Comments on: Happy Mines

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:28:42 +0000

Indeed, creating prohibitions because I don’t like the act, such as alcohol, drug, gun, sexual act, and other idiocies of the polypragmatoi, do weaken everyones freedom as I said.

That’s why the GPL works so well. It doesn’t prohibit any action at all.

“Use it for what you want. Change it any way you want. Only if you provide it to others, you must allow them to do the same.”

By: Kai

Kai — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:18:41 +0000

“However, I would love to be able to say “everybody can use this except governments”. Idiots corrupt everything they touch.”

As the FSF itself explains on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html (by the writing style, it’s an RMS text) it weakens the Free Software principles and is pointless because governments can either use someone else’s software or simply declare themselves exempt.

By: Trent Waddington

Trent Waddington — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:34:15 +0000

So use a modified version of the GPL for your code. You won’t even attract hate from the distros.

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:40:01 +0000

The part of the GPL that says that someone cannot restrict what someone else uses the code for always did bother me.

I mean, I understand *why* one must unilaterally grant to others the liberties that one wants for themselves. As a gun owner I see every day the problem of “not in my backyard” and other hypocrisies.

However, I would love to be able to say “everybody can use this except governments”. Idiots corrupt everything they touch.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:50:54 +0000

“Besides being fun, its a nice stab at ESRs “libertarian”credibility.”

As though Eric needed stabbing at this stage! Whatever; shooting fish in a barrel can be fun from time to time.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:43:04 +0000

Besides being fun, its a nice stab at ESRs “libertarian” credibility.

By: svd

svd — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:54:38 +0000

re spending time, all it takes is to play a game, and I assume one can even cheat or give up and look at the solution.

Good strip.

By: Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:21:27 +0000

And you even spent the time to make sure the flag placement in minesweeper was correct. Thoroughly impressed; you must have a lot of time on your hands.

Is that ‘Mines’ from gnome-games aswell? Having one of them wearing the shades would’ve been a nice touch ;)

By: ELERFan

ELERFan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:13:46 +0000

Wow, OSI/Linux… as deep as it can get.

By: Fintan

Fintan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:01:01 +0000

Is that a dead kid your displaying there??

By: Grindblog » Blog Archive » Peer-to-Peer-Landminen

Grindblog » Blog Archive » Peer-to-Peer-Landminen — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:02:35 +0000

[...] Auf seltsamen Wegen erreicht mich die Nachricht, dass die DARPA in einem Forschungsprojekt Minenfelder entwickelt, die selbst heilen können. [...]

By: std

std — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:51:59 +0000

The official explaination is that this actually prevents innocent kids from getting blown up: these are anti-tank mines you are dealing with, and normal pedestrians do not cause these to explode because they have magnetic triggers. However, this makes the land mines trivial to defeat – just go around and move ‘em. So anti-personnel mines are put up around these mines to prevent that. Anti-personnel mines are the ones that kill kids. But these smart mines move themselves back, making anti-personnel mines unnecessary (or at least having less of them). Ergo, less innocent casualties.

Taken from here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190247&cid=15653208