For using the BSD implementation of this, that, or the other?
Uhh, no, I don't think so. Isn't BSD allowed to be used any damned way anybody wants to use it? That's the selling point of BSD over the GPL, isn't it? You can analyze it, use it, change it, make derivative works, then license those works as you see fit. It's appealing to industry, it's appealing to hopeful startups, it's even appealing to government and private individuals who are hoping to cash in.
Yes, Microsoft is parasitic, but not for using a BSD licensed software or method.
If BSD's methods and software happen to be the best, fastest, most secure, and most elegant solution in any given situation - take it and run with it. That's basically what the license says.
If the GPL people want their license to be respected, then the BSD licenses need to be respected.
And, lest I be misunderstood - I am NOT making an argument that BSD is better than GPL, nor am I arguing that GPL is better than BSD.
Is a fine not a forfeiture of assets? I don't mean to be - uhhh - pedantic is the right term? But, the idea of a fine is to discourage certain conduct. I think that what you are really suggesting is, fines are levied against trolls far to infrequently, and the fines are much to small.
Maybe a single fine shouldn't be ruinous to any person or to any company - but trolls should be racking up these penalties every time they go into court. Cumulatively, these fines should be ruinous.
"who wouldnt be first to line up and patent something if they actually came up with something cool?"
I presume that you're familiar with the name "Linus Torvalds"? Copyleft authors are legion and myriad. It's not unusual to see a license that says something to the effect, "Hey, enjoy my cool stuff, for free! If you really like it, visit my homepage to leave compliments or to make a donation!"
Nice story and all. Good moral, too. Cooperating with your IT department can only help everyone.
The flaw here, is that the vendor has not been warned that the hospital's IT department is going to be pentesting. Apparently, there is no contract, no new letter, no statement of policy. The vendor simply discovered that someone is testing his defenses, and the IP addresses have led him to believe the hospital is responsible.
It's possible that bad guys are doing all this testing, and the people at the hospital aren't really aware of what is happening.
Contacting the hospital's administration seems to be in order here.
I'm aware of that, you're 100% correct, but you're preaching to the choir.;^) But, since I was citing Jim Baen, I chose to use his and his author's choices of words and analogies.
Baen pretty much proved that you can only make money when you distribute your digital stuff for free. You can't "lose" money.
Citations? It's been shown again and again that the music industry makes truckloads of money, every single year. The corporations that invest in these overnight wonders have never had a "loss". They make money no matter the economy.
The only claims for losses are hyperinflated bullshit tales told to lawmakers, when speaking in favor of ever stricter copyright law.
If you read the various comments from people who don't live in the US, you might see that you're looking at the problem sideways or something.
Other countries make it possible to rely on public transportation. Granted, trains will never be the complete solution, but as nearly as I can see, our trains are almost useless. Historically, England gets a great deal of use out it's trains. Other nations do as well.
I don't know the right way to view the transportation problem. My view is likely as skewed as yours is. The problems can be solved, but we don't do it.
We have built our society, here in the US, to center around automobiles. And, that is probably the real problem. Lawmakers, decision makers, everyone with any kind of control over public transportation is trying to make buses, trains, bike routes, and whatever else fit into an automobile-centric society.
I'm not the one trying to make a living by entertaining people. In fact, I'm very UNentertaining. People pay to not see or to hear me.
What I know for sure is, gaming is trying to follow in the footsteps of the music and movie industries. They really need to back up, look at reality, and find another way to go.
I no longer play games. I got tired of them. But, I know for a fact, that purchasing a game, only to run into DRM bullshit only forces people to torrent the cracked versions. I did it, and I've watched my sons do it. Whether it's a CD check, or an online activation check, or whatever, if I have to jump through a hoop to play the game, it's not worth playing. Just grab the cracked version, and you don't have to jump ANY hoops.
Just entertain people, and see if they reward you. Stop treating entertainment like it has to be a big business. Don't spend 3 million dollars developing a game, in the hopes that you'll make twelve million in sales. That's just retarded Hollywierd thinking.
I don't really like trains very much - but you're right. People rarely die on trains. One person's mishap on or near a train seldom brings fellow travelers to a screeching halt, to wait for cops, ambulances, and wreckers to arrive. I really think trains kinda suck - but they suck a lot less than our current system.
Biggest problem with trains, as I see it, is that they never go where a guy needs to go. The city and state decide where the train is going, they build it, then it's up to everyone else to live along the tracks, or do without public transportation.
Something needs to be done - but at this late date, I don't expect ANYTHING intelligent to be done.
They put free books online. They are free as in free beer, just download it and enjoy. Free, free, free. Baen pirated the books himself, opening his own warez site to do so.
Multiple authors have noted that soon after putting the book online for free, sales of that book skyrocket. Mostly, they put older, out of print books online, but that book immediately sells like hotcakes in bookstores around the nation. Hell, around the world, I guess. Not only does that particular book sell, but related books sell (anthologies and such). PLUS - the author notices an increase in his other works.
Free publicity always pays.
Entertain the masses, and the masses will reward you. Being a dick about your "intellectual property" just pisses people off. Many gamers have told us the same thing, right here on slashdot. Jim Baen agreed, he put his money where his mouth was, and he proved the theory to be right.
Rest in Peace, Jim Baen - the world needs a lot more people like you!
Copyright infringement is not comparable to bank robbing. At it's worst, it's comparable to children snitching candy. It's a problem that doesn't really need solving. Piracy is free advertising.
I'm not interested in "protecting" "intellectual property". Entertain the people, and the people will reward you.
Sorry - DRM is still evil. I might consider a game or something that I have to connect to the internet ONE TIME for verification. Every thirty days after? No sale. No phone home features, thank you very much.
My first thoughts were along those lines. Non-volatile memory will require a good deal of re-thinking about security. If you don't want your system state to be recoverable by your girl friend or the district attorney, you'll have to take measures to ensure that system state is NOT saved at shut down.
Then, there are power failures. The dog ran under the desk, and came out with the end of your power cord draped between his ears. The UPS isn't much good in that case. So, how does the system handle this, when using non-volatile memory?
Configuration files need tweaking, that's almost certain!
App Armor - check. Gnash - check. Javascript - whitelist and per session, check. forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, - OOPS! Yeah, my browser can open files in my home folder - fixing that! DUHHH!
The ONLY whitelisted WIFI is the one I own.
Rooting a mobile device? How else do you get rid of un-needed, un-wanted crap installed by the telco? Cyanogen Mod!
Not in this country. No one has a vision longer than the next election. I mean, NO ONE! And, they don't have a memory longer than the last election, either. This is why we have no five year plans, ten year plans, 25 year plans, or 100 year plans. We have no plans, period. We just lounge around, taking it easy, bullshitting the world into thinking we're something great.
Hmmm. Where do I fit into all of this? I run Linux Mint Debian. I've basically turned the firewall off, on the computer and at the router. No antivirus. But, I'm up to date with a rolling distro. Although I have three versions of Java installed, my browsers don't know about them. Flash is installed, and disabled by default. Javascript is disabled by default, but I can select sites on which to run it. In the unlikely event that I am pwned - how liable do you think I should be? Are my precautions adequate?
Didn't Brown University patent a chicken and cheese sandwich around 1750 or so? Maybe I have the date wrong, but obviously, Brown has the patent. If you want to sell chicken and cheese sandwiches, you need to get a license.
No argument there. But you down in the engine room, boiler room, diesel room, can't be out and about cleaning up after every slob who wants to leave his trash lying about, right? Boats is responsible for topside cleanliness, storekeepers and cooks responsible for all the storerooms, ships servicemen responsible for their spaces - etc.
And, CHENG would have already been on your asses for a pile of woodchips lying in the engine room, if you didn't clean it up yourself.
Ohhh-kay. It would be cool. And, it would have some cool uses. But, HTF are you going to make it work? You've got to store a bunch of aromatic chemicals, to be released in the right combination, on demand. Hmmm - a Lemon Pledge sized can of aromatics, attached to an electronic device. Wow. Can anyone spell "Terrorist Hijacking"? And, I'm not even touching on the program that's going to mix those aromatics up in the proper proportions, for release into the atmosphere for your sniffing pleasure.
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Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.
Is Microsoft parasitic? Undeniably.
For using the BSD implementation of this, that, or the other?
Uhh, no, I don't think so. Isn't BSD allowed to be used any damned way anybody wants to use it? That's the selling point of BSD over the GPL, isn't it? You can analyze it, use it, change it, make derivative works, then license those works as you see fit. It's appealing to industry, it's appealing to hopeful startups, it's even appealing to government and private individuals who are hoping to cash in.
Yes, Microsoft is parasitic, but not for using a BSD licensed software or method.
If BSD's methods and software happen to be the best, fastest, most secure, and most elegant solution in any given situation - take it and run with it. That's basically what the license says.
If the GPL people want their license to be respected, then the BSD licenses need to be respected.
And, lest I be misunderstood - I am NOT making an argument that BSD is better than GPL, nor am I arguing that GPL is better than BSD.
Is a fine not a forfeiture of assets? I don't mean to be - uhhh - pedantic is the right term? But, the idea of a fine is to discourage certain conduct. I think that what you are really suggesting is, fines are levied against trolls far to infrequently, and the fines are much to small.
Maybe a single fine shouldn't be ruinous to any person or to any company - but trolls should be racking up these penalties every time they go into court. Cumulatively, these fines should be ruinous.
"who wouldnt be first to line up and patent something if they actually came up with something cool?"
I presume that you're familiar with the name "Linus Torvalds"? Copyleft authors are legion and myriad. It's not unusual to see a license that says something to the effect, "Hey, enjoy my cool stuff, for free! If you really like it, visit my homepage to leave compliments or to make a donation!"
Nice story and all. Good moral, too. Cooperating with your IT department can only help everyone.
The flaw here, is that the vendor has not been warned that the hospital's IT department is going to be pentesting. Apparently, there is no contract, no new letter, no statement of policy. The vendor simply discovered that someone is testing his defenses, and the IP addresses have led him to believe the hospital is responsible.
It's possible that bad guys are doing all this testing, and the people at the hospital aren't really aware of what is happening.
Contacting the hospital's administration seems to be in order here.
Got one for burns suffered during atmospheric reentry after sky diving from the space station? That would be cool - or hot, or something.
I'm aware of that, you're 100% correct, but you're preaching to the choir. ;^) But, since I was citing Jim Baen, I chose to use his and his author's choices of words and analogies.
Baen pretty much proved that you can only make money when you distribute your digital stuff for free. You can't "lose" money.
Citations? It's been shown again and again that the music industry makes truckloads of money, every single year. The corporations that invest in these overnight wonders have never had a "loss". They make money no matter the economy.
The only claims for losses are hyperinflated bullshit tales told to lawmakers, when speaking in favor of ever stricter copyright law.
If you read the various comments from people who don't live in the US, you might see that you're looking at the problem sideways or something.
Other countries make it possible to rely on public transportation. Granted, trains will never be the complete solution, but as nearly as I can see, our trains are almost useless. Historically, England gets a great deal of use out it's trains. Other nations do as well.
I don't know the right way to view the transportation problem. My view is likely as skewed as yours is. The problems can be solved, but we don't do it.
We have built our society, here in the US, to center around automobiles. And, that is probably the real problem. Lawmakers, decision makers, everyone with any kind of control over public transportation is trying to make buses, trains, bike routes, and whatever else fit into an automobile-centric society.
I'm not the one trying to make a living by entertaining people. In fact, I'm very UNentertaining. People pay to not see or to hear me.
What I know for sure is, gaming is trying to follow in the footsteps of the music and movie industries. They really need to back up, look at reality, and find another way to go.
I no longer play games. I got tired of them. But, I know for a fact, that purchasing a game, only to run into DRM bullshit only forces people to torrent the cracked versions. I did it, and I've watched my sons do it. Whether it's a CD check, or an online activation check, or whatever, if I have to jump through a hoop to play the game, it's not worth playing. Just grab the cracked version, and you don't have to jump ANY hoops.
Just entertain people, and see if they reward you. Stop treating entertainment like it has to be a big business. Don't spend 3 million dollars developing a game, in the hopes that you'll make twelve million in sales. That's just retarded Hollywierd thinking.
I don't really like trains very much - but you're right. People rarely die on trains. One person's mishap on or near a train seldom brings fellow travelers to a screeching halt, to wait for cops, ambulances, and wreckers to arrive. I really think trains kinda suck - but they suck a lot less than our current system.
Biggest problem with trains, as I see it, is that they never go where a guy needs to go. The city and state decide where the train is going, they build it, then it's up to everyone else to live along the tracks, or do without public transportation.
Something needs to be done - but at this late date, I don't expect ANYTHING intelligent to be done.
If that is the most retarded FP you've ever seen - then you're obviously new here. Hang around awhile. Or, just scroll back through the archives.
You should read more of Jim Baen's free library.
They put free books online. They are free as in free beer, just download it and enjoy. Free, free, free. Baen pirated the books himself, opening his own warez site to do so.
Multiple authors have noted that soon after putting the book online for free, sales of that book skyrocket. Mostly, they put older, out of print books online, but that book immediately sells like hotcakes in bookstores around the nation. Hell, around the world, I guess. Not only does that particular book sell, but related books sell (anthologies and such). PLUS - the author notices an increase in his other works.
Free publicity always pays.
Entertain the masses, and the masses will reward you. Being a dick about your "intellectual property" just pisses people off. Many gamers have told us the same thing, right here on slashdot. Jim Baen agreed, he put his money where his mouth was, and he proved the theory to be right.
Rest in Peace, Jim Baen - the world needs a lot more people like you!
http://www.baen.com/library/prime_palaver1.asp
Copyright infringement is not comparable to bank robbing. At it's worst, it's comparable to children snitching candy. It's a problem that doesn't really need solving. Piracy is free advertising.
I'm not interested in "protecting" "intellectual property". Entertain the people, and the people will reward you.
Sorry - DRM is still evil. I might consider a game or something that I have to connect to the internet ONE TIME for verification. Every thirty days after? No sale. No phone home features, thank you very much.
"The challenge is distinguishing between low-level background noise and systematic hate speech that could be the beginning of something worse."
I wonder how it deals with locker room speech? Or, even worse, barracks speech? Probably best of all, send them to monitor prison speech.
I'm guessing that a group of moderately well behaved teamsters could set off alarms, and have the UN come running to save some race or another.
My first thoughts were along those lines. Non-volatile memory will require a good deal of re-thinking about security. If you don't want your system state to be recoverable by your girl friend or the district attorney, you'll have to take measures to ensure that system state is NOT saved at shut down.
Then, there are power failures. The dog ran under the desk, and came out with the end of your power cord draped between his ears. The UPS isn't much good in that case. So, how does the system handle this, when using non-volatile memory?
Configuration files need tweaking, that's almost certain!
App Armor - check.
Gnash - check.
Javascript - whitelist and per session, check.
forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, - OOPS! Yeah, my browser can open files in my home folder - fixing that! DUHHH!
The ONLY whitelisted WIFI is the one I own.
Rooting a mobile device? How else do you get rid of un-needed, un-wanted crap installed by the telco? Cyanogen Mod!
Not in this country. No one has a vision longer than the next election. I mean, NO ONE! And, they don't have a memory longer than the last election, either. This is why we have no five year plans, ten year plans, 25 year plans, or 100 year plans. We have no plans, period. We just lounge around, taking it easy, bullshitting the world into thinking we're something great.
Hmmm. Where do I fit into all of this? I run Linux Mint Debian. I've basically turned the firewall off, on the computer and at the router. No antivirus. But, I'm up to date with a rolling distro. Although I have three versions of Java installed, my browsers don't know about them. Flash is installed, and disabled by default. Javascript is disabled by default, but I can select sites on which to run it. In the unlikely event that I am pwned - how liable do you think I should be? Are my precautions adequate?
Didn't Brown University patent a chicken and cheese sandwich around 1750 or so? Maybe I have the date wrong, but obviously, Brown has the patent. If you want to sell chicken and cheese sandwiches, you need to get a license.
No argument there. But you down in the engine room, boiler room, diesel room, can't be out and about cleaning up after every slob who wants to leave his trash lying about, right? Boats is responsible for topside cleanliness, storekeepers and cooks responsible for all the storerooms, ships servicemen responsible for their spaces - etc.
And, CHENG would have already been on your asses for a pile of woodchips lying in the engine room, if you didn't clean it up yourself.
That's nonsense. My grandpa never mentioned a ladder to get into a velociraptor's saddle! You're making stuff up now!
Derp-a-derp - just call me a dumbass. Sometimes I allow my fingers to run away from my brain, and I haven't typed what I thought - sorry.
The 50 is the size of the waves, when the sea state is 8. Sorry bout that. :(
You demand recourse? Then run around the track, and do it again. No sweat here.
Ohhh-kay. It would be cool. And, it would have some cool uses. But, HTF are you going to make it work? You've got to store a bunch of aromatic chemicals, to be released in the right combination, on demand. Hmmm - a Lemon Pledge sized can of aromatics, attached to an electronic device. Wow. Can anyone spell "Terrorist Hijacking"? And, I'm not even touching on the program that's going to mix those aromatics up in the proper proportions, for release into the atmosphere for your sniffing pleasure.