When TCP makes open computing illegal,
then unsanctioned programming will be a crime.
Those using 'hacker' to mean 'guru programmer'
will find that perception has become law.
Cracker, hacker, what's the difference when you work outside the law?
Kazaa is not evolving, just doing some deals.
"Evolution" would be something actually changing.
Maybe a workable ratings system?
Maybe getting rid of their ads and spyware?
Maybe... ah forget it.
One more piece of post-Napster junk.
Will someone please inform Sharman Networm^hks that Kazaa is DEAD?
Google is well on the way to The Definitive Net.
100% focussed on what people actually want.
Their news index is incredibly valuable.
It is smooth, comprehensive, international.
Kudos! This is what the Net was meant to be!
I bought one of the first GSM handsets in Europe. It cost an arm and a leg but it was worth it.
The market took time to get geographical coverage, and to get prices down to 'cheap'.
But it was profitable and useful from Day 1.
3G is a pipe dream. No-one wants it, no-one needs it, and chasing this particular dragon will bankrupt more than one European Telco.
If I had shares in Nokia, Ericsson, or any GSM operator I would sell them today.
The "Viral" part of the name is great. It makes the technology baaad.
If this sticks, it will be impossible for a large corporation to produce viral telco applications.
This is a poison pill designed to deter any hostile takeover.
For best results: Viral P2P File Swapping Network.
Check out http://reseaucitoyen.be/, a project in Brussels that has been pushing this idea for some time.
It's in French. Translation: take a WiFi card, attach an external antenna.
Next, take an old Linux box, turn it into a router.
Aim towards another node, and you join the network.
Security is easy: treat this segment as being unsecure and use your existing firewalls.
Basically such an architecture creates a public infrastructure on which all kinds of services are possible.
It's cheap, robust, and a serious threat to the telcos.
Negroponte is right: 3G is the Telcos trying to define the future, when the future is busy happening somewhere else entirely!
This discussion has nothing to do with 'artistic control'. It is about money.
The studios do not like a third party assuming any kind of editorial control over their content.
Someone has discovered a good market and is making money from it.
The studios are suing to try to regain control. As usual, Hollywood is reacting to events instead of leading them.
It is hard to sympathise with either party here: the studios are using lawyers instead of their imagination.
Clean Flicks are acting like mullahs. But no-one is being forced to chose their versions. Maybe a better comparison would be DJs who remix other's music.
The obvious solution is for the studios to give consumers the choices they want and are willing to pay for.
Knowing Hollywood, this is unlikely to happen fast.
If you think the US goverment has overreacted to Sept. 11, just wait.
Al-qaeida has struck 5 times against the US so far.
They will almost certainly strike again.
They hit the WTC twice, so why not planes again?
But I think simple suicide bombers are more likely.
Computer profiling may seem offensive today. But we will have to get used to it.
In a country as large and porous as the US, there are few other real options.
(And possibly South America and Asia)
In most of Africa the only way to get online is a $5000/month VSAT satellite base station.
A pedal-powered link may sound funny to some of you but you are laughing from a position of privilege.
A $1000 satellite station would bring the Internet to billions of people.
And this would remove a significant obstacle to development in many places.
The fotofone (or whatever) is more than just a gadget.
Adding MP3 players to GSMs does not create revenue.
But digital cameras might.
The hope of Nokia and SonyEricsson is that fotofones
will drive new network usage, like SMS did.
If this fails, like WAP did, Nokia and SonyEricsson are in deeeep trouble.
In "Ender's Game", Orson Scott Card depicted a world in which a few individuals could influence society simply through the power of their words, via the Net.
Something like this is starting to take place. The online word is almost powerful enough to counter traditional political forces: the backroom politics arranged over a handshake and a drink.
This fight is attracting those with an interest in P2P and the Net. Tomorrow's fights will be more broad based.
But, please, someone find a better term than "Blogging"!
Climate change has been a significant factor
in the evolution of our own species,
and the ring glaciation theory makes sense.
At some time in the past Africa became too
cool to sustain the animals we hunted...
they migrated north and into Asia
and we were forced to follow.
The timing is not right... humans evolved about
1-3m years ago
but this is a lot closer than 65m years since the last 'Big Strike'
Re:aren't they going to run out of characters?
on
Marvel Goes MMPORG
·
· Score: 1
The solution is blindingly obvious
to any/. reader...
Create a Beowulf Cluster of your Favourite Characters!!!
(Sorry, could not help myself.)
Service packs are special.
No operating system gets such big updates
with so little control by the user.
Try updating just part of Windows?
Impossible...
Windows is special.
No other operating system needs such frequent patches
because of security issues.
I can choose which new packages hit my Linux box.
With Windows it's take it or leave it.
And security issues mean I have to take it.
Microsoft have spent the last decade
seeding the world with their systems
and they are now locking the doors.
Did you never wonder why it was so easy
to get copies of Windows on CD-ROM?
We have gotten used to needing Service Packs
in order to get working software
and 95% of users will download whatever SP
Microsoft says they must.
Bait with version X, SP installs version Y.
What if the DoJ rules it's illegal?
Ask 50m users to de-install?
American education has tried and failed
to use a 'natural' approach to mathematics.
Creating a generation of students who find
even basic mathematics a real challenge.
Education is supposed to be hard work.
It is a long process of accumulation.
If the first layers are weakly grasped
then the rest does not stick.
L33t may be cool but coolness is not the same
as a well-trained brain able to handle the complex problems we face in our world.
Beggar marks are also
written in columns.
If what you write is
worth saying, then it is
worth making easy to read.
And yes, I am using an
IRC-to-Slashdot hack, sending
this from a mobile tablet
through Nokia's wireless LAN.
Their key took 39.2 minutes to break.
Once upon a time...
when tramps abd beggars roamed the lands
you could find strange marks inscribed
in chalk, on pavements and walls...
Tramps would write: "generous, number 12"
or "tea and biscuits, this house"
And occasionally, "back door sometimes unlocked".
People who do not secure their networks invite theft.
But people who steal are still thieves.
"Warchalking" is not illegal - how can it be! - but it is immoral.
Go get your own IP link, you bums!:)
This is just like governments printing toy money.
There is an after market in game profiles
with a limited supply and balanced economics.
But this is an attempt to cash in on that
and it will backfire.
Whatever worth UO still had is put into doubt
and any investment people have made in the game
is devalued by this.
It's poor practice in any economy and stupid here.
Linux has perhaps two more years
before most new PCs will no longer run it.
Unless it can build-up a critical mass
on the desktop, where it is visible,
we are going to see the closing of the doors.
Microsoft is designing a PC platform that will not run Linux.
Today's "open" hardware risks becoming illegal.
Only mass consumer protest and rejection
of future Windows releases can prevent this.
Which is why the battle will be fought on the desktop.
Xandros builds on Corel's excellent work.
It is time to consolidate on One Linux Desktop.
[Offtopic, mod me down if you must]
You can get a nice wireless tablet - ProGear
for about $650 from www.mira2go.com.
My Linux tablet now runs everything
from OpenOffice to mpg123.
If you have some cash left over
from the dot-com crash, this is a great
wireless device. Highly recommended.
This project is excellent news.
It marks a new direction in the way OSS applications are built.
One advice to the project team:
Do not be shy of compatability.
Make sure it is easy to migrate from MS products.
Make this an explicit and highly visible feature.
Provide MS-like skins as standard.
Ensure interoperability.
Make the migration path easy and people will take it.
Remember that businesses, like governments, have no loyalties.
Only interests.
And saving money is always a good message.
This is a matter of debate.
The BBC is often briefed by UK governments.
It often accepts "official" accounts of news
including the government spin on events.
The most tragic example I remember was
the Bosnian war from 1991-95
in which Britain was primarily responsible
for the destruction of a European country,
and the BBC was 'lead around by the nose'
consistently for years.
For more information, read "Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia", by Brendan Simms.
[Offtopic, mod me as you must.]
The BBC simply tend to accept the briefings they get.
It's not deliberate bias, IMHO but laziness.
The BBC survives off the status quo
with UKP 2.5Bn annually from state TV licenses
and has no interest in stirring the pot.
Slashdot Mirror
When TCP makes open computing illegal,
then unsanctioned programming will be a crime.
Those using 'hacker' to mean 'guru programmer'
will find that perception has become law.
Cracker, hacker, what's the difference when you work outside the law?
Kazaa is not evolving, just doing some deals.
"Evolution" would be something actually changing.
Maybe a workable ratings system?
Maybe getting rid of their ads and spyware?
Maybe... ah forget it.
One more piece of post-Napster junk.
Will someone please inform Sharman Networm^hks that Kazaa is DEAD?
Google is well on the way to The Definitive Net.
100% focussed on what people actually want.
Their news index is incredibly valuable.
It is smooth, comprehensive, international.
Kudos! This is what the Net was meant to be!
I bought one of the first GSM handsets in Europe. It cost an arm and a leg but it was worth it.
The market took time to get geographical coverage, and to get prices down to 'cheap'.
But it was profitable and useful from Day 1.
3G is a pipe dream. No-one wants it, no-one needs it, and chasing this particular dragon will bankrupt more than one European Telco.
If I had shares in Nokia, Ericsson, or any GSM operator I would sell them today.
The "Viral" part of the name is great. It makes the technology baaad.
If this sticks, it will be impossible for a large corporation to produce viral telco applications.
This is a poison pill designed to deter any hostile takeover.
For best results: Viral P2P File Swapping Network.
Check out http://reseaucitoyen.be/, a project in Brussels that has been pushing this idea for some time.
It's in French. Translation: take a WiFi card, attach an external antenna.
Next, take an old Linux box, turn it into a router.
Aim towards another node, and you join the network.
Security is easy: treat this segment as being unsecure and use your existing firewalls.
Basically such an architecture creates a public infrastructure on which all kinds of services are possible.
It's cheap, robust, and a serious threat to the telcos.
Negroponte is right: 3G is the Telcos trying to define the future, when the future is busy happening somewhere else entirely!
This discussion has nothing to do with 'artistic control'. It is about money.
The studios do not like a third party assuming any kind of editorial control over their content.
Someone has discovered a good market and is making money from it.
The studios are suing to try to regain control. As usual, Hollywood is reacting to events instead of leading them.
It is hard to sympathise with either party here: the studios are using lawyers instead of their imagination.
Clean Flicks are acting like mullahs. But no-one is being forced to chose their versions. Maybe a better comparison would be DJs who remix other's music.
The obvious solution is for the studios to give consumers the choices they want and are willing to pay for.
Knowing Hollywood, this is unlikely to happen fast.
If you think the US goverment has overreacted to Sept. 11, just wait.
Al-qaeida has struck 5 times against the US so far.
They will almost certainly strike again.
They hit the WTC twice, so why not planes again?
But I think simple suicide bombers are more likely.
Computer profiling may seem offensive today. But we will have to get used to it.
In a country as large and porous as the US, there are few other real options.
(And possibly South America and Asia)
In most of Africa the only way to get online is a $5000/month VSAT satellite base station.
A pedal-powered link may sound funny to some of you but you are laughing from a position of privilege.
A $1000 satellite station would bring the Internet to billions of people.
And this would remove a significant obstacle to development in many places.
The fotofone (or whatever) is more than just a gadget.
Adding MP3 players to GSMs does not create revenue.
But digital cameras might.
The hope of Nokia and SonyEricsson is that fotofones
will drive new network usage, like SMS did.
If this fails, like WAP did, Nokia and SonyEricsson are in deeeep trouble.
In "Ender's Game", Orson Scott Card depicted a world in which a few individuals could influence society simply through the power of their words, via the Net.
Something like this is starting to take place. The online word is almost powerful enough to counter traditional political forces: the backroom politics arranged over a handshake and a drink.
This fight is attracting those with an interest in P2P and the Net. Tomorrow's fights will be more broad based.
But, please, someone find a better term than "Blogging"!
Climate change has been a significant factor
in the evolution of our own species,
and the ring glaciation theory makes sense.
At some time in the past Africa became too
cool to sustain the animals we hunted...
they migrated north and into Asia
and we were forced to follow.
The timing is not right... humans evolved about 1-3m years ago
but this is a lot closer than 65m years since the last 'Big Strike'
The solution is blindingly obvious /. reader...
to any
Create a Beowulf Cluster of your Favourite Characters!!!
(Sorry, could not help myself.)
Service packs are special.
No operating system gets such big updates
with so little control by the user.
Try updating just part of Windows?
Impossible...
Windows is special.
No other operating system needs such frequent patches
because of security issues.
I can choose which new packages hit my Linux box.
With Windows it's take it or leave it.
And security issues mean I have to take it.
Microsoft have spent the last decade
seeding the world with their systems
and they are now locking the doors.
Did you never wonder why it was so easy
to get copies of Windows on CD-ROM?
We have gotten used to needing Service Packs
in order to get working software
and 95% of users will download whatever SP
Microsoft says they must.
Bait with version X, SP installs version Y.
What if the DoJ rules it's illegal?
Ask 50m users to de-install?
American education has tried and failed
to use a 'natural' approach to mathematics.
Creating a generation of students who find
even basic mathematics a real challenge.
Education is supposed to be hard work.
It is a long process of accumulation.
If the first layers are weakly grasped
then the rest does not stick.
L33t may be cool but coolness is not the same
as a well-trained brain able to handle the
complex problems we face in our world.
Beggar marks are also
written in columns.
If what you write is
worth saying, then it is
worth making easy to read.
And yes, I am using an
IRC-to-Slashdot hack, sending
this from a mobile tablet
through Nokia's wireless LAN.
Their key took 39.2 minutes to break.
Once upon a time... :)
when tramps abd beggars roamed the lands
you could find strange marks inscribed
in chalk, on pavements and walls...
Tramps would write: "generous, number 12"
or "tea and biscuits, this house"
And occasionally, "back door sometimes unlocked".
People who do not secure their networks invite theft.
But people who steal are still thieves.
"Warchalking" is not illegal - how can it be! - but it is immoral.
Go get your own IP link, you bums!
This is just like governments printing toy money.
There is an after market in game profiles
with a limited supply and balanced economics.
But this is an attempt to cash in on that
and it will backfire.
Whatever worth UO still had is put into doubt
and any investment people have made in the game
is devalued by this.
It's poor practice in any economy and stupid here.
Linux has perhaps two more years
before most new PCs will no longer run it.
Unless it can build-up a critical mass
on the desktop, where it is visible,
we are going to see the closing of the doors.
Microsoft is designing a PC platform that
will not run Linux.
Today's "open" hardware risks becoming illegal.
Only mass consumer protest and rejection
of future Windows releases can prevent this.
Which is why the battle will be fought on the desktop.
Xandros builds on Corel's excellent work.
It is time to consolidate on One Linux Desktop.
[Offtopic, mod me down if you must]
You can get a nice wireless tablet - ProGear
for about $650 from www.mira2go.com.
My Linux tablet now runs everything
from OpenOffice to mpg123.
If you have some cash left over
from the dot-com crash, this is a great
wireless device. Highly recommended.
This project is excellent news.
It marks a new direction in the way OSS applications are built.
One advice to the project team:
Do not be shy of compatability.
Make sure it is easy to migrate from MS products.
Make this an explicit and highly visible feature.
Provide MS-like skins as standard.
Ensure interoperability.
Make the migration path easy and people will take it.
Remember that businesses, like governments, have no loyalties.
Only interests.
And saving money is always a good message.
This is a matter of debate.
The BBC is often briefed by UK governments.
It often accepts "official" accounts of news
including the government spin on events.
The most tragic example I remember was
the Bosnian war from 1991-95
in which Britain was primarily responsible
for the destruction of a European country,
and the BBC was 'lead around by the nose'
consistently for years.
For more information, read "Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia", by Brendan Simms.
[Offtopic, mod me as you must.]
The BBC simply tend to accept the briefings they get.
It's not deliberate bias, IMHO but laziness.
The BBC survives off the status quo
with UKP 2.5Bn annually from state TV licenses
and has no interest in stirring the pot.