Solution? Introduce random delays when sending packets from an interactive source. That may not be unreasonable. It would make the session feel somewhat "sluggish", though.
How about doin it the other way around, use a timer to always send packets at a set interval. And you stuff the packets so they are alway the same lenght, even if there actualy where no real traffic in it.
but I was rather referring to the iron grip that Linus has around Linux and that most maintainers seem to have around their respective comments. Someone commented earlier (and I paraphrase) "that RMS would be screwed if Linus sold the rights to Linux".
Linux kernel is GPL, right? So I can take the source do watewer I want to it and distribute it, but not as Linux.
Linus controlls what goes into the offical kernel,you are free to make your own fork, or to distribute patches against the kernel.
The reason to place the launch close to equator is to use the earth rotation for a head start
giving you a bigger payload with less fuel. So
you woud want to launch in the same direction, east that is.
the average person has an IQ of 100, and (obviously) half of them are dumber than that.
Not nessesarily, if for example 75% have an IQ off 117 and 25% an IQ of 50 the average woud still be 100, but 75% woud be smarter than the average. But I guess the silent assumption about
a nice distribution of the values probably holds:-)
also (3) have asserted a copyright in purely factual information which, by legal precedent, probably isn't copyrightable at all, regardless of the promise under which it was collected.
IANAL, but CDDB is not just facts/data it is a compilation and representation of this data and as such might be copyrightable.
Analogus to a previus story about a database of
GPS postitions, you cant copyright the fact that
A is in posistion (X,Y) but you can coyright
a list of sucht positions, meaning others cant copy your list, but has to go out and make their
own measurements.
I had problems on NT 4 while debugging an app with a real big memrory leak. When the app had allocated a LOT of memory NT could not recover even if I killed the app with the taskmanager.
.. in bruteforcing these algoritms. Write a program, let it check 10 or 10000 keys and multiply the time with the keyspace (divide by
the number of computers you estimate to use).
If we where testing possible algoritms that did
not have to test the the whole keyspace I woud
be more interested.
The scary part is - what happens once these devices are available to the public, as bionic eye implants or something? Do we lose this expectation of privacy all over again?
When "Everybody" can see you you no longer have any "resonable expectation of privacy". But on the other hand you will know about this because
you can see it ourself and can
take mesuers to shield your house from this kind
of surveilance. Like today you can pull the
courtains shut when you dont want anywone to see you troug the windows.
The bunker was originaly build nuclear safe for military purposes. If it was buildt from scrath
for its current use it woud probably not be so
"over the top", but it was bought used and just keept what was already there.
If the origional license text was ambigius
then the BDS projects (in teory) dont have to care about the authors intent, only that they comply with a resonable iterpretation of the
licence text.
Of cource there could be a long and hard court
battle about what is and is not a resonalble
iterpretation.
Not that I want anyone to overide the authors wishes, but if someone sundely causes a lot
of trouble by suddenly "clarifying" their license
after a lot of people have grown depenent on
the software it is whort noting that it is the
license text that must be obeyed.
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And, as the prankster himself has to walk in a straight line with the suitcases once they're active, wouldn't this force him to do the spinning up part in a straight line before the hotel lobby (and thus probably in plain view)?
No, he dont have to go in a strait line, he can move any direction, but he must keep the
briefcases in the same direction.
A gyro do not stop you from moving it, but it will
resist changing the direction of the axsis it is spinning around.
Ok. Let me get this straight. Law, which exists to inhibit freedom at the same time protects freedom... Hmm... Umm... Maybe you have powers of logic on the level of Ayn Rand, but this riddle is about to burn out my tiny reptillian brain.
Without laws, implied or writen, there woud be no freedom but for the strongest.
You woud be the slave of whoever was stronger than you (not nessesary in a pure physical sense).
So law needs to balance the freedom of the induvidual against the freedom of other induviduals around him.
Im not free if you are free to do whaterver you
want aginst me.
It makes a difference if everybody you need to exchange data with uses some propietary fileformat
you can only get a readre for on windows.
It makes a difference if all the services you like to use on the internett uses propietary protocols and fileformats. (immagine if microsoft designed http and html)
It makes a difference if you work on/with computers and want to use the best system for the job, not the system with the best marketing team.
Looks to me that this is a case where the pantent systmem actully does what it is supposed to.
A company invented a new type of magnet, gets a patent in reward of disclosing the invention and
then makes money from the patent.
But seems to me that the time period of the patent
is somewhat long. According to the article this was patented in 1982 and will be proteced until 2007, that is a long time in modern tecnology.
Patents, Copyright and Trademarks are there for the public good. They shoud be there only if and in a manner that supports the public good.
So I might support one type of patents (hardware)
and be opposed to another type (software).
pneumatic tubes...so in a sense, someone who gets their access thru them could say their internet really sucks? or would that be blows . . .
Probably it does both.
I dont know how the details of the real system, but if you have
a pump pumping air out of the pipe at the destination you woud get a force on the post
equal to the difference between the effetive
vakum and normal astmostferic pressure. So you
will have a limmit to your max effect.
If you have a pump behind the post you will
get a force equal the difference between
astmostferic pressure and the pressure of the pump.
For best effect use a pump both in front of
and behind (suck and blow).
In addisjon you must off course factor inn
that the air also need to move in the pipe
in front off and behind the post.
I agree, but I don't think you're going to find the same community spirit willing to purchase the factory space necessary to mass-produce an open-source car.
To have such a project everyone woud have to live in a short distance from the factory, or every participant to the project woud have to have his own workshop where he coud produce all the parts nessesary from the blueprints, assemble them, test the car, find bugs, redesig parts, test new design and den send new desig back to project.
And everybody woud have to know how to do this.
What makes open source possible is the fact that I can download the source to a project, possibly a software equvalent to an 18 wheel truck, compile it and test it (most often) in minutes. I can participate and contribute without having to get my hands into every part of the application.
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How about doin it the other way around, use a timer to always send packets at a set interval. And you stuff the packets so they are alway the same lenght, even if there actualy where no real traffic in it.
The drawback woud be the use of bandwith.
Linux kernel is GPL, right? So I can take the source do watewer I want to it and distribute it, but not as Linux.
Linus controlls what goes into the offical kernel,you are free to make your own fork, or to distribute patches against the kernel.
You could have most of the PC's in storage ready windows installed for effiecy.
If i coud i'd mod you +1 funny. :-)
The reason to place the launch close to equator is to use the earth rotation for a head start giving you a bigger payload with less fuel. So you woud want to launch in the same direction, east that is.
Not nessesarily, if for example 75% have an IQ off 117 and 25% an IQ of 50 the average woud still be 100, but 75% woud be smarter than the average. But I guess the silent assumption about a nice distribution of the values probably holds :-)
IANAL, but CDDB is not just facts/data it is a compilation and representation of this data and as such might be copyrightable.
Analogus to a previus story about a database of GPS postitions, you cant copyright the fact that A is in posistion (X,Y) but you can coyright a list of sucht positions, meaning others cant copy your list, but has to go out and make their own measurements.
There is no need for slashdotsucks, everybody can complain about slashdot right here.
You probably mean trademark not copyright.
When you work for an employer he (most likely) holds the copyright of your work. Propaply the employment contract states this.
When you write code as part of an education you hold the copyright of your work unless you somwhere gave away this to the university.
He who holds the copyright desides what licence to give to whom.
I had problems on NT 4 while debugging an app with a real big memrory leak. When the app had allocated a LOT of memory NT could not recover even if I killed the app with the taskmanager.
If we where testing possible algoritms that did not have to test the the whole keyspace I woud be more interested.
When "Everybody" can see you you no longer have any "resonable expectation of privacy". But on the other hand you will know about this because you can see it ourself and can take mesuers to shield your house from this kind of surveilance. Like today you can pull the courtains shut when you dont want anywone to see you troug the windows.
The bunker was originaly build nuclear safe for military purposes. If it was buildt from scrath for its current use it woud probably not be so "over the top", but it was bought used and just keept what was already there.
Of cource there could be a long and hard court battle about what is and is not a resonalble iterpretation.
Not that I want anyone to overide the authors wishes, but if someone sundely causes a lot of trouble by suddenly "clarifying" their license after a lot of people have grown depenent on the software it is whort noting that it is the license text that must be obeyed.
No, he dont have to go in a strait line, he can move any direction, but he must keep the briefcases in the same direction.
A gyro do not stop you from moving it, but it will resist changing the direction of the axsis it is spinning around.
Without laws, implied or writen, there woud be no freedom but for the strongest.
You woud be the slave of whoever was stronger than you (not nessesary in a pure physical sense).
So law needs to balance the freedom of the induvidual against the freedom of other induviduals around him.
Im not free if you are free to do whaterver you want aginst me.
What was his argument for this?
It makes a difference if all the services you like to use on the internett uses propietary protocols and fileformats. (immagine if microsoft designed http and html)
It makes a difference if you work on/with computers and want to use the best system for the job, not the system with the best marketing team.
An API for acessing the database? How can that be patenable?
Simple fix: the PTO shoud not get any money from granting patens, the fee shoud be the same no mather if it was granted or not.
A company invented a new type of magnet, gets a patent in reward of disclosing the invention and then makes money from the patent.
But seems to me that the time period of the patent is somewhat long. According to the article this was patented in 1982 and will be proteced until 2007, that is a long time in modern tecnology.
Patents, Copyright and Trademarks are there for the public good. They shoud be there only if and in a manner that supports the public good.
So I might support one type of patents (hardware) and be opposed to another type (software).
How can a company be based on keeping it stock prices up?
A company dosent gain anyting by keeping it stock prices up, the shareholders gain.
On the other hand the stock price go up if it is expected that the company will make a profit for the shareholders.
So in the long run you keep the stock prixe up and thus serve your shareholder by having a sound bussness making a profit.
Probably it does both.
I dont know how the details of the real system, but if you have a pump pumping air out of the pipe at the destination you woud get a force on the post equal to the difference between the effetive vakum and normal astmostferic pressure. So you will have a limmit to your max effect.
If you have a pump behind the post you will get a force equal the difference between astmostferic pressure and the pressure of the pump.
For best effect use a pump both in front of and behind (suck and blow).
In addisjon you must off course factor inn that the air also need to move in the pipe in front off and behind the post.
To have such a project everyone woud have to live in a short distance from the factory, or every participant to the project woud have to have his own workshop where he coud produce all the parts nessesary from the blueprints, assemble them, test the car, find bugs, redesig parts, test new design and den send new desig back to project. And everybody woud have to know how to do this.
What makes open source possible is the fact that I can download the source to a project, possibly a software equvalent to an 18 wheel truck, compile it and test it (most often) in minutes. I can participate and contribute without having to get my hands into every part of the application.