One of Linux's biggest disadvantages is its lack of a substantial amount of drivers. This is the reason why my laptop isn't running Linux right now.
By providing an API for all drivers, even if ever so slightly, it becomes less of a pain in the ass to develop drivers for linux. If this change means that just a few more drivers will be released, Linux will benefit. Valid as well is the benefit that less time will be spent updating drivers for subsequent kernel releases.
Removing more obstacles to easy development in Linux, whether its with respect to drivers or otherwise, can only improve Linux.
Security researchers noticed the suspicious programming added to the Korean site Tuesday and contacted the company. Microsoft/its hosting company didn't even notice the problem. Sombody had to tell them their own site was hacked. Security Through Good Luck(TM).
Microsoft said it was trying to decide whether to issue a broad public warning to recent visitors of the Korean site... Thats good; keep users ignorant. Way to go.
It seems like a lot of people are missing the point. To some degree this story is about a coffee shop with a wifi-squatter problem, but the original post seems to be about more than imposing network usage rules.
More important is that constant internet access was destroying the coffee shop culture. This is interesting. Usually we say Internet==Good, more Internet==More Good, but this case provides a counter point.
Update: As I was making one last pass through the 'Net before retiring Friday evening, I located a new source for the exact same story mentioned here. In order to provide complete coverage to LT readers, I have re-posted the story. I still intend to inquire about CMP's new policy at the start of next week. -BKP
Look! Look! Google has changed its look! Well, a little bit at least. Now there aren't colored backgrounds on the different search links on the front page, and there are gradient backgrounds for the headers of the various pages once you have searched. Wierd timing.
I have to wonder why you think this website is here. Why not just post links to cool stories? Why should people discuss things at all?
The fact is that questions are better discussed than simply read about. The kid that posted his question has probably recieved tons more insight than any group of reviews could have given him.
I'm not a legal expert, but I would assume that there is a pretty clear line that was crossed between when only MS employees could view the code, and when the code was realeased for anyone on the Internet to view.
The second point you bring up is more interesting. who exactly is going to be recieving the screwing from MS? I'm not sure, but you might be able to extend the precedent which is going to be set down in that file sharing case which is comming up about whether the owner of an Internet "commons" can be held responsible for the actions of its users.
I was reading the newsclips from the FBI on the matter, and they would definately disagree. The code is a trade secret, and it is therefore illegal to just posses it. Slashdot could very easily be screwed now if M$ is pissed.
I agree with you that all policy is political. I am just saying that the ESA's program sounds like it was scientist-written, politician-approved, while Bush's proposal seems like it was written soley by the politicos.
Even if this weren't the case, you can still simply analyze both programs on their merit. Who thinks it is _really_ a good idea to build a moon base as part of a _Mars_ program? Maybe theres an argument I'm not aware of, but from all of the scientific and engineering analysis I've heard, most people seem to think it is just bullshit.
Maybe I'm wrong, and I'll admit that I'm not as well versed in the ESA's plan, but it seems more reasonable that we would want to pursue more Mars probes before sending humans.
Similarly, and in response to the parent, I don't automagically associate "Republican=Bad, Democrat=Good (tm)", I think both parties are fucked up on their own merits.
I am excited at the prospect of multi-national space competition. Now that we have a small handfull (the EU/Russia, China, India, and the US) of countries, rather than two, with endevors focusing on projects out of Earth orbit, prospects for that competition we have all been looking for are getting better and better.
My second thought is that its nice to see a government policy toward space which isn't pure politi-bullshit. Its cool that the ESA came out and said they want to make sure to get the soil samples before they send people. Their statements sounds like commitment, while Bush's space plan sounds like election year politics.
I thought they were around catalogue the world's information, and make it easy to find what you were looking for, or something like that. This closed door club thing they're sponsoring doesn't really fit that mold all too well.
I know there's been rumors about a Google IPO for years, could this be an early indication of Google selling its soul to the market? As The Register points out, a lot of money has been flowing into these little friend meetup thing sites.
"The Dish", as Stanford's radio telescope is commonly known, is said, theoretically, to be capable of detecting radio emissions from Beagle 2's central processor microchip.
I get most all of my news and quite a bit of the rest of my general information from the internet, but I've also learned that a good university library is comparably the best source of information for those hard to fin tidbits of random info.
Holy shit this is horrible. This is the result when you have huge corporations that can "legitimately" manipulate a legal system. First, push the DMCA through congress because it just sounds so unobjectionable, then, once the whole deal is legal, you can screw the end user. These are folks who pay up because they can't afford a lawyer, or who have been succesfully frightened by the sytem. All this was done simply to increase corporate profits in an time when their profits WERE ALREADY UP!
Honestly, its shit like this that makes me want to just move to some little expatriate colony in the middle of nowhere, and sit back while America fucks itself.
Honestly, if they did this, I would download so much of whatever top-50 MTV crap they will pay me for on each computer on my network, then constantly leave Kazaa running, so as to only collect the money. I wont stop trading the illegal stuff, which I rarely do on Kazaa anyways.
I would think that I would be getting incredible download speeds from my Matrix Reoladed download right now, but not so. Even though I'm sure the download experienced an increase in traffic as a result of this article, my download speeds are ranging from 0 kbps to 15 kbps, nothing out of the ususal.
An anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating currencies of several countries.
Who cares, the buisness is in printing fake IDs for high school students.
Slashdot Mirror
It contains the letter that Google wrote to the FCC chairman in favor of passing the recently approved regulations.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20070720_wireless.html
I completely agree.
One of Linux's biggest disadvantages is its lack of a substantial amount of drivers. This is the reason why my laptop isn't running Linux right now.
By providing an API for all drivers, even if ever so slightly, it becomes less of a pain in the ass to develop drivers for linux. If this change means that just a few more drivers will be released, Linux will benefit. Valid as well is the benefit that less time will be spent updating drivers for subsequent kernel releases.
Removing more obstacles to easy development in Linux, whether its with respect to drivers or otherwise, can only improve Linux.
Security researchers noticed the suspicious programming added to the Korean site Tuesday and contacted the company.
Microsoft/its hosting company didn't even notice the problem. Sombody had to tell them their own site was hacked. Security Through Good Luck(TM).
Microsoft said it was trying to decide whether to issue a broad public warning to recent visitors of the Korean site...
Thats good; keep users ignorant. Way to go.
It seems like a lot of people are missing the point. To some degree this story is about a coffee shop with a wifi-squatter problem, but the original post seems to be about more than imposing network usage rules.
More important is that constant internet access was destroying the coffee shop culture. This is interesting. Usually we say Internet==Good, more Internet==More Good, but this case provides a counter point.
...if we had a divider and not a uniter.
You called it:
Update: As I was making one last pass through the 'Net before retiring Friday evening, I located a new source for the exact same story mentioned here. In order to provide complete coverage to LT readers, I have re-posted the story. I still intend to inquire about CMP's new policy at the start of next week.
-BKP
Look! Look! Google has changed its look! Well, a little bit at least. Now there aren't colored backgrounds on the different search links on the front page, and there are gradient backgrounds for the headers of the various pages once you have searched. Wierd timing.
I have to wonder why you think this website is here. Why not just post links to cool stories? Why should people discuss things at all?
The fact is that questions are better discussed than simply read about. The kid that posted his question has probably recieved tons more insight than any group of reviews could have given him.
I'm not a legal expert, but I would assume that there is a pretty clear line that was crossed between when only MS employees could view the code, and when the code was realeased for anyone on the Internet to view.
The second point you bring up is more interesting. who exactly is going to be recieving the screwing from MS? I'm not sure, but you might be able to extend the precedent which is going to be set down in that file sharing case which is comming up about whether the owner of an Internet "commons" can be held responsible for the actions of its users.
I was reading the newsclips from the FBI on the matter, and they would definately disagree. The code is a trade secret, and it is therefore illegal to just posses it. Slashdot could very easily be screwed now if M$ is pissed.
Alas, the tragedy of the commons all over again.
I agree with you that all policy is political. I am just saying that the ESA's program sounds like it was scientist-written, politician-approved, while Bush's proposal seems like it was written soley by the politicos.
Even if this weren't the case, you can still simply analyze both programs on their merit. Who thinks it is _really_ a good idea to build a moon base as part of a _Mars_ program? Maybe theres an argument I'm not aware of, but from all of the scientific and engineering analysis I've heard, most people seem to think it is just bullshit.
Maybe I'm wrong, and I'll admit that I'm not as well versed in the ESA's plan, but it seems more reasonable that we would want to pursue more Mars probes before sending humans.
Similarly, and in response to the parent, I don't automagically associate "Republican=Bad, Democrat=Good (tm)", I think both parties are fucked up on their own merits.
I am excited at the prospect of multi-national space competition. Now that we have a small handfull (the EU/Russia, China, India, and the US) of countries, rather than two, with endevors focusing on projects out of Earth orbit, prospects for that competition we have all been looking for are getting better and better.
My second thought is that its nice to see a government policy toward space which isn't pure politi-bullshit. Its cool that the ESA came out and said they want to make sure to get the soil samples before they send people. Their statements sounds like commitment, while Bush's space plan sounds like election year politics.
three other people already mentioned that. Eh, overkill is a way of life.
It looks like a rocket. Look under the wing on pilot's right.
Lets just hope for the ESAs' sake that its easier to land on an comet than it is to land on Mars.
What happened to the Google I knew?
I thought they were around catalogue the world's information, and make it easy to find what you were looking for, or something like that. This closed door club thing they're sponsoring doesn't really fit that mold all too well.
I know there's been rumors about a Google IPO for years, could this be an early indication of Google selling its soul to the market? As The Register points out, a lot of money has been flowing into these little friend meetup thing sites.
"The Dish", as Stanford's radio telescope is commonly known, is said, theoretically, to be capable of detecting radio emissions from Beagle 2's central processor microchip.
Wow.
I get most all of my news and quite a bit of the rest of my general information from the internet, but I've also learned that a good university library is comparably the best source of information for those hard to fin tidbits of random info.
Holy shit this is horrible. This is the result when you have huge corporations that can "legitimately" manipulate a legal system. First, push the DMCA through congress because it just sounds so unobjectionable, then, once the whole deal is legal, you can screw the end user. These are folks who pay up because they can't afford a lawyer, or who have been succesfully frightened by the sytem. All this was done simply to increase corporate profits in an time when their profits WERE ALREADY UP!
Honestly, its shit like this that makes me want to just move to some little expatriate colony in the middle of nowhere, and sit back while America fucks itself.
Honestly, if they did this, I would download so much of whatever top-50 MTV crap they will pay me for on each computer on my network, then constantly leave Kazaa running, so as to only collect the money. I wont stop trading the illegal stuff, which I rarely do on Kazaa anyways.
I would think that I would be getting incredible download speeds from my Matrix Reoladed download right now, but not so. Even though I'm sure the download experienced an increase in traffic as a result of this article, my download speeds are ranging from 0 kbps to 15 kbps, nothing out of the ususal.
Just divide by zero.
An anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating currencies of several countries.
Who cares, the buisness is in printing fake IDs for high school students.