The University of Southern California had a project in 1981-1982 to port UNIX from a VAX 780 to the Data General MV8000 (from "The Soul of a New Machine") using about 20 grad students. To my knowledge, none of the students (including me) had to sign anything to work on the project, and we certainly had access to the full source. One of the other guys was Fred Cohen, who has been widely credited with coining the term " computer virus".
What most people "know" about Smalltalk (slow, has reference counting garbage collection, requires too much memory) was arguably true 20 years ago, when it was truly pushing the envelope.
There's an interesting "alternative history" short story about the Nazis successfully occupying India during WWII, and running into Gandhi.
As you might expect, the Gestapo solution to the problem was to just take him out back and shoot him, plus another 100 or so innocents. No more passive resistance.
Microsoft has never impressed me as the sort of place that a bold initiative like this could happen. They are a innovation follower, not a pioneer, despite their overwrought claims to the contrary.
Couple that with the level of corporate wariness of Microsoft by the necessary label partners (Sony, AOLTW, etc) and financial partners (Visa, etc), and their conviction for abusing their monopoly, the deck is substantially stacked against them getting the required cooperation.
It's Microsoft that has been (ab)using the word "innovation" for the last couple of years as a differention, and indeed, as defense for their criminal actions. The Open Source, and particularly the Linux movement has never been, and has never claimed, to be about "innovation" in the choice of technologies used.
The true "innovation" in Open Source is the distribution license and the culture that has risen around it.
However, if you'd like to see real innovation in the Open Source community, see what Alan Kay's doing with Squeak.
So...let's say my instance of Grub crawls over a repository of.mp3s and supplies that information to the combined index.
What's the difference between my machine indexing them and the university students recently being hauled into court for indexing open shares? Why would I not be held liable for contributory copyright infringement?
Perhaps we should not blame the users, but instead accept that passwords are themselves a poor design.
The best passwords from a technical standpoint are the worst from a social standpoint - the average net user probably has to remember a dozen or so passwords, and obscure combinations of characters are just not going to be remembered by people in this information-overloaded environment.
I don't have a solution - but calling the users stupid certainly isn't one. Indeed, perhaps we're the ones not paying attention.
Well, the difference is there's no monopoly that MS controls in the phone market that they can use to leverage their offering. Unlike IE, which they forced onto user's machines by tying it to the OS, how are they going to ram CE down anyone's throats?
Hmmm...perhaps threatening BSA audits at Nokia et al?
OK, I'll go for it if the penalaties are both personal and extremely severe for governmment officials who abuse that information. No hiding behind the "shield of authority".
For instance, disclosure or abuse of personal information about a citizen would result in life inprisonmment for the official, and 20 years for his/her supervisor, another 10 for *that* person's supervisor). In addition, the identity and purpose of any government official who has access to a citizen's record would be required to be disclosed on demand - after all, they're not Luddites, are they?
There was an interesting computer virus vulnerability that (I believe) was never exploited related to this behavior of Macs.
At one time, one could "compress" resources, including icons, with a custom codec. That codec, of course, could be a virus - such that the very act of inserting a disk would cause the virus to be executed as a side-effect of the system attempting to automatically add new icons to its database.
It seems that law enforcement has no reason to get aggressive on this problem as long as companies such as yours bandaid it with technological measures.
What do you think about a "no filter day", in which all of the ISPs remove their spam filters for 24 hours and let the world get first hand the full brunt of the traffic you're filtering?
The outrage alone, if correctly managed, could get the appropriate authorities off their asses and go after these guys.
I never understood the argument that one should buy an XBox so that Microsoft loses money on the sale. It would seem to me that they lose even more on an unsold unit.
Similar concept in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle - that there's a configuration of water ice that's stable at room temperature ("ice-9") - which when dropped in the ocean causes the entire thing to "freeze".
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I suggest Harvey Keitel, not Jean Reno.
The University of Southern California had a project in 1981-1982 to port UNIX from a VAX 780 to the Data General MV8000 (from "The Soul of a New Machine") using about 20 grad students. To my knowledge, none of the students (including me) had to sign anything to work on the project, and we certainly had access to the full source. One of the other guys was Fred Cohen, who has been widely credited with coining the term " computer virus".
What most people "know" about Smalltalk (slow, has reference counting garbage collection, requires too much memory) was arguably true 20 years ago, when it was truly pushing the envelope.
Why does everyone who makes claims of cloning seem to have trouble producing the proof?
As you might expect, the Gestapo solution to the problem was to just take him out back and shoot him, plus another 100 or so innocents. No more passive resistance.
Couple that with the level of corporate wariness of Microsoft by the necessary label partners (Sony, AOLTW, etc) and financial partners (Visa, etc), and their conviction for abusing their monopoly, the deck is substantially stacked against them getting the required cooperation.
Animated GIFs are already covered by the infamous Unisys LZW patent, which fortunately expires in a couple of months.
Even Alan says that the language and the particular implementation are not hugely interesting - just a tool to accomplish something else.
It's Microsoft that has been (ab)using the word "innovation" for the last couple of years as a differention, and indeed, as defense for their criminal actions. The Open Source, and particularly the Linux movement has never been, and has never claimed, to be about "innovation" in the choice of technologies used.
The true "innovation" in Open Source is the distribution license and the culture that has risen around it.
However, if you'd like to see real innovation in the Open Source community, see what Alan Kay's doing with Squeak.
Look up Rouleaux polygons - the distance from the "center" is unimportant - it's the constant width that matters.
Now we get to see how you react to criticism of a strongly held belief.
What's the difference between my machine indexing them and the university students recently being hauled into court for indexing open shares? Why would I not be held liable for contributory copyright infringement?
No thanks.
The best passwords from a technical standpoint are the worst from a social standpoint - the average net user probably has to remember a dozen or so passwords, and obscure combinations of characters are just not going to be remembered by people in this information-overloaded environment.
I don't have a solution - but calling the users stupid certainly isn't one. Indeed, perhaps we're the ones not paying attention.
Well, if they do try to kill us, we'll just take advantage of the fact that despite their advancement, they'll still think two-dimensionally.
For...he is the Kwisatz Haderach!
Hmmm...perhaps threatening BSA audits at Nokia et al?
For instance, disclosure or abuse of personal information about a citizen would result in life inprisonmment for the official, and 20 years for his/her supervisor, another 10 for *that* person's supervisor). In addition, the identity and purpose of any government official who has access to a citizen's record would be required to be disclosed on demand - after all, they're not Luddites, are they?
There was an interesting computer virus vulnerability that (I believe) was never exploited related to this behavior of Macs. At one time, one could "compress" resources, including icons, with a custom codec. That codec, of course, could be a virus - such that the very act of inserting a disk would cause the virus to be executed as a side-effect of the system attempting to automatically add new icons to its database.
Apparently you have to be a complete weenie, though.
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It seems that law enforcement has no reason to get aggressive on this problem as long as companies such as yours bandaid it with technological measures. What do you think about a "no filter day", in which all of the ISPs remove their spam filters for 24 hours and let the world get first hand the full brunt of the traffic you're filtering? The outrage alone, if correctly managed, could get the appropriate authorities off their asses and go after these guys.
Actually, there were only 10,000 songs - some of them were really long.
That's because that happened two years earlier
I never understood the argument that one should buy an XBox so that Microsoft loses money on the sale. It would seem to me that they lose even more on an unsold unit.
Similar concept in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle - that there's a configuration of water ice that's stable at room temperature ("ice-9") - which when dropped in the ocean causes the entire thing to "freeze".