Frankly signature based AV protection is bound to fail because it is enumeration of "the bad". The real fix is an OS which enumerated "the good" and only loads and runs good approved by the user programs. Ever since virus makers and bot master have used commercial AV software to test their malware against the game of signature based detection has been a losing game -- ie Dommed business model, this stuff still sells because it has market share and most people don't even know or care what a trojan is.
It has been as least 2 years it definitely time to move on.
Correct IANAL and read this court opinion ( http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/97D0773P.pdf ) which supports the facts interpretation of map data. This actually means that companies will be very protective of their/your data because you could use it to compete against them.
I link from the article about hints that an agent in British Intelligence was also involved perhaps a Commander in the British Navy??
"No records were found for the other suit, identified with the spy- appropriate number 007. It still belongs to NASA, and the agency's plans for what to do with the spacesuit are still being determined."
Lets murder all the political future of the guys and gals that voted for this crap. A man is dead are the child sexual victims any better off? No. So what is the point of the law in the face of these facts? Empty useless government. And we all pay there salaries.
Given the quiet lobbying campaign by certain telcos over their cooperation with government we certainly think the public company AT&T really respects our privacy and opinions:)
Make this issue the college age election issue. Register to vote at your college district and make all politicians aware of your feelings, organize other students on this issue and vote based on this issue. Local elected officials will need to address any group of citizens of numbers 10 or more. Local officials will cry to state and federal officials this will get Reid's attention he is a party leader. Do it this year, get the freshman to do it. Next year is congressional reelection do it again. If you succeed in rattling a few lower elected officials their political consultants will be all over you trying to save their members in Congress their jobs.
History says college students will not become politically active like this and the likely outcome... More slashdot posts, more parties, more bitching at politicians. The politicians KNOW you will not act they can take the money and use your college administrations against you and your tuition.
Of course those were the days of cassette tapes an some people would tape the entire album from the FM broadcast. Who really cares about perfect digital copies of audio. The perfect stereo of the 70s with the Helium tweeters is just techno junk. You ears don't have the response.
We should not be surprised that Linus is sticking up for the pragmatic elements of software politics. Software is compile and run stuff which either works or not,is useful or, not. This is an overriding constraint on the politics of software.
Political concepts often are written in tricky syntax, don't compile and need hours of debugging to run correctly, if not complete redesign. Politics are more about emotions; and hiding that obvious fact from the too many who WILL BELIEVE without a question!
Bell used to be a tech company, Verizon is a sales company, you are always talking to sales reps.
Frankly, my experience with Verizon indicates that the 50% offer may be an indication you are being put on the collections tract. I would advise to be on your guard after this as they expect you to settle for 50%. EVERYONE needs phone service YOU MUST PAY or we shut you off is the attiude of Verizon.
If you really want to drive them nuts ask for all written communication. First mistake here is no legal document to file in court. Verizon hates to deal this way - after all they are a TELEPHONE (tech^h^h^h^hsales!)company.
The AT&T monopoly was created by the FCC. The FCC was created out of corporate conflicts between telegraph and telephone companies by a irrelevent distinction (the later to be created Information Theory) that telephone (analog) and telegraph (digital) were essentially different. So from a larger view the FCC and AT&T were created on false assumptions about the physics of the world. Governments and their institutions care about politics not science.
In conclusion: Net does not equal Network and Neutrality is in the eye of the beholder. And it is an election year!
I have always considered Pluto a Micky Mouse kind of planet. And I think the IAU should consider the impact of their decision on the Cartoon universe as well.
Bull Pucky! IP of a map is NOT copyrightable! The case is ALEXANDRIA DRAFTING CO., v. ANDREW H. AMSTERDAM d/b/a FRANKLIN MAPS is fairly clear on this. A map is a series of facts and not copyrightable. Much like a phone book. The style, the fonts, the layout all may be subject to copyright but facts are not. This case is all bull unless we are talking about a direct copy of the MTA dataset, image or etc.
New York does not have a reciprocal agreements on local taxes with most of the surrounding states on state. This means if you work in NY and live in PA you pay NY local taxes on your income. All local polititians know this about NY at least here in Eastern PA. Where NYC commuters and families are impacting our local taxes with NYC taking the commuters share of "local" taxes.
This artical only points out a years old issue about working in NYC. The only "news" here is because those in cyberspace have just found out they don't have a reciprocal aggreement on taxes with NYC.
However people form NY slip over the boarder to pay a lesser PA sales taxes along PA's nortern tier. PA people slip over to NJ to pay lower gas taxes. Such is the way with local taxes.
from AIP Physics News AIP Physics News Update #711 Soft-metal whiskers, tiny metallic protrusions that grow like hair from soft metals, are a problem that can cause electronic short circuits leading, in some cases, to the failure of heart pacemakers, avionic relays, and satellites. What to do with the unwanted whiskers---and, in the first place, understanding how they form---is a problem that's been around for fifty years. Now, researchers at Drexel University have arrived at what they think is an explanation for the cause of whiskers and a potential method for alleviating them. Basically, the whiskers form because of reactions between oxygen and the soft metal such as tin or indium. The reaction results in a volume increase that pushes the whiskers out. The whiskers that form do not have to break off in order to be troublesome; sometimes they cause mischief merely by bridging two neighboring electronic pathways that are supposed to be insulated from each other. The Drexel scientists believe that an oxygen-barrier coating on pertinent surfaces should prevent whiskers from developing. (Barsoum et al. Physical Review Letters, 12 November 2004)
Lax legal systems don't enforce IP laws. Multinationals face competition with there own IP. IP issues are the hardest items predict the effects in Capitalist theory.
Automakers have found that Chinese knockoff autos are now being produced before the release of the original product. Thus companies that expected to have access to the large Chinese markets now find home grown Chinese competition using their own IP much sooner than expected.
The Chinese are building their own CPU chips and Linux trying to avoid the "lock-in" and expensive IP they cannot afford.
Communication advances have allows the transportion of key knowledge on a global scale. This allows jobs to be exported to low wage countries but add up all the knowledge to do those jobs and you have competition. In the end, Knowledge is Capital, methods and procedures of economic production.
I think the multinationals were taken by China and will be the big losers on the entire deal. Give an man a fish, teach a man to fish...
OSS has no problem with professional certification you get the source, review it, test it and certify it to a grade. The professional would do this or sign off. For closed source the process is the same except you don't have the source or your rely on the vendors professional certification.
I worked summers in an Architectural/Engineering firm before I got my degree for Computer Engineeering in 1979. The real way these firms worked at that time is that the Professionals (Registered Architects and Proffessionsal Engineers) supervised and sign off on the the work that was done by EITs (Engineers in Training - a degress but not yet passed the state boards) and Draftsmen and other technical people. This model can be used for software/hardware as well. There has been little demand or call for a state certified need for computer professionals in the last 24 years largely because the sales force said all the bugs will be fixed in the next "Gotta have" version.
Our social problem is the adoption of CPUs and related software to critical tasks in our society without review or certification for the tasks in a largely sales driven market. Having professionals review installed products would likely trim features and consider whole systems analysis of the effect of additions and changes. In the end this is a good thing because the professional at the install point can specifiy the grade and if the vendor fails he doesn't the the business.
The last point is that the State is responsible for the approval of the Professionals - so in effect the State is taking the work of people it has approved to be and act as Professionals.
In the end this just means a review of some level of quality on the software or hardware installed. We just don't take the word of the vendor.
The obvious reaction to this is the creation of the "Free tool" movement quickly followed by the "Open Tool" movement. There will be agreement that "Skil" and "Craftsman" are dominating the industry. Next the internet site routedrill.com will cover daily news and flame wars between the two camps and featuring funky icons of drills, paper and various types of trees. After several years the majority of the discussion will concern sarcasm related to the posting of duplicate articles and reasons the sites founders "sold out".
I talked with a Major NJ Elect Utility Quality Engineer. He explained the system and faults this way:
I live in Pennsylvania - We are part of the PA NJ MD interconnect - THE example of reliabity. Our capcity is internal, we buffer capacity bought outside the interconnect in hydro pump facilities, we have our own large hydro dams. When the grid gets twitchy we cut off the outside world and stand alone with our lights on!
New York City gets its power from Canadian Hydro with a bottlenecks caused Lake Erie and Lake Onterio. This system is predicated on transmission of capacity on a contental scale. Power transmission branches in to the bottlenecks and then branches back out. Instablity can "bounce" from one cross border bottleneck to another. I big instablity can crash the system.
This problem is the lack of infrastructure to support the exchange from Canada to NYC. The buyer and seller agree but delivery of the goods is difficult at times - who will pay for the transmission lines that are really necessary to prevent a failure every decade? Does the public demand such reliabity?
The NIMBY comment is relevant here why should Upstate NY residents give up there land to support "the City".
In the late 70's a collage classmate had mentioned to be that he had written a few lines of the Unix operating system. He went to high school in the area of Bell's Murray Hill facility and I believed this claim was plausable. Unix has a checkered IP history.
McBride: "At a minimum, IP sources should be checked to assure that copyright contributors have the authority to transfer copyrights in the code contributed to Open Source."
When 300 School Children die because the computer crashed perhaps Programmers will be required to be liscensed and regulated by the State.
I have a BS is Computer Enginneering. I worked as an undergrad in a Civil Engineering Office in the late 70s. I supported PEs with my knowledge of computers. But I was in a support role, the same as the draftsmen. It was pretty clear that EIT was useless for me and for most engineers outside of Civil or Mechanical.
The pdp-8 had one 12 bit register the accumulator and "link bit" flag, the instruction DCA (Deposit and Clear the Accumulator) was the only instruction to write memory. There was no instruction to load the accumulator from memory rather you always added to the accumulator by TAD instruction. Of course all other these were *features*.
You could normally keep the loader in core. But it a program trashed it you needed to enter it from the switch registers word by word.
And we were lucky in those days, too. I had to walk to school on a barb wire fence with two bobcats under each arm. So sonny quit your moaning!
I believe C is a langage of very leaky abstractions but it is the C programmer that takes this into account and ultimately to his/her advantage. Much in the same way the article points out how the reliabilty of TCP is built on top of IP.
It is the system language + programmer that counts more.
In the end it just the patterns of bits and the cost of those effort to produce that pattern.
You are not cynical enough. All those campaign contribution go to buy media time. It isn't the big companies directly but their local affiliates. But the programs comes from GE, Westinghouse, Disney and AOL. The media companies control the whole things. Call your congressman they will just get more staff to handle the peons.
The only alternative is get 10 people to hold a public meeting supporting an opposing candidate. Or run yourself. People who just type in computers are no real threat to these guys.
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It has been as least 2 years it definitely time to move on.
Correct IANAL and read this court opinion ( http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/97D0773P.pdf ) which supports the facts interpretation of map data. This actually means that companies will be very protective of their/your data because you could use it to compete against them.
I link from the article about hints that an agent in British Intelligence was also involved perhaps a Commander in the British Navy??
"No records were found for the other suit, identified with the spy- appropriate number 007. It still belongs to NASA, and the agency's plans for what to do with the spacesuit are still being determined."
YES!!!!!!!!!
Lets murder all the political future of the guys and gals that voted for this crap. A man is dead are the child sexual victims any better off? No. So what is the point of the law in the face of these facts? Empty useless government. And we all pay there salaries.
Fire em all let em work at Wallmart or McDonalds.
[paranoid]
Or could this entire Slashdot post a response to yesterdays... The Registers Exposes More Wikipedia Abuse.
Please ignore yesterdays posts, nothing interesting there...
[/paranoid]
Given the quiet lobbying campaign by certain telcos over their cooperation with government we certainly think the public company AT&T really respects our privacy and opinions :)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/22/1655239
This was my thought. It is likely that the monitoring software will have a problem with virtual machines as well.
Perhaps switching to DOS will help, bet they can't monitor that either.
Make this issue the college age election issue. Register to vote at your college district and make all politicians aware of your feelings, organize other students on this issue and vote based on this issue. Local elected officials will need to address any group of citizens of numbers 10 or more. Local officials will cry to state and federal officials this will get Reid's attention he is a party leader. Do it this year, get the freshman to do it. Next year is congressional reelection do it again. If you succeed in rattling a few lower elected officials their political consultants will be all over you trying to save their members in Congress their jobs.
History says college students will not become politically active like this and the likely outcome... More slashdot posts, more parties, more bitching at politicians. The politicians KNOW you will not act they can take the money and use your college administrations against you and your tuition.
NO ACTION == NO FILE SHARING.
Do something, anything really.
Of course those were the days of cassette tapes an some people would tape the entire album from the FM broadcast. Who really cares about perfect digital copies of audio. The perfect stereo of the 70s with the Helium tweeters is just techno junk. You ears don't have the response.
Software is compile and run stuff which either works or not,is useful or, not. This is an overriding constraint on the politics of software.
Political concepts often are written in tricky syntax, don't compile and need hours of debugging to run correctly, if not complete redesign. Politics are more about emotions; and hiding that obvious fact from the too many who WILL BELIEVE without a question!
Bell used to be a tech company, Verizon is a sales company, you are always talking to sales reps.
Frankly, my experience with Verizon indicates that the 50% offer may be an indication you are being put on the collections tract. I would advise to be on your guard after this as they expect you to settle for 50%. EVERYONE needs phone service YOU MUST PAY or we shut you off is the attiude of Verizon.
If you really want to drive them nuts ask for all written communication. First mistake here is no legal document to file in court. Verizon hates to deal this way - after all they are a TELEPHONE (tech^h^h^h^hsales!)company.
The AT&T monopoly was created by the FCC. The FCC was created out of corporate conflicts between telegraph and telephone companies by a irrelevent distinction (the later to be created Information Theory) that telephone (analog) and telegraph (digital) were essentially different. So from a larger view the FCC and AT&T were created on false assumptions about the physics of the world. Governments and their institutions care about politics not science.
In conclusion: Net does not equal Network and Neutrality is in the eye of the beholder. And it is an election year!
I have always considered Pluto a Micky Mouse kind of planet. And I think the IAU should consider the impact of their decision on the Cartoon universe as well.
Bull Pucky! IP of a map is NOT copyrightable! The case is ALEXANDRIA DRAFTING CO., v. ANDREW H. AMSTERDAM d/b/a FRANKLIN MAPS is fairly clear on this. A map is a series of facts and not copyrightable. Much like a phone book. The style, the fonts, the layout all may be subject to copyright but facts are not. This case is all bull unless we are talking about a direct copy of the MTA dataset, image or etc.
New York does not have a reciprocal agreements on local taxes with most of the surrounding states on state. This means if you work in NY and live in PA you pay NY local taxes on your income. All local polititians know this about NY at least here in Eastern PA. Where NYC commuters and families are impacting our local taxes with NYC taking the commuters share of "local" taxes.
This artical only points out a years old issue about working in NYC. The only "news" here is because those in cyberspace have just found out they don't have a reciprocal aggreement on taxes with NYC.
However people form NY slip over the boarder to pay a lesser PA sales taxes along PA's nortern tier. PA people slip over to NJ to pay lower gas taxes. Such is the way with local taxes.
From the following artical Sealant may be a solution.
t metalwisker.htm
http://physics.about.com/od/condensedmatter/a/sof
Soft Metal Wiskers
from AIP Physics News
AIP Physics News Update #711
Soft-metal whiskers, tiny metallic protrusions that grow like hair from soft metals, are a problem that can cause electronic short circuits leading, in some cases, to the failure of heart pacemakers, avionic relays, and satellites. What to do with the unwanted whiskers---and, in the first place, understanding how they form---is a problem that's been around for fifty years. Now, researchers at Drexel University have arrived at what they think is an explanation for the cause of whiskers and a potential method for alleviating them. Basically, the whiskers form because of reactions between oxygen and the soft metal such as tin or indium. The reaction results in a volume increase that pushes the whiskers out. The whiskers that form do not have to break off in order to be troublesome; sometimes they cause mischief merely by bridging two neighboring electronic pathways that are supposed to be insulated from each other. The Drexel scientists believe that an oxygen-barrier coating on pertinent surfaces should prevent whiskers from developing. (Barsoum et al. Physical Review Letters, 12 November 2004)
Lax legal systems don't enforce IP laws. Multinationals face competition with there own IP. IP issues are the hardest items predict the effects in Capitalist theory.
Automakers have found that Chinese knockoff autos are now being produced before the release of the original product. Thus companies that expected to have access to the large Chinese markets now find home grown Chinese competition using their own IP much sooner than expected.
The Chinese are building their own CPU chips and Linux trying to avoid the "lock-in" and expensive IP they cannot afford.
Communication advances have allows the transportion of key knowledge on a global scale. This allows jobs to be exported to low wage countries but add up all the knowledge to do those jobs and you have competition. In the end, Knowledge is Capital, methods and procedures of economic production.
I think the multinationals were taken by China and will be the big losers on the entire deal. Give an man a fish, teach a man to fish...
OSS has no problem with professional certification you get the source, review it, test it and certify it to a grade. The professional would do this or sign off. For closed source the process is the same except you don't have the source or your rely on the vendors professional certification.
I worked summers in an Architectural/Engineering firm before I got my degree for Computer Engineeering in 1979. The real way these firms worked at that time is that the Professionals (Registered Architects and Proffessionsal Engineers) supervised and sign off on the the work that was done by EITs (Engineers in Training - a degress but not yet passed the state boards) and Draftsmen and other technical people. This model can be used for software/hardware as well. There has been little demand or call for a state certified need for computer professionals in the last 24 years largely because the sales force said all the bugs will be fixed in the next "Gotta have" version.
Our social problem is the adoption of CPUs and related software to critical tasks in our society without review or certification for the tasks in a largely sales driven market. Having professionals review installed products would likely trim features and consider whole systems analysis of the effect of additions and changes. In the end this is a good thing because the professional at the install point can specifiy the grade and if the vendor fails he doesn't the the business.
The last point is that the State is responsible for the approval of the Professionals - so in effect the State is taking the work of people it has approved to be and act as Professionals.
In the end this just means a review of some level of quality on the software or hardware installed. We just don't take the word of the vendor.
The obvious reaction to this is the creation of the "Free tool" movement quickly followed by the "Open Tool" movement. There will be agreement that "Skil" and "Craftsman" are dominating the industry. Next the internet site routedrill.com will cover daily news and flame wars between the two camps and featuring funky icons of drills, paper and various types of trees. After several years the majority of the discussion will concern sarcasm related to the posting of duplicate articles and reasons the sites founders "sold out".
I talked with a Major NJ Elect Utility Quality Engineer. He explained the system and faults this way:
I live in Pennsylvania - We are part of the PA NJ MD interconnect - THE example of reliabity. Our capcity is internal, we buffer capacity bought outside the interconnect in hydro pump facilities, we have our own large hydro dams. When the grid gets twitchy we cut off the outside world and stand alone with our lights on!
New York City gets its power from Canadian Hydro with a bottlenecks caused Lake Erie and Lake Onterio. This system is predicated on transmission of capacity on a contental scale. Power transmission branches in to the bottlenecks and then branches back out. Instablity can "bounce" from one cross border bottleneck to another. I big instablity can crash the system.
This problem is the lack of infrastructure to support the exchange from Canada to NYC. The buyer and seller agree but delivery of the goods is difficult at times - who will pay for the transmission lines that are really necessary to prevent a failure every decade? Does the public demand such reliabity?
The NIMBY comment is relevant here why should Upstate NY residents give up there land to support "the City".
In the late 70's a collage classmate had mentioned to be that he had written a few lines of the Unix operating system. He went to high school in the area of Bell's Murray Hill facility and I believed this claim was plausable. Unix has a checkered IP history.
:
McBride
"At a minimum, IP sources should be checked to assure that copyright contributors have the authority to transfer copyrights in the code contributed to Open Source."
Are SCO sources up to McBrides standards?
When 300 School Children die because the computer crashed perhaps Programmers will be required to be liscensed and regulated by the State.
I have a BS is Computer Enginneering. I worked as an undergrad in a Civil Engineering Office in the late 70s. I supported PEs with my knowledge of computers. But I was in a support role, the same as the draftsmen. It was pretty clear that EIT was useless for me and for most engineers outside of Civil or Mechanical.
boolean isEngineer(programmer) {
If (Engineer== PE) {
isEnginneer = isPE(programmer)
} elsif (Engineer == EngineeringDegree) {
isEngineer = hasEngineeringDegree(programmer)
}
}
The pdp-8 had one 12 bit register the accumulator and "link bit" flag, the instruction DCA (Deposit and Clear the Accumulator) was the only instruction to write memory. There was no instruction to load the accumulator from memory rather you always added to the accumulator by TAD instruction. Of course all other these were *features*.
You could normally keep the loader in core. But it a program trashed it you needed to enter it from the switch registers word by word.
And we were lucky in those days, too. I had to walk to school on a barb wire fence with two bobcats under each arm. So sonny quit your moaning!
I believe C is a langage of very leaky abstractions but it is the C programmer that takes this into account and ultimately to his/her advantage. Much in the same way the article points out how the reliabilty of TCP is built on top of IP.
It is the system language + programmer that counts more.
In the end it just the patterns of bits and the cost of those effort to produce that pattern.
You are not cynical enough. All those campaign contribution go to buy media time. It isn't the big companies directly but their local affiliates. But the programs comes from GE, Westinghouse, Disney and AOL. The media companies control the whole things. Call your congressman they will just get more staff to handle the peons.
The only alternative is get 10 people to hold a public meeting supporting an opposing candidate. Or run yourself. People who just type in computers are no real threat to these guys.