If you haven't done this yet, I'd strongly recommend you look over the wxWindows license. It's basically a modified LGPL that has no restrictions on distribution of derived binaries.
I'd recommend this over the BSD license because it removes the opportinity for certain crooked companies to "embrace and extend" your CODEC. You still retain control of the CODEC design.
Another possibility you may want to explore, is having two licenses: GPL for free download, and closed-source proprietary for closed-source, commercial projects. Trolltech does this and they're apparently quite successful.
No it wouldn't. Because a massive invasion force wouldn't have an atmosphere. They
would be in a ship, or a fleet of ships.
Or a fleet of ships so massive that it pulls its own cloud of gasses behind it (from the exhaust trails).
Sure, it's most likely a planet, but you never know when that herd of horses you hear galloping over the next hill might be zebras.:) Such is the nature of probability...
What moron rated the parent "Informative?" If anything this should be rated "+1 Funny" or "-1 Troll." Aren't Slashdot readers supposed to be Linux-clueful?
Then when the lawyerbots come by, take it down, and reply to them apologizing profusely and saying how important you think copyright is and all that jazz. I think if the labels see all these tracks traded on the internet exactly the same as all the other CDs, they'll start knocking on the door of the CD-protection company asking, what the hell did we just pay you 50million$ for??
More likely, the lawyerbots will work as hard as they can to prevent the sale of "circumvention devices" such as software that can circumvent copy protetion. Look for them to go after open source projects such as cdparanoia in the near future.
They don't have a problem with recording shows.. They get along with TiVo fine, ditto with the old ReplayTV. The problem with this new ReplayTV is that it allows sharing of shows over the internet, and it strips commercials out of it totally..
Apparently they do have a problem with TiVo and the old ReplayTV, at least on a business level, because both of these technologies allow users to cut out commercials. They just haven't found a way to sue these products out of existance yet, or prevent them from operating properly. So you can pretty much count on them sneaking more ads into the programs themselves.
A pumpkin with more brains *after* it was jack-o-lantern'd than *before* it was jack-o-lantern'd.
It would have been even more hillarious if he
turned it a quake server for halloween-theemed quake...although I don't know if you can get away with that in a military school.
So site owners have to rate. But, aha, rating incorrectly will have to be made a crime, else those illegal pornographers will rate themselves as 'kid-friendly', dontchaknowit.
I can see how a knee-jerk religious reich jackboot fascist (er, excuse me, "defender of family values") would come to this conclusion. But, honestly, I don't think it would play out this way. Porn sites WANT to be found. That's how they get customers. This rating system gives them a great way to identify themselves: voluntarily rate themselves X or XXX or Adult or Pornographic and set up a portal that identifies all such sites.
As far as illegal porn sites go (which pretty much means kiddie porn), I doubt they'll undergo ANY rating process unless it is completely involuntary and out of their hands. The last thing they want to do is draw scrutiny from the wrong people.
In any case, I think it's grossly unlikely that the Big Three (MSN, AOL, Yahoo) will use a voluntary rating system to the exclusion of other methods, when voluntary rating systems have been demonstrated to work so badly. There is probably going to be some other kind of technology involved. Web sites ain't motion pictures; anyone can throw one up in an hour. Checking them to make sure that they're all rated properly is very labor intensive and requires a hell of a lot of pairs of human eyes. It's also boring work, and it does very bad things to your mind. So it's probable that AOL will have to use more of those AIs of theirs.
You owe your readers early information on subscriptions. Otherwise, add busting software will make nonsense of your switch to ads plus subscriptions.
Let me second this. Please, Tac, please, Hemos, give us some information on the subscription service. I personally wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for Slashdot, if it means Slashdot will survive into the future, but do let people opt in for a month or two before the nasty-ads show up.
Worst case scenario, the nasty-ads will drive readership, and therefore costs, down.:)
If you push for this national ID card, I will give money to support the campaign of any person who runs against you.
I consider myself a liberal Democrat, but don't let that concern you. I will support your opponent regardless of his or her stances on any other issues, just as long as they advocate doing away with the national ID. They could be a member of the KKK an an advocate of dumping cyanide in our drinking water, and I'll still give them money.
Why, you ask? Simple: to punish you for selling the freedom of the people of the United States down the river.
Sincerely,
MAXOMENOS of Slashdot.
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It would certainly be simpler and easier to monitor your movements this way, but the US government could just as easily turn to the banks and credit card companies to provide that information instead. The only difference would be that the government could track people who are paying cash for tickets if a national ID were required. I'm surprised that they haven't done this yet, quite frankly.
In fact, the more elaborate the mosque, the more resentment it could generate in the Afghan Muslim community.
This is a people that, much like the early Christians after Rome fell, considers material wealth to be anathema to the message of Islam. Importing McDonalds and Nike into Afghanistan, even if it creates jobs, could cause social problems just as severe as those caused by the Taleban when they came to power. Building a MegaMosque is the ultimate insult to this sentiment...and it creates just about the most attractive target you could imagine.
Let's start simple. Good food, clean water, good hospitals, good schools. Encourage economic cooperation with Pakistan and Iran. Keep law and order. The last thing we want to do in Afghanistan, or any other Muslim nation, is rock the boat too hard, upset their traditional values, or otherwise live up to our reputation as The Great Satan -- especially by lavishing too much material comfort on Afghanistan.
Let's not forget, also, that a minor revolutionary in Israel caused a ripple effect that eventually brought down the Roman Empire, bringing about the Dark Ages. If anything, the US needs to avoid this possibility.
It should be pointed out that Hawkings is not the only one to advance the notion that human intelligence may be superceded by machine intelligence sometime in the future. This idea was also put forth by Hans Moravec, in his book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. Moravec's arguments tend to gloss over the details, however, and from all appearances so do Hawkings'.
The simple fact is that processor power alone isn't going to create a machine intelligence of superhuman capacity. It has to be a particular kind of processor power that executes neural network type calculations extremely quickly, and there has to be a lot of 'em. Even this wouldn't be enough; the research time it would take to figure out the right set of preconditions probably runs into the hundreds of years.
Now, I'm making a couple of assumptions here. One is, that a superhuman intelligence would have to exhibit the same basic characteristics and flexibility as human intelligence; and two, that a neural net type algorithm is the best way to do this. (At the very least, it's the second best.:)) I might be wrong on both counts; one might be able to create enslaveware[1] with some much simpler design that nobody's thought of yet. It might not even be required that the enslaveware be intelligent; just somehow able to manipulate people.
Either way, I suspect that Hawkings' fears are unfounded.
1 That is, software that enslaves humanity, through active malevolence on the part of the software. Although I suppose this term could more broadly apply to any software that enslaves the user, e.g., WindowsXP.
I'd rather pay 199.00 bucks for something that works out of the box and comes with lots of software then several hours downloading, burning iso's and then chasing down the latest versions of all apps waisting a whole entire weekend or business days (thus costing more then the 199.00 XP package).
So would I. Fortunately, if I want to run Linux, I can get a complete set of CD-ROMs from CheapBytes for less than fifteen bucks (including postage) and usually install or upgrade the whole system in about two hours, most of it hands-free. Most of these systems have a reputation for running smoothly "right out of the box."
Hate to bring up the point.. But look how far windows has come.
Yep, and they only had to borrow from BSD to do it.;)
Linux just gets a new FS here, a little cleaning up in the code there.
True, but a whole lot of those little achievements, added up over time, make for a huge advance from year to year.
Also: the fact that Linux can run on (at my count, on the 2.4.2 kernel) 37 different file systems and on at least a dozen different architechtures (Alpha, SPARC, Intel, PowerPC, Motorola 68000 series, IBM 390 series, IA 64, etc.) gives it another big advantage over Windows: portability.
Web sited that make their money through banner advertising have got to be unhappy about this development. Which leads me to wonder: what are they going to do to ensure to their customers (read: advertisers) that their banner ads will not be gator-substituted?
Blocking web browsers that are Gator-enabled? Probably not the best idea, but if enough important sites band together, this could put Gator out of business.
Lawsuits against Gator? This might not be a bad idea, although I have no idea how it would go through.
Hacking Gator to get around banner-ad substitution?
Offering text-and-hyperlink-only ads, Google style?
What I'm really hoping to see is Gator offer a "subscription service" to web sites..."pay up or we'll substitute your ads." That would lead to a most interesting fight indeed. And to a lot of lawyers making a lot of money.
I can't comment on that (NDA), except to say that I'm 99% confident that under better economic circumstances, we would have obliterated the competition.
These days even companies that actually produce something are going under.
Tell me about it. My former employer has the best product on the market in its field, and they just went through a second round of layoffs. I survived the first, but not the second. Blah.
Methinks you are focusing a little too much on the Congo region. certain areas of Africa (e.g., Egypt, Ethiopia, Lybia, Algeria) have been civilized, with significant infrastructure, since they days when most of Europe's peoples were running around wearing furs and mud.
I thought this story was quite interesting; but as I read it now, I see that it's not on the front pages.
It's stuck instead between the stories "Rhythms Flatlines" and "Matrix Sequel Delayed to 2003." What happened? Was it not froody enough to attract the advertisers? Enquiring minds want to know!
"Look, they picked a wireless LAN card specifically because the Linux drivers could pick out raw packets! That MUST prove that open source is nothing but a criminal conspiracy!"
Subsequently, the three researchers, the authors of linux-wlan-ng prism2, Tim Newsham (who wrote the diabolical WEP_password_cracker.ppt), and anyone who ever hosted a download site for tcpdump, were thrown in jail by the ever-vigilant FBI. Such is the punishment for those who would dare challenge our corporate economy's secrets. America is saved again from the evils of Open Source Communism!
Quoth Special Agent Luser: "I fucking hate geeks and I'm going to beat the crap out of every single one of them until they give me their lunch money." Go get 'em Agent Luser!
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I'd recommend this over the BSD license because it removes the opportinity for certain crooked companies to "embrace and extend" your CODEC. You still retain control of the CODEC design.
Another possibility you may want to explore, is having two licenses: GPL for free download, and closed-source proprietary for closed-source, commercial projects. Trolltech does this and they're apparently quite successful.
Just my two cents.
Or a fleet of ships so massive that it pulls its own cloud of gasses behind it (from the exhaust trails).
Sure, it's most likely a planet, but you never know when that herd of horses you hear galloping over the next hill might be zebras. :) Such is the nature of probability...
Or a massive alien invasion force from HD 209458...
What moron rated the parent "Informative?" If anything this should be rated "+1 Funny" or "-1 Troll." Aren't Slashdot readers supposed to be Linux-clueful?
Like a fucking pipe dream, speaking as a former Java programmer.
More likely, the lawyerbots will work as hard as they can to prevent the sale of "circumvention devices" such as software that can circumvent copy protetion. Look for them to go after open source projects such as cdparanoia in the near future.
Apparently they do have a problem with TiVo and the old ReplayTV, at least on a business level, because both of these technologies allow users to cut out commercials. They just haven't found a way to sue these products out of existance yet, or prevent them from operating properly. So you can pretty much count on them sneaking more ads into the programs themselves.
It would have been even more hillarious if he turned it a quake server for halloween-theemed quake...although I don't know if you can get away with that in a military school.
As far as illegal porn sites go (which pretty much means kiddie porn), I doubt they'll undergo ANY rating process unless it is completely involuntary and out of their hands. The last thing they want to do is draw scrutiny from the wrong people.
In any case, I think it's grossly unlikely that the Big Three (MSN, AOL, Yahoo) will use a voluntary rating system to the exclusion of other methods, when voluntary rating systems have been demonstrated to work so badly. There is probably going to be some other kind of technology involved. Web sites ain't motion pictures; anyone can throw one up in an hour. Checking them to make sure that they're all rated properly is very labor intensive and requires a hell of a lot of pairs of human eyes. It's also boring work, and it does very bad things to your mind. So it's probable that AOL will have to use more of those AIs of theirs.
Let me second this. Please, Tac, please, Hemos, give us some information on the subscription service. I personally wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for Slashdot, if it means Slashdot will survive into the future, but do let people opt in for a month or two before the nasty-ads show up.
Worst case scenario, the nasty-ads will drive readership, and therefore costs, down. :)
If you push for this national ID card, I will give money to support the campaign of any person who runs against you.
I consider myself a liberal Democrat, but don't let that concern you. I will support your opponent regardless of his or her stances on any other issues, just as long as they advocate doing away with the national ID. They could be a member of the KKK an an advocate of dumping cyanide in our drinking water, and I'll still give them money.
Why, you ask? Simple: to punish you for selling the freedom of the people of the United States down the river.
Sincerely,
MAXOMENOS of Slashdot.
Distribute it far and wide!
For great justice!
For great justice!
It would certainly be simpler and easier to monitor your movements this way, but the US government could just as easily turn to the banks and credit card companies to provide that information instead. The only difference would be that the government could track people who are paying cash for tickets if a national ID were required. I'm surprised that they haven't done this yet, quite frankly.
This does not strike me as a very bright idea.
In fact, the more elaborate the mosque, the more resentment it could generate in the Afghan Muslim community.
This is a people that, much like the early Christians after Rome fell, considers material wealth to be anathema to the message of Islam. Importing McDonalds and Nike into Afghanistan, even if it creates jobs, could cause social problems just as severe as those caused by the Taleban when they came to power. Building a MegaMosque is the ultimate insult to this sentiment...and it creates just about the most attractive target you could imagine.
Let's start simple. Good food, clean water, good hospitals, good schools. Encourage economic cooperation with Pakistan and Iran. Keep law and order. The last thing we want to do in Afghanistan, or any other Muslim nation, is rock the boat too hard, upset their traditional values, or otherwise live up to our reputation as The Great Satan -- especially by lavishing too much material comfort on Afghanistan.
Let's not forget, also, that a minor revolutionary in Israel caused a ripple effect that eventually brought down the Roman Empire, bringing about the Dark Ages. If anything, the US needs to avoid this possibility.
The simple fact is that processor power alone isn't going to create a machine intelligence of superhuman capacity. It has to be a particular kind of processor power that executes neural network type calculations extremely quickly, and there has to be a lot of 'em. Even this wouldn't be enough; the research time it would take to figure out the right set of preconditions probably runs into the hundreds of years.
Now, I'm making a couple of assumptions here. One is, that a superhuman intelligence would have to exhibit the same basic characteristics and flexibility as human intelligence; and two, that a neural net type algorithm is the best way to do this. (At the very least, it's the second best. :)) I might be wrong on both counts; one might be able to create enslaveware[1] with some much simpler design that nobody's thought of yet. It might not even be required that the enslaveware be intelligent; just somehow able to manipulate people.
Either way, I suspect that Hawkings' fears are unfounded.
1 That is, software that enslaves humanity, through active malevolence on the part of the software. Although I suppose this term could more broadly apply to any software that enslaves the user, e.g., WindowsXP.
..wow, it's even got dual floppy disk drives!
While linux is improving nicely, it still lacks heavily in any music reporduction,
Actually, there's quite a bit of music production software for Linux.
media interfaces
You mean like Shockwave and MP3s?
business applications.
Such as Excel and Word?
I'd rather pay 199.00 bucks for something that works out of the box and comes with lots of software then several hours downloading, burning iso's and then chasing down the latest versions of all apps waisting a whole entire weekend or business days (thus costing more then the 199.00 XP package).
So would I. Fortunately, if I want to run Linux, I can get a complete set of CD-ROMs from CheapBytes for less than fifteen bucks (including postage) and usually install or upgrade the whole system in about two hours, most of it hands-free. Most of these systems have a reputation for running smoothly "right out of the box."
Yep, and they only had to borrow from BSD to do it. ;)
Linux just gets a new FS here, a little cleaning up in the code there.
True, but a whole lot of those little achievements, added up over time, make for a huge advance from year to year.
Also: the fact that Linux can run on (at my count, on the 2.4.2 kernel) 37 different file systems and on at least a dozen different architechtures (Alpha, SPARC, Intel, PowerPC, Motorola 68000 series, IBM 390 series, IA 64, etc.) gives it another big advantage over Windows: portability.
Web sited that make their money through banner advertising have got to be unhappy about this development. Which leads me to wonder: what are they going to do to ensure to their customers (read: advertisers) that their banner ads will not be gator-substituted?
Blocking web browsers that are Gator-enabled? Probably not the best idea, but if enough important sites band together, this could put Gator out of business.
Lawsuits against Gator? This might not be a bad idea, although I have no idea how it would go through.
Hacking Gator to get around banner-ad substitution?
Offering text-and-hyperlink-only ads, Google style?
What I'm really hoping to see is Gator offer a "subscription service" to web sites..."pay up or we'll substitute your ads." That would lead to a most interesting fight indeed. And to a lot of lawyers making a lot of money.
I can't comment on that (NDA), except to say that I'm 99% confident that under better economic circumstances, we would have obliterated the competition.
Tell me about it. My former employer has the best product on the market in its field, and they just went through a second round of layoffs. I survived the first, but not the second. Blah.
Methinks you are focusing a little too much on the Congo region. certain areas of Africa (e.g., Egypt, Ethiopia, Lybia, Algeria) have been civilized, with significant infrastructure, since they days when most of Europe's peoples were running around wearing furs and mud.
I thought this story was quite interesting; but as I read it now, I see that it's not on the front pages. It's stuck instead between the stories "Rhythms Flatlines" and "Matrix Sequel Delayed to 2003." What happened? Was it not froody enough to attract the advertisers? Enquiring minds want to know!
Subsequently, the three researchers, the authors of linux-wlan-ng prism2, Tim Newsham (who wrote the diabolical WEP_password_cracker.ppt), and anyone who ever hosted a download site for tcpdump, were thrown in jail by the ever-vigilant FBI. Such is the punishment for those who would dare challenge our corporate economy's secrets. America is saved again from the evils of Open Source Communism!
Quoth Special Agent Luser: "I fucking hate geeks and I'm going to beat the crap out of every single one of them until they give me their lunch money." Go get 'em Agent Luser!