No, it's possible to tell when somebody thinks they're lying.
Eg, reality: I like cheese.
Person A knows I like cheese and says I don't: They lie, detector detects a lie, detector is correct. Person B thinks I don't like cheese, and says I do: They lie, detector detects a lie, but what was said is actually correct.
So what's the use for the detector? Even with a 100% reliability, it still only tells you whether what a person speaks is the same as what they know. But it doesn't actually help you determine the truth. There actually are people who think the Earth is flat, and however truthfully they express their opinion still doesn't make it so.
In Spain it wouldn't have helped, as IIRC, the train wasn't underground at the time, so getting reception there was quite possible.
As far as terrorism goes, this argument is bullshit. There are many train lines in Spain that aren't underground, and covering them would cost insane amounts of money. The other alternative would be shielding the train, but the doors have to open eventually.
The modem's encoding a byte with 10 bits would be at layer 1. Over that, you'd have Ethernet, with its own overhead (the 14+4 bytes you mentioned), PPP, etc, at layer 2. Over that, you have IP, with a 20 byte header, layer 3 And over that, you have TCP, with a 32 byte header, layer 4.
Not to mention that those 1500 byte packets are only 1500 bytes when transferring large amounts of data. Something with small packets like SSH gets more overhead.
While I'm not American, and my knowledge of such matters is limited, don't you swear to uphold the constitution or something along those lines in the US army?
If so, then why are you jumping so quickly on a chance to agree "Well, see, China is worse. Therefore it's all right here", and get back to sitting on your ass and doing nothing? It's not people "hating" their country that is the problem. It's that the country changed in such a way that it lost a great amount of the freedoms it had and caused those people to "hate" it that's the problem. And I would think that what you swore ought to motivate you do something about that.
That would make some sense if DRM actually worked, but it doesn't. Any DRM can be bypassed or stripped, then the result conveniently distributed by BitTorrent.
The only people for who DRM makes things harder is legitimate buyers. The pirates have it much, much better. No messing with payments, no worrying about expiration dates or it being bound to the computer, no problems with requiring a specific player. Pirates download from BT, and play it where they want, when they want, on any device or OS they want.
Corporations, take note:
Here's what I won't pay for: Anything that includes DRM. If it has restrictions, needs a specific player, can only be played on Windows, etc, I don't buy it.
Here's what I will pay for: Content in a widely playable format (DivX say), with no restrictions, delivered quickly and without hassle from servers with lots of bandwidth. Pirates have only two problems: Too many leeches and too few people seeding. Make sure I can always download what I want without having to wait and at a decent speed, and that will be worth paying for.
Second Life validates users' identities, right? In that case you wouldn't need signatures. I envision a decentralized system, though, and that's going to need cryptography.
Yep. Also when user-owned scripts contact my HTTP server, the SL server adds headers with the name and user ID of the script's owner. That definitely helps a lot making it friendlier. I was thinking that you were thinking of something implemented on one website, in which case you can also avoid the crypto.
Does a "web of trust" ever have a fixed root?:)
It doesn't, but it can have it. For example, SSL certificates have a root, the web browser. From there you have CAs, which sign each site's certificates.
Having a root would be an advantage in some ways. For example, since I don't have one, your score is different depending on who is looking at you, so I can't just precalculate your score and show a cached result to everybody. On the other hand, results would be a lot less precise.
The cable itself in normal operation wouldn't be going anywhere. It'd be stationary. What would be moving is the elevator attached to it. I imagine it'd be something like a cable car, but in vertical.
The problem with PGP is that it's too complicated to understand for normal people. Now, I love it, but even the Windows GUI versions of it are hard to explain, because the concepts of webs of trust, fingerprints, signatures, and security are alien to most people.
I implemented something web of trust-like in Second Life, but without signatures, and without a root. Instead the server has a big table of user1/user1/rating rows. You are the root, to find a score the server builds your tree and adds up all the paths leading to an interesting person, if any.
This works well, but it's very resource intensive.
My solution to that was to make it a graph. Scores are calculated depending on who you are and who you're looking at. So Alice likes Bob, who likes Carol, who likes Dave. Alice builds a tree, and adds up all the paths leaving to the same person.
This works well for me, the only problem is that it's very resource intensive. Cost increases exponentially with depth.
On the other hand, it's very resistant to attempts to disrupt it. Simply getting extra accounts doesn't work, as those need to be trusted by somebody for their opinion to be taken into account, and each successive level counts less to the final score than the previous one.
It also allows completely different perceptions of the same person from different points of view. For example, in your case people concerned about writing skills would tend to rate you based on that, and they'd rate each other on the same criteria as well. So on a programming forum your reputation would mostly depend on your programming ability, and on a political one it'd depend mostly on your argumentative skills and affiliation.
All Apple users benefited from their use of BSD code. By utilizing existing code, the apple development team was able to focus on other issues - such as the user interface. Similarly everyone has benefited from Microsoft's use of the BSD stack - did you really want them writing their own stack anyways? Using a known-good stack gives them more time to work out other bugs in their system.
They benefit exactly as much as they would have had if Apple had licensed their kernel from say, Sun or QNX.
What's the difference between those scenarios and BSD? That Apple didn't have to pay for it. So IMO, Apple is the only one that got anything out of it. BSD didn't get anything, and the users got what they would already have had anyway.
I just spoke with an artist who doesn't have a home not five hours ago. I bought a copy of her CD. She almost begged me to copy it and send it as far and wide as I could.
You know, this is something that gets on my nerves sometimes. Somebody will say something about some company, product, or person, but will never say the name, even if there wouldn't be a problem with it. Say, why exactly aren't you using your opportunity here and plugging a link to the torrent, or the artist's blog if she has one? This would also lend greater credibility to your post.
You probably have a big audience here, and I could use more music. So where can I get it?
Huh? No, nobody benefits much from proprietary forks except the companies making them.
Who has benefited from the BSD code usage in OS X? Well, Apple and... pretty much nobody else. I haven't benefited from Microsoft's use of the BSD licensed TCP stack, only Microsoft has.
Now compare one GPLd project I'm familiar with: Second Life.
I and other developers benefited from the released source because now I can add my improvements and fix bugs, which can find their way to their official client.
Linden Labs has benefited because people worked on and improved parts that were less critical to LL at the time, so they wouldn't have had them for a long time. There was a LL developer on the mailing list (forget who), who said something along the lines of "I was going to do work on that, but turns out somebody already done it!". The result for LL is that the client gets developed faster than it would be otherwise. It also improves things a lot in the more boring and obscure parts of the codebase. A LL developer probably won't see much interest in overhauling the chat log system, but a contributor who isn't skilled enough to work on the renderer might.
The general userbase also benefited: Bugs are getting fixed faster. Knowledgeable users now can give informed replies to technical questions. Inside SL, there seems to be an emerging industry where companies pay developers to make modifications to the viewer. Developers can code new features requested by users who can't. For instance, I've coded a few hacks (not very elegant still, but they do the job) that work around some limitations in SL.
Now THAT is a vibrant community. The usage of BSD code by MS and Apple isn't, it's simply freeloading. Obviously people writing BSD licensed code are in their own right to allow it, but it doesn't really benefit anybody but those who are taking it.
Without their unique insight into subjects like "Kirk romances a full sized Gadget from Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" or "What would happen if the crew of the NX-01 were anthropomorphic animals and there's maybe a crossover with the X-Men why not?", we would have no way of knowing what we did and didn't like about the various trek series, and, by extension, an online repository of stories.
I've never heard of anything of the sort, but that sounds amusing. Got a link to any of that?
No, it would be a wonderful thing, although I don't think it'll fly.
On Windows one of the most annoying things that that things install themselves -- which gives them full control over what goes where, up to modifying obscure registry settings and overwriting files. That means you can never be sure you can uninstall something.
Package managers solve that: When I install say, kword it doesn't install itself. The package manager knows exactly what went where and can remove it. KWord itself runs as a normal user account and doesn't have the privileges required to make itself not removable.
But for working well this sort of thing needs everything to be packaged, and I doubt that'll ever happen except in a very few controlled environments.
That packages provide functionality. This is already done in the form of virtual packages like web-browser, but I'd like to go further.
For example, the current system is that OO Writer and KWord are in the "word processor" category. But what if I want something that can open AmiPro documents? What options do I have there? That's generally not included anywhere in the package's description.
I found this weird.pcx file, and have no clue what is it, what can I open it with?
Or, what music player has the ability of playing.s3m files?
What mail clients can I choose from if I'd like both NNTP and IMAP support?
What programs are available that do some function that is related to an HP nx5000 laptop? (this would match programs controlling LCD brightness, support for the onboard bluetooth, etc)
A nice thing would having these capabilities roughly grouped as "can access" (can play.s3m files) and "fully implements" (can create.s3m files).
In these situations, if the BSD license of PostgreSQL is still too "open," a commercial license is preferred.
This is plain bizarre. How can a closed license be preferrable to BSD, when BSD is basically "do whatever you want with it", including closing the source?
What would be needed is to have a central system to control this.
If you just tell everybody that route A is empty, and route B is clogged then sure, everybody will head for route A and the situation will reverse in a few minutes.
It's not hard to do it more intelligently: If route A is at 30% capacity and route B is at 70%, make it recommend route A for example 65% of the time. Some people will be sent to the suboptimal route, but this will result in a more gradual change, and will allow slowly creating a balance.
Not sure which model, it doesn't even say on the case. I think it's somewhere under the battery.
Stupid feature #1: Lock sequence is middle button under the screen, *. The chance of it unlocking randomly in my pocket turns out to be pretty high, possibly due to the shape and positioning of the buttons, as well as the very light pressure required to trigger them.
Stupid feature #2: Under the screen there are two buttons. Left is configurable and usually displays the latest message, right is FIXED on WAP.
Stupid features #1 and #2 combined result in that sometimes the phone gets unlocked in my pocket, then with 75% probability, connects to WAP.
Stupid feature #3: Even though I don't use it, and don't plan to, not only the WAP button can't be changed to something else, WAP can't be easily disabled either. I finally managed to break it by specifying incorrect settings so that it won't connect.
I swear it must be intentional to get some extra cash from accidental connections. The only time I tried WAP 5 euro vanished in a few minutes, and all I managed to get before I ran out of cash was a crappy background picture.
My guess is that the $50K would be because running a TLD takes resources, and since.bank would be a very exclusive one, the cash to run it would have to come out of somewhere. If it cost $10 a year then the cash for funding it would have to come from somewhere else, but the $50K are probably enough to cover the infrastructure and personnel.
The right one is: Does AV software save more than it costs? Eg, if reimaging a box costs $100, and you've got to fix 50 of them because it spread all around the company and DoSed the network, then paying $60 per year per box(and you should get a MUCH better price than that if you're licensing for 50) is definitely worth it. Sometimes it's something annoying and mostly harmless, but some viruses have really nasty effects. Take Slammer for instance.
Ever heard of mlock? You don't need to make the whole application non-swappable, just the page that contains the password. And the call is trivial to use.
I don't really care about all the junk they produce. I don't watch TV, don't watch movies (even pirated), and haven't bought a music CD in my life nor I plan to (it's Magnatune for me).
However the one thing I can't stand is all these morons wanting to add some crap to my computer to attempt to maintain their disappearing business model. If the lack of it makes them go bankrupt, I won't miss them. If youtube is all that remains, I'll gladly take that "loss".
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No, it's possible to tell when somebody thinks they're lying.
Eg, reality: I like cheese.
Person A knows I like cheese and says I don't: They lie, detector detects a lie, detector is correct.
Person B thinks I don't like cheese, and says I do: They lie, detector detects a lie, but what was said is actually correct.
So what's the use for the detector? Even with a 100% reliability, it still only tells you whether what a person speaks is the same as what they know. But it doesn't actually help you determine the truth. There actually are people who think the Earth is flat, and however truthfully they express their opinion still doesn't make it so.
In Spain it wouldn't have helped, as IIRC, the train wasn't underground at the time, so getting reception there was quite possible.
As far as terrorism goes, this argument is bullshit. There are many train lines in Spain that aren't underground, and covering them would cost insane amounts of money. The other alternative would be shielding the train, but the doors have to open eventually.
You're mixing up your layers there.
The modem's encoding a byte with 10 bits would be at layer 1.
Over that, you'd have Ethernet, with its own overhead (the 14+4 bytes you mentioned), PPP, etc, at layer 2.
Over that, you have IP, with a 20 byte header, layer 3
And over that, you have TCP, with a 32 byte header, layer 4.
Not to mention that those 1500 byte packets are only 1500 bytes when transferring large amounts of data. Something with small packets like SSH gets more overhead.
While I'm not American, and my knowledge of such matters is limited, don't you swear to uphold the constitution or something along those lines in the US army?
If so, then why are you jumping so quickly on a chance to agree "Well, see, China is worse. Therefore it's all right here", and get back to sitting on your ass and doing nothing? It's not people "hating" their country that is the problem. It's that the country changed in such a way that it lost a great amount of the freedoms it had and caused those people to "hate" it that's the problem. And I would think that what you swore ought to motivate you do something about that.
Bullshit.
That would make some sense if DRM actually worked, but it doesn't. Any DRM can be bypassed or stripped, then the result conveniently distributed by BitTorrent.
The only people for who DRM makes things harder is legitimate buyers. The pirates have it much, much better. No messing with payments, no worrying about expiration dates or it being bound to the computer, no problems with requiring a specific player. Pirates download from BT, and play it where they want, when they want, on any device or OS they want.
Corporations, take note:
Here's what I won't pay for: Anything that includes DRM. If it has restrictions, needs a specific player, can only be played on Windows, etc, I don't buy it.
Here's what I will pay for: Content in a widely playable format (DivX say), with no restrictions, delivered quickly and without hassle from servers with lots of bandwidth. Pirates have only two problems: Too many leeches and too few people seeding. Make sure I can always download what I want without having to wait and at a decent speed, and that will be worth paying for.
It looks a bit bare. Now with some extra armor, ER PPC and pulse lasers it would be really neat.
Yep. Also when user-owned scripts contact my HTTP server, the SL server adds headers with the name and user ID of the script's owner. That definitely helps a lot making it friendlier. I was thinking that you were thinking of something implemented on one website, in which case you can also avoid the crypto.
It doesn't, but it can have it. For example, SSL certificates have a root, the web browser. From there you have CAs, which sign each site's certificates.
Having a root would be an advantage in some ways. For example, since I don't have one, your score is different depending on who is looking at you, so I can't just precalculate your score and show a cached result to everybody. On the other hand, results would be a lot less precise.
The cable itself in normal operation wouldn't be going anywhere. It'd be stationary. What would be moving is the elevator attached to it. I imagine it'd be something like a cable car, but in vertical.
The problem with PGP is that it's too complicated to understand for normal people. Now, I love it, but even the Windows GUI versions of it are hard to explain, because the concepts of webs of trust, fingerprints, signatures, and security are alien to most people.
I implemented something web of trust-like in Second Life, but without signatures, and without a root. Instead the server has a big table of user1/user1/rating rows. You are the root, to find a score the server builds your tree and adds up all the paths leading to an interesting person, if any.
This works well, but it's very resource intensive.
Well, that actually pretty good :-)
I run a reputation system on Second Life.
My solution to that was to make it a graph. Scores are calculated depending on who you are and who you're looking at. So Alice likes Bob, who likes Carol, who likes Dave. Alice builds a tree, and adds up all the paths leaving to the same person.
This works well for me, the only problem is that it's very resource intensive. Cost increases exponentially with depth.
On the other hand, it's very resistant to attempts to disrupt it. Simply getting extra accounts doesn't work, as those need to be trusted by somebody for their opinion to be taken into account, and each successive level counts less to the final score than the previous one.
It also allows completely different perceptions of the same person from different points of view. For example, in your case people concerned about writing skills would tend to rate you based on that, and they'd rate each other on the same criteria as well. So on a programming forum your reputation would mostly depend on your programming ability, and on a political one it'd depend mostly on your argumentative skills and affiliation.
They benefit exactly as much as they would have had if Apple had licensed their kernel from say, Sun or QNX.
What's the difference between those scenarios and BSD? That Apple didn't have to pay for it. So IMO, Apple is the only one that got anything out of it. BSD didn't get anything, and the users got what they would already have had anyway.
You know, this is something that gets on my nerves sometimes. Somebody will say something about some company, product, or person, but will never say the name, even if there wouldn't be a problem with it. Say, why exactly aren't you using your opportunity here and plugging a link to the torrent, or the artist's blog if she has one? This would also lend greater credibility to your post.
You probably have a big audience here, and I could use more music. So where can I get it?
Huh? No, nobody benefits much from proprietary forks except the companies making them.
Who has benefited from the BSD code usage in OS X? Well, Apple and... pretty much nobody else. I haven't benefited from Microsoft's use of the BSD licensed TCP stack, only Microsoft has.
Now compare one GPLd project I'm familiar with: Second Life.
I and other developers benefited from the released source because now I can add my improvements and fix bugs, which can find their way to their official client.
Linden Labs has benefited because people worked on and improved parts that were less critical to LL at the time, so they wouldn't have had them for a long time. There was a LL developer on the mailing list (forget who), who said something along the lines of "I was going to do work on that, but turns out somebody already done it!". The result for LL is that the client gets developed faster than it would be otherwise. It also improves things a lot in the more boring and obscure parts of the codebase. A LL developer probably won't see much interest in overhauling the chat log system, but a contributor who isn't skilled enough to work on the renderer might.
The general userbase also benefited: Bugs are getting fixed faster. Knowledgeable users now can give informed replies to technical questions. Inside SL, there seems to be an emerging industry where companies pay developers to make modifications to the viewer. Developers can code new features requested by users who can't. For instance, I've coded a few hacks (not very elegant still, but they do the job) that work around some limitations in SL.
Now THAT is a vibrant community. The usage of BSD code by MS and Apple isn't, it's simply freeloading. Obviously people writing BSD licensed code are in their own right to allow it, but it doesn't really benefit anybody but those who are taking it.
I've never heard of anything of the sort, but that sounds amusing. Got a link to any of that?
No, it would be a wonderful thing, although I don't think it'll fly.
On Windows one of the most annoying things that that things install themselves -- which gives them full control over what goes where, up to modifying obscure registry settings and overwriting files. That means you can never be sure you can uninstall something.
Package managers solve that: When I install say, kword it doesn't install itself. The package manager knows exactly what went where and can remove it. KWord itself runs as a normal user account and doesn't have the privileges required to make itself not removable.
But for working well this sort of thing needs everything to be packaged, and I doubt that'll ever happen except in a very few controlled environments.
That packages provide functionality. This is already done in the form of virtual packages like web-browser, but I'd like to go further.
.pcx file, and have no clue what is it, what can I open it with?
.s3m files?
.s3m files) and "fully implements" (can create .s3m files).
For example, the current system is that OO Writer and KWord are in the "word processor" category. But what if I want something that can open AmiPro documents? What options do I have there? That's generally not included anywhere in the package's description.
I found this weird
Or, what music player has the ability of playing
What mail clients can I choose from if I'd like both NNTP and IMAP support?
What programs are available that do some function that is related to an HP nx5000 laptop? (this would match programs controlling LCD brightness, support for the onboard bluetooth, etc)
A nice thing would having these capabilities roughly grouped as "can access" (can play
What would be needed is to have a central system to control this.
If you just tell everybody that route A is empty, and route B is clogged then sure, everybody will head for route A and the situation will reverse in a few minutes.
It's not hard to do it more intelligently: If route A is at 30% capacity and route B is at 70%, make it recommend route A for example 65% of the time. Some people will be sent to the suboptimal route, but this will result in a more gradual change, and will allow slowly creating a balance.
Not sure which model, it doesn't even say on the case. I think it's somewhere under the battery.
Stupid feature #1: Lock sequence is middle button under the screen, *. The chance of it unlocking randomly in my pocket turns out to be pretty high, possibly due to the shape and positioning of the buttons, as well as the very light pressure required to trigger them.
Stupid feature #2: Under the screen there are two buttons. Left is configurable and usually displays the latest message, right is FIXED on WAP.
Stupid features #1 and #2 combined result in that sometimes the phone gets unlocked in my pocket, then with 75% probability, connects to WAP.
Stupid feature #3: Even though I don't use it, and don't plan to, not only the WAP button can't be changed to something else, WAP can't be easily disabled either. I finally managed to break it by specifying incorrect settings so that it won't connect.
I swear it must be intentional to get some extra cash from accidental connections. The only time I tried WAP 5 euro vanished in a few minutes, and all I managed to get before I ran out of cash was a crappy background picture.
My guess is that the $50K would be because running a TLD takes resources, and since .bank would be a very exclusive one, the cash to run it would have to come out of somewhere. If it cost $10 a year then the cash for funding it would have to come from somewhere else, but the $50K are probably enough to cover the infrastructure and personnel.
That's the wrong metric though.
The right one is: Does AV software save more than it costs? Eg, if reimaging a box costs $100, and you've got to fix 50 of them because it spread all around the company and DoSed the network, then paying $60 per year per box(and you should get a MUCH better price than that if you're licensing for 50) is definitely worth it. Sometimes it's something annoying and mostly harmless, but some viruses have really nasty effects. Take Slammer for instance.
Bad example.
Ever heard of mlock? You don't need to make the whole application non-swappable, just the page that contains the password. And the call is trivial to use.
I looked at the patch, and placing #if 0 / #endif around the code isn't particularly impressive.
Sure, good job on getting it out of the way, but it's not like they came up with an actual fix, they simply disabled it.
I don't really care about all the junk they produce. I don't watch TV, don't watch movies (even pirated), and haven't bought a music CD in my life nor I plan to (it's Magnatune for me).
However the one thing I can't stand is all these morons wanting to add some crap to my computer to attempt to maintain their disappearing business model. If the lack of it makes them go bankrupt, I won't miss them. If youtube is all that remains, I'll gladly take that "loss".