It could be that this bill is being passed simply to remove a set of excuses people might use when caught using P2P for sharing copyrighted material - hence the name of the bill.
If the software plainly states that it will be sharing a file with other people, then you cannot say 'I didn't know I was sharing it'. Likewise, you cannot say that it installed without your knowledge nor can you say it installed but you couldn't uninstall it.
This is of course, only possible if the writers of P2P software actually give two hoots about the bill.....
> Version 3.0 of the Microsoft Office competitor has garnered 50 million downloads in the last six months.
They have a long way to go though - the last release of Office probably had 10 times that. They probably also had at least 10 times that in legal purchases too....
From the presentation on IPN I saw a few years back, it appears that you wont be pinging marsbase.com..... they actually fancy adding a couple of levels to get some real TLDs.....
ping marsbase.com.mars.sol
When I saw the.sol in the presentation I was pretty impressed... theres a little bit of future proofing in that one....
Currently, in the UK you would still be charged with manslaughter (although you might not get convicted of it). This carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Obviously its no worse being murdered with a gun than it would be with anything else. The point I was hoping to make was that if access to guns were easier in the UK, it may be possible that more muggings go wrong (from the criminals point of view) and turn into homicides.
The report states 765 homicides (murder + manslaughter) in the UK last year, this includes the 46 gun releated and 52 in the London bombings. How does this compare with other countries?
In this particular case he didn't actually see a gun, he only thought it felt like a gun. Presumably there wasn't one involved because only a complete loon would chase after the muggers.
The number of guns (and related crime) in the UK is steadily increasing year on year, however thankfully the numbers are still small. The lack of guns in the UK might go some way to explaining the fact that 'only' (ie still far too many) 46 gun related murders occured last year (that figure comes from the same report) in the whole of the UK.
> Who is going to pay for an Internet connection on a really long flight when their laptop > battery can't carry a charge long enough to use it all the way?
Modern long/mediaum haul aircraft have personal power outlets on each seat into which you can plug special power adapters/inverters. I only had a problem once, and that was easily solved by asking the stewardess to turn the power on....
The biggest issue with these kind of internet connections is the price, which would certainly stop me from using it unless the company is willing to foot the bill (Anyway, I'd rather be watching a movie or sleeping than working).
> The ability to unzip large groups of ZIP files in one action would be a lovely addition!!!
You mean like multiply selecting zip files in explorer, right clicking and selecting the Winzip options of either 'Extract to here' or 'Extract to here using file names for folders' ?
You are correct about the problems with TCP, and its one that my company has had to look at for it's new series of satellite services. If left alone TCP/IP really slows down and modifying window size and slow start parameters only helps a little bit.
One possible solution is to fiddle with the protocol supplying fake ACKs from machines on either side of the link and relying on your own error detection/correction protocols over the satellite link. Take a look at RFC 3135 - this describes different types PEPs that can be used for varying channel conditions.
I just got the Logitech MX1000 mouse today. The Logitech driver disk is probably the same as the one that comes with these mice installs additional third party crap even if you unselect everything. Pretty low from a suposedly reputable company - if I'd wanted 'MusicMatch', 'RealOne Arcade' or a handy link to eBay on my desktop I would have put installed them myself. It's fine bundling third party stuff with your (fully paid for) products - just make sure the end user has the option to UNSELECT ALL OF them from the install.
Oh yeah the driver weigh in at an unbelievable 22M. WTF? Its a mouse. With a few programmable buttons.
The drivers are only needed if you want use the extra buttons for non standard uses. If you need them, stop the CD from autoplaying and browse for the SetPoint installer by hand.
So could this have set up an interesting precedent?
Since the modifications to the already existing worm had *no* effect on it's behaviour his actions seem to boil down to simply knowingly connecting his machine to the internet while it is infected with a virus.
According to the British Library's website, it contains 150 million items and gains a futher 3 million each year (but it doesn't distinguish between items and volumes - they collect any published item, and receive a copy of EVERY published item in the UK and Ireland).
Sure you can accept the consequences of not showing you passport to a cusoms officer on privacy grounds. It would probably result in an even greater invasion of privacy when they do (amongst other things) a cavity search.
Only a complete moron would NOT show their passport to a customs offical at an airport. Complaining that its a loss of freedom to be able to not show your passport when required to do and risk LOSING your freedom is just plain stupid.
I guess next you will say that it is your right to have the freedom to choose whether or not you want to be free or locked up. I guess it is. Just start a fight with the customs official when you walk past with you RFID passport.
BTW. Personally, I don't like the idea of RFID tags in passports (unless the passport could have some means of disabling them when they are not required).
> But you and I have a different set of genes, so > wouldn't be more correct to say that the number of > genomes in the human genome is equal to the number > of men living in the earth?
I guess that as a typical geek you find women to be a completely different species.....:)
I'll give you [in]validate(). For the beginner they take some getting used to and invariably don't do what you want them to do. Just leave them alone unless you really need to use them.
paint() and repaint() on the otherhand are trivial. Whats difficult about having a function that you can overide to draw your custom component and a function that will queue up an event to repaint it on the screen.
For me GUI design in JAVA is quite pleasant - certainly a lot more so than Visual C++. All that message passing and MFC(MotherF**kingC**t) macros gives me nightmares:)
I guess at the end of the day you either like it or not. There are some tasks for which JAVA GUIs are very well suited and others for which they are not. Even for the tasks which JAVA suited, it would still be just as valid to use something else.
In fact the whole thing is almost as pointless as Linux/*BSD or Gnome/KDE - everyone has their own opinion.
I don't dislike Swing (ie. it could still be improved).
> Swing was barely adequate when it came out and hasn't noticably improved.
I'd have to half disagree with this. I'd say that Swing has improved vastly over the years (I'm talking from the time when Swing was a separate download).
Sure - there is a *lot* of room for improvement, but it *has* been getting consistantly faster. It certainly fast enough for the software I write (satellite network management - lots of graphs, world maps, diagrams, mimics, etc.). Things seemed to get a great deal faster with Swing around 1.2 when Java2D was added. Before then, I would never have attempted some of the GUIs I write today.
As for you comment about GUI development sucks in JAVA - well, I just don't seem to understand that. GUI development is easy. I can knock up a GUI FAR quicker in JAVA than I can in C++ (I know three languages - English, JAVA and C++:) GUI development in most languages is a pain, but when you use an IDE with a GUI builder life is made easy(ier).
Slashdot Mirror
...I seen it in a documentary on BBC2... :)
It could be that this bill is being passed simply to remove a set of excuses people might use when caught using P2P for sharing copyrighted material - hence the name of the bill.
If the software plainly states that it will be sharing a file with other people, then you cannot say 'I didn't know I was sharing it'. Likewise, you cannot say that it installed without your knowledge nor can you say it installed but you couldn't uninstall it.
This is of course, only possible if the writers of P2P software actually give two hoots about the bill.....
Steve.
> Version 3.0 of the Microsoft Office competitor has garnered 50 million downloads in the last six months.
They have a long way to go though - the last release of Office probably had 10 times that. They probably also had at least 10 times that in legal purchases too....
Rather than 'Did Civilization', how about
'Created Civilization'
or
'Creater of all Civilizations (or at least the first two)'
From the presentation on IPN I saw a few years back, it appears that you wont be pinging marsbase.com..... they actually fancy adding a couple of levels to get some real TLDs.....
.sol in the presentation I was pretty impressed... theres a little bit of future proofing in that one....
ping marsbase.com.mars.sol
When I saw the
Steve.
"the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York"
I have heard its a dangerous place.....
Steve.
Knowing the French, it's likely to be transmitted in SECAM-L rather than PAL/NTSC so no one will be able to decode it :)
Steve.
Currently, in the UK you would still be charged with manslaughter (although you might not get convicted of it). This carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Steve.
Obviously its no worse being murdered with a gun than it would be with anything else. The point I was hoping to make was that if access to guns were easier in the UK, it may be possible that more muggings go wrong (from the criminals point of view) and turn into homicides.
The report states 765 homicides (murder + manslaughter) in the UK last year, this includes the 46 gun releated and 52 in the London bombings. How does this compare with other countries?
Steve.
In this particular case he didn't actually see a gun, he only thought it felt like a gun. Presumably there wasn't one involved because only a complete loon would chase after the muggers.
The number of guns (and related crime) in the UK is steadily increasing year on year, however thankfully the numbers are still small. The lack of guns in the UK might go some way to explaining the fact that 'only' (ie still far too many) 46 gun related murders occured last year (that figure comes from the same report) in the whole of the UK.
Steve.
> Who is going to pay for an Internet connection on a really long flight when their laptop
> battery can't carry a charge long enough to use it all the way?
Modern long/mediaum haul aircraft have personal power outlets on each seat into which you can plug special power adapters/inverters. I only had a problem once, and that was easily solved by asking the stewardess to turn the power on....
The biggest issue with these kind of internet connections is the price, which would certainly stop me from using it unless the company is willing to foot the bill (Anyway, I'd rather be watching a movie or sleeping than working).
Steve.
> The ability to unzip large groups of ZIP files in one action would be a lovely addition!!!
You mean like multiply selecting zip files in explorer, right clicking and selecting the Winzip options of either 'Extract to here' or 'Extract to here using file names for folders' ?
Winzip has had this option for ages....
You are correct about the problems with TCP, and its one that my company has had to look at for it's new series of satellite services. If left alone TCP/IP really slows down and modifying window size and slow start parameters only helps a little bit.
One possible solution is to fiddle with the protocol supplying fake ACKs from machines on either side of the link and relying on your own error detection/correction protocols over the satellite link. Take a look at RFC 3135 - this describes different types PEPs that can be used for varying channel conditions.
Todays inflight movie will be Apollo 13....
Maybe, but it would be highly inaccurate since Oceania is the continent that Australia is part of.
Steve.
I just got the Logitech MX1000 mouse today. The Logitech driver disk is probably the same as the one that comes with these mice installs additional third party crap even if you unselect everything. Pretty low from a suposedly reputable company - if I'd wanted 'MusicMatch', 'RealOne Arcade' or a handy link to eBay on my desktop I would have put installed them myself. It's fine bundling third party stuff with your (fully paid for) products - just make sure the end user has the option to UNSELECT ALL OF them from the install.
Oh yeah the driver weigh in at an unbelievable 22M. WTF? Its a mouse. With a few programmable buttons.
The drivers are only needed if you want use the extra buttons for non standard uses. If you need them, stop the CD from autoplaying and browse for the SetPoint installer by hand.
Steve.
Hopefully in the same sort of places as these speed cameras :)
Steve...
So could this have set up an interesting precedent?
Since the modifications to the already existing worm had *no* effect on it's behaviour his actions seem to boil down to simply knowingly connecting his machine to the internet while it is infected with a virus.
The Finnish company Koncernen makes these already.
Steve.
Blimey. Its amazing how many people come back with the same facts at the same time.
According to the British Library's website, it contains 150 million items and gains a futher 3 million each year (but it doesn't distinguish between items and volumes - they collect any published item, and receive a copy of EVERY published item in the UK and Ireland).
The Bodelian has only 7 million volumes.
I would suspect that the Brish Library is substantially larger than Stanfords, but the Library Of Congress is recognised as the largest library in the world.
Steve.
Sure you can accept the consequences of not showing you passport to a cusoms officer on privacy grounds. It would probably result in an even greater invasion of privacy when they do (amongst other things) a cavity search.
Only a complete moron would NOT show their passport to a customs offical at an airport. Complaining that its a loss of freedom to be able to not show your passport when required to do and risk LOSING your freedom is just plain stupid.
I guess next you will say that it is your right to have the freedom to choose whether or not you want to be free or locked up. I guess it is. Just start a fight with the customs official when you walk past with you RFID passport.
BTW. Personally, I don't like the idea of RFID tags in passports (unless the passport could have some means of disabling them when they are not required).
Steve.
> But you and I have a different set of genes, so
:)
> wouldn't be more correct to say that the number of
> genomes in the human genome is equal to the number
> of men living in the earth?
I guess that as a typical geek you find women to be a completely different species.....
Steve.
I'll give you [in]validate(). For the beginner they take some getting used to and invariably don't do what you want them to do. Just leave them alone unless you really need to use them.
:)
paint() and repaint() on the otherhand are trivial. Whats difficult about having a function that you can overide to draw your custom component and a function that will queue up an event to repaint it on the screen.
For me GUI design in JAVA is quite pleasant - certainly a lot more so than Visual C++. All that message passing and MFC(MotherF**kingC**t) macros gives me nightmares
I guess at the end of the day you either like it or not. There are some tasks for which JAVA GUIs are very well suited and others for which they are not. Even for the tasks which JAVA suited, it would still be just as valid to use something else.
In fact the whole thing is almost as pointless as Linux/*BSD or Gnome/KDE - everyone has their own opinion.
I don't dislike Swing (ie. it could still be improved).
Steve.
> AWT was just embarassing.
:) GUI development in most languages is a pain, but when you use an IDE with a GUI builder life is made easy(ier).
Damn right.
> Swing was barely adequate when it came out and hasn't noticably improved.
I'd have to half disagree with this. I'd say that Swing has improved vastly over the years (I'm talking from the time when Swing was a separate download).
Sure - there is a *lot* of room for improvement, but it *has* been getting consistantly faster. It certainly fast enough for the software I write (satellite network management - lots of graphs, world maps, diagrams, mimics, etc.). Things seemed to get a great deal faster with Swing around 1.2 when Java2D was added. Before then, I would never have attempted some of the GUIs I write today.
As for you comment about GUI development sucks in JAVA - well, I just don't seem to understand that. GUI development is easy. I can knock up a GUI FAR quicker in JAVA than I can in C++ (I know three languages - English, JAVA and C++
Steve