Granted VHS will most likely die one day anyway of natural causes due to superior technology.
By 2006, TV as we know it (and the attendant VCRs and DVDs) will be replaced by the new HDTV. This, in turn, will obsolete our present VCRs and DVDs and require that we buy all new video players and all new copies of our favorite movies.
If I were in the movie business, I would be busting a gut to see that there was no way to home-copy with the new equipment that will accompany HDTV. And I would use the present generation of DVD to perfect lawsuit responses so as to remove the incentive to hack/crack open protection schemes.
MPAA et al says they are concerned about the loss of sales of DVD-Audio because CSS is broken. Maybe. But you can bet that they're really pissed about the potential loss of a completely controlled, wholly new market in HDTV-DVD (DVD-II?) if they can't con the courts into stomping on DeCSS and friends.
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The "English" language that we speak is already a screwed up version of another language. we've changed from orginal english so much (colour = color, and all the other missing u's etc...) that i doubt anyones going to care if some people add an "S" to a brand name that is also used to describe it's product.
American English isn't screwed up, it's just been hacked for efficiency.
Chandra was recently featured at NASA's "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" web site ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000114.html }.
For the amateur astronomer or just the astro-curious, this NASA site ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html ) presents a different photo every day with explanation and reference links. This needs to be in your list of "sites to start the day with".
What happens if for example I am a researcher and want to send a usenet posting to someone and I use the @home service what then?
Actually, you shouldn't use usenet to send a message to someone. Usenet is for sending a message to (selected portions of) the whole world. A message to someone should go via email and would not be subject to UDP.
Gunmakers have done absolutley nothing to stop the guns falling into the wrong hands, even after baeing asked to do so repeatedly.
To clarify one teensy point: the arms manufacturers sell to federally-licensed dealers, not directly to the public. It is a violation of Federal law for a manufacturer to sell directly to the public. Therefore, it is illogical to ask the manufacturers to stop selling into the "wrong hands". By law, they can only sell to BATF-approved and licensed dealers.
If the BATF is licensing dealers who repeatedly sell to bad guys, then it is the duty and responsibility of the BATF and the federal court system to deal with the irresponsible dealers.
Marconi didn't invent the radio. He was just the first person to put a lot of other's ideas together and get it to work. Thus, he is fondly remembered by modern amateur radio operators who use the same methodology.
Same with the Wright Bros. They weren't first to fly, but they were the first to do so in a controlled manner.
Many other examples throughout history: the steam engine is credited to a man who (some say "merely") improved an existing design into usability.
Nope. Not microchannel, ISA. Good, clean, standard hardware.
The problem wasn't with the bus, but with the drives I was using. I had one Seagate and one Maxtor. And the BSD "known problems" file (I forget the exact filename) said that that was the one configuration that had been found to not work. It didn't for me either, so I moved over to Linux.
The 486 box remains at 1.2.8 (Slackware) because:
1) it works (modem, print, file server) 2) it only has 8mb of ram 3) I'm lazy 4) I have a p-II (300) that runs Linux 2.0.36 (RedHat).
If you believe the print and tele media, there are people standing on every street corner in America selling guns for 10% MSRP.
If you decide you want to buy for yourself, you go to a Federally-licensed dealer, fill out the Federal forms, wait for Sarah, and pay full retail.
Purchase of certain weapons (full automatic rifles or pistols, sawed-off shotguns, single-shot walking sticks and other listed weapons) require additional Federal paperwork, permission from the head of local law enforcement, and you still go to a special Federally-licensed dealer and pay full retail (or higher, depending on piece).
A lot of ink and electrons have been wasted on the subject of "gunshows". These are nothing more than sales conventions for licensed gun dealers. Makes for better price comparison shopping. But you are still dealing with Federally-licensed gun dealers, have to do the paper work, wait for Sarah, and pay nearly full retail.
Or you can ask around to try to find a criminal who has stolen the weapon you want. Or find a "fence" (receiver of stolen goods) who has what you want. If you don't get robbed yourself (remember who you would be dealing with) or arrested by a police-operated "sting", you might pay less than retail for a weapon that, when found in your posession, fingers you as perpatrator of some dastardly deed in another city a few years ago.
Easy to get? Easier than Great Britain. Harder than Switzerland.
A new academic discipline. Means some university could be the first to offer a degree in BSD. Bachelor of SlashDot.
Maybe you could get honorary's for significant contributions to the advancement of the art. Like publishing the definitive guide to the MSWord.doc format.
I am not a security expert. I don't even play one on the internet.
But allow me to offer some suggestions on presenting your recommendations to your boss.
The biggest thing is to get him/her to consider the risks of each side of the decision. You may be able to sway that decision by piling up factoids. The other posters here have made some very good points.
Then, force her to do a risk analysis:
[Good] "Ms. Riley, two years from now, if I am wrong, I look silly. If you are wrong, the company is getting sued from all directions." [Dangerous] "Did I mention that I have put all of my recommendations and reservations into a hardcopy archive?" Even if you don't say this, for goodness sake, do keep your own copy. [Suicidal] "Of course you get the final decision. Which I will need in writing before I can start designing/coding. For my project files."
If you're a security wonk, then you are being paid to be paranoid. Use that. "Mr. Johnson, you're paying me to be paranoid about the security of our product".
Reference to independent authority is always good, though some bosses resent being intimidated by outside experts (whom they cannot fire). "Mr. Smith, I have consulted team members at the same security think tank used by the publishers of "Jane's Weapons Systems".
Remember, if it's not your decision, you won't get the credit for it going right. Just the blame when it goes wrong.
Thank you for asking Slashdot. I think we are all learning on this one.
Fifty years ago, when television started to become affordable for middle-class Americans, it was loudly denounced as the "killer of the movie industry". Who would pay money to go to a theater when they could stay home and watch for free.
So, to protect themselves, the movie industry imposed a rule that no movie could be shown on tv until seven years after its first theater appearance.
This lasted into the sixties, when the tv networks discovered how to make "made especially for tv" movies which would never be seen in theaters.
Point is, the movie industry has been in business for quite a while and will continue for quite a while longer. They have survived more technical inovations than most/. readers can remember.
They won't be put out of business by the DVD hack. Somehow, they will use it and build on it and come out better off than ever.
If you can figure out how they will do it, get a business practice patent on your idea and donate the immense profits to the Free Software Foundation.
Level 1 response: "I'm sorry. My salary is a private matter between me and that company. I'm sure that you wouldn't want me to divulge your confidences to another company, would you?"
Level 2 response: "I'm sorry. I consider my salary to be an intensely personal matter and I feel that your refusal to respect my personal privacy is quite as rude as if I were to demand to know your bra size." (alternative: "who made your toupee")
Level 3 response: "I'm glad that we cleared the air on the matter of an employee's right to privacy. Thank you for wasting my time."
"The public's right to be speedily informed shall not be impeded by a need for accuracy." Me, 1982.
Print media has, for centurys, treated the public not as customers buying information, but rather as morons to be preached to and lead to some version of "truth" previously seen only by the reporter, editor, and publisher.
The one-way channel of print media (and, to a certain extent, radio/tv) allows the traditional reporter to issue almost any outrageous statement as fact without fear of being shouted down in derision.
The new media, using the two-way communication demonstrated by Jane's will be 1) instantly appreciated by the public and 2) instantly deprecated by their traditional counterparts.
I, personally, am tired of having "talking heads" lie to me.
I remember reading once that a two hundred years ago, all books were sold in paperback. That way, the new owner could have it custom bound to match the rest of his library. Of course, there were a lot fewer books sold then. And a lot more bookbinders in business.
So, with all of the paperback computer books being sold, why is there never an online bookbindery around when you need one?
Freely available wage information, for example, makes it hard to bluff a prospective new employer out of a raise. (In addition to all the other badness it could cause.)
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OK, you caught me.
But I also didn't list: bakelite (sp?) cylinder, 45rpm, 16rpm, wire reel-to-reel, and WAV files.
Brings us to:
Waxed Cylinder, Bakelite Cylinder, 78rpm, 45rpm, 33 1/3rpm, 16rpm, wire reel-to-reel, tape reel-to-reel, 8-track, casette, CDs, WAVs, MP3s
That's a buncha times to buy "The Blue Danube".
Granted VHS will most likely die one day anyway of natural causes due to superior technology.
By 2006, TV as we know it (and the attendant VCRs and DVDs) will be replaced by the new HDTV. This, in turn, will obsolete our present VCRs and DVDs and require that we buy all new video players and all new copies of our favorite movies.
Think back: 78rpm, 33 1/3rpm, reel-to-reel, 8-track, casette, CDs.
If I were in the movie business, I would be busting a gut to see that there was no way to home-copy with the new equipment that will accompany HDTV. And I would use the present generation of DVD to perfect lawsuit responses so as to remove the incentive to hack/crack open protection schemes.
MPAA et al says they are concerned about the loss of sales of DVD-Audio because CSS is broken. Maybe. But you can bet that they're really pissed about the potential loss of a completely controlled, wholly new market in HDTV-DVD (DVD-II?) if they can't con the courts into stomping on DeCSS and friends.
The "English" language that we speak is already a screwed up version of another language. we've changed from orginal english so much (colour = color, and all the other missing u's etc...) that i doubt anyones going to care if some people add an "S" to a brand name that is also used to describe it's product.
American English isn't screwed up, it's just been hacked for efficiency.
Oooh! What does this button do!?
Push to Test.
Release to Detonate.
Chandra was recently featured at NASA's "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" web site ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000114.html }.
For the amateur astronomer or just the astro-curious, this NASA site ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html ) presents a different photo every day with explanation and reference links. This needs to be in your list of "sites to start the day with".
What happens if for example I am a researcher and want to send a usenet posting to someone and I use the @home service what then?
Actually, you shouldn't use usenet to send a message to someone. Usenet is for sending a message to (selected portions of) the whole world. A message to someone should go via email and would not be subject to UDP.
Gunmakers have done absolutley nothing to stop the guns falling into the wrong hands, even after baeing asked to do so repeatedly.
To clarify one teensy point: the arms manufacturers sell to federally-licensed dealers, not directly to the public. It is a violation of Federal law for a manufacturer to sell directly to the public. Therefore, it is illogical to ask the manufacturers to stop selling into the "wrong hands". By law, they can only sell to BATF-approved and licensed dealers.
If the BATF is licensing dealers who repeatedly sell to bad guys, then it is the duty and responsibility of the BATF and the federal court system to deal with the irresponsible dealers.
I first read MMM over twenty years ago.
Since then, I have been looking for any sign that any manager I worked for had even heard of the book. So far, no joy.
Which is really scary, considering who my present employer is.
Nope.
Waco, TX.
I nominate Dave Shields and Philippe Charles for the advocate's award.
These dudes convinced IBM to allow a patentable piece of company invention to be placed into the Open Source movement.
Given that IBM is fanatic about protecting the company's assets, the sales job that these two must have done cannot be over-applauded.
To put it another way, these two changed one of the basic operating principles of an $81Billion company.
There can be no higher or steeper mountain.
Marconi didn't invent the radio. He was just the first person to put a lot of other's ideas together and get it to work. Thus, he is fondly remembered by modern amateur radio operators who use the same methodology.
Same with the Wright Bros. They weren't first to fly, but they were the first to do so in a controlled manner.
Many other examples throughout history: the steam engine is credited to a man who (some say "merely") improved an existing design into usability.
And, after his successful trans-Atlantic flight in 1938, he starred in a 1939 movie about the flight; "The Flying Irishman".
Incidentally, he wasn't Irish. He was born in Texas.
TNX to IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0031325
Nope. Not microchannel, ISA. Good, clean, standard hardware.
The problem wasn't with the bus, but with the drives I was using. I had one Seagate and one Maxtor. And the BSD "known problems" file (I forget the exact filename) said that that was the one configuration that had been found to not work. It didn't for me either, so I moved over to Linux.
The 486 box remains at 1.2.8 (Slackware) because:
1) it works (modem, print, file server)
2) it only has 8mb of ram
3) I'm lazy
4) I have a p-II (300) that runs Linux 2.0.36 (RedHat).
Simple enough.
BSD wouldn't run on my 486; Linux would. And that 486 still runs 1.2.8. (Slackware.)
If you believe the print and tele media, there are people standing on every street corner in America selling guns for 10% MSRP.
If you decide you want to buy for yourself, you go to a Federally-licensed dealer, fill out the Federal forms, wait for Sarah, and pay full retail.
Purchase of certain weapons (full automatic rifles or pistols, sawed-off shotguns, single-shot walking sticks and other listed weapons) require additional Federal paperwork, permission from the head of local law enforcement, and you still go to a special Federally-licensed dealer and pay full retail (or higher, depending on piece).
A lot of ink and electrons have been wasted on the subject of "gunshows". These are nothing more than sales conventions for licensed gun dealers. Makes for better price comparison shopping. But you are still dealing with Federally-licensed gun dealers, have to do the paper work, wait for Sarah, and pay nearly full retail.
Or you can ask around to try to find a criminal who has stolen the weapon you want. Or find a "fence" (receiver of stolen goods) who has what you want. If you don't get robbed yourself (remember who you would be dealing with) or arrested by a police-operated "sting", you might pay less than retail for a weapon that, when found in your posession, fingers you as perpatrator of some dastardly deed in another city a few years ago.
Easy to get? Easier than Great Britain. Harder than Switzerland.
A new academic discipline. Means some university could be the first to offer a degree in BSD. Bachelor of SlashDot.
.doc format.
Maybe you could get honorary's for significant contributions to the advancement of the art. Like publishing the definitive guide to the MSWord
I am not a security expert. I don't even play one on the internet.
But allow me to offer some suggestions on presenting your recommendations to your boss.
The biggest thing is to get him/her to consider the risks of each side of the decision. You may be able to sway that decision by piling up factoids. The other posters here have made some very good points.
Then, force her to do a risk analysis:
[Good] "Ms. Riley, two years from now, if I am wrong, I look silly. If you are wrong, the company is getting sued from all directions."
[Dangerous] "Did I mention that I have put all of my recommendations and reservations into a hardcopy archive?" Even if you don't say this, for goodness sake, do keep your own copy.
[Suicidal] "Of course you get the final decision. Which I will need in writing before I can start designing/coding. For my project files."
If you're a security wonk, then you are being paid to be paranoid. Use that. "Mr. Johnson, you're paying me to be paranoid about the security of our product".
Reference to independent authority is always good, though some bosses resent being intimidated by outside experts (whom they cannot fire). "Mr. Smith, I have consulted team members at the same security think tank used by the publishers of "Jane's Weapons Systems".
Remember, if it's not your decision, you won't get the credit for it going right. Just the blame when it goes wrong.
Thank you for asking Slashdot. I think we are all learning on this one.
is neatly expressed in this letter to the editor of the Dallas Morning News.
See second letter - Horror story
Fifty years ago, when television started to become affordable for middle-class Americans, it was loudly denounced as the "killer of the movie industry". Who would pay money to go to a theater when they could stay home and watch for free.
/. readers can remember.
So, to protect themselves, the movie industry imposed a rule that no movie could be shown on tv until seven years after its first theater appearance.
This lasted into the sixties, when the tv networks discovered how to make "made especially for tv" movies which would never be seen in theaters.
Point is, the movie industry has been in business for quite a while and will continue for quite a while longer. They have survived more technical inovations than most
They won't be put out of business by the DVD hack. Somehow, they will use it and build on it and come out better off than ever.
If you can figure out how they will do it, get a business practice patent on your idea and donate the immense profits to the Free Software Foundation.
Level 1 response: "I'm sorry. My salary is a private matter between me and that company. I'm sure that you wouldn't want me to divulge your confidences to another company, would you?"
Level 2 response: "I'm sorry. I consider my salary to be an intensely personal matter and I feel that your refusal to respect my personal privacy is quite as rude as if I were to demand to know your bra size." (alternative: "who made your toupee")
Level 3 response: "I'm glad that we cleared the air on the matter of an employee's right to privacy. Thank you for wasting my time."
Mmm... Wooley burger
"The public's right to be speedily informed shall not be impeded by a need for accuracy." Me, 1982.
Print media has, for centurys, treated the public not as customers buying information, but rather as morons to be preached to and lead to some version of "truth" previously seen only by the reporter, editor, and publisher.
The one-way channel of print media (and, to a certain extent, radio/tv) allows the traditional reporter to issue almost any outrageous statement as fact without fear of being shouted down in derision.
The new media, using the two-way communication demonstrated by Jane's will be 1) instantly appreciated by the public and 2) instantly deprecated by their traditional counterparts.
I, personally, am tired of having "talking heads" lie to me.
I remember reading once that a two hundred years ago, all books were sold in paperback. That way, the new owner could have it custom bound to match the rest of his library. Of course, there were a lot fewer books sold then. And a lot more bookbinders in business.
So, with all of the paperback computer books being sold, why is there never an online bookbindery around when you need one?
Freely available wage information, for example, makes it hard to bluff a prospective new employer out of a raise. (In addition to all the other badness it could cause.)