I've never understood the pretty laissez-faire attitude towards LASIK surgery in the states.
I've read several articles when journalist X went to the mall on the corner and had both his eyes done in a snap! Any everything was all smiles and thumbs up.
The normal procedure on this side of the pond is that after a thorough evaluation you get one eye done. After two followups to check that you everything went well and the eye is healing OK you zap the other eye.
Or as we say: Don't look into laser with your remaining eye!
Ofcourse, I'm sure you can find quacks here too...
Oh, and while we are at it, it fucking hurts like royal hell after the sedation wears off. Make sure to stock up on extra strength painkillers.
Let's say Linux never existed and the *BSDs ruled the opensource world.
Let's say Big Blue goes out shopping for a nice alternative to M$ Windows.
Let's say random-company-about-to-go-down-the-drain figures it's time to make a quick buck.
Thus any project can end up in this exact mess . All open source projects become easy targets for lowlife IP scum as soon as someone with big money starts investing in them.
It's easy to check any code for random IP/patent collisions with your own portfolio.
If you are to lazy to look, you can silently plant some infinging code.
Even if Linux was to suffer from this ridiculous law suit, there is always [Free|Net|Open]BSD, systems that certainly do not include any code from SCO (otherwise, they would be named).
I'm picking your comment at random from all the theres-no-problem-we-still-have-*BSD touters out there.
There is NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING that prevents this mess from happening to the *BSDs aswell. Some oh-so-secret IP from random-ligitator-company may just as easily end up in any project with an open development model.
Yes, the *BSDs where clensed in the beginning of the 90ies from the old AT&T sorucecode license ghost, but this deal is about supposedly *new* IP developed by SCO.
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No, thats the way it is by design.
IETF doesn't standardize anything untill it is finished, complete with reference implementations.
What you are suggesting is essentially just a variation on the whitelist-blacklist theme.
The only thing cryptographic signatures adds in this case is protection against a spammer finding out and using the from address of one of your friends. Which is not likely to happen, well atleast not untill we have the spammer worm, crawling the net looking for addressbooks...
Cryptographic signing gives other benefits but it's not a protection against spam in any serious scenario.
To bad really, the wholy grail of dead simple, spam free e-mail seems to be pretty far away.
And while we are on the topic, thos who think that forced signing of e-mail really works.
Consider this, spammers would just use throw away 'identities' just as they use throw away dial-up accounts today.
Yes we might get to know who they are when they sign up at VeriSign, but we already do, it's not like you can sign up for a dial-up account anonymoulsy and we can se how effective that is agains spammers...
A key aspect of the Tripoli environment is the concept of a third-party certified, encrypted authentication token that would be cryptographically linked with every e-mail message. Within the Tripoli architecture, this token is referred to by the acronym "PIT" (Payload Identity Token, henceforth referred to as "Pit") and is at the core of Tripoli.
It is anticipated that all Pits considered acceptable by the vast majority of all Tripoli-compliant software user would be digitally signed by one or more designated, trustworthy, third-pary authorities who would be delegated the power to certify the validity of identity and other relevant information within Pits.
This doesn't add anything that S/MIME or PGP singed mail doesn't alrady do. And it will fail for the same reasons, putting the public key infrastructure in place is prohibitive.
It worked for https at the expense of creating the VeriSign tax, but the number of https enabled websites are few compared to the number of people using e-mail.
Ofcourse, if we bend over and hand over our e-mail to VeriSign we might finally de-throne Bill as the richest guy around...
You have completley misunderstood the purpose of AIS and STDMA.
It's NOT used to get a fix on your own position. It's used to broadcast your current position (obtained by GPS or other means) to others at sea so that they can avoid running into you.
STDMA is used to share a VHF channel for these broadcasts.
OpenFirmware supports setting up software boot options, configuring boot devices, setting memory & bus options, etc, etc - if the implementer of your platform's firmware wrote in support. IEEE1275 (or what was formerly ieee1275, I suppose) is merely a framework for that. Some people give lots of options in their implementation with pretty menus - others autoconfigure everything. Part of that framework is that add-on cards are supposed to be *self-configuring* - They contain a ROM of code that is called by the system's OpenFirmware at boot time that provides all sorts of useful information to the system firmware. Thus new devices show up in the system's device tree, and if the device's firmware (again, provided by the card vendor on the card's ROM - this is why many standard PC-style PCI cards won't work in an IBM rs6k without additional code support from IBM or without a new version of the PCI card with an openfirmware rom on it) may support configuration routines that the user can invoke.
Oh, so that ROM code included on all PCI cards that plugs right into the x86 BIOS framwork and gives you extra configuration menus and boot possibilities on everything from NICs to RAID controllers doesn't count?
OpenFirmware doesn't solve your problem, there's no chanse in hell PCI card vendors will include the necessary code compiled for each and every CPU arch on earth.
This doesn't even begin to address the superset functionality BIOSes give now for things like ACPI - things which OSes sometimes rely on the BIOS to control but probably shouldn't.
ACPI is exactly what you want, it specifies a virtual machine and the pheripal ROM contains code compiled for this machine. Think Java in a BIOS. Unfortunatley ACPI today leaves a lot to be wished for but I bet that by version 3.0...
Get one of those tuner-cards and display the picture using an appropriate ATI or NVIDIA card. You are not forced to use the limited video output from the tuner card itself.
Apparently about 1% of the readers really understood the judgement, the rest of the comments seem to be more or less random for/against Microsoft mubo jumbo.
Let's go back to the good old tradition of posting links to CNet and The Register for some pre digested journalist speak so that the./ readership atleast has some tiny chanse of understanding what they are blabbing about.
And finally, congrats to Microsoft, you got it your way again!
I don't get the obsession with protecting broadcasts.
Since they are transmitting to anyone with an antenna on their roof (while hoping that you will watch thier commercials), whats the big deal if teenager X records the latest episode of Buffy and shares it on the internet?
The only thing I can see is a lessening of the value of next day re-runs (with new commercials) since whoever missed it the first time it was broadcast can now get it of the internet at thier own leisure instead. And I don't think those constant re-runs of M.A.S.H are at danger, only the most hardcore Allan Alda fans will downlaod that.
I can see why HBO wants to protect their primetime movies, since they are a subscription based service. But according to the article, copy protection for cable has already been solved by that C5 group.
No, this is all about what the broadcasters have dreamed of since the invention of the VCR, regaining total control over the average Joe's television watching habits and killing those pesky Tivo devices that threat to kill their revenue model.
Also the point about noone ordering broadband because there's no high definition movies to download is just bull. The reason noone gets broadband today is because of bad service, crippled bandwith, download caps and monthly fees bordering to extortion.
Besides, downloading a DVD using a 2 mbit/s connection takes atleast 6 hours. Wow! Select a movie at breakfast, watch it for dinner. I don't think HBO needs to worry about competition from broadband anytime soon.
And in the side-scene we have the movie studios smiling with glee waiting for the broadcast industry to fix thier broken DVD standard with laws and regulations.
OK, I can understand a system where they mount fixed accesspoints all over the city and the accesspoints relay traffic to their neighbours over the air instead of beeing connected thru cabling.
But relying on the mobile-devices themselves sounds to error prone, I wouldn't want to be at the edge of the coverage area where I see only a few neighbours, what if they decide to turn of their phones or just move out of range.
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I've never understood the pretty laissez-faire attitude towards LASIK surgery in the states.
I've read several articles when journalist X went to the mall on the corner and had both his eyes done in a snap! Any everything was all smiles and thumbs up.
The normal procedure on this side of the pond is that after a thorough evaluation you get one eye done. After two followups to check that you everything went well and the eye is healing OK you zap the other eye.
Or as we say: Don't look into laser with your remaining eye!
Ofcourse, I'm sure you can find quacks here too...
Oh, and while we are at it, it fucking hurts like royal hell after the sedation wears off. Make sure to stock up on extra strength painkillers.
Correction:
All open source projects become goldmines...
Let's say Linux never existed and the *BSDs ruled the opensource world.
Let's say Big Blue goes out shopping for a nice alternative to M$ Windows.
Let's say random-company-about-to-go-down-the-drain figures it's time to make a quick buck.
Thus any project can end up in this exact mess . All open source projects become easy targets for lowlife IP scum as soon as someone with big money starts investing in them.
Even if Linux was to suffer from this ridiculous law suit, there is always [Free|Net|Open]BSD, systems that certainly do not include any code from SCO (otherwise, they would be named).
I'm picking your comment at random from all the theres-no-problem-we-still-have-*BSD touters out there.
There is NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING that prevents this mess from happening to the *BSDs aswell. Some oh-so-secret IP from random-ligitator-company may just as easily end up in any project with an open development model.
Yes, the *BSDs where clensed in the beginning of the 90ies from the old AT&T sorucecode license ghost, but this deal is about supposedly *new* IP developed by SCO.
No, thats the way it is by design.
IETF doesn't standardize anything untill it is finished, complete with reference implementations.
Heres a good writeup: The Internet Engineering Task Force
What you are suggesting is essentially just a variation on the whitelist-blacklist theme.
The only thing cryptographic signatures adds in this case is protection against a spammer finding out and using the from address of one of your friends. Which is not likely to happen, well atleast not untill we have the spammer worm, crawling the net looking for addressbooks...
Cryptographic signing gives other benefits but it's not a protection against spam in any serious scenario.
To bad really, the wholy grail of dead simple, spam free e-mail seems to be pretty far away.
And while we are on the topic, thos who think that forced signing of e-mail really works.
Consider this, spammers would just use throw away 'identities' just as they use throw away dial-up accounts today.
Yes we might get to know who they are when they sign up at VeriSign, but we already do, it's not like you can sign up for a dial-up account anonymoulsy and we can se how effective that is agains spammers...
From their webpage:
A key aspect of the Tripoli environment is the concept of a third-party certified, encrypted authentication token that would be cryptographically linked with every e-mail message. Within the Tripoli architecture, this token is referred to by the acronym "PIT" (Payload Identity Token, henceforth referred to as "Pit") and is at the core of Tripoli.
It is anticipated that all Pits considered acceptable by the vast majority of all Tripoli-compliant software user would be digitally signed by one or more designated, trustworthy, third-pary authorities who would be delegated the power to certify the validity of identity and other relevant information within Pits.
This doesn't add anything that S/MIME or PGP singed mail doesn't alrady do. And it will fail for the same reasons, putting the public key infrastructure in place is prohibitive.
It worked for https at the expense of creating the VeriSign tax, but the number of https enabled websites are few compared to the number of people using e-mail.
Ofcourse, if we bend over and hand over our e-mail to VeriSign we might finally de-throne Bill as the richest guy around...
Can't we just have theregister.slashdot.org?
Upgrading the Slashdot editors to a RSS feed would both improve the quality of the stories and save VA Software some money...
You have completley misunderstood the purpose of AIS and STDMA.
It's NOT used to get a fix on your own position. It's used to broadcast your current position (obtained by GPS or other means) to others at sea so that they can avoid running into you.
STDMA is used to share a VHF channel for these broadcasts.
Mini PCI express isn't the same thing as NewCard. Go read Slashdot.
Now the Iraqi pilots get get up to snuff in their large fleet of Blackhawk choppers using US simulators!
Beep! Wrong!
Just to keep the record straight: both the control and the data connection use TCP. Other than that the conclutions hold true.
Oh, so that ROM code included on all PCI cards that plugs right into the x86 BIOS framwork and gives you extra configuration menus and boot possibilities on everything from NICs to RAID controllers doesn't count?
OpenFirmware doesn't solve your problem, there's no chanse in hell PCI card vendors will include the necessary code compiled for each and every CPU arch on earth.
ACPI is exactly what you want, it specifies a virtual machine and the pheripal ROM contains code compiled for this machine. Think Java in a BIOS. Unfortunatley ACPI today leaves a lot to be wished for but I bet that by version 3.0...Considering the last couple of days of so called news stories methinks that The Onion has bought itself some prime advertising space on Slashdot.
Get one of those tuner-cards and display the picture using an appropriate ATI or NVIDIA card. You are not forced to use the limited video output from the tuner card itself.
Iguess that rules out the US as a potential new member then....
...do I fit a GeForceFX into one of these babies?
Beep! Wrong answer. Here's what Google tells about this particular urban legend.
Good point, I'd love to have commodity cell-phones to, but I don't want the Microsoft OS monopoly that would inevitably follow.
OK, so I have read the PDFs and the comments on /.
Apparently about 1% of the readers really understood the judgement, the rest of the comments seem to be more or less random for/against Microsoft mubo jumbo.
Let's go back to the good old tradition of posting links to CNet and The Register for some pre digested journalist speak so that the ./ readership atleast has some tiny chanse of understanding what they are blabbing about.
And finally, congrats to Microsoft, you got it your way again!
I don't get the obsession with protecting broadcasts.
Since they are transmitting to anyone with an antenna on their roof (while hoping that you will watch thier commercials), whats the big deal if teenager X records the latest episode of Buffy and shares it on the internet?
The only thing I can see is a lessening of the value of next day re-runs (with new commercials) since whoever missed it the first time it was broadcast can now get it of the internet at thier own leisure instead. And I don't think those constant re-runs of M.A.S.H are at danger, only the most hardcore Allan Alda fans will downlaod that.
I can see why HBO wants to protect their primetime movies, since they are a subscription based service. But according to the article, copy protection for cable has already been solved by that C5 group.
No, this is all about what the broadcasters have dreamed of since the invention of the VCR, regaining total control over the average Joe's television watching habits and killing those pesky Tivo devices that threat to kill their revenue model.
Also the point about noone ordering broadband because there's no high definition movies to download is just bull. The reason noone gets broadband today is because of bad service, crippled bandwith, download caps and monthly fees bordering to extortion.
Besides, downloading a DVD using a 2 mbit/s connection takes atleast 6 hours. Wow! Select a movie at breakfast, watch it for dinner. I don't think HBO needs to worry about competition from broadband anytime soon.
And in the side-scene we have the movie studios smiling with glee waiting for the broadcast industry to fix thier broken DVD standard with laws and regulations.
So, if it really is their second largest show, why would they be canceling it?
If there's anything those corporate execs are good at, it's squeezing every last drop out of something (think Star Trek).
OK, I can understand a system where they mount fixed accesspoints all over the city and the accesspoints relay traffic to their neighbours over the air instead of beeing connected thru cabling.
But relying on the mobile-devices themselves sounds to error prone, I wouldn't want to be at the edge of the coverage area where I see only a few neighbours, what if they decide to turn of their phones or just move out of range.
Sigh! I have run out of jokes about repeat stories... Maby someone else can do better.
Lets make this tread a collection of your favourite repeat stories puns and taunts!