People keep trying to use file hierarchies as data bases. You can do a lot of stuff, but arrays and m to n forward and reverse mappings aren't among the things you can do with filesystems. That's why you have databases and XML.
Argueably, open trade and competition are good things. The question is when an American company outsources all its labor overseas, can you still say it's American industry competing with its international rivals?
Ultimately, it's a question of labor costs and that is largely determined by cost of living. I'm still waiting for the mass brain drain to some hospitable, low cost of living offshore site.
I think the subtext is that since McBride is fluent in Japanese, he also understands Japanese business culture. The Japanese value long term business relationships and stability. Darl is going to try to cast FUD on the long term stability of using Linux.
The usual sites that echo back your browers client paramters, e.g. ip address, etc..., to determine whether your ISP is doing this, won't work because they set or should set http header attributes to prevent the returned page from being cached for privacy reasons. You'd need a site that deliberately set the header to fake out a cache server and returned innocuous data to allow you to determine what is going on.
This is worrysome since most ISP terms of use agreements state that they can track customers web browsing and use that information as they see fit.
Looks like we need a mechanism to append "?" to every URL sent out to prevent it from being cached.
Simply making software source publically available doesn't constitute publishing w.r.t ip law. It has to be published using only technology that existed at the time the U.S. constitution was orginally authored, i.e. the printing press.
The only thing I've found that comes close is disclosing things in a usenet discussion group, and even that does not constitute publishing. It simply makes it a little harder for a patent applicant to show that no prior art exists.
If you are trying to make a tiny computer why would you put a parallel port and serial port on them. Who the hell uses parallel printer cables any more? If you put a printer cable on one of these computers, its weight would tip the computer over.
SCO is now claiming they have the right to audit AIX customers here. I believe the proper response to the arrival of SCO auditors is the response to salesmen shown in this trailer for Secondhand Lions
Great marketing idea? Not for G4 sales. Apple is going to have put some amazing spin on this one to prevent their G4 sales or prices from plummeting throught the floor. About the only thing I can think of is they will have to say the G5 prices will be real high initially. This would hurt early G5 sales but if you release G5 early while the supply stream was still contrained then this wouldn't hurt anything. Then when the G4s are sold out and G5s are plentiful, drop the prices on the G5s.
If it's just copyright then you just rewrite the code. Being tainted doesn't matter.
As far as the license being viral, IBM would still own the orginal copyright to RCU being the orginal author unless there was some contract that required it to cede ownership of any code it put into Unix. But I doubt any IBM lawyer would allow that.
The viral nature of GPL isn't that you lose your original copyright, but that others gain the right to use the version that you placed under GPL. As the orginal author, you can redistribute the orginal version under a new open source license or sell or license it for comercial purposes.
Even IBM doesn't own it. It's in the public domain. Because it was invented by IBM 3 times (hey, it's a big company). Once in the mid 80's in VM/XA Rel 2 (patent 4,809,168 now expired), once at Sequent which was acquired by IBM and where RCU was coined, and once as part of the K42 project at IBM research.
called CarChip and DriveRight from here. Logs everything for hours. It's a geek's dream, teenager's nightmare. For the latter, I don't think you can hack around it since the odometer would have to correlate with it and hacking the odometer is bad mojo. Sucks to be a teenager now. Not only do they know where you are with location tracking GPS phones but how fast you got there.
It better have serial ATA. If not, then by the time people start upgrading their hard drives, not only will they find the parallel ATA drives selling at a premium since they're being phased out, but they will find the drives not being made in the larger sizes they need.
Same goes for some other technologies being introduced now. Nothing worse than a system design that is obsolete before it hits the shelves.
If you use 2 lasers, you could burn the disk twice as fast, 3 lasers 3 times as fast, 4 lasers... up to the point where the heat shock destroys the CD. New meaning to the term "burn" a CD.
Great, now they'll just outsource all those telemarketing jobs outside the US, since the law will only apply to US telemarketing firms. Is there any job that the US is not managing to lose.
Aggregate is not a huge protection. Remember those anonymous opinion surveys where they would aggregate by department but you knew you couldn't answer certain questions because your boss would damn well know who that 1 answer came from. There's a huge amount of information they can infer from viewing patterns, i.e. age, interests, etc... Correlating that with information from other databases, they can narrow things down considerably. And that's what they want to do. The more specific the marketing data, the more valuable it is to marketers. There have already been criticism about social security data being released in aggregate form for the very same reasons.
Most people probably never thought anyone would want to own a piece of that but it's a pretty contentious piece of real estate. Argentina went so far as to arrange for a baby to be born there to try to bolster their national claim to it.
Unfortunately, possession is 9/10ths of the law. The only way to prevent someone else from establishing sovereignty onver something is to be there yourself.
This is a problem with rfid type technology. The problem is that rfid is passive and to read it, you need an active rf source. Which makes you, unfortunately, very very visible. I'd like to see the Artful Dodger dodge a HARM missle.
I know when IBM was pursuing propietary claims against other companies, it had to do more than prove that it (IBM) owned the information, IBM had to prove that it actively and dilligently protected that information both internally and externally. With the lack of and casualness of the current protections in place (when was the last time SCO audited IBM for compliance in proctecting Unix propietary information?) SCO has a very weak case.
The info format does suck. I've been using the lilo boot loader because of that. At least with man pages, you could print them out if they became too verbose. You can't print out info docs, at least I think you can't because of course info is documented in info.
Money can already be tracked via their serial numbers and OCR technology already exists. It's just a technological race against the counterfeitters. When they can produce fake rfids then they'll have to come up with some other scheme. There are schemes that are based on the random arrangment of the fibers in the bill that are impossible to forge.
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People keep trying to use file hierarchies as data bases. You can do a lot of stuff, but arrays and m to n forward and reverse mappings aren't among the things you can do with filesystems. That's why you have databases and XML.
Ultimately, it's a question of labor costs and that is largely determined by cost of living. I'm still waiting for the mass brain drain to some hospitable, low cost of living offshore site.
I think the subtext is that since McBride is fluent in Japanese, he also understands Japanese business culture. The Japanese value long term business relationships and stability. Darl is going to try to cast FUD on the long term stability of using Linux.
This is worrysome since most ISP terms of use agreements state that they can track customers web browsing and use that information as they see fit.
Looks like we need a mechanism to append "?" to every URL sent out to prevent it from being cached.
The only thing I've found that comes close is disclosing things in a usenet discussion group, and even that does not constitute publishing. It simply makes it a little harder for a patent applicant to show that no prior art exists.
If you are trying to make a tiny computer why would you put a parallel port and serial port on them. Who the hell uses parallel printer cables any more? If you put a printer cable on one of these computers, its weight would tip the computer over.
SCO is now claiming they have the right to audit AIX customers here. I believe the proper response to the arrival of SCO auditors is the response to salesmen shown in this trailer for Secondhand Lions
Great marketing idea? Not for G4 sales. Apple is going to have put some amazing spin on this one to prevent their G4 sales or prices from plummeting throught the floor. About the only thing I can think of is they will have to say the G5 prices will be real high initially. This would hurt early G5 sales but if you release G5 early while the supply stream was still contrained then this wouldn't hurt anything. Then when the G4s are sold out and G5s are plentiful, drop the prices on the G5s.
At least 1394b has a different physical connector, so it would more difficult to pass off a 1394 as 1394b.
As far as the license being viral, IBM would still own the orginal copyright to RCU being the orginal author unless there was some contract that required it to cede ownership of any code it put into Unix. But I doubt any IBM lawyer would allow that.
The viral nature of GPL isn't that you lose your original copyright, but that others gain the right to use the version that you placed under GPL. As the orginal author, you can redistribute the orginal version under a new open source license or sell or license it for comercial purposes.
Even IBM doesn't own it. It's in the public domain. Because it was invented by IBM 3 times (hey, it's a big company). Once in the mid 80's in VM/XA Rel 2 (patent 4,809,168 now expired), once at Sequent which was acquired by IBM and where RCU was coined, and once as part of the K42 project at IBM research.
called CarChip and DriveRight from here. Logs everything for hours. It's a geek's dream, teenager's nightmare. For the latter, I don't think you can hack around it since the odometer would have to correlate with it and hacking the odometer is bad mojo. Sucks to be a teenager now. Not only do they know where you are with location tracking GPS phones but how fast you got there.
Same goes for some other technologies being introduced now. Nothing worse than a system design that is obsolete before it hits the shelves.
and shaving. That takes up time that you don't have obviously. After 3 or 4 weeks, management will get the message.
See article here.
If you use 2 lasers, you could burn the disk twice as fast, 3 lasers 3 times as fast, 4 lasers ... up to the point where the heat shock destroys the CD. New meaning to the term "burn" a CD.
Overall, I believe this has been characterized as a race to the bottom. Economics -- meet entropy!
Great, now they'll just outsource all those telemarketing jobs outside the US, since the law will only apply to US telemarketing firms. Is there any job that the US is not managing to lose.
Aggregate is not a huge protection. Remember those anonymous opinion surveys where they would aggregate by department but you knew you couldn't answer certain questions because your boss would damn well know who that 1 answer came from. There's a huge amount of information they can infer from viewing patterns, i.e. age, interests, etc... Correlating that with information from other databases, they can narrow things down considerably. And that's what they want to do. The more specific the marketing data, the more valuable it is to marketers. There have already been criticism about social security data being released in aggregate form for the very same reasons.
Unfortunately, possession is 9/10ths of the law. The only way to prevent someone else from establishing sovereignty onver something is to be there yourself.
This is a problem with rfid type technology. The problem is that rfid is passive and to read it, you need an active rf source. Which makes you, unfortunately, very very visible. I'd like to see the Artful Dodger dodge a HARM missle.
I know when IBM was pursuing propietary claims against other companies, it had to do more than prove that it (IBM) owned the information, IBM had to prove that it actively and dilligently protected that information both internally and externally. With the lack of and casualness of the current protections in place (when was the last time SCO audited IBM for compliance in proctecting Unix propietary information?) SCO has a very weak case.
The info format does suck. I've been using the lilo boot loader because of that. At least with man pages, you could print them out if they became too verbose. You can't print out info docs, at least I think you can't because of course info is documented in info.
Money can already be tracked via their serial numbers and OCR technology already exists. It's just a technological race against the counterfeitters. When they can produce fake rfids then they'll have to come up with some other scheme. There are schemes that are based on the random arrangment of the fibers in the bill that are impossible to forge.
long before this got posted. So slashdot really can't take credit for slashdotting this one.