> But this is slashdot so I'd better go screw myself, eh?
You should go and screw yourself independent of this being slashdot. Put it in your head: Nobody wants to read the shitty ebooks that you want to write, DRM or no DRM.
A lot of people/govts./businesses are going to love this.
From the FAQ:
5. What else can TCPA and Palladium be used for?
TCPA can be used to implement much stronger access controls on confidential documents. For example, you might arrange that your soldiers can only create word processing documents marked at `confidential' or above, and that only a TCPA PC with a certificate issued by your own armed forces can read such a document. This is called `mandatory access control', and governments are keen on it. The Palladium announcement implies that the Microsoft product will support this. Once TCPA is widespread, corporations can do this too - and so, for that matter, can the Mafia. This can make life harder for spies, corporate whistleblowers, and FBI agents alike (though it is always possible that the FBI will get some kind of access to master keys). A whistleblower who emails a document to a journalist will achieve little, as the journalist's Fritz chip won't give him the key to decipher it.
He has moved to CA, and is keeping a low profile for a number of years. There was a mini interview with him on TV, what he thought of the US team, etc.
I too will see this movie, but I think I might be disappointed as well. Ebert and the other reviewers are raising valid points IMHO. Episode-I had too much CGI and not enough character. The acting seemed hurried, trying to make up time for the cgi effort which is the bulk of the movie. To me it seemed like Lucas is by no means a demanding director, he let the actors slip with subpar performances compared to what they can really do (yes there are exceptions.)
I think the story is still great but perhaps its Lucas who has changed. The dialogue is no longer interesting. The jokes are not new. Worse than that, they are cliche even for the Brittney Spears generation. With so much cgi, perhaps it is now very hard for Lucas to see what the end result will be like so that he can give better direction to the actors. And no it is not because I have grown old. I still love the original three and watch them every now and again. I think the magic that could have been there in Episode-I just barely escaped. Few things here and there it could have been...
In any case I will watch the movie and will no doubt like it. It just won't be as good as it could have been.
I do remember reading about cyclic models in some physics textbook (it was not a rigorous book). Anyway I think it was stated that for a cyclic model to work, the universe needed to have nonzero overall curvature. I believe it was stated that experiments so far have not indicated such an overall curvature.
> there is no money lost, just worthless monopoly > money that no longer exists
The lost money is real money no matter how you slice it. Part of running a business is using your money/stock effectively. By overpaying for other companies, Redhat management is showing that they are no smarter than the dumb investors you are talking about. Incompetence is incompetence and it will reflect on the balance sheet sooner or later.
I'll be damned if I can make a point in two minutes but I originally was trying to argue from the viewpoint of a greedy corporation with a huge patent portfolio (perhaps only with a huge patent portfolio). Corporate propaganda that typically ends with "... and all of this is actually for your protection."
Sorry the argument did not meet your high standards.
Hmmm, a global corporation with some juicy patent portfolio would argue against this. In fact, by typical arguments in favor of patents, eternal patents should be great for innovation. If you innovate then you are guaranteed revenues while your innovation remains valid for civilization. Who wouldn't want that payoff? So everyone will try to innovate and get eternal protection. Imagine the possibilities.
If someone wants to further innovate on what I have done, they can do so. If there is a NEW market for this further innovation, then we can get together do a licensing deal with one another and all is well.
As a big (maybe greedy corp.) with lots of patents I don't see why a "happy medium" should be chosen. Screw the regulated middle ground and get the government out of the way. The intermediate ground will be chosen by how much others contribute to an eternal patent in the form of further innovations, and whether there is a market for that contribution. If there is a market, the shareholders of the respective companies will make sure that the companies get together to cross-license or whatever and bring the advanced product to market.
Innovation will thus continue on and the middle ground that you talk about will be chosen on a case by case basis by the parties who stand to benefit from it.
I think the main problem with patents is not duration but rather scope.
I think with one company you can perhaps make
an argument but what if 100 companies want to do
do the same thing? Sure if everybody in the world each gave me a buck it wouldn't kill them. But I hardly think I am the only guy with this smart idea. Shit piles up.
I don't know if you are a technical person or not. If you are not then please ignore this.
The amount of interference this technology will cause depends on the amount of power used in signalling. This technology is not anymore peak bandwidth efficient then say CDMA, TDMA or FDMA. It is rather a random access version of TDMA, so it does share some random access efficiencies with say CDMA. But I don't know where you come up with:
> this is one of those real "could change the
> world" technologies like the step from Analog
> to Digital signaling
The only potential advantage that this has over say CDMA is in some multipath interference scenarios. It also has many disadvantages.
Statements along the lines of "this technology will never cause interference" are pure rubbish. Can you lay off the bull and explain why this is such a revolution?
BTW, I am not from Sprint nor do I dispute your statements regarding the "vindictiveness" issues.
Thanks for the reply. We were also planning on "playing" but scrapped plans because we heard of the operations stoppage and we are lazy. In any case I hope you don't blame me too much for having been skeptical about an AI company having various Internet denizens write AI code for them. I hope it goes well for Ai.
Didn't the other company (Israel company?) which was trying to bait^H^H^H^H challange individuals to write code for them for cheap go bankrupt?
But I am sure this novel strategy will thrive this time around.
You need to take it one step at a time.
First let people have jobs so that they can be
workers, who make some money, who have some
rights, who spend some money so that more investment flows into their country, so that more
people have jobs,...
Thanks for the link. I do remember playing christminster and especially jigsaw (I think I got stuck at wright brothers where even the cheats didn't work for me.) I will give Plotkin a try. Hmmm, I think I will give "So Far" a try first.
I am glad I caught this post. Can you recommend a few good text adventures? I mean those with decent parsers and more options than N,S,E,W, kiss woman. I am assuming you mean something more than the infocom type games and the recent interactive fiction contest mentioned here (I looked at the winning entry, agree that it requires more brains than doom, but I just don't think it's an example of thriving text based adventures).
Mind you, I am not being confrontational. I just want to get my hands on a good adventure game with very good parser, etc. I am not sure but I don't think they exist.
Why not tie users with IP and
allow them moderation privilidges
(only from time to time) a la slashdot?
You cannot create a gazillion bots
unless you have a gazillion IPs
(in which case you are easy to block
assuming all are in the same domain).
The downside could be spoofing (not to difficult to counter - I assume) and a somewhat long time before sites might get moderated.
So am I missing something?
Taco should have patented slashdot moderation and karma whoring...
I admit the disparity between the integer (mediocre at best) and fp (top of the line) spec scores is disturbing. I am curious what you mean by REAL floating point operations?
To me it seems like the much quoted photoshop and 3d rendering applications should be the strength of this cpu. "Real" for me is brute force multiplies on very large matrices of no particular structure
with a good dose of control (if-then) loops in between.
I would have assumed the new spec floating point to be more indicative of these types of operations than say quake 3. So mind saying a bit more and also further clarify your footnote?
> It will be the companies that pay for credit
> card fraud. We would get a ringside seat on
> VISA vs. Microsoft.
I vaguely recall reading here on Slashdot that in case of credit card fraud it is often the seller of the goods that is out the money. Also if somebody steals your SS#/identity, again from what I have read here today, you are the one who gets royally screwed.
Not that I am trying to disprove your main argument but I will be very surprised if Microsoft accepted all responsibility in case of break-ins to Passport and hacks of Hailstorm. There will probably be a small clause in the license agreement making the user repsonsible for everything.
Slashdot Mirror
Good post. Do you know why they absolutely need special software to run behind a firewall? Why not say tunnel through http or something?
Thanks
Pardonne
Dear ProfBooty,
I see three possibilities for you:
1. You are a good student getting grades you don't deserve.
2. You are a bad student getting the grades you deserve.
3. You are a bad student fully taking advantage of the inflation. Without it you will be getting all F's.
Based on your comments to the effect of "engineering majors are not enjoying the grade inflation", I think you are number 3.
Grade inflation is rampant in science and engineering, and so are whiners.
Pardonne
> But this is slashdot so I'd better go screw myself, eh?
You should go and screw yourself independent of this being slashdot. Put it in your head: Nobody wants to read the shitty ebooks that you want to write, DRM or no DRM.
Pardonne
> However, his mention that OTP is vulnerable
> to chosen-plaintext attacks makes me think
> that he's just another crackpot.
Note that he is advocating the use of a OTP several times. He can still be a crackpot though.
Pardonne
If you were smart enough for an earth-shattering discovery you surely wouldn't be dumb enough to ask slashdot what to do.
Pardonne
and by all accounts downmod the ludicrous "alpha-person" tirade two levels up.
Pardonne
A lot of people/govts./businesses are going to love this.
From the FAQ:
5. What else can TCPA and Palladium be used for?
TCPA can be used to implement much stronger access controls on confidential documents. For example, you might arrange that your soldiers can only create word processing documents marked at `confidential' or above, and that only a TCPA PC with a certificate issued by your own armed forces can read such a document. This is called `mandatory access control', and governments are keen on it. The Palladium announcement implies that the Microsoft product will support this. Once TCPA is widespread, corporations can do this too - and so, for that matter, can the Mafia. This can make life harder for spies, corporate whistleblowers, and FBI agents alike (though it is always possible that the FBI will get some kind of access to master keys). A whistleblower who emails a document to a journalist will achieve little, as the journalist's Fritz chip won't give him the key to decipher it.
He has moved to CA, and is keeping a low profile for a number of years. There was a mini interview with him on TV, what he thought of the US team, etc.
Pardonne
I too will see this movie, but I think I might be disappointed as well. Ebert and the other reviewers are raising valid points IMHO. Episode-I had too much CGI and not enough character. The acting seemed hurried, trying to make up time for the cgi effort which is the bulk of the movie. To me it seemed like Lucas is by no means a demanding director, he let the actors slip with subpar performances compared to what they can really do (yes there are exceptions.)
I think the story is still great but perhaps its Lucas who has changed. The dialogue is no longer interesting. The jokes are not new. Worse than that, they are cliche even for the Brittney Spears generation. With so much cgi, perhaps it is now very hard for Lucas to see what the end result will be like so that he can give better direction to the actors. And no it is not because I have grown old. I still love the original three and watch them every now and again. I think the magic that could have been there in Episode-I just barely escaped. Few things here and there it could have been...
In any case I will watch the movie and will no doubt like it. It just won't be as good as it could have been.
Pardonne
Thanks for the response. I am a lay person but I am still glad that cyclic stuff is still being considered. Seems more elegant than a single big bang.
Talk to you again in a trillion years or so...
Pardonne
> I am a professional astronomer.
I do remember reading about cyclic models in some physics textbook (it was not a rigorous book). Anyway I think it was stated that for a cyclic model to work, the universe needed to have nonzero overall curvature. I believe it was stated that experiments so far have not indicated such an overall curvature.
So is this related in any sense?
Pardonne
> there is no money lost, just worthless monopoly
> money that no longer exists
The lost money is real money no matter how you slice it. Part of running a business is using your money/stock effectively. By overpaying for other companies, Redhat management is showing that they are no smarter than the dumb investors you are talking about. Incompetence is incompetence and it will reflect on the balance sheet sooner or later.
Pardonne
I'll be damned if I can make a point in two minutes but I originally was trying to argue from the viewpoint of a greedy corporation with a huge patent portfolio (perhaps only with a huge patent portfolio). Corporate propaganda that typically ends with "... and all of this is actually for your protection."
Sorry the argument did not meet your high standards.
> 1. Eternal Patent and Copyright: ...
Hmmm, a global corporation with some juicy patent portfolio would argue against this. In fact, by typical arguments in favor of patents, eternal patents should be great for innovation. If you innovate then you are guaranteed revenues while your innovation remains valid for civilization. Who wouldn't want that payoff? So everyone will try to innovate and get eternal protection. Imagine the possibilities.
If someone wants to further innovate on what I have done, they can do so. If there is a NEW market for this further innovation, then we can get together do a licensing deal with one another and all is well.
As a big (maybe greedy corp.) with lots of patents I don't see why a "happy medium" should be chosen. Screw the regulated middle ground and get the government out of the way. The intermediate ground will be chosen by how much others contribute to an eternal patent in the form of further innovations, and whether there is a market for that contribution. If there is a market, the shareholders of the respective companies will make sure that the companies get together to cross-license or whatever and bring the advanced product to market.
Innovation will thus continue on and the middle ground that you talk about will be chosen on a case by case basis by the parties who stand to benefit from it.
I think the main problem with patents is not duration but rather scope.
Pardonne
I think with one company you can perhaps make
an argument but what if 100 companies want to do
do the same thing? Sure if everybody in the world each gave me a buck it wouldn't kill them. But I hardly think I am the only guy with this smart idea. Shit piles up.
Pardonne
I don't know if you are a technical person or not. If you are not then please ignore this.
The amount of interference this technology will cause depends on the amount of power used in signalling. This technology is not anymore peak bandwidth efficient then say CDMA, TDMA or FDMA. It is rather a random access version of TDMA, so it does share some random access efficiencies with say CDMA. But I don't know where you come up with:
> this is one of those real "could change the
> world" technologies like the step from Analog
> to Digital signaling
The only potential advantage that this has over say CDMA is in some multipath interference scenarios. It also has many disadvantages.
Statements along the lines of "this technology will never cause interference" are pure rubbish. Can you lay off the bull and explain why this is such a revolution?
BTW, I am not from Sprint nor do I dispute your statements regarding the "vindictiveness" issues.
Pardonne
Thanks for the reply. We were also planning on "playing" but scrapped plans because we heard of the operations stoppage and we are lazy. In any case I hope you don't blame me too much for having been skeptical about an AI company having various Internet denizens write AI code for them. I hope it goes well for Ai.
Didn't the other company (Israel company?) which was trying to bait^H^H^H^H challange individuals to write code for them for cheap go bankrupt?
But I am sure this novel strategy will thrive this time around.
pardonne
You need to take it one step at a time. ...
First let people have jobs so that they can be
workers, who make some money, who have some
rights, who spend some money so that more investment flows into their country, so that more
people have jobs,
Agree with what you say about G7 though.
Pardonne
Thanks for the link. I do remember playing christminster and especially jigsaw (I think I got stuck at wright brothers where even the cheats didn't work for me.) I will give Plotkin a try. Hmmm, I think I will give "So Far" a try first.
pardonne
I am glad I caught this post. Can you recommend a few good text adventures? I mean those with decent parsers and more options than N,S,E,W, kiss woman. I am assuming you mean something more than the infocom type games and the recent interactive fiction contest mentioned here (I looked at the winning entry, agree that it requires more brains than doom, but I just don't think it's an example of thriving text based adventures).
Mind you, I am not being confrontational. I just want to get my hands on a good adventure game with very good parser, etc. I am not sure but I don't think they exist.
Pardonne
Why not tie users with IP and
allow them moderation privilidges
(only from time to time) a la slashdot?
You cannot create a gazillion bots
unless you have a gazillion IPs
(in which case you are easy to block
assuming all are in the same domain).
The downside could be spoofing (not to difficult to counter - I assume) and a somewhat long time before sites might get moderated.
So am I missing something?
Taco should have patented slashdot moderation and karma whoring...
Pardonne
You are raising good points but I would say that he is not doing all that bad considering he has the issue posted on Slashdot.
Pardonne
I admit the disparity between the integer (mediocre at best) and fp (top of the line) spec scores is disturbing. I am curious what you mean by REAL floating point operations?
To me it seems like the much quoted photoshop and 3d rendering applications should be the strength of this cpu. "Real" for me is brute force multiplies on very large matrices of no particular structure
with a good dose of control (if-then) loops in between.
I would have assumed the new spec floating point to be more indicative of these types of operations than say quake 3. So mind saying a bit more and also further clarify your footnote?
> It will be the companies that pay for credit
> card fraud. We would get a ringside seat on
> VISA vs. Microsoft.
I vaguely recall reading here on Slashdot that in case of credit card fraud it is often the seller of the goods that is out the money. Also if somebody steals your SS#/identity, again from what I have read here today, you are the one who gets royally screwed.
Not that I am trying to disprove your main argument but I will be very surprised if Microsoft accepted all responsibility in case of break-ins to Passport and hacks of Hailstorm. There will probably be a small clause in the license agreement making the user repsonsible for everything.
Pardonne