It can't cost that much to add a serial number to a chip.
An iButton, with no special features, so it's just a serial number chip, costs about $1 each in quantity. That probably indicates that it costs only a few cents to serial numberize a chip.
I'd say that the ability to change window managers is an important feature, but not because it allows everyone to change their window manager.
The reason - it allows improvements to the window manager.
If you can't change the window manager, you can't slip in an improved one.
Even if only the superuser can change it, on a system wide basis, that's still miles better than everyone stuck with a 10 year old wm that's not improved.
As someone who used to run SCO, and switched to Linux to get a better supported, more featured, and not to mention cheaper product, what are SCO's plans to encourage people like me to switch to SCO?
Mailservers can't really keep track of 'who talked to who', and even if they could, I don't think many of us would like them to. ( Big Brother?;)
Yes they can. Check where syslog is sending mail.debug messages to. This will record each message as it goes through the server with almost every MTA.
So, say we put a 25 cent 'tax' on every email someone sends. You really couldn't make it smaller, because the spammers are looking at a 10,000 address/day mail list with a 2% return. ($12.50 in mail for every product sold).
How could you do this? If I send email from one of machines to another machines, then I'm the only person who can tell this happened. There is certainly no way that I'm going to let someone else check my logfiles just so they can tax me.
This is essentially the trust assignment problem that you describe--you *do* trust a program to execute a function, but you *don't* trust it not to execute some other function. How do you isolate?
By effective sandboxing, data tainting and appropriate logging of actions attempted. Something which is totally missing in Microsoft products, but is available in more secure OSs, such as those which have B & A level certification.
A few years ago, it seemed to me to be silly to have OS level protection to prevent data from being exported from the system, but as time goes on, it seems more and more reasonable. I guess in earlier times, it seemed silly to have file permissions, if you were logged onto the system you must have had the rights to access the data, right? The concept--and it ain't a bad one--is Bogosoft won't last long under attack from a very pissed off FTC. Will ya look at that, it's an election year...
Has there ever been any action taken against any company for privacy violations except by consumer's objecting and boycotting?
Both eTrust and the various legal bodies such as the FTC seem to be useless. If a big company wants to collect your browser habits, your hardware or anything else it feels like, then no-one seems to want to stop them except their users.
Microsoft actually has done quite a bit of work with their Authenticode system giving people a means of digitally verify their code, with a CA(Certificate Authority) backing up that signature. The keys are "only" 512 bit RSA, but that *will* stop the script kiddies.
Unfortunatly, this isn't terribly useful.
The programs which are causing problems aren't generally altered versions of authentic releases, they're features added by the authors which do things which the user doesn't want them to do.
It doesn't matter if the program is 100% genuine Bogosoft code, if Bogosoft have added in code to upload your netscape history file to find out what you're browsing.
While authentication is important, much more important is the ability to restrict programs from doing undeseriable things. If you don't want a program from sending your registration information without asking, you should be able to lock that up so it can't.
OS/390 is Unix branded, and gives a reasonably good Unix enviroment, which is well integrated with the other S/390 OS's. For example, I can access a dataset created in ISPF, or setup a job to be restarted with appropriate JCL automatically by zeke, just like any other mainframe job.
Berwick Upon Tweed is a small town on the border between England & Scotland. Over the course of many border disputes over the years, it switched from being part of England to being part of Scotland and vice versa. Because of this, it's been customary to include it seperatly when doing treaties etc.
There is a story that Berwick is still at war, as it was included at the start of the Crimean war, but excluded at the end. Dunno how acurate this is though.
Celera is doing a 4x oversampling on the human genome, unlike the HGP, which does 10x oversampling. This is possible because Celera is sequencing DNA from one single individual (most likely Craig Venter?), thus avoiding the uncertainty of wheter differences are due to sequencing artifacts or personal variations.
Doesn't this reduce the value? I would have thought that the most useful use of a gene map would be to be able to tell which parts of an individual vary, and cause us to be different, which parts are always constant, and those parts which vary only in those who are carriers for gene defects.
If you only map one individual, and that individual has the gene which causes blue eyes, or sickle cell anemia or breast cancer, then that is going to be considered 'normal'. If you map 10 invididuals, and find that 9 of them have the same code and 1 varies, then the one which is found in the majority will be considered 'normal'.
IANAL but I belive that the situation is that a Canadian citizen can return to Canada at any time and resume residency, without filling out any paperwork or getting any visas.
You hit someone with a stick enough times, they eventually realize that the consumers are the ones with power, not the retailers, and not the manufactuers.
NT wasn't designed from first principles to be secure.
The first rule of security is to limit what programs can do to the minimum neccessary to do their job. Putting the video drivers into the kernel is not the minimum neccessary to do their job, so obviously security was secondary to other aspects.
Even enabling filtering at the IP level slows down many routers. Instead of their custom built hardware switching the packets, the CPU has to look at them to decide where to switch the packet.
Lets face it, with a few exceptions, a film made more than a few years ago is almost worthless. Not enough people will want to see it in a theatre or want to hire or buy the video to make it economic for the copyright owner to release it. The same is true for books, software, etc etc etc.
However, the majority of companies will hold onto their almost worthless assets 'just in case' they do find a way to make money off of it. That means that eventually the content will die.
There are games available for emulators, eg this archive. The games are nearly 20 years old. No one could possible make a cent trying to sell them, and in most cases the copyright owners have dissapeared into the mist of time, yet there are enthusiasts around who will keep copies of their old games.
There should be a way for stuff to become public domain in a reasonable amount of time for as much as possible. Maybe like trademarks, if you don't defend them, you loose them. Also, there should be an incentive to avoid loosing archives like this. Perhaps a tax credit for every accesable item properly stored in a company museam.
With the current rules, we are not promoting artistry, we are maximizing profits for a few companies at the expense of our heritage.
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An iButton, with no special features, so it's just a serial number chip, costs about $1 each in quantity. That probably indicates that it costs only a few cents to serial numberize a chip.
The reason - it allows improvements to the window manager.
If you can't change the window manager, you can't slip in an improved one.
Even if only the superuser can change it, on a system wide basis, that's still miles better than everyone stuck with a 10 year old wm that's not improved.
And unless the foreign country recognizes the legallity of this act, it's meaningless.
As someone who used to run SCO, and switched to Linux to get a better supported, more featured, and not to mention cheaper product, what are SCO's plans to encourage people like me to switch to SCO?
Yes they can. Check where syslog is sending mail.debug messages to. This will record each message as it goes through the server with almost every MTA.
So, say we put a 25 cent 'tax' on every email someone sends. You really couldn't make it smaller, because the spammers are looking at a 10,000 address/day mail list with a 2% return. ($12.50 in mail for every product sold).
How could you do this? If I send email from one of machines to another machines, then I'm the only person who can tell this happened. There is certainly no way that I'm going to let someone else check my logfiles just so they can tax me.
I've certainly spent time curled up with a laptop balanced on my knees, which would make up sideways.
How do you know the contents of the data before you request it?
Oh yeah, it couldn't be that the border is undefended, and anyone can smuggle stuff across easily.
Cassettes cost the same amount to distribute, and a little more to produce. Yet, they are sold for a fraction of the price of a CD.
By effective sandboxing, data tainting and appropriate logging of actions attempted. Something which is totally missing in Microsoft products, but is available in more secure OSs, such as those which have B & A level certification.
A few years ago, it seemed to me to be silly to have OS level protection to prevent data from being exported from the system, but as time goes on, it seems more and more reasonable. I guess in earlier times, it seemed silly to have file permissions, if you were logged onto the system you must have had the rights to access the data, right? The concept--and it ain't a bad one--is Bogosoft won't last long under attack from a very pissed off FTC. Will ya look at that, it's an election year...
Has there ever been any action taken against any company for privacy violations except by consumer's objecting and boycotting?
Both eTrust and the various legal bodies such as the FTC seem to be useless. If a big company wants to collect your browser habits, your hardware or anything else it feels like, then no-one seems to want to stop them except their users.
Unfortunatly, this isn't terribly useful.
The programs which are causing problems aren't generally altered versions of authentic releases, they're features added by the authors which do things which the user doesn't want them to do.
It doesn't matter if the program is 100% genuine Bogosoft code, if Bogosoft have added in code to upload your netscape history file to find out what you're browsing.
While authentication is important, much more important is the ability to restrict programs from doing undeseriable things. If you don't want a program from sending your registration information without asking, you should be able to lock that up so it can't.
OS/390 is Unix branded, and gives a reasonably good Unix enviroment, which is well integrated with the other S/390 OS's. For example, I can access a dataset created in ISPF, or setup a job to be restarted with appropriate JCL automatically by zeke, just like any other mainframe job.
Actually the IMDB had the full name, I just cut & pasted.
There is a story that Berwick is still at war, as it was included at the start of the Crimean war, but excluded at the end. Dunno how acurate this is though.
Actually to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin.
Democracy & Dictatorships are forms of goverments. Capitialism & Communism are forms of economies.
You can have any combination, eg Capitalism Dictatiorship, or Democratic Communism.
Doesn't this reduce the value? I would have thought that the most useful use of a gene map would be to be able to tell which parts of an individual vary, and cause us to be different, which parts are always constant, and those parts which vary only in those who are carriers for gene defects.
If you only map one individual, and that individual has the gene which causes blue eyes, or sickle cell anemia or breast cancer, then that is going to be considered 'normal'. If you map 10 invididuals, and find that 9 of them have the same code and 1 varies, then the one which is found in the majority will be considered 'normal'.
One of the MCSE wannabe's at work here was calling them Compaq clones.
IANAL but I belive that the situation is that a Canadian citizen can return to Canada at any time and resume residency, without filling out any paperwork or getting any visas.
You hit someone with a stick enough times, they eventually realize that the consumers are the ones with power, not the retailers, and not the manufactuers.
Don't forget WATFOR the Fortran compiler that an entire generation used at school.
I'm pretty sure that Linus would be out of diapers by the time he was 8 or 9.
The first rule of security is to limit what programs can do to the minimum neccessary to do their job. Putting the video drivers into the kernel is not the minimum neccessary to do their job, so obviously security was secondary to other aspects.
Even enabling filtering at the IP level slows down many routers. Instead of their custom built hardware switching the packets, the CPU has to look at them to decide where to switch the packet.
Lets face it, with a few exceptions, a film made more than a few years ago is almost worthless. Not enough people will want to see it in a theatre or want to hire or buy the video to make it economic for the copyright owner to release it. The same is true for books, software, etc etc etc.
However, the majority of companies will hold onto their almost worthless assets 'just in case' they do find a way to make money off of it. That means that eventually the content will die.
There are games available for emulators, eg this archive. The games are nearly 20 years old. No one could possible make a cent trying to sell them, and in most cases the copyright owners have dissapeared into the mist of time, yet there are enthusiasts around who will keep copies of their old games.
There should be a way for stuff to become public domain in a reasonable amount of time for as much as possible. Maybe like trademarks, if you don't defend them, you loose them. Also, there should be an incentive to avoid loosing archives like this. Perhaps a tax credit for every accesable item properly stored in a company museam.
With the current rules, we are not promoting artistry, we are maximizing profits for a few companies at the expense of our heritage.