Want to eliminate griefers over-night from the Web?
All you need is a way for sites to recognize someone they've seen before so a boot becomes permenant. Note that thid does NOT mean knowing wh oyo uare in the real world or anything about your real world identity. What it DOES require is an ID which is permenantly boudn to a user and of whicha suer can never have mroe then one.
Soiund familair? You already have oit-- iuts called your SSN. But what is needed is a way to authenticate yourslef remotely as the one and onlky leigitimate holder of the SSN. A national SmartCard would sovle that.
It would ALSO make identity theaft impossible. Identity theaft is a quickly balooning real world problem that has stung thousands so far with bills for products they didn't purchase aand screwed up their credit reports in wast hat takle huge amounst of time and energy 9and ocassionally legal action to fix.
So it coems down to what do you want? A vauge undefiend "danger to your privacy" or a real and rpesent danger to your economic well being today?
If yo uwant an unjaundiced and somewhat approachign abalnced view my advice is don't watch CNN or network news, or for that matyter listen to NPR. They all have prety severe slants oenw ay or the other.
The only vaugely balanced POV I've seen so far is the BBC. Among other reports they did an excellent report on the hsitory of AlQeda and OSama Bin Laden called "Behind the terror."
One thing they explianed was that the core of AlQaeda are merecenaries with no other modern job skill that **we** trained to fight a modern guerilla war ebcause we needed them to defeat the soviets., After the soviets were puished out of Afghanistan we lost interest.
With out us paying them its only natural they found someone new to pay them to keep fighting.
People angst all the tiem abotu left over cold war weapons-- the most DANGEROUS left over weapons are the human ones we made. We need to be VERY careful not to do the same thing all over again...
Sellign technolgoy to do a job with fixed needs is not a sustainable business model.
You can make some large hunks of cash but wher eis the ongoing revenue? I don't see an ydiscussion of whether the amrket for their technology can or will expand.
Some plain business sense still seems a good idea when picking companies. Burn is sustained so income must be sustainable.
Sure. if anyone could do real PS2 software people all over it.
And there would be lots of crappy software and no way for Sony to control it and thus get revenue out of it. Two things Sony doesn't want.
Bad software makes a platform look bad. This is accepted in the game industry as one of the big reasons the Atari2600 died.
Then you need to understand the revenue model of platofrm development. Somy sells PS2s at a loss. (All platform makers do.) They make their money off of their lciense fees from game developers. This requires a complete control of the platform in order to insure proper licensing.
Sony will release the Linux in the US but don't kid yourself-- you wont be writing real PS2 games with it.
I lvoe Slashdot, you can get al lsorts of advcie from people who don't know anything. here are some realities from the industry:
(1) Native PS2 is a closed platform. In order to get the PS2 SDKs you need to convicne Sony yo uare a real developerm, sign serious NDAs and fork out $30,000 for a development system. I doubt this is within your reach.
(2) One true thing posted here is that ANY game paltform is (at most) a bit above bare-metal programming. If you've never done this, trust me, you don't want to start in your senior's project.
(3) Sony has a Linux for the PS2 out in Japan. It may ge treleased ehgre in the US. That is an open platform BUT you MUST have the hard drive add on to use it. It will not work on a stock PS2.
Secondly, at that point all you really have is an alternate Linux PC? You might as well do your Linux development on a PC and be done with it.
(4) Sony and Sun have announced that they will be releasing a Java for the PS2. No other info on that p[roject is yet available. Thre is no gaurantee (or even likelyhood) that sucha Java will be free or open. It is more likely that it will be made part of the Sony developer SDKs.
Wow, and hear I was sure that Mr. Katz WAS oen of those knee jerk, overly simplistic paranoids about "privacy."
As long as we're giving quotes, there's always the oft- (and probably mis-) quoted Scott McNeally comment.
"You don't have any privacy now, deal with it."
The fact of the matter is our lives are and have been invaded by thsoe keeping records on what we do and what happens to us long before the internet. They're called "credit beaurues" and "underwriting departments."
For all the paranoia I've sene over net-autonomy I've yet to see anyone hurt by its compromise. (The same CANNOT be said abotu the compromise of fiscal and health informatio nanonymity which urts peopel daily.)
To quote the Jay and Bob movie "Thats what the internet is, someplace where you can slander others anonymously." But is this REALLY our best hopes for what this medoium means to us???
The answer to bandwidth issues is smart multi-casting in the pipe. The MBone experimental system showed this was quite feasible. I am unclear as to how much of this has gotten/will get into the actual backbones the majority of traffic goes through but if the demand is there then there is a proven solution as long as you group users together into shared time-slots.
The next step beyond that is smart content caching in the network. I had no problem with CNN on Tuesday because I share a caching server with a large number of users. One person gets through and we all get the results. The next level is caching in the back bone so someoen who subnscribes "late" to a channel gets the "old" data first. Think of it as a TIVO in the router.
In re reliability, the solution again is caching, in this case local caching to cover any reasonable sized "hiccups" in transmission.
The solutions arent rocket science, they just require enough financial icnetive to make them worth developing and installing.
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BS like this only flies because people who know nothing shoot off their mouths like they do, and others belive them because its easier then doing your own research.
The SCSL and the J2EE licenses are totally seperate and dtstinct legal documents and thus seperate and distinct issues.
If you'ld like to actually learn something about them, based on the posts I've seen here I wouldn't try slashdot. I
Instead try the actual pointers contained in the post referenced below:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21699&thresh ol d=-1&commentsort=1&mode=thread&pid=2312751#2312969
The SCSL is the "Sun Community Source License" and is for access to the base of source code written by sun (ie the VM source).
Try reading abotu it here:
http://www.sun.com/communitysource/
To put out a J2EE server you need a J2EE license which requries passing a suite of compatability tests called the TCK and agree to pay a royalty on sales in return for use of the J2EE trademark.
You can find out all about it by filling out this form here:
noone has yet shown anything that requires a J2EE licensee to be a SCSL licensee. There is nothing to my knwoeldge in the J2EE license agreement that requires you be a SCSl signee. if you have soemthing, please quote it.
In order to get J2EE licensed AFAIK all you need do is sign the J2EE agreement and pass the appropriate TCKs. The "alternative" is simple. The J2EE spec is public. Build your own from-scratch implementation based on the spec.
BUt if you want to use SUn's code then you need to license that code from Sun and Sun doesn't pretned that such code is open source.
>>> IMO WARNING --- CHARGED OPINION BELOW
This coming down to the same old "open source community" bullying/whining trying to force OTHERS to give away their stuff.
Real open sourcers give away their OWN stuff, they don't bitch and moan tryign to force others to do it for them.
Want to be open source, then write some open source code.
(1) SCSL is NOT the J2EE license agreement. You are talking about fundementally different things. I've seen that error all ove this board.
(2) SCSL only covers code written by Sun. SO what you are tellign me is that Enhydra is complaining that they can't give away someone ELSES code? Pardon me for having no sympathy.....
Maybe they should write their OWN code so they cna give it away.
US Airliners are safer now then they have been in a long time thanks to beefed up US airport security. Noone has even made a peep that I've heard of a threatening move towards france.
This is the wierdest PR excuse for a chnage of direction I've ever heard. Can ANYONE make sense of it for me??
Frankly the US Airliens need the business, if Apple really was concerned with the fall out from this attack I'd thnk they'd want to help promote intercontinental flight...
So I tried to read the article by the Iranian filmaker and I'm left with the hope thathe doesn't write his own scripts. As a filmmaker maybe ehs great, as a writer he is very confusing.
He starts be decrying the negative images of Afghanistan but then he himself describes the country as an "old woamn' noone wants. he tells us that Iarnaian Doctors blame the Afghanis for beinbg the soruces of non-existant diseases and then, in the sentance following, tells us these same doctors are giving free Polio shots to Afghanis.
In short, I'm not sure what his thesis is. Is Afghanistan to be praised, pitied, or reviled?
I love the internet. It's the best medium ever invnted for those who knwo nothing to inform those who know less.
For the record, your logical chain breaks down in about the third sentance...
" SCSL is the only J2EE license,"
SCSL is the only open and freely available license. SCSL has nothing to do with the J2EE license, or for that matter even the license to create and destribute a VM.
SCSL exists because a lot of us asked for a view into the java source for two reasons:
(1) As additional documentation.
(2) To assist in bug fixing.
I would really like to see an actual explaination of how the J2EE license prevents then for going open source on their code. Particualrly intersting to note is that Sun itself donated an open source app server to Apache ("Tomcat").
IMO Enhydra has decided that they can't make money in an open source model and are tyring to blame Sun in order to avoid the PR backlash.
Its amazing what poor listening skills modern america has in general. Let me give yo ua secret, professional neogtiators don't start form the assumption its a fight. Rather they start fonmr the assumption that the other guy has needs they can address SO...
Step 1: Ask your boss abotu it. If he/she says no ask for a list of reasons/concerns why he/she feels it wont work.
Step 2: Go down the list of concerns and thoughtfully address each one. "You're wrong" won't cut it but "well what if I did X to sovle that" will.
Step 3: add to the lsit al lof the positive benefits to the company that you can think of. Include such things as better focus because youre not exhausting yourself with a 4 hour trip each day.
Step 4: Return that list to your boss. Ask for his/her response. If new issues come up, address them calmly and rationally.
In the end one of three thinsgwill happen:
(1) Your boss will give in.
(2) You will realize your boss is right.
(3) You will hit an impasse like "we have a policy not to do that" in which case you might want to think about lookign for a new employer.
Anything that is truely our **rights** in a constitutional sense will be protected by the supreme court.
The congress will push, the courts will push back, and life wil lgo on as it has in the US.
I get the feeling a significant cross section of slashdot just likes to run around hystericly like the sky is falling.
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Im going to answer this in one place-- here.
I considerd this, there are two answers:
(1) The Isrealies have already solved this problem. They have a gun that shoots a large bullet with low muzzle velocity. Will put down a human but wont go through even the thin steel of an airplane.
(2) Frankly in a hiucjackign ill take my chances with depressurization. If the hijcakers are put down tehr are always the breathing masks for the passengers.
Oh and finally, in re trianing. As i mentioend in the original post, almost all if not all US comemrical airline pilosta re retired airforce pilots. (its abotu the only way an individual cna get Jet training in the US.) So actually they have already BEEN trained in the ahndling of a firearm.
Proper weapoin wont puncture the Aircraft
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As it happens the Israelies have solved this one.
They have a gun (special bullet i believe) tht has a large bullet and low muzzle velocity. Will put down a human, wont go through steel.
But secondly, to be honest, in a hijacking ill take my chances with depressurization. If the hijacker is put down there are always the breathing masks for the passengers.
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Want to eliminate griefers over-night from the Web?
All you need is a way for sites to recognize someone they've seen before so a boot becomes permenant. Note that thid does NOT mean knowing wh oyo uare in the real world or anything about your real world identity. What it DOES require is an ID which is permenantly boudn to a user and of whicha suer can never have mroe then one.
Soiund familair? You already have oit-- iuts called your SSN. But what is needed is a way to authenticate yourslef remotely as the one and onlky leigitimate holder of the SSN. A national SmartCard would sovle that.
It would ALSO make identity theaft impossible. Identity theaft is a quickly balooning real world problem that has stung thousands so far with bills for products they didn't purchase aand screwed up their credit reports in wast hat takle huge amounst of time and energy 9and ocassionally legal action to fix.
So it coems down to what do you want? A vauge undefiend "danger to your privacy" or a real and rpesent danger to your economic well being today?
The ohert 1% is don't work for process bound systems liek millitarycontarcting or our governemnt :)
I work at Sun. I love wokring at Sun. Right now I'm choosing between enxt assignments and any one of them looks fun, though theyta re very different.
Having fun at work isn't about Nerf guns and free Jolt, its about loving what it is you do.
If yo uwant an unjaundiced and somewhat approachign abalnced view my advice is don't watch CNN or network news, or for that matyter listen to NPR. They all have prety severe slants oenw ay or the other.
The only vaugely balanced POV I've seen so far is the BBC. Among other reports they did an excellent report on the hsitory of AlQeda and OSama Bin Laden called "Behind the terror."
One thing they explianed was that the core of AlQaeda are merecenaries with no other modern job skill that **we** trained to fight a modern guerilla war ebcause we needed them to defeat the soviets., After the soviets were puished out of Afghanistan we lost interest.
With out us paying them its only natural they found someone new to pay them to keep fighting.
People angst all the tiem abotu left over cold war weapons-- the most DANGEROUS left over weapons are the human ones we made. We need to be VERY careful not to do the same thing all over again...
After all Toy ornithopters ahve been functional sicen ebfore Iw as a child.. and I'm older then the average slashdotter.
Sellign technolgoy to do a job with fixed needs is not a sustainable business model.
You can make some large hunks of cash but wher eis the ongoing revenue? I don't see an ydiscussion of whether the amrket for their technology can or will expand.
Some plain business sense still seems a good idea when picking companies. Burn is sustained so income must be sustainable.
Any tool vendor for the PS2 is forbidden by their licnese agreement from selling that tool to nayoen who isn't a direct Sony PS2 SDK licensee.
Again its all about control of the paltform because thats where the revenue is.
Sure. if anyone could do real PS2 software people all over it.
And there would be lots of crappy software and no way for Sony to control it and thus get revenue out of it. Two things Sony doesn't want.
Bad software makes a platform look bad. This is accepted in the game industry as one of the big reasons the Atari2600 died.
Then you need to understand the revenue model of platofrm development. Somy sells PS2s at a loss. (All platform makers do.) They make their money off of their lciense fees from game developers. This requires a complete control of the platform in order to insure proper licensing.
Sony will release the Linux in the US but don't kid yourself-- you wont be writing real PS2 games with it.
I lvoe Slashdot, you can get al lsorts of advcie from people who don't know anything. here are some realities from the industry:
(1) Native PS2 is a closed platform. In order to get the PS2 SDKs you need to convicne Sony yo uare a real developerm, sign serious NDAs and fork out $30,000 for a development system. I doubt this is within your reach.
(2) One true thing posted here is that ANY game paltform is (at most) a bit above bare-metal programming. If you've never done this, trust me, you don't want to start in your senior's project.
(3) Sony has a Linux for the PS2 out in Japan. It may ge treleased ehgre in the US. That is an open platform BUT you MUST have the hard drive add on to use it. It will not work on a stock PS2.
Secondly, at that point all you really have is an alternate Linux PC? You might as well do your Linux development on a PC and be done with it.
(4) Sony and Sun have announced that they will be releasing a Java for the PS2. No other info on that p[roject is yet available. Thre is no gaurantee (or even likelyhood) that sucha Java will be free or open. It is more likely that it will be made part of the Sony developer SDKs.
Um. Its only the number one development environemnt for cell phones. Guess those arent small embedded deices?
Try catching up from 1995.
http://java.sun.com/j2me
Wow, and hear I was sure that Mr. Katz WAS oen of those knee jerk, overly simplistic paranoids about "privacy."
As long as we're giving quotes, there's always the oft- (and probably mis-) quoted Scott McNeally comment.
"You don't have any privacy now, deal with it."
The fact of the matter is our lives are and have been invaded by thsoe keeping records on what we do and what happens to us long before the internet. They're called "credit beaurues" and "underwriting departments."
For all the paranoia I've sene over net-autonomy I've yet to see anyone hurt by its compromise. (The same CANNOT be said abotu the compromise of fiscal and health informatio nanonymity which urts peopel daily.)
To quote the Jay and Bob movie "Thats what the internet is, someplace where you can slander others anonymously." But is this REALLY our best hopes for what this medoium means to us???
The answer to bandwidth issues is smart multi-casting in the pipe. The MBone experimental system showed this was quite feasible. I am unclear as to how much of this has gotten/will get into the actual backbones the majority of traffic goes through but if the demand is there then there is a proven solution as long as you group users together into shared time-slots.
The next step beyond that is smart content caching in the network. I had no problem with CNN on Tuesday because I share a caching server with a large number of users. One person gets through and we all get the results. The next level is caching in the back bone so someoen who subnscribes "late" to a channel gets the "old" data first. Think of it as a TIVO in the router.
In re reliability, the solution again is caching, in this case local caching to cover any reasonable sized "hiccups" in transmission.
The solutions arent rocket science, they just require enough financial icnetive to make them worth developing and installing.
Since you asked, thought it was worth mentioning.
BS like this only flies because people who know nothing shoot off their mouths like they do, and others belive them because its easier then doing your own research.
h ol d=-1&commentsort=1&mode=thread&pid=2312751#2312969
The SCSL and the J2EE licenses are totally seperate and dtstinct legal documents and thus seperate and distinct issues.
If you'ld like to actually learn something about them, based on the posts I've seen here I wouldn't try slashdot. I
Instead try the actual pointers contained in the post referenced below:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21699&thres
I'm sorry, you are just wrong.
The SCSL is the "Sun Community Source License" and is for access to the base of source code written by sun (ie the VM source).
Try reading abotu it here:
http://www.sun.com/communitysource/
To put out a J2EE server you need a J2EE license which requries passing a suite of compatability tests called the TCK and agree to pay a royalty on sales in return for use of the J2EE trademark.
You can find out all about it by filling out this form here:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/license_form.html
Thanks for proving my point about the Internet.
Great assertion, proof please?
noone has yet shown anything that requires a J2EE licensee to be a SCSL licensee. There is nothing to my knwoeldge in the J2EE license agreement that requires you be a SCSl signee. if you have soemthing, please quote it.
In order to get J2EE licensed AFAIK all you need do is sign the J2EE agreement and pass the appropriate TCKs. The "alternative" is simple. The J2EE spec is public. Build your own from-scratch implementation based on the spec.
BUt if you want to use SUn's code then you need to license that code from Sun and Sun doesn't pretned that such code is open source.
>>> IMO WARNING --- CHARGED OPINION BELOW
This coming down to the same old "open source community" bullying/whining trying to force OTHERS to give away their stuff.
Real open sourcers give away their OWN stuff, they don't bitch and moan tryign to force others to do it for them.
Want to be open source, then write some open source code.
Two problems:
(1) SCSL is NOT the J2EE license agreement. You are talking about fundementally different things. I've seen that error all ove this board.
(2) SCSL only covers code written by Sun. SO what you are tellign me is that Enhydra is complaining that they can't give away someone ELSES code? Pardon me for having no sympathy.....
Maybe they should write their OWN code so they cna give it away.
US Airliners are safer now then they have been in a long time thanks to beefed up US airport security. Noone has even made a peep that I've heard of a threatening move towards france.
This is the wierdest PR excuse for a chnage of direction I've ever heard. Can ANYONE make sense of it for me??
Frankly the US Airliens need the business, if Apple really was concerned with the fall out from this attack I'd thnk they'd want to help promote intercontinental flight...
So I tried to read the article by the Iranian filmaker and I'm left with the hope thathe doesn't write his own scripts. As a filmmaker maybe ehs great, as a writer he is very confusing.
He starts be decrying the negative images of Afghanistan but then he himself describes the country as an "old woamn' noone wants. he tells us that Iarnaian Doctors blame the Afghanis for beinbg the soruces of non-existant diseases and then, in the sentance following, tells us these same doctors are giving free Polio shots to Afghanis.
In short, I'm not sure what his thesis is. Is Afghanistan to be praised, pitied, or reviled?
I love the internet. It's the best medium ever invnted for those who knwo nothing to inform those who know less.
For the record, your logical chain breaks down in about the third sentance...
" SCSL is the only J2EE license,"
SCSL is the only open and freely available license. SCSL has nothing to do with the J2EE license, or for that matter even the license to create and destribute a VM.
SCSL exists because a lot of us asked for a view into the java source for two reasons:
(1) As additional documentation.
(2) To assist in bug fixing.
SCSL allows for both of these admirably.
I would really like to see an actual explaination of how the J2EE license prevents then for going open source on their code. Particualrly intersting to note is that Sun itself donated an open source app server to Apache ("Tomcat").
IMO Enhydra has decided that they can't make money in an open source model and are tyring to blame Sun in order to avoid the PR backlash.
Yes I can confirm that we had oen person abaord an aircraft. It was a middle level manager.
Beyond that I have been asked not to say anything in respect of the privacy of his family.
Its amazing what poor listening skills modern america has in general. Let me give yo ua secret, professional neogtiators don't start form the assumption its a fight. Rather they start fonmr the assumption that the other guy has needs they can address SO...
Step 1: Ask your boss abotu it. If he/she says no ask for a list of reasons/concerns why he/she feels it wont work.
Step 2: Go down the list of concerns and thoughtfully address each one. "You're wrong" won't cut it but "well what if I did X to sovle that" will.
Step 3: add to the lsit al lof the positive benefits to the company that you can think of. Include such things as better focus because youre not exhausting yourself with a 4 hour trip each day.
Step 4: Return that list to your boss. Ask for his/her response. If new issues come up, address them calmly and rationally.
In the end one of three thinsgwill happen:
(1) Your boss will give in.
(2) You will realize your boss is right.
(3) You will hit an impasse like "we have a policy not to do that" in which case you might want to think about lookign for a new employer.
Anything that is truely our **rights** in a constitutional sense will be protected by the supreme court.
The congress will push, the courts will push back, and life wil lgo on as it has in the US.
I get the feeling a significant cross section of slashdot just likes to run around hystericly like the sky is falling.
Im going to answer this in one place-- here.
I considerd this, there are two answers:
(1) The Isrealies have already solved this problem. They have a gun that shoots a large bullet with low muzzle velocity. Will put down a human but wont go through even the thin steel of an airplane.
(2) Frankly in a hiucjackign ill take my chances with depressurization. If the hijcakers are put down tehr are always the breathing masks for the passengers.
Oh and finally, in re trianing. As i mentioend in the original post, almost all if not all US comemrical airline pilosta re retired airforce pilots. (its abotu the only way an individual cna get Jet training in the US.) So actually they have already BEEN trained in the ahndling of a firearm.
As it happens the Israelies have solved this one.
They have a gun (special bullet i believe) tht has a large bullet and low muzzle velocity. Will put down a human, wont go through steel.
But secondly, to be honest, in a hijacking ill take my chances with depressurization. If the hijacker is put down there are always the breathing masks for the passengers.