This time, everybody on the committee should be required to wave all patent rights to anything that makes it into such an important standard, lest we wind up with another Rambus debacle. If there are a few unavoidable patent issues, then we will just have to wait a few years until they expire.
Well for the first hour or so after the impact, most people milling about on the upper decks of Titanic didn't think they were in any danger either, and didn't want to leave the big, warm luxurious ship to get into small lifeboats on a cold night. The panic happened during the final hour when it became obvious the big ship was doomed.
I hope everybody shows class and doesn't rub his nose in it. It was probably a very hard admission to make. You didn't see Maureen O'Gara admitting she screwed up, incredibly she is still holding a candle for SCO. Rob Enderle just claimed he hadn't been following the case in a long time.
That is why we have a professional engineer's organization. (Which I am a member) But nobody outside of the military seems to demand source code and software design be treated as sealed construction drawings. There also is a professional association for IT professionals, but I don't think they have any legal teeth. http://www.cips.ca/
I am sure the warranty refusal is absolute bunk and I hope you give 'em hell at the trading standards office, and/or local newspaper.
But I have actually have seen a bad Windows NT driver consistently blow up dozens of video cards in a Dell desktop. It seems the video card had some key settings stored in an onboard flash memory. For some reason, the NT ( supposedly didn't happen under 98 ) drivers kept repeatedly writing something to the flash. Why they didn't cache and write only on shutdown I don't know, but the end effect was a video output that was suddenly smeared to hell after a few days of use. A fresh video card would fix the problem for one work week, until its flash was also worn out. So the O/S or at least the driver that shipped with the OS can blow up hardware. ( Obviously didn't happen in your case )
If you play around with your xorg.conf monitor settings, be ye warned that over-clocking it can also fry a CRT monitor, although I doubt it would happen with an LCD/Laptop. ( Worst you would probably get is no video and/or crash X windows )
There are lots of fun ways past a (lame) keyword filter Some suggestions to start: Lenucks Leenux LeanUcks LeeenUcks LinusesOs |_inux Linu}{ L!nux L|nux Linuks Linu>
Or some variant of... TorvaldsOs PenguinOs GplV2Os Free$wIsBetter FO$$
Why should tax havens be immoral? This is just healthy competition at work, where I can choose to set up and operate my business where costs are lowest. Most of the residents these "tax havens" are pretty well off, and more countries are adopting the philosophy and seeing success, so the policy must be working.
Ironically, I would say that China is much closer to the "Capitalist Extreme" you mentioned. There is very little regulation on business, you can buy or sell anything (Including knockoff goods or stuff that is outright dangerous) as long as you do not challenge the government in any way.
I took the political compass test this year, and find I am in the lower right. What you describe is a very extreme form of Libertarianism - following your lead, all conservatives would be extreme facists, while everybody left of centre would be hard line marxists.
I don't harp on microsoft, as long as they don't abuse their dominant market position in such a way to make it difficult for others who don't want to use their operating system.
Carrying a loaded bazooka around in the street is obviously looney, ( But if you are willing to pay to fire one off on a controlled range, have fun!) but I don't believe in reducing everybody to the most irresponsible 1% of the population when it comes to vehicles, alcohol, gambling, power tools, sharp knives and firearms until and unless they have shown they belong there. Obviously there are a few idiots who should not have access to these things, but should we treat the entire adult population like daycare dropouts that constantly needs to be led by the hand by big brother?
How about if they had a hardware dongle that did an XOR (or more complex encryption) operation between the network cards and the server itself? This way IP addresses would never appear in the RAM in unencrypted format. Think how they intended HDCP to be implemented and turn the idea against its creators.
So as soon as a written copy of the court order is received, you run a snapshot to obtain a 2 gigabyte core dump at that point in time. (Probably about a month after the time frame they would be interested in) Would you like the core file emailed to you, or should I print it out in hex and send you the hardcopy?
I remember seeing a big rig transport driving game that has been around for years and had objects in the rear view mirror that bounced and swung as your truck ran over or bumped into objects. I can't recall the exact name of it right now.
Almost everybody here knows the issues involved with closed source e-voting machines. How is this any different? It should be a fundamental right that you or your attorney should have access to any and all evidence used against you, which in this case includes schematics and source code of the device in question. Think about it - is it really any different to say that candidate X won the election because the magic black box said so, versus you being convicted of something because the magic black box said you are guilty - never mind how it works?
BTW, I develop embedded systems software for a living, I have run across strange and subtle bugs before, and I have no objection to having somebody reviewing my work for correctness.
It doesn't have much storage, but it would be useful in a home or office surrounding where you could connect to a wireless NFS server containing your homedir and apps.
Not totally blocking, just throttling it down to dial up speed, so my illicit non-MPAA approved encrypted VPN connection to work will be choked down to unusable speed. I wonder if Rogers expected me to do internet banking sans encryption?
Google Rogers+P2P+throttling for the skinny. I am still with them for cable, but that is all. If you are close enough to the captive office for DSL to work you have choice.
I was with rogers since 2000, and two weeks ago I canceled my cable modem and phone service with them for that very reason. I paid for the bandwidth and since they can't or won't honor their contract then I have switched to an ISP who doesn't pull that crap. Coincidentally, I think the traffic shaping kicked in when they asked us to swap out our old modems - I doubt the reason for the switch was to provide new services as they claimed.
It was rather funny when I turned in my modem at the rogers store and told them why. The guy behind the desk first called it "Techie Paranoia". I then informed him that there was no point in denial, Rogers admitted to doing this. He then claimed that they were under pressure from the MPAA and had to do it. I asked him who writes the cheques for the service - the MPAA or myself? He had to admit I had him there. Things are working out great with my new ISP, and their techs still try their best to answer questions and support me even though they know I am running Linux. The Rogers techs insisted I hook up a windows machine before they would run any diagnostics. Now that they have gotten big, Rogers is becoming greedy and unresponsive, just like Bell was when it was a soviet style monopoly.
IANAL, but I have some small knowledge of the law in this area...
If MS has knowledge that their patents are being violated, yet refuses to tell the violators exactly what patents they are violating and how, aren't the patent claims automatically nullified, since they made no good faith attempt to resolve the situation? If Linus or the OSDL contacts Microsoft and are rebuffed when they formally requests details of the patents in question and how they are being infringed, I would expect they would be laughed out of the courtroom in the best case. At worst, this might be viewed as a thinly diguised extortion attempt.
This is sort of like delivering a copyright infringement notice to a website without telling them what the infringing material is, and demanding the entire site be shut down or pay the claimants whatever they see fit.
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This time, everybody on the committee should be required to wave all patent rights to anything that makes it into such an important standard, lest we wind up with another Rambus debacle. If there are a few unavoidable patent issues, then we will just have to wait a few years until they expire.
Well for the first hour or so after the impact, most people milling about on the upper decks of Titanic didn't think they were in any danger either, and didn't want to leave the big, warm luxurious ship to get into small lifeboats on a cold night. The panic happened during the final hour when it became obvious the big ship was doomed.
I hope everybody shows class and doesn't rub his nose in it. It was probably a very hard admission to make. You didn't see Maureen O'Gara admitting she screwed up, incredibly she is still holding a candle for SCO. Rob Enderle just claimed he hadn't been following the case in a long time.
That is why we have a professional engineer's organization. (Which I am a member) But nobody outside of the military seems to demand source code and software design be treated as sealed construction drawings. There also is a professional association for IT professionals, but I don't think they have any legal teeth. http://www.cips.ca/
I am sure the warranty refusal is absolute bunk and I hope you give 'em hell at the trading standards office, and/or local newspaper.
But I have actually have seen a bad Windows NT driver consistently blow up dozens of video cards in a Dell desktop. It seems the video card had some key settings stored in an onboard flash memory. For some reason, the NT ( supposedly didn't happen under 98 ) drivers kept repeatedly writing something to the flash. Why they didn't cache and write only on shutdown I don't know, but the end effect was a video output that was suddenly smeared to hell after a few days of use. A fresh video card would fix the problem for one work week, until its flash was also worn out. So the O/S or at least the driver that shipped with the OS can blow up hardware. ( Obviously didn't happen in your case )
If you play around with your xorg.conf monitor settings, be ye warned that over-clocking it can also fry a CRT monitor, although I doubt it would happen with an LCD/Laptop. ( Worst you would probably get is no video and/or crash X windows )
Deleted a superfluous word in title for you. I live here in Canada, (once lived in Montreal) and I am certainly not surprised.
There are lots of fun ways past a (lame) keyword filter
Some suggestions to start:
Lenucks
Leenux
LeanUcks
LeeenUcks
LinusesOs
|_inux
Linu}{
L!nux
L|nux
Linuks
Linu>
Or some variant of...
TorvaldsOs
PenguinOs
GplV2Os
Free$wIsBetter
FO$$
Finally:
$u$E SueSee
Nohvell Nove||
UhBuntu, EwBhunthu
RedH@t, RhedHatt
Debi@n, DehBian
Is the algorithm used to pick the best image, or part of an image open source?
Why should tax havens be immoral? This is just healthy competition at work, where I can choose to set up and operate my business where costs are lowest. Most of the residents these "tax havens" are pretty well off, and more countries are adopting the philosophy and seeing success, so the policy must be working.
Ironically, I would say that China is much closer to the "Capitalist Extreme" you mentioned. There is very little regulation on business, you can buy or sell anything (Including knockoff goods or stuff that is outright dangerous) as long as you do not challenge the government in any way.
I took the political compass test this year, and find I am in the lower right. What you describe is a very extreme form of Libertarianism - following your lead, all conservatives would be extreme facists, while everybody left of centre would be hard line marxists.
I don't harp on microsoft, as long as they don't abuse their dominant market position in such a way to make it difficult for others who don't want to use their operating system.
Carrying a loaded bazooka around in the street is obviously looney, ( But if you are willing to pay to fire one off on a controlled range, have fun!) but I don't believe in reducing everybody to the most irresponsible 1% of the population when it comes to vehicles, alcohol, gambling, power tools, sharp knives and firearms until and unless they have shown they belong there. Obviously there are a few idiots who should not have access to these things, but should we treat the entire adult population like daycare dropouts that constantly needs to be led by the hand by big brother?
How about if they had a hardware dongle that did an XOR (or more complex encryption) operation between the network cards and the server itself? This way IP addresses would never appear in the RAM in unencrypted format. Think how they intended HDCP to be implemented and turn the idea against its creators.
So as soon as a written copy of the court order is received, you run a snapshot to obtain a 2 gigabyte core dump at that point in time. (Probably about a month after the time frame they would be interested in) Would you like the core file emailed to you, or should I print it out in hex and send you the hardcopy?
Like the windows only internet monitoring software the US government makes me use!
Sorry, Linux doesn't cut it...
I remember seeing a big rig transport driving game that has been around for years and had objects in the rear view mirror that bounced and swung as your truck ran over or bumped into objects. I can't recall the exact name of it right now.
Almost everybody here knows the issues involved with closed source e-voting machines. How is this any different? It should be a fundamental right that you or your attorney should have access to any and all evidence used against you, which in this case includes schematics and source code of the device in question. Think about it - is it really any different to say that candidate X won the election because the magic black box said so, versus you being convicted of something because the magic black box said you are guilty - never mind how it works?
BTW, I develop embedded systems software for a living, I have run across strange and subtle bugs before, and I have no objection to having somebody reviewing my work for correctness.
It doesn't have much storage, but it would be useful in a home or office surrounding where you could connect to a wireless NFS server containing your homedir and apps.
"Those who would trade essential freedoms for security, will loose both and deserve neither"
- Ben Franklin
Sorry again, found another good link describing the collateral damage screwing up secure email from this policy:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1859/125/
Sorry to reply to my own posting, but here is the link I was looking for:s html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070405/201336.
Not totally blocking, just throttling it down to dial up speed, so my illicit non-MPAA approved encrypted VPN connection to work will be choked down to unusable speed. I wonder if Rogers expected me to do internet banking sans encryption?
Google Rogers+P2P+throttling for the skinny. I am still with them for cable, but that is all. If you are close enough to the captive office for DSL to work you have choice.
execulink, although there are plenty of other mid size ISPs to choose from.
I was with rogers since 2000, and two weeks ago I canceled my cable modem and phone service with them for that very reason. I paid for the bandwidth and since they can't or won't honor their contract then I have switched to an ISP who doesn't pull that crap. Coincidentally, I think the traffic shaping kicked in when they asked us to swap out our old modems - I doubt the reason for the switch was to provide new services as they claimed.
It was rather funny when I turned in my modem at the rogers store and told them why. The guy behind the desk first called it "Techie Paranoia". I then informed him that there was no point in denial, Rogers admitted to doing this. He then claimed that they were under pressure from the MPAA and had to do it. I asked him who writes the cheques for the service - the MPAA or myself? He had to admit I had him there. Things are working out great with my new ISP, and their techs still try their best to answer questions and support me even though they know I am running Linux. The Rogers techs insisted I hook up a windows machine before they would run any diagnostics. Now that they have gotten big, Rogers is becoming greedy and unresponsive, just like Bell was when it was a soviet style monopoly.
IANAL, but I have some small knowledge of the law in this area...
If MS has knowledge that their patents are being violated, yet refuses to tell the violators exactly what patents they are violating and how, aren't the patent claims automatically nullified, since they made no good faith attempt to resolve the situation? If Linus or the OSDL contacts Microsoft and are rebuffed when they formally requests details of the patents in question and how they are being infringed, I would expect they would be laughed out of the courtroom in the best case. At worst, this might be viewed as a thinly diguised extortion attempt.
This is sort of like delivering a copyright infringement notice to a website without telling them what the infringing material is, and demanding the entire site be shut down or pay the claimants whatever they see fit.
Tell Mr. Balmer he is welcome to a portion of the $699 Linux IP license I paid SCO. I hear they sold lots and lots of them.