Gadz, just think of all the problems people have when they go out and get rpms and try to install them. There's so many different flavos of RedHat rpms floating around I would think it would be nothing but trouble for the users.
I'm pretty sure that,with hundreds of millions of these laptops being made, ther will be dedicated sites for their RPMs. More likely, schools will have CDs. I wouldn't want to be downloading ISOs in the veldt. It'll be pretty much like Apple, a controlled hardware platform, no driver or problems.
Later in TFA they talk about MS's involvement. They're "very friendly" to the project. I expect when and if this gets close to production, MS will announce virtually free versions of Windows for these laptops, and push them out through schools, and students never seeing the Linux screen after the first day when the teacher hans out the Windows CDs. MS has shown they'd rather pay people to run Windows than see Linux get a foothold.
ot in the corporate environment - the IT department will simply challenge you to explain why you're using so much more bandwidth
TFA was focused on corporate espionage, which wouldn't necessarily consume huge bandwidth. Besides corporate types thnk nothing of sending huge files (video presentations, eg) around, so even sneaking out big files wouldn't necessarily make a blip. Of course, USB dongles and such are a much easier and right-now threat in that regard.
Why is everyone referring to this as digital rights management?
Because that's what it is. From TFA: "Audible will also offer tools that will stop the podcast from being emailed to others. It will charge five cents per download to track listening and attach the access restrictions."
This is a wonderfully accurate argument for universal time.
There already is a universal time, UTC. Just remind everyone during the call that "All times are UTC (or New York, or Tokyo, or whatever is your choice)". If people are too stupid to realise that someone in another continent is in a different timezone, fire them.
U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds Posted by CowboyNeal
on Saturday July 30, @09:53PM from the time-to-kill dept.
blacklite001 writes "Not content with merely extending Daylight Savings Time, the U.S. government now also proposes to eliminate leap seconds, according to a Wall Street Journal story. Their proposal, 'made secretly to a United Nations body,' includes adding 'a "leap hour" every 500 to 600 years.' Hey, anyone remember the last bunch of people to mess with the calendar?"
I don't see any new developments since the last time.
GET OUT THE MIDDLE EAST, WEST!" sounds _very_ political to me! "STOP MESSING IN OUR AFFAIRS", sounds political to me!"
Ah, now it all makes sense. So this is why Hindus in Bali are repeatedly bombed?
Balinese are collateral damage. The targets are the Western tourists. Bali is a convenient place to kill infidels, being a two-day drive frnm Jakarta with no borders to cross.
actually they do. One of the things they talk about is the decadence of the west and non muslims in general. That would include bars, clubs, tank- tops, bikinis, beer, wine etc etc. all thing we are free to enjoy.
That isn't why you have suicide bombers. Notice that of all the free/decadent countries in the world, the only ones being bombed are those who have entangled themselves in the Middle East.
With automagic updates happening it would be cheese for IIS to just start identifying and screwing with Mozilla based browsers from the start. They wouldn't have to change anything, just take a little break between each line of html. Essentially that would cause Firefox to run so poorly on IIS sites that it wouldn't be usable.
Even Ballmer wouldn't be insane enough to do that. The bad PR and litigation theyu'd face for that would be immense.
There hasn't been any commercial research done in the ISS at all.
Mostly true, but most fundamental science research on the ground is not commercial either. There is a big difference between basic research and technology development.
You seem to have framed a restatement of what I said as a correction....
Not true. ISS is a terrible platform for astronomy. What astronomy was done there?
Yeah, I was thinking of the shuttle (launching satellites mostly).
None of the "zero-G crystals" and such ever amounted to anything that couldn't be done much cheaper down here.
Not true. All approved ISS research was stuff that could not be done at all on the ground. If microgravity was not a requirement, it didn't fly.
PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: NASA KNEW THE SCIENCE WAS VOODOO.
In the days following the Columbia tragedy, NASA repeatedly cited protein crystal growth as an example of important microgravity research conducted on the shuttle. NASA knew better. It was 20 years ago that a protein crystal was first grown on Space Lab 1. NASA boasted that the lysozyme crystal was 1,000 times as large as one grown in the same apparatus on Earth. However, the apparatus was not designed to operate in Earth gravity. The space-grown crystal was no larger than lysozyme crystals grown by standard techniques on Earth. But the myth was born. In 1992, a team of Americans that had done protein crystal studies on Mir, commented in Nature (26 Nov 92) that microgravity had led to no significant breakthrough in protein crystal growth. Every protein that crystalizes in space, crystallizes right here on Earth. Nevertheless, in 1997, Larry DeLucas, a University of Alabama at Birmingham chemist and a former astronaut, testified before the Space Subcommittee of the House that a protein structure, determined from a crystal grown on the shuttle, resulted in a new flu drug that was in clinical trials. It simply was not true. Two years later Science magazine (25 June 99) revealed that the crystal had been grown in Australia, which is a long way off, but it's not in space. Meanwhile, the American Society for Cell Biology, which includes the biologists most involved in protein crystallography, called for the cancellation of the space-based program. Hoping to regain some credibility, an embarrassed NASA turned to the National Academy of Science to review biotechnology plans for the Space Station. On March 1, 2000, the National Research Council, the research arm of the Academy, released their study. It concluded that the enormous investment in protein crystal growth on the Shuttle and Mir had not led to a single unique scientific result. It might be supposed that programs in space-grown protein crystals would be terminated. It was a shock to open the press kit for STS-107 and discover that the final flight of Columbia carried a commercial protein crystal growth experiment for the Center for Biophysical Science and Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Director of the Center is Lawrence J. DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D.
NASA could always charge for experiments to be conducted. Plenty of R&D groups would pay up
Who, why? There hasn't been any commercial research done in the ISS at all. Mostly astronomy, using the ISS as a platform, and life sciences, which is really only of interest if you're flying astronauts. None of the "zero-G crystals" and such ever amounted to anything that couldn't be done much cheaper down here.
The key word here is "supported", you can't expect Redhat, Novell or even Microsoft to support your modifications.
The first thing just about any vendor, MS or a reseller, Apple, will tell you when you have a problem with the OS is to do a clean install. If you want someone to fix your Windows install while keeping all your apps and settings intact, you'll be paying a hefty call out fee.
in the UK at least, smokers pay significanly more in taxes than it costs the health system to look after them while they die; IIRC the figure is around an order of magnitude difference.
So smokers spend 20 or more times on cigarettes than they do no income tax? Perhaps this is true for the unemployed.
A large number of people weighed the risk of death and the cost of the product against the benefit they receive, and bought the product.
No they didn't. People hardly ever make decisions based on rational cost/benfit calculations. That's why almost all successful advertisng pushes our instinctive sex, status or fear buttons. Especially for choosing to smoke, a decsion based mostly on teenagers' peer pressure and once they start, on chemical addiction.
I wonder if this will have any impact on the no smoking bans we have seen in recent years?'
No, because it's now a witch hunt.
No, because the second-hand smoke won't be passing through these wonderful filters. Actually, I guess the risk to smokers themselves in the best case would approach that of the person sitting next to them breathing their smoke. Good for smokers, but no reason for non-smokers to put up with it. And smokers will still start as many fires, whatever filters they use (fire risk was a big reason for institutional bans, not smoke per se).
In response to criticism from theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, Mills says: "I'll have demonstrated an entirely new form of energy production by the end of 2000.
The intended recipient who hears the cipher text transmitted on the public channel, has the correct One Time Pad at his end, uses it and gets the real plain text message "KILL". The enemy who also captured that same cipher text, tortures the person who may or may not know the real One Time Pad...
That isn't the situation I was talkig about. No messages, just big chunks of encrypted filesystem on a hard disk, encrypted by the person under duress. One-time pad is impractical in this situation, I think.
For a great example of such software, look for "rubberhose" (which apparently is a now-defunct project, but can still be found on the internet archive
You think the Gestapo doesn't know about this? They'll never let you go. Once they see or suspect that's the kind of encryption you're using, they'll just keep going till every "random" byte is accounted for, or you die, whichever comes first.
It takes at least 5 million dollars to probduce a small budget move these days. How much does it take to make one song? I don't think that the music industry should be priced at the same level as the film industry. I think that the earlier price point, at 5$ seems ok, the one dollar is ridiculous.
Movies earn money in the cinemas; then on disc, then on cable TV, then rental, then on free-to-air. Music basically just from discs. (Maybe live performing for some groups.) So though a movie costs much more to create, it has many more ways to earn, and typically has a much longer life to earn over (partly because there are many more music CDs than movies made). So it comes down to a small margin over the cost of distribution.
Even Mossad knows that torture is a dead end (no pun intended). Torturing someone will just give you what you want to hear. Competent interrogators use psychology and are far subtler.
However, in this case, torture would be very effective.
Give us the code or we cut off a toe.
Wrong -- cut off another, connect the battery to the genitals, etc.
Because they can immediately test the answers, lying won't save you as it could in open-ended intelligence gathering.
but it does mean that the idea most certainly will have been published and shown to people.
Well, not shown, but made available to. Studios return unsolicited scripts unread to avoid the possibility of someone laying claim to an idea later independently created. Never seeing the claimed original work (though it is "available") is sufficient defence against a plagiarism claim. With patents, lack of knowledge of an existing patent is no defence.
... This will also effectively kill those pesky independent screenwriters and film studios, since the large studios will simply refuse to license the plot elements. (The large studios won't have any difficulty; they'll merely cross-license with each other.) The studios could also, if they so wished, break the screenwriters' union overnight.
Nice theory. However, what then happens 17-20 years later, when all the patents expire? Will there be indefinite extensions as for copyright? But there are lots of parties who depend on expired patents for their businesses (generic drugs, eg) so there would be a strong lobby against that for a change.
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I'm pretty sure that,with hundreds of millions of these laptops being made, ther will be dedicated sites for their RPMs. More likely, schools will have CDs. I wouldn't want to be downloading ISOs in the veldt. It'll be pretty much like Apple, a controlled hardware platform, no driver or problems.
Later in TFA they talk about MS's involvement. They're "very friendly" to the project. I expect when and if this gets close to production, MS will announce virtually free versions of Windows for these laptops, and push them out through schools, and students never seeing the Linux screen after the first day when the teacher hans out the Windows CDs. MS has shown they'd rather pay people to run Windows than see Linux get a foothold.
Don't forget the sunscreen.
TFA was focused on corporate espionage, which wouldn't necessarily consume huge bandwidth. Besides corporate types thnk nothing of sending huge files (video presentations, eg) around, so even sneaking out big files wouldn't necessarily make a blip. Of course, USB dongles and such are a much easier and right-now threat in that regard.
Because that's what it is. From TFA: "Audible will also offer tools that will stop the podcast from being emailed to others. It will charge five cents per download to track listening and attach the access restrictions."
It wasn't Bush, and he (Stewart Baker, Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy) didn't mention Sony by name.
There already is a universal time, UTC. Just remind everyone during the call that "All times are UTC (or New York, or Tokyo, or whatever is your choice)". If people are too stupid to realise that someone in another continent is in a different timezone, fire them.
dupe
I don't see any new developments since the last time.Ah, now it all makes sense. So this is why Hindus in Bali are repeatedly bombed?
Balinese are collateral damage. The targets are the Western tourists. Bali is a convenient place to kill infidels, being a two-day drive frnm Jakarta with no borders to cross.
That isn't why you have suicide bombers. Notice that of all the free/decadent countries in the world, the only ones being bombed are those who have entangled themselves in the Middle East.
Even Ballmer wouldn't be insane enough to do that. The bad PR and litigation theyu'd face for that would be immense.
Mostly true, but most fundamental science research on the ground is not commercial either. There is a big difference between basic research and technology development.
You seem to have framed a restatement of what I said as a correction....
Not true. ISS is a terrible platform for astronomy. What astronomy was done there?
Yeah, I was thinking of the shuttle (launching satellites mostly).
None of the "zero-G crystals" and such ever amounted to anything that couldn't be done much cheaper down here.
Not true. All approved ISS research was stuff that could not be done at all on the ground. If microgravity was not a requirement, it didn't fly.
Bob Parks discusses this:
Who, why? There hasn't been any commercial research done in the ISS at all. Mostly astronomy, using the ISS as a platform, and life sciences, which is really only of interest if you're flying astronauts. None of the "zero-G crystals" and such ever amounted to anything that couldn't be done much cheaper down here.
The first thing just about any vendor, MS or a reseller, Apple, will tell you when you have a problem with the OS is to do a clean install. If you want someone to fix your Windows install while keeping all your apps and settings intact, you'll be paying a hefty call out fee.
So smokers spend 20 or more times on cigarettes than they do no income tax? Perhaps this is true for the unemployed.
Probbaly, if you smoked them and the radioactive particles lodged in your lungs.
No they didn't. People hardly ever make decisions based on rational cost/benfit calculations. That's why almost all successful advertisng pushes our instinctive sex, status or fear buttons. Especially for choosing to smoke, a decsion based mostly on teenagers' peer pressure and once they start, on chemical addiction.
No, because it's now a witch hunt.
No, because the second-hand smoke won't be passing through these wonderful filters. Actually, I guess the risk to smokers themselves in the best case would approach that of the person sitting next to them breathing their smoke. Good for smokers, but no reason for non-smokers to put up with it. And smokers will still start as many fires, whatever filters they use (fire risk was a big reason for institutional bans, not smoke per se).
That isn't the situation I was talkig about. No messages, just big chunks of encrypted filesystem on a hard disk, encrypted by the person under duress. One-time pad is impractical in this situation, I think.
You think the Gestapo doesn't know about this? They'll never let you go. Once they see or suspect that's the kind of encryption you're using, they'll just keep going till every "random" byte is accounted for, or you die, whichever comes first.
Movies earn money in the cinemas; then on disc, then on cable TV, then rental, then on free-to-air. Music basically just from discs. (Maybe live performing for some groups.) So though a movie costs much more to create, it has many more ways to earn, and typically has a much longer life to earn over (partly because there are many more music CDs than movies made). So it comes down to a small margin over the cost of distribution.
However, in this case, torture would be very effective.
Give us the code or we cut off a toe.
Wrong -- cut off another, connect the battery to the genitals, etc.
Because they can immediately test the answers, lying won't save you as it could in open-ended intelligence gathering.
Well, not shown, but made available to. Studios return unsolicited scripts unread to avoid the possibility of someone laying claim to an idea later independently created. Never seeing the claimed original work (though it is "available") is sufficient defence against a plagiarism claim. With patents, lack of knowledge of an existing patent is no defence.
Nice theory. However, what then happens 17-20 years later, when all the patents expire? Will there be indefinite extensions as for copyright? But there are lots of parties who depend on expired patents for their businesses (generic drugs, eg) so there would be a strong lobby against that for a change.