Well, I disagree. It IS the users fault they clicked on okay. It is the user who is in control of the machine, and the user who is responsible for what they do. When you click on something, you are allowing something to happen.
Yes, some worms spread automatically, wihtout user intervention, via holes in OE. I daresay these same holes could have been exploited by a slightly modified worm for Eudora. Eudora uses the MS viewer by default.. exactly the same thing OE uses.
The number of worms that spread because morons click on an attachment to open it even though they have been told DIRECTLY, a HALF DOZEN TIMES, NOT TO OPEN ATTACHMENTS IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE is staggering. This, by far, is where the vast majority of worms come from.
Now.. I don't want to believe all these people are that stupid.. it's just a fundamental lack of understanding about how a computer works.
Terraforming is a neat thought experiment.. but seriously. How arrogant are we to think we can take a place like Mars and make it habitable for humans when we can't even get our OWN planet under control? We are quickly decimating the earth and looking for a new planet to use.. so we can what, destroy it too?
Fidelity Flight Simulation has obtained FAA approval (documented here) to train pilots towards their COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, INSTRUMENT RATING, and AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT CERTIFICATE. This training is done in a full-motion simulator, using X-Plane 6.12 as the simulator software!
That's a particular simulator in a particular instance of X-Plane, and it's for insturment ratings and such, not flying.
You can hack the hell out of MS Flight Sim as well. There is a full SDK.
ANd MS Flight Sim has more terrain data I Believe.
Nice to see nobody mentioning "MS is shit" for a change.
I mean, okay, MS is shit.. except their flight sim.
For those that don't recall, MS Flight Sim predates just about everything else they make, including windows. Fligh Sim is a niche product... it's nice to see it not as bunged up as the rest of their stuff.
Everyone knows you can sell dollars for 98 cents and have HUGE volume, and be 'very close to breaking even'.
Selling a million units at a loss does not look good on paper. If your business model is based on profit via selling games, and you aren't selling them, it looks bad on paper no matter how you slice it.
Folks... RedHat will stay a supported of the open and free just as long as it's profitable for them to do so.
They are a publicly traded company with a duty to maximize shareholder value. If you think that means giving things away they could be charging money for, think again.
Yes, they give away some stuff for free. Why? Because they want to? No, because they have to, or because it's in their best interests to do so (ie: Driver development for linux, etc)
What's the point of a legal system where the lawyers get all the money? THe system itself is making the money, and those doing who actually have the complaint get squat. Why should they bother suing then?
Court cases where lawyers get all hte money are rediculous.
But even ignoring the fact that this case is about a law that applies specifically to cable operators about collecting information without permission.. let's look at what you are saying.
It's the telephone company's network as well.. does that mean they can listen and record all your telephone calls?
I normally bash open source hippie zealots.. but this is one case where an open protocol with some solid open clients is the only thing that will survive, because it doesn't present an easy target.
Any p2p type app based on a single company is going to fail
Can it? that's 6,646 cd's worth of stuff in 24 hours. Your plane would move more than that.
So if your destination and source media are CD, the airplane is faster. If it's NOT, the airplane is much slower, factoring in the time it will take to read all those cds.
Yes, we can make more efficient use of spectrum now, and the fcc should change it's rules to reflect this. This would enable a whole new world of wireless communications.
However, it's not a bottomless glass. Spectrum is still quite limited. The much-hyped ultra-wide-band is not a final solution, though it may be more efficient.
NAI killed the PGP line of their products because it wasn't making any money.
The government did not object to PGP being released; they objected to PGP being exported, and zimmerman got shit for it, and although it's unfortunate, he WAS in violation of federal export control laws regarding munitions. Yes, those laws were rediculous and unenforceable, but they pre-dated pgp by quite a number of years.
NAI's pgp for windows is excellent. The eudora plugin works almost perfectly (automatic decryption seems to not work at all for me.. anyone know about this?). It has good keyserver and key management functions, and supports x.509 certificates as well.
Data structures may be protectable. This does not go in the face of that.
You could try to copyright a data structure that uses a question/answer format... but the thing is, how can you provie I copied yours? Many many other poeple came up with the same format independently.
REmember, if you come up with an exact replica of a copyrighted work independently, it's not infringement (as with clean-room reverse engineering techniques for software. Even if the resulting code is identical to the original, it's not infringement, becuase it was not copied)
I find it interesting that so many people manage to tie any topic back to open source somehow. The only other groups I can see who do this sort of thing are a) politicos, who try to show how any disucssion is right wing/left wing / liberal/ conservative/ etc. and b) religious freaks, who try to show how everything has to do with Jesus or Satan.
Okay. First, how is this the end of innovation? Is the current increase in CMOS detail every year innovation, or just a method being refined? Exactly. It's refining.. not innovation.
Necessity is the mother of all invention... we've all heard that one before, and it's true. If there is a need for more computing power, we will have it 10 years from now when this article talks. Oh.. and how many technology predictions about how things will be in 10 years are accurate? not many.
As for computers being 'fast enough'... that's 2-edged. We can deal with a slowdown in computing advancement at the moment.. we aren't stuck. The rapid increase in speed of CMOS technology has meant less effort in developing better algorithms, tighter code, parallel computing, etcetera. There is plenty of room for more work to squeeze more out of our computers. The paradigm can change.
Still, there are other technologies out there. There is much more that can be done once we reach the limit of cmos detail. what about going to chips with more layers? Newer materials that can aid in cooling? thicker chips with more components? Bigger chips? There are many avenues we can explore to get more speed out of our chips than mere detail.
Wow. Putting a button for each letter of the alphabet.. how INNOVATIVE!
Give me a break.
Ever tried to type stuff out letter for letter on an alphabetic setup? it's a pain in the ass.
I bet they get a patent for this incredibly brilliant idea.
Get real. What's wrong with the virtual keyboard on your pda? How is this any better? This is worse even. At least the virtual keyboard on a pda is arranged like a typewriter, not alphabetically, so you have some natural instinct as to where letters are (if you can type)
True about the border. Not true about entering the US as a Canadian. Okay, yes, some people do get turned back for various reasons (or maybe for no apparent reason).
Having had to clear US customs many times in the last few years, let me tell you. Canadians have it far, far easier than any OTHER foreign nation. Believe me, you would rather be Canadian entering the US than from anywhere else.
They don't even make us fill out immigration forms (though they won't tell you that on the airplane. You only have to fill out customs forms).
And fancy that.. being treated like a foreigner when.. *GASP* YOU ARE ONE!
Any reason why you were turned back multiple times?
Canada customs is more thorough than US customs anyway.
Oh. And back to crossing to the US. Often a Canadian could (or at least, pre sept. 11th) get into the US without even showing ID. I've seen it happen.
The only major zeppelin disaster was the Hindenburg, and it did not explode, it caught on fire during mooring due to static electricity (a known effect) combined with the solid rocket fuel they'd used as a paint (unknown to them).
Obviously the Hydrogen burned once it started leaking, but it was not the cause. Furthermore, had it been helium, the bags still would have ruptured from the initial fire, and it still would have crashed, badly.
And a lot of people walked away from it anyway.
Anchored zeppelins (aerostats) are already in use in many places.
What's wrong is that a zeppelin can stay up for WEEKS on little fuel. it only needs fuel to menouver and for power, not to stay in the air. A plane needs service constantly, and a chopper even moreso.
Wow. So some crackers got information that any normal business/corporation can already get about consumers. Credit reports.
Why does the editor lump credit reports with credit card numbers? Not the same thing.
This is not some crackers who broke into ford and stole customer data! It is some guys who posed as ford employees in order to get credit reports from the nation's largest credit bureau. (Hint: Many, many businesses can get this information).
OH NO! Some kids got the same info your bank, car company, and just about any other place can get about you! Heaven forbid!
Hello! That's the kind of info credit bureaus keep and hand out to the highest bidder. It's not like these kids ripped you off.
It's also not like your SSN is a private, secret number. Anyone who treats it as such is being dumb.
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Well, I disagree. It IS the users fault they clicked on okay. It is the user who is in control of the machine, and the user who is responsible for what they do. When you click on something, you are allowing something to happen.
Yes, some worms spread automatically, wihtout user intervention, via holes in OE. I daresay these same holes could have been exploited by a slightly modified worm for Eudora. Eudora uses the MS viewer by default.. exactly the same thing OE uses.
The number of worms that spread because morons click on an attachment to open it even though they have been told DIRECTLY, a HALF DOZEN TIMES, NOT TO OPEN ATTACHMENTS IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE is staggering. This, by far, is where the vast majority of worms come from.
Now.. I don't want to believe all these people are that stupid.. it's just a fundamental lack of understanding about how a computer works.
Terraforming is a neat thought experiment.. but seriously. How arrogant are we to think we can take a place like Mars and make it habitable for humans when we can't even get our OWN planet under control? We are quickly decimating the earth and looking for a new planet to use.. so we can what, destroy it too?
You paranoid freaks make it out like it's virtually impossible to learn to fly a 747.
Guess what, if you want to take flight training for a 747, YOU CAN. Even if you wear a rag on your head. Even if you are a Muslim.
This guy is in AUSTRALIA. The FBI has no bloody jurisdiction in Australia. Why should an Australian care if the FBI is interested in him?
For that matter, the FBI deals in domestic matters. Perhaps you mean the CIA?
X-plane has a better flight model, for sure.
As for FAA approval....
Fidelity Flight Simulation has obtained FAA approval (documented here) to train pilots towards their COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, INSTRUMENT RATING, and AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT CERTIFICATE. This training is done in a full-motion simulator, using X-Plane 6.12 as the simulator software!
That's a particular simulator in a particular instance of X-Plane, and it's for insturment ratings and such, not flying.
You can hack the hell out of MS Flight Sim as well. There is a full SDK.
ANd MS Flight Sim has more terrain data I Believe.
Nice to see nobody mentioning "MS is shit" for a change.
I mean, okay, MS is shit.. except their flight sim.
For those that don't recall, MS Flight Sim predates just about everything else they make, including windows. Fligh Sim is a niche product... it's nice to see it not as bunged up as the rest of their stuff.
Volume is not everything.
Everyone knows you can sell dollars for 98 cents and have HUGE volume, and be 'very close to breaking even'.
Selling a million units at a loss does not look good on paper. If your business model is based on profit via selling games, and you aren't selling them, it looks bad on paper no matter how you slice it.
Folks... RedHat will stay a supported of the open and free just as long as it's profitable for them to do so.
They are a publicly traded company with a duty to maximize shareholder value. If you think that means giving things away they could be charging money for, think again.
Yes, they give away some stuff for free. Why? Because they want to? No, because they have to, or because it's in their best interests to do so (ie: Driver development for linux, etc)
What's the point of a legal system where the lawyers get all the money? THe system itself is making the money, and those doing who actually have the complaint get squat. Why should they bother suing then?
Court cases where lawyers get all hte money are rediculous.
But even ignoring the fact that this case is about a law that applies specifically to cable operators about collecting information without permission.. let's look at what you are saying.
It's the telephone company's network as well.. does that mean they can listen and record all your telephone calls?
The difference is one is simulated 3d, the other is really 3d.
You can't change perspective on the flatscreen.. not like a hologram. What you see is what you see, until the software changes it.
You can't peek around something or shift your point of view by just moving.
This globe thing, you can look at, walk around, see things as if they were a solid image. Just like a hologram (but with a 360 degree fov of course)
I normally bash open source hippie zealots.. but this is one case where an open protocol with some solid open clients is the only thing that will survive, because it doesn't present an easy target.
Any p2p type app based on a single company is going to fail
You are speaking theoretically.
Yes, you could send data much faster than this over fiber. We do it in labs all the time. HEck, we do it in networks over copper all the time (GigE..)
This is an actual working network, and they send the data from Alaska to The Netherlands at 400mbps. That is fantastic.
Can it?
that's 6,646 cd's worth of stuff in 24 hours.
Your plane would move more than that.
So if your destination and source media are CD, the airplane is faster.
If it's NOT, the airplane is much slower, factoring in the time it will take to read all those cds.
Yes, we can make more efficient use of spectrum now, and the fcc should change it's rules to reflect this. This would enable a whole new world of wireless communications.
However, it's not a bottomless glass. Spectrum is still quite limited.
The much-hyped ultra-wide-band is not a final solution, though it may be more efficient.
Not binding? Sure it would be. Something the company told you verbally is just a separate contract.
The EULA does not provide tech support, no, but if the company TELLS you it will, that's another story altogether.
NAI killed the PGP line of their products because it wasn't making any money.
The government did not object to PGP being released; they objected to PGP being exported, and zimmerman got shit for it, and although it's unfortunate, he WAS in violation of federal export control laws regarding munitions. Yes, those laws were rediculous and unenforceable, but they pre-dated pgp by quite a number of years.
NAI's pgp for windows is excellent. The eudora plugin works almost perfectly (automatic decryption seems to not work at all for me.. anyone know about this?). It has good keyserver and key management functions, and supports x.509 certificates as well.
Data structures may be protectable. This does not go in the face of that.
You could try to copyright a data structure that uses a question/answer format... but the thing is, how can you provie I copied yours? Many many other poeple came up with the same format independently.
REmember, if you come up with an exact replica of a copyrighted work independently, it's not infringement (as with clean-room reverse engineering techniques for software. Even if the resulting code is identical to the original, it's not infringement, becuase it was not copied)
I find it interesting that so many people manage to tie any topic back to open source somehow. The only other groups I can see who do this sort of thing are a) politicos, who try to show how any disucssion is right wing/left wing / liberal/ conservative/ etc. and
b) religious freaks, who try to show how everything has to do with Jesus or Satan.
They said you can't copyright the IDEA of an FAQ.
The Judge decided that the 2 faq's in question were NOT copies, that they were only similar (both being faqs on the same obscure subject)
You most certainly CAN exert copyright if someone copies your work verbatim, whether it's an faq or not.
The abbreviation for the Pound is GBP.
True enough.
Another reason why GSM phones work. Go to europe. Check it out.
You buy an open GSM phone.
You want a phone number, you go buy a new sim card.
You want more time? Easy.. buy a card, recharge the phone. reasonable rates.
Full services included. voicemail. data. etc. It's not crippled.
It's anonymous.
You want a new phone? Get a new phone, put your sim card in, away you go. All your stored numbers, your phone number, etcetera.
Okay.
First, how is this the end of innovation? Is the current increase in CMOS detail every year innovation, or just a method being refined? Exactly. It's refining.. not innovation.
Necessity is the mother of all invention... we've all heard that one before, and it's true. If there is a need for more computing power, we will have it 10 years from now when this article talks.
Oh.. and how many technology predictions about how things will be in 10 years are accurate? not many.
As for computers being 'fast enough'... that's 2-edged. We can deal with a slowdown in computing advancement at the moment.. we aren't stuck. The rapid increase in speed of CMOS technology has meant less effort in developing better algorithms, tighter code, parallel computing, etcetera. There is plenty of room for more work to squeeze more out of our computers. The paradigm can change.
Still, there are other technologies out there. There is much more that can be done once we reach the limit of cmos detail. what about going to chips with more layers? Newer materials that can aid in cooling? thicker chips with more components? Bigger chips? There are many avenues we can explore to get more speed out of our chips than mere detail.
Wow. Putting a button for each letter of the alphabet.. how INNOVATIVE!
Give me a break.
Ever tried to type stuff out letter for letter on an alphabetic setup? it's a pain in the ass.
I bet they get a patent for this incredibly brilliant idea.
Get real. What's wrong with the virtual keyboard on your pda? How is this any better? This is worse even. At least the virtual keyboard on a pda is arranged like a typewriter, not alphabetically, so you have some natural instinct as to where letters are (if you can type)
Please. This is news how?
True about the border.
Not true about entering the US as a Canadian.
Okay, yes, some people do get turned back for various reasons (or maybe for no apparent reason).
Having had to clear US customs many times in the last few years, let me tell you.
Canadians have it far, far easier than any OTHER foreign nation. Believe me, you would rather be Canadian entering the US than from anywhere else.
They don't even make us fill out immigration forms (though they won't tell you that on the airplane. You only have to fill out customs forms).
And fancy that.. being treated like a foreigner when.. *GASP* YOU ARE ONE!
Any reason why you were turned back multiple times?
Canada customs is more thorough than US customs anyway.
Oh. And back to crossing to the US. Often a Canadian could (or at least, pre sept. 11th) get into the US without even showing ID. I've seen it happen.
The only major zeppelin disaster was the Hindenburg, and it did not explode, it caught on fire during mooring due to static electricity (a known effect) combined with the solid rocket fuel they'd used as a paint (unknown to them).
Obviously the Hydrogen burned once it started leaking, but it was not the cause.
Furthermore, had it been helium, the bags still would have ruptured from the initial fire, and it still would have crashed, badly.
And a lot of people walked away from it anyway.
Anchored zeppelins (aerostats) are already in use in many places.
What's wrong is that a zeppelin can stay up for WEEKS on little fuel. it only needs fuel to menouver and for power, not to stay in the air. A plane needs service constantly, and a chopper even moreso.
Wow. So some crackers got information that any normal business/corporation can already get about consumers. Credit reports.
Why does the editor lump credit reports with credit card numbers? Not the same thing.
This is not some crackers who broke into ford and stole customer data!
It is some guys who posed as ford employees in order to get credit reports from the nation's largest credit bureau. (Hint: Many, many businesses can get this information).
OH NO! Some kids got the same info your bank, car company, and just about any other place can get about you! Heaven forbid!
Hello! That's the kind of info credit bureaus keep and hand out to the highest bidder. It's not like these kids ripped you off.
It's also not like your SSN is a private, secret number. Anyone who treats it as such is being dumb.