Well, either it is about openness or trying to maintain control over your copyrighted material. A GPL violation is, in essence, a copyright violation. If you don't abide by the terms of the GPL you are violating copyright by redistributing GPL licensed software. Similarly the LDS church has copyright over these materials and distributes them in a controlled fashion. Wikileaks is violating their copyright.
Claiming that you want "openness" regardless of the means isn't much of an argument.
Clearly you aren't familiar with the LDS Church if you think there is a "wall between shepherd and flock." On the local level and even several levels above that there is no professional clergy. The shepherd of the flock is just a member of the flock who gets that job for a few years and then someone else gets it. It is all done on a volunteer basis. I spend 5 to 6 hours a week in Church related meetings (in addition to 3 hours going to church) and will never see a penny.
Also, I can assure you that the topics discussed in those meetings are much more mundane than censorship, book burning, killing heretics, and the instigation of war.
The LDS manual in question instructs leaders to call Church Headquarters in cases of abuse. There is not much information in the manual.
There is nothing scandalous in the manual. However it is copyrighted. If this were a GPL violation/. would be up in arms. Since it is a copyright violation/. is up in arms, mostly on the wrong side of the issue.
However the LDS Church should have learned by now that trying to enforce copyright on the internet is counter-productive. If they weren't putting up a fight you'd never see this on/.
My dearest AC, it isn't a question of grammar. It is a question of definitions. The phrase simply doesn't mean "raises the question" which has nothing to do with grammar. Of course since you seem to not know the definition of "grammar" this is probably a rather unconvincing argument.
All this begs the question
Seriously, I would think that on a news for nerds page that at least the editors would have the slightest idea what "begs the question" actually means.
You, sir, are a moron. The point that you have missed is that a small, smart, funded group of people that are willing to die will always be able to inflict a great deal of damage and/or panic in a free society. If you figure that they'll hijack planes and beef up security there, they'll recognize this and attack you somewhere else.
He should have talked to the campus IT guys about this "research" before conducting it on live campus systems. I worked in campus IT at Stanford and my experience is that they might be open to seeing what you're working on and allowing it.
The article summary posted here on/. conveniently left off the next paragraph: Maass' program was in use for approximately seven months before the University froze his UP account.
So he ran this thing for most of the school year and gave it away to his friends and put up a facebook page about it without telling Cisco? At some point it starts to look like the, "I was about to tell Cisco!" claim is just an excuse to get out of trouble. Once he had a working demonstration he should have approached Cisco, not distributed it while he put off talking to the vendor for half a year.
Still, it seems like the uni is going overboard on the punishment.
I know a guy that works at Evans & Sutherland and works on laser projectors that pump out 30 megapixels of video. He says that 1080p now looks like total crap to him and he won't buy it.
I don't think I can use it. I am a developer and pretty much live in Eclipse but right now a Mac Book Pro is more than enough for me. I have it hooked up to a 20 inch Dell display so I have dual monitors which aids my productivity more than extra cores would, but I am not pushing the limits of this two core 2.16 GHz machine. I don't think that I'd currently be able to make much use of an 8 core 3GHz machine, though my ego likes to think that I need it. Maybe if I spent more time in iMovie or iDVD.
Agreed. That wasn't a response. It simply quoted a few paragraphs and then made NO COMMENTARY on them. Instead it cited a few facts that have little to do with what Shuttleworth said. The/. editors and submitter should be ashamed.
I have an IBM T60p. I'm typing on it right now. Yes it is post-Lenovo deal. It says IBM on it in big bright letters. Twice. They have the right to use the brand for 5 years.
I'm typing this on an IBM Thinkpad T60p. One has to look very hard to find the word Lenovo on it. It says IBM in big bright letters. Levnovo has the right to use the IBM brand for 5 years and is partly owned by IBM. I should add that until 10 days ago I worked for IBM.
So I issued the user a new Thinkpad from our closet and kept the nice Dell for myself. It worked out for everybody.
um... sounds like you got the bad end of that deal. Why not keep the ThinkPad for yourself and give the user the new Dell? Who wants a new Dell over a new ThinkPad?
You can bet that a harddrive based iPod with the same interface as the iPhone comes out shortly. Before the iPhone is available. What I really want to see is one of these in a Nano form factor with 16 GB of storage. That would be enough for a few movies and would actually have more screen space than the current iPod does for movies.
Unless the company that makes the "one system" executes flawlessly then there will be someone waiting to eat their lunch. Note how Sony dominated the last generation yet appears at this point to have misfired this time around.
I've spent a bit of time in Dorchester, MA and in the slums of Brazil. I can assure you that "poor" people in the USA have more stuff than middle class people in Brazil. Yes there are people with nothing in both countries, and I have no desire to live in Dorchester, but the plight of the poor in the US is nothing compared to what the lower middle class in Brazil deals with.
In the Dorchester I saw 50 inch TVs, PS2s, XBoxes, TVs in every room of the house, etc. A middle class family in Brazil has a 20 inch TV, no hot running water, and deals with daily water outages.
I am concerned that we're heading towards an economy that looks more like Brazil's, but I have to agree with the statement that you'd rather be poor in the US than middle class in much of the world.
The airlines love this "security measure" because it solves a business problem for them. Prior to this it was common to be able to buy tickets for cheap on the secondary market. Now that market does not exist.
This isn't that impressive of a hack. Basically they made their own machine and put it in a Magic 6000 box. They don't even show PIN or CC# capture in the video. Even if they did show that, they aren't able to dupe a chip and PIN card. The worst they might be able to do it create a magstripe card, which isn't nearly as useful.
Basically all this shows is that you can rip the guts out of a Magic 6000 without making significant changes to the top surface of the machine.
Hey Mr AC, if you want to send me a new copy of Office so I can try it out go right ahead. If you're such an MS supporter can you explain why it is good for consumers that they went their own more complex route rather than use the established standard?
From the article: The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD.
So this is a disk that looks like a DVD. It will also "look" like a CD, BR, or HD-DVD disk. Basically this summary is incredibly inaccurate and the article itself is pretty much crap as well since it is devoid of any real detail on how this works and how long it might last.
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Well, either it is about openness or trying to maintain control over your copyrighted material. A GPL violation is, in essence, a copyright violation. If you don't abide by the terms of the GPL you are violating copyright by redistributing GPL licensed software. Similarly the LDS church has copyright over these materials and distributes them in a controlled fashion. Wikileaks is violating their copyright.
Claiming that you want "openness" regardless of the means isn't much of an argument.
The solution is simple. Run in a VM. In fact, require it.
Clearly you aren't familiar with the LDS Church if you think there is a "wall between shepherd and flock." On the local level and even several levels above that there is no professional clergy. The shepherd of the flock is just a member of the flock who gets that job for a few years and then someone else gets it. It is all done on a volunteer basis. I spend 5 to 6 hours a week in Church related meetings (in addition to 3 hours going to church) and will never see a penny.
Also, I can assure you that the topics discussed in those meetings are much more mundane than censorship, book burning, killing heretics, and the instigation of war.
The LDS manual in question instructs leaders to call Church Headquarters in cases of abuse. There is not much information in the manual.
/. would be up in arms. Since it is a copyright violation /. is up in arms, mostly on the wrong side of the issue.
/.
There is nothing scandalous in the manual. However it is copyrighted. If this were a GPL violation
However the LDS Church should have learned by now that trying to enforce copyright on the internet is counter-productive. If they weren't putting up a fight you'd never see this on
My dearest AC, it isn't a question of grammar. It is a question of definitions. The phrase simply doesn't mean "raises the question" which has nothing to do with grammar. Of course since you seem to not know the definition of "grammar" this is probably a rather unconvincing argument.
All this begs the question Seriously, I would think that on a news for nerds page that at least the editors would have the slightest idea what "begs the question" actually means.
I take it that you do not write code. If you do you should be fired.
You, sir, are a moron. The point that you have missed is that a small, smart, funded group of people that are willing to die will always be able to inflict a great deal of damage and/or panic in a free society. If you figure that they'll hijack planes and beef up security there, they'll recognize this and attack you somewhere else.
He should have talked to the campus IT guys about this "research" before conducting it on live campus systems. I worked in campus IT at Stanford and my experience is that they might be open to seeing what you're working on and allowing it.
/. conveniently left off the next paragraph:
The article summary posted here on
Maass' program was in use for approximately seven months before the University froze his UP account.
So he ran this thing for most of the school year and gave it away to his friends and put up a facebook page about it without telling Cisco? At some point it starts to look like the, "I was about to tell Cisco!" claim is just an excuse to get out of trouble. Once he had a working demonstration he should have approached Cisco, not distributed it while he put off talking to the vendor for half a year.
Still, it seems like the uni is going overboard on the punishment.
I know a guy that works at Evans & Sutherland and works on laser projectors that pump out 30 megapixels of video. He says that 1080p now looks like total crap to him and he won't buy it.
I don't think I can use it. I am a developer and pretty much live in Eclipse but right now a Mac Book Pro is more than enough for me. I have it hooked up to a 20 inch Dell display so I have dual monitors which aids my productivity more than extra cores would, but I am not pushing the limits of this two core 2.16 GHz machine. I don't think that I'd currently be able to make much use of an 8 core 3GHz machine, though my ego likes to think that I need it. Maybe if I spent more time in iMovie or iDVD.
Agreed. That wasn't a response. It simply quoted a few paragraphs and then made NO COMMENTARY on them. Instead it cited a few facts that have little to do with what Shuttleworth said. The /. editors and submitter should be ashamed.
Tell Genentech that they can't use smart cards with Macs. There are at least two companies that sell Mac compatible smart card solutions.
I have an IBM T60p. I'm typing on it right now. Yes it is post-Lenovo deal. It says IBM on it in big bright letters. Twice. They have the right to use the brand for 5 years.
I'm typing this on an IBM Thinkpad T60p. One has to look very hard to find the word Lenovo on it. It says IBM in big bright letters. Levnovo has the right to use the IBM brand for 5 years and is partly owned by IBM. I should add that until 10 days ago I worked for IBM.
So I issued the user a new Thinkpad from our closet and kept the nice Dell for myself. It worked out for everybody.
um... sounds like you got the bad end of that deal. Why not keep the ThinkPad for yourself and give the user the new Dell? Who wants a new Dell over a new ThinkPad?
You can bet that a harddrive based iPod with the same interface as the iPhone comes out shortly. Before the iPhone is available. What I really want to see is one of these in a Nano form factor with 16 GB of storage. That would be enough for a few movies and would actually have more screen space than the current iPod does for movies.
Unless the company that makes the "one system" executes flawlessly then there will be someone waiting to eat their lunch. Note how Sony dominated the last generation yet appears at this point to have misfired this time around.
maybe the new version is more patentable...
I've spent a bit of time in Dorchester, MA and in the slums of Brazil. I can assure you that "poor" people in the USA have more stuff than middle class people in Brazil. Yes there are people with nothing in both countries, and I have no desire to live in Dorchester, but the plight of the poor in the US is nothing compared to what the lower middle class in Brazil deals with.
In the Dorchester I saw 50 inch TVs, PS2s, XBoxes, TVs in every room of the house, etc. A middle class family in Brazil has a 20 inch TV, no hot running water, and deals with daily water outages.
I am concerned that we're heading towards an economy that looks more like Brazil's, but I have to agree with the statement that you'd rather be poor in the US than middle class in much of the world.
The airlines love this "security measure" because it solves a business problem for them. Prior to this it was common to be able to buy tickets for cheap on the secondary market. Now that market does not exist.
This isn't that impressive of a hack. Basically they made their own machine and put it in a Magic 6000 box. They don't even show PIN or CC# capture in the video. Even if they did show that, they aren't able to dupe a chip and PIN card. The worst they might be able to do it create a magstripe card, which isn't nearly as useful.
Basically all this shows is that you can rip the guts out of a Magic 6000 without making significant changes to the top surface of the machine.
Or if you have the funds rats and monkeys. And sharks.
Hey Mr AC, if you want to send me a new copy of Office so I can try it out go right ahead. If you're such an MS supporter can you explain why it is good for consumers that they went their own more complex route rather than use the established standard?
From the article:
The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD.
So this is a disk that looks like a DVD. It will also "look" like a CD, BR, or HD-DVD disk. Basically this summary is incredibly inaccurate and the article itself is pretty much crap as well since it is devoid of any real detail on how this works and how long it might last.