I am slowly making a shift to usenet because it has no logs whatsoever. Even if the RIAA begin fighting usenet they aren't going to able to fight the users. One, NNTP leaves trails in the headers and you can track down the injection points to the first dishonest actor if you're willing to take the trouble. Two, ARTICLE can be logged. Three, what happens if nobody wants to peer alt.binaries.* with you?
If case law makes an unfavorable turn, expect even the big boys to get a little itchy.
Doesn't matter if it's counted in the billion or not. How do advertising-heavy, information-light media budgets, Viagra wall clocks, Celebrex pens, and (I am not kidding) Plavix telephone sanitizers make the pill any better? Then why am I paying for them again?
Pure free-market economics assume that the players are making rational informed decisions. In software acquisition, that assumption fails often.
True. Irrationality often favors proprietary software and its warm fuzzy feeling of having a carrot to yank. As for information, the lack of objective measurements and the existence of non-obvious interactions confound the measurement of a software product's cost and conformance to spec. Measuring the cost and conformance to spec of a milled steel part is pretty easy, mostly because both production and conformance testing are objective and simple enough for a computer to do.
Some languages provide a level of quality assurance (Ada and Eiffel), but it dampens the Pareto profits you can get through an abbreviated and sloppy performance of the hard 20% of the project. And so they stay niche languages.
If the more-expensive tool saves time worth more than its cost, then the appropriate free-market choice is to invest. My experience is that buyers at all levels won't do that when there's a cost-free alternative. They'd rather waste time (=money) or lose quality (=money due to cost of fixing later) than spend capital.
That's partially because many programmers and sysadmins are paid salary instead of wages. Squeezing "a few" extra hours out of them is "free", further confounding any hope of measuring software cost.
1. Doing it because you like it, not because it makes you money (same reason people become teachers and other low-paid professionals). Don't you think that the quality of teachers would improve tremendously if it was a job that paid more? I think the quality of teachers would improve tremendously if so-called parents weren't devoting increasing time to maintaining a standard of living and therefore leaving schools to pick up the slack on social training at the expense of knowledge transfer. Teachers do an admirable job given the level of micromanagement, lack of authority and risk that comes with the social training aspect of the job.
2. You can make money by keeping ahead of the curve. CAD software, for example, is an area where Free Software has made very little progress and isn't likely to for a long time yet. It just means that open source software is not good for business. In order to make money you need to go against OSS - never releasing your source code - or you are doomed. As open source gets bigger the viable options for profitable software development get smaller. Sometimes scratching your own itch or paying someone to do so is an advantage. Maybe you need your itch scratched just so, or the itch is in an area that's easier for you to scratch than describe to someone else how to scratch, or you anticipate a loss of standing if it becomes publicly known you have some particular itch (in the latter case you might want to see a specialist to get at the cause of that itch).
So while the viable options for profitable software license sales are shrinking because of freely licensed code, the number of hours for profitable labor doing things like integration and custom software development are increasing. Business thrives on differentiation and differentiation doesn't come free.
Copper-laminated paper circuit boards are already cheap and available. Now if this stuff is or can be made as flexible as paper, you may have just replaced thin film in flexible circuit applications.
I wouldn't sell it on its toxicity benefits though. The chemicals used to mask and etch pc boards are none too friendly and most paper is absorbent.
I wonder if anyone's tried injection molding short chain cellulose yet... it's better to use carbon we have on the surface already than to mine more and bring it into the surface ecosystem to stay.
I observe, only 3/4 joking, that if conditions are right that sheet of dead algae could in the space of a "few" years become a useful hydrocarbon source stable enough to mine and burn again. Then again, it could turn into methane and get belched right back up all at once with a greenhouse vengeance.
Yes, clearly it is Reiser's responsibility to provide evidence that he did not commit first degree murder. Yes, clearly it is Mr. Reiser's responsibility to provide evidence that he did not commit first degree murder, especially if he has been (we assume erroneously) found guilty of it by a court of law and he is in a unique position to provide that evidence.
Hey, is there any word if diffie hellman key generation was also weak? That could potentially be much much worse than the private key problem because that means ephemeral keys aren't ephemeral after all, and old tcpdump archives could be decrypted. Some captured OpenSSL sessions may be open to compromise due to faulty key exchange. From the Debian wiki (emphasis theirs):
In addition, any DSA key must be considered compromised if it has been used on a machine with a 'bad' OpenSSL. Simply using a 'strong' DSA key (i.e., generated with a 'good' OpenSSL) to make a connection from such a machine may have compromised it. This is due to an 'attack' on DSA that allows the secret key to be found if the nonce used in the signature is known or reused.
They could just as easily add some iconv magic in on the fly for posts older than %d... they could either query the archive to figure out when character codes looked more UTF-8 than Latin-1 or just take a wild-ass guess.
Exactly. If neat, rational, compartmentalized but unrealistic sexual fantasies are the only information a person receives about the gender relations subset of the messy, irrational, Newton's-First-Law-compliant society, doesn't it make sense that their own attempts relating in that society would follow the programmed patterns, to no good end?
The same argument also works with s/the gender relations subset of// s/sexual/religious/
Problem is, if people do their web page work on Windows, there are few tools that handle UTF-8 well, if at all. I had to switch to a Unix development environment to get good UTF-8 support. That's as may be, but not even a valid excuse in this case.
I haven't heard of a single high profile target compromised because of that error. And you won't. It wasn't a privilege escalation error.
Long story short, the coding error reduced the randomness of the "strong" random number generator so that there were only 32767*3 distinct random number streams. Any application that used OpenSSL's random number generator, for key generation, key exchange or otherwise, got an entropy stream that was predictable based solely on the process ID and processor architecture! SSL and SSH connections made with weak keys could potentially be very easily compromised.
I swear when I read that I thought you were kidding. Then I actually went to www.lp.org, and you WEREN'T. Bob Barr as the Libertarian candidate? Bloody hell, isn't that parody enough?! "The Party of Principle" nominates an anti-drug, anti-abortion candidate for president?
Churches can direct or coerce their members to vote for or against particular referenda. Usually it's not as overt as "Vote for gay marriage and you will burn in hell", but it doesn't need to be when you have a roomful of people you just made guilty for being human.
So you're saying that having a less-than-brilliant business model should be illegal? As in, Congress or state legislature should pass a law banning bad business ideas? If so you're just as screwed up as this FlexPlay crap. Well they sure as bloody hell shouldn't be passing laws propping up bad business models like they've been doing for the past umpteen years.
Does peaceful coexistence with the secular government include spending tax-free money to pass laws forbidding sexual acts based on loose, activist readings of their holy books without any reference to historical context?
As an example, "If people were really religious for the right reasons they would have no problem keeping their religion private." is nothing more than you proclaiming that anyone with a religious view should not enjoy public expression. Jesus disapproved of the Pharisees because of their adherence to the letter of the law at the cost of the spirit of the law. Jesus also wasn't much one for ostentatious prayer and told people to pray in their closets, not in the streets. Jesus would not approve of the modern-day Pharisee emphasis on being seen enforcing the will of some guy who says he knows what God is thinking.
Okay, how about: "If people read the Bible and didn't fall into the trap of letting their peers test their piety they would have no problem keeping their religion private."
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Kosher ham, I trust.
If case law makes an unfavorable turn, expect even the big boys to get a little itchy.
You could, but it might look a little ripe.
Doesn't matter if it's counted in the billion or not. How do advertising-heavy, information-light media budgets, Viagra wall clocks, Celebrex pens, and (I am not kidding) Plavix telephone sanitizers make the pill any better? Then why am I paying for them again?
Pure free-market economics assume that the players are making rational informed decisions. In software acquisition, that assumption fails often.
True. Irrationality often favors proprietary software and its warm fuzzy feeling of having a carrot to yank. As for information, the lack of objective measurements and the existence of non-obvious interactions confound the measurement of a software product's cost and conformance to spec. Measuring the cost and conformance to spec of a milled steel part is pretty easy, mostly because both production and conformance testing are objective and simple enough for a computer to do.Some languages provide a level of quality assurance (Ada and Eiffel), but it dampens the Pareto profits you can get through an abbreviated and sloppy performance of the hard 20% of the project. And so they stay niche languages.
If the more-expensive tool saves time worth more than its cost, then the appropriate free-market choice is to invest. My experience is that buyers at all levels won't do that when there's a cost-free alternative. They'd rather waste time (=money) or lose quality (=money due to cost of fixing later) than spend capital.
That's partially because many programmers and sysadmins are paid salary instead of wages. Squeezing "a few" extra hours out of them is "free", further confounding any hope of measuring software cost.So while the viable options for profitable software license sales are shrinking because of freely licensed code, the number of hours for profitable labor doing things like integration and custom software development are increasing. Business thrives on differentiation and differentiation doesn't come free.
Congratulations. You've just discovered the fatal flaw in the social construct of wages for work.
Copper-laminated paper circuit boards are already cheap and available. Now if this stuff is or can be made as flexible as paper, you may have just replaced thin film in flexible circuit applications.
I wouldn't sell it on its toxicity benefits though. The chemicals used to mask and etch pc boards are none too friendly and most paper is absorbent.
I wonder if anyone's tried injection molding short chain cellulose yet... it's better to use carbon we have on the surface already than to mine more and bring it into the surface ecosystem to stay.
I observe, only 3/4 joking, that if conditions are right that sheet of dead algae could in the space of a "few" years become a useful hydrocarbon source stable enough to mine and burn again. Then again, it could turn into methane and get belched right back up all at once with a greenhouse vengeance.
People without education frankly shouldn't be voting. That's how we got into this mess in the first place.
They could just as easily add some iconv magic in on the fly for posts older than %d... they could either query the archive to figure out when character codes looked more UTF-8 than Latin-1 or just take a wild-ass guess.
Exactly. If neat, rational, compartmentalized but unrealistic sexual fantasies are the only information a person receives about the gender relations subset of the messy, irrational, Newton's-First-Law-compliant society, doesn't it make sense that their own attempts relating in that society would follow the programmed patterns, to no good end?
The same argument also works with
s/the gender relations subset of//
s/sexual/religious/
Long story short, the coding error reduced the randomness of the "strong" random number generator so that there were only 32767*3 distinct random number streams. Any application that used OpenSSL's random number generator, for key generation, key exchange or otherwise, got an entropy stream that was predictable based solely on the process ID and processor architecture! SSL and SSH connections made with weak keys could potentially be very easily compromised.
Doesn't matter. Winner-take-all voting provides very strong disincentives to voting one's conscience, especially when there is a duopoly.
Personally, I'm a fan of approval voting. Expressive yet easy to count.
I swear when I read that I thought you were kidding. Then I actually went to www.lp.org, and you WEREN'T. Bob Barr as the Libertarian candidate? Bloody hell, isn't that parody enough?! "The Party of Principle" nominates an anti-drug, anti-abortion candidate for president?
Churches can direct or coerce their members to vote for or against particular referenda. Usually it's not as overt as "Vote for gay marriage and you will burn in hell", but it doesn't need to be when you have a roomful of people you just made guilty for being human.
Does peaceful coexistence with the secular government include spending tax-free money to pass laws forbidding sexual acts based on loose, activist readings of their holy books without any reference to historical context?
Okay, how about: "If people read the Bible and didn't fall into the trap of letting their peers test their piety they would have no problem keeping their religion private."
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Is BSD really a "free" license?