Why not try Linux? Test the waters with the Knoppix Live CD (Boots off of the CD and run's completely from RAM) and if you like it move up to a beginner distribution (install wise) like Mandrake or SuSE. I've been on Linux a couple weeks now it's been mostly an easy switch with only a few text files edited by hand. Linux does everything I need. Give Linux a try - with it's wide variety of free software I think it would suit your needs too.
I agree with you except for the US nationalist part. What about a decentralized network of DNS's around the planet? Canada could have some, China could have some, etc. Let each country worry about the security of their own DNS's. You could also tailor the lookup's to each country - ex. China could return a server-not-found error for site's they believe disrupt social harmony and so on....
But at the same time they could be effectively putting a brake on IE dominance of the Internet. If AOL always put the latest version of Netscape on their installer disks, it could give the browser standards issue another 3-6 years of breathing room. If enough mom-and-pop people buy the Netscape brand and therefore as a group hold a significant level of market share (say 10%) then web-content creaters would be more likely to adhere to the W3C documentation for creating standards-compliant pages.
Invalidation of the GPL would mean that existing GPL'd software could be incorporated into commercial code without restriction or credit to the original author.
No, the authors would still own the individual copyrights to the code they wrote.
All I really know about the Gnutella protocol is that it didn't download very fast on Windows and some files didn't download at all.
Kazza Lite on the other hand has lots of users for finding files from and the downloads almost always complete successfully.
Just my Windows experience however, I just repartitioned and installed SuSE 8.2 on my machine today so I still have a lot to learn about Linux.
Finally some compromise, I'll be glad when I can finally pay for the music I sometimes download. I live in a small town so trying to get my favorite bands is too much of a hassle because of long order times. Once this is fully phased in I can instead enjoy 3 minute downloads of my favorite songs through my broadband connection.
As a bonus, hopefully this could see a standard p2p system developed and maybe ported to Linux - then I could get rid of my Windows partition completely.
Yeah but with a GUI and uninstall information that would allow orphan packages (i.e. only needed for one application that you already uninstalled) to be uninstalled automatically for you.
I probably deserved offtopic in my parent post - oh well. Linux newbie, typing this using the Knoppix Live CD so I mean it when I say, Thanks for telling me about tar! I just booted the terminal and I'm skimming the man page on it seeing how close it is to.zip which I'm used to.
Cheers.
What I'd like to see is all the different dependancy based package managers like Red Hat's RPM system or Debian's Apt-Get be unified into a standard installer/uninstaller that all distributions can use.
From what I've read they're going to be rewriting the multiplayer sections of the code. This could be a bonus because if they're rewriting the network code, they already have the experience of writing it the first time fresh in their minds. Since they should already know what the limitations and tradeoffs that were present in the original code were, they should be able to rewrite it this time around to be even more secure and reliable when compared to the original.
I would love to have a system like because I'm a Linux newbie but pretty experienced with Windows. I could have Windows running with Internet access so that I could access the Linux troubleshooting sites and read the how-to's while getting the Linux side of things up to par.
the users will have an option to turn off the DRM...
But it's the first step down a slippery slope. At first it will be optional then when you try to download some content from a web site it will eventually require that the DRM is turned on - getting it into the BIOS as an optional feature eventually creates a large enough user base with the capability for DRM that in a few years content creators will seriously considering using it because the majority of users have the capability.
Also, if deCSS was part of a larger program that played DVD's under Linux then in my opinion it would have much stronger grounds in the DMCA interoperability context. But just by itself, with one function of decoding the CSS stream, it is very vulnerable to being labeled a piracy tool.
Because the judge was an idiot. IMHO of course.
But the court case for deCSS was tried on piracy grounds, not interoperability grounds and that's what broke the case.
Actually, reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is expressly permitted by the DMCA. Under the current laws the best Yahoo! or MSN can hope to do is stay one step ahead in an IM arms race - locking out competing clients until they reverse engineer the protocol again.
I remember reading about a similar event taking place in Russia, devastating several many acres of open forest.
I believe you are referring to Tunguska?? That was a very devastating meteorite, Seismic vibrations were picked up at 1000km away!
It sure uses a lot of bandwidth, even assuming it was compressed. How many channels could you carry in this format over existing cable infrastructure systems? 3, 4?
I agree, context is critically important in human pattern recognition. Context appears to constrain the possible choices at each junction of reasoning. To put this in context;) imagine a short story: you enter a room, you turn on the light, you sit down in your chair. At the "you turn on the light" action, one of the possible branches in that story is not getting a drink from the water cooler. Your choices at that junction are limited by the context, or an analogy of "this leads to that".
Anonymous whistleblowing could lead to a witch hunt that would affect not only you but your co-workers and friends as well. If you whistleblow with your name you risk losing your job. And too much whistleblowering reduce the impact each time leading to less attention being given each subsequent event.
What really needs to change is the culture, engineers need to have more authority than managers.
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Why not try Linux? Test the waters with the Knoppix Live CD (Boots off of the CD and run's completely from RAM) and if you like it move up to a beginner distribution (install wise) like Mandrake or SuSE. I've been on Linux a couple weeks now it's been mostly an easy switch with only a few text files edited by hand. Linux does everything I need. Give Linux a try - with it's wide variety of free software I think it would suit your needs too.
Would the carts also recommend healthy foods over other less desirable categories of foods? Kind of like a built-in dietician?
Well....., Good then!
:)
I agree with you except for the US nationalist part. What about a decentralized network of DNS's around the planet? Canada could have some, China could have some, etc. Let each country worry about the security of their own DNS's. You could also tailor the lookup's to each country - ex. China could return a server-not-found error for site's they believe disrupt social harmony and so on....
How about the Boston Big-dig?
Do you think it'll succeed for retroactively refitting Boston into a modern-layout system?
But at the same time they could be effectively putting a brake on IE dominance of the Internet. If AOL always put the latest version of Netscape on their installer disks, it could give the browser standards issue another 3-6 years of breathing room. If enough mom-and-pop people buy the Netscape brand and therefore as a group hold a significant level of market share (say 10%) then web-content creaters would be more likely to adhere to the W3C documentation for creating standards-compliant pages.
Invalidation of the GPL would mean that existing GPL'd software could be incorporated into commercial code without restriction or credit to the original author.
No, the authors would still own the individual copyrights to the code they wrote.
Check out the giFT project...
Thank you for the link I'm going to bookmark it and come back to that link once I understand Linux a bit more.
All I really know about the Gnutella protocol is that it didn't download very fast on Windows and some files didn't download at all.
Kazza Lite on the other hand has lots of users for finding files from and the downloads almost always complete successfully.
Just my Windows experience however, I just repartitioned and installed SuSE 8.2 on my machine today so I still have a lot to learn about Linux.
Finally some compromise, I'll be glad when I can finally pay for the music I sometimes download. I live in a small town so trying to get my favorite bands is too much of a hassle because of long order times. Once this is fully phased in I can instead enjoy 3 minute downloads of my favorite songs through my broadband connection.
As a bonus, hopefully this could see a standard p2p system developed and maybe ported to Linux - then I could get rid of my Windows partition completely.
Yeah but with a GUI and uninstall information that would allow orphan packages (i.e. only needed for one application that you already uninstalled) to be uninstalled automatically for you. .zip which I'm used to.
I probably deserved offtopic in my parent post - oh well. Linux newbie, typing this using the Knoppix Live CD so I mean it when I say, Thanks for telling me about tar! I just booted the terminal and I'm skimming the man page on it seeing how close it is to
Cheers.
What I'd like to see is all the different dependancy based package managers like Red Hat's RPM system or Debian's Apt-Get be unified into a standard installer/uninstaller that all distributions can use.
Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
From what I've read they're going to be rewriting the multiplayer sections of the code. This could be a bonus because if they're rewriting the network code, they already have the experience of writing it the first time fresh in their minds. Since they should already know what the limitations and tradeoffs that were present in the original code were, they should be able to rewrite it this time around to be even more secure and reliable when compared to the original.
I would love to have a system like because I'm a Linux newbie but pretty experienced with Windows. I could have Windows running with Internet access so that I could access the Linux troubleshooting sites and read the how-to's while getting the Linux side of things up to par.
the users will have an option to turn off the DRM...
But it's the first step down a slippery slope. At first it will be optional then when you try to download some content from a web site it will eventually require that the DRM is turned on - getting it into the BIOS as an optional feature eventually creates a large enough user base with the capability for DRM that in a few years content creators will seriously considering using it because the majority of users have the capability.
Pressing run/stop-restore on my old trusty Commodore 64 would perform a hard reset. This was oh about 1981. ;)
Dammit, I'm getting old
Also, if deCSS was part of a larger program that played DVD's under Linux then in my opinion it would have much stronger grounds in the DMCA interoperability context. But just by itself, with one function of decoding the CSS stream, it is very vulnerable to being labeled a piracy tool.
Because the judge was an idiot. IMHO of course.
But the court case for deCSS was tried on piracy grounds, not interoperability grounds and that's what broke the case.
Actually, reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is expressly permitted by the DMCA. Under the current laws the best Yahoo! or MSN can hope to do is stay one step ahead in an IM arms race - locking out competing clients until they reverse engineer the protocol again.
I remember reading about a similar event taking place in Russia, devastating several many acres of open forest.
I believe you are referring to Tunguska?? That was a very devastating meteorite, Seismic vibrations were picked up at 1000km away!
It sure uses a lot of bandwidth, even assuming it was compressed. How many channels could you carry in this format over existing cable infrastructure systems? 3, 4?
I agree, context is critically important in human pattern recognition. Context appears to constrain the possible choices at each junction of reasoning. To put this in context ;) imagine a short story: you enter a room, you turn on the light, you sit down in your chair. At the "you turn on the light" action, one of the possible branches in that story is not getting a drink from the water cooler. Your choices at that junction are limited by the context, or an analogy of "this leads to that".
Yes, let's kill 7 astronauts so that you can keep your job.
Vision is always 20/20 in hindsight.
Anonymous whistleblowing could lead to a witch hunt that would affect not only you but your co-workers and friends as well. If you whistleblow with your name you risk losing your job. And too much whistleblowering reduce the impact each time leading to less attention being given each subsequent event.
What really needs to change is the culture, engineers need to have more authority than managers.