a) written in C++, it is noticeable slower than all the open source replacements written in C (this is from an actual benchmark, not just hearsay)
b) if you ever had a look at the (GPLed) code of the open source tripwire release, you would know that it's a mess. the codebase is MUCH larger
than that of any other file integrity scanner, it is void of any useful comments, and simply stated, it is what coders call 'spagetti code'.
Nobody wants to
improve or fork that thing - it is faster and easier to write from scratch. which is what already has been done by several projects.
PCMeasure http://www.pcmeasure.com/ sells
a device that can be hooked on the network and
provides data from one or more temperature or humidity probes.
We are using one of them, together with a simple Perl script that runs on a Linux PC. The script reads out the data from the Ethernetbox, sends Email alerts,
makes nice graphs with RRDTool, and even will run an automatic shutdown if the temperature gets critical.
I own a Philips 650 mobile phone. It lasts about
three weeks on standby, far longer than any offering
from competing companies.
However, it was extremely difficult to buy it - almost no shop offers it, because there is no demand. Obviously people want inefficient and power-hungry toys...
I don't know about other european countries, but
at least here in Germany, the show has gained
cult status among gay people...and at least once
in recent years the German performer was an artist/comedian that went to the contest just to
poke fun at it:)
Many people like it just because it's garbage,
sort of like "Attack of the killer tomatoes".
Would you care to reveal your contract terms to
the benfit of others?
Re:Good reasons for chosing GPL over BSD
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Tracking GPL Violators
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Despite his claims to the contrary, there is NOTHING in teh BSD license to stop hiom from relicensing his code and selling it commercially.
In theory, you are correct. In practice, your
point is meaningless. Nobody would pay, because the BSD license already gives everything a commercial developer would want. Nobody pays for what they already have.
If a Fortune 500 company wants to roll out some
software, they don't care about Google, mailing
lists, forums, and the like. They will want to
hire a consultant who will deliver the thing.
The simple fact is, most companies will ignore
OSS because there are no consultants for it. And
there are no consultants, because companies are
not interested in the software (kind of circular
problem).
Adaptive optics requires a guide star that you observe to know which corrections must be applied to the wavefront.
Adaptive optics would have huge advantages at Dome C in Antarctica, for these reasons:
The natural seeing is better, thus you need much less moveable elements / deformable mirrors for correcting
The timescale for atmospheric turbulence is longer, and the isoplanatic angle (the angular region over which the correction is valid) is much
larger. This means that you can correct a larger field, and need to correct less often (and therefore, can use larger exposure times for the guide star that is used for corrections).
The last point means that you can use much fainter guide stars,or guide stars that are farther away from the 'science target'. Thus, a much larger
area of the sky is accessible for adaptive optics.
The article points out one of the problems in
open source security auditing: there are simply no good auditing tools. Anyone who tried to use RATS or
Flawfinder
on a huge legacy codebase will know how frustrating
it is to sift through tons of false alerts...
Re:Writing is bad enough, testing is worse
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Exploiting Software
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Splint relies heavily on annotations within the code. This has two major consequences:
it is extremely tedious to use if you have not
used it right from the beginning of your project
it will tell you that your code is OK, if you
(via annotations) tell it that the code is OK... but what if your annotations are incorrect ? I think
it just moves the problem from writing correct code to writing correct annotations.
Seems that some of these companies (or at least their stock) have recovered tremenduously during the last year or so. Just look at the Ask Jeeves chart, and imagine how much money you could have made...
Depends on the file integrity checker. E.g. with
samhain,
you can have the baseline database on a remote server. So you can just re-install the client, and
run a check against the baseline that the client
will retrieve from the server.
My perfectly average eight year old daughter uses Debian , a "non user friendly" distro according to your post with no problem at all.
Almost any "perfectly average eight year old" child
will be able to learn new things at an almost frightening pace. In fact, there is a good chance that it will not even need any manual, howto, or whatever. (Marginally example: my 3 year old son handles the CD player w/o problems. And I did not
tell him how it works...). Children are curious,
and curiosity is a major part of that thing called 'intelligence'.
Its the fourty years old grown-ups that are not
able to handle Debian. Actually, they can't handle
Windows XP either, but at least with WinXP, they think it is their fault ('everybody says it is user-friendly, so it must be me'), while with
Debian they will inevitably blame Linux.
Actually, I thought about buying a
Panasonic Toughbook for some time, but couldn't find
much info how well Linux runs on them. (Apparently they don't sell retail, but I've seen some on ebay.)
Looks like they would survive such an incident w/o problems...
It's not about people or buisinesses, and also not
about whether Napster is legal. The press
release says:
a) The lawsuit may violate essential constitutional
principles by seeking to abuse the law to kill a
competitor
b) If the lawsuit is delayed, nobody will loose
anything, but if it proceeds, Bertelsman may suffer
from irrecoverable damages. Therefore, it would be
inappropriate if the constitutional court would
let the lawsuit proceed without deciding on (a) first.
Part of the cooling problem is that the fans inside the computers blow out hot air, and later on the same hot air gets sucked in again. You should try to
remove that feedback loop. Use duct tape and some
foil to make sure that the air blown out of the machines gets to the exhaust, rather than into some
other machine.
If your application is popular enough, or does
something that is in high demand, they (insert any distribution) will include it.
Of course they won't tell you (actually, FreeBSD
occasionally stands out from the crowd and tells you if your app is in their ports system),
and they will
also not tell you about the bugs they have found, and the patches they use to fix these bugs.
You claim to be a medical student. As such, you are
certainly aware that, if someone would (e.g.) claim that
substance xyz will cure breast cancer, it is very
important where this information comes from - the
company producing xyz ? or an independent research group ?
References to the origin of an information, providing useful descriptions of the methods used in research, are
an indispensable part of scientific honesty and integrity. Without proper references, everything you read is just plain bullshit. And that is true for press releases just as well as for research
papers.
If you still don't believe, you should just choose
some relatively new and heavily advertised drug (say, olanzapine), and try to
locate relevant scientific literature. There is
a pretty high chance that you will find that (a) the scientific paper was paid by the same company who invented the drug, (b) all researchers where paid by that company, and (c) upon careful reading, you will discover that the evidence for improvement over
older and less expensive drugs is marginally at best.
That's why
references are important, and not providing them is not just a matter of style - it's simply dishonest. And I hope that you
will learn that sometimes, rather than start treating patients based on what pharmaceutical
sales representatives will tell you.
The planet is in a binary system with a neutron star
and a white dwarf. The neutron star has already exploded as a supernova (neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions), and the white
dwarf will never explode as supernova.
What struck me the most from reading about it is that enough heavy elements (Fe, Si, etc) were around at the time to form the planet.
High-mass stars are very short-lived, and one can
expect that the first supernova goes off within
a few 100000 years (most heavy elements are from supernovae). It will take a lot of time to completely mix the heavy elements with the rest of the interstellar gas, but at least some small regions
will become enriched with heavy elements rather quickly.
First, towards 2010 those searches using radial
velocity variations (i.e. 'gravitational pull', 'wobble') will become sensitive to Jupiter-like planets (planets
detected so far are typically more massive than Jupiter, and closer to their parent star), thus
planetary systems like ours will become detectable
(Jupiter has a 12-year orbit, thus the main problem is the long time baseline required).
Second, there are several projects planned, like the 'Darwin' project of the European Space Agency (ESA)
that will specifically target earth-like planets.
Here
is a short description of Darwin, and links to some other projects.
As usual for Hubble press releases, not only is the
release dumbed down to the max, it also provides no
link to any additional information. Seems like they feel compelled to hide the dirty details of science from
the masses.
The PDF of the full paper is available from the
website of Stephen Torsett, one of the authors of the paper. As this
is a Science paper, it is fairly readable.
these guys say that I can then sue the person for cropping the picture, even though I gave them permission?
Probably you cannot. After all, in your example you allowed them to do that, so you knew in which way
the photograph would get modified.
Better example: you sell a B/W photograph, and then someone, without your approval,
colors it in weird colours, and puts it up in a public place with your name next to it. Might
hurt badly your reputation as an artist.
They did. The situation in Germany seems to be: if
you give away your programs for free, you are only liable for gross negligence or intentional damage.
On the other hand, if your GPL program is an
add-on primarily intended to boost your sales
of another product (say, a GPL installer for a
commercial Linux distro), your liabilities may
get extended by applicable laws.
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b) if you ever had a look at the (GPLed) code of the open source tripwire release, you would know that it's a mess. the codebase is MUCH larger than that of any other file integrity scanner, it is void of any useful comments, and simply stated, it is what coders call 'spagetti code'.
Nobody wants to improve or fork that thing - it is faster and easier to write from scratch. which is what already has been done by several projects.
We are using one of them, together with a simple Perl script that runs on a Linux PC. The script reads out the data from the Ethernetbox, sends Email alerts, makes nice graphs with RRDTool, and even will run an automatic shutdown if the temperature gets critical.
However, it was extremely difficult to buy it - almost no shop offers it, because there is no demand. Obviously people want inefficient and power-hungry toys ...
I don't know about other european countries, but at least here in Germany, the show has gained cult status among gay people...and at least once in recent years the German performer was an artist/comedian that went to the contest just to poke fun at it :)
Many people like it just because it's garbage,
sort of like "Attack of the killer tomatoes".
Would you care to reveal your contract terms to the benfit of others?
In theory, you are correct. In practice, your point is meaningless. Nobody would pay, because the BSD license already gives everything a commercial developer would want. Nobody pays for what they already have.
The simple fact is, most companies will ignore OSS because there are no consultants for it. And there are no consultants, because companies are not interested in the software (kind of circular problem).
The last point means that you can use much fainter guide stars,or guide stars that are farther away from the 'science target'. Thus, a much larger area of the sky is accessible for adaptive optics.
The article points out one of the problems in open source security auditing: there are simply no good auditing tools. Anyone who tried to use RATS or Flawfinder on a huge legacy codebase will know how frustrating it is to sift through tons of false alerts...
Seems that some of these companies (or at least their stock) have recovered tremenduously during the last year or so. Just look at the Ask Jeeves chart, and imagine how much money you could have made ...
Depends on the file integrity checker. E.g. with samhain, you can have the baseline database on a remote server. So you can just re-install the client, and run a check against the baseline that the client will retrieve from the server.
Almost any "perfectly average eight year old" child will be able to learn new things at an almost frightening pace. In fact, there is a good chance that it will not even need any manual, howto, or whatever. (Marginally example: my 3 year old son handles the CD player w/o problems. And I did not tell him how it works ...). Children are curious,
and curiosity is a major part of that thing called 'intelligence'.
Its the fourty years old grown-ups that are not able to handle Debian. Actually, they can't handle Windows XP either, but at least with WinXP, they think it is their fault ('everybody says it is user-friendly, so it must be me'), while with Debian they will inevitably blame Linux.
Actually, I thought about buying a Panasonic Toughbook for some time, but couldn't find much info how well Linux runs on them. (Apparently they don't sell retail, but I've seen some on ebay.) Looks like they would survive such an incident w/o problems ...
It's not about people or buisinesses, and also not about whether Napster is legal. The press release says: a) The lawsuit may violate essential constitutional principles by seeking to abuse the law to kill a competitor b) If the lawsuit is delayed, nobody will loose anything, but if it proceeds, Bertelsman may suffer from irrecoverable damages. Therefore, it would be inappropriate if the constitutional court would let the lawsuit proceed without deciding on (a) first.
Part of the cooling problem is that the fans inside the computers blow out hot air, and later on the same hot air gets sucked in again. You should try to remove that feedback loop. Use duct tape and some foil to make sure that the air blown out of the machines gets to the exhaust, rather than into some other machine.
If your application is popular enough, or does something that is in high demand, they (insert any distribution) will include it. Of course they won't tell you (actually, FreeBSD occasionally stands out from the crowd and tells you if your app is in their ports system), and they will also not tell you about the bugs they have found, and the patches they use to fix these bugs.
References to the origin of an information, providing useful descriptions of the methods used in research, are an indispensable part of scientific honesty and integrity. Without proper references, everything you read is just plain bullshit. And that is true for press releases just as well as for research papers.
If you still don't believe, you should just choose some relatively new and heavily advertised drug (say, olanzapine), and try to locate relevant scientific literature. There is a pretty high chance that you will find that (a) the scientific paper was paid by the same company who invented the drug, (b) all researchers where paid by that company, and (c) upon careful reading, you will discover that the evidence for improvement over older and less expensive drugs is marginally at best.
That's why references are important, and not providing them is not just a matter of style - it's simply dishonest. And I hope that you will learn that sometimes, rather than start treating patients based on what pharmaceutical sales representatives will tell you.
The planet is in a binary system with a neutron star and a white dwarf. The neutron star has already exploded as a supernova (neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions), and the white dwarf will never explode as supernova.
High-mass stars are very short-lived, and one can expect that the first supernova goes off within a few 100000 years (most heavy elements are from supernovae). It will take a lot of time to completely mix the heavy elements with the rest of the interstellar gas, but at least some small regions will become enriched with heavy elements rather quickly.
Second, there are several projects planned, like the 'Darwin' project of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will specifically target earth-like planets. Here is a short description of Darwin, and links to some other projects.
The PDF of the full paper is available from the website of Stephen Torsett, one of the authors of the paper. As this is a Science paper, it is fairly readable.
Seems to require at least two middlemen, as opposed to (e.g.) Paypal: first, e-gold, and second, some third party where you can buy e-gold ...
Probably you cannot. After all, in your example you allowed them to do that, so you knew in which way the photograph would get modified.
Better example: you sell a B/W photograph, and then someone, without your approval, colors it in weird colours, and puts it up in a public place with your name next to it. Might hurt badly your reputation as an artist.
On the other hand, if your GPL program is an add-on primarily intended to boost your sales of another product (say, a GPL installer for a commercial Linux distro), your liabilities may get extended by applicable laws.