How is it? Think of how this work with a game? For example, you buy the game and get, say, one limited edition weapon with the code, your computer crashes, and that weapon is lost unless you buy the game again. Sure, the game is still playable, but you still lost something when your computer crashed (other than your saved game of course). Then the problem would be worse for MMORPGs where, if you got a limited edition item for using the thing on your own computer, and that computer crashed, it could severely mess up the economy (then again though, most MMORPGs are subscription/serial-code-account based, so the game would just be downloaded for free off the game's website)
The problem isn't if Netbooks can handle web apps, it is the question of if they are usable on a tiny screen. For example, Google maps, though "usable" usually requires me to zoom out a bit on Firefox 3, go to fullscreen mode, and hide the sidebar in order for me to use it on my EEE (701, 4G Surf running eeeXubuntu).
Ummm... not sure what you are talking about, but Office has, and always will be available for the Mac, and most versions other than Office 2007 are emulated in WINE-like projects (such as Cross-Over and such)
This is excellent news for consumers. About the only area that technology is seriously lacking in, is cell phones. And it isn't because we don't have the capability, the iPhone and Android platforms proves that it isn't the case, but rather it is the cell phone companies.
I fail to see how Linspire was ever profitable. It didn't offer anything revolutionary and was basically Debian/Ubuntu with a few extra features that no one cared about. Can someone please enlighten me on how Linspire was ever a force in the market?
The problem isn't really that flaws were found, but that NYTimes refused to change them. If you look in 2600, you will see that even when hackers have posted step-by-step guides to 0wning S3rv3rs, the businesses just claim that it is supposed to be like that, or never getting around to fixing them.
Why is it that some business even when notified of a major security risk either say that it is functioning normally or not patch the thing right away? Do some businesses not have sysadmins or what? If I got an E-mail that said that my servers could be owned by such and such exploit by doing this and this, I would immediately take action.
Taxes? Don't come the "Private is best" crap with me whilst your government is propping up failing banks.
The problem is, that the government tried to regulate the economy which in turn caused the banks to fail (along with some stupid decisions by the CEOs). Ever heard of the FDIC, Taxes and the minimum wage? All those things are things that the government put in to regulate (and thus end up ruining) the economy.
Space being classified? Not really.
In that talk, he suggested that all software developed by the Federal Government should be released to the public domain or a very, very liberal open-source license. That's not even a copyleft license. Does the American public have any access to the source code currently on the Phoenix? Are there plans to make some of the source code available?
Well, no. There are no plans to make that available. And one of the issues that we have is that our spacecraft are designated as subject to international trafficking and arms regulations. So even --
Crypto regulations in exporting and such?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean even though these are not military spacecraft, the technology used in them is space technology. And so the State Department does not allow us to release anything that we've done in terms of technical details to foreign scrutiny. Now, in fact as I said, we have a team of Canadians. The Canadians delivered our meteorology instruments, and we had to be very careful about our relationship with them and how much we could disclose to them.
If private enterprise is so enterprising why weren't they up there before NASA or the USSR?
Ummm... Because they have to follow laws and don't have billions in capital? For example, the government can basically use whatever studies they feel like using, copyrighted or not, they can tax us and use all the money allocated for "defense" in order to fund the early rocket programs. Give a private company access to a few billions of dollars and tell them you can ignore all laws and tell them to make a rocket and they can.
Lets see... So you don't have to pay more taxes? So we can actually get info about space without it being classified? So we can solve the energy "crisis"?
The problem is, there aren't a ton of jobs for CS grads. Proprietary software is failing, and most companies now have a good senior sysadmin, and computer repair is clogged up with high school students. Not to mention that a lot of "code monkey" jobs can easily be shipped to where labor is cheap. So, where exactly do these people think they will be employed when most, if not all proprietary software companies have failed?
The Netbook needs to be cheap. Preferably in the $150-250 range. It should have a low to medium-end CPU, at least 256 MB of RAM and should run Linux (or if it has a high-end CPU at at least 512 MB of RAM, XP). It should have Wi-Fi out of the box, and a decent video card. It should have a minimum of 3 USB ports, and should be relatively shock resistant.
Wow, that Anti-Trust thing basically just said "Microsoft, you have a monopoly" and then Microsoft said, "So what are you going to do about it?". Really, other than a bit of money lost and a tad bit of bad press, it didn't do much to MS.
The thing about roads is, though I don't think that the government should run roads or education, if we stopped maintaining either tomorrow, something bad would happen. And really, if the government stopped doing other things, it would find that it has plenty of tax dollars to make decent roads.
The problem with that is a lot of people don't have/don't use printers. Take that times the high price of ink, and the fact that the barcode could be smeared or otherwise damaged, it wouldn't really work.
The problem is, the ones we vote back in will be just as corrupt. Unless we can manage to vote in RMS, and a few others, there is going to be no one for our freedoms and rights. A lot of this results from people blindly voting republican or democrat without looking at the candidate, and when there is so little information about senators and representatives if they haven't served before, that is just how they have to vote.
If you are making a voting machine, I hope it neither runs GNOME nor KDE, nor Enlightenment! It should run as minimal as possible, not only to save hardware costs, but to cut down on local vulnerabilities (the thing shouldn't be networked, so remote ones shouldn't matter).
Well, lets see. if you look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Total_music_market_2003.png where it gives the total music market in 2003, you can see that, although the US is huge, if you combine the EU and Japan, they outweigh it. And in when buying singles, the EU and Japan are ahead of the USA.
No. What we need is a truly free economy that means A) No minimum wage, B) Copyright law where unless you are making money on the product you can pirate all you want C) Little to no patents D) The government stays out except to 1) Protect us 2) create general law and order 3) give a basic education and 4) maintain roads. If all those were followed, we would have no economic crisis.
I don't think we want to go to a route like China, where lax IP enforcements stunt their domestic IP growth.
No, it is oppressive governments that stunt their domestic IP growth. And in the past few years we are heading to an oppressive government. And honestly, take out the oppressive government and China is doing just fine.
How? Lets see, aside from some US movies and music along with Apple or Microsoft, most of the other IP is made in Asia. Just about every video game, from Mario, to Final Fantasy are made in Japan. All the major console manufacturers with the exception of MS, are based in Japan. There are a few US based studios, but for most console games, they are developed in Japan.
With all the GCC bugs Linux has? With the poor track record on security?
The bugs usually don't affect the ability to compile code effectively. And I'm sure Solaris has just as many security flaws, it just is less audited as it is proprietary software (with the exception of OpenSolaris which has downloadable source code but I'm not sure if it is OSS) and not used as much as Linux, not to mention that every proprietary software company in existence spends money on "studies" to find security flaws in Linux so they can proclaim that *insert OS here* is much more secure and stable than Linux, Solaris has a lower marketshare so it is less targeted by these "studies".
For apps, on Unix, thanks, but no thanks. Not with that sloppy "release early, release often" process. Even the LHC project had security problems due to Linux. Wake up!
Release early, release often usually makes applications more secure and stable in the long run though.
And I'm sure that if the exact same software was running on a Solaris box it would have magically been immune to the attack?
This incident occured at 10:13 on 10th September.
Due to an incorrect configuration in a private account on one of the CMS Web servers, it became possible to overwrite a Web page. The issue was detected within a few hours and full CMS operations were always guaranteed.
The problem is understood, has been corrected, and as part of the review process started by CMS, the affected service has been terminated.
Security issues in Web applications are a common threat, and the CERN Security Team recommends all service managers to review the security of their web applications. More information is available at:
http://cern.ch/security/webapps/
The CERN Security Team
One or at most 2 will become defacto standards and the others will fade away.
We already have that. We have Red Hat (RPM) based distros and Debian (APT) based distros. Just about any major distro can fall into that category, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Yellow Dog, and even openSUSE can be considered to be with Red Hat based (RPM) distros. On the other hand, Ubuntu, Debian, KNOPPIX, Xandros, DSL, etc.
There has also been a lot of talk about LSB that could help unification (which, honestly IMO is not needed and will just be a waste of work on distros for a failed standard)
MacOS could become dominant
I can't see Apple wanting OS X to become dominant. They make $$$ of of hardware sales to fanboys. The die-hard Mac fans. Apple honestly wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand if Macs had 25% or more of the marketshare. Apple is happy to sell iPods to everyone and keep the Macs for the fanboys. Now, they want OS X to have access to all major software and to have drivers, so they don't want too low of a marketshare, but I can't see Apple wanting OS X to have more than 10% of the marketshare. Much as how Ferrari doesn't want us all to be driving Ferraris, it loses the prestige of driving one.
In the worst case scenario the desktop and server segments become so fragmented that you'll have dozens of versions of each app - 1 per OS.
Ummm... How is that bad? There are dozens of versions of Apache, one for each OS, yet it still manages to be a unified server. And dozens of separate distro specific Linux kernels but just about all are compatible with all programs (when the proper libraries are installed).
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How is it? Think of how this work with a game? For example, you buy the game and get, say, one limited edition weapon with the code, your computer crashes, and that weapon is lost unless you buy the game again. Sure, the game is still playable, but you still lost something when your computer crashed (other than your saved game of course). Then the problem would be worse for MMORPGs where, if you got a limited edition item for using the thing on your own computer, and that computer crashed, it could severely mess up the economy (then again though, most MMORPGs are subscription/serial-code-account based, so the game would just be downloaded for free off the game's website)
The problem isn't if Netbooks can handle web apps, it is the question of if they are usable on a tiny screen. For example, Google maps, though "usable" usually requires me to zoom out a bit on Firefox 3, go to fullscreen mode, and hide the sidebar in order for me to use it on my EEE (701, 4G Surf running eeeXubuntu).
Ummm... not sure what you are talking about, but Office has, and always will be available for the Mac, and most versions other than Office 2007 are emulated in WINE-like projects (such as Cross-Over and such)
This is excellent news for consumers. About the only area that technology is seriously lacking in, is cell phones. And it isn't because we don't have the capability, the iPhone and Android platforms proves that it isn't the case, but rather it is the cell phone companies.
I fail to see how Linspire was ever profitable. It didn't offer anything revolutionary and was basically Debian/Ubuntu with a few extra features that no one cared about. Can someone please enlighten me on how Linspire was ever a force in the market?
Nothing. However the files are (currently) DRM-ed so that even though I can post a ROM of some WiiWare game, it only works for my Wii.
The problem isn't really that flaws were found, but that NYTimes refused to change them. If you look in 2600, you will see that even when hackers have posted step-by-step guides to 0wning S3rv3rs, the businesses just claim that it is supposed to be like that, or never getting around to fixing them.
Why is it that some business even when notified of a major security risk either say that it is functioning normally or not patch the thing right away? Do some businesses not have sysadmins or what? If I got an E-mail that said that my servers could be owned by such and such exploit by doing this and this, I would immediately take action.
Taxes? Don't come the "Private is best" crap with me whilst your government is propping up failing banks.
The problem is, that the government tried to regulate the economy which in turn caused the banks to fail (along with some stupid decisions by the CEOs). Ever heard of the FDIC, Taxes and the minimum wage? All those things are things that the government put in to regulate (and thus end up ruining) the economy.
Space being classified? Not really.
In that talk, he suggested that all software developed by the Federal Government should be released to the public domain or a very, very liberal open-source license. That's not even a copyleft license. Does the American public have any access to the source code currently on the Phoenix? Are there plans to make some of the source code available? Well, no. There are no plans to make that available. And one of the issues that we have is that our spacecraft are designated as subject to international trafficking and arms regulations. So even -- Crypto regulations in exporting and such? Yeah. Yeah. I mean even though these are not military spacecraft, the technology used in them is space technology. And so the State Department does not allow us to release anything that we've done in terms of technical details to foreign scrutiny. Now, in fact as I said, we have a team of Canadians. The Canadians delivered our meteorology instruments, and we had to be very careful about our relationship with them and how much we could disclose to them.
From http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/the-software-behind-the-mars-p.html from the /. article http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/213211
If private enterprise is so enterprising why weren't they up there before NASA or the USSR?
Ummm... Because they have to follow laws and don't have billions in capital? For example, the government can basically use whatever studies they feel like using, copyrighted or not, they can tax us and use all the money allocated for "defense" in order to fund the early rocket programs. Give a private company access to a few billions of dollars and tell them you can ignore all laws and tell them to make a rocket and they can.
Lets see... So you don't have to pay more taxes? So we can actually get info about space without it being classified? So we can solve the energy "crisis"?
The problem is, there aren't a ton of jobs for CS grads. Proprietary software is failing, and most companies now have a good senior sysadmin, and computer repair is clogged up with high school students. Not to mention that a lot of "code monkey" jobs can easily be shipped to where labor is cheap. So, where exactly do these people think they will be employed when most, if not all proprietary software companies have failed?
The Netbook needs to be cheap. Preferably in the $150-250 range. It should have a low to medium-end CPU, at least 256 MB of RAM and should run Linux (or if it has a high-end CPU at at least 512 MB of RAM, XP). It should have Wi-Fi out of the box, and a decent video card. It should have a minimum of 3 USB ports, and should be relatively shock resistant.
Wow, that Anti-Trust thing basically just said "Microsoft, you have a monopoly" and then Microsoft said, "So what are you going to do about it?". Really, other than a bit of money lost and a tad bit of bad press, it didn't do much to MS.
The thing about roads is, though I don't think that the government should run roads or education, if we stopped maintaining either tomorrow, something bad would happen. And really, if the government stopped doing other things, it would find that it has plenty of tax dollars to make decent roads.
Next step would be to fire the people who think that E-voting systems should have anti-virus on them.
The problem with that is a lot of people don't have/don't use printers. Take that times the high price of ink, and the fact that the barcode could be smeared or otherwise damaged, it wouldn't really work.
The problem is, the ones we vote back in will be just as corrupt. Unless we can manage to vote in RMS, and a few others, there is going to be no one for our freedoms and rights. A lot of this results from people blindly voting republican or democrat without looking at the candidate, and when there is so little information about senators and representatives if they haven't served before, that is just how they have to vote.
If you are making a voting machine, I hope it neither runs GNOME nor KDE, nor Enlightenment! It should run as minimal as possible, not only to save hardware costs, but to cut down on local vulnerabilities (the thing shouldn't be networked, so remote ones shouldn't matter).
Well, lets see. if you look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Total_music_market_2003.png where it gives the total music market in 2003, you can see that, although the US is huge, if you combine the EU and Japan, they outweigh it. And in when buying singles, the EU and Japan are ahead of the USA.
No. What we need is a truly free economy that means A) No minimum wage, B) Copyright law where unless you are making money on the product you can pirate all you want C) Little to no patents D) The government stays out except to 1) Protect us 2) create general law and order 3) give a basic education and 4) maintain roads. If all those were followed, we would have no economic crisis.
I don't think we want to go to a route like China, where lax IP enforcements stunt their domestic IP growth.
No, it is oppressive governments that stunt their domestic IP growth. And in the past few years we are heading to an oppressive government. And honestly, take out the oppressive government and China is doing just fine.
How? Lets see, aside from some US movies and music along with Apple or Microsoft, most of the other IP is made in Asia. Just about every video game, from Mario, to Final Fantasy are made in Japan. All the major console manufacturers with the exception of MS, are based in Japan. There are a few US based studios, but for most console games, they are developed in Japan.
With all the GCC bugs Linux has? With the poor track record on security?
The bugs usually don't affect the ability to compile code effectively. And I'm sure Solaris has just as many security flaws, it just is less audited as it is proprietary software (with the exception of OpenSolaris which has downloadable source code but I'm not sure if it is OSS) and not used as much as Linux, not to mention that every proprietary software company in existence spends money on "studies" to find security flaws in Linux so they can proclaim that *insert OS here* is much more secure and stable than Linux, Solaris has a lower marketshare so it is less targeted by these "studies".
For apps, on Unix, thanks, but no thanks. Not with that sloppy "release early, release often" process. Even the LHC project had security problems due to Linux. Wake up!
Release early, release often usually makes applications more secure and stable in the long run though.
And I'm sure that if the exact same software was running on a Solaris box it would have magically been immune to the attack?
This incident occured at 10:13 on 10th September. Due to an incorrect configuration in a private account on one of the CMS Web servers, it became possible to overwrite a Web page. The issue was detected within a few hours and full CMS operations were always guaranteed. The problem is understood, has been corrected, and as part of the review process started by CMS, the affected service has been terminated. Security issues in Web applications are a common threat, and the CERN Security Team recommends all service managers to review the security of their web applications. More information is available at: http://cern.ch/security/webapps/ The CERN Security Team
According to http://it-support-servicestatus.web.cern.ch/it-support-servicestatus/IncidentArchive/080915-CMSMON.htm it was an idiot admin who misconfigured an account. You mean to tell me that admins don't make mistakes when running Solaris? Wow! I should totally switch over, perhaps I wouldn't ever make a typo or grammatical error either!
One or at most 2 will become defacto standards and the others will fade away.
We already have that. We have Red Hat (RPM) based distros and Debian (APT) based distros. Just about any major distro can fall into that category, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Yellow Dog, and even openSUSE can be considered to be with Red Hat based (RPM) distros. On the other hand, Ubuntu, Debian, KNOPPIX, Xandros, DSL, etc.
There has also been a lot of talk about LSB that could help unification (which, honestly IMO is not needed and will just be a waste of work on distros for a failed standard)
MacOS could become dominant
I can't see Apple wanting OS X to become dominant. They make $$$ of of hardware sales to fanboys. The die-hard Mac fans. Apple honestly wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand if Macs had 25% or more of the marketshare. Apple is happy to sell iPods to everyone and keep the Macs for the fanboys. Now, they want OS X to have access to all major software and to have drivers, so they don't want too low of a marketshare, but I can't see Apple wanting OS X to have more than 10% of the marketshare. Much as how Ferrari doesn't want us all to be driving Ferraris, it loses the prestige of driving one.
In the worst case scenario the desktop and server segments become so fragmented that you'll have dozens of versions of each app - 1 per OS.
Ummm... How is that bad? There are dozens of versions of Apache, one for each OS, yet it still manages to be a unified server. And dozens of separate distro specific Linux kernels but just about all are compatible with all programs (when the proper libraries are installed).