Well, then, we must simply outlaw VOIP. After all, we certainly can't have people deciding for themselves to take the horrendous risk inherent in possessing a phone that can't report their location.
And, of course, this ruling has nothing whatsoever to do with any desire to cripple VOIP so that it can't compete with the phone companies. No, sir.
> Wal-Mart used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act > to temporarily shut down...
No. They used the threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit to shut the site down. The hosting company used the DMCA to render itself immune. Without the DMCA Safe Harbour provisions the site would not have been put up to begin with.
> All nonprofits rely on donations to survive, and > I can bet that a LOT of donations are going to > start rolling in to them from certain > organizations involved in content creation and > distribution.
"Nonprofit" is not a synonym for "charity". A nonprofit (or not for profit) corporation is simply one whose charter provides that it is not to distribute any profits to anyone: it exists for a purpose other than directly making money. Most charities are nonprofits, but so are trade associations, standards groups, and similar organizations. Groups such as TPM get their money from fees paid by members and are expected to act in the interests of those members.
> Either I'm stupid or they are (for humility's > sake, I'll assume the first), but doesn't file > system level encryption already solve this > problem?
But it doesn't address the much more serious Linux problem.
> Also, Apple is already one step ahead by > removing floppy drives from the computers.
> The new requiremenets will push a lot of people > and organisations to upgrade their PCs to > accomodate their new OS.
Don't they have to do that anyway when the machines get plugged up with parasites? Sort of like shooting your dog and buying a new one when he gets worms and fleas.
A metallic carbon nanotube carries 4 quanta of current (4 charge carriers at a time): 2 conducting channels, 2 spins per channel. That's what NASA is referring to as a quantum wire.
Most of the resistance in such a wire is due to the fact that only a very few number of charge carriers can be transmitted at any time. The electrons going through the wire do not lose any energy in the wire, as there are no available lower energy states for them scatter into, and only two possible directions of motion (foward and backward). Thus, a perfect nanotube can be thought of as a "ballistic" conductor
Then it seems to me that a cable of perfect tubes should have a fixed resistance independent of length and a saturation current. The resistance at currents below saturation would be the fixed entrance+exit resistance while above saturation the current would be constant, independent of voltage.
> It's really impossible to comment on the 40,000 > number without understanding it in terms of their > expenses.
Debian's expenses are perhaps a few thousand per year for travel and miscellaneous and a few thousand more for hardware. Most hardware is donated, but sometimes it is necessary to buy a new disk for a crashed server or something to get it back up quickly.
Debian is not short of money, nor does the lack of it have anything to do with the delayed release. The "flat broke" line was invented by the doofus who posted the article.
I know that most Debian hardware is donated because I am a Debian developer and I pay attention. Some is purchased out of Debian funds held by SPI.
> rm and those would be for example...?
Brainfood, HP, Progeny, Canonical, among others, pay people to work on Debian.
> I seriously doubt this.
Doubt away, but it is true that companies finance Debian attendence at conferences. The Debconf conferences are underwritten by companies such as Linspire. Companies such as HP regularly fund Debian representation at Linux expositions and conferences. Debian is a member of several associations such as OASIS, and businesses often underwrite the expenses associated with these. Bandwidth and hosting is donated by organizations that use Debian.
> They want support, to be able to blame someone > if things go wrong. They want someone outside > of the firm to carry technical responsibility.
They can purchase support from any of the consultants and companies that sell Debian support.
All of this can be confirmed by searching the Debian Web sites and archives.
> Personally I would like to donate to Debian > knowing that my money would be used on improving > the server aspects of Debian and not be spent on > making GNOME or KDE look pretty.
We don't spend any money making anything look pretty.
> I'd like to see the code not only for nostalgia's > sake: Each had particularly engaging features, > and it'd be nice to see some of that live again > in contemporary operating systems.
It's likely to be easier to just reimplement the features from scratch than to import code from foreign operating systems, especially ones not written in C.
> At one point, IBM distributed OS/2 2.x on a > computer magazine coverdisk (I forget which one) > in the UK sans Microsoft Windows. IBM wouldn't > have been able to do this had the code included > anything from Microsoft Windows.
Yes they would. While they might not be able to distribute source, their license undoubtedly says they can sell copies of the binaries at any price they choose.
> If enforced, that means that overnight, somewhere > around 70 million television sets now connected > to rabbit ears or roof-top antennas will suddenly > and forever go blank...
The volume of code being written and the number of programmers writing it has also grown by leaps and bounds. This means that the average intelligence of those programmers has necessarily decreased: we have people writing code to day who would have been driving trucks thirty years ago being managed by people who would have been supervising mailrooms. When this is taken into consideration it's amazing that code quality hasn't decreased more than it has.
> They mention this abnormally rapid decay is > required, but it doesn't seem at all clear why?
Because it seems to be patchy. This implies that it is being rapidly generated in some places and then rapidly destroyed so that it doesn't spread out.
> If comcast's dns gets poisoned and sends me to a > phishing bank site that I login to, and I get all > my money stolen, I could sue comcast... I think?
How can we know how many security bugs IE has? The published number is at best a lower limit. There is no way that we can know how many Microsoft fixed secretly. Only Microsoft knows what is actually in those updates.
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> Tesla's technology may have won, although > considering he died pennyless and the company > that championed his inventions ultimately went > bankrupt, I'm not sure its fair to say that he > won and Edison lost.
Technically and scientifically Tesla won. That's because Tesla was a scientist. Edison was merely a promoter.
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From the article I conclude that the old Soviet Union's news services would have ranked very high.
Oh, well. Google News was nice while it lasted.
> That cannot be guaranteed with VOIP.
Well, then, we must simply outlaw VOIP. After all, we certainly can't have people deciding for themselves to take the horrendous risk inherent in possessing a phone that can't report their location.
And, of course, this ruling has nothing whatsoever to do with any desire to cripple VOIP so that it can't compete with the phone companies. No, sir.
> Wal-Mart used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
> to temporarily shut down...
No. They used the threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit to shut the site down. The hosting company used the DMCA to render itself immune. Without the DMCA Safe Harbour provisions the site would not have been put up to begin with.
> All nonprofits rely on donations to survive, and
> I can bet that a LOT of donations are going to
> start rolling in to them from certain
> organizations involved in content creation and
> distribution.
"Nonprofit" is not a synonym for "charity". A nonprofit (or not for profit) corporation is simply one whose charter provides that it is not to distribute any profits to anyone: it exists for a purpose other than directly making money. Most charities are nonprofits, but so are trade associations, standards groups, and similar organizations. Groups such as TPM get their money from fees paid by members and are expected to act in the interests of those members.
> Either I'm stupid or they are (for humility's
> sake, I'll assume the first), but doesn't file
> system level encryption already solve this
> problem?
But it doesn't address the much more serious Linux problem.
> Also, Apple is already one step ahead by
> removing floppy drives from the computers.
Apples can't boot from a CD?
> The new requiremenets will push a lot of people
> and organisations to upgrade their PCs to
> accomodate their new OS.
Don't they have to do that anyway when the machines get plugged up with parasites? Sort of like shooting your dog and buying a new one when he gets worms and fleas.
> Debian wouldn't have money problems if they
> released some software.
Debian doesn't have any money problems.
> It's really impossible to comment on the 40,000
> number without understanding it in terms of their
> expenses.
Debian's expenses are perhaps a few thousand per year for travel and miscellaneous and a few thousand more for hardware. Most hardware is donated, but sometimes it is necessary to buy a new disk for a crashed server or something to get it back up quickly.
> If they want money...
Debian is not short of money, nor does the lack of it have anything to do with the delayed release. The "flat broke" line was invented by the doofus who posted the article.
> How do you know?
I know that most Debian hardware is donated because I am a Debian developer and I pay attention. Some is purchased out of Debian funds held by SPI.
> rm and those would be for example...?
Brainfood, HP, Progeny, Canonical, among others, pay people to work on Debian.
> I seriously doubt this.
Doubt away, but it is true that companies finance Debian attendence at conferences. The Debconf conferences are underwritten by companies such as Linspire. Companies such as HP regularly fund Debian representation at Linux expositions and conferences. Debian is a member of several associations such as OASIS, and businesses often underwrite the expenses associated with these. Bandwidth and hosting is donated by organizations that use Debian.
> They want support, to be able to blame someone
> if things go wrong. They want someone outside
> of the firm to carry technical responsibility.
They can purchase support from any of the consultants and companies that sell Debian support.
All of this can be confirmed by searching the Debian Web sites and archives.
> Personally I would like to donate to Debian
> knowing that my money would be used on improving
> the server aspects of Debian and not be spent on
> making GNOME or KDE look pretty.
We don't spend any money making anything look pretty.
> Do you think it's a drop-in?
He may. Many of those making these sorts of comments have no relevant experience.
> Why does the Open Source world always need
> someone else's code...
What some individuals want is not particularly indicative of what Open Source "needs".
> I'd like to see the code not only for nostalgia's
> sake: Each had particularly engaging features,
> and it'd be nice to see some of that live again
> in contemporary operating systems.
It's likely to be easier to just reimplement the features from scratch than to import code from foreign operating systems, especially ones not written in C.
> That and Microsoft did whatever they could,
> legal or otherwise, to kill OS/2
So did IBM.
> At one point, IBM distributed OS/2 2.x on a
> computer magazine coverdisk (I forget which one)
> in the UK sans Microsoft Windows. IBM wouldn't
> have been able to do this had the code included
> anything from Microsoft Windows.
Yes they would. While they might not be able to distribute source, their license undoubtedly says they can sell copies of the binaries at any price they choose.
> If enforced, that means that overnight, somewhere
> around 70 million television sets now connected
> to rabbit ears or roof-top antennas will suddenly
> and forever go blank...
The volume of code being written and the number of programmers writing it has also grown by leaps and bounds. This means that the average intelligence of those programmers has necessarily decreased: we have people writing code to day who would have been driving trucks thirty years ago being managed by people who would have been supervising mailrooms. When this is taken into consideration it's amazing that code quality hasn't decreased more than it has.
> Apparently, the flow control mechanism of TCP
> doesn't work well when the latency goes to 40
> minutes.
UUCP, however, works just fine.
> They mention this abnormally rapid decay is
> required, but it doesn't seem at all clear why?
Because it seems to be patchy. This implies that it is being rapidly generated in some places and then rapidly destroyed so that it doesn't spread out.
> Like hard core vegans who refuse even to eat
> bacteria and will only eat sterile food...
Must be quite a trick, to sterilize food without killing anything.
What about all the bacteria that their immune systems kill? The follicle mites they drown when they shower?
Neither. It came from Europa.
> If comcast's dns gets poisoned and sends me to a
> phishing bank site that I login to, and I get all
> my money stolen, I could sue comcast... I think?
You'll lose. Among other things, read the TOS.
How can we know how many security bugs IE has? The published number is at best a lower limit. There is no way that we can know how many Microsoft fixed secretly. Only Microsoft knows what is actually in those updates.
> Tesla's technology may have won, although
> considering he died pennyless and the company
> that championed his inventions ultimately went
> bankrupt, I'm not sure its fair to say that he
> won and Edison lost.
Technically and scientifically Tesla won. That's because Tesla was a scientist. Edison was merely a promoter.