Yeah, I thought the same thing. If a spam filter does a crappy job playing chess I think it is a reasonable assumption that a chess program does a crappy job filtering spam. Of course maybe a chess program does a much better job at both filtering spam and playing chess. It would be interesting to find that out. Of course I have no knowledge of what it takes to be either a good chess program or a good spam filter, so I have no basis for making these assumptions.
I'm not sure it matters how insignificant the thing that fell off was. IT FELL OFF! While the shuttle was just sitting there. We just spent millions of man hours inspecting the shuttle and declared it safe for use. While it was just sitting on the launch pad the "safe" shuttle had a piece fall off. Thank God it fell off now and not during launch. Remember that they had to bring out a new piece from a hanger. Thank goodness it fell off before. Had this fallen off during launch, and I think it is safe to say it would have, there is no parts store on the moon. The Astronauts would be headed to the ISS and waiting for a rescue crew in the only remaining space shuttle. WTF are we doing?
I don't remember all the details but in my college security class we talked about hiding things like this in a compiler in a way that can NEVER be found.
First lets make the safe assumption that the code is obfuscated. So we can't look at the compiler's executable to see if it is doing this.
The next logical place to look is the source. Well if the Intel compiler is used to compile the source then it could add anything it wants along the way. So the source is not at all a guaranteed acurate representation of the compiled code.
So the last place is the source control. But it is WAY too easy to doctor that. So there is nothing to trace back any deletions with any infallability.
Actually of the 113 missions so far 2 have resulted in deadly accidents. So the real % chance of a deadly accident is 2/113 or 1.769%. Now I'm not saying that isn't still low. But get your facts straight.;-) Personally I don't think I would play Russian Roulette with a 2/113 bullet gun. Of course this is in the name of exploring the universe, so it is a little different.
I think what concerns me is the same thing that concens me with terrorism. The complete lack of paying attention to the other weaknesses. With the shuttle it is a complete focus on the exterior, with teh 9/11 attacks it ws the airports. It seems like nobody thinks there could be other issues. What it really boils down to is that bad things happen. You can't stop them all. So get on with your life. (I say that with the utmost respect for the fallen Astronauts)
And you are obviously going to an Indian school because you didn't learn that software does not become popular through a good interface design, it becomes popular throough marketing its features through throwing as much bullshit into the market as possible. Like a link on the frontpage of/.
Now if you had gone to an American college you would have prepared an executive sales pitch and sold your vaporware to the first sucker who came along. If you can't make it work, hire more sales people.;-)
JimmyGosling Then I think you are a little confused. I am going camping with this guy in a couple weeks and he is Absolutely not James Gosling. Maybe you mean someone else, but i doubt it. Anyway, good gor a laugh.
I am certainly not anti business, although that post certainly suggests otherwise. I am mostly just saying that I have a hard time feeling sorry for either side in this lawsuit, and that if we are going to waste taxpayer money on a judge, jury and whatever other costs are involved in a trial, maybe we should think again about letting greedy, irresponsible corporations like this one walk the streets.
I think the thing that sent me over the edge was the closed bidding. It is the conglomoration that bothers me. It creates inefficiencies and higher costs for the consumer and defeats the purpose of capitalism. And I think that when a corporation gets to that level of power the government has a responsibility to step in and fix it. I am very pro business, I am just very anti-trust.
this lawyer said. "New Line already gave him enough money to rebuild Baghdad, but it's still not enough for him."
It doesn't matter if new line gave him $1 or $1 billion. If it is not what his contract says he gets then it doesn't matter if it is too much money. Shouldn't a lawyer be keenly aware of that.
As for what he should get. It seems that he is complaining that the rights to the toys he made were sold below market value to a sister company of newline. If he wanted to get revenue from the toys he should have added a clause in his contract. On the one hand I am disgusted at newline trying to hide money, on the other I don't feel all that bad for Peter Jackson not getting $100M in toy sales.
Just another example of huge conglomerates not serving the country's best interest anymore. Time to start revoking some corporate charters if you ask me!
Is this too late? I mean blogger is already the place to do blogging for 90% of all blogs out there. RSS is already very well defined and there are literally hundreds of apps that spit out RSS. Will microsoft's enhancements be doomed to second place? I would think even the most agressive "embrace and extend" campaign would fail here. Of course you can't fault them for trying!
HP Fails at Marketing IBM fails at doing real work
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The analysis is interesting. The article says HP failed at marketing. For all the criticisms that Carly turned HP into a make nothing market everything company, this article would seem to refute that. That in fact HP was doing lots with Linux and reaping the rewards in sales, but failing ot let the world know about it.
On the contrary (not that it is anything new) IBM is marketing the crap out of Linux.
I guess this is proof that if it didn't end up on Carly's radar she couldn't ruin it with marketing BS.
What in the world do AC posts have to do with a wiki at the LA times? AC posting does not have anything ot do with the people who click on links to stories on Slashdot. Removing AC posting would not prevent the malicous users from seeing the wiki.
Unfortunately the LA times reporter fails to realize that the bulk of the Internet is lude(by any sane standard). I don't have any sources, but I would guess that something like 60% of the domains on the public Internet are porn. you post a high traffic page that anyone can edit and it is going to be full of advertisements for porn and generally full of smut. If the NYT had linked to the wiki or a story had been run in the WSJ, it would have been ravaged just as quickly. The Internet is a dirty, dirty place. That is why Internet Security is a multi billion dollar a year industry. And things left unsecured on the Internet wil lbe corrupted if enough people are made aware of them through any communication channel.
On the surface this seems cool. I just don't see a way to keep information about all these removable devices without filling up your hard drive...and if they all fill up your hard drive then what is the point of archiving things? You never get the space back...
I don't know for sure, but I would be willing to bet that every 'maiden' flight for any new model of airplane would have a parachute equipped crew, at least since the early 50's. I would bet that every test pilot for every operating jetliner had a parachute on for every test flight they made. I don't think this is a big deal. in fact i would be more worried that the press would start running articles that Airbus took risks with its test crews and did not let them use parachutes.
The first, "Clone Wars," actually exists as series of animated shorts on the Cartoon Network, but Lucas said it will be turned into a "3-D animated version full-series" 30 minutes in length.
Didn't they try this along with Smell-o-vision? Will I have to go out and purchase Star Wars Approved 3D Glasses?
And Will I actually believe the wookie is going to rip MY arm off?
Then again...maybe they just mean that he is going to ruin a perfectly good cartoon with CG.
"I am pleased that the House has passed this bill, which takes us forward in the fight to prevent the most egregious form of piracy--the illegal copying and unauthorized distribution of 'prereleased' works," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said after the vote.
Is the only quote attributed to a member of congress. However she is not named as the author of the rider. Does anyone have any information on who authored the amendement to the bill?
Whoa... wait a second. Isn't efficient production of goods *the whole point* of outsourcing? I know you don't mean to say Taiwan doesn't know how to produce electronics efficiently or Japan doesn't know how to produce cars efficiently do you?
What I mean to say is that Taiwan is efficient at producing electronics because American companies created the processes to efficiently create those electronics.
Well, you have me there. We are the bread basket of the world here in America... though that might have something to do with those farm subsidies.
I mean that we are the leading developer of geneticly engineered seeds and plants that would make growing plants in Africa possible. if you eliminated the subsidies from the US, then Africa, India and China would all be able to compete with the US in Food Production. (See below for why this is important)
Besides, farming and factory work is as much an honest days work as setting a bone or designing a wing that is 0.3% more efficient that the one we had last year. Is a profession less noble when it doesn't require a university degree? I don't think so. Furthermore, I think it's condescending and snobbish to suggest otherwise.
Hey now. Lets not go putting words into my mouth. My inlaws grew up on farms and I am humbled every time I meet someone who works 16 hours a day to feed their family. That said, working in a service profession almost always translates to more free time and a higher salary (the major components in any quality of life measurement)
Now for the importance of a global food market. This is going out on a limb, but I really believe it is true. If we eliminated US farming subsidies and allowed farmers to get a fair price for their crops at the market, we would eliminate a large part of the world's poverty. I think you would find that most economists would agree with this statement. Because many terrorism experts would tell you that poverty is one of the major friends of terrorism recruitment, I think eliminating farm subsidies would solve a large part of the worlds terrorism problems by drying up the channels of young, poor men.
Now I know...I just said farmers who want subsidies are terrorists. And that is ABSOLUTELY not true, but that's my argument and I'm sticking to it.
If we could only get rid of farm subsidies we would be doing this already.
b) Consume Everything.
Except the services we sell to all the other countries who have no clue how to efficiently produce their goods., build their power plants, feed their ever growing populations, and cure their sick. We currently have the best university system available (with the exception of possibly England - but theirs is not as widely avaliable) and that translates into the best educated country in the world. Which translates into valuable services. And I would much rather live in a country full of doctors and biologists and engineers than a country of assembly line workers and farmers. The aforementioned jobs all translate to a higher quality of life.
c) Print lots and lots of worthless dollar bills.
Is a dollar bill worth anything right now anyway? It is just good faith and the accepted exchangable value.
Will this be the highest tune in ever for a paid advertisement that is not taking place during the Super Bowl? I mean really, I don't think MTV is giving away air time to Microsoft...right?
Actually the program in question is neither conformance or disobedience. I think disobedience (when done to provoke a correction of the civil injustice, you know like sitting in the front of a bus) is good. I think pushing the limits to the edge just gets the edge moved. Standing at the end of the dog's chain and saying look, you can't catch me, just provokes the dog.
At the risk of taking a bad metaphor too far, if you go to animal control and force the owner to better restrain the dog, you won't get bit.
My solution is complaint to the proper authorities, followed by civil disobedience, not taunting.
I think that DMCA is wrong, but showing how you can not only circumvent the DRM, but also circumvent the law, will just cause the loophole to get closed. Breaking the law in a way that is protected by your constitutional rights, well that's going to get the law removed.
I guess what I am proposing, is if he was really serious, he should be coming up with ways to legally break the law not skirt it.
Is DVD Jon ruining it for the rest of us?
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I'm wondering what the reactionary response to this will be.
In high school (a long long time ago) a friend of mine got a -3 on a question on a test. The girl sitting next to him got a -1 on the same question with a near identical response. He complained and the situation was resolved by giving the girl a -3 instead of a -1.
My point, instead of raising awareness of the stupidity of the law and making it better for the rest of us...will DVD Jon just ruin it for us? Will his escapade just serve to make DMCA laws worse? Will the RIAA use this to show that DMCA laws are not tough enough?
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. If a spam filter does a crappy job playing chess I think it is a reasonable assumption that a chess program does a crappy job filtering spam. Of course maybe a chess program does a much better job at both filtering spam and playing chess. It would be interesting to find that out. Of course I have no knowledge of what it takes to be either a good chess program or a good spam filter, so I have no basis for making these assumptions.
I'm not sure it matters how insignificant the thing that fell off was. IT FELL OFF! While the shuttle was just sitting there. We just spent millions of man hours inspecting the shuttle and declared it safe for use. While it was just sitting on the launch pad the "safe" shuttle had a piece fall off. Thank God it fell off now and not during launch. Remember that they had to bring out a new piece from a hanger. Thank goodness it fell off before. Had this fallen off during launch, and I think it is safe to say it would have, there is no parts store on the moon. The Astronauts would be headed to the ISS and waiting for a rescue crew in the only remaining space shuttle. WTF are we doing?
I don't remember all the details but in my college security class we talked about hiding things like this in a compiler in a way that can NEVER be found.
First lets make the safe assumption that the code is obfuscated. So we can't look at the compiler's executable to see if it is doing this.
The next logical place to look is the source. Well if the Intel compiler is used to compile the source then it could add anything it wants along the way. So the source is not at all a guaranteed acurate representation of the compiled code.
So the last place is the source control. But it is WAY too easy to doctor that. So there is nothing to trace back any deletions with any infallability.
Scarry.
chance less then 1% on a deadly accident
;-) Personally I don't think I would play Russian Roulette with a 2/113 bullet gun. Of course this is in the name of exploring the universe, so it is a little different.
Actually of the 113 missions so far 2 have resulted in deadly accidents. So the real % chance of a deadly accident is 2/113 or 1.769%. Now I'm not saying that isn't still low. But get your facts straight.
I think what concerns me is the same thing that concens me with terrorism. The complete lack of paying attention to the other weaknesses. With the shuttle it is a complete focus on the exterior, with teh 9/11 attacks it ws the airports. It seems like nobody thinks there could be other issues. What it really boils down to is that bad things happen. You can't stop them all. So get on with your life. (I say that with the utmost respect for the fallen Astronauts)
And you are obviously going to an Indian school because you didn't learn that software does not become popular through a good interface design, it becomes popular throough marketing its features through throwing as much bullshit into the market as possible. Like a link on the frontpage of /.
;-)
Now if you had gone to an American college you would have prepared an executive sales pitch and sold your vaporware to the first sucker who came along. If you can't make it work, hire more sales people.
JimmyGosling Then I think you are a little confused. I am going camping with this guy in a couple weeks and he is Absolutely not James Gosling. Maybe you mean someone else, but i doubt it. Anyway, good gor a laugh.
I am certainly not anti business, although that post certainly suggests otherwise. I am mostly just saying that I have a hard time feeling sorry for either side in this lawsuit, and that if we are going to waste taxpayer money on a judge, jury and whatever other costs are involved in a trial, maybe we should think again about letting greedy, irresponsible corporations like this one walk the streets.
I think the thing that sent me over the edge was the closed bidding. It is the conglomoration that bothers me. It creates inefficiencies and higher costs for the consumer and defeats the purpose of capitalism. And I think that when a corporation gets to that level of power the government has a responsibility to step in and fix it. I am very pro business, I am just very anti-trust.
this lawyer said. "New Line already gave him enough money to rebuild Baghdad, but it's still not enough for him."
It doesn't matter if new line gave him $1 or $1 billion. If it is not what his contract says he gets then it doesn't matter if it is too much money. Shouldn't a lawyer be keenly aware of that.
As for what he should get. It seems that he is complaining that the rights to the toys he made were sold below market value to a sister company of newline. If he wanted to get revenue from the toys he should have added a clause in his contract. On the one hand I am disgusted at newline trying to hide money, on the other I don't feel all that bad for Peter Jackson not getting $100M in toy sales.
Just another example of huge conglomerates not serving the country's best interest anymore. Time to start revoking some corporate charters if you ask me!
Is this too late? I mean blogger is already the place to do blogging for 90% of all blogs out there. RSS is already very well defined and there are literally hundreds of apps that spit out RSS. Will microsoft's enhancements be doomed to second place? I would think even the most agressive "embrace and extend" campaign would fail here. Of course you can't fault them for trying!
The analysis is interesting. The article says HP failed at marketing. For all the criticisms that Carly turned HP into a make nothing market everything company, this article would seem to refute that. That in fact HP was doing lots with Linux and reaping the rewards in sales, but failing ot let the world know about it.
On the contrary (not that it is anything new) IBM is marketing the crap out of Linux.
I guess this is proof that if it didn't end up on Carly's radar she couldn't ruin it with marketing BS.
AC's. Really, that's what kills slashdot.
What in the world do AC posts have to do with a wiki at the LA times? AC posting does not have anything ot do with the people who click on links to stories on Slashdot. Removing AC posting would not prevent the malicous users from seeing the wiki.
Unfortunately the LA times reporter fails to realize that the bulk of the Internet is lude(by any sane standard). I don't have any sources, but I would guess that something like 60% of the domains on the public Internet are porn. you post a high traffic page that anyone can edit and it is going to be full of advertisements for porn and generally full of smut. If the NYT had linked to the wiki or a story had been run in the WSJ, it would have been ravaged just as quickly. The Internet is a dirty, dirty place. That is why Internet Security is a multi billion dollar a year industry. And things left unsecured on the Internet wil lbe corrupted if enough people are made aware of them through any communication channel.
On the surface this seems cool. I just don't see a way to keep information about all these removable devices without filling up your hard drive...and if they all fill up your hard drive then what is the point of archiving things? You never get the space back...
I don't know for sure, but I would be willing to bet that every 'maiden' flight for any new model of airplane would have a parachute equipped crew, at least since the early 50's. I would bet that every test pilot for every operating jetliner had a parachute on for every test flight they made. I don't think this is a big deal. in fact i would be more worried that the press would start running articles that Airbus took risks with its test crews and did not let them use parachutes.
The first, "Clone Wars," actually exists as series of animated shorts on the Cartoon Network, but Lucas said it will be turned into a "3-D animated version full-series" 30 minutes in length.
Didn't they try this along with Smell-o-vision? Will I have to go out and purchase Star Wars Approved 3D Glasses?
And Will I actually believe the wookie is going to rip MY arm off?
Then again...maybe they just mean that he is going to ruin a perfectly good cartoon with CG.
from the article.
"I am pleased that the House has passed this bill, which takes us forward in the fight to prevent the most egregious form of piracy--the illegal copying and unauthorized distribution of 'prereleased' works," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said after the vote.
Is the only quote attributed to a member of congress. However she is not named as the author of the rider. Does anyone have any information on who authored the amendement to the bill?
Don't worry. Some judge pushing a 'radical agenda' will surely defy the will of congress and strike this law down.
Unfortunately, I am guessing that it will be hard to find grounds to make this law unconstitutional.
You should check out this cool website, google.com where you can 'search' for links to almost anything. ;-)
Old news,
You've obviously never been to MGM Studios. Star Tours, Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular. Eisner and Lucas met years ago, and they opened a theme park.
Whoa... wait a second. Isn't efficient production of goods *the whole point* of outsourcing? I know you don't mean to say Taiwan doesn't know how to produce electronics efficiently or Japan doesn't know how to produce cars efficiently do you?
What I mean to say is that Taiwan is efficient at producing electronics because American companies created the processes to efficiently create those electronics.
Well, you have me there. We are the bread basket of the world here in America... though that might have something to do with those farm subsidies.
I mean that we are the leading developer of geneticly engineered seeds and plants that would make growing plants in Africa possible. if you eliminated the subsidies from the US, then Africa, India and China would all be able to compete with the US in Food Production. (See below for why this is important)
Besides, farming and factory work is as much an honest days work as setting a bone or designing a wing that is 0.3% more efficient that the one we had last year. Is a profession less noble when it doesn't require a university degree? I don't think so. Furthermore, I think it's condescending and snobbish to suggest otherwise.
Hey now. Lets not go putting words into my mouth. My inlaws grew up on farms and I am humbled every time I meet someone who works 16 hours a day to feed their family. That said, working in a service profession almost always translates to more free time and a higher salary (the major components in any quality of life measurement)
Now for the importance of a global food market. This is going out on a limb, but I really believe it is true. If we eliminated US farming subsidies and allowed farmers to get a fair price for their crops at the market, we would eliminate a large part of the world's poverty. I think you would find that most economists would agree with this statement. Because many terrorism experts would tell you that poverty is one of the major friends of terrorism recruitment, I think eliminating farm subsidies would solve a large part of the worlds terrorism problems by drying up the channels of young, poor men.
Now I know...I just said farmers who want subsidies are terrorists. And that is ABSOLUTELY not true, but that's my argument and I'm sticking to it.
a) Produce Nothing.
If we could only get rid of farm subsidies we would be doing this already.
b) Consume Everything.
Except the services we sell to all the other countries who have no clue how to efficiently produce their goods., build their power plants, feed their ever growing populations, and cure their sick. We currently have the best university system available (with the exception of possibly England - but theirs is not as widely avaliable) and that translates into the best educated country in the world. Which translates into valuable services. And I would much rather live in a country full of doctors and biologists and engineers than a country of assembly line workers and farmers. The aforementioned jobs all translate to a higher quality of life.
c) Print lots and lots of worthless dollar bills.
Is a dollar bill worth anything right now anyway? It is just good faith and the accepted exchangable value.
Will this be the highest tune in ever for a paid advertisement that is not taking place during the Super Bowl? I mean really, I don't think MTV is giving away air time to Microsoft...right?
The sad thing is that the only real news story on Slashdot today is a better joke than the AFJs.
This has been on the apple site for months now, and I thought it was a joke when I first saw it.
Now this is news. I know we are not gonna get any cool theme parks out of this, but this is pretty cool stuff.
Actually the program in question is neither conformance or disobedience. I think disobedience (when done to provoke a correction of the civil injustice, you know like sitting in the front of a bus) is good. I think pushing the limits to the edge just gets the edge moved. Standing at the end of the dog's chain and saying look, you can't catch me, just provokes the dog.
At the risk of taking a bad metaphor too far, if you go to animal control and force the owner to better restrain the dog, you won't get bit.
My solution is complaint to the proper authorities, followed by civil disobedience, not taunting.
I think that DMCA is wrong, but showing how you can not only circumvent the DRM, but also circumvent the law, will just cause the loophole to get closed. Breaking the law in a way that is protected by your constitutional rights, well that's going to get the law removed.
I guess what I am proposing, is if he was really serious, he should be coming up with ways to legally break the law not skirt it.
I'm wondering what the reactionary response to this will be.
In high school (a long long time ago) a friend of mine got a -3 on a question on a test. The girl sitting next to him got a -1 on the same question with a near identical response. He complained and the situation was resolved by giving the girl a -3 instead of a -1.
My point, instead of raising awareness of the stupidity of the law and making it better for the rest of us...will DVD Jon just ruin it for us? Will his escapade just serve to make DMCA laws worse? Will the RIAA use this to show that DMCA laws are not tough enough?