Brown was facing 10 counts of felony offenses, including grand theft, computer crime and trafficking in counterfeit products. In August, Brown pleaded guilty to two counts of counterfeit trafficking and today received a one-year sentence, the first 90 days to be spent in prison and the rest in work furlough.
It's important to note that he was a "mod chip seller," not a normal Joe who downloads pirated games and then plays them on his modded consoles. The grand theft charge was dropped in the plea, of course.
U.S. law makes copyright violation a crime -- for the distributor. It has yet to pass laws against the distributee. And won't, otherwise you could be prosecuted for buying a plagiarized book at the bookstore.
This is the license in question: MS-PL. The OSI complaints are without basis. OSI wants them to change their name and to make their license compatible with other open source licenses. The first complaint is a joke. The second is an even bigger joke. Open source licenses need to be compatible with other licenses to get approved now? The rule is obviously of recent manufacture.
Plot the industry's margin, smooth the curve, and you will be able to extrapolate to the point where the research dollars cross the profit line. somewhere shortly before that is when moore's law will end.
Because the future can always be predicted from current trends...
I am normally a big Vinge fan, but I wasn't too impressed by Rainbow's End. I thought that the schooling part of the story was mostly silly. Success isn't really about schooling, it's about intelligence. (Although big impressive credentials are important and its hard to get those without schooling.) Unlike Vinge's imagining, high school computer class in the future will be just as silly as it was 10 years ago, just as silly as it is now. Even if the technology improves, the teachers and students will not. If you are a genius poet from the past, the place to learn about computers is not high school.
The technology was interesting and well thought out, but Vinge didn't really have an impressive plot to go with them. He concentrated on characters, not Vinge's forte, to the detriment of plot, which is Vinge's forte.
Maybe I should re-read Fire Upon the Deep and True Names to get the taste of Rainbow's End out of my mouth.
FBI wiretapping rooms in field offices and undercover locations around the country are connected through a private, encrypted backbone that is separated from the internet. Sprint runs it on the government's behalf.
My god, the expense. Hang the surveillance. Why the hell is a private backbone necessary for something like this?
Anybody with SP2 was being advised by just about every support department (I know because I was working with MSN support at the time) to downgrade back to SP1.
Please let us know the name of this support department so that we can avoid it.
There is a need to confirm a breakdown of relativity. It's an incredibly well-supported theory that predicts things on cosmic scales down to the Hydrogen atom.
The Higgs boson is predicted by the Standard Model, not String theory. String theory will be no more testable with LHC than it ever was. It's not even wrong.
No. Microsoft is not "trying to get along" any more than Google, for instance, is "trying to get along." Microsoft is selling software. They are trying to sell more of it than their competitors.
But please, RTFA. The license they have submitted for OSI approval is the MS-PL, not the MS-LPL.
Re-connecting to wireless networks is instantaneous for me out of wakeup (suspend works perfectly for me) with Vista on my new Lenovo X61. With Ubuntu and Fedora it's a pain on the same hardware. And by pain, I main royal pain. I posted about it on Slashdot earlier. I haven't decided which OS I'll stick with yet. And it fails to come out of suspend 50% of the time.
All the same, there isn't much to choose from between Vista and XP. Vista has some rounded edges, I've found, but nothing good enough to put yourself through driver hell for. If your hardware works with it, then don't worry about uninstalling Vista to get XP. But don't be in a hurry to upgrade to it either. It's just kind of blah.
I don't know about this one, but the other story was definitely the product of a crank.
The problem is that Fred Hoyle did some screwy calculations about the probability of life, and everybody likes to quote Hoyle. Especially creationists and the "life from space" crowd. If you can't figure out why Hoyle is wrong yourself (it's not that hard) you can check out Hoyle's Fallacy on Wikipedia.
We've been waiting for XP SP3 for a long time now (artificially delayed past Vista). Now it looks like Vista SP1 is going to come out before XP SP3 even.
Microsoft should stand behind their products and think more of long-term goals (customer satisfaction, etc.) than short-term marketing.
When I was testing Ubuntu (on my X61) the screen brightness did pretty much what you describe. However I was able to use the Power settings panel to control brightness (it would turn it down when I unplugged the power).
Then I installed Gutsy, and that fixed the 4965 drivers, but broke what little control I had over brightness.
It's not like I'm an anti-Windows fanatic. I'm typing this on my desktop Vista machine. The problem is that relying on cygwin for the tools that I need for everyday work (g++, ssh, vim, cvs) doesn't really cut it. Relying on their native Windows versions (djgpp, putty, gvim, ?) doesn't either. And security is a nagging worry with Windows, although I will claim that keeping my machine up to date and not doing stupid things reduces my risk to something fairly minimal.
I recently purchased an X61 and I've been happy running Linux on it. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who isn't very familiar with Linux already.
First of all, Thinkpads don't come with install media. You can make your own, but that's sort of hard if you bought a slimline model like the X61 without a CD drive. The tech support people were ultimately not helpful. They were willing to waive the $40 media fee (Lenovo, WTF?) because my computer doesn't have a disk drive, but it was "too new" for my warranty to be in their database (WTF?) and they couldn't send me the disks.
Still, as long as I didn't touch their initial partition, I reasoned, I could still get back to a factory install. Windows was only a last resort if I couldn't get Linux on there anyway.
The SATA controller had to be put in compatibility mode, unsurprisingly. The wireless worked in Ubuntu when I backported the Gutsy kernel, but the screen brightness control stoped working with the Gutsy kernel. So I tried Fedora 7.
In Fedora 7 (32 bit version), wireless worked out of the box once all the kernel updates were installed (mostly worked that is -- reboot and "modprobe -r iwl4965; modprobe iwl4965" often).
I can't get sound working even with the CVS copy of the "patch_analog.c" from alsa cvs copied into the alsa driver source. Others have had more success with this.
Suspend (often) works after following the instructions for a T61 linked from here. Of course, 50% of the time the machine will crash coming out of suspend, so I'm going to try the instructions here and see how it goes.
I haven't even tried to get all the keyboard function buttons working.
It's my faul, actually. Some years ago when I first used Ubuntu, I submitted a bug report about the lousy error message that you get when you double-click on an MP3 -- it was some technical mumbo-jumbo. The bug got kicked around a bit and the resolution was what you see now.
It depends on your needs as an organization. There are risks either way. In general, a security disaster is a bigger problem than a patch problem. Cleanup after a security incident is expensive and you can't always fix everything. Once sensitive data is stolen, it can't be unstolen.
You need to weigh the risk of downtime due to failed patches against the security risk. This will also depend on the nature of your backup and redundancy plan. How long does it take to restore a system from backup after a failed patch? What is the nature of your redundant systems in case of a major software failure on your main systems? How much does downtime cost you?
The ultimate, though expensive, solution is to automatically patch and to have an instant fail-over ready, either through clustering or some other means. You therefore reduce security risk and patch risks. Whether that is realistic or not depends on budgets and uptime needs. In a lot of situations, restoring from backups is acceptable, and in that case automatic updates combined with a decent backup solution would be fine.
If failover is impossible and downtime is unacceptable, then the only real solution is to test, patch, and pray. With the emphasis on the last.
Is there any reason that large projects can't require all new patches to be GPLv3, while leaving the old code GPLv2? After all, the old code has already been released, so it's not like it can be un-GPLv2'd.
The "took longer to shut down" messages are from Windows itself. They're exactly what you get from the Performance Center. It's actually very useful when you're trying to find out which applications are making your startup or shutdown times go slow. It's something that Vista has done right, actually.
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It's important to note that he was a "mod chip seller," not a normal Joe who downloads pirated games and then plays them on his modded consoles. The grand theft charge was dropped in the plea, of course.
U.S. law makes copyright violation a crime -- for the distributor. It has yet to pass laws against the distributee. And won't, otherwise you could be prosecuted for buying a plagiarized book at the bookstore.
This is the license in question: MS-PL. The OSI complaints are without basis. OSI wants them to change their name and to make their license compatible with other open source licenses. The first complaint is a joke. The second is an even bigger joke. Open source licenses need to be compatible with other licenses to get approved now? The rule is obviously of recent manufacture.
I enjoy the 2d Metroid games a lot. The 3d games range from horrible (3d on the DS, what the hell?) to "Meh."
In my opinion, the 3d games ruined the franchise. They turned Metroid into Zelda in space.
Zelda itself didn't fare too well in the 3d transition. Playing Minish cap on my Gameboy reminded me just how good things used to be.
I am normally a big Vinge fan, but I wasn't too impressed by Rainbow's End. I thought that the schooling part of the story was mostly silly. Success isn't really about schooling, it's about intelligence. (Although big impressive credentials are important and its hard to get those without schooling.) Unlike Vinge's imagining, high school computer class in the future will be just as silly as it was 10 years ago, just as silly as it is now. Even if the technology improves, the teachers and students will not. If you are a genius poet from the past, the place to learn about computers is not high school.
The technology was interesting and well thought out, but Vinge didn't really have an impressive plot to go with them. He concentrated on characters, not Vinge's forte, to the detriment of plot, which is Vinge's forte.
Maybe I should re-read Fire Upon the Deep and True Names to get the taste of Rainbow's End out of my mouth.
There is a need to confirm a breakdown of relativity. It's an incredibly well-supported theory that predicts things on cosmic scales down to the Hydrogen atom.
The Higgs boson is predicted by the Standard Model, not String theory. String theory will be no more testable with LHC than it ever was. It's not even wrong.
That post was useless without numbers. Exactly how big is the EITC in comparison state, local, and payroll taxes?
No. Microsoft is not "trying to get along" any more than Google, for instance, is "trying to get along." Microsoft is selling software. They are trying to sell more of it than their competitors.
But please, RTFA. The license they have submitted for OSI approval is the MS-PL, not the MS-LPL.
Re-connecting to wireless networks is instantaneous for me out of wakeup (suspend works perfectly for me) with Vista on my new Lenovo X61. With Ubuntu and Fedora it's a pain on the same hardware. And by pain, I main royal pain. I posted about it on Slashdot earlier. I haven't decided which OS I'll stick with yet. And it fails to come out of suspend 50% of the time.
All the same, there isn't much to choose from between Vista and XP. Vista has some rounded edges, I've found, but nothing good enough to put yourself through driver hell for. If your hardware works with it, then don't worry about uninstalling Vista to get XP. But don't be in a hurry to upgrade to it either. It's just kind of blah.
I don't know about this one, but the other story was definitely the product of a crank.
The problem is that Fred Hoyle did some screwy calculations about the probability of life, and everybody likes to quote Hoyle. Especially creationists and the "life from space" crowd. If you can't figure out why Hoyle is wrong yourself (it's not that hard) you can check out Hoyle's Fallacy on Wikipedia.
But it is a viral license, and companies shouldn't use it in their proprietary software products.
We've been waiting for XP SP3 for a long time now (artificially delayed past Vista). Now it looks like Vista SP1 is going to come out before XP SP3 even.
Microsoft should stand behind their products and think more of long-term goals (customer satisfaction, etc.) than short-term marketing.
When I was testing Ubuntu (on my X61) the screen brightness did pretty much what you describe. However I was able to use the Power settings panel to control brightness (it would turn it down when I unplugged the power).
Then I installed Gutsy, and that fixed the 4965 drivers, but broke what little control I had over brightness.
It's not like I'm an anti-Windows fanatic. I'm typing this on my desktop Vista machine. The problem is that relying on cygwin for the tools that I need for everyday work (g++, ssh, vim, cvs) doesn't really cut it. Relying on their native Windows versions (djgpp, putty, gvim, ?) doesn't either. And security is a nagging worry with Windows, although I will claim that keeping my machine up to date and not doing stupid things reduces my risk to something fairly minimal.
I recently purchased an X61 and I've been happy running Linux on it. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who isn't very familiar with Linux already.
First of all, Thinkpads don't come with install media. You can make your own, but that's sort of hard if you bought a slimline model like the X61 without a CD drive. The tech support people were ultimately not helpful. They were willing to waive the $40 media fee (Lenovo, WTF?) because my computer doesn't have a disk drive, but it was "too new" for my warranty to be in their database (WTF?) and they couldn't send me the disks.
Still, as long as I didn't touch their initial partition, I reasoned, I could still get back to a factory install. Windows was only a last resort if I couldn't get Linux on there anyway.
The SATA controller had to be put in compatibility mode, unsurprisingly. The wireless worked in Ubuntu when I backported the Gutsy kernel, but the screen brightness control stoped working with the Gutsy kernel. So I tried Fedora 7.
In Fedora 7 (32 bit version), wireless worked out of the box once all the kernel updates were installed (mostly worked that is -- reboot and "modprobe -r iwl4965; modprobe iwl4965" often).
I can't get sound working even with the CVS copy of the "patch_analog.c" from alsa cvs copied into the alsa driver source. Others have had more success with this.
Suspend (often) works after following the instructions for a T61 linked from here. Of course, 50% of the time the machine will crash coming out of suspend, so I'm going to try the instructions here and see how it goes.
I haven't even tried to get all the keyboard function buttons working.
Yes. You're a thief. A felon too, judging by the amount you just reported.
It's my faul, actually. Some years ago when I first used Ubuntu, I submitted a bug report about the lousy error message that you get when you double-click on an MP3 -- it was some technical mumbo-jumbo. The bug got kicked around a bit and the resolution was what you see now.
It depends on your needs as an organization. There are risks either way. In general, a security disaster is a bigger problem than a patch problem. Cleanup after a security incident is expensive and you can't always fix everything. Once sensitive data is stolen, it can't be unstolen.
You need to weigh the risk of downtime due to failed patches against the security risk. This will also depend on the nature of your backup and redundancy plan. How long does it take to restore a system from backup after a failed patch? What is the nature of your redundant systems in case of a major software failure on your main systems? How much does downtime cost you?
The ultimate, though expensive, solution is to automatically patch and to have an instant fail-over ready, either through clustering or some other means. You therefore reduce security risk and patch risks. Whether that is realistic or not depends on budgets and uptime needs. In a lot of situations, restoring from backups is acceptable, and in that case automatic updates combined with a decent backup solution would be fine.
If failover is impossible and downtime is unacceptable, then the only real solution is to test, patch, and pray. With the emphasis on the last.
The uninstall button appears when you click on the application you want to uninstall.
Is there any reason that large projects can't require all new patches to be GPLv3, while leaving the old code GPLv2? After all, the old code has already been released, so it's not like it can be un-GPLv2'd.
Vista UAC blocks it, interestingly enough.
The "took longer to shut down" messages are from Windows itself. They're exactly what you get from the Performance Center. It's actually very useful when you're trying to find out which applications are making your startup or shutdown times go slow. It's something that Vista has done right, actually.