I wasn't calling you insane, I was just referring to the grandparent post's term. Actually, if I had more time, I'd probably be messing with the Modular X tree, myself - just not on Mom's machine.
This sane Gentoo user is just waiting for 7.0 to go stable. It might be fun to play with, but I've got less time than I need, right now.
But the big question... Is OpenGL hardware for S3 Savage in 7.0? My mom's machine has a KM133, (integrated Savage) and every now and then I'd like to have OpenGL on it, since Grandma's house is the place for Nostalgia Games. (Like Quake1 or Doom-era) But I'm clearly not putting anything but Stable on her machine, since most maintenance is from 600 miles away.
The situation is different for Universities vs ISPs. With the University it's, "You're a student here, you follow OUR rules, including network usage." With an ISP, it's a cross between, "We're letting you use OUR connection, follow OUR rules," and "Pretty please keep giving us money, and we'll keep giving you a connection." Most likely ISPs fear users voting with their feet, and don't want to alienate large amounts of money. (OTOH, geeks are only a small amount of money, so they're perfectly happy to enact alienating service (like NO services) rules.)
What I think we really need is something like vehicle inspection laws. An uninspected vehicle MAY be a hazard on the road, to yourself and others. Not that I'm advocating inspection or registration, but certain computers are a hazard on the Internet, and the ISPs may well need some sort of legal support for cutting them off. Perhaps "inspection" is appropriate, in that some method is needed to describe inappropriate behavior sufficient for getting cut off.
Again, the problem is that the DRM will/may be widely used. So you have 2 files, one expired and one current, both on your computer, though presumably in different directories, but they happen to use the same DRM scheme. In another directory you have your cracking tools to unencumber the expired file.
I'm going to guess that your going to have an awfully tough time asserting that you're ONLY cracking the expired file(s), and not the current file(s). I don't count much on "innocent until proven guilty," here. You have circumvention tools, you have protected files, even though you can assert that those are not the files you're circumventing. The ??AA has more lawyers than you.
On your first clause, you've got me. On your second clause, you've run smack into the limitations of the DMCA. As others in the other fork of this thread have said, the issue isn't technical, it's legal. With time and technological advance, we can unencumber any DRM - but the law prevents us from doing so. So this is a law that is counter to the spirit of the Constitution.
In that case, the DMCA would need a clause allowing reverse engineering of DRM on expired works. Obvious flaw - since the DRM hasn't changed, you've just reverse-engineered the DRM on non-expired works, as well. Its just plain simple, to be consistent with the Constitution of the United States, DRM needs a copyright expiration mechanism.
If I had pile$ of money, it seems to me that there's a Constitutional case here that could play before the Supremes.
Regardless of any specific time limit, be it "eternity - 1 day," the Constitution says that patents and copyrights last a limited time. DRM incorporates NO expiration mechanism, whatsoever. The reason for wanting DRM is that "bits last forever". If so, then those bits will outlast their copyright. The DRM needs to expire, and currently doesn't.
Bruce Schneier did just that. Sorry that I have no references available at the moment, but he did it with numbers. You can find it, starting by searching against his name.
Basically, his argument came down to numbers... There are LOTS and LOTS of legitimate telephone calls There are presumably only a few terrorist telephone calls. With any reasonable rates of false positives and false negatives, the NSA will be overwhelmed with the false positives, and STILL may miss the critical conversations that would have saved the day.
>Even if someone is a die-hard Republican who trusts the party religiously and believes that no wrongdoing has >ever been done by the administration, they need to consider the possibility that the tools and powers established >over the last 6 years may someday be in the hand of a Democrat president. For all the conservatives out there, >picture Hillary Clinton with unlimited wiretapping and information access.
Now you see why it's in the interest of National Security that the Republican Party remain in power, indefinitely. These powers are necessary to fight terrorism, and at the same time it's equally necessary that they not fall into the Wrong (Democrat) Hands. The mechanisms for handling this need not be mentioned, but they are clearly justified by the ends.
Count this one as fun conspiracy theory. To be honest, I suspect these folks are so busy dodging alligators that they haven't thought too hard about post-Bush. Plus how much of this capability is really embodied in a confluence of partisan staffers, and would simply evaporate with an administrative change.
Besides, the Democrats are in such disarray there isn't much threat of them taking the Office, soon. Besides, the Republicans may choose to lose in 2008, depending on when the financial (debt) crash is expected. Though maybe they don't anticipate a crash, and think they're right on plan, starving the beast, and getting set to roll back every vestige of post-Hoover government.
I guess I watched too much TV as a kid, though I only saw one episode or so of this one...
"Run for your Life", starring Ben Gazarra. Probably late 60's. Quick synopsis: There's something funny about his blood - a transfusion form him makes people get better. There's some old rich guy who's kind of sickly, and wants to keep on living. So he wants to capture the character played by Ben Gazarra and keep him on hand for blood tranfusions. Meanwhile, Ben's character doesn't like this idea, so he's constantly on the run. There may have been subplots about others interested in his blood, his basic desire to do good balanced against freedom, etc.
Usually customers tell you their wants, not their needs.
Finding what the customer wants, really isn't that hard, despite the troubles some companies have at doing it.
Divining what the customer needs, as opposed to what he wants, is on a higher plane. It's all the more difficult because of the temptation to convince yourself that the customer really needs (as opposed to what he wants) just happens to be what you're ready to supply.
Finally, there's figuring out what the customer will need or want - let's face it, what the customer is ready to repeatedly plunk down $$$ for, when the customer doesn't currently realize that for himself and isn't asking.
Or how about, "My SCSI driver died but my system is still running! Good thing the device manager daemon is there to: 1:Save the open file pointers on the SCSI devices, 2:Terminate the old SCSI management task, 3:Start a new SCSI management task, 4:Restore the file pointers. I was delayed a moment, but didn't lose any data."
In a *good* microkernel, if Mr. SCSI went bad, the corruption would have been limited, anyway. Flush/restart should be sufficient.
Is this the golden opportunity for Microsoft to shut down OpenGL and Make Direct3D the One True Way to do graphics? Before anyone else says "antitrust", THIS administration wouldn't stop it.
Because unlike the NRA, computer manufacturers have absolutely no clout with Congress, and the ??AA does. If guns were subject to controls like those proposed for computing equipment, they'd give up and go out of business.
As long as you don't actually kill someone, it sure looks to me as if the penalty is less for actually misbehaving with a gun than it is being accused of "illegal downloading" with a computer.
That's why.
The real question to ask is why America is perfectly happy and ready to throw away its technology industry for STUPID actions which will only save its entertainment industry in the short term.
I went to a local screening of "Why We Fight" where the director was present, and had a Q&A after. Something he said cued me to do a search, and that's how I found the Lincoln quote. I guess I'll have to go looking for a "sig-bite" (to maybe coin a new term) from Ike or Smedley Butler. I removed the.sig on another tab while creating this. Don't know if it will take effect, yet.
Either 1968 or 1969, so I'm showing my age. Prior to 2001, spaceships in movies were all aerodynamic, had wings, etc. They also spent practically all of their time spewing flames (or other force-glow) out the back end, instead of mostly coasting between spurts of acceleration.
Won't argue with G effects on the people. It's just that in space, you can't use aerodynamic forces on the wings to do a banked turn. To do a tight, accelerating turn, your main thrust has to be pointed approximately directly away from the centerpoint of the turn. I say approximately because most of your acceleration will be radial, with the leftover for tangential.
I'm reparenting to your post, but sort of responding to the guy who referred to your the_duke_of_hazzard userid.
I went to the theatre to see Star Wars when it first came out, I was in college at the time. My basic thought was, kind of fun, but it's really a swashbuckler, not science fiction.
It took until 2001: A Space Odyssey to get away from aerodynamic, winged spaceships that made noise in space. Star Wars kept spaceships "lumpy", but really tacked on technobabble rather than function. For a fighter that takes off from a planet, I guess maybe wings would be acceptable, but making banked turns in space isn't. Nor is noise, except in a cockpit shot.
I'll have to disagree. Bribes^H^H^H^H^HCampaign contributions for Democrats are just not money well spent, with the current Congress. Democrats simply have not power, and that money would simply be wasted. The 2006 elections don't have to tip Congress, just bring things closer to even, and the opportunity for Democrats to ca$h in will improve.
Interoperability and cross-platform are seldom in the best interests of an industry dominator. If they start to use words like those, then watch out. Most often it just means that they're looking to swallow a new market, and need an entry hook.
DX10 is compelling!! As soon as Vista is released, run out and buy it!! As soon as DX10 graphics cards are released, run out and buy one!! As soon as other hardware requirments are firmed up, buy new!!
Revenue streams are counting on you!
Oops, I forgot to tell you to buy those new DX10 games.
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I wonder if the driver for the super-secret keylogger is complete yet, so the Party can spy on the US.
I wasn't calling you insane, I was just referring to the grandparent post's term. Actually, if I had more time, I'd probably be messing with the Modular X tree, myself - just not on Mom's machine.
This sane Gentoo user is just waiting for 7.0 to go stable. It might be fun to play with, but I've got less time than I need, right now.
But the big question...
Is OpenGL hardware for S3 Savage in 7.0?
My mom's machine has a KM133, (integrated Savage) and every now and then I'd like to have OpenGL on it, since Grandma's house is the place for Nostalgia Games. (Like Quake1 or Doom-era) But I'm clearly not putting anything but Stable on her machine, since most maintenance is from 600 miles away.
Constitution aside, as seems so easy these days, the definition of "Treason" is up to Ann Coulter.
After all, she wrote the book.
(Insert inappropriate emoticon here, since an appropriate one does not exist.)
I would have thought that one of the top guys would either be Nigerian, or at least claim to be Nigerian.
I'm disappointed. I was SO eager to help repatriate some money.
The situation is different for Universities vs ISPs. With the University it's, "You're a student here, you follow OUR rules, including network usage." With an ISP, it's a cross between, "We're letting you use OUR connection, follow OUR rules," and "Pretty please keep giving us money, and we'll keep giving you a connection." Most likely ISPs fear users voting with their feet, and don't want to alienate large amounts of money. (OTOH, geeks are only a small amount of money, so they're perfectly happy to enact alienating service (like NO services) rules.)
What I think we really need is something like vehicle inspection laws. An uninspected vehicle MAY be a hazard on the road, to yourself and others. Not that I'm advocating inspection or registration, but certain computers are a hazard on the Internet, and the ISPs may well need some sort of legal support for cutting them off. Perhaps "inspection" is appropriate, in that some method is needed to describe inappropriate behavior sufficient for getting cut off.
Again, the problem is that the DRM will/may be widely used. So you have 2 files, one expired and one current, both on your computer, though presumably in different directories, but they happen to use the same DRM scheme. In another directory you have your cracking tools to unencumber the expired file.
I'm going to guess that your going to have an awfully tough time asserting that you're ONLY cracking the expired file(s), and not the current file(s). I don't count much on "innocent until proven guilty," here. You have circumvention tools, you have protected files, even though you can assert that those are not the files you're circumventing. The ??AA has more lawyers than you.
On your first clause, you've got me.
On your second clause, you've run smack into the limitations of the DMCA. As others in the other fork of this thread have said, the issue isn't technical, it's legal. With time and technological advance, we can unencumber any DRM - but the law prevents us from doing so. So this is a law that is counter to the spirit of the Constitution.
In that case, the DMCA would need a clause allowing reverse engineering of DRM on expired works. Obvious flaw - since the DRM hasn't changed, you've just reverse-engineered the DRM on non-expired works, as well. Its just plain simple, to be consistent with the Constitution of the United States, DRM needs a copyright expiration mechanism.
If I had pile$ of money, it seems to me that there's a Constitutional case here that could play before the Supremes.
Regardless of any specific time limit, be it "eternity - 1 day," the Constitution says that patents and copyrights last a limited time. DRM incorporates NO expiration mechanism, whatsoever. The reason for wanting DRM is that "bits last forever". If so, then those bits will outlast their copyright. The DRM needs to expire, and currently doesn't.
Therefore, current DRM is unconstitutional.
Bruce Schneier did just that. Sorry that I have no references available at the moment, but he did it with numbers. You can find it, starting by searching against his name.
Basically, his argument came down to numbers...
There are LOTS and LOTS of legitimate telephone calls
There are presumably only a few terrorist telephone calls.
With any reasonable rates of false positives and false negatives, the NSA will be overwhelmed with the false positives, and STILL may miss the critical conversations that would have saved the day.
He said it much better than I.
>Even if someone is a die-hard Republican who trusts the party religiously and believes that no wrongdoing has
>ever been done by the administration, they need to consider the possibility that the tools and powers established
>over the last 6 years may someday be in the hand of a Democrat president. For all the conservatives out there,
>picture Hillary Clinton with unlimited wiretapping and information access.
Now you see why it's in the interest of National Security that the Republican Party remain in power, indefinitely. These powers are necessary to fight terrorism, and at the same time it's equally necessary that they not fall into the Wrong (Democrat) Hands. The mechanisms for handling this need not be mentioned, but they are clearly justified by the ends.
Count this one as fun conspiracy theory. To be honest, I suspect these folks are so busy dodging alligators that they haven't thought too hard about post-Bush. Plus how much of this capability is really embodied in a confluence of partisan staffers, and would simply evaporate with an administrative change.
Besides, the Democrats are in such disarray there isn't much threat of them taking the Office, soon.
Besides, the Republicans may choose to lose in 2008, depending on when the financial (debt) crash is expected. Though maybe they don't anticipate a crash, and think they're right on plan, starving the beast, and getting set to roll back every vestige of post-Hoover government.
I guess I watched too much TV as a kid, though I only saw one episode or so of this one...
"Run for your Life", starring Ben Gazarra. Probably late 60's.
Quick synopsis: There's something funny about his blood - a transfusion form him makes people get better. There's some old rich guy who's kind of sickly, and wants to keep on living. So he wants to capture the character played by Ben Gazarra and keep him on hand for blood tranfusions. Meanwhile, Ben's character doesn't like this idea, so he's constantly on the run. There may have been subplots about others interested in his blood, his basic desire to do good balanced against freedom, etc.
Usually customers tell you their wants, not their needs.
Finding what the customer wants, really isn't that hard, despite the troubles some companies have at doing it.
Divining what the customer needs, as opposed to what he wants, is on a higher plane. It's all the more difficult because of the temptation to convince yourself that the customer really needs (as opposed to what he wants) just happens to be what you're ready to supply.
Finally, there's figuring out what the customer will need or want - let's face it, what the customer is ready to repeatedly plunk down $$$ for, when the customer doesn't currently realize that for himself and isn't asking.
Double-Plus Core 2 Duo
Or how about,
"My SCSI driver died but my system is still running! Good thing the device manager daemon is there to:
1:Save the open file pointers on the SCSI devices,
2:Terminate the old SCSI management task,
3:Start a new SCSI management task,
4:Restore the file pointers.
I was delayed a moment, but didn't lose any data."
In a *good* microkernel, if Mr. SCSI went bad, the corruption would have been limited, anyway. Flush/restart should be sufficient.
Obviously the challenge becomes confinement.
Is this the golden opportunity for Microsoft to shut down OpenGL and Make Direct3D the One True Way to do graphics? Before anyone else says "antitrust", THIS administration wouldn't stop it.
Enquiring minds are curious.
Because unlike the NRA, computer manufacturers have absolutely no clout with Congress, and the ??AA does. If guns were subject to controls like those proposed for computing equipment, they'd give up and go out of business.
As long as you don't actually kill someone, it sure looks to me as if the penalty is less for actually misbehaving with a gun than it is being accused of "illegal downloading" with a computer.
That's why.
The real question to ask is why America is perfectly happy and ready to throw away its technology industry for STUPID actions which will only save its entertainment industry in the short term.
Rats. I guess I'll have to remove it.
.sig on another tab while creating this. Don't know if it will take effect, yet.
I went to a local screening of "Why We Fight" where the director was present, and had a Q&A after. Something he said cued me to do a search, and that's how I found the Lincoln quote. I guess I'll have to go looking for a "sig-bite" (to maybe coin a new term) from Ike or Smedley Butler. I removed the
Either 1968 or 1969, so I'm showing my age. Prior to 2001, spaceships in movies were all aerodynamic, had wings, etc. They also spent practically all of their time spewing flames (or other force-glow) out the back end, instead of mostly coasting between spurts of acceleration.
Won't argue with G effects on the people. It's just that in space, you can't use aerodynamic forces on the wings to do a banked turn. To do a tight, accelerating turn, your main thrust has to be pointed approximately directly away from the centerpoint of the turn. I say approximately because most of your acceleration will be radial, with the leftover for tangential.
I'm reparenting to your post, but sort of responding to the guy who referred to your the_duke_of_hazzard userid.
I went to the theatre to see Star Wars when it first came out, I was in college at the time. My basic thought was, kind of fun, but it's really a swashbuckler, not science fiction.
It took until 2001: A Space Odyssey to get away from aerodynamic, winged spaceships that made noise in space. Star Wars kept spaceships "lumpy", but really tacked on technobabble rather than function. For a fighter that takes off from a planet, I guess maybe wings would be acceptable, but making banked turns in space isn't. Nor is noise, except in a cockpit shot.
I'll have to disagree. Bribes^H^H^H^H^HCampaign contributions for Democrats are just not money well spent, with the current Congress. Democrats simply have not power, and that money would simply be wasted. The 2006 elections don't have to tip Congress, just bring things closer to even, and the opportunity for Democrats to ca$h in will improve.
Interoperability and cross-platform are seldom in the best interests of an industry dominator. If they start to use words like those, then watch out. Most often it just means that they're looking to swallow a new market, and need an entry hook.
Oh, gosh no! You've got it wrong.
DX10 is compelling!!
As soon as Vista is released, run out and buy it!!
As soon as DX10 graphics cards are released, run out and buy one!!
As soon as other hardware requirments are firmed up, buy new!!
Revenue streams are counting on you!
Oops, I forgot to tell you to buy those new DX10 games.