it will also be used to justify criminalizing of people who find and reveal security exploits so that products "seem" more secure to joe clueless moron taxpayer because everyone who publicly states the truth will be silenced.
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; - US Constitution article I, section 8, clause 8"
he claims that this is a clear statement that a public good - the progress of science - can be acheived by keeping writings (in this case: code) exclusive to the author.
huh? since when has that clause been appropriate? certianly not since copyright was bought out by disney to last indefinately. certianly not since the patent office began issuing vague software and business method patents. his argument rests on broken foundations. the us constitution is not a great foundation (its just the lesser evil compares to most other countries')
its disappointing to see so many comments here acting as if this issue is somehow linux specific.
it's not. any non-windows user cannot read word documents. (mac users might be able to, but do all mac users have word? do all windows users for that matter?)
always ask -anyone- that sends word documents to send it in a readable format.
bending over and trying to use kword, staroffice, mswordview, or whatever to read it is the WORST thing you can do.
My cheapo DSL ISP (telocity, now DirecTVDSL) does this as well.
It's not the wrong thing to do provided, as is the case, my computers never have a need to talk directly to my ISPs intermediate routers and their intermediate routers never have a need to talk directly to my DSL hosts. So it shows up as an actual hop in the traceroute, big deal; you might as well think of it as your packet being tunneled through a cloud of routers running another protocol.
I am still free to use those addresses on my internal network all I want without any problems.
(well sort of, they make http://10.5.1.2/ hit the web interface on their proprietary dsl modem to check status, gather line speed and traffic statistics, etc. but so what; there's 24 million 10/8 addresses)
The DOS comm program "Telix" had a bytecode interpreted C-like language called "SALT" in which someone wrote a complete BBS program. I don't remember its name, though I ran it for a year. anyone else know?
i recently updated my slashdot profile preferences and started seeing these previously missed articles. sadly many others who would like to see them are probably missing them as well due to not bothering to try and customize stuff. ah well, i didn't write the shit.
invest that $10,000 you're about to spend on a brain cell wastage device in a good cause like a donation to the EFF so that you can actually record some of those digital HDTV broadcasts in the future...
See Ampltd for their Tiny886ULP PC-104 board with a crusoe processor. Add 802.11 to that using CompactFlash or USB and you've got a low wattage high performance x86 system.
(other pc-104 boards with much slower cpus are available for a bit less money)
i have to disagree on the 40-60kbit/sec point, a store bought vhs tape of your favorite recent movie has very good sounding audio. I have never heard a 64kbit/sec mp3 of a song that would sound very good on a home stereo. vhs sound does.
I second this opinion. I make CD-Rs full of 256kbit/sec MP3s out of my audio cd collection. There are plenty of devices that can play these now including half of the dvd players on shelves out there today.
The only mild annoyance (not horrible) I find with FreeBSD on white-box hardware is that device driver support for random hardware isn't as good as Linux; it appears that you were using well selected hardware (as everyone should be for production purposes!) rather than the cheapest thing you money could buy.
The BSD ports system is also kept more up to date than stable Debian packages.
on top of crippling the all important universal access, it simply isn't practical. The overhead involved in accounting and collecting such payments is way too much; it just doesn't work out. See the mojonation project for examples of why.
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it will also be used to justify criminalizing of people who find and reveal security exploits so that products "seem" more secure to joe clueless moron taxpayer because everyone who publicly states the truth will be silenced.
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; - US Constitution article I, section 8, clause 8"
he claims that this is a clear statement that a public good - the progress of science - can be acheived by keeping writings (in this case: code) exclusive to the author.
huh? since when has that clause been appropriate? certianly not since copyright was bought out by disney to last indefinately. certianly not since the patent office began issuing vague software and business method patents. his argument rests on broken foundations. the us constitution is not a great foundation (its just the lesser evil compares to most other countries')
digital tracking is all about cost. if you think "they" are after you with unlimited resources then you should not be using digital devices.
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too late for you now, they monitor
its disappointing to see so many comments here acting as if this issue is somehow linux specific.
it's not. any non-windows user cannot read word documents. (mac users might be able to, but do all mac users have word? do all windows users for that matter?)
always ask -anyone- that sends word documents to send it in a readable format.
bending over and trying to use kword, staroffice, mswordview, or whatever to read it is the WORST thing you can do.
looks obvious enough to me with the 'ADVERTISEMENT' label + bounding box (and the Junkbuster scaled image inside due to my proxy).
My cheapo DSL ISP (telocity, now DirecTVDSL) does this as well.
It's not the wrong thing to do provided, as is the case, my computers never have a need to talk directly to my ISPs intermediate routers and their intermediate routers never have a need to talk directly to my DSL hosts. So it shows up as an actual hop in the traceroute, big deal; you might as well think of it as your packet being tunneled through a cloud of routers running another protocol.
I am still free to use those addresses on my internal network all I want without any problems.
(well sort of, they make http://10.5.1.2/ hit the web interface on their proprietary dsl modem to check status, gather line speed and traffic statistics, etc. but so what; there's 24 million 10/8 addresses)
The DOS comm program "Telix" had a bytecode interpreted C-like language called "SALT" in which someone wrote a complete BBS program. I don't remember its name, though I ran it for a year. anyone else know?
i recently updated my slashdot profile preferences and started seeing these previously missed articles. sadly many others who would like to see them are probably missing them as well due to not bothering to try and customize stuff. ah well, i didn't write the shit.
dude, you need to get out of the house more.
invest that $10,000 you're about to spend on a brain cell wastage device in a good cause like a donation to the EFF so that you can actually record some of those digital HDTV broadcasts in the future...
See Ampltd for their Tiny886ULP PC-104 board with a crusoe processor. Add 802.11 to that using CompactFlash or USB and you've got a low wattage high performance x86 system.
(other pc-104 boards with much slower cpus are available for a bit less money)
this hardly got any comments? did it show up in a category that's on the default front page?
That's because everyone on /. seems to think that all software is free and takes no effort or time to design and code a *good* UI. They're wrong.
I can see the ad campaign now...
the hyperlink to the first mention of AOL even.
aarghk! the AOL scum invasion! That did -not- need to be read again. yuck.
i have to disagree on the 40-60kbit/sec point, a store bought vhs tape of your favorite recent movie has very good sounding audio. I have never heard a 64kbit/sec mp3 of a song that would sound very good on a home stereo. vhs sound does.
200kbit/sec for video? so what. double that if you want VHS quality sound along with it!
get a life. get a {girl,boy}friend. see the sunshine.
I second this opinion. I make CD-Rs full of 256kbit/sec MP3s out of my audio cd collection. There are plenty of devices that can play these now including half of the dvd players on shelves out there today.
XML is human -readable- but not easily human -writable-
So you're saying that people with $10,000 televisions should buy Xboxes?
Okay, that's 500 units sold. any other takers?
Horror stories? nope, you made the right choice!
The only mild annoyance (not horrible) I find with FreeBSD on white-box hardware is that device driver support for random hardware isn't as good as Linux; it appears that you were using well selected hardware (as everyone should be for production purposes!) rather than the cheapest thing you money could buy.
The BSD ports system is also kept more up to date than stable Debian packages.
on top of crippling the all important universal access, it simply isn't practical. The overhead involved in accounting and collecting such payments is way too much; it just doesn't work out. See the mojonation project for examples of why.
agreed, this is one of the few wonderful /. interviews. it pleases my programming heart.
it just happens and you spend the rest of your life trying to get out. ;)