The license will apply to GPL v3 licensed components of (say) Linux (like the GNU utils or tools) that will be caused to be conveyed by Microsoft because they issued these coupons that don't have a expiry date. However that gives people like Novell the choice of either forking and duplicating a lot of work on keeping the GPL v2 bugfixed and working. Or distributing the newer GPL v3 components that everyone else is using.
It doesn't apply to current GPL v2 software.
The GPL v3 distribution license will apply to distributed and MSFT will be dragged into this because they are paying someone else to distrbute the bits. Eben Moglen and his collegues are not idiots (strangely enough)
Ars Technica has a similar article.
There is an almost Onionic (Python -> Pythonic) moment in the article:
Criticism from the music industry has come fast and furious in the wake of the government's decision. "Thousands of musicians have no pensions and rely on royalties to support themselves," said Roger Daltry, lead singer of The Who. "These people helped to create one of Britain's most successful industries, poured money into the British economy and enriched people's lives. They are not asking for a handout, just a fair reward for their creative endeavors."
Wait a mo, that's Roger "Hope I die before I get old" Daltry? The irony! That will fall into the public domain in November 5, 2015. Happy Bonfire Night! This is my generation, baby:-)
Do the back of the envelope calculation. It less than you think and a drop in the bucket for all the intercept data NSA collects.
They are recording call information for traffic analysis (and social analysis) not call content that means they need:
The orginating phone number including country code (that's 16 digits or 5 bytes)
The destination phone number including country code (that's 16 digits or 5 bytes)
The datetime (that's 14 digits with 1 second accuracy or 4 bytes)
Call duration (that's 6 digits with second accuracy is more than enough or 2 bytes)
That's 54 digits or 27 bytes per call. With more efficient coding you could make it smaller.
So for international calls to/from the US you have about 10**8 or so calls per day. There are plenty of ways to store this data in a more efficient manner (i.e. one phone number as a integer would fit in 5 bytes; 4 bytes or datatime would be plenty). Or sparse arrays or dictionary style methods of storage would trim this futher. So 2.7GB per day in the worst case. Or 1.6GB per day in my binary scheme. Probably less.
What do they use this info for?
I suspect they do social analysis after they have a crib that they can work from given the problems of trying to infer social networks from raw call data. Though they could certainly identify numbers with particular charateristics (high call volume to countries of interest; periodic calls; aperiodic calls; calls at odd times; sequences of calls (A calls B calls C calls D in a given time period; connector-like calling A gets a call then calls B C D E F etc). Read The Tipping Point or Linked or Six Degrees to get an idea of the topology of social networks that might apply. The sort of topology to look for might also be infered from previously captured cell phones or previous intercepts or pervious intelligence on tradecraft used by AQ.
Nut most of their use is when they have information that a call was made to a given number from another known AQ or other terrorist group source (from a captured cell phone or laptop, interrogation, intercept, financal transaction, etc). Then they use the database to determine possible contacts.
Post attack they can use the information to looks for the links behind the attackers once identified (going for their support systems).
One they've determine possible contacts then they use that information to get FISA warrents to do "real" taps (to get the phone conversation contents on future calls) or other surveillence on the numbers associated with the number they know if linked to AQ.
Unlike most of the posters here I suspect this international call data is just added to a big database and queries are made against that database by the NSA/CIA alone (not just anyone in the government). Most of the data is never looked at because as everyone likes to point out most people are innocent.
I suspect they don't archive the US call data and reply on the providers to provide the calling info though there is a possibility they do slurp that data (but there is a lot more of that then international calls). The question for NSA here would be how long do the phone companies keep that data. In that case (and if they want to do their own processing on the data they may be taking all of that data too. Now that might be a win for a hard disk makers.
Origami and UMPC (remember Apple uses modified Intel platforms). The current versions aren't good enough (too heavy; too short battery life and crap (Windows) software).
The arrival of Merom and it's low voltage (LV) variant later this year or in 2007. This will help the battery life.
The speculation on a Mac Tablet (Apple Pantents and Ink in the system)
Increasing size of flash drives and Samsungs hybrid flash drives. This is going to be the biggest change in the next few years. The power consumption doesn't drop as much as you'd like but the heat drops a bit and the speed improvements are significant. MSFT is pushing the hybrids for Vista for fast booting. Apple will use them.
I think we might think that MWSF 2007 or perhaps WWDC 2007 might bring some interesting new hardware. Either lighter all-in-one notebooks as Jobs seems averse to dongles or tablets. Or perhaps (on the other side of the Mac/iPod divide) the fabled iPhone. For now Apple just has to ship the first Intel Mac in each of their product areas. Big innovation comes later.
One interesting point about the Macbook is how much it will weigh? How well will it compete against the Sony SZ at 4lbs? They "only" have to shed 0.7lb to get there with all the peripherials.
This speaks to a pricing issue Apple is going to have with this product. The 12" Albook has always been in a precarious position with fewer and fewer differentiating factors to justify the price. With the bottom end of the market moving down Apple has to do something if they want to price this over $1000. Light weight is one feature to sell, especially if Apple can deliver a Core Duo at "nearly 4lbs" for much less than $2000. There are Windows users who'd buy these machines but they're not bottom feeders. So like the mini don't expet bargain basement pricing (yet, Apple will reduce the price later).
I just don't think there's much room here for anything more than one each of Solo or Duo models (a la the Intel mini) with similar features to the Intel mac mini. And outside possibility is extra model. The third would be a 12" Albook replacement with ATI graphics (or both ATI and integrated graphics like the Sony SZ) but with the same apperancee and basic design as the
Hopefully the movable keyboard (like the iBook) will be replaced with the much nice fixed Albook like keyboard.
The misdirected mail mentioned on macintouch seems to imply black or white as a choice. Just like the iPod.
Me: What do you think, how much percent of the users use the Windows, FreeBSD and other ports?
Diego: The Windows port will probably get popular once we commit the Windows GUI, which should happen soon; already some people seem to use the command line version on Windows. MPlayer OS X is popular as well.
I use MPlayer all the time on Mac OS X.
The problem is seeing any visible progress on this port. Or even fixing major bugs and releasing a build.
The current release is the MPlayer-dev-CVS-050904.dmg (i.e. September 4th 2005). This release had a massive bug that rendered the playlist an unusable -- you could add items to it. And the menu bar was not being hidden in full screen mode on the default video renderer. I'd label both of these showstoppers (breaks major functionality) and would expect a fix. It's now 8 months later and not even a dev CVS build.
So I continue to the use the MPlayer-dev-CVS-050724.dmg version.
I've never been able to find nightly builds of the Mac OS X port, either. Not through lack of trying but maybe I missed something.
Is any active development taking place on the Mac version?
This came up on the report on NPR's Morning Edition.
The researchers were so suprised by the results one posited (a fellow Brit who doesn't actually know any Americans, I suspect:-) that "Americans are prone to say yes to all the questions".
So they went out an actually measured the incidence of disease markers themselves rather than just doing the self-reporting.
These objective measurements gave the same results.
The actuarial data for life expectancy is based on measured mortality (not morbidity). So it is always a lagging indicator. Only the dead count.
The study talks about health issues for (alive!) people aged 55 to 64.
It's quite possible that the disease represented in this group will start killing off American or perhaps Amaerican health care will do heric things at great expense to keep some of then alive. Then it will impact the actuarial data.
The inverse of suggestions 3 and 4 in your post are posited by one researcher as why UK has better results: everyone has health care in the UK so there is no barrier to going to see the doctor early about a problem which may be easier to treat on early discovery. The US certainly has these barriers placed by health insurance (or lack of it).
Quote: Speaking of Words, you notice the inverse relationship? Word, Excel, Windows... MS turns dictionary words into trademarks, while their competators do the opposite.
Err, no.
As these are either generic words or have trademark collisions with others in a similar business they have never been trademarked. Ever since the fight over "Windows(TM)", that Microsoft lost, the trademarks Microsoft uses are compound ones.
The trademarks are "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Excel", and "Microsoft Windows".
It's a general feature of Microsoft legal to use compund trademarks with components that are either generic or owned already by Microsoft.
This has lead to such memorable product names as:
"Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java for Windows CE, Handheld PC Edition" (TM)
replace "edition name" as needed.
I kid you not. I actually burst out laughing in the meeting that was announced. The longest product name for a think that took us 18 months to develop and lasted for 8 weeks on the web site before the Sun legal challenge.
I've been spending a lot of time researching the specifications for the $100 laptop (my info comes from interviews or talks given by Jepson and Negoroponte).
I still have more to write up about the software system.
But little hint: think about where Alan Kay comes from. Smalltalk. The Dynabook. Constructivist learning.
This is not a "linux laptop" as most of you know it (linux kernel + X + GNU tools + a Window manager). This is a Squeak/Linux laptop not a GNU/Linux (to parallel the nomenclature). This is the Dynabook that finally ships to lots of people.
The user will live in a Squeak (i.e. Smalltalk) world. They'll have everything they need to modify the system. In Smalltalk. With other systems on top of it (yes, you can write browsers and email and everything else in Smalltalk and the user can modify it if they should wish. I suspect that it will also ship with Kay's current research systems like Scratch and possibly Croquet
Yeah, MS is immortal. Like the British Empire, when you're that rich and powerful nothing can change it.
And just like the British Empire it will take years to fall apart under external pressure.
Historical note: the Empire was at it's peak during the Edawrdian years -- 1901 through to 1914. The First World War changed the Empire but didn't break it up. It wasn't until then end of the Second World War that the Empire started to come apart and 1948 (with Indian Independence) that the Empire finally ceased to be an Empire and perhaps 1956 and the Suez crisis for the government to realize that it wasn't as big a player as they used to be.
Note that 50 to 60 years for something that had been assembled over the previous 300 to 350 or so years. Empires don't die quickly especially if they add value in some way.
MSFT is in the stagnation period perhaps before the fall but don't hold your breath. It's not the Soviet Union. It won't implode over in a year or so. Maybe over 10 years or so.
In the US for licenses below 30MHz you still have to show the ability to receive at 5wpm. It's not a difficult standard.
Since the last WARC the rule requiring morse was removed and the requirement left to the discretion of the the issuing authority. A large number of countries (including most of the European CEPT countries) have dropped the requirement.
I expect the US to drop the requirement in the next few years (once a few more old fogies die off... it's a character issue:-)
BTW, I still like CW for low power (QRP) work but modern digital techniques give it a very strong run for it's money. But it's no more a useful requirement than being able to whistle the RTTY idle tones
Did it reveal the ransom they paid? Of course not.
The one thing the Italians have ignored is "how much ransom did they pay" to get their people released?
Every lira they paid is being used to kill Coalition (US and British, mostly but with a little luck some Italians too until they pull them out) and, of course, Iraqis. Lots of Iraqis.
That's why they didn't mention too much about their presence on the airport road that night.
So they want to prosecute Americans for this? Perhaps we should be prosecuting the Itialian government for supporting terrorists?
BTW, if anyone wants to see how difficult a soliders job is in the Iraq (and sometime how difficult they can make it for themselves) watch the Frontline show (pbs.org) "A Soldiers Story").
"Is that cat lost or is that a car bomb?"
"Why did he speed up after you fired the warning shots?"
Sal and his son Sammy were driving down the road. A car ran into them and killed Sal. Sammy was rushed to the ER for an emergency surgery. The surgeon came in and said, "I can't help him, he is my son, Sammy."
How could this happen?
The answer is the surgeon is.... Sal's mother. Yes, women can be doctors too.
It would finally be time in 2005 to make the Doctor Who a woman and the companion a male. I mean this is the 21st century and there seems to be nothing in the setup that requires the Doctor to be a male.
The whitehouse is also modified but with some subtlety.
The roofs of the whilehouse and the executive office buildings have had neutral colored boxes placed over them. There are no details of the roofs (for obvious reasons, entries and protective devices I presume are concealed).
Gaining access to DirecTV's signal requires hacking proprietary hardware. If PC-based players are ever allowed, reverse engineering will be along the same lines as last time around. It's just so easy to monitor everything your computer is doing in real-time, especially with the help of emulators like QEMU, Bochs, VMware, or Virtual PC.
Yes, on the PC of today.
But not on a Palladium (Next-Generation Secure Computing Base) PC of tomorrow.
That's the way they'll make this scheme secure on PCs. If you don't have NGSCB PC then you won't ever see HD DVDs play.
They'll use this to force NGSCB onto companies like Apple too.
But your comments aren't actually relevant to what's being dicussed as the GPL says in the last paragraph of Section 2 "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License."
This approach doesn't get rid of keyloggers running under Windows capturing the keys on their way to QEMU -- they get to see all the keys typed into the box and that is probably enough for password capture.
Whatever system you use the OS needs a secure channel to the keyboard. That is guaranteed by booting from the CD (except for hardware key capture -- but you can't defend against that).
It seems like an irrelvant question but which distro does Linus use?
I can see thee major options:
1. His own (seems very Linus but maintainace might be a problem if he likes a lot of things but if he was just a terminal all the time guy then this wouldn't be so bad).
2. Fedora Core PPC or Yellowdog
3. Debian PPC
4. Maybe Gentoo?
Does anyone know?
I've STFW (and STFUsenetGroups too) but haven't come up with a good search query.
The set deliberately omits vowels to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive."
Remeber this isn't people genereating these things... its a machine. And if you are in business you don't want to f3ck people off.
Actually this resulted from a bug report on a different product. as a suggestion of an intern in a big meeting to fix these "swear words" bug. All around him Devs and PMs trying to come up with complext solution for why their encoding would occasionally generate 4 letter words.
The intern suggested removing the vowels so you can't create any words. And then strolled off into the sunset.
At least that's the way it is told:-)
It passed into MSFT folklore and obviously was remebered by the designer of the format.
Most of the web sites people mention here are (like suprnova.org -- in Slovenia... good luck MPAA working through the courts there:-) are just web sites lisiting torrent files for download not actual bittorrent trackers.
MPAA will have an uphill battle with trying to close down these torrent file distributing web sites especially if they don't run BT trackers.
Some sites are both (in fact with something like Azureus it's easy to be a tracker for your own files... I've even done it accidently) but he big ones are just web sites.
They might have an easier time with the small sites running trackers themselves especially when they are DynDNS names for home sites. Sending a cease and desist order to the ISP will knock these people off the net for awhile but won't give them the publicity they desire in the court cases.
The upshot will be modifications in they way the trackers and torrent file sites are run. There are more and more private BT sites out there (you'll need an invite to get in).
Trackers will move off shore. More trackers will go private. But sharing will still continue. MPAA is trying RIAA scare tactics (upping the odds a bit but its basically the same) to try to make sure the average joe doesn't start doing this.
They will also pressume ISPs (probably trying to argue contributory infringment) for not filtering their connections and chocking connections. Some ISPs already do this. It's all the more reason to not use the standard ports any more (nothings really tied to those port numbers... use numbers from the private ports block above 49xxx). Some ISPs are looking for the BT handshake to throttle connections and the next BT protocol will probably evolve to make this handshake encrypted to avoid detection.
The bottom line is there is a new business model in BT (especially TV over BT). Some one might get smart enough to realize this in the next few years.
MPAA will also avoid going after TV sharing for a while. Arguing that this guy stole our valuable IP by downloading an episode of CSI:Miami won't go over bit with any juries.
Actually road damage goes by the cube of the axle weight so you really should charge based on the cube of the axle weight and directly proportional to the milage.
i.e. charge is proportional to milage * (total_weight/count_of_axles)**3
This would hit transportation (cargo and people) most but they're the ones mostly messing up the roads. So it's not done.
Slashdot Mirror
Please keep up at the back.
The license will apply to GPL v3 licensed components of (say) Linux (like the GNU utils or tools) that will be caused to be conveyed by Microsoft because they issued these coupons that don't have a expiry date. However that gives people like Novell the choice of either forking and duplicating a lot of work on keeping the GPL v2 bugfixed and working. Or distributing the newer GPL v3 components that everyone else is using.
It doesn't apply to current GPL v2 software.
The GPL v3 distribution license will apply to distributed and MSFT will be dragged into this because they are paying someone else to distrbute the bits. Eben Moglen and his collegues are not idiots (strangely enough)
Two easier to read commentaries in Nature and Science
Hmmm, they find iPod Solitaire is written in ROT-13 encoded SNOBOL using an interpreter called SNOJOB?
... which if I ROT13 then XOR with a fiboonacci sequence I find is ....
:-)
And the issue number is vol 20, number 4
April. Hmmmm
I pitty da Fool, etc, etc.
OK, its designed for kids not syadmins. It's not a "linux box" it's a computer that runs the linux kernel.
But in the XO B1 version shift-F6 brings up a terminal with a shell in it.
They are recording call information for traffic analysis (and social analysis) not call content that means they need:
That's 54 digits or 27 bytes per call. With more efficient coding you could make it smaller.
So for international calls to/from the US you have about 10**8 or so calls per day. There are plenty of ways to store this data in a more efficient manner (i.e. one phone number as a integer would fit in 5 bytes; 4 bytes or datatime would be plenty). Or sparse arrays or dictionary style methods of storage would trim this futher. So 2.7GB per day in the worst case. Or 1.6GB per day in my binary scheme. Probably less.
What do they use this info for?
I suspect they do social analysis after they have a crib that they can work from given the problems of trying to infer social networks from raw call data. Though they could certainly identify numbers with particular charateristics (high call volume to countries of interest; periodic calls; aperiodic calls; calls at odd times; sequences of calls (A calls B calls C calls D in a given time period; connector-like calling A gets a call then calls B C D E F etc). Read The Tipping Point or Linked or Six Degrees to get an idea of the topology of social networks that might apply. The sort of topology to look for might also be infered from previously captured cell phones or previous intercepts or pervious intelligence on tradecraft used by AQ.
Nut most of their use is when they have information that a call was made to a given number from another known AQ or other terrorist group source (from a captured cell phone or laptop, interrogation, intercept, financal transaction, etc). Then they use the database to determine possible contacts.
Post attack they can use the information to looks for the links behind the attackers once identified (going for their support systems).
One they've determine possible contacts then they use that information to get FISA warrents to do "real" taps (to get the phone conversation contents on future calls) or other surveillence on the numbers associated with the number they know if linked to AQ.
Unlike most of the posters here I suspect this international call data is just added to a big database and queries are made against that database by the NSA/CIA alone (not just anyone in the government). Most of the data is never looked at because as everyone likes to point out most people are innocent.
I suspect they don't archive the US call data and reply on the providers to provide the calling info though there is a possibility they do slurp that data (but there is a lot more of that then international calls). The question for NSA here would be how long do the phone companies keep that data. In that case (and if they want to do their own processing on the data they may be taking all of that data too. Now that might be a win for a hard disk makers.
I think we might think that MWSF 2007 or perhaps WWDC 2007 might bring some interesting new hardware. Either lighter all-in-one notebooks as Jobs seems averse to dongles or tablets. Or perhaps (on the other side of the Mac/iPod divide) the fabled iPhone. For now Apple just has to ship the first Intel Mac in each of their product areas. Big innovation comes later.
One interesting point about the Macbook is how much it will weigh? How well will it compete against the Sony SZ at 4lbs? They "only" have to shed 0.7lb to get there with all the peripherials.
This speaks to a pricing issue Apple is going to have with this product. The 12" Albook has always been in a precarious position with fewer and fewer differentiating factors to justify the price. With the bottom end of the market moving down Apple has to do something if they want to price this over $1000. Light weight is one feature to sell, especially if Apple can deliver a Core Duo at "nearly 4lbs" for much less than $2000. There are Windows users who'd buy these machines but they're not bottom feeders. So like the mini don't expet bargain basement pricing (yet, Apple will reduce the price later).
I just don't think there's much room here for anything more than one each of Solo or Duo models (a la the Intel mini) with similar features to the Intel mac mini. And outside possibility is extra model. The third would be a 12" Albook replacement with ATI graphics (or both ATI and integrated graphics like the Sony SZ) but with the same apperancee and basic design as the
Hopefully the movable keyboard (like the iBook) will be replaced with the much nice fixed Albook like keyboard.
The misdirected mail mentioned on macintouch seems to imply black or white as a choice. Just like the iPod.
I use MPlayer all the time on Mac OS X.
The problem is seeing any visible progress on this port. Or even fixing major bugs and releasing a build.
The current release is the MPlayer-dev-CVS-050904.dmg (i.e. September 4th 2005). This release had a massive bug that rendered the playlist an unusable -- you could add items to it. And the menu bar was not being hidden in full screen mode on the default video renderer. I'd label both of these showstoppers (breaks major functionality) and would expect a fix. It's now 8 months later and not even a dev CVS build.
So I continue to the use the MPlayer-dev-CVS-050724.dmg version.
I've never been able to find nightly builds of the Mac OS X port, either. Not through lack of trying but maybe I missed something.
Is any active development taking place on the Mac version?
This came up on the report on NPR's Morning Edition.
:-) that "Americans are prone to say yes to all the questions".
The researchers were so suprised by the results one posited (a fellow Brit who doesn't actually know any Americans, I suspect
So they went out an actually measured the incidence of disease markers themselves rather than just doing the self-reporting.
These objective measurements gave the same results.
Perhaps not strange at all.
The actuarial data for life expectancy is based on measured mortality (not morbidity). So it is always a lagging indicator. Only the dead count.
The study talks about health issues for (alive!) people aged 55 to 64.
It's quite possible that the disease represented in this group will start killing off American or perhaps Amaerican health care will do heric things at great expense to keep some of then alive. Then it will impact the actuarial data.
The inverse of suggestions 3 and 4 in your post are posited by one researcher as why UK has better results: everyone has health care in the UK so there is no barrier to going to see the doctor early about a problem which may be easier to treat on early discovery. The US certainly has these barriers placed by health insurance (or lack of it).
Quote: Speaking of Words, you notice the inverse relationship? Word, Excel, Windows... MS turns dictionary words into trademarks, while their competators do the opposite.
Err, no.
As these are either generic words or have trademark collisions with others in a similar business they have never been trademarked. Ever since the fight over "Windows(TM)", that Microsoft lost, the trademarks Microsoft uses are compound ones.
The trademarks are "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Excel", and "Microsoft Windows".
It's a general feature of Microsoft legal to use compund trademarks with components that are either generic or owned already by Microsoft.
This has lead to such memorable product names as:
"Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java for Windows CE, Handheld PC Edition" (TM)
replace "edition name" as needed.
I kid you not. I actually burst out laughing in the meeting that was announced. The longest product name for a think that took us 18 months to develop and lasted for 8 weeks on the web site before the Sun legal challenge.
Everything I've found out I've written up in the $100 laptop Wikipedia article.
I still have more to write up about the software system.
But little hint: think about where Alan Kay comes from. Smalltalk. The Dynabook. Constructivist learning.
This is not a "linux laptop" as most of you know it (linux kernel + X + GNU tools + a Window manager). This is a Squeak/Linux laptop not a GNU/Linux (to parallel the nomenclature). This is the Dynabook that finally ships to lots of people.
The user will live in a Squeak (i.e. Smalltalk) world. They'll have everything they need to modify the system. In Smalltalk. With other systems on top of it (yes, you can write browsers and email and everything else in Smalltalk and the user can modify it if they should wish. I suspect that it will also ship with Kay's current research systems like Scratch and possibly Croquet
And just like the British Empire it will take years to fall apart under external pressure.
Historical note: the Empire was at it's peak during the Edawrdian years -- 1901 through to 1914. The First World War changed the Empire but didn't break it up. It wasn't until then end of the Second World War that the Empire started to come apart and 1948 (with Indian Independence) that the Empire finally ceased to be an Empire and perhaps 1956 and the Suez crisis for the government to realize that it wasn't as big a player as they used to be.
Note that 50 to 60 years for something that had been assembled over the previous 300 to 350 or so years. Empires don't die quickly especially if they add value in some way.
MSFT is in the stagnation period perhaps before the fall but don't hold your breath. It's not the Soviet Union. It won't implode over in a year or so. Maybe over 10 years or so.
In the US for licenses below 30MHz you still have to show the ability to receive at 5wpm. It's not a difficult standard.
... it's a character issue :-)
Since the last WARC the rule requiring morse was removed and the requirement left to the discretion of the the issuing authority. A large number of countries (including most of the European CEPT countries) have dropped the requirement.
I expect the US to drop the requirement in the next few years (once a few more old fogies die off
BTW, I still like CW for low power (QRP) work but modern digital techniques give it a very strong run for it's money. But it's no more a useful requirement than being able to whistle the RTTY idle tones
RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
73 DE N7WIM
Did it reveal the ransom they paid? Of course not.
...
The one thing the Italians have ignored is "how much ransom did they pay" to get their people released?
Every lira they paid is being used to kill Coalition (US and British, mostly but with a little luck some Italians too until they pull them out) and, of course, Iraqis. Lots of Iraqis.
That's why they didn't mention too much about their presence on the airport road that night.
So they want to prosecute Americans for this? Perhaps we should be prosecuting the Itialian government for supporting terrorists?
BTW, if anyone wants to see how difficult a soliders job is in the Iraq (and sometime how difficult they can make it for themselves) watch the Frontline show (pbs.org) "A Soldiers Story").
"Is that cat lost or is that a car bomb?"
"Why did he speed up after you fired the warning shots?"
It's a difficult job
The answer is the surgeon is
It would finally be time in 2005 to make the Doctor Who a woman and the companion a male. I mean this is the 21st century and there seems to be nothing in the setup that requires the Doctor to be a male.
The whitehouse is also modified but with some subtlety.
The roofs of the whilehouse and the executive office buildings have had neutral colored boxes placed over them. There are no details of the roofs (for obvious reasons, entries and protective devices I presume are concealed).
Yes, on the PC of today.
But not on a Palladium (Next-Generation Secure Computing Base) PC of tomorrow.
That's the way they'll make this scheme secure on PCs. If you don't have NGSCB PC then you won't ever see HD DVDs play.
They'll use this to force NGSCB onto companies like Apple too.
But your comments aren't actually relevant to what's being dicussed as the GPL says in the last paragraph of Section 2 "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License."
This approach doesn't get rid of keyloggers running under Windows capturing the keys on their way to QEMU -- they get to see all the keys typed into the box and that is probably enough for password capture.
Whatever system you use the OS needs a secure channel to the keyboard. That is guaranteed by booting from the CD (except for hardware key capture -- but you can't defend against that).
It seems like an irrelvant question but which distro does Linus use?
I can see thee major options:
1. His own (seems very Linus but maintainace might be a problem if he likes a lot of things but if he was just a terminal all the time guy then this wouldn't be so bad).
2. Fedora Core PPC or Yellowdog
3. Debian PPC
4. Maybe Gentoo?
Does anyone know?
I've STFW (and STFUsenetGroups too) but haven't come up with a good search query.
Well, if we can get it into the cache this this coralized link might help.
:-)
Booms might help by seeing if he can force it into the cache
Remeber this isn't people genereating these things
Actually this resulted from a bug report on a different product. as a suggestion of an intern in a big meeting to fix these "swear words" bug. All around him Devs and PMs trying to come up with complext solution for why their encoding would occasionally generate 4 letter words.
The intern suggested removing the vowels so you can't create any words. And then strolled off into the sunset.
At least that's the way it is told
It passed into MSFT folklore and obviously was remebered by the designer of the format.
Most of the web sites people mention here are (like suprnova.org -- in Slovenia ... good luck MPAA working through the courts there :-) are just web sites lisiting torrent files for download not actual bittorrent trackers.
... I've even done it accidently) but he big ones are just web sites.
... use numbers from the private ports block above 49xxx). Some ISPs are looking for the BT handshake to throttle connections and the next BT protocol will probably evolve to make this handshake encrypted to avoid detection.
MPAA will have an uphill battle with trying to close down these torrent file distributing web sites especially if they don't run BT trackers.
Some sites are both (in fact with something like Azureus it's easy to be a tracker for your own files
They might have an easier time with the small sites running trackers themselves especially when they are DynDNS names for home sites. Sending a cease and desist order to the ISP will knock these people off the net for awhile but won't give them the publicity they desire in the court cases.
The upshot will be modifications in they way the trackers and torrent file sites are run. There are more and more private BT sites out there (you'll need an invite to get in).
Trackers will move off shore. More trackers will go private. But sharing will still continue. MPAA is trying RIAA scare tactics (upping the odds a bit but its basically the same) to try to make sure the average joe doesn't start doing this.
They will also pressume ISPs (probably trying to argue contributory infringment) for not filtering their connections and chocking connections. Some ISPs already do this. It's all the more reason to not use the standard ports any more (nothings really tied to those port numbers
The bottom line is there is a new business model in BT (especially TV over BT). Some one might get smart enough to realize this in the next few years.
MPAA will also avoid going after TV sharing for a while. Arguing that this guy stole our valuable IP by downloading an episode of CSI:Miami won't go over bit with any juries.
Actually road damage goes by the cube of the axle weight so you really should charge based on the cube of the axle weight and directly proportional to the milage.
i.e. charge is proportional to milage * (total_weight/count_of_axles)**3
This would hit transportation (cargo and people) most but they're the ones mostly messing up the roads. So it's not done.