I don't know why this has a mod of "funny". It is possibly just as a strong a corellation as piracy policy since WASP nations appear to have the most onerous piracy laws and are more likely to have the income required to buy legit software.
Insightful I say, and a damning insight at that.
We have laws against shonky accounting, why should people be allowed to peddle shonky science?
Yeah, modern construction is crummy, featuring large helpings of built in obsolescence. I wince when I see crappy cinder-block estates rising everywhere.
But OTOH, how many times have you seen a 50+ year old house sitting on a lot worth many times more than the value of the structure? Will your structure be the most appropriaate for that community in 50 years time? Why bother building for 100 years when the majority of occupants will want to gut the place every 20 years to get the latest fixtures? It can be argued that building for more than 50 years lifespan is bogus economy in most instances.
Also, I prefer quality housing. But from first hand experience, 90% of the populace doesn't care about quality as long as the house has stainless steel appliances and a jacuzzi. Sigh...
Far saner to code to a VM that will continue to work on future hardware and keep storage abstracted. My mainframe friend always tells me they still use punch-card readers, only they don't exist physically any more. Kind of of like how tar writes to "tape drives" that don't exist either, we have phased out tape for desktop backs, but the software is the same.
I maintain some really old thermal wax colour printers that have crumbling rubber wheels and it *sucks*: The consumables cost a ton, parts are extortionately priced, they are flakey compared to new printers, they have crummy DPI and they are sloooowwwwwww...... First decent budget I get, they are all going to die. Because I am going to replace one colour postscript printer with another, no-ones even going to notice (except it'll be faster, cheaper and better).
So many Amigas have been killed by crap leaking from batteries, it soaks into multi-layer boards aand dissolves tracks where you can't get at them.
Add to that things like capacitor electrolytes, and I think the only place we're going to be able to maintain old computers is as VMs, such as Amiga Forever.
This is more like Trabant suing Subaru because back in 1945, they pulled the design of an engine from a bombed out factory before GM did. If Subaru hadn't released the 2001 WRX, the Trabant would have a 700 HP engine, do 300 mpg and have a mini-bar with Ricardo Montalban as bartender in the back.
A trabant or one of those grandiose but crummy cars that Nader thought were unsafe at any speed. Or a Rover that has 6 volt electrics and leaves puddles of oil on the driveway.
That is a *really* good design feature that takes into account the human dimensions of the problem. Neat.
I think there is value in it even when the thugs have you. You may be toast, but it would let you limit the amount of information divulged to what they can sweat out of you.
I am not convinced there is an answer, or at least there isn't a one-size-fits-all one.
Even now, you can use the strongest crypto you want, and if you do not surrender the keys to a subpoena, you will be done for contempt of court. So you could argue that we only have the illusion of privacy.
My own feeling is that any soluion must also come from outside of what a legal system can offer. Fewer people trade kiddie pr0n than than MP3s because most people find it repugnant. Legal penalties are part of policing, but I think the social dimension at least as strong a deterrent.
If it's a high profile, or an International organisation that can tell the authorities where to stick it, crypto can be very valuable. For example, to keep intercepted communications secret. OTOH, no amount of crypto is going to do you any good if they can haul you away and beat it out of you.
It's a very useful tool, but only in the right circumstances.
And soon enough even the possession of these kinds of tools will be enough to put people in jail. After all, they were probably using them to swap MP3s or kiddie-pr0n or even plan terrorist acts.
Strong crypto is only a part of the answer (whatever that answer may be).
While biometrics might be OK as part of a comprehensive security system, they do have problems all of their own, for a start, you can't isue someone with a new thumb if the system gets compromised. (say if I manage o get a silicon cast of your thumb).
Then there was the amusing experiment where a bunch of Germans managed to fool retina scanners using printed images of eyes that could be taken at a reasonable distance with a camera.
THE federal Government will move to tighten control over the internet to reduce the accessibility of hardcore pornography from personal computers.
One of the options being considered by Communications Minister Richard Alston is a central system to filter all local and overseas internet traffic through a proxy server.
But Senator Alston fears that could slow down overall internet speeds. He favours an approach that would toughen regulations on internet service providers, which are already obliged to filter out offensive material.
This is mind-bogglingly stupid. How they plan on sniffing p2p and SSL encrypted stuff is beyond me. We will get broken web services while all the pr0n fiends will move to IRC and p2p (and even UseNet!).
A friend's first thought was that maybe this is actually about making surveilance of Internet activity easier.
Firstly, no-ones going to find your pr0n because you'll probably have it tagged as private by default: "Tag anything from alt.binaries.pictures.goatse as private pr0n"
Secondly, the problem with a hierarchy is that it imposes an (often) arbitrary order that you have to get just right to find stuff. Why shouldn't I find my pr0n under D:\goatse\pictures\ *and* D:\pictures\goatse? Just because files are stored as objects doesn't mean you can't interact with them as a hierarchy as well. Hopefully a good filsystem would also spot "sideways" linkages for you to increase the chance of you finding the file you want.
I agree about properly organising stuff in a hierarchy, but after years of setting up structures and LARTing disobedient lusers, our filesystems are still a crappy jumble. Enforced structures just hide the mess a bit deeper. Anything that lets them keep their slovenly habits will probably fly.
Someone should tell their build labs. From http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_g old2.asp:
"When we turn the crank, we compile the whole thing," he said. "We have to be able to reproduce the system at any point in time as well. So developers check in code, we press a button, and out comes a system. We should be able to reproduce that [build] three years in the future, using the various tools, compilers, and scripts we used at that time."
The Grid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits! --More-- You are frozen in the clutches of the DRM.... --More-- The Grid Bug Hits! The Gid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits --More-- you die... --More-- You died on p2p Grid level 12 with 72 mp3s
"Craig uses the analogy of the telephone: You can unplug a telephone and move it to another room and plug it in, and 99.9999 per cent of the time it will work. When we use it, we are pretty sure that we know who we are talking to, and we know we'll get a bill at the end of the month and we know what rate we'll be charged at"
Unless someone figures out how to use a whistle to compromise the phone billing. Or use a radio to read the cel-phone signals in order to clone the phone. Or get people to dial 1900 numbers. Or....
Not only don't they notice, they peer in over my shoulder exclaiming, "Whow, you guys are always doing such techy stuff, it's amazing..." (spoken with absolute naivety)
And hjkl is why I picked up vi so quickly. So I also describe it as a vi training module.:o)
That's why you also need to tie a particular MAC to a particular port on the switch. That way when Joe Footballer tries to ifup using someone else's MAC, the port in his dorm room gets frozen out until he explains to someone what he was doing.
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Because you can be sure your local RIAA representative will be making sure your local publications get this as a press release.
If they do, write to the editors and tell them how shonky this "study" really is. The parent pot is a good start.
Xix.
I don't know why this has a mod of "funny". It is possibly just as a strong a corellation as piracy policy since WASP nations appear to have the most onerous piracy laws and are more likely to have the income required to buy legit software.
Insightful I say, and a damning insight at that.
We have laws against shonky accounting, why should people be allowed to peddle shonky science?
Xix.
We Sun had better hurry up and release Solaris 10 so that they can have an "X" in their product name as well.
Then there's Oracle, 9i has been around for ages, it's about time they bumped it a number too.
Though I am not familiar with the roman numeral "P" in Windows XP... I mean, Windows MCMXXXVII would look so cool on our software inventory.
Xix.
Yeah, modern construction is crummy, featuring large helpings of built in obsolescence. I wince when I see crappy cinder-block estates rising everywhere.
But OTOH, how many times have you seen a 50+ year old house sitting on a lot worth many times more than the value of the structure? Will your structure be the most appropriaate for that community in 50 years time? Why bother building for 100 years when the majority of occupants will want to gut the place every 20 years to get the latest fixtures? It can be argued that building for more than 50 years lifespan is bogus economy in most instances.
Also, I prefer quality housing. But from first hand experience, 90% of the populace doesn't care about quality as long as the house has stainless steel appliances and a jacuzzi. Sigh...
Xix.
Far saner to code to a VM that will continue to work on future hardware and keep storage abstracted. My mainframe friend always tells me they still use punch-card readers, only they don't exist physically any more. Kind of of like how tar writes to "tape drives" that don't exist either, we have phased out tape for desktop backs, but the software is the same.
I maintain some really old thermal wax colour printers that have crumbling rubber wheels and it *sucks*: The consumables cost a ton, parts are extortionately priced, they are flakey compared to new printers, they have crummy DPI and they are sloooowwwwwww...... First decent budget I get, they are all going to die. Because I am going to replace one colour postscript printer with another, no-ones even going to notice (except it'll be faster, cheaper and better).
Xix.
And you think Stonehenge is the site of some bronze age rave or something right?
So many Amigas have been killed by crap leaking from batteries, it soaks into multi-layer boards aand dissolves tracks where you can't get at them.
Add to that things like capacitor electrolytes, and I think the only place we're going to be able to maintain old computers is as VMs, such as Amiga Forever.
Xix.
ssh proxy /etc/samba/
/var/log/squid/ :wq
su -
cd
vi smb.conf
[shame]
comment =
path =
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
Now to export it to our web server....
Xix.
Xix.
This is more like Trabant suing Subaru because back in 1945, they pulled the design of an engine from a bombed out factory before GM did. If Subaru hadn't released the 2001 WRX, the Trabant would have a 700 HP engine, do 300 mpg and have a mini-bar with Ricardo Montalban as bartender in the back.
A trabant or one of those grandiose but crummy cars that Nader thought were unsafe at any speed. Or a Rover that has 6 volt electrics and leaves puddles of oil on the driveway.
Xix.
TruUnitedOpenFreeDividedPatchedLostFoundDeletedRes toredGNU/Linux?
Or just Xenophobix?
Xix.
(recovered Xenix user)
That is a *really* good design feature that takes into account the human dimensions of the problem. Neat.
I think there is value in it even when the thugs have you. You may be toast, but it would let you limit the amount of information divulged to what they can sweat out of you.
Xix.
I am not convinced there is an answer, or at least there isn't a one-size-fits-all one.
Even now, you can use the strongest crypto you want, and if you do not surrender the keys to a subpoena, you will be done for contempt of court. So you could argue that we only have the illusion of privacy.
My own feeling is that any soluion must also come from outside of what a legal system can offer. Fewer people trade kiddie pr0n than than MP3s because most people find it repugnant. Legal penalties are part of policing, but I think the social dimension at least as strong a deterrent.
Xix.
Hence my other comment somewhere in here.
If it's a high profile, or an International organisation that can tell the authorities where to stick it, crypto can be very valuable. For example, to keep intercepted communications secret. OTOH, no amount of crypto is going to do you any good if they can haul you away and beat it out of you.
It's a very useful tool, but only in the right circumstances.
Xix.
And soon enough even the possession of these kinds of tools will be enough to put people in jail. After all, they were probably using them to swap MP3s or kiddie-pr0n or even plan terrorist acts.
Strong crypto is only a part of the answer (whatever that answer may be).
Xix.
Then there was the amusing experiment where a bunch of Germans managed to fool retina scanners using printed images of eyes that could be taken at a reasonable distance with a camera.
Xix.
If the acronym was A/S/L, they'd need to put on extra servers just to keep up with the subscriptions.
OTOH, 90% of the population would then be described as 16 yo bisexual females.
Xix.
This is mind-bogglingly stupid. How they plan on sniffing p2p and SSL encrypted stuff is beyond me. We will get broken web services while all the pr0n fiends will move to IRC and p2p (and even UseNet!).
A friend's first thought was that maybe this is actually about making surveilance of Internet activity easier.
Xix.
Firstly, no-ones going to find your pr0n because you'll probably have it tagged as private by default: "Tag anything from alt.binaries.pictures.goatse as private pr0n"
Secondly, the problem with a hierarchy is that it imposes an (often) arbitrary order that you have to get just right to find stuff. Why shouldn't I find my pr0n under D:\goatse\pictures\ *and* D:\pictures\goatse? Just because files are stored as objects doesn't mean you can't interact with them as a hierarchy as well. Hopefully a good filsystem would also spot "sideways" linkages for you to increase the chance of you finding the file you want.
I agree about properly organising stuff in a hierarchy, but after years of setting up structures and LARTing disobedient lusers, our filesystems are still a crappy jumble. Enforced structures just hide the mess a bit deeper. Anything that lets them keep their slovenly habits will probably fly.
Xix.
"Spot the dog ate M$ brand dog food after we poured sump oil on our competitor's dog food"
Who knows, may they don't bother with bothersome checksums that would only inhibit performance, or maybe it really is faster.
Xix.
Xix.
The Grid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits!
--More--
You are frozen in the clutches of the DRM....
--More--
The Grid Bug Hits! The Gid Bug hits! The Grid Bug hits
--More--
you die...
--More--
You died on p2p Grid level 12 with 72 mp3s
Unless someone figures out how to use a whistle to compromise the phone billing. Or use a radio to read the cel-phone signals in order to clone the phone. Or get people to dial 1900 numbers. Or....
Xix.
Not only don't they notice, they peer in over my shoulder exclaiming,
:o)
"Whow, you guys are always doing such techy stuff, it's amazing..." (spoken with absolute naivety)
And hjkl is why I picked up vi so quickly. So I also describe it as a vi training module.
Xix.
That's why you also need to tie a particular MAC to a particular port on the switch. That way when Joe Footballer tries to ifup using someone else's MAC, the port in his dorm room gets frozen out until he explains to someone what he was doing.
Xix.