This page has a good description of how heat pipes work and a section on using them on "hot CPU's I apologize for not putting it in the first post but Ow well. It looks promising http://www.norenproducts.com/Heat_Pipe_Introductio n.html
My Father who has been in the heat and air biz for 30 + years told me of a very new and exciting thing called "heat pipes". They where developed by NASA as a replacement for heat sinks. They are basically a sealed pipe half full of a liquid and half filled with that liquid's vapors. You can use water or R12 it depends on the amount of heat being moved. When bottom of the pipe gets hot it ups the pressure of the vapor on the top of the pipe and the vapor condenses Heat pipes are said to be 1000 of times more affective in moving heat as the best heat sinks. The only draw back is the pipe needs to be upright the condensed liquid needs to be able to run down the pipe to the bottom end. Laptops might be a problem. Right now they seem to be mostly used for Dehumidifiers http://www.heatpipe.com but they now are being used in other things even electronics http://www.norenproducts.com/newindex3.html I hope this can make fans less necessary and CPU's faster. if it will work.
People who think that somthing cant live biger than an elephant need to address somting elephants are with all of ther wheght able to pick up very large things cut down trees with just there trunks and they can carry much more then that on there backs they can and do walk very long distances hundreds of miles to migrat to a differnt areas. they can run. It seems if you wanted if an elephant did not need to walk very fare and did not need to pick up stuff to make aliving that an elephant could be much biger then there our now. If what drive your evolution is being bigger than the things trying to eat you and being able to keep body heat and reserve energy and not running and picking things up you can be very larg indeed. With no need of changes in gravity to help.
I searched the doc on the words "source code" I recommend you do the same the doc is very large and boring you will get the the good parts with in 4 or 5 hits. This seems to be part of a sudo open source argument that will not work. They state that third parties can look at Microsoft source code with in a secure area (no taking it home to study) for compatibility purposes and they want to be able to do the same. They claim they don't want people stealing there technology with out paying royalties. This all sound fair and good so far kind of like an open source club Microsoft style. The catch is that they state that they will not let anyone see code that has third party code in it for it will violate the third parties intellectual rights. Quick how much of Microsoft stuff has been written by others a shit load of it They are infamous of buying what they cant or will not write for them selves. They mix enough some one else's code they license or they license all of the code and only get exclusive rights to sell and everyone is back where we started. They don't seem to want this added code to be open like it would be under the GPL. This is why half-harted attempts at open source and or Free Software dont work and the and the GPL does. NICE TRY MICROSOFT WE KNOW YOU TOO WELL TO FALL FOR THAT CRAP.
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Child soldiers are a bad thing but keep in mind that the Definition. of a Child is set at under 18. Teenagers have always been in wars and probably will all way be in wars. Please don't think they where only talking about 8 year olds It happens but not as much as they made it out to be. It takes a set amount of maturity to fight a war to work as a team to understand orders and goals. A real child pre teen can shoot and kill but are often too much of a liability to be a good soldiers and an asset. They show up mostly during projected wars 5, 10, 15, 20 years of nonstop war. Where the men are mostly all dead and the children have known only war all of there lives. Sad but true.
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Your Drill Instructor was General George Patton (old blood and guts himself). WOW now that interesting. " No poor son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country he won it by making the other poor son of a bitch die for his." Gen. G Patton
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One thing most people do not get about the Gulf War is that is was not in our interest to destroy the Iraq Army nor do I think it was ever a real goal of the Allies. IRAQ has stopped the spread of Iran for 10 years during the Iran Iraq war. It will not help to weaken Iraq so much as to give Iran an opportunity to dominate the region. It is sad but true we wanted to weaken Iraq's army and we wanted them out of oil rich Kuwait, But we still needed Iraq to be a buffer to Iran. This is one of the reasons we still want Iraq weak but not too weak. As for Husan I feel it would have been politically good to get rid of him but there is no way of knowing if the person who replaces him would not have been as bad. We had a very large number of ground troops on the ground and over the border. We had the ability to destroy the whole Iraq army every last tank and truck if we wanted to. It would have taken maybe an extra 4 or 5 day a week at the most but then we where not ready to do in IRAQ what we did in Germany in 1945 after competently destroying the German army. That was out goal in WW2 not to get Berlin or Hitler but to end Germanys ability to wage war. After wards we stayed for 50 years to defend it against a potential invader. If Iran Invades Iraq you will see the US help Iraq as we during the Iran Iraq war. The IRAQ army stayed intact because we wanted it that way because at the time it seemed in our best interest.
I am assuming you are one of the fortunate people who have little to fear from the mainstream culture. I can understand your feelings. WTF do no wrong and you are OK. It is a very different thing for millions of people who have a lot to fear from mainstream culture. Gays for one are often KILLED when found out, they are often fired from there jobs and denied many basic rights Privacy for them is a very big deal!!! I for one do not practice a mainstream religion (Wica). People like me often have the fear of having there children taken from them by zealots who often label us as Evil when nothing could be further from the truth.( talking about a Witch hunt) I can only practice my belief system behind a curtain of privacy because freedom of religion in the US does not seem to include freedom form other religions like Christian fundamentalism. If you like controversial but legal things like going to strip bars or renting pr0n would you like others finding out and telling your Christian fundamentalist boss. What truly suck about this kind of thing is you will never know why you lost your job or did not get a sweet project when it just happens one day. No one can trust the holders of the information for the simple reason Zealots are everywhere and will get to the info and they will not feel any reservation on exposing the "wicked and evil" ones they hate. I hope this helps bring some light on why at lest some people feel so strongly about privacy. It is the keystone to preserving our American way of life from the Truly evil ones how are too numerous to stop at this time.
It seems simple to at first to make a firewall you have a set of rules packet comes in check let though or drop it. But it is never that simple. Fire walls and now Censorware are very complex they do way too much. It seems that the only way corporations can to compete with one another is to pack more stuff in to it. They don't think having a more secure platform or an open platform will sell. Most managers don't understand the advantage but they understand I can have logs of every sight person X goes to and why. The old Unix module of small simple parts that work together is better. If you want Censorware and a fire wall then have two boxes If you want a router a fire wall and Censorware then get three boxes. Novell, Microsoft and NA really want you to buy the big do everything box. It helps to lock you in to there products. The Right Paradigm is the opposite. The use opensource open standards modular products that get tested by everyone. IT is almost impossible to have a big do all firewall that is 100% Secure. It is like having a 100% bug free Program. The best you can have is a simple small program with a very high probability of being bug free.
The only thing a French court or any other court can do is fine Yahoo. It is up to yahoo to pay or not. If Yahoo has no assets in France, France has little options. But this is a big deal because yahoo will be blocked from doing any real business with France for then on. France may pressure other countries to make Yahoo Pay. This also may happen. What is disturbing is why doesn't France handle this on their own. Filter out the sight if they must control what there citizens watch and buy. What would they think if a US court decided that a French sight must be shut down because it has nudity? I do not think they like that but the French has always been hypocritical and full of them selves.
This is an example of what to look for. If California has this Other countries may as well. http://www.sirius.com/~casp/feedback.html Other pages for info on SLAPPs http://www.thefirstamendment.org/ http://www.thefirstamendment.org/Civil.htm
SLAPP stand for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. A term used in Political Science and Journalism circles. What/. is going through with Microsoft is in my opion A kind of SLAPP. It is a way of suppressing free speech by suing people to censure them selves. Moving to another country to stop this is a very good Idea. Corporations do it all of the time. Veri Sign use to sell encryption boxes out of Israel back when was illegal to sell it out of the US. This kind of thing simply works. They can still get you if you are really sealing and impacting their bottom line, but the process is greatly complicated by going over international lines. The Idea is that it is not worth all of the effort for something as non-impacting on the bottom line like someone's embarrassing speech. What everyone wants is to be free of the harassment of big corporations that use the fact they have almost unlimited resources to sue and most people and many small companies live paycheck to paycheck. This means that most people and most small companies will do exactly what the big company wants. The Idea is that 99% of the time it never gets to court. And if it does and you win? So what!!! It cost the corporation almost nothing while you are now faced big legal bills. This may be OK if you are a real criminal stealing from them but it is another when it is about your free speech they don't like. When this happens it is a SLAPP clear and simple. This is becoming the preferred way that corporations deal with speech they don't like. Normally when it is not too blatant they will pull some kind of agreement you may have with them. The click through "contract" Microsoft has for example. But most of the time they don't even bother. They do this because it cost them almost noting to do it. It is just too easy and works too well. They pay for the lawyers anyway. To protect your self you need to make it as hard and costly as possible. Make them have to heir a lawyer in that country. Make them have to research their laws. Take way the DMCA and you will find the number of SLAPPs will drop. If you have a country with a real press that will expose corporations that harass people you will see SLAPPs really drop. Don't know where the best place would be but Great Britain and the US are among the worst. I would look at places like New Zealand, and Australia, Finland for starters. We should have a rating system for countries for SLAPP violation somewhere. Remember it is not about copyright law it is about stopping SLAPPs.
I have often wondered why IBM did not run everything possable under there manframe hardware. I was the administrator of a IBM 4381 running VM that I was able to discomision and the amount of IO was impressive even for that very small and week Mainframe. I think the new modle IBM is pushing is that a big company can have the best of all worlds. get rid of all of the PC and network and put it in the big blue box. You can invest in a IBM Mainfram and still run vm mvs os/360, OS/2, aix, Linux. Most mainfram engineers think they can do anything that a PC can do except get good press. From what I seen they ar right. This helps with the mainframs are uncool bad part of the pass Idea that a lot of windows and some unix people have even after they see hard facts showing cost, reliability, and performace superiority of big iron. The religion of the PC world is the OS not the hardware almost no one cares what the hard ware is as long as it is fast and stable and runs my OS native. This is why this is happing.
You know, you are right. I am still willing to give money and or help for the Micro$oft/. situation. I think I will do the same for the EFF. Life has been good to me and it is only right to give some back. It is time to put money where my mouth is. I hope others will do the same. Good call Thanks Sun Tsu
If you need a defence fund for lawer cost I will be willing to pitch in what I can and I hope others will as well. I know you all have a legal department and may not need money but I feel that I really would like to suport you all in any way possable Money or other wise. please do not hesatate to ask. GOOD LUCK Sun Tsu
Corporate America has learned something they have more money than anyone else to sue with. Microsoft dose not expect to have to sue/. The expect you to shit you pants and do what ever it takes to stay out of court. If you do what they want they will be back. I say the best solution is to go somewhere else to host the service. Get out of the US and its LAWS and its court system. If I remember right Linux was almost sued by Bell Labs the then owners of UNIX but it got no where in the court system in Finland here they would have probably won in the US. I know the staff at/. May not like moving to a different country but it may find it a much better solution to fighting big corporations in the land of big corporations. The Internet is international and no one country has say. If you are not in the US and you do not have any major access in the US there is not much they can do to make you do as they say. Find a nice place that the DCMA does not have jurisdiction. Or get use to being harassed by the man. This time they may have a good case next time it will be because you make them look bad It cost them almost noting to do it and Even if they lose in court it is like a drop in the bucket to them It will eventually drain you. GOOD LUCK
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read the post. Free software gives you that choice! RMS can not and will not stop you from selling or buying anything you want. 99% of the uses in the world can rest better knowing that if Open source or free software did something outrageous like send someone all of your files every time you logged in to the net. they know they would hear about it Slash Dot or elsewhere close software it is almost impossible to know what the software is doing except what the writer wants you to know. If you don't like it thank RMS ( jpl and others Open source for giving you the choice to not buying closed source software.
American Civil Liberties Union is an organization famous for defending the constitutional rights of people. Often unpopular people like the KKK. ACLU has sued for there right to march. The ACLU really doesn't like the KKK but that does not matter to the ACLU. The ACLU feels it is necessary to defend the Civil liberties of everyone including people they do not like. The felling is that if bad oppressive unpopular groups and people have there rights defended then everyone else's is safer. This has made them a highly admired and hated group in USA
Im sorry but you dont get it! Itis more than just tinkering the free software movement was and is about having software avalable for anyone to use so that they have a real choice they are not locked in with no choice of sighing you freedom way. open sorce is good better than not knowing what your sonftware is realy doing but GNU made it possable for programers to have tools to write software GCC GNU was and remains a big deal imagin a world were the cost of entery into the market is biuilding a hardware switch box so you can build you software base from complete scratch ala the 1950's. Big companyes will try anything to stop peope from coming in to the marcet to compet with them. Including telling you what you and and can not write with there software. Free software has given programers the option of not having to sighn your life away in order to use the tools that alow programers to write new software. By the way anyone can hire a programer being able to modify your code is a very big deal and you shold not need to stuck with software you cant leagaly change!! The only real reason to stop people from doing it is so you can control them. normaly locking them in to your platform If you ever have this happen you you in a buissness you will finaly get it. when the cost of redoing everything from scratch hits. Free software helps stop that.
What is your option on having the GPL cover books, Patents, Film, music, anything? Do you think it will work as well. What do you think will be the problems if any. If we want to stop software Patents should we have GPL patents to protect our way of writing software? is This hypocritical or just savvy? Do you think music that can be freely sampled as long as the music with the sampled sound is also GPL make Nabster like distribution more attractive to artist? I like the Idea expanding what GPL covers I just don't know if it will work as well it has for software? What would need to happen in order to make it happen. I like some comments Please thank you?
Quick note on diesel engines and High-pressure Direct Injection fuel injectors. All diesel engines have direct ejection this is to say the fuel is injected into the combustion chamber during the compression cycle in a standard 4-cycle piston engine. This is not new or different in any way. You can not remove the intake value at all unless you use a cylinder port were the piston it self acts as the value as in a standard 2 cycle piston engine. There are some 2 cycles as well as 4 cycle diesel engines that do this but the 4 cycle ones use a super charger to do the pumping of the intake air. None of this is new it is in fact very old technology. The things that everyone is trying to do and is new is to make an gasoline engines that works as the diesel engines do with High-pressure Direct Injection fuel injectors. This is so you can run much higher compression ratios (the amount that the air in the cylinder is compressed) and boost. The higher the ration the more power you will get out of the same amount of fuel. Normally this is about 8 to 1 on a gas car. Some high performance gas cars will run cars will go up to 10 or 11 to 1 only race cars with very high octane leaded gas will run 12.5 or 13 to 1. The problem is a condition called detonation. When the heat of compressing the air will ignited the fuel before it is ignited by the spark plug. This premature ignition is very hard on gas engines and can harm an engine in some cases. It is often referred to as pinging. Direct Injection fuel injectors solve this problem all together by injection the fuel only at the right moment so it can not ignite too soon. Diesels often run compression rations of 20 or 30 to 1 all the time they also can run much more boost than traditional gas engines. So if you can get much higher power out of a much smaller engine. The problem is that it is very hard to make a high-pressure injector that can inject gas with out the lubricating properties of diesel fuel. The solution is to use ceramic parts in the injectors. This works good still is in the refining stage. To get to the point of what I like to call programmable value timing the ability to have a computer say when to open or close a intake or exhaust valve. This has been a Holy Grail in the industry for many years. We now can control the fuel ejectors the spark in real time with software, but not valve timing. Valve timing is one of biggest problems with putting a small engine in a car. We can have big heavy cars that run really well with small very high put engines that sips gas. But to do this you end up with an engine that has great power from 5.000 to 12,000 rpm and almost nothing at low rpm to get the big heavy car started from a dead stop. This is why motorcycles often have well over 100 horsepower 750 cc engines with 12,000 rev limits and cars don't. A motorcycle is light enough that it does not need all of that low-end power. What determines this is the value timing and with a camshaft this is set and does change. Some cars like the Honda have the Vtec variable valve timing but this mechanical and is limited. With programmable value timing you can change when the vales open how fast they open when they close and how fast in relation to the crankshaft and in relation to the intake and exhaust values. And this is all controlled in software. VERY VERY COOL. Is like having the best of all worlds. The engine can be at its best valve timing for its rpm and load. Why in a diesel and not in a gas car. Diesels run and much lower speed. Reline at 3,000 to 4500 rpm max depending on the engine some even lower. It is easier to do. The other ways to get over this problem of needing so much power just to get a can moving compared to just pushing it down the road at speed. Is to have an engine that has almost no low-end power all of the power on the top end like an motorcycle engine and have a electric motor help push the can to a start. This is a good solution and is available with today's technology. The other solution is to make cars very very light. So you don't have all of that weight to push around. This also can be done but the materials are more expensive and are not often seen as a good solution even though you can get and Audi and a Loutis made out of lightweight aluminum, instead of steal. Very fast cars.
There is another way. The US Government worked just fine for years with out income tax. The government can and should find different ways to collect money instead of just strong-arming it out of our pockets. It can collect fees, better yet it can sell services. I could use the interest collected on loans. If you cut out all the stuff that is not needed cut out the waste it can be done. It worked in the Past before income tax. If the government can run and maintain a standing Army & Navy as required in the constitution with out income tax It can get by with out taxing the NET or cars or what ever. Why does this not happen today? Simple, the amount of money needed is too great for the behemoth government we have now, and it is not going to get smaller without a lot of effort. Waste is part of the new system. A representative does not and will not see the problem with a $400.00 Hammer if the hammer is made in his district helping to pay the salary for the workers that vote for him. He will turn a blind eye to the $300.00 toilet seat in some one else's district for the same favor in return. Workers will not vote out a representative no matter how evil he is if that representative can keep the workers employed so they will have money to feed there Kids. It is a very simple and evil system. The only solution is no more NEW!! Taxes. NONE, because the system will see it as more money to buy votes. We don't need this. And yes once the taxes are in place, it is against every thing the system is about to remove them. NO MORE NEW Taxes.
Can you give some technical reason why NT is better than any other OS's. What is it about NT that makes it so good. I have used and tested many different systems DOS, OS/2,MAC many different Unix like systems and even administrated IBM VM, All systems have good and bad sides, All of them suck. NT the most of all. NT has always shown to have very poor network performance. Very poor Security, Almost very poor everything. I do like one thing about NT you can always find plenty of people can use it (manly because MS systems is all these people have ever known.) I just left a shop that was forced to convert NT from Linux by the management. The Idea was to make it easier to find people to administer the systems. They now have beefed up the number of servers by 400% spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on faster network equipment. And have a system that crashes everyday because it can not handle the load. I believe real world experience not vender tests. I have asked around and have gotten the same story every where its been tried. NT gets by on a 50 node LAN, but put it on a 6,000+ node LAN like my old shop and it just does not cut it. Linux on the other hand did a much better job on a fraction of the horsepower and almost no cost.
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This page has a good description of how heat pipes work and a section on using them on "hot CPU's I apologize for not putting it in the first post but Ow well. It looks promising http://www.norenproducts.com/Heat_Pipe_Introductio n.html
My Father who has been in the heat and air biz for 30 + years told me of a very new and exciting thing called "heat pipes". They where developed by NASA as a replacement for heat sinks. They are basically a sealed pipe half full of a liquid and half filled with that liquid's vapors. You can use water or R12 it depends on the amount of heat being moved. When bottom of the pipe gets hot it ups the pressure of the vapor on the top of the pipe and the vapor condenses Heat pipes are said to be 1000 of times more affective in moving heat as the best heat sinks. The only draw back is the pipe needs to be upright the condensed liquid needs to be able to run down the pipe to the bottom end. Laptops might be a problem. Right now they seem to be mostly used for Dehumidifiers http://www.heatpipe.com but they now are being used in other things even electronics http://www.norenproducts.com/newindex3.html I hope this can make fans less necessary and CPU's faster. if it will work.
People who think that somthing cant live biger than an elephant need to address somting elephants are with all of ther wheght able to pick up very large things cut down trees with just there trunks and they can carry much more then that on there backs they can and do walk very long distances hundreds of miles to migrat to a differnt areas. they can run. It seems if you wanted if an elephant did not need to walk very fare and did not need to pick up stuff to make aliving that an elephant could be much biger then there our now. If what drive your evolution is being bigger than the things trying to eat you and being able to keep body heat and reserve energy and not running and picking things up you can be very larg indeed. With no need of changes in gravity to help.
I searched the doc on the words "source code" I recommend you do the same the doc is very large and boring you will get the the good parts with in 4 or 5 hits. This seems to be part of a sudo open source argument that will not work. They state that third parties can look at Microsoft source code with in a secure area (no taking it home to study) for compatibility purposes and they want to be able to do the same. They claim they don't want people stealing there technology with out paying royalties. This all sound fair and good so far kind of like an open source club Microsoft style. The catch is that they state that they will not let anyone see code that has third party code in it for it will violate the third parties intellectual rights. Quick how much of Microsoft stuff has been written by others a shit load of it They are infamous of buying what they cant or will not write for them selves. They mix enough some one else's code they license or they license all of the code and only get exclusive rights to sell and everyone is back where we started. They don't seem to want this added code to be open like it would be under the GPL. This is why half-harted attempts at open source and or Free Software dont work and the and the GPL does. NICE TRY MICROSOFT WE KNOW YOU TOO WELL TO FALL FOR THAT CRAP.
Child soldiers are a bad thing but keep in mind that the Definition. of a Child is set at under 18. Teenagers have always been in wars and probably will all way be in wars. Please don't think they where only talking about 8 year olds It happens but not as much as they made it out to be. It takes a set amount of maturity to fight a war to work as a team to understand orders and goals. A real child pre teen can shoot and kill but are often too much of a liability to be a good soldiers and an asset. They show up mostly during projected wars 5, 10, 15, 20 years of nonstop war. Where the men are mostly all dead and the children have known only war all of there lives. Sad but true.
Your Drill Instructor was General George Patton (old blood and guts himself). WOW now that interesting. " No poor son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country he won it by making the other poor son of a bitch die for his." Gen. G Patton
One thing most people do not get about the Gulf War is that is was not in our interest to destroy the Iraq Army nor do I think it was ever a real goal of the Allies. IRAQ has stopped the spread of Iran for 10 years during the Iran Iraq war. It will not help to weaken Iraq so much as to give Iran an opportunity to dominate the region. It is sad but true we wanted to weaken Iraq's army and we wanted them out of oil rich Kuwait, But we still needed Iraq to be a buffer to Iran. This is one of the reasons we still want Iraq weak but not too weak. As for Husan I feel it would have been politically good to get rid of him but there is no way of knowing if the person who replaces him would not have been as bad. We had a very large number of ground troops on the ground and over the border. We had the ability to destroy the whole Iraq army every last tank and truck if we wanted to. It would have taken maybe an extra 4 or 5 day a week at the most but then we where not ready to do in IRAQ what we did in Germany in 1945 after competently destroying the German army. That was out goal in WW2 not to get Berlin or Hitler but to end Germanys ability to wage war. After wards we stayed for 50 years to defend it against a potential invader. If Iran Invades Iraq you will see the US help Iraq as we during the Iran Iraq war. The IRAQ army stayed intact because we wanted it that way because at the time it seemed in our best interest.
I am assuming you are one of the fortunate people who have little to fear from the mainstream culture. I can understand your feelings. WTF do no wrong and you are OK. It is a very different thing for millions of people who have a lot to fear from mainstream culture. Gays for one are often KILLED when found out, they are often fired from there jobs and denied many basic rights Privacy for them is a very big deal!!! I for one do not practice a mainstream religion (Wica). People like me often have the fear of having there children taken from them by zealots who often label us as Evil when nothing could be further from the truth.( talking about a Witch hunt) I can only practice my belief system behind a curtain of privacy because freedom of religion in the US does not seem to include freedom form other religions like Christian fundamentalism. If you like controversial but legal things like going to strip bars or renting pr0n would you like others finding out and telling your Christian fundamentalist boss. What truly suck about this kind of thing is you will never know why you lost your job or did not get a sweet project when it just happens one day. No one can trust the holders of the information for the simple reason Zealots are everywhere and will get to the info and they will not feel any reservation on exposing the "wicked and evil" ones they hate. I hope this helps bring some light on why at lest some people feel so strongly about privacy. It is the keystone to preserving our American way of life from the Truly evil ones how are too numerous to stop at this time.
It seems simple to at first to make a firewall you have a set of rules packet comes in check let though or drop it. But it is never that simple. Fire walls and now Censorware are very complex they do way too much. It seems that the only way corporations can to compete with one another is to pack more stuff in to it. They don't think having a more secure platform or an open platform will sell. Most managers don't understand the advantage but they understand I can have logs of every sight person X goes to and why. The old Unix module of small simple parts that work together is better. If you want Censorware and a fire wall then have two boxes If you want a router a fire wall and Censorware then get three boxes. Novell, Microsoft and NA really want you to buy the big do everything box. It helps to lock you in to there products. The Right Paradigm is the opposite. The use opensource open standards modular products that get tested by everyone. IT is almost impossible to have a big do all firewall that is 100% Secure. It is like having a 100% bug free Program. The best you can have is a simple small program with a very high probability of being bug free.
The only thing a French court or any other court can do is fine Yahoo. It is up to yahoo to pay or not. If Yahoo has no assets in France, France has little options. But this is a big deal because yahoo will be blocked from doing any real business with France for then on. France may pressure other countries to make Yahoo Pay. This also may happen. What is disturbing is why doesn't France handle this on their own. Filter out the sight if they must control what there citizens watch and buy. What would they think if a US court decided that a French sight must be shut down because it has nudity? I do not think they like that but the French has always been hypocritical and full of them selves.
This is an example of what to look for. If California has this Other countries may as well. http://www.sirius.com/~casp/feedback.html Other pages for info on SLAPPs http://www.thefirstamendment.org/ http://www.thefirstamendment.org/Civil.htm
SLAPP stand for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. A term used in Political Science and Journalism circles. What /. is going through with Microsoft is in my opion A kind of SLAPP. It is a way of suppressing free speech by suing people to censure them selves. Moving to another country to stop this is a very good Idea. Corporations do it all of the time. Veri Sign use to sell encryption boxes out of Israel back when was illegal to sell it out of the US. This kind of thing simply works. They can still get you if you are really sealing and impacting their bottom line, but the process is greatly complicated by going over international lines. The Idea is that it is not worth all of the effort for something as non-impacting on the bottom line like someone's embarrassing speech. What everyone wants is to be free of the harassment of big corporations that use the fact they have almost unlimited resources to sue and most people and many small companies live paycheck to paycheck. This means that most people and most small companies will do exactly what the big company wants. The Idea is that 99% of the time it never gets to court. And if it does and you win? So what!!! It cost the corporation almost nothing while you are now faced big legal bills. This may be OK if you are a real criminal stealing from them but it is another when it is about your free speech they don't like. When this happens it is a SLAPP clear and simple. This is becoming the preferred way that corporations deal with speech they don't like. Normally when it is not too blatant they will pull some kind of agreement you may have with them. The click through "contract" Microsoft has for example. But most of the time they don't even bother. They do this because it cost them almost noting to do it. It is just too easy and works too well. They pay for the lawyers anyway. To protect your self you need to make it as hard and costly as possible. Make them have to heir a lawyer in that country. Make them have to research their laws. Take way the DMCA and you will find the number of SLAPPs will drop. If you have a country with a real press that will expose corporations that harass people you will see SLAPPs really drop. Don't know where the best place would be but Great Britain and the US are among the worst. I would look at places like New Zealand, and Australia, Finland for starters. We should have a rating system for countries for SLAPP violation somewhere. Remember it is not about copyright law it is about stopping SLAPPs.
I have often wondered why IBM did not run everything possable under there manframe hardware. I was the administrator of a IBM 4381 running VM that I was able to discomision and the amount of IO was impressive even for that very small and week Mainframe. I think the new modle IBM is pushing is that a big company can have the best of all worlds. get rid of all of the PC and network and put it in the big blue box. You can invest in a IBM Mainfram and still run vm mvs os/360, OS/2, aix, Linux. Most mainfram engineers think they can do anything that a PC can do except get good press. From what I seen they ar right. This helps with the mainframs are uncool bad part of the pass Idea that a lot of windows and some unix people have even after they see hard facts showing cost, reliability, and performace superiority of big iron. The religion of the PC world is the OS not the hardware almost no one cares what the hard ware is as long as it is fast and stable and runs my OS native. This is why this is happing.
You know, you are right. I am still willing to give money and or help for the Micro$oft /. situation. I think I will do the same for the EFF. Life has been good to me and it is only right to give some back. It is time to put money where my mouth is. I hope others will do the same. Good call Thanks Sun Tsu
If you need a defence fund for lawer cost I will be willing to pitch in what I can and I hope others will as well. I know you all have a legal department and may not need money but I feel that I really would like to suport you all in any way possable Money or other wise. please do not hesatate to ask. GOOD LUCK Sun Tsu
Corporate America has learned something they have more money than anyone else to sue with. Microsoft dose not expect to have to sue /. The expect you to shit you pants and do what ever it takes to stay out of court. If you do what they want they will be back. I say the best solution is to go somewhere else to host the service. Get out of the US and its LAWS and its court system. If I remember right Linux was almost sued by Bell Labs the then owners of UNIX but it got no where in the court system in Finland here they would have probably won in the US. I know the staff at /. May not like moving to a different country but it may find it a much better solution to fighting big corporations in the land of big corporations. The Internet is international and no one country has say. If you are not in the US and you do not have any major access in the US there is not much they can do to make you do as they say. Find a nice place that the DCMA does not have jurisdiction. Or get use to being harassed by the man. This time they may have a good case next time it will be because you make them look bad It cost them almost noting to do it and Even if they lose in court it is like a drop in the bucket to them It will eventually drain you. GOOD LUCK
read the post. Free software gives you that choice! RMS can not and will not stop you from selling or buying anything you want. 99% of the uses in the world can rest better knowing that if Open source or free software did something outrageous like send someone all of your files every time you logged in to the net. they know they would hear about it Slash Dot or elsewhere close software it is almost impossible to know what the software is doing except what the writer wants you to know. If you don't like it thank RMS ( jpl and others Open source for giving you the choice to not buying closed source software.
American Civil Liberties Union is an organization famous for defending the constitutional rights of people. Often unpopular people like the KKK. ACLU has sued for there right to march. The ACLU really doesn't like the KKK but that does not matter to the ACLU. The ACLU feels it is necessary to defend the Civil liberties of everyone including people they do not like. The felling is that if bad oppressive unpopular groups and people have there rights defended then everyone else's is safer. This has made them a highly admired and hated group in USA
Im sorry but you dont get it! Itis more than just tinkering the free software movement was and is about having software avalable for anyone to use so that they have a real choice they are not locked in with no choice of sighing you freedom way. open sorce is good better than not knowing what your sonftware is realy doing but GNU made it possable for programers to have tools to write software GCC GNU was and remains a big deal imagin a world were the cost of entery into the market is biuilding a hardware switch box so you can build you software base from complete scratch ala the 1950's. Big companyes will try anything to stop peope from coming in to the marcet to compet with them. Including telling you what you and and can not write with there software. Free software has given programers the option of not having to sighn your life away in order to use the tools that alow programers to write new software. By the way anyone can hire a programer being able to modify your code is a very big deal and you shold not need to stuck with software you cant leagaly change!! The only real reason to stop people from doing it is so you can control them. normaly locking them in to your platform If you ever have this happen you you in a buissness you will finaly get it. when the cost of redoing everything from scratch hits. Free software helps stop that.
What is your option on having the GPL cover books, Patents, Film, music, anything? Do you think it will work as well. What do you think will be the problems if any. If we want to stop software Patents should we have GPL patents to protect our way of writing software? is This hypocritical or just savvy? Do you think music that can be freely sampled as long as the music with the sampled sound is also GPL make Nabster like distribution more attractive to artist? I like the Idea expanding what GPL covers I just don't know if it will work as well it has for software? What would need to happen in order to make it happen. I like some comments Please thank you?
Quick note on diesel engines and High-pressure Direct Injection fuel injectors. All diesel engines have direct ejection this is to say the fuel is injected into the combustion chamber during the compression cycle in a standard 4-cycle piston engine. This is not new or different in any way. You can not remove the intake value at all unless you use a cylinder port were the piston it self acts as the value as in a standard 2 cycle piston engine. There are some 2 cycles as well as 4 cycle diesel engines that do this but the 4 cycle ones use a super charger to do the pumping of the intake air. None of this is new it is in fact very old technology. The things that everyone is trying to do and is new is to make an gasoline engines that works as the diesel engines do with High-pressure Direct Injection fuel injectors. This is so you can run much higher compression ratios (the amount that the air in the cylinder is compressed) and boost. The higher the ration the more power you will get out of the same amount of fuel. Normally this is about 8 to 1 on a gas car. Some high performance gas cars will run cars will go up to 10 or 11 to 1 only race cars with very high octane leaded gas will run 12 .5 or 13 to 1. The problem is a condition called detonation. When the heat of compressing the air will ignited the fuel before it is ignited by the spark plug. This premature ignition is very hard on gas engines and can harm an engine in some cases. It is often referred to as pinging. Direct Injection fuel injectors solve this problem all together by injection the fuel only at the right moment so it can not ignite too soon. Diesels often run compression rations of 20 or 30 to 1 all the time they also can run much more boost than traditional gas engines. So if you can get much higher power out of a much smaller engine. The problem is that it is very hard to make a high-pressure injector that can inject gas with out the lubricating properties of diesel fuel. The solution is to use ceramic parts in the injectors. This works good still is in the refining stage. To get to the point of what I like to call programmable value timing the ability to have a computer say when to open or close a intake or exhaust valve. This has been a Holy Grail in the industry for many years. We now can control the fuel ejectors the spark in real time with software, but not valve timing. Valve timing is one of biggest problems with putting a small engine in a car. We can have big heavy cars that run really well with small very high put engines that sips gas. But to do this you end up with an engine that has great power from 5.000 to 12,000 rpm and almost nothing at low rpm to get the big heavy car started from a dead stop. This is why motorcycles often have well over 100 horsepower 750 cc engines with 12,000 rev limits and cars don't. A motorcycle is light enough that it does not need all of that low-end power. What determines this is the value timing and with a camshaft this is set and does change. Some cars like the Honda have the Vtec variable valve timing but this mechanical and is limited. With programmable value timing you can change when the vales open how fast they open when they close and how fast in relation to the crankshaft and in relation to the intake and exhaust values. And this is all controlled in software. VERY VERY COOL. Is like having the best of all worlds. The engine can be at its best valve timing for its rpm and load. Why in a diesel and not in a gas car. Diesels run and much lower speed. Reline at 3,000 to 4500 rpm max depending on the engine some even lower. It is easier to do. The other ways to get over this problem of needing so much power just to get a can moving compared to just pushing it down the road at speed. Is to have an engine that has almost no low-end power all of the power on the top end like an motorcycle engine and have a electric motor help push the can to a start. This is a good solution and is available with today's technology. The other solution is to make cars very very light. So you don't have all of that weight to push around. This also can be done but the materials are more expensive and are not often seen as a good solution even though you can get and Audi and a Loutis made out of lightweight aluminum, instead of steal. Very fast cars.
There is another way. The US Government worked just fine for years with out income tax. The government can and should find different ways to collect money instead of just strong-arming it out of our pockets. It can collect fees, better yet it can sell services. I could use the interest collected on loans. If you cut out all the stuff that is not needed cut out the waste it can be done. It worked in the Past before income tax. If the government can run and maintain a standing Army & Navy as required in the constitution with out income tax It can get by with out taxing the NET or cars or what ever. Why does this not happen today? Simple, the amount of money needed is too great for the behemoth government we have now, and it is not going to get smaller without a lot of effort. Waste is part of the new system. A representative does not and will not see the problem with a $400.00 Hammer if the hammer is made in his district helping to pay the salary for the workers that vote for him. He will turn a blind eye to the $300.00 toilet seat in some one else's district for the same favor in return. Workers will not vote out a representative no matter how evil he is if that representative can keep the workers employed so they will have money to feed there Kids. It is a very simple and evil system. The only solution is no more NEW!! Taxes. NONE, because the system will see it as more money to buy votes. We don't need this. And yes once the taxes are in place, it is against every thing the system is about to remove them. NO MORE NEW Taxes.
Can you give some technical reason why NT is better than any other OS's. What is it about NT that makes it so good. I have used and tested many different systems DOS, OS/2,MAC many different Unix like systems and even administrated IBM VM, All systems have good and bad sides, All of them suck. NT the most of all. NT has always shown to have very poor network performance. Very poor Security, Almost very poor everything. I do like one thing about NT you can always find plenty of people can use it (manly because MS systems is all these people have ever known.) I just left a shop that was forced to convert NT from Linux by the management. The Idea was to make it easier to find people to administer the systems. They now have beefed up the number of servers by 400% spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on faster network equipment. And have a system that crashes everyday because it can not handle the load. I believe real world experience not vender tests. I have asked around and have gotten the same story every where its been tried. NT gets by on a 50 node LAN, but put it on a 6,000+ node LAN like my old shop and it just does not cut it. Linux on the other hand did a much better job on a fraction of the horsepower and almost no cost.