I can't say I compleatly agree with this article. In the comercial software world speed is extreamly important. Look at Opera, their biggest sellng point is being 'the worlds fastest browser' and happens to be coded in C++/Qt. While it would be nice, I doubt one could write a comparable comercial browser in python or perl.
Oddly enough, there was no mention of ada as a viable security conscious language.
It's all marketing, or at least hype. Unbreakable encryption is impossible with the current available technology. The only unbreakable encryption that would be possible would be using physics to transmit the message to a specific point and time so only the viewer at that point and time would get it, any one else would destroy the message as soon as it was viewed but even that can be broken if you know where the message is headed.
So what if I don't collect taxes by way of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, H.R of 1997 and Internet Fairness and Interstate Responsibility Act, S of 1998? If I remember corectly, there is also a law (adopted by a Judge during a case) that states that things in cyberspace are seprate from their physical location. Taxes are really out of hand! Take off and landing tax, death tax, good citizen tax, etc...
From what I understood, they got into this mess because of the hired help they brought in to manage their buisness and before that they were profitable.
It doesn't sound like a major problem for MandrakeSoft, just returning to their old buisness ways without the MBA suits... after all, upping spending 400% is rarely ever good unless you have allready made cost back.
I generally can not read an 'e-book' for more than 30 minutes before my eyes getting droopy. This is exactly why I love buying books that come with an electronic version... I can use it for searching up small things while reading the book for instruction. This model makes perfect sense and is a breath of fresh air from the ever-so-closing publishing companies!
This also might spark better translations; It's costly (and risky) to translate a book into another language while it's easy to post a new translated book on the net.
You can also sell Free Software itself. For instance, you can write a usefull program, release it in binary form for purchase, and have the source code available upon request. While you will probably not make as much money as a closed source application, you can keep your morals and make a living.
From reading the blurb from the acclaim site I would say it is not near X rated. While I do think it is compleatly distastefull, I think you can find more sexual content in "Not Another Teen Movie" or "Too High".
We will neve achive on-line voting because the net is (and will always be) to insecure. Even if we made a special network and beefed the security up it still could be exploited in such a way that the boys in Washington would have no idea... or even worse pay to have happen.
Also, look at the fiasco that happened in Florida just recently in the primaries. They had touch screen computers for voting in the counties that had problems in the presidential race and yet they still had major problems. People were confused over (trivial) things like if they touch the wrong face does that mean they lose their vote or even if they should since some people are compleatly afraid of technology. Not to mention the problems they had with the people incharge of those systems (lost votes, systems crashing, and no one showing up to get the elctronic-vote drives).
Since MS pretty much lends it's OS and software to people it should be their problem. Unfortunatly, the law sees it as everybodies problem excluding MS. Remember the Wingate fiascos where people were getting their boxes used as hop points for attacks?
It is very hard for the little guy to start a radio station unless you are independently rich or have backing from a major radio company (say Clear Channel World Wide).
If you have the money then you still have the problem of getting the ok to play the music. Most record companies go to Clear Channel and don't care much about the independent stations.
If you can get backing from a major radio power then music won't be a problem, but misc content will be. Not only will most of the money go back to the corporation, but they also won't let you compeate with their shows in any way. And on air shock? Forget about it, they don't want to pay the fines for a small guy.
Even with this pesimistic view I wish you best of luck! If you get it all going please write up a public HOW-TO for the rest of us!
One of the main problems with cryo is the fact that the human body doesn't recover well from the damage caused by the deep freeze. Since all water turns to ice in cryo cells get pretty badly damaged causing terrible problems.
I hate spyware and addware just as much as the next guy but NeoNapster hasn't done anything wrong. Sure, the got code from some other Open GPL projects and incorporated it into their own GPL product... but last time I checked that was more than fine according to the GPL License.
I still use floppies for a few things. They come in handy for creating boot disks for non CDROM booting BIOS's. They are also the standard for source code turn in at a lot of colleges.
Floppies do need to be replaced with a disk with larger capacity... it just takes all the major hardware vendors to agree on the replcement (ZipDisks? MiniCDR-W? Minidisk? Small Drives? etc...)
Embarrassment is what it comes down to. When the courthouses pretty new wireless system, which they paid a good amount for, is found to be vulnurable to an attack they blame the one who found it instead of the admin who put the package together.
In all honesty FreeBSD as exploitable as any Linux distrobution. Sure, it does not use glibc but it does make a regualr appearance on bugtraq and vuln-dev.
And here is some revised code (joke):
if (FreeBSD == "Security") { pray.fortheworld(); }
If it is truly OSS I'll be extreamly happy. I really want to believe it's open, but other big companies with 'open' software don't actually conform to the open source communities ideals.
It's against the law on some states. Florida, for instance, has a list that the state government has which states everyone who can not be bothered by telemarketing, sales calls, surveys, etc...
While that might not apply to this type of data selling, don't forget that some states are 'Opt-In' states which force companies to have to get you to opt in.
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I can't say I compleatly agree with this article. In the comercial software world speed is extreamly important. Look at Opera, their biggest sellng point is being 'the worlds fastest browser' and happens to be coded in C++/Qt. While it would be nice, I doubt one could write a comparable comercial browser in python or perl.
Oddly enough, there was no mention of ada as a viable security conscious language.
untill I see this.
Steve, don't eat so much!
It's all marketing, or at least hype. Unbreakable encryption is impossible with the current available technology. The only unbreakable encryption that would be possible would be using physics to transmit the message to a specific point and time so only the viewer at that point and time would get it, any one else would destroy the message as soon as it was viewed but even that can be broken if you know where the message is headed.
So what if I don't collect taxes by way of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, H.R of 1997 and Internet Fairness and Interstate Responsibility Act, S of 1998? If I remember corectly, there is also a law (adopted by a Judge during a case) that states that things in cyberspace are seprate from their physical location. Taxes are really out of hand! Take off and landing tax, death tax, good citizen tax, etc ...
From what I understood, they got into this mess because of the hired help they brought in to manage their buisness and before that they were profitable.
... after all, upping spending 400% is rarely ever good unless you have allready made cost back.
It doesn't sound like a major problem for MandrakeSoft, just returning to their old buisness ways without the MBA suits
I generally can not read an 'e-book' for more than 30 minutes before my eyes getting droopy. This is exactly why I love buying books that come with an electronic version ... I can use it for searching up small things while reading the book for instruction. This model makes perfect sense and is a breath of fresh air from the ever-so-closing publishing companies!
This also might spark better translations; It's costly (and risky) to translate a book into another language while it's easy to post a new translated book on the net.
You can also sell Free Software itself. For instance, you can write a usefull program, release it in binary form for purchase, and have the source code available upon request. While you will probably not make as much money as a closed source application, you can keep your morals and make a living.
From reading the blurb from the acclaim site I would say it is not near X rated. While I do think it is compleatly distastefull, I think you can find more sexual content in "Not Another Teen Movie" or "Too High".
We will neve achive on-line voting because the net is (and will always be) to insecure. Even if we made a special network and beefed the security up it still could be exploited in such a way that the boys in Washington would have no idea ... or even worse pay to have happen.
Also, look at the fiasco that happened in Florida just recently in the primaries. They had touch screen computers for voting in the counties that had problems in the presidential race and yet they still had major problems. People were confused over (trivial) things like if they touch the wrong face does that mean they lose their vote or even if they should since some people are compleatly afraid of technology. Not to mention the problems they had with the people incharge of those systems (lost votes, systems crashing, and no one showing up to get the elctronic-vote drives).
Since MS pretty much lends it's OS and software to people it should be their problem. Unfortunatly, the law sees it as everybodies problem excluding MS. Remember the Wingate fiascos where people were getting their boxes used as hop points for attacks?
It is very hard for the little guy to start a radio station unless you are independently rich or have backing from a major radio company (say Clear Channel World Wide).
If you have the money then you still have the problem of getting the ok to play the music. Most record companies go to Clear Channel and don't care much about the independent stations.
If you can get backing from a major radio power then music won't be a problem, but misc content will be. Not only will most of the money go back to the corporation, but they also won't let you compeate with their shows in any way. And on air shock? Forget about it, they don't want to pay the fines for a small guy.
Even with this pesimistic view I wish you best of luck! If you get it all going please write up a public HOW-TO for the rest of us!
Doesn't Microsoft own a good portion of Corel stock allowing them a good seat on the board?
Goldstien (editor of 2600) found out he was being tracked via the toll system in New York a few years ago. It's not just in California!
Yes, one actually exists but it isn't a crazy, self knowing, bot.
One of the main problems with cryo is the fact that the human body doesn't recover well from the damage caused by the deep freeze. Since all water turns to ice in cryo cells get pretty badly damaged causing terrible problems.
I hate spyware and addware just as much as the next guy but NeoNapster hasn't done anything wrong. Sure, the got code from some other Open GPL projects and incorporated it into their own GPL product ... but last time I checked that was more than fine according to the GPL License.
I still use floppies for a few things. They come in handy for creating boot disks for non CDROM booting BIOS's. They are also the standard for source code turn in at a lot of colleges.
... it just takes all the major hardware vendors to agree on the replcement (ZipDisks? MiniCDR-W? Minidisk? Small Drives? etc ...)
Floppies do need to be replaced with a disk with larger capacity
Embarrassment is what it comes down to. When the courthouses pretty new wireless system, which they paid a good amount for, is found to be vulnurable to an attack they blame the one who found it instead of the admin who put the package together.
We all knew that NT4 and NT5 were bad, but when Microsoft releases NT7 in 2019 the world will be plunged into chaos!
In all honesty FreeBSD as exploitable as any Linux distrobution. Sure, it does not use glibc but it does make a regualr appearance on bugtraq and vuln-dev.
And here is some revised code (joke):
if (FreeBSD == "Security") { pray.fortheworld(); }
If it is truly OSS I'll be extreamly happy. I really want to believe it's open, but other big companies with 'open' software don't actually conform to the open source communities ideals.
It's against the law on some states. Florida, for instance, has a list that the state government has which states everyone who can not be bothered by telemarketing, sales calls, surveys, etc ...
While that might not apply to this type of data selling, don't forget that some states are 'Opt-In' states which force companies to have to get you to opt in.
But the trend of Linux boxes that get 0wn3d comapred to the Windows boxes that get 0wn3d probably show a difrent story.
Check out Alldas.org ffor some numbers.
There are two X11 replacements that come to mind .... Berlin and Crust.