Actually, a signature is tied to a specific version of an executable. Not to the name of it.
I can't compile my trojan, rename it excel.exe and use MS's certificate to say that it has a valid certificate.
Part of what the certificate does is validate that the program has the correct checksum-like value it had at the time the certificate was issued.
Signatures on running programs will never be a mandatory part of their OS.
It should end at edit-run-compile... without the pay $50 to sign step each time you make a code change.
Another likely (or useful) feature is to have corporate/self made certificate providers, so that the Corporate Standards police can deprive use of anything that doesn't go through their corporate certificate server, and more liberal companies can self certify home grown software, as well as approved shareware/freeware.
is $40 (US$26) or less. Free modem and installation. Static IP (for cable anyway), no port restrictions, though licence doesn't allow servers. 2 common ongoing promotions are first 3 monts at $30, and first month free. Highest d/l speed I've seen on my cable is 250KB.
I've not had any downtime in 2-3 months. Had regular interuptions before this, and its quite possible that other areas still have problems, but for me the last few months have been great.
Tech support is fine. Hard to expect better.
You can need more, and I can't say your not allowed, but its a sweet option for those of us who have it.
Dialup ISPs have also been cheaper than they are in the US.
The most useful, and actually fairly revolutionary benefit of.Net in my view is the cross language compatibility. Objects can communicate and inherit from each other without marshalling.
Implementing the object and data format into.net standard is pretty simple for any os, or any compiler. Having some standard for an os is generally useful as well, and if the.net format is well thought out, then adopting it gives crossplatform marshall free data.
Then again COM seems pretty easy to port as well, so its puzzling why it wasn't. Other than maybe "just let everybody use c++ with source code" attitude.
2 big benefits I see. Cross language development. GUI in procedural OO, and processing in functional languages, and faster distributed computing (cross language here too).
The.net solution is much better than com or corba performance wise.
In this case, Voter News Service's EXIT POLLS showed Gore leading substantially. The news channel decision desks then decided to announce Gore was winning about 15 minutes before the polls closed in the eastern time zone part of florida and 75 minutes before the polls closed in the western timezone
I'm sorry, I didn't know that. I would conjecture though, that this advanced information would hurt the candidate that is being projected to win. As supporters have less motivation to bother voting than detractors since their efforts will not produce a change, vs. a hope that change could occur if a detractor gets off his butt and gets out.
re: the ballot,
I understand all of your arguments. I'm not sure if the ballot acceptance process cannot be challenged in this case. Much like the standard no liability clause in software licenses could necessarily withstand all possible challenges.
In this case, the unfair ballot requires detailed analysis and scrutiny in order to uncover its flaw. Essentially, its not reasonable to expect a competent election process overseeer with any time contraints to both spot the mistake and devote energy of overturning the ballot format without considerable expense in proving the defect. It could be held that there is an error in law to hold the challenge process (limited before the election) as absolute, and challenged on that basis.
There's another important Florida statute that applies here though. One that requires that all punch holes be to the right of the candidates name.
Many people perhaps even you, don't fully read the instructions for everyting they do. Its easy to assume you know what you are doing. Stupidity not required.
If all voters had to pass a test for instructions following before being able to vote, psychology evidence would show only 10% are eligible.
You make some good analysis points, but there are also some mistakes.
Firsly, all elections results are only published after polls close. So no election news coverage could influence any votes.
As to challenges to the ballot needing to be made before the election, if true, this will indeed be the most powerful republican argument. But if a ballot only has problems that can be conclusively determined after the vote has taken place, that issue should be hearable.
The Constitution says that if an election can't be resolved, the the house of representatives decides who is president. Since there is a republican majority in the house, Bush would be the likely winner if it came to that.
Assuming Bush is still ahead after the recount, pro-Gore lawsuits from voters in Palm beach Florida will go forward. They will seek the right to revote, but are the courts allowed to grant that remedy? Voters have a constitutional right to be able to have their intended vote count. I think they will be able to prove that mistakes caused this not to happen in Palm beach.
But even if the Florida court grants a revote, there's room for a supreme court appeal to have the election decided in the house instead. Especially if any details in the new election could be interpreted as pro democrat, and there necessarily will be since alternate candidates will receive fewer votes the second time around, since people know the 2nd time around, they have enormously more power in deciding the next president. Gore's only chance is for a revote, and I believe it is likely that it will happen (barring Florida legal subtelties which Im not familliar with), and that Gore would win in the second election.
Basically, if there is a revote, the numbers will be more pro-Gore than could be explained by the initial irregularities from the first vote, and so give republicans a good case for requesting the decision be made by the house of representatives on constitutional grounds.
The Java VM is a stack computer. The advantage is that it can run on any processor with 2 registers, and works well on x86 since these are also stack-modelled computers (with more registers).
C compilers (gcc at least) use an infinite register model as an intermediate compilation form.
This is easier to compile to, but the vm or JIT has to do more work in making it native. Especially on x86. Alpha and Powerpc have architectures that map more directly to this model.
I'm pretty sure that both architectures are fully translatable into one another.
If I remember correctly Gnu/gcc have a cross platform assembler that feels in the same ballpark.
regardless of whether a new GPL says you can't modify a GPL'd app as a web service or web app without releasing code, how would you discover violations?
Can you get a company to release its source code with a court order suspecting it to be using modified gpl software?
If you have dreamcast console games, then you probably have a dreamcast, and probably don't need a dc on a pci card, or at least sega is unlikely to think you will pay money for one.
Anyways, could sega think they could scam consumers into picking up this card bundled with a few games on cd? plausibly.
With the right deal, publishers could be bothered to distribute pc-cd versions of the better games as well.
Even if CDs can't read GDroms, this thing could still exist, but just require developers to reburn their software to cd or dvd.
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This has to be the biggest hack in history ??
The most obvious application of the source, is using it as a cheat sheet in purported 'clean room' reverse engeneering efforts.
Wine and starOffice submissions could coincidently increase.
Serious legal heat would come down on any outright financial demands or commercial applications. Open source contributors could endure Federal investigations too.
2. Forced support of.net on windows by corel products. The value of this to MS is to ensure that if.net is crap (memory hog or slow), it doesn't lose any market share to non.net versions from its competitors.
3. An option to force corel to spend 3-5mil in employee time to port.net to linux, at which time the port is wholy owned by MS with no benefit to corel. Its not an OSS port.
4. very soft value in PR, keeping a weak competitor afloat, and so maybe preventing amunition in its anti-trust case that would be a corel bankruptsy. (?)
Item 3 is the only one with tangible value. $3-5 mil. As pointed out in the post i'm replying to, more capable subcontractors could be found, and if MS cared about the output, more incentives for the contractors put in.
To me, item 2's only value is the show of industry support for its.net platform. Why should ms care if corel products uses.net or not otherwise?
Most of the value must be in 4, although its hard to see how it makes up what they paid.
>>Why the hell would I use a publishing system that makes people pay to read it?
I have trouble with this too. Maybe its cheaper/easier to publish pirated or illegal material this way as compared to web hosting. Often though, (only reason???) this is done so that your friends get it for free. The fact that 99% of the people grabbing it are not your friends is irrelevant.
but if consumers have to pay to access my content, then I'd like to be receiving part of what they're paying.
The economics don't seem to work except for the bandwith and diskspace people. I'm all in favour of bringing digital cash for micropayments ysterday, but i'm unclear how helpful this will be.
I'm surprised that Jini hasn't been used for napster like services. The spec seems well suited for making content servers, and would be the first place I'd look to implement such a service.
Any opinions as to why its been rejected by all the projects?
]]You only need 4 out of the 8 blocks of any given piece/chunk to reassemble the entire thing
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Earlier this was described as *any* 4 of the 8 blocks will do. Rather than continue to struggle with the math for how this could be possible, is it actually that each block is stored twice, and in order to recover a 1/4 of the file, at least 1 of the 2 puters its hosted on has to be connected at the time?
I'm satisfied that this protects users copyright liabilities, and also the network manager.
Legalities aside, it seems the primary intent of the network is to consume and distribute forbiden material.
There appears to be a disincentive to publish material that you don't benefit from disseminating, though. It costs you to publish. It would seem pretty straightforward that the publisher should be part of the download compensation chain, so that there's an incentive to publish desirable content.
I don't see how this can be a better repository of information than the banner sponsored method when the publisher has no legal concerns in publishing it. (other than the abrrier to entry of having to have a minimum inventory of inforamtion, before renting traditional bandwidth)
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Actually, a signature is tied to a specific version of an executable. Not to the name of it.
I can't compile my trojan, rename it excel.exe and use MS's certificate to say that it has a valid certificate.
Part of what the certificate does is validate that the program has the correct checksum-like value it had at the time the certificate was issued.
Signatures on running programs will never be a mandatory part of their OS.
It should end at edit-run-compile... without the pay $50 to sign step each time you make a code change.
Another likely (or useful) feature is to have corporate/self made certificate providers, so that the Corporate Standards police can deprive use of anything that doesn't go through their corporate certificate server, and more liberal companies can self certify home grown software, as well as approved shareware/freeware.
is $40 (US$26) or less. Free modem and installation. Static IP (for cable anyway), no port restrictions, though licence doesn't allow servers. 2 common ongoing promotions are first 3 monts at $30, and first month free. Highest d/l speed I've seen on my cable is 250KB.
I've not had any downtime in 2-3 months. Had regular interuptions before this, and its quite possible that other areas still have problems, but for me the last few months have been great.
Tech support is fine. Hard to expect better.
You can need more, and I can't say your not allowed, but its a sweet option for those of us who have it.
Dialup ISPs have also been cheaper than they are in the US.
I wanted to add,
The no marshalling factor is what gives JSP pages high performance.
The most useful, and actually fairly revolutionary benefit of .Net in my view is the cross language compatibility. Objects can communicate and inherit from each other without marshalling.
.net standard is pretty simple for any os, or any compiler. Having some standard for an os is generally useful as well, and if the .net format is well thought out, then adopting it gives crossplatform marshall free data.
.net solution is much better than com or corba performance wise.
Implementing the object and data format into
Then again COM seems pretty easy to port as well, so its puzzling why it wasn't. Other than maybe "just let everybody use c++ with source code" attitude.
2 big benefits I see. Cross language development. GUI in procedural OO, and processing in functional languages, and faster distributed computing (cross language here too).
The
I'm sorry, I didn't know that. I would conjecture though, that this advanced information would hurt the candidate that is being projected to win. As supporters have less motivation to bother voting than detractors since their efforts will not produce a change, vs. a hope that change could occur if a detractor gets off his butt and gets out.
re: the ballot,
I understand all of your arguments. I'm not sure if the ballot acceptance process cannot be challenged in this case. Much like the standard no liability clause in software licenses could necessarily withstand all possible challenges.
In this case, the unfair ballot requires detailed analysis and scrutiny in order to uncover its flaw. Essentially, its not reasonable to expect a competent election process overseeer with any time contraints to both spot the mistake and devote energy of overturning the ballot format without considerable expense in proving the defect. It could be held that there is an error in law to hold the challenge process (limited before the election) as absolute, and challenged on that basis.
There's another important Florida statute that applies here though. One that requires that all punch holes be to the right of the candidates name.
How this will all pan out
Many people perhaps even you, don't fully read the instructions for everyting they do. Its easy to assume you know what you are doing. Stupidity not required.
If all voters had to pass a test for instructions following before being able to vote, psychology evidence would show only 10% are eligible.
You make some good analysis points, but there are also some mistakes.
Firsly, all elections results are only published after polls close. So no election news coverage could influence any votes.
As to challenges to the ballot needing to be made before the election, if true, this will indeed be the most powerful republican argument. But if a ballot only has problems that can be conclusively determined after the vote has taken place, that issue should be hearable.
The Constitution says that if an election can't be resolved, the the house of representatives decides who is president. Since there is a republican majority in the house, Bush would be the likely winner if it came to that.
Assuming Bush is still ahead after the recount, pro-Gore lawsuits from voters in Palm beach Florida will go forward. They will seek the right to revote, but are the courts allowed to grant that remedy? Voters have a constitutional right to be able to have their intended vote count. I think they will be able to prove that mistakes caused this not to happen in Palm beach.
But even if the Florida court grants a revote, there's room for a supreme court appeal to have the election decided in the house instead. Especially if any details in the new election could be interpreted as pro democrat, and there necessarily will be since alternate candidates will receive fewer votes the second time around, since people know the 2nd time around, they have enormously more power in deciding the next president. Gore's only chance is for a revote, and I believe it is likely that it will happen (barring Florida legal subtelties which Im not familliar with), and that Gore would win in the second election.
Basically, if there is a revote, the numbers will be more pro-Gore than could be explained by the initial irregularities from the first vote, and so give republicans a good case for requesting the decision be made by the house of representatives on constitutional grounds.
I put my Gore in my girlfriend's Bush... Gore came first
:)
The Java VM is a stack computer. The advantage is that it can run on any processor with 2 registers, and works well on x86 since these are also stack-modelled computers (with more registers).
C compilers (gcc at least) use an infinite register model as an intermediate compilation form.
This is easier to compile to, but the vm or JIT has to do more work in making it native. Especially on x86. Alpha and Powerpc have architectures that map more directly to this model.
I'm pretty sure that both architectures are fully translatable into one another.
If I remember correctly Gnu/gcc have a cross platform assembler that feels in the same ballpark.
regardless of whether a new GPL says you can't modify a GPL'd app as a web service or web app without releasing code, how would you discover violations?
Can you get a company to release its source code with a court order suspecting it to be using modified gpl software?
If you have dreamcast console games, then you probably have a dreamcast, and probably don't need a dc on a pci card, or at least sega is unlikely to think you will pay money for one.
Anyways, could sega think they could scam consumers into picking up this card bundled with a few games on cd? plausibly.
With the right deal, publishers could be bothered to distribute pc-cd versions of the better games as well.
Even if CDs can't read GDroms, this thing could still exist, but just require developers to reburn their software to cd or dvd.
This has to be the biggest hack in history ??
The most obvious application of the source, is using it as a cheat sheet in purported 'clean room' reverse engeneering efforts.
Wine and starOffice submissions could coincidently increase.
Serious legal heat would come down on any outright financial demands or commercial applications. Open source contributors could endure Federal investigations too.
More than likely, it was an excel or word macro virus. Most viruses are implemented in these tools.
The moon isn't a planet because it orbits the earth, not a star.
If plutino has enough gravity to be spherical (I understand it does), that should be enough to qualify as a planet. Mini-planet if they insist.
I don't understand why there needs to be a 1quadrillion kg minimum weight requirement.
this is probably overkill for most of the stuff I'd like to do with high speed cameras, but here's my ideas:
web cams that have high enough frame rate to act as input devices to games and other apps. Replacing a mouse with gestures.
Sports simulations games where you actually use the real equipment, and the camera calculates precisely where the golf/tennis/baseball should go.
1. 25% of corel
.net on windows by corel products. The value of this to MS is to ensure that if .net is crap (memory hog or slow), it doesn't lose any market share to non .net versions from its competitors.
.net to linux, at which time the port is wholy owned by MS with no benefit to corel. Its not an OSS port.
.net platform. Why should ms care if corel products uses .net or not otherwise?
2. Forced support of
3. An option to force corel to spend 3-5mil in employee time to port
4. very soft value in PR, keeping a weak competitor afloat, and so maybe preventing amunition in its anti-trust case that would be a corel bankruptsy. (?)
Item 3 is the only one with tangible value. $3-5 mil. As pointed out in the post i'm replying to, more capable subcontractors could be found, and if MS cared about the output, more incentives for the contractors put in.
To me, item 2's only value is the show of industry support for its
Most of the value must be in 4, although its hard to see how it makes up what they paid.
>>Why the hell would I use a publishing system that makes people pay to read it?
I have trouble with this too. Maybe its cheaper/easier to publish pirated or illegal material this way as compared to web hosting. Often though, (only reason???) this is done so that your friends get it for free. The fact that 99% of the people grabbing it are not your friends is irrelevant.
but if consumers have to pay to access my content, then I'd like to be receiving part of what they're paying.
The economics don't seem to work except for the bandwith and diskspace people. I'm all in favour of bringing digital cash for micropayments ysterday, but i'm unclear how helpful this will be.
I'm surprised that Jini hasn't been used for napster like services. The spec seems well suited for making content servers, and would be the first place I'd look to implement such a service.
Any opinions as to why its been rejected by all the projects?
Well the solution I'd like is an option to have a publisher fee attached to a file, such that the right to download it requires paying the publisher.
]]You only need 4 out of the 8 blocks of any given piece/chunk to reassemble the entire thing
[[
Earlier this was described as *any* 4 of the 8 blocks will do. Rather than continue to struggle with the math for how this could be possible, is it actually that each block is stored twice, and in order to recover a 1/4 of the file, at least 1 of the 2 puters its hosted on has to be connected at the time?
I'm satisfied that this protects users copyright liabilities, and also the network manager.
Legalities aside, it seems the primary intent of the network is to consume and distribute forbiden material.
There appears to be a disincentive to publish material that you don't benefit from disseminating, though. It costs you to publish. It would seem pretty straightforward that the publisher should be part of the download compensation chain, so that there's an incentive to publish desirable content.
I don't see how this can be a better repository of information than the banner sponsored method when the publisher has no legal concerns in publishing it. (other than the abrrier to entry of having to have a minimum inventory of inforamtion, before renting traditional bandwidth)
My guess on MS's position on this is that java developers should just learn c#.
I also guess that 95% of code can be programatically ported between the 2 languages. (could be way off)
syntacticaly, there extremely similar languages. They just use different standard libraries.
The easiest approach to porting CLR to other platforms would likely be in reshaping Java's class hierarchies.
Anyone know how CLR's UI classes compare to swings hierarchy?