Firstly you need to understand that there is a limit to how far the rest of the world will protect US Copyrights and Patents and that limit is "until there's nothing in it for them". At the moment the US's only big incentive is access to their markets and free trade agreements, this doesn't always work. You can already see the effects of this in Africa where the Pharma industry has had to make big concessions to stop African governments simply ignoring their patents, you can't trade if you're dead. A more interesting example is Asia where you have rampant piracy. The reason why the US has to turn a blind eye here is simply that they NEED Asia for cheap goods for their own economy. You need to be reasonable about IP or it really will become imaginary, this game only works as long as everyone follows the rules. If it gets too biased in your favour, then they simply won't play.
Secondly you need to look at why software patents are different. There are two big problems that software patents create here because of how different they are to normally patentable innovations. One of the big problems is because of the sheer speed of progress and time to market compared to pharma and physical inventions. Pharma innovations normally have a considerable time to market because of the testing they need to undergo, as a reward they get a monopoly for a few short years, whilst competitors are encouraged to find the alternatives which usually exist. Physical inventions likewise have the advantage of a large number of alternative ways of doing things. The problem with software and algorithms in particular is that quite often there isn't an alternative that allows you to perform the same task and maintain compatibility etc. And this is leaving aside the problem of ill-trained examiners, patently obvious subject matter and the problems of patent pools.
Use compressed air instead. The reason for this is that vacuum cleaners manage to generate an inordinate amount of static that will fry your card's chip (unless if finds a good path to earth first).
After the public anger had died down I suspect the US gov will bury this. There is no longer very much "British" left in BP. US shareholders hold approximately 40odd% same as UK shareholders. They also have about twice as many US employees as UK. Basically what happened was BP took over a hoard of the old US oil companies (including some of the old standard oil spinoffs) using money from their old middle east operations. Voilla Instant US oil company.
Science like many other things has it's own internal politics. Unfortunately this can mean that whilst the ideal of science is great, real world science is as vulnerable to the same level of establishment dogma as politics and religion. For example if your beliefs (e.g. not agreeing with string theory) doesn't match up with those who are leading your department the chances of you getting tenure are slim to none. Similarly with funding and access to resources, if you have a hypothesis that the majority of your peers disagree with, you're going to have a hard time getting the funding or access to the equipment you need.
We should always aspire to the ideals of science but remember why the Royal Academy has a motto of "Nullius in Verba". Otherwise, we become as dogmatic as those we sneer at.
Using MSBuild and the windows sdk both free (as in beer) you can pretty much build anything you can in visual studio. We use it for our test building system.
And storing credit card details in this way is in direct violation of the PCI-DSS which as a merchant the companies will have attested that they are in compliance with. If they get caught or worse leak data then there are severe financial penalties.
If you sat in London and hired an assassin over the phone to kill someone in New York, you'd be accessory to murder in New York, not in London.
Whilst the American DA might want to extradite he or she might waive it in favour of a British prosecution because quite frankly it's cheaper and departmental budgets don't always stretch to extraditions well. Also it would be the British police investigating it from this end and also they'd be the ones who have the evidence file. It's far easier to prosecute someone with evidence gathered under the corresponding legal system. It would also be more likely if the witnesses to the fact you solicited the murder were British (it's difficult to subpoena someone in another country).
Have you ever seen backup systems in Star Trek, for example? you haven't. The future requires no backups.
Either that was a terrible attempt at irony or you really really weren't watching closely enough. The Galaxy class had at least two redundant paths for every key primary system.
Interestingly enough the gsa-crawler referenced there is a google search appliance. I'm wondering if they're using it to build their own in-site search. Would certainly be ironic.
No culture is perfect, and unless you import new ideas it will inevitably stagnate. Surprisingly what made your nation great was immigrants and the fact you ended up with such a blend of cultures that innovation was inevitable. Your uneducated Saharan refugee may only seem to contribute cheap labor, but you can be sure as hell his culture and pride will mean he won't be a drain on your welfare system. As for his entire family, the next generation they'll grow up with a blend of US culture and their own and you'll end up with cultural renewal.
The majority of their Macs, iPhones and displays are manufactured, assembled and shipped straight to their destination from Asia. The only parts of Apple that is really American is their R&D and sales and marketing parts, the rest was outsourced years ago.
Instead of looking at the Pound-Dollar relationship you probably want to take a closer look at the relationship between the pound and the currencies of South Korea, etc.
This is really bad advice. If your plugin is not distributed with the GPL software, it's still a derived work.
Mmm I suspect in the area of plugins at least this opens a serious can of worms. If the GCC team write a decent stable plugin architecture with a well documented API and then someone goes and writes a set of BSD header files from that documentation then the argument that it's a derived work gets a bit strained.
If the FSF continue to push that line then we start to move toward the territory of trying to copyright facts about interfaces which after the SCO fiasco most in the free software community might be wary of? Those of us with longer memories might remember how Compaq circumvented IBM's copyright on their BIOS API through clean rooming their interface. I wonder if it's applicable to this? If not, what's different?
I was actually shoulder surfing one of the management consoles of a Laserquest over here in the UK and to my surprise saw Windows 3.x. Given the age of most of their hardware it's probably not surprising. I imagine they can't get the drivers for anything newer (or don't want to hire someone to write one).
Except then you have a lot of students like me whos handwriting is like that of a spider. There was a reason our lecturers required every bit of coursework submitted to be typewritten. You'd also have to make special arrangements for all the students with dyslexia and dyspraxia (surprisingly common in the tech field) who would then have to do the coursework under controlled conditions so as to have the same supposed security of those who handwrote the coursework. Vivas (practical interviews) also test an important skill of being able to verbally communicate to an audience what you're actually thinking, a vital workskill.
Firstly the very nature of encryption with a system like DES means you'd really have to a complete dictionary of all possible encipherings of each signature. If you're using symetric encryption in a P2P context you're probably going to be using it as a session key so it'll change with every connection. This means you'll need a several TB dictionary for each combination even with your known plaintext attack.
Secondly compression provides a defense against the masses of zero bits attack, you always compress the data before you encypher it therefore ruining the lovely long predicatable strings (Incidently compression becomes largely ineffective after encryption because the psuedo-randomizing of the lovely long predicable strings).
Thirdly a new p2p system would hardly use an old algorithm like DES, they'd be more likely to use something like AES which doesn't share some of the known flaws in DES.
I'm sorry but saying Itanium is crap is just flamebait unless you present a decent argument. The Itanium isn't as crap as most people make out, sure it has it's flaws but that's mainly because it was overdesigned for the future. The later generations of Itanium have much improved.
If you want to support innovation remember it was a fairly gutsy thing to do dropping the legacy x86 hardware support from it. The cost performance-wise of maintaining support has impacted on every processor intel's built since early Pentiums.
Ironically as controlled munition that would be admiting it's a weapons. And guess what right is protected under the US constitution... (this is debatable cause the silly framers didn't make it clear) Yes it's your lovely right to bear arms. Whether this defense would work is another matter but it's a funny possibility. Especially as John Ashcroft and George W both support the citizen's right to bear arms interpretation.
Oh yes because this is the World of Deus Ex and we all remember what happens at the end of that.
The WHOLE point of the internet was a DEcentralised infrastructure. A central monitoring point becomes a central point of vulnerablity. Also how they propose to filter and handle that amount of data? The NSA tried tapping an undersea cable once, yes they could tap it alright but the flow of data was so high it slashdotted their monitoring equipment.
Add into this the fact that the internet is NOT a purely American structure, if there are terrorist they'll be probably encrypted and plotting their plots outside of America. I certainly can't see the EU or Russia cooperating in this.
These guys couldn't code their way out of a for loop let alone coordinate this. Nice idea George B but it's unfeasable.
Woo, I am so glad the UK patent office is actually paying attention to the people who this will matter to. A flawed implementation of this act would have meant serious problems like the DCMA has produced in America, maybe with any luck we'll reduce it to something manageable.
If it is implemented correctly then hopefully we UK linux users will finally be able to play our DVD's without worry and our academics will be able to continue their cryptographical research in peace without legal problems.
UDP made me think of another thing with those initials. Usenet Death Penalty. Which simply put is a refusal to accept posts from the server under UDP and eventually a refusal to transmit posts to that server.
The simple solution to this is to remind C&W Panama that their behavior is unacceptable. Persuade the surrounding ISP's to set their routers to drop all packets from C&W Panama ISP section and watch their customers from ISP to go bye bye. Nasty but effective. It's not something that would be nice to do but desperate times need desperate measures.
No I'm not a mac user at the moment so this is not a shameless plug but I do know that the Mac has a hell of a lot of decent software commericial(sp?) and non-commerical(sp?). And for a big PLUS the software is usually just a straight port and so little or no retraining is required. Why do you think graphics departments have been using it for ages.
Photoshop - Yes the mac has it
MS Office - Eww but yes the mac has it.
Music Editing/Sound - Available if you know where to look (my guitar teacher runs her recording studio on a MACOS X).
While the Mac is still a mainly a close sourced OS (some of it is open but the important bits are still closed) it's a prime example of the fact that *NIX is usable as a desktop.
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Firstly you need to understand that there is a limit to how far the rest of the world will protect US Copyrights and Patents and that limit is "until there's nothing in it for them". At the moment the US's only big incentive is access to their markets and free trade agreements, this doesn't always work. You can already see the effects of this in Africa where the Pharma industry has had to make big concessions to stop African governments simply ignoring their patents, you can't trade if you're dead. A more interesting example is Asia where you have rampant piracy. The reason why the US has to turn a blind eye here is simply that they NEED Asia for cheap goods for their own economy. You need to be reasonable about IP or it really will become imaginary, this game only works as long as everyone follows the rules. If it gets too biased in your favour, then they simply won't play.
Secondly you need to look at why software patents are different. There are two big problems that software patents create here because of how different they are to normally patentable innovations. One of the big problems is because of the sheer speed of progress and time to market compared to pharma and physical inventions. Pharma innovations normally have a considerable time to market because of the testing they need to undergo, as a reward they get a monopoly for a few short years, whilst competitors are encouraged to find the alternatives which usually exist. Physical inventions likewise have the advantage of a large number of alternative ways of doing things. The problem with software and algorithms in particular is that quite often there isn't an alternative that allows you to perform the same task and maintain compatibility etc. And this is leaving aside the problem of ill-trained examiners, patently obvious subject matter and the problems of patent pools.
Use compressed air instead. The reason for this is that vacuum cleaners manage to generate an inordinate amount of static that will fry your card's chip (unless if finds a good path to earth first).
After the public anger had died down I suspect the US gov will bury this. There is no longer very much "British" left in BP. US shareholders hold approximately 40odd% same as UK shareholders. They also have about twice as many US employees as UK. Basically what happened was BP took over a hoard of the old US oil companies (including some of the old standard oil spinoffs) using money from their old middle east operations. Voilla Instant US oil company.
Science like many other things has it's own internal politics. Unfortunately this can mean that whilst the ideal of science is great, real world science is as vulnerable to the same level of establishment dogma as politics and religion. For example if your beliefs (e.g. not agreeing with string theory) doesn't match up with those who are leading your department the chances of you getting tenure are slim to none. Similarly with funding and access to resources, if you have a hypothesis that the majority of your peers disagree with, you're going to have a hard time getting the funding or access to the equipment you need.
We should always aspire to the ideals of science but remember why the Royal Academy has a motto of "Nullius in Verba". Otherwise, we become as dogmatic as those we sneer at.
Using MSBuild and the windows sdk both free (as in beer) you can pretty much build anything you can in visual studio. We use it for our test building system.
And storing credit card details in this way is in direct violation of the PCI-DSS which as a merchant the companies will have attested that they are in compliance with. If they get caught or worse leak data then there are severe financial penalties.
If you sat in London and hired an assassin over the phone to kill someone in New York, you'd be accessory to murder in New York, not in London.
Whilst the American DA might want to extradite he or she might waive it in favour of a British prosecution because quite frankly it's cheaper and departmental budgets don't always stretch to extraditions well. Also it would be the British police investigating it from this end and also they'd be the ones who have the evidence file. It's far easier to prosecute someone with evidence gathered under the corresponding legal system. It would also be more likely if the witnesses to the fact you solicited the murder were British (it's difficult to subpoena someone in another country).
Have you ever seen backup systems in Star Trek, for example? you haven't. The future requires no backups.
Either that was a terrible attempt at irony or you really really weren't watching closely enough. The Galaxy class had at least two redundant paths for every key primary system.
Interestingly enough the gsa-crawler referenced there is a google search appliance. I'm wondering if they're using it to build their own in-site search. Would certainly be ironic.
According to this article Vernor won the case: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.ars
Isn't that article from last year?
No culture is perfect, and unless you import new ideas it will inevitably stagnate. Surprisingly what made your nation great was immigrants and the fact you ended up with such a blend of cultures that innovation was inevitable. Your uneducated Saharan refugee may only seem to contribute cheap labor, but you can be sure as hell his culture and pride will mean he won't be a drain on your welfare system. As for his entire family, the next generation they'll grow up with a blend of US culture and their own and you'll end up with cultural renewal.
The majority of their Macs, iPhones and displays are manufactured, assembled and shipped straight to their destination from Asia. The only parts of Apple that is really American is their R&D and sales and marketing parts, the rest was outsourced years ago.
Instead of looking at the Pound-Dollar relationship you probably want to take a closer look at the relationship between the pound and the currencies of South Korea, etc.
This is really bad advice. If your plugin is not distributed with the GPL software, it's still a derived work.
Mmm I suspect in the area of plugins at least this opens a serious can of worms. If the GCC team write a decent stable plugin architecture with a well documented API and then someone goes and writes a set of BSD header files from that documentation then the argument that it's a derived work gets a bit strained.
If the FSF continue to push that line then we start to move toward the territory of trying to copyright facts about interfaces which after the SCO fiasco most in the free software community might be wary of? Those of us with longer memories might remember how Compaq circumvented IBM's copyright on their BIOS API through clean rooming their interface. I wonder if it's applicable to this? If not, what's different?
I was actually shoulder surfing one of the management consoles of a Laserquest over here in the UK and to my surprise saw Windows 3.x. Given the age of most of their hardware it's probably not surprising. I imagine they can't get the drivers for anything newer (or don't want to hire someone to write one).
Except then you have a lot of students like me whos handwriting is like that of a spider. There was a reason our lecturers required every bit of coursework submitted to be typewritten. You'd also have to make special arrangements for all the students with dyslexia and dyspraxia (surprisingly common in the tech field) who would then have to do the coursework under controlled conditions so as to have the same supposed security of those who handwrote the coursework. Vivas (practical interviews) also test an important skill of being able to verbally communicate to an audience what you're actually thinking, a vital workskill.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
When he made that speech we'd not even got close to the moon. You've got to aim high if you plan to achieve anything worthwhile.
Firstly the very nature of encryption with a system like DES means you'd really have to a complete dictionary of all possible encipherings of each signature. If you're using symetric encryption in a P2P context you're probably going to be using it as a session key so it'll change with every connection. This means you'll need a several TB dictionary for each combination even with your known plaintext attack.
Secondly compression provides a defense against the masses of zero bits attack, you always compress the data before you encypher it therefore ruining the lovely long predicatable strings (Incidently compression becomes largely ineffective after encryption because the psuedo-randomizing of the lovely long predicable strings).
Thirdly a new p2p system would hardly use an old algorithm like DES, they'd be more likely to use something like AES which doesn't share some of the known flaws in DES.
I'm sorry but saying Itanium is crap is just flamebait unless you present a decent argument. The Itanium isn't as crap as most people make out, sure it has it's flaws but that's mainly because it was overdesigned for the future. The later generations of Itanium have much improved.
If you want to support innovation remember it was a fairly gutsy thing to do dropping the legacy x86 hardware support from it. The cost performance-wise of maintaining support has impacted on every processor intel's built since early Pentiums.
Ironically as controlled munition that would be admiting it's a weapons. And guess what right is protected under the US constitution... (this is debatable cause the silly framers didn't make it clear) Yes it's your lovely right to bear arms. Whether this defense would work is another matter but it's a funny possibility. Especially as John Ashcroft and George W both support the citizen's right to bear arms interpretation.
Oh yes because this is the World of Deus Ex and we all remember what happens at the end of that.
The WHOLE point of the internet was a DEcentralised infrastructure. A central monitoring point becomes a central point of vulnerablity. Also how they propose to filter and handle that amount of data? The NSA tried tapping an undersea cable once, yes they could tap it alright but the flow of data was so high it slashdotted their monitoring equipment.
Add into this the fact that the internet is NOT a purely American structure, if there are terrorist they'll be probably encrypted and plotting their plots outside of America. I certainly can't see the EU or Russia cooperating in this.
These guys couldn't code their way out of a for loop let alone coordinate this. Nice idea George B but it's unfeasable.
Woo, I am so glad the UK patent office is actually paying attention to the people who this will matter to. A flawed implementation of this act would have meant serious problems like the DCMA has produced in America, maybe with any luck we'll reduce it to something manageable.
If it is implemented correctly then hopefully we UK linux users will finally be able to play our DVD's without worry and our academics will be able to continue their cryptographical research in peace without legal problems.
UDP made me think of another thing with those initials. Usenet Death Penalty. Which simply put is a refusal to accept posts from the server under UDP and eventually a refusal to transmit posts to that server.
The simple solution to this is to remind C&W Panama that their behavior is unacceptable. Persuade the surrounding ISP's to set their routers to drop all packets from C&W Panama ISP section and watch their customers from ISP to go bye bye. Nasty but effective. It's not something that would be nice to do but desperate times need desperate measures.
Well they are still kinda right, while it may have some weight it certainly isn't 200,000 pounds however.
No I'm not a mac user at the moment so this is not a shameless plug but I do know that the Mac has a hell of a lot of decent software commericial(sp?) and non-commerical(sp?). And for a big PLUS the software is usually just a straight port and so little or no retraining is required. Why do you think graphics departments have been using it for ages. Photoshop - Yes the mac has it MS Office - Eww but yes the mac has it. Music Editing/Sound - Available if you know where to look (my guitar teacher runs her recording studio on a MACOS X). While the Mac is still a mainly a close sourced OS (some of it is open but the important bits are still closed) it's a prime example of the fact that *NIX is usable as a desktop.