I'm sure you could hack up some BSD/Linux utility to transparently mount encrypted filesystems and include a minimal Cygwin installation for the Windows folks. IIRC, Cygwin accesses the Windows filesystem(s) directly, so mounting an encrypted file loopback and accessing it's contents directly from Windows should be possible. Getting Cygwin onto a USB pen drive might be a chore, though. Sounds like a fun project.
In this product brief, Broadcom claims to have "embedded drivers for Linux" for their "Airforce" 802.11b/g chipset.
And this FAQ says "the OneDriver software that ships with AirForce solutions uses the same driver for 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g, so that customers of our 802.11b solution will be able to upgrade to the newer high-speed standards without changing their PCâ(TM)s software image."
Mailing list discussions seem to indicate that there are developers willing to write drivers to support Broadcom chipsets, but Broadcom is not "forthcoming with specs."
Yet again, someone displays an absolute lack of knowledge of the word "criminal".
A crime involves committing a harmful act upon a person. No matter what legislatures tend to label "criminal", it is ultimately up to a judge and a jury to decide what is a crime and what is not.
By "entering a high security area", the reporter merely showed the intent to break a law, not to commit a crime. The fact that he committed no crime proves this. No amount of turning well-meaning reporters such as these into "criminals" will prevent the terrorists from committing actual crimes upon us.
A crime requires two elements: injury and intent; or, as Mr. Hudson pointed out, actus reus "the act of it" and mens rea "the mind of it".
I argued the lack of one of them without touching upon the other. I should have stated that, without the intent to do harm and with the fact that no harm was done, no competent judicial system can find what Mr. Shachtman has done to have been a "crime" per say.
It seems as though it was indeed illegal, but not technically criminal.
the contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provencial or transient notion -Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246,250
Because, by definition, "criminal" trespass requires "criminal" intent, or the intent to do harm.
Walking across someone's lawn is not criminal. Reporters trespass on government property in order to cause embarrassment; and their documentation and disclosure of their actions proves this.
We would be in a world of shit if journalists were prevented from embarrassing our government.
Companies like this sue individuals all day long claiming loss of "prospective profits" and "devaluation of brand recognition", whether the defendant has profitted or not.
We should be just as able to sue them for profitting off of something that is copyrighted in order to be free.
Ask them for the code. Sue them for the value of said code. They have stolen it from all of us.
I spotted one of these at CompUSA, although, now that I see the price, it is quite expensive. Very slick, though: all metal, with doors that are held closed with magnets like an upscale stereo. Now you just have to find room for the watercooling kit.
Rights come from god, not from government. A "government-granted right" is more correctly termed a priviledge, since it is granted only at the expense of others' rights.
That's the dirty little secret in corporate america. NO ONE is upgrading to Windows XP. Aside from the bend-you-over-and-anally-rape-you licensing, it is slower than 2000 and goofy looking. M$ has extended the support schedule for Windows 2000 because, if they didn't, they wouldn't have a realistic replacement ready by the time people were forced to upgrade.
Go ahead. Ask Microsoft tech support (and Dell) what OS they use. Then ask them why they want to sell you XP.
Plus they've GOT to be using MS technology in the SimDesk applications themselves.
Do you think they just went to Redmond and asked Bill for the Office source code? Microsoft has a history of guarding it's "trade secrets" like a Mormon girl on prom night, even from it's "partners" who develop all of the interesting products that run on Windows. I'd be less suprised if they were using Open Source technology in their products, because we all know that's never happened;)
Internet Printing: With SimPrinter, any computer can print to any printer connected to the Internet. This patented process works like this: User A is viewing a file in his office and needs to print it to his client's office for his client to sign. He selects a printer connected to a computer in his client's office. The mainframe computer at the Service Provider then spools the file to the computer in the client's office and instructs the printer there to print the data. Once the printing is complete, the computer in the client's office notifies the mainframe. The mainframe in turn notifies the user in User A's office.
Look no further than Fluke Multimeters. These things rock, although they cost an arm and a leg. From the website:
When connected to a copper media network, the OptiView Analyzer will automatically perform a cable test and provide you with the cable length into any attached device, including a live switch or hub port. Select the Twisted-Pair Detail Screen and see:
* Cable Wire Pair
* Impedance
* Length to End
* Length to Reflection
* Status
* Anomalies (shorts, opens and split pairs)
* Receive Pair
* Transmit Pair
* Receive Voltage
* Polarity
In exchange for giving up control over the broadcast spectrum to private interests, the government retains some rights for you the citizen
This makes no sense. The government be not be able to GIVE AWAY public property, regardless of whether they "retain some rights" for the people? We haven't gotten any *new* rights in exchange for giving up our airwaves, just a few of them have been *retained*. This isn't a proper exchange, as the citizens get nothing and the corporations get quite a bit.
the right to control content
This isn't a right, it is a governmental power. There is a huge difference. It cannot be *retained* because individuals don't have the *right* to regulate others' speech to begin with. On the contrary, individuals have the RIGHT to express themselves without regulation.
This is a perfect example of Fascism, government that screws its citizenry for the benefit of private corporations? Christ, sometimes I wonder whether any Americans still take history/civics.
You're absolutely right. That's another issue that loses Valenti all sorts of credibility points. He keeps saying "perfect digital copies" when he means "point-and-click-easy-enough-for-the-average-idiot -to-do" copies. I might have a little more sympathy for that argument, if anyone at the MPAA were honest enough to make it.
I thought that patents were only issued for a particular *application* of a technology. That's why overly-general patents like "method of communicating ideas with others" are bullshit. I assume that I could get a patent for "method of using rock as offensive projectile" and it wouldn't affect your "method of using rock to flavor soup" patent. I could be wrong, though.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant "Linux" in the general, "anything that runs on Linux" sense that most end-users seem to view Linux as.
To them, even if a bug in KDE causes everything but the command-line to come crashing down, Linux is to blame. They don't have the knowledge (or time) to pinpoint exactly what program or component was to blame, they just know something failed.
If we could provide an automatic utility with a simple GUI that would ask a couple of questions, then send all sorts of debugging info to a massive database, I think it would be useful.
I don't know of any distributions that include such a utility, but I believe they would if a general one were available.
I'm pretty sure it's just incremental changes saved in memory. In fact, recent versions of Word save those changes *in the document* itself.
This can be a huge problem if you work with sensitive information. Lawyers, for instance, routinely re-use the headers and formatting from old documents. With this "feature", sensitive information from a client's case can make its way into documents for other cases. That's one of the reasons that informed lawyers still use Wordperfect.
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I'm sure you could hack up some BSD/Linux utility to transparently mount encrypted filesystems and include a minimal Cygwin installation for the Windows folks. IIRC, Cygwin accesses the Windows filesystem(s) directly, so mounting an encrypted file loopback and accessing it's contents directly from Windows should be possible. Getting Cygwin onto a USB pen drive might be a chore, though. Sounds like a fun project.
And this FAQ says "the OneDriver software that ships with AirForce solutions uses the same driver for 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g, so that customers of our 802.11b solution will be able to upgrade to the newer high-speed standards without changing their PCâ(TM)s software image."
Mailing list discussions seem to indicate that there are developers willing to write drivers to support Broadcom chipsets, but Broadcom is not "forthcoming with specs."
There is a thing in the US called Jurisdiction.
It means that you can tell the Federal gov't to go fuck themselves if they try to arrest you for something that they do not have jurisdiction over.
Last time I checked, they do not have jurisdiction over you building toner cartridges in your basement.
A crime involves committing a harmful act upon a person. No matter what legislatures tend to label "criminal", it is ultimately up to a judge and a jury to decide what is a crime and what is not.
By "entering a high security area", the reporter merely showed the intent to break a law, not to commit a crime. The fact that he committed no crime proves this. No amount of turning well-meaning reporters such as these into "criminals" will prevent the terrorists from committing actual crimes upon us.
I argued the lack of one of them without touching upon the other. I should have stated that, without the intent to do harm and with the fact that no harm was done, no competent judicial system can find what Mr. Shachtman has done to have been a "crime" per say.
It seems as though it was indeed illegal, but not technically criminal.
the contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provencial or transient notion
-Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246,250
Walking across someone's lawn is not criminal. Reporters trespass on government property in order to cause embarrassment; and their documentation and disclosure of their actions proves this.
We would be in a world of shit if journalists were prevented from embarrassing our government.
Are you suggesting something like this?
(I'm actually curious. At $750, this seems much more reasonable than the $1300 device listed above.)
It is "supposed" to be blue, just like everything else in Windows is blue, because Bill and his cronies are a bunch of blue-blooded capitalist tools.
Many things (including about:mozilla) in Mozilla are red for quite the opposite reason.
This will be modded down because neither side likes to admit their political leanings, but it's true nonetheless.
We should be just as able to sue them for profitting off of something that is copyrighted in order to be free.
Ask them for the code. Sue them for the value of said code. They have stolen it from all of us.
I spotted one of these at CompUSA, although, now that I see the price, it is quite expensive. Very slick, though: all metal, with doors that are held closed with magnets like an upscale stereo. Now you just have to find room for the watercooling kit.
Rights come from god, not from government. A "government-granted right" is more correctly termed a priviledge, since it is granted only at the expense of others' rights.
Go ahead. Ask Microsoft tech support (and Dell) what OS they use. Then ask them why they want to sell you XP.
Do you think they just went to Redmond and asked Bill for the Office source code? Microsoft has a history of guarding it's "trade secrets" like a Mormon girl on prom night, even from it's "partners" who develop all of the interesting products that run on Windows. I'd be less suprised if they were using Open Source technology in their products, because we all know that's never happened ;)
Internet Printing:
With SimPrinter, any computer can print to any printer connected to the Internet. This patented process works like this: User A is viewing a file in his office and needs to print it to his client's office for his client to sign. He selects a printer connected to a computer in his client's office. The mainframe computer at the Service Provider then spools the file to the computer in the client's office and instructs the printer there to print the data. Once the printing is complete, the computer in the client's office notifies the mainframe. The mainframe in turn notifies the user in User A's office.
4) Can't back out of IE install because it's integrated into OS.
5) Had to reinstall entire OS from CDs.
They were. It is. They changed their name to "The SCO Group" because of the perceived popularity of the "SCO" name.
Contrary to the belief of the article's author, "portend" is a verb.
This just goes to show that you can get an actual, paying job in journalism with little more than a pencil and a thesaurus.
that fluke thing does a lot of stuff, but it isn't quite what you asked for. sorry.
When connected to a copper media network, the OptiView Analyzer will automatically perform a cable test and provide you with the cable length into any attached device, including a live switch or hub port. Select the Twisted-Pair Detail Screen and see:
* Cable Wire Pair
* Impedance
* Length to End
* Length to Reflection
* Status
* Anomalies (shorts, opens and split pairs)
* Receive Pair
* Transmit Pair
* Receive Voltage
* Polarity
This makes no sense. The government be not be able to GIVE AWAY public property, regardless of whether they "retain some rights" for the people? We haven't gotten any *new* rights in exchange for giving up our airwaves, just a few of them have been *retained*. This isn't a proper exchange, as the citizens get nothing and the corporations get quite a bit.
the right to control content
This isn't a right, it is a governmental power. There is a huge difference. It cannot be *retained* because individuals don't have the *right* to regulate others' speech to begin with. On the contrary, individuals have the RIGHT to express themselves without regulation.
This is a perfect example of Fascism, government that screws its citizenry for the benefit of private corporations? Christ, sometimes I wonder whether any Americans still take history/civics.
You're absolutely right. That's another issue that loses Valenti all sorts of credibility points. He keeps saying "perfect digital copies" when he means "point-and-click-easy-enough-for-the-average-idiot -to-do" copies. I might have a little more sympathy for that argument, if anyone at the MPAA were honest enough to make it.
I thought that patents were only issued for a particular *application* of a technology. That's why overly-general patents like "method of communicating ideas with others" are bullshit. I assume that I could get a patent for "method of using rock as offensive projectile" and it wouldn't affect your "method of using rock to flavor soup" patent. I could be wrong, though.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant "Linux" in the general, "anything that runs on Linux" sense that most end-users seem to view Linux as.
To them, even if a bug in KDE causes everything but the command-line to come crashing down, Linux is to blame. They don't have the knowledge (or time) to pinpoint exactly what program or component was to blame, they just know something failed.
If we could provide an automatic utility with a simple GUI that would ask a couple of questions, then send all sorts of debugging info to a massive database, I think it would be useful.
I don't know of any distributions that include such a utility, but I believe they would if a general one were available.
I'm pretty sure it's just incremental changes saved in memory. In fact, recent versions of Word save those changes *in the document* itself.
This can be a huge problem if you work with sensitive information. Lawyers, for instance, routinely re-use the headers and formatting from old documents. With this "feature", sensitive information from a client's case can make its way into documents for other cases. That's one of the reasons that informed lawyers still use Wordperfect.