"But once in a while the manufacturer suggests installing another BIOS, which is available only as an executable. This, clearly, is installing a non-free program--it is just as bad as installing Microsoft Windows, or Adobe Photoshop, or Sun's Java Platform. As the unethical practice of installing another BIOS executable becomes common, the version delivered inside the computer starts to raise an ethical problem issue as well."
You know, this prick is probably the reason no one likes GPL. Ok, ok -- I know that most of my friends idolize this man, but fucking A. Installing Java is not an unethical practice. Contrary to the tripe he constantly dribbles out, it is open-source. Just because we don't like virii like GPL does not make it closed-source. Fucking prick.
28 February 2005
Slashdot | Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS
I have been wanting this for awhile (anyone remember the extra bios-chip-slot that BASIC used to be put into)... hope this goes somewhere.
Slashdot | Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics
Nice. Now if we could only convince the power company to charge LESS for renewable energy so everyone would want to switch.
26 February 2005
pandora: Home
Well, I have finally decided to get the rewrite of this webserver hosted somewhere so that I am more likely to get it done. I had been holding off to do it on my own site, but I just don't have the time for that. Now, it is publicly open source. We shall see if that helps me get around to it.
Slashdot | Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie
I know it looks cheesy but...
for 3 days of my paycheck, we could have paid to make this film. that makes me feel a little more like perhaps we could do it....
for 3 days of my paycheck, we could have paid to make this film. that makes me feel a little more like perhaps we could do it....
VERY FIRST photo ever published on the web
Nice. and to think I got fired less than a year later after installing Mosaic 0.98 beta because I 'couldn't possibly' be seeing graphics on the internet (it was gopher only at the college) and 'must be hacking'. Of course, a while after that I got my job back.
Slashdot | FCC to Fine Curses More Than Nuke Violations
Quote of a quote:
if the bill passes then 'for the price of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors.
if the bill passes then 'for the price of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors.
Slashdot | UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas
Nice. At least someone is jumping on the digital theater bandwagon. That should make it much easier for little startups to produce their own movies at lower cost.
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