The fact that anyone will settle for a portable audio player that has crappy connections baffles the mind. A huge improvement to either the iPod, or the superior analog equivalents is gold connectors. Since they do not come stock with a gold miniplug jack, I recommend aftermarket upgrades.
All I'm trying to say is that in practice, this dude with the PowerBook was not compromising network security, while there are real compromises of network security that happen every day and are ignored.
"Cross license with us or see us in court" is using patents defensively, the way I see it. If instead they said, "Give us all your money," or, "Get out of this market," then I'd agree. I don't know of any cases of that aside from the VirtualDub ASF decoding thing someone else mentioned in this thread.
Mostly because I've been spouting that line for years now. Hopefully that was the action of one small working group at MS, and not something actually instigated by their legal dept, as that would indicate all kinds of evil.
Microsoft, however, has never been on the other side of the fence. They have only ever used patents in a defensive manner. (Or as FUD: "Gosh, the Linux kernel sure is a lot of code. Gosh, we sure do have a lot of patents on operating systems. Just sayin'.")
Bill Gates has said in interviews even before their recent legal trouble that software patents were crippling the industry and that if things had been like this back when they were starting up, MS wouldn't have had a prayer.
Does anyone know a good way to make Mac OS X pay attention to passwords longer than 8 characters long?
Are there any caveats?
Sorry this offtopic, it just always annoyed me. I can type fast enough that I'd prefer to have something like this as my password: "I have the most t76uDDd password ever. BTW your mom says hi."
You seem to have missed my points. Perhaps I wasn't clear.
I didn't mean to imply that knives were inherently associated with murder. I was just trying to say that the "crime" that they associate with blank CDs doesn't actually have to be a crime at all. Murder, on the other hand, must be a crime to maintain any kind of civil order.
I understand your complaint that blank CD users aren't necesarily duplicating other people's artwork. There aren't necessarily direct links between gas & cigarette taxes and the place that those taxes get used, either. Perhaps you can think of a better way to structure the tax.
Your post suggested that their basic logic was patently false. I think I've shown otherwise.
P.S. I put a period between the end of my sentence and the exclamation, "Jesus." If that offends you... welcome to Slashdot.
It'd ludicrous to think of paying in advance a "tax" to the RIAA for blank media because we might use it to copy their music. Applying that logic to other areas, why not stipulate brief jailtime for anyone buying a knife, because they might use it to kill somebody?
No, it's not like that, because it's not a murder weapon.
The current way we run copyright isn't a natural law. It isn't required. We already use compulsory licensing for copyright in many cases. Cover songs, for example.
And the answer, to "how can this be legal?" is:
IF WE CHANGE THE LAW. That's how it can be legal. Jesus.
Right. But if you take a group of military men that are vaccinated, and a group that are not, you can compare the rate at which they become infected.
My example was healthcare workers, but it doesn't matter. You can compare withing the group of people, even if their behavior is anomolous. You just have to attempt to ensure that the two groups you are using (regular subjects and control subjects) have somewhat similar behavior.
(waiting for the 20 second delay to expire... @#%$! Slashdot)
In IE, right click on the "You're posting too fast, you asshole" page, choose "refresh."
It'll ask you if you want to repost the same form info. Say yes.
That way you don't have to retype your post, and you don't have to wait another 20 seconds. Other browsers I've used don't blank your forms when you click back, so this technique isn't as necessary. So I don't know if it works in Moz or Safari or whatnot.
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(Hint: His joke is funny because Matrix:Revolutions will have many of the world's computer programmers in one place at one time. This would be the ideal deployment for the Snow Crash virus, from the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.)
P.S. teamhasnoi, I'm sorry for destroying your joke.
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The fact that anyone will settle for a portable audio player that has crappy connections baffles the mind. A huge improvement to either the iPod, or the superior analog equivalents is gold connectors. Since they do not come stock with a gold miniplug jack, I recommend aftermarket upgrades.
About a year ago, the writers were told that if they can make a story mention "Linux" in any way, they should.
They just want your clicks. Your clicks and your attention. Maybe you'll even tell a coworker about how angry the story made you.
All I'm trying to say is that in practice, this dude with the PowerBook was not compromising network security, while there are real compromises of network security that happen every day and are ignored.
So, uh, any guesses on how many years before this technology hits the $500 price point?
Right when they stop making replacement batteries for it.
Right. But it's perfectly ok to bring those IT-approved company-owned laptops in and connect them to the network.
The ones that were home for the weekend.
And connected to AOL accounts.
And contracted Blaster.
That's right. You should write this asshole up for compromising network security.
"Cross license with us or see us in court" is using patents defensively, the way I see it. If instead they said, "Give us all your money," or, "Get out of this market," then I'd agree. I don't know of any cases of that aside from the VirtualDub ASF decoding thing someone else mentioned in this thread.
Ah, but the distinction between trivial and non-trivial algorithms is totally arbitrary. And this plugin thing is definitely an algorithm.
Either way, you're patenting math. That's no good. It's a field of research that moves too quickly for a 15+ year monopoly.
Ah, crappy. I'm sorry to hear that.
Mostly because I've been spouting that line for years now. Hopefully that was the action of one small working group at MS, and not something actually instigated by their legal dept, as that would indicate all kinds of evil.
Anyway. Lame lame lame.
Microsoft, however, has never been on the other side of the fence. They have only ever used patents in a defensive manner. (Or as FUD: "Gosh, the Linux kernel sure is a lot of code. Gosh, we sure do have a lot of patents on operating systems. Just sayin'.")
Bill Gates has said in interviews even before their recent legal trouble that software patents were crippling the industry and that if things had been like this back when they were starting up, MS wouldn't have had a prayer.
It's the only English lyric from "Hana" by Asa Chang & Junray.
It's rad. Sad and rad. First released in 2001.
I know it's possible to have a secure 8 character password. It's more convenient for me to have a longer password that is less secure per character.
Inconvenient security can be as bad as no security at all, if it leads people to take insecure alternate routes.
Oh. I totally missed that.
Rad.
My feet produce plenty of shoe goo naturally, and that doesn't seem to help.
Slashdot isn't exactly the place to look for this type of information.
His mini print server will use less electricity than a full blown computer. It'll probably also be quieter.
Does anyone know a good way to make Mac OS X pay attention to passwords longer than 8 characters long?
Are there any caveats?
Sorry this offtopic, it just always annoyed me. I can type fast enough that I'd prefer to have something like this as my password: "I have the most t76uDDd password ever. BTW your mom says hi."
No, we'll have "Mac Oh Ess Ten, version ten dot eleven," prompting all kinds of Spinal Tap jokes.
Thank you for correctly identifying what was funny about grandparent poster's joke.
You seem to have missed my points. Perhaps I wasn't clear.
I didn't mean to imply that knives were inherently associated with murder. I was just trying to say that the "crime" that they associate with blank CDs doesn't actually have to be a crime at all. Murder, on the other hand, must be a crime to maintain any kind of civil order.
I understand your complaint that blank CD users aren't necesarily duplicating other people's artwork. There aren't necessarily direct links between gas & cigarette taxes and the place that those taxes get used, either. Perhaps you can think of a better way to structure the tax.
Your post suggested that their basic logic was patently false. I think I've shown otherwise.
P.S. I put a period between the end of my sentence and the exclamation, "Jesus." If that offends you... welcome to Slashdot.
It'd ludicrous to think of paying in advance a "tax" to the RIAA for blank media because we might use it to copy their music. Applying that logic to other areas, why not stipulate brief jailtime for anyone buying a knife, because they might use it to kill somebody?
No, it's not like that, because it's not a murder weapon.
The current way we run copyright isn't a natural law. It isn't required. We already use compulsory licensing for copyright in many cases. Cover songs, for example.
And the answer, to "how can this be legal?" is:
IF WE CHANGE THE LAW. That's how it can be legal. Jesus.
Not only that, but from now on I won't be registering any .com or .net domains. It'll be .org every time.
Right. But if you take a group of military men that are vaccinated, and a group that are not, you can compare the rate at which they become infected.
My example was healthcare workers, but it doesn't matter. You can compare withing the group of people, even if their behavior is anomolous. You just have to attempt to ensure that the two groups you are using (regular subjects and control subjects) have somewhat similar behavior.
(waiting for the 20 second delay to expire... @#%$! Slashdot)
In IE, right click on the "You're posting too fast, you asshole" page, choose "refresh."
It'll ask you if you want to repost the same form info. Say yes.
That way you don't have to retype your post, and you don't have to wait another 20 seconds. Other browsers I've used don't blank your forms when you click back, so this technique isn't as necessary. So I don't know if it works in Moz or Safari or whatnot.
No, that wouldn't be a problem at all.
You test them all now. Also test a large group of healthcare workers that were not vaccinated.
In five years, you test them all again.
Compare the deltas.
No, it's not the most conclusive peice of evidence ever, but it'd be very very interesting.
Call now for your monthly subscription to Mods on Crack! These desperate Mods will do anything for money!
(Hint: His joke is funny because Matrix:Revolutions will have many of the world's computer programmers in one place at one time. This would be the ideal deployment for the Snow Crash virus, from the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.)
P.S. teamhasnoi, I'm sorry for destroying your joke.