Patching bind only adds legitimacy to the actions of Virilentsin, er, Verisign. When the wicked do wrong, they are seen as evil. When you do something wrong to counter the wicked, YOU are seen as evil.
First off I agree with the poster. There are an awful lot of headstones at Arlington national cemetary. Every one of them spent a life protecting our freedom. Well at least the sitting president's idea of it, but that's another story.
Now there are a few technical reasons why the internet CANNOT be retrofitted into pay-as-you-go content restricted affair. For starters, the overhead required to properly meter internet packets would degrade performance to the point of uselessness. The cost of metering the internet would be greater than the cost of providing it, free, to the world at large.
The next point I would like to add is that any attempt to centralize the system has failed. The DNS system is in fact several hundred little DNS systems all cacheing to a set of commonly agreed-to-hosts. If I didn't want to pay an exhorbinant fee for a.com address, I could easlily track down a better rate from some third world country's DNS system. Hell look at the the.to and.tv domains.
Finally restricting access to the internet would be like restricting access to our highway system. At present I can hop in my car, jump on a ramp, and drive. If I hit certain roads, I will hit a toll. I personally just mutter under my breath and pay it, but my wife actually routes around the toll roads useing back roads.
Even if we eliminate cars, we have a tradition that every sidewalk is fair game to travel on. Yes, we could theoretically restrict what sidewalks we could use, but we seem to have cultural aversions to plans like that. Could I set up a toll sidewalk? Sure. Would everyone just take the next road over? You bet.
The internet is in its present state because it is useful and cost effective for everyone involved. Any attempt to change the status quo would annoy the world at large, and the world has a habit of paving over annoyances.
This is Autodesk we are talking about here folks. The same guys who sell software packages that cost several thousand dollars a pop. They DID try DRM technology in the form of printer-port keys. They wound up abandoning the effort because several TSR's emulated the dongle in memory allowing you to rampantly copy the software.
Come one, hardware keys didn't work in the past. Now they are getting all hot and bothered because Microsoft wants to write them into the OS.
This is a company with a vested interest and a hard-on. It is not an independent futurist looking at the big picture.
I remember from the old specs that the Motorol 68000 would ocassional draw upwards of one amp. There were one or two instructions that could blow out an under-rated power supply.
Really though, a processor has to keep everything active all the time. Linux does have a wonderful habit of calling the IDLE instruction when it's not busy. That effectively powers down non-essential parts of the chip.
I have a laptop with a PIII. It dual-boots XP and Gentoo. Under XP, the fan runs constantly. Under Gentoo, the fan is quiet unless I'm doing something taxing (like re-compiling KDE... AGAIN). If I use Distcc to run the compile task on my desktop, the laptop fan shuts up again.
Having supported ancient machinery, CPU fans and power supplies tend to go over time.
But the seem to die more based on age or environmentmental conditions than actual use. Assuming the worst, with a MTBF of about 3 years, and a replacement cost of $40, the effect is still negligable.
Seti@home doesn't use the hard drive (unless you are running it on a machine with so little ram it drops into swap-hell). If your disk goes it's normal wear and tear.
For those of you too lazy to click: The maximum coefficient of friction can occur anywhere in the contact area, so that the greater the area, the greater the likelihood of maximum traction.
How you managed to conclude a lack on intelligence on my part I'm not sure. I can assure you that the the friction averted by "rolling" is made up for at the axel. Why else do you need bearings?
At the risk of being trolled, I would like to point out that Business chose to use OSS. OSS isn't taking away anyone's job. I've worked in the Semiconductor industry, and I was laid off at $12/hour so they could move my job to Singapore. That had nothing to do with OSS. It's greed and despiration.
I would also like to dispel the myth of the OSS developer as one who sits around and has nothing better to do than code. I am an OSS developer, but I have a wife and kid. They need food, clothes, and all those other not-so-extravagent things. To support that expensive habit of living, I have a full time job, get this, supporting OSS software.
That's right, I'm paid to maintain a bunch of Linux servers. There are some Microsoft servers too, but they pay at least my salary in support fees for the 3 packages they run. Judging by the "on hold" time I spend waiting for Tech support, they aren't employing a whole lot of people.
I do some work on the side. Some volunteer work, some paid. All of it uses OSS software to do something useful on a budget. Those budgets are generally just enough to pay me to write the software, and not a whole lot more for licenses or extravegant hardware. If I didn't have the advantages of OSS, the projects would never have existed because there is no market.
So you see, OSS has created at least 1 job, and a wonderful side income for me. But I don't get paid for the software. I get paid (or when volunteering, recognized) for SUPPORTING the software.
Giving the software the results away avoids a whole raft of sticky intellectual property issues. Since my clients know that everything I write will be published they don't feel like I'm hording property developed for THEM. I don't feel like I'm being and intellectual prostitute.
My software is like the collection of techniques a carpenter developes while making furnature. By itself useless, but in skilled hands it can produce usefull things.
But you see, but making "ideas" property, it turns them into a finite resource. And finite resources are the only thing that markets can deal with. If it cannot be controlled, it cannot be sold. If it cannot be sold there is no oppertunity to dominate the distribution of it.
There are deeper issues to be considered, mostly about the role of "property" in a world filled with billions of people and only so much dirt to go around. At the risk of sounding like a communist, you really can't go on keeping this outmoded notion of individual ownership much longer. Look at real-estate: a bunch of old-money owns most of our inner cities, and extracts enormous rents for land bought before they were born.
I see a lot of empty storefronts and "Space Available" is starting to sound like a new business venture in my town. (Philadelphia, PA). Of course the land-lords don't care if the building is empty or full. And they are perfectly happy to watch entire sections of the city rot away. I've seen it first hand.
When you think about it though, IBM has a fairly large arsenol of just about everything computer related too. To their credit, indeed to the credit of most good citizens of the corporate world, most leave them quietly tucked away like a revolver in a desk drawer.
Okay, more like those fortress of doom armories in action movies.
The patent you listed only describes web-content generated for application dialog boxes, using DHTML and another of their patents for something called "TRIDENT." It's so specific as to be useless save as a buttress against folks like Samba who would copy the functionality on the server end for interoperability.
That's SCO's racket. They are trying to sell an enhanced re-mix of atmospheric gasses as SCOair. Anyone who doesn't breath SCOair must have copied the formula and has been distributing it illegally.
Like the rules of physics, common sense have anything to do with patent laws.
But really, does your fuel economy go up or go down with under-inflated tires? It goes down. Why? Inflated tires have a larger surface area.
Next example. Take a 5 pound block. Now, pull the block across the table. That was a bit of work. Take 2 wooden dowels and glue them to the bottom of the block. Now pull. That was a lot easier, even with the added mass of the "skis".
Why are aircraft round instead of square?
Your article just describes static friction and kinetic friction. It' doesn't get into modeling friction of different shapes, aerodynamic friction, how friction increases with relative velocity, or any of a large and rather nasty set of equations.
This is actually a patent for the use of cookies to alter web content for individual users.
I'm a bit peeved because all of my websites do that, and they have been doing it for years. I will be more than happy to join a suit claiming prior art. I've been programming with cookies since at least 1999. (And yes I have written my own cookie implementations, and modified the cookie systems on the Tclhttpd.)
A shape for the minimization of expose surface area for rolling bodies. Since friction is a function of surface area, the ideal shape would be one that reduces the area from a plane to a point from all directions.
Anyone who uses the Wheel group will have to pay me royalties for use of the name.
Every 6 months I have morons who get the email that asks them to dump a chunk of the OS. They follow an elaborate series of steps, dutifully, without hesitation.
I need to harness the power of these morons somehow.
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Patching bind only adds legitimacy to the actions of Virilentsin, er, Verisign. When the wicked do wrong, they are seen as evil. When you do something wrong to counter the wicked, YOU are seen as evil.
Don't I feel all smug for letting the free world try out all that expimentanl @#$!&!!#$A$#@$!!^!!#$%!#Q [No Carrier]
Winter is around the corner, and we are all looking for ways to cut down on the heating bill.
Now there are a few technical reasons why the internet CANNOT be retrofitted into pay-as-you-go content restricted affair. For starters, the overhead required to properly meter internet packets would degrade performance to the point of uselessness. The cost of metering the internet would be greater than the cost of providing it, free, to the world at large.
The next point I would like to add is that any attempt to centralize the system has failed. The DNS system is in fact several hundred little DNS systems all cacheing to a set of commonly agreed-to-hosts. If I didn't want to pay an exhorbinant fee for a .com address, I could easlily track down a better rate from some third world country's DNS system. Hell look at the the .to and .tv domains.
Finally restricting access to the internet would be like restricting access to our highway system. At present I can hop in my car, jump on a ramp, and drive. If I hit certain roads, I will hit a toll. I personally just mutter under my breath and pay it, but my wife actually routes around the toll roads useing back roads.
Even if we eliminate cars, we have a tradition that every sidewalk is fair game to travel on. Yes, we could theoretically restrict what sidewalks we could use, but we seem to have cultural aversions to plans like that. Could I set up a toll sidewalk? Sure. Would everyone just take the next road over? You bet.
The internet is in its present state because it is useful and cost effective for everyone involved. Any attempt to change the status quo would annoy the world at large, and the world has a habit of paving over annoyances.
Come one, hardware keys didn't work in the past. Now they are getting all hot and bothered because Microsoft wants to write them into the OS.
This is a company with a vested interest and a hard-on. It is not an independent futurist looking at the big picture.
Thanks for making me re-think the matter.
Really though, a processor has to keep everything active all the time. Linux does have a wonderful habit of calling the IDLE instruction when it's not busy. That effectively powers down non-essential parts of the chip.
I have a laptop with a PIII. It dual-boots XP and Gentoo. Under XP, the fan runs constantly. Under Gentoo, the fan is quiet unless I'm doing something taxing (like re-compiling KDE ... AGAIN). If I use Distcc to run the compile task on my desktop, the laptop fan shuts up again.
But the seem to die more based on age or environmentmental conditions than actual use. Assuming the worst, with a MTBF of about 3 years, and a replacement cost of $40, the effect is still negligable.
Seti@home doesn't use the hard drive (unless you are running it on a machine with so little ram it drops into swap-hell). If your disk goes it's normal wear and tear.
For those of you too lazy to click: The maximum coefficient of friction can occur anywhere in the contact area, so that the greater the area, the greater the likelihood of maximum traction.
And yes, underinflated tires increase fuel consumption.
How you managed to conclude a lack on intelligence on my part I'm not sure. I can assure you that the the friction averted by "rolling" is made up for at the axel. Why else do you need bearings?
That takes balls. Oooo another patent on bearings...
I would also like to dispel the myth of the OSS developer as one who sits around and has nothing better to do than code. I am an OSS developer, but I have a wife and kid. They need food, clothes, and all those other not-so-extravagent things. To support that expensive habit of living, I have a full time job, get this, supporting OSS software.
That's right, I'm paid to maintain a bunch of Linux servers. There are some Microsoft servers too, but they pay at least my salary in support fees for the 3 packages they run. Judging by the "on hold" time I spend waiting for Tech support, they aren't employing a whole lot of people.
I do some work on the side. Some volunteer work, some paid. All of it uses OSS software to do something useful on a budget. Those budgets are generally just enough to pay me to write the software, and not a whole lot more for licenses or extravegant hardware. If I didn't have the advantages of OSS, the projects would never have existed because there is no market.
So you see, OSS has created at least 1 job, and a wonderful side income for me. But I don't get paid for the software. I get paid (or when volunteering, recognized) for SUPPORTING the software.
Giving the software the results away avoids a whole raft of sticky intellectual property issues. Since my clients know that everything I write will be published they don't feel like I'm hording property developed for THEM. I don't feel like I'm being and intellectual prostitute.
My software is like the collection of techniques a carpenter developes while making furnature. By itself useless, but in skilled hands it can produce usefull things.
There are deeper issues to be considered, mostly about the role of "property" in a world filled with billions of people and only so much dirt to go around. At the risk of sounding like a communist, you really can't go on keeping this outmoded notion of individual ownership much longer. Look at real-estate: a bunch of old-money owns most of our inner cities, and extracts enormous rents for land bought before they were born.
I see a lot of empty storefronts and "Space Available" is starting to sound like a new business venture in my town. (Philadelphia, PA). Of course the land-lords don't care if the building is empty or full. And they are perfectly happy to watch entire sections of the city rot away. I've seen it first hand.
Okay, more like those fortress of doom armories in action movies.
The patent you listed only describes web-content generated for application dialog boxes, using DHTML and another of their patents for something called "TRIDENT." It's so specific as to be useless save as a buttress against folks like Samba who would copy the functionality on the server end for interoperability.
No wait, that's pretty damn scary.
Nose Pirate!
But really, does your fuel economy go up or go down with under-inflated tires? It goes down. Why? Inflated tires have a larger surface area.
Next example. Take a 5 pound block. Now, pull the block across the table. That was a bit of work. Take 2 wooden dowels and glue them to the bottom of the block. Now pull. That was a lot easier, even with the added mass of the "skis".
Why are aircraft round instead of square?
Your article just describes static friction and kinetic friction. It' doesn't get into modeling friction of different shapes, aerodynamic friction, how friction increases with relative velocity, or any of a large and rather nasty set of equations.
This is actually a patent for the use of cookies to alter web content for individual users.
I'm a bit peeved because all of my websites do that, and they have been doing it for years. I will be more than happy to join a suit claiming prior art. I've been programming with cookies since at least 1999. (And yes I have written my own cookie implementations, and modified the cookie systems on the Tclhttpd.)
Anyone who uses the Wheel group will have to pay me royalties for use of the name.
As a species and a culture we abhor cheaters. It's a given.
In Soviet Russia, Forbes reports on YOU!
Then following that line of thought, Ben Franklin and George Washington were just members of American society.
(Doh) Teach me to not RTFA. To quote Natalie Natella: Nevermind.
I need to harness the power of these morons somehow.
Or ... and make sure you are running GLIBC 2.3.2 and have at Openssl 0.9.6 installed...
If that is your definition of a virus, you might as well lump NT crack and the windows 2000 installation CD as Viruses.