I don't think the poster understands what MTV and VH1 are trying to do.
Their "choose or lose" campaigns don't push the message that you should go out and vote uneducated. They talk about the issues in a relatively non-partisan way, encourge kids to get educated on the issues, and yes, encourage them to vote. Never have I seen them encourage someone to vote without the facts first.
The real goal is to get kids to vote as soon as they can, not wait until their 30's when they are settled down with kids and finally realize on their own it's important. MTV and VH1 are doing a good job of making kids realize the issues are important to them, and that if they are educated about them an organized they can make a difference.
I don't think a car of that class has a drive by wire system at least not yet. Back when people were driving their Jeeps through walls left and right, due to the pedals being offset more than most cars, Jeep made a video for the court case.
They showed that in a Jeep, with a large V8 engine, the engine could not at full throttle overcome the brake. Be it from a stop, or while moving. Their catch phrase, "Brakes always win".
So, as long as the car had a mechanical brake system which was still working he could have stopped.
Apple has told people how much money they make on
their $0.99 songs. We all know their margins are
slim. I think what angers people the most about the Real situation is they are clearly doing one of two things:
Dumping songs below cost and eating the loss in an effort to get people to switch.
Getting a significantly better deal, eg, nearly free, from the record companies for the music.
Now, if you're an Apple fan the first is simply anti-competitive. It's dumping, trying to force out a (relatively) fair player. The presumption is if Apple were to leave the business Real would then jack up the price. The second is almost as infuriating to the Apple fan as it means the record companies are essentially doing the same thing at the wholesale level in an attempt to hurt Apple.
So, if you're an Apple fan, both actions root is not to provide you with better music for cheaper, but to put Apple out of business. Presumably the Apple fan likes his iMac/OSX/iPod/Airport/Whatever so he would like Apple to stay in business.
It is also interesting that Real, and company with a proprietary format which it will not release to Apple or the Linux community and that uses copyright patents and trademarks to enforce their proprietary format has no qualms about breaking the software protection of another format. I suspect if Apple say, released songs in.rm format because they had reverse engineered it that Real would be all up in their face trying to use their various "IP" to stop it.
Companies can't have it both ways. They can protect their IP from everyone else, but then not break others IP, or they can let everyone use their IP and use everyone else's. It's not a buffet, they don't get to pick and choose.
Sun clearly has rights to "sublicense" the code, otherwise they couldn't sell Solaris licenses in the first place. Now, I don't know that they could GPL it per se, but I highly doubt the original contract requires them to license it FOR A FEE. If Sun wanted to put the code up on a web page to download with the current license and a price of free I'm not sure SCO could do anything to stop them.
Isn't the first requirement for a contract of any kind that there be a "Meeting of the Minds"? Wouldn't a one way contract you don't see until after you perform the possibly restricted act automatically fail that test?
In my experience all professional theaters use telex or clear com systems. Wired ones are quite expensive, and prefered as you can get headsets powered from the jack. However, both also make wireless systems that use FM and have quite good quality and range. The wireless systems are not nearly as cheap as walkie talkies, but they are far cheaper than wired systems and will last for years. It may be worth the time and effort to get some approved, or do a fund raiser.
Buy a pair of ASIC cross trainers, or running shoes. More than one podiatrist has recomended them to me, they were one of the first to get "gel" right, and really have a good way to soften the impact on your foot. Many long distance runners swear by the shoes. No metal for the detector, and once you get used to the spring in your step (literally) you'll never buy another brand again!
Hard drives suck for many applications. Compared to all the other silicon parts in a computing device hard drives with their movement fail more often and take less shock than pretty much anything else in a computing device. This is why everything from embedded devices to the MP3 players you wear around your neck while jogging use flash, because it's solid state. I say this because for much of the market (that is not PC's) hard drives are not an option, and that today pretty much leaves flash. If those people got something better your MP3 player, watch, router, cable modem, coffie maker, and all sorts of other embedded things could become much faster, much quicker. Remember, many of these things RUN FROM FLASH, so access rate is huge.
There are many good articles out there about Common Carrier laws and regulations. I suggest you read them. I think this lawsuit will have minimal impact on ISP's common carrier status.
Internet service today, as far as I understand, is not a Common Carrier service by anyones definition. The government doesn't require anyone to provide Internet service at a fixed price. The government doesn't regulate Internet service (although, perhaps some of the underlying infrastructure). I don't think this relatively minor (in the context of common carrier status) point makes a difference.
That said, most ISP's want to act like common carriers. They usually want to sell to everyone at the published price, and want to carry all content without making editorial decisions. There are some (large) exceptions, but that's broadly true. Does that mean they should be regulated? Probably not. Common Carrier's history was to provide service to people private companies didn't want to service. Since ISP's seem to want to service everyone (within some limits) in a sense for now they can have the best of both worlds.
If someone copied a Toyota Camry (or well, pick any other physical thing that is sold) and sold it to me, even if Toyota won a lawsuit againt the person who made it are you saying they could tell me to stop driving my Camry copy? I don't think so. IANAL, but I don't think that's how the law works. It's perverted it's been made to work that way in some IP cases.
Most of the public has seen their names on ATM machines. While they might not know much about the company, they know they give them cash, and that's good enough for many a joe consumer.
I believe the poster is correct, -c none will pass passwords in the clear. You can get around this by using RSA authentication, which is public key based, and thus doesn't need to be encrypted.
Re point #2: Note, 5-10years ago the "average" Internet user had no problems using FTP. While I agree it is harder to use, and is not widespread today, at the time it was the way everyone online transfered files. If you say 80% of users today can use Napster, I'll say 80% of users 5-10 years ago could use FTP.
It's not interesting how many "users". What's interesting is the number of installed boxes. FreeBSD, in particular, is likely to be used in server markets where hundreds of machines might be managed by one person. Compare and contrast with desktop markets, where some Linux distros go and Windows is definately king, and you find more of a 1-3 computers per person ratio.
Of course, no one really knows any of the above numbers with any reliability, so we should all just make up new ones anyway!
Several years ago I did some work on some Virginia Tech "supercomputers" (actually, baby versions of ones on campus that were the same as huge ones they leased time on elsewhere), and I think the people talking about Altivec are on track. I never knew exactly what they did, but at that time the Math, CS, and Engineering groups were working together to simulate wing designs for the YF-22 jet figher prototype. Since I was more of a "sysadmin" (althoug h with a math and CS background) I ignored most of what was going on, but one thing I can tell you was vectors, vectors, and more vectors. The vector is king. It's an assumption, but I'll bet they are still working on similar type studies, and if built, this will be just the beast for it.
Unless I'm mistaken these cards don't do RAID anything. Indeed, they are ordinary controllers that have a few extra functions, all of which are basically hardware acceleration for RAID operations. The critical bits of the RAID are still done in software.
With that said, if you're going to do software RAID, you might as well just do it. I've been using VINUM on FreeBSD for a long time, there are other options for FreeBSD and for Linux. The better ones take full advantage of the "dual read" property of mirrored drives at the kernel level. Best part, no special hardware required. If something breaks buy any old ATA card and you're back in business since it's all in software.
If you need RAID-4 or RAID-5, a dedicated card might be a good idea. For mirroring I think software is superior.
There are really two different problems when it comes to securing against worms and the like, and for the moment I think Linux (and any Unix) has an advantage in both areas, although it's probably not as big as many people think.
First you have to look at what a rogue program can do once in the system. For this the entry vector is unimportant. With most Unix like systems the default is for the user to not have full privilages (eg, not be root), and thus the rogue program cannot make full use of the system. That doesn't mean it can't complete it's mission, but it does make several things much harder:
Hiding from the user / administrator. Almost all rogue programs try to hide. When a user only has disk permissions to their own area, and not to the entire machine there are fewer places to hide. Also due to differences in the system it's more routine for users and administrators to be presented with system data (eg, ps output) and it's easier for the administrator to collect data about programs running (ps, accounting, lsof, netstat). I know, you're going to say all that can be done on windows. The problem is windows goes to great pains to make the average user, and the average administrator not know that.
Automatic execution. To better hide rogue programs often don't want to run all the time. Again, by design most users can't edit startup files, or couldn't append a wrapper around a standard system program on a Unix like box. Indeed, many users have no programs installed in areas they can write to. Windows on the other hand allows users to add TSR's and edit all the applications, allowing a Rogue program to hide almost anywhere.
Built in defense mechanisms. Almost all Unix flavors come with some defense standard now. Mostly in the form of nightly scripts checking for SUID programs and the like. Some are more fancy, some less, but at least there is some attempt out of the box to notify the user / administrator of a problem.
The main issue is, most of the operating system differences don't mean much, as it's the applications that are the holes. From the simple password in a URL, to a complex buffer overflow attack applications are very often the vector into the system. Here you have to separate the cultural differences from the application differences.
Cultural: Many Unix users still used text based mail clients in xterms, and even when they don't the GUI's were designed to more closely mimic the behavior of those interfaces. Attachments are evil, when run are generally carefully handed to a program as data. In windows virtually all mail programs are graphical. Many users demand them to implement things like javascript that auto-execute, many of them will happily run a foreign attachment with little more coaxing than a mouse click. At the end of the day these differences require user education. That may be helped by a transparent OS, but it's still a user education difference.
Application Differences: Windows (Microsoft) encourages developers to build tightly coupled applications. Look no further than OLE. That ability to embed excel in your word doc and have it just pop up over the UI requires a tightly coupled API for program to program interaction, generally exposing full interfaces. Rogue programs can exploit this, often not needing to know what application is in use, but rather just the API. Unix developers / enviornments generally encourage a loosely coupled behavior. Programs provide some command line / pipe oriented service and handle all their own details internally. You need only look as far as printing to see this quite well, as windows pushes driver bits into the application to change behavior, while unix makes it all happen with a "system()" command running a new program.
At the end of the day, I believe the following statements are all true:
Windows is targeted because it is the dominate platform, and rogue programs generally want to have the highest chance of suc
The companies that make virus scanners have detailed definitions of each virus. They need to include in that a flag "spoofs from address". If it does, sending autoreplies only adds to the problem, if not, returning a message to the sender is probably ok. They are just too lazy to add a flag to the definitions they send out, and put a simple "if()" around the mail code. It's stupid.
Isn't part of _ANY_ trial discovery? Doesn't that mean that both sides have to give each other the evidence they are going to use in the case? More to the point, if SCO decided to sue you, could you basically stand up and say to the judge "SCO needs to turn over any and all evidence of infringement, and the trial should not start until they do so?"
Wow, for someone who specifically didn't suggest switching and also clearly stated we weren't going to be able to make a suggestion without more information from the poster aren't you laying it on a bit thick? I never said it was better, just that I used it to detail another option, appropriate for me, since it was what I knew. The point was to show that there are choices, not that this choice would be a good one for the poster.
The poster needs to provide detail on the features he needs. If the only feature is "support" (eg, security updates, help with bugs) that might be a poor reason to pay red hat's fees, with a better option available via some other Linux (or other Unix Like OS) vendor. If, on the other hand, he needs an "Oracle Certified OS", then Debian, FreeBSD, and others are not an option.
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I don't think the poster understands what MTV and VH1 are trying to do.
Their "choose or lose" campaigns don't push the message that you should go out and vote uneducated. They talk about the issues in a relatively non-partisan way, encourge kids to get educated on the issues, and yes, encourage them to vote. Never have I seen them encourage someone to vote without the facts first.
The real goal is to get kids to vote as soon as they can, not wait until their 30's when they are settled down with kids and finally realize on their own it's important. MTV and VH1 are doing a good job of making kids realize the issues are important to them, and that if they are educated about them an organized they can make a difference.
I don't think a car of that class has a drive by wire system at least not yet. Back when people were driving their Jeeps through walls left and right, due to the pedals being offset more than most cars, Jeep made a video for the court case.
They showed that in a Jeep, with a large V8 engine, the engine could not at full throttle overcome the brake. Be it from a stop, or while moving. Their catch phrase, "Brakes always win".
So, as long as the car had a mechanical brake system which was still working he could have stopped.
Where's the list of these "dozen's of places" so I can move there?
Apple has told people how much money they make on their $0.99 songs. We all know their margins are slim. I think what angers people the most about the Real situation is they are clearly doing one of two things:
Now, if you're an Apple fan the first is simply anti-competitive. It's dumping, trying to force out a (relatively) fair player. The presumption is if Apple were to leave the business Real would then jack up the price. The second is almost as infuriating to the Apple fan as it means the record companies are essentially doing the same thing at the wholesale level in an attempt to hurt Apple.
So, if you're an Apple fan, both actions root is not to provide you with better music for cheaper, but to put Apple out of business. Presumably the Apple fan likes his iMac/OSX/iPod/Airport/Whatever so he would like Apple to stay in business.
It is also interesting that Real, and company with a proprietary format which it will not release to Apple or the Linux community and that uses copyright patents and trademarks to enforce their proprietary format has no qualms about breaking the software protection of another format. I suspect if Apple say, released songs in .rm format because they had reverse engineered it that Real would be all up in their face trying to use their various "IP" to stop it.
Companies can't have it both ways. They can protect their IP from everyone else, but then not break others IP, or they can let everyone use their IP and use everyone else's. It's not a buffet, they don't get to pick and choose.
Anyone else notice SCOX had a rally in the last 30 minutes and finished up for the day? What's up with that?
Sun clearly has rights to "sublicense" the code, otherwise they couldn't sell Solaris licenses in the first place. Now, I don't know that they could GPL it per se, but I highly doubt the original contract requires them to license it FOR A FEE. If Sun wanted to put the code up on a web page to download with the current license and a price of free I'm not sure SCO could do anything to stop them.
Isn't the first requirement for a contract of any kind that there be a "Meeting of the Minds"? Wouldn't a one way contract you don't see until after you perform the possibly restricted act automatically fail that test?
In my experience all professional theaters use telex or clear com systems. Wired ones are quite expensive, and prefered as you can get headsets powered from the jack. However, both also make wireless systems that use FM and have quite good quality and range. The wireless systems are not nearly as cheap as walkie talkies, but they are far cheaper than wired systems and will last for years. It may be worth the time and effort to get some approved, or do a fund raiser.
Buy a pair of ASIC cross trainers, or running shoes. More than one podiatrist has recomended them to me, they were one of the first to get "gel" right, and really have a good way to soften the impact on your foot. Many long distance runners swear by the shoes. No metal for the detector, and once you get used to the spring in your step (literally) you'll never buy another brand again!
Hard drives suck for many applications. Compared to all the other silicon parts in a computing device hard drives with their movement fail more often and take less shock than pretty much anything else in a computing device. This is why everything from embedded devices to the MP3 players you wear around your neck while jogging use flash, because it's solid state. I say this because for much of the market (that is not PC's) hard drives are not an option, and that today pretty much leaves flash. If those people got something better your MP3 player, watch, router, cable modem, coffie maker, and all sorts of other embedded things could become much faster, much quicker. Remember, many of these things RUN FROM FLASH, so access rate is huge.
There are many good articles out there about Common Carrier laws and regulations. I suggest you read them. I think this lawsuit will have minimal impact on ISP's common carrier status.
Internet service today, as far as I understand, is not a Common Carrier service by anyones definition. The government doesn't require anyone to provide Internet service at a fixed price. The government doesn't regulate Internet service (although, perhaps some of the underlying infrastructure). I don't think this relatively minor (in the context of common carrier status) point makes a difference.
That said, most ISP's want to act like common carriers. They usually want to sell to everyone at the published price, and want to carry all content without making editorial decisions. There are some (large) exceptions, but that's broadly true. Does that mean they should be regulated? Probably not. Common Carrier's history was to provide service to people private companies didn't want to service. Since ISP's seem to want to service everyone (within some limits) in a sense for now they can have the best of both worlds.
Of course, that could all change at any time.
You are way, way, way oversimplifing. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/c-faq/c-1.html
An incorrect assumption made millions of times a day, I'll wager.
Why does this happen in the computer world?
If someone copied a Toyota Camry (or well, pick any other physical thing that is sold) and sold it to me, even if Toyota won a lawsuit againt the person who made it are you saying they could tell me to stop driving my Camry copy? I don't think so. IANAL, but I don't think that's how the law works. It's perverted it's been made to work that way in some IP cases.
Most of the public has seen their names on ATM machines. While they might not know much about the company, they know they give them cash, and that's good enough for many a joe consumer.
No lawmaker is going to be without booze. They'll (attempt) to fix it with some new law, or something.
I believe the poster is correct, -c none will pass passwords in the clear. You can get around this by using RSA authentication, which is public key based, and thus doesn't need to be encrypted.
So, -c none only with RSA authentication, please.
Re point #2: Note, 5-10years ago the "average" Internet user had no problems using FTP. While I agree it is harder to use, and is not widespread today, at the time it was the way everyone online transfered files. If you say 80% of users today can use Napster, I'll say 80% of users 5-10 years ago could use FTP.
It's not interesting how many "users". What's interesting is the number of installed boxes. FreeBSD, in particular, is likely to be used in server markets where hundreds of machines might be managed by one person. Compare and contrast with desktop markets, where some Linux distros go and Windows is definately king, and you find more of a 1-3 computers per person ratio.
Of course, no one really knows any of the above numbers with any reliability, so we should all just make up new ones anyway!
Several years ago I did some work on some Virginia Tech "supercomputers" (actually, baby versions of ones on campus that were the same as huge ones they leased time on elsewhere), and I think the people talking about Altivec are on track. I never knew exactly what they did, but at that time the Math, CS, and Engineering groups were working together to simulate wing designs for the YF-22 jet figher prototype. Since I was more of a "sysadmin" (althoug h with a math and CS background) I ignored most of what was going on, but one thing I can tell you was vectors, vectors, and more vectors. The vector is king. It's an assumption, but I'll bet they are still working on similar type studies, and if built, this will be just the beast for it.
Unless I'm mistaken these cards don't do RAID anything. Indeed, they are ordinary controllers that have a few extra functions, all of which are basically hardware acceleration for RAID operations. The critical bits of the RAID are still done in software.
With that said, if you're going to do software RAID, you might as well just do it. I've been using VINUM on FreeBSD for a long time, there are other options for FreeBSD and for Linux. The better ones take full advantage of the "dual read" property of mirrored drives at the kernel level. Best part, no special hardware required. If something breaks buy any old ATA card and you're back in business since it's all in software.
If you need RAID-4 or RAID-5, a dedicated card might be a good idea. For mirroring I think software is superior.
There are really two different problems when it comes to securing against worms and the like, and for the moment I think Linux (and any Unix) has an advantage in both areas, although it's probably not as big as many people think.
First you have to look at what a rogue program can do once in the system. For this the entry vector is unimportant. With most Unix like systems the default is for the user to not have full privilages (eg, not be root), and thus the rogue program cannot make full use of the system. That doesn't mean it can't complete it's mission, but it does make several things much harder:
The main issue is, most of the operating system differences don't mean much, as it's the applications that are the holes. From the simple password in a URL, to a complex buffer overflow attack applications are very often the vector into the system. Here you have to separate the cultural differences from the application differences.
Cultural: Many Unix users still used text based mail clients in xterms, and even when they don't the GUI's were designed to more closely mimic the behavior of those interfaces. Attachments are evil, when run are generally carefully handed to a program as data. In windows virtually all mail programs are graphical. Many users demand them to implement things like javascript that auto-execute, many of them will happily run a foreign attachment with little more coaxing than a mouse click. At the end of the day these differences require user education. That may be helped by a transparent OS, but it's still a user education difference.
Application Differences: Windows (Microsoft) encourages developers to build tightly coupled applications. Look no further than OLE. That ability to embed excel in your word doc and have it just pop up over the UI requires a tightly coupled API for program to program interaction, generally exposing full interfaces. Rogue programs can exploit this, often not needing to know what application is in use, but rather just the API. Unix developers / enviornments generally encourage a loosely coupled behavior. Programs provide some command line / pipe oriented service and handle all their own details internally. You need only look as far as printing to see this quite well, as windows pushes driver bits into the application to change behavior, while unix makes it all happen with a "system()" command running a new program.
At the end of the day, I believe the following statements are all true:
The companies that make virus scanners have detailed definitions of each virus. They need to include in that a flag "spoofs from address". If it does, sending autoreplies only adds to the problem, if not, returning a message to the sender is probably ok. They are just too lazy to add a flag to the definitions they send out, and put a simple "if()" around the mail code. It's stupid.
Isn't part of _ANY_ trial discovery? Doesn't that mean that both sides have to give each other the evidence they are going to use in the case? More to the point, if SCO decided to sue you, could you basically stand up and say to the judge "SCO needs to turn over any and all evidence of infringement, and the trial should not start until they do so?"
Wow, for someone who specifically didn't suggest switching and also clearly stated we weren't going to be able to make a suggestion without more information from the poster aren't you laying it on a bit thick? I never said it was better, just that I used it to detail another option, appropriate for me, since it was what I knew. The point was to show that there are choices, not that this choice would be a good one for the poster.
The poster needs to provide detail on the features he needs. If the only feature is "support" (eg, security updates, help with bugs) that might be a poor reason to pay red hat's fees, with a better option available via some other Linux (or other Unix Like OS) vendor. If, on the other hand, he needs an "Oracle Certified OS", then Debian, FreeBSD, and others are not an option.