If you work the night shift and enjoy certain, late-night, adult television programs, there is a well-established technology known as a VCR to enable you to watch your favourite programs when you get home from work.
If that same night shift worker enjoys accessing adult materials on the internet..... ?
generate a flood of people complaining to store managers... and don't forget to say how upset your friends were when the presents they received didn't work.
Seesm to me there are two solutions to the keylogging issue.
One is for the OS/FS community to come up with a keylogging virus of its own. Then no one can know when their keystrokes are being logged.
The other solution is for the OS/FS community to come up with a program which detects all off-site communication. Then no one can be keylogged without the ability to detect, given some marginal intelligence, that someone is observing what they do.
Mafioso and similar gang leaders are not good for the comunity. Governments with the ability to observe everything their citizens do is infinitely worse.
Books on how-to-program in a particular language are always obsolete, but exceptional ones teach you how to program, as well as the actual language. That's why I've always been fond of K&R.
anything by K&R, especially The C Programming Language
Although I'm not currently running Linux, I've encountered similar situations over the last couple of years.
When GNOME and KDE were fairly new, I had to install dozens of packages to get them working. But then I wound up with several different versions of libraries on my system, because each piece of software wanted "this-week's" libc or libgtk.
The situtation was complicated by the conflict between RPM and source distributions. I would download, compile and install something which provided a certain library, but because that came from source and not an RPM, another package would not know it was available, and would insist I install it again in binary.
While up-to-date resources are convenient, I do not own computers for the purpose of slavishly obeying package developers' requirements, or to provide archive space for the five most recent versions of a library.
Seems to me the solution is a flood of lawsuits against the Patent Office for incompetence.
SOMETHING is needed to make them pay attention to the basic concept of "innovation".
Sure, re-post old stories.... when there's some new news to report.
No, I don't want to read about something for a third time, simply because some new person is so thrilled by their discovery that they can't be bothered to find out whether it's already been reported
The horizontal axis is knowledge, how much of the system you have learned; the vertical axis is effort.
If you have a shallow learning curve, it's like gamboling among the sheep in the English countryside. You bounce along, learning effortlessly.
A steep learning curve involves climbing a steep cliff as step one. It may not advance your knowledge a great deal, but it takes significant effort before you can even get started.
The article says.... > Will we soon have to worry about our rights online in a legal system > outside of the United States?"
Don't forget that the Rest-Of-The-World is finding itself forced to worry about their rights online controlled by US law. DeCSS is one example, one Scandinavian boy arrested for supposedly contravening a US law, without even the benefit of extradition hearings.
> As a world leader, we aren't all that afraid of the UN, since most > members will eventually side our way due to economic pressures.
Precisely so. The US uses the UN and NATO to impose its will on Bosnia and other regions of the world, but refuses to pay its UN bill, being several years behind schedule in its payments. Keep making them do what you want, and then when the infrastructure is crumbling from lack of finances, they'll be even more desperate to do whatever you want, in hopes you'll actually make a payment.
> That Microsoft's developers could be so recklessly dumb as to add a backdoor that > will surely be discovered eventually (unencoded plaintext in a DLL, FFS!!), > thus playing right into the hands of the open-source-is-good-for-security > argument, and no-one at MS noticed it... the mind boggles.
Didn't you know? It was Linux dweebers planted at Microsoft under special assignment from Linus Himself.
We don't have an organization, only an assortment of people who have proven themselves knowledgable, and a vast cadre of dedicated dweebs who actually check up on things people present as facts. As a result, we can't be infiltrated. But they can...
When Edison patented the incandescent lightbulb, he was given a monopoly on a single method of using electricity to provide illumination. There was nothing about the patent to prevent others from inventing and patenting the flourescent lightbulb, neon, and other technologies.
Current practice, however, is to patent the "use of a calculating device and communications network to distribute news in a timely manner". Suddenly Slashdot, the NY Times, and dozens of sites owe me 0.25% (I wish), even though each uses different methods to implement the concept.
It used to be that people patented specific, and presumably better, designs for implementing a carburator. Now they patent the very idea of a carburator.
> They look for certain words. Whats wrong with > this? Those that aren't doing anything wrong > wont be messed with
Gee, that's a familiar phrase... The police stopped and questioned you? Well, if you haven't committed a crime, you have no cause for concern. They've taken your son in for questioning? I didn't realize some of your family was criminal. You haven't seen your sister in weeks? What do you suppose she had done, that would make her want to hide?
Don't forget that legal activities such as opposing nuclear weapons, war ( VietNam ), oppressive gevernments such as China and East Timor are or have been regular suppressed violently around the world, including Canada nad the US.
Patents take years to take effect and as long as a year or more simply to be accepted as pending. To reach the pending point you need quite a bit of money. And don't forget that if it's a good idea, you may need to register your patent in many countries.
As for Venture Capital, it's best avoided if at all pssible. According to a story in a Canadian paper, the guy who was running MP3.com (Auel ??) is setting up a NET-oriented VC company in Canada. He's inspired by a company in the States which invested $20M to obtain ownership which is now worth $700M.
That's $700M of ownership the idea-guys, nerds and geeks have surrendered to rich jerks who did nothing more than provide relatively small amounts of cash.
Putting the default behaviour (hordcoded components) in a file is a good idea because it makes it easier to take advantage of your system for new uses. Instead of having to modify the source, you just need to add an alternate 'defaults' file.
But in my irrelevant opinion, the hardcoded components should not impose any licensing behaviour on the output. After all, you can use GCC and other GNU interpreters/compilers to process commercial products. The compiler is free, what you use it for is up to you.
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If you work the night shift and enjoy certain, late-night, adult television programs, there is a well-established technology known as a VCR to enable you to watch your favourite programs when you get home from work.
..... ?
If that same night shift worker enjoys accessing adult materials on the internet
generate a flood of people complaining to store managers ... and don't forget to say how upset your friends were when the presents they received didn't work.
Of course, this being Bnai Brith Canada, requesting the Canadian government to act, the presence or absence of US laws is irrelevant.
Seesm to me there are two solutions to the keylogging issue.
One is for the OS/FS community to come up with a keylogging virus of its own. Then no one can know when their keystrokes are being logged.
The other solution is for the OS/FS community to come up with a program which detects all off-site communication. Then no one can be keylogged without the ability to detect, given some marginal intelligence, that someone is observing what they do.
Mafioso and similar gang leaders are not good for the comunity. Governments with the ability to observe everything their citizens do is infinitely worse.
Every six months, the software could shift into fund-drive mode, and urge uses to donate. "Volunteers are standing by!"
Although I'm not currently running Linux, I've encountered similar situations over the last couple of years.
When GNOME and KDE were fairly new, I had to install dozens of packages to get them working. But then I wound up with several different versions of libraries on my system, because each piece of software wanted "this-week's" libc or libgtk.
The situtation was complicated by the conflict between RPM and source distributions. I would download, compile and install something which provided a certain library, but because that came from source and not an RPM, another package would not know it was available, and would insist I install it again in binary.
While up-to-date resources are convenient, I do not own computers for the purpose of slavishly obeying package developers' requirements, or to provide archive space for the five most recent versions of a library.
TomDLux
Seems to me the solution is a flood of lawsuits against the Patent Office for incompetence. SOMETHING is needed to make them pay attention to the basic concept of "innovation".
Sure, re-post old stories .... when there's some new news to report.
No, I don't want to read about something for a third time, simply because some new person is so thrilled by their discovery that they can't be bothered to find out whether it's already been reported
The horizontal axis is knowledge, how much of the system you have learned; the vertical axis is effort.
If you have a shallow learning curve, it's like gamboling among the sheep in the English countryside. You bounce along, learning effortlessly.
A steep learning curve involves climbing a steep cliff as step one. It may not advance your knowledge a great deal, but it takes significant effort before you can even get started.
You won't have that problem any more, I've just obtained a patent on on-line background and drecit checks
The article says ....
> Will we soon have to worry about our rights online in a legal system
> outside of the United States?"
Don't forget that the Rest-Of-The-World is finding itself forced to worry about their rights online controlled by US law. DeCSS is one example, one Scandinavian boy arrested for supposedly contravening a US law, without even the benefit of extradition hearings.
> As a world leader, we aren't all that afraid
of the UN, since most
> members will eventually side our way due to economic pressures.
Precisely so. The US uses the UN and NATO to impose its will on Bosnia and other regions of the world, but refuses to pay its UN bill, being several years behind schedule in its payments. Keep making them do what you want, and then when the infrastructure is crumbling from lack of finances, they'll be even more desperate to do whatever you want, in hopes you'll actually make a payment.
Clearly, retaliation is considered unacceptable. On the other hand, insulting your classmates is fine.
... get out there and insult your classmates on your web pages, so when they do the same, THEY're the criminals.
So, all you HS students
> will surely be discovered eventually (unencoded plaintext in a DLL, FFS!!),
> thus playing right into the hands of the open-source-is-good-for-security
> argument, and no-one at MS noticed it... the mind boggles.
Didn't you know? It was Linux dweebers planted at Microsoft under special assignment from Linus Himself.
We don't have an organization, only an assortment of people who have proven themselves knowledgable, and a vast cadre of dedicated dweebs who actually check up on things people present as facts. As a result, we can't be infiltrated. But they can ...
Current practice, however, is to patent the "use of a calculating device and communications network to distribute news in a timely manner". Suddenly Slashdot, the NY Times, and dozens of sites owe me 0.25% (I wish), even though each uses different methods to implement the concept.
It used to be that people patented specific, and presumably better, designs for implementing a carburator. Now they patent the very idea of a carburator.
> They look for certain words. Whats wrong with
... The police stopped and questioned you? Well, if you haven't committed a crime, you have no cause for concern. They've taken your son in for questioning? I didn't realize some of your family was criminal. You haven't seen your sister in weeks? What do you suppose she had done, that would make her want to hide?
> this? Those that aren't doing anything wrong
> wont be messed with
Gee, that's a familiar phrase
Don't forget that legal activities such as opposing nuclear weapons, war ( VietNam ), oppressive gevernments such as China and East Timor are or have been regular suppressed violently around the world, including Canada nad the US.
Patents take years to take effect and as long as a year or more simply to be accepted as pending. To reach the pending point you need quite a bit of money. And don't forget that if it's a good idea, you may need to register your patent in many countries.
As for Venture Capital, it's best avoided if at all pssible. According to a story in a Canadian paper, the guy who was running MP3.com (Auel ??)
is setting up a NET-oriented VC company in Canada. He's inspired by a company in the States which invested $20M to obtain ownership which is now worth $700M.
That's $700M of ownership the idea-guys, nerds and geeks have surrendered to rich jerks who did nothing more than provide relatively small amounts of cash.
Putting the default behaviour (hordcoded components) in a file is a good idea because it
makes it easier to take advantage of your system for new uses. Instead of having to modify the source, you just need to add an alternate 'defaults' file.
But in my irrelevant opinion, the hardcoded components should not impose any licensing behaviour on the output. After all, you can use GCC and other GNU interpreters/compilers to process commercial products. The compiler is free, what you use it for is up to you.
TomDLux