The Feds are more bothered about copyrights theives like you an me, who want to destroy americas entertainment industry. The popup ads are a minor nuicanse, after all if the govt turns its attention to mundane things like span, popup-downloads criminals like you and me will crack the internet and steal all movies and destroy the world economy.
what about the human side
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The technology and all is okay, but healing is not just medicines. Having a nurse to talk to and do the psychological healing is very important for a patient.
In a hospital its not just the medicines which cure you, it has to come from inside too. If Robots are used extensively it can create a sort of coldness which wont be really good, especially for patients who are under depression
"I'd love to see one of these in action even though chances are I would never be able to afford one. Prices start around 6 grand, quite steep."
Right now the prices may be high, but as with all the goodies, the prices are bound to fall.. and fall.
When the company breakevens, the prices should fall, but it is really dissapointing to have such high priuce pegged initially. If the prices were lower, breakeven would be faster... anyways, this tech is cool, but what is being ignored comletely is the effect on eyes.
I may be wrong but i do not think that any eye tests have been done! Already lotsa ppl in the IT industry are suffering from poor eyesight.. i wonder what this technology has in store for us?
"what will happen to the copy protection machine in US or Europe"
Once apon a time in New york :
"Target identified"
"CD copy machine". "Eliminate..... Launching DMCA proprietry coded missile....Attention target, any attempt to look at the missile or remeber what it looked like will be taken as copyright violation.....5..2..3..2..1..0...???..Launch failed, Lauch code licence file not found.. DMCA violation... ABORT and DIE.... Permission denied.. DIE copyrighted by god no allowed.... $#%#%%#^^&&@#@#@#"
"The battles not over yet"
To me it seems more lost. atleast in the USA. Control is the keyword.
The fact is that big corporations want patents so that they can control everything. Its all about control and power.
Simply put it is the misuse of capitalism. But money os a powerful thing. This may be good or bad, but when money comes even the presidents wag their tales.
And in the end the corporations stand to lose. Has anybody thought why didnt europe suffer through the slump as badly as america did. Why did the big companies suffer.
This will definately happen. Software patents is a big part of the overall picture. The rich and big want control. It gives a sense of satisfaction. Why did hitler go about doing genocide. It was about control. And this is also about control. Controlling software would mean that these guys can tell me and you to use what they want. To pay up.
Sure stallman thinks there is a way. But he has conveniently forgotten what the community is up against.
Who writes software, of course people, and big corporations are also run by people. No its the indivisual vs the so called organised software.
Well it will be intersting to see what will happen.
But one thing this is going to result in is more confusion in the states. And europe stands to gain a lot.
Already many of my friends are more eager to work in lower paying european companies than in the US.
Something has to be done by you people. I just watch as an observer and it somewhat amuses me, that the US, which taught us the meaning of freedom, and the free society sccumbing to controls! It is definately amusing.
yea man
i heard it, and i posed a comment there too, go out. This is what will happen. Slowly things will start moving to europe.
Europe is much much more sensible, atleast at government level. If corporated try to push such laws there they will be told to take a walk. So now you will have American Music industry against europes radio stations, and i know the fight will be bloody
I cant understand RIAA's problem. These record labels are crying like spoilt brats. Who hasnt seen slump. Slump is everywhere, and what do they really expect, to be immune.
To me the picture looks a weird, and I certainly feel that this will stifle bands which prefer to stream online rather than go to record labels, and currently many are doing that. On the internet there are lots of bands, real good ones too who prefer to use independent radio stations, if the record labels get in there and do some muscle flexing, they can very well kill independent radio! and its not just jurisdictions they are getting, but now they wanna come in from both sides.
But you cant have your cake and eat it too. People will find a way to workaround real one and all the BS. One major crack, and a few thouosand songs get stolen adn put on some russian and chinese server, these guys will learn a lesson
As for limiting the number of songs, i wonder who are these guys to decide how many songs i wanna listen to. Man i got my rights, if i wanna spend more and buy more i will, this rule wont really stand in court if you got good lawers backing you!
It willcome to choice. you may or may not want to buy such a phone. Police may buy it if it looks like an ordinary mobile. Then they can scan faces without being obvious.
It is same as the police guy carrying a security camera which is not very obvious.
Other than that i may or may not want to buy this phone. As for the tracking, face recognition or no face recognition, you can be tracked to your location if you use a cell phone.
A cell phone will emit radiowaves and trignometry can easily be used, thats how radio beocons work, so in that respect it wont make much of a difference.
The only difference it may make is that it will be harder to steal mobile phones if you prefer to buy it with face recognition, and it also means that your wife may not be anle to borrow your phone!
Support, this is one line which critics want to rant on and on. Who will provide support, who will take responsibility.
But what they conviniently ignore is the all proprietry software like M$ etc state explicitely that they are not responsible.
As for mission critical applications, if you can trust M$ you can definately trust Linux.
As for the proof you have more worms floating around on the information superhighway than in medical textbooks.
Well
Well I think such laws are america centric. what if radio stations open shop in other countries which have different laws?
Is there any juristdiction about this in america which can block parts of the world on internet from being viewed by americans?
"Until we understand the physics of conciousness artificial intelligence is impossible"
And its 2002, Peter is right.
I Remember an old maths puzzle. A Monkey climbs a pole, covering half the distance left in every step. When will it reach. The answer is of course never.
And Thats what Robotics seems to be doing. Going near and near, but never reaching the Holy Grail.
Well Holleywood has made much more progress!!
Gawd
Stop being paranoid! Its paranoia which actually results in the fiasco. Okay outsourcing is there, but its not like that all the industries moving to taiwan. Its a simple phenomena call Global Economy, if US wants to sell its products out of US, it has to buy some too. its the survival of the fittest.
As for the neighbor, it shots a lot but wont do anything. sin 50 years it has been conquering taiwan, nothings come of it.
Infact outsourcing is needed. Theres not enough margin if things are produced in US. in Asia you can get a worker for 300$ doing more work than the guy on the same job getting 5000$
It sure makes sense, unless engineers in US get ready to work fro 400$, well thats never gonna happen, neighbour or no neighbour, taiwans gonna be the place to be!
The time of mega mergers is here. Who cares if hundreds, nay thousands loose their jobs. Instead of innovation and growth, the companies are taking the easy way out.
This works in the short run, but the economics will catch up. They can run away from slowdown only for some time, evenetually it will catch up. Luckily the economy's improving, otherwise it would have been a disaster.
Such mergers are bad for consumers too. As long as they were competiters, consumers could get good products as both were trying to do one up.
For example is Dell also merges with them tommorow, the competition space will get monopolized. It seems the hardware world is also going the software way.
Like M$ monoplizes everything these big daddys gona eat up competition, what will we have them, open design hardware!?
Well
it is a real disturbing tendency to pick up the book coz of a big name. and the publishers know of this. Go to their website and check out some new books. most of them are nothing compared to what we used to get a couple of years ago.
The big publishers are gettin compalacent or what. Coming out with a book for the heck of it!
Another thing i have noticed in all O'reilly books, infact in all big names, that the first chapter is the same. History, then a little bit of introduction and finally all of a sudden you are in a maze!
I Dunno what happened to the Days of the Perl CookBook!
yeah i am damn excited. its good its cool whoooaaah,. hurd is coming, its gonna bash all compatition. Its been blessed by the pope of free software. beware penguins coz you will be trampled under the hooves!! Do i care! or do you care. Credit is all he wants. He is getting too much of it. People call him pope of Free software! and then he rants on in his interview that 'they' are forgotten. It is rather that 'he' is forgotten not 'they'. And i really think its not really gonna come out this year. Its been long since hurds coming out. Do you need it, do i need it!! Long live the penguin! And for gods sake somebody tell thay guy to stop playing around with recursive acronyms. English is not gcc. Recursion is somehting i better leave to my Box to figure out already i got enough hurds trampling my brain
The laws have been in place. And every law has a loophole. It is illegal to murder, illegal to steal. nobody stops. This law will only make life of ordinary people hard, who wont be able to make copies even for personal use. The thieves will find a way. IF the media thinks it can use laws to curb such things it is mistaken. In a democracy you cant always have what you want, compromises are necessary.
Though ERS is right to a point, i disagree to a certain extent.
Viability was never the real issue. Till now windows has given insecure buggy code. Much better alternatives are available, and inspite of this even many techies go to windows. The key thing here is monoply. A large percentage of the PC's are on windows. Kids are brought up on windows.
Though reduction of hardware costs will bring about a change, this wont be making a significant dent.
In the fastest developing markets, namely Chine, India etc., most of the windows 98 on home PC's is Pirated.
A large percentage of PC owners want to play fancy games and surf the net without frills. Though it is possible on Linux to, it is still though of at real tough by novices.
Moreover many home PC owners have pirated games, utilities etc., on their systems.
Getting back to the the point, it wont be the cost which will be the major factor.
Interoperability will be the major key. The monoply will start breaking, but still hope is not near.
And the way US laws are going, who knows what surprises are in store.
Money talks, and M$ got lots of it.
huh,
good idea. really?
I have an interesting example. KDE. yup they converted something from closed to open. But microsoft is not trolltech, microsoft is M$. Just imagine. God forbid the mono becomes a standard and M$ makes it licenced and closed totally, everybody is in a soup. years of development is through away.
OSS community accuses M$ of making the software industry behind by 10 years. I gues miguel wants to do that to the Linux GUI. As for me i deleted gnome today "make uninstall".
I wonder what is the guy trying to do. There is a popular saying : riding two boats leads to falling in the middle. Thats what miguel is heading. Gnome is a lovely tree nurtured by so many programmers. This is an axe which will destroy it.
Its not about C# being good and what not, its about contigency plans. Ok I am being paraniod, but when M$ is there its better to listen to Andy Grove. As some guy posted in another list : Ask the Samba guys...
thats nice. how about UT or NFS or Quake or something like that, maybe an IM or netscape running at LILO, man the people are really coming up with weird stuff. Well it could be useful. If I am undecisive about wether to go windoze or Linux then I can play a chance game to decide... very very productive...
wait a minute i got a great idea. Howe about a random movie, if the movie is tragic i boot into one OS otherwise into other.
And if its a french beauty its even better... I cant read french but i can sure see !
Linux conferences are a big thing now. so are expos etc etc and LWN etc. But through all the coverage its the marketing and the muscle which gets the hypoe. have the developers, the faceless men who tiol through the nigh so that my mozilla dosnet crash or my Gnome is smooth or my kernel is secure just are forgotten.
Okay Linux, Eric etc have fame. but by and large all these things have become corportate focused! Everybody has myopia when it comes to developers. This really has to change
Well,
Finally sony took the plunge. Its great. I really wonder about the distance the Linux community has travelled! In 91 Linus wouldnt have even thought about such a thing happening... late 90's were spent in getting the server space, and now the new millenium signals Linux arriving in our homes.
Hope this continues!
As for ur question, wether someone would like to crack a science satellite, it depends upon what the satellite does.
If it can give access to the person about a regions weather, landscape.. or it is a remote sensing satellite then yup, some rogue nation would definately be interested.
Moreover this can be done for ransom purposes, a lot of money goes into a satellite, the person may ask a ransom of about 10% of the satellite cost, but not to worry in that regard, u need a real rich hacker.
The biggest danger is that the person may be actually trying a military satellite and uses an ordinary one for dress rehersal.
Lots of possibilities here.. and i agree with slashdot, obscurity is not security. I am not very well versed with satellite protocols, but i think the wireless enginners must be having ideas about security in such situations.
The best way is to encrypt everything and use frequency hopping over a narrow range using an encrypted key. This method can be useful for sensitive places.
Slashdot Mirror
no not SunBM but SunBS, coz with IBM we haveLots of BS and Sun will make it Sunny BS
The Feds are more bothered about copyrights theives like you an me, who want to destroy americas entertainment industry. The popup ads are a minor nuicanse, after all if the govt turns its attention to mundane things like span, popup-downloads criminals like you and me will crack the internet and steal all movies and destroy the world economy.
In a hospital its not just the medicines which cure you, it has to come from inside too. If Robots are used extensively it can create a sort of coldness which wont be really good, especially for patients who are under depression
"I'd love to see one of these in action even though chances are I would never be able to afford one. Prices start around 6 grand, quite steep."
Right now the prices may be high, but as with all the goodies, the prices are bound to fall.. and fall. When the company breakevens, the prices should fall, but it is really dissapointing to have such high priuce pegged initially. If the prices were lower, breakeven would be faster... anyways, this tech is cool, but what is being ignored comletely is the effect on eyes. I may be wrong but i do not think that any eye tests have been done! Already lotsa ppl in the IT industry are suffering from poor eyesight.. i wonder what this technology has in store for us?"what will happen to the copy protection machine in US or Europe"
Once apon a time in New york :"Target identified"
"CD copy machine". "Eliminate..... Launching DMCA proprietry coded missile....Attention target, any attempt to look at the missile or remeber what it looked like will be taken as copyright violation.....5..2..3..2..1..0...???..Launch failed, Lauch code licence file not found.. DMCA violation... ABORT and DIE.... Permission denied.. DIE copyrighted by god no allowed.... $#%#%%#^^&&@#@#@#"That was meant in u know what, sarcastc way
"The battles not over yet" To me it seems more lost. atleast in the USA. Control is the keyword. The fact is that big corporations want patents so that they can control everything. Its all about control and power. Simply put it is the misuse of capitalism. But money os a powerful thing. This may be good or bad, but when money comes even the presidents wag their tales. And in the end the corporations stand to lose. Has anybody thought why didnt europe suffer through the slump as badly as america did. Why did the big companies suffer. This will definately happen. Software patents is a big part of the overall picture. The rich and big want control. It gives a sense of satisfaction. Why did hitler go about doing genocide. It was about control. And this is also about control. Controlling software would mean that these guys can tell me and you to use what they want. To pay up. Sure stallman thinks there is a way. But he has conveniently forgotten what the community is up against. Who writes software, of course people, and big corporations are also run by people. No its the indivisual vs the so called organised software. Well it will be intersting to see what will happen. But one thing this is going to result in is more confusion in the states. And europe stands to gain a lot. Already many of my friends are more eager to work in lower paying european companies than in the US. Something has to be done by you people. I just watch as an observer and it somewhat amuses me, that the US, which taught us the meaning of freedom, and the free society sccumbing to controls! It is definately amusing.
yea man i heard it, and i posed a comment there too, go out. This is what will happen. Slowly things will start moving to europe. Europe is much much more sensible, atleast at government level. If corporated try to push such laws there they will be told to take a walk. So now you will have American Music industry against europes radio stations, and i know the fight will be bloody
I cant understand RIAA's problem. These record labels are crying like spoilt brats. Who hasnt seen slump. Slump is everywhere, and what do they really expect, to be immune. To me the picture looks a weird, and I certainly feel that this will stifle bands which prefer to stream online rather than go to record labels, and currently many are doing that. On the internet there are lots of bands, real good ones too who prefer to use independent radio stations, if the record labels get in there and do some muscle flexing, they can very well kill independent radio! and its not just jurisdictions they are getting, but now they wanna come in from both sides. But you cant have your cake and eat it too. People will find a way to workaround real one and all the BS. One major crack, and a few thouosand songs get stolen adn put on some russian and chinese server, these guys will learn a lesson As for limiting the number of songs, i wonder who are these guys to decide how many songs i wanna listen to. Man i got my rights, if i wanna spend more and buy more i will, this rule wont really stand in court if you got good lawers backing you!
It willcome to choice. you may or may not want to buy such a phone. Police may buy it if it looks like an ordinary mobile. Then they can scan faces without being obvious. It is same as the police guy carrying a security camera which is not very obvious. Other than that i may or may not want to buy this phone. As for the tracking, face recognition or no face recognition, you can be tracked to your location if you use a cell phone. A cell phone will emit radiowaves and trignometry can easily be used, thats how radio beocons work, so in that respect it wont make much of a difference. The only difference it may make is that it will be harder to steal mobile phones if you prefer to buy it with face recognition, and it also means that your wife may not be anle to borrow your phone!
Support, this is one line which critics want to rant on and on. Who will provide support, who will take responsibility. But what they conviniently ignore is the all proprietry software like M$ etc state explicitely that they are not responsible. As for mission critical applications, if you can trust M$ you can definately trust Linux. As for the proof you have more worms floating around on the information superhighway than in medical textbooks.
Well Well I think such laws are america centric. what if radio stations open shop in other countries which have different laws? Is there any juristdiction about this in america which can block parts of the world on internet from being viewed by americans?
"Until we understand the physics of conciousness artificial intelligence is impossible" And its 2002, Peter is right. I Remember an old maths puzzle. A Monkey climbs a pole, covering half the distance left in every step. When will it reach. The answer is of course never. And Thats what Robotics seems to be doing. Going near and near, but never reaching the Holy Grail. Well Holleywood has made much more progress!!
Gawd Stop being paranoid! Its paranoia which actually results in the fiasco. Okay outsourcing is there, but its not like that all the industries moving to taiwan. Its a simple phenomena call Global Economy, if US wants to sell its products out of US, it has to buy some too. its the survival of the fittest. As for the neighbor, it shots a lot but wont do anything. sin 50 years it has been conquering taiwan, nothings come of it. Infact outsourcing is needed. Theres not enough margin if things are produced in US. in Asia you can get a worker for 300$ doing more work than the guy on the same job getting 5000$ It sure makes sense, unless engineers in US get ready to work fro 400$, well thats never gonna happen, neighbour or no neighbour, taiwans gonna be the place to be!
The time of mega mergers is here. Who cares if hundreds, nay thousands loose their jobs. Instead of innovation and growth, the companies are taking the easy way out. This works in the short run, but the economics will catch up. They can run away from slowdown only for some time, evenetually it will catch up. Luckily the economy's improving, otherwise it would have been a disaster. Such mergers are bad for consumers too. As long as they were competiters, consumers could get good products as both were trying to do one up. For example is Dell also merges with them tommorow, the competition space will get monopolized. It seems the hardware world is also going the software way. Like M$ monoplizes everything these big daddys gona eat up competition, what will we have them, open design hardware!?
Well it is a real disturbing tendency to pick up the book coz of a big name. and the publishers know of this. Go to their website and check out some new books. most of them are nothing compared to what we used to get a couple of years ago. The big publishers are gettin compalacent or what. Coming out with a book for the heck of it! Another thing i have noticed in all O'reilly books, infact in all big names, that the first chapter is the same. History, then a little bit of introduction and finally all of a sudden you are in a maze! I Dunno what happened to the Days of the Perl CookBook!
yeah
i am damn excited. its good its cool whoooaaah,. hurd is coming, its gonna bash all compatition. Its been blessed by the pope of free software. beware penguins coz you will be trampled under the hooves!!
Do i care! or do you care.
Credit is all he wants. He is getting too much of it. People call him pope of Free software! and then he rants on in his interview that 'they' are forgotten.
It is rather that 'he' is forgotten not 'they'.
And i really think its not really gonna come out this year. Its been long since hurds coming out.
Do you need it, do i need it!! Long live the penguin!
And for gods sake somebody tell thay guy to stop playing around with recursive acronyms. English is not gcc. Recursion is somehting i better leave to my Box to figure out already i got enough hurds trampling my brain
The laws have been in place. And every law has a loophole. It is illegal to murder, illegal to steal. nobody stops. This law will only make life of ordinary people hard, who wont be able to make copies even for personal use. The thieves will find a way.
IF the media thinks it can use laws to curb such things it is mistaken. In a democracy you cant always have what you want, compromises are necessary.
who says u cant obfuscate.
rm -> obfuscate to white space
Though ERS is right to a point, i disagree to a certain extent. Viability was never the real issue. Till now windows has given insecure buggy code. Much better alternatives are available, and inspite of this even many techies go to windows. The key thing here is monoply. A large percentage of the PC's are on windows. Kids are brought up on windows. Though reduction of hardware costs will bring about a change, this wont be making a significant dent. In the fastest developing markets, namely Chine, India etc., most of the windows 98 on home PC's is Pirated. A large percentage of PC owners want to play fancy games and surf the net without frills. Though it is possible on Linux to, it is still though of at real tough by novices. Moreover many home PC owners have pirated games, utilities etc., on their systems. Getting back to the the point, it wont be the cost which will be the major factor. Interoperability will be the major key. The monoply will start breaking, but still hope is not near. And the way US laws are going, who knows what surprises are in store. Money talks, and M$ got lots of it.
huh, ...
good idea. really?
I have an interesting example. KDE. yup they converted something from closed to open. But microsoft is not trolltech, microsoft is M$. Just imagine. God forbid the mono becomes a standard and M$ makes it licenced and closed totally, everybody is in a soup. years of development is through away.
OSS community accuses M$ of making the software industry behind by 10 years. I gues miguel wants to do that to the Linux GUI. As for me i deleted gnome today "make uninstall".
I wonder what is the guy trying to do. There is a popular saying : riding two boats leads to falling in the middle. Thats what miguel is heading. Gnome is a lovely tree nurtured by so many programmers. This is an axe which will destroy it.
Its not about C# being good and what not, its about contigency plans. Ok I am being paraniod, but when M$ is there its better to listen to Andy Grove. As some guy posted in another list : Ask the Samba guys
thats nice. how about UT or NFS or Quake or something like that, maybe an IM or netscape running at LILO, man the people are really coming up with weird stuff. Well it could be useful. If I am undecisive about wether to go windoze or Linux then I can play a chance game to decide... very very productive... wait a minute i got a great idea. Howe about a random movie, if the movie is tragic i boot into one OS otherwise into other. And if its a french beauty its even better... I cant read french but i can sure see !
Linux conferences are a big thing now. so are expos etc etc and LWN etc. But through all the coverage its the marketing and the muscle which gets the hypoe. have the developers, the faceless men who tiol through the nigh so that my mozilla dosnet crash or my Gnome is smooth or my kernel is secure just are forgotten.
Okay Linux, Eric etc have fame. but by and large all these things have become corportate focused! Everybody has myopia when it comes to developers. This really has to change
Well,
Finally sony took the plunge. Its great. I really wonder about the distance the Linux community has travelled! In 91 Linus wouldnt have even thought about such a thing happening... late 90's were spent in getting the server space, and now the new millenium signals Linux arriving in our homes.
Hope this continues!
As for ur question, wether someone would like to crack a science satellite, it depends upon what the satellite does.
If it can give access to the person about a regions weather, landscape.. or it is a remote sensing satellite then yup, some rogue nation would definately be interested.
Moreover this can be done for ransom purposes, a lot of money goes into a satellite, the person may ask a ransom of about 10% of the satellite cost, but not to worry in that regard, u need a real rich hacker.
The biggest danger is that the person may be actually trying a military satellite and uses an ordinary one for dress rehersal.
Lots of possibilities here.. and i agree with slashdot, obscurity is not security. I am not very well versed with satellite protocols, but i think the wireless enginners must be having ideas about security in such situations.
The best way is to encrypt everything and use frequency hopping over a narrow range using an encrypted key. This method can be useful for sensitive places.