When things went south on the SMTP auth fast track last year the chairs suggested that all the protagonists submit their proposals as experimental standards. Once again, the/. title overstates the matter. We can expect other experimental proposals for IP-based authentication like CSV.
So, for instance, sneaking into a for-pay concert and watching it isn't stealing, right? Nobody was deprived of anything.
I think you need to acknowledge a basic moral issue here: Taking something that costs money and not paying for it is wrong.
Does it matter to you that you're violating the terms proposed by the seller? If not, why would it be wrong for me to violate the GPL by distributing a binary without source? Nobody is deprived of anything they would have, absent my action?
It's not a matter for congress to decide. They Court interpreted the takings clause of the 5th amendment to the constitution as implemented by the state of Connecticut. None of Congress's business.
Exactly right. The point of WGA and activation are not to defeat determined pirates, but to let people who unwittingly bought pirated versions know that they did.
Well put. There were several conventional bombing raids in WWII that were more devastating than the A-bombings. Somehow the A-bombings have been comdemned as immoral while the massive conventional bombings aren't. Go figure. In fact, we basically know now that strategic bombing doesn't cause anyone to surrender and is in that sense a failure.
And yet Japan, having launched a brutal war of conquest, enslaving their neighbors, had to be stopped, and had we not beaten the living snot out of them they would not have surrendered until we invaded and conquered every single island. Their resistance in Okinawa and elsewhere makes this clear. In this light, I have no doubt that the A-bombings saved lives. (John Hershey argues that the Soviet declaration of war around the same time was also devastating to the morale of the Japanese high command.)
When it was all over and once both the US and USSR had nuclear weapons the moral calculation changed substantially and will never change back. But in August 1945 the world was different than it is now.
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
The official warnings about this began going out almost 10 years ago. Consider the role of the TV industry, which hasn't pushed DTV in the medium and low end enough.
>>And Windows 2000 can do real-deal terminal services (as many sessions as you want)
That's Windows 2000 Server, not the desktop product. Windows 2000 Pro has no RDP server at all, even for one client. Server costs a lot more, even with the cheapest license. Same for 2003. The 1 server, 5 clients license lists for over $1000.
>>It's laughable to mock IE for memory leaks when Firefox is X (where X > 1) times worse at sucking up and retaining memory.
Thanks, I'm glad someone pointed this out. My system has been up for many days now and IE and Firefox are both consuming about the same amount (90-something MB).
I don't know about chip DRM, whatever that is, but your basic point is right: Apple wouldn't make software to run on generic x86 PCs unless they want to get out of the computer hardware business, and I doubt that's ever going to happen. No way they could compete against all those other companies.
The only point of this would be to give them more hardware options for designing their own proprietary systems. But I still don't think it's going to happen for 2 major reasons: 3rd party software would have a large number of minor problems because Mac developers have never had to worry about endianness before; MacOS is big-endian and x86 is little-endian. Second, more importantly, there is a mountain of device driver work that would have to be done. The device driver problem is what spooked them off the original "Star Trek" project.
Good for you, there's now a country just 90 miles from the US where you can live your philosophy and use Linux too. See how well it works.
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It's not Apple's fault that they used an unreliable IC? Strange logic here.
My company (DeskTop Softare Corp, out of business now) wrote software for the III and it failed because there were a large number of 100% out of the box failures. The hardware stunk. Who can we possibly blame other than Apple?
The article cited about decreasing productivity was about managers using e-mail and other technology to track their employees and nag them, not about monitoring e-mail. Why on earth would monitoring their e-mail decrease a user's productivity?
Just so everyone knows, 911 can work on VoIP. My provider, Speakeasy, requires in their terms of service that the adapter be used at the location to which it is sent, the address on the agreement, so that 911 services can work. One of the first things I did was to test it - I called the cops first and they said it was OK; I called 911 and the same guy answered and read back my name and address from the screen.
>>Here's the clearest line. If calling 911 makes sense (you can dial numbers as if it were a regular telephone), then calling 911 should work.
You're missing the point: If the adapter is portable then how does the 911 system know where it is, and therefore where to send the cops, ambulance, etc.?
The answer is that it's impossible. You'd have to expect the user to update the location information and we all know you can't count on users.
Appropos of this, my Firefox 1.0.3 is the fourth download (1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3), and I'm sure they count as 4 of the 50M. This is a very soft number
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>>harmed no one but business
Oh really, no consumers were harmed by Netsky or Sasser? I think all the evidence indicates otherwise.
I've been looking at the Maxtor Shared Storage which can be had really cheap. 300GB version for $302.
It has 2 extra USB ports on it to hang extra drives or USB printers.
To a hard disk in a USB enclosure. Better yet, but more expensive, to a NAS box.
What are the various prison sentences for the winners of the tournement?
When things went south on the SMTP auth fast track last year the chairs suggested that all the protagonists submit their proposals as experimental standards. Once again, the /. title overstates the matter. We can expect other experimental proposals for IP-based authentication like CSV.
But it's all just jerking off now because Domain Keys has won the authentication battle in the market.
So, for instance, sneaking into a for-pay concert and watching it isn't stealing, right? Nobody was deprived of anything.
I think you need to acknowledge a basic moral issue here: Taking something that costs money and not paying for it is wrong.
Does it matter to you that you're violating the terms proposed by the seller? If not, why would it be wrong for me to violate the GPL by distributing a binary without source? Nobody is deprived of anything they would have, absent my action?
It's not a matter for congress to decide. They Court interpreted the takings clause of the 5th amendment to the constitution as implemented by the state of Connecticut. None of Congress's business.
Entirely different? How so?
Exactly right. The point of WGA and activation are not to defeat determined pirates, but to let people who unwittingly bought pirated versions know that they did.
Well put. There were several conventional bombing raids in WWII that were more devastating than the A-bombings. Somehow the A-bombings have been comdemned as immoral while the massive conventional bombings aren't. Go figure. In fact, we basically know now that strategic bombing doesn't cause anyone to surrender and is in that sense a failure.
And yet Japan, having launched a brutal war of conquest, enslaving their neighbors, had to be stopped, and had we not beaten the living snot out of them they would not have surrendered until we invaded and conquered every single island. Their resistance in Okinawa and elsewhere makes this clear. In this light, I have no doubt that the A-bombings saved lives. (John Hershey argues that the Soviet declaration of war around the same time was also devastating to the morale of the Japanese high command.)
When it was all over and once both the US and USSR had nuclear weapons the moral calculation changed substantially and will never change back. But in August 1945 the world was different than it is now.
From Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel (June 6):
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
The official warnings about this began going out almost 10 years ago. Consider the role of the TV industry, which hasn't pushed DTV in the medium and low end enough.
>>And Windows 2000 can do real-deal terminal services (as many sessions as you want)
That's Windows 2000 Server, not the desktop product. Windows 2000 Pro has no RDP server at all, even for one client. Server costs a lot more, even with the cheapest license. Same for 2003. The 1 server, 5 clients license lists for over $1000.
>>It's laughable to mock IE for memory leaks when Firefox is X (where X > 1) times worse at sucking up and retaining memory.
Thanks, I'm glad someone pointed this out. My system has been up for many days now and IE and Firefox are both consuming about the same amount (90-something MB).
From TFA: "...has its OS on chips -- where, by the way, viruses can't get to them..."
Why would this stop a virus? Answer: It wouldn't.
BTW, he doesn't tout the success of the Walmart PC, he just notes it's existance. Who said it's successful?
Exactly, but it's all basically for naught if they don't authenticate SMTP as well.
>>why would writing device drivers be a problem?
Because there are about a zillion of them that would have to be written, and they would all be version 0.1
I don't know about chip DRM, whatever that is, but your basic point is right: Apple wouldn't make software to run on generic x86 PCs unless they want to get out of the computer hardware business, and I doubt that's ever going to happen. No way they could compete against all those other companies.
The only point of this would be to give them more hardware options for designing their own proprietary systems. But I still don't think it's going to happen for 2 major reasons: 3rd party software would have a large number of minor problems because Mac developers have never had to worry about endianness before; MacOS is big-endian and x86 is little-endian. Second, more importantly, there is a mountain of device driver work that would have to be done. The device driver problem is what spooked them off the original "Star Trek" project.
Good for you, there's now a country just 90 miles from the US where you can live your philosophy and use Linux too. See how well it works.
It's not Apple's fault that they used an unreliable IC? Strange logic here.
My company (DeskTop Softare Corp, out of business now) wrote software for the III and it failed because there were a large number of 100% out of the box failures. The hardware stunk. Who can we possibly blame other than Apple?
Let's just hope Ming the Merciless doesn't get involved.
The article cited about decreasing productivity was about managers using e-mail and other technology to track their employees and nag them, not about monitoring e-mail. Why on earth would monitoring their e-mail decrease a user's productivity?
Just so everyone knows, 911 can work on VoIP. My provider, Speakeasy, requires in their terms of service that the adapter be used at the location to which it is sent, the address on the agreement, so that 911 services can work. One of the first things I did was to test it - I called the cops first and they said it was OK; I called 911 and the same guy answered and read back my name and address from the screen.
>>Here's the clearest line. If calling 911 makes sense (you can dial numbers as if it were a regular telephone), then calling 911 should work.
You're missing the point: If the adapter is portable then how does the 911 system know where it is, and therefore where to send the cops, ambulance, etc.?
The answer is that it's impossible. You'd have to expect the user to update the location information and we all know you can't count on users.
Appropos of this, my Firefox 1.0.3 is the fourth download (1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3), and I'm sure they count as 4 of the 50M. This is a very soft number