I mean, a free open standard has worked pretty well for HTML.
Yes it has... but I worked as a <shame>webdesigner</shame> for a (short) while at the end of the browser wars. And let me tall you. For the longest time html was a mess! They (the w3c) even canned the 3.0 version and went to 3.2 because things were so confused. And 4.0 and CSS took years before most browsers implemented it in a reasonable way.
You can still run into issues created by Netscape and Microsoft in the browser wars if you don't watch out...
But you're right about things turning out ok in the end. Html is good, css is ok, the browsers conform better to the DOM every day, and xhtml is a true blessing! But it sure was a rough ride!
Care to share what you've seen? Anything tangible? What, the dozens of arrests? (not) The chill on free speech? (not) What, then, oh mighty karma whore, have you seen?
No chill on free speech? Oh my! If an AC says so I must surely be mistaken.
Do the names Edward Felten and Dimitri Skylarov mean anything to you?
Maybe I should put my money where my mouth is and join the EEF Europe or some similar organisation.
The EU is trying to take away a very good reason to live in Europe...
And after seeing what the DMCA has done to the US... Time to get on the barricades I guess.
That's what shell scripts are for, my friend. Strange that cmdrTaco didn't know how to do this... I thought all serious pearl coders (at least the ones I know) were also bash wizards...
Lemme guess youre a communist (oh sorry PC:Socialist) or live in a pseudo democratic country somewhere in Europe.......
Oh grow up! I may be European, but how is demanding that both parts in an agreement stick to the contract communist? If I decided to only show up at work 50% of the time one month I would be out on my ass in no time, and rightly so! The same should apply to my employer if they try to weasel out of our contract.
Could just as easily fire 50% of the employees !
Or would that be illegal too in the country you live in ?
No, that would be perfectly legal, and i would personally prefer this to a blatant breach of contract. I have already been downsized (and found, a new better paid job) once, and I could damn well do it again!
This may be a bit off topic, but, yes I do think socialism (no capital s) have it's uses. Total capitalism (no capital c) is rubbish, the only sane solution is a mix of the two.
The proportions can be argued about though...
Note however that the us is a mix of capitalism and socialism too.Not only europe. You know this to be true!
Once this moves out of Los Alamos and into what I will call, for want of a better term, the "real world", there may be export restrictions on this, just as with PGP.
Yeah, it's not like there is an outside world where someone else could develop quantum cryptography outside US control. I mean, we all know that no other countries had strong encryption before the US export restrictions were lifted. They were all restricted to the weak encryption provided by MS and other US vendors. Sheeesh...
This type of information really wants to be free, and a lot of people want it really bad. You can't keep a lid on it for long, even if it would happen to be developed in an us military cs lab. Sure, you can keep it out of the hands of Joe consumer, but not from governments, corporations (ie banks), geeks and serious criminals. Just accept this, for it is true.
At my (non us) university implementing rsa was common practice long ago. Actually there was at least one class you couldn't pass without doing it...
Encryption is not property of the us. There are matematicians all over the world you know.
Are you kidding me! Bill & Ballmer would be burnt at the stake come next dawn...
But you're right. Fact is, _nobody_ likes them and _nobody_ trusts them. Not only competitors, but everyone in the industry, and most of their own customers.
This clearly indicates that something must be done about the current situation.
Me too...
Bill should get a nice set of armour and a matching diabolical laugh. That would really make my day. Just imagine the open source fantastic four... RMS in spandex...
Yeah, isn't thet the guys that claimed that MS IIS5 was insecure? Clueless bastards! My IIS has always been rock soli... bzzzrt... * * * Buffer Overflow... This page has been hacked by the Chinese!
Sure, but the (eventual) positive side effects wasn't intentional.
Anyway, you are right, the future for other web browsers (read: the mozilla family) look pretty good. In the long run MS might have shot them self in the foot in the browser war. I wonder if we'll see a BWII? Hope not, web standards are messed up enough already.
In IE 6, they removed support for Netscape Style Plugins, yet when you have that type of plug-in in the plugins folder it still installs itself into the registry and tries to run as a mime type. In other words, they turned off one feature but not another.
Well, that should once and for all rid us of the MS apologists that consider the removal of Netscape plugins a "cleanup of old, obsolete fetures." They just removed the interface, not the actual code that supports them. In other worlds, all the bloat and none of the features... Just another underhand move to crush a de facto standard they don't own.
For most musicians that don't happen to be Michael Jackson or Britney Spears the content industry is the greatest risk for the creator's rights.
This is true. The "content industry", not the audience chooses who will be listened to. So if you want to have your music played, you'll have to sign their template contract. ...and then you're screwed!
Almost all the money you'll ever make from your music goes directly into their pockets.
I think his point was that he doesn't much care for the over-produced crap out there, and would rather swim in low-budget crap because it's keep'n it real, yo.:)
And, yes, that sums my feelings up quite well. There is gold in them mountains (of crap) you know... and if Britney would only quit distracting us we'll find it too.;-)
My opinion is that we're going to have a hellish few decades
...better make that centuries, and that is ok. Considering how we are handling this, I think human society has to mature a bit to handle "free stuff for all", not to mention free nukes for all...
Sure, but the problem is making sure the data is consistent. Just because the ISBN is in both the querying database and the databases it uses as a reference doesn't mean the entry contains the same data. And if it doesn't, how should the db know which post is the more correct? Not a trivial problem to solve, you can't have the databases trust each other too much since you don't want som lame script kiddie getting pleasure from injecting lots of false data and watching it spread...
But, like I said, this is not my field of expertise, I'm sure there are a lot of people on slashdot that know a lot more about the subject...
Is there someway so that this could be donated into the public domain or something from day one?
Maybe by making the source available under the GPL, and making the ability for different instances of the database to exchange information with each other be a part of the project?
That way anyone with a T1 and a fairly large disc could have his own bookDb.
That way, no single entity would be in exclusive control of the data.
On the other hand no two databasers would be exactly the same. Hmm... Database design is not my field really, maybe I should shut up, and just write a few frontends to the db once someone has dreamt one up...
String them up by their testicles and make them read Jon Katz articles, or whatever...
You, Sir, have a mean streak. I hope I never become your enemy...
However I think you are correct. I know a few people that were sexually abused as children. And they are still hurting. Sometimes I am almost for Capital Punishment...
I agree completely with your oppinion about gun ownership.
But I find the first char[3] of your sig kind of ironic. It would make a lot more sense like [root@cts/]# , but maybe the C: explains why you need to run this tracert. I would too, if I was trapped by the Evil Emire... =)
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I mean, a free open standard has worked pretty well for HTML.
Yes it has... but I worked as a <shame>webdesigner</shame> for a (short) while at the end of the browser wars.
And let me tall you.
For the longest time html was a mess! They (the w3c) even canned the 3.0 version and went to 3.2 because things were so confused. And 4.0 and CSS took years before most browsers implemented it in a reasonable way.
You can still run into issues created by Netscape and Microsoft in the browser wars if you don't watch out...
But you're right about things turning out ok in the end.
Html is good, css is ok, the browsers conform better to the DOM every day, and xhtml is a true blessing!
But it sure was a rough ride!
Care to share what you've seen? Anything tangible? What, the dozens of arrests? (not) The chill on free speech? (not) What, then, oh mighty karma whore, have you seen?
No chill on free speech?
Oh my!
If an AC says so I must surely be mistaken.
Do the names Edward Felten and Dimitri Skylarov mean anything to you?
Keep your crappy laws of my zeroes and ones!
Maybe I should put my money where my mouth is and join the EEF Europe or some similar organisation.
The EU is trying to take away a very good reason to live in Europe...
And after seeing what the DMCA has done to the US...
Time to get on the barricades I guess.
Yeah! Some things are just right!
And damn the law =)
Repeat the top / dele sequence 100-1000 times...
That's what shell scripts are for, my friend.
Strange that cmdrTaco didn't know how to do this... I thought all serious pearl coders (at least the ones I know) were also bash wizards...
In most states here employees don't work under a contract.
I didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me.
If I ever work in the us I will definitly be mindful of this.
If I decided to only show up at work 50% of the time one month I would be out on my ass in no time, and rightly so!
The same should apply to my employer if they try to weasel out of our contract.No, that would be perfectly legal, and i would personally prefer this to a blatant breach of contract. I have already been downsized (and found, a new better paid job) once, and I could damn well do it again!
This may be a bit off topic, but, yes I do think socialism (no capital s) have it's uses. Total capitalism (no capital c) is rubbish, the only sane solution is a mix of the two.
The proportions can be argued about though...
Note however that the us is a mix of capitalism and socialism too.Not only europe.
You know this to be true!
I am so glad I live in a country where the behaviour of that company would be illegal.
Not to say it's much better here, but...
Think again.
Once this moves out of Los Alamos and into what I will call, for want of a better term, the "real world", there may be export restrictions on this, just as with PGP.
Yeah, it's not like there is an outside world where someone else could develop quantum cryptography outside US control.
I mean, we all know that no other countries had strong encryption before the US export restrictions were lifted. They were all restricted to the weak encryption provided by MS and other US vendors.
Sheeesh...
This type of information really wants to be free, and a lot of people want it really bad. You can't keep a lid on it for long, even if it would happen to be developed in an us military cs lab.
Sure, you can keep it out of the hands of Joe consumer, but not from governments, corporations (ie banks), geeks and serious criminals.
Just accept this, for it is true.
At my (non us) university implementing rsa was common practice long ago. Actually there was at least one class you couldn't pass without doing it...
Encryption is not property of the us. There are matematicians all over the world you know.
I'll bet we'd see some substantive remedies then!
Are you kidding me! Bill & Ballmer would be burnt at the stake come next dawn...
But you're right. Fact is, _nobody_ likes them and _nobody_ trusts them.
Not only competitors, but everyone in the industry, and most of their own customers.
This clearly indicates that something must be done about the current situation.
Me too...
Bill should get a nice set of armour and a matching diabolical laugh.
That would really make my day. Just imagine the open source fantastic four... RMS in spandex...
Wait, cancel that...
Yeah, isn't thet the guys that claimed that MS IIS5 was insecure?
Clueless bastards! My IIS has always been rock soli... bzzzrt...
*
*
*
Buffer Overflow...
This page has been hacked by the Chinese!
Sure, but the (eventual) positive side effects wasn't intentional.
Anyway, you are right, the future for other web browsers (read: the mozilla family) look pretty good. In the long run MS might have shot them self in the foot in the browser war.
I wonder if we'll see a BWII?
Hope not, web standards are messed up enough already.
In IE 6, they removed support for Netscape Style Plugins, yet when you have that type of plug-in in the plugins folder it still installs itself into the registry and tries to run as a mime type. In other words, they turned off one feature but not another.
Well, that should once and for all rid us of the MS apologists that consider the removal of Netscape plugins a "cleanup of old, obsolete fetures."
They just removed the interface, not the actual code that supports them.
In other worlds, all the bloat and none of the features...
Just another underhand move to crush a de facto standard they don't own.
I am Jack's total lack of surprise...
For most musicians that don't happen to be Michael Jackson or Britney Spears the content industry is the greatest risk for the creator's rights.
This is true. The "content industry", not the audience chooses who will be listened to. So if you want to have your music played, you'll have to sign their template contract.
...and then you're screwed!
Almost all the money you'll ever make from your music goes directly into their pockets.
And, yes, that sums my feelings up quite well.
There is gold in them mountains (of crap) you know... and if Britney would only quit distracting us we'll find it too.
...better make that centuries, and that is ok. Considering how we are handling this, I think human society has to mature a bit to handle "free stuff for all", not to mention free nukes for all...
Sure, but the problem is making sure the data is consistent.
Just because the ISBN is in both the querying database and the databases it uses as a reference doesn't mean the entry contains the same data.
And if it doesn't, how should the db know which post is the more correct?
Not a trivial problem to solve, you can't have the databases trust each other too much since you don't want som lame script kiddie getting pleasure from injecting lots of false data and watching it spread...
But, like I said, this is not my field of expertise, I'm sure there are a lot of people on slashdot that know a lot more about the subject...
Is there someway so that this could be donated into the public domain or something from day one?
Maybe by making the source available under the GPL, and making the ability for different instances of the database to exchange information with each other be a part of the project?
That way anyone with a T1 and a fairly large disc could have his own bookDb.
That way, no single entity would be in exclusive control of the data.
On the other hand no two databasers would be exactly the same.
Hmm...
Database design is not my field really, maybe I should shut up, and just write a few frontends to the db once someone has dreamt one up...
String them up by their testicles and make them read Jon Katz articles, or whatever...
You, Sir, have a mean streak. I hope I never become your enemy...
However I think you are correct. I know a few people that were sexually abused as children.
And they are still hurting.
Sometimes I am almost for Capital Punishment...
Please enligthen me about your novel definition of "evidence".
What you choose to belive is not evidence.
Here in europe the Xbox costs the equivalent of 500 USD...
And they are wondering why sales are disappointing...
C:\>tracert life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness
/]# , but maybe the C: explains why you need to run this tracert. I would too, if I was trapped by the Evil Emire... =)
I agree completely with your oppinion about gun ownership.
But I find the first char[3] of your sig kind of ironic. It would make a lot more sense like [root@cts
Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...
Don't fool yourself, they trademarked "windows" for petes sake!
With enough lawyers you can do anything...