Comment KPN revokes certificates (Score 1, Informative) 152
In response to the news, Gemnet's parent company KPN, has revoked a thousand certificates.
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Comment I Agree (Score 1) 295
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> the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying 'the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks'"
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Why should one be allowed to steal stuff ?
> the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying 'the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks'"
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Why should one be allowed to steal stuff ?
Comment Re:Sounds like the PHP dev team... (Score 1) 334
The problem was integrating the PHP plugin (nsapi ?) on Netscape/iPlanet webserver on AIX. Not the most common set up, I agree, but it was claimed to be 'supported'. Yea, I looked at the backtraces myself, but since im not a dev I couldnt get much useful info out of it, apart from the fact that the backtrace looked exactly the same over different versions of PHP. If there were specific requirements of using libfoo.so.14 instead of libfoo.so.15, then the devs could have made an effort to point me in that direction, instead of just saying over and over: 'oh, you are using an outdated version of PHP now, 3 months after you submitted your last backtrace. Now go do it again with the newest release'. Which then got the exact same results. And even if it would have 'obviously' been a problem with my compiler/linker/debugger (GCC on AIX), then it would have been helpful if the devs would have given me suggestions on what else to try besides: 'use the latest php version', even though the code that core dumped hasnt changed in eons. PHP devs suck.
Comment Sounds like the PHP dev team... (Score 3, Informative) 334
Sadly, I have had similar experiences with PHP where my web server dumped core the moment the php module was loaded by the web server. I faithfully reproduced the issue, and included back traces in the reports, for over 8 months long with god knows how many different versions of PHP. The results were always the same, and every time a developer finally got around to looking at the bug report, they simply said: "you are running an old version of PHP, please retry with the latest version.". After zillions of retry's of different PHP versions with the exact same backtrace, I decided to give up and stated so in the bug report. The bug was then closed as 'BOGUS'.
Comment Paper (Score 1) 283
Looks like, most people are still reading dead trees... Errrr Paper Books ...
Comment Re:The Alternative (Score 1) 838
What about the other people that are involved? It wasn't too long ago that some selfish asshole jumped from a bridge into rush-hour traffic near where I live, traumatizing dozens of people in the process.
Uhhmmm... That sorta was part of my point. That it would be way better to legalize 'physician assisted suicide at home', rather than forcing people to do horrific things like that. Both for them and the other people involved.
Comment Re:The Alternative (Score 1) 838
May people aren't in a condition to rationally make that decision when it needs to be made.
Which is why, when making laws that allow this, it should be mandatory that people make that decision up front, in writing, when they still are able to think rationally.
Comment Re:Religious Politics (Score 1) 838
Religion is the only legitimate basis for politics. All laws force some smaller group to do what a larger group thinks is 'moral'. I challenge you to define the term 'human rights' without reference to either law or morality. There is no such thing.
By that reasoning, 'religion' is just a way to let some larger group do what a smaller group thinks. Nothing more than that.
Comment The Alternative (Score 1) 838
The alternative to legal assisted suicide, and a 'mild death' of course, is a 'wild death': people jumping from buildings and in front of trains in order to end their lives. As long as it is at the specific request of the person itself, as long as it is voluntary, I am pro.
Submission + - What will the upcoming C64 / Amiga reboot change? (commodoreusa.net) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Commodore USA is close to starting production of the new C64s and Amigas it has been designing around modern PC hardware. A new OS nobody has seen yet — Commodore OS 1.0 — is also in the works. COS will, amongst other things, allow "games for the Commodore PET, Vic20, C16, C64, C128 and AMIGA" to be played on the new machines in emulation mode. It also promises "a distinctive, attractive, advanced and stable operating system experience".
Will these machines only interest a few hundred thousand people who grew up with a C64 or Amiga at home and are feeling nostalgic? Or could the new machines become wildly popular, sell millions of units just like in the old days and possibly signify a true "return" or "resurrection" of the long extinct "Commodore Platform"? Could this "old-new" platform possibly then become a popular 4th choice for people who want neither a Windows PC, nor a Mac, nor a Linux box? Could the new Amiga lineup in particular, which features fairly powerful hardware, become a renewed magnet for cool audio, video, 2D/3D graphics, music apps and other creative software like the old Amiga was? Will we walk into game shops and see dedicated "Amiga Games" again?
Will these machines only interest a few hundred thousand people who grew up with a C64 or Amiga at home and are feeling nostalgic? Or could the new machines become wildly popular, sell millions of units just like in the old days and possibly signify a true "return" or "resurrection" of the long extinct "Commodore Platform"? Could this "old-new" platform possibly then become a popular 4th choice for people who want neither a Windows PC, nor a Mac, nor a Linux box? Could the new Amiga lineup in particular, which features fairly powerful hardware, become a renewed magnet for cool audio, video, 2D/3D graphics, music apps and other creative software like the old Amiga was? Will we walk into game shops and see dedicated "Amiga Games" again?
Submission + - Linux Gets Dynamic Firewalls in Fedora 15 (esecurityplanet.com)
darthcamaro writes: Linux users have long relied on iptables for in-distro firewall setup. The upcoming Fedora 15 release changes that and introduces us to new dynamic firewall technology.
"Most Linux systems use IP tables type firewalls and the problem is that if you want to make a change to the firewall, it's hard to modify on the fly without reloading the entire firewall," Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith said. "Fedora 15 is really the first mainstream operating system to have a dynamic firewall where you can add or change rules and keep the firewall up and responding while you're making changing."
Comment So this is how the world will end ... (Score 1) 585
With thunderous applause...
Comment Re:'historical fiction' ? (Score 1) 337
Why should I not be allowed to write the above?
Uhhmmm... Because you pretend that this fiction is fact ? Lying ? Slander ?
Comment Re:'historical fiction' ? (Score 1) 337
I mean, what makes you think that *you* have the right to include 'real' people into your fake fictional works ?
Indeed. Mixing fact and fiction is quaintly known in civilized societies as lying. Making up a genre called "historical fiction" doesn't change the simple fact that Hilliard is being dishonest -- saying things about a real person that he knows are untrue. If his sincere intent was "literary criticism" as his lawyers now claim, then he would have written an essay, not a novel. They're entirely different categories of prose and I hope the court can appreciate that "fictionalizing" events of real people's lives is not literary critique, it's literally lying. And if any of the made-up events are in any way insulting, it's slander.
Very true... Mod parent up, please.... ?
Comment Re:'historical fiction' ? (Score 1) 337
Surely the burden of proof is on those who want to restrict such rights.
Hahahaha! No. If you dream up fictional stuff on someone/something, and pretend that it is 'factual', then the burden of proof of that is on you, pal.
