Not only should people send a C&D letter, but can't they also take scox to at least small court?
It's been a while since I studied Civil Procedure, but I believe that federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright matters, and so small-claims court could not hear such cases, since they are state courts.
Nevermind if he had bothered to include all of the human species, as in those of us who lived some 10,000-100,000 years ago
I take it you've never calculated how many people lived during that time and compared it to how many people lived since? Or even just to how many people are alive right now?
GPL is freer in the sense that it protects the *code* from being captured by proprietary distributors
You can't protect against something that cannot happen. BSD code and PD code cannot be "captured", because making a proprietary product using BSD or PD code doesn't remove the rights everyone else has to the BSD or PD code.
You are free to go to the same place the proprietaty product got the BSD or PD code from and get it yourself.
I'd like to see (er...hear) more stuff from radio that can't be done well in other media. For example, radio is great for telling stories. Listen to some of the old radio science fiction programs, for example.
Compare to a movie. With a movie, you have to spend a lot on good sets and effects, or the setting will distract from the story. On radio, all you need is a few simple sound effects, and a few words of narration, and the listener's imagination fills in the rest...and for each listener, the scene is perfect.
Most of the great SF stories, which are hard to do well as movies, would be great as radio plays.
Now one has to ask if it is legal to launch a counter worm?
Launching a counter-worm is obviously a bad idea, but I see nothing wrong with disabling the original worm on any system that tries to infect the honeypot.
I did some experiments along those lines, with Apache set up to redirect various common worm-generated requests to a CGI which tried to do a "dir" on the remote system using the same hole that it was using to try to get my system, and a large fraction of the time, that worked.
On some of these systems, I then created a "C:\YOU_ARE_INFECTED.TXT" file that told them they were infected. Don't know how well that worked.
I don't have the time nor inclination to get sufficiently into Windows hacking to go farther than that, so stopped.
why can't the several competitors make something good as well?
Depends on what you mean by "good". For example, if you are looking for something to have a bunch of music at your office, then Archos is as good as iPod (and was out years before). Here is what Apple did with iPod that Archos didn't do:
1. They used a smaller form-factor hard drive, allowing for a smaller unit. This makes the iPod attractive for people who want to carry the unit around a lot.
2, iTunes. Personally, I hate pretty much all music management software, prefering to simply use the filesystem to manage my MP3 files, but a lot of people apparently really like that sort of thing.
3. Marketing. Apple is really good at this. Heck, most people think Apple invented hard disk MP3 players, rather than being one of the last entries into the field.
I plug it into a USB or Firewire port, and it shows up as a disk, with a filesystem that Linux can read and write.
I can copy music on to and off of the device by simply copying MP3 files (it is OK if other formats, such as those with DRM, are supported, as long as I can manage regular MP3 files with simple copying.
It uses the organization on the filesystem to determine the organization shown to the user. That is, if I want to play an album, I can simply navigate to the directory and tell it to play, and it plays all the songs in that directory (I'm willing to make sure my songs are named so that alphabetically they are in the right order).
If I can point it at playlists in a standard format, that is fine, if it is in addition supporting simple playing of all songs in a directory in order.
On my computer, I don't use any jukebox application. I simply have my MP3s organized in directories. I leave an XMMS directory browser open in my music directory, so with a double click or two, can add a whole album to my playlist. Since I've got everything organized for that, I don't need fancy jukebox or sync software...I just want to plug in, and use the usual Linux tools to make the directory on the player match my Linux music directory, and be done.
I can't tell if the Dell does this or not.
The Archos players work perfectly for this, but I'm running out of space on my 15 gig, and so am hoping Archos, or someone, will come out with a 30 gig or more that works this way, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
There are two kinds of anonymous postings. (1) Postings where you don't know who the author is, and cannot even tie the poster to other anonymous postings, and (2) postings where you don't know who the author is, but you can tell what other posts come from the same author.
The second kind is good enough for almost everything.
One solution is to make it so that anonymous postings have to identify which anonymous poster they come from. Basically, the bloggers get together and agree on a certification system. Posters have to obtain a certificate or key to post. Make it so that you can get a certificate anonymously, but it costs money--cheap enough that having a certificate is affordable, but expensive that you don't want to burn through them. Spamming won't be profitable if each spam run gets your certificate banned.
Another solution is to make posting slow. Make it so posting requires doing some computation that takes a long time a fast PC...say 30 minutes. Can't do big spam runs at 30 minutes per post.
Another solution. Require registration. Upon registration, the server gives you a computation to do, that takes a couple hours. Registration is not complete until you do the computation and return the results. Once registered, you can post normally. Newly registered users can have posting limits, such as one comment day, until they are seen to be legitimate. Registration should also include protection against automation, such as image recognition test, so that you can be reasonably certain that a person registered.
Until they make YaST GPL, I'm not interested. The YaST license does not meet the FSF defition of "free", nor does it meet the Open Source Initiative's defintion of an open source license.
Redhat GPL's their stuff. I can go to dozens of companies and buy cheap copies of Redhat, with only the name changed since Redhat does protect their name. Can't do that with SuSE.
On random intersections that can be controlled by these, rig up a camera to photograph the traffic in the direction that the triggering car is coming from whenever one is used. Nail anyone thus caught with a $1000 fine and maybe 3 months in jail.
I haven't had software destroy hardware since a Commodore PET
Windows 95 was able to destroy certain early Athlon motherboards, by erasing the BIOS. This happened during the hardware detect, and so of course you didn't get very far when it got to the point where it was time to reboot!
Perhaps tax dollars would better be spent on remedial reading programs for all the people that don't seem to understand the significance of the word "alone" in the Senator's statement.
From what I've seen of Gator, I don't like it, but I'm also not impressed with most anti-spyware software. I work at a company whose product is not spyware by any reasonable defintion, nor is it adware. You can get a free version, which will try to get you to upgrade to the pay version, but I don't think that counts.
Yet the top two or three anti-spyware products remove our product, even though they have not been able to find anything actually wrong with it. Their beef seems to be that at one time, our free version was bundled was part of some of the P2P program bundles, which also included spyware. So, the anti-spyware companies seem to assume that since some things bundled with Kazaa and AudioGalaxy were spyware, all things in those bundles must be, and no further research is needed!
Worse, when the anti-spyware programs uninstall our software, they botch it, leaving the computer in a messy or broken state. That breaks enough that our uninstaller won't work, either, so the user can't even do that to get to a clean state. Worse, those users call our tech support to find out how to fix the software (after all, many of the PAID for our software, and aren't all that pleased that some anti-spyware program has disabled it).
I pity the user in this, because I'm sure someone is going to fight back, and in a war between the over-zealous anti-spyware companies and the companies whose programs are attacked by the anti-spyware programs, the user loses. Offhand, I can think of several tricks to make my software invulnerable to things like Spybot and AdAware, but if I do that, it won't take long for the companies that write spyware to figure out what I did and do it too...and these tricks would also be a boon to virus writers.
The anti-spyware companies need to get their acts together before this thing turns into a war.
Lots of pop-ups for you lately?:) Or did you pay to buy some application that does the work that your browser *should* do... namely supress pop-ups you don't want to see.
Isn't it funny how whenever Microsoft builds something in, people complain about bundling or lack of modular design (and usually point out how the Unix way of having separate components for each part of a job is better), but when Microsoft does something the Unix way (e.g., the browser browses, and if you want pop-up blocking, get a pop-up blocker component), and the major Unix browsers do it the Microsoft way (incorporate the pop-up blocker into the browser), suddenly that is the right approach?
Regardless of the things he ignored... 7 minutes to 1.5 minutes is a huge difference
As one of the comments on the original site pointed out, that could be due to data layout, if he started with the maildir folder on one drive, and copied it to the other drive for testing. File arrangement on a disk can make a HUGE difference in a directory with a lot of files.
Because $ per MB, tape is way ahead still, is significantly smaller, and hold up to transportation and movement better
Tape isn't cheaper per MB than disk. Even if you ignore the drive cost and just compare tape media to a complete hard disk, tape is more expensive than IDE disks.
Trust me, computers for kids (Apple eMac) NEED one button mice standard.
The intelligent solution to this, as opposed to the Apple solution, would have been to ship two button mice, but configure the software to treat the buttons as the same.
Then, users who can handle two buttons go to Prefernces and change the setting.
For desktops, this is merely an annoyance, since it is easy for most of us to toss out the Apple mouse and get a real one, but for laptops, this is a major design botch on Apple's part.
I've been so happy with WindowMaker that I forgot about bloatware like KDE and Gnome
WindowMaker is a window manager. KDE and Gnome are desktop environments, which include a windows manager as one component. Thus, your statement is meaningless.
In general it is not possible to use drivers under any other OS than the one it was developed for
You greatly overstate the difficulty. NT/2k/XP drivers have a very clean interface, which isolates the driver from pretty much everything that has anything to do with Windows. The driver just has access to generic services that will map pretty much one-to-one to any modern OS. The translation layer would be simple and efficient.
The author of the review mentions that he likes the new look for the tabs on tabbed dialogs: they now look like buttons, and he says he likes that.
They do indeed look better than the old tabs. However, they no longer visually suggest that they ARE tabs. They just look like a line of buttons that were placed oddly.
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It's been a while since I studied Civil Procedure, but I believe that federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright matters, and so small-claims court could not hear such cases, since they are state courts.
There's a good LoTR parody lurking in there somewhere...
I take it you've never calculated how many people lived during that time and compared it to how many people lived since? Or even just to how many people are alive right now?
You can't protect against something that cannot happen. BSD code and PD code cannot be "captured", because making a proprietary product using BSD or PD code doesn't remove the rights everyone else has to the BSD or PD code.
You are free to go to the same place the proprietaty product got the BSD or PD code from and get it yourself.
Compare to a movie. With a movie, you have to spend a lot on good sets and effects, or the setting will distract from the story. On radio, all you need is a few simple sound effects, and a few words of narration, and the listener's imagination fills in the rest...and for each listener, the scene is perfect.
Most of the great SF stories, which are hard to do well as movies, would be great as radio plays.
Launching a counter-worm is obviously a bad idea, but I see nothing wrong with disabling the original worm on any system that tries to infect the honeypot.
I did some experiments along those lines, with Apache set up to redirect various common worm-generated requests to a CGI which tried to do a "dir" on the remote system using the same hole that it was using to try to get my system, and a large fraction of the time, that worked.
On some of these systems, I then created a "C:\YOU_ARE_INFECTED.TXT" file that told them they were infected. Don't know how well that worked.
I don't have the time nor inclination to get sufficiently into Windows hacking to go farther than that, so stopped.
Depends on what you mean by "good". For example, if you are looking for something to have a bunch of music at your office, then Archos is as good as iPod (and was out years before). Here is what Apple did with iPod that Archos didn't do:
1. They used a smaller form-factor hard drive, allowing for a smaller unit. This makes the iPod attractive for people who want to carry the unit around a lot.
2, iTunes. Personally, I hate pretty much all music management software, prefering to simply use the filesystem to manage my MP3 files, but a lot of people apparently really like that sort of thing.
3. Marketing. Apple is really good at this. Heck, most people think Apple invented hard disk MP3 players, rather than being one of the last entries into the field.
I plug it into a USB or Firewire port, and it shows up as a disk, with a filesystem that Linux can read and write.
I can copy music on to and off of the device by simply copying MP3 files (it is OK if other formats, such as those with DRM, are supported, as long as I can manage regular MP3 files with simple copying.
It uses the organization on the filesystem to determine the organization shown to the user. That is, if I want to play an album, I can simply navigate to the directory and tell it to play, and it plays all the songs in that directory (I'm willing to make sure my songs are named so that alphabetically they are in the right order).
If I can point it at playlists in a standard format, that is fine, if it is in addition supporting simple playing of all songs in a directory in order.
On my computer, I don't use any jukebox application. I simply have my MP3s organized in directories. I leave an XMMS directory browser open in my music directory, so with a double click or two, can add a whole album to my playlist. Since I've got everything organized for that, I don't need fancy jukebox or sync software...I just want to plug in, and use the usual Linux tools to make the directory on the player match my Linux music directory, and be done.
I can't tell if the Dell does this or not.
The Archos players work perfectly for this, but I'm running out of space on my 15 gig, and so am hoping Archos, or someone, will come out with a 30 gig or more that works this way, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
The second kind is good enough for almost everything.
Another solution is to make posting slow. Make it so posting requires doing some computation that takes a long time a fast PC...say 30 minutes. Can't do big spam runs at 30 minutes per post.
Another solution. Require registration. Upon registration, the server gives you a computation to do, that takes a couple hours. Registration is not complete until you do the computation and return the results. Once registered, you can post normally. Newly registered users can have posting limits, such as one comment day, until they are seen to be legitimate. Registration should also include protection against automation, such as image recognition test, so that you can be reasonably certain that a person registered.
Redhat GPL's their stuff. I can go to dozens of companies and buy cheap copies of Redhat, with only the name changed since Redhat does protect their name. Can't do that with SuSE.
On random intersections that can be controlled by these, rig up a camera to photograph the traffic in the direction that the triggering car is coming from whenever one is used. Nail anyone thus caught with a $1000 fine and maybe 3 months in jail.
Windows 95 was able to destroy certain early Athlon motherboards, by erasing the BIOS. This happened during the hardware detect, and so of course you didn't get very far when it got to the point where it was time to reboot!
Perhaps tax dollars would better be spent on remedial reading programs for all the people that don't seem to understand the significance of the word "alone" in the Senator's statement.
Yet the top two or three anti-spyware products remove our product, even though they have not been able to find anything actually wrong with it. Their beef seems to be that at one time, our free version was bundled was part of some of the P2P program bundles, which also included spyware. So, the anti-spyware companies seem to assume that since some things bundled with Kazaa and AudioGalaxy were spyware, all things in those bundles must be, and no further research is needed!
Worse, when the anti-spyware programs uninstall our software, they botch it, leaving the computer in a messy or broken state. That breaks enough that our uninstaller won't work, either, so the user can't even do that to get to a clean state. Worse, those users call our tech support to find out how to fix the software (after all, many of the PAID for our software, and aren't all that pleased that some anti-spyware program has disabled it).
I pity the user in this, because I'm sure someone is going to fight back, and in a war between the over-zealous anti-spyware companies and the companies whose programs are attacked by the anti-spyware programs, the user loses. Offhand, I can think of several tricks to make my software invulnerable to things like Spybot and AdAware, but if I do that, it won't take long for the companies that write spyware to figure out what I did and do it too...and these tricks would also be a boon to virus writers.
The anti-spyware companies need to get their acts together before this thing turns into a war.
Isn't it funny how whenever Microsoft builds something in, people complain about bundling or lack of modular design (and usually point out how the Unix way of having separate components for each part of a job is better), but when Microsoft does something the Unix way (e.g., the browser browses, and if you want pop-up blocking, get a pop-up blocker component), and the major Unix browsers do it the Microsoft way (incorporate the pop-up blocker into the browser), suddenly that is the right approach?
Does iTunes work under Wine?
Maybe you should get your clients to run servers that don't require a reboot for most application patches.
As one of the comments on the original site pointed out, that could be due to data layout, if he started with the maildir folder on one drive, and copied it to the other drive for testing. File arrangement on a disk can make a HUGE difference in a directory with a lot of files.
Tape isn't cheaper per MB than disk. Even if you ignore the drive cost and just compare tape media to a complete hard disk, tape is more expensive than IDE disks.
The intelligent solution to this, as opposed to the Apple solution, would have been to ship two button mice, but configure the software to treat the buttons as the same.
Then, users who can handle two buttons go to Prefernces and change the setting.
For desktops, this is merely an annoyance, since it is easy for most of us to toss out the Apple mouse and get a real one, but for laptops, this is a major design botch on Apple's part.
WindowMaker is a window manager. KDE and Gnome are desktop environments, which include a windows manager as one component. Thus, your statement is meaningless.
Please explain how GPL sucks ass, and how Microsoft will be able to steal KDE, which is GPLed.
You greatly overstate the difficulty. NT/2k/XP drivers have a very clean interface, which isolates the driver from pretty much everything that has anything to do with Windows. The driver just has access to generic services that will map pretty much one-to-one to any modern OS. The translation layer would be simple and efficient.
They do indeed look better than the old tabs. However, they no longer visually suggest that they ARE tabs. They just look like a line of buttons that were placed oddly.
I thought Apple knew better than this.