opening its massive detention facility in the high desert of Movaje, CA
That is on US soil & human rights would eventually be enforced.
They should have learned from the US government and located the facility in Cuba, I gather that there is some spare space in Camp X-Ray.
Well, that would have been one way of improving the story!
long-term archiving needs (i.e., 50 years and longer)
50 years is not long, 500 years is what we should be talking about.
Books, if looked after properly, last for centuries. OK: many modern paperbacks are printed on paper that has not been properly stabilised (still contain acid), but there are plenty of very old books.
In case you think that I am over the top: have you never looked at an old family album with pictures going back to the start of the last century? What will future generations think of us if none of that sort of material survives because we had the lack of foresight to put it onto good media?
All other terms of the settlement will remain confidential.
In cases involving publically quoted companies, the terms of the settlement must be published, we cannot have things like this hidden from view. The public interest is in holding these guys accountable.
I bought a sharp kitchen knife the other day, fortunately the police did not arrest me because I might have used it to murder someone.
A friend bought a mirror, they were not arrested because they might have used it to snort cocaine.
Things have multiple uses. The law recognises that.
DirectTV is indulging in the same sort of extortion that the holders of software patents do. Threaten someone with a potentially expensive, although unjustified, lawsuit - and offer to settle for a fraction of the cost. Most people/companies will give in - it is not just the cost in legal fees, but the time wasted & emotional drain of going to court -- I know, post divorce, I have spent 8 years fighting to see my kids.
They priced CDs at a premium because that is what the market would bear: for a better quality and more convenient format.
They are now getting upset that they can no longer charge a premium because there is a new medium that is more convenient.
They should work to capitalise on the new medium and new distribution format. If they do it properly they will maintain profits by selling greater volume at lower prices; their unit cost of sale will drop to almost zero (no physical media to: make, put in a box, ship and no middle men [retail outlets]).
The eventual losers will be the distribution channel and the shops.
Broadband is available in many places in the UK, as long as you are urban. I have had it for 18 months, I could not live without it & use it a lot for work & play (I live in Watford - just North of London), it costs me 23.95/month (www.eclipse.net), there are many providers, just be sure to avoid using British Telecom (BT) as an ISP.
I came across www.metronet.co.uk recently, they offer it at 10/month (+ VAT), but there is a 200MB cap - if you exceed that you pay 0.25p/MB until you reach a max charge of 23.95 - seems ideal for new/light users. (I have no affiliation to them).
You should not have a problem in Tufnell park.
Much of Europe is better than the UK, it is the USA that has problems, but it is a much larger place to wire.
[[ All those prices are in GB Pounds, but/. seems to loose them]]
I think that here "voluntary efforts" refers to businesses' efforts to handle security without regulations and laws forcing them to (i.e. 'voluntarily'), and doesn't refer to Open Source developers.
"The government has essentially relied on the voluntary efforts of industry both to make less-buggy software and make systems more resilient," says Michael A. Vatis, former director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "What we're seeing is that those voluntary efforts are insufficient, and the repercussions are vast."
Wrong it is not the voluntary developers (of Open Source), but the salaried developers at MicroSoft that have the problems.
The voluntary developers are taking security seriously, it is the proprietary software houses that need the legislation: disclosure would be a nice start.
We need to take care that legislation does not impose (financial) penalties on Open Source developers - that could cripple OSS contributions.
The problem is that the word independent is the wrong one.
It depends on what sort of work you choose to do on this sort of beast, finite element work (simulations, etc) involves the same operation on lots of values over and over. This is how Cray made his money years ago.
This is not a desktop machine for you to do office automation on, quake maybe, but not word smithing.
Although rechargables seem to have a slighly lower nominal voltage than the equivalent disposable, I am told that they have a lower impedance (resistance). The result is supposed to be a risk to some equipement. This is why some things have the label ''do not use rechargable batteries''.
However, I have always ignored the above and never had any kit die as a result of using rechargables.
Yes, POSIX is required, and backards compatability is required. One of the nice things about Unix/Linux is that I can (with a quick compile) run programs that I wrote 10 years ago, and with minor tinkering ones that I wrote 20 years ago.
That is great. If I write small utilities - I don't want to spend time rewriting them.
At the moment SCO can huff and puff but everyone can ignore then, no one has agreed anything with SCO.
You want your peace of mind, so you cough up and give SCO $500 -- what else do you give them ? Well, the copy of the contract that they gave you to sign; what do we think that will contain ? Let me guess... how about an acknowledgement that you will never again use Linux without paying a SCO tax. Hmmmm, from now to forever you will need to pay SCO for what everyone else gets for free.
A clever way of making money out of someone else's GPLed software.
and not tell my electricity supply company that I use Linux at home, just in case they decide that because some of my neighbours run M$ boxes, that they can't supply me with power any more.
You are unlikely to be able migrate every desktop in your organisation to Linux in one day; some may well stay on M$ Windows for years.
You cannot afford to loose the groupware (think shared calendaring) that Outlook/Exchange offers.
You cannot afford to allow your organisation to fragment into islands - incompatible groupware could do this.
Your users will want to migrate at their own pace.
All of the above means that it is VITAL to fully support TRANSTION - ie interoperation between the different desktop technologies in an organisation. File formats (word/excell/powerpoint) are well supported by OpenOffice & Gnumeric; email interoperation is easy (SMTP/IMAP/POP); shared disks (Samba); authentication (openldap, pam_ldap/M$-AD - almost there).
MAPI interoperation is (IMHO) the most important missing component that is hindering the widespread adoption of Linux on the corporate desktop.
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That is on US soil & human rights would eventually be enforced. They should have learned from the US government and located the facility in Cuba, I gather that there is some spare space in Camp X-Ray.
Well, that would have been one way of improving the story!
50 years is not long, 500 years is what we should be talking about.
Books, if looked after properly, last for centuries. OK: many modern paperbacks are printed on paper that has not been properly stabilised (still contain acid), but there are plenty of very old books.
In case you think that I am over the top: have you never looked at an old family album with pictures going back to the start of the last century? What will future generations think of us if none of that sort of material survives because we had the lack of foresight to put it onto good media?
A debugged program is one that contains only unobserved bugs.
At least she has her whole working life ahead of her and will be one of the few who might be able to earn enough to pay off the huge fine.
Arthur C Clarke talked about this years ago in one of the Rendezvous with Rama trilogy - technology from the giant spiders IIRC.
Sorry - I am not allowed to profit from that advice since Jeff Bezos has a patent on it.
In cases involving publically quoted companies, the terms of the settlement must be published, we cannot have things like this hidden from view. The public interest is in holding these guys accountable.
I bought a sharp kitchen knife the other day, fortunately the police did not arrest me because I might have used it to murder someone.
A friend bought a mirror, they were not arrested because they might have used it to snort cocaine.
Things have multiple uses. The law recognises that.
DirectTV is indulging in the same sort of extortion that the holders of software patents do. Threaten someone with a potentially expensive, although unjustified, lawsuit - and offer to settle for a fraction of the cost. Most people/companies will give in - it is not just the cost in legal fees, but the time wasted & emotional drain of going to court -- I know, post divorce, I have spent 8 years fighting to see my kids.
They priced CDs at a premium because that is what the market would bear: for a better quality and more convenient format.
They are now getting upset that they can no longer charge a premium because there is a new medium that is more convenient.
They should work to capitalise on the new medium and new distribution format. If they do it properly they will maintain profits by selling greater volume at lower prices; their unit cost of sale will drop to almost zero (no physical media to: make, put in a box, ship and no middle men [retail outlets]).
The eventual losers will be the distribution channel and the shops.
Broadband is available in many places in the UK, as long as you are urban. I have had it for 18 months, I could not live without it & use it a lot for work & play (I live in Watford - just North of London), it costs me 23.95/month (www.eclipse.net), there are many providers, just be sure to avoid using British Telecom (BT) as an ISP.
/. seems to loose them]]
I came across www.metronet.co.uk recently, they offer it at 10/month (+ VAT), but there is a 200MB cap - if you exceed that you pay 0.25p/MB until you reach a max charge of 23.95 - seems ideal for new/light users. (I have no affiliation to them).
You should not have a problem in Tufnell park.
Much of Europe is better than the UK, it is the USA that has problems, but it is a much larger place to wire.
[[ All those prices are in GB Pounds, but
So will they relax a bit and stop hounding us when the last executive has sold his last share ?
I realised that.
Wrong it is not the voluntary developers (of Open Source), but the salaried developers at MicroSoft that have the problems.
The voluntary developers are taking security seriously, it is the proprietary software houses that need the legislation: disclosure would be a nice start.
We need to take care that legislation does not impose (financial) penalties on Open Source developers - that could cripple OSS contributions.
The problem is that the word independent is the wrong one.
It depends on what sort of work you choose to do on this sort of beast, finite element work (simulations, etc) involves the same operation on lots of values over and over. This is how Cray made his money years ago.
This is not a desktop machine for you to do office automation on, quake maybe, but not word smithing.
Since China is so big the economics of locally written software make a lot of good sense.
Writing programs is expensive, but given enough desktops the cost per unit can be quite small.
Although rechargables seem to have a slighly lower nominal voltage than the equivalent disposable, I am told that they have a lower impedance (resistance). The result is supposed to be a risk to some equipement. This is why some things have the label ''do not use rechargable batteries''.
However, I have always ignored the above and never had any kit die as a result of using rechargables.
Yes, POSIX is required, and backards compatability is required. One of the nice things about Unix/Linux is that I can (with a quick compile) run programs that I wrote 10 years ago, and with minor tinkering ones that I wrote 20 years ago.
That is great. If I write small utilities - I don't want to spend time rewriting them.
At the moment SCO can huff and puff but everyone can ignore then, no one has agreed anything with SCO.
... how about an acknowledgement that you will never again use Linux without paying a SCO tax. Hmmmm, from now to forever you will need to pay SCO for what everyone else gets for free.
You want your peace of mind, so you cough up and give SCO $500 -- what else do you give them ? Well, the copy of the contract that they gave you to sign; what do we think that will contain ? Let me guess
A clever way of making money out of someone else's GPLed software.
Have you ever thought of becoming a commercial broadcaster yourself ?
Haven't got the time: an hour or two a day is all that it would take - automated of course.
Haven't got the bandwidth: commercially broadcast to a couple of your friends.
Pay the RIAA: naturally, be generous - round it up to a cheque for one penny per month. (do the math)
Any idea what the banks charge companies to cash cheques: in the UK it is about 40p (some 25 cents).
Any idea how much administrative time it would take to process all those cheques ?
OK: this falls down if you need to pay membership to be able to broadcast in the first place; if not this could be some fun.
and not tell my electricity supply company that I use Linux at home, just in case they decide that because some of my neighbours run M$ boxes, that they can't supply me with power any more.
You are unlikely to be able migrate every desktop in your organisation to Linux in one day; some may well stay on M$ Windows for years.
You cannot afford to loose the groupware (think shared calendaring) that Outlook/Exchange offers.
You cannot afford to allow your organisation to fragment into islands - incompatible groupware could do this.
Your users will want to migrate at their own pace.
All of the above means that it is VITAL to fully support TRANSTION - ie interoperation between the different desktop technologies in an organisation. File formats (word/excell/powerpoint) are well supported by OpenOffice & Gnumeric; email interoperation is easy (SMTP/IMAP/POP); shared disks (Samba); authentication (openldap, pam_ldap/M$-AD - almost there).
MAPI interoperation is (IMHO) the most important missing component that is hindering the widespread adoption of Linux on the corporate desktop.
See subject.
They need to go to 64 bit processors to be able to count the number of CPUs that they have shipped.
Will I use my alias name which is Alain Williams, or will I use my real name which is Osama Bin Laden the next time that I book a flight to the USA ?
The trouble with this sort of thing is that it inconveniences Joe Public while doing little to deter a real terrorist.
Not at all -- it just gives SCO another company to sue!