Probably just another market manipulation by M$. I suppose that owning the computer industry is no longer enough for them, so why not take a few pot shots at one of the old school mega corps (Kodak) under the pretense of providing service? The thing I don't get is shouldn't this be a list that is easily changeable? Having end users run regedit is risky at worst, and confusing for them at best. If I told any of my users something like this, I know they would give me the Homer Simpson Look[tm] in response.
The point M$ is trying to make is that running OS other than Windows is in violation of DMCA. =) Since it is a.exe file, attempting to open it under any other OS requires one to, as they say, "circumvent copy protection". IANAL, but it seems to me this should be reason enough to have any action dismissed.
Somebody will figure out (not if, but when) how to spoof the system and send phony information that incriminates innocent people. Kind of the opposite of a packet sniffer. This tool, once implemented, can be employed by a variety of individuals: bad guys, nasty neighbors, gov't officials. I can hear the MI5 guys flexing their obscurity muscles already..."nobody will ever figure out how to do that". Yeah, and nobody thought LAPD would toss innocent people in jail either.
You didn't know that your comments are submitted to/. under GPL. This means they can be redistributed by Katz, et al, and anybody is free to twist your words around to say whatever they want, as long as a copy of your original post is made available to anyone asking for it.
Scripting is NOT a poweruser feature, although many a poweruser enjoy it. It is a great tool that can enable system admins to build on the basic building blocks of the GUI, and provide simplified UI for the users. For example, the Add alias to Apple Menu script in MacOS takes what is a 10 step process and makes something useful for an end user. It also communicates that putting things in the apple menu _is_ an option for the end user, something that is not obvious to many of them.
Many times I have written a step-by-step procedure for my users that would have been more elegantly presented as a icon connected to a script.
care to elaborate on that? i've deployed plenty of windows systems, and i'm yet to find the scripting. .bat files are somewhat limited, but they do not provide the flexibility to do entry-level things like start an app, then hit file | new activeX surely does not count as it requires development tools to implement, and still has the same limitations macro recorder was a good start, and they seem to have deleted it
so what is this windows scripting you are talking about? i would truly like to know, i still have some windows users to support and they are just too dumb to "get" certain things that need to be automated for them.
I recently upgraded from a III to a Vx, and even though the III is light, the 2oz. shaved off the Vx is really nice. If they keep the weight down on the next gen, it'll be cool. My friend was showing me his new Cassiopeia, I don't like CE, but the "photo album" effect was cool. But MAN was that thing heavy. You need a holster to carry that bugger. What I don't like about the CPU change is I'm willing to bet my copy of SimCity won't run on the ARM.:( Think they'll make an emulator? Personally, I am going to think twice before buying any more Palm software now. This announcement is going to play hell for Palm developers. History has shown that getting developers to write to your platform is key to it's success.
I suggest that we not be so quick to assume that the voice processing capabilities are strictly for voice recognition. This could be their move to run end-around Nextel. Wouldn't that be cool, I mean, with a flip-top case like the Palm III - life will be that much more like living in a star trek episode.
I have really mixed feelings about this move. What made Palm is that they did not attempt to make a general purpose computing platform. Instead, they chose a simple data acquisition device. Being nice to developers has helped them as well. Even if a porting kit is made available, it will still be a nuisance for developers. I'll probably wait until the first or second price cut to jump on board.
Calling a condition a disease does not relieve those who suffer from it from any responsibility. Cancer can be self-inflicted, say, by choosing to work in a nuclear facility. An alcoholic is just as responsible for seeking treatement for their condition as a cancer patient is.
Calling alcoholism a disease does not mean that it is contagious, nor does it mean that any bacteria or virus is involved. Rather, it is a condition of dis-ease, much like arhtritis is called "degenerative joint disease". There are no microorganisms involved in either case.
If a disease is only something that can be "contracted through no fault of your own", I suppose HIV isn't a disease either. Did it occur to you for a moment that perhaps some people become alcoholic during their childhood at the hands of their parents feeding them beer and weed? Hmmm...That would be by no fault of the child, would it not?
But why should I expect you to understand? Obviously, you have never experienced the condition yourself. You could not possibly know what it is like, no more than I can possibly know what it is like to have HIV.
I always wondered why WinZIP moved in and started kicking PK's butt. Guess it's because PK was drunk too much of the time. Too bad. I used pkzip via cli until I just couldn't do my work with 8.3 filenames any longer.
Alcoholism is exactly a progressive, incurable disease that an alcoholic has no control over, and always results in death unless arrested. That is what makes them an alcoholic. A non-alcoholic can stop drinking any time they want. An alcoholic cannot stop without help, but will continue to drink more and more, despite the fact that they know it is killing them.
Perl stuff basically screams under mod_perl. The drawback to mod_perl is it increases the RAM footprint of the httpd child process dramatically, to about 5MB per process. When spilling all your images, etc. to a 28.8K visitor, this becomes an issue... A clever guy has written some articles on perlmonth, When Perl Met Apache that talks about using a Proxy to enable mod_perl to do its thing, then return to a ready state quickly, and let the proxy take care of the transmission of content.
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Money...DOH! not the obvious thing. But what money? Lost Royalties? NO.
The recording industry could embrace streaming media, but they don't want to. And it is not about piracy either. It is about the real value of their product.
If you have visited mp3.com, you have seen that they removed the traditional barriers (who you know, who you blow) to entry in the music industry. You can put your music up there, and they will even market CD's for your band -- get this -- for about $7-$8 per disc is the consumer price. That is what the RIAA, and Metallica are fighting against. Educating the masses that they are paying too much for CD's. Sure, bands like metallica get some money out of the $15/copy. Enough to wantonly destroy hotel rooms, drive big cars, etc. Let's face it, most rock stars are overrated and overpaid (Except Bowie & The Stones)
This is the big fear, and I think it is real. There is a redistribution of wealth taking place, and of course, the wealthy are bitching and using their army (police, lawyers, etc.) to protect their wealth.
In the past, they put the sqeeze on Indie labels by manipulating discount schedules, supply lines, etc. with the record dealers. Go into a shop that has any kind of indie presence. Where are the big labels? About the only big store that carries any indie is Tower, and they got the might to tell the big labels to go fsck themselves.
Sites like mp3 not only represent a threat to the record manufacturers, by legitimately illustrating how overpriced CD's are, but indeed for the "artists" themselves. Streaming media is a way for the indie's to get around the stranglehold on the record dealers. Most of the artists fear that if just anybody can make music, _and_ consumers can listen before buying, they will be out of a job. Not just because of market crowding. Some of the new entries will be _better_ than most of the pop crap the record industry makes anyway.
Well, if some judge in America's Dairyland can rule that cracking tools are theives tools, then I suppose Japanese sysadmins can kiss Full Disclosure good-bye.
Think about it, one minute you're emailing one of your buds to tell them they better patch the server, here's a link to SecurityFocus. Next minute, they're cutting a hole in your ceiling and SWAT enters your pad via a portable fire pole.
I suppose the end result will be that.jp will become the cyberspace eqivalent of Mc Donalds Playland for the script kiddiez.
But the real story in that article is down near the bottom of the page:
Millions more names have been registered by competing companies and registrars outside the United States. Network Solutions will disclose exactly how many next week when it reports quarterly earnings.
Actually, they have a very simple countermeasure for IR. It's some kind of pattern silkscreened on the camos. I asked my buddy about it when he came home from the Air Force, sed it was an IR countermeasure. Don't know how effective it is, or if some special material is in the ink.
I'd also be willing to bet that if us military simpletons out here on/. can think this stuff up, so can they. I would like to suggest maybe they have thought up come contermeasures or have done some kind of cost/benefit analysis. Then again, maybe not. They chose CE. This, from the gov't that invents its own floor wax...Don't they at least have their own operating system somewhere?
I knew someone was going to contradict me. Give me a break. I burned 8.9MB of bandwidth d/l'ing glibc from ftp.freesoftware.com, and read the "Copying" before I made my post. The first few lines read [drum roll]:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Let's examine your point a bit further, tempering your analogy to more closely model what happened here.
Say my landlord put bars on my window, and I relied on them to keep me safe. One day, some passer-by notices that they are bolted into a rotting window casing, ripped the bars from the window using 2 fingers of his non-dominant hand, and said "Look, you're window casing is rotted", I would thank him.
Perhaps you are overlooking the possibility of someone being able to gain access to an ATM and issue some dispense commands to the cash dispenser. Sure, it is a remote possibility. Although, the "preferred" method here in LA may be more expedient: get a monster chain, wrap it around ATM and attach to your monster truck. Actuate throttle. Load ATM in truck. Urban legend? Who knows?
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Probably just another market manipulation by M$. I suppose that owning the computer industry is no longer enough for them, so why not take a few pot shots at one of the old school mega corps (Kodak) under the pretense of providing service? The thing I don't get is shouldn't this be a list that is easily changeable? Having end users run regedit is risky at worst, and confusing for them at best. If I told any of my users something like this, I know they would give me the Homer Simpson Look[tm] in response.
The point M$ is trying to make is that running OS other than Windows is in violation of DMCA. =) Since it is a .exe file, attempting to open it under any other OS requires one to, as they say, "circumvent copy protection". IANAL, but it seems to me this should be reason enough to have any action dismissed.
Maybe it's time for some new Mc Gyver episodes?
Somebody will figure out (not if, but when) how to spoof the system and send phony information that incriminates innocent people. Kind of the opposite of a packet sniffer. This tool, once implemented, can be employed by a variety of individuals: bad guys, nasty neighbors, gov't officials. I can hear the MI5 guys flexing their obscurity muscles already..."nobody will ever figure out how to do that". Yeah, and nobody thought LAPD would toss innocent people in jail either.
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You didn't know that your comments are submitted to /. under GPL. This means they can be redistributed by Katz, et al, and anybody is free to twist your words around to say whatever they want, as long as a copy of your original post is made available to anyone asking for it.
Many times I have written a step-by-step procedure for my users that would have been more elegantly presented as a icon connected to a script.
.bat files are somewhat limited, but they do not provide the flexibility to do entry-level things like start an app, then hit file | new
activeX surely does not count as it requires development tools to implement, and still has the same limitations
macro recorder was a good start, and they seem to have deleted it
so what is this windows scripting you are talking about? i would truly like to know, i still have some windows users to support and they are just too dumb to "get" certain things that need to be automated for them.
I suggest that we not be so quick to assume that the voice processing capabilities are strictly for voice recognition. This could be their move to run end-around Nextel. Wouldn't that be cool, I mean, with a flip-top case like the Palm III - life will be that much more like living in a star trek episode.
I have really mixed feelings about this move. What made Palm is that they did not attempt to make a general purpose computing platform. Instead, they chose a simple data acquisition device. Being nice to developers has helped them as well. Even if a porting kit is made available, it will still be a nuisance for developers. I'll probably wait until the first or second price cut to jump on board.
Calling alcoholism a disease does not mean that it is contagious, nor does it mean that any bacteria or virus is involved. Rather, it is a condition of dis-ease, much like arhtritis is called "degenerative joint disease". There are no microorganisms involved in either case.
If a disease is only something that can be "contracted through no fault of your own", I suppose HIV isn't a disease either. Did it occur to you for a moment that perhaps some people become alcoholic during their childhood at the hands of their parents feeding them beer and weed? Hmmm...That would be by no fault of the child, would it not?
But why should I expect you to understand? Obviously, you have never experienced the condition yourself. You could not possibly know what it is like, no more than I can possibly know what it is like to have HIV.
if(uCodeLoaded && uDoItEveryDay)
{
while(uThinkItWorks)
{
thinkAgain();
}
getClean();
enjoyLife();
}
Alcoholism is exactly a progressive, incurable disease that an alcoholic has no control over, and always results in death unless arrested. That is what makes them an alcoholic. A non-alcoholic can stop drinking any time they want. An alcoholic cannot stop without help, but will continue to drink more and more, despite the fact that they know it is killing them.
Have you got a 27B-6 for that?
Perl stuff basically screams under mod_perl. The drawback to mod_perl is it increases the RAM footprint of the httpd child process dramatically, to about 5MB per process. When spilling all your images, etc. to a 28.8K visitor, this becomes an issue... A clever guy has written some articles on perlmonth, When Perl Met Apache that talks about using a Proxy to enable mod_perl to do its thing, then return to a ready state quickly, and let the proxy take care of the transmission of content.
The recording industry could embrace streaming media, but they don't want to. And it is not about piracy either. It is about the real value of their product.
If you have visited mp3.com, you have seen that they removed the traditional barriers (who you know, who you blow) to entry in the music industry. You can put your music up there, and they will even market CD's for your band -- get this -- for about $7-$8 per disc is the consumer price. That is what the RIAA, and Metallica are fighting against. Educating the masses that they are paying too much for CD's. Sure, bands like metallica get some money out of the $15/copy. Enough to wantonly destroy hotel rooms, drive big cars, etc. Let's face it, most rock stars are overrated and overpaid (Except Bowie & The Stones)
This is the big fear, and I think it is real. There is a redistribution of wealth taking place, and of course, the wealthy are bitching and using their army (police, lawyers, etc.) to protect their wealth.
In the past, they put the sqeeze on Indie labels by manipulating discount schedules, supply lines, etc. with the record dealers. Go into a shop that has any kind of indie presence. Where are the big labels? About the only big store that carries any indie is Tower, and they got the might to tell the big labels to go fsck themselves.
Sites like mp3 not only represent a threat to the record manufacturers, by legitimately illustrating how overpriced CD's are, but indeed for the "artists" themselves. Streaming media is a way for the indie's to get around the stranglehold on the record dealers. Most of the artists fear that if just anybody can make music, _and_ consumers can listen before buying, they will be out of a job. Not just because of market crowding. Some of the new entries will be _better_ than most of the pop crap the record industry makes anyway.
Think about it, one minute you're emailing one of your buds to tell them they better patch the server, here's a link to SecurityFocus. Next minute, they're cutting a hole in your ceiling and SWAT enters your pad via a portable fire pole.
I suppose the end result will be that .jp will become the cyberspace eqivalent of Mc Donalds Playland for the script kiddiez.
Millions more names have been registered by competing companies and registrars outside the United States. Network Solutions will disclose exactly how many next week when it reports quarterly earnings.
I'd also be willing to bet that if us military simpletons out here on /. can think this stuff up, so can they. I would like to suggest maybe they have thought up come contermeasures or have done some kind of cost/benefit analysis. Then again, maybe not. They chose CE. This, from the gov't that invents its own floor wax...Don't they at least have their own operating system somewhere?
LinuxPPC runs great on my iMac 350 slot-loading variety. Loads netscape faster than this P-III 550 running Linux, and the P-III has more RAM.
By getting their gov't to classify it as a munition (Now, let's see if we can /. Apple's site :)
Thanks for pointing out the Copying.lib thing. I read it too.
I like it. 8-)
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
[Cymbals crash]
What's that popping sound?
Say my landlord put bars on my window, and I relied on them to keep me safe. One day, some passer-by notices that they are bolted into a rotting window casing, ripped the bars from the window using 2 fingers of his non-dominant hand, and said "Look, you're window casing is rotted", I would thank him.
Perhaps you are overlooking the possibility of someone being able to gain access to an ATM and issue some dispense commands to the cash dispenser. Sure, it is a remote possibility. Although, the "preferred" method here in LA may be more expedient: get a monster chain, wrap it around ATM and attach to your monster truck. Actuate throttle. Load ATM in truck. Urban legend? Who knows?