Re:Permaculture Chickens and Cows
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Better yet, combine your two ideas. Robot cows could automatically follow the cages, and a computerized system of pastures would keep the gates circulating, violin, you have a scale that systems very well.
UNIX has been around for a decade longer than even the earliest efforts from MS and it still works really nicely.
That's besides the point. Microsoft is stuck with what they have right now, which is this giant, semi-monolithic applications platform. The best they can do is try to audit it for security and hope they don't break anything, and even that is a trying job. Give credit where credit is due, because for all its clout Microsoft lacks much of the flexibility of its competitors.
How about writing secure code that is secure right out of the box?
This isn't really an option when you have thousands of legacy applications, which depend on layer after layer of services and interfaces written over more than a decade, which *HAVE* to work because that's the main selling point of your platform.
If you haven't installed Linux before, I strongly suggest you mess around with one of the above distros first. They all have their quirks (as does Gentoo), but they will install MUCH easier. When you're used to Linux, and you have some idea of what programs you like, go back and try Gentoo. I think that Gentoo is probably too frustrating for people who are new to Linux.
They are doing that anyway. The point is to get all the long-forgotten works into the public domain so that they can be preserved. There are plenty of old movies on corroding film which are going to dissappear entirely because either i) the copyright holder doesn't care about the work and won't allow it to be copied and preserved or ii) nobody knows who the copyright holder is in the first place. These works should be preserved, because to do less is to rob the public domain.
This just made Apple's 12" Powerbook one hell of a lot more tempting. I want one, but I don't have money to buy a bunch of software for it - at least, not after buying the Powerbook:) I run Gentoo Linux on my desktop at home. This would be totally awesome.
There is no Open Source DRM. DRM cannot work if it is Open Source.
You misunderstand how DRM works. Open source DRM programs most certainly could be developed, and they would work. The content provider verifies application (and hardware) integrity, so if you modified the program it wouldn't be accepted. The code would still be "open", and you could still modify and compile programs, but nobody would trust them.
That would be totally awesome ! One day per year is not enough though, I suggest something more like once every 3 or 4 months. I'd be interested in what sorts of "acts of god" people could dream up.
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I was thinking more in line with a trashcan, as in, "this is not news, it's more like the weather, it happens every god damn day".
Opps fuck, I mean, DMCA to get the name of an internet user. Damn, I get my chilling effects all mixed up.
Forget DRM, the most important thing in this bill : requiring a judge's authorization to use the DMCA to shut down a website.
Dorothy tasted pretty good. I was one of the munchkins.
Let's see. There's the EFF, digitialconsumer.org, ..., anyone know any others ?
I don't understand, who gave him money ?
I don't have any principles...
So have you passed the BAR exam yet ?
How about this one?
Better yet, combine your two ideas. Robot cows could automatically follow the cages, and a computerized system of pastures would keep the gates circulating, violin, you have a scale that systems very well.
They should make a category for this, "Yet Another Windows Nasty", since they're not all worms [ahem].
You passed up an actual example of willful negligence on the part of Ford, think exploding, and something that rhymes with "Tinto".
Which is more or less why I stopped pirating software and switched to Linux. We'll let the market decide what the best software solutions are.
But what about the citizens who leave China ? I guess you could try to stop them from leaving, but that would require one hell of a big wall !
UNIX has been around for a decade longer than even the earliest efforts from MS and it still works really nicely.
That's besides the point. Microsoft is stuck with what they have right now, which is this giant, semi-monolithic applications platform. The best they can do is try to audit it for security and hope they don't break anything, and even that is a trying job. Give credit where credit is due, because for all its clout Microsoft lacks much of the flexibility of its competitors.
How about writing secure code that is secure right out of the box?
This isn't really an option when you have thousands of legacy applications, which depend on layer after layer of services and interfaces written over more than a decade, which *HAVE* to work because that's the main selling point of your platform.
If you haven't installed Linux before, I strongly suggest you mess around with one of the above distros first. They all have their quirks (as does Gentoo), but they will install MUCH easier. When you're used to Linux, and you have some idea of what programs you like, go back and try Gentoo. I think that Gentoo is probably too frustrating for people who are new to Linux.
They are doing that anyway. The point is to get all the long-forgotten works into the public domain so that they can be preserved. There are plenty of old movies on corroding film which are going to dissappear entirely because either i) the copyright holder doesn't care about the work and won't allow it to be copied and preserved or ii) nobody knows who the copyright holder is in the first place. These works should be preserved, because to do less is to rob the public domain.
What's so different about books ?
This just made Apple's 12" Powerbook one hell of a lot more tempting. I want one, but I don't have money to buy a bunch of software for it - at least, not after buying the Powerbook :) I run Gentoo Linux on my desktop at home. This would be totally awesome.
Damn, if only I had mod points for you, AC.
There is no Open Source DRM. DRM cannot work if it is Open Source.
You misunderstand how DRM works. Open source DRM programs most certainly could be developed, and they would work. The content provider verifies application (and hardware) integrity, so if you modified the program it wouldn't be accepted. The code would still be "open", and you could still modify and compile programs, but nobody would trust them.
I couldn't agree more, especially with the last paragraph.
Re sig: YES I KNOW WHAT EFFECTED MEANS IT'S A JOKE
Good God, I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this one.
If nobody reads the articles, why would they be slashdotted ?
That would be totally awesome ! One day per year is not enough though, I suggest something more like once every 3 or 4 months. I'd be interested in what sorts of "acts of god" people could dream up.