Users are not protecting the mp3s with this encryption. They're protecting the list of song titles which they compiled, to which (I think) they do have copyright. --
Patrick Doyle
Time travel in that show was just a way to have a whole new set of characters every week. Very cool actually, although the science in the show was totally pathetic.
I didn't watch it all that much, but I don't recall time travel entering as a plot element very often (except as the one thing he has to "put right").
I wonder if they could do a similar thing in the Star Trek universe, only with good science? --
Patrick Doyle
What about those aliens that the Borg were afraid of? The ones who made a whole simulation of Starfleet Academy, and the leader took on the persona of the famed groundskeeper Boothby?
I stopped watching Voyager after that, but until then they seemed to have a lot of potential. --
Patrick Doyle
The one name variant you didn't list on your site is the most obvious one: Free Open Interface License (FOIL).
Anyway, I don't think it's realistic to try to compel companies not to protect their IP. But wait and see: free and open alternatives are slowly winning over proprietary interfaces in
all kinds of places.
There's no need to compel businesses to stop doing something that's unprofitable.
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Patrick Doyle
Flamebait? I thought this one was interesting. Sheesh, some moderators need to stop injecting their own personal opinions into their work. Guys, the negative mod points are there to mark down things that are inappropriate, not just things that are controvercial. If you can't tell the difference, stop moderating.
No wonder this guy posted anonymously. It's this kind of thing that makes me glad for metamoderation. --
Patrick Doyle
I'm glad you (and the moderators) saw it that way.:-)
For the record, I do believe Van Gogh was an extraordinarily talented artist. It's too bad the poor fellow was so psychologically tortured. --
Patrick Doyle
It sounds like either Van Gogh painted some unusually detailed and accurate paintings, or people are just reading too much into what are effectively works of fiction. Well, the house with the filled-in window was pretty impressive evidence of the former, so perhaps Van Gogh was more of a photographer than an artist.
Microsoft's operating-system chief Jim Allchin says that teaching people to fish threatens the American way of life.
"Sell a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. That's the American Way. Teach a man to fish, and you undermine the entire economic system of this great nation. Education is communism, plain and simple." --
Patrick Doyle
/* Increase the timeout each time we retransmit. Note that
* we do not increase the rtt estimate. rto is initialized
* from rtt, but increases here. Jacobson (SIGCOMM 88) suggests
* that doubling rto each time is the least we can get away with.
* In KA9Q, Karn uses this for the first few times, and then
* goes to quadratic. netBSD doubles, but only goes up to *64,
* and clamps at 1 to 64 sec afterwards. Note that 120 sec is
* defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
* we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
* University of Mars.
*
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once
* implemented ftp to mars will work nicely. We will have to fix
* the 120 second clamps though!
*/
Don't everyone panic and upgrade your ssh1 clients. This only affects the server end. If you run an ssh1 server, now you can start worrying. --
Patrick Doyle
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
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Patrick Doyle
Users are not protecting the mp3s with this encryption. They're protecting the list of song titles which they compiled, to which (I think) they do have copyright.
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Patrick Doyle
Oh man, the shockwave movie is a riot.
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Patrick Doyle
Time travel in that show was just a way to have a whole new set of characters every week. Very cool actually, although the science in the show was totally pathetic.
I didn't watch it all that much, but I don't recall time travel entering as a plot element very often (except as the one thing he has to "put right").
I wonder if they could do a similar thing in the Star Trek universe, only with good science?
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Patrick Doyle
(And I promise I won't pick on "ensamble". :-)
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Patrick Doyle
"Next Generation Space Telescope"? When are people going to learn how to name things?
Don't give things names based on how good they are, or how much better they are. Remember the XT computer? "eXtended Technology" my arse.
</rant>
But man, I bet that thing gives us some nice pictures.
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Patrick Doyle
What about those aliens that the Borg were afraid of? The ones who made a whole simulation of Starfleet Academy, and the leader took on the persona of the famed groundskeeper Boothby?
I stopped watching Voyager after that, but until then they seemed to have a lot of potential.
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Patrick Doyle
Anyway, I don't think it's realistic to try to compel companies not to protect their IP. But wait and see: free and open alternatives are slowly winning over proprietary interfaces in all kinds of places.
There's no need to compel businesses to stop doing something that's unprofitable.
--
Patrick Doyle
No wonder this guy posted anonymously. It's this kind of thing that makes me glad for metamoderation.
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Patrick Doyle
I'm glad you (and the moderators) saw it that way. :-)
For the record, I do believe Van Gogh was an extraordinarily talented artist. It's too bad the poor fellow was so psychologically tortured.
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Patrick Doyle
It sounds like either Van Gogh painted some unusually detailed and accurate paintings, or people are just reading too much into what are effectively works of fiction. Well, the house with the filled-in window was pretty impressive evidence of the former, so perhaps Van Gogh was more of a photographer than an artist.
:-)
(Let the flames begin...
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Patrick Doyle
To me, this just illustrates the idiocy of the shrinkwrap (or click-through) licenses, by reductio ad absurdum.
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Patrick Doyle
I'm pretty sure that's a myth. It's so easy to fake that courts don't pay any attention.
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Patrick Doyle
Well, what did Linus do to trademark "Linux"? Presumably he faced the same issues.
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Patrick Doyle
Microsoft's operating-system chief Jim Allchin says that teaching people to fish threatens the American way of life.
"Sell a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. That's the American Way. Teach a man to fish, and you undermine the entire economic system of this great nation. Education is communism, plain and simple."
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Patrick Doyle
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Patrick Doyle
Ok, you can argue that it's actually a distributed server, rather than a p2p network. Well good for you.
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Patrick Doyle
The standard is called SECSH, so maybe OpenSSH should be OpenSECSH. Pretty ugly name, I guess, but it's logical.
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Patrick Doyle
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Patrick Doyle
Perhaps I'm having vision problems, but I see no mention of humans in your definition.
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Patrick Doyle
For anyone wondering, the decoded form of this message is:
"And Bababooey to you all !! !!"
Now we don't have to slashdot the site to decode this.
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Patrick Doyle
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Patrick Doyle
There's a movie version of The Trial. I found it incomprehensible, but I'm not very smart.
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Patrick Doyle
Your point is...?
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Patrick Doyle
Don't everyone panic and upgrade your ssh1 clients. This only affects the server end. If you run an ssh1 server, now you can start worrying.
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Patrick Doyle