I suspect (knowing how the OS and development works) that a transaction is limited to a single operation.
You can create a file, and that file will either be created or not created, but not in a midway state. You can write data to a file (which incidentially updates metadata) and the metadata and new data will either be written or not written. Etc.
Creating transactions that span more than one operation would require changes to the way userspace programs interact with the filesystem. Not to say it couldn't be done, but not with the standard open()/write()/etc. calls.
My point is that if you're trying to really terrorize people, you don't spend years training to fly a plane into a building. It doesn't take millions of dollars. All it takes is a methodical and repeatable way of killing people or causing scary-looking damage on a regular basis. You don't go after election conventions, because thats not where the real people are. Killing the president doesn't make you a terrorist, it just makes you an assassin.
As for labeling the poster a Republican, there is such a thing as making an assumption based on evidence: wears military gear, reliance on the military to solve all their problems, concern about the RNC as a target. Sounds right wing to me.
Blaming such things on only "Angry White Men" is racist
I chose those words to prove a point. Picking on dark skinned guys with turbans is racist too. I forgot to mention the Jamaican snipers in that list, neither white nor arabic.
You seem to think that killing yourself is required in order to be effective. It seems that every one of these people effectively spread more terror by getting away with it alive, and in some cases repeated their acts. It takes far less resources than you think when you don't have to track down, recruit, and train more suicide bombers.
And why does that matter? If I patent a hot dog, why is a hot dog on a stick so special that it deserves its own patent? By this logic I could patent the use of cars on roads with green stripes. Sure, people drive on roads all the time, but my patent is "specific". If I invent talking to another player, why is talking to another player on a video game console patentable? Especially since consoles are just special purpose computers.
A specific case of X should never be patentable, since its a subset of whats already done. Only a more general case showing an expansion of the abilities of X into new fields or problems should be seen as "innovation".
And the American citizens who were being held without trial? They've been in around a year and only recently did the SCOTUS finally decide that the govt MUST give them a hearing because they are citizens.
AHAHAH you're so funny, I nearly burst out laughing here.
Terrorism is a military issue, since it invloves defending the entire US against a foreign army
NOitsnot. Who's dumb now? the grandparent? or you, who just died because you succumbed to your profiling crap and decided to ignore the real threat of angry white men?
You need massive resources on top of smarts, luck and determination to pull off such an attack.
Right, it takes massive resources to fill up a 55 gallon drum with gasoline and kick it from the back of your pickup truck into the middle of an interstate? There's all sorts of ways a single lone person could wreak havoc without "massive" resources or even luck. Oh, but like any true Republican you're only concerned about the good ol' buds at the RNC. Just like on 9/11 when "key" leaders were evacuated immediately under the continuity of government plan. Which was supposed to evacuate all of congress, but well, the Democrats didn't matter so much, so they had to wait for their turn to come hours later.
I am a dark skinned male, with a crew cut and in my 20's
See above as to why this kind of profiling is doomed to fail catastrophically.
The patent cited there is for a console with a harddrive, but voice services for games have been around much longer than 1999. I remember playing subspace in 97 with the ability to record and send short clips to other players, and using netmeeting to chat with friends. These days when consoles literally are just desktops, "on a console" is no more innovative than "on the internet".
More like "buy more bandwidth dammit!" I get "stuck" on some pages where the damn adserver doesn't have the bandwidth to give me my damn ad, causing mozilla to sit there with just the top of the page rendered waiting for that banner to load so it can render the part of the page I actually want to see. This hasn't happened recently though, either everyone else blocking ads means the server has enough bandwidth to give me mine, or mozilla learned to render a whole page even if the image was missing, and I just haven't noticed anymore. Could also be the increase of banners using <iframe> to load a whole page including jscript and whatever other nasties they want to throw at the reader.
With the job market as it currently stands (which will probably be a major protest point), most of the people there are going to own at least one set of nice clothes for job interviews. Duct tape a sign "looking for a white collar job" on the back and go.
Even if the primary functions for XYZ all lie outside the visible color range, the combinations of the waves they define should still be able to reproduce visible light, its just a matter of emitting them so that they combine.
Or am I completely smoking something and XYZ isn't based on combinations of electromagnetic waves at all?
Wouldn't it be hilarious if everyone showed up in suits? It's one thing to televise the revolution when everyone looks like bums, another completely when the people protesting looked like they were on their way to a job interview.
The hilarious part about this thread is that when its something unpopular thats being stifled, the people doing the stifiling bring up the tired old chant that "you've got the right to say what you want, but you don't have the right to do it for free (as in beer)" and "Your right to speak doesn't imply any right to be heard".
Why stick to the RGB standard at all?
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Real advancement would be discovery of emitters that can match the XYZ Color standard. This standard was designed to mimic the actual operation of the eye, and therefore its gamut includes all possible human-observable colors.
Actually, there is a patent class for the design of a device, this is used to patent faucet designs, doorknobs, vases, etc.
The blueprint for something may be copyrighted, but that just means I can't run off a copy of the blueprint without infringing. However, I can (or at least used to, it seems every year copyrights become stronger and stronger and cover things they were never intended to) fire up autocad and design something that looks like it without having to worry about copyright.
If it comes out of income tax, all that goes to wiretap payments is the amount actually needed.
If it comes out of your phone bill, all that goes to wiretap payments (what are they paying for, anyway?) is the amount actually needed. The rest will be spent just like all the rest of the budget: raises, parties, unusually high-charge contracts awarded to people who just happen to have the same last name.
How much do you think it costs to wiretap in the first place? Do you think they have wiretapping machines with a coin slot and "please insert 25 cents to hear the next two minutes"? No, they have a person (who is probably salaried and would be paid the same amount to NOT wiretap) sitting in a room (which they MIGHT have to rent from the phone company, though in these Digital Days, they probably just route the packets by some closet in the police station) recording the conversation on tape (which probably costs $5 a minute, knowing how governments like to buy from the closest-related bidder).
So, for the roughly 30million people in Canada, this raises CDN$7.5million/month. If my estimate of $5/minute of tape is close, then thats 1.5million minutes of listening in on your phonesex calls.
Not only is it the 26th century and IPv4 is still standard, and people haven't patched against 500 year old exploits, the off-by-one error is still around. You'd think by then they'd realize that nodes 21-48 would be 28 nodes, not 27...
Huh? I bet if I sold copies of Macrosoft Wandows on Ebay, Microsoft would have the auctions shut down fast. Why should Ebay treat Audiovox any differently? The GPL is mum about program names and in these cases they would be specifically shut down for changing the name of the program.
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Right: Taking sharaza (a free as in speech program) renaming it to go music, and releasing it without source.
Wait, thats what this whole article is about! The spyware stuff is just icing on the cake ("Not only are these people infringing on a GPLd program's copyright, they're even infecting users with spyware!")
For what its worth if patent considerations come up, I can dig up places where I've discussed this kind of feature for mozilla/firefox (I've thought about it ever since seeing that icon for the first time, since this is what I expected it to DO, though unfortunately I kept it to myself), for the purpose of being able to use sites who decide to make navigation or login a popup in order to attempt to force users to turn off popup blocking. My idea would have shown a list of all popups currently blocked from the current site and allow the user to select one to show. Could even have a "preview" mode where only the html was downloaded and rendered without images, and the user can decide if its just a popup banner ad, or if it might be useful.
It was dismissed because people decided that if everyone blocked popups, the sites would quit using them, rather than forcing users to quit blocking.
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Could be worse, Linux could have chosen Bob ;)
I suspect (knowing how the OS and development works) that a transaction is limited to a single operation.
You can create a file, and that file will either be created or not created, but not in a midway state. You can write data to a file (which incidentially updates metadata) and the metadata and new data will either be written or not written. Etc.
Creating transactions that span more than one operation would require changes to the way userspace programs interact with the filesystem. Not to say it couldn't be done, but not with the standard open()/write()/etc. calls.
My point is that if you're trying to really terrorize people, you don't spend years training to fly a plane into a building. It doesn't take millions of dollars. All it takes is a methodical and repeatable way of killing people or causing scary-looking damage on a regular basis. You don't go after election conventions, because thats not where the real people are. Killing the president doesn't make you a terrorist, it just makes you an assassin.
As for labeling the poster a Republican, there is such a thing as making an assumption based on evidence: wears military gear, reliance on the military to solve all their problems, concern about the RNC as a target. Sounds right wing to me.
Blaming such things on only "Angry White Men" is racist
I chose those words to prove a point. Picking on dark skinned guys with turbans is racist too. I forgot to mention the Jamaican snipers in that list, neither white nor arabic.
You seem to think that killing yourself is required in order to be effective. It seems that every one of these people effectively spread more terror by getting away with it alive, and in some cases repeated their acts. It takes far less resources than you think when you don't have to track down, recruit, and train more suicide bombers.
And why does that matter? If I patent a hot dog, why is a hot dog on a stick so special that it deserves its own patent? By this logic I could patent the use of cars on roads with green stripes. Sure, people drive on roads all the time, but my patent is "specific". If I invent talking to another player, why is talking to another player on a video game console patentable? Especially since consoles are just special purpose computers.
A specific case of X should never be patentable, since its a subset of whats already done. Only a more general case showing an expansion of the abilities of X into new fields or problems should be seen as "innovation".
No, they don't
And the American citizens who were being held without trial? They've been in around a year and only recently did the SCOTUS finally decide that the govt MUST give them a hearing because they are citizens.
AHAHAH you're so funny, I nearly burst out laughing here.
Terrorism is a military issue, since it invloves defending the entire US against a foreign army
N O its not. Who's dumb now? the grandparent? or you, who just died because you succumbed to your profiling crap and decided to ignore the real threat of angry white men?
You need massive resources on top of smarts, luck and determination to pull off such an attack.
Right, it takes massive resources to fill up a 55 gallon drum with gasoline and kick it from the back of your pickup truck into the middle of an interstate? There's all sorts of ways a single lone person could wreak havoc without "massive" resources or even luck. Oh, but like any true Republican you're only concerned about the good ol' buds at the RNC. Just like on 9/11 when "key" leaders were evacuated immediately under the continuity of government plan. Which was supposed to evacuate all of congress, but well, the Democrats didn't matter so much, so they had to wait for their turn to come hours later.
I am a dark skinned male, with a crew cut and in my 20's
See above as to why this kind of profiling is doomed to fail catastrophically.
The patent cited there is for a console with a harddrive, but voice services for games have been around much longer than 1999. I remember playing subspace in 97 with the ability to record and send short clips to other players, and using netmeeting to chat with friends. These days when consoles literally are just desktops, "on a console" is no more innovative than "on the internet".
my bandwidth! my precious bandwidth!
More like "buy more bandwidth dammit!" I get "stuck" on some pages where the damn adserver doesn't have the bandwidth to give me my damn ad, causing mozilla to sit there with just the top of the page rendered waiting for that banner to load so it can render the part of the page I actually want to see. This hasn't happened recently though, either everyone else blocking ads means the server has enough bandwidth to give me mine, or mozilla learned to render a whole page even if the image was missing, and I just haven't noticed anymore. Could also be the increase of banners using <iframe> to load a whole page including jscript and whatever other nasties they want to throw at the reader.
With the job market as it currently stands (which will probably be a major protest point), most of the people there are going to own at least one set of nice clothes for job interviews. Duct tape a sign "looking for a white collar job" on the back and go.
Even if the primary functions for XYZ all lie outside the visible color range, the combinations of the waves they define should still be able to reproduce visible light, its just a matter of emitting them so that they combine.
Or am I completely smoking something and XYZ isn't based on combinations of electromagnetic waves at all?
Wouldn't it be hilarious if everyone showed up in suits? It's one thing to televise the revolution when everyone looks like bums, another completely when the people protesting looked like they were on their way to a job interview.
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In fact, that might be a good way to spin it
The hilarious part about this thread is that when its something unpopular thats being stifled, the people doing the stifiling bring up the tired old chant that "you've got the right to say what you want, but you don't have the right to do it for free (as in beer)" and "Your right to speak doesn't imply any right to be heard".
Real advancement would be discovery of emitters that can match the XYZ Color standard. This standard was designed to mimic the actual operation of the eye, and therefore its gamut includes all possible human-observable colors.
Actually, there is a patent class for the design of a device, this is used to patent faucet designs, doorknobs, vases, etc.
The blueprint for something may be copyrighted, but that just means I can't run off a copy of the blueprint without infringing. However, I can (or at least used to, it seems every year copyrights become stronger and stronger and cover things they were never intended to) fire up autocad and design something that looks like it without having to worry about copyright.
If it comes out of income tax, all that goes to wiretap payments is the amount actually needed.
If it comes out of your phone bill, all that goes to wiretap payments (what are they paying for, anyway?) is the amount actually needed. The rest will be spent just like all the rest of the budget: raises, parties, unusually high-charge contracts awarded to people who just happen to have the same last name.
equipment? - already paid for
Didn't you know? Their equipment has a coin slot, and after five minutes, it beeps and says "Please insert 25 cents for the next 3 minutes."
In soviet canada, a boot oots you, eh?
How much do you think it costs to wiretap in the first place? Do you think they have wiretapping machines with a coin slot and "please insert 25 cents to hear the next two minutes"? No, they have a person (who is probably salaried and would be paid the same amount to NOT wiretap) sitting in a room (which they MIGHT have to rent from the phone company, though in these Digital Days, they probably just route the packets by some closet in the police station) recording the conversation on tape (which probably costs $5 a minute, knowing how governments like to buy from the closest-related bidder).
So, for the roughly 30million people in Canada, this raises CDN$7.5million/month. If my estimate of $5/minute of tape is close, then thats 1.5million minutes of listening in on your phonesex calls.
Not only is it the 26th century and IPv4 is still standard, and people haven't patched against 500 year old exploits, the off-by-one error is still around. You'd think by then they'd realize that nodes 21-48 would be 28 nodes, not 27...
I so much agree with you. You can't possibly give away something and later on say: Oh no! Look what they've done with it! Let's prevent that!
Ah, but if these people don't provide the source to Go Music, we can go after that. The spyware's presence just ticks people off enough to do this.
Huh? I bet if I sold copies of Macrosoft Wandows on Ebay, Microsoft would have the auctions shut down fast. Why should Ebay treat Audiovox any differently? The GPL is mum about program names and in these cases they would be specifically shut down for changing the name of the program.
Right: Taking sharaza (a free as in speech program) renaming it to go music, and releasing it without source.
Wait, thats what this whole article is about! The spyware stuff is just icing on the cake ("Not only are these people infringing on a GPLd program's copyright, they're even infecting users with spyware!")
For what its worth if patent considerations come up, I can dig up places where I've discussed this kind of feature for mozilla/firefox (I've thought about it ever since seeing that icon for the first time, since this is what I expected it to DO, though unfortunately I kept it to myself), for the purpose of being able to use sites who decide to make navigation or login a popup in order to attempt to force users to turn off popup blocking. My idea would have shown a list of all popups currently blocked from the current site and allow the user to select one to show. Could even have a "preview" mode where only the html was downloaded and rendered without images, and the user can decide if its just a popup banner ad, or if it might be useful.
It was dismissed because people decided that if everyone blocked popups, the sites would quit using them, rather than forcing users to quit blocking.
No, i just ran ping on an IP that I know has nothing on it, and linux just reports the packet was lost, not that the destination is unreachable.