Where did you get that idea. This treaty is being developed in Europe. The EU is adopting laws that are every bit as restrictive as the DMCA and in most European countries your right to speak out against these things isn't nearly as strong as in this country. Get over it. There isn't any freadom anymore, anywhere. We can bend over and accept it or we can start fighting back. Remember folks in the end you get the government you deserve. Take a stand or buy a lot of vasoline, your choice.
I seriously doubt that Bounty Quest will ever be a money maker for anybody. O'Reilly and Bezos started Bounty Quest as a way of encouraging people to find prior art. I don't think either has much to do with the day to day running of the site and both have a lot to lose from the site being dishonest. Call the site a kind of bet between the two about the validity of software patents and especially the one click patent.
From what I know of Chinese culture an apology would be taken as a loss of face and grounds to try and get concessions. We have said repeatedly that we are sorry that their pilot is dead, but there is nothing for us to aplogise for. It is almost certain that our pilot did not cause that crash. Our plane is a very bi, very heavy plane. They do not change directions quickly enough to have taken out that Chinese airplane unless their pilot was totally incompetent.
You've obviously never been a victom of identity theft. It takes forever to get cleared up and is neither easy or fun. You will find your credit screwed six ways from Sunday and have to refight the same battle every month for months. See, Credit Reporting Agencies get information from each other and you'll get it cleared off of some and then they will exchange information and one of the ones you didn't get cleared off of will resubmit it to the ones you did. Start over and repeat for months.
The original terms of service for Passport gave them permission to use any information that came through the service. This would allow them to use copyrighted, patented, or trade secret material. They have since backpedaled on this but they have already given notice about their eventual goals. Use it if you want but I personally think that if you can't see the danger from Microsoft then you obviously don't have enough intelligence to know anything that would do them any good anyway.
You obviously haven't been paying attention the last few days. The terms of service for Passport came out saying any information you sent through Passport authenticated services was MS property and could be used by them in any way they saw fit. So go ahead and use it. Send your brilliant new software idea and store code on their servers. They have since backpeddled on the issue but I guarantee they will keep a loophole in there somewhere that allows them to take anything that would benefit them. I might give MS the benefit of a doubt if they didn't constantly give warnings about what they were going to do.
And the military deliberately kept the levels of shielding at a lower level than necessary so that the USSR wouldn't have to use as many nukes to acheive the same results. Seriously, they kept the level of shielding down so that the Russians wouldn't be as tempted to use more nukes to get the job done.
There are a whole lot of reasons for us to keep an eye on China. Do some reasearch and you will find quotes in US papers from Chinese officials about how they are building up their military to be able to take on the US. If you think it is all about money you've got quite a bit to learn about things. Now, this kind of thing is done all the time and there informal rules of engagement. The faster plane stays out of the way of the smaller plane. Yes, you can try to shake them up but you don't get in their way. The US was in international airspace at the time and even the Chinese don't really dispute that. There is no way that the US plane could have hit that F8 on purpose. If the Chinese pilot was semi-competent he could easily have out manuevered it. However it is quite possible for a hotdog fighter pilot to get too close to one of the wings and interrupt airflow causing the bigger plane to lose lift and veer abrubtly to the side and down. Which is a much more likely cause for the incident? We have been performing overflights like this against Russia and China since long before there was any hope of peaceful trade with either. We have an 89 billion dollar trade deficit with China. WE are not making money by trading there. But they are using that deficit to purchase spies, technology, and military equipment to eventually use against us. Read Sun Tsu, it is still required reading for anyone who wants too be anybody in China's ruling class. If it doesn't make you sit up and re-evaluate everything you think about China then you are too stupid and unimaginative to have an opinion that matters anyway. The one thing that you will get out of that book is you can never trust anyone who follows its philosophy. Not, you need to keep an eye on them they might try to trick us, but never ever trust anything they say or do. If they mean it now it only applies for exactly as long as it serves their purpose. Most likely they will have already identified the ways to twist it to their purpose long before they agreed to it. We are at an extreme disadvantage in this regard we want to be considered honorable and will try to some extent to comply with agreements.
They have one really big thing to lose. I can see the articles now.
In the news today: Microsoft loses market share. In the six months since Microsoft introduced it's new operating system WindowsXP, it has gone from a 95% market share to an 85% percent market share. Analyst have been quoted as saying that Microsoft dropped the ball and introduced too many new features in their latest release. We decided to get to the bottom of this and find out first hand why people have switched. Our first stop was at a local high school where we talked to a student and self proclaimed geek. He has asked that his name not be revealed, the reasons will become apparent during his story. The student said that when XP came out his parents decided that although they know nothing of computers they couldn't deprive him of the educational benefits of using Microsofts latest wonder. So they gave him $200 and sent him to the computer store to purchase the software. He used the money to purchase ecstasy and weed and stayed high all weekend. When he got home he installed Linux which allowed him to perform all the tasks that he needed a computer for and did it less annoyingly. His parents (not being very technically inclined) never noticed the difference. He also put us in touch with several students that have switched to Linux for the simple reason that their families can not afford systems that will run XP and they have work to do. Over the course of two weeks we interviewed people from all walks of life and that have left Windows behind and the reason was in almost all cases "Why pay $200 for an Operating system that will break your budget for both software and haredware when all the functionality is available for free." Not one person felt that it was a compelling upgrade. They all said "Well, if we have to learn a new interface anyway, why not save some money and learn Gnome or KDE."
Ok people quit being stupid.
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The NSA has some very good reasons to do this. You all sit out there and say "Oh, they are just doing it to put in some backdoors so they can spy on us". Grow up. The NSA does do spying but they also have a part in protecting the assets of our nation and geuss what? Information is the most important asset in the world. The US is the most heavily spied on country in the world. Both by our enemies and by our "allies". The NSA would gain nothing but grief from trying to put in a backdoor. Sooner or later it would be discovered and they gain a worse reputation than they have now. They would also be faced with the nightmare of all these systems with a backdoor that anybody could get into and they would be responsible. They know that would mean a really pissed off Congress and NO MORE FUNDING. No agency willingly commits suicide folks. I am probably more paranoid than 99% of the people on the face of this planet but even I don't buy them trying to scam us on this one. The payoff ain't worth the cost folks. I know it, the NSA knows it, and any of you with 2 brain cells to rub together knows it.
The article is about backdoors not source code. A back door will allow access regardless of the amount of security you use. The only way to protect against a back door is to find it and neutralize it. The way I would do it is to have it use an unusual port. Modify the system software so that the port doesn't show as used and then only allow connections to that port that are formatted a certain way. I think it would be pretty near impossible to find and use.
Obviously everyone didn't learn. Most people find it hard to learn from other people's mistakes. The young are especially bad about it. They haven't learned they aren't special yet. Remember people, most of the ones reading and responding to this article have never seen an economic downturn as adults and didn't notice Mommy and Daddy sweating out the last one.
I love seeing all you kiddies talk like that. It's obvious that you have never seen bad times and don't have the foggiest clue what would happen to consultants in such a situation. You should have at least 6 months salary in the most rock solid easy to access investments you can find. Investment money is never money that you might need and consultants and the self employed need their nest egg. Most companies will take care of regular employees first in bad times. The consultant will be the first to go. Infrastructure upgrades don't happen when money is tight so where does your next job come from. If you think you will always be able to find snother job in the next month you are sadly mistaken. I don't need 6 months myself. I have seen bad times and choose to work for a company that is pretty stable and not likely to be able to do without my services. If the worst happens I am $30.00 and 4.5 hours from my hometown and family farmland. My wife and kids get a cut in their standard of living and we go back to the way I grew up. We won't have everything we want but nobody goes hungry. If you don't have some sort of long term backup plan then you are living in a fools paradise.
This isn't the first time/. has written about these phones. This is just the first time where it appears to be more than vaporware.
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What kind of crack are you smoking? I know all kinds of people who can't afford a cellphone due to bad credit and $750.00 deposits required to get one. The prepayed phones out now cost a minimum of 33c a minute and like $80.00 for the phone. This is a tremendous improvement for those people. And I know of phonecards that are much cheaper than any long distance plan if your average call is over 20 minutes.
You would have to detonate within a reasonable distance for EMP to disable anything. This system reaches 3 times escape velocity. It can hit anything within line of sight long before it got close enough to be dangerous. This thing could take out geosynchronous satelites.
It is still theft. You can pretty it up however you want but it still is depriving him of his right to earn income from this work. Either he owns the work by virtue of writnig it or as you say has a government given right to to the work but either way you are depriving him of his right to earn income from his right of control. Don't like that fact? Tough. I like good fiction. Ilike many different writers. IU don't care for the ametuer writers I have seen so that means there needs to be a way to compensate the pro's. If you aren't willing to compensate the creators of your entertainment then you deserve mediocrity. The bad part is to give you what you deserve then I who have no problem with paying for my entertainment have to settle for the same mediocrity. Get real people. Either you compensate artists fairly or you put up with lessor quality, or you get a lot less entertainment from your favorite artist because they spend all their time earning their living another way. Has anybody but me noticed that most of the people who demand free entertainment or "ideas demand to be free" are kiddies who have no idea of what it is like to try to earn a living and raise a family and find any extra time to put into any kind of intellectual or artistic endeavor. Compensate fairly or expect crap folks.
I'm live in Virginia and much as I hate to say it, Rick Boucher seems to be alright. He is consistent in his desire to find a path through the quagmire that is currently our policy on the Internet and the information age. He has almost always spoke out in favor of moderation of corporate influences and in favor of the rights of the individual. He has made some bad calls but so far has been the most clued in member of either house as to what the governments role in this fiasco should be. It probably helps that in his district there aren't any big business interests in the computers and the internet, but there is a strong tradition of individual's rights. I'm a West Virginia native and the state motto there is "Mountaineers are always free" but you sure can't tell it from the quality of the representatives of that state. They to a man seem to think more government and business rights are the way to go, plus they wouldn't think the information highway is 2 lanes of asphalt and a beat up pickup truck. Nah, I'm not bitter you get the kind of representation you look for and they honestly deserve it.
Well Andrew. As long as I've been reading this site (which has been quite while this user account is new) this site has been a pro Linux site. If you don't like that fact why do you bother coming here?
Can you understand what you read? The guy was making the point that OpenBSD developers don't say that it is the end-all and be-all of security. He was making a comment on what the editor said not making a negative comment on OpenBSD. Why am I responding to an idiot?
No they would not move the factories back here. It would cost them more to build a factory here and pay the workers than to just pay more where they are. If you were to double what they pay the people in these 3rd world countries it wouldn't materially raise the cost of the shoes and would barely impact their profit margin. It might even increase their profit margin because the workers would be better nourished and with less worry about things like food they would probably increase their productivity. Paying a starvation wage to your employees is never in your best interest. I do not, have not, and will not own Nike stock. They are morally bankrupt and I refuse to help the current stockholders gain by my purchase of their stock. Nike has no legitimate reason to use the practices they currently follow. They have an obscenely high profit margin on the shoes they sell and can afford to put more of it back into the economy of the locations that allow them to make that profit. If you need to cut costs somewhere cut it on the promotional side. There is no excuse for a celebrity making more in one year from them than all the workers they have in Vietnam put together. That is wrong my friend, make all the excuses for their behavior you want but it still boils down to being just plain wrong. People keep saying they are a corporation and will only serve their best interests but corporation's decisions are made by human beings and the ones who made these decisions are unethical slimey toads.
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You forgot the most important part: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse".
Where did you get that idea. This treaty is being developed in Europe. The EU is adopting laws that are every bit as restrictive as the DMCA and in most European countries your right to speak out against these things isn't nearly as strong as in this country. Get over it. There isn't any freadom anymore, anywhere. We can bend over and accept it or we can start fighting back. Remember folks in the end you get the government you deserve. Take a stand or buy a lot of vasoline, your choice.
I seriously doubt that Bounty Quest will ever be a money maker for anybody. O'Reilly and Bezos started Bounty Quest as a way of encouraging people to find prior art. I don't think either has much to do with the day to day running of the site and both have a lot to lose from the site being dishonest. Call the site a kind of bet between the two about the validity of software patents and especially the one click patent.
From what I know of Chinese culture an apology would be taken as a loss of face and grounds to try and get concessions. We have said repeatedly that we are sorry that their pilot is dead, but there is nothing for us to aplogise for. It is almost certain that our pilot did not cause that crash. Our plane is a very bi, very heavy plane. They do not change directions quickly enough to have taken out that Chinese airplane unless their pilot was totally incompetent.
You've obviously never been a victom of identity theft. It takes forever to get cleared up and is neither easy or fun. You will find your credit screwed six ways from Sunday and have to refight the same battle every month for months. See, Credit Reporting Agencies get information from each other and you'll get it cleared off of some and then they will exchange information and one of the ones you didn't get cleared off of will resubmit it to the ones you did. Start over and repeat for months.
The original terms of service for Passport gave them permission to use any information that came through the service. This would allow them to use copyrighted, patented, or trade secret material. They have since backpedaled on this but they have already given notice about their eventual goals. Use it if you want but I personally think that if you can't see the danger from Microsoft then you obviously don't have enough intelligence to know anything that would do them any good anyway.
You obviously haven't been paying attention the last few days. The terms of service for Passport came out saying any information you sent through Passport authenticated services was MS property and could be used by them in any way they saw fit. So go ahead and use it. Send your brilliant new software idea and store code on their servers. They have since backpeddled on the issue but I guarantee they will keep a loophole in there somewhere that allows them to take anything that would benefit them. I might give MS the benefit of a doubt if they didn't constantly give warnings about what they were going to do.
And the military deliberately kept the levels of shielding at a lower level than necessary so that the USSR wouldn't have to use as many nukes to acheive the same results. Seriously, they kept the level of shielding down so that the Russians wouldn't be as tempted to use more nukes to get the job done.
There are a whole lot of reasons for us to keep an eye on China. Do some reasearch and you will find quotes in US papers from Chinese officials about how they are building up their military to be able to take on the US. If you think it is all about money you've got quite a bit to learn about things. Now, this kind of thing is done all the time and there informal rules of engagement. The faster plane stays out of the way of the smaller plane. Yes, you can try to shake them up but you don't get in their way. The US was in international airspace at the time and even the Chinese don't really dispute that. There is no way that the US plane could have hit that F8 on purpose. If the Chinese pilot was semi-competent he could easily have out manuevered it. However it is quite possible for a hotdog fighter pilot to get too close to one of the wings and interrupt airflow causing the bigger plane to lose lift and veer abrubtly to the side and down. Which is a much more likely cause for the incident? We have been performing overflights like this against Russia and China since long before there was any hope of peaceful trade with either. We have an 89 billion dollar trade deficit with China. WE are not making money by trading there. But they are using that deficit to purchase spies, technology, and military equipment to eventually use against us. Read Sun Tsu, it is still required reading for anyone who wants too be anybody in China's ruling class. If it doesn't make you sit up and re-evaluate everything you think about China then you are too stupid and unimaginative to have an opinion that matters anyway. The one thing that you will get out of that book is you can never trust anyone who follows its philosophy. Not, you need to keep an eye on them they might try to trick us, but never ever trust anything they say or do. If they mean it now it only applies for exactly as long as it serves their purpose. Most likely they will have already identified the ways to twist it to their purpose long before they agreed to it. We are at an extreme disadvantage in this regard we want to be considered honorable and will try to some extent to comply with agreements.
Check out Linus' wife. He obviously knows something.
They have one really big thing to lose. I can see the articles now.
In the news today: Microsoft loses market share. In the six months since Microsoft introduced it's new operating system WindowsXP, it has gone from a 95% market share to an 85% percent market share. Analyst have been quoted as saying that Microsoft dropped the ball and introduced too many new features in their latest release. We decided to get to the bottom of this and find out first hand why people have switched. Our first stop was at a local high school where we talked to a student and self proclaimed geek. He has asked that his name not be revealed, the reasons will become apparent during his story. The student said that when XP came out his parents decided that although they know nothing of computers they couldn't deprive him of the educational benefits of using Microsofts latest wonder. So they gave him $200 and sent him to the computer store to purchase the software. He used the money to purchase ecstasy and weed and stayed high all weekend. When he got home he installed Linux which allowed him to perform all the tasks that he needed a computer for and did it less annoyingly. His parents (not being very technically inclined) never noticed the difference. He also put us in touch with several students that have switched to Linux for the simple reason that their families can not afford systems that will run XP and they have work to do. Over the course of two weeks we interviewed people from all walks of life and that have left Windows behind and the reason was in almost all cases "Why pay $200 for an Operating system that will break your budget for both software and haredware when all the functionality is available for free." Not one person felt that it was a compelling upgrade. They all said "Well, if we have to learn a new interface anyway, why not save some money and learn Gnome or KDE."
The NSA has some very good reasons to do this. You all sit out there and say "Oh, they are just doing it to put in some backdoors so they can spy on us". Grow up. The NSA does do spying but they also have a part in protecting the assets of our nation and geuss what? Information is the most important asset in the world. The US is the most heavily spied on country in the world. Both by our enemies and by our "allies". The NSA would gain nothing but grief from trying to put in a backdoor. Sooner or later it would be discovered and they gain a worse reputation than they have now. They would also be faced with the nightmare of all these systems with a backdoor that anybody could get into and they would be responsible. They know that would mean a really pissed off Congress and NO MORE FUNDING. No agency willingly commits suicide folks. I am probably more paranoid than 99% of the people on the face of this planet but even I don't buy them trying to scam us on this one. The payoff ain't worth the cost folks. I know it, the NSA knows it, and any of you with 2 brain cells to rub together knows it.
And the bad part of that is?
The article is about backdoors not source code. A back door will allow access regardless of the amount of security you use. The only way to protect against a back door is to find it and neutralize it. The way I would do it is to have it use an unusual port. Modify the system software so that the port doesn't show as used and then only allow connections to that port that are formatted a certain way. I think it would be pretty near impossible to find and use.
Obviously everyone didn't learn. Most people find it hard to learn from other people's mistakes. The young are especially bad about it. They haven't learned they aren't special yet. Remember people, most of the ones reading and responding to this article have never seen an economic downturn as adults and didn't notice Mommy and Daddy sweating out the last one.
I love seeing all you kiddies talk like that. It's obvious that you have never seen bad times and don't have the foggiest clue what would happen to consultants in such a situation. You should have at least 6 months salary in the most rock solid easy to access investments you can find. Investment money is never money that you might need and consultants and the self employed need their nest egg. Most companies will take care of regular employees first in bad times. The consultant will be the first to go. Infrastructure upgrades don't happen when money is tight so where does your next job come from. If you think you will always be able to find snother job in the next month you are sadly mistaken. I don't need 6 months myself. I have seen bad times and choose to work for a company that is pretty stable and not likely to be able to do without my services. If the worst happens I am $30.00 and 4.5 hours from my hometown and family farmland. My wife and kids get a cut in their standard of living and we go back to the way I grew up. We won't have everything we want but nobody goes hungry. If you don't have some sort of long term backup plan then you are living in a fools paradise.
This isn't the first time /. has written about these phones. This is just the first time where it appears to be more than vaporware.
What kind of crack are you smoking? I know all kinds of people who can't afford a cellphone due to bad credit and $750.00 deposits required to get one. The prepayed phones out now cost a minimum of 33c a minute and like $80.00 for the phone. This is a tremendous improvement for those people. And I know of phonecards that are much cheaper than any long distance plan if your average call is over 20 minutes.
You would have to detonate within a reasonable distance for EMP to disable anything. This system reaches 3 times escape velocity. It can hit anything within line of sight long before it got close enough to be dangerous. This thing could take out geosynchronous satelites.
It is still theft. You can pretty it up however you want but it still is depriving him of his right to earn income from this work. Either he owns the work by virtue of writnig it or as you say has a government given right to to the work but either way you are depriving him of his right to earn income from his right of control. Don't like that fact? Tough. I like good fiction. Ilike many different writers. IU don't care for the ametuer writers I have seen so that means there needs to be a way to compensate the pro's. If you aren't willing to compensate the creators of your entertainment then you deserve mediocrity. The bad part is to give you what you deserve then I who have no problem with paying for my entertainment have to settle for the same mediocrity. Get real people. Either you compensate artists fairly or you put up with lessor quality, or you get a lot less entertainment from your favorite artist because they spend all their time earning their living another way. Has anybody but me noticed that most of the people who demand free entertainment or "ideas demand to be free" are kiddies who have no idea of what it is like to try to earn a living and raise a family and find any extra time to put into any kind of intellectual or artistic endeavor. Compensate fairly or expect crap folks.
I'm live in Virginia and much as I hate to say it, Rick Boucher seems to be alright. He is consistent in his desire to find a path through the quagmire that is currently our policy on the Internet and the information age. He has almost always spoke out in favor of moderation of corporate influences and in favor of the rights of the individual. He has made some bad calls but so far has been the most clued in member of either house as to what the governments role in this fiasco should be. It probably helps that in his district there aren't any big business interests in the computers and the internet, but there is a strong tradition of individual's rights. I'm a West Virginia native and the state motto there is "Mountaineers are always free" but you sure can't tell it from the quality of the representatives of that state. They to a man seem to think more government and business rights are the way to go, plus they wouldn't think the information highway is 2 lanes of asphalt and a beat up pickup truck. Nah, I'm not bitter you get the kind of representation you look for and they honestly deserve it.
Well Andrew. As long as I've been reading this site (which has been quite while this user account is new) this site has been a pro Linux site. If you don't like that fact why do you bother coming here?
Can you understand what you read? The guy was making the point that OpenBSD developers don't say that it is the end-all and be-all of security. He was making a comment on what the editor said not making a negative comment on OpenBSD. Why am I responding to an idiot?
No they would not move the factories back here. It would cost them more to build a factory here and pay the workers than to just pay more where they are. If you were to double what they pay the people in these 3rd world countries it wouldn't materially raise the cost of the shoes and would barely impact their profit margin. It might even increase their profit margin because the workers would be better nourished and with less worry about things like food they would probably increase their productivity. Paying a starvation wage to your employees is never in your best interest. I do not, have not, and will not own Nike stock. They are morally bankrupt and I refuse to help the current stockholders gain by my purchase of their stock. Nike has no legitimate reason to use the practices they currently follow. They have an obscenely high profit margin on the shoes they sell and can afford to put more of it back into the economy of the locations that allow them to make that profit. If you need to cut costs somewhere cut it on the promotional side. There is no excuse for a celebrity making more in one year from them than all the workers they have in Vietnam put together. That is wrong my friend, make all the excuses for their behavior you want but it still boils down to being just plain wrong. People keep saying they are a corporation and will only serve their best interests but corporation's decisions are made by human beings and the ones who made these decisions are unethical slimey toads.
Plus manufacture and disposal of solar cells has a really nasty effect on the environment. Bacteria are much more environmentally friendly.