is a RMS worshippers haven.
... or does writing about such "conspiracy theories" tell of journalistic downfall. I mean, we have studies now that show that the youth of today can't/doesn't distinguish the difference between CNN, The BBC or there buddies facebook page. Perhaps its bled its way up the chain to an even more significant degree then previously thought.
... is to keep Administrators with fucking retarded ideas like this out of our lives. Perhaps tattooing a warning on there forehead like, "Warning, this is an Administrator and will needlessly complicate and inconvenience your life if only by wasting profound amounts of your time." Well, perhaps more then there forehead, but who cares. They're just Administrators and deserve what they (should) get.
I was expecting to read a biased view toward the GPL, etc. Went straight to the BSD(-style) section and it's exactly what I found. Not about what the BSD(-style) licenses do/do not permit, but a commentary about what features of the GPL aren't in the BSD and how that's "good" "according to some people."
Gotta say that I've read a lot about licenses, etc and have yet to see one that isn't biased in one direction or another. And this is certainly no exception. I'd just love to see a commentary that keeps people's fucking politics out of it.
Everything that I've read on the topic of disclosure says wait at least a week. Hell, even some mail to the security focus lists have histories in them that go back a couple months! So, I can understand that Opera is rather pissed at the Mozilla people for not giving them ample time to respond. Quite frankly, I find the whole thing rather rude.
That being said, "Opera's" response wasn't exactly professional either. At least it should have been better worded and cited industry standard ways of working to solve an issue.
Yup, there are definitely similarities between the US and Canada. This CDMCA NOT being one of them. But, having racists like this jackass certainly is. Though, from what I've seen, it is rather not tolerated here (or at least as much as in the US).
In UDP, there also isn't a way for the "client" to tell the "server" that the data has arrived safely. So, Comcast could just drop the packet.
Because M$ is soooo very good at normal updates:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/18/post-install-issues-with-ms07-069-ie6-on-xpsp2.aspx
(Among others) That they'll be a perfect candidate to create this type.
For that matter, I'd really like to know how someone/people who might do this, would get around that whole illegal thing.
Which is why the US is a major target of Amnesty International.
That assumes US law applies in foreign countries. It doesn't. Fuck off.
It's not our fault that your government hasn't done the same thing or similar. We own you people nothing. Take care of your own house before you comment on ours.
It's obvious that the FSF will only list GPL (or GPL compatible) licences. They have a very *very* obvious agenda which they are proud of. There opinions are *very* clearly biased in a *very* clear direction. They are a *very* poor source of information, even when it comes to there own licenses (I've found several false and misleading material on there site which they refused to fix).
FYI, to the original poster: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BEST LICENSE. To think there is, is to ignore reality. The "best" license will change from person to person, from company to company,... profoundly impacted by the goals of the "project."
Who allowed this story to surface? How many times does this bullshit have to come up on this site?
I think it's obvious the nonsense that'll come out of this. People will say, x OS is more insecure than y and z because it fell first/so quickly. Regardless of the skewed skill/effort that went into breaking it.
This "twist" is bullshit.
Speaking about the language, sure. But, actually causing problems, I highly doubted.
It would be trivial to work around this. Change:
#!/usr/local/bin/python
To:
#!/usr/local/bin/python2.4
Then if you really really wanted to, start moving to 3.x at your leisure. There is exactly zero reason why this should cause serious problems if one doesn't have a need to "upgrade."
Actually, that might not be true as there were equivalent regimes across the planet. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that THAT Big Brother was British. It COULD have originated in the US (or Canada, or somewhere in Asia, or...).
"""
Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.
"""
But, there's lots and lots of other reasons why there's tonnes of fat in the Linux world. Namely, because "we" can and without it, Linux won't compete with the other OS's out there.
Perhaps this guy should work more on developing experiments that actually work the way he thinks they do, instead of fussing with this stuff.
You need a dictionary.
"""
I find that I am much more effective when I multi-task at many computer related tasks since they often involve waiting.
"""
Then you're not doing (or trying to do) them at the same time. You're putting things in a queue and doing them one after the other when available (them or you). So, you're not multitasking in this case.
Canada has wonderful privacy laws. I recommend checking us out. Of course, you should really investigate the specific company you might wish to host with. Because, many will submit to such foreign requests.
Btw, if privacy is really your concern, you should at most co-locate and use disk encryption, etc. Also, if you aren't in the physical US, you should consider hosting the site yourself. That's really the only way you'll know for sure...
For the future, yes, they can. Retroactively, not so much. The copyright holder(s) can change the license should they want to, to any other license. This includes closing the source. Of course, this cannot be done retroactively, but they could take down CVS/tar balls/etc under there control and continue with the different license. This, of course, is played down by RMS and the GPL zealots because it isn't there agenda.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DeveloperViolate
But, I think that this highlights the need to choose your license(s) carefully. I'll also note that a gigantic warning appears when one chooses a license when registering a project at sf.net... which is where this was posted... god this guys a dumbass.
"""
And the more pressing question, why?
"""
Because, most people's agenda doesn't coincide with RMS' and situations can and do change.
Then they'll brainwash there kids into thinking they have a genetic disorder that prevents them from learning (educators will propagate this as well). Then the activists will get involved and say that poor grades are discriminatory against something that these people have no control over. Then...
Only in the business world.
Or they could just be sleepy. People aren't really capable of learning and get (more) clumsy when they are tired.
Between the two explanations, which one's more likely?
Actually, it isn't a compromise at all. It's M$ doing the BS again. Are you so naive that you think it'll end there? Are you so naive to think that the new better compliance mode is actually standards compliant?