I will gladly second your opinion. If Symantec writes the software and distributes it under a proprietary license then the user has two choices regarding getting and using the software:
One: The user buys the software therefore ACCEPTING whatever license that comes with the software. No one forces you to buy the software and if you do then you are liable for your own actions. Symantec then has the right to do whatever it pleases with ITS property (you own the right to use it under the EULA, you do not own the software).
Two: You copy the software in a manner that is against the copyright notice and / or the End User License Agreement. Therefore you break the law and destroy your own grounds for complaint. What little liability the software maker had (almost none detectable in quantity) has just been vaporised. You are on your own. If a virus gets your computer and kills your dog: Too bad, shut up.
From my brief period writing for a Web based company I'm guessing that the temptation to put glitz and gadgets on every page is something that MBAs can't resist.
Grounding strips are used primarily (at our lab) to ground the tiny electrostatic charges that might damage delicate electronics. What with the human body being a mixture of antenna,battery and capacitor for all kinds of minute charges. The electrostatic charge on a cotton shirt is usually enough to knock out one of our wimpier components.
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If you are not a certified electrician that has been trained to deal with that voltage range do not attempt to do so.
If you are going ahead anyway. Take another person with you at all times. Your buddy should be able to shut down the entire mains current within slit seconds. Your buddy should have a wood/rubber/plastic or otherwise insulating device that can be used to knock you away from the power source if necessary.
Never use both hands, current will flow through your heart and spine. Do not wear anything metallic such as chains, watches, rings etc.
Remember that even if you wear double or triple insulation that a high enough electrical potential can break through anyway. I work with 600+ Volt pulse LASER capacitors and I've seen arcs go through plastic.
To reiterate. If your not qualified do not attempt to do the job. Anything that you do based on any of the above is your responsibility only.
I'm happy that the FSF are considering other licenses for discussion, this can only be a Good Thing and foster the exchange of opinions in the community (this/. article for example).
I would not be too surprised if they do not recommend it. Even from a business point of view they have the most substantial investments in the GPL.
Technological predictions are notoriously flaky. They tend to concentrate on technology as if technology advances itself. Politics advance (or regulate) technology. Politics bend and reroute the arrow of technological advancement to unforeseen places.
The Lucifer (DES) cipher was crippled by the NSA.
VHS vs. BETA
Microsoft and the government do not employ what we would call "purely technological" arguments to justify their alliance.
Technological predictions tend to be numerous, different and wrong. This breeds a few that hit the spot because of statistics. We wear of those few and develop sample bias.
All you say is true if you start considering yourself anonymous from the E-mail address on-wards only.
If you step back and look at the entire system you will realize you have to log onto a system somewhere. If it's a private place then you will have your IP and the ISP's logs and accounts pointing at you or your accomplice. If it's a public place then you have had to pay for the service and therefore there are people who could recognize you if you ever came back or give your details to the police. determining that an E-mail was sent from someone at Internet cafe X is probably an order of magnitude simpler for the authorities than busting a 1024-bit key.
Do not assume that I am bent on nullifying your point in any way. I agree. I am simply stressing that steno. and crypto. must go hand in hand in order to be effective tools to achieve our real goal: Privacy, the freedom to communicate our ideas without fear of penalty and the ability to organize ourselves without hindrance.
You are correct in your statement that services like Yahoo and Hotmail are useful because they are anonymous.
In my opinion I do not miss the point at all, quite the opposite in fact. The above mentioned services do not require encryption precisely because that they are anonymous. In order to remain anonymous you must refrain from giving information that can be used to piece together after a period of time your identity.
Anonymity is hiding, nothing else. Hiding is the simplest form of keeping a secret and the least effective. Note how stenography is considered inferior to cryptography. The two are intimately related. My "one time pad cipher" that I mentioned would be useless if the pad itself would be found.
As the quality of your encryption increases the need for anonymity decreases. What do I care if all the English speaking world knows that I and no else sent "n[unprintable]n3345huq08q[unprintable]91fe34[unpr intable]3434yfhx38" to someone? A strong cypher allows you to hide in plain sight.
The worst that can happen is that your government has managed to break public key cryptography and is reading your E-mails. They cannot do anything to you because that would disclose their ability to do so to the world.
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Seems ok to me. When you sign with a non government or for profit organization in order to get a free service you should be aware that you will be getting more than you bargained for.
Caveat Empor.
If you want a more secure form of communication just pay for an E-mail address and encrypt with PGP/GPG.
Of course you can also take it to the next level and compose your E-mails on a machine that is disconnected from the Internet. Encrypt the message with a one time pad cipher before removing the message to a Internet available machine. Once on the Internet machine you send a PGP message to your recipient and agree on a time windows of 1 minute sometime in the future. You then construct a secure FTP over SSH and connect it to the Internet for that 1 minute only, logging all the traffic from and to that machine while it was on-line. You sit and pour over the logs and see that your recipient was in fact the only person that made the ssh connection and that it was not spoofed. You can then destroy the hard-drives of the machines you worked with.
I think that the pretense of the article is wrong. When I reached the point of the article where it said "end users do not care about browsers" I felt like I should stop reading. You are the end user even if you are a developer. If no-one cares about it then why write about it? If no-one understands or cares about CSS then why mention it again and again?
Not only is the article poorly worded but it states all it's theories and conjectures as if they were facts! Where is the proof?
You have reproduced in your comment the exact spirit in which the Linux kernel was written about before the OSS community showed the world that they DO have the power to crush proprietary software.
Just switch all the instances of ProTools with UNIX and reread your post.
I think that we should allow what we of weak taste call "movies and music" studios to succeed. Allow them perfect control of everything. You will not be able to do anything without paying them but run a Commodore 64 that is disconnected from the Internet.
The result?
The complete, total and utter collapse of the above Industries. People will not be able or willing to afford even to buy a book online because of crippling proprietary formats and greedy prices. No one will be interested in anything digital anymore, disconnected we will peacefully slip back to telling stories by the fireplace (reading them off the C64's screen that is).
The article brought up images in my mind of Lain's bedroom with all the intense looking tubing to cool down her NAVI.
I'm not really sure why I don't experiment with this stuff. My workplace has tons of this stuff just lying around since we use it to cool down LASERs and intense pulsed light devices.
There used to be a student that came to work part time as a secretary in one of the companies buildings. She used to model when she was younger and now she was in university.
The building was just across the street and yet we had no comfortable way of moving equipment between the two. On days that she was working, half the staff would suddenly feel like carrying 5 new 17 inch monitors across to the other building no question asked;
"Hi there, I've just carried this immensely heavy object a long distance, where would you like me to put it for ya". Looking back I feel pretty foolish but boy was she ever worth it. Talking with her was usually the highlight of the workday.
My old boss used to use bandwidth hogs as an excuse to cause users pain. We would track the inflated traffic down to hub port level, he would pull the plug and wait. After maybe 2 minutes always came the phone call from some frustrated user saying that his/her Internet was not working. Over the 12 times we did this EVERY time the phone call came from the abuser and not ONCE was he/she downloading anything work related.
The company has grown since then and those old tricks would get you fired nowadays. Ahhh, the days when IT ruled with an iron fist. Now there this newfangled notion of "service" in the department, how wierd is that?
Lets see now, Moz takes 34 minutes to load on my Athlon 1.7. On an Amiga it would take aprox...Yep; It does turn out that one can pay off student loans by the time Mozilla loads on an Amiga.
Thats it kids, work it out of your system. He was there from the beggining, dealing with a healthy portion of what defines us and you were not. I know It's killing you. Is it his ego thats hurting or yours? Whos making the rabid attacks, him or you?. I love it when people trash the mountain that was built before their time. Of course if you've given more (or even a fraction more) for our community feel free to tell me off, otherwise don't even bother pressing "reply".
Why do you go visit his website if it pisses you off? Does he owe you something? Have you paid him for a service that he is not giving you?
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I'd answer but I do not develop discussions with anonymous posters. It's kind of like shouting at wall.
I will gladly second your opinion. If Symantec writes the software and distributes it under a proprietary license then the user has two choices regarding getting and using the software:
One: The user buys the software therefore ACCEPTING whatever license that comes with the software. No one forces you to buy the software and if you do then you are liable for your own actions. Symantec then has the right to do whatever it pleases with ITS property (you own the right to use it under the EULA, you do not own the software).
Two: You copy the software in a manner that is against the copyright notice and / or the End User License Agreement. Therefore you break the law and destroy your own grounds for complaint. What little liability the software maker had (almost none detectable in quantity) has just been vaporised. You are on your own. If a virus gets your computer and kills your dog: Too bad, shut up.
From my brief period writing for a Web based company I'm guessing that the temptation to put glitz and gadgets on every page is something that MBAs can't resist.
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/httpd/vhosts/tweaktown.com/httpdocs/temp...
Welcome to the Slashdot effect. Maybe their servers need to be runnning dual Opertons?
Very true
,battery and capacitor for all kinds of minute charges. The electrostatic charge on a cotton shirt is usually enough to knock out one of our wimpier components.
Grounding strips are used primarily (at our lab) to ground the tiny electrostatic charges that might damage delicate electronics. What with the human body being a mixture of antenna
If you are not a certified electrician that has been trained to deal with that voltage range do not attempt to do so.
If you are going ahead anyway. Take another person with you at all times. Your buddy should be able to shut down the entire mains current within slit seconds. Your buddy should have a wood/rubber/plastic or otherwise insulating device that can be used to knock you away from the power source if necessary.
Never use both hands, current will flow through your heart and spine. Do not wear anything metallic such as chains, watches, rings etc.
Remember that even if you wear double or triple insulation that a high enough electrical potential can break through anyway. I work with 600+ Volt pulse LASER capacitors and I've seen arcs go through plastic.
To reiterate. If your not qualified do not attempt to do the job. Anything that you do based on any of the above is your responsibility only.
Good Luck.
It would probably break under the weight of my 1 ton IBM model M keyboard. I think it's made out of depleted uranium.
Those are not a new type of ape, they where SCO executives all along! P.S. No offense to the ape family.
I'm happy that the FSF are considering other licenses for discussion, this can only be a Good Thing and foster the exchange of opinions in the community (this /. article for example).
I would not be too surprised if they do not recommend it. Even from a business point of view they have the most substantial investments in the GPL.
*Only does 0.4km per command in urban areas. Your mileage may vary.
Technological predictions are notoriously flaky. They tend to concentrate on technology as if technology advances itself. Politics advance (or regulate) technology. Politics bend and reroute the arrow of technological advancement to unforeseen places.
The Lucifer (DES) cipher was crippled by the NSA.
VHS vs. BETA
Microsoft and the government do not employ what we would call "purely technological" arguments to justify their alliance.
Technological predictions tend to be numerous, different and wrong. This breeds a few that hit the spot because of statistics. We wear of those few and develop sample bias.
I'm in a potentially similar situation. I do Aikido 4 times a week during the evenings / nights.
Maybe you can check out different martial arts near where you live/work.
Eventually you could say "I know Kung-Foo!" and your boss will go "Show me.".
All you say is true if you start considering yourself anonymous from the E-mail address on-wards only.
If you step back and look at the entire system you will realize you have to log onto a system somewhere. If it's a private place then you will have your IP and the ISP's logs and accounts pointing at you or your accomplice. If it's a public place then you have had to pay for the service and therefore there are people who could recognize you if you ever came back or give your details to the police. determining that an E-mail was sent from someone at Internet cafe X is probably an order of magnitude simpler for the authorities than busting a 1024-bit key.
Do not assume that I am bent on nullifying your point in any way. I agree. I am simply stressing that steno. and crypto. must go hand in hand in order to be effective tools to achieve our real goal: Privacy, the freedom to communicate our ideas without fear of penalty and the ability to organize ourselves without hindrance.
You are correct in your statement that services like Yahoo and Hotmail are useful because they are anonymous.
In my opinion I do not miss the point at all, quite the opposite in fact. The above mentioned services do not require encryption precisely because that they are anonymous. In order to remain anonymous you must refrain from giving information that can be used to piece together after a period of time your identity.
Anonymity is hiding, nothing else. Hiding is the simplest form of keeping a secret and the least effective. Note how stenography is considered inferior to cryptography. The two are intimately related. My "one time pad cipher" that I mentioned would be useless if the pad itself would be found.
As the quality of your encryption increases the need for anonymity decreases. What do I care if all the English speaking world knows that I and no else sent "n[unprintable]n3345huq08q[unprintable]91fe34[unpr intable]3434yfhx38" to someone? A strong cypher allows you to hide in plain sight.
The worst that can happen is that your government has managed to break public key cryptography and is reading your E-mails. They cannot do anything to you because that would disclose their ability to do so to the world.
Seems ok to me. When you sign with a non government or for profit organization in order to get a free service you should be aware that you will be getting more than you bargained for.
Caveat Empor.
If you want a more secure form of communication just pay for an E-mail address and encrypt with PGP/GPG.
Of course you can also take it to the next level and compose your E-mails on a machine that is disconnected from the Internet. Encrypt the message with a one time pad cipher before removing the message to a Internet available machine. Once on the Internet machine you send a PGP message to your recipient and agree on a time windows of 1 minute sometime in the future. You then construct a secure FTP over SSH and connect it to the Internet for that 1 minute only, logging all the traffic from and to that machine while it was on-line. You sit and pour over the logs and see that your recipient was in fact the only person that made the ssh connection and that it was not spoofed. You can then destroy the hard-drives of the machines you worked with.
Or you can really be paranoid and ...
I think that the pretense of the article is wrong. When I reached the point of the article where it said "end users do not care about browsers" I felt like I should stop reading. You are the end user even if you are a developer. If no-one cares about it then why write about it? If no-one understands or cares about CSS then why mention it again and again?
Not only is the article poorly worded but it states all it's theories and conjectures as if they were facts! Where is the proof?
I apologize. What I thought would come out as an insightful comment turned out to be quite a bit of a flame.
You have reproduced in your comment the exact spirit in which the Linux kernel was written about before the OSS community showed the world that they DO have the power to crush proprietary software.
Just switch all the instances of ProTools with UNIX and reread your post.
I think that we should allow what we of weak taste call "movies and music" studios to succeed. Allow them perfect control of everything. You will not be able to do anything without paying them but run a Commodore 64 that is disconnected from the Internet.
The result?
The complete, total and utter collapse of the above Industries. People will not be able or willing to afford even to buy a book online because of crippling proprietary formats and greedy prices. No one will be interested in anything digital anymore, disconnected we will peacefully slip back to telling stories by the fireplace (reading them off the C64's screen that is).
Or maybe not.
The article brought up images in my mind of Lain's bedroom with all the intense looking tubing to cool down her NAVI.
I'm not really sure why I don't experiment with this stuff. My workplace has tons of this stuff just lying around since we use it to cool down LASERs and intense pulsed light devices.
at /etc (fun with liquid hydrogen) in Realplayer format. The same guys that host the Geeks In Space shows.
There used to be a student that came to work part time as a secretary in one of the companies buildings. She used to model when she was younger and now she was in university.
The building was just across the street and yet we had no comfortable way of moving equipment between the two. On days that she was working, half the staff would suddenly feel like carrying 5 new 17 inch monitors across to the other building no question asked;
"Hi there, I've just carried this immensely heavy object a long distance, where would you like me to put it for ya". Looking back I feel pretty foolish but boy was she ever worth it. Talking with her was usually the highlight of the workday.
My old boss used to use bandwidth hogs as an excuse to cause users pain. We would track the inflated traffic down to hub port level, he would pull the plug and wait. After maybe 2 minutes always came the phone call from some frustrated user saying that his/her Internet was not working. Over the 12 times we did this EVERY time the phone call came from the abuser and not ONCE was he/she downloading anything work related.
The company has grown since then and those old tricks would get you fired nowadays. Ahhh, the days when IT ruled with an iron fist. Now there this newfangled notion of "service" in the department, how wierd is that?
Lets see now, Moz takes 34 minutes to load on my Athlon 1.7. On an Amiga it would take aprox...Yep; It does turn out that one can pay off student loans by the time Mozilla loads on an Amiga.
Thats it kids, work it out of your system. He was there from the beggining, dealing with a healthy portion of what defines us and you were not. I know It's killing you. Is it his ego thats hurting or yours? Whos making the rabid attacks, him or you?. I love it when people trash the mountain that was built before their time. Of course if you've given more (or even a fraction more) for our community feel free to tell me off, otherwise don't even bother pressing "reply". Why do you go visit his website if it pisses you off? Does he owe you something? Have you paid him for a service that he is not giving you?