In OpenBSD you would do:

# ifconfig wpi0 -wpa -wpapsk `wpa-psk network password`
# dhclient wpi0

The same commands you would use for a wired network ignoring wpa-specific options, which means you can find them in the same manpage. I'd love a Linux distribution with this level of user-friendliness.

By that logic Wine is copyright Microsoft, BSD is copyright AT&T and Linux is copyright Tanebaum. None of GNU is possibly free because it all is based on pre-existing software *and* all original developers had seen AT&T code.
Derivative work is work including other people's copyrighted work else you can already dump your GPL and start torrenting Windows 7 like everyone else.

If your question is, implements as many security features for exploit mitigation as OpenBSD? The answer is no. pf and openssh should work all the same but given a vulnerability, OpenBSD has a better chance of surviving it unharmed until it is fixed.

Still, FreeBSD, like Linux, is faster and scales better than OpenBSD. So you have to factor that in if you plan on running something that needs it.

Finally, in my opinion, and always from the command line, OpenBSD ~= FreeBSD > ? > Linux as far as ease of use is concerned.

In Soviet Russia, Shakespeare misspells THEE!

Well, there is a theory of spacetime that everything that has or will or is happening exists simultaneously. So time paradoxes are impossible.

So, we may have discovered the Higgs boson, and then "nature" undid the discovery afterwards, by stopping it from being discovered in the first place. We'd never "know" that the Higgs boson had been discovered, but it WAS discovered. We just don't have access to that event in spacetime.

Yeah, it's nutty. But the physics all work out.

Ahhh common ignornace.

Your location on the globe (what your countries laws are) and what type of material you are dealing with (print, versus audio, versus other artwork) play into the length of copyright.

Just because Disney has fucked up your country doesn't mean those rules apply to anyone else.

Competition between OS's?

Not if it's rigged.

The part that's truly amusing, is that this effect is almost entirely due to the efforts of Comrade Stallman.

He wanted a license to reduce the amount of money circulating where software development was concerned. It might be true that less money is going in the direction of programmers, but the corporations are doing just fine. The fact that FOSS gives them the ability to outsource, actually means that they're saving money by being able to keep Asian programmers in sweatshops.

I would rather light my ball hairs on fire and have a bondage trans sexual primordial dwarf beat the fire out with a sledge hammer

Hey some of us consider that a good time

Who knows, maybe they could follow Network 23's lead and make a game show out of it!

When you buy mutual funds, in addition to any annual fees they may charge, different funds may charge you a percentage of your invested capital at the time you purchase and/or at the time you sell shares of the fund. If they charge you when you purchase, we say you're paying on the "Front-end" and, if you pay when you sell, you're paying on the "Back-end".

Back-ended funds are alluring because you get to defer the pain of paying until later, so a back-ended fund with a certain fee structure can compete with a front-ended fund with lower overall fees than the back-ended one. When the higher cost is way out there in the future, it doesn't seem so bad (one reason people buy so much crap they don't really need on credit-cards).

If you look at some of the huge costs to the U.S. these days (like dependence upon foreign oil and the cost of health-care), you realize that these are heavily back-ended arrangements.

With foreign oil, we're able to buy cheap SUV's and land-yachts. Initially, this increases demand for oil, so gas prices go up. But also... because of this need for oil, as Bill Maher says, we've got to go find other oil deposits and then kill the people living atop them. So, that means a large military, which is a huge cost which is passed on to us in taxes. (Imagine, for a moment, if we didn't need any of that middle-east oil and could afford to let the whole region just go to hell in a handbasket. Think of how much military we would not need). Now, imagine if there were a "military tax" on cars where, depending upon what the mileage of the car was, you'd be taxed some amount which would be proportional to the amount that your car would increase military spending in the future in order to ensure a supply of fuel for it. It would move those costs from the back-end to the front-end and cause people to think a little harder about purchasing vehicles which, when all costs are weighed, probably aren't as "good for you" as a more fuel-efficient one.

So, on to this notion of the snack taxes and soda taxes. This is another case of back-end payment. The fast-food establishments engineer their foods to give us instant gratification, be easy to eat a lot of ("boneless wings", anyone?), and be cheap, without much attention given to nutritional quality. The "payment" for this low nutritional quality happens on the back-end, when we're obese and have adult-onset diabetes and/or heart-disease. The path that brought us to our unhealthy condition wasn't clearly laid out, because we didn't feel that we were eating fast-food that often... and we only order the super-sized fries half the time... etc.

Now, if some of these costs were moved to the front-end, our wallets would show us that we're eating fast-food and supersizing a lot more often than we think and might get us to make some different choices. Or, if we make the same choices, at least some of the payment for our bypass surgery is being made over decades, so we won't suffer so much "sticker shock" when we get the bill for the surgery.

I know people bellyache about this being another part of the "nanny state", but we already front-end a lot of other things in our life without giving it any thought. When you visit, say, a national park... you may pay an entrance or visitor's fee. This fee goes to repair the wear and tear that you're going to put on the park by walking, riding, or driving around in it. In many cases, you're even charged proportionally to the amount of effect you're going to have (like large motor-homes being charged more than a small car, say).

I, for one, welcome our new soda-taxing overlords....

Funny that, but with Israel's policy of taking over more and more Palestinian land, they're actively destroying Palestine.

Iran's threatening to do such a thing; Israel is actually doing it.

Sparta and Athens were repressive societies, that successfully kept equal rights for women and the liberation of slaves out of the western Aegean for another 200 years.

A mere 59 years before, Cyrus the Great liberated Babylon and released it's captive peoples, encoding this in the law of the Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_cylinder

The Zoroastrian creed of Darius and Xerxes - the Achaemenid line - was that of upholding the precepts: Good Word, Good Thought, Good Deed. This was the core of worship and daily conduct of the devotee to God (Ahura Mazda).

"Darius, the Great King, King of Kings, King of Countries, son of Hystaspes, the Achaemenid. Saith Darius the King: This is the kingdom which I posses from the land of the Sakas on this side of Sogdiana as far as Kush, from India to Sardis. Over this Ahura Mazda has granted me dominion, he who is great above all the Gods. May Ahura Mazda protect me and my Royal House."

At this time, the Spartans were still obsessed with sodomy, and destroyed their girl-babies.