> Escrow doesn't work if FailedCo (or perhaps just the FailSoft product) is bought out by a competitor who wants to kill the product
Surely that depends on the terms of the escrow agreement? Qt isn't rented of course, but Trolltech have taken steps to ensure that the free product will always be available:
http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/founda ti on.html
"Should Trolltech ever discontinue the Qt Free Edition for any reason including, but not limited to, a buyout of Trolltech, a merger or bankruptcy, the latest version of the Qt Free Edition will be released under the BSD license."
> Based on my experiments with a chunk of donut
There's your problem - donuts float better than concrete blocks. Throwing something that floats overboard will leave the boat at the same level.
Throwing something that sinks won't.
Except that Gunter Janek's field is "large number theory, prime numbers, factoring". Ok, that could have been misdirection by the bad guys, but at the lecture we then get "the number field sieve is the best method currently known" and "The numbers are so unbelievably big, that all the computers in the world could not break them down."
That sounds much more like an RSA break than a DES cracker. The EFF showed that brute force search on DES was practical, it wasn't a mathematical breakthrough.
http://members.nbci.com/scriptszone/scripts/snea ke rs.htm --
I'll try it again with subtitles for the hard of thinking.
> You operate a gun.
Someone operates a robot, even they don't do it directly with a remote contol. You don't think all those robots welding car bodies do it by chance do you? No, the car manufacturer set them up to do that.
> A better analogy would be to ask whether the gun manufacturer is guilty of manslaughter
The gun has a manufacturer and an operator, and the operator is the relevent person. The robot has a manufacturer and an operator, and the operator is the relevent person.
(Of course if a gun blows up in your hand on the range because of a manufacturing fault, or a robot doesn't behave as the operator intended because of a manufacturing fault, then it's appropriate to consider the manufacturer.) --
In _The Magician's Nephew_, first (in story order, not publication order)of the Narnia books, Jadis deliberately kills every living thing in her world except herself. "other world" specifically doesn't mean merely another planet, but it's not clear if her world has more than one planet.
And it's a children's book.
> If you are pausing the TV, why are you paying attention to it??
To look at that frame in detail. Is that who it looks like in the background? Is that player offside? Is that ball over that line? It that spaceship really half a hairdryer spraypainted silver (B7)? What is the subliminal message in the Psi Corps advert (B5)? Are they reusing the model from episode with an extra bit stuck on?
If the robots are deliberately programmed to kill people, there's no more loophole than there is in "I didn't kill him, I just pulled the trigger, it was the bullet that killed him".
If the robots are accidentally programmed to kill, and it could have been reasonably forseen, then it's still manslaughter. If it couldn't be foreseen, or reasonable precautions were taken, then it isn't, but waiting to see if some idiot ignores the "Do not climb over safety barrier while robot is working" signs isn't going to make thrilling TV.
Now if these are intelligent self-aware robots that decided for themselves to become killers, then you've got a loophole. On the other hand then we're probably all in too deep shit to waste time watching TV.
> AROS are acting as the "Mozilla" to Amigas "Netscape"
With at least one major difference. Netscape released Mozilla under the MPL. AROS still aren't clear what their licencing terms (if any) are. There are several contradictory statements on their web site, including http://www.aros.org/index-1.html#8 which says "this has to be overworked. Right now, it is not possible to license AROS. Watch this space for further updates", as it has done for months.
It's (arguably) an operating system for a virtual machine. If you run Linux on VMware on Windows, or Windows on VMware on Linux, they don't stop being operating systems. Versions that run directly on real hardware are supposed to be coming later.
There aren't always clear boundaries between the operating system and applications or application development frameworks, especially in a microkernel (or exokernel) architecture.
People aren't entirely joking when they describe Emacs as an operating system.
No, he was right about there being a relatively newly identified one. The five (known) basic tastes are sweet, bitter, salt, sour, and umami.
http://www.salon.com/health/log/2000/01/24/umami /
http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/s en sory/taste.html#Umami
"Umami is the taste of certain amino acids (e.g. glutamate, aspartate and related compounds)."
> The Black Lotus was this mythical thing kind of like the lost continent of Atlantis or something. A few years later, every card dealer at the Con had at least 5 for sale and no one was buying.
I remember hearing rumours of people counterfeiting Magic cards because it was much easier and safer than banknotes.
It doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Blockbuster in the UK does carry 18-rated films, lots of them, but not porn. Mainstream cinemas also show 18-rated films. Those films are probably all R rated in the US, but different standards on where the "adults only" boundary should be doesn't alter the fact that a "not porn, but still adult only" category can work. (Then again, if we had a direct equivalent of R here, 18 might drop out of mainstream use).
(UK ratings http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Guidelin.nsf/Guideli nes?OpenFrameset).
Getting even further offtopic, but never mind. The people I knew with guns at home weren't worried about "yokels" or "peasants", but about junkie burglers - because that was what their neighbours had problems with.
And plenty of liberals _are_ complaining about police overuse of guns. Do a Google search on "drugs wrong address shot".
(And it's not necessarily because the police think they are movie stars, it's because raiding e.g. heavily armed drugs dealers is an extremely dangerous job that makes people nervous enough that the natural reaction of a surprised innocent person to having his front door smashed down in the middle of the night looks suspicious). --
> > use firearms daily in a non-agressive
> What? Do you polish it or something? What the hell other sort of use has a gun than aggression?
Sporting (target shooting), hunting food or shooting vermin, or self-defense (including armed forces and national defence).
Personally I like living in the UK where most policemen don't carry guns, and most criminals don't either, but that doesn't mean no-one anywhere has any good reason to use one. And if you do use one for any reason, practising on a range is a good idea.
Or the estore isn't run by the software's author? The fact that it's on a different domain, with an "e.Stores by beyond.com" logo on it, might be a clue that that's the case.
But there was an incremental development from finding naturally occurring fire, to finding it and keeping it in constantly tended firepots that needed another naturally occurring source to restart if they ever went out, to being able to start a fire with a lot of work and a bit of luck in good conditions by friction, to the firebow making that easier, to the flint and tinderbox, to the flint small enough and reliable enough for a flintlock gun, to the Zippo lighter.
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Read what he said - you have to be owed three months back pay before you can get the "3 salaries" severance check. It's not a _extra_ three months pay. (The UK has a similar system).
And yes, almost certainly the government have already thought of your "go bust every six months" scheme and made sure it won't work.
If MS were prepared to put a second key in for the NSA, why wouldn't they just give the NSA a copy of their signing key?
One possibility is that they couldn't, because the Microsoft signing key was in secure hardware that didn't allow any backup copies - which is exactly what Microsoft claimed. But if Microsoft are telling the truth about that, there's no reason not to accept their whole explanation - since the whole CryptoAPI signing stuff was put in for the US government, it's reasonable that the NSA reviewed it, and that they would point it out if Microsoft had screwed up by forgetting about disaster recovery.
http://europe.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/13/bac kd oor.idg/
"Culp noted that export licenses are granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, but the technical compliance review is conducted by the NSA -- hence the key name."
"Culp says the backup NSAKEY was created to ensure that if the secure facility holding the private key was destroyed by an earthquake or other disaster, the company wouldn't have to replace all the public keys in every Windows system."
I've been there too. The company that owned the company that I worked for got taken over, and there was an immediate 15% head count cut.
I'd just finished a project, so in my group it was me. My manager and his manager left at the same time (and had some choice about it), I'd been thinking it was time for a change (though I was thinking of moving within the company), lots of co-workers told me they thought the choice of who went was poor, and I found a new job immediately, so it could have been a lot worse, but it was still a shock.
The company I worked for after that went into receivership, even though we had a product with good reviews and our (very very few) customers thought it was good. We _knew_ our marketing skills sucked, but there were partnerships that were supposed to work around that. We almost got bought at one point, but the VP who wanted to develop an in-house solution won out over the one who wanted to buy one in (us). Then someone else was talking about buying us, but when they got bought themselves it became clear they didn't have much money anyway.
Something like boo.com's losses could have kept us going for another 10 to 15 *years*, but we didn't have that kind of backing.
So no, doing a good job personally doesn't mean the job won't go. --
> They're just needless noise. There's too much of it.
That's probably what "overrated" ought to be for. I've even used it (very rarely) myself that way, when there are a whole bunch of "5 - insightful" posts, one of which clearly has less to say than the others (and probably has a "karma whore" followup already).
I've also used it once for a post which was rated "3 - insightful", but where the supposed insight was demonstrably false (but it wasn't a troll or flamebait, the guy just wasn't thinking clearly). There were already posts (rated 2 or less) in other threads that made the mistake clear, so just following up would have been redundant.
The problem is that "overrated" is also used to mean "I disagree with this, but know marking it as flamebait will get penalized in metamoderation, so I'll use overrated instead".
Actually I'd like metamoderation to have an option for "mistaken" as well as "unfair". "Unfair" would be things like "this is provocative, but not a troll, and shouldn't have been moderated down" and "mistaken" would be "this isn't a troll, but it is totally offtopic and deserved to go down". "Mistaken" would also cover "the moderator may be a fool, but doesn't seem to be deliberately abusing the system".
Picking up a lot of "mistaken"s would reduce your chance of being chosen as a moderator, but not give you bad karma. --
What theory, and what have the Romans got to do with it?
I didn't suggest that anyone with an empire would become developed, or that it was necessary to build empires to become developed, merely observed that empire building/colonization/expansion was part of _our_ development process (along with the negotiations, invention, and saving, which is why I said "Also").
That rules out "just copy us" as an easy answer for the third world. If have a time machine, maybe you could get it to work for the Romans, Chinese, or Indians.
Yes, zinc sulphide sounds familiar, and may well be what the recipe I had was using.
(Hmm - aha, sulfide is the US spelling, not a typo like zink, and http://www.google.com/search?q=zinc+sulfide+fluoro scope gets rather more hits than sulphide. What is the Encyclopædia *Britannica* doing using US spelling? Oh well.)
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> Escrow doesn't work if FailedCo (or perhaps just the FailSoft product) is bought out by a competitor who wants to kill the product
a ti on.html
Surely that depends on the terms of the escrow agreement? Qt isn't rented of course, but Trolltech have taken steps to ensure that the free product will always be available:
http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/found
"Should Trolltech ever discontinue the Qt Free Edition for any reason including, but not limited to, a buyout of Trolltech, a merger or bankruptcy, the latest version of the Qt Free Edition will be released under the BSD license."
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> Based on my experiments with a chunk of donut
There's your problem - donuts float better than concrete blocks. Throwing something that floats overboard will leave the boat at the same level.
Throwing something that sinks won't.
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> very plausable that the device is a DES cracker
a ke rs.htm
Except that Gunter Janek's field is "large number theory, prime numbers, factoring". Ok, that could have been misdirection by the bad guys, but at the lecture we then get "the number field sieve is the best method currently known" and "The numbers are so unbelievably big, that all the computers in the world could not break them down."
That sounds much more like an RSA break than a DES cracker. The EFF showed that brute force search on DES was practical, it wasn't a mathematical breakthrough.
http://members.nbci.com/scriptszone/scripts/sne
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> Use an analogy that makes sense.
I'll try it again with subtitles for the hard of thinking.
> You operate a gun.
Someone operates a robot, even they don't do it directly with a remote contol. You don't think all those robots welding car bodies do it by chance do you? No, the car manufacturer set them up to do that.
> A better analogy would be to ask whether the gun manufacturer is guilty of manslaughter
The gun has a manufacturer and an operator, and the operator is the relevent person. The robot has a manufacturer and an operator, and the operator is the relevent person.
(Of course if a gun blows up in your hand on the range because of a manufacturing fault, or a robot doesn't behave as the operator intended because of a manufacturing fault, then it's appropriate to consider the manufacturer.)
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In _The Magician's Nephew_, first (in story order, not publication order)of the Narnia books, Jadis deliberately kills every living thing in her world except herself. "other world" specifically doesn't mean merely another planet, but it's not clear if her world has more than one planet.
And it's a children's book.
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> If you are pausing the TV, why are you paying attention to it??
To look at that frame in detail. Is that who it looks like in the background? Is that player offside? Is that ball over that line? It that spaceship really half a hairdryer spraypainted silver (B7)? What is the subliminal message in the Psi Corps advert (B5)? Are they reusing the model from episode with an extra bit stuck on?
--
If the robots are deliberately programmed to kill people, there's no more loophole than there is in "I didn't kill him, I just pulled the trigger, it was the bullet that killed him".
If the robots are accidentally programmed to kill, and it could have been reasonably forseen, then it's still manslaughter. If it couldn't be foreseen, or reasonable precautions were taken, then it isn't, but waiting to see if some idiot ignores the "Do not climb over safety barrier while robot is working" signs isn't going to make thrilling TV.
Now if these are intelligent self-aware robots that decided for themselves to become killers, then you've got a loophole. On the other hand then we're probably all in too deep shit to waste time watching TV.
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> AROS are acting as the "Mozilla" to Amigas "Netscape"
With at least one major difference. Netscape released Mozilla under the MPL. AROS still aren't clear what their licencing terms (if any) are. There are several contradictory statements on their web site, including http://www.aros.org/index-1.html#8 which says "this has to be overworked. Right now, it is not possible to license AROS. Watch this space for further updates", as it has done for months.
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It's (arguably) an operating system for a virtual machine. If you run Linux on VMware on Windows, or Windows on VMware on Linux, they don't stop being operating systems. Versions that run directly on real hardware are supposed to be coming later.
There aren't always clear boundaries between the operating system and applications or application development frameworks, especially in a microkernel (or exokernel) architecture.
People aren't entirely joking when they describe Emacs as an operating system.
--
No, he was right about there being a relatively newly identified one. The five (known) basic tastes are sweet, bitter, salt, sour, and umami.i /
s en sory/taste.html#Umami
http://www.salon.com/health/log/2000/01/24/umam
http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/
"Umami is the taste of certain amino acids (e.g. glutamate, aspartate and related compounds)."
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> The Black Lotus was this mythical thing kind of like the lost continent of Atlantis or something. A few years later, every card dealer at the Con had at least 5 for sale and no one was buying.
I remember hearing rumours of people counterfeiting Magic cards because it was much easier and safer than banknotes.
--
It doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Blockbuster in the UK does carry 18-rated films, lots of them, but not porn. Mainstream cinemas also show 18-rated films. Those films are probably all R rated in the US, but different standards on where the "adults only" boundary should be doesn't alter the fact that a "not porn, but still adult only" category can work. (Then again, if we had a direct equivalent of R here, 18 might drop out of mainstream use).i nes?OpenFrameset).
(UK ratings http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Guidelin.nsf/Guidel
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Getting even further offtopic, but never mind. The people I knew with guns at home weren't worried about "yokels" or "peasants", but about junkie burglers - because that was what their neighbours had problems with.
And plenty of liberals _are_ complaining about police overuse of guns. Do a Google search on "drugs wrong address shot".
(And it's not necessarily because the police think they are movie stars, it's because raiding e.g. heavily armed drugs dealers is an extremely dangerous job that makes people nervous enough that the natural reaction of a surprised innocent person to having his front door smashed down in the middle of the night looks suspicious).
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> > use firearms daily in a non-agressive
> What? Do you polish it or something? What the hell other sort of use has a gun than aggression?
Sporting (target shooting), hunting food or shooting vermin, or self-defense (including armed forces and national defence).
Personally I like living in the UK where most policemen don't carry guns, and most criminals don't either, but that doesn't mean no-one anywhere has any good reason to use one. And if you do use one for any reason, practising on a range is a good idea.
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Or the estore isn't run by the software's author? The fact that it's on a different domain, with an "e.Stores by beyond.com" logo on it, might be a clue that that's the case.
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Aspirin in the UK seems to be used generically, though paracetemol (=US acetaminophen) and ibuprofen have largely taken over as generic painkillers.
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But there was an incremental development from finding naturally occurring fire, to finding it and keeping it in constantly tended firepots that needed another naturally occurring source to restart if they ever went out, to being able to start a fire with a lot of work and a bit of luck in good conditions by friction, to the firebow making that easier, to the flint and tinderbox, to the flint small enough and reliable enough for a flintlock gun, to the Zippo lighter.
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Read what he said - you have to be owed three months back pay before you can get the "3 salaries" severance check. It's not a _extra_ three months pay. (The UK has a similar system).
And yes, almost certainly the government have already thought of your "go bust every six months" scheme and made sure it won't work.
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If MS were prepared to put a second key in for the NSA, why wouldn't they just give the NSA a copy of their signing key?
c kd oor.idg/
One possibility is that they couldn't, because the Microsoft signing key was in secure hardware that didn't allow any backup copies - which is exactly what Microsoft claimed. But if Microsoft are telling the truth about that, there's no reason not to accept their whole explanation - since the whole CryptoAPI signing stuff was put in for the US government, it's reasonable that the NSA reviewed it, and that they would point it out if Microsoft had screwed up by forgetting about disaster recovery.
http://europe.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/13/ba
"Culp noted that export licenses are granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, but the technical compliance review is conducted by the NSA -- hence the key name."
"Culp says the backup NSAKEY was created to ensure that if the secure facility holding the private key was destroyed by an earthquake or other disaster, the company wouldn't have to replace all the public keys in every Windows system."
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> What about Psion who made the Psion Organizer as early as 1986
1984. But did anyone ever run financial transaction software on one?
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I've been there too. The company that owned the company that I worked for got taken over, and there was an immediate 15% head count cut.
I'd just finished a project, so in my group it was me. My manager and his manager left at the same time (and had some choice about it), I'd been thinking it was time for a change (though I was thinking of moving within the company), lots of co-workers told me they thought the choice of who went was poor, and I found a new job immediately, so it could have been a lot worse, but it was still a shock.
The company I worked for after that went into receivership, even though we had a product with good reviews and our (very very few) customers thought it was good. We _knew_ our marketing skills sucked, but there were partnerships that were supposed to work around that. We almost got bought at one point, but the VP who wanted to develop an in-house solution won out over the one who wanted to buy one in (us). Then someone else was talking about buying us, but when they got bought themselves it became clear they didn't have much money anyway.
Something like boo.com's losses could have kept us going for another 10 to 15 *years*, but we didn't have that kind of backing.
So no, doing a good job personally doesn't mean the job won't go.
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> from your home server to your portable device - thus obsoleting any physical storage medium for your mobile needs.
So your portable device works without any physical storage medium? Neat trick.
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> They're just needless noise. There's too much of it.
That's probably what "overrated" ought to be for. I've even used it (very rarely) myself that way, when there are a whole bunch of "5 - insightful" posts, one of which clearly has less to say than the others (and probably has a "karma whore" followup already).
I've also used it once for a post which was rated "3 - insightful", but where the supposed insight was demonstrably false (but it wasn't a troll or flamebait, the guy just wasn't thinking clearly). There were already posts (rated 2 or less) in other threads that made the mistake clear, so just following up would have been redundant.
The problem is that "overrated" is also used to mean "I disagree with this, but know marking it as flamebait will get penalized in metamoderation, so I'll use overrated instead".
Actually I'd like metamoderation to have an option for "mistaken" as well as "unfair". "Unfair" would be things like "this is provocative, but not a troll, and shouldn't have been moderated down" and "mistaken" would be "this isn't a troll, but it is totally offtopic and deserved to go down". "Mistaken" would also cover "the moderator may be a fool, but doesn't seem to be deliberately abusing the system".
Picking up a lot of "mistaken"s would reduce your chance of being chosen as a moderator, but not give you bad karma.
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What theory, and what have the Romans got to do with it?
I didn't suggest that anyone with an empire would become developed, or that it was necessary to build empires to become developed, merely observed that empire building/colonization/expansion was part of _our_ development process (along with the negotiations, invention, and saving, which is why I said "Also").
That rules out "just copy us" as an easy answer for the third world. If have a time machine, maybe you could get it to work for the Romans, Chinese, or Indians.
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Yes, zinc sulphide sounds familiar, and may well be what the recipe I had was using.o scope gets rather more hits than sulphide. What is the Encyclopædia *Britannica* doing using US spelling? Oh well.)
(Hmm - aha, sulfide is the US spelling, not a typo like zink, and http://www.google.com/search?q=zinc+sulfide+fluor
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