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  1. yes way! how to detrustify the license! on Apple Advertises "1-Click" Licensing · · Score: 1
    Compromise their security. Much information gathered. This system must be more vulnerable concidering the level at which it must be storing the information for it to be useable.

  2. Re:the real question... security hazard on SmartCards, BSD and Linux? · · Score: 1
    I find that dangerous.
    This means with only the smartcard, which can be replicated or used without your knowledge by other party, others than you can access your data.

    It is much easier to get hold of other persons smartcard than their login/pass.

    From a security perspective the smartcard isn't bad. and in combination with login/pass it even enhances security.

    Humm, will the smartcard be replaced by fingerprints and eyeprints in the future?

  3. Re:*BSD problems on Darwin Booting On x86 · · Score: 1
    Some may say you guys would be the jinxes.. and I would agree.

    Yet it doesn't matter. People like choices. After having chosen Linux which illuminates quite positively many tend to be reilluminated about the powers of *BSD.

    *BSD is not for everyone, and this is also one of its many forces.

    I recommend you not to think strictly business like analytical as in the world of technology evolution.. what seems wrong in the present has a striking history of becoming a long time success.

  4. Re:Excellent point. but very egocentric on EU Board Votes To Allow Software Patents · · Score: 1
    Others had similar solutions implemented, some of which, where you actually could not tell the difference.

    The danger here lies within the problem that small company who had it implemented before didn't patent it as its a common thing. and just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

    So the scenario here is that small company implements it, you don't see it. Big company implements it and patents it, you see it. And now you protect the big company's patent which infringes small company who had it implemented before. and small company are to remove the function, or pay royalties to big company.

    So Is this what you really want? - Think NOT!

  5. c'est la vie on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1

    why questioning it..

  6. most influental position of the net on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1
    quote from the main post..
    This conflict between an individual, entrepeneurial spirit and surging corporatism is the single most significant political conflict on the Net. And if the Net is, in fact, fostering a political/social movement designed to protest, curb or transform corporatism, that could well be the most significant and unexpected contribution to public life that technology has made since e-mail.

    Why questioning it.. This is how the net changes life in the long run and how people will look back at in the future. Bringing people together with enough masses without direct responsibilities outnumbering the masses with direct responsibilities leads to automatically regulations through common sense.. My argumentation is that evolvements that are good will be accepted by the masses and can carry on, but evolvements that are faulty will in a world where exposure/opensystems are at its greatest, have more eyes to detect the faultyness and more to be capable of influencing evolution in the overall desires direction.

  7. a natural topic in the path of evolution on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1
    It comes of absolutely no surprise to many of us. People are fed up with greed and growth at the expense of the people's environment. Therefore it only pleases me that this issue receives some very deserved coverage.

    Personally I'm involved in a company where I advocate the people and environment factor largely. If a company is not covering its own foundation and integrating instead of overtaking, it will result in penalties in the longer run. Common business sense for those who are aware. In time, more people will become aware.. Thank God, or we would build a world on a shaky foundation.

  8. Re:Time to kick-in with the BSD questions :-) on The World's Most Secure OS (?) · · Score: 2
    PicoBSD may be interesting to you.

    Small and embedded FreeBSD (PicoBSD)
    PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD which in its different variations allows you to have secure dial-up access, small diskless router, or even a dial-in server. All of this on only one standard 1.44MB floppy disk. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM, and no hard drive is required!

  9. why am I not surprised.. on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 1
    Sony is also using closed off standard, sony only flashcard devices for their procducts. doesn't make them that integrateable.

    I aint buying Sony. And this last announcement of theirs, doesn't make it any better..

  10. wrong angle.. on Eazel's Nautilus Preview 1 Released · · Score: 1

    build from the browser(eg. mozilla) not build another filemanager which again needs browser components.

    Do the browser thing yes. I agree to sun's concept; the network is the computer. but it can also be applied the other way around; the computer is the network.

    My point is that we have to reckon with that it will be more common to have data distributed over networks. data at several levels of trust. some data you keep closer to heart than others.

    So what I could use would be a mozilla browser which cares not whether the files are local or not. where files are presented as you see them fit.

    The browser is a platform for our interface to be reckoned with, can't be news to anyone anymore. mozilla at the same time, can seriously use more improvement, so we covers multiple needs in one shot. Lets make it good. easy to use. simple. but flexible for the individualists!

    Should anyone involved in userinterface design and functionality with gnome, eazel, sun be interested in more indepth ideas, mail me at: caspera@sophistic.com (no spam, thanks for understanding).

  11. one step forward, but not there yet. on The Virtual Tip Jar · · Score: 1

    The solution has some appeal to me. Although I would not see this solution as a final one. One fundamental reason is. It is a company making money, they grow and how can we be assured such company/service will not just replace RIAA.

    I would rather see a non-commercial organisation doing this. Here one could argue, that non-commercial organisation sometimes for get the 'non' word in their status. But with the right construction, this could be the service that liberates.

    Personally I have no feelings for RIAA, noone but themselves should have, they have proved their right to peoples support wrong. And who are their customers in the long run, the people! (although one could argue its the record companies, but history reveals, its the people who pays)!

  12. inaccurate information or? on Market Share Reports On Linux · · Score: 1

    The page contains the following information, which contradicts previous announcements on /. about som bigshot apple geek who had osX compiled on a i386 system.. Could anyone share a thought or two to clear this up?

    OS X is built around the NeXT Mach kernel and BSD, and doesn't rely on any ROM-resident code. Nevertheless, Apple maintains that the system won't work on anything but a PPC G3 or G4 -- not even on third-party G3/G4 upgrade cards. Still, nothing inherent to OS X prevents it from being ported to other platforms. Should it be a big hit, Apple could always opt to bring OS X to Intel platforms in an aggressive effort to increase market presence.

  13. Re:Why do you guys make such a big deal about this on Mozilla M17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Your mind is your biggest limitation, especially when being closed.

  14. Re:Why do you guys make such a big deal about this on Mozilla M17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    I can't blame you for lack of excitement regarding IE development. IE is closed, taking away freedom, where Mozilla is open, giving freedom.

    We who can think for ourselves believe in the open projects developments and as it has our interest, we surely give it the worthy attention, as this is a project for everyone, you included albeit you have no clue yet.

    I have a dream of a useful browsing platform for all systems, mozilla is the closest thing, ie is the opponent. It basically is a war between good and evil. Face it. If we aint doing something about it, future generations will be hurt from our stupidity. So fight for it, fight for yourself and yours!

    Only by persistance in pursuing the target things will get better, by stalling, IE will only get further away and randoM$oft will continue to set THEIR standard at THEIR convenience, not YOURS.

  15. Re:Why? - Thats why! on Linux on a Wrist Watch? · · Score: 2

    Open your mind/eyes and you will see..
    This is a step in a forward direction.

    For over five years I have been thinking and dreaming about the watchphone becoming reality. I even had the idea of registering watchphone.com, but unfortunately when I first got pulled myself together years after, it was taken, and have been nothing but a dummy page ever since. I kick myself in the butt today for my lack of activity at the right time.

    Anyways, with running a unix system on the wrist watch, you are heading in the right direction (and concidering IBM now plan to make huge mobile investments with divisions in Europe counting 5000employees in this sector alone, they obviously are going for keeps). Having the unix system on the 'watchphone' as I call it, you have compatibility and scalability of the future. You have a terminal, which will be empowered by highspeed wireless connectivity solutions(hence IBM's future plans) from which you can control your security camera at home, watch the kiddies while being in the other room, watch your home, and activate automatic functions when away so when you return home, your bed has been prepared, your coffee is ready, dinner is ready, etc.. You can also do video/phone conferences, multimedia sessions, communicate with the entire world from that thing on your wrist.. 'I've got the whole world, in my hands.. - would partly become true' its called convergence of technology, its the future, and IBM knows it!

    Combine it with some of Seiko/Epson's new display techology or whatever comes next, this is quite enchanting..

    Having speculated in this area, made drawings, designed user interfaces, etc.. for years just for the fun of it, have been exciting.. seing it come true will be awesome.. now I come to think of it.. the device was also described in one of William Gibson's books too..

    Should IBM, Nokia or alike be interested, then I would happily participate in the R&D of this.. contact me at caspera@sophistic.com :)

  16. Re:Nothing wrong with protecting a trademark. on Samba Runs Into Naming Problems In Germany · · Score: 1

    Which samba organisation came first? ( - location doesn't matter as this is a global/general issue)

    the open source software?
    or
    the proprietary banking software?

    What I am thinking is that if the open source software product came first into official existence and the german banking software came after.. Then, if the OSS is not trademarked, the banking one is free to use it, but in fair game, suing should not be suitable if they came after. Should this be the case and the banking software wins in court, has right no its side, then the right and court are wrong and the situation should be dealt with.

  17. Life is given and Life is taken on Classic Browsers Given New Life · · Score: 1

    Recently a new site opened up..

    Recently a new site closed down.. /.'ed

  18. Re:Do we need this speed? on Pentium III 1.13Ghz: The Real Story · · Score: 1

    Are you hereby saying that Gates law also applies to the unixes, or are there something you are forgetting?

  19. The Origin is dirty! on SDMI Technologist Talal Shamoon Interview · · Score: 1

    I am laughing frightendly.

    Shaloom is sitting in his high chair pulling humongous amounts of money for participating in setting up a new faulty system. Shaloom, when you wash your hands, don't let them see you laugh.

    People so distant to reality decides the future which sooner or later breaks apart. Why? Perhaps because those people weren't the one to decide. Instead we would need an open system, a mixture of the napster, gnutella systems and the one I commented earlier. (reply to 1st post regarding destinympe). If the users doesn't like it, it is not for the users to use. (happens to some extent with windows though, but people learn from their mistake in this case, regardless of what the heads might say). Lets do it right. Lets do it with honour.

  20. Re:NO, WE HAVE THE ANSWER on SDMI Technologist Talal Shamoon Interview · · Score: 1

    The concept of MPE is quite flexible for all parties involved. but if managed by one company, integrity would be lacking right from the beginning and the ressistence would never drop causing this into a war.

    MPE is flexible but it also contains flaws, the most important was the one company rules all(have we heard this before - MS), thats the wrong way to go. It would fear people from letting it evolve as it is a frightening concept.

    Another problem with it is the way of payment. If one have to go register for every download, it would be hell.

    A third problem is that when you register a product, it is licensed for a particular device only. now I have a few questions.. What if this device becomes broken? What if the device is no longer relevant to the technology of the time in question? and a related comment.. Should I register a product, I don't want to register it for every player I have. That would make we feel screwed over.

    But if these issues are dealt with, then I believe this is the future. It is the solution that matches my ideas best possible. But the above mentioned must be sorted and its an ultimatum, that it will be an open organisation doing the job of the overall management, and not a dominant company as Destiny MPE. I could imagine we could do something for the world with this system. The overall company could be a non-commercial organisation where profits can be used to improve the standard of living, curing deceases, improve infrastructures, making a better world.

    Do this and you will do it right. Yes, lets do it with honour.

  21. Re:You all suck! - what is the big deal.. interfac on Natural Language CLIs? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have talked about it for some time, which doesn't bother me, if people just didn't made it into much, but they appearently do. What really provokes me is that sometime last year or the year before, Bill Gates was to talk about what we would see the next 10 years in tech advancements. Here Bill Gates talked about the voice control and communication with the computer as was it his original idea and that it would be thanks to him and microsoft. And the journalists would sit back and amaze themselves in this glory. Fuck it I say, it won't be real before its open and its on unixes. Verbal communication with many sorts of computing devices will be a part of the future and one wouldn't need to be Bill Gates to foresee this. Despite of his managing and wealthy position he really knows shit and is nothing but a cheap ass copycat one could meet in China or whereever.. The difference is simply that they acknowledge their position and doesn't obstruct real innovations or having marketing and legal divisions as the most producing entities to claim innovations done by the world on behalf of their own company. What a fake!

    I remember the OS/2. Was testing the 2.x branch and remember the big hype. Actually OS/2 was a better operative system than windows, and at that time much more visionary and useable. Unfortunately Microsoft had too much power at the time and something more was required for a system like OS/2 to take action. The voice integration already then amazed me, comparing to the windows alternatives. Also I remember how much power there was in the OS/2 community and how dedicated people were.

    As for the voice features today, I am not waiting for it to come in windows, I really can't use it for anything. Windows is seldomly used by me at this time and I know the crowd will follow to the unixes eventually. A gut feeling you might say. As for the windows, there are decent voice applications to offer what people want and it works. Used it myself. I sure as hell wouldn't like to see this integrated into the operative system alone, especially not when we are talking a closed one. I would rather have the system to have open bridges/virtual jacks/connectivity components so everyone can develop their own systems which easily connects to the OS. This way we are ensured room for several alternatives to chose between and then it will be harder to fuck over the users.

    Well, for the unixes I say lets get it going. I for one would definately contribute with my knowledge and time. It is possible with the unixes, not with windows. I say, lets do it, and do it with honour.

  22. Re:Maybe... on Natural Language CLIs? · · Score: 1

    You brought up some good issues. and you also provided the solution, perhaps without noticing :)

    You are asking questions to the prior post as you are confused due to multiple options available in the specific command case. The computer should be just as confused as it find multiple tasks possible. It should query the user with those questions for getting the process right.

  23. Re:Maybe... on Natural Language CLIs? · · Score: 1

    Interesting reading. Had I the power, the comment would be moderated up for more to read.

  24. Re:About human interface on Natural Language CLIs? · · Score: 1

    Regarding the phonetic problems you pointed out, then I hopefully assume noone puts together an enduser system which believe it can think with our current status of ai technology.

    For operations that can be critical to the users and where phonetic problem can be an issue, I sure expect to have a security/confirmation system implemented.

    user: "delete|remove|erase|eradicate /temp"
    computer: "you have a grudge against that /temp directory I under stand that :), but I just wanna confirm, you want to bomb /temp off the planet?" - the computers query are written on screen and perhaps also sent out through speakers if desired
    user: "Yes"
    computer: "/temp removed sire"

    Well just a sample.. the process could be simplified to make it faster, but something should be only as fast as it needs to be in order to do its job. Should /temp be confused with /tmp or something else, the computer should present its confusion for its operator, in order to be guided. Remember communication with another character is a two party process. Have to understand each other or we fuck up. Can't blame the computer if we aint concidering this in development. Fuck ups in communication human to human happens all the time.

  25. Re:That's not the point on The Open Windows Project · · Score: 1

    Read my other comments in relation to this article. Especially the one Where I replied to the other reply of my original comment.

    It is very logical to me and time will show you.

    With an open sourced platform such as the ones available on the unixes, Operative Systems can be tweaked from complex systems into real solutions tailored to individual needs in a much higher extent than what is possible on the windows platform. Users will know quality and make use of it when its presented before their eyes in an orderly fashion that immideately shows a purpose. And then the product will speak for itself.

    note.. If a product needs multiple billions of dollars in marketing, the product is not worth the release.
    Real quality can speak on its own, its just a matter of opening your eyes and you will see.