Now the same provisions will be in effect across many countries (emphasis mine)
More like restrictions. I wouldn't really consider something that deprives us of our rights to free speech a 'provision'. I wish I could find a harsher word than 'restriction', but I guess restriction will have to do.
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So what do most cars actually run on, anyway?
Embedded RTOSs I'm guessing. Mostly custom made.
Anyways, I'd hate to have linux running on my system, imagine if steerd segfaulted, or my car got h4x0rd by an 31337 5kR1p7 K1dd13.
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Cool idea. I've often thought of something similar for a car, but I've since thought that a Heads Up Display would be better suited for the purpose of displaying video on the windshield. Everything you mentioned could easily be done with a heads up display, and I think it would also end up looking cooler and being safer.
(Actually my idea I had was about 7 years ago, while I was a major trekkie, was for a car that looked like and worked like a ST:TNG shuttlecraft. I had blueprints and everything, but somewhere along the lines I grew up:) ).
I doubt it'll allow telnetting, since you'll need a special client to view all the 3d graphics and interaction with the characters. Based on your statement, I'm doubting you read the link and saw what Trade Wars: Dark Millenium really was.
Star Wars Galaxies will be cool, but I'm personally waiting for the MMORPG of Tradewars. It's supposed to be out in 2002 sometime, and there will be a Linux version (Shortly after they release the Windows version of course).
of these peoples 'Special Strategies'. Half of them are either 'not lose' or 'win'. Wow, thanks for the insight buddy, but what do you expect when most of them are barely out of high school. Most of the bios I looked at are born after 1980, but still something slightly more witty would be more entertaining like maybe for starcraft: 'Eat Zergling', Q3: 'Let them Ride the Rail', etc.
I must admit I'm more interested in the StarCraft tourney, but I can understand why the americans are losing so much, they all play terran, ugh, but they're probably too young to realize that Zerg rule.
(This wasn't intended as flamebait, but it seemed to come out like that, oh well, I have karma to spare).
Here's the link (sorry)
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Here's the link, sorry. I was sure I did a preview and it showed up, oh well.
Writing Linux viruses is easy (slightly OT)
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I was browsing the other vnunet articles and saw that according to another article on vnunet.com writing Linux viruses is easy. They claim that "It is a stable OS, but it's not a secure OS." so it will most likely be a target next year.
I could try submitting this to/. but they'll probably think we've had enough security articles for one day and it'll get rejected and no one will read it.
First of all, I don't suspect most people would consider removing a package from an operating system 'modifying the software' or any of the other list of things stated.
I would agree. Because if I don't like, say, the calculator program and I delete that after installing 'the Software' and install a calculator program that I like better, is that 'modifying the software'? By their logic it sounds like it is. When is 'the Software' no longer 'the Software'? After I install it, am I then permitted to modify it? Would I be in violation of my license agreement if I delete calc.exe after installing 'the Software'?
Lets not forget the automated ticketing machines at movie theaters. I know why they keep about 10 or so around, because 90% of the time 8 of them aren't working. I end up just walking around until I find a machine that isn't blue screened or WinCE isn't complaining that it found new hardware . It just gets annoying, that's all.
Me: So what are you in for?
Him: Armed robbery, assult and battery, rape, and first degree murder. I'm almost done with my 5 year sentence. You?
Me: I hooked up two computers to my cable modem. I still have 19 years left.
Him: Ouch. Even *I* am not that stupid, I'm surprised you didn't get life.
What about text based browsers? Lynx follows hyperlinks in response to a "keyboard entry signal", so text based browsers are now in violation of the patent?
Actually the patent sounds like it's on HTML not just Hyperlinks:
Informaton for display at a terminal apparatus of a computer is stored in blocks the first part of which contains the information which is actually displayed at the terminal and the second part of which contains information relating to the display and which may be used to influence the display at the time Sounds a lot like a markup language, for instance the <body> tag contains a block of information (the text to display) and another block that influences the display (colors, etc). I'm sure there are plenty of other interpretations also. I'm also sure there has to be prior art for this, but the patent was filed in 1980, and HTML was drafted in 1990.
Whenever I read someone saying that they are forced to use windows at work I cringe.
I'm 'forced' to use windows at work too, but I write software for Windows so I kinda need MSDev which doesn't run under wine and is WAY too slow under VMware (It takes over 3 hours to compile anyways on a 1GHz 512MBram, I shudder to think what it would take on VMware), otherwise I would run linux. However, running linux isn't very practical for my main box since I spend 98% of my time coding in MSDev and the rest doing e-mail or taking a break (read: posting on slashdot). If all I did was do e-mail and surf the web (read: 'If I was a manager'), then I would definatly be runing Linux at work. I think most people who are 'forced' to use windows at work do it a matter of practicality rather than company policy.
Why can't it be a computer desktop? Pretty much all the programs except the control center are not unix specific. When you say "I sure won't be taking care to make it portable to Win32" is that implying you are a KDE developer/contributer? I wasn't implying that every developer would have to ensure their code will work on Win32. I was figuring a small porting team would work on that and make their commits and build binaries, etc, since after the project as a whole is ported, it shouldn't be too difficult to maintain new additions, maybe do nightly/weekly builds from cvs to see what (if anything) needs some work to keep it Win32 compatible.
I think it would be nice to offer the KDE desktop as an alternative to the standard Win32 desktop, or at the very least offer the KDE applications as native Win32 apps (kinda like how the Gimp works, but it's GTK+).
They have ported Unix version of QT which is avialable as GPL
Where? Not from trolltech, at least not that I could find. They have a binary version of QT 2.3 for MSVC, but I couldn't find anything except a 30 day evaluation for QT 3.0.
Will these ports of KDE make it into CVS so that windows will be just another build target for KDE? That would be really nice, however I heard that QT wasn't releasing a free version of 3.0 for windows which would prevent KDE 3.0 running under windows. Or maybe trolltech just wasn't releasing the source for QT 3.0 for windows.
think how easily a crapflood of spurious security vulnerability reports could erode MS' product reputation
Perhaps. However, in this case, the people who found the vulnerability provided Microsoft with working exploit code so it wouldn't have taken a single Microsoft employee more than a few hours at most to see that the exploit worked and that they had a problem.
That's a great idea! GPS units are pretty small and we could track where the package was when damage occured or something like that. As far as the covertly recording, I suppose I couldn't claim that I accidently left a shock|sound activated recorder on could I?
My roommate works for UPS and he tells me that if they see "Fragile" on the box, they will actually kick it around in the warehouse
Why not test this to see if it is more widespread? Send a package with an audio recording device to record peoples voices and idealy with some kind of camera thing looking out to see what's going on outside the box (to get faces). Make sure the package has fragile clearly marked all over the box and send it across the country (or to re-create this poor persons experience, send it from the same place in canada to the same place in florida hoping it will take the same route). It would probably be best for the audio recording instrument to be sound activated to conserve audio recording space and to keep some sort of time stamp on the various recordings, same with the video.
As much as I would like a GameCube early, I must admit that the only game on there so far that I'm looking forward to is Metroid Prime. Everything I've found says it's not coming out until 2002, so I guess that's when I'll be getting my GameCube. If anyone has any different information, let me know.
This only applys to people who are granted a special administrative measure which applys to less than a tenth of a percent of people. And only to people who the AG says "reasonable suspicion exists to believe that a particular inmate may use communication with attorneys or their agents to further or facilitate acts of terrorism".
I don't agree that they should be doing this in the first place, but it's not for everyone. I guess this is just more/. sensationalism at work.
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Now the same provisions will be in effect across many countries (emphasis mine)
More like restrictions. I wouldn't really consider something that deprives us of our rights to free speech a 'provision'. I wish I could find a harsher word than 'restriction', but I guess restriction will have to do.
So what do most cars actually run on, anyway?
Embedded RTOSs I'm guessing. Mostly custom made.
Anyways, I'd hate to have linux running on my system, imagine if steerd segfaulted, or my car got h4x0rd by an 31337 5kR1p7 K1dd13.
Cool idea. I've often thought of something similar for a car, but I've since thought that a Heads Up Display would be better suited for the purpose of displaying video on the windshield. Everything you mentioned could easily be done with a heads up display, and I think it would also end up looking cooler and being safer.
:) ).
(Actually my idea I had was about 7 years ago, while I was a major trekkie, was for a car that looked like and worked like a ST:TNG shuttlecraft. I had blueprints and everything, but somewhere along the lines I grew up
I doubt it'll allow telnetting, since you'll need a special client to view all the 3d graphics and interaction with the characters. Based on your statement, I'm doubting you read the link and saw what Trade Wars: Dark Millenium really was.
Star Wars Galaxies will be cool, but I'm personally waiting for the MMORPG of Tradewars. It's supposed to be out in 2002 sometime, and there will be a Linux version (Shortly after they release the Windows version of course).
Exactly! Something besides 'don't lose' and 'win' would be much prefered.
of these peoples 'Special Strategies'. Half of them are either 'not lose' or 'win'. Wow, thanks for the insight buddy, but what do you expect when most of them are barely out of high school. Most of the bios I looked at are born after 1980, but still something slightly more witty would be more entertaining like maybe for starcraft: 'Eat Zergling', Q3: 'Let them Ride the Rail', etc.
I must admit I'm more interested in the StarCraft tourney, but I can understand why the americans are losing so much, they all play terran, ugh, but they're probably too young to realize that Zerg rule.
(This wasn't intended as flamebait, but it seemed to come out like that, oh well, I have karma to spare).
Here's the link, sorry. I was sure I did a preview and it showed up, oh well.
I was browsing the other vnunet articles and saw that according to another article on vnunet.com writing Linux viruses is easy. They claim that "It is a stable OS, but it's not a secure OS." so it will most likely be a target next year.
/. but they'll probably think we've had enough security articles for one day and it'll get rejected and no one will read it.
I could try submitting this to
First of all, I don't suspect most people would consider removing a package from an operating system 'modifying the software' or any of the other list of things stated.
I would agree. Because if I don't like, say, the calculator program and I delete that after installing 'the Software' and install a calculator program that I like better, is that 'modifying the software'? By their logic it sounds like it is. When is 'the Software' no longer 'the Software'? After I install it, am I then permitted to modify it? Would I be in violation of my license agreement if I delete calc.exe after installing 'the Software'?
This sounds like a load of hot air to me.
I couldn't have said it better.
Lets not forget the automated ticketing machines at movie theaters. I know why they keep about 10 or so around, because 90% of the time 8 of them aren't working. I end up just walking around until I find a machine that isn't blue screened or WinCE isn't complaining that it found new hardware . It just gets annoying, that's all.
No, but we do get a blue moon on friday. Kinda fitting actually: 'We only get two sensible court opinions in one day only once in a blue moon'.
I can see me in a few years:
Me: So what are you in for?
Him: Armed robbery, assult and battery, rape, and first degree murder. I'm almost done with my 5 year sentence. You?
Me: I hooked up two computers to my cable modem. I still have 19 years left.
Him: Ouch. Even *I* am not that stupid, I'm surprised you didn't get life.
What about text based browsers? Lynx follows hyperlinks in response to a "keyboard entry signal", so text based browsers are now in violation of the patent?
Actually the patent sounds like it's on HTML not just Hyperlinks:
Informaton for display at a terminal apparatus of a computer is stored in blocks the first part of which contains the information which is actually displayed at the terminal and the second part of which contains information relating to the display and which may be used to influence the display at the time
Sounds a lot like a markup language, for instance the <body> tag contains a block of information (the text to display) and another block that influences the display (colors, etc). I'm sure there are plenty of other interpretations also. I'm also sure there has to be prior art for this, but the patent was filed in 1980, and HTML was drafted in 1990.
Whenever I read someone saying that they are forced to use windows at work I cringe.
I'm 'forced' to use windows at work too, but I write software for Windows so I kinda need MSDev which doesn't run under wine and is WAY too slow under VMware (It takes over 3 hours to compile anyways on a 1GHz 512MBram, I shudder to think what it would take on VMware), otherwise I would run linux. However, running linux isn't very practical for my main box since I spend 98% of my time coding in MSDev and the rest doing e-mail or taking a break (read: posting on slashdot). If all I did was do e-mail and surf the web (read: 'If I was a manager'), then I would definatly be runing Linux at work. I think most people who are 'forced' to use windows at work do it a matter of practicality rather than company policy.
It's a unix desktop, not a computer desktop
Why can't it be a computer desktop? Pretty much all the programs except the control center are not unix specific. When you say "I sure won't be taking care to make it portable to Win32" is that implying you are a KDE developer/contributer? I wasn't implying that every developer would have to ensure their code will work on Win32. I was figuring a small porting team would work on that and make their commits and build binaries, etc, since after the project as a whole is ported, it shouldn't be too difficult to maintain new additions, maybe do nightly/weekly builds from cvs to see what (if anything) needs some work to keep it Win32 compatible.
I think it would be nice to offer the KDE desktop as an alternative to the standard Win32 desktop, or at the very least offer the KDE applications as native Win32 apps (kinda like how the Gimp works, but it's GTK+).
They have ported Unix version of QT which is avialable as GPL
Where? Not from trolltech, at least not that I could find. They have a binary version of QT 2.3 for MSVC, but I couldn't find anything except a 30 day evaluation for QT 3.0.
Will these ports of KDE make it into CVS so that windows will be just another build target for KDE? That would be really nice, however I heard that QT wasn't releasing a free version of 3.0 for windows which would prevent KDE 3.0 running under windows. Or maybe trolltech just wasn't releasing the source for QT 3.0 for windows.
Anyways, great jobs guys!
think how easily a crapflood of spurious security vulnerability reports could erode MS' product reputation
Perhaps. However, in this case, the people who found the vulnerability provided Microsoft with working exploit code so it wouldn't have taken a single Microsoft employee more than a few hours at most to see that the exploit worked and that they had a problem.
Definatly. That's all I really want for christmas :)
if I had the time and inclination to learn grungy DSP processing in C it'd be an interesting challenge
Maybe, but he said it must not rely on DSP.
with a GPS device
That's a great idea! GPS units are pretty small and we could track where the package was when damage occured or something like that. As far as the covertly recording, I suppose I couldn't claim that I accidently left a shock|sound activated recorder on could I?
My roommate works for UPS and he tells me that if they see "Fragile" on the box, they will actually kick it around in the warehouse
Why not test this to see if it is more widespread? Send a package with an audio recording device to record peoples voices and idealy with some kind of camera thing looking out to see what's going on outside the box (to get faces). Make sure the package has fragile clearly marked all over the box and send it across the country (or to re-create this poor persons experience, send it from the same place in canada to the same place in florida hoping it will take the same route). It would probably be best for the audio recording instrument to be sound activated to conserve audio recording space and to keep some sort of time stamp on the various recordings, same with the video.
Just my opinion.
As much as I would like a GameCube early, I must admit that the only game on there so far that I'm looking forward to is Metroid Prime. Everything I've found says it's not coming out until 2002, so I guess that's when I'll be getting my GameCube. If anyone has any different information, let me know.
This only applys to people who are granted a special administrative measure which applys to less than a tenth of a percent of people. And only to people who the AG says "reasonable suspicion exists to believe that a particular inmate may use communication with attorneys or their agents to further or facilitate acts of terrorism".
/. sensationalism at work.
I don't agree that they should be doing this in the first place, but it's not for everyone. I guess this is just more