Let me get this right. You're saying it's a great idea to harm the global economy and plunge hundreds of millions of people into poverty even if there's no benefit to doing so?
With new data pointing to a possible solar cause to global climate change, it does not change the fact that sucking up all the available fuels and dumping CO2 into the atomsphere is making the world a worse place to live. What part of this quote from the GP post did you not understand?
And interestingly one of the categories they thought to offer links for was "Slashdot Subculture"; which is apparently pretty shallow. Clicking it brings a page of... nothing.
So there you have it. Slashdot Subculture, already targeted and dealt with by the Government!
why the fuck would a government facility or hospital be running a torrent tracker? Because someone like MediaDefender runs it for them? Without them knowing?
I do the same with mine. I run a vm for a test web server, a vm with windows XP and a vm that acts as a gateway/dhcp/dns server for the other virtual machines. All of this is designed to mimic various aspects of the company's real network.
For the host machine I use Debian Etch. I installed from a netinst disk and chose no mirrors during install so it was quite bare when installation completed. At that point I used apt to install icewm, xorg, gvim, iceweasel, pcmanfm, vlc and a few other things. Then I grabbed build-essentials and kernel headers so I could get VMWare installed and running.
That's pretty much it. The host is fast, light and still has enough of what I need to use it effectively. I edit all my web server's scripts in gvim (w/ perl-soupport of course), surf, play tunes using vlc, etc. As someone who gets to write perl and c programs all day for a living my OS requirements aren't that big. For everything else there is VMWare.
Thanks, I've heard of Tyndale before; never put the two together though. If I read the article correctly someone is indeed due to get a smiting, but it's not who Jack would like it to be and it looks like someone mortal will be be delivering said smiting.
By the time you get to code review and test, you should be catching logic errors, not stupid syntactical and poor code style ones. If the tool helps a developer clean up and catch the obvious stuff, then testing can be much more productive catching the real problems.
Sounds like a good way to teach developers about these stupid errors as well. As someone whose knowledge of programming is self taught I learned a long time ago to pay attention to all errors, warnings and output from tools like lint to add to my understanding of the correct way to do things.
Yeah, I haven't actually seen it. Neil Gaiman was involved in the script and Zemeckis had done some interesting stuff, so it might not be entirely crappy. I saw it and read the original Beowulf story (well the English translation that is).
It's not entirely crappy, pretty true to the original. It feels like you are watching a movie set in World Of Warcraft though. I found it hard not to notice the computer animation while watching; somewhat distracting really.
I know how you feel. I have been too lazy to convert from VMWare to VirtualBox. I still install Sun's Java on my workstations. I used to install Citrix a lot until we went OpenVPN. But now Sun is poised to have Java distributed as a completely Free application and just the fact that there is an alternative to VMWare shows huge progress. And, as you mentioned, dealing with multimedia can be frustrating without some closed software installed.
I know I end up sounding like a zealot sometimes; I don't mean to. I realize the need for closed software when an alternative does not exist, an alternative is an expensive* proposition or even if you're just used to what you have and the alternative doesn't seem a good fit for you. I do get ruffled though when people bash on the idealism behind Free software. It's that idealism that got us where we are today and it's what keeps driving Free software forward so we get to the point where we won't need anything closed source. RMS/FSF aren't out there to make friends, they are trying to make the world a better place and have succeeded on many levels. I know that I, personally and at work, am better off because of their efforts. And many others are as well, whether they know it or not.
*expensive in terms of the migration effort that is...
Seriously, yeah at one point it made sense to call it GNU/Linux or "GNU on top of Linux" or whatever, but at this point it's just friggin vanity. Get over it, people. It's Linux to 98% of the world, and the other 2% are self-absorbed twits who want everyone to know how clever they are for coming up with a "recursive" algorithm. I propose that we change the definition of GNU to mean "GNU's Nearly Useless" which is just as recursive and infinitely more descriptive.
Or better yet, just call it "Linux."
That way my Mom won't have to ask me "are you running regular Linux on your computer in the basement or that Agnew Linux?" every time she hears a Linux story on public radio./They're not "wipes" they're kleenexes.//We don't make photocopies, we zerox stuff.///Unless we're British and applying a plaster, we get out a bandaid not an "adhesive bandage" when we cut ourselves. Well the Distro I use, and the one that Ubuntu, gNewSense and several others are based on, is to this day called Debian GNU/Linux. So that's what I call it.
And last I checked the toolchain I use to compile software is still maintained by GNU so I have to disagree with your "useless" claim. Sure, other tools exist but they are not the default in my distro.
Doing stupid things like renaming Firefox to IceWeezel to because of silly trademark issues, is just dumb I thought they did this because the Mozilla people said they had to if they wanted to include patches that hadn't been approved thru Mozilla? But then I didn't follow this that closely, so maybe I misunderstood something... No you followed it just fine, that's exactly why they did it Being able to patch software independent of the original developer is a core component of Free Software and Debian GNU/Linux is a great example of Free Software.
Personally I do enjoy the freedom that FSF and distros like Debian and gNewSense provide. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use them though.
There will always be Ubuntu, Linspire, Mepis and other distros that provide non-free crutches to those that need them.
The GP has all the choice they need to run a free or non-free system when it comes to Linux (or any OS for that matter). I guess they just couldn't resist the chance to bash the FSF.
Me, I prefer GNU/Linux but the field is large and level and if others choose something else there are plenty of options available to everyone.
Content filtering doesn't work well. Everyone who has seen his legitimate mail filtered away knows this, as does everyone who receives spam despite filters being in place. As the filtering arms race progresses it will become harder and harder to seperate spam from legitimate mail, resulting in more processing power used and more false negatives and false positives. In the end only something with a near-human intelligence would be able to tell the difference, but it would be unethical to employ such a system for obvious reasons.
BAM! fucking crazy outta nowhere!
I think what he is saying is that a system with enough intelligence to filter mail would also be intelligent enough to understand mail. It could be used to look for more then spam, you know, like terrorist talk or political speech.
I started using the Web in 1992 and it was demonstrated in public then. And in any case the Internet is more like 30 years. Are you sure you're not confusing the internet with the World Wide Web?
Just asking, I don't know the actual "start" dates of either off the top of my head. I believe TBL is talking about hypertext, the first http daemons and browsers, etc. As opposed to tcp/ip and all the applications built on it before the release of the first http aware applications.
This is almost as good as asking spammers to Set the Evil Bit, so we can filter them out. If all the spammers sign on for address space in this block, we can just route that block to/dev/null and be done with it.;-) Maybe. This would stop the questionable spammers. The ones that send the "opt in" crap that a lot of people fall for on web forms. Heck, some of them even want email like this.
Somehow I doubt the V14gr4 and P3n15 Enlargmenttt! stuff will go away by filtering these IPs. I may be wrong, but somehow I don't think your average zombie is routing through this space.
Annoyed (non-)customers vs. angry/schizophrenic US Gov't withholding wads of cash; guess who wins? Good point. There certainly seems to be enough confusion (by design?) on the subject to keep people erring on the side of caution.
Is this really still accurate? The article you reference is from 2000. I thought things had relaxed quite a bit now that implementations of various crypto are in the hands of developers outside the US. With AES implementations in universally available GNU/Linux distros why would they bother?
Mind you it would not suprise me in the least if the USG was still being this stupid but I seem to remember hearing otherwise... So, here is what I dug up in a few minutes of googling. (and yes, Wikipedia is close to the top:-).
Wikipedia
Cryptography exports from the U.S. are now (as of 2006) controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products, particularly with regard to export to "rogue states" and terrorist organizations. Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software,[citation needed] and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license. Many items must still undergo a one-time review by or notification to BIS prior to export to most countries. The regulations, though relaxed from pre-1996 standards, are still complex, and often require expert legal and cryptographic consultation. Other countries, notably those participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement, have similar restrictions. Apparently Schneier wasn't sure as of 2005.
He has a link in this article to a site - www.bxa.doc.gov - that does not seem to exist anymore. A page from the old FreeSWAN manual references this bxa site as authoritative as well.
Anyone else have any knowledge of current US Cryptography export policy? It still looks pretty bleak to me.
I'm a little bit confused by Mr. Gates assertions that somehow there is some gun to the heads of everyone who uses the GPL. Your, and everyone else's, confusion is what he is after here.
You obviously know he's wrong, I know this, heck, most people reading this know this, even the trolls and shills who might say otherwise but BillG is hoping most of the folks who listened to him speak in Seattle don't know that.
Disgusting really. Whatever I feel about the man, it's not like he's that stupid. Ignorance I can forgive but in this case, no.
However, if you have a back garden, you can grow potatoes for... wait for it... FREE! TANSTAAFL
My high school economics teacher told us that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
The potatoes aren't free. They seeds, soil, water, sun, labor, and opportunity cost all have value. Well Bill is confusing Free with free. You are Free to grow the potatoes if you have the time, money and resources to do it.
Just as Free software costs time, money and resources to create. And not everyone gives Free software away for free.
You people need to bone up here. These tired arguments are/. 101. Why anyone would take anything that BillG says about free, open source, anything-other-then-MS-software seriously these days is a constant wonder to me.
Wake me up when someone starts throwing chairs again.
Slashdot Mirror
Not much to see though. Mmmm, JuicyPop!
Hot, deep, who knew linking can be such a turn on?!
And interestingly one of the categories they thought to offer links for was "Slashdot Subculture"; which is apparently pretty shallow. Clicking it brings a page of... nothing.
So there you have it. Slashdot Subculture, already targeted and dealt with by the Government!
...nice red uniformsI do the same with mine. I run a vm for a test web server, a vm with windows XP and a vm that acts as a gateway/dhcp/dns server for the other virtual machines. All of this is designed to mimic various aspects of the company's real network.
For the host machine I use Debian Etch. I installed from a netinst disk and chose no mirrors during install so it was quite bare when installation completed. At that point I used apt to install icewm, xorg, gvim, iceweasel, pcmanfm, vlc and a few other things. Then I grabbed build-essentials and kernel headers so I could get VMWare installed and running.
That's pretty much it. The host is fast, light and still has enough of what I need to use it effectively. I edit all my web server's scripts in gvim (w/ perl-soupport of course), surf, play tunes using vlc, etc. As someone who gets to write perl and c programs all day for a living my OS requirements aren't that big. For everything else there is VMWare.
Thanks, I've heard of Tyndale before; never put the two together though. If I read the article correctly someone is indeed due to get a smiting, but it's not who Jack would like it to be and it looks like someone mortal will be be delivering said smiting.
Thanks. I knew the guy was a wing nut. I see now how he got that way...
No, seriously. Citation needed... Well, would be appreciated!
By the time you get to code review and test, you should be catching logic errors, not stupid syntactical and poor code style ones. If the tool helps a developer clean up and catch the obvious stuff, then testing can be much more productive catching the real problems.
Sounds like a good way to teach developers about these stupid errors as well. As someone whose knowledge of programming is self taught I learned a long time ago to pay attention to all errors, warnings and output from tools like lint to add to my understanding of the correct way to do things.It's not entirely crappy, pretty true to the original. It feels like you are watching a movie set in World Of Warcraft though. I found it hard not to notice the computer animation while watching; somewhat distracting really.
But overall, not a complete waste of time...
I know how you feel. I have been too lazy to convert from VMWare to VirtualBox. I still install Sun's Java on my workstations. I used to install Citrix a lot until we went OpenVPN. But now Sun is poised to have Java distributed as a completely Free application and just the fact that there is an alternative to VMWare shows huge progress. And, as you mentioned, dealing with multimedia can be frustrating without some closed software installed.
I know I end up sounding like a zealot sometimes; I don't mean to. I realize the need for closed software when an alternative does not exist, an alternative is an expensive* proposition or even if you're just used to what you have and the alternative doesn't seem a good fit for you. I do get ruffled though when people bash on the idealism behind Free software. It's that idealism that got us where we are today and it's what keeps driving Free software forward so we get to the point where we won't need anything closed source. RMS/FSF aren't out there to make friends, they are trying to make the world a better place and have succeeded on many levels. I know that I, personally and at work, am better off because of their efforts. And many others are as well, whether they know it or not.
*expensive in terms of the migration effort that is...
Or better yet, just call it "Linux."
That way my Mom won't have to ask me "are you running regular Linux on your computer in the basement or that Agnew Linux?" every time she hears a Linux story on public radio.
And last I checked the toolchain I use to compile software is still maintained by GNU so I have to disagree with your "useless" claim. Sure, other tools exist but they are not the default in my distro.
Sorry if it bothers you so much.
Personally I do enjoy the freedom that FSF and distros like Debian and gNewSense provide. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use them though.
There will always be Ubuntu, Linspire, Mepis and other distros that provide non-free crutches to those that need them.
The GP has all the choice they need to run a free or non-free system when it comes to Linux (or any OS for that matter). I guess they just couldn't resist the chance to bash the FSF.
Me, I prefer GNU/Linux but the field is large and level and if others choose something else there are plenty of options available to everyone.
Oh, cool. Sorry then. :-)
BAM! fucking crazy outta nowhere!
I think what he is saying is that a system with enough intelligence to filter mail would also be intelligent enough to understand mail. It could be used to look for more then spam, you know, like terrorist talk or political speech.Just asking, I don't know the actual "start" dates of either off the top of my head. I believe TBL is talking about hypertext, the first http daemons and browsers, etc. As opposed to tcp/ip and all the applications built on it before the release of the first http aware applications.
Somehow I doubt the V14gr4 and P3n15 Enlargmenttt! stuff will go away by filtering these IPs. I may be wrong, but somehow I don't think your average zombie is routing through this space.
In the immortal words of the Great Sgt. Hulka:
Lighten Up Francis!
Mind you it would not suprise me in the least if the USG was still being this stupid but I seem to remember hearing otherwise... So, here is what I dug up in a few minutes of googling. (and yes, Wikipedia is close to the top
Wikipedia Cryptography exports from the U.S. are now (as of 2006) controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products, particularly with regard to export to "rogue states" and terrorist organizations. Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software,[citation needed] and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license. Many items must still undergo a one-time review by or notification to BIS prior to export to most countries. The regulations, though relaxed from pre-1996 standards, are still complex, and often require expert legal and cryptographic consultation. Other countries, notably those participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement, have similar restrictions. Apparently Schneier wasn't sure as of 2005.
He has a link in this article to a site - www.bxa.doc.gov - that does not seem to exist anymore. A page from the old FreeSWAN manual references this bxa site as authoritative as well.
Anyone else have any knowledge of current US Cryptography export policy? It still looks pretty bleak to me.
You obviously know he's wrong, I know this, heck, most people reading this know this, even the trolls and shills who might say otherwise but BillG is hoping most of the folks who listened to him speak in Seattle don't know that.
Disgusting really. Whatever I feel about the man, it's not like he's that stupid. Ignorance I can forgive but in this case, no.
My high school economics teacher told us that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
The potatoes aren't free. They seeds, soil, water, sun, labor, and opportunity cost all have value. Well Bill is confusing Free with free. You are Free to grow the potatoes if you have the time, money and resources to do it.
Just as Free software costs time, money and resources to create. And not everyone gives Free software away for free.
You people need to bone up here. These tired arguments are
Wake me up when someone starts throwing chairs again.