"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." - Agnt Smith, The Matrix
Permissive licences dont demand its users or developers behave a certain way, but that doesnt mean they dont wish its users and developers behave a certain way.
Its a greater gift if you give it freely, if you have to ask or demand something its not as special. Making some demands to achieve a greater good is how copyleft sees it.
I do vagually remember on the BSD developers complaing about the lack of financial support, but i guess each case is different.
Permissive open source licenses allow people to choose who they collaborate with and how much
Permissive open source licences allow freeloaders to choose if they should their modifications with the non-freeloaders who have already chosen to share with them.
Which is why the BSDs have had only limited success compared to GNU/Linux.
Apple has already done this for you, as GPL software is banned from the app store. How do you like that?
There is no value in trying to create a Free softwarte layer on top of a non-free platorm.
It would be deceptive if Apple where to allow GPL'ed software and give people only the illusion of freedom. Apple will never willingly give owners control of the hardware, so it is how it has to be.
The masses have spoken, and after weighing the costs of the walled garden (censorship etc) vs the benefits (no viruses), the masses have opted for safety with the added benefit of stores with trained staff to help them with any troubles they do run into.
People want independently QA'ed software, which is one of the roles Linux distributions provide.
If Apple could have continued using gcc, then it is likely LLVM/clang would never have had the success that it has.
LLVM/Clang is not a failure for the FSF, its a success for Apple.
There needs to be a copyleft licence that restricts distribution on the same medium as non-free software, without it we will lose the IoT as well.
Time is how we measure change, its a property of an object, not an object itself.
For time to have a begining would mean a situation when nothing changed. Which suggests zero energy. So for time to have a beggining is to suggest energy can be created created.
Obviously we do need better ways to catch and confine criminals and we also need better ways to tune these people up and make them normal members of society
And a strong social welfare system so people dont get so desperate they see crime as a way to "fit in" with our capitalist society.
âoeIt is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.â - John Adams
ensure that police and spies can listen in when a court approves
The US Government is willing to break their own constitution so they can secretly spy and kill people. They need to demonstrate that there is effectual oversight to their abuse of power, and that the courts are capable of operating independently before they can be trusted.
If we had true AI it would be be able to workout things that an organic brain is just too simple to understand. And yes, organic brains do have limits, eg dogs will never understand algebra.
When AI understands so much of our world that we dont, we would be in a position where have to take a "leap of faith" and just choose to believe it in order to benefit from it.
How do we protect ourself from the manifestation of god ?
I'm thinking of that happy little picture of the world with a circle over portions of South and East Asia and the large islands in the Indian Ocean where half of the population of the planet lives.
Madagascar ?
I dont see the connection, maybe i need to research geographic sterotypes...
Also; Australia has 'parallel import' laws which make it legal to bypass country wide restrictions used by corporations, so they cant legally stop us. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (government funded pro consumer organisition) are pretty strong in areas like this and i would expect them to cause problems for the media cartels if push came to shove. Using a VPN is encouraged by mainstream consumer oriented groups like choice magazine, see http://www.choice.com.au/revie...
I have tried looking on ebay a while back, but the ones i saw where around $40-$50, which was more than half the price of the SBC i was looking at iirc. I probably should have kept looking.
"Google's security research database has after a 90 day timeout automatically undisclosed a Windows 8.1 vulnerability"
"undisclosed adjective 1. not made known or revealed: an undisclosed sum"
From that description i assume google has a database of recent security vulnerabilities (from the last 90 days). Vulnerabilities are immediately public information, then after 90 days they are removed from the list as they arent recent, and assumed to be patched ?
OR
Its the opposite and the person writing the description for the story should have said disclosed instead of undisclosed.
(sarcastic comment about reundisclosing the vulnerability so they can redisclose it in another 90 days)
Slashdot Mirror
Agent Smith has more humanity than Mr "die or relocate" Kokuyo
Frankly, what are people so concerned about?
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure." - Agnt Smith, The Matrix
+1
Permissive licences dont demand its users or developers behave a certain way, but that doesnt mean they dont wish its users and developers behave a certain way.
Its a greater gift if you give it freely, if you have to ask or demand something its not as special. Making some demands to achieve a greater good is how copyleft sees it.
I do vagually remember on the BSD developers complaing about the lack of financial support, but i guess each case is different.
That point is addressed in the Free Software Definition and any license containing said clause would not be considered Free.
Nothing last forever, the FSF will inovate or die, like everyhting else.
Its rediculous that the FSF is the biggest enabler of proprietary software companies, its sad that the community cant see its mistakes.
Permissive open source licenses allow people to choose who they collaborate with and how much
Permissive open source licences allow freeloaders to choose if they should their modifications with the non-freeloaders who have already chosen to share with them.
Which is why the BSDs have had only limited success compared to GNU/Linux.
Apple has already done this for you, as GPL software is banned from the app store. How do you like that?
There is no value in trying to create a Free softwarte layer on top of a non-free platorm.
It would be deceptive if Apple where to allow GPL'ed software and give people only the illusion of freedom. Apple will never willingly give owners control of the hardware, so it is how it has to be.
The masses have spoken, and after weighing the costs of the walled garden (censorship etc) vs the benefits (no viruses), the masses have opted for safety with the added benefit of stores with trained staff to help them with any troubles they do run into.
People want independently QA'ed software, which is one of the roles Linux distributions provide.
If Apple could have continued using gcc, then it is likely LLVM/clang would never have had the success that it has.
LLVM/Clang is not a failure for the FSF, its a success for Apple.
There needs to be a copyleft licence that restricts distribution on the same medium as non-free software, without it we will lose the IoT as well.
We where onto a good thing, but we failed to adapt.
We failed to adapt to the commercial attacks that make closed source software the gatekeeper to software freedom.
We lost the mobile space, Android is full of crap software running on a Free kernel that hardly anyone can use freely.
Free software is free beer that corporations on-sell minus the libre.
Funny, but given the the massive scale of the criminal conspiracy which was perpetuated by the financial industry with re-packaging shitty debt
I wonder if any of those people use any microsoft programs to commit their crimes... perhaps we can get all the microsoft emplyees put in jail.
(but seriosuly, this is such a slippery slope i wouldnt even want that)
Time is how we measure change, its a property of an object, not an object itself.
For time to have a begining would mean a situation when nothing changed. Which suggests zero energy. So for time to have a beggining is to suggest energy can be created created.
orsomethinglikethat
Do we get all the source code ?
Are they happy for people to make custom images for it ?
In bizarro world punch him in the face.
Thats not bad
Never too late for hat jokes, drop them in randomly.
Obviously we do need better ways to catch and confine criminals and we also need better ways to tune these people up and make them normal members of society
And a strong social welfare system so people dont get so desperate they see crime as a way to "fit in" with our capitalist society.
Or to say it another way...
âoeIt is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.â - John Adams
ensure that police and spies can listen in when a court approves
The US Government is willing to break their own constitution so they can secretly spy and kill people.
They need to demonstrate that there is effectual oversight to their abuse of power, and that the courts are capable of operating independently before they can be trusted.
If we had true AI it would be be able to workout things that an organic brain is just too simple to understand. And yes, organic brains do have limits, eg dogs will never understand algebra.
When AI understands so much of our world that we dont, we would be in a position where have to take a "leap of faith" and just choose to believe it in order to benefit from it.
How do we protect ourself from the manifestation of god ?
I'm thinking of that happy little picture of the world with a circle over portions of South and East Asia and the large islands in the Indian Ocean where half of the population of the planet lives.
Madagascar ?
I dont see the connection, maybe i need to research geographic sterotypes...
Also;
Australia has 'parallel import' laws which make it legal to bypass country wide restrictions used by corporations, so they cant legally stop us.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (government funded pro consumer organisition) are pretty strong in areas like this and i would expect them to cause problems for the media cartels if push came to shove.
Using a VPN is encouraged by mainstream consumer oriented groups like choice magazine, see http://www.choice.com.au/revie...
Medium doesn't have ads, so I'm not sure where you're going with that ...
If you havent been to Medium, you would not know that.
I believe he was contrasting this story against stories with poor summaries with a link to some random url you havent been to before.
Perhaps read slower ?
I have tried looking on ebay a while back, but the ones i saw where around $40-$50, which was more than half the price of the SBC i was looking at iirc. I probably should have kept looking.
Thanks for the advice.
Why no neat plastic cases housign the SBC ?
I know they arent really aimed at consumers, but still, why not have an optional case to give it some pretection and make it look good.
"Google's security research database has after a 90 day timeout automatically undisclosed a Windows 8.1 vulnerability"
"undisclosed
adjective
1. not made known or revealed: an undisclosed sum"
From that description i assume google has a database of recent security vulnerabilities (from the last 90 days).
Vulnerabilities are immediately public information, then after 90 days they are removed from the list as they arent recent, and assumed to be patched ?
OR
Its the opposite and the person writing the description for the story should have said disclosed instead of undisclosed.
(sarcastic comment about reundisclosing the vulnerability so they can redisclose it in another 90 days)