I didn't say overall that the DMCA might be correct, but that as it was applied in this particular case did you consider that it may have been justified? The DMCA has yet to be tried on its more unconstitutional facets.
We are not talking about TcX, we are dealing with plain vanilla GPL which has no such clauses. The FSF's stance on linking has been very clear for a long time, and connections to a server do not fall under this criteria.
Furthermore, it would have to be a very special type of connection for anyone with any knowledge of computing and software to seriously consider a opening a communication channel an act of linking.
Come on people! It's right in front of your noses... literally. Just name each machine after a slashdot login name. There are what, 500 000 registered slashdotters? Even if only a tenth of them have good names, that's still more than enough.
A 2-second peek in this very story provides some decent candidates:
Yoda
JabberWokky
MoonShadow
PotPie
GoreHog
GraveyTrain
IronFrog
Ars-Fartsica
Pelerin
Dark Paladin
Psmylie
Shyster
RoseWood
Sawbones
(dumb lameness filter prevented a longer list)
Of course, these names don't follow any pattern which would reveal their use, but they could if you were selective about the names.
You can write some asm stub code which replaces library calls (which call) the OS, and you wouldn't have to use anyone else's code. You can even do system calls manually. You can have an app that doesn't do any system calls at all (you have to be careful not to link against _start in the libraries as well). Linking to pre-existing code is simply the standard way of doing it (and the easiest), but not the only way. However, since these library calls are all in glibc, and glibc is LGPL'd, there is no argument about linking closed-source programs. Alright people?
No, there is NO linking at all, dynamic or otherwise. Your point does not apply. The only linking may be with glibc, but that is under the LGPL, so no problem there.
RMS will interpret the GPL for Hurd as allowing only GPL apps and device drivers.
For your information, Hurd is a microkernel with device drivers as user-space applications, ie. they are not linked into the kernel as in Linux. Since no linking takes place, the GPL does not apply and you can have as many closed-source drivers as you like. GPL does not apply to stand-alone applications if they do not link with GPL code.
it should be good enough to nearly eliminate double-digit IQ's...
You will never eliminate double-digit IQ's. IQ by definition is a statistical measure of relative intelligence (your intelligence relative to the average). If you eliminate current double-digit IQ's, then the average shifts up until to mean is 100 again.
Actually, we already have anti-matter engines, they're just not very sophisticated. Pennsylvania State University and NASA are investigating these drives. The drive could power a mission to Mars in 120 days. That's: go to Mars (30 days), stay for 30 days, and come back (30 days). Sum: 120 days. That's awesome.
But how many such large corporations are there in comparison to small businesses? The ratio is probably 100 000 small businesses for every large corporation (if not higher). So, just because a few large companies are driven by an unscrupulous lust for money you would over-generalize and conclude that all business owners rip off their employees? Please have some perspective.
Are you a manager or an executive? Your post sure pins you down as one.
No, I'm not in management or any kind of position of control or power. But I do understand that someone running their own business lives and breaths their work. You're right that employees sometimes/often also work quite a bit over the 8 hr. average workday, but in any small to medium sized business, I cannot see see how employees would work more than the owner.
That said, I didn't mention in my previous post (because it's an over-generalization), that what I said doesn't typically apply in large companies (from what I can tell). Large businesses tend to be unnecessarily top-heavy and consequently suffer many of the problems you outline, and it's truly disgusting. I doubt that all evil men are company executives though, so generalizations don't apply. Most businesses are small to medium sized so casting all owners as evil, greedy degenerates as did the poster I replied to is completely unjustified.
But corrupt management are not the only immoral people employed in companies. There are also lazy, useless workers sucking the companies' money, so to say that the owners are thieves stealing from all the workers is an willfully ignorant perspective. Your same argument of trust should apply equally to all employees, yet I frequently come across workers who abuse their trust and waste the companies's time and money. Perhaps it's human nature, but if so, it applies equally well to workers as to management.
So if you feel that management is unfairly treating it's workers because they don't trust their employees, then talk first to the employees that are causing this perception; the few often ruin it for the many. There are good and bad people everywhere, in all positions. Don't over-generalize based on your experience, and don't prejudice yourself because of it.
Why does an owner of a large company deserve to make 50-1000 times the amount of money their workers earn?
Because the owner had an idea and brought it to life. Because the owner used his mind to create great value, something the worker is apparently incapable of. Would you give a student who wrote a terrible essay which was 200 pages long the same mark as a student who wrote a brilliant essay which was only 10 pages long? He worked SO much harder, so he deserves a better mark right? Please. Work smarter, not harder.
I would think 50 workers would be working harder than one man driving around in a limo, who does not even cook his own food.
In fact, you are wrong on this point as well. Workers work from the morning to the evening, 8 hr. shift, and then they are done. Owners and CEO's do not stop working, and that's why they are payed so much. They live their work; they are always thinking about new strategy, reorganization, and the latest reports, long after they go home. They are compensated for sacrificing more of their lives and freedom to lead a successful business. Just because the workers may be physical labourers, does not make them harder workers.
The owners rob the workers.
Sometimes it happens, but it is the exception, not the rule.
Humans are always the weakest link in any security system. Adaptive system won't help if you have idiots setting them up, running and using them. Education people, education. That's what's needed.
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nitpick: the energy is not lost (conservation). Perhaps you meant dissipated, or diffused.
We do currently have molecular-scale optical waveguides, so the tech in this area is not that far off.
I didn't say overall that the DMCA might be correct, but that as it was applied in this particular case did you consider that it may have been justified? The DMCA has yet to be tried on its more unconstitutional facets.
Did you ever consider the possibility that the DMCA may have been correctly applied and justified in this case?
That's TcX's interpretation of the GPL.
Fortunately, their interpretation is not law.
Since when did judges have "any knowledge of computing and software"?
Since they are forced to educate themselves when faced with technical cases.
We are not talking about TcX, we are dealing with plain vanilla GPL which has no such clauses. The FSF's stance on linking has been very clear for a long time, and connections to a server do not fall under this criteria.
Furthermore, it would have to be a very special type of connection for anyone with any knowledge of computing and software to seriously consider a opening a communication channel an act of linking.
A 2-second peek in this very story provides some decent candidates:
(dumb lameness filter prevented a longer list)
Of course, these names don't follow any pattern which would reveal their use, but they could if you were selective about the names.
You can still use a generic VGA driver, but it won't be accelerated unless you have native drivers.
You can write some asm stub code which replaces library calls (which call) the OS, and you wouldn't have to use anyone else's code. You can even do system calls manually. You can have an app that doesn't do any system calls at all (you have to be careful not to link against _start in the libraries as well). Linking to pre-existing code is simply the standard way of doing it (and the easiest), but not the only way. However, since these library calls are all in glibc, and glibc is LGPL'd, there is no argument about linking closed-source programs. Alright people?
I also responded to that point in my original post. Just read the last sentence.
No, there is NO linking at all, dynamic or otherwise. Your point does not apply. The only linking may be with glibc, but that is under the LGPL, so no problem there.
RMS will interpret the GPL for Hurd as allowing only GPL apps and device drivers.
For your information, Hurd is a microkernel with device drivers as user-space applications, ie. they are not linked into the kernel as in Linux. Since no linking takes place, the GPL does not apply and you can have as many closed-source drivers as you like. GPL does not apply to stand-alone applications if they do not link with GPL code.
it should be good enough to nearly eliminate double-digit IQ's...
You will never eliminate double-digit IQ's. IQ by definition is a statistical measure of relative intelligence (your intelligence relative to the average). If you eliminate current double-digit IQ's, then the average shifts up until to mean is 100 again.
Is it any surprise these folks keep running into planets?
;-)
That was my (huge) bad. You'd think 4 yrs of engineering would teach me to add.
maybe he can't add...
;-)
Ya, they don't teach us that junk in engineering...
Of course, anti-matter engines are waaaaaaaay off
Actually, we already have anti-matter engines, they're just not very sophisticated. Pennsylvania State University and NASA are investigating these drives. The drive could power a mission to Mars in 120 days. That's: go to Mars (30 days), stay for 30 days, and come back (30 days). Sum: 120 days. That's awesome.
Ah, here we go:
Antimatter Catalyzed Micro Fission/Fusion
NASA Press release
Antimatter drives
ANTIPROTON-CATALYZED MICROFISSION/FUSION PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR EXPLORATION OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND
But how many such large corporations are there in comparison to small businesses? The ratio is probably 100 000 small businesses for every large corporation (if not higher). So, just because a few large companies are driven by an unscrupulous lust for money you would over-generalize and conclude that all business owners rip off their employees? Please have some perspective.
Are you a manager or an executive? Your post sure pins you down as one.
No, I'm not in management or any kind of position of control or power. But I do understand that someone running their own business lives and breaths their work. You're right that employees sometimes/often also work quite a bit over the 8 hr. average workday, but in any small to medium sized business, I cannot see see how employees would work more than the owner.
That said, I didn't mention in my previous post (because it's an over-generalization), that what I said doesn't typically apply in large companies (from what I can tell). Large businesses tend to be unnecessarily top-heavy and consequently suffer many of the problems you outline, and it's truly disgusting. I doubt that all evil men are company executives though, so generalizations don't apply. Most businesses are small to medium sized so casting all owners as evil, greedy degenerates as did the poster I replied to is completely unjustified.
But corrupt management are not the only immoral people employed in companies. There are also lazy, useless workers sucking the companies' money, so to say that the owners are thieves stealing from all the workers is an willfully ignorant perspective. Your same argument of trust should apply equally to all employees, yet I frequently come across workers who abuse their trust and waste the companies's time and money. Perhaps it's human nature, but if so, it applies equally well to workers as to management.
So if you feel that management is unfairly treating it's workers because they don't trust their employees, then talk first to the employees that are causing this perception; the few often ruin it for the many. There are good and bad people everywhere, in all positions. Don't over-generalize based on your experience, and don't prejudice yourself because of it.
Why does an owner of a large company deserve to make 50-1000 times the amount of money their workers earn?
Because the owner had an idea and brought it to life. Because the owner used his mind to create great value, something the worker is apparently incapable of. Would you give a student who wrote a terrible essay which was 200 pages long the same mark as a student who wrote a brilliant essay which was only 10 pages long? He worked SO much harder, so he deserves a better mark right? Please. Work smarter, not harder.
I would think 50 workers would be working harder than one man driving around in a limo, who does not even cook his own food.
In fact, you are wrong on this point as well. Workers work from the morning to the evening, 8 hr. shift, and then they are done. Owners and CEO's do not stop working, and that's why they are payed so much. They live their work; they are always thinking about new strategy, reorganization, and the latest reports, long after they go home. They are compensated for sacrificing more of their lives and freedom to lead a successful business. Just because the workers may be physical labourers, does not make them harder workers.
The owners rob the workers.
Sometimes it happens, but it is the exception, not the rule.
No, no. It's Nickel... or Necktie... it was definitely an 'N' word! (sly peek to the left... sly peek to the right...) ...
tiny reliable components are the basic philosophy of Unix.
On a big, bloated kernel.
Amoeba is identical to the design of Plan9 with the following differences: transparent parallelism, built on a micro-kernel.
Amoeba also implements the sparse capability security model. In fact, that's it most significant feature, the one that really sets it apart.
Thanks. :-)
Hell, I have a textbook that lists the matrices for them.
Which book is that?
Humans are always the weakest link in any security system. Adaptive system won't help if you have idiots setting them up, running and using them. Education people, education. That's what's needed.