You couldn't expect them to let people broadcast music for no fee forever
If you had bothered to read the article, or the previous article two weeks ago when the decision was announced (I know, I know, this is slashdot), you would have found out that previously they paid royalties similar to that of airwave broadcasting based on tuning hours. The move to per song/per listener is a considerable change in the fee formula that will drive many smaller broadcasters out of business. Its interesting that if I own a bar with non-live music (juke box/radio) I pay per listening hour regardless of how many patrons are in the bar that particular night, but if it is the internet, I have to pay per ear.
There are two Kansas City, one in Kansas, the other in Missouri. They are right next to each other. State line road (N/S) has Kansas on the west and Missouri on the east.
Never said there was. However, even a PI has to have something to start with. And
in this particular case, there isn't a lot. Not from legal sources anyways.
Given the problems HP had with using PIs, I would think even SCO would think
twice before.....
...You're right...
Good question. I'm
not sure what legal information a PI would have access to that the lawyers wouldn't.
I guess they could try and pretext Groklaw's ISP, however the consequences if
they got caught (daydreams for a moment about the possiblities) would be rather counter
productive.
My appologies, the amtrak site says you need ID to buy a ticket, checking baggage, or for random checks. Several aquaintences have told me they have been checked multiple times.
Sorry for not responding sooner. Green bits are the extra house keeping values that are stored to manage the memory. The actual layout and use of the green bits differs depending on the management library. But in general, when a block is allocated by new or malloc, there is slightly more allocated and some values are stored at the beginning of the block. The value returned by the allocator is the location just after the green bits. When the block is freed, some libraries add the free list pointer values in the first part of the block as well.
Acutally, you cannot travel by amtrak anonymously. You must show ID with your
ticket to board the train. Any most interstate bus travel also requires you to show ID.
Buffer overflows can also happen in the data segment (both global variables and heap). And it is almost as easy to exploit. Intead of overflowing to the return address, you overflow to the nearest vptr (if C++ is being used), to the nearest function pointer or to the nearest green bit.
no one without a boarding pass could go past the security check points (just like every other airport).
You mean like every other airport in the US. Every commercial airport in the world (other than the US) requires a boarding pass or
an escort pass to make it into the security area. Only the US has allowed anyone into the secure zone. Imagine my shock
the first time I flew into a US airport and saw a crowd of people waiting at the gate!!. Some airports will
provide an escort pass. You have to ask the ticket agent when your loved ones get thier boarding passes. My mother requires
wheel chair access, and I get an escort pass so that I can take her right to the gate when she flies. You also have to
have photo id to use the escort pass at security.
Tufte's gripes against powerpoint is the inappropriate use of such software.
If you read his work he has several main points:
In some circumstances it is not the best medium. In the NASA case he analyzes they used powerpoint over regular reports. In the Grand Parent Post case he is presenting a sypnosis of a report.
The use of bullets and sub-bullets and sub-sub bullets are often used to hide the major points. In the NASA case the title and major bullets were optimistic while the sub-sub points contained the reservations (which were correct).
My understanding is that Tufte doesn't mind a well crafted powerpoint presentation that gets the point accross. It is just that many people take the shortcut. It is amazing how often the information "just happens" to fit into exactly three slides. Good use of diagrams, figures and illustrations can make a very effective presentation. Lots of points and subpoints doesn't.
Part of the problem there was that the missile's clock values were such that they would not convert to base 2 (and hence to float) accurately and so the tracking was off
Actually the problem was that they used a float to store the system time (time since power on) in the ground radar unit. It allowed the clock to be used in calculations without a conversion. A float will store an integer just fine (and accurately) until the number gets too large and then the units part drops off the bottom of the precision and the increment operator no longer makes any sense. This was a design decision that made sense for the role for which the missle platform was originally designed. The patriot was originally designed to be used in the European Theater (if the cold war
ever turned hot) and as such would never remain in one location for more than a very few days.The clock is reset everytime they move the battery (they power off the ground tracking radar when they move). The use in the gulf war was in a strategic role (not tactical) which kept them continuously operating in a single location for long periods of time, and the shortcut they used came back to haunt them (as usual). If they had reset the system every few days, the problem would not have occured.
For those of us who aren't programming geniuses- what would you use to store a monetary amount, besides a floating-point format?
Decimal data types. In COBOL or PLI (in which most of these applications are written in)
you use a PIC data type.For example,
PIC 9999V999
says the number has 4 integer digits and 3 fractional digits. It also
may not hold a negative number. You add an S character to the front
to allow negative numbers.
The language runtime interprets the numbers and there is no approximation
involved. There are strict rules for overflow, underflow and roundoff. You can
delcare any numeric type up to a total of 18 digits in these languages.
Other comments have already referred to the C library and to similar types
in other programming
languages.
You ever notice that in Starship Trooper, the guns were basically 20th century? They have these huge space-faring ships and bunch of sooped-up M16s ?
That was my objection to the movie. If you read the book, they all had mobile armour (and not soft, liquid armour either) with jetpacks and were spread about 100 yards apart when in combat. The only thing in that movie had in common with Heinlien's work was the title
Unfortunately, our current government would probably follow meekly behind the Shrub (unless we had a right wing backlash over cost and tradition which is about the only thing that would stop them)
Yeah, because offering a peek at the goddamned source code didn't go far enough, right?>
All swearing aside, looking at the source code is not an appropriate solution because it encumbers the viewer of the source code. The proposed rememdy was for specifications of the protocol so that clean independent 3rd party applications could be written that interopeate with windows. Either MS does not have the documentation, or it is unwilling to provide it. Either way, anyone who wants to write clean software that interacts with MS products has an uphill battle.
And while a large part of the MS XML format is open, significant parts of it are wrappers around proprietary binary objects. Just how is that open? Leaving aside the issue of Open Source, how can I as a small company make a product that can import a MS XML file with any consistency?
Microsoft abused their position 5-10 years ago... Not only does it appear they stopped when caught, but MS has since started moving to open formats
Really? 5-10 years ago, MS was playing reasonably nice at standards committes. In the interm, they have withdrawn from many and made thier protocols much more difficult to interact with. Just talk to the Samba team
urely the reason the top 10 pieces of malware are Windows only isn't something as mundane as the 90% / 10% market saturation of windows vs. Mac devices. Even if the same malware app was on ever single mac connected to the net, it still wouldn't show up in this top 10
I love my mac too (all four of them). There is a bit more to it than that. A large part is the predominant number of windows. To effectively spread, a virus must have reasonable access to new hosts to infect. Also, the harder it is to infect, the more hosts the virus must have access to in order to spread. The concentration of macs is low enough that this significantly inhibits the ability of viruses to propogate.
But there are also other issues. The article notes that email virus have become the most predominant malware. Certain email client programs are much more suceptable to these viruses that others. A large number of Windows users switching email clients would reduce the number of viruses significantly. I can tell everytime a new virus comes out, I suddenly see
Email from people I know use windows machines. One prof in our department always seems to be unlucky enough to get hit with zero day attacks.
Bounces from bad email addresses to my address when the virus chooses my email address from the address book of someone I know who gets infected to use as the sending address. At least most of the viruss scanners have become smart enough to stop sending infection notices for viruses known to spoof return addresses
Slashdot Mirror
If you had bothered to read the article, or the previous article two weeks ago when the decision was announced (I know, I know, this is slashdot), you would have found out that previously they paid royalties similar to that of airwave broadcasting based on tuning hours. The move to per song/per listener is a considerable change in the fee formula that will drive many smaller broadcasters out of business. Its interesting that if I own a bar with non-live music (juke box/radio) I pay per listening hour regardless of how many patrons are in the bar that particular night, but if it is the internet, I have to pay per ear.
There are two Kansas City, one in Kansas, the other in Missouri. They are
right next to each other. State line road (N/S) has Kansas on the west and Missouri
on the east.
Thats why the notices are targeting movies and software....
Never said there was. However, even a PI has to have something to start with. And in this particular case, there isn't a lot. Not from legal sources anyways.
I would guess that in SCO's mind, the Wikipedia entry is also written by the IBM attorneys
Given the problems HP had with using PIs, I would think even SCO would think twice before.....
Good question. I'm not sure what legal information a PI would have access to that the lawyers wouldn't. I guess they could try and pretext Groklaw's ISP, however the consequences if they got caught (daydreams for a moment about the possiblities) would be rather counter productive.
My appologies, the amtrak site says you need ID to buy a
ticket, checking baggage, or for random checks. Several
aquaintences have told me they have been checked multiple times.
Sorry for not responding sooner. Green bits are the extra house keeping values
that are stored to manage the memory. The actual layout and use of the green bits
differs depending on the management library. But in general, when a block is
allocated by new or malloc, there is slightly more allocated and some values
are stored at the beginning of the block. The value returned by the allocator
is the location just after the green bits. When the block is freed, some libraries
add the free list pointer values in the first part of the block as well.
Acutally, you cannot travel by amtrak anonymously. You must show ID with your ticket to board the train. Any most interstate bus travel also requires you to show ID.
Buffer overflows can also happen in the data segment (both global variables and heap).
And it is almost as easy to exploit. Intead of overflowing to the return address, you overflow
to the nearest vptr (if C++ is being used), to the nearest function pointer or to the nearest green bit.
Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning
You mean like every other airport in the US. Every commercial airport in the world (other than the US) requires a boarding pass or an escort pass to make it into the security area. Only the US has allowed anyone into the secure zone. Imagine my shock the first time I flew into a US airport and saw a crowd of people waiting at the gate!!. Some airports will provide an escort pass. You have to ask the ticket agent when your loved ones get thier boarding passes. My mother requires wheel chair access, and I get an escort pass so that I can take her right to the gate when she flies. You also have to have photo id to use the escort pass at security.
They could also get a .de name. Something beyond the jurisdiction of a US. Court.
Actually no. The CEO of the company authorized it trying to find out which member of the board was leaking to the press.
Tufte's gripes against powerpoint is the inappropriate use of such software. If you read his work he has several main points:
My understanding is that Tufte doesn't mind a well crafted powerpoint presentation that gets the point accross. It is just that many people take the shortcut. It is amazing how often the information "just happens" to fit into exactly three slides. Good use of diagrams, figures and illustrations can make a very effective presentation. Lots of points and subpoints doesn't.
Another source is the great book: How bad presentations happen to good causes
Actually the problem was that they used a float to store the system time (time since power on) in the ground radar unit. It allowed the clock to be used in calculations without a conversion. A float will store an integer just fine (and accurately) until the number gets too large and then the units part drops off the bottom of the precision and the increment operator no longer makes any sense. This was a design decision that made sense for the role for which the missle platform was originally designed. The patriot was originally designed to be used in the European Theater (if the cold war ever turned hot) and as such would never remain in one location for more than a very few days.The clock is reset everytime they move the battery (they power off the ground tracking radar when they move). The use in the gulf war was in a strategic role (not tactical) which kept them continuously operating in a single location for long periods of time, and the shortcut they used came back to haunt them (as usual). If they had reset the system every few days, the problem would not have occured.
Decimal data types. In COBOL or PLI (in which most of these applications are written in) you use a PIC data type.For example,
says the number has 4 integer digits and 3 fractional digits. It also may not hold a negative number. You add an S character to the front to allow negative numbers.
The language runtime interprets the numbers and there is no approximation involved. There are strict rules for overflow, underflow and roundoff. You can delcare any numeric type up to a total of 18 digits in these languages. Other comments have already referred to the C library and to similar types in other programming languages.
Well they are a country that is civilized enough to include the name of the national wine (Tokaji Aszu) in thier national anthem.
That was my objection to the movie. If you read the book, they all had mobile armour (and not soft, liquid armour either) with jetpacks and were spread about 100 yards apart when in combat. The only thing in that movie had in common with Heinlien's work was the title
Umm... Warren Abstract Machine?
Unfortunately, our current government would probably follow meekly behind the Shrub (unless we had a right wing backlash over cost and tradition which is about the only thing that would stop them)
All swearing aside, looking at the source code is not an appropriate solution because it encumbers the viewer of the source code. The proposed rememdy was for specifications of the protocol so that clean independent 3rd party applications could be written that interopeate with windows. Either MS does not have the documentation, or it is unwilling to provide it. Either way, anyone who wants to write clean software that interacts with MS products has an uphill battle.
And while a large part of the MS XML format is open, significant parts of it are wrappers around proprietary binary objects. Just how is that open? Leaving aside the issue of Open Source, how can I as a small company make a product that can import a MS XML file with any consistency?
Really? 5-10 years ago, MS was playing reasonably nice at standards committes. In the interm, they have withdrawn from many and made thier protocols much more difficult to interact with. Just talk to the Samba team
Ooips, typo, I meant to say the artcle said the most widespread problem, not the most predominant.
Mea Culpa.
I love my mac too (all four of them). There is a bit more to it than that. A large part is the predominant number of windows. To effectively spread, a virus must have reasonable access to new hosts to infect. Also, the harder it is to infect, the more hosts the virus must have access to in order to spread. The concentration of macs is low enough that this significantly inhibits the ability of viruses to propogate.
But there are also other issues. The article notes that email virus have become the most predominant malware. Certain email client programs are much more suceptable to these viruses that others. A large number of Windows users switching email clients would reduce the number of viruses significantly. I can tell everytime a new virus comes out, I suddenly see