But this has triggered growing political, cultural and economic conflicts, all likely to worsen in the coming years. Government is moving to establish Internet law, as in the Microsoft trial -- something it never bothered to do before
The microsoft trial doesn't have anything to do with "internet law". The microsoft trial is about alledged illegal use of a monolopy power.
Why work for Red Hat, now that its IPO is over, when you can work at the next IPO? Why work at any IPO, when you can hold your own IPO? Why bother with Linux, when you can catch hold of the next Next Big Thing? With all the pirates and big corporations in the race to take advantage of the opportunities of this Next Big Market, the open source companies are going to have a harder time than they ever imagined competing in the very arena they created.
A couple of things strike me as funny with these statements. For starters, I don't see very many more "successful" linux IPO's coming down the pike. Redhat and VA have solid reputations and put out respected products, and they were "first movers" as far as most of the people on the stock market are concerned. Anyone that would decide not to work for RHAT because they've missed the IPO better find a start up that has more to it's buisness plan than the word linux scatterred around, because this whole blind bidding up of anything linux isn't going to last. The current tech IPO fever probably won't last either. You're better off working for a company that has a solid future and that you enjoy working for. And I don't think that the current open source companies are too woried about losing the types of employees that would try to cash in on this market hype.
I'm sure the director of HR at RedHat doesn't lose sleep worying about how he'll be able to compete with LinuxOne for new talent.
Your chance of getting the BP6 to work with Copermines has changed from unlikely to impossible according to this message from abit I found at bp6.com
".. i just wanted to update you so you could let people on the site know that the BP6 will NOT be able to support coppermines. That will not happen, there are also rumors of an adapter card. We have no such card in the plans. Originally it was thought that maybe we could get it to work with a BIOS update, but that has proven to be not true. The reason is because of 2 areas, both controled by Intel. One is the VRM spec, which controls voltage regulation, the other is the pin-outs between the Celerons and CUmines, both different. So even a single processor Cumin capability will not be availble for the BP6 much less dual capability."
Question: By responding to my troll, are you currently posting something of substance? I merely found it interesting that he posted the exact same messge in two separate threads. Did you know, there's this feature whereby you can embed html tags in your comments? I mean, I've even seen people use it to link to other relevent posts they may have written. The cross-post wouldn't have stood out so much if it wasn't a relatively long comment that I had just seen at the top of the thread a couple of stories down.
PS: If I believed that karma was a "dick measuring contest" as you point out, would I have posted a comment that was sure to be moderated down?
the FTC will step in against this buyout. One company controlling 99% of the marker for digital certificates would be a disaster. This is exactly what the anti-trust laws were set up to prevent.
If you read the story, you would have seen the words:
Please note that our native language is spanish, and we try to keep intact the content of the original reply in spanish.
so before you flame them about a mis-picked word try learning another language and translating a document into it, and lets see how well you do. And I think what they meant was "Lamentably, previous deeds..."
Palmisano wrote. ``The next generation of e-business will see customers increasingly demand open standards for interoperability across disparate platforms,'' he said. He was referring to the wide mixture of computer systems IBM builds to suit different customer requirements -- from PCs to mainframe computers -- and the capacity of Linux to act as a unifying force across these various computer systems. ``We will essentially Linux-enable all our platforms,'' Palmisano said in an interview of IBM's evolving strategy to make IBM servers -- the powerful machines used to manage network of other computers -- fully ready to work with Linux....
..... Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst with market research firm International Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass., said IBM is at work on projects to Linux-enable its Netfinity PC servers and its mainframe-class computers, and to make its AIX version of Unix work more easily with Linux, among other systems.
Taken from IMB to Rally Around Linux for Future Computers by Eric Auchard (Reuters) Monday January 10 12:10 AM ET
They've already got domino working, and as far as I know, they have no plans to get the notes client up and running, they're plan is to phase out the client and move everyone to the web interface eventually.
I found that one of the things that I missed about the "good old days"tm was having real tower cases. I had a gateway tower that was huge, all kinds of space for different drives and hard disks. Recently I bought an Abit Bp6 and I was excited to find out that through the addition of the HPT ide controllers I could hang 8 ide devices off of the motherboard (not counting the floppy) What bothered me, however, was a lack of cases with enogh bays for all the disk drives I could have. It was really tough to find a big case that had enough empty bays in it.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I miss having a nice big case, with plenty of room for cooling and extra disk bays.
A better translation: Sorry if I screw up your words Tom, but I'll try my best
"When the hypothetical day comes that you master a second language with one tenth of the ability of the authors, whose work --and whose cause-- we've already discussed, then maybe you can say "four f**cking words"(note: this is as close as I can come to translating what appears to be a slang phrase) about good grammar. But right now, don't even think about it. You should go away, rude person that you are; you're not affording the proper respect that's rightfully due to these fine people! I can assure you that they didn't translate this notice for their own benefit, they did it for you."
Sorry I just thought that this was very insightful and our non spanish speaking brethren ought to be able to read it
offtopic? wtf, I replied to a post that hadn't been moderated down. It was on topic at the time I posted. If you can't reply on the topic of other people's posts what can you respond to... Flamebait I can understand, maybe.. but offtopic
If I'm not mistaken, you can just download Suse and press your own cd's of the free stuff..
Why not let them think that they can lock down importation of their version of SuSe and them re-tool it into another distribution called "LinuxTech's A Joke", maybe that'd show them that they can't keep exclusive control of gpl'd software.
If that's all it took don't you think that they'd do it? They don't deny access to their online banking systems. It probably took 10 minutes to write the rejection page that's there, if it was as easy to support the unix platform they would do that rather than turn away other potential customers.
I think it's ethically wrong for them to deny access based on OS, unless there's some kind of sound technical reason for them to do so (which there isn't in my mind) It's against the spirit of the internet. Cross platform information sharing was one of the reason why the web took off in the first place and they're violating that ideal. However, decisions like platform support aren't made haphazardly and I'm sure that they sat down looked at the cost analysis comparing the price of making sure the site worked with all platforms vs the expected revenue from users accessing the site via unix hosts. I know that if you stick to good clean code browser and os differences shouldn't give you any problems, but a lot of people aren't writing good clean code.
I've been using their online banking system from my linux box for the past year, I know that I show up in their web logs. I'm sure a lot of other unix users show up there as well, but I'm also sure that they don't have enough non-windows, non-mac clients to warrant extra effort in platform support
Citibank is a buisness, they look at the bottom line and do what's most profittable. In this case it was denying access to non windows/mac users. Do I wish that they would support all of the OS's or at least unix? Yes... Do I blame them for not supporting them? No.
Maybe I'm just ignorant but wouldn't the various chip differences (sparc,itanium,power-pc) still exist? wouldn't that make it a little difficult to have cross platform binaries?
or do they predict that we will all be using the same processors by then as well..
Almost a moot point now,
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I'm guessing that Etoys won't be pushing so hard to keep this injunction now that the christmas season is over. They got what they wanted, and now they're just going to drag their feet until some judge with a brain invalidates their injunction.
I wanted to give some kind of justifyable reason to stay away from The Talented Mr Ripley but if I actually discussed it in any way I'd probably unravel the totally unimaginative plot and it'd lose whatever shred of mystery you could argue that it has. So I'm only going to say one thing.
You will never get those two hours and fifteen minutes of you life back
You've gotta be fucking kidding. Who the hell would be ignorant enough to moderate this up. Earth To GreyFox... South America is a continent, There are many different countries in south america. Not every south american country uses cocaine for their primary cash crop, and not every south american country is run by drug cartels. Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of coffee and orange juice concentrate and second-largest exporter of soybeans. Those are their primary cash crops. Making claims about cocaine being their #1 cash crop is what leads a lot of foreigners to belive that racism and ignorance are the US's #1 exports.
Not so much Frankenstien as Rappaccini
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I think that a better literary characterization of Dr. Venter would be Rappaccini from Hawthorne's Rappaccinni's Daughter I think it's a much better treatise on their danger of "a blind" quest of science than Frankenstien, and it's more applicable to the moral issues raised by the current story.
Professor Rappacinni examines and manipulates plants for his studies of poison's and thier use in medicines. He is immersed in his study and is blinded to the moral ramifications of his creations. He creates a garden, filled with genetically altered plants that while beautiful are filled with the deadliest poison. He raises his beautiful daughter, Beatrice, in the garden and as a result poison flows throughout her whole being. Rappacinni planned this result because he wanted to give his daugther a weapon with which to better fight the dangers of the world. One day she meets a young man, Giovanni, and they fall in love. But he is tormented by the fact that all she touches dies. A rival professor, Bagglioni, convinces the young man to give her an antidote to her poison so that they might live happily in the outside world. This professor knows that the antidote could work, or might kill her, but he provides it nonetheless out of a quest for political power and partly out of a maliciousness. When she drinks the antidote she is killed.
What does this have to do with Katz's article on Planet Gattaca?
Rappacinni's not the vilain in the story, and his creations aren't evil. He gives Beatrice her poison nature out of good intentions, he wants to protect her. Had she stayed in the garden, she would never had died. We are led not to blame Rappacinni for creating her the way he did. The individuals responsible for her death were Baglioni and Giovanni. They knew the rammifications of their actions and proceeded regardless out of their own selfish reasons.
Currently most genetecists are working on trying to understand the building blocks of life to make our lives better. They aren't the ones who will be making the decisions to use/missuse their discoveries. We need to be more concerned with those that will try to use their discoveries for socio-political gain, namely governments and corporations. If we try to apply moral control at the scientific level, we will just cease to hear about such discoveries. I'd rather that they do the research first and then ask about it than make the decision to proceed, or not, privately.
if you were to replace the word "PROTEST" with a randomly selected word from a dictionary, I think you could generate a significantly greater ammount of load. If you changed the search terms and pulled them from a big list of possible words, they wouldn't be able to benefit from caching. And it wouldn't even use more bandwith on your end.
Slashdot Mirror
The microsoft trial doesn't have anything to do with "internet law". The microsoft trial is about alledged illegal use of a monolopy power.
A couple of things strike me as funny with these statements. For starters, I don't see very many more "successful" linux IPO's coming down the pike. Redhat and VA have solid reputations and put out respected products, and they were "first movers" as far as most of the people on the stock market are concerned. Anyone that would decide not to work for RHAT because they've missed the IPO better find a start up that has more to it's buisness plan than the word linux scatterred around, because this whole blind bidding up of anything linux isn't going to last. The current tech IPO fever probably won't last either. You're better off working for a company that has a solid future and that you enjoy working for. And I don't think that the current open source companies are too woried about losing the types of employees that would try to cash in on this market hype.
I'm sure the director of HR at RedHat doesn't lose sleep worying about how he'll be able to compete with LinuxOne for new talent.
".. i just wanted to update you so you could let people on the site know that the BP6 will NOT be able to support coppermines. That will not happen, there are also rumors of an adapter card. We have no such card in the plans. Originally it was thought that maybe we could get it to work with a BIOS update, but that has proven to be not true. The reason is because of 2 areas, both controled by Intel. One is the VRM spec, which controls voltage regulation, the other is the pin-outs between the Celerons and CUmines, both different. So even a single processor Cumin capability will not be availble for the BP6 much less dual capability."
I merely found it interesting that he posted the exact same messge in two separate threads. Did you know, there's this feature whereby you can embed html tags in your comments? I mean, I've even seen people use it to link to other relevent posts they may have written. The cross-post wouldn't have stood out so much if it wasn't a relatively long comment that I had just seen at the top of the thread a couple of stories down.
PS: If I believed that karma was a "dick measuring contest" as you point out, would I have posted a comment that was sure to be moderated down?
the FTC will step in against this buyout. One company controlling 99% of the marker for digital certificates would be a disaster. This is exactly what the anti-trust laws were set up to prevent.
Please note that our native language is spanish, and we try to keep intact the content of the original reply in spanish.
so before you flame them about a mis-picked word try learning another language and translating a document into it, and lets see how well you do. And I think what they meant was "Lamentably, previous deeds..."
oops I meant "IBM to Rally..."
Taken from IMB to Rally Around Linux for Future Computers by Eric Auchard (Reuters)
Monday January 10 12:10 AM ET
Looks like you might be wrong...
They've already got domino working, and as far as I know, they have no plans to get the notes client up and running, they're plan is to phase out the client and move everyone to the web interface eventually.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I miss having a nice big case, with plenty of room for cooling and extra disk bays.
"When the hypothetical day comes that you master a second language with one tenth of the ability of the authors, whose work --and whose cause-- we've already discussed, then maybe you can say "four f**cking words"(note: this is as close as I can come to translating what appears to be a slang phrase) about good grammar. But right now, don't even think about it. You should go away, rude person that you are; you're not affording the proper respect that's rightfully due to these fine people! I can assure you that they didn't translate this notice for their own benefit, they did it for you."
Sorry I just thought that this was very insightful and our non spanish speaking brethren ought to be able to read it
offtopic? wtf, I replied to a post that hadn't been moderated down. It was on topic at the time I posted. If you can't reply on the topic of other people's posts what can you respond to... Flamebait I can understand, maybe.. but offtopic
Why not let them think that they can lock down importation of their version of SuSe and them re-tool it into another distribution called "LinuxTech's A Joke", maybe that'd show them that they can't keep exclusive control of gpl'd software.
Anyone know if they'll ever be including the High Point ATA-66 controller drivers in the kernel? the patches have been around for a while.
If that's all it took don't you think that they'd do it? They don't deny access to their online banking systems. It probably took 10 minutes to write the rejection page that's there, if it was as easy to support the unix platform they would do that rather than turn away other potential customers.
I think it's ethically wrong for them to deny access based on OS, unless there's some kind of sound technical reason for them to do so (which there isn't in my mind) It's against the spirit of the internet. Cross platform information sharing was one of the reason why the web took off in the first place and they're violating that ideal. However, decisions like platform support aren't made haphazardly and I'm sure that they sat down looked at the cost analysis comparing the price of making sure the site worked with all platforms vs the expected revenue from users accessing the site via unix hosts. I know that if you stick to good clean code browser and os differences shouldn't give you any problems, but a lot of people aren't writing good clean code.
I've been using their online banking system from my linux box for the past year, I know that I show up in their web logs. I'm sure a lot of other unix users show up there as well, but I'm also sure that they don't have enough non-windows, non-mac clients to warrant extra effort in platform support
Citibank is a buisness, they look at the bottom line and do what's most profittable. In this case it was denying access to non windows/mac users. Do I wish that they would support all of the OS's or at least unix? Yes... Do I blame them for not supporting them? No.
or do they predict that we will all be using the same processors by then as well..
I'm guessing that Etoys won't be pushing so hard to keep this injunction now that the christmas season is over. They got what they wanted, and now they're just going to drag their feet until some judge with a brain invalidates their injunction.
You will never get those two hours and fifteen minutes of you life back
Don't make the same mistake I did, I beg you
For a longer review try this one
I'd rather have a story written by "amatuers" than nothing.
New Technology
You've gotta be fucking kidding. Who the hell would be ignorant enough to moderate this up. Earth To GreyFox... South America is a continent, There are many different countries in south america. Not every south american country uses cocaine for their primary cash crop, and not every south american country is run by drug cartels. Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of coffee and orange juice concentrate and second-largest exporter of soybeans. Those are their primary cash crops. Making claims about cocaine being their #1 cash crop is what leads a lot of foreigners to belive that racism and ignorance are the US's #1 exports.
Professor Rappacinni examines and manipulates plants for his studies of poison's and thier use in medicines. He is immersed in his study and is blinded to the moral ramifications of his creations. He creates a garden, filled with genetically altered plants that while beautiful are filled with the deadliest poison. He raises his beautiful daughter, Beatrice, in the garden and as a result poison flows throughout her whole being. Rappacinni planned this result because he wanted to give his daugther a weapon with which to better fight the dangers of the world. One day she meets a young man, Giovanni, and they fall in love. But he is tormented by the fact that all she touches dies. A rival professor, Bagglioni, convinces the young man to give her an antidote to her poison so that they might live happily in the outside world. This professor knows that the antidote could work, or might kill her, but he provides it nonetheless out of a quest for political power and partly out of a maliciousness. When she drinks the antidote she is killed.
What does this have to do with Katz's article on Planet Gattaca?
Rappacinni's not the vilain in the story, and his creations aren't evil. He gives Beatrice her poison nature out of good intentions, he wants to protect her. Had she stayed in the garden, she would never had died. We are led not to blame Rappacinni for creating her the way he did. The individuals responsible for her death were Baglioni and Giovanni. They knew the rammifications of their actions and proceeded regardless out of their own selfish reasons.
Currently most genetecists are working on trying to understand the building blocks of life to make our lives better. They aren't the ones who will be making the decisions to use/missuse their discoveries. We need to be more concerned with those that will try to use their discoveries for socio-political gain, namely governments and corporations. If we try to apply moral control at the scientific level, we will just cease to hear about such discoveries. I'd rather that they do the research first and then ask about it than make the decision to proceed, or not, privately.
not to nitpick but I think the link is actually here
Not that I'm advocating any kind of coordinated DOS attack ;) but...
If you were to write a script or program that would just reload their pages, I wouldn't go for their static pages.
I think it'd be much more fun to submit all kinds of bogus search requests and put some serious load on their app and database servers.
For example:
http://www.etoys.com/exec/detail-search/toy?toy_ag e=6&toy_catid=19&toy_price=3&keyword=PRO TEST&go.x=5&go.y=3
if you were to replace the word "PROTEST" with a randomly selected word from a dictionary, I think you could generate a significantly greater ammount of load. If you changed the search terms and pulled them from a big list of possible words, they wouldn't be able to benefit from caching. And it wouldn't even use more bandwith on your end.