No, the GPL does not make that impossible at least in a legal sense. I can stick as many license agreements and copywrite notices around a piece of code as I want, if I don't actually have the rights to do so it isn't binding. So if there actually is tainted code in Linux then it does cause jeapordy regardless of the GPL since the GPL doesn't apply.
Unless I've missed it SCO hasn't said exactly what part of the kernel they're claiming rights on. At some point that will have to be revealed and the kernel developers can examine their alternatives.
I still think that companies shouldn't be allowed to sit in stealth mode while they wait for the proper time (such as imminent bankruptcy in SCO's case) to perform their legal jack-in-the-box stunt.
The same argument could be made for the status quo of voting. The only way to make manual voting secure is to register every citizen, tatoo them and require a drop of blood for DNA testing before they enter the voting booth.
Except that this doesn't really address security and neither does your rant. This assumes that the voters themselves will be trying to commit fraud. This happens. It's still nothing compared to the problems that happen when the government commits fraud. I'm not even referring to the normal allegations of miscounts in Florida.
The same is true for any other software though, there's really nothing significant about the comment. Linux is free, but if I want to use it as the infrastructure for my company then I need to invest manhours into it, whether my own or somebody elses. Depending on which flavour of zealot you ask you'll get a different answer as to which is more expensive in terms of man hours required to implement that infrastructure.
Don't compare these to an eMac, compare them to a G4 tower. For $849 you get a tower including PCI slots and and AGP port. If you're looking for a Macintosh that you can throw a couple of PCI cards (maybe a couple of SCSI adapters, whatever) but can't justify the price of a new Apple G4 system then maybe this is for you. For instance a dual 1.25 GHz Apple G4 tower costs $1999 with 256 MB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. The site just stopped responding so I can't determine the price but presumably a dual 1.2 GHz their would be less than 2 grand.
Maybe code was liberated and maybe it wasn't. It's the courts job to determine if there was any misappropriated code. SCO's lawyers sound like they're talking out of their rectal orifices though. It doesn't matter whether or not the Linux community launders the code or not. There's more than enough copies of the existing code for the linux kernel out in the wild that it would be impossible to launder every last instance. I'm sure SCO and their lawyers has their own golden copies of it as well. It would require a huge conspiracy to launder all of this code, and it would require assistance from within SCO to carry it to completion.
So far there have been more cases where other people have misappropriated GPL code than the other way around. I'm sure there are thousands of other cases where code has been shackled without the creators consent.
If SCO can prove their claims then the courts will decide on how to redress the infringement.
Go read Schneier's web site and learn something. He has a section on how to become a cryptographer. He even gives a self study course in block cypher cryptanalysis. He asserts exactly what you do: to become a cryptographer you need to get your hands dirty. He has credentials though. You don't.
These books are like popular science books such as A Brief History of Time, or Cosmos. They're not about making people an expert in a field, they're about helping the layman learn a little bit about a field.
Stained glass might not be the sturdiest stuff on earth, but on the other hand how much do you think a stained glass in a church weighs? A whole lot more than 30 pounds.
I think you can do something similar in OS X. If you drag a directory/folder to the dock it'll be embedded in it. If you then click on the folder you can navigate through any hierarchy inside of it. If you release your mouse on an application it will launch. If you release your mouse on a directory it will open. If you release your mouse on a hyperlink it'll open up in your web browser etc.
I just store applications in mine, so I have one folder called Apps. Beneath that are Graphics, Utilities, Office, Engineering etc.
You can apply an icon to the folder and make it say "START" if you want.
I already stated that I don't actually agree with it. All I'm saying is that in principle it is possible to anonymously track stolen (from the manufacturer) garments.
As for why should the customer bear these costs, get over yourself. The customer always bears the costs. You bear the costs for ineffective advertisements, you bear the costs when somebody else shoplifts, you bear the costs if the CEO snorts the companies profits through his nose. This isn't some sudden Orwellian turn of events like your Microsoft comments seems to indicate, it's the status quo.
Something fishy here - how can Bentton track thieves, unless they have a database of tags and owners? Does it mean they tag the owner as well, so I can't lend clothing without informing Benetton? This theft-prevention stuff is silly.
You don't need a database of tags and owners to track thieves. Suppose that these RFIDs are sold in ranges. Benetton purchase serial numbers 100000 through 20000. As items are sold the RFID is struck from the list and the RFID destroyed.
Now if an RFID appears in range there are two checks to determine if the item was stolen. First, the RFID existing at all is an indicator since it was supposed to be destroyed. Second, if the RFID appears in the database then according to policy the item is in fact stolen.
No individual was actually tracked, no purchasing information was stored and there is no way to match a given RFID to any customer.
I still don't like RFID, but there are ways to avoid privacy issues and make use of them. Even with this blind system you could end up falsely accused of theft. If the clerk doesn't correctly enter the tag in the database and doesn't disable the RFID chip then her laziness or mechanical failure could incorrectly single you out as a thief.
In addition, even if the group does have terrorist ties, did he know about it? Most people make donations without doing a lot of research into the organizations. A lot of the people I work with are devout Christians. They tithe 10% of their earnings to the church. If their church happens to take some of that money and fund radical anti-abortionists does that mean that my co-workers are terrorists?
The group's stated purpose was to provide aid to people in Palestein. There's a possibility that some of this money was, unknown to most donors, funelled into terrorist acts.
I don't think the recording industry itself is doomed. Their real business is marketing. They market an image or sound to the public. Some of the public buys into it and so they buy albums, posters, concert tickets and so on. Popular artists have devoted followers who will buy anything they put out. They'll buy every CD, even their "greatest hits". They'll buy any magazine their favourite artists appear in. They'll watch any TV show that they appear on. There is even a good chance that they'll buy a products not even related to their artist based on his or her endorsement. The loyal fans buy stuff regardless of whether or not it's available for free.
I have no doubt that on paper there will eventually be a point where the RIAA, or some other agency, will say that they've lost more money to piracy than they've taken in. Maybe they already say that, I don't really pay much attention to them. They will still be profitable though because losses due to piracy don't actually cost them any money from the balance sheet that matters.
There are some tangible costs associated with being the music industry, and the way they maximize their profits is by minimizing investments where they don't get a large return on their investment. This means that unless you happen to look and sound a lot like what's already selling in a given demographic you won't get signed. Bad for consumers who don't fit into whatever the music industry is currently pushing (and slowly evolving) but that's business.
So what do you do if you're an artist who can't get signed? Go independant. There's room for the independant music industry. There's probably a lot of money to be made for the first company that gets it: Give people what they want. So sell music on mp3 with optional CDs or vinyl. Don't worry about piracy, you don't lose money from that and maybe you'll make an additional sale. The artists won't get rich as the most popular RIAA artists but guess what? There's no gaurantee anywhere that you'll get rich regardless of your ambition, talent or luck.
Interesting point. I understand the idea, it goes way back to Up/Down ratios on BBS boards in the eighties. Maybe a better implementation would be to disable hoarders. You get positive creds for downloading a file and sharing it, negative for downloading a file and hoarding it. If your cred gets too negative you're shunned.
I don't know how to make this work anonymously though, but on the other hand most peer to peer networks aren't very anonymous. You're directly talking to a host on the internet which is often easily trackable back to a person.
Umm... charging money to get something a week earlier is different than charging money indefinately. Anybody could wait a week and get it for free. Windows XP has been out for quite a while and still isn't free. Hell, Windows 3.1 has been out for years and isn't free nor is DOS which has been out a couple of decades.
98% of the use will be for illegal content. I'd like to be able to burn an hour or so of video from a digital camcorder. I use a DVD-R right now but to be honest DivX is good enough for most things.
The shortcoming of this is that while I can record stuff with DivX on a CD-R most people won't have a similar machine, because of this sharing is less possible.
Personally, I wouldn't use it for pirated movies, if I like it I either buy it or rent it through NetFlix.
But can you build it in a form factor as small as a normal DVD player? Will it stick out like a sore thumb in your living room like a bog-standard PC would? Will the fan be incessantly humming? If you can really meet these criteria point me at the motherboard and especially the case.
The Comic Book Guy from the Simpson's is funny though, and I find Gord funny in the same way. He's a geek who's entire life seems to revolve around video games. When I read his site I imagined the Comic Book Guy in fact, and how he'd embellish his stories to prove his moral and physical superiority. It's sort of like any pissing match on a MUD or online. Everybody is an hybrid between Bruce Lee and Arnold Schwarzanegger. In real life most of these people probably can't be frowned at without wetting themselves.
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Unless I've missed it SCO hasn't said exactly what part of the kernel they're claiming rights on. At some point that will have to be revealed and the kernel developers can examine their alternatives.
I still think that companies shouldn't be allowed to sit in stealth mode while they wait for the proper time (such as imminent bankruptcy in SCO's case) to perform their legal jack-in-the-box stunt.
The same argument could be made for the status quo of voting. The only way to make manual voting secure is to register every citizen, tatoo them and require a drop of blood for DNA testing before they enter the voting booth.
Except that this doesn't really address security and neither does your rant. This assumes that the voters themselves will be trying to commit fraud. This happens. It's still nothing compared to the problems that happen when the government commits fraud. I'm not even referring to the normal allegations of miscounts in Florida.
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The same is true for any other software though, there's really nothing significant about the comment. Linux is free, but if I want to use it as the infrastructure for my company then I need to invest manhours into it, whether my own or somebody elses. Depending on which flavour of zealot you ask you'll get a different answer as to which is more expensive in terms of man hours required to implement that infrastructure.
The price of the dual 1.2 GHz kit is $1349, you could throw in 256 meg of ram and an 80 gig hard drive in for around 120 bucks, probably less.
Don't compare these to an eMac, compare them to a G4 tower. For $849 you get a tower including PCI slots and and AGP port. If you're looking for a Macintosh that you can throw a couple of PCI cards (maybe a couple of SCSI adapters, whatever) but can't justify the price of a new Apple G4 system then maybe this is for you. For instance a dual 1.25 GHz Apple G4 tower costs $1999 with 256 MB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. The site just stopped responding so I can't determine the price but presumably a dual 1.2 GHz their would be less than 2 grand.
So far there have been more cases where other people have misappropriated GPL code than the other way around. I'm sure there are thousands of other cases where code has been shackled without the creators consent.
If SCO can prove their claims then the courts will decide on how to redress the infringement.
gif is used for it's file size, not quality. Tiff is the format for quality, it's lossless (I think there is a lossy tiff extension).
Simple, set up a vending machine in Japan and sell them.
These books are like popular science books such as A Brief History of Time, or Cosmos. They're not about making people an expert in a field, they're about helping the layman learn a little bit about a field.
Stained glass might not be the sturdiest stuff on earth, but on the other hand how much do you think a stained glass in a church weighs? A whole lot more than 30 pounds.
I think you can do something similar in OS X. If you drag a directory/folder to the dock it'll be embedded in it. If you then click on the folder you can navigate through any hierarchy inside of it. If you release your mouse on an application it will launch. If you release your mouse on a directory it will open. If you release your mouse on a hyperlink it'll open up in your web browser etc.
I just store applications in mine, so I have one folder called Apps. Beneath that are Graphics, Utilities, Office, Engineering etc.
You can apply an icon to the folder and make it say "START" if you want.
I already stated that I don't actually agree with it. All I'm saying is that in principle it is possible to anonymously track stolen (from the manufacturer) garments.
As for why should the customer bear these costs, get over yourself. The customer always bears the costs. You bear the costs for ineffective advertisements, you bear the costs when somebody else shoplifts, you bear the costs if the CEO snorts the companies profits through his nose. This isn't some sudden Orwellian turn of events like your Microsoft comments seems to indicate, it's the status quo.
You don't need a database of tags and owners to track thieves. Suppose that these RFIDs are sold in ranges. Benetton purchase serial numbers 100000 through 20000. As items are sold the RFID is struck from the list and the RFID destroyed.
Now if an RFID appears in range there are two checks to determine if the item was stolen. First, the RFID existing at all is an indicator since it was supposed to be destroyed. Second, if the RFID appears in the database then according to policy the item is in fact stolen.
No individual was actually tracked, no purchasing information was stored and there is no way to match a given RFID to any customer.
I still don't like RFID, but there are ways to avoid privacy issues and make use of them. Even with this blind system you could end up falsely accused of theft. If the clerk doesn't correctly enter the tag in the database and doesn't disable the RFID chip then her laziness or mechanical failure could incorrectly single you out as a thief.
The group's stated purpose was to provide aid to people in Palestein. There's a possibility that some of this money was, unknown to most donors, funelled into terrorist acts.
I have no doubt that on paper there will eventually be a point where the RIAA, or some other agency, will say that they've lost more money to piracy than they've taken in. Maybe they already say that, I don't really pay much attention to them. They will still be profitable though because losses due to piracy don't actually cost them any money from the balance sheet that matters.
There are some tangible costs associated with being the music industry, and the way they maximize their profits is by minimizing investments where they don't get a large return on their investment. This means that unless you happen to look and sound a lot like what's already selling in a given demographic you won't get signed. Bad for consumers who don't fit into whatever the music industry is currently pushing (and slowly evolving) but that's business.
So what do you do if you're an artist who can't get signed? Go independant. There's room for the independant music industry. There's probably a lot of money to be made for the first company that gets it: Give people what they want. So sell music on mp3 with optional CDs or vinyl. Don't worry about piracy, you don't lose money from that and maybe you'll make an additional sale. The artists won't get rich as the most popular RIAA artists but guess what? There's no gaurantee anywhere that you'll get rich regardless of your ambition, talent or luck.
Interesting point. I understand the idea, it goes way back to Up/Down ratios on BBS boards in the eighties. Maybe a better implementation would be to disable hoarders. You get positive creds for downloading a file and sharing it, negative for downloading a file and hoarding it. If your cred gets too negative you're shunned.
I don't know how to make this work anonymously though, but on the other hand most peer to peer networks aren't very anonymous. You're directly talking to a host on the internet which is often easily trackable back to a person.
Umm... charging money to get something a week earlier is different than charging money indefinately. Anybody could wait a week and get it for free. Windows XP has been out for quite a while and still isn't free. Hell, Windows 3.1 has been out for years and isn't free nor is DOS which has been out a couple of decades.
Hmm... thanks, these don't look too bad at all. One of these may be a part of my living room if I ever get any real free time.
98% of the use will be for illegal content. I'd like to be able to burn an hour or so of video from a digital camcorder. I use a DVD-R right now but to be honest DivX is good enough for most things.
The shortcoming of this is that while I can record stuff with DivX on a CD-R most people won't have a similar machine, because of this sharing is less possible.
Personally, I wouldn't use it for pirated movies, if I like it I either buy it or rent it through NetFlix.
But can you build it in a form factor as small as a normal DVD player? Will it stick out like a sore thumb in your living room like a bog-standard PC would? Will the fan be incessantly humming? If you can really meet these criteria point me at the motherboard and especially the case.
I enjoyed Neal Koblitz' text A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, No 114).
The Comic Book Guy from the Simpson's is funny though, and I find Gord funny in the same way. He's a geek who's entire life seems to revolve around video games. When I read his site I imagined the Comic Book Guy in fact, and how he'd embellish his stories to prove his moral and physical superiority. It's sort of like any pissing match on a MUD or online. Everybody is an hybrid between Bruce Lee and Arnold Schwarzanegger. In real life most of these people probably can't be frowned at without wetting themselves.
OK, I've updated my signature to point at more information. It was always sort of a placeholder till I wrote something up, so here it is.
did you try enabling it, it's off by default
set history=1000
- or maybe -
history = 1000
- or possibly -
set history 1000
I've never seen a shell without command line history, but I've logged into a lot of places where it wasn't turned on by default.
Nikola Tesla proposed this around 1890 or so.