Let me counter-propose another VERY common scenario:
I go to the store and buy a movie from my list of favorite movies.
I watch it and like it, and recommend it to a friend.
That friend asks if he can borrow it to watch with his wife.
I loan him my (legal, store-bought) copy of the movie, so he can watch it with his wife.
I no longer have the movie in my posession while he watches it.
Days later, he returns the movie, and thanks me for letting him watch it.
What we don't realize, is that his kid found the movie on the shelf at his house, ripped a copy, and uploaded it to the 'Net for thousands of others to download and enjoy, for free.
Who is the violator here? Who gets the bill when the MPAA comes-a-calling? Who broke the law?
This kind of sitation happens a LOT more than people realize, with not just movies, but music and software as well. Sure, my friend's kid is truly the violator, but since he never "owned" the movie to begin with, and I never broke the law by loaning it to him (only 1 copy in circulation at once), and my friend wasn't an accomplice to the infringement, where do the fingers point?
Right, back to me.. because I legally bought it and loaned it to him to watch.
I can't control what people do within the confines of their own homes, nor do I care to. I don't police them, and I don't expect them to police me.
As an OSS developer, I can say that working on Open Source code/projects has already paid for itself in tax deductions many times over in the last decade.
Those donations you get from the "Paypal" button on your project homepage? Deductable as gifts, not income.
Those hard drives you upgraded to house your OSS code through RCS on a RAID system? Deductable as a business expense.
The space in your house used to develop/work on that OSS code? Deductable as your "workspace".
In my case, I also host and house dozens of projects for the OSS community, mailing lists, web space, torrent trackers, and lots of other things.
That broadband bill? Deductable. Power to keep servers running 24x7? Deductable.
I also have a "regular day job", and I work at the home office, so that too, is deductable, since it is a dedicated section of the house specifically for that.
Being a long-time OSS developer and supporter has definitely paid for itself many times over in deductions alone, not to mention the Google ad revenue that helps fund the websites I maintain and support, out-of-pocket upgrades to storage, servers, etc.
Apparently you're forgetting that this still requires a warrant, which still requires probable cause.
Have you been on vacation for the last 4+ years? Warrentless searches are the norm now, and just "suspecting" something is going on, is enough to storm into someone's house and take their belongings (which are never, EVER returned again, or if they are, they are damaged or completely erased. Go ahead, google up the dozens of cases where this is happening all the time, in the US).
I don't comply with something that is baseless, period. Its called Civil Disobedience, and its my right to do so. I know I'm not doing anything illegal within the confines of my home, belongings, and data. As such, they can come to my door with a warrant, and they can take my computers and everything with a wire in it.
They'll get a bunch of unsensible binary junk that they can't make sense of. Their warrant might include the need to disclose my encryption keys, but I'm not giving those away so they can go looking for some obscure reason to prosecute me for another Blue Law.
I've been pulled over and ticketed for having a license plate frame in my state (a dealer-supplied frame). Its ridiculous, but its there if they want to use that as a reason to go through my car to plant^Wfind drugs or other contraband. Why don't they tell the dealership to stop putting these illegal devices on their automobiles? Because they can use it to pull people over if there is no other legitimate reason to do so. If the dealership put a kilo of cocaine in every new car's glovebox, would that be alright too? I doubt it.
Sorry, I maintain my own space within the limits of the documented and legitimate laws on the books. I will not support or comply with "fishing" laws that serve one purpose: to locate and find other reasons to get into my stuff.
Pointless, since it is illegal to not provide the key when asked by law enforcement who've gotten a warrant for it.
Let's see... go to prison for a crime they can't prove, or go to prison for not giving them your encryption keys...
I've already made my decision on that the moment I heard about it. Sorry, my encryption keys are for me, period. You will not get them and I will turn old and grey in a prison cell before you can even divulge one byte of the data they happen to protect.
Do I have anything to hide? No. Am I doing anything illegal? Absolutely not.. Does that mean you have a right to see what is inside my mail, documents, files, data? Absolutely not!
I searched for the projects, by name. Plucker for example..
Now try the same search in Accoona. I went well into the 4th and 5th page of results and STILL didn't find a link to the actual project page itself. In fact, there are 30,241 results returned, but I went onto the 14th page just now, and STILL not a single link to the project page.
AI or not, it isn't returning results for what I'm searching for.
I just tried it with several of our OSS project pages (which rank PR7 or higher), and Accoona doesn't even list the main project homepage well into the 4th and 5th page of results. I gave up after that. Google, Yahoo and MSN all have the project pages as the first or second hit, across all three of those engines.
Does this mean that now, when Google is forced to bend to the pressure of the Current Administration through some laws that will no-doubt be passed to ensure compliance, that the Gubbermint will now be able to see where every person is at any given time, as well as what email they're sending, to whom, and what web searches they're using?
Oh wait, don't use Google, use Yahoo! to search, or AOL, or MSN... Riiiight, the.gov will just aggregate those search results (that they've already secured access to) through a real-time query and figure out exactly WHERE you sent that email or did that search from, then cross-reference that with your calendar, and figure out exactly what you were doing at the time.
"It looked like he was at home, because his calendar said he was 'Feeding the cat', but his web search came from an IP outside of the town he lives in. But he has a meeting in an hour at the dentist's office, and he just did a web search for driving directions. We can be sure he'll be there for an hour, and then we can raid his house and search his computers while he's gone. Nobody will ever know!"
As long as there are ridiculous draconian laws that allow.gov to demand logs and other details from providers, there can be no anonymity. At least so far, my provider is Pro-Privacy, and "Gets It(tm)". It pays to go with one of the little guys sometimes.
This couldn't possibly have to do with them trying to buy up MySQL and Zend, along with their acquisition of JBoss, Sleepycat (who own the two transactional engines behind MySQL: BDB and InnoBase), and others that skip my mind at the moment. No, can't be that...
Sure Larry would say this, because he wants to justify his purchased by drumming up some inertia behind their acquisitions.
In other news, UNIX sales fell sharply while Linux deployments increased by 23% over the last 3 quarters. Linux deployments are often not counted by surveys, because they are freely downloadable and are given away at no cost.
Encryption is great (and I use it heavily on drives, mail, backups and everything that contains non-public data), but not when its against the law to use it. Lovely world we live in, isn't it?
Likewise, you've probably never seen the speed at which my parents can type.
Then Linux isn't for your parents. Don't try to make Linux into something it isn't.
Sure, it CAN be made into exactly that (i.e. Lycoris), but it isn't like that out of the box. Linux should never be "dumbled down" by default to satisfy a minority of a minority of Linux users. There are Linux distributions for elementary school children, and the same distribution can be made into a powerful developer workstation.
Its not the OS that matters, its how you configure it.
Give your parents an OSX machine or XP Home Edition and they'll be fine; they're all about the mouse.
"Repeat after me: normal people never, ever, ever ever want to deal with the command line."
I guess your definition of "normal" differs from mine.
But here's the real problem... hardly ANYONE wants to use the mouse all the time. It sucks, its slow, its an enormous waste of motion and screen space when tracking from corner to corner (like OSX's braindead way of undocking the application modality to the top of the screen. Bad, bad move.).
Until EVERY application and EVERY OS option (clipboard, opening menus, etc.) is 100% accessible via the keyboard (as well as the mouse), then the shell will still ALWAYS be faster to do some operations.
Just because you hate opening a shell, doesn't mean the rest of the Unix and Linux world do. I can do most things faster than mousers, including the time required to open a shell and execute whatever command it is I need. I've tested this with dozens of people who complain that the "commandline" is useless, and consistently proven them wrong, on even the simplest of tasks.
Not if you want it to be "Free" (as in beer or software)
Here's an excerpt from the license:
"Implementation of all or part of any Specification may require licenses under third party intellectual property rights, including without limitation, patent rights (such a third party may or may not be a Supporter). The Sponsors of the Specification are not responsible and shall not be held responsible in any manner for identifying or failing to identify any or all such third party intellectual property rights."
Basically it leaves the litigation angle wide-open, and the license is intentionally murky and unclear. "failing to identify..."? That means there might be IP in there, or not, and they're not responsible if there is. Its too tied up in Pumasoft patents and IP.
Stay away from it, no respectable GPL project or company is going to go near it.
Of course, you realize POSE does not support OS5 devices or the ARM processor. It will only emulate the OS4 and earlier devices, of which the Treo650 is not.
What did your expert do, or find out, that brought this level of optimization? Anything magical? Or did they just fill out the proper headers of your pages?
...and here's my story, aptly named "The Customer is Always Wrong". The retailer was over-the-top abusive and profane. I guess there's always someone who feels they're right, when they're obviously in the wrong.
"This is an excellent point, it is true it is illegal to withold encryption passphrases etc. from the police if they ask you to surrender them."
This just boggles the mind. Why even use encryption at all, if you're legally required to hand over the passphrase to the authorities when asked? What really, is the point? What is the sentence? 20 years? 6 months? A year with accellerated rehabilitation?
Aren't there laws against self-incrimination? Wouldn't those be applicable here?
In fact, I wrote about exactly this topic 5 months ago. Interesting how it keeps resurfacing.
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I found plucker to be nearly useless for geocaching.. at best, it was way too much trouble to be worth it.
You must be using it in a very odd way, there are literally THOUSANDS of Geocachers who prefer to use Plucker for this, because the output file from the various Geocaching sites is XML, or easily converted to HTML from whatever format it is in.
Works great for everyone else. What did you find "useless" about it?
Don't forget you can also Geocache with your Palm device, using Plucker and these instructions. There are some other methods, but this one works without violating their TOS.
There's also some details on finding your cache with your Palm + Plucker over here as well.
I may cook up a little mod_perl app that allows people to upload their.gpx file to convert to Plucker format at some point in the future if there is enough demand for it.
I propose an easy solution... encrypt the whole drive with AES256 or stronger, dm-crypt, stegfs or similar mechanisms, or better yet.. a combination of all of the above.
Its not their data, they have no business poking around in it, "different file structure" or not. Keep them out with strong encryption. You have nothing to hide, and they have no business looking.
Myself and about 230 of my closest friends and developers used to work there. It was called "Linuxcare", maybe you've heard of it. You might recall we were called "The 1-800 Number for Linux", and we were.. not only for users, but for hundreds of big players in the market (IBM, HP, Intel, SGI, 3Com, etc.). We had quite a nice portfolio of custom applications for these companies, as well as supporting most of the Linux distributions and applications that were available at the time.. which the clueless project managers and business managers shortly killed off to save their jobs instead of ours.
(Note: They're now a 100% proprietary software company, rebranded after the 7 rounds of layoffs and 5 CEOs liquidated any intelligence they had left).
The on-die L2 cache will be shared between the two cores, and Intel says the relative bandwidth per core will be higher than its current chips. L2 cache size is widely scalable to different sizes for different products. The L1 caches will remain separate and tied to a specific core, but the CPU will be able to transfer data directly from one core's L1 cache to another.
So in other words, they haven't learned at all, it seems. With the major security flaws in Hyperthreading (including the flaws in the L1/L2 cache design), I'm not surprised they've pulled it from the chips for now.
When things don't work and you can't fix them, pull it out. Microsoft should take a tip here and start pulling out the insecure parts of their OS. Oh wait, that might leave a blank drive instead.
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Let me counter-propose another VERY common scenario:
What we don't realize, is that his kid found the movie on the shelf at his house, ripped a copy, and uploaded it to the 'Net for thousands of others to download and enjoy, for free.
Who is the violator here? Who gets the bill when the MPAA comes-a-calling? Who broke the law?
This kind of sitation happens a LOT more than people realize, with not just movies, but music and software as well. Sure, my friend's kid is truly the violator, but since he never "owned" the movie to begin with, and I never broke the law by loaning it to him (only 1 copy in circulation at once), and my friend wasn't an accomplice to the infringement, where do the fingers point?
Right, back to me.. because I legally bought it and loaned it to him to watch.
I can't control what people do within the confines of their own homes, nor do I care to. I don't police them, and I don't expect them to police me.
As an OSS developer, I can say that working on Open Source code/projects has already paid for itself in tax deductions many times over in the last decade.
Those donations you get from the "Paypal" button on your project homepage? Deductable as gifts, not income.
Those hard drives you upgraded to house your OSS code through RCS on a RAID system? Deductable as a business expense.
The space in your house used to develop/work on that OSS code? Deductable as your "workspace".
In my case, I also host and house dozens of projects for the OSS community, mailing lists, web space, torrent trackers, and lots of other things.
That broadband bill? Deductable. Power to keep servers running 24x7? Deductable.
I also have a "regular day job", and I work at the home office, so that too, is deductable, since it is a dedicated section of the house specifically for that.
Being a long-time OSS developer and supporter has definitely paid for itself many times over in deductions alone, not to mention the Google ad revenue that helps fund the websites I maintain and support, out-of-pocket upgrades to storage, servers, etc.
Having a clueful CPA? Priceless .
Have you been on vacation for the last 4+ years? Warrentless searches are the norm now, and just "suspecting" something is going on, is enough to storm into someone's house and take their belongings (which are never, EVER returned again, or if they are, they are damaged or completely erased. Go ahead, google up the dozens of cases where this is happening all the time, in the US).
I don't comply with something that is baseless, period. Its called Civil Disobedience, and its my right to do so. I know I'm not doing anything illegal within the confines of my home, belongings, and data. As such, they can come to my door with a warrant, and they can take my computers and everything with a wire in it.
They'll get a bunch of unsensible binary junk that they can't make sense of. Their warrant might include the need to disclose my encryption keys, but I'm not giving those away so they can go looking for some obscure reason to prosecute me for another Blue Law.
I've been pulled over and ticketed for having a license plate frame in my state (a dealer-supplied frame). Its ridiculous, but its there if they want to use that as a reason to go through my car to plant^Wfind drugs or other contraband. Why don't they tell the dealership to stop putting these illegal devices on their automobiles? Because they can use it to pull people over if there is no other legitimate reason to do so. If the dealership put a kilo of cocaine in every new car's glovebox, would that be alright too? I doubt it.
Sorry, I maintain my own space within the limits of the documented and legitimate laws on the books. I will not support or comply with "fishing" laws that serve one purpose: to locate and find other reasons to get into my stuff.
Let's see... go to prison for a crime they can't prove, or go to prison for not giving them your encryption keys...
I've already made my decision on that the moment I heard about it. Sorry, my encryption keys are for me, period. You will not get them and I will turn old and grey in a prison cell before you can even divulge one byte of the data they happen to protect.
Do I have anything to hide? No . Am I doing anything illegal? Absolutely not. . Does that mean you have a right to see what is inside my mail, documents, files, data? Absolutely not!
I searched for the projects, by name. Plucker for example..
Now try the same search in Accoona. I went well into the 4th and 5th page of results and STILL didn't find a link to the actual project page itself. In fact, there are 30,241 results returned, but I went onto the 14th page just now, and STILL not a single link to the project page.
AI or not, it isn't returning results for what I'm searching for.
I just tried it with several of our OSS project pages (which rank PR7 or higher), and Accoona doesn't even list the main project homepage well into the 4th and 5th page of results. I gave up after that. Google, Yahoo and MSN all have the project pages as the first or second hit, across all three of those engines.
Does this mean that now, when Google is forced to bend to the pressure of the Current Administration through some laws that will no-doubt be passed to ensure compliance, that the Gubbermint will now be able to see where every person is at any given time, as well as what email they're sending, to whom, and what web searches they're using?
Oh wait, don't use Google, use Yahoo! to search, or AOL, or MSN... Riiiight, the .gov will just aggregate those search results (that they've already secured access to) through a real-time query and figure out exactly WHERE you sent that email or did that search from, then cross-reference that with your calendar, and figure out exactly what you were doing at the time.
As long as there are ridiculous draconian laws that allow .gov to demand logs and other details from providers, there can be no anonymity. At least so far, my provider is Pro-Privacy, and "Gets It(tm)". It pays to go with one of the little guys sometimes.
This couldn't possibly have to do with them trying to buy up MySQL and Zend, along with their acquisition of JBoss, Sleepycat (who own the two transactional engines behind MySQL: BDB and InnoBase), and others that skip my mind at the moment. No, can't be that...
Sure Larry would say this, because he wants to justify his purchased by drumming up some inertia behind their acquisitions.
In other news, UNIX sales fell sharply while Linux deployments increased by 23% over the last 3 quarters. Linux deployments are often not counted by surveys, because they are freely downloadable and are given away at no cost.
Not quite, because its gainst the law to withold your encryption keys if you're asked for them.
Encryption is great (and I use it heavily on drives, mail, backups and everything that contains non-public data), but not when its against the law to use it. Lovely world we live in, isn't it?
Then Linux isn't for your parents. Don't try to make Linux into something it isn't.
Sure, it CAN be made into exactly that (i.e. Lycoris), but it isn't like that out of the box. Linux should never be "dumbled down" by default to satisfy a minority of a minority of Linux users. There are Linux distributions for elementary school children, and the same distribution can be made into a powerful developer workstation.
Its not the OS that matters, its how you configure it.
Give your parents an OSX machine or XP Home Edition and they'll be fine; they're all about the mouse.
I guess your definition of "normal" differs from mine.
But here's the real problem... hardly ANYONE wants to use the mouse all the time. It sucks, its slow, its an enormous waste of motion and screen space when tracking from corner to corner (like OSX's braindead way of undocking the application modality to the top of the screen. Bad, bad move.).
Until EVERY application and EVERY OS option (clipboard, opening menus, etc.) is 100% accessible via the keyboard (as well as the mouse), then the shell will still ALWAYS be faster to do some operations.
Just because you hate opening a shell, doesn't mean the rest of the Unix and Linux world do. I can do most things faster than mousers, including the time required to open a shell and execute whatever command it is I need. I've tested this with dozens of people who complain that the "commandline" is useless, and consistently proven them wrong, on even the simplest of tasks.
Not if you want it to be "Free" (as in beer or software)
Here's an excerpt from the license:
Basically it leaves the litigation angle wide-open, and the license is intentionally murky and unclear. "failing to identify..."? That means there might be IP in there, or not, and they're not responsible if there is. Its too tied up in Pumasoft patents and IP.
Stay away from it, no respectable GPL project or company is going to go near it.
Of course, you realize POSE does not support OS5 devices or the ARM processor. It will only emulate the OS4 and earlier devices, of which the Treo650 is not.
What is this "Jagger" you speak of? Google appears to return results for an IP like "66.102.9.104", which... points back to google, so I don't get it.
What did your expert do, or find out, that brought this level of optimization? Anything magical? Or did they just fill out the proper headers of your pages?
...and here's my story, aptly named "The Customer is Always Wrong". The retailer was over-the-top abusive and profane. I guess there's always someone who feels they're right, when they're obviously in the wrong.
This just boggles the mind. Why even use encryption at all, if you're legally required to hand over the passphrase to the authorities when asked? What really, is the point? What is the sentence? 20 years? 6 months? A year with accellerated rehabilitation?
Aren't there laws against self-incrimination? Wouldn't those be applicable here?
In fact, I wrote about exactly this topic 5 months ago. Interesting how it keeps resurfacing.
You must be using it in a very odd way, there are literally THOUSANDS of Geocachers who prefer to use Plucker for this, because the output file from the various Geocaching sites is XML, or easily converted to HTML from whatever format it is in.
Works great for everyone else. What did you find "useless" about it?
There's also some details on finding your cache with your Palm + Plucker over here as well.
I may cook up a little mod_perl app that allows people to upload their .gpx file to convert to Plucker format at some point in the future if there is enough demand for it.
Any requests for something like that?
I propose an easy solution... encrypt the whole drive with AES256 or stronger, dm-crypt, stegfs or similar mechanisms, or better yet.. a combination of all of the above.
Its not their data, they have no business poking around in it, "different file structure" or not. Keep them out with strong encryption. You have nothing to hide, and they have no business looking.
Myself and about 230 of my closest friends and developers used to work there. It was called "Linuxcare", maybe you've heard of it. You might recall we were called "The 1-800 Number for Linux", and we were.. not only for users, but for hundreds of big players in the market (IBM, HP, Intel, SGI, 3Com, etc.). We had quite a nice portfolio of custom applications for these companies, as well as supporting most of the Linux distributions and applications that were available at the time.. which the clueless project managers and business managers shortly killed off to save their jobs instead of ours.
(Note: They're now a 100% proprietary software company, rebranded after the 7 rounds of layoffs and 5 CEOs liquidated any intelligence they had left).
So in other words, they haven't learned at all, it seems. With the major security flaws in Hyperthreading (including the flaws in the L1/L2 cache design), I'm not surprised they've pulled it from the chips for now.
When things don't work and you can't fix them, pull it out. Microsoft should take a tip here and start pulling out the insecure parts of their OS. Oh wait, that might leave a blank drive instead.
I must have missed a meeting... when was Bill Gates ever right?