Well when you consider some crazy bastard shot up an Amish 1-room schoolhouse, anything is possible.
Though this is entirely the wrong way to go about teaching them what to do. I really do wish that the kids had a riot and beat the living #*$% out of the teachers and put them in ICU. Noone would have blamed them
Unfortunately, Microsoft cant win vs a government. They make the laws/rules that Microsoft has to play by. If enough countries make laws that cause it difficult for Microsoft to stay in business then you know what will happen...
Bill Gates will get Bush to start dropping bombs. Just kidding, they might try to get the US to make sanctions and crap against them in the UN but ultimately thats only as reliable as the countries that are willing to enforce it.
Quite frankly I'd like to see a few countries go the way of pre-emptively legislating software as unpatentable. Then there might be some havens from these 'software patent' bullshit that has been happening for the last 20 or so years.
Actually there is some primitive cybernetic implants for the eyes that as long as your brain possesses a visual cortex its like having a pretty low resolution camera that allows you to see vague shapes and some colors... Not exactly the type of vision you'd want to poke your eye out for but I seen it on one of those science news shows a year or two ago.
I did the very same thing to my grandparents computer. It was more of a 'community' computer in that everyone used it (Mom, Grandparents, Siblings, and all their friends). Needless to say after getting more than one call about our home network spamming DHCP requests from the ISP and having pinpointed the problem to their machine via MAC address. I did what any pissed off linux advocate would do... I backed up the pictures and homework and stuff and smacked that thing with the digital equivalent of a sledge hammer and formatted it and installed Kubuntu, in this case it was 6.10.
Since then I have not had a single problem related to that computer. While it was a bit of an adjustment to start they can now get their email, play some free software games (like Mahjong and Solitare). Of course, I am the only one with Root permissions on that box so that might explain it:) I always did hate Windows permissions set up in that its possible to get escalated to superuser permissions even if you arent one when installing software and crap like that.
If only Bush had choked to death on that pretzel, the US might not have how many dead? I stopped paying attention to the media after they said like 3000-4000.
WebOS it sounds like a cereal... HEY GUYS GET YOUR WEBOS! BTW Parent is not really flamebait. I hate how they keep randomly making buzzwords
All kidding aside... NO, Linux should not reconsider its distribution method. Software as a Service (SaaS) is not a very popular method with small and medium businesses as well since it tends to contribute into vendor lock-in.
SaaS is all about 'renting' your software. This is what Microsoft and other big companies are trying to do. Make you have a monthly bill for Vista (LOL like its worth anything!), Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc...
Technicaly Linux is SERVICE AS A SERVICE model. Basically you give them the OS and the software (usually they have their own hardware in the case of personal computing) and if your person needs a lot of help then they buy a subscription for you to service their computers if they break. This method is very popular in the business world, not so much in the personal computer world yet.
Of course the Linux model basically gives you all the software for free, which means that they are no longer obligated to support you as an individual (though they usually support the community with patches and updates to software for security and feature additions). If you want individual service then you pay for it but that is more of a business/enterprise level thing than something that an individual would be interested in.
Well if they are using MD5 SHA1 or SHA256 hashes for their 'digital fingerprinting' like they do for Computer Forensics dealing with files and/or entire drives.
All you would need to do to defeat their 'digital fingerprinting technology' would be to change a single bit in a file to something else then the odds of getting the same hash would be astronomical.
So yeah, I'm thinking its something along the lines of a publicity stunt by Myspace to look like they are actually doing something. Also they are required to obey the DMCA too which indicates that if someone issues a counter DMCA claim that they have to permit the content to be restored somehow and/or taken off of this 'blacklist'.
If it exceeds the life of the drive theres an easy way to just clone the drive or remove the platters and put them into another hard drive (yeah very sensitive operation likely requiring the conditions of a clean room).
Its hard to make something undefeatable and if you claim such it is only going to attract people as a challenge. Maybe that is what they want?
Of course if someone proves that it isnt 'impossible' then does that void the patent?
Yeah I would not recommend doing this with younger children around that is for sure.
I'm reading the article (yeah I know) and I have to say that management is probably most resistant to telecommuting because of the fact that if they cant physically see the employee is only taking 20-25 minutes to complete a task they expect may take an hour that they cant see the employee sitting around doing nothing and pile yet more work onto them.
I read somewhere that employees now are doing 2-3x as much work as employees had to do 10, 20, 30 years ago... Its not exactly fair since workload goes up that much but the wages do not reflect that. We could have much less unemployment if instead of hiring people in high stress situations that they actually hire 2 people to do the work of 2 people. They'd get things done faster and presumably with less errors than the 1 person trying to do the work of 2 people.
Basically, resistance to telecommuteing is a result of not being able to unilaterally pile more work upon their employee which they could do if they were physically present in the office.
Actually theres a study out that equates driving while on the cell phone being 400% more likely to get into an accident.
Forbes Article 400% more likely claim supported by Berkely Lab
Of course there is the psudeo-science of the Mythbusters as well where they placed a sober driver on the cell phone and a 'drunk' but under the legal limit of 0.8% blood alcohol level and put them both on a closed course and had them navigate it. They did it both sober with no distractions as a control as well I believe. Turns out they both did equally bad. I am not saying it is a perfect experiment (such would require more than 2 test cases) but it does illustrate that distraction or inebriation = bad for driving ability regardless of the exact percentages involved.
and another article from The Straight Dope
If you want to exercise your first amendment rights pull off to the side of the road and do it.
It has been proven that talking on the cell phone while driving is almost as bad as driving drunk. I can only imagine how much worse 'texting while driving' is.
Remember that you have your rights only up until you become a danger or menace to society. And since society as a whole is not apparently capable of something called 'common sense' we have to legislate common sense unfortunately for the people who are 'common sense deficient' to put it in policially correct terms as not to offend people by calling them what they really are *cough*STUPID*cough*
I think the idea of RH0 is the fact that you can specify an exceptionally long route rather than using the shortest possible route to your path.
Imagine a network of 9 computers in a mesh topology. Now imagine instead of taking at most 4 hops to get to your destination you can specify it to go through every single computer on the network for a maximum of 9-10 hops. Because all of this traffic passes through each computer in the network you have amplified the power of your DoS attack by a factor of 2-3x because you are increasing the network congestion as well as potential collisions and everything else.
Now imagine the internet. I can believe it would amplify the power of DoS attacks by 80x or more if this were permitted. The fact remains is that a good network administrator will let the routers know the best routes. Why specify the route with RH0 when the routers are already built to know the best possible route (through protocols like OSPF and BGP you can even have the routers let each other know about potential problems in the network).
Yeah I mean you wouldnt want them actually having to READ what they vote on now would you? Then they wouldnt be able to sneak obfuscated legal points into their legislations and tack them onto the end of things like the ability to fire/appoint attorney general's without congressional oversight and junk like that.
You know on second thought... this could be treated as an attack on the Open Source movement.
If suddenly anything you distribute needs to be protected by DRM then licensing schemes like the GPL and even Creative Commons License become null and void because DRM exists to restrict the free flow of information.
So technically NO, you do not want them to win this lawsuit despite what other people have been saying in other comments.
So Apple by NOT using any DRM, is circumventing the DMCA?
Let me be the first to call BULLSHIT on that. DMCA only applies AFTER you've applied DRM to the material involved. I hope the judge tells this little company to GTFO of his courtroom and laugh them out of court because in all honesty this lawsuit is bullshit.
Remember it is the right of the company to choose NOT to protect the copyright with DRM. Apple is taking a step in the right direction with their iTunes store with the DRM-free songs people can buy even if is its $1.30 (which may be more than the market is willing to bear).
Also if we call it TURD what would the acronym be? The Unilateral Restriction Doctrine? Seems like these companies are getting all the rights to restrict you from doing what you want by default the moment you blow money on their stuff.
I have no problem with anything two consenting adults (or their SL avatars) do with each other. That is covered by the whole 'government should stay out of our bedrooms' thing.
The entirety of the problem lies in the fact that RL child pornography was being displayed and/or sold to other people via Second Life. When this occurs it is a crime. The fact it is happening in SL doesnt mean it is any different from someone selling them on a web page.
Honestly? I'm not suprised it is happening in SL. Considering it is a place where you go to fulfill your fantasies in a virtual life (IE. house, car, good looking outfits, seems some sickos added kiddie porn to that list).
Hey I turn off the water when shaving/brushing teeth but cold showers are where I draw the line. Ofcourse it seems like there are some people who are overly concerned about water conservation, you can smell them a mile away.
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Well when you consider some crazy bastard shot up an Amish 1-room schoolhouse, anything is possible.
Though this is entirely the wrong way to go about teaching them what to do. I really do wish that the kids had a riot and beat the living #*$% out of the teachers and put them in ICU. Noone would have blamed them
Unfortunately, Microsoft cant win vs a government. They make the laws/rules that Microsoft has to play by. If enough countries make laws that cause it difficult for Microsoft to stay in business then you know what will happen...
Bill Gates will get Bush to start dropping bombs. Just kidding, they might try to get the US to make sanctions and crap against them in the UN but ultimately thats only as reliable as the countries that are willing to enforce it.
Quite frankly I'd like to see a few countries go the way of pre-emptively legislating software as unpatentable. Then there might be some havens from these 'software patent' bullshit that has been happening for the last 20 or so years.
Because it'd be too easy, Look at how well that went for the MAFIAA.
Actually there is some primitive cybernetic implants for the eyes that as long as your brain possesses a visual cortex its like having a pretty low resolution camera that allows you to see vague shapes and some colors... Not exactly the type of vision you'd want to poke your eye out for but I seen it on one of those science news shows a year or two ago.
I did the very same thing to my grandparents computer. It was more of a 'community' computer in that everyone used it (Mom, Grandparents, Siblings, and all their friends). Needless to say after getting more than one call about our home network spamming DHCP requests from the ISP and having pinpointed the problem to their machine via MAC address. I did what any pissed off linux advocate would do... I backed up the pictures and homework and stuff and smacked that thing with the digital equivalent of a sledge hammer and formatted it and installed Kubuntu, in this case it was 6.10.
:) I always did hate Windows permissions set up in that its possible to get escalated to superuser permissions even if you arent one when installing software and crap like that.
Since then I have not had a single problem related to that computer. While it was a bit of an adjustment to start they can now get their email, play some free software games (like Mahjong and Solitare). Of course, I am the only one with Root permissions on that box so that might explain it
If only Bush had choked to death on that pretzel, the US might not have how many dead? I stopped paying attention to the media after they said like 3000-4000.
WebOS it sounds like a cereal... HEY GUYS GET YOUR WEBOS! BTW Parent is not really flamebait. I hate how they keep randomly making buzzwords
All kidding aside... NO, Linux should not reconsider its distribution method. Software as a Service (SaaS) is not a very popular method with small and medium businesses as well since it tends to contribute into vendor lock-in.
SaaS is all about 'renting' your software. This is what Microsoft and other big companies are trying to do. Make you have a monthly bill for Vista (LOL like its worth anything!), Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc...
Technicaly Linux is SERVICE AS A SERVICE model. Basically you give them the OS and the software (usually they have their own hardware in the case of personal computing) and if your person needs a lot of help then they buy a subscription for you to service their computers if they break. This method is very popular in the business world, not so much in the personal computer world yet.
Of course the Linux model basically gives you all the software for free, which means that they are no longer obligated to support you as an individual (though they usually support the community with patches and updates to software for security and feature additions). If you want individual service then you pay for it but that is more of a business/enterprise level thing than something that an individual would be interested in.
Well if they are using MD5 SHA1 or SHA256 hashes for their 'digital fingerprinting' like they do for Computer Forensics dealing with files and/or entire drives.
All you would need to do to defeat their 'digital fingerprinting technology' would be to change a single bit in a file to something else then the odds of getting the same hash would be astronomical.
So yeah, I'm thinking its something along the lines of a publicity stunt by Myspace to look like they are actually doing something. Also they are required to obey the DMCA too which indicates that if someone issues a counter DMCA claim that they have to permit the content to be restored somehow and/or taken off of this 'blacklist'.
If it exceeds the life of the drive theres an easy way to just clone the drive or remove the platters and put them into another hard drive (yeah very sensitive operation likely requiring the conditions of a clean room).
Its hard to make something undefeatable and if you claim such it is only going to attract people as a challenge. Maybe that is what they want?
Of course if someone proves that it isnt 'impossible' then does that void the patent?
Yeah I would not recommend doing this with younger children around that is for sure.
I'm reading the article (yeah I know) and I have to say that management is probably most resistant to telecommuting because of the fact that if they cant physically see the employee is only taking 20-25 minutes to complete a task they expect may take an hour that they cant see the employee sitting around doing nothing and pile yet more work onto them.
I read somewhere that employees now are doing 2-3x as much work as employees had to do 10, 20, 30 years ago... Its not exactly fair since workload goes up that much but the wages do not reflect that. We could have much less unemployment if instead of hiring people in high stress situations that they actually hire 2 people to do the work of 2 people. They'd get things done faster and presumably with less errors than the 1 person trying to do the work of 2 people.
Basically, resistance to telecommuteing is a result of not being able to unilaterally pile more work upon their employee which they could do if they were physically present in the office.
Actually theres a study out that equates driving while on the cell phone being 400% more likely to get into an accident.
Forbes Article
400% more likely claim supported by Berkely Lab Of course there is the psudeo-science of the Mythbusters as well where they placed a sober driver on the cell phone and a 'drunk' but under the legal limit of 0.8% blood alcohol level and put them both on a closed course and had them navigate it. They did it both sober with no distractions as a control as well I believe. Turns out they both did equally bad. I am not saying it is a perfect experiment (such would require more than 2 test cases) but it does illustrate that distraction or inebriation = bad for driving ability regardless of the exact percentages involved. and another article from The Straight Dope
If you want to exercise your first amendment rights pull off to the side of the road and do it.
It has been proven that talking on the cell phone while driving is almost as bad as driving drunk. I can only imagine how much worse 'texting while driving' is.
Remember that you have your rights only up until you become a danger or menace to society. And since society as a whole is not apparently capable of something called 'common sense' we have to legislate common sense unfortunately for the people who are 'common sense deficient' to put it in policially correct terms as not to offend people by calling them what they really are *cough*STUPID*cough*
I think the idea of RH0 is the fact that you can specify an exceptionally long route rather than using the shortest possible route to your path.
Imagine a network of 9 computers in a mesh topology. Now imagine instead of taking at most 4 hops to get to your destination you can specify it to go through every single computer on the network for a maximum of 9-10 hops. Because all of this traffic passes through each computer in the network you have amplified the power of your DoS attack by a factor of 2-3x because you are increasing the network congestion as well as potential collisions and everything else.
Now imagine the internet. I can believe it would amplify the power of DoS attacks by 80x or more if this were permitted. The fact remains is that a good network administrator will let the routers know the best routes. Why specify the route with RH0 when the routers are already built to know the best possible route (through protocols like OSPF and BGP you can even have the routers let each other know about potential problems in the network).
Obviously they're hoping to find hot green alien chicks to have sex with to help cure their virginity
Both...
But we all know the only thing that can shrink Windows that much would be a black hole.
Yeah I mean you wouldnt want them actually having to READ what they vote on now would you? Then they wouldnt be able to sneak obfuscated legal points into their legislations and tack them onto the end of things like the ability to fire/appoint attorney general's without congressional oversight and junk like that.
You know on second thought... this could be treated as an attack on the Open Source movement.
If suddenly anything you distribute needs to be protected by DRM then licensing schemes like the GPL and even Creative Commons License become null and void because DRM exists to restrict the free flow of information.
So technically NO, you do not want them to win this lawsuit despite what other people have been saying in other comments.
1) Create blurry text screenshot
2) Create clear screenshot with indenting and compare the two
3) ???
4) Profit!
Looks like they know what they're doing.
So Apple by NOT using any DRM, is circumventing the DMCA?
Let me be the first to call BULLSHIT on that. DMCA only applies AFTER you've applied DRM to the material involved. I hope the judge tells this little company to GTFO of his courtroom and laugh them out of court because in all honesty this lawsuit is bullshit.
Remember it is the right of the company to choose NOT to protect the copyright with DRM. Apple is taking a step in the right direction with their iTunes store with the DRM-free songs people can buy even if is its $1.30 (which may be more than the market is willing to bear).
According to the article the biggest trick ever is silencing skeptics.
Of course anyone can do that if they can buy themselves an elite ninja death squad.
Mod Parent Up, Best DRM acronym to date.
Also if we call it TURD what would the acronym be? The Unilateral Restriction Doctrine? Seems like these companies are getting all the rights to restrict you from doing what you want by default the moment you blow money on their stuff.
I have no problem with anything two consenting adults (or their SL avatars) do with each other. That is covered by the whole 'government should stay out of our bedrooms' thing.
The entirety of the problem lies in the fact that RL child pornography was being displayed and/or sold to other people via Second Life. When this occurs it is a crime. The fact it is happening in SL doesnt mean it is any different from someone selling them on a web page.
Honestly? I'm not suprised it is happening in SL. Considering it is a place where you go to fulfill your fantasies in a virtual life (IE. house, car, good looking outfits, seems some sickos added kiddie porn to that list).
Hey I turn off the water when shaving/brushing teeth but cold showers are where I draw the line. Ofcourse it seems like there are some people who are overly concerned about water conservation, you can smell them a mile away.
You could always cover you property in a giant tarp. That way they cant see whats going on underneath it...
Ofcourse that only works if you have a relatively small property.
Why would people have to make government officials look like idiots? They do a perfectly fine job of it on their own.