Google Cache has always operated in at least a slightly gray area legally, in that there's undoubtedly unauthorized copyrighted material available via the cache that authors wouldn't want there if they knew about it. Google obviously is on the up-and-up, and will remove content from cache when specifically requested to. However, with a minimum jail sentance of six months, anything questionable like this may be deemed to risky. Is it possible that Google cache (and anything similarly risky) may be disabled for the.IT section of the internet?
NPR's policy on copyright peeves me so much. I pledge money to them every year, so I get to freely listen to news programs over the radio. Yet if I want a permanent copy (often only available in propietary formats like Real no less), I have to pay extra for it. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it really seems like NPR should have lead the OSS revolution, producing open content even before Richard Stallman did.
Fact: Spectrum is not an infinite resource.
Fact: Spectrum, like every other finite public resource will be allocated in some fashion.
And the cartoon addresses both these points nearly directly. Just about EVERYTHING is a non-infinite resource, and so needs to be regulated by the government to some extent.
People could crash into others on the highway. People could block emergency vehicles from even leaving the fire station. But somehow, we seem to all share the limited resource IN A DYNAMIC INTELLIGENT WAY.
Simlarly for acoustic communication, though a little less so. There's a maximum volume allowed for audible noises, yet we get to talk just about whenever we want, and we don't have to keep a particular audio frequency free for emergency purposes. If a government official starts saying things over a bullhorn in a crowded area, people shut up and listen.
1. This cartoon is a bunch of propaganda from some corporate consortium
Now you're really trolling.
2. This is slashdot, where the average poster is marginally qualified to discuss complex computer issues
Sure. I know almost zero about RF issues. Yet eventually normal humans will have to make a policy decision, and analogies (similar to the one proposed in the story) will have to be used, and it will be the job of those knowledgable to point out the technical problems with specific proposed analogies. Yet I didn't see you address the article linked to in the story at all (another common problem at slashdot).
Actually, Microsoft does offer a security update CD, and is willing to ship it to customers free of charge. But, as always Microsoft has made a mockery of a decent idea. First of all, 2-4 weeks are needed to deliver the CD. Then there is the problem of availability, the CD is not available everywhere (I live in Pakistan, and the CD is not available for Pakistan). Also, the CD Microsoft is offering is horribly out of date. There is no fix for this last problem, if Microsoft starts updating the CD every other week, then people will start asking for a new CD every other week. Obviously, shipping a CD to every customer every few weeks is quite an expense, and Microsoft doesn't want that. So, the Microsoft Update CD is there just for moral support.
The thing about American Justice though... it's based on money. If an individual kills someone, and everybody realizes it, but they have a ton of money, they might have a shot at convincing a judge and jury to let them get away with it. But with companies, once their employees, investors, and customers recognize that they're full of shit, even if the judge doesn't, they lose. Soon someone will take them over, terminate and settle the lawsuits, and make a small amount of profit selling what's left of the value in the company.
I think we should start a new marketing campaign: "who can make up the most outrageous thing about Longhorn and get it printed in an industry magazine or pointed to by Slashdot?"
I don't know if he's clearly stating his intentions there or not.
Personally I think this whole Mozilla vs. Longhorn thing is nuts anyway.
Eh? I hadn't heard anything about the coming browser-vs-OS armageddon until it popped into Scoble's head.
Windows Update may itself be astoundingly good, but the patches sent out over it are sometimes less so. So it's really recommended that everyone spend at least a small bit of time checking community postings to make sure microsoft's fixes are good.
Yes. There's also the caveat that if there are updates that are installed in other ways (my company pushes updates out via SMS), those don't update that file either, I don't believe. I was sort of hoping someone would post an improvement to this, but alas.
BGInfo does take output from VBScripts as well, so it's possible to do some complicated procedure if someone would take the time to figure out the proper solution and code it up.
Just a note regarding 0-day exploits: SysInternals (the people who brought you filemon, regmon, etc) write BGInfo, a low-CPU no-memory way of displaying important system properties. If you do have it installed, you can tell it to display the timestamp of the file C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\V4\iuhist.xml, which should be the last time WindowsUpdate was run, helping remind you to run it frequently.
If you're clearly insane (which you'd have to be to go 250mph on the street, in a car that's hugely different aerodynamically from an F1 car), then why not build a motorcycle with better performance for a lower price? Really, this is either 1) like putting linux on a toaster, you do it just because nobody else has, or 2) it's just a way to prove you can blow huge amounts of money.
No no, extremes are usually bad (eg. see democracy, and tyranny of the majority). A world with only one Microsoft is bad. A world with only one copyright regime (the US's) is bad. A world with Gnome v KDE is a good one. Emacs v. Vi is also a good one. A world where there's 4,000 different electrical socket configurations and voltages, just because people feel the need to be different and unconstrained, is a bad one.
There are just certain things where standardizing around one or two alternatives can be a good thing. You DO have a choice to use something other than TCP/IP and HTTP on a daily basis. But Slashdot is infinitely stronger due to the fact that Rob doesn't have to code to 20 alternative protocols, and everyone can log in and post using whatever OS they want.
They don't have to be a part of the core language or core libraries, there just has to be strong community support and mechanisms for selecting good implementations and everyone wrapping their head around those and sending in patches for those, rather than everybody going off and writing hundreds of alternatives.
Perl 6 will be the community's rewrite of Perl, and the community's rewrite of itself.
And there's no problem with this? I have the same reaction when people tell me that X language now has regular expression libraries available for it. That's great in some circumstances, but unless there's one or two really good implementations of an API that everyone clusters around, it ends up being a drag on the community. Perl has very good built-in strings, associative arrays, and regular expressions, and this is very helpful the community. The community uses CPAN and generally chooses good API implementations, and this is a good thing too. Visual Basic where there's 40 different table widgets, that is a bad thing (at least for hacking-for-pleasure... if it's for work and it's a given that you'll spend day and night with it for several weeks, no big deal).
This article explains the fifth amendment a little more. I think you're clearly right... police are allowed to use force to remove physical evidence from your posession (if they have a warrant), but they can't use physical force or coercion to get you to tell them anything (under any circumstances). So the hard drive can be theirs, but the passwords can not, if they're only stored in your head.
Is it a security issue? At Motorola, Cisco's LEAP is used to try to stave off some of the security problems that 802.11x can cause, but even that has its problems.
"right wing" = attempt at humor. It almost seems like it's a spammish undertaking by a group.
If you really like Plan9, then put forth a little more effort to come up with a convincing argument instead of just stamping "Plan9 rules" everywhere. There are probably 50 floppy OS's and I'm sure every OS marketing department would want to call themselves a "Network OS". Little snippets like that don't help you* and they don't help the reader.
Here's another person, here's a third, these two people may or may not be spamming also (though they're short snippets which fits the profile), and DrSqwid actually got a front-page story accepted about it, which could reinforce or decrease the argument about his trollish/spamish nature depending on how you look at it.
What is with allthePlan9
spam
lately?
As far as I can tell, all of them have only the thinest pretense of being on-topic. Is this a vast right-wing conspiracy?
The page is slashdotted, so it may not be possible to dig into this further, but just based on the slashdot story, this seems to be clearly bogus:
they pay by CPU-hour, not bandwidth-hour or any other number remotely related to the actual number of spam emails sent
$1 / CPU hour is almost so low as to make administrative costs
overwhelm the actual costs. If the spammers won't pay more
than $1 / CPU hour, will they be willing to spend the time to stuff an envelope or even the moeny for the stamp?
How many people are going to fight for a spammer for a $10 check when they fail to pay you?
Spam-fighters can sign up for this service and have a corpus of
100% known-spam to train their bayesian filters and such by, so having untrusted third parties knownly help spammers probably won't work.
(as noted here, it's unfortunately probably not possible to block outgoing messages, even if you were willing to masquerade thousands of different SMTP servers)
And the majority of visitors don't post, many don't read the comments. Just because they use Slashdot as a way to keep from missing important tech news doens't mean they're necessarily sympathetic to OSS philosophy.
I should have been clearer, I was trying to imply RAID + SATA with routine swapping out (to an off-site location if that's what you need). Where hot-swapped SATA drives are much cheaper than SonOfJaz...
More and more motherboards these days are including onboard RAID controllers. With 160GB drives going for $100 sometimes, Iomega won't be able to compete anywhere near the home-office market. Even once you include the drive tray, the it's still a significantly cheaper and smaller solution (it would take 4.5 SonOfJaz drives to equal a modern hard drive).
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Google Cache has always operated in at least a slightly gray area legally, in that there's undoubtedly unauthorized copyrighted material available via the cache that authors wouldn't want there if they knew about it. Google obviously is on the up-and-up, and will remove content from cache when specifically requested to. However, with a minimum jail sentance of six months, anything questionable like this may be deemed to risky. Is it possible that Google cache (and anything similarly risky) may be disabled for the .IT section of the internet?
NPR's policy on copyright peeves me so much. I pledge money to them every year, so I get to freely listen to news programs over the radio. Yet if I want a permanent copy (often only available in propietary formats like Real no less), I have to pay extra for it. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it really seems like NPR should have lead the OSS revolution, producing open content even before Richard Stallman did.
- Fact: Spectrum is not an infinite resource.
Fact: Spectrum, like every other finite public resource will be allocated in some fashion.
And the cartoon addresses both these points nearly directly. Just about EVERYTHING is a non-infinite resource, and so needs to be regulated by the government to some extent.People could crash into others on the highway. People could block emergency vehicles from even leaving the fire station. But somehow, we seem to all share the limited resource IN A DYNAMIC INTELLIGENT WAY.
Simlarly for acoustic communication, though a little less so. There's a maximum volume allowed for audible noises, yet we get to talk just about whenever we want, and we don't have to keep a particular audio frequency free for emergency purposes. If a government official starts saying things over a bullhorn in a crowded area, people shut up and listen.
- 1. This cartoon is a bunch of propaganda from some corporate consortium
Now you're really trolling.- 2. This is slashdot, where the average poster is marginally qualified to discuss complex computer issues
Sure. I know almost zero about RF issues. Yet eventually normal humans will have to make a policy decision, and analogies (similar to the one proposed in the story) will have to be used, and it will be the job of those knowledgable to point out the technical problems with specific proposed analogies. Yet I didn't see you address the article linked to in the story at all (another common problem at slashdot).Yeah, see "contributory negligence".
The thing about American Justice though... it's based on money. If an individual kills someone, and everybody realizes it, but they have a ton of money, they might have a shot at convincing a judge and jury to let them get away with it. But with companies, once their employees, investors, and customers recognize that they're full of shit, even if the judge doesn't, they lose. Soon someone will take them over, terminate and settle the lawsuits, and make a small amount of profit selling what's left of the value in the company.
- I think we should start a new marketing campaign: "who can make up the most outrageous thing about Longhorn and get it printed in an industry magazine or pointed to by Slashdot?"
I don't know if he's clearly stating his intentions there or not.- Personally I think this whole Mozilla vs. Longhorn thing is nuts anyway.
Eh? I hadn't heard anything about the coming browser-vs-OS armageddon until it popped into Scoble's head.Windows Update may itself be astoundingly good, but the patches sent out over it are sometimes less so. So it's really recommended that everyone spend at least a small bit of time checking community postings to make sure microsoft's fixes are good.
BGInfo does take output from VBScripts as well, so it's possible to do some complicated procedure if someone would take the time to figure out the proper solution and code it up.
Just a note regarding 0-day exploits: SysInternals (the people who brought you filemon, regmon, etc) write BGInfo, a low-CPU no-memory way of displaying important system properties. If you do have it installed, you can tell it to display the timestamp of the file C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\V4\iuhist.xml, which should be the last time WindowsUpdate was run, helping remind you to run it frequently.
non-STI = 2.0L, STI = 2.5L.
If you're clearly insane (which you'd have to be to go 250mph on the street, in a car that's hugely different aerodynamically from an F1 car), then why not build a motorcycle with better performance for a lower price? Really, this is either 1) like putting linux on a toaster, you do it just because nobody else has, or 2) it's just a way to prove you can blow huge amounts of money.
There are just certain things where standardizing around one or two alternatives can be a good thing. You DO have a choice to use something other than TCP/IP and HTTP on a daily basis. But Slashdot is infinitely stronger due to the fact that Rob doesn't have to code to 20 alternative protocols, and everyone can log in and post using whatever OS they want.
Perl 6 will be the community's rewrite of Perl, and the community's rewrite of itself.
-Larry Wall- There's plenty more
And there's no problem with this? I have the same reaction when people tell me that X language now has regular expression libraries available for it. That's great in some circumstances, but unless there's one or two really good implementations of an API that everyone clusters around, it ends up being a drag on the community. Perl has very good built-in strings, associative arrays, and regular expressions, and this is very helpful the community. The community uses CPAN and generally chooses good API implementations, and this is a good thing too. Visual Basic where there's 40 different table widgets, that is a bad thing (at least for hacking-for-pleasure... if it's for work and it's a given that you'll spend day and night with it for several weeks, no big deal).This article explains the fifth amendment a little more. I think you're clearly right... police are allowed to use force to remove physical evidence from your posession (if they have a warrant), but they can't use physical force or coercion to get you to tell them anything (under any circumstances). So the hard drive can be theirs, but the passwords can not, if they're only stored in your head.
Is it a security issue? At Motorola, Cisco's LEAP is used to try to stave off some of the security problems that 802.11x can cause, but even that has its problems.
If you really like Plan9, then put forth a little more effort to come up with a convincing argument instead of just stamping "Plan9 rules" everywhere. There are probably 50 floppy OS's and I'm sure every OS marketing department would want to call themselves a "Network OS". Little snippets like that don't help you* and they don't help the reader.
(* unless you're just trying to spam)
Here's another person, here's a third, these two people may or may not be spamming also (though they're short snippets which fits the profile), and DrSqwid actually got a front-page story accepted about it, which could reinforce or decrease the argument about his trollish/spamish nature depending on how you look at it.
What is with all the Plan9 spam lately? As far as I can tell, all of them have only the thinest pretense of being on-topic. Is this a vast right-wing conspiracy?
And the majority of visitors don't post, many don't read the comments. Just because they use Slashdot as a way to keep from missing important tech news doens't mean they're necessarily sympathetic to OSS philosophy.
I should have been clearer, I was trying to imply RAID + SATA with routine swapping out (to an off-site location if that's what you need). Where hot-swapped SATA drives are much cheaper than SonOfJaz...
More and more motherboards these days are including onboard RAID controllers. With 160GB drives going for $100 sometimes, Iomega won't be able to compete anywhere near the home-office market. Even once you include the drive tray, the it's still a significantly cheaper and smaller solution (it would take 4.5 SonOfJaz drives to equal a modern hard drive).