Because it's not their box, or their time. This is a university, not Corporate Entity X. The students already paid to be there. They aren't making "works for hire". Regardless of the legalities of it, and I suspect there may be some issues - while patents are almost always required to be signed over to the school, I'm fairly sure that the school doesn't get copyright on works developed by students, else alot of Lit majors would be up the creek - it's morally bankrupt.
Well, it all boils down to what your definition of "public good". I, for one, don't think that "public good" EVER means "let someone else make money". "Limited-term monopoly rights to recoup development costs", sure, but never "Give away revenue sources to industry". How exactly is the public good served by this? Granted, the GPL doesn't allow total freedom - it's more along the lines of P2P sharing. If you want to benefit from work funded by public money, you are required to donate back to the community. Now, the GPL isn't the license to end all licenses, and I'm not a free software bigot like RMS, but I think it (or something like it) should be the norm for public resources.
Handily, CA has decided that they have jusridiction over whoever they damn well please (ref. DMCA cases), so you should be able to prosecute anyone under this law.
Re:Most of the tagged people will be innocent.
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The Eyes Have It
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So where's your numbers? How do you get accurate information about "number of journeys" for cars, anyway?
Of course, it's easy to beat a metal detector, to - for some reason I'm always setting them off - steel toe boots, belt buckle, zippers, whatever. If you're calm and blase about it, they tend to letyou go as soon as they get a localized hit with the wand, so, for example, I could easily have had multiple knives, maybe even small gun in my steel-toed work boots, when all the guard did was wave me on after the wand beeped when she passed it over my toes.
Incidently, the "did you pack your luggage" thing isn't supposed to actually catch anyone (although you never DO know...), it's to make sure that everyone knows that if a bomb or whatever ends up in thier luggage, theres no defense - you've already declared that you know whats in it. For much the same reason that even pretending to have a bomb is almost as serious as actually having one.
Re:Hardly a troll. It's called perspective.
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Attack of the Clones
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Incidently, while Hamill is notorious for making crappy, crappy movies, he does really great voiceover work in animation - as the Joker in the Batman animated show on the WB, and several other things I can't think of now and can't be bothered to find.
Well, the third one is totally unrelated, as it's not an "exploit" except in that you get to make free calls (unless you mean it bills them to some random person, which is still a fairly poor analogy). The second is also a poor comparison - perhaps if they left the flyer on the windshield. That said, I don't see how your real world examples are immoral either. If my burglar alarm was discovered to be flawed, I'd want to a) know as soon as it was discovered by white hats so I can make sure I'm not relying totally on my alarm and b) know how it's done so I can see if my version truly is affected and c) get phones SERIOULSY ringing at my alarm company. I don't want to find out weeks after the fact that there was a known exploit in my alarm, which presumably is known to burglars, and the company didn't tell me so I could go buy a deadbolt. Companies hate recalls. They cost money and don't return any profit. It's very rare for one to be issued thats not mandated by law.
Just FYI, satanism (REAL satanism, not that silly thing Anton LeVey made up) is a Christian heresy, not a religion in it's own right. "Satanism" as defined by LeVey is a philosphy rather than a religion, and is more of a "look, I'm cool" thing he used to get chicks than a real philosophical model.
Unless you mean "tax" in the form of inport tariffs and whatnot, no, you don't. Perhaps when you buy stuff from Australian companies, but I'd imagine that it stuffers from the same technical hurdles as as it does in America.
I think the point is exactly that - you can hear it if you're specifically listening for it. If you don't KNOW that you're listening to a rip, will you really hear the difference? I'm not saying that no one can, just that many people won't. Also, on the crappy computer speakers out there, or most headphones, the distinction is greater. It also depends on the music - It's going to be alot more noticable in a classical piece than a feedback-drenched punk song.
Interestingly, I've seen(heard?:P) many people who claim to be able to do this fail in single-blind tests. Never seen a double blind test, but I can't see how it'd have THAT much effect on the results.
There's a 90% architecturally accurate digital tour of Notre Dame Cathedral thats done using the Unreal engine. It's pretty cool. I'd love it if they released the map:P
Well, at the retail joints where I worked, nobody would have the guts to bring this up formally. The managers I've worked with are just putting in thier time like the rest of us, and are more interested in problems that stay under the bed where they belong than in seeking out more work.
I'm not sure where you live that living expenses are 5k a year. Thats just under 420 bucks a month, which would, with a couple roomies, barely cover a one-bedroom apartment here in CT. Much less transport to and from classes, eating, power, phone, etc.
Because if someone does crack a password, say by pulling the post-it out of the trashcan where the user threw it once they memorized the password, they only have access for 2 weeks until they have to do it again.
Thats why he said it needs to be like OS X - which I agree with 100%. Of course, the OEMs that will be shipping these linux boxes need to support it, and watch that not happen.
Re:Speaking of bruteforceing passwords.
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Pictorial Passwords
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Well, for the web sites with faces, I imagine it'd be trivial to use a script to hit the login screen (but not attempt a login!) a couple hundred times, and then see which faces recur. I can think of ways around this, but the basic flaw is always there - you're showing the correct answer everytime you ask for a login.
It's thea great paradox of network security. You can force users to change them every 2 weeks, disallow "easy" passwords by forcing certain characters, mixture of numbers/characters/symbols, not allowing words in dictionary, etc, but the more you do that, the more likely your users are to just stick the password on the monitor with a post-it.
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It's trivial in perl :P But I don't think that was really the answer you wanted.
It looks like a very wordy definition of any sort of relational data structure, to me. Kind of broad...
Because it's not their box, or their time. This is a university, not Corporate Entity X. The students already paid to be there. They aren't making "works for hire". Regardless of the legalities of it, and I suspect there may be some issues - while patents are almost always required to be signed over to the school, I'm fairly sure that the school doesn't get copyright on works developed by students, else alot of Lit majors would be up the creek - it's morally bankrupt.
Well, it all boils down to what your definition of "public good". I, for one, don't think that "public good" EVER means "let someone else make money". "Limited-term monopoly rights to recoup development costs", sure, but never "Give away revenue sources to industry". How exactly is the public good served by this? Granted, the GPL doesn't allow total freedom - it's more along the lines of P2P sharing. If you want to benefit from work funded by public money, you are required to donate back to the community. Now, the GPL isn't the license to end all licenses, and I'm not a free software bigot like RMS, but I think it (or something like it) should be the norm for public resources.
Mild nitpick: Theres more fibre backbone than you can shake a stick at. The problem is replacing the last mile, extending the backbone to homes.
Handily, CA has decided that they have jusridiction over whoever they damn well please (ref. DMCA cases), so you should be able to prosecute anyone under this law.
So where's your numbers? How do you get accurate information about "number of journeys" for cars, anyway?
Of course, it's easy to beat a metal detector, to - for some reason I'm always setting them off - steel toe boots, belt buckle, zippers, whatever. If you're calm and blase about it, they tend to letyou go as soon as they get a localized hit with the wand, so, for example, I could easily have had multiple knives, maybe even small gun in my steel-toed work boots, when all the guard did was wave me on after the wand beeped when she passed it over my toes.
Incidently, the "did you pack your luggage" thing isn't supposed to actually catch anyone (although you never DO know...), it's to make sure that everyone knows that if a bomb or whatever ends up in thier luggage, theres no defense - you've already declared that you know whats in it. For much the same reason that even pretending to have a bomb is almost as serious as actually having one.
Incidently, while Hamill is notorious for making crappy, crappy movies, he does really great voiceover work in animation - as the Joker in the Batman animated show on the WB, and several other things I can't think of now and can't be bothered to find.
If I were them, I'd wrap the file as it's being downloaded, so you may have MP3s, but everyone downloading off of you gets NAP files.
Well, the third one is totally unrelated, as it's not an "exploit" except in that you get to make free calls (unless you mean it bills them to some random person, which is still a fairly poor analogy). The second is also a poor comparison - perhaps if they left the flyer on the windshield. That said, I don't see how your real world examples are immoral either. If my burglar alarm was discovered to be flawed, I'd want to a) know as soon as it was discovered by white hats so I can make sure I'm not relying totally on my alarm and b) know how it's done so I can see if my version truly is affected and c) get phones SERIOULSY ringing at my alarm company. I don't want to find out weeks after the fact that there was a known exploit in my alarm, which presumably is known to burglars, and the company didn't tell me so I could go buy a deadbolt. Companies hate recalls. They cost money and don't return any profit. It's very rare for one to be issued thats not mandated by law.
1) This has nothing to do with Microsoft
2) There are MUCH better ways to implement backdoors than buffer overflow exploits
Just FYI, satanism (REAL satanism, not that silly thing Anton LeVey made up) is a Christian heresy, not a religion in it's own right. "Satanism" as defined by LeVey is a philosphy rather than a religion, and is more of a "look, I'm cool" thing he used to get chicks than a real philosophical model.
Unless you mean "tax" in the form of inport tariffs and whatnot, no, you don't. Perhaps when you buy stuff from Australian companies, but I'd imagine that it stuffers from the same technical hurdles as as it does in America.
I think the point is exactly that - you can hear it if you're specifically listening for it. If you don't KNOW that you're listening to a rip, will you really hear the difference? I'm not saying that no one can, just that many people won't. Also, on the crappy computer speakers out there, or most headphones, the distinction is greater. It also depends on the music - It's going to be alot more noticable in a classical piece than a feedback-drenched punk song.
Interestingly, I've seen(heard? :P) many people who claim to be able to do this fail in single-blind tests. Never seen a double blind test, but I can't see how it'd have THAT much effect on the results.
There's a 90% architecturally accurate digital tour of Notre Dame Cathedral thats done using the Unreal engine. It's pretty cool. I'd love it if they released the map :P
Well, at the retail joints where I worked, nobody would have the guts to bring this up formally. The managers I've worked with are just putting in thier time like the rest of us, and are more interested in problems that stay under the bed where they belong than in seeking out more work.
I'm not sure where you live that living expenses are 5k a year. Thats just under 420 bucks a month, which would, with a couple roomies, barely cover a one-bedroom apartment here in CT. Much less transport to and from classes, eating, power, phone, etc.
Because if someone does crack a password, say by pulling the post-it out of the trashcan where the user threw it once they memorized the password, they only have access for 2 weeks until they have to do it again.
Thats why he said it needs to be like OS X - which I agree with 100%. Of course, the OEMs that will be shipping these linux boxes need to support it, and watch that not happen.
Well, for the web sites with faces, I imagine it'd be trivial to use a script to hit the login screen (but not attempt a login!) a couple hundred times, and then see which faces recur. I can think of ways around this, but the basic flaw is always there - you're showing the correct answer everytime you ask for a login.
It's thea great paradox of network security. You can force users to change them every 2 weeks, disallow "easy" passwords by forcing certain characters, mixture of numbers/characters/symbols, not allowing words in dictionary, etc, but the more you do that, the more likely your users are to just stick the password on the monitor with a post-it.
I always thought that little thingy was to help you pour out shots. Learn something new every day, I guess.