Some water-scooters are using this concept already - you have your own key which allows full speed, and a key for your girlfriend, which limits the max. speed to around 60% of the original top speed.
Somehow, thoughts of bad-things done on purpose can scare people more then chances of some accident which are waaaay bigger - I read this statement in some article not so long time ago, and I must agree... I mean, you can take any existing "service" in the world, and think of some horrible situation taken from some teenage thriller-movies.
Your post reminds me of the urban legend of razorblades hidden inside apples given to children on helloween in the US. This is something that actually never happen, but it still fills the fear-angry hearts of some parents. And I guess if the services described in the article would ever become significantly successfull, many people would find it important to warn the world of the possible if not "highly possible" horrible things that may happen - hey, if the established hotel-industry would be threatened, they would probably even pay some money to spread this kind of crap.
The truth is that people usually do tell some of their near where they are going and how to get in touch with them, and the chance of meeting some psychopath that would kill/rape/take advantage of you is less then being hit by a car (with fatal result) while walking down to the train station. The chance of a psychopath wanting to register himself on a public website is even lower I think:-P
Is anyone even in the slightest bit surprised that this was the verdict?
Actually, Yes. - In such a controversial case they should give him lifetime inprisonment instead. Now the world risks making Saddam a martyr of the middle-east vs. usa war, which certainly will not aid in establishing a peacefull state in Iraq..
The Pornographers vs. The Pirates.. I don't really understand the "VS" part. I mean, the only reason why there is content-piracy is the high-prices and ease of use of the unofficial (read: p2p) distribution channels - it's not like the "Pirates" want to fight the "Pornographers" (or any other content-producers) - they just want to have access to content without paying unreasonable prices (and YES, i know that this is a very subjective thing - when are the prices low enough for users and high enough for content producers).
So please, not "The Pornographers vs. The Pirates", but "The Pornographers For Innovative Content Distribution".
Different countries have different universities - here in Denmark you actually only have CS and math classes while studying cs - so yes, you actually can do it over one year if you're good enough - many people try, but there aren't anyone who can do it in less then 2 years (2 years FULLTIME studying)..
Some would say that art is when someone expresses their feelings in some form.
Other would say that art is when someone makes something that looks/sounds/feels very nice..
Source code can be art-like. Sometimes, when you see some beatyfull software design, the tears start to fall.. IMHO code can be a modern form of art - just like bodypainting is an art...
This kind of thing could never be justified here in Europe (or at least in Denmark where I live). We even had a case once, where some young people bought Jolt.DK, and Jolt Cola claimed the domain name. You know what ? Jolt Cola (r) lost BIG time.
Apparently what you need is an organization that would protect single small business/consumer from the big corporations. It really pisses me off everytime I see some poor individual being screwed by a big company - and that's when I realize - I'm SO happy to be living where I am now..
The BEST bootloader available right now is GAG. Multiple OS's on multiple Primary partitions, the bootloader is able to fit into the bootsector itself, it fixes errors, it finds in bootsector etc. etc.
Heh... Some years ago I was involved in some competitions in Denmark and Europe for high-school students ( programming ). Some challanges involed a bit AI knowledge - but each and everyone of the winning entries have used a random algorithm to solve the challanges, and still always had biggest success rate...
Sorry, but after trying the demo at : http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html I'm not that impressed - the software is a little better then the default Windoze Narrator (appeared first in Win2k), but it's still FAR from being efficient enough to cheat a human ear.
Single words are pronounced cool enough but the "melody" of the sentence is still totally wrong...
He is just an employee of a company which wrote and, for a short period of time, sold the Adobe eBook "decryption" program.
As far as I remember he was arrested for distribution of the knowlegde of the program - after his lecture at DEFCON.
Everyone is writing about how he's got arrested for writing and selling the program.... while he has really been arrested for telling that the eBook "encprytion" is unsecure and that there exists software that can crack it on the fly...
Actually, NOKIA did already embrace the opensource model (as mentioned in some comments before) with their NOKOS license.
The new open source development license with examples on how to code on their media-terminal is located at: http://www.ostdev.net.
The site is still under development (some faq answers aren't filled out yet etc.), but all in all gives a good introduction to programming for their new box.
Military technology is not the same thing as civilian technology.
Even if the US military chips were made by Intel (on a higly classifed contract) you would never see "Intel Inside" label anywhere. Military technology is almost always superior and classifed. Thus I think the soviets had their own contractors and their technology weren't so bad.
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Some water-scooters are using this concept already - you have your own key which allows full speed, and a key for your girlfriend, which limits the max. speed to around 60% of the original top speed.
I've used gmail for around 3 years now, and am using 95% of available space.. Thankfully, this is not my primary mail-account...
Somehow, thoughts of bad-things done on purpose can scare people more then chances of some accident which are waaaay bigger - I read this statement in some article not so long time ago, and I must agree... I mean, you can take any existing "service" in the world, and think of some horrible situation taken from some teenage thriller-movies.
:-P
Your post reminds me of the urban legend of razorblades hidden inside apples given to children on helloween in the US. This is something that actually never happen, but it still fills the fear-angry hearts of some parents. And I guess if the services described in the article would ever become significantly successfull, many people would find it important to warn the world of the possible if not "highly possible" horrible things that may happen - hey, if the established hotel-industry would be threatened, they would probably even pay some money to spread this kind of crap.
The truth is that people usually do tell some of their near where they are going and how to get in touch with them, and the chance of meeting some psychopath that would kill/rape/take advantage of you is less then being hit by a car (with fatal result) while walking down to the train station. The chance of a psychopath wanting to register himself on a public website is even lower I think
The Pornographers vs. The Pirates.. I don't really understand the "VS" part. I mean, the only reason why there is content-piracy is the high-prices and ease of use of the unofficial (read: p2p) distribution channels - it's not like the "Pirates" want to fight the "Pornographers" (or any other content-producers) - they just want to have access to content without paying unreasonable prices (and YES, i know that this is a very subjective thing - when are the prices low enough for users and high enough for content producers).
So please, not "The Pornographers vs. The Pirates", but "The Pornographers For Innovative Content Distribution".
Cheers.
Different countries have different universities - here in Denmark you actually only have CS and math classes while studying cs - so yes, you actually can do it over one year if you're good enough - many people try, but there aren't anyone who can do it in less then 2 years (2 years FULLTIME studying)..
The question was: Why do you make Open Source Software, not Why do you make software. Many posts in here refer to the main reason:
Because I have a problem that needs to be solved
Actually this is the reason for developing software, not specificly opensource or closedsorce, free or commercial.
And so we come to the definition of ART.
Some would say that art is when someone expresses their feelings in some form.
Other would say that art is when someone makes something that looks/sounds/feels very nice..
Source code can be art-like. Sometimes, when you see some beatyfull software design, the tears start to fall.. IMHO code can be a modern form of art - just like bodypainting is an art...
Hello citizens of United States Of America.
This kind of thing could never be justified here in Europe (or at least in Denmark where I live). We even had a case once, where some young people bought Jolt.DK, and Jolt Cola claimed the domain name. You know what ? Jolt Cola (r) lost BIG time.
Apparently what you need is an organization that would protect single small business/consumer from the big corporations. It really pisses me off everytime I see some poor individual being screwed by a big company - and that's when I realize - I'm SO happy to be living where I am now..
The BEST bootloader available right now is GAG. Multiple OS's on multiple Primary partitions, the bootloader is able to fit into the bootsector itself, it fixes errors, it finds in bootsector etc. etc.
According to the linked story, ASN can easily be used to encapsulate html and other text-formats.
That's what makes it beatyfull!
Please, locate the servers outside the US - somewhere in Europe for example, where this kind of stuff isn't illegal.
Heh... Some years ago I was involved in some competitions in Denmark and Europe for high-school students ( programming ). Some challanges involed a bit AI knowledge - but each and everyone of the winning entries have used a random algorithm to solve the challanges, and still always had biggest success rate...
World is weird....
Single words are pronounced cool enough but the "melody" of the sentence is still totally wrong...
He is just an employee of a company which wrote and, for a short period of time, sold the Adobe eBook "decryption" program.
As far as I remember he was arrested for distribution of the knowlegde of the program - after his lecture at DEFCON.
Everyone is writing about how he's got arrested for writing and selling the program.... while he has really been arrested for telling that the eBook "encprytion" is unsecure and that there exists software that can crack it on the fly...
Actually the e-mail adresse is right - fuck.ms is a domain owned by a friend of mine.
If this guy gets convicted in US, he will be expelled from the country and will have to serve the time in his home-country - Russia.
This is funny. If you make a porno site, and the go to some very strict muslim country (Afghanistan), then you may recieve a death penalty.
Seems to me that USA is not really ready for this global-information thingy, damn I'm glad to live in Europe..
Didn't Ford win a case against 2600-guys and got their fordsucks.com back ?
It's funny to see same kind of conflict resolved in two different ways...
Which is quite nice and platform-independent, find it at : http://www.wxpython.org ( it's based on the good olde wxWindows project)..
Actually, NOKIA did already embrace the opensource model (as mentioned in some comments before) with their NOKOS license.
The new open source development license with examples on how to code on their media-terminal is located at: http://www.ostdev.net.
The site is still under development (some faq answers aren't filled out yet etc.), but all in all gives a good introduction to programming for their new box.
Many Universities have practiced the same thing last 2-3 years here in Denmark. Java, java and java again :).
Military technology is not the same thing as civilian technology.
Even if the US military chips were made by Intel (on a higly classifed contract) you would never see "Intel Inside" label anywhere. Military technology is almost always superior and classifed. Thus I think the soviets had their own contractors and their technology weren't so bad.
Hehe - damn - then I guess it also is end of my @fuck.ms email :)