Yes, they care about power, and they don't get power if they don't get votes. So they listen to voters, especially if a lot of them are saying the same thing at the same time.
Can a vote and a $2K contribution get you more access than just a vote? Undoubtedly. But a vote gets you something -- if you use it.
People are always complaining about how ordinary people are shut out of the political process. It seems to me that people shut themselves out when they assume that they have no voice, and don't even bother to speak up.
The problem here is that the congresscritters have heard from Microsoft, and Microsoft knows how to be persuasive. Open-source advocates know how to be persuasive too, so the Congress needs to hear from us.
Everyone shutting off their Linux machine for a day won't help. Everyone writing to their congressentity on the same day would make quite a bit of difference, especially if those letters are polite, concise, and well-thought-out.
On March 23, I marched against the war in Manhattan with 100,000 or 250,000 other protestors, depending whether you believe the cops or the organizers. So don't talk to me about opposition "melting away".
Safari and Mozilla are very different applications. Safari is simple, you can learn all the interface elements in an hour. Mozilla is featureful, you can tweak it to your heart's content.
I prefer Safari, but there are important features that aren't in it and may not be for some time.
Most of them do. It's not absolutely required, though -- you could give the kernel its own address space. I think that OS writers like to leave the kernel resident, though, because they don't want to pay for all those MMU flushes.
This sounds like the kind of thing that Rendezvous was designed for. My guess is that Gibson doesn't have open-source religion, and also that design on this thing started before Rendezvous made the scene.
Mr. Masnick appears to be unaware that the Reply-To and the envelope sender are not one and the same thing. As a result, his article makes little sense.
You're quite wrong. People are not locked up based on how much damage they can do. They're locked up, theoretically, based on how much damage they *did*.
As for the calculation of the damage that Mr. Mitnick did, he alleges not that he should have been allowed to determine the value, but rather that "WE" got it wrong. Clearly he is not disinterested in this assessment, but it's certainly plausible that he's right.
It's actually surprisingly easy to argue that the FreeBSD Project (or, better yet, "FreeBSD") is dictatorial. Or that it's elitist, childish, etc. All you have to do is ignore the facts, and post "FreeBSD is !" as many times as you can.
I have to say, this is not one of Slashdot's finer moments. Rarely have so many had so much to say on a topic of which they know so little.
I keep seeing this phrase here "easily bruised egos". I put a more charitable interpretation on it: I find that the FreeBSD people aren't into the culture of bashing and flaming. I've found them to be really easy to work with: the trick is to speak to them as I would like to be spoken to.
The people who do the bulk of the work get to decide what sort of culture they want. When I see the words "stupid" or "idiot" in a post to freebsd-hackers, generally one of two things is true: the poster is himself an idiot, or he is new to FreeBSD culture and doesn't know yet that people don't talk that way there.
Let me get this right... you think Apple is turning away from open source because they picked one open source rendering engine over another? I don't get it.
Or are you mad because the UI isn't open source? In that sense, Safari is shaped the same way Mac OS X is. So it should at least be no surprise.
Slashdot Mirror
*raises hand*
It's not as if events halfway across the world
don't affect us on a daily basis.
I'd apologize to you, but I have no standing.
I doubt that the slight was intentional. Remember
Hanlon's Razor.
> I can't tell you how nice infinitely long showers are.
No, you can't, 'cause you'd have to finish taking
one first.
("rinse, repeat")
Yes, they care about power, and they don't get power if
they don't get votes. So they listen to voters, especially
if a lot of them are saying the same thing at the same time.
Can a vote and a $2K contribution get you more access
than just a vote? Undoubtedly. But a vote gets you
something -- if you use it.
People are always complaining about how ordinary people
are shut out of the political process. It seems to me that
people shut themselves out when they assume that they
have no voice, and don't even bother to speak up.
No, I'm not kidding. You don't need to insert a quarter to
:-)
play, you just need time and commitment.
Which is not to say that a well-placed campaign
contribution or three would be a *bad* thing.
The problem here is that the congresscritters have heard
from Microsoft, and Microsoft knows how to be persuasive.
Open-source advocates know how to be persuasive too,
so the Congress needs to hear from us.
Everyone shutting off their Linux machine for a day won't
help. Everyone writing to their congressentity on the same
day would make quite a bit of difference, especially if those
letters are polite, concise, and well-thought-out.
You have confused copyright with trademark.
A company must defend its trademark in order
to keep it. That is not true of copyright.
A Linux that's IBM-only is worthless to IBM.
They already have AIX.
I dunno, I think the NeXTStep GUI was quite decent.
On March 23, I marched against the war in Manhattan
with 100,000 or 250,000 other protestors, depending
whether you believe the cops or the organizers. So don't
talk to me about opposition "melting away".
Safari and Mozilla are very different applications. Safari
is simple, you can learn all the interface elements in an
hour. Mozilla is featureful, you can tweak it to your heart's
content.
I prefer Safari, but there are important features that aren't
in it and may not be for some time.
% units
1992 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: Mbits
You want: mbits
* 1e+09
/ 1e-09
His name was Jim-- no, Joe. Anyway, his number is ... 635 ... 563 ... dammit.
555-653
Most of them do. It's not absolutely required, though --
you could give the kernel its own address space. I think
that OS writers like to leave the kernel resident, though,
because they don't want to pay for all those MMU flushes.
This sounds like the kind of thing that Rendezvous
;-)
was designed for. My guess is that Gibson doesn't
have open-source religion, and also that design on
this thing started before Rendezvous made the scene.
Maybe Apple will come out with an iShred.
Paging Glenn Branca.
End of story.
Mr. Masnick appears to be unaware that the Reply-To
and the envelope sender are not one and the same
thing. As a result, his article makes little
sense.
You're quite wrong. People are not locked up based on
how much damage they can do. They're locked up,
theoretically, based on how much damage they *did*.
As for the calculation of the damage that Mr. Mitnick
did, he alleges not that he should have been allowed to
determine the value, but rather that "WE" got it wrong.
Clearly he is not disinterested in this assessment, but
it's certainly plausible that he's right.
It's actually surprisingly easy to argue that the FreeBSD
Project (or, better yet, "FreeBSD") is dictatorial. Or that
it's elitist, childish, etc. All you have to do is ignore the
facts, and post "FreeBSD is !" as many
times as you can.
I have to say, this is not one of Slashdot's finer moments.
Rarely have so many had so much to say on a topic of
which they know so little.
People who are not members of the core team certainly
e s/contributors/,
can commit. There are many, many more committers
than there are core team members.
See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articl
sections 2 and 3.
I keep seeing this phrase here "easily bruised egos".
I put a more charitable interpretation on it: I find that
the FreeBSD people aren't into the culture of bashing
and flaming. I've found them to be really easy to work
with: the trick is to speak to them as I would like to be
spoken to.
The people who do the bulk of the work get to decide
what sort of culture they want. When I see the words
"stupid" or "idiot" in a post to freebsd-hackers, generally
one of two things is true: the poster is himself an idiot,
or he is new to FreeBSD culture and doesn't know yet that
people don't talk that way there.
Psst, people, we're talking about Gecko vs. khtml here,
not Mozilla vs. Konqueror.
Gecko *is* bloated, but when you think of "Mozilla features",
you're probably not thinking about the factors that made
Gecko bloated.
Let me get this right ... you think Apple is turning away
from open source because they picked one open source
rendering engine over another? I don't get it.
Or are you mad because the UI isn't open source? In that
sense, Safari is shaped the same way Mac OS X is. So it
should at least be no surprise.
Who owns the collective unconscious?
Some things are only worth anything if no one owns them.