Imagine you made a device and spent the time and energy to write some really nice software for it and started happily selling your device. The somebody comes along and starts putting your software on their own cheaper hardware and starts selling that. In this case, they're using your own software as a tool to compete against you.
I don't see how would be wrong for you to want to stop that someone from using your software.
A lot of the discussion here seems to be about whether it's ok to use Apple's software on your own PC. I don't think that's totally unethical. What you do as an individual with your own computer is your business. However, starting a company and attempting to compete against them in the computer hardware market is a completely different thing. Pystar is clearly using the fact that you can buy one of their machines with OSX installed as their "unique selling proposition". Discussion about how Pystar is getting OSX onto the machine seems moot.
I'm well aware of the power of Google and Wikipedia, but I chose to ask a question on Slashdot instead. What's the harm in that?
If people making idiotic posts irritates you so much that you have to make a snarky response, consider that perhaps you could have posted a more useful reply - like this one - instead of trying to belittle someone by making an even more useless comment.
I'm sure there's somebody on/. who can answer this:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought to be a black hole you had to be 2 things.
1. a singularity
2. heavy/massive enough to stop anything from escaping
If you've got a singularity (worst case in our example) that's the mass of the earth, how's that supposed to stop any light/matter/etc escaping? It's not massive enough!
or am I missing something.
Also, please excuse my lack of correct terminology. IANAAP
So now that we all want to switch to an electric car, I have to ask, how much more efficient is an electric car and also, roughly how much would one reduce my CO2 output?
It seems to me that we're sweeping the vehicle exhaust issue under the carpet by moving it to the power station. Sure there are exceptions, but most power stations still burn fossil fuels so these cars still contributes to warming up the planet.
That's really cool, but does anyone else find it kinda creepy in it's life-likeness?
I mean, when it was falling and slipping on the ice I caught myself feeling sorry for it.
I used to work for a company that used RF smart cards as one of their core technologies and you'd be surprised how secure they can be.
Without going into too much detail, these cards hold a cpu with a bit of memory (up to 1mb last I heard) that require a challenge response type handshake before you can communicate with them. If you don't have the correct card keys on your reader, you can't access the card. And I really mean you CAN'T read it.
An example of this is when we tested 'rolling' the keys on the cards.
You can change the keys on the cards and the readers. This is done in a scenario where the organization may be worried that a bad person might have their card/reader keys. It's a bit tricky and quite involved really, which is why organisations may choose not to roll keys or use keys at all.
We managed to waste a few batches of cards with buggy software that put unexpected keys on the cards. Since we didn't know what keys were on the cards we couldn't read them and you can't really go guessing 1024 byte keys.
Anyway my point is that these cards ARE secure. It's just that some implementations aren't.
The Vertigo Tour in 2005/2006 grossed $355m and played to 4.6m people in 26 countries
When I read stuff like that I just lose all sympathy for these guys. Gee Paul, I guess you're going to have to downgrade to a Gulf Stream 4 now.
I also enjoyed this:
Part of the problem is that the record companies, through lack of foresight and poor planning, allowed an entire collection of digital industries to arise that enabled the consumer to steal with impunity the very recorded music that had previously been paid for.
I think that's a major part of the problem, he (and alot of the Record Execs) think's there's something they can do about it. They're trying to control an uncontrollable distribution medium.
I don't really think the point here is degree of the changes made on the product. The point is that California wanted to have certified voting machines. After all the conspiracy theories surrounding Diebold after the last election, I'm not surprised.
It's not good enough to allow this sort of thing to happen (especially when a Court overturn an election result) and people should demand clean and fair elections. Would you want to see the [insert hated political party here] win just because some guy couldn't be bothered filing some paperwork?
just another case of somebody butting heads with the Streisand effect.
I also find it interesting that the district...
would file a suit on behalf of administrators in their official capacities and individual board members. The suit, however, would be funded from the district's budget.
Considering (according to TFA) the libelous material is targeted at individuals not the School District. Obviously when you're in charge of a government department you can do what you like with the monay[sic].
This is actually a pretty big deal for Australia. Most Australians are aware of the problems the country has with even providing phone lines to some areas. Basically it's because there's a lot of space but not enough population to make wiring everywhere profitable.
The same goes with broadband.
If you want to install new infrastructure (even in cities), you've got to roll out a lot of new cable. Perth, my old home town is roughly 100km (yeah, metric you imperial pussies) from north to south. It has roughly the same population as Munich (where I now live), which is about a tenth of the size. Not surprisingly, my 3M connection here kicks my old (back home) 512k connection's arse.
Something like this technology would enable Telstra to provide higher speed broadband while it invests in new technology. In light of this, it's not too surprising that this sort of technology is being researched in Australia.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that there is no such thing as "Darwin's Theory of Evolution" but rather "Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection"
From what I understand, evolution is a scientific hypothesis and the Theory of Natural Selection supports it.
While this looks like a great idea and all, I can't help but wonder how this will translate into smaller mobile devices. Something thie size of the iPhone (just to pick a random example;) doesn't really have space for two hands. If you pick up your own mobile phone and drag your fingers around the back of it, you'll find it a bit more cumbersome than holding your phone in the palm of your hand and touching the front of the device.
That said, this could be an important development for tablet PC's. From my perspective, it seems tablets suffer from a lack of keyboard input. Sure you can plug in a keyboard, but that kinda defeats the purpose. This looks like it could be the solution to that problem.
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Why not let the kids do whatever they want in a virtual machine? To be extra sure that the vm is safe, start from a clean snapshot every time.
But please, for the love of god, don't take away their RAM!
...software.
Imagine you made a device and spent the time and energy to write some really nice software for it and started happily selling your device. The somebody comes along and starts putting your software on their own cheaper hardware and starts selling that. In this case, they're using your own software as a tool to compete against you.
I don't see how would be wrong for you to want to stop that someone from using your software.
A lot of the discussion here seems to be about whether it's ok to use Apple's software on your own PC. I don't think that's totally unethical. What you do as an individual with your own computer is your business. However, starting a company and attempting to compete against them in the computer hardware market is a completely different thing. Pystar is clearly using the fact that you can buy one of their machines with OSX installed as their "unique selling proposition". Discussion about how Pystar is getting OSX onto the machine seems moot.
The images remind me of how Stanislaw Lem described the formations created by Solaris. I better go and read it again.
Thanks for the smart arse reply.
I'm well aware of the power of Google and Wikipedia, but I chose to ask a question on Slashdot instead. What's the harm in that?
If people making idiotic posts irritates you so much that you have to make a snarky response, consider that perhaps you could have posted a more useful reply - like this one - instead of trying to belittle someone by making an even more useless comment.
excellent explanation, thanks :)
I'm sure there's somebody on /. who can answer this:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought to be a black hole you had to be 2 things.
1. a singularity
2. heavy/massive enough to stop anything from escaping
If you've got a singularity (worst case in our example) that's the mass of the earth, how's that supposed to stop any light/matter/etc escaping? It's not massive enough!
or am I missing something.
Also, please excuse my lack of correct terminology. IANAAP
So now that we all want to switch to an electric car, I have to ask, how much more efficient is an electric car and also, roughly how much would one reduce my CO2 output?
It seems to me that we're sweeping the vehicle exhaust issue under the carpet by moving it to the power station. Sure there are exceptions, but most power stations still burn fossil fuels so these cars still contributes to warming up the planet.
That's really cool, but does anyone else find it kinda creepy in it's life-likeness?
I mean, when it was falling and slipping on the ice I caught myself feeling sorry for it.
Duh!
We'll probably have to wait about 5 years for that to happen :P
It really depends on what you mean by 'secure'.
I used to work for a company that used RF smart cards as one of their core technologies and you'd be surprised how secure they can be.
Without going into too much detail, these cards hold a cpu with a bit of memory (up to 1mb last I heard) that require a challenge response type handshake before you can communicate with them. If you don't have the correct card keys on your reader, you can't access the card. And I really mean you CAN'T read it.
An example of this is when we tested 'rolling' the keys on the cards.
You can change the keys on the cards and the readers. This is done in a scenario where the organization may be worried that a bad person might have their card/reader keys. It's a bit tricky and quite involved really, which is why organisations may choose not to roll keys or use keys at all.
We managed to waste a few batches of cards with buggy software that put unexpected keys on the cards. Since we didn't know what keys were on the cards we couldn't read them and you can't really go guessing 1024 byte keys.
Anyway my point is that these cards ARE secure. It's just that some implementations aren't.
When I read stuff like that I just lose all sympathy for these guys. Gee Paul, I guess you're going to have to downgrade to a Gulf Stream 4 now.
I also enjoyed this:
I think that's a major part of the problem, he (and alot of the Record Execs) think's there's something they can do about it. They're trying to control an uncontrollable distribution medium.
I don't know about you guys, but I shant be making a descision on which high definition player to purchase until the porn industry does!
Kinda reminds me of this little guy
Sure, I see your point there, the punishment is harsh.
I guess they want to make an example out of these guys.
I don't really think the point here is degree of the changes made on the product. The point is that California wanted to have certified voting machines. After all the conspiracy theories surrounding Diebold after the last election, I'm not surprised.
It's not good enough to allow this sort of thing to happen (especially when a Court overturn an election result) and people should demand clean and fair elections. Would you want to see the [insert hated political party here] win just because some guy couldn't be bothered filing some paperwork?
I also find it interesting that the district... Considering (according to TFA) the libelous material is targeted at individuals not the School District. Obviously when you're in charge of a government department you can do what you like with the monay[sic].
right?
wanna kill all humans?
-Bender
This is actually a pretty big deal for Australia. Most Australians are aware of the problems the country has with even providing phone lines to some areas. Basically it's because there's a lot of space but not enough population to make wiring everywhere profitable.
The same goes with broadband.
If you want to install new infrastructure (even in cities), you've got to roll out a lot of new cable. Perth, my old home town is roughly 100km (yeah, metric you imperial pussies) from north to south. It has roughly the same population as Munich (where I now live), which is about a tenth of the size. Not surprisingly, my 3M connection here kicks my old (back home) 512k connection's arse.
Something like this technology would enable Telstra to provide higher speed broadband while it invests in new technology. In light of this, it's not too surprising that this sort of technology is being researched in Australia.
imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
:/
ok... sorry
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that there is no such thing as "Darwin's Theory of Evolution" but rather "Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection"
From what I understand, evolution is a scientific hypothesis and the Theory of Natural Selection supports it.
While this looks like a great idea and all, I can't help but wonder how this will translate into smaller mobile devices. Something thie size of the iPhone (just to pick a random example ;) doesn't really have space for two hands. If you pick up your own mobile phone and drag your fingers around the back of it, you'll find it a bit more cumbersome than holding your phone in the palm of your hand and touching the front of the device.
That said, this could be an important development for tablet PC's. From my perspective, it seems tablets suffer from a lack of keyboard input. Sure you can plug in a keyboard, but that kinda defeats the purpose. This looks like it could be the solution to that problem.
Go these guys!
Holy crap, I just looked at where Trolltech are in Munich and realised I live just down the street from these doodz!