The problem with radioactive waste is that it harms the environment when concentrated above natural levels (i.e. like it originally appeared in the sandstone).
My friends and I have been convinced that the NRC made a deal with McDonalds Corporation to store the waste, in miniscule amounts, within Chicken Nuggets (they appeared in the market about the same time this became a problem in the early 80s). With everyone processing nuggets through their system in small amounts, we effectively distribute the waste over a large area, thus rendering it relatively harmless.
I consulted to an automobile finder website (now www.vehix.com) that was bought by TCI Cable, who owned @Home at the time. The BIG reason for acquiring websites was that @Home wanted to bring a whole host of services to their consumers. They were aiming to become the 'broadband AOL'.
In my opinion, TCI paid too much for the website at the time, but now seeing this, it makes sense.
The other half of this is that the ATT Cable advertising dept. can approach those self-same businesses hawking their crap on @Home for package media buys on cable TV-- 'buy 50 spots on comedy central and we'll let you on the homepage for @Home . . . '
The book tells us that the tools were ordered 'destroyed', but do you believe that? Do you honestly think that the CIA would actually throw something away or destroy knowledge? No way.
I'm sure all the tools (except one set of masters) were destroyed, but the masters are in some warehouse in Virginia somewhere-- probably next to the Ark of the Covenant . . .
There is also the question of whether the ecosystems have adapted to being without the extinct species for so long, that reintroducing that species will have the the same potential for messing up the ecosystem as introducing an alien species.
This is exactly what was done in the Yellowstone Region with the reintroduction of Grey Wolves (imported from Canada) after they had been hunted out some 60 years ago (not sure on that timelength). The wolves have taken hold. The main effect has been on the elk, deer, and other grazers, whose population was too big and was taxing the land . ..
I understand if a species has been missing for like hundreds or thousands of years, that another predator/herbivore/whatever might take it's place, but that's the whole point-- let the animal back in and let nature find that balance for us. In over-simplified Lion-King Disney terms: Lions and Hyena share a close niche on the Serengetti, but if lions went extinct, hyenas would merely fill the void. If Lions were reintroduced, they would reestablish their balance with the hyena.
The matter at hand here is not the mathematical accuracy of web logs vs. the statistical consistency and ability to predict behavior, such as those produced by Nielsen, Metrix, and the rest.
It's a matter of trust
Sponsors and advertisers simply need to rely on a consistent, reliable, and _reputable_ company to provide the numbers by which they purchase advertising. It is the same reason that makes large corporations with huge accounting departments hire Ernst & Young to run their 10-Ks before posting them to the SEC: reputation and consistency.
Everyone, including the site managers, advertisers, and Metrix, know that the numbers can be faked anywhere along the chain. The most honest option, and least culpable in terms of liability, is to have a measuring company run its analysis for all, even if that analysis is statistical predictions. If a site manager fakes numbers, he's a little untrustworthy; If Metrix screws up, they're outta business.
It doesn't matter if Red Flag becomes 'proprietary' due to the same licencing 'problem' that you point out as well as the open source model itself--
One of two things could happen:
Red Flag is always a day late and dollar short as far as Linux versions, in which case you shouldn't care what they do with it (unless you REALLY want to use it for some reason)
Red Flag comes up with some cool stuff for their version, in which case you would want to use it.
This case has two possibile scenarios:
Go ahead and use the Red Flag, because they will respect the open source nature of it
Go ahead and use the Red Flag, but then China would try to pursue legal action-- in which case the original GPL acts as your defense.
Either way, the Red Flag poses no threat to the Linux evolutionary track. In fact, having an isolated 'gene pool' behind the great wall being worked on by Chinese programmers may ultimately prove to be very interesting. The Eastern mindset, including basic philosophies, problem-solving methods, and group dynamics are fundamentaly different than westerners. Who know what they'll do with their kernel?
A good parallel might be found in military/combat structures: any soldier over 26 yrs old had better be in the command structure somewhere because he's no good any more as a combat force. After 10 years in, a soldier would move into a support position, become an instructor, or slack off and become an officer.
Right now, as a coder, you can only see the mountain of code in front of you and your ability to 'make things go'. As your experience matures, you will become more valuable to the company for strategizing, instructing, or theorizing new models, just as combat veterans become more useful to the Army for training grunts or planning battles (rather than pulling triggers).
For me, now at 32 yrs old, it's not my fingers (coding ability) that is valuable to my company, it's my brains.
I agree that certain questions do not relate directly to the issue of percieved damages or the amount of exposure, but those questions DO work toward the larger argument that no proprietary property exists in the first place (because Kerebos began as an open standard).
If I were working on Slashdot's defense, I would quickly muddy the waters about who owns what and what is open source. By so doing, M$ would then be burdened with showing proof of what exactly it claims to be proprietary, and slashdot could counter each point with the open standard roots.
M$ lawyers would anticipate this (because the questions are here in front of us), and would sense the risk of opening an even bigger can of worms: just how much code does M$ 'embrace and extend' from the open source community? The answer isn't important-- the question is too damn close to the gov't claim. In the end, the risk is too great, and M$ would back away slowly.
I wonder if they used FrontPage to build this page-- did anyone else notice that the bullet lists are formatted wrong about halfway down the page? Someone forgot to close their unordered list tags . . .
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My friends and I have been convinced that the NRC made a deal with McDonalds Corporation to store the waste, in miniscule amounts, within Chicken Nuggets (they appeared in the market about the same time this became a problem in the early 80s). With everyone processing nuggets through their system in small amounts, we effectively distribute the waste over a large area, thus rendering it relatively harmless.
Prove this theory wrong!
Slower THAN!
Higher THAN!
Faster THAN!
What is up with the misuse of that phrase?
The other half of this is that the ATT Cable advertising dept. can approach those self-same businesses hawking their crap on @Home for package media buys on cable TV-- 'buy 50 spots on comedy central and we'll let you on the homepage for @Home . . . '
I'm sure all the tools (except one set of masters) were destroyed, but the masters are in some warehouse in Virginia somewhere-- probably next to the Ark of the Covenant . . .
This is exactly what was done in the Yellowstone Region with the reintroduction of Grey Wolves (imported from Canada) after they had been hunted out some 60 years ago (not sure on that timelength). The wolves have taken hold. The main effect has been on the elk, deer, and other grazers, whose population was too big and was taxing the land . . .
I understand if a species has been missing for like hundreds or thousands of years, that another predator/herbivore/whatever might take it's place, but that's the whole point-- let the animal back in and let nature find that balance for us. In over-simplified Lion-King Disney terms: Lions and Hyena share a close niche on the Serengetti, but if lions went extinct, hyenas would merely fill the void. If Lions were reintroduced, they would reestablish their balance with the hyena.
It's a matter of trust
Sponsors and advertisers simply need to rely on a consistent, reliable, and _reputable_ company to provide the numbers by which they purchase advertising. It is the same reason that makes large corporations with huge accounting departments hire Ernst & Young to run their 10-Ks before posting them to the SEC: reputation and consistency.
Everyone, including the site managers, advertisers, and Metrix, know that the numbers can be faked anywhere along the chain. The most honest option, and least culpable in terms of liability, is to have a measuring company run its analysis for all, even if that analysis is statistical predictions. If a site manager fakes numbers, he's a little untrustworthy; If Metrix screws up, they're outta business.
- One of two things could happen:
- Red Flag is always a day late and dollar short as far as Linux versions, in which case you shouldn't care what they do with it (unless you REALLY want to use it for some reason)
- Red Flag comes up with some cool stuff for their version, in which case you would want to use it.
- This case has two possibile scenarios:
- Go ahead and use the Red Flag, because they will respect the open source nature of it
- Go ahead and use the Red Flag, but then China would try to pursue legal action-- in which case the original GPL acts as your defense.
Either way, the Red Flag poses no threat to the Linux evolutionary track. In fact, having an isolated 'gene pool' behind the great wall being worked on by Chinese programmers may ultimately prove to be very interesting. The Eastern mindset, including basic philosophies, problem-solving methods, and group dynamics are fundamentaly different than westerners. Who know what they'll do with their kernel?Sai Chien,
Dave
Right now, as a coder, you can only see the mountain of code in front of you and your ability to 'make things go'. As your experience matures, you will become more valuable to the company for strategizing, instructing, or theorizing new models, just as combat veterans become more useful to the Army for training grunts or planning battles (rather than pulling triggers).
For me, now at 32 yrs old, it's not my fingers (coding ability) that is valuable to my company, it's my brains.
If I were working on Slashdot's defense, I would quickly muddy the waters about who owns what and what is open source. By so doing, M$ would then be burdened with showing proof of what exactly it claims to be proprietary, and slashdot could counter each point with the open standard roots.
M$ lawyers would anticipate this (because the questions are here in front of us), and would sense the risk of opening an even bigger can of worms: just how much code does M$ 'embrace and extend' from the open source community? The answer isn't important-- the question is too damn close to the gov't claim. In the end, the risk is too great, and M$ would back away slowly.
I wonder if they used FrontPage to build this page-- did anyone else notice that the bullet lists are formatted wrong about halfway down the page? Someone forgot to close their unordered list tags . . .