The use case is for the RIAA to wrap it in DRM so that you can't extract the mp3 portion and copy it at will, but you can have a single DRM crippled file that plays in high quality at home and still plays in your portable mp3 player.
My kids understood the concept of a hot stove at about 18 months without nothing but explanation. I still have to watch the 2 year old to keep him out of danger, but there's no need to teach him that violence can be used to solve problems where someone is doing something you don't want them to.
Yes, I think it makes sense. If you can self sign a certificate, then you can just as easily generate a certificate for your personal CA and install that into the browser.
Thanks for pointing out that those temperatures are in Farenheit. I was trying to imagine the cost of building servers out of components rated above 104 degrees C, and trying to figure out whether the electricity savings would be worth it over the lifetimes of the servers. Even the quoted 69 - 74 degrees seemed a little close to the limit for standard electronic components.
As after version 1.0 was released it was actually started to be used as a real OS for non-kernel developers.
My company was running its corporate mailserver on a Slackware distro using kernel 0.9 something in 1993. Compiling your own kernel was compulsory in those days - I think Slackware came with a minimal kernel to get you bootstrapped.
Wikipedia is not located in Australia, and I fail to see where "double-standards" would come into it, as the wiki page is clearly not under control of the Aussie net censors. So what is the point that the activists are trying to prove?
Tools like netcat or own HoneyPoint applications have proven great at finding active hosts.
You could also use iptables log and ulog rules - which will also work if even samba is installed and listening on that port (though you'll have to sort out the genuine access from the conficker probes somehow - samba's logs can probably do that just as well).
See claim 14 of this patent, which seems to have been revoked (it was issued as US Pat. 10497125, but that patent number no longer seems to exist and Google lists it as an application - I don't know whether this is because of other prior art or re-examination as a result of Bilski). Disclaimer: I worked for the company involved from 2001 to 2007, and their actual implementation used XPath rather than XQuery, but it was it was an obvious enough variation that they seem to have it covered already.
But answering the question posed by the article, yes we can trust Red Hat to uphold their promise, because to break it would destroy their business model, since they would lose their right to distribute GPL software that uses the patent. As long as software patents and threats from patents held by companies like Microsoft exist, defensive patents are regrettably needed as a deterrent to protect Free Software.
I recall the same - except I'm pretty sure it was lynx that I tried first. At the time, gopher was still new for me, so the cool thing about it wasn't so much the content (there was still more of that available on ftp) as the fact that you could start at University of Minnesota and spend hours just following the links in the menus to other gopher sites - browsing. With lynx, you had to find the links buried in some text that you weren't really that interested in anyway, whereas with gopher they were always presented as a convenient menu. It wasn't until I saw images embedded in the text that HTML made sense to me, and I recall early web sites split into two camps - the web purists who only included links inline in the text, and the ex-gopher users who always made lists of links at the bottom of the page. Now we have sidebars and top and bottom bars that take the place of the gopher menus.
ftp was likely to fail due to ISDN congestion that you would be forced to use a uuencode-by-email service.
The uudecode by email services were useful when my company had a UUCP connection via a nearby City Council (which was the only provider offering such a service to businesses at the time). We didn't have enough bandwidth for the binary newsgroups (9600 modem, IIRC), so that was the only way to get files without waiting for them to be shipped on CDROM so we could go to the one machine that had a CDROM reader and copy them off. ISDN wasn't available at our exchange so our first permanent connection was a 9600 leased line to the local University. At that point, direct ftp became a more attractive option than uudecode - which often took days due to throttling by the ftp-by-mail systems to control load, and we quickly learnt about the ftp reget and passive transfers to local servers to save international bandwidth costs (we were billed $4/MB for international traffic, but local traffic was free).
One of the things I downloaded was a graphical gopher program for OS/2. That was great - much better interface than FTP, even than the graphical FTP clients that had started to appear by then, it supported linking to images and binaries, but without support for ftp's reget, I didn't see the use for anything other than text. One of my co-workers showed me this great new program he'd downloaded for the FreeBSD box that was serving as our internet gateway - lynx. Comparing it to the graphical gopher, I found it unusable - links were scattered throughout the text instead of in a nice menu at the end like gopher, and predicted that this new http protocol would quietly die out along with other little known new protocols of the time. A few months later, someone downloaded a beta version of Mosaic. Now the web started to look worthwhile, and within weeks myself and co-worker who had introduced me to lynx came in on the weekend to replace the FreeBSD box with a new 486 running Slackware and a CERN webserver.
I don't understand this "protest." Google, apparently the target of the protest, gets increased ad revenues, whereas small businesses like mine that use Adsense get... Thousands of dollars in additional advertising costs that are designed to generate no revenue...?
If advertisers aren't getting value for money, why would they stay? Sustained for long enough, this "protest" will either devalue Google's advertising so the nett effect is no change in the revenue of Google or the cost to advertisers, or Google will start losing customers rapidly.
In most of the Western world, Governments decided in the 1980's and 1990's that competition was good for the consumer, and government telecommunications monopolies no longer exist. In those countries, VoIP is just seen as a natural evolution of healthy competition, and though individual operators might try to make life difficult for independent VoIP operators, and lobby for regulations to be imposed based on E911 (ie the ability of emergency services to find), there is no government support for banning healthy competition.
In markets where there is still a government backed monopoly, there might be more inclination to protect that monopoly, but ultimately it is not good for the consumer or the overall economy to protect a dying technology and business model.
When explaining to a newbie how to get a specific package installed, it is much simpler to tell them to type "apt-get install PACKAGE" at the command line, instead of telling them to go to the graphical package manager, expand "Not Installed Packages", expand the category "FOO" and search for "PACKAGE", then select it and press Install and accept the list of dependencies that it offers. Teaching someone to find packages they might be interested in without knowing beforehand what they are looking for however, would be better served by the latter.
Many walk away leaving the banks with properties they can't sell in neighborhoods that are devalued.
And right there is the flaw which is replicated throughout the US economy. You have a culture where people greedily partake of the upside, and expect to be able to just walk away from the downside, in the case of CEOs, often with a golden parachute.
That's a bit harsh. McAffee does a perfectly good job of preventing me doing reasonable things with my own PC like installing programs, running Windows update and using bluetooth to sync with my phone. I wouldn't call that "nothing".
I signed up to Facebook recently after an old friend sent me an invite. One look at its phish and spam filled interface, and I know that site is not going to be around much longer. People will move on when they get sick of being tricked into clicking on gambling applications and the like and their friends start talking about this great new site they have found without all that crap on it.
They are talking about revenue from leasing space on their web site to advertisers, like a billboard. They are not predicting how much revenue they'll make by placing ads elsewhere. This is very much predictable if you know there is demand for your advertising space and you know how much you can lease it for.
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The use case is for the RIAA to wrap it in DRM so that you can't extract the mp3 portion and copy it at will, but you can have a single DRM crippled file that plays in high quality at home and still plays in your portable mp3 player.
My kids understood the concept of a hot stove at about 18 months without nothing but explanation. I still have to watch the 2 year old to keep him out of danger, but there's no need to teach him that violence can be used to solve problems where someone is doing something you don't want them to.
After discounting Seattle because it is "only Microsoft", Fort Meade did seem a bit of a ridiculous choice.
A shitty UI design is a voting machine flaw!
Yes, I think it makes sense. If you can self sign a certificate, then you can just as easily generate a certificate for your personal CA and install that into the browser.
Thanks for pointing out that those temperatures are in Farenheit. I was trying to imagine the cost of building servers out of components rated above 104 degrees C, and trying to figure out whether the electricity savings would be worth it over the lifetimes of the servers. Even the quoted 69 - 74 degrees seemed a little close to the limit for standard electronic components.
My company was running its corporate mailserver on a Slackware distro using kernel 0.9 something in 1993. Compiling your own kernel was compulsory in those days - I think Slackware came with a minimal kernel to get you bootstrapped.
Wikipedia is not located in Australia, and I fail to see where "double-standards" would come into it, as the wiki page is clearly not under control of the Aussie net censors. So what is the point that the activists are trying to prove?
You mean the "sales" where they put things back to their former price after the pre-Christmas price hikes.
You could also use iptables log and ulog rules - which will also work if even samba is installed and listening on that port (though you'll have to sort out the genuine access from the conficker probes somehow - samba's logs can probably do that just as well).
See claim 14 of this patent, which seems to have been revoked (it was issued as US Pat. 10497125, but that patent number no longer seems to exist and Google lists it as an application - I don't know whether this is because of other prior art or re-examination as a result of Bilski). Disclaimer: I worked for the company involved from 2001 to 2007, and their actual implementation used XPath rather than XQuery, but it was it was an obvious enough variation that they seem to have it covered already.
But answering the question posed by the article, yes we can trust Red Hat to uphold their promise, because to break it would destroy their business model, since they would lose their right to distribute GPL software that uses the patent. As long as software patents and threats from patents held by companies like Microsoft exist, defensive patents are regrettably needed as a deterrent to protect Free Software.
I recall the same - except I'm pretty sure it was lynx that I tried first. At the time, gopher was still new for me, so the cool thing about it wasn't so much the content (there was still more of that available on ftp) as the fact that you could start at University of Minnesota and spend hours just following the links in the menus to other gopher sites - browsing. With lynx, you had to find the links buried in some text that you weren't really that interested in anyway, whereas with gopher they were always presented as a convenient menu. It wasn't until I saw images embedded in the text that HTML made sense to me, and I recall early web sites split into two camps - the web purists who only included links inline in the text, and the ex-gopher users who always made lists of links at the bottom of the page. Now we have sidebars and top and bottom bars that take the place of the gopher menus.
The uudecode by email services were useful when my company had a UUCP connection via a nearby City Council (which was the only provider offering such a service to businesses at the time). We didn't have enough bandwidth for the binary newsgroups (9600 modem, IIRC), so that was the only way to get files without waiting for them to be shipped on CDROM so we could go to the one machine that had a CDROM reader and copy them off. ISDN wasn't available at our exchange so our first permanent connection was a 9600 leased line to the local University. At that point, direct ftp became a more attractive option than uudecode - which often took days due to throttling by the ftp-by-mail systems to control load, and we quickly learnt about the ftp reget and passive transfers to local servers to save international bandwidth costs (we were billed $4/MB for international traffic, but local traffic was free).
One of the things I downloaded was a graphical gopher program for OS/2. That was great - much better interface than FTP, even than the graphical FTP clients that had started to appear by then, it supported linking to images and binaries, but without support for ftp's reget, I didn't see the use for anything other than text. One of my co-workers showed me this great new program he'd downloaded for the FreeBSD box that was serving as our internet gateway - lynx. Comparing it to the graphical gopher, I found it unusable - links were scattered throughout the text instead of in a nice menu at the end like gopher, and predicted that this new http protocol would quietly die out along with other little known new protocols of the time. A few months later, someone downloaded a beta version of Mosaic. Now the web started to look worthwhile, and within weeks myself and co-worker who had introduced me to lynx came in on the weekend to replace the FreeBSD box with a new 486 running Slackware and a CERN webserver.
The XScale range has always been based on ARM5 with the FPU removed. It seems this is still the case.
Worse than that, they would be playing right into Microsoft's hands, scaring device developers away from Linux towards WinCE.
If advertisers aren't getting value for money, why would they stay? Sustained for long enough, this "protest" will either devalue Google's advertising so the nett effect is no change in the revenue of Google or the cost to advertisers, or Google will start losing customers rapidly.
I wonder if U2 would have ever gotten interested in this sort of stuff if it wasn't for Negativland?
In most of the Western world, Governments decided in the 1980's and 1990's that competition was good for the consumer, and government telecommunications monopolies no longer exist. In those countries, VoIP is just seen as a natural evolution of healthy competition, and though individual operators might try to make life difficult for independent VoIP operators, and lobby for regulations to be imposed based on E911 (ie the ability of emergency services to find), there is no government support for banning healthy competition.
In markets where there is still a government backed monopoly, there might be more inclination to protect that monopoly, but ultimately it is not good for the consumer or the overall economy to protect a dying technology and business model.
When explaining to a newbie how to get a specific package installed, it is much simpler to tell them to type "apt-get install PACKAGE" at the command line, instead of telling them to go to the graphical package manager, expand "Not Installed Packages", expand the category "FOO" and search for "PACKAGE", then select it and press Install and accept the list of dependencies that it offers. Teaching someone to find packages they might be interested in without knowing beforehand what they are looking for however, would be better served by the latter.
And right there is the flaw which is replicated throughout the US economy. You have a culture where people greedily partake of the upside, and expect to be able to just walk away from the downside, in the case of CEOs, often with a golden parachute.
That's a bit harsh. McAffee does a perfectly good job of preventing me doing reasonable things with my own PC like installing programs, running Windows update and using bluetooth to sync with my phone. I wouldn't call that "nothing".
I figured that from the "Wordpress might only offer 90% of the features of Joomla!" quote.
I guess you missed the article a month ago on Auto-Tune software, or you'd have already had an idea why most music today is bland shit.
I signed up to Facebook recently after an old friend sent me an invite. One look at its phish and spam filled interface, and I know that site is not going to be around much longer. People will move on when they get sick of being tricked into clicking on gambling applications and the like and their friends start talking about this great new site they have found without all that crap on it.
They are talking about revenue from leasing space on their web site to advertisers, like a billboard. They are not predicting how much revenue they'll make by placing ads elsewhere. This is very much predictable if you know there is demand for your advertising space and you know how much you can lease it for.