You say that this is simple, but it is not. In order to have an authoritative source for the data, one must have a named, vulnerable location to dispense it from. P2P networks function because everyone trusts everyone else, and if you download the latest Audioslave video, and it turns out to be Brittany and Modonna making out, well then c'est la vie. If you download the latest blacklist, and it ends up shutting off legitimate email, then mon dieu!
Bittorrents, for example, must have a seed site out there somewhere. This site can be taken out, and any other "offical" site that mirrors it. If the data is signed, then the offical sources of such signed data are vulnerable (if you need to revoke the key). The general problem of anonomizing traffic, while being able to trust the data on it at the same time, is Hard.
Presentation software is the worst category of software out there, IMHO. Most of the time, it destroys public speaking skills and tortures those who would like to learn something. I've seen effective uses of Powerpoint, but 95% of the time it seems that the "speaker" simply reads thier slides to the audience. This includes teachers and professors as well. They may as well just print out their "slides", pass them out, and send everyone on their way to do more with their time (like sleep).
That "exit effects" are a showstopper just reinforces my opinion.
Analog cameras use batteries; and a good chunk of the spent energy is in the flash system, which both utilize. Additionally, my Canon Powershot G2 came with a rechargable battery that I've been using for 2 years now (close to 2000 pictures taken).
I don't think so. The BSD portions of OSX are not mearly a "subsystem". All the system I/O, including disk, network and such rely on it. Just replacing it would be extremely painful; involving device driver rewrites and re-working their "micro" kernel.
Don't worry, though, you can escape this state of mind through hard work, education and practicing critical thinking skills. Microsoft, as evil as they [b]can[/b] be, does not deserve the '906 lawsuit. The University of California school system should be ashamed.
Would it be crazy of me to suggest that there might be a benefit to pervasive DRM? If rights information was attached to every document in a computer system, then there actually would be magic markers on code that say 'this is owned by foo'...
Yes, it would be crazy of you to suggest such a thing. DRM doesn't mean that you own a particular piece of code, it simply means that a "trusted authority" claims that you own a particular piece of code. While the distinction may seem slight, it's actually very important; especially if the trusted authority is Palladium or some other shady group.
Instead, we could require PGP signatures of code that people who submit to our projects; then, there would be a clear trail of who did what and when. If we had this for the kernel, we could correctly identify anyone who successfully submitted encumbered code; they would be the party to blame if any illegal activity takes place. This wouldn't rely on some third party to regulate what we can and can't do with our computers.
Windows Update only shows a small fraction of the overall software picture on a typical Windows installation; he even lists an update to "unzip" for Windows, but fails to mention the problems with WinZip over the past while. Deb/Gentoo/AptRpm/Up2Date, on the hand, show almost all the software on a Linux install (but not all, if you install things "by hand").
The patent system has driven R&D in the United States for more than two hundred years.
Excuse me, but the patent system has always been used with real objects and not abstract concepts. It makes sense in that light.
Patents have not been used with "intellectual properties" over the past 200 years. The analog would be an author who patents the idea of a murder mystery, and then sues anyone who actually writes anything that even remotely has anything to do with a 'murder' or a 'mystery'. The same idea, more often than not, is upheld in the software arena for some reason ("1-click checkout", "Embedding code in a browser").
Unless, of course, you're one of those who think we should be paying Einstien's estate for the privilege to talk about the theory of relativity in a magazine article.
Odd how many inidividual inventors seem to make the biggest political push for stronger patent laws, with large companies tending to push for more relaxed "patent harmonization" approaches.
That is a lie. "Patent harmonization" always refers to making patent law as strong as copyright; in other words, patents should last for 100 years. The "inventor" of the murder mystery's great-grand-children would just love you.
I'm not implying it; I know it's true. Go down to Any 7-11 corner in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana or Orange sometime early in the morning. Look for the trucks that come by to pick up workers, who pile in (without seats, much less seat belts) to work for the day. Come back later that night as they get off the truck after the sun sets. Look at the person driving the truck. I said nothing about a "lobby"; but I don't think I've ever seen a latino drive up to get a group of trabajadores for the day.
I said "often" republican; not "always" or even "usually". It's kind of stupid for the right to go on about the immagration problem, when they are part of it. Just the other day I had to roll my eyes as a friend complained about how all the immagrants were "taking his job", just as he was securing a Pricline room for $25/night -- I wonder who's going to make the sheets for that Santa Monica hotel... The same syndrome can be seen in the big-box Walmart shoppers; they drive up in their minivans with US flags plastered all over it, complain about foreigeners taking their jobs and then buy as much cheap shit as they can at Walmart. The irony isn't even funny.
You can buy a SSN, complete with card and everything in downtown Santa Ana. They don't even hide it at all. By the time it's found out false, they can have another one -- but the false cards are often legitimate otherwise, so it's difficult to tell (and the employers, ahem, don't check very hard). Some of my illegal friends would get picked up on a Thursday, and be back before work on Monday; it's just part of life.
The truth is this: California WANTS illegal immagrants there so that they can have farm workers, people to clean up hotels, and (most importantly) a scapegoat for all the problems that exist in the state. It's WAY too easy to "illegally" get into California and work there for it to be a simple mistake. If they wanted to get rid of the "problem", then they'd start throwing employers in jail for hiring illegal workers. But they don't do that, and the fact that they don't is quite telling. The often white, republican farmers, wouldn't want their labor force to be depleted -- and to be fair, most every illegal immagrant would rather be doing that than living in northern Mexico.
I left California in 1995; after being born and raised there. I miss it at times, but not at the moment... Proposition 187 was supposed to "fix" all of this; it was passed right as I left the state, but it looks as though it didn't do much.
Oh, and my current state's budget was balanced this year.
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Is it fault of IE if all the users run it with activeX and all the goodies enabled for all the web pages?
WTF? The problem was CraptiveX TO BEGIN WITH! We warned them that embedding ia32/win32 code into an anonymous document system (HTTP/HTML) was a horribly bad idea, but they didn't listen to us. Now, it's our fault that they "need" to put DRM into the presentation layer? That's like the abusive husband blaming his wife for making him hit her.
No, you never do need to "transmit any hardware information to Microsoft" with open licenses. Instead, you have to have a valid Passport account which includes such metrics as:
Your Name
Your Email Address
Your Phone Number
Your Gender
Your Birthdate
You need this, so that you can login to the open licenses website and aquire your serial numbers. You need to repeat this activity for every new open license that you buy. It's WORSE than the damn license activation in Windows. In addition, I've noticed that you now need to license individual services in Windows Server 2003 (specifically, the Terminal Services service), and then you get to use your Passport account to add "client access licenses" to it. It's no wonder that people are beginning to choose Linux, where you only need to install XFree86-Server and go to work, and never have to worry about having too many clients accessing it at the same time...
Seeing that the Chimera project (Mozilla/Cocoa for OSX) had to change it's name to "Camino"; I would hazzard a guess that the Mozilla team is targeting gas-guzzling sports cars for new monikers, rather than fowl. Maybe they should name the next version of Mozilla Corvette?
Apple: CoreCrib Kit Website Taken Down
Posted by smudge on Fri 09, 14:17
from the apple-lawyers-strike-again dept
Mark Dobie writes "I just put up a quick protest page against Apple's lawyers who demanded that the CoreCrib kit website be taken down. It's too bad that a company that makes such good products has such a fear of open hardware. [ed: see this story for more information.]
This state were made far out in the desert, in the Middle East. I think that the number of people that previously occupied that territory were less than a thousand.
Ahh, another Palestine then. I guess that's OK, as long as you don't live there, eh?
And the Zion computer is just a computer - it doesn't take sides as far as I see. Several times it talks about the sins of both man and machine, and if you watch the first part, you will see that the humans really are cruel and evil, and the machine response, even though it was extremely hard, was the only one that guaranteed their survival.
Unless _all_ humans were cruel and evil, the Zion mainframe did take sides; it presented a benevolent robot society and an irrational human response. It doesn't make sense. The whole world wasn't behind the German concentration camps; and the whole of the USA wasn't behind slavery -- even though I'm sure we could find one-sided accounts of both. In fact, there are always 2 or more sides, especially with populations on the order of billions, as in this case. I felt like I was watching a propaganda film directed by someone with an ulterior motive; not the documentary that it is presented as.
Thanks for your thoughts, they are interesting. The whole notion of granting sentient status is a curious puzzel that spans the scifi spectrum. Perhaps we'll see a more "human" side of the machines in the upcoming 2 films.
I think these were the worst shorts of those that I've seen online and in the theaters. The plotline, while interesting, is overly simplistic with the nice, sweet, never-harming robots simply wanting their own state while the cruel, evil humans only want to enslave them. It glosses over issues such as the previous human occupiers of the new robot state, or human sympathizers (geeks?) and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines. I realize it's just a short, and that it's told from the perspective on another computer (the Zion archive...?), but I still felt that it was a (very) poor-man's Metropolis. If you did enjoy it, please pick up Metropolis and check it out, you'll probably love it.
NTFS was a journaling filesystem from the start; even before NT4 came out. It was a journaling filesystem before Reiserfs or EXT3 even had a single line of code written. You can set it up to fully journal the filesystem data as well (it only does metadata by default). It did change with NT 5, but the journaling capabilities still existed in prior versions. More documentation can be found here
If anything, this Martin Luther King Jr. example has galvanized my opinion that invariable sections are wrong. If it is put there to protect the "1% personal opinion" at the expense of the technical work, then it's not free. It may be pragmatic. It may be reasonable. It isn't, however, free.
It almost sounds like the documentation authors do not like the idea of free software applied to their works; even as they enjoy the benefits that free software supply. Let's take a more apropriate example: Suppose that someone releases a software product with an invariable section that reads "fuck the USA". This would undoubtedly be a miniscule portion of the entire work -- now, another peson (let's say, a US citizen) may wish to come along and update the works. Upon reading the "invariable" section, though, he will be forced to choose between three consequences:
To not work on the project at all
To re-work then entire project from scratch
To insert a new section that is just as childish, eventually leading to a "fork"
In each of these cases, however, free software loses time, effort and value.
I have nothing against non-free licenses, but they shouldn't rear their heads in Debain; and they most definately shouldn't complain about being placed in the non-free repositories. Free is free; not just "mostly free".
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Bittorrents, for example, must have a seed site out there somewhere. This site can be taken out, and any other "offical" site that mirrors it. If the data is signed, then the offical sources of such signed data are vulnerable (if you need to revoke the key). The general problem of anonomizing traffic, while being able to trust the data on it at the same time, is Hard.
Presentation software is the worst category of software out there, IMHO. Most of the time, it destroys public speaking skills and tortures those who would like to learn something. I've seen effective uses of Powerpoint, but 95% of the time it seems that the "speaker" simply reads thier slides to the audience. This includes teachers and professors as well. They may as well just print out their "slides", pass them out, and send everyone on their way to do more with their time (like sleep).
That "exit effects" are a showstopper just reinforces my opinion.
Analog cameras use batteries; and a good chunk of the spent energy is in the flash system, which both utilize. Additionally, my Canon Powershot G2 came with a rechargable battery that I've been using for 2 years now (close to 2000 pictures taken).
I don't think so. The BSD portions of OSX are not mearly a "subsystem". All the system I/O, including disk, network and such rely on it. Just replacing it would be extremely painful; involving device driver rewrites and re-working their "micro" kernel.
And, yes, it is a waste.
Don't worry, though, you can escape this state of mind through hard work, education and practicing critical thinking skills. Microsoft, as evil as they [b]can[/b] be, does not deserve the '906 lawsuit. The University of California school system should be ashamed.
Well yes, but it's much easier to forge that.
Yes, it would be crazy of you to suggest such a thing. DRM doesn't mean that you own a particular piece of code, it simply means that a "trusted authority" claims that you own a particular piece of code. While the distinction may seem slight, it's actually very important; especially if the trusted authority is Palladium or some other shady group.
Instead, we could require PGP signatures of code that people who submit to our projects; then, there would be a clear trail of who did what and when. If we had this for the kernel, we could correctly identify anyone who successfully submitted encumbered code; they would be the party to blame if any illegal activity takes place. This wouldn't rely on some third party to regulate what we can and can't do with our computers.
Windows Update only shows a small fraction of the overall software picture on a typical Windows installation; he even lists an update to "unzip" for Windows, but fails to mention the problems with WinZip over the past while. Deb/Gentoo/AptRpm/Up2Date, on the hand, show almost all the software on a Linux install (but not all, if you install things "by hand").
If Office is application software, why do we have to reboot after installing patches for it?
Excuse me, but the patent system has always been used with real objects and not abstract concepts. It makes sense in that light.
Patents have not been used with "intellectual properties" over the past 200 years. The analog would be an author who patents the idea of a murder mystery, and then sues anyone who actually writes anything that even remotely has anything to do with a 'murder' or a 'mystery'. The same idea, more often than not, is upheld in the software arena for some reason ("1-click checkout", "Embedding code in a browser").
Unless, of course, you're one of those who think we should be paying Einstien's estate for the privilege to talk about the theory of relativity in a magazine article.
Odd how many inidividual inventors seem to make the biggest political push for stronger patent laws, with large companies tending to push for more relaxed "patent harmonization" approaches.
That is a lie. "Patent harmonization" always refers to making patent law as strong as copyright; in other words, patents should last for 100 years. The "inventor" of the murder mystery's great-grand-children would just love you.
I said "often" republican; not "always" or even "usually". It's kind of stupid for the right to go on about the immagration problem, when they are part of it. Just the other day I had to roll my eyes as a friend complained about how all the immagrants were "taking his job", just as he was securing a Pricline room for $25/night -- I wonder who's going to make the sheets for that Santa Monica hotel... The same syndrome can be seen in the big-box Walmart shoppers; they drive up in their minivans with US flags plastered all over it, complain about foreigeners taking their jobs and then buy as much cheap shit as they can at Walmart. The irony isn't even funny.
I agree, but the problem is always pushed off on the illegal immagrants, and almost never onto the demand side of it.
Thanks for that 187 link; that explains it.
The truth is this: California WANTS illegal immagrants there so that they can have farm workers, people to clean up hotels, and (most importantly) a scapegoat for all the problems that exist in the state. It's WAY too easy to "illegally" get into California and work there for it to be a simple mistake. If they wanted to get rid of the "problem", then they'd start throwing employers in jail for hiring illegal workers. But they don't do that, and the fact that they don't is quite telling. The often white, republican farmers, wouldn't want their labor force to be depleted -- and to be fair, most every illegal immagrant would rather be doing that than living in northern Mexico.
I left California in 1995; after being born and raised there. I miss it at times, but not at the moment... Proposition 187 was supposed to "fix" all of this; it was passed right as I left the state, but it looks as though it didn't do much.
Oh, and my current state's budget was balanced this year.
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WTF? The problem was CraptiveX TO BEGIN WITH! We warned them that embedding ia32/win32 code into an anonymous document system (HTTP/HTML) was a horribly bad idea, but they didn't listen to us. Now, it's our fault that they "need" to put DRM into the presentation layer? That's like the abusive husband blaming his wife for making him hit her.
SCO has continually put the trademark symbols around the UNIX name, but they have failed to state that they don't even own it! The open group does.
- Your Name
- Your Email Address
- Your Phone Number
- Your Gender
- Your Birthdate
You need this, so that you can login to the open licenses website and aquire your serial numbers. You need to repeat this activity for every new open license that you buy. It's WORSE than the damn license activation in Windows. In addition, I've noticed that you now need to license individual services in Windows Server 2003 (specifically, the Terminal Services service), and then you get to use your Passport account to add "client access licenses" to it. It's no wonder that people are beginning to choose Linux, where you only need to install XFree86-Server and go to work, and never have to worry about having too many clients accessing it at the same time...Seeing that the Chimera project (Mozilla/Cocoa for OSX) had to change it's name to "Camino"; I would hazzard a guess that the Mozilla team is targeting gas-guzzling sports cars for new monikers, rather than fowl. Maybe they should name the next version of Mozilla Corvette?
Posted by smudge on Fri 09, 14:17
from the apple-lawyers-strike-again dept
Mark Dobie writes "I just put up a quick protest page against Apple's lawyers who demanded that the CoreCrib kit website be taken down. It's too bad that a company that makes such good products has such a fear of open hardware. [ed: see this story for more information.]
Ahh, another Palestine then. I guess that's OK, as long as you don't live there, eh?
And the Zion computer is just a computer - it doesn't take sides as far as I see. Several times it talks about the sins of both man and machine, and if you watch the first part, you will see that the humans really are cruel and evil, and the machine response, even though it was extremely hard, was the only one that guaranteed their survival.
Unless _all_ humans were cruel and evil, the Zion mainframe did take sides; it presented a benevolent robot society and an irrational human response. It doesn't make sense. The whole world wasn't behind the German concentration camps; and the whole of the USA wasn't behind slavery -- even though I'm sure we could find one-sided accounts of both. In fact, there are always 2 or more sides, especially with populations on the order of billions, as in this case. I felt like I was watching a propaganda film directed by someone with an ulterior motive; not the documentary that it is presented as.
Thanks for your thoughts, they are interesting. The whole notion of granting sentient status is a curious puzzel that spans the scifi spectrum. Perhaps we'll see a more "human" side of the machines in the upcoming 2 films.
I think these were the worst shorts of those that I've seen online and in the theaters. The plotline, while interesting, is overly simplistic with the nice, sweet, never-harming robots simply wanting their own state while the cruel, evil humans only want to enslave them. It glosses over issues such as the previous human occupiers of the new robot state, or human sympathizers (geeks?) and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines. I realize it's just a short, and that it's told from the perspective on another computer (the Zion archive...?), but I still felt that it was a (very) poor-man's Metropolis. If you did enjoy it, please pick up Metropolis and check it out, you'll probably love it.
NTFS was a journaling filesystem from the start; even before NT4 came out. It was a journaling filesystem before Reiserfs or EXT3 even had a single line of code written. You can set it up to fully journal the filesystem data as well (it only does metadata by default). It did change with NT 5, but the journaling capabilities still existed in prior versions. More documentation can be found here
It almost sounds like the documentation authors do not like the idea of free software applied to their works; even as they enjoy the benefits that free software supply. Let's take a more apropriate example: Suppose that someone releases a software product with an invariable section that reads "fuck the USA". This would undoubtedly be a miniscule portion of the entire work -- now, another peson (let's say, a US citizen) may wish to come along and update the works. Upon reading the "invariable" section, though, he will be forced to choose between three consequences:
- To not work on the project at all
- To re-work then entire project from scratch
- To insert a new section that is just as childish, eventually leading to a "fork"
In each of these cases, however, free software loses time, effort and value.I have nothing against non-free licenses, but they shouldn't rear their heads in Debain; and they most definately shouldn't complain about being placed in the non-free repositories. Free is free; not just "mostly free".
Just as POSIX was a marketing tool; so is the EMCA/ISO rubber-stamp of their C# token parser.