Athena, MIT's academic computing environment, uses a home-brewed command called "mkserv" to handle this sort of problem. For instance, if I type "mkserv remote", my machine will automatically set itself up so I can log in over the network. Before it does so, it will ask me a series of simple questions, like whether or not I want to require encryption, etc.
It seems like mainstream GNU/Linux could really use a command like this, the services equivalent of apt-get. This would seem to make much more sense than having a different distribution of the operating system for every service, especially since mkserv allows you to configure multiple services.
Journal articles seem to contain a wealth of information that is being re-discovered, and projects that are being re-implemented in non-academic circles all the time. One project that might be particularly relevent to your needs is:
1. Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patrick Sobalvarro, and Thomas Anderson. Eraser: a dynamic race detector for multithreaded programs. ACM Transaction on Computer Systems 15, 4 (November 1997) pages 391-411. Also appeared in the Proc. Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (October 1997).
The Association for Computing Machinery web site (acm.org) has a search engine, but you may find Google and/or your local library to be more useful interfaces if you are not an ACM member.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com also turned up in a cursory web search as a source for some interesting articles, which are apparently freely available.
"More information" indeed. I can't believe no one's mentioned this
yet, but...
Chapter 10 of 17 USC (federal copyright law) requires that all
manufacturers and importers of digital audio devices in the US
incorporate Serial Copy Management System or similar systems into
their devices, and pay royalties into a central fund. These royalties
are then distributed to the American Federation of Musicians, the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, music publishers,
lyricists, and directly to "interested copyright parties" which
includes copyright owners (potentially studios) and artists
themselves.
In return, the public is granted the right to make unlimited copies of
music on digital audio devices, though of course they may not
circumvent copy protection if it is turned on. (The law does not
require that all artists enable it.)
Note that "digital audio devices" do not include general-purpose
computers. Sorry, all you peer-to-peer fans. Thank the Audio Home
Recording Act. (Not the DMCA.)
I was the Steward for a house of 20 people here is Boston for a few months, and HomeRuns absolutely rocks. They are very reliable, and a heck of a lot easier to use when you are ordering mostly the same items every week, than physically going to the store. Plus, it's so cool to click around on the web and have food appear in your fridge the next day. 8)
I was looking forward to the possibility of getting WebVan now and again after I move to California, but alas...
Perhaps this GroceryWorks thing will work out, though, considering the nearest supermarket is a Safeway.
I highly recommend looking at the MIT STS.035 syllabus. I took this class and loved it. STS.034, a complementary class, covers the prehistory of computing. Check the MIT Course Catalog to get in touch with the professor who's teaching it next term.
What about the *pre-user* bandwidth? Even if you have Gigs worth of
data to move, if you have millions of users and things are split up
evenly, that's only kilos per user. The clincher is looking at peak
bandwidth at any given node, and comparing that to capacity. Did I
skim the paper too fast, or did it not address this rather thorny
mathematical question? Not that I believe Gnutella scales smoothly at all.
...cdnow.com, where I clicked all of the "opt out of spam" boxes, and yet continue to get weekly updates I care not about. Mental note: complain to the humans there.
The primary legal justification, at least, for FCC regulation of the airwaves is not, as the author states, a recognition of the pervasiveness of the media. Regulatory authority - in the case of broadcast - is possible because of the finiteness of the media, says the U.S. Supreme Court, if I remember correctly. The Internet has a near infinity of "channels" and is thus subject to stronger First Amendment protection. (The finiteness of conventional broadcast is also eroding somewhat as technology advances.)
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In fact, several such alternative root registries already exist.
(See, for example Alternic, Name.Space, OpenNIC, and eDNS.) The problem is that there's not
a critical mass of people converting to any one of them. These
systems also threaten the uniqueness (if the same TLDs are set up on
competing root servers), universality (the same URL should resolve to
the same site for everyone, and everyone should be able to access all
URLs), and technical stability of the DNS namespace. DNS cache
leakage is a compounding factor.
The DNS is not like open source software; you can't fork it and
make a version of it that you like better, and let people chose which
one they like best. It is (at the moment) a shared global resource.
Sure, lots of people grumble about ICANN's handling of the expansion
process. But the community of name server administrators and owners
has consistently recoginized that the dangers of fragmenting the
global name space outweigh the likely benefits of doing so.
What is electing a "homecoming king and queen" teach our kids, exactly? That some people (the more popular ones, it seems) are somehow better than others? That the way to get places is to be friends with everybody, dress pretty, be cool, fit in, and work the crowd? That successful people are heterosexual?
Bah!
A celebration of everyone's talents would be a more appropriate expression of school pride, if you ask me. If the "brains" get recognition in one fora and the "jocks" get it in another, it's no wonder there's social friction between the two constructed groups. What about all the kids that are good actors or artists or writers or poets or square dancers or singers or like to build cool stuff or are caring and compassionate friends? Where are they at homecoming?
I should point out that there is a good deal of internal
competition between NASA's various labs and centers. In hypothetical
example, if there's a planetary survey mission going into Earth orbit,
both Goddard and JPL might try to land the project. Decisions are made
not only on the basis of cost, but also expertise and experience.
I agree that having more than one space agency would create huge
costs of redundancy. NASA does not now have carte blanche to spend
money; they fight to justify their budget every year in front of
Congress, who I know *I* elect at least partly based on their support
for scientific endeavors such as these. And the agency is chronically
underfunded, and this squeeze may have contributed to recent
management/engineering failures (think Mars Probe).
NASA does things not because they are profitable, but to create
knowledge and to explore the solar system. There's something to be
said for allowing them some amount of independence, to investigate
interesting problems without interference from politics or the whims
of public opinion. We do this not because we support the particular
projects NASA is involved in (though we might find them exciting and
be willing to pay for them on that basis) or because there are
specific social benefits we want to get out of them (though often
there are, especially for earth-based investigation). The primary
motive for *independence* is that historically, some of the greatest
innovations and discoveries have been made in areas that most people
thought were economically and socially worthless lines of
investigation.
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This really has absolutely nothing to do with copyright. Has "DMCA" become a catchall phrase for every law that people don't like?
Athena, MIT's academic computing environment, uses a home-brewed command called "mkserv" to handle this sort of problem. For instance, if I type "mkserv remote", my machine will automatically set itself up so I can log in over the network. Before it does so, it will ask me a series of simple questions, like whether or not I want to require encryption, etc.
It seems like mainstream GNU/Linux could really use a command like this, the services equivalent of apt-get. This would seem to make much more sense than having a different distribution of the operating system for every service, especially since mkserv allows you to configure multiple services.
Journal articles seem to contain a wealth of information that is being re-discovered, and projects that are being re-implemented in non-academic circles all the time. One project that might be particularly relevent to your needs is:
1. Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patrick Sobalvarro, and Thomas Anderson. Eraser: a dynamic race detector for multithreaded programs. ACM Transaction on Computer Systems 15, 4 (November 1997) pages 391-411. Also appeared in the Proc. Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (October 1997).
The Association for Computing Machinery web site (acm.org) has a search engine, but you may find Google and/or your local library to be more useful interfaces if you are not an ACM member.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com also turned up in a cursory web search as a source for some interesting articles, which are apparently freely available.
"More information" indeed. I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet, but...
Chapter 10 of 17 USC (federal copyright law) requires that all manufacturers and importers of digital audio devices in the US incorporate Serial Copy Management System or similar systems into their devices, and pay royalties into a central fund. These royalties are then distributed to the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, music publishers, lyricists, and directly to "interested copyright parties" which includes copyright owners (potentially studios) and artists themselves.
In return, the public is granted the right to make unlimited copies of music on digital audio devices, though of course they may not circumvent copy protection if it is turned on. (The law does not require that all artists enable it.)
Note that "digital audio devices" do not include general-purpose computers. Sorry, all you peer-to-peer fans. Thank the Audio Home Recording Act. (Not the DMCA.)
See the full text of the law yourself.
Everyone should know this, right? Maybe I only think so because I'm writing my thesis on the topic. 8P
-B.
I was the Steward for a house of 20 people here is Boston for a few months, and HomeRuns absolutely rocks. They are very reliable, and a heck of a lot easier to use when you are ordering mostly the same items every week, than physically going to the store. Plus, it's so cool to click around on the web and have food appear in your fridge the next day. 8) I was looking forward to the possibility of getting WebVan now and again after I move to California, but alas... Perhaps this GroceryWorks thing will work out, though, considering the nearest supermarket is a Safeway.
I highly recommend looking at the MIT STS.035 syllabus. I took this class and loved it. STS.034, a complementary class, covers the prehistory of computing. Check the MIT Course Catalog to get in touch with the professor who's teaching it next term.
Well, PBS and NPR have been breaking even for decades by merely asking their audience to send in donatations...
What about the *pre-user* bandwidth? Even if you have Gigs worth of data to move, if you have millions of users and things are split up evenly, that's only kilos per user. The clincher is looking at peak bandwidth at any given node, and comparing that to capacity. Did I skim the paper too fast, or did it not address this rather thorny mathematical question? Not that I believe Gnutella scales smoothly at all.
...cdnow.com, where I clicked all of the "opt out of spam" boxes, and yet continue to get weekly updates I care not about. Mental note: complain to the humans there.
The primary legal justification, at least, for FCC regulation of the airwaves is not, as the author states, a recognition of the pervasiveness of the media. Regulatory authority - in the case of broadcast - is possible because of the finiteness of the media, says the U.S. Supreme Court, if I remember correctly. The Internet has a near infinity of "channels" and is thus subject to stronger First Amendment protection. (The finiteness of conventional broadcast is also eroding somewhat as technology advances.)
In fact, several such alternative root registries already exist. (See, for example Alternic, Name.Space, OpenNIC, and eDNS.) The problem is that there's not a critical mass of people converting to any one of them. These systems also threaten the uniqueness (if the same TLDs are set up on competing root servers), universality (the same URL should resolve to the same site for everyone, and everyone should be able to access all URLs), and technical stability of the DNS namespace. DNS cache leakage is a compounding factor.
The DNS is not like open source software; you can't fork it and make a version of it that you like better, and let people chose which one they like best. It is (at the moment) a shared global resource. Sure, lots of people grumble about ICANN's handling of the expansion process. But the community of name server administrators and owners has consistently recoginized that the dangers of fragmenting the global name space outweigh the likely benefits of doing so.
--Beland
What is electing a "homecoming king and queen" teach our kids, exactly? That some people (the more popular ones, it seems) are somehow better than others? That the way to get places is to be friends with everybody, dress pretty, be cool, fit in, and work the crowd? That successful people are heterosexual?
Bah!
A celebration of everyone's talents would be a more appropriate expression of school pride, if you ask me. If the "brains" get recognition in one fora and the "jocks" get it in another, it's no wonder there's social friction between the two constructed groups. What about all the kids that are good actors or artists or writers or poets or square dancers or singers or like to build cool stuff or are caring and compassionate friends? Where are they at homecoming?
I should point out that there is a good deal of internal competition between NASA's various labs and centers. In hypothetical example, if there's a planetary survey mission going into Earth orbit, both Goddard and JPL might try to land the project. Decisions are made not only on the basis of cost, but also expertise and experience.
I agree that having more than one space agency would create huge costs of redundancy. NASA does not now have carte blanche to spend money; they fight to justify their budget every year in front of Congress, who I know *I* elect at least partly based on their support for scientific endeavors such as these. And the agency is chronically underfunded, and this squeeze may have contributed to recent management/engineering failures (think Mars Probe).
NASA does things not because they are profitable, but to create knowledge and to explore the solar system. There's something to be said for allowing them some amount of independence, to investigate interesting problems without interference from politics or the whims of public opinion. We do this not because we support the particular projects NASA is involved in (though we might find them exciting and be willing to pay for them on that basis) or because there are specific social benefits we want to get out of them (though often there are, especially for earth-based investigation). The primary motive for *independence* is that historically, some of the greatest innovations and discoveries have been made in areas that most people thought were economically and socially worthless lines of investigation.
Off the top of my head,
Beland