If you have followed the case, it is even worse than that, since this case revolves around NSI moving a domain name on an alleged forged letter. However, it does raise an interesting issue. While.net,.com,.org are by in large domains used by us entities, they are not restricted to such, any more than I am restriced from the.to (tonga) prefix on a site I run. Is the governing law on property the legal domicile of the registering authority? Or is it where the parties reside? or.... Another example: My.com site is registered through oznic which are the austrailian folks. If an american hijacks the name, is it american, or austrailian law that governs?
Hmm, my firend you are being a bit over sensitive. the boint is simple. And since you are a total bozo i will have to lay it end to end for you so that you can follow it the same way you have to follow the yellow line to find the outhouse. The government states that it didn't like the fact that some random "hacker" could be writing in Linux. My statement is that some random dork (such as yourself since you appear to have the mentality) could be writing the crap that M$ passes off as an os if they "hired" yopu as a microserf. However, since Linux, & etc. are open source, it is easier to isolate such faulty code and that further since there is greater critical review by the community at large, such things are of an immensely higher quality. And lastly (since you have the brain mass that would shame a slime mold), there is not the inherent conflict of interest that M$ has exhibited in attempting to "add value" by insedrting proprietary crap into their software that benefits nobody, but isolates other operating systems (see the current kerbos discussion for example). Now please fuck off like a good script kiddie and keep the ad hominem attacks to youself.
It is an excessively polite expression for the rear end of a cow that posts in the manner that you do. The point (similar to your head) is that M$ employs an awful lot of "wet behind the ears" programmers in their efforts. I hate to belabor the point but you expressed it yourself in a very elegant fashion.
I hate to be totally cynical, but most management could care less about what the effect of the actions are. What practically all managements in organizations beyond a couple of people are trying to do is to create dust smoke and the appearance of doing "something". The fact that their "something" has detracted from the profits of the owners of the company will be blamed on someone else, someplace else. If this results in an increase in staff, then they will demand a promotion. If they leave the company, then they will proudly trumpet their accomplishment of implementing this "something" on their resumes.
Just think of all the great waves of mergers followed by great waves of divestitures that occur on wall street. Most of this never brought a dime
to anyone outside of the legal departments of said firms and the management that thought it up.
Sadly, Pogo was right : "We have met the enemy and he is us".
Ah yes, we shall expunge the evil from our midst by removing all references to him. Why, the judge himself by the very act of linking to the links that link to DeCSS by means of the verbal content of his judgement has HIMSELF commited an act that is henous beyond belief. Librarians everywhere will be fourced to scour their card catalogs for the names of books that might contain a reference to a forbidden word, ideal, or reference a book that does. At least, this will provide authors everywhere with a good reason to not include a bibiography since it would be self incrimination to do so.
To state that this is a pot of imerious swill by a neo-victorian mentality is to understate the obvious. Bring your marshmellows and sticks boys, the 3rd Reich never had a book burning like we are in for...
Given the news that Intel is unable to provide Xeon processors in sufficient quantity to folks like Compaq (story in WSJ today, on the Register back on monday), even the demo of such a chip in a non-rigged demonstration probably means nothing. There aree all of 8 sellers of the 1 Ghz Pentium over on pricewatch. The price is over 1k$, there are close to 50 sellers of the 1Ghz Athlon. Lowest price by several vendors under $500. Somehow, just somehow, this move by Intel is worthy of the Russian Navy effort to rescue the submariners. Lots of chutzpah, lots of pride, not much worthy of any note. Kyrotech is expected to finish its 2Ghz Athlon by q4, I dare say that it will be available, cheaper and all the rest long before this chip ever sees the light of day.
You could get a lot of good PR out of porting a single app to the linux platform and therefore perhaps dodge the anti-trust bullet. "See, we are good guys after all, we have our most popular app on our biggest rivel operating system. Now please dismiss the case and let us rape and pillage like we want to." Hopefully, the world will not be deceived.
Its easy (these days) to dump on the Vax architecture. When it first came out, it was a bit of a marvel. These were the days when your memory was $3200 for a 256k byte plane of 72 bit ecc memory and cisc was the only way to go because of that fact. As a decendent of RSX-11M, VMS was an easy to use stable multi-user, real-time, multitasking os. Things that I still don't see in M$ products.
One thing that should be said is that the failure of the Vax line was a momument to the incompetance of Ken Olsen. His arrogance as to the future of the pc and his clueless marketing approach doomed Digital and the Vax line.
there are finally one or two folks offering the 1 ghz processor on pricewatch (at $1100+). this is almost 6 months after the announced the product. even if this processor is worth anything (and given their approach to the instruction set, the compiler support necessary to obtain full optimization of instruction scheduling is problematic), i figure its going to be a looooooong while before any of these see the light of day. intel is having to fight amd off amd bigtime has to play its fud card early and often. folks are beginning to catch on though, so its value is becoming less and less. somehow, i think you will see "hammers" in things before you see this hunk of silicon vaporchip.
OK, lets all repeat together: "This makes a difference". These folks must have a yellow line down the middle of the floor so that they can find the rest rooms at high noon. The "black hats" who want to encrypt things for bad purposes have already downloaded, obtained, etc. all the software they could ever want.. When will the US govt, the Austrailian govt, and all the rest of them realize that the net makes prohibitions of this sort totally ludicrous? Information used to be vaguely containable since you could physically intercept it and/or the means of trnasmission were fairly bulky. These days that is pretty much out of the question. Ah, my tax dollars at "work".
Why? The licensing of broadcasting is for the simple purpose of protecting the radio spectrum of the broadcaster against interference, not to protect the government or to regulate the content. Since streaming media does not "use up" radio spectrum, there is no reason for the government to regulate it any more than it would regulate a newspaper. The use of the internet to spread content is no more or no less than a telephone conference call that the end user can listen into at their whim.
I'm glad someone got to the core of the problem.
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Maturity is something that happens over time. Adolecent behavour is exactly that. Dicipline comes from the top. Alas, the examples that are held out to the kids these days don't seem to have that as their long suit.
Correct training in firearms (or any other martial art) is like correct training in any dicipline. It is about dicipline of the mind. You only get good if you subvert your desires to the nature of the task at hand. Kids who have this knowlege of themselves usually are able to generalize this ability to dicipline themselves to other areas with great sucess. Further, by challenging them to be responsible (with a firearm for instance), they usually rise to the challenge. I feel safe on the line with any of my kids, I wonder if the parents of the script kiddies could say the same.
Sorry, you are correct. Point remains the same though. The heat transfer occurs through the crashing of the Helium nucleus into the medium that extracts it. Too little sleep, too much BS when I wrote this, my apologies.
It is one of the great misconceptions that fusion is a "clean" power source. Far from it. It is probably going to be every bit as dirty as fission.The problem comes in how you extract the heat from the process. Fission extracts heat by impact of the neutrons into some surrounding media. This leaves the media chock full of various isotopes that must be dealt with. Unfortunately, extraction of heat from a fusion process is the same except that you are impacting with beta particles (helium nucleus). This also transmutes the jacket into an isotope soup. The favored extraction mechanism today of liquid sodium will have all sorts of radio-active gunk left in it after a period of time. Sorry, but that's the way it is when you bang stuff together...
Given this sort of "grassroots" stuff, can you blame Larry Ellison for attempting to uncover the Microsoft funding behind some of the orgs that filed amicus briefs in the anti-trust trial. M$ is a company that is willing to mis-represent anything and everything the benefit to its own agenda. This sort of blatent co-option of the potentially gullible would have done the communist party proud. Tell you what though, lets all join and then write our representatives that we demand that we have "Freedom to Innovate" by having the source code to Windoze published so we can write innovative applications by knowing what the APIs really are...
In his archtypically provincial French fashion (all things French are good, all things not French aren't). This guy is out to trash the things that are not French. He is not against multi-nationals like Periere (who owns Poland Spring from Maine), or the sewarage company that just combined with Seagrams, or Yoplait who sells yogurt in the USA or... He is just against McD's (USA the crass idiots) and Nestle (Swiss, can't be any good) etc. I dare say that he would change his tune in those countries (like Cuba or Iraq) where he would have to buy locally stuff produced stuff and not any of that nasty multi-national medicine or....
Bandwidth in terms of communication is a function of signal-to-noise of the channel. In principle, on a perfectly noise free channel, you could communicate the entire sum of man's knowledge by taking the number represented by the concatenated digits and emitting a pulse of exactly that many whatevers (volts, lumens, or...). Problem is that there is noise around, either in your receiver, or from someone else, or from the enviroment, that defeats this to a greater or lesser extent.
The question then really becomes: 1) how good can we make existing equipment wrt to signal to noise ratios, 2) how directional can we send our signals so we don't step on the next guy, and 3) what are the natural phenomina in the channel to begin with.
There is an immediate pre-judgement that folks would follow the link iff they were going to download from the pirated source. To be sure, there is more than a bit of that around, but the guilty till proved innocent attitude is beginning to grate.
However, we could extend this attitude for the greater good of all mankind. Just stop any and all cars on the thesis that they might eventually speed and just think how many lives you could save. Unfortunately, they did not extend this logic to the members of the RIAA at birth and drown them before they became murderers.
According to the story "A spokeswoman for Hitachi in the U.S. said the Toshiba agreement was not a factor in Hitachi's settlement and new licensing arrangement with Rambus. Hitachi also is not agreeing with Rambus' claim that it was violating the high-speed interface patents in SDRAMs and microprocessors, she added."
Again we have a company that makes Rambus products (and gets Rambus warrents for this) settling with Rambus. When a Rambus prevails over a company that does not make Rambus memory, I will start to worry bigtime. Till then I approach this one with suspicion.
Be is an interesting OS. I can perhaps understand a "multi-media" OS beating a "GP" Os on multi-media. What I would like someone to explain to be is why the same machine (a 333 P2) takes 16 hours to do a Seti work unit under Windoze 98 and 12 hours to do it under Beos. Doubt the compilers are all that different.The 16 hour figure is in line with a 6 hour figure on a 933 P3 with Rambust memory scaled by clock speed quoted recently by The Register, so I doubt its the machine or a bad OS setup. Can it be that there is a 33% "bloat penalty" to compute bound tasks under Windoze?
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If you have followed the case, it is even worse than that, since this case revolves around NSI moving a domain name on an alleged forged letter. However, it does raise an interesting issue. While .net, .com, .org are by in large domains used by us entities, they are not restricted to such, any more than I am restriced from the .to (tonga) prefix on a site I run. Is the governing law on property the legal domicile of the registering authority? Or is it where the parties reside? or.... Another example: My .com site is registered through oznic which are the austrailian folks. If an american hijacks the name, is it american, or austrailian law that governs?
Hmm, my firend you are being a bit over sensitive. the boint is simple. And since you are a total bozo i will have to lay it end to end for you so that you can follow it the same way you have to follow the yellow line to find the outhouse. The government states that it didn't like the fact that some random "hacker" could be writing in Linux. My statement is that some random dork (such as yourself since you appear to have the mentality) could be writing the crap that M$ passes off as an os if they "hired" yopu as a microserf. However, since Linux, & etc. are open source, it is easier to isolate such faulty code and that further since there is greater critical review by the community at large, such things are of an immensely higher quality. And lastly (since you have the brain mass that would shame a slime mold), there is not the inherent conflict of interest that M$ has exhibited in attempting to "add value" by insedrting proprietary crap into their software that benefits nobody, but isolates other operating systems (see the current kerbos discussion for example). Now please fuck off like a good script kiddie and keep the ad hominem attacks to youself.
Ah, you can aspire only to be one and shall never be the other. Now please be a nice script kiddie and go away and play with your viral basic.
It is an excessively polite expression for the rear end of a cow that posts in the manner that you do. The point (similar to your head) is that M$ employs an awful lot of "wet behind the ears" programmers in their efforts. I hate to belabor the point but you expressed it yourself in a very elegant fashion.
Just think of all the great waves of mergers followed by great waves of divestitures that occur on wall street. Most of this never brought a dime to anyone outside of the legal departments of said firms and the management that thought it up.
Sadly, Pogo was right : "We have met the enemy and he is us".
The evil of which you know is better than the evil of which you know not. At least you can find the problems and have them out in the open.
To state that this is a pot of imerious swill by a neo-victorian mentality is to understate the obvious. Bring your marshmellows and sticks boys, the 3rd Reich never had a book burning like we are in for...
Given the news that Intel is unable to provide Xeon processors in sufficient quantity to folks like Compaq (story in WSJ today, on the Register back on monday), even the demo of such a chip in a non-rigged demonstration probably means nothing. There aree all of 8 sellers of the 1 Ghz Pentium over on pricewatch. The price is over 1k$, there are close to 50 sellers of the 1Ghz Athlon. Lowest price by several vendors under $500. Somehow, just somehow, this move by Intel is worthy of the Russian Navy effort to rescue the submariners. Lots of chutzpah, lots of pride, not much worthy of any note. Kyrotech is expected to finish its 2Ghz Athlon by q4, I dare say that it will be available, cheaper and all the rest long before this chip ever sees the light of day.
You could get a lot of good PR out of porting a single app to the linux platform and therefore perhaps dodge the anti-trust bullet. "See, we are good guys after all, we have our most popular app on our biggest rivel operating system. Now please dismiss the case and let us rape and pillage like we want to." Hopefully, the world will not be deceived.
One thing that should be said is that the failure of the Vax line was a momument to the incompetance of Ken Olsen. His arrogance as to the future of the pc and his clueless marketing approach doomed Digital and the Vax line.
there are finally one or two folks offering the 1 ghz processor on pricewatch (at $1100+). this is almost 6 months after the announced the product. even if this processor is worth anything (and given their approach to the instruction set, the compiler support necessary to obtain full optimization of instruction scheduling is problematic), i figure its going to be a looooooong while before any of these see the light of day. intel is having to fight amd off amd bigtime has to play its fud card early and often. folks are beginning to catch on though, so its value is becoming less and less. somehow, i think you will see "hammers" in things before you see this hunk of silicon vaporchip.
OK, lets all repeat together: "This makes a difference". These folks must have a yellow line down the middle of the floor so that they can find the rest rooms at high noon. The "black hats" who want to encrypt things for bad purposes have already downloaded, obtained, etc. all the software they could ever want.. When will the US govt, the Austrailian govt, and all the rest of them realize that the net makes prohibitions of this sort totally ludicrous? Information used to be vaguely containable since you could physically intercept it and/or the means of trnasmission were fairly bulky. These days that is pretty much out of the question. Ah, my tax dollars at "work".
Why? The licensing of broadcasting is for the simple purpose of protecting the radio spectrum of the broadcaster against interference, not to protect the government or to regulate the content. Since streaming media does not "use up" radio spectrum, there is no reason for the government to regulate it any more than it would regulate a newspaper. The use of the internet to spread content is no more or no less than a telephone conference call that the end user can listen into at their whim.
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Does this now imply that this is the case within the entire EU? I suspect so, but could be wrong.
Correct training in firearms (or any other martial art) is like correct training in any dicipline. It is about dicipline of the mind. You only get good if you subvert your desires to the nature of the task at hand. Kids who have this knowlege of themselves usually are able to generalize this ability to dicipline themselves to other areas with great sucess. Further, by challenging them to be responsible (with a firearm for instance), they usually rise to the challenge. I feel safe on the line with any of my kids, I wonder if the parents of the script kiddies could say the same.
Sorry, you are correct. Point remains the same though. The heat transfer occurs through the crashing of the Helium nucleus into the medium that extracts it. Too little sleep, too much BS when I wrote this, my apologies.
It is one of the great misconceptions that fusion is a "clean" power source. Far from it. It is probably going to be every bit as dirty as fission.The problem comes in how you extract the heat from the process. Fission extracts heat by impact of the neutrons into some surrounding media. This leaves the media chock full of various isotopes that must be dealt with. Unfortunately, extraction of heat from a fusion process is the same except that you are impacting with beta particles (helium nucleus). This also transmutes the jacket into an isotope soup. The favored extraction mechanism today of liquid sodium will have all sorts of radio-active gunk left in it after a period of time. Sorry, but that's the way it is when you bang stuff together...
Given this sort of "grassroots" stuff, can you blame Larry Ellison for attempting to uncover the Microsoft funding behind some of the orgs that filed amicus briefs in the anti-trust trial. M$ is a company that is willing to mis-represent anything and everything the benefit to its own agenda. This sort of blatent co-option of the potentially gullible would have done the communist party proud. Tell you what though, lets all join and then write our representatives that we demand that we have "Freedom to Innovate" by having the source code to Windoze published so we can write innovative applications by knowing what the APIs really are...
In his archtypically provincial French fashion (all things French are good, all things not French aren't). This guy is out to trash the things that are not French. He is not against multi-nationals like Periere (who owns Poland Spring from Maine), or the sewarage company that just combined with Seagrams, or Yoplait who sells yogurt in the USA or... He is just against McD's (USA the crass idiots) and Nestle (Swiss, can't be any good) etc. I dare say that he would change his tune in those countries (like Cuba or Iraq) where he would have to buy locally stuff produced stuff and not any of that nasty multi-national medicine or....
The question then really becomes: 1) how good can we make existing equipment wrt to signal to noise ratios, 2) how directional can we send our signals so we don't step on the next guy, and 3) what are the natural phenomina in the channel to begin with.
However, we could extend this attitude for the greater good of all mankind. Just stop any and all cars on the thesis that they might eventually speed and just think how many lives you could save. Unfortunately, they did not extend this logic to the members of the RIAA at birth and drown them before they became murderers.
Again we have a company that makes Rambus products (and gets Rambus warrents for this) settling with Rambus. When a Rambus prevails over a company that does not make Rambus memory, I will start to worry bigtime. Till then I approach this one with suspicion.
At least its an honest programing langage with an honest background....
Be is an interesting OS. I can perhaps understand a "multi-media" OS beating a "GP" Os on multi-media. What I would like someone to explain to be is why the same machine (a 333 P2) takes 16 hours to do a Seti work unit under Windoze 98 and 12 hours to do it under Beos. Doubt the compilers are all that different.The 16 hour figure is in line with a 6 hour figure on a 933 P3 with Rambust memory scaled by clock speed quoted recently by The Register, so I doubt its the machine or a bad OS setup. Can it be that there is a 33% "bloat penalty" to compute bound tasks under Windoze?