showing you a warrant before searching and seizing goods, and so on.
They did. They showed up at RackSpace with a warrant, and Rackspace let them take the drives. They've apparently gotten what they were looking for, and Indymedia's property is in the process of being returned.
All the machines I set up are quite secure, and yet I don't think I'm nearly qualified enough to actually be a sysadmin -- on the topic of security, or anything else. But the machines I deal with never have any problems, and the ones sysadmins set up for others do?
You probably set up what, a handful of machines you use yourself? Try a couple hundred and set them in front of the less technically inclined who just want to run their inspirational screensaver and look at the email they got from their friend. I've had users insist before that "The barracuda shouldn't have blocked this message. It's from a person that I know" when they get Netsky and Bagle blocked messages (I should really just figure out how to turn them off, I know). Pretty soon you've got a virus-n-spyware ridden POC courtesy of Explorer and LookOut!'s many security problems...
Engaging the handbrake will not stop the car. You can drive with it on, and it will heat the brakepads until they're useless. Then you have no brakes at all when something pulls in front of you.
It would take sixty racks of these to best the Earth Simulator's theoretical peak; more than 60% more processors.
Earth Simulator uses vector processors. If you want a comparable Cray system, you should be looking at the X1 which is also a vector processor. Incidentally, the X1's silicon runs so hot they use evaporative florinert cooling instead of a straight liquid - the florinert is heated to just under the evaporation point and sprayed onto the processor so that the phase change will remove more heat than just immersion.
The author completely misses this point, and in fact makes the assertion that if you derive a work from GPLed code that your work is automatically GPLed. This is a common fallacy. I can't believe it made Newsforge as such.
Actually, I believe such a derived work is automatically GPL'd. However, the GPL only requires distribution of source to those who get binaries. So if you don't give away the binaries, you're under no obligation to give away the source.
My experience in an Apple Store shows otherwise - I find a _huge_ amount of my customers are people who are sick of Windows. Lots of X11 geeks, lots of die-hard Mac heads, and a hell of a lot of people who have heard about a secure system that's easy to use. Demoing the machines and the software blows them out of the water. The number of people bailing out of Windows is astonishing.
I will admit my sample is somewhat biased, containing as it does a large number of middle aged female secretaries. One of the told me flat out that we could take her mac "when we pried it from her cold dead hands". This was in reaction to the notice that we'd be supporting both windows and macs for faculty members....Personally, there are about three interface things I can't stand on the Mac. Otherwise, from a technical standpoint, I'd take it over windows any day.
Sure some iMacs are probably bought to pretty up a reception area. But most are bought by people who want: A Unix-like with a usable GUI, a computer that just works, a computer that does take hours of frustrating effort just to plug in a standard peripheral, etc etc etc.
As someone who spends a most of his time supporting Macs (College thats all-Mac for faculty and staff) I have to disagree. The majority of Macs are bought by people who have always bought Macs and aren't going to buy anything else, damnit. That said, I'd say that their _new_ market growth is about half techies who like OS X and about half artistically oriented types who like the new look. (Based totally on my personal experience)
There is such a thing as the Separation of Powers, and the President (Bush) has no power to dictate what the Judicial Branch does.
The grandparent said that Bush's Justice Department dropped the suit against Microsoft. The Justice department is not part of the Judiciary, it answers the the Attourney General of the United States of America. The grandparent is in fact correct that the Justice department under Bush caved on the Anti-trust suit. Whether Bush had anything to do with it is another question.
They didn't fabricate results, their results just became public too quickly, and so when there was trouble duplicating the results, there was serious backlash against them.
Yeah, but that didn't exactly happen by accident...
Discussions of tweaking income taxes are almost always incomplete because they just focus on the FIT, but for most people, it is FICA that is taking the lions share of their taxes.
Of course they do it this way because Social Security is too political an issue to touch, I understand that. But arguing income tax policy without taking that into account is just sophistry.
Actually, I'd say it has more to do with maintaining the illusion that Social Security is a government mandated retirement plan, instead of what it really is, welfare for old people. If you're going to remove the income cap, you remove any illusion about what Social Security really is.
The driver and transducer should have been selected so that there was no possibility of dangerous sound levels, no matter what the software decided to do.
Except that a failed battery indicator should be hearable accross the room.
The issue isn't whether one user downloading one movie or song decimates the revenue of a large corporation. The issue is we are in danger of reaching a point like we did around 1982 where virtually nobody purchased software for the Apple ][ any longer - they just copied it.
I'm not arguing against copyright. The assertion of the original poster was that violation of copyright was in some way inherently wrong in some way independent of economic impact. What you describe _is_ economic impact, and it's to prevent that sort of thing that copyright exists - but it's only wrong in it fails to encourage creativity in the societally agreed upon way, as opposed to say, being wrong the way stealing your car is wrong.
Doesn't matter. Deciding if something is wrong or right should not depend on how it effects the economy,
It most certainly does in this case.
Again, doesn't matter. If they own the rights, they can do whatever they want as long as they are not violating other laws.
And again, it does in this case. Intellectual property rights are completely artificial constructs created for the purpose of providing economic benefit. From the US Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Copyright is a totally artificial construct designed to promote creative work by creating a government-imposed limited monopoly. It's not even enshrined as a "The government shall not" it's a congress can if they want to. This isn't murder or theft or restriction of free speach we're talking about here, we're talking about violation of temporary monopoly granted for the public good. The entire point is to provide an economic benefit so that creators will create. If a use does not affect that incentive, then it shouldn't be considered "wrong". The MPAA/RIAA has done it's best to confuse copyright with being an actual, natural right on the level of free speech or life and liberty. Apparently it's working.
Yeah, but even we don't care much about the fly over states. I don't think I've ever met anyone from North Dakota. For all I know it may just be a place on a map and little else.
Well, North Dakota only has three residents, and with two senators and a congressmen, well, we don't get back often. Stop in some time during a recess.
I guess my point is that with all the scrolling and tedius UI efforts, why bother? I guess maybe if you're a supersecret agent preventing the world from blowing up, fine, but does the office DB need to be worked on that bad that often?
Well, not so much that they need to be worked on that often as they often need to be worked on _right now_. If I can do that from my Palm instead of having to drag my ass to the office.
I can't see the advantage of using a palm over using a small notebook (12" ibook or powerbook for example) - espiecally for browsing using Wifi cards as shown here. A compacted and hard to read screen compared to a full internet browser. Surely the space it takes up is made up for in usability nowdays.
Call me when you get a 12" ibook that combines with my phone and clips to my belt.
What's to prevent me from sending the same token to 1 million people? Aha, you say: there'll be a central database of tokens to make sure that they are not being rused en masse. And that, then, becomes your bottleneck, making this useless.
No, not really. Generally these schemes involve the token being in some way tied to the specific message. A hash containing the to and from addresses for instance.
SHA wasn't "broken" at all... a brute-force attack found a single collision.
This wasn't a brute force attack. It did use significant CPU time, but the complexity of the attack was around 2^51 instead of the 2^80 or so that would be expected.
Wow, now people can own several TVs, this is *so* useful...
My point being that while the number of hours we work hasn't really gone down, our buying power has increased significantly. Yeah, I agree that multiple TV's isn't a great acheivement, but people have chosen to buy more crap rather than cut their hours. (I actually don't own one).
The reward is for those at the top of economic food chain, at least in capitalism. We've more than doubled our productivity since the 1960's. Are people working half as long? no. This is a byproduct of our economic system, if you don't like it, then you need to consider changing it.
1. Do we work half as long as in the sixties? No, but we do work far less than we did in 1900.
2. We own _way_ more stuff than we did in the sixties. Buying power has increased massively. In the sixties your family might (or might not) own 1 TV. Most families now own several. Ditto for cars. Not to mention that a car in 1960 probably got 50,000 miles before the engine was shot, 10,000 before the tires were shot, had no seat belts, air conditioner or anything other than an AM radio. In short, if you want to live like people did in 1960 you could work a 20 hour week. Few of us really want to.
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They did. They showed up at RackSpace with a warrant, and Rackspace let them take the drives. They've apparently gotten what they were looking for, and Indymedia's property is in the process of being returned.
All the machines I set up are quite secure, and yet I don't think I'm nearly qualified enough to actually be a sysadmin -- on the topic of security, or anything else. But the machines I deal with never have any problems, and the ones sysadmins set up for others do?
You probably set up what, a handful of machines you use yourself? Try a couple hundred and set them in front of the less technically inclined who just want to run their inspirational screensaver and look at the email they got from their friend. I've had users insist before that "The barracuda shouldn't have blocked this message. It's from a person that I know" when they get Netsky and Bagle blocked messages (I should really just figure out how to turn them off, I know). Pretty soon you've got a virus-n-spyware ridden POC courtesy of Explorer and LookOut!'s many security problems...
Or then slowly applied the handbrakes?
Engaging the handbrake will not stop the car. You can drive with it on, and it will heat the brakepads until they're useless. Then you have no brakes at all when something pulls in front of you.
Earth Simulator uses vector processors. If you want a comparable Cray system, you should be looking at the X1 which is also a vector processor. Incidentally, the X1's silicon runs so hot they use evaporative florinert cooling instead of a straight liquid - the florinert is heated to just under the evaporation point and sprayed onto the processor so that the phase change will remove more heat than just immersion.
...no, actually, that was my sig.
Actually, I believe such a derived work is automatically GPL'd. However, the GPL only requires distribution of source to those who get binaries. So if you don't give away the binaries, you're under no obligation to give away the source.
I will admit my sample is somewhat biased, containing as it does a large number of middle aged female secretaries. One of the told me flat out that we could take her mac "when we pried it from her cold dead hands". This was in reaction to the notice that we'd be supporting both windows and macs for faculty members....Personally, there are about three interface things I can't stand on the Mac. Otherwise, from a technical standpoint, I'd take it over windows any day.
As someone who spends a most of his time supporting Macs (College thats all-Mac for faculty and staff) I have to disagree. The majority of Macs are bought by people who have always bought Macs and aren't going to buy anything else, damnit. That said, I'd say that their _new_ market growth is about half techies who like OS X and about half artistically oriented types who like the new look. (Based totally on my personal experience)
There is such a thing as the Separation of Powers, and the President (Bush) has no power to dictate what the Judicial Branch does.
The grandparent said that Bush's Justice Department dropped the suit against Microsoft. The Justice department is not part of the Judiciary, it answers the the Attourney General of the United States of America. The grandparent is in fact correct that the Justice department under Bush caved on the Anti-trust suit. Whether Bush had anything to do with it is another question.
Yeah, but that didn't exactly happen by accident...
Of course they do it this way because Social Security is too political an issue to touch, I understand that. But arguing income tax policy without taking that into account is just sophistry.
Actually, I'd say it has more to do with maintaining the illusion that Social Security is a government mandated retirement plan, instead of what it really is, welfare for old people. If you're going to remove the income cap, you remove any illusion about what Social Security really is.
Except that a failed battery indicator should be hearable accross the room.
Lucas himself said that he wouldn't do 7-9.
I'm not arguing against copyright. The assertion of the original poster was that violation of copyright was in some way inherently wrong in some way independent of economic impact. What you describe _is_ economic impact, and it's to prevent that sort of thing that copyright exists - but it's only wrong in it fails to encourage creativity in the societally agreed upon way, as opposed to say, being wrong the way stealing your car is wrong.
It most certainly does in this case.
Again, doesn't matter. If they own the rights, they can do whatever they want as long as they are not violating other laws.
And again, it does in this case. Intellectual property rights are completely artificial constructs created for the purpose of providing economic benefit. From the US Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Copyright is a totally artificial construct designed to promote creative work by creating a government-imposed limited monopoly. It's not even enshrined as a "The government shall not" it's a congress can if they want to. This isn't murder or theft or restriction of free speach we're talking about here, we're talking about violation of temporary monopoly granted for the public good. The entire point is to provide an economic benefit so that creators will create. If a use does not affect that incentive, then it shouldn't be considered "wrong". The MPAA/RIAA has done it's best to confuse copyright with being an actual, natural right on the level of free speech or life and liberty. Apparently it's working.
I believe the "troll" moderation has something to do with the stupidity of the statement that "The largest non-nuclear blast has already happened".
Yeah, but even we don't care much about the fly over states. I don't think I've ever met anyone from North Dakota. For all I know it may just be a place on a map and little else.
Well, North Dakota only has three residents, and with two senators and a congressmen, well, we don't get back often. Stop in some time during a recess.
Compases point south, too. Saying the compass points north is just as arbitrary.
And who says the bulk of the landmass has to be on the top?
Well, not so much that they need to be worked on that often as they often need to be worked on _right now_. If I can do that from my Palm instead of having to drag my ass to the office.
Call me when you get a 12" ibook that combines with my phone and clips to my belt.
No, not really. Generally these schemes involve the token being in some way tied to the specific message. A hash containing the to and from addresses for instance.
This wasn't a brute force attack. It did use significant CPU time, but the complexity of the attack was around 2^51 instead of the 2^80 or so that would be expected.
Getting rid of the moon would likely be pretty catestrophic too - we rely quite heavilly on the tidal forces.
Another argument against shoving it into the sun, actually - if left in place, the tides would remain unchanged.
My point being that while the number of hours we work hasn't really gone down, our buying power has increased significantly. Yeah, I agree that multiple TV's isn't a great acheivement, but people have chosen to buy more crap rather than cut their hours. (I actually don't own one).
1. Do we work half as long as in the sixties? No, but we do work far less than we did in 1900.
2. We own _way_ more stuff than we did in the sixties. Buying power has increased massively. In the sixties your family might (or might not) own 1 TV. Most families now own several. Ditto for cars. Not to mention that a car in 1960 probably got 50,000 miles before the engine was shot, 10,000 before the tires were shot, had no seat belts, air conditioner or anything other than an AM radio. In short, if you want to live like people did in 1960 you could work a 20 hour week. Few of us really want to.