You are aware that you dont own your software right? Even if it is free software,
unless you wrote it you dont own it.
No you own your copy(s) of the software.Net are most EULAs are about remove or
minimizing this, because of the this little
pesky detail called "Right of First Sale".
what copyright grants are right over the production of copies. No possetion of all the copies.
We also don't know alot about how Tad writes,
I'm thinking that the design of the site
will make it easier for him to produce text thus
he will have lower effort. (No attempt at
one stream of story telling.) Plus again
money effort, Puting a complete work the size of
a Tad Willams work must invole a few years of work
on his part so Episodic get him to market faster.
Which is why pen computers have failed, failed, failed in the marketplace. Pen organizers
(e.g. Palm) are different because they are designed to be useful despite the much slower input
method - you're using them while walking about, so it's not such a big deal. Pen computers are
just too cumbersome to use effectively, except for special applications.
There are a few more applications that the tablit sized PC will enable that palm size devices will not. Although they are also in the susteaned rate of input vain. Electronic books, as an academic
I want some way to read comfortably papers,
and make notes on them, sometime edit papers
this requiers a powerfull box, but most of the time one just changes a few things here and there,
makes notes, etc. pen would be fine for this.
(better with the right implimentation.) Note that this boxes will come with a keyboard for when you
want to do serious data entry. Most this is
project sound like GASP an inovative piece of
hardware from MSFT.
OK, so are they trying to stop people copying to tape by screwing with the signal? That's been tried before as well: the Beatles were among the first, adding a high-frequency tone to their LPs to interfere with the bias signal on a tape deck. That one didn't get anywhere either: again, it broke on some players, and was trivial to circumvent (low-pass or notch filter, anyone?).
I don't think that the high-frequency tone was
to prevent copying. after all they made their last LP in want 1972? where there that many cassette tapes then? Plus in Gorge Martin's autobiography he says that the 20+kHz sound was Paul's idea,
"music for dogs", plus you will not that the sound is only in a few songs, and only on sarget pepers
IMHR (Good morning, and the end of "a day in the life")
Note something like an industry wide copyprotection scheme.
If you speak to people who work in marketing (you may never have met any, but they're nice friendly people in general), they'll tell you that the easiest thing to market is a good product. Given the choice, they'd always work with marketing a good product than a bad, since it's a much easier and more rewarding job.
[empasis mine]
Know that the marketers use the word good,
not Best, and that is in the marketers
opion. Most of the marketers I've met think that
MS products are "good" and even "inovative". When I tell then that they are usually the worst in quality and mostly copy cast products they look at me odd. The I start relaying the history of such thing....
Note I said the worst, I'm not actually saying that MS products are bad in the grad scheme of things. Though some acutally are.
using XFree86 instead of Sun X *would* save them something.
What exactly do you think it would save? I have yet to find a X application that cares
who's X11R6 server is used? Dtlogin on my box is setup to use CDE, or if I want:
Gnome, KDE, Mwm, OpenLook, Enlightenment and even Twm. X server doesn't matter.
Ever complied something under Sun's X?
It a hug pain in the ass as they didn't declare the functions to be int (which ones? most) thus
its much hard to work with X under Sun then may other platform. Plus the default Sun X doesn't
come with startx! and is usually a pick of crap.
Just a few of the pains of a default Sun install.
Now just don't get me started on CDE or Openwindows.
wherein said object has type information associated with it utilized by said browser to identify and
locate an executable application.
According to the patent they applyed for this
in 1994. lets see this is just 10 years after
the mac and 8 after windows which both do just this, not to mention MIME which also can do this.
As far as I can tell the major "inovation" is that they do this in hypertext but I think that goopher did this too. There is some much ovious prior art here its not funny. I don't now is hypercard could lanch other applications does anyone remember?
In a well
maintained and properly designed reactor (CANDU!!!), an operator _couldn't_ cause that kind of
disaster, no matter how they tried.
Not quite true, They can't accidentally cause a meltdown like the china syndrom, but they can
acidentially spill stuff and spread it around. I recall an incident from when I lived in oshawa, when Pickering let some radioactive water into lake ontario, (not much) put more then they should
have. Causeing quite a scandel. But then the NDP where underfunding mataine and they had leaking pipes! at the time. Though most of the nasty proopalities are of course very unliekly to happen with a CANDU?.
If there error on audio DATs was 1 in 10^6,
Take a small low quality block code, say
one that uses 5 bits to send three and can recover 1 error. The probablity that you get two bits wrong in 5 is. 10^6 (for the first bit) *
10^6/4 (for the second or 10^12/4 or you will
have on bit error in 250 Gigbits which is about
one byte in 64 Gigabytes. With a 40% reductions.
in capacity. There are better error corecting
codes out their but I don't have their features
handy.
You can even do this sort of thing with RAID but
it in not very pratical because to get a big error
recover versous redundacy overhead gain you need many bits (like say 24) and they have to be all seprate disk since these days the number one cause of error on harddrives (not fixed by the harddrive itself.) is diskcrash....
Re:I know I'll be modded down, but bear with me he
on
Warez and Abandonware
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· Score: 3
If you don't own it, then it's not yours. Period. You may want it. You may even need it. But if it isn't yours,
then you can't have it without permission. And that requirement of permission is absent in the abandonware
movement.
Think about it, for a second. By saying "we recognize that you used to have a right to your copyright but
aren't still using it", you're saying that anyone anywhere can determine which property rights are valid and
which aren't and which should be respected and whiach shouldn't. If I broke into your home and took things
out of your attic or basement, then you'd be outraged. But somehow calling it "IP" makes the difference?
Does it really?
Actually in the US. Abandon ware people have a lawful stump to stand on. Within copyright law,
"libraries" are allowed to make copies of
out of print works, and charge for the cost of
coping. IANAL but this seams to me that if some
abandonware people dotting their "i"s and "j"s and
crossed their "t"s. They would be permitted to
distribute abandon where for free (beer) and
perhaps for a small cost. Perhaps this is a job
for someone with to much time on there hand here in the US.
And EVEN IF HE FINDS the polynomial solution to Minesweeper, that STILL doesn't say anything about RSA (or any
other "hard" algorithm), other than that it can be solved in polynomial time SOMEHOW.
Correction, The finding of a polytime algortim for
ANY NP-complete problem will give a polytime
algorithem for any problem in NP. How big a
polinomial is up for grabs. Factoring (which is
is what one needs to break RSA) is in NP I've never worked out what the polynmial is, but
likely its like say n^3 (turning machines are slow). That is to recover say one bit of a
factor, (maybe more). Then you have to
sya runit into say SAT give as formula that's
approximatly n^6 long, then say run your sat
very fast sat program(n^2) giving you a running
time fo n^12 for one bit, now repeat for many bits
say 1/2 n approximatly give a alogrithm with a running
time of n^13 which is slow but still polynomial.
Thus goverment, and other determend people will
be able to break your RSA key fairly quitly.
(i.e. in a few months as opposed to years or the
heat death of the universe.)
Now suppose someone make a more effiece various of the algorithm with some understanding.....
Unfortunatly that is not the purpose of the
law for search and seasure. The purpose often
is to get the govement agency
products they can sell or use for personal purposes. Thus if they had to replace it, they
couldn't make a proffit. you may laugh but this
has happened, I forget the link but it
was a site on the current Search and seasure
laws.
\begin{rant}\begin{flame}
Problem. ALL the members of congress,
the presidance, and most of suprime court in
the US belong to the Republicates.
Expencting them to NOT have confict of instests
and doing the right thing is just plain stupid.
\end{flame}
For evident I present, the CDA, the patent law,
it current 1998 modifcation, copyright law,
the Trueman policy, US position at the
start of WWII, they sold oil/guns to the gremans, knowing that the holicost was going on.
gun control implimentation, (Are we controling guns or just disarming the poor?). The War on
Drugs. Proabition, the creation of ATF and the DEA. (Mostly to give young men a lisence to rape
and steal. In the word of the founder) Any more?
\end{rant}
On problem, as with any universal rating scheme is that it would be easy to, say, create 20 accounts and
consistantly mark-down a certain author, something you cant do on/. because you would have work the accounts
up to moderator status first.
On my reading of the summary the system doesnt seem to have a way to deal with this. Indeed it doesnt really
seem to be adaptable to deal with this.
There is an "easy solution". Just require that for anyone to gain moderator access they have to be knowen via web of trust al la the PGP protocall.
Abuss via multipl accounts is then seen but data mining where a persons moderation is coming from in the web. You could create mutliply keys, but the only way to get them in is to have yourself or a small group sign them, the creation of
multiple keys, will still have the moderation abuse tracked back to you for group retrubion as appropreate. So easy to see, yes. Easy to implement not really. Easy on the CPU cycles no.
Re:whether or not you like this, its what Linux ne
on
KBasic
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· Score: 1
Basic is just a bad framwork for system integration stuff. True a modern desktop environment needs a scriping langage that non-programers can learn to use some-what easily.
The unix world alrady has this, it is called
Python
which is designed after a teaching language ABC,
and has the nice feature of some forcing of style,
everything is a first class object, etc. Which I
think is a good this for non-programers. (their
code will be more readable, and python code is
easier to learn how to read.) However TIMTOWTDI,
we also have Perl and scheme and tcl. Just to show my bias on what should fill the roll of VB/VBscript under
a non-programmer desktop enviorment.
But I feel that Python does the best job for
the NON-Programmer since this is/was a
design criterion for Python.
Basic has a number of bad feature and I think
we should let the pile of cruft died with windows.
Come on, even if there is lots of turnover (and there is lots of turnover), this doesn't affect the total labor pool for
IT... other than a small amount of friction for people who are inbetween jobs.
Simple:
New people on a job, are not as efficent as the
orginal people, they have to learn the system.
When people are leaveing or are thinking of leaving they have a bad attitude and thus are not working at maximun productivity. It is hard to
enforce productivity standard in IT, just think
how easy it is to fill in the blanks in documentation and _NOT_ right good documentation.
e.g. start reading man pages at random.
when new people come into a system, they will need to be trained by, guess why, the people working the system, thus lowering the producty of
the experenced people with good attitudes.
Now to start the visus circle of productive death,
just remove all knowagable people from the system,
and have people leave before they learn it.
Thus you have to hire more people to do the work because they are all learning the system.
But wait:
Adding more peopel to a late project makes it later -- someone I forget who.
You now need an IT staff prehaps 10-20 times the
size you would need with low turn over.
This is without managment actuly doing anything
but make people leave (highly unlikly), now if managment make the jobs take longer......
As for undervaluing the contribution of IT, that was always the case. Sales & Marketing were the stars, always, and
IT was an afterthought. That was true both in corporte culture as well as management opportunities. The sales guys,
no matter how idiotic they were, got to move up the ladder far faster than the best of the IT staff. I always
attributed that to the VPs not knowing what we did but actually did understand what the sales guys did.
These idiots are beginning to get what they deserve if IT staff are leaving in droves.
Wrong they are lobiny the goverment and are going to get exactly want they want. Lots of indentured
IT works. Since with a H-1 visa you are paid less and often cannot for for anyone else. Note also
that they don't want to hire older IT workers, same reason Older IT workers demand to be paid what they are worth, not 60-70% of it, of all the
enginering disiplines CS is the _WORST_ paid on
average...
Just goes to show that the only way to
be ahead in a company is to be inmoral. Witness most
VP, etc are Liers and theifs. (lawyers and MBAs).
Many people who I have run into have complant to
be that there windows box is runnign slow and they
guess it is time to upgrade. My first responce is always "Have you defraged your hard drive?" many times the answer is no, or the _windows_ tool says
it is unnessary. Defraging your harddrive on a windows box is then likly a speed up. Now if only one could defrag that God dame swap file it would be even better. Thus hard drives are the
number 1 factor in precived speed of the machine.
The other competing factor is memory, since most
people are computer illerter they don't know that
the best way to speed up most comersial boxes is to double the memory.
So the typical resonce to the persons _slow_ computer is a complete upgrad, as opps to a minor
repair or minor upgrade.
Acttualy that give me an idea for a micro linux distribution. Boot disk with some tools and fat16/32 defrager. Which I hope doesn't
trash windows, I don't know how the swapfile works,
hopfully to defrag it you don't have todo a complete low level reinstall.
\begin{rant}\begin{flame}{FULL}Get your head out of your ass.
MS is breaking ASCII and RFC 822,
Just try and read a comersal webpage without
IE, notice all those lovely ?s they are
MS fucking over ASCII and ISO Latin-1.
isn't nice to know we are going to a world where
a company dictats all modes of comunication?
Just think about what will happen when the DMCA
and the UCTIA get in full force there will not
be an internet.
Just think Right to read and
Letter from 2020 and tell us that
this is the world you want to happen.
The corret resonce to someone who does these things is a FULL FLAME respoce in hopes that either a they get with the standards or commit
suicide. (virtual preferd but real aceptable.)
\end{flame}
A full diplomate discorse my also be usefull,
take your pick.
Breaking standand is a bad thing, actully MS should have bin given the INTERNET DEATH PENATLY long ago but alas they are too big.
\end{rant}
Billy Joe bob bought a 600 MHz PIII with 128MB of ram, chances are billy joe bob isnt going to NEED
another system to run anything in the near future at least 3-5 years.
Wrong, Billy-Joe-Bob (BJB), runs windows, windows haves the speed of your hardware every year, and
trashes your hard drive (At least I think what
the swap file is for.:-)
Thus next year, BJB will at least need
a new hard-drive or reinstall, provide BJB doesn't
install any new software, if so then BJB will need
a new computer.
Recall the Triumveate that founded Linux, the
thrid leg is Mr. Gates if he did write all that
shitty software, we wouldn't have all this nice
cheep "Obsolete" hardware to play with.
Plus BJB also get into pissing matchs wants
a faster computer than JBJ (john-bob-joe) thus
may by a new computer anyway....
The next step is to write an open source
dvdplayer that would work if only we could decode
the DVDs via a lib. (that implements these functions). (heck this would be great for all those companies trying to implement DVD players.) I doubt that MPAA could stop this code
since it doesn't violate the "copy-protection".
In fact if they sue someone for posting this code that
doesn't violate their copy-protection they, this is a even clearer free-speach/anti-trust violation.
step 3. Write a wraper to the deCSS source code that implemnts these nessary functions likely with
makefile etc.
One will now just have to download the code in two
pieces and build them together. Like we don't have
to do this al the time already.
Use snprintf(3), or the other "n" variants. Like snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, format,...). The -1 isn't needed, but it
makes me feel better (whoever implments the libc function might not have read the spec close enough).
Slashdot Mirror
No you own your copy(s) of the software .Net are most EULAs are about remove or
minimizing this, because of the this little
pesky detail called "Right of First Sale".
what copyright grants are right over the production of copies. No possetion of all the copies.
We also don't know alot about how Tad writes, I'm thinking that the design of the site will make it easier for him to produce text thus he will have lower effort. (No attempt at one stream of story telling.) Plus again money effort, Puting a complete work the size of a Tad Willams work must invole a few years of work on his part so Episodic get him to market faster.
s/\bfuck\b/ f---/
etc.
That would be a "Internet filter" thus killing several birds with one stone. Cross-platform open source, user configerable, "internet filter".
I don't think that the high-frequency tone was to prevent copying. after all they made their last LP in want 1972? where there that many cassette tapes then? Plus in Gorge Martin's autobiography he says that the 20+kHz sound was Paul's idea, "music for dogs", plus you will not that the sound is only in a few songs, and only on sarget pepers IMHR (Good morning, and the end of "a day in the life") Note something like an industry wide copyprotection scheme.
Know that the marketers use the word good, not Best, and that is in the marketers opion. Most of the marketers I've met think that MS products are "good" and even "inovative". When I tell then that they are usually the worst in quality and mostly copy cast products they look at me odd. The I start relaying the history of such thing....
Note I said the worst, I'm not actually saying that MS products are bad in the grad scheme of things. Though some acutally are.
Ever complied something under Sun's X? It a hug pain in the ass as they didn't declare the functions to be int (which ones? most) thus its much hard to work with X under Sun then may other platform. Plus the default Sun X doesn't come with startx! and is usually a pick of crap. Just a few of the pains of a default Sun install.
Now just don't get me started on CDE or Openwindows.
if nobody buys the new fancy gear, They lose.
You mean like they are losing with DVDs?
Heck we can't even get geeks not to buy DVDs what chance do we have with the clueless?
According to the patent they applyed for this in 1994. lets see this is just 10 years after the mac and 8 after windows which both do just this, not to mention MIME which also can do this.
As far as I can tell the major "inovation" is that they do this in hypertext but I think that goopher did this too. There is some much ovious prior art here its not funny. I don't now is hypercard could lanch other applications does anyone remember?
You can even do this sort of thing with RAID but it in not very pratical because to get a big error recover versous redundacy overhead gain you need many bits (like say 24) and they have to be all seprate disk since these days the number one cause of error on harddrives (not fixed by the harddrive itself.) is diskcrash....
Correction, The finding of a polytime algortim for ANY NP-complete problem will give a polytime algorithem for any problem in NP. How big a polinomial is up for grabs. Factoring (which is is what one needs to break RSA) is in NP I've never worked out what the polynmial is, but likely its like say n^3 (turning machines are slow). That is to recover say one bit of a factor, (maybe more). Then you have to sya runit into say SAT give as formula that's approximatly n^6 long, then say run your sat very fast sat program(n^2) giving you a running time fo n^12 for one bit, now repeat for many bits say 1/2 n approximatly give a alogrithm with a running time of n^13 which is slow but still polynomial. Thus goverment, and other determend people will be able to break your RSA key fairly quitly. (i.e. in a few months as opposed to years or the heat death of the universe.)
Now suppose someone make a more effiece various of the algorithm with some understanding.....
Unfortunatly that is not the purpose of the law for search and seasure. The purpose often is to get the govement agency products they can sell or use for personal purposes. Thus if they had to replace it, they couldn't make a proffit. you may laugh but this has happened, I forget the link but it was a site on the current Search and seasure laws.
Problem. ALL the members of congress, the presidance, and most of suprime court in the US belong to the Republicates. Expencting them to NOT have confict of instests and doing the right thing is just plain stupid.
\end{flame}
For evident I present, the CDA, the patent law, it current 1998 modifcation, copyright law, the Trueman policy, US position at the start of WWII, they sold oil/guns to the gremans, knowing that the holicost was going on. gun control implimentation, (Are we controling guns or just disarming the poor?). The War on Drugs. Proabition, the creation of ATF and the DEA. (Mostly to give young men a lisence to rape and steal. In the word of the founder) Any more?
\end{rant}
There is an "easy solution". Just require that for anyone to gain moderator access they have to be knowen via web of trust al la the PGP protocall. Abuss via multipl accounts is then seen but data mining where a persons moderation is coming from in the web. You could create mutliply keys, but the only way to get them in is to have yourself or a small group sign them, the creation of multiple keys, will still have the moderation abuse tracked back to you for group retrubion as appropreate. So easy to see, yes. Easy to implement not really. Easy on the CPU cycles no.
Basic has a number of bad feature and I think we should let the pile of cruft died with windows.
- New people on a job, are not as efficent as the
orginal people, they have to learn the system.
- When people are leaveing or are thinking of leaving they have a bad attitude and thus are not working at maximun productivity. It is hard to
enforce productivity standard in IT, just think
how easy it is to fill in the blanks in documentation and _NOT_ right good documentation.
e.g. start reading man pages at random.
- when new people come into a system, they will need to be trained by, guess why, the people working the system, thus lowering the producty of
the experenced people with good attitudes.
Now to start the visus circle of productive death, just remove all knowagable people from the system, and have people leave before they learn it.Thus you have to hire more people to do the work because they are all learning the system. But wait:
You now need an IT staff prehaps 10-20 times the size you would need with low turn over.This is without managment actuly doing anything but make people leave (highly unlikly), now if managment make the jobs take longer......
Wrong they are lobiny the goverment and are going to get exactly want they want. Lots of indentured IT works. Since with a H-1 visa you are paid less and often cannot for for anyone else. Note also that they don't want to hire older IT workers, same reason Older IT workers demand to be paid what they are worth, not 60-70% of it, of all the enginering disiplines CS is the _WORST_ paid on average...
Just goes to show that the only way to be ahead in a company is to be inmoral. Witness most VP, etc are Liers and theifs. (lawyers and MBAs).
Acttualy that give me an idea for a micro linux distribution. Boot disk with some tools and fat16/32 defrager. Which I hope doesn't trash windows, I don't know how the swapfile works, hopfully to defrag it you don't have todo a complete low level reinstall.
\begin{rant}\begin{flame}{FULL}Get your head out of your ass. MS is breaking ASCII and RFC 822, Just try and read a comersal webpage without IE, notice all those lovely ?s they are MS fucking over ASCII and ISO Latin-1. isn't nice to know we are going to a world where a company dictats all modes of comunication? Just think about what will happen when the DMCA and the UCTIA get in full force there will not be an internet. Just think Right to read and Letter from 2020 and tell us that this is the world you want to happen. The corret resonce to someone who does these things is a FULL FLAME respoce in hopes that either a they get with the standards or commit suicide. (virtual preferd but real aceptable.) \end{flame} A full diplomate discorse my also be usefull, take your pick. Breaking standand is a bad thing, actully MS should have bin given the INTERNET DEATH PENATLY long ago but alas they are too big. \end{rant}
I think there already is one, isn't there? The Church of EMACS Or is that open source as a religion?
step 3. Write a wraper to the deCSS source code that implemnts these nessary functions likely with makefile etc. One will now just have to download the code in two pieces and build them together. Like we don't have to do this al the time already.