You could theoretically create an entire universe that runs within a beowulf cluster. It wouldn't immune to influences from our universe but it would have its own set of rules.
Of course if you wanted to simulate humans you'd have to expand beyond stdin, stdout, and stderr to stdin-tactile, stdin-audio, stdin-visual, stdin-olfactory, stdin-tase, stdout-audio, stdout-movement, and stderr-cussing.
Beverly Crusher "what is the nature of the universe?" Computer "The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter"
"What would plug this last hole is for CyberCash to give us a public key. We'd encrypt the consumer's card number immediately upon receipt and stuff it into our Oracle database. Then if we needed to retry an authorization, we'd simply send CyberCash a message with the encrypted card number. They would decrypt the card number with their private key and process the transaction normally. If a cracker broke into our server, the handful of credit card numbers in our database would be unreadable without Cybercash's private key. The same sort of architecture would let us do reorders or returns six months after an order." - Philip Greenspun - http://philip.greenspun.com/doc/ecommerce-technica l
This lets us store credit card numbers and even we don't have access to the numbers once they are stored. However we can still communicate with our credit card processor and perform any necessary operation with this card number.
Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful,
I don't care what Microsoft says. I still favor attractive females over any man as a prospective date. I also have a policy of favoring foods I like over foods I don't.
What some would say "limits choice" I would call "making a choice".
Dripping in Sarcasm...... Check Having a swipe at someone who takes a swipe at microsoft.....Check Saying absolutely nothing new or interesting.. Check
Sun: Stopping sexual harassment by making the honey's desks impossible to find.
I do like the idea in that if my "computer" is broke the tech guy can toss a new one in in 15 minutes (if he's slow). Presuming the server side of things is hefty, stable, and operated by sysadmins dedicated to uptime.
Without proof I wouldn't go so far as to accuse anti-virus companies of writing viruses but they do make money from the production of viruses. More viruses in the wild equals more sales for them. A common investigation technique is "follow the money".
Unless you know who the conspirators are, the phrase "I'm sure they're from Linux's own backyard and probably not from Symantec's labs" is baseless and silly.
I'm not saying any wrongdoing took place on the part of any anti-virus company. I'm just saying if you don't know all the facts then making things up is bad form.
Codecs are 2 parts. The file format and the code to encode and decode data into that format.
Compression is a format. You are taking existing data and formatting it a certain way to accomplish the purpose of compressing the data.
I have trouble with telling someone they can't write a codec that reads or writes a specific scheme. It is sorta like saying "You can't speak Pig Latin because I own the rights to it"
There are a lot of comments that point toward the free distribution aspect of what we see as open source. With Microsoft being a business that builds and sells software for a living I don't see free distribution as a possibility for them.
On the other hand, distributing the source code with Microsoft programs is a good idea, at least ideally. As mentioned in court they have some serious holes that would need fixing before this would be even possible. If they cleaned that up then releasing the source would allow the nitpickers to get to work debugging, allow knowledgeable sysadmins to create their own patches and submit them with bug reports, and let us see what is going on in our own computers.
"There are a couple of ways to use an Atari WORN, but here is one of the simplest. From BASIC, just type in the command:
POKE 803,87
Then load a BASIC program type:
SAVE "WORN:TEST"
Presto! Your program will be saved to this marvelous device. (Hit RESET to disable the WORN.)
...
Of course, you should be careful not to rely on the WORN.... you will probably have to ensure a reliable connection between your biological optical devices and your digital extremity input devices"
They really would be happy if nobody had computers at all, wouldn't they?
They make every effort to control computers and to censor my free expression as a programmer but they bitch and moan if someone suggests censorship of a movie, song, painting or sculpture. Just because I do my art with 1s and 0s doesn't make it any less art and certainly doesn't entitle them to suppress it.
What is the difference between source code that demonstrates how to copy a dvd and a movie that demonstrates how to kill, how to prepare illegal drugs, how to rob a bank, how to enter the country illegally, or any number of other crimes?
Well they do subtitle live broadcasts. But if you want to subtitle to full effect and avoid strange and comedic misinterpretations it could take some time.
Still this can put enforcement where it should be. The file-sharing organization should not be responsible for what is shared. The individual file-sharers should take that responsibility. If they choose to share files that they do not have the legal right to share it is something the copyright owner or law enforcement or someone should take up with them.
Matching files to determine if they contain a particular audio or video waveform is much more accurate than facial recognition because you have a lot more data to go on. Of course you could digitally paint a moustache on each charater for the entire movie before you add it to file sharing. That might confuse their scanners.
The funny thing is that "ALL" the money very well could be a lower number than "A LOT" of money. But it is something they do not control and they can't stand that.
Remember, they have spent most of this century in congress stealing our public domain content away from us so they could sell it back to us at a profit. If these people could they would install brain monitors to collect payments whenever you remembered their movie or had a song running through your head.
That wouldn't help. cnn.com already published the method of circumventing anti-piracy measures using a black marker.
Copy protection is impossible really. If you prevent all copying then there is no way to get the information from the disk to your ear.
If the computer industry couldn't come up with a working copy protection scheme with all the years they have put into it then it seems kinda unrealistic to expect them to come up with one now just because the music or movie industry wants it.
The @ symbol may be a social engineering trick but Opera has a pop-up warning that probably nullifies its effectiveness. I think all browsers should do that. (especially since I don't use Opera)
It is easier to break than you think. I've heard countless stories and both I and my sister have had trouble getting driver's licenses due to someone else claiming our name and birthdate at their traffic stop. Checking your spy report/credit history periodically is not a bad idea.
The financial world would fall down tomorrow if any moron could get rich quick off a debit card. Most debit cards have a daily limit of $500 so don't expect to steal one from a millionaire who is stupid enough to put all his money in one account and get rich off of it.
One viewpoint on advertising objectives is that we must move the potential customer through the following states.
Unawareness
Awareness
Comprehension
Conviction
Action
Ads in general are very good at creating awareness and comprehension. These are very important steps and may be accomplished within the first few seconds of a commercial, even before your hand hits the commercial skip button.
The other steps are much harder to accomplish but sometimes you do them yourself. Have you ever compared 2 brands and told yourself, "I've never heard of this one. I'll get that one."? You were completing the conviction and action phases of the product you had heard about because you had not completed the awareness and comprehension phases of the brand you had not heard of.
Ads are effective but they aren't mind control. You don't jump out of your chair and buy a Schnepsi just because you saw it advertised on TV, but next time you are at the store you give Schnepsi some consideration instead of automatically purchasing a case of Schnoke.
according to the quote they can't purchase software that has not undergone security testing. Since they don't need to purchase free software I guess they can just skip that step.
Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested and Larry Hill of Sprint said "To my knowledge there's no way that a computer hacker could get into our systems." (article)
Lack of knowledge doesn't necessarily mean a lot.
Doesn't the product come with manuals? If you didn't buy the product and didn't get the manuals wouldn't you logically have to download the crack before you went looking for tutorials? It is as likely as anything else that if you purchased the whole package you wouldn't need to be searching the internet at all.
The search engine terms don't indicate anything except that among people needing to search the internet that searching for the crack was more popular than searching for the tutorials.
Slashdot Mirror
You could theoretically create an entire universe that runs within a beowulf cluster. It wouldn't immune to influences from our universe but it would have its own set of rules.
Of course if you wanted to simulate humans you'd have to expand beyond stdin, stdout, and stderr to stdin-tactile, stdin-audio, stdin-visual, stdin-olfactory, stdin-tase, stdout-audio, stdout-movement, and stderr-cussing.
Beverly Crusher "what is the nature of the universe?" Computer "The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter"
Philip Greenspun's idea is ideal.
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"What would plug this last hole is for CyberCash to give us a public key. We'd encrypt the consumer's card number immediately upon receipt and stuff it into our Oracle database. Then if we needed to retry an authorization, we'd simply send CyberCash a message with the encrypted card number. They would decrypt the card number with their private key and process the transaction normally. If a cracker broke into our server, the handful of credit card numbers in our database would be unreadable without Cybercash's private key. The same sort of architecture would let us do reorders or returns six months after an order." - Philip Greenspun - http://philip.greenspun.com/doc/ecommerce-technic
This lets us store credit card numbers and even we don't have access to the numbers once they are stored. However we can still communicate with our credit card processor and perform any necessary operation with this card number.
Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful,
I don't care what Microsoft says. I still favor attractive females over any man as a prospective date. I also have a policy of favoring foods I like over foods I don't.
What some would say "limits choice" I would call "making a choice".
Slashdot Funny Comments, version 2.1a
Dripping in Sarcasm...... Check
Having a swipe at someone who takes a swipe at microsoft.....Check
Saying absolutely nothing new or interesting.. Check
Sun: Stopping sexual harassment by making the honey's desks impossible to find.
I do like the idea in that if my "computer" is broke the tech guy can toss a new one in in 15 minutes (if he's slow). Presuming the server side of things is hefty, stable, and operated by sysadmins dedicated to uptime.
Good point about the context.
The logic still doesn't hold up.
Your point as I see it.
if (conspiracy) {
linux_backyard_guilty = true;
}
My point.
if (conspiracy) {
if (follow_money() != dead_end) {
symantec_guilty = true;
}
if (linux_backyard_check() != dead_end) {
linux_backyard_guilty = true;
}
}
It is possible for both Symantec and Linux Backyard to be guilty or for neither to be guilty.
So lets release Untied Linux and use only the GPL'd content.
Without proof I wouldn't go so far as to accuse anti-virus companies of writing viruses but they do make money from the production of viruses. More viruses in the wild equals more sales for them. A common investigation technique is "follow the money".
Unless you know who the conspirators are, the phrase "I'm sure they're from Linux's own backyard and probably not from Symantec's labs" is baseless and silly.
I'm not saying any wrongdoing took place on the part of any anti-virus company. I'm just saying if you don't know all the facts then making things up is bad form.
Codecs are 2 parts. The file format and the code to encode and decode data into that format.
Compression is a format. You are taking existing data and formatting it a certain way to accomplish the purpose of compressing the data.
I have trouble with telling someone they can't write a codec that reads or writes a specific scheme. It is sorta like saying "You can't speak Pig Latin because I own the rights to it"
There are a lot of comments that point toward the free distribution aspect of what we see as open source. With Microsoft being a business that builds and sells software for a living I don't see free distribution as a possibility for them.
On the other hand, distributing the source code with Microsoft programs is a good idea, at least ideally. As mentioned in court they have some serious holes that would need fixing before this would be even possible. If they cleaned that up then releasing the source would allow the nitpickers to get to work debugging, allow knowledgeable sysadmins to create their own patches and submit them with bug reports, and let us see what is going on in our own computers.
Compute! April 1988. Bill Wilkinson
... you will probably have to ensure a reliable connection between your biological optical devices and your digital extremity input devices"
"There are a couple of ways to use an Atari WORN, but here is one of the simplest. From BASIC, just type in the command:
POKE 803,87
Then load a BASIC program type:
SAVE "WORN:TEST"
Presto! Your program will be saved to this marvelous device. (Hit RESET to disable the WORN.)
...
Of course, you should be careful not to rely on the WORN.
(You'll have to retype your program in by hand.)
They really would be happy if nobody had computers at all, wouldn't they?
They make every effort to control computers and to censor my free expression as a programmer but they bitch and moan if someone suggests censorship of a movie, song, painting or sculpture. Just because I do my art with 1s and 0s doesn't make it any less art and certainly doesn't entitle them to suppress it.
What is the difference between source code that demonstrates how to copy a dvd and a movie that demonstrates how to kill, how to prepare illegal drugs, how to rob a bank, how to enter the country illegally, or any number of other crimes?
Well they do subtitle live broadcasts. But if you want to subtitle to full effect and avoid strange and comedic misinterpretations it could take some time.
Probably Kennedy wanted to see a Mickey Mouse short enter the public domain and Disney had him shot.
Still this can put enforcement where it should be. The file-sharing organization should not be responsible for what is shared. The individual file-sharers should take that responsibility. If they choose to share files that they do not have the legal right to share it is something the copyright owner or law enforcement or someone should take up with them.
Matching files to determine if they contain a particular audio or video waveform is much more accurate than facial recognition because you have a lot more data to go on. Of course you could digitally paint a moustache on each charater for the entire movie before you add it to file sharing. That might confuse their scanners.
The funny thing is that "ALL" the money very well could be a lower number than "A LOT" of money. But it is something they do not control and they can't stand that.
Remember, they have spent most of this century in congress stealing our public domain content away from us so they could sell it back to us at a profit. If these people could they would install brain monitors to collect payments whenever you remembered their movie or had a song running through your head.
That wouldn't help. cnn.com already published the method of circumventing anti-piracy measures using a black marker.
Copy protection is impossible really. If you prevent all copying then there is no way to get the information from the disk to your ear.
If the computer industry couldn't come up with a working copy protection scheme with all the years they have put into it then it seems kinda unrealistic to expect them to come up with one now just because the music or movie industry wants it.
The @ symbol may be a social engineering trick but Opera has a pop-up warning that probably nullifies its effectiveness. I think all browsers should do that. (especially since I don't use Opera)
It is easier to break than you think. I've heard countless stories and both I and my sister have had trouble getting driver's licenses due to someone else claiming our name and birthdate at their traffic stop. Checking your spy report/credit history periodically is not a bad idea.
The financial world would fall down tomorrow if any moron could get rich quick off a debit card. Most debit cards have a daily limit of $500 so don't expect to steal one from a millionaire who is stupid enough to put all his money in one account and get rich off of it.
Is hacking the game to give yourself super-powers (able to jump tall buildings in a single bound, bullet resistance) considered brilliant? or illegal?
Sorry, I have a patent on that combination and arrangement of Legos. Cease and desist or work out a license arrangement with me.
- Unawareness
- Awareness
- Comprehension
- Conviction
- Action
Ads in general are very good at creating awareness and comprehension. These are very important steps and may be accomplished within the first few seconds of a commercial, even before your hand hits the commercial skip button.The other steps are much harder to accomplish but sometimes you do them yourself. Have you ever compared 2 brands and told yourself, "I've never heard of this one. I'll get that one."? You were completing the conviction and action phases of the product you had heard about because you had not completed the awareness and comprehension phases of the brand you had not heard of.
Ads are effective but they aren't mind control. You don't jump out of your chair and buy a Schnepsi just because you saw it advertised on TV, but next time you are at the store you give Schnepsi some consideration instead of automatically purchasing a case of Schnoke.
according to the quote they can't purchase software that has not undergone security testing. Since they don't need to purchase free software I guess they can just skip that step.
Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested and Larry Hill of Sprint said "To my knowledge there's no way that a computer hacker could get into our systems." (article) Lack of knowledge doesn't necessarily mean a lot.
The Microsoft official set it up. It is a direct quote. You just can't let that one go untouched.
Doesn't the product come with manuals? If you didn't buy the product and didn't get the manuals wouldn't you logically have to download the crack before you went looking for tutorials? It is as likely as anything else that if you purchased the whole package you wouldn't need to be searching the internet at all.
The search engine terms don't indicate anything except that among people needing to search the internet that searching for the crack was more popular than searching for the tutorials.