I don't think the author understands the situation at all. The reality is that designing and implementing a piece of software that opperates in a similar manner to an exsisting product is different from reverse engineering the software to steal their design.
I keep hearing this. The reverse engineering effort was done without using a copy of BitKeeper (but using files it produced, of course). As far as I can tell this means all the people saying the reverse-engineering is somehow stealing BitKeeper's ideas mean there is no more to BitKeeper than a file format. If that's all BitKeeper has to offer, if there is nothing sufficiently innovative to patent or sufficiently complex as to be impossible to duplicate without knowing how it works internally then it just isn't that special.
Linus (and others) wrote Linux to conform to the POSIX specifications. They didn't reverse engineer any form of Unix, not even Minix (though Linus did start with it, he quickly threw it away).
Linus didn't have the POSIX specs when he started so he couldn't possibly have written to them. Did he just happen to come up with a kernel that had the right API? I think not.
Suing the BBC is just as easy as suing aybody else. They aren't part of the government, nor do they have any special dispensations in this area. They have plenty of lawyers of course, but what large organisation doesn't? Oryx won a libel action against them a few years ago after a BBC report suggested they were associated with terrorism.
The Press should take the available facts and report. So yes, if the news outlet reports from available facts, they will have a difficult time finding reason to apologize.
The only facts that conveniently materialise in front of a reporter are the ones put there by interested (ie biased) parties.
Dr. Who is a Timelord (or is that Time Lord?), bending space and time is what he's about. Why not extend that to his face? At least in sci-fi you can invent some vaguley plausible (in the context...) excuse for using a new actor. In soaps they just stick someone else in and carry on regardless. Of all the series where you have to worry about replacing an actor Dr. Who ranks pretty low, even without the reincarnation mechanism.
I case you couldn't guess from the 3 TV tuners, it doesn't get used for games, it's mostly a PVR box. It spends many hours every day chucking gigs of video around. Perhaps not serious work compared to the Pixar render-farm, but it sure as hell aint idle.
All the people buying 64-bit servers agree with you there. I almost got trampled to death by a bunch of guys rushing to get Itanium boxes the other day.
Go to a store, buy a motherboard with a shitty chipset and fill all the PCI holes with a clever combination of expensive cards which forces the chipset to work hard to give all the neede resources to those cards.
I have a VIA KT400 chipset board with a Duron 1400 in it. Two analogue and one digital PCI TV tuners, PCI NIC, PCI SCSI. 43 days uptime since I last rebuilt the kernel. That's good enough for me.
The rather scary part of this analogy, of course, is that the subsequent peace on the continent was secured by the decades-long occupation of the continent by a foreign army (ie the Americans).
Americans jointly occupied Germany, Italy and Austria. You know, the bad guys. Partial control of three countries hardly constitutes "occupation of the continent". Britain, France and the Soviet Union were also occupying forces. Most countries were rapidly returned to self-rule. Americans left Italy in 1947 and Austria in 1955. That's one decade, singular. So your "decades-long occupation of the continent" is actually decades-long occupation of 1/6th of Germany.
hate to bum the high of all of the Harley riders out there but I've met quite a few guys who have been in serious motorcycle accidents (i.e., they ended up having a leg cut off)
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If you spend some time in a newsagent it's wasy to think everyone buys a newspaper.
They have also distributed it but refuse to make the source public.
That's a slam-dunk GPL violation. No ifs, no buts. They are distributing (among others) IBM's copyright code, in violation of the license. It doesn't matter that the license happens to be the GPL, it doesn't matter what contract the author of the additions is under, they have no legal right to redistribute the code except under the terms of the GPL. IBM have plenty of lawyers familiar with the GPL. I'd drop them a line.
It's not just the size of the bullet, but the size of the charge behind it too. Handgun rounds tend to be big and slow (relativley speaking). Rifle rounds go a whole lot faster, so while a.22 pistol may barely put a dint in a Coke can the 5.56mm NATO round your average squaddie has in his weapon (5.56mm = 0.219 inches) will go through a car door and still have plenty of oomph left to kill you.
Of course, if you go for both a large caliber and a big charge you end up with artillery pieces like the Barrett.50s. Now there's a toy I'd love to play with!
No, the indians of the SW US and N Mexico proved centuries ago that LOTS of mass is the best solution to a hot climate. Build several foot thick walls of stone or stone like material and you have a natural cooling material.
It's not an active cooling material of course, it's an insulator and has high thermal mass. It resists changes in temperature rather than activley cooling. The modern equivalent to 3-foot thick walls is a reservoir of water beneath the house. Similar idea, but the cycle is more like a year than a day. The water is pumped around the house, cooling it in summer and warming it in winter (always pulling it towards some slowly varying median value). The water only changes temperature by a few of degrees over the course of a year, but water can hold so much heat and there is so much of it you get a significant reduction in heating/cooling costs.
Bittorrent is being actively discriminated against by ISPs, e.g. slowing down long-term Bittorrent seeding.
Do you have a cite for this?
If my ISP did anything like that they wouldn't be my ISP any more. Not only that, but they are in effect censoring their users' net connections. This makes them liable for the content in many jurisdictions.
While the most valuable bots are on always-on broadband connections, I expect many are on dial-up. Over a "few months" a PC connecting over dialup could use dozens of IPs. With a big ISP (big IP pool) and a user averaging more than one connection per day you could get >>100 IPs per bot over a few months.
I think that the solution suggested in the article (treating cross-domain 302 temporary redirections as normal links) could be a good workaround, even if this means that Google would not be following the HTTP standard defined by RFC 2616.
They would still be following the RFC even if they did treat 302s to external domains as links. The relevant parts of RFC 2616 are "SHOULD" not "MUST". RFC 2119 (Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels) defines "SHOULD" as follows:
3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that
there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course. [emphasis added]
I think this qualifies as a valid reason. I'm not sure this even is a standards issue anyway, it's an internal matter for the search engines how they organise their index and that is where the problem lies.
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You can't develop Java with a Mac? Erm, you can't test for >1.4 (till Tiger, which is coming Real Soon Now), that's true. However, if your app is for distribution and you only develop for the very latest version of a platform, a version which has only been out for 6 months, you're insane.
Coding for the lowest common denominator may mean you miss out on the latest cool toys, but it's a fact of life if you distribute your apps beyond your own organisation and want to reach the widest range of potential users.
Anyway, it's Mac OS X that is currently at 1.4, not the hardware. This is a Linux for POWER hacking contest so I'm guessing the winners may in fact run Linux on their Apple hardware, just like Linus.
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And we all know retailers (like, say, Wal Mart) have no power over their suppliers.
I keep hearing this. The reverse engineering effort was done without using a copy of BitKeeper (but using files it produced, of course). As far as I can tell this means all the people saying the reverse-engineering is somehow stealing BitKeeper's ideas mean there is no more to BitKeeper than a file format. If that's all BitKeeper has to offer, if there is nothing sufficiently innovative to patent or sufficiently complex as to be impossible to duplicate without knowing how it works internally then it just isn't that special.
Linus didn't have the POSIX specs when he started so he couldn't possibly have written to them. Did he just happen to come up with a kernel that had the right API? I think not.
Suing the BBC is just as easy as suing aybody else. They aren't part of the government, nor do they have any special dispensations in this area. They have plenty of lawyers of course, but what large organisation doesn't? Oryx won a libel action against them a few years ago after a BBC report suggested they were associated with terrorism.
Naughty BBC for apologising when they get something wrong, what a shocking example to set for the children.
The only facts that conveniently materialise in front of a reporter are the ones put there by interested (ie biased) parties.
Dr. Who is a Timelord (or is that Time Lord?), bending space and time is what he's about. Why not extend that to his face? At least in sci-fi you can invent some vaguley plausible (in the context...) excuse for using a new actor. In soaps they just stick someone else in and carry on regardless. Of all the series where you have to worry about replacing an actor Dr. Who ranks pretty low, even without the reincarnation mechanism.
I case you couldn't guess from the 3 TV tuners, it doesn't get used for games, it's mostly a PVR box. It spends many hours every day chucking gigs of video around. Perhaps not serious work compared to the Pixar render-farm, but it sure as hell aint idle.
All the people buying 64-bit servers agree with you there. I almost got trampled to death by a bunch of guys rushing to get Itanium boxes the other day.
I have a VIA KT400 chipset board with a Duron 1400 in it. Two analogue and one digital PCI TV tuners, PCI NIC, PCI SCSI. 43 days uptime since I last rebuilt the kernel. That's good enough for me.
He didn't "make a habit" of it, he did it once.
IANAL, but I think you libeled him by making that claim. Not a good idea if he fancies another go with the legal system.
Americans jointly occupied Germany, Italy and Austria. You know, the bad guys. Partial control of three countries hardly constitutes "occupation of the continent". Britain, France and the Soviet Union were also occupying forces. Most countries were rapidly returned to self-rule. Americans left Italy in 1947 and Austria in 1955. That's one decade, singular. So your "decades-long occupation of the continent" is actually decades-long occupation of 1/6th of Germany.
Body-bags cost votes.
If you spend some time in a newsagent it's wasy to think everyone buys a newspaper.
Dude, you really should stop confusing IM messages to your girlfriend with Slashdot posts.
"The closet" is 'merkin for "wardrobe". Do I win a prize?
Hmm, I'm not so sure I want to watch the videos now that's ocurred to me.
That's a slam-dunk GPL violation. No ifs, no buts. They are distributing (among others) IBM's copyright code, in violation of the license. It doesn't matter that the license happens to be the GPL, it doesn't matter what contract the author of the additions is under, they have no legal right to redistribute the code except under the terms of the GPL. IBM have plenty of lawyers familiar with the GPL. I'd drop them a line.
Your DSL line changes its IP every few seconds? Man, that must really suck for downloading stuff.
Of course, if you go for both a large caliber and a big charge you end up with artillery pieces like the Barrett .50s. Now there's a toy I'd love to play with!
It's not an active cooling material of course, it's an insulator and has high thermal mass. It resists changes in temperature rather than activley cooling. The modern equivalent to 3-foot thick walls is a reservoir of water beneath the house. Similar idea, but the cycle is more like a year than a day. The water is pumped around the house, cooling it in summer and warming it in winter (always pulling it towards some slowly varying median value). The water only changes temperature by a few of degrees over the course of a year, but water can hold so much heat and there is so much of it you get a significant reduction in heating/cooling costs.
Do you have a cite for this?
If my ISP did anything like that they wouldn't be my ISP any more. Not only that, but they are in effect censoring their users' net connections. This makes them liable for the content in many jurisdictions.
While the most valuable bots are on always-on broadband connections, I expect many are on dial-up. Over a "few months" a PC connecting over dialup could use dozens of IPs. With a big ISP (big IP pool) and a user averaging more than one connection per day you could get >>100 IPs per bot over a few months.
They would still be following the RFC even if they did treat 302s to external domains as links. The relevant parts of RFC 2616 are "SHOULD" not "MUST". RFC 2119 (Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels) defines "SHOULD" as follows:
I think this qualifies as a valid reason. I'm not sure this even is a standards issue anyway, it's an internal matter for the search engines how they organise their index and that is where the problem lies.
Coding for the lowest common denominator may mean you miss out on the latest cool toys, but it's a fact of life if you distribute your apps beyond your own organisation and want to reach the widest range of potential users.
Anyway, it's Mac OS X that is currently at 1.4, not the hardware. This is a Linux for POWER hacking contest so I'm guessing the winners may in fact run Linux on their Apple hardware, just like Linus.