"To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an
expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion."[dictionary.com]
"An expression of disfavor"? Okay, it might be a stress release, but unlikely to accomplish much.
Or fighting coercion with coercion? Lame and hypocritcal. (The ability to coerce is one of qualities people dislike in a monopoly.)
I agree with you. But I'm still surprised the previous poster would lay a blanket statement like "distributed computing isn't going to be commercially profitable any time soon". I suppose he'd know better considering the projects he's been involved with. But my reasonably educated instincts tell me that _someone_ out there can make a commercial venture out of distributed computing. And when that happens, I hope someone shares an early investor prospectus with me!
But yes, if the founders themselves don't believe in an idea, it's dangerous to have empty evangelists at the VC and stock promotion level. I speak from experience!
Of course, calculating Pi isn't likely to be commercially profitable any time soon; for that matter, distributed computing isn't either. So I wrote back explaining that I had no intention of helping them waste their investor's money on ventures doomed to failure.
Nice attitude! There was no commercial future for things like "home computing" and garage-built Apple I's, either! Take the money and let the funds decide if they're overstepping their investors' risk aversion levels. (The highest upside generally comes at high risk, and that's exactly what some people are looking for.) Does this mean you're looking to take equity or a salary in a nice, safe, obviously commercial idea instead?;-)
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll soon be coming "to rest in a series of steel plates designed to halt the flight". We hope you enjoyed yourself and thank you for flying Scramjet Airlines.
Gotta love the "experts" that TechTV talks to... From the article: In addition, intruders would first need to log in to their own Hotmail accounts, which means they'd leave a clear trail for investigators to follow, experts said.
Uh, yeah, more like "intruders would first need to log in to a new, free, anonymous Hotmail account". Not much of a deterrent!
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Heck, a crappy deal on an unproven console might help the competition for a while. Hard to say. But it is a fact that MS has a significant amount of competition in the game console market, very much unlike the desktop market.
I wish people would chill with the claims of "unfair tactics" and simply notice that this is common when a company moves into a new industry, before economies-of-scale kick in for manufacturing... All console manufacturers (Nintendo especially) have bundled games to help initial profits for new console projects.
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This is a prime example of 'tying', the number one issue the states and DOJ have with Microsoft.
I just bought a "wine-saver" pump last night. (You use it to vacuum air out of half-finished bottle.) It was bundled with 4 proprietary wine-saver corks. These can't be used with any competitor's products. And I sure as hell don't need 4. I'll contact the DOJ about it.
How does open-sourcing a steganographic technique impact its usefulness? I suppose it would depend on the nature of the technique. For example, it seems open-source public-key encryption techniques don't compromise their usefulness simply by sharing their algorithms/source. Is this equally possible with steganography or must the methods remain more secretive?
When a method of steganography is discovered, it is useless.
Yes, if the _method_ itself is discovered, it's useless. However, if each instance of the method's use is quantitatively/qualitatively different enough then the method itself may still be capable of generating additional useful instances even once some are discovered. In other words, if the pattern of uses of a particular method isn't obvious then the method itself remains safe even if some of its output is discovered. Of course, this requires a very sophisticated, dynamic, chaotic, magical method. Or maybe just many methods rolled into one.
I think the legal community would be interested in anything that might help them find and interpret potential evidence. When evidence is properly confiscated, we now have the techniques to break locks on door and safes, we now have the techniques to crack certain types of cryptography, and hopefully we'll soon have the techniques to FIND a stack of steganographically-hidden evidence. It's pretty relevant to our legal system.
Oh, how very western to invite chess to the Olympics. Great game, for sure. But I hope go is next.
According to the Nihon Ki-in, there are at least 7 million go players in Japan alone. That's 5-6% of the population! Go is rampant in China (add maybe 36 million players to the previous number!) and very much so in Korea (maybe another 5 million players there). In the US, it's not as well known as chess, but I'll bet more people could/have/would play it than other esoteric olympic events like fencing or whatever that gymnastic ball and ribbon stuff is.
But the big question: Is go more or less TV Friendly(tm) than chess?
Rape and such is already illegal. Why would you protest something that isn't allowed?
News flash... things that "aren't allowed" still happen. Plenty. Bringing attention to illegal atrocities may serve to reduce their occurance even more.
Unfortunately, very little is likely to reduce the occurance of Star Wars movies. Sigh.
Hopefully it won't be as disappointing as another Trilogy extension that we all know and have come to despise.
Careful. There's a damn fine extended trilogy most of us know and love, written by Douglas Adams.
Now if Knuth told us that he'd originally conceieved the 4th book before the first 3, or that he was getting special effects or merchandising consults to work with him, well, yes, then it would be time to worry...
Kasparov lost the first game because of an error in his training, he prepared himself to play with a machine and got an almost human player.
I would adjust your claim to be, "Kasparov prepared himself to play with one type of machine and got a different, stronger machine." Having flawless, move-by-move recollection of 100 years of of games is not "almost a human" quality. If it had 1500 years of game history that could be accessed and analzyed in real-time, 10x faster than before, would it be even more human? I don't think so. Probably stronger than ever. But less human.
One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that
I have to apologize for that one. I was VPN'ed in the other day and I opened MS Explorer on "\\internet". I accidentally selected "www" and hit CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-V. I guess the "Copy of www" and "Copy (2) of www" tripled the document count on some search engines. My bad.
It doesn't matter that the network is insecure, only your computer needs to be secure and the keyserver.
PGP or GPG is great for e-mail, but not for the socket exploits the article discusses. So when your computer or a keyserver is rendered insecure because of TCP/IP socket insecurities on an XP machine (client or keyserver), then what do you have? Properly written, a virus could enter thru an app that allows insecure raw socket access, and could send nicely authenticated e-mails that begin with "Hello, my friend..." You get the drift.
I am wondering here about my right to make a back-up copy of CDs I purchase. I scratch my CDs regularly because I am not careful with them.
Dear Federal Mint,
I am wondering here about my right to make a back-up copy of dollar bills I earn. I damage and/or lose my cash regularly because I am not careful with it.
Too funny. Now before you call the pot black, take a quick walk down memory lane of your postings, dlb. I'm still looking for the quality. Oh wait, I guess it was in your clever and original Beowolf Cluster post. That one was great. And I found your flamebait collection of this, this, this, and this post especially helpful to the Slashdot community. I'll try to contribute at least as much as that in the future...:-)
... yeah, roger Houston... Karma is maxxed. Awaiting down-moderations... Over...
The phrase "30 years ago" was repeated at least three times in the review. Dig a little deeper, man. Like into the URL below. Planet of the Apes was released February 8, 1968. 33 years ago.
I think nearly everyone agrees that the original was a great film, so get the facts straight and check out good old IMDB for more tidbits...
Slashdot Mirror
This company claims to make the "Industrial Erector Set". Life sized, industrial-strength modular pieces...
[8020.net] http://www.8020.net
"To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an
expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion."[dictionary.com]
"An expression of disfavor"? Okay, it might be a stress release, but unlikely to accomplish much.
Or fighting coercion with coercion? Lame and hypocritcal. (The ability to coerce is one of qualities people dislike in a monopoly.)
I agree with you. But I'm still surprised the previous poster would lay a blanket statement like "distributed computing isn't going to be commercially profitable any time soon". I suppose he'd know better considering the projects he's been involved with. But my reasonably educated instincts tell me that _someone_ out there can make a commercial venture out of distributed computing. And when that happens, I hope someone shares an early investor prospectus with me!
But yes, if the founders themselves don't believe in an idea, it's dangerous to have empty evangelists at the VC and stock promotion level. I speak from experience!
Of course, calculating Pi isn't likely to be commercially profitable any time soon; for that matter, distributed computing isn't either. So I wrote back explaining that I had no intention of helping them waste their investor's money on ventures doomed to failure.
;-)
Nice attitude! There was no commercial future for things like "home computing" and garage-built Apple I's, either! Take the money and let the funds decide if they're overstepping their investors' risk aversion levels. (The highest upside generally comes at high risk, and that's exactly what some people are looking for.) Does this mean you're looking to take equity or a salary in a nice, safe, obviously commercial idea instead?
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll soon be coming "to rest in a series of steel plates designed to halt the flight". We hope you enjoyed yourself and thank you for flying Scramjet Airlines.
From the 25X webpage:
A 7 sq mm die, packaged, will cost about $1 in quantity 1,000,000. Cost per Mip is 0.
At that price, I'll take a few billion MIPs, please!
Gotta love the "experts" that TechTV talks to... From the article: In addition, intruders would first need to log in to their own Hotmail accounts, which means they'd leave a clear trail for investigators to follow, experts said.
Uh, yeah, more like "intruders would first need to log in to a new, free, anonymous Hotmail account". Not much of a deterrent!
Heck, a crappy deal on an unproven console might help the competition for a while. Hard to say. But it is a fact that MS has a significant amount of competition in the game console market, very much unlike the desktop market.
I wish people would chill with the claims of "unfair tactics" and simply notice that this is common when a company moves into a new industry, before economies-of-scale kick in for manufacturing... All console manufacturers (Nintendo especially) have bundled games to help initial profits for new console projects.
This is a prime example of 'tying', the number one issue the states and DOJ have with Microsoft.
I just bought a "wine-saver" pump last night. (You use it to vacuum air out of half-finished bottle.) It was bundled with 4 proprietary wine-saver corks. These can't be used with any competitor's products. And I sure as hell don't need 4. I'll contact the DOJ about it.
How does open-sourcing a steganographic technique impact its usefulness? I suppose it would depend on the nature of the technique. For example, it seems open-source public-key encryption techniques don't compromise their usefulness simply by sharing their algorithms/source. Is this equally possible with steganography or must the methods remain more secretive?
When a method of steganography is discovered, it is useless.
Yes, if the _method_ itself is discovered, it's useless. However, if each instance of the method's use is quantitatively/qualitatively different enough then the method itself may still be capable of generating additional useful instances even once some are discovered. In other words, if the pattern of uses of a particular method isn't obvious then the method itself remains safe even if some of its output is discovered. Of course, this requires a very sophisticated, dynamic, chaotic, magical method. Or maybe just many methods rolled into one.
I think the legal community would be interested in anything that might help them find and interpret potential evidence. When evidence is properly confiscated, we now have the techniques to break locks on door and safes, we now have the techniques to crack certain types of cryptography, and hopefully we'll soon have the techniques to FIND a stack of steganographically-hidden evidence. It's pretty relevant to our legal system.
Oh, how very western to invite chess to the Olympics. Great game, for sure.
But I hope go is next.
According to the Nihon Ki-in, there are at least 7 million go players in Japan alone. That's 5-6% of the population! Go is rampant in China (add maybe 36 million players to the previous number!) and very much so in Korea (maybe another 5 million players there). In the US, it's not as well known as chess, but I'll bet more people could/have/would play it than other esoteric olympic events like fencing or whatever that gymnastic ball and ribbon stuff is.
But the big question: Is go more or less TV Friendly(tm) than chess?
When it sells for $5000, it's no longer just a coffee pot.
True. The buyer could have easily picked up a nice little espresso maker for under $5k.
[long, critical fetishistic analysis of the coffee pot snipped]
Whoa. Chill. Sometimes a coffee pot is just a coffee pot.
Rape and such is already illegal. Why would you protest something that isn't allowed?
News flash... things that "aren't allowed" still happen. Plenty. Bringing attention to illegal atrocities may serve to reduce their occurance even more.
Unfortunately, very little is likely to reduce the occurance of Star Wars movies. Sigh.
Hopefully it won't be as disappointing as another Trilogy extension that we all know and have come to despise.
Careful. There's a damn fine extended trilogy most of us know and love, written by Douglas Adams.
Now if Knuth told us that he'd originally conceieved the 4th book before the first 3, or that he was getting special effects or merchandising consults to work with him, well, yes, then it would be time to worry...
Kasparov lost the first game because of an error in his training, he prepared himself to play with a machine and got an almost human player.
I would adjust your claim to be, "Kasparov prepared himself to play with one type of machine and got a different, stronger machine." Having flawless, move-by-move recollection of 100 years of of games is not "almost a human" quality. If it had 1500 years of game history that could be accessed and analzyed in real-time, 10x faster than before, would it be even more human? I don't think so. Probably stronger than ever. But less human.
One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that
I have to apologize for that one. I was VPN'ed in the other day and I opened MS Explorer on "\\internet". I accidentally selected "www" and hit CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-V. I guess the "Copy of www" and "Copy (2) of www" tripled the document count on some search engines. My bad.
It doesn't matter that the network is insecure, only your computer needs to be secure and the keyserver.
PGP or GPG is great for e-mail, but not for the socket exploits the article discusses. So when your computer or a keyserver is rendered insecure because of TCP/IP socket insecurities on an XP machine (client or keyserver), then what do you have? Properly written, a virus could enter thru an app that allows insecure raw socket access, and could send nicely authenticated e-mails that begin with "Hello, my friend..." You get the drift.
I am wondering here about my right to make a back-up copy of CDs I purchase. I scratch my CDs regularly because I am not careful with them.
Dear Federal Mint,
I am wondering here about my right to make a back-up copy of dollar bills I earn. I damage and/or lose my cash regularly because I am not careful with it.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
The Art of Ware: Sun Tzu's Classic Work Reinterpreted , by Bruce F. Webster
Strategy and tactics of the software marketplace.
First published 1995
ISBN 1-55851-396-5
A couple of bits of broken mirror, a pair of speakers to drive X-Y deflection, a laser pointer, and the side of a building...
Anyone? Anyone?
We need more quality people like you.
:-)
... yeah, roger Houston... Karma is maxxed. Awaiting down-moderations... Over...
Too funny. Now before you call the pot black, take a quick walk down memory lane of your postings, dlb. I'm still looking for the quality. Oh wait, I guess it was in your clever and original Beowolf Cluster post. That one was great. And I found your flamebait collection of this, this, this, and this post especially helpful to the Slashdot community. I'll try to contribute at least as much as that in the future...
The phrase "30 years ago" was repeated at least three times in the review. Dig a little deeper, man. Like into the URL below. Planet of the Apes was released February 8, 1968. 33 years ago.
I think nearly everyone agrees that the original was a great film, so get the facts straight and check out good old IMDB for more tidbits...
(Original) Planet of the Apes
(Original) Planet of the Apes: Quotes