Kyoto was doomed well before Bush took office. In 1999, the senate voted 98-0 [semissourian.com] against this treaty. Other nations have began to have second thoughts about it as well. This treaty was more about holding developed nations back than it was about reducing emissions, and it is on the scrap pile where it belongs.
Yep, <Shrug>, There's literally nothing Bush, The Environmentalist President(TM), could have done.
Seems to me that these keys are becoming more popular. What seems to be lacking is the ability to install typical software on the key so that the software will run on the computer that you just plugged the key into. Yes, simple software DOES work, but once you get beyond a typical software installation with multitudes of files, your ability to run it on a "stranger" machine fades markedly.
SCO may only be the first of many to try to attempt to somehow grab the reins of the open source community. Some may try to find a loophole in the GPL. Others may try other unthought of tactics to make a quick buck at the expense of the altruistic group that comprise the Open Source movement. It's all made the more easier if you have a cadre of unscrupulous lawyers who aren't afraid of risking a little money and time in order to litigate the presumably legally underdefended targets such as Torvalds and RMS. Watch SCO, you future vermin!First terrorize LT and RMS and threaten them with lawsuits. Meanwhile extort the legitimate Linux users (the ultimate payoff). Laugh all the way to the bank. Appologize (or do nothing) only when it eventually comes down to the end and Open Source's honor is eventually vindicated.
New business model Summarized:
1. Exploit Open Source/GPL Loophole 2. Hire cadre of lawyers 3. ???? 4. Profit from gullible business Linux users 5. Lose multi-year court battles 6. Appologize 7. Slip into handsomely rewarded obscurity
XML (in word processors, at least) is nothing really new. Remember WordPerfect? It had a feature called "Reveal Codes" which when activated displayed the underlying "markup" behind the document. One could argue that this was a primitive XML format. I argue that while it was great and all, such an accessible format worked well but didn't inspire great advances in unimaginable new ideas.
No, they didn't fix the problem, they offered a solution that few people bothered to install. Truly fixing the problem? Theraputic worm! This would involve modifying the Blaster worm to contain a patch payload. Yeah, you get hit with a virus and the network slows down for a while, but the problem is solved for the future.
Yes, in fact the Argus motor in the V1 could run while standing still. They used forward momentum to start the engines, but a simple blast of air would suffice to get the cyclical firing going. Once started the engine has no trouble operating in still air.
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In Soviet Russia we use model airplanes to make drugs get high.
What's wrong whacking a cockroach with a baseball bat? Here in Houston, carrying a baseball bat as protection against cockroaches is common sense, plain and simple.
I figure Microsoft can't keep anyone out of anything else so what makes this any different.
Well, Microsoft isn't exactly stupid. They will probably do what they can to restrict OS development on this platform. For example, remember back in the good old days when Diamond had restrictions on their video cards? Diamond had a nondisclosure policy on the clock generator. You could write an XFree86 driver for it but the licensing was such that it was illegal to distribute the source to such a driver.
The idea of charging for spam has merit, but the fact that money is involved makes me quesy. Money is expensive to secure and there is no current model on the Net for microtransactions of a penny.
My solution involves requiring the sender to perform one minute's worth of SETI@Home, protein folding, etc., from one of the distributed processing sites (DPS).
With some thought, it probably wouldn't be too hard to implement in an initial small group and then start scaling it up. For example, a listserv could require all participants to subscribe to a DPS's email service. The DPS accepts the completed mini-work-units and creates an X.511 certificate that the sender can place in the header of the email. The SMTP server then verifies the legitimacy of the certificate.
Depending on the success of this, more and more SMTP servers would pop up that have the option to check for valid x.511 certificates from DPSs for those users that request it.
Looks like that's the consensus here. Here's a short BBC article echoing the same sentiments. The key quote, I think, is here:
"With all these other systems [airline and banking] there is a physical data trail, bits of paper that allow us to check that the transactions are accurate.
"E-voting offers none of these safeguards."
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Yep, <Shrug>, There's literally nothing Bush, The Environmentalist President(TM), could have done.
Chicken wire is just too specific, man. You'd also need eagle wire, wren wire, and african swallow wire, just to name a few.
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Nitrous is a stimulant when applied to the air intakes of internal combustion engines.
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Psst, Trade ya these prescription drugs for your MP3 players? How about it eh?
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Seems to me that these keys are becoming more popular. What seems to be lacking is the ability to install typical software on the key so that the software will run on the computer that you just plugged the key into. Yes, simple software DOES work, but once you get beyond a typical software installation with multitudes of files, your ability to run it on a "stranger" machine fades markedly.
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SCO may only be the first of many to try to attempt to somehow grab the reins of the open source community. Some may try to find a loophole in the GPL. Others may try other unthought of tactics to make a quick buck at the expense of the altruistic group that comprise the Open Source movement. It's all made the more easier if you have a cadre of unscrupulous lawyers who aren't afraid of risking a little money and time in order to litigate the presumably legally underdefended targets such as Torvalds and RMS. Watch SCO, you future vermin!First terrorize LT and RMS and threaten them with lawsuits. Meanwhile extort the legitimate Linux users (the ultimate payoff). Laugh all the way to the bank. Appologize (or do nothing) only when it eventually comes down to the end and Open Source's honor is eventually vindicated.
New business model Summarized:
1. Exploit Open Source/GPL Loophole
2. Hire cadre of lawyers
3. ????
4. Profit from gullible business Linux users
5. Lose multi-year court battles
6. Appologize
7. Slip into handsomely rewarded obscurity
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No problem there, just manipulate the media so that they say what you want to say and 'Bingo,' problem solved.
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XML (in word processors, at least) is nothing really new. Remember WordPerfect? It had a feature called "Reveal Codes" which when activated displayed the underlying "markup" behind the document. One could argue that this was a primitive XML format. I argue that while it was great and all, such an accessible format worked well but didn't inspire great advances in unimaginable new ideas.
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No, they didn't fix the problem, they offered a solution that few people bothered to install. Truly fixing the problem? Theraputic worm! This would involve modifying the Blaster worm to contain a patch payload. Yeah, you get hit with a virus and the network slows down for a while, but the problem is solved for the future.
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Yes, in fact the Argus motor in the V1 could run while standing still. They used forward momentum to start the engines, but a simple blast of air would suffice to get the cyclical firing going. Once started the engine has no trouble operating in still air.
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In Soviet Russia we use model airplanes to make drugs get high.
What's wrong whacking a cockroach with a baseball bat? Here in Houston, carrying a baseball bat as protection against cockroaches is common sense, plain and simple.
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Yeah, but 'Bring it on', heck that's only three little words.
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Well, don't you find it suspicious that Linus comes up with this after such a long time !?!?
It sounds weird to me. Why didn't he say that in the first place ?
If he came out with it in the first place he wouldn't have been able to say that he'd been thinking about IP issues for a long time.
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Enough of this and you'll be saying such Gems as:
'Fuck you, asshole'
and
'All be baack'
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Ahh! to be young again!
Then when you go shopping, you can get Consumer Reports info, or in the grocery store, you can get specific dietary information.
Of course, they might just be declared enemy combatants and all this silly due-process thing could be avoided...
And of course they won't mind because they'll get an all-expenses-paid-permanent vacation in sunny Cuba.
So what was he paying? Did he need any Java programmers?
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I figure Microsoft can't keep anyone out of anything else so what makes this any different.
Well, Microsoft isn't exactly stupid. They will probably do what they can to restrict OS development on this platform. For example, remember back in the good old days when Diamond had restrictions on their video cards? Diamond had a nondisclosure policy on the clock generator. You could write an XFree86 driver for it but the licensing was such that it was illegal to distribute the source to such a driver.
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Just wait 'til my patent on taxation comes through! (Seeing how prior-art doesn't count for squat these days)
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If you could embed this into human cells, I bet you could convert my stomach into a 1280 X 1024 display!
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The idea of charging for spam has merit, but the fact that money is involved makes me quesy. Money is expensive to secure and there is no current model on the Net for microtransactions of a penny.
My solution involves requiring the sender to perform one minute's worth of SETI@Home, protein folding, etc., from one of the distributed processing sites (DPS).
With some thought, it probably wouldn't be too hard to implement in an initial small group and then start scaling it up. For example, a listserv could require all participants to subscribe to a DPS's email service. The DPS accepts the completed mini-work-units and creates an X.511 certificate that the sender can place in the header of the email. The SMTP server then verifies the legitimacy of the certificate.
Depending on the success of this, more and more
SMTP servers would pop up that have the option to check for valid x.511 certificates from DPSs for those users that request it.
BTM
Looks like that's the consensus here. Here's a short BBC article echoing the same sentiments. The key quote, I think, is here:
"With all these other systems [airline and banking] there is a physical data trail, bits of paper that allow us to check that the transactions are accurate. "E-voting offers none of these safeguards."
Count me in!
Here's the first line:
while (1==1) {
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