Since I assume you have heard of Microsoft Office, your comment is laughable. Microsoft already owns the office productivity software market. Microsoft does NOT own Java. That's the point.
Your other point, about MS developing a version of Linux, is equally funny. Microsoft is not interested in cannibalizing sales of its Windows monopoly.
One reason not to open source Java is that MS could simply appropriate it, develop and eventually patent a bastardized version that would work only with MS software. The MS market share monopoly would then guarantee the end of "Java as we know it." And Sun could not do a thing about it.
Remember the recent lawsuit over this exact issue of MS "extensions" of Java? In January 2001 MS settled that suit. Companies don't settle suits they're likely to win. Making Java open source would simply void the settlement. Check out this site: http://java.sun.com/lawsuit/
McNealy is a wise CEO not to give the competition the tools to destroy his company.
And one other thing about Knoppix, it will mount read-only NTFS partitions and provide access to data WITHOUT any Windows login. It bypasses Windows security completely. Kind of nice when you have to retrieve crucial data from an unbootable or otherwise broken machine.
As the Article implies, the Junior Programmer would have to know:
1. What are the other public kernels
2. Where are they
3. The history of interaction between Caldera, SCO and each of the other public kernels.
Then all he needs to do is compare it with BSD and any other publically available kernels to eliminate any that may have had a common ancestry.
That last part is where the detailed knowledge of the history of Linux comes in. So in effect, you are agreeing, even though you state otherwise. I'd check your personal "Daft-o-Meter". Seems to be pegged all the way over.
Puh-lease!
In common parlance, "University of Wisconsin" without further specification always means University of Wisconsin-Madison. This reflects the history of the UW System, created in 1971, and which contains 13 universities, including the former UW, which is now officially carries the -Madison handle.
I should know: I have an undergraduate degree from UW-Stevens Point and a graduate degree from UW-Madison.
Bruce,
Just a quick question from a non-legal mind: does the USPTO update its files, online or otherwise, to reflect changes in ownership of patents? What about the US Copyright Office?
I agree with your assessment that 9/11 is not directly comparable to the Blitz, for all the good reasons you mentioned. However, that was not my point. My point is that 9/11 has galvanized American public opinion in a way analogous to the way the Blitz galvanized England in 1940. I made the point to help you and others understand what it is like for us and how the events of Sept. 11 have changed our perception of the world. If you think this is not a battle for survival, I would politely invite you to rethink that.
At least the English knew precisely who they were fighting. The current war is against terrorists who could be anybody, anywhere. This makes the current war more difficult in this respect. But we will win nonetheless.
You are mistaken: I did not (and can't) tie Saddam's regime directly to 9/11, because to date no strong link has been publicized. He was simply a very evil man, running an evil regime, and he pissed off the US government for the last time. It was in our interest, and Iraq's interest, and the world's interest that he be removed.
The Ozzies stood up with the US to Saddam, and I agree, it had to be done. I am heartened we did it with help from down under.
As regards your nationality and your comment on groupthink: tell us about 'groupthink' among the English during the Blitz. They were all like-minded because the provocation and the argument for fighting back were compelling.
Likewise, all of America changed because we recognize a)this is war and b)if we do nothing or just send in a few token cruise missiles the next attack will be much worse.
Like the English during the Blitz, we Americans recognize a battle to the death when we are in one.
As usual, the Americans did not start this new kind of war, but we're sure as bloody hell going to finish it.
Sorry I have no mod points to mod you UP for a clear presentation of an opinion different from my own.
We as Americans have a gut level hatred for the sort of regime that was Saddam Hussein's. He had to go. Likewise, the Germans benefited 53 years ago from the same American determination.
Einige meiner besten Freunden sind Deutschen.
As an American, I treasure my German friends, but Germany as a nation seems unable to use military force for any reason. Because of the Nazi time, it appears that Germany has lost the ability to see that sometimes the violent overthrow of a brutal, inhuman dictator by military action is necessary.
OK, I'll risk being OT. In the near future I'll be installing Linux on a 1.2 MHz Athlon on my home LAN. Installs in the last 4 years are 1) RedHat 7.1 (broke when upgrading something) 2) Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (broken by upgrade->death spiral into uselessness) and most recently Gentoo 1.1a (broke when following instructions [exactly] to upgrade to Gentoo 1.4 rather than a complete re-install. Something I did with chroot, I think.
I liked Gentoo the best, it was fast even on a 400 MHz Pentium II and the package management with emerge was outstanding. I just got tired of compiling everything and retired that machine when I bought a new desktop (2.8GHz P4; Win XP Home is not impressive, BTW).
I've been debating which distro to install on this 1.2 MHz athlon. The front runners are Gentoo 1.4, SuSE 8.2, and RedHat 9. Each has strong points, but what I'm looking for is a distro which is fully functional as installed. It's not that I can't tinker with it for a couple of weeks and get everything to work, it's just that I don't want to. What I really want is a web browser with all the plugins already installed and working (flash, Quicktime, and WINE plugins for Windows media and Real).
Since you know a lot more than me about computers and Linux, I was curious what you were running.
I can't think of a single social problem that was ever solved by making an activity or type of company liable for civil damages.
Obviously this is not the same as product liability, which for all its evils, in many cases has made us safer in our homes, cars, and places of work.
Physicians know very well the nightmare involved in any kind of malpractice action.
While the Calif. legislature's intentions are good, the problems with this law will prevent it ever having its intended effect.
The only think it will do is make a small number of California lawyers very wealthy.
The fix for spam (lowercase letters only!) has to involve shutting down open relays, ISP and individual filtering, and carefully crafted criminal legislation. For instance, we don't sue crank phone callers, we prosecute them criminally. Likewise, the new federal law against junk phone calls and the federal do-not-call list have criminal penalties, ie, large fines. Those are the laws that have forced junk callers to change their behavior. This is the direction most likely to be successful with spam as well.
Good post! Finally someone making sense about evolution. I wanted to add that making humans resistant to disease through, for instance, artificial blood or whatever, would SLOW evolution. That's because evolution does not occur in a vaccum: it is the result of evolutionary PRESSURE. Remove the pressure (of disease, in this case) and evolution stops, because there is no adaptive advantage to certain mutations that confer disease resistance.
BTW, I read the article twice, and searched it. The word 'evolution' does not appear in the article. Where did michael get that last line in the original post?
I have tried for years to buy several CDs that are out of print. One of them is "The Fine Art of Surfacing" by the Boomtown Rats from 1979. Here's what this CD recently sold for (used) on Ebay.(OOP=out of print)
OOP! Boomtown Rats-Fine Art Of Surfacing CD - Item #2501717xxx
Final price: $72.00
Your maximum bid: $19.00
End date: Jan-23-03 16:29 PST
First, in re: the NET Act, what is the "retail value" of an out-of-print title? My assumption is that it is zero, otherwise the record co., in this case CBS/Sony, would market it. By my reading, this Act applies only if the copyrighted material has retail value.
If the retail value is zero, then I don't see how this NET Act can possibly apply if I would choose to download the MP3s of the entire album and burn my own CD. Perhaps a lawyer could shed some light on this matter.
Secondly, why won't this record co. and others wake up and see that there's obviously a market for this CD, and presumably thousands of other out-of-print titles? Why are they pissing away this revenue stream? (No pun intended) Maybe they're too busy scrambling after the next Britney?
In the case of OOP titles, do I have to become a criminal to obtain my music or else pay $72 for a used disc on Ebay? Totally bizarre.
Thanks for the reply. It sounds like Einstein simply assumed that nothing in the local limit could travel faster than c, partly to keep the equations clean. (Just like he assumed spacetime was flat for SR) And now it seems his assumption about gravity travelling at c is observably correct, if this new measurement stands up to scrutiny.
Although the circular reasoning of the ARTICLE is obvious (stars to all the boy geniuses out there who instantly seized their opportunity to prove Einstein wrong), I would like to hear from a GR physicist what the journalist meant when he said that Einstein "built this into his 1915 general theory of relativity." What exactly does this mean?
Best to tread carefully when trying to figure out relativity. It's weirder than you think.
My point is this: if a patient/pax goes down in-flight, and the device is used, the financial benefit of the briefcase is lost if it simply confirms that diversion is the most appropriate action.
It would be interesting to collect (retrospective) information to answser this question: what percentage of diversions could be avoided with the briefcase on board?
From your experience, what fraction of diversions are later found to be for trivial reasons?
Obviously, the device is of only limited use for the ABCs of resuscitation. Someone still has to maintain an airway, confirm ventilation and circulation. And someone still has to get IV access in order for a full-bore resuscitation to proceed, if that's required. (Some meds can be given through a tracheal tube, but intubation in flight is probably beyond what we're talking about here.)
Please, AC idiot, be aware that after 14 years of medical practice I have seen more than one person fuck up their life with drugs. I have seen multiple people die as a result of their own or other's drug use/abuse call it whatever the fuck you want. Jeez, I guess if you die, it must be abuse, right? And BTW, I don't make generalizations from observation samples where n=1. Unlike you. Your thinking must be: I'm not in prison or sleeping on the sidewalk, so drugs must be enhancing my life and everyone else's.
Although you might feel better after your little rant, obviously we're hearing more than just the Midol talking. What are you on today?
I don't have to do drugs to know they're bad for same reason I don't have to plunge my hand into a pan of boiling water to know it's hot and bad for my health.
You are deluding yourself if you think you can "control" your illegal drug use. Have you figured out yet what you will wear on your perp walk? Hint: Bright primary colors show up best on the news video. Your mom will be so proud.
Finally, if you want to be taken seriously on Slashdot, quit hiding, you Anonymous Coward, and login as a real user here. Obviously you're a "real user" out there.
It's true a single use of narcotics may not lead immediately to physical or psychological addiction. Repeated use simply erodes the desire to say "no" until the ability to do so is gone. Addiction is a complex behavior, and therefore can't be packaged up and labelled like I'm now reading in this thread.
I DO love how the junkies post "only well-grounded people" should be doing drugs. Then all the fsck-ed up losers think, "Ooh, I'm so cool and grounded, I can do more drugs..."
As a physician (anesthesiologist), I have personally known a doctor who got addicted to narcotics he stole from work. He wrecked his life in very short order (months, not years). Lost his job and wife. There are hundreds of reports of doctors (provably smart, organized, together people) in the anesthesia literature who have died from their addiction to narcotics. The phenomenon has been studied and reported.
Please cut the bullshit about "only well-grounded people" should do drugs. I have never read anything more delusional on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot.
Illegal narcotics simply can't help anyone be a better anything, ever.
The episode 'Amok Time' was about Mr. Spock going into rut. He had to return to Vulcan, fight a rival for the right to mate with T'Pring, (sp?), all supervised by T'Pau, the old crone.
I can't remember the title of the episode you mention, but Mariette Hartley played the banished woman in the Ice Age cave in that one.
Sorry if this is OT, but just wanted to clarify.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published this story in July about three friends who died. Two died of CJD and one of Pick's disease, which is sometimes hard to distinguish from CJD. The kicker is, these three friends hunted together and ate together at game 'feasts' back in the 1980s and 1990s. The Infectious Disease doc mentioned, Dennis Maki, is very well known and respected in the medical community here in Wisconsin. Here's the link:
As previous posts have mentioned, prions are nearly indistructible. Multiple cases of human CJD have been proved to be transmitted by surgical instruments that were 'sterilized' by standard techniques after being used on a patient later diagnosed with CJD. My point is: we are well advised to be extremely cautious where potential transmission of prions is at issue.
The previous post regarding 46 brain biopsies of Alzheimer's patients, among which 6 cases were 'positive for CJD' is puzzling. The microscopic look of the two diseases is completely different. CJD brain tissue looks like Swiss cheese under the microscope, while Alzheimer's brains show neurons replaced by 'neurofibrillary tangles.' These look like bits of brown stringy stuff where the neuron body used to be. Clinically, however, the diseases both cause dementia. Normally the time course of CJD, from first symptom to complete dementia, is much shorter (weeks to months) than Alzheimer's (years).
Hope this gives people some things to think about.
Two of the three reasons for BEFSR41 owners not not to worry about this have already been mentioned, namely, Remote Update is disabled by default (except for one reported firmware version); and
The third reason is that Block WAN Request is enabled by default. This is how these routers make themselves invisible to the web: they just drop the packets that come from outside. This can be combined with opening a specific port (forwarding), in which case the traffic on that port is directed to a SPECIFIC machine on the LAN.
An attacker could just scan a (network) subnet for IP addresses belonging to Linksys routers. Once they identified the targeted routers, they could bring them down just using their Web browser," said Sunil James, a senior security engineer at iDefense, which is in Chantilly, Virginia.
I think this quote is wrong: these routers don't announce themselves during a scan. Just what would they be scanning for? Open ports? Those are passed to the designated machine on the LAN. In most cases they just do pure NAT. Help me out if I'm wrong on this.
I'm an anesthesiologist and work in Wisconsin, where alcohol intake is heavy compared to other parts of the US.
In addition to alcohol consumption, smoking by the patient also increased the amount of anesthesia I have to give. The more smoking and alcohol, the more anesthetic I find myself giving the patient.
It's not uncommon to double the amount of narcotics I give in order to reach a reasonable level of pain control post-op. Our general rule is, give the patients what they need, they hardly ever lie about being in pain.
Slashdot Mirror
Your other point, about MS developing a version of Linux, is equally funny. Microsoft is not interested in cannibalizing sales of its Windows monopoly.
Here comes your clue bus, nice troll.
Remember the recent lawsuit over this exact issue of MS "extensions" of Java? In January 2001 MS settled that suit. Companies don't settle suits they're likely to win. Making Java open source would simply void the settlement. Check out this site: http://java.sun.com/lawsuit/
McNealy is a wise CEO not to give the competition the tools to destroy his company.
And one other thing about Knoppix, it will mount read-only NTFS partitions and provide access to data WITHOUT any Windows login. It bypasses Windows security completely. Kind of nice when you have to retrieve crucial data from an unbootable or otherwise broken machine.
1. What are the other public kernels
2. Where are they
3. The history of interaction between Caldera, SCO and each of the other public kernels.
Then all he needs to do is compare it with BSD and any other publically available kernels to eliminate any that may have had a common ancestry.
That last part is where the detailed knowledge of the history of Linux comes in. So in effect, you are agreeing, even though you state otherwise. I'd check your personal "Daft-o-Meter". Seems to be pegged all the way over.
I should know: I have an undergraduate degree from UW-Stevens Point and a graduate degree from UW-Madison.
Marcus
At least the English knew precisely who they were fighting. The current war is against terrorists who could be anybody, anywhere. This makes the current war more difficult in this respect. But we will win nonetheless.
You are mistaken: I did not (and can't) tie Saddam's regime directly to 9/11, because to date no strong link has been publicized. He was simply a very evil man, running an evil regime, and he pissed off the US government for the last time. It was in our interest, and Iraq's interest, and the world's interest that he be removed.
Cheers
As regards your nationality and your comment on groupthink: tell us about 'groupthink' among the English during the Blitz. They were all like-minded because the provocation and the argument for fighting back were compelling.
Likewise, all of America changed because we recognize a)this is war and b)if we do nothing or just send in a few token cruise missiles the next attack will be much worse.
Like the English during the Blitz, we Americans recognize a battle to the death when we are in one.
As usual, the Americans did not start this new kind of war, but we're sure as bloody hell going to finish it.
Hope this helps clarify things for you.
OK, my math is off, no more Chardonnay for me with dinner. Hitler's regime fell in May, 1945. He made it twelve years into his "Thousand year Reich."
We as Americans have a gut level hatred for the sort of regime that was Saddam Hussein's. He had to go. Likewise, the Germans benefited 53 years ago from the same American determination.
Einige meiner besten Freunden sind Deutschen.
As an American, I treasure my German friends, but Germany as a nation seems unable to use military force for any reason. Because of the Nazi time, it appears that Germany has lost the ability to see that sometimes the violent overthrow of a brutal, inhuman dictator by military action is necessary.
Military invasion is not always evil.
I liked Gentoo the best, it was fast even on a 400 MHz Pentium II and the package management with emerge was outstanding. I just got tired of compiling everything and retired that machine when I bought a new desktop (2.8GHz P4; Win XP Home is not impressive, BTW).
I've been debating which distro to install on this 1.2 MHz athlon. The front runners are Gentoo 1.4, SuSE 8.2, and RedHat 9. Each has strong points, but what I'm looking for is a distro which is fully functional as installed. It's not that I can't tinker with it for a couple of weeks and get everything to work, it's just that I don't want to. What I really want is a web browser with all the plugins already installed and working (flash, Quicktime, and WINE plugins for Windows media and Real).
Since you know a lot more than me about computers and Linux, I was curious what you were running.
Obviously this is not the same as product liability, which for all its evils, in many cases has made us safer in our homes, cars, and places of work.
Physicians know very well the nightmare involved in any kind of malpractice action.
While the Calif. legislature's intentions are good, the problems with this law will prevent it ever having its intended effect.
The only think it will do is make a small number of California lawyers very wealthy.
The fix for spam (lowercase letters only!) has to involve shutting down open relays, ISP and individual filtering, and carefully crafted criminal legislation. For instance, we don't sue crank phone callers, we prosecute them criminally. Likewise, the new federal law against junk phone calls and the federal do-not-call list have criminal penalties, ie, large fines. Those are the laws that have forced junk callers to change their behavior. This is the direction most likely to be successful with spam as well.
Quick questions: which Linux did you install on the mainframe, and which Linux, if any, do you run on your personal system?
BTW, I read the article twice, and searched it. The word 'evolution' does not appear in the article. Where did michael get that last line in the original post?
OOP! Boomtown Rats-Fine Art Of Surfacing CD - Item #2501717xxx Final price: $72.00 Your maximum bid: $19.00 End date: Jan-23-03 16:29 PST
First, in re: the NET Act, what is the "retail value" of an out-of-print title? My assumption is that it is zero, otherwise the record co., in this case CBS/Sony, would market it. By my reading, this Act applies only if the copyrighted material has retail value.
If the retail value is zero, then I don't see how this NET Act can possibly apply if I would choose to download the MP3s of the entire album and burn my own CD. Perhaps a lawyer could shed some light on this matter.
Secondly, why won't this record co. and others wake up and see that there's obviously a market for this CD, and presumably thousands of other out-of-print titles? Why are they pissing away this revenue stream? (No pun intended) Maybe they're too busy scrambling after the next Britney?
In the case of OOP titles, do I have to become a criminal to obtain my music or else pay $72 for a used disc on Ebay? Totally bizarre.
Thanks for the reply. It sounds like Einstein simply assumed that nothing in the local limit could travel faster than c, partly to keep the equations clean. (Just like he assumed spacetime was flat for SR) And now it seems his assumption about gravity travelling at c is observably correct, if this new measurement stands up to scrutiny.
Best to tread carefully when trying to figure out relativity. It's weirder than you think.
My point is this: if a patient/pax goes down in-flight, and the device is used, the financial benefit of the briefcase is lost if it simply confirms that diversion is the most appropriate action.
It would be interesting to collect (retrospective) information to answser this question: what percentage of diversions could be avoided with the briefcase on board?
From your experience, what fraction of diversions are later found to be for trivial reasons?
Obviously, the device is of only limited use for the ABCs of resuscitation. Someone still has to maintain an airway, confirm ventilation and circulation. And someone still has to get IV access in order for a full-bore resuscitation to proceed, if that's required. (Some meds can be given through a tracheal tube, but intubation in flight is probably beyond what we're talking about here.)
Although you might feel better after your little rant, obviously we're hearing more than just the Midol talking. What are you on today?
I don't have to do drugs to know they're bad for same reason I don't have to plunge my hand into a pan of boiling water to know it's hot and bad for my health.
You are deluding yourself if you think you can "control" your illegal drug use. Have you figured out yet what you will wear on your perp walk? Hint: Bright primary colors show up best on the news video. Your mom will be so proud.
Finally, if you want to be taken seriously on Slashdot, quit hiding, you Anonymous Coward, and login as a real user here. Obviously you're a "real user" out there.
I DO love how the junkies post "only well-grounded people" should be doing drugs. Then all the fsck-ed up losers think, "Ooh, I'm so cool and grounded, I can do more drugs..."
As a physician (anesthesiologist), I have personally known a doctor who got addicted to narcotics he stole from work. He wrecked his life in very short order (months, not years). Lost his job and wife. There are hundreds of reports of doctors (provably smart, organized, together people) in the anesthesia literature who have died from their addiction to narcotics. The phenomenon has been studied and reported.
Please cut the bullshit about "only well-grounded people" should do drugs. I have never read anything more delusional on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot.
Illegal narcotics simply can't help anyone be a better anything, ever.
The episode 'Amok Time' was about Mr. Spock going into rut. He had to return to Vulcan, fight a rival for the right to mate with T'Pring, (sp?), all supervised by T'Pau, the old crone. I can't remember the title of the episode you mention, but Mariette Hartley played the banished woman in the Ice Age cave in that one. Sorry if this is OT, but just wanted to clarify.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/State/jul02/60546.asp
As previous posts have mentioned, prions are nearly indistructible. Multiple cases of human CJD have been proved to be transmitted by surgical instruments that were 'sterilized' by standard techniques after being used on a patient later diagnosed with CJD. My point is: we are well advised to be extremely cautious where potential transmission of prions is at issue.
The previous post regarding 46 brain biopsies of Alzheimer's patients, among which 6 cases were 'positive for CJD' is puzzling. The microscopic look of the two diseases is completely different. CJD brain tissue looks like Swiss cheese under the microscope, while Alzheimer's brains show neurons replaced by 'neurofibrillary tangles.' These look like bits of brown stringy stuff where the neuron body used to be. Clinically, however, the diseases both cause dementia. Normally the time course of CJD, from first symptom to complete dementia, is much shorter (weeks to months) than Alzheimer's (years).
Hope this gives people some things to think about.
Marcus
It's a shame when such an insightful post is submitted Anonymous Coward. In the future, log in and get cool Karma for such thoughts. Marcus
The third reason is that Block WAN Request is enabled by default. This is how these routers make themselves invisible to the web: they just drop the packets that come from outside. This can be combined with opening a specific port (forwarding), in which case the traffic on that port is directed to a SPECIFIC machine on the LAN.
HTH,
Marcus