Home-schooling is not always the answer. There are plenty of stupid parents... In addition, while it's the teacher's job to teach, and teach well, it's the student's responsibility to learn. I fear a lack of dedication to the latter the major problem.
The reason there's a lack of dedication is that many of the kids (and I get this from my stepchildren, mind...) are bored or see the futility of things with the way they're teaching right now. They're teaching to regurgitate items on a test. Seriously. They're not actually teaching thinking in the schools right at the moment and they're sugarcoating things so they can get them to score higher on the standardized tests every state's largely mandated for things along with the thinking about "no one left behind" that the Dept. of Education has taken on as a practice and a mantra.
Being involved with your local public school will have no appreciable impact until we ditch some of the idiot concepts floating about like the standardized testing required before they move to the next grade (bear with me...the theory is sound, but the practice will never be...they teach to taking the test instead of actually teaching what needs must be taught...) and things like "no one left behind". Until you get the stupid (And it's that...) out of the public systems you're not going to have an impact the way you're implying. You're going to need to fix the system first as it's the reason it's screwed up like this in the first place.
I wholly don't agree with this. At the level we're talking about, you're talking about something everyone will use- whether they actually think about doing it or not. It requires understanding of the concept at the least- which isn't getting taught and the behaviors per the calculators (including computers unless they're using something like Maple, Octave, etc...) do things.
Actually, if you make a native call, you're outside of the VM unless the code you called gives it back to the VM. It's been the same since the UCSD P-Code system DECADES ago (and, yes, I've been at it that long, folks...). Any system calls you make or similar leave you open to attack.
It's NOT unhackable. It's not invulnerable. If you think it is, you're fooling itself. Now, your statement wasn't one of that- it was one of the VM being incapable of being broken out of as a sandbox. Which, you will find, if you think long and hard about it, I've disproven. Now, your new remark, one of providing the security ourselves, etc.- you'll find this proves that and I'd wholly agree with your remark there.
If the application uses this little toolchain to provide a native code.so, you're able to break right on out of the VM, possibly never to return. It's not very hard at all- and there's a host of possible exploits to apply once you're in that space, all depending on how locked down the user account actually is on your Android device.
Let's all face a real fact here. Security has little to do with technology in and of itself. There's an aspect of it within the design of something, but in the end it's people that provide security as well. You would fail at securing something outright- you lay entirely too much faith in things like a VM to protect your system design.
This presumes that everything that we're talking about to reduce "carbon footprint" is the "right thing". Right now, the stuff we're talking about in the large only shifts the CO2 emissions around to other places (China? India?) and adds other, nastier in the short term sense, pollutants into the environment. It's not a "better world" yet- all we're really doing is dumping the mess into someone else's back yard at best and curtailing things needlessly at worst.
We're probably barking up the right tree with it all, but it's not there and won't be for a long while yet to come. Does this mean we shouldn't be trying? Oh, definitely not. Does this mean we can reduce our carbon footprint? Again, definitely not.
Yes, he is. He should be considering his good fortune that the perp was nothing more than a hotdog biker on a crotch-rocket- and then DROPPING it. It's embarassing, yes. Now they've done an idiot thing and made the mess much worse. In fact, now the rest of the world knows that the cop's wont to pull out his piece and NOT announce his status and present proof thereof while brandishing his sidearm.
In light of the fact that all on-active LEOs have on-board cams on their cruisers, this means they tacitly accept that they will be recorded. This is regardless of the off-active cop that pulled this stunt (and it WAS one...). If he didn't have a cam in his personal car, it doesn't remove the approval of things on the other end.
Copyright law does not cover use. Copyright covers publication, derivative works, and that sort of thing. Use is a differing beastie and that's the space EULAs usually work.
Now, was GE in tortious violation of their agreements with MGE? Perhaps. But breaching things so that they don't need their dongles solely for their own use, that's neither a Copyright nor apparently really a DMCA violation if this precedent stands.
Actually, it's a bit easier than that. The clock for laches starts when it's a situation of known or should have known about the infringement- and there's this short timeframe for trying to mitigate the infringements before you lose the right to at least enforce with the said infringers. All the things you mention won't count for much if it's in the open that there's an infringement- which is the case with this situation to begin with.
As an aside, it can be said that if there are any infringements within VP3, it's sitting in this space at this point as it's been FOSS for many years now. The same will be able to be said about VP8 shortly.
It should also be noted that you're not going to lose everything in question like you would with trademark. Depending on the delay, lose at least the right to collect damages. If you delay several years in this situation, you will merely not be able to enforce against the infringers you should have enforced against earlier.
If System76 or ZaReason provided a 17/17.5" i5/i7 laptop, it'd be a gem- but they're still shipping stuff smaller than that. Which is okay, if you're not doing media aggressive stuff or software development. Not enough screen real-estate with the 15.5" screens.
I don't think anyone with half a brain would be surprised. Too obvious a change like this, much like ASUS showed- and while ASUS didn't outright say that they got pushed by MS, they did indicate that this might have happened all the same.
Walmart carried the flag for Linux in big box retail for about ten years.
Really? If I'm not mistaken, they only sort-of, half-heartedly carried Linux with their ONLINE presence a while back and offered some of the same half-hearted offer of the same for Mandriva a long while back. I'd hardly characterize this as "carrying the flag" for Linux.
Actually, they also install Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise on their systems- especially if you're a medium to large enterprise customer. Dell has more RHCE's than Red Hat or most other organizations you care to count.
What's odd is the behavior here. Had to be MS that leaned on them with this one. I just wish that these companies would come forward on this explicit violation of the Anti-Trust laws that we're seeing the circumstantial evidence of with all these goings on.
The problem is that a plumber is not a good analogy. To fit the analogy, you would have the expect the plumber to never charge for installing a faucet after he installed the first one. However, he would be required to install faucets for anyone who wanted one and not be able to charge.
Neither analogy is really correct- yours is actually more akin to the one where someone buys one copy and then makes umpteen unauthorized copies (which is the picture the media industries would like to paint this all as; which really isn't the case here...). The original analogy would be closer to what the industry is trying for even if it's not what's currently going on- you keep paying for each usage, ad-infinitum.
You're not going to get a good analogy here- because there's really nothing analogous to this situation we're discussing (Although the first does get a taste of where they're trying to take things.).
It's not even really "firmware" unless it's the only thing on the server being booted.
There resides on pretty much every server class device these days some semblence of a panic boot or diagnostics/admin tool that resides on an on-board, USB, or SATA SSD on the system. This got zapped at the factory with a Windows Trojan that could zap the system under the wrong circumstances- and ONLY if you're running a WINDOWS OS on the system.
While it's an epic fail on Dell's part (talk about goofing something up there...)- it's even more of one for New Scientist since they either didn't wait to find out more details on things or didn't bother to read further down in the thread they reference to indicate that this was the case.
It's all about sensationalism, I suppose, these days.
The only reason they backed down from things is the uproar and being pilloried over what they did with Spore.
Don't kid yourself. They'd like to be that restrictive- because they went there and would've stayed there if consumers hadn't have so thoroughly rejected what they pulled.
However, the GP-poster's remarks still are very much valid. If he didn't receive the licenses himself, then he's not really licensed to them. If he's doing something outside the license grant's requirements to be licensed, he's not really licensed to the software in question. Now, if they bought it for him and it really was licensed to him and not the employer, it's okay on that level- but not on the other.
It is irrelevant to the discussion as to whether he's developing software with it or not. The only exceptions to that licensing would probably be if you were developing WINDOWS games and you were playing/testing the same. Anything else would be a breach of the MSDN license grant.
You have to be a business user or order the business lineup to get serious models configured with Linux on them right at the moment. They do sell Linux desktops- and a lot of them, but just not at the consumer sales level right at the moment.
Heh... I question the mods that marked you "insightful"...
One thing about Linux hasn't changed at all in the 14 years I've been using it: users still need to have in-depth knowledge to do basic stuff, like install new applications.
I have in hand a.deb or an installer executable file for a given application. How does one install it?
Open up a file browser (i.e. Explorer window...) and double-click on the package in question. In most instances (including many of the games being ported right now...), at this point the GUI package installer will launch or the installer in the bundle will do the same thing. If it's self-contained (meaning no external dependencies) it'll only need the administrator password to install said app. If it's got dependencies, it'll typically explain those up-front or tell you about what it needs pre-installed, much like the story on MacOS or Windows.
What "in-depth" knowlege, I ask you?
Ditto for pretty much all the other "basic" things you do with computers.
And the same applies for pretty much any mainline and many niche Linux distributions.
You said you've been using it for 14 years? Funny...I would have thought you'd have known this was the case then.
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The reason there's a lack of dedication is that many of the kids (and I get this from my stepchildren, mind...) are bored or see the futility of things with the way they're teaching right now. They're teaching to regurgitate items on a test. Seriously. They're not actually teaching thinking in the schools right at the moment and they're sugarcoating things so they can get them to score higher on the standardized tests every state's largely mandated for things along with the thinking about "no one left behind" that the Dept. of Education has taken on as a practice and a mantra.
Being involved with your local public school will have no appreciable impact until we ditch some of the idiot concepts floating about like the standardized testing required before they move to the next grade (bear with me...the theory is sound, but the practice will never be...they teach to taking the test instead of actually teaching what needs must be taught...) and things like "no one left behind". Until you get the stupid (And it's that...) out of the public systems you're not going to have an impact the way you're implying. You're going to need to fix the system first as it's the reason it's screwed up like this in the first place.
I wholly don't agree with this. At the level we're talking about, you're talking about something everyone will use- whether they actually think about doing it or not. It requires understanding of the concept at the least- which isn't getting taught and the behaviors per the calculators (including computers unless they're using something like Maple, Octave, etc...) do things.
itself==yourself... Sigh... Need to check my posts a little closer before submitting them.
Actually, if you make a native call, you're outside of the VM unless the code you called gives it back to the VM. It's been the same since the UCSD P-Code system DECADES ago (and, yes, I've been at it that long, folks...). Any system calls you make or similar leave you open to attack.
It's NOT unhackable. It's not invulnerable. If you think it is, you're fooling itself. Now, your statement wasn't one of that- it was one of the VM being incapable of being broken out of as a sandbox. Which, you will find, if you think long and hard about it, I've disproven. Now, your new remark, one of providing the security ourselves, etc.- you'll find this proves that and I'd wholly agree with your remark there.
If you can "self-destruct" a phone that way, then it becomes a nifty way to do a DoS attack on those phones.
Really? Can't break out of the VM, period?
If the application uses this little toolchain to provide a native code .so, you're able to break right on out of the VM, possibly never to return. It's not very hard at all- and there's a host of possible exploits to apply once you're in that space, all depending on how locked down the user account actually is on your Android device.
Let's all face a real fact here. Security has little to do with technology in and of itself. There's an aspect of it within the design of something, but in the end it's people that provide security as well. You would fail at securing something outright- you lay entirely too much faith in things like a VM to protect your system design.
This presumes that everything that we're talking about to reduce "carbon footprint" is the "right thing". Right now, the stuff we're talking about in the large only shifts the CO2 emissions around to other places (China? India?) and adds other, nastier in the short term sense, pollutants into the environment. It's not a "better world" yet- all we're really doing is dumping the mess into someone else's back yard at best and curtailing things needlessly at worst.
We're probably barking up the right tree with it all, but it's not there and won't be for a long while yet to come. Does this mean we shouldn't be trying? Oh, definitely not. Does this mean we can reduce our carbon footprint? Again, definitely not.
Yes, he is. He should be considering his good fortune that the perp was nothing more than a hotdog biker on a crotch-rocket- and then DROPPING it. It's embarassing, yes. Now they've done an idiot thing and made the mess much worse. In fact, now the rest of the world knows that the cop's wont to pull out his piece and NOT announce his status and present proof thereof while brandishing his sidearm.
In light of the fact that all on-active LEOs have on-board cams on their cruisers, this means they tacitly accept that they will be recorded. This is regardless of the off-active cop that pulled this stunt (and it WAS one...). If he didn't have a cam in his personal car, it doesn't remove the approval of things on the other end.
Copyright law does not cover use. Copyright covers publication, derivative works, and that sort of thing. Use is a differing beastie and that's the space EULAs usually work.
Now, was GE in tortious violation of their agreements with MGE? Perhaps. But breaching things so that they don't need their dongles solely for their own use, that's neither a Copyright nor apparently really a DMCA violation if this precedent stands.
Illegally using?
Please enlighten us as to which law they were breaking there?
Actually, it's a bit easier than that. The clock for laches starts when it's a situation of known or should have known about the infringement- and there's this short timeframe for trying to mitigate the infringements before you lose the right to at least enforce with the said infringers. All the things you mention won't count for much if it's in the open that there's an infringement- which is the case with this situation to begin with.
As an aside, it can be said that if there are any infringements within VP3, it's sitting in this space at this point as it's been FOSS for many years now. The same will be able to be said about VP8 shortly.
It should also be noted that you're not going to lose everything in question like you would with trademark. Depending on the delay, lose at least the right to collect damages. If you delay several years in this situation, you will merely not be able to enforce against the infringers you should have enforced against earlier.
If System76 or ZaReason provided a 17/17.5" i5/i7 laptop, it'd be a gem- but they're still shipping stuff smaller than that. Which is okay, if you're not doing media aggressive stuff or software development. Not enough screen real-estate with the 15.5" screens.
I don't think anyone with half a brain would be surprised. Too obvious a change like this, much like ASUS showed- and while ASUS didn't outright say that they got pushed by MS, they did indicate that this might have happened all the same.
Really? If I'm not mistaken, they only sort-of, half-heartedly carried Linux with their ONLINE presence a while back and offered some of the same half-hearted offer of the same for Mandriva a long while back. I'd hardly characterize this as "carrying the flag" for Linux.
Nice try, but no cigar there.
Actually, they also install Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise on their systems- especially if you're a medium to large enterprise customer. Dell has more RHCE's than Red Hat or most other organizations you care to count.
What's odd is the behavior here. Had to be MS that leaned on them with this one. I just wish that these companies would come forward on this explicit violation of the Anti-Trust laws that we're seeing the circumstantial evidence of with all these goings on.
Neither analogy is really correct- yours is actually more akin to the one where someone buys one copy and then makes umpteen unauthorized copies (which is the picture the media industries would like to paint this all as; which really isn't the case here...). The original analogy would be closer to what the industry is trying for even if it's not what's currently going on- you keep paying for each usage, ad-infinitum.
You're not going to get a good analogy here- because there's really nothing analogous to this situation we're discussing (Although the first does get a taste of where they're trying to take things.).
It's not even really "firmware" unless it's the only thing on the server being booted.
There resides on pretty much every server class device these days some semblence of a panic boot or diagnostics/admin tool that resides on an on-board, USB, or SATA SSD on the system. This got zapped at the factory with a Windows Trojan that could zap the system under the wrong circumstances- and ONLY if you're running a WINDOWS OS on the system.
While it's an epic fail on Dell's part (talk about goofing something up there...)- it's even more of one for New Scientist since they either didn't wait to find out more details on things or didn't bother to read further down in the thread they reference to indicate that this was the case.
It's all about sensationalism, I suppose, these days.
The only reason they backed down from things is the uproar and being pilloried over what they did with Spore.
Don't kid yourself. They'd like to be that restrictive- because they went there and would've stayed there if consumers hadn't have so thoroughly rejected what they pulled.
It does...
However, the GP-poster's remarks still are very much valid. If he didn't receive the licenses himself, then he's not really licensed to them. If he's doing something outside the license grant's requirements to be licensed, he's not really licensed to the software in question. Now, if they bought it for him and it really was licensed to him and not the employer, it's okay on that level- but not on the other.
It is irrelevant to the discussion as to whether he's developing software with it or not. The only exceptions to that licensing would probably be if you were developing WINDOWS games and you were playing/testing the same. Anything else would be a breach of the MSDN license grant.
You have to be a business user or order the business lineup to get serious models configured with Linux on them right at the moment. They do sell Linux desktops- and a lot of them, but just not at the consumer sales level right at the moment.
Heh... I question the mods that marked you "insightful"...
I have in hand a .deb or an installer executable file for a given application. How does one install it?
Open up a file browser (i.e. Explorer window...) and double-click on the package in question. In most instances (including many of the games being ported right now...), at this point the GUI package installer will launch or the installer in the bundle will do the same thing. If it's self-contained (meaning no external dependencies) it'll only need the administrator password to install said app. If it's got dependencies, it'll typically explain those up-front or tell you about what it needs pre-installed, much like the story on MacOS or Windows.
What "in-depth" knowlege, I ask you?
Ditto for pretty much all the other "basic" things you do with computers.
And the same applies for pretty much any mainline and many niche Linux distributions.
You said you've been using it for 14 years? Funny...I would have thought you'd have known this was the case then.
Yeah, you caught that too... Greenhouse Gas or Coolant- which is it guys?
Heh... That thermal discouragement beam sounds more like a high-power laser...