How can something be almost self-debugging? This stupid horseshit was obviously injected into the description to generate interest in something that is otherwise unremarkable.
While you may have an answer, you didn't provide a method.
I think the best solution is to legislate that all companies are responsible for their products throughout their entire life-cycle, from their creation to their recovery/recycling. This is already done in a much more ecologically savvy part of the world : Europe.
People like to blow on their horn about their god-given
right to copyright and so on, but here on Slashdot, a lot
of people get awfully bent out of shape when 'evil
corporations' (who also happen to be legitimate copyright
holders) try to enforce their copyright. For example there
is much maligned Palladium which I feel obligated to
defend, since it is in my opinion, possibly the last bastion for
intellectual property as we know it.
First of all, Microsoft's Pallium aims to secure
intellectual property from would-be hacker thieves,
how can you criticise them for that? In fact
you should commend them. As it is right now, the
internet is a waistland of pornography, blogs, and
hacker filesharing (in leet speek they call it p2p).
I fully support Microsoft in their efforts to "clean
up the trash" and make computers and the internet a
safe place to conduct business for reputable, long
standing business establishments such as the RIAA.
When Trusted Computing becomes a commonplace
technology we will all be able to rest at night
knowing that legitimate, respectable institutions
such as the RIAA and MPAA will no longer be
suffering grievous economic losses due to the
generally subversive nature of filesharing.
My $2e-2
While we as citizens of a free country may balk at the idea of having a national ID system, in europe, where social policies are much more advanced and education in general is higher, these systems are commonplace. Take Russia for example, Boris Yeltsin implemented a similar program in his regime and they haven't had any problems with it since. It seems to me that ID cards are an excellent idea in these trying times.
But the publisher's were acting prudently in this case. The DOE was stealing and publishing material that the other publishers had bought the rights to. Just like we're not allowed to sell things for less than they cost, the DOE should not be allowed to do this. Seems to me like Justice has been served.
I am a big proponent of the free (as in beer) codec ogg vorbis but seriously now, aside from in your bizarre fantasy world nobody is 'demanding' it in any way. As long as people can get free MP3 decoders, they seriously couldn't give a shit. That's the way people are, and no amount of doe-eyed optimism will change it. Really EMI sees no need to release anything in ogg, and besides that, with ogg being free (as in beer) you can get free encoders for it. Like it or not, with these sort of tools available for free, ogg is haven for audio pirates and EMI will not have any of it.
In that way, I would say Bill and Linus are very alike. In his quest to bring his users what they want Bill often breaks backwards compatability during the upgrade cycle (win 2k). However I have to say that Bill is very professional about these compatability breaks only making them every major release, whereas sometimes Linus' behavior makes me wonder. Doesn't anyone remember the disaster called the 2.4.x series?
Personally I think Lindows is a terrible representative for Linux. Emulating Windows seems more like an admission that Linux is inferior. To get my gist, when you are selling a computer with Lindows on it, how are you supposed to explain to customer what Lindows is? You have to say:
'It's basically a cheap imitation of Windows.' at which point the customer says:
'No thanks, I'll go with the genuine thing.' As I said, Lindows does nothing for Linux and in fact probably strengthens Microsoft's ability to sell its OS.
I'm sorry but I do not side with the submitter on this one. Any sort of forced disclosure in this arena is a step forward. If I am going to be trusting my personal info with a business I would like to know their security record. Just consider the recent scandals with Bell, and AOL for instance.
It seems like the submitter is a little too polarized on this issue, but I don't feel the compulsion to take every attempt to legislate order into the digital world as an insidious attempt to undermine small business.
In fact, why is it that Slashdot seems to think that any attempt to introduce order through legislation as a bad thing? Get a grip already. This isn't your 'internet' it's that of those who own the hardware. I find this false sense of ownership childish and tasteless.
These are not safe. Most types of energy based on nuclear processes have harmful waste products (like gamma particles and alpha rays). Are you going to trust that your laptop has the proper radiation shielding? Keep in mind that it is most often over your crotch. Considering the already poor odds of any geek reproducing, the effects of radiating their crotches could be disastrous.
OpenGL 2.0 look like a great specification and all, but Microsoft already has the market cornered with its latest version of DirecteX (8.6a). DirecteX is mature, and is actively being developed by skilled Microsoft programmers, besides that Microsoft dominates the market by virtue of its OS. OpenGL 2.0 while promising, is destined to fail.
I always thought RISC was inferior, that's why it lost out to CISC and went the way of the dodo. Who wants a reduced instruction set anyways? That's why it always lagged in the floating point benchmarks. I look forward to the day when our CISC processors are even better equipped - with an instruction for every conceivable operation.
And regardless of the views that Plato advocates (censorship among other things), I believe that his works are truly enlightened and illuminating. If the Republic was censored, where would we be now? Many say that Philosophy is just footnotes to Plato, and I agree. Plato has shaped modern theories law, education, morality and ethics. How can you compete with that? I personally think everyone should read the Republic, it would do them good.
When we chose to have freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech in our rights and
freedoms, we chose to enshrine it, for better
or for worse; to take the good with the bad.
That's right, we chose to occasionally hear or
read utterances of foul words such as
nigger,
or other words of hatred or obscenity
because within the realms of free speech also lie
enlightened and uplifting works, such as those of
Plato, Charles Dickens, or Danielle Steel.
If the politicians see fit to take away rights
from us, or from any other country for that matter,
we still lose. Why's that? Because of the
nature of the internet, we are all censored.
The problem with censoring hate speech is the
potential for continual erosion of speech rights.
Next after hate speech, is critical speech.
Take Russia for example, where a show named Kukli
depicting political satire has been banned from
television because of its critical nature. I
repeat, this sort of thing is bad for all of us.
I never really understood why google beat out Altavista in the first place. I mean Altavista has a great search engine to begin with, plus added features like the fish, which is very useful. What the fuck does google have? Googlefights?? How much does any of that mean when Google's ranking system is corrupt, ie they allow people to pay for their ranking. Besides that, google now censors its content. Google is looking really weak at the moment.
I am tired of Slashdot's ceaseless battering of the physics community in the name of sensationalism. This is a blatant attempt to sully the good name of physics just because of the writer's inability to understand it.
It seems to me that blogs are a haven for angsty, mal-adjusted, teenage primadonnas. Is this an article directed at the ever growing teenage portion of the Slashdot audience? Really, who reads these things, they're a waste of time.
Slashdot Mirror
Any time saved in this fashion is wasted when everyone leaves their desk to tell you that you left your cover sheet off this week's TPS report.
How can something be almost self-debugging? This stupid horseshit was obviously injected into the description to generate interest in something that is otherwise unremarkable.
I think the best solution is to legislate that all companies are responsible for their products throughout their entire life-cycle, from their creation to their recovery/recycling. This is already done in a much more ecologically savvy part of the world : Europe.
People like to blow on their horn about their god-given right to copyright and so on, but here on Slashdot, a lot of people get awfully bent out of shape when 'evil corporations' (who also happen to be legitimate copyright holders) try to enforce their copyright. For example there is much maligned Palladium which I feel obligated to defend, since it is in my opinion, possibly the last bastion for intellectual property as we know it.
First of all, Microsoft's Pallium aims to secure intellectual property from would-be hacker thieves, how can you criticise them for that? In fact you should commend them. As it is right now, the internet is a waistland of pornography, blogs, and hacker filesharing (in leet speek they call it p2p).
I fully support Microsoft in their efforts to "clean up the trash" and make computers and the internet a safe place to conduct business for reputable, long standing business establishments such as the RIAA. When Trusted Computing becomes a commonplace technology we will all be able to rest at night knowing that legitimate, respectable institutions such as the RIAA and MPAA will no longer be suffering grievous economic losses due to the generally subversive nature of filesharing.
My $2e-2
Perfume consists mainly of organic molecules, so I tend to think that they would go together fine.
You shit your pants.
While we as citizens of a free country may balk at the idea of having a national ID system, in europe, where social policies are much more advanced and education in general is higher, these systems are commonplace. Take Russia for example, Boris Yeltsin implemented a similar program in his regime and they haven't had any problems with it since. It seems to me that ID cards are an excellent idea in these trying times.
But the publisher's were acting prudently in this case. The DOE was stealing and publishing material that the other publishers had bought the rights to. Just like we're not allowed to sell things for less than they cost, the DOE should not be allowed to do this. Seems to me like Justice has been served.
In that way, I would say Bill and Linus are very alike. In his quest to bring his users what they want Bill often breaks backwards compatability during the upgrade cycle (win 2k). However I have to say that Bill is very professional about these compatability breaks only making them every major release, whereas sometimes Linus' behavior makes me wonder. Doesn't anyone remember the disaster called the 2.4.x series?
'It's basically a cheap imitation of Windows.' at which point the customer says:
'No thanks, I'll go with the genuine thing.' As I said, Lindows does nothing for Linux and in fact probably strengthens Microsoft's ability to sell its OS.
Zerop.
It seems like the submitter is a little too polarized on this issue, but I don't feel the compulsion to take every attempt to legislate order into the digital world as an insidious attempt to undermine small business.
In fact, why is it that Slashdot seems to think that any attempt to introduce order through legislation as a bad thing? Get a grip already. This isn't your 'internet' it's that of those who own the hardware. I find this false sense of ownership childish and tasteless.
These are not safe. Most types of energy based on nuclear processes have harmful waste products (like gamma particles and alpha rays). Are you going to trust that your laptop has the proper radiation shielding? Keep in mind that it is most often over your crotch. Considering the already poor odds of any geek reproducing, the effects of radiating their crotches could be disastrous.
OpenGL 2.0 look like a great specification and all, but Microsoft already has the market cornered with its latest version of DirecteX (8.6a). DirecteX is mature, and is actively being developed by skilled Microsoft programmers, besides that Microsoft dominates the market by virtue of its OS. OpenGL 2.0 while promising, is destined to fail.
I always thought RISC was inferior, that's why it lost out to CISC and went the way of the dodo. Who wants a reduced instruction set anyways? That's why it always lagged in the floating point benchmarks. I look forward to the day when our CISC processors are even better equipped - with an instruction for every conceivable operation.
Where the hell am I supposed to find obscure geometrical proofs of things otherwised proved by calculus now!?
Men have been found to use half of their brain to think about sex at all times.
Funny how he bashes women and touts intuition, when women are generally more intuitive than men.
And regardless of the views that Plato advocates (censorship among other things), I believe that his works are truly enlightened and illuminating. If the Republic was censored, where would we be now? Many say that Philosophy is just footnotes to Plato, and I agree. Plato has shaped modern theories law, education, morality and ethics. How can you compete with that? I personally think everyone should read the Republic, it would do them good.
When we chose to have freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech in our rights and freedoms, we chose to enshrine it, for better or for worse; to take the good with the bad. That's right, we chose to occasionally hear or read utterances of foul words such as nigger, or other words of hatred or obscenity because within the realms of free speech also lie enlightened and uplifting works, such as those of Plato, Charles Dickens, or Danielle Steel.
If the politicians see fit to take away rights from us, or from any other country for that matter, we still lose. Why's that? Because of the nature of the internet, we are all censored. The problem with censoring hate speech is the potential for continual erosion of speech rights. Next after hate speech, is critical speech. Take Russia for example, where a show named Kukli depicting political satire has been banned from television because of its critical nature. I repeat, this sort of thing is bad for all of us.
I never really understood why google beat out Altavista in the first place. I mean Altavista has a great search engine to begin with, plus added features like the fish, which is very useful. What the fuck does google have? Googlefights?? How much does any of that mean when Google's ranking system is corrupt, ie they allow people to pay for their ranking. Besides that, google now censors its content. Google is looking really weak at the moment.
I am tired of Slashdot's ceaseless battering of the physics community in the name of sensationalism. This is a blatant attempt to sully the good name of physics just because of the writer's inability to understand it.
It seems to me that blogs are a haven for angsty, mal-adjusted, teenage primadonnas. Is this an article directed at the ever growing teenage portion of the Slashdot audience? Really, who reads these things, they're a waste of time.