Software companies have more testers than developers or they create crap software.
Reproducing a problem is half the work of fixing it, or you can never
know what caused it and if you fixed it. Don't discount them.
Fingerprints make terrible biometric keys because you leave
your fingerprint everywhere, unlike your password or retinal
scan. Yes, fingerprints give that
cool "we take security seriosly" aura, but are false
security. Gelatin fingerprints are easy to construct
from a fingerprint image, and difficult to detect when
worn. Moreover once your fingerprint is compromised
it is difficult to change. Doh!!!
Bill Gates, what protections are you taking to ensure your DRM is not used anti-competitively
and illegally by your customers and yourself? Likewise for copyright malfeasance.
What are you doing to ensure testimony (and our culture) is not criminally rewritten or
supressed by these DRM systems?
What are you doing to allow consumers to correctly identify the DRM encumberances
and jepardies of the crap they may be fooled to consume?
Would you retroactively extend copyright again and perpetually if you could? What
are you doing to stop your DRM systems from doing it?
If you could stop all GPL software with patents, would you?
The verb is to "tamp". It makes an explosion more effective by
physically constraining it. For example a stick of dynamite if
left on a road will create a pothole a foot or two deep. Whereas
several sandbags placed on top will create a crater multiple
feet deep. The improvement results from directing the
explosive force, but also by helping the explosive fully combust.
In fact the need to tamp is the difference between a "high"
and "low" explosive. The later being able to burn under the
right conditions.
Luckily Kerry would face a Republican majority in the House and Senate, so
he will not get what he wants. Bush on the other hand
has suceeded at more deficit spending that any other president in
history. Some would argue that Reagan's genius was deficit
spending, which hand-tied a democratic president from social
spending even twelve years after Reagan left office.
Once upon a time, OS/2 from IBM competed with MS Windows 3.1. IBM enhanced
OS/2 to run MSWindows programs, in an attempt to make OS/2
more valuable. Arguably, OS/2 ran Windows programs better than MSWindows
because OS/2 had inter-process memory protection and pre-emptive instead
of cooperative multi-tasking.
Suprisingly, this compatability was a huge win for Microsoft.
3rd party developers wishing to support both platforms would write for
the MSWindows ABI instead of OS/2. I hope this OS/2 syndrome his
Microsft when Longhorn can run RedHat binaries.
Do not take the landlord's word for anything. In your lease add language that you can cancel the lease in writing up to two week after it was signed if you determine the facility does not have XXX sustainable amps of electric service.
Nonetheless, they already have private property except from the government who
can basically take whatever they want. For the purposes of GPL and
selling software, this is probably sufficient.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not infringement of copyrights:
(i) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction,...
Nonetheless we live in a society of copyright extremists. Plese mention the Eldred Act in your political contributions to make copyrights lapse after 50 years unless re-registered with a $1 fee per year. You know, write it on the memo section of your $20 check. Also joining the EFF helps. Thanks.
So where are we storing all this prior art, indexed by patent number,
with leagally supportable dates?
Open Source has done well in legal challenges so
far by the quality of our research.
The research is what makes litigation so expensive, and lawyers are
cripled without it.
The next big Open Source challenge
will come from patents. We should
start now, but where?
A loophole in the GPL is becomming increasingly clear, making the LGPL and GPL equivalent.
Use two separate groups of developers. The first builds proprietary code with an
incompatible ABI. The second modifies the GPL code to mate with the
proprietary one.
Do you have a timeline + evidence of Microsoft doing this to another technology?
Version 7 of Windows Media Player removed the ability to install.mov support. Version 8 removed streaming AVI and MP3 support. I apologize for not having objective data on decoding quality.
Not suprisingly all the music sites (except Apple) now use WMA, even though MP3 goes off patent soon, and Ogg has better bandwidth efficiency.
You assume flash will continue to work well in MSIE?
Slowly it will break and become unreliable. The graphics rendering will have errors.
The resolution will be lower and the colors not right.
Some javascript autodetection methods will fail.
CPU performance will suffer.
etc...
It will happen first through security updates, then the new release.
Maybe installation of MSOffice or DirectX 10 will cause it.
There will be rumors of a security hole in the flash player.
Eventually it will be unavoidable, and designers will decide WVG is less trouble.
Yes, and I do not care if a few paranoid companies use
this internally for financial documents, but if half the
web decides Microsoft-only browsers are sufficient,
because they want deny people the ability to print....
Yes, so if we could teach the upper layer PPP
to detect duplicate packets (like a hash table
of payload hashes for the last thousand),
and drop them because the underlying layer is
reliable, although sometimes slow, then we would enjoy
tunneling through braindead NAT's of every
hotspot.
A spammer did my domain too, but nearly every bounce claimed a different
source, thus too much work to report every one.
Luckily, in my case every email hawked generic viagra
from China. After a week and a half I finally called
Pfizer and reported the website. The emails stopped
shortly after that and I was never sure if they were
related. The website is gone now too.
I have seen spam for anti-spam software, but why
not for anti-spam retribution services.
Of course, I would never advocate violence.:-/
I just realized that when Microsoft (and Sun) paid SCO $10M
in early May, SCO's market cap was like $30M.
How much earlier did the negotiations
start? Was it two months earlier when the market cap hit a low of $13M?
Would you license just an API (as
SCO claims), instead of buying a controlling interest for less?
yeah... right.
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Software companies have more testers than developers or they create crap software. Reproducing a problem is half the work of fixing it, or you can never know what caused it and if you fixed it. Don't discount them.
Fingerprints make terrible biometric keys because you leave your fingerprint everywhere, unlike your password or retinal scan. Yes, fingerprints give that cool "we take security seriosly" aura, but are false security. Gelatin fingerprints are easy to construct from a fingerprint image, and difficult to detect when worn. Moreover once your fingerprint is compromised it is difficult to change. Doh!!!
What are you doing to ensure testimony (and our culture) is not criminally rewritten or supressed by these DRM systems?
What are you doing to allow consumers to correctly identify the DRM encumberances and jepardies of the crap they may be fooled to consume?
Would you retroactively extend copyright again and perpetually if you could? What are you doing to stop your DRM systems from doing it?
If you could stop all GPL software with patents, would you?
The verb is to "tamp". It makes an explosion more effective by physically constraining it. For example a stick of dynamite if left on a road will create a pothole a foot or two deep. Whereas several sandbags placed on top will create a crater multiple feet deep. The improvement results from directing the explosive force, but also by helping the explosive fully combust. In fact the need to tamp is the difference between a "high" and "low" explosive. The later being able to burn under the right conditions.
A better looking map is at http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
Luckily Kerry would face a Republican majority in the House and Senate, so he will not get what he wants. Bush on the other hand has suceeded at more deficit spending that any other president in history. Some would argue that Reagan's genius was deficit spending, which hand-tied a democratic president from social spending even twelve years after Reagan left office.
Maybe this was North Korea's scientists trying to fake a nuclear explosion to their own leadership.
Suprisingly, this compatability was a huge win for Microsoft. 3rd party developers wishing to support both platforms would write for the MSWindows ABI instead of OS/2. I hope this OS/2 syndrome his Microsft when Longhorn can run RedHat binaries.
... is room with metal walls, and screens (like you see on the front of a microwave) to pass air.
Actually, the spherical aberation problem is that the lens is spherical. An ideal lens has a prabolic shape.
Do not take the landlord's word for anything. In your lease add language that you can cancel the lease in writing up to two week after it was signed if you determine the facility does not have XXX sustainable amps of electric service.
High fructose corn syrup is actually 75% sweeter than sugar. Thus, you do not need to buy as much, and the calories per serving are less.
Funny you should mention that as they are about to vote on a constitutional amendment for it.
Nonetheless, they already have private property except from the government who can basically take whatever they want. For the purposes of GPL and selling software, this is probably sufficient.
People who do not know their rights, do not really have them.
From Subject Matter and Scope of Copyright page 24
Nonetheless we live in a society of copyright extremists. Plese mention the Eldred Act in your political contributions to make copyrights lapse after 50 years unless re-registered with a $1 fee per year. You know, write it on the memo section of your $20 check. Also joining the EFF helps. Thanks.
Open Source has done well in legal challenges so far by the quality of our research. The research is what makes litigation so expensive, and lawyers are cripled without it.
The next big Open Source challenge will come from patents. We should start now, but where?
A loophole in the GPL is becomming increasingly clear, making the LGPL and GPL equivalent. Use two separate groups of developers. The first builds proprietary code with an incompatible ABI. The second modifies the GPL code to mate with the proprietary one.
Illinois already has it with name, address, birthdate, photograph, and offense.
Version 7 of Windows Media Player removed the ability to install .mov support. Version 8 removed streaming AVI and MP3 support. I apologize for not having objective data on decoding quality.
Not suprisingly all the music sites (except Apple) now use WMA, even though MP3 goes off patent soon, and Ogg has better bandwidth efficiency.
It will happen first through security updates, then the new release. Maybe installation of MSOffice or DirectX 10 will cause it. There will be rumors of a security hole in the flash player. Eventually it will be unavoidable, and designers will decide WVG is less trouble.
Some would call it modus operandi.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pushes.htm
http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/trade/msf05012002. html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0419-01.ht m
This is war.
Yes, so if we could teach the upper layer PPP to detect duplicate packets (like a hash table of payload hashes for the last thousand), and drop them because the underlying layer is reliable, although sometimes slow, then we would enjoy tunneling through braindead NAT's of every hotspot.
Luckily, in my case every email hawked generic viagra from China. After a week and a half I finally called Pfizer and reported the website. The emails stopped shortly after that and I was never sure if they were related. The website is gone now too.
I have seen spam for anti-spam software, but why not for anti-spam retribution services. Of course, I would never advocate violence. :-/
I just realized that when Microsoft (and Sun) paid SCO $10M in early May, SCO's market cap was like $30M. How much earlier did the negotiations start? Was it two months earlier when the market cap hit a low of $13M? Would you license just an API (as SCO claims), instead of buying a controlling interest for less? yeah... right.
Well, the market cap is only $140 million. Bill Gates and friends can each buy up 5% without filing with the SEC.
...but 5% is more every day as the company prints a *ton* of stock. Last quarter SCO claimed it had 13.1 million shares but the recent earning numbers indicate 16.3 million ( income of 3.1M divided by 0.19 per share).