The cause of most of this crap is that parents don't teach their kids the difference between right and wrong, don't instill any sense of responsability and don't teach what's acceptable behavior.
Kids grow into sociopaths because they weren't socialized in the first place. An IQ of 100, an underdevelopped sense of where the line is that you don't cross and knowing where somebody's dayy hides the guns is a recipe for homicide or at least grevious bodily harm.
Are these parents lazy, ignorant, stupid? Yeah...
What are you going to do with them? They grew up as kids of parents who were rebelling against authority and the believed the "advice" columns written by people whos' own kids grew up totally screwed up (those who didn't off themselves early "a la" Art Linkletter's daughter.)
If I hadn't signed, they would have had to run the CD with only a stub of my article. (They would have had to write an abstract which would then have been their own to print.)
This stuff on reprints and "collections" gets tough.
If the publisher paid for an article, it depends on the contract between publisher and author as to whether the contract was restrictive to a single medium and it was specified.
Pic don't load and article has glaring errors.
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There's no such thing as NT on the Alpha chip. Even if there was, I'm not sure I'd want to screw up the VMS machines over here.
In Britain and most of the civilized world, there are no patents on software.
In the 'States you get the M$ version of "The Freedom To Innovate."
Just move 'head office' to any British partner or consortium member. Use the court paper to wrap fish and claim a different jurisdiction.
If the instigators of this infringement suit want to pay to haul the crap all the way through the World Court for a decision that eveybody else will be lobbying against, let 'em waste their money.
The RIAA, MPAA, proving they are morally bankrupt and have no intention of becoming fiscally so, are trying to set up cumbersome and expensive institutions (like the RIAA and MPAA?) which they would control and YOU would pay for.
That a lot of fuss for music that's so bad that the jingles in the elevators are more interesting than the radio and for movies, (I read that "The Sopranos" rated higher than the Oscars,) we don't want to watch being pimped along with nine dolar pop-corn.
Personally, my life is a lot more serene and calm since I started listening only to the sound of one hand clapping and watch iTunes spin its images on my wife's iMac, in utter silence.
Its captivating, free, fill my eyes and ears and disturbs nobody. I spend the money I save on my wife and my life.
Advertising is the most pernicious odiosity perpetrated on modern man. One side is propaganda , perfidy and blatant bull, the other is an incredibly low rate of return which is deemed acceptable because its not zero (but dollar for dollar, the results are about comparable with the lottery.)
Open a site, put on it where you are, when you're open, what your wares and prices are and we'll find you when we want you.
Until then: Shut up!
I boycott any advertiser that shoves itself in my face on the web.
The problem with interactive sites, moderated or not, (and more generically, with the entire web and the cause of so much dross in web searches,) is that people can submit anything without regard to its organization and retrieval.
It not a question of censorship, its a question of "What the [expletive deleted] are you talking about? What was the INTENT of your comment?"
We desperately need a generic, interactive "content creator" which will allow us to add classification tags to that any item can be identified as to provenance (who, when, where,) subject taxonomy(ies since something can be about many things,) information content. Where can we find some tags? Try starting with the Dewey Decimal system... Try something...
So far we can sort of infer the first (if you feel like poring through message headers,)and fall on our sword on the third (words rarely mean what they say, connotation is far richer than denotation and search engines have to rely only on the latter,) and so far, the most useful feature of any library, the reference system used to catalog the content, is entirely absent from the Web and the 'Net.
This means that most of the time, we end up wading through irrelevancies.
Is a dictionary unjust? Only when you can't find the content you're looking for, regardless of because its just not there or you're forced to read the entire thing to find a single page.
We have got to get better organized. Its not censorship, its common sense.
Keys based on biometric security can be tens of thousands of bytes long, have nothing crackable about them and are entirely consistent. and much more secure.
They'll also need 64-bit hardware. Goodbye 32-bits and that other unportable OS won't make it there will it?
M$ will port to anything that runs the x86 instruction set. Anything else is, iffy...
They have certainly never been able to port their OS to any other platform.
To those who say that M$ has never implemented an OS on the x86 either, I say "yeah, ain' dat da troof!"
They're helping Linux because...
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The NSA is better served with an open-source OS where they know where the divots are and they can fill them in than with an OS so riddled with holes that it has given rise to an industry based on closing the barn door after the virus-ridden, work-eaten, horse has died.
They'd rather make it uniformally hard to crack so that ONLY somebody with the resources of the NSA could attempt real-time decription.
Remember, security consists at least as much of keeping your cards close to your chest as of getting a peek at what the other guy is holding.
The 'Net is evolving into something that will use biometric information to grant (and track) access and to encrypt and decrypt. 64 bits on every desk top and a finger pad for authentication and a microphone for further authentication and as part of the UI.
All mathematical algorithms have a fundamental security hole. Anything that depends on computational difficulty to maintain security will be cracked with sufficient resources. PGP isn't if your foe has tens of thousands of processors.
Biometrics are fundametally existential. They are enormously wide keys that are reproducable and verifiable. Using them for encryption insures that you KNOW who the intended recipient is. Using them for decryption insures that you know who the sender was. They are based on what you ARE not just on what you, and anyone else, can know.
Well,well, well. Apple causing postings on /. :-)
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Despite the tone of occasional disappointement at "missing" features (so write it or port the Linux version,) I'm glad to see that/.-ers are more concerned about the new qualities of the OS than its short comings.
Jobs was right. Just like Apple became the largest unit sales seller of RISC machines within one year of the introduction of the PPC boxes, Apple will become the largest unit sale seller of Unix boxes within one year of the introduction of OS X.
That's twice Apple has accomplished a complete change of supporting architecture without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
M$ must be feeling a little ill after failing at least twice to get off the x86. The coming 64 bit machines (needed to handle biometric information to turn packets on the 'net "black," and make life much, much harder for the "script-kiddies,") will wipe M$ off the map.
The problem is that our systems are designed around a fundamental flaw, security by what you know (anything you know can be known by others.)
We have to get to systems designed around security by what your are.
We have no security and we won't until we start using biometric characteristics for security (even the primitive A.F.I.S. retrieval key for fingerprint identification, 13 points of reference with self-relative x,y coordinates, ie direction, shape, depth characteristics & 26 double precision floating point numbers, in a single string) is a lot longer than some lousy digit PINs.
There's much secure identification available.
Basically what this means is that secure systems will be extemely secure with unforgable keys (imagine using your you DNA sequence for encrypting your e-mail, in hardware.)
I smell victory. The OS skirmish is over. Unix won. Linux will be everywhere that matters.
Windows will never be able to compete with Linux on the 64-bit architectures. They've already failed to migrate it before. (Okay, arguably, they've never been able to implement one properly on 32-bits either.:-)
The racks get better, wider and faster. Linux grows along with them while NT 4.0 SP4 is an aging, bug ridden, insecure, closed-source and expensive option.
Nobody trusts SP beyond 4 or ME. My employer has one ME evaluation machine while the servers are Alpha's running VMS or NT racks and we have NT boxes on the desktops. (but our clients are starting to ask for Linux for servers and desktops. As soon as IBM ports VisualAge Smalltalk, we go.)
The internet connected desktops need to be biometrically secure, crypto-secure and 32-bits just doesn't cut it. Look for desk-top Alphas, Sparcs, Itaniums and G5s to win that market share too.
You'll find it. (My old man was a marketing manager for a drug firm which is how I found out.)
Remember that there weren't any direct comparison ads on TV when you were a kid. Then that all changed when some lawyer mangled the english lanuage to come up with this piece of logic.
Now you know how come company A can't sue the ass off of company B when they company says their can of crap is better than A's can of crap.
This idiocy started when the politicos tried to turn the patent office into a profit center. Its not. It never was. Its was idiocy to try to make it into one and the outcome is a total failure.
Instead the reform turned the office into a patent paper-mill and the patents issued are as palatable as used toilet paper.
Ignore all software and procedure patents issued by them as they are totally suspect and unenforcable anywhere else on the planet.
(The other stuff is suspect too but some percentage of it may be valid as it would have passed the necessary criteria that existed before they turned the patent officers into street-walkers hustling their butts for the executive's bonuses.)
Besides would youtrust any poll done by M$? The only thing that could make it less reliable would be if they ran the thing on an NT box.
Ingore the patents. They exist only to keep greedy US lawyers in Beemers. They don't exist for over 5.7 billion other people. The 300 million people in the 'States will just have to put with it until M$ runs out of money.
The OS wars are over. Unix won. Lets move on to 64-bit platforms, where Windows can't go but the Web needs to go, and put this trillion dollar wash behind us.
This patent shit is patently foolish. Of course to a lawyer, the definition of better is as good as (I'm not making this up folks!) so you have no idea what barbarisms they've committed and will continue to commit in the pursuit of legal fees.
We're talking intellectually, morally and ethically bankrupt individuals with no justification for their continued consumption of oxygen.
This suit against Palm & HandSpring is about as stupid as I can imagine but since they patent software and business methods in this country (but blessedly nowhere else on this planet,) the lawyers crawl out from behind the fridges in poor neighbourhoods and will scurry and flourish until somebody turns on the kitchen light and spray's 'em with RAID!
I think we going to have to kill a few of these civil law suits to straighten out the asses of the survivors.
And while you're up, ask Dubya if you'll have to sell (no rent) your daughter's ass to pay for your late father's credit card debts.
Meanwhile, the HMO's consortium is claiming that leaving you outside at night on US soil (like Alaska in January,) would be more effective if they could get the federal guvmint to pay for freight.
Dubya decides that the death tax could be used to pay for shipping if he can't makes states pay.
Its definitely not funny. You were right, the server's SysAdmin(s) was(were) reading your email. Somebody's supposed to be charged with insuring that no proprietary information leaves the door.
I suspect that if I tried to use encryption at the office and ran pgp on my desktop, I'd be frog-marched right out the door before being flipped into the ditch. In the military, I'd be shot.
The problem with encryption is one of control. I can't encrypt anything but I can request that it be reviewed and encrypted before being sent. Likewise, if I get encrypted email, it has to be decrypted on the server and reviewed before I get it.
Its not my server. Its the corporations.
If I have something to say, I always remember that its going out in clear text on an unsecured channel, or its going to be reviewed, and that anything I put down will come back to haunt me.
The stuff they won't show is FUNNY!
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Poke around http://www.deadtroll.com/troll/index2.html and look for the fifth and final show (they got their butts canned,) from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
Its in the same vein as the really funny scene in the movie Room with a View.
But they raised a really valid pont. On TV, you can show somebody getting blown away, but not getting blown. I know which one I'd rather somebody do to me.
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Media coverage has nothing to do with the rage, disaffection and abandonment that these kids feel.
It also has bugger all with teaching them right and wrong.
They can point you to sites and other projects. They have users groups for multi-media.
Check out MacShowLive.com and contact Shawn@ MacShowLive.com. They'd be interested, I'm sure.
You could make a multimedia project with iMovies and stream with QuickTime.
The cause of most of this crap is that parents don't teach their kids the difference between right and wrong, don't instill any sense of responsability and don't teach what's acceptable behavior.
Kids grow into sociopaths because they weren't socialized in the first place. An IQ of 100, an underdevelopped sense of where the line is that you don't cross and knowing where somebody's dayy hides the guns is a recipe for homicide or at least grevious bodily harm.
Are these parents lazy, ignorant, stupid? Yeah...
What are you going to do with them? They grew up as kids of parents who were rebelling against authority and the believed the "advice" columns written by people whos' own kids grew up totally screwed up (those who didn't off themselves early "a la" Art Linkletter's daughter.)
I had to sign something.
I didn't get paid but at least I knew about it.
If I hadn't signed, they would have had to run the CD with only a stub of my article. (They would have had to write an abstract which would then have been their own to print.)
This stuff on reprints and "collections" gets tough.
If the publisher paid for an article, it depends on the contract between publisher and author as to whether the contract was restrictive to a single medium and it was specified.
There's no such thing as NT on the Alpha chip. Even if there was, I'm not sure I'd want to screw up the VMS machines over here.
In Britain and most of the civilized world, there are no patents on software.
In the 'States you get the M$ version of "The Freedom To Innovate."
Just move 'head office' to any British partner or consortium member. Use the court paper to wrap fish and claim a different jurisdiction.
If the instigators of this infringement suit want to pay to haul the crap all the way through the World Court for a decision that eveybody else will be lobbying against, let 'em waste their money.
The RIAA, MPAA, proving they are morally bankrupt and have no intention of becoming fiscally so, are trying to set up cumbersome and expensive institutions (like the RIAA and MPAA?) which they would control and YOU would pay for.
That a lot of fuss for music that's so bad that the jingles in the elevators are more interesting than the radio and for movies, (I read that "The Sopranos" rated higher than the Oscars,) we don't want to watch being pimped along with nine dolar pop-corn.
Personally, my life is a lot more serene and calm since I started listening only to the sound of one hand clapping and watch iTunes spin its images on my wife's iMac, in utter silence.
Its captivating, free, fill my eyes and ears and disturbs nobody. I spend the money I save on my wife and my life.
This is so stupid. Its so easy to defeat. Just take the waveform from the speaker wires.
Why are our rights being trampled for some company to make a buck with this afternoon's pop-star as filer between the ads?
It certainly NOT because they are trying to stop people from recording the stuff.
Anybody got any thoughts on why this is being done?
Advertising is the most pernicious odiosity perpetrated on modern man. One side is propaganda , perfidy and blatant bull, the other is an incredibly low rate of return which is deemed acceptable because its not zero (but dollar for dollar, the results are about comparable with the lottery.)
Open a site, put on it where you are, when you're open, what your wares and prices are and we'll find you when we want you.
Until then: Shut up!
I boycott any advertiser that shoves itself in my face on the web.
The problem with interactive sites, moderated or not, (and more generically, with the entire web and the cause of so much dross in web searches,) is that people can submit anything without regard to its organization and retrieval.
It not a question of censorship, its a question of "What the [expletive deleted] are you talking about? What was the INTENT of your comment?"
We desperately need a generic, interactive "content creator" which will allow us to add classification tags to that any item can be identified as to provenance (who, when, where,) subject taxonomy(ies since something can be about many things,) information content. Where can we find some tags? Try starting with the Dewey Decimal system... Try something...
So far we can sort of infer the first (if you feel like poring through message headers,)and fall on our sword on the third (words rarely mean what they say, connotation is far richer than denotation and search engines have to rely only on the latter,) and so far, the most useful feature of any library, the reference system used to catalog the content, is entirely absent from the Web and the 'Net.
This means that most of the time, we end up wading through irrelevancies.
Is a dictionary unjust? Only when you can't find the content you're looking for, regardless of because its just not there or you're forced to read the entire thing to find a single page.
We have got to get better organized. Its not censorship, its common sense.
Keys based on biometric security can be tens of thousands of bytes long, have nothing crackable about them and are entirely consistent. and much more secure.
They'll also need 64-bit hardware. Goodbye 32-bits and that other unportable OS won't make it there will it?
M$ will port to anything that runs the x86 instruction set. Anything else is, iffy...
They have certainly never been able to port their OS to any other platform.
To those who say that M$ has never implemented an OS on the x86 either, I say "yeah, ain' dat da troof!"
The NSA is better served with an open-source OS where they know where the divots are and they can fill them in than with an OS so riddled with holes that it has given rise to an industry based on closing the barn door after the virus-ridden, work-eaten, horse has died.
They'd rather make it uniformally hard to crack so that ONLY somebody with the resources of the NSA could attempt real-time decription.
Remember, security consists at least as much of keeping your cards close to your chest as of getting a peek at what the other guy is holding.
The 'Net is evolving into something that will use biometric information to grant (and track) access and to encrypt and decrypt. 64 bits on every desk top and a finger pad for authentication and a microphone for further authentication and as part of the UI.
All mathematical algorithms have a fundamental security hole. Anything that depends on computational difficulty to maintain security will be cracked with sufficient resources. PGP isn't if your foe has tens of thousands of processors.
Biometrics are fundametally existential. They are enormously wide keys that are reproducable and verifiable. Using them for encryption insures that you KNOW who the intended recipient is. Using them for decryption insures that you know who the sender was. They are based on what you ARE not just on what you, and anyone else, can know.
Despite the tone of occasional disappointement at "missing" features (so write it or port the Linux version,) I'm glad to see that /.-ers are more concerned about the new qualities of the OS than its short comings.
Jobs was right. Just like Apple became the largest unit sales seller of RISC machines within one year of the introduction of the PPC boxes, Apple will become the largest unit sale seller of Unix boxes within one year of the introduction of OS X.
That's twice Apple has accomplished a complete change of supporting architecture without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
M$ must be feeling a little ill after failing at least twice to get off the x86. The coming 64 bit machines (needed to handle biometric information to turn packets on the 'net "black," and make life much, much harder for the "script-kiddies,") will wipe M$ off the map.
The OS Wars are over. Unix won.
The problem is that our systems are designed around a fundamental flaw, security by what you know (anything you know can be known by others.)
We have to get to systems designed around security by what your are.
We have no security and we won't until we start using biometric characteristics for security (even the primitive A.F.I.S. retrieval key for fingerprint identification, 13 points of reference with self-relative x,y coordinates, ie direction, shape, depth characteristics & 26 double precision floating point numbers, in a single string) is a lot longer than some lousy digit PINs.
There's much secure identification available.
Basically what this means is that secure systems will be extemely secure with unforgable keys (imagine using your you DNA sequence for encrypting your e-mail, in hardware.)
I smell victory. The OS skirmish is over. Unix won. Linux will be everywhere that matters.
:-)
Windows will never be able to compete with Linux on the 64-bit architectures. They've already failed to migrate it before. (Okay, arguably, they've never been able to implement one properly on 32-bits either.
The racks get better, wider and faster. Linux grows along with them while NT 4.0 SP4 is an aging, bug ridden, insecure, closed-source and expensive option.
Nobody trusts SP beyond 4 or ME. My employer has one ME evaluation machine while the servers are Alpha's running VMS or NT racks and we have NT boxes on the desktops. (but our clients are starting to ask for Linux for servers and desktops. As soon as IBM ports VisualAge Smalltalk, we go.)
The internet connected desktops need to be biometrically secure, crypto-secure and 32-bits just doesn't cut it. Look for desk-top Alphas, Sparcs, Itaniums and G5s to win that market share too.
You'll find it. (My old man was a marketing manager for a drug firm which is how I found out.)
Remember that there weren't any direct comparison ads on TV when you were a kid. Then that all changed when some lawyer mangled the english lanuage to come up with this piece of logic.
Now you know how come company A can't sue the ass off of company B when they company says their can of crap is better than A's can of crap.
This idiocy started when the politicos tried to turn the patent office into a profit center. Its not. It never was. Its was idiocy to try to make it into one and the outcome is a total failure.
Instead the reform turned the office into a patent paper-mill and the patents issued are as palatable as used toilet paper.
Ignore all software and procedure patents issued by them as they are totally suspect and unenforcable anywhere else on the planet.
(The other stuff is suspect too but some percentage of it may be valid as it would have passed the necessary criteria that existed before they turned the patent officers into street-walkers hustling their butts for the executive's bonuses.)
Besides would you trust any poll done by M$? The only thing that could make it less reliable would be if they ran the thing on an NT box.
Ingore the patents. They exist only to keep greedy US lawyers in Beemers. They don't exist for over 5.7 billion other people. The 300 million people in the 'States will just have to put with it until M$ runs out of money.
The OS wars are over. Unix won. Lets move on to 64-bit platforms, where Windows can't go but the Web needs to go, and put this trillion dollar wash behind us.
Given the peripatetic life styles of the moderators (showing up at trade shows etc.) why not get them TiBooks running OS X?
This patent shit is patently foolish. Of course to a lawyer, the definition of better is as good as (I'm not making this up folks!) so you have no idea what barbarisms they've committed and will continue to commit in the pursuit of legal fees.
We're talking intellectually, morally and ethically bankrupt individuals with no justification for their continued consumption of oxygen.
This suit against Palm & HandSpring is about as stupid as I can imagine but since they patent software and business methods in this country (but blessedly nowhere else on this planet,) the lawyers crawl out from behind the fridges in poor neighbourhoods and will scurry and flourish until somebody turns on the kitchen light and spray's 'em with RAID!
I think we going to have to kill a few of these civil law suits to straighten out the asses of the survivors.
And while you're up, ask Dubya if you'll have to sell (no rent) your daughter's ass to pay for your late father's credit card debts.
Meanwhile, the HMO's consortium is claiming that leaving you outside at night on US soil (like Alaska in January,) would be more effective if they could get the federal guvmint to pay for freight.
Dubya decides that the death tax could be used to pay for shipping if he can't makes states pay.
Its definitely not funny. You were right, the server's SysAdmin(s) was(were) reading your email. Somebody's supposed to be charged with insuring that no proprietary information leaves the door.
I suspect that if I tried to use encryption at the office and ran pgp on my desktop, I'd be frog-marched right out the door before being flipped into the ditch. In the military, I'd be shot.
The problem with encryption is one of control. I can't encrypt anything but I can request that it be reviewed and encrypted before being sent. Likewise, if I get encrypted email, it has to be decrypted on the server and reviewed before I get it.
Its not my server. Its the corporations.
If I have something to say, I always remember that its going out in clear text on an unsecured channel, or its going to be reviewed, and that anything I put down will come back to haunt me.
Poke around http://www.deadtroll.com/troll/index2.html and look for the fifth and final show (they got their butts canned,) from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
Its in the same vein as the really funny scene in the movie Room with a View.
But they raised a really valid pont. On TV, you can show somebody getting blown away, but not getting blown. I know which one I'd rather somebody do to me.
Scientologists and their fawning admiration of someone who was only slightly less honest/more devious than Charlie Manson, rub my fur the wrong way.
Luckily he's worm casings now so we'll never have to be subjected to more of those lousy Battlefield Earth books.