My comment was directed at the submitter. The editors and people commenting never read the articles, so it would be futile to suddenly expect that to change.
Yeah. I'm guessing he didn't have a prepared statement. Either that, or he did, but he couldn't issue a written press release for some reason, so he was delivering his statement slowly to give the reporters time to write down his own words, rather than misquoting him in their haste to keep up.
RTFA. The Red Hat CEO isn't commenting on the Microsoft-Novell deal. He's commenting on the "three joint customers" that are apparently covered by the Microsoft-Novell deal. Novell is still fully to blame for their own actions.
Oh sure. Just what we need: a mass of dot-com bubble-era Windows 98 "admins" and VBA "programmers" having the ability to out-vote the minority of skilled techies who actually know what they are doing.
Oh, and it would also make it harder for you when you finally get fed up with the crap and quit to work as an independent consultant, because now your customers can't hire you because they're not allowed to use non-union workers.
And no, this won't solve the problems of insecure software, DRM, patents, spam, or anything else like that. I don't understand why a skilled IT professional would want to deal with the politics and the stupidity of a union.
To those of us who understand the WWW, this ruling clearly runs contrary to the right of free speech that is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. I'm confident that eventually, the courts will see it that way, but I wonder how long that might take.
Isn't that one of the whole points of the GPL, to enable that?
To enable it, sure, but we've seen that for the most part, GPL-covered software tends not to be significantly forked most of the time, since the economics of the situation tend to encourage people to pool their resources together. I imagine this observation was a major consideration for Sun in choosing the GPL in the first place.
I didn't RTFA (zis is Slashdot; Ve don't "RTFA" hier.), so I'll probably be modded down for this, but I wager it's likely that their methodology is flawed.
Dictionaries describe usage in general terms. That doesn't make the word choice correct. If you say that you write web pages in SGML, people are going to assume something like DocBook, even though HTML is an SGML dialect. If you start talking about writing SGML pages with JavaScript applets, you would still be correct according to any dictionary definition, but people would be right to assume you're confused, and you would be wrong to describe your work that way.
Likewise, if you put "ASP" on your resume, and the company that hires you finds out that you don't know a thing about VBScript---that your "ASP" experience was actually only with Python/ASP---no dictionary would prevent you from being fired with just cause.
We're still dealing with huge codebases that have tons of SQL injection and obvious buffer overflow vulnerabilities. There's no reason to assume that programmers who write a lot of code, in general, actually know what they're doing.
'integrated JavaScript code' ...as opposed to what? JS that isn't integrated...?
Perhaps I chose my phrasing poorly. The JavaScript interpreter is integrated into the browser, and has direct access to the web page's content. As opposed to Java applets, which are mostly isolated from the browser and the surrounding page content.
For the grammar goons among us:
applet ['aplit ] noun - Computing A very small application, esp. a utility program performing one or a few simple functions.
I don't get my computing vocabulary from some unnamed dictionary. I get it from usage, and I've never heard anyone who isn't confused use "applet" in reference to JavaScript code. You wouldn't use it either, if you actually cared to communicate your thoughts clearly.
Weird? Does JavaScript support something like varargs? If so, then this is no different from Perl, Python, C, probably Ruby, bash, and basically every other language I've used except C++ and Java.
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How are the voters guaranteed that it really is a matter of national security, and not a political matter, as is being alleged here.
Or do you have some fundamental objection to the rule of law that you would like to elaborate on?
So how do you propose to maintain accountability? It's not like the voters are in a position to decide directly.
My comment was directed at the submitter. The editors and people commenting never read the articles, so it would be futile to suddenly expect that to change.
I doubt it has to do with contracts. He said he was threatened with criminal charges. Breach of contract is a civil matter.
Yeah. I'm guessing he didn't have a prepared statement. Either that, or he did, but he couldn't issue a written press release for some reason, so he was delivering his statement slowly to give the reporters time to write down his own words, rather than misquoting him in their haste to keep up.
The YouTube video from C-SPAN is very in-teresting.
A system with proper checks and balances would allow the article to be published if either review board approved it, rather than both.
Anyway, this sort of crap is exactly why I refuse to work on anything that requires a security clearance.
RTFA. The Red Hat CEO isn't commenting on the Microsoft-Novell deal. He's commenting on the "three joint customers" that are apparently covered by the Microsoft-Novell deal. Novell is still fully to blame for their own actions.
You realize how ridiculous that sounds, right?
Shut up already! You're ruining my fun!
-- Mallory
"spam" isn't an acronym, and it isn't an initialism. Quit writing it in all-caps, unless you're talking about the trademark food product.
Except it doesn't.
And? Debian has always been having internal infighting.
Oh sure. Just what we need: a mass of dot-com bubble-era Windows 98 "admins" and VBA "programmers" having the ability to out-vote the minority of skilled techies who actually know what they are doing.
Oh, and it would also make it harder for you when you finally get fed up with the crap and quit to work as an independent consultant, because now your customers can't hire you because they're not allowed to use non-union workers.
And no, this won't solve the problems of insecure software, DRM, patents, spam, or anything else like that. I don't understand why a skilled IT professional would want to deal with the politics and the stupidity of a union.
To those of us who understand the WWW, this ruling clearly runs contrary to the right of free speech that is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. I'm confident that eventually, the courts will see it that way, but I wonder how long that might take.
To enable it, sure, but we've seen that for the most part, GPL-covered software tends not to be significantly forked most of the time, since the economics of the situation tend to encourage people to pool their resources together. I imagine this observation was a major consideration for Sun in choosing the GPL in the first place.
I'm collecting donations to buy reiserfs so I can release it under the GPL. Paypal me at mailto:slash@example.com!
Only with an inefficient fork() implementation.
What about the video memory?
I didn't RTFA (zis is Slashdot; Ve don't "RTFA" hier.), so I'll probably be modded down for this, but I wager it's likely that their methodology is flawed.
Dictionaries describe usage in general terms. That doesn't make the word choice correct. If you say that you write web pages in SGML, people are going to assume something like DocBook, even though HTML is an SGML dialect. If you start talking about writing SGML pages with JavaScript applets, you would still be correct according to any dictionary definition, but people would be right to assume you're confused, and you would be wrong to describe your work that way.
Likewise, if you put "ASP" on your resume, and the company that hires you finds out that you don't know a thing about VBScript---that your "ASP" experience was actually only with Python/ASP---no dictionary would prevent you from being fired with just cause.
We're still dealing with huge codebases that have tons of SQL injection and obvious buffer overflow vulnerabilities. There's no reason to assume that programmers who write a lot of code, in general, actually know what they're doing.
...as opposed to what? JS that isn't integrated...?
Perhaps I chose my phrasing poorly. The JavaScript interpreter is integrated into the browser, and has direct access to the web page's content. As opposed to Java applets, which are mostly isolated from the browser and the surrounding page content.
For the grammar goons among us:applet ['aplit ] noun - Computing A very small application, esp. a utility program performing one or a few simple functions.
I don't get my computing vocabulary from some unnamed dictionary. I get it from usage, and I've never heard anyone who isn't confused use "applet" in reference to JavaScript code. You wouldn't use it either, if you actually cared to communicate your thoughts clearly.
Weird? Does JavaScript support something like varargs? If so, then this is no different from Perl, Python, C, probably Ruby, bash, and basically every other language I've used except C++ and Java.
And yet you don't seem to know the difference between an embedded Java applet and integrated JavaScript code.