While yes a bug, most of my experience on IRC would point towards a benefit if anyone could boot anyone else. The benefit is to those booted, to be clear.
IANAL
Yes, except the penalities and procedures are different than "theft". Copyright Infringement(TM) is a moving target, based on locale, time, content and method. None of the details have been worked out, althogh you'll see them asked now and again.
One Simple Example: "Can I take content I've bought for one platform and copy it to another? (CD to MP3 player)"
US: "Historic Use" (a legal new term lately) says no. "Fair Use" (the historic standard) says yes. Got that? Fair Use is the current law, Historic Use is in lobby/committee in the US, as part of the DCMA revisions.
Dude, your post is a complete mad-lib for each and every topic on Slashdot...or any web site anywhere. If you can't take the heat, click elsewhere.
It's really not a great idea to __[verb1]___ these ___[adj1]_____ stories. This story will generate a huge amount of __[noun1]____ as the ___[collective noun1]______ try and __[verb2]_____ the ___[noun2]_____ with their _[noun3]_______. And I do not hesitate to call it that: ___[noun4]________. ___[plural noun1]____ will be ____[verb3]____, ___[plural noun2]___ will fly, ___[noun5]____ will be gained and lost again and again in the same ___[noun6]_____.
Something tells me that you regard religion as a quality topic for the brain. Perhaps the pholosophical question of the universe's origin, but please...Religion's pomp, circumstance and endless social divisions has done enough harm to the planet. Stop clinging to the myth, religion is a waste of time. Belief is truely a wish, and as one, if you voice it - it'll never come true.
Summaries of the transcripts, including explanations of the terms and the implications of the ideas, are for sale fo me. This is in accordance with terms of the old and new GPL, although I offer no indemnity against a SCO subpoena. Sorry!;)
Yes, good point. However, when MS sells an "OS product", the label for entire install is under a single moniker, and the public treats this as an OS. Seriously, how many typical consumer-level folks are going to understand that the OS + addon combination is what the suffixes mean? Not many, and when they start to figure the combinations out, countless griping about the needless complexity will air.
This is just a by-product of the bundling game that MS ships with their OS products. Their products may or may not be competative on a stand-alone basis, and exclusivity may be removed from OEM levels, but for the most part this is same game they've played forever. I hasten to add: ALL OS products ship with a large pile of additional tools. However, when have they started labelling each combination as a "product" ?! Can you imagine Linux or Apple trying to do this? Not vendor flavor, but just application combination (and perhaps crippling-level). Awful.
If every file bought in a store or downloaded has a watermark, why not just take 2,3,4 or more copies and overlay them to "wash out" the marks that can survive a codec pass? Once this is done, who is identified in that watermark? I think initial uploads will involve a 2-image wash, with later downloaded and merged copies going further. This erodes the capability of any tracking to a single market or consumer for the source of the watermark, without even knowing the crypto to reverse it.
Also, who gets the blame for the large current of stolen and fenced audio that is subsequently ripped onto the net? If my car's CD booklet was taken in a smash-n-grab from a parking lot (fairly typical), then all those songs end up on the P2P channels, there's no way I'm paying for it. Watermarking may narrow down the number of holes, but it doesn't remove them all, and as long as a single hole exists, sharing is unchanged.
This tiered-leve of payment and access is not inescapable. I believe wireless networks built in neighborhoods could link to form a mini-net.
If content providers in a local geographic area can send out host files to in-range folks, they can serve without the backbone and also bridge to it. If two nearby neighborhoods perform this same thing, and then bridge without hopping to the next tier up, we rebuild subnets without the backbone tiers.
But someone at some level will have to link to the existing tiers, and they will need some high bandwidth to do this, but as content moves to the local level, the bandwidth requirements may diminish. I would rather pay for access like this, myself.
This is expecially true if email is considered, whereby spam is filtered "at the door" to the wireless level, keeping the home-grown wireless ISP fairly clean.
I'm sure someone has done this. Does anyone have info about this?
But if I build a pool based on your mother's broadcasted TV show of what cookies she baked, when, how many of each flavor, and how popular they were (all easily discernable by going to the show or through TV, radio, dozens of periodicals or the daily sportspage),
and then my buddies and I build a web page for this pool, and build a nice fantasy league about all the moms, for folks to bet on or argue about: WHAT, exactly, on our site would you or your mother own? The numbers? The input, or the derived numbers?
What if I built silly numbers applying numerological techniques to her name? Would she own those numbers? I mean, nothing says the values have to come from reality, so whats to own here? This is just greed.
Naturally occurring or not, nothing says humanity has to survive it. You may be missing the point.
The cause to limit Global Warming is based on the threat to survival, not simply because its "unnatural"...perhaps you'd like to try living in a wild new climate - there are plenty to practice in.
Well, after a bit of hunting around on the net, I learned that they plan to massively upgrade the power output by placing a zinc-plated nail into a Lemon tree . Specifically, each and every lemon on the tree, then installing a large copper pipe connected to the ground next to the tree.
One has enough poetential energy to fund the printing of a 3-page business plan and investor "opportuninty" with the company, per tree! With enough trees, this guy really could get rich.
Personally, I'm going create a side business of selling zinc-saturated lemons as a dietary supplement in the US.
The term arcade was abused by the time machines entered the fray.
That said, why pay money to play a game that's nowhere near as fun as a lan party or coffeehouse?
Like many thing, you spend money, you want to *own* something. Not rent it, not borrow it. Having stuff is perhaps another argument, but paying a few quarters to wiggle a joystick is a death long overdue.
Here in the US, the trend for ever-higher bandwidth per $ has stagnated. I've read of other countries that have surpassed the 7-15Mb range as typical, but here that range seems to be the "high speed" spec.
Computers are plenty powerful, dual core and faster lines to/from mobile devices are churning. Storage is still getting better, content is smearing to new legit protocols, but bandwidth hasn't increased.
Like the cable company wars, net connectivity seems to be bound by the few providers (DSL/Cable/Sat) that reach the home. The separation of physical line from service provider has not taken hold. I would expect that every 5 years or so, bandwidth should go up by about 50% for the same price. Nope.
Now that the Net seems to be integral to many lifestyles, monopolistic interests have locked the market, it seems.
Also, repeating the oft-repeated "chicken/egg" bit, there's gotta be content out there for me to pull to want higher bandwidth. Right now, very rarely do i max the line, since there's little video I'm intersested in.
The modern world throws away thousands, if not millions of books ever year. Some of them are reference materials, spanning every education level. If the thrid world was given these books instead of a connection to the internet, I think it'd be vastly more useable, longer lasting, and cheaper.
This removes the need for electricity, connectivity, and familiarity with technology. Books are what the entire world has used for much much longer than the internet as a source of knowledge. it's a shame to skip this.
Sir, you completely fail to realize that OSS has *any number* of eyes on the code, whereas MS has a fixed number.
In the event an exploit on open source software, the number of examinations to target the flawed code would jump and a patch would form much more quickly. I think this situation is fair game for the argument of open code. The maddening concept is this fix to this is probably very simple for most of the C coders reading here. shimgvw.dll is probably an embarrassing pile, filled with backward compatability hacks anyway.
Instead, it's been 3 days sir. I suspect it will be a while longer until all the beging hands at the castle are thrown a fix, until they have to return again.
If they are recompiling for a new processor, it's pretty trvial to scan the code for known functions that enable attacks such as this. But then you have to change it, which can be a huge undertaking for large systems. Exploits on forward stacks are possible as well, but are debatably more complicated (outright pointer arithmetic operations are a dying breed but live as arrays in C/C++).
Learn the one which you have access to the most resources right now. You'd want to be able to ramp quickly with a good tutor, intersting project and common crowd. In the future, you can cut your own way, given the company you want to work for.
Interesting companies in all sectors are hiring both types of programmers, so ignore the scare of vendor lock. Rather than product, try to know either one *deeply* right now. Both platforms are intricate and demand quite a bit of ramp.
And for god's sake man, avoid becoming partial to any language. You'll sound as stale as the -1 posts in this very topic.
Perhaps you should step away from the assumption of the bible as a source of truth. Your appeal to that book as an authority doesn't work in my library.
Evolution is only partly built from chance. Chance is the expansion of "attempts at a generation" which hit the wall. The predictive portion is the filtering by which only some of those chances live on the form a viable mutation. We predict what might live by studying the filters each generation hit.
Predictively, the common cold is a mutation on several strains of virus. They are shuffled, broken and pieced together a myriad of ways in each host. However, there is a limit to which mutations are viable because (for example) only a few of the exposed protein signatures can become infectious to that host type.
Also, quite a few other mutations form a non-working virus (replication, delivery mechanisms, etc are flawed).
By changing the filter to (say) kills all viruses of a certain DNA sequence (or, more aptly, protein signature), we allow only those which *do not match* to pass through. This is in addition to other filters already in place (replication, infection, etc).
If you take this to a grand scale, mutations in infectious viruses, filtered against all drugs, makes for a new strain, which is no longer affected by the drugs. Guess what's been predicted for a long time, and verified over and over? That the common cold you catch is a strain you've not built antibodies for yet, so it passes all your filters and sticks. Evolution in action, all year long and within every person alive. It's been studied, replicated, predicted and verified. Same for antibacterial concepts, animal food chains, traffic patterns, information represenation, and to some part, human behavior.
If you want to add ID somewhere in there, be my guest, but it's not necessary. There's nothing magic about it. In fact, the entire process is used every day in evolutionary programming models - nothing in the results is "so complex" as to think each evolutionary model is actually a little "god" intelligently shuffling things around. It's a system of replication, mutation and filtration.
The fact that this simple concept, which is used in so many places in science, is attacked for it's link to human development is a little sad. Understand first that the propaganda of religious fundmentalism seeks to cloud the issue. Evolution pertaining to human development is sacred to them. But to the rest of the world, it's evolution is just a tool of science, to explain (as in test/predict/replicate). This tool helped build the compression routines for phone lines, the highway/traffic layouts for your town, and many things inside the IT world (voice-recognition, spam filtering, etc). Claiming it's invalid is a bit ironic - it's proven results are unavoidable in the man-made or natural world.
To those that have any inclination to see ID kept around: Please remember that evolution is alive in well in many parts of the scientific world, and is used to make viable, existing products. Animal development through evolution may be complex in it's DNA content and effects, but the process is working elsewhere, so there's no reason to doubt it.
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I'd sooner use the cancelled Internet Explorer...
FYI, your worm-laden machine silently posted this without your knowledge. Perhaps you should stick to surfing with MS Word.
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While yes a bug, most of my experience on IRC would point towards a benefit if anyone could boot anyone else. The benefit is to those booted, to be clear.
IANAL
Yes, except the penalities and procedures are different than "theft". Copyright Infringement(TM) is a moving target, based on locale, time, content and method. None of the details have been worked out, althogh you'll see them asked now and again.
One Simple Example:
"Can I take content I've bought for one platform and copy it to another? (CD to MP3 player)"
US: "Historic Use" (a legal new term lately) says no. "Fair Use" (the historic standard) says yes. Got that? Fair Use is the current law, Historic Use is in lobby/committee in the US, as part of the DCMA revisions.
Dude, your post is a complete mad-lib for each and every topic on Slashdot...or any web site anywhere. If you can't take the heat, click elsewhere.
It's really not a great idea to __[verb1]___ these ___[adj1]_____ stories. This story will generate a huge amount of __[noun1]____ as the ___[collective noun1]______ try and __[verb2]_____ the ___[noun2]_____ with their _[noun3]_______. And I do not hesitate to call it that: ___[noun4]________. ___[plural noun1]____ will be ____[verb3]____, ___[plural noun2]___ will fly, ___[noun5]____ will be gained and lost again and again in the same ___[noun6]_____.
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noun3:
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Have fun!
Something tells me that you regard religion as a quality topic for the brain. Perhaps the pholosophical question of the universe's origin, but please...Religion's pomp, circumstance and endless social divisions has done enough harm to the planet. Stop clinging to the myth, religion is a waste of time. Belief is truely a wish, and as one, if you voice it - it'll never come true.
Summaries of the transcripts, including explanations of the terms and the implications of the ideas, are for sale fo me. This is in accordance with terms of the old and new GPL, although I offer no indemnity against a SCO subpoena. Sorry!
It is stil the same damn OS.
Yes, good point. However, when MS sells an "OS product", the label for entire install is under a single moniker, and the public treats this as an OS. Seriously, how many typical consumer-level folks are going to understand that the OS + addon combination is what the suffixes mean? Not many, and when they start to figure the combinations out, countless griping about the needless complexity will air.
This is just a by-product of the bundling game that MS ships with their OS products. Their products may or may not be competative on a stand-alone basis, and exclusivity may be removed from OEM levels, but for the most part this is same game they've played forever. I hasten to add: ALL OS products ship with a large pile of additional tools. However, when have they started labelling each combination as a "product" ?! Can you imagine Linux or Apple trying to do this? Not vendor flavor, but just application combination (and perhaps crippling-level). Awful.
If your air already has moisture, just collect it at dewpoint, or from fog
If every file bought in a store or downloaded has a watermark, why not just take 2,3,4 or more copies and overlay them to "wash out" the marks that can survive a codec pass? Once this is done, who is identified in that watermark? I think initial uploads will involve a 2-image wash, with later downloaded and merged copies going further. This erodes the capability of any tracking to a single market or consumer for the source of the watermark, without even knowing the crypto to reverse it.
Also, who gets the blame for the large current of stolen and fenced audio that is subsequently ripped onto the net? If my car's CD booklet was taken in a smash-n-grab from a parking lot (fairly typical), then all those songs end up on the P2P channels, there's no way I'm paying for it. Watermarking may narrow down the number of holes, but it doesn't remove them all, and as long as a single hole exists, sharing is unchanged.
This tiered-leve of payment and access is not inescapable. I believe wireless networks built in neighborhoods could link to form a mini-net.
If content providers in a local geographic area can send out host files to in-range folks, they can serve without the backbone and also bridge to it. If two nearby neighborhoods perform this same thing, and then bridge without hopping to the next tier up, we rebuild subnets without the backbone tiers.
But someone at some level will have to link to the existing tiers, and they will need some high bandwidth to do this, but as content moves to the local level, the bandwidth requirements may diminish. I would rather pay for access like this, myself.
This is expecially true if email is considered, whereby spam is filtered "at the door" to the wireless level, keeping the home-grown wireless ISP fairly clean.
I'm sure someone has done this. Does anyone have info about this?
But if I build a pool based on your mother's broadcasted TV show of what cookies she baked, when, how many of each flavor, and how popular they were (all easily discernable by going to the show or through TV, radio, dozens of periodicals or the daily sportspage),
and then my buddies and I build a web page for this pool, and build a nice fantasy league about all the moms, for folks to bet on or argue about: WHAT, exactly, on our site would you or your mother own? The numbers? The input, or the derived numbers?
What if I built silly numbers applying numerological techniques to her name? Would she own those numbers? I mean, nothing says the values have to come from reality, so whats to own here? This is just greed.
heh. said like a true AC troll. *golf clap* well done.
Naturally occurring or not, nothing says humanity has to survive it. You may be missing the point.
The cause to limit Global Warming is based on the threat to survival, not simply because its "unnatural"...perhaps you'd like to try living in a wild new climate - there are plenty to practice in.
Anyway, the question is moot. That era is now.
Well, after a bit of hunting around on the net, I learned that they plan to massively upgrade the power output by placing a zinc-plated nail into a Lemon tree . Specifically, each and every lemon on the tree, then installing a large copper pipe connected to the ground next to the tree.
One has enough poetential energy to fund the printing of a 3-page business plan and investor "opportuninty" with the company, per tree! With enough trees, this guy really could get rich.
Personally, I'm going create a side business of selling zinc-saturated lemons as a dietary supplement in the US.
The term arcade was abused by the time machines entered the fray.
That said, why pay money to play a game that's nowhere near as fun as a lan party or coffeehouse?
Like many thing, you spend money, you want to *own* something. Not rent it, not borrow it. Having stuff is perhaps another argument, but paying a few quarters to wiggle a joystick is a death long overdue.
DDR is fun though in my book. The songs, eh.
Here in the US, the trend for ever-higher bandwidth per $ has stagnated. I've read of other countries that have surpassed the 7-15Mb range as typical, but here that range seems to be the "high speed" spec.
Computers are plenty powerful, dual core and faster lines to/from mobile devices are churning. Storage is still getting better, content is smearing to new legit protocols, but bandwidth hasn't increased.
Like the cable company wars, net connectivity seems to be bound by the few providers (DSL/Cable/Sat) that reach the home. The separation of physical line from service provider has not taken hold. I would expect that every 5 years or so, bandwidth should go up by about 50% for the same price. Nope.
Now that the Net seems to be integral to many lifestyles, monopolistic interests have locked the market, it seems.
Also, repeating the oft-repeated "chicken/egg" bit, there's gotta be content out there for me to pull to want higher bandwidth. Right now, very rarely do i max the line, since there's little video I'm intersested in.
AND...they play dirty games! Their tightwad rules are for their secret alter-egos, of course.
Today are we just going to post all the ARSTechnica.com articles?
-1 Redundant
The modern world throws away thousands, if not millions of books ever year. Some of them are reference materials, spanning every education level. If the thrid world was given these books instead of a connection to the internet, I think it'd be vastly more useable, longer lasting, and cheaper.
This removes the need for electricity, connectivity, and familiarity with technology. Books are what the entire world has used for much much longer than the internet as a source of knowledge. it's a shame to skip this.
Sir, you completely fail to realize that OSS has *any number* of eyes on the code, whereas MS has a fixed number.
In the event an exploit on open source software, the number of examinations to target the flawed code would jump and a patch would form much more quickly. I think this situation is fair game for the argument of open code. The maddening concept is this fix to this is probably very simple for most of the C coders reading here. shimgvw.dll is probably an embarrassing pile, filled with backward compatability hacks anyway.
Instead, it's been 3 days sir. I suspect it will be a while longer until all the beging hands at the castle are thrown a fix, until they have to return again.
If they are recompiling for a new processor, it's pretty trvial to scan the code for known functions that enable attacks such as this. But then you have to change it, which can be a huge undertaking for large systems. Exploits on forward stacks are possible as well, but are debatably more complicated (outright pointer arithmetic operations are a dying breed but live as arrays in C/C++).
Learn the one which you have access to the most resources right now. You'd want to be able to ramp quickly with a good tutor, intersting project and common crowd. In the future, you can cut your own way, given the company you want to work for.
Interesting companies in all sectors are hiring both types of programmers, so ignore the scare of vendor lock. Rather than product, try to know either one *deeply* right now. Both platforms are intricate and demand quite a bit of ramp.
And for god's sake man, avoid becoming partial to any language. You'll sound as stale as the -1 posts in this very topic.
...in the bible...
Perhaps you should step away from the assumption of the bible as a source of truth. Your appeal to that book as an authority doesn't work in my library.
Evolution is only partly built from chance. Chance is the expansion of "attempts at a generation" which hit the wall. The predictive portion is the filtering by which only some of those chances live on the form a viable mutation. We predict what might live by studying the filters each generation hit.
Predictively, the common cold is a mutation on several strains of virus. They are shuffled, broken and pieced together a myriad of ways in each host. However, there is a limit to which mutations are viable because (for example) only a few of the exposed protein signatures can become infectious to that host type.
Also, quite a few other mutations form a non-working virus (replication, delivery mechanisms, etc are flawed).
By changing the filter to (say) kills all viruses of a certain DNA sequence (or, more aptly, protein signature), we allow only those which *do not match* to pass through. This is in addition to other filters already in place (replication, infection, etc).
If you take this to a grand scale, mutations in infectious viruses, filtered against all drugs, makes for a new strain, which is no longer affected by the drugs. Guess what's been predicted for a long time, and verified over and over? That the common cold you catch is a strain you've not built antibodies for yet, so it passes all your filters and sticks. Evolution in action, all year long and within every person alive. It's been studied, replicated, predicted and verified. Same for antibacterial concepts, animal food chains, traffic patterns, information represenation, and to some part, human behavior.
If you want to add ID somewhere in there, be my guest, but it's not necessary. There's nothing magic about it. In fact, the entire process is used every day in evolutionary programming models - nothing in the results is "so complex" as to think each evolutionary model is actually a little "god" intelligently shuffling things around. It's a system of replication, mutation and filtration.
The fact that this simple concept, which is used in so many places in science, is attacked for it's link to human development is a little sad. Understand first that the propaganda of religious fundmentalism seeks to cloud the issue. Evolution pertaining to human development is sacred to them. But to the rest of the world, it's evolution is just a tool of science, to explain (as in test/predict/replicate). This tool helped build the compression routines for phone lines, the highway/traffic layouts for your town, and many things inside the IT world (voice-recognition, spam filtering, etc). Claiming it's invalid is a bit ironic - it's proven results are unavoidable in the man-made or natural world.
To those that have any inclination to see ID kept around: Please remember that evolution is alive in well in many parts of the scientific world, and is used to make viable, existing products. Animal development through evolution may be complex in it's DNA content and effects, but the process is working elsewhere, so there's no reason to doubt it.
I'd sooner use the cancelled Internet Explorer...
FYI, your worm-laden machine silently posted this without your knowledge. Perhaps you should stick to surfing with MS Word.
Then after the "MS Opera" release, firefox would have even less competition.