Your post talks about the "cooler than you" factor.
Well, in some cases, a higher price can get a higher demand, due to the impression that something is better because it is more expensive. Better meaning "cooler", highher quality, etc.
The demand curve isn't merely flat, it slopes in a counter-intuitive way.
There is a whole price range at which there is little software ever sold. Too expensive for the cheap people and too cheap for the people who are used to paying big bucks. I don't know what that range is at the moment.
So would putting a TEMPEST scanner outside a internet switching facility be legal without a warrant?
They aren't breaching the facility, they are just reading EM waves in a public space (assuming they are off the property with their surveillance equipment).
Besides, that'll just push ip-layer encryption (IPSec) into production faster.
You mean as fast as they are pushing IPv6 (which is way overdue) into production? Anything that requires a new protocol to be deployed will take a long time. Yeah, I know IPSec isn't technically new, but support for it would be (outside the military, NSA, CIA, etc - I am talking things like consumer and commercial grade hosts, routers and switches).
Sure, we do the same basic tasks but we do them with vastly more flexability and don't have to waste days of our lives wrestling with configs to do what we now consider simple tasks.
Unless you are running Linux.
Before you mod me flamebait, realize I am a Linux user and support. But I admit we got far to go.
Hardwre has gotten cheaper. That still does not make inefficiency not a problem. Imagine if that $3000 computer could run even faster, or a $1000 computer could do its job because software was more efficient.
3 steps forward and 2 steps backward is forward progress. 3 steps forward and no steps backward is still better.
The fact that he did this at a train station is totally irrelevant
Well, it does make it easier for someone to leave the scene of the crime.:)
I'm not violating a Patriot Act provision regarding giving assistance in committing crimes by suggesting people could use a TRAIN to leave the TRAIN STATION to avoid getting caught, right?;)
That would fit well with their OSS hurts interoperability claim they made recently.
Microsoft could make it illegal for OSS software to interoperate by refusing to license the patent - thus making their claim true.
Heck, they could offer a patent license of $0.01 to every non-OSS software automatically and hurt OSS without doing any work. Or say it is licenses for $0.01 to all, OSS can't comply. Heck they could even say that any non-OSS software is allowed to use the patent without charge. They'd make no money (directly) off it, but no commercial software company would fight it since it wouldn't hurt them, and OSS would be hurt. Almost risk free.
People are used to things sucking, and hence aren't disturbed by it.
They think it's normal.
People are also used to Windows features and applications, and find switching to something else too traumatic.
And then, people sometimes need windows. No tax software for Linux, etc, there are a lot of needs for which there is a Windows app to fill them, but no Linux app.
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until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a might stream.-MLKjr
It should be "mighty stream."
Don't worry, the cat will just eat his mouse to survive. ;)
Still works in Solaris 9. :)
Can't have the cat eating and not exercising, that wouldn't be too healthy.
:)
Too bad using a laser to exercise a cat is patented.
It is worse than price being irrelevant.
Your post talks about the "cooler than you" factor.
Well, in some cases, a higher price can get a higher demand, due to the impression that something is better because it is more expensive. Better meaning "cooler", highher quality, etc.
The demand curve isn't merely flat, it slopes in a counter-intuitive way.
There is a whole price range at which there is little software ever sold. Too expensive for the cheap people and too cheap for the people who are used to paying big bucks. I don't know what that range is at the moment.
That's the country of DeCSS by the way.
Seems like one could make a service which tells you how "musical" your music is.
;)
Just take the FLAC compressed size/the original size * 100 and output that is the music's "quality rating".
The French actually built a subway?
Was it built for transportation reasons or as a place to hide when invaded?
So would putting a TEMPEST scanner outside a internet switching facility be legal without a warrant?
They aren't breaching the facility, they are just reading EM waves in a public space (assuming they are off the property with their surveillance equipment).
Besides, that'll just push ip-layer encryption (IPSec) into production faster.
You mean as fast as they are pushing IPv6 (which is way overdue) into production? Anything that requires a new protocol to be deployed will take a long time. Yeah, I know IPSec isn't technically new, but support for it would be (outside the military, NSA, CIA, etc - I am talking things like consumer and commercial grade hosts, routers and switches).
Don't be so smug.
MD5 was thought to be secure, but was broken.
Factoring isn't a provably hard problem, either. It's an open question.
If factoring breaks, RSA breaks. If SHA1 breaks, so does a lot of GPG/PGP and SSL. If you are using MD5, things are already broken for you.
If your profits are only 1% of revenues you've got big problems.
Anything gets slightly worse, and you will lose money. Shortly after that, no more company.
How about RELIABILITY!
http://news.google.com/news?q=google+fires+blog
Just reinstall XP every week. You probably need to anyway to keep it running well.
What isn't there to like?
How about the lead?
Things are almost always more efficient at higher voltage.
Sure, we do the same basic tasks but we do them with vastly more flexability and don't have to waste days of our lives wrestling with configs to do what we now consider simple tasks.
Unless you are running Linux.
Before you mod me flamebait, realize I am a Linux user and support. But I admit we got far to go.
Hardwre has gotten cheaper. That still does not make inefficiency not a problem. Imagine if that $3000 computer could run even faster, or a $1000 computer could do its job because software was more efficient.
3 steps forward and 2 steps backward is forward progress.
3 steps forward and no steps backward is still better.
The fact that he did this at a train station is totally irrelevant
Well, it does make it easier for someone to leave the scene of the crime. :)
I'm not violating a Patriot Act provision regarding giving assistance in committing crimes by suggesting people could use a TRAIN to leave the TRAIN STATION to avoid getting caught, right? ;)
That would fit well with their OSS hurts interoperability claim they made recently.
Microsoft could make it illegal for OSS software to interoperate by refusing to license the patent - thus making their claim true.
Heck, they could offer a patent license of $0.01 to every non-OSS software automatically and hurt OSS without doing any work. Or say it is licenses for $0.01 to all, OSS can't comply. Heck they could even say that any non-OSS software is allowed to use the patent without charge. They'd make no money (directly) off it, but no commercial software company would fight it since it wouldn't hurt them, and OSS would be hurt. Almost risk free.
I'd love to find out what location this would point to: "g4t35 5vck5" :)
These machines, running linux satisfy all the needs of this customer, provided they can come up with $500 all at once.
Walmart has a credit card, so you can buy it now and pay later.
Google for "French military victories" (with or without quotes).
:)
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The first hit is a web page on French military defeats.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.ht
People are used to things sucking, and hence aren't disturbed by it.
They think it's normal.
People are also used to Windows features and applications, and find switching to something else too traumatic.
And then, people sometimes need windows. No tax software for Linux, etc, there are a lot of needs for which there is a Windows app to fill them, but no Linux app.