And the summary misses the point : There is a fundraiser effort to reward this piece of software, one of the most used ever. It even fails to give a link to the donation page : http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
As a gesture of good will, Peter Tattam, the sole copyright owner of Trumpet Winsock, has also issued an amnesty on any copyright infringement by individual unlicensed users of Trumpet Winsock until at least 31st Dec 2012, at which time he expects to continue that amnesty. He does however reserve all other rights in the copyright of Trumpet Winsock.
I wish he would be open sourcing it or calling for a donation threshold to do so, but still a nice gesture.
That is actually the maint problem about "intellectual property" laws : they do not understand anything about information theory. How thesame information can be encoded differently in many ways, including non-copyrightable ones.
Yeah, funny, but done correctly it would be a system parallel to the regular emails, that would be used to send official mails like taxes declaration or agreement of a contract. The governement would not have to be able to read the content of the email. I think this is not about fighting spam, but fighting scams.
Ultimately, the main problem I see with this is that many people will have trouble with keyloggers and rootkits, but having a centralized governement sponsored identity checker for crypto messages is a good thing to have.
And this is not a problem that you solve by forbidding anonymous declarations. If your neighbors throw rocks at you for a stupid reason, go to the police. "Anonymous guy said you are a child molester" has to be considered the same as "pink invisible unicorn said you are a pedophile".
No, if you post my name as an AC saying I am a child molester, it has no value at all. When doing that two possibilities are usually given to counter balance the possibility of anonymous libel:
- a right to answer. On/. it is quite simple : you have the right to hit 'reply' and make a reply.
- a right to the deletion. A bit too extreme in my opinion, but a court already has the possibility to order/. to remove the offending content. No need to track the 14 year old that thought it was a funny prank.
The specifications to Office documents and and honest help in making them interoperable. We should not consider them OSS friendly before they give that.
Ok, something more like 400 000+ years then ? Also worthy of note that there never has been such a quick increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. But yes, it could be benign and increased vegetal activity can probably compensante for it on the long term, but stopping the emissions at one moment may still be a good idea.
And explain why you do so to the people around you. They may find you are a dork, but they probably give you more technical credence that you want to believe. So if you explain that Sony is like the drug dealer that sells you shiny stuff to get you hooked, and if they believe you know what you are talking about, it may make them think twice.
We have never been at this level of CO2 in the past 100 000 years.
We observe a raise of temperature that may be linked to it but other factors come into play and the influence of these is still debated.
There has probably been temperatures similar as the one registered today in the past.
We can't be sure of how the biosphere reacts to such a CO2 level as we never have observed it.
Most computer models anticipate a warming effect of a higher CO2 concentration. And by most, I mean "all that were used by the IPCC"
Personally, I find that the fact alone that we have never witnessed such a high CO2 concentration is a good enough reason to be more careful about emissions. And global warming or not, human-made or not, it is a good idea to be prepared for some radical climate changes. Nature by itself has enough means of influencing it (volcanoes, meteors...) and our margin is currently very small. I doubt the current global food stock could withstand a volcanic eruption of the scale that happens once in a century.
Their arguments may be ridiculous, but transparency is still a good thing. Such a high budget makes it very credible that some people will try to divert some percents in their pockets. Security through obscurity doesn't work, neither does honesty through secrecy.
That is something I was waiting to happen. Jamming is easy and potentially devastating. The means to counter jamming exist but are not implemented in civilian applications nor can they easily without changing some constraints. Emit with more power, on more frequencies, change bandwidths, hop often, listen on many channels, have a low-quality mode for when transmission is harder...
But right now, the sword is stronger than the shield. We should rely a lot more on wired links and directional wireless if we want to prevent this kind of scenario.
Think about it : some companies are evaluated directly over the number of software patents the own. They buy those for sometimes millions. What do you think will happen when the market discovers it has no inherent value ?
Yet I would accept a bit bigger and a bit more expensive laptop if it was modular. I suspect I am not the only one. Also think that there is a third world market that puts a high price on the repairability of items and cares less about weight or performance. A school that knows it can easily (and quickly, not everyone has a Fry's nearby) repair the 30% of laptops that will be broken every year is probably ready to pay 15% more for each.
Color detection. Glad to hear that someone, somewhere, managed to sell this software as "state of the art AI bleeding edge software". I hope it helped fund the parts that the investor may found "trivial" like navigation and control.
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There has been reactions from the owner of the software
http://tattsoft.com/
http://petertattam.com/?p=33
Including an amnesty
As a gesture of good will, Peter Tattam, the sole copyright owner of Trumpet Winsock, has also issued an amnesty on any copyright infringement by individual unlicensed users of Trumpet Winsock until at least 31st Dec 2012, at which time he expects to continue that amnesty. He does however reserve all other rights in the copyright of Trumpet Winsock.
I wish he would be open sourcing it or calling for a donation threshold to do so, but still a nice gesture.
That is actually the maint problem about "intellectual property" laws : they do not understand anything about information theory. How thesame information can be encoded differently in many ways, including non-copyrightable ones.
Wikipedia peaked in 2007-2008. There i sa history function for that.
Which would made the USS Kitty Hawk's range of about 600 kilometers (sorry, 370 miles) http://express.howstuffworks.com/express-aircraft-carrier3.htm
Allow me to doubt that claim.
... in future versions.
nuff' said.
Yeah, funny, but done correctly it would be a system parallel to the regular emails, that would be used to send official mails like taxes declaration or agreement of a contract. The governement would not have to be able to read the content of the email. I think this is not about fighting spam, but fighting scams.
Ultimately, the main problem I see with this is that many people will have trouble with keyloggers and rootkits, but having a centralized governement sponsored identity checker for crypto messages is a good thing to have.
And this is not a problem that you solve by forbidding anonymous declarations. If your neighbors throw rocks at you for a stupid reason, go to the police. "Anonymous guy said you are a child molester" has to be considered the same as "pink invisible unicorn said you are a pedophile".
No, if you post my name as an AC saying I am a child molester, it has no value at all. When doing that two possibilities are usually given to counter balance the possibility of anonymous libel : /. it is quite simple : you have the right to hit 'reply' and make a reply. /. to remove the offending content. No need to track the 14 year old that thought it was a funny prank.
- a right to answer. On
- a right to the deletion. A bit too extreme in my opinion, but a court already has the possibility to order
Not to mention that the USA is one of the few big enough countries to have such a structure.
You'd need a PhD to predict the tides.
Or admit that you can't explain that.
The specifications to Office documents and and honest help in making them interoperable. We should not consider them OSS friendly before they give that.
You might actually look a bit further: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html
Ok, something more like 400 000+ years then ? Also worthy of note that there never has been such a quick increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. But yes, it could be benign and increased vegetal activity can probably compensante for it on the long term, but stopping the emissions at one moment may still be a good idea.
And explain why you do so to the people around you. They may find you are a dork, but they probably give you more technical credence that you want to believe. So if you explain that Sony is like the drug dealer that sells you shiny stuff to get you hooked, and if they believe you know what you are talking about, it may make them think twice.
We have never been at this level of CO2 in the past 100 000 years.
We observe a raise of temperature that may be linked to it but other factors come into play and the influence of these is still debated.
There has probably been temperatures similar as the one registered today in the past.
We can't be sure of how the biosphere reacts to such a CO2 level as we never have observed it.
Most computer models anticipate a warming effect of a higher CO2 concentration. And by most, I mean "all that were used by the IPCC"
Personally, I find that the fact alone that we have never witnessed such a high CO2 concentration is a good enough reason to be more careful about emissions. And global warming or not, human-made or not, it is a good idea to be prepared for some radical climate changes. Nature by itself has enough means of influencing it (volcanoes, meteors...) and our margin is currently very small. I doubt the current global food stock could withstand a volcanic eruption of the scale that happens once in a century.
Their arguments may be ridiculous, but transparency is still a good thing. Such a high budget makes it very credible that some people will try to divert some percents in their pockets. Security through obscurity doesn't work, neither does honesty through secrecy.
That is something I was waiting to happen. Jamming is easy and potentially devastating. The means to counter jamming exist but are not implemented in civilian applications nor can they easily without changing some constraints. Emit with more power, on more frequencies, change bandwidths, hop often, listen on many channels, have a low-quality mode for when transmission is harder...
But right now, the sword is stronger than the shield. We should rely a lot more on wired links and directional wireless if we want to prevent this kind of scenario.
How many final flights did it have ?
Who wants to bet there will be at least another one ?
But what if doing politics IS your job ?
As expected, no tits showed up in millions of git commits.
The main reason being likely the corruption. The more centralized is the decision making, the more likely it is to happen.
I find it strange that amid the wikileaks debacle and now that some of the black-hat works ordered by US govt is becoming publicized ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbgary-wrote-backdoors-and-rootkits-for-the-government.ars/ ) I find it strange that a strategical office like foreign affairs is going back to the vendor-lock-in cradle of MS products.
Think about it : some companies are evaluated directly over the number of software patents the own. They buy those for sometimes millions. What do you think will happen when the market discovers it has no inherent value ?
Well, it could have been benign, BP's version was credible. Now are there indication on the size of the zone impacted ?
How can anonymous deny anything ?
Yet I would accept a bit bigger and a bit more expensive laptop if it was modular. I suspect I am not the only one. Also think that there is a third world market that puts a high price on the repairability of items and cares less about weight or performance. A school that knows it can easily (and quickly, not everyone has a Fry's nearby) repair the 30% of laptops that will be broken every year is probably ready to pay 15% more for each.
Color detection. Glad to hear that someone, somewhere, managed to sell this software as "state of the art AI bleeding edge software". I hope it helped fund the parts that the investor may found "trivial" like navigation and control.