Back up your claims. Not much more to say than that, but you've been moderated informative for this.. Looking at your message history you also claim to be a naval officer. Not only that you also claimed to do a lot of the initial work on beowulf clustering. In short MOD PARENT DOWN.
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Perhaps you need to do some crediting yourself, As in: give us some credible info that proves your statements are true. Perhaps mention your "few friends" that "wish they were given a tiny bit of credit."
I didn't "slam a whole OS." I was actually very careful to use the past tense when I said better commercial alternatives EXISTED(btw, I spelled one "on", perhaps that is what has confused the both of you;whose intellect does it insult more, the person who made the small spelling mistake, or the person who was completely thrown off by it without possessing the logic necessary to correct for the mistake by using context clues.
Yes you are right, there are tags to seperate a quote from a body of text. They aren't even web specific either, but yes you could call them tags. THEY ARE CALLED QUOTATION MARKS. Anyway, I never said that the commercial alternatives are better NOW, I implied they WERE better when linus started working on linux. In the same vein, linux had to at some point become linus's main project, and prior to this point it wasn't.
"B) You assume that people like Linus should take time off from their important projects to fix a nag in a product for which a better one (though commercial) already exists." Not to nitpick or anything, but didn't Linus take some time out of his original schedule to develop a product for which a better, though commercial, on existed? I'm talking about linux here.
if your md5 is x length long and your file is 10x length, then there are 9x as many other possibilities for the content of the file to give the same md5 sum. in other words, md5 can be Spoofed by adding random bits to the end(replacing legit bits however) until one gives the same md5 as another. (if this wasn't true then infinite compression would be possible)
Insightful? Absolutely no 51 year movies and songs are being pirated.. because they are in the public domain! You can't pirate something that is in the public domain. (I know my statement isn't true cause the laws in Taiwan are life + 50 but I just kept my numbers in line with the parent's)
WHY IN THE HELL IS NIST FUNDING THIS? Why wouldn't the production companies themselves fund something like this. What does this have to do with national standards of measurement? What the hell is going on.. this is straight out corporate welfare, I'll bet NIST gets no part of the patent rights whatsoever.
I'll bite. The difference is someone is losing a $1000 gold watch whereas no one is "losing" a copy of Adobe Photoshop. I'm not saying that its not still morally wrong, just the word "stealing" is not the proper word.
The threat of spam will keep this from ever becoming a reality. However this will probaly not increase telemarketing "spam" too much because there is already a public listing where they can get your number, its called a phonebook. The reason email spam will be a problem with this is simply because email is practically no cost to spammers.
To view it your computer had to download it in the first place, that doesn't mean its a virus. You don't download an executable, you download the webpage (see: html file) and everything is already in the fields. You then just click generate and off you go(someone noted this may not work anymore but I can verify that it did a couple weeks ago)
then perhaps we will sue the people doing the copyright infringement rather than someone making tools that enable it. Why don't you read the article; people who are doing the actual violating of copyrights are NOT being attacked, it is rather the people that are making modchips that CAN enable the violations of copyrights, they CAN enable other, legal, things. Please understand the issues before posting, or at least give a good example of something the open source community would do (like perhaps: What if someone made a compiler designed to purposfully make the bytecode product of it not resemble that of a traditional compiler, thus making it hard to tell if there was a GPL violation; would you, the open source community, not try and have their website shutdown in the same heavy-handed manner as microsoft?(I personally think the answer is hell no we wouldn't, but if you had at least given an example we could have had some debate.)
In my opinion this post shows where the backup argument becomes wrong. Yes, if you drop a disc and it gets scratched, you should be able to use a backup of it. You paid for the game, not the disc itself. However in your case the game is being physically stolen, someone else now can take your game to a pawnshop where someone else can buy it legitimatly. This indeed does take money away from the content producers. You are essentially trying to place the burden of acts of theft directed at you onto the content producers themselves. If this were legal, things like this could happen: You buy a game, you burn a backup copy of the game, you place the game on your front porch and advertise that it is there, unguarded, your friend swipes the game. Now you and your friend have 2 games for the price of 1. When someone steals something, it is of course the fault of the theif; of course, a good amount of the blame can go to whoever was responsible for keeping it "unstolen." In your case you wish to shift this blame, and fiscal responsibility, onto the content producers themselves even though they were not responsible from keeping it "unstolen."
he had some interesting things to say, especially in light of the recent news about Telestra(and Bill Gates!). Chew on these two articles together.. whoa
I wish there was a way I could mod you down for your post being "untrue". Whether your post was a bold faced lie or a servere misinterpretation of the article could be for someone browsing at -1 to decide. Assuming the latter, if you would bother to read the article you would see that this by no means turns an old computer into a "Wif-Fi access point like something LinkSys or D-Link or whomever sells." Rather it turns it into something fundamentally different than your standard access point: the key word, as seen in the title of the slashdot article is MESH.
1. Give away someone else's software with your new computers, with a monthly fee that doesn't go to you, but in fact goes to someone else. 2. Receive a cut of each of the user's monthly fees. 3. Profit!!
Now please shut the FUCK up until you have something funny to say.
I thought solitare was so much cooler on OS/2.. when you resized the window all the cards scaled. Same with all the other OS/2 games like chess and stuff.
they begin making base stations that support both standards and card which support both. These stations and cards would also be able to do both at the same time (IMAGINE THE BANDWIDTH!). They are on different freqs so it should be possible! This would do wonders for terrain based coms.
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What is wrong with the slashdot editors that they can't call it by its proper name: GNU/Minix !!!!
Back up your claims. Not much more to say than that, but you've been moderated informative for this.. Looking at your message history you also claim to be a naval officer. Not only that you also claimed to do a lot of the initial work on beowulf clustering. In short MOD PARENT DOWN.
Perhaps you need to do some crediting yourself, As in: give us some credible info that proves your statements are true. Perhaps mention your "few friends" that "wish they were given a tiny bit of credit."
I didn't "slam a whole OS." I was actually very careful to use the past tense when I said better commercial alternatives EXISTED(btw, I spelled one "on", perhaps that is what has confused the both of you;whose intellect does it insult more, the person who made the small spelling mistake, or the person who was completely thrown off by it without possessing the logic necessary to correct for the mistake by using context clues.
Yes you are right, there are tags to seperate a quote from a body of text. They aren't even web specific either, but yes you could call them tags. THEY ARE CALLED QUOTATION MARKS. Anyway, I never said that the commercial alternatives are better NOW, I implied they WERE better when linus started working on linux. In the same vein, linux had to at some point become linus's main project, and prior to this point it wasn't.
"B) You assume that people like Linus should take time off from their important projects to fix a nag in a product for which a better one (though commercial) already exists." Not to nitpick or anything, but didn't Linus take some time out of his original schedule to develop a product for which a better, though commercial, on existed? I'm talking about linux here.
So by your logic if the brought out a "PowerHannibal" version it wouldn't be cannabalistic?
if your md5 is x length long and your file is 10x length, then there are 9x as many other possibilities for the content of the file to give the same md5 sum. in other words, md5 can be Spoofed by adding random bits to the end(replacing legit bits however) until one gives the same md5 as another. (if this wasn't true then infinite compression would be possible)
Insightful? Absolutely no 51 year movies and songs are being pirated.. because they are in the public domain! You can't pirate something that is in the public domain. (I know my statement isn't true cause the laws in Taiwan are life + 50 but I just kept my numbers in line with the parent's)
Who modded YOUR tripe up to 1? The person was refering to TAIWAN not america. He said their length was changed at that date, not the us's. fucker
WHY IN THE HELL IS NIST FUNDING THIS? Why wouldn't the production companies themselves fund something like this. What does this have to do with national standards of measurement? What the hell is going on.. this is straight out corporate welfare, I'll bet NIST gets no part of the patent rights whatsoever.
I'll bite. The difference is someone is losing a $1000 gold watch whereas no one is "losing" a copy of Adobe Photoshop. I'm not saying that its not still morally wrong, just the word "stealing" is not the proper word.
The threat of spam will keep this from ever becoming a reality. However this will probaly not increase telemarketing "spam" too much because there is already a public listing where they can get your number, its called a phonebook. The reason email spam will be a problem with this is simply because email is practically no cost to spammers.
To view it your computer had to download it in the first place, that doesn't mean its a virus. You don't download an executable, you download the webpage (see: html file) and everything is already in the fields. You then just click generate and off you go(someone noted this may not work anymore but I can verify that it did a couple weeks ago)
Glass! Back in my day all we had was dandilions, and you better know you damn well better learn to like dandilions!
then perhaps we will sue the people doing the copyright infringement rather than someone making tools that enable it. Why don't you read the article; people who are doing the actual violating of copyrights are NOT being attacked, it is rather the people that are making modchips that CAN enable the violations of copyrights, they CAN enable other, legal, things. Please understand the issues before posting, or at least give a good example of something the open source community would do (like perhaps: What if someone made a compiler designed to purposfully make the bytecode product of it not resemble that of a traditional compiler, thus making it hard to tell if there was a GPL violation; would you, the open source community, not try and have their website shutdown in the same heavy-handed manner as microsoft?(I personally think the answer is hell no we wouldn't, but if you had at least given an example we could have had some debate.)
In my opinion this post shows where the backup argument becomes wrong. Yes, if you drop a disc and it gets scratched, you should be able to use a backup of it. You paid for the game, not the disc itself. However in your case the game is being physically stolen, someone else now can take your game to a pawnshop where someone else can buy it legitimatly. This indeed does take money away from the content producers. You are essentially trying to place the burden of acts of theft directed at you onto the content producers themselves. If this were legal, things like this could happen: You buy a game, you burn a backup copy of the game, you place the game on your front porch and advertise that it is there, unguarded, your friend swipes the game. Now you and your friend have 2 games for the price of 1. When someone steals something, it is of course the fault of the theif; of course, a good amount of the blame can go to whoever was responsible for keeping it "unstolen." In your case you wish to shift this blame, and fiscal responsibility, onto the content producers themselves even though they were not responsible from keeping it "unstolen."
he had some interesting things to say, especially in light of the recent news about Telestra(and Bill Gates!). Chew on these two articles together.. whoa
I wish there was a way I could mod you down for your post being "untrue". Whether your post was a bold faced lie or a servere misinterpretation of the article could be for someone browsing at -1 to decide. Assuming the latter, if you would bother to read the article you would see that this by no means turns an old computer into a "Wif-Fi access point like something LinkSys or D-Link or whomever sells." Rather it turns it into something fundamentally different than your standard access point: the key word, as seen in the title of the slashdot article is MESH.
Lets hope these lasers don't get into the hands of THE ENEMY. Its pretty hard to outrun a LASER!
lets see if I can help:
1. Give away someone else's software with your new computers, with a monthly fee that doesn't go to you, but in fact goes to someone else.
2. Receive a cut of each of the user's monthly fees.
3. Profit!!
Now please shut the FUCK up until you have something funny to say.
I thought solitare was so much cooler on OS/2.. when you resized the window all the cards scaled. Same with all the other OS/2 games like chess and stuff.
I'll back that up, I had the same problem with the laser. It was just over one year as well.
Maybe with a canopener!
they begin making base stations that support both standards and card which support both. These stations and cards would also be able to do both at the same time (IMAGINE THE BANDWIDTH!). They are on different freqs so it should be possible! This would do wonders for terrain based coms.