This sounds a lot like what companies are doing today. They rank their employees and then cut 50% of them because their sales are in the tank.
The real right answer is to move that 50% to testing, double project timelines, add diagnostics and plan for quality from the very beginning.
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Which is why the original post mentioned that some widespread, popular freeware IBM app would rely on the malicious code--rendering the short circuit version useless.
An operating system is only as good as its apps. Right now we're lucky to have good stuff like Apache all free. But if the future killer linux app (with say 85% market share)requires a special, anti-competitive flavor of the kernel, then the GPL would no longer matter.
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Ummm no, the point is that there's more to DRM than just digitally signing. Linus only talks about kernel signing as one example--which you're right, is trivial.
The point is that DRM could be use to subvert the GPL.
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When Voltaire or whoever said this a few hundred years ago, speech was in the spoken word or the printed page.
Today you can amplify speech so loud to blow out someones eardrums. Or raise the pitch electronically to break glass and cause destruction.
The same is true for DRM. Code written for DRM is like a magic word that can suddenly sew up the mouths and cut off the hands of other people. This prevents them from ever speaking. Code regulates and forces behavior within that system to be a certain way. Spech does not.
Would voltaire protect someone from sewing shut his mouth with a few magic words?
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Interesting thoughts. So, if I'm IBM I guess this means that I a modify the kernel to put an encrypted blob into the kernel to load into RAM at all times. It's there to help performance of IBM apps also so that it can disable my competitor's software once this is installed. Then I sell Websphere which contains the key to decrypt the kernal code. This activates it.
Then I give away as freeware (but not open sourced or GPLed) some non-trivial app that requires the IBM version of the kernel. Boom...I get lots of users, a perf advantage courtesy of IBM DRM, crush my competitors and finally get a chance to try to fight the OS/2 vs Windows wars.
For every question, you could start with the answer: I'd look it up in a search engine. If I didn't have access, I'd go to the library. And if they ask you to solve it without those resources, I'd just say "hmmm. For $3 I could grab a bus to the library and back and find out how thousands of people have saved the same problem before. But, if you're into being creative about a previously solved problem..."
With google buying that blog company recently and the recent posts about how "the second superpower" term was coined, anonymous blogging will probably die because of all the usual scum--spammers who abuse trackbacks, googlebombers trying to raise their relevancy ratings, and then the RIAA citing every hyperlink on the anonymous postings that points to an MP3 file.
From using videoconferencing for work and living in japan (who's had these devices for a while one ISDN), it's clear that these devices are not meant to replace the phone. Rather they enhance communication for some situations like: -multiple person meetings possibly involving the showing of a demo or powerpoint -broadcasting an event to a remote location (or if you're a college coed making a little money) -language learning (the language schools give them as a part of a package so that you can learn and interact with 4 other people from home) -girlfriends and potential girlfriends. You get to show off how smart you/cute you are compared to the other trolls out there.
She never tried. Her machines would run Windows XP fine. Read the article. She had 36 gigs of storage and 128-256 MBs of RAM on each machine. See the system requirements and compare them with her specs. If she wants a fair comparison, she should do it reputably.
Read the article. She had 36 gigs of storage and 128-256 MBs of RAM on each machine. Each would have run WinXP just fine. See the system requirements and compare them with her specs.
It's funny how the author posts misconceptions about WindowsXP in the first page to say why they'll never try it. Then they go on to bash everything else in sight.
Sounds like one of those people who love to complain and are just looking for an audience.
The book _Database Nation_ urges a strong defense of privacy. At the same time, it mentions cases of technologists being overzealous about government so that in the long run it actually hurts privacy.
Take the national 'Do not call' registry as an example. The idea was proposed I believe in the 70s but privacy advocates shot it down because they worried that having all of these numbered collected by the government would be insecure and would end up linking names and phone numbers for people who wanted their privacy protected. Fast forward 30 years now and guess what. Do not call registries are the hottest thing since sliced bread. Why? Because the privacy advocates were wrong. They would rather hope that they could prevent telemarketers from sharing lists of names and numbers than from trusting legislation.
If you really believe that not letting the govermnment see your data is the ultimate goal, I urge you to get your address removed from the database used for 9-1-1 police and fire (not world trade center). They know exactly where you are when you call--isn't that incredibly dangerous if someone managed to make a copy of the database and stick it on a phone switch somewhere? Who cares that it saves lives. Would you be willing to take your parents and grandparents out of that system to protect them from identity theft or some nutzo using the system to stalk them?
You can't blindly try to keep all data from the government. You need to play an active role in protecting against abuses while using the data for truly useful purposes.
Lets see. A team of a hundred people or so set out to win the web streaming video battles. In the process, they learn how to create cinema quality video but still compress it considerably. They'd be morons not to try to sell it.
Try extracting a little honesty. You won't improve morale by playing music as the titanic is going down. Find ways to tell people the truth. Blow the whistle on bad practices. Get to know management better so you can find out what is really going on so you can tell your people. Tell them what factors will lead to the success of your company. Tell them where you (mgmt or not) fucked up. Tell them where you plan to change things. Tell employees what role they play in the recovery.
If the company intends to screw everyone after finishing a couple pieces to make a liquidation plausible, then it's pretty cold to try to improve morale if you know something horrible's about to go down.
The guys selling this or getting burned by this should invoke the DMCA by arguing that the cable companies illegally cirumvented the 'privacy/security' device they happened to have connected to their TV. (arguably, isn't this thing essentially a simple firewall for outgoing traffic)
Just dust off an old monitor you've got lying around. Cover it in black electrical tape so that you've got a hole showing the shape of a ball. Then write software to show a colored ball positioned exactly where you've left the hole in the screen. Place it in a dark corner. Be careful not to cover the air vents. Voila! you've got a screen with unlimited patterns and a native interface for your video card.
So his clean, natural adobe house is made from clay right. And what's clay but dead decaying organisms. Dead people, squirrels, pets, insects, and millions more carbon life forms. Just after 9-11 people were coming down with all kinds of symptoms coinciding with the massive loss of life in a concentrated area. You can't claim it's not toxic to humans.
Hmmm...caught stealing data in Texas. Isn't that a death penalty or at least a castration offense? That'll get the guy to reveal who he's given the data to.
I'm living in Tokyo and would suggest going for broadband and a mobile phone forget about a regular landline phone.
Through companies like Vonage, IConnectHere or Packet8 you can get a US phone number for about $20/month including plenty of minutes for US calls. You also get very low rates to the US (since it thinks you have a US line) and reasonable rates to germany. The quality with a Cisco ATA186 is as good as a landline or with a softphone (headset) is cell-phone like supercheap. And you can just use your mobile phone for calls to germany.
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The real right answer is to move that 50% to testing, double project timelines, add diagnostics and plan for quality from the very beginning.
An operating system is only as good as its apps. Right now we're lucky to have good stuff like Apache all free. But if the future killer linux app (with say 85% market share)requires a special, anti-competitive flavor of the kernel, then the GPL would no longer matter.
The point is that DRM could be use to subvert the GPL.
Today you can amplify speech so loud to blow out someones eardrums. Or raise the pitch electronically to break glass and cause destruction.
The same is true for DRM. Code written for DRM is like a magic word that can suddenly sew up the mouths and cut off the hands of other people. This prevents them from ever speaking. Code regulates and forces behavior within that system to be a certain way. Spech does not.
Would voltaire protect someone from sewing shut his mouth with a few magic words?
Then I give away as freeware (but not open sourced or GPLed) some non-trivial app that requires the IBM version of the kernel. Boom...I get lots of users, a perf advantage courtesy of IBM DRM, crush my competitors and finally get a chance to try to fight the OS/2 vs Windows wars.
For every question, you could start with the answer: I'd look it up in a search engine. If I didn't have access, I'd go to the library. And if they ask you to solve it without those resources, I'd just say "hmmm. For $3 I could grab a bus to the library and back and find out how thousands of people have saved the same problem before. But, if you're into being creative about a previously solved problem..."
With google buying that blog company recently and the recent posts about how "the second superpower" term was coined, anonymous blogging will probably die because of all the usual scum--spammers who abuse trackbacks, googlebombers trying to raise their relevancy ratings, and then the RIAA citing every hyperlink on the anonymous postings that points to an MP3 file.
From using videoconferencing for work and living in japan (who's had these devices for a while one ISDN), it's clear that these devices are not meant to replace the phone. Rather they enhance communication for some situations like:
-multiple person meetings possibly involving the showing of a demo or powerpoint
-broadcasting an event to a remote location (or if you're a college coed making a little money)
-language learning (the language schools give them as a part of a package so that you can learn and interact with 4 other people from home)
-girlfriends and potential girlfriends. You get to show off how smart you/cute you are compared to the other trolls out there.
yay! Slashdotters finally have a reason to hate Apple!!
She never tried. Her machines would run Windows XP fine. Read the article. She had 36 gigs of storage and 128-256 MBs of RAM on each machine. See the system requirements and compare them with her specs. If she wants a fair comparison, she should do it reputably.
Read the article. She had 36 gigs of storage and 128-256 MBs of RAM on each machine. Each would have run WinXP just fine. See the system requirements and compare them with her specs.
Sounds like one of those people who love to complain and are just looking for an audience.
Take the national 'Do not call' registry as an example. The idea was proposed I believe in the 70s but privacy advocates shot it down because they worried that having all of these numbered collected by the government would be insecure and would end up linking names and phone numbers for people who wanted their privacy protected. Fast forward 30 years now and guess what. Do not call registries are the hottest thing since sliced bread. Why? Because the privacy advocates were wrong. They would rather hope that they could prevent telemarketers from sharing lists of names and numbers than from trusting legislation.
If you really believe that not letting the govermnment see your data is the ultimate goal, I urge you to get your address removed from the database used for 9-1-1 police and fire (not world trade center). They know exactly where you are when you call--isn't that incredibly dangerous if someone managed to make a copy of the database and stick it on a phone switch somewhere? Who cares that it saves lives. Would you be willing to take your parents and grandparents out of that system to protect them from identity theft or some nutzo using the system to stalk them?
You can't blindly try to keep all data from the government. You need to play an active role in protecting against abuses while using the data for truly useful purposes.
Lets see. A team of a hundred people or so set out to win the web streaming video battles. In the process, they learn how to create cinema quality video but still compress it considerably. They'd be morons not to try to sell it.
Fact Netscape 6.0 (mozilla .6) ships 11/2000
Fact by 10/2001 Mozilla 1.0 still hasn't shipped
Fact between 1/1998 and 11/2000 Microsoft ships IE5.0 and IE 5.5.
Fact by 10/2001 IE 6.0 has shipped.
If the company intends to screw everyone after finishing a couple pieces to make a liquidation plausible, then it's pretty cold to try to improve morale if you know something horrible's about to go down.
The guys selling this or getting burned by this should invoke the DMCA by arguing that the cable companies illegally cirumvented the 'privacy/security' device they happened to have connected to their TV. (arguably, isn't this thing essentially a simple firewall for outgoing traffic)
Just dust off an old monitor you've got lying around. Cover it in black electrical tape so that you've got a hole showing the shape of a ball. Then write software to show a colored ball positioned exactly where you've left the hole in the screen. Place it in a dark corner. Be careful not to cover the air vents. Voila! you've got a screen with unlimited patterns and a native interface for your video card.
The ny times says that this guy wants to be a suicide bomber but that his other dream is to be a programmer for Microsoft.
Green shelter is made out of people, PEOPLE!
Hmmm...caught stealing data in Texas. Isn't that a death penalty or at least a castration offense? That'll get the guy to reveal who he's given the data to.
The next step woud be requiring usability testing based on the average computer skillset of an Oregon government employee.
It's a slippery slope guys.
Through companies like Vonage, IConnectHere or Packet8 you can get a US phone number for about $20/month including plenty of minutes for US calls. You also get very low rates to the US (since it thinks you have a US line) and reasonable rates to germany. The quality with a Cisco ATA186 is as good as a landline or with a softphone (headset) is cell-phone like supercheap. And you can just use your mobile phone for calls to germany.
a quarter of a point. Let's make that stock go down. Let's buy MS Office!
Sounds like your judgment has been ruined by one too many cases of data loss.