This type of connectivity with the airport could really have helped out places like Detroit and L.A.
it's worth pointing out here that ANY effective mass transit system would help out LA. Not only does LA not have a monorail, or even a BART-analog, it doesn't have cohesive or complete bus coverage. Getting in or out of LAX would be nice, but getting to or from ANYWHERE in LA without driving and parking would be GREAT.
Right. And because one party pays another a competitive price influenced by a perception of likely reactions on the part of a third party, the third party is legally obligated to oblige?
Of course people freak when they see a long license agreement. Paranoia takes over.
But there is the other angle, that people are being held responsible for the material they submit, so that the publication (web or otherwise) doesn't take the penalty for your stupidity if you put up something that could cause a legal problem.
This is true. From this angle, it looks just like a case of CYA.
But in the context of censorship, this could be seen as the manifestation of a chilling effect. Our society needs certain important forums, such as this, to take a stand at key moments. Now is one such moment.
What is the ultimate purpose of these forums? To dissemate relevant information and encourage the progression of our thoughts? The DMCA hinders these things. To pass along its oppression is to forfeit the right to be a significant forum for our discussions.
If the City Lights Press hadn't been willing to fight a legal battle, no one would be reading Alan Ginsberg's "Howl" today.
Sure, sure. Individuals do not always acquire their wealth from their progenitors. Monarchies and dynasties no longer control the world.
However, Gates, Ellison, and Walton are all white males. They amassed their wealth in world controlled by white males. We can't discount the passing of the reins of power from white male to white male as an operational legacy. The same is true of corporations featuring largely upper-class shareholders.
We live in a world of absolute freedom. We just choose to use that freedom to form governments to prevent the unscrupulous from abusing others.
Au contraire.
Those in power, that is, the power to limit your freedom and mine, inherited that power in a fairly unbroken succession going back, at minimum, centuries. Everyone else is subject to their will.
Don't you recall the ever-bandied figures of 2% of the world's population owning >90% of the world's wealth? Class distinctions are ubiquitous. "For the people, by the people" is a joke.
So this is the greatest number of complaints, rather than either the most people committing criminal acts, or the most damage incurred. Not so much of a big deal, ultimately. i'm almost sorry for the FBI, with so many other important demands on their attention.
Me and my homeboy back in the admin lab almost ten years ago, fixing 286s or 8088s, i forget, got the idea to see how many monitors and separate video cards we could put in one box. When our supervisor walked in, he said "Are all those monitors running off that one computer? Why do you have three monitors attached to it?"
Refresh rate is incredibly important for taking care of your eyes. It's too bad sysadmins and managers rarely understand the benefit of superior (or even mediocre) video cards for programmers.
All that we have to go on is what is alleged to have occurred. It's too bad that such amazing feats, relevant as they are to all of our continuing efforts to secure our products and systems, cannot be directly described in more detail. Tell me again the ethical justification behind making code-breaking a legal issue?
Time for organizations to realize the importance of security?
Anything that leads to a more secure product is great, obviously, but it saddens me that the pressure must always come from thegov't and industry, rather than the community of individual consumers. i suppose this is because i see the individual as having more to lose when it comes to lacking awareness of security and cryptography issues. It is with these large organizations, gov't, military and industry, that we're fighting for our right to completely private and secure systems.
Aside from that, i'm with everyone else in this thread. Let them turn to BSD if they care about security.
Personal transition - how long?
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i thought this take on Andreesen was interesting, to say the least. It's a nice try to take a former "poster boy" and attempt to use his personal changes to analyse an industry. It seems like capital B Business has, for years, had this immense need to pull coders and representations of coders away from the maverick whiz kid over to the "smart suit" wearing, conforming manager. Re-reading the article with this in mind, doesn't the crowing seem sinister?
But i think this is ultimately a weak ploy - Andreesen no longer represents programmers - hasn't written a line since 1994? That's gotta suck! The only reason i choose to accept money for code is that i love writing code! You just won't get me in a management position, and i never enjoyed the sweeter benefits of the boom as Andreesen did.
But seriously, how long until the conforming hyphae of capital B Business change the industry i love? Require me to wear a suit to work, even if i never meet with clients? Require me to pass a MSCE and "piracy ethics" test to get my programming & compilation license? Require me to turn my music down? Isn't this the ultimate fruit of the DMCA and all *CAs? so how long?
A good C reference would be one thing, however, this sounds like more of an introductory general C comprehension book, and in the vein of those that have gone before. What use do coders have for this? If we know C we need a more specialized discussion, and if we don't, there are canonical texts to refer to (K&R).
OTOH, it warms my heart to see interest in C. it's really my favorite language, and while i don't mind that most employers want me to write OO code, i would hate for C to fade from the earth (especially in favor of C#).
Either ironic or obvious, as is its new price of US$3k. Have you used it?
I can't remember if the BeOS Masters required submission of source code... if the old FS source was out there, it would just about make my day. They never came out with a commercial product back in the day, always right around the corner. I would have bought it for their old projected beta price of $300 (still would), but i just don't need a new Sony Vaio with Windows. Also the new hardware dongle sitting streamlined next to it looks like something i could whip up in about 2 hours.
For about a year i had a paid development position writing for BeOS. This was before the Java APIs were as fleshed out, and the BeOS APIs were so complete, and relatively bug-free (especially for what was at the time a free product). BeOS was a joy to code for. Don't think i'll ever be seeing a job doing that again:)
It had such wonderful potential to become a multimedia production platform - there were new cool audio apps for it about once a week. Anybody remember FinalScratch? Originally for BeOS, won the BeOS Masters competition (my entry got a t-shirt). The development community seemed to be thriving, too, for a while.
In fact, just making this functionality user modifiable (i.e., open source) might be enough for you to become a "circumvention device". This seems to me to be a necessary conclusion of our current DMCA, DRM-OS, etc, fiasco. But IANAL. Would any with legal knowledge care to comment? Any chance this general theme could be litigated?
I wonder if an alternative for Linux users would be the same distros with a DRM module enabled by default.
No? oh well.:) Legally mandating a particular undesirable behaviour of any software just about calls for an end to Free and Open Source software, no? Go back to the end of the line.
Actually, i'm fairly certain that if all who had committed any "drug crime" were to be arrested, you'd be talking more like as many people as live west of the Mississippi. If you're not American, you probably don't know firsthand either the incredible extent of defined violations or the degree to which those laws are ignored. Just thought i'd mention..
There is work going on to address the shortcomings of HTTP...
i thought basically all web development fell into this category:)
But seriously, i've been involved in projects requiring using HTTP for purposes which it was not well-suited for - workaround is the name of the game. Old problems, lots of old solutions.
So well this looks like more.NET propaganda (the buzzword that will not die) i've been imagining a world without HTTP for a while. It's pretty much a given that i'll be able to brag to my grandkids about having used HTTP. So what will the world's computing resources look like then? The "internet" was not neighborhood-pervasive until HTTP - where and when will the next major transition occur? And (god forbid) will it be ".NET"?
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Hmmm. i fail to see the problem with hypothetically low wages. 50-80k is plenty for me to live on, and more than someone would have to pay me to do work which i actually wanted to do. And aren't people who share a genuine interest in their work better workers than those after a raise?
My plan is to get a masters in bioinformatics, then perhaps look for a 50-80k job. In the meantime, i'll be happy paying for school, assuming i can find a good program, because it's something i want to study.
So, OT question for those who know: where are the best bioinformatics graduate programs? (my particular interest is in proteomics) And what should i consider while considering schools?
a) Battle.net is part of Blizzard's anti-piracy scheme for Blizzard's other games, such as Starcraft, Diablo II, and the upcoming warcraft III, which the writers of bnet did not write.
b) Using battle.net is integral in their beta test process, both for testing the servers and exipirng old copies of the beta. These can not be done if the software connects to non-battle.net servers.
You're right. however, i disagree that either A or B deserves LEGAL protection. i'm happy with them using any technical solution to the problem them like, but i don't think that we as a society are required to defend with punitive action EITHER their implementation of anti-piracy strategies OR their beta-expiration process. The fundamental issue here is activity that should be free from legal interference or threat.
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This type of connectivity with the airport could really have helped out places like Detroit and L.A.
it's worth pointing out here that ANY effective mass transit system would help out LA. Not only does LA not have a monorail, or even a BART-analog, it doesn't have cohesive or complete bus coverage. Getting in or out of LAX would be nice, but getting to or from ANYWHERE in LA without driving and parking would be GREAT.
Right. And because one party pays another a competitive price influenced by a perception of likely reactions on the part of a third party, the third party is legally obligated to oblige?
Of course people freak when they see a long license agreement. Paranoia takes over.
But there is the other angle, that people are being held responsible for the material they submit, so that the publication (web or otherwise) doesn't take the penalty for your stupidity if you put up something that could cause a legal problem.
This is true. From this angle, it looks just like a case of CYA.
But in the context of censorship, this could be seen as the manifestation of a chilling effect. Our society needs certain important forums, such as this, to take a stand at key moments. Now is one such moment.
What is the ultimate purpose of these forums? To dissemate relevant information and encourage the progression of our thoughts? The DMCA hinders these things. To pass along its oppression is to forfeit the right to be a significant forum for our discussions.
If the City Lights Press hadn't been willing to fight a legal battle, no one would be reading Alan Ginsberg's "Howl" today.
Sure, sure. Individuals do not always acquire their wealth from their progenitors. Monarchies and dynasties no longer control the world.
However, Gates, Ellison, and Walton are all white males. They amassed their wealth in world controlled by white males. We can't discount the passing of the reins of power from white male to white male as an operational legacy. The same is true of corporations featuring largely upper-class shareholders.
We live in a world of absolute freedom. We just choose to use that freedom to form governments to prevent the unscrupulous from abusing others.
Au contraire.
Those in power, that is, the power to limit your freedom and mine, inherited that power in a fairly unbroken succession going back, at minimum, centuries. Everyone else is subject to their will.
Don't you recall the ever-bandied figures of 2% of the world's population owning >90% of the world's wealth? Class distinctions are ubiquitous. "For the people, by the people" is a joke.
So this is the greatest number of complaints, rather than either the most people committing criminal acts, or the most damage incurred. Not so much of a big deal, ultimately. i'm almost sorry for the FBI, with so many other important demands on their attention.
When that happens in real life, instead of selling the company back, everyone sells their old stock certificates and t-shirts for camp value.
If there were to be an exception, though, it would be napster - for one moment, the most visible symbol of online freedom.
Me and my homeboy back in the admin lab almost ten years ago, fixing 286s or 8088s, i forget, got the idea to see how many monitors and separate video cards we could put in one box. When our supervisor walked in, he said "Are all those monitors running off that one computer? Why do you have three monitors attached to it?"
We replied, "Because four wouldn't work."
Refresh rate is incredibly important for taking care of your eyes. It's too bad sysadmins and managers rarely understand the benefit of superior (or even mediocre) video cards for programmers.
i sure as hell wish all MY neurons would fire at the same time. bam!
All that we have to go on is what is alleged to have occurred. It's too bad that such amazing feats, relevant as they are to all of our continuing efforts to secure our products and systems, cannot be directly described in more detail. Tell me again the ethical justification behind making code-breaking a legal issue?
And why do only businesses see this protection?
Time for organizations to realize the importance of security?
Anything that leads to a more secure product is great, obviously, but it saddens me that the pressure must always come from thegov't and industry, rather than the community of individual consumers. i suppose this is because i see the individual as having more to lose when it comes to lacking awareness of security and cryptography issues. It is with these large organizations, gov't, military and industry, that we're fighting for our right to completely private and secure systems.
Aside from that, i'm with everyone else in this thread. Let them turn to BSD if they care about security.
i thought this take on Andreesen was interesting, to say the least. It's a nice try to take a former "poster boy" and attempt to use his personal changes to analyse an industry. It seems like capital B Business has, for years, had this immense need to pull coders and representations of coders away from the maverick whiz kid over to the "smart suit" wearing, conforming manager. Re-reading the article with this in mind, doesn't the crowing seem sinister?
But i think this is ultimately a weak ploy - Andreesen no longer represents programmers - hasn't written a line since 1994? That's gotta suck! The only reason i choose to accept money for code is that i love writing code! You just won't get me in a management position, and i never enjoyed the sweeter benefits of the boom as Andreesen did.
But seriously, how long until the conforming hyphae of capital B Business change the industry i love? Require me to wear a suit to work, even if i never meet with clients? Require me to pass a MSCE and "piracy ethics" test to get my programming & compilation license? Require me to turn my music down? Isn't this the ultimate fruit of the DMCA and all *CAs? so how long?
With the rate living species are disappearing from this earth, we should have identified every living species within the next few decades.
A good C reference would be one thing, however, this sounds like more of an introductory general C comprehension book, and in the vein of those that have gone before. What use do coders have for this? If we know C we need a more specialized discussion, and if we don't, there are canonical texts to refer to (K&R).
OTOH, it warms my heart to see interest in C. it's really my favorite language, and while i don't mind that most employers want me to write OO code, i would hate for C to fade from the earth (especially in favor of C#).
Either ironic or obvious, as is its new price of US$3k. Have you used it?
I can't remember if the BeOS Masters required submission of source code... if the old FS source was out there, it would just about make my day. They never came out with a commercial product back in the day, always right around the corner. I would have bought it for their old projected beta price of $300 (still would), but i just don't need a new Sony Vaio with Windows. Also the new hardware dongle sitting streamlined next to it looks like something i could whip up in about 2 hours.
For about a year i had a paid development position writing for BeOS. This was before the Java APIs were as fleshed out, and the BeOS APIs were so complete, and relatively bug-free (especially for what was at the time a free product). BeOS was a joy to code for. Don't think i'll ever be seeing a job doing that again :)
It had such wonderful potential to become a multimedia production platform - there were new cool audio apps for it about once a week. Anybody remember FinalScratch? Originally for BeOS, won the BeOS Masters competition (my entry got a t-shirt). The development community seemed to be thriving, too, for a while.
In fact, just making this functionality user modifiable (i.e., open source) might be enough for you to become a "circumvention device".
This seems to me to be a necessary conclusion of our current DMCA, DRM-OS, etc, fiasco. But IANAL.
Would any with legal knowledge care to comment? Any chance this general theme could be litigated?
I wonder if an alternative for Linux users would be the same distros with a DRM module enabled by default.
:) Legally mandating a particular undesirable behaviour of any software just about calls for an end to Free and Open Source software, no? Go back to the end of the line.
No? oh well.
Actually, i'm fairly certain that if all who had committed any "drug crime" were to be arrested, you'd be talking more like as many people as live west of the Mississippi. If you're not American, you probably don't know firsthand either the incredible extent of defined violations or the degree to which those laws are ignored. Just thought i'd mention..
Huh? You mean running HTTP over TCP/IP doesn't qualify for being "on the internet"?
i thought basically all web development fell into this category
But seriously, i've been involved in projects requiring using HTTP for purposes which it was not well-suited for - workaround is the name of the game. Old problems, lots of old solutions.
So well this looks like more
Hmmm. i fail to see the problem with hypothetically low wages. 50-80k is plenty for me to live on, and more than someone would have to pay me to do work which i actually wanted to do. And aren't people who share a genuine interest in their work better workers than those after a raise?
My plan is to get a masters in bioinformatics, then perhaps look for a 50-80k job. In the meantime, i'll be happy paying for school, assuming i can find a good program, because it's something i want to study.
So, OT question for those who know: where are the best bioinformatics graduate programs? (my particular interest is in proteomics) And what should i consider while considering schools?
In the meantime, the best way i've found to identify possible poor security practices in my code is to examine known problems in the code of others.
Which is my first argument for full disclosure of security issues. Not to mention security changelogs.
You're right. however, i disagree that either A or B deserves LEGAL protection. i'm happy with them using any technical solution to the problem them like, but i don't think that we as a society are required to defend with punitive action EITHER their implementation of anti-piracy strategies OR their beta-expiration process. The fundamental issue here is activity that should be free from legal interference or threat.