There are many reasons companies cannot or will not make their driver source public.
That's quite true, and has nothing at all to do with this case.
No one is forcing them to open their source. They're quite welcome to keep it. What they're not welcome to do is lie about the status in a way that shifts the support burden of their buggy code onto open source developers. The purpose of the license registration is to keep developers from wasting time debugging kernel crashes that come from closed-source module code.
Your problem is that you equate the current system with the normal meals provided by a restaurant.
Under my current cable company... whoever they hell they are this week, I think Comcast... You can get the nature & learning channels as a package... conveniently packaged along with the sports channels. So, despite the fact that I have never once tuned into anySPN of any sort, I'm paying for them because I want my kids to be able to watch some of the less brain-dead TV options.
In restaurant terms, that would be ordering the 3 enchilada meal, and getting two tacos, a couple of burritos, some nachos, flan, and a 6-pack of Dos Equis - sure, it's four times the price, but look at all you're getting!
Check out your cable companies 'menu items.' I guarantee you'll find the pairings to be geared towards getting people to pay for crap they don't want in order to get crap they do.
I bought and loved the Appleseed books back in the early 90s, but I'm not generally an anime person, so the idiot-level questions that I have aren't really covered by this article or the links. Can someone translate into stupid for me?
1) If there's a "world sneak preview," does that mean this will come out in US theaters anytime soon?
2) Will the July DVD release be Japanese only, subtitled, dubbed, what?
In other words, how soon - if ever - can someone who's not that big on watching a movie in just Japanese see it?
Prior to fvwm, I used this in olvwm - Open Look Virtual Window Manager. Open Look was what Sun used before they had whatever lobotomy led them to believe CDE was something anyone wanted, and olvwm was a 'virtual' version that you could get separately. I seem to recall using it back in '93-'95 or so, but it might have been a year or two later than that...
What is going on? Didn't Microsoft have the same vulnerability recently? How is it that three entirely different operating systems (Linux,Windows,BSD) have the same vulnerability?
More likely the root cause of the problem is that parsing (anything) is an error-prone process, and parsing a complex standard is even more likely to result in problems. Parsers have to try to pull the data that is supposed to be there according to the standard, and have to hope that whoever is writing the data is also reading the standard correctly and in the same way, and it's just a huge mess.
Of course the accidental picture was the one that became famous.
For those that aren't making the connection, the famous photo and a number of others taken at the time are here. There was a stamp made of it too. And it was made into a statue for the Marine Corps War Memorial.
As a matter of fact, there is nothing stopping spammers from registering a bogus domain, and making the entire internet part of their SPF
But it kills domain forging; they have to use their own bogus domains which can be quickly and easily blacklisted by other methods if they spam a lot. SPF says "This machine can be held accountable for mail sent for this domain," there's no magic if you're not willing to actually hold people accountable. But the contrapositive to that is, if someone says they're host is accountable and mail from that host is otherwise sound, then you should give them the benefit of the doubt.
What is needed is SPF and some sort of a trust between domains.
Mechanisms based on trust are either expensive or doomed to failure. So it has always been and so it will always be.
Will they HONOR them as well as publish them? Or will they continue to block connections from cable modem hosts even if those hosts have SPF records demonstrating their validity?
I'll have to see if dyndns can set up SPF records and test that later today.
Well, its been over 3 years now and not a single inch of extra lane has been opened (yet they have almost the entire thing paved and still blocked off).
Um, actually:
They started in summer 2001 (that would be 2.5 years ago) and they're scheduled to end in May 2004, with most of it done in February 2004. It was announced as a 3 year project, and it looks like it is on course.
Yeah, they've paved it, with the minor matter of numerous narrow bridges still being removed. You think it would be better if they let you use that third lane between bridges so you could play merge every few miles?
The only downside of the route 3 project is that the road that they started with was already heinously overloaded. That, and they took out those purty trees in the middle.
Becuase you can change your password a whole lot easier than you can change your DNA.
That's nice, but it has nothing to do with what they're doing.
Passwords are authentication. Passports are identification. Identification and authentication are not the same. This use of biometrics would be more analagous to the username than the password.
Keep in mind, also, that this is being used with passports. Passports, unlike ATM cards, are usually presented manually for verification. When the security guard wipes your fingers with an alcohol wipe and mashes them against the machine, spoofing the machinery (e.g., jelly fingers) is a bit harder.
This might even fix the achilles heel of identification (licenses, passports, etc) which is that it is too easy to forge or bribe your way to a fake one. If the big ol' biometric databases notes that Mr. Hakim Faisal is registering for a second passport as Mr. Jorge Fuentes, then that should throw up a flag.
Outfit the trucks with GPS equipment that the driver can turn off when he's done working?
The linked articles don't state that, but in fact, that's how it works.
Dial in to "punch the clock" as on duty. Dial again to "punch the clock" to go off duty. Leave it sitting on the dashboard for the rest of the shift. No tracking when not punched in.
Are they having a problem with the drivers taking off time to make snow-angels? I don't get it.
I think they're worried about:
Excessive breaks
Plowing driveways for personal profit while being paid to plow state roads
Reporting as plowing while snuggled up in bed
Assessing plow coverage in real-time (probably not right away, but eventually) so they can retarget plows for better coverage.
The plower's union has complained that it will be "dangerous" to put this "attention-stealing" gadget in their trucks. Since they only use it at the start and stop of the shift, or if they get a call, the only people who I think qualify for that complaint are the truckers with no cell phones and no radios already in their truck.
One of the government folks said, and I paraphrase, "I used to assume there was about 10% loss in the system. I'm starting to think, from the reaction that this is getting, that it must be a lot higher than that." I think he's probably right.
Blocking banner ads? That's nothing. Norton blocks STARTTLS encryption of SMTP (email) sessions, making it so that users CANNOT both scan outgoing mail for viruses AND encrypt their connection to the mail server. Everyone can read the mail - but at least there are no viruses in it!
Most annoyingly, they intercept the STARTTLS command with an innocuous error code, so that debugging it can be heinously difficult. Afraid to put "550 NAV is responsible for disabling your security" for some reason!
People can harp on about "not enough data" or "inconclusive evidence" all they want but if entire nations vanishing beneath the waves or historic cities sinking isn't a wake-up call then I don't know what is.
You seem to be confusing climate swings, which we know happen normally over great time periods, with human propensity to build in places that are convenient and attractive without regard to the long term status of the land.
Venice may very well have been flooded many, many times over the earth's history. It's only now that the human ants have built their hill there that the possibility of it happening again becomes a capital-P problem.
The current climate change may be affected by human outputs, or it may just be another natural swing (one doubts, for example, that human emissions have caused historic high sunspot activity). To advocate that our propensity for building beach houses should give us the right or responsibility to leash the natural variations of the world and confine them to some comfortable mean is just plain dumb.
New York City has fined a COFFEE ROASTER for the smell of... umm... ROASTED COFFEE. See also here,
Not some diluted ratio of it. No, an inspector responded to a complaint, walked around outside, and found that yes, he could smell roasted coffee. "During the hearing it was learned that the City inspector on the job
18-months, with no formal training in the detection or measuring of odors
smelled coffee in the complainants apartment." (Usenet post) Since ONE person found it objectionable enough to complain over, the company gets fined.
Note: NOT a problem with the roasting chamber exhausts, which were correctly installed and functioning to specification. The smell came from coffee being stored after being roasted - you know, the smell you get in a COFFEE SHOP.
As of the most recent update, the coffee roaster is $40k in the hole for legal fees trying to get this joke of an administrative decision overturned.
I might care more about this if the district had a legitimate use for wifi.
Do they have a legitimate use for network connectivity?
Pulling cable is much more expensive, especially with the cinder block and concrete that is usually used to build a school. Wifi is cheaper to implement. Whether they're going to be mobile or not, it may be the cheaper way to wire up the school - and more flexible, if someone wants to rearrange desks.
I can see two problems with this. After reading the draft RFC and the site docs, I don't see answers, am I missing something?
The use of DNS TXT records instead of creating a new DNS resource type means that the system is more dependent on parsing data, which is less efficient and more prone to bugs. How long until sendmail has a remote hole when presented with "spf=AAAAAAAAAA..." as an SPF record?
What about force majeure intermediate hops (as opposed to mailing list gateways)? For example, the other anti-spam measures being taken by (for example) AOL mean that DSL and cable modem users must route their mail through their ISP's mail server. The draft states the relays should modify the envelope to make things kosher, but if I trusted Comcast to do that, I'd trust them to run a decent mail server (and I don't, especially since they spent 5 days last week bouncing my wife's email...)
The first problem is fixable - use TXT records for now, push through a draft for a new resource type, and have a migration period so that you can encourage adoption without gating it on changes to the DNS hierarchy.
The lessons of NFS are being ignored, and I'd expect HyperSCSI to die when it hits the same limitations.
NFS started out UDP-based, and moved toward TCP with NFSv3. Why? Because having all that error correction done at the network layer made for a better product; TCP does all the work to insure packets aren't lost or out-of-order. UDP doesn't, and the NFS application layer had to handle it, making it slower, more painful, and a duplication of effort better spent elsewhere.
The industry guys are almost right on this one. It isn't a beer can with a motor; it's a beer can with an M-80. Fun to watch when it works right, damn painful if you screw it up.
I have to ask, what the hell is a chief people officer??
Remember how "Soylent Green is people?"
That's the person charged with taking humans, extracting useful output (usually work), and making sure that the humans are kept mostly happy so that they don't realize how much they're being exploited.
I've always wondered how "Human Resources" corresponded to "Natural Resources." The next time you see an HR person, ask yourself if they'd look comfortable at a strip mine.
Lets hope Bruce still has his job by the end of the week.
As the founder of Counterpane, he's probably got a bit more say in his company. Also, @Stake has expanded a lot with VC, I think Counterpane has grown more... carefully.
Interesting. Does that mean that employees should only issue statements in the course of their job responsibilities? Or that job statements must be objective, fact-based and truthful but personal statements can be whatever they want? This latter interpretation seems to conflict with their action.
I don't think Dan Geer will have trouble finding a new job. However, it is an interesting reflection of what @Stake has become. Look at their management team. Looks awfully VC to me.
Why switch back to pagers, as the article suggests? Wire up with an earbud, get voice-activated dialing, and you're off and running without having to touch it all the time.
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There are many reasons companies cannot or will not make their driver source public.
That's quite true, and has nothing at all to do with this case.
No one is forcing them to open their source. They're quite welcome to keep it. What they're not welcome to do is lie about the status in a way that shifts the support burden of their buggy code onto open source developers. The purpose of the license registration is to keep developers from wasting time debugging kernel crashes that come from closed-source module code.
So when did a-la-carte mean cheaper?
Your problem is that you equate the current system with the normal meals provided by a restaurant.
Under my current cable company... whoever they hell they are this week, I think Comcast... You can get the nature & learning channels as a package... conveniently packaged along with the sports channels. So, despite the fact that I have never once tuned into anySPN of any sort, I'm paying for them because I want my kids to be able to watch some of the less brain-dead TV options.
In restaurant terms, that would be ordering the 3 enchilada meal, and getting two tacos, a couple of burritos, some nachos, flan, and a 6-pack of Dos Equis - sure, it's four times the price, but look at all you're getting!
Check out your cable companies 'menu items.' I guarantee you'll find the pairings to be geared towards getting people to pay for crap they don't want in order to get crap they do.
I bought and loved the Appleseed books back in the early 90s, but I'm not generally an anime person, so the idiot-level questions that I have aren't really covered by this article or the links. Can someone translate into stupid for me?
1) If there's a "world sneak preview," does that mean this will come out in US theaters anytime soon?
2) Will the July DVD release be Japanese only, subtitled, dubbed, what?
In other words, how soon - if ever - can someone who's not that big on watching a movie in just Japanese see it?
Prior to fvwm, I used this in olvwm - Open Look Virtual Window Manager. Open Look was what Sun used before they had whatever lobotomy led them to believe CDE was something anyone wanted, and olvwm was a 'virtual' version that you could get separately. I seem to recall using it back in '93-'95 or so, but it might have been a year or two later than that...
What is going on? Didn't Microsoft have the same vulnerability recently? How is it that three entirely different operating systems (Linux,Windows,BSD) have the same vulnerability?
More likely the root cause of the problem is that parsing (anything) is an error-prone process, and parsing a complex standard is even more likely to result in problems. Parsers have to try to pull the data that is supposed to be there according to the standard, and have to hope that whoever is writing the data is also reading the standard correctly and in the same way, and it's just a huge mess.
a company could allow users to use most any PC for access.
Which would cover the software sniffers but not hardware, which is pretty cheap and easy to get.
Of course the accidental picture was the one that became famous.
For those that aren't making the connection, the famous photo and a number of others taken at the time are here. There was a stamp made of it too. And it was made into a statue for the Marine Corps War Memorial.
As a matter of fact, there is nothing stopping spammers from registering a bogus domain, and making the entire internet part of their SPF
But it kills domain forging; they have to use their own bogus domains which can be quickly and easily blacklisted by other methods if they spam a lot. SPF says "This machine can be held accountable for mail sent for this domain," there's no magic if you're not willing to actually hold people accountable. But the contrapositive to that is, if someone says they're host is accountable and mail from that host is otherwise sound, then you should give them the benefit of the doubt.
What is needed is SPF and some sort of a trust between domains.
Mechanisms based on trust are either expensive or doomed to failure. So it has always been and so it will always be.
Will they HONOR them as well as publish them? Or will they continue to block connections from cable modem hosts even if those hosts have SPF records demonstrating their validity?
I'll have to see if dyndns can set up SPF records and test that later today.
A peer-to-peer network shouldn't have ghettos.
Well, its been over 3 years now and not a single inch of extra lane has been opened (yet they have almost the entire thing paved and still blocked off).
Um, actually:
The only downside of the route 3 project is that the road that they started with was already heinously overloaded. That, and they took out those purty trees in the middle.
Becuase you can change your password a whole lot easier than you can change your DNA.
That's nice, but it has nothing to do with what they're doing.
Passwords are authentication. Passports are identification. Identification and authentication are not the same. This use of biometrics would be more analagous to the username than the password.
Keep in mind, also, that this is being used with passports. Passports, unlike ATM cards, are usually presented manually for verification. When the security guard wipes your fingers with an alcohol wipe and mashes them against the machine, spoofing the machinery (e.g., jelly fingers) is a bit harder.
This might even fix the achilles heel of identification (licenses, passports, etc) which is that it is too easy to forge or bribe your way to a fake one. If the big ol' biometric databases notes that Mr. Hakim Faisal is registering for a second passport as Mr. Jorge Fuentes, then that should throw up a flag.
Outfit the trucks with GPS equipment that the driver can turn off when he's done working?
The linked articles don't state that, but in fact, that's how it works.
Dial in to "punch the clock" as on duty. Dial again to "punch the clock" to go off duty. Leave it sitting on the dashboard for the rest of the shift. No tracking when not punched in.
Are they having a problem with the drivers taking off time to make snow-angels? I don't get it.
I think they're worried about:
The plower's union has complained that it will be "dangerous" to put this "attention-stealing" gadget in their trucks. Since they only use it at the start and stop of the shift, or if they get a call, the only people who I think qualify for that complaint are the truckers with no cell phones and no radios already in their truck.
One of the government folks said, and I paraphrase, "I used to assume there was about 10% loss in the system. I'm starting to think, from the reaction that this is getting, that it must be a lot higher than that." I think he's probably right.
Blocking banner ads? That's nothing. Norton blocks STARTTLS encryption of SMTP (email) sessions, making it so that users CANNOT both scan outgoing mail for viruses AND encrypt their connection to the mail server. Everyone can read the mail - but at least there are no viruses in it!
Most annoyingly, they intercept the STARTTLS command with an innocuous error code, so that debugging it can be heinously difficult. Afraid to put "550 NAV is responsible for disabling your security" for some reason!
People can harp on about "not enough data" or "inconclusive evidence" all they want but if entire nations vanishing beneath the waves or historic cities sinking isn't a wake-up call then I don't know what is.
You seem to be confusing climate swings, which we know happen normally over great time periods, with human propensity to build in places that are convenient and attractive without regard to the long term status of the land.
Venice may very well have been flooded many, many times over the earth's history. It's only now that the human ants have built their hill there that the possibility of it happening again becomes a capital-P problem.
The current climate change may be affected by human outputs, or it may just be another natural swing (one doubts, for example, that human emissions have caused historic high sunspot activity). To advocate that our propensity for building beach houses should give us the right or responsibility to leash the natural variations of the world and confine them to some comfortable mean is just plain dumb.
Napster is not currently compatible with your operating system.
But the reviewer did such a careful job of testing on several XP machines!!!
New York City has fined a COFFEE ROASTER for the smell of... umm... ROASTED COFFEE. See also here,
Not some diluted ratio of it. No, an inspector responded to a complaint, walked around outside, and found that yes, he could smell roasted coffee. "During the hearing it was learned that the City inspector on the job 18-months, with no formal training in the detection or measuring of odors smelled coffee in the complainants apartment." (Usenet post) Since ONE person found it objectionable enough to complain over, the company gets fined.
Note: NOT a problem with the roasting chamber exhausts, which were correctly installed and functioning to specification. The smell came from coffee being stored after being roasted - you know, the smell you get in a COFFEE SHOP.
As of the most recent update, the coffee roaster is $40k in the hole for legal fees trying to get this joke of an administrative decision overturned.
I might care more about this if the district had a legitimate use for wifi.
Do they have a legitimate use for network connectivity?
Pulling cable is much more expensive, especially with the cinder block and concrete that is usually used to build a school. Wifi is cheaper to implement. Whether they're going to be mobile or not, it may be the cheaper way to wire up the school - and more flexible, if someone wants to rearrange desks.
I can see two problems with this. After reading the draft RFC and the site docs, I don't see answers, am I missing something?
The first problem is fixable - use TXT records for now, push through a draft for a new resource type, and have a migration period so that you can encourage adoption without gating it on changes to the DNS hierarchy.
The second problem is more of a PITA.
The lessons of NFS are being ignored, and I'd expect HyperSCSI to die when it hits the same limitations.
NFS started out UDP-based, and moved toward TCP with NFSv3. Why? Because having all that error correction done at the network layer made for a better product; TCP does all the work to insure packets aren't lost or out-of-order. UDP doesn't, and the NFS application layer had to handle it, making it slower, more painful, and a duplication of effort better spent elsewhere.
The industry guys are almost right on this one. It isn't a beer can with a motor; it's a beer can with an M-80. Fun to watch when it works right, damn painful if you screw it up.
I have to ask, what the hell is a chief people officer??
Remember how "Soylent Green is people?"
That's the person charged with taking humans, extracting useful output (usually work), and making sure that the humans are kept mostly happy so that they don't realize how much they're being exploited.
I've always wondered how "Human Resources" corresponded to "Natural Resources." The next time you see an HR person, ask yourself if they'd look comfortable at a strip mine.
Lets hope Bruce still has his job by the end of the week.
As the founder of Counterpane, he's probably got a bit more say in his company. Also, @Stake has expanded a lot with VC, I think Counterpane has grown more... carefully.
Interesting. Does that mean that employees should only issue statements in the course of their job responsibilities? Or that job statements must be objective, fact-based and truthful but personal statements can be whatever they want? This latter interpretation seems to conflict with their action.
I don't think Dan Geer will have trouble finding a new job. However, it is an interesting reflection of what @Stake has become. Look at their management team. Looks awfully VC to me.
Wouldn't Harry Wheldon have something to say on this subject?
Not only would he, but Hari Seldon would have predicted the broad psychohistoric context in which it would have been said.
Why switch back to pagers, as the article suggests? Wire up with an earbud, get voice-activated dialing, and you're off and running without having to touch it all the time.