I still remember my first long Star Trek movie night with the first 6 movies in one night at the local movie, with friends and breakfast in the morning. This time I will organize the same at home for a Star Wars night, with good food and drinks. There are still a lot of people who have not seen all Star Wars movies yet. But somehow I doubt any of my friends likes to watch all 6 movies side-by-side, though.
This sounds like the good old Microsoft style. Hack and patch. I doubt this technique is going to make any difference in the future.
Maybe Gartner just realized the obvious. I do not like Gartner's FUD. They told everybody to forget about Linux, it will never mature. It did. For 15 years now they are telling everybody that VMS will die. VMS 8.2 was released a few months ago, 8.3 will follow in another few months, and big companies pay big bucks for it. I guess we will see more FUD à la Gartner as long as there are customers paying for it.
A judge should not react like an uneducated person. The act and circumstances are what count, not the feelings of a judge. And what about the incompetent police investigators? Seen so much stupidity I am wondering what would happen if the police could hold an innocent person for 90 days without charge just because the person own a computer with harddisk. Now they can hold everybody without charge for 28 days. Better than vanishing in some secret camp for years, but imagine someone puts you away for a month. The problem here is that they have perverted basic rights. To get out we have to proof our innocence. Martin O'Neal and his company Corsaire simply show common sense and deserve our respect. I appreciate their decision and hope more people realize when a justice system has become senseless. Tomorrow you or I could be in the position of Daniel Cuthbert.
Another book with the same title (ISBN 0072254971) goes for $2.09 at eBay (item 4585793995). Wait a week or so and you get the book by M. Chandler for the same price at eBay or half.com (another eBay company). Bids for "Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies" starts at $1.73, again at eBay.
There are countries where this practice has been perfectly legal, confirmed by courts, for example in Germany. A software license is no different than any other products. Trading used books for example has been done for centuries. http://www.informationweek.de/cms/938.0.html?&scfp =8500
"No gatekeepers", no "control in the middle of the network"? Unfortunately this is no longer true. Remember why the World Wide Web was developed at CERN (Europe)? Because physicists wanted to exchange documents in a network of computers, their computers. By now the networks of most research labs and universities have been taken over my inept administrators who call themself network managers. Researchers can no longer use their computers as web servers. Now all has to go through controlled centralized machines, run the administrators. Even simple e-mail exchange from computer to computer no longer work. Now we need mail exchangers, which again are centralized controlled systems. Of course the administrators love to point out that this is all a matter of policies and security. Policies made by the administrators and security problems cause by the administors' insecure Microsoft Windows systems. It gets worse. Not only do such centralized gatekeepers limit our freedom as researchers, they also cost money. A lot of money, which is deducted from the research budgets. The Internet is changing, no doubt. It is happening in Europe, the US, Asia, all over the world.
I work at a research lab in the US where we have more IPv4 address space than most "developing" countries. This unfairness makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Close all universities for all kids from Kansas. Let them life with their Intelligent Design, alone. Let their parents deal with this nonsense. Schools in the US are bad enough. The last thing we need is more waste of time to deal with what is leaving Kansas' schools. All university professors already have to work overtime. Enough is enough. Sorry.
Since Linux came out almost 15 years ago I have seen so many students wasting their time on writing Linux software instead of finishing their thesis. Bad strategy.
Why do the folks at storagereview put such nice harddisks into testbeds with Microsoft Windows? At least they mention Anti-virus software. Safer hard drive, always!
You are right, just going to the moon for fun is waste. I think we should forget about the 3He idea (even ITER will be more difficult than current press releases tell). But building telescopes to gather knowledge about the universe is IMHO worth the trip. Those telescopes would certainly not only cover the optical spectrum. Radiotelescopes, Tera Hertz receivers, high energy particle detectors, these are just a few possibilities to extend the range of a telescope and there is no better place than the moon to do this kind of astronomy. That is at least better than to tell the next administrator that she or he has to pay for a ticket to Mars, without stating the reason.
I like the idea of competition. China, the EU, US, or maybe even the UN (just joking), someone will eventually go back to the moon and start new missions from there. And I like the idea of a moon based telescope. Great times!
The ultimate multi-core processor technology is VLIW (or EPIC as INTEL calls it). The cores are broken up into lots of tiny pieces, instructions are distributed through various pipes and run through whatever is available in parallel. The Itanium processor is Intel's EPIC problem child. Too complex, too much heat. Maybe it is just a bit too early for this technology. I think Intel could try to start a "mobile" Itanium project. They were quite successful with their Pentium M. Maybe that will give Intel an advantage.
Or, Intel designs a dual-Alpha processor to beat AMD, but that sounds not like Intel, does it? Someone at AMD who might like the idea?;-)
Your PC may have Intel inside, but did you know that Intel's fabs have VMS and Alpha inside?
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) did perform experiments on radio waves a long time before you, and he even figured out how to block them and how to polarize them. I have seen some of his equipment in Bonn. Sorry, buddy. Nice idea, though.;-)
The European passport will be worse. They will also contain biometric information, like fingerprinting. And databases about every EU citizen, including their eating habits, usual and occasional flight routes, etc., are already up and running, with random access for the US government. EU citizens do not understand this matter and I have not seen any broad coverage in the EU media.
Some people find it hard to get a useful wireless connection over a few meters, but others can run the same transmission over several km, because they understand how things work. Signal processing makes a big difference. We will see if 10m are enough distance to prevent eavesdropping. I doubt it.
I guess a bit of cynicism is perfectly appropriate in this matter.
Some people already have such a device implemented, for example to get access to a bar. Maybe they think it is cool. But there was a time, about half a century ago, when tattoos were used to assign numbers to people. We shall not forgot those crimes. Nowaday we get a number assigned on a document with an RFID chip and various biometric information. Of course the numbers have a purpose. They are being used to access large databases. I doubt we have seen the end of the story yet. DNA sampling will be next. It is already being done systematically not only with convicted criminals, but also innocent suspects. The same happened to fingerprinting. We also see GPS-equipped tags. I read that Marta Stuart got one of those bracelets. Originally a passport was just a document which allowed the holder to pass. The seal from an authority was proof of authenticity. Since then things have changed a bit. It would be naive to use the same technology. But there is no reason to attach numbers and RFID tags to passports. The information on a passport could be simply signed by an authority, electronically, of course, and printed onto the document as a simple 2d-barcode. Well, I guess the days when free citizens were free are over.
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I still remember my first long Star Trek movie night with the first 6 movies in one night at the local movie, with friends and breakfast in the morning. This time I will organize the same at home for a Star Wars night, with good food and drinks. There are still a lot of people who have not seen all Star Wars movies yet. But somehow I doubt any of my friends likes to watch all 6 movies side-by-side, though.
This sounds like the good old Microsoft style. Hack and patch. I doubt this technique is going to make any difference in the future.
Maybe Gartner just realized the obvious. I do not like Gartner's FUD. They told everybody to forget about Linux, it will never mature. It did. For 15 years now they are telling everybody that VMS will die. VMS 8.2 was released a few months ago, 8.3 will follow in another few months, and big companies pay big bucks for it. I guess we will see more FUD à la Gartner as long as there are customers paying for it.
A judge should not react like an uneducated person. The act and circumstances are what count, not the feelings of a judge.
And what about the incompetent police investigators? Seen so much stupidity I am wondering what would happen if the police could hold an innocent person for 90 days without charge just because the person own a computer with harddisk. Now they can hold everybody without charge for 28 days. Better than vanishing in some secret camp for years, but imagine someone puts you away for a month. The problem here is that they have perverted basic rights. To get out we have to proof our innocence.
Martin O'Neal and his company Corsaire simply show common sense and deserve our respect. I appreciate their decision and hope more people realize when a justice system has become senseless. Tomorrow you or I could be in the position of Daniel Cuthbert.
Another book with the same title (ISBN 0072254971) goes for $2.09 at eBay (item 4585793995). Wait a week or so and you get the book by M. Chandler for the same price at eBay or half.com (another eBay company). Bids for "Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies" starts at $1.73, again at eBay.
Hardening Linux with concepts from the 60's is like hardening cheese with milk from the 60's.
There are countries where this practice has been perfectly legal, confirmed by courts, for example in Germany. A software license is no different than any other products. Trading used books for example has been done for centuries.p =8500
http://www.informationweek.de/cms/938.0.html?&scf
"No gatekeepers", no "control in the middle of the network"? Unfortunately this is no longer true. Remember why the World Wide Web was developed at CERN (Europe)? Because physicists wanted to exchange documents in a network of computers, their computers. By now the networks of most research labs and universities have been taken over my inept administrators who call themself network managers. Researchers can no longer use their computers as web servers. Now all has to go through controlled centralized machines, run the administrators. Even simple e-mail exchange from computer to computer no longer work. Now we need mail exchangers, which again are centralized controlled systems. Of course the administrators love to point out that this is all a matter of policies and security. Policies made by the administrators and security problems cause by the administors' insecure Microsoft Windows systems. It gets worse. Not only do such centralized gatekeepers limit our freedom as researchers, they also cost money. A lot of money, which is deducted from the research budgets. The Internet is changing, no doubt. It is happening in Europe, the US, Asia, all over the world.
I work at a research lab in the US where we have more IPv4 address space than most "developing" countries. This unfairness makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Close all universities for all kids from Kansas. Let them life with their Intelligent Design, alone. Let their parents deal with this nonsense. Schools in the US are bad enough. The last thing we need is more waste of time to deal with what is leaving Kansas' schools. All university professors already have to work overtime. Enough is enough. Sorry.
Since Linux came out almost 15 years ago I have seen so many students wasting their time on writing Linux software instead of finishing their thesis. Bad strategy.
Calm down. It was a joke. Perhaps I should have written my comment in LaTeX.
Why do the folks at storagereview put such nice harddisks into testbeds with Microsoft Windows? At least they mention Anti-virus software. Safer hard drive, always!
Who says Open Source implies Open Mind? Thanks, Novell!
There are 415-1 Linux distributions left.
"That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind.", Neil Armstrong, 1969. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/j uly/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm
You are right, just going to the moon for fun is waste. I think we should forget about the 3He idea (even ITER will be more difficult than current press releases tell). But building telescopes to gather knowledge about the universe is IMHO worth the trip. Those telescopes would certainly not only cover the optical spectrum. Radiotelescopes, Tera Hertz receivers, high energy particle detectors, these are just a few possibilities to extend the range of a telescope and there is no better place than the moon to do this kind of astronomy. That is at least better than to tell the next administrator that she or he has to pay for a ticket to Mars, without stating the reason.
Well, if the "russkies" were defeated, then the ISS would be no more either. Let's welcome them all, including the French. :)
I like the idea of competition. China, the EU, US, or maybe even the UN (just joking), someone will eventually go back to the moon and start new missions from there. And I like the idea of a moon based telescope. Great times!
The ultimate multi-core processor technology is VLIW (or EPIC as INTEL calls it). The cores are broken up into lots of tiny pieces, instructions are distributed through various pipes and run through whatever is available in parallel. The Itanium processor is Intel's EPIC problem child. Too complex, too much heat. Maybe it is just a bit too early for this technology. I think Intel could try to start a "mobile" Itanium project. They were quite successful with their Pentium M. Maybe that will give Intel an advantage. ;-)
Or, Intel designs a dual-Alpha processor to beat AMD, but that sounds not like Intel, does it? Someone at AMD who might like the idea?
Your PC may have Intel inside, but did you know that Intel's fabs have VMS and Alpha inside?
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) did perform experiments on radio waves a long time before you, and he even figured out how to block them and how to polarize them. I have seen some of his equipment in Bonn. Sorry, buddy. Nice idea, though. ;-)
The European passport will be worse. They will also contain biometric information, like fingerprinting. And databases about every EU citizen, including their eating habits, usual and occasional flight routes, etc., are already up and running, with random access for the US government. EU citizens do not understand this matter and I have not seen any broad coverage in the EU media.
Some people find it hard to get a useful wireless connection over a few meters, but others can run the same transmission over several km, because they understand how things work. Signal processing makes a big difference. We will see if 10m are enough distance to prevent eavesdropping. I doubt it.
I guess a bit of cynicism is perfectly appropriate in this matter.
Some people already have such a device implemented, for example to get access to a bar. Maybe they think it is cool. But there was a time, about half a century ago, when tattoos were used to assign numbers to people. We shall not forgot those crimes. Nowaday we get a number assigned on a document with an RFID chip and various biometric information. Of course the numbers have a purpose. They are being used to access large databases. I doubt we have seen the end of the story yet. DNA sampling will be next. It is already being done systematically not only with convicted criminals, but also innocent suspects. The same happened to fingerprinting. We also see GPS-equipped tags. I read that Marta Stuart got one of those bracelets. Originally a passport was just a document which allowed the holder to pass. The seal from an authority was proof of authenticity. Since then things have changed a bit. It would be naive to use the same technology. But there is no reason to attach numbers and RFID tags to passports. The information on a passport could be simply signed by an authority, electronically, of course, and printed onto the document as a simple 2d-barcode. Well, I guess the days when free citizens were free are over.
Aliens are already welcomed with fingerprinting in the US. And so are US citizens in Brazil and a few other countries.
Microsoft does not write laws. They pay lawmakers for that job.
Microsoft also takes care of Her Majesty's Government computer security. Fits, eh?
UK government and MS attempt security
CFO's earn so much that 9 months are enough for the rest of their life.