You could easily build an x86 clone without infringing any Intel or AMD patents. Much more difficult would be building an x86 clone that achieved decent performance without infringing any of those patents.
I see nothing in these rules that would preclude Free Software. Indeed, they would seem to favor Free Software as it is the device manufacturer, not the software vendor, who must see to it that the software complies.
BTW Free Software is not the same as Copyleft Software. Much of your proprietary software (and all versions of Unix) contain bits of Free Software, such as the BSD TCP/IP stack. See the Free Software Defintion.
> Since most government regulations for research, particularly for clinical, medical, and > drug research, require a life-cycle validated software, there will be no open source > software for these groups.
Please cite these regulations. Many people will be very interested in learning about them, especially those who have been making extensive use of Free Software for research for decades.
> Report back to us the first time your house gets broken into, and the perp finds your > little black book of passwords.
Report back the first time someone kidnaps you and uses the rubber hose method to extract your passphrase. Nothing is completely secure, but his method is good enough for anything not classified SECRET or higher.
I thought courts were a sort of mecca for low tech methods.
Not true, at least for US Federal as well as many state and local courts.
They use court stenographers...
Who have been using computers for twenty years to my certain knowledge.
...video taping is very limited...
Video tape depositions are routine.
...and it's all based on the spoken word.
Actually it's mostly based on the written word. It is the court record that matters, and that means what the stenographer keyed into her computer in addition to the orders signed by the judge and the documents filed by the parties.
It's not like the prosecutor is going to talk through a Powerpoint presentation to make
his/her case.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it can be rather like that. And many Federal courts require that filings be made in electronic form.
Here is a link .
I'm lefted handed. At the moment I find it convenient to have my trackball to the right of my keyboard and use it with my right hand, but under other circumstances I sometimes put it on th left. Makes no difference.
Sometimes I put ny trackball on the right, sometimes on the left: whichever is convenient. Works fine with either hand. I never switch buttons, of course.
At primary school one of my teachers insisted that it was "ok to be lefthanded". She kept taking the pencil out of my right hand, putting it in my left, and reassuring me that "You don't have use the same hand as the other kids". Fortunately I was more persistent than she was, so now I am very nearly ambidextrous as well as having adequate handwriting.
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This person will have no power to regulate or oversee any part of any industry.
> I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft bundled Firefox
> with Windows.
They'd deliberately screw it up, of course.
Have you worked out a complete plan for key management for all these encrypted devices?
Except that many systems run Ntp, which jams in the leap seconds.
How long did it take you to learn enough ancient Greek?
You could easily build an x86 clone without infringing any Intel or AMD patents. Much more difficult would be building an x86 clone that achieved decent performance without infringing any of those patents.
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I see nothing in these rules that would preclude Free Software. Indeed, they would seem to favor Free Software as it is the device manufacturer, not the software vendor, who must see to it that the software complies.
BTW Free Software is not the same as Copyleft Software. Much of your proprietary software (and all versions of Unix) contain bits of Free Software, such as the BSD TCP/IP stack. See the Free Software Defintion.
Is that with or without leap seconds?
> Since most government regulations for research, particularly for clinical, medical, and
> drug research, require a life-cycle validated software, there will be no open source
> software for these groups.
Please cite these regulations. Many people will be very interested in learning about them, especially those who have been making extensive use of Free Software for research for decades.
No. Those are lossy but deterministic.
> Breaking passwords is *technically* illegal, for any purpose..
Please cite the relevant statutes and precedents.
> Report back to us the first time your house gets broken into, and the perp finds your
> little black book of passwords.
Report back the first time someone kidnaps you and uses the rubber hose method to extract your passphrase. Nothing is completely secure, but his method is good enough for anything not classified SECRET or higher.
> Pick a password like "Ez24Get" and see if you can use it unaltered for your bank...
I do no banking over the Net.
> ...or at work for more than a month...
I've been doing so for decades.
> ...or on any system that demands 8 characters or more.
I never use fewer than eight characters.
> You can't, you won't, and I'm right you're wrong.
Interesting that you know so much about me.
> Really is spam that big of a problem anymore?
For people who actually run email servers the fact that 99% of their traffic is spam is a problem, yes.
After all, look at what a superb record the Federal agencies themselves have established.
No, thanks. All the necessary standards and information are already public. Centralization doesn't scale.
Then you should say "AT machine".
> Should we consider, perhaps extending federal IT resources down to local levels?
And give the Feds complete control? I'll take the drug lords, thank you.
Not true, at least for US Federal as well as many state and local courts.
Who have been using computers for twenty years to my certain knowledge.
Video tape depositions are routine.
Actually it's mostly based on the written word. It is the court record that matters, and that means what the stenographer keyed into her computer in addition to the orders signed by the judge and the documents filed by the parties.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it can be rather like that. And many Federal courts require that filings be made in electronic form. Here is a link .
> IANAL
This is very clear.
> but I suspect defending yourself in court against the city (with the city representing
> the court) could be difficult.
Companies routinely litigate contract disputes with governments. This case would be heard in state court.
There are ads on Google Earth, are there not?
I think pwgen is better yet.
I'm lefted handed. At the moment I find it convenient to have my trackball to the right of my keyboard and use it with my right hand, but under other circumstances I sometimes put it on th left. Makes no difference.
Sometimes I put ny trackball on the right, sometimes on the left: whichever is convenient. Works fine with either hand. I never switch buttons, of course.
At primary school one of my teachers insisted that it was "ok to be lefthanded". She kept taking the pencil out of my right hand, putting it in my left, and reassuring me that "You don't have use the same hand as the other kids". Fortunately I was more persistent than she was, so now I am very nearly ambidextrous as well as having adequate handwriting.