Look at how much code already is shared between the various BSD and Linux flavours already. Kernel drivers often have huge chunks of code that are just copy and pasted from one flavour to the next.
That cannot be true. Due to the GPL, Linux code can't be copied into a *BSD kernel.
BitTorrent's tracker performs a necessary function, but as we have seen recently it's the achilles heel in an otherwise robust network. A distributed tracker network would solve two problems: One, the loss of one node wouldn't affect everyone's ability to download. Two, it could recognize when different torrents pointed to an identical file (or identical pieces) and combine their clients, resulting in higher bandwidth. Is there a plan to make a distributed BitTorrent tracker?
Wild guess here.. someone bought himself a DVD+R drive and is offended at the very suggestion that maybe he didn't make the right choice?
Yes, DVD-R will win, but this isn't like VHS and Beta. DVD players will read both formats so it's not like you have to go out and buy a -R anytime soon, as long as they keep making media. And they will keep making media for a long time, at least until all current +R and -R drives are obsolete anyway.
Cars blamed for drunk driving deaths Guns blamed for armed robbery Airport security blamed for terrorism Music blamed for school shootings McDonald's blamed for fat people
Look up EEOC 1607. It's a big law, and part of it requires that you keep any materials that you used as part of your selection process. It's absolutely ludicrous if you ask me, and I've never heard of anyone actually following it before now. But believe it or not, it is a law.
If I were using this to replace my laptop I'd want to connect to it through terminals at my clients' sites as well as public terminals. That's basically why I carry around my laptop now, the PCs on sites where I work never have all the tools and data that I need. It's a great idea, after all I don't need to carry my own monitor and keyboard around and frankly I'm sick of digging around under random desks looking for a free drop.
But the problem here is, do you trust every place that you plug your laptop in currently? Right now you don't have to since the act of plugging in doesn't give anyone access to your data. But I could imagine a situation where an unscrupulous customer or public terminal stole data from this personal server. All they'd need to do is see how you authenticate to it (say, use a keysniffer) and then they're free to grab your data whenever you're in range. I think a simple solution would be to have a button on the device that you would have to press in order to authorize access to it - the password is not enough. It's not foolproof, but it's better than just a password. Until there is some additional security you really wouldn't want to use these things at an untrusted location.
Having zero background information on this topic, I am prepared to make an indignant response to AOL's clear violation of YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE! AOL has blatantly violated YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE by deciding not to accept mail from dial-up and residential DSL IP addresses! Dammit, I am sick and tired of providers who think they have the right to do what they want with servers and pipes that they pay for! They are obviously violating my right to free speech by censoring me with their heavyhanded spam-fighting measures! They are probably going to use the DMCA to defend this decision! My guess is the RIAA is behind all this! If we don't all get up in arms about this blatant violation of YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE, next thing you know there will be an AOL camera in your TOASTER OVEN! You will have to ask AOL permission to GO TO THE BATHROOM!
It appears you've completely missed the section we care about, (6)(a)(1)(B).
SECTION 6. Sections 31.14(a), (b), and (d), Penal Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally
or knowingly manufactures, assembles, imports into the state,
exports out of the state, distributes, advertises, sells, or
leases, or offers for sale or lease:
(1) a communication device with an intent to:
(A) aid in the commission of an offense under
Section 31.12 or 31.13; or
(B) conceal from a communication service
provider, or from any lawful authority, the existence or place of
origin or destination of any communication;
It's not competition, it's exploitation. I am all for free trade between similarly developed nations, but that's not what we have with the India/Pakistan situation. We have people in impoverished nations willing to work for squat, and US companies willing to exploit them. US developers lose, foreign developers lose, and the companies win.
The problem is, your "good old days" never existed.
When if a product was well written and did its job, it would sell...
TurboTax has no trouble selling millions of copies, activation or no. Tax software is naturally susceptible to casual copying - lending discs to family and friends. Intuit felt they needed a way to combat this. Not defending them, I switched from TurboTax to TaxCut this year specifically because of the activation software.
When you didn't need copy protection and activation screens.
You're kidding, right? Copy protection is a failed experiment, a throwback to your good old days of computing. Back then, copy protection was much worse than it is now. There was software that wrote data onto the install media so you could only install it in one place at a time. Even Lotus 1-2-3 locked its executable to a specific area of your hard drive to prevent copying to a different computer. Defrag your drive, and forget about using your spreadsheets.
Software companys generated revenue through customer loyalty (as opposed to customer extortion)
You have obviously completely forgotten the word processor wars of the early to mid 80s. Dozens of different file formats, unreadable by competing products.
You could install a software program without worrying if doing so would completely screw up your computer, other programs, or wipe out all your data.
See above. Lots of old software did very nasty things in the name of copy protection.
PSX modchips were not illegal until after the DMCA took effect. The DMCA was the first law that took aim at so-called circumvention devices. I'm not sure how cable descramblers are proof, they weren't illegal before the DMCA either.
Please explain how concert taping is a form of pirating. I fail to see it that way. Most artists are either in favor of, or indifferent to, taping. As long as no money is changing hands, most artists don't mind the extra publicity and exposure. The people who trade tapes are the band's most loyal fans, the ones who've been to multiple shows on every tour for the past 20 years. And this submitter has the nerve to call them pirates. It's already an awful fucking word for copying music, but I have never heard someone call tape trading the oldest form of piracy. Piracy is when someone tries to sell bootlegs at a flea market, not when a loyal fan trades an old favorite for a show he just saw.
I hope this new service can coexist with taping. It is up to the bands and promoters to realize that allowing taping is a good move, even if they could make some cash from this Clear Channel instant CD service.
Lately Tivo hasn't been hacker-friendly either, the Series2 boxes will only boot a protected kernel. This prevents most hacking, although you can still upgrade the drive size.
This is already done. There is a pay service that requires people to validate themselves before you receive their e-mails. Unfortunately I don't remember the name, but it works pretty much as you described except it's a separate company and not a service provided by ISPs.
And if this proposal ever happens I'll be on a 'non-coalition' ISP the next day. I'll go back to 56k if I have to, rather than give my money to a bunch of providers who sign pink contracts with each other.
What is it with these story submitters and the inane comments they attach to the story? I seriously doubt "RT Alec" would have been a VIP guest at the conference if he feels port 25 blocking is the solution to spam.
I think the key problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25.
No.. the ISPs that block port 25 already care about spam, they just block it to reduce their administrative load. It reduces the spam cases they have to deal with - but they still cut off spammers. If they didn't block 25, they'd still cut off the spammers. The actual problem is ISPs that don't care about spam. These ISPs don't deal with their spammers so how can you expect them to block port 25?
If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by 50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam I receive)
Funny, I base this statistic on the fact that you pulled it out of your ass. AOL has had spam problems, but they do deal with their spammers. It's ludicrous to suggest that they are responsible for half of all the spam on the Internet.
Tell me "RT Alec," how is port 25 blocking going to deal with rogue ISPs, who have a bulletproof connection through Verio? How about the clueless open relays that dot the maps of China, Brazil, and Argentina? What about for users of business DSL? Do we say, "you can't use your own corporate SMTP server, because you could be a spammer and we don't want to bother to deal with it?"
Is Jot called the block recognizer in PocketPC? Because if it is, it's almost exactly like graffiti. Block recognizer on my ipaq works with most graffiti strokes, although there are a few annoying differences. Many of the undocumented strokes don't work on PocketPC - e.g. you can't draw a B by writing 3 in the letter area. It makes you draw the full letter which is a pain in the ass.
Besides that, doesn't seem like there's much difference. How is graffiti infringement, but Jot isn't?
Even if I agreed that we have some sort of duty to treat companies nicely, plenty of other people don't. A compromise will never work. This is why things like kazaa will never go away, no amount of education is going to reduce demand. So education isn't an option, and legislation certainly shouldn't be an option. It's up to Zap2it to make sure that nobody steals their content. Whether this means obscuring it or removing it entirely, is up to them. One thing remains, there is demand for electronic TV listings, someone will provide them, and there will always be some way to steal them. If companies can't make money giving them away for free, they'll start charging. Oh well.
they never agreed to show you their content without you seeing their ads
That's not how it works, really. There's no contract, so neither party is bound by it. The agreement doesn't 'default' to a state where I can only use the website in the way that they intended. What you're saying is that they're not required to show me content without ads.. which is true, of course. They're also not required to make their website pink, or serve pages at a certain speed, or send me free money.
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That cannot be true. Due to the GPL, Linux code can't be copied into a *BSD kernel.
BitTorrent's tracker performs a necessary function, but as we have seen recently it's the achilles heel in an otherwise robust network. A distributed tracker network would solve two problems: One, the loss of one node wouldn't affect everyone's ability to download. Two, it could recognize when different torrents pointed to an identical file (or identical pieces) and combine their clients, resulting in higher bandwidth. Is there a plan to make a distributed BitTorrent tracker?
Wild guess here.. someone bought himself a DVD+R drive and is offended at the very suggestion that maybe he didn't make the right choice?
Yes, DVD-R will win, but this isn't like VHS and Beta. DVD players will read both formats so it's not like you have to go out and buy a -R anytime soon, as long as they keep making media. And they will keep making media for a long time, at least until all current +R and -R drives are obsolete anyway.
Cars blamed for drunk driving deaths
Guns blamed for armed robbery
Airport security blamed for terrorism
Music blamed for school shootings
McDonald's blamed for fat people
I could go on...
What does that have to do with it? A non-compete is a non-compete, whether you're a contractor or not.
Look up EEOC 1607. It's a big law, and part of it requires that you keep any materials that you used as part of your selection process. It's absolutely ludicrous if you ask me, and I've never heard of anyone actually following it before now. But believe it or not, it is a law.
Um.. Linix? Learn the name of your fucking operating system, to start off with. It's spelled L-U-N-I-X.
If I were using this to replace my laptop I'd want to connect to it through terminals at my clients' sites as well as public terminals. That's basically why I carry around my laptop now, the PCs on sites where I work never have all the tools and data that I need. It's a great idea, after all I don't need to carry my own monitor and keyboard around and frankly I'm sick of digging around under random desks looking for a free drop.
But the problem here is, do you trust every place that you plug your laptop in currently? Right now you don't have to since the act of plugging in doesn't give anyone access to your data. But I could imagine a situation where an unscrupulous customer or public terminal stole data from this personal server. All they'd need to do is see how you authenticate to it (say, use a keysniffer) and then they're free to grab your data whenever you're in range. I think a simple solution would be to have a button on the device that you would have to press in order to authorize access to it - the password is not enough. It's not foolproof, but it's better than just a password. Until there is some additional security you really wouldn't want to use these things at an untrusted location.
Having zero background information on this topic, I am prepared to make an indignant response to AOL's clear violation of YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE! AOL has blatantly violated YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE by deciding not to accept mail from dial-up and residential DSL IP addresses! Dammit, I am sick and tired of providers who think they have the right to do what they want with servers and pipes that they pay for! They are obviously violating my right to free speech by censoring me with their heavyhanded spam-fighting measures! They are probably going to use the DMCA to defend this decision! My guess is the RIAA is behind all this! If we don't all get up in arms about this blatant violation of YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE, next thing you know there will be an AOL camera in your TOASTER OVEN! You will have to ask AOL permission to GO TO THE BATHROOM!
SECTION 6. Sections 31.14(a), (b), and (d), Penal Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly manufactures, assembles, imports into the state, exports out of the state, distributes, advertises, sells, or leases, or offers for sale or lease: (1) a communication device with an intent to: (A) aid in the commission of an offense under Section 31.12 or 31.13; or (B) conceal from a communication service provider, or from any lawful authority, the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication;
I rarely read slashdot. Do the trolls even try any more?
Oh, wait.. no.
It's not competition, it's exploitation. I am all for free trade between similarly developed nations, but that's not what we have with the India/Pakistan situation. We have people in impoverished nations willing to work for squat, and US companies willing to exploit them. US developers lose, foreign developers lose, and the companies win.
The problem is, your "good old days" never existed.
When if a product was well written and did its job, it would sell...
TurboTax has no trouble selling millions of copies, activation or no. Tax software is naturally susceptible to casual copying - lending discs to family and friends. Intuit felt they needed a way to combat this. Not defending them, I switched from TurboTax to TaxCut this year specifically because of the activation software.
When you didn't need copy protection and activation screens.
You're kidding, right? Copy protection is a failed experiment, a throwback to your good old days of computing. Back then, copy protection was much worse than it is now. There was software that wrote data onto the install media so you could only install it in one place at a time. Even Lotus 1-2-3 locked its executable to a specific area of your hard drive to prevent copying to a different computer. Defrag your drive, and forget about using your spreadsheets.
Software companys generated revenue through customer loyalty (as opposed to customer extortion)
You have obviously completely forgotten the word processor wars of the early to mid 80s. Dozens of different file formats, unreadable by competing products.
You could install a software program without worrying if doing so would completely screw up your computer, other programs, or wipe out all your data.
See above. Lots of old software did very nasty things in the name of copy protection.
PSX modchips were not illegal until after the DMCA took effect. The DMCA was the first law that took aim at so-called circumvention devices. I'm not sure how cable descramblers are proof, they weren't illegal before the DMCA either.
Please explain how concert taping is a form of pirating. I fail to see it that way. Most artists are either in favor of, or indifferent to, taping. As long as no money is changing hands, most artists don't mind the extra publicity and exposure. The people who trade tapes are the band's most loyal fans, the ones who've been to multiple shows on every tour for the past 20 years. And this submitter has the nerve to call them pirates. It's already an awful fucking word for copying music, but I have never heard someone call tape trading the oldest form of piracy. Piracy is when someone tries to sell bootlegs at a flea market, not when a loyal fan trades an old favorite for a show he just saw.
I hope this new service can coexist with taping. It is up to the bands and promoters to realize that allowing taping is a good move, even if they could make some cash from this Clear Channel instant CD service.
Lately Tivo hasn't been hacker-friendly either, the Series2 boxes will only boot a protected kernel. This prevents most hacking, although you can still upgrade the drive size.
When new OS and BIOS is installed, it gets another PC
Yes, but only after it puts the lotion in the basket.
1.4% voted yes
.9% voted no
97.7% voted for Cindy Margolis
Also, 34% pressed 111 to indicate that they wanted to cyber.
This is already done. There is a pay service that requires people to validate themselves before you receive their e-mails. Unfortunately I don't remember the name, but it works pretty much as you described except it's a separate company and not a service provided by ISPs.
And if this proposal ever happens I'll be on a 'non-coalition' ISP the next day. I'll go back to 56k if I have to, rather than give my money to a bunch of providers who sign pink contracts with each other.
What is it with these story submitters and the inane comments they attach to the story? I seriously doubt "RT Alec" would have been a VIP guest at the conference if he feels port 25 blocking is the solution to spam.
I think the key problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25.
No.. the ISPs that block port 25 already care about spam, they just block it to reduce their administrative load. It reduces the spam cases they have to deal with - but they still cut off spammers. If they didn't block 25, they'd still cut off the spammers. The actual problem is ISPs that don't care about spam. These ISPs don't deal with their spammers so how can you expect them to block port 25?
If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by 50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam I receive)
Funny, I base this statistic on the fact that you pulled it out of your ass. AOL has had spam problems, but they do deal with their spammers. It's ludicrous to suggest that they are responsible for half of all the spam on the Internet.
Tell me "RT Alec," how is port 25 blocking going to deal with rogue ISPs, who have a bulletproof connection through Verio? How about the clueless open relays that dot the maps of China, Brazil, and Argentina? What about for users of business DSL? Do we say, "you can't use your own corporate SMTP server, because you could be a spammer and we don't want to bother to deal with it?"
Dish > Banana > Ice cream > Chocolate syrup > Whipped cream > Sprinkles > Cherries > Spoon
mmmmm...
Is Jot called the block recognizer in PocketPC? Because if it is, it's almost exactly like graffiti. Block recognizer on my ipaq works with most graffiti strokes, although there are a few annoying differences. Many of the undocumented strokes don't work on PocketPC - e.g. you can't draw a B by writing 3 in the letter area. It makes you draw the full letter which is a pain in the ass.
Besides that, doesn't seem like there's much difference. How is graffiti infringement, but Jot isn't?
they never agreed to show you their content without you seeing their ads
That's not how it works, really. There's no contract, so neither party is bound by it. The agreement doesn't 'default' to a state where I can only use the website in the way that they intended. What you're saying is that they're not required to show me content without ads.. which is true, of course. They're also not required to make their website pink, or serve pages at a certain speed, or send me free money.