The GPL doesn't subvert copyright at all, it just uses it to say "you can copy this to your heart's content as long as you don't try to stop other people doing the same". That is exercising your right to control who copies it, which is exactly what copyright law is all about.
Well, I agree that paying huge amounts for clothing, shoes, etc doesn't generally get you something that's hugely better quality, paying very little does generally get you something that's poor quality. Somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot, just as with most things.
So you are stating that UAC is not a real inconvenience just perceived?
I'm currently running Server 2008 on my home desktop, and yes I would say that UAC is not a real inconvenience at all. I don't spend all my time tweaking settings or installing/uninstalling software though; in normal day-to-day usage, I almost never get prompted by it.
Mind you, I also don't run as an admin, so perhaps that has something to do with it - but then, you shouldn't be running as admin anyway.
Indeed. A couple of years ago I was playing with.NET and DirectX. One day I happened to try remote desktoping form my laptop (no Visual Studio) to my desktop to work on the code. I tried running the compiled executable on my laptop from a network share on my desktop, and it refused to run.
If the runtime won't (by default) trust executables run from network shares, there's no way in hell it'll trust any old crap that comes in via IE.
TFA does imply that the exploit takes advantage of an assumption at the OS level that.NET objects are automatically safe, and gives them the same privileges as the browser itself.
Which in my admittedly relatively limited experience is bullshit. Try running a.NET executable from a mapped drive, for example - it loses a whole host of privileges, to the extent where my crappy little DirectX app wouldn't even run. That may have changed (I tried this back in the 2.0 days and 3.5 is the latest version) but somehow I doubt it.
Perhaps you should study your history a little more closely - pretty much every developed country has done similar in the past. The US specifically chose not to honour foreign (mostly British) copyrights and patents when it was starting out as a nation, and yet now they are one of the biggest proponents of such IP protection measures.
They do? Cool! Sept 11th is my birthday - I didn't even know they knew, let alone would arrange the timing of such a major project around it. That's so sweet!
It looks to me like it's specifying a bunch of db primary keys (the $fooPK:NNNNNs), separated by ~s rather than making it a "traditional" query string (which may not be search engine friendly). Chances are the ".html" at the end is to make it look to google et al (and your browser) like it's just any other link, and shouldn't be treated specially (and especially not ignored).
Yes, it's ugly as hell, but how often do you actually read out a URL, rather than copy/paste/send it to someone?
Yes, I have, in a combination of the ways in which vux984 mentions. If I remember rightly the controls started to go, the picture started getting a bit fuzzy then eventually it took on a pinkish tint.
I've long thought that the editors should be banned from making any comments whatsoever in the summary itself, and should instead make them down here with the rest of us proles.
But then the odd inciteful comment to stir up a little controversy can only be good for page views and thus ad impressions...
Not to mention that there's nothing particularly special about pursuing an encyclopaedic knowledge of the intricacies of computers and software either. More useful than knowing your favourite soaps inside out perhaps - but then is that really much worse than a similar appreciation for the classics? It's all "just" entertainment after all...
(And I sincerely believe that a life without entertainment is a cold, empty thing indeed)
Oracle... we use it for some backend stuff at work, and frankly I think a monkey with a pen and paper could be faster.
Someone's done something wrong (probably stupidly wrong), as I've used Oracle on a system running stupidly complex queries against a table containing ~60 million rows, and while some queries can take a while most are surprisingly fast (sub-second or two). Yes, it's been designed and optimised to be fast - but that's what I meant about someone at your place having done something wrong...
Well the OP said that Java (which should have been the JVM, but still) supports more languages than the CLR, so yes it was a "my list of languages is bigger than yours" dick-waving contest.
Gravity Tractor? You know I love these sky high fantasy ideas to deflect asteroids as much as anyone else but shouldn't we be concentrating on what is real?
And how exactly do we turn those sky high fantasy ideas into reality, other than by concentrating on them?
We already have teams looking at doing as you suggest, what do we lose by having other teams look at other ideas? More people working on the same thing won't necessarily make it happen any faster or better. People here of all places should understand that.
Yes, it takes actual writing to write brand new stuff - but that still doesn't mean that someone who writes 1000 lines of code to implement $feature is more productive than someone else who writes 500 lines to implement the same feature. It just means they wrote more code; for all you know, it may have been too much code. That's not productive.
The point is that measuring raw kloc is like measuring raw GHz for processors - it only tells you a small part of the picture, and is often meaningless.
My experience is pretty much the opposite of yours when it comes to the iPod. I used to have an iRiver H120, which unfortunately died earlier this year. I replaced it with a second-hand iPod mini, and quite frankly it sucks in comparison. The wheel sometimes doesn't respond well, there's no remote (let alone the LCD remote that came with the iRiver), to put music on it I have to use iTunes, getting music off it is tricky - the list goes on.
To be honest, I think it's the iTunes requirement that I have the biggest issue with, the iRiver just exposed itself as a mass storage device, no special software required. But then I dislike iTunes and its habit of silently installing extra software alongside itself anyway...
They don't have to rip and encode and transfer and configure and read manuals and learn rocket science.
That's cute, but both iTunes and Windows Media Player (and doubtless others) will rip and encode a CD more or less automatically. Transferring to my iRiver was literally just drag 'n' drop - exactly the same as doing it in iTunes, but with an extra button or two to click. I appreciate the ease of purchasing from iTMS too, but while it's easier it hardly makes ripping your own look like rocket science.
But if you compare the pace of kernel development, by source-code line count, Linux tremendously outpaces BSD kernel development.
Bruce, I generally respect what you say (even when I don't necessarily agree with it), but measuring productivity by counting kloc? I thought that was soundly discredited a couple of decades ago...
Implying that the BSD licence is used only for the BSD kernels and Java-based projects seems to be somewhat disingenuous - unless I'm misreading you there, of course.
I can't comment on the legal accuracy of your post, but one thing strikes me as being definitely wrong:
once you are on the embassy compound grounds, you are a US citizen again
You're a US citizen no matter where in the world you are. In the embassy compound you are (legally) on US soil again and so it may well be that your constitutional rights kick in again, but you were a US citizen when you were walking down the street to get to it too.
as soon as I can figure out how to do so without having to give the government a truckload of biometric data in exchange for the privilege of a passport.
That's easy, just do what I did - get it five years ago.
I don't know about AT&T or the US, but over here in the UK quite a few mobile providers are offering 3G broadband access for laptops (and desktops I guess) using USB dongles. This is not necessarily limited to phones.
On the other hand, as long as they're open and up-front about it I think they should be able to ban whatever protocol they want from their network.
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The GPL doesn't subvert copyright at all, it just uses it to say "you can copy this to your heart's content as long as you don't try to stop other people doing the same". That is exercising your right to control who copies it, which is exactly what copyright law is all about.
Well, I agree that paying huge amounts for clothing, shoes, etc doesn't generally get you something that's hugely better quality, paying very little does generally get you something that's poor quality. Somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot, just as with most things.
So you are stating that UAC is not a real inconvenience just perceived?
I'm currently running Server 2008 on my home desktop, and yes I would say that UAC is not a real inconvenience at all. I don't spend all my time tweaking settings or installing/uninstalling software though; in normal day-to-day usage, I almost never get prompted by it.
Mind you, I also don't run as an admin, so perhaps that has something to do with it - but then, you shouldn't be running as admin anyway.
Indeed. A couple of years ago I was playing with .NET and DirectX. One day I happened to try remote desktoping form my laptop (no Visual Studio) to my desktop to work on the code. I tried running the compiled executable on my laptop from a network share on my desktop, and it refused to run.
If the runtime won't (by default) trust executables run from network shares, there's no way in hell it'll trust any old crap that comes in via IE.
TFA does imply that the exploit takes advantage of an assumption at the OS level that .NET objects are automatically safe, and gives them the same privileges as the browser itself.
Which in my admittedly relatively limited experience is bullshit. Try running a .NET executable from a mapped drive, for example - it loses a whole host of privileges, to the extent where my crappy little DirectX app wouldn't even run. That may have changed (I tried this back in the 2.0 days and 3.5 is the latest version) but somehow I doubt it.
Perhaps you should study your history a little more closely - pretty much every developed country has done similar in the past. The US specifically chose not to honour foreign (mostly British) copyrights and patents when it was starting out as a nation, and yet now they are one of the biggest proponents of such IP protection measures.
Funny, that.
They do? Cool! Sept 11th is my birthday - I didn't even know they knew, let alone would arrange the timing of such a major project around it. That's so sweet!
You think you've got it bad? I'll be getting it a day early - at least you'll get to see your birthday!
It looks to me like it's specifying a bunch of db primary keys (the $fooPK:NNNNNs), separated by ~s rather than making it a "traditional" query string (which may not be search engine friendly). Chances are the ".html" at the end is to make it look to google et al (and your browser) like it's just any other link, and shouldn't be treated specially (and especially not ignored).
Yes, it's ugly as hell, but how often do you actually read out a URL, rather than copy/paste/send it to someone?
Yes, I have, in a combination of the ways in which vux984 mentions. If I remember rightly the controls started to go, the picture started getting a bit fuzzy then eventually it took on a pinkish tint.
Everything wears out eventually.
I've long thought that the editors should be banned from making any comments whatsoever in the summary itself, and should instead make them down here with the rest of us proles.
But then the odd inciteful comment to stir up a little controversy can only be good for page views and thus ad impressions...
Not to mention that there's nothing particularly special about pursuing an encyclopaedic knowledge of the intricacies of computers and software either. More useful than knowing your favourite soaps inside out perhaps - but then is that really much worse than a similar appreciation for the classics? It's all "just" entertainment after all...
(And I sincerely believe that a life without entertainment is a cold, empty thing indeed)
Oracle... we use it for some backend stuff at work, and frankly I think a monkey with a pen and paper could be faster.
Someone's done something wrong (probably stupidly wrong), as I've used Oracle on a system running stupidly complex queries against a table containing ~60 million rows, and while some queries can take a while most are surprisingly fast (sub-second or two). Yes, it's been designed and optimised to be fast - but that's what I meant about someone at your place having done something wrong...
Well the OP said that Java (which should have been the JVM, but still) supports more languages than the CLR, so yes it was a "my list of languages is bigger than yours" dick-waving contest.
Gravity Tractor? You know I love these sky high fantasy ideas to deflect asteroids as much as anyone else but shouldn't we be concentrating on what is real?
And how exactly do we turn those sky high fantasy ideas into reality, other than by concentrating on them?
We already have teams looking at doing as you suggest, what do we lose by having other teams look at other ideas? More people working on the same thing won't necessarily make it happen any faster or better. People here of all places should understand that.
Yes, it takes actual writing to write brand new stuff - but that still doesn't mean that someone who writes 1000 lines of code to implement $feature is more productive than someone else who writes 500 lines to implement the same feature. It just means they wrote more code; for all you know, it may have been too much code. That's not productive.
The point is that measuring raw kloc is like measuring raw GHz for processors - it only tells you a small part of the picture, and is often meaningless.
My experience is pretty much the opposite of yours when it comes to the iPod. I used to have an iRiver H120, which unfortunately died earlier this year. I replaced it with a second-hand iPod mini, and quite frankly it sucks in comparison. The wheel sometimes doesn't respond well, there's no remote (let alone the LCD remote that came with the iRiver), to put music on it I have to use iTunes, getting music off it is tricky - the list goes on.
To be honest, I think it's the iTunes requirement that I have the biggest issue with, the iRiver just exposed itself as a mass storage device, no special software required. But then I dislike iTunes and its habit of silently installing extra software alongside itself anyway...
They don't have to rip and encode and transfer and configure and read manuals and learn rocket science.
That's cute, but both iTunes and Windows Media Player (and doubtless others) will rip and encode a CD more or less automatically. Transferring to my iRiver was literally just drag 'n' drop - exactly the same as doing it in iTunes, but with an extra button or two to click. I appreciate the ease of purchasing from iTMS too, but while it's easier it hardly makes ripping your own look like rocket science.
But if you compare the pace of kernel development, by source-code line count, Linux tremendously outpaces BSD kernel development.
Bruce, I generally respect what you say (even when I don't necessarily agree with it), but measuring productivity by counting kloc? I thought that was soundly discredited a couple of decades ago...
Implying that the BSD licence is used only for the BSD kernels and Java-based projects seems to be somewhat disingenuous - unless I'm misreading you there, of course.
And having that precedent set will give them greater control, and thus increase their ability to make money.
If money - or the potential to make money - wasn't involved, they wouldn't care about the precedent either.
And they were authorized by the copyright holders to download them.
Unfortunately she wasn't authorised to upload them. All this means is that in this particular transaction the RIAA can't be sued for their part.
I can't comment on the legal accuracy of your post, but one thing strikes me as being definitely wrong:
once you are on the embassy compound grounds, you are a US citizen again
You're a US citizen no matter where in the world you are. In the embassy compound you are (legally) on US soil again and so it may well be that your constitutional rights kick in again, but you were a US citizen when you were walking down the street to get to it too.
as soon as I can figure out how to do so without having to give the government a truckload of biometric data in exchange for the privilege of a passport.
That's easy, just do what I did - get it five years ago.
Shame they expire really...
It's a damn shame that they chose to use the insane 'copyright on RAM contents' argument.
If you ask me, it's a shame that they used the argument and won with it.
Just like most other Microsoft/Windows topics on Slashdot, people seem to miss a huge portion of the picture.
That's because while slashdot does report on cool tech (often to rubbish it), it mainly exists to rag on MS.
I don't know about AT&T or the US, but over here in the UK quite a few mobile providers are offering 3G broadband access for laptops (and desktops I guess) using USB dongles. This is not necessarily limited to phones.
On the other hand, as long as they're open and up-front about it I think they should be able to ban whatever protocol they want from their network.