It's obvious that the only answer to this question is for all kernel developers to stop all productive activities for one month in order to sit through long and boring security lectures in groups of 500. After this month linux will be fully compliant with the "trusted security initiative" and will be magically bug free. Until such time as another bug is discovered.
It seems to me that The legality of restricting your ability to play a purchased disc in a player isn't really questionable. If I make a DVD player I can design it to not play a single DVD if I so choose. I can make a painted carboard shell that looks like a DVD player and sell it to you. As long as I don't misrepresent it, it's perfectly legal. Technically to market a DVD player there just has to be a DVD out there somewhere that it will play. Then I can say it works with DVD's.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no DMCA or region coding supporter. I'm just saying that not everything you don't like is legally questionable.
It's only a crime if they were unauthorized. My guess is he gave up the password in an attempt to cooperate with the authorities in exchange for "a kind word at sentencing"...
Even if the access was unathorized it seems to me that the original post made it sound like the Italians somehow forced the ISP to pull protected speech off the net, which didn't happen at all. Whether some affected U.S. citizen has a case against the Italians is another matter.
My unit recently started using the SSH product and had issues with it. When SFTP'ing files from our windows boxes to our *nix servers random sections of text files would mysteriously dissapear. Also the term client has been flaky for me, when I'm in emacs (my editor of choice) and I backscroll it will occasionally insert random sections of my backscroll into my emacs buffer... So if you go with SSH for Windows clients, watch your text ftp's and save before you scroll up;)
I live in fear from knowing it's just a matter of time until some psycho hyjacks a train and runs it into a shopping mall or sports arena somewhere! And busses? Seriously people, a terrorist could hurt more people with 5 gallons of gas and a lighter (don't try this at home kids).
Thats very true. It's not like other manufactured products where it actually costs a company money to make each individual copy. I.E. if Ford donates a car there was actual cost involved in making that car above and beyond R&D. Whereas when MSFT donates 10,000 copies of office, there is no real cost involved as I'm quite sure the R&D for office is paid for. The real cost to them is actually very nearly nothing, not even boxes and CD's because they probably give them like 10 cd's and 10 manuals and 10,000 liscences.
He's not going to die because he's never going to attempt a launch. He'll keep milking the publicity cow and selling his cheesy ass "pantented toys" to unsuspecting surfers who follow the numerous slashdot links to his site.
Is it me or did that sound a lot like one of those circa 1940 popular science articles extolling the opulence of "future space liner travel in futuristic super blimps" or some such thing?
Why would the interest on these planes be any more than the interest on the planes they buy now?
The article actualy states that they would most likely be cheaper to manufacture than conventional planes used today.
I'm sure the airlines would phase something like this in, not just immediately mothball their current fleet and upgrade lock stock and 2 smoking barrels to new planes. So instead of buying 747's they buy this plane cheaper and pay LESS interest than they do now.
The article also claims that the new plane has lower mantenanace costs. So again they save money.
As for accounting for cost differences between the planes, look at your ticket next time you buy one. I've bought tickets 6 months in advance and they knew, and printed on the ticket, what plane I would be on.
So to sum it all up we have cheaper planes, that require less maintenance and burn less gas. I fail to see how it's difficult to see what the cost benefits are.
Are you serious? A boing 747 burns 3000+ gallons of fuel per hour at cruising speed. Fuel is, if not the largest, very close to the largest expense of operating an airline. How could you NOT consider a 30% increase in fuel efficiency to be a large savings?
You say yourself that the savings per passenger would be somewhere between 30% and 50% and yet you don't see where the savings come from? You can bet your ass that we'd see most of that because if airline X didn't pass it on to us in lower fares you know airline Y would.
Who has a window now anyway? Typically 1/3 of the seats have a window (a guestimate at the average. I'd say another 1/3 of those are over the wing anyway , so you don't see squat. That means that the vast majority of people riding modern aircraft don't have a window to look out anyway. I bet if you ditched the window and gave more legroom/personal space (which you could do with a large jet like this) you wouldn't hear a whole lot of complaints.
Thats not really true. Most companies out there will want some kind of royalty payment from people using their IP, no matter what the use is. They don't really care whether your product competes with theirs or not, they just want the money.
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Actually I bet compainies would be more likely to round down. It's absolutely amazing how many people equate $39.99 with $30 rather than $40. I bet they would rather round to $39.95 than an even $40 just to keep the suckers in check.
To be blunt, why should IBM lay out the serious cash required to support linux on laptops when the only people who give a damn run linux on their laptops anyway and never use the support? It's basic economimcs. IBM probably sells a couple thousand thinkpads with Linux a year. Those sales probably cost them 20x as much to support as they make. If the product loses money, axe it.
I'm doing it right now. You get a "construction loan" which is similar to a mortgage but is designed for this type of thing. Basically how it works is you pay based on how much you have used to date (up to a set cap). To get a construction loan you generally have to have a bit more down than a typical mortgage (25% usually), and you have to somewhat know what you're talking about and be able to provide and discuss plans/schedules/blueprints/etc...
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It's obvious that the only answer to this question is for all kernel developers to stop all productive activities for one month in order to sit through long and boring security lectures in groups of 500. After this month linux will be fully compliant with the "trusted security initiative" and will be magically bug free. Until such time as another bug is discovered.
It seems to me that The legality of restricting your ability to play a purchased disc in a player isn't really questionable. If I make a DVD player I can design it to not play a single DVD if I so choose. I can make a painted carboard shell that looks like a DVD player and sell it to you. As long as I don't misrepresent it, it's perfectly legal. Technically to market a DVD player there just has to be a DVD out there somewhere that it will play. Then I can say it works with DVD's.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no DMCA or region coding supporter. I'm just saying that not everything you don't like is legally questionable.
It's only a crime if they were unauthorized. My guess is he gave up the password in an attempt to cooperate with the authorities in exchange for "a kind word at sentencing"...
Even if the access was unathorized it seems to me that the original post made it sound like the Italians somehow forced the ISP to pull protected speech off the net, which didn't happen at all. Whether some affected U.S. citizen has a case against the Italians is another matter.
Looks like some Italian cops found someones password and shut things down. It's not like they forced the U.S. based ISP's to pull the content.
Looks like a non-story to me.
My unit recently started using the SSH product and had issues with it. When SFTP'ing files from our windows boxes to our *nix servers random sections of text files would mysteriously dissapear. Also the term client has been flaky for me, when I'm in emacs (my editor of choice) and I backscroll it will occasionally insert random sections of my backscroll into my emacs buffer... So if you go with SSH for Windows clients, watch your text ftp's and save before you scroll up ;)
If I could I'd mod you up!
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No one mans right can or should be outwieghed by those of another. "All men are created equal"
Actually neither is a necessity. Basic human necessities include food, water, shelter and not much else.
I live in fear from knowing it's just a matter of time until some psycho hyjacks a train and runs it into a shopping mall or sports arena somewhere! And busses? Seriously people, a terrorist could hurt more people with 5 gallons of gas and a lighter (don't try this at home kids).
Thats very true. It's not like other manufactured products where it actually costs a company money to make each individual copy. I.E. if Ford donates a car there was actual cost involved in making that car above and beyond R&D. Whereas when MSFT donates 10,000 copies of office, there is no real cost involved as I'm quite sure the R&D for office is paid for. The real cost to them is actually very nearly nothing, not even boxes and CD's because they probably give them like 10 cd's and 10 manuals and 10,000 liscences.
He's not going to die because he's never going to attempt a launch. He'll keep milking the publicity cow and selling his cheesy ass "pantented toys" to unsuspecting surfers who follow the numerous slashdot links to his site.
I can think of several "new" car companies to burst onto the scene in the last decade. A couple of them have managed to avoid bankruptcy too...
Is it me or did that sound a lot like one of those circa 1940 popular science articles extolling the opulence of "future space liner travel in futuristic super blimps" or some such thing?
Why would the interest on these planes be any more than the interest on the planes they buy now? The article actualy states that they would most likely be cheaper to manufacture than conventional planes used today. I'm sure the airlines would phase something like this in, not just immediately mothball their current fleet and upgrade lock stock and 2 smoking barrels to new planes. So instead of buying 747's they buy this plane cheaper and pay LESS interest than they do now. The article also claims that the new plane has lower mantenanace costs. So again they save money. As for accounting for cost differences between the planes, look at your ticket next time you buy one. I've bought tickets 6 months in advance and they knew, and printed on the ticket, what plane I would be on. So to sum it all up we have cheaper planes, that require less maintenance and burn less gas. I fail to see how it's difficult to see what the cost benefits are.
Are you serious? A boing 747 burns 3000+ gallons of fuel per hour at cruising speed. Fuel is, if not the largest, very close to the largest expense of operating an airline. How could you NOT consider a 30% increase in fuel efficiency to be a large savings? You say yourself that the savings per passenger would be somewhere between 30% and 50% and yet you don't see where the savings come from? You can bet your ass that we'd see most of that because if airline X didn't pass it on to us in lower fares you know airline Y would.
Who has a window now anyway? Typically 1/3 of the seats have a window (a guestimate at the average. I'd say another 1/3 of those are over the wing anyway , so you don't see squat. That means that the vast majority of people riding modern aircraft don't have a window to look out anyway. I bet if you ditched the window and gave more legroom/personal space (which you could do with a large jet like this) you wouldn't hear a whole lot of complaints.
I second that. About the only advantage I can see to this is it's "free" once installed. I.E. you don't have to pay out the ass for your minutes.
I just clicked on the "get plugin" puzzle piece and dl'd the netscape java plugin... It seems to work fine for me.
If they'd only remembered to reset the odometer on the Appolos before they left they'd know for sure!
Thats not really true. Most companies out there will want some kind of royalty payment from people using their IP, no matter what the use is. They don't really care whether your product competes with theirs or not, they just want the money.
I second the respected gentleman from wherever.
Actually I bet compainies would be more likely to round down. It's absolutely amazing how many people equate $39.99 with $30 rather than $40. I bet they would rather round to $39.95 than an even $40 just to keep the suckers in check.
To be blunt, why should IBM lay out the serious cash required to support linux on laptops when the only people who give a damn run linux on their laptops anyway and never use the support? It's basic economimcs. IBM probably sells a couple thousand thinkpads with Linux a year. Those sales probably cost them 20x as much to support as they make. If the product loses money, axe it.
I'm doing it right now. You get a "construction loan" which is similar to a mortgage but is designed for this type of thing. Basically how it works is you pay based on how much you have used to date (up to a set cap). To get a construction loan you generally have to have a bit more down than a typical mortgage (25% usually), and you have to somewhat know what you're talking about and be able to provide and discuss plans/schedules/blueprints/etc...