Some ideas in Berlin look similar to NeWS, an old Sun windowing system based on a home-grown Sun implementation of PostScript. It failed because it was proprietary and trying to compete with X which was free, and its implementation was slow and crufty. But its design was very cool--it was more consistent than Display PostScript, which NeXT used.
I wonder if the Berlin designers are familiar with NeWS and could make a further comparison.
I've assigned copyrights to the FSF several times. Their assignment contract specifically promises that the FSF will never change the license to make the code unfree (including source, etc. etc.)
Generally I wouldn't sign copyright assignments for free software unless the contract had a clause like that, or I was getting some other kind of compensation.
The GNU Radio project is doing stuff like this. There's some pretty neat code already developed, using cheap A/D converters and varactor tuners from old TV sets. Cool stuff.
The S100/S110 and S300 Digital Elph digicams use white LED backlights. I'm not sure about the bigger models (G1, G2, Pro90IS). I have an S100 and the backlight is great. Good color, and none of the turn-on delay or flickering of fluorescent backlights. The LED's are at the edge of the screen, but the lighting is still pretty even. That may be because it's just a 2" digicam screen. I've been wondering for a while whether it would be a problem for bigger (laptop sized) screens.
I have PacBell (SBC) over PPPoE, 384k/128k. I actually get about 600k/100k most of the time.
I occasionally get download speed as fast as 1M.
I don't think there are deliberate timeouts.
I've had the connection stay up for weeks or
months at a time. But it does crash every now
and then, and you have to restart it. Even
if your box restarts it automatically, your IP
address can change. And of course your IP will
reverse DNS to adsl-23456.blah.sanjose.pacbell.net
instead of you.yourdomain.com.
At least where I am, at least for now, "always up" is close enough to the truth to not be a big problem unless you're running a server. However, I'd be concerned about that changing with warning.
You say "running away does not fix the issue" and that the correct action is to fix the law. But why is it Dmitry's job to fix U.S. law? It's not his country. It's just a rogue copyright state that violated his human rights and threw him in jail.
Dmitry has NO civic duty to the U.S. I don't think he's going to jump bail. But if he does, it's a purely tactical decision and I'll continue to support him. He doesn't owe the U.S. legal system a damn thing.
Reduction of multitasking may be one of the big wins of pair programming in XP. Unless you're very absorbed in the task, just about everyone gets distracted while programming, even when there aren't random interrupts (phone calls etc.) coming in. The win of pair programming may have little to do with splitting the task into abstract and concrete components or anything like that. A big part may simply be that having another person next to you absorbed in the exact same task and working closely with you will keep you focused better.
I haven't done any formal XP projects but I've certainly had the experience of developing code alongside another person, and found it works very well.
It's a
Celeron/P3 based computer
about the size of a largish portable CD player.
$445 in barebones form with CD drive (add your own memory, HD, and CPU), $100 more with a DVD drive. To see pictures, click the "See it" link. There are about 5 exterior and interior pics that you reach through the "next image" buttons.
The V-1 buzz bomb from WW2 used a pulse jet engine
on
Pulse Jet Go-kart
·
· Score: 2
if I remember correctly. So it's not a totally obscure form of propulsion.
It hooked the LPT printer interrupt and looked at the characters going by. Most of the time it didn't do anything. But if it noticed you were printing row after row of numbers (i.e. a spreadsheet), every now and then it would change one of them. Insidious.
The Gallery of Adobe Remedies lists a number of alternatives to Adobe products for dealing with PDF's. For other Adobe applications, see the Boycott Adobe page. It links to replacements for applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Thawte Consulting is of course the certificate authority that started out in Mark's condo, that offered a lower cost alternative to Verisign. It was bought by Verisign a year or so ago for a stupendous amount of money at the height of the dotcom balloon. So that's where the cash for the space trip came from, and now we know what Mark is doing with the cash! Wow!
But any owner of a GPL'd program can sue to enforce the GPL on that program. It's simply inaccurate to say that only the FSF can sue to enforce the GPL for VirtualDub. The FSF, not being the owner of the VirtualDub code, has no standing to sue. Only the author has the necessary standing--and is fully entitled to use it, with or without advice from Eben Moglen.
Someone convicted of copyright infringement can be liable for up to $100,000 of statutory damages per infringement. Statutory damages means the amount is specified in the copyright statute--it's totally separate from compensatory damages (such as for lost revenue) which the infringer can also be required to pay.
The correct cite is under the link. When I typed the subject of that article I made a fingerslip--I must have been thinking of Brown vs. Board of Education, another important civil rights case. Sorry for the error.
The Supreme Court has been quite clear
that anonymous speech is protected.
It's an important civil right that goes far beyond the nerdy confines of the Internet.
an author's
decision to remain anonymous, like other decisions concerning
omissions or additions to the content of a publication, is an aspect
of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.
...
In Talley, the Court held that the First Amendment protects
the distribution of unsigned handbills urging readers to boycott
certain Los Angeles merchants who were allegedly engaging in
discriminatory employment practices. 362 U. S. 60. Writing for
the Court,
Justice Black noted that -[p]ersecuted groups and sects
from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize
oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all.-
Id., at 64. Justice Black recalled England's abusive press
licensing laws and seditious libel prosecutions, and he reminded us
that even the arguments favoring the ratification of the
Constitution advanced in the Federalist Papers were published under
fictitious names....
The specific
holding in Talley related to advocacy of an economic boycott, but
the Court's reasoning embraced a respected tradition of anonymity in
the advocacy of political causes. This tradition is perhaps best
exemplified by the secret ballot, the hard-won right to vote one's
conscience without fear of retaliation.
is the part about destroying the package and identifying the users. It would be good if someone could post the actual demand letter.
Renaming the program is one thing, but they want the package to totally stop existing and they want to be able to go after individual users?! That's worth going to court over.
Say freelancer Joe Shmoe has an article about a bowling alley scandal in Nexis and Nexis purges the article because of the decision. What will happen to the index record? If I do a search for articles on that subject, will Nexis still tell me "Article by Joe Shmoe, NYT 3/9/87 page 23, aritlce not in database" so I can go look for the article in the microfilms at the library? If not, why not? If so, the memory hole problem doesn't seem quite so severe as if the index data vanished.
Is not accessibility (hint: microfilm at the library is free to look at, but you have to PAY to use lexis/nexis) but how the current online revenue model favors publishers.
Say you, Alice, write a sports article that appears on page 7 of today's paper, and your fellow reporter Bob writes a politics article that appears on page 9. Someone buying the paper gets both articles on paper along with other articles by Charlie (cooking), Dave (pet care), etc. Sometime later, a library buying a microfilm edition of that day's paper gets all those articles on film. The microfilm product has the same contents as the paper and falls the revised product clause.
With Lexis/Nexis, the publisher now gets to charge for each article separately. Someone searching for Alice's article doesn't get Charlie's. The publisher suddenly has a vastly larger number of revenue streams (one for each article in the paper, instead of for each issue in the paper) but the author's revenue stream hasn't changed at all.
The solution I'd like to see (and pigs will fly) is for Lexis/Nexis to just deliver index info for the paper, not individual articles. And then you should be able to download the entire issue of that day's paper (i.e. all the articles, not just the one you were searching for) for a single charge. That shouldn't increase user costs too much, for the simple reason that most users won't be willing to pay a whole lot to access additional articles that they weren't looking for. But for those of us who like to build up our own archives, it makes it much cheaper to acquire articles in bulk.
That seems like a much better guardian against the "memory hole" than having centralized vendors doling out one article at a time.
from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
Cookie cutters were little nanoexplosives that could circulate in your bloodstream, used for executions and assassinations. They contained a pair of discs spinning furiously in opposite directions. On an external signal, the discs would split apart, making a mess of your insides.
Alvin Fernald was the cryptogruffer (sic) from Alvin's Secret Code, along with
other books by Clifford B. Hicks.
Mr. Hicks is still around and Alvin's Secret Code was reprinted by Penguin a couple years ago. It seems to be out of print again, but used copies are easy to find.
Hmmm, here's a good info page--a couple more
of the books have been reprinted too:
Because the DMCA is the only mechanism I know of, through which a copyright holder can ask for relief from an alleged infringer's ISP, rather than directly from the alleged infringer.
And no, it's not automatically a violation of copyright laws to take a four-line quote from a book and republish it, on the internet or anywhere else. See the Stanford Library Fair Use Site for more info.
Slashdot Mirror
at least for federal tax, from what I understand.
If you win a Nobel prize you don't pay tax on it either.
I wonder if the Berlin designers are familiar with NeWS and could make a further comparison.
I've assigned copyrights to the FSF several times. Their assignment contract specifically promises that the FSF will never change the license to make the code unfree (including source, etc. etc.)
Generally I wouldn't sign copyright assignments for free software unless the contract had a clause like that, or I was getting some other kind of compensation.
The
GNU Radio project is doing stuff like this. There's some pretty neat code already developed, using cheap A/D converters and varactor tuners from old TV sets. Cool stuff.
The S100/S110 and S300 Digital Elph digicams use white LED backlights. I'm not sure about the bigger models (G1, G2, Pro90IS). I have an S100 and the backlight is great. Good color, and none of the turn-on delay or flickering of fluorescent backlights. The LED's are at the edge of the screen, but the lighting is still pretty even. That may be because it's just a 2" digicam screen. I've been wondering for a while whether it would be a problem for bigger (laptop sized) screens.
2**128 = 3.4e38
13 teraflops = 1e13 instructions per second
Assume 1 trial decryption per instruction
which is of course unrealistically low.
You still need 3.4e25 seconds or about 1e18 years to search that keyspace.
Sorry, no cigar...
At least where I am, at least for now, "always up" is close enough to the truth to not be a big problem unless you're running a server. However, I'd be concerned about that changing with warning.
Dmitry has NO civic duty to the U.S. I don't think he's going to jump bail. But if he does, it's a purely tactical decision and I'll continue to support him. He doesn't owe the U.S. legal system a damn thing.
I haven't done any formal XP projects but I've certainly had the experience of developing code alongside another person, and found it works very well.
It's a Celeron/P3 based computer about the size of a largish portable CD player. $445 in barebones form with CD drive (add your own memory, HD, and CPU), $100 more with a DVD drive. To see pictures, click the "See it" link. There are about 5 exterior and interior pics that you reach through the "next image" buttons.
if I remember correctly. So it's not a totally obscure form of propulsion.
It hooked the LPT printer interrupt and looked at the characters going by. Most of the time it didn't do anything. But if it noticed you were printing row after row of numbers (i.e. a spreadsheet), every now and then it would change one of them. Insidious.
The Gallery of Adobe Remedies lists a number of alternatives to Adobe products for dealing with PDF's. For other Adobe applications, see the Boycott Adobe page. It links to replacements for applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Because they have astronauts from many different countries wanting to play DVD's, NASA actually sent two hacked DVD players with region codes disabled to the space station.
Thawte Consulting is of course the certificate authority that started out in Mark's condo, that offered a lower cost alternative to Verisign. It was bought by Verisign a year or so ago for a stupendous amount of money at the height of the dotcom balloon. So that's where the cash for the space trip came from, and now we know what Mark is doing with the cash! Wow!
But any owner of a GPL'd program can sue to enforce the GPL on that program. It's simply inaccurate to say that only the FSF can sue to enforce the GPL for VirtualDub. The FSF, not being the owner of the VirtualDub code, has no standing to sue. Only the author has the necessary standing--and is fully entitled to use it, with or without advice from Eben Moglen.
IANAL etc.
The correct cite is under the link. When I typed the subject of that article I made a fingerslip--I must have been thinking of Brown vs. Board of Education, another important civil rights case. Sorry for the error.
From McIntyre vs. Board of Education:
is the part about destroying the package and identifying the users. It would be good if someone could post the actual demand letter. Renaming the program is one thing, but they want the package to totally stop existing and they want to be able to go after individual users?! That's worth going to court over.
Say freelancer Joe Shmoe has an article about a bowling alley scandal in Nexis and Nexis purges the article because of the decision. What will happen to the index record? If I do a search for articles on that subject, will Nexis still tell me "Article by Joe Shmoe, NYT 3/9/87 page 23, aritlce not in database" so I can go look for the article in the microfilms at the library? If not, why not? If so, the memory hole problem doesn't seem quite so severe as if the index data vanished.
Say you, Alice, write a sports article that appears on page 7 of today's paper, and your fellow reporter Bob writes a politics article that appears on page 9. Someone buying the paper gets both articles on paper along with other articles by Charlie (cooking), Dave (pet care), etc. Sometime later, a library buying a microfilm edition of that day's paper gets all those articles on film. The microfilm product has the same contents as the paper and falls the revised product clause.
With Lexis/Nexis, the publisher now gets to charge for each article separately. Someone searching for Alice's article doesn't get Charlie's. The publisher suddenly has a vastly larger number of revenue streams (one for each article in the paper, instead of for each issue in the paper) but the author's revenue stream hasn't changed at all.
The solution I'd like to see (and pigs will fly) is for Lexis/Nexis to just deliver index info for the paper, not individual articles. And then you should be able to download the entire issue of that day's paper (i.e. all the articles, not just the one you were searching for) for a single charge. That shouldn't increase user costs too much, for the simple reason that most users won't be willing to pay a whole lot to access additional articles that they weren't looking for. But for those of us who like to build up our own archives, it makes it much cheaper to acquire articles in bulk.
That seems like a much better guardian against the "memory hole" than having centralized vendors doling out one article at a time.
from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Cookie cutters were little nanoexplosives that could circulate in your bloodstream, used for executions and assassinations. They contained a pair of discs spinning furiously in opposite directions. On an external signal, the discs would split apart, making a mess of your insides.
Mr. Hicks is still around and Alvin's Secret Code was reprinted by Penguin a couple years ago. It seems to be out of print again, but used copies are easy to find.
Hmmm, here's a good info page--a couple more of the books have been reprinted too:
The Wacky World of Alvin Fernald
And no, it's not automatically a violation of copyright laws to take a four-line quote from a book and republish it, on the internet or anywhere else. See the Stanford Library Fair Use Site for more info.