I want to know if linus kept the copyright and trade mark when he released Linux under GPL.If he did and choses to be nasty then may be SCO could be in for copyright violation and unauthorised trademark use.
Just one thing surprises me that the supreme court says it's a state matter.The World over the rights of the citizen entitle him/her to equality before the law.This is certainly not the case in US where the same crime in different states can often carry unequal punishments.What do people from US think about this?
I am absolutely surprised to read about the state of service in US.Here in UK teh service is absolutely wonderful.Even the cheapest provider T-Mobile has very good signal strength whereas O2,Vodafone and Orange often can be used in basements and stairwells.
Half-a-dozen kids sit huddled in front of a personal computer concentrating hard to grasp everything that the face on the monitor is saying.
The tiny kiosk, where these kids are sitting, does not boast of any specialised equipment or high bandwidth. It has just one PC and one Web cam.
Yet every day, children crowd this kiosk to interact with their teacher Meena, who is based in far-off Chennai.
Belonging to Ulakapichanpatti - a small village in Tamil Nadu - and coming from low-income, uneducated families, the face on the monitor is their only saviour.
An innovative software - Oops I see - developed by the engineers of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chennai-based Oops Private Ltd, allows these village kids to take tuitions through video conferencing on an Internet connection with bandwidth as low as 20 kbps.
Origin of an idea
The idea to develop an audio video messenger that works on low bandwidth was born six years ago when Karthik Ayyar decided to return to India, giving up his lucrative career in the United States. Ayyar, who did his BS in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, also worked for a couple of years with Unifys.
While pondering on whether to use the ATM protocol (Asynchronous Transfer Mode Protocol) or TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) for the 'product,' one of Ayyar's friends told him that the video conferencing on TCP/IP would certainly take off.
"That was when I decided to work on it," he recollected.
Armed with this unique proposal, Ayyar approached Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT-Madras. Intrigued by the video-conferencing plan, Jhunjhunwala offered to put up a team to work on the idea.
Devendra Jalihal, associate professor at the IIT Madras and an expert in audio compression, was in charge of the research. His colleague Professor R Arvind also joined the team.
This was in 1996-97, and people had only started talking about video conferencing. It was then believed that for good video conferencing, you need a fast computer, a good camera and bandwidth. But all three were expensive in India and 'good' bandwidth just did not exist.
Jalihal admits that had it not been for Ayyar, whose idea it was to develop a software solution that would enable audio-video transmission through low bandwidth, the team would have gone for a developer PC plug-in card.
"In the last six years, we have been trying to develop a tool that will take computer use beyond the keyboard. Since the keyboard is English-oriented, we wanted to develop an audio-visual or some other tools like pen, which can be used instead of the keyboard. Some of our initiatives took off, while some fell flat. But our effort to make audio-visual communication possible on dial-up lines was successful," says Jalihal.
The 'Oops I see' software not only works on low bandwidth, but functions much better than any other broadband solution, the developers claimed.
The software helps one to hold point-to-point, point-to-multiple and multiple-to-point and even multi-point video conferencing through a normal dial-up telephone connection, they added.
Unfortunately, Ayyar failed to find a market for a product that is '100 per cent Indian.'
The turning point
The big moment finally came when the Oops I see team was asked to hold a demonstration of their product in front of an august audience at the national conference on communication and computer networking held in Bangalore.
The video conference went smoothly as the girl who was in charge of the village kiosk successfully communicated with those present in Chennai.
Both Ayyar and Professor Jalihal admit that this particular demonstration was the turning point and the technology soon received wide acceptance.
Today, 150 villages use this technology on a daily basis and more than 500 villages would soon come into th
Since the laws require a licence for any body to run a radio station,UK and more commonly London have a lot of pirate radio stations mainly in the FM band.
Take your radio and scan and you can listen to latin,salsa,spanish,french,grunge,garage,hip-hop...almost everything on earth.In fact some of the more popular pirate stations have made it mainstream.
So this is no big deal except that you cant buy this little gizmo anymore in the high street.
As an Entity RIAA doesnt have same rights as human beings.All its actions against copyright infringement must be reasonable.
Here in UK,a farmer who shot dead a burglar in his farmhouse received a 5 year sentence for manslaughter even though he had been repeatedly burgled and threatened.His plea of self defence was accepted but even then he was jailed for use of excessive force.
The point i am making is that Riaa has to use minimum and justifiable means to ensure compliance.This they dont do and hence they deliberately target people who they know cant go to a court of law and show the riaa's abusive and unreasonable methods of copyright enforcement.
You seem to be an uninformed idiot.
1.30 rupees wont buy you a meal for ONE even from a Street vendor.Thjst's from Personal experience.
2.The cost for the ID cards is covered by the government.repeat after me: by the government. which is considerably cheaper than printing ballot papers for 900 plus candidates.
3.what makes you think 800,000 machines are not enough for the electorate of india to vote?done any thinking abt it?wanna show us your calculations?maybe the election commission have decided these figures because of their considerable expertise in conduting elections for the last 50 years.
4.BTW the electorate of no country is 100% of its population.Its more likely 600,000,000 in case of india.
5.What is this discrimination you are talking about?do you have any idea what's happening or you just decided this was what was going on.IIRC its the Backward classes in India which are the biggest powerblock in India,who decide who gets to form the govt.
In future perhaps you would prefer to get your facts right before airing them all over.Remember just because you think so isnt going to make it so.
What is the main purspose of SPAM?To sell something or to direct you to a site.So there has to be a contact for either of these two.Simple next time anyone spams you, you spam them back.Take some time to read that mail and then start sending mail every 30 sec why you dont like them to mail you.
Very interesting...but i doubt any of these countries would take it on...the reason is that such projects during construction provide enormous amounts of Practical knowledge.India or taiwan would prefer to build an inferior product at a higher price just to acquire the data they will during execution of such a complex cutting edge project.
This is crap.No open source is NOT NECESSARILY
SUPERIOR to a closed organisation such as NSA.
This way they may be potentially running on borrowed time until someone figures out a way to attack it...
Sorry?Some one?who someone?Just some kid who got lucky(i dont discount that...after all the world is a pretty weird place)?Dont You think a group of professional cryptographers is more likely to crack one.How many people are out here who do serious crypto day in day out as WORK and not academics.sorry but i dont think going open source is going to help NSA.Rather it would give code to foreign governments who can attack any weaknesses in the CODE
I am not am american so dont bash me as a gun toting,right wing texan or something
Ever been to a Banglore software factory?Ever in your life?who told you abt the stolen software?ever ever ever been outta your tariler park?
Just an assumption isnt it?because i who fscking worked in three places knows what happens if you bleeding install SHAREWARE before informing the BOSS...yeah got my balls ripped out by installing WInproxy and neglecting to mention to the boss it was over the trial period and i was using a friends registration.
For a fscking redneck like you let me put it in simpler terms-unless these chaps can have a framed license hanging on the walls they cant sleep at night nad suffer from chronic indigestion.
so go back to your trailer park and drink up your cheap beer.
after all just as you assume all indian software developers steal software i assume you are just a brainless dodo.now crawl back where you come from.....
TO ALL THE INTELLIGENT/.s PLEASE IGNORE MY RANT.SORRY FOR THE NOISE.
let's assume we are designing one of these robots.
1.What would be its size?small as a worm or as big as a chunnel digger(the beasts that dig the tunnel between good old england and france,they were BIG as long as 2 football fields and over 6 mts in diameter)
2.what sort of power source would it use?Radio thermal?fission pack?
3.how would the guidance work?Totally Autonomous?guided?
I think the classification needs to be Friend,Foe and Jon Katz.......
Seriously ,/. has to implement Moderation of stories also if we have to have any improvements
and we also need a story queque where Moderators/readers vote which story gets on the front page,so to speak.
IMHO,The most important change in the last months has not been summary detentions based on ethnicity,but the establishment of Secret Military Tribunals to try Foreign nationals without a right to appeal,to examine evidence against them,the right to counsel.
From a moral viewpoint,its nauseating,while the Taliban were a bunch of fundies,to expect any sort of Human behaviour from them is a fantasy, the premier democracy in the world,founded on the principal of individual rights and human dignity has taken this very very retrograde step.I mean if they are going to put a bullet in someone's brains what distinguishes them from the taliban & company????
From a practical point of view,remember what can be misused will be,after all Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
1./.'s readership is absolutely international though US citizens might be the largest group.
2.Politicians listen to ppl
a.who vote
b.contribute money
your example of NRA is a perfect example.
3.Geeks arent exactly considered normal and face it, the issues we are interested in are more or less geek issues,this particualr one not withstanding.
4.MOST IMPORTANTLY,whenever a human being is in a position to exercise and increase his authority over other human beings,(s)he will........
Slashdot Mirror
Bourne Identity....... BTW,just finished the book.Excellent.
I want to know if linus kept the copyright and trade mark when he released Linux under GPL.If he did and choses to be nasty then may be SCO could be in for copyright violation and unauthorised trademark use.
anybody care to comment?
Just one thing surprises me that the supreme court says it's a state matter.The World over the rights of the citizen entitle him/her to equality before the law.This is certainly not the case in US where the same crime in different states can often carry unequal punishments.What do people from US think about this?
No need for those diets.Eat all you want and then just convert the extra clories into energy. No more flat batteries.
I am absolutely surprised to read about the state of service in US.Here in UK teh service is absolutely wonderful.Even the cheapest provider
T-Mobile has very good signal strength whereas O2,Vodafone and Orange often can be used in basements and stairwells.
Well time need not exist if you imagine an infinite number of parallel universes all of which sucedd each other to give the "illusion" of time.
IIT, Oops bring the world to village kids
Shobha Warrier in Chennai | August 01, 2003
Half-a-dozen kids sit huddled in front of a personal computer concentrating hard to grasp everything that the face on the monitor is saying.
The tiny kiosk, where these kids are sitting, does not boast of any specialised equipment or high bandwidth. It has just one PC and one Web cam.
Yet every day, children crowd this kiosk to interact with their teacher Meena, who is based in far-off Chennai.
Belonging to Ulakapichanpatti - a small village in Tamil Nadu - and coming from low-income, uneducated families, the face on the monitor is their only saviour.
An innovative software - Oops I see - developed by the engineers of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chennai-based Oops Private Ltd, allows these village kids to take tuitions through video conferencing on an Internet connection with bandwidth as low as 20 kbps.
Origin of an idea
The idea to develop an audio video messenger that works on low bandwidth was born six years ago when Karthik Ayyar decided to return to India, giving up his lucrative career in the United States. Ayyar, who did his BS in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, also worked for a couple of years with Unifys.
While pondering on whether to use the ATM protocol (Asynchronous Transfer Mode Protocol) or TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) for the 'product,' one of Ayyar's friends told him that the video conferencing on TCP/IP would certainly take off.
"That was when I decided to work on it," he recollected.
Armed with this unique proposal, Ayyar approached Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT-Madras. Intrigued by the video-conferencing plan, Jhunjhunwala offered to put up a team to work on the idea.
Devendra Jalihal, associate professor at the IIT Madras and an expert in audio compression, was in charge of the research. His colleague Professor R Arvind also joined the team.
This was in 1996-97, and people had only started talking about video conferencing. It was then believed that for good video conferencing, you need a fast computer, a good camera and bandwidth. But all three were expensive in India and 'good' bandwidth just did not exist.
Jalihal admits that had it not been for Ayyar, whose idea it was to develop a software solution that would enable audio-video transmission through low bandwidth, the team would have gone for a developer PC plug-in card.
"In the last six years, we have been trying to develop a tool that will take computer use beyond the keyboard. Since the keyboard is English-oriented, we wanted to develop an audio-visual or some other tools like pen, which can be used instead of the keyboard. Some of our initiatives took off, while some fell flat. But our effort to make audio-visual communication possible on dial-up lines was successful," says Jalihal.
The 'Oops I see' software not only works on low bandwidth, but functions much better than any other broadband solution, the developers claimed.
The software helps one to hold point-to-point, point-to-multiple and multiple-to-point and even multi-point video conferencing through a normal dial-up telephone connection, they added.
Unfortunately, Ayyar failed to find a market for a product that is '100 per cent Indian.'
The turning point
The big moment finally came when the Oops I see team was asked to hold a demonstration of their product in front of an august audience at the national conference on communication and computer networking held in Bangalore.
The video conference went smoothly as the girl who was in charge of the village kiosk successfully communicated with those present in Chennai.
Both Ayyar and Professor Jalihal admit that this particular demonstration was the turning point and the technology soon received wide acceptance.
Today, 150 villages use this technology on a daily basis and more than 500 villages would soon come into th
How does one avoid the problems of contamination of the samples with such miniscule amounts?what if my hair or skin cells were blown in?
Trying to get a girlfriend to read /. is the most complicated endeavour undertaken by mankind.
No the Most complicated task is trying to explain to her why you need to check /. six times a day and what those naked women are doing on your computer
Not anymore.after the US tornado season of 90-91 Llyods took a very big hit.Nowadays its a Limited liability corporation like any other.
Since the laws require a licence for any body to run a radio station,UK and more commonly London have a lot of pirate radio stations mainly in the FM band.
. .almost everything on earth.In fact some of the more popular pirate stations have made it mainstream.
Take your radio and scan and you can listen to latin,salsa,spanish,french,grunge,garage,hip-hop.
So this is no big deal except that you cant buy this little gizmo anymore in the high street.
As an Entity RIAA doesnt have same rights as human beings.All its actions against copyright infringement must be reasonable.
Here in UK,a farmer who shot dead a burglar in his farmhouse received a 5 year sentence for manslaughter even though he had been repeatedly burgled and threatened.His plea of self defence was accepted but even then he was jailed for use of excessive force.
The point i am making is that Riaa has to use minimum and justifiable means to ensure compliance.This they dont do and hence they deliberately target people who they know cant go to a court of law and show the riaa's abusive and unreasonable methods of copyright enforcement.
You seem to be an uninformed idiot. 1.30 rupees wont buy you a meal for ONE even from a Street vendor.Thjst's from Personal experience. 2.The cost for the ID cards is covered by the government.repeat after me: by the government. which is considerably cheaper than printing ballot papers for 900 plus candidates. 3.what makes you think 800,000 machines are not enough for the electorate of india to vote?done any thinking abt it?wanna show us your calculations?maybe the election commission have decided these figures because of their considerable expertise in conduting elections for the last 50 years. 4.BTW the electorate of no country is 100% of its population.Its more likely 600,000,000 in case of india. 5.What is this discrimination you are talking about?do you have any idea what's happening or you just decided this was what was going on.IIRC its the Backward classes in India which are the biggest powerblock in India,who decide who gets to form the govt. In future perhaps you would prefer to get your facts right before airing them all over.Remember just because you think so isnt going to make it so.
What is the main purspose of SPAM?To sell something or to direct you to a site.So there has to be a contact for either of these two.Simple next time anyone spams you, you spam them back.Take some time to read that mail and then start sending mail every 30 sec why you dont like them to mail you.
Very interesting...but i doubt any of these countries would take it on...the reason is that such projects during construction provide enormous amounts of Practical knowledge.India or taiwan would prefer to build an inferior product at a higher price just to acquire the data they will during execution of such a complex cutting edge project.
How is the scene for people outside US.People in President blair's Britain,France,Germany?China,India,Japan,Israel?Ir aq?
This is crap.No open source is NOT NECESSARILY SUPERIOR to a closed organisation such as NSA.
This way they may be potentially running on borrowed time until someone figures out a way to attack it...
Sorry?Some one?who someone?Just some kid who got lucky(i dont discount that...after all the world is a pretty weird place)?Dont You think a group of professional cryptographers is more likely to crack one.How many people are out here who do serious crypto day in day out as WORK and not academics.sorry but i dont think going open source is going to help NSA.Rather it would give code to foreign governments who can attack any weaknesses in the CODE
I am not am american so dont bash me as a gun toting,right wing texan or something
Its IDIOT REDNECKS like you that get my goat.
/.s PLEASE IGNORE MY RANT.SORRY FOR THE NOISE.
Ever been to a Banglore software factory?Ever in your life?who told you abt the stolen software?ever ever ever been outta your tariler park?
Just an assumption isnt it?because i who fscking worked in three places knows what happens if you bleeding install SHAREWARE before informing the BOSS...yeah got my balls ripped out by installing WInproxy and neglecting to mention to the boss it was over the trial period and i was using a friends registration.
For a fscking redneck like you let me put it in simpler terms-unless these chaps can have a framed license hanging on the walls they cant sleep at night nad suffer from chronic indigestion.
so go back to your trailer park and drink up your cheap beer.
after all just as you assume all indian software developers steal software i assume you are just a brainless dodo.now crawl back where you come from.....
TO ALL THE INTELLIGENT
let's assume we are designing one of these robots.
/.s think abt one
1.What would be its size?small as a worm or as big as a chunnel digger(the beasts that dig the tunnel between good old england and france,they were BIG as long as 2 football fields and over 6 mts in diameter)
2.what sort of power source would it use?Radio thermal?fission pack?
3.how would the guidance work?Totally Autonomous?guided?
It would be nice to know what
Who Decides between criminal activity and Civil Disobedience?
And here I was thinking no matter what my date field would never need to be bigger than enough to hold 5.8 Billion Years.....
Watch them blame us poor programmers when all hell breaks lose......
When You have Software bloat,Slow SloW SLOW buses,(almost)unresponsive harddrives and low bandwidth????
I think the classification needs to be Friend,Foe and Jon Katz.......
/. has to implement Moderation of stories also if we have to have any improvements
,so to speak.
Seriously ,
and we also need a story queque where Moderators/readers vote which story gets on the front page
IMHO,The most important change in the last months has not been summary detentions based on ethnicity,but the establishment of Secret Military Tribunals to try Foreign nationals without a right to appeal,to examine evidence against them,the right to counsel .
From a moral viewpoint,its nauseating,while the Taliban were a bunch of fundies,to expect any sort of Human behaviour from them is a fantasy, the premier democracy in the world,founded on the principal of individual rights and human dignity has taken this very very retrograde step.I mean if they are going to put a bullet in someone's brains what distinguishes them from the taliban & company????
From a practical point of view,remember what can be misused will be,after all Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Just a couple of things:
1./.'s readership is absolutely international though US citizens might be the largest group.
2.Politicians listen to ppl a.who vote b.contribute money your example of NRA is a perfect example.
3.Geeks arent exactly considered normal and face it, the issues we are interested in are more or less geek issues,this particualr one not withstanding.
4.MOST IMPORTANTLY ,whenever a human being is in a position to exercise and increase his authority over other human beings ,(s)he will........