Why is it that we can post the directions for how to properly murder someone or build a bomb (In fact, this seems to be the topic of most movies made today), yet we are barred from posting DVD-copying code?
Can a case be made that posting DVD-copying code and directions on a website makes people more likely to copy DVDs, while there is no correlation to how many people are more likely to build a bomb or murder someone after reading the directions online?
This product was actually covered in a previous slashdot story from a couple of months ago, seen here.. The Seattle Wireless group reviews this product, gives a live video demonstration of it, and basically describes how it works. You can see the video here under the July archive. It's the last segment in the video.
According to the first picture, there is actually no copied "Code". The left side of the picture, the System V Code, contains a comment header followed by further comments obfuscated in the Symbol font. The right side, the linux code, has the same comments for the most part, followed by the malloc() code.
The problem is that there's no actual functional code copied in this example - only comments. If this is one of their strongest example of IP infringement by IBM, it's a sorry example. Is there any protection for copying comments?
One of the implications is that the "intelligent mail" also wouldn't require as much human interaction. This is very similar to what FED-EX or UPS do with packages, only on a much grander scale. Less hand sorting and more automated sorting could make this very feasible.
I strongly recommend that as a compensatory measure, non-AOL MTAs be configured to deny all incoming mail from AOL's domain.
Speaking of ignorance, this seems equally ignorant. Are we reverting back to the "an eye for an eye" Hammurabi code? "If you block our email, we'll block yours?" What good will that do? If AOL is violating the SMTP RFC, then they should be sued. But simply configuring our mail servers to block AOL mail is ignorant, rediculous, and pointless.
While studying cryptanalysis, I've been learning about a number of interesting attacks such as timing attacks and differential power attacks (your speciality, if I recall). While these attacks certainly seem to help cryptanalysis of various ciphers, how practical are they in terms of real security? That is to say, what are the chances that these methods are actively being used by attackers?
No doubt about it. I'd be a bit weary of sticking my eye up to some grungy, downtown ATM and "hoping for the best." I can already see the future of pranks, like catapulting acid into my retina. Ouch.
Yes, it's a shameless doubleclick advertisement. Coincidentally, Slashdot is also running a Sun banner advertisement proclaiming this new drop in prices. A bit odd to see a banner ad at the top of the page, followed promptly by a story about the same thing. Who would have thought...?
How long until they come out with a new Nokia phone with Sonic the Hedgehog?! I've abstained from buying a cell phone for years, but a cell phone with Sonic might break me!
"Marketing this to people like parents and children"...Sounds like a pretty broad marketing spectrum, no? If I remember my anatomy course correctly, parents and children covers just about everyone...
Not the best advice, in my opinion. There is a lot of danger involved in getting surgery done in another country. Their government regulations aren't as stringent as ours (USA), and the "they've been doing it longer" argument doesn't really hold much weight when you've got a Canadian doctor who's done it for 20 years and an American doctor who's done it for 15.
Furthermore, if you were to get an infection, the last thing you would want to do is have to travel out of the country just for follow-up surgery, all the while with terribly pain.
Lastly, if price is actually that big of a concern, you should shop around. In most major cities you can get it done for about 2500. If you can find it for 900-1000 in Canada, you're saving 1500 bucks, right? Wrong, because you still have to travel to and from Canada for the surgery, 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, and 1-year visits. That's 5 trips out of the country including hotels, meals, cars, etc. You're going to spend far more getting it done in Canada than you are here in the states.
I got mine done here in the States and I couldn't be happier. Insurance paid for half of it, so I only paid 1500 dollars and I'm sitting here with 20/22 vision - I couldn't be happier.
As a software developer, I had similar doubts about the surgery. I finally decided to go ahead and get it done about 4 months ago.
The first few days were hard and I had to take the time off. Most doctors will say it's an in-and-out procedure where you can go to work the next day. I think this is true for most professions, but not for staring at a computer screen 8 hours a day. I took 2 days off from work and when I returned, things were still a bit blurry and I was sitting around 20/30 vision. Over the course of the next week, things slowly got better and by the end of a month I was at 20/25. This was a fantastic improvement for me, going from around 20/300, but things continue to improve. Right now, about 4 months later, I'm at around 20/22, and by the end of the year I should be at 20/20.
My advice for you is to go ahead and get it done if you can. Make sure it's done by a professional, local surgeon so that if you have any problems you can easily get in and not worry about travelling back up to Canada (or anywhere else they do it dirt-cheap) or something.
Everybody's got their own way of dealing with the situation. I wouldn't say that turning off banner ads are saving the world, but it's a nice gesture.
On another note, The 'way back machine' at archive.org has archives from September 11th, for those interested. It's interesting to go back to CNN.com and read the reports.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911203610rn_2/ww w. cnn.com/?
Poke around and see what interesting things you can find.
This article didn't have a leg to stand on. There was no real news lately, this article was merely a "summary" of what has happened to companies involved in UnitedLinux, along with an interview of a complete moron, the owner of NetProject (some company we've never heard of - just take a look at their website). The owner was probably the article author's roommate or something, and wanted to get his name in an article.
The point is, all 4 companies are still dedicated to UnitedLinux and have promised a release by the end of the year. I know Caldera's already got it in Beta stage. You can skimp around and try to play games regarding what the companies are doing on other avenues, but it really doesn't have any effect on the UnitedLinux initiative.
After reading the article, it's apparent that this is very small and efficient code. Solid stuff! What I'm excited is, how long until somebody adapts it to linux for the desktop. A manager that rips through windowing operations - yum!
Of course, I might have to get used to only being able to move my mouse an inch in any direction. =/
So how did these kids get this internship anyway? Must be their good interviewing skills. I applied for the same internship, only to get told "We're sorry but we can't offer you an internship at this time, but we'll keep your resume on file for the next 6 months...".
I wonder who they're targetting with the inclusion of a DVD-RW. Perhaps they're working toward the blurring of the lines between desktop and laptop. A 16.1 inch screen and a DVD-R/W is certainly a good start in doing so.
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Why is it that we can post the directions for how to properly murder someone or build a bomb (In fact, this seems to be the topic of most movies made today), yet we are barred from posting DVD-copying code?
Can a case be made that posting DVD-copying code and directions on a website makes people more likely to copy DVDs, while there is no correlation to how many people are more likely to build a bomb or murder someone after reading the directions online?
This product was actually covered in a previous slashdot story from a couple of months ago, seen here.. The Seattle Wireless group reviews this product, gives a live video demonstration of it, and basically describes how it works. You can see the video here under the July archive. It's the last segment in the video.
According to the first picture, there is actually no copied "Code". The left side of the picture, the System V Code, contains a comment header followed by further comments obfuscated in the Symbol font. The right side, the linux code, has the same comments for the most part, followed by the malloc() code.
The problem is that there's no actual functional code copied in this example - only comments. If this is one of their strongest example of IP infringement by IBM, it's a sorry example. Is there any protection for copying comments?
One of the implications is that the "intelligent mail" also wouldn't require as much human interaction. This is very similar to what FED-EX or UPS do with packages, only on a much grander scale. Less hand sorting and more automated sorting could make this very feasible.
I strongly recommend that as a compensatory measure, non-AOL MTAs be configured to deny all incoming mail from AOL's domain.
Speaking of ignorance, this seems equally ignorant. Are we reverting back to the "an eye for an eye" Hammurabi code? "If you block our email, we'll block yours?" What good will that do? If AOL is violating the SMTP RFC, then they should be sued. But simply configuring our mail servers to block AOL mail is ignorant, rediculous, and pointless.
While studying cryptanalysis, I've been learning about a number of interesting attacks such as timing attacks and differential power attacks (your speciality, if I recall). While these attacks certainly seem to help cryptanalysis of various ciphers, how practical are they in terms of real security? That is to say, what are the chances that these methods are actively being used by attackers?
No doubt about it. I'd be a bit weary of sticking my eye up to some grungy, downtown ATM and "hoping for the best." I can already see the future of pranks, like catapulting acid into my retina. Ouch.
So how many games is that which "actually run on linux" out of the box? I guess it is quite a bonus, as the author put it.
It's fixed, and without an official update! It was up for approximately 9 minutes. Looks like somebody's clever ploy ended up in embarassment. oops.
Yes, it's a shameless doubleclick advertisement. Coincidentally, Slashdot is also running a Sun banner advertisement proclaiming this new drop in prices. A bit odd to see a banner ad at the top of the page, followed promptly by a story about the same thing. Who would have thought...?
Overseas (Indian and Asian markets) have always been one of Linux's strongest points. Hopefully this won't have a large effect on it.
How long until they come out with a new Nokia phone with Sonic the Hedgehog?! I've abstained from buying a cell phone for years, but a cell phone with Sonic might break me!
Makes snorkeling a whole lot less interesting..
"Marketing this to people like parents and children" ...Sounds like a pretty broad marketing spectrum, no? If I remember my anatomy course correctly, parents and children covers just about everyone...
Not the best advice, in my opinion. There is a lot of danger involved in getting surgery done in another country. Their government regulations aren't as stringent as ours (USA), and the "they've been doing it longer" argument doesn't really hold much weight when you've got a Canadian doctor who's done it for 20 years and an American doctor who's done it for 15.
Furthermore, if you were to get an infection, the last thing you would want to do is have to travel out of the country just for follow-up surgery, all the while with terribly pain.
Lastly, if price is actually that big of a concern, you should shop around. In most major cities you can get it done for about 2500. If you can find it for 900-1000 in Canada, you're saving 1500 bucks, right? Wrong, because you still have to travel to and from Canada for the surgery, 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, and 1-year visits. That's 5 trips out of the country including hotels, meals, cars, etc. You're going to spend far more getting it done in Canada than you are here in the states.
I got mine done here in the States and I couldn't be happier. Insurance paid for half of it, so I only paid 1500 dollars and I'm sitting here with 20/22 vision - I couldn't be happier.
As a software developer, I had similar doubts about the surgery. I finally decided to go ahead and get it done about 4 months ago.
The first few days were hard and I had to take the time off. Most doctors will say it's an in-and-out procedure where you can go to work the next day. I think this is true for most professions, but not for staring at a computer screen 8 hours a day. I took 2 days off from work and when I returned, things were still a bit blurry and I was sitting around 20/30 vision. Over the course of the next week, things slowly got better and by the end of a month I was at 20/25. This was a fantastic improvement for me, going from around 20/300, but things continue to improve. Right now, about 4 months later, I'm at around 20/22, and by the end of the year I should be at 20/20.
My advice for you is to go ahead and get it done if you can. Make sure it's done by a professional, local surgeon so that if you have any problems you can easily get in and not worry about travelling back up to Canada (or anywhere else they do it dirt-cheap) or something.
Best of luck.
Everybody's got their own way of dealing with the situation. I wouldn't say that turning off banner ads are saving the world, but it's a nice gesture.
w w. cnn.com/?
On another note, The 'way back machine' at archive.org has archives from September 11th, for those interested. It's interesting to go back to CNN.com and read the reports.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911203610rn_2/w
Poke around and see what interesting things you can find.
This article didn't have a leg to stand on. There was no real news lately, this article was merely a "summary" of what has happened to companies involved in UnitedLinux, along with an interview of a complete moron, the owner of NetProject (some company we've never heard of - just take a look at their website). The owner was probably the article author's roommate or something, and wanted to get his name in an article.
The point is, all 4 companies are still dedicated to UnitedLinux and have promised a release by the end of the year. I know Caldera's already got it in Beta stage. You can skimp around and try to play games regarding what the companies are doing on other avenues, but it really doesn't have any effect on the UnitedLinux initiative.
After reading the article, it's apparent that this is very small and efficient code. Solid stuff! What I'm excited is, how long until somebody adapts it to linux for the desktop. A manager that rips through windowing operations - yum!
Of course, I might have to get used to only being able to move my mouse an inch in any direction. =/
It seems that the common method for creating a company in silicon valley nowadays is as follows:
-Find a futuristic or artistic/creative single noun.
-Concatenate a single digit number between 1 and 9.
And hence, we have these rediculously uncreative company names which all sounds the same.
Cloud9, rhino9, carbon6, etc.
Also applies to computer games, IE: rainbow6.
One day, company names will relate back to the products being sold.
So how did these kids get this internship anyway? Must be their good interviewing skills. I applied for the same internship, only to get told "We're sorry but we can't offer you an internship at this time, but we'll keep your resume on file for the next 6 months...".
Now they're wishing they had chosen me!
Any chance they could use those extra cycles for cracking RC5 blocks? Give the slashdot.org team a run for their money, eh?
I support any artist that makes a guest appearance in The Simpsons and/or an Adam Sandler movie!
I wonder who they're targetting with the inclusion of a DVD-RW. Perhaps they're working toward the blurring of the lines between desktop and laptop. A 16.1 inch screen and a DVD-R/W is certainly a good start in doing so.
I wonder how they pronounce it..."War-rez" or "ware-ez". Hmm.