* Most corporations are corrupt * All governments are corrupt * Individuals are powerless when the two get together, unless they get together, too * Resistance is not futile, but is bloody * You will be assimilated quicker if you buy Nikes, eat at McD's, use MS products...
I'd like to hear you repeat your comment if your father/brother/sister is pulled over and a defective breathalizer makes he/she spend two years in jail because of that.
Cell phones work OK inside airplanes. I, personally, never turn mine off when in flight. It just sits there in my pocket, turned on. I don't talk, if someone calls me I send an SMS back. It works allright.
The people in jail that were not DIU are far worse, don't you think? And if the vendor (RTFA) refuses to show the court the source code, it's because something is shady, I would bet. It's not like the court is trying to make them GPL the source; the court just needs to be sure the thing works. Anyway, are judges in the USofA liable for their decisions? I would think that for that, one would have to prove bad faith from their part. (Judges and prosecutors in Brasil are NOT liable for their opinions and decisions in the line of duty... unless one can PROVE bad faith beyond any reasonable doubt.)
Violence is everywhere, in (maybe) different scales. USofAns don't have enough of it at home, they take theirs to Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, or anywhere they can (they don't take theirs to places like North Korea where they know they'll have their butts kicked, though...) But USofA has it, too, as I mentioned, with the Ted Bundys and the Columbines. We (Brasil) have our, too (don't forget we had a *congressman* in Acre whose hobby was chopping people to pieces with a chainsaw -- but he's in jail now) The UK has the IRA, Spain has ETA *and* Al Qaeda, and don't get me started in the Middle East thing.
As of today (it *is* 2005, isn't it?), I thought everybody *knew* that DRM is a cryptographic impossibility. After all, Bob and Eve are one and the same... How do you send a message to someone if you don't want said person to hear?
But I think that if there were a non-toxic, not-terribly-expensive KO gas, it would be normal policy to KO all passengers for any flight. Imagine the economy on catering. Or peanuts:-) What *is* the thing with airlines and peanuts anyway???
A linux binary that could chmod +x itself, and then execute? Preferently as root, so it can open a port in the iptables firewall?:-) Yeah, I didn't think so either.
The Problem, and a lot of people do NOT realize it, is: Proprietary Software NEVER does Just Work(TM). It may pass that impression at first, but in the long run, tsc tsc...
The fact (again) is that anyone willing to exploit will do so, writing the script in a BAD way. And you are telling me AIX, HP/ux, SCO and Slowlaris have no buffer overflow in their sh, csh implementations? You must be dreaming.
Linux banned suid scripts long ago, and for good. suid scripts permit HUGE holes, because it's easy to find a buffer overflow in sh or any other script interpreter and then... instant root account.
The fact is: the p2p networks will route around this stuff. With packet hashes, banning of corrupt pieces, and then, in little time, thigs would be back at normal.
the free SCMs had the problem of being 10-100x slower than BK. they were not "about as good". there is an enourmous different between taking 20-30 seconds to process a patchset and taking ONE HOUR doing it.
1) wrong. even those who don't have a clue can hire someone to make something with an open-standard-formatted data. but if the data format is secret, NO ONE can do nothing with the data, except the creator of the format.
2) right.
3) I would like you to correlate why an openstandard is incompatile with a free-marked economy.
Anyway, I don't think the vast majority of GPLd software is licensed v2-or-later option. IIRC it's more like 40% of the GPLd software, but does anyone have a real, hard reference (like sf.net stats or something?)
1. Just like postscript, PDF is a turing-complete language too;
2. These "phone-home" documents can be implemented in such a way that the text in the PDF is encrypted, with a decryption key to be retrieved from "home". Got it?
Some personal boot times, from power-up to "I can click and the machine will do": Compaq 486SX, 8MB RAM, Win3.11: 20s Same machine, I installed Win95b+MSWorks95: 20s Wife's "white box", AMD k6-2 450, 300MB RAM, Win98SE: 40s Work's Itautec (good biz brand down here) Celeron 900, 256MB RAM, Win98SE: 55s Home double server/desktop, AthlonXP1800, 1GB RAM, k-Hoary: 90s Transmeta 5600 laptop (on it now) 300MG RAM, k-Hoary: 45s
The last two benefited greatly from the last change (k)ubuntu did to the startup scripts... it shaved some 20s which were specially more annoying on the laptop.:-)
And my home machine has some serious problem with hotplug or usb (takes forever to get ahold of the mouse), but I haven't got the time to look into it yet...
Q: How does this tracking mechanism differ from web log analysers?
A: Simple, web log analysers aren't capable of tracking redistributions of the same document. If you copy a web page, say about theories in free-market macroeconomics, and e-mail the copy to a friend, say in China, no one will ever know your friend has read it. But if you copy one of those and it's read by your friend there, then certainly your friend will have a red flag (pun intended) on him.
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I thought for a moment that I was a clipped-cavagnac, short-haired, 35yo, public employee, married to a District Attorney and father of one 5yo kid.
Silly me.
* Most corporations are corrupt ...
* All governments are corrupt
* Individuals are powerless when the two get together, unless they get together, too
* Resistance is not futile, but is bloody
* You will be assimilated quicker if you buy Nikes, eat at McD's, use MS products
I'd like to hear you repeat your comment if your father/brother/sister is pulled over and a defective breathalizer makes he/she spend two years in jail because of that.
Cell phones work OK inside airplanes. I, personally, never turn mine off when in flight. It just sits there in my pocket, turned on. I don't talk, if someone calls me I send an SMS back. It works allright.
The people in jail that were not DIU are far worse, don't you think?
And if the vendor (RTFA) refuses to show the court the source code, it's because something is shady, I would bet. It's not like the court is trying to make them GPL the source; the court just needs to be sure the thing works.
Anyway, are judges in the USofA liable for their decisions? I would think that for that, one would have to prove bad faith from their part. (Judges and prosecutors in Brasil are NOT liable for their opinions and decisions in the line of duty... unless one can PROVE bad faith beyond any reasonable doubt.)
If this avoids that one person unjustly accused of DUI goes to jail, it's a good thing, notwithstanding how many real DUI people get off with that.
Violence is everywhere, in (maybe) different scales.
USofAns don't have enough of it at home, they take theirs to Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, or anywhere they can (they don't take theirs to places like North Korea where they know they'll have their butts kicked, though...)
But USofA has it, too, as I mentioned, with the Ted Bundys and the Columbines.
We (Brasil) have our, too (don't forget we had a *congressman* in Acre whose hobby was chopping people to pieces with a chainsaw -- but he's in jail now)
The UK has the IRA, Spain has ETA *and* Al Qaeda, and don't get me started in the Middle East thing.
As of today (it *is* 2005, isn't it?), I thought everybody *knew* that DRM is a cryptographic impossibility. After all, Bob and Eve are one and the same... How do you send a message to someone if you don't want said person to hear?
That's why God put the % symbol in the shift-5 key...
1. kids being shot in schools in Russia? you gotta be kidding? you mean columbine is not in the USofA?
2. it's (your rights) online, not your (rights online).
But I think that if there were a non-toxic, not-terribly-expensive KO gas, it would be normal policy to KO all passengers for any flight. Imagine the economy on catering. Or peanuts :-) What *is* the thing with airlines and peanuts anyway???
A linux binary that could chmod +x itself, and then execute? Preferently as root, so it can open a port in the iptables firewall? :-) Yeah, I didn't think so either.
The Problem, and a lot of people do NOT realize it, is: Proprietary Software NEVER does Just Work(TM). It may pass that impression at first, but in the long run, tsc tsc...
The fact (again) is that anyone willing to exploit will do so, writing the script in a BAD way. And you are telling me AIX, HP/ux, SCO and Slowlaris have no buffer overflow in their sh, csh implementations? You must be dreaming.
Linux banned suid scripts long ago, and for good. ... instant root account.
suid scripts permit HUGE holes, because it's easy to find a buffer overflow in sh or any other script interpreter and then
The fact is: the p2p networks will route around this stuff. With packet hashes, banning of corrupt pieces, and then, in little time, thigs would be back at normal.
You are basically saying that the rich coutries are rich because they are loan sharks?
the free SCMs had the problem of being 10-100x slower than BK.
they were not "about as good". there is an enourmous different between taking 20-30 seconds to process a patchset and taking ONE HOUR doing it.
1) wrong. even those who don't have a clue can hire someone to make something with an open-standard-formatted data. but if the data format is secret, NO ONE can do nothing with the data, except the creator of the format.
2) right.
3) I would like you to correlate why an openstandard is incompatile with a free-marked economy.
That we don't have computers at our homes?
Anyway, I don't think the vast majority of GPLd software is licensed v2-or-later option. IIRC it's more like 40% of the GPLd software, but does anyone have a real, hard reference (like sf.net stats or something?)
1. Just like postscript, PDF is a turing-complete language too;
2. These "phone-home" documents can be implemented in such a way that the text in the PDF is encrypted, with a decryption key to be retrieved from "home". Got it?
And some people are attacking it just now...
Some personal boot times, from power-up to "I can click and the machine will do":
:-)
Compaq 486SX, 8MB RAM, Win3.11: 20s
Same machine, I installed Win95b+MSWorks95: 20s
Wife's "white box", AMD k6-2 450, 300MB RAM, Win98SE: 40s
Work's Itautec (good biz brand down here) Celeron 900, 256MB RAM, Win98SE: 55s
Home double server/desktop, AthlonXP1800, 1GB RAM, k-Hoary: 90s
Transmeta 5600 laptop (on it now) 300MG RAM, k-Hoary: 45s
The last two benefited greatly from the last change (k)ubuntu did to the startup scripts... it shaved some 20s which were specially more annoying on the laptop.
And my home machine has some serious problem with hotplug or usb (takes forever to get ahold of the mouse), but I haven't got the time to look into it yet...
HTH
Q: How does this tracking mechanism differ from web log analysers?
A: Simple, web log analysers aren't capable of tracking redistributions of the same document. If you copy a web page, say about theories in free-market macroeconomics, and e-mail the copy to a friend, say in China, no one will ever know your friend has read it. But if you copy one of those and it's read by your friend there, then certainly your friend will have a red flag (pun intended) on him.
HTH