I would say you are missing the point. What he did is what every decent computer scientist should have done in his life at least once: Hack someone else's computer without causing real harm (OK, shutting done a major website for 2 hours or so is borderline).
In former times we did to the computers at the universities and probably caused quite some strain on the SysOps. Nowadays things seem to shift to the Internet making things more visible.
The guy should be commended for his creative application of his skills, not convicted.
Germany, for example, used (not sure if they still do) to force stores to sell at the same price
Only for books, magazines and similar 'cultural' items to give publishers more chances to cross-subsidize the 'avantgarde' products with the mass-market ones.
No wonder Germans and other Europeans, when they have a choice, shop at WalMart, Corte Inglais, and other large stores that offer lower prices.
Uhm, Walmart is posting a loss year after year in Germany. Absolutly-no-thrills supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl) grabbed a big part of the market and are now steamrolling the rest of Europe. Germany is considered the most difficult retail market of Europe (the world?) as margins are minimal.
And why? Because market regulation prevents the oligopolies to turn into monopolies (well, at least tries to unless overturned by politicians). And oligopolies trying to form trusts are actually fined.
said Axel Gerlt, an engineer at Siemens tasked with helping packaging companies implement the technology
I started to wonder once I read that sentence, as it's normally not the engineers who say such things. (They would more probable say "It's sooo cool. Next thing I'll try is to have my name rotating on it in 3D even though it can only do 3 frames/sec").
And lo and behold, a german article on the same topic reveals the guy is the project leader. Uff, engineer honor saved;-)
The absolute MINIMUM fine per song is $750. How is that reasonable in any shape, form or fashion?
What I don't understand at all is how the RIAA succeeds with this $750 "fine". Reasoning:
With nearly all P2P tools I heard about you can't download without uploading (unless you know how to hack the toools, which most people won't).
So everyone downloading is also uploading.
Imagine 1000 people downloading a song. 900 are (possibly) uploading it at the same time (+100 geeks knowing how to prevent uploading), RIAA could sue them for $675000.
Contrast this with all users buying the songs on iTunes fo $1: This nets $1000 of which the RIAA gets only a small part. So the losses of RIAA are maybe $300.
This is civil law, which is concerned with recovering damages not with punishment so RIAA should only be able to recoup its damages. (Well, this only holds for countries with a 'normal' judical system. The US has these strange "3 times damages as civil punishment" laws.) So the RIA can't argue that the high "fine" is needed to set an example.
That RIAA is only suing one of the 1000 is not the problem of the one sued. He is not responsible for replacing the damages RIAA has from the 999 other downloaders.
I'm really wondering why no one ever used this defense strategy (but of course IANAL).
And to add to this has anyone actually tried to search for "traffic estimator" on google? Surprise, surprise. Their page is not among the top 10 (and I didn't look any further).
Incompetence at Google? Don't even know how to stuff their own search engine? Ah, but maybe it is only for internal search (entry number 4 there).
This article smells like either FUD or very bad fact checking.
A pebble-based HTR had been in operation in the late 80ties in Hamm (Germany) before it had to be switched off due to (continuous?) failures. This technology doesn't really seem to be mature. The history of the THTR Hamm-Uentrop as seen by one of its local opponents.
wherein a grunt can refuse to comply with an order due to it being illegal.
If that was meant to reduce my worries, it doesn't. In the German army you have to refuse illegal orders. No choice included and no excuse possible you were 'just following orders'.
You can refuse orders given from someone without the appropriate authority (due to not in chain of command or ordering things unrelated to the task (e.g. cleaning his shoes)).
It's a situation where there are not static leaders. People might (and often do) show up to take things on, and gain respect for what they do. Other people can (and sometimes do) come in and duplicate and/or replace those other active and respecte members.
The early years of The Internet were especially like this. Anybody who wanted to could easily put their two bits into any discussion. Standards really became standards by use
What you describe is Meritocracy or Technocracy. Anarchy is not only absence of rulers but absence of rule. In a sufficiently big group with no one specifically concerned with enforcing laws this can quickly devolve into rule by power or into a very unpleasant situation for minorities (which geeks may be considered to be one of). Thus, I'm very surprised that so many here seem to embrace anarchy as the best political system possible.
Of course if you postulate that utopia breaks out and all humans will be suddenly nice and friendly, as another poster did, anarchy will be really great. But any political system would be in such a situation.
Three years ago, there was only one country that Al Qaeda could operate open terrorist training camps in. That country was Afghanistan. Even Sudan would not let them operate training camps out in the open. Now the amount of countries for which they can operate like that is zero.
But thanks to the growing radicalization within the muslimic countries due to the Iraq invasion and its aftermath the number of countries they destabilizing and have a chance to take over is increasing constantly (Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan again).
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Your real name isn't maybe Michael Ruppert? Not only does your post sounds like the typical "Become rich quick" ad ("absolutely astonishing" "was sceptical... but was proven wrong") but the info on the site you mention is far from "no speculation, just plain evidence". E.g.
Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.
No, definitely "[not] just another conspiracy theory". I mean according to them they covered this coup d'etat for two years, how could any conspiracy be involved in that.
I run the apache version without php for months on my SL5500 and it works quite nicely. No RAM problem (configured it to 48MB RAM/12MB Ramdisk). Just don't try anything fancy with the webserver. But for always having wikipedia with me its great.
Excuse me, but where does it say in that line that those rights continue to exist for those who break the law, let alone declare unconventional warfare against the US?
Exactly here:
that all men [...] are endowed [...] with certain unalienable Rights
You can stop laughing now. Besides, who decided they broke the law? Is it now in the power of the government to decide who has 'earned' a due process and who not?
> > -- even if they are citizens.
> Not true either. John Walker Lindh never went to Guantanamo.
Excuse me but where exactly in
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men...
does it say something about human rights only holding for citizens?
If they are war criminals, sue them. You seem to be very sure to know what 'they' have done. If you don't have any proof.... well "in dubio pro reo" still holds.
Actually its more a German train on Chinese concrete. Of course everyone expects that in a few years the Chinese will have learned enough to build everything on their own. And sell all the components half price for the connection from Munich city to airport which will be under planning for years to come.
Hmm, from their site: Q: How much will Star Chamber cost to buy?
A: The game will be free to download and to create a Trial account. Trial accounts can play as long as they like with a selection of sample decks on a sample map. Trial players who enjoy the game may decide to purchase cards and become a paying player, whereupon they receive the benefit of building their own decks and playing non-sample games and maps.
So effectively they provide a demo version as lots of other games do. I wouldn't call that free. Especially since collectible card games are made to cost you lots of money.
It's definitely a great hack. But of course if you just waited a year (or so;-), 802.11e would have provided the same but with less overhead and enforcing the limits on the ether.
11e will have a mode called HCF (Hybrid Coordinator Function) recently renamed to HCCA (forgot what that stands for) where the Accesspoint can be asked for timeslots and it will assigned them to the requestors after each beacon causing a content-free period. Only afterwards a (prioritized) contention mechanism will come into place for the rest of the transmission time till the next beacon (called EDCF=Enhanced DCF).
Actually HCCA is not really intended for web browsing over 20km wireless link but more for real-time traffic over 10m wireless link (e.g. videos to your Webpad, PDA,...). But it would work.
The writer of the Feature on Accidential Privacy Spills goes on about P3P, encryption, copyright,... but he seemingly simply forgot one point. The netiquette clearly states:
E-mail is not to be published.
The guy to blame is also clear: Adam Davis posted the e-mail to a mailing list, which is publication. (And some other guy called 'beagle' seemingly published two other e-mails of Laurie Garrett).
All this endless talk on how publishing e-mails degrades (or improves) information of the masses in a democracy, all this speculative writings on possible technologies to prevent it. This all is completely pointless. The question is how to make everyone aware and understand the netiquette and why it is necessary. The author of the feature implicitely gives some pretty compelling reasons for the why but also clearly shows he hasn't understand the netiquette since he (mockingly) proposes to Cease-and-Desist the e-mail out of publicity. There is no need for C&D. Netiquette has been breached and any webmaster who really deserves that name should be extremly willing to remove the e-mail from any website/archive he is responsible for simply on request.
Social pressure is it. Or maybe was it. We shouldn't have let in all those AOLers a few years ago .
The original requirement acccounting for the continued operation of the alignment software after lift-off was brought forward more than 10 years ago for the earlier models of Ariane, in order to cope with the rather unlikely event of a hold in the count-down e.g. between - 9 seconds, when flight mode starts in the SRI of Ariane 4, and - 5 seconds when certain events are initiated in the launcher [...]
The same requirement does not apply to Ariane 5, which has a different preparation sequence and it was maintained for commonality reasons, presumably based on the view that, unless proven necessary, it was not wise to make changes in software which worked well on Ariane 4.
2) It wouldn't have been a problem at all (since the code - as stated - wasn't required anymore) if it hadn't been assumed that the software was error free and therefore the only errors possible were hardware failures which had to be diagnosed in flight to prevent repetition. Not so good when done on both primary and backup unit:
Part of these data at that time did not contain proper flight data, but showed a diagnostic bit pattern of the computer of the SRI 2, which was interpreted as flight data. [...]
Although the source of the Operand Error has been identified, this in itself did not cause the mission to fail. [...] It was the decision to cease the processor operation which finally proved fatal. [...] The reason behind this drastic action lies in the culture within the Ariane programme of only addressing random hardware failures. From this point of view exception - or error - handling mechanisms are designed for a random hardware failure which can quite rationally be handled by a backup system.
(The whole thing caused extensive discussion on comp.object on defensive programming and the advantages of Eiffel.)
Since they again used a rocket with new specs: Maybe they f***ed up the software again.
the Panel has found that non-English speaking Internet users would be likely to attach no significance to the appended word 'sucks' and would therefore regard the disputed domain name as conveying an association with the Complainant.
Hmm, the VivendiUniversialSucks.com site starts with: Why Does Vivendi/Universal Suck?
Vivendi is a large, behemoth corporation that exists merely.....
It's in English. So non-English speakers could actually have some problems reading the site and it is therefore irrelevant if they know what 'sucks' mean. The site also does not feature any VU logos but rants about conglomerates like Vivendi. Surely any reader will immediatly think that it is an official VU site.
I guess that WIPO would like to have an Orwellian version of English with domain names like "VivendiUniversialDoublePlusUngood.com"
No. That was the case 30 years ago- but the american usage has been universally adopted since then, atleast in all papers, government announcements and everyday usage; and the dictionaries indicate that also.
It's somewhat OT, but the american use of billion has not been adopted universially. Maybe in the english speaking countries but at least in Germany it's still the good old:
Million (10e6) - Milliarde (10e9) - Billion (10e12) - Billiarde (10e15) - Trillion (10e18) -... . This way you get much more bang for your -uhm- billion;-) I guess that's what Erik meant.
Revision tracking. StarOffice is almost worthless in business environment without it.
Have a look in the Edit Menu, beginning of third block (can't tell you the exact name, because I have a German Version. there it is "Bearbeiten->Aenderungen->").
Just because SO puts menu entries into more logical place (IMHO) doesn't mean it doesn't have the features.
When Mom and Pop find their CD burner no longer works because their manufacturer hasn't gotten around to becoming "XP Ready" (even though the code base is no different than NT/2K) then I seriously doubt they'll be keeping it.
Yeah, but the list of blocked drivers is updateable via the internet. So at first Mom's and Pop's CD-ROM will work, only after XP has gotten some foothold some problems might start......
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In former times we did to the computers at the universities and probably caused quite some strain on the SysOps. Nowadays things seem to shift to the Internet making things more visible.
The guy should be commended for his creative application of his skills, not convicted.
Uhm, Walmart is posting a loss year after year in Germany. Absolutly-no-thrills supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl) grabbed a big part of the market and are now steamrolling the rest of Europe. Germany is considered the most difficult retail market of Europe (the world?) as margins are minimal.
And why? Because market regulation prevents the oligopolies to turn into monopolies (well, at least tries to unless overturned by politicians). And oligopolies trying to form trusts are actually fined.The absolute MINIMUM fine per song is $750. How is that reasonable in any shape, form or fashion?
What I don't understand at all is how the RIAA succeeds with this $750 "fine". Reasoning:- With nearly all P2P tools I heard about you can't download without uploading (unless you know how to hack the toools, which most people won't).
- So everyone downloading is also uploading.
- Imagine 1000 people downloading a song. 900 are (possibly) uploading it at the same time (+100 geeks knowing how to prevent uploading), RIAA could sue them for $675000.
- Contrast this with all users buying the songs on iTunes fo $1: This nets $1000 of which the RIAA gets only a small part. So the losses of RIAA are maybe $300.
- This is civil law, which is concerned with recovering damages not with punishment so RIAA should only be able to recoup its damages. (Well, this only holds for countries with a 'normal' judical system. The US has these strange "3 times damages as civil punishment" laws.) So the RIA can't argue that the high "fine" is needed to set an example.
- That RIAA is only suing one of the 1000 is not the problem of the one sued. He is not responsible for replacing the damages RIAA has from the 999 other downloaders.
I'm really wondering why no one ever used this defense strategy (but of course IANAL).And to add to this has anyone actually tried to search for "traffic estimator" on google? Surprise, surprise. Their page is not among the top 10 (and I didn't look any further).
Incompetence at Google? Don't even know how to stuff their own search engine? Ah, but maybe it is only for internal search (entry number 4 there).
This article smells like either FUD or very bad fact checking.
A pebble-based HTR had been in operation in the late 80ties in Hamm (Germany) before it had to be switched off due to (continuous?) failures. This technology doesn't really seem to be mature. The history of the THTR Hamm-Uentrop as seen by one of its local opponents.
If that was meant to reduce my worries, it doesn't. In the German army you have to refuse illegal orders. No choice included and no excuse possible you were 'just following orders'.
You can refuse orders given from someone without the appropriate authority (due to not in chain of command or ordering things unrelated to the task (e.g. cleaning his shoes)).
What you describe is Meritocracy or Technocracy. Anarchy is not only absence of rulers but absence of rule. In a sufficiently big group with no one specifically concerned with enforcing laws this can quickly devolve into rule by power or into a very unpleasant situation for minorities (which geeks may be considered to be one of). Thus, I'm very surprised that so many here seem to embrace anarchy as the best political system possible.
Of course if you postulate that utopia breaks out and all humans will be suddenly nice and friendly, as another poster did, anarchy will be really great. But any political system would be in such a situation.
I run the apache version without php for months on my SL5500 and it works quite nicely. No RAM problem (configured it to 48MB RAM/12MB Ramdisk). Just don't try anything fancy with the webserver. But for always having wikipedia with me its great.
Excuse me, but where does it say in that line that those rights continue to exist for those who break the law, let alone declare unconventional warfare against the US?
Exactly here:that all men [...] are endowed [...] with certain unalienable Rights
You can stop laughing now. Besides, who decided they broke the law? Is it now in the power of the government to decide who has 'earned' a due process and who not?
> Not true either. John Walker Lindh never went to Guantanamo.
Excuse me but where exactly in
does it say something about human rights only holding for citizens?If they are war criminals, sue them. You seem to be very sure to know what 'they' have done. .... well "in dubio pro reo" still holds.
If you don't have any proof
Actually its more a German train on Chinese concrete. Of course everyone expects that in a few years the Chinese will have learned enough to build everything on their own. And sell all the components half price for the connection from Munich city to airport which will be under planning for years to come.
Hmm, from their site:
Q: How much will Star Chamber cost to buy?
A: The game will be free to download and to create a Trial account. Trial accounts can play as long as they like with a selection of sample decks on a sample map. Trial players who enjoy the game may decide to purchase cards and become a paying player, whereupon they receive the benefit of building their own decks and playing non-sample games and maps.
So effectively they provide a demo version as lots of other games do. I wouldn't call that free. Especially since collectible card games are made to cost you lots of money.
It's definitely a great hack. But of course if you just waited a year (or so ;-), 802.11e would have provided the same but with less overhead and enforcing the limits on the ether.
...). But it would work.
11e will have a mode called HCF (Hybrid Coordinator Function) recently renamed to HCCA (forgot what that stands for) where the Accesspoint can be asked for timeslots and it will assigned them to the requestors after each beacon causing a content-free period. Only afterwards a (prioritized) contention mechanism will come into place for the rest of the transmission time till the next beacon (called EDCF=Enhanced DCF).
Actually HCCA is not really intended for web browsing over 20km wireless link but more for real-time traffic over 10m wireless link (e.g. videos to your Webpad, PDA,
The writer of the Feature on Accidential Privacy Spills goes on about P3P, encryption, copyright, ... but he seemingly simply forgot one point. The netiquette clearly states:
E-mail is not to be published.
The guy to blame is also clear: Adam Davis posted the e-mail to a mailing list, which is publication. (And some other guy called 'beagle' seemingly published two other e-mails of Laurie Garrett).
All this endless talk on how publishing e-mails degrades (or improves) information of the masses in a democracy, all this speculative writings on possible technologies to prevent it. This all is completely pointless. The question is how to make everyone aware and understand the netiquette and why it is necessary. The author of the feature implicitely gives some pretty compelling reasons for the why but also clearly shows he hasn't understand the netiquette since he (mockingly) proposes to Cease-and-Desist the e-mail out of publicity.
There is no need for C&D. Netiquette has been breached and any webmaster who really deserves that name should be extremly willing to remove the e-mail from any website/archive he is responsible for simply on request.
Social pressure is it. Or maybe was it. We shouldn't have let in all those AOLers a few years ago .
You forgot the two most important parts:
1) It was a software reuse problem:
The original requirement acccounting for the continued operation of the alignment software after lift-off was brought forward more than 10 years ago for the earlier models of Ariane, in order to cope with the rather unlikely event of a hold in the count-down e.g. between - 9 seconds, when flight mode starts in the SRI of Ariane 4, and - 5 seconds when certain events are initiated in the launcher [...]
The same requirement does not apply to Ariane 5, which has a different preparation sequence and it was maintained for commonality reasons, presumably based on the view that, unless proven necessary, it was not wise to make changes in software which worked well on Ariane 4.
2) It wouldn't have been a problem at all (since the code - as stated - wasn't required anymore) if it hadn't been assumed that the software was error free and therefore the only errors possible were hardware failures which had to be diagnosed in flight to prevent repetition. Not so good when done on both primary and backup unit:
Part of these data at that time did not contain proper flight data, but showed a diagnostic bit pattern of the computer of the SRI 2, which was interpreted as flight data. [...]
Although the source of the Operand Error has been identified, this in itself did not cause the mission to fail. [...] It was the decision to cease the processor operation which finally proved fatal. [...] The reason behind this drastic action lies in the culture within the Ariane programme of only addressing random hardware failures. From this point of view exception - or error - handling mechanisms are designed for a random hardware failure which can quite rationally be handled by a backup system.
(The whole thing caused extensive discussion on comp.object on defensive programming and the advantages of Eiffel.)
Since they again used a rocket with new specs: Maybe they f***ed up the software again.the Panel has found that non-English speaking Internet users would be likely to attach no significance to the appended word 'sucks' and would therefore regard the disputed domain name as conveying an association with the Complainant.
Hmm, the VivendiUniversialSucks.com site starts with: .....
Why Does Vivendi/Universal Suck?
Vivendi is a large, behemoth corporation that exists merely
It's in English. So non-English speakers could actually have some problems reading the site and it is therefore irrelevant if they know what 'sucks' mean. The site also does not feature any VU logos but rants about conglomerates like Vivendi. Surely any reader will immediatly think that it is an official VU site.
I guess that WIPO would like to have an Orwellian version of English with domain names like "VivendiUniversialDoublePlusUngood.com"
No. That was the case 30 years ago- but the american usage has been universally adopted since then, atleast in all papers, government announcements and everyday usage; and the dictionaries indicate that also.
It's somewhat OT, but the american use of billion has not been adopted universially. Maybe in the english speaking countries but at least in Germany it's still the good old: Million (10e6) - Milliarde (10e9) - Billion (10e12) - Billiarde (10e15) - Trillion (10e18) - ... . This way you get much more bang for your -uhm- billion ;-)
I guess that's what Erik meant.
User defined mappings between keys and functions.
"Extras->Anpassen..." in the German version, probably "Extra->Adapt" in the English one. But I would assume MS Word also allows that.
It has in the Edit menu. See #2257645
Revision tracking. StarOffice is almost worthless in business environment without it.
Have a look in the Edit Menu, beginning of third block (can't tell you the exact name, because I have a German Version. there it is "Bearbeiten->Aenderungen->").
Just because SO puts menu entries into more logical place (IMHO) doesn't mean it doesn't have the features.
When Mom and Pop find their CD burner no longer works because their manufacturer hasn't gotten around to becoming "XP Ready" (even though the code base is no different than NT/2K) then I seriously doubt they'll be keeping it.
Yeah, but the list of blocked drivers is updateable via the internet. So at first Mom's and Pop's CD-ROM will work, only after XP has gotten some foothold some problems might start