At first it'll be legal, we'll get used to it same as we got used to Dick Cheney. Then one day, boom it'll all stop working. Prohibition didn't happen overnight, the media was instructed by the Government to teach everyone that alcohol was evil, then after a few years when public opinion fell in line, they hit the US with prohibition. This is just the start of DRM.
Though you can bet that your processor is gonna be way too slow to run any future apps so you should probably start hoarding software too.
During prohibition, the mafia sold liquor to the citizens of the United States and the law was then withdrawn. Now we're getting digital prohibition, and the warez people will sell us DRM-hacked software and DRM will be withdrawn.
Every now and again something happens that makes us citizens have to start everything again from scratch. I say FSF buys the Altera FPGA kit, and we design our own processor (I hope to God that Intel doesn't keep the OP-codes secret that relate to Palladium).
We can program the FPGA with Intel instruction set compatibility, where Palladium instructions would be ignored, or design an add-on chip (like the old Pentium Turbo snap-on chips) which would detect the Palladium opcodes on the FSB and skirt around them. Whoa, am I violating the DMCA by suggesting this?
Government + Corporations versus Consumers, Saddam is just a distraction
So who will this law catch? Some innocent people with odd interests. Some guilty people who are pretty dumb. So it offers potential for false hits while essentially weeding the criminal groups to leave only the smarter/tougher criminals
Why doesn't Bush just burn all the books like Hitler^H^H^H^H^H^H any ptriotic American would.
This law would also allow the Government to easiy "manufacture" false evidence Nixon-style. Together with detainment of people belonging to certain religions without the right to a lawyer, this means Bush -> Hitler. I always knew that the US Presidential system would explode in America's face one day, but I would never have expected it to turn into a fascist state like it is now.
All other democracies in Europe have so much red tape the Governments can't do anything even if they want to, but America thinks its current pseudo-dictatorial system is best. Memo to America: Eternal vigilance must be changed to eternal and prompt vigilance when the new Constitution is written after the imminent American civil war of 2003-2010.
Another Government agency spreading FUD, well what a surprise. Government agency is funded by Government which is funded by taxes which is paid by workers who work in the complex carbohydrates food manufacturing industry. Protein foods on the other hand need to be subsidised by Government, so of course the Government will push carbs over protein. Is this the same genetically engineered Sky? grain that the corporations are testing out on Africans?
Eternal vigilance - I was asleep, but now I'm awake.
Bah! This is just FUD, same as the old story that NATs and Firewalls will make P2P unusable, because incoming TCP connections don't work (handshake blocked)
Simple Solution: Use UDP and an application-level error correction algorithm, plus maybe packet sequence numbers.
It can be worse to install a security patch - remember M$ SP6 being corrupt, requiring SP6a? Remember Media Player XP forcing DRM down our throats? I'd say these changes are bigger in the big picture than a simple httd change which can always be rolled back. Proof of everyone worldwide signing a DRM patch click-through clause is much bigger than this.
Yeah but does your boss trust you enough to give you a raise? Sun Tsu (Beliskner's amendment) - Everybody wants something, if an employee craves trust then give him trust slowly, that way he won't ask for a raise (same as Intel artificially keeps chip development slow so they can milk money from the market).
As soon as they release a stable version for Apache 2 (aka 4.3.0), then I'll look seriously at switching. It's great that Apache 2 has stablized now, though, as it lets everyone else work around a stable project.
We'll all get to Apache 2, it just takes time to migrate.
Bwa ha ha ha!!! You/. people are so hypocritical, when Microsoft iis users fail to install patches to upgrade immediately and get mod_Code Red automatically installed via Internet you say "l4amers", and yet when it's your turn to upgrade Apache, or even just to patch the older vulnerable version, it's suddenly OK to wait, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Yeah well maybe I've got MS iis running with mod_Code Red but if it ain't broke don't fix it, yeah?
Even if Microsoft's customers ask for security, Microsoft can't give it, same way that McDonalds can't sell you a Whopper even if you're willing to pay $200.
I want a system that does what I tell it to, not what it thinks I want. I want something that is coded efficiently, smoothly, and takes up a minimum of space
Best solution: Use Windows XP for fun, use linux for stuff, use Unix for fun and scalable webservers and app servers, and for mission critical don't use an operating system, program an FPGA with a hardware TCP stack, solid state hardware webserver. This way malicous hackers will have very limited scope.
Ahhhh finally, an unbrainwashed individual... Well there's no need to be partially defeatist, the Capitalist system isn't that bad, unfortunately people in the US are forced too hard to partake in it with your welfare cut off after a time. When Ford doubled its workers wages 50 years ago to create involuntary unemployment and increase the efficiency of its workforce, via fear of employees losing this cushy job, they failed to mention was the effect on democracy of having the majority of employees living 'in fear' of losing their jobs. I say it creates a risk aversion in the majority of the population which undermines one of the cornerstones of a democracy - a free people. As a result, Governments now pander to corporations because people are afraid of losing their jobs if they set up a tent outside Capitol Hill, so shut up and love the DMCA or lose your job.
Google keywords to find supporting documents: involuntary unemployment, unemployable, constant fear
You're talking about small business to business products in economic theory, but how about large infrastructure products e.g. a dam, yf22 jetfighter spare parts (in a war Lockheed parts manufacturing facilities would be destroyed first), plus consumer products where there is demand for overengineered products e.g. a beam/strut supporting your house reaches the end of its lifepsan and collapses, don't tell me that the owner will say, "Ah well I purchased it cheaply at profit-maximised price, it wasn't overengineered and it broke, ah well, houses are a dime a dozen." I don't think so, he'll try to sue the construction company for breaching building codes, although this reliability would still be acceptable in a microwave.
Calculating NetPresentValue of a dam isn't done (I hope to high heaven), as calculations would show that if Atlanta is flooded by the dam failing in 20 years that's of no business/ROI importance as all the employees would have been paid already and the CEO would be a billionaire. Thank God the Government controls infrastructure projects, oh oooops that's changing, ah well.
WAKE UP! EVERY company is a monopoly. Planned obsolecense was introduced and is practiced by all companies. The US thinks that no cartels exist, and yet 50 years ago electric motors were designed to last for 300 years with a commutator change every 5 years (a small carbon brush). Now all of a sudden EVERY company manufactures electric motors with a life of 30 years or less needing disposal (no user-servicable parts inside). Has our technology suddenly become trash and inferior, how could all these companies possibly agree to this? It's a conspiracy - I'm sure lots of people would be willing to pay double for an electric motor that lasts 300 years (look at Empire State Building generator room), and yet this product is not sold by any company worldwide at all. There are secret socities at work.
I think we're still a long way from making 'digital' actors and actresses that are indistinguishable from the real thing. The technology isn't there yet, and may never be
Ohhhhh the technology's gonna get there, but you can shoot a scene 10 times before you get it right, the price for some guy designing a face in Maya is bound to cost more than having some dumbass standing in front of a camera. Many people are willing to act for free, how can Linux compete with free?
Or maybe it's an early indicator of a gravitational field reversal, or additional buffeting of the Earth's magnetic field by increased solar winds from the peak solar cycle?
Why are the admins dicking around with files in/etc on a production server?
They want to understand how Unix works because they have no experience, and management won't buy a backup server "in this economy"
And pray tell, why is TELNET running on your production server?
Some IPSEC-VPN sales team from some company told our management that "universal accessibility is important", managemet told them "hey we can do that free with telnet, these VPN people are trying to sucker us by selling us something that's free" so telnet runs on all of our systems including clients. I told management we need a firewall but they tell us in this economy they cannot allocate the budget. We haven't been authorised to install TCP wrappers or anything
It is bad enough that the admins are using telnet to dick around with the ini files but SLEEPY admins at that?
He's still on probation, so if I say anything he'll get fired, and with no experience (he's a fresher) despite his brilliant Masters degree he won't get hired by anyone in this economy so I've decided to cover for him, even if it means my own job, 'cos I have experience on my resume so I'll be able to get something else.
Unlike your servers running Windows, you don't have to reboot your Linux servers every day!
Old Windows habits die hard
For my personal "Do Not Apply For Work At" list...
You can pick and choose where you work, you're lucky. The company is in the UK.
What we really need is another OS, I have a proposal:
OsamabinLadenOS:
Allah-tcsh> ls Error - you may not view naked filelist Allah-tcsh> rm -r/lib/* Error - Mohammed is the final prophet, you may not interfere with the Koran in this way Allah-tcsh> mail bustyblonde@aol.com Error - Operating System will not perform illegal or indecent operation, your punishment: removing all inodes... done, writing rand() array to MBR and partition table... done
Scanregw.exe backs up the windows registry daily, which is a very powerful recovery feature. If one of the admins on the night shift comes up to me in the morning and says, "Hey dude something's gone wrong, I was editing.ini files in/etc/ and then another admin telnetted in from home and adjusted the same files as me, I saw some sort of warning but I was half asleep so I clicked it away. I don't remember what.ini files got corrupted, so I was looking through all of them modifying them but then I realised one of them might be the lilo.conf file just before I changed the MBR with lilo, too late. Oops."
How exactly does a directory of text files get corrupted? Is finding something in the registry faster than grepping files in/etc?
< Some app > ./ make install Perl error - require root privileges to install this application login root yada yada /. make install Perl error - line 22525 command failed due to lock contention: "exec cp -r install/newlib/gcc/*/lib/gcc-lib" was unsuccesful
Face it - the registry and a bunch of text files are simply 2 ways of laying out the same old data, both systems have advantages and disadvantages.
? I can't think of one feature resulting from putting everything into a single database that I as a user or system manager would care about
I'm thinking... Ah, move the configuration for everything installed by a simple default Redhat installation to another machine - lilo.conf, sshd conf, ftp confs, aliases, mount scripts, KDE backgrounds, GIMP conf, StarOffice confs and preferences, Gnome backgrounds and confs with Enlightenment WM preferences, etc. I bet ya it'll take more than a few hours.
A minimum acceptable wage in India these days would be $100 a month, with $200 being more realistic. A Dell call centre I know pays $250/mo to entry level engineers. Dirt cheap by US standards, yes
A few years ago it used to be cheaper, I was using that metric. If you set up a call centre in the middle of Calcutta villages or other deprived areas it would be how much I stated, but these call centres are appearing in rich urban areas (by Indian standards) which also increases their prices. Of course these urban call centres don't have problems with armed bandits and land disputes unlike Calcutta suburb businesses.
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At first it'll be legal, we'll get used to it same as we got used to Dick Cheney. Then one day, boom it'll all stop working. Prohibition didn't happen overnight, the media was instructed by the Government to teach everyone that alcohol was evil, then after a few years when public opinion fell in line, they hit the US with prohibition. This is just the start of DRM.
The mirror in history is almost beautiful.
We can program the FPGA with Intel instruction set compatibility, where Palladium instructions would be ignored, or design an add-on chip (like the old Pentium Turbo snap-on chips) which would detect the Palladium opcodes on the FSB and skirt around them. Whoa, am I violating the DMCA by suggesting this?
Government + Corporations versus Consumers, Saddam is just a distraction
This law would also allow the Government to easiy "manufacture" false evidence Nixon-style. Together with detainment of people belonging to certain religions without the right to a lawyer, this means Bush -> Hitler. I always knew that the US Presidential system would explode in America's face one day, but I would never have expected it to turn into a fascist state like it is now.
All other democracies in Europe have so much red tape the Governments can't do anything even if they want to, but America thinks its current pseudo-dictatorial system is best. Memo to America: Eternal vigilance must be changed to eternal and prompt vigilance when the new Constitution is written after the imminent American civil war of 2003-2010.
Eternal vigilance - I was asleep, but now I'm awake.
Simple Solution: Use UDP and an application-level error correction algorithm, plus maybe packet sequence numbers.
Do owners of Maxtor hard drives agree with the accuracy of this figure? How did they calculate this?
It can be worse to install a security patch - remember M$ SP6 being corrupt, requiring SP6a? Remember Media Player XP forcing DRM down our throats? I'd say these changes are bigger in the big picture than a simple httd change which can always be rolled back. Proof of everyone worldwide signing a DRM patch click-through clause is much bigger than this.
Yeah but does your boss trust you enough to give you a raise? Sun Tsu (Beliskner's amendment) - Everybody wants something, if an employee craves trust then give him trust slowly, that way he won't ask for a raise (same as Intel artificially keeps chip development slow so they can milk money from the market).
Even if Microsoft's customers ask for security, Microsoft can't give it, same way that McDonalds can't sell you a Whopper even if you're willing to pay $200.
Google keywords to find supporting documents: involuntary unemployment, unemployable, constant fear
Stephen Hawking
If Einstein died at 30, he would still have contributed a great deal.
Gymnasts
Dogs and cats (they live for only a decade yet each and every one makes such a great difference to the world)
Friend, one man can make a difference - no matter his age
Calculating NetPresentValue of a dam isn't done (I hope to high heaven), as calculations would show that if Atlanta is flooded by the dam failing in 20 years that's of no business/ROI importance as all the employees would have been paid already and the CEO would be a billionaire. Thank God the Government controls infrastructure projects, oh oooops that's changing, ah well.
WAKE UP! EVERY company is a monopoly. Planned obsolecense was introduced and is practiced by all companies. The US thinks that no cartels exist, and yet 50 years ago electric motors were designed to last for 300 years with a commutator change every 5 years (a small carbon brush). Now all of a sudden EVERY company manufactures electric motors with a life of 30 years or less needing disposal (no user-servicable parts inside). Has our technology suddenly become trash and inferior, how could all these companies possibly agree to this? It's a conspiracy - I'm sure lots of people would be willing to pay double for an electric motor that lasts 300 years (look at Empire State Building generator room), and yet this product is not sold by any company worldwide at all. There are secret socities at work.
Or maybe it's an early indicator of a gravitational field reversal, or additional buffeting of the Earth's magnetic field by increased solar winds from the peak solar cycle?
OsamabinLadenOS:
Allah-tcsh> ls /lib/*
Error - you may not view naked filelist
Allah-tcsh> rm -r
Error - Mohammed is the final prophet, you may not interfere with the Koran in this way
Allah-tcsh> mail bustyblonde@aol.com
Error - Operating System will not perform illegal or indecent operation, your punishment:
removing all inodes... done, writing rand() array to MBR and partition table... done
Scanregw.exe backs up the windows registry daily, which is a very powerful recovery feature. If one of the admins on the night shift comes up to me in the morning and says, "Hey dude something's gone wrong, I was editing .ini files in /etc/ and then another admin telnetted in from home and adjusted the same files as me, I saw some sort of warning but I was half asleep so I clicked it away. I don't remember what .ini files got corrupted, so I was looking through all of them modifying them but then I realised one of them might be the lilo.conf file just before I changed the MBR with lilo, too late. Oops."
Perl error - require root privileges to install this application
login root yada yada
Perl error - line 22525 command failed due to lock contention: "exec cp -r install/newlib/gcc/*
Face it - the registry and a bunch of text files are simply 2 ways of laying out the same old data, both systems have advantages and disadvantages.