Monopoly telco/power providers want to keep the public in the dark, where they can continue to screw them for pay by the minute services. If the public had easy access to how the networks are actually organized, they would realize that most of what telcos have to say is a big fat lie.
Our enemies have this information, the public at large does not. If one grad student was able to collect it in a few years, do you think Communitst China lacks any of it? Do you think they or others won't have given that information to terrorists? Censorship of anything but specific military manuvers only hides information from the public. Our enemies know where to go and who to send to collect it all for themselves.
Infringers are easy to spot and you prove it yourself:
I think the RIAA is in over its head, again. "At the end of the day, we believe we can find infringers regardless of what network they use to try to cloak their illegal activity." HA HA HA HA HA.
The infringers are the ones who are smiling. Everyone else gets stale old crap music from advert filled broadcast channels.
You do know that XP can show folders containing images as thumbnails, right? Even showing a collection of mini-thumbnails for other folders containing images within them? And that you get a picture viewer app that can show those images at full size, arrange to print a collection of them, etc?
Wow, sounds like they ported Nautilus. It's about time the updated their sad little file browser.
And that even Windows Paint can do PNG?
No, I did not know that. It would be interesting to see Paint deal with layers and transparancies. The last time I used it, it had trouble with a single layer bitmap.
Have they read the publically published and patent unencumbered spec into their browser yet? After all you would think a reasonable software company would have their browser able to display portable NET graphics before a half assed paint program. Tell me they implemented all the features of png and I'll be impressed. Tell me that they have not implemented all those features, but have added a few inadequate replacement features and I'll tell you that's a typical M$ move, late, half-baked and one way compatible with the rest of the world.
your frequent, ill-informed, anti-Microsoft posts on Slashdot recently.
Frequent, yes. An advocate of software freedom, yes. Ill informed? I think not. I'm not willing to fork over the cash it takes to suffer under XP, so kindly answer my question, does IE do png yet?
Could be, Free X sounds like M$:
The software companies who are developing titles for the XBox should be very worried by the lack of protection that Microsoft is offering their work as exploits such as those found by our team pose a serious threat to potential sales due to the possible use of such exploits for software piracy.
Software piracy? Exploit? Could they have protrayed themselves in a worse light? They also promised to sign NDAs and happily screw everyone else and work exclusively for M$ like good little boys and girls should. Sounds like standard BSA propaganda to me and the wave of corporate sponsored, Digital Rights Damaged, coppies of free software bode evil for software freedom.
Free software is not about making binary coppies of a few games, it's about having control of your hardware and building things. An xbox with a "signed" Linux kernel that can't be programed or modified offers neither liberty nor the license FreeX offers as a substitute. That kind of box is worth no more than XP on a Next Generation Enslaved PC, except it might have better uptime.
It would not be at all surprising to learn that Microsoft is paying FreeX to make this noise. If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, chances are it's a duck.
Who knows, perhaps this is the way for M$ to meet the Linux threat while further expanding into hardware sales. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is their tried and true pattern. They can call it Shared Linux, port M$ Office to it and push it on big dumb companies as the legitimate child of the free software movement. $100/box is 1/4 the price of a current corporate desktop and they will be just in time for the next corporate "upgrade" cycle. If it caught on, Dell and Gateway would indeed be introuble, because they have to buy their software from M$. Then they move in for the kill by using the DMCA to neuter the GPL. Distributing partial source kernels in a way that nothing can be modified even if you had the source is a massive violation of the spirit of the GPL if not it's letter. What use is source code if you go to jail for modifying it?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, purchasing the xbox only helps M$. If you want a gaming console, buy one with merrit. If you want a PC build one. One way you get better games, the other way you keep your computing freedom. Purchasing the xbox gives you neither of the things you are looking for and removes a sale from someone who's more interested in what you want.
Seems like there's no businesses -- certainly not incorporated ones -- want to hire experts in free software like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and Mozilla when 2kServer, IIS, SQL Server and IE are what all the other big companies are using first.
Yeah, that's typical big company cluelessness. These are the same companies that were late into the PC world to begin with. They will react sooner or later and jump into free software when it's painfully obvious how much money they are lossing on all of M$'s non-standard, lockin crap. Chances are two or three CIOs will get fired for suggesting it before some "proactive" thinker gets it done.
Just make sure it doesn't also take over GIF, JPEG, etc. files as well... mine did that here at home and I can't seem to wrench it back from Moz using Tools/Folder Options, but that's another story.
Why not let Mozilla have it? Most "work" machines in cubeland don't have anything but paint and IE anyway. People savy enough to have a real paint program will have enough sense to have put it into the "send to" directory to thwart all those kinds of M$ registry problems to begin with. Heck, without Mozilla, most M$ users can't view half the world's image formats anyway, especially pgn. Is there some kind of change in the M$ hell world I've missed in my last year or two in the land of the free?
most public M$ compooters get wiped clean everyday. It's the only way to fight macroviruses, gator and the like. This would have eliminated your Phoenix install's links and preference settings if not Phoenix itself. The trouble people go through to "support" microsoft is mind boggling.
There are many, many internal applications at Sun that are written for Netscape 4.7 and don't work in NS6/NS7 (don't ask me how, but it's true. It boggles my mind, too.)
How? How do you know?
So yes, Sun has 40,000 employees still using the broken, non-standards-compliant Netscape 4.7 as their primary browser
More name calling, how sad. It's no substitute for facts. What "standards" are you refering to? The only fact that you have graced us with is that Sun uses Netscape and has many employees.
Yes, something the pilot can not override is dangerous. The reporter got an earfull of it:
They could even allow planes to be hijacked from the ground if terrorists managed to take over air-traffic control sites.
Well, duh, if it works by radio, people will listen to it and figure out how to take control. If some big dumb company like Microsoft makes it, there will be a buffer overflow in some unnecessary chunk that gives complete control of the flight control system. I imagine a scenerio where a terrorist sends the "air-clippy" a specially crafted message that either renders the controls inoperable or gives control to terroist on the ground. Ha ha is not very funny in the air.
"Know the marketplace" is a vauge concept. It can mean anything from "know how dominant (Micro$oft) software works to leverage user knowledge" to "know what people want to do". This book looks like it also considers stuff that most of us consider fluff, actual marketing, "branding", sales and all that.
I don't have much use for this book. When I want to write a program, I know what I want it to do. If other people can use it, great! There are plenty of projects, like Gnome and KDE, that are doing a great job with user interfaces and all that other stuff. Their interfaces manage to incorporate M$ stuff without crippling it or pulling in too much of the intentionally confusing bits. Indeed, most of the free software I use comes with good documentation and installs via apt. If any project I work on lives up to those standards, it's sure to be picked up. If not, oh well, that's alright. I'm happy if my project meets my own needs.
But then the clerks would have to look at them and clerks don't pay to do that. It seems that no honest means of selling magazines exists except direct mail with a brown wrapper and self destruct mechanisms so that no one else can see your publication.
I'm amazed that someone at a Center for Radiophysics and Space Research does not realize that E is a vector quantity. This is one of the most basic principles of radiation transport. The trasfer of momentum from particles and photons is fundamental and established in models of great predictive value. I'm afraid Mr. Gold has steped outside his field of expetise, which looks mostly geophysical.
the USPS will only be vouching for you to the CA - they won't be authenticating you to the public at large.
It looks like that, but because the database must be "Patriot Act compliant" , it will be like the government owns the data anyway. This way they get all the information and get to subsidise their favorite "top quality private sector business".
A number of top quality private sector business have masterd the technology around the use of secure digital signatures...
Market droid talk. If they are so good why does the post office need to get into it? Other talk about "demand", "unique service opportunity" and trusted computing has my back up. It's all so Microsoft sounding. But that's just the beginning.
They are going to use "comercial database checking", and the databases must be "Patriot Act Compliant". While the commmercial database check looks like coroprate welfare, it the Patriot act part looks like a land grab. What, besides any old G-man clerk having the athority to look at all of your data, constitues Patriot Act Complience?
The authentication method is first class mail. and a file that dissapears in four years. I'm not going to think very hard about all the ways to defruad the post and defeat this system, but mail fraud is still a common problem. The dissapering file is the real clincher. What "top quality private sector bussines" has a patent on DRM OS and has been touting files that expire as a means to "trusted computing"?
Having a certificate athority is good. Using that need as a means to nationalize software, usurp private databases, funnel tax money into private hands and foce everyone to use propriatory software is not good. The system needs to be run on proven free and open standards in a non-revocable manner.
The USPO is going to have to do better than that to win my trust. I've got one Microsoft machine for talking to an old camera and a scanner. I don't let it see the internet because it's so easy to break and own. Any plan that would force me to use software I don't trust for ecommerce is a plan I don't trust or want.
Two years ago, some moron told me that the US government would make it illegal to run anything but Microsoft software. He actually thought this was a good idea and was convinced it would happen. I told him that would violate the first amendment rights to free speech, and effectivly nationalize general purpose computing and such laws were laughably unAmerican. I'm not laughing anymore.
It's a gross example, but no different in prinicple for ANY fees on specturm. It should be obvious from the 60 or so empty broadcast TV stations that the airwaves are underutilized. The sharing of spectrum demonstrated by wi-fi and cell phones conclusively demonstrate that specturm can be shared with little loss of quality. What your are left with is that licensing fees are not paid to avoid specturm conflicts, they are paid to limit the number of broadcasters and generate government revenue. $400/per year? That's pig shit next to the half a million bucks required to broadcast TV/Radio in the US. What they phone companies paid for their specturm should make even the biggest Clinton fanboy blush. Same story all around, I'm afraid.
:firms choose profit Isn't that the whole point of capitalism?
No, breach of contract is not what "capitalism" is all about. Liars go out of business in a truely free market and honest firms thrive. The only things that can keep dishonest firms in business are limits on information transfer and anti-competitive practices.
Let's face it, the Internet is just not private. The Internet was conceived in a semi-private environment, absolutely bereft of retail commercial incentive, when the primary concern was sharing information.
I'm not ready to give up, nor should I. People should be able to roam the web honestly and in an upright manner. Why should anyone have to go around lying to keep their inbox clean of shit? There's nothing wrong with the internet's goals or technology, it's how some people abuse it. Let's not clound the issue by mixing three seperate issues, privacy, spam and fruad.
What I publish online is not private, it's what I want to share. What I tell my doctor, lawyer and even someone who sells me tutoring aids for my kids should be private. People who sell private information after prommising to keep it to themselves have betrayed my trust and commited fraud. People who explicitly lie about sharing what I tell them desrve to be fined.
I want to share my email address but don't think that gives anyone the right to spam me. There should be a law against unsolicited comercial email and sooner or later, there will be. Spam is an abuse, and Mallory Duncan needs to be straightened out:
Mallory Duncan, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Retail Federation, argues that mainstream corporations can police their own marketing practices. "The concern with spam is not with the Gap coupon you receive," said Duncan, who represents the largest lobbying and trade group for store owners. "It's the huge amount of porn and other things that were unsolicited."
What the fuck is "mainstream"? Big? No Duncan, I don't want to hear from Gap any more than I want to hear from Hooked on Phonics or porn masters. It's all offensive. I think Duncan needs to be opted into a bunch of "mainstream" spammers:
The answer to spam is a the same thing that cleaned up junk faxes, a big fat fine for people who send it. The kind of fraud described by the Washington Post is already against the law, and those laws should be enforced.
The Washington Post should not be peeved at all. They just got a spot on my news bar. Clueful articles like this will have me reading them more than the New York Times.
I could care less if the movie is as lame as you said it is. When you step back, what you see is yet another highly competitive business chosing free software to get their work done. It's ready for the servers and it's ready for the desktops and workstations and it's been that way for a long time. The same supposedly lame movie could have been made with expensive closed source crap but it would have cost more and been more trouble.
Free software continues to prove it's the right tool for the job, that's the news here. One day, someone will use the same tools to make a movie you actually like, unless you are such a fanboy that no such movie could ever please you.
So it's OK for the movie industry to use Linux to CREATE movies, but it's not OK for us to use Linux to VIEW movies...That makes about as much sense as putting a screen door on a submarine.
You should think of it like gun control. The state imposes gun control so that only the state has guns. Movie makers have a double incentive to steal and supress free software that might be useful for making movies.
The first reason is, as you noticed, they are afraid people will convert their movies into formats than can be shared. That can be done on windoze too, but windoze will soon have enough locks on it that watching a movie will be difficult.
The second reason is more fundamental, movie makers don't want competition in movie making. Lord knows there's a wasted surpluss of actors, screenwriters, producers and promoters starving around any big movie making town that would like to work at a new movie house. Both reasons are really the same thing, in order to avoid competition that technology is making cheaper and easier, they have to own every aspect of movie making from poduction to retail distribution. If any piece of the chain becomes open to competition, the rest open up.
MPlayer at the screening, what a joke. DRM is like "gun control", where the state tell you only the state can have guns. You don't think a movie maker would ever distribute a moving on anything but some horrid DRM system, do you? The real error message would look something like this:
Explorer.exe has cause an exception fault in module WMP at 0x0...[binary crap] A representative of the MPAA will be notified of your illegal movie watching.
Free software might be very useful to movie makers, but that won't keep them from pushing DRM on everyone.
David is the victim here. He's had to refuse work for fear of M$. We can imagine they threatened to remove all bussiness from them as well as hit him with a lawsuit if he did not carefully read the provided script. It takes extraordinary character to stand up to a threat like that and we should not fault David for not sacrficing everything he owns.
I imagine David's inbox is going to be crushed by a bunch of M$ paid trolls anyway. Making other people look bad is just another part of Microsoft's advertising budget. I don't put it past M$, famous for astroturf.
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There's always Ghost Script.
Our enemies have this information, the public at large does not. If one grad student was able to collect it in a few years, do you think Communitst China lacks any of it? Do you think they or others won't have given that information to terrorists? Censorship of anything but specific military manuvers only hides information from the public. Our enemies know where to go and who to send to collect it all for themselves.
I think the RIAA is in over its head, again. "At the end of the day, we believe we can find infringers regardless of what network they use to try to cloak their illegal activity." HA HA HA HA HA.
The infringers are the ones who are smiling. Everyone else gets stale old crap music from advert filled broadcast channels.
Wow, sounds like they ported Nautilus. It's about time the updated their sad little file browser.
And that even Windows Paint can do PNG?
No, I did not know that. It would be interesting to see Paint deal with layers and transparancies. The last time I used it, it had trouble with a single layer bitmap.
Have they read the publically published and patent unencumbered spec into their browser yet? After all you would think a reasonable software company would have their browser able to display portable NET graphics before a half assed paint program. Tell me they implemented all the features of png and I'll be impressed. Tell me that they have not implemented all those features, but have added a few inadequate replacement features and I'll tell you that's a typical M$ move, late, half-baked and one way compatible with the rest of the world.
your frequent, ill-informed, anti-Microsoft posts on Slashdot recently.
Frequent, yes. An advocate of software freedom, yes. Ill informed? I think not. I'm not willing to fork over the cash it takes to suffer under XP, so kindly answer my question, does IE do png yet?
Software piracy? Exploit? Could they have protrayed themselves in a worse light? They also promised to sign NDAs and happily screw everyone else and work exclusively for M$ like good little boys and girls should. Sounds like standard BSA propaganda to me and the wave of corporate sponsored, Digital Rights Damaged, coppies of free software bode evil for software freedom.
Free software is not about making binary coppies of a few games, it's about having control of your hardware and building things. An xbox with a "signed" Linux kernel that can't be programed or modified offers neither liberty nor the license FreeX offers as a substitute. That kind of box is worth no more than XP on a Next Generation Enslaved PC, except it might have better uptime.
It would not be at all surprising to learn that Microsoft is paying FreeX to make this noise. If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, chances are it's a duck.
Who knows, perhaps this is the way for M$ to meet the Linux threat while further expanding into hardware sales. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is their tried and true pattern. They can call it Shared Linux, port M$ Office to it and push it on big dumb companies as the legitimate child of the free software movement. $100/box is 1/4 the price of a current corporate desktop and they will be just in time for the next corporate "upgrade" cycle. If it caught on, Dell and Gateway would indeed be introuble, because they have to buy their software from M$. Then they move in for the kill by using the DMCA to neuter the GPL. Distributing partial source kernels in a way that nothing can be modified even if you had the source is a massive violation of the spirit of the GPL if not it's letter. What use is source code if you go to jail for modifying it?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, purchasing the xbox only helps M$. If you want a gaming console, buy one with merrit. If you want a PC build one. One way you get better games, the other way you keep your computing freedom. Purchasing the xbox gives you neither of the things you are looking for and removes a sale from someone who's more interested in what you want.
Places where Outlook are regarded as "capable":
Yeah, that's typical big company cluelessness. These are the same companies that were late into the PC world to begin with. They will react sooner or later and jump into free software when it's painfully obvious how much money they are lossing on all of M$'s non-standard, lockin crap. Chances are two or three CIOs will get fired for suggesting it before some "proactive" thinker gets it done.
Frontpage, I'm sorry to hear it.
Why not let Mozilla have it? Most "work" machines in cubeland don't have anything but paint and IE anyway. People savy enough to have a real paint program will have enough sense to have put it into the "send to" directory to thwart all those kinds of M$ registry problems to begin with. Heck, without Mozilla, most M$ users can't view half the world's image formats anyway, especially pgn. Is there some kind of change in the M$ hell world I've missed in my last year or two in the land of the free?
most public M$ compooters get wiped clean everyday. It's the only way to fight macroviruses, gator and the like. This would have eliminated your Phoenix install's links and preference settings if not Phoenix itself. The trouble people go through to "support" microsoft is mind boggling.
How? How do you know?
So yes, Sun has 40,000 employees still using the broken, non-standards-compliant Netscape 4.7 as their primary browser
More name calling, how sad. It's no substitute for facts. What "standards" are you refering to? The only fact that you have graced us with is that Sun uses Netscape and has many employees.
What do you expect them to use, IE?
They could even allow planes to be hijacked from the ground if terrorists managed to take over air-traffic control sites.
Well, duh, if it works by radio, people will listen to it and figure out how to take control. If some big dumb company like Microsoft makes it, there will be a buffer overflow in some unnecessary chunk that gives complete control of the flight control system. I imagine a scenerio where a terrorist sends the "air-clippy" a specially crafted message that either renders the controls inoperable or gives control to terroist on the ground. Ha ha is not very funny in the air.
I don't have much use for this book. When I want to write a program, I know what I want it to do. If other people can use it, great! There are plenty of projects, like Gnome and KDE, that are doing a great job with user interfaces and all that other stuff. Their interfaces manage to incorporate M$ stuff without crippling it or pulling in too much of the intentionally confusing bits. Indeed, most of the free software I use comes with good documentation and installs via apt. If any project I work on lives up to those standards, it's sure to be picked up. If not, oh well, that's alright. I'm happy if my project meets my own needs.
But then the clerks would have to look at them and clerks don't pay to do that. It seems that no honest means of selling magazines exists except direct mail with a brown wrapper and self destruct mechanisms so that no one else can see your publication.
I'm amazed that someone at a Center for Radiophysics and Space Research does not realize that E is a vector quantity. This is one of the most basic principles of radiation transport. The trasfer of momentum from particles and photons is fundamental and established in models of great predictive value. I'm afraid Mr. Gold has steped outside his field of expetise, which looks mostly geophysical.
It looks like that, but because the database must be "Patriot Act compliant" , it will be like the government owns the data anyway. This way they get all the information and get to subsidise their favorite "top quality private sector business".
Market droid talk. If they are so good why does the post office need to get into it? Other talk about "demand", "unique service opportunity" and trusted computing has my back up. It's all so Microsoft sounding. But that's just the beginning.
They are going to use "comercial database checking", and the databases must be "Patriot Act Compliant". While the commmercial database check looks like coroprate welfare, it the Patriot act part looks like a land grab. What, besides any old G-man clerk having the athority to look at all of your data, constitues Patriot Act Complience?
The authentication method is first class mail. and a file that dissapears in four years. I'm not going to think very hard about all the ways to defruad the post and defeat this system, but mail fraud is still a common problem. The dissapering file is the real clincher. What "top quality private sector bussines" has a patent on DRM OS and has been touting files that expire as a means to "trusted computing"?
Having a certificate athority is good. Using that need as a means to nationalize software, usurp private databases, funnel tax money into private hands and foce everyone to use propriatory software is not good. The system needs to be run on proven free and open standards in a non-revocable manner.
The USPO is going to have to do better than that to win my trust. I've got one Microsoft machine for talking to an old camera and a scanner. I don't let it see the internet because it's so easy to break and own. Any plan that would force me to use software I don't trust for ecommerce is a plan I don't trust or want.
Two years ago, some moron told me that the US government would make it illegal to run anything but Microsoft software. He actually thought this was a good idea and was convinced it would happen. I told him that would violate the first amendment rights to free speech, and effectivly nationalize general purpose computing and such laws were laughably unAmerican. I'm not laughing anymore.
Someone tell me I'm just paranoid, please.
No, breach of contract is not what "capitalism" is all about. Liars go out of business in a truely free market and honest firms thrive. The only things that can keep dishonest firms in business are limits on information transfer and anti-competitive practices.
I'm not ready to give up, nor should I. People should be able to roam the web honestly and in an upright manner. Why should anyone have to go around lying to keep their inbox clean of shit? There's nothing wrong with the internet's goals or technology, it's how some people abuse it. Let's not clound the issue by mixing three seperate issues, privacy, spam and fruad.
What I publish online is not private, it's what I want to share. What I tell my doctor, lawyer and even someone who sells me tutoring aids for my kids should be private. People who sell private information after prommising to keep it to themselves have betrayed my trust and commited fraud. People who explicitly lie about sharing what I tell them desrve to be fined.
I want to share my email address but don't think that gives anyone the right to spam me. There should be a law against unsolicited comercial email and sooner or later, there will be. Spam is an abuse, and Mallory Duncan needs to be straightened out: Mallory Duncan, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Retail Federation, argues that mainstream corporations can police their own marketing practices. "The concern with spam is not with the Gap coupon you receive," said Duncan, who represents the largest lobbying and trade group for store owners. "It's the huge amount of porn and other things that were unsolicited."
What the fuck is "mainstream"? Big? No Duncan, I don't want to hear from Gap any more than I want to hear from Hooked on Phonics or porn masters. It's all offensive. I think Duncan needs to be opted into a bunch of "mainstream" spammers:
duncanm@nrf.com
after all, the NRF posted it in a public place
The answer to spam is a the same thing that cleaned up junk faxes, a big fat fine for people who send it. The kind of fraud described by the Washington Post is already against the law, and those laws should be enforced.
The Washington Post should not be peeved at all. They just got a spot on my news bar. Clueful articles like this will have me reading them more than the New York Times.
Free software continues to prove it's the right tool for the job, that's the news here. One day, someone will use the same tools to make a movie you actually like, unless you are such a fanboy that no such movie could ever please you.
You should think of it like gun control. The state imposes gun control so that only the state has guns. Movie makers have a double incentive to steal and supress free software that might be useful for making movies.
The first reason is, as you noticed, they are afraid people will convert their movies into formats than can be shared. That can be done on windoze too, but windoze will soon have enough locks on it that watching a movie will be difficult.
The second reason is more fundamental, movie makers don't want competition in movie making. Lord knows there's a wasted surpluss of actors, screenwriters, producers and promoters starving around any big movie making town that would like to work at a new movie house. Both reasons are really the same thing, in order to avoid competition that technology is making cheaper and easier, they have to own every aspect of movie making from poduction to retail distribution. If any piece of the chain becomes open to competition, the rest open up.
Explorer.exe has cause an exception fault in module WMP at 0x0...[binary crap] A representative of the MPAA will be notified of your illegal movie watching.
Free software might be very useful to movie makers, but that won't keep them from pushing DRM on everyone.
That's ture, Software Images has been forced to reject legitimate work and damage their reputation.
It's the company address to http://www.microsoft.com/nz and Brett Robers.
David is the victim here. He's had to refuse work for fear of M$. We can imagine they threatened to remove all bussiness from them as well as hit him with a lawsuit if he did not carefully read the provided script. It takes extraordinary character to stand up to a threat like that and we should not fault David for not sacrficing everything he owns.
I imagine David's inbox is going to be crushed by a bunch of M$ paid trolls anyway. Making other people look bad is just another part of Microsoft's advertising budget. I don't put it past M$, famous for astroturf.