I've written non-anymous letters sharply critical of company policy to the CEO of our (at the time) 70-80 person international company. The CEO anonymized it, and read it to all of the senior staff. My writing style and tone were immediately recognized by several of them.
Nothing bad came of it, and I was highly amused. The Unabomber was caught via similar techniques. I wonder sometimes whether anonymous mail systems like mixmaster and mixminion are worth it.:-)
Does Galactic Civilizations run under Linux? Does it run if you use WineX? If it doesn't, I'm not buying it under any circumstances. I hate rebooting and losing all the context in my session just so I can play some game.
The point of posting something on the web is for it to be read and understood. I understand your point about blank lines, but paragraph indentation is just a formatting nicety.
To me, CSS is fantastic. It gives nice hints about formatting to things that can understand them, and lets you leave the text with relatively clean semantic markup. I can understand you wanting to make it look the way you wanted it to with pre-CSS browser, but I think content is more important than form, and disagree with your choices.
OTOH, I really like your novel, and will recommend it to a couple of friends who I also know will appreciate it. Thanks for creating it.
No, I disagree. The story would be a sterile mind play without those scenes. In fact, it is those scenes, specifically because of their graphic detail, which will cause me to recommend the book to a female friend. She is extremely bright, but she would find the book horribly boring and difficult to connect to reality without scenes like those.
Electrons have labored far too long under cruel molecular bonds in their foul enslavement to protons. Our goal is to turn the Universe into hot plasma so that electrons might roam free! If justice is in your heart, join us!
There are cases in which the way the carry flag is set doesn't actually matter. In fact, I suspect that in most cases it doesn't actually matter. But, you're right, unless Hydan carefully analyzes the code to make sure it doesn't matter, it's broken.
THe clause in the constitution that authorizes congress to set up a patent system specifically states that the greater good of society as a whole is the intention, not maintaining some sort of fictitious ownership right.
So, you are dead wrong, and the poster is completely correct. The question to ask is, does the patent help society as a whole? Is the incentive necessary in order to get google to publish how their technology works in order for others to build on it?
In this case, I think the answer is a definite 'yes'. I'm very wary and suspicious of software patents, but google's patent here is reasonable.
For cryptography, I'm not so sure. The main result of cryptography patents is that the cryptography isn't used by anybody until the patent expires. And, in order for anybody to trust the cryptographics scheme, the author has to publish how it works anyway.
Remember, the object here isn't creating some specious 'ownership' right over an idea. The object is to encourage people who create these ideas to do so in a manner that benefits society the most.
Why not instead use Gnutella or one of the lovely peer to peer swarming protocols to download it instead? That's what they're for. I don't understand why Mozilla doesn't already do this when several of these protocols already work explicitly on URLs.
I also like Evolution significantly better than Mozilla mail. My favorite feature of it is its tight integration with PGP/gpg. I now sign all of my emails, and it's easy to do. My second favorite feature is that fact that it doesn't download images (or anything else) in order to display HTML mail properly. Since most such images are actually notifications that you've recieved the spam and have read it, I appreciate this feature a great deal.
It also just feels nicer and more polished. It's a much more sophisticated and better done email program than Mozilla.
Actually, from what I can tell, QTopia is very rapidly gaining mindshare in the PDA market. It is absent of the bloat, instability and extreme cruftiness of the WinCE platform, and the limitations of the PalmOS platform.
Besides, PDA users could care less what OS their PDA runs anyway. And there are easily as many applications available for QTopia as WinCE or PalmOS.
SSL shouldn't be vulnerable to you sending your password several times within the same session, so it's an SSL vulnerability. The vulnerability does not depend on key length in any way. It takes advantage of some well known security weaknesses in CBC, combied with the server leaking certain information via message timings that it shouldn't be.
The vulnerability merely requires that there be a predictable message in which everything in the password occurs in a predictable location.
It's rather nitpicky. It was in an example: "Whether or not you call it 'stealing', the fact is that music piracy is illegal.". The problem is that the question is not whether or not it's illegal. The question is whether or not a specific form of it (giving out songs for free, but retaining notices as to authorship) should be illegal. As such, telling people it's illegal is appealing to a false authority, and will be met with much angry spluttering by people you make frustrated and angry without them quite realizing why because they can't puzzle out what, precisely you said that was wrong.
The second problem is with your overall essay. Yes, arguing about analogies can be pointless. But, analogies have power. Calling IP violations 'theft' is a way of likening them to physical property crimes, and a cheap and simple way to appeal to people's experiences with physical property crime.
Of course, since, to some extent, words are only connotative, and not denotative, every argument has hidden analogies and assumptions based on them. But, I still think that big obvious ones like that need to be slapped down because they place the other person in a difficult position if they simply accept the analogy at face value.
I don't troll. Well, OK, I did once, but not on Slashdot.:-)
I said I believed the interviewer was German because I didn't bother to follow the link to the article. The Slashdot news posting had enough detail that I immediately recognized it. As I've said before, I was horribly shocked to find everybody calling it a hoax. I was expecting everybody to be yelling at the editors because it was so old. That's also why I posted so many times.
And, as it turns out, I've thrown out my copy of the magazine. I threw out TONS of stuff when I moved in late 2001. *sigh*
I didn't figure it was worth $2.50 either, but I was willing to spend it if I could've used it to prove I saw it. Someone managed to find a link to an article posted in an academic journal. ACM's 'Risks' journal. Here's the post.
I consider this publication respected enough, and the text found at the end of the link has verisimilitude.
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I've written non-anymous letters sharply critical of company policy to the CEO of our (at the time) 70-80 person international company. The CEO anonymized it, and read it to all of the senior staff. My writing style and tone were immediately recognized by several of them.
Nothing bad came of it, and I was highly amused. The Unabomber was caught via similar techniques. I wonder sometimes whether anonymous mail systems like mixmaster and mixminion are worth it. :-)
Better would be to give their SHA1 and MD5 hashes in base32 format. Saerching by name is so inexact when you know precisely which file it is.
Moderators on crack. Or at least ones who think that suggesting that games ought to support Linux in some form is somehow heretical.
Does Galactic Civilizations run under Linux? Does it run if you use WineX? If it doesn't, I'm not buying it under any circumstances. I hate rebooting and losing all the context in my session just so I can play some game.
But, will Galactic Civilations run under WineX?
Excellent idea. :-) I've done my part. :-)
*laugh* Yes, I can see how. :-)
The point of posting something on the web is for it to be read and understood. I understand your point about blank lines, but paragraph indentation is just a formatting nicety.
To me, CSS is fantastic. It gives nice hints about formatting to things that can understand them, and lets you leave the text with relatively clean semantic markup. I can understand you wanting to make it look the way you wanted it to with pre-CSS browser, but I think content is more important than form, and disagree with your choices.
OTOH, I really like your novel, and will recommend it to a couple of friends who I also know will appreciate it. Thanks for creating it.
I believe I have read 1000 deaths, and I disagree with you. I think the only reason you like it better is that it has no sex in it.
No, I disagree. The story would be a sterile mind play without those scenes. In fact, it is those scenes, specifically because of their graphic detail, which will cause me to recommend the book to a female friend. She is extremely bright, but she would find the book horribly boring and difficult to connect to reality without scenes like those.
Join the Electron Freedom League!
Electrons have labored far too long under cruel molecular bonds in their foul enslavement to protons. Our goal is to turn the Universe into hot plasma so that electrons might roam free! If justice is in your heart, join us!
There are cases in which the way the carry flag is set doesn't actually matter. In fact, I suspect that in most cases it doesn't actually matter. But, you're right, unless Hydan carefully analyzes the code to make sure it doesn't matter, it's broken.
If one had to judge that way, one could reach no other conclusion than to say that software patents as a whole have been a colosally bad idea.
Not that this is wrong, but that's the conclusion one would have to reach.
THe clause in the constitution that authorizes congress to set up a patent system specifically states that the greater good of society as a whole is the intention, not maintaining some sort of fictitious ownership right.
So, you are dead wrong, and the poster is completely correct. The question to ask is, does the patent help society as a whole? Is the incentive necessary in order to get google to publish how their technology works in order for others to build on it?
In this case, I think the answer is a definite 'yes'. I'm very wary and suspicious of software patents, but google's patent here is reasonable.
For cryptography, I'm not so sure. The main result of cryptography patents is that the cryptography isn't used by anybody until the patent expires. And, in order for anybody to trust the cryptographics scheme, the author has to publish how it works anyway.
Remember, the object here isn't creating some specious 'ownership' right over an idea. The object is to encourage people who create these ideas to do so in a manner that benefits society the most.
Sounds like you should start using ogg for all your file sharing. It's not like players and encoders for it are hard to come by. :-)
Why not instead use Gnutella or one of the lovely peer to peer swarming protocols to download it instead? That's what they're for. I don't understand why Mozilla doesn't already do this when several of these protocols already work explicitly on URLs.
I also like Evolution significantly better than Mozilla mail. My favorite feature of it is its tight integration with PGP/gpg. I now sign all of my emails, and it's easy to do. My second favorite feature is that fact that it doesn't download images (or anything else) in order to display HTML mail properly. Since most such images are actually notifications that you've recieved the spam and have read it, I appreciate this feature a great deal.
It also just feels nicer and more polished. It's a much more sophisticated and better done email program than Mozilla.
Sadly, it isn't as cross platform. :-(
Actually, from what I can tell, QTopia is very rapidly gaining mindshare in the PDA market. It is absent of the bloat, instability and extreme cruftiness of the WinCE platform, and the limitations of the PalmOS platform.
Besides, PDA users could care less what OS their PDA runs anyway. And there are easily as many applications available for QTopia as WinCE or PalmOS.
SSL shouldn't be vulnerable to you sending your password several times within the same session, so it's an SSL vulnerability. The vulnerability does not depend on key length in any way. It takes advantage of some well known security weaknesses in CBC, combied with the server leaking certain information via message timings that it shouldn't be.
The vulnerability merely requires that there be a predictable message in which everything in the password occurs in a predictable location.
It's rather nitpicky. It was in an example: "Whether or not you call it 'stealing', the fact is that music piracy is illegal.". The problem is that the question is not whether or not it's illegal. The question is whether or not a specific form of it (giving out songs for free, but retaining notices as to authorship) should be illegal. As such, telling people it's illegal is appealing to a false authority, and will be met with much angry spluttering by people you make frustrated and angry without them quite realizing why because they can't puzzle out what, precisely you said that was wrong.
The second problem is with your overall essay. Yes, arguing about analogies can be pointless. But, analogies have power. Calling IP violations 'theft' is a way of likening them to physical property crimes, and a cheap and simple way to appeal to people's experiences with physical property crime.
Of course, since, to some extent, words are only connotative, and not denotative, every argument has hidden analogies and assumptions based on them. But, I still think that big obvious ones like that need to be slapped down because they place the other person in a difficult position if they simply accept the analogy at face value.
I wish your false analogy journal entry weren't archived. You made an appeal to a false authority in it, and I wanted to call you on it. :-)
I traded an unwarranted insult for an unwarranted insult. I think it's alarming that (s)he assumes my memory is bent by zealotry.
I don't troll. Well, OK, I did once, but not on Slashdot. :-)
I said I believed the interviewer was German because I didn't bother to follow the link to the article. The Slashdot news posting had enough detail that I immediately recognized it. As I've said before, I was horribly shocked to find everybody calling it a hoax. I was expecting everybody to be yelling at the editors because it was so old. That's also why I posted so many times.
And, as it turns out, I've thrown out my copy of the magazine. I threw out TONS of stuff when I moved in late 2001. *sigh*
I'm thinking it must've been an English translation of an article from a German source.
I didn't figure it was worth $2.50 either, but I was willing to spend it if I could've used it to prove I saw it. Someone managed to find a link to an article posted in an academic journal. ACM's 'Risks' journal. Here's the post.
I consider this publication respected enough, and the text found at the end of the link has verisimilitude.