Hey mods, here's a clue. How about you actually do your job and read the post before moderating? A little knowledge of the discussion you are moderating might help too.
As for the energy storage problem, perhaps we could go back to wood burning stoves and steam engines. Ok, that was a joke, but burning vegetation is really releasing stored solar energy.
We used to diss the C-64 because it didn't have extended BASIC commands to put sprites on the screen, make sounds etc. On reflection though, it might have made the transition from BASIC to assembler that much easier. Any thoughts?
I didn't even see the pdf link on that page, hence the apology for lack of detail.
Many people are campaigning to get the plant closed down though. The argument is that it is a bad idea to ship very radioactive materials around the globe. There has also been some trouble with governments not wanting to take their waste back from us as per their contractural obligations. Some links below.
Except that the natural material is purified to increase the proportion of U235. Also, I never heard of radioactive iodine or calcium occurring naturally in the environment. There lies the danger, radioactive isotopes of compounds which are stored by the body.
I guess that would work in a place with plenty of free space. I'm in the UK, and space is pretty tight. We need building codes to make sure our neighbours don't block all the light from our houses with their new garage, or cause our house prices to fall by erecting a rickety shack at the end of the street.
It does at the moment. TPCA is aimed at stopping you from ripping protected media as much as it is about allowing you to control who sees your documents.
Don't worry, I agree with you. I use free software at home, partly because it's fun, but also because I want to see a future where communication and utility software is a commodity, not the exclusive property of the big boys. If the whole internet and all machines connected to it were suddenly locked down somehow, I'd probably become a radio HAM or something.
Only if SMB/CIFS does something groundbreaking. You can't patent something just because you made it yourself, it also has to do something new, or something old in a novel way.
It can't be open, otherwise someone would just write a backend to grab the music/video/whatever after it has been decrypted. TPCA is about ensuring that nothing unsigned has access to the stream as it is being processed. At least, that's how I understand it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think that's they way it is supposed to work. From what I read, Palladium is designed to make some data available only when all running code is signed by some trusted authority. You will still be able to use your mp3 player (not while listening to DRM tunes, of course), but you won't be able to patch media player, run custom sound drivers nor run a ripping program while listening to locked-down media.
Why can't I get away with abusive and immoral practices for 25 years, leading to nothing but becoming the richest man, and company, in the world?
If you were a significant source of foreign revenue for your national economy, you might well find that your freedom of action was considerably widened too. Maybe cynical, maybe true as well.
What if they use a completely open protocol including the encryption algorithm, but embed encryption keys into a TCPA enabled system, ostensibly to ensure that documents are only received by approved applications? Could they then invoke the DMCA to explicitely forbid other applications from interoperating (in the US) by cracking the key?
If the specs were to somehow get out into the wild, would reading them taint an OSS programmer? It's not as if they have seen the source code, so there is no question of copying IP into the end product. Whoever leaked the document would be at fault for copying that particular document, but would a 3rd party be guilty of anything?
I think the analogy would be closer if Microsoft were about to launch a fleet of GPS satellites that used their own proprietry protocol, and started putting their navigation equipment into every car. After a few years, the 5% not using their product would have lost the ability to use any navigation service.
Slashdot Mirror
I live about half way between Liverpool and Manchester, so Scouse jokes and Manc jokes are equally funny as far as I'm concerned :-)
Now that's asking for trouble :-)
Emacs vs Vi has nothing on ENIAC vs Manchester Mk 1
Hey mods, here's a clue. How about you actually do your job and read the post before moderating? A little knowledge of the discussion you are moderating might help too.
Mod this up too. It is a genuine response from BT to the original article. It describes how the tunnels are used today.
No, I think you will find it's one of the places where the industrial revolution started.
As for the energy storage problem, perhaps we could go back to wood burning stoves and steam engines. Ok, that was a joke, but burning vegetation is really releasing stored solar energy.
We used to diss the C-64 because it didn't have extended BASIC commands to put sprites on the screen, make sounds etc. On reflection though, it might have made the transition from BASIC to assembler that much easier. Any thoughts?
Why would a nuclear power 'stay the f*ck' out of the plutonium creation business?
I didn't even see the pdf link on that page, hence the apology for lack of detail.
Many people are campaigning to get the plant closed down though. The argument is that it is a bad idea to ship very radioactive materials around the globe. There has also been some trouble with governments not wanting to take their waste back from us as per their contractural obligations. Some links below.
Pollution crossing international borders
Might not make any money
Deliberate falsification of reprocessing records for a MOX shipment to Japan.
How much of the heat is generated by radioactive decay, and how much by eddy currents in the rotating magnetic core?
BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) reprocess spent fuel rods to recover fissile material (and waste):
www.bnfl.com
Sorry about the lack of detail, but I couldn't find anything more specific on their site.
That sounds like my fantasy home. A castle or tower somewhere in the Scottish Highlands with a helicopter and pilot on 24 hour call.
Except that the natural material is purified to increase the proportion of U235. Also, I never heard of radioactive iodine or calcium occurring naturally in the environment. There lies the danger, radioactive isotopes of compounds which are stored by the body.
I guess that would work in a place with plenty of free space. I'm in the UK, and space is pretty tight. We need building codes to make sure our neighbours don't block all the light from our houses with their new garage, or cause our house prices to fall by erecting a rickety shack at the end of the street.
It does at the moment. TPCA is aimed at stopping you from ripping protected media as much as it is about allowing you to control who sees your documents.
Don't worry, I agree with you. I use free software at home, partly because it's fun, but also because I want to see a future where communication and utility software is a commodity, not the exclusive property of the big boys. If the whole internet and all machines connected to it were suddenly locked down somehow, I'd probably become a radio HAM or something.
Only if SMB/CIFS does something groundbreaking. You can't patent something just because you made it yourself, it also has to do something new, or something old in a novel way.
It can't be open, otherwise someone would just write a backend to grab the music/video/whatever after it has been decrypted. TPCA is about ensuring that nothing unsigned has access to the stream as it is being processed. At least, that's how I understand it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think that's they way it is supposed to work. From what I read, Palladium is designed to make some data available only when all running code is signed by some trusted authority. You will still be able to use your mp3 player (not while listening to DRM tunes, of course), but you won't be able to patch media player, run custom sound drivers nor run a ripping program while listening to locked-down media.
Why can't I get away with abusive and immoral practices for 25 years, leading to nothing but becoming the richest man, and company, in the world?
If you were a significant source of foreign revenue for your national economy, you might well find that your freedom of action was considerably widened too. Maybe cynical, maybe true as well.
I expect a court would note this and maybe see it as contempt. Just double the fine every time they try it on, they'd soon learn ;-)
it's also clear that this discussion has always been about the consumer desktop OS.
No, the case is about MS leveraging their dominance desktop systems to lock out competing content servers.
What if they use a completely open protocol including the encryption algorithm, but embed encryption keys into a TCPA enabled system, ostensibly to ensure that documents are only received by approved applications? Could they then invoke the DMCA to explicitely forbid other applications from interoperating (in the US) by cracking the key?
If the specs were to somehow get out into the wild, would reading them taint an OSS programmer? It's not as if they have seen the source code, so there is no question of copying IP into the end product. Whoever leaked the document would be at fault for copying that particular document, but would a 3rd party be guilty of anything?
I think the analogy would be closer if Microsoft were about to launch a fleet of GPS satellites that used their own proprietry protocol, and started putting their navigation equipment into every car. After a few years, the 5% not using their product would have lost the ability to use any navigation service.