Simply call the # and report every student in all of your classrooms. Convince a few friends to do the same, and eventually, every student will be on the roster for investigation.
Now this is interesting....imagine for a second that you and your pals report certain persons...the captain of the football team or cheerleading squad...the homecoming queen...eventually the whole school comes crashing down in one massive dystopia...everyone is being investigated, lawsuits everywhere...
Your problem is familiar to me, as I've run into it before. I take personal pride in my work and I'd like to know that it's contributing to the long-term prosperity of a group of people. I'm presently in a position where this is very much the case. In my previous position, this turned out to be very much not the case. Using that criterion, I'd say take one of the other offers.
You also listed loyalty to your co-workers as a criterion. You work with a group of very talented people. If I were you, I'd tell them to start looking for work elsewhere, and then jump ship. Even if they have kids and debts, if they're talented, they'll find better prospects someplace else.
Despite talk of a recession, the high tech job market is still good. Companies are still struggling to fill positions. The implication is that there's no reason to stick with a job that sucks. Obviously if the economic picture changes, then this implication could no longer be true; but right now, your best option is to jump ship. Life is too short for relationships that suck, and that includes jobs that suck.
If the intention of the open source community is to create an OS to rival Windows, wouldn't it be better if the BSD developers developed Linux instead - if you're trying to compete with the world's largest company, it's best to be united.
I disagree completely. One of the strengths of open source software is that you have many choices for solving a problem: Linux and BSD; KDE and GNOME; MySQL, mSQL and PostgreSQL; Emacs and VIM. It encourages open source software to get better on its own accord, instead of aiming for Microsoft.
I'd also like to point out that trying to replace Microsoft XXXXX is not a good goal for open source. It puts Microsoft in charge of where OSS is headed. Our goal should be to produce the best technology possible and keep it as free as possible (although I acknowledge that the BSD and Linux camps disagree on what this should mean). Sometimes that means following Microsoft's lead (like GNOME does, with Windows-like GUI and component technology). Sometimes that means following your competition (like the rivalry between VIM and Emacs). Sometimes it means stepping out in a totally different direction (Slashcode, ZOPE).
I had been looking for one with the following quote: "Software is like sex, its better when its free." I can't find one anywhere so I think I will have to make my own. (Do it yourself, that's it!)
The infotronic center in this car uses a JVM running on top of Linux. This represents a good move on their part IMO, since the software is easier to code and maintain, and the speed hit of a JVM isn't critical in a real time system unless you're using a GUI. It also makes remote administration of the car easier, assuming that they wrote in an XML layer.
My question is, how easy is this car going to be to (maliciously) hack? Imagine some script kiddie rooting your infotronic center and uploading a new version of the software...or sending signals to lock/unlock your doors...or tracking your car's location via the infotronic system....
I really hope that the designers kept privacy and security in mind, and that the infotronic center code was thoroughly tested for cracks. Otherwise we're going to see some really ugly cracks (and scripts!) and another round of oppressive anti-hacker legislation and prosecution in the not too distant future.
Just about the last thing I want to see is an Internet the likes of which Caleb Carr envisions, precisely because the government would control it and would exercise prior restraint. An Internet like that would take away one of the most powerful tools that protest movements have.
Let us consider the Drug War as an example. At the present, anti-Drug-War propoganda of varying qualities is available. Some of it is just plain junk. Some of it is good, factual stuff. In either case, this propoganda serves the purpose of countering the government's program of getting people to accept greater and greater intrusions on our privacy and our rights. The government has less of an excuse to seize and sell your property prior to trial if the marijuana you're selling maybe isn't that bad; or if you hear about some school teacher getting his property seized and sold, sans any charges or trial, because some kid he sold land to got busted for pot. And, slowly, the panic mongering becomes ineffective, and the government has to change policy to something less intrusive.
Let us suppose that the government automagically takes all websites with an anti-drug-war message and marks them "not factual." Then what?
Apply the same argument to, say, anti-war, pro-gun-rights, anti-abortion, pro-choice, pro-contraception, etc. websites, and you get an idea of what happens: the Government becomes one big CyberSitter[TM], same agenda and everything. At least with corporate-regulated Internet, we have a choice and the potential for competition if we want alternative information channels.
Let me suggest an alternative to corporate and government regulation: educating our children so that they can learn how to take information, screen it for bullshit, and turn it into knowedge, rather than having some faceless corporate or government entity judge what is suitable for Internet and what is not.
I'd also suggest to Mr. Carr that he stop believing his own press.
I cannot believe that the above post, which was a reproduction of Linus's email to the kernel list, was tagged as flamebait. In case the moderator didn't know this, this is Linus's actual email, which you can find off of this Linux Today article.
If this happens to attract flames, it because the flamers are ignorant, and not because the poster is baiting for flames.
In other words, please moderate the parent to this post back up. Thank you.
If you download one of the mirrored versions of 2.4.0-prerelease, and apply this patch, you will have 2.4.0. Refer to the list of mirrors that I posted.
I personally found it humorous that the movie's producers seem to be aiming for the geek market, but apparently ommitted a Linux version of the screen saver. Think someone will throw a fit about this?:)
Let's see. The movie is being put out, in part, by RSA Security Systems; the script involves a dashing young computer geek with an artist girlfriend; and the GNOME shots, with a possible Miguel cameo, get the Slashdot crowd.
Do you think they may be aiming for a certain demographic? Hm?
Now, while I am apt to agree with some of the choices on that list, there are obvious omissions. Not a single ancient work appears on that list (the Illiad, the Oddessy, Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, for samplers).
Although those are all wonderful works, I should point out that none of those were written in the last 1000 years. Or the last 2000 for that matter.
I have yet to hear a radio station play a song by Cannibal Corpse, or even some of the old school death metal bands that actually played Death Metal and weren't manufactured bands.
I used to have a radio show (kulturwehrmacht radio at Shreeve Hall, Purdue University) that had death metal, speed metal, and punk...I usually opened the show with the Jello Biafra track "A Word from Our Sponsor" from the Terminal City Ricochet album, followed by Napalm Death or Entombed or Slayer or Morbid Angel. And it played 8:00 AM Sunday morning, as the mostly very proper, ultraconservative, constantly-trying-to-convert-everyone Sunday Morning listening audience was sitting down to breakfast. Needless to say I got quite a few complaints from the people who thought I was Satan incarnate. Oh yes, and my Goodbye George Bush, post-1992 election show was one of the most wicked ever.........
In a related note Segan's "Deamon Haunted World", published a few years before his death, is wonderful. He does a great job of debunking psuedo-science through the ages. In my mind he makes a sucessful agruement as to why science is Superior (my words not his) to religion. Highly recommended!
I second this. The Demon Haunted World is a classic of skepticism, a light shining in the darkness against the kind of new-age postmodernist bullshit we see dominating contemporary intelligent discussion.
William S Burroughs and others in certain occult organizations (IOT for example) are fond of saying, "Everything is permitted, nothing is true." Still think that, Bill? But if that's true, then the statement "everything is permitted, nothing is true," must be true. Oops. Any system which is self-contradicting is false, and only a fool would believe in something he or she knows to be false. The whole new age house of cards colapses, a result of having been founded upon intellectual bankrupcy.
Science is superior to religion, art, pure creation...insofar as science can answer questions about the measurable world. Religious and spiritual people may forget this little factoid only at their own peril....
"The biggest Vaporware of 2000 has to be the 2.4 kernel," wrote Shawn Wallbridge. "As much as I like Linux, they have been saying 'soon, soon' for a really long time."
"Where is it?" asked Niels Hansen.
This is the Nth story that I've seen Slashdot post announcing the release of some movie or another onto DVD. It makes me seriously wonder whether Hemos, CmdrTaco and company are even aware that every DVD that you buy puts money in the pockets of the MPAA to argue that source code is not protected by the First Amendment. It's awful damn hard to argue for a boycott of this technology when one of the main geek pages out there is jumping for joy every time it gets applied to another one of their favorite cultural phenomena.
Don't get me wrong; I love Cosmos and I'm very glad that it's being re-released, on VHS. It's getting the props it deserves. I'm going to get this for a friend of mine when she has her kid in, oh, three weeks. The point is that DVD technology, as it stands right now, is a threat to the development of free software. It is against our best interests to keep supporting DVDs.
Lemme just make sure we're on the same page here....
You want me to buy a hard drive that is copy protected, so I can't back anything up.
You also want to make it difficult to virtually impossible for me to recover in case my hard drive crashed.
And you want me to pay more money for the privalege of using this technology.
OK, so now I think I'm going to buy my reliable, copyable, recoverable, cheaper hard drives from a non-American manufacturer, thank you very much.
I swear to God, these arrogant, clueless suits and politicians are going to strangle the United States of America until all the innovative spirit we have is gone, gone, gone.
I look forward to seeing a real standard on Linux, and then perhaps I can consider it for my projects.
You may have two standards in the near future, KDE for C++ and GNOME for C. Probably with Perl and Python packages for both. Both are attempting to build object packages that are CORBA compliant, which is a hell of a lot better than just working on a couple of desktops IMO. It's getting to be a sweet world for Linux programmers.:)
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Now this is interesting....imagine for a second that you and your pals report certain persons...the captain of the football team or cheerleading squad...the homecoming queen...eventually the whole school comes crashing down in one massive dystopia...everyone is being investigated, lawsuits everywhere...
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You also listed loyalty to your co-workers as a criterion. You work with a group of very talented people. If I were you, I'd tell them to start looking for work elsewhere, and then jump ship. Even if they have kids and debts, if they're talented, they'll find better prospects someplace else.
Despite talk of a recession, the high tech job market is still good. Companies are still struggling to fill positions. The implication is that there's no reason to stick with a job that sucks. Obviously if the economic picture changes, then this implication could no longer be true; but right now, your best option is to jump ship. Life is too short for relationships that suck, and that includes jobs that suck.
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I disagree completely. One of the strengths of open source software is that you have many choices for solving a problem: Linux and BSD; KDE and GNOME; MySQL, mSQL and PostgreSQL; Emacs and VIM. It encourages open source software to get better on its own accord, instead of aiming for Microsoft.
I'd also like to point out that trying to replace Microsoft XXXXX is not a good goal for open source. It puts Microsoft in charge of where OSS is headed. Our goal should be to produce the best technology possible and keep it as free as possible (although I acknowledge that the BSD and Linux camps disagree on what this should mean). Sometimes that means following Microsoft's lead (like GNOME does, with Windows-like GUI and component technology). Sometimes that means following your competition (like the rivalry between VIM and Emacs). Sometimes it means stepping out in a totally different direction (Slashcode, ZOPE).
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I want to give WarpEightBot 10 karma points just for submitting this. It ought to be a headline.
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Linux General Store sells t-shirts with this slogan on them, just click here to get one.
I had three of these things, and one should be hanging around somewhere........it's my favorite shirt, and I even went to geeks with guns in one of these (photo).
Hope this helps.
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The infotronic center in this car uses a JVM running on top of Linux. This represents a good move on their part IMO, since the software is easier to code and maintain, and the speed hit of a JVM isn't critical in a real time system unless you're using a GUI. It also makes remote administration of the car easier, assuming that they wrote in an XML layer.
My question is, how easy is this car going to be to (maliciously) hack? Imagine some script kiddie rooting your infotronic center and uploading a new version of the software...or sending signals to lock/unlock your doors...or tracking your car's location via the infotronic system....
I really hope that the designers kept privacy and security in mind, and that the infotronic center code was thoroughly tested for cracks. Otherwise we're going to see some really ugly cracks (and scripts!) and another round of oppressive anti-hacker legislation and prosecution in the not too distant future.
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Just about the last thing I want to see is an Internet the likes of which Caleb Carr envisions, precisely because the government would control it and would exercise prior restraint. An Internet like that would take away one of the most powerful tools that protest movements have.
Let us consider the Drug War as an example. At the present, anti-Drug-War propoganda of varying qualities is available. Some of it is just plain junk. Some of it is good, factual stuff. In either case, this propoganda serves the purpose of countering the government's program of getting people to accept greater and greater intrusions on our privacy and our rights. The government has less of an excuse to seize and sell your property prior to trial if the marijuana you're selling maybe isn't that bad; or if you hear about some school teacher getting his property seized and sold, sans any charges or trial, because some kid he sold land to got busted for pot. And, slowly, the panic mongering becomes ineffective, and the government has to change policy to something less intrusive.
Let us suppose that the government automagically takes all websites with an anti-drug-war message and marks them "not factual." Then what?
Apply the same argument to, say, anti-war, pro-gun-rights, anti-abortion, pro-choice, pro-contraception, etc. websites, and you get an idea of what happens: the Government becomes one big CyberSitter[TM], same agenda and everything. At least with corporate-regulated Internet, we have a choice and the potential for competition if we want alternative information channels.
Let me suggest an alternative to corporate and government regulation: educating our children so that they can learn how to take information, screen it for bullshit, and turn it into knowedge, rather than having some faceless corporate or government entity judge what is suitable for Internet and what is not.
I'd also suggest to Mr. Carr that he stop believing his own press.
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I cannot believe that the above post, which was a reproduction of Linus's email to the kernel list, was tagged as flamebait. In case the moderator didn't know this, this is Linus's actual email, which you can find off of this Linux Today article.
If this happens to attract flames, it because the flamers are ignorant, and not because the poster is baiting for flames.
In other words, please moderate the parent to this post back up. Thank you.
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If you download one of the mirrored versions of 2.4.0-prerelease, and apply this patch, you will have 2.4.0. Refer to the list of mirrors that I posted.
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You can also find a list of US mirrors here, or search here for mirrors for your country. Last I checked the new kernel hadn't been mirrored yet, FYI.
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I personally found it humorous that the movie's producers seem to be aiming for the geek market, but apparently ommitted a Linux version of the screen saver. Think someone will throw a fit about this? :)
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Let's see. The movie is being put out, in part, by RSA Security Systems; the script involves a dashing young computer geek with an artist girlfriend; and the GNOME shots, with a possible Miguel cameo, get the Slashdot crowd.
Do you think they may be aiming for a certain demographic? Hm?
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Two hours? I'm not surprised...the memory check on 64GB would take fricking forever.
Not to mention running fsck on the disk....
(Mandatory for any hardware thread) Imagine a Beowulf of these.....
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Although those are all wonderful works, I should point out that none of those were written in the last 1000 years. Or the last 2000 for that matter.
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Interestingly, after I started listening to heavy metal and punk rock, my grades went up substantially ... and so did my general outlook on life.
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I used to have a radio show (kulturwehrmacht radio at Shreeve Hall, Purdue University) that had death metal, speed metal, and punk...I usually opened the show with the Jello Biafra track "A Word from Our Sponsor" from the Terminal City Ricochet album, followed by Napalm Death or Entombed or Slayer or Morbid Angel. And it played 8:00 AM Sunday morning, as the mostly very proper, ultraconservative, constantly-trying-to-convert-everyone Sunday Morning listening audience was sitting down to breakfast. Needless to say I got quite a few complaints from the people who thought I was Satan incarnate. Oh yes, and my Goodbye George Bush, post-1992 election show was one of the most wicked ever.........
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Death metal bands:
And that doesn't even cover black metal (which is mostly European, btw), or the old 1980s speed metal.
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I second this. The Demon Haunted World is a classic of skepticism, a light shining in the darkness against the kind of new-age postmodernist bullshit we see dominating contemporary intelligent discussion.
William S Burroughs and others in certain occult organizations (IOT for example) are fond of saying, "Everything is permitted, nothing is true." Still think that, Bill? But if that's true, then the statement "everything is permitted, nothing is true," must be true. Oops. Any system which is self-contradicting is false, and only a fool would believe in something he or she knows to be false. The whole new age house of cards colapses, a result of having been founded upon intellectual bankrupcy.
Science is superior to religion, art, pure creation...insofar as science can answer questions about the measurable world. Religious and spiritual people may forget this little factoid only at their own peril....
So what about the immesurable world? Aha!
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Well, did you try looking here?
Sheesh.
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This is the Nth story that I've seen Slashdot post announcing the release of some movie or another onto DVD. It makes me seriously wonder whether Hemos, CmdrTaco and company are even aware that every DVD that you buy puts money in the pockets of the MPAA to argue that source code is not protected by the First Amendment. It's awful damn hard to argue for a boycott of this technology when one of the main geek pages out there is jumping for joy every time it gets applied to another one of their favorite cultural phenomena.
Don't get me wrong; I love Cosmos and I'm very glad that it's being re-released, on VHS. It's getting the props it deserves. I'm going to get this for a friend of mine when she has her kid in, oh, three weeks. The point is that DVD technology, as it stands right now, is a threat to the development of free software. It is against our best interests to keep supporting DVDs.
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You want me to buy a hard drive that is copy protected, so I can't back anything up.
You also want to make it difficult to virtually impossible for me to recover in case my hard drive crashed.
And you want me to pay more money for the privalege of using this technology.
OK, so now I think I'm going to buy my reliable, copyable, recoverable, cheaper hard drives from a non-American manufacturer, thank you very much.
I swear to God, these arrogant, clueless suits and politicians are going to strangle the United States of America until all the innovative spirit we have is gone, gone, gone.
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More like: Wired == People for geek wannabees.
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You may have two standards in the near future, KDE for C++ and GNOME for C. Probably with Perl and Python packages for both. Both are attempting to build object packages that are CORBA compliant, which is a hell of a lot better than just working on a couple of desktops IMO. It's getting to be a sweet world for Linux programmers. :)
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