Cool.. Now when are these reports read? For DUI offenders, it's presumably fairly often. For everyone else...when? When you get your car inspected? These things had better have a pretty big memory.
Cool. A big brother surveillance device has just been implanted with a "save the children" angle. Do they use 1984 as a manual?
Hum Tone: Requires the client to deliver a hum resonance while blowing the alcohol test prior to starting the vehicle. Deters techniques utilized to mimic human breath or to absorb alcohol.
Anyone else see the South Park episode with "IT"?:-) Looks like the controls are gaining popularity.
I change my own batteries. There are also times when I take the battery off for other reasons. I should just be able to, period.
Changing your own batteries? What are you, a communist?:-D
I tried to search for information on the percentage of false positives these devices give, and most of the resulting homepages had FAQs that claimed that false positives were not a problem.
That might've been the case when the limits were first imposed. However, the current limit is lower than the tolerance on the reading, so that 50% of the non drinkers will be stopped!! Ever notice how most politicians have zero science background?
And Ben Franklin wrote a book called Poor Richard's Almanac, whose copyright he defended voraciously.
Did he now? He also founded public libraries in the US.
Freedom refers to personal liberties like speech, religion and assemblage. It does not refer to physical luxuries, like land, coffee or software. Ben Franklin's freedom is quite different from ESR's freedom.
Ah, the constructionist view of the constitution. You can take that line if you think that constitution is something you need to circumvent. As for software, it is more akin to speech than anything else. It is a way to transfer knowledge. It is not a physical good, in that it can be replicated at zero cost.
In thirty years, I won't use a single software program I'm using today. What matters is the program that works best for me RIGHT NOW. Yes, I'm taking a risk by using OSX instead of GNOME, and by using Photoshop insteasd of the Gimp, but that risk is worth the convenience.
You can predict technology for the next 30 years? Wow, that is some talent you've got there. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, those who trade in freedom for a little temporary convenience deserve neither convenience nor freedom. Think about that when you are using your DRM multi-thousand dollar, first born reqd EULA software.
just because you like Open Source doesn't make it the only choice, nor does it make it a moral decision.
It is not the only choice, which is why it is a moral decision.
Fill out forms. Waste their time. That's the way it works.
The best way to go about it would be to write some code which will generate random believable identities and fill the forms. If you have to spend more than 5 minutes on it, it is probably not worthwhile. Is there some bookmarklet or some such that does this?
Spammers are really winning this arms race. The latest method I have seen is guessing some address in your whitelist. Unfortunately, it is pretty easy to do: most people online have dealings with Amazon or Ebay. The only method I see succeeding is blacklisting IP blocks aggressively. Contact your ISP today!
If you had said that you visit the website and find a contact email link, I'd believe that, though you'd have to be fairly masochistic to click on one of those links.
And the spammer websites are mostly just text with a non SSL form for your credit card. Visa should really stop processing these transactions, in their own interest.
If drugs were legalized, people would be paying low, reasonable prices, not obscene black market prices. Hence a dramatically lessened need for people to steal shit to support their habit.
You missed the part about addiction and ever increasing dosage, along with decreased job performance.
If drugs were regulated, we wouldn't be seeing low-quality, dangerous goods of varying potentness. Hence a dramatically lessened occurrence of overdosing.
Why is this a plus?
So let's fucking DO something about it, instead of blindly continuing this insane War on Drugs.
companies who like the open source model would easily scare if a preacher starts asking them to open source every product they own.
It is debatable whether SUN likes open source. However, we are talking about a development tool, and your tools should always be open.
I still don't see the point of a open source java...sorry, you can write open source code for it...that's good for me.
You can develop Open Source (not Free) software with Microsoft Windows too. Microsoft has taken to putting anti-GPL clauses in anything they touch. What if SUN does the same?
In fact, Sun has contributed more to Open Source than anybody else bar Berkeley
Whew, we can finally be rid of that GNU/Linux nonense. Thanks Sun!
He completely ignores things like the Java Desktop, the Java Enterprise System running on Linux in its new servers.
And Sun is still spreading FUD about Linux while selling these systems. Statements like "only good on the low end" and "will be replaced soon by Solaris" are not that of a friend.
Phipps responded that Java is not a scripting language, so it is meaningless to make such a comparison.
Who cares if it is a scripting language or not?
The question he should really be asking is why has no-one else offered to create an Open Source version of Java. Maybe because it's on the 'too hard' list.
Is that a challenge? Or just wishful thinking? Some time ago RMS said that a Free GNU java compiler would be created to replace SUN's proprietary system. At that time McNealy stated that you couln't create a Java system from the published spec alone. That was probably FUD, but an interesting statement nonetheless.
Sun would support an Open Source version of Java, but it need a lot of money and time to do so.
Open Source does not make SUN happy. They tried their best to shut JBoss down by not giving them J2EE certification. They reversed their position after a huge outcry. In an interview last month, Gosling said he doesn't like Open Source because free stuff is hard to make money out of. Specifically, he said that they are pouring so much money into Java and would like some return, and Open Source was not helping with that. I think this is something fundamental in their philosophy.
Dude. It's software. There are no good guys. There are no bad guys.
We are talking about a software development philosophy, one which is not at all common in the commercial world. So yes, we need to talk about good guys and bad guys.
Idealism isn't going to get my clients' work done any more efficiently, or make my code run faster, or make my interfaces more intuitive.
This is the same kind of statement made by people buying supporting monopolies. Unfortunately, it takes far too much time to reveal that actions have consequences.
Smart programmers will make those things happen -- and I'll use whatever product works best.
This "best tool for the job" argument kills me. Where do you think the tools come from? If it is proprietary software, you will have to live with the lack of freedom. And who are these "smart" programmers who will work for SUN for free if they don't support open source?
Sun owes it to their shareholders to make sure the company remains profitable. From their perspective (and obviously as opposed to virtually every other company out there), it made sense to pay the fee and not have to worry that any of their clients would jump from Sun's Linux based products due to some licensing nit.
SCO has a responsibility to its shareholders too. And look what they ended up doing. Sun has been using SCO FUD in their advertisements--they say that you won't have to worry if you use Solaris instead of Linux. And they are pushing the Java Desktop System, which doesn't have much to do with Java. They have stated that their aim is to replace Linux with Solaris. Note what they did to Cobalt before they sank the company--replaced AMD machines running Linux with Solaris.
In addition, if it is proven that SCO was wrong, Sun could possibly sue to get their $8 mil back.
Uhmm... SCO has no other revenue than the licensing crap they have been pushing and the only money they have is what SUN and MSFT gave them.
How do you think Outlook displays mail? Last I checked, it embeds the IE control.
It gets worse. Microsoft does not provide a standalone download to update IE. The only way to get the update is to run the stubb they provide which starts up IE as Administrator!! No wonder many machines get p0wn3d during patching.
Many windows programs need to be admin to run, and people get fed up with this, so they just run everyone as admin.
You don't need admin access unless you want to run some system utilities. The only time I had to login as admin was when I tried to run Sandra. I have found several programs that need Power User access to function properly though (RealJukebox etc). Since the Power Users group members can install software, this is somewhat undesirable.
Assuming there is a patent for CSS and 321 Studios is not licensing it, I say fuck em, its their own damn fault.
As another poster pointed out, CCA will not license it 321. In fact, the conditions CCA imposes on the software makers are much more restrictive. The software maker cannot, for instance, provide and option to skip over the ads and trailers in the DVD.
Each form of 'protection' appears sophistocated when it is first used, but if the content proves popular, someone always finds a way to break it, fool it, or bypass it.
When companies get serious about security and DRM, it will be non-trivial to break. Of the ones that were broken,
Adobe engineers considered ROT13 to be a form of encryption.
CSS used 40 bit encryption because of export restrictions.
More telling is that their competitors (SolidWorks etc) are posting large profits while PTC loses money.
The ease of use arguement is more powerful than it should be in MCAD circles. (Again in the States at least.) Somehow, people seem to expect to do complex things easily. Putting a nice braindead GUI on top of powerful software seems to make people think they are getting something more for their money.
This should only work if the packages are very close otherwise. With FEA, Ansys has a pretty GUI, but people inevitably switch to Abaqus, inspite of the steep learning curve and license ($100,000/year/machine).
Even the bigger companies are finding it hard to pay for development and sales costs given the reduced margin they see in software sales. Another expensive port is a very hard sell on that basis alone, because they do not see customer demand.
You paint a bleak picture. There is a definite step down in intensity from a couple of years ago when Linux was the marketing buzzword you could not do without. The only way out would be for the academia to step up and support OSS, as they have done for many packages in the past (e.g. Maxima for computer algebra). The interfaces might be less polished, but that is where the general OSS development community can help. And many smaller companies might be tempted to use this solution instead of the expensive proprietary ones (like MySQL vs Oracle, say).
The movie studios have similar problem now that they are moving lot of the production to Linux. Even their considerable influence hasn't been able to make the software companies port to Linux.
Linux's success on the server has bought us time, since the hardware makers will no longer design exclusively for Windows. It is up to us to take advantage of that opportunity.
I'd think you could get away with doing it once (as root) when you build the system, no?
I suppose you mean doing the chmod a+rw thing. The idea is that KDE will see the local login and set permissions on the devices. Remotely logged in users don't need access to them. This is probably fixed in the latest KDE builds.
Laughable. Aboslutely ridiculous !! Can this not happen in closed source environments ? A disgruntled employee perhaps ? I'm sure the article writer would say "but there is quality control, peer review.."
And that's how a flight simulator ends up in a spread sheet program.
We run CFD now on linux machines as we found out they out perform windows boxes by nearly 50% for our solutions.
And you don't need to lock a workstation to run your code! The Windows method is stand guard next to the machine so that no one comes and reboots it to surf the web.
PTC, one of the bigger players (for a while longer at least) does Linux today, with Mac coming.
Pro-E is the big thing now. Since they have a UN*X background I hope they will release a full Linux version.
The problem is the number of users running strong win32 based programs. (AutoCAD, Solid Edge, Solid Works)
And AutoCAD has dropped UN*X support. A big issue here is the graphical nature of the programs. Engineering jobs are being advertised with VC++ and win32 requirements!!
With Microsoft going with more restrictive licensing, Linux stands a good chance in computationally intensive software (CFD etc). This just might be the foot in the door.
I suppose that could be made a policy option for the desktop. The bug was that/dev/dsp etc were only accessible to the user who logged in first after boot. Even after logging off, the next user would not get access (without a chmod (by root)).
Sun's Java Desktop, which is based on Linux kernel and Suse Linux, will only help to increase the share of the Linux Desktop.
That would be the short term view. Sun executives have said that they intend to switch to Solaris on all these systems eventually. In the past they have been spreading FUD about Linux. All that has happened now is that they won't be talking about it out loud. And Sun is one of the two companies funding SCO activities against Linux.
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Cool. A big brother surveillance device has just been implanted with a "save the children" angle. Do they use 1984 as a manual?
Anyone else see the South Park episode with "IT"? :-) Looks like the controls are gaining popularity.
Changing your own batteries? What are you, a communist? :-D
That might've been the case when the limits were first imposed. However, the current limit is lower than the tolerance on the reading, so that 50% of the non drinkers will be stopped!! Ever notice how most politicians have zero science background?
Did he now? He also founded public libraries in the US.
Ah, the constructionist view of the constitution. You can take that line if you think that constitution is something you need to circumvent. As for software, it is more akin to speech than anything else. It is a way to transfer knowledge. It is not a physical good, in that it can be replicated at zero cost.
You can predict technology for the next 30 years? Wow, that is some talent you've got there. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, those who trade in freedom for a little temporary convenience deserve neither convenience nor freedom. Think about that when you are using your DRM multi-thousand dollar, first born reqd EULA software.
It is not the only choice, which is why it is a moral decision.
The best way to go about it would be to write some code which will generate random believable identities and fill the forms. If you have to spend more than 5 minutes on it, it is probably not worthwhile. Is there some bookmarklet or some such that does this?
Spammers are really winning this arms race. The latest method I have seen is guessing some address in your whitelist. Unfortunately, it is pretty easy to do: most people online have dealings with Amazon or Ebay. The only method I see succeeding is blacklisting IP blocks aggressively. Contact your ISP today!
And the spammer websites are mostly just text with a non SSL form for your credit card. Visa should really stop processing these transactions, in their own interest.
You missed the part about addiction and ever increasing dosage, along with decreased job performance.
Why is this a plus?
You can't stop fighting if it is too difficult.
It is debatable whether SUN likes open source. However, we are talking about a development tool, and your tools should always be open.
You can develop Open Source (not Free) software with Microsoft Windows too. Microsoft has taken to putting anti-GPL clauses in anything they touch. What if SUN does the same?
Whew, we can finally be rid of that GNU/Linux nonense. Thanks Sun!
And Sun is still spreading FUD about Linux while selling these systems. Statements like "only good on the low end" and "will be replaced soon by Solaris" are not that of a friend.
Who cares if it is a scripting language or not?
Is that a challenge? Or just wishful thinking? Some time ago RMS said that a Free GNU java compiler would be created to replace SUN's proprietary system. At that time McNealy stated that you couln't create a Java system from the published spec alone. That was probably FUD, but an interesting statement nonetheless.
Open Source does not make SUN happy. They tried their best to shut JBoss down by not giving them J2EE certification. They reversed their position after a huge outcry. In an interview last month, Gosling said he doesn't like Open Source because free stuff is hard to make money out of. Specifically, he said that they are pouring so much money into Java and would like some return, and Open Source was not helping with that. I think this is something fundamental in their philosophy.
We are talking about a software development philosophy, one which is not at all common in the commercial world. So yes, we need to talk about good guys and bad guys.
This is the same kind of statement made by people buying supporting monopolies. Unfortunately, it takes far too much time to reveal that actions have consequences.
This "best tool for the job" argument kills me. Where do you think the tools come from? If it is proprietary software, you will have to live with the lack of freedom. And who are these "smart" programmers who will work for SUN for free if they don't support open source?
SCO has a responsibility to its shareholders too. And look what they ended up doing. Sun has been using SCO FUD in their advertisements--they say that you won't have to worry if you use Solaris instead of Linux. And they are pushing the Java Desktop System, which doesn't have much to do with Java. They have stated that their aim is to replace Linux with Solaris. Note what they did to Cobalt before they sank the company--replaced AMD machines running Linux with Solaris.
Uhmm ... SCO has no other revenue than the licensing crap they have been pushing and the only money they have is what SUN and MSFT gave them.
It gets worse. Microsoft does not provide a standalone download to update IE. The only way to get the update is to run the stubb they provide which starts up IE as Administrator!! No wonder many machines get p0wn3d during patching.
You don't need admin access unless you want to run some system utilities. The only time I had to login as admin was when I tried to run Sandra. I have found several programs that need Power User access to function properly though (RealJukebox etc). Since the Power Users group members can install software, this is somewhat undesirable.
No doubt. But the OP's point was that asking permission was all that was needed.
As another poster pointed out, CCA will not license it 321. In fact, the conditions CCA imposes on the software makers are much more restrictive. The software maker cannot, for instance, provide and option to skip over the ads and trailers in the DVD.
When companies get serious about security and DRM, it will be non-trivial to break. Of the ones that were broken,
More telling is that their competitors (SolidWorks etc) are posting large profits while PTC loses money.
This should only work if the packages are very close otherwise. With FEA, Ansys has a pretty GUI, but people inevitably switch to Abaqus, inspite of the steep learning curve and license ($100,000/year/machine).
You paint a bleak picture. There is a definite step down in intensity from a couple of years ago when Linux was the marketing buzzword you could not do without. The only way out would be for the academia to step up and support OSS, as they have done for many packages in the past (e.g. Maxima for computer algebra). The interfaces might be less polished, but that is where the general OSS development community can help. And many smaller companies might be tempted to use this solution instead of the expensive proprietary ones (like MySQL vs Oracle, say).
The movie studios have similar problem now that they are moving lot of the production to Linux. Even their considerable influence hasn't been able to make the software companies port to Linux.
Linux's success on the server has bought us time, since the hardware makers will no longer design exclusively for Windows. It is up to us to take advantage of that opportunity.
I suppose you mean doing the chmod a+rw thing. The idea is that KDE will see the local login and set permissions on the devices. Remotely logged in users don't need access to them. This is probably fixed in the latest KDE builds.
And that's how a flight simulator ends up in a spread sheet program.
And you don't need to lock a workstation to run your code! The Windows method is stand guard next to the machine so that no one comes and reboots it to surf the web.
Pro-E is the big thing now. Since they have a UN*X background I hope they will release a full Linux version.
And AutoCAD has dropped UN*X support. A big issue here is the graphical nature of the programs. Engineering jobs are being advertised with VC++ and win32 requirements!!
With Microsoft going with more restrictive licensing, Linux stands a good chance in computationally intensive software (CFD etc). This just might be the foot in the door.
I suppose that could be made a policy option for the desktop. The bug was that /dev/dsp etc were only accessible to the user who logged in first after boot. Even after logging off, the next user would not get access (without a chmod (by root)).
That would be the short term view. Sun executives have said that they intend to switch to Solaris on all these systems eventually. In the past they have been spreading FUD about Linux. All that has happened now is that they won't be talking about it out loud. And Sun is one of the two companies funding SCO activities against Linux.
So this runs as soon as the machine boots? What would be cool is if it started when Ctrl-Alt-F?? was pressed (saving some RAM).
One issue I have had with KDE is that the devices (fd0, sound) are only available to the user who logs in first. I don't know if that is a KDE bug.