> So there's the answer to the problem. Bombard the servers with requests for random names. > The sleazoids will be forced to either go through the names manually, looking for likely > candidates, OR they'll have to register everything...which might tend to get a tad > expensive.
It doesn't cost them a penny. Google "domain tasting".
Since this is Slashdot where no one ever reads the original article I will repost my Groklaw comments here:
1) PFIF should try to produce at least one reference implementation of each protocol that is heavily commented and designed to be clear and straightforward rather than fast and efficient. These can serve as documentation for those who cannot or will not sign the NDA.
2) A group (completely seperate from and independent of PFIF) should be formed to "inverse engineer" the above-mentioned reference implementations and produce Free documentation for the protocols.
3) Wherever it makes sense to do so the protocols as documented in 2) should be entered into the standards process to become ISO standards.
4) People should be encouraged (though not, officially, by PFIF) to spend time working with PFIF (and make real contributions), wait out their 90 days, and join the effort proposed in 2). They should, of course, work entirely from memory.
The Samba team has also come up with the excellent idea of creating and publishing test suites for each protocol. If Microsoft's implementations fail the tests Microsoft will have some explaining to do
> Video, audio, gaming, emulators, and VMs are starters. But I think you're missing some > of the picture.
Yes. With eight cores the bot controlling your machine will be able to OCR two captchas, crack a password, crank out stock pump n' dumps, post comment spam, clean out your bank account, and still leave you enough horsepower to prevent you from deciding to buy a new machine and deprive the bot of a home.
> The historical trend seems to be: come up with some swanky technology and uses will be > found. So my answer to your question is: hell I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
> For an example that comes to mind, why do I need to wait for my mail program to download > all headers from the IMAP server before I can compose a new message on initial startup?
Ok, I'll bite: why? I read and compose mail while fetchmail (a background process) fetches new mail, spamassasin (about six background processes) filters it, mailagent (another background process) sorts it, and exim (another background process) delivers it to the appropriate mailboxes.
>...because of course you have read every word of every screen of every version of every > installer you've ever used, and never just glossed over any detail.
> Even with a full dinosaur genome you can't clone a dinosaur without a dinosaur cell. It's > the chicken and egg problem on a microscopic scale.
Birds.
> The hard-line Christians question the ethics of cloning and the existence of dinosaurs, > so how well would dinosaur cloning research go down?
They object to the cloning of humans (they are far from alone in that).
> Not letting them escape. Here in Australia we're having enough problems dealing with > cane toads, can you imagine having to deal with velociraptors?
Think what people would pay to hunt them. Besides, maybe they would eat the cane toads.
> Trying to tell them that everything they ever knew and loved is gone. They wouldn't > know about the Soviet collapse or the World Wars, or that these days most large animals > grow their children inside of them, how would they deal with that shock? Is it ethical? > These dinosaurs have never even seen anything with hair before, how would they cope?
You've got a point there. Maybe it's not such a good idea after all.
You don't have to worry about the Endangered Species Act unless the critter in question is on the list. However in most states you can only get a license to keep wild animals if you can show that the particular animals you propose to keep came from a licensed breeder who could not have gotten a license without showing that his animals came from a licensed breeder. Since your cloned mammoths would be the direct, immediate descendants of wild animals, the authorities would obviously have to sieze them and release them into the wild.
My greatest concern, and I believe it would be the greatest concern of many people out there, is having Time Warner archive your personal AIM conversations, Verizon and AT&T archive your SMS conversations, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo archive your instant message and chat room conversations.
You are lumping companies with which you have contracts together with ones which provide free services.
The number of people who have access to the content (let alone metadata) could be staggeringly large, giving rise not only to corporate malfeasance, but also individual employee malfeasance such as blackmailing, extortion, personal attacks, retribution, trade secret theft, insider trading, and a host of other horribles beyond my limited imagination.
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> This happened with me on godaddy, one of the biggest.
And one of the least reputable.
> So there's the answer to the problem. Bombard the servers with requests for random names.
> The sleazoids will be forced to either go through the names manually, looking for likely
> candidates, OR they'll have to register everything...which might tend to get a tad
> expensive.
It doesn't cost them a penny. Google "domain tasting".
Then determine a wall between you and the equipment.
Aluminum burns quite well. It's just that it is so soft that the grindstone doesn't get it hot enough to ignite.
What else?
Since this is Slashdot where no one ever reads the original article I will repost my Groklaw comments here:
1) PFIF should try to produce at least one reference implementation of each
protocol that is heavily commented and designed to be clear and straightforward
rather than fast and efficient. These can serve as documentation for those who
cannot or will not sign the NDA.
2) A group (completely seperate from and independent of PFIF) should be formed
to "inverse engineer" the above-mentioned reference implementations
and produce Free documentation for the protocols.
3) Wherever it makes sense to do so the protocols as documented in 2) should be
entered into the standards process to become ISO standards.
4) People should be encouraged (though not, officially, by PFIF) to spend time
working with PFIF (and make real contributions), wait out their 90 days, and
join the effort proposed in 2). They should, of course, work entirely from
memory.
The Samba team has also come up with the excellent idea of creating and publishing test suites for each protocol. If Microsoft's implementations fail the tests Microsoft will have some explaining to do
Just ask him where you can download the specs from.
Please read the article on Groklaw. Microsoft is required to provide updates for any changes.
That is included, I believe. This is not just about SMB.
> The docs themselves might contain patented material.
Um, patents are _published_.
You've answered your own question.
Some of us are not pretending.
Why not keep them locked in their training camps between events and transport them to and from the shows^H^H^H^H^Hcompetitions under armed guard?
> Video, audio, gaming, emulators, and VMs are starters. But I think you're missing some
> of the picture.
Yes. With eight cores the bot controlling your machine will be able to OCR two captchas, crack a password, crank out stock pump n' dumps, post comment spam, clean out your bank account, and still leave you enough horsepower to prevent you from deciding to buy a new machine and deprive the bot of a home.
> The historical trend seems to be: come up with some swanky technology and uses will be
> found. So my answer to your question is: hell I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
The botnets will put all those cores to work.
> For an example that comes to mind, why do I need to wait for my mail program to download
> all headers from the IMAP server before I can compose a new message on initial startup?
Ok, I'll bite: why? I read and compose mail while fetchmail (a background process) fetches new mail, spamassasin (about six background processes) filters it, mailagent (another background process) sorts it, and exim (another background process) delivers it to the appropriate mailboxes.
> ...because of course you have read every word of every screen of every version of every
> installer you've ever used, and never just glossed over any detail.
Yes, of course.
Put very short proofs in the article on the theorem. Put longer proofs in seperate articles. For very long proofs just provide a reference.
> A meteorite would not be my first thought. That would be alien hunters.
Inept alien hunters, hunting mammoths with birdshot. Now if they just look around the site maybe they will find a trampled alien...
How much extra are you willing to pay for that?
While the project still probably isn't feasible, your knowlwdge is a little dated.
> Even with a full dinosaur genome you can't clone a dinosaur without a dinosaur cell. It's
> the chicken and egg problem on a microscopic scale.
Birds.
> The hard-line Christians question the ethics of cloning and the existence of dinosaurs,
> so how well would dinosaur cloning research go down?
They object to the cloning of humans (they are far from alone in that).
> Not letting them escape. Here in Australia we're having enough problems dealing with
> cane toads, can you imagine having to deal with velociraptors?
Think what people would pay to hunt them. Besides, maybe they would eat the cane toads.
> Trying to tell them that everything they ever knew and loved is gone. They wouldn't
> know about the Soviet collapse or the World Wars, or that these days most large animals
> grow their children inside of them, how would they deal with that shock? Is it ethical?
> These dinosaurs have never even seen anything with hair before, how would they cope?
You've got a point there. Maybe it's not such a good idea after all.
You don't have to worry about the Endangered Species Act unless the critter in question is on the list. However in most states you can only get a license to keep wild animals if you can show that the particular animals you propose to keep came from a licensed breeder who could not have gotten a license without showing that his animals came from a licensed breeder. Since your cloned mammoths would be the direct, immediate descendants of wild animals, the authorities would obviously have to sieze them and release them into the wild.
So get to work cloning those velociraptors.