Those guys are good.. if they wanted to just tap lines, the outage would be under an hour, and not all at once and at 'off peak' times to not tip off anybody.
You miss the real power here. Just from the first page of your comments list there's probably 100 points that could be used to extrapolate what you like, give weight to other sites, the mod points given to each post as well as the ones you reply to would probably rate 200+ websites quite easily..
If you also had an account on say Digg (don't flame me) then even without your UID the general "shape" of your profile would pick out.. as well as a thousand others in the same direction... it becomes broad and focused at the same time, even without trying to figure out who "you" are in terms of privacy, there's better tools to pick that stuff up anyway.
You miss the point. You are on Slashdot, so must have similar interests to me, even though we never meet. THAT is what they're trying to do. Your opinion is probably more relevant than the "raw" results from Google would ever be 75% of the time.
CMDRTaco should have been doing this with Slashdot years ago, he's far too conservative with the features. (hence the rift with Kevin over Digg.) An engine that simply searched Slashdot posts for quality links to sites would boost result quality 100 fold. It's almost back to the original idea of Yahoo! having hand entered results rather than random bots trolling... obviously, that got unweildly, but now Google has to BIG a view on the world... it's not relevant to me. There's an opening to tweak the results to what people on sites like Slashdot or Digg would comment on.. would think is important to meet in the middle.
The real key would be to glean the data from third party sources.. a.k.a. sites like Slashdot wiht a focus on connecting SITES and not people, instead of tracking users all over the web with spybots. It would be something to work toward though.
the darn writers nearly screwed that logic up last episode though... they tried saying O'Neill got the Ancient idea because it was in the database left over from the Pegasus galaxy. OK that's believable. They got dangerously close to saying the Asgard "borrowed" that tech for their replicators. Grrr.
Actually reality is that NOBODY has commercial games anymore.. Windows has games, but they're not in the numbers XBox or even PS3 as far as sales. Mac gets crumby games and they're growing... why?
The opportunity is open to move laterally into Vista territory. Vista is "better" than XP, but not better "enough" to throw away XP and spend twice as much money on a Vista compatible computer.... since Microsoft spent the entire XP era shooting PC gaming in the foot (with XBOX) the number of people that care about high performance is dwindling... combine that with Intel's "integrated" graphics that again limit gaming or other high end apps and 75% of customers really aren't buying machines much past these low end boxes.
The downside of Vista is that there is really nothing special Vista does, few apps, etc, that do something you can't do on Mac or Linux. (as we've taken gaming off the table and most people don't run "high end apps") Now is the time OEMS will want to move some hardware anyway they can. Due to the price of Vista, the sub $300 market is ripe for linux picking. The very dangerous thing will be when OEMS start selling small systems to do "just one task" very well.. eeePC is the tip of that spear... as they sell them hand over fist, more OEMS will want do do that too.
but in this case, eeePC has a really small base, distinct enough to count as it's own non-laptop niche. It's a case where a really cheap OS combine with low-end hardware is something nobody else is selling, and Asus has proven people WANT to buy their combinations...it's not just "cheap".
Maybe. Yes LINUX QT was GPL, but Mac and Windows were pay-only until very recently. That made cross-platform development for developers who paid only.
The main reason RedHat and Ubuntu don't use QT/KDE is that QT is GPL only.. not LGPL like GTK. That means no binding to non-free programs unless you pay up. Actually, RMS should love them for that choice because it forces software to be open or closed... a developer can't flip-flop as easily. The distros wanting to get the most support don't like it because it pushes out "cheap" developers that don't want to pay where GTK/Gnome lets them write proprietary code and not pay or open the source.
Perhaps Nokia might make QT LGPL and fix this problem (or being big enough that devs won't mind paying) then we can move distros like Ubuntu away from Novell/Suse's M$ poisoned versions that are surely to come.
From a single user perspective Vista is nice. I had to buy a new laptop at work and choose Vista simply because we can't live in the past.
Vista is a nightmare for IT people though. From the go, Microsoft was lazy about releasing the management tools as anything but Beta because they want to sell companies Server 2008 for the "full experience".... 18 months AFTER Vista is released??? The number of programs broken for an enterprise is a show stopper bug as well, even including Microsoft programs for the first 6 months or so. There is software my company uses that was "certified" for Vista in December! 2007! a full year after Vista was released for corporate use. Microsoft went straight to the consumers with this release, and screwed over corporate users.
It's not been a PROFESSIONAL roll-out... and the people that read/post to Slashdot are the one that have to make the MS stuff ACTUALLY WORK. We're the ones that have to explain to the bosses with their new shiny Vista Ultimate notebooks their new machine can't run half the companies most important software... the stuff they use to get their precious numbers from. Most Slashdotters have a special hatred of Microsoft because while supporting it's software pays our bills, it's not Professional work... it's grunt work times 10 making up for things Windows should have done right the first time!
no, but the date is just close enough that any major change roll-out to something like Mac or Linux would take longer for IT staff than just "waiting around" for MS to ship Windows 7 which should sync with new hardware purchases. It's carrot-stick. XP SP3 is a carrot to the old users, but after this XP users get the stick... The windows 7 "leaks" are the Carrot to keep people bit by Vista in the fold.
the problem is that the changes they're talking about making would turn IT staff OFF from buying the OS. IT staff don't want the OS because the new permission system breaks stuff that worked well in XP SP2 and Windows software vendors are VERY lazy about updates compared to Mac vendors. I have apps at work that were "Vista certified" in DECEMBER 07! My staff can't upgrade until our key software is supported and Microsoft has really dropped the ball on motivating ISVs to get a move on.
It'd be just like them to break DIFFERENT stuff... add new features... just to set back the ISVs that DID try to update.
what about Apple Newton... according to Wikipedia, Apple had Newtons that were "near" smartphones being discontinued in 1997. The only part missing from Apple's Newton patents would be the "in a phone" part which the court would agree is trivial.
that is the trouble, you can't pay fees for patents if you don't MAKE something. Patents are the one law that prevents a person from MAKING and USING something they created, because patents apply even if you never saw the patent or the device! Unlike copyright that has is more exact and has some provision for multiple creation (because two items created will not be exact enough)
We've entered the part of our society where the "clerics" have cemented a position in the society and nothing moves without their say so. Much like the Catholic priests of the middle ages would make up religious rules based on their "interpretation" of holy works... but even Kings weren't allowed to VIEW the works or discuss them. This is the point where society stops growing and remains stable, but crippled for many years.
There's always the option of simply killing any lawyers that show up to court! Of course they could also simply cut these guys off... why should they let a party suing them use phone, cells, fax, internet... these companies do illegal tracking.. I say use it to full extents. cut off their families, their children, their past employers.... cut these lawyers off from technology until they have to use a typewriter and candle light to file briefs. Then snipe them on the way to the courthouse. There's 10 companies sued at once.. that's enough plausible deniability to launder the funds so nobody gets in trouble with the law.
I'm normally not supportive of anarchy like this, but why not. it's time for some people involved to do some civil disobedience...hell criminal disobedience to make the IP system be fixed... or wreck it.
but if these big companies declare war on the patent office by simply ignoring them the lawsuits will NEVER get thru the courts. There's very few CRIMINAL cases you could possibly bring against these companies for patent infringments. If they wholesale decided to ignore the PTO it would be meaning less within the year.
The PTO is a "golden leash" that everybody lives with because it keep big players in the game and maintains that the game is "fair". Hopefully this will be the "one last straw" that will get the big players in to outright rebellion of IP rules.
I think the deal is that "incident to arrest" search doesn't really include electronic data in most cases. Devices like iPhone link out to external email, your personal web site, etc. Stuff that would normally require a warrant to access. While the files on the device might be fair game, what if they demand you to sign into email? recently browsed websites? Synced Excel files at home? see the problem.
to venture a point, OT was put into law to DISCOURAGE the practice... not "pay hard workers more money". At the time the law was made work weeks were averaging 12 hous, 6 days standard... and they might dock you for bad production!!! The point of the OT law was to change society so that we don't all work much more than that. If you think the people that "own" companies aren't laughing their way to the bank of the back of people that think like you!
Professionals, like lawyers and architects, don't work 40 hours at what we'd call "billable". It's a byproduct of the "christian work ethic" that more work should be rewarded.. but SMARTER work ends up being "cheapened". The key metric of "useful" employment should be how many dollars you add to the company's bottom line.
The problem is that management thinks you "owe" them those minimum hours per week when the Law clearly says otherwise. If they "dock" you for fewer hours, they they MUST compensate you for more... otherwise their legal recourse is to count NEITHER and judge you by work performance. If your job requires you to be "at station" for a fixed number of hours, with no flexibility, then you are hourly as much as the company may want you to be salary.
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Those guys are good.. if they wanted to just tap lines, the outage would be under an hour, and not all at once and at 'off peak' times to not tip off anybody.
You miss the real power here. Just from the first page of your comments list there's probably 100 points that could be used to extrapolate what you like, give weight to other sites, the mod points given to each post as well as the ones you reply to would probably rate 200+ websites quite easily..
If you also had an account on say Digg (don't flame me) then even without your UID the general "shape" of your profile would pick out.. as well as a thousand others in the same direction... it becomes broad and focused at the same time, even without trying to figure out who "you" are in terms of privacy, there's better tools to pick that stuff up anyway.
You miss the point. You are on Slashdot, so must have similar interests to me, even though we never meet. THAT is what they're trying to do. Your opinion is probably more relevant than the "raw" results from Google would ever be 75% of the time.
CMDRTaco should have been doing this with Slashdot years ago, he's far too conservative with the features. (hence the rift with Kevin over Digg.) An engine that simply searched Slashdot posts for quality links to sites would boost result quality 100 fold. It's almost back to the original idea of Yahoo! having hand entered results rather than random bots trolling... obviously, that got unweildly, but now Google has to BIG a view on the world... it's not relevant to me. There's an opening to tweak the results to what people on sites like Slashdot or Digg would comment on.. would think is important to meet in the middle.
The real key would be to glean the data from third party sources.. a.k.a. sites like Slashdot wiht a focus on connecting SITES and not people, instead of tracking users all over the web with spybots. It would be something to work toward though.
the darn writers nearly screwed that logic up last episode though... they tried saying O'Neill got the Ancient idea because it was in the database left over from the Pegasus galaxy. OK that's believable. They got dangerously close to saying the Asgard "borrowed" that tech for their replicators. Grrr.
Asgard replicators or Ancient replicators?
As long as they evolve into an evil robot Sam Carter!
Actually reality is that NOBODY has commercial games anymore.. Windows has games, but they're not in the numbers XBox or even PS3 as far as sales. Mac gets crumby games and they're growing... why?
The opportunity is open to move laterally into Vista territory. Vista is "better" than XP, but not better "enough" to throw away XP and spend twice as much money on a Vista compatible computer.... since Microsoft spent the entire XP era shooting PC gaming in the foot (with XBOX) the number of people that care about high performance is dwindling... combine that with Intel's "integrated" graphics that again limit gaming or other high end apps and 75% of customers really aren't buying machines much past these low end boxes.
The downside of Vista is that there is really nothing special Vista does, few apps, etc, that do something you can't do on Mac or Linux. (as we've taken gaming off the table and most people don't run "high end apps") Now is the time OEMS will want to move some hardware anyway they can. Due to the price of Vista, the sub $300 market is ripe for linux picking. The very dangerous thing will be when OEMS start selling small systems to do "just one task" very well.. eeePC is the tip of that spear... as they sell them hand over fist, more OEMS will want do do that too.
but in this case, eeePC has a really small base, distinct enough to count as it's own non-laptop niche. It's a case where a really cheap OS combine with low-end hardware is something nobody else is selling, and Asus has proven people WANT to buy their combinations...it's not just "cheap".
each 100k file expands to stress the full bandwidth of the TCP stack and internet pipes on each download... it's a feature!
give the crying kiddies a kleenex, tell them to google for some rollerblades and play out side!
Maybe. Yes LINUX QT was GPL, but Mac and Windows were pay-only until very recently. That made cross-platform development for developers who paid only.
The main reason RedHat and Ubuntu don't use QT/KDE is that QT is GPL only.. not LGPL like GTK. That means no binding to non-free programs unless you pay up. Actually, RMS should love them for that choice because it forces software to be open or closed... a developer can't flip-flop as easily. The distros wanting to get the most support don't like it because it pushes out "cheap" developers that don't want to pay where GTK/Gnome lets them write proprietary code and not pay or open the source.
Perhaps Nokia might make QT LGPL and fix this problem (or being big enough that devs won't mind paying) then we can move distros like Ubuntu away from Novell/Suse's M$ poisoned versions that are surely to come.
From a single user perspective Vista is nice. I had to buy a new laptop at work and choose Vista simply because we can't live in the past.
Vista is a nightmare for IT people though. From the go, Microsoft was lazy about releasing the management tools as anything but Beta because they want to sell companies Server 2008 for the "full experience".... 18 months AFTER Vista is released??? The number of programs broken for an enterprise is a show stopper bug as well, even including Microsoft programs for the first 6 months or so. There is software my company uses that was "certified" for Vista in December! 2007! a full year after Vista was released for corporate use. Microsoft went straight to the consumers with this release, and screwed over corporate users.
It's not been a PROFESSIONAL roll-out... and the people that read/post to Slashdot are the one that have to make the MS stuff ACTUALLY WORK. We're the ones that have to explain to the bosses with their new shiny Vista Ultimate notebooks their new machine can't run half the companies most important software... the stuff they use to get their precious numbers from. Most Slashdotters have a special hatred of Microsoft because while supporting it's software pays our bills, it's not Professional work... it's grunt work times 10 making up for things Windows should have done right the first time!
no, but the date is just close enough that any major change roll-out to something like Mac or Linux would take longer for IT staff than just "waiting around" for MS to ship Windows 7 which should sync with new hardware purchases. It's carrot-stick. XP SP3 is a carrot to the old users, but after this XP users get the stick... The windows 7 "leaks" are the Carrot to keep people bit by Vista in the fold.
the problem is that the changes they're talking about making would turn IT staff OFF from buying the OS. IT staff don't want the OS because the new permission system breaks stuff that worked well in XP SP2 and Windows software vendors are VERY lazy about updates compared to Mac vendors. I have apps at work that were "Vista certified" in DECEMBER 07! My staff can't upgrade until our key software is supported and Microsoft has really dropped the ball on motivating ISVs to get a move on.
It'd be just like them to break DIFFERENT stuff... add new features... just to set back the ISVs that DID try to update.
XP SP3 will tell you that parts of it were a "beta" and are now disabled!!! But you can upgrade to Vista!
This is also a LEGAL filing... I'd assume it would be part of court record.. how could that be copyrighted as legal "boilerplate".
what about Apple Newton... according to Wikipedia, Apple had Newtons that were "near" smartphones being discontinued in 1997. The only part missing from Apple's Newton patents would be the "in a phone" part which the court would agree is trivial.
what's the original 1997 filing say? It would be interesting to see how it started before they started looking around to put other ideas into it.
that is the trouble, you can't pay fees for patents if you don't MAKE something. Patents are the one law that prevents a person from MAKING and USING something they created, because patents apply even if you never saw the patent or the device! Unlike copyright that has is more exact and has some provision for multiple creation (because two items created will not be exact enough)
We've entered the part of our society where the "clerics" have cemented a position in the society and nothing moves without their say so. Much like the Catholic priests of the middle ages would make up religious rules based on their "interpretation" of holy works... but even Kings weren't allowed to VIEW the works or discuss them. This is the point where society stops growing and remains stable, but crippled for many years.
There's always the option of simply killing any lawyers that show up to court! Of course they could also simply cut these guys off... why should they let a party suing them use phone, cells, fax, internet... these companies do illegal tracking.. I say use it to full extents. cut off their families, their children, their past employers.... cut these lawyers off from technology until they have to use a typewriter and candle light to file briefs. Then snipe them on the way to the courthouse. There's 10 companies sued at once.. that's enough plausible deniability to launder the funds so nobody gets in trouble with the law.
I'm normally not supportive of anarchy like this, but why not. it's time for some people involved to do some civil disobedience...hell criminal disobedience to make the IP system be fixed... or wreck it.
Absolutely!
Turn the whole damn thing off until the deal is settled. All of it. These companies are big enough that the lost sales might be less than legal fees.
but if these big companies declare war on the patent office by simply ignoring them the lawsuits will NEVER get thru the courts. There's very few CRIMINAL cases you could possibly bring against these companies for patent infringments. If they wholesale decided to ignore the PTO it would be meaning less within the year.
The PTO is a "golden leash" that everybody lives with because it keep big players in the game and maintains that the game is "fair". Hopefully this will be the "one last straw" that will get the big players in to outright rebellion of IP rules.
I think the deal is that "incident to arrest" search doesn't really include electronic data in most cases. Devices like iPhone link out to external email, your personal web site, etc. Stuff that would normally require a warrant to access. While the files on the device might be fair game, what if they demand you to sign into email? recently browsed websites? Synced Excel files at home? see the problem.
it's also not a free market because the employees could not leave and take their programming work with them to start their own company...
to venture a point, OT was put into law to DISCOURAGE the practice... not "pay hard workers more money". At the time the law was made work weeks were averaging 12 hous, 6 days standard... and they might dock you for bad production!!! The point of the OT law was to change society so that we don't all work much more than that. If you think the people that "own" companies aren't laughing their way to the bank of the back of people that think like you!
Professionals, like lawyers and architects, don't work 40 hours at what we'd call "billable". It's a byproduct of the "christian work ethic" that more work should be rewarded.. but SMARTER work ends up being "cheapened". The key metric of "useful" employment should be how many dollars you add to the company's bottom line.
The problem is that management thinks you "owe" them those minimum hours per week when the Law clearly says otherwise. If they "dock" you for fewer hours, they they MUST compensate you for more... otherwise their legal recourse is to count NEITHER and judge you by work performance. If your job requires you to be "at station" for a fixed number of hours, with no flexibility, then you are hourly as much as the company may want you to be salary.