I would think it's the fact that it's more of an issue of seperation of powers vs centralizing power in the president, and also making it permanent, instead of temporary and subject to review/update that's the constitutional issue.
Also, it wouldn't be the first time that "foreign" laws are used to track us citizens abroad, despite the fact that only certain "domestic" agencies are constitutionally empowered to do that...
I second the "use appropriately" post. There's several choices of front-ends for a ruby environment(lighttpd, mongrel, apache) with a choice of connecting as a module or through a proxy(closer to ajpv1 for java, I believe). The performance characteristics vary widely.
Considering Sun started as a bsd-derivative(SunOS) I never understood why they needed their own license... All the moreso with Apple's bsd successes....
How restrictive a license is always depends on who you apply it to... The original software author? A contributer? A redistributor? And in the case of Sun, they appear on one, restrictive, side on one product, and on the other, less restricted side, in another. So you'd have to qualify just which Sun you mean...
The idea so much laws govern how the government may treat property, and its citizens, is that they are own by "us", and so cannot be treated the same way(bringing a civil lawsuit against a federal gvmt is probably not even possible, since you're suing yourself...
It worries me that you seem to need "totalitarism" to define "libertarians".
Is it that their philosophy is flawed, or your understanding of it?
There should certainly be more to a political idea/movement, than who/what it opposes... And Iraq would be a better example of attempted ideologicide leading to anarchy and civil war, than "freedom gone too far".
Mod parent up, we have licenses, which are legal documents, and seem to be written like contracts, exactly so people who try to reuse code know what "can" happen. Which allows them to do things in an aware manner(either not use the code, re-use the code but not distribute, distribute, re-license, etc...)
"Rebuke" in a legal context only really makes sense when the receiver should have known he was in the wrong, in the first place. The license ie expected to be explicit, to keep the number of rebukes low, or to people who willfully ignore/don't bother to read, the license.
It was my understanding that EA announced that Maxis was run more like its own company than other divisions, to great success, and they were going to restructure to allow each division to be more autonomous because the success of the sims was seen as stemming from their independance instead of despite it(I believe that was on slashdot too, as a matter of fact).
It seems to me that talking of EA in the singular is going to be only possible when talking about money matters, but flavour, for lack of a better word, will depend on the division.
The fact that they don't have a useful product, clients or an actual company beyond the IP itself would seem to indicate why they filed suit.
Why would a judge allow a spurious, lacking in merit case? Well one possibility would be that the patent laws got changed to not require merit... Another would be that the government actually benefits from only successful patents. A third would be that if the defendants actually defend the patent in court, they might actually kill this type of thing... And the judge might actually become famous if that happens, for the good it did all of us...
Just how many slashdotters went "yawn" another attept at politicians to hide how they sold us out?... I mean, the next door neighbour might be fooled, but the average slashdotter might know it's been owmed and manufactured in china for years...
I'm not saying it's bad, just that in no fucking way is it news...
Not under the current unix/posix design. Any process(think top) could have a need to know the current userid for some other user. And with things like dialog boxes having a detailed mode like ls -l, we can forget having a seperate function when you don't need any other process but your own, it's too much of an edge case.
Using database files, where you can just access parts you need and not the parts you don't would be good, but not anyone is ready to recode/etc/passwd into db or sqlite format.
Keep in mind this wouldn't keep them "secret", but it would allow us to track "copied the entire/etc/passwd file" as opposed to "got a uid-login name matchup"
Getting rid of the userid/username match would get rid of the entire need for login names, except for auth, and just obsolete/etc/nsswitch. BUT there's a lot of valid uses for those, mostly having to do with ~user processing, permissions and the like..., Putting ext3 acls and the like make it a necessity to keep/etc/nsswitch, just to make sure you can understand permissions, on a user level.
On another note, just using pam/nss works basically because the assumption of how lookups work. Just removing the lookup ability would break quite a bit of code, most of it "bridging/gatewaying/accessing legacy" and otherwise linked in from sources you may not be able to control. Fixing that(think chown/chmod in a ldap environment) is non-trivial, especially just to prevent "getting" the passwd file.
I'd like to point out, nowhere in the article did they say they "sent" the file, they just spoke of reading it...
No, but they'd accept it, and try, and ask their windows-saavy friends to do it for them...
The fact that windows is more widespread than linux means that to be on parity with windows, linux cannot just be as good, it has to be significantly, perceivably better... That's why MacOS X(despite the hardware barrier) is on the rise, it's perceived as better, as long as you can afford it.
And I know, it's one of those comparisons where I can't give them a Mac OS X cd and let them get it up and running either... But when they buy a new pc, a Mac is an easier sell than linux... Despite the fact that Windows is more expensive, it's also an easier sell than linux.
Something to keep in mind when you want to expand linux's market... I won't comment on any "why"s.
Seems like people don't understand unix at all, when they post to security lists... Just checking your own identity in unix requires a call to getpwnam, getpwent or their equivalent, which means that a function call in glibc has to read the password file. Practically every unix program does that... It reads in the whole file in memory and looks for you, unless you're using the db source, yp, nis+ or an external module: nss_ldap, nss_mysql, nss_pgsql. It's doing that to find YOU out... That's normal, system-wide behaviour, and not sinister at all(that's also why there's a nscd daemon to cache those results, to prevent your machine from grinding to a halt if you have 200k+ entries in that file.
Now unless the legacy api gets redesigned to NOT do a line by line scan, anyone using strace/ltrace/dtrace/tusc needs to filter out these internal "housekeeping" calls, which are perfectly normal, needing to find out if _you_ can open up your own log file...
The/etc/passwd/etc/group files are public files precisely because they are referred to in this manner. That's why shadow passwords are so necessary.
The only company that seems to use technology the way you describe lately, is Google, actually managing to turn the reputation of their Google Cluster into an asset, the value of which is reflected in company valuation.
You'll notice I'm mentioning technology, outside the individual, desktop use your mentioning.
The vast areas with noone living there don't need internet access either... Let's compare a 3.4 mil urban area, to a 3.5 mil urban area please.
That way we can compare apples to apples(and perversely, the comparison isn't in disfavor of Canada, except perhaps Toronto), although it should, simply because our upstream IS the states)
Really, I mean, the lack of density is either a problem or not. But each time I post about it, people make excuses... The reason broadband sucks in the states is because there is no competition on service. The reason broadband sucks in Canada, just less, is because there is very little competitoon on service. In other words, there is no commoditisation of packets.
Until you can buy packets, going "guaranteed latency to google, 2000pps" internet will suck I'm not saying your grandmother will want that. I'm saying that as a tech user, you need to be able to DEMAND it, that way youe grandmother will get a lesser, yet still good service. The relation of power, has been in the provider's court for too long, and the excuses have just been accepted far too easily.
My time is valuable. What are you offering me as incentive to read your ads? Specifically. I would add also that most ad networks I've been exposed to are much slower than the servers they display on, meaning that even if I didn't mind ads, I'd mind them slowing down my browser experience.
gratuitous statements:.js ads are the worse, since the js seems to need be loaded before the content is...(noscript did show an impact) flash may be the same, I haven't noticed. YMMV
And just how does unlimited bandwidth factor in this? If it costs 200$ for unlimited, the providers should charge for however much it costs, not ask to get subsidised by the other end of the connection
Now notice that contract or no contract, the new customers get the deal...
Why should the content providers have to pay because the isps can't market or price their service?
What the isps are asking is to skip the competition between last-mile... after all, as long as they can sell "unlimited" that's subsidised, they make money...
I really want to abolush that "unlimited myself" as long as the providers don't sell it as pure upstream (I buy one megabit, they buy one megabit upstream, period)
Actually, the artists that are known by 75% of them are usually known despite lack of talent or artistic innovation... A great deal of what's wrong with the riaa is how they control what content comes out, and just browbeat into submission what "they" don't like, simply just drowing out what is opposed to their artists...
It's no accident that they behave much like an oligopoly in most things... It's because they're as close as they can legally get, without having been caught(yet)
So... does this mean watchguard removed the windows virus definitions from clamav, and left only a virus engine that can detect native viruses, in order to sell a native watchguard for windows license?
As a system admin who has a backup place... I can tell you I might not do it with a competitor, but a major client or reseller, I'd certainly think about it, if they had the expertise...
Of course, if they had the expertise, they'd do it in house... And I'd be out a client...
Given a "peer" for backups whose not a competitor, but in a different vertical market might work, provided the trust aspects would be met
And here I thought Moore's Law applied to the top of the line chip designs, from manufacturers, not units sold...
Not that they automatically are incompatible, but Moore's law seemed to pace "research" a lot better than market, ever since I first heard of it...
The low-cost laptop units are among the first units I've seen to approach what customers really want, as opposed to what manufacturers want... Meaning the olpc won't be "necessarily" obsolescent in a year... And even if it was, people would(wisely, I might add) refuse to pay another 100$ next year... Which isn't to say bundling a low-cost laptop, with say, internet service(as I've heard bandied about) might not work...
But higher population density makes it more cost effective to roll out things(you are likely to get more clients). The US should be able ten times better than Canada by that metric though, and it's not(10 times the pop, similar size)... And yes, I'm only saying it's "better than ten times worse", not "better"...
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I would think it's the fact that it's more of an issue of seperation of powers vs centralizing power in the president, and also making it permanent, instead of temporary and subject to review/update that's the constitutional issue.
Also, it wouldn't be the first time that "foreign" laws are used to track us citizens abroad, despite the fact that only certain "domestic" agencies are constitutionally empowered to do that...
I second the "use appropriately" post. There's several choices of front-ends for a ruby environment(lighttpd, mongrel, apache) with a choice of connecting as a module or through a proxy(closer to ajpv1 for java, I believe). The performance characteristics vary widely.
Considering Sun started as a bsd-derivative(SunOS) I never understood why they needed their own license... All the moreso with Apple's bsd successes....
How restrictive a license is always depends on who you apply it to... The original software author? A contributer? A redistributor? And in the case of Sun, they appear on one, restrictive, side on one product, and on the other, less restricted side, in another. So you'd have to qualify just which Sun you mean...
I agree, I mean, once you agree on injecting rfid, to ascertain identity, how do you make sure someone even just carries only one?
The idea so much laws govern how the government may treat property, and its citizens, is that they are own by "us", and so cannot be treated the same way(bringing a civil lawsuit against a federal gvmt is probably not even possible, since you're suing yourself...
More likely that the CIA cannot do that on american citizens iself(but an intermediary could probably be found.
It worries me that you seem to need "totalitarism" to define "libertarians".
Is it that their philosophy is flawed, or your understanding of it?
There should certainly be more to a political idea/movement, than who/what it opposes... And Iraq would be a better example of attempted ideologicide leading to anarchy and civil war, than "freedom gone too far".
Mod parent up, we have licenses, which are legal documents, and seem to be written like contracts, exactly so people who try to reuse code know what "can" happen. Which allows them to do things in an aware manner(either not use the code, re-use the code but not distribute, distribute, re-license, etc...)
"Rebuke" in a legal context only really makes sense when the receiver should have known he was in the wrong, in the first place. The license ie expected to be explicit, to keep the number of rebukes low, or to people who willfully ignore/don't bother to read, the license.
They now include how to make them yourself(specialized program) for cheap(home) versions. Some "business class" machines still have them.
It was my understanding that EA announced that Maxis was run more like its own company than other divisions, to great success, and they were going to restructure to allow each division to be more autonomous because the success of the sims was seen as stemming from their independance instead of despite it(I believe that was on slashdot too, as a matter of fact).
It seems to me that talking of EA in the singular is going to be only possible when talking about money matters, but flavour, for lack of a better word, will depend on the division.
The fact that they don't have a useful product, clients or an actual company beyond the IP itself would seem to indicate why they filed suit.
Why would a judge allow a spurious, lacking in merit case? Well one possibility would be that the patent laws got changed to not require merit...
Another would be that the government actually benefits from only successful patents.
A third would be that if the defendants actually defend the patent in court, they might actually kill this type of thing... And the judge might actually become famous if that happens, for the good it did all of us...
Listed in order of likelyhood...
Just how many slashdotters went "yawn" another attept at politicians to hide how they sold us out?...
I mean, the next door neighbour might be fooled, but the average slashdotter might know it's been owmed and manufactured in china for years...
I'm not saying it's bad, just that in no fucking way is it news...
Not under the current unix/posix design.
/etc/passwd into db or sqlite format.
/etc/passwd file" as opposed to "got a uid-login name matchup"
/etc/nsswitch. BUT there's a lot of valid uses for those, mostly having to do with ~user processing, permissions and the like..., Putting ext3 acls and the like make it a necessity to keep /etc/nsswitch, just to make sure you can understand permissions, on a user level.
Any process(think top) could have a need to know the current userid for some other user. And with things like dialog boxes having a detailed mode like ls -l, we can forget having a seperate function when you don't need any other process but your own, it's too much of an edge case.
Using database files, where you can just access parts you need and not the parts you don't would be good, but not anyone is ready to recode
Keep in mind this wouldn't keep them "secret", but it would allow us to track "copied the entire
Getting rid of the userid/username match would get rid of the entire need for login names, except for auth, and just obsolete
On another note, just using pam/nss works basically because the assumption of how lookups work. Just removing the lookup ability would break quite a bit of code, most of it "bridging/gatewaying/accessing legacy" and otherwise linked in from sources you may not be able to control. Fixing that(think chown/chmod in a ldap environment) is non-trivial, especially just to prevent "getting" the passwd file.
I'd like to point out, nowhere in the article did they say they "sent" the file, they just spoke of reading it...
No, but they'd accept it, and try, and ask their windows-saavy friends to do it for them...
The fact that windows is more widespread than linux means that to be on parity with windows, linux cannot just be as good, it has to be significantly, perceivably better... That's why MacOS X(despite the hardware barrier) is on the rise, it's perceived as better, as long as you can afford it.
And I know, it's one of those comparisons where I can't give them a Mac OS X cd and let them get it up and running either... But when they buy a new pc, a Mac is an easier sell than linux... Despite the fact that Windows is more expensive, it's also an easier sell than linux.
Something to keep in mind when you want to expand linux's market... I won't comment on any "why"s.
Seems like people don't understand unix at all, when they post to security lists...
/etc/passwd /etc/group files are public files precisely because they are referred to in this manner. That's why shadow passwords are so necessary.
Just checking your own identity in unix requires a call to getpwnam, getpwent or their equivalent, which means that a function call in glibc has to read the password file. Practically every unix program does that... It reads in the whole file in memory and looks for you, unless you're using the db source, yp, nis+ or an external module: nss_ldap, nss_mysql, nss_pgsql. It's doing that to find YOU out... That's normal, system-wide behaviour, and not sinister at all(that's also why there's a nscd daemon to cache those results, to prevent your machine from grinding to a halt if you have 200k+ entries in that file.
Now unless the legacy api gets redesigned to NOT do a line by line scan, anyone using strace/ltrace/dtrace/tusc needs to filter out these internal "housekeeping" calls, which are perfectly normal, needing to find out if _you_ can open up your own log file...
The
The only company that seems to use technology the way you describe lately, is Google, actually managing to turn the reputation of their Google Cluster into an asset, the value of which is reflected in company valuation.
You'll notice I'm mentioning technology, outside the individual, desktop use your mentioning.
The vast areas with noone living there don't need internet access either...
Let's compare a 3.4 mil urban area, to a 3.5 mil urban area please.
That way we can compare apples to apples(and perversely, the comparison isn't in disfavor of Canada, except perhaps Toronto), although it should, simply because our upstream IS the states)
Really, I mean, the lack of density is either a problem or not. But each time I post about it, people make excuses...
The reason broadband sucks in the states is because there is no competition on service. The reason broadband sucks in Canada, just less, is because there is very little competitoon on service. In other words, there is no commoditisation of packets.
Until you can buy packets, going "guaranteed latency to google, 2000pps" internet will suck
I'm not saying your grandmother will want that. I'm saying that as a tech user, you need to be able to DEMAND it, that way youe grandmother will get a lesser, yet still good service. The relation of power, has been in the provider's court for too long, and the excuses have just been accepted far too easily.
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flash may be the same, I haven't noticed. YMMV
The former:
more like xserves would have no choice but to run Solaris...
With Apple Interface Guis so slick you can skate on them
The Latter:
You'd be hearing about FreeOSX, a competitor to Linux, bsd-derived, anytime soon...
And just how does unlimited bandwidth factor in this?
If it costs 200$ for unlimited, the providers should charge for however much it costs, not ask to get subsidised by the other end of the connection
Now notice that contract or no contract, the new customers get the deal...
Why should the content providers have to pay because the isps can't market or price their service?
What the isps are asking is to skip the competition between last-mile...
after all, as long as they can sell "unlimited" that's subsidised, they make money...
I really want to abolush that "unlimited myself" as long as the providers don't sell it as pure upstream (I buy one megabit, they buy one megabit upstream, period)
Actually, the artists that are known by 75% of them are usually known despite lack of talent or artistic innovation... A great deal of what's wrong with the riaa is how they control what content comes out, and just browbeat into submission what "they" don't like, simply just drowing out what is opposed to their artists...
It's no accident that they behave much like an oligopoly in most things... It's because they're as close as they can legally get, without having been caught(yet)
So... does this mean watchguard removed the windows virus definitions from clamav, and left only a virus engine that can detect native viruses, in order to sell a native watchguard for windows license?
As a system admin who has a backup place... I can tell you I might not do it with a competitor, but a major client or reseller, I'd certainly think about it, if they had the expertise...
Of course, if they had the expertise, they'd do it in house... And I'd be out a client...
Given a "peer" for backups whose not a competitor, but in a different vertical market might work, provided the trust aspects would be met
And here I thought Moore's Law applied to the top of the line chip designs, from manufacturers, not units sold...
Not that they automatically are incompatible, but Moore's law seemed to pace "research" a lot better than market, ever since I first heard of it...
The low-cost laptop units are among the first units I've seen to approach what customers really want, as opposed to what manufacturers want... Meaning the olpc won't be "necessarily" obsolescent in a year... And even if it was, people would(wisely, I might add) refuse to pay another 100$ next year...
Which isn't to say bundling a low-cost laptop, with say, internet service(as I've heard bandied about) might not work...
But higher population density makes it more cost effective to roll out things(you are likely to get more clients).
The US should be able ten times better than Canada by that metric though, and it's not(10 times the pop, similar size)... And yes, I'm only saying it's "better than ten times worse", not "better"...