Instead of an Ergo keyboard I recomend one with a click.. a sound feel to key keyboard where you really get the feel that your typing. I've heard far to many complaints about ergo units.. including complaints of CAUSING the problems they are designed to prevent... I also suggest trainning typists on old fasionned typowiters not on computer keyboards.. just find an old unit with a selectric style layout [this is what IBM used on the original PCs and todays PC keyboards are still selectric based].. saves on tranning units and the PC keyboards let you put your hand down slowing your typing speed a great deal.. Learning on a typowriter teaches out this behavure by not giving the typest a place to rest.. This way if the typest dose rest his/her hands it's out of fatige and rest has become nessisary to continued productivity... Also a wrist rest at the edge of the keyboard is a good thing... it gives the typest a soft place to put his/her hands.
Just my prospective... This just goes to show that Linux people (No nessisarly advocates or zellots but the general community) want what they want and will move heven and earth to get it.. woe be it to anyone who gets in there way... Microsoft has become the bad guy becouse the simply want everyone to use there products. They are ok but they aren't perfict and don't work for everyone. As a result Microsoft puts themselfs in direct obstruction of anyone who wants to do something Windows can not handle very well. Microsoft has basicly the made themselfs into the techo unmovable object and Linux people have become the techno illresisable force... and they colide often... But when a Linux programmer wants his e-mail.. and it's on Microsofts server.. and all thats stopping him is a domain name... Not even a second thought... it is done.. It matters not that it's Microsoft he helpped... He wants his e-mail and he will get his e-mail... As for Microsoft.. far from the vile evil overlords we make them out to be.. Do whats right and thank him for his efforts.. It probably has a few Microsoft people scratching there heads.. Why would someone do something like this? More so why would a LINUX programmer help Microsoft? The answer is simple... Microsoft is the evil bad guy as long as they stand in the way... Anyone can become evil... just try and stop the Linux community from doing something... you'll be come evil.. and very injured.... Why arn't other obstructive companys on the communitys "Evil" list? Simply becouse they don't get in the way of the Linux community.. they obstruct others... Many obstructionists really deserve the "Evil" title.. Microsoft is better labled "Misguided".. misguided in the idea that this is the way to do busness.. Right or wrong asside things are changing and Microsoft has put themselfs in the way of that change.. Thats just an unwise busness move. At this point IF they did change most people would be wondering what Microsoft is up to.. They let themselfs be "evil" for far to long...
But this dose show that if Microsoft could show they are sereous and put themselfs in the direction of helpping the Linux community they could be accepted into the fold... It also shows that if Microsoft belived helpping the Linux community was a good thing they'd do it.. Finnaly.. The Linux community is not as selfless as they come off.. They just think in bigger terms... Not "I" want it... "WE" want it.. and "WE" move in mass to get it... If "I" want something "I" find others who also want it and "WE" get it.. togeather.. as a community.. Selfishly helpping others achive the goals "WE" wish to achive...
I can agree that in almost all cases what the customer is buying when they purchase a Red Hat product is the packaging (sorry, sucker, buy it from Cheapbytes next time...) but Red Hat claims (in their feeble attempt to justify $70 for a shrinkwrapped box full of stuff that can be downloaded for free) they provide support with their rather pricey product.
Yeah that dose put RedHat in a diffrent position...:) I was trying to go with a "Generic Destrobution" example.. RedHat seemed as good as any... ha.. Forgot they charg more than everyone else and offer tech support... Ok well.. umm QuickFix.. swap "RedHat" and reaplce it with a distrobution that charges just for pacaging...
And you know the masses will all go visit Lycos and click on their banner ads, because instead of wasting money on "research" and/or "development", they've been spending their money on ads on the sides of buses.
In order for someone to copy Google they'd have to start from scratch.. No one has access to the source code... This protection is known as a "Corprate secret" it's a lesser known tactic to protecting your IP. The advantge is you don't have to regesture it and you get to keep it forever.. just sign everyone to NDAs.
The disadvantage is if someone comes up with it totally on his own with out any access to your product (other than visiting the website) theres nothing you can do. Patents however allow you to go after someone who did all the work on his own with out any knowladge of the patent.
Patents are good but to a point... the Intel chip line is patented of course and so are most parts on the computer... You wouldn't believe the stuff some people will do to steal Micro processor technologys... including breaking out an electron microscope.
Some car parts are patented.. you can just dicast a car and make nock offs pritty easlly so patents protect the inital investment.
Patents are basicly to protect against copying by means of reasonable inspection of the original but are often used to protect copying by random chance. The idea is the patented item is original enough that someone wouldn't copy it by random chance. But patents as of late demonstrate that the USPO isn't doing there job in checking this and issuing patents on commen sence.
In Googles case we would have to develup our search engen from ground up if we were to copy Google... But Google dosn't want to be copyed. They arn't protecting the results as much as they are preventing anyone else from doing the same research. If Google protected there search engen as a corprate secret (as others do) they could have saved some money on patent lawyers...
It's the same with sports or any game. People who cheat do so in order to clame suppereority. "I'm better than you becouse I won and you lost... loser.." Compeating is great and when you lose you learn and when you win you learn.. when someone cheats the cheater steals the experence from everyone including himself so he can feel better about himself becouse he won...
It's sad but some people can not see past the win itself... They want to win so badly they'll hurt anyone to do it. But what is gainned? Hurt feelings... a cheater is not going to notice or care.. he feels the need to be better not to experence or to bond.. he wants to put himself on the pedistal.
The real irony is some people play FPS just to get away form that kind of person... blow off stome steam.. beat up on someone.. if only in a VR type sence.
I personnaly play against bots as a test of skill. So cheaters can not steal the experence from me.. it adds a new dimention to the game for me... but thats me... It's certenly no fun for newbes... it roaly stinks.. Whats the fun of beating someone up on-line if you had to cheat to do it? It's more fun when you frag a cheater... But a cheater is infereor.. he dosn't open himself to the challange.. instead he cheats... So in the end he hasn't proven himself to be better... he proves himself to be worse...
I'm affrde a lot of people are responding with the same old answers. The fact is on-line games like Quake are VERY sensitive to cheating. The client is trusted with "to much information" it's nessisary becouse the server can not deliver all nessisary information on time. Instead the server delivers information the client MIGHT need. Time City preposes to solve this problem by building the client/server pacage ground up with an auditing system. All Quake servers and clients were built ground up on a trust system. To change this would require a compleate rewrite. The problem is Quake expects the client to be 100% reliable and trustworthy. Now that the client is open sourced this is no longer the case. Just as you can close security holes in open source you can open them. Thies defects have been known for quite some time and could NOT be addressed. Eventually some punk would make a cheat clinet based on the server code (allready open) not the client code and we'd be in the same position. But it would have been sevral years from now and by then Quake would not be that iteresting.
Many open sourced multiplayer games suffer exactly the same problem. They solve it with a closed sorce solution. Trusted clients are compiled by the games develupers and given encryption keys. If your client has a valid key you can play if not you may have compiled it yourself and could be running a cheat client. So the source is only there to fix the bugs and improve the game but to accually use it you have to return the code to the develupers and let them compile it. Or you can fork the code and make your own keys.. But then only the servers recognising your keys/code could be used by your fork.
Time citys solution is unqiue and time will tell if the game server will effectively detect cheating or if people will be able to make cheat clients using the open source code.
The way it was explained to me BTW is that if the server detects someone cheating he will be dropped form the server.. It dose this by mesuring to make shure the user really really really could do what he says he's doing and if not.. disconnect...
Some of the cheats in a Quake client rely heavy on the fact that Quake clients MUST have data on ALL players at ALL times. Raidar and transparent walls are the result. The client is trusted to do "the right thing" with the data. A cheat need only take advantage of this... If Quake did not yeald as much information as it dose it wouldn't be so easy to cheat... but that would take a compleate rewrite of the client server interface....
The liability should be on a product sold. With RedHat etc you paid for the pacaging not the develupment of the software. If something is wrong with the software that RedHat caused by the way the pacaged it or could have prevented by a small change in pacaging then they should be liable but if the problem is a flaw in the software RedHat did not develup (or develuped and gave away) they should not be liable.
If you buy a Compaq computer with Windows preinstalled you still paid Microsoft not Compaq for the software.. But if a defect in Windows is caused by the way it is installed then Compaq who installed it is liable.
The open source develuper who codes and gives away his software sold nothing and is liable for nothing unless he makes clames to the fitness of his software.
Basicly Microsoft might be liable for selling a defective product or a product with an unreasonable security defect. Sence open source develupers do not sell any product they can not be held reliable for that non-sale. Giving away a defective product is (at this time) not subject to liable.
This may change over time with busnesses selling support instead of product but for now if Microsoft is found liable for selling a defective product it could boost open source a great deal.. Sell product and be liable for defects or sell support and let the userbase be responsable for the repairs.
But again even in open source your liable for clames so if you clame a product is bug free you could put yourself in a position of being even more liable than if you had sold the software to start with... Sold product can get away with a few defects so long as it can be shown to be reasonable.
It dose seem someone was out to hurt MassLinux.. I say this becouse it appears THREE checks were stolen... One check is a theaf who really has no idea WHO they are stealing from.. it's just annother wealthy busness they can afford to cut annother check... Two checks... if this guy dose prepetually steal he'd go after someone else so no one would notice... It is very unlikely two checks from one busness would get stolen "at random" anyway.. So the theaf is targetting MassLinux.. ok so he's got something against them.. Two checks stolen.. MassLinux is badly injured... But now he's really put himself in the open.. at this point he should take cover.. revenge or not.. and wait for next month... Third check... Clearly this guy is SO filled with hate or is so focused on his objective of hurting MassLinux that he dosn't think to back off.. Instead of protecting himself from a posable investigation...
After THREE checks the theaf has allready made it clear it's no mistake.... Thats not a smart move for a theaf.. better to leave your victiom to believe he's a victiom of a mistake than to believe he is a victiom of a theaf.
Cashing the checks... the theaf is eather greedy or just blinded by his objectives. Cashing the checks after making it clear the checks were stolen [by stealing three] leaves a paper trail to track him down.
What is his objectives? Who knows.. maybe an angry open source advocate or maybe someone who is opposed to open source for some reason... (Take your pick theres enough FUD out there) maybe he hates Linux sooo much... maybe he blames all there internal problems on Linux. Maybe he lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere and plays to much Doom and wears trenchcoats. Who knows... The end point is someone made some effort to make shure three checks from MassLinux never made it to there feed provider...
I for one could care less how much he invented... The real question is dose he have a working prototype... I don't care how posable it is the question is can he do it... My sister and I worked on an invention once and we had to present a working prototype before anyone would even look at us... It didn't seem posable, it wasn't sexy, it wasn't trendy but people seemed intrested becouse we were building a prototype... In the end it became a problem of matching skills.. I could build the electronics and she could work on the hardware but we were never able to meet up to work on the thing together. In the end we dumpped the project.. no money invested other than our own becouse we had no working prototype...
It looks like he has not presented a working prototype... maybe he has but it dosn't sound like it... Also the disposable part may make it a harsh sell.. bad busness planning.. no one wants a new disposable product.. that was good a few years back when we didn't care about the environment but now any new disposable product gets a lot of people pissed... disposable calculators but only if you don't sell them as such... Never let the consummer know you expect them to throw it away... A change in the plan.. not PAPER but PLASTIC.. same results but now it dosn't look disposable.. it's durrable and can survive.. otherwise the same product... Even better recyclable cards... the card itself is a plastic computer (paper computer using plastic) give to friends.. great.. they take the card to the halmark store and upload a NEW card image and give to friends... the upload would cost less and be more costum.. just replace or recharg the battery.
Ummmm Slashdot HAS made some horrific blunders and dosen't do research... let's face it/. isn't a new agentcy at all but a refrence system pointing us to news storys SOMEONE ELSE reported and lets us comment... as well as pointing to all kinds of intresting stuff and the occasional Rant..
So I'd say/. has as much chance of being a model of journalism as Pizza hut...
Having said that... I have not seen very much reporting from News agentcys.. it's easy to confuse what/. dose with the news media becouse far to often the news media isn't reporting the news it's just repeating what someone else reported.
It's even so bad on occasion news agentcys have taken to repeating what/. posters say... and thats sad... and funny...
The news media is still comming to grips with things as they are... in the future they'll have to produce QUALITY not QUANITY if they want people to read there news... so/. is PART of a better model but/. dosn't do the reporting.. they just refrence the people who do... the best reporter gets the/.:) It'll be not the first report out the door but the most detailed report that gets our attention... /.s job is to FIND that report and let us rip it to shreads....
Also on the plus side/. prints retractions on the front page... no one else dose that
I read about a year or so ago that the USPO was being flooded with new Internet patents. Everyone was filing a patent on everything under the sun from busness modles to software tecniques to whatever. It was suggested at the time that the USPO may just rubber stamp all the patents and let a lawsute frenzy sort it all out. Latter I read again that the USPO was overloaded and planned to just let lawsutes deside what patents were valid. It seems the USPO had the idea that only larg corperations could be effected and they can battle it out.. They didn't take small busnesses or the open source community into account. This explains why we have all thies lunatic patents being issued... The USPO has desided to just screw us all over (big busness included) and just let everyone have there patents rather than giving them a proper review.
I'm shure a lot of companys (big and small) screammed fuzzy blue mud when they found out about the Windowing patent... Bug busness dosn't like to spend a lot of money on ANYTHING even lawsutes and if enough big busness IP lawsutes come out over lunitic patents then maybe we could see some IP reform...
Ok They want the founder of e-commerce? How about the original Fantacy Plaza set up to sell copys of DYM and ended up selling books, software and all kinds of junk.. shutdown at the end of the 1980s a few years before Amazon came into existence and no one knows what happend to them.
Annother is CompUstore Compuservers on-line store. It sold junk.. pillows in the shape of computers.. chcolate in the shape of computers... etc.. you know the kinda junk you'd find at a gift shop.. sort of an Internet gift shop a few years before anyone heard of the Internet. They were both cutting edge but couldn't convence the general public that eventually everyone would be buying stuff on-line... Ironicly they both had "One click shopping"...
Alternitvely I'd say Ebay is pritty cutting edge.. I don't think on-line auctions could even work on a BBS considering the one user at a time problem.
I know Commander Taco would like to get some votes for himself but he knows good and well Usenet, FidoNet and BBSes have him beat by a number of years. Still/. is pritty cool and desveres a nod more than Amazon...
Accually Time should have skipped the trendy notion of e-commerce and gone with the brouder Internet... yes the father of the Internet... he should get Man of the year... With out him there'd be no Amazon.com... and we'd still be calling long distence just to order books on-line... or at least I would... I miss FP thow they were a grand deal better than Amazon....
You know Meow Pawjects dosn't show up on search engens.. [It's a work in progress I'm amazzed Google mirrors an early early test page] Maybe I should sue all those lovly cat websites that come up when you search the word "Meow"...
I seem to rember IBM sending a polite legal letter to everyone with the letters IBM in there domain name asking them to stop... so ishbaIBMna.com would get a letter but sIjBkMf.com wouldn't Oh well... the legal system is still a tad clueless where computers are conserned.
What really urks me is right now the Patent office isn't verifying patents they are just issuing them and letting lawsutes sort them out.. Gee fragging thanks... it's to deal with the flood of pattent applications they have been getting lately...
All thies anal applications of IP law have to stop.. Someone want to run for office or something?
Human said as an insult BTW... Habbit of mine to use the word "Human" to discribe the worst of humanity as in "I'm only human"...
This only proves Microsofts people accually believe there own marketting hype....
Ask yourself the question.. how did Linux get on the computer to start with? Here are some posable answers.... 1. User went out of way to buy a computer with Linux preinstalled... You allmost have to kill someone to get a system with Linux preinstalled. I hear rummors that some such boxes are accually sold in stores but so far I have found only Windows PCs and Macs.. with the Macs hidden away... Thankfully I can buy such units on the Internet... Of course this is becouse I allready have a system so the whole point is moot...
2. User removed Windows from system and Installed Linux... Clearly if a user removes Windows from his system he dosn't want to use Windows anymore so there'd be no reason to go back.
3. Home built.. It's probably easyer to install Linux on a new hand built machine that it is to install Windows.. Still if the user had WANTED Windows he'd have installed it in the first place.
Some how Microsofts people believe your going to want to switch back to Windows after using Linux...
The reality is it's not going to happen. On the other hand we can now point users to Microsofts website and say "See if you don't LIKE Linux you can allways switch back"... Just focuse your efforts on users who would accually benifit from a switch to Linux... Windows experts and gammers arn't going to get as much out of Linux as a newbe who wants to surf the web.
Here is whats wrong with a DoS attack. Just great script kiddys just turnned EToys into innocent victioms and etoy.com into evil vile bad guys in the public eye. This in no way helps etoy.com... Many will now reguard them as a website willing to resort to vile tricks. Forget that etoy.com predates etoys by a few years. In launching a DoS attack on Etoys the supporters of etoy.com have hurt etoy.coms position. Thanks to this there is little hope that etoy.com will ever hear the end of this (they will win in cort I'm pritty shure of that it's the larger cort of public opinion where they'll continue to do battle) This isn't much more than techno chest thumpping and dose no one any good...
You forget that 3/4 of the world's population lives in China. When 3/4 of the population has one it will be hard to stop! I sereously doupt anyone will folow China blindly into anything... Thats presumming Chia even bothers with the technology and chances are pritty slim that they will. Keepping in mind that for the moment China has the badguy label it's unlikely anyone would copy them for any reason. Also it's not a difficult thing to protest... walk around to hack and back and drive the watchers nuts as they try and figure out what your up to. Don't DO anything just screw with there heads.
Having said that.. I'd like this technology for such things as tracking property... my computer.. car(if I had one) etc.. should they be stolen such a device would make retreval a great deal more likely.
There are people who won't do busness with Amazon for diffrent reasons but it dosn't seem to phase Amazon. A boycott dosn't effect a busness who isn't affrade of losing costummers. the real problem isn't Amazons defending a software patent it is they were issued one in the first place. Instead of protesting against Amazon the target should be the us patent office. Contact ellected officals and point out the patent office has been issuing a lot of strange patents lately including blantely patenting prior art and software patents.
Instead we should be asking congress to put a hold on all Internet patents and review the value of patenting things related to the Internet.
Oddly enough someone seems to be interfearing with webtraffic to Attrition... traceroute attrition.org traceroute to attrition.org (198.77.217.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 mg-sj2v.mcdn.net (168.253.32.145) 442.156 ms 357.507 ms 649.562 ms 2 mg141-001.ricochet.net (204.179.141.1) 369.485 ms 339.229 ms 439.586 ms 3 Serial4-4.San-Jose8.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.170.97) 449.353 ms 339.293 ms 33 9.936 ms 4 Fddi0-0.HR2.SJC1.ALTER.NET (137.39.27.1) 359.013 ms 449.334 ms 359.787 ms 5 116.ATM2-0.XR1.SJC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.144.102) 359.831 ms 379.641 ms 369.874 ms 6 193.at-1-1-0.TR1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.51.30) 399.867 ms 339.703 ms 489.853 ms 7 127.at-6-1-0.TR1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.101) 359.865 ms 449.705 ms 379.849 ms 8 197.ATM7-0.XR1.LAX2.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.145) 499.836 ms 399.706 ms 509.865 ms 9 195.ATM8-0-0.GW1.PHX1.ALTER.NET (146.188.249.121) 649.847 ms 409.694 ms 369.881 ms 10 inficad-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.224.94) 389.833 ms 559.722 ms 479.867 ms 11 * * *
It's where and how it is said that matters. May be now you understand? This being true it should also be pointed out that the how was by vandalising someones website and the where is a target audence who would only use it to ferther the agenda the speaker seens to be against. In communicating an idea you need to carely pick your message method and audence. Only one or two of thies items will not do the job you need all three. A bad message falls on deff ears no matter what, a good message communication to deff ears dose nothing, a receptive audence lissening to a good message delivered badly will also get negitive results. In this example however the message, medium and audence were all a patheticly poor choice and as pointed out it took a great deal of effort to get the message in place. That effort could have been better spent picking a better message a better audence and a better platform. Instead he chouse this tactic and thats pathetic. If he had run for office (for example) he could have communicated his message to a very receptive audence on a podium. Even by losing he has made his feelings known and those that support the message may scare opponents into changing there toon. But this person opted for cracking into a server and puking... bad choice...
That dose sound fishy... I've transfered my domain once and to spite some glitches [some on my end] the transfer went pritty smoothly. Delete and reclame is the WRONG process and it sounds like someone set him up or just didn't know his job.
Today it's FPS before it was Role Playing Games and Heavy Metal. Also movies catch the blame too. It's just parents trying to find a quick blame so they don't have to be responsable. I'm not saying they automaticly are I am saying they grab at the first chance to asign responsability elsewhere so they can say they are not. However thies are token shards and not really the problem or even representive of the problem. Instead they respresent the posability that the parent might have recognised the signs if they had known what to look for. Being fair short of a PhD in child psycology they wouldn't have known what to look for. But thats not comforting to a parent who lost a child. Instead blame must be assigned to something tangable. Something evil. Something they themselfs disaprove off. Something like Role Playing games, Heavy Metall and violent video games. I know what I want to blame... I'll blame poorly writen software.:) Yeah thats it... But in all sereousness FPS are escapism like movies and role playing games. Not trainning for violence but a way to leave it behind.
It's really nice when the first post has content. Anyway from what I gathered from the relevent posts Blackdown aggred to give code back to sun and SUNs people are trying to do right by Blackdown and give credit but something went wrong and posably some market droid just skipped over that detail. So it's not like Sun is being an evil Microsoftian tyrent or anything it's just some minnor mistake and something Blackdown aggred to anyway. It's not Sun just walking away with an open source project and saying "te he it's ours now buddy". But don't be so harsh on Slashdot for jumping the gun. There is a pritty good reason for having a GPL in the first place [thow Blackdown code is not GPL but thats a diffrent story] it's not an abitrary liccens saying "It's free". There have been a few cases when someone would "port" public domain code and copywrite the results or take public domain and modify it and sell the results. On the surface this looked like exactly what Sun did.. but that isn't the case at all. Blackdown has an aggrement with Sun that LETS this happen Sun didn't just grab something becouse it's convenent. Accually it dose urk me that it's totally legal to sell public domain as commertal but try to give away commertal and you go to jail. Thats just wrong. I don't advocate stelling commertal software but I think theft of public domain should also be illegal. Also there is something of an advantage to burrying thies rants.. there is far more cogent data in the mod 3 to mod 5 area and I'm down here ancered by a score -1.. a "first post" post number 4... First posters beware slashdot dosn't update very fast you may not be the first poster after all.
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Leave the moderating to the moderators.. gezzz VI and a toothpick:) hehe Anyway it's kinda related.. similer effort from an older time.. and it's kinda cool:) Personally thies efforts are neat.. Lunix for the Commodore 64 has a specal place in my heart.. shure I can't use the 64 as a Unix workstation but the whole idea of putting Unix on such an old computer is cool. All of thies reduced efforts are kinda neat and remind us that operating systems don't have to take up 16 meg ram and 1 gig HD. We shall see if this heads anywhere.. Maybe once it's done we can port it to wearables [many of whom do use Intel chips] or port to other chipsets...
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Would it help or hinder to DOS attack etoys? What good could be gainned? Etoys is dos attacked great so that means what to etoys? Nothing... Or maybe it means they get to spin it for simpathy... supporters of etoy attecked us... Thats not going to help... No leave it as is... right now etoy is the victom and this leaves room for political discution to keep this sort of thing from happening again.
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Instead of an Ergo keyboard I recomend one with a click.. a sound feel to key keyboard where you really get the feel that your typing.
I've heard far to many complaints about ergo units.. including complaints of CAUSING the problems they are designed to prevent...
I also suggest trainning typists on old fasionned typowiters not on computer keyboards.. just find an old unit with a selectric style layout [this is what IBM used on the original PCs and todays PC keyboards are still selectric based].. saves on tranning units and the PC keyboards let you put your hand down slowing your typing speed a great deal.. Learning on a typowriter teaches out this behavure by not giving the typest a place to rest.. This way if the typest dose rest his/her hands it's out of fatige and rest has become nessisary to continued productivity...
Also a wrist rest at the edge of the keyboard is a good thing... it gives the typest a soft place to put his/her hands.
Just my prospective...
This just goes to show that Linux people (No nessisarly advocates or zellots but the general community) want what they want and will move heven and earth to get it.. woe be it to anyone who gets in there way...
Microsoft has become the bad guy becouse the simply want everyone to use there products. They are ok but they aren't perfict and don't work for everyone. As a result Microsoft puts themselfs in direct obstruction of anyone who wants to do something Windows can not handle very well.
Microsoft has basicly the made themselfs into the techo unmovable object and Linux people have become the techno illresisable force... and they colide often...
But when a Linux programmer wants his e-mail.. and it's on Microsofts server.. and all thats stopping him is a domain name... Not even a second thought... it is done.. It matters not that it's Microsoft he helpped... He wants his e-mail and he will get his e-mail...
As for Microsoft.. far from the vile evil overlords we make them out to be.. Do whats right and thank him for his efforts..
It probably has a few Microsoft people scratching there heads.. Why would someone do something like this? More so why would a LINUX programmer help Microsoft?
The answer is simple... Microsoft is the evil bad guy as long as they stand in the way... Anyone can become evil... just try and stop the Linux community from doing something... you'll be come evil.. and very injured....
Why arn't other obstructive companys on the communitys "Evil" list? Simply becouse they don't get in the way of the Linux community.. they obstruct others...
Many obstructionists really deserve the "Evil" title.. Microsoft is better labled "Misguided".. misguided in the idea that this is the way to do busness..
Right or wrong asside things are changing and Microsoft has put themselfs in the way of that change.. Thats just an unwise busness move. At this point IF they did change most people would be wondering what Microsoft is up to.. They let themselfs be "evil" for far to long...
But this dose show that if Microsoft could show they are sereous and put themselfs in the direction of helpping the Linux community they could be accepted into the fold...
It also shows that if Microsoft belived helpping the Linux community was a good thing they'd do it..
Finnaly.. The Linux community is not as selfless as they come off.. They just think in bigger terms... Not "I" want it... "WE" want it.. and "WE" move in mass to get it... If "I" want something "I" find others who also want it and "WE" get it.. togeather.. as a community.. Selfishly helpping others achive the goals "WE" wish to achive...
I can agree that in almost all cases what the customer is buying when they purchase a Red Hat product is the packaging (sorry, sucker, buy it from Cheapbytes next time...) but Red Hat claims (in their feeble attempt to justify $70 for a shrinkwrapped box full of stuff that can be downloaded for free) they provide support with their rather pricey product.
:) I was trying to go with a "Generic Destrobution" example.. RedHat seemed as good as any... ha.. Forgot they charg more than everyone else and offer tech support...
Yeah that dose put RedHat in a diffrent position...
Ok well.. umm QuickFix.. swap "RedHat" and reaplce it with a distrobution that charges just for pacaging...
And you know the masses will all go visit Lycos and click on their banner ads, because instead of wasting money on "research" and/or "development", they've been spending their money on ads on the sides of buses.
In order for someone to copy Google they'd have to start from scratch.. No one has access to the source code...
This protection is known as a "Corprate secret" it's a lesser known tactic to protecting your IP.
The advantge is you don't have to regesture it and you get to keep it forever.. just sign everyone to NDAs.
The disadvantage is if someone comes up with it totally on his own with out any access to your product (other than visiting the website) theres nothing you can do. Patents however allow you to go after someone who did all the work on his own with out any knowladge of the patent.
Patents are good but to a point... the Intel chip line is patented of course and so are most parts on the computer... You wouldn't believe the stuff some people will do to steal Micro processor technologys... including breaking out an electron microscope.
Some car parts are patented.. you can just dicast a car and make nock offs pritty easlly so patents protect the inital investment.
Patents are basicly to protect against copying by means of reasonable inspection of the original but are often used to protect copying by random chance.
The idea is the patented item is original enough that someone wouldn't copy it by random chance. But patents as of late demonstrate that the USPO isn't doing there job in checking this and issuing patents on commen sence.
In Googles case we would have to develup our search engen from ground up if we were to copy Google... But Google dosn't want to be copyed.
They arn't protecting the results as much as they are preventing anyone else from doing the same research.
If Google protected there search engen as a corprate secret (as others do) they could have saved some money on patent lawyers...
It's the same with sports or any game. People who cheat do so in order to clame suppereority. "I'm better than you becouse I won and you lost... loser.."
Compeating is great and when you lose you learn and when you win you learn.. when someone cheats the cheater steals the experence from everyone including himself so he can feel better about himself becouse he won...
It's sad but some people can not see past the win itself... They want to win so badly they'll hurt anyone to do it.
But what is gainned? Hurt feelings... a cheater is not going to notice or care.. he feels the need to be better not to experence or to bond.. he wants to put himself on the pedistal.
The real irony is some people play FPS just to get away form that kind of person... blow off stome steam.. beat up on someone.. if only in a VR type sence.
I personnaly play against bots as a test of skill. So cheaters can not steal the experence from me.. it adds a new dimention to the game for me... but thats me...
It's certenly no fun for newbes... it roaly stinks.. Whats the fun of beating someone up on-line if you had to cheat to do it?
It's more fun when you frag a cheater...
But a cheater is infereor.. he dosn't open himself to the challange.. instead he cheats... So in the end he hasn't proven himself to be better... he proves himself to be worse...
I'm affrde a lot of people are responding with the same old answers.
The fact is on-line games like Quake are VERY sensitive to cheating. The client is trusted with "to much information" it's nessisary becouse the server can not deliver all nessisary information on time. Instead the server delivers information the client MIGHT need.
Time City preposes to solve this problem by building the client/server pacage ground up with an auditing system. All Quake servers and clients were built ground up on a trust system. To change this would require a compleate rewrite.
The problem is Quake expects the client to be 100% reliable and trustworthy. Now that the client is open sourced this is no longer the case. Just as you can close security holes in open source you can open them.
Thies defects have been known for quite some time and could NOT be addressed. Eventually some punk would make a cheat clinet based on the server code (allready open) not the client code and we'd be in the same position. But it would have been sevral years from now and by then Quake would not be that iteresting.
Many open sourced multiplayer games suffer exactly the same problem. They solve it with a closed sorce solution. Trusted clients are compiled by the games develupers and given encryption keys. If your client has a valid key you can play if not you may have compiled it yourself and could be running a cheat client.
So the source is only there to fix the bugs and improve the game but to accually use it you have to return the code to the develupers and let them compile it.
Or you can fork the code and make your own keys.. But then only the servers recognising your keys/code could be used by your fork.
Time citys solution is unqiue and time will tell if the game server will effectively detect cheating or if people will be able to make cheat clients using the open source code.
The way it was explained to me BTW is that if the server detects someone cheating he will be dropped form the server.. It dose this by mesuring to make shure the user really really really could do what he says he's doing and if not.. disconnect...
Some of the cheats in a Quake client rely heavy on the fact that Quake clients MUST have data on ALL players at ALL times. Raidar and transparent walls are the result. The client is trusted to do "the right thing" with the data. A cheat need only take advantage of this...
If Quake did not yeald as much information as it dose it wouldn't be so easy to cheat... but that would take a compleate rewrite of the client server interface....
The liability should be on a product sold. With RedHat etc you paid for the pacaging not the develupment of the software. If something is wrong with the software that RedHat caused by the way the pacaged it or could have prevented by a small change in pacaging then they should be liable but if the problem is a flaw in the software RedHat did not develup (or develuped and gave away) they should not be liable.
If you buy a Compaq computer with Windows preinstalled you still paid Microsoft not Compaq for the software.. But if a defect in Windows is caused by the way it is installed then Compaq who installed it is liable.
The open source develuper who codes and gives away his software sold nothing and is liable for nothing unless he makes clames to the fitness of his software.
Basicly Microsoft might be liable for selling a defective product or a product with an unreasonable security defect. Sence open source develupers do not sell any product they can not be held reliable for that non-sale.
Giving away a defective product is (at this time) not subject to liable.
This may change over time with busnesses selling support instead of product but for now if Microsoft is found liable for selling a defective product it could boost open source a great deal..
Sell product and be liable for defects or sell support and let the userbase be responsable for the repairs.
But again even in open source your liable for clames so if you clame a product is bug free you could put yourself in a position of being even more liable than if you had sold the software to start with... Sold product can get away with a few defects so long as it can be shown to be reasonable.
It dose seem someone was out to hurt MassLinux.. I say this becouse it appears THREE checks were stolen...
One check is a theaf who really has no idea WHO they are stealing from.. it's just annother wealthy busness they can afford to cut annother check...
Two checks... if this guy dose prepetually steal he'd go after someone else so no one would notice... It is very unlikely two checks from one busness would get stolen "at random" anyway..
So the theaf is targetting MassLinux.. ok so he's got something against them.. Two checks stolen.. MassLinux is badly injured... But now he's really put himself in the open.. at this point he should take cover.. revenge or not.. and wait for next month...
Third check... Clearly this guy is SO filled with hate or is so focused on his objective of hurting MassLinux that he dosn't think to back off.. Instead of protecting himself from a posable investigation...
After THREE checks the theaf has allready made it clear it's no mistake.... Thats not a smart move for a theaf.. better to leave your victiom to believe he's a victiom of a mistake than to believe he is a victiom of a theaf.
Cashing the checks... the theaf is eather greedy or just blinded by his objectives. Cashing the checks after making it clear the checks were stolen [by stealing three] leaves a paper trail to track him down.
What is his objectives? Who knows.. maybe an angry open source advocate or maybe someone who is opposed to open source for some reason... (Take your pick theres enough FUD out there) maybe he hates Linux sooo much... maybe he blames all there internal problems on Linux. Maybe he lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere and plays to much Doom and wears trenchcoats.
Who knows...
The end point is someone made some effort to make shure three checks from MassLinux never made it to there feed provider...
I for one could care less how much he invented... The real question is dose he have a working prototype...
I don't care how posable it is the question is can he do it...
My sister and I worked on an invention once and we had to present a working prototype before anyone would even look at us...
It didn't seem posable, it wasn't sexy, it wasn't trendy but people seemed intrested becouse we were building a prototype...
In the end it became a problem of matching skills.. I could build the electronics and she could work on the hardware but we were never able to meet up to work on the thing together. In the end we dumpped the project.. no money invested other than our own becouse we had no working prototype...
It looks like he has not presented a working prototype... maybe he has but it dosn't sound like it...
Also the disposable part may make it a harsh sell.. bad busness planning.. no one wants a new disposable product.. that was good a few years back when we didn't care about the environment but now any new disposable product gets a lot of people pissed... disposable calculators but only if you don't sell them as such... Never let the consummer know you expect them to throw it away...
A change in the plan.. not PAPER but PLASTIC.. same results but now it dosn't look disposable.. it's durrable and can survive.. otherwise the same product...
Even better recyclable cards... the card itself is a plastic computer (paper computer using plastic) give to friends.. great.. they take the card to the halmark store and upload a NEW card image and give to friends... the upload would cost less and be more costum.. just replace or recharg the battery.
Ummmm Slashdot HAS made some horrific blunders and dosen't do research... let's face it /. isn't a new agentcy at all but a refrence system pointing us to news storys SOMEONE ELSE reported and lets us comment... as well as pointing to all kinds of intresting stuff and the occasional Rant..
/. has as much chance of being a model of journalism as Pizza hut...
/. dose with the news media becouse far to often the news media isn't reporting the news it's just repeating what someone else reported.
/. posters say... and thats sad... and funny...
/. is PART of a better model but /. dosn't do the reporting.. they just refrence the people who do... the best reporter gets the /. :)
/. prints retractions on the front page... no one else dose that
So I'd say
Having said that... I have not seen very much reporting from News agentcys.. it's easy to confuse what
It's even so bad on occasion news agentcys have taken to repeating what
The news media is still comming to grips with things as they are... in the future they'll have to produce QUALITY not QUANITY if they want people to read there news... so
It'll be not the first report out the door but the most detailed report that gets our attention...
/.s job is to FIND that report and let us rip it to shreads....
Also on the plus side
I read about a year or so ago that the USPO was being flooded with new Internet patents. Everyone was filing a patent on everything under the sun from busness modles to software tecniques to whatever.
It was suggested at the time that the USPO may just rubber stamp all the patents and let a lawsute frenzy sort it all out.
Latter I read again that the USPO was overloaded and planned to just let lawsutes deside what patents were valid.
It seems the USPO had the idea that only larg corperations could be effected and they can battle it out.. They didn't take small busnesses or the open source community into account.
This explains why we have all thies lunatic patents being issued... The USPO has desided to just screw us all over (big busness included) and just let everyone have there patents rather than giving them a proper review.
I'm shure a lot of companys (big and small) screammed fuzzy blue mud when they found out about the Windowing patent...
Bug busness dosn't like to spend a lot of money on ANYTHING even lawsutes and if enough big busness IP lawsutes come out over lunitic patents then maybe we could see some IP reform...
Ok They want the founder of e-commerce? How about the original Fantacy Plaza set up to sell copys of DYM and ended up selling books, software and all kinds of junk.. shutdown at the end of the 1980s a few years before Amazon came into existence and no one knows what happend to them.
/. is pritty cool and desveres a nod more than Amazon...
Annother is CompUstore Compuservers on-line store. It sold junk.. pillows in the shape of computers.. chcolate in the shape of computers... etc.. you know the kinda junk you'd find at a gift shop.. sort of an Internet gift shop a few years before anyone heard of the Internet.
They were both cutting edge but couldn't convence the general public that eventually everyone would be buying stuff on-line... Ironicly they both had "One click shopping"...
Alternitvely I'd say Ebay is pritty cutting edge.. I don't think on-line auctions could even work on a BBS considering the one user at a time problem.
I know Commander Taco would like to get some votes for himself but he knows good and well Usenet, FidoNet and BBSes have him beat by a number of years. Still
Accually Time should have skipped the trendy notion of e-commerce and gone with the brouder Internet... yes the father of the Internet... he should get Man of the year... With out him there'd be no Amazon.com... and we'd still be calling long distence just to order books on-line... or at least I would... I miss FP thow they were a grand deal better than Amazon....
You know Meow Pawjects dosn't show up on search engens.. [It's a work in progress I'm amazzed Google mirrors an early early test page]
Maybe I should sue all those lovly cat websites that come up when you search the word "Meow"...
I seem to rember IBM sending a polite legal letter to everyone with the letters IBM in there domain name asking them to stop...
so ishbaIBMna.com would get a letter but sIjBkMf.com wouldn't
Oh well... the legal system is still a tad clueless where computers are conserned.
What really urks me is right now the Patent office isn't verifying patents they are just issuing them and letting lawsutes sort them out.. Gee fragging thanks... it's to deal with the flood of pattent applications they have been getting lately...
All thies anal applications of IP law have to stop.. Someone want to run for office or something?
Human said as an insult BTW... Habbit of mine to use the word "Human" to discribe the worst of humanity as in "I'm only human"...
.. how did Linux get on the computer to start with?
:)
This only proves Microsofts people accually believe there own marketting hype....
Ask yourself the question
Here are some posable answers....
1. User went out of way to buy a computer with Linux preinstalled...
You allmost have to kill someone to get a system with Linux preinstalled. I hear rummors that some such boxes are accually sold in stores but so far I have found only Windows PCs and Macs.. with the Macs hidden away...
Thankfully I can buy such units on the Internet... Of course this is becouse I allready have a system so the whole point is moot...
2. User removed Windows from system and Installed Linux...
Clearly if a user removes Windows from his system he dosn't want to use Windows anymore so there'd be no reason to go back.
3. Home built.. It's probably easyer to install Linux on a new hand built machine that it is to install Windows..
Still if the user had WANTED Windows he'd have installed it in the first place.
Some how Microsofts people believe your going to want to switch back to Windows after using Linux...
The reality is it's not going to happen. On the other hand we can now point users to Microsofts website and say "See if you don't LIKE Linux you can allways switch back"...
Just focuse your efforts on users who would accually benifit from a switch to Linux... Windows experts and gammers arn't going to get as much out of Linux as a newbe who wants to surf the web.
Just my thoughts
Here is whats wrong with a DoS attack. Just great script kiddys just turnned EToys into innocent victioms and etoy.com into evil vile bad guys in the public eye.
This in no way helps etoy.com... Many will now reguard them as a website willing to resort to vile tricks. Forget that etoy.com predates etoys by a few years. In launching a DoS attack on Etoys the supporters of etoy.com have hurt etoy.coms position.
Thanks to this there is little hope that etoy.com will ever hear the end of this (they will win in cort I'm pritty shure of that it's the larger cort of public opinion where they'll continue to do battle)
This isn't much more than techno chest thumpping and dose no one any good...
You forget that 3/4 of the world's population lives in China. When 3/4 of the population has one it will be hard to stop!
I sereously doupt anyone will folow China blindly into anything...
Thats presumming Chia even bothers with the technology and chances are pritty slim that they will.
Keepping in mind that for the moment China has the badguy label it's unlikely anyone would copy them for any reason.
Also it's not a difficult thing to protest... walk around to hack and back and drive the watchers nuts as they try and figure out what your up to. Don't DO anything just screw with there heads.
Having said that.. I'd like this technology for such things as tracking property... my computer.. car(if I had one) etc.. should they be stolen such a device would make retreval a great deal more likely.
There are people who won't do busness with Amazon for diffrent reasons but it dosn't seem to phase Amazon.
A boycott dosn't effect a busness who isn't affrade of losing costummers.
the real problem isn't Amazons defending a software patent it is they were issued one in the first place.
Instead of protesting against Amazon the target should be the us patent office. Contact ellected officals and point out the patent office has been issuing a lot of strange patents lately including blantely patenting prior art and software patents.
Instead we should be asking congress to put a hold on all Internet patents and review the value of patenting things related to the Internet.
Oddly enough someone seems to be interfearing with webtraffic to Attrition...
traceroute attrition.org
traceroute to attrition.org (198.77.217.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 mg-sj2v.mcdn.net (168.253.32.145) 442.156 ms 357.507 ms 649.562 ms
2 mg141-001.ricochet.net (204.179.141.1) 369.485 ms 339.229 ms 439.586 ms
3 Serial4-4.San-Jose8.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.170.97) 449.353 ms 339.293 ms 33
9.936 ms
4 Fddi0-0.HR2.SJC1.ALTER.NET (137.39.27.1) 359.013 ms 449.334 ms 359.787 ms
5 116.ATM2-0.XR1.SJC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.144.102) 359.831 ms 379.641 ms 369.874 ms
6 193.at-1-1-0.TR1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.51.30) 399.867 ms 339.703 ms 489.853 ms
7 127.at-6-1-0.TR1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.101) 359.865 ms 449.705 ms 379.849 ms
8 197.ATM7-0.XR1.LAX2.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.145) 499.836 ms 399.706 ms 509.865 ms
9 195.ATM8-0-0.GW1.PHX1.ALTER.NET (146.188.249.121) 649.847 ms 409.694 ms 369.881 ms
10 inficad-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.224.94) 389.833 ms 559.722 ms 479.867 ms
11 * * *
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It's where and how it is said that matters. May be now you understand?
This being true it should also be pointed out that the how was by vandalising someones website and the where is a target audence who would only use it to ferther the agenda the speaker seens to be against.
In communicating an idea you need to carely pick your message method and audence. Only one or two of thies items will not do the job you need all three. A bad message falls on deff ears no matter what, a good message communication to deff ears dose nothing, a receptive audence lissening to a good message delivered badly will also get negitive results.
In this example however the message, medium and audence were all a patheticly poor choice and as pointed out it took a great deal of effort to get the message in place. That effort could have been better spent picking a better message a better audence and a better platform.
Instead he chouse this tactic and thats pathetic.
If he had run for office (for example) he could have communicated his message to a very receptive audence on a podium. Even by losing he has made his feelings known and those that support the message may scare opponents into changing there toon.
But this person opted for cracking into a server and puking... bad choice...
That dose sound fishy...
I've transfered my domain once and to spite some glitches [some on my end] the transfer went pritty smoothly.
Delete and reclame is the WRONG process and it sounds like someone set him up or just didn't know his job.
Today it's FPS before it was Role Playing Games and Heavy Metal. :) Yeah thats it...
Also movies catch the blame too.
It's just parents trying to find a quick blame so they don't have to be responsable. I'm not saying they automaticly are I am saying they grab at the first chance to asign responsability elsewhere so they can say they are not.
However thies are token shards and not really the problem or even representive of the problem. Instead they respresent the posability that the parent might have recognised the signs if they had known what to look for. Being fair short of a PhD in child psycology they wouldn't have known what to look for. But thats not comforting to a parent who lost a child.
Instead blame must be assigned to something tangable. Something evil. Something they themselfs disaprove off. Something like Role Playing games, Heavy Metall and violent video games.
I know what I want to blame... I'll blame poorly writen software.
But in all sereousness FPS are escapism like movies and role playing games. Not trainning for violence but a way to leave it behind.
Ok so I goofed :) :)
It's still a neat toy
It's really nice when the first post has content.
Anyway from what I gathered from the relevent posts Blackdown aggred to give code back to sun and SUNs people are trying to do right by Blackdown and give credit but something went wrong and posably some market droid just skipped over that detail.
So it's not like Sun is being an evil Microsoftian tyrent or anything it's just some minnor mistake and something Blackdown aggred to anyway. It's not Sun just walking away with an open source project and saying "te he it's ours now buddy".
But don't be so harsh on Slashdot for jumping the gun. There is a pritty good reason for having a GPL in the first place [thow Blackdown code is not GPL but thats a diffrent story] it's not an abitrary liccens saying "It's free". There have been a few cases when someone would "port" public domain code and copywrite the results or take public domain and modify it and sell the results.
On the surface this looked like exactly what Sun did.. but that isn't the case at all. Blackdown has an aggrement with Sun that LETS this happen Sun didn't just grab something becouse it's convenent.
Accually it dose urk me that it's totally legal to sell public domain as commertal but try to give away commertal and you go to jail. Thats just wrong. I don't advocate stelling commertal software but I think theft of public domain should also be illegal.
Also there is something of an advantage to burrying thies rants.. there is far more cogent data in the mod 3 to mod 5 area and I'm down here ancered by a score -1.. a "first post" post number 4... First posters beware slashdot dosn't update very fast you may not be the first poster after all.
Leave the moderating to the moderators.. gezzz :) hehe :)
VI and a toothpick
Anyway it's kinda related.. similer effort from an older time.. and it's kinda cool
Personally thies efforts are neat.. Lunix for the Commodore 64 has a specal place in my heart.. shure I can't use the 64 as a Unix workstation but the whole idea of putting Unix on such an old computer is cool.
All of thies reduced efforts are kinda neat and remind us that operating systems don't have to take up 16 meg ram and 1 gig HD.
We shall see if this heads anywhere..
Maybe once it's done we can port it to wearables [many of whom do use Intel chips] or port to other chipsets...
Would it help or hinder to DOS attack etoys?
What good could be gainned? Etoys is dos attacked great so that means what to etoys? Nothing...
Or maybe it means they get to spin it for simpathy... supporters of etoy attecked us... Thats not going to help...
No leave it as is... right now etoy is the victom and this leaves room for political discution to keep this sort of thing from happening again.