Does anyone remember this? A couple years ago a group reversed engineered the distributed.net protocol and threatened to release their code to protest the fact that d.net was closed source. Now, the actual cracking code was open source, but the protocol that actually sent the data was closed. Security through obscurity. Distributed.net figured they could deal with the few people who would go through the trouble of actually reverse engineering the client to send fake packets, but that dealing with everyone that could type "make install"
Anyway, d.net threatened to shut down if they released the software, and the group never did. The distributed.net people called them "Open Source Terrorists" and I kind of agree. A lot of people on slashdot were saying "Well, I'm not going to run something I don't have the code for..." so then just don't run it, jackass.
Open source zealots seem to be a lot more fervent and religious then even Mac zealots, but still I doubt any of them would do something really crazy, like assassinate McBride.
I mean, lots of people know who hitler is, but that dosn't make him "popular":P
Lots of people use windows and hate it. From memories of constant crashes in the 3.11/98 days to the constant security holes today windows users have lots of reasons to lothe the OS.
I use windows because I'm a lazy bastard. I Recently switched to Mozilla when some Spyware got installed on my machine during a normal web-surfing session. I don't know if I accidentally clicked "yes" on something I should have, but who knows. AdAware didn't even find the file, and I had to look for references to new files in the registry to get rid of the shit (they called it win32.dll...)
At some point, probably when win2k becomes obsolete I'll switch to Linux. But in the interim I'll use windows and bitch:P
If you need CMYK so bad, why don't you just hack it in yourself? If the developers won't take your patch, you can fork it and call your program KimmyK draw or something.
Well, you could use a front-mounted USB port and plug in the key for the app you want to use, just like the old Atari days where the programs came on cartages:P
Adobe probably has the most widely pirated software in the world. I mean it seems like everyone has a pirated copy of Photoshop at least.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that all those people would convert to paying customers, after all not too many people could justify the $800 price tag required, and would either find a cracked version, or move to the GIMP.
The interet2 is not "more bandwidth" it's "lots of bandwidth between universities". Like I said, the only thing I was ever able to use it for was Linux ISOs. There are no movies or anything like that on it.
So, if I come up with something novel, market it it, and make money for a few years, you think someone else should still be allowed to patent it and force me to stop making it?
Hindsight is 20/20. Pretty much everything already thought up is "obvious". If a bunch of people think up something in parallel, then it's obvious as well.
And I'm on it right now. Basically it's a high-bandwidth network between universities and research institutions. I've downloaded Linux ISOs at hundreds of megs/second (without bittorent), but that's about all it's done for me. But for people who want to colaborate with large sets of data it's great. It was never ment for the average person.
It's too bad that Java is tied into such a flailing company. I hope they don't get "new management" that tries to "monitize" it.
That said, our school just got a lab full of Sun boxes in the CS building. They replaced a bunch of Linux machines. Everyone was shocked, and no one uses them.
I wanted to use them for some remote desktoppin' using VNC's built in webserver+java applet, and the browser on the sun machines (Netscape 4) didn't even hava java support!
America was formed on Romantic philosophy (all men created equal, etc). Many of the people behind that philosophy, and many of the people who founded this country were not Christian.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the republic for witch is stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty, justice and equality for all"
That was the original pledge, written after the civil war (thus the 'one nation, indivisible'). The "Equality" part was taken out right away, along with the "of the United states of America". "Under god" was not added for like a hundred years.
Is there anything wrong with the Pledge? Is there anything wrong with saying it? Is there anything wrong with believing what you are saying? Is there anything wrong with having pride in your country, even if you don't agree with its government sometimes?
No, but there definetly is something wrong with forcing little kids to do it. And 99% of the time they arn't told it's optional. In fact, some kids do get in trouble for not saying it.
Anti-Americanism within America is really annoying.
So are fuckheads like you who want to impose your belifes on everyone else. You're the real anti-american here.
The case is going to go ahead without strom thurmond, who said earlier that he dissagreed with the lower court. So theoreticaly the ban has a much better chance of being passed. If the court ties in a 4-4 verdict, the lower court ruling will stand as well.
Although, given the response after the origional ruling, I wouldn't be suprised if someone tried to get an amendment added to the constitution spesificaly allowing it, or worse...
Morons learn the diffrence between a bunch of a computers, and a bunch of computers a new building to put them in and staff, mantnence, power, AC for five years...
The $38 mill is the cost of building a brand new building, and supporting the cluster for five years (staff, power, networing, repair, ac, etc). The price on the macs is just the price of the actual machines.
Now, IANAL, but I've always been told that if you don't take steps to defend your patents as soon as you discover that someone is violating them, you effectively looses it.
You're right. You're not a laywer. That is entirely false. Just look at Unisys. They let their GIF patent slide untill just two years before it was going to expire, and then started demanding money. And they got it.
You need to defend trademarks, but you do not need to defent patents or copyrights.
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Does anyone remember this? A couple years ago a group reversed engineered the distributed.net protocol and threatened to release their code to protest the fact that d.net was closed source. Now, the actual cracking code was open source, but the protocol that actually sent the data was closed. Security through obscurity. Distributed.net figured they could deal with the few people who would go through the trouble of actually reverse engineering the client to send fake packets, but that dealing with everyone that could type "make install"
Anyway, d.net threatened to shut down if they released the software, and the group never did. The distributed.net people called them "Open Source Terrorists" and I kind of agree. A lot of people on slashdot were saying "Well, I'm not going to run something I don't have the code for..." so then just don't run it, jackass.
Open source zealots seem to be a lot more fervent and religious then even Mac zealots, but still I doubt any of them would do something really crazy, like assassinate McBride.
You have to pay people to keep fucking patching windows every week!
/pissed off windows user.
I mean, lots of people know who hitler is, but that dosn't make him "popular" :P
:P
Lots of people use windows and hate it. From memories of constant crashes in the 3.11/98 days to the constant security holes today windows users have lots of reasons to lothe the OS.
I use windows because I'm a lazy bastard. I Recently switched to Mozilla when some Spyware got installed on my machine during a normal web-surfing session. I don't know if I accidentally clicked "yes" on something I should have, but who knows. AdAware didn't even find the file, and I had to look for references to new files in the registry to get rid of the shit (they called it win32.dll...)
At some point, probably when win2k becomes obsolete I'll switch to Linux. But in the interim I'll use windows and bitch
If you need CMYK so bad, why don't you just hack it in yourself? If the developers won't take your patch, you can fork it and call your program KimmyK draw or something.
Well, you could use a front-mounted USB port and plug in the key for the app you want to use, just like the old Atari days where the programs came on cartages :P
Adobe probably has the most widely pirated software in the world. I mean it seems like everyone has a pirated copy of Photoshop at least.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that all those people would convert to paying customers, after all not too many people could justify the $800 price tag required, and would either find a cracked version, or move to the GIMP.
The interet2 is not "more bandwidth" it's "lots of bandwidth between universities". Like I said, the only thing I was ever able to use it for was Linux ISOs. There are no movies or anything like that on it.
One of the founders of the project we are discussing responds and only gets a +3? Wtf...
So, if I come up with something novel, market it it, and make money for a few years, you think someone else should still be allowed to patent it and force me to stop making it?
Hindsight is 20/20. Pretty much everything already thought up is "obvious". If a bunch of people think up something in parallel, then it's obvious as well.
And I'm on it right now. Basically it's a high-bandwidth network between universities and research institutions. I've downloaded Linux ISOs at hundreds of megs/second (without bittorent), but that's about all it's done for me. But for people who want to colaborate with large sets of data it's great. It was never ment for the average person.
It's too bad that Java is tied into such a flailing company. I hope they don't get "new management" that tries to "monitize" it.
That said, our school just got a lab full of Sun boxes in the CS building. They replaced a bunch of Linux machines. Everyone was shocked, and no one uses them.
I wanted to use them for some remote desktoppin' using VNC's built in webserver+java applet, and the browser on the sun machines (Netscape 4) didn't even hava java support!
I don't think religions people are "fuckheads", I think people who belive taking the 'under god' part of the pldege out is somehow 'anti-american'.
Why not just setup a system like strangesearch and let people use windows/SAMBA sharing?
is that Michael is a total chode.
America was formed on Romantic philosophy (all men created equal, etc). Many of the people behind that philosophy, and many of the people who founded this country were not Christian.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the republic for witch is stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty, justice and equality for all" That was the original pledge, written after the civil war (thus the 'one nation, indivisible'). The "Equality" part was taken out right away, along with the "of the United states of America". "Under god" was not added for like a hundred years.
Is there anything wrong with the Pledge? Is there anything wrong with saying it? Is there anything wrong with believing what you are saying? Is there anything wrong with having pride in your country, even if you don't agree with its government sometimes?
No, but there definetly is something wrong with forcing little kids to do it. And 99% of the time they arn't told it's optional. In fact, some kids do get in trouble for not saying it.
Anti-Americanism within America is really annoying.
So are fuckheads like you who want to impose your belifes on everyone else. You're the real anti-american here.
Scalia, strom thurmond, what's the diffrence?
The case is going to go ahead without strom thurmond, who said earlier that he dissagreed with the lower court. So theoreticaly the ban has a much better chance of being passed. If the court ties in a 4-4 verdict, the lower court ruling will stand as well.
Although, given the response after the origional ruling, I wouldn't be suprised if someone tried to get an amendment added to the constitution spesificaly allowing it, or worse...
That the UT price includes the power, staff and even the building to put the computers in. Not just the individual computer cost.
Morons learn the diffrence between a bunch of a computers, and a bunch of computers a new building to put them in and staff, mantnence, power, AC for five years...
The $38 mill is the cost of building a brand new building, and supporting the cluster for five years (staff, power, networing, repair, ac, etc). The price on the macs is just the price of the actual machines.
In this case, you're also building a whole office to put your computer in. (as UT built a new building to house the computers)
Now, IANAL, but I've always been told that if you don't take steps to defend your patents as soon as you discover that someone is violating them, you effectively looses it.
You're right. You're not a laywer. That is entirely false. Just look at Unisys. They let their GIF patent slide untill just two years before it was going to expire, and then started demanding money. And they got it.
You need to defend trademarks, but you do not need to defent patents or copyrights.
Slashdot runs the same shitty codebase they have for the past 6 or 7 or god knows how many years. It's all perl.