Wow -- I didn't realize Slashdot was home to the change log. I would try to find the actual log from the website, except the site close to being slashdotted.
Hence the reason someone called MS a bait-and-switch tactic waiting to happen.
<OT>As for that Flamebait stuff, I think moderators sometimes don't know exactly what they are doing when they are granted access, hence those few screw up good comments to articles. Thankfully there are enough moderators who do know what they're doing to cover up the bad ones. It's just luck my post wass modded down.</OT>
What this guy has done is actually look at the.NET API and see how it actually will work when it comes time for.NET to go live. He suggests alternatives to using Passport as a form of authentcation through the use of SSL and HTTPS. On the other hand, I still follow from the first article of MS's attempt of a possible bait-and-switch tactic to make Mono incompatible with Passport by having MS make a quick change to Passport and dropping support for Mono.
Some moderators, when given access, dont know what it is and oftentimes just click buttons and drop-down lists to their heart's content, hence leaving some very good posts unmodderated or modded down that should have been up, and other errs in moderating. This post, for example, could go either way. I'm either being a troll, flamebait, or insightful. Hopefully I'm being insightful for pointing out troubles with some moderators. But to the moderators that read this, they see an attack on themselves, leaving them to mark me as a trollin flamebaiter.
I wonder how this is going to take place in the real world if it is ever used. When you get up to 300K ft, everything is obviously a lot smaller than viewing it from an airplane, and locating a target becomes that much harder. Winds at those altitudes will have significant impact on predicting where a bomb will actually land. Perhaps heat-seeking or otherwise guided missles are the solution to nailing a target from way up there.
From my experience, esp. old people can't or refuse to learn.
How can you say that? I work with many people who are close to retirement. There's one guy in my company who is 70+ years old just so that he can toy with the latest and greatest technologies. This guy is well versed on the latest well-established technologies like Java, with AI applications, within CPU architectures. It sounds to me like you're stereotyping a class of programmers based on one bad experience or that line from Moe: "Call this an unfair judgement, but old people are no good at anything."
Example from the real world: Mac OS X is out. But there are still some companies that produce Mac OS 9 software (which doesn't work on Mac OS X).
Within OS-X, there is a program called Classic (during development it was code-named TruBlue). It's a program that emulates the OS-9 environment for a program written for OS-9. In order to use it, you must have an OS-9 and -X partition on your disk. How do I know this? I use it. It works. OS-9 programs work on my OS-X.
Result: They won't sell anything.
Apple developed this Classic environment specifically for older applications and apps that couldn't get converted to OS-X in time for it's release. Result: OS-9 Apps do work on OS-X. Second Result: Products for OS-9 will sell to people using OS-X.
Out of curiosity, how is allocation such a major issue here? IPv6 will allow for enough IPs that every square foot of the earth's surface (including oceans and other uninhabitable places) is able to have it's own IP, with plenty of IPs leftover.
Perhaps/. should modify links to things like printer friendly format so that we dont end up enforcing pop-under ads like the x10 camera or the credit card thingy that pops under the original link.
Several comments in this discussion were modded up when they probably shouldn't have been. Meanwhile others, like yours, have not been modded up because the moderators have wasted their points modding the wrong material.
Now onto my question.... Are you sure material is stored in a webserver? It looks to me that this is a p2p network (like gnutella), meaning that data can be stored anywhere, and also that presentation would be nothing but a filename on a client program.
SSH and PGP are but small examples of what can be done.
I thought of something regarding PGP earlier today in response to the file sharing story this morning:
Develop a file-sharing network where data is encrypted using PGP's style of encryption. Remote user generates a temporary symmetric key based on keystrokes, mouse movements, etc, encrypts the file you want using that temp key, then encrypts the temp using your public key, then transmit the pair to you. Decrypt the temp key using your private key, then decrypt the shared file. Use a similar scheme of things when searching for files and other data transmissions. Naturally we want all this to be transparent to the user and happen automatically. Only problem with this is it is processor intensive and may slow things down because of all the math work involved in encrpytion/decryption process.
Wow! A protocol can work on any port!? That's incredible!! Who could think of such a mind-boggling concept!! That's why I said the firewall method would work until the user changes the active port. Read comment in entirety first, then post.
Unfortunately, the record companies are probably the ones telling the business people of the ISPs that the only way to do what they want is to deny access entirely. Busniess people not knowing any better, mindlessly have their technicians follow those requests and cut the line of a user.
the only way to block their actions is to turn off their connections.
Or better yet, block the port at which the user is sharing at by using firewalls. This will keep the customer's connection to the internet alive, but it will block a GNUtella client from working. At least until the user changes the active port.
Really? I know there were some libraries available from gnu.org, but I've heard they arent that good. I also know that JDK 1.4 has a Regex package, but that's in beta and I dont feel like taking the time to learn the api because I dont need it (yet).
That would be a good idea. Just as good would be allowing users to view back what we've submitted instead of just the time/date of submission, topic, and current status. Taht way someone can review previous submissions, and then copy&paste into a revised submission. Maybe I'll take a peek at the slashcode and see all that's involved.
An official complaint, finally. It had to happen some day:)
Word of this actually came out yesterday - I submitted this link to/. last night - somehow it hasnt yet been accepted nor rejected. The article I cite is basically an overview of the complaint itself.
Is Perl 6 going to support the notion of compiling Perl code into Java Bytecodes for compatibility with Java that will allow Java programs to take advantage of string processing provided by perl?
The senator isn't the only one seeking injunction.... this CNet article indicates that InterTrust is also seeking injunction in addition to their lawsuit against MS.
Two different depts at AOL are at work here. One is the legal dept trying to make sure that current policy of only authorized clients use the service. The engineering dept, being separate from legal, are the ones developing specs for an interoperable network. Until that interoperable network is ready, legal will continue to go after unauthorized clients. Because legal realizes their days of going after third-party clients are numbered, they are making sure that they prove to the company that they continued to do their job despite pending changes, hence many employees in legal will have a case when it comes time for promotions, dept budget, etc.
So? No matter what you write in a newspaper or anywhere for that matter, there will always be those people out there that wont understand some portion of the article. The point I'm making is that we here reading slashdot are a very small audience when looked at as a big picture. By having the article published elsewhere in a place that has larger distribution, more people will read the story of what's going on and result in larger bad press for Adobe, but also, and probably more importantly, in more people asking "What is the DMCA? Why is it so bad? Who gets harmed by it?" etc etc. In the end, more people will want to find out more about this case and find out more about the DMCA, which in the end is better than just a small fraction of the population being left in the dark.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, the site has loaded (finally), the actual changelog is at: http://www.atheos.cx/download/0.3.5/base/changes.t xt
Wow -- I didn't realize Slashdot was home to the change log. I would try to find the actual log from the website, except the site close to being slashdotted.
Doesn't that simply verify your statement:
web services and so on DO NOT NEED PASSPORT ?
Hence the reason someone called MS a bait-and-switch tactic waiting to happen.
<OT>As for that Flamebait stuff, I think moderators sometimes don't know exactly what they are doing when they are granted access, hence those few screw up good comments to articles. Thankfully there are enough moderators who do know what they're doing to cover up the bad ones. It's just luck my post wass modded down.</OT>
What this guy has done is actually look at the .NET API and see how it actually will work when it comes time for .NET to go live. He suggests alternatives to using Passport as a form of authentcation through the use of SSL and HTTPS. On the other hand, I still follow from the first article of MS's attempt of a possible bait-and-switch tactic to make Mono incompatible with Passport by having MS make a quick change to Passport and dropping support for Mono.
Should be: http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/
Some moderators, when given access, dont know what it is and oftentimes just click buttons and drop-down lists to their heart's content, hence leaving some very good posts unmodderated or modded down that should have been up, and other errs in moderating. This post, for example, could go either way. I'm either being a troll, flamebait, or insightful. Hopefully I'm being insightful for pointing out troubles with some moderators. But to the moderators that read this, they see an attack on themselves, leaving them to mark me as a trollin flamebaiter.
See http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/01/233218.shtml
I wonder how this is going to take place in the real world if it is ever used. When you get up to 300K ft, everything is obviously a lot smaller than viewing it from an airplane, and locating a target becomes that much harder. Winds at those altitudes will have significant impact on predicting where a bomb will actually land. Perhaps heat-seeking or otherwise guided missles are the solution to nailing a target from way up there.
From my experience, esp. old people can't or refuse to learn.
How can you say that? I work with many people who are close to retirement. There's one guy in my company who is 70+ years old just so that he can toy with the latest and greatest technologies. This guy is well versed on the latest well-established technologies like Java, with AI applications, within CPU architectures. It sounds to me like you're stereotyping a class of programmers based on one bad experience or that line from Moe: "Call this an unfair judgement, but old people are no good at anything."
Example from the real world: Mac OS X is out. But there are still some companies that produce Mac OS 9 software (which doesn't work on Mac OS X).
Within OS-X, there is a program called Classic (during development it was code-named TruBlue). It's a program that emulates the OS-9 environment for a program written for OS-9. In order to use it, you must have an OS-9 and -X partition on your disk. How do I know this? I use it. It works. OS-9 programs work on my OS-X.
Result: They won't sell anything.
Apple developed this Classic environment specifically for older applications and apps that couldn't get converted to OS-X in time for it's release. Result: OS-9 Apps do work on OS-X. Second Result: Products for OS-9 will sell to people using OS-X.
Out of curiosity, how is allocation such a major issue here? IPv6 will allow for enough IPs that every square foot of the earth's surface (including oceans and other uninhabitable places) is able to have it's own IP, with plenty of IPs leftover.
Perhaps /. should modify links to things like printer friendly format so that we dont end up enforcing pop-under ads like the x10 camera or the credit card thingy that pops under the original link.
Several comments in this discussion were modded up when they probably shouldn't have been. Meanwhile others, like yours, have not been modded up because the moderators have wasted their points modding the wrong material.
Now onto my question. ... Are you sure material is stored in a webserver? It looks to me that this is a p2p network (like gnutella), meaning that data can be stored anywhere, and also that presentation would be nothing but a filename on a client program.
Looking at BearShare's homepage, the 2.2.6 release adds a new "Family Filter" that hides "innappropriate content."
I thought of something regarding PGP earlier today in response to the file sharing story this morning:
Develop a file-sharing network where data is encrypted using PGP's style of encryption. Remote user generates a temporary symmetric key based on keystrokes, mouse movements, etc, encrypts the file you want using that temp key, then encrypts the temp using your public key, then transmit the pair to you. Decrypt the temp key using your private key, then decrypt the shared file. Use a similar scheme of things when searching for files and other data transmissions. Naturally we want all this to be transparent to the user and happen automatically. Only problem with this is it is processor intensive and may slow things down because of all the math work involved in encrpytion/decryption process.
Unfortunately, the record companies are probably the ones telling the business people of the ISPs that the only way to do what they want is to deny access entirely. Busniess people not knowing any better, mindlessly have their technicians follow those requests and cut the line of a user.
Or better yet, block the port at which the user is sharing at by using firewalls. This will keep the customer's connection to the internet alive, but it will block a GNUtella client from working. At least until the user changes the active port.
Really? I know there were some libraries available from gnu.org, but I've heard they arent that good. I also know that JDK 1.4 has a Regex package, but that's in beta and I dont feel like taking the time to learn the api because I dont need it (yet).
That would be a good idea. Just as good would be allowing users to view back what we've submitted instead of just the time/date of submission, topic, and current status. Taht way someone can review previous submissions, and then copy&paste into a revised submission. Maybe I'll take a peek at the slashcode and see all that's involved.
Word of this actually came out yesterday - I submitted this link to /. last night - somehow it hasnt yet been accepted nor rejected. The article I cite is basically an overview of the complaint itself.
Is Perl 6 going to support the notion of compiling Perl code into Java Bytecodes for compatibility with Java that will allow Java programs to take advantage of string processing provided by perl?
The senator isn't the only one seeking injunction .... this CNet article indicates that InterTrust is also seeking injunction in addition to their lawsuit against MS.
Two different depts at AOL are at work here. One is the legal dept trying to make sure that current policy of only authorized clients use the service. The engineering dept, being separate from legal, are the ones developing specs for an interoperable network. Until that interoperable network is ready, legal will continue to go after unauthorized clients. Because legal realizes their days of going after third-party clients are numbered, they are making sure that they prove to the company that they continued to do their job despite pending changes, hence many employees in legal will have a case when it comes time for promotions, dept budget, etc.
So? No matter what you write in a newspaper or anywhere for that matter, there will always be those people out there that wont understand some portion of the article. The point I'm making is that we here reading slashdot are a very small audience when looked at as a big picture. By having the article published elsewhere in a place that has larger distribution, more people will read the story of what's going on and result in larger bad press for Adobe, but also, and probably more importantly, in more people asking "What is the DMCA? Why is it so bad? Who gets harmed by it?" etc etc. In the end, more people will want to find out more about this case and find out more about the DMCA, which in the end is better than just a small fraction of the population being left in the dark.