There is a thinking that the public has a right to know all "facts". That someone was arrested is a "fact". That someone is accused in court is a "fact".
The problem here is not the facts, but how people (the masses) misbehave with this kind of information. Ask someone (chosen at random) how they would react when meeting a person who was arrested for and accused of multiple rape and murder of several children, who was subsequently found innocent by the court. Ask if they would hire them for a job as a teacher in their school. If they say no, then point out to that person that their flawed logic is a major reason why this information needs to be restricted. Of course they may argue "we can't take any chances". Argue back "would your rather the state pay them a comfortable income for the remainder of their life?". You might get a "yes" answer to that (especially in Sweden). Now what about where they get to live? Would that person you ask be willing to rent them an apartment in a building and area with families? Ask that person how they would return themselves to normal life if they get falsely accused and later proven innocent. Then ask them how if instead of being proven innocent, the police just drop the charges and say there was not enough evidence.
Actually, there are many "facts" the public is not given a right to know. Maybe this "fact" of who the police investigate, accuse, and arrest, should be among them. One difficulty is that this is hard to enforce and also have an open court system.
... that makes Biden the President of the Senate. So if there is a tie in the Senate, he gets to break the tie, as Cheney has done 8 times so far. What we need is enough pro-technology senators to ensure this doesn't happen. Still, he will be able to do a lot of damage with his powers to control the agenda. So what Obama needs to do is keep him busy on foreign affairs trips, sending him overseas, to keep him away from the Senate so the President pro tempore can take control.
This is the wrong interview. What we should have is an interview with top management to find out why they made bad decisions to go with an insecure system. Maybe their excuse is they were not aware of a nearby school with highly qualified consultants to help them in a quest to get a very secure system.
We need an all new standard. It will probably borrow more from Firewire than USB.
One of the things I would like to see in this new standard is fixed addressing. That is, each port has a number, and the fixed address of the device has that number in an address chain. When you connect devices through a hub, you use a longer address chain. This should be allowed up to at least 8 address units long (as many as 7 hubs to reach a device). Devices will still also have a unique device ID so if a device is moved to a different port it can announce itself there and be found. There is no need to assign addresses to devices at the hardware level. If the OS wants to alias devices, that's fine.
I think having different connector types at each end of the cable is silly. It should be a completely symmetric system where either end can send messages to the other. Then you can connect two computers to each other without needing special hardware in between. Cabling will be simpler (except for tiny devices that need special tiny connectors). An androgynous connector would also be a plus (connect two cables together) and this can be done while keeping bi-directional data paths correctly connected.
... the problem of having 2 different kinds of connectors, the A and the B. It looks like the B side is NOT compatible in this case. That is, the B side of a 3.0 cable cannot be used for a 2.0 device, so you have to keep an inventory of 2 different kinds of cables.
They should have simply used the same connector type on both ends, with the variation limited to size for tiny devices (and only one smaller size, not two smaller sizes). In addition, it would have been nice to have an androgynous connector that could plug directly into itself (easy to extend a cable).
Compare that 140,000 scammers to how many Nigerians are doing legitimate international transactions (the ones that are harmed by the world's assumption that someone from Nigeria doing an international transaction is likely to be a scammer). So what is the chance any randomly picked Nigerian that is doing an international transaction is a scammer.
... hiring some better programmers and project managers to make the next Windows work problem. That and stop paying all licensing for DRM and then ask the DRM people if they want to give it away for free of if they want it not included in Windows.
On the edge of what? Java is the biggest programming language in the world today. It dominates the web and mobile phones, and although it's not quite as popular for desktop programs, it's not uncommon there either.
The "Download Membership" subscription plan Magnatune now has allows you to keep whatever you downloaded, even after you end the subscription. There is a limit of one (1) copy that you may give away to a friend from what you downloaded. Check out the FAQ. If you want to sign up, go here and scroll down to "Download Membership" (like I did). Or maybe the "Streaming Membership" is all you need.
Society wants music. But do they really want that music that is produced by people that would not do it unless they get promoted by big corporations? There will be music; the existance of indie bands proves it. And they can even get money, as Magnatune and CD Baby prove. Maybe they won't get rich from it. We have to decide if we want "art" that is motivated by money, or art that is a genuine artistic creation.
So basically, his undivulged details include making it mandatory for all internet access subscribers to pay into this through an added fee on the internet provider bill. This will require even more messy details, since internet subscriptions are not on a per-person basis:
Alice wants redundancy because the services in her area go down a lot, so she has cable internet, telephone DSL, a wireless internet service, and a dialup account. Does she have to pay the music mafiaa 2 or 3 or 4 times as much?
Bob and Carol are shacked up together and have one DSL account because their bandwidth needs are modest. Are they both going to legally benefit from this?
Dave, being rather wealthy, obtained an OC-3 circuit straight to his house, with full internet service on it. He knew he'd need this because of his own 9 children from two previous marriages, and his new wife's 5 children, all now passing through their teen years. Do all the kids get the music rights? Would an OC-3 even be charged for this?
And then there's the issue of how to handle this for students in the dorms of a college/university. But the dorms are easy. How about the students living off campus who use the internet on campus (a public or lab PC with a 16GB USB key) and/or at home (such as a cable internet access there). Which route should the money go through?
Fine. Then let the artists who are parents leave some of the money they get during the time their copyright is valid, to their kids, instead of blowing it all on drugs, sex, and vacations to Monaco.
What if the subscription includes the terms that says while holding a subscription, it defers any and all lawsuits (by the participating labels or for anything those labels have produced) for past access to music, and grants a permanent license for N months of past access to music going back from the day the program starts, for each N months subscribed? Then what would you think of it?
This guy appears (based on depictions in the article) to be running an industrial grade chemical lab in his home. That is the kind of lab you might see grad students and professors in at the Chemistry building in a nearby large college or at the research building of a company that makes or uses chemicals. This sure sounds like it is NOT a home chemistry set used for educational purposes (that have only small volumes of 20 to 40 chemicals). The kind of lab this guy apparently has is not appropriate for a residential neighborhood. He should have rented some space in an industrial office park, or moved out into a rural area, or tried to make arrangements with a nearby college.
This is probably news on Slashdot just because it is Massachusetts, which is associated with the city of Boston, which has a bunch of idiots running things there. So Slashdotters and other geeks are always looking for the next screwup in or near that city. But this isn't it. Move along, but keep looking as there is sure to be a genuine screwup somewhere in and around Boston.
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There is a thinking that the public has a right to know all "facts". That someone was arrested is a "fact". That someone is accused in court is a "fact".
The problem here is not the facts, but how people (the masses) misbehave with this kind of information. Ask someone (chosen at random) how they would react when meeting a person who was arrested for and accused of multiple rape and murder of several children, who was subsequently found innocent by the court. Ask if they would hire them for a job as a teacher in their school. If they say no, then point out to that person that their flawed logic is a major reason why this information needs to be restricted. Of course they may argue "we can't take any chances". Argue back "would your rather the state pay them a comfortable income for the remainder of their life?". You might get a "yes" answer to that (especially in Sweden). Now what about where they get to live? Would that person you ask be willing to rent them an apartment in a building and area with families? Ask that person how they would return themselves to normal life if they get falsely accused and later proven innocent. Then ask them how if instead of being proven innocent, the police just drop the charges and say there was not enough evidence.
Actually, there are many "facts" the public is not given a right to know. Maybe this "fact" of who the police investigate, accuse, and arrest, should be among them. One difficulty is that this is hard to enforce and also have an open court system.
... hire your brother, and I will post a list of all the places your brother should sue.
... until Anonymous Coward decides to break it.
... especially the one that says the FAI is the authority?
... that makes Biden the President of the Senate. So if there is a tie in the Senate, he gets to break the tie, as Cheney has done 8 times so far. What we need is enough pro-technology senators to ensure this doesn't happen. Still, he will be able to do a lot of damage with his powers to control the agenda. So what Obama needs to do is keep him busy on foreign affairs trips, sending him overseas, to keep him away from the Senate so the President pro tempore can take control.
They can use my IP address, then. I'll let them. It's 169.254.200.3.
This is the wrong interview. What we should have is an interview with top management to find out why they made bad decisions to go with an insecure system. Maybe their excuse is they were not aware of a nearby school with highly qualified consultants to help them in a quest to get a very secure system.
We need an all new standard. It will probably borrow more from Firewire than USB.
One of the things I would like to see in this new standard is fixed addressing. That is, each port has a number, and the fixed address of the device has that number in an address chain. When you connect devices through a hub, you use a longer address chain. This should be allowed up to at least 8 address units long (as many as 7 hubs to reach a device). Devices will still also have a unique device ID so if a device is moved to a different port it can announce itself there and be found. There is no need to assign addresses to devices at the hardware level. If the OS wants to alias devices, that's fine.
I think having different connector types at each end of the cable is silly. It should be a completely symmetric system where either end can send messages to the other. Then you can connect two computers to each other without needing special hardware in between. Cabling will be simpler (except for tiny devices that need special tiny connectors). An androgynous connector would also be a plus (connect two cables together) and this can be done while keeping bi-directional data paths correctly connected.
... the problem of having 2 different kinds of connectors, the A and the B. It looks like the B side is NOT compatible in this case. That is, the B side of a 3.0 cable cannot be used for a 2.0 device, so you have to keep an inventory of 2 different kinds of cables.
They should have simply used the same connector type on both ends, with the variation limited to size for tiny devices (and only one smaller size, not two smaller sizes). In addition, it would have been nice to have an androgynous connector that could plug directly into itself (easy to extend a cable).
... they figure out to encrypt it so people can't steal my wireless power.
Compare that 140,000 scammers to how many Nigerians are doing legitimate international transactions (the ones that are harmed by the world's assumption that someone from Nigeria doing an international transaction is likely to be a scammer). So what is the chance any randomly picked Nigerian that is doing an international transaction is a scammer.
... hiring some better programmers and project managers to make the next Windows work problem. That and stop paying all licensing for DRM and then ask the DRM people if they want to give it away for free of if they want it not included in Windows.
On the edge of what? Java is the biggest programming language in the world today. It dominates the web and mobile phones, and although it's not quite as popular for desktop programs, it's not uncommon there either.
You mean desktop programs like Eclipse.
This is an insult to associate us Perl-Haters with corporate types.
The "Download Membership" subscription plan Magnatune now has allows you to keep whatever you downloaded, even after you end the subscription. There is a limit of one (1) copy that you may give away to a friend from what you downloaded. Check out the FAQ. If you want to sign up, go here and scroll down to "Download Membership" (like I did). Or maybe the "Streaming Membership" is all you need.
Society wants music. But do they really want that music that is produced by people that would not do it unless they get promoted by big corporations? There will be music; the existance of indie bands proves it. And they can even get money, as Magnatune and CD Baby prove. Maybe they won't get rich from it. We have to decide if we want "art" that is motivated by money, or art that is a genuine artistic creation.
So basically, his undivulged details include making it mandatory for all internet access subscribers to pay into this through an added fee on the internet provider bill. This will require even more messy details, since internet subscriptions are not on a per-person basis:
And then there's the issue of how to handle this for students in the dorms of a college/university. But the dorms are easy. How about the students living off campus who use the internet on campus (a public or lab PC with a 16GB USB key) and/or at home (such as a cable internet access there). Which route should the money go through?
Fine. Then let the artists who are parents leave some of the money they get during the time their copyright is valid, to their kids, instead of blowing it all on drugs, sex, and vacations to Monaco.
It sounds like you want to be sure the system is an elective one, where one can choose to subscribe, and that you would not.
What if the subscription includes the terms that says while holding a subscription, it defers any and all lawsuits (by the participating labels or for anything those labels have produced) for past access to music, and grants a permanent license for N months of past access to music going back from the day the program starts, for each N months subscribed? Then what would you think of it?
... at Magnatune with their membership plans.
... MediaSentry? Do they have IPv6 access and capability?
... has no AAAA records for either "slashdot.org" or "www.slashdot.org".
This guy appears (based on depictions in the article) to be running an industrial grade chemical lab in his home. That is the kind of lab you might see grad students and professors in at the Chemistry building in a nearby large college or at the research building of a company that makes or uses chemicals. This sure sounds like it is NOT a home chemistry set used for educational purposes (that have only small volumes of 20 to 40 chemicals). The kind of lab this guy apparently has is not appropriate for a residential neighborhood. He should have rented some space in an industrial office park, or moved out into a rural area, or tried to make arrangements with a nearby college.
This is probably news on Slashdot just because it is Massachusetts, which is associated with the city of Boston, which has a bunch of idiots running things there. So Slashdotters and other geeks are always looking for the next screwup in or near that city. But this isn't it. Move along, but keep looking as there is sure to be a genuine screwup somewhere in and around Boston.
Or the world's smallest water balloon splash.