From Wikipedia: Jupiter's upper atmosphere is composed of about 88–92% hydrogen and 8–12% helium by percent volume or fraction of gas molecules (see table to the right).
So, more gravity seems to work. And we can go there and mine helium if we run out of it
The comet was only a few kilometres across and plowed into the solid planet at over a dozen kilometres per second, so it pulverised itself out of existence in less than a second, hurling black-grey-brown-red-white spurts of material off from the impact point in arcs, most of them directed in the direction of impact, themselves leaving lines of smaller impacts around the edge of the planet, while a visible black ripple spread out from the origin. FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM was how Jex and Yuo's onboard videoaudio sound effect generator chose to interpret this.
No, this is complete bullshit. It's not the law, it is a license, so stop comparing apples to oranges. If they grant me a license to their code, which explicitly states that I may charge a fee for redistributing it (Section 1 - did you ever read the GPL v2), then they are bound to it. They also expect me as a re-distributor of their code to follow the terms. I suggest that you read this before posting again.
I saw the documentary "Deep Throat" some time ago, and it said that there were still laws against porn in the US - I couldn't believe it, but it seems to be true. But I am not a lawyer and not from the USA - Can someone with an understanding of the US laws and legal system explain what exactly the crime was? Is producing and distributing porn really a crime for which you can get jail time in the USA?
Yes, exactly. And in the close-up fighting scenes (of which the film has way too much) the camera is shaking so much that you can't see anything. And that scene with the huge predators on the ice planet remided me of Star Wars Episode 1 ("There is always a bigger fish"). Otherwise a nice movie, but not a masterpiece IMHO.
What a stupid reply. The parent made a point and gave good arguments for it. You just replied quoting some unprooved stereotype. Preventing cheats in games is indeed completely different than writing a virus, since you rely on client side security. And as you might know, client side security is always a bad idea.
Yes, but how do you notice someone is cheating? Because he is good? In counter strike, any time someone enters a server who is much better than all the others, people start shouting "cheater". That doesn't necessarily mean they are cheating.
And, let's not forget, if Microsoft had released this software under the terms and contitions of the GPL they could still create an improved closed source version, but nobody else could. Every other developer would have to develop for them or not be recognized at all (because nobody except geeks would use a fork). Sun is doing exactly this with Java, just google for "Java" and "Walled Garden". With AL2 at least everybody can create a closed source version. I think the AL2 is a good joice by them.
The summary and the linked email from Brad Spengler look very flamebait to me. Linus Thorwalds writes in the quoted mail:
That said, I don't _plan_ messages or obfuscate them, so "overflow" might
well be part of the message just because it simply describes the fix. So
I'm not claiming that the messages can never help somebody pinpoint
interesting commits to look at, I'm just also not at all interested in
doing so reliably.
And from the second email:
> by 'cover up' i meant that even when you know better, you quite
> consciously do *not* report the security impact of said bugs
Yes. Because the only place I consider appropriate is the kernel
changelogs, and since those get published with the sources, there is no
way I can convince myself that it's a good idea to say "Hey script
kiddies, try this" unless it's already very public indeed.
Also, someone is not satisfied with an email from Linus Thorwalds and he drags the discussion over here to/. - This certainly will solve the problem...
(Sorry for RTFA, I should know better)
No, not really. This only shows that a lot of people will try to solve interesting problems, and some of them eventually will. It does not say anything about open source software and finding bugs or security vulnerabilities, which involves (among other things) reading tons of "boring" code.
Note: I did not say that open source is bad for finding bugs and vulnerabilities, I just want to mention that breaking this code does not say anything about open source software.
The key words in here are original work. Are you sure your rhythmic clapping to someone elses song is an origninal work, worth of protection? Probably not. That's why they might owe you... nothing.
I wanted to ask (almost) exactly the same thing, but then I decided that I don't know very much about copyright law in the US or the UK. Anyway, it seems that in the USA
In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country (see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details).
To be honest, part of the 1.5 hrs was that I tried to do an activation over the internet. Since 30 days had passed Windows would not let me log in anymore and it also would not let me use the PPTP connection I had already configured. So I tried to configure a new connection in the activation dialog, which didn't allow me to turn off password encryption (which is not supported by my ISP). Then I went through the whole phone thing (automated thing didn't work), and there were some additional questions because the Windows License is part of an Action Pack Subscription.
Anyway, this is too much of a hassle for me, this is beyond the point where I accept copy protection as "Hey, they want to earn money too..."
Good points, but I can not completely agree with you. I personally never found it much of a burden to enter a license key. Even a one-time online activation is OK IMHO as long as it's painless. And I can understand why software companies put these measures in, not to stop pirating at all, but to keep the honest people honest.
I know that piracy is not so much of a problem when it comes to businesses, but consider the following: A company purchased 50 user licenses of a product, but the product has no copy protection whatsoever. Probably the people in charge won't even notice if more than 50 employees install the software - at least not in the companies I have worked so far. OTOH, if this software would have told the 51st user "Your company has no more licenses for you to install the software. You can use this program for another 30 days, but please contact your system admistrators to buy a license for you", the company probably will buy another 20 licenses.
So, IMHO, one-time activation is OK if it doesn't get too much in my way, but phoning home at every start or some annoying procedure like the Vista phone activation (I went through that once - took me more than 1.5 hours to activate a copy of Vista) is not OK.
What? Worthless? This story has the potential of becoming a nice, long flame war with lots of "+5 Funny" posts (which are the only reason why I read/.)
The big deal is that Apple is trying to create an even greater Vendor lock-in than what was already usual with mobile phone manufacturers / service operator companies. What really bugs me here is that the iPhone is only available with one operator comany and only with one of their tarif models. So with every successful unlock of the iPhone i think "Yeah, in your face, apple!".
And, by the way, I am a big fan of apple products. Not typing this from my MacBook pro becaust the company I work at the moment wants me to work on a Windows PC. Anyway, I don't think it is a good thing what Apple does with the iPhone, and this is exactly why I won't buy one.
Stop applying our standards to those in the rest of the world.
I partly agree with you here. I do think that too often people from the USA are applying american standards to other countries, and people from Europe are basically doing the same. But:
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Universal Declaration of human rights, Preamble
Ok, I know Iran always wanted to change the UDHR, and they always said that they'll choose their own laws over the UDHR if they conflict, but still I think that the human rights should apply for all humans. And according to Article 19 I have the right to say that.
After installing update 919951 which patched a critical vulnerability in MS Ethics 1.0 service pack 1 some customers have reported problems when MS Ethics fails to detect lying and/or theiving. Microsoft has announced a new version of security update 919951 on August 22, 2006. This new version was to address this problem for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1.
Microsoft is also aware of public reports that this issue could lead to a buffer overrun condition for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1 and who have applied security update 918899. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability at this point, nor are we aware of customer impact at this point. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports.
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From Wikipedia: Jupiter's upper atmosphere is composed of about 88–92% hydrogen and 8–12% helium by percent volume or fraction of gas molecules (see table to the right).
So, more gravity seems to work. And we can go there and mine helium if we run out of it
The comet was only a few kilometres across and plowed into the solid planet at over a dozen kilometres per second, so it pulverised itself out of existence in less than a second, hurling black-grey-brown-red-white spurts of material off from the impact point in arcs, most of them directed in the direction of impact, themselves leaving lines of smaller impacts around the edge of the planet, while a visible black ripple spread out from the origin. FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM was how Jex and Yuo's onboard videoaudio sound effect generator chose to interpret this.
The last but one question by Sam Hughes
No, this is complete bullshit. It's not the law, it is a license, so stop comparing apples to oranges. If they grant me a license to their code, which explicitly states that I may charge a fee for redistributing it (Section 1 - did you ever read the GPL v2), then they are bound to it. They also expect me as a re-distributor of their code to follow the terms. I suggest that you read this before posting again.
I saw the documentary "Deep Throat" some time ago, and it said that there were still laws against porn in the US - I couldn't believe it, but it seems to be true. But I am not a lawyer and not from the USA - Can someone with an understanding of the US laws and legal system explain what exactly the crime was? Is producing and distributing porn really a crime for which you can get jail time in the USA?
Yes, exactly. And in the close-up fighting scenes (of which the film has way too much) the camera is shaking so much that you can't see anything. And that scene with the huge predators on the ice planet remided me of Star Wars Episode 1 ("There is always a bigger fish"). Otherwise a nice movie, but not a masterpiece IMHO.
What a stupid reply. The parent made a point and gave good arguments for it. You just replied quoting some unprooved stereotype. Preventing cheats in games is indeed completely different than writing a virus, since you rely on client side security. And as you might know, client side security is always a bad idea.
Yes, but how do you notice someone is cheating? Because he is good? In counter strike, any time someone enters a server who is much better than all the others, people start shouting "cheater". That doesn't necessarily mean they are cheating.
What, because you have to wait 30 seconds until your computer boots up? Go get a coffee while you wait!
And, let's not forget, if Microsoft had released this software under the terms and contitions of the GPL they could still create an improved closed source version, but nobody else could. Every other developer would have to develop for them or not be recognized at all (because nobody except geeks would use a fork). Sun is doing exactly this with Java, just google for "Java" and "Walled Garden". With AL2 at least everybody can create a closed source version. I think the AL2 is a good joice by them.
That said, I don't _plan_ messages or obfuscate them, so "overflow" might well be part of the message just because it simply describes the fix. So I'm not claiming that the messages can never help somebody pinpoint interesting commits to look at, I'm just also not at all interested in doing so reliably.
And from the second email:
> by 'cover up' i meant that even when you know better, you quite
> consciously do *not* report the security impact of said bugs
Yes. Because the only place I consider appropriate is the kernel changelogs, and since those get published with the sources, there is no way I can convince myself that it's a good idea to say "Hey script kiddies, try this" unless it's already very public indeed.
Also, someone is not satisfied with an email from Linus Thorwalds and he drags the discussion over here to /. - This certainly will solve the problem...
(Sorry for RTFA, I should know better)
Or the EU for that matter. Disclaimer: I am from the EU.
However, both are unethical and ineffective anachronisms long overdue for abolition.
[...]
Use the GPL. It's a legal device against litigation.
You do realize that the GPL is absolutely meaningless without copyright law, do you? Did you ever actually read the GPL?
Yahoo has an English story about the Switch to Vista in Vienna: http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_M/threadview?m=tm&bn=12004&tid=1393970&mid=1393970&tof=3&frt=2
No, not really. This only shows that a lot of people will try to solve interesting problems, and some of them eventually will. It does not say anything about open source software and finding bugs or security vulnerabilities, which involves (among other things) reading tons of "boring" code.
Note: I did not say that open source is bad for finding bugs and vulnerabilities, I just want to mention that breaking this code does not say anything about open source software.
The key words in here are original work. Are you sure your rhythmic clapping to someone elses song is an origninal work, worth of protection? Probably not. That's why they might owe you... nothing.
I wanted to ask (almost) exactly the same thing, but then I decided that I don't know very much about copyright law in the US or the UK. Anyway, it seems that in the USA
Wikipedia on CopyrightSo it should be still copyrighted in the USA if it is still copyrighted in the UK. At least that's how I anderstand it, IANAL.
Hey, good tips, thanks!
To be honest, part of the 1.5 hrs was that I tried to do an activation over the internet. Since 30 days had passed Windows would not let me log in anymore and it also would not let me use the PPTP connection I had already configured. So I tried to configure a new connection in the activation dialog, which didn't allow me to turn off password encryption (which is not supported by my ISP). Then I went through the whole phone thing (automated thing didn't work), and there were some additional questions because the Windows License is part of an Action Pack Subscription.
Anyway, this is too much of a hassle for me, this is beyond the point where I accept copy protection as "Hey, they want to earn money too..."
Good points, but I can not completely agree with you. I personally never found it much of a burden to enter a license key. Even a one-time online activation is OK IMHO as long as it's painless. And I can understand why software companies put these measures in, not to stop pirating at all, but to keep the honest people honest.
I know that piracy is not so much of a problem when it comes to businesses, but consider the following: A company purchased 50 user licenses of a product, but the product has no copy protection whatsoever. Probably the people in charge won't even notice if more than 50 employees install the software - at least not in the companies I have worked so far. OTOH, if this software would have told the 51st user "Your company has no more licenses for you to install the software. You can use this program for another 30 days, but please contact your system admistrators to buy a license for you", the company probably will buy another 20 licenses.
So, IMHO, one-time activation is OK if it doesn't get too much in my way, but phoning home at every start or some annoying procedure like the Vista phone activation (I went through that once - took me more than 1.5 hours to activate a copy of Vista) is not OK.
What? Worthless? This story has the potential of becoming a nice, long flame war with lots of "+5 Funny" posts (which are the only reason why I read /.)
You are kidding, right? This is absolutely no user error. It should be safe to assume that turning the thing off implies radio off.
The big deal is that Apple is trying to create an even greater Vendor lock-in than what was already usual with mobile phone manufacturers / service operator companies. What really bugs me here is that the iPhone is only available with one operator comany and only with one of their tarif models. So with every successful unlock of the iPhone i think "Yeah, in your face, apple!". And, by the way, I am a big fan of apple products. Not typing this from my MacBook pro becaust the company I work at the moment wants me to work on a Windows PC. Anyway, I don't think it is a good thing what Apple does with the iPhone, and this is exactly why I won't buy one.
Yea, but TFA said 3D image of The Brain.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Duct-Tape-Wallet
After installing update 919951 which patched a critical vulnerability in MS Ethics 1.0 service pack 1 some customers have reported problems when MS Ethics fails to detect lying and/or theiving. Microsoft has announced a new version of security update 919951 on August 22, 2006. This new version was to address this problem for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1.
Microsoft is also aware of public reports that this issue could lead to a buffer overrun condition for customers who use MS Ethics 2.0 Service Pack 1 and who have applied security update 918899. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability at this point, nor are we aware of customer impact at this point. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports.
-- original source: Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 unexpectedly exits after you install the 918899 update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/en-us