So this guy got onto the grounds of the lab, and was able to access a decrepid old shack. I'll bet money he couldn't have gotten anywhere where there was top-secret research or information.
Say you have a product-development task to do. (Create a little utility), and all your product-development developers are c++/java developers. Now lets say the utility is easily done in perl, but the only perl developer is the sysadmin for the company unix box.
If it's anything more than trivial, do you think the IT manager is going to give up his only unix sysadmin to do something for another department? Especially since IT and Product development probably fight like dogs.
There's one benefit of Ogg that many people miss... compaines can use it in their products, whithout paying a royalty, and without worrying about the libraries changing (since they can distribute the libraries). For applications other than music players (such as games) that play sound, it's perfect. Who wants to use a system supplied mp3 library that may or may not work with your application 5 revisions down the road?
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After reading the various links given, it looks to me like the MicroBSD guys had an idea, started working on it, one of their developers screwed up and changed come copyright info, people complained, the project wasn't going anywhere anyways, so it just stopped. Didn't look like there was willfull copyright infringment, and I'd like to believe that it really would have been fixed, like the micro guys said.
Don't attribute to malice what stupidity can explain (or whatever the exact quote is.)
It's wacky that courts can order companies to do things, and not suggest ways of doint it.
This wouldn't be news if the court had listed the sites it wants blocked. Let the court make the distinction between allowed and not allowed once, instead of making every single ISP make those choices.
Kind of like a court saying, "Hey, <INSERT POWER COMPANY HERE> you have to start using fusion power next year."
"If I witness a felony but refuse to call 911 because the victim hasn't paid me money to do so, I'm technically an accessory to that crime, not to mention a really rotten citizen."
they have a point there.
So... first there was security through obscurity... now security through monetary gain.
Looks like Levi's headquarters could get a facelift...
But really, blue denim look, could look really cool if used correctly, but just how efficient is if if we put it on the walls of buildings instead of the roof, where most of the sun hits?
1) MS has monopoly (practically) on web browsers. 2) Opera is a competitor. 3) MS is using it's webiste (a different product) to maintain it's monopoly.
Isn't this almost the definition of illegal monopolistic practices? I think the definition is slightly different, like "Using a monopoly to further your business in another area." They're "Using another area to further a monopoly."
Hmm... Perhaps if IE was distorting the Opera web page, it would be the exact definition.
But then again...
1) MSN is not a monopoly on ISP's (or portals?) 2) IE is a monopoly on browsers. 3) Making opera apear broken will make more people use IE. 4) IE's default homepage is MSN. 5) MSN is benefiting from IE's monopoly and unfair business practices against opera.
Come one, it's got linux in the title, does that make it news?
But that being said, this could push the number of people using linux, closer and closer to the number of people using windows. Hell, it might even overtake in shear numbers eventually.
Software engineers don't get off easy, they just work under different constraints.
An engineer designing a bridge, chemical reactor, or building, knows exactly where it will would go. I have never seen a bridge that can be placed over any river.
I wonder if the EU were to find MS guilty, and specify a bunch of things they have to do to windows, if that would stretch world-wide or just in the jurisdiction of the EU. Since MS is a US company, I always assumed a lawsuit against them in the US would be world-wide, but now I wonder.
I also wonder about the civil suits. Sun sued microsoft to get java included in a US court. Does it apply everywhere, just in the US, just where MS and Sun do business, just where some trade treaty says?
With the army's recent foray into the video game biz, do you think we'll se a "video game" that's purpose is to hack into Iraq? Of course, whether or not the video game is a simulation or not is anyone's guess.
It is illegal to ignore someone's constitutional rights. He suffered due to this. It ain't a bad thing if he now can get some relief with being a hero. Maybe it will teach the justice department something?
I missed a point. This is for existing hardware already deployed. Takes a bit of wind out of my comment. But still, for future hardware, why not something like that.
I'm no crypto expert, and many of those suggestions make perfect sense. But I wonder if some of those suggestions decrease the strength of encryption? Perhaps there should be a paper that tells hardware makers how to create hardware to support some of these features that the cryptogaphers want. Or better yet, if the cryptographers could do whatever they want, but then somehoe make multiple versions of their algorithms that follow various subsets of these rules. Then list the drawbacks to using each one. Of course, this would probably create way too much work for those guys.
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So this guy got onto the grounds of the lab, and was able to access a decrepid old shack. I'll bet money he couldn't have gotten anywhere where there was top-secret research or information.
Man, that just blows my mind, only 50 years of DNA. So what did they use before DNA? My grandma is older than 50... I wonder what she's made out of!
Maybe thats where that "Sugar and spice and everything nice" thing came from?
Say you have a product-development task to do. (Create a little utility), and all your product-development developers are c++/java developers. Now lets say the utility is easily done in perl, but the only perl developer is the sysadmin for the company unix box.
If it's anything more than trivial, do you think the IT manager is going to give up his only unix sysadmin to do something for another department? Especially since IT and Product development probably fight like dogs.
There's one benefit of Ogg that many people miss... compaines can use it in their products, whithout paying a royalty, and without worrying about the libraries changing (since they can distribute the libraries). For applications other than music players (such as games) that play sound, it's perfect. Who wants to use a system supplied mp3 library that may or may not work with your application 5 revisions down the road?
After reading the various links given, it looks to me like the MicroBSD guys had an idea, started working on it, one of their developers screwed up and changed come copyright info, people complained, the project wasn't going anywhere anyways, so it just stopped. Didn't look like there was willfull copyright infringment, and I'd like to believe that it really would have been fixed, like the micro guys said.
Don't attribute to malice what stupidity can explain (or whatever the exact quote is.)
To those who responded "Ebay owns it!" ...
no... nevermind... I don't have anything to say to you. I guess some people are just that dumb.
Even scarier ... who owns PayPal these days?
I hear some people use it like a bank. Would you want your financial info tossed around like that?
One more reason so stay way from Paypal.
It's wacky that courts can order companies to do things, and not suggest ways of doint it.
This wouldn't be news if the court had listed the sites it wants blocked. Let the court make the distinction between allowed and not allowed once, instead of making every single ISP make those choices.
Kind of like a court saying, "Hey, <INSERT POWER COMPANY HERE> you have to start using fusion power next year."
That google will cease to exist. Man, I live my online life through google!
My favorite quote ...
... first there was security through obscurity ... now security through monetary gain.
"If I witness a felony but refuse to call 911 because the victim hasn't paid me money to do so, I'm technically an accessory to that crime, not to mention a really rotten citizen."
they have a point there.
So
yeah ... but then the next 3 $30 cool features to add in the phone, and then the next 3, and so on and so on.
Somewhere the line needs to be drawn.
once again, what MS did WASN'T a joke. I didn't say opera was anticompetitive.
but what microsoft did WASN'T a joke.
Looks like Levi's headquarters could get a facelift
But really, blue denim look, could look really cool if used correctly, but just how efficient is if if we put it on the walls of buildings instead of the roof, where most of the sun hits?
1) MS has monopoly (practically) on web browsers.
...
2) Opera is a competitor.
3) MS is using it's webiste (a different product) to maintain it's monopoly.
Isn't this almost the definition of illegal monopolistic practices? I think the definition is slightly different, like "Using a monopoly to further your business in another area." They're "Using another area to further a monopoly."
Hmm... Perhaps if IE was distorting the Opera web page, it would be the exact definition.
But then again
1) MSN is not a monopoly on ISP's (or portals?)
2) IE is a monopoly on browsers.
3) Making opera apear broken will make more people use IE.
4) IE's default homepage is MSN.
5) MSN is benefiting from IE's monopoly and unfair business practices against opera.
So perhaps that fits the definition more closely?
(can't help my self...)
6) ???
7) Make money
Come one, it's got linux in the title, does that make it news?
But that being said, this could push the number of people using linux, closer and closer to the number of people using windows. Hell, it might even overtake in shear numbers eventually.
The wrong people are financially liable in our current system. Right now, the main burden is on the people the patent owner is sueing.
There should be a way to sue patent owners for trivial patents, and a way to sue the patent office for really obvious inventions.
Software engineers don't get off easy, they just work under different constraints.
An engineer designing a bridge, chemical reactor, or building, knows exactly where it will would go. I have never seen a bridge that can be placed over any river.
I wonder if the EU were to find MS guilty, and specify a bunch of things they have to do to windows, if that would stretch world-wide or just in the jurisdiction of the EU. Since MS is a US company, I always assumed a lawsuit against them in the US would be world-wide, but now I wonder.
I also wonder about the civil suits. Sun sued microsoft to get java included in a US court. Does it apply everywhere, just in the US, just where MS and Sun do business, just where some trade treaty says?
Um... no.
You can't move "cold" inside. You can only move heat energy out. The whole conversation of energy thing kicks in.
Now, on a warm day (warmer than you want to keep your server room) it will require more energy to move that heat outside.
It's nearly 100% efficient to turn electricity into heat. It is no where near that efficient to move heat around.
With the army's recent foray into the video game biz, do you think we'll se a "video game" that's purpose is to hack into Iraq? Of course, whether or not the video game is a simulation or not is anyone's guess.
Because the government broke the law against him.
It is illegal to ignore someone's constitutional rights. He suffered due to this. It ain't a bad thing if he now can get some relief with being a hero. Maybe it will teach the justice department something?
Oh wait..
I missed a point. This is for existing hardware already deployed. Takes a bit of wind out of my comment. But still, for future hardware, why not something like that.
I'm no crypto expert, and many of those suggestions make perfect sense. But I wonder if some of those suggestions decrease the strength of encryption? Perhaps there should be a paper that tells hardware makers how to create hardware to support some of these features that the cryptogaphers want. Or better yet, if the cryptographers could do whatever they want, but then somehoe make multiple versions of their algorithms that follow various subsets of these rules. Then list the drawbacks to using each one. Of course, this would probably create way too much work for those guys.
You mean I could moon the telemarketers that call? :)