All this money is wired around and such but where do the actual money shipments take place. I mean eventually you would think that these guys would have to settle somewhere in hard currency or at the point you have to use this system you just settle it all via numbers on the internet. But that's even more confusing because the hard currency is still in the banks. It makes no sense.
I dont mind the power company coming in with Larry the Lightning Bolt teaching kids to leave power lines and other nasty power stuff alone. But for a business such as this which tends to threaten businesses without a shred of proof then sue them if they refuse guilty or not should not be allowed into our schools to pitch their views on copyright.
It's the responsibility of eduacators to bring this topic up in the classroom. Explain what a copyright is and explain some of the history of it. It's up to the kids to decide if it's the right thing not some corporate sponsored entity telling our kids that copyrights are fine. All it does is breed a group of kids that will not challenge the system and sit around all day thinking certain laws are okay when in fact they may not be so perfect.
Viruses and spyware just rely more on social engineering, and the only way to 'fix' that is by limiting what the user can do.
This is not necessarily true. Education will go a long ways towards fixing bad behavior. Though it would do little to help idiots and people with no common sense.
Looks like SCO has managed to create enough of a fuss to get things like this looked at. IMO software patents are the devil and here is one result of them.
Lets consider tabbed browsing, and 169 degre opening doors on these new Nissan Titans.
My company spends millions building this door, the hinge is a peice of work requireing many hours of effort and testing. We pantent it all of course and are awarded it and people buy our trucks for it's superior way of opening vs say a ford with the same feature.
Tabbed browsing should be considered in this same light. Everyone should be able to implement tabbed browsing. Company X could code it one way and Company Y would code it another way. Both have tabbed browsing, one's method is superior, provides more features, and the code size and memory footprint per tab is lower than the competitor.
Just blindly posting patents for the idea is wrong. Software patents should be more specific and not on the general idea. Yes you can have a patent on a tabbed browser but not on the tab metod itself just your way of coding it.
You probably will not see any CDMA carriers with Linux phones due to Qualcomm's licenses with their CDMA technology. GSM is a open standard and that is why you are seeing this.
SUNW has a market cap upwards of 12 billion dollars. NOVL has a market cap of 2.8 billion.
I surely hope this does not happen though. I'm almost tempted to say M$ has suggested this to Sun because they know that Sun would screw things up and we'll have another cobalt again.
When it comes to technology our own government leaders are out of touch. GB does not even use email and if that's a example of how smart our USPTO,Congress, and others are then were in big trouble.
I dont believe that what Tivo is doing is such a bad thing. What I do believe that the cable companies who are trying to knock Tivo off it's seat are probably the cause of the problems in the first place. All they had to do is put a bug in the ears of the RIAA,MPAA, and the NFL the latter which probably knows the least about the device. Then those groups go arguing to the FCC where they might have a slight idea of what MPEG2 consists of but I'm sure the group arguing against Tivo conviently forgot to mention the slow speeds of our current broadband services.
Now 3 years down the road this will be a changed world in the US as the FTTP rollouts will be in full steam and will have probably crossed the 2million mark or even more and it would be a standard thing to have a 10/10 connection to the internet. It's even faster between neigborhoods with testing in Keller TX, on multi gig transferrs taking a few seconds. So I would expect that people could then easily send videos to others. Hell with a little work Tivo could turn your box into a Napster for tv shows, and other recordings using the combined networked Tivo's as local servers.
Back to my point. These groups want to shut Tivo down so they can profit on their own distribution methods and limit choices to the consumer so they can inflate prices as they please. And it's true that NFL teams tend to milk whatever city they reside in through taxes. Now they want to milk the consumer even more through limited choice and high prices. If they wanted to do otherwise they would work with Tivo to come up with a acceptable solution and restrictions. However since they're not I have to stick with my original theory.
I'm wondering what impact this would have on people who prefer to play their 3d games in a window instead of full screen. These games will probably take a hit to framerates due to the entire area is getting rendered unless MS puts in a way to halt rendering for inactive areas when playing games.
If that's a problem I'd expect a lot of gamers to stick with XP or maybe transition to Linux (esp the FPS crowd since many of those games are usually ported to Linux Doom/Quake.).
They've not hacked anything. They're just encoding their music so the iPod will accept and play it. Thus they have hacked nothing.
Apple's whole problem is that the iPod boosts sales for iTunes and they will probably fight hard to maintain the hold on it. Not to knock on the service but many other services have better interfaces than iTunes does. Napster being one of the best IMO. Now that 2nd generation music services are starting to pop up Apple is probably feeling the screws turning on it and in the american business tratidion lately they'd rather litigate than innovate.
Locking people into your product is just plain wrong. This is apples poor attempt to control the free market and consumer choice by keeping people who bought a iPod using their service and no competing service such as Napster to buy and play their Music. However the iPod's popularity will quickly wane as more and more products that are able to work with a variety of services hit the market thus providing fair competition and will benefit consumers and businesses alike.
This is supposedly the indestructible filesystem. Compared to database driven filesystems which are still based on NTFS probably I'd preferr a slower filesystem that was just plain reliable.
We can no longer count on the bare kernels to have any stability and depend on companies to stabilize the kernel.
I disagree with this method for a few reasons.
Everyone still probably remembers when you had to use a bare kernel to recompile and get Nvidia HW Accel drivers to work with the 4k stack problem.
Also this will pose a problem with many distro's that do not have armies of people to sit around and stabilize the kernel for their distro.
Another problem is with drivers being fixed. A bare kernel will be fixed but the customer may have to wait 2-3 months before their specific distro comes up and included a fixed kernel.
Lastly this will increase costs for developers of distros such as Redhat and Novell due to them having to now employ kernel hackers to deal with problems that may exist in the Kernel.
I can see no good coming from this approach to Linux and may hurt us in the long run. I hope they reconsider.
Recently a virus called Scob/Download.ject infected various high profile websites running Windows based webservers. This virus also infected visitors to the sites through a bug in the Windows operating system. The virus was able to keylog your computer and transmit information such as passwords, web addresses you typed in the browser. This information was being redirected to a website in Russia. However the US-Cert department refused to publish a list of infected sites citing damages to the business.
My complaint is if a resturant down the street came down with E. Coli and people became sick or died the US FDA would of notified the public about this resturant and we would be aware of that resturant's name and location. It happens at IHOP's and Taco Bells and many other types of ressturants. I have yet to see either of those two chains shut down due to people avoiding them due to one E Coli outbreak. I would expect the same notification about a Website also.
Those websites that were infected were run by American businesses and not operated by foreign countries. US-CERT is just one portion of the Department of Homeland Security. And it calls into question if one department is afraid to release the truth becuase it may hurt someone's bottom line then maybe another group would decide to skip out on notifing people of a biohazard at some posh vacation spot in fear that they would ruin business there.
It would be way easy for someone to modify a document and upload it back into the system and then you have two copies of the document. There needs to be some sort of repository of MD5sum's to check against what you download.
Unlike that method of keeping our government transparent the most successful method has been our constitution. The document resides in a meuseum and copies are published in nearly all US History textbooks in our schools. That is one document though and it's far more difficult to maintain say the library of congress and keep things from being edited. Better that the library is archived where people can download copies someday that they could browse through and if anyone was concerned a change was made could consult a network of copies that individuals have maintained.
Yesterday I was in staples and they have those keychain wifi detectors. I clicked the button through the plastic to see if they had batteries in them already and not surprisingly there's a unsecured wifi network in the building. After looking around and not finding any displayed pc's running on wifi I figure it's the cash registers (it was a 802.11g network) and just let the matter drop.
I could tell them about it but then you'd probably be reading about me in another week.
If you read it you might of understood that my proposal does not require AOL, or any type of server other than for a interface for those on Ipv4.. Think of a IPv6 ip addy that's mapped to your handle.. then anyone could just send a message to that IPv6 addy and it would reach you. My proposal is machine to machine.
Using IPv6 addresses in connection with IPv6 & IPv4 Networks to create a cross compatible instant messaging & email platform.
Summary: Due to the fractured nature of the instant messaging (IM) protocols and users inability to take their email between service providers a system such as the one defined below can alleviate the problem in today's environment and the future of the internet.
Old instant messaging clients were server based and could not pass messages between various instant messaging networks. AOL users could not talk to a MSN user. This system is designed to afford everyone an address on the system for instant messaging and email. IPv6 is needed due to the massive address space available. 1 IP could be assigned to each individual in the world and the sun would burn out before you would run out of addresses. Only 1 address per person would be needed since email clients and IM clients would be able to tell the difference between an email and an instant message.
Pro's: Users no longer are dependent on networks and are allowed to keep their address no matter where they go. Once you're logged into the system you're able to receive and send messages to whomever you need. E-Mail would be verifiable and would limit the ability of spammers to exist on the network without being quickly identified and removed from the system.
Costs can be distributed to the ISP's so no one company is responsible for the burden of traffic.
Reliability would be maintained in a core system in the design similar to how the current DNS system works with main servers distributing updates to slave servers as needed.
Cons: Software would have to be written to support such a system. This software will be designed as Open Source to keep it from being appropriated by any company or governmental body in the interest of freedom of speech and choice on the internet.
Getting users involved in giving up their current addresses for a new address on such a system will take time. But given time and proper advertising of the benefits more users will follow the path to the new system. Products such as Trillan (Windows) Gaim or Kopete (Linux) can be upgraded to use a system and will also add to the popularity since it would allow them to still access friends on the legacy networks via one program.
It is also possible that the big networks would switch to such a system in order to provide reliability and cut costs of infrastructure down. Also this system could be integrated easier into the wireless markets with proper hardware & software.
The basic function of the program is to provide an initial IPv6 assignment to each individual that signs up for the service. If they're on an IPv6 network then there is no need for IPv4 proxy's to handle their connection. IPv4 users will connect to their local server where a layer will be established to route their IPv6 messages to their current IPv4 address via tunnel to the client. The client will utilize an IPv6 network layer tunneled through an IPv4 tunnel with encryption to the proxy in the serving node.
A message destined for users IPv6 would follow the route across the tunnel to the serving node. A route is established through the DNS style master nodes to the other user this is either on the IPv6 network where it is delivered directly or the user on an IPv4 network where the route is looked up and passed to the corresponding IPv4 proxy node and delivered to the end client.
Adapt as necessary could work without a central node as IPv6 becomes more prevalent.
You people who are whining that you actually have to pay for something need to get off your high horses. If you ever want to see anything supported in Linux in some fashion you need to pay for it.
It's this same stigma that causes companies to not build software for Linux because they think Linux users dont want to pay for anything.
If you really think it's such a bad thing to have to pay for a commercial dvd player. Think if you pay for it and Linux becomes very popular that you will see a free version shipped on the dvd's themselves so you can watch it on Linux. This is how it is for Windows. Most dvd's you buy come with free player software.
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All this money is wired around and such but where do the actual money shipments take place. I mean eventually you would think that these guys would have to settle somewhere in hard currency or at the point you have to use this system you just settle it all via numbers on the internet. But that's even more confusing because the hard currency is still in the banks. It makes no sense.
I dont mind the power company coming in with Larry the Lightning Bolt teaching kids to leave power lines and other nasty power stuff alone. But for a business such as this which tends to threaten businesses without a shred of proof then sue them if they refuse guilty or not should not be allowed into our schools to pitch their views on copyright.
It's the responsibility of eduacators to bring this topic up in the classroom. Explain what a copyright is and explain some of the history of it. It's up to the kids to decide if it's the right thing not some corporate sponsored entity telling our kids that copyrights are fine. All it does is breed a group of kids that will not challenge the system and sit around all day thinking certain laws are okay when in fact they may not be so perfect.
I've researched a few hybrid trucks and their reported gas mileage is nearly the same as their gas guzzling counterparts.
So a 25k Gas Truck 19Mpg vs 35k Same truck as hybrid 19Mpg..
Not hard to figure out which one money saving consumers will pick.
Viruses and spyware just rely more on social engineering, and the only way to 'fix' that is by limiting what the user can do.
This is not necessarily true. Education will go a long ways towards fixing bad behavior. Though it would do little to help idiots and people with no common sense.
Looks like SCO has managed to create enough of a fuss to get things like this looked at. IMO software patents are the devil and here is one result of them.
Lets consider tabbed browsing, and 169 degre opening doors on these new Nissan Titans.
My company spends millions building this door, the hinge is a peice of work requireing many hours of effort and testing. We pantent it all of course and are awarded it and people buy our trucks for it's superior way of opening vs say a ford with the same feature.
Tabbed browsing should be considered in this same light. Everyone should be able to implement tabbed browsing. Company X could code it one way and Company Y would code it another way. Both have tabbed browsing, one's method is superior, provides more features, and the code size and memory footprint per tab is lower than the competitor.
Just blindly posting patents for the idea is wrong. Software patents should be more specific and not on the general idea. Yes you can have a patent on a tabbed browser but not on the tab metod itself just your way of coding it.
You probably will not see any CDMA carriers with Linux phones due to Qualcomm's licenses with their CDMA technology. GSM is a open standard and that is why you are seeing this.
SUNW has a market cap upwards of 12 billion dollars.
NOVL has a market cap of 2.8 billion.
I surely hope this does not happen though. I'm almost tempted to say M$ has suggested this to Sun because they know that Sun would screw things up and we'll have another cobalt again.
When it comes to technology our own government leaders are out of touch. GB does not even use email and if that's a example of how smart our USPTO,Congress, and others are then were in big trouble.
I dont believe that what Tivo is doing is such a bad thing. What I do believe that the cable companies who are trying to knock Tivo off it's seat are probably the cause of the problems in the first place. All they had to do is put a bug in the ears of the RIAA,MPAA, and the NFL the latter which probably knows the least about the device. Then those groups go arguing to the FCC where they might have a slight idea of what MPEG2 consists of but I'm sure the group arguing against Tivo conviently forgot to mention the slow speeds of our current broadband services.
Now 3 years down the road this will be a changed world in the US as the FTTP rollouts will be in full steam and will have probably crossed the 2million mark or even more and it would be a standard thing to have a 10/10 connection to the internet. It's even faster between neigborhoods with testing in Keller TX, on multi gig transferrs taking a few seconds. So I would expect that people could then easily send videos to others. Hell with a little work Tivo could turn your box into a Napster for tv shows, and other recordings using the combined networked Tivo's as local servers.
Back to my point. These groups want to shut Tivo down so they can profit on their own distribution methods and limit choices to the consumer so they can inflate prices as they please. And it's true that NFL teams tend to milk whatever city they reside in through taxes. Now they want to milk the consumer even more through limited choice and high prices. If they wanted to do otherwise they would work with Tivo to come up with a acceptable solution and restrictions. However since they're not I have to stick with my original theory.
I'm wondering what impact this would have on people who prefer to play their 3d games in a window instead of full screen. These games will probably take a hit to framerates due to the entire area is getting rendered unless MS puts in a way to halt rendering for inactive areas when playing games.
If that's a problem I'd expect a lot of gamers to stick with XP or maybe transition to Linux (esp the FPS crowd since many of those games are usually ported to Linux Doom/Quake.).
At least they dont have to pull your eyeballs out and shine a light through them to make it work.
They've not hacked anything. They're just encoding their music so the iPod will accept and play it. Thus they have hacked nothing.
Apple's whole problem is that the iPod boosts sales for iTunes and they will probably fight hard to maintain the hold on it. Not to knock on the service but many other services have better interfaces than iTunes does. Napster being one of the best IMO. Now that 2nd generation music services are starting to pop up Apple is probably feeling the screws turning on it and in the american business tratidion lately they'd rather litigate than innovate.
I believe there's already prior art with digital encoding of information within a image. It's been done.
Locking people into your product is just plain wrong. This is apples poor attempt to control the free market and consumer choice by keeping people who bought a iPod using their service and no competing service such as Napster to buy and play their Music. However the iPod's popularity will quickly wane as more and more products that are able to work with a variety of services hit the market thus providing fair competition and will benefit consumers and businesses alike.
This is supposedly the indestructible filesystem. Compared to database driven filesystems which are still based on NTFS probably I'd preferr a slower filesystem that was just plain reliable.
You can download RC3 here. The upgrade time is even shorter than SP2 if you do a "take over disk" method!
We can no longer count on the bare kernels to have any stability and depend on companies to stabilize the kernel.
I disagree with this method for a few reasons.
Everyone still probably remembers when you had to use a bare kernel to recompile and get Nvidia HW Accel drivers to work with the 4k stack problem.
Also this will pose a problem with many distro's that do not have armies of people to sit around and stabilize the kernel for their distro.
Another problem is with drivers being fixed. A bare kernel will be fixed but the customer may have to wait 2-3 months before their specific distro comes up and included a fixed kernel.
Lastly this will increase costs for developers of distros such as Redhat and Novell due to them having to now employ kernel hackers to deal with problems that may exist in the Kernel.
I can see no good coming from this approach to Linux and may hurt us in the long run. I hope they reconsider.
Too bad there are not 71 million Linux users out there. We could all pitch in a dollar each and do a hostile takeover of SCO.
That's real cool but I'd hate to have to hide my data from carb fearing atkins dieters.
Recently a virus called Scob/Download.ject infected various high profile websites running Windows based webservers. This virus also infected visitors to the sites through a bug in the Windows operating system. The virus was able to keylog your computer and transmit information such as passwords, web addresses you typed in the browser. This information was being redirected to a website in Russia. However the US-Cert department refused to publish a list of infected sites citing damages to the business.
My complaint is if a resturant down the street came down with E. Coli and people became sick or died the US FDA would of notified the public about this resturant and we would be aware of that resturant's name and location. It happens at IHOP's and Taco Bells and many other types of ressturants. I have yet to see either of those two chains shut down due to people avoiding them due to one E Coli outbreak. I would expect the same notification about a Website also.
Those websites that were infected were run by American businesses and not operated by foreign countries. US-CERT is just one portion of the Department of Homeland Security. And it calls into question if one department is afraid to release the truth becuase it may hurt someone's bottom line then maybe another group would decide to skip out on notifing people of a biohazard at some posh vacation spot in fear that they would ruin business there.
Thanks for your time Mr Senator.
It would be way easy for someone to modify a document and upload it back into the system and then you have two copies of the document. There needs to be some sort of repository of MD5sum's to check against what you download.
Unlike that method of keeping our government transparent the most successful method has been our constitution. The document resides in a meuseum and copies are published in nearly all US History textbooks in our schools. That is one document though and it's far more difficult to maintain say the library of congress and keep things from being edited. Better that the library is archived where people can download copies someday that they could browse through and if anyone was concerned a change was made could consult a network of copies that individuals have maintained.
Fire up apache and then post a link to it here on slashdot. We love a challenge.
Yesterday I was in staples and they have those keychain wifi detectors. I clicked the button through the plastic to see if they had batteries in them already and not surprisingly there's a unsecured wifi network in the building. After looking around and not finding any displayed pc's running on wifi I figure it's the cash registers (it was a 802.11g network) and just let the matter drop.
I could tell them about it but then you'd probably be reading about me in another week.
If you read it you might of understood that my proposal does not require AOL, or any type of server other than for a interface for those on Ipv4.. Think of a IPv6 ip addy that's mapped to your handle.. then anyone could just send a message to that IPv6 addy and it would reach you. My proposal is machine to machine.
This is taken from my old weblog at Linux Warcry.
IPv6 (IPv4 Compatible) Universal Messaging System
Using IPv6 addresses in connection with IPv6 & IPv4 Networks to create a cross compatible instant messaging & email platform.
Summary: Due to the fractured nature of the instant messaging (IM) protocols and users inability to take their email between service providers a system such as the one defined below can alleviate the problem in today's environment and the future of the internet.
Old instant messaging clients were server based and could not pass messages between various instant messaging networks. AOL users could not talk to a MSN user. This system is designed to afford everyone an address on the system for instant messaging and email. IPv6 is needed due to the massive address space available. 1 IP could be assigned to each individual in the world and the sun would burn out before you would run out of addresses. Only 1 address per person would be needed since email clients and IM clients would be able to tell the difference between an email and an instant message.
Pro's: Users no longer are dependent on networks and are allowed to keep their address no matter where they go. Once you're logged into the system you're able to receive and send messages to whomever you need. E-Mail would be verifiable and would limit the ability of spammers to exist on the network without being quickly identified and removed from the system.
Costs can be distributed to the ISP's so no one company is responsible for the burden of traffic.
Reliability would be maintained in a core system in the design similar to how the current DNS system works with main servers distributing updates to slave servers as needed.
Cons: Software would have to be written to support such a system. This software will be designed as Open Source to keep it from being appropriated by any company or governmental body in the interest of freedom of speech and choice on the internet.
Getting users involved in giving up their current addresses for a new address on such a system will take time. But given time and proper advertising of the benefits more users will follow the path to the new system. Products such as Trillan (Windows) Gaim or Kopete (Linux) can be upgraded to use a system and will also add to the popularity since it would allow them to still access friends on the legacy networks via one program.
It is also possible that the big networks would switch to such a system in order to provide reliability and cut costs of infrastructure down. Also this system could be integrated easier into the wireless markets with proper hardware & software.
The basic function of the program is to provide an initial IPv6 assignment to each individual that signs up for the service. If they're on an IPv6 network then there is no need for IPv4 proxy's to handle their connection. IPv4 users will connect to their local server where a layer will be established to route their IPv6 messages to their current IPv4 address via tunnel to the client. The client will utilize an IPv6 network layer tunneled through an IPv4 tunnel with encryption to the proxy in the serving node.
A message destined for users IPv6 would follow the route across the tunnel to the serving node. A route is established through the DNS style master nodes to the other user this is either on the IPv6 network where it is delivered directly or the user on an IPv4 network where the route is looked up and passed to the corresponding IPv4 proxy node and delivered to the end client.
Adapt as necessary could work without a central node as IPv6 becomes more prevalent.
You people who are whining that you actually have to pay for something need to get off your high horses. If you ever want to see anything supported in Linux in some fashion you need to pay for it.
It's this same stigma that causes companies to not build software for Linux because they think Linux users dont want to pay for anything.
If you really think it's such a bad thing to have to pay for a commercial dvd player. Think if you pay for it and Linux becomes very popular that you will see a free version shipped on the dvd's themselves so you can watch it on Linux. This is how it is for Windows. Most dvd's you buy come with free player software.