Many posters seem to not get the idea that a given 128k chunk cannot be infringing because it cannot correlate one to one to a given file, copywritten or otherwise. The set of sharable files is much larger than the set of 128kB words.
Imagine this purely in textual terms. If you had a group of three character strings containing every possible combination of three characters, you could express MacBeth, The Bible, or whatever as a series of addresses within that string-space. The string "e t" is not specifically part of any given work.
What would then be an act of infringement is distributing the recipe to assemble a protected work without a liscense to do so.
IBM went through the sort of personality transplant you describe, there's no reason MS couldn't. It probably won't happen with Ballmer at the helm though.
After a bad breakup in high-school shook my confidence pretty badly, I spent the first few years of college rather gunshy. When the cloud passed, I still couldn't seem to find a girlfriend, despite being good-looking, funny, playing in a band, having a car, etc.
I eventually put the question to one of the many girls I had befriended why no-one in our social circle would go out with me, and she was kind enough to answer honestly and with remarkable self-knowledge.
She explained that because I was basically the male equivalent of the girl who never gets asked out because the guys all think she's out of their league. To the young women I knew, she elaborated, getting involved with me would have a high risk of two undesirable outcomes:
A. Getting very seriously involved, married, etc. While that sounds good in principle, it is actually terrifying to most girls in their late teens and early twenties. The dreamy jerks may have been the romantic equivalent of junk-food, but they fact that deep-down she knew it would go nowhere made them safe.
B. Knowing that she wasn't ready for A, the prospect of freaking out and dumping me for no good reason, the pain that would cause both of us, the guilt she would feel, and the potential loss of my presence in her life.
Stunned, I resolved to ask out any woman I thereafter met in whom I was remotely interested right from the get-go, before such a catch-22 had a chance to develop. This led to lots of dates, several female friends whom I had once briefly dated, a few rewarding long-term relationships and eventually (once the women near my age had matured to the point that Option A didn't seem so bad) marriage.
In summary, don't get to know her as a friend and then try to take things into romantic once you're already deeply attached. Ask her out the moment you're interested, and get to know her better over a dinner date.
Putting aside questions of BSA social policy for the moment, what do they need software for that isn't already available? It strikes me that what they need are people to train Scouts/Leaders as admins and system integrators. That's a heck of a lot harder to come by than source.
Not so. While I'm no BSA apologist, their actual stance is much like that of the Freemasons. That being, they don't have a position on what religion you believe in, as long as you have one. There are (or were back in the day) activity and medal programs geared toward Jews, Buddhist, Muslims, Hindus, and so on.
Not that that excuses their more boneheaded positions, I just wanted to clarify.
While they're not explicitly defined as such, the protections spelled out in the DMCA, the the CDA, and various gambling statutes appy more or less the same legal test of responsibility for the data they carry. There is a quantitative difference there, but not a qualitative one.
While your Insightful Ass is correct that they don't have shiny Duck ID cards they cartainly walk, swim, fly, and quack like one.
So they're consenting by request rather than by law to remove material (however loathsome)specified by a third party? How can they possibly preserve their status as Common Carriers under this regime? Without that shield in place they'll be held liable for every possibly objectionable (copyright, libel, obscenity) piece of data they move. How can they possibly agree to this?
A merely average commercial product will loose to an average free product. An excellent commercial product (see Intel's compilers) will do just fine against a free product when it produces better results.
While the article is long on smoke and short on fire, it does raise an interesting question in my mind.
To what extent has our critical network infrastructure retained the sort of "after-the-bomb" resilience of the original DARPAnet project? As I recall from a long ago text-book, our forbears with slide-rules and lab-coats worked out that if each node had separate links to three independent communication peers, that for most random removals of up to 90% of those nodes the remainder could still communicate. That is the design spec/philosophy that gave rise to the whole "built to survive a nuclear attack" meme.
Fast forward half a century, and everyone knows that our overall network infrastructure has nowhere near that level of redundancy and robustness, owing reasonably to that fact that most of our deployed applications don't require it. If it's not needed, why pay to build it across the board.
However, for those applications for which high-availability under outage/disaster/attack/DoS conditions is critical, have we been building appropriately? Or, as I fear, are we reliant on a small handful of satellites and long-haul backbones in support of everything else?
Is there anyone more current than I in that realm who might care to weigh in?
Back in '02 I was working as a courier for a while. Whenever we went to "Orange Alert" (cue the bubble from the Prisoner), a hospital to whom I made deliveries would no longer allow me to stop in the non-emergency loading zone by the main enterance, forcing me instead to use the visitor parking around the side of the building. Thus, my 18' cargo van potentially loaded with explosives was parked outside the Maternity Wing rather than the lobby. Good to know that they placed a higher value on the gift shop than the nursery.
In stark contrast to this were the Condition Orange procedures at our local Federal Reserve branch. There I was required to exit my vehicle and ring a bell, at which point an armed guard in body armor would emerge and search my and my vehicle.
While I'd object to that level of scrutiny as a private citizen going about his way, I welcomed it in the context of passing through an honest-to-god secure checkpoint on official business in a secure area. It was nice to know that at least somebody wasn't half-assing.
Everything you say is correct from a cost/hardware standpoint. If you wich to vote with your dollars against crapware bundling, you will need to overlook that.
The standard for perjury is higher than meerly lying under oath, otherwise every he-said vs she-said case would be followed up with prosecution of the looser. Witnesses lie quite often. Usually all that happens is that opposing counsel trips them up under cross, or introduces evidence that contradicts their testimony. They loose credibility with the judge/jury, but they don't go to jail.
The grand jury rightly refused to indict Clinton because the lie he got caugh in, while crappy and self-serving, wasn't sufficiently germane to the facts of Paula Jones's suite against him. Lying about something that happened years later, in another state, with a different woman had too little bearing on the claims presented in Jones v. Clinton to warrant a perjury charge.
There's a huge difference between manning the helldesk at a giant corporation vs a small firm. In the former case, you're likely an expendable resource little better than a sweatshop worker. In the latter, you have the opportunity to interact with other depertments and management in the course of your duties, and impress them. If all you company knows about you are you're handling times, you're going nowhere. If the sales reps bring you cookies and half the VP's come to you for favors, you have some opportunities to explore.
Actually, the mid-life crisis phenomenon arose from the confluence of two trends: we stopped marrying our daughters off to older men, and increasing vitality throughout middle age.
The mid-life crisis (in the buy a hot car and get a mistress sense, not the career dissatisfaction sense in the article) is a man reacting on instinct to his mate's biological clock running down. Not an excuse mind you, but that's the root cause.
This is one of those moments where something ruthless should be done for the greater good. Then ends do not always justify the means, but in this case they would.
USB can never "flat out beat" Firewire for one reason: isochronas transfers. Firewire controllers have their own integrated timing/synch control, while USB lets the CPU play traffic cop and uses a buffer to make up the difference. That's fine for copying files or for low-quality streams, but when moving lots of high quality audio or video data, the buffer can run dry while the CPU is working on processing said data for output/playback, resulting in loss of synch, droped frames, and audio pops.
If you combine a mach 8 ballistic projectile with a satellite-eye view of the combat theatre, over-the-horizon targeting becomes practical, just like it is with land based cannon. Some of the early computer work in WWII was exactly those sorts of extreme-range, indirect fire, artillery calculations. Previously it was only practical against stationary emplacements.
With developments like this however, modern computing power, satellite detection and ranging (SADAR?), and projectiles moving almost two miles/second could combine to make over-the-horizon ballistic targeting between moving subjects viable.
NBC is reported to have asked Disney if Disney's friend, Apple, still liked NBC; and if so, did Apple just like NBC, or did it, you know, "like" like NBC.
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Many posters seem to not get the idea that a given 128k chunk cannot be infringing because it cannot correlate one to one to a given file, copywritten or otherwise. The set of sharable files is much larger than the set of 128kB words.
Imagine this purely in textual terms. If you had a group of three character strings containing every possible combination of three characters, you could express MacBeth, The Bible, or whatever as a series of addresses within that string-space. The string "e t" is not specifically part of any given work.
What would then be an act of infringement is distributing the recipe to assemble a protected work without a liscense to do so.
IBM went through the sort of personality transplant you describe, there's no reason MS couldn't. It probably won't happen with Ballmer at the helm though.
Because people trust mediocre crypto way too much.
After a bad breakup in high-school shook my confidence pretty badly, I spent the first few years of college rather gunshy. When the cloud passed, I still couldn't seem to find a girlfriend, despite being good-looking, funny, playing in a band, having a car, etc.
I eventually put the question to one of the many girls I had befriended why no-one in our social circle would go out with me, and she was kind enough to answer honestly and with remarkable self-knowledge.
She explained that because I was basically the male equivalent of the girl who never gets asked out because the guys all think she's out of their league. To the young women I knew, she elaborated, getting involved with me would have a high risk of two undesirable outcomes:
A. Getting very seriously involved, married, etc. While that sounds good in principle, it is actually terrifying to most girls in their late teens and early twenties. The dreamy jerks may have been the romantic equivalent of junk-food, but they fact that deep-down she knew it would go nowhere made them safe.
B. Knowing that she wasn't ready for A, the prospect of freaking out and dumping me for no good reason, the pain that would cause both of us, the guilt she would feel, and the potential loss of my presence in her life.
Stunned, I resolved to ask out any woman I thereafter met in whom I was remotely interested right from the get-go, before such a catch-22 had a chance to develop. This led to lots of dates, several female friends whom I had once briefly dated, a few rewarding long-term relationships and eventually (once the women near my age had matured to the point that Option A didn't seem so bad) marriage.
In summary, don't get to know her as a friend and then try to take things into romantic once you're already deeply attached. Ask her out the moment you're interested, and get to know her better over a dinner date.
Putting aside questions of BSA social policy for the moment, what do they need software for that isn't already available? It strikes me that what they need are people to train Scouts/Leaders as admins and system integrators. That's a heck of a lot harder to come by than source.
Not that that excuses their more boneheaded positions, I just wanted to clarify.
While your Insightful Ass is correct that they don't have shiny Duck ID cards they cartainly walk, swim, fly, and quack like one.
So they're consenting by request rather than by law to remove material (however loathsome)specified by a third party? How can they possibly preserve their status as Common Carriers under this regime? Without that shield in place they'll be held liable for every possibly objectionable (copyright, libel, obscenity) piece of data they move. How can they possibly agree to this?
A merely average commercial product will loose to an average free product. An excellent commercial product (see Intel's compilers) will do just fine against a free product when it produces better results.
To what extent has our critical network infrastructure retained the sort of "after-the-bomb" resilience of the original DARPAnet project? As I recall from a long ago text-book, our forbears with slide-rules and lab-coats worked out that if each node had separate links to three independent communication peers, that for most random removals of up to 90% of those nodes the remainder could still communicate. That is the design spec/philosophy that gave rise to the whole "built to survive a nuclear attack" meme.
Fast forward half a century, and everyone knows that our overall network infrastructure has nowhere near that level of redundancy and robustness, owing reasonably to that fact that most of our deployed applications don't require it. If it's not needed, why pay to build it across the board.
However, for those applications for which high-availability under outage/disaster/attack/DoS conditions is critical, have we been building appropriately? Or, as I fear, are we reliant on a small handful of satellites and long-haul backbones in support of everything else?
Is there anyone more current than I in that realm who might care to weigh in?
In stark contrast to this were the Condition Orange procedures at our local Federal Reserve branch. There I was required to exit my vehicle and ring a bell, at which point an armed guard in body armor would emerge and search my and my vehicle.
While I'd object to that level of scrutiny as a private citizen going about his way, I welcomed it in the context of passing through an honest-to-god secure checkpoint on official business in a secure area. It was nice to know that at least somebody wasn't half-assing.
Everything you say is correct from a cost/hardware standpoint. If you wich to vote with your dollars against crapware bundling, you will need to overlook that.
The grand jury rightly refused to indict Clinton because the lie he got caugh in, while crappy and self-serving, wasn't sufficiently germane to the facts of Paula Jones's suite against him. Lying about something that happened years later, in another state, with a different woman had too little bearing on the claims presented in Jones v. Clinton to warrant a perjury charge.
There's a huge difference between manning the helldesk at a giant corporation vs a small firm. In the former case, you're likely an expendable resource little better than a sweatshop worker. In the latter, you have the opportunity to interact with other depertments and management in the course of your duties, and impress them. If all you company knows about you are you're handling times, you're going nowhere. If the sales reps bring you cookies and half the VP's come to you for favors, you have some opportunities to explore.
The mid-life crisis (in the buy a hot car and get a mistress sense, not the career dissatisfaction sense in the article) is a man reacting on instinct to his mate's biological clock running down. Not an excuse mind you, but that's the root cause.
This is one of those moments where something ruthless should be done for the greater good. Then ends do not always justify the means, but in this case they would.
Make a Golden Rectangle shaped cake and use the icing to inscribe the Fibonacci sequence in smaller GR's. Cut party-hats into wearable conic-sections.
Perhaps IBM has some of Mr. Hollerith's punch-card machines in a basement in Armonk. A little clean/lube/adjust and we'd be good to go.
USB can never "flat out beat" Firewire for one reason: isochronas transfers. Firewire controllers have their own integrated timing/synch control, while USB lets the CPU play traffic cop and uses a buffer to make up the difference. That's fine for copying files or for low-quality streams, but when moving lots of high quality audio or video data, the buffer can run dry while the CPU is working on processing said data for output/playback, resulting in loss of synch, droped frames, and audio pops.
Perhaps in another century or so they'll be able to decide on a time-zone.
If you combine a mach 8 ballistic projectile with a satellite-eye view of the combat theatre, over-the-horizon targeting becomes practical, just like it is with land based cannon. Some of the early computer work in WWII was exactly those sorts of extreme-range, indirect fire, artillery calculations. Previously it was only practical against stationary emplacements.
With developments like this however, modern computing power, satellite detection and ranging (SADAR?), and projectiles moving almost two miles/second could combine to make over-the-horizon ballistic targeting between moving subjects viable.
NBC is reported to have asked Disney if Disney's friend, Apple, still liked NBC; and if so, did Apple just like NBC, or did it, you know, "like" like NBC.
Oh yeah! This is p057@nemomus givin a shoutout to all the old-school nerds from BITNET. Because It's Time!
You could have far more influence over the government with that $1,000,000 than you ever will by voting.