While this is good news and all, there still have not been studies for the long term use of immusupressents. Being diabetic for over 30 years I keep up with this type of information. Dr Faustman, was the first to cure diabetes in long term non-obese mice. Type 1 diabetes is an auto immune disease. What Dr. Faustman did was to stop the auto immune disease and retrain the immune system. After the treatment, the insulin cells reproduce themselves and no more medication of any kind was needed. It's a two step process. She's now trying to raise 11 million for the first phase 1 trial on humans with the help of Lee Iaccoca (of Chrysler fame). Unfortunately, her process uses drugs who's patent has expired and hence not a lot money potential on something that already costs the United States over 100 Billion. Lee Iaccoca who has already donated over 20 million on diabetes research is spearheading raising money for this by going to the people. You can find out more information and donate (I have) at http://http//www.joinleenow.org
The reason these companies are not just adding to the other media players such as xine and mplayer is that these companies want to own/control the copyright. If the software is widely used, they can license for commercial companies similar to what Troll Tech does for QT.
Since you have to work out the dependices yourself, why not imbed the dependices in the startup scripts themselves? So for example, the nfs startup script would block until the network script got started. The status can be checked by parsing/etc/rc.d/init.d/network status. You may want a timeout on the blocking. If you do this you could just start all the scripts at once.
If you reinstall your OS, it won't have all the patches and it can get re-infected. If you're not on the network, how do you get the patches. Also, I wouldn't want to copy the patches onto a CDR because that might be copyright infringement. Many schools have honor policies where they could kick you out for breaking the law, especially when using University property to help you do it. Though, I can understand the school wanting "compromised" systems to be formatted and re-installed. Once your system is compromised you can't be sure what's on the system anymore.
One way to implement DRM on the BIOS would be to have a public/private key. The application would ask for the public key from the BIOS and encrypt it's data with it remotely. The user gets the encrypted data and sends it to the BIOS to be unencrypted with the internal private key. The BIOS then sends the data directly to the audio or video? I'm not sure if the BIOS can send directly to audio or video.
Problems with the above approach is the OS API could simply fake the public/private key and bypass the ones used in the BIOS.
Ways for the DRM manufactures to get around the OS bypass would be to have a challenge response mechanism where the proper response is not publicly known. Of course, someone might eventually figure out the proper response.
Also audio and video don't compress well when encrypted first because encryption will remove the redundancies in the signal used for compression. Ways to solve that problem is to have a mpeg and mp3 decoder on the BIOS chip. Then the provider could compress the signal then encrypt it. The BIOS would then decrypt the signal and uncompress it.
Note: I have no idea what Pheonix is planning, these were just my thoughts on ways to implement DRM
Do any cards exist that can decode digital cable tv without having to go through the digital cable tv box? I'm not looking to get channels I'm not paying for. I just want a PVR that can act like my VCR did when I had analog cable. I used to be able to easily record shows on different channels. Tivo solves the problem by changing the channel on the Digital Cable TV box which isn't the optimal solution and prevents me from watching one show and recording another.
What I don't like about many system config tools, including Gnome System Tools (GST) is that they read their information from their own set of files. The config tools should read the config files for the particular application they're trying to config, not just write to the config files. Their method causes any previous changes I made to be lost such as adding a more obscure option they don't control by using a text editor or by using a different config tool not part of their suite.
I'm running RedHat 7.3 with Ximian and Redhat 9 all using Gnome
Clock: I can't click on the time to change it. I also can't click on the time to connect it to a time server.
Open File Listings or any GtkList item: I can't press a letter and have the list automatically scroll down to the word with that letter.
Gnome Menu Start Items: I don't have a clue how those get added. Linux does everything with a file is there a file hiarchy somwhere? Ximian has removed some of my start items.
Resize my screen size without restarting the Xserver. I beleve this was fixed in X 4.3 but I still don't know how to do it.
One thing that takes a lot of man hours to do is testing. If the software crashes, a OSS user is many times able to do a backtrace on the core file and give vital information to the developer. This is much harder to do in a commercial product because you usually have to remove any debugging information. Even more mature OSS projects usually go through a release candidate phase. The "release early, release often..." quotes heard with OSS implies we are using you as software testers. Also a user is more likely to submit bug reports if they know they will be heard and the quickly fixed. Another reason bugs are fixed quickly is because of the pride and ego associated with the software.
The article doesn't mention how this would affect violent open source. Would it be a crime for me to write a GPL violent game and let anyone out there download it? Even if I wanted to comply with the law, it would make it almost impossible to develope an open source game over the net as I cannot verify the age of someone using a browser or ftp client.
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Philip Kennedy did something similar in 1998 with humans. I witnessed an operation where he implanted an electrode in a monkey over 10 years ago. He also received a 1999 Discover Technical Innovation Award for the same work. Check out:
http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/HSNEWS/releases/feb99/02 2399brain.html
Assuming you are doing some form of Revision Control (which you should be;) ), I find it most important to have the revision control system built into the editor I'm using. I also want a difference engine built into the editor that works with the revision control system. Emacs and Xemacs has these features among other full IDEs. It is useful to look at the differences between your current code and code that has been checked in, in a graphical manner so that the differences are within context. Command line diffs remove the context
It's also nice to have color highlighting of code and smart indention. This can help you know if you spelled things, forgot a ";".
A nice feature that some IDE's have which I haven't seen implemented in emacs yet (which I'm sure is possible), is the ability to know the current valid function names and variables and highlight them appropriately.
I wrote my Senator complaining about the DMCA a month or so ago and here's the response I got. It doesn't look good.
Dear Mr Keal:
Thank you for writing to me about the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act.
I have always believed that the protection of intellectual
property rights is as important as the protection of any other
property right. Moreover, the protection of intellectual property is
vital to a flourishing economy -- particularly in California.
America's music, movie, and software industries are second to
none, and we export far more intellectual property than we import.
This is good for employment, and good for consumers.
Without strong copyright protections, the incentive to
innovate would be diminished. In fact, this issue was so important
to the Founding Fathers that the ability of Congress to protect
copyrights is actually written into our Constitution itself.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was Congress'
attempt to address the issue of copyright protection in a new,
digital age. As new technologies have developed over the past few
years, it has become increasingly difficult to protect intellectual
property from illegal copying and distribution. It is a delicate
balance, to be sure -- nobody wants to restrict the development of
new and exciting technologies, but we must work to prevent the
creation of perfect, digital copies of copyrighted works which can
be illegally distributed throughout the world.
Please be assured that I understand your concerns, and I
will keep your views in mind.
If you have other questions or comments, please do not
hesitate to write to me again, or contact my Washington, D.C. staff
at (202) 224-3841.
I have a question.
If I am the copyright holder of a program I created, and I accept bug fixes to this program from other people, can I release this program under a dual license later? Do I still own the whole copyright after accepting bug fixes?
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Following direction on the site, it was a wiki at Harvard with the remote vunerability:p /Special:Version
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/wiki/index.ph
While this is good news and all, there still have not been studies for the long term use of immusupressents. Being diabetic for over 30 years I keep up with this type of information. Dr Faustman, was the first to cure diabetes in long term non-obese mice. Type 1 diabetes is an auto immune disease. What Dr. Faustman did was to stop the auto immune disease and retrain the immune system. After the treatment, the insulin cells reproduce themselves and no more medication of any kind was needed. It's a two step process. She's now trying to raise 11 million for the first phase 1 trial on humans with the help of Lee Iaccoca (of Chrysler fame). Unfortunately, her process uses drugs who's patent has expired and hence not a lot money potential on something that already costs the United States over 100 Billion. Lee Iaccoca who has already donated over 20 million on diabetes research is spearheading raising money for this by going to the people. You can find out more information and donate (I have) at http://http//www.joinleenow.org
The reason these companies are not just adding to the other media players such as xine and mplayer is that these companies want to own/control the copyright. If the software is widely used, they can license for commercial companies similar to what Troll Tech does for QT.
The current ownership of Symbian breaks down as follows: Nokia 32.2, Psion 31.1, Ericsson 17.5, Samsung 5.0, Siemens 4.8, and Sony Ericsson 1.5
Since you have to work out the dependices yourself, why not imbed the dependices in the startup scripts themselves? So for example, the nfs startup script would block until the network script got started. The status can be checked by parsing /etc/rc.d/init.d/network status. You may want a timeout on the blocking. If you do this you could just start all the scripts at once.
If you reinstall your OS, it won't have all the patches and it can get re-infected. If you're not on the network, how do you get the patches. Also, I wouldn't want to copy the patches onto a CDR because that might be copyright infringement. Many schools have honor policies where they could kick you out for breaking the law, especially when using University property to help you do it. Though, I can understand the school wanting "compromised" systems to be formatted and re-installed. Once your system is compromised you can't be sure what's on the system anymore.
One way to implement DRM on the BIOS would be to have a public/private key. The application would ask for the public key from the BIOS and encrypt it's data with it remotely. The user gets the encrypted data and sends it to the BIOS to be unencrypted with the internal private key. The BIOS then sends the data directly to the audio or video? I'm not sure if the BIOS can send directly to audio or video.
Problems with the above approach is the OS API could simply fake the public/private key and bypass the ones used in the BIOS.
Ways for the DRM manufactures to get around the OS bypass would be to have a challenge response mechanism where the proper response is not publicly known. Of course, someone might eventually figure out the proper response.
Also audio and video don't compress well when encrypted first because encryption will remove the redundancies in the signal used for compression. Ways to solve that problem is to have a mpeg and mp3 decoder on the BIOS chip. Then the provider could compress the signal then encrypt it. The BIOS would then decrypt the signal and uncompress it.
Note: I have no idea what Pheonix is planning, these were just my thoughts on ways to implement DRM
Do any cards exist that can decode digital cable tv without having to go through the digital cable tv box? I'm not looking to get channels I'm not paying for. I just want a PVR that can act like my VCR did when I had analog cable. I used to be able to easily record shows on different channels. Tivo solves the problem by changing the channel on the Digital Cable TV box which isn't the optimal solution and prevents me from watching one show and recording another.
What I don't like about many system config tools, including Gnome System Tools (GST) is that they read their information from their own set of files. The config tools should read the config files for the particular application they're trying to config, not just write to the config files. Their method causes any previous changes I made to be lost such as adding a more obscure option they don't control by using a text editor or by using a different config tool not part of their suite.
I'm running RedHat 7.3 with Ximian and Redhat 9 all using Gnome
Clock: I can't click on the time to change it. I also can't click on the time to connect it to a time server.
Open File Listings or any GtkList item: I can't press a letter and have the list automatically scroll down to the word with that letter.
Gnome Menu Start Items: I don't have a clue how those get added. Linux does everything with a file is there a file hiarchy somwhere? Ximian has removed some of my start items.
Resize my screen size without restarting the Xserver. I beleve this was fixed in X 4.3 but I still don't know how to do it.
Nautalus: It's waay to slow.
One thing that takes a lot of man hours to do is testing. If the software crashes, a OSS user is many times able to do a backtrace on the core file and give vital information to the developer. This is much harder to do in a commercial product because you usually have to remove any debugging information. Even more mature OSS projects usually go through a release candidate phase. The "release early, release often..." quotes heard with OSS implies we are using you as software testers. Also a user is more likely to submit bug reports if they know they will be heard and the quickly fixed. Another reason bugs are fixed quickly is because of the pride and ego associated with the software.
The article doesn't mention how this would affect violent open source. Would it be a crime for me to write a GPL violent game and let anyone out there download it? Even if I wanted to comply with the law, it would make it almost impossible to develope an open source game over the net as I cannot verify the age of someone using a browser or ftp client.
Philip Kennedy did something similar in 1998 with humans. I witnessed an operation where he implanted an electrode in a monkey over 10 years ago. He also received a 1999 Discover Technical Innovation Award for the same work. Check out: http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/HSNEWS/releases/feb99/02 2399brain.html
Assuming you are doing some form of Revision Control (which you should be ;) ), I find it most important to have the revision control system built into the editor I'm using. I also want a difference engine built into the editor that works with the revision control system. Emacs and Xemacs has these features among other full IDEs. It is useful to look at the differences between your current code and code that has been checked in, in a graphical manner so that the differences are within context. Command line diffs remove the context
It's also nice to have color highlighting of code and smart indention. This can help you know if you spelled things, forgot a ";". A nice feature that some IDE's have which I haven't seen implemented in emacs yet (which I'm sure is possible), is the ability to know the current valid function names and variables and highlight them appropriately.
I wrote my Senator complaining about the DMCA a month or so ago and here's the response I got. It doesn't look good.
Dear Mr Keal:
Thank you for writing to me about the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act.
I have always believed that the protection of intellectual
property rights is as important as the protection of any other
property right. Moreover, the protection of intellectual property is
vital to a flourishing economy -- particularly in California.
America's music, movie, and software industries are second to
none, and we export far more intellectual property than we import.
This is good for employment, and good for consumers.
Without strong copyright protections, the incentive to
innovate would be diminished. In fact, this issue was so important
to the Founding Fathers that the ability of Congress to protect
copyrights is actually written into our Constitution itself.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was Congress'
attempt to address the issue of copyright protection in a new,
digital age. As new technologies have developed over the past few
years, it has become increasingly difficult to protect intellectual
property from illegal copying and distribution. It is a delicate
balance, to be sure -- nobody wants to restrict the development of
new and exciting technologies, but we must work to prevent the
creation of perfect, digital copies of copyrighted works which can
be illegally distributed throughout the world.
Please be assured that I understand your concerns, and I
will keep your views in mind.
If you have other questions or comments, please do not
hesitate to write to me again, or contact my Washington, D.C. staff
at (202) 224-3841.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
http://feinstein.senate.gov
I have a question. If I am the copyright holder of a program I created, and I accept bug fixes to this program from other people, can I release this program under a dual license later? Do I still own the whole copyright after accepting bug fixes?