I'm not sure that I would necessarily consider this news.
Whenever lawyers go to court, inevitably their first motion is to dismiss the case. It's pretty much par for the course. They present their reasons (which might be swaying to us, as sympathetic readers), but the other side will have the opposite opinion and the judge usually doesn't support the motion.
I think it's very unlikely that any judge will rule that the DMCA is too vague without even having a trial.
Actually, Borland has slipped before. IIRC, when they released Turbo C++ 4.0 (~1993?), the original licence limited your ability to distribute programs compiled with it to a certain number (I think 10,000). There was a big outcry and they relented.
It's a trend. I see book reviews on/. too and most of those books cost money. Conspiracy?
What's next? Pictures at the top of the page inviting me to spend money on hardware?
So what if the PDF costs money. If it contains valuable information, then it might be worth it. There's nothing stopping you from doing your own research and writing your own document and posting it under whichever free license you prefer.
Yes, but you should note that Thawte is owned by Verisign. If this is an indication of what Verisign might do in the future then we could all be impacted.
It seems kind of new-speak to me. After all, viruses and exploits don't cause terror. I mean, sure it could be considered a crime but it's not like people are hoarding water and cipro because they're afraid of nimda.
1. RIAA starts portscanning my box, testing buffer overflow exploits, etc. in an attempt to get into my system.
2. I notice the suspicious activity, but don't know who it is.
3. I decide to figure out what's going on by scanning the originator and applying other various security tools. This could be anything, but if someone is trying to get in and I don't know who it is, I'm going to be tempted to respond in some way to stop the attack.
4. I get convicted of a felony (in many states) or terrorism (hasn't passed yet) for trying to hack into the RIAA's system.
5. They don't even get a slap on the wrist because it's legal for them.
My point is that it puts knowledgable people in a very risky position because they don't know who is attacking their PC and would naturally try to respond.
If I understand the claim correctly, it's that one needs a GUI development tool to produce a modern application. I've worked for quite a while with various IDEs as well as plain makefiles and have never noticed a productivity difference.
One of the reasons the claim confuses me, though, is that tools like KDevelop and, even MSVC, do still run a command line compiler. All that they do is manage the "makefile" or whatever underlying build engine the IDE is using. So, it follows that anything built on such a system can be built with both command line tools and from the IDE. This is true of all the java, C, and C++ IDE's that I have used.
There are some places where IDE's have enhanced my productivity, but they tend to be editor related and aren't really applicable to the command-line tool vs GUI. They are:
1. Automatic completion of symbol names and displaying parameter lists for functions as I write code to call them.
2. It's been several years since I have hand-coded a static form or dialog box. For this activity, I find a form builder quite handy. (Dynamically built forms are another matter).
But, as I said, these features don't require a GUI development environment. Just because I don't have a C++ editor under unix that does these things doesn't mean that command line tools aren't capable of producing serious apps.
Anyway, I ramble. The bottom line is that the tools you mentioned are all wrappers around those command line tools that supposedly can't do the job. The project management is nice, but a well-designed makefile is just as quick to work with.
(and nobody has yet found a pattern in the continued fractions of Pi)
Actually, if I understand you correctly, they have:
Pi = 4 * (1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11...)
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It would be nasty if you drank too much and puked in a zero-g environment.
Of course, being a liar, you'd just deny it.
How could you follow it up by cheating in space? Maybe you could turn in some other astronaut's code as your own.
I'm not sure that I would necessarily consider this news.
Whenever lawyers go to court, inevitably their first motion is to dismiss the case. It's pretty much par for the course. They present their reasons (which might be swaying to us, as sympathetic readers), but the other side will have the opposite opinion and the judge usually doesn't support the motion.
I think it's very unlikely that any judge will rule that the DMCA is too vague without even having a trial.
This won't actually do anything.
Actually, Borland has slipped before. IIRC, when they released Turbo C++ 4.0 (~1993?), the original licence limited your ability to distribute programs compiled with it to a certain number (I think 10,000). There was a big outcry and they relented.
It's a trend. I see book reviews on /. too and most of those books cost money. Conspiracy?
What's next? Pictures at the top of the page inviting me to spend money on hardware?
So what if the PDF costs money. If it contains valuable information, then it might be worth it. There's nothing stopping you from doing your own research and writing your own document and posting it under whichever free license you prefer.
Yes, but you should note that Thawte is owned by Verisign. If this is an indication of what Verisign might do in the future then we could all be impacted.
It seems kind of new-speak to me. After all, viruses and exploits don't cause terror. I mean, sure it could be considered a crime but it's not like people are hoarding water and cipro because they're afraid of nimda.
I worry about this scenario:
1. RIAA starts portscanning my box, testing buffer overflow exploits, etc. in an attempt to get into my system.
2. I notice the suspicious activity, but don't know who it is.
3. I decide to figure out what's going on by scanning the originator and applying other various security tools. This could be anything, but if someone is trying to get in and I don't know who it is, I'm going to be tempted to respond in some way to stop the attack.
4. I get convicted of a felony (in many states) or terrorism (hasn't passed yet) for trying to hack into the RIAA's system.
5. They don't even get a slap on the wrist because it's legal for them.
My point is that it puts knowledgable people in a very risky position because they don't know who is attacking their PC and would naturally try to respond.
At least that would mean that our representatives in government might start actually reading email.
Can you be self-respecting with a APC stuck to your ass?
I don't think I could pull it off.
In fact, I'm sure that the only thing geekier than having a linux watch would be the posterior UPS.
I'd sure like to build a beowulf cluster of these.
I mean, how could they get anyone to sign up for a three year trip if there wasn't going to be beer on board?
If I understand the claim correctly, it's that one needs a GUI development tool to produce a modern application. I've worked for quite a while with various IDEs as well as plain makefiles and have never noticed a productivity difference.
One of the reasons the claim confuses me, though, is that tools like KDevelop and, even MSVC, do still run a command line compiler. All that they do is manage the "makefile" or whatever underlying build engine the IDE is using. So, it follows that anything built on such a system can be built with both command line tools and from the IDE. This is true of all the java, C, and C++ IDE's that I have used.
There are some places where IDE's have enhanced my productivity, but they tend to be editor related and aren't really applicable to the command-line tool vs GUI. They are:
1. Automatic completion of symbol names and displaying parameter lists for functions as I write code to call them.
2. It's been several years since I have hand-coded a static form or dialog box. For this activity, I find a form builder quite handy. (Dynamically built forms are another matter).
But, as I said, these features don't require a GUI development environment. Just because I don't have a C++ editor under unix that does these things doesn't mean that command line tools aren't capable of producing serious apps.
Anyway, I ramble. The bottom line is that the tools you mentioned are all wrappers around those command line tools that supposedly can't do the job. The project management is nice, but a well-designed makefile is just as quick to work with.
(and nobody has yet found a pattern in the continued fractions of Pi) Actually, if I understand you correctly, they have: Pi = 4 * (1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 ...)
they used photoshop or something. But I guess that's the point. for example (from the photos):
I'm just imagining the kind of gateway that could bridge my IP-over-carrier-pidgeon and IP-over-florescent-light networks.
Now I've got to figure out how to get a potato gun to shoot at 20Km/sec. What's the escape velocity of a potato anyway?