I agree this is kind of ridiculous but so is you calling this a special interest.
This is about public safety (a rather public interest I dare say), not about the special interest of Firemen. They're not saying that it will cost them more money, but that it will cost more lives.
But this is ridiculous because I never heard of this campaign anyway...
... fighting back the internet scumbags all over the planet, vigilante style...
Now if they could just have a cool name, we could have a new hit superheroes movie for this summer.
Any suggestion anyone ? - The League of Net Shadows - The League of Extraordinay Nerds - The Fantastic Fourty
Come on give me something better...
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Simply because none of the format you described is adpated for hardware decoders and DVD players.
Most of those format are too generic to be supported completely. So you need to do what DVD did define a format that is adapted to your needs : they took the ISO MPEG Program Stream format and build upon it, imposed some sane restrictions to allow things like fast forward and so on.
Hopefully DivX did something similar with MP4 or AVI.
It seems that what he proposes is to write new specs for each bogus chip.
1. You would design chip C1. 2. Then you build chips, supposedly as per C1 spec. 3. Then you check your chips against C1 spec 4. if not the same, then you write spec C2 according to what the buggy chip does 5. Now you can sell working C2 chips
In theory that works, except that it would be impossible to write a spec from the manufacturing tests results.
It might work for simple chips, such as Memory chips but anything like a graphic chip is going to be too complex to handle.
Each chip might fail in a different way, so you would have to classify the chips according to how they fail, you might get hundreds of them. If you get chips failing all the same way then its true you might find a use for them, but if they all fail the same way, then It means there is a problem in the fabrication process and I would rather fix the process.
Writing those manufacturing scan tests is not easy, they have to run quickly, be very compact... Each test you add cost more money to run, it might not save you money in the end
They might not read Slashdot at all, but if they do it first thing in the morning, I cant imagine their face when they see the Story.... I would love to see that...
"But Release When 8000+ packages ready" is next to impossible and rather dumb...
Theres probably something wrong with their paradigm(*), I guess they could also release packages individually or in groups,they kind of do that with testing in fact...
Stable is supposedly for Critical Entreprise application, but who in this category needs 8000+ packages, including n minesweeper and x IM client?
Maybe the solution is less packages in Stable, just keep the most important component and apps in there.... Well off course then they will have to decide what make it through and what not, which off course will lead to endless debates, if those debates are not eclipsed by debates on what is free and what is not and if non-free should be kept etc...
-- (*) Off course not i dont really know what that word means...
In Belgium, you can be prosecuted for Crimes against humanity, wherever it might have happened, whatever nationality you have, whatever nationality the victims had.
Thats why Ariel Sharon would not travel to Belgium...
(or so I heard)
I think you can also be prosecuted in a lot of countries just to work for Al-Qaeda (even if your activitied were only in Afganistan)
Also I believe in France there is a law that makes it illegal for French citizen to participate in coup attempts in foreign countries (happened a few time in Africa)
When you mean nobody is listening to the U.N. you mean, nobody is listenning to each other.
Its not countries not listening to the UN, its member countries not listenning other member countries.
Now, the fact that member countries have let the bureaucrats take over is another problem that can be fixed.
The UN is not a distinct entity, like a country, or a corporation. Its whatever his member choose it to be. (And they may not have chosen very well...)
Its easy to point the finger at the UN (or at the WTO) but you should remember that those are setup and funded by members countries...
Its just like shareholders blaming the corporation when they should be responsible for what the corporation is doing.
DNS should be managed on the same principals as USENET:
He who owns the DNS server ultimately decides what goes on it.
I think thats how it happened at the beginning right...
If some wacko ISP decides that, in his DNS server, microsoft.com should point to 66.35.250.150 and slashdot.com to 216.234.246.150 they should be free to do so...
Now, others ISPs would be free not to forward any DNS request to wacko ISP, and I guess not many people would want to do business with wacko ISP...
So off course most ISP would get together to decide on how they were going to manage the system.
ISPs ultimately have to behave so as to make most of their customers (businesses or individuals) happy.
Off course, you could fear that the most important customers (eg big businesses) and ISPs (eg AOL) would crush the smaller players (eg individuals and local ISPs) but theres already government regulations to fight that...
The consensual anarchy thing might make things a bit more difficults (ie: names might point to different address when connected to different ISPs) but thats a price I'm willing to pay not to feel so dependant of an organization (ICANN) that doesnt _seem_ to have any legitimacy. (it may have some, but I just dont see it).
You dont have to, you can just die if physical life doesnt suits you.
Please note that this is not an encouragement. But just realize that hunger, breath, thirst and sleep, are not disabling, they are enabling you to live in this physical world.
We are very much enabled:
If you cant sleep, your life will be a nightmare. If you're never hungry, you'll forgot to eat and eventually die. If you're never thirsty, you'll not drink, and die in a few days or weeks. If you never breath, you'll die pretty quick.
"" most of the time I just don't want all the traffic filling up my mailbox. ""
Indeed my friend, you must be a very casual user.
Usenet traffic is not going in your mailbox. Instead you use another piece of software called a newsreader to go fetch the news of the days(messages) on some newsbox(group) on the news server when you feel like it. And the newsbox never fills up because message have expiration dates. You dont even have to keep the message on your machine if you dont want to...
(newsreader feature maybe included in your email software)
Not true eveywhere, in France, at least one ADSL ISP is offering, unlimited newsgroups access *including binaries groups*.
Binary Newsgroups are now the easiest way to download pirated movies...
Also, Comcast recently outsourced their News service to Giganews - which also carries binaries groups with Divx Movies. You are limited to 2GB/month of News traffic by default (which is more than enough for text only groups) but you can upgrade to bigger quotas or even unlimited traffic for additional fees.
Free Movie : Thats a good selling point!
Well, until MPAA get wind of this and force news server operator to filter those groups... and that shouldnt be too hard for them... oh and yeah I forgot that the anonymity on NNTP is not that great...
Yes, when you predict that every thing and the opposite is going to happen, you are bound to get a few things right...
If this guy started by pointing out the 100s off the mark predictions he made for the 2 that turned out to be vague enough that they were bound to be fullfilled someday, that would shed another light on his article....
I have a prediction for you Mr Malone: You are gonna die some day, I already smell it....
To continue were you left of, the US armed the Taliban and Bin Laden, to Fight the Soviet, some 20 years laters, the Taliban and Bin Laden are the new Evil.
So, who are we (I guess "we" is the Consummer or just the People) helping to fight the Evil MS empire, that will become our next Evil ?
Is Open Source/GNU/Linux/Apple/IBM/Sun the Next Evil we should be aware of? Will MS push internal reform and become our new friend/partner ?
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I agree this is kind of ridiculous but so is you calling this a special interest.
This is about public safety (a rather public interest I dare say), not about the special interest of Firemen. They're not saying that it will cost them more money, but that it will cost more lives.
But this is ridiculous because I never heard of this campaign anyway...
Its a valid word in French...
http://fr.wordreference.com/fr/en/translation.asp
... fighting back the internet scumbags all over the planet, vigilante style...
...
Now if they could just have a cool name, we could have a new hit superheroes movie for this summer.
Any suggestion anyone ?
- The League of Net Shadows
- The League of Extraordinay Nerds
- The Fantastic Fourty
Come on give me something better
Simply because none of the format you described is adpated for hardware decoders and DVD players.
Most of those format are too generic to be supported completely. So you need to do what DVD did define a format that is adapted to your needs : they took the ISO MPEG Program Stream format and build upon it, imposed some sane restrictions to allow things like fast forward and so on.
Hopefully DivX did something similar with MP4 or AVI.
Try "bush vader" "darth w bush" or anything similar in google.
You're not the only one.
Another interresting line:
"So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause"
No no no, thats not the way it works..
Its more like:
" People who drive too fast use more oil, and terrorists get money from oil. So if you drive fast you are helping terrorist"
Did you say sarcasm?
I dont know if I'm smart or dumb, but this guy is so boring....
Did somebody actually read through the end ?
Despites the several reference to "sex" this was neither entertaining nor insightful..
What episode was that ?
Thanks
This theory seem simplistic to me.
It seems that what he proposes is to write new specs for each bogus chip.
1. You would design chip C1.
2. Then you build chips, supposedly as per C1 spec.
3. Then you check your chips against C1 spec
4. if not the same, then you write spec C2 according to what the buggy chip does
5. Now you can sell working C2 chips
In theory that works, except that it would be impossible to write a spec from the manufacturing tests results.
It might work for simple chips, such as Memory chips but anything like a graphic chip is going to be too complex to handle.
Each chip might fail in a different way, so you would have to classify the chips according to how they fail, you might get hundreds of them. If you get chips failing all the same way then its true you might find a use for them, but if they all fail the same way, then It means there is a problem in the fabrication process and I would rather fix the process.
Writing those manufacturing scan tests is not easy, they have to run quickly, be very compact...
Each test you add cost more money to run, it might not save you money in the end
They might not read Slashdot at all, but if they do it first thing in the morning, I cant imagine their face when they see the Story .... I would love to see that...
"Release When Ready" is a good principle
...
... Well off course then they will have to decide what make it through and what not, which off course will lead to endless debates, if those debates are not eclipsed by debates on what is free and what is not and if non-free should be kept etc...
"But Release When 8000+ packages ready" is next to impossible and rather dumb...
Theres probably something wrong with their paradigm(*), I guess they could also release packages individually or in groups,they kind of do that with testing in fact
Stable is supposedly for Critical Entreprise application, but who in this category needs 8000+ packages, including n minesweeper and x IM client?
Maybe the solution is less packages in Stable, just keep the most important component and apps in there.
--
(*) Off course not i dont really know what that word means...
Thats nothing...
In Belgium, you can be prosecuted for Crimes against humanity, wherever it might have happened, whatever nationality you have, whatever nationality the victims had.
Thats why Ariel Sharon would not travel to Belgium...
(or so I heard)
I think you can also be prosecuted in a lot of countries just to work for Al-Qaeda (even if your activitied were only in Afganistan)
Also I believe in France there is a law that makes it illegal for French citizen to participate in coup attempts in foreign countries (happened a few time in Africa)
When you mean nobody is listening to the U.N. you mean, nobody is listenning to each other.
Its not countries not listening to the UN, its member countries not listenning other member countries.
Now, the fact that member countries have let the bureaucrats take over is another problem that can be fixed.
The UN is not a distinct entity, like a country, or a corporation. Its whatever his member choose it to be. (And they may not have chosen very well...)
Its easy to point the finger at the UN (or at the WTO) but you should remember that those are setup and funded by members countries...
Its just like shareholders blaming the corporation when they should be responsible for what the corporation is doing.
-- me
He who owns the DNS server ultimately decides what goes on it.
I think thats how it happened at the beginning right...
If some wacko ISP decides that, in his DNS server, microsoft.com should point to 66.35.250.150 and slashdot.com to 216.234.246.150 they should be free to do so...
Now, others ISPs would be free not to forward any DNS request to wacko ISP, and I guess not many people would want to do business with wacko ISP...
So off course most ISP would get together to decide on how they were going to manage the system.
ISPs ultimately have to behave so as to make most of their customers (businesses or individuals) happy.
Off course, you could fear that the most important customers (eg big businesses) and ISPs (eg AOL) would crush the smaller players (eg individuals and local ISPs) but theres already government regulations to fight that...
The consensual anarchy thing might make things a bit more difficults (ie: names might point to different address when connected to different ISPs) but thats a price I'm willing to pay not to feel so dependant of an organization (ICANN) that doesnt _seem_ to have any legitimacy. (it may have some, but I just dont see it).
I assume that then the vendor would send:
:
encrypt(Kbankfoo, sign(Kself, "Authorize $20 to [vendor] from account 000001 at bank foo"))
to the bank...
But how does the vendor knows that you didnt sent him:
encrypt(Kbankfoo, sign(Kself, "Authorize $2 to [vendor] from account 000001 at bank foo"))
?
And why would you not just send:
encrypt(Kvendor, sign(Kself, "Authorize $20 to [vendor] from account 000001 at bank foo"))
And let the vendor send
encrypt(Kbankfoo, sign(Kself, "Authorize $20 to [vendor] from account 000001 at bank foo"))
to the bank ?
... that Linux was an obsolete design ?
... but in practice ?
If so, I will beware any bold predictions he make.
He might be right in theory I guess
Efficiency is debatable... Everybody is going to define Benefits vs Costs.
I mean, 4x4 SUV are not efficient (MPG-wise) yet they can enable you not being stuck in a snow storm.
Humans. migh not be the most efficient thing out there, but as we say if its not broken why fix it ?
"Why must we hunger, breath air, thirst, sleep?"
You dont have to, you can just die if physical life doesnt suits you.
Please note that this is not an encouragement. But just realize that hunger, breath, thirst and sleep, are not disabling, they are enabling you to live in this physical world.
We are very much enabled:
If you cant sleep, your life will be a nightmare.
If you're never hungry, you'll forgot to eat and eventually die.
If you're never thirsty, you'll not drink, and die in a few days or weeks.
If you never breath, you'll die pretty quick.
So now RTFM stands for ...
Read The F'ing Make !!
"" most of the time I just don't want all the traffic filling up my mailbox. ""
Indeed my friend, you must be a very casual user.
Usenet traffic is not going in your mailbox. Instead you use another piece of software called a newsreader to go fetch the news of the days(messages) on some newsbox(group) on the news server when you feel like it. And the newsbox never fills up because message have expiration dates. You dont even have to keep the message on your machine if you dont want to...
(newsreader feature maybe included in your email software)
Not true eveywhere, in France, at least one ADSL ISP is offering, unlimited newsgroups access *including binaries groups*.
Binary Newsgroups are now the easiest way to download pirated movies...
Also, Comcast recently outsourced their News service to Giganews - which also carries binaries groups with Divx Movies. You are limited to 2GB/month of News traffic by default (which is more than enough for text only groups) but you can upgrade to bigger quotas or even unlimited traffic for additional fees.
Free Movie : Thats a good selling point!
Well, until MPAA get wind of this and force news server operator to filter those groups... and that shouldnt be too hard for them... oh and yeah I forgot that the anonymity on NNTP is not that great...
Yes,
when you predict that every thing and the opposite is going to happen, you are bound to get a few things right...
If this guy started by pointing out the 100s off the mark predictions he made for the 2 that turned out to be vague enough that they were bound to be fullfilled someday, that would shed another light on his article....
I have a prediction for you Mr Malone: You are gonna die some day, I already smell it....
To continue were you left of, the US armed the Taliban and Bin Laden, to Fight the Soviet,
some 20 years laters, the Taliban and Bin Laden are the new Evil.
So, who are we (I guess "we" is the Consummer or just the People) helping to fight the Evil MS empire, that will become our next Evil ?
Is Open Source/GNU/Linux/Apple/IBM/Sun the Next Evil we should be aware of?
Will MS push internal reform and become our new friend/partner ?
What is Satan doing in there ?