While I doubt this is the case, cold-hard cash isn't the only way to patent something.
I always like the "bubble" concept, where people have to live away from society for testing.
Filtering spam isn't so farfetched, although it would encompass more than that.
It's almost a combination of a barter/request system. Maybe you want a new PC... rather than working, getting paid, you work and get given a spanking PC at the end of the month.
Accomodations? How about having them supplied... which isn't all that uncommon for companies in remote locations (where the town is there pretty much as an operational base).
Food and other amenities could be an issue, but really they'd fit in the same way.
IANAL, so I am trying to figure out from the bill without getting a headache... but I think that what is covered is really the database in whole (or at least large portions).
Individual items such as terms, etc, would not be copyrightable. Otherwise all you'd really need is a DB with millions of buzzwords etc to start the legal barrage.
I worry about randomly generated databases though. Say somebody put together a collection of words etc, programmed rhyme rules, and schemes/word-matches, then had it generate millions or even billions of combinations. A million monkeys on typewriters would take a long time to make Shakespeare, but how long to cover at least some portion of future short verse using such a method?
it is provided by a foreign manufacturer with our specifications
I wonder where the foreign manufacturer is though, and how easy they are to prosecute. Now I feel sorry for OCZ, because it looks like they're the ones getting the shaft.
I wonder if this is one of those nasty effects of outsourcing/exterior-suppliers that will become apparent over time, sneaky cost-cutting and lower accountability.
Why then the old cliche about sending the St. Bernard out with alcohol?
I was under the impression that while alcohol might cause heat loss on the skin to accelerate, it helped keep the blood warm in an anti-freeze type fashion?
Which basically means, Intel can release a CPU with a higher MHZ rating for those that fall for such things.
In reality the CPU will be somewhat faster than current ones due to the higher clock, but much less efficient.
Why not just dump MHZ as a rating altogether? Wouldn't FLOPS-based (Floating Operations Per Sec) or something similar be a better measurement? Maybe how far a simple program can compute PI in a second? We should really be looking at an operational-based measurement rather than a clock-based one.
so can the copyright owner sue you for providing the means for other people to download copyrighted material
There's a lawsuit madness in the US (and in many other countries, but seemingly to a lesser extent) that bites both ways.
RIAA sues mother-of-3 for her children downloading tracks of the latest gangster rapper. Mother countersues RIAA in a class action for kids that commit violence by "following the suggestions in lyrics"
Seriously, musical lyrics are as bad as TV. Popping off cops, pimping hoes. If it's in the tunes they listen to everyday, a lawsuit is bound to occur stating that said RIAA music has idealized a criminal/immoral lifestyle
Yes, but then the lack of logs makes it a lot more difficult to track down the kiddy-pornographer, cracker, or the guy sending death-threats by email
And yes, I've dealt with some of these. In the case of the latter, one of the staff here (schools) got some nasty emails which I traced to an IP, an ISP, and got the police to acquire the necessary information. We caught the person at-fault, and he (a student) was dealt with on several levels.
Logs are there for a reason. Keeping track of what book a person borrowed (beyond perhaps a few weeks of return, in case of damage) isn't quite as useful except for profiling.
We've already seen linux proliferate into the 3d graphics and rendering biz.
And we see linux adopted by a lot of programmers
Over time, this spawns a move to 3d games...
Already some popular developers follow linux. America's Army is supposed to be quite good. Doom 3 is likely going to kick some serious butt.
Really, linux already has a strong following of "coders." If more and more of those coders happen to be game coders, then you'll see the advancement of linux games. It's not really hard to port a C++/OpenGL game between linux and windows. The core of the game itself is the same, and the APIs/language very similar. No recoding of the game itself is needed, just a recoding of wrappers.
Doom3 could be a pioneer to this. Let's say D3 support for linux is really good. If the engine is really all we expect, then it will be adopted and licensed by others for new games beyond D3. These games could also be made to easily run on linux.
Once one major game makes it to linux, the clones may follow. After that... the slide is inevitable.
but this is not the linux philosophy. the linux philosophy is: get it working, and once its working, use it.
Actually, the linux philosophy has always seemed to be more about going where you can, and not being limited by a closed OS.
Yes, it's fine to get something working. I can get a very nice GUI running on debian/stable - resembles windows enough for the windows users to cross over and with OpenOffice/evolution/mozilla for basic document/email/browsing tasks.
However, everything has a lifetime. What happens when a newer, better encryption alghorythm becomes common? You'll probably need a newer browser version to access banking sites etc that use it. But to get that browser working, you'll need to upgrade your encryption libs. You might even need to dip into "unstable" which in deb can be a jump.
Linux isn't about "getting it working," it's about the flexibility that allows it to do what you want. And if it doesn't do so yet, you have the option to make it do so yourself if you have enough knowledge.
People will buy a home computer to match what they have at work, not the other way around.
Employees will buy a computer at home to match what they are used to at work. Mainly so they can do work at home when needed, or be up-to-date on how to use the workplace computer.
Managers, etc, on the other hand will try to match their work computer to personal preference. It's not entirely uncommon for the workers to run PC's, and the managers to run some 'leet looking Macs.
I think that part of this is due to the workers needing work software to do the job, and the managers just needing to be compatible on the basis of the office, email, and possibly scheduling/presentation software.
I hope you're not insinuating that Darl is related to rats? Being an owner of pet rats... I'll have to assure you that rats are quite intelligent and friendly... Darl is obviously unrated.
I'd be careful not to use an important email account. These guys are scummy faxers, so I wouldn't be surprised if any complaint email addresses also end up being sent to "online soliciting" partners...
It seems to me that whilst individual files can definately be important, a solid rooting is the worst thing most computers can face.
I've been debating on a system which would list applications capable of being rooted, and have special logins which flag whether a particular time may allow root login via SSH (no direct SSH as root).
Deviances would be permitted, but silently logged to a remote machine as they occur... possibly with just an email or beeping a pager.
A lot of people argue that privilage separation is one of the strongest points about Linux. I think the formidable scripting support (and open-sourceness) is a strong component as well. Yes, you can script a lot through windows, but often direct interaction is not quite possible to it's closed nature and the lack of strong documentation on some API calls.
If the protection prevents my fair use of a product and so does DRM, what's the difference? Whether it's the government or a private company - they are covertly disabling perfectly legitimate use of the product.
So should car-makers make it so that cars won't run into solid objects
Yes! If someone came up with this technology, it would become mandatory within a few years.
No, it wouldn't. Assistance equipment such as "backup warning indicators" which tell you if you're getting close to backing into something are available, but they aren't foolproof.
Sometimes you have a choice between the lesser of two evils, what if you had to choose a solid impact or a steep drop off a cliff? How about if you needed to push something with your vehicle?
Assistance equipment is generally OK, but anything that uses autonomous cannot cover every situation. In fact, having something that could suddenly jump in to "assist" unexpectently could worsen a situation instead of improving it.
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This would be more amusing if the poster was an apple user...
Oooo... such stylish colors... isn't my new iMac fab?
While I doubt this is the case, cold-hard cash isn't the only way to patent something.
I always like the "bubble" concept, where people have to live away from society for testing.
Filtering spam isn't so farfetched, although it would encompass more than that.
It's almost a combination of a barter/request system. Maybe you want a new PC... rather than working, getting paid, you work and get given a spanking PC at the end of the month.
Accomodations? How about having them supplied... which isn't all that uncommon for companies in remote locations (where the town is there pretty much as an operational base).
Food and other amenities could be an issue, but really they'd fit in the same way.
IANAL, so I am trying to figure out from the bill without getting a headache... but I think that what is covered is really the database in whole (or at least large portions).
Individual items such as terms, etc, would not be copyrightable. Otherwise all you'd really need is a DB with millions of buzzwords etc to start the legal barrage.
I worry about randomly generated databases though. Say somebody put together a collection of words etc, programmed rhyme rules, and schemes/word-matches, then had it generate millions or even billions of combinations. A million monkeys on typewriters would take a long time to make Shakespeare, but how long to cover at least some portion of future short verse using such a method?
Hmmm. A sad haiku?
Taint checks I did ignore
Open shell command with bad pipe
My hard drive now gone
A happy haiku
Met a girl on chat
Perl script calls me when she's online
I will score soon now
And self-completing plus poetic Perl, Perl, do you use
To compile your own hai-kus
Regexps fun to abuse
it is provided by a foreign manufacturer with our specifications
I wonder where the foreign manufacturer is though, and how easy they are to prosecute. Now I feel sorry for OCZ, because it looks like they're the ones getting the shaft.
I wonder if this is one of those nasty effects of outsourcing/exterior-suppliers that will become apparent over time, sneaky cost-cutting and lower accountability.
How else are we supposed to protect our PC's from werewolves?!
Why then the old cliche about sending the St. Bernard out with alcohol?
I was under the impression that while alcohol might cause heat loss on the skin to accelerate, it helped keep the blood warm in an anti-freeze type fashion?
Which basically means, Intel can release a CPU with a higher MHZ rating for those that fall for such things.
In reality the CPU will be somewhat faster than current ones due to the higher clock, but much less efficient.
Why not just dump MHZ as a rating altogether? Wouldn't FLOPS-based (Floating Operations Per Sec) or something similar be a better measurement? Maybe how far a simple program can compute PI in a second? We should really be looking at an operational-based measurement rather than a clock-based one.
Not that likely. After all we have this seperation of church and state...
Twisted with grains of truth it is, but let the mods judge its worthiness we shall
I believe that these were ported afterwards though, not released off the get-go with a Linux version?
so can the copyright owner sue you for providing the means for other people to download copyrighted material
There's a lawsuit madness in the US (and in many other countries, but seemingly to a lesser extent) that bites both ways.
RIAA sues mother-of-3 for her children downloading tracks of the latest gangster rapper. Mother countersues RIAA in a class action for kids that commit violence by "following the suggestions in lyrics"
Seriously, musical lyrics are as bad as TV. Popping off cops, pimping hoes. If it's in the tunes they listen to everyday, a lawsuit is bound to occur stating that said RIAA music has idealized a criminal/immoral lifestyle
Yes, but then the lack of logs makes it a lot more difficult to track down the kiddy-pornographer, cracker, or the guy sending death-threats by email
And yes, I've dealt with some of these. In the case of the latter, one of the staff here (schools) got some nasty emails which I traced to an IP, an ISP, and got the police to acquire the necessary information. We caught the person at-fault, and he (a student) was dealt with on several levels.
Logs are there for a reason. Keeping track of what book a person borrowed (beyond perhaps a few weeks of return, in case of damage) isn't quite as useful except for profiling.
But if the game developers go linux... well
We've already seen linux proliferate into the 3d graphics and rendering biz.
And we see linux adopted by a lot of programmers
Over time, this spawns a move to 3d games...
Already some popular developers follow linux. America's Army is supposed to be quite good. Doom 3 is likely going to kick some serious butt.
Really, linux already has a strong following of "coders." If more and more of those coders happen to be game coders, then you'll see the advancement of linux games. It's not really hard to port a C++/OpenGL game between linux and windows. The core of the game itself is the same, and the APIs/language very similar. No recoding of the game itself is needed, just a recoding of wrappers.
Doom3 could be a pioneer to this. Let's say D3 support for linux is really good. If the engine is really all we expect, then it will be adopted and licensed by others for new games beyond D3. These games could also be made to easily run on linux.
Once one major game makes it to linux, the clones may follow. After that... the slide is inevitable.
but this is not the linux philosophy. the linux philosophy is: get it working, and once its working, use it.
Actually, the linux philosophy has always seemed to be more about going where you can, and not being limited by a closed OS.
Yes, it's fine to get something working. I can get a very nice GUI running on debian/stable - resembles windows enough for the windows users to cross over and with OpenOffice/evolution/mozilla for basic document/email/browsing tasks.
However, everything has a lifetime. What happens when a newer, better encryption alghorythm becomes common? You'll probably need a newer browser version to access banking sites etc that use it. But to get that browser working, you'll need to upgrade your encryption libs. You might even need to dip into "unstable" which in deb can be a jump.
Linux isn't about "getting it working," it's about the flexibility that allows it to do what you want. And if it doesn't do so yet, you have the option to make it do so yourself if you have enough knowledge.
People will buy a home computer to match what they have at work, not the other way around.
Employees will buy a computer at home to match what they are used to at work. Mainly so they can do work at home when needed, or be up-to-date on how to use the workplace computer.
Managers, etc, on the other hand will try to match their work computer to personal preference. It's not entirely uncommon for the workers to run PC's, and the managers to run some 'leet looking Macs.
I think that part of this is due to the workers needing work software to do the job, and the managers just needing to be compatible on the basis of the office, email, and possibly scheduling/presentation software.
Maybe seal the edges of the windows with it like caulking, and have a vacuum in between?
Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle.
Seems to me that in this case, having a few lights left on or PC with a hot CPU left running would quickly make things uncomfortable
What if it was only used to certain walls where leakage was most common?
I already do the /etc/aliases (debian user?) thing, but can you explain what you mean by lart?
I hope you're not insinuating that Darl is related to rats? Being an owner of pet rats... I'll have to assure you that rats are quite intelligent and friendly... Darl is obviously unrated.
I'd be careful not to use an important email account. These guys are scummy faxers, so I wouldn't be surprised if any complaint email addresses also end up being sent to "online soliciting" partners...
And if you think the bill for fixing the machines was high, wait until you see the electricity bill from repeated shocking of clueless users.
It seems to me that whilst individual files can definately be important, a solid rooting is the worst thing most computers can face.
I've been debating on a system which would list applications capable of being rooted, and have special logins which flag whether a particular time may allow root login via SSH (no direct SSH as root).
Deviances would be permitted, but silently logged to a remote machine as they occur... possibly with just an email or beeping a pager.
A lot of people argue that privilage separation is one of the strongest points about Linux. I think the formidable scripting support (and open-sourceness) is a strong component as well. Yes, you can script a lot through windows, but often direct interaction is not quite possible to it's closed nature and the lack of strong documentation on some API calls.
Well, maybe I have a warped sense of priorities, but I'd regard running everything as the equivalent of "root" as a pretty massive bug .....
Not really a bug. A bug is more a malfunction or deviance from the intended operating parameters. In this case, that's how it was made to run.
I'd say this is more of a "strong lacking" or "deficiency" - not really a bug though.
If the protection prevents my fair use of a product and so does DRM, what's the difference? Whether it's the government or a private company - they are covertly disabling perfectly legitimate use of the product.
So should car-makers make it so that cars won't run into solid objects Yes! If someone came up with this technology, it would become mandatory within a few years.
No, it wouldn't. Assistance equipment such as "backup warning indicators" which tell you if you're getting close to backing into something are available, but they aren't foolproof.
Sometimes you have a choice between the lesser of two evils, what if you had to choose a solid impact or a steep drop off a cliff? How about if you needed to push something with your vehicle?
Assistance equipment is generally OK, but anything that uses autonomous cannot cover every situation. In fact, having something that could suddenly jump in to "assist" unexpectently could worsen a situation instead of improving it.