No I think this is worth while. Minix is a diffrent operating system with a diffrent focus. I can easly see Minix being used more effectively in the imbeded market where Linux is today.
Also I doupt the people who will be pulled into Minix from scratch would otherwise go to Hurd.
Also (correct me if I'm wrong)[1] but isn't Hurd incomplete? Making a Hurd from scratch might be a bit difficult at this stage.
[1] I know you will but it just feels better to say it. You know. To make it so people think twice before beliving me. It's good to know your dumb and admit it. It's not good to be dumb of course but if you are and know it admit it. People will soon cure you. People being/respondents to this post/ and you being me. Just hate calling myself dumb:)
Spammers tend to cross refrence spam with postal junk mail and phone marketing. However it is illegal to randomly call people (becouse you might get a cell phone and then they pay for the call) but spammers do exactly that (often knowing they are getting a cell phone, the person is paying for it and maybe even knowing exactly how much they pay per e-mail or SMS)
Your not allowed to telemarket to a persons place of work but there again spammers clog work e-mail often quite aware the address is for costummers.
Spammers will always do exactly what is illegal in the marketing counterpart. Why? Becouse spam isn't restricted. It's illegal for amature radio to relay marketting messages as such your no longer able to have your internet e-mail over amature radio as ONE spam message would put a whole bunch of people at risk.
Telemarketing, junk mail, signs and billboards all have laws restricting what you can say where you can say it and when you can say it.
In every case if someone dosen't want you advertsing to them you are legally bond to STOP and should you ever sell a list of "confermed contacts"(people who said "leave me alone") you are in some deep doodoo. Unless you use spam. With spam all thies things are everyday business. You can adevertise services you can't provide just to collect names. You can misrepresent yourself in every way.
To me it's a close race between spam and those wonderful "free seminars" but spam wins and the worse scum.
No matter what you never have to actually READ the whole spam and no matter how high pressure it is spam will never be as bad as seminars in high presure sales. However seminars pay through the nose to set up shop and the junk mail they send out is applicable to all those wonderful laws spammers can ignore.
and with spam the receptiant pays (directly in some cases) clogs up everything and almost never anything you'd ever want.
All time favoret spam: Tech support services junk mail sent to a Linux admin list. With the ecconomy the way it is remind a whole bunch of admin they can be cheaply and easly replaced what a smart thing to do and a way to NOT get mugged at night by a certen geek who can't get an admin job so he works as a night watchmen and tends to rant on slashdot... I'll shut up now.....
The news isn't the coruption it's the getting cought. You've heard for nearly 30 years how our public schools are under funded. The reality is just plain sick. The budget is up to each states govener (or what ever budget process that state has) the school board can't dictate it's own budget but each state school board wishes to. The budget problems are largly artifical. Some times it's visable such as inflated salerys and unnessisary staff for the board while cutting back at the schools. Some times it's not such as when a large block of money is missing.
The flaw in this is that ultimately the school board has total control over everything BUT the budget and has learnned it can hold the state hostage for more money.
At one time California had the biggest budget for it's schools and the worst grades yet they maintain it's the budgets fault.
The solution is to transfer athority to the state govener so that at the person in charge of the school system can't pass the blame to the person in charge of the budget.
That is the core fraud. The money has to go SOMEPLACE else it shows up and the clame that the money isn't there rings hollow.
So school boards play a game shuffling moneys around to pretend they don't exist.
How bad it is depends on the state. I expect it's all legal or quasi legal type activitys. Nothing quite so much as stuffing ones own pockets. Just putting money budgeted for repairing schools that are falling apart into signs telling everyone what isn't being fixed. (The sign actually lists what needs fixing and what has been fixed. A running checklist. A few years ago the signs themselfs needed repair and nothings checked off) Goddess only knows where the rest of the money went.
This happends every now and then. Someone dose an audit of the school system (often the state governer after taking so much abuse) only to see money vanish down a rabbit hole and the school board can only say "ops".
This time someone found the rabbit hole. As for the school boards part it's not likely they set it up IMAO as much as I think they looked the other way as it happend. It's pritty obveous when schools never receave the hardware they are expecting.
Forget the whole notion of errosion of fredoms for a moment. Hate speach is itself a very nasty standard to work with.
The words are intended to mean: speach used to instigate hate and prevoke harrasment. But the way it's so haphazardly applied it really means: Anything disliked by a group who has fallen out of political favor.
By this standard while Microsoft is targeted the the DOJ anything remotely antiMicrosoft is instatly hate speach. On the same notion when Microsoft is not targeted but enbraced by the fedral government and it's open source that is under attack then saying anything POSTIVE about Microsofts products is hate speach. The Internet being what it is you can't safely mention Microsoft (good or bad) as they fall in and out of political favor so often a whole debate on Microsoft (half pro half con) would be hate speach in the same week.
That is an easy example of course. There is always a psudo-science or hate filled cult that falls out of political favor and with a UN guideline on hate speach you couldn't safely speak your mind.
The United Nations has in recent times taken actions that lead me to believe they are ferther slipping into the role of global dictatorship instead of the proper role of opposing wouldbe global dictators.
*Warning about to use a conservitive talk show hoast as a source of information*
In France recently a famous actress got in truble in France for "Hate speach" by accusing the islamic religion[1] of *gasp* prostelitizing[2].
Accounts of islamic prostelitizing is more akin to the christian consept of conversion by sword.
I should (and must) cross refrence the tendencys of thies two religions as they are paralel so that people don't get the idea that islamics are behaving any diffrent than christans. Even to the ratio of prostelitizing vs "live and let live" the later being vertually unheard of in any religion. Even Wiccans and other forms of neo-paganism have dabbled in prostelitizing type activitys.
Gezz big disclamer. Wouldn't be nessisary if we hadn't had a modern crusaide in the form of a gurilla terrorist movement. Still the actress did not accuse the islamic religion of endorcing terrorist activitys. Many of us non-islamics are made to beleieve this is true by the actions and clames of modern crusaiders (terrorists) but even after scrtaching the surface of islam you'll find it's not endorcing such activitys. But in the same context christanity dose not endorce the vareous activitys of roman catholic church done to give christanity it's majority foothold in todays spirital culture.
However accusing islam of prostelitizing is a strightforward clame.
However if we were to permit such laws the clame that a larg number of terrorists clame to folow islam would be hate speach.
Hell... the clame that Iraq is connected to the Taliban[3] may be considered hate speach
[1] The Taliban clames to be a kind of islamic fundamentalism. My experence with christian fundamentalism leads me to believe this to be true. At least the fundamentaism part is byond doupt I'll entertain any doputs on the islamic clame however.
[2] A habbit of christan fundamentalists comming from the consept of convesion at the sword. In todays consept it's in the form of door to door god pimping. No more or less annoying than people who push Windows. Side note: With all the prostelitizing of Windows you really have to doupt the clame by the same people that it's not a religion. But I digress.
[3] It's not. At least not in the context anyone thinks about. There are connections in the array of state/religion affiliations but you couldn't accuse China or France of supporting the American 700 Club but they do communicate. I think mostly so the 700 Club can accuse em of garbage and France/China can spit at those clames but thats my opinion.
Parent suggesting not using the Sun Microsystems HotJava web browser to view it "becouse it's slow".
My responce: There was a really fast web browser once apon a time writen in perl.
As a lot of people have noticed the "optomised C++" was really badly done vs the Java. There were mistakes made in both where the Java compiler could fix the mistake the C++ could not.
Etc.
As much the same here. The perl browser was a text browser. Very simplistic and made to demonstrate how perl can scoop up data from one website for use in annother. (Such as Slashboxes). HotJava is a full on browser but made entirely to demonstrate the power of Java. At the time it was originally created speed was not believed to be an issue. The browser reflects Java as it was much less than as it is (today). Where as IE and Netscape will take shortcuts and ignore features of HTML to make a fast reliable browser (I'm trying to keep a stright face) HotJava was made to show it can do the job and makes no such shortcuts leaning entirely on Java itself for reliability and blatently ignoring speed issues.
I don't know how successful Sun was but I've never heard any complaints about it. (On the other hand I hear all kinds of complants about Lynx, MacOs and so on from people who've never actually touched same so this is a very bad rule of mesure)
I'm reminded of a peace of code I wrote in Asmbly and someone else created code that was just as fast in C again in Pascal. Seams reasonable well optomised code in a simple application. Then someone did it in basic. The reason? In every version the application was idle about 90% of the time waiting for hardware. External facters made the code optomisation meaningless.
For a sense of reality the "insanity expensive" device in question is a printer. I think I see why they'd think this. Go to the store and price printers. $200 up to $5,000. You'd expect that something as important as the vote would need the very best printer so think upper price range.
But the mistake is this isn't an ink jet printer who needs a lot of expensive ink or a lazer printer with toner carts.
Recept printers are thermal and hammer and have been around for a very long time. When thermal printers were expensive I got my hands on a very expensive recept type printer. A whole mind bolging $50. The paper is like $2 for a box of 5 rolls. This for the specal high quality made by the printer manufacter (muahahaha we get to overcharge becouse we have you by the balls) paper.
This was BTW a very nice high end printer. Fast quiet and amazing in every respect. Plus this was when some companys (Commodore, Atari) had propritary printer interfaces so a printer adapter cartrage came seprately.
I used it for my BBS printing a log of user activity and system feedback as it happend. It died becouse of a leak in the roof (dam leak into the printer itself nothing else was damaged) so I switched to a standard dot matrix and soon switched off the logging. My wanting to sleep at night you see.
As far as I know this is about as expensive as they get. Actually for like $60 you get the industral swap out printer that is used in some supermarkets. This is a hammer printer it is designed to last something like 10 years non stop use. We don't exactly need something that can spit recepts for 10 years on end for 1 night do we?
I think maybe Dibolt is using a voter rights group to confuse them about the technical issues of verified e-voting.
What should be made clear is the consummer printers are feature rich even the hammer, thermal and lable printers. They have a whole diffrent set of technical issues than is needed by a simple recept printer.
Consummer printers don't need to last long. In fact there is an industry consept called "planned obsolesence". The consummer won't be using it in an industral way and the consummer won't buy a new printer unless the old one dies. Consummers when shopping for printers care about features features features. Speed, quality, memory sticks even the user interface is considered. Goddess what is a color screen doing on a printer?
Then comes the industral printers. High end printing. No interface no fonts loud slow and simple. They feature two things above all else they must last and when they die (not if) they must be easy to swap out for a new one. This becouse in an industreal setting printers are driven day in and out. They are pushed byond the limit. It is nessisary becouse business must be done.
The office printers being both becouse your boss needs the quality, speed and he needs it constantly. The UI is missing byond setting the printer up for office use.
But a voter recept printer.... Your burger king resept printer only cheaper.
Mathomon? Yeah but then a few years later Yu-Physics-Oh comes along and replaces it in popularity. Then before you know it that two is gone replaced by annother populare science. Plus it would replace Arceology the gathering.
Magic The Gathering, Pokemon and yugioh are in the 15 minuts of fame catagory. Populare today gone tomarow.
I don't want Math to be gone tomarow. I'm counting on it to stay for a while.
Now english I wouldn't mind if it's own end was spelled out. You can see the proof reading this very post.
The goal of any business is to do what the business owners want. Both wrong. The goal of a hobby is to do what the owners want. All other businesses seek proffit. It depends on how much a business is a hobby and how much it is a job. In my case it's entirely hobby but most often you'll find it's a mix of both.
The goal of the business is to do what the boss wants only so much as it's a hobby. The goal is to make a proffit so long as the boss intends to make a living off of it.
Just to give you a sense of it, For Bill Gates it's entirely job. For Steven Jobs and Woz it's mostly hobby. For Rush Limbaugh it's entirely hobby (no joke he loves what he dose getting paid just means he never needs to do anything else)
For Cmdr Taco it's a hobby.
And just becouse the business is a huge multinational entity don't think the owner wouldn't be doing this in is underware at home if he couldn't make any money at it becouse 9 times out of 10 he will.
Date: 1979 Augest, After setting up my Vic20 for the first time. Me: Thats great now where are the games? Mom: You want games make them.
I did. Nothing quite good enough for the market so I did buy the occasional game and still do but 90% of the software I use I write.
That was the Vic20. After that my mother got a C64 and eventually got this goofy toy called "Designers pencle" where you write code to make demo like programs. It was fun. Came with a programming contest and I won the grand prise (in my age group and code size) I got a Commodore 128 with the money. (Stupid, Baka) That got me into CP/M. Not so easy to code but the software dev tools were cheap.
Then I went from CP/M to Dos. My coding stopped cold. I couldn't get my hands on useful dev software and books were expensive. But ok so I sucked it up and got the software and books. The cheap books. And wrote code for a while.
Then Dos died.
So now I'm going to.. Buy Windows, Buy brand new software dev tools and MORE books. Spending more money to develup software than I'd spend if I were to just buy it off the shelf.
Or use Unix with GNU tools. So I got a used AT&T 3B2/300 and never looked back.
If I brodcast something the IP rights transfer to me? While UPN owns Star Trek WB dose not own Yugioh. Most brodcasters don't own any of the content they brodcast but liccens it from the actual creators. As IP law is now the act of creation itself gives you the rights so this dosen't matter if the brodcaster and creater are the same entity but when they are diffrent entitys this could mean a liccens to broudcast becomes a transfer of ownership.
On a side note it's the UNs job to foster peace through out the world. Ecconomic matters such as IP law shouldn't be part of the UN agenda. Some nations may be cought between the rock of UN IP law that would basicly make there exports illegal and the hard place of the only aternitive of making wepons also banned by the UN. If the only choice they had was to drop out of the UN I don't believe such a nation would have any market for the peaceful export.
The dubble click behavure was enherited from a number of GUIs that existed before Windows ever hit the market and I believe it wasn't included in the inital release of Windows.
The history of it is something like this: A number of systems hit the market. MacOs is successful with a single button mouse. Other GUIs hit the PC and Geos for the Commodore, Atari TOS for the ST, Amgia Os for the Amiga. Most systems had two button mice. However MacOs users had 1 button and Commodore 64 users had 1 button joysticks standing in for mice (two button mouse available).
MacOs started to get the reputation of being limited. The single button wasn't enough. To keep up Apple added the dubble click to permit additional behavure. A software hack for a second button. This is not to say MacOs WAS limited but streat talk vs real world has always been on entirely diffrent plains of existence.
At some point Microsoft addopted the behavure into Windows. There was no preticulare advantage to be gained by this.
You will notice that Microsofts patent is on the default fuction where as MacOs uses the dubble click as the "second button" (if I remember correctly).
This is nothing to be proud of.
However The Commodore 64s Geos used (if memory serves) single click to be "select" for cut and paist and dubble click for default fuction (activate the icon, open file, run the application) before Microsoft included this behaubure into Windows.
Sing with me "Prior art"
The dubble click was created to solve a problem found in systems using a single button for a pointer device. Microsoft Windows had no preticulare reason for addopting the dubble click other than to mimic the behavure of MacOs.
This patent should read. "The hacks implemented in OTHER operating systems copied into Windows to no advantage to the end user."
Unix Window managers typlicly rely on having 2 to 4 mouse buttons and don't use the dubble click byond mimicing the behavure of Microsoft Windows.
Patent suggestion for RedHat: Dubble click mask: The software technique where a second click done shortly after the first click is "tossed out" this would continue for a third and forth click as well. That if a user clicks an icon many times (nervous habbit) the Window manager reads only 1 click and ejects the rest.
Tech support horror storys: Tech: Single left click User: (Click Click) It openned the app Tech: Close the app. Don't dubble click. Single left click User: (Click Click)
With Dubble click mask Tech::Left click User: (Click click click click) It worked. (All the clicks being read as 1 click becouse that is all the user should have done)
The RIAA may want to reconsider this with the DoJs history of conset decrees. Years ago software pirates weren't very knowladgeable law wise and the law wasn't very knowladgable tech wise. All it took was a law enforcement offical who understood computers to catch em.
Music pirates have always been organised and software pirates have folowed sute in recent years. All it would take is a pirate with money (not uncommen BTW) and a good legal team and if you can wait it out (in jail) you'll have a liccens to steal soon enough in the form of a ill considered conset decree.
The DoJ looks for political hot points. Something to justify a budget increase. But it has no real investment in the details. As long as the general public believes the "bad guys" have been stopped it dosen't matter how little it matches reality.
Let's look at the Microsoft vs DoJ deal. Forget how evil Microsoft is for a second here. The DoJ didn't for one hot second give a care if Microsoft was doing anything wrong all they cared about was that many of us were unhappy with Microsoft. It didn't matter why. For all they knew some ludite cult was behind all the anti-Microsoft stuff and never forget a wildly successful company like Microsoft will generate enemys earnned or not.
Then when it came time to punish this "evil empire" that they couldn't even be sure was evil the DoJ handed out a liccens to compleatly ignore everything that just happend and keep doing what they'd been doing all along.
As true as it is Microsoft is a monopolistic entity who will do anything to make sure EVERYONE uses it's product. Everything but actually produce a useful product people actually WANT to use. The DoJ didn't care if this was true or not. If Novel hadn't let go and the DoJ didn't get involved things would have been very diffrent.
P2P file sharing will get screwed if this happends but so will the RIAA as the sereous pirates have the legal power for a "get out of jail free" card and keep masproducing illegal disks for sale on eBay.
I've not had too bad of an experence with tech support mostly becouse I handle most problems myself. The worst call was when I called in to an ISP to let them know the system wasn't recognising my account. In some ways he was ok. It was there fault and he admitted such. The only issue I had was he talked down to me while explaining what was wrong. I didn't even want one. I just wanted to know they knew and were on it. I didn't want the details let alone have them spoon feed.
However the absolute worst tech support experence was getting no responce at all. On two diffrent occasions I got nothing.
One the phone support never answers the phone. This is 24-7 tech support it ALWAYS turns to the answering machine. I actually tried calling them every hour on the hour hoping to catch them on the ONE hour they were actually in the office for a full 24 hours.
I left a few messages. I also left e-mail. They pritty much took my money and left town.
The other didn't have a phone number and ignored tech support e-mail. I eventually gave up on em.
So I'd say the worst was no reply at all. Second worse being talked down to when it's the ISPs fault. (I took that with grace, I imagin tech support gets a lot of clueless calls and tends to get defensive).
Most of my tech support has been pritty positive.
The worst I've had was GIVING support. I seldom do it and only to help people out (not my job). Out of maybe 7 times I've been yelled at twice becouse I wasn't doing things the way THEY wanted.
Spyware (or as they prefer adware) isn't Spam (or as prefered e-mail marketting)
Adware slips into your system and slips ads directly into your system. It's software that permits someone to have some control over the way your computer works.
Spam is just bombbarding your e-mail with garbage.
Adware is worse in this reguards but that's like the diffrence between reckless driving and outright murder. There ARE people who get angry for being ticketed and fined for reckless driving.
However spam and adware are both wrong in much the same way as reckless driving and murder is wrong. One is just more sereous than the other.
As far as the opt out links go. Most spammers have opt out links. Most anyone familure with spam will tell you DON'T CLICK as most spammers aren't even about selling anything more that spam lists of people who opted out. It's a quick way to get you even more spam.
I opt out all the time... Building a spam filter is a hobby. I'm already up to 100 spam a day.
By the actions of Scott I'd say he actually believes his system is a true opt in system. However I've receaved spam from this guy and I know I never opted in.
So the question is how come Scott believes his actions are lagit? Answer: I do get a lot of "Welcome" messages from marketting lists. Most of them say something like "Please click on the link below to conferm". Eather spammers are being creative and trying to trick me into opting in to stuff I don't have any intrest in or someone spammed my e-mail address to them.
How dose ReallyBig work? Could a jerk spammer stuff the box? How dose Scott get a large opt in e-mail database?
It would make sense that he would have some program set up where third partys do the opt in for him. If so is there any screening for "stuffing the box"?
This presumes Scott isn't putting on a show. We can never forget that spammers are at least in part con artists. They take the PT Barnem school of marketting tactic. A sucker born every min and the real trick is to find em.
However I'm reminded of some research done a while back. Someone said that most spammers are just looking for valid e-mail addresses and don't actually sell anything. Hence the mark isn't the spam targets but the spammers who actually try to sell stuff. Thies people buy e-mail addresses.
And I just did conclude that this is probably where Scott got his marketting list.
In short... Scott is this minuts sucker... Or the modern PT Barnum.
If you ever pull a stupid stunt in my name like this I will haunt your butt for the rest of your lives. I'm sure after a few years in the afterlife I'll learn some pritty perverted stuff to use on those who screw with people who use stuff I create.
I frigen don't want my desendents making money exploting people who use my stuff. I want people to use my stuff. The notion that anyone other than me has any right to clame what I've created is a bunch of flamming stinky stuff.
Don't ever say your putting my soul to rest while extorting money from a truely inventive person.
For those who think this sort of action is ok I have some words for you... Very choice words. A googol of choice words.
To get this clear in my head, A mathmatician created the word Googol to represent a fantasticly huge number a very long time ago. Prior to that invention a comic artist created a character called Barny Google with "Googly eyes" suggesting even ferther prior art.
But Google got it's name not from the comic character or the phrase "Googly eyes" but from the mathmaticians refrence we know this becouse Google.com sighted him as the insperation for the name.
Now that they are on the verge of IPO someone is suing becouse Google.com has NOT given recognition and has right to that same becouse they got the name from him we know becouse Google HAS given recognition. You see where I'm going with this?
Copyright? On a single word? I don't think so. Besides the copyright would have expired a very long time ago. Trademark? Nope. Not applicable. Patent? We've seen some crazy applications of patent law but that's all been in recent (the last 20 years) times.
You can't own a stupid word. You can't "invent" a stupid word. Now I challange Peri Fleisher to discuss this with out first sighting the legacy of each and every word....
Of course it's impossable becouse with every sitation you have more words and now must do more sitations.
I present my new book based on the Peri Fleisher idea of giving credit to the person who coins the word. It starts with. I.
And then sites who coined the word and then starts sighting who coinned the words used in that sitation and so on. The book is 500 pages thick but outside the Peri Fleisher recomended sitations is the single word "I".
That is presumming I have a time scanner becouse I sereously doupt anyone even knows who first coinned over 90% of the english slanguage. However we can track down from what language each word was taken.
Now THIS is the real reason it's called "Microsoft".. Becouse NOBODY in there right mind would ever lay clame to inventing that word no matter how much money is on the line.
Supprise. Much later a buch of posts are made saying.. "HAY Paypal has a right to do this".
And you know what? It's true. It may look like Paypal is using the "Annon Proxy" thing as a lame excuse. I've read the complaints and it appears Paypal has a history of over reacting and not verifying complaints.
I wouldn't take the conspericy theroys sereously.
However..... I'm reminded of the MAPS. They have been accused of doing a remarkably sloppy job. Not verifying complaints and over reacting. MAPS can trash a persons e-mail. It's annoying enough but so is spam.
Any business that relys on paypal can be brought too it's knees by Paypals sloppy handing of complaints.
There is a reasonably easy way to handle this. Send e-mail to paypal complaning about this event and let them know what you think of them cutting off Freenet.
Odds are when the book hits the shelfs you won't see ANY of this in the actual book. He's doing this to hype it.
I mean if he actually did print this stuff in detail there are already a number of security experts who'd trash his butt.
In the end however this book belongs with such greats as Madonas sex book, OJs "I didn't do it" book and the Green Card spam lawyers book on e-commerce.
If his book did actually contain thies suggestions then I think some of the chapers in the book are Security by obscurity: Sticking your head in the ground. Back doors: Pretend they don't exist. Ignore the man behind the curtan: If he's selling something he's honnest if he has nothing to gain by lying then he's lying.
And of course Buy everything: If it's free it sucks if it's for sale it's good. Now my kid sister sells a program just like the free one you can get from the top rated security experts. Only hers is better becouse she's selling it.
For a "hippy like" community we are pritty paranoid.
You would be too if you were told you aren't allowed to know what is happening on YOUR OWN COMPUTER. The very software your trusting to do your taxes and run your home yet your not trusted with the terrable secret of how it works?
I'm going to trust you over someone who gives away the code for free and let's me see how it works.
You know what? You want you trust the "Space robots" and stand at the top of the stairs while I'll do the Hampster Dance.
That is still nothing as compared to the cosntant, unrelenting and massive FUD that spews out of the open source community against Microsof ever single second of every single of every year.
Speaking of copying.. Don't he sound like a Linux Zelot? He should. This is a word verbatum rip of the typical diatribe done by a Linux Zelot in the past. (We are more creative now)
He dosen't even bother to swap out the terminology. FUD: A marketting tactic taken on by a corperation. Stands for Fear Uncertanty and Doupt. It works becouse the vast majority do not have the system in question and don't get to see for themselfs that it's litterally bull pucky. Often slander.
But to clame the open source community is commiting FUD on Microsoft your first clamming the open source community has a marketting department that can start such a marketting campaign and your also clamming Microsoft has less than 45% marketshare. I repeate less than 45% and hope that 45% won't be vocal.
However most any platform will have a good precentage of supporters. So realisticly you need less than 5% so you can call the few who stand up and challange your FUD "Fanatics" or other nasty names and discredit the only people who'd actually know your lying.
try FUDing air... "It's toxic man stop breating it" Or sunlight "Dude it'll give you cancer just stay inside."
Of course FUD needs a droplett of truth. Linux was built from many sources. But SCO, this jerk and the AC parent would all have you believe Linus ripped off Linux from the start.
You know what. The original Linux source can be downloaded for historical reasons. It won't compile, It has none of the POSIX standards or POSIX code (the code SCO is laying clame to) in it, It's possitively worthless trash.
Everyone wana lay clame to THAT? Sure... Here's the Doggy poop that started Linux. You want us to believe THIS is what passes for a stable Unix?
Sure sure... Hay Microsoft wana lay clame to an operating system I made? I'll be more than happy to let you have it if you'll just publicly say this is what Microsoft calls a stable operating system.
I discontinued working on it becouse it had a tendency to erase itself and trash it's own database.
Timmers are cheap. RC car remotes aren't cheap but aren't jammed by cell phone jammers and cost less than a cell phone.
But if cost is not an object then use amature radio equipment.
Also why use a pasive signal when you can use an active? Directly from security alarms. A passive signal means when you trigger it there is a signal, cut the wires and you'll never get a signal. ACTIVE signal means when you trigger you CUT the signal.
Now we have an active cell phone triggered by a jamming field and you'll never know becouse Jo citazen can't call the police ON HIS CELL PHONE.
We are wrapped up in how technology can be used for evil we lose sight of the fact that it's used for good plus there are easy alternitives to the evil.
Bush: "Why is everyone pointing to the air?" As millions of people try to call the police about a mistereous RC plane but can't becouse of the cell phone jamming. At the same time an RC plane packed with explosives is gliding in on target.
also active cell phones are easy enough to detect. Terrors aren't exactly a creative bunch. They'll keep using cell phones as long as you DON'T jam them. Jam them and they'll go to other radio detonation technologys or just return to the old faithful suiside bomber.. a trusting kid made to believe he is serving god. (There are plenty of them to go around)
This is one of the companys that helpped make the Internet what it is today. (I'm not talking about spam, trolls or worms)
They have the experence to know what can or can not happen. Sure they use obscurity but I doupt they believe it to be a sereous security layor. Instead they probably have experts pooring over ios every day.
It is possable to have "Many Eyes" while remaining closed. Just have many expert eyes constantly on the code instead of many more untrainned eyes occasionally disecting the code.
It's expensive so don't expect it to happen too often. Microsoft delutes itself into thinking that is what they have with a team of programmers working on the code. But in reality the only people who actually see the code is the original coder and a code verifier. Just two people for every segment of code.
But I would guess Cisco uses the expensive version of Many eyes that we get for free in open source.
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Using the bodys natral conductivity is refered to often in a number of sifi storys.
One group to use this form of networking is called "The Borg"
It's also used in many RP characters. Fan fiction. Etc.
In short it's a well travled topic in the sifi arena.
So did Microsoft actually create the technology to make this possable? Nope someone else did.
Clue for Microsoft when doing patents like this do it BEFORE a massive body of prior art is created.
No I think this is worth while.
/respondents to this post/ and you being me. Just hate calling myself dumb :)
Minix is a diffrent operating system with a diffrent focus. I can easly see Minix being used more effectively in the imbeded market where Linux is today.
Also I doupt the people who will be pulled into Minix from scratch would otherwise go to Hurd.
Also (correct me if I'm wrong)[1] but isn't Hurd incomplete? Making a Hurd from scratch might be a bit difficult at this stage.
[1] I know you will but it just feels better to say it. You know. To make it so people think twice before beliving me. It's good to know your dumb and admit it. It's not good to be dumb of course but if you are and know it admit it. People will soon cure you. People being
Spammers tend to cross refrence spam with postal junk mail and phone marketing.
However it is illegal to randomly call people (becouse you might get a cell phone and then they pay for the call) but spammers do exactly that (often knowing they are getting a cell phone, the person is paying for it and maybe even knowing exactly how much they pay per e-mail or SMS)
Your not allowed to telemarket to a persons place of work but there again spammers clog work e-mail often quite aware the address is for costummers.
Spammers will always do exactly what is illegal in the marketing counterpart.
Why? Becouse spam isn't restricted. It's illegal for amature radio to relay marketting messages as such your no longer able to have your internet e-mail over amature radio as ONE spam message would put a whole bunch of people at risk.
Telemarketing, junk mail, signs and billboards all have laws restricting what you can say where you can say it and when you can say it.
In every case if someone dosen't want you advertsing to them you are legally bond to STOP and should you ever sell a list of "confermed contacts"(people who said "leave me alone") you are in some deep doodoo.
Unless you use spam. With spam all thies things are everyday business. You can adevertise services you can't provide just to collect names. You can misrepresent yourself in every way.
To me it's a close race between spam and those wonderful "free seminars" but spam wins and the worse scum.
No matter what you never have to actually READ the whole spam and no matter how high pressure it is spam will never be as bad as seminars in high presure sales.
However seminars pay through the nose to set up shop and the junk mail they send out is applicable to all those wonderful laws spammers can ignore.
and with spam the receptiant pays (directly in some cases) clogs up everything and almost never anything you'd ever want.
All time favoret spam: Tech support services junk mail sent to a Linux admin list.
With the ecconomy the way it is remind a whole bunch of admin they can be cheaply and easly replaced what a smart thing to do and a way to NOT get mugged at night by a certen geek who can't get an admin job so he works as a night watchmen and tends to rant on slashdot...
I'll shut up now.....
The news isn't the coruption it's the getting cought.
You've heard for nearly 30 years how our public schools are under funded.
The reality is just plain sick. The budget is up to each states govener (or what ever budget process that state has) the school board can't dictate it's own budget but each state school board wishes to.
The budget problems are largly artifical. Some times it's visable such as inflated salerys and unnessisary staff for the board while cutting back at the schools. Some times it's not such as when a large block of money is missing.
The flaw in this is that ultimately the school board has total control over everything BUT the budget and has learnned it can hold the state hostage for more money.
At one time California had the biggest budget for it's schools and the worst grades yet they maintain it's the budgets fault.
The solution is to transfer athority to the state govener so that at the person in charge of the school system can't pass the blame to the person in charge of the budget.
That is the core fraud. The money has to go SOMEPLACE else it shows up and the clame that the money isn't there rings hollow.
So school boards play a game shuffling moneys around to pretend they don't exist.
How bad it is depends on the state. I expect it's all legal or quasi legal type activitys. Nothing quite so much as stuffing ones own pockets. Just putting money budgeted for repairing schools that are falling apart into signs telling everyone what isn't being fixed.
(The sign actually lists what needs fixing and what has been fixed. A running checklist. A few years ago the signs themselfs needed repair and nothings checked off)
Goddess only knows where the rest of the money went.
This happends every now and then. Someone dose an audit of the school system (often the state governer after taking so much abuse) only to see money vanish down a rabbit hole and the school board can only say "ops".
This time someone found the rabbit hole.
As for the school boards part it's not likely they set it up IMAO as much as I think they looked the other way as it happend. It's pritty obveous when schools never receave the hardware they are expecting.
Forget the whole notion of errosion of fredoms for a moment.
Hate speach is itself a very nasty standard to work with.
The words are intended to mean: speach used to instigate hate and prevoke harrasment.
But the way it's so haphazardly applied it really means: Anything disliked by a group who has fallen out of political favor.
By this standard while Microsoft is targeted the the DOJ anything remotely antiMicrosoft is instatly hate speach. On the same notion when Microsoft is not targeted but enbraced by the fedral government and it's open source that is under attack then saying anything POSTIVE about Microsofts products is hate speach. The Internet being what it is you can't safely mention Microsoft (good or bad) as they fall in and out of political favor so often a whole debate on Microsoft (half pro half con) would be hate speach in the same week.
That is an easy example of course.
There is always a psudo-science or hate filled cult that falls out of political favor and with a UN guideline on hate speach you couldn't safely speak your mind.
The United Nations has in recent times taken actions that lead me to believe they are ferther slipping into the role of global dictatorship instead of the proper role of opposing wouldbe global dictators.
*Warning about to use a conservitive talk show hoast as a source of information*
In France recently a famous actress got in truble in France for "Hate speach" by accusing the islamic religion[1] of *gasp* prostelitizing[2].
Accounts of islamic prostelitizing is more akin to the christian consept of conversion by sword.
I should (and must) cross refrence the tendencys of thies two religions as they are paralel so that people don't get the idea that islamics are behaving any diffrent than christans. Even to the ratio of prostelitizing vs "live and let live" the later being vertually unheard of in any religion.
Even Wiccans and other forms of neo-paganism have dabbled in prostelitizing type activitys.
Gezz big disclamer. Wouldn't be nessisary if we hadn't had a modern crusaide in the form of a gurilla terrorist movement.
Still the actress did not accuse the islamic religion of endorcing terrorist activitys. Many of us non-islamics are made to beleieve this is true by the actions and clames of modern crusaiders (terrorists) but even after scrtaching the surface of islam you'll find it's not endorcing such activitys.
But in the same context christanity dose not endorce the vareous activitys of roman catholic church done to give christanity it's majority foothold in todays spirital culture.
However accusing islam of prostelitizing is a strightforward clame.
However if we were to permit such laws the clame that a larg number of terrorists clame to folow islam would be hate speach.
Hell... the clame that Iraq is connected to the Taliban[3] may be considered hate speach
[1] The Taliban clames to be a kind of islamic fundamentalism.
My experence with christian fundamentalism leads me to believe this to be true. At least the fundamentaism part is byond doupt I'll entertain any doputs on the islamic clame however.
[2] A habbit of christan fundamentalists comming from the consept of convesion at the sword.
In todays consept it's in the form of door to door god pimping. No more or less annoying than people who push Windows.
Side note: With all the prostelitizing of Windows you really have to doupt the clame by the same people that it's not a religion. But I digress.
[3] It's not. At least not in the context anyone thinks about.
There are connections in the array of state/religion affiliations but you couldn't accuse China or France of supporting the American 700 Club but they do communicate.
I think mostly so the 700 Club can accuse em of garbage and France/China can spit at those clames but thats my opinion.
Parent suggesting not using the Sun Microsystems HotJava web browser to view it "becouse it's slow".
My responce:
There was a really fast web browser once apon a time writen in perl.
As a lot of people have noticed the "optomised C++" was really badly done vs the Java. There were mistakes made in both where the Java compiler could fix the mistake the C++ could not.
Etc.
As much the same here. The perl browser was a text browser. Very simplistic and made to demonstrate how perl can scoop up data from one website for use in annother. (Such as Slashboxes).
HotJava is a full on browser but made entirely to demonstrate the power of Java. At the time it was originally created speed was not believed to be an issue. The browser reflects Java as it was much less than as it is (today). Where as IE and Netscape will take shortcuts and ignore features of HTML to make a fast reliable browser (I'm trying to keep a stright face) HotJava was made to show it can do the job and makes no such shortcuts leaning entirely on Java itself for reliability and blatently ignoring speed issues.
I don't know how successful Sun was but I've never heard any complaints about it. (On the other hand I hear all kinds of complants about Lynx, MacOs and so on from people who've never actually touched same so this is a very bad rule of mesure)
I'm reminded of a peace of code I wrote in Asmbly and someone else created code that was just as fast in C again in Pascal. Seams reasonable well optomised code in a simple application. Then someone did it in basic.
The reason? In every version the application was idle about 90% of the time waiting for hardware. External facters made the code optomisation meaningless.
For a sense of reality the "insanity expensive" device in question is a printer.
I think I see why they'd think this. Go to the store and price printers. $200 up to $5,000. You'd expect that something as important as the vote would need the very best printer so think upper price range.
But the mistake is this isn't an ink jet printer who needs a lot of expensive ink or a lazer printer with toner carts.
Recept printers are thermal and hammer and have been around for a very long time. When thermal printers were expensive I got my hands on a very expensive recept type printer. A whole mind bolging $50.
The paper is like $2 for a box of 5 rolls. This for the specal high quality made by the printer manufacter (muahahaha we get to overcharge becouse we have you by the balls) paper.
This was BTW a very nice high end printer. Fast quiet and amazing in every respect. Plus this was when some companys (Commodore, Atari) had propritary printer interfaces so a printer adapter cartrage came seprately.
I used it for my BBS printing a log of user activity and system feedback as it happend.
It died becouse of a leak in the roof (dam leak into the printer itself nothing else was damaged) so I switched to a standard dot matrix and soon switched off the logging. My wanting to sleep at night you see.
As far as I know this is about as expensive as they get. Actually for like $60 you get the industral swap out printer that is used in some supermarkets. This is a hammer printer it is designed to last something like 10 years non stop use. We don't exactly need something that can spit recepts for 10 years on end for 1 night do we?
I think maybe Dibolt is using a voter rights group to confuse them about the technical issues of verified e-voting.
What should be made clear is the consummer printers are feature rich even the hammer, thermal and lable printers. They have a whole diffrent set of technical issues than is needed by a simple recept printer.
Consummer printers don't need to last long. In fact there is an industry consept called "planned obsolesence". The consummer won't be using it in an industral way and the consummer won't buy a new printer unless the old one dies.
Consummers when shopping for printers care about features features features. Speed, quality, memory sticks even the user interface is considered.
Goddess what is a color screen doing on a printer?
Then comes the industral printers. High end printing. No interface no fonts loud slow and simple. They feature two things above all else they must last and when they die (not if) they must be easy to swap out for a new one.
This becouse in an industreal setting printers are driven day in and out. They are pushed byond the limit. It is nessisary becouse business must be done.
The office printers being both becouse your boss needs the quality, speed and he needs it constantly. The UI is missing byond setting the printer up for office use.
But a voter recept printer....
Your burger king resept printer only cheaper.
Mathomon?
Yeah but then a few years later Yu-Physics-Oh comes along and replaces it in popularity. Then before you know it that two is gone replaced by annother populare science.
Plus it would replace Arceology the gathering.
Magic The Gathering, Pokemon and yugioh are in the 15 minuts of fame catagory. Populare today gone tomarow.
I don't want Math to be gone tomarow. I'm counting on it to stay for a while.
Now english I wouldn't mind if it's own end was spelled out. You can see the proof reading this very post.
The goal of any business is to do what the business owners want.
Both wrong.
The goal of a hobby is to do what the owners want. All other businesses seek proffit.
It depends on how much a business is a hobby and how much it is a job. In my case it's entirely hobby but most often you'll find it's a mix of both.
The goal of the business is to do what the boss wants only so much as it's a hobby.
The goal is to make a proffit so long as the boss intends to make a living off of it.
Just to give you a sense of it,
For Bill Gates it's entirely job. For Steven Jobs and Woz it's mostly hobby.
For Rush Limbaugh it's entirely hobby (no joke he loves what he dose getting paid just means he never needs to do anything else)
For Cmdr Taco it's a hobby.
And just becouse the business is a huge multinational entity don't think the owner wouldn't be doing this in is underware at home if he couldn't make any money at it becouse 9 times out of 10 he will.
Date: 1979 Augest,
After setting up my Vic20 for the first time.
Me: Thats great now where are the games?
Mom: You want games make them.
I did.
Nothing quite good enough for the market so I did buy the occasional game and still do but 90% of the software I use I write.
That was the Vic20. After that my mother got a C64 and eventually got this goofy toy called "Designers pencle" where you write code to make demo like programs. It was fun. Came with a programming contest and I won the grand prise (in my age group and code size)
I got a Commodore 128 with the money. (Stupid, Baka)
That got me into CP/M. Not so easy to code but the software dev tools were cheap.
Then I went from CP/M to Dos. My coding stopped cold. I couldn't get my hands on useful dev software and books were expensive. But ok so I sucked it up and got the software and books. The cheap books. And wrote code for a while.
Then Dos died.
So now I'm going to.. Buy Windows, Buy brand new software dev tools and MORE books. Spending more money to develup software than I'd spend if I were to just buy it off the shelf.
Or use Unix with GNU tools.
So I got a used AT&T 3B2/300 and never looked back.
If I brodcast something the IP rights transfer to me?
While UPN owns Star Trek WB dose not own Yugioh. Most brodcasters don't own any of the content they brodcast but liccens it from the actual creators.
As IP law is now the act of creation itself gives you the rights so this dosen't matter if the brodcaster and creater are the same entity but when they are diffrent entitys this could mean a liccens to broudcast becomes a transfer of ownership.
On a side note it's the UNs job to foster peace through out the world. Ecconomic matters such as IP law shouldn't be part of the UN agenda.
Some nations may be cought between the rock of UN IP law that would basicly make there exports illegal and the hard place of the only aternitive of making wepons also banned by the UN.
If the only choice they had was to drop out of the UN I don't believe such a nation would have any market for the peaceful export.
The dubble click behavure was enherited from a number of GUIs that existed before Windows ever hit the market and I believe it wasn't included in the inital release of Windows.
:Left click
The history of it is something like this:
A number of systems hit the market. MacOs is successful with a single button mouse.
Other GUIs hit the PC and Geos for the Commodore, Atari TOS for the ST, Amgia Os for the Amiga.
Most systems had two button mice. However MacOs users had 1 button and Commodore 64 users had 1 button joysticks standing in for mice (two button mouse available).
MacOs started to get the reputation of being limited. The single button wasn't enough. To keep up Apple added the dubble click to permit additional behavure. A software hack for a second button. This is not to say MacOs WAS limited but streat talk vs real world has always been on entirely diffrent plains of existence.
At some point Microsoft addopted the behavure into Windows. There was no preticulare advantage to be gained by this.
You will notice that Microsofts patent is on the default fuction where as MacOs uses the dubble click as the "second button" (if I remember correctly).
This is nothing to be proud of.
However The Commodore 64s Geos used (if memory serves) single click to be "select" for cut and paist and dubble click for default fuction (activate the icon, open file, run the application) before Microsoft included this behaubure into Windows.
Sing with me "Prior art"
The dubble click was created to solve a problem found in systems using a single button for a pointer device. Microsoft Windows had no preticulare reason for addopting the dubble click other than to mimic the behavure of MacOs.
This patent should read.
"The hacks implemented in OTHER operating systems copied into Windows to no advantage to the end user."
Unix Window managers typlicly rely on having 2 to 4 mouse buttons and don't use the dubble click byond mimicing the behavure of Microsoft Windows.
Patent suggestion for RedHat: Dubble click mask:
The software technique where a second click done shortly after the first click is "tossed out" this would continue for a third and forth click as well. That if a user clicks an icon many times (nervous habbit) the Window manager reads only 1 click and ejects the rest.
Tech support horror storys:
Tech: Single left click
User: (Click Click) It openned the app
Tech: Close the app. Don't dubble click. Single left click
User: (Click Click)
With Dubble click mask
Tech:
User: (Click click click click) It worked.
(All the clicks being read as 1 click becouse that is all the user should have done)
The RIAA may want to reconsider this with the DoJs history of conset decrees.
Years ago software pirates weren't very knowladgeable law wise and the law wasn't very knowladgable tech wise. All it took was a law enforcement offical who understood computers to catch em.
Music pirates have always been organised and software pirates have folowed sute in recent years. All it would take is a pirate with money (not uncommen BTW) and a good legal team and if you can wait it out (in jail) you'll have a liccens to steal soon enough in the form of a ill considered conset decree.
The DoJ looks for political hot points. Something to justify a budget increase. But it has no real investment in the details.
As long as the general public believes the "bad guys" have been stopped it dosen't matter how little it matches reality.
Let's look at the Microsoft vs DoJ deal. Forget how evil Microsoft is for a second here. The DoJ didn't for one hot second give a care if Microsoft was doing anything wrong all they cared about was that many of us were unhappy with Microsoft. It didn't matter why. For all they knew some ludite cult was behind all the anti-Microsoft stuff and never forget a wildly successful company like Microsoft will generate enemys earnned or not.
Then when it came time to punish this "evil empire" that they couldn't even be sure was evil the DoJ handed out a liccens to compleatly ignore everything that just happend and keep doing what they'd been doing all along.
As true as it is Microsoft is a monopolistic entity who will do anything to make sure EVERYONE uses it's product. Everything but actually produce a useful product people actually WANT to use. The DoJ didn't care if this was true or not. If Novel hadn't let go and the DoJ didn't get involved things would have been very diffrent.
P2P file sharing will get screwed if this happends but so will the RIAA as the sereous pirates have the legal power for a "get out of jail free" card and keep masproducing illegal disks for sale on eBay.
I've not had too bad of an experence with tech support mostly becouse I handle most problems myself.
The worst call was when I called in to an ISP to let them know the system wasn't recognising my account.
In some ways he was ok. It was there fault and he admitted such. The only issue I had was he talked down to me while explaining what was wrong. I didn't even want one. I just wanted to know they knew and were on it. I didn't want the details let alone have them spoon feed.
However the absolute worst tech support experence was getting no responce at all.
On two diffrent occasions I got nothing.
One the phone support never answers the phone. This is 24-7 tech support it ALWAYS turns to the answering machine. I actually tried calling them every hour on the hour hoping to catch them on the ONE hour they were actually in the office for a full 24 hours.
I left a few messages.
I also left e-mail.
They pritty much took my money and left town.
The other didn't have a phone number and ignored tech support e-mail.
I eventually gave up on em.
So I'd say the worst was no reply at all.
Second worse being talked down to when it's the ISPs fault. (I took that with grace, I imagin tech support gets a lot of clueless calls and tends to get defensive).
Most of my tech support has been pritty positive.
The worst I've had was GIVING support. I seldom do it and only to help people out (not my job). Out of maybe 7 times I've been yelled at twice becouse I wasn't doing things the way THEY wanted.
Spyware (or as they prefer adware) isn't Spam (or as prefered e-mail marketting)
Adware slips into your system and slips ads directly into your system. It's software that permits someone to have some control over the way your computer works.
Spam is just bombbarding your e-mail with garbage.
Adware is worse in this reguards but that's like the diffrence between reckless driving and outright murder.
There ARE people who get angry for being ticketed and fined for reckless driving.
However spam and adware are both wrong in much the same way as reckless driving and murder is wrong. One is just more sereous than the other.
As far as the opt out links go.
Most spammers have opt out links. Most anyone familure with spam will tell you DON'T CLICK as most spammers aren't even about selling anything more that spam lists of people who opted out. It's a quick way to get you even more spam.
I opt out all the time... Building a spam filter is a hobby. I'm already up to 100 spam a day.
By the actions of Scott I'd say he actually believes his system is a true opt in system.
...
However I've receaved spam from this guy and I know I never opted in.
So the question is how come Scott believes his actions are lagit?
Answer:
I do get a lot of "Welcome" messages from marketting lists. Most of them say something like "Please click on the link below to conferm". Eather spammers are being creative and trying to trick me into opting in to stuff I don't have any intrest in or someone spammed my e-mail address to them.
How dose ReallyBig work? Could a jerk spammer stuff the box?
How dose Scott get a large opt in e-mail database?
It would make sense that he would have some program set up where third partys do the opt in for him. If so is there any screening for "stuffing the box"?
This presumes Scott isn't putting on a show. We can never forget that spammers are at least in part con artists. They take the PT Barnem school of marketting tactic. A sucker born every min and the real trick is to find em.
However I'm reminded of some research done a while back. Someone said that most spammers are just looking for valid e-mail addresses and don't actually sell anything.
Hence the mark isn't the spam targets but the spammers who actually try to sell stuff.
Thies people buy e-mail addresses.
And I just did conclude that this is probably where Scott got his marketting list.
In short...
Scott is this minuts sucker
Or the modern PT Barnum.
Sadly you can never know for sure.
If you ever pull a stupid stunt in my name like this I will haunt your butt for the rest of your lives.
I'm sure after a few years in the afterlife I'll learn some pritty perverted stuff to use on those who screw with people who use stuff I create.
I frigen don't want my desendents making money exploting people who use my stuff. I want people to use my stuff. The notion that anyone other than me has any right to clame what I've created is a bunch of flamming stinky stuff.
Don't ever say your putting my soul to rest while extorting money from a truely inventive person.
For those who think this sort of action is ok I have some words for you...
Very choice words.
A googol of choice words.
To get this clear in my head,
A mathmatician created the word Googol to represent a fantasticly huge number a very long time ago.
Prior to that invention a comic artist created a character called Barny Google with "Googly eyes" suggesting even ferther prior art.
But Google got it's name not from the comic character or the phrase "Googly eyes" but from the mathmaticians refrence we know this becouse Google.com sighted him as the insperation for the name.
Now that they are on the verge of IPO someone is suing becouse Google.com has NOT given recognition and has right to that same becouse they got the name from him we know becouse Google HAS given recognition. You see where I'm going with this?
Copyright? On a single word? I don't think so.
Besides the copyright would have expired a very long time ago.
Trademark? Nope. Not applicable.
Patent? We've seen some crazy applications of patent law but that's all been in recent (the last 20 years) times.
You can't own a stupid word. You can't "invent" a stupid word.
Now I challange Peri Fleisher to discuss this with out first sighting the legacy of each and every word....
Of course it's impossable becouse with every sitation you have more words and now must do more sitations.
I present my new book based on the Peri Fleisher idea of giving credit to the person who coins the word.
It starts with.
I.
And then sites who coined the word and then starts sighting who coinned the words used in that sitation and so on.
The book is 500 pages thick but outside the Peri Fleisher recomended sitations is the single word "I".
That is presumming I have a time scanner becouse I sereously doupt anyone even knows who first coinned over 90% of the english slanguage. However we can track down from what language each word was taken.
Now THIS is the real reason it's called "Microsoft".. Becouse NOBODY in there right mind would ever lay clame to inventing that word no matter how much money is on the line.
I went to the fake Paypal verification site and logged in as
root@website.url
pasword: NowToHackYourDataBase
However I tracked the server to a location outside the united states so it'd be a waist of PayPals time and energy to try and get anything done.
Supprise.
Much later a buch of posts are made saying.. "HAY Paypal has a right to do this".
And you know what? It's true.
It may look like Paypal is using the "Annon Proxy" thing as a lame excuse.
I've read the complaints and it appears Paypal has a history of over reacting and not verifying complaints.
I wouldn't take the conspericy theroys sereously.
However.....
I'm reminded of the MAPS. They have been accused of doing a remarkably sloppy job. Not verifying complaints and over reacting.
MAPS can trash a persons e-mail. It's annoying enough but so is spam.
Any business that relys on paypal can be brought too it's knees by Paypals sloppy handing of complaints.
There is a reasonably easy way to handle this.
Send e-mail to paypal complaning about this event and let them know what you think of them cutting off Freenet.
Odds are when the book hits the shelfs you won't see ANY of this in the actual book.
He's doing this to hype it.
I mean if he actually did print this stuff in detail there are already a number of security experts who'd trash his butt.
In the end however this book belongs with such greats as Madonas sex book, OJs "I didn't do it" book and the Green Card spam lawyers book on e-commerce.
If his book did actually contain thies suggestions then I think some of the chapers in the book are
Security by obscurity: Sticking your head in the ground.
Back doors: Pretend they don't exist.
Ignore the man behind the curtan: If he's selling something he's honnest if he has nothing to gain by lying then he's lying.
And of course
Buy everything: If it's free it sucks if it's for sale it's good. Now my kid sister sells a program just like the free one you can get from the top rated security experts.
Only hers is better becouse she's selling it.
For a "hippy like" community we are pritty paranoid.
You would be too if you were told you aren't allowed to know what is happening on YOUR OWN COMPUTER.
The very software your trusting to do your taxes and run your home yet your not trusted with the terrable secret of how it works?
I'm going to trust you over someone who gives away the code for free and let's me see how it works.
You know what? You want you trust the "Space robots" and stand at the top of the stairs while I'll do the Hampster Dance.
That is still nothing as compared to the cosntant, unrelenting and massive FUD that spews out of the open source community against Microsof ever single second of every single of every year.
Speaking of copying.. Don't he sound like a Linux Zelot?
He should. This is a word verbatum rip of the typical diatribe done by a Linux Zelot in the past.
(We are more creative now)
He dosen't even bother to swap out the terminology.
FUD: A marketting tactic taken on by a corperation. Stands for Fear Uncertanty and Doupt.
It works becouse the vast majority do not have the system in question and don't get to see for themselfs that it's litterally bull pucky. Often slander.
But to clame the open source community is commiting FUD on Microsoft your first clamming the open source community has a marketting department that can start such a marketting campaign and your also clamming Microsoft has less than 45% marketshare.
I repeate less than 45% and hope that 45% won't be vocal.
However most any platform will have a good precentage of supporters.
So realisticly you need less than 5% so you can call the few who stand up and challange your FUD "Fanatics" or other nasty names and discredit the only people who'd actually know your lying.
try FUDing air...
"It's toxic man stop breating it"
Or sunlight "Dude it'll give you cancer just stay inside."
Of course FUD needs a droplett of truth.
Linux was built from many sources.
But SCO, this jerk and the AC parent would all have you believe Linus ripped off Linux from the start.
You know what. The original Linux source can be downloaded for historical reasons. It won't compile, It has none of the POSIX standards or POSIX code (the code SCO is laying clame to) in it, It's possitively worthless trash.
Everyone wana lay clame to THAT?
Sure... Here's the Doggy poop that started Linux. You want us to believe THIS is what passes for a stable Unix?
Sure sure...
Hay Microsoft wana lay clame to an operating system I made? I'll be more than happy to let you have it if you'll just publicly say this is what Microsoft calls a stable operating system.
I discontinued working on it becouse it had a tendency to erase itself and trash it's own database.
Timmers are cheap.
RC car remotes aren't cheap but aren't jammed by cell phone jammers and cost less than a cell phone.
But if cost is not an object then use amature radio equipment.
Also why use a pasive signal when you can use an active?
Directly from security alarms. A passive signal means when you trigger it there is a signal, cut the wires and you'll never get a signal.
ACTIVE signal means when you trigger you CUT the signal.
Now we have an active cell phone triggered by a jamming field and you'll never know becouse Jo citazen can't call the police ON HIS CELL PHONE.
We are wrapped up in how technology can be used for evil we lose sight of the fact that it's used for good plus there are easy alternitives to the evil.
Bush: "Why is everyone pointing to the air?"
As millions of people try to call the police about a mistereous RC plane but can't becouse of the cell phone jamming.
At the same time an RC plane packed with explosives is gliding in on target.
also active cell phones are easy enough to detect.
Terrors aren't exactly a creative bunch. They'll keep using cell phones as long as you DON'T jam them.
Jam them and they'll go to other radio detonation technologys or just return to the old faithful suiside bomber.. a trusting kid made to believe he is serving god. (There are plenty of them to go around)
This is one of the companys that helpped make the Internet what it is today.
(I'm not talking about spam, trolls or worms)
They have the experence to know what can or can not happen.
Sure they use obscurity but I doupt they believe it to be a sereous security layor. Instead they probably have experts pooring over ios every day.
It is possable to have "Many Eyes" while remaining closed. Just have many expert eyes constantly on the code instead of many more untrainned eyes occasionally disecting the code.
It's expensive so don't expect it to happen too often.
Microsoft delutes itself into thinking that is what they have with a team of programmers working on the code. But in reality the only people who actually see the code is the original coder and a code verifier. Just two people for every segment of code.
But I would guess Cisco uses the expensive version of Many eyes that we get for free in open source.